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	Maybe she should have cried more.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, March 1st, 2015.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 700.
	This is no agenda.
	Broadcasting in defiance of Title II, live from FEMA Region 6, celebrating our septennial in downtown Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, we're also celebrating in these parts.
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	Hold on, hold on.
	Let me give everybody a little love tune-up.
	Yeah.
	That makes everyone feel bad.
	That is the love tuner.
	528 hertz tuning you up.
	It's the love frequency.
	Where'd you get that?
	It was given to me.
	It was a gift.
	Probably for some nefarious purpose.
	It's probably wolves will come out and start to eat me.
	To attack rats.
	To attack rats.
	That's even funnier when you know who gave it to me.
	Okay.
	Hey, John.
	Congratulations.
	Congratulations to you.
	Yes.
	Congratulations, everybody.
	700 episodes.
	700 shows.
	700 shows.
	It's astonishing.
	It is, kind of.
	Have you ever counted to 700?
	No.
	I fall asleep long before that.
	In the morning!
	I want to tell a story.
	So I boot the machine so we can do the show and it gets me like, oh yeah, things blinking.
	Java must update.
	Oh no.
	NPR has been broadcasting how to disable your Java plugins on your browser for some reason.
	I don't know why you'd want to do that, but okay.
	So it says update.
	Now this is a Windows machine?
	Yeah, Windows.
	It comes up, pops up, update, update, update.
	So I click it, no, I don't have time for this.
	So then I do that.
	Then in the corner it pops up and says, no, you've got to update.
	And I said, no, I don't have to.
	So I push the button, close it up.
	Now normally that's the end of it.
	Right, right.
	And is this a Windows XP? No, no, no, it's seven.
	Seven, seven, all right, seven.
	But it pops up again, so I say no.
	So it pops up again.
	Wait, did it also include the iTunes helper?
	I always take, I disable that.
	I don't see any reason why anybody needs that.
	That thing, that thing.
	So anyway, so I close and close and close, and I get tired of it, and I say, okay.
	Oh, no.
	So I hit the button to upgrade, and immediately it pops up, you have the current version.
	Okay.
	Amen, fist bump.
	That's what it should say.
	Amen, fist bump.
	You got the current version.
	Hey, before I forget, I've been meaning to ask you this, but something happened yesterday and now I have to ask you.
	No, it happened Friday.
	Now, you live alone a lot of the time, right?
	Like me.
	Whenever possible.
	Recently, this has not been the case.
	By the way, I'm starting to understand your theories about this.
	Do you ever find yourself speaking to yourself out loud?
	But I do that commonly.
	Okay, so I'm not alone.
	I'm not crazy.
	Usually my speaking to myself is, you idiot!
	So I'm walking down.
	It's Friday morning.
	I'm going to go to the spin class.
	I'm walking down 2nd Street.
	That's for keeping up with the spin class.
	Oh yeah, three times a week if I can do it.
	And I'm walking and I'm thinking about the show or something.
	I can't remember exactly what...
	Well, it was.
	I know what I was thinking about.
	I was thinking about this crazy little sound bite that we've been using.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	And I'm walking to...
	When you walk towards the studio, there's all like three or four people, women usually, who are walking into the spin class, into the building.
	Always identifiable by their UGG boots, of course.
	That's what you do.
	You have to slip in and out of your shoes quickly.
	And I'm walking, and I just say, amen, fist bump!
	And I realize I've said it loud.
	And people are turning to me.
	Okay.
	You're talking about just wandering around the streets talking to yourself.
	Now this I don't do.
	Normally I do this in the house, but now I'm doing it on the street.
	This is bad development.
	Amen, fist bump!
	Yeah, I'd say.
	But I caught myself going, oh shit!
	Amen, fist bump, like that.
	It's just, it's such a, the cadence of this is just so nice.
	Amen, fist bump.
	It's just so nice to say.
	Wow.
	Okay, so I'm only partially crazy.
	I do need to.
	No, no, this sounds totally crazy.
	Amen, fist bump.
	And did it make the women turn around?
	Yeah, someone turned around.
	What?
	Oh, hey.
	Hi.
	Amen, fist bump.
	Just make that a greeting.
	I'm going to try it.
	Yeah, I'm going to try this.
	Amen, fist bump.
	Hey, amen, fist bump.
	I'm going to try that everywhere I go.
	Amen, fist bump.
	Amen, fist bump.
	You know, on show 400, Secret Agent Paul.
	Secret Agent Paul has done so many of our song jingles and jingles throughout the years.
	He did on episode 400 when we celebrated our quadrennial.
	Quadrennial?
	No.
	I don't know.
	Something.
	He did a song for us.
	I think that was the fact of the matter song.
	And now he's done yet another song, and I feel maybe, even though it's a minute and a half, I think maybe we should just play this song that he's made for us.
	It is another one of these things that we say.
	Although, interestingly...
	If someone said to me, who on the show says at the end of the day?
	I would say it would be you.
	I would say that's true.
	I don't say it as much as I used to, because when I say it, it's a long phrase, so it's easy to catch.
	At the end of the day, which means when all is said and done.
	And I could switch over to when all is said and done.
	After you hear this song...
	I might want to switch over after all is said and done.
	But at the end of the day, they're backing him.
	You know, they're backing him.
	Come on.
	At the end of the day.
	At the end of the day, John, if someone wants to get anyone, they can get him.
	At the end of the day.
	At the end of the day, it's more important that we have entertainment.
	At the end of the day.
	So, at the end of the day, who's going to pay for the real loan?
	It's going to be taxpayer money.
	At the end of the day.
	Because at the end of the day, that's going to be up to Valerie Jarrett.
	At the end of the day.
	I mean, at the end of the day, isn't that it?
	At the end of the day.
	At the end of the day, all this money is owed to bankers.
	At the end of the day.
	You sound like Johnny Cash on heroin.
	At the end of the day.
	At the end of the day, as Americans, what we always do.
	This is bad.
	At the end of the day.
	So, at the end of the day.
	Well, you've only got a couple of samples of me, but apparently, I'm all over the place.
	At the end of the day, you can't deny I had to put less gas in.
	At the end of the day.
	It's just not stopping.
	At the end of the day, we're all anti-Semites.
	What do I say?
	At the end of the day, you get, I think it's...
	Well, wait for the Fs.
	At the end of the day.
	Starts to run together at the end of the day, and you kind of forget, right?
	At the end of the day.
	You know, John, you and I are both in the audience business at the end of the day.
	At the end of the day.
	So at the end of the day, she can say, hey, I told you so.
	At the end of the day.
	But I don't say at the end of the day.
	I said it once, I think ever.
	Yeah.
	I apologize.
	You should apologize.
	This is horrible.
	You've been berating me for saying at the end of the day, which I've only said apparently a couple of times.
	It's me.
	It's me.
	You've been saying it, and I have not been catching any of it, because I'm still on the lookout.
	The things that bother me is when you have stopped doing this, because when I catch you on something, you stop faster than I can.
	Yes, yeah, I do.
	I try.
	I try.
	I'm younger.
	I'm a younger man.
	I don't know if that's the reason, but it could be.
	But I have caught you saying okay, which is really calling for somebody.
	Okay.
	At the end of the day, okay?
	Or how about wow?
	Yeah, you said wow a couple of times.
	Producer Todd.
	But it's only oh wow that bugs me.
	Producer Todd sent us an email from, where is he from?
	ITM, my wife is a non-native English speaker who watches no English language television and has no contact with native speakers.
	Here in the wilds of Southern Europe, where there is no English spoken, there is no way by which she could have picked up, yeah, no, other than your show.
	For a couple of weeks now, I have observed with increasing alarm, yeah, no, creeping into our conversation.
	At first when I heard it, I thought it was a one-off, but the second time I was filled with horror.
	It is now a semi-routine thing about which I have so far remained completely silent.
	She is not a dedicated No Agenda listener, but as I listen to it twice a week, she's always hearing it in the background.
	You have to make this stop!
	Believe me, we're working on it.
	Or I am.
	This is particularly my problem.
	Although you could be saying it all the time and I'm apparently not noticing.
	I don't know what to do with myself now.
	Oh, man.
	End of the day.
	Well, that's funny.
	Yeah, it is.
	At the end of the day.
	And these are recent shows, too, that I'm saying this.
	Yeah.
	No, he did the same thing to us.
	Oh, you just did a yeah and a delayed no.
	Oh, no.
	He's the one who did the fact of the matter clip.
	Okay.
	Remember that one?
	Yeah, yeah, fact of the matter.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Fact of the matter.
	And he would...
	And it was horrible.
	It was the worst thing he's ever produced.
	It was just...
	He was saying fact of the matter constantly.
	I have to thank...
	People like Secret Agent Paul...
	Who really put the shine on this show, you know?
	They really do.
	Yeah.
	I was trying to see if I could find his...
	Yeah, no, I agree.
	Yeah, no, I agree.
	I have friends who listen to this show and now they're going nuts.
	Yeah.
	Everybody in the world is using, yeah, no.
	They are?
	Yeah.
	This is like that stupid dress thing going around.
	Oh, okay, no.
	The dress thing is something else.
	No, it is, but what I mean by that is that it's part of the human psyche.
	Yes.
	There's a psyche element to it.
	Yes, and the way I evaluated this stupid dress thing, and if you know what this is, it's shame on you.
	That's what this is, by the way.
	Everybody knows what the stupid dress thing is.
	Yeah.
	And I think this is, it's just like daylight savings time.
	You know, they throw this out there.
	Which is next Sunday.
	I know.
	They throw this out there to make stupid slaves and human resources globally believe.
	Oh yeah, it's blue.
	Oh yeah.
	Yeah, that's right.
	I see it now too.
	Yeah.
	It's blue.
	I swear to God, it'll be, you know, it's like, this is red and they'll hold up something yellow and eventually people go, yeah, that's yellow.
	Red?
	No, it's red.
	Yeah, red.
	Yeah.
	This is programming on a global...
	Come on, John.
	This popped out of fucking nowhere.
	Nowhere.
	Because some lady put it on a Pinterest or Instagram, and then all of a sudden...
	It was on NPR. It was everywhere.
	I see the dress is white!
	It went across the world.
	According to anybody who looked into this, J.C. Buzzkill Jr., it went around the world faster than any meme ever in the history of the internet, which indicates that's not even the limit of the speed in which somebody...
	This is so dangerous if you think about that.
	Thank you.
	It is of lethal proportions.
	Yeah.
	If the media, let's just call it the media, even though I'm sure that somehow, you know Bill Gates was behind this somehow.
	It's obvious.
	Bill Gates wasn't behind it.
	He's busy rocking.
	This was a test just to see, let's see what we can make these stupid idiots do now.
	I'll tell you what, we'll make them believe it's blue.
	Oh, we'll confuse them.
	We'll say it's white one time and blue the next.
	And people will believe it and they'll defend their positions.
	People defending their positions on this.
	The end is nigh.
	In our group around here, my wife didn't see it as anything.
	Buzzkill Jr.
	saw it as blue.
	Jesse, his wife, saw it as gold and white.
	And my daughter, and I've seen other people that claim to have this, she says that she'll see it as one color one minute and another color the next.
	Yeah, so she's lost.
	She's a lost cause.
	This is what they really want.
	What they really want is people to see it one way and they say, you know, kind of like one of those 3D posters.
	Oh, yeah, now I see it.
	Yeah, you're right.
	It's blue.
	Now, I could always see the 3D posters.
	Now, the thing about the 3D posters, which was annoying to me, is I always saw them inverted.
	Oh, really?
	I have seen a couple of them inverted.
	I could never un-invert them.
	I know there's ways you can do that.
	If you concentrate, you can...
	Oh, there it is.
	It's fine.
	I could never make one of those complicated 3D posters.
	I could never...
	They were always going in instead of coming out.
	Well, I'll tell you what this leads to.
	And again, thank Buzzkill Jr.
	for doing that.
	The more data he has, I'd actually like to receive any background data he's collected on this.
	This was not an insignificant event.
	This was truly something...
	The speed with which it caught on, the speed with which it was...
	It had to be a test of some form.
	And it leads to stuff, this is Canada.
	This is the CBC, Daniel Riskin, who's a, I think he's a host of maybe a news show, a TV show up there.
	And he is pretty much talking about all the, you know, if we can make you believe it's blue and not white, we can make you believe all these things that you're wrong about.
	And this harkens back to the Newsweek, the March Newsweek cover.
	Here in the United States of Gitmo Nation, or maybe it's the same one around the globe.
	Listen to what they're really trying to do is to just tell you what is right and wrong.
	What I'm trying to do is get people to love science and care about science and embrace science.
	This was a science experiment, John.
	If you saw the explanations, oh, it's because of the background or because you...
	To me, it's the same thing as can you smell asparagus in your pee?
	And it's like, oh, wow, gee, yeah, I can smell it.
	Can you smell it?
	Can you smell asparagus in my pee?
	Do you smell asparagus in your pee?
	Sure.
	Yeah, not everybody can, apparently.
	They're not paying attention.
	In a way that, when we look back 10, maybe 10 years from now, maybe that's the goal.
	To be anti-science would be unthinkable.
	The way being anti-gay is unthinkable now.
	Pay attention.
	Because science is such a critical part of how we're going to get out of the kinds of crises we live in.
	Scientists are such great people.
	Scientists are working so hard to make the world better.
	And there's vaccination.
	That matters.
	I mean, I have babies at home that I do not want to get sick with measles.
	And so it really matters to me that vaccination is part of public policy.
	And if I have an elected official who says, we have vaccinations, I don't know.
	Because that's how the officials talk, apparently.
	What are you doing?
	That's not responsible, and it's not informed, and I expect my government to act like a government, like a response, like grown-ups.
	You know, here is the evidence, and actually look for evidence, ask questions, get the evidence they need to make an informed decision, and then follow the party line!
	And then make the one that is the informed decision.
	And so, I would...
	Absolutely want to know if somebody running for office didn't think vaccinations, didn't think evolution, didn't think climate change, or whatever.
	You can't just garbage all these things together.
	Evolution.
	Evolution got to do with the efficacy of certain vaccines, many of which are like bogative.
	Gardazil.
	Yeah, Gardazil.
	There's now Gardazil 9, by the way.
	It's a new Gardazil.
	I've drawn the old one.
	Well, apparently it wasn't good enough, although they said it was.
	No, the new Gardasil 9 is a game-changer.
	Oh!
	Game-changer, and it now stops more...
	Strains of cervical cancer than before.
	It still only stops 9, and I think there's 27 or so, and 40% of the population has a version of HIV, and it does go away.
	You can, you know, it's...
	Not HIV. I mean, HIV. HPV. Don't get me started on HIV. Yeah, Gardasil 9.
	And now for boys.
	Because, you know, that throat cancer thing.
	You know the throat cancer.
	You know where it comes from.
	You know.
	Yeah, sure.
	So, today being a brand new month, Bunny Bunny.
	By the way, just for people out there who don't quite get what we're thinking about some of this stuff, creating...
	Sketchy computer models and then basing science on those is not science.
	Right.
	But if you can convince people that the dress is purple...
	You have to have reproducible results.
	Yes.
	You can't do that with a computer model because, oh yeah, you can, but it's total bullshit because the computer model is made up.
	Yes.
	Correct.
	And that is climate change.
	Correct.
	You know, I didn't see the news talking about Pachauri getting bumped off for sexual harassment.
	The pervert?
	Yeah, the perv.
	The perv.
	Yeah.
	No, none of that.
	None of that.
	I didn't want to talk about it.
	It's not scientific.
	Anyway, 700 shows.
	Should we do another 700?
	Do you think you got it in you?
	Well, I got plenty of me.
	I got plenty of gas in the tank.
	Hey!
	All right.
	Good.
	As long as you can keep me alive, then we're good to go.
	Well, you've got the women after you.
	They're all trying to kill you.
	I've got to tell you.
	Yeah.
	They're trying to kill me.
	This apparently attracts them.
	Yeah.
	They're on their way.
	They're on their way.
	No women are going to kill you.
	Before I forget, Friday I'm going to Europe.
	What?
	Yeah, but this, you know, I had a trip planned, and then, you know, I don't know, something came up, what was it?
	A divorce.
	And so I had to move the ticket, you know, I just said, you know, whatever, put it in March somewhere, and here it is.
	And I can't change it again, because it costs money to change it every day.
	Oh, well, then you're going to have to, oh, you have to go.
	Yes, well, I'm going to go see Christina.
	Did you get a good deal?
	To get a good deal?
	On the ticket.
	It's just standard.
	It's just economy that I purchased three months ago.
	I don't know.
	No, it's not a good deal.
	None of it's a good deal.
	It's never a good deal.
	It is a good deal.
	It's a shit deal.
	I'm going to see Christina.
	I'm going to go to London, see Michelle.
	And of course, I'll be doing the show, obviously.
	Keep the show going.
	Who's Michelle?
	Michelle, my buddy from the south of France.
	He has the strip clubs.
	Oh, that guy.
	That guy.
	My gangster friend.
	He said, hey, Adam, you should come by.
	We'll talk a little bit.
	We'll fix you up.
	I think we're meeting at the club.
	Well, you'll pick up some good stuff while you're over there.
	Always do.
	Your eyes and ears are open.
	But I have to tell you, things are so nutty in Euroland right now, particularly with the Greek situation, obviously, but now the energy union.
	And this guy, John...
	Wasn't the energy union just proposed?
	Yeah, but it's boiling frog.
	You know, it's a step here, step there.
	It keeps going.
	This Giannis Varoufakis guy.
	Did you see the videos that they made in Germany about him?
	You know, this guy is not insignificant.
	I realized, yeah, so I clipped the videos.
	You could have met him.
	He was, until just recently, was teaching at the University of Austin.
	I know, I know.
	University of Texas.
	I know, I know.
	You should have gone over and said hi.
	Okay, sorry.
	This guy, someone sent us a link to a couple of these videos, and they're really highly produced, talking about how Greece is screwing Europe.
	I don't know if you saw the very, very last one.
	You might not have been on that email thread, where the Greeks are saying, oh, don't worry, Europe, we're just saving your ass.
	And our man, Giannis Varoufakis, is it Varoufakis?
	I don't know how to sing it.
	That's a very old joke.
	So I'm hunting around.
	We've got to find out what this guy's ideas are and what he's thinking.
	And I come across a TEDx talk from him.
	Yeah, you did a TEDx, which I'm sure was irksome to him.
	You did a TEDx from 2011.
	Did you see the whole thing?
	I can watch those things.
	I pulled a couple clips.
	Okay, I see.
	You saved me the time.
	It's a TEDx.
	It actually is a TEDx Academy, which I think is even lower than TEDx.
	Wow.
	Just so people know, and I think it's brilliant from Mr.
	Anderson, by the way.
	You have TED, which you can't get in unless you're elite.
	And if you are asked and you're brought in as some kind of fellow, then you're treated like a slave.
	Please read the reports on the people that do these things.
	It's disgusting.
	It's horrible.
	It's a cultishly slavish and shut up slave all in one.
	But hey, you might get to meet Sergei.
	Then they have the TEDx, which is pretty much licensing the name, and you have to adhere to some standards, and you can't really do anything because the TED people themselves, if they feel appropriate, they will put a video on it.
	I don't think they're allowed to just put videos up if it's TEDx.
	I think there's pretty tight control on that.
	And then TEDxAcademy, which is, I don't know, is that like a high school play or something?
	I have no idea.
	Here he is.
	This is a little intro as to his little spiel here, what he's interested in doing.
	When Gandhi was asked once to comment on European civilization...
	I should mention, everything the guy says sounds like he's pitching a Silicon Valley company.
	So whenever you start off something with, when Gandhi said...
	Yeah, that's kind of...
	It's like the monk in the riddle.
	His quip was, it would be a very good idea.
	When asked today about our views on the European Union, I think we can be excused to reply in a similar fashion.
	What a splendid idea it would be if we could only pull it off.
	United only name, the European Union is, I'm afraid, in a process of disintegration as we speak.
	With the commitment and determination of a termite colony which is eating into the foundations, very soon there will be nothing left but an empty shell to remind us of the lofty ideal that used to be the European Union.
	So this guy who is in some circles considered a rock star of something...
	Already in 2011, so four years ago, before he was mysteriously made into finance minister as a dual citizen, not actually even a member of the Syriza Party, but he's been put in here.
	So this guy has backing from somebody.
	This actually reminds me a bit of listening to old Barack Obama clips when he was still senator, and he'd have all these kind of lofty-type ideals and talking, you know, termites of civilization, whatever this guy is talking about.
	But then you get him in somewhere and then he starts to, you know, screw things up.
	And the Germans are, they hate this guy.
	Hate him.
	Because, of course, the Germans had to actually send the money to Greece for the four-month extension.
	Here he is blaming everybody on the crisis and, of course, in particular the bankers.
	This is, in a way, this is kind of his historical version of what happened.
	Our masks are falling.
	Unscrupulous bankers, inane politicians, conniving entrepreneurs, cynical academics, uncritical citizens who are all being unmasked.
	But as their masks keep falling, the dejection is becoming generalized.
	Meanwhile, the human costs are mounting up.
	And the only way of making sense of them and measuring them sensibly is by means of counting lost generations.
	It is timed.
	What?
	By accounting for lost generations.
	This is the kind of thing that bugs me about this guy.
	He throws these...
	That's a non sequitur, by the way, and it's one of the worst type of non sequiturs.
	It's purposeful.
	And he pulls this...
	And I've noticed this when he had the clips that were sent to us, which will be in the show notes, especially the one where he's asked hypothetical questions, and then talking to a...
	Someone that's not even there.
	And he's shooting off to the side camera on his profile, kind of.
	Three-quarter shot of his face.
	Yakking away and pontificating.
	And he does this so smoothly.
	He reminds me of a different style of Noam Chomsky.
	Interesting.
	Full of shit.
	Throwing these little things that confuse you as he's talking.
	And then he goes on to the next thing so quickly, you don't stop him and go...
	What?
	What does that mean?
	Yes.
	And it's all highfalutin.
	He presents himself very well.
	You know, he is a Marxist economist.
	Oh, totally.
	Totally.
	But that's not a bad thing, necessarily, because Marx's material, when it was written in the 1860s, was important.
	It was popular blogger culture.
	It was at the time.
	Yeah.
	But it's a little old-fashioned now, and his...
	His rationales are very weak.
	I don't know.
	I admire the guy for being a showman and a storyteller, but I think his stories are bullcrap.
	Well, he has a pitch, which I'll get to in a minute.
	He has a pitch, and he actually had PowerPoint slides, and he says, this is my pitch.
	And he says a couple other things in there, which I think you'll catch and you won't like.
	But the guy is not insignificant.
	Someone is behind him.
	Someone is funding him.
	He's in there for a reason.
	And seemingly it is to undermine the current European Union system.
	That would suggest the Russians.
	Listen on.
	To transform Europe and to be transformed in the process.
	So he wants to transform Europe and to have all the citizens be transformed in the process into dust, I presume.
	That's all that you could be good for at the end of the day.
	The medical profession only very recently managed to save more people than it killed.
	Is that true?
	Well, arguably.
	In TEDx Academy, I guess it flies.
	Up until the 1920s or so, the disease was preferable to the cure.
	Really?
	Similarly, with the Euro crisis now, our European leaders are enacting what I call a poisonous medicine.
	Toxic bailouts, inane austerity.
	We created in order to salvage a Euro system, a currency union which was never meant, never designed to sustain the catastrophe of 2008, the shock waves of that great earthquake.
	What we've done is we've created a scaffold which is, instead of helping the edifice from collapsing, it is putting more pressure on it.
	We've created this European financial stability or instability facility.
	That's the ESM that we've been tracking for a couple of years, which I agree with him is fake.
	And we modeled it, we created it in the image of Lehman Brothers' infamous derivatives.
	Yeah, true.
	It was as if we took two stones and we tied them together by means of a string, hoping they will float more readily.
	Alright.
	So there's more, but I'm a little bored.
	Now I want to bring you to his pitch.
	This is his pitch for what we should do with the European Union, and he has PowerPoint slides to back it up.
	One principle is that I think we should end the perfectly partitioned Europe that we created, Maastricht, in order to create the Euro.
	While at the same time, however, strengthening national sovereignty and empowering national responsibility within that model.
	I love what he's saying, but how?
	He's saying, oh, I think he said we need to strengthen.
	He wants a federalized Europe, but he says we're not prepared.
	It was not set up to be a federalized Europe.
	So he says we need to strengthen that while at the same time strengthening national sovereignty, which is the main thing.
	The problem Europeans have is, hey, we're not making our laws.
	We don't determine our fiscal policy.
	We can't even buy our own energy pretty soon.
	You have to go through a central clearinghouse.
	So that's the loss of national sovereignty.
	You can't make these decisions.
	So somehow he's magically going to create federalism and have, in a way like what we do have, Texas has its own sovereignty.
	We have a state constitution, and the way it's set up is state rule Trump's federal.
	He's describing the United States.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	Another set.
	And the pseudo-solidarity which is being imposed upon the Dutch and the Germans in order to give bailouts, pretend bailouts, to the Greeks and to the Irish.
	Well, yeah, okay.
	Stop inane austerity which is only making the debt crisis worse.
	Ignore all the calls for debt buyouts, buybacks which will not work, but at the same time integrate investment and the management of our problems like existing debt and banking losses.
	He wants all European debt to be federalized and centralized.
	And this is 2011 when he was coming up with all this stuff.
	This is what I refer to as decentralized Europeanization, so allow me an acronym.
	Decent Europe.
	Europeanize what?
	What?
	Yes.
	Three realms.
	I know.
	We need a management of existing debts at the European level.
	Okay.
	We need the management of the banking sector, which is collapsing all over us.
	And we need a Europeanized investment policy in aggregate.
	Okay.
	How do we do this without treaty changes and federation?
	We already have existing institutions in Europe, and each one of them can be assigned one of these tasks.
	I'm not going to go into this.
	This is not the place or the time.
	When he says this...
	Now he's getting into Silicon Valley, dude.
	And listen to what comes next.
	Like, I'm not getting...
	This is not the place of the time.
	I guess when you're finance minister of Greece or, you know, who knows what he was thinking at the time.
	You can see more of this proposal elsewhere.
	Uh-huh.
	All I want to do now is to give you a flavor of what the whole purpose of this is.
	I want to give you a flavor.
	Now, this is Americanized dude right here.
	This is...
	Someone gave him this and he's repeating...
	He's parroting somebody else.
	Well, he's floated around here for a while.
	His dual citizenship is Australian.
	Is that what he is?
	Yeah.
	When someone says, I want to give you a flavor, I'm like, fuck you.
	I don't want to hear any more.
	Flavor.
	Just a taste.
	A taste, yeah.
	Just a tip.
	Just a little bit.
	So we need to follow this guy.
	Yeah, I know.
	We're following him.
	Yeah, I know.
	That was a big one.
	That was a big one.
	By the way, I got the way to break the habit.
	Okay.
	It's got nothing to do with yeah, no.
	Just do not let me say yeah.
	It's like street...
	Yeah!
	Yeah!
	I should be saying yes.
	Do you want me to help you?
	Say yes.
	Do you want me to help you?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Right there.
	See?
	I said yeah.
	I should have said yes.
	Whenever you're thinking of saying yeah, no...
	I never think of it.
	That's the problem with these things.
	Ah, but you...
	Open your mind.
	Hold on a second.
	Close your eyes.
	Oh...
	Okay, now that I have your heart's attention, every single time you want to say, yeah, no, you're going to say...
	Amen, fist bump.
	Program, done.
	You're good to go.
	Amen, fist bump.
	I can do that.
	You're good to go.
	Amen, fist bump.
	Amen, fist bump.
	Just want to stay in Euroland for one more second because it was just very...
	Well, we're getting...
	So far, we've provided the audience with nothing.
	I disagree.
	I think that we have determined there is a guy the audience needs to keep their eye on.
	Because he's not insignificant.
	He's been doing this for a long time.
	And something is up with him.
	Here's what bothers me about the guy.
	I think he believes he's so cool...
	That it's destructive.
	There's no reason for him to walk around and cut jeans and silk shirts and kind of, I don't know, punk garb from the 80s and drive a motorcycle and all this other stuff.
	It's just like, it's pointless.
	He's supposed to be some guy.
	I mean, there are...
	Even the military generals who can design their own uniforms rarely go so far off script that they're wearing some sort of punk garb or the Marlon Brando Wild One gear from the 1950s or just going out of their way And I don't care.
	People can wear whatever they want.
	But when you're in a certain position and you're going to put yourself in a state of being so out of place that people are not going to work with you properly because they don't see you as a similar member of the swarm...
	Or, you know, the fish colony.
	What is this thing doing here?
	Get him out of here.
	This is why I said...
	It's negative.
	It's a negative way to do business.
	And so there's something phony about this that bugs me.
	Yes.
	This is why I said he reminds me of Senator Barack Obama, who was saying...
	But he would always wear a sharp suit.
	Ah, but he had the whole, you know, he had the whole no drama Obama hipness thing that everybody was screaming over.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And if anybody, Giannis Varoufakis reminds me of Loic Lemur.
	Actually, it reminds me of Ron Bloom.
	I knew you were going to say that.
	But Loic Lemur, the guy who does Le Web in Le Paris.
	Oh, Loic, yeah.
	Loic from Le Paris and doing Le Web.
	For a little while there, everyone was, oh, Loic is coming.
	Oh, Loic is on the show.
	Oh, Loic.
	And he had some bogative thing that never took off.
	Some Twitter thing, friend feed Twitter, whatever.
	Yes, everyone's going to use this.
	This is going to be the future of social media.
	Come to LeWeb!
	I never could get why people would go to that.
	In winter.
	Of course, he would fly a few of them out, so that would probably be one.
	In wintertime.
	And you go to Paris.
	It's in Paris, but it's right in the middle of winter.
	And Paris in the winter is a terrible place.
	It's either raining all the time and it ruins your clothes, or it's freezing cold.
	It's not a pleasant place.
	Anyway, I need to bring one more piece of important news from Euroland.
	Well, Eurovision.
	We know the Eurovision Song Contest, one of the favorites here on the show.
	We're always very excited to see who wins.
	No.
	Yes.
	Oh, I'm always excited.
	It's not a favorite of mine.
	I'm always excited.
	Yeah.
	And last year, it was held in Baku, which is Hillary Clinton territory.
	This is where our oil companies are stashed.
	They're in...
	What is it?
	Not Tajikistan.
	Come on, help me.
	Kazakhstan?
	No.
	Turkestan?
	Turkmenistan?
	No, it's Azerbaijan.
	Azerbaijan.
	Azerbaijan.
	And of course, who won?
	But what crazy thing did we have to come up with to win?
	We have to help people understand that it's a blue dress or a white dress, and that's a dude in a dress.
	A dude in a dress.
	Conchita Wurst, the dude in the dress.
	Dude in the dress with a beard.
	Or you could say transgendered in process, or you could just say...
	I don't know.
	Well, it was a her.
	He wants to be identified as a she.
	Yeah, okay.
	Self-identify.
	Does he self-identify as a she?
	Yes.
	I believe so.
	You sure?
	I'm pretty sure.
	Okay.
	Would you like me to consult the Book of Knowledge?
	Yeah, consult the Book of Knowledge.
	Okay.
	Conchita, worse than we need to...
	Consult...
	Conchita Vorst, okay?
	That's Tom Neuwirth.
	Tom.
	Tom Neuwirth.
	Yeah, there you go.
	I think maybe he's a drag artist.
	Drag artist.
	Here we go.
	I was wrong.
	Conchita Vorst is an Austrian recording artist and drag queen.
	That's different than being transgendered, but Newworth is openly gay and uses masculine pronouns when referring to himself, but feminine pronouns to describe Conchita Wurst when he's wearing the dress.
	Oh!
	Do we get it?
	So he's bi-something.
	No, he's a drag queen.
	No, no, no, bi, because if he says he's a male and then he's a female.
	Oh, he could be.
	Bi-gender, bi-identify.
	There's a word for this.
	We can dream up a new term.
	Bi-identify?
	Bi-identify.
	How about bi-identification?
	Yeah, he practices by identification.
	I'm going to write that down.
	I think we got it.
	Identification.
	Okay, so this is good.
	Practices by identification.
	Practices by identification.
	When we invented a word, hold on.
	Loving it.
	Something very important has to happen now.
	Bi-dentification.
	The problem is it sounds a little dental, but I think we can still, I think it still works.
	Well, you have to really pronounce it.
	You have to clearly say, I think he's a bi-dentifier.
	Bi-dentifier, I like that one too.
	Which one do you want?
	Should we do bi-dentifier?
	No, we do both.
	You have to pound the market.
	Hey, let's pound the market about bi-dentifiers.
	Okay.
	Pound it.
	Pound it.
	Well, that's all about to end because the Eurovision Song Contest is going one step further.
	We've already helped Europe now accept identification and to realize that it's okay.
	Dudes wear dresses and they win shows.
	What could we do?
	What could we do?
	Could we take it one step further into the realm of crazy for the Eurovision Song Contest?
	This is all part of the emasculation of men.
	Well, it's about to get crazier.
	Listen to...
	This is the winner.
	This is the winner of the...
	Because the way it works is they have national contests.
	Finland has had their national contest and they have...
	Don't you dare search for it.
	And they have chosen...
	They have chosen their winners.
	This is PKN.
	Petty kurikonimpevavet.
	They're a punk band.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck religion.
	Okay.
	Okay, you're sure that's not the dead Kennedys from the 60s?
	Sounds very much like him, but no, there's a hook to these guys.
	They are all suffering from Down syndrome.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	They are fantastic.
	Well, then they have to win.
	They're for the win, man.
	They got their big waterheads on stage, and they're going rock against religion, whatever the hell they're singing.
	And they won!
	Well, this is...
	Now I'm more interested in this Eurovision thing.
	So let's have a little search.
	What's the point of this is?
	What is the hidden message?
	Oh, losers win.
	Everybody wins.
	There's no winners.
	You know, whatever.
	It's losers.
	Let's have a...
	Look these guys up, man.
	Look these guys up.
	Okay, what's your name?
	Just say Winner Finland.
	Oh, there's no winning.
	We don't like to foster a competitive atmosphere, but we laugh a lot.
	Now everyone hug and share a secret.
	Here he is.
	Just take a look at these guys.
	They're great.
	I love them.
	Roar to the stage.
	You find them?
	I'm getting there.
	These guys are great.
	And they're about 40 or 50, which makes it even cooler.
	It's not just Down Syndrome kids.
	It's like old dudes with Down Syndrome.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Wow, that's fascinating.
	I know, I know.
	I knew you'd like it.
	The lucky winners.
	And they were anti-religious?
	No, I was just saying.
	I was just translating their lyrics in a freeform jam session.
	I don't know what their lyrics are.
	I think their lyrics are about, when's dinner time?
	Something like that.
	I don't know what their song is about.
	Alright, well this is definitely talking about a test.
	Right!
	We already got it to the point where the guy can wear a dress and that's great.
	Yes.
	And now we get...
	Wait, wait, wait!
	Then we helped everyone get confused that the dress might be blue and might be white.
	I don't know.
	Tell me what it is.
	This is all part of it, John.
	This is my point.
	Yeah, no, I'm getting it.
	Oh, gosh!
	Oh, really?
	It's not, yeah, no, it's...
	Amen, fist bump.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Cool, though, right?
	Quite the cool.
	Alright.
	What else?
	Well, Russia.
	I think we should just...
	Well, let's start with the murdered guy.
	Nems.
	Boris Nemsov.
	Yeah.
	I've noticed the Russians pronounce Boris as Boris.
	Boris.
	Boris.
	Natasha.
	Boris.
	Boris Nemsov.
	By the way, I'd like to say hi to Pyotr.
	Pyotr is in China.
	Pyotr.
	Pyotr is one of our Russian spies in Austin.
	And he's in China.
	And he says, do you know that you are one of the few...
	Podcast feeds that are unrestricted here in China.
	Well, because we love the Chinese.
	Yeah.
	That's the reason.
	Yeah.
	And I'm thinking, hey, if he's in China, that hot wife of his, Oksana, is home.
	All right.
	I have a letter from someone in China, which I wanted to read.
	I'm trying to figure out where it is.
	I think next year, on the Eurovision Song Contest, the Tourette's Trio.
	That would be entertaining.
	Yeah.
	Let me read this.
	Since you mentioned China, I wanted to just get this out of the way.
	I've been living in Beijing for seven years.
	This is from John Artman.
	It's always nice to hear you guys discuss China, especially in the context of world events.
	However, I do disagree with some of your analysis from episode 698.
	There are a few indications that I can see that China needs a war or other conflict.
	I don't know that we said that.
	Did we say that?
	Did we say that?
	Yes, I said that the banker had mentioned this.
	He said the banker, my banker, my ex-New York banker, had said, oh, China needs to start some kind of war because they need to do something quick.
	Oh, for their economy.
	Yes.
	Which is Marxist economy, by the way.
	Economics is that wars are the way to get out of depressions.
	There are a few indications that I can see that China needs a war or other conflict.
	The fact is, it's quite the opposite.
	China's military is so rife with corruption and overall lack of professionalism that it would be very difficult for them to engage in a conflict with the modern military.
	Well, nobody said it has to be a modern military.
	Especially those backed by the U.S., Japan, and S.K. regionally.
	S.K., South Korea.
	China's current leaders, President Xi Jinping, whatever, I can't pronounce their names, and Premier Li, have shown themselves to be masters at pushing through necessary economic and political changes.
	While I'm not a fanboy, as they have also implemented moral oppression and restricted freedom of speech and dissident voices to an almost unprecedented degree.
	We need to remember that both hold PhDs, one in Marxism and the other in economics.
	Yes, first time ever, right?
	Yes.
	And the old rule of political science is these are the worst kinds of leaders.
	When they're educated?
	No, the high-end intellectuals.
	Woodrow Wilson was an example.
	Okay, gotcha.
	He was, I think, the president of Princeton.
	Anyway, they're the first leaders of China to do so.
	They're certainly not stupid nor ignorant of how to best play the domestic situation, corruption crackdowns, blah, blah, blah, as well as foreign policies.
	As to ghost cities, I advise you not to fall into the same trap that so much of the mainstream media falls into.
	Yes, China does have an amazingly distorted real estate market, but much of what we see being built is empty at first, only to be quickly filled over the next five years.
	My wife is from Zhengzhou, the capital of Hunan, eight years.
	Or Henan, eight miles south of Beijing, around five years ago, they completed a new developed area, a whole city.
	They got a lot of press for being empty.
	Go there today, and there definitely aren't any ghosts.
	Well, in the random number theories, as we have them all the time on this show, right after that came in, I got an email from China as well.
	I don't think you were copied on this one.
	And this is from two producers, Alex and Shan Shan Nori, and could not be more polar opposite to what you just read.
	Which I think is a beauty of the show.
	Well, it's also a beauty of China.
	Right.
	Good point.
	Adam John, my wife and I are currently visiting family in mainland China for Chinese New Year.
	We wanted to add a few details to your and John's China segment on show 699.
	The ghost cities are real!
	There are many, but that's just the tip of the spear.
	Every small and medium-sized city here, hundreds of thousands or millions of people are running artificial building booms.
	Three years ago, the city we are in now completed a massive Riverwalk strip mall project that goes on for 10 city blocks in the downtown core, and it's only about 20% occupied.
	It's a complete failure, and now another much larger mall is being built in the middle of nowhere.
	Everywhere you look, there are massive skyscraper-sized condo developments.
	They're mostly empty.
	The reason for all this overdevelopment is that state-run companies are at the helm and Chinese taxpayers are on the bill for these scam projects, where the only people making any money are the developers, who of course are usually relatives or friends of government officials.
	As far as the Chinese buying foreign products goes, that is even more true than John has let on.
	Everybody here will only buy Chinese shit if they have to.
	The thing is, after the Chinese baby powder milk scandal a few years back, people trust nothing made in China.
	Foreign food brands, clothing, cars, beer, alcohol, toothpaste, and milk powder, you name it, Chinese want foreign-made goods.
	They especially harbor a love for everything American.
	I just had to write this email because your banker friend is right.
	Something has got to give.
	The question is when.
	Okay, I'll take the two letters side by side, and I will go with Artman, who's living in Beijing for seven years.
	The other letter writer is visiting.
	Yes.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm just saying.
	And visiting is not the same as watching something.
	Because I have been to China a number of times, and every time I go, there's like a whole different country.
	Right.
	Well, you've been to what, Beijing?
	I've been to Beijing, I've been to Xiamen, I've been to Hong Kong, I've been to Shanghai, I've been all over the place.
	I've been to Suzhou, and that's where the development all began.
	I've been all over China.
	I've just been to Beijing.
	But I've never been to me.
	And Beijing is the least of the situation that's occurring.
	I like Chinese.
	I like Chinese.
	Yeah.
	They only come up to your knees.
	All right, fine.
	I'm not going to let that go.
	I'm not going to let that go.
	It's a good song.
	So no.
	I think the...
	I would be on board with the idea that there's all these ghost cities and this whole thing's a scam, but I'm now reconsidering because of Artman, who is obviously a Westerner paying attention.
	Well, this is the good news, though, is that we have so many different people who are paying attention for us.
	And their feet on the ground, which is a huge difference than just reading some of the local reports.
	And by the way, the China train to Spain arrived.
	I thought it was supposed to take a month.
	It did.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, it was actually longer, I think.
	It left on December.
	When did it leave?
	It has to stop all over the place.
	It goes through Moscow, that one.
	It does, it does, it does.
	The other one, the newer one that's going to be the high-speed rail, goes into some southern route.
	So this is the Xinyu Rail.
	China, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Poland, Germany, France.
	And it switches over, I guess, and then it reaches Spain.
	Really, that doesn't go through.
	Apparently, they have to change gauges four times, or three or four times.
	Right, right, right.
	I don't know how you do that.
	But this is still better than shipping.
	I think.
	Well, somebody wrote in saying, nah, it's bullcrap because the shipping takes about the same amount of time and it's cheaper, they say.
	They go through the Suez Canal.
	Could be.
	And maybe.
	I'd like to get some numbers on this.
	I do know this.
	I went to a speech at the...
	Autodesk has these things once a month.
	They bring in some guy.
	Autodesk.
	Which company is this?
	This is the company that does AutoCAD.
	Computer-aided design software.
	Those guys.
	And why do you get invited?
	I know the PR people, and they invited me once and every once in a while.
	And I have a list of the people speaking.
	I get interested.
	I say, get me in.
	So I go in.
	So I went into the one, this is a while ago.
	Like, I don't know, a year ago.
	Yeah.
	With JC, Buzzkill Jr., we went to this, listened to the guy, I don't have his name in front of me, it's like a Swedish name, who runs the Google self-driving car.
	He's the self-driving car guy, and he's going to give a lecture on about the whole thing.
	Okay, I would have gone to this.
	He makes two assertions in his lecture, and I'm working on writing about this.
	I think we have a clip.
	Do you have a clip?
	There he is.
	Swedish.
	I'm sorry.
	I was still in China.
	He made the assertion that trucks...
	I never got the exact numbers or the references, but he made the assertion that trucks...
	Are cheaper on a per mile distribution basis than trains.
	Huh.
	Trains are not this cheap way of doing stuff.
	Yeah.
	Well, the tracks are run by the government, so that's not a...
	Well, no, he's taking all this into account.
	I think what he's referring to is the net.
	In other words, you put a boxcar on the train and then off it goes, and then it gets to a point to be offloaded and then put on, you know, by piecemeal on the other trucks.
	And the total expense of doing that is not as good a deal as just a truck.
	And he made this with other things.
	He says, buses aren't really that good either.
	A lot of what we assume is better, you know, the train, you know, passenger rail and all these things.
	It turns out to be more expensive overall on a net basis than a car by itself.
	Sure, sure.
	But we need to have economies running and we have to come up with ideas like climate change and other things to keep money flowing.
	Well, there's that.
	He didn't talk about that.
	Anyway, I need to get these numbers.
	Okay, we'll get the numbers.
	We'll work on it.
	I mentioned it as one of the things going on.
	We have another 700 episodes to figure China out.
	Which, at the rate we're going, will be another seven years.
	It'll never happen.
	Nobody can figure out China.
	That's the whole idea of China.
	I watch a lot of Chinese news and the Chinese channels.
	China's beautiful.
	If you're a tourist and you want to really get into looking at crazy waterfalls and unbelievable parks, China is the place to go.
	And also those crazy malls and some of the other stuff.
	China's a pretty spectacular place.
	Although it's kind of dingy.
	I'm trying to cut back on my travel.
	Yeah, you're going to Europe.
	I'm going to China.
	You're heading to Europe.
	Yeah, I am.
	Anyway, let's get back to the shot, the guy that was shot.
	Yes, this is Boris Nemtsov.
	Boris.
	Boris.
	So, a couple of things.
	I would like to say that it was, I think, two years ago.
	Vlad, what do they call him now?
	They have Putin, they call him Vlad the Insaner, I think is his new nickname in...
	In Russian-hating countries.
	Vlad the Insaner, Putin.
	Our friend Vladimir Putin.
	Two years ago...
	Putin!
	There's a video in the show notes with...
	What I'm going to assume is properly translated.
	He's literally saying, Hey, I know what these guys are doing.
	The foreigners are going to try and take somebody out, make him a martyr.
	It could be one of you guys, one of you opposition guys.
	He was pretty much telegraphing the whole scenario.
	And there it is.
	It happens.
	And the speed with which, and this to me was the big tell, the speed with which President Obama came out and said, oh!
	We need an investigation.
	There's one thing in America.
	We don't kill our political opponents.
	At least, not like this.
	There's no ugly street on the street.
	No!
	They commit suicide here.
	Two shots to the head, gun in the left hand.
	The Russians normally don't do it this way.
	No, this is how CIA does it.
	I believe this is a Ukrainian hit, but the Russians normally don't do it this way.
	They give somebody polonium, or they give them some...
	Right!
	It's sophisticated.
	They use one of the prickers.
	Yes, with the umbrella.
	Drops dead and falls off a cliff.
	Yeah, so I think we can rule out Russia.
	This is not their style.
	No, it's not their style.
	Certainly not with a hot chick.
	Italian hit.
	When we saw, the last video that we saw was a garbage truck.
	Did you see this video?
	Yeah, yeah, of course I saw it.
	This guy and his Ukrainian model girlfriend, who's actually got a very pretty face and she's skinny as a rail, as you can tell by the news.
	A little too skinny in the newsletter.
	That picture in the newsletter is her, she picked that picture for her VK.com site.
	Oh.
	That's her self-pick.
	What is VK.com?
	It's that person in that picture.
	And she's skinny as a rail.
	That's her profile picture?
	So you're not on Facebook, but you're on VK.ru?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	And that's her picture that she chose.
	And my joke in the newsletter was, of course, they couldn't have killed her if they wanted to, because there's no way you could hit her.
	I agree that this type of assassination, which happens in Amsterdam all the time, all the time, it's usually Yugoslavian hitmen, and they'll do it on scooters, you know, drive by, you're walking down the street with your girlfriend, your hot Ukrainian girlfriend, they'll drive by, poof, poof.
	And you're laying on the street bleeding.
	This is not our style.
	This is not the Russian style.
	No.
	Not at all.
	We like suicide, two to the head with your gun in the left hand.
	Or the hot tub.
	It's a joke.
	Ours is more humor.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Humor is always involved.
	You go out in the hot tub and the lid falls on you and you die.
	You're going out for a little...
	You're going to kayak on the river there and like...
	Fall off a cliff somehow.
	Yeah.
	This is how we...
	We always have a little bit of humor.
	Throw a number 33 in there just to mess with everybody.
	I agree.
	This is Eastern European.
	These very sinister murders.
	And the polonium one is the best.
	I mean, that's some guy...
	No, that's classic.
	And it's not just...
	It's classy.
	It's ingest polonium and dies a miserable death.
	Yes, it's a classy way to go.
	Well, I don't know how classy this guy is.
	Oh yeah, of course.
	I understand it's very painful.
	No, it's a classy way to kill somebody.
	It's what the Russians do.
	It's classy.
	So I agree, this had to be...
	It's a certain advanced culture.
	But the Ukrainians...
	Yes, barbarians.
	Barbarians.
	Yeah, by comparison.
	So the guy, I guess somebody was hanging on the garbage truck that goes by very slowly.
	Of course, the early reports was that a little car comes by slowly.
	No, it was a garbage truck.
	We got the video.
	Yeah.
	Garbage truck goes by.
	A guy jumps off, shoots the guy.
	They said six shots were fired.
	They could find two casings.
	And let's just say they didn't hit the girl.
	And they didn't hit the girl.
	Now, we all know that if you want to send a message, this is what the mob does.
	You've got to shoot the dog.
	You've got to shoot everything.
	The kids, the gerbil.
	But no, the Ukrainians, who clearly are behind this, are not going to shoot the hot Ukrainian girl.
	She wasn't 30 yet.
	Once they hit 30, then, you know...
	Yeah, if she was a little older, she didn't get a shot.
	I wouldn't care.
	Yeah.
	You have to listen to people.
	People don't get that joke.
	You have to listen to the show a lot.
	Yeah, you do.
	Yeah.
	Now, there's something going on.
	I believe that Poroshenko, the chocolate meister president of Ukraine, I believe they're taking him out too.
	I think he needs to go.
	He's a bumbler.
	He's a bumbler.
	Whatever is going on, this is not right.
	I think some cover was needed.
	Of course, there's high-fiving in Langley right now, no doubt.
	Like, yeah!
	Nailed it!
	Hey!
	Let's do a wreath laying!
	Yeah!
	All the ambassadors came out.
	Oh, yes, this is...
	If the guy has, like, 3%, his party has no representation in Duma.
	No.
	And they're going to have a rally in, like, a few days, and no one is going to go to it.
	Ah, wait.
	They had a rally today, and I caught the...
	This is on...
	This was so coincidental.
	This was an RT. Listen to what the reporter says.
	She's standing amidst thousands of people in a silent, what is of course being, if you read the...
	Vigil.
	Yes, it's a vigil if you read the reports here in the United States of Gitmo Nation.
	But listen to what was really going on.
	I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there's definitely more than 7,000 people here.
	I'm going to pan out and give you a look of the riverbank here.
	Just show them the people lined along the Moscow riverbank, not far from the Kremlin here, have made their way.
	A sea of Russian flags.
	Many of them have black ribbons tied to them.
	This march, of course, was initially planned to be a sort of opposition mark the first day of spring here.
	You see, it was already planned.
	But now they're making it look like, oh, thousands of people came out.
	No.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Now, the guy was pretty insignificant, but he was big friends with Princess Leia.
	Yes, there's a photo that one of our Russian producers is amusing because he's a pro-Putin guy.
	And he lives in Brooklyn.
	When I go to New York next time, I'm going to go to Brooklyn because I know he must live in the Russian part.
	You know, because I want him to take me around Russian, that enclave in Brooklyn, which is all Russian, it's like Russia town, and show me around.
	I want to see that, because every time I go through that area, I go, wow, this guy has some good food here.
	Why don't you just come to Austin?
	We have a huge Russian spy, enclave, contingent.
	Huh.
	Hello, Sir Gene Naftuli.
	That's one guy.
	He's running the whole outfit here.
	They got Russia House.
	They got it.
	Come on.
	It's filled.
	And they're all hot.
	There's a direct flight from San Jose.
	Okay, so we agree that this is a poorly executed...
	But now, of course, the Ukrainian government is the United States.
	So I think someone said, hey, you know what?
	Maybe it was a lone guy who was like, I'm going to help out my compadres from America.
	This was too well done.
	With the truck, yeah.
	Yeah.
	And the truck right in the way of the camera, the whole thing.
	It was beautiful.
	Let's play a couple clips.
	Well done.
	Well done, everybody.
	Good job.
	This is a clip from RT because they like to point out that the Americans are all in, that Putin did it.
	So this is Nemkov and the anti-Putin chorus.
	I love that you call him Nemkov, but his name is not Nemkov.
	It's Nemtsov.
	Yeah, Nemtsov.
	I started writing Nemkov, and I liked it.
	Mark Yoshimoto Nemkov, that's what you're thinking of.
	Oh, that's, oh no!
	That's okay.
	From now on, this guy's name is Nemkov.
	On the show.
	Done.
	Good to go.
	Well, here's how events unfolded last night based on what we know so far.
	At 11 p.m.
	Moscow time, Boris Nemtsov met a friend, a 23-year-old woman, at the Goum shopping center near the Kremlin.
	After spending some time there, they walked along a nearby bridge, and that's where the tragedy happened 40 minutes later.
	Police are trying to track down the white car used by Nemtsov's killers.
	It was filmed by security cameras nearby.
	The vehicle was reportedly going at a relatively slow speed.
	Well, the killing has sparked worldwide reaction.
	Barack Obama said the U.S. condemns the brutal murder.
	The German chancellor echoed that, saying she was appalled, while the French president called it a hateful killing.
	Britain's prime minister, David Cameron, called for a rapid and transparent probe into what he called a callous murder.
	Well, let's cross to Brussels now and talk to Russia analyst Gilbert Doctorow, co-founder of the American Committee for East-West Accord.
	Welcome to the program.
	Western media outlets immediately put the blame solely on the Kremlin and President Putin.
	Just take a listen to this for a few moments, if you will.
	The fatal shooting of an opposition figure there is prompting speculation from his supporters that he may have been targeted by the Kremlin.
	He kept his voice up.
	This is a dangerous thing to do in Russia.
	An outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin has been shot dead.
	Critics of Putin, beware.
	Critics of the government, critics of Putin, bad things seem to happen to them.
	Everybody understands.
	And everybody is meant to understand.
	Everybody understands everything in this country.
	Why is there such a unanimous chorus when the full official investigation is, of course, only hours old at this stage?
	I need to say something right here because I'm receiving a lot of emails.
	I'm looking at you, Stan, living in Scandinavia.
	But a lot of people are saying, stop defending Putin!
	Stop defending Putin!
	He's a horrible murderer!
	And they send me videos.
	Look, this child is dead!
	Putin ate his heart!
	And I just want people to understand, I'm not sitting here defending Putin.
	I think what we are doing is showing you the propaganda which is being primarily created by the United States.
	You cannot deny...
	Targeting Putin.
	I'm sorry?
	Targeting Putin.
	Yes, targeting Putin.
	I'm sure he eats babies for breakfast.
	I'm sure he does.
	And yes, tons of bad shit.
	If you go after Putin, let's find something a little more substantial than just these...
	He hates gays.
	A situation and a coincidence.
	Now, this guy, Dr.
	Rowe, who comes on the same clip, describes it, throws a couple of ideas out there, and he comes on another clip, too.
	He's a very interesting character to analyze.
	He's an American.
	And that's nonsense.
	People who are...
	We're not big defenders of Putin.
	Well, people think we are, but we recently criticized them severely for being a bonehead.
	But it's becoming a little annoying because, and I know we have a lot of people who are in intelligence services trying to probably massage our thinking.
	On both sides.
	On both sides.
	I should try to make us think a certain way.
	We obviously have...
	But particularly when it comes to Ukraine, when it comes to Ukraine, people lose their crap over any time we say, well, you know, this is bull crap and they're setting Putin up, etc.
	They're like, he's really killing people!
	I'm from Ukraine!
	All my family is dead!
	Yeah, I get it.
	We're not defending him.
	We are showing you how it works.
	Putin and Russia today are actually quite poor and crappy when it comes to propaganda.
	They're not sophisticated.
	They're shite.
	No, the way I see it, the way I see it, I get a lot of clips from them.
	I see the Russian form of propaganda, the modern form, the one that they're using today, extremely defensive.
	Yes.
	There is no offensive propaganda that actually has any impact.
	No.
	They are old-fashioned.
	They don't know what they're doing.
	We're...
	Americans, we're the people that rule the roost when it comes to...
	And, you know, the British are involved because these companies are all consolidated under, you know, this international company, WPP and the other one.
	We run the world's PR. We do advertising.
	We are the guys who know how to do this.
	We are Hollywood.
	We are media.
	There's a need for a rescue mission.
	When the world is threatened, the world needs help, it calls on America.
	That's right, bitches.
	And that's the story.
	Don't you forget it.
	Let's finish this clip.
	Well, that clip was over.
	That clip was over?
	Yeah.
	It ended.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, then we go with Nemcoff and the Romans.
	Well, meanwhile, the former head...
	Oops, oops, oops, this one.
	This is not...
	Well, I think this course that you described fits into the general pattern of denigration of Vladimir Putin and Russia bashing more generally.
	It's been going on now for at least three years with great intensity.
	Mm-hmm.
	At the same time, everyone is ignoring the basic principle of investigations that goes back to Roman times and has the heading qui bono.
	Whose good is served?
	Whose benefit is to be harvested?
	Okay, I have to stop this for a moment.
	This is not a good idea for this guy to do.
	The qui bono thing has become kind of like a standard conspiracy theorist line, throwaway line.
	If you're serious, you should not be using this.
	Have you not noticed this?
	No, I have not.
	I'm glad you pointed it out.
	I have never heard the term for about the last 20 years.
	Oh, it's all over conspiracy websites.
	Qui bono!
	Qui bono!
	From the demise of Boris Nemtsov.
	And even after a moment or two of reflection, it's clear that this did not and does not serve the purposes of the president or his entourage.
	On the contrary, it very much has the resemblance of a provocation to cast doubts on the legitimacy, on the honesty of Vladimir Putin at the very moment when those qualities Can I interject this little bit?
	I think that was the end of the clip.
	Yeah, I wanted to just put a little side clip in here.
	Yeah.
	This is Matt and Jen.
	Matt Lee from the Associated Press.
	Ooh, Matt and Jen.
	Yes.
	And Jen, who's...
	Where is...
	Don't we have a jingle?
	No, because that's Matt and Marie.
	Oh, Matt and Jen.
	Yes, this is Matt and Marie.
	I don't know.
	And Jen is supposed to go to the White House, but she's still there.
	Her boobs are huger than ever.
	Oh, she's going to have big, giant ones when she has the baby.
	We can't see how far along she is.
	She's announced, but we need to see it.
	The size of a house.
	I'd love to see the bump.
	And who is that mama's baby daddy?
	Is she married?
	Yeah, she's married.
	Yeah, she's married to some dude.
	Apparently.
	Okay.
	Now, do you remember when we played...
	In fact, I can probably bring this up right now.
	I think it was on 699.
	We played a bit, which we laughed about, and that's why I remembered it.
	Watermelon head Carrie, who was all bent out of shape, that the Russians lied.
	They lied to his face.
	You remember this clip?
	Vaguely.
	I think it's here.
	You agree with me that when Russia says there are no Russian weapons or troops in the Ukraine, they're lying?
	Yes.
	Why?
	Why do they lie?
	You're asking me?
	What do you know?
	Mr.
	Chairman, Russia has engaged in a rather remarkable period of the most overt and extensive propaganda exercise that I've seen since the very height of the Cold War.
	Have been persisting in their misrepresentations, lies, whatever you want to call them, about their activities there to my face, to the face of others.
	All right, so there he is.
	Lie to my face.
	Who do you think you are?
	I'm John F. Carey.
	Who do you think you are?
	How very dare you?
	So Matt wanted to ask a question about that.
	Go ahead.
	On Ukraine.
	The other day on the Hill, the Secretary said that the Russians have been lying and that it lied to his face.
	Presumably, he was referring to Foreign Minister Lavrov.
	And Jen is now opening the book, flipping the tabs.
	Where's the lie to the face thing?
	What do I say about this?
	...
	whom he is supposed to meet on Monday in Switzerland.
	Foreign Minister Lavrov appears to have taken exception to the suggestion that he is lying to Secretary Kerry's face, saying this was not a diplomatic comment, to say the least.
	I'm wondering if you have any reaction, response, or other thoughts on this little episode.
	Well, I think the Secretary was referring to comments made broadly, not as specific as you suggest, but privately and certainly publicly that any claims that we've seen publicly many, many times that Russia has not had a hand in or engagement in what's happening in eastern Ukraine.
	And that's certainly a statement of fact.
	We've seen a great deal of evidence that confirms that.
	Right.
	So the Secretary did not mean to say or imply that Foreign Minister Lavrov had lied to his face?
	He wasn't referring to a specific meeting, but we've seen countless comments made, consistently made, by Russian officials suggesting they have no involvement in Ukraine.
	Let me just ask this then.
	Has the Secretary met face-to-face with any other Russian official than Foreign Minister Lavrov?
	I think that.
	I think it's so...
	I love Matt Lee for doing this.
	And this never gets aired.
	You never hear of this.
	No, no.
	But it's the right question.
	He said they lied to his face.
	Who was in his face when they were lying?
	It's a simple enough question.
	Yeah, if you're going to make a claim that somebody lied to your face...
	My face.
	Who was that person?
	And it must have been a big lie.
	Look at the size of that face.
	Mr.
	Lovell.
	I think you're taking his comment a little literally.
	He's talking about comments that Russia has...
	It was meant to be, literally.
	He said lie to his face.
	I know, this is great.
	Russia has consistently made...
	They don't claim...
	Now Matt will let her talk and he'll just hang back.
	I love how he does this.
	They make different claims privately, but he was making a broad point about their claims about their lack of involvement.
	Um...
	Okay, well, it's not me.
	It's Foreign Minister Lavrov who made the comment.
	Okay, well, let me clarify it in that way, then.
	So you would not say that Foreign Minister Lavrov has lied to Secretary Kerry's face about Russian involvement in Ukraine?
	I snorke.
	I think he is conveying that any statement made publicly or privately by any Russian official that they have no involvement in Ukraine, we know, is clearly not inaccurate.
	A lie.
	Not a lie.
	It's a lie!
	Lies!
	Jeez.
	Yes, this is the problem, Jen.
	If you keep saying the Russians are liars, liars, liars, liars, and then your boss says, you lied to my face, then someone eventually is going to say, are they just liars?
	Just sacks of shit liars?
	What happens when Matt's not working there anymore?
	Oh, man.
	That's the end.
	Even though he's working there, he gets no attention, except on this show.
	Still, it's still a huge loss.
	These guys are completely crazy.
	He keeps him in line a little bit.
	If he's gone, then that's it?
	No, there is one other guy.
	He actually pipes in here.
	Here, this guy.
	He does imply that people have said things directly to him that were lies.
	It doesn't imply that.
	He's coming up in the ranks, this guy.
	I think his name is Abdul or whatever.
	He's public comments.
	He reads the newspaper.
	He reads the newspaper!
	Breaking news.
	Carrie reads the newspaper.
	He certainly, as I just said, privately and publicly, they're the same claims made.
	So people have lied to his face, then?
	I think I've addressed this question.
	As far as you know, the meeting was Foreign Minister Lovell.
	Oh, man.
	Thank you, Matt.
	Thank you, thank you, thank you.
	That's great.
	That always brightens up my day when he does that.
	Yeah, no, he's the best.
	Oh, boy.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Hey, man, fist bump.
	Yeah, no.
	Yeah, no.
	Sorry.
	It's okay.
	I have a big sign in front of me, by the way.
	That's not working.
	Let's finish up with Nemsoft.
	Nemcoff.
	No, now it says Nemsoft.
	It does say Nemsoft.
	This is like a new software division of Microsoft.
	Nemsoft.
	This is interesting because apparently, this is a very funny story.
	I don't know if it has anything to do with anything or if he crossed a lot of bad people or what.
	But this is very, just an interesting story from...
	Doctorow.
	And he backs up when it's happened and all the rest.
	It's just fascinating.
	Well, meanwhile, the former head of MI6, John Soares, has told the BBC that Russia has become a danger to Britain.
	And he says the UK must be ready to defend itself.
	This is Demsoft's early days anecdote?
	Yes, it is.
	Oh, really?
	No, it's not.
	Jeez, I'm sorry.
	That would be different.
	That would be a clip I had lined up for after that.
	I'm sorry.
	Here it is.
	What I do have is a personal take on Mr.
	Nemtsov, and if you allow me, I would like to bring that to play now, because he was a very critical figure.
	I had the possibility to hear and see Nemtsov quite up close in 2010, November, when he came to Columbia University, where I was then resident, and delivered a talk to about 200 of us in a hall just off campus.
	He had just arrived in New York from Washington, where he had met with Michael McFowl and with Benjamin Cardin, the senator, who was the co-author of the Sergei Magnitsky Act.
	As part of his rather lengthy talk, Boris Nemtsov explained how he had...
	He advised Cardin on the need to expand greatly the scope of the sanctions then being imposed on Russia, to take in, as he termed it, all of those who were guilty of human rights violations in Russia and all of those who were guilty of intellectual fraud.
	It was a term that was so broad, that was so vague, so subjective, that if applied, it would have the result of applying sanctions to a broad swathe of Russian officialdom, including as high as Vladimir Putin.
	I bring this to your attention because Nemtsov was advocating this type of sanction policy four years before the geopolitical contest between Russia and the European Union or Russia and the United States over Ukraine was on everybody's radar screen.
	Exactly.
	It's about Ukraine.
	Four years before Ukraine.
	Well, this has been a long time in the planning.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	These people play a long game, John.
	Long, long game.
	By the way, the protege is Ashrod Mohamed, and he works for Reuters.
	Oh.
	Matt's AP, and he's for Reuters.
	So Ashrod is clearly gunning for Matt's position.
	Yeah, the front of the table.
	He's got that one seat right there in the front.
	Pole position.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Now I have this clip that I've now started twice in a row instead of your clips.
	The BBC on Nemsoft with the former MI6 chief.
	Quickie?
	Hit it.
	Well, meanwhile, the former head of MI6, Sir John Soares, has told the BBC that Russia has become a danger to Britain.
	And he says the UK must be ready to defend itself.
	The level of threat posed by Russia has increased.
	What threat?
	They're killing people on bridges!
	And we have to be prepared to take the defensive measures necessary to defend ourselves, defend our allies, which now extend as far as the Baltic states and Central Europe.
	And that's going to be a big issue, I think.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah.
	If Putin is coming to kill you, people, I guess, what else could that mean?
	He's joining ISIS. Big news in the meantime, Lithuania...
	And I miss this, and I'm the guy who kind of pays attention to these things.
	They had a huge liquid gas terminal arrive in December off the coast there.
	What is their coast?
	Is that the Caspian Sea?
	I don't know.
	It's important.
	Hold on.
	Lithuania.
	I think it's the Caspian Sea.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	No, not Caspian.
	Where's the damn map, people?
	The Caspian Sea is behind them.
	No, they're getting the stuff from...
	What is that water off Finland there?
	I don't know.
	It's not the Baltic, is it?
	It might be.
	I feel stupid.
	Stop the show.
	Stop the show.
	I feel stupid now.
	Look at maps.
	I feel stupid.
	Yeah, let's look at maps.
	We can't do the show without looking at a map.
	We always have to look at the map, otherwise you don't understand the stuff.
	It's true.
	Alright, here we are.
	Lithuania.
	It's the Baltic Sea.
	You're right.
	The Baltic Sea.
	In December, this huge liquid gas terminal, which is a ship, like an aircraft carrier, it arrived, and news came out yesterday that under the deal with Houston-based Chenier Energy, Lithuania will now be importing liquid natural gas, and they will be...
	And there's a pipeline set up between Lithuania and Poland, which I don't think is complete, but they've been working on this for a while.
	And this is part of the Energy Independence...
	How do you spell it?
	How do you spell Chenier?
	Yeah.
	Charlie Hotel Echo November India Echo Romeo.
	That's a good one.
	I didn't do that yet.
	Chenier Energy.
	Who's running that show?
	Let's see.
	They've got to be a subsidiary.
	Oh, they're public.
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	80-buck stock.
	About us.
	Let's see who's in this.
	Run by a guy named Sharif Suki, which sounds almost like a Lithuanian name.
	Hmm.
	Let's see.
	Board of Directors.
	Should we check it out?
	Let's see.
	Bailey was from Anderson Stratton's Consulting Group.
	Audit Committee, which is always interesting.
	Morgan Stanley.
	Brandolini, director.
	That must be, what is that?
	Scorpion Holding.
	Doesn't sound nefarious.
	Keith F. Carney.
	Coincidence.
	John Deutsch.
	Oh, he was a Department of Energy, Deutsch.
	Okay.
	Ex-Department of Energy guy.
	David Foley.
	Wait a minute.
	David Foley is a senior director at the private equity group of the Blackstone Group.
	Hmm.
	I've always wondered about the Grand Duke.
	He has oil guys.
	A lot of oil guys.
	But not anything that jumps out, per se.
	No, just oil guys.
	They're all over the place.
	But this Suki guy, I'm trying to find a bio of him, and they're either none or it's not available.
	I just want to see if he's Lithuanian.
	Anyway, apparently this is intended to be a move aimed at reducing the EU-Baltic state's heavy dependence on Russian gas deliveries.
	Okay.
	Seems like a rather expensive proposition, but they seem to be all on board with it, so that's good.
	I can't get much on him.
	It's actually, I got a story here.
	Stephen Cohen, our buddy Professor Stephen Cohen, he is saying, hold on, let me get this story here.
	He is saying that Poroshenko is not, is on shaky ground.
	Oh.
	As president of Kiev.
	Yeah, well, he's a botcher.
	Yeah, he is a botcher.
	Okay.
	I think we got as close as we're going to get to anything.
	Yeah, we can't get much further.
	Other than, where did the chick go?
	Where's the Ukrainian chick?
	They questioned her and released her.
	Yeah, well, where is she?
	She's back to Ukraine.
	Yeah, but she should be on Ellen.
	We've got to get this girl out there.
	She doesn't speak good English.
	You're not going to book her.
	Not booking her.
	She blew it.
	Damn.
	She should have learned good English.
	She'd be all over the place.
	She'd be getting modeling jobs in Paris and Italy and all over.
	A little skinny, but she'd be good for the runway.
	They like skinny.
	Great for the runway.
	She could still do that.
	Yeah, no.
	Oh, absolutely.
	You caught it.
	That's okay.
	I'll give you that one.
	But it would be useful if she's...
	I'm just telling all you models out there who are listening to this in English.
	Well, you can't understand what I'm saying anyway, so what difference does it make?
	But you should have learned English.
	It's the international language.
	Yes.
	Well, I got a little...
	Well, actually...
	You know what?
	Actually, what I would say...
	I'm thinking...
	I'm thinking...
	I know what you're thinking.
	I'm thinking I need to thank you for your courage for the past 700 episodes.
	It has been nothing but a pleasure.
	And thank you for your courage and in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	Also, in the morning to all the ships that see boots on the ground, feet in the air, all the subs in the water, and all the dames and all the knights out there.
	Ding!
	And in the morning to everybody there in the chatroom, noagendastream.com.
	Wow, we've got like over a thousand people just listening to the stream.
	One thousand people!
	This is our septennial show.
	700 episodes of the program which have really come to fruition thanks to you.
	Yes, we're doing the work, but you're keeping us going.
	You are feeding us with sometimes conflicting information, often inside information, but also supporting us financially, and that is incredibly appreciated.
	And I also need to thank our artists who have done a great job for all of these episodes, and I've seen a number of entries for 700.
	Martin J.J. did 699 for us.
	Good to see him back in the gallery.
	Highly appreciative of everything you guys do for us.
	Now, so today we have a special 700...
	What do we have?
	We got the 700 Club...
	A lot of 700 Club members, and we also have the $70 Club and the 7-Buck Club.
	Very nice.
	Which there's quite a few of.
	A lot of 70s.
	And we want to thank these folks because they're executive producers, the 700 Clubbers.
	Executive producers for Show 700.
	And we'll begin with...
	Citizens and slaves of Gendo Nation, please rise in recognition of Sir David Foley, Grand Duke of the United States of America.
	Fuck yeah!
	So David Foley starts off the group by pushing it to 733.
	Puts him at the very top.
	Congratulations on an incredible achievement, he says.
	Good wine.
	The show only has gotten better with age.
	Thank you for the amazing effort you two have put out.
	into continually delivering the best podcasts in the universe and closes a celebratory $700 donation plus an extra $33 for the Hot Pockets Trail of Tears 2015.
	And Trail of Tears Tour.
	Give yourself a dose of karma.
	All right.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	That's right.
	You've got karma.
	The Grand Duke of these United States.
	Thank you so much, sir.
	Lee Kenyon in Plainfield, New Jersey.
	Sadly, I haven't listened to the show in a while, but I get John's newsletter and wanted to honor you for hitting this milestone.
	I love you guys.
	I'm so glad you still do what you do.
	Keep it up.
	The donation makes me a knight.
	But I would not feel comfortable carrying the banner while not being an active listener.
	Please defer the ceremony, hookers and blow, until such time that I can adequately bear the oath.
	Wow.
	So he's drifted.
	He's helped.
	He's a man overboard.
	Man overboard.
	We need a splash or something.
	We need a splash.
	Splash effect.
	Splash.
	I'll dig one up.
	As a member of the various trading groups.
	Sir Bashir Osman in Harrow, Middlesex, UK. $700.
	Congratulations, John and Adam, on your 7th anniversary.
	I've been a listener.
	700th show is what it is.
	We have a 7th anniversary last year, I think, right?
	That was our 7th anniversary.
	The anniversary is in October.
	I've been a listener since show one, and before that, a long-time Daily Source Code listener.
	I've been listening to Adam for almost 10 years.
	I went through the awakening that kindled a no-agenda mindset, that almost everything on mainstream media was BS, and we weren't getting the whole picture to our detriment exactly.
	That's right.
	I can honestly say that no agenda show has changed my life.
	I think back to the DSC days and Adam's sign-off.
	Live your life with passion and while it was...
	And as long as it lasts, enjoy your freedom.
	As long as it lasts, right?
	Good one.
	Portending the future.
	Yes.
	Well, while I have it, I will continue to support the BPITU before it's deemed unlawful content.
	That's right.
	Which is coming.
	And to all douchebag listeners, truly think about the value you get from the No Agenda show.
	There's nothing else like it.
	Thank you, John and Adam.
	Sir Bashir, P.S. Can I get a karma?
	With Reverend Manning, bingo boom shakalaka, followed by a little girl boom shakalaka.
	P.P.S. for Peerage Records, I think...
	This donation takes me to Baronet.
	Good to go, as far as I'm concerned.
	Good to go.
	That was supposed to be a Man Overboard splash.
	Blast.
	Sounds like somebody taking a dump.
	Ding-a-ding-o.
	Boom-boom-chack-a-lack-a-lack-a. Boom-boom-boom-boom-chack-a-lack-a-lack-a. Boom-chack-a-lack-a. Boom-chack-a-lack-a-lack-a.
	Who's that?
	Karma.
	Karma.
	Whoops, we'll work on that one.
	We'll work on it.
	Just see if he's listed as a title change for the mention at the break.
	Just out of curiosity.
	Yeah, what's his name?
	Bashiraz, man.
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	I'm already in the system.
	You know he's not.
	Well, he is now.
	He is now, for sure.
	Sir Stephen Vonderhaave.
	Haven't heard from him.
	Count the money.
	700 bucks.
	He sent a note in.
	Let's see where we got it here.
	Right there where it belongs.
	Congratulations on 700 shows.
	Can still remember the first episode that I listened to, which is January 14, 2010, and how y'all played the Reese Witherspoon soundbite from the Clinton Foundation moneymaker.
	That was a good one.
	That was her going on about...
	She was taking calls, but she couldn't take calls.
	She didn't know what to do, so she ad-libbed and then passed it on to some dummy.
	Oh, wow.
	That's a long time ago.
	Yeah, remember that?
	Yeah, I remember.
	She's all nervous.
	Yeah, too bad we don't have that clip.
	It's around.
	Look for it.
	It'd be good to play sometime.
	Yeah.
	I hope, pray for many more podcasts from the best podcast.
	I pray, I hope and pray for many more podcasts from the best podcasts in the universe.
	Your humble slave, Sir Stephen Vonderhoff, count the money in North Carolina.
	21 plus 4 plus 8 equals 33.
	Nice.
	He pushed that in here.
	I have no idea what that means.
	Don't question it.
	It's qui bono.
	Qui boner.
	Qui boner.
	Sir A.J. Reistad.
	Dun-da-da-da!
	$700.
	Enclosed are the Seven Bennys and Seven Georges for Executive Producer Show 700 Club.
	Let's see if I got this.
	Yeah, I got it written in both ways.
	Episode 707 and 707 Club.
	So he's pushing forward for his dual credits.
	Nice.
	Which we offered anybody else, but nobody took it.
	Okay.
	So apparently only Reistad is the one that thinks this is cool.
	Again, thank you for the every 50-week special accommodation and granting the credits for a future episode.
	Of course, a reminder email will be sent to all parties prior to show 707.
	Yeah, for the life of...
	With this contribution...
	Yeah, you better.
	With this contribution to the best podcast in the universe, I'm now eligible for the title of Baron since Russell Williams beat me to it and claimed Idaho as his barony on episode 692.
	I claimed the super volcano known as Yosemite National Park.
	As my barony, in addition to my existing baronetcy of the Treasure Valley.
	A simple Poloski jobs karma to all my future, all my fellow, jeez, human resources, another year of the best media deconstruction in the universe.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	You've got karma.
	And that would be the end of the 700 Club.
	We want to thank these folks for really being here.
	Profusely.
	It's a big deal.
	Next on the agenda, for $514.33, our knight Sir Jason Fortune, ITM congratulations on show 700 when I ran the numbers and saw that I was $514.33 away from a barony.
	It seemed like a sign I could not ignore.
	Many thanks to John and Adam for the twice weekly dose of healthy skepticism and the reminder to never outsource your own judgment to the media.
	Nice way to put it.
	I like it.
	I like it.
	I'd like some mac and cheese and karma for all the fellow producers as well as the barony of the Fox Valley.
	Living the mac and cheese life.
	Mac and cheese by Ayn Rand.
	You've got karma.
	Tom Staniszewski in Newmarket, New Hampshire, 33333.
	It is pronounced Staniszewski.
	Ah!
	I remember he wrote me an email about this.
	He said, I should know how to pronounce my Polish names, being Polish.
	The Z's pronounced Staniszewski.
	Are you a Polish?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, don't you ever remember the Yo Agenda guy?
	Well, he always says you're the Slavic brother, but I didn't know you were Polish.
	Yeah, Polish.
	Really?
	Do you have family living in Poland?
	I don't know.
	Have you?
	I mean, you've been to China?
	Have you been to Poland?
	No.
	You should go.
	I want to go.
	Yeah, Warsaw is nice this time of year.
	I'm also part Czech, so I should go to Prague.
	That's what's cool, too.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	I don't have anybody sending me there for free.
	Ah, got it.
	Apparently, I'm also Scott.
	No, I'm just not.
	That's a joke.
	This is my third annual donation of 3333.
	If you don't mind throwing in a penny.
	I'm happy to do that.
	It's a big penny.
	I would like to be knighted as Sir Thomas of Great Bay.
	Got it.
	I will continue donating because I love the show.
	And we love you.
	Let me just write this down.
	You've got karma.
	And I'm writing down the pronunciation so I get it right on the knighting.
	Stanishefsky.
	W Marine Canvas in Annapolis, Maryland, 32123.
	ITM, John and Adam, congratulations on show 700, a listener for 200 or so shows.
	I finally figured out a way to donate, and I could use a de-douching.
	Want to do that right now?
	You've been de-douched.
	Thanks to all the producers who purchased the No Agenda T-shirts, this is the first installment of those proceeds as they are doled out through Teespring.
	More installments to come.
	I will also be maintaining my producer status through my monthly donation now that I've finally become a contributor.
	Can I get a climate gate?
	Two to the head.
	And her head is gone.
	Jingle combo.
	Climate gate.
	Two to the head.
	By the way, Alan Woodyard.
	Of course we can do that.
	I think we...
	Where's the gate?
	It's a big...
	Oh, there's the gate.
	Okay.
	To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
	And your head is gone.
	You've got karma.
	Wow, that sounded good.
	Yeah, look, yeah, I thought it was a little too tight with the two, but it's okay.
	Hey man, fist bump.
	Yeah, no.
	Nicholas Raimondi in Fremont, California, 25433.
	Congratulations on 700 shows.
	I'm happy to take a minute away from my binging House of Cards.
	Why is everyone in such a rush?
	This is an interesting question.
	I have not even cracked it.
	It's like the dress thing.
	Is it blue?
	Is it white?
	Have you watched House of Cards?
	I've watched the first two seasons and I watched them casually when they came out.
	Like a normal person, not like some slave.
	I felt like I watched two, maybe three.
	I wouldn't sit there and watch the whole series.
	It's like watching Sorrow and the Pity or something.
	It's just too much work.
	But you watch it, you know, like a show you want to watch when you feel like it, and I don't see the rush.
	I don't see the rush.
	The only reason I even would rush to the theater to see a movie is because it would be in 3D and it'd be spectacular, and I would have one shot at the 3D version.
	Normally, I watch stuff on HBO two years later.
	It doesn't bother me.
	Yeah, but this is obvious.
	This is the culture we live in.
	If you go to school or you go to work and people are standing around, then you have not watched it.
	It'll be, oh my god, I'll bet you thought the dress was white too.
	You need to watch.
	This is slave culture, John.
	This is slave culture.
	Yeah, I brought it up with everybody, but I brought it up with Mimi.
	Conversation goes like this.
	So what color was your dress?
	Was it blue or gold?
	She goes, who gives a shit?
	You should marry that girl one day.
	I love that.
	By the way, I do know as a big spoiler, it's a multi-episode arc, and not that I've seen it, but apparently Putin hates gays is prevalently featured in this series of House of Cards.
	No.
	Yes.
	I had you down to do that one-two punch of clips.
	I want to do that, not during the read here, but right afterwards, where we have the guy that goes out bragging about how they've planted all these stories.
	Oh, yeah, I can do that one-two punch.
	And then there was the second clip, which I don't remember that well.
	I think you maybe played it once.
	We played it once, yeah.
	But the two combined, we've never done.
	Well, why don't we just do it?
	All right, do it.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	This is Hollywood.
	It was, here it is.
	Yes.
	And this is from the Norman Lear Foundation.
	No, this is the second one, isn't it?
	I want the first one where the guys...
	It's two clips from the same...
	It's Marty Kaplan.
	It's two clips from the same speech.
	And he's running the Martin...
	No, the Norman...
	The Learjet Foundation.
	And he's bragging about how fantastic they are at propaganda in American media.
	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.
	Just to make sure Putin looks like a dick.
	And the longer clip you're talking about is climate change, which was, and of course we can't take credit for it, but it was worked into modern family.
	Norman Lear, as part of our efforts in climate change, has been saying over and over, what we need is to...
	Have a show that has lots of viewers and has a character who is a total pain in the ass about climate change.
	And the character he thought would best do that is Manny, the kid, on Modern Family.
	Well, that didn't happen.
	But I will show you something that did happen.
	And we never take credit for anything that we did.
	Why not?
	Why not?
	Because it would come across as propaganda?
	But I have seen Norman personally make this pitch to a number of showrunners.
	Hey there, neighbor.
	Oh, hey.
	It's Asher, right?
	Yeah.
	I just wanted to let you know, I think there might be something wrong with your air conditioner.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, I mean, it just seems to be running a lot, even when it's kind of cool outside.
	Oh, no, no.
	My partner runs a little hot.
	Not as hot as our planet.
	Sorry, I don't mean to be that guy.
	It's just, um, we're all in this together.
	Yeah, I drive a Prius, so...
	And that's a nice little gesture.
	My car runs on reclaimed cooking oil.
	I have some literature if you want it.
	That's okay.
	Save the paper.
	I haven't printed anything since 2004.
	I was going to email you.
	On your power-hungry computer?
	My entire house is solar-powered.
	I sell energy back to the grid and use that money to save polar bears.
	I'm an environmental lawyer, so, you know, I'm pretty green.
	So is your lawn.
	I went drought-tolerant.
	Succulents, indigenous plants, rock artists.
	My other daddy says, your yard looks like a litter box.
	She's a cute kid.
	I remember when she was in disposable diapers.
	There you go.
	Ha ha.
	Unbelievable.
	I'm a rule follower, so if the rule is that we have to do it, then I'll do it.
	That's right.
	Follow the rules.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so this is what goes on.
	That is how it works.
	Yeah, that's how it goes.
	So that's why House of Cards has a multi-episode arc.
	Specifically about the legislation that we completely debunked with the white paper with Brian the Gay Crusader, which you can search for that.
	It's in the show notes.
	It's not true, but it is now fact because, I mean, when Frank Underwood says that Putin hates the gays, meanwhile I'm a bisexual with Claire.
	We have our little trysts.
	Then you know.
	Must be true.
	Must be true.
	I find it abhorrent that these assholes pull this crap on the American public on purpose.
	It's like they're manipulative, like they're puppet masters.
	And Norman Lear is obviously one of the worst examples with that little skit that they were showing there that they like to do.
	That he pitches them.
	Who is Norman Lear?
	Norman Lear is the guy who did All in the Family.
	Oh, right, right, right.
	And then his wife, I think, started this magazine called Lears, which failed.
	And I saw her once.
	They had divorced, I guess.
	And she was like, I don't know.
	I saw her in Boston.
	I don't want to sound like this was not paid for by me.
	It was a company thing.
	I was sitting in the bar at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston at the window.
	So you can see outside on the big square that's out there, a big little forest.
	And so here comes a big fancy car.
	And here comes Norman Lear's wife, her ex-wife.
	She's about, I don't know, 75.
	Is she hot?
	Well, she was skinny.
	She was skinnier than the Ukrainian model.
	And she was wearing, like, gold lame and two, like, 20-something...
	Oh, no, she's not hot.
	...boys were on her arms.
	Toy boys?
	Boy toys?
	Two toy boys.
	Not one, but two.
	And she comes barreling into the hotel with these two toy boys.
	And we were just all going, holy mackerel, what is this?
	She's a cougar.
	Yeah, she looks like one.
	Rich Cougar.
	Rich Cougar.
	All right, let's get back to this.
	We're talking about Nicholas Ramondi in Fremont, 25433.
	Having to take a minute away from binging House of Cards to send us donation.
	John, how great was the rain and lightning yesterday?
	You know, we didn't get it.
	I saw the lightning from outside.
	It was down south.
	We got not a drop.
	And we didn't get any lightning nearby.
	Yeah.
	And Adam, go out into the road like John recommends.
	Go out on the road like...
	What did I recommend you go on the road?
	This is the Trail of Tears Tour.
	I thought she meant to stand out in the middle of the highway.
	Hey everybody, John told me to do it.
	It's a good idea.
	I lived out of a conversion van from my last quarter of school at Santa Cruz and loved it.
	Keep up this amazing value you both provide.
	That's nice.
	I need a driver.
	I need to be able to prepare for the show.
	You can't drive and then...
	It doesn't work that way.
	I need a driver.
	Preferably a hot one.
	Okay, I cannot get the spreadsheet to give me the next name because it's like...
	Oh, and I need to point out that Pussy Riot is also in the House of Cards.
	Just to add a little more Putin hate to the mix.
	Yeah, great.
	Isn't that fantastic?
	Was it Jeremy Cooper?
	No, Rogue is 238.
	Will not come up.
	My friend has been a No Agenda fanboy for years.
	Oh, I got that.
	I can read it.
	But I just can't get his name because of the way the spreadsheets.
	It just does.
	If I scroll down one thing, boom.
	My friend has been a No Agenda fanboy for years and did a poor job.
	That is a good note, by the way.
	And has done a poor job of evangelizing me.
	Whoever you are, do a better job.
	Yeah, do a better job, please.
	Finally, around Thanksgiving, I found both the motivation and the time to tune in.
	And boy, oh boy, oh boy, what a douchebag I've been.
	Please douchebag me.
	Douchebag!
	After listening for just 20 minutes to a single episode, I was hooked.
	Wow.
	Alright, that's good.
	That's not the normal pattern.
	What episode was it?
	I don't know.
	We better find out.
	You better tell us what episode it was around Thanksgiving.
	Overwhelmed by the quantity of prior shows and my compulsion to listen to them all, I needed a plan.
	Step one, invent a time machine.
	After nodding Just so you know, the podcast feed is limited by design.
	We can't have 700 episodes in a podcast feed.
	It tends to break the world.
	Yeah, it's no good.
	I've been planning on donating for a while, but there's a certain symbolism associated with being part of the 700 Club.
	By donating, I decided to wait.
	And yeah, I'm cheap too, so stalling a bit before sharing my filthy lucre was a real easy decision.
	Mistake number one, deciding to do my taxes before sending y'all some bucks.
	700 I had actually allocated with slowly being whittled away, and so he ended up sending us this amount, which is on here I can't read.
	23859-er.
	Okay.
	And he has a little note here.
	I forget to have to stick you guys in behind that alphabet soup, but a bunch of these are coming over 70 federal agents that carry guns and allow to use them.
	And he's got a link to something.
	I don't know.
	I can't.
	I'm not sure what that is.
	Like I said, I can't.
	But he says, like a busload of politicians going over a cliff, i.e.
	a good start, please consider this but a tiny down payment on my journey towards knighthood.
	Well, thank you very much for supporting our show.
	It is appreciated, Rogue.
	All right, Jeremy Cooper.
	Let me give him a karma if we're coming in.
	He needs that.
	Brand new listener.
	You've got karma.
	On his way to knighthood.
	Very nice.
	I'm just distressing this thing with the spreadsheet.
	Yeah, it's not like you don't hear it every single time on every single episode for years.
	Why don't you tell me how you can't see what episode number is on the spreadsheet?
	Because it doesn't say anywhere.
	Right.
	I know.
	But I know what episode it is.
	Yeah.
	This time, it's the round numbers.
	I can show you old spreadsheets that show the episode number.
	I know.
	But, you know, the guy, we pay him not much, but we pay him to do the spreadsheet.
	Well, I don't know that he's putting it up there.
	I think I don't know what he's changed.
	He didn't change anything.
	Look, all of a sudden, his emails don't arrive in my mailbox.
	He's doing something.
	Your mailbox is failing.
	It's not my mailbox is failing.
	His domain name has been blacklisted.
	What?
	Yeah.
	Noagendanation.com.
	Noagendanation has been blacklisted.
	Yeah.
	Now I have to find out what list has been blacklisted on because my server picks up a couple of these lists like Spam House, etc.
	You get blacklisted and then you're screwed.
	You have to get off that list because all these mail systems use it.
	I know.
	This, to me, is one of the downfalls.
	It's a centralized problem.
	It's very, very bad.
	And to multiply the problem, the way I see it, is these lists are pretty much 90% automated, so you can't really find anybody to help you.
	Yes, you can.
	Yes, you can.
	For $100,000 a month, you've got these companies who will make sure that your email arrives.
	Because they have all the deals with everybody.
	With Yahoo and Gmail.
	These are Kleiner companies too.
	These are a-holes.
	These are the lowest scum of the scum.
	Let me find it.
	This is just an extortion racket.
	Yes.
	Whitelist company.
	Let me see what their name is.
	We talked about these guys before.
	Yeah, I tried to block it off because it's so annoying.
	Yeah, but it's a fact of life.
	I think it's extortion.
	Correct.
	I think there should be some law.
	We should work on legislation.
	It says it's going to be taken over by the government anyway.
	I think legislation would be a good idea.
	Well, let's talk about that after we finish up this segment.
	Okay, where was I? Jeremy Cooper.
	$211.68 from Toronto.
	Square root of 700 times current year of the show, 8th year.
	So the square root of 7 times 8 is $211.86.
	Christopher Walker, 20833 in De Pere, Wisconsin.
	Here's a $700 quarter.
	I never put that in there.
	For show 700, plus 3333.
	Thank you, John and Adam, for sharing your time with us.
	I'm elated to have no agenda in my life.
	Huh?
	Yeah, that's beautiful.
	Black Knight Sir Brian Barrow in Royal Wooten Basset, as opposed to Wooten Basset, 200.
	He'll be an associate executive producer along with the other sub-300 people.
	From Black Knight Sir Brian Barrow, congratulations on making 700 shows landmark with what is still far and away the best podcast in the universe.
	Looking forward to your next 100 shows.
	And finally, last but not least, Sir Mark Wilson, the Baron of Glasgow in the UK, 200, Scotland, 200.
	Gentlemen, firstly, a hearty congratulations on 700.
	I've been listening to your record recent shows and have to say all have been fantastic, so please find attached my value for value contribution.
	I would encourage all producers who haven't already but could donate to donate.
	As for all the boners out there, well, all I can say is a phrase oft used in Western Scotland, get to fuck!
	I believe the donation brings me up to Baron.
	See accounting below.
	And so I would like to be styled as the Baron of Glasgow.
	Best wishes, Sir Mark Wilson.
	He's got some numbers there.
	Eric is now mad.
	He's saying, oh, it's not blocked!
	Well, it's possible it's not blocked, but I did have, when I was trying to use the ITM thing, if you remember, in the last couple of shows, it blocked me from going to these things.
	It was a no-agenda message, and it said whatever it said.
	I think your email needs fixing.
	Uh, no.
	Well, it won't take a reasonably large file.
	No, that's the way I like it.
	I don't want a reasonably large file.
	I don't want more than 10 megabytes.
	No.
	Maybe the spreadsheet was too big.
	No, it's getting a 554 policy rejection.
	I'm thinking Eric changed something on his end.
	My system is stringent.
	It looks at the hello commands, the receipt to command.
	It looks at everything to try and catch a-holes who are just hammering every email sender.
	An email server to try and get through to send spam.
	So I think he changed something, and he has a configuration issue.
	I will find out what it is later.
	All right, well, I hope you do.
	Nothing changed on my end, so it's his.
	It's him.
	Could be.
	Yeah.
	Oh, it could be one of those blockers that you go through those.
	My server said...
	Recipient address rejected, which means he's misconfigured his recipient address.
	Policy rejection, abuse, go away.
	In reply to our RCPT2 command.
	So he's doing some kind of remailer shit.
	Look, I know how this works.
	Eric's a tinkerer, and then he'll blame me.
	Well, that's what tinkerers do.
	Alright, whatever.
	I don't care.
	You got the thing.
	You read it.
	But that doesn't help me in this one...
	I would like to ask people not to make their notes.
	And he's got like two and three spaces.
	Actually, if I took these spaces out, I bet you I could...
	There's like spaces.
	It's like a one line space, one line space, one line space.
	So there's a million spaces and here's two carriage returns.
	So the thing takes up half my monitor.
	And then I can't get to his name in the last line.
	And there's nothing I can do about it because the way Excel is kind of crappy when it comes to these sorts of things.
	Anyway, that's enough.
	That's good.
	We want to thank everyone anyway.
	It worked out fine, especially with the 700 Club members, and we do have a show on Thursday.
	So if you want to sneak in and get a quickie executive producer, I guarantee that Thursday people are going to be, oh, those guys don't need any more money.
	No, no, not at all.
	They're good.
	They're good to go.
	So get yourself, you know, get in.
	Get in while you can.
	Thank you all very much.
	These are real credits.
	We'll have the double producership mentioned credits today, so it'll be quite a long list in the show notes, but we're very happy.
	Thank you, thank you, thank you.
	Thank you to people who also specifically said they were holding back for when the dark days come.
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	Yay, yay, yay, yay, yay.
	Well, we're in the process of complaining.
	Who did the Roku No Agenda app?
	I don't know.
	The Roku box.
	Is it not working?
	No, it works fine.
	And I like that we have it, because you can listen to the No Agenda show on the Roku box.
	Yeah.
	But the...
	Well, there's a couple of things.
	Roku's changed a couple of things, too, that bother me.
	But it doesn't show the current art.
	Oh, it just has some generic art.
	Oh, it used to.
	So it only shows one version of art?
	No, it just shows the No Agenda logo.
	Oh, it doesn't even show the current art?
	It doesn't even show any art.
	This is complicated.
	This is standards.
	People make shitty software that doesn't adhere to the standards, and then you get this.
	Yeah, it just never ends.
	Never ends.
	Something strange happened that I caught, and I'm always smiling.
	For some reason, Clayton Morris is now on all the time on Fox and Friends.
	Clayton is Natalie's husband.
	Yes, we know.
	Yeah.
	And I just...
	Knowing Natalie...
	Natalie Del Conte, now Morris.
	Nay, Morris.
	Just knowing Natalie...
	Nay, Del Conte.
	I can't remember how it goes.
	Just knowing Natalie, it must irk her to no end that he has to sit there and roll out all this crazy stuff on Fox and Friends.
	And the TSA, there was a warning of some catastrophic new threat to aviation.
	And when I heard it, it was one of these where I'll clip that, I'll clip half of this thing, whatever might be useful.
	And then I was reviewing my clips last night, and I listened, I'm like, holy crap.
	This is really weird.
	When is the first time you, well, you may be not a good example, but the first time I heard of the term, or heard of the product, thermite.
	I've heard of thermite.
	And I heard this for the first time in relation to 9-11.
	Oh, yeah, I heard about it.
	That thermite was used to bring down the towers.
	This is one of the many conspiracy theories.
	Well, we'll never know since they hauled the junk off so fast that before anyone could even look at it, it was a crime scene.
	But Balford goes to the dump.
	Yes, well, and part of it went to China, I think.
	And they made a ship out of it.
	We had a bridge over here going to China.
	And they made a ship out of it.
	First they ship, they bring us a new bridge, which is filled with errors.
	And we send them the old bridge.
	All right.
	Now, so Clayton, who's wearing a pink tie, Natalie, you should divorce this guy.
	Do not wear a pink tie.
	You need to divorce this guy.
	This is not going to end well for you two.
	Not with a pink tie.
	Not with a pink tie.
	Listen to this report!
	Let's start with this first thing, this incendiary device, or this thermite bomb as it would be.
	The FBI issuing this warning.
	How concerned should we be about these particular devices?
	Well, I think thermite, for one thing, it's not really a bomb.
	It's just an incendiary device like a large flare.
	But if one were able to be smuggled onto an airplane, it would be pretty disastrous because the heat that is produced by one of these things is so intense.
	Yeah, it melts steel.
	Get it?
	It would probably melt right through the airplane a little bit.
	Yeah, and we're looking at it right now on the screen here.
	You can see how just quickly this thing melts down into that pile of bricks.
	So I'm listening to this.
	And I think it's some kind of coded message or something to mess with people's brains.
	Because he's talking about it would melt right through everything.
	Oh, look, this thing just melted down to a pile of bricks.
	You know what I mean?
	It was strange.
	A very strange report from something that really, in relation to aviation terrorism, was only mentioned as the way the towers were brought down with thermite.
	And now apparently the terrorists are going to be using thermite to bring down airplanes.
	Just something in my spidey sense went, uh-uh, something strange here.
	I guess that doesn't hit you the same way.
	Well, let me take a look.
	I'm going to just read a little bit about it so I can see.
	I'll finish the clip here in 30 seconds.
	I like the...
	I like the transition of thermite for a reason.
	How often do they do this?
	There has to be some underlying reason they did this.
	Well, it's interesting that you say that because when I talked to some of my sources at DHS yesterday, they didn't really want to talk too much about it.
	In fact, they said the entire issue about this was classified.
	So we can't get a whole lot of the why behind this.
	Fascinating.
	Fascinating.
	Clayton, fascinating.
	Fascinating.
	Natalie, take your clothes off.
	Fascinating.
	Listen.
	Sorry.
	It's the Tourette's.
	This is the Tourette's.
	This is not fascinating.
	I think this might have something to do with the 28 pages of the 9-11 report.
	This has got to be something about thermite that pops up somewhere in a report, and we're conditioning people to get them ready.
	Oh, terrorists use that.
	I think that's a fine thesis.
	I'm not going to argue against it.
	I don't see any reason it wouldn't be something like that.
	But I didn't even know this was showing up in the news.
	I didn't realize there's so many different kinds of thermite.
	You have to figure this is another plant.
	Nothing on television is meant to give you truth.
	Ugh.
	For instance, since we're here anyway, Matt and Jen.
	Let's go back, Matt and Jen.
	Jihadi John, of course, I think when we were doing the show on Thursday, they, oh, we know who he is.
	He's some douchebag, but he's well-educated, and he's not just some...
	He's Piers Morgan.
	That doesn't work anymore.
	It worked before.
	But apparently, Jihadi John...
	He has been doing interviews in the past.
	He's been around.
	It's so obvious the guy has been an asset somehow, and the Daily Mail is now all over him.
	This guy apparently was very tiny and frail, and his friends doubted he could even handle the...
	The recoil of an AK-47, which, trust me, is not a lot, so there's not a lot of recoil on that.
	But he doesn't look like this...
	Frail boy in the so-called beheading videos.
	But anyway, so there's a lot of bull crap going on around this.
	And Matt comes out with the obvious question, particularly after Marie Harf went on every news show saying that these kids need jobs because obviously they have no hope.
	But this guy was actually educated and he had a job.
	And he was, I think, was he not a dude named Ben?
	Was he not an IT... Guy somewhere?
	I guess.
	So Matt asked the obvious.
	The description of this person, whether or not this is or is not his name, is of a middle class, college educated person who had a job, who had employment.
	And I'm just wondering if the fact That fact, if it is in fact true, gives you any pause to the idea that it is primarily economic disadvantagement, joblessness, that kind of thing.
	You mentioned this on the previous episode.
	They have to get their messaging straight.
	This is bad.
	This is disorganized.
	And I think it's because the Brits came.
	You notice he's not even mentioning the name.
	The U.S. officials won't even, as far as I know, admit it.
	That this is jihadi, John?
	I think the Brits are just running off on their own program, and it's not coordinated.
	Certainly not with Marie Harth.
	It's fueling this rise in Islamic extremism.
	Well, let me just reiterate, just for everybody, some on-the-record points here, just so everybody has done.
	Do you think she has talking points you want to write down so everybody has it, John?
	I just want to make sure.
	Sure sounds like it.
	I went for my pen when she said that.
	In Islamic extremism.
	Well, let me just reiterate, just for everybody, some on-the-record points here, just so everybody has them.
	We continue to investigate the murder of American citizens by ISIL. We will not comment on ongoing investigations and therefore not in a position to confirm or deny the identity of this individual.
	Hold on a second.
	Wait, stop.
	They constantly yak about ongoing investigation.
	This is not like a court case in Northern Virginia that they can't comment on because they're involved as a plaintiff.
	It's not an ongoing investigation that has anything to do with the legal system.
	So what's wrong with saying something?
	They do it all the time, but in this case, they choose not to using that bogus excuse.
	And this is why our show will be deemed unlawful content.
	...identity of this individual.
	Broadly speaking on your question, without addressing the specific reports about the individual's, I think our view is that that is a factor in terms of the lack of opportunity.
	But we're not suggesting it's the only factor.
	There are a range of tactics that ISIL, of course, takes.
	What does that mean?
	There's a range of tactics that ISIL takes?
	What does that have to do with this guy?
	Well, it has to do with the question he asked, which is calling them out on their bogus assertion that the only reason that anyone's in ISIS is because they don't have a good job.
	And the commentary that was done about a week or so ago when the State Department said, all we need to do is get them jobs and they'll be happy.
	And then this came out, which...
	And by the way, those jobs are paying jobs, the ones they have, which is shooting.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Really?
	They pay for that?
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, I didn't know ISIS paid money.
	Oh, yeah.
	ISIS pays money.
	Oh, how much?
	More than, apparently, the Iraqis get in their little military operation.
	They pay well.
	That's why they stole all that money.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, that's right.
	They stole all that money.
	The billions.
	Yeah.
	In dollar bills, I hear.
	They pay money.
	Singles.
	In singles.
	So you probably saw the video, which I looked at it and went, that's bullshit, of so-called ISIS destroying museum pieces.
	Yeah.
	Now you saw this video.
	What did you see?
	I saw a guy making rocks tumble and busting them up.
	Yeah, plaster of Paris.
	Well, a lot of them didn't look very well made.
	Well, enter this nice little report where they brought in an expert, and it turns out that these pieces, they're not even in the country.
	They're all in Western museums.
	These are all replicas.
	Have a listen.
	But this cultural vandalism may not be quite as disastrous as it seems.
	I got an archaeologist to look at the video.
	The statues, he said, break like plaster, not like ancient stone.
	So these are replicas of the statue?
	Yeah, these look like, you see the iron bars coming out of them.
	But it's still an assault on the heritage of the Iraqi people.
	So, not content with the fact that it's fake, they're just breaking up some, you know, the...
	They may be breaking it up because they are fake.
	I mean, if I was one of these guys, and I went to one of these museums, the Mosul Museum is where that supposedly took place, and I was going to say, okay, we got this stuff, let's loot it and sell it for more money and split the proceeds and do that sort of thing, because apparently that has been going on.
	That's coming up.
	And then you find out, so you say, I want to sell this statue, and then you get a wire back.
	That statue's a fake.
	The real statue's in the British Museum.
	Oh, crap.
	Yeah, you bust it up.
	You get pissed off and you bust it up.
	Yeah, so these guys, they're actually angry because they were duped.
	Makes sense.
	Yeah, I like it.
	In some way, that makes more sense than just careless.
	Because it's like throwing money away.
	And this is also not how the report went, because that would have been the proper way to analyze it.
	They're pissed off.
	Well, it's also, I think there's one other element.
	They wanted to do the associative, even though this is an old association.
	Yeah, I know exactly what you're going to say.
	They wanted to do the associative thing by showing that...
	What the Taliban did.
	Like the Taliban, who actually did ruin some giant figure, some Buddhistic figure.
	Stop there!
	Just stop.
	Listen to this report.
	This is how propaganda works.
	And this is a beautiful example.
	In fact, I'm going to start it over.
	She clearly says, this is not what it appears.
	Then she has the expert that she brought in as a professor.
	He says, no, it's not real.
	And you can see the iron bar sticking out.
	And then she goes on to say, but this is still assault on the cultural good of the country.
	And she'll actually bring up the Buddha.
	But this cultural vandalism may not be quite as disastrous as it seems.
	I got an archaeologist to look at the video.
	The statues, he said, break like plaster, not like ancient stone.
	Yeah, these look like you see the iron bars coming out of them.
	But it's still an assault on the heritage of the Iraqi people.
	If you look at how Iraqis are reacting, they're taking the destruction of their cultural heritage, their identity, essentially, just as seriously as the beheadings in many cases.
	Maybe perhaps not as, but certainly as a high priority because this is something that deals with who they are as people and they recognize it.
	All right, let's just again, I'd like to remind you, we just heard these are not actual cultural heritage pieces.
	However, apparently, according to the same professor, the Iraqi people are responding just as violently as towards the bogative beheadings, which there were no beheadings.
	There were videos of beheadings where you didn't see a beheading.
	So this is the definition of conditioning the Western mind, actually giving you the truth, but just telling you, ignore that.
	Everyone remembers how the Taliban blew up the Buddhas in Bamiyan in Afghanistan.
	Everyone remembers that!
	Association.
	Make the link.
	Click.
	Brain.
	Got it.
	This is similar.
	No, it's not.
	It's similar.
	You can't take those Buddhas in the side of that mountain and sell them to the highest bidder.
	It's not similar at all.
	This is similar.
	No, it's not similar.
	It's not similar.
	And it appears that the demolition squad of the Islamic State...
	The demolition squad now.
	I'm sorry.
	Destroyed an original 7th century winged bull at the gates to Nineveh, the ancient Assyrian capital near Mosul.
	This, they have video, it does look like they actually did something there to some bullcrap thing.
	I think the winged bull is very important.
	I'm sorry, it's very important.
	Locally, because it's one of the few objects that hasn't left the country or hasn't gone to Baghdad.
	So much of ancient northern Iraqi cultural material culture is now in Western museums.
	For good reason.
	Yeah!
	In Chicago and New York and London and Berlin.
	Wait, do we rock or what?
	Do you think that there's a possibility here that they beat up that Minotaur because they couldn't get it out of the country and we want to convince everybody that your best bet for all your antiquities is to give them to us because they'll be safe in Chicago.
	With Chewy the mayor.
	Is there a possibility that this is just a complete bullcrap thing to rationalize the British Museum's theft of artifacts over all these years?
	I think it has a dual or multi-purpose.
	One is to just convince us that it's like the Taliban and everyone's all sad.
	Those are douchebags.
	And all we're going to remember, you can walk out on the street right now and say, hey man, what's the ISIS demolition derby doing?
	Oh man, they're breaking everything, the cultural heritage, they're breaking everything in the museum, man.
	No, no, they're breaking replicas.
	Culture is now in Western museums.
	It's in Chicago and New York and London and Berlin and Paris.
	Now that's fantastic for us, but that's pretty rotten for the people who actually live in the places where this stuff comes from.
	Let me think.
	What's more rotten?
	That your statues are in Chicago or that you're being droned?
	I don't know.
	Which one is more rotten?
	We have some bogative army called ISIS with American equipment.
	Gee, how does that work?
	They've also burnt books from the public and university libraries.
	Burnt books?
	This is my favorite.
	They're going for it.
	Burning books.
	Throwing gays off.
	No, that's Putin.
	I'm sorry.
	No, no, ISIS is throwing gays off the buildings.
	They haven't made enough of a play on that.
	In Mosul, some may be ancient Islamic manuscripts.
	Oh, that's a good...
	They're putting their own manuscripts.
	Yeah, that makes so much sense.
	The jihadists believe their religion demands the destruction of icons and idols.
	But it's also a way of crushing the people they rule.
	Crushing!
	And killing them with fear for the future by denying their past.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Alright, I've got something to change the subject.
	Away from the caliphate?
	Yeah, I don't really have any good caliphate stuff.
	Can I do one last caliphate and then we'll get out of it?
	Because I have one left.
	You're going to change the topic anyway.
	Okay, play one more.
	Just to show you how all-in everybody is.
	Franklin Graham, now he runs the Billy Graham...
	He's the kid.
	He's the kid, yeah.
	Well, he's not a kid anymore.
	No, he's an older guy, but he's like...
	This happened, the same thing happened with Pat Robertson's kid, Jimmy Swaggart's kid, and now this guy's kid.
	This is bullcrap.
	These missionary types or these evangelical types, these Bible thumpers...
	They were given, you know, supposedly God damn near came down and said, you've got to preach.
	You've got to preach.
	Now, how do their kids get involved?
	Is it a hand-me-down?
	Is it all of a sudden their apprentices?
	I mean, obviously these guys are running a racket, and the kids, I'll take over the family business.
	Hell yeah!
	Wait until you start working with Christina on this show.
	Then he's on O'Reilly.
	And the only reason I picked this up is because I don't watch O'Reilly.
	It was sent to me.
	But there were a couple things, and this is where you see how the propaganda goes through all levels of organized everything.
	And, of course, this is organized religion.
	And this guy is, yeah, he's full of it, but really in a nutty way.
	Reverend Graham, why do you think the world will not unite to stop ISIS? First, Bill, I think it's important for Muslims that are watching this program to know that we love them and pray for them, and I want Muslims everywhere to know that God loves them, and he sent his son from heaven to this earth, Jesus Christ, for them.
	I thought that was the best way.
	It didn't exist when Jesus Christ was down here.
	But God sent his son down to save them.
	Okay.
	And Bill, one of the problems that we have in the West is that our governments, especially in Washington, has been infiltrated by Muslims who are advising the White House, who I think are part of the problem.
	I love this.
	Well, that's a good point.
	This is very good.
	Now, certainly Department of Homeland Security, and we've discussed this, and the senatorial committee sent a letter I'm saying, hold on a second, we've got all these people who are members of proven front groups for terrorist funding who are advising and have access to Department of Homeland Security systems.
	I remember that.
	But now he's saying, there's Muslims everywhere.
	And the Muslims, they're doing everything.
	And Bill O'Reilly, give him credit, ask the right question.
	And we see this also in Western Europe.
	They have gotten into the halls of power.
	It's true.
	They, they, they, the evil Muslims, have gotten into the halls of power.
	Now, when you say Muslims, give me some names in Washington.
	I don't know any Muslim advisors to President Obama.
	Do you have any names?
	I can get those for you, Bill.
	Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo.
	But I do know that they are there, and I've been told...
	They're there!
	It's real!
	I've seen them!
	I've been told!
	...by a number of people that they influence...
	I'm not saying they're sitting next to the president whispering in his ear, but they are in the halls, and they are speaking to the staffers.
	Well, they do have a lobby care in those groups, too.
	Lobby, but...
	Muslims in the hall!
	Climate change!
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I didn't mean to say that.
	Muslims in the hall.
	Alright.
	I just wanted to say that this is...
	What is happening is...
	I think you made your point like 10 minutes ago.
	That was not a clip worth listening to.
	The guy's a douche.
	I think you're missing the bigger news here.
	There's big news that's taking place and you're just completely oblivious apparently.
	If you're going to tell me that...
	Alright.
	Happy Martin quit.
	Yeah.
	Or was fired.
	Yeah, we had this in the show notes three weeks ago.
	Well, she quit or was fired.
	We don't know.
	She never says.
	But I do have some good clips.
	She's been fired.
	You think?
	I couldn't find any reference to this.
	She's been fired.
	Just read her blog.
	Read how she writes it.
	I read her blog.
	She still didn't say anything in the blog.
	What she's saying is if I can't find a new home, then I'm going to go to crowdfunding.
	I think she signed a non-disparage.
	A lot of these media companies, now this is the big thing you do.
	It doesn't mean you didn't get fired, or released, or removed.
	I think non-disparaging would indicate you say you can't.
	And why is this bigger news?
	Well, did you listen to that last clip?
	You know, 701 may never come, people.
	Did you see her last show?
	She's crying like a baby.
	No, I didn't see it.
	Do you have the crying?
	Do you have the crying?
	Let's start with Abby ending one pact.
	In the course of this show, I've been most rewarded out in the field, from Gitmo to Detroit, getting to the heart of the story and speaking to people on the ground.
	There's only so much that can be done confined to a studio, and I'm excited to leap into the unknown and follow my heart.
	So stay tuned.
	Breaking the Set has been the most hard-hitting show on television by far.
	There you go.
	Hold on.
	I'm going to help her with the heart.
	Did you know that?
	Most hard-hitting television.
	First of all, you're right.
	This is much better than the Muslims.
	Every single episode was packed with more information than you'd get from an entire year of watching CNN. The entire year.
	Really?
	Wow.
	Yeah, you didn't know that.
	I did not know that.
	I couldn't get beyond her shitty delivery to watch an entire show.
	Let's go to Abby 2 Begins to Cry.
	Hello, Miss.
	She's from Oakland, is she not?
	She was, yeah.
	as well as carried a punch at the gut of all the neocons, war propagandists, and lackey stenographers.
	But never in a million years could I have imagined the amazing support this kind of show would generate, proving just how many people are hungry out there for systemic change and raw truth delivered from someone who's not a plastic automaton, which is great. proving just how many people are hungry out there for That takes you and I out of the equation.
	I just can't report the horrors I immerse myself with on a daily basis.
	Wait a minute, did she say whores?
	No, she said horrors.
	Oh, I thought she said I can't report the horrors.
	It's not a plastic automaton, which is great because I just can't report the horrors I immerse myself with on a daily basis any other way.
	It's been an amazing and a long, sometimes hard road.
	I've lost some along the way, but I gained more than I ever thought I could.
	It's been an incredible run that wouldn't have been possible without your support.
	So thank you.
	I told myself I wouldn't cry, but here I am.
	But all good things must come to an end.
	Okay.
	Now, this goes on, by the way.
	I took a lot of...
	It goes on forever.
	And then she finally...
	This is Abby 3 loses it where she's just in tears.
	Oh, man.
	Oh, man.
	Remember that nations are invented.
	Borders are invisible.
	Prejudice is learned.
	Yeah.
	We're all human beings who bleed the same blood and shed the same tears.
	Every time a person suffers from Detroit to Gaza, that's our brother.
	Alright.
	Fuck you.
	You get it.
	Okay, well now I have to punchline.
	Oh no.
	But there's a punchline.
	This is the clip.
	Don't play it.
	This is the Abby Martin closes the show with this.
	This is at the very beginning of this show.
	After she goes through all this stuff, she even has some guy who came on the show that said, we should take a couple arms and shoot those arms.
	The guy's dead like a week later and she's crying about that.
	But this...
	She's been on for three years.
	Three years.
	And she's crying over this spilt milk and the whole thing and all the Gaza and all the Gitmo stuff.
	Three years.
	This is how she starts the show And credits her show for this one thing that was so important.
	What's happening, y'all?
	I'm Abby Martin, and this is the very last episode of Breaking the Set.
	and this being our last show, I am so pleased to see an enormous victory for one of the issues I care most about, net neutrality.
	Ha ha ha!
	Oh!
	Well...
	Thank you.
	Oh, man.
	Well, no, I think the clip of the day was appropriate for the clip because that was a great clip.
	Yes.
	But this is idiocy.
	I just...
	Wow.
	When I heard that, I said, oh, man.
	Oh, well, good.
	Good riddance.
	Yes, three years of all this greatest show in the world, nobody's hard-hitting, and she claims that her big victory was net neutrality.
	That's right.
	Good work, Abby.
	That's why you're off the air.
	God.
	All right.
	Wow.
	Wow, wow, wow.
	I wanted to like her, but she had this kind of...
	And part of it, she's like, okay, she is a chatroom comment person.
	And what I mean by that is she gauges everything she's doing on that type of feedback, which, as we know, is difficult to At best, because people are very accustomed to just typing in vomit and diarrhea all the time, and you don't necessarily get great feedback that way.
	Do you know what I mean?
	Does this make any sense what I'm saying?
	Well, no.
	Not necessarily, but I know what you're trying to, I think.
	Trying to help me here.
	There's something you find about her and her...
	I think it's our naivete, which is what you do run into in chat rooms or some know-it-alls.
	They come in and they say this and that, and then they're fully crap.
	They're just ad-libbing.
	They're just acting like kids who can't answer questions.
	Twelve-year-olds always do this.
	Yes, yes.
	Make it up.
	Let me make it up.
	Yes.
	And she had a faux sincerity.
	She was...
	She had a snideness that really bothered me.
	I think she was more snide than Rachel Maddow.
	We're just dancing on her grave here.
	This is fantastic.
	Ha ha!
	You have no job.
	Ha ha!
	I dance on your grave.
	No, we're analyzing what happened because she never turned the corner on that show.
	She never professionalized.
	She could not read a prompter.
	She could not read a prompter.
	She was very poor at reading prompter, but she had three years to learn.
	I think it was a daily show, so she should have read one by now.
	Maybe she should have cried more during the regular show.
	It's like Glenn Beck made a hay with that idea.
	I want to hear that crying again.
	That was actually...
	The last one, the number three crying?
	Oh yeah, Abby loses it.
	That's number three.
	This is a classic.
	Remember that nations are invented, borders are invisible, prejudice is learned.
	We're all human beings who bleed the same blood and shed the same tears.
	Every time a person suffers from Detroit to Gaza, that's our brother.
	I guarantee you she will be co-hosting Fashion Police on the E! Network within a month.
	This is exactly where she belongs.
	That's kind of where she does belong.
	I found her to be...
	I found she never found herself.
	She never relaxed into herself on the show.
	She was a phony.
	Yes!
	She was a phony.
	Because I saw some old video of her.
	She was an artist.
	She does art.
	She does painting or mixed media.
	It's reasonably nice stuff.
	I mean, it's not high art, but it's graffiti level.
	It's kind of that kind of stuff.
	But she has the sensitivity of an artist.
	And she never showed that on the show.
	She was this brusque Phony.
	Know-it-all.
	Know-it-all, Nish.
	Never thought, you know, she didn't feel comfortable doing what she did.
	Boy, we are.
	Take you around in heels.
	Right.
	And she couldn't walk in the heels either.
	That bothered me too.
	Right.
	You could never walk down those steps.
	Women who don't wear heels ever can't walk in heels.
	I mean, it's like nobody can walk.
	Those things are horrible, I'm sure.
	And by the way, John, I've seen you in heels.
	Damn good job, my friend.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I can barely walk and shoot.
	Okay.
	All right.
	All right.
	So there you go.
	Hey, that was...
	You're right.
	Not only were you right, you nabbed a clip of the day.
	You saved the show.
	700 was on in a tailspin.
	Well, you get Billy Graham's kid.
	Franklin.
	What a name.
	Let's play Clapper.
	Oh, Clapper.
	Clapper's always good.
	What was 2014?
	2014, this is not about Clapper.
	2014, as we know, according to the president in the State of the Union, was claimed as the hottest year on record ever.
	We're burning up.
	Even though you've dug up the...
	Simple fact that 97 was hotter, but they didn't pay attention.
	I think it was 95.
	97, I'm sure it was 97.
	And only 38% of NASA and NOAA scientists were pretty sure that it was the hottest.
	Because, you know, they weren't really sure about it, but okay.
	And then NOAA's data shows that 97 was hotter.
	Fine.
	But 2014 is a good year to talk about, and Clapper was up on the hill.
	There was a lot of things going on, so I got this...
	I would have wanted to play this on Thursday's show, but it's still valid here.
	Moving on to terrorism, in 2013, just over 11,500 terrorist attacks worldwide killed approximately 22,000 people.
	Preliminary data for the first nine months of 2014 reflects nearly 13,000 attacks, which killed 31,000 people.
	Hey!
	When the final accounting is done, 2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years such data has been compiled.
	Wow.
	I didn't realize last year was such a damn interesting year.
	A great year, and wait, there's more?
	About half of all attacks, as well as fatalities in 2014, occurred in just three countries, Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
	What could the common factor be in those three countries?
	Let me think.
	Hmm.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, we kill people there with drones and we run in and...
	Well, I assume that those drones count as terrorism deaths.
	I don't know!
	They should.
	But why should I be worried if it's only in the sand?
	It's not over here.
	That's how Clapper puts it.
	2014.
	Most terrorist year ever.
	I'm drawing this data.
	ISIL conducted more attacks than any other terrorist group in the first nine months of 2014.
	So he already misspoke there, but he has to credit the data.
	Pay attention, the data is interesting.
	And credit where credit's due.
	I'm drawing this data from the National Consortium of the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START. Yeah, so this was complicated because I had to rewind this four times to get the entire name of this outfit that has claimed 2014 to be the most terror-killed death year ever.
	The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.
	Start.
	Start.
	Which is a part of the University of...
	Hold on.
	I think it's University of Maryland.
	Local.
	Local.
	Headquartered at University of Maryland.
	Start supports the research efforts of leading social scientists.
	Hmm.
	A social scientist?
	That's interesting.
	And more than 50 academic and research institutions, each of whom is conducting original investigations into fundamental questions about terrorism.
	So these are the guys, right?
	That sounds like these are the guys.
	Where do they get their money from?
	Well, I'll tell you.
	Student tuition.
	The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, START, is a Department of Homeland Security Science and Technologies Directorate, Center of Excellence, headquartered at the University of Maryland, apparently just paying rent.
	This is Clapper's operation.
	Funding is provided through a grant from DHS and S&T Office of University Programs.
	It is the Department of Homeland Security is paying for this.
	And he's up there like, oh, well, we have this independent information, credit where credit is due.
	Credit where credit is due.
	Why didn't you say credit where credit is due?
	Me!
	Yeah!
	I find that.
	You want to talk about abhorrent.
	That's not okay.
	START funders include Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects, DARPA, Yeah, these are anything but independent.
	Office of Naval Research, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency.
	Hello, FEMA Region 6 here.
	It's NOAA. But they say, oh, it's the National Consortium.
	Yeah, of the government.
	Yeah.
	I can't believe this.
	I do.
	And, of course, no one calls him on it.
	There is one guy, and I'm going to play a little bit of this, because these guys do this stuff.
	It's like Code Pink.
	You know, Code Pink, they're always in all the hearings.
	And what's her girl, the little pinky girl who started it?
	She's always getting thrown out.
	Yeah, the little old lady.
	Little lady.
	And there was a law professor who...
	You know what Code Pink stands for, by the way?
	I know.
	Code Pink began as a...
	I only know this because of the...
	Medea Benjamin is her name.
	Medea Benjamin.
	Yeah, because there's a unit of the Code Pink near a delicatessen I go to.
	And they had all this stuff painted up there.
	Code Pink began during the Bush administration.
	And the idea was the pink was to give Bush the pink slip.
	Oh, really?
	I didn't know that.
	Yeah, that's what the pink slip was.
	She's the one that famously interrupted the president during his droning speech.
	So she's been pretty useful, but no longer.
	And this guy waited until the hearing was adjourned, and then he just started yelling out questions, which are appropriate questions.
	And of course, he immediately gets arrested.
	But since this guy's doing it, no one ever will play what he did.
	I mean, he went up to Capitol Hill.
	He waited until the friggin' hearing was over with Clapper.
	And then he started asking questions.
	And we thank both of you for being here.
	Sharing his adjourn.
	Thank you.
	Director Cloud, in March 2013, you misled the Senate Intelligence Committee about the scope of NSA surveillance.
	What do you have to say to communities of color that are so hyper-policed that were subjected to extrajudicial assassination for selling loose cigarettes?
	He's just yelling.
	He's like, why did you kill people for selling cigarettes?
	Why did you perjure yourself?
	Why is your agency above the law?
	Why is your agency above the law?
	I love it.
	That was good.
	He just keeps asking.
	What?
	It's comedic.
	Why is your agency above the law?
	And it goes on for a couple minutes.
	Well, he did it after they closed the hearings because there's less liability issues.
	If you're doing it during the hearing and you're disrupting, you could probably be nailed for a misdemeanor.
	I don't think they can say anything.
	They can arrest you, but then there's no charges.
	What did you do wrong?
	I don't know if they pressed charges.
	Yelling in the wind.
	That's exactly what he was doing.
	Yelling in the wind.
	But at least there was someone doing it.
	I'm glad.
	Because you never, you know, you never, it used to be back on the news in my day, oh, protesters disrupt this guy was yelling something, and oh.
	No.
	I don't hear about that anymore.
	Those days are over.
	I do have one news clip I want to play.
	Okay.
	Which, because I just want to know if you've heard anything about this, or I sure haven't.
	And I was, I only heard about it on Al Jazeera.
	There's a long report, I only have the beginning of it.
	And it's about your neck of the woods, Cotton in Texas.
	In our global series on the falling price of cotton, we turn now to the world's biggest exporter, the United States.
	Prices there have fallen dramatically, and partly that's because of stockpiling in China, and concerns are growing for the entire industry.
	Andy Gallica reports from the cotton communities of Texas, where farmers are facing an uncertain future.
	On the high plains of the Texas Panhandle, only the remnants of this season's cotton harvest remain, but it's a crop that occupies those who live here all year round.
	Cotton has been planted in these fields since the 18th century, and many farmers have a deep connection with the land.
	This 640 acres is where my grandparents come out here in 1904.
	They come out here in a covered wagon.
	But Bruce Vaughan says cotton farmers are now in serious trouble.
	The price of a bale of cotton is the lowest it's been in years.
	Demand is down.
	An uncertainty about the future has Bruce questioning his family legacy.
	I don't know that all of my grandchildren will even want to be on the farm because of the uncertainty.
	I don't know if I'll be able to stay.
	You know about this, right?
	I did, actually.
	I know about the cotton.
	I also know about the rice farmers.
	What's going on with the rice farmers?
	Oh, they're stealing our water.
	Oh.
	Do you need water to grow rice?
	Yeah.
	Well, they're not stealing it.
	The Lower Colorado River Authority is selling it to them, and therefore Lake Travis is empty.
	Hmm.
	I believe this story is related to the TPP. That they're starting this up now so we can talk about how we need to fast track the president's free trade agreement.
	But the argument is that the Chinese are stockpiling.
	I don't know how that works without buying, but they stockpile and they're not going to buy anymore.
	And it's been down for the last 12 years.
	I believe this.
	I don't know why my voice is doing this.
	You're up-talking.
	It's really disturbing.
	They did this in the silk market historically years ago.
	I mean, this is like, I don't know, a few hundred years ago.
	The Chinese do this.
	At some point in history, the Japanese were the silk producers of the world, and they had developed a silkworm to produce silk, and it was like a proprietary thing.
	And only Japan was making this, and it was a good business, and people were making a lot of money, and the Chinese were buying the silk and making things in China with the Japanese silk.
	One day, the Chinese decided to go it alone and get their own silk worms and then develop their own silk industry.
	This is where the Silk Road came from.
	Right.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And they decided to undercut the Japanese to the point where the Japanese went out of business.
	Japanese silk is rare.
	Nobody makes it because the Chinese decided they're going to make more silk, sell it cheaper, and the Chinese do have a lot of silk.
	They never had the ability to change the pricing structures, and for all practical purposes, the Chinese silk industry went to a depression, and the whole silk business was ruined forever.
	And so how does that work?
	I think they're doing the same thing with cotton.
	I think they're going to ruin the market for cotton.
	They're going to put these poor Texans out of business.
	In California, we have a lot of cotton here, too.
	And they're just going to ruin the whole market for cotton.
	They're crazy.
	Because they've got some scheme afoot.
	That's my prediction.
	Well, well, well, well.
	Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them again.
	I'm telling you, that's what we need to do.
	We need to kill them.
	Yes.
	You know, I never heard this story until I was watching Al Jazeera and they talked about it.
	I didn't even hear it locally.
	I didn't even hear it locally.
	By the way, in the hospitals, code pink stands for a possible infant kidnap.
	Oh, interesting.
	Yeah, just so you know.
	Wow.
	All right, I tell you what, why don't we go and take a look at some of the people who have helped us out for show 700 on the best podcast in the universe.
	I'm going to show myself a little by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	Well, we have a bunch of people, and let's thank each and every one of them that donated and contributed over 50, as per our rules.
	Steve Bottoms in Reno, Nevada, $175.
	Can't afford a buck a show, so here's 25 cents a show.
	Another 25 cents.
	I appreciate it.
	Robert Smiley, Holland, Pennsylvania, $175.
	You're thinking the same way, I'm sure.
	Bottoms is Sir Old IT Guy.
	I think he is a knight.
	I think.
	Oh, okay.
	Mark Pugner of Shamsburg, Illinois.
	Not that Pugner guy again.
	Yeah, well, there's a twist to this story.
	But Pugner gave us 147.
	Nikola Nikoloff in Northborough, Massachusetts, nuts, 140.
	Adam Smith in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 140.
	Daniel Boylan, In Chicago, Illinois, 140.
	He's got a long...
	Read that and see if there's anything...
	He's a long-time douchebag, he says.
	Chicago...
	No, everything's good.
	Ivo Welton in Arnheim, Holland.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	A favorite of mine.
	He did want a shout-out to eventual night and fellow Chicagoan Sir Tony of the Apples.
	So, all right.
	Done that.
	You just got it.
	Yep.
	Daniel Torello in Charleston.
	Beautiful place, South Carolina, 107.
	He was really drunk when he sent in his...
	He emailed me like four different notes.
	Daniel?
	Yeah.
	I don't see any drunkenness in this note here.
	Maybe...
	I thought it was...
	He's going to be knighting.
	He's going to be knighted today.
	He'd like to be...
	What?
	Just this once.
	Please refer to me as Sir Daniel Torellio.
	Okay, well, we'll do that after this.
	Timothy Malone, $100.
	And Dedham, Massachusetts Nuts.
	Alon Baker, Parts Unknown, $100.
	Sir Sander Huxberg, and it's Zandam.
	Zandam.
	Joseph Green in Stevenson Creek, California, $77.77.
	Scott Webster in Gilbert, Arizona.
	Alan Smith in Powders, $77.77.
	Alan Smith, $77.69 in Powder Springs, Georgia.
	Mike O'Reilly in McMinnville, Oregon, $73.50.
	Jmoon.net in Legrand, Oregon, $70.70.
	Borislav Marinov in Trabuco Canyon, California, 7007.
	Martian Zawadzki in Yardville, New Jersey, 7007.
	And the following are people who donated $70 each.
	And just so we know, Martian will also be a knight, knighted today.
	Yes.
	Sir...
	What does that say?
	Bialy?
	How can that be?
	Oh, pronunciation?
	Sir, Bialy.
	Innocent play on P-L-E-N words.
	Polish, I guess.
	I'm sorry, now I have to go and figure out the pronunciation.
	Bialy.
	Anyway, I'm going to read the $70 donors while you do that.
	Paul Gabrielson in Grover Beach, California.
	Sir John Adams in Stratford, Connecticut.
	Danny Haynes in Graystains, New South Wales, Australia.
	Russell Girton in Beaumaris, Victoria, Australia.
	David Chaney in Arlington, Texas, $70.
	William Durkin in Greenville, South Carolina.
	Sir Brad Doherty, our buddy in Brooklyn.
	Sam Leung in Toronto.
	He's always in.
	He's actually a Baron.
	Chad Lawrence in Springfield, Oregon.
	Eric Van Martyr in Van Nuys, California.
	Zachary Gilbrecht in Cordova, Tennessee.
	Stephen Taft in Marietta, Georgia.
	Marcian Zadowski came in again.
	Mm-hmm.
	Also KA1WX73s.
	Sami Saranjo in Tempere, Finland.
	I have no idea how to pronounce that.
	I'm sorry.
	Mark Heimerman in Appleton, Wisconsin.
	Stu Coates in Chelmsford, Essex, UK. Alan Fleetwood in Cottage Grove, Oregon.
	David Lee in Williamsburg, Virginia.
	Sir Ryan Benson in Tampa, Florida.
	Stephen Schwartz in Schertz, Texas.
	How'd that go?
	Oh, hold on.
	James Chapko in Crown Point, Indiana.
	Roger Brown in, I don't know, Torbingen?
	It's a mess on the screen here in Deutschland.
	James Jennifer Buchanan, another Charlestonian, South Carolina.
	Christopher Dechter in Richland, Washington.
	Max the Crackpot Christian in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
	This is quite a feat to get the 700, and he's right.
	Julian Swan in Atlanta, Georgia.
	Baroness Tanya Wayman.
	Hey, all right.
	Tanya, New York City.
	Wayne Lar...
	Larcombe, I guess, in sunny...
	Larcombe.
	Sunny Banks Hills, Queensland, Australia.
	Chris Terhart in Abbotsford, B.C. Morris Tate.
	Maybe Maurice, I'd say.
	Maurice Tate in Vallejo.
	Rub the street for me.
	Patrick Bestian, Piermont, New York.
	Eric McCarritts.
	McCarritts.
	In Socorno, New Mexico.
	What is this one?
	Jean Bernier in France.
	Yeah, I guess it's in the Loire Valley, I think.
	I could be wrong.
	Paul is in France.
	Well, let's just say, it's the second guy from France.
	We are penetrating, John.
	We're trending in France.
	We're trending.
	Paul Robertson in Upper Tract, West Virginia.
	Jaron in Holland.
	Please do not mention last name.
	Oh, we didn't.
	Robert Swindell in Norco, California.
	Adam Lemesini.
	Lemesini in Colorado Springs.
	I always put an N in there.
	Venilex Corporation.
	Venilex in Johns Creek, Georgia.
	Mark McDunn in Fort Royal, Virginia.
	Jack Smith in Fackenham, Norfolk, UK. Keith Van Dyke in Owen, South Australia.
	Brad Bissell in Topsfield, Massachusetts, 70.
	Deborah Bradley in Trimble, Missouri.
	Karen Van Heitzma in Omaha, Nebraska.
	Positive Dennis DeJarnett in Nollister, Missouri.
	And Mark Pugner of Cleveland.
	Another Mark Pugner.
	How is it possible?
	There's a second one.
	And he's in for $70.
	That means there's really three, though.
	Eric B. Elaine in Muffreesboro.
	Yeah, I never know really how to pronounce that in Tennessee.
	Famous town, though.
	Larry Coates in Springfield, Missouri.
	And that's our $70 donors.
	There's quite a few of them.
	I want to thank every one of them, of course.
	And that was a nice list.
	And now we finish off with Eric Dutro, $57.77 in Flint, Michigan.
	Jared Glidewell in Muncie, Pennsylvania, $57.
	Alan Smith in Powder Springs, Georgia, $55.33.
	Shane Rozdilski in Powder Springs, Georgia.
	Shane, oh, I'm sorry, Saskatoon.
	And he's in for 50.
	These final ones are 50.
	And they're Saskatoon, Paris of Canada, by the way.
	Eric Miller, Norwalk, Connecticut.
	Dustin Martin in Salem, Oregon.
	And finally, David Dural in Malta, New York.
	Sir Walter in Huyzen.
	Where?
	Let me see.
	Sir...
	I don't see him here.
	It's right there.
	H-U-I-Z-N. Oh, he has a request that we're going to talk about on the next show, on Thursday.
	Yeah, right.
	That's going to be on the 701.
	Ross Turpin in Troy, Kansas.
	Gerald Inabene, Union, South Carolina.
	Sir Peter Totes.
	From Parts Unknown.
	And last but not least, Sir Mark Tanner in Whittier, California, who seems to donate on every show $50.
	I want to thank all these folks for helping to celebrate Show 700.
	It's non-trivial to get to that many shows, especially in the world of podcasting.
	And this is a very warm, heartfelt thank you for all the contributions.
	Yeah, we do have a show on Thursday, to remind you.
	It's not like we're stopping.
	It's not like we're stopping.
	We're going to continue.
	We will do whatever we can to continue the program.
	Yeah.
	Well, 701, we have more interesting numbers on the way in our future.
	For sure.
	Yeah, we have, by the way, Pi Day coming up.
	That's right.
	This will be the only one ever.
	I think we're ever going to see ever.
	31415.
	I don't think we'll ever see that ever again in our lifetime, ever.
	Ever, ever.
	It would have to be 30.
	It would be in the year 30-15.
	Well, maybe 21-15, I guess.
	Fine.
	Well, honored and humbled, thank you all very much for your support of our program for our 700th episode.
	And as you heard earlier, we are both very much looking forward to 700 more.
	Which should take us...
	Looking forward is the right word.
	Yes, we're looking forward to it.
	Don't be quiet.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A Mike Roch, a.k.a.
	Alan Smith, says happy birthday to Miss Ginger.
	She turned 30 on February 28th.
	Nikola Nikolov says happy birthday to Ekaterina and Dimitar, both celebrating on March 4th.
	Ivo Belton celebrates his birthday today.
	And Andrew Kelly will be 19 on March 7th.
	Happy birthday from all your friends here at the Best Podcast E in the Universe!
	Happy birthday, yeah!
	That's right.
	Got it.
	Hearts tuned.
	Everyone good?
	Yep.
	Feeling good.
	We have a number of nightings today, and we have one, two, three, four.
	We have listened to these changes in peerage.
	I'm a little worried, by the way, about our peerage map, this ITM.IM thing, which I don't maintain, has been broken for a couple weeks.
	This is a little disappointing that things like this happen.
	The bat signal hasn't worked for months.
	Yeah, it's like an old castle.
	However, Alex Wolinski just fixed the Roku app.
	The album art is now showing.
	Thank you very much.
	It's now showing.
	Good.
	Sir A.J. Reistad becomes Baron of Yellowstone in the Treasure Valley.
	Sir Jason Fortune becomes Baron of the Fox Valley.
	Sir Sander Hoxbergen becomes Baron of the Alps.
	Sir Bashir achieves his Baroness today.
	Baronessi, I should say.
	Sir Christopher, also Baronessi today.
	And Sir Brad Doherty, also taking his Baronessi in receipt today, courtesy of the peerage committee.
	And then we have...
	Oh, I have the official pronunciation?
	Biali.
	That's it.
	I had to get that from Wikipedia.
	For Biali.
	Wait.
	I'm hearing it.
	Oh, it's cutting off.
	Biali.
	Biali.
	That's how I'll pronounce it.
	Biali.
	So we'd like to invite to this...
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Do you have your...
	That's mine.
	Very nice.
	Daniel Torello.
	Torellio.
	Tom Staniszewski.
	And Marshawn Zawanski, please step on up to the podium.
	The three of you have now entered the Roundtable of the Knights and Danes or the No Agenda Roundtable.
	I proudly pronounce the K-D, Sir Daniel Torellio, Sir Thomas of Great Bay, and Sir Bialy.
	All Knights and No-Dale Roundtable.
	We've got a great lineup of hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay.
	We've got Dos Equis and Dutch dominatrix, whiskey and wet wipes, hookers off, three cases of buck and fried chicken.
	Geisha's in sake, vodka and vanilla, bong, hit some bourbon, and then of course there's always the mutton and mead.
	Head on over to noaginternation.com slash rings.
	They're coming in the next couple weeks.
	A week or two.
	And then they'll be going out.
	They'll be out the door.
	And thank you and please continue to support the program.
	I think that we at least open the...
	Well, no, I know we do.
	We're opening eyes.
	We're helping people...
	Especially younger people.
	We're helping people.
	Feeling good about being bold.
	All said and done, our great triumph will be net neutrality.
	We can just talk about it briefly.
	I don't really have too much.
	I found that Verizon's response to this was they posted a PDF response in Morse code.
	Their way of saying, ha ha, you're so old-fashioned, FCC. That'd be funny.
	And then they had another version because, of course, that failed.
	Because most people have no idea what it is.
	They don't know how to translate it.
	They're like, what?
	Even though it's been around for 100...
	I think Morse code has been around for over 120 years by now.
	Still being used actively.
	Probably with Samuel Morse.
	I'm guessing he did that in the 1840s.
	I should know.
	So that would be a lot longer than that.
	I'll look it up.
	Yeah.
	You do that.
	By the way, I'm going to post a link to my buddy, Andrea.
	He's an Italian ham.
	And he made this Android app, which is the Morse code machine or something he's called it.
	And he's gamified learning Morse code.
	Oh, that's a good idea.
	And he has like a leaderboard and everything.
	And you play this game for an hour or two, and before you know it, you know you're doing Morse code.
	It's...
	It's a very interesting game.
	I'll post a link to it.
	1836.
	There you go.
	1936, I'm 50, 70.
	170 years now?
	Yeah, very good.
	80, actually.
	So, the FCC... They come out and say, oh, you know what?
	We voted and we're going to put this under Title II, pretty much kind of like the president's plan.
	But there were some changes because Google put some changes in.
	But we're not really going to show that because we need dissent first.
	And as predicted, we had three yeas, two nays.
	So the nays will provide their dissent.
	Which is like the Supreme Court, I guess, where they provide an opinion on why they disagreed with the choice.
	Yeah, the two men.
	I have, I clipped all, I don't have for today's show, but listening to these two idiots, and Wheeler, of course, is just a stooge for Obama, but listening to these two women going on and on and on and on, it was pathetic.
	Well, the part that's pathetic is there's no document to look at.
	Yeah, I know, and everyone's all in on it.
	Oh, this is fantastic.
	I got it.
	Well, hello, Abby Martin.
	Abby Martin's a good example.
	She's celebrating it.
	But what's his name?
	The Minnesota comedian that bailed Franken.
	He sent a press release out to everybody with a clip of him going on about how great this is, even though I don't know that he's seen it.
	We have no idea what this document says.
	So how can it be great?
	Al Franken, let me just say, do we have that?
	Why didn't you clip that?
	Oh, you know, I was thinking, now that you mention it, I should have.
	Because Al Franken pontificating about how great he is is always funny.
	Yeah, well, it's Thursday's show.
	It's up on Thursday.
	Well, I can play the video right here.
	I've already found it if you want it.
	Okay, well, just play it.
	If you think it's worth it, we can try it.
	Well, it's mostly just, oh, this is great.
	You know, finally, now we don't have to worry anymore.
	Here's where the argument is.
	We don't have to worry anymore because our fears are lessened by the government coming in and taking over the Internet.
	Yeah.
	And it's good, and we love it.
	Net Neutrality 1.
	Well, I do have a question.
	Hold on.
	Here's Frank, and let's see what this is.
	This is local news, and it...
	Wow.
	They don't know how to do anything.
	Hi, Aaron.
	Hi, Aaron.
	Oh, this is a raw feed.
	Hi, Senator Franken.
	Aaron Ruppert from Fox 9 News here.
	Oh, this is the press conference.
	Good, how are you doing today?
	Good, good.
	I put out the call to my Twitter followers to see if they had any questions.
	Oh, this is actually good.
	This is a satellite feed where I guess he's just doing one interview after another.
	Oh, cool.
	And so here's the journalist.
	I emphasize the word journalist.
	Sucking up to him.
	Right off the bat going, hey, hey man, I sent out to my Twitter followers.
	Hey, I put out the call to my Twitter followers to see if they had any questions on that neutrality for you, but the one that kept coming back is why you didn't participate in SNL 40.
	Okay, I'm closing this out now.
	Wow.
	Jesus.
	Sorry, did not mean to take the Lord, the son of the Lord's name in vain.
	Here's the one thing that hit me.
	Wheeler and the president, and we're hearing consistently a free and open internet.
	Yeah.
	And it hit me, this has to be code.
	And I went looking for the genesis of free and open internet.
	Eric Schmidt, Google.
	This is, as far as I can tell, he started this.
	This free and open internet.
	And Google was in on the final decision because they, and this was reported at least.
	Here it is.
	Now they have a forthcoming conference all about the free and open internet.
	This is a Google term.
	And as far as I can tell, it originated with Eric Schmidt.
	Meaning to me, also the lack of, I'm not hearing any, you know, huge noise from Google.
	Whatever was done is going to benefit Google.
	And it makes a lot of sense because, you know, the Obama administration and Schmidt and Google, these guys are, I think they've kind of all been playing together for a long time.
	Net neutrality, the White House, as presented by the president, a free and open internet, it's code.
	Yeah, but code for what?
	Well, whatever they got.
	We're not sure exactly what it is, but whatever is in this document is going to benefit Google.
	That's as far as I've got, because I don't have the document.
	If Google's involved, you can be sure it's going to benefit Google.
	And Google's, of course, putting the fiber everywhere they can, very slowly, I might add.
	Well, it's been wildfire in Austin.
	Well, I'm talking about slowly from a national perspective.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah, they get to Austin, they put fiber up all as fast as they can, but it's not...
	I don't see it.
	I don't see it coming.
	So to me, it's slow.
	I'd probably be a better shot at getting fiber from Sonic.net, who is going to put fiber up too.
	Although I think somehow he's going to get screwed in this deal.
	So here is the EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
	Who I have very little regard for over the years.
	I've become very disappointed.
	They take money from Google.
	And their post is, Dear FCC, thanks for listening to Team Internet.
	And they lay it out.
	The FCC voted 3-2 to reclassify broadband internet access as a common carrier service under Title II of the Communications Act and forbear from...
	Forbear from the parts of the act that aren't necessary for net neutrality rules.
	This reclassification gives the FCC the authority to enact and enforce narrow, clear rules which help keep the Internet the open platform it is today.
	And nowhere in this press release does the EFF mention the blocking of legal content and network traffic.
	The actual order, they say, is over 300 pages long, and it's not widely available yet.
	Details matter.
	Why?
	Well, I... Yeah, good question.
	If you put it online, it's not going to cost anything to print.
	The reason why is because this is intended to be a political football.
	It's just going to be politicized.
	Nothing changed, by the way.
	Nothing changed, and there's going to be a bunch of court cases because of what they did to the mobile carriers.
	And those guys have got the deep pockets.
	And they're going to go after this whole thing.
	But in the meantime, what you're going to see is people already believing that this is in place.
	This is what you have to watch for.
	It's going to be funny.
	I said, wait a minute, it's net neutrality, man.
	We won the battle.
	What are you talking about?
	Watch.
	People have no idea that this is nothing definite, and certainly not until it's published in the Federal Register.
	And then there will be immediate challenges, as predicted, because what they're doing has already been through the court system with the EPA. You cannot change a regulation as an agency just to make it better for what you want.
	It has to be a congressional change.
	This is intended to not work.
	Yeah, it's a scam.
	It's a whole thing is a scam.
	But everybody will believe that we've won.
	Well, good.
	I don't know if that's good.
	They believe they won SOPA, too, and I'm sure there's a bunch of that kind of thing in this bill, in this regulation.
	They put everything but the kitchen sink in.
	No doubt, no doubt.
	Let's see, what do I have here?
	Oh, yes.
	Mike Morrell was on Charlie Rose.
	Mike Morrell?
	Yeah, he was the assistant CIA director.
	Oh, right.
	And he quit.
	Yes.
	What did he have to say?
	It was very interesting.
	He was talking with Charlie about the Iranian centrifuges.
	And that this is the deal.
	This is the deal that's ongoing.
	Is Bibi coming to town this week where he comes and speaks to Congress and Netanyahu, and he's going to talk about this bad Iranian deal that we're putting together?
	Yes.
	It's coming up, I think, this Wednesday, maybe.
	Something like that.
	Now, as you understand it, what has been told to us, although I believe there's something else going on, the idea...
	Is we want to limit the amount of centrifuges Iran has so they can't make a bomb.
	Is that what you've heard?
	No, I have no idea what's proposed.
	I don't know about the number of centrifuges having anything to do with it.
	Well, Mike Moreau believes so, and he thinks it's very strange.
	Let's come back to the deal, right?
	I love how he's a little Silicon Valley man now, right?
	Let's talk about the deal, right?
	Let's come back to the deal, right?
	So, I don't think the focus should be on the number of centrifuges.
	In fact, there's a great irony here.
	5,000 centrifuges is, if you're just going to have a nuclear weapons program, 5,000 centrifuges is pretty much the number you need.
	If you're going to have a power program, you need a lot more centrifuges.
	So by limiting them to a small number of centrifuges, we're kind of limiting them to the number you need for a weapon.
	There's a great irony here, right?
	So why don't we recognize that?
	Does he say Wright after every sentence?
	Well, it gets better.
	Yes, he does.
	So Charlie Rose says, well, hold on a second, Mr.
	Wright.
	How come we don't recognize this as, I don't know, as media would be one way, and say, hold on, this is bullcrap.
	Why are we limiting them to the amount that is only needed for a bomb and not for power?
	Why don't we recognize that?
	Do you hear what he said?
	I don't know.
	Charlie Rose says, why don't they recognize it?
	He goes, I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Why don't we recognize that?
	I don't know.
	Well, it's a very important question.
	I mean, you don't know.
	It's a very important question.
	And I'm not around the table anymore, Joey.
	You know what kind of arguments they would make if this came up.
	Yeah, but I'm not around the table.
	I don't know.
	Well, I found that to be strange.
	That's very strange.
	And so this guy comes on, right?
	Right.
	And he makes his assertions, right?
	Right.
	And he...
	Why is he on the show at all?
	I don't know.
	I gotcha.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	He's communicating a message.
	Well, obviously, BB's coming to town, so I presume it's a hot button when there's a topic and we gotta be all over it.
	And there you go.
	There you go.
	Apparently, it's enough for a bomb, but not enough for...
	Maybe it's to set up Bibi to bring this factoid forward.
	And of course, we'll all ignore the Al Jazeera Spygate stuff where they've already discovered all the memos from the Mossad.
	That has just disappeared even from Al Jazeera.
	But it's in the show notes.
	We put a copy on it.
	Yeah, we did.
	Although, I love how Al Jazeera did it.
	So they release a PDF and it looks like an old...
	I think it's manufactured.
	I don't think that the memo was actually on a legal pad.
	No, because it was digital.
	The guy kept emphasizing that.
	It was a digital leak.
	Right.
	But when you look at the document...
	I'm bringing it up now just so I can...
	It looks like it's printed on yellow...
	Like it was typewritten on yellow paper...
	Yeah, it's bull crap.
	With Al Jazeera logos in it.
	Yeah, it actually...
	I don't think this 2012 that they were printing this stuff out on yellow paper.
	No, this is a...
	It's fabrication.
	A fabrication so they could just, I don't know, give it more gravitas or whatever you want to say to the idiots that would download it and look at that.
	Oh, this must be...
	Must be real.
	Must be genuine.
	Yeah.
	When the guy specifically said it's a digital leak, there was just reams of digital stuff.
	It wasn't copies of documents.
	No, this whole thing is...
	We have to wait until this Netanyahu guy's done to see what the fallout is.
	But this guy's got to go.
	I don't understand why...
	Well, he's being undermined everywhere.
	He's being undermined everywhere, so...
	Well, they're trying.
	And the Jews in America, all the Jews I know, they're pissed off at him.
	They do not like him.
	You don't speak on our behalf, because that's what he said.
	I speak on behalf of Jews everywhere.
	He's the Jew master.
	That would be annoying.
	Yeah, the New York Jews I know said, no, no he doesn't.
	This guy's an a-hole.
	I don't know how he stays in power.
	He must have a power vacuum in Israel.
	I saw something very disturbing, which was completely mishandled on MSNBC. Yeah, but I actually, for the first time, typically I'm not a Mika Brzezinski fan.
	You know, Mika is, although she has milfy qualities, which I do like about her, and she has strange mannerisms which make it interesting to watch, in general she is the spawn of the evil New World Order Illuminati shill Brzezinski.
	So, you know, the bloodline is ruined in her.
	She's no good.
	You know, you throw that one back.
	No good.
	But as a television host, co-host with Joe Scarborough.
	Is it Joe Scarborough?
	Yeah, Joe Scarborough.
	It's interesting.
	Because she does have a direct line to the Illuminati.
	Her old man.
	Zabig.
	Mr.
	Zabig.
	And something happened, and I'll have to narrate this a little bit.
	They were playing the video of John Boehner, who is the spokeshole, the boss of all the Republicans.
	And you probably saw this where someone asked a question about, God, no, and he went, and he made this kissing thing towards the journalist.
	Tell me.
	No, I did not see this.
	Oh, jeez.
	Are you kidding me?
	I'm not kidding you.
	Ugh.
	Okay.
	So, something is asked of...
	Oh, it's about the...
	It was about the...
	It was a kissing sound in reference to you being a kiss-ass?
	Yeah.
	Well, no one really knows.
	It's the reason you do that.
	It was really creepy.
	No, the question was...
	It means you're kissing somebody's ass.
	You're being called out.
	Right.
	But if you watch the video of Boehner doing it, it was unclear.
	It was like, what are you doing?
	You're creepy.
	It was really creepy.
	So they play this clip, and no one really knows why he's doing this.
	The question wasn't really suck ass or kiss ass.
	Maybe there was something going on between Boehner and the journalist that we don't know about.
	So they start discussing this, and they start putting this into a loop.
	They play this kissing thing that Boehner does over and over again.
	And it triggers a childhood trauma in Brzezinski.
	But no one's listening, and she has to walk off the set.
	Here.
	Oh, was he kissing Luke?
	No, it was a guy named Todd Zwillich who he was kissing.
	Okay.
	Well...
	I just, I really don't understand.
	I'm not satisfied with any of the answers.
	I'm not satisfied.
	That's Mika Brzezinski screaming when she sees this video.
	So, she has my attention.
	No, I can't make any sense of it.
	What's going on?
	I know a lot of dirty old men that did that to me.
	She says, I know a lot of dirty old men that did that to me.
	Was it a female reporter asking the question?
	No.
	And then, of course, we have all the men on this show are like...
	And listen though.
	I don't get it.
	I know a lot of dirty old men that did that to me.
	Oh my God!
	I don't want to hear these stories from the South of France or from your country club in Maine.
	You later made a report.
	Now listen to what she says next.
	That brought back bad memories.
	That brought back bad memories.
	Three weeks Brindingville.
	It went straight to the Republicans' head.
	Why the hell am I even trying to read this?
	I have the immigration fight move going.
	The spread cam on me.
	Everyone's left because she cannot handle what's going on.
	So she has now walked off the set.
	The camera is catching her behind.
	She's in tears.
	She's crying.
	She's like, don't look at me.
	And then Scarborough says this.
	And so they have this shot of her and she's crying.
	She's sobbing uncontrollably.
	Are you sure she's not laughing?
	No, no, no, no.
	She sounded like she was laughing when she first referred to me.
	It was that really nervous laugh, and then when you hear her say, this brings back some really bad memories, dude, this woman has been sexually abused, and they're laughing at her and telling her to get back here.
	This girl needs help!
	Geez.
	I'm serious.
	I'm serious.
	I'm telling you, this girl has been abused, and God knows what kind of Illuminati, you know, child-sacrifice, baby-eating shit they do with Zbigniew Brzezinski at the Bilderberg, but this woman has been traumatized by it.
	She needs help.
	Well, she was, sounds traumatized.
	Yeah.
	That I'll give you.
	Yeah.
	And look at her dad.
	You know they're eating babies.
	Well, you don't know what...
	Second half of the show.
	In the woods, I'm telling you.
	I just felt really bad for the first time.
	I have some compassion for Brzezinski.
	Yeah, well, she may be MKUltraferl, you know.
	Well, that would make a lot of sense.
	All right.
	I got a good segue clip.
	Everybody dip.
	Dip all day.
	Dip, dip, dip.
	Everybody dip.
	What is that?
	That's not a good clip.
	That's not a good clip.
	I'm going to wind it up.
	I got two things for me and I'm done.
	Do you have anything to end up with?
	I got stuff, but I'm going to move it to Thursday since the show is running.
	We're running over, yeah.
	But we had to do that because we had a lot of thank you.
	It's a 700 episode.
	Come on.
	Can we party a little bit?
	Can we just a little bit?
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	No.
	Party!
	Party!
	CPAC is this thing that...
	Oh yeah, CPAC. I needed to pick up two clips.
	Just two.
	Two clips, that's all.
	Actually, is Carly Fiorina?
	She's a Republican, isn't she?
	It's not going to be Franklin Graham again, is it?
	No, is Carly Fiorina a Republican?
	Yes, yes, she's been a long-term Republican.
	Republican.
	Rick Perry first.
	I've always felt Rick Perry is, he was the former governor of Texas.
	I always felt this was a dude I could grab a beer with.
	He's a big dummy.
	Looks smarter with glasses.
	Well, he's wearing the glasses.
	And I always thought Perry would be a guy...
	I could drink a beer with this guy.
	He may not be a total douchebag.
	Well, guess what?
	I was wrong.
	Yeah.
	This guy is a hum...
	Not a total.
	He's a humongous douchebag.
	Of course.
	Biggest douchebag of all douchebags.
	Douchebags.
	Listen to him.
	At no time, at no time in the last 25 years has the future been more uncertain and the world more dangerous.
	Ha!
	Fuck you!
	Douchebag!
	No!
	No!
	Than it is today.
	Do not vote for this man if he runs for president.
	This is a dick trying to scare old people watching Fox.
	Very douchey scaring the old people in CPAC. It's worse than that.
	On three points.
	We must be clear.
	We must be clear.
	Are you trying to get someone's attention, Perry?
	First, our country has entered a time of testing and our political leadership is failing the test.
	Some shill in the background.
	Yes!
	The American people see a president who bows to political correctness in denial of the threats that we face, making grave miscalculations that make the world less safe.
	Now, this administration's incompetence.
	And Iraq and Syria have allowed the emergence of ISIS. And I'm listening to this guy.
	So are you really going to tell me that ISIS is real?
	Is this really what you're going to do, Perry?
	Do you think that no one in your state has any brains?
	You should be tarred and feathered and run out in the dress you wear on the weekends.
	They're in American tanks.
	They're using American weapons.
	And ISIS began taking cities that just a few years ago were secured by American blood.
	Let's be very, very clear about who ISIS is.
	What they represent.
	They are a religious movement that seeks to take the world back to the 7th century.
	Yeah, right!
	No.
	No.
	And no again.
	So I hate this guy now.
	He had a shot with me, but all this bullcrap.
	Just total lies.
	All right.
	I like that clip.
	Give us another one.
	Clip two.
	Carly Fiorina.
	Ah.
	And she's all over Hillary.
	You know, the new news...
	That's a possibility.
	I agree that may be happening.
	Oh, I see what you mean.
	Never mind.
	Hey-o!
	So the news is that when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, gee, it turns out there was gambling going on, and up to seven nations contributed money to the Clinton Global Initiative Foundation.
	Oh, really?
	Huh.
	No kidding.
	She tweets about women's rights in this country and takes money from governments that deny women the most basic human rights.
	Yeah!
	Hillary's got a fight on her hands.
	I love it.
	Well, she does.
	Yeah.
	I think Hillary does have a fight on her hands.
	I love it.
	It's not a cakewalk.
	And she treats everything like a cakewalk, so she's going to lose.
	Mm-hmm.
	Hello, Elizabeth Warren.
	Well, I don't know, man.
	I have my doubts about Warren.
	But okay, it could be.
	It's been saying it since the first day she emerged when she got that job.
	I'm staying the course.
	And then just because it's going to get stale if we don't at least mention it now, our dude's name, Ben, this is probably one of the funniest things that I've heard.
	As we had followed the emails that disappeared, that were deleted, were removed, hard drives crashed, decimated.
	What was the guy's name?
	The crisis manager was brought in.
	Cokie Conan, what's his name?
	That guy.
	Yeah, the round-headed bowling ball guy.
	Yeah, the IRS interim...
	Yeah, the guy says...
	Glib.
	Mr.
	Glib.
	Mr.
	Glib.
	What's his name?
	I don't know his name.
	Director?
	It would be director.
	It would be his title.
	IRS. Yeah.
	That guy.
	Yeah, Mr.
	Glib.
	Like, oh, I don't know.
	Oh, my understanding is a bit...
	Anyway, hey, guess what?
	They found the emails.
	Sure, backed up.
	Well, they were waiting to be filed in the mountain there in West Virginia.
	Here is a news report just to wrap it up.
	It is the closest the Treasury Department Inspector General has come to acknowledging potential criminal wrongdoing in the Lois Lerner affair.
	Are you investigating any potential criminal activity?
	The entire matter continues to be under active investigation, yes, sir.
	For potential criminal activity.
	Yes.
	That revelation during a rare late night hearing in which the IG disclosed his office has obtained 32,000 Lois Lerner emails from backup tapes stored at the IRS's Martinsburg, West Virginia facility.
	IRS officials have maintained that the emails were gone, destroyed in a hard drive crash.
	I would advise the actual hard drive after it was determined that it was dysfunctional and that with experts, no emails could be retrieved, was recycled and destroyed in the normal process.
	Last night's testimony suggests the IRS made a less than vigorous attempt to track down the emails.
	And then when you go talk to the IT people who are there in charge of them, They told you that they were never even asked for them?
	Is that correct?
	That's correct.
	Yeah.
	Actually, and this is the kicker, the IRS employee tasked with trying to restore and obtain emails on Lois Lerner's IRS computer or hard drive, Stephen Manning, Deputy Chief Information Officer for Strategy and Modernization at the IRS, is legally blind.
	Wow. - Oh.
	So they went to the blind guy.
	Have you seen any emails around here?
	No, I don't see any.
	Nothing here.
	Wild.
	Well, this is going to turn out bad for somebody.
	Of course, it's not going to mean anything.
	It's already over.
	It's a forgotten story.
	Nobody cares.
	There's water under the bridge.
	At least we are the ones that like to come back to it once in a while.
	Yeah, we come back to these stories because their stories are not necessarily done.
	And Chaffee obviously comes back to it.
	He's in there pounding these guys.
	He's irked.
	It seems like he's irked all the time.
	I have one last clip.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I was already into the...
	You were, but I'm going to play the last clip because this clip's going to get stale.
	All right.
	We hear a lot about Iran and they did some missile testing and they blew up an American battleship.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And I just got this clip because I thought it was so funny because it kind of had a punchline to it.
	And it described the situation.
	Iran staged a major show of military force today, taking aim at a life-size model of a U.S. aircraft carrier.
	State television broadcasts war games near the entrance to the Persian Gulf.
	Spectators looked on as speedboats raced in and missile batteries fired on the mock-up, doing heavy damage.
	The U.S. Navy dismissed the exercise.
	The spokesman said they've attempted to destroy the equivalent of a Hollywood movie set.
	Thank God for the repealment of the Smith-Munt Act, everybody.
	You know, it really made news that much more entertaining.
	It is a lot more entertaining.
	And it's a good thing that we're here, and we want to thank everybody for helping us with show 700, because we recognize this, and we recognize it for like hundreds of shows.
	Hundreds of shows.
	Hundreds.
	And we make it so everyone who listens to what we do, which is pretty much deconstruct what's going on and do some original reporting too, although we don't need to.
	But we have boots on the ground, so we might as well.
	It makes everybody who listens to the show feel better about themselves.
	They're happier.
	They get to see the joke of the situation the way it is.
	They can see reality a little better.
	They more or less can spot some of these things as they come along in advance of the show.
	Not all the time.
	And sometimes we can't do that unless we're talking to each other.
	And then we can deconstruct on the fly because this is a performance.
	And all that sort of thing I think makes people healthier.
	And I think they're going to live longer, and I'm glad that they're supporting us because they know there's nothing else like this, the best podcast in the universe.
	Well said.
	I could not have put it better, John.
	Nailed it.
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	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's beautiful for some reason, I'm John C. Devorak.
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	What the prostitution!
	Remember that nations are invented, borders are invisible, prejudice is learned.
	We're all human beings who bleed the same blood and shed the same tears.
	Every time a person suffers from Detroit to Gaza, that's our brother.
	I think his first name may have been Ben.
	A guy named Ben.
	A dude named Ben.
	I'm a great admirer of Mitt Romney's.
	My illegitimate son, Lindsey Graham, is exploring that option.
	And thank you for taking the time to listen.
	Adios, mofo.
	Man, fist bump.
	The best podcast in the universe.

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