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	Yeah, Austin seems like a stretch.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, April 19, 2015.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 714.
	This is no agenda.
	From the Oil Barron's Ball to the Bandana Ball and broadcasting live from the Crackpot Condo and FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're celebrating Badge 714 and Jack Webb, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Was Jack Webb 714 badge number?
	Yeah, in fact, for a while, the Dragnet show, there was a spinoff called Badge 714.
	Wow, I don't remember that.
	Oh, yeah.
	I remember Adam 12.
	Well, no, that wasn't with Jack Webb.
	It wasn't part of the Dragnet.
	It was from that era, isn't it?
	I think it was later.
	Okay.
	I mean, the Dragnet show goes into radio in the 30s.
	It's very old.
	And now the Green Hornet!
	It's always Jack Webb.
	Very cool.
	But that stilted style that everyone thought was so great.
	Yeah.
	Well...
	Well, that was back when...
	Yeah, so law enforcement was kick-ass.
	And then for a long time we had...
	Never wrong.
	Yeah, and I remember it was something like FBI. There was some FBI show.
	Oh, there's a...
	Yeah.
	And there's Elliot and Nass, the Untouchables.
	But it would always be like this.
	The bad guys would shoot...
	And then the cops would go boom, boom, boom, and the guys dead.
	The FBI never got shot.
	And then...
	Of course, we got into the phase in the 90s, I'd say, where law enforcement were bumbling buffoons in all the shows.
	Well, there was that element.
	But the realistic element has never really been fully portrayed on television.
	I have a clip.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	This would be more realistic probably than most of the stuff we see.
	Okay, what is this?
	Chicago Police.
	The Chicago City Council has...
	has agreed to pay a $5 million settlement to the family of an African-American 17-year-old who was killed when a police officer shot him 16 times.
	Police say Laquan McDonald was armed with a knife when an officer killed him in October.
	But attorneys for the family say unreleased video from a police dashboard camera shows McDonald was walking away from police.
	The news comes as the Chicago City Council considers a $5.5 million reparations fund for victims of police torture.
	Under the reign of Chicago Police Commander John Burge, from 1972 to 1991, up to 120 African-American men were tortured with tactics, including electric shocks and suffocation.
	Newly re-elected Mayor Rahm Emanuel has backed a reparations proposal which includes free city college tuition for victims and relatives, counseling services, a memorial to victims, inclusion of Burge's actions in school curriculum, and a formal apology.
	And as many blowjobs as you want.
	You know, the funny thing is, I guess after the memorial for the dead ones, they're going to let him go to college free.
	I think that's fascinating.
	Yeah.
	Because this is a piece of suppressed news that, you know, we don't want to.
	It's still kind of embarrassing to the Obama administration and the Chicago cronies that run the White House.
	There's another thing that is quite embarrassing that I only really thought about yesterday.
	I'm up here almost towards the top of the building, and I can look out over downtown Austin.
	There was a huge demonstration yesterday, and the signs that were holding up was, what I could see, Armenia 100.
	And so it's now 100 years after the genocide of the Armenians.
	One and a half million Armenians, I believe, is the number.
	And this was done by the Turks.
	And for as long as I have known Armenian people, which goes back...
	They bitch about this.
	Well, it's more than bitching.
	They just want someone to cop to it and say, hey, you know...
	Oh, yeah, no, the Turks refuse.
	Hold on.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	Right off the bat.
	Thank you.
	So the Turks...
	Hold on.
	It's not just the Turks that refuse.
	President Obama has promised three, four times that he would recognize this, but he can't do that.
	Because of the Turks.
	Yeah, and the Turks are already all in.
	Did you read this about...
	Let's see.
	So, of course, they have the trans-corridor line, so the idea is...
	Instead of the South Stream, of course, we get the Russian gas coming into Turkey.
	Then it'll go to Greece, which is the new information we have.
	Turkey is sitting in the catbird seat.
	The president feels like he can't recognize this.
	Can't.
	The Turks are very sensitive about this.
	Why won't the Turks just admit it?
	What's their problem?
	A hundred years ago.
	Come on, people.
	This is one of the big mysteries of Western civilization.
	Why the Turks won't cop to this?
	I have no idea.
	It never makes sense.
	Maybe it never happened.
	I'm sorry.
	But that's what they're thinking.
	I don't know.
	Obviously, there's so much evidence of it.
	And the Armenians don't forget.
	They're like the elephant.
	And the Turks just refuse to...
	There's some other thing.
	There's a missing piece of the puzzle, it seems to me, because you're right.
	It's 100 years.
	Of course, the Japanese have never apologized to China over the Manchurian situation.
	That's true.
	But that's not 100 years yet.
	Right.
	But 100 years, I mean, come on.
	This is a little nutty.
	And I thought Kim Kardashian was going to take the lead in this.
	Oh, that's right.
	That would be an Armenian name.
	Yeah.
	They're Armenian.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Hey, it was kind of crazy, John, since we last spoke.
	She can't even hold up a protest sign.
	You go, I think we have to talk about the Armenian...
	She would vocal fry it, I think.
	Onward, yes.
	Okay, after we spoke on Thursday...
	When I was in Lost Wages for the NAB and the Podcast Awards.
	Hold on a second.
	Yes?
	There's Armenians in Austin?
	Oh, yeah.
	Huh.
	Well, hey, I have two new Uber segments.
	Can you put them in the second half of the show?
	Because I did some research on this last Uber segment you did, and it is just all bullcrap.
	I don't think that's fair.
	I'm not saying that this is the truth.
	I'm saying this is what the Uber spies are saying.
	It doesn't belong in the second half.
	What do you mean?
	Uber!
	That leaf he's talking about, I will talk about when you get to the Uber segment, but it's just the whole segment was nonsense.
	The guy was full of crap and leading you on.
	But that's not an issue.
	As long as we can deconstruct it.
	Well, we didn't.
	Well, we can do it now.
	You're only talking about this leaf?
	That's the whole problem?
	Well, that's one of the problems.
	What else?
	Well, the whole thing, his whole, all his theories about, he had another thing about, I don't have my notes in front of me, but the leaf really took me to this.
	That leaf has been around forever.
	And it's been studied to death forever.
	And these trees are 120 feet tall.
	There's no way Pfizer's coming in and making them so they don't work anymore.
	Hey, John.
	Hey, John.
	Calm down.
	Well, you just challenged me right there.
	No, I asked you.
	I didn't challenge you.
	I asked you.
	Yeah, in a challenging manner.
	Okay, so how is it different from any other fucking clip we play that's full of shit?
	Well...
	Thank you.
	No difference.
	People love the Uber segment.
	And I think today you'll like the Uber segments, and now I'm going to wait a whole long time.
	Yes.
	Because they are contrarian to what I believe.
	Oh, well that's different.
	Yeah.
	Because, you know, you can't, look, this is not, this is, this is genuine man on the street stuff that is real.
	It's real!
	And if that's what they believe, that's just as valuable.
	Well, that's a point well taken.
	Yeah.
	I will give you, I will give you this.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Now, Vegas.
	Oh, right.
	So I had an evening flight.
	So you're reflecting now, finally.
	You had an evening flight.
	Did you have your stuff stolen?
	No.
	Let me tell you what happened.
	It was very frustrating and aggravating.
	Sir Gene also had an evening flight, not the same one, but he was both going back to Austin.
	And so after the show, I had a late checkout, so I'm out of the room by 2, Vegas time, and I check my bags downstairs, and I was in the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
	And Gene and I meet at ARIA. Which is...
	I just wanted to get out of the hotel.
	I had no breath.
	Is Aria part of the same complex?
	Well, yeah.
	This is what's interesting.
	So they're trying to...
	They deconstruct a building, I don't know which one it is, right in the middle of this complex, which they can't implode because it would blow everything up.
	Then they've dismantled, I think, ten stories.
	And this was not an old building.
	Yeah, there was some construction, some code, something that they messed up on, and they had to bring the thing down.
	I don't know the story.
	So we meet at Aria, and I got to Aria in a strange way by walking half on the street.
	I just wanted to walk.
	I didn't want to get in the car.
	And you can't do this.
	You walk out of the hotel in Vegas, once you're beyond that parking lot, you might as well be in the ghetto.
	Where am I? People honking at me.
	So finally, I wind up in Aria.
	Gene meets me there.
	We have something to eat.
	We hang out for a bit.
	And then we just walk some more.
	So finally, I really wanted to leave the hotel by 7.30.
	And so about 7 o'clock, I said, okay, I'm going to go back to my hotel and get my stuff and go.
	And now the trick is I can see the hotel.
	I can see the cosmopolitan.
	Oh, you were down on Las Vegas on the Strip.
	Right.
	And people say, oh, just walk through crystals, take the escalator up two times to the right, then down.
	And because of this construction...
	There were all these walkways, you know, where you have the scaffolding and the walkways boarded up, and it had signs.
	It would say, Bellagio this way, Cosmopolitan this way, and I keep following the sign, then it would say, Bellagio this way, and then there would be no Cosmopolitan this way sign.
	And I wound up exactly where I started up, three times in a row, and I'm sweating.
	This place is designed to not let you anywhere, but through commerce.
	It was very, very frustrating.
	I could not get to the hotel.
	I barely made the flight.
	Barely.
	You barely made the flight?
	Because I was lost.
	Please help me.
	And people were like, who are you, douche?
	I'm not going to help you.
	So that was very frustrating.
	And I had to get back.
	I got in at 2 in the morning because I had rehearsals for last night, which was the 26th annual bandana ball for the...
	Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Texas, which I had committed to do.
	It's a big event.
	You were the host.
	Yeah, I was the host.
	Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Bandana Ball!
	The 26th annual!
	What?
	I said episode 47.
	Yeah, it was 26th.
	Which was okay until the tent almost blew away and we had to evacuate.
	We had a huge hailstorm.
	It was crazy.
	Fie on you, McDonald's!
	But it was good.
	And you're stooge, Adam Curry.
	That's right, I'm the stooge.
	And I looked into this organization.
	The McDonald's money is barely there anymore.
	Take Ronald McDonald's name off the thing.
	Yeah, there's something about it.
	I think people would like to do it.
	But I think it's still their real estate or something like that.
	I'll figure it out.
	But I don't do anything for any charity without looking at the Form 990.
	And they run a good outfit.
	And I like this.
	I like what they do.
	The McDonald's thing, there you go.
	Did they have bands and dancing girls?
	Yeah, they did.
	But we couldn't do the band and dancing girl after the auction because we were evacuated.
	Oh, huh.
	Get out!
	The tent's going to blow away!
	Yeah.
	Well, I'm glad you're keeping busy.
	Well, you've got to do something once in a while.
	Something different.
	Keep everything firing.
	Now, while everybody was freaking out over...
	And I think it's maybe a planned distraction, although not from the same company.
	There's a lot of intertwined...
	Business relationships.
	The Star Wars trailer came out for the new Star Wars.
	Yeah, that's about the one...
	Yeah.
	It's dumb.
	But if you look at where I'm looking, which you don't, which is Facebook and stuff, people are like, losing their shit.
	My God!
	It's coming on 2016, isn't it?
	Yeah, so they announce it now, but this coincides with...
	The WikiLeaks searchable Sony archive.
	Oh, yeah.
	You might be right.
	Oh, well, that's not true, man!
	Star Wars is Disney!
	Yeah, but there's a lot of relationships.
	As witness, these emails...
	This is a...
	Star Wars is Disney's worse!
	Disney?
	That's what people...
	ABC? They're hooked to the White House?
	Thank you.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	If we had those emails, we'd have something.
	Well...
	So, everyone's looking for...
	I guess the media is trying to figure out how to obfuscate this as well.
	Well, now we know how North Korea hacks because of the emails.
	I don't know what they're looking at.
	But I did one simple thing.
	I did a search for Valerie Jarrett.
	This is beautiful.
	Oh, good idea.
	Oh my goodness.
	John, this is so nice.
	I'll give you another one.
	That's cool.
	When you see the emails between Valerie Jarrett and Michael Linton, who was the chairman and CEO, they might as well just be in bed together, boning.
	I hope all is well.
	I know the president's in town next week.
	It'd be great to get together if you're with him and have a minute.
	Otherwise, I'll see you on the Vineyard.
	We get there August 2nd and are there through the 14th.
	Dance party on the 11th.
	Invitation to come.
	Looking forward to seeing you.
	Bye, Michael.
	This is pukey.
	Wow.
	Oh, there's a lot of this.
	Let me do a couple more.
	And Valerie Jarrett.
	Here, Michael.
	Let me find...
	Is this the one?
	Now, he is a board member, I believe, of the Rand Corporation.
	And the Rand Corporation has some kind of conference they're putting together, which is called Politics Aside.
	Let's see.
	Jared is copied on this email.
	This is from...
	This may be Insider from Sony.
	Michael, one more politics aside.
	No, you said you'd be willing to call Richard Gelfand, the CEO of IMAX, to put in a plug for Rand and politics aside.
	As I mentioned, we have been talking to their execs in LA and they're considering sponsoring politics aside and have told us...
	They would get back to us the next few days.
	If you have time, I thought it might be helpful for you to reach out with them now.
	A few notes that might be helpful for your conversation.
	Then they go into...
	They want all these people to show up and the celebrities.
	And, hey, can you get Fallon?
	Or can you maybe just Clooney?
	I'm going to give you another...
	I'm doing this...
	I have the whole...
	The search in real time.
	Let me find another one with these little cozy ones.
	It's all just so icky and...
	Hold on a second.
	Did you not look at these at all at these archives?
	Not yet.
	Okay.
	Before you do that, here's my favorite one.
	So, Michael Linton sends an email to Jay Carney.
	But this is while Jay Carney is here.
	So he says, I have an opportunity for you.
	And he sends that to Jay Carney.
	This is the former spokeshold of the White House.
	Michael, thank you so much for your email.
	I'd love to talk.
	I'm just wrapping up the final hours of my final day at the White House.
	When's a good time to call?
	Monday?
	The guy's not even gone from the White House.
	He's already getting offers to be a shill from the top guy at Sony.
	It is so incestuous.
	Well, here's the question.
	A couple questions.
	One, do you think this is different at any of these places in Hollywood?
	No, not at all.
	It's all the same, of course.
	Why would Sony be special?
	Right.
	Because we have their emails.
	That's the only reason.
	And that's the question number two for you specifically.
	Mm-hmm.
	And actually, for everyone listening in on this, I want to ask just a rhetorical question, which is, if net neutrality was fully in place and unlawful content was no longer allowed, would these memos and emails even be online?
	No, sir.
	No, sir.
	And of course, there's lawsuits that are going to be filed.
	Now, it's impossible to do anything because they're out there and it's good to go.
	They are on wikileaks.org.
	The thing that I think is just genius is the...
	Is the fact that it's searchable.
	So here's the PSA for Military Sexual Assault Survey.
	Hey Michael, just wanted to check back in to see if you thought Stephen Colbert or anyone else might be a possibility to participate in this.
	I'm told that they've recorded one PSA already without a Celebrity, but are hoping to still make more if we are able to recruit someone.
	One thing I might mention, in case it wasn't obvious, is that the PSA itself won't mention anything related to sexual assault.
	And then they go back into that politics.
	Sorry?
	What does that mean?
	That means the celebrity won't have to use the word sexual assault while they are promoting doing this PSA. It's just it goes on and on and on and on.
	Uh, that was another one here that I had marked down.
	Then, uh, uh, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
	He sends a lot of emails to Michael Linton.
	A lot.
	Oh, really?
	And he is, of course, one of the president's best friends, as Valerie Jarrett says in these emails.
	And then they're doing a dinner.
	It's like, oh, can we come?
	Is it adults only or can we bring the children?
	It's all about policy.
	It's all about how they can promote.
	And, of course, the emails about Valerie Jarrett being profiled in what is that Ancestors History show.
	So what you see is she is the connection between Hollywood and this administration.
	And they give her a blow job by profiling her in these shows on television.
	She's made herself the connections.
	It's pretty small.
	It's the way to go.
	You want to sit right in between all of that.
	But just...
	I can't stop searching for terms.
	Of course, all of Hollywood is searching for their name.
	Oh, man.
	Let me see.
	This is all vanity searches.
	Let's see if I'm in there.
	Well, the reason I was trying to interrupt you earlier, because I think I have a script Sony in the WikiLeaks.
	I think you jumped into it without introducing the topic.
	I don't know that everyone knows this, because it's repressed.
	It's not played up on most news stations.
	I haven't heard anything about it on Fox.
	Because of the...
	Star Wars!
	Star Wars!
	Don't look over here!
	Nothing to see here!
	Ooh, look at that!
	So the only place I ran into it, I'm sure it's elsewhere, but the only place I ran into it was on Democracy Now!
	I ended up getting a lot of clips from them because this week was like stuff you've never heard of anyplace else, but they will talk about it.
	Okay.
	And so they introduced it.
	And if you can play this segment, this is just the introduction to the story.
	WikiLeaks has published a full searchable database of over 170,000 emails from Sony Pictures Entertainment.
	The documents first came to light last year following a hack U.S. officials blamed on the North Korean government.
	WikiLeaks says the full database shows a close relationship between Sony and the Obama administration with nearly 100 U.S. government email addresses in the archive.
	The email shows Sony executives reacting to WikiLeaks' publication of a leaked chapter of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and discussing an upcoming meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman.
	The archive also shows close ties between Sony and the Rand Corporation, a military think tank whose board members include Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Michael Linton.
	See, that is part of the distraction.
	They want to push everything to, oh, Rand Corporation, because, of course, you know, Rand Corporation is evil.
	Oh, evil Rand Corporation.
	But really, what is interesting to me is the connection between Washington, D.C., i.e., the White House, and Hollywood.
	That's what's interesting.
	I don't know why, you know, Rand Corporation, you're fine.
	Yeah, I think they're just distracted.
	Well, that's them.
	It's the democracy now.
	What do you expect?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	But I think the Carney emails, and Carney, he's such a suck-up.
	Oh, yeah.
	Look at the guy.
	He's like, thank you so much for the email.
	Monday?
	This is my new email address.
	It's good.
	jcarney65 at gmail.com.
	That's what I love.
	You can send all these.
	jcarney65.com.
	Hey, Carney, your email address stinks.
	What is that, jcarney65?
	Well, here's another question that comes to mind, which is that when these first came out, how come this wasn't immediately discovered and made a news story without WikiLeaks coming along?
	Are you kidding me?
	No one's going to do that.
	No mainstream media is going to talk about that connection.
	It's the same people.
	Believe me.
	This is fun.
	You can have a little game.
	What do you want to search?
	Let's see.
	Maybe NPR? Let's see.
	Can we do NPR? How about Vivian Shuler?
	Or Shiller?
	She's not at NPR anymore.
	She's still floating around.
	Vivian?
	What's her last name?
	I think it's Shiller.
	I could be wrong.
	Let me just check on Vivian.
	We'll see what we get out of it.
	Hold on a second.
	What comes back?
	Vivian Chu.
	It's Shill.
	Yeah, but it has to be...
	Is it Shuler?
	No, it's not Shuler.
	It's Shiller, I think.
	How about Amy Goodman?
	Let's try Amy Goodman.
	Oh, yeah.
	There you go.
	No, she won't be in there.
	No way.
	Let's see.
	Then coming back, we have...
	Well, okay.
	They also have a lot of...
	You know, people have subscribed to newsletters and stuff, so you see, you know, the Hollywood deadline will pop up.
	So that would probably take a little more work.
	Okay, forget that one.
	Let's go, let's see.
	I hear Schiller.
	Vivian is V-I-V-I-A-N-S-C-H-I-L-L-E-R. Vivian?
	S-C-H-I-L-L-E-R. Okay.
	And it's pure Boolean search, which is really nice.
	Ooh, nice.
	There's Vivian L. Schiller.
	Okay, let's see.
	October 27th, Voices of the Next.
	There's only one email.
	And no, it's just telling, just somebody saying, take a look at this Council on Foreign Relations live stream with Vivian Schiller.
	Then it's from 2014.
	But this is part of the game.
	I mean, Chris Dodd, who is CPD at M-A-A-A, what is it?
	M-P-A-A dot org.
	That's kind of a cool email.
	What is it, Chris?
	Yeah, CPD. And he's like, oh, I sat down with the president, and I did all this cool stuff, and I'm so incredibly important here.
	CPD at MPAA.org.
	It's better if you have the email addresses.
	How about...
	Yeah, I would be.
	How about Rand Paul?
	How about some guys that they would be blasting?
	Okay, Rand and Paul.
	This is something maybe better done when we have...
	Oh, wow.
	Okay.
	But see, I have to do more bullying because we had...
	Of course, the Rand Corporation pops up everywhere.
	Oh, that's no good.
	Yeah.
	We'll work on it.
	But to me, everything Valerie Jarrett and how cozy she is and see you in the vineyard.
	We'll all hang out together.
	Ta-ta.
	We'll have tea and all this groovy stuff.
	That's just disturbing, man.
	Disturbing stuff.
	But, yeah, in this, Valerie Jarrett says, oh, at the dinner we'll have Martin Nesbitt and Eric E. Whitaker, both of the president's best friends.
	And this Whitaker guy, I think it was Whitaker, but was it Whitaker who was embroiled in some scandal or was it the other guy?
	I think it's...
	Martin Whitaker?
	No, it's Martin Nesbitt and Eric E. Whitaker.
	But Martin Nesbitt, I believe, is the one.
	He was Pritzker Realty Group, and of course, we know that the Pritzker woman is the one who is running Elizabeth Warren's little operation there.
	Now, this guy doesn't even show up, Eric E. Whitaker.
	It's W-I-T-A... W-I-T-A-K-E-R. Oh.
	W-I. W-H-I-T-A-K-E-R. W-H-I-T-K-E-R. Yeah.
	He's got a wiki page.
	He does?
	Yeah.
	But anyway, there's 130,000 emails.
	I've seen this guy before, yeah.
	It's just going to take me a couple days to really get some juicy stuff, but I did not want to hold back on the Valerie Jarrett stuff.
	That's just too delicious to believe.
	My friend.
	Really, man.
	Really.
	Well, the thing I kind of went aside with was this nutty story that came out, again repressed, busting, the New York Times managed to do it, Richard Engel, our friend.
	Now, this is the guy who was in Russia pretending his phone was getting hacked?
	Yeah, that guy.
	Alright, what do we got?
	He was also the guy who gave testimony about how bad it would be, right out of the CIA handbook, or the DIA, I don't know which one, how bad it would be if Feinstein released that report about the To see all these intelligence agencies lying to the American public.
	It would be bad.
	He was one of the guys that was a stooge.
	Yes.
	He's been a stooge all along.
	We spotted him very early on.
	Even that show on the media has isolated him.
	And now we've got this kind of thing going on where he was kidnapped in 2012.
	And it turns out the whole thing was a staged hoax to further get us involved in the situation in Syria.
	Oh, yes, I recall this now.
	Okay.
	Is this made apparent in these clips?
	Yeah, the clips could explain most of it, and we'll talk about it.
	Engel won.
	NBC News is at the center of a new controversy, this time focused on its chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel.
	Back in 2012, Engel and five other members of an NBC News team were kidnapped by armed gunmen in Syria.
	They were held for five days, just after his release, Engel spoke on NBC News about his captors.
	I think I have a very good idea of who they were.
	This was a group known as the Shabiha.
	This is a government militia.
	These are people who are loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
	They are Shiite.
	They were talking openly about their loyalty to the government, openly expressing their Shia faith.
	They are trained by Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
	They are allied with Hezbollah.
	That was NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel speaking after he was released in December 2012.
	Well, earlier this week, a New York Times investigation prompted Engel to revise his story and reveal he was actually captured by Sunni militants affiliated with the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army.
	In an article published on Wednesday, Engel said the kidnappers had, quote, put on an elaborate ruse to convince us they were Shiite Shabia militiamen.
	According to the Times investigation, NBC knew at the time that Engel and the others were held on a chicken farm, widely known to be controlled by a Sunni criminal group.
	NBC was also informed of the identities of two Sunni men possibly involved in the kidnapping.
	But the network and Engel never relayed this information to the public and repeatedly claimed the kidnapping was done by Shiite militants linked to Syrian President Assad.
	Yeah, well, this whole thing, of course, you're not hearing much about it.
	No.
	As was pointed out later, I think in the third clip here, is one of the worst breaches of journalistic ethics imaginable.
	And, of course, we've, again, I will say that our show has spotted this guy from the beginning, and every time he shows up in a situation, there's something sketchy about it, and this is probably the worst example.
	I can't imagine them keeping this, or this guy, ever getting work again, but I guarantee he will, because he's obviously working for the State Department.
	Has he been fired?
	No, not that I know of.
	Right now, the story is, oh, I was hoaxed.
	I was indeed kidnapped.
	Now, later in, I think the fourth, when they bring on this guy who we now have to begin to follow, and you'll hear him later in the series, a guy called the Angry Arab, who That sounds like a Top 40 Morning Zoo guy who calls you.
	Yeah, and he runs the...
	Hello!
	Hello!
	I'm angry!
	He's the Angry Arab News Service.
	He's actually a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at California State University in Stanislaus.
	Ah, okay.
	And so he's got credibility, but he's hilarious to watch and listen to.
	You can look up his website.
	A lot of good stuff on there.
	He's apparently, from the very beginning, was on to the scam that was, and he'll talk about it a little bit, the scam that was the Syrian episode.
	Let's listen to Angle 2.
	The New York Times investigation also raised questions about Richard Engel's rescue.
	Engel originally said he was rescued by Sunni rebels after his captors accidentally drove into a checkpoint.
	Wait a minute.
	Let me hear that again.
	The New York Times investigation also raised questions about Richard Engel's rescue.
	Engel originally said he was rescued by Sunni rebels after his captors accidentally drove into a checkpoint.
	Okay.
	Mm-hmm.
	I missed part of that clip, but it goes on and tells about, you know, two of the guys were killed, and all the rest turns out to all be fake.
	So let's just move on then, because I didn't clip this properly.
	No.
	To angle three, and here we introduce the angry Arab who really lays all this out.
	Let's begin with what has been revealed now and what you were saying, Assad Abu Khalil, back then, at the end of 2012, after the newsmen were released.
	Well, Amy, I was early on skeptical not only about the conditions in which he was supposedly released and the statements that he made at the time, but I was skeptical about the entire enterprise of Western journalistic coverage of Syria, particularly by American correspondents in the region.
	There's a lot of stuff that's being told and transmitted that contradicted the realities on the ground.
	Also, I want to point out here that we early on identified the Syrian observatory in the UK, where most of this information that the media parrots comes from, it's one guy in an apartment who's connected to the opposition forces.
	It's one guy.
	And we also, during this period, there was a couple of French journalists that were floating around that were doing reporting in other media outlets, and we were following them, and they were saying that all the reporting that we're getting in the United States was all bullcrap.
	Yeah.
	And there's a number of them.
	They created this myth about a moderate secular group called the Free Syrian Army, and they were in fact attacking people like myself and others who were saying that the bulk of the fighting force of the so-called Syrian revolutionaries were militant fanatics of the bin Ladenite style.
	And in reality, we knew at the time that what is so-called the Free Syrian Army is no more than a coterie of criminal gangs and thugs that were running amok throughout the area of the so-called liberated sections of Syria.
	And they were engaged in sectarian kidnapping, ransoms, murder, indiscriminate shelling, and they would sometimes kidnap people and then sell them to other gangs and so on.
	But there is also something political, as Glenn mentioned, which is there was a war lobby.
	There were people edging at the time in order to get the United States to intervene militarily on the side of these rebels, along with Saudi Arabia, the same allies that we now have in the so-called war on Yemen.
	And at the time, the statements that Richard Engel made—and I should mention that what is—I mean, there is a political story in this It's a journalistic story.
	I mean, the question is to be raised not only about the credibility of Mr.
	Engel, but also about bad judgment.
	And this is a correspondent, one of the few who's fluent in Arabic.
	He can speak it fluently, he can understand it.
	And yet, upon his release, he taped a video in Arabic for the propaganda arm of the Free Syrian Army in which he made fantastic claims.
	And I went and watched it yesterday to my amazement.
	I mean, he admitted yesterday to the New York Times that, in fact, he may have lied when he said he witnessed, at the time of his rescue, dead bodies.
	Now he's saying he didn't.
	But if you watch the video he taped for the free Syrian army benefit, he, in fact, claimed he saw more dead bodies upon being captured.
	He should get much more angry if he wants a career.
	He's not doing a very good job there.
	He's not suitable for broadcast.
	You haven't seen him.
	Besides the point.
	Now, he's got one more point here that I thought was kind of interesting.
	And when you see the video, they show the captives, supposed captives, in some barn somewhere.
	And there's Engel and one, two, three, four, five other guys if I'm not mistaken.
	And they're on the ground sitting there and behind them is a wall that this guy points out rightly has been recently painted bleach white.
	It's perfect.
	It's not like any beat up looking area.
	And then on the wall is in Arabic, green spray painted Arabic is a bunch of anti-government stuff.
	Stuff.
	Obviously, the whole scene was staged as bullcrap, and he questions whether Engel was in on this thing from the beginning.
	He thinks he maybe wasn't.
	Maybe he was, but he should have noticed that this was a fake.
	It still must have smelled like fresh paint.
	Maybe play three, four.
	He, in fact, said that their demands were the release of four Iranians in Syria as well as two militiamen from the Amal Shiite Lebanese militia.
	But why did he invoke Amal?
	If it was really Amal, why did he invoke Hezbollah?
	And then he would say repeatedly with a straight face that we knew they were shabihah because they told us.
	The word shabihah is colloquial Syrian for thugs.
	So, this is the name that is given to pro-Assad regime militiamen by their opponents and the armed rebels.
	So, imagine somebody identifying himself or herself as a thug.
	And that's the story we were led to believe.
	Plus, there was a footage of the actual room in which these hostages were held.
	You look at this old room with old paint and suddenly you see fresh paint of clearly, explicitly identifiable Shiite slogans.
	Plus, he said that in the segment which you aired, in fact, he said they were explicitly worshipping in a Shiite manner.
	I mean, didn't he in any way, you know, question why that was the case?
	I mean, look, I am not naive.
	Many of these Western correspondents are engaged, have been engaged in part of the war lobby in propaganda effort to champion the cause of the Free Syrian Army.
	This Free Syrian Army not only kidnapped these journalists.
	At the time, they were kidnapping innocent Lebanese on the basis of their sect.
	Some of them they were selling and some of them they were exchanging.
	I mean, there are two missing bishops from Aleppo that nobody talks about.
	Not only is this embarrassing for NBC News, but listen to this list of awards this guy has.
	Edward R. Murrow Award.
	News and Documentary Emmy Award.
	Peabody Award.
	Alfred DuPont Columbia University Award.
	Three Emmys for News and Documentary in 2008.
	The George Foster Peabody Award.
	In 2009, again, the Edward R. Murrow Award.
	The Professional Journalism Award in 2009.
	Then three more Emmys in 2009 and 2010.
	The Gracie Award.
	The OPC David Kaplan Award for Spot News Reporting.
	David Bloom Award, the Daniel Pearl Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, which we know that's a front organization.
	We've deconstructed that.
	Again, in 2012, the DuPont Columbia University Award.
	These people should be ashamed.
	It's beyond...
	They should be tarred and feathered.
	But, John, the Star Wars trailer is out.
	Woo!
	There's a ball that rolls around with a hit on it.
	Anyway, the whole thing goes right back to the beginning of this whole phony baloney take out Assad.
	Scheme that came up from the beginning.
	And here's the point I want to make.
	Whatever you have heard right now will never...
	It's just going to go on as though nothing happened.
	This is exactly like the so-called gassing, the shells that couldn't have possibly come from the Syrian area where they stored them because they were done by these phony baloney Syrian army guys.
	And it's always...
	And it's been proven academically by...
	Science is in.
	Science!
	Science, I tell you.
	Four more and others.
	The guys have come and looked at the shells.
	They've looked at where they landed.
	They've looked at where they would have been shot from and all the rest of these gas shells.
	We still, when we hear any sort of analysis of Syria, we still hear the blame.
	Yeah.
	thrown right back into the phony baloney original blame, which isn't true at all.
	And it's a crime that these large networks and everybody else are so in on this trickery to fool the American public into accepting crap ideas just to sell more arms so John McCain can somehow make out on the deal somewhere.
	And Lindsey Graham can somehow make out on the deal somewhere someday in the future.
	And people put up with this and spend all their time looking at Facebook and the trailers.
	And this brings me to John McCain and the military-industrial complex.
	We have a big sale.
	While stocks last, we're trying to sell as much as possible.
	We're trying to end the sequester.
	Whatever we do, we need to sell arms, and we want to sell them to South Korea.
	We want to sell them to Japan.
	Of course, Kobe changed the constitution, and all good to sell.
	They can now defend themselves.
	They can have weapons.
	South Korea, as agreed to by my Uncle Don, That, you know, the U.S. Central Command is no longer in charge of South Korea's defense that was handed over in January.
	And, of course, we have a billion dollars that we just sold to them in ICBM-type warfare.
	And McCain is on the hill talking to the generals and admirals.
	And I have never heard of these guys.
	But they got a lot of fruit salads going on.
	And just listen to how he sets them up for the quiet.
	He's leading the witness, something I'm very familiar with.
	But at the end, there's a kicker here that is just mind-boggling.
	General, I mentioned in my remarks, Admiral Gortney said that North Korea has an operational road-mobile missile that could carry nuclear weapons to the United States.
	Do you agree with that assessment?
	This is not even a question.
	Do you agree with what I did?
	Lindsey Graham is even worse at this.
	These two guys, these two clowns, this pretender who wanted to be the President of the United States, thank God he didn't get in, always do this.
	They set up a premise and then they say, don't you agree?
	And I would say, if Feinstein does it to a lesser extent, this is not useful.
	Well, it depends.
	If you're selling weapons, it's very useful.
	Well, yes, that's true.
	Senator Wright, I believe that they've had the time and the capability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead.
	It's so small we can't see it.
	They've stated that they have an intercontinental ballistic missile as a nuclear capability.
	So we'll just believe them now.
	We never believe them, but we'll believe them now.
	Lie!
	Now we believe them.
	And I think as a commander, we must assume that they have that capability.
	I would agree with that assessment.
	I mean, we haven't seen them effectively test it.
	Yeah.
	But, you know, as commanders, all the indications are that we have to be prepared to defend the homeland from it.
	Oh!
	The homeland.
	The ICBM from North Korea.
	The miniaturized ICBM. It's like a little mini-drone.
	We're taking actions to do that.
	Those actions are?
	Tell me.
	Well, first, in PACOM, we work very closely with NORTHCOM to ensure that the defensive capabilities of our ballistic missile systems are optimized.
	Forces forward in the theater that I and General Schiaparotti have command of are integral to that.
	Our ability in the region to partner with our Japanese allies and our South Korean allies to bring the BMD capabilities to bear has been productive.
	And in addition, we've been in discussions about the potential deployment of additional THAAD battery, not beyond the one to Synguam, but on the Korean Peninsula.
	Alright, so now we have to wind it up and John McCain is going to talk about a world leader in a way I've never heard anyone talk.
	General, this is rather disturbing, particularly given the unpredictability of this overweight young man in North Korea.
	This overweight young man in North Korea.
	The fatso with the pleasure squad.
	The fat bastard in North Korea.
	Wow.
	Douche.
	Wow.
	Yeah, douche.
	This overweight young man in North Korea.
	Please.
	So what are you afraid of, then?
	I'm sorry, he's nuts.
	You know, he's unpredictable.
	You have no idea what he's gonna do!
	Yeah, that's...
	Well, they have to portray him that way, because...
	here in trying to sell anything because this is a sales pitch.
	Yeah.
	Sell more crap and sucker the South Koreans in the bank.
	And there's nothing wrong with actually us making export monies, selling armaments that are just going to expire because they're never going to get used.
	We hope they could get used, though, which is not a good thing.
	But would you just take a chance that they're not going to get used?
	Maybe we'll get lucky.
	But the idea is, is that the logic is the following.
	They don't have an ICBM, but we're going to assume they do for some unknown reason, just to scare ourselves.
	So they have an ICBM, and they have a small nuke on it.
	A miniature nuke.
	Miniaturized.
	Which is something smaller than Hiroshima, from what I've understood.
	And they're going to send it over here and blow up Seattle, which seems like the closest target.
	Well, they were going to bomb Austin, remember?
	Yeah, Austin seems like a stretch.
	Let's be more realistic.
	Don't you remember that map that they had in the background?
	Yeah, map, Austin.
	Austin, yeah.
	He just wanted to go to South By.
	Why bomb Austin ever is beyond me.
	It's a waste of money.
	But okay, let's say Austin.
	They're going to bomb Austin with this one lone missile, and then what's going to happen?
	They're going to be annihilated.
	Yeah.
	The logic of them doing something stupid like this.
	So to get around the logical inconsistency of this particular thought, which is, why would somebody blow up Austin and then be sitting ducks?
	Sitting ducks for our thousands and thousands and thousands of warheads to be obliterated, wiped off the face of the...
	So it makes no logical sense unless he's a loose nut.
	Yeah.
	Overweight loose nut.
	So we have to make him a nutcase to make any of these sales go through because otherwise people just go, that's not going to happen.
	Bomb them.
	We need to kill and bomb them.
	Bomb them.
	We need to kill and bomb them.
	Bomb them.
	We need to bomb them.
	We need to kill them and bomb them again.
	Woo!
	Yeah.
	Bomb them all.
	This Wednesday is Earth Day.
	And I've been watching...
	Wait a minute.
	I thought it was yesterday.
	No, I believe it's Wednesday.
	Oh, that's funny.
	You may be right.
	Yes, I'm sorry.
	I'm in the wrong...
	I thought it was...
	Wait, it's Sunday?
	No, I think it's this Wednesday.
	This coming Wednesday.
	Why did I say that?
	It's because yesterday, I'm driving, going to the store, and I'm listening to NPR, which I do in the car.
	Yeah, of course.
	Either that or sports talk, one of the two.
	And they're talking...
	There's some crazy show on it, and the guys are talking about it being Earth Day.
	Wednesday is Earth Day, the 22nd.
	Play the tape too soon.
	I'm quite confident.
	Okay, well, I'll look it up while you talk.
	So I had a unique opportunity, just by coincidence, I was setting something up in my calendar for Wednesday, and I saw, oh wow, it's Earth Day.
	Let me see what is going on.
	Because Earth Day is used to push an agenda, and the agenda would be, obviously, climate change.
	Yeah.
	And there is a worldwide effort.
	You're right, I confirmed.
	Confirmed Wednesday?
	Yeah.
	Yep.
	So let's start first with local Austin news for Earth Day.
	Now, they don't mention it specifically, but it all ties in.
	Council member Pio Renteria asked council members to amend the city code to regulate the amount of smoke that comes from food trucks and restaurants within 100 feet of residential areas.
	So in Austin, when people come to Austin, there's a couple of things to think about.
	Probably the first one is barbecue.
	I can't wait to get some barbecue.
	Yeah.
	So now there's a city ordinance, a bill, which is...
	The alternative media is playing it up a little bit more than it is.
	I'll play the rest of the clip.
	But there's a bill now that the barbecue smoke may not be anywhere within 100 feet of buildings.
	And of course, the Obama-bought nutcracker jobs here in Austin...
	Barbecue!
	I can't breathe!
	I have to close my window!
	Some residents who live near the La Barbecue trailer in East Austin told their stories today before the council.
	That's a barbecue trailer, mind you.
	A trailer.
	They smoke.
	I can't leave five days a week for 17 hours.
	I can no longer open my windows.
	The smoke seeps in from the attic.
	Restaurant owners also went before the council.
	They asked for flexibility, especially for places that have not faced any complaints.
	Exactly.
	My concern is if we have an ordinance that paints all of us into one group of folk that may not be good neighbors, we're going to be penalized without consideration of other solutions.
	In the end, council members gave preliminary approval to the smoke restrictions, but they recommended making amendments before approving a final version of the ordinance.
	Right.
	But everyone's playing it up like it's already law, but it isn't.
	But it's a food truck!
	Just move the truck!
	How hard can this be?
	No, we have to have an entire law now against it.
	And one of the few things Austin rightfully can claim is an attraction.
	Because let's be honest, we're not really the live music capital of the world.
	That is Nashville in America.
	It's certainly not Austin.
	If you're a musician, you're going to starve in Austin.
	The clubs don't pay you anything.
	The guys on the street make more money.
	And of course, they make it for me.
	Then you're playing music, five bucks.
	I don't care if you sound like shit, you're a musician, I'm going to help you.
	Now...
	Bill Maher gets in on it.
	It's time.
	I'm telling you, this is all coordinated around Earth Day.
	There's a reason why this happens.
	We're just going from the lowly Austin, now we're going to Hollywood.
	This was great.
	Listen to this.
	Or how about this one?
	Let's not panic about the Earth warming in the 70s.
	Everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem.
	Right here is Bill Maher purposefully...
	Trying to downplay what is known as a conspiracy theory.
	That in the 70s, global cooling was what was being predicted.
	And now he's going to pull this apart.
	No.
	Not everyone.
	Just one article in Newsweek.
	That's for the deniers.
	Yeah, he says one article in Newsweek.
	One article.
	We have documented 50, 60, 100 articles.
	Stay with me.
	Is the Dewey defeats Truman of science.
	Ha ha ha.
	Ha ha ha.
	Yay!
	All in, stupid slaves!
	Woo!
	Yeah!
	One time a newspaper in 1948 Chicago got an election result wrong and it proved that journalism is a hoax and Chicago is just a theory.
	So now he's right there, he's saying that journalism is good and you're all conspiracy theorists.
	But here's the thing about that Newsweek story.
	It didn't say an overwhelming consensus of scientists thought the earth was cooling.
	It said a few were floating that theory.
	Or as Mike Huckabee remembers it, when I was in college, all the literature at that time from the scientific community said we were going to freeze to death.
	And again, by all the literature, he means that one Newsweek article.
	As if Newsweek is Nostradamus.
	Definitely unbelievable.
	Wow!
	That one Newsweek article, the only reason that would even be mentioned is because that's the one piece that was floating around Twitter, when in fact, if you really look into it, it was a consensus exactly like the one today, and there was lots of articles.
	But more importantly, who was the main person talked about in that article?
	John P. Holdren.
	The current advisor to the president on the climate.
	He's the scientific advisor.
	That's omitted in Bill Maher's little ditty here.
	Wow, that was great.
	That's clip of the day.
	Well, first we do this.
	The science is in!
	Maybe you should listen to a few more before you can...
	I like the way he...
	Okay.
	I like the way he does a great job of marginalizing...
	Everybody.
	Whatever he wants to fit in his little theory.
	Yeah.
	I mean, we have to remember he's a comic, and so his excuse, and I will say this at the end of the day, his excuse will be, oh, but I'm just a comic.
	This is what Jon Stewart does.
	Oh, yeah.
	Exactly.
	That's why Jon Stewart had to quit.
	He couldn't live with himself anymore.
	I know Jon Stewart.
	He's a Republican.
	We've talked about this.
	He's an undercover Republican.
	His brother is a big Wall Street guy.
	We went through this.
	He got burned in the 2008 crisis, lost a lot of money.
	I know Stewart.
	Alright, here's a second piece of Marr.
	This was never about facts to begin with.
	But what is new is that it's not even about pandering to voters anymore.
	Even half of Republicans now want this issue dealt with.
	Well, good luck.
	Because the zombie lies aren't for the voters.
	They're for the donors who make their money killing the planet.
	The question is not why today's politicians suck more than ever.
	It's who they're sucking more than ever.
	Ho, ho, ho!
	Woo!
	Yeah!
	Woo!
	Woo!
	Yeah!
	Yeah, like Valerie Jarrett sucking off Sony's CEO. Woo!
	Yeah!
	Suck em!
	The Kunk brothers are in the oil business, and they're pledging almost a billion dollars in this election.
	For that kind of money, Cruz and Bush and the rest of them will say anything.
	It's what their fellow prostitutes in the sex industry call the girlfriend experience.
	Ha ha!
	All right, that's our show.
	I'll be...
	So, hello, President Barack Obama also raised a billion dollars in the last cycle, and he'll say anything.
	We know this.
	Well, fine.
	Now, when I correctly predicted that Francis would be our next pope, and I do want that to be known.
	You love this one.
	Yeah, because I predicted it.
	No one else had this prediction.
	And I said, I will agree, and you predicted the guy by name out of the blue.
	And the reasoning behind it was a South America and a Jesuit.
	And boom, the guy fits the bill.
	So I believe Pope Francis, a lot of people make it angry with me, but I believe he is a globalist.
	I believe he is in on the deal.
	And he is going to make a, well, there's a word for it, an encyclical.
	He will be sending an encyclical to the bishops, which is an old term for a chain letter, I think.
	Encyclical.
	And, of course, he's going to meet up for the first time with Ban Ki-moon.
	The United Nations Secretary General.
	This has never happened before.
	And Ban Ki-moon is actually even speaking English now.
	He's so excited.
	The world is now recognizing a basic truth of our times.
	A basic truth.
	Write that one down, John.
	We need to remember that this is a good term.
	Basic truth.
	We need to buy insurance for the planet.
	Insurance for the planet.
	Now you just heard Marr talking about the planet being killed.
	Now we need insurance for the planet.
	We must all be ambitious as we look to conclude an agreement at the Climate Change Conference in Paris in December.
	There's a strong moral dimension to this effort.
	It'll be freezing.
	I'd like to announce that I will visit the Vatican later this month and meet with His Holiness So this will be very interesting to see what the encyclical says.
	I gotta stop it.
	Yeah, I will be.
	Let me ask a couple questions of what you just played.
	First of all, I'm under the impression to this day, and no one's shown me anything different, that all these basic truths are based on computer models.
	Future predictions.
	Is that still true?
	Yes.
	Okay, secondly...
	Who's the agent provocateur that's involved in these climate change conferences?
	We've seen this happen a couple of times, where they put them in places in the middle of winter where it's notoriously miserable.
	Yeah, I'm not sure.
	In Amsterdam, I think, or Holland, or wherever, or I'm sorry, not Holland, but Denmark, wherever it was.
	And we're snowing the whole time the thing was going on.
	Now it's going to be Paris in December.
	Have you ever been to Paris in December?
	I try to cut back on those trees.
	It's freezing and raining.
	It's horrible.
	It's nasty.
	I know it's nasty.
	So then he goes on to say that the Pope is coming over to visit him in September and that's all fine.
	Now, the common theme here...
	We need insurance for the Earth.
	We say planet, but that's why Earth Day.
	Planet, Earth.
	We need insurance.
	We're killing the Earth.
	Let me tell you something.
	Let's just presume for a moment that we're going to see this temperature rise, or maybe we'll see this incredible freeze, but it's all because of climate change.
	The Earth is not going to die.
	We're going to die.
	That's what bugs me.
	And the president did his podcast.
	This will be my final bit in this for Earth Day.
	Talking about Earth Day, of course.
	And it's all about the planet.
	Oh, the planet.
	The planet this, the planet that.
	I'm paraphrasing the great George Carlin.
	It's the most arrogant thing you can think of.
	The Earth doesn't give a shit.
	The planet's fine.
	How many billion, four billion years of the planet being around?
	Been through volcanoes and tidal waves and asteroid strikes.
	Hold on one second.
	Let me take a look out to when I can see the shoreline.
	Is it rising?
	Is it rising?
	No, mudflats.
	The mudflats are still here.
	Let's listen to the president.
	And he's, you know, this is how you know.
	And there's another little gotcha here.
	And I'll tell you up front.
	Florida, in their local state legislation, that's now verboten to use the words climate change.
	So this can't be.
	This has to stop.
	We can't have this.
	It's a big-ass state.
	So the president's going to go to the state to convince everybody about climate change and to say it's a target.
	But listen to what he's saying here.
	And of course, as with every podcast that the president does, we start off by saying...
	Hi, everybody.
	Wednesday is Earth Day, a day to appreciate and protect this precious planet we call home.
	Precious planet.
	And today there is no greater threat to our planet than climate change.
	No, threat to the people, my friend.
	This is bogative.
	2014 was the planet's warmest year on record.
	Mm-hmm.
	Lie.
	Lie.
	Proven lie.
	Proven lie.
	32% of the same climate scientists said they believe it was the warmest.
	Right, and even their own numbers show that 1997 was warmer.
	NASA has two sets of numbers.
	They had different numbers in 97 than they use now.
	14 of the 15 hottest years on record have all fallen in the first 15 years of this century.
	This winter was cold in parts of our country, as some folks in Congress like to point out.
	Oh, you mean Republicans.
	Yeah, thanks.
	But around the world, it was the warmest ever recorded.
	Ever!
	Climate change is real!
	It's real!
	And the fact that the climate is changing has very serious implications for the way we live now.
	Stronger storms, deeper droughts, longer wildfire seasons.
	The world's top climate scientists are warning us that a changing climate already affects the air our kids breathe.
	Last week the Surgeon General and I spoke with public experts about how climate change is already affecting patients across the country.
	You see how this works?
	You see how you're inundated from all angles about this stuff?
	The Pentagon says that climate change poses immediate risks to our national security.
	Wow!
	Yeah!
	And on Earth Day, I'm going to visit the Florida Everglades to talk about the way that climate change threatens our economy.
	The Everglades is one of the most special places in our country, but it's also one of the most fragile.
	Rising sea levels are putting a national treasure and an economic engine for the South Florida tourism industry at risk.
	So climate change can no longer be denied or ignored.
	The world is looking to the United States, to us, to lead.
	If 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.
	There you go.
	we're set up, we're good to go, the planet is going to We need insurance.
	The planet's going to die.
	What's the insurance?
	Who's carrying the policy?
	No, what was the AEG? What was the...
	AEG. They can afford it.
	All right.
	With that, I want to thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C., where the C stands for Climate Denial, Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and all the knights out there.
	And in the morning to all of our human resources there in the chat room.
	I love you.
	NoagendaStream.com.
	And in the morning to Martin JJ, who provided us with some spectacular art for Episode 713 through NoAgendaArtGenerator.com.
	Which is where you can always find some just fantastic pieces of art.
	We had a lot.
	We had a lot.
	It's funny how sometimes we get nothing, and then I don't know what triggers the good stuff.
	There's something we do, or maybe we put more stuff at the beginning of the show.
	I have no idea.
	It's a mystery.
	This was the New Mediocre episode, and there was a lot of obvious stuff that art could be made out of, but he had the crash-a-plane USB dongle.
	Yeah, that was dynamite.
	There's about three pieces that we could have taken, but that little dongle, it looks like the work was put into it.
	And we know it wasn't...
	And it was visionary, because we had this so-called hacker who was tweeting that, oh, I can deploy the oxygen masks in the plane, and he got arrested...
	But then he was released and he got all his stuff back and he was on the flight the next day.
	Well, he got a lot of free publicity for us.
	He runs a security operation and claims that planes have a little USB port under the seat you can plug into and you can have access to the controls.
	That was the theory.
	Right.
	But I'm not buying that at all.
	At all.
	Well, I have to look into the seat.
	I've never heard of such a thing.
	You know if there was a USB port or some sort of a port under the seat that it would have been found by a lot of people by now.
	I mean, this...
	It doesn't...
	Because you know where these guys are.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's like Richard Engel.
	Oh, but I got kidnapped.
	It's all fake.
	I got shot at in the helicopter.
	I got kidnapped by...
	There's weapons of mass destruction.
	It just goes on and on and on.
	It's on and on.
	It's Bogota.
	And people have the nerve to send us emails saying, I'm not listening anymore because you were wrong about this.
	You were wrong about something.
	Yeah.
	Sure, we're wrong.
	All the time.
	We try to correct ourselves.
	That's why we have a fantastic audience.
	By the way, I hope you're all going to scour through the Sony WikiLeaks emails and find some good stuff for us.
	I mean, this is a typical crowdsourcing project.
	They're doing it with the IDC-10.
	What is it?
	The ICD-10.
	The medical codes.
	Somebody found nose...
	What was it called?
	Chronic nose picking.
	Yeah.
	I didn't look it up, but somebody else did, and they said, wow, I thought this was bullcrap, but there's just a joke, but it's in there, I guess.
	It's all in there, yeah.
	Nose picking.
	Scratching your ass.
	I think I have everything.
	Scratching your ass, scratching your leg, scratching your knee, scratching anything.
	This program would not be able to talk like this or have any type of analysis or even have the audacity to go out on a limb and be wrong sometimes if we were funded by sponsorships from advertisers.
	Or even sponsorships like NPR. If you think that's just sponsorships, which I think it's time for a review.
	These people don't pay taxes.
	NPR stations are non-profit.
	But they're really taking full-on advertising.
	And they're presenting it as such, right within the rules of what they're allowed to do, so you can't have a call out to a URL or say they're the best.
	But it comes pretty close.
	It comes very close.
	So we do it with funding from people who listen to the show.
	You're not the product.
	The product is made for you by you.
	Our sources are you.
	We just work our behinds off to try and put it all into some kind of presentable format.
	Yes, and we manage it every so often.
	Once in a while.
	Once in a blue moon.
	But we do have some people to thank.
	We have quite a few.
	We did send out a plea for additional help for the show.
	It's 7-14 to celebrate Jack Webb.
	Joseph Gilbert in Dallas, Texas.
	$350 came in as an executive producer.
	These notes are a little lengthy, so it's going to take a little longer to do this segment.
	It's okay.
	Been listening since episode one started?
	This is a funny story.
	This makes you wonder.
	Been listening since episode one.
	Started when I was in high school.
	Long story short, to get an education, stable job, I went on food stamps, worked full-time, and studied at a top university full-time and made a deal with myself that I pay off my loans and send you the interest.
	I saved by paying 15 years early.
	Wow.
	I just turned 25.
	I'm now debt-free.
	That's the only way to do it, by the way.
	Congratulations.
	Just bear down and get rid of that debt, or not get the debt in the first place.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I turned 25.
	I'm now in debt-free.
	After two years, his assistant admin position here is...
	His first name may have been Ben.
	A guy named Ben.
	A dude named Ben.
	A dude named Ben.
	Here's the start of my installments.
	Thank you for the sanity and understanding.
	P.S. I'd love to work in Gitmo, Europe, and try to change your scenery from Gitmo, Texas.
	If anyone has a position open for an entry-level IT position, CCNA SEC certified, please let me know.
	Joseph of Dallas, Texas.
	Joseph.Gilbert1.gmail.com.
	We'll say it.
	That's what he wants us to do.
	Joseph.Gilbert1.com.
	Thank you very much, Ben.
	He is our top executive producer today.
	Yes, Black Knight Sab Swiss in Berkshire Cohn, Switzerland.
	34567, one of my favorites.
	Black Knight Sab Swiss, ITM. I didn't donate since my nighting last summer, but with this donation, I'm finally on my way back to Baronet.
	Since the famous douchebag call out of a listener some months ago, I was always expecting the men from the douchebag check knocking at my door.
	That's why I only listen to the show when I'm outside the house.
	So no one can knock on the door.
	It could be annoying in the wintertime.
	They could throw a hood over you, man.
	It could happen.
	Yeah, I guess.
	That's worse.
	They'd throw you in the back of a truck.
	I'm still enjoying the show very much.
	The only negative thing I can mention is the fact that the comedy factor dropped about 10% since John improved pronouncing Dutch names.
	Yeah, it's sad.
	It's sad.
	I agree.
	I haven't improved that much.
	Two years ago, John, actually, the problem is we've got 10% less Dutch.
	Yeah, that's true.
	That are contributing to the show.
	Yeah, well, that's no fun.
	John was even better than Steve Martin in the movie Pink Panther, trying to pronounce the word hamburger.
	Which was hilarious.
	I got a question.
	I'm a black knight, but I couldn't find anything about black knights in the Book of Knowledge.
	Can you explain to me why I became a black knight?
	Finally, you might as well tell him.
	He wants karma for everybody.
	We should also get some for Joseph.
	Karma for everybody, and thank you for your courage.
	Amen.
	You've got karma.
	If you are a knight and we forgot to knight you, which happens, then you're a black knight.
	That's how it works.
	But you still have to send in the information, the tally, and we don't have a way to...
	Well, no, that's not absolutely correct.
	With checks we don't.
	The system...
	Okay, you tell me.
	I'm wrong.
	We...
	I believe it goes like this.
	And I think the committee would agree with this.
	When we were, we don't necessarily, you have to send us a tally to tell us you're going to be a black knight, or tell us you're going to be a knight.
	If you sent it in or somehow indicated you're going to be a knight and we skipped over you and missed it, then you're a black knight.
	Yeah, that's what I said.
	No, you said that you had, the tally came in and you said something.
	I said if you're a knight, if you sent it in and we didn't knight you, then you're a black knight.
	Yeah, that's right.
	I didn't use the word skip, okay.
	Well, I thought you were going in a different direction.
	Whatever the case was.
	You wanted me to call you out on this.
	No, I know what it was.
	No, you want me to call you out on saying whatever the case.
	Yes, I'm sorry.
	I think you were going to say, not to get into a debate about this, that All the information was available to us, but you never asked to be a knight, and then you become a black knight that way.
	No, that's not what I was saying.
	Okay, well then I misunderstood you.
	Onward, Sir Hank Viscount of Queens, New York, in Kew Gardens, 31415, which is the pie donation, which means you get a...
	Fletcher shout-out.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Please accept my FletcherFest donation of 31415.
	The Fletcher shout-out is for a fellow knight and colleague that I hit in the mouth who is moving on to bigger and better things.
	Can I get a sully Fletcher shout in memory of the idiocy that was endured by all?
	Yeah, so Fletcher will have to make that.
	Yeah.
	I heard you waiting for me to play something.
	Is he going to play something?
	Robert Cain in Columbiana.
	Alabama, 256.
	This would be our associate executive producer.
	The latest end of an era newsletter scared the bejesus out of me, terrified I might be losing the best podcast in the universe.
	I was spurred into action with this donation.
	I now step forward and proudly take my seat at the round table.
	Please knight me, sir, arcane code.
	The donation amount also allows me to claim I'm shocked, shocked to hear there's arcane code going on here.
	It's like a pigot.
	Who happens to be a friend of mine.
	I've come to realize you gentlemen are patriots in the mode of Sam Adams.
	Sam Adams spoke out fervently with passion on the issues of the day.
	Adams wasn't as funny as we are.
	You would know.
	That's right.
	I knew you could.
	Very, very good.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Contrary to the, just like clockwork, contrary to the myth held by the public school educated masses, his income was not devoted from beer, which he had nothing to do with, but instead from the generosity of supporters.
	Sounds like two gentlemen I can think of your leadership in a press motivated by selfish agendas.
	I just kind of messed that up.
	In other words, douchebags is the press.
	Yes.
	A quick hit him in the mouth story.
	I was stuck on Interstate 10 just outside of Jacksonville, Florida, returning home from a business trip.
	I was literally stopped due to the road construction right next to my car.
	A reporterette was interviewing some construction guy.
	They were no more than six feet away.
	Not wanting to miss an opportunity, I queued up.
	The most recent episode rolled down the speakers and cranked up the volume to full.
	The reporterette's head spun around like Linda Blair in The Exorcist when the words, nothing says I'm a Muslim like going around naked, came blaring from the car.
	While you're sarping up your swords, can I have an Obama A-Team followed by corporate?
	I'm shocked with a healthy dose of karma for BPITU. Thanks, Robert Cain.
	If 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.
	Nothing says I'm Muslim like running around naked.
	I'm shocked, shocked to find vocal fry going on in here.
	You've got karma.
	Okay.
	Intel Armor LLC in Anaheim, California, 23456.
	Thank you both for the hard work you put into creating the best podcast in the universe.
	This is a minor point, but a few shows back you two were chit-chatting as Adam glanced at the Austin skyline and noted that all the large buildings were owned by banks or financial institutions and you were trying to figure out why they needed so much office space.
	Just because their logo in a building doesn't mean they own it.
	Okay, we know that, actually.
	In most cases, they're simply paying for the ad space, which is perceived to be very prestigious.
	Yeah, I'm sure Moody's Bank is getting a lot of retail business.
	Or IBC Bank, a lot of retail business.
	So the wife can point up there for her friends.
	Okay, that makes sense.
	That makes sense.
	So the next time you see a building with the bank's logo, per Shiba, remember that it's a bank most likely just acting like a peacock.
	Strutting and putting feathers out when in fact there's nothing more than a scrawny bird.
	Mark McAvoy, this is right in the middle of this whole thing.
	He doesn't segue to it, he just says it.
	Mark McAvoy is a complete douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	All right, now we have...
	IntelliArmor, LLC, thank you.
	We have an absolutely fantastic note, but it's a little too long to read.
	This is...
	This is Julian Swan.
	Oh, man.
	You see, I got to go back and forth to get to the bottom of this thing because it's so damn long.
	See, I keep getting Pete Arnold.
	Long-time boner, first-time donor.
	Two, three, four, five, six.
	Let me just do these other ones first.
	Then I'll fight the good fight.
	All right.
	Pete Arnold, the third, two, three, four, five, six, Apple Valley, Minnesota.
	Long time boner, first time donor.
	Thanks for the awesome show.
	You guys help me get through the work day with your wit and comedic, comedic in the face.
	There you go.
	Action fest of awesomeness.
	Comedic in the face.
	Okay.
	Please give me some jobs karma.
	I also own a small consulting company and need the karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	You thought karma.
	Sir Nick of Southside.
	I heard in Virginia.
	23456.
	I saw a call to action.
	Realized I haven't donated in a while.
	I received my ring and reminded me to donate as well.
	I'd like a Putin scream.
	Oh my God, that's amazing.
	And a Reverend Al.
	Keep up the good work.
	Sir Nick of Southside.
	What should we do for the Rev?
	That's...
	Much.
	Come on, much.
	Oh, resist we much?
	Okay.
	All right.
	Hold on.
	Let me get that for us.
	And we got a what under Putin?
	A Putin?
	All right.
	Here we go.
	Oh my god, that is amazing!
	But resist, we must, we must, and we will much about that be committed.
	Can't top it.
	Dame Sam, Box Hill, South Victoria, 22222.
	Sorry for the time between donations.
	Here's a row of ducks.
	They're now known as.
	22222 is a row of ducks.
	Oh, is that something we should know about, this row of ducks?
	I don't know.
	It's Australia.
	Maybe it meant a row of ducks, but it looks like a row of ducks if you look at it.
	Please send job and human resource karma to those who need it.
	Regards, Dame Sam from the House of Dubious Repute.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Amen.
	Clown show in Kamloops, BC, 201.
	Would like to get some small business karma for a three-year-old venue.
	Lowboy Credit.
	I'm sorry, Lowboy Market.
	It's been a while since my wife donated last for my birthday.
	No agenda has been a huge part of my life since my father...
	Best friend and business partner something, and they ran out of another one of these concatenated messages.
	Oh, that's crap.
	Is that PayPal that does that?
	Does it?
	Something does it.
	I'm not sure why it's...
	Here's the karma.
	You've got karma.
	David, if Clown Show has anything, he can send us a note.
	We had that made good today because of that.
	Dave Jackson, Rocky River, Ohio, $200.33.
	Dave from the Podcast Academy Awards.
	In fact, he says, thanks you, Adam, for coming to the Podcast Awards.
	You, Adam Curry, were the highlight that saved a pretty crappy night.
	How did I do that?
	You did.
	You did.
	Okay.
	Well, I should get an award.
	Good to see you.
	Someday I want to interview you about the creation of podcasting in the early days of you and Dave Weiner.
	Without you and Dave, we'd be listening to God-Awful Radio.
	Next year, bring John.
	You know, I heard from sources.
	So after the awards, I hung around.
	I talked to Jen.
	I did some interviews and met some other people.
	So I was there for a little bit.
	But I heard people saying, ah, Curry left right away, and he was really bummed out that he didn't win, and people were coming up to some of our nights saying, is Adam okay?
	Did I give some impression that I was really destroyed by him?
	You had a sad sack face on him.
	I guess, but I saved the awards.
	Oh well.
	You know, these things are all in the eye of the beholder.
	Yeah.
	And who knows?
	It's okay.
	But thank you, Dave.
	That's very cool of you, man.
	I appreciate that.
	Well, Dave Jackson's an old hand.
	Yeah.
	It's like an old pro of podcasting.
	Hell yeah.
	He teaches people how to do it.
	He's one of those guys.
	Yeah.
	School of podcasting, I think.
	Rob Van Dyke in Burgum.
	$200.
	Is that Berchem?
	Berchem.
	Berchem.
	Oh, good.
	He says, I'm sorry for neglecting my duties.
	Use guys.
	Use guys.
	Dame Monica Lansing, a baronet test, as a matter of fact, in Drayton Valley, Alberta, 200, just had a contributor when listening to Adam doing the show from the Cosmo in Vegas.
	I was in that hotel next...
	I was in the hotel next door, which I think was the area.
	Area, maybe, yeah.
	I'd like to request a boom shakalaka karma to all contributors.
	Baronet Test Monica.
	You've got karma. .
	Claudia Gerber, $200 in Lisbon, Ohio.
	We have quite a few $200 today for some...
	Good reason.
	Nobody wants to imagine a reunion.
	This is part of the newsletter.
	Yeah, this is pretty funny.
	Nobody wants to imagine a reunion of no agenda.
	Of course not.
	We're never going to end the show.
	Terry Morgan in Far Hills, New Jersey, $200.
	From the wife of Knight Jim Morgan, I don't understand the plastic bag Nazis in Austin.
	You can buy bottled water, but I have to pay 10 cents for a plastic bag at Target?
	Anyway, I'm on the 13th girls' trip.
	The last time I went with all girls, which was college, I had my car towed.
	Got two flat tires in one night.
	Lost two of my sorority girlfriends the night before.
	We really had to locate them.
	Please give a head cut off LGY karma to my buddies, Shelly, Lee, Colleen, and my loving husband, Jim, who deals with me after the girls' trips.
	Huge congrats to her cousin, Ken, and Linda, who just got engaged.
	Do you want an LGY as well?
	A head cut off LGY and Karma.
	Okay.
	The LGY, I'm still having a problem with the LGY, and I don't really understand why it's not showing.
	Everything else is going swimmingly in the system, but for some reason...
	All right, hold on.
	We talked about this after a couple of shows ago.
	Yeah, but I forgot to do something about it.
	And her head is gone.
	Wow!
	You've got karma.
	I'm busy, man.
	I've got a lot of stuff to do.
	We do the show and then we talk about what we've got to do and then we go off and work on the next show.
	Do drugs.
	Sir Aradudarian in Trabuco Canyon, California.
	$200.
	Need a little job karma for my daughter.
	Black Knight Aradudarian.
	Okay.
	You're going too fast for me, John.
	I'm sorry.
	It's no big deal.
	Yeah.
	Hey, we need to remember that we go back to the one that we skipped over.
	Yes, I've gone back and tried to...
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Shut up!
	Wait!
	Okay.
	And finally, Danny Baker, who leaves us with no note.
	And...
	If he has something to tell us, we'll be more than happy.
	Now, I've got a long-winded one.
	Now, I'm going to probably concatenate this as I speak, but this is a very good note, and it's from...
	Can you get yours up?
	Yeah, it's Julian Swan.
	Yeah, Julian Swan, and I can't...
	I'd like to thank...
	I got it, finally.
	Julian Swan, 23456 from Atlanta.
	Okay, this is a long note.
	We're going to read it because it's a good note for people who don't.
	The amount of times you said it's a long note is longer than the note.
	Yeah, well, that's probably true.
	But this is aimed at people who never donate to the show.
	Okay.
	I thank you both with every ounce of gratitude.
	I have the information you two provide.
	It has changed my life for the better and helped me set an exceptionally rewarding path of personal growth.
	Ever since I was a kid, I'd always had a desire to understand the world on a deeper level than I was being taught about.
	But before ever listening to no agenda or examining alternative news sources, I simply had no idea that every single source I had learned to get news from was either heavily watered down, skewed, or flat-out misdirection, or all of the above.
	I got emotionally invested in the 2000 presidential elections as a curious 12-year-old boy, for example, digesting a slew of information that I would later discover was thoroughly tainted.
	Most of what I learned, what I thought at the time was knowledge, making me worthy of calling myself informed, was actually little more than Republican versus Democrat propaganda and fluff.
	It would take a deep-seated logical suspicion of authority that nagged at the back of my head most of my life to make me conducive to giving you guys a shot when I listened to the first No Agenda episode 605, Biostitutes.
	which is really a great episode, by the way.
	The thing you said seemed wild at first, but I was intrigued.
	And I could tell from the way you two spoke that you were professional in a lot of subtle but discernible ways that lent you an air of legitimacy despite the highly controversial things you were saying and set your leagues above any alternative media source I had heard previously.
	Your good character shows in both the way you speak, the way that both of you speak.
	When I began to scratch at the surface of the true nature of the world, spurred by your astoundingly informative show, it lit a fire in me that has been yearning for fuel all my life.
	Fire!
	A longing for truth that has now finally found direction.
	I've since purchased all the sacred text.
	I love pot shards and confessions of an economic hitman.
	I'm now working my way through Tim Weiner's polemic on the history of the CIA. So far, I've found that learning more about how the world works and about world history has broadened my mind in ways that reach much further than simply having that particular knowledge.
	Learning more about the many intricacies of human events doesn't make you a more informed person.
	It opens up deeper natural pathways for you that improves all aspects of your life.
	And then he thanks us.
	He says, thanks again for teaching me how to walk, not stumble down the path of knowledge.
	Keep the peerless work going, you guys.
	By the way, I could use some love karma if you don't mind.
	I finally ended up a very long and not so healthy relationship about six months ago.
	Haven't since met any special single ladies.
	Love, it's the most powerful thing on the planet.
	You've got karma.
	Ooh, we have a new mix.
	Yeah, well, I just found that.
	Relationship karma.
	Please don't ask for me to find it again.
	That was totally a fluke.
	You better find it again.
	I can already tell.
	We will have another show on Thursday, and we've got a lot of work to do this week, particularly on this WikiLeaks thing.
	I'm very excited about it, because it's just a matter of finding the right things.
	And help us out with that, and also help us out by going to Dvorak.org.
	Obviously, there's many ways you can help.
	One of those, of course, is included by propagating the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Hey, citizens.
	Shut up, slaves.
	Shut up, slaves.
	That's right, slaves.
	Shut up!
	Anyway, I thought that was an excellent note that made a good point.
	Yeah, and of course we also had the overboard note.
	We might want to do that one day.
	Yeah, we can hold that one for this show.
	I mean, not for this show.
	Yeah, we get an overboard note about two or three times a month.
	And it's usually condemning us.
	And if you read between the lines on that last overboard note, this guy said, I'm done, I'm out.
	It was about the green button.
	He was irked about our analysis of the stupid idea.
	And of course, we're nasty about it because we think a lot of this stuff is just propaganda straight up.
	And most of the people are dyed in the wool.
	I'm not saying all, but most of the ones that we run into that have quit the show, it's because of our stance on our skepticism about...
	Science!
	Science!
	Yeah, science.
	You still have until May 5th for the Fletcher Fest, and I owe you one from Thursday's show.
	Smiley!
	So that's on its way.
	I recommend people get in on this as fast as they can before this guy blows his voice out.
	It's really quite good.
	Really quite good.
	Let me see.
	There was a little interesting thing that popped up in The Guardian, which was based on one video from one guy, and he claims that in Russia, Siri, this is the artificial intelligence voice and interpreter in Apple products, is homophobic.
	Ha ha ha!
	And this, of course, is fantastic because we know that everything that Vladimir Putin does, he hates homos, he hates gays, hates lesbians, hates transgenders.
	Of course, draconian laws against gays, none of this is true.
	Now, I don't actually know if he actually really hates gays.
	I don't think he's ever said it.
	And the laws certainly were not to arrest LGBTQQQIAAP, but to soak Hollywood with their fines.
	And the one guy who actually got a fine was exonerated recently.
	I've been meaning to mention that.
	There was one guy who got a fine of, I think, $300 for And he was exonerated.
	He went to...
	I guess he appealed it, and they said, oh, no, you're right.
	But you'll never read about that.
	So here's this kid, this guy, who's saying Siri is homophobic.
	Hi, my name is Alex, and I was quite excited to learn that Siri became available in Russian.
	However, in Russian, it turns out to be quite homophobic.
	Let's try.
	Siri.
	Siri.
	Now, there's a couple things.
	Why doesn't he have to say, hey, Siri?
	Why can't he just say, oh, because he pushed the button.
	Okay.
	So the questions he asks, which you can't understand or I can understand, are, are there any gay clubs around me?
	And Siri's response apparently is, I'm seeing red right now.
	And he tries this over and over again.
	And he has a couple of these, you know, do you like gays?
	And I immediately forwarded the article to Sir Gene, who, you know, he's our Russian handler.
	And he said, this is bogus.
	Of course, he's tied into the Russian Siri.
	He tried every single version of what this guy said, and they all worked just fine.
	He got links to different gay clubs.
	So this is just based on one guy with one video, and God knows how this is happening and how it's being done.
	But I find it interesting that We don't have the Apple fanboys going crazy about this.
	Because it seems like, you know, Apple fans would also be...
	They're probably all gay.
	Apple fans are all gay.
	There you go.
	Adam at Curry.com.
	Adam at Curry.com.
	I'm an Apple fan.
	But this is, it's just going too far.
	You know, there's just limits that this has.
	And if anyone else has this experience with Syria and Russia.
	It's an interesting example of the media's laziness.
	It wouldn't have taken, maybe there's nobody in London, or Guardian, this could be Guardian, they run out of the U.S., whatever the case.
	I know.
	Whatever.
	I know.
	This is a thing.
	I've got a big sign here.
	I've got to stop saying that.
	This is my newest thing.
	I suffer.
	There's a word for suffering from these anomalous comments that I keep using as padding.
	It's terrible.
	Anyway, there's no Russian around them.
	There's probably two Russian secretaries that work at The Guardian.
	Of course.
	No, but it's just, oh, of course, Putin hates gays.
	We all know that.
	He hates gays.
	And this is confirmation, so why bother checking it out?
	Why bother doing your job?
	Just, you know, run it.
	Run it.
	Run it full cloth.
	Sounds good.
	Front page.
	Top of the fold.
	Right away.
	Yes, sir.
	Yes, sir.
	Right away, sir.
	We're on it.
	All right.
	I think it's time to do the first one.
	Uber!
	You kept in the loop with a super-duper group of Uber spies.
	This is...
	Now, for the bandana ball, I needed boots.
	There's a place on South Congress, Allen Boots, very famous, and it doesn't make sense for me compared to the pricing for Uber to try and find a parking spot, which costs you $10 anyway.
	So I hop in the Uber, and it's only an eight-minute ride, and I luck out.
	I get...
	A guy from Nigeria on the way to the boot store, and I get a guy from Jordan on the way back from the boot store.
	And of course, this means that I'm going to strike up a conversation.
	I'm trying to improve my conversational interviewing skills so I don't lead the witness.
	I wouldn't want to do that.
	Uber!
	So we start with Nigerian.
	We're just going to call him Dougie.
	Of course, I did not ask him for permission to play this.
	I have no permission.
	It's completely unlawful, illegal.
	This would be the end of the show, by the way.
	Some smart guy figures this out.
	Nigeria.
	So this is about the new president, Buhari.
	And of course, I'm very skeptical about Buhari.
	I know that the U.S. went to chat with him.
	But I learned something here.
	Nigeria consists of three parts that are relevant to the political situation.
	There's the North, which is Muslim.
	No resources.
	There's the South, which is Christian, has all the oil.
	And then there's the West, which are just troublemakers.
	And he tries to explain to me how this works, particularly in the political sense.
	Sorry.
	How about the new guy, though?
	Yeah, Buhari.
	I think, you know, he might be...
	He's from the North.
	Hopefully we'll be able to, you know, deal with the Boko Haram and get him out of the way.
	You think all Boko Haram is all real?
	I think he knows something about it.
	Oh, the North is different?
	Yeah.
	Nigeria has three really major areas.
	The South, West, and the North.
	The North are the Muslims, and a little part of West is Muslims.
	And the North and the North have no natural resources.
	That part of the country.
	That's where all the money is?
	No, they don't.
	They have no natural resources.
	Period.
	But the South has the natural resources.
	We got the oil.
	But we are the minority.
	So that makes it complicated.
	There you go.
	Just like apartheid.
	So it's apartheid against non-Muslims.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	I didn't know that.
	So we have the Okay, so I didn't quite know this part of the story.
	And Buhari is from the North, and so my natural next line of questioning is, well, do you think this guy is alright?
	Do you think he's a shill?
	Is it his job to go and steal the oil from the South?
	Sorry?
	Before you go there, because of something he said, it's apartheid against the non-Muslims.
	Yeah, the Christians.
	The Christians.
	Yes.
	Would have apartheid to be on the wrong side of it.
	That brings me, I just don't want to interrupt your clip, but I might as well, this is the only opportunity to play this clip, and this is the, play this clip, the Muslims toss the Christians over the side.
	There's tragedy facing African migrants seeking passage to Europe.
	Italian police have arrested 15 migrants, they say, threw 12 Christians overboard into the Mediterranean Sea.
	Authorities say the Muslim migrants attacked Christians from Nigeria and Ghana.
	The killings followed news of a shipwreck which killed another 41 migrants.
	Well, there you go.
	Fits right in, doesn't it?
	Wow, yeah.
	Yeah.
	So, again, my natural question is, you know, how does this work with the election?
	Do you think, were the elections fair?
	You know, I'm very skeptical about all of this, and he will explain, and how it's very obvious that Buhari cannot mess this up because, well, we know what happens when you don't play along with the game, but here we go.
	And Buhari, Buhari is the new president now, but he's from North.
	So that is not necessarily good for South.
	Not necessarily.
	It is good for South because we want peace.
	Yeah.
	We want peace.
	You see, the former President Goodluck was from South, but he was a figurehead.
	Yeah.
	You understand?
	He didn't actually do what he was supposed to do.
	Right.
	Because he was like a puppet.
	He was being used by somebody here.
	Somebody here.
	You see what I'm saying?
	Yeah.
	So he didn't actually...
	Run the country, so somebody else was running the country, so we need somebody who can actually run the country.
	And we think that Buhari has the experience of doing it, even though he has not operated in democratic society before.
	I think he's strong enough, he has some experience, and he's strong enough to deal with the Boko Haram, get him out of the way, then get the country.
	And he also don't have money, so we don't think he's coming in to try to get money.
	You understand?
	And so hopefully-- - But what if he just only representing the Norths?
	If he do that, somebody's gonna poison him and kill him.
	They just told him, look, man, you better do right, man.
	We're going to, we're going to like...
	Kick your ass.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You know, something happened to him, man.
	He got sick, man.
	Somebody poisoned his ass.
	You know what I mean?
	This is how the Nigerian...
	Someone poisoned his ass.
	Yeah, they don't mess around in Nigeria.
	Right, man.
	You see, the vice president is from the West.
	That is the way he always worked.
	The power always goes within those three.
	This is the first time in history that a sitting president was defeated.
	Huh.
	You see, a sitting president is always related in that country.
	This is the first time...
	Why did that happen?
	Because the people are getting used to the system of one man, one vote.
	The United States, the France, the British, they came and they were looking and said, if you act a fool, we are right here with you.
	You know what I'm saying?
	So it's like the big boys were right on them.
	You know what I'm saying?
	We ain't going to take this bullshit no more.
	You understand?
	All these are rigging the election.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Just go buy the election and you become the president.
	No, no, no.
	So you're convinced this was a fair election?
	Yes, sir.
	Good.
	Yes.
	This was a fair election.
	Good.
	Yes.
	Excellent.
	Yeah.
	Well done.
	This is the first time.
	And I really think the world has something to do about it.
	Well, let's hope that he doesn't have an unfortunate shower accident.
	I am leading him a little bit, but he tells me what they actually do.
	What happens?
	If that happens, will people revolt?
	No, people will not.
	People will not.
	Because they think that it was probably, you know, they just say, well, if you remember a butcher, a butcher, man, he was poisoned by a prostitute, you know what I'm saying?
	That's a bad day.
	It was this time.
	It was knocked up by a prostitute.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I think the West got hands in them, you know?
	And the preachers, somebody got hands in them.
	That kind of stuff don't just happen.
	It don't just happen and people get away with it.
	You know what I'm saying?
	There you go.
	Did you ask him if he was Muslim or Christian?
	I...
	Uh...
	He's Christian.
	He said he's from the South.
	I didn't ask him specifically if he was Muslim or Christian.
	But I presumed...
	A mistake on my part, I should have asked him.
	That's okay.
	It was good.
	It was good.
	Okay.
	Hold on.
	Uber!
	Okay I just wanted to close out the segment I thought you were going to do the other segment.
	I'm going to do the other segment after the second half.
	Oh.
	I have another one.
	I've got the Jordanian guy.
	Oh, that's the one that's crazy?
	It's crazy?
	No, it's not crazy.
	It's educational.
	Okay.
	Completely educational.
	Well, let's see.
	Um...
	I found a couple of interesting things going on.
	One, this has been all over the news.
	It's almost like a distraction.
	And I could have clipped a million pieces to get this little one about the minimum wage protests that are going on everywhere.
	Yeah, the $15 million.
	It's organized, very well organized.
	But playing minimum wage and $157 million.
	For starters.
	...against income inequality following Wednesday's historic protest for a $15 an hour minimum wage and the right to unionize.
	On Thursday, activists marched to 157, a luxury building where a condo recently sold for $100 million.
	The protesters targeted Bill Ackman, billionaire founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital, who owns a condo in the building for profiting off investments in Burger King and private prison firm Corrections Corporation of America.
	Alright, so they found some schmuck and they're making a big fuss.
	Everybody's living in this new building.
	157, I think it's in Central Park West or something.
	It's a big, giant skyscraper.
	The apartments are like half a floor and they're massive and they're $150 to $100 million a pop.
	Everybody's trying to move in there.
	They're negotiating.
	Everybody wants to be in there.
	So I believe this ties into this Walmart story, which there are a couple of theories about.
	Let me play the most recent news report from a local news report.
	Midland, Texas, which until Monday was home to one of the top Ten busiest Walmart stores in the country.
	The city building official told me his plumbing inspector was sent away when he offered to help secure permits.
	While the company claimed to have plumbing problems, a longtime employee of a tax service located in that store said she never saw a plumber or an Out-of-order restroom in three years.
	Now, this was the scene at the Brandon Walmart Monday night during a five-hour store closing sale.
	That store pays more than $243,000 a year in Hillsborough County ad valorem taxes and collects many times that amount in sales tax revenues.
	The store appeared to have been fully stocked with perishables when the sudden closure was announced.
	Fresh cut flowers were on hand at the Tulsa store.
	The I-Team has learned that no plumbing permits have been pulled in any of those cities.
	Permits in Midland, Texas, showed that 70 plumbing fixtures were just replaced in an eight-week period three years ago.
	That store never closed during the renovation.
	Hillsborough County Commissioner Victor Criss says Walmart officials didn't even mention plumbing issues when they reached out to him to inform him that 400 people would lose their jobs.
	Now, there are a number of theories about what is going on.
	I want to run them by you and let's see which one we like the most.
	The first one is that this is related to Operation Jade Helmet 2015, and the Walmart centers will be food distribution centers to the FEMA camps that everyone will be thrown into.
	I like that one.
	And there's some credible evidence that underneath these Walmarts, tunnels have been built in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security.
	Now, there's definitely a relationship between Walmart and DHS, a long-standing one.
	They're all in on...
	Remember at checkout, you had Janet Napolitano with a little telescreen telling you if you see something, say something?
	So that is one theory.
	The second one is that the Walmart employees, in these particular Walmarts, there's also some evidence pointing to that, were about to try to unionize, and that would kind of coincide with the $15 an hour, which we know Walmart does not pay their workers $15 an hour.
	But that's pretty drastic just to bust up a union that hasn't even started yet.
	And I think, quite honestly, the easiest one, the former CEO of Walmart left for the Carlyle Group.
	There's a new CEO who's been in, I guess, a little over a year.
	And Wall Street, at the time I went back and started researching, was calling for closure of at least 100 of their superstores.
	If I were a betting man, although, boy, would I love Jade Helm to take place and I could finally break out the hardware and start shooting at somebody, but I don't think that's going to happen.
	I would love to travel in the underground tunnels.
	I think there's a distinct possibility that they're polishing this puppy up to take it private.
	What, Walmart taking private?
	Yeah.
	I don't think it's possible.
	Well, the Carlisle Group certainly would be the only one.
	That would be one of the guys who would try to do something like this.
	I don't know why anyone would do this.
	To make money?
	To make money?
	Are you kidding me?
	I don't even know how they make money, to be honest about it.
	But, be that as may, I think that...
	With a leveraged buyout, you know how that works.
	Yeah, but Walmart is a small element of this $15 an hour thing.
	Yeah.
	Here's what I think is going on.
	I started doing some calculations looking at this $15 an hour.
	The original minimum wage took place around, in 1961, it was $1.15.
	If you take a look at all the calculations done by these so-called inflation calculators, the minimum wage, if it was carried out along with government lines of how the inflation went according to the government, the minimum wage should be $9.60.
	Okay.
	So they're going to give them $15.
	This is a misdirection.
	When you look at the stats, the real stats, and take a look at shadow stats, the minimum wage based on what's really going on, because the government has been lying to the public about both the unemployment rate and inflation rate and everything in between, whatever they can lie about.
	And this all began some time ago, but it really went into high gear with the Obama administration.
	The real minimum wage, according to these guys, should be somewhere between $35 and $40 an hour, meaning that the absolute value of a worker at $15 is a steal, which is partly accomplishing this differential between the 1% and the people at the bottom.
	So the idea is to make a big fuss.
	Oh, we can't afford it.
	We can't afford it.
	We can't afford it.
	And then give $15 and then come back and you're going to see this.
	Well, according to inflation statistics, if you look at an inflation calculator, the minimum wage should be like $9 or $10.
	But we're giving them $15.
	We're making this huge sacrifice.
	The $15, oh, what are we going to do?
	Woe is me, we need some more government help to help pay for these people's salaries, when in fact they're getting a steal.
	It should be $40, and nobody wants to admit to any of this, because we've all been dumbfounded by the bullcrap numbers that we've been fed, and everything in between being just lies.
	I was looking at, going back to 60, when I was looking at a Plymouth, brand new Plymouth that would, if it was equivalent.
	Who drives a Plymouth?
	Well, I just looked at the Plymouth.
	Dodge, same thing.
	These prices are all the same.
	Nobody drives a Plymouth anymore because they took it off the market.
	But an equivalency car in 61 had big fins, lots of steel, monstrous convertible.
	$2,300.
	This car would be at least $45,000 today.
	All the cars, in fact, when the first Ford Mustang came out, it was $2,700 loaded in 1964.
	A Ford Mustang loaded today's in the 30s, and it could probably go into the 40s if you wanted to.
	This is 20x.
	So the minimum wage that you, even just going with the 20x number, which is what I've always liked, but I take the 20x number from 1971.
	From 1961, you could go 25x.
	What would cost something then cost 25 times more today.
	That means the minimum wage from a buck should be at least 25 bucks.
	Minimum, not the shadow stats numbers, which are questionable.
	I said, oh, that guy's making it up.
	He's got magic numbers he puts in there.
	Okay, maybe he does.
	He had $40.
	I say $25.
	Whatever the case is, $15 is a scam, and it's a joke, and these guys are just ringing and going, oh, we tricked everybody!
	All right.
	And why is Walmart closing stores?
	I think the Walmart closing thing, I think there's a couple of things.
	I think they may be having trouble.
	That's what I think.
	Whether they can afford those 15 bucks is another question because they really rely on slave labor.
	Yeah.
	And the best thing to do is don't give everybody pay.
	Just shut it down.
	Plumbing, whatever.
	Done.
	I think that's ancillary to my basic thesis about the minimum wage.
	And most of the action is these...
	The protests across the country, very little of them have to do with Walmart.
	That's a different, I think that's a different track.
	And it's all 15 bucks, 15 bucks, let's get up to 15 bucks.
	And I think they're letting them get up to 15 bucks.
	They're going to give them 15 bucks and complain bitterly about it while being on easy street.
	Now's the time to hire people.
	It wasn't really a peeve.
	Well, you were yelling enough.
	You were yelling like it was...
	I'm trying to modulate the mic by backing off.
	Yeah, very good.
	So that's what I think is going on.
	I think this is just a trick.
	Well, that, yeah, it's...
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	There is...
	Well played, by the way.
	Yeah.
	That's something I'm going to use.
	Democracy now is just completely buffaloed by this.
	They think it's going to be a great victory to get to $15.
	So allow me to summarize so that this can be used by our producers whenever they're in a situation.
	And you say, I think it's because, of course, your colleagues, your family, your friends, by now, if you're a No Agenda listener producer, they think you're a dick.
	And then you say, no, I'm all in on the $15.
	This is fantastic.
	I'm so happy because it really should be $30.
	And then you just explain how inflation, if you really look at the inflation, the proper numbers, it should be between $30 and $40.
	So this is a steal.
	The stupid slaves are getting duped.
	And then people will look at you and go...
	You're a dick.
	But at least you'll have given them some information that is...
	Yeah, the stupid slaves are being duped again.
	Have you been following this Outernet project?
	No.
	This was a Kickstarter, and I've been following with great interest.
	The idea is they create a little receiver, a satellite receiver, which you plug into any computer with USB... And it receives articles every single day.
	It's kind of like Usenet, only it's satellite, you know, one point to many.
	And it broadcasts information to countries that don't have internet or poor access to content.
	And so I've been following this, and the company or the organization that is running it, the way they do it is they allow you to suggest...
	Either websites or pages or other content that should be broadcast on the satellite.
	And when you look at this list, it's outernet.is.
	This is a complete and utter propagandistic bunch of content.
	And when you look at the organization behind it, it's funded entirely by the Open Society Institute, which, of course, is George Soros's NGO, the same one that funded.
	Didn't we talk about this when it was being formed?
	The OSI or the OuterNet?
	The Outernet.
	Yeah, we did.
	Or maybe OSI, one of the two.
	I remember the George Soros connection.
	Yeah, OSI's been around for a long time, but I only recently figured out that this is really truly funded by OSI. And it's just, if you look at the list of stuff, you can vote up and down.
	There's a lot of dumb stuff.
	Like people say, oh, let's send Google Translate.
	Okay, morons.
	No, you can't do that.
	But all of it is pro-Western propaganda that's being sent to these poor schmucks who, I guess they're going to airdrop these USB devices, whatever they're going to do.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But it's being played.
	It's so well done.
	Do a Kickstarter.
	Maybe Soros had everyone there.
	Hey, everyone, here's $100.
	Contribute to the Kickstarter.
	I don't know.
	It's a great way to have a front.
	It's a good front.
	It has good publicity, and it seems independent, and it takes away everything you just said.
	It doesn't come to mind.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, so it's dynamite.
	These guys are not stupid.
	No.
	Someone also voted, let's put Netflix on.
	Yeah, okay.
	That will kill it.
	I just thought it was interesting how this plays out and the connections behind it.
	I didn't quite expect it to be like that.
	Huh.
	Do we have something we have to follow, or is it just...
	Oh, I'm following it, for sure.
	For sure.
	So, last night, two of the obots were...
	I'd invited them to my table, the artist and her husband.
	Okay.
	And it was interesting because...
	Wait, stop before you go on.
	Who else was at your table?
	I had Nurse Tracy, Christina, Lori and Mark, Sir Gene, and I invited Peter and Oksana.
	The other Russian spies have been introduced to here in Austin.
	We've talked about Oksana, the hot, totally hot, smoking hot spy from Russia.
	Yeah, that would make sense.
	Yeah, I wanted a hot-looking table.
	You had one, it sounds like.
	Sure did.
	Except for Gene.
	No, Gene looked fantastic.
	Just kidding.
	Because everyone dressed up like cowboys, of course.
	Gene looked the part.
	He looked the part.
	And so the Obots are like, they're all like, oh, did you read the New Yorker article?
	I said, you know, there are entire weeks that go by that I don't read the New Yorker.
	But what was in there?
	Harry Reid, he was beat up by the mob.
	I'm like, are you serious?
	What century are you from?
	But it's true, it's true.
	I would love this to be true, but that's the first thing we thought.
	But his brother beat him up.
	No, no, that can't be.
	See?
	Yeah, it's pretty damn obvious that his brother beat him up.
	I just thought it was fascinating that they were all in on this New Yorker article.
	I haven't read it, but they reluctantly said, oh, well, that does sound kind of like it would be the right way.
	And then we got into a conversation about Ted Cruz.
	Who I think is an icky guy.
	And the conversation went like, well, you know, he has all these, not philosophical, about religion.
	What would the...
	His platform...
	Fundamental?
	No, not fundamental, but...
	Anyway, it was like, well, you know, he's pushing all this religious stuff.
	I said, I'm not seeing it.
	I'm not seeing it either.
	Maybe he's pushing it when he goes to visit a church.
	Well, he declared his presidency, his run for the presidency, at a church.
	And I said, well, that's fine, you know.
	If you want to raise money from the church, that's the way to do it.
	I've only heard him talk about constitutional issues.
	And I said, just give me an example of something he said.
	And they really couldn't give one.
	I said, just so you know, you've been propagandized.
	The guy, he's a successful politician.
	He's incredibly smart.
	He's a very successful lawyer.
	His wife is well-connected.
	So don't fall for the propaganda.
	They gave him a little thought there.
	And then we talked about Hillary Clinton.
	Uh-oh.
	Alrighty, they've got two strikes to guess because of the Harry Reid thing.
	I think we might want to discuss a little more where that would be planted by Reid himself to get his brother off the hook.
	Oh, that would make a lot of sense for the article.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Because he doesn't want his brother throwing in the slammer.
	I don't know if my brother beat me up.
	It happens.
	He's sitting in a slammer, man, for a while.
	Cain and Abel.
	Yeah.
	And so we're talking about Hillary, and I said...
	Actually, I brought back our Red Book prediction.
	I said, well, let me tell you...
	Because they're asking me, what do you think?
	I said, well, our Red Book prediction is Bill is going to die...
	He'll die in the saddle, so that's already promised.
	A hooker was on top of him and he croaked.
	And I think the only difference between my version of the prediction and yours is the timing, where I think the timing would be pretty soon in the next few months.
	This was a couple of years ago, by the way.
	We both agreed on the basic prediction, which is Hillary's going to need him as a martyr to make sure she gets it.
	Sympathy vote, yeah.
	The question is, is it before?
	Is it just becoming the candidate?
	So the primaries?
	Or is it closer to election?
	And I thought it would be pretty quick.
	You thought it was going to be sooner than later.
	I thought it was going to be later than sooner.
	Now, there's another option.
	Elizabeth Warren has said she's not running.
	But if Hillary makes a big stumble, I think she'll run.
	Well, and I already know how this...
	I've seen this before.
	What happens is that she's forced to run.
	She had no...
	This would be her talking.
	I had no intention of running.
	I said it clearly.
	I told everyone.
	You can see that this interview...
	On the Today Show, right?
	I'm on the Today Show.
	I'm not going to run.
	I have no plans to run.
	I have blah, blah, blah.
	But now I have to save the country.
	Now, I have to run.
	I have no choice.
	There was this whole thing they used to do in the early days of the political convention was, ah, I didn't want to run, but I was drafted.
	In other words, you didn't even run.
	You were drafted at the convention.
	The convention decided to run.
	I think that's a distinct possibility.
	But if Bill kicks it, we could do both, by the way.
	She could use Bill's death to pull out.
	No.
	Hillary?
	Yeah, you're right.
	What am I thinking?
	No, what am I thinking?
	What am I thinking?
	So the conversation continues, and I say, well, she's pretty, you know, Hillary is just evil.
	And by the way, I want to stop you.
	I want to remind people that are listening in, this is the reason you want to keep supporting this show.
	Nobody will discuss this concept.
	No.
	Can you imagine that on MSNBC? No, not casual the way we're doing it.
	No, no, never.
	So, then we're talking a little bit, and I'm just saying, look, you know, this woman is uniquely qualified to run the empire.
	You know, the best Republican we can ever have in the White House.
	And I said, but I'm, you know, I, and of course I went my...
	Actually, then she went, but you don't think you're not going to vote?
	Are you voting for her?
	Yes, of course!
	She's all in on Hillary.
	They said, why don't you search for the term Clinton body count and just see, wait, do you think she killed Vince Foster?
	I said, I don't know, but I find someone shooting two bullets into his head with a gun in his left hand is interesting.
	And the Clintons, you don't want to be friends with the Clintons.
	Because if you cross them, then sometimes you wind up dead.
	Harvey Keitel might want to be very careful.
	She deserves the job if she wants it.
	And let's help her.
	Yeah, let's help her.
	All right, Harvey.
	Now, the...
	Wait, wait.
	Why does she deserve the job?
	That's just the thinking of Hollywood.
	That's why I played it.
	What has she done?
	The way it's going to be spun.
	To deserve the job.
	Because she did such a great job as Secretary of State.
	That is the thinking.
	But I want to play this anti-Hillary video from...
	It's either Super PAC or...
	PeopleWhoHateHillary.com.
	America Rising.
	America Rising.
	And they did a very good job.
	You don't have to see the video because the video is more a distraction.
	Just listen to the audio and you'll be reminded of a lot of things that are potentially wrong with Hillary Clinton running the country.
	You know, our Constitution is being shredded.
	We know about the secret White House email accounts.
	Secretary Clinton unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails from her personal server.
	I'm proud of the work we've done to elevate diplomacy and development.
	Our allies don't trust us.
	Our enemies don't fear us.
	The death of an American ambassador.
	Three members of a U.S. security team on the ground in Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	The Senate Intelligence Committee review found the attack was preventable.
	The report blamed the State Department for not increasing security in Benghazi.
	Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, they wanted to reset relations with Russia and with Putin.
	How'd that go?
	How's that work done?
	Not really working out well.
	The Russian military now being directly involved in fighting Ukrainian government forces.
	Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria have said they believe he's a reformer.
	I remember landing under sniper fire.
	There was no greeting ceremony and we basically were told to run to our cars.
	Now that is what happened.
	There was no sniper fire.
	I misspoke.
	Yeah, I totally misspoke.
	But we came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.
	Looking at the book advance she had, was leaving the White House $8 million plus.
	You know what?
	Rich people, God bless us.
	Quinnipiac University found Hillary Clinton's lead is dwindling against Republican candidates.
	A new poll out this morning shows former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton losing ground.
	Is losing ground in key states, including Iowa.
	Are you saying America should blindly trust her judgment?
	There's one set of rules for the Clinton.
	Do you remember Whitewater?
	Do you remember Foulgate?
	Do you remember Travelgate?
	Do you remember Pardongate?
	Do you remember Benghazi?
	Less than half say Mrs.
	Clinton is honest and trustworthy.
	I think I'm probably the most transparent person in public life.
	I think that's great.
	She has a skin condition, that's why.
	That's something.
	And one of our producers could have put that together.
	That's good.
	Yes, I had a few of those clips in the other one.
	We're trying to build, I think, a canon of Hillary.
	Yeah, good job.
	I think the little ones in there are about, oh, she's losing ground here.
	Those can be eliminated because those we know are fake to get more money to come into the coffers.
	So I have a prediction of who the Republican candidate for president will be in 2020.
	Oh, and I did speak about this last night before you do that.
	So first I said, I pray I really want Hillary Clinton to be our president because then I can finally say, see, women are no better than men.
	You both will kill people.
	You both suck.
	You both will wreck everything.
	You're no better than us.
	That is what I truly, truly hope for.
	And then I said, based on your cyclical prediction, it has to be a Democrat who wins one term, then we get a Ronald Reagan-like Republican.
	I believe that's what you said.
	Yes, that is what I said, more or less.
	So the guy who's going to come out of this...
	Now, this is also a possibility he could become the principal character in this next upcoming election, but I think that would be a huge mistake because he could...
	I think he could win.
	I finally got to watch this guy in action.
	There was a big confab of Republicans, and most of it covered on C-SPAN, a big group of Republicans in New Hampshire at some meeting.
	And they're all there to shoot the shit and talk and give a little speech and work the room, and it was very well done by C-SPAN.
	Skywalker is a sheer winner in 2020.
	Yeah, I can see that.
	I can see that happening.
	This guy is good.
	He's smooth talking.
	He seems knowledgeable.
	He's quick-witted.
	He's funny.
	But is he a Reagan-like Republican?
	I think so.
	He's got the same phony baloney black hair.
	It's obvious he died.
	And he has a demeanor about him.
	It's not Reagan.
	You're not going to get that exact.
	But he has the kind of presidential demeanor.
	And he's a governor.
	So as a governor, he doesn't have the baggage that senators and these other people have in terms of because they had to vote on laws.
	And they have no management.
	Governor is a manager who could be a president.
	Senators are legislative people.
	They don't know what to do.
	Right, right, right.
	And so this guy is slick.
	Got the right answers.
	I think he's not as abrasive as Christy, who's also quick-witted, but he's abrasive and kind of an a-hole.
	This guy doesn't come off as that.
	And he makes a point that he has a lot of causes and he's won them all.
	He doesn't have a cause like Elizabeth Warren's a good example of this.
	She's, oh, consumer protection.
	We're going to do this.
	We're going to pass.
	Nothing happens.
	Zero.
	She went in front of Congress, as you remember, and held a big hearing about that.
	Those phony baloney calls you get for, hi, I'm Rachel.
	We look at your credit cards and if you push one, we can make them lower or whatever.
	It's a scam.
	And that still goes on.
	All this stuff still goes on.
	Oh, yeah.
	There's no change.
	Yes, no.
	This guy is...
	And generally speaking, in the cycle, the guys who show up as the big winners in the aughts, which would be 2020, are the guys who made a run at it earlier.
	And Reagan did.
	He made a run at it during the...
	When Jimmy Carter got in that year, which was what?
	It was 1976.
	He made a run for the presidency and he got cut off at the pass.
	And then Jimmy Carter beat whoever it was that was running.
	I can't remember.
	Was it Ford?
	No.
	No.
	1976.
	I want to see who ran for president in 1976.
	It might have been Ford.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	That's a little...
	Whatever the case is, this is it.
	Ah!
	Ah, damn it.
	What do you want me to play when you say that?
	I think what you just did is perfect.
	Ah!
	Something like that, yeah.
	Because that can always be used at the beginning of a show clip.
	Yes!
	I'm going to show myself by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda.
	Amen.
	In the moment.
	Yeah, indeed it was Gerald Ford who was given that position because the Republicans generally, well, you know, he is the president since the other guy quit, and you've got to put him in.
	And so Reagan didn't make it in 76, and it's a good thing for him.
	I want to remind people that just for time constraints, and we changed this quite a while ago, The full notes of our executive producers and associate executive producers are to be read on the air.
	In the regular segment, yes, we may highlight one once in a while, but it is not a given.
	And I think people are either unaware or they just need to be reminded.
	So don't feel slighted if we don't read your note.
	And certainly no jingles, etc.
	Sometimes, you know, we can deviate from this, but I'm starting to get a little bit of people saying, hey, hey, hey, hey, he didn't play the jingle for that!
	The whole idea is to support the work on the show.
	We want to give everybody credit.
	Talk about transparency.
	We give credit and the amount.
	Just know that we're not always going to read notes in the regular donation segment.
	Right.
	We do have an example of that coming up.
	The very knowledgeable know this, and they don't even leave a note.
	Let's thank a few people, though, including Kevin Lacombe in Gig Harbor, Washington, for $126.28, and he will be a knight shortly.
	Gregory Ball in Atherton, Greater Manchester, UK, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and then...
	One, two, three, four, five.
	I'm doing something else.
	What are you telling me to do?
	Am I missing something like a Pelsmacher or something?
	What's going on?
	Yeah, I see what you're missing.
	Where?
	I can't see it.
	I was setting up the...
	Number 21.
	Steven Pelsmacher's.
	One, two, three, four, five.
	I feel stupid now.
	No, you shouldn't feel stupid.
	Well, I'm trying to produce the show and trying to...
	This sucks.
	Sorry.
	Just wasn't ready for it.
	I was trying to hint at it earlier.
	Yeah, I know.
	But nothing's popping up.
	I'm going to try this one now.
	And in the red corner, wearing the black trunks with gold trim, he has a record of 33 wins, zero losses, and one ball.
	Of course, I picked a long one.
	He's the Grand Uga Bellman brand.
	There we go.
	Thank you, Stephen.
	Yes.
	Sir Brian Barrow, we had a bunch of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5s today from Royal Wooten Bassett, UK. James Zucal in Los Angeles, California, 12345.
	And he does have a note we should read.
	He says, is there any way to put a shout out to the community to find a copy of the series Rubicon, which has been taken and completely eliminated from anybody getting a hold of it?
	I think Sir David Foley has the full...
	The full series, I believe he mentioned that to me.
	I don't know if we can...
	Well, you should stream it on his 4K device, and then we can watch it that way.
	Yeah, there's actually some rights issues, but he was going to look into it.
	Good.
	There's got to be...
	Stop!
	Oh, I'm going out of control here.
	Sir Craig Cavell in Chicago, Illinois, 1-2-3-3-3.
	Dame Joan Ottefray in Morgantown, West Virginia, your old stomping...
	Motown, yeah.
	Motown.
	1111.
	She says, great newsletter.
	Thank you both for your hard work.
	If I had to watch MSN, I fear I would kill myself.
	Good for her.
	Well, not for killing herself, but for not watching MSN. Tim Goudrian.
	Goudrian.
	Goudrian.
	Goudrian in Roermond.
	Roermond.
	Netherlands.
	First time boner, he says.
	First time boner.
	$111.
	That's kind of missing those.
	Long time boner, not first time boner.
	Jeffrey Solomon in Jackson Heights, New York, $109.11.
	Thomas Nussbaum, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
	Sir Thomas.
	Sir Thomas, $101.19.
	John Haas in Lost Wages, Nevada, $100.
	Sir John Fogwell in Raleigh, North Carolina, $100.
	Sir Jason Southwell in Pompano Beach, Florida.
	100.
	Brian Leslie, $99.99 in Bremerton, Washington.
	Wow.
	What did that happen with my spreadsheet?
	And down we go.
	You know what?
	These are the unintended consequences of technology, really, when you think about it.
	Sir Russell Williams.
	If we just had a piece of paper printed out, it would be better.
	It would.
	It would.
	And it's getting worse, by the way.
	I think.
	Yeah, because it's so helpful.
	It's just snap to cells for you because, yeah, Microsoft knows what to do for you.
	Sir Russell Williams, the Baron of Idaho in Boise, 92-11.
	Joaquin Formalas.
	Joachim.
	Joachim.
	Joachim in Zurich, 8888.
	Mike O'Reilly, who did send a note in that I wanted to at least mention.
	He says, sick of being asked if he's Bill O'Reilly's brother.
	I can understand.
	You need some anti-spin zone karma.
	No spin zone.
	Herb Lamb in Sugar Hill, Georgia, 71-40.
	Brad Bauer in Pleasure Prairie, Wisconsin, 71-40.
	He has a call out?
	Yeah, he'd like to call out Mike Hernelstein as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	And then he needs some karma to put it at the end.
	Jamie Luca in Fairfield, Connecticut, 69-69.
	Nice one.
	I want to read this.
	A giant hint to my pee that once we move out of our cursed apartment, we can work on producing human resources.
	Guess I'll be shaving my legs on a regular basis.
	Jamie Luca, a female I've been referred to as a male, James, for two of my previous donations.
	And please give a birthday shout-out to Carrie Gray from her fiancé, Brandon Scott.
	There, we got that set up.
	So, well, you know, when she's shaving her legs, hey, you know what that means.
	Hey, you know what that means.
	You know what that means.
	Christopher Gray in Grand Blanc, Michigan, 69-69.
	Jean-Claude Schmid in Costa Mesa, California, 69-69.
	With a birthday for brother Fabrice.
	Yeah, we'll do that.
	Fabrice.
	Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, $69.33.
	Chris Perry, $67.00 in Silver Spring, Maryland.
	Sir John Martinez, Gilroy, California, $66.66.
	David Ziegler, Winnipeg, Manitoba, $60.
	H. Joel Lenoir in Bowling Green, Kentucky, $60.
	Joni, what is this?
	Joni, let's see if you can pronounce it.
	It's like an Armenian almost name, but it's Finland.
	It's Finnish.
	Yeah, I think you're doing well.
	Okay, Marsala.
	She's in Marsala, someplace in Finland.
	Okay, 55-55.
	Lonnie Webb in Richardson.
	I love the Finns.
	They don't talk a lot.
	Lonnie Webb, 55-11 in Richardson, Texas.
	Zachary Gilbrecht in Cordova, Tennessee.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Scott Waldher in Madison, Wisconsin.
	55-10.
	Aaron Arnold in Lost Wages.
	55-10.
	Damian Taman.
	A lot of 55-10s.
	He's in Perth, our favorite city in Australia.
	It's beautiful.
	Maxwell Roberts, Crown Point, Indiana.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Seth Ralston, double nickels on the dime in Cascade, Colorado.
	Continuing with Michael Siegenthaler in Phoenix, Arizona, double nickels on the dime.
	David Galloway up in Flower Mound, Texas.
	I've been there.
	Dean Roker, Parts Unknown, $55.10.
	Now $55 from Douglas Nelson, La Villa, Illinois, Sir Kevin Webb in Carrollton, Texas.
	And then $50 donations from the following people.
	Philip Merkert in Deutschland, $50.
	Christopher Wallace in the Bronx, $50.
	Morris Consulting, lost wages.
	We could have had a meetup.
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	John Holler in Missoula, Montana.
	Catherine Lee in Shalam, Malaysia.
	Nice.
	They speak English, though.
	They should all listen to the show.
	Daryl Arnett in Norman, Oklahoma.
	And finally, Vitriolic in...
	New South Wales Penrith.
	Eric Edward Halsey.
	I'm starting to lose it.
	50.
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	David Eckersley in Seattle.
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	Stefano Scalia.
	Hey, I can wave and see him from here.
	$50 is in San Jose.
	Patrick Sullivan in Birmingham, Alabama.
	Jaap Buitendijk.
	Yeah, Boutendeck in UK. Oh, he's Dutch.
	Sebastian White in Castle Rock, Colorado.
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	Michael Gates in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
	Rosalind Furness in Turnbridge Wells, Kent.
	And last but not least...
	Thomas Kilbride Jr.
	in Waco, Texas.
	I want to thank all these folks for helping us out and briefing up show 714, The Bad Show.
	And as promised, some Jobs Karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Oh no.
	And please remember us for the Thursday show.
	Before we do the birthdays, I wanted two quick mentions.
	I want to thank Lisa, and she is Sir James Cates, I think of his girlfriend.
	She sent me a NASCAR experience.
	How about that?
	What does that mean?
	So it's a little credit card.
	You take it to anywhere.
	There's a NASCAR with the experience, and then you get training, and then you drive a NASCAR around the track.
	What?
	Yeah.
	I've done this, you know.
	How is it?
	Is it fun?
	Oh, it's killer.
	Nice, nice.
	And I don't know if you received it, but here's the note.
	Dear Adam...
	80 days later, it's done.
	Organic Limoncello.
	The lemons were grown at my aunt's property in Nipomo, California.
	Enjoy.
	Cheers with a little heart from Dame Elise.
	Have you received your new Limoncello?
	I have.
	It's still in the car, though.
	Oh, we cracked it last night.
	That's the problem.
	Outstanding!
	God!
	And I love the label.
	It says, Made with Love from Dame Delise Garling.
	No, it's a cute bottle of product.
	And it's just so tasty, and it's really appreciated.
	Brandon Scott says happy birthday to Kerry Gray, and Jean-Claude Schmidt says happy birthday to his brother Fabrice Chumey.
	Happy 26th birthday and we join in there from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	And we have to make good Sir Luke of London, who was cut off in the previous episode, 713, says, Happy birthday to his girlfriend, Anna.
	I'll make sure that that got in there.
	Then we have three nightings today.
	A lot of people read the newsletter, felt it was a good idea to support the program, and therefore completed their nighthoods.
	John, where is it?
	Oh, what?
	Thank you.
	Got it.
	Robert Cain, Kevin Lacombe, and David Kekish, step forward.
	All three of you have supported the best podcast in the universe in the amount of $1,000 or more, and I hereby pronounce to Cain the Sir Arcane Code.
	Sir Kevin Lacombe and Sir Kekish for you, gentlemen.
	You've got a spot here at the round table with hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, progressive rock and Russian imperial stout, malted barley and hops, dos equis and Dutch dominatrix, girlfriend experience, and...
	Good bourbon.
	Hot pants and booze.
	Bong hits and bourbon.
	And, of course, we always have the mutton and mead right there.
	Go to noagenternation.com slash rings.
	And the rings, I saw, I retweeted, I think, three different night rings.
	Two nights, one day, I believe.
	Yeah, I think so.
	I retweeted your retweets.
	Yeah, this is great.
	I love it when you do that.
	It's really cool.
	Yeah, it's a good-looking package that Eric puts together.
	Eric's package is great.
	Yeah, he's got a neck.
	He really does have a neck, doesn't he?
	Here's something I thought of you when I saw this report.
	Me?
	Yes, of you, from Detroit.
	I think it's from Detroit.
	I thought it was Detroit.
	You, quite famously on this program, homeschooled your kids.
	Jay, mostly.
	Okay, I thought you, well, you homeschooled Jay, fine.
	And she is now at one of the top universities.
	She's incredibly smart, intelligent.
	She's going to be a fine contributing member to society.
	Well, actually, right now she's working for a living grinding up rabbits, but that's another go on.
	Well, there you go.
	And we've discussed homeschooling a lot.
	I know a lot of our producers homeschool.
	Certainly, it's a conversation within their homes.
	And we know that in the vast scheme of the human resources of Gitmo Nation, the powers that be really don't want this to take place.
	No.
	Absolutely not.
	It's funny, though, and I will do a little reiteration here.
	One of the things you do in your homeschool is you have to put up with people that die.
	Oh, homeschooling, it's for, you know, they have prejudicial, bigoted...
	Religious nutjobs with guns!
	And if you look into it, it's pretty well balanced.
	You have about...
	25% of the homeschoolers, and they all get together.
	There's clubs and meetings, and they go field trips.
	There's a very active group, a very large community of homeschoolers, and they all do a lot together.
	And it's about 25% Christians, the harsh ones that want to keep their kids away from the evils of the society.
	25% Jews, 25% Muslims, who seem to be the most active about putting together field trips for the kids.
	Muslims, you said?
	Muslims?
	Muslims.
	And they're active in the field trips?
	Yeah.
	Oh yeah, when we had Jaycee, all the field trips were organized by the Muslim mothers.
	Farms, you know, they'd go to factories, they'd do all these things.
	And then the other 25% are just independent free thinkers, libertarian types.
	And so there's this bull crap that there's any one group that dominates this thing at all.
	That's just the opposite is true.
	But we can safely say that, particularly with the President now calling for pre-kindergarten, and I believe even some states are looking at making school mandatory in general, instead of 17 to 18.
	By the way, what is grinding up rabbits?
	She works for an organic cat food company.
	And one of the things she does...
	How much did you spend on that college education?
	One of the things she does is grind up rabbits, and she's pretty used to grinding up these animals.
	She also grinds up ducks and other animals.
	Now, does she do this with a grindstone?
	She doesn't do it with a stone.
	Are they skinned?
	Does she have to skin them?
	No, no.
	They come skinned.
	Now, does she just grab the rabbit and throw it in?
	Yeah, grab it into the grinder.
	And I haven't seen the operation, but then...
	You should go look!
	Very cool thing is that they get wholesale ducks...
	From this very well-known duck supplier.
	Most of the restaurants use these ducks from Liberty Duck, which are up somewhere, I guess, in Sonoma County.
	And I can get a Liberty Duck, and I've cooked one just recently, for wholesale price.
	It's just dirt cheap, and it's a fantastic product.
	So that's the good news.
	All right.
	Well, thank you.
	I just wanted to understand.
	Anyway, of course, this is not how the Gitmo Nation is run, and we really can't have these people homeschool.
	So let's find something that went horribly wrong with some homeschoolers, and let's drop some legislation that brings in a lot more controls.
	When you were homeschooling, Jay, were there any controls?
	Did people come and check on you?
	California doesn't like homeschoolers, and they threaten to bust you and then charge the kid with truancy and throw him in the juvenile delinquency hall and all the rest of it.
	Luckily, since we have a residence in Washington State, Washington State accommodates homeschoolers.
	It has a testing program.
	You sign up to be a homeschooler, and then the kid has to be tested every quarter by the state.
	And it's okay.
	You can continue to make sure that the kid's not becoming crazier.
	So there were these...
	Well, I'll play the report, and you'll see what's going on.
	John Blair just finished burying his two grandchildren Monday.
	Today, he stands in front of City Hall to show his support for a bill that would force parents of homeschooled kids to allow monitors into the home to check on their welfare.
	We're here today to announce legislation to ensure that those...
	By the way, if you have a chance, the video, of course, will be linked in the show notes.
	This is the politician of the future.
	This is a multi-culti girl, kind of cute looking as well, and she's all in on making the world a better place, saving the planet, saving the children, whatever we have to do, let's just put in some rules.
	...to announce legislation to ensure that those children who are homeschooled and who are vulnerable and at risk get the help that they need.
	So putting homeschooled in the same sentence as vulnerable and at risk.
	Right, child abuse equals homeschooling.
	As we sadly discovered with Stoney and with Steven, homeschooling was used as a cover-up for abuse and for murder.
	No, no, no.
	You're using murder as an excuse to regulate homeschooling more.
	That's the truth.
	John Blair's daughter, Michelle, is the mother who's charged with the double murder.
	The bodies of the two kids, 13-year-old Stoney Blair and 8-year-old Stephen Berry, found in a freezer.
	They had been pulled from Detroit Public Schools to be taught at home instead, and then they virtually disappeared.
	The daunting question that no one seems to have an answer to is, why didn't anyone notice the kids were gone?
	Unfortunately, the tragedy that took place at the King Homes shed light into several problems within our system, one of which is better checks and balances when our children are removed from traditional schools.
	The proposed legislation as it stands now would ask parents to register their addresses and names.
	It would require a meeting with an official twice a year with a record of that meeting made.
	The official would be a cop, a clergy member, or another member of the community.
	Some homeschooling proponents think fear and anger over recent cases of homeschooling gone bad are prompting a push against privacy.
	I have a problem with that because the whole premise of the legislation assumes that there is something inherently wrong with people who homeschool.
	As we know, many who homeschool their children do a fine job educating their children, but we can and must do better to ensure that every single child is accounted for and not leave anyone behind.
	By the way, I should mention that I think almost every spelling bee champ for the last decade or so has been homeschooled.
	That makes total sense.
	Yeah, they don't teach spelling in school anymore.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Let's see.
	I got a report.
	What do you got?
	You're undereducated.
	This is the superintendent of the school district in Long Island, and he is talking about opt-out.
	There's a little piece of information here I thought was interesting, but this is the opt-out superintendent clip.
	So, I want to welcome Dr.
	Jack Bierworth and Tony Smith-Thompson.
	Dr.
	Bierworth, you're the superintendent of an entire school system.
	You supported the opt-out?
	Legally, I can't, but I absolutely understand what the parents and teachers are concerned about.
	I'm involved on a lot of things statewide, and we've expressed deep concerns about the tests that New York State has put together, and also about the evaluation system of teachers and administrators.
	Teachers ought to be evaluated, principals ought to be evaluated, kids ought to be assessed, but there are much better ways of doing both.
	I thought it was funny because she came into this interview thinking that he had done that, but it's illegal.
	She had this funny smile on her face.
	That's so funny.
	Look at who I got as a guest superintendent who opted out.
	That's when you don't produce your own show.
	That's when you get shitty guests.
	Things go wrong.
	You get the wrong information.
	Look, when we do it, at least we're doing it.
	Yeah, we do everything.
	We do the idea.
	We come up with a concept.
	We do the reads.
	We don't have anyone writing for us.
	I think this brings us to our second installment on today's episode.
	We're kept in the loop.
	We're the super-duper group of the response.
	Now this is very interesting.
	This was, we're going to call him Ralphie Boy, and he's from Jordan.
	And he's a little soft-spoken, but very understandable, I thought.
	And...
	He is all in on Iran being the bad boy of the entire Middle East.
	It's all them.
	They're doing everything.
	They're a-holes.
	And I find it very educational how he spoke about Iran being the problem.
	And I tried to get a little understanding from him because, of course, in the West, we really don't understand the Middle East.
	There's no way you can understand the culture.
	Would you agree?
	Even when you go there, you can't figure it out.
	Yeah, we're just not wired.
	We don't have the background.
	When you go to a restaurant, you sit there, and instead of bringing you a menu, they bring you a rug they want to sell you.
	All right.
	John at Curry.com.
	I'm trying to understand the difference between Sunni and Shia.
	No one can really explain this to me other than, yeah, it's different and there's an argument over it.
	So I got a little bit of background.
	So it's not ISIS, but it's really Iran that wants the caliphate.
	Iran is the bad news, you know.
	ISIS is bad news too, but Iran is the worst of the worst.
	Like I told you, the problem, it is religious-wise.
	It's not the problem hatred or I like or I like.
	It's religious.
	But the more you kill from us, the more you come close to God.
	Can you understand him?
	Because he's saying the more you...
	The more you kill, the closer you come to God.
	Is that the only difference between Sunni and Shia?
	Yes.
	No, they have some difference too.
	In their version of the Qur'an, which is the same book, but their...
	No, not in the Qur'an.
	In their version, in their books, another book, except Qur'an, you know?
	Fake books, you know, they made up.
	It's nothing to do with Quran.
	Who made the fake books?
	They're probably the Khomeini.
	All of this, of course, yeah.
	You know, they hate us in the time of the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
	They hate us 1400 years ago.
	When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he came, you know, because the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Muhammad is Sunni.
	And when, you know, when God, he choose a prophet, that's God's decision to choose a prophet.
	And when God choose a prophet, he send Gabriel, you know, Gabriel, the angel?
	Oh, Gabriel.
	Yeah, the angel Gabriel.
	Yeah, he sent the angel Gabriel to the prophet Muhammad, you know, to be the prophets in the time of 1400 years ago, okay?
	They said, Gabriel, he went mistakenly, by mistake, to the prophet Muhammad.
	He should go to some guy named Ali, you know?
	This is how things start to be ugly between us.
	So he had a bad GPS. Well, I like that.
	That's understandable.
	They're saying he went to Muhammad by mistake.
	He was supposed to go to this other guy.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Not the way I heard it, but okay.
	At least it's something.
	Now he's going to explain how Israel and Iran brainwashed their kids into this hatred.
	And Israel, too.
	And Israel, you know, you heard about Korea, Shem'una?
	What does that mean?
	It's like homes, they build these homes by medals, you know, homes, they build these homes by medals, and they bring the Russian, Ukrainian girls, and they fuck them, you know, and have babies from them over there in this small town village in Israel.
	When the newborn baby come out, when the newborn baby grow, grow, grow up, and start understanding, they bring him in some...
	This is where the Muslim killed your dad.
	This is what's happened to your family here.
	They killed the Muslim.
	It is true.
	And the same thing in Iran.
	You know, they're brainwashed, you know, how evil we are, you know?
	So his entire thinking about this is it's all Sunni Shia.
	It's all brainwashed.
	And that's all that it's about.
	He had no real feeling about the geopolitical part of it.
	Or I think my daughter is doing something with a mixer.
	She doesn't give a shit about the show.
	um Yeah.
	Mixing up a smoothie.
	But what was interesting is he brought in how Ukrainian girls are brought in to then have children and then these children are trained to hate.
	And he then goes, and this is the final segment, Israel, Russia, the hate...
	And something I did not know that was in the Quran.
	Do not forget in the Middle East is Israel.
	And that's what the United States is worried about.
	Worry about Israel, you know.
	It's very close to Iran, you know.
	About, yeah.
	About in the nuclear warband.
	Yeah.
	But the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, you know, he told us we are going to have a war, a big war, and I believe that's really soon, the war.
	That would be Iran-Israel, U.S.? I believe with Russia.
	Iran-Russia?
	Okay, so this...
	This is interesting.
	He's saying Iran and Russia?
	No, us and Russia.
	Jordan, Saudi Arabia.
	Jordan, there you go.
	He said that's 1400 years ago.
	He said they will have a war with Banyal Ahmar, the son of the red hairs, you know.
	He said they will have big wars with...
	Ali said that?
	The Prophet Muhammad.
	Muhammad.
	1400 years ago.
	With the red hair.
	With people with red hair.
	And very much white, red hairs.
	Who's that?
	Russians.
	Russians.
	Yeah.
	Now, do you think that the people of Iran actually hate people of Jordan?
	Well, it could be any ginger, as we know they have no soul, so I thought that was kind of funny by itself.
	Do you think that the people of Iran actually hate the people of Jordan, the actual people?
	Of course they hate us, of course they hate us.
	They hate everybody.
	That's no good.
	They hate everybody.
	So this is the thinking.
	No wonder this is never going to end well there.
	It's open, wide open for rebelization.
	Let's go for it.
	Sorry, I had to shut this.
	She's blow-drying her hair.
	This kid is unbelievable.
	Don't you hear that, like, blow-drying in the background?
	I couldn't hear it, but it's funny.
	So I thought I learned a little bit.
	I learned that it was the guy went to...
	Gabriel went to Prophet Muhammad instead of Ali.
	Is that where Muhammad Ali got his name from, by the way, from those two guys?
	I should have asked him that.
	I know where Muhammad Ali got his name from.
	Oh?
	Yes.
	I don't know if this is too long, but Muhammad Ali's original name was Cassius Clay.
	I visited Cassius Clay's house now when he was alive, in case you want to try that joke again.
	But in Kentucky, it's a little monument.
	This is where you learn about the real rights to guns.
	And you have the guy in a can, and he was shooting at the police when they tried to take him out.
	And in there, there was a bunch of souvenirs that Cassius Clay himself had collected because he had a visit.
	From Muhammad Ali.
	And it was a framed newspaper article from the 1800s about Muhammad Ali coming in and visiting Cassius Clay.
	It was some muckety-muck, I think, from Ethiopia.
	I'm totally convinced, even though I've not verified it with anybody.
	But Muhammad Ali, when he was Cassius Clay, and he's from the area, he would normally go check out this guy's house, who he's named after.
	Saw the name.
	It's stuck.
	That's why he named himself Muhammad Ali.
	We're kept in the loop.
	We're the super-duper group of who are spies.
	So we're in the loop.
	It's going to be Russia.
	It's going to be a war between Russia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, United Arab Emirates.
	And it's going to be ugly.
	And it was prophesied 1400 years ago.
	Well, there you go.
	It can't be wrong.
	And we never would have learned this.
	No, this is true.
	I never would have learned this.
	No.
	You don't think it's good?
	I thought it was alright.
	Yeah, it was better than the last one.
	Yeah, no.
	Yeah, I liked it.
	Got one little bit here I want to play?
	Okay.
	Just because I just think it's funny.
	It's not played up by anybody.
	But what the hell is wrong with the IMF? Did you know about this going on?
	The corruption?
	Yeah, they're arresting people left and right.
	Another former president has been arrested.
	Yeah.
	In Spain, authorities detained former International Monetary Fund director Rodrigo Rato and searched his home and office as part of a probe into money laundering.
	Rato is also under investigation for suspected fraud during his tenure as head of Bankia, the Spanish bank, which received a taxpayer bailout.
	He led the IMF from 2004 to 2007 during a period when Argentina was struggling to recover from a financial meltdown.
	Many believe was brought about by IMF-led policies.
	Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner responded to news of Rato's detention.
	They just announced that former International Monetary Fund Director General Rodigo Rato, who was the former economy minister and vice president for former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, was just detained for laundering money, imprisoned for laundering money.
	That's who used to come and tell us how we had to direct and manage our economy.
	Moreover, it was they who even dared to talk about corruption in Argentine politics.
	I'm shocked, shocked to find that tax evasion is going on here.
	Yeah.
	It really shows you the whole...
	I don't know why I'm...
	The corruption is everywhere.
	It's fun.
	So the rumor now is that Greece may join the AIIB, that's the Asian Infrastructure Bank.
	And then try to soak them for funds?
	Well, of course.
	Yeah.
	But more importantly, as I mentioned earlier, there is now...
	It seems like they're going to join up with the Turkish...
	Russian-Turkish pipeline...
	To bring the Russian gas into Europe from Turkey, from the western part of Turkey, obviously, and flow it right up into, to be a pipeline would be the easiest way, flow it right up into Greece.
	Because everyone's trying to figure out what's going on.
	They're out of money, they say, and what's going to happen next?
	Instead of IMF loans, they could just have the AIIB assume the loan.
	Yeah, there you go.
	I mean, it's just like taking your credit card and getting another credit card and transferring the balance.
	Being off the first credit card with the second credit card.
	People do that.
	And I will remind you, I started talking about this bank a long time ago.
	You scoffed at me initially.
	I didn't scoff at you about the bank.
	I know exactly what you're going to try to say here, but I'm still scoffing at you about SDRs taking over the world.
	Okay.
	Your claim, and I'm thinking that's not going to happen.
	I have one more clip that I want to play, because this was another one of these...
	What news am I listening to?
	I'm missing all these things.
	This is a wrap-up of the postal office guy.
	The auto gyro guy.
	And then, of course, this is Amy Goodman again, and she's...
	She talks about this, and she's always nonplussed about this.
	You want to consider watching something else, because...
	Well, no, I'm getting good stuff.
	They've got new writers, and they're digging up cool stuff.
	Listen to this.
	Before taking off, Hughes had spoken about his plans to the Tampa Bay Times.
	I'm going to violate the no-fly zone.
	I'm going to land on the Capitol Mall in front of the Capitol building.
	I'm going to have 535 letters strapped to the landing gear in boxes, and those letters are going to be addressed to every member of Congress.
	I don't believe that the authorities are going to shoot down a 60-year-old mailman in a flying bicycle.
	Hughes' action comes after another apparent protest at the Capitol, which received far less attention.
	On Saturday, 22-year-old Leo Thornton shot himself to death outside the Capitol while bearing a protest sign that said, Tax the 1%.
	I didn't hear about this!
	That's what I said!
	Oh my!
	There was zero.
	There was zero about this.
	Huh.
	And of course, it was beautiful.
	I mean, it's sad that guy had to shoot himself to tax the 1%, but this just leads right into a whole pitch about the wealth tax.
	Oh, no.
	Please don't pitch that.
	I'm not doing it today.
	Please don't pitch that again.
	But what I'm just saying...
	Everybody sends email to me how much they hate you when you do that.
	I don't like that.
	It's not...
	Well, maybe I should do it anyway.
	Ah.
	But there's another unreported little tidbit that is turning out to be all over the Democracy Now broadcast.
	I think they got new writers.
	Uh-huh.
	Anyway, that was...
	Oh, okay.
	What?
	No, I thought you were leading into yet another clip.
	Well, I got another one from...
	No, no, no.
	Why don't you keep that?
	Can you keep it for Thursday?
	We'll be stale.
	Clinton on gay marriage?
	Oh, no.
	We got to do that.
	That'll be the last one.
	In the United States, Hillary Clinton has shifted her stance on same-sex marriage just days after announcing her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
	Clinton opposed same-sex marriage as a candidate in 2008, then came out in support of it in 2013, but suggested it should be handled by the states.
	On Wednesday, a Clinton spokesperson said in a statement, Clinton supports marriage equality as a constitutional law.
	She deserves the job if she wants it.
	And let's help her.
	There you go.
	That's how it goes.
	Let's help her.
	They are.
	They're helping her.
	Yeah.
	She deserves it.
	She deserves it.
	Woot.
	Alrighty.
	Hey, thanks everybody.
	Also, I want to thank our 12 donors from the Vegas show for our loss of the podcast awards.
	We had a nice list of people.
	We want to thank you for that.
	And John, you're on the big twit show today with some special announcement.
	I don't know what the announcement is, but it's the 10th anniversary show.
	I'm going up to taking a long haul, dragging my ass up to Petaluma to be there for this event.
	I think the Screensavers is coming back.
	We got a great, great crowd here.
	It's like a screensavers reunion.
	Yeah.
	Thank you for your loss, John, on the podcast awards.
	It's our new one.
	Yes, thank you for your loss on the podcast awards, too, even though you were there to pick up the award.
	And I had a speech ready.
	And you had a speech ready.
	Coming to you from FEMA Region 6 here in the Crackpot Condo in downtown Austin Tejas, the capital of the drone star state.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, now that I think about it, I think you should read the speech on the Thursday show.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll see you then.
	Remember us at Dvorak.org slash N-A. Adios, mofos.
	Yeah, no.
	I'm shocked, shocked to find Tourette's is going on in here.
	I'm Joe Biden, and thank you for taking the time to listen.
	Adios, mofo.

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