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	This is right now.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, March 5th, 2015.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 701.
	This is No Agenda.
	Fighting the crappy software industry.
	Coming to you live from FEMA Region 6 in downtown Austin, Tejas in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm enjoying a mimosa made with blood orange juice.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Wait a minute.
	Are you drinking on the job?
	I am now.
	Okay.
	I think you're...
	In fact, I was just about to do drugs.
	This is the perfect day for all this.
	We had a bad start.
	Very bad.
	I think we need to talk about it because you get in a very strange mood and I'm really angry.
	You're just cussing like a truck driver.
	That's not on the recording.
	I didn't do that.
	I pride myself.
	First, let's step back.
	The podcast award nominations are out.
	This show, the best podcast in the universe, has been nominated for two.
	One is, as usual, People's Choice.
	We never win that.
	It's hard to win that because they always have something.
	I think this time everyone's into cereal.
	It's not even a podcast.
	Is cereal nominated?
	It's on tape.
	Is it nominated?
	Yeah, I think so.
	No.
	Really?
	Yes.
	Take a look.
	I will.
	We're nominated in the news politics category.
	And there you have Russell Limbaugh.
	By the way, I think that should be her name, Russell Maydow.
	Yeah, I'm all in on that.
	Russell Maydow.
	Good one.
	Yeah.
	Well, Russell Maydow's been nominated.
	Yeah.
	And that's not even a podcast.
	Russell Maydow.
	Oh, man.
	You're right.
	The serial podcast is people's choice.
	So that's going to win because dumb things always win.
	It's trending.
	It's trending.
	It's not even a podcast.
	It's trending.
	It's a podcast.
	Why is it not a podcast?
	Is it on the radio?
	No.
	It's on tape.
	It's a radio play.
	All I know is we got snubbed in the comedy category again.
	If I was you, I know you like to use this as a running gag, but if I were you, especially after the way you just began the show, how come you weren't nominated for Best Produced Podcast?
	Thank you.
	This is exactly what I was going to say.
	Well, I said it first.
	I pride myself on what we do here and making it sound good and making Skype sound relatively integrated with the local sound that I have and trying to make it all work and the clips and the balance and the levels.
	I would say that if anybody put your gear and all the plugins and all the crazy stuff you've got going there up against anybody's rig, you would be...
	The best producer.
	Yes, exactly!
	Well, that's what I said.
	But do you give me credit for this accolade?
	Oh, more importantly, do I get credit by being nominated and best produced?
	No.
	The Joe Rogan experience.
	I like Joe, but what's so hard about micing some people up?
	It's not that big deal, no.
	At Radiolab, which will win because, hey, they edited the crap out of that.
	It's unlistenable.
	Yeah.
	Editing is not...
	I know.
	There's two theories, of course, of producing.
	There's post producing your product or live to tape.
	And I think what we do live to tape, but I don't think anyone does it the way we do it.
	Even Leo doesn't do live.
	I mean, Leo does kind of half of the show, most of the show live to tape, and then they post it.
	The beginning of the show is posted.
	The beginning of Leo Laporte's tweet is posted.
	In other words, I'm sorry, when I say posted, I mean post-produced.
	I mean produced after the show is over.
	You sit down, and then you fiddle with the show, and you fiddle with the show.
	Fiddle about!
	Fiddle about!
	Uncle Ernie's going to fiddle about!
	And in the case of Leo's show, he does all his lead-ins and all the rest of it at the end of the show, and then they have to go to some edit booth and they have to edit it.
	Exactly.
	In video and audio, so it makes it even more complicated.
	Now...
	The theory of doing these, and you see it is actually done in some ways on some, like, the three-camera shoot comedy shows, as opposed to the one-camera ones, which are most of them nowadays, and then they post the whole thing, because you have to.
	It's all edited.
	It's a different style of producing.
	To me, pure production, the absolute best way to do it, if you can, and it's also the hardest thing.
	Is to live to tape it.
	In other words, you start the show, you do everything on the fly, you edit stuff in and out, and then you make it look fancy after the fact takes hours and it's a waste of time, and it's slightly amateurish in some sense.
	Right.
	To do it the way you do it.
	We're doing the work of four men, actually, on this show.
	Yeah.
	We don't have an engineer.
	We're actually doing the work at three.
	I'm doing the other one guy.
	All right.
	So anyway, to finalize the story, I use the Universal Audio Apollo Twin device.
	Then it's taken me years to get this perfect so that I can use the same setup on mobile as well as at home.
	And we've really, really worked very hard on this.
	They come out with a software upgrade.
	They sell their plug-ins, and that's their whole business.
	And I really like what they've done.
	Zero latency plug-ins.
	But they come out with something everyone's been waiting for, the new console, which is the whole software that drives the device and that I've integrated into my system.
	They say, oh, it's a new version.
	Everyone's excited.
	I even tweeted, I'm excited.
	This is great because we've been waiting for this.
	But, as I know, you never, ever, ever, ever install software before you do a show or before you go on a trip, and I have both coming up.
	So, when I downloaded the update, Firefox, in all its wisdom, Opened up the package, the install package, and I got a nice dialogue that said, do you want to install?
	I'm like, no!
	No, I do not.
	I do not want to.
	This is never do this.
	It's one of the rules, like your rule of travel.
	Do not eat sushi before you take a trip.
	Sushi?
	Any kind of seafood?
	Yeah, shrimp is another one.
	Don't take a chance.
	Now, these are very good rules to live by.
	It also goes along with don't marry an actress.
	Oh, gee.
	Sorry, that was a mistake.
	I don't listen to everything.
	Don't marry a musician.
	These are all rules of the road.
	What else do we have?
	We need a list.
	We should write this list up.
	Oh, man.
	But yes, do not.
	And I do the same thing when I start this machine up to do this show.
	I get a bunch of, hey, upgrade this, upgrade that.
	I say no to all of it.
	By the way, an interesting variant in the chat room, never eat shrimp before the first time you have sex with someone.
	I think that's very valid.
	Or garlic, for that matter.
	Okay.
	So I plug everything in.
	I'm getting ready to go.
	And I usually do this before the pre-stream.
	I want to play a couple songs.
	But I have my routine.
	And my Mac, the software, won't recognize the device.
	Turns out, and I'm trying to make this a real story because we're delayed by an hour because of this bull crap.
	When the installer opens up, it is already messing with your drivers, even though you've given it no instruction to do anything.
	So I wound up with, you know, I tried to install the old software, it wouldn't.
	Then I installed, then I did the upgrade, and everything was different.
	Of course, the interface was different, but I couldn't get all the different sends to work properly.
	And even, you know what they did?
	They even changed the font of the words on the interface into some, like, semi-cursive script.
	Oh, God.
	Like an engineer would put a strip down on the mixer and write with a Sharpie, you know, what each channel strip is?
	Right.
	Okay, so that's the level.
	Celsus said they changed the meters.
	Everything, though.
	Why do you change the meters?
	I think they did a lot of good things, but I need time to work on and figure out the software.
	So eventually, I find out that after installing, rebooting, and then saying, please install the old software, luckily I still have the old package, it downgraded the firmware on the device.
	That was actually pretty sexy.
	Even Apple doesn't get that right.
	Where it said, oh, you want to install this version of the console?
	I'm going to have to downgrade your firmware.
	I was impressed.
	And then it came back up and it worked.
	Because when we were listening to the new interface, there was all kinds of crap wrong.
	And it's very hard to troubleshoot that under stress.
	What I then tend to do is I start to cuss.
	And you then start to play harmonica, which really exacerbates the whole situation.
	I started.
	I only played like five notes.
	Do not, under any circumstances, play that instrument!
	Finally got in and said, why am I even on?
	Just go away.
	Go do your own thing.
	I want you to hang out.
	Because I need you.
	Because you're the one saying, oh, it doesn't sound good.
	Well, it didn't.
	No, but I need feedback.
	And then it's like helping the stewardess land the 747 through the aircraft radio.
	Chat room, not very helpful.
	Hey, sounds good.
	Sounds fuzzy.
	Sounds tinny.
	Sounds like Howard Stern.
	These are not helpful things, people.
	Why are you reading the chat room chatter while you're trying to trouble you?
	Because maybe someone...
	I hope every single time, I hope that maybe someone will be in the chat room and will know what they're talking about.
	I'm surprised you're not religious waiting for Christ to return.
	Oh, by the way, let's start it off right there.
	Let's start it off right...
	Do you know this guy, Cal Thomas?
	Oh, yeah.
	I'd never heard of him.
	Maybe I had heard of him.
	I don't know.
	I guess he writes for USA Today.
	He's been around forever.
	Okay, so I had not heard of him.
	I'm glad you have.
	He writes for USA Today.
	And, of course, there is a Supreme Court case about same-sex marriage that is now taking place.
	In the United States?
	Yes.
	And he was asked about it by...
	Actually, I think it's been mostly resolved.
	There's some votes still.
	The big deal is because apparently somebody in Alabama, their Supreme Court says, ah, we're not doing it.
	And so the judges got all confused down in Alabama.
	Oh, we're going to do it.
	No, we're not going to do it.
	I'm not going to do it.
	All right, got it.
	And so the Supreme Court in Alabama, I believe this is the way it went.
	I could be wrong with the chronology.
	They said, ah, forget it.
	We're not going to do it.
	We don't have to do it.
	If you want to do it, go ahead.
	But we don't have to do it.
	It's an official judicial term, by the way.
	Meh.
	So Cal Thomas was asked by, I believe, a gay reporter what he thought about how the vote would go, and he said something very interesting, which I feel is worth, or at least worth noting, as it is about religious beliefs, and I thought it was pretty interesting to hear what he had to say.
	In favor of same-sex marriage.
	All of these things are not the cause of our decadence.
	They're a reflection of it.
	As I said in my remarks, we worship in the golden calf of the Dow Jones Industrials.
	In Dow, we trust not in God.
	Too many conservative Christian marriages are breaking up.
	So if they can't impose morality on themselves, how do they expect to impose it on the rest of the country?
	But if you read the scriptures, as I do, in both Testaments, all of these things are forecast in prophecies, in the book of Daniel, and what Jesus and Paul said.
	So I'm not worried about it.
	I say everything is right on schedule.
	I love this.
	Everything's right on schedule.
	You don't have time and date in the book of Daniel, I can tell you right now.
	I'm trying to shore up my own family first, and hopefully that will be an example to other people.
	When you say right on schedule, gay marriage on some level was prophesied and there will be some further outcome?
	I think the reporter is asking a good question.
	I think it's a very good question.
	Gay marriage is prophesied somehow?
	Most guys would be like me.
	They'd roll their eyes and walk away.
	And I like what he was asking.
	The answer was interesting.
	Response to it?
	Well, yeah.
	I mean, if you look at what not only Jesus said, but Paul the Apostle, about what things were going to be like in the end times, people will be lovers of lies rather than the truth.
	They will elevate things that are called abominations in Scripture to normality.
	This is hard to understand for people who don't believe in Scripture and haven't been transformed by the renewing of their minds.
	Ah, that's my problem.
	I've not been transformed by the renewing of my mind.
	But it's all there for people who read it.
	It's all coming true.
	All of the prophecies up to the final ones have come true, and that's why I say everything is right on schedule.
	For the end times, for the apocalypse!
	End times.
	These end times guys bother me.
	This is great!
	We're right on time.
	Everyone's crazy.
	Yeah, we're all going to die.
	We're not going to die from global warming, which they don't believe in.
	Then we're going to die from the end times because the apocalypse is going to happen.
	Allow me to say something about that.
	This really bothers me.
	We've had very bad weather in Texas, certainly in Austin.
	And yesterday...
	It was everywhere.
	They were interrupting the television news.
	We had banners.
	Every school district has to close.
	Everybody must stay home.
	Why do school districts have to close?
	All school districts are closed until at least noon, some two o'clock, or closed altogether because of the pending ice storm.
	So everyone's like, oh, a bunch of weenies.
	It was raining yesterday, and the idea was that around midnight it would start to freeze, and then it would be pandemonium.
	Oh, because people don't know what to do.
	Yeah, well, it's like California in that respect.
	So, okay, I kept watching the temperature, and it was around midnight, it was 36.
	It was too high to freeze.
	And around 1 a.m., it was 36.
	And then around 2, when I went to bed, it was about 35.
	So the ice storm never came.
	But all the kids had to stay home and then parents can't go to work.
	The economic damages by this, and people can be wrong with your weather forecasting, but someone has to account at a certain point.
	And we have to say, hey, you know, was your model off?
	How could you be so wrong?
	We had this, someone calls the shots, someone says it's time to shut everything down.
	And it didn't happen.
	How can this be unaccountable?
	And this was just a 24-hour prediction.
	Yeah, and we haven't had...
	What about these models that tell us what the weather's going to be like in 100 years?
	Well, there's that.
	There's that.
	Well, since you bring that up, oh my goodness, Gina McCarthy, who is the new director of the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and I want to talk about them later as it relates to net neutrality, packet equality...
	Because there was some precedence there, jurisprudence, or whatever it's called.
	I don't want to change, I don't want to take you too far off track, but did you see the Netflix reaction to what the FCC did?
	Oh yeah.
	Hold that, hold that, because we're going right into what you just said.
	And so she was up there talking about getting more money for the EPA, 6% increase.
	Oh, why?
	Oh, interestingly, I don't know if I have that in my clip.
	She said because the president has put together a budget where he is not going for sequestration, which as we know on this show, sequestration is the increase in spending, not taking spending away.
	It's the increase.
	It's reducing the increase.
	When it's in place, right.
	Reducing the increase.
	So she said the budget...
	You have your old numbers.
	You got your old numbers.
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	So she's saying, I want 6% more, and Senator Sessions...
	Like, dragged her across the room.
	Good for him.
	You gotta listen to this.
	This was one of the...
	I felt represented.
	Where is he from?
	What state is he from?
	Alabama, I think.
	Well, I should move there.
	That we've had fewer droughts in recent years.
	Do you dispute that?
	I don't know in what context he's making statements like.
	What Sessions was doing was saying, hey, you know, you want this increase, but what's going on?
	And he's setting her up and he does it so beautifully.
	So he says some professor says we have fewer droughts in the past 10 years than we've ever had before.
	And now she's caught a little bit off guard.
	But I certainly can tell you about the droughts that are happening today.
	No, no, no, no.
	You can't.
	I'm not arguing to you today that you are wrong about global warming because we have a cold spell.
	I'm asking you, what are the data, don't you know, worldwide data, about whether or not we're having fewer or less drought?
	I'll be happy to provide it, but I certainly am aware that droughts are becoming more extreme and frequent.
	Are you aware that the IPCC has found that moisture content of the soil is, if anything, slightly greater?
	Than it has been over the last decade.
	He sounds like he's drunk, but I think what he said is the moisture content of the soil is higher than it has been.
	Okay, so apparently we have not had droughts worldwide.
	It's in their report.
	Are you aware of that?
	I don't know what you're referring to, Senator, but I'm happy to respond.
	Well, you need to know because you're asking this economy to sustain tremendous cost, and you don't know whether or not the soil is worldwide, is more moist or less moist.
	I don't know where your cost figures are coming from.
	I'm quoting the IPCC. Second.
	What about hurricanes?
	Now, this is something we've always been chuckling about.
	Yeah, the hurricane thing is great.
	We had more or less hurricanes in the last decade.
	It's a simple A or B question.
	There have been more frequent hurricanes and more intense in terms of landing those hurricanes on land.
	I cannot answer that question.
	It's a very complicated issue.
	It's not complicated on how many have landed.
	We've had a dramatic reduction in the number.
	We've gone a decade without a hurricane class 3 or above.
	But sir, the scientists are not really considering that number to be significant because the subset is so small that you're looking at, that you're taking issues in science out of context.
	I love it!
	Okay, there's the hole.
	She stepped right into it.
	And it's not my job to be...
	Are you asserting that you have evidence that we have a greater hurricane around the world?
	Science!
	I am asserting that I have plenty of evidence, factual evidence, from scientists who know this issue that climate change is happening.
	It's real.
	It's happening now.
	Of course the climate is changing.
	Ms.
	McCarthy, I just ask you, you have been saying that we have more storms.
	Will you submit within a few days, it shouldn't take long, to show that we've had more storms in the last decade?
	When you say we, what are we talking about?
	The world.
	The world.
	I'm happy to submit the full breadth of science that we have behind climate.
	We've submitted it on many occasions.
	We'll do it again.
	Okay, do you think he should, like, stick the dagger all the way in now?
	Does he?
	Climate change is real!
	Here we go.
	And would you acknowledge that over the last 18 years that the increase in temperature has been very little and that it is well below, matter of fact, 90% below most of the environmental models that showed how fast temperature would increase?
	This is a good question.
	This is finally a good question.
	Your models are off.
	This is what we have always been saying.
	No, I would not agree with that, sir.
	A one degree temperature is significant.
	No, no, no.
	I'm asking you, is it below the models or above the models?
	I do not know what the models actually are predicting that you're referring to.
	There are many models, and sometimes it's actually going faster and sometimes slightly slower than the model predicts.
	But on the whole, it makes no difference to the validity and the robustness of climate science that is telling us that we are facing an absolute challenge that we must address both environmentally, economically, from a national security perspective.
	And for EPA, from a public health perspective.
	All right.
	Well, of course, carbon pollution is CO2... All right.
	He's almost done.
	You know, this guy's obviously a stooge for the oil companies.
	He's been paid.
	He must be a Republican.
	Yeah.
	Koch brothers!
	What is he?
	Is he a Democrat?
	No, he's a Republican.
	Okay.
	He's a total Democrat.
	He'd be drummed out of the party.
	He's bought and paid for by the Koch brothers.
	That's really not a pollutant.
	It's a plant food.
	Yeah, like carbon is a...
	CO2 is a plant food.
	Yeah.
	It's a plant food.
	I know.
	This is what's so beautiful about it.
	...harm anybody, except that it might include temperature increases.
	So let me ask you one more time.
	One more time.
	Are you asserting?
	Just give me this answer.
	If you take the average of the models predicting how fast the temperature would increase, is the temperature, in fact, increasing less than that or more than that?
	I cannot answer that question specifically.
	Well, Mr.
	Chairman, I just would say this is a stunning development that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, who should know more than anybody else in the world, who's imposing hundreds of billions of dollars in costs to prevent this climate and temperature increases, doesn't know whether their projections have been right or wrong.
	Yeah, thank you.
	That's the punchline.
	It took them a while.
	It's a stunning development.
	Like the way it does that.
	Stunning.
	Stunning, I say.
	Stunning.
	Yeah.
	So I thought that was...
	Why didn't he just say, who knew she was an idiot?
	This woman is a moron, Mr.
	Chairman.
	Why does she even have this job?
	He didn't do that.
	No.
	But I like this.
	This is good.
	Came up short to me.
	I think he did pretty well.
	I was happy with it.
	I liked it.
	Man, oh man.
	So yeah, but it's the same thing.
	It's okay if you want to warn us to stay off the roads, but there is real economic impact.
	A lot of parents were now stuck with their kids at home and couldn't get into work, and it's not like you have to take time off for that.
	You don't get a free day.
	Well, usually the dad will go to work, mom gets stuck, she has to take the day off, and it hurts her career.
	And, yeah, that's why there's inequality in pay.
	Hey, yo.
	Hey, yo.
	Did you say, hey, yo?
	No.
	I said, there you go.
	I thought you said, hey, yo.
	You're always looking for hip-hop terminology to be thrown into this show.
	We have a...
	Keep it hip.
	Right.
	Just trying.
	Just trying to keep it hip.
	We have a couple of...
	It's a new month, and I didn't do this on Sunday.
	New month.
	Yeah, well, you know what happens on a new month?
	The president is always proclaiming things.
	Oh, yes.
	That's right.
	You didn't do it on Sunday.
	Yeah, we have...
	It is Women's History Month.
	For some reason.
	Isn't this Sunday Women's Day?
	International Female Day?
	Let me see.
	Throughout history, extraordinary women, courageous.
	This is Women's Month, yeah.
	Today, more women are the family's main breadwinner.
	Yeah, girl power.
	We know that when women succeed, America succeeds.
	Therefore, I present Barack Obama.
	Yeah, you're right.
	March 8th is Women's Day.
	Yeah, International Women's Day.
	It says International Women's Day.
	Right, so everyone in Saudi Arabia has to stop beating their wife for one day.
	Just for a day.
	However, in America, it's Women's History Month, which I think he just threw in there, because why didn't you do it on...
	He didn't put this out...
	This came out the 2nd of March.
	I think it was a...
	I think they forgot.
	Oh, crap, it's International Women's Day!
	We've got to do a month!
	Well, they weren't going to do it on the 1st.
	It's a holiday.
	Or not a holiday, it's Sunday.
	Yeah, but I'm saying you nominate a month before the month starts or on the day of the month.
	Oh, you do?
	I don't know this.
	Well, that's how it usually works.
	Now, this one was definitely planted.
	It is National Consumer Protection Week, which is...
	That was just thrown in there.
	What does that even mean?
	I'll tell you why.
	You can't gouge your customers this week.
	What does that mean?
	I will tell you why.
	We need a PR moment.
	I had this on 700, we didn't get to it.
	For Elizabeth Warren.
	You need a PR moment to roll out your consumer bill of rights proposal.
	Which is something, they put this out on Friday.
	Who's they?
	The White House, the administration, put out their, I'm looking for it now, the Consumer Bill of Rights, and it's a proposed bill about what companies can do with your data.
	Specifically, you know...
	I don't care what they do with my data, I don't want to get ripped off!
	I don't want to get scammed by high interest rates.
	I want to get scammed by that experience you had with Bank One or Capital One or whatever the name of that bank is.
	What is it?
	Capital One.
	What's in your wallet?
	Those guys.
	That story you told was hair-raising.
	That's what consumer protection is all about.
	It's not about...
	Oh, your data.
	Oh, they've lost your credit card.
	Even if they do, they say, I'm sorry, we lost your credit card data.
	Some hacker came in.
	So what kind of protections?
	Oh, I see what this is.
	Stop me.
	It's actually more about how long they can retain your data.
	That's more what it's about.
	And who they can share it with.
	Oh.
	All they have to do is put it in a disclaimer at the beginning.
	When you sign on to their website, it says, by signing on to this website, you have agreed to, and then put it all in there.
	You're protected.
	Right.
	Of course, they're protected because of what they put in there.
	This is really about the cyber-sharing agreement, and so they bring out a National Consumer Protection Week to celebrate so we can have cake and then roll out the proposal.
	And then finally, and this is a tough one for me, It says it's National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
	And I have a real problem with this.
	I'm very worried because now I'm 50 and you're supposed to get checked for ass cancer.
	Okay, go get checked.
	Have you been checked?
	Years ago.
	Because everything I hear is like, oh, and they found something, and then they had to cure me, and then my dick never worked again.
	And I have to wear a diaper.
	And I feel fine.
	I know a lot of guys who have gone through this.
	This is not okay.
	Well, don't do it then.
	It's optional.
	And I know that the elites, like Warren Buffett, he comes right up and says, I'm not going to do that, because I'm old enough, I don't want to die from the cure.
	Oh yeah, no, the hospital is dangerous.
	No matter what anybody wants to believe, we're still living in the dark ages of medicine.
	Hey, wait a minute!
	Are you anti-science?
	What's going on with you?
	You can't talk like that, man.
	You can't talk like that.
	Can't go into a hospital and not get MRSA or some other crazy thing from the hospital.
	Come on!
	And that was this new thing, this new crazy disease that nobody can cure, and where you get it mostly is from the hospital.
	The real irony in the MRSA is now you can get it from the gym.
	I want to be healthy.
	This is like the guys who want to be healthy so they bike a lot and then they get run down.
	Hey, what happened to you, Bill?
	The guy's in the crutches.
	Got a broken leg, his foot's missing.
	Well, there's that.
	And I got run over by a truck while bicycling.
	Well, okay.
	But I also apparently am a candidate for bladder cancer.
	Well, I don't know how you can become a candidate.
	I mean, in a risk group.
	Did you have to fill out a petition or something?
	No, it's because my mother died of cancer.
	If you have cancer in the family...
	And this was always my problem because my mom's quit smoking at 50.
	These are smokers we're dealing with.
	If you were a smoker, I'd be more concerned.
	Let me finish what I'm saying.
	She quit smoking and a year later she got lung cancer.
	Woo!
	Well, you got two years.
	You quit smoking.
	The joke was, of course, to point out that you're a smoker, or were.
	I was a smoker.
	That's not a joke.
	But you stopped smoking over a year ago.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's been two and a half years.
	Two and a half years.
	You're good.
	As far as we know, if I went to get checked, oh, Mr.
	Kirk, not only do you have ass cancer, but the lung cancer and the bladder cancer.
	Eat a lot of oatmeal.
	Oatmeal?
	Yeah, oatmeal.
	It's the best thing for you.
	Okay.
	I'm on the oatmeal.
	I'm in on the oatmeal.
	Your cholesterol.
	It's great stuff.
	It makes sense.
	I'm in on the oatmeal.
	I'm good with that.
	And by the way, I want to explain to people how to make oatmeal.
	Well, here you go.
	How do you make oatmeal?
	I hate to do this, but I do it all the time with you.
	I think it's where I ask you a question, how you cook something, and then I say at the end of your explanation, that's completely the wrong way to do it.
	Right.
	So here's how I make oatmeal.
	One gets one packet of oatmeal.
	Oh, okay.
	Mistake number one.
	One packet of oatmeal.
	All right.
	Go ahead and tell us how to do it.
	This is apparently you are using instant oatmeal or the quick oatmeal, quick oats or whatever they are, which I avoid.
	Oats aplenty.
	Because those things just make it...
	That's mush.
	You're making mush.
	You're not making oatmeal.
	I'm making goop.
	I'm making paste, really.
	Because that pasty...
	I mean, it's still the same thing.
	It probably is healthy, but it's like, come on.
	This is like...
	It doesn't take...
	It's like rice.
	Why would you get instant rice when it takes so little time to actually make rice?
	And you don't have to tend it.
	Right.
	Oatmeal.
	There's different ways of doing it.
	There's different ways on packaging, but the really great way to make a perfect oatmeal, and this, of course, is just my perspective, is first you start with, let's say, make one serving.
	You're going to have a half a cup of oats.
	And now, let's talk about the ingredients.
	The oats.
	Half a cup of...
	And where do you get oats?
	The flattened oats.
	You can get them.
	They sell them everywhere.
	Let's be specific.
	Flattened oats.
	This is a regular oatmeal that you would get from Quaker, the Quaker style, which is the flattened.
	They're flattened as opposed to cut oats, which is slightly different, if you want me to explain that.
	Yes, that's important.
	I mean, you're taking up time doing it.
	You might as well do it right.
	You take the flat oats and you put a half a cup and then you take a cup of water, you put the cup of water in a cooking device, then you get the water.
	Oh, hold on, John, hold on.
	Sorry, my oatmeal is already ready.
	And gooey.
	Oh, it's paste.
	You just made a bunch of paste.
	You can also do some scrapbooking with that oatmeal.
	Okay.
	Alright, onward.
	Keep it going.
	Keep it moving.
	You put some vanilla and some salt in the boiling water.
	You get the water boiling, completely boiling.
	So it's boiling like crazy.
	Then you dump the oats and stir them around real fast.
	So the oats get a seal on each individual flake so they become separate but equal in the cooking process.
	And then you boil them down.
	You could put it to simmer, put a lid on it, cook them for, I don't know, five, ten minutes.
	You can tell, but you can ad-lib the timings yourself, and you can also turn it off at some point and just let it steam.
	And then you get an oatmeal that is more like the oats.
	It's like individual oat flakes.
	It's cooked.
	It's so much better than the mush that's all gooey with all the mucilage and all the rest of it in there.
	And then I like to put butter in my oatmeal and then some maple syrup, real maple syrup.
	Super delicious, citizen.
	Yeah, it's really nice.
	Now, you do the same exact process with the cut oats.
	It only takes about 15 or 20 minutes.
	And it produces another product that is...
	With the cut oats, it produces...
	If the water's boiling before you put the oats in, you get these...
	It becomes a different product completely, and it comes out of there.
	It doesn't stick to the pan.
	It's just a dynamite way to go.
	All right, so we shall write this up and put it as a...
	I'll write it up there with your chili.
	We're going to do John's oatmeal.
	It's important.
	People like this.
	I get messages all the time.
	People make your recipes.
	It's good.
	Try this technique, which is boiling the water before you put the oats in.
	It's good.
	It's good.
	Get it going well, and then they'll prefer these oats.
	It's better.
	Good.
	All right.
	Are we done?
	Are we good?
	Are we done?
	Sorry.
	This program, besides caring about how it sounds, besides giving you valuable information, such as how to make oatmeal...
	The only valuable information they got so far.
	Okay.
	EPA woman, idiot.
	But we knew that.
	Well, two years ago...
	On this program, we pronounce the Cated, that there was no smoking gun video of the so-called Boston bomber placing the backpack either in the trash can or near it as proclaimed by many, many officials.
	And we were quite adamant about this.
	We saw a lot of things wrong with what was happening with the investigation in Boston.
	I would like to replay for you Governor Duvall Patrick on Meet the Press.
	Is there anything on the videotape that maybe the public hasn't seen about his reaction that was particularly telling that movie investigation along?
	Well, the videotape is not something I've seen.
	It's been described to me in my briefings.
	But it does seem to be pretty clear that this suspect took the backpack off Put it down, did not react when the first explosion went off, and then moved away from the backpack in time for the second explosion.
	So pretty clear about his involvement and pretty chilling, frankly.
	And the only video that we saw was highly dramatized.
	Was it National Geographic who put together the really good one?
	Yeah, it was National Geographic, I think.
	And they had Inside the Hunt for the Boston Bombers.
	And they had, this wasn't even shot in Boston, it was actors in Phoenix, Arizona, where they made this mockumentary, whatever you want to call it.
	Mockumentary.
	And they had a dramatized version of it happening, and in fact, the case was built on this video.
	If you go back and look at all of the, and I did this, and I put it on the show notes, went back, And looked at all of the separate news reports, and everyone's talking about the smoking gun evidence.
	And it turns out, as this trial has now started yesterday, this video truly does not exist.
	Wait a minute.
	The governor said it did.
	He said that someone explained it to him.
	Who was that someone?
	That person should be taken in and scolded.
	This is the FBI. Oh, the FBI. And you'll recall the FBI. It was so shocking.
	We could not show this video because it was just so shocking, you see.
	But it's not because it does not exist.
	We've seen like the...
	Let me get this straight.
	So all this time has passed and they haven't been able to phony up a video?
	No.
	They tried, but they really don't have it.
	In fact, so here's what they did yesterday at trial is the way I understand it.
	And it's so crazy that not only do they have that, don't have that video, but once again, we're in the 1900s.
	Of courtroom drawings because we can't have video of what's going on in the courtroom.
	So we have drawings.
	That pisses me off.
	This is not modern.
	There's no reason not to have cameras in the courtroom.
	We should have cameras in the courtroom and cameras in the gas chamber.
	We kill people.
	Cameras everywhere.
	We have them everywhere else.
	We rolled out a number or the prosecution rolled out a whole bunch of people who were victims.
	And one victim says, let me see if I have the exact quote here.
	It was actually pretty funny.
	One victim said, yeah, you know, just thinking about how he put that backpack down right by that little boy, and this is when the little boy was killed in the blast, and then they went, you know, if you go look at all the screen caps, The little boy is not even in the screen captures that purportedly show the backpack sitting there in the trash can.
	So this is all built on what people hear, what they think.
	You know how people, when there's some traumatic event, they all believe they've seen something.
	I saw the crash.
	I know you didn't.
	So now they're trying to do anything they can to cover up this fact.
	And the media is completely complicit.
	This is the story of the decade, as far as I'm concerned.
	This is a big story.
	Hey, the FBI doesn't actually have the tape that the case was built on about this guy.
	Interestingly, the defense came out and said, he's not guilty, but he was there.
	He was involved, but it was his brother.
	I don't know why they're taking that type.
	No, the defense came out and...
	This reminds me of the trial in the movie Idiocracy, where your defense attorney comes out and says, yeah, he did it.
	Yeah.
	What kind of a defense is this?
	Especially when they didn't have, well, it's clearly not working on his behalf.
	No, it's not working on his behalf.
	I mean, if he was the worst guy in the world, you should have a defense attorney at least tries.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, there's no video.
	Well, I'll tell you why.
	Maybe this corpus is what we're dealing with.
	I'll tell you why.
	His defense attorney, her name is Patricia something or other, she has her own agenda.
	Her agenda is she...
	She wants to get rid of death penalty.
	She wants to see all people who are accused of horrific crimes not be sentenced to death but sentenced to life in prison.
	So I think she just wants to make sure.
	She didn't want him to get off.
	She wants to make sure that it's about death penalty versus no death penalty.
	So she has her own agenda.
	Let's get to this part of it quick.
	Yeah, so we can just get on and move on to the actual sentencing, whether he dies or not.
	Yeah, which is all I care about.
	That's all she cares about.
	So the kid's not getting a fair shake.
	And the media is doing this.
	Hello, media doing this.
	Where did you...
	Hello.
	Hello.
	I'll try it again.
	I'll try this one.
	The media is doing this.
	Hey.
	Wow.
	Well, all the work for that punchline.
	Yeah.
	Did you check the clips after you did the reset?
	Yeah, sure.
	Of course I did.
	Is something else going on here?
	Let me just check a different clip and see if it's...
	Maybe it's this particular clip.
	Hold on.
	Damn.
	Why is this a problem?
	Oh, I think the clip is...
	Maybe the clip is dead.
	Yeah, the clip is dead.
	Oh, that's too bad.
	Oh, that's a shame.
	What was it?
	Oh, wait, wait, wait.
	I have...
	You have a backup clip.
	I have a backup clip.
	Let me try this.
	Here we go.
	I guess somehow...
	Set it up again.
	Okay, so the mainstream media is not talking about the fact that the clip is...
	The video the FBI says shows the smoking gun video.
	They're not talking about it not existing.
	They're doing this about other videos.
	The store manager, Shane O'Hara, he took us inside the store that day.
	The fear, he said it was a calm day.
	Quiet, in fact.
	People in and out.
	He was working at the store occasionally looking out.
	The bomb hits.
	You can see it here in the surveillance.
	So what they're showing here...
	Is CCTV footage of the store that was very near the blast.
	And they're showing all these things.
	I saw that.
	Yeah.
	And then at the end, I'll fast forward here.
	Dramatic video.
	It was emotional testimony from Shane O'Hara in just a grueling day at the federal court.
	We wanted to bring you this video as soon as we got it.
	It was one of many stunning things.
	There was other video shown today.
	Simply too graphic to show you.
	So there's all these horrible videos, simply too graphic to show you.
	We wanted to get this boring video to you as soon as possible so you could see it.
	Whatever we do, don't talk about ixnay on the idiovee that's not air they.
	Hey, you can talk pig latin.
	And I'm just flummoxed.
	Flummoxed.
	I like that word.
	I'm flummoxed that nobody in journalism seems to find this interesting angle.
	Nobody's even brought it up except you.
	Yeah.
	Well, finally it was on.
	It was a missing tape.
	The FBI said there was a tape.
	There's supposed to be a tape.
	The governor talked about the tape.
	The tape, the tape, the tape.
	Where's the tape?
	Let's see it.
	No tape.
	No, it's not the same thing.
	What TV confession?
	I don't know what they're talking about.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	No, I'm misreading this.
	Oh, this is interesting.
	Oh, I missed this.
	Yeah.
	was overturned because the confession was broadcast widely in the parish from which the jury was drawn.
	Okay, not really.
	I don't think that applies.
	It doesn't really matter.
	There was no backpack.
	This is what the world has come to.
	Beheading videos.
	I was thinking about this just yesterday.
	Beheading videos which really portray a dramatized version of beheading videos.
	It is, you know, fake from beginning to end.
	By the way, let us not forget that there was a Turkish, I guess it was a sitcom or whatever.
	Yeah, with a Turkish director who has the exact same style.
	Yeah, the same exact thing done in a Turkish serial.
	I think it was a serial one of those.
	Yeah, a sitcom.
	No, it wasn't a sitcom.
	It wasn't funny.
	It was to me.
	Funny, but it was exactly the same.
	Yeah.
	Yes, the same style, same everything, same setting.
	And I would say, instead of not forget, let's remember.
	No legs, by the way.
	No, of course not.
	Why would that work?
	Okay, so you're sitting around amusing yourself with the thought that, jeez, everything's phony around.
	Yes!
	But it works!
	Because we have been inundated with mockumentaries, documentaries, ginned up, reenacted, and now it might as well have just happened.
	It just happened, and that's why, because a beheading video, to me, personally, coming from Yeah, the television background.
	If I see a single shot, a one shot, a guy holding a cam, I don't care if it's a camera phone, whatever.
	If there's another guy and he takes a knife and he cuts someone's head off, I think that would disturb me.
	I might have nightmares.
	But this doesn't work anymore, you see.
	If it's not highly dramatized, the slave population doesn't register as real.
	It has to be dramatized.
	People are desensitized to actual events unedited with no trickery.
	If it doesn't have the trickery, it doesn't work for us.
	It's not real.
	The world has gone fucking crazy.
	What?
	I blame Sam Peckinpah.
	Sam Peckinpah?
	Yeah, Sam Peckinpah is the guy who invented the modern violence in movies that's used a lot by Tarantino.
	Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch is a good example.
	He has a shotgun, a guy gets hit by the shotgun, his arm flies off, blood and guts fly everywhere.
	I mean, it was extremely the violence in those movies that he did, the Sam Peckinpah films.
	You can look him up later.
	The Wild Bunch?
	He's now expected...
	They got the squibs and all this stuff, so when you get shot, it's not like you can't apparently be shot without a bunch of crap flying every which way.
	So it has to be.
	People are expecting that now.
	Yeah.
	When in many instances, you can be shot and you could actually...
	I mean, Reagan didn't blow to smithereens when Hinkley shot him.
	In fact, he didn't even know he was shot for a while.
	That seems more common.
	Yeah.
	But it's not very dramatic.
	And you just take some quercetin, spray a little Windex on it, you're good to go.
	Gaffer tape.
	Gaffer tape.
	It's good for everything.
	Oh, it was a.22, of course.
	But I think you're right.
	Yeah, well, I am right.
	And it's terrifying that it has come to this.
	It's terrifying.
	This is why the Serial podcast is so popular.
	Because it is highly produced, highly dramatized.
	I haven't heard it.
	Yeah, I've heard.
	I've heard a couple episodes.
	Boring.
	The story was boring to me.
	Whatever.
	It seems like it's like one of those 60, one of those things at night and NBC investigates or whatever they're called in 2020.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	One of those.
	ABC. Except it's too long.
	It's, yeah, it seems like one of those, which is really, those are only like 40 minutes.
	But people like it.
	I'm not going to argue what people like.
	Radiolabs, have you ever heard that?
	It's like, this is right now.
	It's like, Wow.
	That was great.
	Thank you.
	That's what you just did.
	I shall write down the time.
	Write the time.
	But that's how the Radiolabs podcast goes.
	And people love that.
	And people love that.
	I get it.
	But it's not okay.
	This is where I say, please check out the Zen TV experiment.
	I say it once a year, more or less.
	And do it.
	Do the Zen TV experiment, and then you'll really know what's going on.
	You're being tricked.
	And I participated in this, in the build-up of all this system.
	And it goes back to what we talked about, faking satellite interviews.
	It's all fake.
	It's all fake.
	Well, I was doing the thing in tech TV, and I was doing this show.
	They decided to change the format for a second time, even though the original format was fine.
	And they had me talking to guys and remotes that were in the studio.
	Fantastic.
	I'm talking on remote.
	And the guy, I can see him.
	And he's in a separate box with a different background as though he's someplace else.
	Because this is going to add some...
	This is going to add some credence.
	We had...
	At MTV we had something called Light Switch.
	It's time for Light Switch.
	Oh, what's that we said?
	Well, we have a new director of programming coming in who was...
	I want to say her name was Silverstein.
	I think she had, like, her daddy-o or something.
	Her great idea was, we're going to have these blue screen.
	We'll have all these virtual sets.
	So what happened was, MTV would come up, a video would end playing, you'd see a diner, and there'd be like, Tony's in the diner in a deli making sandwiches.
	And there was a little portable TV on the countertop, and I would be in that little TV announcing the next video.
	It was the stupidest thing I've ever seen in my life.
	Ha ha!
	Fucking moronic is what it was.
	Light switch.
	It's taking us outside of the normal dimensionality.
	And this was back when Chroma Key was done on blue screen.
	Yeah, before they finally figured out.
	The green was better.
	Hey, man, let's do green.
	Green is better.
	People don't wear green like this.
	Right, so this folds nicely into an interesting development.
	And it was so interesting that I saw this name.
	Like, wait a minute, I know this name.
	So NBC is in huge trouble.
	And of course, besides the fact that just what they do sucks, the Brian Williams thing really hurt the credibility and huge, huge problems.
	So what do they do?
	They say, oh, we've got to get the guy back.
	We've got to get our man back.
	Our man is Andrew Lack.
	Andrew Lack is now returning to NBC to help out.
	And as I was listening to Victoria...
	Why does that name ring a bell?
	Ah, let me tell you.
	Ah, very good, John.
	Very good.
	You know why it rings a bell.
	I'm going to play this for you because it all of a sudden went, oh!
	Here is Victoria Newland, named Noodleman.
	She was up on the hill, and I have more about Russia regarding her, or Ukraine, of course.
	This is Representative Royce, and he's talking about the propaganda that, of course, we have to fight.
	Russia is so incredibly good.
	We're so behind.
	These guys are so fantastic with their propaganda.
	RT is just convincing the whole world Putin's great.
	And what is she doing about it?
	And then a little tidbit comes up.
	Yesterday it was reported that the new CEO of the agency, Andy Lack...
	And he's talking about the Broadcast Board of Governors.
	...in terms of the BBG, is resigning his post after six weeks on the job.
	Ha ha ha ha!
	Government, be damned!
	If the commercial guys are in trouble, then we gotta, like, do something.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	Does that show you what the power is of the media?
	The guy is the broadcast board of governors who are in charge of Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Free Liberty, who are getting new budgets, $700 million reported as what we know, just to propagandize, not only outside, but to the American people themselves.
	But no, no, no.
	NBC is in trouble.
	Screw that.
	All bets are off.
	The guy goes back.
	We know...
	We know the problems that staff and others have had over at the BBG. We've heard from our former Secretary of State, Secretary Clinton, that the agency is defunct.
	Myself, Ed Engel, and other members of this committee put a lot of time and effort working with those who have a very real interest in reforming this, getting a consensus.
	That legislation is necessary to get this agency back up to the business that it did very well, you know, in the 1980s in terms of...
	Propagandizing Cold War crap.
	Disseminating information.
	I'm sorry, I mean disseminating information, yes.
	Into Russia and into Eastern Europe.
	That legislation needs to have support from the administration, and I would just leave you with that request.
	We can listen to her response, but I just wanted to pause and say, wow.
	I think this is a big deal.
	Well, I can see this happening.
	This guy was there before.
	At NBC. Yeah, he was at NBC. He's a big shot, apparently.
	He's one of these guys that comes in and kicks ass.
	NBC's got nothing but trouble.
	Comcast owns most of them now, and they're the ones calling the shots, and they decided to get this guy back in there to fix MSNBC's got to be fixed.
	They're starting to fire people.
	They got rid of Ronan, finally, and some others.
	But they're going to have to just revamp that whole operation.
	So you need a heavyweight to come in and do that.
	Because you've got Rachel to deal with Russell.
	And then you have CNBC, which has been...
	Kind of slipping because not because of Fox Business because Fox Business doesn't know what they're doing but because I think Bloomberg is coming and it's actually getting with Trish Reagan and some of these other people that came over from CNBC. I think Bloomberg is pulling the numbers of CNBC down a little bit.
	CNBC is the And people have to realize, any of these stations, and this goes through financial publications too, the key to success is stock picks.
	Stock touting.
	The stock's going up, the stock's going down.
	There's actually another interesting tidbit that I picked up about MSNBC. I think we had this argument, was it on the air about how much the Rev is making?
	Oh yeah, we talked about on the air, he's making like $600,000 or more.
	I thought you were talking millions.
	No, he's making millions.
	He's got 600,000 viewers.
	A day.
	How much do you think he makes on an annual basis at MSNBC? I'm guessing 5 to 10 million.
	Okay.
	But I have the answer for you.
	Oh!
	Yes.
	And this came out of nowhere.
	This is on CNN. Byron Allen, who is a black media mogul.
	It's important to mention his skin color in this case.
	He is suing Comcast, and I think Reverend Al personally, for $20 billion.
	If you've got to go, you might as well go first class.
	And here's the setup, and this is where it's revealed how much the Rev makes over there at MSNBC. The cable industry.
	Oops, this one, sorry.
	Yeah.
	He's a host on MSNBC and one of America's most prominent outspoken civil rights activists.
	And now Al Sharpton, along with Comcast and Time Warner Cable, are facing a $20 billion lawsuit over alleged racial discrimination against black-owned media companies.
	In the complaint, Byron Allen, a comedian, TV presenter, and CEO of Entertainment Studios, alleges that Comcast gave Al Sharpe in that 6 p.m.
	show on MSNBC, for which he's been paid approximately $750,000 per year, despite notoriously low ratings.
	I told you it wasn't that much.
	I told you you can't make that much money in cable.
	Well, okay, notoriously low ratings is not $600,000, so I wonder about any of this.
	Okay, well, I think because it's...
	And $600,000 should bring in a bucket person for an hour show, which I think he has.
	I think that only...
	Your calculation, I think that only works for broadcast and not for cable.
	It's numbers.
	It's just the number of people.
	It's got nothing to do with broadcasters.
	Okay, okay, okay.
	I was on cable for, you know, eight years.
	What do I know?
	I know nothing.
	Well, I know, but you were ripped off.
	You said so yourself.
	It's a bunch of cheap bastards.
	They're the guys who don't pay anything.
	MTV total cheap bastards.
	You said that already, so we're not going to count that.
	All right.
	Now, you know how to get ripped off, and so maybe you are right.
	Maybe Al's getting ripped off.
	He's getting $600,000 a day, five days a week, or $3 million a week.
	Not how it works.
	Not how it works.
	Then he should be getting a lot more money than $750,000.
	Well, Al is getting paid, and this is what the lawsuit is about.
	We have always told it very straight about Al Sharpton.
	He's a blackmailer.
	He's a poor choice, perhaps.
	No, no, he's not a blackmailer.
	He's an extortionist.
	He's a legal extortionist.
	He doesn't break the law.
	Legal extortionist, yes.
	And the way he does it is, he said, hey, we're going to come to your town, we're going to make a whole bunch of trouble and noise and protest.
	If you donate to my cause, maybe we could do it a little differently or not come at all.
	And he shows up everywhere, particularly when there's racial division.
	I lived in New York when we had the Tawana Brawley case, which is really where he really hit the radar big time and his business model was cast.
	And he could make a lot of money.
	Now, Byron Allen, he's just not pulling any punches.
	I'm very pleased to hear what he's saying, and he says it right out.
	The guy's an extortionist.
	The cable industry, AT&T, DirecTV, Comcast, Time Warner, they spend about $50 billion a year licensing cable networks and advertising with less than $3 million per year going to 100% African-American-owned media.
	Now what they do is they make token donations to people like Al Sharpton, the NAACP, the Urban League, and after taking those donations, they negotiated a fraudulent MOU that says this is okay for black people to live by.
	What America needs to understand is that Al Sharpton does not speak for me.
	Al Sharpton does not speak for black people.
	It's like I ask people, who is the white person who speaks for you?
	It's racist to even believe that Al Sharpton is the go-to person.
	Shame on you, Sony, for thinking, sit down with Al Sharpton, and that negates your racist emails about President Obama.
	Yeah, and I'd like to stop there for one moment and just say...
	Why does everyone lose their shit when some cops are sending around bad racial jokes, but when the top of Sony Entertainment does emails bad racial jokes, it's like, yes, that wasn't very good of them, was it?
	You know what I mean?
	Well, I guess that's the question that nobody can answer.
	It was a bad joke.
	No one wants to cross the Sony execs.
	No news person in their right mind, because he may not get in the next movie to be pretend news people.
	You can pound on those Ferguson cops.
	So it's real simple.
	These token donations they make to him, as reported in the New York Post, allows them to have racial cover.
	This is why we're not getting enough advertising, or any advertising, from McDonald's and Coca-Cola.
	I find this very hard to believe.
	Not that it's not happening, but why would McDonald's not...
	I think he says in Ebony Magazine, which seems like that would be a perfect place.
	I'm surprised that advertisers...
	Well, this doesn't make a lot of sense in some ways, because I have seen on certain specific styles of programming, especially professional basketball, which has a large black audience, McDonald's commercials catering to the black audience with all black actors.
	And maybe it's just the black-owned properties.
	I want to finish this because he has a couple funny ones at the end.
	There may be a lot of reasons for this.
	And Chrysler and General Motors and AT&T, they don't spend any money with African-American-owned media.
	Something that's very alarming, AT&T spent more money on Al Sharpton's lavish 60th birthday than they spent on Ebony Magazine's The biggest African-American magazine in America.
	Around 70 years, 10 million readers per month, AT&T spent only $30,000 on that magazine.
	Walmart has given money to Al Sharpton.
	Walmart doesn't spend any money in Ebony magazine, and they barely do business with me in a long-term partnership, and I'm constantly going back and forth with Walmart and Chrysler as well.
	So he is the least expensive Negro.
	Don't really do business with real African-American-owned companies.
	Wait for his last comment.
	When you say that about Al Sharpton, are you saying he's shaking it out?
	The numbers are actual.
	The numbers are just follow the money.
	Don't do business with real African-American-owned companies.
	Just make a token.
	Give him $50,000 and a bucket of chicken.
	Okay, I got a couple.
	I love when you do some real racial stuff.
	Give the man a bucket of chicken.
	First of all, if he is the cheapest Negro and he's making $750,000, that would be the cheapest Negro because I'm telling you, that number is too low for what he gets paid.
	But at MSNBC, even though you got me on my assertion they made over a million, if that number...
	Well, Russell makes a couple million.
	I'm sure she does, but she should probably make more than that.
	But let's drop all that part and get into the ebony jet magazine thing.
	This is one of those things that, you know, it looks great when you say these things, but if you're actually involved in the media, this is not a problem with McDonald's not liking blacks or the racist undertones and all the rest of it.
	This is a problem with sales.
	They have shitty salespeople.
	Must be.
	Magazines are successful because they have salespeople who know how to sell ads.
	That's it.
	I agree.
	I agree.
	I have no idea why it's not working.
	Maybe because...
	And I'm sure Brian Allen, who produces a lot of stuff.
	I've seen his stuff over the years.
	He's got good interview shows.
	He does a lot of things that never catch on as syndicated.
	And he has, like, HD channels.
	He owns a lot.
	He has 36 programs.
	He's a mogul.
	He's a mogul.
	He's a mogul of sorts.
	He's obviously got no salespeople worth a crap.
	He doesn't appreciate them.
	I don't know what it is.
	But I'm telling you right now that all of his complaints...
	His sales problem.
	Are sales problems because he's got sales people that are incompetent.
	You know what?
	If only this guy knew how to do a newsletter.
	It takes a lot more than a newsletter.
	You want to get advertising in your magazine, I can tell you that.
	Well, with that.
	People that know how to sell ads in the magazine.
	I mean, I've worked with people that can do it and people that can't do it, and the difference is obvious.
	It's like, this guy stinks.
	This guy's good.
	It's not even rocket science.
	And that's what the problem is.
	So his complaining falls on my deaf ears.
	Okay.
	Well, and that is...
	I mean, I've always admired him, though.
	He knows how to produce material, and he always uses...
	The one thing about his shows, when you ever see him, they're always floating around at two in the morning.
	But he uses modern techniques.
	I mean, he does stuff that is this kind of thing you see on a German experimental television.
	He really uses some modern stuff.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, visually.
	You watch his thing and you go, wow, this is pretty slick looking.
	Well, he clearly needs the Curry-Devorak Consulting Group with double Ds.
	Not if he gets the 20 billion, he doesn't.
	You don't need anybody.
	You think that's going to happen?
	He's doing his own extortion racket.
	Yeah, essentially.
	Yeah, there it is.
	We don't have that problem.
	We have no salespeople.
	We don't even have an engineer.
	It's two guys.
	We got an engineer void zero in the back there running the service.
	We got Eric, Eric DeShill running the rings.
	And that's it.
	Running the liquor.
	We got Mimi doing the taxes.
	Right, right, right.
	And for that reason alone, I want to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John, say Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning to all ships that see boots on the ground, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to our artists who have always, they always get credits here on the big show.
	And we like to credit them right up front.
	Thank you very much.
	20-watt bulb.
	Who is back with some fabulous art.
	Yeah, this was an odd selection because we had the 700 show art.
	So we wanted to use them with 700 and there was stuff we couldn't use and there was different references and 20 watt bulb who's a pro Yeah.
	It's not like, you know, many of our artists are highly talented amateurs, but we do have a few people that do it actually for a living, and I believe 20 White Bulbs was one of them.
	It was a good concept.
	It was a beautiful piece, and the more I look at it, the more I liked it, really.
	Yeah, but the thing is, it looked, it just, despite the content of the piece or what it meant or anything, it just looked good.
	It looks good on a page.
	I agree.
	Which is one of the little things that's hard to describe.
	I also use some art for the newsletter.
	Yes, and regarding the newsletter, which I thought this was one of your best newsletters ever.
	Yeah?
	Did you have another Easter egg?
	Because you've been doing this.
	I think we forgot to talk about the last Easter egg.
	Yes, I'm going to have to open up that spreadsheet.
	I'll do it at the next segment.
	You see how I do that?
	One guy got the Easter egg last time.
	Only one.
	You see how I do that?
	You see, when I write something down to remember for the show, I bring it back up.
	Yeah, you told me at the end of the last show, I said, oh, I forgot to credit the Easter egg guy.
	And then you said, I'll write it down, and you did.
	And you actually brought it in.
	I write it down, I never bring it in.
	That's correct.
	Once in a while, I did bring in one a couple weeks ago.
	The Java message.
	Oh, yes, yeah, yeah.
	So that's how I get one.
	Good work.
	Whatever the case, there was an Easter egg in the...
	Was there one in this one as well?
	No, there was no Easter egg.
	Oh.
	People are clicking around.
	I don't know.
	People are like, I can't find it.
	It's so good.
	You should bring that back.
	I'll put an Easter egg in an upcoming newsletter.
	All right, good.
	All righty then.
	But what did you like about the newsletter?
	I like the title.
	I like the subject, first of all.
	The subject was very good.
	The big giant dog head?
	Yeah, immediately I wanted it.
	Clickbait was good.
	Clickbait, yeah.
	I like the pie image that you had in there.
	We have the big pie show coming up, 3-14-15.
	It was a nice piece of work.
	You had good stuff in there.
	You had stuff that's relevant that we'll probably not even talk about.
	Right, but it's talked about in the newsletter.
	done.
	That's good.
	We're good to go.
	Let's thank some people who are supporting this program because we don't need to extort money.
	We don't need to deal with salespeople who can't sell.
	We just have to do the show and make it valuable to the people who listen to it, who it is intended for, this product.
	Right, because our audience is not a product.
	Correct.
	We don't sell, we don't package them and sell them.
	We make a product and we're serious about it.
	Yeah, the show is a product and the audience is not.
	It's an audience.
	This has been reversed in most media.
	Much to dismay, I think, of people like ourselves and our listeners and our producers.
	So we do have Sir Philip Smith's $700 donation, which was missed on show 700, I guess.
	And is he now a black knight?
	Yeah, I think he's a black knight.
	Well, he would be a black knight, I believe.
	He's now a baronet.
	So the black knight part is somewhat confusing to me, but he is...
	Black knight Sir Philip Smith is what he wants to be called, and that's what he is.
	Yeah, we have to actually knight him today and give him his baronetcy.
	Okay.
	We will do that.
	And then we have Sir Ralph Nellison.
	Nellison.
	Let me see.
	I think it might be Nellison.
	Let me check.
	Nellison.
	Nellison.
	Oh, he's from Germany.
	Ralph.
	Oh, it's a little small here.
	Let me just check.
	I think it's Nellison.
	Okay, it's in Aachen Deutschland.
	Aachen Deutschland.
	What is it, Aiken?
	No, Aachen.
	Aachen, you're right.
	Yeah, Aachen is what I said.
	Yeah, you said it right.
	Hi, Adam and John.
	I hope this will help counter the last 700 donation...
	I hope this will counter the post-show 700 donation blues.
	Indeed.
	You got your guitar?
	Nope.
	Keep on rolling, Sir Ralph Barron of Neutral...
	More...
	Sir Ralph, Baron of Neutral MoorsNet.
	P.S. This completes my fourth knighthood.
	Would it be possible to add Germany to my barony?
	You can have the whole damn place.
	So far, nobody seems to be interested in it.
	You got it.
	Yeah, good to go.
	Yeah, yeah.
	West W. Door Company Limited in Lexington, Kentucky.
	$701.
	The Ralphs was $701, so they're both members of the $701 club.
	Uh...
	I sent John and Adam an email.
	Here's another 700 shows.
	Oh, did you get an email?
	Then it would have to be from W Door Co.
	I don't know if I have that.
	I don't know who it's from.
	Daniel.
	Probably Daniel.
	I'll look up Daniel.
	We'll find you, Daniel.
	Daniel?
	No, I don't think so, man.
	I-E-L. I don't know.
	I can hear Daniel waving goodbye.
	Lord, it looks like Daniel.
	Must be a cloud in my eye.
	Nope.
	Thank you for your guidance.
	No, that's not him.
	Nope, don't have it.
	I don't have it either.
	Well, we didn't get it from Daniel.
	Daniel, send it again, and we'll take care of you.
	Yeah, maybe we get it.
	If you listen to the show, you can send it now, but we'll go read it on the next show.
	No problem.
	All right.
	And then we have Sir Beer Geek, Rick Fowler in Aiken, South Carolina, 700.
	I'm going to suggest, because this came by check, and it was for the 700 Club.
	I suggest that we at least add a dollar, throw a dollar in.
	I have a silver dollar.
	Throw it in.
	There you go.
	And he'll be a member of the 701 Club.
	Got a great idea.
	I like it.
	He said in a note, Dear Crackpot and Buzzkill, congratulations on researching 700 shows.
	I'm doing my part in the value for value model by donating $700.
	With this contribution, I will reach the level of baronet.
	I know this is a legitimate peerage title, but sounds unusual to my ear.
	I think it makes me sound like a baron wannabe or a baron light.
	You know, having a third less serf than a regular baron.
	My only recourse is to keep saving up to reach full baron level.
	I'll keep up, or you can keep up the great work, and I'll keep on listening and donating.
	If not too much trouble, may I request little girl boom shakalaka, little girl yay, and some karma.
	Okay, boom shakalaka, yay, and some karma, not a problem.
	Actually, I'll do them the other way around.
	He has a seal on the letter.
	Oh, very nice.
	Yay!
	Boom chocolate!
	Boom chocolate!
	You've got karma.
	Two different little girls, by the way. .
	Nice.
	Robbie Wilson in Helens Bay down UK. 33333 from Helens Bay, Northern Ireland, actually.
	ITM, John and Adam, long time boner, first time donor.
	I couldn't take it any longer.
	I had to donate the best podcast in the universe, paying my value for value twice weekly binary injection of almost lawful content.
	He needs a de-douching as far as I'm concerned.
	And I'll give him a little karma.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	Whatever else, it was cut off.
	Surotaku in Louisville, Texas.
	3-14-15.
	Damn you, Adam.
	Now that I can't Damn Monty Python.
	I can't get the damn Monty Python song out of my head.
	Here's a little something for belated congratulations for completing 700 episodes of the best podcast in the universe.
	Can you send me some mac and cheese karma to help me this weekend as I participate in my first KCBS barbecue competition?
	73 KCBS? What's KCBS? It's a local radio station around here.
	This is Sir Otaku KF5SVR 73.
	Yeah, there you go.
	You slaves can get used to mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	Living the mac and cheese life.
	Mac and cheese by Ayn Rand.
	You've got karma.
	And again, W Door Company, LTD from Lexington, Kentucky, 31415.
	He's in for a grand.
	Wow.
	Everybody loves pie, don't raff.
	I'll hold hands and share a secret.
	Amen, fist bump.
	Thanks for keeping our minds open and teaching us about the world of today and tomorrow.
	I'm headed to Beijing and other parts of China.
	His little note's coming from China.
	I'll be tuning in from there.
	Sorry for being such a douche.
	Okay.
	So he wants...
	I guess he wants this...
	Yeah, let's run those.
	Yeah, I'm getting them here.
	I'm getting everything set up.
	I think we can do it.
	Don't get up!
	We need to kill them.
	That's not the one.
	Shut up.
	What was the other one you needed?
	Oh, hands.
	Shut up.
	Oh, hold hands.
	Why did I not get...
	Oh, tell a secret.
	That's what it is.
	Here it is.
	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.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	You've got karma.
	That amen fist bump thing is out of control now, officially.
	I love it.
	And we have emojis.
	Yeah, I saw that.
	I don't think there's an ideal one yet, but I brought this up at dinner the other day with everyone, and everyone's all in on it.
	They've never heard it before.
	That's great!
	Isn't that crazy?
	That's a great meme.
	Amen fist bump.
	Amen to this bump.
	Josh Hastings in part of this unknown.
	23456.
	No note and no email that I can find.
	David Killian sent a check in for 208 from Clinton, Illinois.
	Mobile Adventures in South Lake, Texas, $200.
	ITM, so glad I took the red pill that No Agenda provides me back in 2008.
	Love the perspective and the documentation, show notes, your program provides.
	I love them.
	Keeps getting better.
	The production quality is without peer.
	Ah!
	This is what I said earlier.
	Amen, fist bump.
	We are not nominated for best production.
	No, because they want, you know what, I've decided it's just a bigotry of pro-live production against their, they hate live to tape.
	They hate live to tape.
	I think they hate white people.
	I think this is just a black organization, this podcast awards, and they don't like white people.
	They are black?
	No, but if people can say that about the Academy Awards, I think we can say about the podcast awards.
	We'll just say it the other way around.
	This guy's all white.
	He's nominated.
	So they hate everybody.
	Sir Luke of London, $200, London, UK. Adam and John's show, $700.
	It was hilarious, but unfortunately, I've been walking around saying, Amen, fist bump.
	Yeah, I know.
	Amen, fist bump.
	I know.
	I didn't get to connect with Adam during my recent trip to Austin due to his flu.
	I thought it would be best to leave him to recover.
	I would agree with that.
	Everyone got that flu.
	I enjoyed Austin.
	I have a recommendation for Adam if he isn't aware of it already.
	Top Ten Gentleman's Club and Ron Rock, just like any other strip club, but with one unique selling point.
	The DJ sounds exactly like Alex Jones.
	Ha ha ha!
	What's the name of this joint?
	Yeah, I make a point here.
	Most DJs sound like Alex Jones.
	Yeah.
	I tried to get him to do an ident for the show, but unfortunately I couldn't get a clean recording.
	Adam, have you thought of doing a No Agenda meetup in London?
	Finally, I would like to ask for some karma for my first cycling event of the year, which is happening this Sunday, coupled with some getting out of having to go to Sweden karma.
	People of the great works for Luke of Lenny.
	He never mentions it.
	It's just in Round Rock is all I know.
	Oh, no, it's the Top Ten Gentleman's Club is what it's called.
	Oh, is that the name of it?
	I'll have to go visit.
	Yeah, and get to Alex.
	Ryan the chiropractor will take me.
	He likes that.
	He likes that stuff.
	Hey, man, let's go find some strippers.
	Candidates for chiropractic work.
	Hey, let's go.
	This girls do.
	Look at that spine.
	Let's go get some strippers.
	Let's go hang out with some strippers, man.
	Come on.
	Man, my wife's out of town.
	Straight from Reseda, here she is, Raven!
	Give it up!
	Hey man, fist bump.
	You've got karma.
	Now that's, now that's a DJ right there.
	And that concludes our producers, executive producers, associate executive producers for show 701.
	Wow.
	And we want to remind people we do have a show coming up on Sunday.
	It's a shorter period of time to get donations.
	And I will be in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
	And he'll be in Rotterdam, devorek.org slash NA. I will be.
	I'm staying with my kid because, you know.
	She's in Rotterdam?
	Yes.
	You know, I kind of like Rotterdam because it's a little more modern than Amsterdam.
	Oh, it's a lot more modern.
	They have award-winning architecture in Rotterdam.
	And no one bothers you because they're all Muslim.
	It's fantastic.
	You think I'm joking.
	No, they don't know who I am.
	Not at all.
	Yes, and also in...
	In America, daylight savings time goes into effect on Sunday.
	Yes, this is where the elites once say, if you thought that dress the color was messed up, wait until they make you change time again for no apparent reason.
	Except that father time.
	Father time exists in the Wikipedia.
	I didn't know this.
	Father time.
	He's the guy who tracks time.
	Hmm.
	Is he a Navy man?
	No.
	No.
	I think he would because the Naval Observatory seems to be the one behind it.
	He is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man dressed in a robe carrying a scythe and an hourglass.
	He looks somewhat like the Grim Reaper.
	He is Father Time.
	Yes, he's wearing white, though not black.
	Right.
	And of course, Europe will not change the clock at the time.
	They do it 20 days later.
	Makes so much sense, doesn't it?
	Well, that's what we used to do it.
	I'm not even going to ask.
	I don't even want to know why we do it.
	Because to me, there's no reason other than to confuse people and laugh about how we made people change their clocks.
	There's no other reason.
	Ha ha!
	We had them.
	Ha ha!
	You know, I don't know why.
	I gotta write this.
	Ha ha!
	These stupid slaves.
	We made them change the clock.
	Ha ha!
	I gotta dig up my old...
	I have documents.
	I have information that's come to light.
	We've talked about this for seven years, and there's absolutely no new information that has come to light about any of this whatsoever.
	I've got information, man!
	New shit has come to light!
	No, you'll have nothing new.
	Yes.
	Alright, fine.
	We'll talk about it on Sunday.
	No.
	No?
	No.
	Because I'll forget by then.
	I'll remember.
	I'm going to put it in my thing.
	Yeah, you'll remember.
	It's not going to do me any good.
	I've got to find these old recordings.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A. Dvorak.org slash N-A. And of course, we always want everybody out there supporting us by propagating our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Shut up, slave.
	My system is making little...
	So what are you going to do in Amsterdam?
	I'm in Rotterdam, not in Amsterdam.
	That's what I meant.
	I'm seeing Christina.
	Remember, I had this flight, which I just moved back somewhere.
	Oh, that's right.
	You got stuck.
	This is like a forced holiday.
	It's not a holiday.
	It's not a holiday.
	I have a lot of people to see.
	Do you have friends in Rotterdam?
	I thought they were all Muslims.
	My daughter is in Rotterdam.
	And it's cheap.
	It's free.
	It's free room and board.
	I don't have money to go running around.
	Yeah, it's free.
	And with the dollar, when you do have to buy something, it'll be cheaper.
	I think it's $1.11.
	We're getting down to parity here.
	Admin.js, it's not a holiday.
	See, John, don't put that out there.
	I'm not going on some vacation.
	It's busy.
	I've got to go see my first wife.
	I've got to tell her to shut up.
	Well, this doesn't sound like much fun.
	No!
	I didn't do that very well.
	I have to say, my first divorce, I didn't do things well.
	I want to go make amends.
	But then please, stop with all the press stuff.
	It's annoying.
	That's not going to happen.
	I know, but...
	You're going to get a bunch of pictures.
	There's going to be another bunch of pictures.
	I think she's going to call the paparazzi and have him waiting around the corner as I show up.
	Oh, yeah.
	And she's doing interviews saying, there's no room in my life for Adam anymore.
	Everyone thinks he's coming back to me.
	Why am I asking a stupid question, which was going to be the stupid question, was when is she going to stop doing this?
	And then I stopped myself because I realized that's the dumbest thing I could possibly ask.
	She's a professional.
	She is a professional, correct.
	It's actually worth discussing because not often do you get to talk to someone who's inside the bubble.
	It's a different bubble.
	It's Europe and it's small.
	It's the Netherlands.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well, I don't know, man, but something has to stop.
	If that means I've got to go and say, hey, man, I'm sorry again, whatever.
	I'll do whatever it takes.
	Stop, make it stop, make it stop.
	Oh, you're just living in a dream world then, okay.
	Well, everybody wants me to.
	So I've got stuff to do.
	I wanted to go to London, which I think I'm going to do, but it's only going to be a day.
	I have an idea.
	I have to deal with my dad and my sisters and his whole situation.
	He's in the home.
	I have an idea.
	What's your idea?
	I have an idea that you make amends with the paparazzi by giving them an interview with you, an exclusive interview with one of them, to plug the No Agenda show somehow in the interview.
	What good will that do?
	It'll plug the show.
	They've been playing bits of the show on television.
	Oh, good.
	Yeah, we don't need any...
	No, I refuse.
	I refuse.
	I refuse.
	No, we're not going to do that.
	That's not going to happen.
	So have you seen the South Korean ambassador who was slashed?
	Yeah, this was not very good.
	This guy looks like...
	You think this guy doesn't look that bright?
	Have you looked him up?
	No.
	Go look him up right before we do this and look at his pictures.
	And while you're doing that, you can play the background, the South Korean ambassador slashed.
	Yeah, I got it.
	The U.S. and its partners want a guarantee that Iran cannot build a nuclear weapon.
	The U.S. Ambassador to South Korea is recovering after a man attacked him in Seoul.
	Video taken just after the attack shows a bloody Mark Lippert leaving an art center.
	He was giving a lecture when a man, reportedly with a razor blade, slashed him.
	The White House says the injuries are not life-threatening.
	The alleged attacker is under arrest.
	The man reportedly shouted, no drills for war, an apparent reference to U.S.-South Korea military exercises.
	Is Lippert, is he related to the famous New York Lippert family?
	I don't know who We're going back to Wall Street days.
	What was the guy's name that they made the movie about?
	Madoff?
	No, before this.
	The one that Michael Douglas did, Wall Street, with Charlie Sheen.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Wall Street's name of the movie.
	Yeah, but who was the guy?
	Greed is good, that guy?
	Yeah, Greed is good.
	So it was a guy like that.
	Gordon Gekko.
	Gekko, yes.
	It was a guy like that, and he was the Lippert family.
	I don't see any relation.
	I'll have to look.
	But he looks dumb.
	Yeah, he looks like he's dumb.
	He looks like a dumb dog.
	You know what I mean?
	He does look like a dumb dog.
	I just want to pet him.
	And his eyes, he's a little cross-eyed.
	Is he cross-eyed?
	He looks cross-eyed.
	I don't know how he got this job.
	Well, if he's of the Lippert family, that's what I'm thinking.
	So I got to look into that.
	Okay, we'll look at it.
	That's a story going on.
	Well, you know, Uncle Don was, of course, at one point the ambassador to South Korea.
	And you'll recall when they were raided, they broke into the embassy and were throwing shit and burning shit.
	And he was living there at the time with Aunt Meg.
	So this is not an uncommon...
	Well, the razor blade is new.
	But, yeah.
	It seems like an unplanned event.
	You know, this is not a...
	You know, it just...
	Shit happens.
	I'm sorry I brought it up.
	No, not really.
	It's a topic.
	That, to me, is more jarring than fake beheading videos.
	Like, oh, man.
	Can you imagine a razor blade slicing in your...
	That thing sewed up quick, and then you need somebody to work on it.
	Yeah, you need some plastic surgery.
	Well, let's go with talking about the latest Snowden.
	You want to go with Snowden or you want to go with Clinton's email?
	I can go in a couple different directions here.
	We can do...
	Also, Petraeus.
	Petraeus is in the news.
	I would like to do...
	I would like to do Clinton email because there's a lot of numbers.
	We can do that as part of tech news.
	Hmm...
	That's just playing a jingle.
	Well, let's just play the...
	Let's do Snowden, then.
	We'll come back to Hillary.
	Let's do Snowden.
	What do you got?
	Well, Snowden is in the news because now he's going on saying, I want to come back.
	You know, the guy is homesick.
	Mission complete.
	Mission accomplished.
	Mission's complete.
	So you've got to get him back somehow because he needs it.
	Or let me put the right word out there.
	They have to extract him somehow.
	Because, you're right, the mission's complete.
	He's had an assignment.
	It's over.
	He never even bothered to learn Russian, from what I can tell.
	He just doesn't care.
	He didn't get any pair of new glasses, and he's sick of it.
	But he's trying to get some sort of a promise that they don't, because he knows what can happen.
	Yeah, throw him in the brig.
	They grab him, throw him in the brig, and throw the key away, and he won't even be able to talk to his handlers.
	Hmm.
	Which can happen.
	These agencies fight against each other, and this guy's NSA. We always assume he's a CIA asset going after the NSA to get more money for the CIA. And CIA accomplished that.
	Not only did they get more money, they also have said they're going to build their own cyber capability, therefore not having to rely on NSA capability.
	So they got what they wanted.
	Time to bring your guy back.
	They should do one of those airplanes with a bungee cord.
	That's real, by the way.
	Yeah.
	Uncle Don has told me that this is real.
	They actually fly a plane over with a bungee cord.
	You grab that, and you go...
	It comes down as kind of a loop.
	Yeah, right.
	And you throw yourself on the loop, and then you just bounce right up into the sky.
	Yeah.
	And then they fly away, just hoping you don't bump into any buildings.
	Well, before we go there then, this could also be tech news.
	The cyber show just came out finally.
	Oh, they had some great promotion.
	I love what they did.
	Oh, it's a horrible show.
	Oh, but the promotion, oh, here's Newsflash.
	The new CSI Cyber is already on the download sites.
	Hackers have already taken it.
	You can't get better promotion than that.
	Good work.
	Well, here, play cyber premise.
	Here's the premise of this show, the first show.
	By the way, the acting stinks.
	And we predicted this would happen because we knew it.
	We had inside information.
	I predicted it based on that I could see it coming.
	It's CIS, not NCIS, so it's a different group.
	It's CSI, not even CIS. It's CSI. What did I say?
	CIS? Yes, CIS, yeah.
	CSI. You predicted it after I told you.
	I thought it was going to be an NCIS spinoff, but no.
	So, premise.
	I just want to set this...
	Never mind.
	You deduced it after I told you after the show that it was coming.
	And then you forgot about that part, and then you made this wild prediction.
	You don't remember this.
	This is not the way I remember the criminology.
	That's okay.
	That's all right.
	It's fine.
	Want to update on the Baltimore kidnapping?
	Police report.
	Baltimore PD states the father heard foreign voices coming out of the baby camera.
	Here's what's worth getting out of bed for.
	Baby cameras are designed to broadcast an infant's cries from their crib to the parents' room.
	The question is, why are foreign voices coming out of the camera?
	Insect intrusion?
	I'd like to be sure.
	Case has been assigned.
	Fires and walls over major crimes.
	It needs to be reassigned.
	Any crime involving electronic devices is by definition cyber.
	Cyber!
	Alright, you think this kidnapping should fall under cyber division, but you couldn't just call me and tell me all it was?
	Hey, the baby's missing.
	It's easier for you to say no over the phone.
	Alright, alright, alright, alright.
	Nah.
	Okay, so that's how dramatic this is.
	It sucks.
	Now, I only have three clips, so it's not going to kill you.
	But here's what it's about.
	It's a baby cam made by this one company, and for some reason unknown to me, all these baby cams made by this Natacam, or whatever the name of the company is, all the videos are in the cloud.
	Why?
	To me, a baby cam is just a cam you hook to your computer or you hook into something that just watches the baby and you watch the baby go to your computer.
	But no, no.
	These are hooked to the cloud.
	And the big fat guy, there's a fat guy that's the programmer superstar.
	Oh, really?
	They did that stereotype?
	Yes.
	With a plumber butt?
	With a neck beard.
	Oh, no.
	Really?
	Really?
	Well, that's very accurate then.
	So they got a neck-bearded fat guy, and he goes over to the company, and I didn't clip the line, but he goes and looks at their code, says, you guys are idiots, and he says, you guys, and you gotta shut it down.
	He's the FBI, so he can say that.
	Meanwhile, of course, they have the scene that's coming up, and I have a couple of photos, and I don't want to sound like a complete nerd, but I have a couple of photos of the scenes, which I'm going to post on Twitter, or maybe the next newsletter, showing a huge flaw in the set design.
	It's got nothing to do with this.
	So this played not just a kidnapping to get a sense of what's going on here.
	All righty.
	No ransom calls yet.
	Kitten next door heard a car speed off.
	That's it.
	What about the baby cam?
	It was unplugged and secure.
	Unplugged?
	That's the quickest way to lose all the data.
	Detective Cho, please treat all hardware, including the baby cam, like a dead body.
	Don't touch it, don't move it, until we get there.
	Sorry, we didn't know the new cyber protocol on a kidnapping.
	This is not just a kidnapping.
	That's right, cyber protocol.
	Well, you wouldn't touch anything anyway, would you?
	Why don't you start messing with the crime scene?
	But okay, we'll just let that slide.
	Meanwhile, of course, at the beginning when the woman said, oh, there's voices coming out, there's a little speaker on a lot of these baby kids.
	I love how angry you get about this fictional depiction of cyber crime.
	Really?
	You think I get angry?
	It sounds like you're a little angry.
	I'm irked.
	Okay, okay.
	Yeah, irked.
	Yeah, good, irked.
	Now, here's what this story is.
	The story is there's baby cams in the cloud and there's some group of apparent Russian, Russian, not Ukrainian, but Russian crooks.
	Of course.
	Because they don't never say it, but you look at it, they have it.
	They're Russians.
	A bunch of Russian crooks.
	Screw those guys.
	And they have decided to, they get these kidnapping teams and they grab the baby and then hold the baby up in front of the little baby cam at night where they get into a house and everyone's asleep.
	And they hold the baby and the various people start to bid for the baby.
	This is a kidnapping for hire thing.
	And of course we have Arabs.
	And we have Chinese and all these different people that are bidding for the baby and then they take the baby and then the baby gets kidnapped and shipped over for a hundred grand to whoever it is that wants the baby, whoever bid the highest for that baby.
	And that was the voices coming out of the baby cam.
	Oh, that wasn't like a ham radio guy next door?
	But that's what it would be.
	The only good line in the whole thing was this one, which is the line of those poor parents.
	This is kind of a funny line, and I think it's going to be thematic for the whole series, which is, oh, there's dangers, dangers out there.
	Be very aware.
	Be vigilant.
	Be vigilant.
	Vigilant, people.
	We need vigilance.
	Oh, those poor parents.
	They buy a baby cam to protect their child.
	It's the very thing he gets abducted.
	Sure.
	It's truly horrifying.
	It's horrifying, Internet of Things.
	The dingo ate my baby.
	It's exactly what it is.
	The digital dingo is what it is.
	So they finally catch everybody and it stinks.
	It stinks.
	How are the ratings?
	I don't know.
	I didn't get the overnights, but I'm sure it got pretty decent ratings.
	They introduce a new show with a lot of hype.
	They get people to watch it.
	The characters are better, by the way.
	Much better than Scorpion.
	By far.
	And Scorpion already does very well.
	Mystery to me.
	The main character in Scorpion is annoying.
	His handler's annoying.
	Everybody's annoying except the girl.
	And she's getting annoying.
	And they don't have a big fat guy with a neck beard.
	That's lame.
	All right, let's go on.
	Let's talk about Russia for a moment.
	This allows me to finish up a few clips, short ones here from Noodleman.
	I'm glad you did this because I saw this and I said, Adam, if he's got Noodleman, he's got it.
	That's right.
	I have triggers everywhere.
	Noodleman.
	And she's not...
	She's looking a little pudgy.
	She looks like crap.
	Yeah, she does.
	She looks like she's not happy.
	When she was...
	Well, she's married to Robert Kagan.
	Hello.
	Evil.
	That man's Beelzebub.
	She doesn't look good.
	When she was doing, when she was spokeshole for state, now she is Ambassador Newland, I'll have you know.
	Ambassador Newland.
	She is assistant deputy?
	They call her ambassador in the...
	Yeah, what's she ambassador to?
	I thought she was the deputy state department head.
	I think that carries an ambassador title, and I think she's ambassador to Ukraine, probably.
	Something like that.
	While you do this, I'll look at this up.
	Here she is, and there was a little tidbit in here.
	Again, this was almost like the broadcast board of governors.
	When I heard this, I went, hold on a second.
	Another name I know.
	What's What's going on with this?
	The overturn of the rotten regime by violent demonstrations and non-democratic means of overthrowing that regime.
	Two years later, they could have kicked that Yanukovych out with a free election.
	They didn't wait.
	He's basically saying you didn't wait.
	You, McCain, you couldn't wait.
	I hope that what we're doing now is aimed at trying to end the conflict that started in that more complicated way than black and white.
	What people are advocating that we send weapons to Ukraine, the defensive weapons, would any of these weapons be under, do we see any of these weapons becoming part of the arsenal of that part of the Ukrainian army that is financed Which I believe a third of the Ukrainian army is now,
	that is in conflict, is financed by an oligarch, a private citizen who happens to be a multi-billionaire.
	Ha!
	Now, and then I looked this up.
	Wow!
	I know!
	What he just said is a third of the Ukrainian military is financed by one guy.
	A billionaire.
	His name is Ihor Kolom...
	And I practice this, too.
	Kolomioski.
	And I've...
	Here's the cool thing.
	Who did he hire just recently?
	Yes?
	Hunter Biden.
	Oh, he's the guy who hired Biden's kid.
	Yeah.
	The cokehead.
	By the way, the cokehead...
	Yeah, the co-kid from Joe Biden is now right.
	We knew Biden was working over there.
	Biden is always the guy who's talking to Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk because I get all these.
	I'm on the news feed from the White House.
	It's always the vice president.
	They say transcript.
	They call it something else like write up or write down of the vice president's A phone call with Ukrainian President Poroshenko.
	And they don't put anything in there that they actually said.
	This is like a summary.
	Like, he said, hey, how you doing?
	Got my kid off the coke still?
	Yeah, okay, good.
	Keep going.
	We'll send you some weapons and shit.
	This is so corrupt, people.
	This is so, gosh, dingity-dongity-day corrupt.
	The Vice President of the United States, his son, Koch, had kicked out of the military, is working for the guy who finances the Ukrainian military, a private citizen.
	Citizen.
	Okay, I want to interject here.
	You can continue with this, I hope.
	Yeah, I got a couple more.
	Of course.
	Of course.
	Newland.
	Noodleman.
	Here's the deal.
	She served as the principal deputy foreign advisor to vice president, Dick Cheney, and then, why is she working for this?
	Doesn't anyone think it's suspicious she worked for Cheney, and now she's working for the Democrats?
	Well, yeah.
	She's married to the Kagan.
	It's a little odd that Barack Obama's supposed to be a liberal.
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	Barack Obama also loves the Kagans now, who were the neocons before.
	Yeah, the warmongers.
	Yeah.
	John McCain.
	Project for New American Century and the war.
	Foreign policy advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney and then as U.N. ambassador to NATO. And so this is the thing that bugs me.
	They still call her Clinton president.
	They still call her ambassador because that was the highest title she's achieved.
	So even though she's not an ambassador to anything, they call her ambassador.
	And it's not because of her job, which is Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.
	Really?
	She even gets a little handwritten.
	Her sign there is the Honorable Victoria Nuland.
	Right.
	And it said ambassador on her chyron and I think on that label that you're talking about.
	Yeah.
	This is bullcrap.
	And I think she has a sash to wear.
	All right, go on.
	Take it, take it.
	All right.
	Here is, now this, by the way, is Dana Rohrabacher.
	From California, I believe.
	Yes, I believe so.
	And by the way, when he talks slow, he sounds like Batman.
	He has a very interesting cadence in his voice.
	And he did not use that voice, but he had a point to make.
	Yes, he had a point about that he's pretty much sick and tired of the United States of America embarrassing and putting down Putin.
	And making Putin look bad.
	And he's going to tell Victoria Nuland to shut up.
	Oh, fine.
	Always fine.
	When Yanukovych was talking to the EU about association, he was also working with the IMF on an IMF package similar to what was offered later and what we have now.
	I was working as the U.S. government's representative to him to try to get him to meet IMF conditions.
	I had more than 30...
	I've only got 25 seconds.
	30 hours of meetings with him.
	Listen, I've only got 25 seconds.
	Excuse me.
	Yeah.
	I only have 25 seconds before they cut me off.
	Okay.
	I like how she says, okay, please.
	Shut up, slave!
	Let me speak to the weapons issue.
	It's not your time.
	Hey!
	I like that.
	That was bad.
	Hey!
	I just love it when they do that.
	Cut me off.
	I want to make this point.
	Let me speak to the weapons issue.
	It's not your time.
	Shut up!
	They're going to cut me off in 15 seconds.
	I hope that what we're doing is trying to bring peace to the Ukrainians and not to humiliate the Russians.
	And there's a lot of people, and I understand, I was a big Cold Warrior as well.
	Our goal should be to try to have peace in that part of the world, not to try to humiliate Russia again and again and again.
	There's too many people being killed out there, and I would hope that we have, that with decentralization, which seems to be accepted by both sides, that that string of those, that area of eastern Ukraine, Can remain part of Ukraine,
	even though that now you have this separatist violence going on, that with promise of decentralization and respect for everybody's rights and an end to the violence, that we can end this situation and that should be our goal.
	And I would hope that we don't get caught up in trying to re-establish a Cold War with Russia because we have so many people who have grudges.
	And by the way, I understand that.
	Russians during the Cold War murdered how many Ukrainians?
	But our goal shouldn't be right now to make them pay for that, what they did during Stalin's era, but bring peace to that region.
	And I would hope that we can work together on that.
	I'm sorry.
	Do you understand what this decentralization is and how that works?
	I've been trying to get a true...
	I haven't gotten a good explanation.
	I'm expecting to get one on Democracy Now!
	or someplace that would get into a long discussion, but I've not seen it because right now that show is so hung up on Ferguson and the one joke the guy made.
	Yeah.
	Let me play the last clip and we can move on to that if you want.
	So Newland finally, after he tells her to shut up and he's done, she makes her pitch at the end.
	It's strange how representatives have time and they try to stay within their time boundaries and they get cut off.
	The witness, in this case Newland, Noodleman, She just says, oh, I just want to make my pitch.
	She has a Russia pitch.
	My concern is that it is the policies of the Kremlin that are hurting the Russian people now, hurting them economically, having their sons come home in body bags.
	That's what I worry about.
	I've spent 25 years of my life trying to integrate Russia into Europe and into the international system, and I worry about the fate of Russia's citizens as much as Ukraine's.
	Well, finally, we know whose fault it is then.
	I blame you.
	Yeah.
	Noodleman?
	If you've been working on this for 25 years, how is that working out, girl?
	Not.
	This woman is bothersome.
	Yeah, she is.
	I didn't realize she was foreign policy advisor to Cheney and this ambassador to NATO, which means she's all in.
	She's very connected with NATO. She does something very interesting when she's talked.
	She has this smile that she can just turn on and off.
	Somehow, even though she's a horrible person, it's endearing.
	She has a good little trick there.
	I'm not quite sure how she does it.
	Is that the inappropriate smile that just shows up out of the blue here and there?
	But it's kind of motherly.
	It has like a little thing to it.
	It's very difficult to do that without seeming patronizing.
	It can be done.
	I think Bill Gates does it well.
	It's not patronizing when he does it.
	He does the smile, you know, like a sorority.
	So I watched the...
	Like a sorority smile that you...
	Oh, no, that's horrible.
	Right.
	I watched maybe an hour and a half and didn't bother, but I didn't notice it.
	I'm like, okay, that's kind of interesting.
	You know, I tried watching it, and I'm glad you watched it and got a clip, because I couldn't get anything from it.
	She's very plodding.
	She's plodding.
	Well, yeah.
	And then one more thing.
	There's a Dutch report, and this is from the Dutch government broadcaster.
	So you have a whole bunch of commercial broadcasters, but this is really sanctioned.
	When the NOS and news, these are the guys.
	Oh, by the way, the same guys who let that crazy kid come in, took him to another studio.
	The one that was dressed like anonymous, had a fake gun and tried to do something.
	Yeah, those guys.
	They came out with an article called, and I'm translating on the fly here, Five Questions About the MH17 Investigation.
	This is the 777 from Malaysia Airlines that was downed above Ukraine.
	And it is one of these typical articles.
	First of all, there's no reason for it.
	I'm going to translate this on the fly.
	What have the police and the open...
	What do you call that?
	I'll just say Justice Department.
	It's not exactly the translation.
	What have they found up until now?
	Because apparently the Dutch are leading the investigation.
	Which I think is a bad idea since the Dutch government relies so heavily on Russian trade that there may be some bias.
	But what they do here is they say, and of course they have a whole country which is shell-shocked, almost 300 Dutch people.
	When you look at the connections, the family connections, that affects a lot of people.
	Even I know people who had friends or family who died on the flight.
	So it affects a lot of people.
	It puts people into a crisis mode.
	It is very traumatic, and people want answers, and they're not getting them.
	We still don't really know what the results of the black box are.
	None of this has been put out in the open because they immediately came out, blamed Putin, and then they can't back it up.
	So translating on the fly, the investigative results point in one direction that MH17 was downed by a Buk rocket The book installation was moved from Russia to Ukraine very shortly before the crash.
	That is seen in several videos that have shown up on the internet.
	But Dutch detectives have also spoken with eyewitnesses in Ukraine.
	So very, very subjective.
	But people are...
	Now everyone's all over this.
	Oh, there it is!
	Investigative results are out!
	And so this one article has been propagated in certainly the Dutch media that we know now.
	Even though it's saying things like points in, seems like, could be, and of course Russia today has to respond to this.
	Headlines such as these are all over the Ukrainian media stating that Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down by a Russian Buk missile.
	No, maybe, no, probably.
	It's all reported as fact.
	The source supposedly comes from the Dutch prosecutor's office.
	The Netherlands is leading the investigation into the crash that killed almost 300 people who were on board.
	It appears that they used this article by a Dutch broadcaster titled Five Questions.
	It's about MH17. If you scroll down, we get to the important bit.
	What have the police and the prosecutors found so far?
	And it says here that the Boeing was brought down by a Buk missile that was fired from a Russian launcher and probably by the Russian military.
	But here's the problem.
	Dutch prosecutors told RT that they have reached no such conclusion.
	I'm not familiar with these reports, but I can say for sure that they are not correct.
	We are still investigating the plane crash.
	We are not yet ready to take any conclusion.
	I'm glad they called somebody in check.
	Are you telling me?
	Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
	Yeah.
	So this bullcrap report comes out.
	Everyone buys it.
	From the Dutch government.
	From the government broadcast organization.
	Yeah, but nobody's verified this is accurate or anything like that?
	Well, except for RT, they did.
	Yep.
	Yeah, I know.
	I know, I know, I know, I know, I know.
	Yeah, RT has to do it, which is like Udacris.
	That won't fly, really.
	You think some of, anyone in any one of these major media organizations, you know, the Telegraph, the Observer, the Sun, the New York Times, anybody would just call and say, is this right?
	Have you been following the HSBC stuff in the UK? Oh my goodness.
	And I don't have any video of this, but of audio or any clips.
	So we know that HSBC, there was the thing with the telegraph, was it the telegraph where they were pretty much trading?
	I think it was the telegraph.
	Yeah, they were buying a million pounds worth of advertising, and therefore there was no real reporting on the huge scandals that HSBC has been involved in.
	Right.
	But now check this out.
	This HSBC group, and of course, I'd like to remind everybody that our new director of FBI, James Comey, was a board of directors, on the board of directors of HSBC. Yeah, he's part of it.
	When I believe there was shenanigans going on, like drug law and drinking, it's always going on.
	Well, now, we have the Culture of Media and Sport Minister in the UK, who works for the BBC. And let me see.
	We have also the BBC Trust chair, Rona Fairhead.
	And all of these people were either appointed by HSBC or they worked for HSBC. And now the BBC is being accused that they also have not really reported very much on HSBC's issues.
	But the chairman of BBC Trust...
	I'm reading from the slog.
	This is John Ward who does excellent reporting on his blog.
	The chairman of the BBC Trust is a banker with a still-continuing relationship with HSBC. The minister of trade was for several years the CEO of HSBC. The BBC carried out a damning investigation into HSBC while Fairhead had a seat in both camps.
	The minister of culture, media, and sport was a banker, and he hired Fairhead.
	Sajid David was put into the culture, media, and sport role by David Cameron, whose father was a stockbroker.
	The main conservative-leaning newspaper in Britain worked with HSBC on the cash for coverage deal, while Fairhead was an advisor to them on media and other relations.
	Now we read that Fairhead will give evidence to the Public Accounts Committee alongside HSBC Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver next Monday.
	The whole thing is the British Bankers Club.
	And these guys have power.
	So they are inside the BBC at high levels.
	Making sure that nothing is really done about them.
	Or at least reported.
	There's gambling?
	Yeah.
	But I think it's overshadowing Goldman Sachs' evil empire.
	You know, it's possible that Goldman Sachs is not the evil empire, and HSBC is.
	Very possible.
	Because the evil empire should be somewhat, you know, shadowy.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	Yeah, that's good.
	What's your point?
	I don't get the...
	Yeah?
	Well, the point is that Goldman Sachs is kind of too upfront.
	Right.
	They weren't as shadowy in the sense that you'd never heard of him.
	Right.
	HSBC's never been in the conversation.
	No.
	I mean, they show up in the conversation every once in a while, like, for the money laundering scam and all the other stuff they do, but then it disappears.
	Whoop, whoop, gone.
	Yeah, it doesn't get reported.
	Goldman Sachs is constantly getting hounded, and they even have the Goldman Sachs elevator guy on Twitter.
	Right.
	Is he still tweeting?
	Yeah, he's gone off to write books or something.
	He's not tweeting.
	He's rerunning his old tweets.
	But there's great tweets that he does.
	Those are great.
	There was another big Twitterer that was highlighted this week.
	Very important people on the tweeters.
	Did you see Benjamin Bibi Netanyahu address our Congress?
	Yes.
	And did you hear what he had to say about the tweets?
	No, I missed that part.
	I think I fell asleep.
	Today the Jewish people face another attempt.
	By yet another Persian potentate to destroy us.
	Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
	I love the pronunciation.
	Ayatollah Khamenei.
	Khamenei.
	Ayatollah Khamenei.
	Oh, shit.
	It's okay.
	I'm okay.
	I'm safe.
	Ayatollah Khamenei.
	This is funny.
	His tell, Bibi's tell, is his throat clams up.
	Because he's going to lie here, he's going to say some crap.
	And he has to drink some water, it's so bad.
	Well, maybe it was the way he pronounced Khomeini.
	Maybe that hurt, maybe that's what messed him up.
	Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei spews the oldest hatred The oldest hatred of anti-Semitism with the newest technology.
	He tweets that Israel must be annihilated.
	He tweets.
	In Iran, there isn't exactly free internet.
	But he tweets in English that Israel must be destroyed.
	Well, this is an outrage!
	He tweeted it!
	And you can always follow me on Twitter.
	This is an outrage!
	He's tweeting!
	Annihilation!
	Well, that's dangerous.
	And why is this such a big deal?
	He tweets!
	Come on, baby.
	Strange.
	He tweets!
	Okay.
	You hold up pictures of bombs with a fuse.
	Red line.
	That's where they are.
	Red line.
	Which is more infantile, my friend?
	Yeah, which.
	Well, that's the question.
	Which?
	Which, yeah.
	All right.
	Onward.
	Okay.
	I do have a little side thing here.
	A little entremant.
	Today's entremant.
	Today's from Chef?
	Yes, from Chef.
	Especially for you.
	Chef has chosen this little teaspoon of goo, especially for you.
	For you, he's thinking of you personally.
	By the way, I was thinking about this.
	I was thinking about this while sitting down.
	I didn't take a note on it.
	You know what bugs me?
	Where do I start?
	You go to some store, you go to like a liquor store, and you say, well, do you have any of this Gewurztraminer?
	And the guy goes, oh, yes, I am getting some in today, but I also have for you, I also have for you this wine here, and I've liked this wine, and I have this, and I have that.
	He's always referring to first person as though it's his store, when it's not his store.
	He's a sales guy on the floor.
	Hey, he should go work for Byron Allen.
	You need sales guys.
	I bought the wine.
	I ordered some new.
	I am getting this in.
	It should be we.
	The guy is not a team player.
	It bugs me when a guy does this to me.
	Because I know it's not.
	He didn't order this wine.
	It was the buyer who ordered the wine or somebody.
	Maybe he did and it was an off chance he ordered this particular wine.
	But I doubt it.
	I'm really sorry you feel that way.
	It just annoys me.
	I saw this happening on some other situation.
	Well, what I have for you today.
	What I have for you today.
	As though you're not even the...
	I get it now.
	Yes, okay.
	So you actually are chef, and you have something for us today.
	Will it be better than the CSI Cyberclips?
	This is, I think, just a good background for people that don't know much about spinning.
	Yeah.
	And if anyone knows the name of the comic who did this, I would like to get that and credit her.
	But this clip was from back in December.
	I never got to play it.
	And I forgot who she is.
	And you are playing this to mock me.
	No, no, no.
	I'm just playing it for educational purposes for the audience.
	You're already all in on spinning, and I realize that you can't be mocked.
	I've tried to mock you about this before, and you just hump-humped me, and you're like, what do you know?
	But I think the audience still doesn't realize what's going on here, and I think I know the key to this because I now believe she gave me some insight into why you really like this.
	What is happening?
	It's amazing.
	You can convince anyone of any type of exercise, especially in Los Angeles.
	Spinning?
	Let's take spinning.
	How did that happen?
	Yeah, we're just going to take a bunch of stationary bikes and we're going to put them in a room and you're going to pedal real fast.
	You're not going to go anywhere.
	Absolutely go nowhere.
	It's going to go up and down and up and down.
	Then we're going to dim the lights and pump in a bunch of music.
	And there you go.
	Spinning.
	20 bucks.
	Let's do it.
	Everyone's like, yeah, yeah.
	And then they just keep adding to it, you know?
	They're like, okay, you're still going to be spinning, but now no lights whatsoever.
	Just candles.
	It's just all candles.
	That means it's going to get louder.
	There's going to be disco ball up and down and up and down with hand weights.
	Now there's hand weights.
	Soul cycle, 30 bucks.
	Now you're going to keep doing that.
	You're going to keep doing that.
	You're going to keep spinning.
	Now we're going to add heat.
	We're going to add a lot of heat.
	90 degrees.
	100 degrees in the room.
	Candles.
	And weights.
	And up and down.
	And up and down.
	And heat.
	Hot spin.
	3950.
	People do it.
	People do it.
	It's unbelievable.
	Yeah, very good.
	Yeah, I finally got the clue about why you liked it.
	The candles?
	There's no candles in my spin studio.
	You stepped on my line.
	I was on to you.
	Candles.
	No.
	No.
	I told you why I'm there.
	It's very healthy.
	It makes you feel good.
	It has a community-based feeling.
	I wish they had co-ed showers.
	I keep telling you, co-ed showers would be good.
	Well, there's no reason not to have them.
	In Finland, when you go to the Salones...
	Yeah?
	I think there's co-ed.
	When we arrived in the Netherlands in 1972, I recall a couple things.
	One, well, there's a number of things.
	The french fries with mayonnaise was one, but I got used to that and started to like it.
	The other things were, the curtains were always open, and people's front windows were always spotless, and you could always see into their living room.
	It was a very Dutch thing.
	Open, come look, I have nothing to hide.
	They have that in the marina in San Francisco.
	And I thought very interesting was, and of course we didn't have spin studios or anything like that, but sporting clubs like football clubs or hockey clubs or anything really, any type of club, was all co-ed showers.
	And people would take their kid off, men, women, whatever.
	It would not make a difference.
	There was zero shame.
	And that has gone away over the course of 30 years.
	Thanks to America!
	And I truly think that now that they got commercial television 23, 4, 5 years ago, and I think you're right, I think American culture crept in and we became ashamed of our bodies and all these things that are because of commercialized media.
	Yeah.
	And I don't, I mean, how sad, really.
	I mean, again, we still have the beaches, which are, you know, topless.
	Oh, they're starting to bitch about that now.
	I'm sure they are.
	I'm sure they are.
	What is...
	How does that happen?
	How does that work?
	Why does that take place?
	We're astonishing.
	We are culture twisters.
	It's all...
	Let's find the vortex.
	What's down at the bottom?
	It's spinning around, spinning around.
	Down, there's a hole down.
	Hollywood.
	There you go.
	That's where it all comes from.
	It must be.
	World culture.
	It must be.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, that's disappointing.
	It is disappointing in many regards.
	On the other hand, it's like, wow, we are good at this.
	Because you get to this point, and Christina has...
	I miss nobody's controlling it.
	You can't be controlled.
	There's no one person that says, oh, topless is bad.
	Topless is bad.
	There's nobody that's doing that.
	And then you do it all of a sudden, topless is bad for whatever...
	There's cumulative reasons because the society kind of decides it and pushes it on the Europeans.
	Oh, it's bad.
	You shouldn't have these beaches.
	And he pushes on, pushing on, pushing on them.
	And there's no way to reverse it when somebody comes along and says, what's wrong with these beaches being topless?
	Women get a better tan than only a stupid strap.
	A woman likes a tan, but she's got a white line across her breasts.
	It's dumb.
	It looks stupid.
	Yeah, and now, of course, it's not Hollywood, but Instagram, Facebook, side boob.
	You get your pictures deleted, your account gets put on hold.
	Side boob!
	Side boob!
	I know, side boob's like, who cares?
	And then you see people go, this is censorship!
	I said, oh, really?
	Get the F out of my face.
	You all, we're all in on this.
	Morons.
	Side boob.
	Side boob.
	Hey!
	My selfie stick comes today.
	I ordered one.
	Just to take a picture of me with a selfie stick.
	Selfie stick.
	Oh man, oh man, oh man.
	No, we're going to hell in a handbasket.
	Remember that phrase?
	Yes, but that is from...
	Why is it in a handbasket?
	Why can't it be in a small Prius?
	Because I believe this is from the French Revolution, when your head was chopped off, fell into the handbasket, and you were going to hell.
	Oh, you might be right.
	It makes nothing but logical sense.
	I think that is where it's from.
	Oh, so you modernize it.
	Hell in a Prius.
	Excuse me.
	More cartel leaders, Buster.
	We never need to talk about Guzman or Guzman.
	Oh, Guzman, yeah?
	Yeah, they're still kicking ass.
	They got a couple new guys play this so we can catch up with what's going on.
	We still don't know what the process is.
	It's our people to have something to do with this.
	Mexican police are claiming another victory in their war on drugs.
	They've arrested Omar Morales, the reputed head of the Zetas cartel.
	As Adam Rainey reports, the arrest comes days after the Mexican government pinned down another top cartel leader.
	The arrest of this alleged leader of the Zetas cartel comes just days after authorities here in New Mexico took down Servando Gomez.
	He was the alleged leader of the Knights Templar.
	Now, these two arrests show that Mexico continues to focus on taking down leaders of these drug trafficking and criminal organizations.
	No, they're not going to do anything about it.
	I think they're starting to do something.
	Oh, only to replace with somebody else.
	Well, I think armed people.
	Hello.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Exactly.
	We need new guys who don't know the HSBC trick so we can bring them in, you know?
	Do something.
	Definitely something changing.
	Changing of the guard.
	Well, now that Comey's in...
	You'd think he might have something to do with it.
	I'm sure he's intimately involved with.
	FBI's got to be involved with these cases.
	I would think so.
	None of this is a surprise.
	Uh-uh.
	All right, let's go to Petraeus.
	Okay.
	So tell me, Petraeus is back in the news.
	Why?
	Why?
	This is what I want to know.
	I think, my personal opinion, play the rundown, and I'll tell you what my personal opinion is.
	Petraeus explained a democracy now.
	Do we need to back up and explain who he is and why we're talking about him?
	Oh, God, I hope not.
	But General Petraeus...
	No, go ahead.
	It's worth it.
	No, you say General Petraeus is, you know, the...
	He was running CIA, and then...
	And he was, you know, screwing some biographer, and then he got into his...
	Using Gmail...
	Using Gmail is important.
	Yeah, Gmail, which is official CIA mail when he's using it, whatever the case.
	He used to run one of the wars, and we used to mock him for wearing all these badges.
	He had millions of badges on.
	And Bakelite.
	Bakelite nameplate.
	Bakelite pins.
	Bakelite pins.
	Talk of Edward Snowden's return comes as a government leaker of a different sort has reached a plea deal.
	Retired four-star general and former CIA director David Petraeus will plead guilty to one count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified information.
	The FBI and federal prosecutors had recommended felony charges against Petraeus for providing classified information to a woman with whom he had an extramarital affair.
	Petraeus resigned in 2012 after admitting to cheating on his wife with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.
	Petraeus gave Broadwell access to his CIA email account and other sensitive material, including reportedly the names of undercover operatives in Afghanistan.
	Under his plea deal, Petraeus faces a maximum of one year in prison, though prosecutors will seek a suspended sentence that would spare him any time behind bars.
	Oh, this is interesting.
	The timing of this is, wow, probably not coincidental.
	So his plea deal is for removing classified documentation, which I believe I'd have to look at it, means that he put classified information onto Gmail, which they call an unclass.
	There's class and unclass.
	An unclassed system, and therefore that is a felony.
	And I know this because of Judge Napolitano, who used to have a show and he got kicked off because he was saying things that were too smart or whatever.
	He gets to show up on Fox once in a while, and there's this 20-second bit, which when we go, huh?
	Yes, number two.
	The other way that she's in trouble.
	And this is about Hillary Clinton.
	Is a person who knowingly and willfully destroys or conceals government records.
	This is a felony punishable in jail by up to three years.
	And are you ready for this?
	Disqualification from holding public office under the United States of America in the future.
	Do you think this is coincidence?
	No coincidence at all, and I love that clip.
	That was the borderline clip of the day.
	It makes so much sense.
	Well, and then Josh Earnest got called on it.
	While they're doing that, I'm now thinking the Snowden thing is a distraction of the week.
	Okay.
	And so play Earnest on Petraeus, and we'll get a clue of how we're going to swing this around and not mention Hillary.
	Quick questions on accountability as well.
	This administration has been more aggressive than any other in trying to prosecute people for leaking classified information, journalists who have either published or seen classified information, working on stories.
	And yet, General Petraeus...
	This is that Fox guy again, isn't it?
	This entire job is to make trouble in this room.
	And he's been put in, and everyone knows he's doing...
	This guy is on all the time.
	He's got a good pole position seat, too.
	He does multiple questions.
	Yeah.
	...fines, leaked classified information, and he gets off with a misdemeanor and is not doing any jail time.
	What kind of signal does that send?
	That if you're a senior member of the President's administration, you leak classified information, you're not going to jail, but other people are.
	Well, Ed, I don't actually think that the Justice Department did find that he disclosed classified information.
	The charge that he pled to was the improper handling of classified information.
	That's different than the disclosure.
	The code words, spy names, the president's briefings, that's not classified information?
	The charge that General Petraeus pled to was related to the improper handling of classified information.
	That is different than the disclosure that you asserted.
	For more details on that investigation, I'd refer you to the Department of Justice.
	But certainly, the President believes that it was appropriate for General Petraeus to take responsibility for his actions.
	There's a couple things at work here.
	One, there's still some thought that Petraeus could be a player and run for President.
	Which I've always asserted is, I think it's a high probability.
	You say high, I say low.
	Okay.
	You say tomato.
	But it does exist.
	And because, as we know, as we watch the last elections and track the phony baloney polling to keep money flowing into the big media, that they can be convinced of anything.
	Right.
	Of course.
	If money's involved.
	So it's possible that they thought something was going on.
	They had to do the same thing, according to Judge Napolitano, to this guy, because even the mishandling of his felony or not felony would preclude him.
	Besides that, he's embarrassed now.
	He's not going to run for anything.
	So they got him out of the picture.
	I think that was the idea to begin with, because the FBI wanted to throw the book at him for all kinds of things, I guess.
	Right, right, right.
	So meanwhile, we got Clinton here, who they got to deal with because she wants to run, but it looks like forces are trying to get her screwed over by the fact that she had her own private email that she did for all her business on called, it was hdr22 at clintonmail.com.
	I think we can all write her an email.
	She'd probably pick it up.
	It's clintonemail.com.
	Not mail.
	Clintonemail.com.
	Yeah.
	And HR... I was looking at HRD2. I couldn't figure...
	I still...
	If anyone has any ideas on the 22, I don't know what that means.
	Maybe she is one of those people.
	Steve Gibson at Security Now does this.
	Do you have his email?
	His next year's email will have a different number.
	Different, right.
	He increments the numbers.
	Huh.
	So she may have had this for 22 years, for all we know.
	I don't know.
	But the HRD... Or the H... It's actually H-D-R, yeah.
	Which I think is more interesting.
	I don't even know if she's ever officially changed her name to Clinton.
	That stands for Hillary Diane Rodham, which is her real name.
	Mm-hmm.
	And there's some question, if you look into her background, the Wikipedia page is quite good on Hillary, by the way.
	It indicates that she was back and forth on changing her name to Clinton, and she did it for political reasons.
	I don't know that officially, if that's her actual name on a driver's license.
	It still could be HDR.
	So Associated Press reported that she was running an email server from her own home.
	And everywhere they were claiming that they had seen Internet registration documentation to back this up.
	Apparently some guy named Ben.
	Ben.
	Some dude named Ben.
	But when I looked into it, what has been set up for, I think, two years at least is, you know, I look at the MX records.
	If people are going and looking at ClintonEmail.com, that is not how email is routed.
	Associated Press.
	If no one has shown...
	I've not seen any evidence of the email server being in her house.
	The only way...
	Let's face it.
	It's not in her house.
	I don't believe so either.
	They had attracted...
	You know what?
	I know where they got this.
	Tell me I'm wrong.
	They did a who-is search.
	They found the registrar.
	They found their name and address of the server, of the owner of the email address, or their domain name, clintonemail.com, and it was her house address.
	It's like mine.
	You can look up Dvorak.org.
	You'd say, well, he's running his server out of the post office over here because I use the post office address.
	That is pretty much what I think.
	And now the ClintonEmail.com registration was updated with a privacy thing, obviously.
	But what I'm seeing is the MX record.
	And I worked with Void Zero for like an hour and a half on this just to make sure I'm not crazy because I'm doing net stats.
	I'm digging and seeing what's going on and NS lookups.
	The MX record points to MX Logic.
	And MX Logic is pretty much what you have with your guy.
	It's like a spam service, and everything runs through...
	It's now part of McAfee, interestingly enough.
	So the emails were being routed to MXLogic servers where they were probably rid of spam.
	There may be some archiving happening there.
	A lot of things going on.
	And then maybe, maybe there was a server.
	It could be, it could be in the house.
	And by the way, fine.
	I've run servers in my house.
	No, I think it's great.
	In fact, I have more respect for a few.
	Me too.
	Me too.
	I'm sort of bouncing around in the house.
	I would just like...
	When you look at Wired, so here's Wired, the way...
	This is very bad.
	When Wired Magazine says, you should never run your own email server!
	You need to have professionals run that!
	You need Gmail, Yahoo, Microsoft!
	You can't do that yourself!
	It's horrible!
	Hackers can get in!
	It's actually really cool that she's doing that.
	I thought so.
	If she's doing it.
	I don't believe so.
	I don't believe so.
	I don't think so either.
	And I think it's an atrocity that, here we go, we have tech news, and I guarantee you no other tech news is actually going to do all of the work, try and find the proof, which is simply not there.
	Unless someone has an email with full headers, that's the only way...
	I would be able to see where, potentially, where the final server is.
	Or if you sent her...
	If she subscribed to the newsletter, we could probably track it.
	If we put some images in there, probably.
	So if she's opening up images and emails...
	She's not a subscriber to the newsletter.
	No?
	Well, good try.
	So I'm very disappointed that Associated Press says she was running the...
	And she is not a cop to this.
	She's not said yes.
	She hasn't said anything.
	No.
	Oh, man, there was...
	I was going to give you a clip that she said something, but I couldn't find it.
	I was listening to...
	The clip where she yells, what difference does that make?
	I was listening to Tom Ashbrook on Point on NPR, and he had some woman on...
	And this is more about the...
	And by the way, I think she's really happy with this because at least now the heat is off of the donations from Algeria.
	Hello?
	The whole country of Algeria donated money to the Clinton Initiative.
	Which this woman was happily saying was routed through to Haiti through the Clinton Global Initiative to help earthquake survivors.
	What a joke!
	Lying sacks of money stealing horrible elitist pricks.
	So, no.
	There's no evidence, and it's abhorrent to me that this reporting takes place.
	But you're talking about this woman that was talking.
	There's a woman that came on one of the shows.
	Yeah, and I don't have...
	I didn't clip it, but she was just some spokeshole for Hillary, and she really was not doing any service.
	Well, she didn't know what was going on.
	She was trying to...
	Well, here's what I do have.
	I have Marie Harf, who for some reason is now back on the podium, but now Matt's not there.
	Jeez, we can't get the lovebirds together.
	Yeah, I know.
	They put some other guy in Matt's spot.
	Yeah.
	I'm a little concerned about it.
	I hope it's just temporary.
	This is Harf arguing with this other guy, with the cock blocker.
	The new guy.
	Not only that, but he's wearing like a Palestinian scarf.
	Yeah, right on.
	That's no good.
	He's cock-blocking Matt.
	People see it as a black and white, little checkered-like scarf.
	I have one.
	I'm worried about this.
	I picked it up when I was in Dubai, actually.
	No, when I was in Israel, of all places.
	Yeah, of course.
	And people wear it as a fashion item, and it's really a horrible thing to wear as a fashion item.
	Anyway.
	Statement.
	Yes.
	Here she is.
	She's going to talk about the difference between class and unclassed systems.
	And I would say Hillary is following this to the letter.
	I think she's going to be okay.
	I do not think she'll run into any trouble with this.
	I think she's going to be okay with this.
	I don't know why this would be held to a different standard.
	Because it's a cabinet member using an unclassified email.
	But we all use unclassified emails.
	Most people use most of their work is on a work email.
	But on the work email, that's not scanned for classified information either, Brad.
	If she had had a state.gov email, there wouldn't have been a classification review to make sure everything on that email was unclassified.
	I understand, but it would have the security in place to handle classified...
	By the way, this guy, Brad, is just talking out of his butthole.
	He doesn't really know what that means.
	He would have the security for classified information.
	The only...
	Classified system that you can have is a closed network.
	It's not on the internet.
	And they have this apparently.
	Absolutely not.
	That is patently false.
	An unclassified email system at the State Department does not have security to handle classified information.
	We weren't talking about an unclassified.
	She would have a classified capacity on her email.
	No, no, no.
	The classified and unclassified systems, even at State.gov...
	We're splitting hairs here.
	No, we're not.
	We are actually not.
	I have both.
	I can tell you.
	They are two separate work machines.
	They are two separate systems.
	Mm-hmm.
	That anyone can have, you know, people who have unclassified emails here, those aren't scanned for classified information, and they are not set up to, from a security perspective, handle classified information.
	But you're saying she did not have a classified or an unclassified email at the State Department.
	Is that correct?
	Yes.
	So, presumably, if she had done her business at the State Department, she could have used a classified email system.
	No?
	I mean, that would have been available to her.
	In theory, but she had other ways of communicating through classified email through her assistants.
	This guy stinks.
	Well, what she's saying, and what I believe to be true, is that just because you have an at, you know, state.gov email does not mean that it's a classified system.
	In fact, she's saying quite the opposite.
	Yeah, it's just an email.
	It's probably running on Gmail.
	Most of that stuff, it is.
	It's Most of these things are running on the official...
	Yeah, a lot of the government...
	Gmail.
	Some people have Microsoft Exchange.
	Exactly.
	A little more advanced systems, but Gmail's the cheapest way to go, and a lot of people do that.
	And if I remember that Vivek Kundra guy, when he first showed up, he was talking about putting all this stuff on these servers.
	Look, here we are.
	So why are we spending this money?
	We should just do it this way.
	And probably...
	Wow.
	Yeah, probably did all of that.
	I think it was a smart move by Hillary.
	I agree.
	In addition...
	Just one thing.
	I have 20 seconds left on this, and then I want to hear what you have to say.
	But in addition...
	If you're sending email to other people at state.gov, there's a record on the other end.
	That is another point.
	That's what Hillary said.
	Yeah.
	With people when she needs to use a classified setting.
	What I was saying is our unclassified email systems at the State Department are not the same system as the classified, and they are not equipped from a security perspective to handle classified information, even if they're a state.gov account on the unclassed system.
	So I'm just, you know, we all use unclassed systems.
	They don't have classified on them.
	All right.
	I'm using an unclassed system.
	Yeah.
	Alright, you wanted to say.
	You had a point.
	No, actually, let's play these clips and get the story rounded out by the mainstream media.
	Let's begin with Clinton email in NHRundown.com.
	She's not officially in the presidential race yet, but Hillary Clinton is under tough news scrutiny this week after revelations that she relied exclusively on a private, not government, email account operated from a personal server when she served as Secretary of State.
	Today, a House Oversight Committee subpoenaed those emails for an ongoing Benghazi investigation.
	The Wall Street Journal's Laura Meckler has been covering the story.
	Laura, how unusual is it that anybody, any Secretary of State, would be using a personal email account exclusively?
	Well, it wasn't that unusual, frankly, because there haven't been that many Secretaries of State since email became sort of the normal way to communicate in business.
	Secretary Colin Powell used a personal account.
	His staff confirmed this week.
	Secretary Rice, who followed him, evidently didn't use email.
	And then we have Secretary Clinton.
	Secretary Kerry uses a regular State Department email address himself.
	Okay, I know what happened.
	I know what happened.
	This is a total...
	This is...
	This is so obvious.
	Don't look over here.
	Nothing to see here.
	Ooh, look at that.
	I figured it out.
	Well, let's go.
	Who broke this story?
	Who broke the story about the emails?
	The New York Times.
	And I was watching the...
	I didn't clip it because I didn't understand it, and now I wish I had.
	Maybe I can look it up.
	The journalist who broke the story...
	We have to figure out who that is now...
	He was on Morning Joe.
	This is why I didn't understand what was going on.
	And he had a real soft take on it.
	And Mika and Joe were kind of stunned.
	This guy was not out for blood or anything.
	Here's what happened.
	Huge scrutiny on the Clinton Global Initiative, with money being donated, billions of dollars coming into the coffers of the Clintons, which Hillary's on the door, the little girl, Chelsea's on the girl, on the door, Bill's on the door, and everyone's name is up there.
	This is the real scandal.
	Oh my god, we need to do anything we can to distract from it.
	Boom, New York Times comes out with this email bullcrap.
	She already gave the emails a year ago, the printed amount, whatever.
	We know it's not an actual issue.
	I think it's a complete red herring cover-up to remove the conversation from the foreign country donations to the Clinton family.
	This is a huge problem with them.
	They have a lot of...
	The Saudi is also big.
	But no one's talking about that anymore.
	No, they're talking about this.
	Now, this seems to be, and you're right, this is an old story, because this is actually, and nobody mentions this, by the way, because I don't think anybody wants to backtrack on it.
	This actually stems from a, this hacker.
	Mitnick?
	Guccifer.
	Guccifer in March of last year.
	March of 2013.
	And he went to jail.
	So this story actually predates his going to jail.
	When he had hacked into Blumenthal's account, which was an AOL account, and pulled down the emails, he discovered the Hillary email address.
	I have here Friday, August 2nd, 2013, from search.nashownotes.com, when Colin Powell's email was broken into by Guccifer.
	This is where it started, I think.
	Probably.
	And anyway, the Guccifer guy who's in the slammer, I guess, I don't know, I think somebody, you might be right, that somebody said, well, wait a minute, we got this kind of nobody gives a shit scandal that we can bring to the fore, which will get a lot of attention.
	And that's exactly what's going on.
	But the funny thing about the New York Times story and all the rest of it, nobody mentions Guccifer.
	Well, no, we wouldn't want to...
	I looked down this Guccifer thing, and I said, oh, Guccifer.
	We don't want to reveal the scam.
	So I looked and looked and looked and I found the New York Times didn't talk about Guccifer, the AP didn't talk about Guccifer, the Guccifer, Gucci fur, I think is what it really is.
	G-U-C-C, I like Gucci, Gucci fur.
	And then the Reuters, nobody!
	The way I got this was again from some like you had, this is some, it's not a normal blog, but it's one of these new, obscure, no, this was from the Smoking Gun.
	So I don't have a clip, but I do have a clip of this.
	Do you want to listen to the Morning Joe thing for a second?
	Sure.
	They were weirded out by this New York Times guy.
	Oh, hold on.
	Wait, that didn't work.
	Why is this?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I need to...
	Let me just set the...
	I got it.
	I can fix it.
	I can fix it.
	Here we go.
	Let's go rock and roll.
	Go.
	The guy can't get a megaphone.
	It's not like he couldn't have gone on 60 Minutes.
	It's not like he couldn't have spoken somewhere else.
	He went before Congress.
	I'm sorry, that's not the right one.
	That's about...
	Well, anyway, so the woman stays on the news hour.
	Have a second part of it if you want to play it, and it's just going to wraps it up.
	Yeah, what's the name?
	Clinton Rundown Part 2.
	Okay, let me put that in, and I'll look for that...
	Yeah, probably fine.
	But exclusively without any other.gov address involved?
	Secretary Kerry, well, Secretary Clinton, of course, just used, as you said, just used her personal email address.
	Secretary Powell did, in fact, do that, just use a personal email as well.
	Yes.
	And to have your own personal server, they call it Homebrew, which is connected to her home.
	Homebrew.
	How unusual, I guess it's unusual for most people, but how unusual is that?
	I guess the question is, how much does this keep public business private?
	Well, I think that that's the real question here.
	I think you put your finger on it.
	And the question is, why does she have her own, not only her own email address and not just get the one that it's assigned to at work like the rest of us do, but, you know, why does she take the additional step to set up her own network?
	Now, Jeb Bush also had used a personal email address, and he also had his own network.
	He owned his own servers as well, but in his case, he was regularly turning them over to the state.
	So there was a difference.
	In the case of Hillary Clinton, she didn't turn any of these over for public examination until after she left office and received a request.
	Well, that's one of the questions.
	She's been under, with this Benghazi investigation, pretty constant investigation for a while.
	Why are we just hearing now about the existence of this private account?
	Well, I don't think people really knew that it was only the case.
	It came out through the committee's investigation as they requested those emails.
	Now, we should say that the State Department did request those emails themselves as part of what they say is a routine effort to comply with federal records-keeping requirements.
	And so they asked for all of her emails and then subsequently turned some of those over to the House committee.
	All right.
	Here we go.
	This is the Michael Schmidt from The New York Times who broke the story with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
	Rice didn't do email, according to my reporting.
	Colin Powell did.
	But the rationale that Hillary's side said was, well, we didn't have to have a state account because the emails she was sending were to the State Department, and those people's accounts were catching them.
	Hold on.
	Hold on a second.
	Talk about the difference between Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton.
	How is it different between what Colin Powell did from 2001 to 2005 and what Hillary Clinton did in her four years as Secretary of State?
	Well, Colin Powell is not running for president.
	What else?
	Did Colin Powell release the emails?
	No, Colin Powell didn't release the emails, and Hillary Clinton is the only former Secretary of State to actually go back and give the State Department her emails.
	So this guy is now defending her.
	The guy who broke the story in the New York Times is saying, oh no, she did a good job.
	And wait until you hear their response.
	It's not like when Hillary Clinton left office, she said, here are my emails.
	What happened was that 22 months after she left office, the State Department went to her and said, hey, do you have any emails from when you were Secretary of State on your personal account that could be government records?
	She came back and said, yes, I have 55,000 pages of emails.
	Okay, so the difference, according to, I believe I read it in your story this morning, it must have been your story because you broke it.
	The difference was that when Colin Powell was Secretary of State, there weren't the laws in place because we obviously moved into a new era.
	And so once we, once we can move...
	I'm trying, I want to fast forward this because I know what's coming, I just can't do it for some reason.
	The federal government decided that they needed to have these accounts.
	Is that correct?
	That's true.
	There is a difference between Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton.
	Colin Powell was not required by law to do this.
	Hillary Clinton was required by law to do this.
	True or not?
	There were explicit regulations in place when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State that said they had to be retaining her emails on government servers, sort of in an active sense.
	So did that happen?
	And that was not the case when Colin Powell was Secretary of State, correct?
	I don't believe so.
	Okay, so now there's a response here.
	Kudos to the New York Times for breaking a tough news story, putting it on the front page.
	Tough?
	Yeah.
	I'm telling you, I think you're absolutely right, and I'm just watching a massive onslaught of hatred from what I've been following on Twitter as Hillary supporters.
	It's hard.
	There's a big wall around her of a lot of people who work very hard to protect her.
	I wonder, because they are absolutely brutal, Mika.
	I wonder if the New York Times reporter himself was getting abuse through the night, because his interview with us was a strange interview.
	It was...
	I think we have it, but we have another story to get to.
	I think we have to be careful how we say it.
	But there was something else happening in this interview.
	And you wonder about that.
	If the fear of retribution or something gets into your head.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	They're right.
	Something's weird with the New York Times.
	They got it backwards.
	This was set up to cover up the other story.
	Wow.
	I like the way that getting it backwards does even a better job.
	It draws even more attention to this bullcrap story.
	They're complicit in this, these two.
	This is the bullcrap story.
	We figured it out.
	If Hillary became president, I hope she have her own server.
	And she would just give people a clue that you don't need to be on these Gmail.
	No!
	The only reason she got busted was because this other guy was on AOL. We're not even busted.
	This is set up.
	This was all known.
	This is an old story.
	She did get busted back two years ago.
	Right, exactly.
	When the guy came across her email on this with Blumenthal.
	And the only reason that would have even happened in the first place is because these places, these big systems, they're not secure.
	The government's always asking for it.
	Give us all the emails.
	Google scans your email for Google Now to see what you're doing to alert you.
	Of course it's not secure.
	It's built into it that it's being read.
	Processed.
	That's very bad.
	Anyway, so when you're around the water cooler today, tomorrow, the rest of the week, and people are talking about Hillary's emails, and a lot of you will be talking about this because your dude's named Ben or dudette's named Bennett, and people will be like, oh, not safe email.
	Serve at your home.
	You just say...
	This is all a red herring.
	It has nothing to do with that whatsoever.
	This is all old news.
	This was to cover up the donations from Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and other countries of billions of dollars to the Clinton Global Initiative, which, for all intents and purposes, we don't see go anywhere but into the Clintons' pocket and their hotels in Haiti.
	How did Bill Clinton become worth a half a billion dollars overnight?
	Magic!
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda in the morning.
	And we do have some people to thank for show 701.
	And you gotta hand it to the Clintons, man.
	Oh no, they're geniuses.
	They are top-notch.
	Top-notch criminal organization.
	Top-notch.
	They know how to do this.
	Hey, you know that problem of the billions of dollars?
	Gone!
	Gone!
	Yeah, no, I have to say.
	Oh, there it was.
	Fine.
	And all these people...
	I've been waiting for you to say that all day.
	That's the first one.
	Yeah, I know.
	I know, but it's the first one.
	You're supposed to play fist...
	The idea is...
	I talked about this.
	Yeah.
	If you play...
	Amen, fist bump.
	Just as I'm saying, it's just out of the blue.
	It's less annoying.
	Yeah, I got it.
	It's not like that honking sound you used to play.
	I got it.
	Stop me.
	I got it.
	And I think it will definitely break the habit.
	I'm getting closer.
	You've done very well.
	Let me stop right now.
	Email comes in.
	Rationalizing this use, where it comes from.
	Maybe it means, you know.
	Maybe, which is what I think it means.
	I think it comes from, you know, like dumb...
	Impossible.
	You know, you know.
	But that doesn't matter.
	But it doesn't matter.
	I don't care about these rationalists.
	I don't want to get email telling me, well, it's not that big a deal.
	Or stop obsessing about it.
	No.
	I want to get rid of it.
	I have to obsess about it.
	I have to get rid of it.
	I don't want to sound like some jock on the TV set saying, yeah, no, you know, you know.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	Sandy Block, I want to thank her for $100.
	San Diego, California.
	It is the best $100 I've spent, she says.
	Thanks for the heavy dose of sanity, she says, and entertainment.
	I've been hook-listing non-stop for the past three months, and I've awoken from my media and society-induced slave coma.
	Hello, welcome to the pleasure.
	Shout out to Elliot for introducing her to the show.
	Hello, Elliot.
	Thank you.
	Also, she has a call-out.
	Oh.
	Chris Santoulas is a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Don't know why.
	All right.
	Jay Kumar.
	You go to White Castle, I think.
	Beverly, Massachusetts.
	$100.
	Sir Reddy Kilowatt in Battlement, Mesa, Colorado.
	$73.73s.
	We have a call sign now.
	David Clevenger in Sterling, Virginia, $70.10.
	These are all still from our septennial.
	Yeah, they're still carryovers, because there's not that many.
	We've got a birthday call coming there.
	El Duderace in Tilburg, Netherlands, $70.10.
	I think it's El Duderace.
	El Duderace.
	What did I say?
	Something that didn't sound right.
	El Dudarachi, is what I said.
	Armando Guerra.
	Hey, there's the old mail carrier from the Travis Heights.
	Hey, Armando in Austin.
	I was talking about you.
	I miss you, man.
	I miss you.
	Kevin Johnson, Racine, Wisconsin, 70.
	Joe Kruger in Montgomery, Alabama, 70.
	Andrew McCormick in half-nar-far-farty-far.
	Hafnarferdi.
	It's in Iceland.
	It's in Iceland.
	I want to do a meet-up in Iceland.
	This is the first Iceland donation, I believe?
	Icelandic donation?
	I think.
	It could be.
	Hafnarferdi.
	We love Iceland.
	Patrick Enns in Ober...
	I want to go to...
	They have a restaurant there called...
	In Iceland?
	Yeah.
	Very famous.
	It's Dill or something.
	It's got a funny name.
	One short name.
	It's a guy who does all these crazy dishes.
	And he does puffin.
	Marta Kallstrom.
	By the way, I got called out.
	I think I already read it.
	Marta Kallstrom in Portland, Oregon, 70.
	Anonymous, $61 in Chesapeake, Virginia.
	Joseph Williams in Virginia Beach, Virginia, 60.
	Paulette Mangione in Joliet, Illinois.
	5333.
	Eric Hochul in Berlin, Deutschland.
	52.
	Carl Dietrich.
	Oh, by the way, Paulette has a birthday thing.
	Carl D. Thrick in Lakeland, Florida, 50-33, and the rest of these are $50.
	There's not that many.
	Jerome Ross in Gwynn Oak, Maryland.
	Christopher Walker in DePere, Wisconsin.
	Kevin Johnson, KJ in Phoenix, Arizona, $50.
	Adam Beck in Lost Wages, Nevada, $50.
	Matthew Januszewski, or Januszewski.
	Januszewski, I think you got that right.
	Yeah, it is Januszewski.
	In Chicago.
	Michael McGurk in Lexington, Massachusetts.
	And finally...
	Stephan Milliken in Corpus Christi, Texas.
	Whoops!
	And there's also Jason Deluzio in Shadsford, Pennsylvania.
	Thank all these folks for helping us.
	There was a lot of people that came in at lesser numbers.
	$7 was popular.
	I'm going to do the email, find the guy who discovered last newsletter's Easter egg, and then promote him after we're done with all our little folder all.
	And then we also have this, Sir Walter has been leading the charge here, certainly on the stream and in the chat room.
	Mr.
	Oil, who helped us quite a bit with our stream back in the Los Angeles days, and he worked hard on building infrastructure, and he's been ill for quite a while, and now he needs help.
	And so they've set up a...
	You and I have both tweeted about this.
	Yeah, I tweeted about it.
	You tweeted about it.
	I think Eric tweeted about it.
	Yeah, I want to make sure that you go to GoFundMe.com slash Mr.
	Oil.
	He needs medical help and he needs finances to help him with that.
	And actually, Zoe reached out to me, his wife, personally.
	So I want to make sure that that was also mentioned on the show.
	Right.
	You have a link in the show notes.
	Of course, and we'll keep tweeting.
	Yeah, he's got some crazy thing.
	Nobody knows what it is.
	What he needs is not money.
	What he needs is a diagnostician who knows what they're doing.
	But he's in the British healthcare system.
	I know, I know, I know.
	But they don't care.
	They really don't.
	Hey, what's wrong with this guy?
	Give him some more morphine.
	That'll help.
	Give him more morphine.
	That'll be fine.
	Well, we're going to send some karma out there to Mr.
	Oil.
	He definitely needs all that you can get there.
	You've got karma.
	And let's see.
	We have Black Knights for Phillip, who will be Black Knighted today, but he's also a Baronet.
	Is there anything else we need to do to clear everything up?
	Are we good?
	No, I just had to find the name of the guy who found the Easter egg.
	Okay.
	Which I'm doing now.
	Okay.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A And we say happy birthday to Sir Harry Pilgrim.
	Turns 46 today.
	And I'd also like to congratulate my sister Willow.
	Willow Paci in Italy.
	I'm not sure what is she.
	She must be 46?
	Something like that.
	Who cares?
	She's celebrating today.
	David Clevenger, 64 today.
	And Paulette Manglone says happy birthday to David Trotsky.
	He'll be celebrating his birthday tomorrow.
	Happy birthday from all your friends and the entire staff of management here at The Best Podcast in the Universe.
	Can I interject something?
	I saw pictures of her when you were at the birthday party.
	She can't be over...
	I don't believe she's over 30.
	Willow?
	She's very youthful.
	She's 46.
	That's almost impossible to believe.
	Yeah.
	Well, she listens, so she will be beaming right now.
	And then you and I should say, Hey, Willow, why'd you marry that guy?
	You look young.
	You don't need to be married to that guy.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	No way.
	I found the guy.
	It's jmoon.net.
	Ah.
	From LeGrand, Oregon.
	All right.
	Found the...
	Cliff T is his name.
	I mean, LeGrand, Happy 700, I said before, he doesn't mention that he found the, he may have just put this donation in by accident, but the donation number.
	Oh, wait, maybe it was 707.
	Well, it could have been Borislav Marinoff, and I'll have to go back and look at the Easter egg to make sure.
	I have a feeling Sir Philip was already a black knight.
	I think we already knighted him.
	Well...
	Because I'm looking at Eric's notes here, and it seems like he's not saying there's a knighting ceremony.
	There's only a baronet, and also Sir Ralph Nellison is now...
	Yeah, he would have put it on the knighting list.
	He didn't do that.
	He would have, yeah.
	And this is now Sir Ralph Nellison, of course, baron of neutral Morsnet and Germany.
	Although he could be a double black knight if we're wrong.
	If we're wrong, double black knight.
	What does that get you?
	With that and like five bucks, you can get a coffee at Starbucks.
	All right.
	Hey, thank you everybody for contributing to helping the show.
	It's really a huge, humongous help.
	It's what we need.
	We can't do the show without it, quite honestly.
	It would not be happening.
	Here's something that popped up in the newsreader.
	This is from, I think this is on CNBC. Let me see.
	Unfortunately, not a clip.
	I love it when they do clips, but it was just an article.
	Public health officials know, and this says, physicians and public health officials know that recently vaccinated individuals can spread disease and that contact with immunocompromise can be especially dangerous.
	And I think this needs to be discussed because of these so-called outbreaks that Of 100 people, which is kind of the same.
	Every year it's about 100, 150.
	It comes to measles and MMR. Is it maybe possible that because of the strong push towards vaccination, revaccination, adult vaccination, that maybe they're forgetting to tell these people to stay away from small children for a while, or whatever, anyone who was immunocompromised, and that this is actually spreading some of this disease?
	Go over this logic again.
	Okay.
	Physicians and public health officials know that recently vaccinated individuals can spread disease and that contact with the immunocompromised can be especially dangerous.
	For example, John Hopkins' patient guide warns the immunocompromised to, quote, avoid contact with children who are recently vaccinated and to, quote, tell friends and family who are sick or have recently had a live vaccine, so there's chickenpox, measles, rubella, intranasal influenza, polio, or smallpox, not to visit.
	I'm not aware of this.
	Oh, okay.
	So what you're saying, let me summarize.
	You get a shot in one of these modern vaccines and you actually end up with a version of the disease mild.
	That's why you get rid of it.
	And then you roam around and you give people the disease.
	Yeah.
	By accident.
	Yes.
	I don't think it's that strong enough because you're not sneezing and coughing on them.
	Well, this is an official document, apparently.
	Yeah.
	An official warning.
	That's a very interesting warning, because I've never heard that this was a problem.
	Well, John Hopkins has this in their patient guide.
	And if it is, because there's such a push for these types of vaccinations, maybe people are getting vaccinated.
	Hey, I'm safe!
	I'm all good!
	I'm going to school!
	That's an example of being like a typhoid Mary.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Asymptomatic.
	Yeah.
	And infecting everybody.
	I'm going to have to ask some people about this.
	Maybe that's what they want.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Hello, conspiracy theory.
	And I wanted to mention that a lot of people have sent me this MH37, the missing Malaysia Airlines.
	So not the one that was brought down, that was downed.
	Yeah, the original.
	Yeah, so New York Magazine has this, a wild, crazy conspiracy theory about this, which, yeah, it's a conspiracy theory.
	Is this the one about the batteries?
	It's the one about it being Putin.
	It's a Putin theory?
	Yeah, it's a Putin theory that Putin hijacked it.
	And lots of people are talking about this.
	It has gone mainstream.
	And so I just wanted to mention that apparently a conspiracy theory, which on some shows are called conspiracy tards.
	I thought that was interesting.
	Did you hear this?
	No, I haven't, but I'm sure I will.
	Those guys are conspiracy tards.
	Yeah, this was that loony film girl on Twit with Leo, and they're laughing about conspiracy tards.
	The word retard is now okay?
	We can say that too, or we can't say retard.
	We can always say conspiracy tard.
	Anyway.
	It's a reference to retard.
	Of course it is.
	So conspiracy tards.
	Very politically incorrect to use tards.
	Extremely wrong, yes.
	Yeah.
	Now, we use it all the time because we like retards.
	We don't care.
	Big-ass waterheads and stuff.
	It's funny.
	We like them.
	It's cool.
	They've got punk bands.
	Especially if they win the Euro contest.
	They're not retards.
	They're Down syndrome.
	It's different.
	They're Downies.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm actually against all this.
	Yes, me too.
	However...
	I feel that it needs to be said it is not okay to sanction a conspiracy theory if the payoff is Putin did it.
	Because that's what it is.
	Yeah, you're not a conspiracy tard if Putin is involved.
	Putin!
	He's involved in everything.
	The guy's evil.
	Yeah, we know the guy's no good.
	Exactly.
	Horrible, horrible man.
	Uh...
	We got a note from our Russia propagandist who's always sending us really good stuff, actually, most of the time.
	For sure.
	Because we bitched about it as being a Putin stooge.
	He said, I'm not a Putin stooge.
	Yeah, he did send that.
	I saw that.
	But I got an email from Sub70.
	It was our guy in Damascus.
	And this is completely underreported, but very important to mention, that Harakat Hazm, which is the Syrian rebel group which the White House has deemed as the trusted militias,
	the moderates, they have now announced they are disbanding their units and folding them into brigades aligned with Jabhat al-Nusrah, Giving them all of the TOW, the TOW missiles that the US gave them.
	Jabhat al-Nusra is Al-Qaeda.
	So they're folding their, I guess it's a merger of sorts.
	Merger acquisition.
	Merger, yes.
	M&A. And this is, no one's reporting on this.
	I'm sorry, but when this group says they're joining Jabhat al-Nusra, it is now al-Qaeda.
	And so al-Qaeda is now in possession of the weapons that we have been giving to these so-called moderates in Syria.
	It's nuts, people.
	It's nuts.
	It's nuts.
	Why don't we just get out?
	It's nuts.
	Why?
	No.
	Of course we're not going to do that.
	It's too much fun.
	Once we have Assad out, then we can do that.
	I do have one last clip I'd like to play.
	This is The Rev.
	I know.
	I was all over The Rev.
	A lot of discussion about the Saturday Night Live spoof commercial, which I thought was very funny.
	I'm sure you saw this one.
	No.
	You didn't?
	No.
	You did or you did not?
	No.
	It's like a car commercial and the father's bringing his daughter to what you think is college and you be careful and you need to walk around with money and I love you and have a good time and be careful and she gets out of the car and says, Dad, it's just ISIS. And then she gets on the back of a Toyota with a 50 Cal with a bunch of ISIS guys saying death to America.
	It was funny.
	I thought it was great.
	Making light of the dumbness of the situation.
	And this, of course, oh, this is going too far.
	And now listen to these a-holes.
	DeMilla, is it funny or is it in poor taste?
	I mean, did it go too far?
	What do you think?
	I didn't think it was funny.
	That's my personal opinion.
	What's good taste and bad taste can be debated.
	But I think about this.
	Is the risk worth it?
	My office is a block away from here on the other side of Rockefeller Center.
	So if somebody wants to retaliate for this, because we know that this is an organization and a group of people that are so committed to what they believe and so against the idea of this freedom of speech that they punish us for doing things that we take for granted.
	Oh, hey, this is MSNBC. Like, let's shut up and let's not say anything because they might retaliate and I might get killed in my office one block away from Rockefeller Center, pussy!
	I don't want to be sitting in the Ebony offices and lose my life because somebody thought it was funny to play fast and loose with ISIS. You have another pet peeve.
	Somebody says something like her line.
	I didn't think it was funny.
	That's my personal opinion.
	It's obviously your personal opinion.
	If I say, I don't know, I didn't like the movie.
	That's my personal opinion.
	Yeah, of course it's your personal opinion.
	You just said it.
	Why do you have to say this is your personal opinion?
	If you say, you Adam Curry, you say, well, I don't like that car.
	I think it sucks.
	That's my personal opinion.
	Why would I think it's not your personal opinion?
	I asked you if you like the car.
	I didn't ask you what the New York Times thinks of the car.
	I didn't ask you that whatever other people think of the car.
	I asked you.
	And then you tell me what you think of the car.
	You do not have to add, that's my personal opinion to that comment.
	Because it's obviously your personal opinion.
	The comeback to that is, what the fuck?
	You think I'm an idiot?
	Of course it's your personal opinion.
	It kept firing.
	It wanted to play.
	It couldn't stop.
	How good, John.
	Yes.
	It just bugs me.
	It's like, I'm not a stupid moron.
	I know it's your personal opinion.
	You don't have to say it's your personal opinion.
	As if I'm wondering, oh, I wonder what he just said, if that's his personal opinion or not.
	Maybe he got it from someone else.
	And he's just telling it to me.
	I don't know.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	No, I'm wrong.
	It's an annoyance that it just...
	For that, I give you an amen fist bump.
	I'll give you an amen fist bump.
	Thank you very much.
	Good work.
	Well, it's going to get...
	Well, wait, I have to finish because that's your pet peeve.
	So you don't like it when people do that.
	My pet peeve is when you have some pompous-ass Brit coming over here talking like he knows what our Constitution is about.
	So I see the point?
	I mean, isn't that the whole point of free speech?
	That we can't allow the parameters of our national...
	Actually, he may be Australian.
	...conversation to be dictated by the most violent voice in the room.
	It's a bit like the Sony hacks.
	I mean, unless we want to live in a world in which North Korean dictators and Islamist fascists are the ones who determine what we can and can't say, what jokes we can and can't tell, whom we do and do not mock, then the price of free speech is taking that risk.
	Well, we could have...
	Hey, show me your green card, dude.
	Who are you?
	Who's we?
	Who's this we you talk about?
	I don't like that.
	No.
	I don't like those guys coming out and talking about our constitution, our free speech.
	You're in a prison colony for a reason.
	And there go the Australian donations for show 702.
	702.
	There will be no Australian donations.
	They know I'm just kidding.
	They know I'm kidding.
	We didn't get much for this show, actually.
	Zero.
	Zero, zero, zero.
	700 may be a bad number.
	Actually, I do have one more clip, which I thought was interesting because this is Ben Carson, who is effectively now out of the race.
	He can never become president again because he did the unthinkable.
	He said something about the gays.
	And the thing he said about the gays is, being gay is a personal choice.
	You're not born with it.
	You're not born this way.
	Hey, Gaga!
	It is a choice.
	And this is very, very bad if you want to run for president.
	This is almost like the Dean scream, as far as I'm concerned.
	He can never outlive this.
	It's like, buh-bye, Felicia.
	He can't do it.
	However...
	You know, as much as Ben Carson is an interesting character, extremely smartest guy in the room, probably smarter than the two of us combined, he is a humorless stick in the mud.
	He does not have the personality to get very far in an election.
	He is just a, and he knows he's a know-it-all.
	He is a know-it-all.
	He probably does know most of what he says.
	He actually knows it all, yeah.
	But it's just annoying.
	But here's what's interesting.
	This happened on, I don't know, some show, probably another MSNBC. I don't know what it is.
	But there's a kicker because I have the next line that he delivered nuances what he was saying to a large degree, which of course you will never hear mentioned anywhere because that's not important.
	We just need to know he's dumb about gays.
	The judicial system at the state level has to answer to the people.
	What if people of a state vote for a law, a hundred to zero, that winds up infringing on the rights of a minority, like happened very often with slavery, like many would argue is happening now with people who are gay.
	And our Constitution was followed and we corrected those things.
	And isn't that what's happening right now with same-sex marriage?
	It's being corrected as a form of violation of equal protection.
	No.
	You can't just say, because it happened that way this time, this is the same situation.
	It's not the same situation.
	Because people have no control over their race, for instance.
	You think they have control over their sexuality?
	Absolutely.
	You think being gay is a choice?
	Absolutely.
	Why do you say that?
	Because a lot of people who go into prison, go into prison straight, and when they come out, they're gay.
	Now, I just want to stop for a second.
	As a bi-curious male.
	It's very possible that if I went to jail, I would come out gay.
	I don't necessarily agree with Mr.
	Carson on this.
	If I'm there for 10 years, yeah, I might fall in love with some dude.
	Sure.
	It could happen.
	So I don't think this is good.
	But the kicker is what he actually was talking about after this faux pas.
	So, did something happen while they were in there?
	Ask yourself that question.
	You bet.
	You know there's a whole theory of dominance.
	Wait a minute.
	I said a lot of people who go in, come out.
	Are you denying that that's true?
	I am not denying that that's true, but I am denying that that's as a basis of understanding homosexuality.
	If, in fact, that is the case, then it obviously thwarts what you just said.
	A lot of people go into jail as a drug addict and they come out as a criminal.
	Does that mean all drug addicts are criminals?
	Here's what's important.
	Why do gay people want to get married?
	Because they want to have various rights.
	Property rights, visitation rights.
	They want their commitment to count just like mine and my wife's.
	Why can't any two human beings, I don't care what their sexual orientation is, why can't they have the legal right to do those things?
	That's what they're fighting for.
	Okay, that does not require changing the definition of marriage.
	He's right.
	Finally, someone who actually says it, we should, no matter, the government should not legislate marriage.
	That's a very funny, very funny clip.
	I'm going to give you a clip of the day for that.
	Really?
	If you can find it.
	No, of course I can find it.
	Thank you very much.
	I wasn't actually expecting it.
	And well, you shouldn't have.
	But that was actually very interesting, what he said.
	See, this is the problem with the guy.
	He's too clever.
	First, he doesn't play the political correctness game.
	Too clever for his own good.
	He screwed himself by he was actually trying to do something really intelligent.
	He doesn't understand the media.
	He doesn't understand.
	This guy is kind of a dummy for the smartest guy in the room.
	That's what happens with Smarties.
	Yeah, and so he outsmarted himself and comes around with it.
	If you listen to the whole thing, which nobody will give you, no one will ever play that, which is why you got the clip of the day, because it was well worth making this point.
	This is never going to happen, and no one else will play that, and no one else will understand what he's trying to do.
	What was he trying to accomplish with this conversation?
	Now we know.
	Ben Carson will go on his history as the gay jail guy.
	Guaranteed.
	That's what you want to do.
	You have to find some way to marginalize the guy.
	Amen.
	Oh, damn.
	You have to marginalize the guy, and you have to diminutize his stature.
	You've got to pound him down.
	You've got to beat him down.
	Beat him into submission.
	Yeah, well, he's been beaten, so that's the way it goes.
	But again, he's a humorless guy that has no karma.
	No charisma, I mean.
	Karazna!
	He's got no karazna!
	Can we just play the Snowden stuff and get it out of the way?
	Yeah, and then we're done.
	Okay, what do you want?
	Snowden?
	Yeah, let's go with, I got a bunch of Snowden stuff.
	Let's start with the Snowden, the whole thing about Snowden, he wants to give himself up.
	I think this is Democracy Now or Al Jazeera, I'm not sure, but this Snowden won't face death penalty thing.
	An attorney for Edward Snowden has reasserted the NSA whistleblower's willingness to come home.
	Anatoly Kucharina says a team of international lawyers continues to work on terms that would see Snowden return to the United States.
	Kucharina says Snowden's prepared to end his asylum in Russia on the condition he's given a guarantee of a legal and impartial trial, unquote.
	To date, the Justice Department has only guaranteed he won't face the death penalty.
	Well, some guarantee.
	Thanks!
	Woohoo!
	Good work!
	So you had, I believe this was News Hour, but it was Daniel Ellsberg came on to discuss this stuff.
	Oh, he's back again with what?
	Yeah, he comes and goes.
	And he talks to Snowden once in a while.
	Well, they're both on the board of that Glenn Greenwell, Don Raff, that journalist thing, and John Perry Barlow's on it.
	There's a drinking club at best.
	Never beats.
	And he...
	We don't have to actually play both these clips, but the first part of it is interesting because he explains exactly what's going on.
	We lose light of the fact that there is a specific law that they're throwing.
	For all practical purposes, I've talked to people about dead letter laws, and the Espionage Act is a dead letter law that they revised.
	They brought it from the dead.
	Specifically for Ellsberg, and now they revisit it again with the Obama administration finding people, you know, subject to this espionage act.
	And Ellsberg explains it so we understand it.
	I did this clearly at my own jeopardy, and I am prepared to answer all the consequences of this decision.
	Do you think Snowden is facing the consequences?
	Actually, Snowden and I have been charged with very similar charges, which, by the way, are not charged with espionage, with spying, although it's often described that way colloquially.
	It's violations of the Espionage Act, 18 U.S.C. 793, paragraphs D and E. I happen to know those because I was the first person ever charged under those for giving information to the American people.
	Is that a fair charge against Snowden, do you think?
	Is that the proper charge for what he did?
	The Espionage Act, which includes those paragraphs, was never meant to be used against people who gave information to the American public.
	It was meant for spies, actually, who gave information secretly to a foreign government, especially during wartime.
	The First Amendment really should prevent any such criminal act, which is like the British Official Secrets Act.
	And?
	And?
	Obviously, it's a trumped-up situation.
	They don't have any good law to go after these guys with.
	But because they did it this way, I think Ellsberg explains this in the second part of the clip, they can do like a kangaroo court with the guy.
	Exactly.
	Nobody needs him.
	President Obama has been using this now three times as many as all previous presidents together, with my prosecution having been the first.
	has used that as though it were an official secrets act, as though it were a strict liability act, which means that you can't argue in court or present any testimony or evidence that you did this for the benefit of the United States.
	So he can't even present his own defense.
	I just want to play for you something that Snowden said about the prospects for a fair trial.
	Were he to come back?
	Listen to this.
	Do you think a fair trial would even be possible?
	Thanks.
	We'd love to go back and face a fair trial.
	But unfortunately, as you surmised in your question, there is no fair trial available on offer right now.
	I've been working exhaustively with the government now since I left to try to find terms of a trial which would allow the public to look at these issues.
	It would be open.
	It would be clear.
	We wouldn't have any abuse of procedure where we'd say, oh, yeah, we've got all this great evidence against him, but it's classified, of course, so you can't know it.
	Anyway, this is just a phony baloney deal.
	We have to always remember to be aware of that.
	Now, as an aside, if you listen to that Snowden clip, it was out of phase.
	Yes.
	Well, it was phasing, actually.
	It was phasing.
	Would like to know if anybody out there is in Audacity, it's not Audacity, whatever it's called.
	Audacity.
	User, which has a million filters and fixes, it's got all kinds of cool stuff that people design for it, can fix this in a mono track.
	I would really like to know how to do it.
	Because I've heard this before.
	Okay.
	I'm sure we can do that.
	It's doable.
	Everything's doable.
	Everything's doable with sound.
	I put in the show notes, because someone asked me for it, and I just wanted to make mention of this before we go, why the packet inequality, packet equality, net neutrality will be beaten down in court.
	And I've mentioned several times, this is because there is precedent, jurisprudence, with the EPA, another agency, and the EPA was not allowed to regulate greenhouse gases in a Supreme Court ruling.
	Because they tailored, which I think the FCC, when we finally see their 300-page document, I think they called it jiggered with Title II. And here is the relevant piece.
	The EPA was wrong to tailor the statutory thresholds of how much of a given pollutant a facility may emit before it needs a permit.
	The statute contains thresholds that, if applied to greenhouse gases, would be extremely constricting, requiring permits at millions of facilities.
	To avoid that, EPA raised the threshold under its, quote, tailoring authority.
	The court holds that it did not have the authority to do so, quote, Quote, EPA lacked authority to tailor the act's unambiguous numerical thresholds.
	The power to execute the laws does not include a power to revise clear statutory terms that turn out not to work in practice.
	And this is the problem because Title II does not fit broadband.
	They're going to change Title II, jigger it, tailor it, whatever, and this is why it will be struck down in court.
	I think you're right.
	They're going to have to.
	Otherwise, it makes no sense.
	And the joke of this whole thing, of course, is the recent complaints by Netflix, which didn't expect this result.
	And there's all kinds of news articles about this you can read.
	Netflix is irked.
	They thought these guys overreached.
	This is not what we're looking for.
	This is because Netflix knows the following can happen, I believe.
	Netflix is effective, and people like watching it, and it works well.
	It actually works.
	If you have a high enough bandwidth, it works well on Comcast, even though they do have peering going on.
	But generally speaking, Netflix has their little appliances in every ISP's home.
	It's sitting right there with the regular servers, buzzing around.
	It's a cash box.
	It's like terabytes and terabytes of movies that are the most watched.
	And if the way they're presenting this net neutrality, as far as I can tell, if I was like Voodoo or any of these other services with nobody wants my boxes because it costs too much to run them, these boxes are expensive to run, I would demand these boxes be removed!
	This isn't fair!
	It's not fair to have a Google box right here.
	You'll notice this, people.
	You'll watch Google videos that are popular, the cat video of the day.
	Oh, that's so funny.
	And then you watch it.
	Somebody sends you a link to some old video from years ago, and you try to watch it.
	It stops and goes.
	It doesn't buffers.
	Because it's on the main servers.
	They don't have it on the cache.
	Exactly, exactly.
	And so as far as I'm concerned, because I have a little video like Vimeo or these other guys that do these competitive server farms for video farms, they don't have these boxes necessarily.
	Yeah, so get the Google box out of there!
	This is unfair!
	So all the videos would be crap!
	Well, as far as I'm concerned, they can all be crap.
	I don't care.
	Screw y'all.
	With your damn videos.
	Alright, so...
	I gotta...
	I gotta skedaddle.
	I gotta go.
	I gotta go.
	I gotta...
	Am I actually still on the air with you?
	This is pretty crazy.
	Well, that's because we've started late.
	There's weird stuff going on.
	We actually went too long, too.
	We did.
	We did.
	Good.
	Show on Sunday coming to you from Rotterdam.
	Christina's house.
	She says, Dad, I have killer broadband.
	Well, I hope so.
	Probably does.
	Well, we'll see.
	Coming to you from the Crackpot Condo here in downtown Austin, capital of the Drone Star State.
	In the morning, everybody, my name is Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, here I stand.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	And we will return from two different countries.
	Well, when I'm in Texas, it's almost like two different countries as well.
	It is, yeah.
	Low Star.
	It'll be in Rotterdam, the Lowlands.
	Always, always good for the show.
	We always learn things that you never would have heard otherwise.
	And you can catch that right here, Sunday...
	On no agenda.
	Adios, mofos.
	Adios, mofos.
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