Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 666.
This is no agenda.
Celebrating the mark of the beast from FEMA Region 6.
In the capital of the throne star state, Austin, Texas.
Ah, the beast is already playing tricks on me.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where the beast is always at work in the Berkeley area, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Craig Vaughn, Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Ah, in the morning to you, and hail Satan, John.
Hail Satan.
Hail Hydra.
Bingo!
Boom shakalaka!
Hail Satan!
There we go.
Episode 666!
Are you recording?
Because if you just said Hail Satan, you'd probably turn it off on you.
No, no.
He screwed up the opening jingle just to let me know he was here.
Always ready to mess with me.
There you go.
Did you have a nice Halloween?
You know, I'm on this hill and there's this dark street.
Kids don't want to walk up to the spooky house on the hill.
No, they don't.
No, I get it.
Usually we get at least one or two kids early when the sun's still out, but there was none this year.
We're in a new neighborhood.
And the funny thing is, when they show up, $100 bill.
What do you mean?
I didn't think the word would get out, but no.
You give them a $100 bill?
Yeah.
A Christian hundred.
Sure.
Right from a big pile of them that I bought for trick-or-treaters, and the pile sits in the cupboard.
If only they do.
If only they know.
Stupid kids.
We're in a new neighborhood, which Miss Mickey affectionately calls the Ghetto, You're in the ghetto?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Well, we went over that neighborhood before you moved, if you recall, on the Google Maps by driving around.
Uh-huh.
And?
It's a nice area.
It's a little ghetto.
It's kind of hipster-ish.
No, exactly not.
No?
No.
It looked hipster-ish.
No, it's ghetto-ish.
But it's got a lot of blacks living there?
Mexicans.
The Mexican ghetto.
And you got good food.
Yeah, we do.
On First Street, we got great food.
Little Mexican places, for sure.
Yeah.
I always tell them, you want to live here.
No one breaks into their house in the ghetto.
You don't break into your neighbor's house when you're in the hood.
It's safe.
Yeah.
It's the other gangs when they come by.
It's when the Crips come by.
Yeah, that's when they do drive-bys.
That's when it's a little crazy.
Hmm.
I noticed something.
It's a crappy neighborhood.
I didn't realize you moved into a crappy neighborhood.
We're not getting enough income from the show.
Well, that's why.
We had to go cheaper, I told you.
Listen, it's cheaper here and we have a little pool.
So what does that tell you?
Is it a real pool or is it just a hole in the backyard?
Well, it's a rectangle.
Man, I dug a hole!
It's not heated, let's put it that way.
You don't need a heated pool in Texas.
Oh yeah, in the wintertime you do.
This morning it was 50 degrees outside.
It was getting chilly.
You need a heated pool and you need a heater.
It's real.
It happens.
Anyway, so we only had maybe six times the doorbell rang for trick-or-treat.
And all nice.
You know, when you get the kids in the hood and you're like, oh, it's the white people.
Let's go to their house.
When you hand out the bucket of candy, it's like, it'll take one or two.
You just grab.
There's three kids in 18 hands.
It's very amazing.
Just take all the candy.
Man, no shame.
But I noticed something, and it was also sent to me an email.
One of our producers pointed this out.
That Halloween, I think we already discussed that I do not like this holiday.
It's okay.
No, no, you hate it.
Why don't you just get to the point?
I'm okay with the cute kids coming by and the costumes and trick-or-treat.
I love that.
It's fine.
But the parties, it's become this license for adults to get drunk and throw up.
That's all that it is.
Yeah, you've complained about this before.
There's one other thing I want to point out.
That it has become a celebration of sluts.
Female costumes.
This has been a trend.
Well, this makes sense to me because we're in the middle of a 40-year cycle.
Yeah, recession.
And during this decade is when all the hookers start to show up.
But because of AIDS and law enforcement and other mechanisms, the hookers are not what they once were.
In other words, there's not so many...
Let me back it up just a second.
Yeah, give us a little.
In the 70s, during the last downturn, there were hookers all over San Francisco and Berkeley.
And in fact, in the East Bay, some judge had said, you can't arrest these hookers anymore.
For some reason, he said this.
And for two years, Berkeley, I think this is like in 77, maybe.
Berkeley was all hookers.
There were hundreds and hundreds of hookers.
On the streets?
Yes!
Oh, really?
Four on a corner.
So there'd be like 16.
One corner, okay.
I'm telling you.
Really?
What year was this?
About 77.
Wow.
Right.
Yeah, I missed all the goodness.
I was 13.
Thanks.
San Francisco was filled with hookers.
There were just hundreds and hundreds of many of them were just knockouts.
Good times.
And here's the punchline.
So they're interviewing some old timer on one of the TV shows or radio shows.
About the 30s, which was another downturn period.
He says, well, you were in the 30s.
What do you think about San Francisco compared to now?
And he says, well, all I know is that in the 30s there were a lot more hookers.
Wow.
Well, there's hundreds and thousands of hookers.
How many hookers were there in the 30s?
It must have been just wall to wall.
Oh, right.
But now there's none.
And so they have to make up for it, I think, societally.
And, of course, you have the Craigslist.
You have these other kinds of mechanisms where you can call girls.
It's actually all call girls now.
But the streetwalkers are an adornment to the culture when it's in a downturn.
And since there are no streetwalkers, boom.
Little girls dressed as whores.
Well, I can't say I've seen a lot of...
Okay, so you believe that it is because of the rise, the four-year cycle, we have the economic downturn.
I'm sorry?
40.
The 40-year cycle.
Yes.
Yeah, of course that makes sense.
We have this economic downturn, and...
And it's because it is now a vocation practiced by more and more, although there's no official statistics, unless you ask Italy and the UK and France who are adding that into their GDP. Hey, we got hookers!
This is true, by the way.
I know that.
Well, the Italians haven't done it yet, but they intend to.
Yeah, there's talk of this, which makes sense because that's what they would add two billion or something, two trillion to the GDP. Get their numbers up for the EU guys.
Spike the numbers.
Because of this, it is a subconscious meme.
Does this mean that these girls really are saying, hey, I want to make some money, sailor?
Or what do you think that means?
That I don't know.
I have no idea why this has to happen.
I wish there were some studies on this.
Hey, nobody wants to study this stuff.
I do.
I do.
I just need to know where to start.
Go back to school.
You got University of Texas right down the street, walking distance.
I cannot get into UT. You can go to, into, you could too.
No, no.
I'd have to take all kinds of tests.
I have no credits.
I have no credentials.
I have nothing.
You might be surprised.
Whatever the case is.
If I have $150,000, they might let me in.
Well, whatever the case, it does need to be studied.
I think it does because my anecdotal version of the whole thing could be bogus.
Oh.
But I'm telling you.
Thousands.
Little Bo Peep, French maid, horny leprechauns, you name it.
The sexy Ebola nurse.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
What is it?
And for women who, simultaneously, we have, of course, this is all related to the upcoming midterm elections on Tuesday.
Tuesday, yeah.
When we have the media and feminist groups yelling about inequality and, oh, women only make 78 cents.
Well, I don't know.
In the hooker business, I think men make less than women.
Oh, that's got to be changed.
But the idea that it's okay to propagate this at the same time will say, well, no, feminists, women have to be equal and all this.
But then you go out and party and get drunk as a hoe.
I'm just pointing it out.
I'm all for it.
I mean, I'd rather see the little Bo Peep than, you know.
Little Bo Peep.
That's my face.
Hello, Mr.
Do you have any candy?
Uh-huh.
Come on here.
None of them came to my door.
No little Bo Peeps.
But I got Wendy Adams.
Strangely appealing as well.
It is a new month.
And as you know, whenever we have a new month in the United States, our president likes to proclaim the month for something that we should be aware of.
It's like an awareness campaign.
Just when we thought Rock, Rock, Rocktober couldn't get any busier, and we had so much in October, we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10 different proclamations for the month of November.
No, October.
No, this is November.
We're in November.
Already?
Yeah.
Well, you do it at the beginning of the month.
Oh, okay.
So there's ten.
Would you like to hear the proclamations?
Of course.
Who wouldn't?
My presidential proclamation, I never knew that this existed.
Let me see if it actually, when this goes back.
Well, the president has declared November National College Application Month.
During National College Application Month, we come together as a people of all nations to encourage all students to take control of their own destiny and join slavery and servitude by applying to continue their education beyond high school and let them know that no matter where they come from or who they are, we can give you a cheap-ass loan that will hound you for the rest of your life.
Get in line, slaves!
Does it say that?
Not exactly.
He talks about there being opportunities and all that stuff.
But yes, this is the, I would redub this, National Young People Slavery Enrollment Month.
Because that's what it is.
That is what it is.
Could you be doing what you're doing today if you did not have your Berkeley College degree?
Would you be where you are today, do you think?
I doubt it.
But that doesn't mean they should keep calling me.
Who's calling you?
Berkeley.
We know you're an alumni, and we'd like you to give us money.
And my previous answer to that was, well, if you can afford to give...
Give Barack Obama $1 million and be at the top of the list of all public institutions such as universities as the biggest donor to Barack Obama's campaign.
You don't need my money.
That was for a while.
And they go, oh yeah, I understand.
And then they hang up and call back a month later.
Hey!
You can afford to have Bill Maher give the commandment.
The guy's an idiot.
I have nothing to do with you.
They don't do a very good job of inculcating a sense of, like Harvard and these other schools do.
Well, with Harvard, they've got pretty girls.
Don't they?
All the universities have pretty girls.
Yeah, but they're not the ones calling you for the money.
You can tell.
Yes, you can.
Onward with our list, because the list is long.
This is also National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month.
Okay.
Across our nation, as many as 5 million Americans live with Alzheimer's.
I forgot what I was going to say.
You know, I was thinking of that joke.
It was a bad joke.
I can't help it.
That's a very bad joke.
That gets a...
I knew you were thinking of it, too.
Then it is National Family Caregivers Month.
I guess we had to...
That's the same with Alzheimer's, same thing.
Well, let's see, what is Alzheimer's?
Each day, courageous individuals step forward to help care for family members in need.
Yeah, it's what you do for your family.
Their quiet acts of siblings, of selflessness and sacrifice, telling a story of love and devotion.
Yeah, that's what our country is about.
Across our country, parents and children, siblings and spouses, friends and neighbors, heroically give of themselves to support those in their lives affected by illness, injury, or disability.
Well, yeah.
So during National Family Caregivers Month, we salute the people who play difficult and exhausting roles.
You know, in the Netherlands, they have a special subsidy if you're a grandmother or grandfather and you are watching after the kids while the parents are at work.
There's a subsidy for that.
You get money from the government.
That's good.
I think it's very good.
They should do more.
It seems to me, though, if you're in this country and they offered that deal, everyone would just be partying all the time and saying that I'm watching the kids.
The kids walking around in shitty diapers.
Grandma and Grandpa cracked up.
Woo!
This month, also, National Native American Heritage Month.
Each year our nation pauses to reflect upon the profound ways the first Americans...
How is that different than Black History Month?
Oh, this is for Native Americans.
Oh, I'm sorry.
National Native American Heritage Month.
Oh, I'm sorry.
What was I thinking?
These are the ones that we killed off.
Hey, sorry.
Sorry about that.
Here's a month.
Take November.
We're sorry.
National Adoption Month...
They put that in November for obvious reasons, just to trigger the bullcrap thought about Thanksgiving and the nonsense that it entails.
Just like National Entrepreneurship Month.
I don't know why that's in...
Why do you think that's in November?
National Entrepreneurship Month.
People don't realize that these months, you think like, I remember it was forest fire prevention month.
That was one year, one month out of the year.
It probably was, it was probably in the fall.
And you had Smokey the Bear and then you'd force your mom to go into the firehouse with all these horny dudes and go get the Smokey the Bear kit.
I'll never forget my mom.
Well, I've never heard this story.
Yeah.
I've never gone through this.
Oh, really?
It was Smokey the Bear Forest Fire Prevention Month.
You remember Smokey the Bear.
It's actually not Smokey the Bear.
It's Smokey the Bear.
We have to be proper.
Not Smokey the Bear.
I saw Smokey the Bear up at the Clallam County Fair, or was it the other fair up in Washington State?
And there he was.
I have a picture of myself with Smokey the Bear, as a matter of fact, and I will post it in the It was boiling out.
I'm going to tell the story.
I'm going to tell the story.
Well, let me finish.
I asked the guy in the suit if he was hot.
He said yes, and I realized there was a guy in his suit.
Oh, no!
I was six.
My sister would have been four.
My younger sister would have been two.
And my mom had a Buick station wagon.
It was one of the first ones.
It was secondhand, of course.
And it was one of those...
What's your oldest sister's name again?
Tiffany.
Does she ever listen to the show?
Never.
So Willow's our fan.
Willow listens, yeah.
And she was two.
I think this might have been the Buick Roadmaster...
In fact, I'm quite sure it had, everything was electric, had electric window, everything was electric, which meant that pretty much nothing worked.
The windows wouldn't open or close.
In the olden days, electric stuff was very risky.
Oh, it was crap.
And this was one of the first cars with it.
And of course, my dad had, you know, a newer car.
My mom got all the old clunkers for as long as I can remember.
I don't think she ever had a new car.
Huh.
And so we're like, oh, Smokey Bear, Smokey, Smokey Bear, you go to the mom, mom, you go to the fire, buy me the Smokey Bear kid, Smokey Bear kid.
And mom's like, really?
Is it really?
Yes!
Yes, mom!
So she parks the car.
You're four?
I'm six.
Tiffany's four.
You're six.
Okay, that's when you first started becoming a chatterbox.
Yeah, and this is in the day when you could just leave your kids in the car with the windows rolled up.
And you'd be warned, but you wouldn't die and people wouldn't arrest you.
You wouldn't get arrested, yes.
But the windows wouldn't open anyway because it was electric.
And you couldn't open the car because it was electric.
The whole thing was screwy, as we would say.
And my mom went in, and it took a long time.
It must have been 20 minutes, at least in my six-year-old remembrance.
And she came out, and she kind of looked a bit disheveled.
She's like, yeah, that was fun.
A lot of fire guys in there.
And my mom was hot.
Can you just imagine?
Hi, I'm here to pick up a smoky bear kid.
Why did you ever see that?
So my mom went in not happy and she came out, I'll never forget, she looked a little happier.
I do remember.
Thanks, it was just like a certificate and a piece of paper.
Have you ever seen a fire truck?
Have you ever seen a fire train?
I told you.
Okay.
Okay.
Remember when Mickey got rescued by the fire guys when her car overheated and they had helicopters and police cut off the road?
And then I go to pick her up and Mickey's in the fire truck?
Don't get me started.
November, National Entrepreneurship Month 2014.
America has always been a country of risk-takers and dreamers.
He's a dreamer.
Where anyone who is willing to work hard can turn a good idea into a thriving business and live the American dream of just getting by, like us here on the podcast.
Our spirit of ingenuity remains a powerful engine of growth, creating jobs and bolstering our economy.
This month, we recognize the grit, the grit and determination of American investors.
What is it?
Oh, and innovators.
I don't like that.
So this is us, John.
We are American innovators.
I would say this is true.
We're innovating as we speak.
As we go along, we're innovating as we make it up.
All right.
Next, Military Family Month.
Of course, this is very au courant, as the Pentagon has warned all military families to remove any markings of you being a military family from your house.
No, don't fly the flag.
Don't have bumper stickers because, you know, ISIS is going to kill you.
What?
Yes.
This is embarrassing.
What kind of wimps are we turning into?
Let me read the article.
Who sent that declaration out should be drummed out of office?
The Pentagon Force Protection Agency Oh, that's another new one.
has sent out warnings to troops saying they should, quote, mask their identities and change their routines, warning they risk attack by ISIS. That must mean that there's a bunch of attacks.
What was the last soldier attacked in the United States by ISIS? Well, the police force was attacked with a hatchet, and I guess that was ISIS. No, that guy was just a nut.
Terrorists directed or inspired...
I'm just asking the question.
You didn't answer the question.
I don't have an answer.
I don't have an answer.
So wait a minute.
You're telling me that nothing has actually happened and they want everyone to cower in the corner?
Yes.
I would be irked about this if I was a soldier.
Terrorists directed or inspired...
Saved or created by ISIS view members of US military and law enforcement officers as legitimate targets for attack, the memo warned, adding that attacks could have little or no advance warning.
That would make sense.
This appears to stem from the Ottawa Parliament attack.
I guess that's where they're getting it from.
I agree with you.
I find it insulting.
Here's what I want to do.
If you are a military family member, whatever, you're walking around, then you see me, know that I'm packing heat, and I will shoot any ISIS person who's attacking you.
Yes, because apparently you folks in the military haven't got the gumption or guts to defend yourself.
That's fucking sad.
That's an insult of all the highest proportions.
It is.
Let's see if the actual proclamation has anything about that in it.
I wouldn't be surprised.
Let me see.
Disarming the American public.
Yeah, oh yeah.
Yeah, well, there you go.
Let me see if there's any...
I don't see any...
Any other news shows would discuss this at all.
No, no.
It is, of course, National Diabetes Month.
Well, that's a plus.
Thank goodness.
Woo!
And then finally, National Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month.
Woo!
You know, that's a good one.
You know, something's coming up.
This is the month.
It's our month to bring down the grid.
We're actually overdue for something.
We are way overdue to bring down the grid.
Do something fun for a while.
The grid.
Yeah.
So, I was able to...
There was some news.
I got some news.
Oh, what you got?
I got some news.
I got some news.
Well, first, can I play our...
I got pretty close to a Jay Leno thing there.
Can I play our song?
We got a song.
We got a new song.
Mark of the Beast song.
Okay, hit it.
Song.
Woo!
Six, six, six!
I knew it wrong I needed someone to assassinate the meekest swine Could not believe what I could hear The No Agenda show is in its seventh year Oh yeah!
Oh yeah!
Satan!
Mark of the Beast!
Woo!
You may not recognize this song, John.
I do, I've heard it.
Oh, okay, good.
I'm happy to hear that.
Hit it up!
One, two, one, two!
Woo!
Woo Okay, you have some news, you said.
I do have some news.
There's a couple of little items that are coming up that are kind of in the background.
This is my favorite here on this list I sent.
We need the Boko Haram update because we apparently ourselves even reported false information.
Right.
In Nigeria, Boko Haram says more than 200 girls kidnapped in April have been converted to Islam and are now married.
Boko Haram is also denied agreeing to a ceasefire with the Nigerian government.
Ahmed Idris reports.
In the video that has broken many herds, it shows a man purported to be Abubakar Sheikh, leader of Boko Haram, who says that the more than 200 girls his group kidnapped in April have been converted to Islam and married off.
Don't you know the over 200 Chibot schoolgirls have converted to Islam?
They've now memorized two chapters of the Koran.
He also denies agreeing to a ceasefire with the Nigerian government.
What negotiation?
We do not negotiate with anyone.
It is a lie.
A lie.
We will not negotiate.
What is our business with negotiation?
Allah said we should not.
I think this is good news.
Everything's solved.
Yeah.
Girls converted to Islam.
Two pages of Quran.
Good to go.
Bingo.
Boom.
Shakalaka.
You're married.
It works.
How much...
I mean, this wasn't even on real news.
What was this?
Some French thing?
This was on Al Jazeera.
Oh, yeah.
Well, of course.
No one cares about this.
They forgot it.
But where's...
Michelle Obama should be out there outraged.
Yeah, where's Michelle Obama?
They married them off.
This is crazy.
She should be saying something.
She should be holding up a sign and posting on Twitter.
Divorce our girls.
Good one.
Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, I'll give you a bell ring for that.
That's nutty.
That is just nutty.
Oh, we had...
Something really interesting happened that I just always find...
Well, two things actually have been interesting.
When it comes to space and technology, of course, we had this rocket that blew up.
It actually didn't blow up.
They self-destructed it.
Did you know that?
They hit the self-destruct button.
We were supposed to have bailed out, and one of them, I guess, got killed.
No, I'm talking about the rocket that exploded.
Before we get to the...
Oh, no, I heard that, too.
Now, I've heard two stories about...
I've heard this still sketchy.
But, yeah, somebody...
My understanding is somebody didn't have enough coffee, and he just kind of conked out and hit the self-destruct button.
I'm not so sure about that.
That's what I heard.
The version I heard is something was not going well, and then they hit the self-destruct because you want that thing to blow up sooner rather than later.
Bad news, there were two ham radio, amateur radio satellites on that thing that were supposed to be along.
Yeah, this sucks.
That's why they did it.
No fun for you, hammies.
Now, these ham radio satellites, if you've ever been interested...
You can shoot 5 watts.
You can shoot it up to one of these satellites and communicate.
It's cool!
Ben, you can communicate to other people who can see the satellite over vast distances.
It's fun.
It is fun.
And in an emergency, you might save someone's life.
That's the idea.
One of our producers in Michigan has put up a balloon.
I think I talked about it on the show.
Oh my goodness, those balloons have gone on.
Sometimes they go on for months.
Yeah, he set it up, I guess, recently.
Okay, so then of course we did have the Virgin Crash.
Yes, the Virgin Crash.
They decided to take three guys up with experimental fuel.
And then the experimental fuel, I guess, worked too well.
Um, I'm always surprised, flummoxed may be closer to the truth, but I'll just say surprised, that, you know, in 1969, we had, like, a washing machine tumbler with a fire underneath it, and we guys went to the moon and landed, like, in this thing that...
This lunar module.
They walked around.
They jumped around.
They drove their golf cart.
But Richard Branson can't even get something above 50,000 feet.
Surprising to me.
But here's what happened live on CNN. I happened to walk into the studio.
And I always have the DVR. The DVR is always running, so you can rewind it.
And there's this woman on, Joel Glenn Brenner.
Joelle, I would guess.
Joelle Glenn Brenner.
And she has, I guess she's written some other, some books about industry, typical, maybe something about chocolate, or I don't know, network security.
She used to work for the Post, I believe, the Washington Post.
And she has been following Virgin, specifically Virgin's Spaceship One, and of course there are about 700 or 800 people, morons, who have given Richard Branson tens of thousands of dollars to be the first on the space flight.
$250,000 a ticket.
Let me just, quick side note.
In the Netherlands, they approached Mickey years ago and said, hey, would you please be the spokesperson for our galactic space ride?
She was running the Supper Club back in the day, the creative director.
We'll do this big launch with these people at the Supper Club, and it'd be really cool.
And it's very Dutch.
And Mickey says, yeah, that sounds great.
How much are you going to pay me?
Well, no.
You get lots of press.
Oh, well, then I can get a ride on the ship, can't I? Well, no, no, no.
You have $250,000.
But they're cheap bastards.
And it's a scam.
We've always said this is a scam.
You can't pay somebody to be a spokesperson.
This is the same scam.
It's no better than fly a Mirage in Vegas.
Shoot a real machine gun in Vegas.
Yeah, you can drive a Ferrari in Vegas.
You can do all this.
It's an extreme adventure scam for people who have too much money.
And you will never actually...
You go in the vomit comet.
You'll witness zero-G gravity by them letting you fall, pretty much.
They may even give you a throw-in-a-parachute jump or something.
Anything to keep your rich, stupid ass happy while they hold on to your $250,000, which you'll never see again.
And those extra trips...
Or an additional money.
It's not like it's built into your $250,000.
And that guy over there in Holland who runs the Dutch Formula One team who just sold his space freak fake, space fake, I don't know who he sold it to, but the whole thing is fake phony baloney.
And here's Joel.
Fake phony baloney.
Space fakes.
Fake phony baloney.
Here's Joel.
I don't believe that any of these guys can get anywhere.
And now there's this woman who was very upset because she got to know a lot of these people in the Mojave Desert very well as she was doing this writing or collecting information and researching about this trip and about the whole project.
And as this is happening live, she kind of breaks down on CNN and starts saying stuff which, by her own admission, is probably not what Richard Branson would want on television.
I have been working to share the story of spaceship one in book form with the world.
And of course, because of all of my contacts with the folks who worked on Spaceship One, I've kept up with everybody out in Mojave and have watched and followed the development of Virgin Galactic's program.
I have to tell you that The enthusiasm that has been shown outwardly by Verna Galactic and by Sir Richard certainly does not match at all with the technology behind the scenes.
And there's a big gap there and has been for quite some time.
And I will be documenting that.
Right.
And it's a real problem.
And I will tell you this as well, that this engine that exploded today, even if they had had a successful flight And even if they had not stolen my friend's life,
okay, they would not have ever gotten anywhere near space with this engine, okay?
So I am here to say that they took this pilot's life And this engine still would not have gotten customers to space.
And I want people to know that.
And I'm sure that Virgin Galactic is going to be very unhappy with me for telling the truth.
But it is time the truth be told.
Because that is the truth.
Okay.
Right, right.
While we continue...
Here's the guy with the dildo in his boot.
We can fulfill all the strands of what we're hearing.
Yes, he's an aviation expert who has no pilot's license or any actual aviation experience, except for being paid to cover the aviation.
I thought that was pretty explosive.
To coin a phrase.
You know, the point she misses is that if you do this right, you send people up in this jalopy.
The virgin jalopy.
The virgin jalopy.
And you just tell them they were in space.
Yeah.
It could be at 40,000 feet and kind of convince somebody in the right circumstances.
Yeah, just darken the windows.
Yeah, a little LCD. You're in space!
You're in space!
Woo!
The point is you're supposed to experience weightlessness for about 6 to 10 seconds.
Let's see, of $250,000.
That's a little bit.
That wouldn't take much.
I'm sorry?
You can just drop it, you know?
Yeah, that's right.
Actually, there was another piece to this, a little shorter.
I believe quite sincerely that this is the end for...
I'm not seeing customers in space on Virgin Galactic at least anytime soon because they do not have another vehicle anywhere near completion.
I don't see them at least being able to carry anybody into space.
In the next 10 years.
That was their one rocket?
I didn't know that.
One jalopy, baby.
One jalopy.
And she says 10 years.
What is this?
How could we have shot these dudes into space?
They landed on the moon.
47 years ago?
How many years ago?
On the other hand, I don't want to get into that.
On the other hand, Elon Musk is doing fine shooting his rockets in the air.
This thing was just a scam from the get-go.
Okay.
I mean, Elon Musk could probably, if he took over this program, he could send a little jalopy in the space and back.
Sure.
Well, I'm ready for it.
He's going to send people to Mars.
Now, that's a bit much.
See, his level of the scam is a little bigger.
Over the top.
He liked this Branson guy because, you know...
Jalopy.
With his jalopy.
Big, but he's...
Moon, space, blah.
You've always said he was just a front man anyway, so...
Well, Branson is a front man.
That's what I'm saying.
I know people that would agree, and they say they agree he's a front man for various interests around the world, international interests.
Lots of interesting interests.
I'll say it.
You don't have to say it.
I won't say it.
We've been sworn to secrecy.
Yeah, there's some stuff you can't talk about, but let's just take our word for it.
Take our word for it.
I should never do, by the way, don't take anybody's word for anything.
But our word you can take.
But just look at Branson and figure it out for yourself.
Look at that island he's got, what's going on there.
However, meanwhile, there is some actual space news.
China has successfully recovered an experimental spacecraft that flew around the moon and back.
It's a test run for the country's first unmanned return trip to the lunar surface that's due to take place in 2017.
Okay.
I can't wait.
48 years later, the Chinese are finally doing it.
With all their high tech and all their manufacturing.
Look at the iPhone.
Look at the iPhone.
The iPhone has a thousand times more technology than the first rockets and the one that went to the moon.
That's what the Chinese are putting together.
And they can barely get some thing around the moon.
That's fine.
They got it around.
It wasn't barely.
It's fine.
They'll be landing a whole slew of people up there.
They'll be putting up a moon base.
I guess.
Well, it'll be interesting when they land there and the Israeli moon base opens up and says, Yippee-ki-yay, motherfuckers!
What you doing on my moon?
All right.
All right.
Hey, did you talk about the quantitative easing ending on the Dvorak Horowitz show?
Well, he talked about it not really ending.
Well, okay, that's what I wanted to know, because I see all these reports, like, oh, it's over, it's ended, but it doesn't look like it really is.
Well, here's the thing.
Horowitz pointed this out, is that the way they did it, you have to remember they're putting $60-70 billion a month We're good to go.
Part of the deal was that they were never going to sell these bonds.
And so these bonds, they're just going to let them expire.
So all along, they're paying interest and dividends, and they take that money and reinvest it into buying more bonds.
And that's just part of the deal.
So even when they stop buying officially, they're still buying because of all the money being generated by the bonds.
And that's a minimum of, I think, $10 billion a month.
But aren't they paying that interest to themselves?
Is that how it works?
Well, that's kind of interesting.
Yeah, I guess.
And where does that interest money come from?
It's like, here, Adam, take a dollar.
Oh, thanks, John.
Here, you take a dollar.
Okay, I paid a dollar today.
Sounds good to me.
I'm making money.
Well, let's do this faster.
We can make even more money.
So you're saying that the QE has not gone away.
It's just dissolved down to about $10 billion.
Well, that's quite a cut.
Well, it's something like that.
I don't know the numbers.
So I'm not going to say I know the numbers.
But the numbers are high, and it's continuing because of this reinvestment program.
If you think that they've been putting 60, 60, 60, there's a lot.
They bought a lot of bonds.
So I think they'd easily generate $10 billion a month.
But there's also talk about having to pump it up a little more on the side, too.
It's very iffy whether or not they are out or in.
I don't know.
Is there an official word?
We'd be in a massive depression if it wasn't for this.
Well, and just to stay on topic for a moment, it seems like it's kind of unavoidable anyway with the way Europe is headed.
Did I see that the European Central Bank now just has 0% interest?
Just zero, none, nothing.
Well, they finally figured out what was wrong.
No, yeah.
A couple of these banks jacked up interest rates during the downturn just for some unknown reason.
It's never been fully explained just to keep things under control.
And now they're freaked.
And what happened was, I think it's an interesting phenomenon, what you think you're doing...
It's beneficial in some ways, but in other ways it's not, because all the different kinds of mechanisms, there's like the price of gold, the price of oil, the currency, all these things that are all variables.
And you start messing with the economy, and the variables go crazy.
They go one way, you can't predict it.
And the thing that's happening, I think it's going to be non-stop, because once it gets going, I don't think they're going to be able to reverse it.
The euro is finally dropping, right?
Yeah, what are we now?
123, somewhere around there?
It should be.
Oh, yeah.
I saw it.
Yeah, I think it is.
Euro price.
125.
I was close.
125.
It was 138 when we were there last.
Yeah.
This is down.
And when it gets back, you know, when I went, one time I went to Europe, like, years ago, and I thought it was great.
You came back broke.
It was, no, it was 80 cents.
Nice.
This was a while ago.
This is when it was at its lowest.
And when you, this is the only, and I don't want to sound like a dilettante, but it was one of the rare times that I was actually in Paris and could afford to buy Bordeaux wine at a restaurant.
Mm-hmm.
Because generally speaking, I don't know why it's cheaper in the United States than it is in France, but it is.
It's very expensive.
And this is a tip for you travelers.
What you do is they always have good Chinon wines in all the top Paris restaurants, and that's what you order.
And a Chinon, which is made with one of the grapes used in Bordeaux, is usually owned by the restaurant, many of these wineries.
And it's an outstanding product.
Chinon.
C-H-I-N-O-N. Chinon.
And that's what I was always drinking in France.
Can we do one more topic before we got a lot of thank yous today?
Yes, we do.
Should I do one more?
Agenda 21?
If I get to do one more.
Yeah, well, why don't you go first, Mr.
Chinon.
Well, I've got one here that says GM in Russia.
Oh, that's General Motors.
Okay, can I do a pet peeve kind of thing?
Of course.
Okay, play the element.
This is a teaser for the Sherlock Holmes series on, I think it's NBC, CBS, not sure.
I'm wondering why he was murdered by someone he knew.
And I'm reviewing my knowledge of invertebrate zoology.
It's all terribly interesting if one simply paid attention.
Okay, he says...
Zoology.
I heard it.
How can a guy that's supposed to be...
Now, here's what gets me.
The word is zoology.
It's not zoo-ology.
It's not Z-O-O-O, which would be zoo.
It's zoo.
Z-O-ology.
Zoology.
It's not that hard.
Now, how can this guy...
The writers should have said something.
How can this guy supposed to be educated Sherlock Holmes say zoology?
And how come nobody on the entire network spotted this gaffe?
Because they're all idiots.
Is that it?
Yeah, that's all I got to say.
It's been a while since we've bitched about zoologists.
It's been a while.
I used to catch this more often.
You're absolutely right.
It was so subtle in there, I didn't think you'd be attuned to it.
It was hard, I'll admit.
It was hard to hear.
It is voting time in the United States of Gitmo Nation.
It is, of course, time to put everything into whatever we can, to pile on everything, to get to vote for Democrats.
But it is also this time of year when we have yet another report from the IPCC, Intergovernmental Planetary Climate Change Panel of Starfleet Command.
And, of course, we need to then ratchet ramp up all that we can about climate change.
Some very interesting pieces came across the telescreen.
The first one is directly related to the vote on Tuesday.
Now, often we hear certainly Democrats blast the Republicans for being financed by Coke Brothers!
And they're buying the whole country.
The Koch brothers just pay everybody to deny science and climate.
Unfortunately, we have never seen any of that money.
No, we haven't seen a nickel of it.
Tom Steyer, and we talked about him a while ago, has promised to be the yin to the Koch brothers' yang.
He is a billionaire, American hedge fund manager, but also a philanthropist and environmentalist.
He's, of course, formerly of Goldman Sachs, so you know that he must be a Democrat.
And in addition to that, he has a big hedge fund.
So this is the guy, remember, he said, hey, I'm going to put up a billion dollars if everybody else puts up a billion dollars, and I guess they've got two billion dollars.
I was going to be all in on that.
I tried.
And here he is, and I'll give him this.
He's very good at speaking.
I cannot catch him on reading a prompter in this particular piece, but he is now doing his job, but I think it's a Hail Mary at least, doing his job of saying, if you don't want to die from climate change, vote Democrat.
Twenty months ago, we set out to change the American political dialogue around energy and climate change.
We've worked on a number of campaigns across the country, raising awareness about the dangers of the Keystone XL pipeline, winning important victories in places like Virginia and Massachusetts, and setting the stage to put climate change on the ballot in seven key states this November.
Now as we enter the last few weeks leading up to Election Day, our efforts are ramping up in earnest.
We're registering voters and opening field offices in states where there's a clear choice between the candidates.
And we've already seen a groundswell of support from voters across the country.
We've heard from so many of you who are feeling the impacts of climate change firsthand.
Together, we're sending an unmistakable message to Washington.
Climate change is not just an important issue, it's the issue.
And we need leaders who will take it seriously.
In Florida, I've met canvassers who won't sit idly by as sea levels rise.
Love the music, by the way.
Doesn't that just inspire you like morning has broken?
There's a new dome in America.
I'm reaching for my checkbook.
In over a dozen field offices across the state, they're holding their elected officials accountable for denying science.
Iowans are winning this fight as they always have, on the ground.
They and thousands of others like them across the nation have joined you in pledging their voices and their vote.
Every one of you owns a piece of this movie.
The die is cast.
We cannot go back now, only forward.
He said at the outset...
That climate issues constitute the greatest challenge for our generation of Americans.
The next few years present our greatest opportunity for meaningful action to meet that challenge.
Your efforts between now and November 4th will be absolutely critical to ensure that our leaders give this issue the attention.
Yes, leaders.
With your help, I know we can get there.
Text NEXTGEN to 909...
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
All right.
So, there you go.
There is the money.
And I believe that he was largely responsible for the climate march in New York City.
Funded a lot of that, yeah.
Then we have to go, and this was somewhat disappointing.
Graham Nash.
You probably met Graham Nash.
Graham Nash of Nash Young and Rabinowitz?
Yes, of Nash Young and Stillman.
Yeah.
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
And Graham.
Graham Nash.
He was on the Morning Joe.
Oh, good.
Makes so much sense, doesn't it?
And interestingly, although I did not include that in this clip, but he was playing the Morning Joe boy.
What's his name?
Joe.
Scarborough.
Yeah, Joe.
Had a guitar sitting next to Graham Nash jamming.
Oh, please.
Jamming.
These guys.
If you want to become a musician like that, and you're going to...
Just go become one.
That's almost like me having...
Or get a harmonica like me.
That's like me having Billy Joel in here and you jamming on harmonica.
Hey, Billy!
No, you'd be at a piano.
No, no, it would be better.
He's doing piano, man, and you're doing...
Come on, put it on the phone.
It's like that.
And Graham Nash, you've got to love the guy for the music and everything.
But wow, did the programming hit this guy hard in the head.
Talk about politics.
It's always been very important to you making a difference in the world.
Where do you think things stand in 2014?
A lot of people are cynical.
I think that the powers that be that run this world have us exactly where they want us.
They want everyone to just lie down, shut up while we rob you.
So far, so good.
That sounds right.
Sit down, shut up while we rob you.
Yeah, it's good.
Talk about the fight for a cleaner, safer environment.
Well, you know, there are many, many problems facing us, especially with the acidification of the ocean and the rising of the temperatures and the melting of the glaciers.
But it all really stems from climate change.
You know, it's appalling how many climate change deniers there are in this world that are paid to make sure that the Koch brothers can still sell all the stuff to us.
And I often wonder, don't the Koch brothers have children?
Don't they have grandchildren?
Don't they know what they're doing in this quest for more money?
They're already one of the richest families in the world.
How much more do you need?
Koch brothers!
Don't be a denier!
The science is in!
Science!
Wow.
Guys all in, hook, line, and sinker.
I mean, all he forgot to say was, the polar bears are dying, anything.
He could have added anything to that.
But of course, this now comes to a head with the worst possible spokesman you could imagine for any.
I mean, if you had anything you wanted to communicate to the world, No matter what it is, nuke the gay whales, kill the Koch brothers, Tim Cook is gay, and whatever you want to put out there, the guy you do not want portraying your message is Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations.
Because the guy can't speak English.
You can't understand a word the guy's saying.
But if you listen closely, and here he is, am I right?
It's crazy.
All he has to do is, I'm the UN Secretary General, do this, whatever.
His only job is really saying, this is what we've decided.
And he can't even do that because, I'm sorry, guy got no skills.
Okay, so they put him up there anyway, as usual.
Oh, Bunky Moon.
And by the way, Uncle Don is all in on Bunky Moon.
He met Bunky Moon.
He's like, oh, I met Bunky Moon.
I was surprised.
You liked him?
Yeah, I thought he was honored.
Like, that guy's a fucking nib nude.
Alright, well, I'm seeing Don in two weeks, so...
Yeah, well, it sounds like you're okay.
No, it'll be fine.
It's just me, Mickey, Don, and Meg.
It's our private little audience.
Oh, nice.
Where I'm finally going to say, dude, just hook me up with Bobby.
Bobby Inman.
Hook me up with Bobby.
Bobby Inman lives down the street.
But I don't want to hook up like Bobby might be wanting to hook up.
I just want to talk to the guy.
We know about Bobby and his hookups.
Yeah, we got that.
Here's Ban Ki-moon.
He does have what I think is...
I have thought about that, too.
Here's what I believe is...
God, my wife is sexy.
Holy crap.
Yeah, she's walking.
She walked by.
I just, I saw.
Banky Moon said this?
No, yes.
He said, tell her to put some clothes on.
Let's get to the point here.
You're being dis...
I'm sorry.
Stop interrupting the show.
She walked by completely naked with a bear Paddington hat on.
Huh.
Just put that in your imagination.
So I think Banky Moon put something in here, a line in this little speechlet that may be a show title.
I'll see if you can catch it.
It comes towards the end.
The report we are launching today, the IPCC's fifth assessment, was compiled by hundreds of scientists from around the world.
It is the most comprehensive appraisal of climate change ever taken.
This report offers three key messages.
Three cheese messages.
Three cheeses, John, for the message.
Get this guy off of that job.
Human influence on the climate system is clear and clearly growing.
Oh, clear and growing.
Thanks for the scientific proof.
Second, we must act trickly and decisively if we want to avoid increasingly destructive outcomes.
Three, we have the means to limit climate change and build a better future.
I just realized he has a mouthful of spit when he talks.
Did you hear that?
I want to hear this because you keep interrupting and I won't be able to concentrate and catch because I know there's something here I'm supposed to catch.
I'm going to be quiet now.
Now you can listen.
The report found that the world is largely very ill prepared for the risks of changing climate, especially the poor and most vulnerable who have contributed least to this program.
There is a myth which is shared unscientifically, uneconomically, that climate action will cost heavily.
But I'm telling you that inaction of climate action will cost much, much more.
This climate action and economic growth are two sides of just one coin.
With this due synthesis report, science has spoken yet again with much more clarity and greater certainty.
Come on, didn't you hear it?
A science has spoken.
Yeah, I heard him say that.
I like that.
No one has said science has spoken.
I like science has spoken.
Huh.
Okay.
I wasn't that impressed with it.
No, I thought you would like it.
Science is stupid.
Well, yeah, I appreciate that thought.
You know, as I listen to this guy, you have to really concentrate to hear some of these words.
Google Translate is the one he has trouble saying, which is ironic.
Yeah.
Because it has an L and an R. Cariri.
Cariri.
He has to change him up.
He has to...
There's something...
I keep thinking, what is it that...
Why are we all in on...
What is the point?
Ah!
Where are we...
Where's the money?
Oh!
I tricked you.
You walked right into it.
Well, maybe.
You walked right into it.
Maybe I didn't walk right into it.
Maybe I did it because I knew you wanted to say something.
But that would mean that we might be either A, in cahoots, ganging up on the listener.
We're never in cahoots.
Listeners should know that.
Ganging up by discussing, hey, I'll play this, and you say, wait a minute, where's the money coming from?
John Coleman was on CNN this morning.
John Coleman, who is that?
John Coleman, the founder of the Weather Channel.
He's the biggest climate denier there is.
I kind of like this show on CNN. It's called...
No, I don't know what it's called.
It's kind of a meta show about media, which I like because it's...
Everybody's doing that nowadays, by the way.
It started with PBS and on the media.
Yes.
NPR. That's NPR on the media.
Yeah, I'm sorry, NPR. So this guy, I forget his name.
Reliable Sources is the name of the show.
And it's great because you get to deconstruct the deconstruction show, which is kind of funnier.
So John Coleman is...
Here's the prelude.
John Coleman has consistently said climate change is bogus.
He's a scientist, by the way.
Here's the real science.
It's not true.
It's a scab.
It's a hoax.
And the Weather Channel has now distanced themselves from him.
From their own founder.
They said he has nothing to do with the weather.
Because, of course, the Weather Channel did not...
Wait a minute.
Did not the Weather Channel get bought by the Rothschilds a while ago?
Remember that?
They got bought by somebody.
Let me look it up.
Rothschild.
I don't think it was the Rothschild.
Yeah, I think it was.
Weather Central, I'm sorry.
Oh, no, that's Weather Central.
I think that is Weather Channel.
Hold on.
I don't know.
Private company, blah, blah, blah.
Okay, so they provide...
Who owns the Weather Channel?
A sister company to the Weather Channel.
The weather company is owned by a consortium made out of NBC Universal.
Hello, MSNBC. How are you doing?
And private equity firms.
Nice.
Blackstone Group and Bain Capital.
Yeah, Rothschild.
Yeah, Weather Services International is the owner, and that is a system.
Yeah, okay.
So, yes, a bunch of people...
Weather Channel is part of the Weather Channel companies.
Let me put it in these terms for you.
EWCC. If you are able to report the weather, not necessarily predict the weather, but if you can report the weather and get people ready for, I don't know, things like climate change and complete destruction of the planet...
You may find that some of your other portfolio companies benefit.
What do you think?
think is that a fair assessment i would say that's the rationale for the whole the whole thing in some way shape or form makes yeah makes sense the thing in the united states of america everything is based on that simple premise yes predict the news and the future Win valuable prizes.
John Coleman is...
Well, you'll hear what he does here.
And then if you're still interested after the John Coleman bit, which I think he will be, because he's just another fabulous appearance by this guy.
Because he's a broadcaster and he knows how to cut through it.
But he's also a scientist, which of course is discredited in the whole intro.
But I cut all that off.
And after that, Tom...
I'm sorry.
What's his name?
David Kenny, who is the CEO of Weather Services International, who own the Weather Channel, comes in for a slight rebuttal.
I'm sorry?
You want to say?
I don't see where Weather Services International has anything to do with the Weather Channel I see it here on the Wikipedia.
Weather Central owner, Weather Services International, and they are a sister company to the Weather Channel.
Maybe I'm wrong, doesn't matter.
It's a sister company.
Yeah, that's under the same umbrella.
Within the umbrella is the Weather Channel Company.
Weather Central, yes.
Owned by a consortium of NBCUniversal and private equity.
Yes.
So our sister.
Okay.
Yeah.
Owned by the same company.
Okay.
Are we good?
Yeah, no, that's fine.
They don't own the Weather Channel.
I'm sorry.
Weather Central LP. It's like, it's as if...
It's a hedge fund that owns them.
Weather Central LP. Willow owned the No Agenda show.
She does.
And you better shut up and listen to what she has to say.
Which means, listen to John Coleman.
It's nice to be on CNN. Hello to all your viewers.
I resent you calling me a denier.
That is a word meant to put me down.
I'm a skeptic about climate change, and I want to make it darn clear Mr.
Kenney's not a scientist.
I am.
He's the CEO of the Weather Channel now.
I was the founder of the Weather Channel, not the co-founder.
They also had the Chiron up, the lower third the whole time, co-founder.
Where he is the founder.
So they discredit him, the angel, he's a denier.
This is on CNN? This morning, yeah.
And this is supposed to be one of those shows that deconstructs the media?
Yeah.
And what's funny...
I almost expected this guy in his opening thing to say, Hello, CNN and all ships at sea.
Didn't you almost hear him say that?
It's nice to be on CNN. Hello to all your viewers.
I present you calling me a denier.
That is a word meant to put me down.
I'm a skeptic about climate change, and I want to make it darn clear Mr.
Kenny's not a scientist.
I am.
He's the CEO of the Weather Channel now.
I was the founder of the Weather Channel, not the co-founder.
And I'm glad you did, because I am addicted to the Weather Channel.
I watch a lot of cable news.
Hold on just a minute.
I'm not done.
And CNN has taken a very strong position on global warming that is a consensus.
Well, there is no consensus in science.
Science isn't a vote.
Science is about facts.
And if you get down to the hard, cold facts...
Uh-oh.
There's no question about it.
Climate change is not happening.
There is no significant man-made global warming now.
There hasn't been any in the past, and there's no reason to expect any in the future.
There's a whole lot of baloney.
And yes, it has become a big political point of the Democratic Party and part of their platform.
And I regret it's become political instead of scientific.
But the science is on my side.
I don't think we're going to come to the conclusion about the topic right here.
What I do wonder, though, is when you see...
I know we're not, because you wouldn't allow it to happen on CNN. But I'm happy that I got on the air and got a chance to talk to your viewers.
Hello, everybody.
Hey, hello, all ships and seas.
There is no global warming.
What I do wonder is when you see the government, when you see NASA... The guy's saying one of the most explosive things you can say, and this dude's like...
I just wonder...
And he's like, there is no...
Hello, world!
There is no global warming!
There is no climate change!
Good on you, Goodman.
I like this Coleman guy.
You see the government, when you see NASA, when you see other institutions say that 97% of climate scientists agree, do you think they're making it up?
What I don't understand is...
Ah, here comes the answer to your question, John.
How you square that.
Well, that's a manipulated figure, and let me explain it to you.
The government puts out about $2.5 billion directly for climate research every year.
It only gives that money to scientists who will produce scientific results that support the global warming hypothesis of the Democrat Party of precision.
Woohoo!
So, they don't have any choice.
If you're going to get the money, you've got to support their position.
Therefore, 97% of the scientific reports published support global warming.
Why?
Because those are the ones the government pays for, and that's where the money is.
It's real simple.
But that doesn't mean it's right.
That doesn't make it true.
Hey, you crazy old kook!
What do you think you are, a scientist?
How good is this guy?
Well, he's been doing this long enough.
His first videos were a number of years ago.
I think even before we started our show.
And they're still around if you search on the Google.
And I think he's been to so many events, and he's presented this position so much that he has already taken all the heat he can take, and he has all the counterarguments, because if he was ever caught off flat-footed, I'm sure he worked out a better solution.
So he's one of those guys you would not debate against.
Would you like to hear a little more of him?
Oh, I'd love this guy.
That only makes it bought and paid for.
The money goes in circles.
I'm not a scientist, so I'm not going to try to refuse on the facts.
No, that's the truth.
Please stand back from this issue and let the two sides be on the air.
There are 31,000 scientists who have signed a petition that says it is not valid, that my position is correct, and we'll keep battling, and we will prevail in time, but I don't know if we'll do it in my lifetime.
I do hope viewers are Googling the data you're sharing because I do think it's huge.
I have to say that.
I want to ask you about the weather.
No, it's not true.
And I hope you will go to the websites that present the papers that show that none of this alarmism about ice and heat waves and droughts, none of it is happening.
Is the Weather Channel part of the conspiracy?
Well, the Weather Channel has bought into it.
As I say, they've drunk the Kool-Aid.
But so has all the media.
That's no big surprise.
Let me read to you what the channel said this week.
He screwed it up here, by the way.
He screwed it up.
I think it should be a mistake.
The mistake was that the Weather Channel is now owned by NBCUniversal, which owns MSNBC, which is a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party.
Well, he said two things wrong.
First he said, there's no droughts happening.
That is a mistake, and he should figure it out.
He didn't say it right.
He didn't say it right.
What he meant was there's no droughts as a result of global warming.
And in fact, we had the testimony on our show at one of the congressional hearings where the world expert on drought says it's more likely to have more droughts with global cooling than And that information, of course, was ignored by the idiot from Rhode Island, White House, who just, blah, whatever he said, bullcrap.
And he's like a global warmist himself.
And I still want to go.
I, personally, and if anybody's in the D.C. area, we can have a meetup.
I want to go to Washington, D.C. I want to go into the bowels of the Congress and look in those papers where all the investments are made and find out what White House owns.
Oh, yeah, you can only do that in the basement.
Yeah, you can't.
They tried to put it online.
They said, no, no, no, no, no.
We can't have this online, but we'll keep the information in the basement.
Yes.
Anyway, onward.
The other thing he did wrong is he said, go look for the websites.
Come on, you've got to give a website name.
That was another mistake.
Yes, that's a big mistake.
Well, let me read it to the viewers then.
After you appeared on Fox, they did put out this statement distancing themselves from you.
They said, Mr.
Coleman does have a place in our company's history and we appreciate the contributions that he made more than 30 years ago.
However, we want to be clear, John Coleman is no longer affiliated with our company.
How did you feel to see them disavow you in that way?
Well, no problem.
I mean, you know, that's all accurate.
And the statement that's on their website, which they reissued this week, was written back in 2007.
And that's a rather reasonable, warm statement.
It's not full of alarmism.
It's not full of the sky is falling.
It's a pretty reasonable statement.
It's not the programming they put on the TV that's not reasonable.
And, you know, when they put on their climate geeks, those aren't scientists.
Those are nuts.
You sound like a man disappointed.
They never put on a real skeptical scientist.
They don't give us any spot on their channel.
That's too bad that they don't.
You sound like a man disappointed by the channel that you helped create.
Oh, I'm terribly disappointed.
I created a channel to give people their weather, tell them what the weather is now and what it's going to be, where they live and in their region, and keep them posted on the weather and serve a real purpose.
And that channel has been totally distorted and become strange as it can be.
Well, John, thank you for being here this morning and sharing your views with us.
Click!
Thank you for letting me out.
Gee, somehow they cut out something there.
Click.
Click.
And also, the guy, whoever the host of this media deconstruction show is, again kind of demeaned him by saying, helped create.
Oh, yeah.
Because he was the founder.
He's the lone founder.
He created it.
He's not the guy who was some loser that helped create.
Yeah, that's sad.
Well, that's like...
All subtle propaganda.
Very well done.
That's like...
People that are all in.
They got the hook in their mouth.
They're being dragged ashore so they can, you know, die of too much air.
That is very similar to, I think it was New York Magazine.
Here it is.
what's behind the great podcast Renaissance?
Renaissance.
Yes, this is a trend right now.
We're seeing a lot of podcasting articles.
It's all triggered by, I think, One thing.
It's one thing.
So just listen to the opening.
2001, Steve Jobs announced the original iPod, a music player that would make it possible for people to carry their entire album collections in their pockets.
Over the next few years, a genre of narrative audio that took the device's name, podcasting, became a thriving mini industry.
There were podcasts about politics, sports, literature, comedy.
There were podcasts that sounded like NPR, ones that sounded like Rush Limbaugh.
Many lacked polish, but most had a kind of energy to them that suited their audience as well.
Then we jump to today, and it's all about this public radio exchange group of radio shows Right, these guys.
Radio shows who have raised money for radio shows.
Yeah, of course there'll be podcasts.
And they did a very successful Kickstarter, although...
I know this doesn't work.
I had a whole company that did this.
It doesn't really work.
You don't need a network.
So the 99% Invisible is the show with Roman Mars, who was the hero of all radio.
Yeah, now.
For some reason.
And it sounds like a classic.
NPR. NPR. NPR. Very dead room.
You know, the exact same sort of microphone talk.
You know, you work it really tight, and it's dead.
It's got that dead sound.
And then there's a bunch of people reporting, and it's post-produced in such a way that it sounds just like an NPR show.
And it's like, you know, it puts you right to sleep.
What's interesting about this article, which, of course, makes no mention of Adam Curry or Dave Weiner or other Hall of Famers such as John C. Dvorak, It goes right into the real reason that this article believes the economics are now compelling, saying that they're, although I have a hard time believing these numbers at all, that the cost, the CPM, the cost per thousand, has become interesting both for advertiser and for producers alike.
But although at the end I think there is something very correct, As I talked to podcasters, they told me the biggest reason for the podcast renaissance has nothing to do with the podcast themselves or the advertisers funding them.
It's actually about cars.
Yes, finally.
Someone has figured it out.
Yes.
It's about what?
Well, cars.
What they mean is it's about commuters who are bored to tears of the same old rehashed...
I disagree with that.
They're not necessarily bored to tears.
They're bored.
They hate the commercials.
They didn't let me finish.
Filled with commercial.
And by the way, your podcast, if you have it filled with commercials and the only way to really make it viable to do it, to live, unless you're doing it part-time, which is also possible, just for yucks and juggles, You're going to be filling up your podcast with advertising, and people will be just as annoyed by that, or they'll just skip past them.
Well, fast forward works.
Fast forward, exactly.
Most of the advertising is embedded.
I got a note from the CEO of Joyride.
Have you heard about this Joyride app?
Oh, I thought it was a sex toy.
It might be.
Ah, he wants to talk.
I don't know.
You have a...
There's a joyride?
No, I don't know anything about it.
It's called a joyride.
Yeah, and what it does is it hopefully...
It's a little disappointing because it's the same thing.
It's like, oh, well, we'll organize your podcast for...
I mean, a podcatcher.
And it always has...
And PR shows all over the place.
I'm fine.
Thank you.
Whatever.
There's more to life than this American life.
I don't want to sound bitter because I'm not really just a little.
Bitter.
It's a bitter pill to swallow.
Would you like to hear the short rebuttal from the president of the weather companies to this Coleman?
I don't know.
Is it any good?
I think it's funny to hear him kind of struggle.
Oh, so we switched from the discussion of podcasting and going right to our donation segment.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Oh, no, that's dumb.
You're right.
No, it's dumb.
It's dumb.
Wait.
But since it sounds as though we have a douchebag involved...
It may develop into a handy transition.
Is that what you're saying?
I'm starting to think it might get a segue in this.
What do you want people to know about John Coleman and his involvement in the Weather Channel in the past?
What I want people to know is that the science is pretty clear about climate change.
It's pretty clear.
I'll agree with that.
It's pretty clear.
It's bogus.
...statement since 2007.
We've been unwavering on it, and I think, as always, we cover the science.
Oh, yes.
I think some people were confused to hear a statement from somebody who was noted as a co-founder of the Weather Channel, which is true.
We're grateful that he got it started 32 years ago, but he hasn't been with us in 31 years, so he's not really speaking for the Weather Channel in any way today.
Our position is really clear.
It's scientifically based.
And we've been unwavering on it for quite some time now.
Are you concerned that he or others are using his title as co-founder in order to try to give attention to something that is misleading, that's inaccurate?
I'm concerned whenever the discussion of climate change veers from the science, the science is really clear.
And I don't like our brand being associated with something that's not scientifically based.
I think we can all be proud of our resumes, but I would prefer people use the credentials they have today, not the credentials of three decades ago.
So that makes me wonder if you've reached out to him and suggested that he not be using the Weather Channel name.
I try to be in touch, but at the end of the day, people can...
It's a free country.
People can speak freely and people can use their resumes and other people put those titles on them.
I actually don't think that's a fight worth having.
What I care more about is that our viewers come to us, continue to trust us, continue to believe that we present to them a great understanding of the earth and how it works based on science.
And I care that the scientists of the world continue to partner with us.
Do people ever say to you that climate change is good for business?
Good for the Weather Channel?
Because it causes very scary storms that cause people to tune in?
Listen to that!
Two douchebags!
Wow!
This is astonishing, this guy!
This is a terrible show!
Yeah!
That's why I like it.
Listen, at the end of the day, we never like to see a loss of lice.
Loss of lice.
We hate loss of lice.
Property.
Safety is a really important mission.
So, you know, I don't think we ever take any joy in serious storms.
It is true that there is more drought, more flood, more extreme weather as the climate evolves.
And, you know, that actually saddens us.
I don't think we ever view it as good for business.
Bullshit!
Yeah!
Nice.
So sorry.
We're so sorry.
That's terrible.
All right.
Well, with that, I will say happy Halloween, belated happy 666 Mark of the Beast, and in the morning to you, and thank you for your courage, John C. Dvorak.
And in the morning to you, Adam Curry, in the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground, subs in the water, feet in the air, and all the dames and knights out there.
In the morning to everyone in the chat room.
It's been a little challenging today.
I guess one of our...
One of our sites is down, but people are able to find the stream anyway.
That's good.
And the chat room.
So we still have...
We got a good 862 people right now on the stream alone.
And in the morning to our artistes...
I think we had one artiste who we had not used before that was leaving the herd.
Yes.
I believe he was new.
And is the new No Agenda art generator?
Yes, it is up.
It's up.
The new art generator is all up.
It's got a lot of JavaScript.
My favorite.
Lots of stuff going on.
And it's much prettier.
Yeah.
And modern.
Yeah.
There's a couple of little things that could be...
I think he's still working on some things.
The organizational aspect of it is not what I'd like.
Okay, well, you'll feed back to Sir Paul, I'm sure.
Yeah, I know.
There's Sir Paul Couture who does this.
Great job, great job.
He's an artist himself, and he does Drupal.
And he...
I don't know if it's headless Drupal or not, but he does Drupal.
And he has...
Produced the original website.
It was a great idea to begin with.
This website...
It's like five years ago, and now you decided to update it with the newest crap going on.
This website could easily cost $400,000.
We got it for free.
Or more.
Or more.
With maintenance.
Monthly maintenance for Headless Drupal.
Nice.
Yes, that's because we have good people.
Yes.
Who care?
Who care?
Care about the truth.
So let's thank a few of them.
In fact, the ones who gave us an extra kick in the ass for today's show, 666.
Nice.
Curiously, nobody with 666 gave the 666.
The one, the one, the one.
We got one.
No, but that was in the last show, remember?
Oh, that's right.
It was Andre Schmidt who came in right at the last minute, or just after the deadline.
I put him on the last one because I'm sure he won a double credit.
But he's on the list again, which is where he should be, but...
Sergei Filipov in Auckland, New Zealand.
So we have a New Zealander leading the way.
Yes.
With $1,000 and he wants us to play.
He doesn't have a lot.
Note to read.
Greetings from little old New Zealand.
Longtime boner, now a donor.
Yes, I'm fulfilling the end of the value for value model and would like to call out other boners out there for not donating.
Oh.
As douchebags?
Is that what he's asking for?
Douchebags!
I'm a Russian national that has been living in New Zealand, pronounced Nezid, Nezid, for 19 years and have seen this country slowly but surely come into lockstep, lockstep with the USA. Good work, Nezid.
Good work.
Your deconstruction of what is happening in Ukraine and your recent insights into Russian psyches are beyond stupendous.
Wow.
Beyond stupendous.
Wow, I gotta write that down.
Yeah.
Beyond, not just stupendous.
No, not just stupendous, but beyond stupendous.
That's pretty cool.
We are beyond stupendous.
I'd like to extend an open invitation to the Hot Pocket Store to come down to Australia and New Zealand.
Keep up the amazing work.
Hot Pocket!
Thank you.
So he wants to play a de-douche because he wants a jobs, karma, and a Putin.
Okay, you got it.
You've been de-douched.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
I kind of nailed that.
I like throwing the Putin in there.
That kind of worked.
I heard the Putin.
Good.
Thank you very much.
Instanite, Sergei.
Instanite.
Does he have a special name he wants to be using?
Doesn't say.
Instaniteness?
No, it'll be just Instanite, Sergei.
Check it out, man.
Michael Underwood in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Another incident at $1,000 in the morning, gentlemen, Cincinnati, FEMA Region 5.
I'd like to render my part in the value-for-value model for the best podcast in the universe, and thank you, too, for your excellent analysis and hilarious banter.
Your deconstructions of events have been spot on and are far superior to other shows, especially those that are super incumbent upon seeds and boner pills.
I was in the mouth back in March when the annexation of Crimea by Russia was the provisional subject of the latest fear porn.
I was hooked after experiencing my first episode show 595, Automania, Excellent.
Yeah.
Yeah.
These moments in his life.
Episode 653, The Evil Layer Cake.
Oh yeah, that one.
Got it.
He made his second donation and called me out as a douchebag.
Oh, the gauntlet was thrown down.
And my only prerogative was to seek vindication and become an instanite because I cannot call out my brother as a non-donating douchebag.
I humbly request a de-douching.
I'd also like to request two to the head.
NPR Ebola is gross and disgusting.
And a Dr. Kiki, it was worth it.
And fine, it's a lot.
And a karma, I guess.
And a karma, of course.
And finally, if I'm not imposing it on the clip time, I would really use some home buying karma as my family and I are looking to move to our first home early next year.
Good idea.
I will endeavor...
Real estate's your best bet.
I will endeavor to not let this donation become my moral self-licensing mechanism and will continue to donate in the future.
Good word.
I like it.
Most importantly, I would like to simply be titled Sir Metal Mike.
You got it.
Thank you very much, Metal Mike.
This is great.
Look forward to the ceremony later on in the show.
You've been de-douched.
It is scary and wretched and miserable.
It is gross.
It was worth it.
Ebola.
It was worth it.
You've got karma.
Loving the kiki.
On the next list, of course, is Andre Schmid from Lusanne, Switzerland.
We have yet to hear from him.
James Cates in Virginia Beach, Virginia, 44119.
Now, this you have to make a note of.
Oh, boy.
Because this was on the old account and was probably showed up a week or two ago because I only pick full these down about once a month.
So he is actually a black knight.
Oh, okay.
James Cates.
Yes.
So as of today, I have a Sir James of Virginia and of Iceland.
Black Knight.
Yeah.
Yeah, right.
I guess I'm a knight and a noun and I have to pick my peerage title, so let's go with Sir James of Virginia and Iceland.
I'm a dual citizen.
I've never actually heard of a dual citizen from Iceland, but it's a good idea.
Shout out to Andre Mickelson and a challenge to Baron Thomas Nussbaum.
For a meet-up.
Doe.
And then he says he doesn't like Nilay Patel.
I would like a douchebag for Nilay, or whatever his name is.
And a boom shakalaka.
Get the douchebag thing out.
That's good.
Douchebag!
Shakalaka, that's how we roll.
Here's the thing.
Boom shakalaka, that's how we roll.
And then he would like Milfson Maker's Mark for his thing, if you can add that to the list.
Adam, great hair.
John, nice beatdown of Neelay.
Okay, we're not really talking about other shows on our show.
No, not at all.
Send me info on ring sites.
You go to noagendanation.com slash rings if you get a knighthood.
And then there's a form you fill out.
You get your ring shortly thereafter.
Okay, so I have...
Within 30 to 60 days.
I got a boom shakalaka.
That's how we roll.
L-G-Y... Boomshakalaka.
That's how we roll.
Let me just put this over here.
Hold on.
Boomshakalaka.
LGY. Oh, it's all in the wrong place.
LGY. Then A. That's how we roll.
Karma, anything else?
Or is that...
No, it sounds like it.
Okay, I think I can do that.
Let's give it a shot.
Dingo!
Boomshakalaka!
Yay!
That's how we roll.
That's how we work.
And that's the story.
You've got karma.
Nice, nice, nice.
Good.
Daniel Hochstein in Surprise, Arizona.
It's like Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
It's an actual town.
$333.33.
Dear John and Adam, first, congratulations on your first seven years.
That's quite an accomplishment.
The value for value delivered on the No Agenda show is difficult to put a price on.
Nevertheless, it attaches my donation for 333.33, about half of the 666 Sign of the Beast, which pushes me over the edge to knighthood.
Going forward, I'd like to be addressed as Sir Daniel, or if that's taken, you can be Sir Daniel, it can be taken, Sir Daniel of the High Desert, which I like better.
Please send my fellow hams 73s and some new business karmage for my business.
I appreciate last week's mention of my tech business, Media Technologies Consulting, and our unique in-house promotion system for bars and restaurants, Dynamic Edge.
John was quite right.
A system that delivers full local ad insertions during a live TV commercial would be a great product, and in fact, we had developed a system to provide just that.
Unfortunately, the cost of implementing the technology as a turnkey service was and still is prohibitive.
Prohibitive.
If restaurants and bar owners want an affordable no-hassle way to increase sales, get the results they're looking for, they should check out Dynamic Edge.
Yeah.
And he goes on.
Nice.
Listeners go to www.getdigitalsigns.com and you can get a demo.
Thank you, Sir Daniel.
Nice.
And they'll get a 10% off if you're no agenda listener, by the way.
We have a couple of bar owners.
Yeah, sure we do.
Here we go.
Now the associate executive producer at the top of the list is Sir Dame, or Sir Dame.
Sir Dame, Dame Francine Hardaway, who I met the other day.
Oh, really?
Is she at the Costco?
No, she was at Costco.
$250, she's in Phoenix.
Please use this to make me a producer of show 666.
She is a lovely, lovely lady.
Yeah, she's great.
I just wanted to say, it's pretty cool that she not only listens, but supports the show, because she's pretty much all in on all the things we think are bad and wrong.
It's funny.
She got Google Glass.
She totally buys in all of the inequality for women.
I think we're a good counterbalance for her, no matter how she is.
She's a techie nerd.
Totally.
And she's an investor.
She invests in all kinds of...
I think she's an angel investor.
Oh, well then she has to be a techie.
Very successful.
She's a struggling, successful angel investor.
She does good work.
She says the show 666 is appropriate for this WB itch.
Let me know when I move up in rank.
I just know I'm close to 3K, which would make her a baroness.
We'll find out.
Not to be left out, Sir Gene Natuliev.
Ah, Earl of Texas.
Earl of Texas in Frisco.
I think he's in Austin.
233, do my favorite donation, one of them, 23456.
I wish to thank the No Agenda producers who have supported the Aluminum Wallet Kickstarter at bit.ly dm1-na.
I'll put that in the show notes again.
We have these special No Agenda versions.
Yeah, by donating a special No Agenda level, they receive a limited edition No Agenda wallet for their support.
We still have some available.
And on to Sir Otaku KF5SVR in Louisville, Texas.
Louisville, 23456.
Well, a couple of friends of mine were enjoying Chimay.
I'm not sure actually how to pronounce that, but it's Belgian ale.
And cigars at my house north of Dallas during the recent Ebola panic.
We ended up on the topic of Ebola, and the prepper of the group blurts out the theory that all...
That all of screw-ups were on purpose to shine a bad light on privatized healthcare so that the government can declare a national emergency and nationalize all healthcare due to the crisis.
That's right.
FEMA camps are next.
In the immortal words of Rahm Emanuel, never let a good crisis go to waste.
And now we're seeing more and more reports of Ebola popping up all over the nation.
I bet we're going to start to hear something along these lines soon.
We don't think so.
Please send some Calypso Ebola karma my way to help keep the idiots at bay.
Sitting in my hazmat suit in North Dallas.
Sir Otaku Everybody now You've got karma.
That's right.
He does mention the website noagendaqsoparty.com.
Oh, is that thing ready to go yet?
I thought we were still working on it.
Well, he says it's going to be January 30th through February 1st.
Nice.
Next year.
That's right.
Just for all you hams out there, go to noagendaqsoparty.com.
You know how it works, don't you?
Yeah, I know how it works.
Really?
Yeah, you try to make as much contact as you can.
Yes, but the most important point, the most important thing is, if you actually have a CUSO with John or Adam, you get extra points.
Oh, that'll be good.
If you get a CUSO with John, it'll be 8 million points, because no one will ever have a CUSO with John.
It's possible.
I'll make a point of going on a couple of times during the QSO party.
QSO. QSO. David Roberts, Norristown, Pennsylvania.
23456.
We've got a lot of these today.
Yeah, that's good.
They're your favorite number.
People love you.
KCD, your chili recipe is the best.
I am making it on the fourth time today.
For the fourth time.
Adam, I like you too.
Oh, thanks.
Also, swine flu is much funnier than Ebola.
I guess that's why it didn't stick.
Yeah.
It's still around.
Still working on it.
I think it's around.
Okay, now we go to the complicated part of everything.
Okay, oh boy.
This means you have to get a note from the other desk?
Not really.
It means I have the notes.
I brought them over, but there are so many of them that I don't have.
This one I'm going to have to look at.
This is Embarrassing Mom Tricia.
Oh, Embarrassing Mom Tricia.
She actually wrote out a note, and then she typed out the same note so I could read it easier.
Hey, Mickey, could you bring me some Advil?
Love, thank you.
I got a headache.
Am I giving you a headache?
No, it's not you.
Okay, Embarrassing Mom Tricia, I don't know that she wants us to mention her last name because she calls herself Embarrassing Mom Tricia in St.
Louis.
23456 and writes this nice little note.
It's actually a long note.
Thank you for your time and commitment to your podcast.
It's highly entertaining and turning me into a fear fighter.
I am sending this donation from my husband, Alan Peterson, for his birthday.
Oh, got a pen?
Is it not on the list?
No, of course it's not on the list.
And in fact, you might want to give Alan Peterson the credit.
I guess she wants to give him the credit for being the associate executive producer.
Alison Peterson, when's his birthday?
November 3rd, tomorrow.
Give him a producer status and steps toward knighthood.
And how old will Alan Peterson be?
Doesn't say.
Okay.
Tomorrow.
29.
Really?
No.
Well, maybe.
I don't know.
I'm just asking.
Don't get pissed at me.
To give him producer credit and steps toward knighthood in order to prevent a future heart attack, I'd like him to receive job karma.
His boss has been called brain damaged by others in his place of employment.
It happens.
He also likes the child boom shakalaka.
And then you have to do a random pick.
Okay, child boom shakalaka and a random pick.
Right, plus the karma.
As a happy listener, you're supposed to have a happy embarrassment and happy embarrassing my children, which all parents like to do, by the way.
Why would you have children if you don't like to embarrass them?
Exactly.
They're good for it.
Yeah, it's so funny.
I'd like to relate a funny story that relates back to a previous show.
My teenage daughter does not yet drive and needs to ride to work.
She has a fellow male employee that would drive her many times, saving me time.
She, however, would not let me meet him.
Really?
After patiently waiting for the right opportunity.
By the way, my wife put clothes on.
Thanks.
It's cold there.
You said it was 50.
There's sunshine, though.
Well, that doesn't mean anything.
Sunshine here is cold.
She was running late, and while he was waiting outside in his car, I quickly grabbed some homemade cookies and took them out to him.
Now at least I can identify him in a lineup, if needed.
As soon as I introduced myself and spoke to him for a few moments, I hear this horrible screaming from the front door.
I turn to look and see my daughter holding her arms out to the side.
Trying to stop the world, I guess.
Yelling, oh my god!
Oh my god!
What have you done?
What have you been ruining my life?
So she comes running down.
I sweetly turn back to the young man and say, nice to meet you.
Have fun with that.
Laughing all the way back to the door.
The next day, I asked my daughter if her friend liked his cookies, surprisingly appreciated them, and commented on my backside.
Okay.
I thought my daughter relayed a negative comment about that body part, thinking it was funny due to her embarrassing her.
I laughed.
Turns out I misunderstood a D for an F. Fat ass became dat ass.
Not knowing what that meant, I had to ask upon hearing her explanation, oh, he likes my fat ass.
That was extra points and a bonus to solidifying my mom tile for the next several days.
The young man would say, Stacy's mom to her sweet...
Stacy's mom to her sweet.
So here in FEMA Region 7, embarrassing mom is fighting...
The talk with Vagina Logic coming full circle.
Okay, well that was long.
I was hoping for a better punchline.
Embarrassing mom, but that's the story.
ISIS. We will follow them to the gates of hell.
ISIS. I feel good!
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Ooh.
You nailed that one.
Well, I had enough time to prepare it.
Oh, there's that girly laugh again.
Pre-read the note, I suppose.
There's the girly laugh.
We all love it.
Sir Adam Johnson in Plymouth, Minnesota.
Nuts.
21978.
Thank you for your courage and for seven years in the 666 episodes of The Best Podcast in the Universe and close my humble donation of 6.66 times 33.
You'd be so kind I'd ask for some Climategate blended with two to the head and in the end followed by a little girl.
Boom shakalaka.
Keep up the great work.
I will be eagerly awaiting more episodes in the many years to come.
Sir Adam Johnson, no agenda night of the Lobster Plymouth, Minnesota.
P.S., for whatever reason, the song Whip It popped up into my head when you were talking about the new executive order on improving the government's credit card processing security, and I thought of a line for a new alternative version of the song, Chip It.
If you use a credit card, you must chip it.
Ah, chip it, chip it good.
Maybe one of our producers that likes doing this.
To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
To the You've got karma.
Mixing it up!
Yeah, no, it's rolling.
We only have a couple more.
We have three more.
We have Sir Upper Decker in Escondido, California.
$200.08.
How hilarious.
You figure once you start the 999.99 trend, I should throw in some extra pennies for the lads.
Okay, lads.
Thank you very much.
Nice.
Jason Peterson in Kearney, Nebraska, $200, sending my payments for iodide pills and seeds, so I'm prepared for the Ebola zombies.
Karma and it was worth it, and her head is gone, please.
Okay, let's see if we can do that.
It was worth it.
And her head is gone.
Plus worse.
You've got karma.
I tried.
I tried.
Finally, Jacob Barker in Sydney, New South Wales.
$200.
Reading on the show is at your discretion.
Thank you.
$200 consists of 77.77, a mini sack of sevens.
Hmm.
66.66, a mini beast, 33, why not?
22, 24, because fuck PayPal.
Late on the 666 donation.
Sorry, I hope this makes up for it.
For John, pronunciation guide for my suburb, Cremoni.
Cray, as in computer.
Morni, as in morning.
Hearing John screw it up last time, he had me in tears laughing in the middle of a packed airplane.
Okay, so it goes how?
Cray...
Craymorny.
Craymorny, right?
Craymorny?
What did I say?
I don't know.
Craymorny or something.
Craymorny.
Craymorny.
I want to thank all these folks.
These are great.
This helps us on the show 666 Celebration.
Really appreciate it.
We do have, when we do produce the credits today, everyone who donated 666 previously, we have a special spreadsheet for that.
We're going to put them on as credits for producing this show so they get their double credits.
And as Adam says, these are real credits.
I want to remind people to go to Dvorak.org.
Slash na, challengeofaric.com slash na, and No Agenda Nation and No Agenda Show both have buttons you can push on, and this will be for Thursday, our upcoming show next week.
Two quick reminders, of course, in the PR section of the show notes, you'll have the Aluminum Wallet Kickstarter link.
Also, thank you to PG Kelly, who has diligently been creating an archive at archive.org of the best podcasts in the universe.
Which is good, because Archive.org, and he has all the MP3s, is one of those sites that maybe has a chance of surviving the Armageddon.
Right.
So there will actually be an all-time archive that kind of has some charter to be kept around.
Although I'm, and I want to make sure, I am very happy of Noah Jenner Nation's archive.
Eric, we love your archive.
I don't want to get pissed off.
You know how it goes, right?
Ooh.
You know, he downloads over terabytes a month from archive stuff.
Really?
Yeah.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Huh.
Yeah, but a lot of people go to the archive and listen.
Yeah, no, I just want Eric's archive to continue.
I'm just saying.
Yeah, no, it's not going to stop.
But we do...
The archive.org does have a shot at surviving a hundred years from now.
I don't think Eric's going to be running No Agenda Nation a hundred years from now.
Of course, thank you for all of your executive and associate executive producer help.
Remember to propagate the formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Order. Order.
Shut up, slave.
Shut up, slave!
I do have one note I want to read that was one of our donors from show, I don't know, it was the Sunday in October show, but this guy left a note to be read on the first or the second.
And it's worth reading, and he was a big donation of some sort.
While listening to the show dated Sunday, October 5th, I heard you guys end with a small shout-out to my company, Southwest Airlines.
I would like to thank you both, you and Adam, for your, and if I may say, endorsement of my company.
I've been turned on to your show back in February by my old pal Don in Redding, and it's being my birthday on the 15th, it was October 15th, I decided it's time to pay up.
I'm sending along a small check to pay you two back with a promise for more in the near future.
Thanks and keep it going.
Here's the P.S. As a flight attendant for Southwest Airline, if I see one of you come on my flight, the drinks will be on me!
You know that most flight attendants never even see the other flight attendants more than once?
There's so many and so many routes.
Most of them don't know each other.
They rarely fly together.
Yeah, when they do, you can tell because they're in the back yakking all the time.
They're having sex in the bathroom.
They never come out.
Yeah, so to speak.
That's Todd Moss.
That's just the stewards.
That's just Todd Moss.
Okay.
There you go.
I like Southwest because you know you're going to get a crappy ride, nothing better, and you're going to like it, and that's it.
And sometimes they have the funny in-flight announcements.
They have good prices.
Very good prices.
Great boarding process.
Love the boarding process.
I love that boarding process.
The whole thing is dynamite.
Good.
No wonder it's working.
Well, I have lots of things I was thinking about.
I don't know if you want to do something before...
A couple of interesting little tidbits.
Here's a little thing from Russia today on Aeroflot, just so you know.
Sticking with aviation news.
Russia's national carrier Aeroflot will name its new low-cost airline Victory.
The name is a symbol of defiance against Western sanctions over Ukraine that grounded the original version.
Oh, good one.
Victory.
There's a bunch of stuff going on in Russia.
This is an interest.
I just picked this clip up last night, so I didn't get to look into it.
I think this has something to do with the EU, too.
This is off of RT. This is some earnings reports with a cute little British girl.
And they're talking about one of the grocery store chains making money, and they do some stock analysis.
There might be some opportunities for investors.
But right out the food ban is...
What food ban are we talking about here?
Oh, no.
The EU can't send their products.
We know they can't send tomatoes.
Yeah, there's lots of this...
The EU is going to crap because they can't export their products to Russia.
Big customer.
Yeah.
I would think.
Yeah.
There's the clip.
Okay, here we go.
...and talk about X5 because the retail group has posted a 49% increase in third quarter net profit.
Russia's second largest supermarket group has done so by sticking to low prices to ride out the food ban.
As a result, the revenue forecast has been raised up to 19% this year.
Huh.
So they're making money on the ban.
The big news that came out of Russia was they finally got a deal.
You hear about the deal?
Tell me about the deal.
Economics professor Michael Hudson from the University of Missouri tells us why the EU is willing to help Ukraine pay its debts.
We don't have any money.
We spend all of our money on war.
Our export industry is collapsing.
And if we need gas, we'll simply steal the gas that Russia is sending to Europe.
We're not going to starve.
We'll just take your gas.
And Putin said, well, if they try to steal gas like they did a few years ago, We'll just turn off the gas and Europe won't get gas.
So Europe realized that it wouldn't get the gas if it didn't step behind Ukraine.
And all of a sudden, Europe is having to pay for Ukraine's work.
Europe is having to pay for the kleptocrats and for the whole mess of the Ukraine.
And this is not how they had expected it to turn out.
It's how we expected it to turn out on our show.
It's exactly what we thought was going to happen.
Good work!
Yeah.
What?
Europe?
Hey.
It's a corrupt country.
I mean, the Europeans are embracing them.
The Europeans don't even know.
They don't even realize.
Because of the sanctions that, quite honestly, the United States came up with, imposed, and said, hey, Europe, get on board.
Your taxes are now going to pay for gas for Ukraine.
If you're okay with that, fine.
I just want you to know it.
I find it quite interesting.
Yeah, the Ukraine gets away with getting their stuff for free.
Well, that's not entirely true, because this is the second bunch of money.
I believe all of it, or some of it, is being transferred through, and of course it's all SDRs, transferred through the IMF. And this means there will be even stricter sanctions.
Yes, the people of Ukraine, you will have gas to heat your home.
Unfortunately, your home will be a tent.
Because people are going to, they're getting screwed in Ukraine.
Screwed.
That's S-K-A. Screwed.
Okay.
Hey, how about this?
The only good phone's a landline, and the phone should be made out of Bakelite.
That's right.
Time for tech news, everybody, on the No Agenda shows we love to do on Sundays.
I've taken it upon myself to just start doing tech news, since there is no tech news of any value unless it's about a new phone.
I have a report, then, if you're going to do this, but go on with your thing first, because I've been thinking about this.
About tech news?
Yeah.
You want to kick it off?
No, no, no.
I want to do kind of the kicker.
A couple of pieces of news.
Number one, an announcement.
I didn't really see...
Well, surprise, surprise.
I didn't see any news about this or any analysis.
IBM has announced a landmark partnership with Twitter.
And in this landmark partnership, have you heard about this?
No.
It wasn't on Ars Technica?
I didn't read it anywhere.
I look at the tech news on a daily basis.
Five by five?
No.
Twit?
No.
TNT? No one?
No one?
No one?
Really?
No one?
Amazing.
IBM, this is actually very funny in a meta kind of way.
So I'm looking at this announcement, and IBM now has a deal, possibly as a reseller, to sell the full-on firehose of Twitter, including their archive, To perform real-time analysis with their Watson technology.
Oh, God.
Yes.
Then here's what's so meta about it.
So I'm looking at all, because they have websites.
And I know how IBM operates.
They used to be a client of mine.
In fact, the AS400 group was a client of mine, if you can believe that.
We had to build their website a long time ago.
And the part of this, and I think this is a very big deal for IBM if they can pull it off.
I don't think they can because it seems like really just a big ball of marketing bull crap.
IBM Experience One Customer Engagement Solutions.
Attract, delight, and maximize lifetime value of customers.
Understand not only what your customers are doing, but why.
Deliver real-time flow of insights and interactions at scale.
Empower marketers, merchandisers, sales, and services.
Leaders to coordinate interactions to create ongoing customer-client dialogues across channels.
Infuse that dialogue with real-time and mobile capabilities.
Measure performance and predict outcomes to prioritize resources against the customers and moments that matter most to your business.
Are you sold?
Are you sold?
Wow!
This is the crock of crap pitch.
The best I've heard in a month.
The funny thing is that I realize that I'm kind of looking for information on how this works and then I'd really like to understand it.
They must not be using their own system because they're not helping me.
The website is not adapting to say, oh, Adam, here's what you need.
Let me go get someone to help you or take you to the right webpage.
None of this.
Oh, shoot.
I noticed that there was actual video.
Not that, but it crashed.
No, I noticed all of a sudden that they have video demos.
I'll have to look for that next time.
But I love that they're doing this Watson analysis of tweets.
But it also gives you food for thought about the value of the information we are creating.
That we are putting onto these social networks, particularly if you take into account that the Google flu season predictor turned out to be completely wrong.
Seriously.
Google retools its flu prediction engine after getting it wrong.
The search giant is updating flu trends.
Its formula for making weekly predictions of the number of flu cases.
It didn't work!
What is the value the same way Facebook is now turning its user data into voter data experiments?
Bless you.
Did you sneeze?
Yeah.
Bless you.
And I would say it is time to go way short on IBM. What do you think?
Well, that's funny you'd say that.
This is one of Horowitz's pet little companies, because what they've been doing, IBM has really been in the toilet for a long time, but what they've been doing is share buybacks, and they've been doing them to an extreme.
Oh, wait a minute.
When you buy back shares, doesn't that increase the share price just by supply and demand, or how does that work?
Well, it does mainly by changing your price-to-earnings ratio, because it's all based on number of outstanding shares.
And what importance is the price-to-earning ratio?
Well, it's a...
People like to see numbers that show growth and, you know, the earnings per...
I'm sorry, not price earnings, but earnings per share.
So if you have 10 shares and the company makes a buck, the earnings per share would be 10 cents.
But if you have one share and it makes the same buck, then it would be a buck.
So it's 10 times better.
Okay, I got it.
Thank you.
But in fact...
But in fact, it's the same one buck.
It's a buck.
It's a buck.
And it's a way of increasing earnings per share by buying back a bunch of stock.
It's cheating.
But everybody does it, especially in certain markets.
Didn't Apple do that for a while?
They did a little bit.
Because I think Carl Icahn wanted them to or something.
Whatever the case...
IBM has been pulling a lot of trickery to keep everything looking good, but it's apparent that this whole business model, now they're selling off a lot of important things like their chip manufacturing and all these things that used to be basic science for them.
They used to be the number one patent creator.
I don't know how that's doing.
And I think, yeah.
I think you're right.
I think long-term, IBM should be shorted.
But I'm not giving investment advice.
No, neither am I. But I think it is valuable technology news to look at this.
It shows where Twitter is trying to expand.
Because they will make money on this deal.
Twitter is licensing their information.
I don't see the connection.
What is the point of this idiocy?
Well, let me read to you from the blog.
Each day, Twitter uses their IBM Solutions Smarter Planet blog.
Okay.
He's Alistair Rennie, General Manager, IBM Business Analytics, with a quote from CEO Ginny Romney.
Are you interested as tech news?
Or would you rather talk about your iPhone 6 Plus?
What would you rather do?
Let's talk about the iPad and the glass it uses.
Each day, Twitter users press the button on about 500 million tweets.
That's that gets better.
That tsunami of 140 character messages spans the range of human interest and activities from raves about recent purchases to exhortations to rally behind the social causes.
Now, for the first time, business leaders will be able to tap into the Twitter stream in powerful new ways to harvest insights that help them understand customer sentiment more deeply, develop hit products and services and anticipate sudden shifts in moods and markets.
That's because IBM and Twitter are combining forces to incorporate Twitter's rich data streams into IBM's cloud based analytics.
Woo-hoo!
Many people recognize the importance of data.
The combination of information combined in structured databases with unstructured data gathered from websites, websites, sensing devices, and social media feeds.
IBM CEO Ginny Romney calls this the new natural resource, comparable in impact to coal or iron or iron ore.
Fireable offense for that quote as far as I'm concerned.
What the F are you talking about?
Wow!
Mm-hmm.
That's a beauty.
Short Twitter.
Well, two.
Short IBM. And Twitter for that reason.
Well, Twitter's this and it's that.
Alright, so I have, I was, you know, one of the things we have, the No Agenda stream.
I just want to say one thing.
We have people in the chat room who are completely freaking out about this IBM thing.
Why?
IBM's fucking fine!
A hundred billion dollars in revenues!
Oh, fine, whatever.
Is that that same guy that's always in the chat room, that guy?
A couple of them, actually.
They've multiplied.
IBM. I work for IBM Microelectronics!
They're great!
Awesome technology!
Yes, I'm sure they're great technology.
Awesome.
Fabulous.
They're a services company.
That's what they've always made their money on, and I believe they got their lunch stolen from them by cheap jack bullcrap solutions called cloud, and they weren't ready for it.
They were not marketing properly, and the old adage of you never get fired for buying IBM, they lost that position.
Yeah, that's true.
Nobody buys IBM. No, it's marketing.
It stands for your daddy's old cloud company.
They did not jump on the cloud quick enough.
I'm sure their products and solutions are great, but big data?
You're going to tell me that because they've got Twitter data, now companies are going to market to me more effectively?
No, it's not that great.
It's not going to happen.
It's not that great.
Only Amazon is the only company who gives me messages everywhere.
After I bought the product, they said they're selling me the same damn product.
Yeah, that's genius.
That's big data.
You know, he bought it once, he might buy it again.
You can use that as a friend.
Yeah, please.
All right.
Well, we have this stream, the No Agenda stream, which we want to populate with the podcast as a courtesy so eventually when people drive around in their car, they could just stream the stream on the radio instead of listening to a local station.
That's in the future, of course.
Yeah.
So I listen to a lot of podcasting.
So I ran into this old podcast.
This podcast took place when Steve Jobs died.
And I was listening to it.
It's called Two Techies.
It's out of England.
Well, just display the intro to Two Techies and you'll get a feeling for what it's going to be like when I roll out the clip.
It's called the W.O. Techies Intro.
Oh, okay.
Got it.
Makes so much sense.
Delivering high-quality, technology-centric podcasts around the world.
This is MunchTech.TV. Taking a bite out of technology.
It's time to talk technology.
This is The Two Techies, your number one source for the latest tech news of the week.
The Two Techies are queued up and ready.
Now, from Studio 1A, your hosts, Jamie Bunting and Darren Fisher.
My phone's my phone!
I don't know, how'd that happen?
So, wait a minute.
Studio 1A, I like this.
Is this the Bunting guy from Bunting's Windows?
No, no, no, that's Mark Bunting.
That's a different person.
He's not British.
First of all, love this intro.
Isn't it great?
We should be using that.
From Studio 1A, ladies and gentlemen.
Love it, love it.
Great intro.
All right.
So I listened to it.
I've got the clip here.
Don't play it until I finish, which is the two-techies summarize Apple.
Yes, sir.
Now I want to give you a little history of Apple that is well-known, which is that Steve Jobs left Apple the first time when the company was doing about $800 million.
The company was turned over in 1985.
That's one fact they get right in this little report coming up, to John Sculley.
And because Steve wanted to...
It was a pricing.
They argued mostly about pricing, and Steve wanted to do this and that, and he wanted to keep losing money.
And Scully saw it differently, and he talked the board into getting Steve...
Giving him the CEO's job and pushing Steve aside, and then Steve quit.
Mm-hmm.
In a huff, because he thought this company was stolen from him.
In the eight years, eight years of Scully's reign, the company went from $800 million in sales to $8 billion.
He essentially made the company grow eight...
Yeah, 10x.
Not double.
He didn't double the sales.
He didn't triple the sales.
He made the sales go 10x.
They had a flat moment in history at the eight-year mark, and they fired Scully because they figured they could do better, and that's when the company declined.
So eight years after Steve was gone was the first decline in Apple's fortunes, and they had a series of Spindler and then another guy, and the guy from National Semiconductor, and they kind of sunk the company, and they brought Steve back.
Now, that is something that...
I did not know that.
And from the way I did see the Ashton Kutcher movie, from the way it was portrayed, because there is the Scully getting him fired, you would think, and maybe the movie portrays it differently, but I recall, oh, this was when it all screwed up.
They got Scully and screwed up.
I did not know about this 10X, which...
So growing 20% year over year would be considered great for a public company.
This was growing 100% year over year for eight years.
Pretty close.
But that's pretty good.
Well, that's not true.
It wasn't 100%.
That's not true.
Yeah, that's not true.
But it was a lot.
It was good.
And Scully was not the guy.
And so Apple was, you know, was just on a sky...
It was on a up, up, up, up, up during the Scully thing.
And it just...
That is the fact.
Scully fights against the meme that he fucked up the company.
He might have, but the numbers were good.
The morale, the products may have been shit, but the numbers were good.
There's no evidence that he fucked up the company.
Whatever the case is, he fights against a mystique that has been created that as soon as Jobs left the company went to the toilet.
How dare you speak evil of a dead man?
I'm going to play this thing here which just propagates this bull crap.
And these are the two techies with this great intro to the show talking to Eric Lanigan who is a local or I don't know where he's from somewhere around here or somewhere.
Let me guess, is he a tech reporter?
He's a tech guy, and he just goes along with this.
He doesn't contradict any of it because this is the propagation of bullcrap.
And this is when you always talk about, well, gee, the tech news is this is bad.
I realize now when I listen to this bullcrap, just blatant bullcrap, That what happened in the Ultec reporting is we lost the editors.
The people that actually knew that would take a podcast or somebody printed this article and say, this is crap.
You're going to get fired if you write any more junk like that.
Do a little research.
We cannot publish this because it's malarkey.
But no, those editors are all gone, and now we're all free-for-all.
Everybody's saying what they want.
They get on the air, and they shoot the shit, and they sound like they know what they're talking about, and this is what you get.
I'm going to have to sideline you.
You are just taking this thing off the rails.
First off, you know, when Steve Jobs was fired from Apple way back when, it was the 70s, wasn't it, mid-70s?
Oh, when he was fired, it was 85.
85, sorry, 85.
Mid-70s?
I want to stop this.
Mid-70s, we didn't even have an apple.
In fact, we did.
It was called a Granny Smith, and we bite into it, and we liked it.
This mid-70s.
Hey, is this Studio 1A? It went downhill.
It went downhill.
Yes.
He was fired because he had too good a vision, wasn't it?
Well, yeah.
He had a vision that others didn't agree with.
They didn't share.
And he was extremely abrasive at that point in his life.
I think it took that rejection and that failure for him to soften up and be a more manageable manager.
From what I've heard from when he was fired, Apple was already on the downhill, I think, slightly at that point.
And when they fired him, they were on the extreme downhill.
And I think at that point it was just more of a conflict of interest at that point.
It was like, Steve Jobs wanted to do this and that company was afraid and whatnot.
Yeah, I think Steve felt that the future was the Macintosh.
And I think he felt like they just didn't understand that even though the 1984 Mac was a commercial failure because it hardly had any software and it was too expensive for what it could do.
We know the Apple III was a failure.
The Lisa was a failure.
They dumped those into landfills.
They were way too expensive and then the Apple III broke and overheated because Steve insisted on it to have no fan.
So there were a couple of Some of the only and biggest failures of his life leading up to his being fired.
But I think he was always focused on the next product.
He wasn't really thinking about the Macintosh and its current incarnation for that price.
He was thinking about what it could become.
And I think that the board was not willing to wait around for that vision to come true naturally.
Now, with that in mind, When he was fired, obviously the decline got quicker, faster, and I think the board just said, right, we're going downhill, what's the worst that can happen?
We may as well just hire him again.
Going downhill.
Yeah, so that is pretty much the state of tech reporting.
We know that.
We know it sucks.
Yes, we know that, and it's because there is nobody to say, no, you're wrong about everything you said.
I think this, I think that, I believe he did this, and maybe it was that, and it was going downhill.
It was going downhill when he was there, and it got worse.
It was going really downhill when they fired him.
All of it is bullcrap.
It's funny, but it's out there.
It's funny because I get more tech news from the ham radio websites.
Did you know about the FTDI chip problem?
No, what's wrong with the FTDI chip?
Because you know about chip.
You know what the FTDI chip is?
No, I don't know what it is.
The FTDI chip, now I'm not a chip guy, so I'd have to look and see exactly which one it is, but the FTDI chip is used for pretty much every USB connector.
So when you stick it, it's a USB chip.
It's a controller.
Controller thing.
Controller chip, right.
And they release an update to their driver.
Of course, because the FTDI chip infrastructure has been around for so long, there's a lot of fakes from China.
China, you know, hey!
FTDI, which is Future Technologies Devices International, commonly known by its abbreviation, is a Scottish privately held semiconductor device company specializing in the USB technology.
Mm-hmm.
And, yeah, so a lot of boards, a lot of computer boards, but the ham community figured out because of all the SDR guys who are making software-defined radios.
And the FTDI company released a driver that went in, that if it detected a counterfeit chip, it set the chip's identifier to zero, null, null.
So that it was rendered ineffective.
And that's kind of like, I guess, an EEPROM type thing.
It knows how to go in and program the chip and give it an instruction, which would make that USB controller unusable.
Bricks!
I think this is a huge scandal.
It doesn't seem to be on tech news.
I thought it was valuable.
Valuable tech news.
That's not about a phone display.
Does this FTDI chip have anything to do with pixels?
With a retina?
I don't know what that is with a retina.
And then finally, I will give you this piece of information, which I also believe is important.
The FCC is reportedly close to reclassifying Internet service providers as common carriers with a so-called hybrid approach.
And I think this is worse than...
And I think that you're going to see a lot of people all in.
Great idea.
Oh, yeah.
I know they want the FCC coming in.
This cracks me up because of the beginning of the day.
But it's worse now.
Well, go ahead.
At the beginning of all this debating, you wanted anything but any government involvement whatsoever.
And then, of course, it boiled down to a bunch of monopolies taking over all the backbones and everything else.
And now people are grousing about it, even though there's probably ways to...
There's other...
Well, I think it is the worst thing I've ever seen, and I'm going to call out the Mozilla Foundation as a bunch of a-holes who should get back to making good software, which I'd have to say has been challenging for them, because part of their proposal is in this, and it is worse than anything you can imagine.
I quote from Ars Technica, who, from their writing, I would say, in a way, are endorsing the idea.
I'll carefully say that.
The plan now under consideration separates broadband into two distinct services.
A retail service, in which consumers pay broadband providers for internet access, and a back-end service, in which broadband providers serve as the conduit for websites or edge providers to distribute content.
The FCC would then classify the back-end service as a common carrier, giving the agency the ability to police any deals between content companies and broadband providers.
What the fuck?!
Sorry.
The emerging plan reflects proposals submitted by the Mozilla Foundation and the Center for Democracy and Technology, Shell Company, though it departs from both imparts.
The main advantage of the hybrid proposal, as opposed to full reclassifications to Title II, is that it wouldn't require the FCC to reverse earlier decisions to deregulate broadband providers, which were made in the hopes of encouraging the adoption and deployment of high-speed broadband.
The authors of the new proposal believe that not having to justify reversing itself would put the FCC on firmer legal ground.
Now, what comes up continuously in these conversations, when they talk about the content being provided, which would be under regulatory control, the only thing is like Facebook, Netflix, Hulu, Netflix.
It makes me cry.
It makes me cry.
How can you not see that this is intended to really shut out anything independent, anything that is not big Hollywood content?
And as far as I can tell, including the Mozilla Foundation, shame on you.
I read their proposal too.
Shame on you.
Speaking of editors, would someone please look at every single piece of legislation proposed where it talks about the blocking of unlawful content, unlawful network traffic?
If you don't see that, you don't.
Forget about it.
They don't see it.
I'm done.
That's it.
That is it.
That's all I have to say.
It's good.
Yeah, play your little jingle.
That's it for Tech News.
We got a lot of peeves today.
Well, I'm angry about this.
666 makes people angry.
I'm very mad with the Mozilla Foundation.
How are these people to ask for a hybrid?
Hybrid.
Hybrid today!
It's the stupidest thing.
I cannot believe...
Ars Technica, you are...
Are they owned by someone else?
Who owns them?
Are they owned by some big company or something?
Or are they still independent?
They probably got bought by somebody.
Well, let's find out.
Who bought...
Ars Technica must be a big mainstream-owned thing.
It could be.
Can't be any other way.
Who owns Ars Technica?
Who...
And Ars Technica, of course, is what everybody uses for their tech news.
Hey, let's do a show.
What does Ars Technica say?
I'm not kidding.
Let's see.
Ars Technica owned by...
Condi Nast.
Oh, there you go.
Of course!
Condi Nast and Condi Rice.
They all love each other.
All on the same boat.
That's right.
Reddit.
Wired.
Yeah.
All these so-called great independent voices are fucking you.
It's Condé Nast, which is actually, I believe, is Future.
Not Future.
What's the name of that other guy?
Glamour Magazine.
Isn't that Condé Nast?
Maybe.
Advance.
That's their parent company.
Advance Publications.
They bought Condé Nast and all these companies are...
Pwned.
Pwned.
Yeah, this is all scheme.
It's a scheme.
Scheme or scam?
Scheme and scam.
We're the last of the independents.
That's right.
We were the first and the last.
One lifetime.
The first and the last.
We are the Native Americans of the internet.
Being killed by the white man.
Here to rob us of our crop and our flock.
That's it for tech news for us.
Do you have any more tech news?
No, that's it.
No more phones.
I just had that one bribe.
Yeah, I think we're done.
My phone's my phone.
The way I see it, the only good phone's a landline, and the phone should be made out of Bakelite.
You know what, I think it's time to, uh...
I'm gonna show my support by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Custer's last stand of the internet.
it.
you Yeah, or something.
Alright, we got a lot of people to thank here today.
Starting with Sir Paul Vela in Milton Keynes, UK. 146.
Also got a birthday thing there for him.
I'm going to donate for Thursday's show, but found myself without internet access last week, which is going to get worse before it gets better.
And this takes him up to dukedom.
Is he a dukedom?
I think so, yeah.
He'll be Sir Paul, Baron Paul.
We'd like to be the Baron of my homeland, the Republic of Ireland.
Well, we can do that.
I think he's in there.
Let me just check if we have that in the system, I believe so.
Eric's pretty good with that stuff.
Okay, and he's going to get his birthday call out.
Yes, yes.
Baron Paul of the United Kingdom.
Yes, good, good, good.
All right.
Oh, by the way, and also after the birthday list.
Get your pen, get your pen, get your pen.
I got the pen.
Mimi.
Today?
No, on Tuesday, Tuesday.
I don't know if we're going to be able to come, man.
Oh, well, that's okay.
She's going to be mad?
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Just send her an expensive gift.
Okay.
Stuart B. Rushing in Corvallis, Oregon.
One, two, three, four, five mice.
And no note.
Dame Bang Bang.
Our buddy Dame Bang Bang.
$111.11.
And she wants to say thanks for making it rain for the rain stick last week.
Mm-hmm.
It's been over a year since it rained, but it started raining.
Writing continued for downpours on Saturday.
Okay.
Let the water soak in.
Okay, good.
We just want to make sure that works.
Richard Riley in Loomis, California.
$100.
Halfway to Nighthood.
Kaylin Nistor in Northville, Michigan.
$99.99.
$99.99.
Hello.
I'm doing other things.
You know how big the administration of this show wins so much.
$99.99.
Got it done.
And he is going to be apparently some sort of a knight.
Sir Nisti, I guess.
Oh, good.
Sir Nisti.
Sir Dennis Nutting came in and he did send in a note, which I, of course, can't find when I need to find it, but it's got to be here somewhere.
There it is.
This is nothing.
He just says, hello again, John and Adam.
Hello!
It's 8888.
Celebrate our 8th anniversary.
He's got a different anniversary going.
Keep on producing the greatest podcast in the universe.
Thank you.
We try.
And he's in Hilo.
Good.
He did, or somebody, I think he did, send me pictures of the Hilo airport.
Oh, yes, yes.
Ruined.
We know.
I can go on with some airport stories as well.
I'll save it for a little.
Andrew McFarlane in long lack...
Ontario, 82-32.
And we have a birthday there.
Marcin Brzezinski.
Is it Brzezinski?
I think so.
Yeah, it looks like a Brzezinski.
A Brzezinski?
Uh-huh.
In Didcot.
And this is a good note.
UK. Yeah.
7777.
John, unblock my email address, you douchebag.
Marson at Brzezinski.net.
ITM, shout out to Jakub Wojciak.
Wojciak.
Wojciak.
Okay, I don't feel so dirty now.
You had me blocked.
I don't have any blocks.
All of a sudden you were blocking me on the email.
James in California City, California.
I've been here all my life.
I've never heard of California City.
I challenge people to show me where California City is.
7666 and he's got a birthday.
Uh, Susie Lawson in Bristol, Tennessee, 66-69.
Paul Boyer, 66-67 from Parts Unknown.
Sebastian De Stigler.
De Stichter.
Frankfurt am Main aus Hessen, Deutschland.
Yes, exactly.
Eine Deutsche in Exile.
Oh, he's a Dutch in exile.
Yeah, a Dutchie.
A Dutchie in exile, yes.
John W. Schumann in Madison, Wisconsin, 66-67.
Here's our 66-66.
Oh, boy.
I'm sorry.
Where is it?
I don't know where it is.
Here it is.
It's got here somewhere, and here we go.
It's got it.
And in the red corner, wearing the black trunks with gold trim, he has a record of 33 wins, zero losses, and one draw.
He is the Grand Duke of Belgium and France, Sir Stephen von Pelsmacher!
There you go.
Stephen Pelsmacher is in Belgium, 66-66.
Maurice Fallon, Dublin, Ireland.
Good.
Just keep on keeping on.
6666.
Michael McGurk in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts.
Now that's the place I think I can move to.
Where you live?
I live in Buzzards Bay.
I do have a note from him.
If you read my location, I'm KVMU adjacent.
Can't believe I've been listening for 300 plus episodes.
Good job.
Notes for Martinez and Will Machinsky.
Michinsky.
Whose notes am I reading?
I'm reading McGurk's.
You have a McGurk note?
No, but Martinez.
No, I don't have a Martinez.
I have a Martinez.
Okay, here's Martinez.
Let's start with her.
Eleanor Martinez in Florence, South Carolina.
It's Eliezer, but okay.
Eliezer.
It's a guy.
Eliezer.
Sorry.
Sorry, Eliezer.
It's a tough name.
It's a tough business.
Yeah, it is.
Tough business.
Here's my humble contribution to appease the beast.
Yeah.
Please keep eviscerating the media on the no-agenda altar and eat its heart out while it still beats.
Yeah.
Show them the true power of the beast.
Mm-hmm.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile.
The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse absolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
And with somebody somewhere put together Creepy Charlie Rose Amazing, Head is Gone, Kiki Worth It.
Yeah.
So, soundboard, I can't do it myself.
I'll do it later.
Okay.
Do you get a soundboard?
Some other day.
We have soundboards around.
Yeah, we do.
And Machinsky.
I got a note from Machinsky.
I had to stop putting all our jingles up in the show notes because other shows steal them and then start using them.
Yes, that is the problem.
Fuckers.
People can't do their own thing.
Our stuff's original.
Yeah.
It's hilarious.
Congrats to the 7th anniversary.
Initially, I thought Adam had a screw loose.
Oh, yeah.
Chemtrails, and there's some...
Oh, come on.
That's stupid.
So I stopped listening.
Uh-huh.
Oh, well, of course.
Chemtrails, screw loose.
Well, probably...
A few months later, it was...
Atlas Shrug.
Atlas Shrug.
By Ayn Rand.
I set aside time to figure out why the bank statements did not match any checkbook.
I needed some white noise since no agenda was still...
Bookmarked.
I clicked on your latest mp3 file.
John asked Adam who were the most famous people who died in the past year.
And John compared Adam's list to a Time Magazine article listing famous people who had died the preceding year.
John decided Adam produced a superior list.
I became so intrigued that I stopped doing my paperwork and I got the time list.
I compared to what Adam came up with on the spot and realized the first impression about Adam might be a mistake.
He's a genius!
And so I started listening again.
Now I'm ready to be a donor.
I will cut my earlobe off and send it to you.
Anyway, that's handwritten.
Nice.
Lucas Zua in Munich, München, Deutschland, 6660.
Ralph Mazzaro in Kirkland, Washington, home of Costco, 6660.
Trevor Owen, Los Angeles, California, same thing.
These are all 6660s.
We're going to read them off one after another.
88 in Tonawanda, New York, 6660.
Scott Montgomery, Sydney, British Columbia, cool place, a birthday there.
A lot of birthdays today.
Michael Levin, Brooklyn, New York.
David Metkowski in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Christopher Dechter in Richland, Washington.
Ben...
Hink in Orland Park, Illinois.
Brandon Krisham in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Cameron White in Portland, Oregon.
Michael Appenhag in Fujesta, Sweden.
I'm guessing.
Nick Johannes in St.
Louis Park, Minnesota.
Nuts.
Woe to you, O earth and sea!
For the devil sends the beast with wrath, because he knows the time is short.
Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number.
Its number is 666.
Keep up the good work.
I'm just reading his notes.
It's a nice note.
Michael Siegenthaler in Phoenix, Arizona.
Craig Carver in Welland, Ontario, Canada.
Tim Conner in Edmonton, Alberta.
Brian Ward in Parts Unknown.
Stuart Fawcett in Liverpool.
Or Fawcett.
Fawcett.
I bet it's Fawcett.
I bet it's Fawcett.
Maybe.
This way it's pronounced here, usually.
Kenneth...
Bear?
Barry?
Bear?
I have to go with Bear.
Beaverton, Oregon.
Daniel L. Ehrlich in Bowlesburg, Pennsylvania.
Richard Hillenbrand in New Woodstock, New York.
And that ends our 6660 people.
Thank you very much.
Go to Mark Meschi in Montgomery, Illinois.
Double nickels on the dime.
Along with Jesse Simonin, parts unknown.
Double nickels on the dime.
Dominic Cervelli III in Taylor, Michigan, 52.
Sir Kevin Payne in Chantilly, Virginia.
We don't get enough Virginia donors, I have to say.
5069, Melissa Simons in Tambourine.
Must be Tambourine.
My green Tambourine.
She got a birthday or something coming up in there in Queensland, Australia.
Sir Inside Jobs in Seattle, Washington, 50-23.
And finally, the $50 donors are Stephen Milliken, our buddy in Corpus Christi.
Greg Brunsel, Sir Greg.
Sir Greg in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Leona Thompson in Timonium, Maryland, 50.
Richard DeLau.
There's a douchebag call out there, which I think has been missed.
Oh, okay.
Mike Thompson.
This is for Mike Thompson's 54th birthday on Halloween from his daughter, Leona Thompson.
I would like to request some birthday karma for him.
He's a long-time listener, but hasn't donated anything, so he is still a douchebag.
Douchebag!
When your daughter's calling you out, man, it's time to think about things.
That's bad.
That's not good.
Richard Lowland lost wages.
Nevada, 50.
And the anonymous lesbian finished up the group with 50.
And, of course, she sent a nice little card.
Yes, of course.
As she does.
And I love John.
I love John.
Nope.
She doesn't love me anymore.
Of course, she might.
I love John.
He's the best.
This is kind of a...
I don't even know if I should read this note.
It's kind of sad.
Oh.
Without you two, I don't know how I would get through each crappy day.
Happy anniversary.
Happy anniversary.
So she has to brighten up.
I do have, I'm going to just, out of the blue, out of the blue, there's a clip I can play that might help.
Her?
It's a clip list, and it is called the, this is on Good Morning America.
It's good advice.
This is GMA on smiling.
Play this as well.
How's the business?
That's good stuff.
Also this morning, you all have heard the phrase, fake it till you make it.
A new study suggests that that is actually a good idea.
Find that if you walk like a happy person, upright posture, your arms swinging to your side, you might actually feel happier.
You can actually change your mood by simply changing your posture.
Remember the power pose?
Yes, that's right.
You believe that that works.
They say it changes your hormones.
Yeah, it makes sense too.
Cortisol levels drop.
You feel powerful, right?
You do.
It makes sense.
My mom always used to say, perception is reality.
You know, you sort of put that out there, what you want, and before you know it, it's happening.
Science supports that, Lara.
Yes, it does.
Were they filling up until the commercial break?
Is this the worst show in history?
Yeah, and you know what?
The second show in a row where you're throwing this poop on the listening audience.
Wow, but there's good advice in there.
Yes, don't listen to Good Morning America clips.
It's shite.
Hey everybody, thank you so much for supporting us with The Little Beast, The Big Beast, our executive producers, associate executive producers, our 666 producers will all be listed on the website.
Everybody else under $50 who supports the program, thank you.
Thank you.
This is how we are able to bring you this, I think, good, if not sometimes outstanding, analysis, media deconstruction, and yes, even tech news.
And we will be here again on Thursday.
So support us, will ya?
It's your birthday, birthday I'm so much I ran off the paper, I wrote it down then Alan Peterson celebrating tomorrow.
Andy McFarland and Lacey say happy birthday to Sir Richard Garrett of Melbourne House, Thunder Bay, Ontario.
He'll be 32 tomorrow.
Scott Montgomery says happy birthday to his brother Mark.
Celebrating on the 4th.
Rick Dolshini, 47 on the 5th.
James says happy birthday to the beautiful Marcy.
Celebrating on the 14th.
James will be celebrating his birthday on the 15th.
Dame Melissa Simons, as we heard, to her douchebag hubby.
No, wait, that's not, that's different.
I'm sorry.
Dame Melissa Simons, not to her douchebag.
No, her hobby is the Black Knight, Sir Todd Simons.
It'll be his 33rd.
There we go.
Bladed birthday, Sir Paul Bell is celebrated on the 31st of October.
Leona Thompson says happy birthday to her dad, Mike.
He'll be 54, what's 54?
Yesterday.
And then finally, a big happy birthday.
She's probably about 33.
She's up there in Port Washington, Port Angeles, Washington, whatever.
Almost in Canada.
Happy birthday, Mimi.
From all of your friends here and your hubby at the best podcast in the universe.
When are you going to get her for her birthday?
She's not listening to the show anyway, so what are you getting her?
I got her stuff.
Yeah, but tell me.
She doesn't listen.
I got her one of those...
I got her two things.
I got a little piece of clothing, one of those infinite scarves that are so trendy.
You know, it's a big loopy thing.
Oh, geez.
And then I got her some jewelry.
Ah.
Some very nice Indian...
Rubies?
Rubies?
No, it's...
Chinese, perhaps?
Oh, yes.
Rubies.
I got her a ruby necklace.
You got pebbles that are painted blue.
Oh, honey, it's made by Native Americans.
I've done that.
I can just see her like, ah, thanks.
Thanks.
How about the new car, you cheap bastard?
You know she wants that.
Ah, she's got like a bunch of used cars and they work fine.
Yeah, if one doesn't work, you use the other one.
That's why you have a bunch of them.
We congratulate Sir Paul Vela, who became Baron Paul of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Although I think we have a Northern Ireland Baron somewhere who may have to share some of the peerage with.
I would like to call the following as we get your...
Get your blade out for a second.
I've got mine here.
I would like Sergei Filipov to come up to the podium, Michael Underwood, James Cates, Daniel Hochstein, and Callan Nister, if y'all please would come up to the podium.
I would like to invite you into the illustrious club of the Knights and the Dames of the Roundtable of the Noah Jenner Show, and I hereby pronounce the KG... And of course,
if you want it, mutton and mead.
And...
Go to noagenernation.com slash rings.
Pick up your ring.
It's great.
And tweet it when you get the ring and the ceiling wax and your official certificate in.
People have been doing that post-receivershiply.
They've been sending us there.
They've been tweeting that out.
It's a good look.
It's nice to tweet that out.
Yeah.
Then shows people what you're made of.
Exactly.
And I retweet everyone I see.
Me too.
I was reading...
Hot Rod, Sir Atomic Rod Adams blog.
Okay.
I think you and I know that the only real solution to a sustainable Earth is nuclear energy.
I think we both agree on that.
Yes, I'm in on that.
And of course, the fear and the lack of knowledge of radiation pretty much sends people into a tizzy of complete paralyzing fear over anything related to nuclear energy.
Spooky.
And as you know, we're still dying this horrific death from Fukushima.
There was a letter sent to the SARI, which is radiationeffects.org.
This is the scientists for accurate radiation information.
They did not know about this group.
And these are, oh, I don't know, scientists.
Scientists from, I'll just go down the list, Georgetown University, Washington University, University of Illinois, Indiana University, National Center for Nuclear Research, let's see, U.S. Army, of course there's lots of consultants, Nuclear Waste Partnership, Enercon Federal Service, scientists after scientists after scientists, PhDs, the majority, majority PhDs.
Can we argue with the science?
I don't know.
Can we?
No, science has spoken.
You cannot argue with science.
You can't argue with science?
No.
The president says so.
Everyone says you cannot argue with science.
The science is in.
But most importantly, they sent a letter and they said, we really need to talk about the disastrous consequences of the evacuation of Fukushima.
To date, 1,600 people have died from the evacuation away from a radiation zone that was so low in radiation that it was almost undetectable.
Yet it was the actual evacuation.
Forget about the tsunami.
That killed people.
But the radiation deaths, I think, two guys who had their head in a puddle.
But 1,600 people have been killed from the evacuation from a place they did not need to be evacuated from.
And they've sent a letter to all the scientific advisory bodies, ICRP, NCRP, UNSCEAR, IAEA, World Health Organization, NES, to please implore them to follow the science from the scientists who know about this and stop making these mistakes.
No one else will ever tell you about this.
No.
And you're not dying from Fukushima.
But there will be crazies out there who tell you.
Eh, you know, iodine was pills.
You need iodine to protect you and some boner pills to keep you happy.
I have an idea.
We were discussing Tim Cook's coming out, which Brian, the gay crusader, pointed out to me that Tim Cook has already done this in an article several years ago.
You were right.
I didn't react.
Yeah, no, he keeps doing it.
So why would he do this?
One of our assertions...
Oh, yes.
That's the big question.
One of our assertions was this is because he's under pressure from the government to remove encryption from the iPhone, to be a team player.
And we're not talking about that team, Cook.
And maybe there was something coming out that he didn't want to be a big surprise.
It could have been embarrassing.
Here's another thought.
I believe.
I could be wrong.
Is this you or the gay crusader believing this?
No, this is me.
No, gay crusader told me it'd already come out.
So this further enhances the thinking that there was reasoning behind this that we still have yet to figure out.
One assertion is there's some blackmail going on and he needed to get this out again so that the pictures of the leather or whatever doesn't look too crazy.
He looks like a leather guy.
That might be.
I have another idea.
And it's based on just hunch, gut feeling?
Hunch!
Which will bring us to the next story.
Hunch.
Do you think it's possible that there is...
I think possibly we will see a few more high-profile admissions or coming-outs.
Gays.
Gays.
Lesbians.
I believe that this is about to be the big thing for Hillary Clinton.
Someone is threatening her about her being in love with Anthony Weiner's wife.
Uma Abedin.
Uma.
Uma Abedin.
And that we need more high-profile people to say, what's it to ya?
Soften the blow.
What's it to ya?
You got an iPhone?
You like gays.
You can't hate the gays if you got an iPhone.
You should vote for Hillary.
Vote for Hillary if you got an iPhone.
What do you think?
I think this may be it.
I think this is the craziest...
This is Crackpot.
Uh-huh.
At his best.
Um...
There's nothing I can argue against it.
By the way, quote of the day, soften the blow.
Quote of the day, John.
Soften the blow.
Quote of the day.
I've got somebody.
It took me a while.
It took the chat room to repeat it before I got it.
Good job.
Let's just try to slip it in.
Good job.
There he goes again, slipping it in.
I can't stop myself.
Oh, he's here all week.
Well, something's up, because there's no reason for him to do this.
Again, again, again!
He said it's God's greatest gift.
Yes, which brings in the religious.
Very strange, because life itself would be a greater gift.
It's bringing in the religious people, because they need to vote for Hillary as a sodomite.
As a crazy, crazy sodomite.
I don't know.
It is unusual.
You're right.
And I have no explanation for it.
Would you put it in the book for me?
I believe it's book-worthy.
I think it's read book-worthy.
The book says that Hillary comes out before the election.
Yes, but probably a couple more high-profile coming out before that.
Okay, Hillary comes out after a series.
Yes, series, yes.
A series of high-profile outings.
Yes.
Self-outings.
It has to be self-outings.
It can't be the magazine.
Self-outings.
Okay, Adam.
Let me get the yellow marker.
A highlighter, yes.
Highlighted.
Yes, good, good, good, good.
I'm all for it.
And all we got there is this.
All right, you're in.
All right.
We'll see.
What do you think?
Do you not think that's a...
I think it's a viable...
I think it is a possibility.
I am seeing a lot of...
Let me see where's this article.
Maybe...
I don't know if I kept it.
Article...
Wait.
Maybe it's here.
Let me just check.
I think they're in for a big surprise if they think they can get away with Hillary being a lesbian.
This is not going to fly...
Well, it's probably this will have to be the death knell.
They've tried everything else.
We have to discredit this.
We have to make it so she cannot really have any chance to run.
I do not put it past anybody in this race with the entire world at stake for running and ruining and rubbleizing everything.
What's outing one dyke?
Nothing.
Nev don't care.
Nobody cares.
By the way, I said dyke, and of course...
You'll get some notes from me.
Woman-on-woman love is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen, except when the lesbian bed death happens.
That's sad.
I'm sad about that.
All right.
I'll take that as...
You would have been fired for half the stuff you said on today's show.
Yes.
If suits.
Yeah, Adam, we think you need a little vacation after you sign your name under this note.
Yes.
The Rainbow Coalition is threatening to boycott our advertisers.
We're really sorry.
I'm sorry.
It's okay.
Downtown Julie Brown will take over.
She'll be great with John.
Wubba, wubba, wubba, you crackpots!
Okay, I've got a...
This is kind of on little offbeat stuff.
So I have a clip that...
There's a little trick in this clip.
This is a clip from one of the TV shows that you hate me playing.
But it brings out a very interesting...
Because the TV... The thing you keep overlooking when you moan about this is your clip.
Of how there are pressure groups, mostly Democrats, that go to Hollywood and have stuff slipped in to scripts.
Which I want you to dig that clip up again and play it again, not today.
Okay.
I think that's one of the most interesting clips you've ever produced.
Ah.
Okay, I'll have to remember what it was, but yeah, okay.
Now, I want you, this would be like an Ask Adam.
This is a meme about, well, never mind, I can't ask you because I got the whole thing here on the name of the clip.
Here's an example of using the mainstream dramatic shows to create, in the mind of the listener, negative kinds of connotations.
This is a connotation clip.
I call TV meme bullying.
Every minute, this is but a blip on the net continuum.
You know the problem with anonymity?
There is no accountability.
It empowers cowards to become bullies, just like this guy.
You know what?
Most bullies started out as victims themselves.
Maybe this guy's lashing out on the internet because it was used against him.
He was a victim of cybercrime.
And Bill Garrett was a cyber cop.
It can't be a coincidence that the killer targeted him.
Okay.
So here's what we've done here.
We have taken bullying and made it a crime.
Well, yes, that would be free speech.
Bullying is a crime.
It's a crime.
It's cybercrime.
Yes.
So this guy's a bully, and he was bullied, which means he was a victim of cybercrime, thus bringing together the connection between bullying and criminal activity.
Which of course is, unless you are physically striking or threatening someone in a certain manner, which would be assault, which is part of assault and battery, then you are merely exercising, in poor judgment perhaps, but free speech.
Which has got to go.
Which will be unlawful content.
So when I say, oh, dykes and all this stuff, unlawful content, block that show, take it off, not allowed on our network.
On our ISP. No, on the network, on the internet.
The network, yes.
Unless, of course, we will be using the distributed hash tables, and that's going to be our backup, but it's going to be complicated and not as free as it used to be.
We will have to jerry-rig the net.
But this is exactly what it is, and this was what show?
Castle.
Castle.
It was just a popular show.
Big number show, right?
Yeah, it's sold out.
So the clip you referred to was a series of clips, actually.
It was actually about six clips.
And you were referring to Martin Kaplan of the, what was the, it's the society by the guy who's still alive, who, we thought he was dead, but can't remember.
And I think I have a 20 second clip which explains this.
So in the course of our work, this is in the two years, 11 to 13, 335 storylines that we worked on have been aired.
We've worked with 35 networks in the past four years.
91 different television shows.
And there's only one thing we can play after that clip.
That's right.
You pigs in human clothing!
We're done for.
How long do you think it'll take before we surface on someone's cybercrime radar and are...
Get kicked off the air.
Or arrested.
Banned.
Lawsuit.
Sued.
How about being sued or arrested?
Arrested.
How about arrested?
Arrested for what?
For a cyber crime.
Cyber bullying.
I think it's going to be a while.
I think just the easiest way to do...
Well, the easiest way to stop this revelation of truth is to just buy us off.
Not a bad idea.
I call on...
Koch Brothers!
Get us out, man.
Save us.
What would it take?
10 million?
We could split five each.
I think five each would do it.
Yeah, five would be good.
And I'm done.
Keep going through the rigmarole of costing the taxpayers money.
Here's how it goes.
John, have you seen the latest Castle?
It was a great episode.
Finally, finally, finally, someone is taking these damn, you know, I'm so sick and tired of the bullying that goes on in the social networks.
This has to stop.
Children.
I mean, we need to think of the children.
Why can't they stop it?
And I'll tell you right now how you fix it.
We need legislation.
We need legislation.
Just turn it over to the FCC. That will be good.
They know how to do things.
The FCC finally.
I'm so glad.
The authority over the internet.
That's right.
And they just put a stop to it.
They just fine.
For example, they fine somebody.
They fine CBS $200,000 for Janet Jackson's nipple.
Yes.
I think that was $350 million.
Good start.
Good start.
Yeah.
More of that.
Crack down on this stuff.
It's in the public.
You know, you can't.
It's us going on.
There's people swearing.
Swearing on podcasts.
Taking the Lord's name in vain continuously.
We need to ban people with Tourette's from podcasts.
No Tourette's podcasters.
That's probably a start.
I think that is our audition tape.
Hello, Koch brothers.
So Russia today had a...
I don't know if we've been following this on and off.
We have been following the fact that you cannot get a bank account if you're an American overseas.
But that's because they've been trying to get this...
Well, it's too much hassle for the banks.
There's too much compliance issues.
That may be ending with...
This is on Russia today.
This is the banking secrecy is over.
That is, I think, is showing us the way forward.
Banking secrecy in its old form is obsolete.
Those were the words by the German finance minister at the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information.
That was in Berlin this week where finance ministers from over 51 countries signed an agreement with the hope to end tax evasion for good.
Now at the moment anyone can open up a bank account in another country without having to inform the tax man in their own country.
But from September 2017, the countries who have signed up to this agreement will automatically exchange this information.
Now, another 30 countries pledged to join by 2018, and this includes Switzerland, where millionaires and billionaires have been keeping their cash safe for, well, around three centuries now.
I thought Switzerland had to give it up too.
They don't have given it up?
No, that's what I said.
Switzerland comes next.
In the second phase.
So in other words, Switzerland is giving themselves an extra year or two.
Yeah, to clear everything out.
To convert it to gold and get out.
Right, to fix the books and get people out of there.
But this is...
I don't know.
I get a letter...
It's just something you can't do anything about.
I receive a letter annually from ABN Amro, where I still have an account with maybe 130 euros in there.
We use it to pay off cabs or politicians, whatever we can.
Then it's, first of all, just sending money to my own account.
A wire transfer, which you can't do from the mechanics bank, I'll have you know.
What?
What?
They don't even know how to receive a wire transfer.
That depends on the branch.
The Berkeley branch does wire transfers.
Well, we only use the Albany branch, and it's like their head starts to spin.
So you can do it with Chase for $40.
Oh, what a sienna!
Oh, yeah.
So I transferred some money over, but it was mainly to pay...
Did I tell you this story?
To pay for my party, my birthday party, I had to pay the caterer.
Did I tell you this story?
No.
No.
So it was, you know, and I send this money over and I get text mails.
My phone is ringing.
What choppers are out?
Be legal.
What's going on?
Do you have to call?
Everything's locked out.
So I have to call in.
I had to go through triple authentication of who I was, where I lived, what socks do I wear with a person, not a machine, because I had transferred money to Europe.
I said, do you know who this is?
Yeah.
And what is it for?
It says on the memo, Birthday Party Adam.
Is that code for terrorist financing?
It was unbelievable.
So, to get it over takes time to go through that rigmarole, and it costs $40.
Just insane.
Probably because they know they have to get someone to, you know, three people to check to see if it's okay.
A couple grand, really.
And then, you know, so once it's in there, then Abe and Amro once a year says, yeah, you know, we really don't, you know, can we think about maybe, look, you can use another bank and they want to get rid of me.
I've been with them for 30 years.
You've been with the bank for 30 years and they want to get rid of you because it's a little extra paperwork.
Well, also, there's no money running through it, which actually keeps them out of trouble, but they still have to do an annual report of whatever I've done.
Well, this will all be automated now, so they'll probably be, supposedly, it's going to be automated, which means you can probably keep an account there.
Well, it's effed.
Yes.
No, this is the whole world financial system.
It's designed to enslave everybody.
Don't want anybody getting some money out of it.
And I'd like to say...
Spending it on a party, for God's sake.
Everybody who's got an iPhone 6 and is all jacked up and all hot and horny about your Apple Pay, you are stupid.
Wait.
Just wait.
And, oh, let's finally get rid of cash.
Okay.
Fine.
You will see.
I hope I'm dead before it happens, because I don't want to be around when this comes down, when they really subjugate everybody.
It's happening!
In Holland, they don't have cash.
Almost nothing.
It's all PIN. Yeah, pin and...
What's it?
Poke and pin or whatever they call it?
I'm writing that one up.
Poke and pin.
Bingo.
Poke and pin.
Yeah.
You can't get on the tram.
Did I tell you the tram?
You have to check in and check out with your RFID-enabled OV chip card, which is the same as the Oyster.
Can I ask Adam then?
Yeah, you can ask Adam.
Ask Adam.
Ask Adam.
Duh.
So you get on the tram or the bus.
Yeah, trams that go all over the place.
You hold up your card to the RFID reader.
It goes...
You see, at that point, accepted.
And then when you leave the tram or the train, the bus, you must check out...
To, A, stop the meter from running.
If you don't, your card can run out, actually.
They'll say, oh, but eight euros gone or whatever.
Oh, because it thinks you're on the train just riding around so you're charging by the mile like a taxi cab?
You didn't get out.
Public transportation.
You did not get out.
That's right.
But, of course, just about everybody's card is...
I mean, you're able to get an anonymous one for a fee of eight euros...
But you can only charge the card with your poke and pin.
So they connect the poke and pin to the travel card, even if it's an anonymous travel card.
So what's the point of that?
Well, it's not.
It's an anonymous one.
It's not anonymous.
It's not anonymous.
That's the whole point.
They are tracking your movement.
Yes, they are.
When you get on, when you get off.
And of course, there's a very small step from connecting the poke and pin to the travel card to just make the travel card the travel poke and pin.
Poke and pin and go.
This is good marketing.
Poke and pin and go.
So, fine.
It's all fine.
But I have actually been in position a long time ago where the IRS came to me, the Dutch IRS in this case, and said, you need to prove X, Y, and Z because we have tracked you through flight records.
You were on this helicopter that day.
We have your phone positioned.
Going from Amsterdam to Schiphol East, so we know that this was you.
And I'm talking 15 years ago they could do this.
So good luck with that, because you are guilty of something at all times forever.
Just look at the U.S. code.
You're guilty of something somehow.
And you just step on the wrong toes, and you're good to go.
That's all.
This is bogus.
Go read the Unabomber Manifesto.
You'll see how right he was.
Just don't blow anybody up.
Not for that thing.
Okay.
Well, yeah.
Well, this is your thing.
That's why I couldn't get a hold of you yesterday.
Because I don't have...
You don't carry your phone.
You don't carry your phone.
And when you go and you leave the house, nobody knows where you're going.
That's right.
It's suspicious in itself.
In my opinion, if I was in law enforcement, I'd be watching your every move.
Because he has my phone.
A bug on your car.
That's right.
A little thing, a little tracking device on the back of it, which is legal.
Uh-huh.
And I... I found that way, so screw you.
You could not get a hold of me.
I know.
Two messages.
One of actual ultra-importance, and then the newsletter.
Both, you could not get a hold of me.
And I apologize.
I was off the air.
So this last newsletter, by the way, I would recommend people go back and look at it, because it is...
I think it's...
One of the best pieces of work you've ever done.
I don't know.
Mickey was reading the newsletter in bed.
On the phone.
On her phone.
Yeah, you can read it on the phone.
This one actually scaled properly.
I've been using this template on and off, and occasionally you put something in there.
I don't know what code it is, but it throws it off and says, not going to scale anymore.
It's just a big old giant mess.
So it won't work on the phone, but this one works on the phone, this last one.
Yeah, and she loved the kitten picture.
The kitten picture.
Best one ever.
The kitten from hell.
Yes, best one ever.
The kitten picture.
Very good.
As we wind it down, John, I do want to try and keep this under five hours for today.
We've got a lot of post-production work to do with the 666 Big Beast show notes and everything.
Let's see.
I kept a lot of you.
We've got to talk about the guy in Pennsylvania because we have a contact.
Yeah, we do.
A guy.
Yep.
Who is his buddy, who is his friend, and he tells us this whole thing is complete.
Let's just summarize.
We'll talk about it more on another show because it's not going away.
This is the guy that they were tracking down.
They had to shut down the city because he's out to kill everybody.
But in fact, he killed somebody who was apparently fooling around with his brother's wife or something.
There's another one of those love triangles.
Uh-huh.
Mm-hmm.
And so the whole thing's a scam, and the crooked police department is out to get the guy.
So the U.S. Marshals, which is a group, by the way, that needs to be looked into, the U.S. Marshals came into town.
They're supposed to track down fugitives.
These are the guys who shot Gary Weaver's wife and dog and somebody else.
And a kid.
And this kid.
This kid.
And nobody went to jail.
Nobody got indicted.
Nothing happened.
I have a clip from this, which includes my favorite man on the street.
And as you'll see, there's some discrepancy in what happened.
If you look at any of them, his name is Fryen, right?
They beat the crap out of him.
They beat the crap out of the guy.
His face somehow met the pavement, I think was the exact...
Met the pavement.
It's very unfortunate how his face met the pavement.
And then they go to Man on the Street.
What do you think Man on the Street would say about the cops smashing someone's face?
Oh, you deserved it, man.
After a seven-week manhunt, it was United States Marshals who found suspected trooper killer Eric Freen.
Scott Mikulski was searching the abandoned Birchwood Resort near Tannersville when he found one of America's most wanted criminals.
He turned towards me, identified myself as law enforcement.
I told him to get underground.
He proned out.
He kept closing distance about five feet away.
I said, who are you?
What's your name?
And he said, Eric Fleen.
The U.S. Marshal said at that point, Freed looked sad and defeated.
Hours later, the public got their first glimpse of Freed, showing some injuries to his face.
State police say his face was that way when they got to the scene.
There was a struggle with law enforcement.
He has talked to us about some things that occurred to him while he made his way through the woods and so forth over that 40-plus day period.
But that was an injury that occurred to him at some point in his flight.
But McCloskey has a different story.
The marshal says Freen's facial injuries happened when he secured Freen on an asphalt runway.
But sometimes when we take people into custody, we have to make Take drastic measures, especially when he killed a fellow officer.
We weren't messing around.
Even after that U.S. Marshal admitted that it was him that took Eric Freed's face to the asphalt, people still had questions.
News Watch 16 spoke to some people who live in the Poconos.
While some say that they agree with what the Marshal did, others said it could have been a lot worse.
That's the least that they could have done, and now he'll be brought to justice.
And that's what I was hoping for.
I was hoping for a capture, not a kill.
So I'm glad he wasn't killed.
Getting your face stuffed to the ground, it's a very small price to pay.
It's wrong, but I mean, what he did is wrong, but two wrongs don't make a right.
There's the American public, everybody.
Well, the Poconos.
I mean, you have to assume that this whole area from the sounds of this entire story from the way it began to the way it ended.
Everyone's screwing their friend's brother's wife.
They're all screwing each other.
Sounds like deliverance to me.
Bunch of rednecks up there.
Bring in the marshals.
It's not, of course, it's just not being reported properly.
Fine, fine, fine, fine.
The NSA assistant top dog, what's her name?
Shay.
We talked about her.
She had all these businesses on the side.
Oh, right.
Businesswoman.
Yeah, she resigned.
Which, of course, the NSA said her departure was routine and long planned.
Of course!
She's the National Security Agency's Director of Signals Intelligence and had two little businesses on the side who was selling signal intelligence services to contractors who had contracts from the National Security Agency.
Good work.
Okay, I'm good.
I think I'm good.
I had some drone fear porn from CBS. We can do that later.
We can do it tomorrow.
We can do everything.
Not tomorrow.
We'll do it Thursday.
I got a lot of Ebola stuff still.
Actually, a good one, but that's too long.
No, it's too long.
No, it's good.
I tell you what, why don't we get out of here?
This was a fun episode.
I enjoyed this immensely, and let me say, Hail Satan!
Hail Hydra.
Yeah.
Which a lot of people would get.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
That's what I figured.
That's what I figured.
That's why I said it.
That's very good.
Hail Hydra.
Thank you all for contributing to the Mark of the Beast episode of the No Agenda Show.
I'll play us out with some Mark of the Beast tunage.
Since we all deserve that, for sure.
And we shall return...
On Thursday for episode 667, Holy Macaroni!
Looking forward to more destruction for you all then.
Well, maybe just deconstruction.
I don't know.
Construction.
Coming to you from FEMA Region 6 here in the capital of the Drone Star States.
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How's Satan?
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Right?
There's the stuff that you know you don't know, and there's the stuff that you know that you know, and there's the stuff that you don't know that you know.
But the most destructive can be, to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, the most destructive can be the stuff that you don't know that you don't know.