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	Squirrels are winning the cyber war.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, June 15th, 2014.
	It's time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 626.
	This is no agenda.
	Celebrating joint resolution of Congress approved April 24th, 1972 as amended 36 U.S. Code 109.
	And coming to you from the capital of the Drone Star State in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm contemplating the question, does a bear crap in the woods?
	It's Father's Day!
	I'm John C. Borat.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill!
	In the morning!
	That is indeed joint resolution of Congress, April 24th, 1972.
	It's law.
	What, bears crapping in the woods?
	No, Father's Day.
	Only in the United States, I'm told, by an Australian who's irked by my last little newsletter.
	Oh, you mean, oh really, Father's Day is different in other parts of the world?
	Yes, if you look it up on the wiki, you see every place has its own day.
	Ah, it's funny, I know that Mother's Day is different around the world as well.
	Yeah.
	Even Belgium and the Netherlands, which are adjacent countries who share some common language.
	Father's Day in the United States began in Seattle in 1909.
	It's another manufactured holiday, but there's nothing you can do about it.
	Well, I have here...
	It's over 100 years old.
	I have the presidential proclamation.
	Oh, God.
	What do you mean 100 years old?
	It's only 100 years old.
	No.
	In the United States?
	No.
	Look up the wiki.
	I'm looking at the President.
	Do you believe the Wikipedia or the President of the United States?
	Wikipedia.
	Therefore, I, Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, in accordance with a joint resolution of the Congress, approved April 24, 1972, as amended, U.S. Code 36, Section 109, do hereby proclaim June 15, 2014, as Father's Day.
	So this apparently was only made official in April of 1972.
	Well, you know, I remember when I was a kid.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Here we go.
	They had Father's Days before 1972.
	Right.
	I think it's been made re-official.
	Or maybe it was just a Hallmark holiday.
	Maybe that's when Hallmark was founded.
	Is that possible?
	Yeah.
	No, no, this actually began in Seattle in 1909 as some sort of a local thing.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, let me see if I can find it.
	Father's Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA, I'm sorry, in 1910.
	Oh.
	By Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas.
	Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA, June 19, 1910.
	Her father, the Civil War veteran William Stewart Smart, was a single parent who raised six children.
	Oh.
	After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909, she told her pastor the father should have a similar holiday.
	Hell yeah.
	Although she initially suggested June 5th, her father's birthday, conflict of interest, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June.
	So Father's Day is...
	In the Netherlands is today.
	Oh, is it now?
	Yeah, but I haven't heard anything, so maybe she just hates me.
	That's possible.
	That's possible.
	Yeah?
	Yeah, well, it wouldn't surprise me.
	Oh, thanks.
	I'm just kidding.
	This is a lighthearted show.
	I got a note from some guy saying that a lot of our listeners are getting depressed by the news.
	Did you see that note?
	No.
	Yeah, some guy says, well, you know, we got a lot of donors because I sent out a plea for more donations because our last show was so terrible.
	And everybody picked up the slack, and I really appreciate that.
	We both do.
	But somebody sent a notice that said they run into other No Agenda listeners just casually because there's actually quite a few of them in the country.
	And a lot of them said, well, you know, they're getting depressed by the show.
	And I told the guy, I said, we try to keep it light.
	And it's supposed to be the enlightenment you get from understanding how this operates, how the news cycle works, and how we're being duped.
	It's not supposed to depress you.
	It's supposed to give you the ability to get through it.
	Self is depressing.
	Well, yes.
	There's something I've got to talk about just for a second before we move anywhere.
	Yeah.
	Thursday, we had a show.
	After the show, I uploaded everything, boom, got everything published, jumped in the car, and drove up to Dallas.
	Now, do you recall what you did on the show Thursday?
	I had Clip of the Day.
	Do you remember the title of the show?
	The title of the show?
	Well, no, I don't offhand.
	Touching the Stick?
	Yeah, Touching the Stick.
	This was the title.
	And I told you not to do it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Do you realize that we had, for the first time, certainly I can remember, but in a long time anyone can remember, tornado warnings in Austin.
	Hey, don't blame the stick.
	Blame global warming.
	I was ahead of the storm as I was driving up to Dallas, but Mickey was like, oh my god, be careful.
	Of course, I had all of my amateur radio equipment on board, and all the guys were talking about the storms.
	The Skywarn team.
	Now with the two 40-foot antennas makes you look like a storm tracker.
	So I definitely have to talk about HamCom.
	But let me tell you, my antennas is nothing compared to what I saw in Plano.
	Oh, the guys who like complete Ghostbusters outfits.
	It's completely nuts.
	Yeah.
	Enthusiasts.
	I want to talk about that in a minute, but there's a couple things we've got to take care of.
	First of all, you sent out a newsletter, which was a real call to action for our producers.
	And you and I, I think, both are now realizing that this podcast feed issue is a bigger problem than we thought.
	Yeah.
	And it needs to be discussed again for a number of reasons.
	One, because it is a real problem with the cloud or the centralized services model that we've all become so accustomed to.
	Which I have been one of the few people to fight against.
	Also, the app culture.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So, just to reiterate briefly...
	I think two years ago, we changed our podcast feed.
	We mentioned it several times on the show.
	We've always had the new feed on the homepage of all webpages where we have the show available.
	I told people to change, you know, check your feeds, etc.
	And then put what is known as a 301 redirect on the feed from Mevio.com.
	And this is an internet standard.
	It's nothing complicated.
	And I think most technologists understand that you implement these.
	And certainly with web applications, you implement a certain...
	If you see a 301 redirect from anything, from a web page or from an RSS feed...
	It's supposed to tell your application, oh, this feed has changed, here's the new feed, and you should no longer use the old one.
	It has an RFC number and everything.
	It's very standard, particularly with XML feeds.
	But you have this app culture, and there's a couple things with that.
	One is all these podcast apps think their unique selling proposition is their directory and their ease of subscribing.
	Well, I think in pretty much all cases, it blows up.
	Because what they've done is they've imported a database, or they've created it themselves, or I think, in our case, people have submitted our feed maybe to their favorite app, and so there's three or four different versions.
	But one thing's for sure, in a lot of these big podcast apps, they do not recognize the simple 301 redirect command, and when, as we expected, and why we had done this two years ago, when the Mevio feed finally shut off, it broke a lot of these apps.
	Yeah, two years.
	And here's an example.
	I came home yesterday, and I hadn't actually told Mickey about this, although I think she saw the tweet, but not everyone really cares about the underlying technology like you and I may.
	And she was talking about the market.
	She went on Saturday.
	Of course, I was at HamCom.
	And she says, oh, man, Farmer Chris was freaking out.
	And I was wrong.
	And at Farmer Chris, if you want the best eggs in the world, you go to Farmer Chris.
	If you want onions that he plants at the certain moon cycle, you go to Farmer Chris.
	If you want to troubleshoot your smartphone, you do not go to Farmer Chris.
	So he has an Android smartphone.
	And he was like, Mickey, I'm so upset.
	I couldn't listen to the show because I think my memory is full or something.
	But see, this is it.
	So there's no proper warning, whatever it is.
	And I said, oh my God, he has exactly the problem.
	And so Mickey texted him, and he was using Stitcher.
	Now, Stitcher is one of these apps that I think, certainly in the Android world, a lot of people use.
	And the thing that really bugs me about them not changing the feed, and I believe it's still broken at this point, This is the company that gives away a free app and inserts audio advertising before every podcast.
	I think if you press pause and you press play again, you get another ad.
	So they're essentially putting ads into our show to subsidize the not-so-stellar work, I would say, now of their application.
	And a lot of people use this.
	I don't know how many, but looking at where we were with our donations, past show and the show before that, I think we can easily deduce that this has been a real problem for us.
	And this is not the only example.
	And so I wrote a piece and I said, please, you know, reach out to your app developers.
	I don't know if people, I know some people have done it.
	Let me mention this a little thing.
	Let me interrupt you for a second.
	Producer Andy writes in to me.
	He just CC'd me a note he sent to this company that does Slapdash Pro.
	Slapdash being the appropriate word for the product.
	I use your premium version of Slapdash Pro on Windows 8.1.
	Trying to add the feed manually, which you should be able to do on any of these, does not work and it gives no option but to match the wrong feed.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Sir Wonderhelm uses Bingcast, which is also a Windows app.
	And he says it has three incorrect feeds in there.
	You can add manually, but of course, on a Windows phone, you have to copy-paste a feed.
	It's not the easiest thing in the world.
	And he sent an email to the feedback...
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Were they the only ones becoming executive producers?
	And so Scott says, yeah, that's all fine and good, but it's you all that need to resubmit the working link to the services to reach your audience.
	We can't do that for you.
	It's your business model it affects.
	No, no, no.
	I never submitted our feed to anything except iTunes, and I did submit the new feed to iTunes, and we made that change.
	No, you're correct.
	I don't know where he's coming from, but most of these feeds are put in by listeners, not by the shows themselves.
	I didn't even know half these things existed.
	Slapdash?
	I didn't know that one.
	I've never heard of that either.
	Never heard of it.
	So here, it's very obvious that either you have a true central, you know, an open source central repository that everybody uses, or you keep it completely distributed, which I think that's still kind of a better way to go.
	It's like, oh, here's a feed I want, click, link, put it in.
	But you get all of these centralized services, and this is the result.
	And they have no process.
	I mean, come on, Stitcher, they're losing their own revenue by not having our show available for playing.
	So what kind of business is this that they don't know that something's broken, they don't recognize it, they don't see it?
	So, you know, the centralized thing, it's bad.
	It just doesn't work.
	And particularly when it comes to apps, what I'm most afraid of is a lot of these apps, they may not even have a way to access an external feed database.
	They may have to do an app update for all I know.
	Can you imagine that?
	No, it's a pathetic situation, especially when it comes to podcasting.
	I want to make sure everyone out there ever thinks about maybe someday doing a podcast to consider this issue here where we were going through one system and we had to move it.
	And two years later, we gave everybody fair warning and all the modern links were hooked correctly.
	I'm actually blaming myself.
	I mean, I can't believe that...
	I think at the time we did say, hey, tell your app creator.
	But we should have...
	I'm like, come on, 301 redirect.
	It's...
	It's simple, but the app culture, I think the app developers, particularly, you know, you get what you pay for, free apps, they're cutting corners.
	And even our own, what is the, what is our app, the Pocket No Agenda app broke.
	Hmm.
	Which is pretty sad.
	It is, yeah.
	And so we were already wondering, like, wow, donations kind of fell off a cliff, and then two weeks in a row, no executive producer, or two shows in a row, no executive producer.
	I'm humbled, I have to say, by the stepping up of support that we got.
	Yeah, we had no executive producers at the time of the newsletter, and then when I wrote the newsletter, a lot of Of our real supporters stepped into that role.
	And now we have a ton of them for this show anyway.
	We'll see what happens next week or next Thursday.
	Most importantly, we really, and I'll put it in the show notes again, the explanation.
	Maybe we should do one of those form letters for what you do for your senator or congressman.
	Dear, fill in the blank, app developer.
	Please update this feed.
	Remove all other instances.
	I've seen people tweeting at Stitcher.
	I know they've sent emails, and yet there's no update.
	There's nobody home.
	Yeah.
	It's essentially a vending machine.
	There's nobody doing anything.
	They just set things up.
	A vending machine.
	Yeah, it's like talking to a vending machine.
	Hey, vending machine!
	You're out of Mars bars!
	Vending machine!
	You took my dollar!
	Hey, vending machine!
	Come on, what's wrong with you?
	It's a very good analogy.
	You put the dollar in, you see the little spiral thing turn, but then no Mars bar drops out.
	It's just an empty spiral.
	Yeah.
	That's sad.
	That's what we're getting.
	Man, oh man.
	I can't imagine how much these guys actually get from those little ads that they drop in on the show.
	Well, I think it's a real company.
	I think it's a real company, this Stitcher outfit.
	Let me see.
	Aren't they...
	Let me see.
	Are they...
	They may even be funded...
	Are they VC funded?
	I don't think so.
	Maybe.
	If they are, then I would write to the VCs and bitch to them.
	Let me see.
	You guys are investing in this company?
	What, are you kidding me?
	Here we go.
	Stitcher in the Crunchbase.
	Let me see what it says here.
	Crunchbase.
	Yeah, well...
	Huh!
	Founded 2008.
	$18.7 million in funding.
	They got $18.7 million.
	Oh, they've obviously been spending it on parties.
	So they got $2.7 Series A in 2008, $6 million in 2010, and another $10 million in 2011.
	So they're going through it.
	So they've got, well, let me see, April.
	So they got $16 million in 2000.
	Oh, no, that's a year later.
	So they got a burn rate of about $1 million a month, probably.
	Doing what?
	Stitcher's an online radio service allows individuals to stream news, entertainment, sports, and talk radio onto mobile devices.
	Stitcher's in-house personalization engine serves up only the most relevant, engaging, and user-specific content for a unique listening experience.
	So, Venture Capital.
	Let's see, New Atlantic Ventures, I guess, did kind of the C, the A. Then we have Benchmark.
	Well, Benchmark's not dumb.
	Ron Conway.
	He's one of those, like, angel-y guys.
	Yeah, he's around all the time.
	Who's on the board?
	He's famous.
	Yeah, so people...
	Well, that's right.
	Everybody should write Ron Conway and tell him what we think.
	Yeah, well, tweet him.
	He definitely is on Twitter.
	Yeah, tweet.
	Let's just get him.
	Let's get his thing.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah, really.
	Well, we need the help.
	I mean, seriously.
	Twitter.com.
	I'm going to search up Ron Conway.
	I'll find it.
	Ron Conway.
	Of course, he probably has a secretary doing it.
	No, I have a feeling he does it himself.
	I don't know if he's even on there.
	He's kind of like a Jason Calacanis type.
	You know what I mean?
	There he is.
	I think this is him.
	How many followers does he have?
	It's at Ron, R-O-N, C-O-N-W-A-Y. He's got 60,000 followers.
	That's not bad.
	And the last tweet, though, is June 14th.
	So he doesn't tweet all the time.
	He does like one.
	Here's a series of his last tweets, his last four tweets.
	June 10th, June 11th, June 13th, June 14th.
	So he's not like a serious Twitterer.
	He is a, you know, once in a while he gets up and Says stuff like this.
	Here's on June 10th.
	Thrilled with court's ruling in Vergara, California, now leading the charge to put students at the Center of Public Education.
	Yeah, boo!
	Another one.
	Congratulations to Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, the latest conservative to win his primary outright against anti-immigrant opponents.
	All right.
	Yeah, okay, so that's that.
	So I don't mind bombing him with complaints.
	Bomb him, yeah.
	Yeah, tell him that his investment is...
	Just so people understand, because I'm just reading the chat room, Stitcher puts audio ads in front of any podcast.
	Which, by the way, when all this podcasting first started, that would have been such an outrage if Mevio had done that, or Podshow at the time.
	Hey man, you're stealing my content!
	Yeah!
	That's exactly how they sounded.
	I don't care.
	It's that same guy.
	It's that same dude.
	Have you ever had to do...
	Do you have just one keyboard that you're working with, right?
	Yeah.
	Actually, I have a second keyboard hooked up.
	When you use a wireless keyboard, you always keep a second one at the ready that's wired.
	Well, for a number of reasons, I have two keyboards that I need to use doing the show.
	Why?
	For a number of reasons.
	I mean, it's just a temporary thing.
	I need a different monitor because in order to run...
	The MacBook Air, which runs the show now, has a Thunderbolt...
	Output, which doubles as a monitor output, but you can't hook up just a regular DVI monitor and the Thunderbolt connection, so you have to have an Apple monitor that connects to the MacBook Air, and then from the Apple monitor, you can connect to the Thunderbolt.
	So then I would just have one keyboard and one monitor.
	Because I don't have that, I have another key, so I have a secondary keyboard, and At least 10 times each hour, I'm typing on the wrong keyboard, looking at the screen, going, why am I not seeing anything?
	This is stupid.
	Anyway, pay no mind to me.
	Okay.
	Okay, so please help us out with fixing the feeds everywhere possible.
	Yeah, it'll stabilize things and I won't have to send out, you know, alarming notes like this last one.
	Which did even out the bad Thursday, but it was like, you know, I don't like having to hound people to that extreme.
	Before we get into a lot of topics today, I feel it's kind of something unique to the No Agenda show that I can give you a technology perspective of something you may have never heard of.
	And that would be HAMCOM. I'd like to give you a little report of my movie.
	Ah, HAMCOM. So let's back this story up a little bit.
	So Adam, you took the long three and a half hour drive in your truck with the big antennas and the gear and the flamethrower, and you went up there to Plano, Texas.
	I did indeed.
	Now this is not the mecca of HAM conventions.
	No, that would be in Dayton.
	That would be Dayton.
	But we were in Tokyo, so that'll have to wait until next year.
	But this is a miniature version, I guess, of Dayton.
	And it's in Texas, so it's an interesting type of audience, I would say.
	You don't have to fly anywhere, either.
	No.
	So it's a three and a half hour drive, and I had the truck patched up a little bit and a couple of things that needed to be, after the break-in, and I got the dashboard put back on.
	So I had my entire gear, and I'm driving up, and as I said, I was ahead of the weather, but I was getting lots of reports on the two-meter band, and now this is like seven o'clock in the evening, and it's one of those beautiful Texas sunsets, so I'm kind of in the middle of nowhere.
	And I'm talking to guys from Arkansas on the 40-meter band.
	With five watts from the car, it's pretty interesting doing 65 miles an hour.
	That was just kind of a geeky moment.
	Anyway, so I arrive up there, and I booked into the Holiday Inn Express, which is a convention center in Plano.
	The whole town is a convention center, except for, I guess, Ross Perot's EDS. And now it's 9.30 and there's no room service in the Holiday Inn Express.
	But there's the Denny's.
	Woo!
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And in this parking lot, John?
	Fantastic.
	I feel I'm very deficit here by not having my ham call as my license plate.
	Oh, what?
	No.
	Wait, you've got two big antennas and you haven't got your call letters as a license plate?
	I know!
	How bad is that?
	Wow.
	Wow.
	That's lame.
	And there's guys with antennas.
	It was just funny.
	I mean, big, you know, the Texas bug catcher, which has, you know, like a big coil in the middle and, you know, guys with 20 antennas on.
	It's really funny to see.
	So I'm at Denny's.
	And so this is kind of my two days.
	I don't want to talk to anybody.
	I just want to hang out.
	I just want to be quiet.
	And I'm looking at the menu.
	And it's that moment.
	You're tired.
	You've driven three and a half hours.
	When you realize...
	That I'm only five years away from qualifying for the Denny's Senior Citizens Discount.
	Since when is 55 Senior?
	What is this bullcrap?
	When did this start?
	Denny's just looking for getting more customers.
	That's not very common.
	I didn't like it.
	Generally speaking, it's 62.
	And I'll tell you something.
	It's great.
	You're funny.
	You take the discount everywhere, right?
	Oh!
	Yep.
	It's just cheaper.
	My son is actually annoyed by the fact that I get what's called a senior, because I'm 62, a senior clipper card.
	Clipper card?
	A Clipper card, which gets you public transportation, BART. You get on the BART. You get on anything with this card.
	And it's like, essentially, I can write on BART for free.
	And how often do you do that?
	Not that much, but if there's some meeting in San Francisco and it happens to be near a BART station, I'll always take BART because it's like, I don't have to pay the bridge toll, I don't have to pay the ridiculous parking in San Francisco.
	It's like you get ripped off or they try to give you tickets.
	Hey, you know what?
	You're sounding like every guy at the HamCom right now.
	Well, then, you know, they've got to take advantage of these deals.
	So, there's a couple of different audiences at this convention, and I did learn something, and there is something, I think there is, I did gain real knowledge, which is why I went there.
	These are my people.
	Well, 60% of your people, of the audience, which would be your people, Really, hams are amateur radio operators who are professional preppers, you see?
	And everything they do to justify their hobby is always prefaced or followed by, in an emergency situation...
	I'm not kidding.
	It's always, eh, you know, if the lights go out, then we'll be ready.
	Can I ask you a question about this before we go on?
	Yeah.
	Did anybody recognize you?
	I got two in the mornings from people who knew I was there.
	No one else recognized me.
	Well, Tuesday, that's not bad.
	No.
	Well, there was no agenda.
	I think there were two more who we just didn't connect.
	There were probably four no agenda hams who were at the ham convention.
	That's better than nothing.
	Young guys, too.
	Yeah, of course.
	But this justification is...
	It's really quite sad.
	Because there's...
	I think there's very few actual examples of ham radio operators saving lives.
	Of course there are.
	Katrina.
	Well, in fact...
	I heard, I sat in a lot of these sessions, and they said...
	Storm Sandy!
	No, no, they said, we could have done this at Katrina, but we didn't have the people who knew how to do it, or something like that.
	So, yes, of course, there's examples, but nowhere near the allure...
	Not what it should be, is what you're trying to say.
	No, it's...
	Okay.
	Actual emergency services really don't want these guys in the way with their yellow jackets and all this.
	Of course they don't.
	The FEMA people didn't want any help.
	No.
	They let the place get out of control.
	Yes.
	When people could have helped.
	Yes.
	And I don't want anyone to take this wrong, but it's just...
	You can also just say, hey, I just like talking on the radio.
	It's a fun hobby.
	You don't always have to say, and I'll be there in case of an emergency.
	Bullcrap.
	You just want to talk on the radio and talk.
	Or whatever.
	And a lot of these guys have physical disabilities, which makes this a great hobby.
	It really does.
	And a lot of veterans who...
	Man, I had lunch, and you sit outside, and there's a bunch...
	And the Veterans Radio Relay League, you got all these guys.
	I could have handed out every single person who could have had a No Agenda CD. All you hear is, ah!
	Yeah, well, this IRS scandal.
	Hold on, you didn't hand out any no-agenda CDs?
	I only had 20 with me.
	I didn't know that the whole place was going to be no-agenda-ized.
	It was just, you know, it was a little...
	Where are you from, KF5SLN? Austin.
	Oh, that's not really Texas.
	Oh, thanks.
	All right, whatever.
	And there's this big controversy because now the ARRL, the American Radio Relay League, which is the club, have determined that ham radio shall now be called civil service instead of an emergency service.
	And these guys are beside themselves.
	They're so mad because now they can't have the emergency sign on their car.
	And the emergency service on their jacket has to be, they don't want to be civil service, they want to be emergency.
	So it's a little pathetic.
	Although, of course I'd be happy if a ham could help in an emergency and save someone or communicate.
	Of course, I understand.
	And I'd do that too.
	But you don't have to always justify your hobby with that.
	Okay, so that's 60%.
	Now, there is a new crowd, and these are really hackers.
	And it's really beautiful to see, and hackers and makers, besides the obvious Japanese manufacturers, you know, Icom and Yesu and the Chinese, you know, the cheap jack crap that's flooding the market, which is great, by the way, because you can start in ham radio for $35.
	You got a brand new two-band VHF UHF handheld.
	Everything else is really American ingenuity and manufacturing.
	So there's, you know, tuners and amplifiers and antennas and everything.
	Everything looks like a 57 Chevy, you know?
	It's no style.
	It's like really big fins and big metal and sharp corners.
	You're saying...
	I want everyone to hear this.
	You're saying that a 57 Chevy has no style?
	It's not...
	No, no.
	It's not a modern style for today.
	Oh, but does it have modern style?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	That's different than no style.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	It has sharp edges.
	The Japanese stuff is kind of sleek and rounded and nice, and even that is not stylish, but...
	That's beside the point.
	The stuff that's being sold outside of the brand new manufactured radios, even Elecraft, which I have, is American radio.
	And there's a real industry around that, and it's nice to see.
	These screwdriver antennas that have servos that go up and down.
	Outrageous stuff.
	But what I was most interested in, of course, was digital, because this is what all the younger guys and girls, I'm sure they're out there, who are getting into this, are really interested in what you can do with digital.
	And so the two sessions I wanted to see, one was DSTAR. D-Star stands for Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio, and it was developed by ICOM, and it's been reverse-engineered,
	although ICOM still is kind of the only radio manufacturer that uses this digital technology, but there is a company that makes a little USB It's a hub that you can plug into your computer, and you become basically a D-star radio access point.
	So the technology is available for people to make, but right now it's kind of all ICOM. And that's really why I was never interested, because I kind of believe all the yelling and grousing that this is proprietary technology, and it really isn't.
	So I wanted to find out more about it, and I was really blown away by what this thing is.
	And the talk was given by Pete Lowell, who I actually knew from the APR... We talked about APRS, right?
	The kind of text messaging for ham radio?
	Yes.
	So he developed all the Java APRS servers.
	I didn't know that he was doing this DSTAR stuff.
	So with DSTAR, with a ham radio, you can essentially make a connection, 128 kilobit data connection, which is pure Ethernet.
	It's just encapsulated in Ethernet being processed through the air.
	So you could sit there at the ham com and hook up a computer and surf the net at 128 kilobits, which is, you know, considering...
	What's really going on is pretty amazing.
	But more interesting is this worldwide network of these DSTAR repeaters where you can...
	It's kind of like...
	It's like Twitter in a way where you can talk and send text message to a group in one area, but also you can address someone directly regardless of where they are in the world.
	So if you wanted to reach me...
	And I have my radio set for that capability.
	You can just select my call sign and no matter where I am in the world, you'll be able to send me a message and we'll be able to talk.
	Complete digital voice, great clarity within an instant.
	That's pretty cool.
	Yes, very cool.
	And of course, it has its own digital network, but it rides on top of the internet.
	Can you do that with a technician's license?
	Yes.
	So in other words, all of our listeners could easily do that.
	Because the technician's license, by the way, for anyone out there who wants to get one, is easy.
	Like, extremely easy.
	And so where this is...
	So it's kind of like...
	What I like about it, it's a private...
	Not really private, but it's a social network that is always going to be non-commercial.
	I like that.
	You have to take a test to get on it.
	I like that.
	What kind of a test do you have to take?
	If you have to memorize some questions and answers...
	I mean, for the...
	Technician's test.
	Oh, no.
	Just to become a ham, yeah.
	Oh, I thought you meant to get...
	No, no, not for DSTAR. No, no, no, no, no.
	Oh, okay.
	And you can expand the network, and you can hack around, and you can get it on from your computer.
	So it's very similar to the Echolink stuff, except it's built in, so you don't have to go through the hassle of finding a repeater and all this crap.
	Um...
	But also, it really does work with these radios.
	I don't know.
	I was very impressed by the addressability, the routing, and the quality is stunning.
	And you can talk and send texts at the same time.
	So it's pretty nice.
	And I think there's a future for that, purely as a social network.
	And, of course, in an emergency, we'll be able to save you.
	Okay.
	The second session that I was interested in that I went to was the Broadband Meshnet.
	And this is done by a guy named Glenn Curry with an IE. He's from Round Rock.
	And I spoke with him outside of his session for about an hour.
	These guys are insane.
	So what they've done is they've taken old Linksys Wi-Fi routers, which I'm sure you have 10 of them just laying around the house, and they've hacked the firmware.
	They also now are able to do this with Ubiquity devices, which is really nice because these new Ubiquity, it's a brand.
	Access points.
	They have better antennas and more power and just newer hardware.
	So they've modified the firmware so it broadcasts in the ham frequency spectrum.
	And you put your antenna up, or if you're lucky, you can just use the access point as is, and it finds other nodes and you're connected to this mesh network, which is a one megabit backbone.
	And there's thousands of these nodes worldwide.
	It's unbelievable.
	And of course they tunnel through the internet to these other nodes across the world so you can become part of a new internet that again rides on top of the internet but also it's a local network by itself.
	So in Austin, they have a pretty, well, actually all of Texas, but a pretty wide network.
	And they're using this military concept called DTN, Disruption Tolerant Networking.
	So they have email service on this network, which you can also tunnel to the internet, of course, if you want.
	And this guy, he has to drive from somewhere north on...
	Isn't DTN just ultra-wideband?
	No, no.
	Disruption-tolerant networking is...
	They also use it in India.
	But the idea is...
	It's a store-and-forward network.
	So you're a part of this mesh network...
	But you're not connected to the other mesh network in San Antonio.
	There's just no physical connection.
	There's no mesh to that point.
	So this guy happens to drive from San Antonio to somewhere north of Austin every single day.
	And he has one of these systems in his car with like a tube antenna.
	And he drives by all of these mesh networks, and he has in his car a server with all of the email.
	And because it's a megabit per second, if he sees one of these mesh networks with a server for a minute and a half, he's able to transfer all the email while he's driving by.
	And he's able to pick up whatever is coming back.
	It's pretty subversive.
	Hey, and in an emergency, I tell you, we'll be able to save the day.
	It's really, it's very interesting.
	That's pretty wild.
	It's cool.
	It's very cool.
	And of course, they have VoIP running on it, so they can talk to each other.
	Again, why?
	But there's some really cool stuff going on, and people are building all this with Raspberry Pis, and there's a lot of interesting stuff going on.
	It's a great hobby, and in an emergency week, Yeah, it was...
	Wow.
	Yeah, but so those two things.
	D-Star, I was very negative on the whole idea.
	I'm kind of like a hardcore command line guy.
	It sucks.
	But once I got the lowdown on the D-Star, I was very impressed.
	Now, you can't buy a D-Star for $35 yet, because you pretty much default to ICOM. But I know these dongle guys have figured it out, so I think people can get the spec and maybe build it into one of these cheap Chinese radios.
	There's a lot of room for this.
	And I just think it's an interesting...
	I mean, you haven't been able to really set up your local repeater, etc.
	With this thing, you search, it finds a frequency, you key the mic, it loads all the gateway and all the information automatically.
	It shows you what you're looking at on the screen.
	You have to manually program all that stuff.
	It's really nice.
	That's the kind of thing you want for a little social network.
	And yeah, I encourage any no-agenda ham to feel free to reach out to me, KF5SLN. And I'll talk with you.
	I don't have to do anything.
	It just rings.
	Oh, okay.
	Hey.
	Well, I'm glad you got something out of it, out of your little trip.
	Well, I think there's more to it than what you see on Ham Weekly or whatever.
	What's that show?
	Bob Heil?
	Bob Heil.
	I felt that what...
	I don't know.
	I haven't been to one of these fests.
	But I was under the impression it was essentially a large parking lot with a bunch of guys with their trunks open.
	Oh, yeah.
	I forgot to mention that.
	With a bunch of dusty gear.
	Yeah.
	And they all have their trunks open and they're all selling, buying and selling each other's gear for whatever price.
	That's really sad.
	I don't think that's sad.
	It's a classic swap meet.
	You do that with 45 RPM records.
	You go around, hey, where'd you get this old doo-wop song?
	I collected it back in Jersey.
	Believe me, I walked through the parking lot and I was saddened by what I saw.
	Why?
	Was there no good gear?
	No.
	No, it was just junk.
	Oh, junk.
	And there was junk inside, too.
	And then every...
	Because they also had a flea market as well as the vendors.
	And every three or four tables, all of a sudden there'd be a lady selling cosmetics.
	Or a handbag.
	And actually, I tweeted it.
	There was no blender salesman there.
	I tweeted it.
	There was someone, he had a couple of radios and some batteries and then a huge box of Beanie Babies.
	No!
	For three bucks.
	There's your market.
	The future of Bitcoin.
	The future of Bitcoin.
	So, anyway.
	It's worth it.
	Check it out.
	Anyone can get their basic ham license, technician license.
	You just have to do the test.
	It costs five bucks or whatever.
	It's worth it.
	It's cheap.
	No, it's easy.
	Yeah, it's fun.
	And everyone wants to have one just in case of an emergency.
	Yeah, you can save the world.
	Exactly.
	Let me see.
	Well, I'm sorry to bore you with all that.
	Well, you know, they could have skipped this part.
	Yeah, I think it's interesting.
	I find it interesting.
	I think we have a lot of technical people that listen to the show that are always kind of on the cusp of going to get a ham license and getting some call letters they can put on their email.
	Or on their license plate.
	Or the license plate if you want.
	But it is an immediate...
	You are in an immediate club.
	And it was cool.
	I got a couple of Noah Gendahams pinging me on D-Star.
	I forget where Nate was.
	He was like, I don't know.
	It's a whole other state.
	It was nice.
	It's just another way of communicating.
	I don't know.
	Do you want to thank the executive producers, or should we go into a little bit of news?
	Well, no, let's do that, and then we can get into the show proper.
	Well, then let me thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak!
	In the morning to you, Ham Adam Curry, and in the morning to all the ships that see boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	Resume normal activity.
	And in the morning, all the human resources in the chatroom, noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net.
	And thank you very much to our artists.
	I think for the second show in a row, Sir Nussbaum grabbed the honors.
	Another great job on the art.
	It's on a roll!
	Yeah, noartgenerator.com.
	Please help us out.
	For some reason, and now I really don't know, we have all these feed issues.
	Now some of the art's not even showing up.
	The whole show's not showing up.
	We're working on making the art work everywhere once all the feeds get reinstated.
	And so we started, going into this, as I was driving home, you said, oh my god, we're screwed with this feed issue.
	No executive producers for the second show in a row, and then you sent out a newsletter, and man, humbled I am by the support.
	Yes, we have actually, now we have a, from a paucity to a dearth.
	We have 22 executive producers.
	Damn!
	It's like, okay, well...
	When it rains and pours...
	There are people out there that give a crap.
	Yeah.
	So let's thank these fine folks.
	And starting with Grand Duke, which we're still waiting for the...
	I have not received his jingle yet.
	Grand Duke David Foley!
	I may have to make one if we don't get the official one.
	He gave us 99999.
	ITM John at Admin Close.
	Find a little something extra.
	I hope it helps the terrible Thursday donations, and it does.
	Thanks for continuing to deliver the best podcast in the universe.
	We appreciate that.
	That would be...
	David Foley will always speak in this voice.
	Because he's a Grand Duke.
	Sir Mark Wilson, $400 from Glasgow, UK. Gents, call it arms on the newsletter.
	Thought it would be a good time to top myself up to Baronet.
	Having been a crap time of late, so some karma would be appreciated.
	He needs some karma.
	Cheers.
	Cheers.
	Absolutely.
	Thank you very much, Sir Mark Wilson.
	You've got karma.
	And here's someone we haven't heard much from of late that I can recall.
	Sir Dallas Spungberg.
	From Alberta, where all the money is $381.
	Oh, by the way, I got an email about that.
	About you saying Alberta, where all the money is?
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Only if you're in the oil business.
	If you're not, you're poor and really angry when you say that.
	Okay, but that's still where all the money is.
	Just letting you know.
	I'm just...
	You know, get in the oil business if you're up there.
	The mineral business is also big.
	I saw the newsletter and thought I should donate once more to the...
	Oh, cue jingle.
	The best podcast in the universe.
	Ask for karma so they may do well in my last two diploma exams in the coming weeks.
	You guys rock and I never want to see no agenda die.
	I also like to wish my dad, Black Knight Kelly Spong, for a happy Father's Day.
	Father's Day list.
	And some karma.
	You've got karma.
	At some point in the show, it's like a lot of people came in on that.
	I came with this idea that everyone should just...
	Yeah, so this is a little weird, though, because it's duplicate.
	I have the Father's Day sheet, but all those are also on the regular sheet.
	I asked Eric to get a special list of Father's Day, because there was some...
	Because on the regular...
	There's reasons for that.
	Which will be revealed to us at some point?
	I don't know.
	James Dobler in Wiley, Texas, where all the money is.
	333.
	Yeah.
	A couple of weeks behind in the show, saw the emergency call to action in the news.
	I'm happy to contribute.
	Here's a donation in memory of my father, who passed away in 2006 from lung cancer at the age of 54, taught me the importance of thinking for myself, and I think I would have enjoyed the show.
	I'd like to request a fuck cancer and some general karma, maybe a brolf, too.
	That one never fails to crack me up.
	Let me see.
	Where's my brolf?
	Okay.
	Yes, I think we can do that.
	Stop it!
	You've got karma.
	That's one hot brof, baby.
	Or maybe he meant something else, but I think that's a good one.
	No, no, he went brof.
	Thanks, brof.
	Is it Wolf Blitzer?
	The Wolf Blitzer?
	Oh, yeah, I have that one.
	Dr.
	Fauci, thanks so much, as always, for joining us.
	Good to be here, brof.
	True.
	You know what?
	It always cracks me up, too.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Yeah.
	Steven Huners in Holman, Wisconsin, 3333.
	You saw the call to action and acted with the easiest digest to hit, but no time to request a proper show-worthy call-out.
	Gotta go.
	He's in a hurry.
	So that's all we got.
	Sir Adam of The Lobster in Plymouth, Minnesota, 3333.
	Just so you know, I don't have time to write at length.
	You know, another guy in a hurry, but I hope this donation helps.
	Thank you, too, for all you do and all your courage.
	I didn't claim a name when I got my knighthood a while ago, but I would claim Sir Adam of the Lobster.
	Good to go.
	Sir D. Rosa, same donation, 33333.
	See, it's all the Knights, right, who jump into action.
	That's great.
	Greetings from Black Knight D. Rosa.
	Hopefully other supporters would join the bandwagon, and many did.
	Jason Fortune, and I think I looked for email from him.
	He came.
	He's an associate executive producer, $250.
	Let me just take one more look.
	I don't remember.
	I can take a look, too.
	Fortune.
	F-O-R-T-U-N-E. I have nothing in the emails.
	No, I got nothing.
	Okay, so he is a 250 executive producer, associate executive Gerald Small in Chesterfield, Missouri.
	23456.
	Thanks for keeping us all sane and happy Father's Day, guys.
	You two are the fathers of reality.
	Shout out to my dad, Trevor Small, in Ottawa, Canada, if he taught me more than school ever did.
	Good for him.
	That's what he's supposed to do.
	School's not supposed to teach you everything.
	Jason Witten, Marlton, New Jersey, 23333.
	And I have an email from him.
	No, I have one from Alan Morris, though.
	That's what I got.
	Alan Morris is next at 222.22, and he's out of Utah, and he did send a note.
	Donate 222 through PayPal to help with the cause.
	It's a call out for two dances.
	Yes, I know Club 33 is a smoldering hole.
	Private dance for Adam by Miss Mickey and Mimi for John.
	A little bump and grind for Father's Day to bring a smile to your face and warm the cockles of your heart.
	Woo-hoo!
	Like a good slave, I'll be toiling in someone else's vineyard tomorrow, but I'll catch the show on Monday.
	In closing, let me say that Carthage, or correction, Iran must be destroyed.
	Okay.
	And I zoomed down the spreadsheet.
	Sorry for the delay.
	Greg Brinkman at 201 in Mount Zion, Illinois.
	Dear Amos and Jedediah, thank you for the hours and hours of service you give and donating from my friend William Doty because of your dire circumstances.
	Both of us recently graduated.
	In fact, William gave a graduation speech that opened with, Good morning, teachers, student, faculty, boots on the ground, feet on the ground.
	I bet you'd just poop yourself if that happened.
	Anyway, John's analysis on school lunches is spot on.
	No one eats those sweet potato fries.
	Currently, I believe our schools are the clearest example of neglect in society.
	A $4 million or so grant was given by ADM to our school specifically for athletics and restoration.
	All of this is being spent on athletic programs despite cracks in the foundation of the high school built sometime before World War II. Hopefully his bulletproof blankets will protect the kids that still go there later when the bill falls over.
	Stupid blankets.
	Another example of schools being ridiculous is that a member of the school board is also suing the school.
	Why, you ask?
	Because his son didn't start first string on the football team.
	Anyway, please give us some Don't Look Over There.
	Take that to the bank karma to start our college careers, and perhaps John could give some advice on getting published as a freelance writer, if you'd be so kind.
	Good luck in your donations.
	We both appreciate the show.
	Thanks.
	Don't look over here.
	Nothing to see here.
	Ooh, look at that!
	You can take that to the bank.
	You've got...
	Hey, hey, hey!
	Joseph Frost and Wooddale.
	$200.
	Happy Father's Day, Adam.
	Oh, he's got some Portuguese names which don't come out on the spreadsheet, and I'll get to those names later because I can pronounce those names.
	I'm all in on the World Cup in Brazil.
	I was playing some video poker between matches in the Friday bar on Friday and hit four of a kind for a big payout.
	Every bit of my good fortune...
	Enjoy every bit of my good fortune, which is the $200.
	I got another note about, which was kind of funny, about the World Cup from one of our Brazilian listeners.
	Yeah.
	And this is from Bruno.
	And, of course, he says, you know, the Dutch are brilliant, fantastic.
	Everyone here is a fan of the Netherlands.
	Of course, they won 5-1 or whatever from, was it Italy?
	Spain.
	Yes, Spain, Italy, whatever.
	Besides that, he said, What is wrong with us?
	This is a real problem.
	This is stupidity is what this is.
	This is something that has started with Americans that we need all this protection.
	Even the Pope.
	The Pope's like, I got nothing to lose.
	Shoot me if you want to.
	He doesn't have his protected Popemobile anymore.
	There's something strange about the psyche of the American that we're going to be killed.
	Well, that's what it is.
	We're going to be killed by terrorists.
	They want to kill us.
	You're a soccer team.
	Enjoy.
	Well, especially in Brazil where you can have a ball.
	Hello?
	You know, you maybe want one guy that keeps you out of the wrong part of town.
	Or takes you there.
	Well, that could be possible too.
	Anyway, yeah, no, that is ludicrous.
	Sad is what it is.
	Okay.
	Onward.
	And we will talk about the World Cup and we will make our predictions.
	When it's time.
	People keep pesking.
	Pesking.
	They're pesking us.
	And so we'll have our thoughts.
	And there's no hurry.
	It's not over yet.
	It's funny, though, that there's a big match in Ghana versus U.S. on Monday, and apparently it's going to be in, I guess, Natal, which is in the middle.
	I've been to Natal.
	It's right in the hottest part of the country.
	I can't imagine even playing soccer there.
	But it's apparently been storming, like 36 inches of rain or something has flooded the field.
	Not that I care.
	Chris Johnstone in Perth.
	Our favorite town in Australia.
	200 bucks.
	First time associate as an EP. Thanks for producing the best podcast in the universe.
	The tip a couple of months ago about the pizza brining on labor worked.
	The pizza brining?
	What?
	Pizza?
	However, my wife was booked.
	I am for a cesarean section, so I'm going into...
	Oh, oh, oh, okay.
	Yeah, if you eat pizza when you're pregnant, you're supposed to, you know, any minute you're going to give birth, the pizza triggers it.
	Oh, yes.
	It's no wives' tale.
	But it worked.
	It worked for Buzzkill Jr.
	He gave birth?
	Yeah.
	Pizza.
	Pizza happened.
	Oh, when he was born, you mean?
	Yeah, when he was, you know, he was waiting to, you know, eat some pizza, boom!
	That was the end.
	Okay.
	Michael Oakley, Gatineau, I think it's because of, I don't know, just doughy.
	$200, Gatineau, Quebec.
	Salute, even though mostly USA-centered, I enjoy listening to the best podcast in New York.
	Rebecca Foster in Maynardville, Tennessee.
	I couldn't find a note from Rebecca.
	Um...
	She has one to send.
	We'll read it on the next show.
	Chad Wilson in Euless, Texas.
	200 bucks.
	Ashton Banta, Springfield, Missouri.
	200 bucks.
	A lot of $200.
	It's very interesting.
	In the morning, this donation is for dedouching for my boyfriend, Bo.
	He is listening.
	No agenda, or as I call it, no agender.
	For almost one year, and he's never made a donation.
	What?
	I'm making a donation on his behalf for his birthday.
	Oh, there you go.
	I don't know what we would do without the entertainment and knowledge provided by you two.
	You truly are the guardians of reality.
	Keep up the good work.
	Can we get a fuck cancer for Bo's mom, job's karma for me, and just send your cash if that isn't too much to ask?
	Well, of course.
	So first we've got to do a little de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	Okay.
	You've got karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	Well, there you go.
	Jim Reed in Irvine, California.
	200 bucks.
	Don't give up.
	Karma for everyone.
	Yeah, okay.
	Karma for everybody.
	You've got karma.
	Matthew Johnson, East Troy, Wisconsin, $200.
	ITM, gentlemen, your analysis lately has been fantastic.
	I really love telling people that Hillary Clinton is the most qualified person to run the empire.
	I threw that on a couple...
	John's emergency bat signal email to get me to donate beyond my monthly donation amount.
	If I could get a dedouching and a karma, that would be great.
	I laid that one on a couple people there at HamCom as well.
	You want to see a 67-year-old guy with a Vietnam veteran cap When you say, Hillary Clinton's uniquely qualified to run the empire, they're like, have you seen my 50 cal, son?
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you very much, Mikey.
	And finally, Anonymous from Mill Valley, California, $200.
	And that concludes our Executive Associate Executive Producer list.
	And it was a good one from show 626.
	And hopefully, I think now is the time, if you want to get to the top of the list, Thursday would probably work out.
	Well, thank you very much, especially our Knights and everyone who became an Executive Producer or Associate Executive Producer.
	These are real credits.
	They are valid wherever credits are accepted.
	And they are no different from Hollywood credits.
	I saw that Angelina Jolie became a dame, so if she can become a dame from the Queen, anyone can become anything.
	It's just we keep a list and we have nice rings and everything to go along with it.
	You know, it used to be, I think in the 1800s, illegal.
	To accept these honors, these damehoods and knighthoods from a foreign government.
	Yeah, that's right.
	You had to renounce your citizenship.
	Yeah, you'd have to renounce your citizenship if you're going to be a knight of the British Empire.
	Hey, you're an American.
	Oh, well.
	Oh, well.
	Why renounce Jolie?
	Me too.
	We will be doing another show on Thursday.
	Of course, we need your continued support.
	And today we need a very special formula propagation for all of the podcast apps out there.
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	Hey, I got one for you.
	I got a clip for you.
	For me?
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	Okay.
	This clip is right for you.
	After we did our analysis, we began the analysis of the Iraq situation with ISIL or ISIS or ISIL. ISIS or ISIL. Mm-hmm.
	So here is McCain on the Senate floor.
	What do we need to do now?
	Obviously, the first thing I think we need to do is call together the people that succeeded in Iraq, those that have been retired.
	And get together that group and place them in responsibility positions so that they can develop a policy to reverse this tide of radical Islam extremism which directly threatens the security of the United States of America.
	And it's time that the President got a new national security team.
	It's time that he got a group of people together that know what it is to succeed in conflict.
	And I would say the leader of that would be General Petraeus.
	I would say that General Mattis is one.
	I would say that General Keane is another one.
	I would say that Bob Kagan is another one.
	Kagan!
	Oh, yeah.
	We have some production going on.
	Well, this is a recurring theme with the...
	Bob Kagan!
	Here we go.
	Rubble!
	Brought to you by Clan Kagan.
	Here's McCain on...
	What show was he on here?
	By the way, let's stop for a second and remind everyone that Noodleman, who's the stooge for John Kerry, is Bob Kagan's wife.
	Yes.
	Robert Kagan's wife, and Robert Kagan is married to...
	is the brother of Frederick Kagan.
	He's the true project for New American Century Neocon.
	And then there's the sister...
	Which is Elizabeth?
	Am I saying that right?
	Kimberly.
	Kimberly.
	Yeah, of course.
	Kimberly Kagan.
	And she runs the War Institute.
	That's what I call it.
	Here's McCain.
	Institute for the Study of War.
	Yeah, here it is, McCain.
	There are no good options right now, I'm sorry to say.
	And just to say airstrikes, obviously, is...
	It's not the answer either because it's very difficult in a very fluid situation as we're in today.
	You need to call in General David Petraeus and Jack Keene and the folks at the Institute for the Study of War that predicted this and Ambassador Ryan Crocker and others.
	These are the guys that won the war.
	And get them to devise a strategy and then implement it with tactics.
	I don't know exactly if the airstrikes right now are exactly the answer.
	I'm not sure because I don't claim to be that smart.
	But I know there are people like Jack Keene and General Petraeus and others who are that smart.
	And I know that this team that he's got around him now ought to be fired.
	You named some very important people to be fired.
	Who are you calling on to be fired, Senator McCain?
	Every one of the national security team.
	They've been a total failure.
	The totality of the Obama administration's national security team.
	Just like I called for the firing of Donald Rumsfeld back under the Bush administration when we were failing in Iraq, yes.
	A couple of things here.
	First of all, he said these guys won the war.
	Yeah, what?
	What?
	They won the war, and then he brings in his buddies, the...
	Kagan's!
	By plugging the Institute for the Study of Killing People and Brown People in Sand.
	And that, of course, is the Kagan's.
	Now...
	What is he up to?
	Well, there's a lot going on.
	I think I have discovered some things.
	Can I play one clip before you go on?
	Yes, please.
	I just want to make sure we get a little balance here.
	And let's see what John Boehner has to say about all this.
	Now they've taken control of Mosul.
	They're 100 miles from Baghdad.
	And what's the president doing?
	Taking a nap.
	What?
	Taking a nap?
	What?
	That's what he said.
	What?
	Okay.
	Thank you for your input.
	Anyway, I'm sorry.
	I like it.
	I like it.
	Taking a nap.
	All right.
	In the show notes, we've got a lot of things in the show notes.
	Producer JB actually has done a great rundown.
	I'm not going to go through it all.
	He has all of the stories about Kurdistan.
	And, of course, a lot of this is about the Kurds and Kurdistan.
	Of course, this involves Syria.
	This involves Turkey.
	Oil fields.
	Oil, yes.
	And so I want to focus on some of that.
	First, I want to say...
	Here, I have...
	This is a clip of an Iraqi army deserter who is talking about the Iraqi army.
	Now, most of what you'll be hearing on the mainstream media is, oh, we spent 25 billion, which, excuse me, that's we spent that we spent that in a month.
	Twenty five billion.
	That's nothing.
	It's nothing.
	We're spending a billion a weeks.
	Something like that.
	25 billion is nothing.
	It's bullcrap.
	That's a low-ball number.
	And just a little bit, you'll hear him in a translation about the state of the Iraqi army.
	We were on a patrol, and we saw the 2nd Division, the division before us, leaving in their cars.
	The soldiers told us things are falling apart.
	Our commander told us to leave.
	The prison and the central command in Mosul has fallen and we are leaving.
	ISIS had taken over the Badrush prison, 40 kilometres away from us.
	The two top generals arrived and they changed into civilian clothing and got into civilian cars and left.
	I watched the generals as they left.
	The problem is not with the soldiers.
	It's with the officers.
	In 2004, I was fighting, and we saw that the lieutenants and the colonels in the U.S. Army were standing side by side with us, and they were raising our morale.
	Now, I have some unique insight to this.
	as I was in Iraq, end of 2003, beginning of 2004, for a couple of weeks with the Dutch Marines at Camp Smitty.
	And as part of the propaganda piece of the tour, we were taken to many of these training camps where the Iraqi security forces were training, where the, what is it, the coalition forces were training the Iraqi the coalition forces were training the Iraqi army.
	And I believe we've talked about this on the show, that I found it quite hilarious because these guys were like Dad's Army, if you've ever seen Dad's Army, the old British sitcom, where they'd be training and like, you know, and the commandant would say, about faces!
	And half the guys would turn right, the other would turn left.
	They were dropping their weapons.
	It was a complete sham, this training of the Iraqi forces.
	I'm sorry.
	And I... I believe a lot of military personnel would agree with me that the training was bullcrap.
	Just set dressing, if anything.
	So the Kagans are deeply involved in this, and there's a lot of...
	If you look at the website, which I took some time to look at that, what is the Institute for the Study of War, they basically lay out what is going to happen and they even say, here's what's going on now, ISIS is going to Baghdad.
	That is the next spot if they haven't reached it already by the time you hear this podcast.
	So this is what the Kagans and the neocons who got us into Iraq the last time, and they're now running the show, and I think our analysis is pretty much spot on that this is only about the pipelines and the oil fields, and I have a little bit of detail on that.
	So according to the Kagans, ISIS will seek to target the seat of Iraq's government in the green zone.
	This will probably be a symbolic target rather than an operational one.
	But that is what they'll be doing next.
	So they're going to Baghdad.
	To open the routes, ISIS needs to plan to break the ISF-controlled access to Baghdad from the supply routes.
	They will do this by seizing control of the waypoint cities themselves.
	So you can look at the map and you can see what's going to happen, but just go to this website, ISW... Actually, they have a blog about this, iswiraq.blogspot.com.
	This is the Institute for the Study of War.
	I think it's interesting that they have Blogspot.
	Yeah, uh-huh.
	And have you seen the ISIS promotional video?
	No, I haven't, but I have some interesting videos I want to talk about.
	They have this Hollywood-style video.
	Actually, if you go to isisfilm.noagendanotes.com You're making me look up two things at the same time.
	Do this.
	Isisfilm.noagendanotes.com Isisfilm.
	And this is a snippet I just want to take a look at it because, you know, they use the drone and it's like super, you know, zooming in.
	And this is for a bunch of terrorists.
	This is kind of a nice little bit of production.
	The full-length video has been pulled from YouTube, unfortunately.
	And the message says, "This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy on shocking and disgusting content." Can you turn the sound down?
	You can just watch it while we're talking about it.
	If I turn the sound down, it turns it down on YouTube.
	You can turn down the YouTube sound, the volume on the YouTube.
	Oh, yes, I can.
	I just want you to see the spinning drone.
	It's amazingly well produced.
	I want to mention that I went to a baseball game.
	And I was given a car, a driver, as a company event for NetSuite.
	So the driver is from Lebanon.
	And I always sit in the front seat of these cars.
	I say, I'm not sitting in the back.
	I feel like an idiot.
	So I sit in the front seat and I pull in at him and have a conversation with the guy.
	And he pulls up a bunch of videos that are, they say that's a violation of YouTube.
	This video that apparently all these Lebanese and everyone's watching, which is supposedly a couple of maniacs from ISIS driving down the freeway, just gunning down everybody.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It was like, he says, and this video went on forever.
	And it was just, you know, these people, they have a.50 caliber submachine gun, and they stick it out the window of their car.
	They're just shooting everybody.
	And they're just shooting people, just randomly, and it's very reminiscent of those kind of home videos that these stupid kids do when they go around town with a paintball gun.
	Or a baseball bat hitting mailboxes.
	Yeah, bum rolling or any of that stuff, but it was like sick.
	So you see that there's money in production in this thing.
	You see that there's...
	Yeah, this is a lot different than that video, that's for sure.
	Okay, now here is what the mainstream media wants you to believe, that this is a sectarian fight, and this is all about religion, and as a part of that, we have the ISIL, and by the way, both are right, ISIS or ISIL, except one means state and one actually means the region, which is Levant.
	Which is important in a moment.
	That was mentioned by Kimberly on the last show.
	Right.
	But it's the same group.
	It's really the ISIL for the Levant because it's about the region.
	But the mainstream will be talking about ISIS as the Islamic State because they want to make it purely about religion.
	Which, of course, that's part of it.
	But that is not the real reason behind what is going on.
	This is why your No Agenda show exists is to give you this type of analysis.
	And ISIS has released...
	The Ten Commandments for Islamic Rule.
	Notice it's Ten Commandments.
	And I'll give those to you right now.
	People, you tried secular rulings and they gave you pain.
	Now it's time for the Islamic State of Imam Abu Bakr al-Qasari.
	That's number one for some reason.
	For those asking who are you, we are soldiers of Islam and have taken our responsibility to bring back the glory of the Islamic Caliphate.
	Number three.
	We took the money from Safavid.
	That's the, I guess, the $500 million in Mosul.
	$425, actually.
	The money is now public.
	Only imam of Muslims can spend it.
	The hand of anyone who steals will be cut.
	Four.
	They got the money.
	We ask all Muslims to be on time for prayers in the mosque.
	Five.
	We warn tribal leaders and sheikhs not to work with the government and be traitors.
	Six.
	No drugs, no alcohol, and no cigarettes are allowed.
	Six.
	Seven, for the police, soldiers, and other infidel institutions, you can repent.
	We have opened special places that will allow you to repent.
	That's good.
	Eight, gatherings carrying flags, other than that of the Islamic State, and carrying guns is not allowed.
	God ordered us to stay united.
	Nine, our position on shrines and graves is clear.
	Simply, all will be destroyed.
	This is what the mainstream media will focus on.
	It's destruction of religious landmarks.
	I love showing that.
	Ten for women, dress decently and wear wide clothes.
	Only go out if necessary.
	This is very typical.
	Okay, so that is their Ten Commandments, and the mainstream media is meant to focus on some of those in order to bring you information that is not relevant.
	Which makes you wonder about their origin, but go on.
	Of course.
	Regarding the pipelines, so I've put a lot of work into looking what goes where, and there's two issues at stake.
	As we discussed in the previous show, the pipeline from Iran through Iraq to Syria to the Russian port, the port in Syria that Russia owns, that is being disrupted and blown up.
	And this is why I'm pretty sure that the Kagans are involved in this.
	The oil that the Kurds have, and a lot of it is coming from the Kyrgyzstan, which they now have captured, they also have the refinery, or Kirkuk, I'm sorry, Kirkuk.
	They have the refinery now.
	They have the pipeline that goes to the Botas Terminal.
	This is the...
	Baku-Tbilisi-Sehan pipeline.
	That's the one that terminates in the terminal.
	This is in Turkey, Sehan, C-E-Y-H-A-N. And Botas is the outfit that is running that there.
	And if you look at the map, you'll see that this oil goes from Iraq around Syria to the north into southern Turkey, And then, of course, from Turkey it goes into Europe, and we have gas pipelines, and everything is going into Turkey, but mainly this Sehan terminal.
	And the Botas Petroleum Pipeline is owned by and has partnerships with all of the usual suspects.
	But this is very interesting because it also does fit in with the Tbilisi pipeline.
	And Baku pipelines.
	They also terminate here.
	So this was an existing spot, but now we're just routing around Syria.
	And if they can get their way, but I don't know, they still want to bring the gas up from Qatar.
	But right now, the Kurds are piping the oil Into Turkey, to the north of Syria, and doing everything to blow up the pipelines that go through Syria.
	So this is also an F-Russia story.
	Yeah, and the Kagans are an F-Russia operation.
	Of course, because we know the Kagans are in Ukraine.
	So all of this is F-Russia and get the oil into Turkey.
	But I will tell you that Turkey needs to watch out.
	Turkey is not necessarily free and clear.
	But now, some interesting things happened.
	I was watching the President's speech about not going back to Iraq with troops, and I found out some interesting things.
	Let's listen to this little relevant bit of him.
	This is, I think, two days ago.
	What is that?
	Multi-threaded applications?
	A two-fold increase in floating...
	I'm sorry, did I somehow not clip the beginning of that?
	Did he become a JavaScript coder?
	What the hell is that?
	I have a feeling that I... Let me check something.
	Well, I want to play a clip while you're doing that.
	Because you mentioned that the media is going to focus on one thing or another.
	I think that's not necessarily what you think they're going to focus on.
	Well, they're going to focus on something else.
	I got it.
	Mike Burrell is on CBS. Now, Mike Burrell, of course, is second in charge at the CIA, is now working for CBS News.
	Although I don't believe he's working with CBS News, because Scott Pelley introduces him not as Mike, our correspondent, but Mr.
	Morrell.
	Former Deputy Secretary.
	Have you ever heard, you know, you've got a guy working for you, and you defer as Mr.
	Dvorak?
	What do you think, Mr.
	Dvorak?
	Yes.
	Oh, anyway, so here's what it's all going to boil down to.
	And this is Morrell's kind of take on it.
	And this, I believe, will be the litany overall about what this is all about, even though this is totally contrary to what we're promoting.
	But this is where it heads.
	One of the people with deep insight into all of this is Mike Morrell, who until last year was number two at the CIA and is now a CBS News contributor.
	Mr.
	Morrell, these attacking forces, do you believe they have the capability of taking Baghdad?
	So, Scott, this is no longer an al-Qaeda terrorist group.
	This is now an al-Qaeda army.
	I think we have to think about it this way.
	I do think that they have the capability to threaten Baghdad, but I think that Iraqi forces, and I think that the Iranian help that they're now getting, and they're likely to get more, means that it's going to be very tough for them to actually take Baghdad, and I doubt that that will happen.
	What's at stake for the United States?
	The extent to which that this group can have safe haven in western Iraq could mean a base of operations from which they could attack the United States, the United States homeland, and that's something we really have to worry about.
	No, please.
	Is that a great clip?
	Oh, please.
	Yeah, it's not clip of the day, but please.
	Please.
	I just cracked up when I heard that.
	And to say that they're not going to Baghdad.
	He's probably not.
	He's not in the right group.
	Well, it's funny.
	I've noticed there's three theses.
	One is the one you've already expressed.
	The second one is the one he's expressed.
	And the third, which is on PBS, you hear that a lot on the radio, which is that the Iranians are going to come in and protect the United States.
	And then they're going to take over.
	Yeah, I've heard that too.
	And then they're going to take over the whole region, and then it's going to go nuclear.
	Nuclear.
	Nuclear.
	And that's going to bring us into it.
	You know what this is?
	This is the...
	The Greek Orthodox Priest Prophecy.
	You have to listen to this one.
	This has been around for a number of years.
	And I can't find an actual source, but I found the forums and the threads, you know, 2011, etc.
	And this is apparently from the Greek Orthodox Saints Prophecies.
	I quote...
	In the beginning, Turkey will take six miles of land inside the Hellenic Territory, or be Greece.
	However, this won't last long because Russia will engage the war.
	Together, Elas and Russia will capture Constantinople, which of course is Istanbul, and Turkey will be defeated.
	This will result in the descendants of the Catholics that captured Constantinople in 1204 to fight against Russia.
	This will result in the beginning of World War III, which will happen in 2014.
	This was written in 2011, so that's kind of funny.
	Elas won't fight this war at all.
	Before the war begins, Russia will have to conquer all the land until Israel, including it.
	Then the West will fight back and the war will happen in the territory of the Byzantine Empire.
	Half of the U.S. forces, along with Germany, Great Britain, and more countries, will attack Russia from the West, while Japan and the other half of the U.S. forces will attack from the East.
	The war will be devastating and as one of the saints mentions, the war will have 700 million dead in three days.
	Finally, by 2017, the war will end having no winner, as the prophecies state.
	At that time, the only thing the prophecies say is that Constantinople, Pontos, and Ionia will belong once again to the Elas.
	Turkey will be split into three, and one part will go to Elas, one will go to Armenia, and one to Kurdistan.
	There's some things in there that I think are viable.
	The splitting of Turkey.
	Yeah.
	Totally see that.
	Which they've been resisting forever.
	The whole Russia thing being attacked from the West and the East.
	Interesting.
	Yeah, it's unlikely.
	There's China's in the way.
	Hello.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	The second Mike Merrill clip.
	Yeah, he wraps it up, but you can tell that this is like this.
	I believe this to be one of the theses that is put forth that CBS will be propagating, and they are a White House spokeshole.
	You know, I wonder, you were at the CIA during the entire 10 years of America's involvement in Iraq.
	What is it like watching this territory being taken?
	It's a great movie!
	It's disappointment.
	It's bordering on anger.
	You know, hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops fought there to remove Saddam and to bring stability to Iraq.
	Many, many CIA officers served there.
	And, you know, it is a real shame to see that stability erode.
	And it's now virtually gone.
	More than 4,000 Americans having lost their lives to secure this territory in that time.
	Mike Murrell, former deputy director of the CIA. Thanks very much.
	I'm going to ask you a question just to kind of slow this down a little bit.
	Why did we go to Iraq in the first place?
	Weapons of mass destruction.
	That was to capture, stop, or whatever, but that wasn't the real overriding theme.
	It wasn't stability either.
	No, it was because Saddam Hussein was selling oil in Euros.
	No, but I'm talking about overt, which is regime change.
	Of course, yes.
	We went there for regime change, and we got it!
	So why do we need to even care what happens?
	We got regime change, which is to get rid of Saddam, and we did.
	We got rid of him, and we got regime change, and now we can see what happens.
	Our involvement should be zero in this deal.
	And our involvement is, on the one hand, zero.
	I don't know what this happened to this question.
	Mission accomplished!
	So President Obama said, we are not going to send troops back to Iraq.
	That is very clear.
	He said all options are on the table.
	Yeah.
	No, but something else is happening, and I found out what.
	Okay.
	And I got clued into it by watching my favorite show, the State Department Press Briefing.
	I believe Matt from AP was saying, is this not a total failure?
	Obviously, the withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 was not a mistake.
	That was a decision made with the Iraqi government, consistent with the U.S.-Iraq security agreement.
	A decision and a timeline that was set out, let's see, 2011, no longer than that.
	What year are we?
	We're in 2014.
	She's a little flustered and confused.
	Sorry.
	A decision and a timeline that was set out long before 2011, is I guess what I should say, back in 2008, if I remember correctly.
	And we stand by that decision that was made.
	Now, obviously, in circumstances like this, there are steps that we've taken, given the increasing threat, whether that's the counterterrorism fund, So I heard that and I went, whoa, hold on a second, I missed something!
	An anti-terrorism fund the president announced.
	Hmm.
	What exactly is an anti-terrorism fund?
	You know, it's counter-terrorism is the word she used.
	Yeah, but it is an anti-terrorism fund.
	Here is the president's announcement of that, his speech at West Point.
	So earlier this year, I asked my national security team to develop a plan for a network of partnerships.
	Partnerships?
	From South Asia to the Sahel.
	The Sahel, hold on.
	Today is part of this effort.
	The Sahel is, uh, that's the entire strip across, uh, Africa.
	From east to west.
	I am calling on Congress to support a new counter-terrorism partnerships fund.
	Counter-terrorism partnership fund.
	Of up to five billion dollars, which will allow us to...
	Five billion dollars?!
	...train, build capacity, and facilitate partner countries on the front lines.
	And these resources will give us flexibility to fulfill different missions.
	Including training security forces in Yemen who've gone on the offensive against al-Qaeda.
	Training!
	Supporting a multinational force to keep the peace in Somalia.
	Multinational force.
	Working with European allies to train a functioning security force and border patrol in Libya.
	Security force.
	A critical focus of this effort will be the ongoing crisis in Syria.
	As frustrating as it is, there are no easy answers there.
	No military solution that can eliminate Okay, so we're going to help.
	And in helping those who fight for the right of all Syrians to choose their own future, we are also pushing back against the growing number of extremists who find safe haven in the chaos.
	So with the additional resources I'm announcing today, we will step up our efforts to support Syria's neighbors, Jordan and Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq.
	I will work with Congress to ramp up support for those in the Syrian opposition who offer the best alternative to terrorists.
	And brutal dictators.
	Now, if I were in the military-industrial complex, and I'm already a little disappointed that we are out of Iraq, and we're leaving Afghanistan, and I'm hearing $5 billion, hmm.
	Of course, that would mean that I'm not in the loop, and I'm not really a part of this, and I didn't know about the CTPF, the Counterterrorism Partnership Fund.
	So I looked this up.
	The administration will request funding for expanded or enhanced DOD activities such as intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, special operations, and other activities.
	To achieve these objectives, the administration will seek up to $5 billion in the fiscal year 2015 OCO request.
	OCO request.
	That is the Overseas Contingency Operational Budget.
	Ah, yes.
	Which actually is slated to be between $50 and $70 billion in this request from Congress, which is now going through the House and soon the Senate, and I'm sure will be voted in with very little media coverage.
	Well, there's a good article in the Daily Beast that says these guys are resisting this.
	Here's how I know that that is going to happen.
	We had a little shift take place.
	And that shift is...
	Here we go.
	The outfit known as...
	Constellus Holdings.
	In a press release, this came out two days ago, Constellus Holdings signals major news in the high-threat security industry.
	Academy, the company formerly known as Blackwater and Z, will join Triple Canopy along with a handful of other high-threat security companies under a new management structure named Constellus Holdings.
	They have now consolidated Triple Canopy and five other companies into the largest high-threat security group in the world, and we know that they're already sending 5,000 consultants to Iraq.
	The board members of this outfit are, of course, let's see, General John Ashcroft, Jack Quinn, Bobby Inman's on the board.
	This is a fucking bonanza.
	Bobby Inman?
	Oh, yeah.
	Do you know that he just lives down the street from me?
	Yes, we've discussed this many times.
	And he's good friends with my Uncle Don.
	And?
	And...
	What?
	Why don't you go say hi?
	I'm going to go say hi.
	So we're talking $70 billion.
	If you listen to the words, and John Kerry, of course, is the one that blows it.
	He's such a moron.
	They're talking about security.
	Not about...
	But about security, protection, resources.
	We are going to spend 50 to 70 billion dollars on these companies to continue the rebelization and protect whatever we need to when it comes to the Kurds or whoever we have to protect.
	Kerry always does this.
	What it really is, is a statement of transition that is appropriate to the timing.
	Transition from military to private sector.
	As expressed by the military and the generals and by the situation on the ground in Afghanistan.
	What we are doing, what the president is doing, is making clear.
	Nice little skip there, Bill.
	The president, just in case, you know, he wouldn't want to get blamed.
	That the United States understands its role of leadership in the world, that we are deeply committed to offering that leadership and to continuing to lead.
	That means giving money, not leading, giving money.
	We're doing so in Iran with respect to the Iran negotiations.
	We're doing so in Syria with respect to increased ramp-up assistance to the Syrian opposition.
	Increased ramp-up assistance?
	Money!
	Sending money and arms.
	It's not like Kerry has a whole bunch of grenade launchers.
	No, he has a check and he gives it to the military industrial complex and they ship the weapons over.
	We're doing it in the Maghreb, in the Sahel, in the Levant, in South Asia.
	Oh, the Levant, there you go!
	And in East Asia.
	I like the way he slips Levant in.
	It's in there for a reason.
	It's a word that nobody uses.
	It's a cover-up word.
	The fact is, the United States...
	Which means we're financing ISIS. We're financing it.
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	Yeah, well, he's saying it.
	This guy's a douche.
	So in Syria, with respect to increased ramp-up assistance to the Syrian opposition, we're doing it in the Maghreb, in the Sahel, in the Levant, in South Asia, and in East Asia.
	And the fact is the United States is more engaged in more places than it has ever been in any time in history.
	Woo!
	Yeah!
	Yeah!
	America!
	But the president today is going to make clear exactly what the vision is for how we deal with this rapidly changing, more complex world where terrorism is the principal challenge.
	And so today he will announce a terrorism partnership fund.
	Notice what he says.
	He doesn't say counter.
	He says a terrorism partnership fund.
	He's so dumb, this Kerry.
	He actually tells the truth.
	They all do.
	We're funding...
	You can't not tell the truth.
	That's what we've noticed on the show forever.
	We are funding a...
	The president is funding a terrorism...
	Everybody gets to hear it.
	Yeah, let's play it again.
	...where terrorism is the principal challenge.
	And so today he will announce a terrorism partnership fund about $5 billion...
	No, he's just telling the truth.
	He's just...
	It is, yeah.
	You can't not...
	I mean, at some point you tell it that...
	You know, you either tell the truth or if you said something else, his tongue would have shot out of there.
	I can't believe, and it's known as the Counter-Terrorism Partnership Fund, but he says...
	Terrorism is a physical challenge.
	And so today he will announce a terrorism partnership fund about five billion dollars that we will use to help train other countries, other people in their ability to join in alliances to take on this rising...
	Other people.
	What does that mean, other people?
	So we're taking five billion dollars And we're going to train other people.
	Come on!
	This is insulting!
	To take on this rising radical extremism that challenges rule of law in so many places.
	Oh!
	Bonanza, people.
	Bonanza.
	And it's your money.
	I got people standing here on I-35, you know, begging for money.
	And we're rubble...
	Screw them!
	And we're rubble-izing all...
	I mean, the whole region is going to be completely rubble-ized.
	All the way through Turkey.
	Constellus Group...
	Also, there's this thing I've been reading about you.
	It's like, they own a company called Strategic Social.
	These guys are fantastic.
	I told you, this is a great outfit.
	Costellas Group acquires Strategic Social, global holding company, strengths and services portfolio.
	It says, Strategic Social is a leading provider of public safety technology, business consulting, and program management solutions to commercial and government customers in challenging and austere environments.
	You know where that is.
	The business and cultural synergies between Costellas and the strategic social are noteworthy.
	Our business operate in the same geographical regions and serve similar customers, including governments.
	This is the Twitter guys.
	This is a spinoff of Hillary will be working for these guys if she doesn't become president.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	No, this is just another scam.
	And talking about...
	I don't know if I should go to this clip because it is part of this.
	But I'll segue later.
	Go on with your thesis.
	It's actually pretty funny.
	Well, no, I think this is perfect timing for your clip, because now we have, it's all laid out.
	We have what used to be known as the Mineral Resources Extraction Group, i.e.
	Pentagon that has now been pushed back and there's been a lot of crap between this administration and the military in general.
	And, you know, it's just not working out.
	The VA is no good.
	The big problems.
	Screw it.
	Let's get the commercial guys in here.
	They know what they're doing.
	You know, there's no bull crap.
	There's no coffins with flags.
	You know, you just pay him and they get the job done.
	They have no morals.
	Rubble eyes the place.
	We do not care.
	And by the way, let's get our guys in there on the board, you know, buy it all up.
	We deal with one company now, Constellus Holdings.
	We've taken away all of the bull crap of Blackwater Z Academy.
	We've covered that up with marketing, essentially.
	Now it's Constellus.
	And we got one way in and one way out.
	Guys, here's what you do.
	Make sure that pipeline doesn't go through Syria.
	Protect at all costs everything that goes into the ports and through Turkey.
	Oh, by the way, while you're at it, let's split up Iraq.
	Let's make Kurdistan.
	Let's screw with Turkey.
	And we own Greece anyway.
	We own everything there.
	And so we're good to go.
	It's a sad, disgusting display of elitist bullcrap.
	And meanwhile, all we're getting is, well, it's sectarian versus Sunnis and Seers, and we're destroying the relics of the religion, and fucking stupid!
	It's about money and oil and gas.
	Well, the American public has to be kept away from this sort of thing.
	Because, you know, you got your guys begging on the corner and nobody cares about them.
	And Morrell and his pitch that, you know, these guys are going to attack us.
	They're going to attack us.
	They're setting up shop to create an old emerald and maybe a caliphate.
	But there are concerns they're going to attack us.
	For another 9-11 type attack.
	Which is like, are you crazy?
	We could just flatten the place if we wanted to.
	So nobody's attacking us from this area.
	But, you know, we have to keep the public...
	Afraid!
	Afraid!
	So there's this really funny report that came out from this group Salaam.
	And this is the...
	Al Salaam?
	No, it's just the Salaam Project or something like that.
	Oh, okay.
	I'm sorry.
	And it stands for something, A-L-A-M, I can't remember.
	But they came up with a report, and I want you to play this.
	And, of course, this is Russia today.
	The only place I could find that reported on this.
	And it's Russia trying to needle us.
	Now, Russia today, of course, is a very poorly run propagandist Before it's a crime, it's pre-crime.
	Getting convicted, if you're suspected, you might cause trouble in the future.
	It is a practice security services in the United States have been using, according to Muslim advocacy groups there.
	It's known as preventive prosecution.
	Critics say it's nothing more than entrapment.
	Marina Portnire explains how almost 95% of those found guilty were provoked by the FBI. In a post-9-11 America, hundreds of Muslims have been arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned for attempting to carry out terrorist attacks.
	However, this study just released finds that the U.S. government has played a major role in orchestrating most of those so-called terror plots in order to exaggerate the domestic threat of Muslim extremism.
	When examining the Department of Justice's list of 399 terrorism cases, the study found that 94 percent of those cases involved preemptive prosecution.
	That's a practice of targeting those who officials deem predisposed to committing crimes before an act.
	actual crime is committed.
	In some instances, the study finds that defendants were targeted purely for their religious affiliations and ideological beliefs.
	In other instances, the FBI used an agent provocateur to recruit vulnerable individuals, luring them with cash and coercing them into carrying out a terrorist attack that was set up by the FBI.
	Now a federal informant would provide the fake explosives and instruct the defendant on what to do.
	This is otherwise known as entrapment.
	Now, the 175-page report was released by Project Salam, a group providing support and legal advocacy for Muslims.
	One of the co-authors told me his findings make it difficult to believe in the integrity of the U.S. justice system and federal agencies.
	What they were trying to do was to convince the American public that there is this large army of potential terrorists that they should all be very, very scared about.
	They are very much engaged in worldwide surveillance.
	And this surveillance is very valuable to them.
	They can learn an awful lot about all sorts of things.
	And in a sense, control issues to their advantage.
	And the entire legal justification for that depends on there being a war on terror.
	Without a war on terror, they have no right to do this.
	So they have to keep this war on terror going.
	They have to keep finding people and arresting them and locking them up and scaring everybody.
	Because without that, they cannot justify the kind of surveillance they're doing.
	U.S. surveillance, as the public has learned, is not just limited to Muslim citizens.
	Critics say unless there is public outcry over government-manufactured crime, that, too, may eventually become common practice to target anyone.
	Aw, man, that's just propaganda from...
	Food time!
	It's propaganda, man.
	That ain't true.
	That ain't true.
	Meanwhile, the funny thing is, by coincidence, Mimi pointed out an article that we ran in both the SFGate and then Reuters about the illegal, you know, this is what we said, of course, again, this is nothing new to no agenda listeners, which is that the NSA information is being used to listen to everybody so they can make everybody in law enforcement's job easier.
	Right.
	So apparently, I'm going to read this from Reuters, the secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, which is illegal by the way, wiretaps, informants, and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.
	And one of the recent things is they have these, there's apparently a PowerPoint thing where the law enforcement agency will get this information about you.
	illegal wiretaps.
	And then it might have some criminal aspect to it that they can, they have to, and the PowerPoint is, the PowerPoint presentation is about how to back engineer the issue.
	So in other words, they find out that you have said something sketchy, and now...
	Why is it always me as the example?
	Well, you just happen to be standing in front of me.
	So they want to get you, and so they have to dream up some bullshit about how they found this out with a confidential informant, told them, or some other bullcrap.
	So we were under a...
	And that's what's happening with these Muslims.
	They obviously find some guy who's bitching about the government, Then they pay him.
	I didn't know that, by the way, that the FBI actually comes and gives the guy money.
	Here, Ahmed, here's a bunch of money.
	If you blow up this place, I'll help you.
	And the guy ends up following.
	He's a dumb guy.
	But this is like the situation, the way it is now, it's just out of control with these illegal wiretaps and the frightening of the American public in general.
	And this also falls right into the whole idea of the six-week cycle.
	This is exactly what the FBI is doing, and that's not just because they want to do their job, but they need to keep their job by continuously proving that they're doing something of good value, like stopping terrorist plots, that is pure entrapment, that they have all the way up to giving the guy the phony baloney keypad.
	Hey, press this.
	Oh, you pressed it!
	You're arrested.
	Yeah.
	There's something funny about it.
	Well, yeah, it's funny, but it's not really funny.
	I have to say, I completely disconnected for two days with the hamcom thing.
	Life went on.
	We have a lot of listeners who now say, I stopped listening to mainstream media, I just listen to you guys.
	And I feel better about things.
	Why would you bother?
	You listen to the news, we give it to you.
	You can laugh.
	We try to make you laugh.
	So I think what's happening, this is Bloomberg reported...
	U.S. officials now believe Chinese hackers now already know the steps needed to blow up a U.S. pipeline or shut down an American power plant.
	They're practicing, said retired Army General Keith Alexander.
	They're practicing.
	How are they practicing?
	What pipeline blew up?
	Tell me.
	They're practicing.
	So this is all part of the cyber attack that is going to come.
	How do you blow up a pipeline with a computer code?
	I'm just reading it.
	Obviously, it's dumb.
	Whereas power lines go down all the time thanks to squirrels.
	I think if you look at cyber terrorists versus squirrels, it's about 500 to 0 so far.
	Squirrels are winning the cyber war at this moment.
	You know, I have a squirrel story.
	Oh.
	Hit it.
	So I see a guy working on one of the boxes, which is from Pacific Telephone or whatever, AT&T. And I say, you know, can you show me the difference between DSL and T1 and the way they do the connection, the difference is the wire sticker.
	And I started talking to him about the, because it was in Berkeley, and there was a bunch of trees, and there was a squirrel that went by.
	I said, these squirrels must be a horrible problem.
	He says, these squirrels are the plague.
	That's why we prefer underground cables, even though flooding also hurts that situation.
	But squirrels are terrible.
	And then he told me this story, which I just thought was amusing.
	It's a satellite story.
	It's got nothing to do with what we're talking about.
	He says, at one point, they kept developing new kinds of plastic.
	So they put capsicum, a huge amount of hot chili oil.
	Capsicum?
	Capsicum.
	Capsicum is the ingredient in hot chili peppers.
	That burns you.
	Hey, squirrely, squirrely, squirrely.
	So he said they put the capsicum in, and he says it exacerbated the problem because the squirrels got a taste for it.
	They love it!
	And now they're hooked on capsicum.
	So it was worse, because they were eating this stuff just to get the buzz from the capsicum.
	Anyway.
	Oh, I have a follow-up, just to wind up our military-industrial complex bit.
	Bob, you questioned the B-1 bomber, the fracticide, the friendly fire?
	Yeah, you got a couple letters on that.
	Got a couple of them, but actually...
	Producer Oscar Z, I don't know if he wants me to give his full name, he sent me a couple of clips that he made himself, thank you very much, of, this is Pierre Spray.
	He's the designer of the A-10 and the F-15.
	And of course these are planes that pilots actually love.
	And what our producer asserts is the reason why the B-1 was falsely accused of killing our own troops is to eliminate the B-1, the funding for the B-1, of course.
	We already know the Warthog, the A-10 funding is gone.
	In order to funnel that money towards...
	Any guesses?
	Uh, Hillary's campaign?
	Almost right, but no.
	The F-35.
	Oh, that piece of crap?
	Also known as the Joint Strike Fighter.
	And so this is, of course, a biased guy, Pierre, because he designed the F-15 and the A-10.
	But here is three quick clips about the F-35.
	And yes, you said it correctly, a piece of crap, but this thing continues to be funded.
	It was like a trillion dollars, and every country is kicking in.
	Here he is on how the F-35 would work in ground attack.
	So if the F-35 is not a fine combat plane, what about as support for troops, air support?
	That's the most laughable of all, because to support troops, you have to be able to get in close, to maneuver, to find really difficult to find camouflage targets.
	You have to be able to turn at quite slow speed.
	You have to carry a large gun, say like the A-10.
	And you have to be able to stay...
	In the vicinity of the troops for four to six hours, you have to be able to loiter in order to really give them all day cover when they need it.
	This is hopelessly impossible with the F-35.
	Why?
	The F-35 uses far too much gas.
	It's lucky if it can hang around for an hour or an hour and a half at most.
	The maneuverability is laughable.
	You couldn't possibly get down in the weeds, as the pilots say, with this airplane and turn in time to see a tank.
	Remember, a tank is not visible maybe from a quarter mile or less.
	This airplane, at the speeds at which it has to go, because of the tiny wings, remember, it can't maneuver, so it can't fly slow.
	Nor should it in combat, because it's so vulnerable.
	So what is it good at?
	It's not good at anything.
	It's a turkey.
	Of course, the other part of the F-35 is its stealth capability, also addressed in this short clip.
	Talk to me then about the stealth.
	I mean, how stealth capable is the F-35?
	Well, the first thing to know about stealth is that it's a scam.
	It simply doesn't work.
	It's a scam, John.
	I love this guy.
	It's a scam.
	Check out the scam.
	I didn't know about this.
	This is funny.
	Radars, they were built in 1942, could detect every stealth airplane in the world today.
	The Battle of Britain radars.
	Not because there was anything great about them, but because they happened to have very long wavelengths.
	Every Battle of Britain radar would see the F-35 and the F-22 and the B-2.
	I'm not talking here as an antiquarian because, unfortunately, the Russians picked up on this and have been building exactly those radars ever since World War II. They never stopped building low-frequency, long-wavelength radars.
	And they've modernized them to an extraordinary extent.
	They've built some really amazing mobile versions of them now that are both hard to find when they're camouflaged and can be erected in 40 minutes.
	And see every stealth airplane in the world.
	And they sell them to anybody who's got cash.
	Yeah!
	There's some info for you.
	Yeah, that's why I think they pulled those stealth fighters out of the...
	Doesn't work!
	They ran them in Iraq for a while, and then all of a sudden they stopped running them.
	Yeah.
	And I think it's because of the Russian technology, which is old technology.
	It's an old style.
	Final clip, of course, is to answer...
	Before you get off that, I do want to read something from producer Paul Darling, who wrote about the A-10 Warthog.
	Mm-hmm.
	He says, Although the gun only allows 1.5 second bursts,
	decimating anything.
	If that isn't enough, it can also fire 12 hail fires, fire and forget missiles, each missile capable of killing the biggest tanks.
	The frame is made of titanium to protect the pilot from ground fire.
	because they operate so low.
	The engines have a very distinctive stick to why the plane also took the role of close air support to ground troops.
	That's what it does.
	And it's got these two engines that can turn on a dime.
	And he goes on and on about the A-10 was best in class and still is, and there's nothing to replace it.
	Except for the F-35, which has one single solitary mission.
	So you're telling me it's a bad airplane.
	It can't do dogfights.
	It can't protect troops on the ground.
	It's a lousy bomber.
	And despite everything that the manufacturer is saying, it's not stealth.
	Correct.
	You're exactly correct.
	So what is the point of this plane?
	The point is to spend money.
	That is the mission of the airplane, is for the U.S. Congress to send money to Lockheed.
	That's the real mission of the airplane.
	There you go.
	Makes so much sense, doesn't it?
	Well, it's very effective.
	It's doing a good job.
	But it says one of the best ones yet.
	Unreal.
	Anyway.
	Unreal.
	I do have a couple of other things that are kind of interesting to worth following up on or worth following in the first place.
	Here's a little discussion from another new group.
	You should look them up.
	In fact, you should look them up immediately and play their clip of what they're up to on their website.
	Very slick operation called the Sufan Group.
	I will look up Sufan.
	It's another one of these...
	S-O-U-F-A-N, run by an ex-FBI guy who's Lebanese, like my driver was, and who, and by the way, the Lebanese are known as the most natural businessmen in the world, so they will start these groups up.
	And here's the rundown of ISIL by the Sufan Group.
	...only be surpassed by its fortune.
	ISIL, run by an enigmatic leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, may now be the richest terror group in the world after reportedly stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from banks in Mosul when ISIL captured the city on Tuesday.
	Joining us now to discuss who ISIL is, we're joined by Robert McFadden, a senior vice president at the Sufan Group, which provides strategic security intelligence services.
	A former deputy assistant director of counterintelligence operations with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
	He's an expert on terrorist movements in the Middle East.
	Robert, it's always good to have you with us.
	Thank you.
	ISIL has really quickly gained a lot of territory and a lot of money.
	Where is it getting its funding from?
	Well, it started back when it transitioned from the state, Islamic State in Iraq, and into its current form as ISIL.
	In operations in Syria, one of the first funding streams came from taking the goods and money from Christians, Shia, and even Sunnis who were otherwise not aligned with them and thought to be supporting the regime.
	But up until what happened the other day in Mosul with the reported over $400 million, though, it was very effective in raising money from some of the things I mentioned.
	And it worked very hard to control the oil producing region in East Syria.
	Right.
	It's taken over oil fields in Syria and also has power generating plants that Syria needs.
	So their enemy, Bashar al-Assad, is actually paying them money.
	Exactly.
	And that's been part of the complexity of the story that at the time it's implacably opposed and trying to overthrow it to further establish the state.
	There's some of that back and forth because it's generating money and it's in its interest.
	And are they also getting money from Saudi Arabia?
	Because Saudi Arabia opposes al-Assad, have they been getting funding from Saudi sources?
	Well, see, that's one of the other main funding streams over the course of the last few years, outside donors, particularly from the rich Gulf states.
	And the potential of this money, especially if they've gotten these hundreds of millions of dollars when they took over Mosul, is that they pay fighters.
	And it's already a fairly large group.
	The Sufan group has looked at just how many fighters they've got.
	Exactly.
	And going back to the time when it first went into Syria, one of the things that was a part of the draw for foreign fighters, besides it being deemed as the group of action, it was able to pay a better stipend, both within Iraq for the Iraqis as part of ISIL and in Syria.
	So that continues now.
	These groups are really interesting, the Sufan group.
	And if we were douchebags, we could easily do this.
	Oh, I look at the Sufan group thing and that little video they have.
	You can play it if you want.
	Yeah, let me see.
	Yeah, I was just looking at the...
	It's a slick operation.
	You know who its competitor essentially is Richard Clark.
	Right.
	You know, because they're going...
	They're going after the cyber crap a lot, if you read their website.
	It also seems like...
	Yeah, but...
	Yeah, okay, yes.
	Cyber...
	I think also oil, still.
	The team itself looks...
	Hold on, let me get this...
	I mean, just looking at it, so we have Ali Soufan, I guess it's named after him, former FBI supervisory special agent who worked in East Africa, also the USS Cole bombings.
	Don Borelli, also FBI. Then we have McFadden, who we just heard.
	He's...
	It was a counterintelligence, NCIS. We have this guy, Daniel Friedman.
	He's a writer.
	Like a Tom Clancy type guy.
	Richard Barrett.
	Also United Nations counterterrorism.
	Martin Reardon.
	FBI. Susan Simm.
	Singapore's mission deputy chief.
	Stephen White.
	UK police officer.
	See, they got to have the UK guys for BP. Barry Gossart, UK Special Forces, Steve Kleinman.
	He's Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom.
	It just goes on and on and on and on.
	Here's the video.
	This is a whole bunch of TV screens with pundits.
	But of course, you really want to have these guys.
	The Sufan Group.
	We are a strategic security company.
	We do national security consultancies, we do training, and we do research, intelligence research.
	At the Sufan Group, we've got experts from a wide range of fields, from intelligence to academia to law enforcement.
	And that way we provide for clients a really 360 degree approach.
	Here at the Curry Dvorak Consulting Group, we really provide a 360 approach for our clients.
	Besides diversity and equipment, we're talking about there are backgrounds, educational experiences from different walks of life.
	People that have run some of the biggest counterterrorism cases in U.S. history.
	We need to get, like, my uncle, you know, just put Bobby Inman on the board.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know, stuff like that.
	Yeah, no, we'd make a ton of money.
	Millions.
	Yeah.
	Oh, a million.
	I could cut my hair and put on a suit.
	Yeah, and you could have the bullcrap.
	You're a good spokesperson, and you get that little tick, which makes you look like a...
	Interesting.
	Like something happened to me in the intelligence field, and I'm like, oh man.
	Yeah, you got beaten.
	Yeah.
	But I didn't give anybody up, damn it.
	No, of course not.
	This is a fantastic group.
	I know, this is one of the best I've stumbled upon.
	But anyway, let's listen to the second half of that clip, because he talks about something nobody talks about, which is the leader of the ISIL group.
	Let's talk about this enigmatic leader, this guy, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
	People don't know much about him.
	Only a couple pictures out of them.
	Some people are referring to him as the most powerful terrorist leader in the world now.
	He apparently wears a mask even when he goes to talk to his own troops.
	Who is this guy?
	Yeah, very shadowy.
	And as you mentioned, the two photographs are the only known publicly available.
	He's an Iraqi from Samara, from the Sunni heartland, has bona fide religious credentials.
	One contrast to Osama bin Laden, for example, who didn't.
	But he has those religious credentials.
	That's a draw.
	Reported to be very charismatic and very, very demanding of the utmost of secrecy.
	He will not allow any non-Iraqis to be part of his military or shore council.
	So that way he maintains greater security.
	And, you know, one question is, they want to create an Islamic state.
	Do they, in effect, have it already?
	Well, and that's a really good point.
	They've declared, and this put him at odds with Ayman Zahiri and core al-Qaeda, they have declared the Islamic State of Iraq and greater Syria, of course, ISIL. However, think of it more in terms of the seeds of an embryonic state, because ultimately, at least for them, their aspiration as a religious duty is all the way from Khorasan in Central Asia, across the Middle East to North Africa, to regain all the lands.
	And that would be the Khulafa, or the Caliphate.
	Yeah, so this is pretty funny.
	I'm looking at...
	If you ever want to find out who...
	What a company does and who their customers are.
	I've been looking at the website while I was listening to that.
	So they provide security training, which is investigative training, intelligence operations and analysis, professional training, cybersecurity, crisis management, procedures and protocols, major event security, intelligence and threat assessments, and then, of course, the sectors they serve.
	But they have the testimonials page.
	It's pretty much Qatar that they're servicing.
	So here's the former U.S. ambassador to Qatar.
	The Sufeng Group has experienced the skill in both government and industry worldwide.
	They've earned a reputation for reliability, insight, and know exactly what the client needs to make informed judgments on sensitive matters and sensitive parts in the world.
	In other words, I think you should get Constelli Holdings to put those guys in there and blow up that pipeline over there.
	CEO of Qatar Airways.
	The Sufeng Group is a world-class strategic security consultancy.
	I mean, wow.
	What a...
	What a gig.
	I'm mad.
	That's a huge gig, yeah.
	Well, not really, because, jeez.
	You know, and notice when he said, you know, we had Kimberly Kagan discussing, mentioning specifically Saudi Arabia and Qatar as...
	As sponsors of this group.
	And this guy doesn't say Qatar.
	He just says certain Arab Emirates.
	Yeah, but if you look at the website, it's obvious.
	Right there.
	Yeah, but he's not going to point the finger at them as big sponsors of ISIL. And this crazy guy who's running this show, he's either a Hugo Chavez guy who knows he's going to be a target of intelligence services, or he's a CIA guy.
	Yeah, who knows?
	It could be intelligence itself.
	Yeah, it could be.
	The leader.
	Why not?
	Well, we don't do fancy interviews.
	We don't do fancy consulting for entire countries.
	We are not part of the clear group of neocons.
	And by the way, President Obama, he did quote Robert Kagan in his State of the Union.
	I do want to point that out.
	Kagan was the architect of the surge.
	This whole entire group, when it comes down to it, rubble eyes everything and everybody that lives in sand and is brown of color.
	So we can keep the oil pumping to our number one customer, which is Europe, and coming up number two, which is China.
	If they don't kill us before, you know, and let's cut off their supplies in Africa.
	Isn't it pathetic when you look at it just from that big level?
	That's what it's all about?
	Well, you know, it's a petroleum-centered civilization.
	Oh, sure.
	And so petroleum is everything, and this is all about oil.
	Oh, and while we're at it, let's trick everybody into thinking that we're going to live on wind and solar.
	Oh, I know.
	Hey, call up that...
	Who's that guy with the electric cars?
	Yeah, that guy, the Tesla guy.
	Tell them to make some news.
	I'm from South Africa, yes.
	I'm giving away all my patents.
	Yes, I'm giving away my patents.
	I'm a hero, I tell you.
	There'll be no excuse for anyone to not go electric.
	That's what the subtext is, right?
	Yes, of course.
	No excuse.
	Everyone should do it.
	Why bother with petroleum?
	What a scam.
	You gotta think that...
	What's his name?
	The Tesla kid?
	Musk.
	Yeah.
	You think he do think he's in on it?
	He's gotta be in on it.
	He's gotta know this.
	He's gotta know that this is futile.
	Oh, there's something he knows that we don't know, obviously.
	I mean, they're taking a beating on those cars.
	I mean, they're selling them at a loss, but he makes it up for the $35,000-plus per car he gets as a subsidy.
	We've talked about this before.
	But do you think he's in on the whole scam, that this is just a big distraction?
	You know, get the guys with a small penis to buy this.
	He doesn't have to be in on it.
	He just gets checks, and he stays the course because of the lure of all this cash.
	Right.
	I mean, this guy's making money hand over fist.
	It's really smart, though.
	I mean, you make a car for all the guys with a small penis.
	You know, beautiful car.
	It's way too expensive.
	You know, everyone ogles over.
	And you can start it and cool it with your iPhone.
	It's electric.
	You know, then everything else is...
	Yeah, no, it's great.
	I mean, it's fun to watch.
	I'm still driving my 21, 22-year-old Lexus.
	Yeah, well, my 2002 Dodge Ram did the job.
	And I gotta tell you.
	Yeah, got you there and back.
	Yeah, got me there and back and kept me relatively cool.
	Of course, I wasn't pulling a trailer.
	You know what happens with the trailer?
	You gotta turn on the heating to cool down the engine.
	But otherwise...
	Perfect.
	Now, instead, we just work for you, the listener and producer of the program.
	I'm going to show myself a little by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	Hey, hey, world...
	We didn't thank too many people on the last show, so we have a lot to thank today.
	We did a long show last time and we will thank everybody today and it will be a little longer segment here.
	And then at the end of the show, at the very end of the show, I'm going to read everybody who donated any amount of money in the category of Happy Father's Day.
	Oh, okay.
	So we do that at the end.
	And there's like 75 people, so it's going to be a little list to manage.
	But let's thank our contributors, the normal contributors, like Sir James Jim Briscoe in Bayshore, New York, $166.67.
	We'll actually use a knight, so let's give him a shot at karma.
	Of course.
	Happy to do that for the knights.
	Always.
	You've got karma.
	He says, he makes this comment, that ridiculousness of the world helps keep my mind straight, and what you provide is a filtered view.
	James Graham, Norwalk, Connecticut, 14041.
	We'll give him some real estate karma at the end.
	Joseph Green, Stevenson Beach, 13342.
	Stevenson Ranch.
	I said beach.
	Yeah, but it's ranch.
	Yeah, it is.
	Yeah.
	I think he'd rather be Beach.
	Joachim Formalaz in Zurich.
	Suisse in 133.33.
	James Doolin lost the wages in Nevada, 123.58.
	Sir Keith Edwards in Gilbert, Arizona, 123.45.
	Sir Sam in Toronto, Canada, 123.45.
	Brian Warden, Downs, Illinois.
	One, two, three, three, three.
	He says he quit the lamestream media cold turkey.
	Indeed he did.
	He said show 616.
	James Butcher, 111.
	With all the donations we got, there was tons of donations.
	We did very well.
	We had $111.11.
	One.
	One of our old classics now pretty much dead.
	Yeah, oh well.
	He's in Australia.
	Patrick Brody Photography in San Francisco 101.
	Kick-Ass Pixels in Walnut Creek, California. $100.
	And these are $100 donors.
	All of them.
	Arjan Schorf.
	Arjan Schorfhaar. In Leipzig. Leipzig. Deutschland. Sydney Magoo in Cortese, Ontario.
	Bas Brunix. In Wurst. Bas Brunix in Wurst. Bas Brunix in Wurst. - Back up from the mic, man.
	You're crapping about.
	Dame Joan Dotterfree in Morgantown, West Virginia.
	Thanks, Joni.
	Paul Robertson in Upper Tract, West Virginia.
	Cesar Gray in Saponen Salisco, Mexico.
	He says, greetings from the third world.
	Thank you for your courage.
	We don't have enough Mexican listeners.
	So thanks, Cesar.
	Stephan Powers in Midlothian, Virginia.
	I think it's maybe Stephen, but...
	Steven.
	I think it would be Steven.
	Anonymous, Sugarland, Texas.
	Chris Perry in Silver Spring, Maryland.
	Scott Waldhair in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
	And he hasn't donated since the summer of 2011.
	But he got his first paycheck since that time yesterday.
	Congratulations.
	Terrible.
	Poor guy.
	Anonymous in Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia.
	Burt Beaves in Maplewood, Minnesota.
	Nuts.
	Hamilton Morris in Mesa, Arizona.
	And Crocutta Computer Services, or Crocutta, in Pacifica, down the street from me, actually.
	Mm-hmm.
	Lay, lay, lay, lay!
	Mack Tank in La Jolla, 9999.
	Robert Mueller in Chesapeake, Virginia.
	Isn't he a sir?
	I think he should be.
	He emptied out his PayPal account.
	Good.
	Good idea.
	Chesapeake, Virginia.
	Dave Cardegna in Evergreen, Colorado.
	Carolyn Pete in Aubrey, Texas, 86.
	Sir Pat Deary, 7777 in Sarnia, Ontario.
	Sorry, I forgot the...
	For Dave Cardegna, I forgot the...
	Oh, 88.88.
	Yeah, sorry.
	Sorry about that, Dave.
	Missed that.
	So Pat Deary and Sarnia on Terra 7777, Tim Kilkenny 7777 in Edmonds, Washington, where the ferry comes in.
	Richard Chow in Fullerton, California.
	Cole Kalistra in North Attleboro.
	That's $70 from Richard.
	$69.69.
	We actually got one, two, three, four.
	Cole Kalistra in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.
	Robert Swindell in Norco, California.
	Marcus Cipolla in Basel, Switzerland.
	Sweden, it says.
	Basel, Switzerland, Sweden.
	Where is he from?
	Oh, well.
	Basel, Switzerland, Sweden.
	Sounds like it would be...
	Robert Swindell says 73s, and he's got a call letters, Western Xerox 6, yellow, yellow, zero.
	Okay.
	And finally, Will Prutzman, 6969, from Parts Unknown.
	He says he's retired, but he doesn't care.
	Justin Flood in West Babylon, New York, 6789.
	Alan Hawes in Windsor, Berkshire, UK. 6565.
	We did get a letter, a nasty note from a UK listener condemning Adam.
	Yeah, we had a...
	In fact, you had a back and forth with him.
	You, like, came to my...
	I was like a damsel in distress.
	Yeah.
	You defended me and the show in our honor.
	What he did was he said that we brag too much.
	He says the British, it rubs them the wrong way when we say we're the greatest podcast in the universe.
	Despite it being a fact.
	And so I went back and forth because he wanted us to soft pedal, but I gave my story, I'll give it again.
	I'm in London, walking down the street, and some bum is asking for, you know, is begging for money.
	And I gave him a few shillings.
	A guy in a giant truck, Laurie, stops.
	When he sees me do this and cusses me out for encouraging begging.
	Now, was this so long ago that they actually still used shillings?
	Well, I just used the word shilling.
	I don't remember what I gave him.
	It was maybe, I don't know, some coinage.
	But I like shillings.
	They still call them shillings, don't they?
	I think it's just Pence.
	I don't think they use shillings anymore.
	I could be wrong.
	I don't know.
	No, no, no.
	Maybe they don't.
	Whatever it was, I gave him some shillings.
	Where was I? Justin Flutter, West Babylon, New York, 6789.
	Alan Hawes in Windsor, Berkshire, which is where I got the story from.
	Zachary Gilbrecht in Cordova, Tennessee, 6336.
	Kevin Seifert, Santa Margarita, 6260.
	Naveed Khan in Jersey City, 6150.
	Sir Nate Wilson, Charleston, South Carolina, gorgeous place, 6140.
	Yeah, I think Nate is the one who called me on the D-Star ham.
	Oh, is he?
	Yeah.
	Nice.
	Michael Yao Yeo, one of them.
	In Winnipeg, Manitoba.
	Manitoba.
	Manitoba.
	Sir Michael Allen, South Plainfield, New Jersey, $60.
	And Sir Kevin Payne, $50.69 from Richmond, Virginia, which comes in monthly through the bank.
	William Young, Lebanon, Tennessee, 55-55.
	Andy Benz, 55-10.
	St.
	Louis, these are double nickels on the dime all of a sudden.
	James Von Aken in Temple, Texas.
	Mark Montgomery in Mississauga, Ontario, near Toronto.
	Mary Paul Stewart in Seattle, Washington.
	She said she'd hoped to be a dame by now, but this O-conomy is killing me.
	The O-conomy.
	Hey, she would fit right in with the hams.
	Yes, you would.
	Stuart Morrison, Doncaster, Victoria, Australia.
	Seth Harper, Ripley, West Virginia, 5510.
	Chris Kincaid, Tyler, Texas.
	Where's Tyler?
	I've heard of it.
	I think it's north, I think.
	Chris Hernandez in Granville, Washington.
	Stephen Schwartz.
	Let the Schwartz be with you.
	In Schertz, Texas.
	Dame Elizabeth Borazin in Tucson, Arizona, and Double Nickels on the Dime closes with Jeremy McKay in Seaford, Australia.
	Javier Munguia, I think.
	Munguia.
	Yeah, Mexico again.
	He wants us to bring back the tacos and tequila donation.
	I wonder what that was.
	I don't remember that.
	I don't remember a tequila donation.
	Me neither.
	So we have two.
	That's great.
	Brian Thompson, Eagan, Minnesota, 51-50.
	Shawna in Keene, New Hampshire, 51-17.
	Shannon Adkins in Warren, Michigan, 50-50.
	Michael Chamblin in Hillsborough, Ohio, 5033.
	Dr.
	Sharky, Sir Dr.
	Sharky in Jackson, Tennessee, 5001.
	And the rest of these are $50 donations.
	And we've got a good number.
	Andy Bird from Parts Unknown.
	Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
	I won't say it.
	Patricia Worthington in Miami, Florida.
	Mike Westerfield in Parts Unknown.
	And did Patricia donate for her?
	She has four kids, single mom.
	I could be wrong.
	Could be.
	Could be wrong or could be right.
	Mike Westerfield, Brandon Savoy, parts unknown.
	Walter Grant IV in Moreno Valley, California.
	Karen Selsor in LaGrange, Kentucky.
	And she has a birthday shout-out coming.
	Got it.
	Make All Ink, Riverton, Utah, and also Father's Day coming up at the end.
	Kenneth Learman Jr.
	in San Diego.
	Joylyn Brown in Sedgefield, Cleveland.
	Sedgefield, Cleveland, UK. Huh.
	Andrew Newton in Swindon.
	Paul Vela in Milton Keynes, UK. We've got a series here.
	This is weird.
	Scott Porter in Garland, Texas.
	David Becker.
	We've got a lot of Texans, Mexicans, and UK-ians.
	Well, when you put out the call, that's who comes to help.
	David Becker in No Relation.
	Cudahy, Wisconsin.
	J.M. Caballero in Hayward.
	Hayward, California!
	I can actually see Hayward from my house.
	Daniel Torellio in Charleston, South Carolina.
	Marcin Zawadski in Yardville, New Jersey.
	Ashley Eisner in Louisville, Kentucky.
	Peter Benerdahl in Sweden.
	He's in Umo, Northern Sweden.
	Which has got to be great.
	Or not.
	Well, you know, there's a big war on cash in Sweden right now.
	All ATMs have stopped working twice in as many weeks.
	Really?
	Yeah, and there was another thing.
	There's this big promotion going on.
	Hold on, let me find it.
	Someone doing the yard work again.
	Yeah, Swedish music festivals opt to go cash-free.
	But all the ATMs stopped working twice.
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	War on cash.
	Robert Hill in Glenrock West for W.Y. Wyoming.
	Wow!
	Yeah.
	We get very few Wyoming donors.
	Chris is a small...
	There's nobody there.
	Sir Sloan of the Falls, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 50 bucks.
	Paul St.
	Laurent, Renton, Washington, with the world's longest note.
	Yeah.
	Which we do read, of course, just we can't read it all.
	Yeah, we read what we don't read.
	He's got a picture of his wife for Adam.
	Darling.
	With your cute little baby.
	Oh yeah, I got the picture.
	Mike Gates in Colorado Springs.
	That closes the segment off for show 626.
	We will have a listing, which is another number of people, for Happy Father's Day in one way or another.
	Yeah, I think we should do birthdays, nighting, and then come back and do the Father's Day.
	How does that sound?
	Right.
	After we talk more.
	Oh, you want to do that separate?
	Just the end of the show?
	Oh, okay.
	Okay, that's good.
	Well, thank you all very much for coming in to help us.
	And all the people who gave lesser amounts.
	There was a lot of people that said, hey, you know...
	Oh, a ton.
	Yes.
	Ten bucks, ten bucks.
	We got a lot of $10 donors.
	And a lot of compliments for the show, obviously, where people wouldn't be giving us money at all.
	And then...
	I got this note from Jorge from Colombia.
	Yeah.
	Jorge from Colombia, my first donation, we wanted to donate to you for more than a year, but due to my country's economy, $50 is currently 20% of the minimum monthly wage, and it's sometimes unaffordable for entertainment.
	I need to call out, though, so I'm using this unique Father's Day opportunity in giving you 50,000 Colombian pesos.
	Which is what?
	Five bucks, I think?
	I don't know.
	Five bucks?
	I don't know.
	Sounds about right.
	Anyway, so, you know, yes.
	I appreciate that, and I wanted to make sure that we mention Jorge.
	Because, yeah, it's difficult.
	But also, you know, hey, Columbia.
	There's a guy in Columbia listening to our podcast.
	Yeah, I think it's great.
	I kind of get excited by that.
	We need more people in Columbia listening to our podcast.
	Yeah.
	I like that.
	There's something very nice about that.
	Actually, the international audience is great.
	We take it for granted, but I remember when I was happy when my 3-watt FM transmitter made it to the next village.
	Holy crap, what a world we live in, Dvorak.
	Who would have thunk it?
	All right.
	Easy pickings to get in for an executive producership for Thursday.
	Show go to...
	Dvorak.org Slash N-A Zach Gilbrecht says happy birthday to his brother Jeremy, celebrating tomorrow.
	Karen Seltzer says happy birthday to Bradley Seltzer, he celebrated on the 10th.
	As did Bo, who gets happy birthdays from Ashton Banta.
	Happy birthday from all your friends here at the Best Podcast in the Universe.
	Then we have Sir Mark Wilson, who becomes Baronet, as we talked about earlier.
	And Diego Medina becomes a knight today.
	And I don't know, did Diego donate today or did he send in the accounting?
	I can't remember.
	I don't know.
	But regardless, we are very, very happy and humbled by your support of the show.
	We'll get out our blades here and happy to bring you in.
	There we go.
	If I could ask you, Diego Medina, please step forward as we are now happy to induct you into the very exclusive club of the Knight and Dames and hereby pronounce the Sir Diego Medina Knight of the Nelson Roundtable.
	And for you, we've got hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, wipes and whiskey, bad signs of perky breast, Cuban cigars and single malt scotch.
	You want some librarians and Jägerbombs, some opium and warm orange juice, hot pants and booze, wenches and beer, Ruben S. Women and Rosé, vodka and vanilla, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, or just plain old mutton and mead.
	Go to noagendanation.com slash rings, and Eric Le Show will be happy to send one out to you.
	It's funny, in all of this madness of our problems with the distribution, etc., there's other business models out there.
	The New York Times is definitely all over this now with their new online opinion thing you can subscribe to.
	But from businessinsider.com, I would like to just read to you a little bit of a native ad which is not marked as such.
	I put it in the show notes.
	It's just really disgusting.
	This is going to ruin journalism.
	If you put it really tiny somewhere, like sponsored content or something, people are not going to believe it anymore.
	So here it is.
	Paper currency is the new gold, writes Joe Wiesenthal for BusinessInsider.com.
	And he talks about, he has a deal with my colleague Jay about two or three times a week.
	He picks up breakfast for me on his way to the office.
	In exchange, I pay for his breakfast on those days.
	When he has me breakfast, usually a platter of bacon, eggs, and sausages, he tells me how much I owe him.
	I find this annoying because I have to fish out cash for my wallet.
	Often we don't have the exact amount or I just don't have any cash on me at all.
	It would be really great if Jay were on Venmo, the excellent app made for easy, small-denominated friend-to-friend payments.
	It's perfect for settling up checks and other shared purchases.
	I mean, can you believe this?
	Can you believe?
	Yes, I do believe it.
	Every day, a situation that requires the use of physical cash feels more and more like an anachronism.
	It's like having to listen to a music on a CD. Oh, no!
	John Maynard Keynes famously referred to gold, well, the gold standard specifically, as a barbarous relic.
	Well, the new barbarous relic is physical cash.
	Like gold, cash is physical money.
	Like gold, cash is still fetishized.
	And like gold, cash is a costly drain on the economy.
	Then he goes on and comes back again with his friggin' app.
	It's unbelievable.
	It's actually, to me, it's disgusting.
	It's more than unbelievable.
	It's actually sickening.
	But don't they see that it's going to ruin their credibility?
	Oh, no.
	All they see is the bottom line.
	And the public has been brought up to this in such a way, except our listeners, of course, wouldn't put up with it.
	I don't think it's going to ruin anything.
	I think it's just going to be the way it goes.
	It's going to trend.
	This is a trend, not a ruination.
	I think you're completely wrong on this.
	Right.
	What do you mean I'm wrong?
	You're wrong.
	This isn't going to ruin anything.
	This is the way it's going to go.
	And people are just going to be all in and we'll buy it and it's fine and it's great and we dumb everybody down into a stupor of stupidity.
	You got it.
	Yeah.
	Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
	Gotcha.
	Well, speaking of the stupor of stupidity, time for Ravel!
	Are you ready?
	Did we do the birthdays?
	Did I miss that?
	I just did the birthdays.
	Oh, hmm.
	How did I miss that?
	Where was I? I could just see your eyes rolling back in your head.
	What did I do?
	Rev Al.
	Every single day.
	You got some Rev Al clips?
	I got one Rev Al.
	It's a recent one.
	Now, there's two in here.
	It's a double whammy.
	What he wants to say is something is escalating And it's making the...
	That's a good word.
	Escalating.
	Yeah, well, if you say escalate is good, and with this escalation, the Republicans or the GOP is giddy.
	Now, giddy is...
	What does giddy mean?
	It means you're just kind of like...
	You're just kind of excited in a kind of a shaking way.
	You're shaking, you're excited, you're just...
	Right, right.
	Yeah.
	And so, of course, the Reverend Al, the Rev...
	By the way, we looked at his ratings after the show.
	Yeah, we did.
	No wonder the guy's still on the air.
	Yeah, he's got better ratings than everybody except Rachel.
	So, what does this tell you, people?
	His ratings constitute, I think it's 600,000 listeners or viewers, which constitutes on television $600,000 in income.
	In budget, yeah.
	And so they're budgeting, so he's probably making millions.
	And 600,000 people watched him do this.
	The GOP infighting is escalating.
	Political says Democrats are outright jitty.
	Happy to watch the GOP implode.
	So he saw Giddy, G-I-D-D-Y, on the screen and pronounced it Giddy.
	And he said esculates.
	Esculating.
	So he probably will pronounce the word GIF correctly.
	Oh, do you have that clip too?
	Do we both have that clip?
	No, I don't have that clip.
	I have the clip.
	Hit it.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me just grab this clip.
	Did you see this?
	No.
	Oh my god.
	President Obama did this thing with the Tumblr crew, the student loan thing.
	And David Krap, or whatever, Karp, of Tumblr, interviewed the president.
	And then during this, on the West Wing Week, which is that little expanded podcast that they do with the guy with the voiceover, it turns out the president has now officially proclaimed the pronunciation of jif as gif.
	That is now by presidential proclamation.
	And this came up as David Karp from Tumblr and Obama were...
	I thought David Karp was with Pando.
	No, that's a different guy.
	No, it's a different Karp.
	Okay, go on.
	As they're doing it, they're recording a fist bump gif...
	For the Tumblr, because Tumblr is all about the GIFs, the animated GIFs.
	Yeah.
	Mainly of penises and boobs.
	Yeah, and screwing and jiggling breasts.
	Yeah, and all kinds of fetishes and stuff.
	Tumblr rocks.
	It's sick.
	It's awesome.
	It's better than X-Hamster.
	So, hold on a second.
	Somebody recognized what I said.
	So here's the presidential proclamation.
	Oh, did you see the gif?
	First of all, there was an executive order.
	It's a gif now.
	So he made the decision, just so you know.
	A gif?
	I'm all on top of it.
	There he is.
	So you've made up your mind.
	It's a gif?
	That is my official position.
	I mean, I pondered it a long time.
	I think that one's going to work.
	Yes.
	Thank you, Mr.
	President.
	Thank you.
	It's now GIF. Official standpoint, executive order.
	I think that the Republicans should call it GIF. Just to be complicated.
	I got a couple of clips I want to get out of the way.
	Please.
	This is a weird one to me.
	Actually, I'm going to save this clip for the next show.
	Oh!
	Because I haven't fully analyzed it.
	Let me play something.
	Let me play something.
	Now, let this play through because there's a little point of analysis I have to do on this one.
	This is Mary Worthen, who is a very attractive history professor.
	Molly or Mary?
	That's Molly.
	Molly.
	And she's a very attractive history professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
	And she's got a new book out.
	Molly Worthen is a history professor here at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
	What courses do you teach, Professor Worthen?
	I teach a big survey course on the history of religion in North America.
	I teach a course on modern American intellectual history.
	One of the most fun courses I teach is called Sin and Evil in Modern America, which is a small research seminar.
	You can imagine the kinds of things the students get into in that class.
	Well, you're also the author of this book, Apostles of Reason, The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism, published by Oxford.
	What is evangelicalism?
	That's a great question.
	No, that's not a great question.
	That is not a great question.
	Oh, you got me.
	That's been a while since you did one of those.
	Very funny.
	Very funny.
	Oh, you got me.
	Can I just do a religion thing?
	A little side sweep?
	Oh yeah, sure.
	I want to read this woman's book, by the way.
	It sounds fascinating.
	Well, it's very interesting.
	We've been identifying this war on religion, which in general, if you are religious, if you are Christian, or if you go to a church, not temple, Or synagogue.
	Or mosque.
	If you go to church, you're a Republican.
	That's pretty much the way I boil down the war on religion.
	Crazy, crazy ass.
	And you probably like guns and hate abortion.
	Right, you think the universe is 6,000 years old.
	Exactly.
	That's everybody.
	Yeah, everybody.
	So, very interesting to see what was going on in Comedy Central.
	This is in relation to Dave Bratz winning, beating out, what's his name, the other guy.
	I have no idea what you're talking about.
	Dave Bratz in the election.
	Oh, Bratz beating out Cantor.
	Cantor, exactly.
	Exactly.
	So here's Jon Stewart on the Jon Stewart Daily Show.
	But is he more than eye candy?
	The reason we won this campaign is there's just one reason, and that's because dollars do not vote.
	You do.
	I love the sentiment, although a certain Supreme Court might disagree with you.
	That's very interesting that he says that, because this actually proves that the Koch brothers can't necessarily sway or buy the country, as all Democrats, in particular Harry Reid are saying.
	And so instead of saying that, Jon Stewart turns it around in a very interesting way and doesn't point out the obvious, that the guy did this with almost no money.
	LAUGHTER But I like the cut of his jib.
	What else you got there, fella?
	Luke 18, 27.
	Jesus replied, what is impossible with man is possible with God.
	Did not see that coming.
	Ha ha ha!
	Oh, the guy, he's God!
	What a moron!
	What a stupid dick!
	But wait, there's more.
	This is a miracle from God.
	We believe in God who gave us this miracle today.
	I love every single person that God made on this planet.
	We get it.
	You beat a Jewish guy.
	We get it.
	So, interesting to point that out.
	Continuing on Comedy Central, Colbert did something similar.
	This is a miracle from God.
	Yes, Brat's victory was a miracle from God.
	You hear that?
	Only Jewish Republican in Congress.
	Oh, oh, so close.
	You were just one Jesus short.
	I think there's a lot going on here.
	It's pretty interesting that coming from Colbert, too, who is a religious nut.
	Yeah.
	The whole thing was interesting.
	Now we know that the percentage of Jews in government is much higher than the percentage of Jews in the country.
	That's interesting by itself.
	But then to really highlight that as the main issue of this primary, and of course you have these audiences laughing, oh crazy!
	Republicans hate Jews.
	Republicans hate Jews?
	Well, is that true?
	No.
	I don't think so.
	I don't think so.
	But everyone has to laugh at the religious people.
	Look, I don't go to church.
	I have my own views and beliefs, but I've got to laugh at somebody just for what they believe in or what they...
	Why?
	I don't get that.
	Yeah, you've been pointing it out since, you know, it goes on too much.
	It does, and it's getting somewhat annoying, I feel.
	I got a question for you.
	I want you to play this clip.
	Radar anomaly.
	Oh, I'm glad you bring that up.
	It's been a Bermuda Triangle-style mystery over the skies of Europe.
	It has emerged that over a dozen planes vanished from radars for almost half an hour.
	Three countries reported similar disappearances, and experts are scratching their heads over why.
	Yeah, this is...
	The reporting is somewhat sketchy, and I have reached out to people I know at Eurocontrol.
	What happened is a number of airplanes vanished from radar, mainly over Europe for, I think it was, it happened twice actually, for 15-20 minutes.
	And, you know, there's lots of conspiracy theories.
	Oh, military did this.
	And I specifically spoke to one of our producers who works at Eurocontrol and was like, nah, this is all bullcrap.
	I think what happened is something, it's much easier to In fact, you may have even yourself noticed that your GPS may not have worked so well in the past week or so.
	We had a number of massive X-class solar flares thrown at us.
	And I think that is mainly responsible.
	And we're going to see more of this.
	And I think there's no reporting.
	No one ever reports on these flares.
	It's because it's global warming, not flares.
	Right!
	We can't talk about the sun doing anything crazy.
	So that's what I think it is.
	But I still have a couple things outstanding.
	It's just radio waves.
	Stuff happens.
	It's not all set in stone.
	It doesn't work all the time.
	Then yes, your GPS can sometimes just go wiggy.
	I think there were three Class X solar flares in the past week.
	That would cause some issues.
	Yeah.
	At least it didn't blow up everything.
	It can do a lot.
	It can do a lot.
	Okay, this IRS thing, I need to talk about that for a second.
	This is getting funnier.
	Well, it's very funny, but to me, this is such an outrage, and I don't think this particular issue has been raised.
	So what is going on is the lowest learner, you know, we're trying, the Congress is trying to, Republicans specifically, Tea Party are trying to figure out if the IRS communicated with the Obama administration back and forth to target Tea Party groups who are raising money for the Tea Party specifically, which of course is the fear of all Americans, but all citizens worldwide, when the which of course is the fear of all Americans, but all citizens worldwide, when the government tries to
	It's not a happy occasion.
	And illegal.
	Of course it's illegal.
	And so there was a subpoena, court order for surrender of documents, which includes several years of this woman's emails.
	I believe Lois Lerner is the woman who took the fifth.
	You pled the fifth and she wouldn't testify.
	This has been going back and forth.
	And of course, the administration and the Democrat Party call this a witch hunt and it's bullcrap.
	But it keeps turning up with some very annoying facts.
	And I went back to...
	March, when Chaffetz, you know that guy, he's a pit bull, was grilling IRS Commissioner John Koskinen on these very emails about getting them and if he was going to get them at all.
	And I'll play that in a minute, but the end result is the IRS is saying, oh, we lost the email due to a computer glitch.
	And, of course, the word glitch has been used ever since the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, the healthcare.com, which wasn't working for months.
	And we just call that a glitch, and then the news reports it as a glitch.
	And it's like, oh, it's a computer glitch.
	We all know what that means.
	So, apparently, a computer crashed, and they can't retrieve these emails.
	But let's go back to...
	Where's the backup?
	Where's the archive backup?
	Let me get to that in a second.
	We're going back first to the grilling where we already knew that this was not going to happen.
	And just listen to the level of conversation about emails specifically.
	I'm pretty sure Shaffetz already knew that this was not going to appear or maybe he knew that it was gone.
	Commissioner, what email system do you use there at the IRS? What email system?
	Yeah, is it Outlook?
	Yes, we have actually Microsoft.
	At least I have Microsoft.
	You go on there and you want to find all the items you sent under your name.
	How long would that take?
	Well, it would take a while, because they're not all on my computer.
	They're all stored somewhere.
	Somewhere.
	Okay, so, but your IT specialist, how long do you think it takes, of the 90-plus thousand employees there at the IRS, how long would it take to find all the emails that included her email address?
	Just Lois Lerner's alone.
	Just Lois Lerner.
	Just Lois Lerner.
	It would take a while.
	Like how long?
	Well, there are millions of emails.
	Minutes?
	Minutes.
	I don't know, but I don't think it's minutes.
	I mean, that's one of the brilliance of the email system, is you go in and you check...
	The sent box, the inbox, and you suddenly have all the emails, correct?
	Right.
	They get taken off and stored in servers, and you've got 90,000 employees, and you've got...
	I'm not asking her to search.
	I'm asking her to find one.
	They type in her email address.
	We could find, and we in fact are searching, we can find Lois Lerner's emails.
	And how long?
	How long would that take?
	I have no idea how long.
	Would it take a day?
	I just said I have no idea.
	Well, I just don't understand.
	You've got a duly issued subpoena.
	If you were in the private sector and somebody was issued a subpoena and you didn't comply with it, what would happen to you?
	For this subpoena, the court would actually rule that it's far too broad.
	Oh, so you're going to make the determination.
	You're going to make the decision.
	Let me answer the question.
	In a court of law, if you provided that subpoena, a judge would not enforce it.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait.
	Stop, stop, stop right there.
	So you're going to be the judge.
	I'm not being the judge.
	I'm just telling you what was happening.
	Yes, you are.
	You asked me.
	You have a duly issued subpoena.
	Are you or are you not going to provide this committee?
	The emails as indicated in this subpoena.
	Yes or no?
	We have never said we wouldn't go up.
	I'm asking you yes or no.
	We are going to respond to the subpoena.
	Sir.
	Yes.
	We are going to respond to the subpoena.
	I'm just telling you, to respond fully to the subpoena, we're going to be at this for years, not months.
	That's the only thing I'd like to say.
	And I don't understand that.
	So Shaffetz obviously knew that they do not want to give these emails out because that's where the damning evidence is.
	Yeah, no smoking gun.
	She's obviously corrupt.
	Now, here's the thing that was incorrect in that little back and forth.
	If you're in the private sector and the guy says, no, no, a judge would overrule this.
	Well, let's, first of all, wrong.
	Let's go back to one of your pet peeves of years ago, John.
	Sarbanes-Oxley.
	These are the rules for publicly held companies and all of their affiliate companies regarding email and documents.
	I read from section 802A. This is for the public sector.
	You must maintain a full audit trail, complete logging with respect to activity changes, access, upload, download, developing, implementing password rotation, encryption, key forwarding, customize to Starbucks specific rules, ensuring only the appropriate customer personnel of access, record alteration or destruction.
	Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies or makes false entry in any record document or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under Title 11 or in relation to or contemplation of any obstruct or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under Title And imprisoned for not more than 20 years or both.
	And this is for documentation and emails up to 5 years that these have to be maintained.
	Penalties for non-compliance of Sarbanes-Oxley.
	Besides the obvious lawsuits and negative publicity, a corporate officer who does not comply or submits an inaccurate certification is subject to a fine of up to $1 million and 10 years in prison, even if done mistakenly.
	If a wrong certification was submitted purposely, the fine can be up to $5 million and 20 years in prison.
	Five years worth of email for the entire corporation and all of its subordinates and affiliates.
	That's what the private sector deals with.
	The Obama administration?
	A glitch.
	Good one.
	Good point.
	This is where someone needs to raise their hand and say, I don't care what the emails are about, why do we have to adhere to this standard and you don't?
	Yeah, that's a great point.
	It's actually almost worth a column.
	Please, feel free.
	I do, commonly.
	Without giving me credit, I might point out.
	I give you credit where credit is due.
	Well, you got me on that one.
	I do have one little...
	I got some other stuff here, but I think I'm going to stick with this one.
	I was at that event with Edelman, a big public relations firm.
	Oh, yes.
	This is a while back, right?
	They told me they said...
	I don't know if you maybe have some suggestions or something, but this person, I'm not going to say who it is, one of the things we've been hired to do is to make Bloomberg more high-profile in tech.
	Really?
	Tech?
	As in tech reporting?
	As in this week in tech?
	As in tech 5x5 tech?
	As in TNT, tech news today?
	Tech, tech.
	Like phones?
	Phones and Apple and Microsoft and Bing and tablets?
	You got it.
	You nailed it.
	Nice.
	And so I said, well, the first thing you can do is maybe move to Silicon Valley or get out of New York.
	I mean, there's no tech.
	Tech.
	How do you have a reputation for tech?
	Tech.
	You mean gadgets?
	I didn't think they were ever going to get anywhere until I had heard Charlie Rose's story.
	More to it than Silicon Valley.
	In fact, Bloomberg Businessweek magazine has just published its first ever global technology issue.
	Here to talk about what it is and what writers found is the editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, Josh Terengale.
	Welcome.
	Thank you.
	And what did you find?
	Amazing stuff.
	So we start in China with a company called Xiaomi, which is the first truly successful commercial technology company out of China.
	They make stylish phones.
	It's the fastest growing handset maker in the world.
	And they have a completely different kind of business model.
	Phones!
	Everybody previously has said, let's get as many phones out there as possible in as many places.
	They actually, almost like Air Jordans in the 80s and 90s, limit supply, only sell online, and when it's done, it's done.
	We sent someone over to China, really did a deep dive on the company, and it is a comer.
	This is a big deal.
	Oh my god, that is amazing!
	Okay, so apparently they never heard of Lenovo as a chance.
	No, please.
	Or anybody else for that matter.
	Wow.
	But these guys, the first successful consumer-oriented company.
	Ever!
	And they sell phones over the internet.
	And it was actually plugged by Merit in one of his tech news today.
	And I felt it was product placement for this company.
	So I think this is a double dip here.
	I think first Bloomberg was placed on the Charlie Rose show.
	Oh, yeah.
	With this editor as part of some quid pro quo.
	And then the editor plugs this company, which is some sort of native advertising.
	And it was just like a double dip.
	Doesn't the Charlie Rose show rebroadcast on Bloomberg?
	Yes.
	Well, there you go.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So I said, oh, well, I guess they finally got their wish.
	I think not!
	So I just thought that was a little backstory for people out there for how these things happen.
	Nice.
	Two plus three is approximately four in the Common Core.
	ITM says your K-12 Common Core insider, who shall go unnamed other than the K-12 Common Core insider.
	I work for the third largest county office of education in California, where my job is to mine the student data.
	Yeah, I'm that guy!
	I love our audience.
	The amount of money spent on technology in the last few years because of Common Core is staggering.
	Most districts are buying one device per child.
	Usually, he says, iPads or Chromebooks, not Microsoft, as much Microsoft as Bill Gates was probably promised.
	I believe this is the reason for the push behind the Surface tablets.
	The main thing driving the purchases are the new computerized standardized tests.
	This has also forced districts to upgrade their infrastructure with the purchase of new switches and wireless routers to support the internet bandwidth requirements.
	There's also a lot of money allocated for training and materials related to Common Core.
	It's a money-making bonanza!
	More soon, your K-12 Insider for the Common Core.
	Where 2 plus 3 is approximately 4 in the Common Core.
	That's one of our better themes.
	I love it.
	It's fabulous.
	Hey, you're on the Twit today, right?
	Yes, I am on the Twit.
	With my favorite girl.
	With Jolie O'Dell.
	Which just annoys everybody.
	That is a match made in heaven.
	I love you two on the show.
	Yes, because we can pick on Leo.
	I hope you do.
	Well, it's hard to say what happens.
	It's always a mystery how that show goes.
	Well, I guarantee you'll be talking about Elon Musk!
	I make these claims and none of them ever come to be.
	Guaranteed.
	Elon Musk.
	He's so cool!
	He's a hero!
	He's a hero!
	Giving away his patents!
	That's so cool that he knows how to do it.
	Yes, awesome.
	He's great.
	I've got plenty of things to say about that if that comes up.
	Oh, well, get ready.
	What are you going to say?
	I'm not going to say.
	Oh, come on.
	I'm not going to give it away.
	That's just mean.
	Okay, I'm going to say that this guy wouldn't be doing that if he didn't know it was a loser.
	Exactly.
	I mean, he's just not the type that's going to give patents away.
	Why would you do that?
	Nobody in their right mind would do that.
	Why is he doing it?
	There's got to be a reason.
	Yeah, well, it's because he knows it's bullcrap.
	This is going nowhere.
	In the packet inequality race, the Internet Association has responded to FCC Chairman Wheeler's announcement on internet interconnection with a letter.
	And it's one paragraph.
	A letter.
	A letter.
	The Internet Association.
	Do we belong to the Internet Association, John?
	Are you a member?
	I think I don't, but I think we should.
	I don't think so.
	Oh, you don't think we should?
	No.
	Okay, then we should.
	Well, I'll read the paragraph, and then I'll tell you who the members are.
	The Internet Association believes that broadband internet access providers should aspire to settlement-free peering, which ultimately benefits all stakeholders in the internet ecosystem.
	Settlement-free peering should be the industry norm.
	The Internet Association is focused on what's best for consumers and protecting an open internet free from...
	from the discriminatory or anti-competitive associations or actions by broadband gatekeepers.
	It is vital that internet users get what they pay for.
	Now, who do you think wrote that?
	I don't know.
	It sounds like Netflix or one of these guys.
	Here are the members of the Internet Association.
	Airbnb, Amazon, AOL, eBay, Expedia, Facebook, Guild, Google, IAC, LinkedIn, Lyft, Monster, Netflix, Practice Fusion, Rackspace, Reddit, Salesforce, SurveyMonkey, TripAdvisor, Twitter, Yahoo, Yelp, Uber, Zynga, About.com, Ask, DitchNagy.com, Flickr, people who send shitloads of data.
	Vimeo.
	Please.
	Yes, it should all be free.
	Peering is peering.
	That means it's both ways.
	And people who are consuming Netflix are not sending a gigabyte of data back after they watch the movie.
	That's why the peering model is broken.
	You talked to a guy the other day.
	Yeah, I talked to Dane Jasper who gave me the rundown on what's going on.
	He's the guy who runs SonicNet.
	And he talks about peering.
	It's really a backbone thing.
	It's a backbone to backbone.
	It's got nothing to do with these guys like Netflix.
	Unless they want to horn in on Sonic, get really right on the pipe.
	Let me set this up.
	Let me set it up.
	This is regarding caching.
	John and I, we were talking about...
	The inherent broken nature of Netflix because you can't use standard internet technologies to cash.
	And it turns out, as a part of the interconnect, or what is it, Netflix connect something or whatever, they do...
	Appliance.
	They have an appliance.
	They give you a cash box that you can put at your ISP. Right, and Dane has maybe a half dozen of them.
	You need more than one if you have a big ISP. And the cash box, in the case of the Netflix box, which is on the system, it's on the sonic.net system, and what it does is it saves the ISP, the trouble of grabbing the material from the source, And then dragging it across the line and giving it to you who asked for it.
	Instead, you go right to your local box, which is right there, which has 100 terabytes of the most popular material.
	Yeah, they even ship it preloaded.
	Yeah, well, it would save money.
	Yeah.
	But it updates, too.
	Because, you know, when the new, for example, when the new House of Cards comes out, they will go and they will load it once.
	By the way, orange is the new black.
	I'm now at episode six.
	Meh.
	Not so impressed with this new season.
	Oh, good.
	Anyway, I condemn this show.
	Anyway, Google has one called the Google Global Cash, and they give it to these ISPs, and they're free.
	And the ISP has to do, and the Google Global Cash is for YouTube videos.
	It's loaded with all the popular cat videos.
	The same thing.
	It's loaded with a lot.
	And the ISPs have a bunch of these.
	Akamai has one, that box that they give to people.
	So these guys have all these boxes.
	Now, the boxes cost money to operate.
	The boxes are free.
	The 100-terabyte drives and everything else is free to the ISP. And the maintenance is free to the ISP. It's taken care of.
	Yeah, but ultimately, 600 watts per box, someone's got to maintain it, configure it.
	I mean...
	It's never free, but...
	He says it costs like $100 a month to run these things, and you have to make a decision whether it saves you $100 in transfer fees, like if you're a small ISP, it wouldn't be worth it, or whether you need it at all.
	And so the calculation has to be done.
	You have the boxes, you get a bunch of the boxes, whatever you do, and that's the way most of this is being done nowadays.
	And this is not discussed at all by the media or anybody else in between.
	And apparently what's happening, I still don't know the full story about what's going on at Comcast, but even though I've asked Comcast about this specifically, why don't they use the Google boxes?
	Did Comcast say, we'll answer you Thursday afternoon between 3 and 5?
	But I know what it is.
	It's like, Comcast is so big, they would probably need, I don't know, 500 of these boxes.
	Which I'm sure Netflix would be glad to provide, but running 500 of these boxes cost a lot of money.
	And so Netflix says, probably, look, we'd love to run these boxes, but we're not paying this fortune it's going to cost us to run these 500 boxes.
	You pay us some money, and we'll put the boxes online.
	And I think that's what's really going on.
	Yeah, I think that, and I'm curious to know if Comcast has the Google boxes, Have the what?
	If Comcast does place the Google cash boxes?
	I wonder myself, because my Google response on Comcast sucks.
	But ultimately, and this is just the problem, and then we can be done with this, Comcast currently charges, let's just call it Hollywood, And that includes, you know, Bravo Network to ABC, NBC, CBS, HBO, Showtime, everybody.
	They charge per customer.
	So if you're the e-network, you need to pay Comcast a dollar per subscriber to put your content on their network.
	With Netflix, here's Hollywood, and Hollywood is saying, oh, here's just a whole bunch of data to fill up your network and your routers, I'm giving you nothing.
	And that pretty much breaks Comcast's entire business model.
	That's why they don't want it.
	And that's why they're trying to work out the deal.
	And that's where we are right now.
	Well, they did work out a deal with Netflix, and that's where we are right now.
	But this is not ending anytime soon, this little thing.
	And net neutrality and the government getting involved is not going to change anything.
	If anything, it's going to screw things up, especially for the small players.
	And I asked Dane about this.
	I specifically said to him, or asked him, I said...
	Now, how does...
	Netflix has a box right in your central office, right there, right on the pipe.
	And so when I'm a SonicNet subscriber and I want a Netflix movie, you're giving it to me with high efficiency because it's sitting there.
	Right.
	It's really essentially on your servers.
	How is this fair?
	How is this net neutral?
	How does this...
	The other companies like Voodoo and these other providers of movies...
	Doesn't it put them at a disadvantage in terms of every bit is equal, every packet's equal?
	And he had to admit that, yeah, it does.
	And that's the way things are.
	Yeah, on his own network, of course.
	Yeah.
	And that's just the way it is.
	And there's no getting around this.
	Because unless Voodoo and these other guys put these boxes in, which they may or may not do, or it may not even be acceptable because they might not have enough traffic to make it worthwhile to pay for this.
	So anyway, this argument, this simplification of this issue, which we've argued on our show, is not a simple issue at all.
	It's a very complex thing with a lot of little twists and turns and things like these network appliances that nobody talks about.
	Yeah.
	It all plays into it, but all I see is the movement to make the government get involved, and now you're really asking for trouble.
	And that's what's going to happen.
	There's no doubt in mind.
	I predicted this years ago.
	The FCC has always been going after the cable business.
	They want to be able to tell cable companies no cussing.
	And they'll do it.
	Oh yeah.
	Yeah, think about this, all the liberals out there who have this belief that the government's good.
	The liberals don't run things all the time.
	You'll get some religious guy running the country, and he's going to think that cussing's bad, and all of a sudden you're going to be fined for cussing on cable TV. Oh yeah.
	You know, there's a funny article here in Austin, I think it was the Chronicle or something.
	You know, Austin, of course, is total liberal Obama bot central.
	And people are now finding out that, you know, very typical of the environment here is, yes, yes, we need to give money to this and build this bridge and have this museum and all these wonderful services.
	And people are now like, I can't afford the taxes on my home anymore.
	How did that happen?
	Yeah, you voted for all that crap, you moron.
	It does come back to bite you in the butt eventually.
	At some point, you can only spend so much money.
	Quick runaround before I'm done here.
	I'll just read the list after you're done.
	Okay.
	The mainstream, everyone's talking about Chelsea Clinton.
	Oh, she got a $600,000 salary from NBC, but she's now on a month-to-month in case her mom decides to run.
	But it was CNN who actually were honest about the whole Hillary Clinton thing.
	Quickly, to your point, if she does take quite a while longer, what happens to other folks who want a chance to run against her?
	Because she's doing what they call in politics freezing pockets.
	Because the donors are giving her money thinking she's going to run.
	That means they're not going to have available money for other candidates if she doesn't.
	And I don't think she's going to give it to them.
	She's on her way to deciding.
	We'll see.
	We couldn't help her any more than we have.
	I know.
	She's got just a free ride so far from the media.
	We're the biggest ones promoting her campaign, so better.
	Yeah, there you go.
	That's exactly it.
	Free ride.
	Yeah, don't worry.
	You'll be taking that ad money pretty soon.
	I do have a Hillary medley, which kind of plays into this.
	Hillary was at either George Washington University or Georgetown, one of the two, sitting down.
	She looked like crap, by the way.
	She's also low energy.
	But she was discussing something.
	It went for an hour and a half, and I decided to just clip a little bit of it piece by piece.
	Okay.
	Result of that fate can be expanded, if you are even to discuss seriously any kind of that we would ever sacrifice a single amnesia in Baghdad, most particularly Quds Force countries.
	Figures I've seen is that there are more than a thousand to try to stave off a total collapse.
	You have the tensions, lots of competing interests.
	Time zone to time zone.
	Everybody was exhausted.
	Nobody wanted to think.
	I can't remember.
	I remember Robert something on the phone.
	Our go on these trips.
	And we had a great press corps in line to see Russia, which I cut off.
	So they took a sour optimistic.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yeah, they were discussing Hillary's book on the Slate podcast.
	Yeah.
	Emily Bazelon, what's her name?
	I don't know.
	Emily Bazelon.
	And she can't stop talking about Grand Greenwald Don Raff, his book.
	A little interesting tidbit came up, because I guess she got a pre-copy, which wasn't a copy.
	You know, I guess sometimes they just send the manuscript?
	They send you, it's called, what is it?
	It's called the uncorrected proof.
	Well, she received one of those, and the state was rather interesting.
	Can I just take a moment here to complain?
	I had to read Glenn Greenwald's book when it was embargoed, and they sent me this pile of printed-out pages from a Word document.
	Every single one was stamped classified, and half the lines were incredibly faint.
	I had to hold them up to the light.
	It was like a bizarre puzzle, and there was nothing...
	Why would it say classified?
	I have no idea.
	I think Greenwald's nuts.
	Does he work for the government?
	He's a rubber stamp.
	He's stamping everything.
	Classified?
	Is that marketing?
	Or is that just moronity?
	I've never seen or heard of such a thing.
	That's pretty funny.
	It is.
	I like it.
	And then the Today Show hooked into a very familiar no agenda theme.
	And you know the depression is upon us, ladies and gentlemen, when the Today Show does this in 30 seconds.
	Finally this morning, Costco in Northern Virginia was the place to see, be seen, and pick up 100 boxes of mac and cheese if you needed yesterday.
	Hillary Clinton was there on Saturday signing copies of her book when Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor popped in.
	The two hugged.
	So Mayor said the meeting wasn't planned.
	She was just out shopping.
	She was out getting her 100 boxes of mac and cheese, right?
	Hey, I've heard this is a good read.
	Maybe I'll pick it up.
	There you go.
	And Dylan is here for their first check of the forecast.
	And now I'm craving 100 boxes of mac and cheese.
	Oh, that's 100 boxes of mac and cheese three times in 30 seconds.
	My God!
	You slaves can get used to mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	and cheap cheddar melted together.
	Mac and cheese, mac and cheese, mac and cheese.
	Living the mac and cheese life.
	Mac and cheese by Ayn Rand.
	Pfft.
	Aha!
	I did it for you.
	Alright, let's do our Father's Day list.
	We had a bunch of people that came in on Father's Day.
	I want to say a couple of things here in advance.
	One, anything that came in after midnight will be picked up, you know, because we closed the thing at midnight.
	Because I have to go to bed, and the spreadsheet needs to be done in the morning, and that's just kind of the way it works.
	I mean, Fernando de las Reyes is one of the guys who came with a special note, and I told him I mentioned his name, I just did.
	But the other people that came in after midnight, I'm going to have to do a second reading next show.
	Wow.
	Because it just didn't get on the spreadsheet, I'm sorry.
	But we have this rule, everyone should know what it is, which is that...
	Midnight PST is when the spreadsheet closes.
	A bunch of people dribbled in at 5 and 6 in the morning.
	It was just like impossible.
	Last minute, oh yeah, Happy Father's Day.
	Happy belated Father's Day.
	Gerald Small in Chesterfield, Missouri.
	These are people that wish Happy Father's Day to us and their own fathers.
	Jason Witt, Alan Morris, Sir Joseph Frost, And a lot of them, we mentioned earlier, the bigger donors.
	Jamie Graham, Joseph Green, $133, Kick-Ass Pixels, Arjan Schorfhar in Leipzig, Cindy Magu, Brawnix in Würst.
	Dame Joni, Data Free, Paul Roberson, Mac Tank, Robert Mueller, Carolyn Peet, Alan Hawes, Kevin Seifert, Navid Kahn, Sir Nate Wilson, William Young, Andy Benz, James Von Acken, Mark Montgomery, Brian Thomas, or Dr.
	Sharkey, Karen Selsor, Make All Ink, Kenneth Learman Jr., Joy Leon Brown, Rick LaBanca.
	And these are people that are under 50, but I'm not going to say this exact amount because some of them are low.
	I'm not categorizing.
	Rick LeBronka, Jay Brown, Eric Brown, Drew Wienemann, Richard Clark, not that Richard Clark, Bytefair, Brian Horvath, The Valiant Clothing Company, Lionheart of Selador, my father and myself, happy Father's Day, Joshua Dilsiver, Mark Carter, who says he's a long-time boner, first-time donor.
	We had a lot of that, which I want to thank everyone who finally got involved with the show and gave us some support.
	Corey Fayok, Brian Leslie, Sir Roy Strahan, Ron Poynter, Joshua Mace, Happy Father's Day, Robert Ballard, Marta Diaz, Ashley Eisner, Jason Daniels wishes a Happy Father's Day to his father, Marina Dudy.
	Happy Father's Day.
	Marcos Ubilla.
	Ben Blessing.
	Christopher Pierce.
	Christopher Walker.
	Not that one.
	Online service.
	Actually, it's Jeremy in Montreal.
	Sorry.
	West Wendell, Thomas Emerson, loves the show.
	Michael Wendell here.
	What'd I say?
	Yeah.
	Michael Wendell, Thomas Emerson, Jordan Weeks, Benjamin Cavanaugh, Daniel Brewer, Paul Peardeman, or Peardeman actually.
	Peardeman, yeah.
	Sean Johnson, Gerald Parker, Peter O'Rourke, Christopher Perkins, Robert Morgan, Jason Hodges, Derek Brandon, Jordan Stearns Braddock Gaskill.
	That's a great name.
	Detective Gaskill here.
	John Johnson, Brian Brown, and last but not least, Brian Casey.
	Lincoln Braun.
	Lincoln Braun.
	What'd I say?
	You said Brian Braun.
	Lincoln Braun.
	Anyway, he says happy Father's Day to all the producers out there.
	Happy Father's Day to the No Agenda Nation as a whole.
	Happy Father's Day to the fathers and also the two of us.
	And John, happy Father's Day, my friend.
	Happy Father's Day to you.
	Thank you.
	And to all of the No Agenda Nation dads, happy Father's Day.
	And happy Father's Day to my dad.
	Alrighty.
	Long show, but we got it all in.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Alright.
	We'll be back on Thursday.
	More analysis, I'm sure.
	The Kagans will be up to no good.
	Yep.
	We'll be all over them.
	More consulting groups and think tanks to keep track of.
	And I'm very proud to be bringing my portion of this to you from the Travis Heights Hideout in the capital of the Drone Star State, here in Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, it turns out to be a sunny day.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's sunny here as well.
	And watch your Dvorak on the Twits today.
	That should be fun.
	With Jody O'Dell.
	I'll be there.
	And I'll be watching, sending you instant messages.
	I will be back on Thursday, right here on the best podcast in the universe on No Agenda.
	Until then, in the morning.
	The GOP infighting is escalating.
	Political says Democrats are outright jitty.
	Happy to watch the GOP implode.
	Rubble!
	Brought to you by Klan Kagan.
	Someone's getting cornholed today.
	Sounds like a recipe for success to me.
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