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690: Win by a Gyp

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	Wait until the Texas oil company's closed.
	There's going to be hookers for $35.
	Don't you worry, there's going to be plenty of it.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, January 25th, 2015.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 690.
	This is No Agenda.
	Defending the sanity of citizens all across Gitmo Nation, live from FEMA Region 6 in the capital of the Drone Star State, Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where there's a never-ending drought, apparently, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Beautiful day, 72 degrees.
	Hey everybody, how you doing?
	You slurred, John, in the opening there.
	I had a moment where I sounded like Tom Brokaw.
	Or drunk, I don't know.
	Drunk or not drunk is the question.
	Well, there you go.
	I always tell the kids, don't drink when you broadcast.
	Drink when you drive.
	And take your keys.
	So I'm still looking at this website.
	Oh, the iRiver.
	Just before we started, I was pontificating how much I still love my original iRiver.
	I'm going to say it's the i78 or something.
	It's a very old unit.
	Yeah, let me see.
	It's pre...
	No, I think it's parallel to the iPod.
	It was a little before.
	But it recorded and did all kinds of cool stuff.
	Yeah, it still does.
	I'm trying to look at it here.
	The wire's a little short.
	But it takes one AA battery, and you can just jam a wire into it.
	It has a line in.
	And just hit record.
	You put the lock on so you don't accidentally turn it off.
	And it's the perfect backup.
	It can go for 15 hours.
	High quality, and I just let it sit there and record everything as a backup.
	So if power goes out, it won't fall apart.
	You know, it's perfect.
	Yeah, no, they're very well made.
	Yeah, no, they are.
	Yeah, no.
	I got a lot of email about the kissing stuff that you were so interested in.
	Oh, yeah.
	I mentioned this on one of my tweets.
	A guy from Brazil, I guess it was an email, said that in Brazil, they do two kisses in...
	I think it's two kisses in Rio, three kisses in Sao Paulo, or two kisses in Sao Paulo, three kisses in Rio.
	No, one kiss, two kiss, and then if you go south, it's three.
	So it's all over the country.
	There's a variety.
	It's different everywhere, yes.
	Yeah, exactly.
	People are very interested in this for some reason.
	I think it was the most email topic.
	It's like tipping.
	This and tipping.
	People always want to know, do I tip?
	Do I tip in Brazil?
	It seems like there's a direct correlation in the EU between tipping and kissing.
	No tipping, all kissing.
	Maybe we should just kiss our waiters.
	Kissing?
	Yeah, just kiss the waiters.
	Don't tip them.
	So if you have a three kiss, definitely no tipping.
	No tip for you.
	Exactly.
	No tip for you.
	Justin sent a question.
	Adam, I'm intrigued by the European notion of greeting other men with a kiss on each cheek, which is, it is in the Netherlands for sure.
	Also in San Francisco.
	Yes, and in some parts of Austin.
	You being a taller gentleman, how do you approach a significantly shorter individual?
	A very small, petite male, 5'2".
	Do you stoop down?
	Do you lift them up by the armpits?
	That's what you should do.
	Or offer up the nearest apple crate?
	Or do you politely peck them on the top of the head?
	Yeah, well...
	I thought about this for a moment, and I think that I stoop down.
	I'm a stooper.
	Well, besides that, what do you do?
	And then, yeah, you do two kisses, but then you also do, because someone's short and the embrace is going to be a little strange, it's not going to be a complete embrace because of the height difference, you just do a man pat on the back, you know.
	Hey, man, how you doing, bro?
	And then you go, yeah.
	Which is also one of those strange things.
	Why do men do that?
	Why do we pound each other on the back?
	Hugging Pat?
	Yeah, it's not Pat.
	It's like pounding.
	It's like, boom, boom, boom, yeah.
	Is it to compensate for the...
	That's all new, by the way.
	Really?
	When I was a kid, nobody did that.
	No one did the back pounding?
	No.
	Huh.
	There wasn't anything close to any of this.
	Huh.
	In fact, the hugging is pretty recent, too.
	I haven't yet put my finger on the date.
	Of the pounding or the hugging?
	In the 90s, I think most of the stuff really started taking off.
	Interesting.
	Well, I guess, growing up in Europe, I really didn't notice that it wasn't really...
	Well, the pounding is an American thing.
	I've never seen it anywhere else.
	It was started, obviously, in a movie or football teams or something to do with sports.
	I have no idea.
	In fact, there used to be a lot more butt slapping.
	Oh, I don't see that at all anymore.
	Used to be common, especially in football games.
	You guys would be slapping each other in the butt all the time.
	Now the latest thing is, and I don't even know where this came from, but this was only within the last five or six years, is the two players jumping as high as they can in the air and ramming into each other.
	That's a very recent phenomenon.
	It used to be high fives, and there was low fives, and then there was fives behind the back.
	And there's also four or five different people who claim to have invented the high five.
	Yeah, well, that's never going to be discovered who it actually was.
	But this jumping into the air and then slamming into each other.
	It's kind of interesting.
	It's probably related to military-industrial complex and hyping people up for war.
	I do recall, though, when I was a kid in Holland, I moved there when I was seven, I remember the neighbor kids, and I was still in the international school for about three years, but I did have, you know, like the neighbors would hang out a little bit.
	And when they left their house, they would kiss their mom goodbye, and they would kiss their dad goodbye on the lips.
	And I remember, as an American, going, what?
	And that wasn't the most normal thing.
	I don't know if that still takes place.
	Ah, but everything's different.
	It takes place in Saudi Arabia.
	Yeah.
	I mean, there's lots of pictures of the various kings kissing George Bush on the lips, for example.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	But things change.
	I mean, Europe used to be completely liberal, and your breasts, a man's breasts, were no different from a woman's breasts, and no one cared.
	And it wasn't seen as like some, oh, we got to wear topless on the beach.
	No one cared.
	But throughout the past, you know, 50 years I've been alive, yeah, it's changed dramatically.
	Now you have to be over there.
	You must not...
	It can be frowned upon.
	Yeah, I know in the 70s it was very common to...
	All the beaches were topless in France.
	It wasn't like there was an area.
	But it wasn't marked as topless.
	It was beach.
	No, it was a beach.
	Toplessness was allowed in all the beaches.
	No, it wasn't even allowed.
	There was no law.
	It was allowed.
	Tell me it wasn't allowed.
	That doesn't make any sense.
	It was not disallowed.
	It was not presented as being allowed.
	It was just normal.
	It was normal to be wandering around.
	Yeah, because you don't want lines all over you.
	What kind of a tan is that?
	That Speedo looks so crappy, doesn't it, John?
	Yeah, it does.
	Right, indeed.
	Alright, well now that that's out of the way...
	Well, it's not out of the way.
	We still don't know anything.
	We have not learned a single thing.
	I found it...
	Well, today's the big day, you know.
	Yes, Greece, big election?
	The whole world goes to hell in a handbasket on Monday when the market's open.
	Or it doesn't.
	And the curious thing is, you don't know...
	In advance, no matter which way the election goes, which I believe it will go toward the...
	Syriza.
	Yeah, those guys.
	The communists, which...
	I get the biggest kick out of it.
	I get some clips of this group.
	And I will say that a lot of people have also attempted to correct us by saying this probably doesn't mean an exit from the euro.
	The Syriza party, really, their platform is to...
	Stop the austerity measures.
	They should be forgiven, whatever ideas they have.
	But they are not necessarily about leaving the euro.
	I also don't see that as a very good idea at this point in time.
	Well, you can control your economy a little better if you have some control over the money that's in the economy.
	Oh yeah, but you still have to, you've got to put that in place.
	I mean, you've got to get the money back in, everything has to, I mean, that's not going to happen overnight, John.
	That's not, I don't think that's a flip the switch thing.
	Well, it was a bad idea to begin with.
	I think the British and the, was it the Swedish and these other guys that stayed out of the Eurozone, I think made a wiser decision.
	But play this, here's, I got some clips.
	Let's start with Greased Votes Today.
	Okay, doke.
	Despite years of deep budget cuts linked to its bailout, the country's economy has yet to rebound.
	Unemployment continues to remain stubbornly high at 25%, making the message of the anti-austerity Shariza party resonate.
	I hope Shariza wins.
	There is no other alternative for us.
	In recent weeks, Shariza's leader Alexis Tsipras has reached out to international investors and toned down his anti-capitalist rhetoric.
	However, he remains committed to renegotiating Greek debt while putting an end to wage cuts and public spending reductions.
	He's confident Sunday's election will etch a new chapter for Greece.
	I think that tomorrow is a very important day, not only for Greek people, but for European people.
	I'm very optimistic for a new beginning for Europe.
	But while Shariza maintains its lead in the polls, a significant number of voters remain undecided.
	Current Prime Minister Antonis Samaras says those votes are his.
	There are more than 14% undecided one day before the elections.
	And I believe that these people will decide for Europe, will decide for Greece, will decide for growth, will decide for stability, and this is why we're very hopeful.
	Polls are set to open in the early hours of Sunday morning.
	Which way Greece decides to vote will undoubtedly keep the rest of the continent on edge.
	On edge.
	Now this guy, this joker that's running against the Shariza character, says, oh, there's 14 undecided, we're going to get them all.
	That means they're hoping for corruption in the election.
	Well, can you imagine if Shariza doesn't win?
	You don't get all of the undecided votes, no matter who you are.
	Yeah, so we had an analysis, we brought in an ex-Greek...
	On to the PBS NewsHour.
	And I have two short clips from him.
	One is the Greek election, U.S. analysis.
	And then number two.
	But the one thing that's interesting is that the Chariza guy is a communist.
	This is, for all practical purposes, a communist party.
	And it's so funny to listen.
	I think that we kind of want this guy to win.
	I don't know why.
	Well, you mean you and I or America?
	No, no, the Americans.
	Because I want him to win just to see what happens.
	I mean, it's just for the show.
	There's got to be great entertainment.
	It probably should help our show.
	Whatever the case.
	Exactly.
	Which is all that counts.
	Whatever the case is, it's so funny to listen to this ex-ambassador skirt the communist issue, and he never uses the word.
	In fact, the word communist, in the true sense, and there are tons of communists in Europe.
	I mean, they form parties, and they're part of coalitions, and they're all over the place.
	Americans don't want to use the word at all.
	Because it just screws up the right-wingers.
	I'm not sure why, but listen to this.
	Even though Barroso, who has been at the top of the EU for many years, he was a member of the Communist Party.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Yeah, I mean, it's very European.
	It's kind of the European thing.
	It makes total sense.
	But yeah, we don't want to discuss that too much.
	Don't say anything.
	Ixnay on the ominous K. For more on the Greek elections, I'm joined by veteran diplomat and former U.S. ambassador to Greece, Nicholas Burns.
	So tell me, why is this election so significant?
	It's a momentous election, I think.
	Very significant, Hari, for the future of Greece, but also perhaps for the future of the European Union.
	The Greeks themselves, some of the commentators are saying this may be as important as two other big events in modern Greece history, the Civil War.
	In the 1940s, the military dictatorship and return to democracy in the 1970s, because it may be a big point of departure.
	If Syriza, the left-wing party, wins this election, if it governs alone or governs in a coalition, it is very likely going to challenge the compact between...
	What's with the music?
	John.
	You know, I don't know.
	Is that on PBS and they're playing that music in the background?
	Yeah.
	I have no idea.
	I think it was bleed-through.
	I heard it too.
	Did you get this from TV or from the web?
	Yeah, no, I took it right off the TV. Yeah, no.
	It is very likely going to challenge the compact between the Greek people and the European Union.
	These hundreds of billions of dollars in loans to the Greeks...
	Will the Greek government, under new leadership, play by the rules, meet the commitments, and pay off those loans, or will they effectively challenge the European Union to renegotiate them?
	It'll be a showdown of sorts between a leftist Greek government and the German-led EU. Alright, so if Syriza wins, and if they say, you know what, we want to renegotiate, is there a possibility that Greece could get kicked out of the EU, or that they could opt out?
	I mean, that would set a precedent in itself, wouldn't it?
	It would, and it would be consequential, perhaps, for how financial markets see the stability of the Eurozone.
	The German government, and Germany of course is the key country now, and the European Union has been saying over the last couple of weeks, That it's not going to tolerate a reconsideration or renegotiation of these loans, that it expects any future Greek government to pay off the loans and meet its commitments.
	So I think you're going to see a struggle between a new, very young leader, Tsipras of Syriza, and the German government and its finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble.
	The Germans may believe I believe now that they can weather the eventual exit of Greece from the Eurozone and not have instability in financial markets.
	They clearly didn't believe that a couple of years ago, but I think that's one of the possibilities that could emerge from this.
	Maybe we should just review briefly.
	Because the history of these loans is, of course, no longer explained anywhere.
	And it should be known that it was, amongst others, Goldman Sachs.
	Or maybe it was all Goldman, wasn't it, who came in and said, look, we totally know how to do this.
	We can refinance all your stuff.
	We've got these ways with derivatives.
	It was a scam.
	They screwed them.
	They completely screwed the entire nation.
	I know this.
	For example, with Portugal, they took the money and spent it.
	Yeah, on roads and airports that no one uses or flies to.
	Well, they made a few mistakes.
	In Spain, too.
	I think one of those roads with no one drives on goes to the airport that no one flies to.
	That's probably true.
	And it has all kinds of apartment buildings that no one lives in.
	Well, they got carried away.
	But they saw it as free money.
	Yeah.
	And they just made the assumption that they really wouldn't have to ever pay it back.
	It was like something to keep us afloat.
	Well, the people that took the money and gave it to their friends or their associates to build all these things, I'm pretty sure they knew they would never have to pay it back.
	It's the people who didn't realize what was going on.
	That could be.
	Whatever the case is, it's a mess.
	And the Germans are adamant.
	No, we're not changing.
	In all circumstances of massive loans like this around the world, they are renegotiated constantly.
	It's not a situation where no one's ever done this before.
	Of course not.
	You change the terms.
	South America happens all the time.
	Look at the Silicon Valley people.
	Look, here's the deal we've got.
	We're going to be broke if you don't give us...
	I'll tell you what, we'll give you 25 cents on the dollar and we'll be back in business.
	And that deal is taken.
	And I've got to tell you, the first time I saw this in business, but I've actually witnessed it personally, one of the companies that I had in Holland, we actually had to make it go bankrupt.
	And, you know, people are going to get screwed like the landlord for the rent.
	And I was amazed.
	The guy who was running the company went to the landlord and said, okay, look, we just can't pay you anything for the next six months.
	Would you like us to then start paying you half after six months or would you like us to just leave?
	And the landlord said, yeah, I'll take whatever you can give me.
	It's not always as cut and dry as people think.
	The German a-holes who are going to be the fall of the EU claim that they're not going to do any of these deals.
	The Germans cannot ever feel that somebody's taken them.
	It's like, oh, they ripped me off, these people.
	They're proud, proud.
	They're not a really good group to be running the finances.
	Let's go.
	Let's go to the end of this guy, this ambassador.
	I thought it was an analyst.
	No, he's the ex-master of Greece.
	He's a foreign service guy.
	He's not a stooge, if you know what I mean.
	Whatever happened, by the way, to the American guy who was running Greece with a Greek name, who got out before all this crap happened?
	Do you remember that?
	What was his name again?
	Yeah, I do remember that.
	The guy from Minnesota.
	Yeah.
	And I think he brought Goldman in and got everything all set up.
	Now you never hear from him again ever.
	Oh, that's a good point.
	We should look up where this guy is.
	By the way, I'm looking at the Guardian live updates and it looks like their headline is Greek election exit poll suggests Syriza majority.
	Yeah.
	Let's look up that guy while we're listening to the clip.
	So if the Greek economy is better off now than it was three years ago, or at least the financial system in Europe is better off and more able to withstand this, how bad is the Greek economy?
	I mean, when we talk about youth unemployment at 50%, I mean, that's not things that the America is unfamiliar with that since the Great Depression.
	That's exactly right.
	Greece has gone through a depression since 2008, 2009.
	50% youth unemployment, 25% overall unemployment, massive contraction of the economy until just the last year.
	They're running a very, very slight surplus now, but the economy is not in good shape.
	They're not getting the investment, either from their own industrialists or from outside.
	This is ridiculous.
	Of course no one's going to invest in it.
	You can take...
	A quarter of the money and buy the whole thing that they want you to invest in.
	And then just do it yourself.
	Pfft, makes no sense to invest.
	Papandreou.
	Yeah.
	Papandreou.
	Papandreou.
	Because people are so unsure of the direction of the country.
	And, Harry, here's why it's important for Americans.
	Europe is still the largest trade partner in the United States and the largest investor into the United States, the European Union countries.
	It's the biggest economy in the world, the EU. And so if there is instability in the EU in future months because of these Greek elections, because of the new government, it's going to have some kind of impact on the United States as well.
	So we have a lot in that sense riding on this election.
	And so there is actually possible repercussions depending on the outcome of the elections on Sunday, what could happen in the financial markets here Monday and going forward as that new government executes their kind of vision.
	Well, I think everything will depend on what this new government says.
	It's very likely to win the elections.
	It's far ahead in the polls over the center-right New Democracy Party.
	If they take a line of compromise and conciliation, and if they convey a sense of responsibility for the financial future of Greece, then I think the markets are going to be reassured.
	But if they throw down the gauntlet and effectively have a showdown with the European Union, especially with the German government, then I think you're going to see nervousness on both sides of the Atlantic.
	Allow me to slip one clip in.
	So, of course, the markets closed Friday with the euro at its lowest since introduction, I think.
	No.
	In 11 years, lowest in 11 years.
	It's been as low as 80 cents.
	Okay.
	Then it's 11 years.
	I thought it was introduction, but 11 years.
	So there's more going on.
	The European Central Bank has also made some announcements that come along with whatever is going to happen this coming week.
	Our decision was entirely driven by...
	This, by the way, is a board member of the European Central Bank, Benoit Coureur, and they're talking about the quantitative easing That the European Central Bank is going to start or taking part in now.
	Our decision was entirely driven by what we have to do, which is to care about inflation, European inflation.
	And we've seen inflation expectations going lower.
	We've seen actual inflation numbers also going lower.
	According to all our measures, inflation expectations were lower.
	So lights were blinking red across our dashboard and we had to do something.
	The only question was...
	Apparently there's a dashboard somewhere in Europe that has blinking lights and determines the state of the economy.
	This is cool!
	What's the right instrument?
	Are you confident now that you have the right package of measures in place?
	I mean, the market's been asking for this for a long time, so you think you've pretty much got it right as far as the market is concerned?
	Oh, we think it will work.
	We're pretty convinced it will work.
	It will work because it's big.
	It will work because it is steady.
	It will work because it is open-ended.
	And so we have everything in place to convince not only the market, but also to convince companies, to convince people in Europe that inflation will go up and it will go back towards 2%.
	I think this is very significant.
	By the way, I said Andres Papandreou earlier.
	I meant George.
	Yes, Andres is George's dad.
	Curiously, the Andreas was an American, had to renounce his American citizenship to become a member of the Greek Parliament.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, but that's because, remember, the law was changed sometime in the 90s, I think, during the Clinton administration, where you could easily have dual citizenship.
	As an American?
	I've looked at it.
	I can't have it unless my mother or my father has a different nationality.
	No, no.
	It's easy.
	If you're an American, a Native American, a Native...
	Pocahontas.
	If you're not Pocahontas.
	If you're a Native-born American, you can be a citizen of Ireland.
	You can be a citizen of a number of countries.
	There's a lot of dual citizens.
	We have dual citizens listening to our show that are...
	One I know for a fact is American-UK. Well, I looked into it.
	My daughter has dual citizenship.
	Her mom is Dutch, and that was not a problem.
	Maybe I looked at it a long time ago and said, oh, Mr.
	Curry, if you want to have that...
	But you looked at it before they changed the law.
	If you could get the Dutch to give you a citizenship, you'd be dual citizen.
	Why would they give me a citizenship?
	Because you're a famous Dutch guy.
	Yes, I'm like the...
	Who's that French guy that went to Russia?
	The actor.
	What's his name?
	The fat drunk.
	Oh, right, that guy.
	Well, he renounced his citizenship, I think.
	He did it for tax reasons.
	Well, that's what they usually think you're going to do.
	But when I said, hey, can I get a dual citizenship?
	Oh, you're probably only doing that for tax reasons.
	I can't even have a bank account in Europe anymore.
	They don't want me.
	Well...
	What was that guy's name?
	Gerard Depardieu.
	There you go.
	Yeah, that guy.
	I am the Gerard Depardieu of Hollywood.
	Thank you, chat room.
	Yes, thank you.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, but this quantitative easing, which I think is, I don't know if they can do this.
	Do they really have the clout to do something like we did in the U.S. or continue to do?
	The way it works in Europe, because if you're in the Eurozone, you don't have any control over your banking system.
	Well, they do have the banking union, so they do have some controls over it.
	That's the last thing they put into place.
	Where does the money go?
	What bond?
	I guess you can buy Greek bonds.
	Yeah, well, no.
	Sorry, that was a old model.
	Yeah, well, no.
	Yeah, well, no.
	That's a good one.
	Just trying to shake it up a bit.
	Yeah, well, no.
	I believe that each individual, they will create bonds, but the bonds will be designated to individual countries.
	Individual countries already have bonds.
	Yes, but the new ones will be issued by the European Central Bank, but they will be tied to individual member states.
	We can't tell them countries anymore.
	European Union member states.
	As a member state, what does this bond do?
	At the end of the day, it makes the elites rich and the citizens poor.
	What else could it be?
	What can it be?
	We're looking at the Greek 10-year bond yield right now.
	Whatever the case, this is a situation.
	It's going to be interesting.
	The 10-year bond yield is 8.8%.
	That's reasonable.
	And I have to say, all of this happened after my ex-New York banker buddy said, wow, all we need is to get that derivatives thing, that bill passed, which passed, and the president signed into law,
	so all derivatives are backed in essence by the FDIC, so that if something went wrong with our derivative system worldwide, which is $300 trillion dollars, 313.
	We'll give you a chit.
	Yeah, exactly.
	We'll give you a chit to bail yourself out.
	So that, of course, passed, and then all this happened.
	So something in the banking sector that we really just don't understand has to do with this, because all of this has taken place.
	Well, we understand that they're scammers.
	Yeah, who needs more understanding than that?
	That's about it.
	The euro is $1.12, finally.
	I think now it's reasonable.
	No, make it parody.
	Although people are talking below parody.
	I'm hearing a lot of that noise.
	Yeah, well, I think that's going to happen.
	Because once these things slide, they kind of, whoa!
	They go a little further.
	They don't just stop on a dime.
	No.
	Which is also, by the way, I have a little couple of clips about oil, if you want to go in that vein.
	Yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure.
	So I'm listening to the oil.
	I got one piece of, I got one insightful clip on today's show, and I'm going to play it in a few seconds.
	But the oil situation, as the oil prices, is that $45 a barrel now, which is pretty close to what it should be.
	And I had somebody writing me, saying, well, you know, this is deflation, and you're always saying deflation is bad.
	This is a...
	Yeah, the price of oil is deflating, but it doesn't mean anything else is deflating.
	The price of oil is normalizing, in my opinion.
	It's not really deflating.
	The normal price of oil should be around $40.
	And so this is not a big deal.
	This will get the economy going again.
	Our economy.
	Yes, our economy.
	At the end of the day.
	But everyone's all fearful about this.
	Historically, the price of oil, I think the average price for almost forever was like $25 or so, and it's gone below that in the 80s.
	It went to $12, didn't it?
	Yeah, they halved it.
	So this is not like, oh my God, we're going to...
	Everybody's freaked out about...
	I usually pay $75 for a tank of gas over the past few years.
	Now it's $35, and I'm going to be moaning about this?
	What is wrong with these people?
	I had lunch with two women from spin class, and they just started talking about, boy, this is great, but I paid $1.76.
	But now with the Saudi king dead, it's going to go rocketing back up.
	I said, ladies, buy me another coffee.
	It's not going to happen.
	It's going to keep going down.
	Well, I have a good reason why it's not going to go up.
	But, let's play what the fearful...
	I mean, this is, again, I cut this...
	You're going to scold me for this, but...
	Rachel Maddow?
	Glenn Beck, no.
	Stop with the Glenn Beck, man.
	Well, Glenn Beck is the guy, one of the very important people that tries to scare the crap out of the public.
	But how many public has watched it?
	Do you think more people watch Glenn Beck than CNN? No, it's this radio show that's got...
	You're right, you're right, you're right.
	So here, but this, I don't know, this may or may not have been on the radio, but I don't think it was.
	Whatever the case is on his team, it would have been anyway.
	Because he likes to, he repurposes a lot, like most of these guys.
	So here is Beck talking to some woman who is an actuarial insurance person who got somehow involved in a publication from some years back that folded, I think, five years ago, although they still have their website, called The Oil Drum. five years ago, although they still have their website, called And The Oil Drum is kind of the last vestiges of the peak oil people.
	And she was one of the writers for that.
	Now she does her own blog that Beck apparently reads and he brings this woman on.
	She's kind of a fogey.
	And she just starts to spew the weirdest stuff.
	Now let's play Beck and the Oil Lady 1, which is the longest clip.
	And so I want to give you the kind of...
	Oh, scare the public policy of Beck and using this old lady as leverage.
	I can see the chat room and I just wanted to say something about this.
	Particularly in the United States when it comes to radio...
	This, and you just reminded me, and that's why I'm, because I'm like, I don't want to listen to this stupid Beck guy, but you're right.
	There's a number of guys on the radio in the United States of Gitmo Nation who have influence.
	A lot of people listen to the TV stuff.
	I don't even know where to find it, but the radio stuff, yeah, I think you're right.
	A lot of people listen to this.
	A lot of people are enamored.
	Beck is a complete showboat, former Top 40 DJ. I mean, he might as well be doing weather reports with Bubba the Love Sponge at the remote location.
	And he knows how to do it.
	It's just he's putting information to people's heads, which is confusing.
	And by the way, the main players in this game are Beck, Hannity, and number one is Rush Limbaugh.
	And there's another one which I'll be talking about in a bit.
	Michael Savage is another one, but he's kind of more of an eclectic style.
	But I was going through, I was on the Twitter, and I saw something, oh, this is a very interesting retweet of someone, and it had a very interesting, I'm not going to go into what it was, but I thought it was an interesting comment that was worth checking out.
	So it was a woman, and I clicked on her to see if I should follow her, because she may have had a whole bunch of cool comments.
	Things to say that I could use.
	But right in her bio, it says, huge Sean Hannity fan.
	So that I blocked her.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Hey, SeanHannity.com still goes to NoAgendaShow.com.
	All right.
	Let's go to Beck.
	I want to bring in Gail Tverberg.
	She is a fellow at the Casually Actual...
	Stop.
	I got to interrupt us a couple of days.
	He's breathless.
	Oh my gosh, she's so amazing.
	...society, author of the blog, ourfiniteworld.com, and I read an article today or yesterday that she had written about oil and how much trouble we are in, and we should all be aware of it.
	Gail, welcome to the program.
	How are you?
	Oh, I'm just fine.
	Thank you.
	Good.
	So, bring me up to speed and try to explain this in layman's terms on, because I know you have like ten things that you say, this is why it's a problem.
	Give me the three or four biggest things that people really need to understand about what's happening with oil.
	Well, I think one of the big things you need to understand is that if oil prices are low, it's going to result in a drop in oil production.
	I think this is something that people don't really realize.
	They assume that peak oil or the downturn in oil production that may be permanent is going to come because oil prices are high, but it may very well come the opposite direction.
	Sometimes.
	If the prices are too low, they quit and go home.
	So she equates peak oil to just no more production.
	That's new.
	She said peak oil in there, but I don't think she meant to.
	Oh, it says to me that this is on her brain.
	Yeah.
	And so the point she made was that because the price is going on, they're going to cut production, they just go home and all the rest of it.
	Okay, let's keep that in mind as we move along here.
	Now part two and three, which are shorter clips...
	There's a couple of things that are said in here that are...
	Of course, Beck never questions anything when he has one of his guests on.
	But this just now turns into somewhat nonsense.
	But play, too.
	I'm concerned that because this is kind of what Saudi Arabia did when we were going to make synth oil back in the 1980s.
	And they just collapsed the price of oil.
	I think they got it down.
	Hold on a second.
	What is synth oil?
	Is there something I didn't realize?
	This was...
	No, this is not a big deal.
	There was a period...
	There was a couple of developments, and most of it was dealing with the tar sands.
	The idea was to...
	And there was a lot of research done.
	In fact, the leading researchers that I know of that are doing this kind of turning coal, tar, and other things into oil, and it's called synth oil because you're synthesizing it from another product, are the Chinese...
	If you start looking into this, you'll find that the Chinese have been throwing money at this forever.
	But it was something under the Reagan, I think during the Reagan years, that we were doing.
	That went nowhere.
	Again, it jacked way up.
	And price, and you could afford to do these things.
	And then it went down to, like you said, this is the period, it went down to $12.
	Like $14 a barrel or something like that.
	And Reagan just closed down the synth oil industry and said, it's just too expensive to do it.
	And it was.
	It was too expensive.
	Well, that didn't make the oil problem go away.
	They just gutted our system.
	So I'm really concerned that this will gut us.
	Companies will collapse.
	You don't just...
	Turn it on and off.
	And when the price goes back on, are we going to be able to get back to this oil and be able to...
	Can you pick up where you left off?
	No, I don't think you can pick up where you left off.
	These oil companies in North Dakota and in Texas are going to default on their loans.
	And when this happens, their interest rates they're going to have to pay next time are going to be higher.
	And real estate in Austin is going to be great in a year or two.
	Overinflated bullcraf.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Again, I'm seeing this as normalizing things.
	But now here's another, now you, the interesting point made in that particular clip was, was Beck saying that Reagan saw the situation with the Price versus Sintoro and he shut it down.
	He's the genius.
	Now there's something amongst the right-wingers and it's like, It's like the motorcycle thing where if you look at the rock that you're going to hit as you're driving down the dirt road, you're going to hit it because that's what you're looking at.
	I didn't notice this before, but I'm starting to notice it more, that the right-wingers in this country, the conservatives, supposed conservatives, many reactionaries actually, the supposed conservatives do actually see government as a rule by a monarch.
	Reagan's not the guy who shut it down.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Now, the next clip, we'll hear another example of this.
	It's a yearning towards leadership for these people.
	That's what it is.
	Oh, Reagan, he was so...
	But it's not just leadership.
	It's not leadership in a democratic system or a republic.
	It's a king.
	But they glorify it.
	Yeah, they glorify him.
	Yeah, it's kind of creepy.
	It's kind of creepy.
	Well, I think as we go into next year, we're going to start seeing this not being a good thing, especially if the interest rates are raised starting next year.
	If President Obama goes ahead and they start raising the short-term interest rates, I think that's going to be a problem, too.
	But it's going to be a few months into next year, regardless of what the oil price is.
	You're talking 2015 is next year.
	And this is what my banker friend, former New York banker, says is not going to happen.
	No, and I agree with him.
	It's not going to happen.
	And here's another example.
	She says if Obama raises the interest rates.
	Yeah, that's not exactly how it works.
	Obama can't raise the interest rates.
	He could tell them, hey, you guys, I wish you'd raise the interest, but he cannot raise the interest.
	But again, the same conservatives actually see Obama as some sort of a king.
	And if you think about the way they bitch and moan about Obama, they're always bitching and moaning.
	I was a dictator!
	Okay, so your point, I like it.
	Right wing, no matter what, always sees the president as a king and a dictator.
	Yeah.
	Whether it's their guy or not.
	That's funny.
	That is funny.
	I like that.
	So I'm thinking about this and the price of going up and down, and Horowitz and I were discussing, and we'll discuss it again on Tuesday, we didn't do a show like this last week, about, you know, are they going to go up or are they going to go down?
	I believe now, after hearing the next clip I'm going to play, that they're going to go down and they're going to drop to probably below 30.
	Easy.
	Because there's one, and the woman that apparently didn't realize this, Beck doesn't know anything.
	Is that there was an element of this...
	This is very similar to what happened in the 70s and then in the 80s where the prices...
	You know, in the 70s, there was the OPEC thing where everyone had to wait for the gas.
	You could only drive on every other day of the week.
	There's all these crazy things going on.
	And then when Reagan came along, he wanted to sink the Russian economy.
	So he...
	I don't know how they managed to push the price of oil down, but no one was discouraging it.
	Let's put it that way.
	This is the interesting clip because this I didn't realize...
	And what you're going to hear next, and this clip's name is the key clip on the low price and the Saudis.
	This is a reflection on what happened in the 70s.
	These Arabs never forget.
	This, what you're going to hear next, is why the price of oil is going to continue to drop.
	I'll give you a little accent for the clip that is coming.
	You know, one of the things about oil prices that they probably like, the low oil prices, is it does put pressure on Russia over Ukraine.
	It puts pressure on the Iranians.
	It will probably discourage some of the investment in the U.S. tide oil and shale gas markets.
	But remember in the 1980s when this happened, Saudi did lower production, but nobody else in OPEC did, and they lost market share.
	And I think they're not willing to do that at this point.
	They have enormous reserves.
	They are a very low-cost producer of oil.
	I think they probably figure that they can ride out a period of low prices better than anybody else and maintain market share.
	Okay, let me see if I can play that back.
	So this is saying that the Saudis are not responsible, but they know historically it's better to jump in and play the game and they're prepared for it.
	Well, it's not jumping, it's staying.
	Stay in the game and they can ride it out for, you know, they can probably ride it out at 20 bucks, maybe even lower.
	They can ride it, they can produce oil at 10.
	Man, that's great.
	Because it's just essentially in the Saudi Arabia oil fields is you put a hole in the ground and here comes oil.
	I mean, it's not a process that's complicated.
	Now, the point that was made here, which is that the Saudis, the old lady, she went on, oh, the prices are down, so they're going to cut production.
	Thinking that they're going to try to control the market that way.
	No, they're not going to cut production because the last time anybody cut production, which was in the 80s, because of the low oil prices, they got screwed.
	They got screwed.
	So in the long term, they lost market share.
	So nobody's cutting production because they all know this story.
	Except for people in the companies in Texas, they'll have to close.
	No, no, they'll just have to close.
	Yeah, they're going out of business, yeah.
	But that's not even cutting production.
	They can't be in business when the price is at 40.
	You know what I thought was funny?
	Someone put up two clips, comparison, Obama on energy in 2010 and Obama, the State of the Union, on energy in 2015.
	Yeah.
	That's very interesting.
	Want to hear the difference?
	Yeah.
	Here's 2010.
	We consume more than 20% of the world's oil, but have less than 2% of the world's oil reserves.
	And that's part of the reason oil companies are drilling...
	Oops.
	This is only five years ago.
	This is five years ago.
	This is great.
	A mile beneath the surface of the ocean.
	This is after the BP spill, actually.
	Because we're running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water.
	For decades, we have known the days of cheap and easily accessible oil were numbered.
	This looks like it's working out.
	Now, did he not realize, I mean, did all of this shale oil fracking really only take place in the past five years?
	No.
	Well, everyone knew it was there, and the North Dakota fields in particular really actually discusses in the early days of our show, like six years ago, that they had mapped out North Dakota.
	We already knew that, yeah.
	As being one of the greatest oil reserves, although it's not easily extractable, it's not like Saudi oil.
	We were ahead of the President of the United States in 2010.
	We knew what was going on.
	That's how good we are.
	We've talked and talked about the need to end America's century-long addiction to fossil fuels.
	And for decades, we have failed to act with the sense of urgency that this challenge requires.
	Time and again, the path forward has been blocked.
	Not only by oil industry lobbyists, but also by a lack of political courage and candor.
	Now, it's interesting because I really like these...
	You're going to hear this a little shorter, is the State of the Union on oil.
	Now, you can look at it two ways.
	And this actually was put out by a very right-wing, Obama-hating group, these two different clips.
	I think it'd actually show, you can spin what he said into, see?
	I told you we'd rely on it less.
	I mean, just listen to how he talks about it now.
	We believed we could reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
	We kind of did.
	And protect our planet.
	And today, America is number one in oil and gas.
	America is number one in wind power.
	Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008.
	And thanks to lower gas prices and higher fuel standards, the typical family this year should save about $750 at the pump.
	You can also say that he worked very hard and his dream came true.
	But I think he really had no idea, as did nobody else, really.
	Well, they don't still.
	And I think everyone's really surprised how this thing started to cave.
	And now, because of the fact, apparent fact, that in terms of simple oil coming out of the ground, no one's cutting production because they know they're going to get screwed in the long run.
	If they do, they're going to drive this thing down to the ground, and it's just going to happen naturally.
	It's going to be quite fun to watch.
	Yes.
	And it's not going to hurt anybody.
	It will hurt the Texas guys and these other guys who love the idea of $100 oil.
	But the $100 oil is hurting the economy.
	The public doesn't need to be spending all its money on gas in their tanks.
	We could be spending it on hookers.
	Actually, with each tank...
	Well, you couldn't get a hooker for $35, but...
	Wait until the shale oil...
	Maybe there's deflation.
	Wait until the Texas oil companies close.
	There's going to be hookers for $35.
	Don't be worried.
	There's going to be plenty of it.
	Yeah, well, that would be nice if you...
	Real estate.
	In fact, if we look at Perry, the governor of Texas.
	Former governor.
	For everything.
	Former, former governor.
	He's not the governor anymore.
	But, you know, he took credit for all the boom and everything.
	It was really just an increased price.
	He was just lucky.
	He's in the right place at the right time.
	Yeah, he's just lucky.
	If you're okay and we can move on.
	I'm done.
	Then I'd like to thank you very much for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak, where the C stands for coal.
	In the morning!
	I don't know why.
	In the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all the ships and sea boots on the ground, feeding the air subs in the water, and all the dames and all the knights out there.
	In the morning, everyone in the chat room, noagendastream.com.
	Thanks for stopping by.
	It makes the show so much more lively when we're able to do it with an audience who we can gauge.
	Also, thank you to our artist.
	Is this now three in a row for Martin J.J.? I'm not sure.
	It might be.
	He also put in...
	He does these streaks.
	He streaks, yeah.
	Noartgenerator.com.
	And you actually used a number of pieces of art.
	I think some from the generator in the newsletter.
	You had a whole crap load of pictures.
	Yeah, a lot of pictures.
	Which, of course, triggered all kinds of spam filters.
	No one saw the newsletter.
	Yeah.
	Well, I had to go check today's numbers, but yeah, it resulted in not a lot of donations, but we did get some.
	Although I did like to do that newsletter, because I was just digging through my documents folder, and I said, look at that.
	Oh, I was going to use it.
	Oh, I never saw it.
	So I said, I'm just going to put them all in the newsletter.
	That's about a third or a quarter of the collection that I want to put in the newsletter.
	So every Saturday now, I'm going to have goofball pictures.
	Nice.
	Oh, by the way, so I didn't get these in the newsletter.
	I was going to put a picture of Harry Reid beaten up.
	So I said, where's that picture of Harry Reid beaten up?
	So I go look for the picture of Harry Reid beaten up, and there's a picture of Harry Reid with his left eye black and blue like somebody punched him right in the face.
	Sure.
	And I said, what is this picture?
	It's his right eye that was all beat up.
	They must have reversed the image of him.
	No, this was a picture of him having been beaten up in 2011.
	Oh!
	Yeah.
	Harry Reid has been beaten up three times.
	Wow.
	He got beaten up in 2011 again by accidentally falling on some ice or something.
	Wasn't that a hockey game?
	No, no.
	That was someone else.
	That was somebody else.
	Whatever the case was, somehow he did a face plant without breaking his nose and has a big black eye.
	No, no, but I know what this is.
	I know what this is.
	Biker gangs and sex swings.
	It's obvious.
	That's what Harry Reid is into.
	And so the next...
	Then apparently something else happened to him, but it didn't result in any visible damage around like a year or two later.
	And then the most recent one where he took a huge beating, claiming it was an exercise machine that went...
	That snapped.
	That snapped.
	Snapped and it's just busted everything.
	The only thing that would snap would be one of those.
	They have some of these with these rubber bands.
	Even that, I've never seen one snap.
	Have you ever broken any of those things?
	No.
	Have you ever broken that kind of rubber band?
	They don't snap.
	No.
	It's a strange phenomenon.
	There's a bunch of this kind of plastic rubber that it doesn't snap.
	It's not like a rubber band.
	It doesn't snap.
	It actually gently releases itself.
	Ah, that's the same stuff they make the fleshlights out of.
	I'm trying to move you forward.
	Okay.
	They asked me to read this.
	Let's start with a few people.
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	Crowd of the Kraut Brothers.
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	What did they say they want you to read?
	Could you please read the note, John sometimes has a problem with my rhythm and you're a pro, it says here.
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	Alright, bro, go.
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	The problem that I have with these cables of crap is that you can't watch everything at the same time.
	You're subscribing to everything, but you could go months and months and months without watching an HBO. I am paying for ESPN whether I want it or not.
	Right, that's another thing.
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	Yeah.
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	Wesley?
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	ITM, John and Adam, I'd like to send a Valentine's shout-out to my favorite planet, the moon!
	I had to pull off the road during that segment.
	I was laughing so hard.
	Oh, the QVC clip of the year.
	Yeah.
	Flip of the year.
	The moon.
	The moon, yeah.
	It's the planet, dear.
	It's a star.
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	Do me a favor.
	Back on show 688, I asked that you give my daughter a damehood, but drunk donating...
	Bit me in the arse, and I got the same...
	I got the name wrong.
	I was supposed to be Dame Rococo of Portlandia, not Dame Rocco.
	Oh, he wants me to change something on the credits, I guess.
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	He was drunk, and he donated, and he messed up his daughter's name.
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	Which seems to send my exchange server into thinking they are spam.
	Maybe you need to see if you can send them from a single address instead of random emails.
	They're all coming from the same place.
	I don't know.
	You have to send me some details of what you're claiming here so I can send it out to MailChimp, a professional service that's supposed to be known as such.
	Okay.
	Yes.
	I'm looking for...
	This is very strange.
	You lost your Manning folder.
	Well, I have the Manning, but I don't know where the Ye went.
	Where's the little girl?
	The little girl Ye?
	Look up LG. Thanks.
	Gee, I hadn't considered that, John.
	Yeah, try that.
	Yeah, is it here?
	No, this is...
	No.
	You were in a drunken stupor and erased it.
	Anything's possible.
	I hate that little girl.
	Anything's possible.
	Wow.
	I don't know, but I'll play my man and do the karma, and I'll keep looking.
	Get out there!
	Whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping what the Constitution!
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	This is very, very strange.
	It is strange.
	You'll find it.
	Oh!
	Yay!
	Thank goodness.
	Yeah, you found it.
	Allie Jade, 214, from Lexington, North Carolina.
	Another Valentine's Day double producer's credit.
	Smart money.
	Hi, guys.
	Not sure if this has been done.
	I want to be the N.A. tranny.
	Yes, some find the word offensive, but people that do trans porn use it all the time.
	It's more of a work word as no one has ever used it in the real world or ever uses it as an insult.
	Except for John, who apparently is in the tranny work world.
	Apparently.
	Where's the money?
	I run a site called allyj.xxx.
	Of course, it's trans material.
	I'm going to have a subscription level marked up for no agenda.
	It'll give 10% discount to all you guys.
	Cool.
	No jingles.
	I've been listening for four years.
	Never donated.
	Do not deserve any yet.
	I'm not really going to say I'm a boner as that's silly to me that I love your show since the second episode.
	This is the second episode I listened to and never miss it.
	Wow.
	With the second episode she listened to, that means it's going to be show 150.
	All right, all right, I'm sorry.
	Because I can't imagine anyone, you know, getting onto the show from show X episode two.
	So hold on, what is she saying?
	Is she wants to be our official no agenda tranny?
	Yeah, we can't give away.
	That's a no agenda official, no.
	But I mean, we have Brian.
	She was a baron, I think, or a baroness.
	No, we just, that's not, just no.
	I already told her no.
	And she said, oh...
	Tranny Hunters.
	Let me see.
	Also, as others have said, if I listen to all the episodes before another comes out, I will re-listen to the one before the last.
	I'm also a part-time dudette named Ben and found you guys because of Twit.
	She's fantastic.
	She's great.
	She retweets everything we do.
	I see her all the time on the tweeters.
	Good.
	Thank you very much, AliJ.
	AliJ.xxx with the Valentines, which is the lucky double producership.
	And I guess she's giving the Valentine's love to us, I guess?
	I would hope.
	Okay.
	Dame Elizabeth Borizan in Tucson, Arizona, 214.
	I have a note.
	She writes a note.
	She, by the way, has a very nice hand, which refers to...
	She also is a dudette.
	She's also a baronetess.
	Mm-hmm.
	that she does.
	It looks like a bookkeeper.
	The note has got notes with stick pads, you know, stick them pads, things, whatever those are called.
	Post-its?
	Post-its, post-its.
	A.K.M. Dame Beth of the Baja, Arizona.
	Hi, old gents.
	Enclosed is a 214 donation with a spreadsheet.
	I believe I'm now a baronet test.
	Woo-hoo!
	Many thanks to you both for the best podcast in the universe.
	May I be mentioned by this, by...
	I don't know what this word is.
	Sands, last name as some other night's dames are.
	Can I be mentioned by this?
	Yeah, Dame Beth.
	That's what we gave you.
	That's Dame Beth of Baha'i, Arizona.
	She's now Baronetess.
	Nice.
	I want to thank you for that.
	Michael Workman, $203 from Burwood, New South Wales.
	Dear John and Adam, thank you for your encouragement.
	I have a karma shot and a James Brown ISIS. Thanks for producing such a quality product.
	That's very nice.
	I'll do the ISIS first.
	ISIS. We will follow them to the gates of hell.
	ISIS. You've got karma.
	So we're done.
	That was it for the No Agenda executive producers and associate executive producers for show 690.
	I want to remind you we do a show coming up on Thursday.
	Every one of these shows is a gem.
	You now know that oil prices will keep dropping and you'll be getting gas cheaper.
	So that frees up some money.
	And you know you should be selling your real estate in Texas right now.
	Sell.
	Sell.
	Yeah, that's probably true.
	I would say it's the right thing to do at this point.
	Yeah, or wait to buy some, either way.
	Yeah, correct.
	And...
	That right there is worth the price of admission.
	And, yes, devork.org slash NA is where you go to figure out what you want to do.
	And someone asked us if we really do vouch for the executive producer and associate executive producer credits.
	Yes, we do.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah.
	And we'll call whatever you need us to do, because these are real credits, just like it works in Hollywood.
	Thank you so much.
	We'll have another thank you segment a little bit later on in the show.
	As a PR mention, it's interesting, Sir Troy, I don't know if you saw, I think you were on the note, John.
	He says, please, please use your highly developed analysis skills to review the podcast awards scam.
	Every podcast I listen to is mentioning it and asking their listeners to visit their site to vote.
	Come on.
	It's a traffic scam.
	Paramount to Paramount to audio clickbait.
	Do yourselves and your audience a favor.
	Stop doing native advertising for these guys.
	No.
	Well, here's the problem I have.
	I mean, I think he's probably right.
	Of course.
	I personally don't think that the guys putting on these awards had that in mind.
	No, they're not.
	No, of course not.
	And if they did, they would have the page filled with all kinds of revenue-generating things.
	There's nothing on there.
	Right.
	But, I mean, what's the point?
	Why would, I mean, yeah.
	Well, the point is maybe to promote the awards so they become a standard.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, somebody's got to do that.
	Yeah.
	We need a standard award from someone.
	But we are under no illusion or delusion that we have a chance of winning anything.
	Not unless some of our dudes named band get to work.
	You know what I mean?
	Yeah, I don't want to say too much, everybody, but you should consider it.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A Alright, we also always need everybody out there continuing to propagate our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Shut up, Wayne.
	Come on.
	Shut up!
	Hold on one second, John.
	I just want to...
	Whenever I'm hitting a jingle, I hear it's like cutting out.
	Let me see if I can fix that.
	Hold on.
	It's one of those strange things in the setup.
	It's cutting out where, who, me?
	Well, no, no, no.
	When I start a jingle that's coming from the soundboard...
	Oh, you got a...
	Yeah, there's a little...
	A hiccup?
	Yeah, a little flub.
	Let me see.
	It's a glitch.
	Yeah, it's a glitch.
	A glitch.
	It's a glitch.
	It's a glitch.
	All right, okay, we're good now.
	Oh, but I wanted to remind you, March 14th, John, is a very special day in Nerdland.
	It'll be Super Pie Day.
	Oh yeah, we've got to do about the $314 donation.
	$314.15, yeah.
	Yeah, $314.15 will be this pie donation.
	Pie donation.
	And that'll be for the Sunday after the Pie Day, after the Super Pie Day.
	Should be good.
	Very good.
	Yeah, Pi Day.
	We were talking earlier about guys on the radio.
	And this kind of flows into a two-parter because Mike Rogers, who was the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee?
	No, no, no.
	No, no.
	House.
	Yeah.
	Einstein.
	Right.
	And he resigned.
	He finished his term.
	Yeah, because he wants to be a disc jock.
	He wants to be a radio star.
	Listen, I'm going to be the head of the Senate Intelligence, or the House Intelligence Committee, or the Committee on Intelligence, whatever you call it.
	And I got all my...
	I retire when I finally quit this job with full salary and all the rest.
	But no!
	No.
	I don't want that.
	I want to be a DJ. He doesn't want to, yeah.
	He actually thinks he's not an idiot.
	So now I've figured it out.
	And I will go into actually listening to Mike Rogers, because he's also a correspondent for Brolf over there at the CNN. And it hit me when I saw Huckabee, who was governor of, what was he governor of?
	Arkansas.
	Arkansas.
	And Huckabee, of course, he ran...
	When did he run?
	Eight years ago?
	No.
	For president?
	For president, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Eight years ago.
	Six years ago, technically.
	And he was on with...
	Maybe it was Brolf as well.
	Or Pooper.
	I don't know.
	And he said something.
	I was like, oh...
	Yes, of course, this is why guys like Mike Rogers think they need to become disc jockeys.
	What do you make of the fact that this is possibly your future, incoming like this?
	One of the things that's different, nobody knew who I was in 2008.
	People would often get an opinion formed about me because my opponents were framing me in the light they wanted to.
	What's different is that I've been on television now for six and a half years.
	I've been on 600 radio stations three times a day for six and a half years.
	And as a result, what I find is that people feel like...
	I don't think that's true.
	And I believe this, that if I run this time, I'll have a lot more resources and I won't have to just stand there in the corner taking punches to the face.
	I'll be able to defend and correct the record, which is something that I just didn't have the resources to do when Romney and McCain had a dollar to every dime I had.
	And I think that is what Mike Rogers looked at and went, you know, if I can just be on the radio so people get to know me.
	Let's take a look at this.
	Hold on a second.
	This theory is debatable, but knowing Mike Rogers and then hearing what Huckabee said.
	And by the way, now that everyone knows Huckabee better than they used to before.
	They're definitely not going to vote for him.
	Yeah, they're definitely not going to go for him because he's a douchebag.
	But let him be in his illusion.
	He's a very friendly guy.
	He's a friendly douchebag.
	He's not like a mean prick.
	No, but...
	But, you know, he's...
	Whatever.
	Yeah.
	But it's very big.
	But it is true.
	A 600 radio station is a big deal.
	You could...
	Mike Rogers.
	Do you remember...
	Mike Rogers is what?
	He's Michigan?
	I know.
	I got to find out where he's from.
	Mike Rogers.
	But he'll have to sit it out.
	He's a young guy.
	Mike Rogers, the way I'm here, my thesis is based on what you just said.
	I don't want this Mike Rogers.
	Mike Rogers, Mike Rogers.
	Now this other Mike Rogers came into play and now he's blocking my ability to find the other Mike Rogers.
	Where's he from?
	That's what I want to get to.
	I don't know.
	What I'm guessing is, I'm guessing, I think it's from Michigan, but I could be wrong.
	Mike Rogers, the normal process is you'd be a house guy.
	The house guy's never run for president.
	You can't get the job.
	He's from Michigan, you're right.
	Okay, so he'd have to run against the Michigan senators or move one of them out.
	He'd have to run against Eminem.
	And it's not going to happen because the Michiganians are not going to vote for Republicans for their senator or their governor.
	Although they may have one.
	Who knows?
	Michigan senators.
	Who are these people?
	Let's see.
	Ugh.
	But it, John, I don't think it really matters.
	He's stabbing now.
	He will have to do this for at least two voting cycles before he's...
	He won't be on the air.
	He'll take off the air.
	He's got no personality.
	Has he come on to the...
	Well, let's listen to him then.
	Gianni, have you listened to a show?
	No, of course not.
	That's your job.
	That's your job.
	I can't listen to that.
	I watch CNN. Here we go.
	Mike Rogers.
	And this, of course, is about...
	Now, this is very funny how this whole Japanese ISIS hostages is falling apart on the spot.
	This is really fantastic.
	And I've had a lot of help from Brian the Gay Crusader.
	Once again, this guy came in with the find of the decade.
	But I want to first play this little roundtable.
	Brolf Blitzer had a number of people on his panel to discuss what's going on.
	And it was astounding to me.
	But here's Mike Rogers, very cavalier, and some comparisons to what is going on.
	What's concerning is they're not hearing anything.
	So that doesn't portend well for them.
	I believed early on that this was more of a messaging deal than it was a financial deal with them.
	Really?
	What's he talking about?
	He's talking about the Japanese guys wanting $200 million.
	ISIS wanting $200 million for the Japanese hostages.
	This is before they apparently killed one, which we'll get to.
	But I just find him...
	Oh, he knew this?
	That this was a messaging deal and not a financial deal?
	Listen to how these people talk about this stuff.
	Just like we saw with Foley, they demanded cash but had no real intention of getting that cash.
	As a matter of fact, they had no connection with the U.S. government for negotiations.
	They just went ahead with the execution.
	We're seeing some very similar patterns here.
	It doesn't mean it has happened, but it's obviously concerning.
	Did we not try to save Foley?
	Yeah, I believe so.
	What he just said doesn't sound right about not having any contact for the Foley deal.
	It was all just about marketing.
	Of course, what he's saying is true.
	That's why I found this whole segment with these people so funny, because he's not lying, except they all know this really is the truth.
	These videos, these bogus, conjured-up, green-screened fake videos, fake beheadings, no blood, pulled off the air immediately, can't show them, oh, not on YouTube, not on LiveLeak, anyway.
	Yes, it is all about communications.
	Thank you.
	I want to read, in regards to this, a letter that came in from producer Duane.
	ITM, I thought you'd be interested to know that one of the Saturday morning TV shows here in Japan spent 10 minutes showing that the video of the two Japanese hostages and Jihad John was fake, based on the goofy shadows.
	They also demonstrated how it could have been fake using different light setups and different backgrounds.
	Mm-hmm.
	Very rare to see such things on Japanese TV. T-Y-F-Y-C, Dwayne.
	You are jumping a bit ahead, but yes.
	I just want to take it slow.
	Take it slow.
	On your own.
	Here's Brolf's analyst explaining what's happening here, what ISIS is doing.
	What do they gain, these ISIS terrorists, by taking these two Japanese hostages and beheading them?
	What's the point?
	Okay.
	So here is Wolf Blitzer asking, what is the point of taking these Japanese hostages and beheading them?
	They get the very discussion we're having right now.
	They're being broadcast not only on CNN, but on networks around the world, all waiting for this announcement.
	It gives them the kind of psychological edge in a conflict where when it comes to the military equipment, they don't have the edge.
	But this terrorized people enough that they think ISIS is actually bigger than it is.
	And here are the people doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing, talking about them doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing.
	This is so meta.
	My brain exploded.
	Yes!
	The whole point of these fake videos is for you people to talk about them and to make ISIS look bigger than they really are.
	Fantastic.
	Let's pile jump.
	ISIS hates moms.
	The mother of one of the hostages make an emotional plea for his life, but as we know in the past, when other mothers have done the same, including for James Foley, sadly, no good result.
	Again, no final word, though, for U.S. intelligence officials watching closely.
	Yes, yes.
	ISIS hates moms, and no good result ever comes from that.
	I love how they're also talking about no good result, you know, this is not going to end well, does not portend well.
	Yeah, if they're really killing them, which you can't even say, because it's not true.
	Here's Brolf with the question of the week.
	Is it also, to a certain degree, competition that's going on between Al-Qaeda and ISIS, right?
	Oh, meme alert!
	Ha ha!
	Yeah, it's...
	I heard this.
	Thank you.
	Meme alert.
	Yeah, it's the shift from Al-Qaeda, the brand, to ISIS, ISIL, the brand, which is why the president has...
	It's like Adidas versus Nike, the way these guys think.
	Yes, Coke versus Pepsi.
	Now they're both competing for support.
	Market share.
	Is that what's going on at the same time?
	Well, we had seen tracking of that for at least 12 months, where there was this notion that if Al-Qaeda didn't get some points on the board, they were concerned about finances and recruiting.
	Points on the board, John.
	It's a sports reference from our friend Mike the DJ. And logistics hubs.
	Logistics hubs?
	Wait a minute.
	Hold on a second.
	ISIS has logistics hubs?
	Bomb them!
	...and logistics hubs.
	And about half of their Al-Qaeda affiliates have pledged some support to ISIS, either materially, overtly, or in some cases covertly, have said, hey, we're with you, we'll give you help where we can.
	So it's really not necessarily that in this case, because we've seen this pattern with them before, This is about their exertion of power.
	They believe that this is the power that holds their grip in places like eastern Syria and Iraq.
	They need to continue to show that they have brutality as a part of their governance model, or they'll lose grip in certain ways.
	Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them again.
	And now, this is my favorite, with Mike the DJ. As Brolf says, hey, you know, this jihadi John, he's still in there.
	I mean, do we not know who this guy is?
	Can we find him?
	What's going on with that?
	And Mike Rogers, again, has just some astounding information.
	Apparently, U.S. and other intelligence agents, they know who he is, but they're not releasing his name, right?
	That's correct.
	I have...
	High confidence they know exactly who he is.
	Well, part of that is you don't want to disrupt any activities in that lineage, if you will.
	I mean, he has associates.
	He's literally saying...
	I think what he's saying is we know exactly who he is, but we don't want to stop him from beheading people in that lineage.
	What is that?
	That is a meaningless word in that context.
	Let's listen to it again.
	Maybe there's something good going on.
	...in that lineage.
	Hold on, I'll go back a little bit.
	That was it.
	Yeah.
	That is, you don't want to disrupt any activities in that lineage.
	I think, okay, you don't want to disrupt any activities in that lineage, which is the lineage of terror and threatening beheading.
	That would be the lineage.
	Why don't you want to disrupt it?
	If you will.
	I mean, he has associates, he has people he's talked to, he's had places he's visited, and they don't want to disrupt any of that in order to continue to gain intelligence of value that could ultimately lead to him being brought to justice.
	Well, if I was Abe in Japan, I'd be outraged.
	Well, you guys know who this is.
	Just grab the guy.
	Yeah, you guys know who this is.
	Get him.
	Yeah.
	Bomb him.
	No, we already used that one.
	Kill him.
	You didn't use it to kill him.
	Yeah, we can do that.
	We need to kill them.
	We need to kill them.
	All right.
	So, now, this is all before the second video came out.
	And something went horribly wrong.
	Now, I've had discussions with a number of people.
	And here's what I think happened.
	Well, it's so obvious what happened.
	They had these two guys in the green screen.
	First of all, someone, whoever produced this over there at the site intelligence group, By the way, they forgot to turn on the fan.
	No, they did turn on the fan, but only on one guy.
	Oh.
	Yeah, which is unfortunate.
	And is also identified in another clip that I have here.
	But they didn't have that yet.
	So they didn't have the follow-up video of the guy being dead.
	And of course, with this 72-hour deadline, with the countdown clock that was being put online, everybody was waiting, like, oh, this is great.
	I think they had a hard drive crash or something else happened.
	You know, like Final Cut Pro froze up and their files got trashed.
	I told you Final Cut Pro X sucks!
	Muhammad, Final Cut Pro X is bogus!
	So here's how it was explained on CNN why they haven't seen the new video yet, because of course we were all expecting the beheading video.
	Where is it?
	Well, for now more than 16 hours past the original deadline.
	That expired at 12.50 a.m.
	this morning, East Coast time still...
	I love that 12.50 a.m.
	East Coast time.
	Who set that?
	Where was that?
	Other than the online countdown clock that obviously we've put up.
	I love this shit.
	Where's our video?
	You know, Bunky, you haven't paid your damn bill for the last two videos.
	Or it's even worse.
	I think it could even be worse that they recorded, you know, they did the whole thing on the ground and all that stuff so they could chop it all up.
	And maybe they didn't record on the camp.
	Something went very, very wrong with this production.
	This morning, East Coast time, still no word, conflicting messages on Jihadian forums.
	One of them posted a countdown clock today, promised a new video, said it was in production.
	We haven't seen that video.
	So still no final word.
	You'll remember that Japan refused to pay.
	It's in production.
	Dudes, where is it?
	It's still in production, man.
	We're doing the best we can.
	We're working on it.
	Here, now...
	Let me see if I can...
	What order I need to play this in.
	Okay, this is now...
	So we have the...
	The Mac updated and nothing works anymore.
	Updated to Yosemite!
	I told you not to update to Yosemite, you fools!
	Makes your Final Cut profiles, renders them useless.
	So they couldn't get this done, so they didn't decide to create a video which is a still frame of Goto, Kenji Goto, holding up a picture of Haruna Yukawa.
	Apparently his head is gone.
	It's not really gone, but he's been beheaded.
	This is CNN reporting on this new video.
	This new video is different from mine.
	I'm sorry?
	He says it's not really gone.
	He was beheaded, you said.
	You said he's not really gone.
	His head was gone.
	Like her head was gone.
	He said not really gone.
	No, because his head is in the picture.
	And her head is gone.
	This new video is different from other ISIS videos that we have seen.
	Because of the production problems.
	It is an audio recording of a voice claiming to be Kenji Goto.
	And it features a still photo, the still photo that I described to you.
	And in this recording, Kenji Goto blames Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for not responding to the demands of ISIS. By the way, everything, this is meant for Abe and for the Japanese public, who speak no English.
	I've been to Tokyo.
	If you roll out your English in Tokyo, even the cab drivers are going, they can't even talk to you.
	Yeah, it's true.
	So why is everything in English?
	Why do they not have the Japanese guys talking in, I don't know, Japanese?
	No, it's all English, which of course...
	It means it is fake.
	I want you to go to the URL here, John.
	ITM.IM slash...
	Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	ITM... Okay.
	Slash YukawaHead.
	So it's Y-U-K-A-W-A... H-E-A-D. My browser's frozen or something.
	Hold on a second.
	All right.
	There we go, I think.
	Do you have it?
	No?
	It's Y-U-K-A-W-A-H-E-A-D. H-E-A-V? A-D. Yukawa Head.
	H-E-A-O Head.
	Duh.
	And this is a zoomed and cropped image taken from the image of the evidence that this Yukawa guy has been...
	Well, why is his shoulder still attached?
	Well, that is...
	So, what you're seeing, that is actually supposed to be the rump.
	And look how big his head is.
	In this obviously Photoshop picture.
	His head on his body.
	Yes, which is their trademark Photoshop move.
	Yeah, his head's too big.
	His head's too big.
	This is so obvious.
	His head's the size of his whole butt, yeah.
	It's completely wrong.
	Wrong.
	Not falling for that.
	Now, so we could listen to more of this CNN thing about the production, but that's really not as...
	I think you made the point.
	Now, Reuters...
	And this is the find that Brian came in with.
	And by the way, let's stop for a second.
	If you remember some of the beheadings that were done, I don't know, during the 9-11 or when the Wall Street Journal guy was beheaded.
	They would hold the head up.
	Somebody would hold the head up.
	And you can find these videos online.
	Somebody's holding the head up, hanging by the hair, in a very biblical way, as a matter of fact, going, hair is dead!
	And this head on the body thing is like...
	Fake.
	Phony.
	It's easier to Photoshop.
	Yeah, it's harder to Photoshop.
	Although, to be honest about it, anyone with any skills in Photoshop could have the head.
	You could hold a dummy's head, cut off a mannequin's head and hold it up, take a shot of that, and then you could easily superimpose a face onto the dummy's head.
	It would look like you're holding a head.
	I'm telling you what happened here.
	This is a Hail Mary.
	They clearly tried to record the scene, and the scene is the same as they always have.
	They have a body, and then they put some blood around it, and then they Photoshop a head on top of this body.
	So they did that work, but for some reason, the footage melted.
	I'm saying hard drive crashed.
	I think you're right.
	The Yosemite upgrade, Mac OS X upgrade is what screwed them.
	But what was more interesting, I wanted to find out about, because again, it's a journalist, Kenji Goto Jobo is his full name.
	For some reason, they only say Goto.
	But Reuters...
	Wrote about the guy who apparently is now beheaded, Haruna Yukawa.
	And I have to read this to you.
	This is from August 27, 2014.
	And this is from Reuters.
	It is mind-boggling.
	And this is when this Haruna Yukawa apparently was captured.
	So, Tokyo, Reuters.
	When Haruna Yukawa was captured in Syria early this month, a video apparently released by his captors showed them pressing the Japanese man to answer questions friends say he had struggled with for years.
	Who are you?
	Why are you here?
	In fact, Yukawa, 42, had first traveled to Aleppo four months earlier on what amounted to a hardship course in self-discovery, according to people who know him and his account.
	Remember, this is Reuters.
	Changes in Yukawa's life in suburban Tokyo had been fast and disorienting.
	Over the past decade, he had lost his wife to lung cancer, lost a business and his house to bankruptcy, and been forced to live in a public park for almost a month.
	According to Yokawa's father and an online journal he maintained, the hard times led to soul-searching.
	By his own account, he had changed his name to the feminine-sounding Haruna, attempted to kill himself by cutting off his genitals, and came to believe he was the reincarnation of a cross-dressing Manchu princess who had spied for Japan in World War II. Where is all this information on Brolf CNN? Wow.
	That's all good stuff, too.
	It gets better.
	By late 2013, Yukawa had also begun a flirtation with Japan's extreme right-wing politics and cultivated a new persona as a self-styled security consultant.
	Now, this is what everyone calls a guy.
	A security consultant.
	According to his Facebook page and blog posts, he actually never worked as a consultant.
	He borrowed money to travel to Syria and dreamed of providing security to big Japanese companies in conflict areas like the coast of Somalia.
	And that's the picture you have of him next to his vehicle.
	The Syrian civil war was a new start and his last chance to make a success in life, he told friends and family.
	Later this year, he planned to head to Somalia, where the danger factor will be amped up.
	Yukawa, let me see, get back to more of the fun stuff here.
	He was a very friendly, gentle guy.
	I hosted him at my house for five days, said Fadi Karmesh, who met and spent time with Yukawa in Abril in northern Iraq in June.
	Karmesh showed pictures from that time of Yukawa holding a girl on his shoulders.
	Two months earlier, he had been in Syria, stopped briefly detained for questioning by fighters from the Free Syrian Army, and he befriended an Asian member of the group, according to Kenji Goto, a Japanese journalist who met him at the time.
	In Syria, Yukawa said he became particularly close to a part-Korean, part-Japanese fighter who had been born in Yugoslavia.
	Over time, Gotoh, who is clearly the messenger in all of this, said the Free Syrian Army fighters took a liking to him, sharing meals and introducing him to their families in refugee camps, and he was given an Arabic name, and of course he then converted to Islam.
	Now, private military company.
	This is still the Reuters article.
	This is huge.
	Although he'd never learned to handle a weapon and described himself as a very gentle person, Yukawa portrayed himself online as a soldier of fortune.
	A visit to the Tokyo address of his paper-based company, Private Military Company, revealed a building with numerous small unmarked offices.
	The firm was set up for a range of businesses, including handling pet goods and more of these types of companies, according to the registry.
	In effect, his company existed only on the Internet.
	And then there's video blogs about him awkwardly firing an AK-47 in Aleppo.
	This stupid vehicle that he has.
	Yokawa's road to Aleppo started in the sleepy suburb of Chiba about an hour's drive east of Tokyo.
	After graduating from high school, Yakua, then still known as Masayuki, started a military surplus store selling helmets, belts, and other equipments.
	This man was insane.
	Mentally insane.
	He was trying to cut his nuts off to, you know, like a harakiri-type move.
	And then he said, well, screw it.
	Now my balls are gone.
	I'm not dead.
	I'll just, you know, I'll take a female name.
	This is insanity, what's going on with this guy.
	And no one mentions this.
	No, I know that's the funny part.
	You wonder why no...
	And the curious thing is that you...
	It's interesting enough that if they did bring this up, it would make these news shows actually get in audience.
	Yes!
	Because they're just, whatever the government's telling them to say, apparently, the litany, the script, whatever it is, is all they're talking about.
	They don't bring up anything interesting.
	This is very interesting.
	I find it entertaining.
	And it gets worse.
	It's worse.
	Yeah.
	So this is a Reuters article.
	Now, if I'm doing a video piece and I work at Reuters, I'm going to do a little thing about this video.
	And in fact, I'm talking about Japanese analysts and other analysts who I think this is the track lady who we talked about before calling this video fake.
	Isn't there some internal system that they can search and then this article would pop up?
	Then they could make at least mention of this guy's weird background?
	No.
	This is a Reuters report.
	Hostage video released this week is giving analysts more evidence to support their claim that the video is highly manipulated.
	So there's that lady.
	We don't have to go through that again.
	But the whole report makes no mention of this guy's insanity.
	Huh, well.
	And, you know, that with this video that was clearly bogative, whatever, they must have, maybe it was, maybe there was just so much more bad lighting in the video that they never had the source material, they really couldn't do anything with it because everyone's on to them.
	I don't know.
	But, wow.
	It's possible because of the on to them thing.
	They may have fired their editor.
	Yeah.
	And then they finally couldn't get anyone else because these editors are actually good, really good Final Cut Pro guys.
	And I mean really good.
	They're not that common.
	You can get people that are functional, but the guys that are outstanding.
	And gals, by the way.
	I know a lot of good gals.
	Some gals are better, I'd say.
	In many cases.
	So, you know, looking at the Goto journalist, not a lot known about him.
	Other than it seems like he's the perfect guy to be holding up the picture.
	I'm guessing that if we look into him, we're going to start finding connections.
	Remember the other guys?
	USAID, typically, or some oil outfit.
	Yeah, or some of these operations that are sketchy.
	And then, so our president comes out with a statement, of course.
	The United States strongly condemns the brutal murder of Japanese citizen Hirana Yukawa by the terrorist group ISIL. Now, I mean, that is really fantastic that our president has...
	Just no qualms about just saying, oh, they killed him because this one guy held up a picture.
	We renew our call for the immediate release.
	Our condolences today are with the people of Japan for their terrible loss.
	We renew our call for the immediate release of Kenji Goto and all other remaining hostages.
	We stand shoulder to shoulder with our ally Japan and applaud its commitment to peace and development in a region far from its shores.
	So if I were a cynical...
	I would say Abe called for, he changed the constitutional measure.
	Japan can now arm itself to the teeth.
	We are the go-to guys for sales.
	And you know what, Abe, we know it's a little complicated.
	People are a bit freaked out about what you did.
	I got an idea.
	Why don't we kill some of your people?
	Or at least make it look that way.
	We'll call the guys over there, the ISIS guys.
	We'll roll out the orange jumpsuit set.
	And then we screwed up like a bunch of a-holes.
	And we couldn't get the video out.
	So then we have to make this up, and so everybody is...
	Oh, we can't show this video of the guy holding a picture.
	No, you can't show it because it's so unbelievable.
	It is so bogus.
	I was on Twitter, and there was somebody who had...
	And why else would it be in English?
	Nothing makes sense.
	Please ask questions from time to time.
	Please.
	Why is it?
	Goto does everything in English.
	Why not Japanese?
	You just can't convince me with this stuff anymore.
	If you ever could.
	Well, it's pretty weak.
	It's extremely weak.
	Yeah.
	Ugh.
	And that's all I have really on that, other than the...
	Of course, no one was really paying attention to it.
	We did get Tom Brady.
	Is that his name?
	Tom Brady, the football guy?
	Yeah.
	We had this controversy here.
	Oh, really?
	He just went up in points.
	Damn.
	Okay.
	Wow.
	That's who those girls go for?
	Oh, yeah.
	All right, yeah, I guess so.
	So this is the ball gate, which, by the way, is kind of funny that we're talking about softballs on television and what's happening with our so-called hostages.
	He's cutting his balls off, so maybe it's all connected somehow.
	Yeah, it's a theme.
	Yeah, it is a theme.
	Balls.
	Balls is the theme for the show.
	You know, a lot of people, and I think that in a situation like this, it's really...
	It's a very, like I said, sometimes some of the toughest things you deal with end up being the best things because you realize the people that you can rely on that love you and support you through, you know, something like this.
	So, it's a, you know, I appreciate all their support.
	I tell them I'm okay, you know, it's, you know, things are going to be fine.
	This isn't ISIS. This isn't, oh, it's not ISIS. Yeah, he got a lot of flack for that little comment.
	You notice I didn't get that clip.
	No.
	But this whole thing is pre-publicity for the Super Bowl to get the numbers up.
	Of course.
	And for people who want it, I have the full...
	We have the high-res versions of pretty much every video site group has discovered.
	Since they're the only ones who seem to be able to discover these videos, the site intelligence group...
	Which I think they, you know, let's look at their job postings.
	Maybe there's an opening for a video editor.
	Video editor.
	Must be proficient with.
	We have an opening for a video editor.
	So one of our producers says, hey, you guys didn't chime in on who's going to win the Super Bowl.
	Is that today?
	No, it's next Sunday.
	Oh, next Sunday.
	Okay.
	So let's chime in.
	All right.
	Who's playing?
	Okay.
	We're going to break it down the same way we always do.
	The New England, it used to be Boston Patriots, with the cheaters, the ball deflators, and they've done other sketchy things over the years.
	The cheaters.
	The Boston Cheaters.
	Sound like a West Coast, East Coast vibe to me.
	And then Paul Allen, one of the richest men in the world's team.
	The Seattle She-Hawks, at least in the Bay Area, they call them the She-Hawks.
	And they won last year.
	Yes, and so it's a possibility of a repeat.
	Okay.
	Well, the way we look at these things, as you can tell, I'm not well-versed in the...
	No, you don't have to be.
	No, that's part of the whole thing.
	That is better not to be.
	Okay.
	Now, right off the bat, the New England Patriots, that would be Boston territory.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	I am immediately going to go with the Patriots.
	Why?
	And I will give you my rationale.
	We have a very sketchy trial underway with the Sarniff kid, which there's lots of loose ends, a lot of things really messed up.
	They do not have a solid case.
	We need huge distraction from that.
	And I'm thinking that this would do it if Boston...
	We can do packages for weeks and weeks on end, and we can keep talking about Ballgate and how they're cheaters and how they stole.
	It will distract from everything, and I think that would be a main reason to have the game tip in the Patriots' favor.
	I'm not saying this is final, but that's my initial thought.
	Yeah, no, I think your thoughts are valid, and they're based on every other thought you've had regarding these games.
	How about you?
	Well, I would say technically the better team and the team that should win is the Seahawks.
	And it has a number of things going for it.
	There's actually the number of subplots.
	The Coach of the Seahawks was actually the coach of the Patriots years before he was also crappy at the time, before he went to USC to hone his skills and then to go on to the Seahawks to further hone his skills as a coach.
	And so he knows the DNA of the competition?
	A little bit.
	And there's also a grudge because he was fired.
	He got that grudge thing going on.
	Even though that's not played up a lot by the sports media.
	But it does exist.
	Then you have the cheating, lying, cheating Patriots, who have been in the Super Bowl a number of times, five or six, and they won three of them, but they lose the other ones, and they're always kind of disappointing losses.
	They should have won the game, and then somehow they lose the game, as though these are rigged.
	And they're also cheaters.
	The games they won, apparently they were filming stuff.
	They snuck cameras in and they were filming the other team's practices and doing all kinds of low ends.
	And each time they were caught, they were fined and they lost draft picks.
	And then the coach of the Patriots is a psycho.
	Are you calling Seahawks?
	But for what reason?
	There's no external reason to the game that you've portrayed.
	There's no external reason to this game whatsoever.
	Do you think it's going to be a straight up and down game?
	Why waste a good opportunity to do something?
	I think that your rationale is weak.
	You could have them lose and get as much attention.
	Especially if they lost on a bad call.
	In fact, if they lost on a bad call, you know, some bogus call.
	That would be even better, really.
	It would be better.
	That would get lots of attention.
	And then they could whine.
	And the whole Boston place would go crazy.
	Because if they win, they just win.
	And then everyone celebrates and burns a few cars.
	Over.
	It's done.
	That's our culture.
	Hey, we won.
	Let's go burn some cars.
	And if they get gypped.
	Okay, so you think it's going to be a straight-up fair game?
	No, if I'm going to go with your thesis, why it's a good opportunity, then Boston's going to lose, but they're going to lose by getting gypped.
	I like that.
	I like that.
	Okay, we'll see.
	Okay.
	Touchdown callback, some phony baloney thing where they keep showing it.
	The guys on the TV go, well, look, there shouldn't have been a call.
	There was no penalty.
	Okay, so we have Boston loses by a gyp.
	Hello, gypsies of the world.
	We don't really mean harm.
	No, and the term to me never has meant gypsy.
	I know, and you think tranny is acceptable, too, so it's fine.
	Well...
	Okay, I'll go with that.
	Yeah.
	I'll go with that.
	By Egypt.
	That's a good one.
	Either way, it would work.
	They can win...
	I mean, my favorite way of these games going is that the team I'm kind of rooting for, which would be in this case the West Coast team, the Seahawks, they just slaughter the other team.
	I think we just need to coin the phrase, losing by a jip.
	I lost by a jip.
	Keep it in there.
	I'll put it down as a show title.
	That'll do wonders.
	Our Romanian friends will be very happy to kill me.
	How many Romanians have ever...
	To kill me.
	I think I shared this with you The president coming out and saying that the 2014 warmest year on record, this is what NOOA and NASA have come out and said, and I think I told you my New York ex-banker buddy, he's more than happy to go in with we're being duped, but he said, okay, these are the numbers.
	How do you explain that, Mr.
	Smarty Pants?
	Are you just going to say that you're smarter than the NOAA? Is it NOAA? NOAA. NOAA. National Oceanographic...
	And atmospheric administration.
	And NASA. You're smarter, those two guys?
	And you know better about the temperatures?
	And some of our producers have written in, and I'm in the field, and yeah, how is that calibrated?
	I decided to really get into it and go to the source of the announcement as it was made.
	So you, because of the banker offending you?
	I was pissed off, yes, yes.
	Okay, good.
	You do your best work when you're pissed off, by the way.
	This is true.
	And I try to piss you off constantly, but you know, it doesn't...
	It doesn't always work.
	It doesn't always work.
	Well, you have to put...
	But it has to be for a reason.
	You just...
	So I traced it back.
	Where did this announcement come from?
	And I have two pieces to share with the group today.
	So they did a conference.
	I'm sorry, a webinar.
	A webinar was done with representatives from NOAA and NASA's and the NASA's.
	And they had a...
	So in the webinar, you know how that works.
	You get us a little slideshow, and then they have a call-in number, or it's streaming through your little interface there.
	So I have a clip, and I have a...
	I have a URL for you to go to.
	I'm going to give you the URL. And then when I give you the URL, then I'm going to start the clip because it's kind of cool if you can see them and hear it and see them at the same time.
	So this is the experts talking about this particular slide in the PowerPoint, which is slide number five.
	ITM.IM. Okay, let me get it all up here.
	Okay.
	Slash.
	Yeah.
	2014 WARM. 2014 WARM. Tell me when you're loading.
	WARM. And I'm going to start the clip now.
	Make sure I get this right.
	Yeah.
	You got the slide?
	It is now about to hit.
	If we now move on to slide five.
	Both NASA and NOAA take a look at their uncertainties.
	Certainly there are uncertainties in putting all this together, all these data sets.
	But after considering the uncertainties, We have calculated the probability that 2014 versus other years that were relatively warm were actually the warmest year on record.
	And the way you can interpret these data tables is for the NOAA data, 2014 is two and a half times more likely than the second warmest year on record, 2010, to actually be the warmest on record after consideration of all the data uncertainties that we take into account.
	And for the NASA data, that number is in the order of about one and a half times more likely than the second warmest year on their records.
	So for those of you listening and not able to look at this slide, it is flabbergasting The president just said 2014, warmest year on record.
	Everybody said 2014, warmest year on record.
	What these scientists actually have on this slide, you have one box for the NOAA, one box for NASA, and it says ranking of record years is sensitive to methodology and coverage because the numbers from NOAA and NASA are different.
	They have different temperature numbers.
	Whatever.
	And they talk about the probability of Of 2014 being the warmest year.
	Not it is, no.
	The probability, 48%, about, it's a little squiggly, about 48% for NOAA. NASA actually says it's only 38% probable that this was the warmest year on record.
	And then they have other years saying, you know, 2010, that might have been the warmest year on record, but only a 23% chance that was the...
	These people have no fucking clue!
	NOAA has 18% chance that the 2010 was the warmest year.
	But this is a chance, a probability.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's a probability.
	This is bullcrap.
	Thank you!
	But not just bullcrap.
	They're not even 50% sure that it's the warmest year on record.
	Half of them are not even 50% sure it's the warmest year on record.
	Fuck that!
	Sorry, the Tourettes, but that...
	And the president just says, warmest year on record.
	Lie!
	We don't know that.
	Did you show these slides to your banker?
	I just put this together last night, but of course I'm showing this to my banker.
	That's 16 more seconds on the clip.
	Which again is 2010.
	So clearly 2014 in both our records were the warmest and there's a fair bit of confidence that that is indeed the case even considering data uncertainties.
	A fair bit of confidence.
	What?
	This is an absolute outrage.
	This is worse than the 97% of scientists agree man-made humans are creating global warming.
	This is not science.
	I'm sorry.
	Scientific...
	Where's the scientific data that I was promised?
	These two outfits within our government don't even have the same numbers by a long shot.
	They have different temperature numbers.
	Who's right?
	Why don't we have an exact...
	Why is it not exact?
	Why?
	Why?
	They're working with an agenda.
	You think?
	Ugh.
	Okay, well, I think this is good that you found this little slide.
	It matters not, for we are going all in, all out with Hollywood for global warming, climate change, etc.
	This is Admiral Robert Papp.
	Papp.
	He is the U.S. Special Envoy.
	What's his last name?
	Papp, P-A-P-P. It's like a pap smear, but an extra P. I had a joke there, too.
	I stole it from you.
	I'm sorry.
	No, that wasn't what it was.
	It was better.
	But you can do it later.
	Admiral Robert Papp, and he is Special Envoy from the State Department, I believe, and his domain is the Arctic.
	And the Arctic, of course, is very interesting right now, as we have jockeying for position, for the resources there, now that some of that ice has opened up.
	Man, this guy looks like the bureaucrat turned admiral.
	That would be the guy.
	Yeah.
	And so he wanted to learn.
	He wanted to convince.
	Ballmer, by the way.
	Yeah.
	He feels that global warming, climate change, man-made global warming, is not being communicated properly to the youth of the world.
	It's being communicated constantly.
	Not properly.
	He wants to do it in a way that is more akin to what we usually watch and track on this podcast, which is through Hollywood, with a Hollywood narrative.
	So if you're going to do that, well, maybe I should just let him tell you his idea, and he met in Hollywood with the right people to get this going.
	Are you familiar with Elsa?
	So, John?
	No, you probably aren't.
	No.
	Let's wait for the next name.
	Do you know who we're talking about yet?
	These are people from the movie Frozen.
	Correct.
	And we also have a big white young lady in my office, Kelly with a bell, and she has to be the biggest fan of the deaf business in the United States.
	So she came up with a very brilliant idea.
	Brilliant.
	Hola!
	I like warm hugs!
	I'm sorry, are people not hearing the audio?
	I can hear it.
	Yeah, okay.
	But that means it might not be streaming.
	No, but we're streaming.
	I don't know.
	I shouldn't be paying attention to that.
	Here we go.
	I once listened to our 19th century century, and I can express the why we wanted to see this as the important entire generation about the origin.
	Unfortunately, the arts are being taught in the arts.
	He never speaks to him in America, where everything is nice.
	And I said, what we really need to do is educate the American youth about the price of the political.
	The fact that there's more polar bears than ever?
	Yeah.
	I mean, how did he slip that gaffe in?
	What a moron.
	Everybody knows that's not true anymore.
	Oh, I see what's happening.
	Okay, yeah, it's out of phase.
	All right.
	Don't worry about it.
	Yeah.
	So we still have Disney games.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me get this straight.
	We have government, we have admirals in the U.S. Navy going to Hollywood and talking to executives at studios that are supposed to provide entertainment to the American public and strong-arming them into providing propaganda to propagandize the American public about what is possibly the biggest pile of crap ever dreamed up in the last 20, 50 years.
	Is that what you're telling me?
	You are right, sir!
	This is disgusting.
	It's not new.
	Time to go back to our evergreen Martin Kaplan of the Lear Foundation.
	There's a little talk about Hollywood and our government.
	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.
	Woo!
	Yeah, we know how it works.
	Now, I'm going to round this segment out.
	I believe I have an entry in the Red Book from many years ago.
	I don't know if it's an older Red Book.
	It would be an older Red Book.
	These books go about a year and a half max.
	And I believe that I have put in the Red Book That someday, one day, we will have geoengineering taking place in our skies, and we will eventually find out, well, you know, we were already kind of doing this a little bit to make sure that, you know, we wanted to get a jump start because it would be hard for people to understand that we need to do this.
	And this is why I believe that, yes, there is stuff being sprayed and why I see a difference between persistent jet contrails and what some would call chemtrails.
	And the Washington Post came out with an article on Friday.
	As government's efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions continue to sputter, some researchers have discussed another possible tool for combating climate change, geoengineering the climate.
	One particular form of it is solar geoengineering would involve reflecting sunlight away from the earth to reduce future warming, possibly by deploying an army of mirrors or spraying the air with reflective aerosols that would function like a chemical, a sunscreen.
	But, as it turns out, some people believe that a global campaign is already underway to have aircraft spray the air with chemicals, whether to control climate change or for more sinister purposes.
	Meet the chemtrails crowd.
	Yeah, of course.
	Chemtrails.
	And so the title of this article is actually How a Group of Conspiracy Theorists Could Derail the Debate Over Climate Policy.
	Ha ha.
	And it's kind of starting to pan out what my Red Book entry was.
	And then I found the guy who wrote the book on this, Professor David Keith.
	And I have the whole segment.
	We'll just play it until you're done with it.
	He was on The Colbert Show.
	Talking about doing exactly this and spraying and mind-boggling the first minute and a half of this interview.
	Exactly.
	Okay, so what do we do?
	The other thing is horrifying is that you could actually spray sulfuric acid in the stratosphere 20 kilometers over our head and use that to stop the planet warming up in a kind of ugly tech fix.
	You can spray something into the atmosphere to change...
	Okay, okay.
	Spray pollution into the atmosphere to stop it warming.
	So in the end, pollution saves them all.
	We owe pollution.
	We owe acid rain an apology, is what you're saying.
	It would be a totally imperfect technical fix.
	It would have risks.
	It wouldn't get us out of the long-run need to stop polluting, but it might actually save people and be useful.
	Okay, so how, again, I interrupted slightly there.
	How does it work?
	How many planes are we talking about here?
	How do you do this?
	So let's say you wanted to stop it worming in 2020.
	You start with a fleet of just two or three kind of modified business jets.
	Like a G6? Yeah, like a G6. That's it.
	Like a G6. And you put, say, 20,000 tons of sulfuric acid into the stratosphere every year.
	John, you're a scientist.
	You understand chemicals.
	Sulfuric acid, is that H2SO4? Is that the sulfuric acid I'm thinking of?
	Yeah, that would be sulfuric acid.
	You put your finger in and your finger's gone?
	No, it would burn you, but you could rinse it off before your finger would be gone.
	And each year you have to put a little more, and this doesn't in the long run mean that you can forget about cutting emissions.
	We will need to rein in it.
	No, we'll get to it eventually, yeah.
	In the meantime, we're shrouding the earth in sulfuric acid.
	So people are terrified about talking about this because they're scared that it will prevent us cutting emissions.
	Right, and also that it's sulfuric.
	But listen to what he says.
	Also a sulfuric acid.
	Colbert is funny, but this guy is saying people are afraid of talking about this as a solution because they believe that it will be seen as a shortcut and people will not want to actually cut emissions.
	Which is, by the way...
	Well, there's a lot of reasons people would not like to...
	Well, but it would be used as a crutch.
	But I think he's right in that regard.
	Of course he's right, but this is now a conversation that is...
	A conversation we need to have, which is coming due.
	Luric acid!
	But listen, I just want to get to the numbers part about the danger of sulfuric acid.
	They're bearing the lead.
	Is there any possible way this could come back to bite us in the ass?
	Blanketing the earth in sulfuric acid, because I'm all for it.
	This is the all-chocolate dinner.
	I still get to have my CO2, and I just need to spray sulfuric acid all over the earth.
	Right question, but we put 50 million tons of sulfuric acid in the air now as pollution, and it kills a million people a year worldwide.
	Oh, so let's add more.
	And now listen to this.
	This is the best part.
	Good or bad?
	It's terrible.
	But it'll be better if we put more in.
	We're talking about 1% of that.
	A tiny fraction of that.
	So we should reduce that sulfuric acid pollution.
	So if it kills a million people and we're only doing that 1% more, we're just killing 10,000 more people.
	You can do math.
	Okay.
	And see, the scientist doesn't even understand what he was just said.
	No.
	No, this guy's a complete idiot.
	Yeah, he wrote the book.
	Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah, he wrote the book.
	His research interest is geoengineering, direct air capture, CO2 capture, and climate change.
	So he's a climate change money guy.
	Oh, yeah.
	He gets money for doing stuff regarding climate change.
	That's where his money comes from.
	Yes, sir.
	Yes, sir.
	So there's no conflict of interest there with these ideas.
	No, not at all.
	None whatsoever.
	Because it's all about the same thing.
	The whole interview was funny to watch, and it just gets deeper and deeper and deeper.
	But this is coming.
	This is definitely coming.
	Geoengineering and just business jets.
	Everything that the chemtrail people already say is out there and being done.
	That's all we need.
	Well, thank goodness we started doing that early.
	You all would have been dead years ago if we hadn't started putting sulfuric acid into the air.
	Well, if it's only 1% of the total amount of sulfuric acid he claims is already going into the atmosphere, how come that isn't reversing the global warming by itself, in and of itself?
	It doesn't make sense.
	Don't ask me science questions, man.
	I'm not a scientist.
	I just read whatever they tell me to read, and it turns out they don't know either.
	All right, well, that's not getting Clip of the Day, but it is...
	No, no, it shouldn't have Clip of the Day.
	It's okay.
	It's okay.
	Jeez.
	Yeah, we're doomed.
	Yeah.
	Some people get depressed listening to this show.
	No, I just want the Red Book entry to come true.
	That's all I care about.
	We're working on it.
	Got a measles thing.
	No, I don't want to play that.
	Hey, the Gata guy movement quit.
	Yeah, no, we know he quit.
	We know he quit.
	Here's something that is, I can't really, there's nothing really to show, but in the Je suis Charlie category, everyone's been looking at these videos.
	I don't do this.
	I don't care anymore.
	Fine.
	Shot in the head, not shot in the head.
	But there's a couple people who noticed something very interesting.
	Do you remember the video and they get out of the Citroen?
	Yeah, there's a lot of material about this.
	Have you heard about the different cars?
	Yeah, but one's got the model.
	Well, the car that they found that had the ID in it, You know, the terrorist left his ID card, as one does.
	That was in the car that looks the same, but it's not.
	It has different mirrors.
	It's a different vehicle than from the one that they got out of when they were shooting things up and he lost his shoe.
	Yeah.
	That's irritating.
	Well, the ID story itself is a bit much.
	Of course, of course.
	And why they couldn't use the original car to find the ID, because they had the car, I understand.
	I don't know.
	Why would they swap it out for a different car with the chrome mirrors?
	I don't know.
	What would be the point of that?
	I don't know.
	And then to take a picture of it.
	Oh, here we are.
	We found the ID. Here it is.
	I don't know.
	Why don't you plant it in the other car, boneheads?
	I really don't know.
	It's just annoying.
	Well, yeah, and even if it's...
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the problem that we have here is that maybe the whole...
	The same reports talk about the bullets were all dummy blanks.
	Right.
	And so they went in there, shot up the place, and they poured a bunch of pig blood all over the place.
	You went much deeper on YouTube than I did, apparently.
	And yeah, and what was interesting is like, well, it's because I still, it's like I can't buy the conspiracy part of it or the bullshit part of it because there are still a couple of famous, very famous dead cartoonists that unless they had heart attacks years earlier and they just put them in there, it doesn't make any sense because normally when they do these deals, the whole thing is swept under the rug really quick.
	The Sandy Hook thing is the best example of watching that.
	They're burning down the house.
	Now they're burning Lance's house and the whole thing.
	With all the stuff in it.
	And this doesn't have any of those earmarks.
	All we have is the curious coincidence of the found ID of one of the guys.
	So we don't even know who these guys are.
	No, we don't know.
	We don't know anything.
	And then we have this planting it in the wrong car.
	Where did this second car even come from?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Hey, Bill, we need to do a little cameraman.
	They want to shoot you finding the license in the guy's car.
	Oh, the guy's car is over in the impound lot.
	Nah, just use this one.
	It looks the same.
	I don't know.
	Very poorly done.
	I don't know.
	Too many holes.
	Yes.
	And there has to be an endgame, and we haven't figured that out either.
	Other than ramping up the Muslims hate Jews narrative.
	Gosh, that's news.
	And also Netanyahu saying all Jews come live in Israel, which I talked to an Uber guy the other day, and he was from Iran.
	Very nice guy.
	And with these guys, if you let them know you know what the hell is going on for three seconds, then they're like, wow, they're all in.
	He said...
	They were looking for somebody to talk to that's not an American that doesn't know anything.
	Exactly.
	And this was a short ride.
	They should be a little...
	That's why we should move to the pins.
	It was a short ride, and within this short time...
	Because I said, man, this is a lot of bullcrap going on, and we've got ramping up the hatred of Jews and Muslims.
	And he said, yes, here's what I believe is happening.
	And of course, he talks to people.
	Back home.
	That Netanyahu immediately went out, whether he was taking advantage of the crisis or whatever, that all French Jews come to Israel, you are welcome, move here.
	And according to the Uber driver, that is because they want to continue with their settlements and they can say, look, we have all these people coming in from Europe, thousands and thousands of French Jews.
	We need to give them a place to live, so we have to continue with the settlements.
	And I went, holy crap!
	Makes so much sense!
	The Uber guy is better than any of the news stations.
	Yeah, well, that's probably true.
	But that's always been the case.
	So I'm marking that down to see what else happens in the future.
	And if it's more and more of Jews, you're not safe anywhere but in Israel.
	And then we get a, well, you know, we really can't slow down our settlement development here because we've got all these new people moving in.
	Then, uh...
	There's a lot of room in Israel to put people elsewhere.
	Yeah, but you know what they're doing.
	You know what's going on here.
	That's what they want to do.
	That sounds like the classic Middle Eastern conspiracy.
	Yeah, all the people in the Middle East like to gossip and chat and gossip and chat.
	I like it, though.
	I thought it was a good one.
	No, I like it, too.
	Alright, you wanted to bring something up here?
	Play Hank Green the Clown on PBS. Hank Green the Clown on PBS. And Hank Green, who was one of the YouTube stars to interview the president today.
	He has more than two million subscribers to his YouTube channel.
	We welcome all of you to the program.
	Hank Green, you just did a first-of-a-kind sit-down discussion with the president.
	How did it go?
	It went pretty well, I think.
	Though, to be honest, I don't remember very much of it because I was a little bit scared.
	Drunk.
	Did anything stand out?
	Can you remember anything of it?
	Yeah, I've not had a lot of time to debrief because they've been shuffling me around, and I get to talk to lots of really cool people like you.
	I'm getting a delay in my ear, so if you could go to someone else.
	It's making it very difficult to talk.
	Let's make those YouTubers look like morons.
	Yeah, let's do that or get him off the air.
	Feedback what he asked the president.
	Feedback his own voice, which would be the equivalent.
	Go ahead, John.
	You talk and I'll feedback your own voice to you and let's see what happens.
	Yeah, I'll try to talk right now and I have somebody...
	Oh, it went half duplex.
	I didn't hear a word you said.
	Did you not hear me feeding you back?
	No, not at all.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Interesting.
	Well, there's so much for that experiment.
	I have one of those.
	No, I've had it happen.
	I've had it.
	The worst, though, is one time, here we go with the stories.
	So I'm at Tech TV doing the Silicon Spin show, and I got the IFB. And once in a while, you get that feedback thing.
	But the worst case was, I start the segment, the B block, let's say, and there's Leo in my ear doing his show.
	Yeah.
	While you're talking.
	While I'm talking.
	And it apparently synced our clocks almost perfectly.
	And so I'm trying to do the show with Leo.
	And so then it stops.
	We go to break and I say, something's wrong with the sound.
	Leo is coming through my ear.
	But Leo also went off the air at the same time.
	So they said, I don't hear anything.
	Mm-hmm.
	I guess it's fixed.
	As soon as we begin the next block, there's Leo again.
	Oh, okay.
	I see what you're saying.
	Coming back from commercials at the same time.
	They finally figured it out.
	After I took the thing out of my ear, I said, I can't use this.
	It's very distracting.
	I actually have a clip from one of these actual interviews.
	Oh, which one?
	With who?
	The girl with green lips?
	Not the girl who eats cereal out of her bathtub, but the kind of cute girl.
	I forget her name.
	This, by the way, was the most idiotic exercise I think a president has ever done.
	This is Megan from Google.
	This is her doing...
	This is, she's now the CTO and she's going to bring in, you know, try and hip it all up.
	I'm telling you, this is her doing.
	Should be.
	It's coincidental that she starts and this bullcrap starts with a Google property.
	Anyway, I thought this was interesting the way the president answered this.
	My question for you is, why should the younger generation be interested in politics and why should it matter to them?
	Well, basically, politics is just how do we organize ourselves as a society.
	What?
	Politics is just how we organize ourselves as a society.
	Well, then we shouldn't give a shit.
	Just get a good organizer in.
	You know, how do we make decisions about how we're going to live together?
	Young people care about how college is paid for?
	Well, the truth of the matter is that the reason we even have colleges is that at some point there were politicians who said, you know what, we should start colleges.
	Okay.
	What?
	Uh-huh.
	There's some politicians out of the blue who said we should start some colleges.
	Would you like to find out more about these politicians who started colleges?
	Oh.
	And, you know, dating back to Abraham Lincoln.
	Abraham Lincoln!
	Started something called the land-grant colleges, and he understood that government should invest in people being able to get an education and have the tools to succeed.
	Well...
	You guys are the ones who are going to be using these colleges and universities, and if they are not getting enough funding from government, and your tuition goes up, and you've got more debt, you're the ones affected.
	So you better have a voice and know what's going on and who's making decisions about that.
	Yeah, for that free money.
	From politicians who thank God.
	Thank God.
	You're right.
	This was Megan's idea because it's a Google property.
	So we have people working in the government.
	Colluding.
	Outside of, you know, business.
	It's not a fascist system, but apparently it is.
	Because the first thing she does is she pushes a Google product, YouTube, onto the scene with this bullshit thing.
	This crap interviews.
	Yeah.
	Sorry, I need to just sting there.
	The guy, the clown, he didn't even remember what he asked the president because he was too scared.
	By the way, if you play that clip again, you know I don't want you to.
	But he says, I'm still being debriefed.
	Oh wow, I didn't even catch that.
	Yeah, so in other words, well, play it again and listen to this, because that means that he can't talk about what he did, because maybe they took something out, or the whole thing was bullshit.
	And Hank Green, who was one of the YouTube stars to interview the president today, he has more than 2 million subscribers to his YouTube channel.
	We welcome all of you to the program.
	Hank Green, you just did a first-of-a-kind sit-down discussion with the president.
	How did it go?
	It went pretty well, I think.
	Though, to be honest, I don't remember very much of it because I was a little bit scared.
	Did anything stand out?
	Can you remember anything of it?
	Yeah, I've not had a lot of time to debrief because they've been shuffling me around and I get to talk to...
	So, he's MKUltra.
	I have no idea what he is.
	But he's still getting debriefed.
	Still getting debriefed!
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	Yeah, on your agenda.
	Hey, now!
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	That was good.
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	I have a few more things.
	I'd like to kick it back to you, John.
	I've been watching a lot of Russia today.
	Me too!
	It's hilarious because they just needle us.
	They're giving us the needle.
	Constantly giving us the needle.
	Of course, they were accused.
	I don't have the clip of it, but they were accused of being terrorists by the government.
	I actually do have some clips.
	You have the clips on the terrorist stuff?
	Of Porchenko in Davao?
	Saying that Russia is behind it all and Russia killed everyone on MH17? Yeah, I got that.
	Oh, no, I was talking about the Voice of America guy.
	Oh, no, I'm sorry.
	No, I don't have that.
	The Board of Governors.
	He says the greatest threats to our propaganda machine is ISIS, the Al-Qaeda in Yemen, and Russia Today.
	Really?
	Russia Today was one of our big terrorist networks.
	I did a whole segment on it.
	Oh, I didn't see that.
	Mocking them.
	And you don't have that?
	No, it's just borderline...
	For the show.
	But I do have this where they give it to us for being all in with the dead king of Saudi Arabia.
	And I do have one kind of offbeat clip that is a little different than what everyone else is saying.
	But play RT on the dead king giving us the needle.
	Oil prices have been particularly fluctuating after the death of the Saudi king on Friday.
	World leaders have been converging on Riyadh to pay tribute to the deceased monarch.
	But what legacy has he actually left behind?
	Well, when it comes to human rights, the late Saudi king has repeatedly come under fire.
	Beheadings, floggings are fanning the fury of the media and activists, though without any effect.
	Saudi Arabia's reputation is also stained with countless accusations of women's rights oppression.
	However, some praised the former leader for improving the record by a notch.
	The kingdom, though, is also shelled with criticism over the lack of freedom of expression and migrants' rights abuses as well.
	Ah, it's overrated.
	Well, the late Saudi king has made plenty of friends in the highest echelons of power over his almost decade-long rule.
	Yeah, that is Prince of Wales right there, back in February last year, performing a traditional sword dance side-by-side with the members of the Saudi royal dynasty.
	What a great gig that guy has, huh?
	You had to see this video clip.
	He's doing a sword dance?
	Yeah, he's wearing full Saudi barb.
	With nothing underneath.
	With the headdress.
	He's dancing like a lame dancing with these guys.
	It was too funny.
	What a gig.
	You fly in on your plane, you dance a little, you drink, you get hookers.
	I'm sure they got hookers.
	Well, they must.
	RT on The Dead King 2 played...
	Actually, before he played it, I want to set this up.
	This is the second half of the clip.
	Everybody that had...
	I watched all the news on this guy dying and how they got the new guy who looks a lot like him.
	The same little douchebaggy goatee and a little soul patch.
	Only he's got...
	He's a little uglier.
	The new guy.
	And they said...
	We call that a flavor saver, John.
	It...
	They apparently put in place the next guy after this guy dies because he's not healthy.
	Oh yeah, they're good to go.
	Max.
	And they got all these, and the reporting on CNN, on PBS, and all the rest goes like, the litany goes like this.
	Well, they've set it all up, so nothing's going to change.
	Everything's going to stay the same, so everything's going to be fine.
	It's going to be hunky-dory.
	And it's all no policy, nothing.
	Don't worry about it.
	This will be great.
	And the Russia Today guy has a little different take.
	Abdullah who died was really the last heavyweight in the Saud family.
	Now it is a much larger family.
	There are many hundreds of princes who really want a piece of the cake or a greater piece of the cake.
	And there are no longer any heavyweights to keep the different factions in place.
	So instability in Saudi Arabia could bring about instability with regards to the price of oil.
	So whether the Saudi regime remains stable or not, it is still a cause of concern.
	Hey John, correct me if I'm wrong.
	I never heard this before.
	Well, no.
	Anyway, go on.
	These are royal families.
	This is not like royalty as we know it from, you know, Europe.
	They just made this up, right?
	It was just some Bedouin dudes in that tribe.
	It's a tribe.
	And they got the oil and then they became princes.
	Well, no, they got in control of the country, the Saud family.
	Right, right.
	And then they just, and they said now we're royalties.
	And they called themselves the Sauds.
	I mean, that's why Saudi Arabia is named after this.
	The House of Saud.
	It should have actually been the guy who should have had that area.
	If you talk to the historians from, anyone from the Middle East will tell you that the guy, the King of Jordan, should have been that area.
	And he was like tricked into leaving town for something.
	Next thing you know, these guys took over and kicked out King of Jordan.
	Hey, man.
	Hey, look over there.
	So long, sucker.
	Don't look over here.
	Nothing to see here.
	Look at that.
	That's funny.
	So the Saud family is the royals, and they, of course, bread and bread and bread.
	I believe 30,000 to 40,000 of the entire population of Saudi Arabia are royal family members.
	I've run into a few of them myself.
	There's lots of them.
	They're all over the place.
	But in the newsletter, there were a couple things you mentioned, which maybe we should talk about.
	Oh, by the way, and to answer your question, it's exactly the same bullshit.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Precisely.
	The House of Windsor.
	Yeah.
	The House of Saud.
	Exactly.
	We have...
	So, two things.
	We have the Bill and the mill and Belinda Gates letter.
	And by the way, this is interview that who's that, that the lawyer, the only lawyer I dislike from the verge.
	Well, you know, the guy, the Neil I Patel, that guy, Yeah.
	That's what he says.
	He interviewed Bill Gates.
	Bill Gates did a number of interviews.
	I guess this is because of the annual Mel and Belinda Gates letter from the foundation.
	It was like 13 minutes.
	It was sponsored by Ford Sync, which is a Microsoft product.
	Ford's Drop Sync.
	It's the new SYNC. It's SYNC 3.
	SYNC 3 was sponsored this interview on The Verge.
	I'm presuming that is a setup.
	I don't know anyone using it, but go on.
	It'll be on Tech News later.
	Yeah.
	And it was just a bit...
	I watched him like, I can't even pull clips from this.
	It's just Neelight going, yeah, yeah, right, yeah, blah, blah, blah.
	GMO's good, yes.
	Oh, yeah.
	All this vaccines.
	It's just...
	So what was in the letter?
	Because I didn't read it.
	I guess you did.
	I read the letter.
	What's in the letter?
	You probably can link to it in the show notes.
	Of course, of course.
	Nothing.
	It was the boringest piece of crap letter.
	I didn't even bring it up as a topic.
	It was so stupid.
	Okay.
	I don't even think Bill ever read it.
	Oh, the beginning of the letter is interesting because it changed persons.
	It's like, when Bill was a little boy, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and then we...
	Oh, we!
	He was a little boy, and now it's we.
	And then I was sitting on his head, and now it's we.
	Right.
	It's a very strange letter, and it doesn't say anything, and it's not worth reading.
	Okay.
	How about Yemen?
	We need to talk about the...
	The change in Yemen.
	I had a clip, I think, for the last show, and I forgot to re-clip it for this show, if you could discuss the Yemen thing, because every other news agency handles the story differently.
	Most of the European news agencies claim that the coup is a done deal.
	I have Yemen.mp3.
	That must be it.
	Want to listen?
	Yeah.
	Involves Yemen.
	You've been there several times.
	The presidential palace surrounded for a time.
	What's the latest on that?
	And what's the status of the U.S. embassy there?
	The presidential palace over there still surrounded.
	The president of Yemen is not inside that.
	He's inside his house, but he's also surrounded there.
	The embassy, they believe, is safe at this time.
	They are not planning on evacuating it, but there are two U.S. ships in the Red Sea ready to do that if they have to.
	Now, what is the significance of Yemen to our national interest, which I'm just going to say is obviously going to be natural resources.
	Is it purely because of its location to our allies?
	I think it's just its location to the Gulf of Aden or whatever that Gulf is.
	Gulf of Aden where the Stargate is.
	Stargate is, yes.
	And you know when that Stargate opens, what comes out?
	I don't know what.
	Fish.
	You know, they're going to put that on my tombstone.
	Fish.
	Just fish.
	Just a word.
	So, of course, we were friends with the guys running the place.
	The way we showed our friendship was by droning people.
	That's what we do.
	Hey, you want to be friends with us?
	Do we need to drone anybody?
	Yeah, we got some AQAPs over there.
	We're probably messing with pipelines and just being annoying.
	And now we have the Houthis.
	By the way, I want to stop you.
	Because there's a moment.
	A moment.
	I'm looking down.
	I can see the tracks, the BNSF tracks.
	Do we have private cars coming by again?
	No, no, no.
	But it started like four minutes ago, and it's continuing.
	Oil tankers.
	No grain, no nothing, all oil tankers.
	Yeah, there they go.
	I just thought I'd mention that so it was a moment.
	Continue with the Yemen analysis.
	This No Agenda, elitist Warren Buffett moment, brought to you by...
	No Agenda.
	No Agenda.
	A show with no agenda.
	So I was trying to find out a little bit more about the Houthis.
	I think that's how you pronounce it.
	No, Houthis.
	Well, they say Houthis, but it's H-U-T-H-I-S. Yeah, well, they pronounce it Houthis.
	What can I say?
	Well, I want to say...
	Everybody pronounces it Hootie, so I'm going to pronounce it Hooties.
	I'm going to pronounce it Hooties.
	Well, you can pronounce it Hooties.
	You sound like a...
	Hooties.
	Yeah, okay.
	I'm not going to do it on street everywhere.
	I'm not going to be like, hey, Hooties.
	Hey, Hootie, Hootie.
	And I don't do it in a gay voice either.
	That's unnecessary.
	I didn't do the gay voice.
	I just said Hootie.
	Hootie.
	Do you know anything about the Hooties?
	Yeah, they've been around for a while.
	We were bombing them.
	I think that was when the CIA was up there bombing them, trying to kill them.
	Yeah, we like them now.
	Well, to a point, they still don't like us because their motto is still Death to America.
	Ah, I got some analysis here from the State Department.
	Well, not really.
	It's from Human Rights Watch, which is funded by the State Department.
	So we'll just call it the State Department.
	Yeah, let's be honest about it.
	This is from the State Department of the United States, and this was on NPR. And it seems like maybe this is kind of groovy that we have the Houthis joining in here.
	Is there any hope that the United States and the West could continue working with them to fight al-Qaeda in this country?
	Or does the U.S. fight against al-Qaeda in Yemen fall apart?
	Well, ironically, the one thing that we know the Houthis and the U.S. government have in common is that they both want to get rid of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
	So it may not be entirely implausible to envision the Houthis in the United States joining in the fight against AQAP. There's something incredibly striking about this narrative that you have a country...
	That overthrows a leader during the Arab Spring.
	The United States is fighting terrorism there.
	The United States, in theory, might have to work with that former president who was ousted and a group that has called for death to America if they want to continue the fight against terrorism.
	This is often the way Yemen is.
	Yemen's politics and intrigue makes the word Byzantine seem simplistic.
	We don't know if Yemen is really sliding into chaos or if it's just continuing to hover on the brink.
	But we do know that this is a serious challenge for the U.S. government.
	I got a kick out of what she said, too.
	I thought that was pretty funny.
	Yeah.
	I thought that was good.
	We know more about Yemen now.
	Not really.
	I've always wanted to visit Yemen.
	Really?
	There's some photographic moments of Yemen that I've seen.
	You want to see these places.
	You should time that with the opening of the Stargate.
	I'm not a big fan of fish.
	Whatever the case, these hooties do not like us.
	I think they're pissed off because we were supporting the other guy and trying to screw them.
	A lot of them were bombed by us by their drones.
	They're not going to all of a sudden be our friends.
	Well, they would if we throw a ton load of money at them, I suppose.
	For that kind of money, I think we can be friends.
	The Iranian Central Bank has now declared they will be moving away from the U.S. dollar in foreign trade.
	And they will be using the Chinese yuan, the euro, Turkish lira, Russian ruble, and the South Korean yuan.
	This is not a good thing.
	This is a mistake on their part.
	This is usually how you...
	This is what just predates...
	It's how you wind up dead.
	Well, you end up dead and your government's overthrown.
	We already took a dry run at it with that whatever was Lilac Revolution or Green...
	I don't know what it was called.
	The Green Revolution.
	Was it the Green Revolution?
	Mm-hmm.
	And, you know, we just could let him kind of go halfway and then we pulled back.
	Oh, we got nothing to do with it.
	I think that was a dry run.
	I think we're just to show them what could happen with social media.
	Yeah, we have the weapon, everybody.
	Social media is our weapon.
	Stand back, people.
	All right, we had something horrible happen in Ukraine.
	It was in Mariupol.
	A bus got blown up.
	My God, if you want to see real war video, this is what you need to go take a look at.
	This bus, they're just walking around this bus, and it's almost like the shell went through it and not everyone died, but there's people sitting there dead in the bus, and people are walking in, looking around.
	There's a lady dead face down on the street, and people are just walking by with their shopping bags.
	It's really kind of disturbing.
	Oh, God.
	And so there's one video right after the bomb, and this is a...
	A journalist, a video journalist, and she's running around, and then she sees someone in uniform, and she's saying, stop, I want to talk to you, I want to talk to you.
	And then, remember, this is Mirapol.
	This is a warrior in camouflage uniform with a weapon, AK-47.
	Stop, stop.
	Ask me, what's this?
	On my face, on my face, please.
	Ha ha ha ha.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	It's an American.
	Please don't videotape my face.
	Yeah.
	Mercenary.
	Out of my face, bitch.
	Is that what he said?
	No, he didn't say bitch.
	He said please.
	Oh, out of my face, please?
	Yeah.
	Play it again.
	Because he's a mercenary.
	They're polite, but they will kill you.
	Stop, stop.
	On my face.
	On my face, please.
	And he shields his face from the camera because he's a mercenary.
	Sounds more British to me than American.
	No, it's American.
	It's not British.
	It doesn't sound British.
	It's not British.
	So, well, this is happening.
	This bus is really bad.
	Then we have Davo, which is the big drinking club there in Switzerland, and everybody's hanging out.
	We all took the jets.
	And we have President Poroshenko.
	Of Ukraine, the chocolate king who was ushered in, who was given key spots to American operatives, the minister of finance, a woman who received her citizenship overnight to become the minister of finance of Ukraine.
	And he has on stage, he has a piece of this bus riddled with explosive holes or whatever.
	And he's showing that to accentuate.
	So they shipped a piece of the bus.
	They flew.
	And they must have flown it.
	And they must have flown it in with a jet.
	Maybe there's a piece of shrapnel that actually landed in Davos.
	It's a pretty big piece.
	It's like the size of a briefcase.
	And, you know, he actually walks off the mic for a second to go get it.
	And someone hands it to him.
	And it's just, you know, it's a piece of bus.
	So he's a prop comic.
	Totally a prop comic.
	Booter!
	And that's what this, of course, is about.
	By the way, there's a lot of people saying that this was not a Russian attack, but it actually came from the Ukrainian side.
	But that is always going to be the challenge, finding out who did what.
	And for me, this is a symbol.
	Uh-huh.
	Symbol of the terroristic attack against my country.
	The same way a symbol, like Charlie Hebdo, and the same way a symbol.
	I found this interesting, that he says this is the same type of attack as Charlie Hebdo.
	It may be in that it's terror, but very different groups and related issues.
	Rationals and everything in between.
	Right.
	Like a terroristic attack which was done by Russian missile operating by Russian officer against MH17. Oh, there we go.
	Without the black box information, no flight recorder data, he is now going to tell us that Russian missile operated by Russians brought down MH17. Thank you.
	Flight of Malaysian airplane which were killed 298 innocent victims from 17 countries which demonstrate that the terror is not a problem of Ukraine and even not the problem of Europe.
	This is a global problem.
	And the fighting against terror is our joint...
	We can demand our joint efforts.
	And we can win the terror, and we will win the terror.
	Win the terror?
	Yeah, I thought it was a poor choice of words myself.
	United.
	Because we are not afraid.
	No.
	We are united.
	Yes.
	And the whole world now is demonstrating the strong solidarity with Ukraine.
	And I want to thank all of you for that.
	Thank you very much.
	There you go.
	Russia.
	Russia blew up the bus.
	These Russian guys, man.
	And that's where I went over to RT, and one of my favorite RT personalities is the girl Gayen Chikayan, but she's kind of a cute Russian girl.
	She goes to the State Department briefings, the one that Matt's always in.
	Oh, the one that's in the audience.
	Yeah.
	Well, in the press corps.
	She's in the press corps.
	Yeah, that's what I mean.
	And so there was supposed to be this ceasefire between, you know, these are the Minsk agreements between Russia and between Ukraine or the Russian-backed separatists, the rebels, whatever it is today.
	And she made this nice little package, and I cut this down into a couple pieces and then got another piece from somewhere else.
	She calls out Jen Psaki and says, you know, I think?
	Jen Psaki the redhead?
	No.
	I went to the State Department with a very simple and straightforward question.
	Do the actions of the Ukrainian government comply with the Minsk agreement?
	Here's the answer.
	In general, Russia has illegally, and Russian-backed separatists have illegally come into Ukraine, including Donetsk.
	Ukraine has a responsibility and absolutely the right to defend themselves.
	Now, we certainly expect both sides to abide by the Minsk agreements.
	We have not seen that happen.
	We've seen a lot of talk, not a lot of backup from the Russian side.
	If there are specific incidents, I'm more than happy to talk about them.
	I'm specifically asking about the actions of the Ukrainian government.
	Can you give a more definitive answer whether or not they comply with the Minsk agreement?
	I think I'll leave it at what I said.
	Shut up, slave!
	Well, Ben, our girl goes back and she goes for round two.
	With the Minsk agreement, do they comply?
	You pass a judgment that Russia is not complying with the agreement.
	Well, I listed a range of specific ways that Russia is not complying.
	Under the agreement, sides must avoid...
	Oh, she didn't.
	Okay.
	Did you hear that?
	Wow.
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay.
	Under the agreement, sides must avoid deploying and using heavy artillery.
	Isn't it what the Ukrainian government is doing right now?
	Well, first of all, let's start again with the fact that Russia has illegally intervened in Ukraine and come into a country that was a sovereign country.
	So I'm not sure if you're proposing that a sovereign country doesn't have the right to defend themselves.
	I think we're going to leave it at that.
	She's not going to be invited back.
	But luckily...
	Matt Lee to the rescue, everybody.
	It just seems to be that when the government of Ukraine is accused of shelling, of bombarding civilian targets, when that accusation is made, you refrain from, you say, let's have an investigation into it.
	And when there are incidents that you ascribe to the separatists, There's an immediate condemnation.
	I wouldn't say that's exactly what's happened.
	There are times where it's clear who is responsible.
	This is a case where there's going to be an investigation.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, Matt...
	Shut up, slang!
	Shut up.
	All shut down.
	She was mad.
	She has strange breasts.
	I know, but she had this outfit on, and it...
	She has strange breasts.
	It looks like she has had a boob job, but they placed her nipples too high.
	Well, maybe she has had breast cancer or something.
	Oh, thanks.
	You make me feel like a dick.
	I didn't need that.
	That was unnecessary.
	I would have looked into that before I started making these comments.
	Well, I throw it out there for research purposes.
	You don't see a lot of pictures of her.
	That's why.
	I saw it in this one video.
	She had this particular outfit on, and it just looked a little off.
	She has some pictures.
	If you just look at her images, she looks like a mean-spirited person.
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, yeah, if you do what she says.
	Yeah, then everything's fine.
	Oh, man.
	Yeah, I think this point's well taken.
	Okay.
	Even though I have to say that Doug Herbert, my favorite guy on Van Katte.
	Oh, yes.
	Yes, Doug Herbert.
	He's actually throwing a little of the blame for all this.
	He says he thinks it's all Putin.
	He cranks it up, turns it off.
	He says he gets control of a valve when it comes to the violence in this area.
	Yeah.
	I didn't clip it because it wasn't that.
	Well, I have one last clip then.
	This is the last, the final one I've got.
	This is Hillary Clinton who got a free ride from the Today Show.
	Is NBC the Today Show?
	Oh, yeah.
	So they just put her in there and I actually clipped the lead-in of...
	Of this piece, so you can hear what they're saying about her.
	Hillary Clinton considered by many to be the frontrunner to win the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, but if that doesn't work out, she may try her hand at comedy.
	During a policy speech in Canada on Wednesday, Clinton described a mock conversation that Vladimir Putin had with himself about becoming Russia's president again after initially leaving office.
	Take a look.
	You think you'd like to be president again?
	I think I do.
	Why don't we just go announce it?
	We'll tell Dimitri that he could be prime minister.
	Excellent.
	Excellent idea.
	We have a process, yes.
	There you go.
	Now, what did you think of Hillary?
	I got a big laugh out of that.
	What do you think of Hillary's impersonation there?
	She sounds like Bill.
	I think she sounds a little more like her husband.
	Yeah, right?
	Mm-hmm.
	That's exactly right.
	You nailed it.
	You nailed it.
	Yeah, because it was Bill Clinton who was probably sitting there telling him what to do.
	Exactly.
	Who knows?
	I have two clips left.
	I got a couple more, but I think you only want to report it.
	We're going to run out of time.
	You mocked me earlier.
	I did.
	So I'm going to play the Argentina murder clip with apparently the head of Argentina, the woman that runs the country, the president, she now agrees that the guy was murdered, the guy doing the investigation.
	Yeah, the prosecutor who was trying to out her.
	Well, more or less.
	But just listen to this, and then I have a comment, and then I just mock you back.
	The president of Argentina says she's now convinced that the death of a senior prosecutor was not suicide, as she had initially believed.
	Alberto Nisman was found shot dead in his apartment on Sunday.
	The 51-year-old had been investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in which more than 80 people were killed, as Weira Davis reports now from Buenos Aires.
	Remembering the dead.
	21 years after a huge bomb attack on a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, a new name has been added to the list of victims.
	Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor who had been investigating the 94 bombing.
	Many here think he was killed for getting too close to the truth.
	85 people died when the center, known as Amir, was destroyed, a soft target at the heart of one of the biggest Jewish communities outside Israel.
	Although no one's ever been successfully prosecuted, suspicion has long focused on Iran and its ally Hezbollah.
	Prosecutor Nisman went even further.
	He accused senior figures, including the Argentine president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, of trying to do a deal with Iran, agreeing to absolve it of blame in return for lucrative trade agreements.
	Earlier this week, Nizman was found dead at his luxury Buenos Aires apartment.
	Initially, the president suggested Nizman committed suicide, but she backtracked, accepting via social media that it was most likely a case of murder.
	Social media.
	Yeah, it's a social media.
	Everyone starts tweeting about something, and she backed off.
	Oh, okay, I made a mistake.
	Yeah, this is today's world.
	This is our weapon, social media.
	Yeah, social media, which is what was going on with this stupid Obama deal.
	Now, I have an educational clip that we could play just before the end of the show that I think is interesting.
	At least it was interesting to me.
	Is it called educational clip?
	Because I don't see it then in that case.
	No, it's called...
	It's called tea versus chai.
	Oh, okay.
	People need to know this.
	I'm telling you, this is the price of admission for this show.
	I'm with you.
	You would not know any of this if it wasn't for this clip.
	And I will say right off the bat, I've always thought chai was just a Starbucks way of saying tea.
	Wrong.
	Was there anything that you really wanted to put in there?
	A little aside, story, anecdote that you didn't get to put in there?
	I didn't get the history of tea into there.
	Tea is a good one.
	So just in one sentence, languages of the world are split in whether the word for tea starts with a T or it starts with a cha.
	So chai, which we think of as masala chai, this Indian drink.
	Chai is the word for T in Russian and in Mongolian and in Hindi and all these languages.
	But lots of languages like English and French and Dutch have a word starting with a T. And it turns out languages that traded with China by sea, their languages start with a T. Languages that traded with China by land, they got the word from the dialects that have a ch at the beginning, and their words for T start with a ch.
	So you can tell the history of how countries interacted with China just by the first letter of their word for T. Ha!
	Well, so I was right.
	Starbucks interacts by the sea.
	Yes.
	Or by land.
	Starbucks interacts with China by land, yes.
	Well, it's true.
	The Dutch, of course, were seafaring nations, so they say te.
	Which is T-H-E-E. Huh, I didn't know that.
	I didn't either.
	I thought it was a fascinating education clip, which I'd like to contribute to the show every so often.
	This is a very good thing.
	Are you doing the This Week in Trannies?
	No, I'm not.
	I have some tech news.
	If you want, just do that.
	We can save it if you want.
	I'd rather save it, because I don't have any tech news.
	I have three pieces of tech news.
	I've got some tech news.
	Do you want to do tech news?
	Just real briefly.
	Why not?
	We might as well.
	iPhone, my phone!
	The way I see it, the only good phone is a landline, and the phone should be made out of Bakelite.
	There you go.
	All right.
	Three pieces of news for you.
	Okay, here we go.
	Number one...
	I have not seen this discussed, but we should have talked about it actually on the Thursday, that healthcare.gov, the Affordable Care Act, i.e.
	the Obamacare website.
	Yeah, this is a big deal.
	Yeah, they were taking, they had all kinds of trackers and bugs that were selling it.
	Yeah, which is illegal.
	And here's the latest update.
	Actually, the headline, this is from AP, Obama administration reverses itself on release of consumer data from healthcare.gov.
	That's a nice way of putting it, but that's not exactly what happened.
	Associated Press confirms the administration made changes to the website to scale back release of consumers' personal information to private companies that analyze internet performance and sell ads.
	This should be the top of the news.
	Yeah.
	There are, you know, HIPAA, there's real, there are real laws on the books about doing this kind of stuff.
	Yeah.
	I know.
	It was sending age, income, zip code, tobacco use, if a woman is pregnant or not.
	Right, which is confidential medical information.
	It's totally confidential.
	And it was hard-coded in the URLs, which is the funniest thing.
	Morons.
	So that, to me, should be tech news at the top of the list.
	Number two on my list, I did not know this, apparently, Ford in particular, I drove an EcoBoost Ford a couple weeks ago.
	Okay.
	And you kick it down, and the engine comes to life.
	Right, turns on a turbocharger.
	Apparently, all of these automobiles have active noise control systems that amplify the engine through the car speakers.
	Did you know any of this?
	They have entire processed sound clips that play through some hidden speakers as well, particularly in the Mustang, the 2015 Mustang, to give you that growl because the engines don't make that sound anymore.
	And they're admitting to this.
	I had no idea that this was going on.
	I didn't know this either.
	This is news to me.
	That is worth investigation.
	And then finally, I had a chance to watch...
	What's that movie about the Enigma Machine?
	I watched it on one of Mickey's screeners.
	What's the name of that movie?
	The Imitation of Something or Other.
	Yes, okay.
	Yeah, the Imitation Game?
	Yeah, whatever.
	The Imitation Game.
	It's about the Enigma Machine.
	Yeah, it's about Turing, isn't it?
	It's about the Enigma Machine.
	Okay, it's about the Enigma...
	Okay, I didn't see it, so...
	Well, if you...
	If you know anything about the Enigma machine, if you know anything about the history of, well, of course, of the Great Wars and how important this was to crack the code and to be able to understand German intelligence, Do you know who really first cracked this code and who were instrumental in this entire process?
	The Australians.
	The Poles.
	I thought they were Australians.
	It was the Poles.
	Okay.
	It was first broken by the Polish Cypher Bureau.
	And if you go to the Wikipedia entry about the Enigma machine, the Poles are mentioned in this article, let me see...
	That's where Copernicus came from.
	I mean, the Polish history, they're very strong mathematicians.
	Yeah, it was three Polish cryptologists, and the names are here, Rajewski, Rozicki, and Zgalski.
	There's 22 references alone in the article to the Poles, the Polish clock method.
	Guess how much reference in the movie about...
	None.
	Exactly.
	Zero!
	Zero!
	Yeah.
	That's no good.
	No, no.
	That movie is a piece of shit.
	They shouldn't give it one award at all.
	Thank you.
	That's my point.
	That is my point.
	That's horrible.
	That's Hollywood lying to us in any way they can.
	Who needs publicity this week?
	Let's do this.
	Who does need publicity this week, John?
	We do.
	Yeah, we do indeed.
	Please.
	People.
	Help us out.
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