Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool

All Episodes

Previous Next

May 11, 2014 - No Agenda

03:07:02

616: Jihadi Disneyland

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	Broke the speed limit.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, May 11th, 2014.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 616.
	This is No Agenda.
	Leading the mainstream media separatists from FEMA Region 6 in the Travis Heights hideout in Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm not, not, not going to Japan, I'm John C. Devorak.
	That's right.
	That's right, tomorrow morning, we leave on an 8 a.m.
	flight.
	On a jet plane?
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah, I think we have to fly to Atlanta first.
	That's the wrong direction.
	I know, I know, but it's the easiest way to go for us.
	Okay.
	Do they then go over the top, or how do they get to Japan?
	I have no idea.
	Miss Mickey's in charge of all of this.
	She's in charge of the flight plan?
	She's flying the plane, actually.
	No sense.
	She's in charge of it.
	All I have to do is make sure I have to pack my toilet bag and the studio, and that's all I have to do.
	And I just carry everything.
	You're going to have all carry-ons?
	No, no, no.
	Ugh, wimp.
	Yeah, for me, it's possible.
	I travel with a lady, you see.
	That doesn't typically work with ladies.
	It can.
	You have to work on it.
	It takes years to train them.
	But I've seen it happen.
	Mm-hmm.
	I mean, the extreme is these huge bags.
	No, no, no.
	We know we have a very nice suitcase set.
	And what's in it?
	There's like four bottles of shampoo.
	No, no, no.
	It doesn't matter.
	It's what it is.
	It's fine.
	It doesn't bother me.
	You put the things on, you don't see them until you get there, and then you get the...
	Because you're obviously the guy who carries that stuff.
	But they have rollers, so it's fine.
	It works fine.
	At least if they got rollers, that's a plus.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so I tested the new kit and I put it into the...
	It all fits into one small carry-on case so I can sling it over my shoulder, which is the only thing I care about actually having wherever I arrive.
	I'd hate to have...
	Yeah, that lost in the luggage.
	Yeah, or some guy going, Hey, that's a nice microphone!
	I think I'll take it!
	Which apparently goes on a lot.
	Yeah.
	So, no, it's the new rig.
	I'm very, very happy with this rig.
	It's so good, though, that it's kind of messing up my plans for the ultimate podcast device, because now I've raised the bar on what it has to do and how it has to sound.
	What makes it sound better?
	Oh, that's too much inside baseball.
	I don't think our listeners...
	No, I think some people care.
	Everybody wants to podcast.
	Well, what it is, this one company, Universal Audio, a lot of people make external audio devices.
	And, you know, there's tons of them.
	And Mark of the Unicorn is probably pretty well known for making reasonably inexpensive boxes.
	But ultimately, you know, it's kind of like an audio in, audio out.
	It might have...
	A compressor or a limiter built in.
	But anything else you do in that audio chain will build up latency and you can't listen in real time to what the signal sounds like.
	And the way we do the show, which I'm realizing more and more that most people in podcast land record their show and then spend hours later fixing the sound.
	Which is ludicrous to me.
	Yeah, they post up.
	Yeah, but everything.
	The sound, of course, there's edits.
	We don't edit, but compression and all this stuff, and they add it all in later.
	No, they've always been a live-to-tape guy.
	Right.
	You tried to do that at Mevio.
	Yeah, but...
	It's funny to watch.
	Regardless, the way I like to do it is I'm listening to what someone will hear on their headphone.
	And that's the talent, maybe.
	That's the skill.
	That's what you do when you're really creating something.
	Well, it sounds good.
	I listen to it.
	I listen to the show.
	I should listen to the show more often.
	It's a good show, I hear.
	It's a great show.
	I noticed that I was having some issues.
	I should probably do a little more of this because I had some pronunciation issues.
	Let me just finish this one thought.
	So the uAudio, their business is creating digital plugins that work in real-time zero latency that emulate the classic outboard gear.
	And they actually license the sound and the image and the name of these classic boxes, such as the classic Neve RV88 compressor limiter.
	They have the SC1 channel strip with noise gate.
	They send me emails, hey, now we've developed the 1970 fuzz box, remember this thing you had in your garage?
	And it really, it sounds just like it.
	And that's their business.
	And it's not cheap, by the way.
	You know, one of these plug-ins is 300 bucks.
	But it's...
	It's not a mass-up market.
	That's the problem.
	No, you'd be...
	Well...
	It's not a mass market under any circumstances.
	It depends on what you...
	No, it's not like Facebook mass market, but there's a lot of people who do stuff at home recording, but not enough to lower it to 30 bucks, if that's what you're saying.
	Yeah, you need 10 times more people, and that's just a break-even.
	Yeah.
	But that's fine.
	That's fine.
	So anyway, so it all fit into the whole studio, which is the way we've been running for the past three shows, is now one laptop and one box, which is, I think, dimensions 5x6.
	Does the box have anything on it, or is it just a plug-in, plug-out?
	No, it has a big knob in the middle that you can...
	Big giant knob?
	Big-ass knob you can fondle.
	What's the knob do?
	Well, you can set it selectively.
	Right now I have it set to regulate my headphone volume.
	But I can switch it with one click to regulate my microphone volume or one click to regulate your volume.
	So I don't have to go anywhere.
	Turn me up.
	Huh?
	Hey, everybody!
	I've listened to the show.
	There you go.
	I've listened to the show.
	Turn me up.
	Long way for a joke.
	You're plenty loud.
	Everyone's noticing how smooth it sounds now.
	It does sound smooth.
	So I'm listening to the thing, and I found that I had this issue.
	I've always got issues.
	Oh, is this the ya-no?
	No, not the ya-no thing.
	I don't even know where that comes from.
	I don't do ya-no.
	You do ya-no.
	Rarely.
	Mickey's complaining constantly that I... Ew, you do ya-no!
	Mickey is always complaining that I start half of my...
	Maybe 70% of my sentences with no.
	No.
	And I finally said, well, because most of the things you say are wrong, so that's why.
	No.
	Yeah, that didn't go over too well.
	No.
	But it's all...
	Back to what I'm trying to say here, which is I have this issue with my F's.
	Oh.
	I see the sly slobber over them.
	It's something like S. I'm not absolutely sure what the problem is, but if I say fancy, fancy, it's wet.
	It's not funny.
	I've never noticed your F's being that wet before, honey.
	I got too much wetness in my F's.
	It's a little...
	Sounds crappy.
	That's a little creepy.
	I stink.
	You slobber your F's all over me.
	I've never heard of such a thing.
	Well, you are a stutterer.
	You have a stutterer.
	Stammerer.
	Stammerers.
	Stutterers are different.
	Stutterers are humor.
	But your stammer is what makes you unique to listen to.
	Well, you know, I could actually eliminate the stammer and I could do it when I'm doing a spiel or something.
	I don't have to stammer.
	But ever since I heard Bob Newhart discuss it in great detail about he's a stammerer, and it's so endearing to listen to him when he does his talks with the stammers, that I said, I don't care.
	I'll stammer.
	It doesn't bother me.
	And I've noticed other people that stammer, and they don't, you know, right now, it's not important anymore.
	So, it's different, though, than stuttering, which is a totally alien.
	I mean, that's something completely different.
	And much more funny.
	Oh, yeah.
	In a negative way.
	Sorry for anyone.
	Stammer or stutterer out there.
	I love stuttering.
	It's like verbal Tourette's.
	It's perfect.
	Colleagues!
	Yeah, actually.
	It's a Tourette's kind of thing.
	Yeah, these people are colleagues.
	I've got no problem with that.
	I have to say, we had dinner with the Republobots.
	This was a new group.
	Uh-oh.
	It's going to be your new group?
	Well, this is the New York...
	The two New Yorkers who moved to Austin who have the kid with kind of autism Tourette's.
	Oh, right.
	Right?
	Right, right.
	And so that couple, and then the constitutional lawyer and his wife.
	And it was very funny, because it was Mickey and my...
	Mickey sat at one end of the table, I sat at the other end, and literally the other two couples, you know, like, the husband and wife of the right side sat on the right side, and the other two sat on the left side, and I was with the guys, and it was like, it was so...
	Girl-boy thing?
	It was, uh, not even girl-boy, it was like boys over here, girls over there.
	And we didn't set this up.
	We're like, oh my God, this is going to be a nightmare.
	It's always going to be the most uncomfortable conversation.
	But it actually worked out really well.
	And even the New Yorker, he is a part of a KIPP, I think is what it's called, some charter school here in Austin that he works with a foundation or something.
	And I've exchanged stuff with him from time to time.
	And he said, you know, I know your stance on it, Adam, but I'm all in on Common Core.
	But it was nice because there was no anger.
	You know, it's like, oh, I think it's total crap and shit.
	And, you know, if you want to have your kids being sponsored by Motorola to work on the Motorola assembly line, that's fine.
	My kids will be buying your kids 99 cent app one day.
	Awesome.
	But it wasn't hostile, you know.
	It was kind of a nice conversation.
	Somebody's all in.
	But I've gotten this guy to a point where he actually said, oh, you know, my kid, he's got this brand new tick.
	There's a really funny one where he's smelling his fingers.
	It was nice to see a parent who was really uptight about this.
	To relax and just say, oh man, my kid's got this new ticket.
	It's hilarious.
	It is a great favor.
	I think so, yeah.
	So it was really nice.
	Well, when it comes to meetings, I do have a clip because I have an insight into this meeting because I have an insider at the meeting.
	Go play Oklahoma in San Jose.
	Oh, this was our meeting?
	That's right, Ken.
	President Obama got a warm welcome from the high-roller tech donors at the Fairmont Hotel tonight.
	This was a private event, so our cameras were not allowed inside.
	I'm hearing, at one point, a man did...
	How ironic is that?
	That our cameras are not allowed inside Silicon Valley's high-tech meeting, yet their cameras are all over the place.
	...interrupt his speech.
	He yelled a few unintelligible words, but the president laughed it off and continued on.
	Ho, ho.
	President Obama's motorcade rolled into San Jose tonight for a big money fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee at the Fairmont Hotel.
	Guests here dropped as much as $32,400 a plate.
	It cost $5,000 to get your picture taken with the president at the event.
	Yahoo!
	CEO Marissa Mayer and tech venture capitalist Sam Altman hosted the dinner.
	Mayor?
	That's what she said.
	Yeah, that's interesting.
	Now, they had some protesters out in front, but they were protesting the Keystone Pipeline, not droning Americans or any of these things that are more important.
	No!
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, they wouldn't have anything like that.
	So, Buzzkill Jr.'s boss was at the pre-event, which was free.
	Oh, I was going to say.
	And there was only 50 people in it.
	He didn't drop $3,200?
	He was very happy.
	$32,000.
	I'm sorry, $1,000.
	And he was very happy not to drop 32,000 and bloated over the fact.
	So some of the insight is they had 50 people at this little event.
	Everyone got to talk to Obama for a moment.
	Really?
	So the free guys got to talk to the president too?
	Yeah.
	Oh, cool.
	the secret service comes barreling in and then they take make everyone take their drinks because everyone's drink is a cocktail party to take their drinks and put them on a table and then the table they put the mk ultra drug in them all the drinks and bottles and everything are pushed onto this table and then the table's surrounded by secret service guys wow and then obama comes in after And then he has a plastic, red plastic cup, one of those cheap Dixie cups so you can get it at Costco.
	At the parties, at the high school party.
	Apparently he can't have a glassware either.
	And he gives a little talk and then people start mingling.
	And then once the president's done talking, they release the wine glasses.
	Release the glass!
	Now, this guy apparently got to talk to Obama for a minute because he was involved with Obama's Senate campaign as a speechwriter or something.
	There's some connection.
	And so they had a short conversation.
	And the thing that was interesting about it is apparently he was yakking away with the president about, you know, the olden times.
	And he started to talk about Chicago politics.
	And the minute he did, the Secret Service guys grabbed the president and The president, not him, but the president.
	You must go, sir.
	And whisked him away saying the president does not talk politics.
	Yeah, because why be it a political fundraiser?
	Yeah, and talk politics.
	That makes no sense.
	I was thinking about this, because it's like, you know...
	A listener told me, he was friends of one of the NASCAR racers, Tony Stewart, and he says Tony Stewart was getting depressed and was going to quit NASCAR because he was sick of being ruled by Home Depot.
	Apparently he couldn't do anything without clearing it with Home Depot, and now the president's being dragged.
	And I was thinking about how sick this was, because what makes the Secret Service run the guy's life?
	Sure.
	But I'm thinking at the same time, there's probably a rule that's been set in place by the operation, the Obama operation, that who knows?
	People have probably got wires.
	You know, they're wearing a wire.
	Oh, no doubt.
	No doubt.
	And they're hoping to catch the president saying something.
	Say something kooky.
	Yeah, kooky.
	And then you give it to Fox News or MSNBC or wherever, depending.
	Yeah, so you can't do anything.
	So the president essentially can't talk to anybody.
	So this does kind of confirm that he's nothing more than a puppet.
	A mouthpiece, and he's a storyteller.
	He's a joke teller.
	I saw one of his appearances out there in Silicon Valley, and he does a great job.
	He does a whole rap on Mother's Day, which is very...
	What is the male version of misogynistic?
	Oh, I don't think there is a word.
	Oh, of course.
	There you go.
	There's your gender inequality right there.
	We don't even have a word for it.
	We must have a word for it.
	It was really, you know, hating on men.
	Yeah, your mother, oh yeah, men suck.
	Ugh.
	Oh, fine.
	Well, while we're at it, talking about men sucking.
	Got one word for you, ladies.
	Plastic.
	Uh, how'd that Eurovision thing go?
	Ha!
	Now, I'm a little upset because of the timing of all of this.
	If we had really known all the finalists, and we had seen the lineup, and we had seen Miss Worst, we would have called this immediately.
	It's so obvious this is the right choice for the LGBTQQIAP Inc.
	that is now ruling the world.
	And look, I know a lot.
	This thing, it's ridiculous.
	This is just freaking ridiculous.
	Well, explain to some people who don't know what we're talking about, what happened.
	Well, the whole thing is, most people in America certainly never would hear of the Eurovision Song Contest, which has been going on since before I was born.
	Yeah, only Craig Ferguson on late night television.
	Well, he's a European, that's why.
	Yeah, Scott.
	Well, it's still kind of a European.
	Kind of.
	Kind of.
	And so Austria, of all countries, had a...
	Now, you can say transgender.
	This was a dude in a dress.
	That's the way I saw it.
	And he may have been gay.
	I don't even know if he was...
	He doesn't even try to be.
	He's just a dude in a dress with a beard.
	And by the way, the Netherlands came in second with Ilse DeLonge and Weyland.
	I'm convinced if she had a beard, they would have won.
	That's where the Netherlands messed it up.
	They should have given Ilse a beard, and then they would have had the edge.
	I'll play the song, The Rise of the Phoenix, which is kind of a dramatic, like a Shirley Bassey type song.
	It fit.
	1979.
	Yeah, it's kind of like I Will Survive type vibe.
	Here we go.
	Walking over glass.
	And I tap you on your ass.
	I'm sorry.
	It's my own song.
	That isn't me It's an okay song A stranger getting nearer Who can this person be And hold me now It's all the same stuff Yeah, it's a crap song.
	This should be in a Bond movie.
	Yeah, now there you're talking.
	He could do the next Bond theme song.
	It's called Golden Thing.
	So talking about the war on men, when I saw this, what got me wasn't the guy being, you know, the character that he is, and is a character.
	It was watching the announcement on Franz Van Katte, which was they had a woman anchor and a woman entertainment editor, and there's all these women that are on there, and they're kind of giggling about how this guy essentially...
	He's a demeaning character.
	It's like all men should be put in dresses.
	You just got that sense from these girls who were on the France 24 as they tittered.
	Isn't that funny?
	That's what all men should be in dresses.
	Oh, okay.
	Do you have a clip of this?
	I don't have a clip because it was all visual.
	Right.
	And, you know, you could just see that they just thought this was so hilarious and it just proves that all men want to be women or something.
	It was a very subtle kind of a put-down, I thought.
	And this guy, come on!
	Yeah, exactly.
	And where was Putin with his voting camps?
	How did that not work?
	Huh.
	Seems like that.
	Yeah, really.
	They had banks and banks of phone guys.
	And the whole thing's rigged.
	And of course, they were mixing in the boos on the audio.
	Boo.
	Whenever Russia got points.
	Boo.
	Boo.
	Yeah, that was mixed in.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, there's no reason to boo the Russians.
	And it's funny how the Dutch...
	Oh, well, you know, he did have the best song or whatever.
	And they're all happy with number two.
	Let me tell you something.
	In the Eurovision Song Contest, number two doesn't...
	There's no silver in the Eurovision Song Contest.
	So you don't get anything.
	No, you might as well be, you know, the furthest from last.
	It's just...
	It's funny.
	But anyway, that boosted their careers nationally, locally.
	But yeah, I think he had a statement.
	And it was another one of those...
	I think I have it.
	Collecting her trophy.
	This is the news now, of course.
	I don't care what you're saying.
	He was not a she yet.
	And I don't even know if he identified as she.
	So for news articles to write...
	Chelsea Manning is one thing.
	But to say, Austrian drag act, which is really what it is.
	Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
	Conchita Wurst has been crowned the winner of the 59th annual Eurovision Song Contest.
	The singer, whose real name is Tom Neuwirth, collecting her trophy on stage, the singer said, This night is dedicated to everyone who believes in the future of peace and freedom.
	You know who you are.
	We are unity, and we are unstoppable.
	Speaking backstage later, Wurst said she felt Europe had taken a stand by voting her the winner.
	I dream of a world where we don't have to talk about unnecessary things like sexuality or who you love.
	I felt like tonight, and here it comes, Europe showed that we are a community of respect and tolerance.
	This is your new word, Europe.
	Tolerance.
	There are now tolerance laws on the books, and if you do not understand tolerance, there will be re-education camps for you.
	Everyone is talking about this in Europe.
	There will be re-education programs for those who overstep the tolerance boundaries.
	What?
	Yeah, you won't go to jail if you break a tolerance law.
	You go to rehab?
	Yep.
	Yep.
	Wow.
	This is right out of the science fiction world.
	No, it's out of 1984.
	Well, I guess it was supposed to be science fiction.
	Yeah, I know.
	But it's alright.
	We're getting close to that here, too.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, we've done it a different way.
	We've done it from the ground up.
	Explain.
	You just get shouted down.
	Oh, yeah.
	There's no re-education camp.
	You just get shouted down by the masses.
	Right.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The lynch mob has been a tradition in the United States, and it takes on all kinds of forms, including shouting people down.
	It's a lynch mob when somebody says something nobody likes, or a group doesn't like, and they make a big fuss about it, and they get shouted down and humiliated.
	You might lose your job.
	Exactly.
	Which is another reason why this show can withstand that sort of pressure.
	And this show is going to become increasingly important in your life as a change happened.
	And I'm a little torn about this particular change.
	One way because I'm happy for them.
	Another way because it's just funny.
	But it's going to make our program that much more important to people's lives who are becoming ill from the mainstream media.
	Which is why we are leading the separatists.
	We are the mainstream media separatists.
	It's the word.
	I like it.
	Yeah, separatist.
	So this is the report that came over the NPR as our national treasure.
	I'll play it just a bit.
	Let me see.
	Here it is.
	And actually, Miss Mickey told me about the news before I even found the report.
	Then I immediately went, oh, you're kidding.
	And now for some news about us.
	NPR, that is.
	Today the network named a new president and chief executive officer.
	62-year-old Jarl Mohn will take over on July 1st and will be the fifth person to hold that job on either an interim or permanent basis in just five years.
	That's actually interesting because if you look at the numbers, it's the eighth CEO over eight years.
	Yeah.
	I mean, yeah, it's also the fifth in five years, but it's the eighth in eight years, but they neglected to mention that.
	Well, they don't want to make it too ridiculous.
	It's like a guy who got married too many times.
	Now listen to his background, and I'll tell you who this guy really is.
	Fifth person to hold that job on either an interim or permanent basis in just five years.
	NPR media correspondent David Folkenflick joins us now.
	Folkenflick!
	For more on this, David, welcome back.
	It's a good name, by the way.
	Hey, I'm NPR's Folkenflick.
	Hey, thanks so much, Jeremy.
	Well, first, just tell us what you can about Jarl Mon and his background.
	Well, I literally just stepped out of studio with him to step into this studio with you.
	I was brown-nosing the boss.
	On the line.
	He's a very commanding, charismatic guy.
	He's kind of a media innovator and creator.
	He helped found the E! Entertainment Network.
	He was one of the top first executives, MTV and VH1. He's been involved also on the boards of XM Satellite Radio and of Alright, so I'll stop this report here.
	One loser after another.
	Jarl...
	Did you know the guy when he was at MTV? Well, let me tell you the story.
	I'm waiting.
	Jarl Mohn has another interesting credit to his resume as in 1987 he signed a contract Hiring a 6'4 Tourette's guy from Holland to work for MTV. Oh, he's the guy who hired you?
	He's the guy who hired me.
	Nice.
	However...
	What a great story we've got here.
	His name was not Jarl Mon.
	Oh.
	His name, as people will know him, was Lee Masters.
	And Lee Masters, I have a little bit of tape from him from the 1980s...
	Get ready for this.
	This is the new CEO of NPR. Kicks 104 with a summer of 80.
	Two and five patrol happening all week long.
	You keep it on.
	Kicks will be telling you who's going to be where later on.
	That's right, everybody.
	Elite Masters on Kicks 104.
	Yeah.
	He was a DJ. I'm going to assume you're going to have even better clips.
	I would give you Clip of the Day on that one.
	Or Find of the Day.
	I'll take Clip of the Day.
	I'm going to say, take it.
	Screw you.
	I'm taking it.
	So Lee Masters, who, he was a radio guy.
	Stop.
	So you're telling me that Lee Masters, kind of a DJ like you, or less, has become the head of NPR with another, using the internationalist name, Darl Moonman.
	Jarl Mon.
	That's his real name.
	That's his real name?
	Lee Masters has got to be a stage name.
	That was his DJ name in the 80s.
	Yeah.
	You can look up Lee Masters.
	He was a top 40 jock and he gets fired like everybody else and moves from station to station.
	And MTV, in the very beginning, ran the network like a radio station.
	They had Tom Hunter, who was also a DJ guy.
	Yeah, they were called VJs, exactly.
	When they tested a video to see if the audience liked it, they called people on the phone and played it to them over the phone.
	Do you like this video?
	I kid you not.
	I'm sure it's true.
	So Lee, who by the way, was a really nice guy.
	Super nice.
	I connected with him immediately because he was a radio guy.
	And he was not an over...
	However, this NPR flick and flock guy.
	Lee Mass is not like an...
	First of all, he's 5'4 or something.
	He's not like a tall guy.
	And he's not overpowering.
	He's actually very sympathetic and very calm and he's not a dick.
	And not long after I arrived, he hired his buddy to come and work for MTV, John Reardon.
	And within six months, John Reardon had fired him and taken his job.
	You know, Lee Masters is just a pussy.
	Now, he then went to LA, and I also give him more credit than the NPR guy gave him.
	He took the movie channel.
	Do you remember the movie channel?
	Oh, yeah.
	And he turned that into E! Entertainment Television.
	He's not just the co-founder.
	He's the brain of that operation.
	That's not just, you know, like, oh, co-founder.
	No, he, that was his idea.
	He totally did the fine, everything.
	He did everything.
	And so the guy, of course, doesn't have to work at all.
	But I can guarantee you what's going to happen.
	Okay.
	Yeah, the NPR is going to become extremely commercial.
	Let's listen a little bit to the rest of this report.
	You'll hear what's going to happen to MTR. It's called MTR. ComScore, which, as you know, helps to measure digital traffic.
	So a guy who's thought a lot about broadcasting, about entertainment, and about traffic and how audiences respond, one of the first things I said up to him was, you know, what do you bring from those endeavors?
	And he said, well, one of the things I really understand are the expectations of audiences and the importance of living up to your mission and NPR is a very different mission than ETV. We're not doing reality radio.
	This, by the way, is the stupidity of mainstream media.
	They're all going, oh, it's going to bring reality television to NPR? It's fucking idiots.
	If you will.
	You know, I'm not going to change what NPR is good at and what people expect of it, but I am going to try to deliver even better on that promise.
	And how is he being received so far by NPR's member stations?
	There's long...
	Now listen, this is interesting.
	You get a quick little insight to how NPR really works.
	...in this conflict about how NPR can move forward, especially with digital stuff, when the bread and butter does come from all the member stations.
	Well, that's right.
	A significant portion of NPR's revenues comes from fees for the programs, primarily Morning Edition, all things considered, but some others as well.
	Fees for the programming.
	You see, you have to understand how your money is working.
	You donate to your local NPR station, which is just a fraction of their money because really they're selling commercials to all the businesses around town.
	That money then goes to the NPR mothership and pays fees for programs like Morning Edition and On the Media.
	And those people who are commercial production companies make millions.
	Millions of dollars.
	...that the member stations pay, and as a result, member stations are both clients, and insofar as member station executives hold 10 of the 17 seats on the governing board of directors, they are also the bosses of NPR, and it means that we're really a system rather than a top-down network, and that has its strength.
	We're a platform.
	That's what he should have said.
	We're a platform.
	That would have been perfect.
	He has a lot of sort of multifaceted arguments and debates about things.
	One thing that I can say about Mona is, as well as being a benefactor of a number of cultural institutions throughout Southern California where he lives, he's also been a board member of KPCC, that Southern California Public Radio.
	Listen to this.
	It's one of our largest, most influential member stations.
	And he's, for the last two years, call it, been the chairman of the board there.
	And he's really tried to help them cultivate and reinforce their intention of serving as a civil space for news and information exchange of ideas, even so far as going to help them come up with one of their recent marketing slogans.
	Ah, John, you live in this market?
	Do you know the most recent KPCC marketing slogan?
	No.
	Now, only a guy who, and by the way, nowhere on this report do we hear of his illustrious disc jockey career as Lee Masters.
	Interestingly enough, only Lee Masters could come up with this slogan.
	That he helps reinforce not just their brand, but their mission.
	And that brand is no rant, no slant.
	Woohoo!
	No rant, no slant.
	When I was doing real computing and software hard talk on public radio for years, we had nothing but trouble with KPCC. They would never pick up the show.
	Oh, they're arrogant bastards.
	They're arrogant bastards, and I get the feeling there was some bribe that we couldn't provide.
	Yep, hookers and blow.
	Lee Masters is running the joint, believe me.
	If you lay down a line or two, put some poontang out, you're good to go.
	That's how it worked at MTV. Right.
	A slogan he thought of going down the escalator while he's going to pick up his bags at the airport.
	He's a genius, I tell you.
	I was riding down the escalator, and I thought to myself, I'm slanted, I'm rant, no rant, no slant.
	You know, it's one thing to come up with a slogan, but then to tell people how awesome you are that you just dreamed that up on the escalator.
	I am so awesome!
	But again, I'll say I'm happy for him because he's really been...
	He's a DJ. He needs to be in the limelight and he's been in all these hoity-toity like MoMA board and all this douchebag stuff.
	KPCC. And I'm sure he's been hating it.
	Well, he's going to commercialize things more, it seems to me.
	I've seen those billboards around Los Angeles, David.
	But let me ask you, just in the minute we have left, do you think he'll last?
	Because every CEO seems to get snapped up by somebody else and leave within a short period of time.
	Oh, I'm sorry, that's called being fired.
	Being snapped up by somebody else.
	Snapped up by the unemployment line.
	Well, he's committed to a five-year contract.
	I asked him that very question not minutes ago.
	And his answer is, look, I don't need a job.
	I mean, he's a very wealthy man.
	He doesn't need to do anything right now.
	I don't need your job.
	I don't need your job.
	Stop.
	He could have asked the question five years ago because he says not minutes ago.
	I asked him that question not minutes ago.
	What does that mean, not minutes ago?
	That means it wasn't minutes ago.
	It was God knows when.
	MTV days, maybe.
	I don't need a job.
	You stink.
	I don't need no job.
	The answer is, look, I don't need a job.
	I mean, he's a very wealthy man.
	He doesn't need to do anything right now.
	I don't need a job.
	And he's taking this job because he says he believes in this.
	He thinks that there's opportunity to help wildly increase NPR's revenues and to share those revenues with the member stations in a way that inspires greater collaboration rather than greater.
	Yeah, that's what he's...
	They need it.
	They have a hole of something like 200, 300 million dollars a year because a huge endowment went away.
	Or they spent it and they got those new studios.
	They need money.
	And all of these people, all these morons who have been put in place there, including the most recent guy, the Sesame Street guy, they don't know how to make money.
	Lee Masters, he understands, and I'm giddy, he understands an audience.
	Give them the stupid crap they want and you'll make money.
	Witness MTV, but more importantly, because that wasn't really his invention, e-television.
	He nailed it.
	Nailed it.
	He nailed the whole Kardashian audience.
	And so he understands it.
	So it's going to be everything every Obama bot would want to hear and then some.
	It's going to be BuzzFeed.
	That's what your NPR is going to become.
	BuzzFeed, Vox, Vice Media, which, by the way, is taking over the mainstream media.
	This is really happening.
	All of these publications, these, what do they call them, journalisticles, This type of journalism is your future.
	Use another slideshow for you.
	Yeah, this is the future of all mainstream media.
	And make no mistake, BuzzFeed, Vox, Salon, what else do we have?
	Help me out here.
	Vice, definitely, by the way.
	When people say, hey, this Vice thing looks pretty reliable.
	Fuck it.
	No way.
	No.
	And it's only good for us, because more and more people will be looking for some analysis of some topics, which is about what we can provide.
	The things that are important, so at least you can feel good about yourself knowing that, you know, no, the top 15 things Assad does with his dog is just not going to be the news you really need.
	That was a good listicle, by the way.
	We should write that article and sell it.
	Well, you know, you look on those pages and there's at the bottom, you know, because they get bought off.
	There's somebody's writing headlines and knows how to write a headline.
	Yeah, that's all they do is write headlines.
	That's all it counts.
	You click on any one of those things and it's always a disappointment.
	Always a disappointment.
	It has never not been a disappointment.
	Mike Elgin, I follow him.
	Well, how can you not follow him on Google Plus?
	I think he writes half of the content on Google Plus.
	And he wrote something.
	He did one of these the other day.
	Mike Elgin does Tech News Today on the Twit Network.
	And John and I both like him.
	I think I like this guy.
	But when he took that job...
	I always like Mike.
	When he took that job, it's like, ugh, you're milquetoast.
	You're not a TV... That's my opinion.
	He's not the right guy for this.
	No.
	So then he's writing these articles, and this was...
	Google Plus is not going anywhere!
	And then you click on his link, which leads to an article.
	You got paid 500 bucks for it, or write for eWeek, or whatever it is.
	And there's not a single fact in there.
	It's just...
	No, no, seriously.
	It's all about his conjecture about, well, you know, people use it a lot.
	I use it a lot.
	It's not going anywhere.
	It's a great system.
	Not a single fact.
	No one from the company has said anything.
	And I made a comment, Mike, this is disappointing.
	You wasted my time.
	I read this article, two pages, of course, because, God forbid, we have one page with all of your text on it.
	No, we have to go to a second page so more ad impressions pop up.
	That's another thing that should be foreboden by law.
	Well, that's why those slideshows are so popular.
	And what's funny, if you ever do one of them, which you can't avoid...
	You use these, at least I do, I set it up so I can just see the picture and the caption.
	I don't see any of those ads on that page.
	I literally cannot, I will not see them, I just don't see them, because I'm not interested in loading that whole page up.
	So I'm clicking away, and I'm just seeing, you know, I don't...
	You actually still click on the slideshows to look at them?
	Yes.
	Wow.
	I looked at one the other day.
	From now on, I'll take notes of which ones have attracted me.
	I'm always disappointed.
	I think it was, you know, at least it was moderately interesting.
	The only thing I look at these days just for pure entertainment is Tumblr.
	Is what?
	Tumblr.
	All you do is you go to Google, you type in...
	Type in any word.
	Sexual position or female body part.
	Tumblr.
	Tumblr.
	You don't have to do Tumblr.
	Just Tumblr.
	And it's like, whoa, Bonanza!
	Yay!
	That site is the porn capital of the world.
	Yahoo people should be ashamed of themselves.
	Let me just see.
	If I do dwarf...
	Dwarf?
	Yeah, it'll be there.
	Dwarf Tumblr.
	I'm just doing those two words.
	Dwarf Tumblr.
	Let me see what pops up.
	Uh...
	Dwarf women on Tumblr.
	There you go.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	Alright, that's weird.
	Speaking of such...
	This is all good news for us.
	No, it is.
	It is good news for us.
	Assuming that the public that listens to us...
	Supports us.
	...doesn't shoot themselves in the head after, you know, what's going on in the world, and we lose all of our support.
	Because that's always a possibility.
	Things have gone that bad.
	Five out of six gun holders agree Russian roulette is not dangerous.
	What?
	Never mind.
	That would be a headline.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So you thought that the month was over or the month that, you know, we had, we'd gotten all of these out of the way at the beginning of the month.
	Here we are the 10th of the, the 11th of the month.
	Happy Mother's Day, by the way.
	And...
	Hey to you, Mother.
	Hey, Mom.
	And the President comes out and proclaims a whole bunch of new stuff for the week.
	I thought that was at the beginning of the month.
	No, no, no.
	This is the week we have today by presidential proclamation, National Women's Health Week 2014, which of course is a veiled promo for the Affordable Care Act.
	The Affordable Care Act prohibits insurers from charging women higher premiums simply because of their gender.
	So that is just a PR move.
	Hey, boss, I got a good idea.
	We need to set out a new press release about the Obamacare.
	I got an idea.
	Let's call it National Women's Health.
	We can put all kinds of links in there.
	Healthcare.gov.
	Good idea.
	It is also by presidential proclamation.
	National Small Business Week?
	As we stomp out small businesses from coast to coast by not providing them with any kind of loans or anything?
	Just squeeze them?
	My administration is working to ease burdens on businesses.
	We cut in half the time it takes for the federal government to pay small business contractors, freeing up more resources for growth.
	To provide a boost to the smallest new business, we have eliminated SBA fees on loans under $150,000.
	Have you ever tried to get a Small Business Administration loan?
	Does that actually work?
	Actually, we have over the years.
	Probably over the last 20 years, I've done little things now and again.
	And every once in a while, you can go to the Small Business Administration and you'll get nothing!
	Is that how it works?
	Is that the system?
	Yeah, it's just bullcrap.
	And then they have all these consultants and advisors who are old duffers from God knows how old they are.
	Yeah, you know, when I was a kid, you know, we had a golf shop, a pro shop.
	Yeah, we sold clubs.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Anyway, no, the Small Business Administration is useless.
	It is by presidential proclamation.
	Doesn't stop, John.
	Peace Offices Memorial Day and Police Week...
	Each year, America sets aside a week to salute the men and women who do the difficult, dangerous, and often thankless work of safeguarding our communities.
	Our nation's peace officers embody the very idea of citizenship that along with our rights come responsibilities both to ourselves and to others.
	During Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week, we celebrate those who protect and serve us every minute of every day and we honor the courageous officers who devoted themselves so fully to others that in the process they laid down their own lives.
	I'm all for that.
	That brings us to a clip.
	I'm all for that, by the way.
	Not all police officers are douchebags.
	Let's play this clip anyway.
	Old black lady shot.
	More than 100 people gathered Thursday in Hearn, Texas, to protest the fatal police shooting of a 93-year-old African-American woman.
	Witnesses say Pearlie Golden, known as Ms.
	Sully, was shot at least five times outside her home on Tuesday.
	Authorities say Golden had a gun when a police officer arrived following a reported dispute with her nephew, who was trying to take away her car keys after she failed the driver's test.
	The officer involved, Stephen Stem, previously shot dead an African-American man in 2012, but was cleared by a grand jury.
	Stem has been on the police force for less than two years.
	Protesters spoke to the local Eagle newspaper.
	Now, the thing about this shooting is the follow-up story, which I always find amusing in these situations.
	Officer Stem has been placed on paid administrative leave.
	Her and Mayor Ruben Gomez says he'll recommend the officer be fired at a city council meeting on Saturday.
	He won't get fired, but he's got a free forced vacation, which I think is the way to go.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, yeah, I know a 93-year-old lady, you know, waving God knows what a gun.
	I got out of my property!
	I'm sure she was pointing it at him.
	Well, she might have been.
	These stories have no context other than black old lady.
	I love it.
	That could be a BuzzFeed headline.
	This is the kind of journalism we get.
	This is what you're going to get more of.
	Yeah.
	Today, also, by presidential proclamation...
	I'm sorry, John, it just keeps on going.
	These are important things.
	If it's important enough to proclaim it...
	I have close to one of them.
	Okay.
	Alrighty.
	National Defense Transportation Day and National Transportation Week.
	Aha!
	I didn't think so.
	I don't have an anecdote.
	Okay.
	Well, shall I tell you what it is first?
	Yeah, tell me what it is, and I'll give you my anecdote.
	In today's global economy, first-class jobs...
	Obviously, we're in the economy-class job...
	First class jobs, first class jobs, bus drive.
	I think we have an economy plus, economy comfort class.
	First class jobs gravitate to first class infrastructure.
	A sound transportation system allows businesses to safely move their goods to market, and maintaining that system creates jobs, upgrading ports, unclogging commutes, and repairing roads and rails.
	During National Defense Transportation Day and National Transportation Week, we underscore the importance of infrastructure to our economy, security, and way of life.
	Yesterday was Railroad Day.
	Not by presidential proclamation.
	No, but it's part of this whole thing.
	Amtrak does this once a year, and it's part of this week of transportation week or whatever.
	So they're going to have this big event, and I like to take photos of...
	I'll admit it, I'm an old railway buff.
	I'm a buff.
	Nerd.
	Nerd.
	And so Emeryville State is going to have...
	Do you also record the sound of the train driving by?
	I've done that.
	In stereo?
	In stereo?
	Of course, so you can hear the Doppler effect.
	Listen, listen.
	You can hear it coming from left.
	No, no, no, listen, listen!
	It's going away on the right.
	Yeah.
	See, apparently you have friends like that.
	Oh, yeah.
	In fact, David P. Reeve III, broadcast engineer extraordinaire, did an entire CD, and it sold quite well, thank you very much.
	I go to this thing expecting, you know, some antique, maybe an old steam engine, something.
	No!
	There was just one crummy Amtrak Caltrans train.
	Just a train that goes back and forth.
	I see it out the window of the house down on the track.
	You know, daily.
	How lame is that?
	And that's all it was.
	And then there was a whole bunch of booze and a million dads.
	You could walk through the train.
	Big deal.
	So you walk through the train.
	At least I got some pictures of an empty train.
	And the weird thing was when you walked over the overpass to get to the railway station, you could look down on the train and the whole top of the train was all grimy.
	You'd think they would have washed the train for this event.
	You know, what does it take to get a scrub brush out?
	But no, it's all black on top.
	And meanwhile, there's a bunch of parents dragging their kids around.
	And kids today, anyone under 30, they don't care about trains unless they have to use them for commuting.
	They're not, you know, they don't have, they didn't have model railroads.
	They're dead.
	Dead.
	It's all dead.
	It's like cowboys.
	Done.
	So these kids are being dragged around by the middle-aged parents, you know.
	Can we go home?
	Can we go home?
	You know, they don't care about any of this stuff.
	Anyway, it was a big disappointment.
	This was like a huge...
	I'll post some photos.
	Hugely disappointing to me.
	Anyway, that's my story.
	That's my anecdote.
	I told you how to anecdote.
	Do you hear it?
	Oh, here comes the train.
	Yeah.
	This is...
	The 5305 from Stainforth Tunnel to Hellwith Bridge from 1980.
	This is a classic, John.
	A golden oldie.
	Beautiful.
	Yeah, there's obviously enough tracks.
	Right.
	Alright.
	Very nice.
	But we're not done.
	Ho, ho, ho.
	I got a clip for everyone.
	Okay.
	Well, of course.
	By presidential proclamation, obviously, today is Mother's Day.
	I thought it was always the same.
	What's the president got to do with it?
	He's taking credit for it now?
	Always.
	For over a century, Americans have come together to celebrate our first friends and mentors, our inspirations, and constant sources of strength.
	That would be my drug dealer.
	Our mothers are breadwinners, community leaders, and pillars of family.
	And underpaid.
	Wait for it.
	They pioneer scientific discoveries, serve with valor in our armed forces, and represent our nation in the loftiest halls of government.
	Whether biological, adoptive, or foster, they play a singular role in our lives, because they so often put everything above themselves.
	On Mother's Day, we put our moms first.
	Well, that's nice.
	I miss my mom.
	And Mickey misses her mom, and you miss your mom.
	Everybody misses their mom.
	When they're dead, you miss them.
	But when they're not, they're like, ugh.
	No, no, they're pests.
	Just annoying.
	Isn't it weird how that works, John?
	Yeah, it's the way it is.
	What can I say?
	You never call.
	When are you going to call?
	You never call.
	You think you care about your mother.
	I gave birth to you.
	Hours of pain.
	You don't call.
	This is my Jewish mother.
	Different from my other mother.
	All mothers are Jewish mothers.
	There you go.
	That's your quote of the day, ladies and gentlemen.
	Yeah, so thank you for that, John.
	Thank you for your courage.
	And in the morning to you, John C. In the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, all the heights out there.
	And to all of our human resources in the chatroom, noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net.
	A reminder, we have a new secret for the BitTorrent Sync.
	If it's not working for you, check it out in the...
	I'm on the show notes.
	You can always find the show notes at nashownotes.com.
	Actually, archive.noagendanotes.com is the new place I'm trying to get going there before we switch it over to N.A. Show Notes.
	And also, thank you to our artists.
	Let's see, we used...
	Who did we use?
	Rob Lytell or Rob Little.
	Who has been used before.
	The nice art for 615.
	It was tough, actually.
	Wait, no, it was easy, I think.
	Wasn't it easy?
	Did we both agree immediately on this one?
	What was it?
	What was the art?
	That's funny.
	Yeah, sometimes.
	It was an obvious one.
	Hold on, I'll tell you what it was.
	It was the government advisory, illegal content.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, well, yeah.
	It was pretty easy.
	It's hard to explain how we pick these things.
	We try to talk about it as much as we can so artists can essentially cater to us.
	That's the idea.
	Yes.
	And so we want to try to get them to understand what we're thinking at the end of a show so they will cater to us.
	A lot of them try to just outguess us.
	Which usually doesn't work out too well.
	Rarely does it work.
	I mean, it has worked, but it's very rare.
	Sometimes there's art for topics that they expected us to talk about.
	We never talked about it.
	Exactly.
	And it's kind of silly, but okay.
	Anyway, we do have some people to thank that we're executive producers.
	Again, of course, Sir David Foley is holding up the show.
	He's carrying the show single-handedly.
	$616.
	Remember, the 616 Club.
	He is definitely going for Grand Duke within the next few months.
	$616.33, Los Gatos, California.
	That's a 616 Club membership.
	Inclusify my Club 616 membership in 33 cents for either some NWO tax or a box of mac and cheese.
	You decide.
	I have it.
	But mac and cheese is really 39 cents.
	Is that the going price?
	That's the cheapest I've seen it.
	That's the powdered cheese.
	And the really cheap crappy macaronis that really you have to cook to death because there's just, I don't know what they're made out of.
	Cement.
	I have a big week coming up, he continues.
	Please send some of that wonderfully powerful no-agenda karma on my way.
	Thanks for your courage and value provided with the best analysis available in the universe.
	I'm particularly very glad to hear proper reporting about the net neutrality issues.
	Which is known as packet inequality.
	Packet inequality's all over us on that.
	I'm going to give him a little bit of mac and cheese with his karma.
	You slaves can get used to mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese macaroni and cheap cheddar melted together.
	Mac and cheese, mac and cheese.
	Living the mac and cheese life.
	Mac and cheese by Ayn Rand.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you very much, Sir David Foley, Archduke of Silicon Valley.
	Kristen, and he has a 4K, what was it called?
	4KSpecial.com.
	Yeah, you go buy a screen, 4K screens.
	Why would anybody not buy a 4K screen at this point in history?
	They upconvert, you run 1080p on it, they look terrific.
	Kristen Kitterman in Walnut Creek, California, 3333.
	She mails in a note.
	Get your pen out.
	You're going to need to write something down.
	Oh, hold on.
	Okay.
	I just made a donation online at 333 for my husband's birthday.
	I failed to send this over to Eric.
	Oh, this is not on the list.
	Okay.
	I checked.
	Alrighty.
	I was hoping you could call out his birthday, which we'll do on 510, and give him some karma, so we'll give him some karma now.
	Kudos for all you do, she says.
	So this is Kristen Kitterman.
	Kitterman.
	Kitterman.
	And do we know her husband's name?
	Well, that's a good question.
	No.
	Well, happy birthday.
	The husband of Kristen Kitterman.
	There you go.
	You've got karma.
	Did she send a photo?
	No.
	Did you see the photo from Australia?
	No.
	Club 33 photo?
	No, the producer who donated for a husband, her in the bikini next to the pool?
	No.
	Okay.
	Let's just put it this way.
	The bikini was undersized.
	It was great.
	It's a great picture.
	And it makes me happy that there are women in the world who just get me.
	Whatever that means.
	It's not like I'm not a horrible, misogynistic douchebag.
	I like sexy women.
	I like them sending me photos.
	Alright, well send that over to me.
	I did!
	I don't know what's wrong with your email, with your LIFO system, but it's your problem.
	I send you all this stuff.
	I'm not going to send it again.
	Click search.
	Click search.
	Is it all in your inbox?
	You have one box?
	Inbox.
	Right?
	Don't lie to me.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, no, I have sub-boxes.
	Oh!
	For stuff that you filter in there that you never look in anymore.
	After I get to 40,000 messages, I spin off the box and start over.
	So there's inbox one, inbox two.
	No, no.
	You have these sub-boxes, which you set up a rule for 30 years ago.
	No, no, no.
	And stuff goes in there and you never...
	Come on, everyone has that.
	No.
	I set up filters and then you never read it again.
	I read all my email.
	And finally, we only have three people that came up.
	In fact, I even asked specifically for some executive producers, and we didn't get any.
	These guys have already been in.
	Andrew Bowerman.
	Sir Andrew, as far as I know, I could be wrong.
	Maybe not.
	Jerome Arizona, $250.
	No, I guess he's not a knight.
	He's a longtime boner, he says.
	The name sounds familiar.
	And the Guild has been increasing with every episode for not donating.
	Hopefully this calls for a de-douching.
	Well, $250, I think we can do that.
	You've been de-douched.
	Meanwhile, my douchebag brother, Byron, please call him out as such, hit me in the mouth about a month ago and has yet to donate.
	He has no excuse, as he has been listening to you guys longer than I have.
	If you've been listening for more than a few months and have yet to contribute, it's not too late.
	Thank you, John and Adam, for your courage.
	Wow, thank you very much.
	That's very kind of you, Andrew.
	And that concludes the show 616 executive producer segment.
	We want to remind people to go to NoAgendaNation.com, NoAgendaShow.com, click on the donate button, but more importantly, Dvorak.org slash NA, which is the support page, and also ChannelDvorak.com slash NA. Yeah, and we'll be coming to you from Tokyo.
	It's next Thursday.
	And providing you the value by doing this in the middle of the night.
	For me, at least.
	The man is staying up till three and four in the morning.
	It'll be all night.
	It'll be all night.
	It'll be up all night.
	This is not like NPR, when after the show, everyone puts their headphones down and says, Oh, that was great!
	Yeah, let's go get a beer!
	Yeah, I'm gonna get my dick sucked!
	Oh, this is great!
	No.
	No.
	I'm sitting here compressing, uploading, doing show notes for at least another two hours.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And nobody, by the way, I will say this.
	I'll make a point of this.
	I know people are going to roll their eyes because they don't care.
	It's what they do.
	But I have to say the show notes are the most underappreciated part of the show.
	And they're so underappreciated that somebody wrote in the other day to complain about this stuff.
	You should organize that by categories.
	You should reorganize those show notes.
	For me.
	And then I said, well, the one thing we do is we provide all show notes in OPML format, which is a structured format, and anybody could turn that into a database, and then he writes back, yeah, you should do that!
	No.
	We provide that so other people can help us.
	We don't have a staff.
	We don't have the NPR budget.
	We don't even have the budget of a local NPR station because we don't take ads.
	And we can't afford Lee Masters.
	And we don't take ads.
	We expect the listeners to help us.
	We don't take ads and we do not have any underwriters, which is a form of advertising, even though it's sneakier.
	So we don't do any sneaky underwriting, and we don't do any ads, up and up ads.
	I was listening to a podcast the other day.
	Oh, tell me, which one was it?
	I'm not going to say who's or anything.
	Oh, come on.
	No, in this case, I don't want to plug it, because I don't like the guy.
	But he makes the point, he's got some, he's doing, it was like the box of food or something, the thing Leo's selling.
	Oh, you mean the ripoff of the healthysurprise.com?
	Yeah, the ripoff of healthysurprise.com.
	Right.
	With, essentially, the problem with it is that it's all proprietary.
	All the food in there, they have some factory and they put in a bag.
	Whatever the case, it's beside the point.
	The guy says, he says, oh, I can talk about this company openly because it's not a tech company.
	That's what he says.
	It's like, oh, you know, now I can talk about how great this company...
	In other words, you can bullshit the listeners with this advertiser that's paying the bills for him, but he can do that legitimately because it's not a tech company.
	Because if you did that with a tech company, my God...
	Oh, that would be a conflict of interest.
	If you want anybody advertising on a tech show, you want, if you're going to go for that...
	You want Intel, you want AMD, you want Dell, you want the big boys to advertise on your tech show.
	You don't want a bunch of guys selling shavers.
	Well, now of course you highlight exactly the problem with media in general with the advertising system.
	It's one thing.
	You can't have a tech show and then really legitimately be objective about technology products if you have advertisers of technology products.
	Right.
	It's always going to be limited.
	You're pretty much going to be limited to talking about phones.
	Well, that's what they talk about anyway.
	There's your irony.
	Well, that was kind of my joke.
	Well, I walked right in.
	Yes, you did.
	I hit the ball out of the pot.
	Slammed your face right into my wall.
	Whatever the case is, it makes more sense.
	Bill Ziff used to have a theory about special interest publishing.
	Which is what we used to call it, by the way.
	Yeah, there's actually special interest broadcasting, too.
	So special interest publishing is like Modern Bride, boating, guns and ammo, all those things.
	And PC Magazine was one of them.
	And he discussed this with me, and I did talk to him quite a bit, and picked up some things, some notions.
	And his belief was, the common complaint with a lot of these magazines, why doesn't you have forward advertising?
	Why don't you have, you know, For General Motors right there in PC Magazine.
	Which they could easily be.
	And his thought was, if you're going to do a magazine about computers and the whole industry, you want to inundate the person into a world of nothing but computers.
	Right.
	So all the advertising had to be computer-related.
	It couldn't be some off-the-wall, you know, scotch, you know, vodka, Finlandia, or anything like that, because it would take you out of this world which you wanted to immerse the person in, because the person, at the end of the day...
	Was the product that they would sell back to these advertisers.
	And to keep those people, the people you want, the valuable product, which valuable readers, you had to keep them immersed.
	So you would never run these crazy apps later after he died.
	What does he know?
	A little insight information for you folks.
	And that is actually translated now into a world where we are, you know, they just use different words for slave, for slave who is just to be treated as an object to make money from.
	The government, of course, has always done this, but Google and tech companies who call their so-called customers users.
	You're a user.
	It's like cannon fodder.
	You're a user.
	We're going to use you.
	You're not using their stuff.
	They're using you.
	We're using you.
	And everything is built around sneaking into your stuff and looking at you and taking your information and selling pieces of you.
	And you're gullible and we all do it.
	Well, not me.
	Well, that's the model we don't employ.
	Exactly.
	Hey, I want to promote our drone knight.
	Our drone knight who was arrested for the drone posters in New York.
	Right.
	Dear friends, family, fellow artists, supporters, it is with great excitement that I invite you to the first public viewing of Authorized Drone Strike Zone as part of the Vision Fest Film Festival this Thursday, May 15th.
	The documentary short, which was skillfully directed and edited by my close friend, compatriot, and co-producer Chris Wasmer, will see its world premiere in Tribeca Cinemas at 9.30pm.
	So go and check that out if you're in that area.
	But it's cool that he's a very good artist.
	I've seen his commercial work.
	Yeah, he's a commercial artist.
	He's good.
	Yeah, he's really good.
	He's a pro.
	And then I'm happy that he's...
	First of all, I'm happy he's not going to jail, because that was a whole issue.
	And I'm happy that he's getting some heat.
	It's one thing to be a commercial artist, but then to have some success and recognition is great.
	We're very happy for him.
	Except for the jail time.
	It was minor.
	It was minor.
	Everybody, thank you very much for helping us out.
	Our executive producers and associate, or executive, yeah, two producers, one associate executive producer.
	These are, of course, real credits, as you know, and you can use them anywhere credits are accepted.
	They seem to work very well on your LinkedIn profile.
	As LinkedIn, apparently, the most used feature is seeing who looked at your profile.
	I don't know if you actually get jobs anymore from LinkedIn.
	No, you just go, why is that person looking at my profile?
	Now, I want to tell people, I don't know if I, I might as well mention this to people.
	If you know how to use LinkedIn and you have a reasonably, at least a one level up account, which costs money, and I'm just waiting to drop it.
	You can see who is looking at your profile, but you can also set your privacy settings to turn that feature off for you.
	And you can set up two different ways.
	There's three levels.
	One, reveal who I am.
	So if you look at somebody's profile, they're going to know you looked.
	The second level is, well, you can tell them kind of what I do, but don't tell them who I am.
	And then they just use some generality about you.
	And then the third level, which is the one I click on, which is, don't tell them anything, I'm anonymous.
	Now, I believe if you spend the most amount of money, which costs like a lot of money to get the gold, some gold level you have to pay for, I think that filters, I think you can drill through that filter so you can see everybody.
	Oh, regardless of the privacy settings?
	I'm pretty sure.
	That's nice.
	That's a good business.
	But most people don't turn that on anyway, and I always look, why is that?
	That's interesting.
	Why would somebody, why would that person be looking at my profile?
	And most are sometimes just curious.
	I don't know.
	And then for the no agenda hams out there, we're working on a new protocol that you've kind of discovered, which works through APRS. It's the Answerserve, A-N-S-R-V-R. I tweeted about it.
	I'll do a little write-up, but there's also a link in the show notes under the Today section.
	And it's essentially, to make it simple, it's Twitter for ham radio.
	And you basically all, or a listserv, I guess you could look at it that way, which is kind of what Twitter is.
	And so you send a message, and everyone who subscribed receives it on your handy talkie, on your mobile, on your ham radio.
	So it's kind of cool.
	I've been doing it for the past couple days.
	And it works over airwaves, you know, not on the internet.
	You should do this, John.
	You might like it.
	Yeah, you know, I'm actually meaning to do that.
	You're embarrassed to say it, but you need me as your Elmer.
	I do.
	I'm not embarrassed to say it.
	Why would I be embarrassed to say it?
	Because it's kind of lame that you, as a technologist, can't figure it out.
	I can figure it out.
	I just have to read about it.
	No, it's not that I can't figure it out.
	I'm lazy.
	I'm putting all my effort into this show, and that's the problem.
	While you're talking about Ham Radio, you know those number stations?
	Yes.
	Yeah, they just said 5, 3, 7, 7, 5, 2.
	Play this clip.
	Weird YouTube vids.
	Oh, yes.
	I've seen this.
	Yeah.
	An 11 second sequence of red and blue rectangles and a computer generated tone.
	Tens of thousands of clips like this have been uploaded to the WebDriver Torso YouTube account over the past few months.
	And the mysterious clips have generated all manner of speculation online.
	A growing number of theories, some more plausible than others, as to the origin and aim of these videos have been appearing online.
	As the Daily Dot website and the BBC report, some have suggested these strange videos could be attempts to communicate with extraterrestrials.
	A hypothesis soon shut down by a contributor for the Boeing Boeing blog who thinks Eclipse could be a digital version of the number stations used during the Cold War to pass secret communications to spies on the field.
	Unintelligible lists of numbers or letters passed over shortwave radio and meaningless to everyone apart from the intended recipient.
	British Daily The Guardian has also tried to solve the mystery and has published an online article with several avenues to be explored.
	One idea is that the famous videos were used by a streaming software company to test its capability for uploading digital videos quickly and reliably.
	This is certainly a credible supposition, but nothing's been proved as yet, and it remains a simple theory.
	Okay, all that information could have been conveyed in 20 seconds instead of this minute and a half report.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Yeah, I've seen these.
	Someone pointed this out to me a couple weeks ago, and then they also pointed out there's a movie about a number station, which I think, who is that guy?
	John Cusack, I think, is in the movie.
	I vaguely remember a movie about that.
	Yeah, a couple years back.
	But before we do anything, John, I do need to kind of do our regular sequence here.
	Dvorak.org.
	All right, everybody, please support us financially and by propagating the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	There you go.
	I had one more odd clip I wanted to play, which is part of Mother's Day.
	Uh-huh.
	And I just want to play this clip.
	On David Letterman, they have these troops calling in and leaving a video saying, Happy Mother's Day, Happy Mother's Day.
	This is the patriotic sadness of America.
	Yeah, the patriotic sadness.
	Now, this one here, this is the Happy Mother's Day.
	Because you can't say war sucks and killing people sucks and having our boys and girls killed sucks when they're calling home to say Happy Mother's Day because then you suck.
	It's a trick.
	And that David Letterman does this is annoying.
	He's out.
	Yeah.
	So here we go.
	Happy Mother's Day.
	There's a thing in here.
	I want you to see if you catch it.
	What's weird?
	My name is John Ann.
	Viviana Baker.
	We're from Houston, Texas with 30th Street Command in Kabul, Afghanistan.
	Just want to say hi to my mom.
	I love you.
	I miss you.
	And happy Mother's Day.
	Love you too, Mom.
	Hi, this is Specialist Live Station in Doha, Qatar.
	I'd like to wish my mother, Monica Wise, a happy Mother's Day.
	I miss you, Mommy.
	I'll be home soon.
	I love you.
	No, I couldn't.
	It was a little hard for me to hear, so maybe I just didn't...
	What did I miss?
	We have troops in Doha, Qatar?
	Oh, yeah!
	You didn't know that?
	Well, hello, that's where the gas is.
	Why?
	Is there any place we don't have troops?
	Probably not.
	Look, we still have troops in Germany!
	Unbelievable.
	We have troops in Germany and Poland.
	We run the show.
	I know.
	But it still always stuns me that we have this many people in the middle.
	You know, this is the middle of nowhere for all practical purposes.
	And we have troops there.
	Yeah, what's your problem?
	What's your problem?
	I have a couple of...
	The CNN was particularly funny this past couple of days.
	Of course, you know, they've kind of given up on the airplane.
	What are they going to do now?
	Well, they're bringing in Mike Rogers, because he's leaving and he's getting his broadcast chops ready, so he's always in studio at CNN. He's not just, you know, at Capitol Hill with a remote camera.
	No, he's in studio, as is General Carter Ham, retired, and we'll get to him in a moment.
	He wants to get used to the floor manager pointing at the camera.
	And we'll talk about Carter Hamm in a moment.
	He's interesting because he ran AFRICOM. And this is obviously in play right now.
	But I wanted to play a bit of Brolf.
	Brolf Witzer.
	Leading the witness.
	And so you'll hear him trying to...
	I'll just tell you up front.
	He's trying to get Mike Rogers to say, yes...
	We can't get terrorists in Yemen because of the Snowden leaks.
	Because, oh, they're no longer Skyping.
	That's what he's trying to get them to say.
	Rogers actually doesn't really fall for it.
	And then what Brolf does after that is mind-boggling.
	This is simply stunning.
	It appears this is the closest a passenger jet...
	I'm sorry.
	Oops!
	That's the wrong one.
	That's dumb.
	After that big setup.
	Okay, here it is.
	You've done this a million times.
	It's a big, giant setup.
	I'm playing it now!
	Yes, I'm stupid.
	I got it.
	You're not stupid?
	I'm lame.
	Lame, maybe.
	I'm...
	I'm sorry I interrupted.
	At one...
	Sources have told CNN, Mr.
	Chairman, and you know about this, I'm sure, that the U.S. intelligence community is now having much greater trouble tracking Al-Qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula terrorists because they're not using communications the way they used to.
	Is that right?
	Well, I can tell you that the leaks surrounding AQAP that happened last year have had an impact.
	I mean, So this is interesting by itself, because Rogers, of course, had every opportunity to say, yeah, people are dying, but he can't because they're not.
	But you heard Brolf with a 20-second setup.
	Sources have told us that this is absolutely true.
	He might as well have a little T in front of him, and he puts the ball down.
	So this kind of falls flat.
	So Brolf, he loses it.
	We do still have some acuity there, but there's a different problem now.
	We need to make a political decision that we need to be engaged in a high-tempo disruption activity when it comes to counterterrorism in Yemen.
	That threshold hasn't been crossed yet.
	We need to cross that threshold.
	Great success in April.
	We should take advantage of every opportunity we have to provide a disrupting activity.
	To go in there with drones and just kill these people?
	Is that what you're saying?
	He's a little annoyed.
	And by the way, can I just make a little editorial comment here?
	This is going to kill these people.
	If this joker, Rogers, is going to go on the radio as a host and say stuff like high-tempo disruptive activity...
	And acuity...
	Well, he had a better one than that.
	What did you say?
	High-tempo, disruptive activity?
	Yeah.
	Listen to this.
	When it comes to terror, we have a whole diverse group of organizations, affiliate organizations, all who are expressing an interest to do operations external to where they operate, meaning Europe or the United States.
	Boko Haram included, al-Shabaab, certainly al-Qaeda pooling in Libya, And what really worries me is the lack of discussion on the pooling of al-Qaeda elements in the east of Syria at a rate we've never seen before,
	including literally thousands, with an S, of Western passport-holding individuals who are there getting, we call it, jihadi Disneyland, getting training, getting radicalized, getting combat training.
	Jihadi Disneyland!
	Wow.
	Getting their training, too?
	And eventually, we'll come back home.
	And kill everybody!
	That is a huge problem we're going to face in the very near future.
	And a deadly one.
	And we'll kill everybody.
	This meme, they've been pushing this for years now with the Syria thing.
	That we have Westerners leaving.
	Now they bust them out of there.
	The whole Syrian thing has just completely collapsed on us.
	Yeah, but we've lost homes.
	We've lost Aleppo.
	I think what's happening is they've given up on using the existing pipelines through homes in Aleppo, and they're saying, screw it, we'll do it on the eastern border right near Iraq.
	I think they're just going to build, and there may even be one there that I'm unaware of, but they've given up on trying to make it work with the existing pipeline up to Turkey, which is what this has all been about.
	So now everyone's in the east, right near the Iraqi border.
	It has to be.
	Let me just check.
	I haven't even checked this.
	Let me see.
	I'll tell you this.
	They were showing some nice videos on some of the foreign news broadcasts of homes.
	With people coming back to their home in homes.
	And there's no home there.
	And they're...
	Crying and going through the stuff that you would do if a forest fire burnt down the whole neighborhood.
	But they back the camera up and they show you what this place looks like after it's been rubble-ized?
	Yeah, it's bad.
	Wow!
	You know what I'm thinking?
	I'll take that back.
	They haven't been able to grasp Homs and Aleppo.
	So now they're just disrupting the Iran-Iraq pipeline.
	That's always been the conflict.
	Either it's the Qatar-Turkey pipeline, which is what we wanted, or it's the Iran-Iraq pipeline, which Russia and Syria want.
	And I think we just moved everything.
	Okay, look, we can't do anything in Homs.
	Let them go back to their rubble.
	And it's not even rubble, it's dust.
	Well, there's a lot of buildings, a lot of structures standing that are gutted.
	I mean, it's a hell of a sight.
	Let me see.
	So I'm pretty sure that we just have to...
	Do you know a particular place where they are?
	Everyone just says Eastern Syria.
	All I know is they made a deal, the Syrians did, with all these guys.
	They grouped them together and they all had a meeting.
	And they said, we're going to bus you guys out of here to somewhere.
	And wherever those buses go is where this action is going to be.
	Yeah, but the news reports only say Eastern Syria.
	They don't really say where.
	Well, we'll find out probably before the next show.
	Maybe not.
	Do a slowdown and have a new meeting, have a new operation in a year.
	Yeah, probably.
	Siri is off.
	We're done.
	It's not going to happen there.
	Seems to me.
	I don't see it either.
	I mean, they still bitch about it.
	Psaki and the other one, the State Department complains and Kerry's making noise.
	But there's nothing we can do.
	It's over.
	No.
	No.
	So let's move over to General Carter Hamm.
	Who used to run AFRICOM, which is, interestingly enough, not located in Africa.
	Carter Hemp?
	Ham.
	General Carter Ham.
	Oh, Ham.
	Hotel Alpha Mike.
	Yeah, Ham.
	And he's retired, so he's on television.
	And he...
	So, of course, we now know that not only...
	We talked about this on Thursday.
	Do we have United States specialists?
	And what did I say the specialists were?
	That are now in Nigeria.
	Oil guys.
	Accountants.
	Yeah, because...
	She would have all that money.
	Because all the money was stolen, lost, whatever, misplaced.
	Now, of course, we have Brits coming in.
	Auditors might be the better.
	Auditors, yes.
	And, by the way, the Chinese are also sending in their specialists.
	The Chinese are like, screw it, let's get in there first.
	But General Carter Ham said something very interesting about these specialists, which completely corroborates my thesis, which I think we all kind of agree with, that this is about taking charge of the situation, finding out where the money went, and ultimately some regime change.
	But there's a practical aspect to this that the chairman refers to, and that is designation brings with it tools, more tools that the U.S. government can use, not just militarily, in fact, not Primarily not military, but financial tools and access to banking records and a number of different tools that have proven effective in counter-terrorist organizations.
	Yeah, we need to go bring back our girls with the bankers looking at banking records.
	That's how we bring back the girls, by checking with these tools.
	Wow.
	I'm pointing out in the newsletter, if people don't get the newsletter, they should subscribe to it, that there has been a discrepant number of how many girls were kidnapped.
	Oh, it's completely unclear.
	Yeah, it's 220, it's 240, 276 is the one in the heart, they like to use that a lot.
	Some people say, I think it was the ABC News says over 300.
	Wouldn't you know the number?
	I received some interesting emails that I'd like to share regarding this, and then I have some more clips to look at.
	Now, this is from a very reliable source that we know in Virginia.
	My friend lives and grew up in Nigeria.
	I told him to email you about what's going on there.
	He said, white people came in not that long ago to train the group who did the kidnapping.
	Hopefully, my friend will send you more details anonymously soon.
	Which I have not received, but this is a tease.
	And I want everyone to know that these things come in anonymously.
	They're treated anonymously.
	And please use encryption.
	They're anonymous, but we still talk about them.
	Of course!
	That's the whole point.
	That is the point.
	And nobody else does this.
	Nobody's even come up with this thesis.
	I can't drive this point home enough for the listeners of this show that nobody will discuss.
	Maybe it's bullcrap.
	But nobody will discuss these things.
	I don't think it's bullcrap either.
	I agree with you.
	There's too many discrepant things.
	They had a staged event with a bunch of crying women the other day, and then you could see that it wasn't sincere.
	Well, check this out.
	One of our producers, Trevor, who has been sending me financial things, reports and analysis for a long time.
	Very nice gentleman.
	And he says, Adam, so...
	That's his wink to you, John.
	So...
	So...
	I was in the north of Cameroon from 2005 to 2007.
	I worked in the villages of Chevi, Burra, and the town of Mokolo, which sit right up against the Nigerian border.
	The claim that the hostages are being held in a, quote, remote region, on or over the border, is bull crap.
	I have traveled the P1 road between McCullough and Balleray, and know that the whole area is basically bare-ass rock, as the forests have been totally razed for firewood.
	You couldn't hide a few hundred kids there.
	It is just impossible.
	The whole region is heavily populated, relatively speaking, and any movement of a few hundred kids would be seen and reported.
	Now, to my main point in the whole thing, more than one local notable told me that oil had been found in the area south of Chevi around the Ibango village, which is close to the Nigerian border.
	This was prosecuted in 2004, and I heard of this in 2005.
	So, he says, I really hope this adds dimension to the Nigerian version of Ketchkoni.
	So there you have it.
	Boots on the ground, people who had no...
	Of course, the picture is painted for us.
	There's this jungle of crazy hiding in huts and tunnels.
	It's a barren landscape.
	It's like the moon.
	And then, of course, our gay crusader likes to point out...
	That we're so gung-ho to help Nigeria who have tougher anti-gay laws than Uganda.
	If you even make a public showing of direct or indirect same-sex relationship or support an LGBTQIAAP organization.
	So if I would say, hey, nice ass, I would go to jail for 10 years in Nigeria.
	Anyone who attempts to enter into a same-sex marriage, 14 years jail in Nigeria.
	No mention of that!
	How come this isn't brought up by the Obama bots that hate Putin because of the anti-gay legislation, supposed anti-gay legislation of Russia?
	Because NPR doesn't talk about this?
	And do you think Lee Masters is going to do a contest?
	No, I don't think so.
	We got the prize patrol out there for NPR! Hey everybody, how you doing, Shaniqua?
	Yeah!
	I'll tell you what bothers me the most about this is the politicization.
	Politicization.
	By the Obama administration.
	And I have two clips to show you what I'm talking about.
	First is Hollande, who discusses...
	This is Hollande on the kidnapping.
	This is the French guy.
	Yeah, the French guy.
	The French guy.
	He goes on and on, and it's like he talks about the kidnapping.
	By the way, he calls it as 220 people kidnapped.
	Oh, okay, good.
	But play this.
	Well, the plight of those Nigerian schoolgirls was also at the forefront of François Hollande's mind as the French leader oversaw this Saturday's ceremony commemorating the abolition of slavery.
	Boko Haram has threatened to sell off the girls in the market.
	It's President Hollande.
	The kidnapping of 220 young girls in Nigeria by these so-called men who sell women simply for financial reward for simply to obtain some recompense.
	Or to finance, not just their fight, but their traffic.
	Okay, I can't wait for my clip.
	Alright, what's your second one for the politicization?
	Okay, so his thing is they stole these women because they need the money.
	And the rest of it.
	So here's Michelle Obama.
	And we have the same clip.
	Alright.
	Michelle Obama decides to throw in her two cents with her analysis, which just coincidentally has a lot to do with what's going on in the Obama administration.
	Michelle Obama gave the weekly radio address on Saturday expressing her concern for the Nigerian girls who are still missing after almost a month.
	She said she's outraged and heartbroken over the kidnapping.
	This unconscionable act was committed by a terrorist group determined to keep these girls from getting an education.
	Grown men attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls.
	Alright, stop.
	Have you seen the whole...
	This, by the way, was not just Michelle Obama making a statement.
	This was the President's podcast.
	Yeah, no, no, she took over the podcast.
	Did you see the whole podcast?
	Yeah.
	You have more clips from it you liked?
	Well, I mean, just play a little bit more of it than just that piece.
	Well, that's the piece that is the point I'm trying to make.
	All right, you got a point.
	Which is that they're politicizing.
	I got it.
	But if you go all the way through this thing up until the end, it's really, it made me mad.
	It's a propaganda piece.
	But they didn't steal the girls to keep them from getting an education.
	Yes, they did.
	Grown men, as they usually do, grown men.
	Stealing our girls, robbing them of their opportunity.
	Like all women in the world, we are putting the woman down!
	We hate women!
	Yeah.
	She said the terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambition.
	Hold on a minute, move forward a little bit.
	Make higher wages, lead healthier lives...
	Yeah.
	...healthier lives and have healthier families.
	And when more girls attend secondary school...
	By the way, it was longer than his podcast.
	This thing was six minutes!
	Yeah.
	And it was all about, you know...
	Education and girls and how men put them down.
	...ceo and make the same amount of money as men.
	And what does she not mention in this podcast?
	What?
	The name Boko Haram!
	Oh, that's interesting.
	You're right.
	She didn't even name the outfit that is being blamed or claims responsibility.
	Let's take that.
	She didn't even mention terrorist group.
	She didn't even say Boko Haram.
	Now, tell me what's weird in this.
	The names of the missing schoolgirls go up for all to see.
	And if you take a look at those pictures, you will see they have placards with an outline of a head with a question mark and just a name.
	They don't even have pictures.
	They're not even putting stock photos up.
	It's really phoning it in, people.
	There's no question that we're racing against the clock here.
	They've been gone for a long time.
	Three weeks after the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls, US military advisors are on the ground, being joined by FBI and other personnel.
	Huh?
	What is the FBI doing in Nigeria?
	I didn't catch that.
	You got me on that.
	What is the FBI doing there?
	One point for you.
	With their specialists.
	Alright, you also need to know, so let's look at everything that's going on.
	This is outrageous.
	Well, it gets crazier, John.
	The Chinese, this is a race against the Chinese.
	This is why the Chinese have said, we're sending in our specialists, we shall help find a girl.
	We help find a girl, we come quicker.
	That's not even close to being a Chinese ridiculing accent.
	No letters, please, because he didn't even come close.
	You sound like a lousy accent, a tojo, very Japanese-y, not too much.
	It's horrible.
	You have to work on that.
	Okay, I'll work on it.
	Let's see.
	Oh, yes.
	Chinese company constructing $13.1 billion railway line in Nigeria.
	They love those railways.
	They love the railway.
	Now, there is also something else going on, which is...
	Okay, so the things we're seeing here is we have this corrupt douchebag, this Jonathan Goodluck.
	Goodluck Jonathan, let's get that straight.
	Break-a-leg Jonathan.
	And so the money is missing, $49.6 billion.
	Nigeria has the most oil of all Africa.
	I mean, this is the mac daddy of oil.
	And of course, they just discovered this new field in December of last year.
	So we have a pipeline now.
	This is a new one, the Lapset.
	And the Chinese are all over this.
	This pipeline will run from three countries.
	We have Kenya, Uganda.
	This basically is going to go from South Sudan, which is all the China rubble.
	Yeah, well, of course, because we can't have this pipeline connecting all the way to the Lamu port on Kenya's coast.
	And, of course, we'll tap right into that.
	Let me bring up a map of Africa before you go on.
	Let me do that, too.
	Let me see.
	Africa map.
	And people should be looking at maps more.
	You really do.
	Alright, let's take a look here.
	So we have...
	Let's look at...
	Okay, so we have Sudan.
	So Kenya, Kenya, and South Sudan.
	So the pipeline will go from, I guess, northern Kenya, somewhere, to the port.
	Where's the port in Kenya?
	It must be north, just south of Somalia.
	Hold on, the port is...
	Lamu.
	L-A-M-U. So it goes from Lamu through South Sudan into...
	It has to go through Chad.
	Well, it kind of goes the other way.
	See, the whole idea...
	It goes from Nigeria, but it's got to either go through...
	The whole idea is South Sudan through Uganda through Kenya to the port where, of course, the Chinese pick it up.
	See, the northern route is all rubbleized.
	You're going through Congo?
	No, not through Congo, Uganda.
	But you don't go from Nigeria to Uganda.
	Not Nigeria, Sudan.
	Sudan, Sudan, Sudan.
	Oh, Sudan.
	I thought you...
	Oh, okay.
	I was mistaken.
	I thought it was...
	No, I'm talking about the Chinese, not specifically.
	Oh, the Chinese.
	Okay, they're going...
	No, Nigeria has a port.
	Nigeria's got their port.
	Yeah, they got a port.
	I don't...
	Okay.
	They're good to go.
	I'm back.
	I'm back.
	I'm sorry.
	I confused you.
	So, just to show you how things are working out.
	So, the Chinese are building a railroad in Nigeria.
	Which is not just going to be for transporting people to the office.
	It's not at all.
	Now, in South Sudan, where all the oil is, remember we split up Sudan and the whole point was to rubblize everything and disrupt the transport of oil north, which is all Chinese oil because they run these oil companies in South Sudan.
	So the Chinese are saying, okay, we're building a pipeline through South Sudan to Uganda to Kenya to the port.
	We'll pick it up there with our ship.
	And they are so many miles ahead of us, in planning, really, that the only thing we can do is blow stuff up.
	That's what we're good at, though.
	Drone people.
	We're good at killing and blowing stuff up.
	We blowed up stuff real good.
	That's a bumper sticker.
	We blowed stuff up real good.
	So that's why they immediately...
	We're not out thinking the Chinese.
	Now the Chinese do not own a piece of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
	That is Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron, the Brits and the US. And yeah, some of the Dutch, but really the Brits own Shell, let's be honest about it.
	They run the show.
	So the Chinese are trying to get there before our guys and do something.
	But we are just going in balls to the wall and all this Michelle Obama hashtag stuff is the most, is the highest form of hypocrisy I've ever seen since it was almost two weeks that this happened until they all jumped on it.
	I think it was almost three weeks.
	Yeah, they're hypocritical, lying douchebags.
	And if there are girls gone, which we have high reason to doubt, no one talked about the 45 girls before that, or the month before that, the 25 boys who were killed in their dorm room by roasting them alive.
	How about don't burn our boys, hashtag?
	No, no one does that.
	Maybe because they're boys, of course.
	But no one talked about that.
	And it's very obvious that whatever is going on, it is being politicized for oil money.
	But maybe we should ask Jay-Z and Beyonce to help us out, since they took a million dollars of Good Luck Jonathan's money to perform at his concert in 2006.
	Nice.
	Yeah.
	Or Kim Kardashian.
	Who reportedly was paid a half a million dollars to appear in Lagos.
	Nice.
	Yeah?
	These people don't care.
	They're part of the same system.
	But, you know, it's all phony.
	Everyone's doing hashtag bring back our girls.
	And that's activism these days, people.
	Hey, while you're at it, why don't you turn your Twitter icon black?
	Activism.
	That is our modern day activism.
	The modern day activism, but we also had a note from somebody.
	Somebody sent me a note over, I was doing Twit when Leo went off on the equality for...
	Packet inequality?
	And he said, write your congressman, write your congressman.
	I think one of the listeners, he's a lobbyist, and he wrote, and he says, you know, those days are over.
	They don't care what you say.
	The deal's already done in advance, and they're playing out the script after the fact.
	So there's not, you can write all you want, but whatever is going to happen is already happening.
	It's already set.
	It's already set in stone.
	Exactly.
	Well, here's the script.
	Mike Rogers.
	I was going to continue and say that this idea that you're an activist by using a hashtag is the great way to take everybody out of the picture.
	Oh, yeah.
	You feel good about yourself.
	You put the hashtag down.
	Literally taking their picture out of the picture.
	Exactly.
	And so you do this little thing and you felt, well, I did my part.
	Well, you didn't do anything.
	Mike Rogers.
	Lays down the script.
	Because so far, Mr.
	Chairman, and you know this well...
	And why do we have to call him Mr.
	Chairman?
	Is that if you're chairman of a committee, then you're...
	Mr.
	Chairman?
	I just thought that odd.
	It's not good.
	Hey, everybody, it's the chairman here on Kix 104.
	The president of Nigeria, good luck, Jonathan.
	He hasn't really stepped up to the plate.
	Maybe he'll change, but so far he has not really done what is necessary.
	Well, in this particular incidence, I would say yes, but also much before this as well.
	So he has huge corruption problems.
	His military is not up to the task.
	It also has some corruption problems.
	There has been some...
	Hello, regime change!
	...this effort to try to counter the...
	Yeah, he's not up to the task, no.
	...professionalism of his...
	No professionalism.
	No professionalism of the truth.
	When you look at the home areas of Boko Haram, they have done very little over any period of time to stem the tide and the growth.
	Even with the neighboring Chad, who has been eager to try to push back on Boko Haram, but doesn't have the capability.
	So this is a multi-nation problem, and it should be an international problem.
	U.S. should lead this.
	That's right.
	International!
	Yeah, we need to go down there.
	So, um, international.
	Did you find anything peculiar about the fact that this week, the World Economic Forum of Africa, you know, the same, like, Davos, was in Nigeria?
	Well.
	During this?
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	Of course.
	Isn't that peculiar?
	Well, it's PR. You need to get people thinking about Nigeria.
	You need to get some heat, you know, get some ink.
	Get something on the map?
	You know what I mean?
	Eh, whatever works.
	Well, it's a workin'.
	This guy's gonna be out, you're right.
	Oh, he's toast.
	And the thing is, I think they may account for the reason nobody ridicules an idiot's name.
	And this crazy look of his.
	He's always wearing a black shirt with a hat.
	What's his name again?
	Jonathan Goodluck?
	Goodluck Jonathan.
	That is a very...
	His last name is Jonathan, and his first name is Goodluck.
	That's a very tribal name.
	Yeah.
	Not like Ula Kuma Kalamalupa.
	There you go.
	Good luck, Jonathan.
	I don't give a crap.
	That's okay.
	Send all you want.
	People are so afraid to say it.
	It doesn't sound like an African name.
	Good luck, Jonathan.
	It sounds like a made-up rapper name.
	Oh, it sounds exactly like a rapper name.
	Yeah.
	From like the 80s.
	And I couldn't, I tried clipping him from the 80s.
	You can't understand a word he says.
	No, no you can't.
	But all he's saying now, because he knows of course about the hashtag, bring back our girl, bring back our girl, bring back our girl, bring back our girl, that's all he said, bring back our girl.
	Now that's my Chinese guy who sounds like an African guy.
	Bring back my girl.
	Again.
	Yeah.
	But I clipped it, I tried filtering it, I can't get it to sound right, but you can't understand what the guy's saying.
	No, he's a mumbler.
	With that stupid hat.
	Please.
	Because, you know why he wears a stupid hat?
	Because he's so uninteresting.
	There's nothing about him that you would recognize him in the crowd.
	It's like his crown.
	Yeah, the hat's his crown, exactly.
	Hmm.
	Alright.
	Do we have anything more from this before we move to the Ukraine?
	Oh, I did want to play this clip that I had last week I didn't play.
	The new president of Syria thing.
	This is a recent clip, even though it's a week old.
	It's a week old.
	Hey, you promised us on Thursday.
	We almost played it, and then we didn't.
	Since we're talking about Syria, the United States, since we lost the war on Syria, we stayed out of it, and the Europeans couldn't pull it off.
	They're idiots.
	If it wasn't for us, nothing would get done.
	That's what I think is the basic thinking of Washington.
	Say that again?
	They can't do anything.
	So we decided to just pick some guy and make him the new president.
	...a group called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. It is those ties that the Obama administration has cited as a reason for not openly arming the Syrian opposition.
	But recently, some moderate rebel units have been filmed using heavy anti-tank weapons with American markings.
	Their source is unclear.
	The chief moderate political force opposing Assad, the Syrian opposition council composed chiefly of exiles, is headed by Ahmad Jarba.
	Monday, the State Department announced it was granting the SOC enhanced diplomatic status here.
	The coalition is built an inclusive and modern institution that has demonstrated its commitment to serving the interests and needs of the Syrian people, rejected extremism, and worked to advance a negotiated political transition in Syria.
	Well, sure, we could get status.
	We do that all the time for groups.
	We've demonstrated our loyalty and our protecting people.
	We should get diplomatic recognition.
	And here's...
	There's more than a clip.
	I just interrupted you.
	I want to say that was Saki or the other one.
	No, it's Harf.
	Bandcamp girl.
	The woman, what's her name?
	Pocahontas?
	No, no.
	The correspondent for PBS for NewsHour.
	For some reason, I lost her name.
	But she now talks to the guy.
	She's got him to talk to.
	The U.S. also announced $27 million more in non-lethal aid for SOC initiatives inside Syria.
	Jarba is in the U.S. for his first official visit.
	I spoke to him this morning.
	President Jarba, thank you for joining us.
	What?
	Thank you.
	Did you hear that?
	President Jarba?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Thank you.
	We got some phony baloney they just pick out of the blue.
	No, he was on K Street.
	Worked to him as President Jarba.
	President Jarba, thank you for joining us.
	I'm so happy to have this communicate with you.
	Yeah, of course I can believe it.
	Let's listen to more.
	Thank you.
	Today, rebel fighters are leaving Homs, which was a center of the revolt against Assad early on.
	U.S. officials are saying things are trending in the wrong direction in Syria.
	Are you losing ground on the battlefield?
	Homs is the capital of the Syrian revolution.
	The people of Homs are real heroes.
	They have paid the bill for freedom.
	He never answers the question.
	...sieged for more than a year and a half.
	No food or water or medicine was allowed inside.
	The siege became lethal.
	We want the civilians and...
	The seeds?
	He goes on and on.
	Yeah, of course not.
	He goes on and on.
	He never answers the question.
	He might as well just say his name, rank, and serial number.
	Jarba.
	And she recalls him on it.
	Anyway, so we picked a guy, some bonehead...
	Who lived in Washington.
	Who lives in Washington?
	And he lives in Washington.
	He's in the Syrian Opposition Council.
	Mr.
	President.
	Mr.
	President.
	Does anyone think we can get away with this?
	It's a farce.
	Well, somebody at some point, somewhere...
	Is going to have to say...
	Is going to have to fire a couple of people.
	Kerry, he has messed everything up.
	Noodleman, Edem Dito.
	They've messed it all up.
	The only thing that's happened is the Russians have successfully made sure that there's no pipeline crappy business going through homes in Aleppo.
	That the Ukrainian police forces are laying down their shields and weapons.
	They will not fire on their own people.
	Russia has received Crimea and now rent-free.
	These are boneheads.
	And this is why people like John McCain are mad, because all they can think is, let's just do this the old-fashioned way, please!
	Can we just go bomb some people?
	It seems to work.
	Yeah, that's pretty much his attitude.
	I had one more China clip I wanted to share with you.
	I've been keeping it for two weeks.
	And it's interesting, since I made this clip, and it's a clip from Bloomberg, news has now come out that the Russians are joining forces with Wang Jing...
	To build the Nicaraguan Canal.
	I first met President Daniel Ortega for a telecom project.
	The Nicaraguan government was looking to introduce more advanced technology to improve the quality of communications.
	Xinhwei got the chance to do that.
	Through that project, we built mutual trust and got to know one another's strengths.
	Then, Ortega suggested I could invest in a railway to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
	It would benefit Nicaragua's economy.
	I agreed to do more research into that.
	After nearly two months, I found that a railway was not a very good idea.
	If you really want to develop this area's geographic advantages to the fullest, the best way to do it is to build a canal.
	I'd have to ask my accountant how much.
	I have only a general idea.
	Maybe close to $100 million, not more than $100 million.
	Of course, this is my own money.
	HKND is a private company.
	Your eyes are filled with doubt.
	I know you don't believe it, but it doesn't matter.
	This is the way things are.
	You people always suspect that there is somebody or the Chinese government supporting me behind the scenes.
	I'm just the front man.
	All the expenses for the project have been taken on by me from the start.
	For the next stage, after financing is completed, the expenses will be shared by all the shareholders.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So right now, sure, you're the front man.
	Then the shareholders are slowly emerging.
	Indeed, the Chinese government and also Russia will be participating in the Nicaraguan Canal, which will, of course, directly compete with the Panama Canal.
	And be probably a mile wide.
	It will be able to handle the super tankers, the big container ships.
	And Nicaragua is an interesting place.
	That was the original place where they were going to build that canal.
	Mm-hmm.
	It was done, apparently there was a lot of lobbying that went on between Panama and Nicaragua for building the Panama Canal, which it ended up in Panama, as you can tell.
	But the one thing that was kind of an anecdote that killed the Nicaraguan Canal was an issuance of a U.S. stamp, which the Congress saw.
	And then they kind of projected conceptually what was on the stamp, which was a stamp of Nicaragua celebrating something, some event there.
	And it had a mountain in the background.
	It was a volcano blowing up.
	They figured the place is not safe.
	How irritating.
	Well, I do have one Chinese thing.
	This was an odd clip that I found.
	And this is in the middle of some dialogue on the Sherlock Holmes show, which is called, I don't know what it's called.
	Oh, that's an elementary.
	It's a sitcom, right?
	It's not a sitcom.
	It's a Sherlock Holmes sitcom.
	It's a drama.
	It's a show.
	It's a show on CBS and it's called Elementary.
	And I just have a clip of this little piece of this.
	Sherlock is talking to some guy from MI6. And the MI6 guy drops this weird little aside, a snide comment in that I thought was really questionable and needs discussion.
	As it appears, well, lovely.
	If it's more than that...
	You're there to snow.
	And we'll take it from there.
	And that's it?
	I'd also like you to assassinate the premier of China.
	Perhaps I should have led with that.
	But take a look at the case.
	Give us your two cents worth and then we'll consider our score is settled.
	Yeah, good.
	Why would you put that in any script?
	Just as a joke, of course.
	Yeah, well, I was hoping to just go kill the president of China.
	While you're at it.
	Well, let me...
	Well, yeah?
	You think that's strange?
	Have you ever seen the movie From Russia With Love?
	Yeah, I have.
	Now what are you looking for?
	The scar.
	You see, I know all about you.
	from your file.
	You do?
	Well, I hope you're not disappointed.
	I will tell you.
	I will tell you.
	In the morning.
	Aha!
	In the morning.
	Aha!
	Okay.
	I'm just saying.
	I thought you had a topper, but no.
	No, I didn't.
	I'm gonna show myself old by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	We have a slew of people to thank.
	Somebody sent me a...
	I can't remember which of the people because I think there was...
	I'm guessing it was Antoine or one of the people who sent a note in.
	They sent a...
	What do you call it when you sew something on a pattern?
	Patchwork?
	Quiltwork?
	No, no, no, no.
	It's a standalone.
	I don't know.
	Merit badge.
	It's like in a round thing.
	Brownie points.
	It's like needlepoint.
	They send a no agenda needlepoint in.
	I'll scan it and you can look at it.
	A needlepoint?
	Yeah, needlepoint.
	Yeah, it's called needlepoint.
	Yeah, that's what I said.
	Like home sweet home?
	Like one of those things?
	Yeah, something like that where it says no agenda in the morning.
	Oh, that's nice.
	And you have one or two?
	One.
	So let's thank a few people.
	Sir Frank Agenstadt, Baronet, pronounced Agenstadt, in Armadale, Victoria, Australia, 12462, high man on the totem pole.
	He's got a donation there for his birthday, and we've got that listed on here.
	Let's see.
	I forgot to donate the show closest to my birthday.
	He would love a, we came, we saw, he died karma shot.
	Since that's kind of a funny one, and he has a baronet.
	Yeah, I like to kind of do that kind of stuff for people.
	Baronet's not what you did.
	We came, we saw, he died.
	You've got karma.
	That's right.
	Hey, listen to that.
	Good luck, Jonathan.
	Maxwell Thin, who actually sent a note in.
	I had it open and I screwed around.
	I think I closed it.
	I gotta open it again.
	Screwed around and lost your note.
	Thin.
	T-H-I-N-N. Whoops.
	You hate it when...
	When a pilot says oops, yeah.
	That's very annoying.
	When the pilot goes oops...
	No, when you open a page and you have a dialogue box and there's a blinking cursor, but you type and nothing happens because it's...
	It's a phony...
	It's not activated or something.
	Oh, you have no focus on the blinking cursor and then you...
	I requested a shout-out from my buddy Jacob Smith and his Rochelle RORO on the next Make It Rain segment.
	So apparently, Max, we haven't been listening to the show.
	Yeah, thanks.
	Always way behind.
	Oh, you're way behind.
	This is one of the reasons we bitch about this.
	Thank you for your time and courage.
	The club has burnt to the ground, and now there's a serious investigation for criminal activity.
	It won't open for years.
	Sir Mark of Tokyo sent a picture of him standing next to the sign for Tokyo Towers Club 333.
	Yeah, I saw that picture.
	Yeah, I wonder where they got that idea.
	Yeah, bastards.
	Fucking Japs will steal anything from us.
	Unbelievable.
	Adam at Curry.com.
	Keep it going.
	We don't have any Japanese listeners.
	Maxwell Thin in Seattle, Washington, $111.11.
	Lisa Lang in Roxbury Crossing, Massachusetts, $111.11.
	She mailed this in, and I have a note.
	Picture?
	Handmade card.
	Picture?
	Sorry?
	Picture?
	Yeah, picture.
	She has a picture?
	Yeah.
	And?
	She's a gorgeous woman.
	She wants someone to marry her.
	What?
	She's available?
	Yeah.
	I have no excuse for not donating more frequently.
	Thanks for waking me up.
	My friends now think I'm a paranoid schizophrenic, but that's okay.
	You guys helped me get through my work day in the cube farm.
	She obviously works in a cube farm.
	Uh-huh.
	She was requesting some relationship karma, which we'll give her, because I like to think I'm kind of a catch, photo included, in case Adam was going to ask.
	Is she the redhead?
	I don't think so.
	She's kind of an Auburn here.
	If you're doing Club 33, then call out Sister Charlotte.
	No.
	Maybe in a year.
	I'll write Charlotte's name down.
	I'm trying to think if...
	Now I'm going to feel bad because I received a...
	Let's see if I can find this now.
	A note a while back from one of our producers, female.
	I think she was from Massachusetts.
	I think it was Redhead or Auburn or something.
	Does she have a cat with her?
	No, no, no.
	But she's a ham.
	She has a pilot's license.
	Oh!
	But it's probably not her.
	I just can't remember.
	These names are...
	Yeah.
	Give her a karma for whatever she's looking for.
	She's job.
	Oh, job karma?
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Wait, wait, hold on.
	What was it saying?
	Relationship.
	She wants to get married.
	She doesn't want jobs.
	Don't give her job karma.
	She's got a job.
	Relationship karma.
	You've got karma.
	Shannon Rumble, what a great name, from Camden South, New South Wales, Australia.
	She's the one that sent the bikini picture.
	We'll send...
	Okay, I'll check it out.
	I think.
	I think.
	Well, Shannon, hello.
	It's my first donation to the best podcast in the universe, and she wants to say happy birthday, David.
	Or happy anniversary, David.
	I'm sorry.
	Happy anniversary, David.
	I love you.
	Aww.
	They've been together for seven years today, 11th of May.
	Hit me in the mouth six months ago and been listening to over a year now.
	He's not...
	And he...
	What?
	What?
	Oh, she's...
	Wait.
	He has been listening for over a year and has not donated.
	Could you call him out as a douchebag?
	Well, of course.
	Douchebag!
	There you go.
	Okay.
	You need to do a search on Shannon.
	Karma at the end.
	Karma at the end, of course.
	Hold on, here's the karma.
	You've got karma.
	Oh, I wanted George Clooney as a spy.
	Yeah, well...
	I didn't understand all this stuff.
	I'm looking for pictures.
	Yeah, apparently.
	You're on Tumblr instead of doing the show.
	Well...
	Where's my Clooney?
	Where's my Clooney jingle?
	This happens sometimes?
	I'll do it instead.
	George Clooney is a spy.
	This is very problematic.
	How can it be that this thing just disappears?
	George Clooney is a spy.
	That's not very funny.
	Well, I didn't mean it to be funny.
	Onward.
	Ah, here it is.
	George Clooney.
	George Clooney.
	Is a spy.
	There we go.
	Finally.
	Matt Livingstone, $100 from Sudbury, Ontario.
	Ontario.
	Ontario, Canada.
	Matt Livingstone, I presume.
	In honor of his mother, Sandra Livingstone, who passed away by 14.
	She really enjoyed what you guys exposed.
	Miss you, Mom.
	Marco Antonio Silvera Brandao in Brazil.
	Sao Paulo!
	$100.
	CSS Computer Solutions and Services, $7733.
	Anonymous, $6969 in Jasper, Alabama.
	I didn't know there was a Jasper, Alabama.
	Miss Judy Schwartz in Burn...
	We read all the notes, by the way, but not on the air always.
	In Burn...
	How do you pronounce that?
	Born?
	Burn?
	I think it's Born.
	Born?
	5831.
	Do you notice the number of women donating is going up exponentially?
	Eventually, there will be a majority because...
	I don't know.
	I was talking to one of our knights recently, and it's like, he doesn't listen to the show.
	He's a knight, but doesn't listen to the show?
	He just gave up.
	I mean, he's got other, you know, it's just these guys, you know, they, oh, I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it.
	Okay, I'm done.
	They don't get it.
	There's always stuff on this show that is new.
	Eon.
	Ian.
	Ian.
	Ion.
	Jukes.
	Pretoria.
	South Africa.
	Ooh.
	Nice.
	55.55.
	Every time he can donate, he will.
	Dan Whitechick.
	W-O-J-C-I-K is pronounced Whitechick.
	55.10, double and it goes on the diamond.
	You know, we will, of course, forget that the next time he donates.
	Yes, you better put that in every time.
	On his birthday, we got him listed.
	Same Jennifer Buchanan, 54.32.
	I don't think we have his birthday listed, John.
	Well, it's in yellow.
	No, it's not.
	On my spreadsheet, it is.
	Not on mine.
	I have yellow for the next one.
	Oh, Adrian...
	Oh.
	So, Dan...
	Let me just put it in.
	Is Dan...
	I didn't see...
	Where's Dan's birthday?
	You just said that.
	No, no, no.
	I was reading the wrong line.
	It's Adrian Drekken...
	Drekkenhan.
	Okay.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	We're the dyslexic duo.
	It's, you know...
	From a screen a mile away, I got this microphone in front of it.
	Well, get off the Barco lounger already.
	My birthday is this Wednesday to appreciate a birthday call, so that is Adrienne.
	We have her listed.
	Right, but we didn't get a photo.
	Dame Jennifer Buchanan.
	See what I'm saying?
	Sorry?
	Yeah, just women.
	There's women.
	I'm liking it.
	This is good news.
	Yeah, yeah.
	No, Dame...
	Oh, man.
	Dame Jennifer...
	James Denifer?
	South Carolina, 5432.
	Oh, by the way, this should be read.
	My husband and I had the privilege of meeting Sir Nate W. and his lovely and beautiful wife earlier today here in Charleston.
	Y'all have built an amazing community.
	We're so lucky to meet like-minded people in our new hometown.
	Oh, I know what that means.
	Thanks to the No Agenda Show.
	Swingers.
	Hugs and kisses.
	Could be.
	And I'm not condemning that, by the way.
	But we have a great community, and we've met the community in Charleston.
	We have a great community worldwide.
	This is what I always tell Mickey when she gets one of those, but what if you die moments?
	Why is she saying that to you?
	Well, I was almost dying last week.
	What if you die?
	And I said, all you have to do is send one tweet and you're good.
	She'll be taking...
	Worldwide, you'll be taking...
	And we go on with the women, with Sarah Common, another great name from Vancouver, BC, with 5432.
	She sent...
	She mailed us in, and she said she'd like some karma, which we'll put at the end, but she would like a party-style woo-hoo from Adam.
	What does that mean?
	Woo-hoo!
	Oh.
	Woo-hoo!
	There you go.
	Okay.
	I guess.
	All right.
	John Strag.
	Can you imagine that as your ringtone?
	Strag.
	I think it's strange.
	Yeah, that's a great new sound effect you've got there.
	Everyone likes it.
	John Strag in San Antonio, Texas.
	50 bucks.
	These are all $50 donors and I'll conclude our segment.
	Paul Vela in Milton Keynes, UK. Jason Fortune in Parts Unknown.
	Christopher Scott.
	Gilbert, Arizona.
	David Peet.
	Aubrey, Texas.
	Sokovi or Alexander Sokovi in Moscow.
	Another John Strag.
	He's In twice here.
	That's good.
	Scott Soltis, who comes in a lot.
	There's Mark Tanner.
	Scott's in Minneapolis, Minnesota Nuts.
	And Scott Tanner's in Whittier, California.
	And that'll conclude our segment for No Agenda Show 616.
	Which, by the way, could have been an interesting donation for more people.
	6160 would have been good.
	Well, we have our Tokyo show on Thursday.
	Do that again.
	Tokyo.
	That's kind of an interesting effect.
	The show's in Tokyo.
	It has something to it.
	It does.
	It has a nice sound.
	Tavora.org slash N.A. And first, we celebrate an anniversary.
	Shannon Rumble says happy anniversary to her man, David.
	Seven years together on May 11th today, Mother's Day.
	And I'm sure David's a very happy man.
	Look at the picture.
	And happy birthday to Kristen.
	Kristen Kitterman says happy birthday to her husband.
	You know who you are.
	And Sir Frank Agenstatt turns 62 tomorrow.
	We congratulate Sir Frank.
	And Adrian Drekham celebrates on the 14th.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here at The Best Podcast in the Universe!
	Unfortunately, a little light today, no nights, no title changes, but of course also no regime change, so that's good.
	Yet.
	Here.
	No regime change yet here for us.
	Boy, there was a lot of stuff.
	Let me see.
	I've got an off-topic one we can just use as a segue.
	Well, I was just going to throw out a couple of things non-clip related.
	Alright.
	And then we can go into your segue clip.
	So, European Union now, law passing every single vehicle sold will have a tracking device that is intent for your protection.
	that will alert emergency services when you have an accident, it won't be tracking anything, right?
	Don't worry.
	Nothing to see here regarding that.
	I mentioned something that I've said this before, and I'll say it again.
	These devices, yeah, and I don't think they're as onerous as people think, although they are onerous, but the real key for these things and why they're going to be required is because when you go in, especially in places in California, for a smog check, this hasn't been implemented yet, but I guarantee it.
	Redbook.
	They're going to run that computer, and they're going to give you, oh, those broke the speed limit, broke the speed limit, broke the speed limit.
	You'll get a bunch of tickets in the mail.
	They don't need to radar you anymore.
	You are committing, you are essentially providing all the information, and I think they'll find it legal, even though you're testifying against yourself with this device.
	They'll find it legal, and you're going to go in to get your smog checked, and you're going to walk out with about 10 tickets for speeding.
	Yes.
	Oh, I don't care.
	Yo, I had to pass.
	I had to go.
	I was passing this guy on a 55 mile an hour zone.
	He was doing 50.
	I had to go around him.
	So I hit 57 to get around him.
	Too bad.
	And this would be only in California?
	Everywhere.
	Yeah, but it'll start in California.
	Oh, California will start?
	Sure.
	I just want Mickey to hear this.
	Yeah.
	I'm on an anti-California.
	I make sure she doesn't like California.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, that's good.
	She still likes it.
	She seems beautiful and everything, but I keep telling her there's too much against it.
	Yeah, like that, and I guarantee that within the next couple years, people will be getting tickets for speeding based on that little tracking device.
	There's some chip you can put in there that puts a limiter on so it never, you know.
	A lot of cars, I've driven these cars, you're driving along and they get a passport, they show you the speed limit.
	Have you ever seen this?
	No.
	Yeah, it's right in by the speedometer.
	My car still has steam gauges.
	What are you talking about?
	That's mine too, but I got a bunch of cars to review, and I'm noticing that...
	It shows you the speed limit of the road you're on at that moment.
	Yes.
	Because it's tracking you.
	Or there's a camera looking for speed signs.
	I don't know how it works.
	All I know is it's there, and I thought that's kind of interesting.
	So if they can do that, they can, you know, give you tickets for speeding.
	Okay, moving on.
	Because, yes, yeah, that will happen.
	And worse, you won't be able to get insurance unless you have a tracker installed.
	This is what people also fail to see.
	Perfect, yeah.
	No insurance for you.
	This is very normal.
	They can do that.
	We don't feel like insuring you.
	We have that right unless you have a speed tracker for your protection.
	Kelp Watch.
	This is a project that uses coastal kelp beds.
	A collaborative effort Led by Stephen Manley, marine biology professor at California State University, Long Beach.
	And Kai Vedder, head of applied nuclear physics at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley Lab.
	And a nuclear engineering professor at the University of Berkeley, California.
	Does these sound like credible guys?
	They sound extremely credible.
	If you purchased iodine from the seed guy...
	You may want to read this, as these credible gentlemen, with their kelp study, have announced that the West Coast shoreline shows absolutely no signs of ocean-borne radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster.
	Right, and it shouldn't.
	We've talked about this since day one.
	It's impossible.
	Well, we saw guys with Geiger counters.
	Well, I could walk around my house with a Geiger counter and get more activity.
	I know, but I just want everyone who published the maps and the pictures of the radioactive cloud and everything.
	Because a lot of this was an alternative media thing, you know?
	People, oh man, the government's not telling us we're being fried!
	Yeah, well, that's one of the things we don't do.
	No, we don't.
	And then we have...
	How did this happen?
	This is weird.
	I'm not quite sure what happened there.
	Let me just delete this.
	Coldest year on record so far in the United States?
	No!
	That's a lie!
	Yeah, it's no lie.
	This is part of your climate change.
	But then we have something very interesting I'd like you to look at.
	Now, I couldn't really find...
	It seems to be an independent effort.
	They don't take any money.
	They're not a non-profit.
	But we'll find out more about these guys.
	Their outfit is called Carbon Story.
	But you should go to the website worldunderwater.org.
	This is very funny.
	A new movie coming out about something like this?
	No, this is a website, and you choose your favorite city, like I'm going to choose New York, and then it overlays on Google Maps, Street View, what the street will look like when the seas increase due to climate change and we're all flooded.
	And so right now I'm walking around in New York and there's water.
	On Times Square.
	It's all the way up to the Bank of America billboard sign.
	Are you there?
	Are you seeing it?
	I'm looking, yeah.
	I'm loading New York now.
	Type in any address.
	I'm going to type in our address here.
	Travis Heights.
	I'll type in mine because I'm up on the top of a hill.
	I'm Travis Heights Hideout.
	And...
	Oh, man, it did that thing again.
	Mickey's office.
	Oh, here it is.
	Oh, no, we're good.
	Mickey's office is still good upstairs.
	That's hilarious.
	This is a very funny website.
	Hold on while I get my hillside location.
	You can't be underwater.
	Oh, crap.
	Are you underwater?
	I'm up 350 feet in the air and the water is up at the base of the house.
	I'm 350 feet above sea level.
	That's flight level 003.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Okay, so we can call bullcrap on the...
	This is hilarious.
	I'm gonna flood!
	You're gonna die!
	Let me look at the place across...
	Yep, the place across the street, which is also on a hill, has got the waters up...
	Just all you can see is this chimney coming out.
	And the whole...
	I'm looking down the street.
	It's all flooded.
	Uh-huh.
	Yeah, okay.
	I'm just all on Agenda 21 climate change for a moment.
	This is bullcrap.
	I give him credit for humor.
	Lloyd's of London, the world's oldest and biggest insurance market, has for the first time called on insurers to incorporate climate change into their models.
	Uh-huh.
	It means you're going to be paying more because, you know, climate change.
	Mainly because of...
	Yeah, it's an excuse to gouge you.
	Gouge you?
	Yeah.
	Well, this is how the economy works.
	Things are slow, so let's find some new way to gouge the public.
	I like this climate change thing, Bill.
	Well, the timing is good because we have U.S. scientists saying there's an 80% chance of extreme disruption to the world's weather later this year because of...
	Climate change.
	No.
	El Nino.
	Oh, yeah.
	It happens all the time.
	Yeah.
	But it'll be blamed on climate change.
	Even though El Nino happens all the time.
	Okay, I got it.
	I'm going to go look into...
	I have...
	There's a place...
	I'm going to look at another place here in Albany.
	I want to just see what the level is there.
	Now, if you were doing this in Boulder, Colorado...
	Okay.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	Of course, we would be wearing the t-shirt, C-Level is for sissies.
	Okay, here's the...
	Hold on a second.
	I got to...
	Now, I'm...
	There's a street down there, literally at sea level.
	I know exactly what it is.
	I put the address in.
	It's my mom's old house at sea level.
	Mom is drowned.
	No, it's just below the roof line, which is lower than the house across the street, which is 300 feet in the air.
	This is bull crap.
	This isn't even close to being accurate.
	This is a fraud thing.
	Let me just write that down.
	What was the time on that?
	2.19.
	This is a fraud!
	That's your ringtone, everybody.
	It's a fraud!
	So the t-shirt with the slogan, sea level is for sissies, has been called out by OutBoulder, an LGBTQQIAAP advocacy group.
	Is it a word sissy?
	Yes, they have launched an online petition seeking to pressurize organizers of the Boulder Boulder group to drop their slogan, C-Level is for sissies, because they say the word sissies is derogatory.
	The word sissies is a southern slang term along with bubba.
	That little kid should say sissy and bubba, brother and sister.
	It means sister.
	The group said the slogan is harmful and leads to further misunderstanding about gender.
	This has been a long-standing issue for us in the LGBTQIAP community, Moore said.
	When somebody calls you a sissy, it's not positive!
	Let me do that again.
	When somebody calls you a sissy, it's not positive!
	That word continues the incorrect thinking that having emotions or expressing something is stereotypically female.
	That's wrong!
	You nailed it.
	Nailed that guy's voice.
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	It's crazy.
	This has to stop, people.
	This word sissy.
	Somebody's bitching about something constantly.
	Then they will get their way because it's all commercial enterprises and some advertiser will wimp out.
	Oh, we don't want to offend these people.
	They make a lot of noise and it's embarrassing.
	Let's tell these guys to stop doing that.
	Send it.
	Have a meeting.
	I feel kind of stupid because typically...
	I would look up this group out bolder and get you some info, some background on them.
	I did not do that.
	So let me take a look quickly.
	Aboot.
	Let's go to their website.
	Staff and board directors.
	Let's see.
	Who's on the board?
	Marty Moore.
	Anything interesting?
	They're essentially talking about how cool it is to live at 5,000 feet.
	Is that their deal?
	Colorado is all, generally speaking, 3,000 to 14,000 feet above sea level.
	The whole state.
	And, uh, so that's what that's about.
	Okay, they have the, their big thing is the Clela Rorex Allies in Action Award.
	This prestigious award is named for the woman who set the bar for equal marriage in Colorado.
	Oh, and they're giving them crap?
	They're giving this operation crap because they use the word sissies?
	No, no, this, no, no, this is the operation that is giving the sissy people crap.
	This is the gay, this is the out boulder, hello?
	Sorry.
	Out Boulder.
	Let's see.
	Annual Report.
	This is where I like to go.
	Oh, Annual Report.
	2012.
	Let's take a...
	This is not their Form 990, I'm sure.
	But, let me see.
	Mission.
	Do they have any financials in here?
	Here we go.
	Very small.
	$204,000.
	They took in...
	70,000 of that was donations.
	They spent...
	205...
	So they have a deficit.
	They spent 205,000.
	Half of their money is spent on payroll and benefits.
	Of course.
	Donate money so I can yell.
	And the source of the Grant's Brett Family Foundation, Bright Mountain Buck Foundation.
	It's small.
	Small, vocal.
	Nice little website.
	Seems legit.
	Oh, no, it's legit.
	Of course it is.
	It's legit, but please.
	What's with the sissy talk?
	That is crazy.
	Talking about sissies.
	Let's discuss the Ukraine for a quick second.
	Only if you call it Ukraine and not the...
	Did I say the Ukraine?
	You did.
	Yeah.
	It happens, to the best of us.
	It happens constantly.
	You know what's on the ballot?
	They're doing the ballot today.
	Now, they've done some studies.
	In fact, Pew Research went into the Ukraine, and they discovered that really there's only, even in the eastern part of Ukraine, there's only a 27% And this is also Putin has said, you guys shouldn't even do that.
	Putin.
	Poo-in.
	Poo-in.
	Now, what's on the ballot?
	What's the actual...
	What's on the ballot?
	Yeah.
	It probably...
	Okay, well, as a citizen of Gitmo Nation, who just watches CNN, it probably...
	The ballot has two boxes, I'm guessing.
	Box one says, we love Europe, keep me there.
	And box two says...
	I want to be with the evil Russians.
	Well, you got part of this, right?
	The two boxes, for sure.
	But it turns out to be...
	This is the actual wording on the ballot.
	We never hear this on CNN on any of these stations, but France 24 has a guy who looked at the ballot, and here's what it says.
	Uh, that would be the...
	E-U-K-R, which is E-East Ukraine, actual ballot.
	Ukraine's acting president, Alexander Tokshinov, took to the internet this Saturday in a last-ditch attempt at convincing eastern regions not to go ahead with a planned separatist referendum.
	That's good.
	Kiev and its Western allies view the vote in the Russian-speaking Donetsk and Luhansk regions as illegal.
	Regardless, preparations are underway.
	Until earlier I spoke to our correspondent Gulliver Krag in Donetsk.
	At a separatist's move forward with the poll, I asked him what question voters will face in the ballot box.
	Well, I think the question has been very carefully chosen.
	There's just one question, and it is, do you support the act of self-rule of the Donetsk People's Republic, yes or no?
	That doesn't talk about independence.
	It doesn't talk about joining Russia either.
	And I think they're trying to have as broad a sweep of possible of people who are separatist-minded in this region, if you like, because there are a lot of people here who think that it would be good for the region to have greater autonomy within Ukraine.
	And then there are, of course, others who would like the region to join Russia, but they are, according to opinion polls, a much smaller minority.
	And the head of the electoral commission of this self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic was this morning very emphatic in saying that this is not a referendum about joining Russia.
	That question might come later, he said.
	Now, considering the very unstable situation in these regions, how are the separatists planning to organize tomorrow's poll?
	Well, according to this head of the self-proclaimed electoral commission, Roman Liagin, they are going to have a poll that is going to meet all European and international standards across this region with more than 3 million people voting, despite having a budget of less than $2,000 for the whole thing.
	That's pretty funny.
	This is complete bullcrap.
	Yeah, the whole thing is bullcrap.
	It's not important.
	Bullshit!
	These guys are going on and on about, oh, it's illegal and they can't do this.
	I'm wondering why they're making such a fuss.
	If that's the question, it's just an inane question.
	I'm sure half the people won't even bother voting.
	Some will say yes, some will say no.
	I'll give you the answer.
	So first of all, the question could have also been cloud or desktop.
	But the question is, do we want self-rule?
	And the reason why this is being played up so big is so the 400 Academy troops, formerly known as Blackwater, now confirmed to be there, according to the Spiegel Online, can go and kill people!
	Because of, you know, protest, or Russians are killing people, or...
	This is more putsch, this is more...
	This is no better than Reichstag Nazis going into Austria, Poland, and this false flag!
	It's a setup.
	It's a very bad scenario.
	It's a bad scenario.
	We're not getting accurate reports on what it's all about.
	We're just going to find, you know, something's going to happen.
	We won't know, oh, they voted this way or that way.
	We get bad information from the media.
	And then we have these bullcrappers from Europe.
	Play this, the big talkers clip in the same series.
	Hey.
	Hello.
	No, I'm hitting it, but it's not for some reason.
	Let me see what's going on.
	Why did that not work?
	If the Ukrainian army intervenes, they will get a suitable response.
	This comes after Kiev warned the eastern regions against going ahead with a vote that would ask locals to approve the creation of so-called sovereign people's republics.
	Amid the politics, many here want a new order.
	We will rid ourselves of this government, of these troops, and we will be in charge of our own territory.
	Despite calls to cancel or postpone the vote from the West and from Moscow, other pro-Russian strongholds have seen polling stations set up in recent days.
	In Donetsk, local people have been helping to organize Sunday's vote.
	This is bad.
	And this is a poll, not a referendum, which people don't get that either.
	Nobody says that in American media.
	It's a referendum.
	It's not a referendum.
	It's a poll as in like Gallup giving you a call at your home.
	Do you approve the president's rating of his job?
	Yeah, exactly.
	And now we have Hollande and Merkel also on board with the complaining and claiming it's illegal and they have to stop and all the rest.
	This is such fake news.
	Both France's François Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel repeated their condemnation of what they call an illegal poll and warned Russia of consequences if it were to disrupt the presidential...
	Well, at least they said poll there.
	They said illegal poll now.
	Yeah, that's France 24.
	We don't say that in this country.
	But at least they said illegal.
	It's an illegal poll.
	I'm sorry, you can't ask questions.
	Can I ask you a question?
	That's illegal!
	Shut up, slave!
	What's an illegal poll?
	You can't ask a question?
	That's illegal!
	...created their condemnation of what they call an illegal poll and warned Russia of consequences if it were to disrupt the presidential election authorities in Kiev have planned for later this month.
	A show of unity from the European leaders.
	Two languages, but the same message.
	They say Sunday's referendums are illegal, and all efforts must be focused on Ukraine's election.
	Our demand is that the presidential election takes place on 25th of May.
	Our demand is that it takes place in a proper way.
	And that it be completely transparent.
	We condemn Sunday's referendums, which carry no weight.
	What does this idiot got to do with any of it?
	What does he condemn?
	Why does he claim it's illegal?
	He runs France.
	They don't own Ukraine.
	Well, he's got to participate in the system.
	I mean, he gets a call from Kerry or Noodleman.
	Completely annoying.
	Von Rumpoy.
	Flew to Ukraine.
	He's there now in Kiev.
	Why?
	Yeah, to make sure that...
	Well, I have an article here.
	I'll read it to you.
	But he's there to secure the elections.
	Council President Herman Van Rompuy, known as Haiku Herman, will travel to Ukraine Monday to discuss how to stabilize the situation there before the 25th of May presidential election.
	The EU said yesterday.
	See, the EU is now a talking person.
	I will travel to Kiev on Monday to continue our talks on how to stabilize the nation of Ukraine ahead of the presidential elections on 25 May, how to put an end to violence in Ukraine, and how to create an inclusive national dialogue.
	That was pretty good.
	I liked it.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	You can now do Rompoy.
	Yeah, I can do him.
	So, pfft, whatever he's doing.
	No, this is rigged.
	Well, it's dangerously rigged.
	And let's just review for a moment that Noodleman and Kerry and even McCain, they enlisted the Sabota Party to knock heads around.
	These are the neo-Nazis.
	You couldn't call them neo-Nazis, but they are just hooligans.
	They're in every country in Europe.
	You've got guys like this, and they typically hate Jews, and they hate foreigners, and they just like to beat people up.
	And they have low IQ level, but they like to beat people up and wear green bomber jackets.
	You've seen them.
	These are dickheads.
	And if they heard me say that, they would beat me to a pulp.
	That's all they do.
	And the crazy thing is, what's really interesting is they took direction from the predominantly Jew-oriented regime and regime-change people.
	The neocons.
	The neocons.
	It's Noodleman, Yatsenyuk, and they are now, you know, they will turn around and start beating up Jews, because that's what they do.
	And these people are insane.
	They are truly insane.
	And they are the strong arm.
	But then, of course, we have, again, 400 Academy soldiers armed to the teeth with tanks and combat vehicles.
	Spiegel Online has pictures.
	Now, of course, what's beautiful about this is we just lent them a billion dollars.
	The terms and conditions are in the show notes.
	It's kind of funny to look at the terms and conditions of that loan.
	Because, yes, USAID lent the money, but they are issuing notes to anyone who wants to hold the note on that money.
	It's basically like a bond on Ukraine.
	And even if you don't get paid, they have a form letter on what to fill out.
	The whole thing is funny.
	So we lent them that money.
	They turn around.
	Of course, they never got a check.
	There was no big check from John Kerry.
	That money went round robin, part of it, to Academy.
	So, we didn't send them in.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Ukrainian government hired them.
	You know, these consultants, or whatever you want to call them.
	Yeah, with our money, that we loan them.
	And these guys, they will kill people.
	Because they just don't care.
	You know, they don't care of who it is.
	Alright, kill this guy, we'll kill this guy.
	This is what they do.
	I'm not even condemning what they do, believe it or not.
	It's what they do.
	They don't care.
	They do not kill people because of who they are.
	They kill people for money.
	And they will start killing people.
	We have video now that came out today of soldiers killing civilians.
	Unarmed civilians.
	Shoot, not killing them.
	We can't see on the YouTube video if they were killed, but they're shooting unarmed civilians with their hands up.
	And it's all just to split everything apart, draw Russia in, and hopefully Putin is smarter than that.
	But at a certain point, So these guys, they screwed it up.
	But they screwed it up.
	No, they totally screwed it up.
	And it's just getting worse.
	They're screwing it up more.
	So that's okay.
	We'll rebelize the place and see what happens.
	Well, it's not okay.
	But this is not going to turn out well.
	Here's a...
	Not well done.
	This is very poorly executed.
	Well, here's earlier in the week.
	You're right.
	Kerry should be fired.
	And Noodleman.
	Both should be fired.
	Kerry was in the Wall Street Journal saying, oh yeah, we're going to put economic sanctions on Gazprom.
	This guy, he should shut up, one.
	And he should be fired.
	The guy is horrible.
	And the president of the United States, you know...
	I pray for all people of Europe that Hillary Clinton is elected our next president.
	Because even though she is uniquely qualified to run the empire, and she will shoot you in the face if she feels like it and she feels it's necessary, there's a little bit of humanity in her.
	If we get a Republican dude in there, people are going to die.
	People will be...
	Entire countries will be carpet-bombed.
	Or Elizabeth Warren.
	I don't know about her.
	She's one of those old-fashioned liberals who will run right over her.
	Well, that would be bad for us.
	That's why Hillary is a good in-between kind of solution, where America still runs the empire, but less people die.
	Here's Noodleman being grilled on the Hill earlier this week.
	We did have a legitimate election before and the elected president was removed after we had major street violence.
	There were pictures of people running around with these that we were told were neo-Nazis.
	First of all, the vast majority of those who participated on the Maidan were peaceful protesters.
	If you had a chance to see the pictures, many of us visited, including many members here.
	There were mothers and grandmothers and veterans.
	Before you go on, I saw those pictures as well.
	as well, I also saw a lot of pictures of people throwing firebombs at groups of policemen who were huddled over in a corner where people were shooting into the ranks of police.
	So yes, there were mothers with flowers.
	Have you ever seen that video, John?
	Of the police?
	No, no, no.
	Of the police and the sharpshooters are just picking them off one by one through the head?
	No.
	Oh my god, it's the most disturbing video.
	So you have, and that's the riot police, the Ukrainian riot police.
	These guys are, they're elite forces almost, and so they're all huddled, and then the sharpshooters, which of course no one knew about, oh gosh, oh gosh, they were shot, really, oh gosh.
	That's my high priestess Kathy Ashton no-chin monster interpretation of how she said it.
	Oh gosh, I didn't know.
	Oh gosh.
	And you see these guys, they're sitting there and boom, just one bow and just bullet through the head.
	Boom, boom, boom.
	I've seen a lot of disturbing video.
	That takes the cake.
	But there were also very dangerous street fighters who were engaged in those demonstrations.
	The question is, were there neo-Nazi groups involved in that?
	There were, as I said, almost every color of Ukraine was represented, including some ugly colors.
	The answer is yes, then.
	Yes.
	She is...
	Pretty low on the scale of humanism.
	That woman.
	Yeah, yeah, that's bad.
	And her husband, Kagan.
	And his brother, Kagan.
	Sorry, Ukraine.
	I feel bad for you guys, and I'm gonna say the douchebags that we're letting run the show here are to blame, and I apologize.
	I really do apologize.
	I don't know what else to say.
	No, there's nothing you can do about it.
	Well, not really, no.
	There's nothing we can do about any of this, of course.
	We can just discuss it in a way that helps people understand it, and mainly helps them understand that they're not getting any of this information.
	Anywhere.
	And they're being led down the kind of primrose path.
	There was a...
	And talking about being misled...
	So Democracy Now!
	had just a very long segment on medical marijuana.
	And they were specializing in these.
	There's a lot of women and kids that have these seizures that is only cured by that one component of marijuana that's not the THC, it's some other stuff.
	You don't get stoned off of this stuff.
	Right, it's the other stuff.
	And they make it into an oil.
	Liquid, yeah, oil.
	The kids can't, you know, they stop having seizures, and there's a bunch of sob stories.
	There's one after another.
	This was a very long segment.
	And there was one sob story after another, and you could, when you watch this, you couldn't, you could, you had to ask yourself, why would anybody not allow this to, you know, continue in all the states, this treatment?
	Because this little girl, this sad little girl who's fine now that she's taking this, she can't leave the state of Colorado because they will arrest her.
	Yeah.
	This sort of thing.
	And so at the very, at one moment, they play this clip that you played on the show before of one of those TV doctors who turned...
	Gupta.
	Gupta.
	Gupta turned against the litany and they play that and then they play a little bit of, I have a clip here of the end of that and then they throw it back to this woman who is the mom of one of these little girls that has these problems and she had to move from Virginia all the way to Colorado, uproot herself to save this kid because they wanted I have a clip here of the end of that and then they throw it back to this woman who is the mom of one of these little It's an annoying process.
	That was literal.
	They wanted to take half her brain out.
	Right side or left side?
	I think it was the right side.
	Whatever the case, it could have been the left.
	Whatever the case, she makes this little pitch at the end, at the segment.
	I just thought this was very poignant and it refers to the government lying to the public and all the rest of it rolled into one and nobody seems to understand that this is thematic.
	Some incredible research.
	I didn't listen to the chorus of patients who said, not only does marijuana work for me, it's the only thing that works for me.
	I took the DEA at their word when they said it's a Schedule I substance and has no medical applications.
	There was no scientific basis for them to say that.
	Dara Lytle, as you hear the experts speak, your thoughts?
	Well, it rings true because I used to believe the same stuff.
	I believe what society was telling me, what the doctors told me, and what the federal government was saying.
	And I thought when people were saying that I put my daughter on medical cannabis, I laughed at them.
	And then when I saw the video of how it was changing people's I'm baffled that the world believes those things, that the federal government has it as a situation.
	that were so scared of THC that even talking about Charlotte's Web and seizures, that were nervous to say that there may be some THC and they might get a feeling of high when they've been on these pharmaceuticals that have addictive properties to it, where adults are losing their lives and becoming homeless that were nervous to say that there may be some THC and they might get a feeling of And we're worried that if they get a little bit of THC, they might get a little bit high.
	Well, some of these patients do need THC, and it is benefiting them.
	And if they're going to get a little bit high off of it, that's not necessarily harmful if it's helping them and healing them from the things that they're dealing with medically.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	I just thought that was a very nice soliloquy from her.
	And the thematic thing was, the government lies, and it lies at all levels.
	And this is only for one reason, and one reason only.
	Well, it's to serve the, in the case of the marijuana operations, it serves the pharmaceutical industries, which are big donors to all these shithead politicians.
	It protects.
	It protects the pharmaceutical industry.
	Yeah, it protects them.
	Because this is a weed, people.
	You can grow it in your windowsill.
	That's what no one ever talks about.
	And by the way, you'll notice how marijuana is continuously being positioned not as something that grows in your backyard.
	You never even Sanjay Gupta.
	It's all about the dispensary and here's how you get it and you have to buy the edibles.
	But the concept, the crazy notion that you could drop a few seeds.
	By the way, let me say something else.
	What happened that we no longer get seeds in our packages of marijuana?
	When did you discover this?
	It's something I noticed a couple years ago.
	I had a discussion with someone here in Austin, and it just happened over time in the past maybe five or six years.
	You no longer have to separate your seeds and stems.
	It's no more.
	You don't get seeds included, obviously, because, oh, I have an idea.
	Let me drop these seeds into dirt and add water.
	I don't think that's true.
	That there's no seeds in your marijuana?
	Big time, it's true.
	No, no, no.
	I think that the best kind of marijuana, which was from, I don't know, 40 years ago, you'd get this crappy marijuana, which is mostly leaves, very few buds.
	Buds weren't even thought of as anything important.
	And you'd have a shitload of seeds and a bunch of stems, and it was junk.
	And, you know, it was a social drug, and you could smoke it and smoke it and smoke it in college, let's say, and it wouldn't do much.
	Do you remember when you used to smoke a joint, and then there would be a seed in there and go, I don't remember that, but I think I maybe remember that.
	Oh man, you didn't get that seed out, man!
	Well, I know when the seeds pop, if you took a bunch of them and put it in a pan, they would form little bitty pieces of popcorn.
	Seriously.
	Anyway, they went to this bud, high THC content stuff, which is almost impossible for old-timers to deal with, that don't have, there's just no seeds to put in there.
	I don't think there's some conspiracy to keep seeds out of it.
	I think if you went to a grower or a pharmaceutical place in areas like California that have medical marijuana, there's all these dispensaries all over the place, and asked about getting some seeds, I'll bet you could get some.
	Well, let me tell you what the experts say.
	And the expert would be Nick the Rat in the chat room who was yelling that seeds equals junk.
	Only bad and male plants have seeds.
	Seeds go away, no good!
	I believe Nick is an expert.
	Nick would know.
	Nick would know.
	Who needs Sanjay Gupta when you got Nick the Rat?
	Yeah, well he would know, so that's probably true.
	Right now here on CNN we're going to go to our expert on marijuana, Nick the Rat.
	Yeah...
	And it's true that you want the female plant.
	Okay, so that explains it.
	But you used to get a lot.
	Maybe it's just commercialized then.
	I think that you could get seeds if you wanted to.
	You can go, hey, can I get some seeds?
	But regardless...
	By the way, why would the seeds come out of the male plant?
	That doesn't make any sense.
	I have no idea.
	I'm only listening to the experts.
	Okay, well, whatever the case is, I'm sure you can hear.
	I once tried it in Belgium to grow plants.
	Yeah?
	And in the basement...
	Yeah, oh, it works like crazy.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's so easy.
	It's a weed.
	It's called weed.
	Yeah, you just put it in there.
	I just had some lamps and a little bit of fan, and poof, the thing just exploded.
	And then I smoked it immediately.
	Yeah, it was good.
	Let me see.
	Oh, yes, we have a little...
	New documents point to, and this is interesting, CIA Rendition Network.
	Now, the rendition network means that they are moving prisoners around the world.
	Do you want to explain that briefly, what the issue is with our rendition networks and why this is so controversial?
	Yeah, back in during the, right after 9-11, the CIA had a program, I think this program has been around for even longer, where it's called a rendition, where they'd grab, you'd be some guy that was like a suspect, or they think you're a bad guy, or you're working on something that they don't like.
	They'd grab you off the street, throw you in a trunk.
	Black bag you, with black bag over your head.
	Drive you to the airport really fast, throw you in a private jet, and fly you out somewhere to some private prison.
	One of them was in Poland.
	It became very embarrassing for the government.
	And they throw you in there.
	Now you're like, nobody knows where you are.
	Essentially, they've thrown the key away.
	Nobody knows where you are, and you're in a private prison somewhere where they can beat the crap out of you.
	So here's the interesting thing.
	New documents now point to the CIA rendition network running through Djibouti.
	Ah, Djibouti!
	Now, what is in Djibouti?
	That is our drone base.
	Think about it.
	Think about the legality.
	It's on the Gulf of...
	No, listen.
	Yeah.
	You don't throw somebody on a private jet.
	You throw them in a drone.
	Who flew the drone?
	I don't know.
	I wasn't flying nothing.
	You see?
	Wait a minute, what crackpot theory is this?
	Wait, let me get this straight.
	We have a CIA rendition network through Djibouti.
	Djibouti is the number one drone base for the United States in Africa.
	So now you're thinking the following.
	Tell me I'm wrong with this.
	You're thinking that there's some drones that have been designed to take a drugged up black bag guy and put him in the drone and the drone flies to Djibouti where they pick him up.
	Yep.
	Put it in the book.
	A people drone.
	Put it in the book.
	Now, I do need to play the biggest bullcrap clip ever before I go.
	I'm calling it the people drone.
	People drone.
	This is on CNN, and this of course is meant to propagandize the idea of the government controlling all things drone.
	And the FAA is now making regulations.
	We don't want anyone to operate a drone, certainly not news media, but only the military.
	And CNN, obviously, are all in on propagating whatever formula.
	But just from an aviation perspective, this was the funniest thing I've ever heard.
	This is simply stunning.
	It appears this is the closest a passenger jet and a drone have ever come in the sky.
	Sources tell CNN the plane...
	It was a U.S. Airways regional jet flying near Tallahassee, Florida airport.
	Now, the pilot of the plane tells authorities he saw what he believes was a fixed-wing drone.
	The drone was some 2,300 feet in the air, far higher than something that an amateur might be flying.
	And the pilot says it was painted in camouflage.
	Now, the pilot also told authorities it came so close that he thought he had actually hit this drone.
	Okay.
	Okay, so he thought he...
	If you hit something in the air, a bird even, you're going to know about this.
	You're not going to just think you hit something.
	Right, you're hitting it at a very high speed.
	Tear off the wing.
	Tear off your wing, possibly.
	Not the bird's wing.
	Well, but if a bird hits your windscreen, it can go right through.
	Yeah.
	Now, let's continue this fine piece of journalistic propaganda.
	But once they got on the ground, they did not see any damage.
	USA Airways just told CNN that they are aware of the reports, they are investigating.
	And by the way, now we're seeing an animation on screen.
	You've got to be very aware of this stuff.
	We're seeing an animation of a U.S. Airways regional jet with a drone passing right over its wing.
	And if you've watched this, you have now seen this happen.
	People need to understand that this is how it's done.
	And this is not...
	CNN, this is a piece that was put together, handed to CNN. They've got no time for a guy to do this on a throwaway story.
	No, no, this is repackaged.
	Pre-packaged, and it's got the U.S. Air flag on the tail, and a camouflage drone, and it flies right over the wing, and it's a beautiful piece of propaganda, as we continue to listen.
	It really could have been catastrophic.
	What may be more concerning, though, Wolf, is that this happened in March, and was never publicly reported until an FAA official told people at a special drone conference on Thursday.
	Right.
	Yes, and sent the package to us on Friday.
	Two months to develop the package.
	Exactly.
	That's pretty shocking.
	I don't know why we didn't know about that earlier.
	How catastrophic.
	But it gets better.
	Oh, shocking.
	Could it have been, Rene?
	Well, you saw what happened when a flock of geese...
	You saw what that happened or what problems...
	This is great.
	So now she is going to compare a drone hitting an air...
	to a mid-air collision, essentially, to the Miracle on the Hudson.
	Pay attention to the words.
	Or what problems that caused for that U.S. Airways flight known as Miracle on the Hudson.
	Well, just imagine a drone...
	Excuse me.
	Was that not American?
	I'm sorry?
	She says you saw how problematic that was for the U.S. Airways flight on the Hudson.
	Well, I think it was American.
	I don't think he worked for U.S. Air.
	Why is she saying...
	No, it was U.S. Airways 1549.
	No, I apologize.
	Okay, well, here we go.
	Miracle on the Hudson.
	Well, just imagine a drone getting sucked up in one of the plane's engines.
	Okay, so here is a camouflage drone...
	How much do you camouflage a drone that's flying in the sky?
	But it's getting sucked up into the engine.
	Seriously?
	Well, just imagine...
	No!
	This is her analysis.
	So, no, it's not ripping off a wing.
	No, it's getting sucked up into the engine.
	Drone getting sucked up in one of the plane's engines.
	Again, Wolf, in that own FAA official's own words, it could have really been catastrophic.
	Really?
	And that's how...
	Really catastrophic.
	So what can be done to fix this problem?
	Well, you know, over the next five years, the FAA is estimating that as many as 7,500 drones could be flying in the U.S. airspace at any given time.
	So there's some urgency in figuring out how to safely integrate these drones with the airspace.
	We do know that the FAA has been working on a plan to safely integrate drones into the airspace so that you don't have incidents where you have passenger aircrafts crashing into drones that are also sharing that same space.
	I'd say legislation being rammed through committee as we speak.
	What a bunch of propaganda.
	Well, they don't want to let the drones get into the hands of the public.
	No!
	In fact...
	Thus, you'd have like a situation in San Francisco, say the Occupy thing going on and people getting clubbed.
	And then they're grabbing everybody nearby that's shooting it with their phone cams.
	But then if there was a drone overhead, just filming the whole thing, it would be disastrous for the police.
	So they have to shoot it.
	Which is what I'd do.
	Well, if anything comes within 500 feet of my house is getting shot, that's for sure.
	Yeah, so it's hovering there.
	Anyone with a rifle can take one down if they're that close.
	Exactly.
	Anyway, although you'd be on film.
	Hey, are you doing the show today?
	Are you doing Twitter?
	Yeah, I'm doing the show.
	I'm doing the Twitter show today.
	Okay, shall I prepare you for the show?
	Are you ready for it?
	I said no.
	What?
	Nothing.
	Go on.
	Okay, from the category...
	Packet Inequality.
	You ready for it?
	Yeah.
	Here's the story that you will have to deal with.
	Bah, those guys are really cool.
	They put the FCC's website on a 28.8k slow lane modem.
	Ha ha ha ha!
	What?
	That's the story you'll have to deal with.
	You didn't hear about...
	I didn't know anything about this.
	Brief me, my man.
	Okay, here's your briefing.
	The FCC's web hosting service called NeoCities found the FCC's internal IP address range and throttled all connections to their website to 28.8 kilobit speeds.
	Okay.
	And this is...
	This could come up.
	This one, I'll agree.
	It could come up.
	And again, here's how...
	Those guys are great!
	Yeah!
	Give the FCC a taste of their own medicine!
	Ha!
	That's what I call protest!
	Yeah!
	That's what it will be.
	That's what it will be.
	You should be on the show with that voice.
	Oh my god.
	If I were on the show, they'd have ratings.
	I think one issue that's definitely going to come up, which I think is a good story, because it's got so many dimensions, and I have a clip Mm-hmm.
	Snapchat.
	The mobile messaging firm Snapchat has agreed to settle charges at misled users and secretly collected their data.
	Snapchat lets users send photos, videos and messages that disappear within seconds.
	Despite the company's claims, the messages disappear forever.
	The Federal Trade Commission says the messages remain accessible to users and outside parties.
	The FTC also said Snapchat collected users' location and contacts despite claims it wasn't doing so and failed to secure user data, enabling hackers to gather millions of user phone numbers in a recent breach.
	The deal with the FTC requires Snapchat to make changes, but it will not face a fine.
	I don't understand the problem.
	This is obvious that Snapchat wants to deliver the right ad to you at the right moment for the product you want.
	It's not a problem for them to know about me.
	This is about good advertising.
	I'm all with it.
	Okay, I'm okay with that.
	I don't think that'll be the result of that conversation.
	Oh, yes it will.
	No.
	It will evolve into that ultimately.
	I really doubt it.
	But it's possible.
	I'm not saying it's not possible.
	I'm just doubting it.
	They were selling the information to third parties.
	I think it was a honeypot to begin with.
	Hey, you can send all your nude pictures through Snapchat and it goes away instantly.
	They just get a glimpse of you.
	Yeah, bullcrap.
	They have a dick registry now.
	Now, Snapchat made a different mistake.
	This is not their mistake.
	This is not their problem.
	Snapchat is over for one reason and one reason only.
	They evolved into messaging.
	Snapchat was easy because click, boom, send, done.
	That was it.
	But they want to be Facebook.
	It's over.
	Everybody wants to be Facebook.
	I'm just going to say it one more time.
	You can't monetize the network.
	All of this goes away eventually, including Facebook.
	Everything, it will all fail.
	People will, you know, the public markets...
	So Twitter is done.
	Twitter, everyone made their money, and now it's very obvious they have no way to make any kind of profit for the shareholders.
	Twitter is over and done with.
	It will be purchased by some other company just for some assets.
	But the monetization is over for that.
	Facebook is still monetizing, although there's a lot of accounting stuff going on with Facebook.
	The pure girth of this company, just with people accidentally clicking on ads, gives them revenue.
	But they can't grow.
	They cannot grow.
	All of this, we've got a billion people.
	We're not going to see Facebook with the two billion people in our lifetime.
	It doesn't work that way.
	There's no next billion people to get that fast.
	So the only way for them to grow with the required 20% per year for a public company, for shareholders, is scams.
	Everyone's on to the like scam where you buy likes and you buy your promoted things and it turns out you people from Nigeria love you.
	It's over.
	It all ends.
	Yeah, it does.
	Now, I love listening to this little spiel of yours.
	Because I agree with it.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I saw this coming some time ago, too.
	And when I do the DHM plug show, I'm always saying, I say that Twitter is a 50 cent stock.
	Five bucks short term.
	And that's just for the chicks who work there.
	I don't know what's wrong with me today.
	No, this has been going on with you for a while.
	It's for a while, you're right.
	I think the only company that I... Well, there's two things.
	Google has ruined their core business of search.
	You know, distributed...
	The computer's now powerful enough, we're getting to a point...
	We need a few more years, I think, where the idea of peer-to-peer search that's connected...
	You know, I've been running my Yacy search engine.
	It's still too slow, and there's all kinds of issues with it that don't make it viable...
	But the concept of a browser-based application, and all this already works now.
	You just open a browser page and there's an app running, and you don't even know it, but it's running in JavaScript.
	Entire industries are changing overnight, such as, well, okay, just a small industry, ham radio, where if you wanted a pan adapter, A pan adapter is like a scope where you can see a whole piece, segment of bandwidth, and you can see where there's a signal.
	So instead of dialing around your frequency numbers, you visually see, oh, there's a signal, you click on the screen, and then it auto-tunes your radio to that frequency.
	So these pan adapters, you know, they're still hardware and it's a computer basically doing the work.
	Now you can just go to a website, connect your radio to your microphone, your line in, and the application is running in your browser.
	So we'll have this for search.
	And that will ultimately kill off Google because we don't really want ads.
	It's okay if we get an ad, but we don't really care.
	This is not...
	People aren't looking for ads.
	We're looking for information.
	If that information happens to include something we're interested in, you call an ad, that's something else.
	The only company, I think, that has value, and its value has proven to be very, very slim margin, but they will be the only company left standing is Amazon.
	And everything you buy, well, you will eventually buy through Amazon.
	I think they are the long game.
	And because they're so big, they will always make money, but very little.
	Very thin margins.
	Because it's hard to monetize the network.
	But they have the physical shipping angle.
	They have slaves in the warehouse.
	And it works.
	Everything else, I just don't see the long-term value.
	Lots of robots.
	Yeah, they got bots.
	But the long-term value of any other company, I don't see it.
	And God bless the open-source developers.
	God bless any independent software developer.
	Because these are the guys who will make something, and we've got to figure out a way to pay some of these guys, and I think the value-for-value system applies to that as well.
	And they'll make something that runs in the browser, and people won't know any better.
	They'll be like, oh, well, this is just Twitter.
	This is great.
	But there will be no centralized system.
	It's coming.
	It is coming.
	That's my stock tip advice.
	Don't invest in anything.
	Stay out.
	Stay out.
	Short.
	Unless you're on the inside.
	If you're on the inside of these things, it's perfect.
	Yeah, because it's rigged.
	And it's interesting.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Here's your story for Twitter.
	Then we should get out of here.
	Beats.
	Oh, yeah.
	That's definitely going to be the discussion.
	You want to talk about it real quick?
	Yeah, you give me your little opinion.
	Apple owns the music business, but they were losing their grip on the music.
	This is not about the headphones.
	No, it's about the streaming.
	It's about the streaming, exactly.
	People don't want to buy music anymore.
	They don't care.
	They just don't care.
	They just want to hear it.
	They want radio.
	They just want radio.
	They want an experience.
	Radio is better.
	And what's sad is that the services are competing...
	Against each other by doing something that essentially a disc jockey can do very well.
	But they spend all this money on creating this, like, you know, you get the right song at the right...
	We were at the nail salon yesterday.
	Yes, I'll admit.
	I went with my wife to the nail salon.
	Did you get your nails done?
	I did.
	Oh, brother.
	Yeah.
	We had a day of beauty.
	We had our hair done in the morning.
	Together.
	And then we went to the nail salon.
	You guys are getting very metro.
	Pfft, getting.
	This salon is pretty cool, though.
	Listen, they got these big, leather, oversized chairs.
	This is not one of these...
	Sorry, I don't want to sound racist, but...
	It's not one of these Korean places where they've got the medical-looking chairs that you think might have stirrups on them, and there's a bunch of ladies yapping about you.
	You know they're laughing about you.
	Look at this guy's feet!
	And they're all talking in Korean.
	So this is a beautiful luxury salon.
	It's like 50 bucks per person.
	It's really expensive.
	Yeah, but it's mani-pedi.
	This is because you're going to Japan.
	You're gussing yourselves up.
	I got the sugar daddy manicure, as they call it.
	These are Texas girls, and they've got Netflix playing movies with the subtitles running.
	They serve you champagne.
	Plastic glasses, but okay.
	Champagne.
	Unlimited.
	They keep pouring.
	For free.
	No extra.
	Is it champagne or some domestic sparkling wine?
	They had domestic sparkling wine.
	In a plastic glass.
	And they had Spotify running.
	No, Pandora.
	I'm sorry.
	Pandora.
	And the vibe is nice, and all of a sudden, Pandora goes into this DJ Terezzo house thing, and we're like, what is this?
	And the girls are like, yeah, Pandora sometimes just does crazy stuff.
	And this shows you that we're not there by a long shot.
	And if everybody wants...
	I think your earlier point was well taken.
	DJs had us there.
	Or, essentially what this is, is mixtapes.
	You would make a mixtape for your girl, or your boy, and it would communicate a feeling, a vibe, and an emotion.
	Right.
	And disc jockeys...
	And I'll even give it to some of the top 40 programmed or format segmented radio.
	You know if you turn on Light FM, you're going to get Light FM. And you know that you're not going to get DJ Torezzo blasting out all of a sudden.
	But that is too much work, you see, for these companies.
	And by the way, these companies are never going to make any money anyway.
	They too will fall by the wayside.
	Pandora loses money still to this day.
	They lose money.
	Look it up.
	I'm not going to look it up.
	I know they'd lose money.
	So, that can't go on forever.
	Oh, one day we'll monetize.
	One day we'll make money.
	No!
	Buy more trucks!
	Buy more trucks!
	That's the punchline to the joke.
	Guy starts a watermelon company.
	So he takes a truckload of watermelons and he sells them.
	He loses $15.
	And then he buys two trucks.
	He figures maybe he can make it up in volume.
	He loses $30.
	And the punchline is buy more trucks.
	I mean, you can't get out of that mode of losing money by buying more trucks was the reason for this joke to exist.
	Yeah, no, I like it.
	Yeah, buy more trucks.
	There you go, ladies and gentlemen.
	Title of the show.
	All we need now is art.
	That doesn't have anything to do with trucks.
	Because we can't use that now, because that's the title of the show.
	It's not the title of the show.
	Not yet.
	We'll have to argue.
	We haven't had a meeting.
	All right, everybody.
	Looking forward to the hams on The Answer Serve.
	That'll be fun to watch.
	And I will be watching you, John C. Dvorak, on the Twit Network.
	I like the show when you're on.
	Well, thank you.
	You know I like the show.
	I'm always texting you with one-liners.
	Yes, when I pay attention, I use them.
	Yeah, sometimes.
	Hootie!
	We'll talk to you next time.
	It'll be from Tokyo.
	From Dame Astrid's Pieta Terre.
	Do we live the life or what?
	Yeah, as long as it's low budget.
	Oh, well, it's low budget for us.
	Hell yeah.
	We're flying economy.
	No.
	Yeah, of course.
	18 hours.
	Can we get an upgrade of some sort?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we're looking for upgrades for anyone who wants to give us an update.
	A little too late now.
	Coming to you from FEMA Region 6, where we're leading the media separatists, the mainstream media separatists.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley.
	I have nothing to say other than that.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Talk to you on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	Oreos are just as addictive as cocaine.
	Now what are you looking for?
	Scar.
	You see, I know all about you from your file.
	You do?
	Well, I hope you're not disappointed.
	I will tell you.

▲