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	A little less jingles, really?
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, April 2nd, 2015, time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 709.
	This is no agenda.
	Celebrating our autistic freedom and broadcasting live from the Crackpot Condo in downtown Austin Tea House, FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where the garbage trucks are making more noise than usual, I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Was it the garbage trucks that caused the booming sound?
	Did you hear a booming sound?
	No, I heard reports that people up in your neck of the woods were hearing booms in the middle of the night.
	You know, I've heard about these booms.
	Apparently this is going on in Washington, too.
	And Mimi said she...
	I asked her about this specifically because she was up there during a booming episode.
	And she's...
	I don't know what she told me now that she mentioned it.
	You kind of forgot what she said.
	I think she said that she's heard, maybe heard something, or somebody told her they heard something.
	I thought this was near Berkeley, where you are.
	Not up in Washington.
	Oh, there was something going on in Washington that was more booming.
	Or was something else, some noise, some strange noise they can't identify.
	The booming sound.
	Yeah, we heard the train.
	We heard the train?
	All right.
	The train.
	All right.
	So you did not witness said booming.
	I didn't witness any.
	You know, it's possible.
	If I heard something, now that you mention it, there was something that sounded like gunshots.
	That's what people say it sounded a bit like, but more like a cannon fire is what people were saying.
	If you don't know about it, then it doesn't matter, because I have no other information.
	I don't know about it, but I may have actually heard it.
	But, you know, hearing gunshots or cannon fire around here.
	What else is new?
	Well, it's a new month, John.
	And you know what that means.
	Yeah, new month.
	New month means new proclamations.
	It also means I'm getting close to my birthday on Sunday.
	That's right.
	We have new proclamations.
	Okay, well let's hear them.
	It's a busy month.
	Busy, busy, busy month and a busy day actually today.
	We have National Child Abuse Prevention Month, which is of course always a good thing.
	These are all presidential proclamations as written up as such.
	It is also National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.
	Right, the rest of the year you can go ahead.
	Yeah, do whatever you want.
	The write-ups are often quite interesting.
	And I always put these in the show notes.
	I'm not going to read all of them.
	Maybe we'll pick out one today.
	Because it is also National Donate Life Month for 2015.
	How's that accomplished?
	Let's read this.
	At this moment, more than 123,000 Americans are in need of a life-saving organ transplant.
	Oh, okay.
	Our nation continues to face a critical shortage.
	Every day, 21 people die waiting for an organ.
	Yeah.
	Hmm.
	Let's see.
	So the president wants you to go to the donor registry at organdonor.gov.
	Hmm.
	I never thought that was a good idea.
	I feel bad, you know, if someone needs something.
	I don't know what they would want from me.
	I know what you're thinking.
	You're thinking you sign up, the next thing you know, some guys with black masks come up over the head, steal your organs, and then you throw you in a ditch.
	Yeah, you wake up in the bathtub with lipstick on the mirror.
	You know, the bathtub with the ice.
	Yeah, we all know that story.
	It is also National Cancer Control Month.
	I found this to be an interesting choice of words.
	We're no longer, I guess, trying to cure cancer.
	We're just trying to control it.
	That is interesting.
	Let's see what the president says.
	This month, we stand with all those touched by cancer and redouble our efforts to prevent, detect, treat this disease.
	Oh, I know what it is.
	I know why they changed it.
	You do?
	Because it encourages drugs, drug companies.
	Ah, well, yes.
	It's cancer drug bonanza month.
	Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
	Here it is.
	People can take steps to reduce their chances of developing cancer, so maintaining a healthy weight, protecting skin from exposure to ultraviolet radiation, limiting alcohol consumption.
	What a boring month this is going to be.
	Cigarettes?
	This is the most boring month of the year.
	Thank you very much, President Obama.
	What do we have next?
	We have National Fiscal Capability Month.
	Now, this is a good one.
	Our nation is built on the idea that we do best when everybody gets a fair shot.
	Six years after a devastating recession shook many Americans' faith in our financial system.
	So this is time to renew our efforts to support the informed financial decisions that will open doors into the middle class and help ensure economic security for all.
	Bullshit!
	Let's see, what can we do here?
	Not much, I guess.
	Know before you owe campaign.
	What a slogan we have here.
	Know before you owe.
	What does that even mean?
	Know how you're going to be screwed before you take out the loan, I guess.
	Know before you owe campaign so students and families have a straightforward tool to compare financial aid offers.
	Isn't this the month when everybody starts looking at financial aid?
	I don't know.
	I think it is.
	Then we have, I think we probably missed this.
	Was this yesterday?
	When was this?
	Cesar Chavez.
	Oh, that's old.
	I can't be right.
	Oh, that was a...
	I don't know what that is.
	Okay.
	March...
	We missed these.
	March 30th was Education and Sharing Day, 2015.
	Education and sharing day.
	What does that even mean?
	Well, let's see.
	Our young people are the problem solvers, thinkers, and visionaries of tomorrow who will change the world as we know it.
	They deserve the chance to fulfill their enormous promise, no matter who they are or where they live or who they love.
	Doesn't say that, but I made it up.
	Good education.
	I don't know.
	I'm not sure what that is.
	It's big brothers and big sisters.
	Anyway, today is an important day.
	At first I thought the President, they came out with it just this morning.
	I find that to be a little bit late.
	It is World Autism Awareness Day today.
	Or as I like to say, Put the Smart Kids Down Day.
	Put them down?
	Yeah.
	Smart Kids...
	Oh, I see what you're saying.
	I thought you meant shoot them.
	No, no.
	Put them down.
	Make them feel silly.
	Autism, of course, is real.
	There are some very severe cases.
	But the spectrum of autism, which has been created solely for the pharmaceutical industry, in the DSM-5, the Diagnostic Statistical Manual, i.e.
	the drug company's free ticket to giving your kids crap, He says here, my administration is committed to helping Americans with autism fulfill their potential by ensuring access to the resources and programs they need.
	And, of course, that's part of the Affordable Care Act takes care of that.
	Last year, I was proud to sign the Autism Cares Act as part of the BRAIN initiative.
	Remember, $150 million for BRAIN research.
	We continue to invest in innovative research.
	What I don't like is, he kind of makes it sound like, if you listen here, on World Autism Awareness Day, our nation recognizes all those around the globe who live on the autism spectrum.
	That's you and me, John.
	One of my friends here, who just started listening, actually said, John's on the spectrum, you know that, right?
	I come to think of it, probably.
	Our nation recognizes all those around the globe who live on the autism spectrum.
	We celebrate the countless ways they strengthen our communities and enrich our world, and we reaffirm their fundamental rights to participate fully in society, live with respect, and achieve their greatest potential.
	This really makes it sound like everybody with any form of autism is pretty much a loser.
	Tell that to Bill Gates.
	Thank you.
	The richest man in the world.
	Thank you.
	A lot of these autistic spectrum people are incredibly intelligent.
	In fact, in the DSM it says, often very intelligent people are autistic.
	Okay.
	So I think that's prejudice, really.
	Bigotry.
	Bigotry, thank you.
	So that's what's going on.
	While you're talking about the drug companies, I might as well play a clip.
	Good idea.
	Just want to remind people that drug companies are bad.
	Some of them have some good drugs and some of them can't help.
	No, they're all a bunch of criminals.
	Well, there's that.
	They should be indicted.
	There's that.
	Resperdal.
	Okay.
	Call right now.
	You may be entitled to financial compensation.
	Resperdal, a medication used to treat ADHD, autism, and bipolar disorder, has been linked to gynecomastia in adolescent boys.
	Gynecomastia?
	What is that?
	If your son took Risperdal and later developed enlarged breasts, you may be owed significant compensation from the manufacturer.
	Yeah.
	There you go.
	What do we know about Risperdal?
	Except that it gives you boobs.
	It makes you grow tits if you're a boy.
	Oh, man.
	That's a side effect for you.
	Well, for some, it may be desired.
	Well, yeah.
	You grow boobs and you're really calm about it.
	So, I think there's probably everybody around the world heard some of this.
	What has been going on in the United States of Gitmo Nation.
	I probably just want to get to it right away.
	I have a backgrounder on this Religious Freedom Act.
	Bruja, which I'm very disappointed for a number of reasons.
	Oh, I was hoping to God you wouldn't start talking about this.
	Just briefly.
	Why were you hoping to God I wouldn't start talking about it?
	I thought it was a distraction of the week story.
	It's been on every news show all day and all night.
	It's taken over the place.
	That's why it needs just a brief deconstruction.
	Here's a backgrounder for those of you not living in the deluge of this crap.
	From the three networks of the national outcry, John.
	Did you hear it on the streets?
	National outcry.
	And it's taking the same political sides as climate change.
	The right-wing talk show guys are, but, but, but, and the left-wing guys, oh, yo, yo, yo.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	True, true.
	Let's just do a little background or so everybody else who doesn't live here knows about it.
	Also tonight.
	Indiana's governor responds to the national outcry over the so-called religious freedom law.
	Today Indiana's governor vowed he will fix a controversial religious freedom law.
	Critics say the law is not about freedom, it's about legalizing discrimination against gays by allowing businesses to deny them service.
	Indiana Governor Mike Pence bowed to public pressure today, saying his state's new religious freedom law needs to be clarified.
	Protests and boycotts led by gay and lesbian groups who feared the law would allow discrimination have gained steam all week.
	On this Tuesday night, fixing it.
	Bowing to pressure, Indiana's governor promising to rework the law that was billed as ensuring religious freedom but viewed by many as a license to discriminate as a backlash threatens to hit the state's bottom line.
	Good evening.
	Facing a growing opposition from inside and outside the state and a threat to its economy, Indiana's governor, in an apparent The current response to blurring headlines like this in the Indianapolis Star has called for a change to the controversial law that some believe is worded in such a way it opens the door to legalized discrimination.
	Tonight, Indiana's governor now saying he's asking for a fix after days of protests and anger over that controversial new Indiana law.
	He says it protects religious freedom.
	Critics say it's simply a cover for businesses to turn away gays and lesbians.
	So there you have a brief backgrounder and we're not going to have one of the typical conversations and discussions, the national conversation about the outrage, the outcry.
	The only thing I want to say about this is as a bicurious male, I'm once again so disappointed In the leading, the community leaders of the LGBTQIAAP community, they have once again allowed themselves to be abused.
	Abused, I say, for a complete political agenda, which is this.
	Don't vote Republicans!
	They hate gays!
	That's it.
	All that this is about.
	And what surprised me...
	Well, you have to...
	I agree with you 100%.
	That's exactly what this is about.
	And Mike Pence is a potential presidential candidate who is a very presentable guy and a good-looking, the white-haired CIA title.
	I didn't know he was a presidential...
	Oh, his name crops up quite a bit.
	Oh, okay.
	That's good.
	I didn't know this.
	So let's get rid of him right now.
	Right.
	Yes.
	He's on the wrong side of history.
	Why take a chance?
	Why take a chance?
	So he's done.
	Here's what galled me, John.
	Here's what galled me.
	Because, obviously, I'm on the Facebook because you're not.
	Somebody has to monitor this crap.
	And when Tim Cook...
	Tim Cook, who, by the way, has come out as being gay, I think, three times now over the past 20 years.
	I just want to point that out.
	He's never adverse...
	He's rollercoaster gay.
	Never adverse to coming out again and surprising us all once again.
	When he came out and made this big statement, oh, Apple, we're open for everybody.
	Facebook went, everyone's like, oh, so proud to be an Apple fanboy today.
	Yes, you know what?
	You should stomp on your iPhone, you pathetic twits.
	Seriously?
	And Tim Cook, what a dick.
	This is just abusing gayness.
	And now we have all these CEOs jumping on board.
	This is, I find it abhorrent.
	Really abhorrent.
	It is.
	And I can't believe that people don't see this.
	And there's one thing, the Putin thing, Putin hates gays, that got some legs and people, that's when we first really saw the power of this.
	But to use this purely for political motives to put down a potential presidential candidate.
	I'd like to, you know, if you wanted to do something interesting, I think finding the roots of this bill would be one of them, because this bill is innocuous.
	Totally, totally.
	I mean, you'd like, okay, here's the, oh, now it's going to be okay for a cake maker not to bake a cake for a gay wedding.
	Hey, cake maker doesn't have to bake a cake for anybody.
	Ridiculous.
	I think most people have not even read the law.
	The headline's everywhere.
	Anti-gay!
	It doesn't say that.
	It could be used to discriminate.
	This, by the way, reminds me a little bit of the net neutrality battle.
	Exactly.
	Where you imagine all these possibilities.
	Oh, look at this law.
	And then you take the imagination of these possibilities and then twist it into that's what it's about.
	That's what it's about.
	And it's so well executed.
	This was well done.
	Which, again, reminds me, how did this bill come to be?
	Because it looked like it was a setup.
	It looked like it was a setup to just get Pence, get him out of here.
	I didn't even feel like looking that deep, because who gives a shit?
	I mean, it doesn't matter.
	Now that you brought it up, we're going to have to look at it and do one more step on this.
	Because I've been watching, I mean, there's another one I'm looking for another step on, is this Menendez thing, which is another...
	Well, before you go there, I just want to read what Glad said.
	The gay and lesbian anti-something, the Coalition Defense Project deniers.
	Critical information about frequent anti-gay interviews.
	Shoot, this is not what I wanted.
	Crap, sorry.
	Forget about it.
	Doesn't matter.
	That was very good.
	That was bad.
	I gotta open the link.
	Well, they said something.
	Oh, I see what they did.
	Okay, so they had...
	What they did is...
	And I thought this was really...
	And maybe GLAD's behind it, now that I think about it.
	So the GLAAD Commentator Accountability Project, CAP, puts out critical information about frequent anti-gay interviewees.
	And they put that into the hands of newsrooms, editors, hosts, and reporters, journalists, or producers who are on deadline often don't have the time to dig into the history of a commentator.
	So they're calling people out who are anti-gay and being invited on shows.
	Audiences need to be aware that when they're not talking to the mainstream media, these voices are comparing LGBT people to the Nazi Germany.
	Predicting that equal treatment of LGBT people will lead to the total collapse of society and even making accusations of satanic influence.
	Thank you.
	Really?
	This is what Gladys is doing?
	Where's this?
	I'd like to hear some of these shows.
	They sound very entertaining.
	So here's their list.
	Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council.
	Which is, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, is an anti-gay hate group.
	Anti-gay hate group.
	It's an anti-gay hate group.
	It should be a gay hate group.
	Yeah, really.
	Anti-gay hate group.
	That doesn't make any logical sense.
	It does not.
	It's got this whole list of people.
	It's that picture of the governor signing the bill into law.
	This guy hates gays.
	This guy is an undercover gay.
	This guy thinks gays are the devil.
	Satan.
	And even David Letterman.
	Everyone's just like, what's wrong with Indiana?
	I heard that actually.
	I was watching.
	I was just flipping around and Letterman went off.
	He has gone off the deep end.
	Yeah, big time.
	But he went off the deep end, oh, this is not the Indiana, I know, I'm from Indiana, and this isn't right, we're God-fearing people who love everybody, this is not the way Indiana's, you know, he went on and on, I'm going, what the, find something funny to do.
	I know, I know, I know, I know.
	And boy, does the media love that, but it's so progressive to be on board with this.
	Most of the people who are vocal about this are not gay.
	That's right!
	We need everybody to be free, equal for everybody!
	And of course, I think what they're also trying to do again is bring the discrimination based on sexual orientation into law, which we know will never happen.
	This has been going on for decades almost.
	It will not work.
	You cannot do that.
	Well, and it leads to discrimination.
	In other words, you won't be a...
	Yeah, I got fired.
	I got fired.
	Well, you know, I'm gay, so be fired because I'm gay.
	No, I'm saying that the next step on that road is then discrimination against appearance.
	Yeah.
	This has been discussed in California quite a bit.
	Appearance, okay.
	Yeah, so somebody with a bunch of facial piercings and then, you know, blood dripping from their ear holes.
	The big shotgun earrings, the big hole in their lobe.
	Yeah, those big giant holes and all this stuff.
	You can't, you have to hire them.
	Or else, you know, you're discriminating against appearance.
	And appearance is going to be the next road if they move at all on any of this stuff.
	Because appearance, they discuss quite a bit.
	Hmm.
	You're a goth.
	You should be hired to be at Abercrombie& Fitch.
	1990 call, John.
	They want their goth back.
	But I understand what you're saying.
	Goths are still around.
	And they still, some of them call themselves Goths and they have a certain look.
	Nah, not so sure.
	Well, that's where it stems from.
	It stems from the Goths.
	Yeah, well, not in Austin.
	Well, Austin certainly has a lot of interesting looking people when it comes to piercings and body paint and modification.
	Modification.
	Yeah, body modification.
	Yeah, what it's called.
	Yeah, it was just really disappointing to me once again that not a single gay community leader stepped up and said, boys and girls and people in between.
	Nobody's ever going to say it.
	Well, let me say it.
	You're in a dream world, my friend.
	A dream world.
	I am a well-known, bi-curious male, and I'm saying I do not like my lesbian, gay, bi-curious, bisexual, transgender, queer questioning, intersex, asocial, whatever, pansexual, being abused this way.
	And people should stop it.
	It's really, really ridiculous.
	Particularly people who aren't gay.
	It's stupid.
	Fall for this dumb stuff.
	Well, it's going on and it's continuing.
	Yeah.
	True.
	It will be on today's news and tomorrow's news as though this is news.
	And it's on PBS NewsHour.
	They devoted a segment to it a couple, two or three times.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, and you're right.
	Distraction.
	Actually, it does deserve the jingle.
	The distraction of the week on the agenda over there.
	Because there was a lot of stuff going on while we were not paying attention.
	I didn't see much except that guy to still talk about Menendez.
	Alright, go ahead with Menendez.
	I'll play the Menendez story as fishy clip.
	It's not going to be a long piece on them.
	I don't have a lot of material, but I do have a couple things.
	Okie dokie.
	The Justice Department announced today that for the first time since the 1980 Abscan scandal, it is indicting a sitting U.S. Senator on federal bribery charges.
	For more on the action against New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez, we turn to Matt Apuzo of the New York Times, who's been covering this story.
	Matt, eight counts of bribery, 22 counts in all.
	Tell us a little bit about what you know from reading the indictment about what they're charging.
	It's a really big indictment, Gwen.
	I'm actually about two-thirds of the way through it, and we all knew this was coming, but it's a lot broader and a lot deeper than I think a lot of us who've been following this closely expected.
	It basically describes Senator Menendez turning his Capitol Hill office into a criminal enterprise, basically using his offices and using his staff to go out and solicit gifts Find out what his political patron wanted in return and make sure it got done.
	Describes trading favors, political favors for trips on a private jet, first-class airfare, vacations, five-star hotel in Paris.
	It's very, very broad.
	The indictment runs over 60 pages.
	It really is an aggressive move by the Justice Department.
	Tell us about his political patron.
	Solomon Melgan is a Florida eye surgeon.
	They have been friends since the 1990s.
	By all accounts, real friends.
	They vacation together.
	They exchange gifts.
	And that's going to be real key to the defense.
	Menendez is arguing that this is a friendship and that friends exchange gifts.
	And the Justice Department says this went well beyond friendship.
	This was a corrupt bribery scheme.
	Okay.
	Explain who he is and what is going on.
	I tuned out to this.
	You did, yeah.
	Of course I did.
	Menendez is a Cuban senator from New Jersey.
	And he has a pal who's a Dominican in Florida who's an eye surgeon.
	And they've been buddies for, I don't know, 20 years.
	And so the buddy, he has this guy as a rich guy in Florida who is always being thought of as a scammer for Medicare, and they've always been after him.
	They've never been able to get him.
	I didn't know this part.
	A scammer for this guy, this doctor, whoever he is, he's been scamming Medicare?
	Okay, got it.
	Yeah, supposedly.
	Which is not hard to do.
	But they've never been able to prove it and they haven't been able to get him.
	So this is a roundabout way of doing it as far as I am.
	This is fishy.
	This whole thing makes no sense.
	It's only about midnight.
	It's not about a bunch of people waltzing in and waltzing out like they did with that guy who was vice president for Spiro Agnew.
	It wasn't like that.
	Abram?
	I can't remember the name.
	Okay.
	Jack Abramoff?
	Abramoff was not a senator.
	Never was.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Anyway, let's go.
	This is fishy because it's involving one guy who's a friend who he vacations with all the time and the friend picks up the tab sometimes.
	He's a Democrat, this Menendez?
	Yes, he's a Democrat, which makes it funnier.
	But this stinks of Ted Stevens.
	Justice Department action against Ted Stevens, which was also trumped up.
	And the Justice Department seems to want to do this every so often.
	They can't even do anything about gun running, but they can deal with this character in New Jersey, who from all I can tell is a run-of-the-mill Democrat senator who just pretty much does his job like everybody else on the Democrat side.
	And...
	This is very suspicious.
	It seems very sketchy.
	I'm going to follow it.
	I don't know why they...
	I mean, they could have gone after a lot of different people, but this has got something...
	They're trying to get this doctor...
	Under some circumstance, and he's been slithering away from them.
	And so they've decided to pull this stunt.
	And I just think it's abhorrent.
	I don't believe that this...
	Yeah, he apparently likes hookers.
	And he's a U.S. senator who likes hookers.
	Okay, well, that's interesting.
	That's a stunner.
	Gambling?
	I've got to get to that faster.
	Yeah, gambling.
	And he...
	You're slow in the draw of the gambling one.
	And so he likes hookers, and this guy's apparently from the Dominican Republic.
	He's got connections back in the old, old Dominica.
	And he sets him up with hookers once in a while.
	And he set him up with a hotel room in Paris with a hooker.
	Like, this is one of the big scandals.
	Excellent.
	And he picked up the tab.
	And...
	Supposedly, Menendez goes to bat for him once in a while when he gets in trouble with the IRS or whatever, which I don't think is that suspicious if it's your pal.
	And this is just bad.
	This looks like they're just setting this poor bastard up and he's going to take the fall.
	Okay, but what you don't have is any clue as to why it's happening to him.
	Well, no, my clue is that this is just a way of getting at the guy they're after by going after his pal.
	This is an old trick.
	And who was they?
	The Justice Department?
	They're willing to do that to one of their own?
	Well, one of their own.
	The U.S. Senate has never seen.
	I could look into it, and I'll bet you that Menendez did not do the Justice Department any favors over the last few years, perhaps.
	Oh, yeah.
	I will find out the basis of it, but I'm just mentioning that this looks fishy to me because it only involves one guy.
	It's not like he's got the door open.
	He's turned his office into a center for bribery the way they presented it.
	That's bullcrap.
	Well, you know, there's multiple things happening.
	Of course, Harry Reid quit.
	We didn't even talk about that.
	Didn't we?
	No, I don't think so.
	Also Democrat.
	Of course, now everyone's talking about what we said immediately.
	He got beat up.
	Look at him.
	That's not a rubber band injury.
	By some gang.
	Yeah.
	Because he didn't do something.
	I mean, you don't get beat up for no good reason.
	No.
	And then he just decides, I'm done.
	I won't do it anymore.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I'm still kind of following on the side.
	There's a very good newsletter that comes out once in a while I get to look at that is about the gaming industry.
	And there is this long...
	There's this feud between Steve Wynn...
	There's one between Steve Wynn and his wife, which is...
	That's a different issue.
	That's a different issue.
	But there's this feud between...
	The guy who did Girls Gone Wild...
	Oh, my hero, you mean?
	Your buddy.
	He apparently went to one of Wynn's casinos and took out a, you know, because he's well-known, he took out a tab.
	And I guess he lost a million or something.
	And wouldn't pay.
	He made his, ah, his games are rigged.
	It's one of these deals.
	These games are rigged.
	I'm shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.
	There it is, finally.
	Yeah, rigged.
	I'm not paying, okay?
	And so now this is going to be fun to watch.
	That guy, he made a lot of money with the Girls Gone Wild franchise.
	Yeah, you know his gimmick?
	I was in Philadelphia at a bar, and I was chatting with somebody, and they were buddies of this guy.
	He's like one of his best friends.
	And he told me that the guys deal with getting the permissions for the girls.
	Is the following.
	When he goes...
	The t-shirt...
	The girls who strip or show off their tops for this character...
	I can't remember his name.
	You can look him up.
	He gives him a t-shirt as payment.
	And the t-shirt constitutes a release.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, that's his game.
	He says, okay, girls, these t-shirts, this constitutes a release.
	You're giving me the rights to these videos.
	Once you accept the t-shirt, and they all scream and yell, and they all grab the t-shirt.
	He throws t-shirts at them, and each one grabs a t-shirt, and when they have the t-shirts, then they've agreed to do the movie, or the strip, or whatever.
	They can do whatever they want.
	He just films it.
	And that's how he gets away with not having to pay anybody a nickel.
	I'm just writing this down.
	Hold on a second.
	I'll make sure I get all this.
	Joe Francis.
	Joe Francis.
	Good gimmick.
	Yeah, Joe Francis.
	Joe Francis, right.
	There was...
	Before we move into...
	There's a number of clips, a number of real topics that have just...
	We've been bludgeoned to death with the German wings crash and a lot of other stuff we've been dealing with.
	Of course...
	That's another news story that keeps repeating itself.
	And by the way, we're coming on April 15th, and I mentioned this to you because...
	Yes, it's time for the cycle.
	There was a meeting on April 15th in University of California.
	One of the lecture halls was going to have George Soros come to Berkeley and speak, and I would go to see that.
	Hell yeah.
	I mean, why not, right?
	Uh-huh.
	And I'm sure he hangs around.
	You could talk to him afterwards unless they rush him out, which they might do.
	But whatever the case, he canceled.
	And so I'm thinking, wait a minute, this is the April 15th is the six-week moment.
	Right.
	So we have to keep an eye on that date.
	Well, Soros announced he's ready to invest $1 billion in Ukraine if Western countries help private investment there.
	Which is just funny because one of his very own OSI NGOs was partially responsible for the Maidan coup.
	So now he's coming back to get his pay, I guess.
	I guess.
	Well, if he's partially responsible for setting it up, there must be something.
	There's something of value in the Ukraine that Soros knows about.
	You know, Soros is really a genius.
	If you read any of his books, he's really an arbitrage guy.
	Yeah, that's how he made his big money, through the...
	Yeah, you can see a weakness on one side and a strength on another, and you balance the two.
	People can do this in the stock market with...
	I don't know how they do it, but they can do it.
	There are regional stock markets, and occasionally there'll be a discrepancy in the buying and selling prices of the exact same stock on the two different markets.
	So there'll be a New York...
	Usually, like American Stock Exchange or New York Stock or even NASDAQ stock that is selling for $8 a share On one exchange and selling for six on another.
	Right.
	And you get in the middle and move the...
	You buy at six and sell at eight like instantly.
	And you just make infinite money.
	It doesn't happen that often where it's...
	I don't think that's his game in this case.
	No, it's not.
	But it's his style of finding weaknesses and strengths and then...
	Well, things are coming down to the wire with Ukraine.
	They need more money from IMF, and of course they need to implement these sanctions.
	And I was just looking at some of these sanctions, which it's just another way of allowing Western banks and oil companies to come in, etc.
	I wonder if they're going to go off to the mines in the East eventually as well.
	But there's now a, in Ukraine, a 300% gas price hike.
	Yeah.
	New tax on domestic oil and gas production.
	It's really sad, because this is all coming down to the Ukrainian people.
	They're getting screwed big time.
	Big time.
	And there's, I put a pretty long article by a guy that I like reading a lot, William Engdahl, and the title is Kiev Commits Energy Harakiri.
	It's too long to discuss here, but if you read it, you can really see a lot more of just the pure factual numbers.
	Well, Soros is like a vulture, so if he's in, something's up.
	You know, you were talking about this sort of energy thing, and I'm watching a movie.
	It's kind of an underrated James Bond movie with Pierce Brosnan from 1999.
	Which one is this?
	The World Is Not Enough.
	And I have a clip that I watched.
	This is 1999.
	I'm watching this clip.
	I'm saying, geez, we were being kind of told about, you know, in fictional ways, what we kind of talk about on the show.
	Em sent me because we're afraid your life might be in danger.
	Please, I want to show you something.
	I'm trying to build an 800-mile pipeline through Turkey, past the terrorists in Iraq, Iran, and Syria.
	Up here, the Russians have three competing pipelines, and they'll do anything to stop me.
	My father was murdered.
	The villagers are rioting.
	And you, Mr.
	Vaughan, have come all this way to tell me that I might be in danger.
	Yeah.
	Someone sent me a clip.
	Now that you play this, I wish I'd clipped it.
	Of Little House on the Prairie.
	This is a very old clip.
	And Paul, was it Michael Landon?
	Something was printed in the newspaper, the local newspaper.
	I don't know what the backstory was.
	And he goes to see the guy who puts out the newspaper there in town.
	And it's clearly saying, oh, well, you know, this is what we do.
	We're not going to write anything that would offend, you know, the big money guys here in the area.
	And Michael Landon goes, but it's not true.
	And it was clearly one of the first deconstructions in the early days of how press truly works, of just making stuff up or certainly not reporting the truth.
	And that was in Little House on the Prairie was, I should have clipped it.
	Yeah, well, it should have.
	It should have.
	Okay, onward.
	All right, a couple of things.
	First, and actually, you talked about Menendez.
	There was this, the CSIS, which I think is somehow related to the Brzezinski Institute.
	Brzezinski and Menendez were both speaking, and Brzezinski is too long-winded and really can't clip anything.
	But he was really saying that Russia is between a rock and a hard place.
	They really only have two choices.
	Either you hook up with China, which of course they wouldn't want to do, or you eventually connect to the West and the Western banking system, reconnect to the Western banking system.
	And what he predicted, and that's really what I got out of it, is the end result will be Ukraine will become a full-fledged member of the EU, but will never be a member of NATO. And that is apparently how the deal is going to go down once it's time to go down.
	And of course, if you look at the eastern border of Ukraine, you can probably spit and reach Moscow.
	But it won't be NATO! It won't be NATO! Whatever you say, it won't be NATO. I don't...
	I would be stunned that, and I'm going to say these words, that at the end of the day, Ukraine becomes part of the EU. I would just be stunned by that because this is not a country you want as part of.
	It's not European.
	It's an Eastern European country that's run differently.
	I just don't see it fitting in.
	I'm just telling you what Soros said.
	Was it Soros or Brzezinski?
	Brzezinski, I'm sorry, Brzezinski.
	By the way, both those guys are so long-winded.
	They both talk kind of the same way.
	You cannot get a clip from those guys.
	You never see them in the same picture at the same time.
	And also Kissinger should be a part of all that.
	Greece tells its creditors it will run out of cash by the 9th of April.
	This is ongoing.
	This is in the European press.
	People are talking about this.
	They're not just talking about gay wedding cakes.
	There is actual news going on.
	Gay wedding cakes.
	Yeah.
	And everybody's, the EU and the IMF and everyone's saying, yeah, you know what, why don't you go screw yourself, Greece?
	We're not going to give that to you.
	You have to implement the reforms.
	Which means more tax!
	Screw the Greek people!
	Who gives a crap about them?
	So we'll have to keep our eye on the April 9th date.
	Russia, meanwhile, has said, hey, we'll hook you up.
	How much money do you need?
	And you gotta wonder.
	They already own significant pieces of the infrastructure there.
	Putin's been all over the...
	The Mediterranean.
	Yes, he hasn't done well for his country really during all of this, but at least he has some form of a strategy.
	At least he looks like he's trying to figure something out.
	And to get Greece, and of course he has pieces of Cyprus, it will be interesting to see what moves he's going to make.
	I think the Greece thing is just a moment just to poke the eye of the EU, just poke them.
	You guys can't do it, I can do it.
	Fuck them, you guys can't do it.
	No problem for me.
	You know, the books, and somebody's pointing this out, and I still think Russia's probably at least some, I wouldn't know how to invest in Russia, but it seems to me as though there's a potential there, because the ruble's depressed and everything is, you know, ridiculous.
	The balance sheet is not that bad.
	I've seen a number of presentations that show that they don't have a huge debt like we have.
	Except for the fact that nobody will trade with them or they have these sanctions.
	And the ruble's been artificially depressed.
	And the word artificial is important.
	They probably could afford to bail Greece out.
	According to Brzezinski, he said that the economy is just horrible.
	The people in Russia are hurting.
	And my friend Sergei Neftuliev has offered to take me to Moscow and St.
	Petersburg and to do a little Russia trip.
	I think that's a good idea for the show.
	I want to go to St.
	Petersburg.
	Tell Neftuliev to take me.
	I've got to go to the Hermitage Museum.
	I want to see it.
	Hold on a second.
	I can't see anybody.
	Telling me, and I wish I lost track of them.
	This is typical.
	I don't take notes.
	I don't take notes on my personal life.
	Somebody said to me, oh, you want to, I could probably, it's probably an email.
	You want to, I'll get you into the basement of the Hermitage Museum, and you can go look around.
	That's what I want to do.
	Okay, well, you can do that.
	I mean, this is one of the greatest stolen art collections.
	I'm sorry, one of the greatest art collections.
	Curated collections.
	Curated art collections in the world.
	And the problem with it, they had this thing in Las Vegas once.
	It was the first time I think anyone's done this.
	It was Shelley that did it at the Venetian.
	They had a Hermitage Guggenheim exhibition.
	Is it not pronounced Hermitage?
	Yeah, something like that.
	Hermitage just sounds wrong.
	Hermitage.
	Okay, the Hermitage.
	Whatever.
	It's a great museum.
	But they don't really have any budget, so their stuff is just rotting.
	I have a bunch of stories about this.
	I went to this exhibit with the PR guy of the Venetian Hotel.
	I got in.
	And so he says, yeah.
	And he took me around.
	You could see the Hermitage stuff was all...
	They had a Gauguin, and Gauguin used to paint on burlap a lot, especially a lot of his Polynesian stuff.
	He was just painting on burlap.
	I swear to God, there was one of these pictures sitting there that was just burlap.
	There may have been a scratch.
	Nothing else on, just burlap.
	Just burlap, because all the paint had fallen off.
	No.
	But they still had it.
	So they had this piece of burlap sitting there.
	You could maybe see some faded paint that had soaked into the burlap.
	And it was just a mess.
	And then all of a sudden, I go around the corner, and there is one of Monet's pieces that was...
	And by the way, there's Kandinsky, there's all these different artists that were in this exhibit, all from the Hermitage, and they would have, for example, a Kandinsky from the Hermitage, and then one from the Guggenheim, and the Hermitage one looks like somebody had carried it around in their back pocket for a few years, you know, and then finally put it on behind, and finally stretched it.
	It was a mess.
	But then there was this pristine Monet that was sitting there, and it was, I looked at it, and I've seen probably, I don't know, at least 80 or 90% of all the Monets in the world is a little hobby of mine.
	And this thing was bullcrap.
	There's no way this is a real painting.
	And I got as close as I could to it to see if I could smell the paint.
	Mmm, yum!
	It was...
	And?
	It was gorgeous.
	So I said to the guy, I said, this thing can't be real.
	I said, this has got to be a counter.
	I can't smell the paint.
	and the guy says to me oh that's interesting you'd say that because when the exhibit opened the art news guy apparently the reporter from art news asked the russian representative who brought these paintings over about that exact same thing this painting can't be possibly be real and we know that the russians do have copyists and they and why would you send around a 65 million dollar painting because apparently the russians have been ripped off twice already And so the Russian guy gets completely bent out of shape,
	way beyond what was normal to be bent out of shape about it.
	So he suspects it probably was a fake.
	Anyway, so the Hermitage has got all these great paintings.
	I want to go see them.
	All right, all right.
	Maybe we can do...
	We can't both go to Russia at the same time.
	Is that a long story or what?
	Yes, it was kind of.
	Let's go on to...
	Let me just do a couple of quick German Wings things.
	It's like on everybody's mind and also incessantly pounded in there by the stupid CNN mainly, but everyone's...
	Oh boy, what's going on?
	We have to know how crazy pilots are and how crazy everybody is.
	Suicide.
	Everyone terrorizing.
	There's a great compilation video.
	Which, unfortunately, only a little bit of it is in English, mainly from CNN, two clips from CNN and France 24.
	And then there's a lot of French stuff in there, which has subtitles.
	So I'll tell you some of what is in that, you know, kind of like French discussion television programs where there's a panel and experts and a well-watched program.
	But first, it's always fun to go back and listen to the very first reports.
	When something of this disastrous nature happens, and you never hear these reports again, of course, because it was either wildly incorrect or it was very accurate and needs to be covered up.
	And so I got two from this video which accentuates The misinformation that was clearly presented as fact, first from CNN right after the incident.
	All we know on that right now from French authorities is that they did get a distress call and that the last words they're saying they heard were emergency, emergency.
	And obviously very frightening words to hear in connection with what was going on on that airplane.
	Isn't that great?
	He was pretty sure about that.
	Wow, he sure missed that.
	That sure disappeared quick.
	But this is from France 24.
	Bring in Armin Georgian, who joins me now in the studio.
	Armin, what more do we know at this point?
	Well, we know that the pilot sent a distress signal, so that does suggest some kind of major breakdown or failure during the flight at that point.
	Now, on this video, on this roundtable panel discussion, there's an Air France pilot, 18-year veteran, Gérard Arnoux, and he speaks specifically to, A, the impossibility in the A320 of hearing the pilot's breath on the cockpit voice recorder.
	And we have some interesting backup from airmen who have been emailing me.
	Saying that particularly the earlier A320s are so noisy that often crews would actually put on their entire, if it wasn't their oxygen mask, but they would really have to have headphones, closed headphones on all the time.
	So the idea of hearing this breathing is pretty much an impossibility.
	And this was an older 320.
	It was an older 320, yes.
	Second point, the investigators claim of hearing a beep, When Lubbock set the new altitude on the autopilot, this is exactly how it's described.
	Now, that function does not produce a beep in the cockpit.
	And here's the one that I didn't know.
	Asking why the investigators didn't mention the sound made by the cockpit door system, which apparently, if someone is trying to get in and has the wrong code, it has a 30-second alarm.
	That, according to Gérard Arnaud, cannot be turned off even if you lock or re-lock.
	So there's a lot of information missing from the so-called cockpit voice recorder.
	Jeez.
	I know.
	It just got crazier.
	Whereas the official story initially was the flight data recorder was retrieved, but the memory chip popped out and we can't find it.
	Which is a lie, because it is not just a memory card like the one that's in your Android tablet.
	But then it got nuttier, where what they did find, someone near the crash, and gave it to the same Paris Match guys who've been doing the transcriptions of the audio, which, of course, no one has actually heard.
	Questionable if it exists with all of these discrepancies.
	We found a memory chip with a video on it of the crash.
	And it's real.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	Well, here's the Today Show.
	Very interesting.
	They interview the guy.
	I think the interview is interesting.
	And, of course, what the Today Show, what Matt says at the very end.
	Regis LeSommier is deputy editor of Paris Match.
	Sir, good morning to you.
	Thank you for being with us.
	My first question is a simple one.
	Are you convinced that this video is real?
	And if you are, why are you convinced?
	Well, I'm convinced that this is real.
	I mean, we've checked and investigated and we're pretty positive about our source, which is close to the investigation team.
	So there's no doubt that what we saw are the final seconds of what happened on board of Airbus 320 of German wings.
	From what, you know, what I saw of the video is the footage is very blurry, but the sound is very, let us, no doubt that the passenger actually knew what was going on inside and knew what was going to happen.
	And without revealing your source, of course, what is that source's motivation for presumably getting this piece of evidence and instead of apparently giving it to the authorities, showing it to a reporter?
	Gee, John, what do you think could be the reason for that?
	Because it's bogus, maybe?
	Well, I think that they showed it in order to prove the existence of such material.
	It's interesting for a number of people, including the families, of course, of the victims.
	It's also very interesting for A number of people that flies today.
	Now, the slim chance, the chance that this video actually appears that it was taken out of the rubble is very slim, but I can confirm you from all what we've gathered and all what we've seen, it's true.
	Very, very quickly, have any of the family members reached out to your publication wanting to see this video?
	Not yet.
	Not, you know, under my knowledge at the moment, I don't think so.
	Mr.
	Regis LeSommelier from Paris Match, thank you for your time.
	We don't have the video.
	Right, right.
	I understand.
	Thank you.
	Sir, thank you for your time.
	So he said, we don't have the video.
	I've only seen the video.
	Who's got the video?
	Well, we don't know who has the video.
	He just saw it.
	They see it.
	Because the person who was close to the investigation showed it to them.
	Probably the same person who somehow leaked the actual transcript.
	Well, there's 20 more seconds.
	Just listen to how they wrap this up.
	A lot of us are shaking our heads this morning.
	Even if that video exists, it's just an incredibly poor taste for someone to show it to a reporter.
	It just can be incredibly painful for the family.
	Even if in some way there is some investigative value to that, then still it should be seen by about four people total.
	It should never see the light of day.
	This is so interesting to me.
	What?
	Yeah.
	And why is it in poor taste to show it to a reporter?
	I don't know.
	I was flabbergasted by this response.
	I'm flabbergasted by it, too.
	Why is it important?
	Okay, you've got a video.
	Let's take a look.
	The video, who knows about the video?
	I mean, it seems to me that if somebody had the video, they'd shop it to a reporter, as opposed to not giving it to authorities.
	But let's just...
	I don't know what you want to assume about the video.
	But whatever the case is, how do you come up with the idea that it's poor taste to show it to a reporter?
	You got me.
	If you're a news organization.
	There's so much death and destruction that is always shown on news.
	They show dead kids.
	I don't understand why this is not permitted.
	But just, but what I, again, it's just like the Boston bombing.
	We don't have, we don't have actual evidence for you.
	So, you know, we know there's something, oh, there's something real here.
	And by the way, the word...
	It's real!
	It does not mean it is factual, correct, or true.
	Just because something is real doesn't mean that, you know, sure, some video exists.
	But using the word real, I think, is a trick.
	Huh.
	You know what I mean?
	That's an interesting...
	No, I don't, but I'm mulling it over.
	Yeah, if you say something is real...
	What is the actual definition of real?
	Well, let's look it up.
	I think that's probably a good idea.
	We'll do that in the Book of Knowledge.
	The definition of real.
	Let's see.
	Actually existing as a thing.
	Not imagined or supposed.
	Not imitation or artificial.
	Okay, genuine.
	Okay, so I guess you could use it.
	But I think genuine, authentic, bona fide would be better...
	Then real, because the initial meaning of real is it exists.
	It's also an adverb synonym.
	And here's something that popped up.
	My head really hurts.
	Something that popped up.
	There's this guy, Jan Kosheret, and he is kind of well-known in the Dutch aviation industry, and he writes for the Dutch, I think he runs the whole magazine, Pilot and Airplane.
	Yeah, Pilot and Airplane.
	Is the name of this magazine.
	And I've met him.
	I think he interviewed me once maybe.
	And I always thought about this guy.
	Wow.
	You know, you could be like an intelligence.
	You know, you could be part of intelligence.
	And I read in the Daily Mail...
	Earlier today, it emerged that Dutch pilot Jan Koshret predicted the German wing's crash several weeks ago in an article written in a specialist flight magazine.
	That's the Dutch pilot and plane magazine.
	Mr.
	Koshret, who flies a Boeing 777 for Emirates Airlines, warned.
	Now, please note, he flies Boeing, not Airbus.
	I hope I never find myself in the situation where I go to the toilet and return to find a cockpit door that won't open.
	I seriously always wonder who is sitting next to me when I get onto the flight deck for a flight.
	It's just one of those coincidences that just seem like a little bit too good to be true.
	Too coincidental.
	It's like a setup.
	Let's start thinking this way, people.
	You don't know who you're sitting next to when you're in the theater.
	You should be a maniac.
	That's what we believe happened with this flight.
	Not that the plane took itself into the mountain because it does that.
	Well, we'll probably never know.
	No, we probably never will know because they can't find the one black box for some unknown reason, although they can find videos laying around from somebody's cell phone.
	But they can't find the black box, which is protected.
	On a memory chip.
	Cell phone's not.
	I know.
	I know.
	But I've already given up.
	I've already decided that your initial thesis on this whole thing is correct, and this thing is part of the problems that they have with this plane, which has been always kind of the same, decides to do something.
	Yes, it's made of plastic, and a computer operates it.
	And a computer flies the thing.
	Very annoying.
	There's poorly programmed like anything else.
	There's a lot of code involved.
	A lot of code.
	And then they change one thing and it causes another.
	There's a problem with code.
	How does your iPhone work when there's an upgrade from Apple?
	Yeah, it falls apart.
	Yeah, your battery runs down, freezes, crashes.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I'm watching this.
	There's a sitcom on that I'm watching.
	And I will plug.
	And they had this scene in the sitcom where the person's holding an iPhone and says, oh, hey, Bill, the new iPhone 6 just came out.
	Oh, that means I have to get one.
	And then the iPhone in his hand literally falls to pieces.
	The planned obsolescence from Apple.
	Exactly.
	The show is Tina Fey's new sitcom on Netflix, and I just hate plugging them, but it's called Unbreakable.
	And it's just hilarious if you like Tina Fey's screwball humor.
	I like it.
	You can watch all 13 episodes if you want.
	Okay.
	Yeah, I'll do that right after I finish watching all my C-SPAN playlists.
	Yeah, take your time.
	Why don't we thank a few people?
	We have a lot of other things to talk about.
	New executive order from the president for cyber.
	Oh, yeah.
	I have a clip for that.
	Okay.
	Let's...
	You want to do it?
	No, no, no.
	Let me thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C., where the C stands for Cyber Dvorak.
	You just don't run out of those, do you?
	Nope.
	Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all ships and sea boots on the ground, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	Also, Mr.
	and Mrs.
	America.
	Yes, in the morning to everybody in the chat room, NoAgendaStream.com.
	Good to have you all there, helping us out.
	And in the morning, John Fletcher.
	John Fletcher, multi-talented Mr.
	Fletcher is.
	As not only does he provide the multitude of screams for this program, of course it all started with...
	And it's just gone on from there to become an entire thing by itself.
	We have the Fletcher Fest coming up we'll talk about in a moment.
	He provided the art for episode 708, which was...
	He's unbelievable!
	He really is!
	Yeah, it was a nice piece.
	It was the turn the lights off, I think is what it was we had for 708.
	And, of course, we always appreciate all the work that every single one of our artists does.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Did you want to say something to the artist?
	I think you had a remark about it after the show on Sunday.
	I did.
	And?
	I forgot.
	Okay.
	It was like a long time ago, and it was after the show, and it was just casual conversation.
	I don't know.
	I had something to say to the artists.
	Good work, then.
	Artists, keep it up.
	Keep it up.
	Artists are the best.
	Keep it going.
	We had...
	I forgot what we should do.
	If we looked at the art, I could probably come up with it.
	But let's thank some people first, and then we can do that later.
	We have three executive producers who all came in with a Fletcher donation, which is nice, and two associate executive producers.
	Dave...
	Fugazato, I guess.
	Fugazato.
	Fugazato.
	And he's in Deutschland right now.
	He's an American soldier, I guess, or somebody.
	I'm not sure.
	It never says.
	We don't know.
	But he's got an APO. So 31415, which is this donation.
	ITM, gentlemen, another donation to the Fletcher Fest.
	And some value for value in support of BPITU. Best podcast in the universe.
	That's our new code.
	A quick update on the foreign service exam I took in February.
	Missed the cutoff by.28 points.
	Yeah.
	So it's back to the books for a redo next year.
	The karma was not defective.
	I placed the blame squarely on my non-donating boner status at the time.
	Let that be a lesson to me and all others out there who have yet to donate.
	In fact, perhaps John Fletcher can make a douchebag call-out that we can use for a ringtone to remind them of their shame.
	Now, this is funny, because somebody else mentioned that Fletcher asked, actually, did Fletcher ever do a douchebag?
	I don't think so.
	And I said, well, I know that I don't know of one.
	But now he's going to do one, I suppose, here.
	And...
	It'll be interesting.
	I was just thinking, well, maybe he shouldn't because we have a jingle for douchebag.
	Do we need another douchebag?
	Well, I'll bet you before the end of the show we get one.
	Otherwise, I'd gratefully request some health karma from my old man, and it was worth it.
	And, of course, the vocal stylings of the esteemed Mr.
	Fletcher calling...
	Oh, this is what he really wants.
	He doesn't want Hitchback, even though we're going to get it, I'm sure of it.
	Fugazato!
	Which will be in the making, of course.
	It could be Fugazato.
	We'll have that on Sunday.
	It could be Fugazato, Fugazato.
	He never really tells us.
	Anyway, thanks for your courage, Dave in Deutschland.
	It was worth it.
	It was worth it.
	You've got karma.
	Thomas Butterick in Flushing, Michigan.
	3, 14, 15.
	Heil, gents.
	Heil.
	Heil.
	Heil, everybody.
	Please have Fletcher use my title in his shout-out saying, saying, ladyfingers.
	Lady!
	Nothing to report.
	Be well.
	Thomas Butterick, Sir Ladyfingers of the Displaced Texas Night of the No Agenda Roundtable, Dayton, Ohio.
	Nice.
	Thank you so much.
	Okay, now we have Eric Hoff with 31450 from Edmonton, where all the money is in Alberta, Canada.
	And I... Didn't notice this was blank, and I'm going to look him up because I'm sure he sent something in.
	While you do that, allow me to play the Fletcher Shouts, which will all be a part of the Fletcher Fest coming up from the previous episode.
	We have four, as requested.
	He did this.
	I don't know if we should allow this to happen.
	It should just be a one.
	The way it works best...
	It's really, it's either like the Putin, like this, or it's like the Koch brothers.
	Koch brothers!
	He managed to do two words.
	This is all, I want to mention the backstory on this, by the way.
	This all stemmed from about two years ago, I believe, when I suggested that we get something, I don't know if it was the Putin one or not, based on Hogan's heroes.
	Right.
	Because every so often, even though it was pretty rare, in fact, but it was mostly mocked and mimicked, Colonel Klink yelled, Hold on!
	And so then Fletcher showed up, and now he's become a staple.
	So there was a request for this.
	Eric!
	Check your phone!
	I like it, but I don't think that's in the true spirit of the Fletcher Fest.
	You know what I mean?
	Because what we're going to get now is people are going to have a whole slew of things they want him to scream.
	He's going to blow his voice out.
	I don't think it doesn't play as well.
	So, for instance, here's the Got Nate.
	Got Nate!
	And then this one.
	Yara!
	And here's the one that I was waiting for, which is great for everybody.
	You'll recall the executive producer who wanted to play something when the internet goes out in their office building.
	And this is usable for all.
	INTERNET! I can see that being used.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	That's a really good one.
	You know, it just doesn't work.
	Eric, check your phone.
	Now, I got the note here from Eric.
	Eric from Edmonton.
	He's requested that.
	He made another pie donation.
	He loves a Fletcher call-off for Eric, check your phone.
	Or when my wife texts me, he wants a text thing.
	Right, right.
	Which would be very annoying.
	Yeah.
	Because texts come in too much.
	I'm just thinking, let's try and keep it to your name, people.
	Like the license plates.
	Yeah, think of it as...
	Anyway, well, you've got Eric.
	Check your phone, so there you go.
	This paragraph is part of...
	You may want to read on the show.
	A few weeks ago, you guys read out my note calling Danielle Steele out as a douchebag for putting native ads into her books, and John wanted to know more details about that.
	My wife can't remember the title of the book that the ad was in, but she clearly remembered in the middle of the story the main character came home from a rough day and was so happy to have an Oral-B electric toothbrush.
	As part of our daily care routine.
	Except I call that product placement and not a native ad per se.
	No, it's true.
	Native ads are more elaborate.
	But I would say it's product placement.
	I would agree with that.
	Still funny.
	It was packed into all of two paragraphs, but I'm certain that selling your story and audience out, selling them out for a vibrating toothbrush is worthy of a douchebag call-out.
	Thank you for not doing that.
	Because I guess, I don't know why he didn't want that, but he just wanted to mention it.
	Anyways, he was working on his knighthood.
	So he's getting the Eric, check your phone.
	All right.
	Finally, we got two associate executive producers.
	Ash, $206.60 from Gitmo East, UK. The last few shows have been Dynamite.
	Oh, thank you.
	I laughed so hard at the seed guy clips, I nearly crashed.
	Please could I get a hey, citizen, two to the head, little girl, yay, karma.
	Okie dokie.
	Let me just see.
	Hey Citizen, two to the head.
	Where's the Hey Citizen?
	We haven't done that in a long time.
	Where's the Hey Citizen?
	Hey Citizen, two to the head, little girl, yay.
	Yeah, I just can't find the Hey Citizen.
	Hey Citizen.
	Oh, here it is.
	I got it.
	All right, let me try this one.
	Hey Citizen.
	That's not the right one.
	It's only one channel.
	That's not the right one.
	Where's the Hey Citizen?
	Oh, here we go.
	Hey Citizen.
	Yay!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	He told a little story.
	Well, I'll give him an extra bonus.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	We just need cash.
	Blankets or water.
	What's different does it make?
	Cash.
	We need cash.
	Take that to the bank.
	How good is that guy?
	He's outstanding.
	That's Matt.
	Producer Matt.
	And finally, last on our list is Joshua Shiny from Lewisburg, Kansas.
	$200.
	And he has a negative note.
	Negative Nelly Joshua comes in with...
	And I'll try to do it in the voice he might have.
	A little less jingles and more media assassination would improve the show.
	Unicorns!
	Yay!
	Okay.
	Well, I can tell you that that's...
	A little less jingles?
	Really?
	I mean, during these segments, you play a lot of jingles, but why?
	Why?
	You want a dry, boring piece of crap show, a PBS kind of thing, with a dead sound of a studio, and two guys very serious going on and on and on about something very...
	without laughing or...
	Meanwhile, in Damascus...
	Is that what you want for the show?
	Really?
	Yeah.
	There was a couple in those.
	There was a tweet.
	Someone said, you got SSRIs all wrong.
	These are not in that class.
	So surprised!
	I'm not a...
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we get things wrong.
	And I appreciate when people correct us.
	We try to correct ourselves on the show because we have the chat room to help.
	I appreciate the corrections, but I don't appreciate...
	I'm so surprised you got that wrong.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I studied as DJ. I talk up intros of records.
	I'm not a pharmacologist.
	I'm stunned that you didn't know.
	Stunned that you didn't know that blah was blah.
	And not blah.
	It's a two, not a three.
	I can't believe you didn't mention this crash over here.
	Oh yeah, we got the crash one, yeah.
	We got that note.
	I'm...
	I don't know if I'm going to call the guy out, but here's what he said.
	I'm stunned that you never mentioned the crash that happened while we were doing the show.
	It was on the show day.
	The trash had happened.
	It wasn't even a crash.
	The plane didn't take off.
	It was an aborted takeoff or something like that.
	I think the beauty of this program is that we aren't experts in everything.
	We are not the experts.
	We have the experts built up carefully in our Noagent Intelligence Network over years.
	We have an intelligence network that is...
	Second to none.
	Yeah, I agree.
	We have an artist network that's second to none.
	We have a – that's our support group.
	What we do is that we have, I guess, a logical take on things that I think the general public has, but they never have it reconfirmed.
	They have a logical take.
	They see something.
	They say, this is stupid.
	This can't be happening.
	And then all the news people come around and say, oh, yeah, no, that's what's happening.
	That's what's happening.
	They get bombarded by bullcrap.
	And we come along and say, no, no, it's bullcrap, just like you thought.
	Oh, I like the chat room.
	If you don't know about something, don't talk about it.
	No, what are you talking about?
	The whole point is to talk about things that we don't know about.
	And then, magically, we have people in the network who show up with information.
	I don't know.
	I don't care.
	Ugh.
	Annoying.
	It's three hours.
	We do this show twice a week.
	We provide six hours of material.
	If we had to talk about things we knew about.
	They're driving their cars.
	If we talk about things we knew about.
	It's a five-minute show.
	My voice goes out at about 2.45.
	I have to have a loging.
	I'm always being called out, too.
	Hey, what, are you eating something?
	All right.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	Calm down now.
	Calm down.
	Calm down.
	I don't mind.
	I don't mind.
	In fact, I encourage being corrected.
	Please help us.
	Yeah.
	No.
	Is that it?
	I think so, yes.
	We appreciate this kind of support.
	Really love the Fletcher Fest donations, and we need to put a cap on this.
	I already heard from GX2. He's very excited slash he's anticipating doing something for the big Fletcher Fest.
	We have a whole compilation of everything.
	So how long will this go on?
	I don't know.
	Eventually we'll have enough names.
	He should probably just throw in a Muhammad and a couple of those, just to help everybody out.
	These are official credits.
	Just like Hollywood, we run on the same general principle...
	That the people who are really financing the project, certainly the executive producers and associate executive producers, are mentioned up front.
	And, of course, we thank everybody during our longer segment or our full segment, which is coming up, everybody above $50.
	And without this, the show would not be happening at all.
	But it is also, a lot of it is the intelligence network who give us tons of feedback, tons of input, and they are the experts in the field.
	And we'll have a couple examples of that today in the show with emails that came in, along with...
	The uber sources, John, I have a new source of information.
	I sure do.
	All right, everybody, you always need to be out there doing the very important work of propagating our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	In fact, why don't I start off with my uber sources?
	May I first call you out?
	Yes?
	Without knowing this fact, I'm going to call you out anyway.
	We have a guy who goes through a lot of work for us, and he gives us a lot of input too, who makes CDs, and he burns these discs, and we're supposed to give them out.
	Have you given any discs to any one Uber driver ever?
	No.
	You're right.
	I stand corrected.
	I wasn't correcting you.
	I stand called out.
	Okay.
	Two drivers.
	And it was unfortunate that we didn't have a show, because we did have an election, and I spoke to this Uber driver from Nigeria.
	It's amazing we've got a Nigerian here in Texas.
	Just go around more.
	There's a limit to what I can do.
	It's not free.
	I am kind of paying for the information.
	And what I've done now is I started recording the conversation on my iPhone so I remember all this stuff.
	Now, I don't have permission from these guys to play it, but I will play a little bit of it, just so you get the idea of the conversation.
	So here is, I learned something very new in Nigeria.
	Of course, Nigeria is where GoodLuckJonathan was just voted out, which this Uber driver predicted two days before.
	He said, oh, this guy has got to go.
	And last year, you'll recall when we sent...
	Because of Boko Haram kidnapping the girls, which he literally said, there was no girls kidnapped.
	This is all bull crap.
	He said, the U.S. envoy, and of course we sent military advisors and accountants.
	You remember we looked at that and there were accountants going to look on the...
	Look into the billions of dollars of oil is missing.
	They met with Buhari.
	So that's why he said everybody knows that good luck Jonathan is out.
	But then he says this guy stole so much oil.
	On the back end, the Good Luck Jonathan, and he had a term which I had not heard before, and this is part of the recording of my trip.
	So he's talking about monthly $270 million that Good Luck Jonathan would be putting in his pocket.
	And this came from the following term.
	Let's see if we can hear this.
	Who did that?
	Good luck.
	270 million, you say?
	Million dollars worth of tanker load of fruit oil, 2 million barrels.
	That's what they load for.
	They call it off OPEC. Off OPEC. Have you ever heard of this?
	No.
	It is an entire industry.
	If you search it, Off OPEC Oil is a well-known entity.
	It is unreported oil that, according to my Uber source, they actually have a separate pipeline that That is undocumented that siphons off this off-OPEC oil for sale at a deep discount.
	And I find all kinds of references to this.
	Reuters talking about here, buyer beware of $10 million discounts on Nigerian oil.
	This is also from the off-OPEC oil.
	I'd never heard of this term.
	Yeah, I'm looking now.
	Apparently a lot of off-OPEC stuff in Nigeria is commonly associated with it.
	Here's off-OPEC Nigerian Oil Services.
	Isn't that great?
	Wow.
	You'd think someone would mention it.
	I just never heard of it, but there's a whole secondary market that is just not being reported and apparently being stolen by guys like Good Luck Jonathan.
	At least we want to see that hat anymore.
	Yeah.
	Then the next source...
	So this guy walked away with over a billion dollars.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	And that was the money that the accountants, along with the military advisors, were probably going to go looking for.
	Oh, right.
	Exactly.
	Hey, man, where's that off OPEC oil?
	So another thing to put into the database to be on the lookout for stories about off OPEC oil.
	Then this guy from Syria.
	I got lucky, man.
	It's been fantastic.
	Now I get in the car and there's a guy from Austin, Texas driver.
	Why are all these crazy guys coming to Austin to drive Ubers?
	Well, have you been to Nigeria lately?
	How about Syria?
	No.
	Yeah, but Austin?
	I think the climate works for him.
	Well, it's very similar, yeah.
	It's hot.
	Here's the guy from Syria.
	And he had a slight different take on IS. He believes that Iran is also backing ISIS-ISIS, I-L-I-S. He says, what is happening right now?
	He says, truly, it is the Sunni-Shia religious war...
	And that Iran wants to bring back the Farsi Empire with Baghdad as its capital, because we're now about to go into the Iranian negotiations, which I have a lot of information on, including details from a new economic hitman who has reached out,
	and that a lot of these negotiations are really to enable Iran to police the entire region, Middle East, and his idea is if we can control Iran, Then we can control the entire Middle East, and it also provides a nice counterbalance to the Saudis, who, of course, you need to control them, and not just by the typical means and the relationships we've had with them, but also by having a true counterbalance on the other side of the spectrum, religious spectrum as well.
	Here's a little snippet from the Syrian driver, UberSource number two for the week.
	As far as Iran is concerned, and they're not hiding it.
	They said we're going to bring the Faris Empire back and our capital is Baghdad.
	They're talking in the media everywhere.
	Right.
	Well, technically, that's kind of true about Baghdad.
	Of course, this was not, you know, these were not countries 100 years ago.
	By the way, you need to do this if you get in a cab or any kind of, anyone can interact with a driver.
	Where are you from?
	Wait for it.
	And if you've listened to No Agenda for at least a while, you'll be able to say something that will make this person's eyes light up.
	They get so...
	They're so happy that, oh, wait a minute.
	My goodness, there's an American who understands what's really going on and isn't buying the bull crap from the media.
	This is fantastic!
	Try it.
	You really will not be disappointed.
	Yeah, no, I do it myself.
	I don't take that many cars, obviously, but I do it, and you always get good stuff.
	Like I said, the last time I took a drive with somebody, they ended up showing me a bunch of videos I had to watch.
	So then I got a very lengthy multiple email, all encrypted from the get-go, in an exchange with a new economic hitman who I think really has his finger on the pulse of what's happening.
	And I'd like to read two pieces.
	It's all lengthy, so I just cut out two pieces that I want to talk about.
	One is about the Iranian control, which, so this kind of flows out from what the Syrian Uber source just said.
	And then about the actual nuclear discussions.
	And I have received from a number of people, including from German sources, the names of all the negotiators.
	And the reason why the Germans are in on this is because a lot of Iranian technology is German, apparently.
	This is what I didn't know.
	So that's why they're involved.
	And if you just take the...
	The position that we are negotiating with Iran probably to have a nuclear capability, but certainly to control all of the Middle East or be the weighing factor and us having control of them, it makes a lot of sense.
	Here we go.
	A moderate, non-nuclear, but strong Iran is a perfect counterbalance to the Saudis.
	Don't forget that there are interests to be protected that do not allow for constant armed intervention.
	The Sauds must be contained.
	Turkey must be contained.
	Iraq did that when Hussein was still in place.
	Now Iraq is waiting to be cut up between the Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the Kurds, and Iran.
	But the result of that will be that there will be a power shift.
	Somebody, he says probably the Sauds, will have the majority of access to both oil and gas together with the Kurds in the north.
	But how can the Kurds bank on this?
	Only by either going through Turkey or through the Sauds.
	Not a good idea.
	If the Turks and the Sauds mess with each other, then the whole balance will tip and the tap will be closed.
	So rather, set up a three-way.
	If two of them fight, have a third that can moderate and ensure access.
	So instead of having Turkey and Saudi Arabia step into the next round of becoming the dominant power, introduce a third power that keeps the other two from finishing each other.
	And that's Iran.
	It's like putting a stool on three legs instead of one.
	Create a controllable stability by having enough semi-equal parties.
	That should ensure that no power there will be strong enough to create a leading power of the region.
	If any would, the West would not just lose access to a little oil and gas, but of course would also see itself depend on this new player for the African access.
	And it would create a new power block that would include the Middle and Near East, much of Northern Africa and parts of the Turk countries.
	So, maintain a balance that has no clear dominance, and that does not allow anybody to break out of the scheme without making oneself vulnerable.
	I think that's viable.
	And that sounds like a pretty much a neocon type of plan.
	Guy sounds more like an analyst than he does as an economic hitman to me.
	He's giving me...
	Okay.
	Okay.
	He's a spook.
	Yes, and he is...
	Okay, we'll just call him the spook.
	He's provided information to us before, but now I know that he's...
	I think he's for real.
	He's for real because he exists.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Real.
	He's real.
	Well, that sounds like when you consider the idea that maybe the Iranians will get the nuke and...
	Well, Baghdad's interesting.
	Well, here's what...
	This is the stuff I have no idea if it's correct or not, and I'm going to send this to...
	I know that the Iranians would like to do this.
	Sure.
	Here's what I'll be sending to Atomic Rod Adams about the negotiation and the centrifuges and what this is about.
	This is just a little technical, but he seems to know what he's talking about.
	The question is, how many centrifuges does Iran need to, A, supply for atomic energy programs, and B, build the bomb?
	The key to nuclear fission weapons is based on enrichment.
	That means that from a lump of dust, you want to increase the concentration of certain isotopes.
	The isotopes need to be fissionable, U-235 is the target, and they must come in a certain density to allow for various types of chain reactions.
	For energy production, the density, the amount of U-235, Required is relatively low, and the purity required is also low.
	For weapons, the density must only be slightly bigger.
	It starts at 20%, but that gives you a very unreliable and inefficient device.
	Usually 85% is the target.
	However, purity becomes a critical issue.
	Now, enrichment works in stages.
	You essentially, and he said essentially, put the input material into a solution, transform that into a gas, and then pump that through a centrifuge.
	The centrifuge separates atoms by mass.
	U-235 has a mass different from other elements and their isotopes.
	However, centrifuges only separate into two masses, so you get a heavy and a light output.
	And here it comes.
	Since the input is a mixture of all kinds of stuff, you need several stages for enrichment.
	For density increase, only a few stages are required.
	For purity increase, you need a lot of stages.
	So he says the various stages of centrifuges put in series is called a cascade.
	Multiple cascades in parallel are called a matrix.
	So the longer the cascades, the better for purity.
	The bigger the matrix, the more total output.
	So...
	For doing weapons grade, you need a lot of stages, meaning a lot of centrifuges, to get enough uranium.
	To get fuel for nuclear power, you need shorter cascades, but a lot more of them.
	So he says the whole idea of how many centrifuges you need is complete bullcrap.
	And the number of the centrifuges is just an obfuscation of what they're really negotiating on, which is the matrices and the number of parallels.
	Which comes back to our...
	What you read doesn't make sense then.
	I'm sorry?
	What you read doesn't make sense based on that last comment.
	Because the description that you had sounds like there would be a variable number of centrifuges under whatever...
	3,000 to 5,000 are in negotiation, yeah.
	But then why does the number not mean anything?
	Well, the way I understood it is that it is about the...
	In order to create fuel, the way it's being positioned is the more centrifuges, the more likelihood of creating a nuclear weapon.
	And the way I understand it is that is almost exactly the opposite, that you need a lot more in the parallels or for a matrix in order to create nuclear fuel.
	So the centrifuges are not just about creating the purity of it.
	Yeah, no, I understand that part.
	Okay.
	But the comment that the number of centrifuges is meaningless, which was the last thing whatever that was that you were reading.
	Well, the number of centrifuges as the marker for whether a country can build a nuclear weapon or not.
	I think that's the point.
	Well, it was very confusing what you just said.
	I'm just reading.
	I know.
	Whatever that guy said.
	What he said was confusing.
	Who was that?
	Is that the same guy?
	Mm-hmm.
	Oh.
	Well...
	Summarizing would have been better.
	This is already a summary.
	There's no way to summarize.
	I think it's complicated.
	But his point is that...
	We brought this up in a previous episode that the number of centrifuges may not have anything to do with anything.
	Then this would be...
	Which, in fact, is a summary.
	It has nothing to do with anything.
	I don't think the discussion of cascades versus, you know, the light versus heavy and all the rest of it, it just confuses things.
	So it's not the number of centrifuges, it's the depth of the matrix.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, Atomic Rod will help us out.
	Yeah, that's Atomic.
	He can summarize.
	Yes.
	And he's celebrating his 20th anniversary, I think, of the 20th or 10th or 50th.
	He's got some kind of celebration of his Atomic Insights blog.
	He's another one of those professionals we work with.
	So I'm watching some mainstream TV to change the topic, unless you've got something else.
	So we're going to be international.
	Let's talk about the Turkey shootings.
	Only for the reason that...
	There's some action going on in Turkey, as usual.
	I'm sorry.
	But only for the reason that when he throws it, or she throws it to the reporter, the reporter has this cadence that I want to maybe discuss for a second, because it's a style of reporting that is comical.
	Two deadly shootouts in two days across Turkey after police shot and killed an unarmed, rather, female assailant.
	Officials say the woman and a companion were trying to attack Istanbul police headquarters, the second attack in an official building in the past two days.
	It follows Wednesday's hostage taking, which left a top prosecutor dead after he was seized by leftist militants.
	Sonange Mujan has more.
	Carrying guns and explosives.
	In these amateur images, the woman lying on the ground outside Istanbul's police headquarters has just been shot dead after trying to attack with an accomplice at the Turkish capital's main police headquarters.
	Investigators have taken the accomplice in for questioning to find out why they targeted the police.
	Turkey's president denounced the attack and called for heightened security.
	So there's something going on, but this seems like pretty routine.
	But it's this woman's report that got to me.
	Because the way she talks about the police and heightened security.
	And this is exactly what our $200 donor wants this show to become.
	No.
	No.
	Well, NPR's podcasting revenues are up.
	They've doubled year over year.
	Oh yeah, they must be up to millions.
	They probably are.
	Of course, none of the local stations are getting that, which is what will kill the NPR network long term.
	Yeah, I'm surprised they're going to continue this.
	They're not.
	They can't.
	They won't.
	Something has to change.
	And Molly Wood, of course, has gone there.
	Oh, that's right.
	She can do this.
	She can do this cadence.
	She can do the NPR thing.
	I'm sure she can.
	Well, yeah, the dead room.
	Yeah, I think she probably...
	I never heard her do it, but I bet she can, too.
	Is she working there already?
	I think she starts shortly.
	And what party was this?
	This was a key party?
	I went over to the party.
	You know, I don't get out of the house that much.
	No.
	But I drove over there.
	To what party?
	It was the 10th anniversary of Buzz Out Loud, a long-gone podcast.
	Really?
	It hasn't been, I think, five years at least, or longer?
	I don't know.
	And...
	And so they had this event that was like a Buzz Out Loud show, videoed at this Hack 5 operation, which is kind of interesting.
	They do podcasting.
	Hack 5 does.
	And I would recommend watching a few of them because they're extremely high-end hacking shows.
	About gear and stuff that's actually beyond me.
	But I find it fascinating.
	And so Molly was there with Tom Merritt and Victoria Belmont.
	And so I went there to see what was going on and I got some gossip.
	I found out that Molly has quit the New York Times and she's going to work for Marketplace, which is the show on NPR. Yeah, NPR. NPR. And, okay, I don't know what she...
	I guess she'll be the tech person.
	And I guess she's happy as a clam doing that.
	And then I found out by listening to what they were talking about, Victoria Belmont's kind of just quit tech.
	Yeah.
	Well, it happens.
	I don't know what she's doing.
	And then I ran into a few other people.
	I ran into Leo Laporte's old...
	I don't know what to call her.
	She's kind of a...
	One of his ex-wives?
	No, this is Colleen, the woman who set up the original cottage.
	She's married to Tom.
	Tom's wife.
	No, Tom's wife, no.
	Colleen is a tall woman.
	Why are we talking about this?
	You asked me!
	No, you had some point about this.
	You had some point.
	I just said, what party?
	I didn't say who was there and who was Tom's wife.
	Oh, that's the party, yeah.
	That's when I found out that Molly's working for Marketplace, and you're right, she can sound like an NBR person.
	Okay, fine.
	Okay, I quit.
	I stopped talking.
	Please, please stop now.
	I saw a guy on Fox.
	Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn talking about...
	Yeah, I've never seen him before, so I'm scanning around, I see this guy, and he starts explaining...
	Almost to a T with the West Clark Seven of what is going on in the Middle East.
	And at first I'm like, oh, he's using some words that I don't like.
	He's using some phrases.
	But then I looked him up.
	And this guy, he was the director of, a deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
	And he was, like, pushed out or he quit in a huff, you know, just last year.
	And he's not with any...
	He's not with a consultant.
	He's not consulting for some award.
	Give me his name again.
	It's Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn.
	And so in 2014, he abruptly announces...
	He does have the Michael T. Flynn Foundation.
	Okay, but he's not with...
	Oh, this is different to Michael T. Flynn.
	I think it must be.
	Yeah.
	He's not with any war or military-industrial complex type outfit.
	He's written a couple books.
	He did serve as a top intelligence advisor to McChrystal in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he wrote in 2010 a scathing report titled Fixing Intel.
	You're out.
	Yeah.
	So, but the fact that he isn't at any other outfit, you know, gave me pause and said, well, let's listen to what he has to say and take it with that information in mind, that he's not your typical shill that is being brought.
	He's not a shill.
	Two big points.
	One, where we are, and then what do we do about it?
	And I think where we are right now, we have almost a complete breakdown of order in the Middle East.
	A new Middle East is essentially struggling to be born.
	The second thing is we have Iran on the march.
	Iran is clearly on the march.
	As Jennifer Griffin's comments highlighted, both in Iraq, also Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and other parts of the Middle East.
	We have a takeover of Islam by radical extremists.
	And I think that this is very dangerous.
	And it's both Shia and Sunni.
	We can't forget that.
	We also have what I would call a real sort of a pushback by the Sunni governments and their lack of trust and their lack of respect for the United States.
	And I think that at the end of the day we have just this incredible policy confusion, never mind what our strategy is to execute that policy.
	But let me ask you about that because it seems to be a patchwork of alliances where in some countries we're on the side of Saudi Arabia and the Sunnis.
	In other countries, like Iraq, we're on the side of the Shia and Iran.
	Can that work?
	Yeah.
	So let me just start by saying, as an intelligence officer, intelligence has to be part of the calculus of every strategic level.
	Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
	And right now, I don't...
	My sense of where the policy is at is sort of...
	And I hate to say it like this, but it's almost a policy of willful ignorance.
	And to me, we have some major problems that we are dealing with.
	And here we are...
	Talking to Iran about a nuclear deal with this almost complete breakdown of order in the Middle East.
	What do you think?
	The thing that annoyed me, of course, was the calculus, and he also said at the end of the day.
	I've been looking at his record.
	He was in the office.
	He actually became the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in April of 2012.
	Then he wrote a paper, another one, I guess.
	Vision 2020, accelerating change through integration, a broad look at how the Defense Intelligence Agency must transform to meet the national security challenges for the 21st century.
	Oh, he's got to go.
	And so he was out in April 2014, and he announced his retirement.
	So...
	Well, he kind of confirms the Iranian thing, although not saying that...
	He says there's no strategy, that we don't know what...
	And I kind of tend to believe that there is no cohesive strategy, certainly not between the president and state.
	There may be a strategy that is by the puppet masters, if you want to look at it from that perspective, that there may not be a strategy by anyone who's actually doing anything, but there may be...
	Things may have been set in place knowing what the outcome will be...
	You know, we're talking about the Soroses of the world type people.
	It's a foregone conclusion what's going to happen.
	And that was the plan all along.
	Even though the people doing the activity don't know what the hell is going on.
	Which is what he implies.
	Right.
	And it will all result in rebelization.
	Well, yeah, rebelizing is always the end result and that's fantastic.
	CBC Radio had a call-in show.
	And there was a funny bit.
	Of course, the Canada Navy is all in now on the self radicalizing people going around gonna kill everybody be afraid you know, they just took our template and moved it over.
	And this guy calls in, and it could have been a no-agenda list, and if he had thrown an ITM in there, I would have loved it.
	And he suggests a book, which I don't think we've discussed on the show, which I've ordered and I'm going to read.
	And he also just says something funny as it pertains to the six-week cycle of the FBI. Now, what are you suggesting, Mehdi?
	See, what I am saying is the whole thing doesn't make sense to me, because the authority, if they are monitoring these people, they know who is radicalizing them, they know who is meeting with them, they know how, and there was that apartment in Calgary that they could have, they were eavesdropping, they knew exactly what's going on.
	So what role can the community play in a micro role?
	I hear your point about monitoring by authorities and the sort of general...
	She didn't actually hear the point.
	The point that he's making is they're doing the same thing.
	They're monitoring them.
	They know exactly what these guys are doing.
	You know, overview.
	But let's micro it.
	For communities in Canada, what role should or could they play?
	How could they play any role when they don't know?
	Suhana, there is a book called Terror Factory by Trevor Aronson.
	He is a reporter in the United States.
	He looked at all the terror incidents in the United States, and his findings were alarming.
	Ninety-nine percent of all the so-called incidents of terror and radicalization in the United States was initiated.
	And supported by FBI agents.
	Okay.
	We see, for example, here right now, we have two court cases.
	Get him off!
	I don't have time to get into this, actually, Nettie.
	I don't, because I want to...
	Listen.
	Shut up!
	Get him off!
	Okay, you got clip of the day for that.
	You are so...
	I think you've been too easy with clips of the day.
	God, just get it, give it, take it.
	Take it with a simple thing.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Because it had everything.
	It had a guy revealing the truth.
	It had a good suggestion for a book and then getting kicked off the air.
	I don't have time for this bull crap.
	Get out of here.
	It's perfect.
	So I've ordered the book.
	We'll see what happens.
	I'm getting a copy too.
	We'll see what happens.
	This is great.
	I'm sure it's what we've been talking about the whole time.
	I have a red book entry I'd like to hand out.
	Okay, I'm here.
	The president is going to visit Jamaica.
	And there's been a lot of reporting.
	I'm sorry?
	Oman.
	Oman.
	There's a lot of reports on why he's going there, particularly coming out of the island of Jamaica.
	Gunja, man.
	Well, I'm going to make a prediction.
	And this could, this probably, it could fall under a six-week cycle, although it may be, I don't know if the FBI has this reach.
	I am going to say terrorist attack on a cruise ship.
	That would be, if I were running this, that's what I would do.
	It's been done before, by the way.
	When was this?
	And was this part of the six-week cycle?
	No.
	This was, I think, in the 70s, maybe?
	Or the 80s?
	It was the 70s?
	It was a terrorist attack on a cruise ship.
	You just Google it, you'll find it.
	Okay.
	So they know how to do it.
	The plan is already there.
	So it's been done.
	It's been done.
	A bunch of people killed.
	It was actually one of these news things.
	I remember it.
	I don't remember the year, obviously.
	But I remember when it happened, and it was just...
	It was it.
	That was the cat's meow for like a month.
	It would be fantastic.
	And have it happen in the Caribbean.
	This is where you've got a lot of cruise ships.
	It's about time.
	We have a lot of oil there.
	We need to up the presence.
	We already have the international community there with the law of the seas.
	The Achille Laurel.
	What?
	This is the ship.
	It was, I think, it was the Achille, or the Achille, the Achille, the Achille Laurel.
	It was 1985 taken over by the Palestinian Liberation Front.
	Hijacked by members of the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1985.
	Yeah, Achille, I think was how you pronounce it.
	Can you imagine what kind of a bonanza a cruise ship attack would be?
	I mean, things gotta sink.
	If you really want to do it right.
	You know, people gotta die.
	This was sunk or not.
	Let's see.
	And then we can move...
	Yeah, the ship caught fire and sunk.
	Then we can move military into Jamaica.
	Very strategic.
	Well, you're calling the event and the location.
	Yes.
	It's a double.
	It's a double entry.
	You get two points since this happens.
	Oh, come on!
	That's a three-pointer.
	If both happen, that's an automatic three-pointer.
	Well, we'll have to discuss that in the meeting.
	I think the Caribbean is the next theater.
	It needs to be rubble-ized.
	No, not rubble-ized.
	Yes.
	No, don't rubble-ize it.
	Yeah.
	No, we like Jamaica as a vacation destination.
	We're not going to do that.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	It must be rubble-ized.
	No, it will not be rubble-ized.
	No.
	But I am putting it in there.
	I'm putting it up at the top.
	Hmm.
	So it happened in 1985.
	So that's a different cycle.
	Speaking of cycles, I wanted to mention something to you, you being the cycle guy.
	Ripped jeans.
	Ripped jeans.
	Can this be an indicator of an economic cycle because they're back?
	Yeah, actually, it could be.
	These are called coincident indexes, and they do come and go.
	I think a better one, of course, was my Bitcoin and his Beanie Babies, but I may have an actual more like Beanie Babies fad, kind of investment bullcrap kind of thing.
	Play sneaker pawn.
	Okay.
	Can somebody bring?
	How does that work?
	Used shoes, basically, we'll take an exclusive sneaker and we'll analyze it and tell you, you know, whether we can take it or not.
	This is a used sneaker right here.
	Yeah, this is a used sneaker right here.
	And this sneaker, the original price was $7,200.
	Going used right now, that's a $5,000 shoe still.
	Going used.
	So it just gives you an example of how valuable sneakers.
	Sneakers is like Herman Bags and Louis Caron Bags.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, this shoe is $5,000.
	$5,000?
	All right, did he say, what kind of bag did he say?
	Hermes.
	Did he mean Hermes?
	Probably.
	Geez.
	$5,000.
	$5,000 for a used sneaker.
	Man, you can go to Tom Ford and get some damn gator.
	This is a $5,000 shoe.
	It's a $5,000 shoe.
	That's the only one that came in that size.
	And that's something that's sitting in people's closets.
	And they need cash.
	They need money.
	So Sneaker Pawn coming on the scene was just like, wow, you know what?
	I can liquidate this and get some cash and get some money.
	And it's used, and Sneaker Pawn still.
	So a guy could come in with this shoe that's worth five.
	Yes.
	He needs some money.
	Yes.
	You be in a pawn shop, you're not going to give him five.
	No, we give him $500 for that shoe.
	You give him $500?
	$500.
	Now, worst case scenario, he doesn't come back.
	We can sell the shoe for $2,500 and Chase still made a good profit on his money.
	So that's just how the numbers is in the sneaker game that's just emerging every single day.
	The business is really taking off.
	Alright, alright, okay.
	Huh?
	Huh?
	Sound like a bubble to you?
	Come on!
	$5,000 sneaker!
	What show was this from?
	Steve Harvey.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, maybe this is an opportunity now to read a little bit from one of my favorite authors.
	This is new work that was uncovered by our producer Chris Holman.
	As you know, I'm a big fan of Theodore Kaczynski's Industrial Society and its future, that being the Unabomber Manifesto.
	Not that I'm a fan of killing people or bombing people, but when someone goes to those extremes, it's probably worth reading.
	And I read it, and I keep seeing him being right.
	Chris was looking for this, and he found an Amazon giblet, which includes the famed manifesto, but also something called the Unnamed Essay from 1971.
	And he pulled a couple of quotes out of this, which were just astounding, realizing this was written over 40 years ago.
	And three pieces.
	One is, and this pertains, of course, to the craziness that we're seeing in the world, the effect of media on society.
	Note the increasing extent to which the average person today is, quote, living in the movies, as the saying is.
	People spend a large and increasing amount of time submitting to canned entertainment rather than participating in spontaneous activities.
	As overcrowding and rules and regulations curtail opportunities for spontaneous activity, and as the developing techniques of entertainment make the canned product even more attractive, we can assume that people will live more and more in the world of mass entertainment.
	40 years ago.
	Not bad.
	Foreshadowing of common core.
	Children will be taught by methods which will become increasingly effective as educational psychology develops.
	To be creative, inquiring, appreciative of the arts and sciences, interested in their studies.
	Perhaps they will even be taught nonconformity.
	But of course this will not be merely random nonconformity, but creative nonconformity.
	Sound familiar, John?
	This creative, like how you get to the answer...
	Creative nonconformity simply means nonconformity that is directed towards socially desirable ends.
	For example, children may be taught, in the name of freedom, to liberate themselves from irrational prejudices of their elders, irrational prejudices being those values which are not conducive to the kind of society that most educators choose to regard as healthy.
	Children will be educated to be racially unbiased, to abhor violence, to fit into society without excessive conflict...
	behavioral engineering, but as an improvement in educational technique.
	The system will become so effective that hardly any child will turn out to be other than what the educators desire.
	It will become a form of psychological compulsion.
	And then, technology has already made it, 40 years ago, technology has already made it impossible for us to live as physical, independent beings, for the skills which enabled primitive man to live off the country have been lost.
	We can survive only by acting as components of a huge machine which provides for our physical needs.
	And as technology invades the domain of mind, it is safe to assume that human beings will become as dependent psychologically on technology as they now are physically.
	We can see the beginning of this already in the inability of some people to avoid boredom without television, in the need of others to use tranquilizers in order to cope with the tensions of modern society.
	I think this guy nails it.
	Well, I think he nails the intent.
	There was actually an ongoing special on racism, which is ever since Ferguson, this has become a hot spot, and it's almost as though the whole thing was planned.
	I'm shocked!
	You should just drop that clip in there.
	Yeah, I will.
	So, it's racism.
	So, the NewsHour had this thing, and this is a long piece, so I cut only a bit of it, and I took some of the stuff out.
	But it was the show, the premise was that the millennials, which is what this guy would be talking about, have been brainwashed into being less racist, and they consider themselves, and I'm surrounded by millennials, at least four of them, that I can observe.
	And they have fooled themselves into believing a whole bunch of things about themselves as a group.
	And this racism thing is one of them.
	And they're not racist.
	They're different.
	And their old farts are crazy.
	And I have some photos I took of some of the graphs they did on this report, which I'm going to put in the next newsletter.
	And these graphs are important to look at because they're very screwy.
	But that's got nothing to do with what I'm about to say.
	So they did these tests.
	And the report went on, Srivarnavi, whatever his name is, an Indian guy who is on the PBS News.
	I can't pronounce his name.
	He went through the testing to see how you are naturally racist or how your biases work.
	And the first thing they did was they tested on dissociative white faces and black faces.
	And the second thing they did was you had to shoot a gun to...
	You had to shoot a gun at a figure if the guy had a gun.
	You can play the clip and then we'll break it up as it goes along.
	All races were likely to select their own.
	All women, regardless of race, had preference for white males.
	All non-black profiles, both men and women, had a statistical dislike of black profiles.
	Dating, you know, you judge people reflexively in the same way that you might.
	It's maybe not the same, but similar to how you might judge someone at a job interview or when they try to rent your apartment or apply for a loan.
	That's very much the data of the first impression.
	Interestingly enough, Amodio's first test results found that my sentiments actually showed a slight preference toward black faces, that I had no problem associating positive words with darker skin.
	That's not the norm.
	More than half the population who have taken the exam take less time to put negative words next to black faces.
	So I'm showing a preference in one way or another according to the test.
	It's just not the way that 51% are showing it, right?
	Yeah, that's right.
	51% stop.
	51% is no big deal one way or the other.
	So 51% see blacks as negative and 49% see them as positive or the other way around.
	So this first test is meaningless.
	Yeah.
	It shows that everybody's pretty even about everything.
	But the second part is the more interesting one.
	Yeah.
	Apparently applies to the millennials.
	But this is where it gets interesting.
	In the second test, where I had to react almost on instinct and decide whether to shoot or not based on what I thought was in someone's hand, I was faster at shooting armed blacks than armed whites.
	And I was far more likely to shoot an unarmed black man than an unarmed white one.
	Sadly, that is the national norm, including for millennials.
	Wow!
	For the PBS NewsHour, I'm Hari Sreenivasan, reporting from New York.
	Racist, horrible racist millennials.
	Shooting the black man.
	The millennials are still shooting the blacks.
	Wow, not so good.
	Well, then I'll play this.
	This is, of course, we just discussed the schooling and we just discussed the millennials.
	Let's look at the brand new generation.
	Billy from Indy, long-time boner, apologize for that.
	He says, I attached a clip here from...
	The children's program, Pocoyo.
	Pocoyo uses his power at Earth Hour 2015.
	And this is what his two-year-old daughter, Lotta, was watching.
	This is a cartoon for preschool kids.
	Welcome to Earth Hour.
	Use your power to change climate change.
	Pocoyo, our world is under threat from climate change.
	Temperatures are rising rapidly as the levels of greenhouse gases are increasing quickly.
	The impact of climate change can be terrible, causing extreme droughts that threaten people, vitally important species, and their habitats.
	The icy Arctic is warming at a rate of almost twice the global average, leading to melting glaciers, which raise sea levels.
	Oh, it seems that Pocoyo has an idea.
	Oh, great!
	Pocoyo is planting a tree.
	By planting trees, we can help stop climate change.
	You can also support a project at earthhour.org.
	This year, Pocoyo is supporting Beacon for the Sundarbans, a project that aims to raise funds to provide solar-powered electricity to 1,000 homes in the Sundarbans, a rural community in India.
	Find out more about how Pocoyo and his friends are joining forces and using their power to change climate change.
	And support EarthHour's social and environmental projects all over the world.
	This is for kids.
	You know, I had a clip a couple of shows ago.
	We never played it, but I'll just give you a brief summary.
	They have this thing every year called Earth Hour where you turn your power off for an hour.
	Your lights, yeah.
	Your lights.
	Not your power, your lights.
	Your lights.
	Please leave your computer and your DVR and everything on.
	You should go downstairs.
	Keep your car plugged in.
	Keep it charging.
	Yeah, turn off your lights, okay?
	Yeah.
	So they had this local report that said, here's San Francisco Bay Area, and here's the hour, and they show the view of the bay, of San Francisco from a distance.
	Mm-hmm.
	The top of the decorative part of the Transamerica Pyramid went off.
	Not a single other thing changed.
	Nobody turned off anything.
	Nothing.
	And so it was like, oh, isn't that great?
	And they made a big deal out of it.
	And in New York, and they showed the decorative building.
	Nothing else went out.
	Nobody pays attention to this crap.
	It's poorly marketed.
	They don't do a good job of it.
	It's very poorly marketed.
	Well, I think the first year it was well marketed.
	But meanwhile, since we're talking about students and schools and everything, which kind of leads to the common core, especially that analysis, then this comes up.
	Play the cheating in school clip.
	Okay.
	A jury in Atlanta has convicted 11 former public school teachers, principals and administrators on racketeering charges tied to cheating on standardized tests.
	The convictions came on the eighth day of jury deliberations after a six-month long trial that details systematic cheating in more than 40 schools involving more than 170 educators and administrators.
	35 people were indicted.
	And prior to the trial, more than 20 pleaded to lesser charges.
	Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard spoke afterward about the impact he hoped the trial will have.
	Our entire effort in this case was simply to get our community to stop and take a look at our educational system.
	That's what we wanted.
	We wanted people to look at the educational system that their children attended every day to make some assessment after they made that assessment to look to see what we had to do as a community to move forward.
	Signs of widespread cheating in the Atlanta schools were first uncovered in 2008 by an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation.
	Kevin Riley is the editor and he joins me now.
	Kevin Riley, welcome to the program.
	Explain to us again what the charges were.
	How did cheating on a school test become something that people may go to prison for?
	Well, in the end, we all have to remember that there were bonuses and financial incentives tied to the performance of students on these test scores.
	So, in the end, teachers and administrators and principals have to attest to the validity of the test.
	And that's really how the prosecutor pursued racketeering charges, because his case was based on illegal activity in the guise of a legitimate enterprise.
	Not an enterprise!
	Legitimate enterprise.
	It's not an enterprise.
	Do we know what the meaning of an enterprise?
	It's not the school district.
	It's not an enterprise.
	If it is, that's telling you something screwy.
	This is a bullcrap situation.
	They put these people in.
	They're going to get screwed.
	If the students don't perform, then it's not so much if they perform well, they get incentives.
	If they don't perform well, they get fired.
	They get disincentives.
	Yeah, disincentives.
	This is not the way it should go.
	Well, this is just the first of many, I think.
	Many of these such cases.
	I think there's cheating going on all over the place.
	The kids are all for it.
	They don't care.
	I'm shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.
	Nailed it.
	Finally.
	Jingles!
	Finally nailed it.
	Yeah.
	It's about time.
	I think this is just the tip of the iceberg.
	There's no other way for these educators to keep their jobs.
	They have to have high performance scores and the kids have to do it.
	Whatever.
	Yeah, well, this is, yeah, it's corrupt.
	It's because corruption is created by the government.
	This is corruption created by the government.
	This wouldn't have happened if you didn't have this stupid system in place.
	Well, it's even worse.
	There's their innocence, these people.
	It's worse.
	It's not just government, it's by fascism.
	The collusion between private enterprise of Pearson and Microsoft.
	Oh, yeah, that's true.
	It's fascism.
	Corporatism.
	Corporatism, fascism, yeah, in the true sense of the word, yes.
	I'm glad I don't have young kids anymore.
	Just homeschool them.
	You can cheat on the test at home.
	Alright.
	You want to go to the Obama thing?
	Punishing hackers?
	Yeah, you have the club here?
	Okay, here we go.
	Yes, I have the executive order which just came out.
	President Obama has signed off on a new way to hit back at foreign hackers with sanctions.
	His executive order signed today imposes penalties for stealing trade secrets or damaging computer systems.
	Companies that knowingly profit from such attacks could also be targeted.
	Well, this is aimed at the Chinese.
	Yeah.
	Most of the companies profiting from the attacks, they don't know who these people are.
	Well, I have the exact wording of the executive order, and I have a number of things in the show notes for people to peruse through, which includes the fact sheet, always so handy.
	And I have some feedback on the actual attacks that apparently took place.
	This is...
	Executive Order, blocking the property of certain persons engaging in significant malicious cyber-enabled activities.
	And this is where I want to give pause and say right off the bat, we need a pure definition of cyber.
	It has just become, you know, this word that everyone accepts.
	I don't know if it's in the federal, the Dictionary Act, if they've included this word cyber.
	The words like hacking.
	What is the act of hacking?
	Is that the same as being a node on a DDoS attack?
	I think that a lot of definition is needed.
	But here is some of the text here.
	Any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury...
	So it's the Secretary of the Treasury who will be determining if you are a cyber criminal in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State to be responsible for or complicit in or to have engaged in directly or indirectly cyber-enabled activities Whatever that means.
	Originating from or directed by persons located.
	What is...
	Yes.
	Go ahead.
	Go ask.
	It's just annoying.
	I mean, the use of the word cyber.
	And cyber enabled.
	What does that even mean?
	Well...
	While I'm reading this, can you check and see if the Dictionary Act has this included?
	I think that gets updated.
	Cyber-enabled activities originating from or directed by persons located in whole or in substantial part outside the United States that are reasonably likely to result in or have materially contributed to a significant threat So that whole paragraph
	right there said, even if it didn't work, if you only contributed by, I don't know, maybe you provided server space, whatever it is you did, you can pretty much be implicated in this as long as it had the purpose or effect of A, harming you can pretty much be implicated in this as long as it had the purpose or effect of A, harming or otherwise significantly compromising the provision of services by a computer or network of computers that support one or
	B, significantly compromising the provision of services by one or more entities in a critical infrastructure sector.
	C, causing a significant disruption to the availability of a computer or network of computers.
	There's your DDoS.
	You will be...
	You'll be screwed, and we'll find out what that screwing is in a moment.
	D, causing a significant misappropriation of funds or economic resources, trade secrets, personal identifiers, or financial information for commercial or competitive advantage or private financial gain.
	That could be all of Wall Street, as far as I'm concerned.
	And then, of course, any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury.
	If we don't like how you look, son, we're just going to pin it on you.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So it's all of that or any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury.
	Done.
	This is like a scandalous...
	Well, no one reads these things, John.
	No one reads these.
	Hereby find the unrestricted immigrant and non-immigrant entry into the United States of aliens determined to meet one or more...
	So this is what will happen to you.
	You will not be allowed to enter the United States.
	Any transaction...
	I don't mean that.
	So they say persons who do this?
	Sounds like if you root your phone.
	Well, let me think about it for a second.
	Could that fall under any of the clauses?
	Let me see.
	It depends on what happens with the rooting.
	Could be.
	If somehow your phone is then taken over or some malicious code gets onto it that isn't approved by Google, I'm sure.
	Could be.
	Of course, they talk about persons, but in this case...
	This is one of those laws they pass, so everybody in the country will be guilty at some point or another.
	Now remember, it's not a law, it's an executive order.
	So there is a difference.
	The term person means an individual or entity.
	I just want everyone to know that, because everyone's all freaked out about the Religious Freedom Act and persons.
	In American law, it's always been a person.
	A U.S. person means a company.
	Any type of entity is not just one human being.
	It's always been that way.
	Don't act so fucking surprised.
	The term entity means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization, such as the No Agenda family.
	Podcast listeners could be an organization, a partnership.
	And the term United States person means any United States citizen, permanent resident, alien entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States.
	And you will be, your money can be frozen, you will be blocked entry.
	The only thing they're saying here that kind of protects us is that you have to be outside of the United States.
	So it could not necessarily mean you as a person in the country.
	This is very interesting that it happens at this moment, and maybe this is where our six-week cycle will come from.
	It's based on some information of the latest attacks from, what was it, China.
	We have a dude named Ben, or China and Russia.
	We have a dude named Ben.
	He sent in the following note.
	Of course, he goes anonymous.
	Not sure if you saw it.
	There was a minor kerfuffle last week regarding some state government sites being brought down by a new Russian hacking group, Vikingdom2015.
	Had you heard about this?
	No, I have not.
	Tell me.
	Okay, so we have a news article here.
	Let me just bring this up for a second.
	There's here, hackers disable main.gov website for a second day in a row.
	Maine.gov?
	Yeah, as in the state of Maine.
	And these are the Russians?
	Yes, this list, Vikingdom...
	What have we got against Maine?
	Well, I don't know.
	If you look at the Vikingdom...
	Let me see, we have the, they have a target list, which they really, all these links in the show notes.
	They have a target list, which would be name.gov, mass.gov, wyoming.gov, all these.gov websites, and it's the Destroy America at Vikingdom 2015 target list to destroy America.
	And this, of course, is the Russians.
	Obviously, we know this.
	So here's what our dude named Ben says.
	I'm a dude named Ben for a company that does travel information services for 15 state and city transportation agencies, several of which were on the Vikingdom target list, and that's the ones I just read.
	The relevant part and reason I'm writing this is that it had nothing to do with Russia at all.
	When they tried to overwhelm our systems, I caught them in the act after monitoring went off a few days in a row at the exact same time.
	The IP addresses they were attacking from were in IP space owned by U.S. military, and the reverse DNS was all AF.mil.
	And then he has an imager link so you can see for yourself.
	The IP address 132.3.49.81 is registered to the 754th electronic system group as listed in reverse DNS as AF.mil.
	As a whole, reversed DNS.
	No idea what good it does for the Air Force to attack government contractors.
	That's a pretty funny chair force.
	Other than to try to pin it on Russia.
	Sure.
	But you think they'd at least try to spoof their IP address in that case.
	So obviously this is another...
	Who did?
	And he says it wasn't.
	Are you kidding me?
	What a story.
	Yeah.
	I can't play the gambling guy again.
	Jeez.
	Yeah, this is how it goes.
	I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.
	Unbelievable.
	Yeah.
	So our dude named Ben, one of our many, just does a simple reverse lookup and finds a huge block of IPs that they can quickly ramble through without having to use anybody else's.
	And it's just a bunch of government guys.
	And we have an executive order all of a sudden.
	And so what are we going to do?
	Can you imagine the meetings?
	Well, Sergeant, what do you think we're going to do?
	We're going to attack Congress.
	No, no, no.
	God's sake, no.
	No, no.
	What are we going to do?
	Attack Maine.
	Go after the government of Maine.
	Who's going to care?
	And then make a list of all the stuff we're going to do.
	But just be careful, for God's sake.
	If you bring down Maine's government side, who gives a crap?
	What if we have to do another one?
	Do Wyoming.
	Yeah.
	WYO.gov.
	Yeah.
	WYO.gov.
	And it just says to Russians, we got this covered.
	They'll fall for this.
	Mainstream media especially, they don't know what's going on.
	In fact, the mainstream media doesn't know what's going on.
	You got to play this one.
	Chicago PD reverses the signal.
	I found this GPS device tucked up under the rear axle of the trailer.
	Thought you might want to take a look.
	Yeah, it's weird.
	Shipping company uses dashboard GPS. No, dummy.
	That GPS actually belongs to whoever was shipping the heroin.
	You would probably want to track $2 million worth of product, too.
	Mouse, can you reverse the signal?
	Figure out where it's being tracked from?
	It's easy peasy.
	You call me dummy.
	Yeah, so reverse the dumb stuff.
	What was that from?
	It was from Chicago PD, which is a Dick Wolf show, and they're going to reverse the signal.
	That's right.
	So the GPS will somehow broadcast.
	Who's receiving the signal from this, whatever it is.
	Yeah.
	Just reverse the signal and see who's listening.
	You know, when you have executive orders and laws being put in place with nefarious, non-meaningful words such as cyber, hacker, these things are meaningless.
	There is no descriptive, these aren't descriptors.
	There is no news reporting on any of this that is of any value whatsoever.
	In fact, the general population doesn't give a shit.
	They don't care.
	They hear hacking or whatever, as long as my phone works.
	Yeah, yeah.
	As long as my...
	Hey man, I heard that like the Maine...
	State of Maine's website was hacked by the Russians.
	Yeah, man.
	Fucking Putin, man.
	They're apparently after Wyoming.
	Next.
	You know what?
	If they change that law in Indiana, you know Putin's gonna go hack Indiana.gov.
	Yeah, in fact, I'm surprised that hasn't happened already.
	There's a need for a rescue mission.
	When the world is threatened, the world needs help, it calls on America.
	And that's the story.
	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.
	Do you have some people to thank for show 709?
	I believe is the number.
	Now, we had a special going on here, which is for Easter, which coincides with your 63rd birthday?
	Something like that.
	Something like that, yeah.
	And Easter, yeah, because I've had, Easter falls on my birthday, because I have Sunday birthdays every seven years.
	That's what, you know, is typical.
	And every Sunday that it falls on, which is every seven years, I've always expected it to be Easter.
	But no, no, it happens randomly.
	As you, two newsletters ago, I had a chart that shows where Easter falls into place.
	It has something to do with the equinox.
	It's got some screwball pagan calculation.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	So I don't get my birthday on Easter that much.
	In fact, I've never had it as a grown-up on Easter, ever.
	And how disappointing has that been for you?
	It's been very disappointing.
	Since you celebrate Easter so frequently, the Pesach.
	It's just annoying to me.
	Okay.
	So we have, yeah, a special that you can do.
	We're going to name everyone.
	Now, this was questionable whether to do this or not, but you suggested it.
	Okay, we can do it.
	We're going to thank everyone who sent in 4515 as just a thanks for sending in or giving me a birthday shout-out.
	And I guess we should do them all at once on the next show.
	Okay, good.
	That's good.
	So if anybody wants to be anonymous, that's in this list, which is the problem.
	I see.
	Auto-anonymous area that we're dealing with.
	Send me an email.
	John at Dvorak.org.
	Whoa!
	Or better.
	John at Curry.com.
	You can send John at Curry at Curry.com, which is easier for me to cancel, so send and do that.
	Or, you know, and I'll forward him to Eric DeShiel, or you can send it directly to shiel at noagendanation.com, and maybe that'll help you.
	That's better.
	I would send it to, if you really want to be, if you really have to be anonymous, send a note to adam at Curry.com, john at Curry.com, john at Dvorak.org, and shiel at noagendanation.com, and then Should happen.
	Because mistakes can be made.
	Alright, let's thank a few people for show 709 who came in.
	Starting with Claire Thornhill from Toronto, Ontario.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	And this is to set my husband, Dara Mood, on his way to knighthood.
	You have to keep track of this yourself.
	She hit him in the mouth, which is nice.
	She hit him in the mouth.
	I think that's fantastic.
	And he's been a dedicated listener ever since.
	Hmm.
	Anyway, thanks.
	She says, John, keep the cat pictures coming.
	I hate cats, but for some reason your pictures have grown on me.
	I don't know why, but now the first thing I look at when I get the newsletter.
	By the way, this newsletter was a fail.
	The last one.
	I'd recommend people go look around for it.
	And I'd like to do a little bit after this, after my mentions here, about the Google Mail, which this news that had too many links, so it ended up in spam.
	There's only about one-third of the people got it.
	Just because of the number of links, even though you've been pre-approved as a recipient?
	Yeah.
	I'm sure that was it.
	I follow these numbers closely.
	Why do people take this?
	Why do you allow a company, like, just because it's free?
	Do you allow a company to determine what you can receive or not?
	People don't see this, but all right, fine.
	That's why I'd go to C-T-Y-M-E dot com and get a news.
	Some guy could do news or do mail with spam.
	Spam filters.
	Craig Mazzella in Fairfield, Connecticut.
	One, two, three, four, five.
	We got a birthday call out there.
	Could never afford the true value YouTube provided, but I hope this donation at least conveys my gratitude.
	I think the show is great.
	Maggie Vincent, our buddy.
	Hey, Baroness.
	Massachusetts.
	And she says she needs swazzle enough karma.
	Oh, Maggie.
	I go visit.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	And we'll give you some karma at the end, Maggie.
	John Sterk in Weistad, Sweden.
	Or Stott.
	Probably Stott.
	Probably Stott.
	He says, money, karma, 11.
	Okay, got it.
	101.
	Lon Baker, $100.
	Parts unknown.
	Herb Lamb from Sugar Hill, Georgia, $90.30.
	He's always coming in.
	Herb's around.
	Isn't he a sir by now?
	Could be.
	Anyway, he's got to double 40 whatever it was.
	4-5-1-5 doubled.
	And that becomes 90-30.
	We should probably be soliciting that.
	I think one of our barons or our dukes did that the other day.
	Bill Cotter in New Brighton, Minnesota, $75.
	Mark Krauf in Antwerp, $69, Belgium.
	He's been listening since show number one.
	Yeah, that's odd.
	I hope you're open to a suggestion for the improvement.
	That is to stay away from overly simplifying the characteristics of groups, religions, and countries.
	Uh, okay.
	Okay, yeah.
	We'll avoid that.
	We'll try that, yeah.
	Like French are cheap bastards, is that it?
	Or lazy?
	No, the French are, no, the Indians are the cheap bastards.
	The Indians are the cheap bastards.
	For the show, at least.
	For the show.
	Also, the Scots.
	The Scots.
	The French, I don't know.
	I don't think so.
	They just don't like our show.
	They just don't like our show, yeah.
	That's oversimplifying.
	Yeah, I guess it's oversimplifying.
	But it seems to be a fact.
	Yeah, they don't like our show.
	Christopher Herring, or Christoph Herring in Munich, München, sorry, Deutschland, $69.
	Uh...
	He needs karma for a startup in the future.
	We'll get you that, of course.
	Okay.
	Sir D.H. Slammer, 6639.
	This is a long, complicated calculation that he gives us there.
	James Skousen.
	Skousen.
	Skousen.
	I'm sure of it.
	6451.
	And he is in, whoops, Redlands.
	Redlands, California.
	Birthday 51 on March 31st.
	So we'll have that in the list in a minute.
	Looks like...
	James Green II in Mesquite, Texas.
	$62.26.
	If you get barbecue, you use Mesquite.
	So burn down the town.
	Sir Richard Haraznek.
	Haraznek, I think.
	Something.
	Haraznek.
	Yeah, I think that's it.
	Easton, Pennsylvania.
	$62.
	Sir Ryan...
	Hey, wait a minute.
	Hold on.
	Whoa.
	He says this is a Facebook donation.
	This is something that you wrote in the newsletter, and I wanted to take pause.
	Right.
	Yeah, we're...
	Facebook has...
	If you read the newsletter, it's got a rundown of this.
	Facebook has decided...
	Our Facebook No Agenda group, which comprises 3,000 people, apparently has decided to get Facebook donations.
	I have a special link for the Facebook donations, just a blank thing.
	You put any number in your one, and it gets credited to the Facebook operation.
	They want to get $1,000 in to give somebody...
	auction off a knighthood to one of the members of the group.
	Mm-hmm.
	And so far, they've apparently, people have been looking in on this group to tell me that they are bitching and moaning that nobody's doing anything.
	Well, Mimi is in this group coordinating things.
	You know that, right?
	No, I've asked her about that.
	She says, that's bull crap.
	And she says, it's an ex that is running this thing.
	Okay, now Mimi's not involved at all, is what she says.
	No, she's involved.
	She's trying to keep people from going crazy.
	Ask her to post more dog pictures.
	That may help.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so apparently this is one of those donations for $62.
	Cool.
	All right.
	Sir Ryan Benson of the Tesla Coil in Tampa, Florida, 5510, double nickels on the dime.
	Also a birthday.
	And he says, by the way, no agenda karma works.
	Since my knighthood and job karma, I got a big upgrade in my career with a much cooler company.
	On top of that, today is my birthday, April 2nd, and we got you down for that.
	Nice.
	Thank you for the stellar work you've been doing.
	Okay.
	We try.
	That's what we call a good note.
	not you say you know you can improve show if you use less jingles we'll never hear from him again Charles Ackley, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Oh, yeah.
	This is Alex, or A-L-E-S, Mock Nick.
	Probably Alex Makanick.
	He's in Slovenia.
	55.
	And he has a note.
	Dear Mr.
	Dvorak and Curry, after listening to the show for some time, I decided to donate for this deluxe podcast.
	Deluxe.
	We're a deluxe podcast.
	Deluxe.
	We're not just your regular.
	We're deluxe.
	No agenda.
	Deluxe.
	I must still get familiar to all the names and topics you cover.
	Hope that the No Agenda Karma will work out for my third child that we expect in April.
	Sorry for the small amount, but life is hard here in the EU. From Slovenia.
	Great place to visit.
	If you're ever traveling on that side of the Adriatic, go there.
	We appreciate any amount, any support.
	If you go to Venice for a vacation, go down to Slovenia and visit Ljubljana.
	It's a gorgeous little place.
	And now we have $50 donors, including Chasen Rodzdilski in Saskatoon, Paris of Canada, Stephen Milliken, Parts Unknown.
	Eric Miller in Norwalk, Connecticut.
	Shane Rozdilski.
	No, this is Shane.
	Shane and Chasen both came in.
	Okay.
	And he's also in Saskatoon.
	Raymond Bonilla in Buffalo, New York.
	Stephen McConnell in Cortland, Ohio.
	And that's the end of it.
	We ran out of steam there, and hopefully we can get a better showing on Easter Sunday!
	Which we'll be working on Easter Sunday, as usual.
	We'll be working on Easter Sunday.
	Which is also your, we're working on your birthday.
	You're working on your birthday.
	At my birthday, I'm working on my own birthday.
	Also want to thank...
	Take a day off.
	If you want it.
	No.
	Okay.
	The show must go on.
	Yes, I agree.
	Thank you to all of the donors under $50, usually for anonymity reasons.
	Of course, we had a lot of the 45-15s.
	If you want to remain anonymous, then let us know.
	We will be reading them out on Sunday's show.
	You know, there's a nice number here.
	It's a good start.
	Of course, we have our 33s, our 12-12s, our 11-11s, etc.
	Even the 5s, the 4s, and the 1s.
	Whatever it is, we appreciate anything that you can do to support us.
	And for those not financially able, anything you can contribute.
	People do jingles.
	They give us...
	Information about the things that they actually know about because they do these jobs or in the industry.
	It's just a good family to be a part of.
	And...
	Remember, if it wasn't done this way, if we used commercials and broke for a commercial and started talking about something, we could not really do this show because we can't be influenced.
	Can you imagine if we were talking about Red Book with a cruise ship attack in the Caribbean?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	How long before the hotline rings?
	Oh, hey.
	Hey, can you get back to some entertainment news?
	Curry, is this Curry?
	Can't you do some entertainment news?
	What's the point of that?
	You know, we were trying to close.
	We're trying to close.
	Carnival cruise lines.
	When I was at BC Magazine, I wrote very early in my career there.
	I wrote a column called My Dinner with IBM. And I apparently ended up queering some deal.
	Oh boy.
	And one of the salesmen, even though they're not supposed to talk to us.
	Chinese wall.
	Chinese wall.
	Big wall.
	Came over and just chewed me out.
	This is before Christmas.
	I needed this for my gifts, for my kids.
	And on and on.
	Yeah, that's the way it works.
	And I felt bad about it.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's the worst part.
	When this happens and you're in a regular media business, you feel bad about screwing things up for the company or the personal level for the sales.
	And then you start to self-censor.
	Self-censor.
	Self-censor.
	Exactly what it is.
	Please support us for the Sunday show, which, as we just mentioned, is John's birthday.
	It's Easter Sunday, and, of course, we will have more deconstruction for you there.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. And a karma for everybody.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	Ah, nice long list today.
	Sir John Donovan, Baron of Silicon Valley, says happy birthday to his daughter Fiona, turning 13 today.
	James Green II celebrates today as well.
	Sir Ryan Bentz of the Tesla Coil, 33 magic numbers, celebrating today.
	Martin Fellner turned 25 on March 4th.
	We have some other belated birthdays.
	Craig Mazzella to his smoking hot wife, who turned 30-something in March.
	James Skousen, 51 on the 31st.
	And we have a special call-out from...
	Here it is, the new human resource.
	We welcome Lady Felix Bell Molaro.
	This, of course, is the first and brand new human resource from producer Mike and Jane, who just recently moved out of Boston.
	I'm waiting for pictures because I bet she's really, really cute.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the Best Podcast in the Universe!
	I'm so happy for Mike and Jane.
	A little human resource.
	That was good.
	A good group at the end there.
	We have two knightings today.
	These are both producers who have entered the round table of the Knights and Dames.
	After we grab our swords here for one minute...
	I'd like to ask David Trotsky and Craig Schmidt to step forward, gentlemen, both of you who supported the podcast, the amount of $1,000 or more, and therefore, I'm very proud to welcome you to the roundtable, and hereby pronounce to KD, Sir David Trotsky and Sir Schmitty.
	For you, gentlemen, we have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay.
	We've got porn stars and pot, cannellini yoga and jambo, cannabis and cabernet.
	Hot pants and booze, wenches and beer, you got that.
	Ruben S. Woman and Rosé, sparkling cider and escorts, breast milk and pablum, or maybe just your mutt and me.
	Go to noagendanation.com slash rings and register there.
	A note from Eric, the shill rings arrived yesterday.
	We'll be shipping out this weekend.
	So they arrived yesterday when that note came in.
	This is what I got from him today.
	So he either got them on Friday, which would have been the end of March.
	That means the Chinese, whoever's supplying these.
	Kazakhstan?
	Is it what?
	Slow on the draw.
	These Chinese are getting worse.
	It's taking a long time to get these.
	Sure came from China.
	It's taking a long time to get these.
	I know.
	I know.
	All right.
	Well, anyway, you got them.
	So that means we'll be getting these things out finally.
	Good news.
	I forgot to do this on Sunday at the end.
	I promised to play the Let's Get Social.
	Ah, yes, you did.
	Damn it, I was thinking about that this morning, and then I was going to write it down, and I didn't, so I would have forgotten to remind you to play it after the end of this show.
	I have a trifecta for the end of this show.
	I have the original, and I've cut them down, the original Let's Get Social, social media.
	I have a...
	Actually, I can play this one right now.
	This is...
	Worst but catchiest song in the world.
	I've got a couple of different versions of this by now.
	I've collected.
	God.
	There's an acoustic version.
	Connect with me.
	Let's have some fun.
	Let's show the world how this gets done.
	Everybody now!
	Do you have to sing it flat?
	Yeah.
	This is so bad.
	I have the original excerpt, which will be played at the end of the show.
	I promise I will get this done.
	You're going to have the rapper at the beginning, the whole thing.
	Just the...
	Oh, the rapper's great, that guy.
	He's in there.
	I think he's in there.
	Let me check.
	Hey now, y'all!
	Yeah, I got it.
	It's all in there.
	Hey now, y'all!
	Fabulous.
	Finally, there was a TMZ, just to bring it into real news, I'll probably play the real news clip for a second.
	And now, back to real news.
	What a great two-to-the-head story about Andrew Getty.
	This is grandson of...
	Is he the grandson of the J-Paul?
	John Paul Getty, I think so, yeah.
	So he must have had dough.
	He must have had money.
	Oh, yeah, all the Getty's had money.
	So the coroner, the initial report from the coroner was his death appears, quote, natural or an accident.
	So what does that mean?
	How can it be natural or an accident?
	And then TMZ, they had, I think, the best...
	I had the best reporting.
	Let me just go down to the...
	Here it is.
	Grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty found dead.
	Quote, traumatic injury to rectal area.
	How is that natural causes?
	I don't know.
	They don't extrapolate, but that's not the headline I want when I die.
	I do not want traumatic injury to his rectal area.
	This is poor Adam.
	Oh, well.
	We always knew.
	Yeah, that bicurious bullcrap.
	A traumatic injury.
	Oh, here it is.
	TMZ reports Getty's death involved a, quote, traumatic injury to the rectal area with significant bleeding.
	Just make it worse.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah.
	No way, no.
	This is not how you want to go out.
	I want to go out in a blaze of glory, a flaming ball of fire from the sky, anything but significant bleeding to the rectal area.
	It seems like some sort of flaming was involved.
	Hey, hey, hey now.
	Then, let's see, what do we have?
	I got one.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Roll it.
	Let's do this.
	Let's get back to politics.
	Okay, good.
	13 senators and FIFA MP3. A group of U.S. senators has written to football's governing body, FIFA, urging it to consider removing Russia as host of the 2018 World Cup because of its role in the Ukraine crisis and occupation of Crimea.
	The 13 Democratic and Republican U.S. lawmakers said they strongly encourage FIFA to move the tournament.
	Last month, FIFA President Seflat rejected Ukrainian calls to boycott the tournament if it remained in Russia.
	Hmm.
	Oh, please.
	Oh, of course.
	Don't these guys have anything better to do than guess the Thunderbirds?
	Yeah.
	Guess.
	Yeah.
	McCain.
	Mm-hmm.
	Who else?
	Well, like I said, I got a few.
	Dick Durbin.
	Graham.
	Oh, and by the way, here's the kicker.
	Bob Menendez.
	Oh, yeah.
	Perfect.
	Perfect.
	But even worse, when I was looking up to see who these guys were, it was just the usual cast of jerk-offs.
	Deucebags, yeah.
	I looked up 13 senators, you know, and I found 13 senators, also a different group of 13, including Schumer, Feinstein and Boxer, Marie Cantwell, also Bob Menendez, in this case all Democrats, have petitioned FIFA to change the Women's World Cup in Canada to natural grass rather than turf.
	Why not kale?
	Why are they doing this?
	What has it got to do with what we have going on?
	What does this have to do with American anything?
	We're not in the cup, are we?
	The Women's Cup?
	I don't know.
	It's the Women's Cup.
	They're complaining about that?
	That doesn't even get primetime coverage.
	Well, apparently they've got time on their hands in the U.S. Senate.
	Feinstein and Menendez.
	What is this guy?
	He's just signing everything.
	What do you got for me?
	I'll sign it.
	Probably got himself into trouble.
	Anything just to get on the F-Russia bandwagon.
	That's what it is.
	Anything.
	Anything to do that.
	Yeah, no, F-Russia.
	Yeah, no.
	You said it this time.
	Okay, here's one.
	What do we call that when you give self...
	Moral self-licensing.
	Moral self-licensing.
	Okay, here's your moral self-licensing regarding...
	This, to me, is not only pathetic, but it does bring us a possible new meme.
	Play Avon 39.
	It's the urge to dig deep.
	To do something big, bold, and more profound than you ever have.
	This is Avon 39.
	Two days and 39 miles.
	The walk to end breast cancer.
	Where your blisters and sore muscles are a badge of courage.
	It isn't easy, but that's what makes it worth it.
	Avon 39.
	The walk to end breast cancer.
	Take the challenge.
	Become the hero you want to be.
	Register today.
	Geez, if it actually ended breast cancer, I'd consider, but this is bullshit.
	Become the hero you want to be.
	I thought that was a good line.
	But what has this got to do with anything?
	This doesn't do anything.
	You walk 39 miles and you get blisters and this is like your badge of honor and you're the hero, you're a hero now for walking.
	This doesn't solve the problem.
	What does it do?
	I went on the 39-mile walk, so I've done my part.
	Well, I can tell you exactly what this does, John, because this, of course, is a part of National Cancer Control Month.
	Remember?
	Ah.
	So that's all it does.
	Callback.
	Mm-hmm.
	There's a lot of political noise being made.
	This is going to be a very interesting...
	Election for the United States of Gitmo Nation.
	It appears no one wants to win this.
	You and I could run and would have as much chance as some of these people who are in the race.
	And a couple of, let's see.
	First, here I have, now your girl Elizabeth Warren was on the Today Show with Savannah Guthrie.
	And I have the entire interview, if you want to deconstruct it, it's too long to play.
	I have a minute 20.
	Chopped it up.
	Well, I've got the, did you get the very first part?
	So let's get a little background I'll give to the people.
	But the background, I'll start.
	The background is?
	The background is, of this interview, the background of this interview is Savannah Guthrie has one question in mind and she just has to ask over and over and over again.
	Are you going to run?
	Yes.
	Let me play my clip since it's short and if you think it doesn't do justice, we can do yours.
	All right?
	Mine's chopped up.
	Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren joins us now.
	She, of course, has taken on Wall Street, and now some members of her own party are saying she should run for president against Hillary Clinton.
	One of her priorities in office is giving middle class families a fighting chance, which, by the way, is the title of her new memoir.
	Now, you didn't think you'd get away with this interview without me asking you point blank, are you going to run for president?
	No.
	She says no, John.
	She says no!
	I'm not running, and I'm not going to run.
	Let me make sure that we underscore this and maybe bold it and put it in our caps.
	I need an answer!
	This is not the answer I wanted!
	Do you think maybe that they were expecting her to say yes and that this was the moment she was going to announce and instead it's just her crappy book?
	This is an interesting theory.
	It's a crappy book.
	Because...
	She had no question other than, you're going to run, you're not going to run, you're sure you're not going to run?
	Have you ever thought of running?
	Did you one time, when you were crossing the border to Canada, did they ask you if you were going to run and you accidentally said yes?
	I mean, just on and on and on.
	It's very funny.
	I have the whole thing, and you should put that in the show notes.
	I'll put it in the show notes.
	You'll have to play the whole thing.
	Well, they can play the rest of mine.
	Play the rest of yours, and you do have to play the end of mine, because I'm sure you didn't get that.
	Okay.
	Categorically saying, I'm not running for president in 2016.
	I'm not running.
	You care so much about these issues.
	Your supporters say, well, then you're the person, you're the perfect person to go in and fight for them and take them on.
	They're afraid that Hillary Clinton won't give voice to these issues that you care about.
	This is something you obviously feel passionate about.
	You came out of the private sector, came to Washington for this purpose.
	Because you care about those issues, I have to ask you, why don't you run?
	I think Hillary Clinton, as the Democratic nominee, presumably in 2016, is she the right messenger for that?
	Do you think she will give a credible voice to these issues of whether the middle class is getting a fair shake?
	Possibly I'm beating a dead horse here, but did you ever even...
	Consider, entertain the possibility of running for president.
	No.
	I think that's what happened, John.
	I think that, hey, she's got a big announcement and it's just a crummy book.
	Yeah, no, it's not even in her book.
	This is the paperback book.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's a paperback version.
	I think someone got duped.
	Someone got duped on this.
	I think you might be right.
	That's the only explanation.
	She just wants to sell more books.
	And she's clearly not going to run.
	Well, then if you try to back it up so there's about maybe 20 seconds and play the last of my clip, because then they throw it to Matt Lauer, who makes a snide comment.
	Absolutely.
	And so we end up with people across this country who work hard, who play by the rules, and who are barely making it paycheck.
	Rule followers.
	Paycheck.
	That's in part because of choices that have been made in Washington.
	Choices that tilt the playing field in favor of those who have lobbyists, in favor of Fortune 500 companies, in favor of the biggest financial institutions, and against real people.
	Elizabeth Warren's always good to get your perspective.
	Thanks for answering the question.
	I guess we put the speculation to a rest this morning.
	It's good to see you.
	Thank you very much.
	And once again, the book is A Fighting Chance.
	Matt, we'll send it over to you.
	Darius, I don't think she's running.
	Yeah, I don't think she's running either.
	No.
	It doesn't sound like there's any possibility.
	I'd be shocked that she runs.
	You do.
	Darius Rucker's got the number one star on the country.
	I'll be shocked if she runs.
	Here's how it went down.
	She has a very important announcement to make on your show.
	Because this is the time.
	Everyone's talking about running or not.
	I think they got duped.
	They thought it was that and it just turns out to be no.
	Here's my shocking revelation.
	I'm not running.
	Buy my book.
	And you have to also approach it from the agent side, the person handling her.
	There would have to be a discussion.
	Well, you're trying to trick them into putting it on the show so you can plug your book.
	Don't you think there's going to be long-term repercussions?
	And she would say...
	Well, if I actually run for president at some point, they're going to have to have me on the show then because it's not going to be any repercussions.
	And they'll be playing my clip saying I'm not going to run over and over again.
	So that's more publicity.
	And then if this is the only book I'm going to do, they probably would never invite me back anyway.
	So what difference does it make?
	I might as well go for it.
	That's the John C. Dvorak view of reviews of cars.
	Come on.
	Hey!
	Come on!
	Hey, I got car reviews coming.
	Cough up!
	You gotta explain that.
	Never mind.
	We'll do that on another show.
	Let me ask you this.
	Because I have a clip.
	Carly Fiorina.
	What do you think of her?
	Well, I don't like her.
	I mean, I've never met her.
	And I think she, when she was the head of HP, I didn't like her, and Valley didn't like her in general.
	And she is, when I watch her, and she ran for senator against Barbara Boxer and couldn't beat her, which is pathetic.
	You mean Boxer, the serial rapist?
	Boxer, the serial rapist?
	No, she was always hitting on people.
	Oh, the one, no, she wasn't raping.
	Serial sex fiend.
	She came across as rapey.
	That was years ago.
	Rapey.
	Anyway, that's a backstory for people out there.
	When I was in the air pollution district, she would be on, she was on the board, some air board, and she would always get rides from the various inspectors, and then, from what I understood, she was trying to have sex with them.
	But she was really pretty then.
	She was kind of cute.
	That was like, long time.
	Well, then what was wrong with you?
	I didn't have that place.
	I didn't...
	Well, two things.
	One, I wouldn't have done it.
	But two, where I lived was in the East Bay, and that's where I would drive.
	You were going the wrong direction.
	I was going the wrong direction.
	Missed out on banging Boxer because you lived in the other direction.
	Damn!
	Whatever the case.
	Anyway...
	Where was I? Carly Fiorina.
	So she, I think, I don't like her style.
	She's got that snooty little twisted way of talking that just bugs me.
	How did she do as CEO of HP? Terrible.
	Terrible.
	Did she do anything right?
	Does she have any credits that are good?
	No.
	And that's why I don't like her.
	No, that's not why I don't like her.
	I just don't like her.
	She rubs me the wrong way.
	I don't like the way she presents herself.
	I don't like the way she talks.
	I don't like anything about her.
	I just don't like her.
	I don't know if I met her.
	Maybe I said, wow, what a great person.
	I'm judging her only on not meeting her.
	It's unfair.
	I have a clip here, and she will be announcing she's running for president, which she puts at 90% certainty.
	I will say, listening to this, I don't like her either.
	I don't know her.
	I don't know anything about her.
	I don't like most people.
	I don't even like you.
	But here's Carly.
	And she has a pretty good rap.
	And I thought she, of all the candidates I've heard, at least she wasn't doing all the sickly, God bless America, bring back our values, as most Republicans do.
	Here's her spiel.
	What are the chances that you're going to run for president?
	Very high.
	You're a former businesswoman?
	Give me a number.
	Higher than 90%.
	Really?
	Yes, sir.
	So what would prevent you?
	Why aren't you willing to announce right here today?
	I saw this, too.
	Everybody wants this.
	Everybody wants for someone to announce on their show.
	That's the same thing with the Today Show.
	Who gives a crap?
	It's a PR. Well, because, you know, we need, as other potential candidates are doing, we need to make sure we have the right team in place, that we have the right support, that we have the right financial resources lined up, just as all the other potential candidates are doing.
	And when would you announce?
	Probably late April, early May.
	If you run, and it would be in a field of current and former governors, several current senators, why should Republican voters pick you?
	Because I have a deep understanding of how the economy actually works, having started as a secretary and become the chief executive of the largest technology company in the world because I understand how the world works.
	And know many of the world leaders on the stage today because I understand technology, a transformational tool, because I understand bureaucracies, how they work and how you need to change them, and our government is a huge bureaucracy.
	And because I understand executive decision making, which is making tough calls in tough times with high stakes for which you're prepared to be held accountable.
	Okay, well let's talk specifically about your experience as a business executive.
	Beyond the typical Republican talking points, and not to say that they're wrong, but what are your ideas that are different about the economy and about dealing with our national debt?
	Well, I think we have two fundamental structural problems in our economy.
	One is that we have tangled people up in a web of dependence from which they can't escape, and so we're leaving lots of talent on the field.
	Secondly, we're crushing small businesses now.
	Elizabeth Warren is right.
	Crony capitalism is alive and well.
	Big business and big government go hand in hand, but for the first time in U.S. history now, we are destroying more businesses than we are creating.
	And so while we have ten banks too big to fail, now have become five banks too big to fail, 3,000 community banks have gone out of business.
	And that's where family-owned and small businesses get their chance.
	That's important because small businesses create two-thirds of the new jobs and employ half the people.
	She's got a good rap so far.
	I can't find, I can't fault her for anything she's saying.
	She's got a good rap.
	Anyone can get a good rap.
	I can say all those same things.
	Of course, of course.
	But what she says at the end, you would never say.
	Well, actually, you would say it.
	So would I. We're not mainstream and the middle class going and growing again.
	We've got to get small and family-owned businesses going and growing again.
	Washington D.C. has become a vast, unaccountable bureaucracy.
	It's been growing for 40 years.
	We have no idea how our money is spent.
	I think there are two things that would help tremendously.
	One, zero-based budgeting.
	So we actually know where the money is spent, and we're talking about the whole budget, not just the rate of increase.
	And two, pay for performance in our civil service.
	We have, how many Inspector General reports do we need to read that say, you know, you can watch porn all day long and get paid exactly the same way as somebody is trying to do their job?
	It's true.
	It's true.
	I like that.
	And I would like that job, please.
	Yeah.
	Government job, you can do it.
	Now, what I like about Carly Fiorina entering the fray is it will be fun to watch women talk about her as if she's scum.
	Because she's a Republican.
	Oh, yeah.
	All Republican women are scum.
	This will be fun to watch.
	It will be fun, yeah.
	It'll be like, she's an idiot.
	She's stupid.
	You watch.
	Probably a bitch's nut.
	You watch.
	Hates gays.
	Yeah.
	Oh, oh, yes.
	Oh, gun lover.
	Yeah.
	Wait until the hates gay thing comes up.
	Yeah.
	Please, please.
	That kind of fell by the wayside, the gun thing.
	We have to need a shooting.
	There'll be one April 15th.
	April 15th for the six-week cycle.
	Be on the lookout for Caribbean issues.
	And on Sunday, Tech News.
	Yeah, Tech News.
	We'll have Tech News.
	Tech News.
	That's right.
	Nothing like a little bit of Tech News on your birthday.
	Tech News!
	I can almost do an imitation of that clip that you have, that guy, that Ted Grouch guy.
	Yeah, I bet you could.
	We'll try it on Sunday.
	How about that?
	Okay.
	I'll work on it.
	Good deal.
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