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739: Trolling for Majors

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	Star date, 1414.
	Tonight, a star will be in the sky, just above Venus.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, July 16, 2015, time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 739er.
	This is No Agenda.
	On the front lines of the Troika Triumph, and once again broadcasting live from the central storage of all Russian gas and oil, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm waiting for the 12 AX7s to warm up, I'm John C. Devorak.
	What were the 12 AX7s?
	Were those...
	What were those?
	The 12AX7 was the fundamental tube for most of us.
	The tube, yeah, right, right.
	And what was it used for?
	Amps?
	Yeah.
	Used for everything.
	We were just talking, just before we started the show, about, remember how it was when you'd be on the phone with somebody and then the lines would get crossed back in the analog days?
	Hello, hello.
	Hey, who's this?
	How did you get on?
	I don't know.
	What?
	Well, when I was a kid, we still had party lines.
	Yeah, of course.
	And most people don't even know what a party line is anymore.
	I think you need to explain.
	At one point, I guess even before my time, I guess party lines would consist of maybe five or six houses.
	The party line was, the way they had the circuit set up, they had to go through two or three houses.
	Right, I remember this.
	And so it was the same line, but somehow, I don't know how they...
	They would have one ring for house one, two rings for house two?
	No, no, no.
	No, that was all somehow done, some private channeling or something, so your number would only ring when your number was called.
	It wasn't like it rang all the numbers, because then you'd have everyone listening in on everything.
	Right.
	You would run into a situation where you'd pick up the phone and the party line was yakking away.
	And then you have to hang up.
	I remember this!
	Do you remember what a busy signal sounds like?
	I remember what it was.
	Sure I do.
	So the party lines, so you'd have this, when I was a kid, we had one other line that was the party.
	And I don't know where these people were.
	And I don't think anyone ever exchanged this information.
	Where are you?
	I'm over here.
	It was just like they were annoying.
	So you never talked to.
	And you couldn't sex people up back in the day on the party line.
	You could, if you don't mind people listening in.
	Right.
	So I, being a sneaky little kid, I was just a little kid.
	I figured that if you unscrew the carbon mic, which was at the base of the phone, you could unscrew the top and then take the microphone out.
	You could usually lift up the thing and listen in.
	And no one would know you would lift it up.
	Well, you know, that remains to be seen.
	Because there was this girl and her boyfriend, they were always yakking and talking about, you know, lovey-dovey stuff.
	And so I'd listen in to this if I caught it.
	First, you want to make a call and you lift the phone and then you hear them and you hang up.
	And it made it clear that you hung up.
	And when you were making calls, you'd hear these people hanging up all the time.
	But if you took the little thing off, you might be able to minimize this problem if you were careful.
	But apparently, this girl could always hear it when I was doing this, and she would say, I remember her saying, hang up the phone, you little bastard!
	Yeah, that's it.
	Exactly.
	Nice.
	Yeah.
	Well, anyway, get ready to head on back.
	Ah, yes.
	What's your final report there from the Big E? Final report.
	Well, from the Big E. Hold on, let me open my Big E folder for a second.
	Let me see what I've got going on here.
	Big E. Well, everybody has, of course, been all over the Greece thing.
	The Greeks.
	And now it seems so obvious.
	That this is going to take another three years.
	They've done this kind of smart thing where Fifi Lagarde jumps in and says, well, we need to have assurances.
	Without this, we can't, you know, just go.
	I can't do the French anymore.
	Do a French for me.
	Get me into France.
	Get me into the French mode.
	I am Fifi Lagarde.
	Okay.
	Kind of.
	You don't do one either.
	It's pretty shitty.
	But let it go on.
	Go on with your...
	Well, so a couple of things that have happened.
	As predicted, the Greece has...
	Do you want to do the Greek rundown?
	I got one from Democracy Now.
	But I'm the boots on the ground.
	How can that ever be better than Amy Goodman?
	Well, listen, it can't.
	It's impossible.
	All right, Amy Goodman.
	Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org.
	War and Peace Report.
	War and Peace Report.
	I'm Amy Goodman.
	Hello, Amy.
	I love how she says creditors.
	Who are they?
	Apparently it's not important to the story who the creditors are.
	...to accept sweeping German-backed austerity measures in order to receive a third bailout and remain in the Eurozone.
	Provided the Greek parliament accepts the terms, the deal paves the way for a three-year bailout worth up to $96 billion.
	After European leaders pressed Greece to accept an austerity package seen as amounting to a surrender of its fiscal sovereignty, the hashtag ThisIsACoup trended on social media.
	Talks continued overnight until Greece agreed to immediately implement measures, including pension reform and the privatization of its energy transmission network.
	The deal comes after the Greek parliament voted Saturday to accept austerity reforms proposed by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras just days after Greek voters rejected similar terms in an historic referendum.
	As usual, John, brilliant minds think alike.
	You have the perfect clip!
	For my backgrounder.
	So yes, this of course is what we were expecting to happen was the securitization of 50 billion euros worth of assets.
	And what's interesting about this, you read everywhere, you know, it's a new thing set up somewhere in Luxembourg.
	Don't pay attention to it.
	Don't worry.
	The assets are all good.
	So pretty much there's a, I guess, a bank vault or a safety deposit box and has all these pink slips in it for the energy distribution network, which is exactly what Putin wants to have.
	It's exactly what Gazprom needs for their Turkish stream.
	Now, who holds this?
	Because you'd think the way they say it is, Luxembourg, it's this thing, don't worry about it.
	We know how to do this.
	It turns out it is held by a fund created by, and I guess it's some kind of secured paper, by a bank known as KFW. And KFW is owned entirely by the German government.
	It operates out of Luxembourg.
	But it says...
	And this bank...
	This is an interesting bank.
	In 2008, October 22nd, just before things started to come apart with Lehman Brothers, this very bank transferred over 300 million euros of funds to Lehman Brothers.
	It had never really been explained what that was about, but it apparently was some kind of last-ditch effort.
	Or whatever.
	So these are the guys that have all these assets.
	So yeah, the KFW is a bank, but it's owned 100% by the German people and controlled by the German government.
	I would assume if they gave that money to Lehman Brothers, they got something for it.
	Yeah.
	Lehman Brothers handed something over that these guys wanted that was necessary to keep this bullcrap going on.
	I agree.
	So, you know, this kind of sets the stage.
	Now, so what people are supposed to be angry about is, well, our tax money, we're going to go try and build those Greeks out again with our tax money, our tax money, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	That's the Dutch, by the way.
	That's exactly how they sound.
	And so they've done this brilliant thing, bringing LaGarde in, good old Fifi, and she's like, oh, well, you know, it can only be about 50, we can't put our 30 in, you know, we have to be able to enforce the deal, because we are saying that Sturmbann for us!
	Literally, so talking about enforcing, enforcing the austerity.
	Oh my goodness.
	Hello, Greeks!
	Shut up, slave!
	We are here to enforce austerity!
	It's true.
	It's crazy.
	It's crazy.
	So I think what's happening now is it's kind of good because everyone's focused on, well, will the IMF put their money in?
	And then you kind of forget all the, it's our tax money.
	So it's very smartly done.
	You just see the whole kind of focus and conversation change all in one go.
	Now, while this is taking place, in the background...
	The EU voted on the TTIP, the trade agreement between the United States and the EU, and they approved it.
	They approved the mandate to go and complete this deal based upon whatever outline there is, and no one's talking about it.
	Did you hear anything about it?
	Not a thing.
	I learned...
	You think of all the places you think that since I was monitoring democracy now, you think they'd have something.
	Yeah, you got real soft.
	This is like happening with Skype for some reason.
	Honey, you're soft.
	Can you...
	Talk a little.
	I just turned it up.
	Okay, good.
	But I'm jacked way up on the gain here.
	This isn't good.
	Yeah, jack it down just a tad.
	Tad.
	One tad.
	Okay.
	One tad, Jack.
	Thank you.
	One tad down.
	One tad down.
	You know why it's called the TTIP? Okay, no.
	There's a joke here.
	Go on.
	If you set it up and there's a joke here, then the joke never works.
	That's not nice.
	Well, you've done that to me, and you've stepped on my punchlines.
	Hey, you know why it's called the TTIP? No, why, Adam?
	Just the tip, Europe.
	We're only going to put the tip in, okay, baby?
	See, it falls flat when you...
	Oh, well.
	Go on, just go on.
	That's the one I wrote.
	You wrote a joke.
	Can you tell?
	Oh, man.
	And, of course, we've had nothing but rain since the last time we spoke here in the Netherlands.
	And today, lo and behold, beautiful, 80 degrees, sunny, and I'm in the autistic cave here in my kid's apartment.
	Dad moved in.
	Funny how she hasn't been around.
	I'm sure.
	Oh, there was some massive media news.
	So as I do when I come over for a trip to the Netherlands, I had dinner with Patricia, ex-wife number one, mother of my child.
	And now, you know, Patricia is really good at one thing.
	Publicity.
	Yes.
	Exactly.
	She's really good at it.
	She's dynamite at it.
	And she has stuff to sell.
	She's got, you know, sexy lingerie for mature women.
	So, I get it.
	I'll book a table.
	And she books a table.
	And it's a place called the Harbor Club.
	Does the name kind of already imply what kind of place this is?
	Yeah, Douchebag Central.
	Bingo, boom, shakalaka, baby.
	So I'm like, let's do it at 6 o'clock.
	Maybe there won't be a lot of people there.
	And the table's right in the middle of the restaurant.
	It's perfectly arranged.
	And so, you know, of course, the...
	Oh, I took a selfie.
	She said, take a selfie.
	She said, okay, take a selfie.
	I sent it to her.
	Two seconds later, she puts it on Facebook.
	I swear to God.
	World record.
	It's unbelievable!
	Like, what did you just do?
	That's an automatic thing set up, so I just set it up.
	Yeah, she said, no, no, she said, I put it on there.
	She said, but I put it without a caption so anybody can guess what it's about.
	I'm like, oh, you are the master now.
	I'm like, okay, okay.
	But we had a good time.
	We're laughing.
	And the paparazzi are standing all over the chair.
	Hey, can we, would you guys give us a quote?
	Like, get the fuck away from my table, asshole.
	That's how brazen they are.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Then they set up across the way, and they got some footage of us sitting around.
	Fine.
	But I did learn something from the old bird.
	She is officially now called a major.
	Are you familiar with this term amongst mature women as a major?
	Never heard it.
	I hadn't heard it either.
	And apparently, the scale is, number one, we have MILF. MILF. Okay.
	Then number two, we have, do you know what comes out, one rank higher, John, after MILF? Double MILF? No, but I have seen that one.
	Now, Cougar.
	Cougar.
	Oh yes, yes, the cougar.
	Say that again, the cougar.
	Say it, say it.
	The cougar.
	And what comes after the cougar?
	Major.
	Yes, exactly.
	I had no idea.
	I don't know, what does it refer to?
	Major pain in the ass?
	Yeah.
	It's a major.
	I think it's a MILF plus 20 years.
	Not high.
	I'm telling you the truth.
	No, it's a MILF plus 20 years.
	That's when you become a major.
	A MILF plus 20?
	20.
	Yeah, but you could be a MILF at 18.
	Well, yeah, could be.
	But that's not kind of what the category is about.
	You wouldn't be a Cougar at 38.
	No.
	But you could be a major by your definition, which makes no sense.
	I'm just passing on the information.
	Okay.
	And what's the point of the nomenclature?
	What is the...
	I don't know.
	Who uses it?
	Apparently, there's this whole...
	Her boyfriend is 26.
	Okay.
	She's 66.
	I'm going to repeat that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So there's a whole thing amongst, like, 20 more people.
	You know, the guy's a little naive, I'm sure, but it's beside the point.
	Yeah.
	So, but that's where this comes from.
	There's an entire movement of late 20-year-old men who are...
	Do the 20-year-old males think of the...
	Oh, I'm hanging out with a major.
	Yes!
	Yes!
	And the other guy says, really?
	I didn't know you were into Army, guys.
	That's what I think.
	Somebody said that to me.
	Hey, look, I'm just passing it on.
	I just wanted to tell you I learned something.
	That's all.
	She's going to make it to Colonel, that's for sure.
	It's no doubt.
	And then, finally, just a kind of a request.
	Do we have any listeners in Africa, like Uganda specifically, do you think?
	I don't think we have Ugandans.
	We have Ghana.
	Right.
	I went to lunch with...
	South Africa, I think we have that too.
	I went to lunch with Tiffany, who, as you know, was born in Uganda.
	Tiffany's your other sister.
	Yeah, she's the middle child, so she's two years younger than I am.
	Right.
	And so just the two of us.
	We hadn't had dinner or lunch, the two of us, I can't even remember how long ago.
	And, you know, Tiffany is definitely not like the person who would come out and say...
	Hey, you know, I'd really like to go to Uganda and go see where I was born and go look at the house where we live.
	And I'm like, okay, good idea.
	I'm in.
	Are you going to go?
	Hell yeah.
	The two of us, that would be hilarious.
	Uh-huh.
	What?
	Uganda?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	You know, they have, when Mike Elgin was doing Twit, Years ago, he was just a guest.
	I happened to be on the show with him when he was a guest.
	And he was coming in from somewhere in Africa, like Uganda.
	And it was the best connection, internet connection.
	No latency, beautiful fidelity.
	I've really heard for years.
	I think I remember that.
	We may have even talked about it.
	I kept grilling him about it, thinking that he was across the street or something.
	I think it was in Tanzania.
	But...
	I think that you could probably get a, thinking about it, you can probably get some outrageously nice connection probably through government resources and the show from down there.
	It's really interesting.
	I'm talking about going on a spiritual journey with my sister.
	And here's Dvorak.
	What about the show?
	Hmm.
	Let me think.
	Wait a minute.
	Let me get this straight.
	You're going to go see some old house that you lived in as a kid.
	And to you, to you, this is a spiritual journey.
	Give me a break.
	Give me a break.
	Give me a break, John, please.
	Hey.
	Yes, and you could do the show from there, and I think that's a great idea.
	It would be fun.
	Is it dangerous in Uganda right now?
	I know I shouldn't be saying, hey, I'm bi-curious.
	I wouldn't be saying, hey, I'm bi-curious.
	How are you doing?
	That's probably not a good idea.
	Don't do that.
	That's not a good idea.
	Have you been following this New Horizons Pluto, the Pluto photos?
	Yeah.
	I'm calling bullcrap on this, man.
	What is this compressed images?
	It's Photoshop.
	This mission control room?
	They got like four desks shoved together.
	This one guy's freaking out.
	He's hugging this poor lady who's like, I just came in for the casting.
	I just came in for the casting.
	What is this?
	That's not a real mission control center.
	This is a mission that's 10 years old.
	It's a decade old.
	That's what I mean.
	I want to see old crap.
	I want to see gray fronts on the tech.
	Eh, alright.
	For the dude's name Ben, or anyone interested, I do have...
	Did you see the post, I actually retweeted it, that Scott Johnson did, that showed that that little, what everyone's describing as a heart, is actually the exact outline of the dog Pluto.
	Oh, really?
	It's actually very funny to superimpose the dog Pluto onto that thing.
	That's what NASA does.
	They throw in a little joke.
	Hey, watch this.
	Make it look like Pluto.
	Ha ha ha.
	I have this PDF, which is kind of cool.
	It's the details complete down with photos, schematics, everything of all of the transmitter technology on this New Horizons.
	And, you know, so what we're seeing now are what NASA is saying, oh, these are compressed images.
	In fact, I have the quote here.
	The image has been compressed to reduce its file size for transmission to Earth.
	In high contrast areas of the image features are as small as three miles across can be seen.
	Some lower contrast detail is obscured by the compression of the image, which may make some areas appear smoother than they really are.
	The uncompressed version still resides in New Horizons computer memory and is scheduled to be transmitted at a later date.
	Dot, dot, dot.
	What?
	They don't have a Gantt chart?
	And here's where we transmit the Hi-Rez.
	I'd like to see the Hi-Rez, but now...
	They might have a Gantt chart.
	You don't know that they don't.
	It would have been nice to give us a date.
	So they have two 12-watt X-band transmitters.
	I believe that this is possible from that distance, but you're pulling signals out of the ether that are so minimal.
	You've got one of those giant monster...
	Sure.
	Parabolic things.
	Guys that are like 100 feet wide.
	100.
	Even bigger.
	Yes, it must be.
	Well, I think on X-Band they have multiple...
	They use an array of them, so they should probably be able to pull that signal in.
	But I think they do it from multiple locations with X-Band.
	Like me?
	Yeah, it's almost like a reverse kind of peer-to-peer, kind of like a torrent, I think.
	But the downlink data rates, this is why, if this is all true, this is why it's taken so long.
	They have a 16-bit control registered, which can provide downlink data rates minimum 6.3578 bits per second, maximum 104,167.
	So it's about 100 kilobit down at max speed, but at worst it would be about 6 kilobits.
	So probably somewhere in the middle.
	So that's going to take a long time.
	Yeah.
	And they'll be lucky to get the whole signal.
	Now, I don't know what the trajectory of this thing is, but is it going into deep space and forever never going to be heard from again?
	Oh, I hope so.
	We need more fun images.
	I hope so.
	They're not going to be able to send anything from that distance.
	Oh, please.
	So this showed up.
	NASA is doing a simulation of people living on Mars because, of course, we're never going to go back to the moon, but we'll keep trying for Mars.
	And this report made me laugh.
	They're showing off this dome where these guys are going to live for two years.
	I've played for the CBS show Under the Dome.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, it doesn't surprise me.
	Okay.
	The island of Hawaii is not a place that would remind most folks of dead, isolated planet Mars.
	On Mars, with a similar isolation, a similar living condition, only...
	It's a third the gravity.
	We can only simulate certain things here.
	Still not convinced Hawaii can look like Mars?
	That is breathtaking.
	That looks exactly like what I see from the Mars rover.
	It's remarkably similar.
	That's incredible.
	Okay, here's Mars being back from Curiosity's camera last month, and here is Hawaii today.
	Yeah, it's actually virtually identical to the same material, volcanic rock, that they found over there.
	Hey, how many times can they say it?
	I don't know.
	It's as if they're trying to give us a hint.
	And then there's this Kickstarter for our favorite science guy, Bill Nye.
	Send him to Mars.
	Yes!
	Where is it?
	Give me the URL. Is this insane or what?
	I mean, our jingles aren't even that good at points.
	Wow, it sounds like weenie in the butt.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Does this scene look familiar to you?
	Hi, I'm David Alvarado.
	And I'm Jason Susberg.
	We were middle school students in the 1990s when Bill Nye taught us about the rock cycle and climate change.
	He impacted us in monumental ways.
	Really?
	In high school?
	I don't think Bill Nye was talking about climate change then, son.
	These guys are like 30.
	Please.
	Please.
	You insult my intelligence, you.
	It must stop immediately.
	Yeah, they're trying to raise $650,000.
	Good luck.
	They already have $100,000.
	They're going to send Bill Knight to Mars.
	Wouldn't that be great?
	Now that, I would also support.
	That would be great.
	Let's see.
	Of course, on the news, it's incredible how these Kardashians, a couple years ago when we were talking about them, no one knew them, and now all over the European news that Caitlyn Jenner received an ESPY. Oh yeah, I have kind of a background from either Extra or The Insider or one of these shows.
	Play the Caitlyn Jenner and the ESPYs, and I have a commentary to make and a prediction that goes into the Red Book.
	Today we've got Caitlyn's kids and why her three ex-wives won't be there.
	Here's Jerry.
	Tonight's her night.
	Who will she wear?
	Mom has that.
	What will she say?
	Will she walk her first red carpet?
	Caitlyn's set to take the ESPYs, and the whole world will be watching.
	This night so big, Jenner's reportedly hired Angelina Jolie's stylist to dress her up.
	All of a sudden, I am the authority on hair and makeup.
	Poking fun at that part of her transition in this brand new I Am Kate sneak peek.
	Sneak peek?
	No.
	Upskirt, baby!
	Some reports saying Caitlyn will skip the press line, only appearing on stage, dodging the controversy over receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage Award.
	Enjoy the moment.
	TMZ reporting Jenner's three exes, including Chris, will not be there at her request.
	The source saying they're just not her family.
	Are you planning to attend ESP when she receives the Arthur Ashe Award?
	Absolutely.
	Brody breaking that news to Mario.
	And now, back to real news.
	Wow!
	Wow, TMZ, John.
	TMZ. Everybody's all over it.
	Right.
	The Courage Award.
	Yeah.
	Alright, here's what's going on.
	I think this guy has learned a lot from the Kardashian woman.
	I am all over that.
	Yes, yes.
	Genius.
	And this, he is playing the media like nobody else.
	I totally agree.
	I was watching him.
	And he still walks around like a jock.
	He's throwing stuff behind his back.
	And, I might point out, is not attempting a voice.
	That doesn't bother with the voice.
	Here's what my prediction is.
	We may have the same prediction.
	I had a conversation with Brian the Gay Crusader about it.
	Go.
	He is going to do this bit, this shtick, for a couple of years as long as he makes money.
	As soon as that reality show starts to falter, or even during the reality show, he's turning back into a man.
	I agree, and I'll tell you why.
	I believe this entire show is really an elaborate documentary about living trans.
	I agree with that, too.
	And when he turns back into a man, he's going to make comedy.
	He'll be a best-selling book.
	Yeah, and he'll be able to show what it's really like to come out trans and all the ridicule.
	This is why he wasn't coming out and saying, you know, media, the way you treated me was not appropriate because everyone made fun of him, especially magazines.
	He never condemned them for that, ever, because he needs them.
	Well, I think he's also going to reflect on being a woman and then comparing it to being a man.
	I think he's got everything going on here.
	And it's going to be a spectacular reversal.
	Oh, yes, that's another book.
	That's the second book.
	Woman versus Man.
	Oh, yeah.
	You're right, John.
	You're totally right.
	Keep going.
	And when it happens, because he hasn't changed his...
	You know, there's something about elite athletes...
	Which he was, and I guess, you know, he maintains a certain...
	How about, you know who a real hero is?
	Is Rene...
	What was it?
	Rene Richards.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	Yeah.
	Tennis player.
	Take a look at Rene Richards, double E. And so he is still acting like a punk jock.
	There's no femininity involved.
	And he gets to have a nice expensive facelift to the top of the line, which is a tax write-off.
	Always a good thing to have, yep.
	This is a setup that the media and the public are being used.
	Yes.
	And the LGBTQIA community is being abused.
	Yeah.
	I'm with you.
	Exploited.
	I'm with you.
	It'll be a while, though.
	It's going to be...
	Years.
	It can be years.
	It might get sick of this.
	But he didn't get...
	Unless he gets his dick removed and his balls cut off...
	You're not going to happen.
	Not going to happen.
	Sincere.
	It's not going to happen.
	No, it's never going to happen.
	Of course not.
	You just have those bags taken out of his chest, tightened up a little bit.
	Yeah.
	Back to being a guy, and then he can go on to Barbara Wall, you know, go again with these interviewers.
	So he can also...
	It was harder than I thought it would be to be a woman.
	That's right.
	It was harder than I thought it would be to be a woman.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	You know, this is what Brian and I were talking about.
	But, yeah, we should honor a real trans.
	Renee Richards, born Richard Raskind.
	Now, that's a story.
	How come that's not a movie?
	Maybe it is.
	Is it a movie?
	I think it has been.
	Maybe it has been.
	Oh, let's see.
	I see Second Serve.
	I think it might be.
	I'm not sure.
	Whatever the case is, this guy's getting on my nerves.
	Okay.
	Well, I'm sorry about that.
	I'll have him taken out.
	Cap his knees.
	But it's all the high end.
	This is the highest of high end.
	This woman, who I'm sure is behind the Kardashian's mom, is a genius.
	Yes, she is.
	Totally.
	You know, a friend of mine sent me a note.
	I think it was a note.
	Maybe on Facebook.
	I can't remember.
	But he's been investing in high-tech companies.
	He's been in the music business for a long time.
	And there's just some random company that he was looking at.
	And they had made $28 million off of one app.
	It was a Kardashian app.
	And it wasn't the one where you can put different clothing on...
	This is just some smaller second or third tier Kardashian app.
	$28 million.
	Well, we're in the wrong business.
	Well, hello!
	We've known that.
	Nah, it's alright.
	It's okay.
	I think getting your Adam's apple shaved sucks.
	It hurts.
	Doesn't seem like it.
	Yeah, well, you gotta do what you gotta do.
	This is serious money involved here.
	Yeah.
	We'll follow it.
	There's something big going on in Texas, and I have a number of friends and cultural attachés in the Texas medical community.
	Let me see.
	Where did I have this?
	Oh, yeah.
	This is what's going on.
	I think by now it's probably national news.
	Today, House Speaker John Boehner called for an investigation into Planned Parenthood and its handling of organs from aborted fetuses.
	The conversation was recorded at a restaurant by two activists posing as biotech employees.
	Interested in obtaining fetal organs for research, which is legal.
	Unaware she was being taped, Planned Parenthood's Senior Director of Medical Services, Dr.
	Debra Nucatola, described how she performs abortions to preserve key body parts for that research.
	Anti-abortion activists say the tape suggests that Planned Parenthood is harvesting that fetal tissue for profit, which is Planned Parenthood says it is only trying to help women who want to donate fetal tissue after abortions.
	And just last year, Scott, NIH funded 160 different projects that used fetal tissue to research treatments for everything from HIV to glaucoma.
	So, nice counter PR piece.
	Not very objective, the way I heard it.
	And of course, I saw the video, and it's pretty clear in this video they're talking about they're proper buyers, and they're very interested, and they want to know pricing.
	And they talk about how they are very careful to try, if the baby is breached, to flip it around.
	If you can get the head out, you can get all the rest of the body and the organs.
	It's really partial birth abortion is what you're talking about.
	And how you then crush parts of the carcass to make To get the organs out.
	Oh yeah, it's...
	You sit there and you go like, well...
	It's ghoulish.
	I'm used to hearing crazy stuff about emergency rooms and things.
	And I find it very interesting.
	So I'm not...
	Even I was a little put off by the conversation.
	And so what I am interested in is where is this showing up on the balance sheet?
	And I went into Planned Parenthood of Texas.
	I got there for 990.
	It could be lumped in with other...
	But you're not allowed to sell that...
	Crushed babies, line 10.
	You're not allowed to sell it for profit.
	There are, you know, real laws about this.
	Selling it for profit and selling it are not the same thing.
	Correct.
	Correct.
	But if it's not on the books at all, it's very possible they have some secondary vehicle they're selling this to.
	Or maybe...
	Oh, they've got cooked books.
	Well, I don't know if they're cooking the books.
	Maybe they're pocketing the money.
	I have the feeling that the way it works...
	They have what they call providers.
	And you'll hear her talking about this in the video.
	I can't play the video because you really need the subtitles to hear everything and have all the context of it.
	But the providers are these surgical services companies that they pay.
	They've got $4 million to this one, $2 million to this one.
	These are the guys who actually do the work.
	Planned Parenthood, as far as I understand, usually don't do the actual work.
	They contract that out.
	So now you have the Affordable Care Act.
	That, you know, the insurance pays for a lot, maybe not, I don't know, but I thought the Affordable Care Act made this, you know, mandatory coverage.
	Then the provider does this.
	It's actually the other way around.
	The provider does this.
	The provider, they get the money from the insurance company or however it's paid for.
	And I believe that they then pass on cash back to Planned Parenthood.
	It could be this middleman construct.
	I'm not entirely sure, but let's put it this way.
	There's no line item on the Form 990s that says baby parts.
	Yeah, you have to get the real books to figure out what's going on.
	But the good news is, next time those Planned Parenthood guys try to rouse me on the street, I'm just going to say, excuse me, do you have any baby livers for sale today?
	Yeah, let's see what happens.
	No, you should then follow that sentence with, they're delicious.
	Nice.
	So the New York Times, the way they report this, headline, House Republicans to investigate, of course, put the Republicans right up there, to investigate Planned Parenthood over fetal tissue.
	But in the video, she's talking about hearts, lungs, livers, livers, between 30 and 200 bucks a pop, you know, per item.
	So one baby is a profit center of, you know, potentially 500 to 1,000 dollars.
	I'm sorry, it's not a baby.
	It's an aborted fetus.
	Crushed fetus.
	Smashed.
	Now with crickets.
	Yeah, I'm telling you.
	What kind of world do we live in?
	It's getting worse by the minute.
	It's brutal.
	It's just brutal, I tell you.
	Brutal.
	I don't know what to do about it.
	Well, what did you expect?
	Yeah, it's true.
	Well, I've got some good news and bad news.
	This is just a little off topic, if you don't mind.
	Okay.
	Because we probably should wrap back around to Greece and talk a little bit about Iran.
	Yeah.
	But here's this one.
	I promised in the newsletter I'd mention this.
	This is, I thought, was kind of good news, and it was an interesting analysis on CNBC, which is talking about stocks and the stock market.
	And then this guy came out with this little gem on comic books.
	Welcome back.
	It has been a fairytale ride for Disney investors.
	A stock hitting an all-time high just today.
	More good things could be in store when the new Marvel movie, Ant-Man, hits theaters next week.
	The film is projected to pull in $60 million in its opening weekend.
	Still, CNBC.com senior editor-in-large Eric Chemie says the era of the comic book movie could be in jeopardy, Eric.
	Is Ant-Man the beginning of the end?
	I mean, Ant-Man has to be the beginning of the end because it's Ant-Man.
	This is a comic that's coming off the bench.
	It's not a starting lineup type of guy.
	This is not Spider-Man or Superman.
	And if you look at the data going back several years, we've already seen the peak in the number of comic book movies that are out there because it was 2011 when we saw over a dozen movies.
	Now it's only about a handful.
	And if you go back the last couple of years, none of them had an ROI over 100%.
	But 13 movies from 2000 until 2012 had ROIs over 100%.
	So the numbers, they're getting worse in quantity.
	They're getting worse in profits.
	And if you look at the sequels, they get worse and worse every single time.
	So I know we have a couple charts on that just showing that, look at that, 1%.
	They keep doing these Spider-Mans up to the point that they're not even making a profit anymore.
	You think about Econ 101, supply and demand.
	And if there's some demand, people just keep flooding supply until the numbers come down to the point where no one's making a profit anymore.
	That's what we're getting to.
	Why are Disney investors so bullish then?
	I mean, if this has been the case...
	It's the bubble top, right?
	Everyone's bullish at the top.
	This is the top of the comic movie bubble.
	Bob Iger even said, you know, we spent $4 billion buying Marvel.
	We're not concerned that DC is going to go into the movie business, too.
	So they just have this confidence that you see when these types of bubbles happen.
	In fact, Jane Wells even said at Comic-Con, a lot of the real interest isn't in the movies anymore.
	It's about putting it on television.
	Comic book bubble!
	It's about time they showed the Spider-Man numbers, and the first Spider-Man was something like 189% ROI, and then it dropped to half of that, then half of that, and then they came out with the three amazing Spider-Man movies, and the last one, the third one, was zero.
	And it was just like a straight...
	I'm proud to say I have not seen a single one of them.
	Well, I saw the first one, and then I think I saw the second one on television, and I skimmed the third one.
	I haven't seen any of the newer ones.
	Well, this is a problem because this is going to destroy half the podcast inventory on iTunes.
	What will all the guys with comic book podcasts do now?
	I don't know why there's so many guys and a lot of tech guys.
	Yeah, here's a tech show and we're going to talk about comic books.
	It's crazy.
	Yeah, tech guys talking about comic books and how they violated the worldview.
	It's bad.
	Oh, that's funny because in Second Marvel such and such, the worldview was violated.
	Yeah.
	They did this when they couldn't have possibly done that because earlier in the such and such book, they did this and they can't do that again.
	And who?
	It's just like, wow, you guys had better find something else to read.
	Read some technical documents.
	If, in fact, the Jews truly are shapeshifters, and I believe I've presented enough evidence here to prove that they are, then we must unite as a species to fight them and stop their plan of global domination and the control of our freedom.
	Alright, John.
	Time to talk about the shapeshifting Jews.
	I had no idea they came from South Park.
	Did you know that?
	I could tell by the voice.
	No, but I didn't know that the whole term came from South Park.
	Well, I thought we heard somebody testify.
	In one of these hearings?
	Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
	And so do you think they got it from South Park?
	It must be.
	Or do you think South Park got it from them?
	It must be.
	I think it's an old South Park.
	Well, we'd have to look into this.
	We'd have to look into the timeline, because it might be violated by the latest Marvel cartoon.
	Um...
	So, let's see.
	I think something that qualifies possibly as a one-in-a-series, a six-week cycle event, which was due right around this time, was it not?
	It was due on the 15th.
	And it happened on the 15th.
	You're talking about the phony baloney FBI bust of that guy?
	That's exactly what I'm talking about.
	Yeah, right on the 15th, right on the money.
	Do you have a clip?
	No, I couldn't find a clip.
	It was like these guys, the media's going, oh, whatever.
	It's become a joke, the six-week cycle.
	Or they're not doing it right.
	Tomey's just doesn't have a touch.
	What was interesting, just to kind of put it out there as this really was part of one of these mini-events for the six-week cycle, I have the press release from the FBI themselves.
	Hold on a second.
	So, first of all, FBI. Now we have...
	Oh, this print is a little too small for me.
	Okay, so the hacking forum known as Dark Code, this is their own press release, was dismantled and criminal charges have been filed in the Western District of Pennsylvania and elsewhere against 12 individuals associated with the forum.
	The big announcement, hackers and those who profit from stolen information use underground internet forums to evade law enforcement and target innocent people around the world.
	This operation is a great example of what international law enforcement can accomplish when we work closely together to neutralize a global cybercrime marketplace.
	So let's look at these guys.
	John Anders Gudmunds, a.k.a.
	Mafi, a.k.a.
	Krim, a.k.a.
	Synthet of Celebrum, Sweden, 27 years old, charged by indictment with conspiracy to commit computer fraud.
	conspiracy to commit money laundering.
	Allegedly, he operates his own botnet, which this is from the FBI, which at times consisted of more than 50,000 computers and use his botnet to steal data from the users of those computers on approximately 200 million occasions.
	OK, then the next guy is Morgan C. Culbertson, a.k.a.
	Android, 20, of Pittsburgh.
	These are script kiddies.
	Listen to this.
	Charged with criminal information with conspiring to send malicious code, accused of designing Dendroid, a coded malware intended to remotely access control and steal data from Google Android cell phones.
	That's script kiddie stuff.
	Eric L. Crocker, a.k.a.
	Fast Man, PH. Wait a minute, back up.
	They're conspiring to steal data from phones?
	Yeah.
	I'll read it again.
	And the FBI's involved?
	I know, it's hilarious.
	is charged by criminal information with conspiring to send malicious code.
	He's accused of designing Dendroid, a coded malware intended to remotely access control and steal data from Google Android cell phones.
	So he designed Dendroid, and that is conspiring.
	Then we have Fastman, PH, of Binghamton, New York.
	Criminal information with sending spam.
	Yeah, you know what?
	Yes.
	Spammers is good.
	Hang him up by his balls.
	I hate those spammers.
	Accused of being involved in a scheme involved in the use of a Facebook spreader which infected Facebook users' computers, turning them into bots.
	Ooh.
	Crocker sold the use of his botnet to others for the purpose of sending out massive amounts of spam.
	Ooh.
	You know, there's a couple people you can arrest with spam.
	There's people that say, oh, you can always unsubscribe to my newsletter.
	Navid Ahmed, a.k.a.
	Nav, a.k.a.
	Semaphore.
	Tampa, Florida.
	Let's see.
	And a couple other guys.
	Well, see, I wasn't even going to...
	I want you to finish this.
	But I wasn't going to because there was a bunch of little two-bit terrorists that were grabbed yesterday.
	Oh, I didn't...
	There was a guy in France they grabbed yesterday.
	Oh, okay.
	There was some other character out of Boston.
	They, you know, they were terrorists.
	But these were all ISIS-inspired.
	This is...
	What you've got is just a...
	Just a mini one.
	It's off the wall.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, they don't need to finish it.
	You got to give me the ISIS-inspired stuff.
	Well, no, the point is that we have seen this, and we've discussed it, and the basic new thesis is a lot of little incidents.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Although they tried to make this sound really big.
	It was big international news.
	You know, oh, they rolled up Dark Code Forum!
	And they changed the DNS? Woo!
	No.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	It's just...
	And script kiddies.
	Just a bunch of kids.
	Stupid kids.
	More kids because there's no work to be had.
	They're just morons.
	Yeah, right.
	Just blame the economy.
	No, that is not a great defense.
	Well, I know they can't use it, but I can say it.
	On cyber for a moment here, this is former Cyber Command Director.
	So we have the military as Cyber Command.
	He's Major General Brett Williams.
	And he said something interesting in, I think, kind of the beginning of this clip, which I didn't catch the first time, but as I was editing it, I said, huh, that's interesting.
	What does the OPM hack say about cybersecurity in America today?
	Well, I think what it says is that we haven't all realized that we're past the wake-up call stage.
	I mean, the wake-up call has occurred.
	Everybody in the neighborhood is awake.
	How many times is a wake-up call?
	Exactly.
	How many more do we need?
	Well, the problem is people are stumbling around in the dark looking for the light switch, and there's been a guy hiding in the closet for five months who's putting on his night vision goggles.
	Woo!
	I'm scared now!
	And he's stealing the TV and jewelry and walking out the door.
	You know, my concern is how many of these people are already in places that we really care about.
	They're preparing.
	Did you hear it?
	No, you have to play it again.
	Okay, it's just that little bit there.
	So first of all, the analogy of 128 pages of questionnaire professionally documented for each individual, each of the almost 23 million people of background information is not the same as the thief walking out with the TV and some jewelry.
	It's a little different.
	I mean, right down to your medication, everything.
	It's just a big violation.
	So he's a little cavalier with that.
	But listen again to what he says here.
	People are stumbling around in the dark looking for the light switch, and there's been a guy hiding in the closet for five months who's putting on his night vision goggles, and he's stealing the TV and jewelry and walking out the door.
	My concern is how many of these people are already in places that we really care about.
	And I was like, what he's really saying is how many of these people are in places that we really care about?
	He's kind of implying that, because of course, OPM was done by China, right?
	We all know that.
	This is the guy who's going to admit, of course, it was done by China.
	It's only places we care about.
	I just see it the reverse of the way I think he intended it to sound.
	Well, explain more.
	People, so it's places we care about, that's where all of a sudden we're going to have all these attacks from.
	Which, of course, is not true.
	So we care about China, we care about Russia, we care about North Korea.
	It doesn't matter where it is, we'll just care about it all of a sudden.
	And then we'll say, oh yes, we have guys over there in China attacking us.
	So this guy was the head of, what is his title?
	Well, he's retired.
	Okay, well, he is still working.
	I mean, he works for IronNet Cybersecurity.
	Of course.
	Of course.
	And what he calls himself, because you write your own bio on LinkedIn.
	I'm going to read it.
	Brett Williams, Major General, USAF. Tired.
	Cybersecurity thought leader and president of operations and training division of the IronNet Cybersecurity Company in D.C. Metro.
	And so he's a thought leader.
	Well, all of this comes at a very convenient time for the president's release on July 9th of his fact sheet, the administration's cybersecurity efforts 2015.
	And they have all these, this press release has all these highlighted words and parts of sentences highlighted, which I believe that is intended to jump out and tell the reader this is what's important.
	So why don't I just read the bold bits?
	Okay.
	And we'll see if it makes any sense.
	This is, okay, fact sheet.
	Supported private sector efforts to improve cybersecurity.
	Gained commitments to address the challenge.
	White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection.
	Over two dozen companies made commitments.
	Spurred information sharing.
	Executive order to encourage the development of information sharing and analysis organizations.
	Automated sharing of cyber threat indicators.
	Automated, automated.
	Cyber information sharing and collaboration programs.
	Cyber Guardian.
	Proposed new cybersecurity legislation.
	The President sent Congress a new cybersecurity legislative proposal.
	Information Sharing and Data Breach Notification.
	I'm just reading the highlights.
	Enhanced public-private collaboration of public-private tabletop exercises.
	Whoa!
	That sounds sexy.
	Hey, maybe we're doing some tabletop exercises later in the break room.
	Cybersecurity workshops.
	Open offices in Silicon Valley.
	Software and supply chain assurance forum.
	Established partnerships to secure technology.
	Stakeholder engagement on cybersecurity and digital ecosystem.
	Initiated a multi-stakeholder process on vulnerability research disclosure.
	National Security Center of Excellence.
	Protected consumers.
	Identity ecosystem framework.
	Buy secure initiative.
	I'm only halfway through the document.
	And then we have eGovCyber, adopted more secure technologies.
	Federal cybersecurity civilian strategy deployed new capabilities.
	Einstein 3A, accelerate phase two of the continuous diagnostics and mitigation program.
	These people are, everything's public-private, everything's sharing, everything's being automated between the companies we do business with and the government.
	Interesting.
	It just keeps on going.
	Well.
	Hmm. - What, hmm?
	Well, a couple of things.
	Okay.
	Well, one of them is, yeah, go on.
	Well, I was going to say, then there's this Alan Davidson, ever hear of him?
	No.
	He is a former Google executive that was just hired.
	Gee, I wonder if Megan Smith had anything to do with it.
	Megan Smith, is that her name?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Davidson was...
	So he is now assuming a newly created position of Director of Digital Economy.
	And he was...
	What the hell was he?
	He's been hired by the Commerce Department.
	Shoot, hold on.
	The Commerce Department is going to be playing a central role on some of the biggest issues that we're going to be facing from internet governance to surveillance to privacy to patent reform, he said.
	A whole set of issues where the department has a lot of work to do.
	But really, what these articles that I'm finding, I think maybe Politico interviewed him.
	He is saying, I believe in strong encryption.
	And he believes, let me see if I have a quote here, we believe that encryption is an essential tool, Davidson told guests on Wednesday morning at the Crypto Summit hosted by Privacy Group Access.
	I guess they got the deal.
	But we don't think that's incompatible with public safety.
	There you go.
	This is a big battle that's going on.
	But they're stealing Google guys to make it happen.
	So you have to think that Google is just going, whatever.
	Just tell us what to do, both.
	Alright, since we're on this topic, let's play a couple of clips that should be played.
	I've been amused by the redefining of the data breach that they keep talking about.
	This is the OPM data breach?
	Well, the one, the big one, the OPM. Yeah, that's what I said, the OPM data breach.
	OPM. OPM. Yeah, every time, it's always more.
	Yeah, it's up to 23 million.
	Yeah, of course.
	You play data breach, a funnier every minute clip.
	More than 21 million Americans have personal information stolen from government files in a data breach that was six times as large as originally disclosed.
	Six times?
	The information was hacked from the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, which said today it is highly likely that anyone who went through background checks to apply for a government position since 2000 was affected.
	Congratulations and salutations.
	They might just say everybody who ever tried to get a job with the government.
	But it's six times larger than they.
	She said 21 million.
	I think now it's up to 22 million.
	Isn't that a tenth of the American workforce?
	Isn't it?
	I don't know.
	It's a lot.
	But it's got to be a great file.
	This is a cold start to any intelligence.
	You want to start a new intelligence agency?
	Boom.
	You've got to start.
	A big start right here.
	Effortless.
	Play data breach.
	You've got a zip file of that?
	Joining us to fill in the blanks is Josh Liederman of the Associated Press, who's been covering the story.
	In terms of scope, we know this is huge.
	But how is it different from the earlier hacks we've heard about, Josh?
	Well, what we're finding out now, Gwen, is not only were many more Americans affected than we previously knew, but just what kinds of data.
	We're talking about very personal data that most people will be very uncomfortable knowing is out there.
	We're talking about people's health histories, their criminal histories, their educational and residency backgrounds, as well as interviews that they conducted with members of OPM, the Office of Personnel Management, or other people conducting background checks in the process of applications to get a security clearance.
	In fact, all the kinds of information that we're warned to protect with our lives, social security numbers, biometric fingerprints.
	That's right.
	As well as usernames and passwords that a lot of these applicants used as they were trying to get their applications.
	It's going to be like the pod people where your friend will just all of a sudden disappear and will come back and say, yeah, no, I had an accident and I had some plastic surgery done.
	It's going to be a spy.
	This is fantastic.
	You might as well play three.
	At the time, I remember there being speculation about who was behind the breach, who actually was, who the hackers were.
	Do we have any more indications of who that might have been?
	No new indication from the government.
	Now, many members of Congress, including Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and others, have said this was China.
	There have even been federal agencies that have said, without putting their own names on it, you know, we're pretty sure this is China.
	However, the White House, the Office The personnel management today declining to name who was responsible for this, only to say that they believe that these two breaches that we know about work by the same person, and that they're working behind the scenes to do what needs to be done in response to those breaches.
	Excellent.
	Inside job, Russian spy.
	Yeah, well done, everybody.
	That's fantastic.
	It's hilarious.
	These guys.
	I don't think I'm at that file.
	It's really, it's just, it's pathetic, really, when you think about it.
	Let me see.
	Before we thank some of our producers, I was thinking maybe...
	Let me see.
	Yeah.
	Just a general short little bit.
	Yeah?
	About ageism.
	Oh, ageism.
	You and I are always on the lookout for ageism because it's the one thing that, you know, just always creeps in there.
	Everybody's going to encounter it.
	And everybody who practices is going to encounter it.
	They're going to be sorry.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So let's start with...
	Oh, this must have been ABC, I think.
	Cokie Roberts, who used to be hot.
	Now she has that old lady short haircut.
	You know what I mean?
	Like Eleanor has an old lady short haircut.
	Yeah, except Cokie has curly hair, so it just looks like she's wearing Brillo pads or something.
	It's not a good look.
	If I was her stylist, I'd say Cokie, really.
	You can't be doing this.
	Put a cap on that or something.
	A bowler hat.
	So they're talking about Hillary and Hillary's plan, what she's going to be campaigning with and on.
	That's where she really has a problem, I think.
	It's not so much the emails and all that, because that's hard for voters to care about.
	But she's not on her game in these interviews.
	She's just not there yet.
	I did think she said one thing that I think we're going to be hearing a lot about.
	She said, what voters care about is who will be there when they need them.
	And I think that's going to be her theme.
	And that somewhat plays into the grandmother thing.
	I want you to continue.
	But how old is this clip?
	I got it as brand new.
	Wow.
	Because this clip could have been from 2007.
	Oh.
	Because that was Hillary's ad.
	Oh, well, there you go.
	The phone ringing.
	Who's going to pick it up?
	Right.
	But that was who's going to pick up the phone at 3 a.m.
	in the White House, not for the old person who's going to take care of me and I have dementia.
	Oh, is that what this is?
	That's what this is about.
	Oh, I thought she was referring to the country, not individuals.
	Okay, back it up.
	Excuse me.
	Her theme.
	And that somewhat plays into the grandmother theme.
	What?
	I'm getting old.
	I can't follow the clips.
	You should vote Hillary.
	Plays into the grandmother theme because, you know, your grandmother is there when you need her.
	And I think that that's a way of dealing with this age issue because that's going to be a real issue.
	Okay.
	So I find that whole conversation to be a little troubling, but more so troubling when while this kind of age thing, bordering on ageism, because of course you want your grandmother, you want your grandmother to be there to take care of.
	Is that how she's going to deal with her age because she's a grandmother now?
	Is that it?
	Because her kid has the evil spawn of Satan?
	It's funny.
	And so I was willing to just disregard this until I saw the president speaking at a conference on ageism.
	And my ears perked up, as you can imagine.
	Now, could you explain ageism just so I understand it?
	Because I may have it all wrong.
	I may have it all wrong, and I may just be oversensitive being 50.
	No, why don't you tell me what you think it is, and I'll tell you if you're right or wrong.
	It's discrimination based on age, old or young.
	I think any age is the way I would look at it.
	I think that's right on the money.
	And even if it's reverse discrimination, it's still discrimination, right?
	Discrimination is discrimination.
	Here's the president starting off of this.
	This is just the first 40 seconds of this conference, this forum against ageism.
	And of course, as always, we start off with, hi, everybody!
	Welcome to the White House conference on aging, everybody.
	I want to...
	Especially point out one of my favorite former members of Congress, a legend who's here today, John Dingell.
	Woo!
	John Dingell!
	Thank you.
	John was elected to Congress when he was just 29.
	An overachiever.
	Now, this is not only ageist, it is also sexist.
	For some reason, when you're 29, you can't be brilliant.
	I know he's saying it's a positive thing, but really?
	And if this was a woman...
	Well, he's also doing it in a manner that is kind of...
	Jokey.
	Yeah, it was kind of...
	There's a word I'm looking for.
	I can't think of it because I'm too old.
	Insincere?
	Go on.
	Insincere?
	It is insincere, but it's...
	Patronizing, it's just negative.
	29 is, I mean, 29 is not like, wow, it may even be meaning like, took you to 29, I was brilliant at 23.
	Hey, most of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are less old than 29.
	Yeah, snarky, jocular, condescending.
	It's slightly condescending.
	Okay.
	But then also saying, overachiever.
	If this dingleberry, if he was a woman...
	Then it would be a huge sexist comment.
	Because, of course, a woman, when she does, excels, then she's an overachiever.
	Or if it was black, black guy.
	Right?
	Exactly.
	So it is an ism, no matter which way you look at it.
	But then, and this is still the same opening 40 seconds.
	Last week, John turned 89, so we want to wish John a happy birthday.
	He's been a retiree for six months, but he's keeping busy.
	Just check out his Twitter feed if you don't believe him.
	See?
	He's still got some pretty strong opinions.
	Still, because even though you're old, you might barely have some pretty strong opinions, old man, with your Twitter feed.
	That's the first 40 seconds of this whole conference.
	Yeah.
	Screw that guy.
	I kind of...
	I think what happens...
	Yeah, isolating and pointing out an old person.
	Oh, look at this guy.
	I think what happened is they put the second Obama who was kicking ass and singing in church and stuff, and then they put this one...
	Obama one is back, but he's trying to keep up with Obama two.
	Could be.
	That would make sense.
	Don't you feel that?
	Well, I haven't really seen this Obama back.
	I haven't been following Obama that closely.
	Well, okay.
	Listen to this.
	I heard him do his thing about why they have to vote, why they can't...
	Well, when we talk to the Iranian thing, we'll discuss...
	Before you get to that, just listen to the president.
	He was at the NAACP. I think it was a big blustrum, a big anniversary for the NAACP. Yes, I believe so.
	90 years or 100 years or something.
	Some long time.
	And here he is.
	And it's not just senators.
	This is a cause that's bringing people in both houses of Congress together.
	He's doing opposites.
	So he's saying that this cause is bringing the right and the left together.
	It's created some unlikely bedfellows.
	Unlikely bedfellows.
	You've got Van Jones and Newt Gingrich.
	You've got Americans for Tax Reform and the ACLU. And then?
	You've got the NAACP and the Koch brothers.
	So it's like the white assholes and the black people.
	Koch brothers!
	Yeah, but he does defend it.
	It's kind of interesting because the crowd goes...
	You've got the NAACP and the Koch brothers.
	Fuck the white rich man!
	No, you've got to give him credit.
	Give him credit.
	You've got to call it like you see it.
	And it was laughing.
	Hey, Obama had another good joke about those a-holes.
	Call it like you see it?
	Yeah, call it like you see it!
	What is he calling?
	That the Koch brothers are good guys.
	And they're able to...
	Who knows?
	Yeah, we really don't know what he meant exactly.
	But...
	This has got to be...
	This has got to be the...
	The original Obama.
	Don't you think?
	I'd have to see more of it.
	I know one of the Obamas of the twins.
	I wonder if you're listening to the show for the first time or thinking of this conversation.
	One of them shouts when he talks, and that guy there is shouting.
	Okay, so we'll call him Obama S. Yeah, the shouter.
	The shouter.
	But we don't have to identify the other guy then.
	But the other guy is...
	I think the other guy is the second stringer.
	I think he's the guy who just comes in as a body double in a situation where he could get shot.
	This is where people go, I can't listen to this show.
	This is just too crazy.
	I can't listen to this show.
	These guys are nuts.
	That's right.
	Well, with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C, where the C stands for Crusher 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 knights out there.
	In the morning to the chat room, everybody, all the human resources who are in and listening to the stream, noagendastream.com.
	In the morning to Uncle Dave...
	Who created the artwork for episode 738.
	And I want to thank Martin JJ for the artwork that was done in the newsletter, which is really a superb piece that was an evergreen piece.
	The more I look at it, the more I say, that is just a nice piece.
	It's the jigsaw puzzle with the logo over the front.
	As though we're putting the pieces together.
	And he had, let's see, what did he do?
	Oh, of course, he did the eagle.
	The eagle trying to grab the cat, the kitten.
	Wow, you're really cutting out, John.
	Oh.
	Can you just talk for a second so I can see what's going on?
	Yeah, yeah, testing, testing, testing.
	Man, you went down to like zero dog biscuits.
	Can I turn the volume back up?
	Maybe I'll get some more gain.
	How about this?
	Yeah, well, you're hammering it now.
	No, it's okay.
	No, no, no.
	Up at Dog Biscuit.
	Dog Biscuit.
	Dog Biscuit.
	Yeah.
	Up one, two, Dog Biscuit.
	Are you sure there's not some kind of automatic thing that somehow got switched on?
	I mean, it could happen.
	I don't want to blame you.
	I really don't.
	I don't.
	In fact, you do it anyway.
	As big cities were making plans for July 4th celebrations, the FBI was making arrests.
	Some of those rounded up, the FBI says, we're talking about killing people during the holiday.
	There is a device, almost a devil on their shoulder all day long, saying, kill, kill, kill.
	Kill, kill, kill.
	Kill, kill, kill.
	We need to kill them.
	That's too bad.
	I thought that was going to be the...
	That was the clip about the bird.
	I'm sorry.
	That was a clip.
	Yeah, that's a little bit odd.
	Yeah.
	That clip was interesting because when we get the background on it, it's an overlay of some crazy Get Smart episode.
	Ah, here it is.
	I know it went wrong.
	Check this out.
	You know, I still remember BB when I was probably four or five.
	And you and Miriam and Roxanna, my sisters, dressed me up as a bald eagle.
	Anybody who has been around bald eagles would say the same thing.
	Their pest is Ted Cruz.
	We dressed you up like a bald eagle.
	On the 4th of July.
	They're a pest.
	They kill kittens.
	They grab kittens, little puppies.
	I mean, I was your giant doll, and you had me walking through the house dressed as a bald eagle.
	I didn't know this about the eagles.
	They're a horrible animal.
	There you go.
	A lot of people responded to this.
	Yes, I noticed.
	And most people were in agreement.
	Now, I have to tell one more story, then, since you brought it up.
	Go.
	Go, go, go.
	Apparently, when I was talking about the kitten that my wife saw, she said the topper is that there was a well-known story in the city of Port Angeles at the hospital.
	The hospital where there's a bunch of geriatrics and people that are on life support, they have this huge window.
	Overlooking the straits of Juan de Fuca.
	And they're all sitting there looking over.
	Oh, it's so pleasant, so nice.
	And across their view, apparently gave a bunch of these old farts apoplexy, was a bald eagle carrying a small poodle.
	Ha ha ha!
	Ha ha ha!
	Fantastic.
	Is there a video?
	Is there a vine?
	We need a vine.
	I wish.
	Oh, man.
	All right.
	But then somebody sent a very good video in about this golden eagles, which are slightly heavier.
	We're killing two seagulls.
	And they have better claws, apparently, than the bald eagle.
	I was killing seagulls.
	Well, the seagull one.
	Besides that, there's a whole video about this one guy taking on a whole herd of goats.
	And first he knocks one goat off of the cliff, and the goat falls to its death.
	The eagle goes down to try to eat the damn thing, and all these other goats ramble down there, and they try to ram the eagle to get rid of him.
	And so he has to keep leaving.
	He gives up for a while.
	And then shortly thereafter, he finds the right-sized goat, grabs a live goat, and hauls him off.
	You know, so the more I think about it, this fits our country exactly.
	We're like a big-ass, kitten-snatching, poodle-carrying, sheep-killing, freedom-loving people.
	Yeah, it feels free.
	And we look handsome while we do it.
	There you go.
	That's why the eagle, the bald eagle, is the symbol of the United States of America.
	Dun-da-da-da!
	Take that.
	Well, we do have some people to thank for show 739.
	The spreadsheet will open.
	I'll thank them.
	First of all, we have an InstaNight.
	Oh, nice.
	And this is a very good story.
	This is a little long, but this is very interesting because we now have a beer.
	Oh, yes, yes.
	I'm going to put this in the show notes, the label.
	Yes.
	He's going to have to send us some labels.
	The Instanite Luke Nicholas in Auckland, North Island, New Zealand, $1,000.
	Gentlemen, it's been a great honor that I join the roundtable as an Instanite.
	In celebration of this, I have brewed up a batch of beer that will be released following the show 739 at the 8th Annual West Coast IPA Challenge in Wellington, New Zealand.
	Bingo!
	Boom!
	Shakalaka!
	I'm calling it Epic No Agenda.
	And the style is an ITM Brown Ale.
	It's actually India Brown Ale or Brown IPA, which is, I think, Newcastle's, which people love, is one of those types of beers.
	Mm-hmm.
	There are 10,000 bottles and it will be available nationwide in New Zealand and the small amount will be available in specialty beer stores in Australia by the end of the month.
	I have forwarded a copy of the Epic No Agenda beer label which might be fun as album art.
	I'll try to get you some beer but we may need to tap into the No Agenda network in New Zealand to see if we can find a beer mule traveling to the U.S. anytime soon.
	Beer mule?
	Beer mule.
	I'd like to be known as Sir Epic Beer of the Hopfields.
	Thank you.
	It would be fun if you could play each of the jingles which featured on the No Agenda label.
	So when people see that label, by the way, you can go to na.epicbeer.com.
	Actually, I'm also...
	Oh, they have that?
	So I don't have to do this.
	na.epicbeer.com.
	Check it out.
	na.epicbeer.com.
	And then listen to this episode.
	No, no, no.
	It forwards to No Agenda show.
	Oh, okay.
	Hold on, hold on.
	Here's what I can do.
	I'm going to put the...
	Keep going.
	I'm going to put it...
	Listen to this episode.
	Understand the label and show a little more.
	Hit people in the mouth.
	Shut up already.
	It's science.
	Bingo, boom, shakalaka.
	ITM and a big scoop of debt reduction karma would be great.
	This is what he wants for his jingles.
	Yeah, you're going to have to tell me that again.
	Okay.
	I'm getting ready?
	No.
	Hold on.
	Hit people in the mouth.
	Hold on a second.
	Hold on a second.
	Epicgrumpyradio.com.
	Epic.grumpy...
	Fuck.
	Why is it not working?
	Yeah, I want people to be able to see this.
	Okay.
	So it's epic.grumpyradio.com.
	There you can see it.
	How did you get Grumpy Radio?
	It's a story, but...
	The friend of mine is running Grand Prix Radio.
	It's an internet base, and they have the rights to do Formula One reports.
	But he has an English chick doing all the jingles and the imaging, and it says, Welcome to Grumpy Radio!
	And I keep hearing Grumpy Radio.
	Grumpy Radio.
	It was a sign from the heavens.
	Grumpy Radio.
	Like, it's Grumpy Radio.
	I gotcha.
	I understand what you're doing here.
	I gotcha.
	I gotcha, Hatsaracha.
	So she's saying Grand Prix.
	Grand Prix.
	Grand Prix.
	Here's what he needs.
	Hold on.
	We already got to hit people in the mouth as part of the final.
	But I could do it.
	Shut up already.
	It's science, bingo, boom, shakalaka, and karma.
	Okay.
	Kiki was shut up already.
	It's science, bingo, boom, shakalaka, and debt reduction karma.
	Okay.
	I don't know.
	Let me finish.
	Yeah.
	He said it would be great since he just bought out his business partner and needed to borrow a bunch of money to make it happen.
	So looking to get this paid back as soon as I can.
	You keep deconstructing the media and I'll keep punching people in the mouth with hops.
	Here's Luke Nicholas, Epic Brewing Company, New Zealand.
	Winner of the best IPA trophy in the 2015 Australian International Beer Award.
	Yeah, guys no slouch.
	No, this guy's no slouch.
	It's fantastic.
	We have a lot of brewmasters that listen to the show, that's for sure.
	We need to pick one to be our official brewmaster, but maybe we don't have to.
	So the Epic, by the way, Epic is a registered trademark I see on the bottle.
	It's 500 milliliters, so it's half a liter of beer.
	It's got a little 33 on there, bingo, boom, shakalaka, ITM brown ale.
	Yeah, it's fantastic.
	What is this?
	What is this stuff?
	Who wants to drink that?
	And he's making 10,000 bottles commercially, so this is not going to be some, you know...
	This is the real deal, man.
	John, congratulations.
	You're welcome.
	Well, my mom, may she rest in peace, would be proud of me.
	Mom?
	For being part of a beer company.
	That's right.
	Shut up already!
	Science! You've got karma.
	All right, great.
	Look forward to the ceremony.
	For the nighting later today.
	Nice, nice, nice.
	Sir Dwayne Melanson, Duke of the Pacific Northwest, came in with $739 from Tigard, Tigard, Tigard, Tigard, Oregon.
	Tigard, Tigard.
	Uh, Tigard.
	ITM Gents from the Duke of the Pacific Northwest, nice job on their retrospective and interview shows to get a bit of a break.
	Well deserved.
	I have successfully hit two people in the mouth after a long dry spell and wanted to donate in celebration.
	Karma to all the Knights and Dames.
	Thank you very much.
	He also sent a second note in to me saying he's going for Archduke before the end of the year.
	Fantastic.
	Well, thank you very much for your support of the program.
	You've got karma.
	End of the work.
	Kevin Anderson in Milford, Michigan, 33333.
	I continue my path to knighthood with this donation.
	We have cut the cord, and I can no longer stand listening to traditional news programs.
	No Agenda is my only news source, and I'm better for it.
	I'd like to give a douchebag and Ebola it's gross to my mom, who has listened to N.A. but still relies on Fox News for her information.
	She says you talk about diarrhea too much.
	What?
	That's what I said.
	What?
	I don't think we've ever...
	I think it was during our Ebola reportage.
	Oh, yes.
	I'm looking for the...
	What was the NPR chick?
	Who did that?
	Yeah, the Ebola.
	It's gross.
	Was it this one?
	Hmm...
	Give her a douchebag.
	That's what he wants to do.
	Douchebag!
	Do that to your mother even.
	But I wish I could find the gross one.
	I think I know what he's talking about.
	It's gross.
	It's me.
	We have so many...
	What is it?
	Ebola chick or something.
	Just one more second.
	I'd love to find it because I only have the ISO. If you're going Ebola.
	I have that.
	Ebola.
	Okay, well, I'll look for maybe at the end of the show.
	Mr.
	Pre-Self-Radicalized, 33333.
	Heyo, Casanova and Potfather.
	If you read my name and location on the air, ignore this line.
	We didn't read your name or your location.
	I'd like to anonymize myself as Mr.
	Preradicalized for Parts Unknown.
	I know it's also available here, and he's got something.
	Longtime boner, first-time donor, the saying goes, it's long overdue as the No Agenda show has had, and John, you may read this in your announcer voice, a profound positive impact on my life.
	A couple years ago, it's the best I can do.
	A couple years ago, if I had a cup, I could do better.
	Actually.
	Actually.
	A profound positive impact on my life.
	A couple years ago when I finally escaped from the local slave training camp, i.e.
	began my homeschooling career, my dad introduced the No Agenda show as the central component of my current events curriculum.
	Heyo!
	Nice.
	He first tasked me with episode 200.5, but I admit, I started listening at around midnight and actually dozed off halfway through.
	The next bad idea.
	But the next day, my dad had me analyze the episode on the Leviathan gas field.
	And after that, I was hooked.
	Since then, I've pulled no agenda material for numerous English papers.
	The show notes are an excellent...
	By the way, this is absolutely true, and people should take note if you're students.
	The show notes are an excellent resource for writing essays.
	Yes, and you can also go to search.nashownotes.com, archive.noagendanotes.com, and the search is really what nails it, because all of our show notes are all in structured data format with some skip logic, And therefore, they are very easily indexed, and that's what we have with search.nashownotes.com.
	You can find all these links from any show notes page.
	It's always in there.
	He continues.
	I attribute my acquisition of a high-paying job in the software industry with no more than a homeschooling diploma in part to the insightful mindset you guys have provided me.
	the jobs karma.
	Wow.
	Your show provides me with a constant stream of entertainment during my commute.
	Also, Adam, whenever I see a stop sign or any hexagon for that matter.
	I think a stop sign is an octagon.
	I think of how stupid you are for not knowing how many sizes it has.
	I got you.
	Nailed it.
	I also recently discovered a security flaw in an online homework system at my college.
	I was considering ransoming the answer in the form of a no-agenda donation.
	How much do you think I should ask for?
	A thousand?
	Yeah.
	I just have one jingle request.
	The original, unabridged, Adam's Gonna Read His Email song.
	Adam's Gonna Read His Email Adam's Gonna Read His Email You know, that email, that warms my heart, John.
	We made a difference in a young man's life.
	I think it's a big deal.
	Yes!
	I'm not being facetious.
	It warms my heart.
	It fills my heart with joy.
	Alright, onward.
	Yeah, no, we have an unbelievably diverse audience.
	Another reason we never get sponsorships is because we're not targeted.
	That's right.
	We can't target at all.
	We've got to have 1824 females buying records by rap guys.
	Yeah, that's what you need.
	Okay, here we go.
	Hey man, fist bump.
	How'd that?
	Did I get the Kanye with that?
	Yeah, no.
	Okay.
	Yeah, no.
	Sir Blake, the knight.
	Oh, that's right.
	Sir Blake finally comes in because he's the knight of procrastination.
	Yes.
	Two, three, four, five, six in Los Angeles, California.
	Knight of procrastination to you.
	A little drunk.
	A little overdue for donating.
	Give all the citizens out there some shut-up slave mac and cheese, two-to-the-head karma.
	Hold on a second.
	Give me that again?
	No.
	I'm having trouble reading the spreadsheet today.
	Oh.
	Yeah.
	Oh, if you told me that earlier, I would be more...
	I thought you just wanted me to insult myself with a crappy Chinese pronunciation.
	No, no, no.
	Shut up, slave!
	Yeah, okay.
	Mac and cheese.
	Yeah.
	Shoot it ahead.
	Karma.
	Okay.
	See, normally when I... I can't read the spreadsheet for some reason.
	I'm very sorry about that.
	So now I can't read ahead and get everything all prepared.
	Yeah, I'm going to try and...
	I think you're excused.
	You're in Rotterdam.
	Yeah, but I don't like that.
	And then the crappy connection here stinks.
	I've got to keep changing things.
	Okay.
	Shut up!
	Do you hear Miles ridiculing my...
	Oops, wrong one.
	How did that happen?
	You should have let that...
	What was that?
	I don't know.
	Thass.
	What's thass?
	Thigh plus ass equals thass.
	And after three kids, my badge is like the Holland Tunnel.
	Sometimes I walk around and it sounds like somebody's stirring mac and cheese.
	Mac and Cheese by Ayn Rand.
	That's television.
	You've got karma.
	That's right.
	TV it is.
	Oh, Xie Xiong Wu is...
	Xie Xiong Wu!
	Xie Xiong Wu!
	Finally, last but not least, Sir Kevin Dills, the Knight of the Queen City, sent in a check and a note that he wrote.
	Encloses a little 200.7 value for value.
	Episode 736, show 200.7.
	Redux was an outstanding product.
	Oh, thank you.
	I am extremely thankful for the two of you and all the hard work that you do.
	All I ask for in return is a por la mañana.
	That's all he wants?
	Thank you for your courage.
	Por la mañana!
	There you go.
	Give him a karma.
	I would like to do that.
	Absolute.
	Bonus!
	Bonus!
	Bonus time on the agenda show.
	You got a bonus.
	You got a bonus.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Anyway, that concludes our list of the executive and associate executive producers for show 739.
	We want to remind people we do have a show coming up a short week on Sunday, a couple days from now, and that'll be show 740.
	We still need your help.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Yes, and as always, these credits are real.
	They work just like in Hollywood, so you can put them anywhere where credits are accepted or recognized.
	Your LinkedIn profile seems to be a very appropriate place.
	People like to check you out and see what you're doing.
	And if you are a producer, you actually are a producer.
	And unlike the phonies in Hollywood, we will, of course, vouch for you.
	Of course, we always need you out there supporting us, supporting the work by propagating the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out...
	We hit people in the mouth.
	Hey, citizens.
	Shut up, flame.
	Can't get enough of it.
	Can't get enough of it.
	Can't get enough of it.
	It's funny that it's the same beat.
	No, he completely manipulated that.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	He had to cut it all up to make it fit.
	Absolutely.
	Well, that sounds like the same beat to me.
	Yeah, but it's excellently done.
	That's what it is.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's superb.
	It's very well done.
	Very well done.
	And I realize that a lot of people probably don't even know what that's from.
	Do you think people get it by now?
	I think people who hear it for the first time without the context of the original...
	No.
	We have people that listen to the show and they just give up on that kind of thing.
	What's the point?
	Well, yeah.
	What was it?
	Was it this piece?
	No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no hey!
	You see?
	Very different.
	So that was completely cut.
	Yeah, you're right.
	You're right.
	I was fooled by expertise.
	It is.
	I have to throw a make good in here because I don't know how many times we can do this.
	But Candace Harris has been writing and writing and writing because we missed, according to her, Brett Harris' Father's Day call-out.
	I thought we did this twice now.
	I thought we did it twice, but we're doing it again because now I'm making a point of it because I know where it is.
	I'm making a note where it is in case, you know, we're still looking for the call-out.
	Brett Harris, hey!
	She mentioned the last note that it's hard at entering.
	You've got a fine daughter, my friend.
	You've got a daughter that's persistent.
	She should go into sales.
	And happy Father's Day, Brett Harris.
	Fantastic.
	We're sorry if we messed that up.
	Didn't do it on purpose.
	Okay, let me lead you into it.
	I'm going to lead you into it.
	Lead you into the Iran deal, which was obviously very big news here because it kind of happened in good news time hours and people were always looking for content during the summer.
	So it was on every single channel.
	I was watching BBC, RTL News, Euro News, Sky News.
	Then it was all, you know...
	Pretty unanimous in their coverage.
	So we have a deal.
	We have a deal.
	Deal!
	We got a deal.
	We got a deal.
	And I was really surprised.
	Now, who do you think, which Obama is this?
	Hold on, you tell me.
	Listen to this.
	This is an older clip.
	Which Obama is it?
	Obama S, which stands for, what does it stand for again?
	Shouting.
	Shouting Obama.
	Right.
	Is Obama-esque or is it the other Obama?
	Shouting Obama is a better...
	Ready?
	Yeah.
	We can't then axe the police.
	Axe the police.
	So this is the Obama who has the ebontics.
	Right?
	That is the shouting Obama, I believe.
	So the shouting Obama is the guy who says axe.
	I think so.
	Okay.
	We can't then axe the police.
	Okay.
	So that's the shouting Obama.
	Then this must be the shouting Obama, but he wasn't really shouting, but he was making a point about, you know, if the Iranians, if they don't let us, you know, check out, if they're trying to sneak around and do a back-end deal with uranium.
	And the visual of this is some guy, you know, in a turban, and he's got a wheelbarrow, and he's like walking out some uranium from the uranium mine.
	And then the president says something interesting.
	You know, there are only so many uranium mines in Iran.
	And if, in fact, we're counting the amount of uranium that's being mined and suddenly some's missing on the back end...
	This is the stuttering Obama.
	Well, you almost stepped on the punchline, so I'm going to pull it back.
	So it can be that the stuttering Obama is also the shouting Obama, who is also the Ebonics Obama.
	I don't think so.
	Well, listen, he's got it all in here.
	You know, there are only so many uranium mines in Iran.
	And if, in fact, we're counting the amount of uranium that's being mined and suddenly some's missing on the back end...
	They got some splainin' to do.
	Lucy, you got some splainin' to do!
	Wow.
	They got some splainin' to do.
	That is such an old reference.
	But it's not even okay.
	I mean, we're talking about the Iranians stealing uranium.
	Because if we say Iran, we have to say uranium.
	I feel.
	Stealing uranium.
	And then they got some splainin' to do?
	They got some splainin' to do.
	Some splainin' to do.
	Come on.
	They were...
	Okay.
	This whole thing is completely out of control.
	Some splainin' to do.
	Yeah, splainin'.
	This is the other guy.
	This is not the shouting Obama.
	Okay.
	I'm pretty sure.
	Well, the explaining to do and the act stuff is getting on my nerves.
	It's getting on my nerves.
	And then the stuttering.
	Lots of stuttering.
	Yeah.
	Now, one thing that is completely being mischaracterized is that here, and this I guess comes predominantly from the right, but it's all over the place.
	We're going to give them hundreds of billions of dollars?
	Why would we do all that?
	I just would like to point out There's $100 billion in frozen assets that will be released.
	It's their money.
	Their money.
	It's their money.
	But it's not being positioned that way.
	In fact, I've got some really stupid-ass morals.
	Play all the stupid crap you can.
	Do you like that?
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, let me start.
	Okay.
	Well, first, during this press conference, this was very interesting.
	I had to go and watch this on C-SPAN because Major Garrett is...
	Does he work for ABC? I believe so.
	That would make sense.
	Yeah.
	Major Garrett stands up.
	He's going to get banned, by the way, for what you're about to play.
	Well, it was a gambit, so I'm not sure how it's going to play out.
	But I saw spokeshole Josh Earnest sitting right there reading along with the script.
	Was it ABC? Just make sure he works for ABC. I'm looking right now.
	Okay.
	What they did is they went to a split screen so you could see Major Garrett.
	What a great name, by the way.
	Hey, everybody!
	Top of the hour!
	Z100 Major Garrett here with...
	CBS. CBS. Raphael.
	Major Garrett with CBS. Interesting.
	Well...
	So he is reciting his little script.
	The president is smirking.
	So they cut to this screen.
	And it was an ugly cut, by the way.
	And the president was smirking and smiling at his question.
	And then he had a kind of a decent comeback for this.
	Because it was meant to eliminate the entire issue.
	And I completely believe Major Garrett was complicit in this.
	Completely.
	You think this was a setup?
	Oh, yes, sir.
	You don't get to ask questions like that just off the...
	All the questions are handed in up front.
	Please.
	I didn't think about it, but I will say now, it absolutely has to be the case.
	So go back, and I have it in the show notes, go watch the C-SPAN footage where they don't cut away, and you just see Garrett, you know, side shot, and you see Spokeshole, you know, his eyes are open, but he is reading along with the script.
	Making sure he does the thing, does it right.
	And he's not freaking out or making some kind of, how dare you?
	How very, very dare you?
	You know, none of that.
	Okay.
	Thank you, Mr.
	President.
	As you well know, there are four Americans in Iran, three held on trumped-up charges according to your administration, one whereabouts unknown.
	Can you tell the country, sir, why you are content with all the fanfare around this deal to leave the conscience of this nation and the strength of this nation unaccounted for in relation to these four Americans?
	And last week, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said under no circumstances Should there be any relief for Iran in terms of ballistic missiles or conventional weapons?
	It is perceived that that was a last-minute capitulation in these negotiations.
	Man, in the Pentagon field, you've left the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff hung out to dry.
	Could you comment?
	Now, first of all, damn straight.
	That was good.
	And that was written.
	That was pre-written.
	I've done stuff.
	I've done interviews.
	I've done television.
	He may have even been reading it off a damn prompter for all I know.
	That was good.
	Big words.
	I've heard Garrett do a lot of work, and this is a little different than his normal thing.
	I don't even think he wrote this.
	Oh, no.
	Of course not.
	But he performed it brilliantly.
	Yes.
	And the president was ready.
	I've got to give you credit, Major, for how you craft those questions.
	Yeah, it was well written for him.
	What he really did right there was compliment the writer in an offhanded way.
	The notion that I'm content as I celebrate with American citizens languishing in Iranian jails?
	Major, that's nonsense.
	That's nonsense.
	You should know better.
	You should know better.
	Foo, bad boy, you should know better.
	You need a spanking.
	So we had that.
	Then we have, yes, I'm going to take you there.
	I'm going to take you there.
	This is very, very sad.
	This is, thank gosh, that we have the No Agenda show.
	Because I believe there are a lot of, certainly moms, women, but let's just say moms, grandmoms, sisters, daughters, and yes, young, impressionable women.
	Who watch The View and get their news from The View.
	And their opinions and their...
	Because of course it's a diverse group.
	We've got Rosie Perez.
	Whatever happened to her movie career?
	What did she do?
	But didn't she do?
	Yeah, okay.
	There you go.
	And then there's a...
	Did she not do?
	I forget who the Republican one is.
	Anyway, here they are.
	Whoopee, we'll kick it off.
	Six nations led by the U.S. just made a comprehensive long-term deal with Iran, and they say it's going to prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon and do all kinds of stuff.
	And, you know, a lot of conversation about this.
	Is it a good thing?
	Is it a bad thing?
	What do you Well, you know what I think?
	I think that we live in a very, very interesting and dangerous and difficult times.
	And sometimes you have to make your enemies your frenemies.
	So I understand the necessity.
	Iran, you're our frenemies.
	Before this deal, I have one issue with it.
	What's your issue, baby?
	The issue is that...
	What's your issue, baby?
	They are going...
	They say that we have 24-7 access to Iran and inspections, but they have to tip them off first.
	Okay?
	Tipping them off is like, oh, the police are coming to hide the drugs.
	Yeah.
	That's why she doesn't have a movie career, apparently.
	Something about hiding drugs.
	You know, my mother is from Israel.
	My entire extended family lives in Jerusalem.
	This is a topic that is very personal to me.
	You can guess what's coming now, can't you?
	Oh, God.
	You ready for it?
	Because my family could be blown away, okay?
	And that is Iran's intent.
	They said it this morning.
	I agree.
	That's right.
	I agree.
	You know, my poor mother is, like, forwarding me articles.
	Like, you know, this is a...
	Iran is a country they want to get rid of Israel.
	They want...
	They deny the Holocaust, where...
	My family was killed.
	They won't even say Israel.
	They won't say the word Israel.
	And now you're giving them hundreds of billions of dollars.
	If you think they're going to be building schools with this money, you're wrong.
	This is money that's going to be going towards weapons and towards murder.
	Damn!
	Raven Simone.
	Oh, is that Raven Simone?
	No, that was Rosie Perez.
	No, it was just Rosie Perez before that.
	Then it was Raven Simone who said the Jewish thing.
	Oh, in the background, but it was some white chick who's talking about her extended family in Israel.
	Oh, that would be Nicole Wallace.
	There you go.
	And Nicole Wallace was just fired.
	Oh!
	Really?
	Yeah, so she said something wrong.
	Hmm.
	Okay, then this was my favorite clip out of all of this, though.
	Are you ready for this?
	I mean, you need tissues.
	It's a tearjerker.
	Tearjerker Clip of the Day.
	Fantastic.
	This is Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Wendy Sherman.
	And Wendy was part of the team.
	As you know, we applaud the efforts of the team, the successful efforts, the valiant work done by Watermelon Head John Kerry, Mufant Funtifanti.
	That's our guy, right?
	Mufant.
	The hair guy?
	Right, the guy.
	The bouffant guy.
	Bouffant, bouffant, bouffant.
	And Wendy.
	Wendy Sherman, who, I mean, she's just giving it all that she can.
	And she's a true patriot, ladies and gentlemen.
	Wendy Sherman is.
	Along with John F. Carey.
	Sit down or I'll break into tears.
	The tears are largely exhaustion.
	Doing these kind...
	Did you hear that?
	She worked so hard.
	John.
	He's exhausted.
	He's crying.
	Where was this meeting?
	No, this is the press announcement.
	No, I'm saying when she was working hard, wasn't she like in some fancy hotel?
	Vienna?
	Was it Vienna?
	I think it was Vienna.
	Yeah, some fancy place in Vienna and they were just...
	She's going to give us some inside info.
	Largely exhaustion.
	Doing these kinds of negotiations is absolutely positively draining.
	After the cameras left, each of the ministers made a statement about what this meant to them.
	And the Secretary of State was the last...
	Person to speak.
	And he went through his remarks, which were moving in and of themselves.
	All of the remarks by all of the ministers, including Minister Zarif, were very moving.
	Because it was in private, and it was about what this deal meant to them.
	So at the end of it, Secretary Kerry, completely impromptu, said, When I was 22, I went to war.
	And then he choked up, sort of like I did a few minutes ago.
	He couldn't get the words out.
	And everybody was completely spellbound.
	And he sort of got his voice and said, I went to war and it became clear to me that I never wanted to go to war again.
	That's what this was all about.
	It was all about John Kerry.
	Trying to settle these matters through diplomacy and peaceful means.
	And it was such a moving moment that everybody in that small room applauded, including the Iranian delegation, and everyone had tears in their eyes.
	Why does that never happen on camera?
	That would have been a moment that could have changed the attitude of the world.
	For all the grief I give these a-holes, For one moment, if it's true, they're real, and then, oh, that was only after all the press was gone?
	You guys are idiots.
	Well, a couple things.
	One, they either don't understand media and that actually happened, or the story is bullcrap.
	Well, that's very possible.
	That's probably what I'm thinking.
	But certainly it's been embellished somewhat.
	And John Kerry, wasn't this whole swift boat thing that he claimed he was, you know...
	Yeah, it's questionable.
	Yeah, some Vietnam veterans may be like, screw that guy.
	I have some clips about this.
	You think he can still announce the run for president?
	Because he's probably so full of himself he's ready to do it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	He saved the world, pretty much.
	Even though, I will point out what this really is about.
	Have you seen all the deals that are being put together?
	Because now Iran, it's kind of, it's not like, I don't know if it's in the deal that they're forced to, but they're just going to be buying all kinds of weaponry.
	We are going to be stocking these guys up to the max, and they're going to go in to the Middle East and just rub a lies.
	Well, that's what I think the goal is.
	There was a guy they had on Democracy Now!
	He wrote a book about how we have to Be buddies with Iran and we could kick ass and take care of, you know, we could stop a lot of the action going on there in its tracks.
	I think a former CIA guy who's, I think, as I listen to this guy, I'm beginning to think, of course, why wouldn't this be the case, what I'm going to say, that there's factions within the CIA that are one thing and there's other factions that want another.
	For sure, for sure.
	Yeah, for sure.
	And this guy is on the faction that I think has not gotten the memo that we want to just destroy the whole area.
	We go now...
	Sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	Which is our thesis.
	And this would be the first clip, which is the pro-Iranian CIA analyst.
	We go now to Vienna, where we're joined again by Flint Leverett.
	Author of Going to Tehran, Why America Must Accept the Islamic Republic of Iran.
	He's a professor of international affairs at Penn State, served for over a decade in the U.S. government as a senior analyst at the CIA, a Middle East specialist for the State Department, and a senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council.
	Well, Flint, we spoke yesterday.
	Today, the deal has been reached.
	Can you tell us the outlines of it and your reaction to it?
	I think the outlines, I would emphasize three main sets of commitments.
	On the Iranian side, of course, there are a number of commitments spelled out relatively early on in the agreement, all totaled 159 pages with the annexes.
	But there is a set of commitments that Iran undertakes regarding certain limits on its nuclear activities that will address nonproliferation concerns that the United States and some other countries have had.
	As an analyst, I have personally never been persuaded that Iran was seeking to build a nuclear weapon.
	But for those who are concerned about that possibility or that risk, I think this is a very good deal from a nonproliferation standpoint.
	At the same time, in terms of nuclear commitments, I think Iran has achieved something very significant here, which is basically a recognition of the reality that states have a right to peaceful use of civil nuclear technology in all respects.
	This is not a right that is granted by the nonproliferation treaty.
	It is a sovereign right that's recognized by the treaty.
	From an Iranian perspective, the United States and the Security Council tried for years to deny Iran that right.
	And now, without Iran having sacrificed it, the international community is recognizing that right.
	And I think that's an important step on the nonproliferation front as well.
	The second big set of commitments concerns sanctions relief.
	In return for Iran accepting these limits on its nuclear capabilities, all international sanctions authorized by the United Nations Security Council are going to be removed.
	European Union sanctions against Iran will be terminated and the United States will, the language says, cease implementing its secondary sanctions, the sanctions that it threatens to impose on third countries that do business with Iran.
	The United States will stop implementing those sanctions, although they are likely to stay authorized in American law for some period of years.
	President Obama basically will waive the implementation of those sanctions.
	So I think that's another second set of commitments.
	Okay, there's a couple of things that I thought were interesting, because nobody else was talking about this.
	No, that was a very detailed report, actually.
	Yes, this guy's good.
	It's well known, and I think you can confirm this with Atomic Rod, that the Iranians have been into a nuclear engineering to an extreme, and supposedly have some of the top scientists in the world working on it.
	Just so you know, I sent Atomic Rod the full 128 pages, I think it is, PDF. I know he received it, so he will get back to us for sure.
	Good.
	And they were prohibited from doing the kind of work you need to do.
	And I think they're working on the backyard nukes and things like that.
	Because they have, like somebody mentioned in the other report, that they have these mines and they have these schools and they have a bunch of stuff going on.
	And we're, it seems to me, and I think part of the CIA would be part of this deal, it seems to me that we're the ones...
	That are promoting them making a bomb.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Exactly.
	Because we can sell a lot of stuff if they actually make a bomb.
	But they keep saying we're not interested in making a bomb.
	We're doing basic research.
	And they keep claiming this.
	It may be a big lie.
	We believe that it's a big, or some of us, or some of the intelligence community say lies.
	It's a lie.
	They're trying to make a bomb.
	But there's been no evidence of this.
	And this guy goes on with a couple of more anecdotes that are worth listening to because he's kind of putting this in the proper perspective.
	But again, he's a pro-Iranian ex-CIA guy, and his perspective is from that clique within the agency.
	And I believe it's probably a pretty big clique, or this guy wouldn't be writing books and doing all this other stuff.
	Let's play part two of this.
	There's a special committee set up to deal with the issue of inspections with the International Atomic Energy Agency, asks to visit a non-nuclear site that it doesn't regularly inspect.
	And Iran is uncomfortable about that happening.
	There is now a committee process laid out which will, you know, review why does the IAEA want to come to this site?
	What is the basis for their concern?
	What are Iran's concerns about letting the agency in?
	And, you know, we'll weigh those and ultimately adjudicate or arbitrate those kinds of situations.
	All right, now this got my attention.
	Yep.
	What is this site?
	I don't know.
	They want to go to some non-nuke site that the Iranians don't want them to go to, but they want to go to it.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	Hmm.
	I wonder.
	This has got nothing to do with anything.
	Here we go.
	But they've got to go see this.
	Nothing to see here.
	Oh, look at that!
	What's that all about?
	I don't know.
	Does he explain it in clip three?
	No.
	Nobody explains it.
	Neither side has explained it.
	No one asks about it either.
	Of course.
	Wouldn't Amy Goodman say, hey, hold on a second?
	Amy Goodman is going to say nothing.
	And so I find this to be interesting.
	There must be something else going on.
	Something's going on.
	Flying saucer.
	Who knows?
	It's the site of the New Horizons, where they film it, where they film that little milk dud.
	There you go.
	Spit out milk dud.
	So now we have the third part of this.
	This was actually out of, believe me, about a 15-minute exposition.
	This guy is very long-winded.
	But this little other one, actually, I thought it made a very funny point.
	Mm-hmm.
	Since 1992, I've noticed this too, and I'm also going to point out.
	Since 1992, it's always been, oh, they're three to five years out.
	1996, oh, they're three to five years out.
	2000, three to five years out.
	Does that parallel anything like, oh, if we don't do something about climate change next month, it's the tipping point.
	It's all over.
	Well, here's three different clips from the news programs regarding this deal.
	I think it would be a good point to slip this in here.
	First, we have Bibi Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.
	And this is just a little bit the last part of his speech where it was really with the meat and the potatoes of what he was trying to say.
	Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, said on March 21st, That the deal does not limit Iran's aggression in any way.
	He said, negotiations with the United States on the nuclear issue and on nothing else.
	And three days ago he made that clear again.
	The United States, he said, embodies global arrogance and the battle against it will continue unabated even after the nuclear agreement is concluded.
	Now, I didn't hear about any of that.
	I didn't see any statement of that nature.
	Did people just ignore that?
	It could have happened, I guess, yeah.
	Here's what Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Iran's terrorist proxy Hezbollah, said about sanctions relief, which is a key component of the deal.
	He said, a rich and strong Iran will be able to stand by its allies and friends in the region more than at any time in the past.
	Translation?
	Iran's support for terrorism and subversion will actually increase after the deal.
	I love how he does that.
	Just say, here's what the guy said, and you say it in English, and you say, translation, he wants to kill us.
	That's fantastic.
	What a great strategy.
	Thanks, Bibi.
	It's a very funny technique.
	I hadn't noticed what he was trying to say there.
	In addition to filling Iran's terror war chest, this deal repeats the mistakes made with North Korea.
	There, too, we were assured that inspections and verifications would prevent a rogue regime from developing nuclear weapons.
	And we all know how that ended.
	It ended with a really shitty movie starring Seth Rogen?
	Yes, that's how it ended.
	How did it end?
	I don't want to see any more Seth Rogen movies.
	What is he trying to say?
	What happened?
	Has it ended?
	Did I miss something?
	Did North Korea nuke somebody?
	No, not yet.
	Not yet.
	The bottom line of this very bad deal is exactly what...
	Bad deal.
	Iran's president, Wuhan...
	That's so Middle Eastern to say that, isn't it?
	Bad deal.
	It's a bad deal.
	...said today.
	The international community is removing the sanctions...
	And Iran is keeping its nuclear program.
	By not dismantling Iran's nuclear program, in a decade this deal will give an unreformed, unrepentant and far richer terrorist regime the capacity to produce many nuclear bombs.
	In fact, an entire nuclear arsenal with the means to deliver it.
	Nice.
	What a stunning historic mistake.
	Israel is not done, is not bound by this deal with Iran.
	And Israel is not bound by this deal with Iran.
	He just repeated himself.
	Because Iran continues to seek our destruction.
	We will always defend ourselves.
	Okay.
	There you go.
	What else is new?
	So then we had, what was this, on CNBC, I think.
	It was a nice question, interview session.
	Here's a question about Bibi Netanyahu's speech posed to our friend, the head honcho of the Reptilian Party, Zbigniew Brzezinski.
	I'm just wondering, you heard Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday say this was one of the darkest days in human history.
	What was your reaction to that?
	Genghis Khan had nothing on this.
	I didn't actually...
	That was a pretty extreme statement.
	Extreme.
	He obviously wants to undo the deal.
	Is he going to succeed?
	Are you setting me up?
	Yep.
	I think it was in character.
	I think he's not a very serious person.
	He may entertain the Congress occasionally, because some people in Congress like to be entertained.
	But he's not really a very serious person.
	He dramatizes, he exaggerates, and I don't think Israel benefits from that.
	Wow, he's a clown!
	He's a clown?
	I agree with that.
	Yeah, he's a clown.
	He's just a clown.
	And then, this was NBC, Lindsey Graham...
	Yeah, this is kind of funny.
	It certainly wasn't on his agenda.
	What makes you think that a President Lindsey Graham would have any more luck than President Obama with Iran?
	I'll tell the Iranians you're not going to get a penny as long as you're the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
	I'll tell the Iranians we're not going to lift the UN arms embargo until you stop toppling your neighbors.
	I would make sure that you would never leave inspections, take inspections away as long as they were the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
	Secretary Kerry says that sounds good.
	That's a good soundbite.
	But ultimately, it's fantasy.
	You look at someone like Ronald Reagan.
	Did a nuclear deal with the Soviets.
	Didn't require them to renounce communism.
	You know what's a fantasy?
	It's to believe that the Ayatollah was building a power plant, not a bomb.
	A fantasy is to believe that this deal will not lead to a nuclear arms race in the Mideast.
	A fantasy is to believe that when they chant death to Israel, they're just kidding.
	Yep.
	Rebel eyes.
	He's right, though.
	He's right.
	How does the United States, how can he say, we would not let them, we would not let the UN arms embargo be lifted.
	We, as though we are the UN, screw the UN, it's the UN arms embargo, but we're the, apparently, we're the puppet masters.
	That's what he said.
	Gee!
	Hmm.
	Yeah.
	You think?
	I'm shocked.
	We have to remember that there is a couple of things here that were not, especially the Republicans and a-holes like Lindsey Graham, kind of ignoring.
	The population of, if I'm not mistaken, but I just, this is off the top of my head, but I do know that this has been repeated a few times, that the population of Iran is, I think, over 50% young people.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, very, very youthful population.
	They all love the United States.
	Most of the research indicates this.
	They're not into these religious guys, but they have to put up with them.
	And they all know it's rigged and they all know it's crap.
	They all know it.
	Yes, and they all wear jeans, and they were cheering because they know now they can get American products.
	Yeah, exactly.
	iPhone, iPhone, iPhone.
	That's shallow than the millennials.
	You know, this is great.
	We are going to dumb down the entire population of Iran.
	Within 50 years, they'll all be just stupid iPhone tokens with a hump in their back.
	Walking around, bumping into walls.
	The other thing is that it's not discussed enough.
	Iran has, I think, the fourth richest oil country.
	They have a lot of reserves.
	And they have been nickel and diming their own potential using the black market to sell their oil.
	And it's been, you know, it's one of these deals where it's like a bunch of gangsters.
	Yeah, we'll give you 50 cents on the dollar.
	You take it or leave it.
	Because we can get the oil through OPEC cheaper.
	Exactly.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	And so now they can enter the regular OPEC oil market at normal prices, which will flood the market.
	Well, that's why oil went down.
	Didn't oil go down by five barrels a day?
	Didn't oil go down by five bucks or something a barrel?
	Well, it's going to go down more.
	More, yeah.
	And this is like another little thing.
	If you look at it objectively, this is, again, which I've been talking about for a while, targeting Saudi Arabia.
	Yep.
	Saudi Arabia has been put on the list of countries to rebelize.
	And we are just dropping this oil price again.
	And it also screws the Russians, because the Russians are also very dependent on oil prices for their economy.
	And ever since Snowden, we do everything we can to screw the Russians, and this screws the Russians.
	So this is a good deal.
	Now, the argument that's been going on with the right-wingers on the talk shows about McCain giving over.
	McCain's bailed on trying to support the other side, and he says, yeah, let Obama do his thing.
	I guess he was briefed.
	He's working on the purchasing, how companies can sell and are purchased for the NDAA. It's like a whole thing he's doing.
	The procurement process, that's what it is.
	He's real focused on that.
	Oh, yeah.
	He has no time for this crap.
	But there's been this debate, oh, they say it's an agreement, not a treaty, so the Senate doesn't have to vote on an agreement, so it's an agreement, not a treaty.
	I don't know, but anybody can do this themselves.
	Go look up the definition of treaty.
	The definition of treaty.
	This is a treaty.
	Well, treaty is a constitutional thing.
	It's a treaty.
	Yeah.
	Because any agreement, the definition of a treaty is an agreement.
	So saying it's an agreement, not a treaty, is silly.
	But a treaty is an agreement, an agreement between two sovereign nations.
	I have the legal definition.
	A treaty is a binding agreement under international law entered...
	By parties who are subject to international law.
	I think everything applies.
	Mainly states and international organizations.
	It is a pact formed between two nations or communities, each with the right of self-government.
	So far so good.
	It is not essential that each party possess the same rights to give force to the treaty.
	Interesting.
	Simply that each party have the recognized right of self-government and the power to perform the terms of the treaty.
	Article 2, Section 2 of the United States Constitution grants power to the President to make treaties with the advice and consent of two-thirds of the Senate.
	Them's the rules right there.
	So, now do they mean the Senate is just the Senate, not Congress?
	Not the House of Representatives?
	Only the Senate?
	It says Senate.
	Senate.
	Let's see.
	No, that's all we need to know.
	They need two-thirds vote.
	Two-thirds vote.
	And they know they're not going to get it because there's a bunch of hard-ass Republicans.
	They're going to say, eh, we don't like Obama.
	We're voting now.
	They're not going to get two-thirds, so they've decided to look for bypasses.
	They're going to tack pieces on other legislation.
	Right, right, right.
	It's just a chicken shit.
	Typical of the Senate.
	Yeah.
	It's a chicken shit deal, but this is important that this be done For the reasons outlined.
	It allows us to sell iPhones to the kids.
	They will love us.
	It allows the Russians to get screwed.
	And we can chat with them.
	Bring back chat roulette.
	It'll also bring back, it'll probably boost the Iranian, or depress, one of the two, it depends, you never know, the market for Persian rugs, which is...
	Thank goodness.
	This is good news.
	Everything's good.
	It's all good.
	Oh, I have to tell you, John.
	Taxi Eric was dropping me off when I was going to have lunch with my sister.
	And he said, oh, let's just drive past the hooker and see if Dvorak's theory is right.
	My goodness.
	Wow.
	They were, I mean, smoking hot.
	The ones in the window, usually they're not smoking hot.
	Crazy.
	And there was a lot of them.
	Yeah, well, everything falls into place.
	The theory stands.
	Yes.
	And proven now.
	It's peer-reviewed.
	Peer-reviewed.
	Don't you think?
	All right.
	That's the best I can do.
	Now, on, I think, Thursday, Sunday's show, we talked about this new science article based upon some research.
	That talks about the marauder minimum, so the minimum sunspot activity.
	And there is now belief that we will go into a mini ice age between 2020 and 2033, depending on whose numbers you want to believe.
	And this has kind of caught a little bit of mainstream.
	It's also more mainstream publications doing stuff with it, but not really wholeheartedly because, of course, it doesn't really fit into the model.
	And then I was excited because I saw CNN. Oh, CNN has something.
	I did a piece on it.
	Oh, this will be great.
	And now something's popping.
	And this is what it was.
	And I have seen it only once at night on CNN, but I got it from the web.
	This is another one of those pieces, I believe, which is produced by that new department that is making native advertising through the CNN production arm.
	Okay.
	I'm just going to play the last 40 seconds of it because it gives you enough of the idea.
	It's a whole explanation of how the solar patterns work and how the poles flip and what that means with the 11-year cycle and the 22-year cycle.
	The essence you need to know is that we'll be going into, we're at the top, the height now, we're going into the minimum.
	Then around 2020, there could be so little activity that it would actually get colder.
	Right now, the sun is approaching solar maximum, so flares and CMEs are more common than they were a few years ago.
	This cycle may peak in 2013 or early 2014 and should reach its minimum around 2020, although predictions about the sun are still uncertain.
	The slower than expected progress of this sunspot cycle has led some to speculate that the next sunspot cycle might be very minimal, with few sunspots even at solar maximum.
	It is still far too early to know, but even if this is the case, it has happened before and isn't something to worry about.
	It just means that the sun would briefly be a little closer to the unchanging orb it looks like from the ground.
	Well, there you go.
	Nothing to be alarmed out.
	It's just some people speculating.
	Some people are just speculating that it might get really, really cold.
	It might.
	That's not reporting.
	That's horrible.
	No, it just sounds like that thing they play on public broadcasting.
	Star date, 1414.
	Tonight, a star will be in the sky, just above Venus.
	I've never seen that.
	It's first spotted by Magellan.
	I've never seen that.
	No, it's not a scene, it's a radio spot.
	Oh, okay.
	Have you...
	Did you catch that question about Bill Cosby at the president's presser?
	No!
	Yeah!
	Yeah!
	Whether the president was going to revoke Bill Cosby's Medal of Freedom.
	Oh, right.
	Now there's a bunch of people.
	I noticed this on Twitter.
	We need 85,000 more votes for the petition to revoke his Medal of Freedom.
	Can't you guys find something else to do?
	How important is this?
	It's baffling to me if people waste their time on this stuff.
	Well, the president said something about this without mentioning Cosby's name.
	But at the end of this, I think if you listen carefully enough, you can hear it in his voice, but he was visibly emotional.
	He was visibly emotional about what he just said.
	So it's not while he's saying it, but after he's done, and he has a little tagline, he's moved by his own words.
	And with respect to the Medal of Freedom, there's no precedent for revoking a medal.
	We don't have that mechanism.
	And, by the way, don't we have the term, we stripped him of his medals?
	That's the mechanism, isn't it?
	I think that's only in the army.
	Yeah, okay.
	And, as you know, I tend to make it a policy not to comment on the specifics of cases where there might still be, if not criminal, then civil...
	Really?
	Let me see.
	Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, please.
	I'll say this.
	If you give a woman, or a man for that matter, without his or her knowledge, a drug, and then have sex with that person without consent, that's rape.
	I think this country, any civilized country, should have no tolerance for rape.
	You heard he was moved.
	He was moved and he was grimacing a little bit.
	What do you think this is?
	Well, here's the twisted thing that comes up in my mind.
	I apologize in advance.
	What I immediately thought is, Larry Sinclair, who has passed polygraphs and who continues to maintain, that he had cocaine-fueled sex with the president in a limo.
	So the only thing I could think of is, you know, someone's got the story, wants to do some kind of outing, And he's going to say, well, because that's well documented in Sinclair's story, you know, they gave me drugs and then raped me.
	I'm not gay.
	I'm sorry.
	I apologize.
	I did apologize in advance.
	What are you apologizing for?
	Because it's a shitty sounding story.
	I don't like people.
	Rape sucks.
	Hey, Captain Obvious here to the rescue.
	Hello, Captain Obvious.
	I'm so sorry.
	But, you know, I don't know, man.
	It was just woo.
	Yeah, it was strange.
	There's a couple things we need to talk about before we go to the break that were listed on my list of things we're going to maybe talk about on the newsletter.
	Oh, yes, yes, yes, the newsletter.
	Tick off the boxes, sir.
	Well, one of them is we, somebody asked, specifically asked, because I asked for people to give us input on what they think we should talk about.
	Some of the stuff we're never going to talk about, because it's not appropriate, it's not interesting, it's not international, it doesn't have enough, it doesn't have any meaning.
	But there's some stuff that we do need to talk about, and one of them is Bernie Sanders.
	Why?
	Well, I would have said the same thing if I were you.
	Well, you're clairvoyant.
	You're not here.
	Right, gotcha.
	Bernie Sanders, this guy brought it up, I think it was one of our producers, it was a male.
	He brought it up, and then I've noticed a big push for him on a couple of news shows, local and otherwise.
	And then...
	JC's wife, a millennial, asks me about Bernie Sanders.
	He's supposed to be this great guy.
	Oh, it's the Ron Paul grandpa effect.
	This is the Bernie Sanders is the, yes, Bernie Sanders is an underground phenomenon that you, since you're out of the country, have not noticed because you're not here.
	Now that you say it, I recall a thought just passing through my mind briefly, but no, because I'm not there, I was not exposed to enough of it.
	It's a big deal.
	And when the guy first asked me, I said, who gives a shit about Bernie Sanders?
	The guy's an idiot.
	Let's get some things on the open.
	First of all, he's an independent or a Republican?
	Yes, he's an independent, but he's a Democrat.
	And he's running for the Democrat Party.
	Isn't he a commie?
	He's a socialist.
	Okay.
	And he's called a socialist by everybody except him.
	He just calls himself maybe a progressive.
	He's definitely from the progressive wing.
	Got it.
	But he is getting a lot of ink, not as much as Trump.
	Right.
	So we're never going to talk about Trump.
	All they do is talk about Trump.
	The Trump show is fascinating.
	I love the Trump show.
	Yeah, the Trump show's great.
	But the Bernie Sanders show is non-trivial, and it is actually a major event that's taking place right now.
	I don't know where it's headed.
	We're going to have to start looking into it, but I think we now have to take it seriously because it is a group, and it's mostly the young millennials who would come out, and they do vote occasionally.
	When they do, they find some, oh, let's vote for that guy.
	Well, hold on.
	Let's make sure it is heard far and wide.
	Producers of the No Agenda show, we need your help.
	We are trolling for Bernie.
	Trolling for Bernie.
	It's not a bad title.
	I know.
	I have nothing to add to that.
	I mean, they want us to talk about it.
	I just did, and that's all I'm going to do.
	Do you have a clip here we need to play?
	I said that we have to dig up some crazy old clips.
	And he's also drawing big crowds.
	He's drawing Hillary-sized crowds.
	Now, do you have a clip here?
	Do I have a clip?
	You have the 360 pledge signed by Sanders?
	Is that something else?
	This is a different...
	This is not about his...
	This is just a...
	I will tell you, this is another...
	This has Sanders in it, but this annoys me.
	me.
	I'm going to tell you why after we play the clip.
	Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein have pledged not to accept contributions from fossil fuel companies.
	The Nation magazine and 350.org called on candidates to sign a pledge not to solicit or accept donations from any oil, gas or coal company.
	Hillary Clinton and 14 Republican candidates contacted by the Nation editors have not replied.
	Okay.
	I do not think, and I go along with this also, that tax pledge that that character, the Republican character, is pushing.
	Signed a tax pledge.
	Yeah, for a billion dollars.
	Yeah, yeah.
	This is, what?
	I'm sorry, I'm just sneezing.
	It's all something I got, like, I don't know.
	The tax, you got the tax itch.
	So the tax pledge, you know, they signed this tax pledge.
	Oh, he signed it.
	He didn't sign the tax pledge.
	We're going after him.
	I don't believe that a politician should be pre-agreeing to anything like this.
	Of course not.
	Why don't you sign a pledge to Hitler?
	The whole thing, to me, is abhorrent.
	I don't think the tax pledge is good.
	I think the guy should vote their conscience.
	They should vote what their constituents tell him to do.
	And their constituents aren't telling him to sign somebody else's pledge that's not in their district.
	If I'm signing a pledge to some third party, what's the point of that?
	How is that serving my people?
	Well, you know what?
	And so Bernie Sanders is a douchebag for signing this thing.
	What difference does it make?
	It's his business.
	What if a bunch of oil companies have good ideas and there are a bunch of socialist oil companies that want to give them money?
	Can't take it?
	Anyway, that's my little rant.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Exactly.
	Anyway.
	Well...
	But we'll work on the Sanders stuff.
	Yes, we shall.
	Now, the other thing we have to talk about...
	Well, can we stick with Hillary stuff for a minute?
	Not really Hillary.
	I'm all in with Hillary.
	Yeah, well, it's not really Hillary, quite honestly.
	I just have this category called Hillary 2016.
	I put everything in there, but it's...
	In any way related.
	So I did like this quite a bit.
	This is Carly Fiorina, and she decided she was going to go out and try and make some news for herself.
	Hillary Clinton says in a press conference recently, oh, I'm eager to turn over all the emails so the American people can see.
	Well, now we know.
	The State Department hasn't turned over all the emails.
	We also know those emails link Hillary Clinton and the State Department for the first time to the Susan Reich talking points that this was all a video and a demonstration.
	Do you remember?
	We now know on the night of September 11th the State Department of the White House knew this was a pre-planned terrorist attack.
	Two days later, Hillary Clinton stands over the bodies of the fallen and talks about a video.
	Susan Rice goes on television and says it's a video, it's a demonstration.
	Hillary Clinton later denies that she had anything to do with those talking points.
	False.
	She never revealed a private server in her basement until it was discovered.
	And then, when it was discovered, she wipes it clean nearly two years after she leaves the Department of State.
	Megan, I think we now have enough information to understand that Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, has engaged in gross dereliction of duty, she has engaged in a cover-up, and she has blood on her hands.
	Blood on her hands.
	Blood on her hands.
	Unconfirmed.
	Yes, we came.
	We saw.
	He died.
	That's right.
	Kill that fucker.
	Gaddafi.
	Bye-bye.
	Bye, Felicia.
	Trump, of course, my man.
	I called him early on.
	I said, this is it.
	I told you, this is the guy.
	This is the entertainment king.
	Yes, and I love him for it.
	I love the whole show he's put together with Mark Burnett.
	I was a presidential candidate, or whatever the title of the show is going to be.
	Just love it.
	And here's Betsy Woodruff.
	I think she's from Slate Magazine.
	One annoying journalist.
	And she's just admitting...
	Something which I feel is horrible.
	Donald Trump, you can think of him what you want, but if someone declares to run for president, you have to give the guy respect.
	You have to give him equal respect as you give everybody else.
	That's not apparently what the journalists, which she counts herself amongst them, it's not the way they are actually operating.
	The media, national political reporters that I know and spend time with have one view of Donald Trump.
	We see him.
	They see him as a fraudulent, petulant...
	Nice Freudian slip there.
	We see them.
	I mean, they see him.
	No.
	You include yourself, honey.
	Donald Trump.
	We see him.
	They see him as a fraudulent, petulant, goofball blowhard who's only running for office so reporters will write about him.
	And that makes reporters not want to write about him.
	We have resisted as long as possible, but he's...
	But what about the people you say, your colleagues who like, who don't really want to write or talk about him?
	We're calling him a blowhard.
	What if they're in a bubble?
	What if they're wrong?
	What if he is touching a nerve with the Republican primary electorate?
	Well, I think to an extent they really are.
	Look, the majority of national politics reporters live in New York and D.C. in urban areas.
	They tend to skew left.
	They don't spend time with Donald Trump fans.
	And they slash we are all very surprised to see Blocks and blocks in Phoenix, full of people waiting for hours in 100 degree weather to hear the sky.
	It is, for most national politics reporters, the love of Trump is baffling, and that is itself a bubble.
	Exactly.
	You are biased.
	Biased, I tell you.
	Yes, very biased.
	Do you think Trump is just hiring extras?
	Well, that's what they claim.
	It might be.
	I still don't think it's a reality show.
	I don't think it's the first time in history that a politician...
	You don't need extra.
	You just need to get people there and then you need some shills.
	You always need shills.
	You need at least a dozen of them.
	You're right.
	And you put them in the audience and then they start yelling and whooping it up and starting to clap and everyone starts to follow suit.
	You get a clapping effect.
	If you have 12 people around the audience spread around and they all start clapping real loud.
	You get the kind of the...
	The crowd effect.
	Not the crowd effect.
	People clap.
	I'll just clap too.
	It's a network effect.
	It's a crowd effect.
	You can get people to whoop it up and give standing O's and do all that sort of thing.
	But you can't get this kind of...
	Oh, I guess this guy got up.
	I better get up.
	Here's MSNBC mourning Joe.
	Now we know Joe is a Republican.
	Mika, of course, is not.
	But there seems to be a lot of agreement on the panel there in the morning about Donald Trump's impact.
	I want to follow up on what Nicole said.
	It's very interesting.
	Nicole's talking about liberals from California saying Trump has a point.
	I was talking yesterday about our good friend out in Oregon, Derek, who construction workers who are working on a renovation at his house, they're all independents or Democrats.
	They're all talking about Trump.
	And it just doesn't happen that much that you have liberals in San Francisco, you have construction workers in Oregon, you have people all across the Southeast that know this guy gave money to Hillary Clinton, know this guy supported single-payer health care system, that they're supporting him.
	He's a very, very disruptive force right now.
	The only thing I can think of that could be in the card is just looking at things from a different angle.
	Of course, he has supported Democrats.
	Did he not support Hillary Clinton directly with half a million dollars?
	There's some report about that.
	I think it was.
	Somebody pointed out that he's the head of a construction company.
	You give money to everybody.
	Okay, possible.
	The single-payer health care is interesting.
	I didn't know that he was behind that.
	Well, I'm for single-payer health care.
	You're liking my man Trump?
	What scam is going on?
	Are you going to jump on the bandwagon with my boy here?
	My boy Trump?
	Trump?
	Yeah, he's my boy.
	No, I'm not voting any party.
	Either one of those parties.
	I think they're both corrupt.
	I'm voting.
	Bernie Sanders.
	I'm voting for whoever the libertarian guy is.
	I'll just put my vote down for him.
	I'm not voting for anybody like that.
	Just another Republican.
	Why don't you think of the entertainment value for the show?
	Guaranteed four years.
	What's wrong with you?
	My vote has got nothing to do with that.
	Oh, mine does.
	I want what's best for the show.
	I feel that way about your one vote.
	What's best for the show?
	It's the ultimate dedication.
	Well, you're telling me if it would be, if Trump, I don't think he can get that far because they're going to do, they'll kill him or something.
	They, it's going to be Bush.
	In fact, play this clip since we're playing these sorts of clips.
	This is kind of a shocker.
	Play this election update, the money.
	Okay.
	With Tamara Keith of NPR and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report.
	Let's start by looking at the money.
	The most important part of this, right?
	Yes.
	In some respects, the top four candidates in terms of money raised, super PAC money as well as non-profits in one case, and just regular money over the transom.
	Jeb Bush with 114...
	Over the transom.
	It came over the transom.
	Don't step on the money.
	Sorry.
	Back it up.
	Money as well as non-profits in one case, and just regular money over the transom.
	Jeb Bush with $114 million.
	This is just since they announced for president.
	Hillary Clinton with $60.6 million.
	Ted Cruz with $47 million.
	And Marco Rubio with $43.8 million.
	Of course, as we just mentioned, there are 11 others now in the race.
	But as these four line up, where's the money coming from and what is this telling us about the race?
	In almost every case, the super PAC money is more than the candidates actually raised.
	In fact, Hillary Clinton's the only candidate who's raised more as a candidate than her super PAC raised.
	It's going to bring up a couple of issues.
	The first is, there used to be this thing in politics where you dropped out of the race after your money ran out.
	Your money would run out because you weren't winning enough, you didn't have enough momentum.
	Now, there are super PACs very flush with cash that can keep candidates going long after maybe their expiration date.
	Individuals that can keep candidates going.
	Absolutely.
	Yep, Ted Cruz has three really good friends.
	Three super PACs that can keep him going.
	And, you know, it used to be that there was the dollar primary, and you could look at, well, whose fundraising dollars were the highest.
	It's hard to even know what to make of these numbers, because some rich person could come out of nowhere, create a nonprofit we wouldn't even know where the money came from, and blow everybody else out of the water.
	But there is one really interesting component to this, and that's why 2016 will be fascinating to watch.
	The amount of money that Jeb Bush has coming from his super PAC is about $103 million.
	That's where, I mean, the bulk of that 114 is coming from super PAC. They cannot coordinate with Jeb Bush.
	They are going to be making decisions that normally a campaign will be making.
	Now, super PACs have been very good at doing one thing, which is they're a destroying machine, right?
	They're there to, like, beat up their opponents.
	Man, are we a great country or what?
	Jim Bush is way out in front.
	He just announced recently, and he's got almost three times as much, or at least twice as much as Hillary.
	And she was totally kicking ass.
	So Bush is the guy they're throwing the money at.
	I found this to be distressing.
	We have a great country.
	Man, it's so easy.
	You want to be president?
	Just get a lot of money.
	That's what they're saying.
	Yeah, they also say something that I've just kind of been fascinated with ever since Stephen Colbert did a Super PAC in 2014 as a joke.
	And that is you can't coordinate with the candidates.
	You've got the Super PAC and then you've got to just do your own thing.
	Is that the honor system?
	Is it the honor system?
	Like, I promise.
	Give me a break.
	Kind of like the Chinese wall in the banks.
	Give me a break.
	It's bullcrap.
	Of course.
	Yeah, Jeb Bush isn't showing up at the office, but some guy, they hire a consultant, and they bring him in, and he'll channel what Jeb's thinking, and then talk to him the next day on the phone.
	I mean, there's no way they can enforce this.
	Exactly, exactly.
	But in general, I think it's just going to be really fun.
	I mean, it's fun to watch.
	Why do they want Bush?
	Why?
	They, I mean the money.
	Because the guy will do whatever they tell him to do.
	Isn't that always the point?
	They're like, hey, nothing with that black guy.
	He didn't do well by us, the Schwarzer.
	I can just hear him saying it, John.
	He was all too ego.
	Jeb Bush has zero ego.
	He has the personality of a dishrag.
	He's got...
	Well, there you go.
	He's got...
	Yeah, definitely.
	Definitely.
	Alright, and then, okay, on to another topic.
	Well, I'll just shut this one down.
	Yeah, I'm going to shut this one down with a, how easy it is to get the Republicans all riled up.
	I love this.
	This is Cuomo's kid on CNN. Rip it unfairly, but it was just interesting to listen to.
	Isn't Cuomo's kid a Democrat?
	Yeah.
	Oh, he's going to get the Republicans all rile them up.
	Yeah, he's going to rip Santorum a new a-hole.
	Oh, good.
	Your Pope says...
	Whenever you start a question, your Pope says you know you're in for trouble.
	Tolerance!
	Is the message of Catholicism.
	When asked about gay marriage and LGBT existence within humanity, he says, who am I to judge?
	That doesn't work for you.
	You say you want an amendment that keeps marriage between a man and a woman.
	Why aren't you more like your pope?
	Well, I don't think the pope...
	This is so devious.
	Why aren't you more like your pope?
	See, this is the...
	That is such a chicken shit thing to do.
	This is such a hammer the Pope has handed to the media.
	Because, yeah, the Pope says, who am I to judge?
	But he's very clear about the definition of marriage.
	Which, people, please, stop with this topic.
	It's worse than, yeah, no.
	Yeah, no.
	Well, I don't think the Pope would support a change in the definition of marriage.
	I mean, he's been perfectly clear about that.
	He said, who am I to judge?
	Well, that's not what he said.
	Focus on love.
	Focus on tolerance.
	He's been very, very, very clear about standing for the definition of marriage.
	I don't think there's any question about that.
	The Pope is simply stating something that is crystal clear in the Christian faith, which is to love the sinner and condemn the sin, but to stand for the truth of what What the institution of marriage is.
	And I think the Pope has been very clear about it.
	Yup.
	Yeah, but you lose the art.
	You win the battle, but you lose the war.
	Yeah, well, Ben Torm's losing everything.
	Yeah, we're sick of him.
	He's the Harold Stassen of the Republican Party.
	There you go.
	I'm going to show myself old by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	I actually have a pretty short list here, but let's start with thanking a few people.
	Nicole Yeager, $100 from Phoenix, Arizona.
	Sir Brian Kay, $74.50.
	We have two extra votes that came in for the U.S. of A. I don't know if we count them.
	They win, but I don't know if we can.
	Sir Brian K. from Phoenix, 7415, and then some Dame Patricia of Biscayne Bay, who sent a note in, I'm going to read it, because she's a Dame, and she's in Biscayne Bay.
	And she says, what does she say?
	My ancestors who fought the War of 1812 would not forgive me if I missed casting a vote in this replay of the war.
	She's even a member of the U.S. Daughters of 1812.
	I didn't even know that was out there.
	Oh, nice.
	Also requesting job karma for my kids and relationship karma for grandson.
	Thanks for the balance you provide.
	Oh, how nice.
	We'll give her a job comment.
	And this will be aimed at you, Dame Patricia.
	Paul Robertson in Upper Track, West Virginia, 70.
	Interesting.
	He wants us to tackle the exorbitant U.S. health.
	We have talked about the health care costs.
	We'll talk about it again, but not on today's show.
	Brian Robert Goschko.
	Sir Baron.
	I'm sorry.
	Baron.
	Baron.
	Not Brian.
	Baron Robert Goschko in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada.
	6969.
	James Cates in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
	6969.
	Oops.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	Oh, boy.
	I wasn't expecting that.
	I can't read the spreadsheet today.
	Oh, yeah.
	Let me guess.
	Is it Pelsmokers?
	Yeah, okay.
	Hold on a second.
	Here we go.
	What is this?
	Here we go.
	What is this?
	And in the red corner, wearing the black scrunch with gold string.
	He has a record of 33 wins, zero losses, and one draw.
	He's the Grand Duke of Belgium and France, Sir Stephen Vons Hellsmacher!
	He-he-he-he!
	Grand Duke, Steven Pelsbacher is one of two Grand Dukes.
	Keep it a great work, Karma Works.
	LGY Karma to us both.
	Put the LGY in it.
	James Murray, Huntington Beach, California, 6666.
	Kevin Key in Holland, Michigan, $66.
	Sir Brian Warden, I'm pretty sure is a Sir.
	Downs, Illinois, 6433.
	Sir James Mann in Ringgold, Louisiana, 5678.
	And I think Melody came in, too, on the same thing separately.
	Let me guess this.
	Gus Van Doren.
	Gus Van Doren.
	Oh, yes, he's the DV Mega guy.
	He makes the DV Mega D-Star...
	Oh, right, right.
	A card?
	Let me see.
	What does he say?
	I can't read it.
	Great show.
	I listen when I'm at work in the evening, but not always because of the difference in time.
	Why 51 USD? You can guess.
	Then he says, P-E-1-P-L-M. That's right.
	7-3 is from Kilo Fox 5, Sierra Leone, November.
	Sir Kevin Payne in Richmond.
	You didn't sign off.
	What?
	You didn't sign off.
	I signed off.
	You got to sign off with your call sign.
	Oh yeah, yeah, KJ6 liquid natural gas.
	You didn't say 7-3s and you didn't say Duh.
	Yeah, Duh.
	Yeah, I suck as a ham.
	But I don't suck as a ham promoter.
	I got a lot of people that become hams.
	You are an excellent ham promoter.
	I'm a ham promoter.
	You're an Elmer.
	Sir Kevin Payne.
	Does that mean something?
	Yeah.
	An Elmer?
	Yeah, an Elmer is an older experienced ham.
	It's just so gay.
	An older experienced ham who helps a young ham, you know, get a hang of the ropes.
	Whatever you...
	Geez, it does sound gay.
	Sir Chris Tan in Blyton, Lincolnshire, UK, $50.
	And these are all $50 donors.
	We're already there.
	Chris Grommel in Port Ewan, New York, $50.
	John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma.
	Great name for a town.
	Amitav Hajra in Daleville, Virginia.
	What?
	What?
	Elmer is the equivalent of milf for hams.
	Anonymous in Milton, Ontario.
	Scott Lavender, which is another great name.
	Not for a city, but for a person.
	Scott Lavender, private detective.
	Montgomery, Texas.
	Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada.
	Sir Chris Lewinsky.
	Sir Chris Lewinsky, exactly.
	Patrick Tomix in Petworth, West Sussex.
	Kevin Johnson, KJ, in Phoenix, Arizona, 50.
	John Haller in Missoula, Montana, 50.
	Owen McGinty in...
	Dunstable, Bedfordshire, UK. A lot of UKs today.
	Sir Mike Westerfield, $50 out of the blue.
	Patricia, our Dame Patricia Worthington, I'm sure, in Miami, Florida.
	Brandon Savoy, parts unknown, $50.
	Eric Mann in Spring Hill, Florida.
	John Strag.
	There's another man.
	There's a lot of the mans they're all in today.
	John Strag in San Antonio, Texas.
	And finally, last but not least, Dame Melody Man in Ringo, Louisiana.
	I want to thank all these folks.
	Oh, and I do have to note the sashes.
	Oh, what?
	Sashes what?
	Dame Melody decided to...
	She says she's...
	Sick and tired of us talking about sashes and doing nothing about it.
	So she made a couple of giant sashes.
	Oh man, do you have a picture?
	Handmade metals.
	Oh, do you have a picture?
	I have to take some photos.
	Do you have them?
	You have the actual sashes?
	Yes.
	This is exciting.
	I think it'll be best modeled by you since you look like a guy, a European-style guy who should be wearing a sash, and she's got a couple of medals that you can hang from it.
	Oh, my.
	I need to put this in the show notes.
	This has to be in the show notes.
	You have to take a picture right after the show and send it to me.
	Yeah.
	I want to send you the whole package because I want you to model it.
	Of course I will.
	I look like a slub wearing this stuff.
	You would look perfect.
	Especially with tails.
	I have tails.
	I was just going to say, I have tails.
	I have tails.
	Yeah.
	Perfect.
	Oh, man.
	Dynamite.
	So it goes over the tails, right?
	On the outside.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Oh, and does it have a little purse at the bottom?
	I didn't see the purse.
	So it's a sash all the way and then around the middle or just around the back?
	I think it goes over the cross.
	It's like from the shoulder to the gut.
	Oh, perfect.
	The cross to the hip.
	And then back up over the back.
	I don't know.
	Well, you're looking at it.
	No, it's in a box.
	You didn't take it out of the box?
	I took the medals out of the box, but I didn't take the sash out of the box.
	I don't want to mess it up.
	Okay.
	All right.
	But send me the medals, too.
	Yeah, the medals are the main thing.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Oh, I'm excited.
	The medals are just kind of like there's a bottle cap.
	I mean, it's nothing like, you know, an actual...
	They're close enough.
	I need to find my foil, then I shall pose with that.
	Oh!
	How dynamite would that be?
	Maybe if I can borrow someone's saber.
	I used a fence.
	I was pretty good.
	Saber.
	Yeah, I was pretty good.
	Are you using the knight, people?
	I thought you had a saber there.
	That's a sword.
	No, yeah.
	Now, that'll look a little stupid.
	No, professional.
	Let's make it look professional.
	Okay.
	Was that it?
	No.
	Yeah, that's it.
	That's all we got.
	We need some more help.
	So, remind people to go to Dvorak.org slash NA for show 740.
	Coming up on Sunday, live at 9 a.m.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. And unless I'm mistaken, we only have one today.
	Nicole Yeager says happy birthday to her boyfriend, Kevin Johnson.
	And we, of course, say the same from all the staff and management here at the Best Podcast in the Universe.
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	Okay, now, the way I read it, we have a make-good on the knighting.
	We knighted Craig Allen Harms as Sir Craig Harris.
	This is a faux pas of epic proportions.
	Yes, we have to re-knight him.
	Did we get that $333 thing?
	Did you mention that?
	Let me finish this.
	Allow me to finish.
	I have it here.
	Don't worry.
	I have it here.
	I have it here.
	It's all good.
	I'm in control, John.
	So we should have knighted him with his actual name, Sir Craig Allen Harms.
	Right.
	I think the word Harms looks like Harris.
	Yeah, and Eric actually says that it was his fault and he just read it wrong.
	So that's okay.
	It's all right.
	It's all good.
	Craig Allen Harms, he didn't put it in the knighting portion, but okay.
	There we go.
	So I've got that.
	And then we have Mr.
	Pre-Self-Radicalized, who had the 33, the 333-33 donation, the five threes, never made for the spreadsheet for 738.
	Well, you know, I looked into this.
	Okay.
	This, I believe, was one of those things.
	This happened a couple years ago, and it doesn't happen a lot.
	Are you arguing with the back office?
	Yeah, I am.
	I believe it was not on the spreadsheet for another reason.
	I don't know why Eric's thinking.
	I think it was actually bumped from the spreadsheet by the PayPal download.
	Really?
	Because it was an extremely long note.
	I don't even know how he got the note in there.
	Huh.
	And I have seen this happen before where you have this very extreme, not a little longer, although I've seen longer, but most of them come in separately.
	So it didn't truncate?
	It truncates everybody except these and then the really long ones and then for some reason it barfs on it?
	This one didn't truncate, it just barfed on it, and I don't think it ever went through the spreadsheet, because I looked, I found it on the PayPal site, and it should have shown up on the spreadsheet, and I believe it just got, well, I don't know what to do with this, just don't even put it on, in the download.
	So...
	It was one of these weird things.
	It only happens rarely.
	It's a glitch.
	I need some kind of glitch jingle that I can play.
	We need a glitch jingle.
	This is really...
	Even though I said in the newsletter, no glitches, but there you go.
	I know.
	It's...
	It's annoying.
	That was Pepper's mama who suggested dropping that in at the end of it.
	Yeah, very nice.
	Okay, so I'd like to have Craig Allen Harm step forward, Mr.
	Pre-Self-Radicalized.
	We need Luke Nicholas and Sir James Cates.
	And Sir James Cates, he has a special request.
	Black Knight and Baronet of Dudes Named Ben.
	Okay, I got it.
	What I need is, there is my sword, the one I travel with.
	Okay.
	Good enough.
	All right, gentlemen, all of you have contributed to the best podcast in the university.
	You might have won $1,000 or more.
	We could not be any happier and grateful for that.
	So hereby pronounce the KB, Sir Craig Allen Harms, Sir Mr.
	Pre-Self-Radicalized.
	Luke Nichols, Sir Epic Beer of the Hopfield, and Sir James Cates, Black Knight and Baronet of Dudes Named Bend.
	For you gentlemen, we have the prerequisite hookers and blow, red boys and chardonnay, sake and sushi, malted barley and hops, ass cream with bear fillings, porn stars and pop, cannabis and cabernet, and as always, we've got our mutton and mead.
	Thank you all very much.
	It's nice when people make it.
	And Luke Nichols, what a great instant night with our beer.
	I'm so proud.
	I really am.
	That is one of the top things we've experienced so far this year.
	And this guy, he's an award-making brewmeister.
	Yeah.
	He won the best IPA trophy.
	That's a non-trivial beer to make.
	Yeah.
	I can't wait to taste this.
	I cannot wait.
	You know, these things don't travel well.
	We're going to have to go to New Zealand to taste this stuff.
	Anyway, let me do the jobs karma and the little girl.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	There you go, everybody.
	Thank you very much.
	Beautiful.
	We might want to tell the affiliates we're maybe running a little long.
	Well, we don't want to run too long.
	We've got a couple of other topics to talk about, including Greece and Guzman.
	Yes.
	The 5,000 foot tunnel.
	4,900 feet, I believe.
	Yes, this has to be discussed at least for a second.
	We don't have to go too long.
	We have a thesis on the no agenda.
	We should put up a FAQ. FAQ, yes.
	Good idea.
	Another great idea.
	Certain things that we talk about all the time.
	Or assumptions that we make.
	And the assumption we have here is that the Sinaloa cartel was part of a scheme.
	I mean, it was existing, but it was part of a scheme.
	And I have further thoughts on this.
	Can I just say, I need to say one thing.
	I believe this, it's like Citizen X or someone like that is going to be the, and for some reason I feel it's female producer, I don't know why, I just got this from the universe, who is going to do this fact for us.
	That wouldn't be a bad idea.
	She would probably be one of the people that could do it.
	Anyway, because of a deposition and a testimony that was done in a Chicago courtroom of a guy they captured that was a Sinaloa guy, his lawyer got smart and decided to solicit the deposition Right,
	right, right.
	Get the pipeline that shored up.
	Yeah, give them.
	And this all, I believe now, began when Guzman escaped jail the first time.
	Because everybody says that they walked him out.
	Some people came in with badges or something, and they just walked him out of the front.
	And then next thing you know, he's headed the place again.
	The guy's so arrogant.
	Now, he said, I will not walk out.
	You will put me on a little train on rails.
	Let's play this Guzman clip, because it's got one detail in here which kind of backs up this thesis.
	But the Mexican narrative that things were looking up for Mexico, that there's all these economic reforms, and that he was tough on cartels.
	I mean, who better than to make that point than going after the biggest drug lord in the world, Chapo Guzman.
	I think that is really the biggest hit.
	I mean, this is an incredible blow and humiliation to the Mexican president and embarrassment to the Mexican president.
	Is there any sense, now that El Chapo is on the outside, how quickly he could be back in control and calling the shots with the cartel?
	That's unknown, but I mean, there's been a big fight, internal fight, within the Sinaloa cartel.
	It'll be interesting to see how that works out.
	The Mexican government has been saying that the cartels are now down to two, two major cartels, the Sinaloa cartel, another cartel from Jalisco.
	It'll be interesting to see how Huh.
	Huh-huh.
	So far, so good.
	Yeah, really.
	So somebody had to bust this guy out because they didn't want him talking, for one thing, and busting our people.
	Right.
	And the U.S. kept wanting him extradited, and I don't know if they're happy that he got caught in the first place, and it's possible that we want to just kill him to shut him up.
	We don't know.
	We'll see, but this is a very interesting story, especially if you consider the no-agenda thesis that this is all run as part of a government Justice Department operation.
	Maybe the CIA is involved.
	I always see it so objectively, where I see what's being put out there.
	They have this CCTV footage.
	Inside his cell, and then you see the distance between where the end of the tunnel was and the jail.
	I mean, the story is so beautifully built, even without any real, you know, we've just seen some images.
	Well, no, they actually, there was a thing on Gawker where they actually went down the hole.
	No, I saw the tunnel on Gawker, of course.
	How did they get this unprecedented access?
	They went down the tunnel.
	I saw it.
	I saw it.
	How did they get this unprecedented access all of a sudden?
	I have no idea.
	Gawker.
	Hello, Gawker?
	Are you kidding me?
	I mean, really, that's kind of laying out a little bit thick, don't you think?
	Well, it's...
	Then, of course, they have the video from the jail cell where you see him going down.
	You don't know that he really went down at all.
	He could have walked out the front door again.
	I have a quickie here.
	Are you familiar with Risperdal?
	Yes, they advertise it a lot.
	Yeah, do you know what it does?
	Does something, I don't know.
	They give it to young boys for ADD or ADHD. Oh, another one of those.
	Yeah, and so what it does is it, as a side effect, known listed side effect, you grow breasts.
	Oh, right, right.
	We talked about this before.
	Yeah.
	Well, now there's this guy, and I have just the tag of the outro of the item, and he's dying and he has breast cancer.
	Wow, that's a complication that's unexpected.
	Yeah, well, and here's the tag on the story, which I found.
	It's a local story, so of course this would never air on the national networks.
	Some of Josh's doctors believe a drug he took as a child for ADD may have contributed to his breast cancer.
	He took it for 12 years, and the drug has shown in some cases to cause male breast development.
	Mm-hmm.
	Bingo, boom, shakalaka.
	You got breast cancer.
	If I didn't have enough to worry about with ass cancer.
	Alright, well I was going to do a series of Seedman clip, mini clips, but I'm not going to do that because we're running out of time.
	But I do want to play one.
	Oh, alright.
	That has to do with the stories we just gave, which is the Seedman fact rant.
	What is this?
	Think of this as an evergreen.
	Okay.
	Here we go.
	I mean, I'm just laying on you.
	Fact, fact, fact, fact, fact, fact.
	And then I get attacked by Neo Condom.
	Neo Condom.
	Nice.
	That's good.
	And that guy's a talent.
	You know, I'm appreciating more and more when I hear these mini clips.
	Yeah, it's super talented.
	I know.
	It's really funny.
	It's kind of crazy that way.
	I like it, though.
	I like it.
	Well, I can save this for Sunday.
	Maybe that's a good idea.
	There was a huge party at the White House.
	Like, a monstrous party.
	And it was the President...
	Was hosting the...
	Hold on a second.
	I have it here.
	He was hosting the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize honoring Sir Paul McCartney.
	Man, everybody was at this event.
	They even had Mike Myers doing Tom Jones.
	This thing was off the hook.
	That's what you do.
	You can have some dynamite parties on the taxpayers' back.
	You want to just hear this for a second?
	Remember, Paul McCartney is being honored for the Gershwin Prize.
	Does he play at this thing?
	Yeah!
	Everyone's playing Beatles songs.
	This is a scam!
	It's beautiful.
	And they force the kids to sit there.
	Malia and Shaquina.
	The kids are sitting there.
	They've got grumpy faces.
	They're scowling.
	Like, where's Beyonce and Jay-Z, Dad?
	This sucks balls.
	All these old guys.
	What's this white guy singing about my mom?
	I'm telling you, that was the best part.
	The next song we like to do is a song I have been itching to do at the White House.
	Can you guess it yet?
	I hope.
	The President will forgive me if I sing this song.
	Ha ha!
	And then the president's leaning over to the kids like, I made sure he sang a song for your mom.
	He's mouthing that.
	And then he's, you know, he's lip syncing along.
	Ugh.
	Nice party, though.
	Nice party.
	Yeah, well, you weren't invited.
	Do you want to hear Jerry Seinfeld did a little stand-up?
	Oh, God, okay.
	It was actually pretty good.
	I thought it was fun.
	You don't like it?
	I'm sure it was, but he was there, too.
	We can do it on Sunday.
	Let's save it as a teaser for Sunday.
	Alright, alright, good.
	But it's fantastic.
	Someone should make an archive of all of these videos.
	It's all on the White House YouTube channel.
	Yeah, it should.
	But there's so many.
	I picked out the plum choices for the show.
	So that is going to be here on Sunday.
	Wow, what a tease.
	And we'll also have to, I do have some discussion of Greece and another contrarian explanation of what's going on that is unusual.
	It won't be what you've heard before.
	I'm already way in on kicking the can down the road once again.
	That's obvious that that's what's happening.
	Yeah, but there's this one guy, this professor from the University of Athens, or Athens University, whatever it's called, advertising.
	He's got some insight.
	He's one of the co-founders of this left-wing party that's running the country.
	Oh, cool.
	All right.
	Good.
	And I've got a couple things up my sleeve as well.
	And we'll have some analysis, I think.
	Anyway, I'll be back at the Crackpot Condo, so we'll be back.
	Fantastic.
	I may be a little jet-lagged, but...
	Until then, coming to you from the central storage of all the Russian oil and gas, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
	In the morning, everybody.
	My name's Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm still waiting for the 12AX7 to warm up so I can sound better.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll be back on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no.
	Amen.
	Kiss Punk.
	As big cities were making plans for July 4th celebrations, the FBI was making arrests.
	Some of those rounded up, the FBI says, were talking about killing people during the holiday.
	There is a device, almost a devil on their shoulder all day long, saying, kill, kill, kill, kill.
	We need to kill them.
	We need to kill them.
	I hope I'm not too late.
	I don't know how much of that message got through.
	Kill, kill, kill.
	We can't then ask the police.
	They got some sprainin' to do.
	Hey!
	We're the government.
	We make the laws, we print the money, and we breed the super soldiers.
	So go home, learn to live with it, pay your taxes, and remember, you didn't hear anything about super soldiers.
	You know, I still remember, B.B., when I was probably four or five, and you and Mary and Roxanna, my sisters, dressed me up as a bald eagle.
	Anybody who's been around bald eagles would say the same thing.
	They're a pest.
	We dressed you up like a bald eagle.
	On the 4th of July.
	They're a pest.
	They kill kittens.
	They grab kittens, little puppies.
	I mean, I was your giant doll and you had me walking through the house dressed as a bald eagle.
	I didn't know this about the eagles.
	They're a horrible animal.
	Hey, listen. listen.
	Hey, you're in my house.
	Hey, shame on you.
	Adios, mofo.
	The best podcast in the universe.

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