Time once again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 786.
This is no agenda.
Closing out another year of guarding your reality and broadcasting live from the capital of the Drone Star State in FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I am John C. Dvorak.
Did I hear the Zephyr go by again?
That's a good one.
Alright, so this is a mystery.
That was a gong.
I now have a gong.
A what?
A gong.
Yeah, a gong.
Oh, nice!
Which I'll try to relent from playing to an extreme.
It's okay.
This just showed up mysteriously.
Now, the family bought me a gong for my birthday.
And it's downstairs in the hall, so when people show up at the house, they get the gong.
That's love right there, man.
Oh, yeah.
That's like a big giant gong.
Oh, nice.
You ever see a J. Arthur Rank movie?
No, not recently.
You could type it in and see what a gong can look like.
Oh, cool.
So this gong shows up, I guess, over Christmas, because this is the box that was at the post office I was bitching about I couldn't pick up.
But there's nothing attached to this note, so I call the meme and say, who sent me another gong?
Huh.
And this seems to have been sent in by one of our producers.
Do I recall a tweet, maybe?
Was there a tweet someone tweeted you about a gong?
I don't remember that.
I don't remember either.
Hey, in the morning to Tom Waits.
Apparently he's a listener.
Tom Waits?
Yeah.
Yeah.
The Tom Waits guy?
What is he building in there?
Yeah.
Oh, good.
That's cool.
And...
Hey, Tom, tweet, will you?
Do something for the show.
There was something strange that happened.
You know, Lemmy from Motorhead died.
Yes.
I noticed you retweeted that, I believe.
No, I actually retweeted Michael Butler saying he was going to do an emergency rock and roll show.
That's the guy who can really do a tribute.
Yeah, Butler.
That's the guy who can do a tribute.
But I found myself, and I stopped myself from doing it, what turns out everybody does.
And it's a phenomenon that is, I just wanted to get your take on it.
So Lemmy's dead.
I'm like, oh, crap.
Now, I have, I think I've interviewed Lemmy, but if I've talked to him a total of 10 minutes in my lifetime, that's it.
But of course, I have pictures and video and stuff.
So I'm like, oh, I'm going to go find a picture of me and Lemmy.
And then I stop myself and say, why am I doing this?
And then as I look at my FaceBag feed...
And of course, I have a lot of friends on the FaceBag who are in the music business.
Everybody posts pictures of themselves with Lemmy.
I'm like, but what is the point?
Are you...
But help me out, John.
Not that you mention it.
Yeah, I mean, what is the point?
Because before the internet, if someone died, we didn't walk around with photos of ourselves.
Look, he's dead!
And here's me.
Here's me!
Look at me!
Look at me!
I'm going to let me!
It's a very silly thing.
It's a huge phenomenon that you mentioned it.
But I'm healing because I stopped myself from doing it.
Yeah, now that I mention it.
It's a picture of me and so on.
It's a picture, yeah.
That is funny.
It's a good observation.
It's apparent that now you mention it.
But why?
Why, why, why?
You've got to wonder why.
Yes, you do have to wonder why.
I don't know why.
I don't know why the show connectivity.
No, I think it's ego.
It has to be ego.
Connection.
Connection, yeah.
I'm connected to the dead.
I mean, everybody knows.
Connected to the dead.
You know, everybody is, you know, is connected to the dead.
If you hung out with Lemmy, either you were talking philosophy, you were playing music, or you were just a groupie.
That's pretty much.
Or you were getting him drinks.
That's pretty much it.
Well, there you go.
Anyway.
Sad.
Love and light rip.
So sad.
I wanted to see the picture now.
No, no, no, no.
It has to be at least a year before I do that now.
The way I see it, I'll put a picture up with me.
I just Photoshop it.
I don't care.
What's the point?
It should be you, me, and Lemmy in the middle.
There's a picture.
I will post that.
I will post that if someone gets us a Photoshop of that.
Yeah.
Just put me in.
I got my hands around.
And I will put on it, Rip Love and Light So Sad.
So sad.
I was watching it on my Twitter feed and there's a picture of Kate Middleton in a corset kind of exposing herself in some way or other and I looked at this thing and it was like kind of straight and I'm But it's such an obvious Photoshop job that her head is way too big.
Yeah, I know.
I've seen this.
It's actually kind of brushed in pretty nicely.
I have to say it looks like it might be an actual head on somebody.
But it's not.
It's a Photoshop job.
And I'm surprised that we don't see more.
There goes the Zephyr, by the way.
No car attached.
I got an email just speaking of what you just mentioned from, who is this?
Mary Stolbach.
Subject, rampant misogyny!
The things you say about women in your so-called show?
OMG! It seems to me your parents didn't teach you good manners.
Perhaps it's that way in Amsterdam?
Question mark, question mark, question mark.
Not to mention your old pal Dvorak.
50s mentality.
I'm impressed.
Really.
What?
I guess she doesn't understand the show.
I guess not.
I replied, you clearly missed the point.
Remove your privilege.
Try again.
I'm sure I'll get a fine response to that.
You won't get anything back?
No, of course not.
Well, she didn't send me a note.
No.
The difference between you and me is that I think there's some...
You get a pass.
Well, I think there's more to it than just getting a pass.
I also think that they figure that they can maybe save you.
I'm beyond saving.
50s mentality.
Not going to help.
Can't get them back.
No way.
I'm done.
So they just, oh, whatever.
That guy, he's an old coot.
Well, I don't know which is worse.
Crackpot or coot?
It's coot and crackpot!
Coot.
Did you see Poppy Harlow?
Poppy Harlow?
Yeah, on the CNNs?
No.
Well, it happens in the wintertime.
It's happened a couple times in the past few years when they turn on the brain scrambling machine.
That's a part of the MK Ultra Monarch program.
Oh, yes, yes, I did see this.
And I wanted to clip it, and I did clip it, then I lost the clip, and then I didn't go back to get it.
And then I wanted to double-click.
I wanted to do an ISO of just a little part where she goes...
Well, here's...
Here's what happened.
What they actually hold and what happens next is still clearly a big question.
Poppy?
Absolutely.
Becky Anderson, thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
Back here on American soil, bad news for the Obama administration.
We have this new CNN ORC poll, which is quite a turnaround.
Oh, God.
Poor girl.
And then she comes back.
Brian, thank you so much.
And for all of you on Twitter who are asking if I'm okay, thank you so much.
I got a little hot and I passed out for a moment.
I am fine.
We're going to take a quick break.
We'll be right back.
Now that sound that she made there, that sounds suspiciously like the president's sound that we clipped on the previous show.
Remember when he was making those weird noises?
I enhanced it.
Yes, I zoomed, rotated, and enhanced.
And...
So...
I think that the American...
That doesn't quite work that way.
No, but it's...
I think it was just to have lots of...
Okay, but that wouldn't be the real deal.
Poor Poppy.
Well, when it happened, I first thought that she would babble a little longer instead of the...
And remember, there was a spate of anchors that were going into paroxysm from some radio waves, or they don't even know why, but they had all these theories and then stopped.
What was the other girl's name who that happened to?
I'm sure we had that clip somewhere.
We did.
We had a couple of them because they would babble for a while.
She just passed out.
I don't remember who it was.
And I wonder about it.
She's sitting down.
Yeah.
And she had a hot flash or something and she passed out.
I don't know.
It sounds suspicious.
If it was a true hot flash, I don't think she's...
Well, it could be.
I'm not sure how old she is, but it could be.
Those hot flashes are crap.
And I can spot them.
I can spot them.
I can see women having hot flashes.
You can?
You see the aura?
And I go over and I say, hot flash?
Are you okay?
Yeah, and I hold on to them and I mop their brow, tell them it's going to be okay.
An Austrian hug?
So it's going to be interesting in Austin.
At midnight tonight, stroke of midnight, open carry goes into effect here.
Nice!
They can shoot it in the air.
I don't know.
I don't think that's allowed.
But if you have a concealed carry license, you may open carry as of the first.
So crime about to go down in Austin.
That's good.
Well, we're having, you know, normal celebrations every which way.
But most of the world is except Belgium.
Oh, Belgium.
I got a clip.
I have a clip.
You want my clip or I have 34 seconds of clip.
My clip has got a punchline to it.
Okay, then I'll play mine and then yours.
Amid tight security, Brussels had been preparing for the city's traditional New Year's Eve fireworks and festivities.
Now the event has been called off over fears of a militant attack.
The decision was taken in conjunction with the Belgium government, reportedly due to information it had received.
It is the nature of a gathering of so many people, an enormous number.
You know, last year, 100,000 were here, and you cannot control and check everyone who comes to the event.
And as the inquiries are still ongoing on a local and federal level, and elements of those inquiries still being analyzed, it was decided it was better not to take the risk.
Now, before we go to your clip...
My clip was better.
Oh, well, then let's play your clip.
No, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I had a comment about this.
Yeah, so I wanted to hear the comment.
Yeah.
Bunch of pussies.
You've given up.
You've given up.
Are you kidding me?
That is...
Okay.
Belgium has been, you know, capitulated.
Now, I don't think that's really what happened, though.
Oh.
You got a bean counter in there.
What does these fireworks cause you?
Holy crap.
Are you kidding me?
Look at the money we can save.
We can have a party just amongst ourselves in the office.
But it is...
Now, this is where the EU government sits.
This is...
You know, to say no more celebrations.
They already shut down the whole city for a week almost.
Yeah.
Oh, did you hear...
During this...
Let me bring it up here.
So during the shutdown, we had the army was out, and whatever army Belgium has, and everyone's running around and trying to figure out, oh, stay indoors, cower in the corner, shelter in place.
Meanwhile...
Apparently, so the Belgian, whatever armed forces were there, because they have a whole different barracks, they were shacked up in the police barracks or the police station.
And now there's a big investigation.
Apparently, eight army guys had an orgy with two policewomen in the barracks.
Yeah.
Those Belgian police.
You know what I have to say about that.
All aboard!
Trains good, planes bad.
Woo-hoo!
Let that slide.
Now, my clip, I think, is a little more dramatized, and I think because it comes from ABC, they actually put an exclamation mark on it.
Alright.
Overseas tonight, Belgium on alert.
Threats of a possible terror attack, forcing authorities to cancel New Year's Eve fireworks in Brussels.
The decision today, following the arrest of two terror suspects accused of plotting to attack police, soldiers and huge crowds celebrating the holidays.
Authorities saying the plan may have been inspired by ISIS. Get that in there.
Inspired.
It's so fabulous.
You don't have any proof of anything.
But that sounds good.
Well, CNN had the best, I think.
They came out with a terror package, which ran a couple of times yesterday.
Two minutes of pure terror.
And I think we should just share it with each other.
The way to end the year.
Sheer terror.
Boom.
With New Year's fast approaching, authorities across the world on alert for terror from Belgium to Bangladesh to New York City.
People should feel safe this New Year's Eve because we're there.
You're going to have one of the most well-policed, best protected events at one of the safest venues in the entire world.
Police in Belgium arrested two men Tuesday in connection with a plot, they say, to attack historic sites in the Belgian capital on or around New Year's Eve.
Historic sites?
What happened to big crowds?
What do they mean by historic sites?
And by the way, what is the difference whether they're having the fireworks display in the celebration or not if you're going to attack historic sites?
A senior Belgian security official tells CNN the target was Brussels Central Square, the Grand Palace.
The plot inspired, though not directed, by ISIS. Police conducted several terror raids Sunday.
Did you hear?
There it is.
Now it's inspired, though not directed by...
You know, it becomes very troubling.
They keep using words like actors, directed by, I mean, it's bothersome.
The plot inspired, though not directed, by ISIS. I think J.J. Abrams couldn't make it.
Police conducted several terror raids Sunday and Monday, seizing military uniforms and ISIS propaganda.
The Belgian government raising the threat level to three out of a possible four, meaning an attack is likely.
What?
In Dhaka, Bangladesh, the U.S. Embassy warned U.S. citizens of possible attacks on New Year's Eve.
New York says there is no credible threat to the New Year's celebrations, but it is dispatching 6,000 officers to Times Square, where more than 1 million people are expected on Thursday night.
The Secretary of Homeland Security encouraging New York Police Academy graduates to be vigilant on their new beats.
In the face of this current threat to your country, to our country, I encourage you to build bridges to the communities in this city that the Islamic State is attempting to target for recruitment.
Underscoring the homegrown dangers, a British couple were both convicted today of preparing for acts of terrorism after investigators seized stockpiles of chemicals and bomb-making materials at one of their homes.
It really is quite annoying to have to listen to two minutes of this guy talking like this.
And this video showing them testing an explosive device.
It is clear that a radical and violent Islamic extremist ideology was a motivator for these offences.
On the battlefield in Syria, the coalition announced that airstrikes killed ISIS leader Sharaf al-Mudan, who officials say had direct links to the mastermind of the Paris attacks and was actively plotting more terror.
Happy New Year, citizen.
This guy has got one of those voices.
So has that guy on NBC who has that strange cadence.
It's getting on my nerves.
I just saw another report.
So we have, you know, the actors we have was not directed by.
And then here's a headline.
Alleged jihadist arrested in June on charges that he plotted to blow up Times Square may also be Come on!
What?
It's called an audition.
For what?
Well, it's the New York Post.
No, for the movie.
I don't know.
There's too many movie terms being used.
Yeah, I don't like that either.
Anyway.
Anyway.
It's obvious.
Can I say?
Yeah, it's obvious.
ISIS. They're here.
They're here, everybody.
Oh, they're here.
ISIS. We will follow them to the gates of hell.
ISIS. I feel good!
So that brings us to the BS of the day.
The BS of the day.
Yeah, we need a jingle.
I watched this.
I know this was going on.
I've heard about it.
It's been for a couple of weeks.
There's little snippets, and then it shows up on the big news broadcast, and so I decided to clip it.
And it's just the most illogical, nutty thing, and I've always been surprised.
We'll talk about it after you play the BS of the day.
For many American travelers, a driver's license is their ID of choice when boarding a domestic flight.
But as early as next year, that may not be enough to clear security in some states.
Instead, you might need a passport.
I think that's a little extreme.
You need a passport to go through?
No, no, no.
In 2005, Congress passed the Real ID Act, pushing states to issue more secure driver's licenses that are tougher to counterfeit and feature new technologies.
The issue has gained more attention in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino.
By ensuring that there's consistency in the type of identification that's being presented at airports, they're looking to mitigate the threat of terrorism.
Okay, hold on.
Mm-hmm.
So the San Bernardino attack had to do with getting on airplanes with a driver's license?
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
Maybe it was the Paris attack that had to do with getting on airplanes with a driver's license?
You know that there is no constitution.
There's no...
You're not required to show ID. You are not required to show ID. You have the right to free travel.
In the United States.
Although states, of course, can change that if they want to.
The way California, as of midnight tonight...
Has changed their rules, and if they feel that you're a danger to society, then come in and take your weapons.
Yeah.
Anybody can say you're a danger.
Yeah.
In fact, there's a bunch of gotchas in that.
It's pretty funny.
Like what?
But let's get back to this.
Now, this is the real ID thing that took place in 2005, and all the conservatives out there, oh, we can't have this because they express what you just said and some other arguments.
We can't do this because this is like a national ID card, which is what it amounts to.
An registration.
Exactly.
And so they made a big fuss about it.
Where are they now?
They're too busy partying.
Everybody's knuckling under to this.
They're too busy partying.
They got nothing bad.
They're not paying attention to us.
And by the way, Washington State, which is one of those, they showed that this report went on and they showed the three levels of states that have done, followed the rules.
And most of the states, a few states in the middle and the deep south, surprisingly enough, they're all in.
The deep south, by the way.
Alabama, Mississippi, and what's the other one?
Georgia.
And Florida.
They're all in.
Oh, we're all in lockstep, sir.
Right.
Of course, they were the ones moaning and groaning about national ID, but they're all in.
The states that are kind of sketchy, we'll get around to it, which include your state, Texas and California.
And then there's about four or five states that are just so far behind the curve, supposedly, they're going to be in trouble.
You won't be able to fly out of there.
Washington state being one of them.
Now we have a Washington state license.
It's got all the security crap all over and there's black light things light up and holograms are on the license.
I don't see what the problem is.
This is bull crap.
It's the very slow erosion.
Of a free society into a police state.
And no one's doing anything about it.
No.
No one is doing anything about it.
And the states that are, I want to say this again, those deep south states, the big shots, big talkers, they are the first to sign up for this.
Yeah.
There's your conservatives.
Well, have you heard about the new house resolution that was introduced?
No.
By, let's see, House Resolution 569.
Now, it's a resolution, so it's not a bill.
But all the Democrats signed on to this resolution condemning violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric towards Muslims in the United States.
So this is on the way to being outlawed.
Oh, this is what we already witnessed.
You already said it.
No, no.
In the UK. Oh, the UK took it one step further.
Now, you know, they're able to use their powers for cyberbullies.
As we know.
And wait, there was another thing from the UK about that.
I do want to read this House bill for a second.
What was...
I'll get to it in a second.
But let's just look at this House bill.
And again, a resolution, not a bill.
Whereas the victims of anti-Muslim hate crimes and rhetoric have faced physical, verbal, and emotional abuse because they were Muslim or believed to be Muslim.
Whereas the constitutional right to freedom of religious practice is a cherished United States value, and violence or hate speech towards any United States community based on faith is in contravention of the nation's founding principles.
They forget to mention the free speech part in here.
So they go through a more, it's like a UN document almost.
Whereas, whereas, whereas resolved.
But the House of Representatives, one, expresses its...
Anybody really pay attention to history when they make these comments?
The amount of anti-Catholic hatred that was just endemic to the United States, especially in its early years...
Ongoing, yes.
...was ridiculous.
Oh, these papists, they used to be called papists.
But John, how about anybody who just calls out Republicans as crazy Bible thumpers?
Crazy Bible thumpers.
That may be a nice backfire.
That's hate speech!
That's right.
So it's resolved that the House of Representatives, one, expresses its condolences for the victims of anti-Muslim hate crimes.
I'm so sorry!
Steadfastly confirms its dedication to the rights and dignity of all its citizens of all faiths, beliefs, and cultures.
Denounces in the strongest terms the increase of hate speech, intimidation, violence, vandalism, arson and other hate crimes targeted against mosques, Muslims or those perceived to be Muslim.
recognizes that the United States Muslim community has made countless positive contributions to the United States society, declares that the civil rights and civil liberties of all United States citizens, including Muslims in the United States, should be protected and preserved, urges local and federal law enforcement authorities to work to prevent hate crimes and to prosecute to the fullest urges local and federal law enforcement authorities to work to prevent hate crimes and those perpetrators of hate crimes, and reaffirms the inalienable right of every citizen to live without fear and intimidation and to practice their freedom of faith.
and I don't think anyone has said that the Muslims can't practice their faith.
But it would have been a little more balanced if this resolution had said, taking all of this into account, we, of course, protect, defend, and uphold the Constitution, including its First Amendment.
But they didn't do that.
No.
The First Amendment's got to go.
Well, there was that guy who was floating around.
Everybody signs on to that.
That's fabulous.
In Yale, Yale.
Everybody's all on board with that.
Let me get rid of this thing, stupid.
I have...
Well, speaking of that, so now the FBI... Well, first of all, that the FBI is even involved in this.
But they are now, they've offered a $5,000 reward for the perpetrator of this hate crime!
Spring Valley Mosque was covered in bacon over the weekend.
Touching and eating the meat is against the religion of Islam, so now authorities are investigating it as a hate crime.
Action News spoke with the founding member of that mosque earlier today.
He says he understands there may be some misunderstandings within the community about their faith, especially after the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino.
Well, the FBI is now also involved in this investigation.
And wash your hands after touching any raw meat.
The FBI is involved in this investigation.
In a bacon-tossing problem?
The FBI is involved.
Yeah.
Somebody's getting overtime for that.
Yes, yes.
Now, apparently in Germany, free speech is on the move.
It's also a copyright issue.
And by the way, I want to stop because I just thought about this.
Do you notice that these crimes...
There was one around here or somewhere.
Somebody threw a brick through a window at some small mosque that was just really a...
Oh, Kristallnacht!
It's just a real, it was in a strip mall, and it was one of those little, and I've seen most of the reports have been these little strip mall operations that are really just community centers.
But you never see anything or hear anything about one of those massive Saudi-built mosques ever being defaced or anything going on around those things.
No.
Is it possible that this, you know, and that's the ones that push the Wahhabist and the Salafist philosophies, which nobody seems to want to talk about, this aspect of it, and the Saudi Arabians financing all of these very hateful mosques, and nothing ever is reported about any of those.
Is it possible that the Saudis themselves, not the Saudis, but the agents of these mosques, are trashing these little mosques to get people to the big mosques?
Sure.
That's very possible.
Wouldn't surprise me.
In fact, a recent report in Salon Magazine, which is all over Twitter, they went on, somebody screwed up a mosque, and it was, again, one of those little strip malls, and Salon was all over it.
Oh, a hate crime, a hate crime.
Then it turned out the guy was a Muslim.
Oh, then it can't be a hate crime.
So they pulled the story.
But again, it was a Muslim going after one of these little bitty mosques.
This is very suspicious, if you ask me.
I found the British thing.
So they're coming out with these new powers for pedophilia, for hate crimes, for bullying, and jihadists.
They'll be able to pretty much, I think, just read anything they want.
They have the powers.
And now, headline from the UK, emotional bullies could face five years in jail.
Five years in jail as a new...
Emotional bully?
Yeah, listen.
Emotional bullies in relationships can be punished if this bill...
In relationships?
Yeah, wait.
For up to five years in jail.
And this law comes into force today.
Partners who cause severe psychological harm will be targeted through the Serious Crime Act.
Now, emotional abuse is real.
I'm not saying, you know, but, you know, relationships are challenging, and they've been that way forever.
The behavior can range from stopping a partner, socializing, dictating what they wear, monitoring them online, or spying on them with phone apps.
You're not going to wear that, are you?
Honey, baby, not those shoes.
This is, hey, Kimo Nation East, I think I already said goodbye to you, but I'm just going to wave as you fall down the precipice there.
That's outrageous.
Yeah, yeah.
And I believe the bill is introduced today.
And there's a lot of abusive relationships that are designed that way.
True.
And also, will guys get a fair shake if they're emotionally abused?
And is taking your husband to court over this, isn't that itself emotional abuse?
Yeah.
We're constantly threatening it?
You can't do this!
I think this is what we call the slippery slope.
I think it's, no, it's the bottom.
It's already slipped.
Screw the slope!
That's the worst!
We're at the bottom looking up!
Totally.
Wow.
Sad.
Well, they've been managing to slip all the same stuff that they pull in the UK over here.
I think you observed this some years back, and it's been true ever since.
They're the test case.
And mind you...
They put up with it, and apparently they put up with everything, even though if you get into conversation, well, you know, we don't really take it that seriously.
We don't really do that.
Yeah, we got cameras all over the place, but nobody really looks at them.
Yeah.
I mean, they've rationalized their way out of this instead of, like, tearing down the place.
Wow.
And, you know, the Daily Mail has a very large presence in the U.S., huge readership with their website.
Yes, they do.
So this is continuous, you know, and people see this, just the stream.
But you know what I haven't seen?
I haven't seen on Twitter or the FaceBag anywhere people going, this is outrageous!
No, not at all.
I stumbled across the article almost.
It's outrageous.
It's outrageous.
Here's another question I have for you.
There's this ongoing, and of course we'll need to talk about this a little bit, about Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, the back and forth.
He's bad for women, he's a misogynist, etc.
And of course, the claim from candidate Clinton is that ISIS is using Donald Trump as a recruiting tool.
In movies.
Yeah, well, whatever.
That's the claim.
How then can we not only sanction, but also applaud the anger that is being evoked by Anonymous?
Because they're posting, and this was another op, an Anonymous op, let's call Muslims goat fuckers.
Yeah, that's really funny!
Yeah, that was the main thesis of those posts.
Right.
But that, I would argue, is inciting hatred and violence.
So you can't have all these laws.
Look, Congress passed this resolution.
But then it's funny and okay if Anonymous does that.
By the way, some of them are very funny.
I liked it.
But that's not my point.
Where is the outrage?
No.
This is, oh, it's cool, it's great.
Donald Trump?
Asshole.
Anonymous?
Awesome!
Check your privilege, people!
That's a good catch.
Trump, by the way, I was watching Jerry Seinfeld.
He did the new season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with the president.
You got the president to go on that show?
Yeah, you have to see this.
It's outrageous.
And so Jerry rolls up in a 63 Stingray.
Beautiful example of it.
And, you know, first of all, this whole episode, the president is so arrogant.
I mean, really, you have to watch it.
You can't even pull one clip.
He's just so incredible.
Like, yeah, I should be on Mount Rushmore.
He sure just wasn't joking around.
No, no, no, no.
He likes to be with comics because he thinks he's...
Jerry was nervous.
He had notes and he was looking at his notes for questions.
Probably because they had guns trained on him.
That was possible.
But Seinfeld said something about the 63 Corvette Stingray.
And it reminded me of where we are today.
I'm paraphrasing with something like, you know, the 63 Corvette Stingray.
It was loud.
It was brash.
You know, it's just thrown together like we in America used to do with our cars.
Like, stick all this shit on it.
Put big bumpers on it.
Put this oversized engine in it.
And we loved it.
And that is the magic of Donald Trump.
We love the 63 Stingray.
That's why Donald Trump is doing so well.
He is everything America.
It's pushed on, bits and bobs, like Mr.
Potato Head.
That's what we love.
Well, that's an interesting theory.
The 63 Stingray wasn't thrown together that randomly.
This is what Seinfeld said.
Oh, he did?
Yeah.
Yeah, well.
That's funny, because he's like this car nut, even though he doesn't really have a collection.
I don't think this is his.
I think he borrows them, yeah.
No, he does.
He borrows all of them.
Usually, at the beginning, he says where he got them, or he thanks the guy at the end in the credits, who he borrowed it from.
Right.
He gets a lot of cars.
Not a lot, but he gets a few cars from Leno's.
Three garage fulls of cars.
There's a guy who's a real collector.
Yeah, Leno, for sure.
Well, since we got the elections, a few election clips?
Okay.
This is the Financial Times.
For us, stories like the Chinese stock market sagas, the Eurozone crisis, the ongoing question about the Fed and the state of American business, Volkswagen, have been incredible for FT circulation and for attracting readers to our site.
But the real gift that keeps giving and giving and giving that no one expected is Donald Trump.
I mean, Donald Trump is now the Kim Kardashian of the political and economic world in America, in the sense you put him on a headline and you guarantee you get a massive amount of interest from Financial Times readers, and I'm sure BBC listens too.
There you go.
Again, you do never underestimate the American public.
I want to call out CBS. Ever since John Dickerson took over Face the Nation.
Yeah.
I've been watching that show.
It's the competitor to the other show.
Meet the Press.
Meet the Ponies.
Meet with Tapper.
Or not Tapper.
Who's that other guy?
The goatee.
Yeah.
Him.
Yeah.
Chuck.
this guy it's just really a snide nasty show John Dickerson is the most objective guy I've ever seen do any of these shows and who is he He's a new guy.
He took over Bob Schaefer on Face the Nation.
He hasn't gotten a lot of accolades.
But I watch him.
He plays it straight.
Trump's a candidate.
He's not a clown or a bozo.
He's just a candidate.
Let's talk at it from those perspectives.
And it's just an absolutely refreshing thing to see this guy.
He won't last.
He's a little neutral.
He might be too neutral, but he gets good people that have a good discussion.
I think I have a clip here from one of my shows.
Yeah, it looks like a donor class FTN. Yeah, this is one of the clips that you'd get on this, and it's a down-to-earth discussion.
It's not a, like, oh, what a bonehead!
What an idiot!
What a clown!
Where's his spinning bow tie?!
What did we learn, if anything, about money?
We're talking about a situation in which basically the grassroots overwhelms the elites.
The elites were the ones with the money.
There was a lot of talk before this campaign about how candidates with fundraising prowess, Scott Walker, gone from the race.
Jeb Bush, shock and awe he'd raised so much money, not doing well in the polls.
Did we learn anything about the power of this populist movement with respect to money?
We learned that you can't buy an election, and that is very heartening, that small donors can still have a big influence.
We also were reminded of a lesson that we knew before, but forgot in all of the super PAC moments, and that is that donating to a candidate is the first vote.
And so the candidates that can draw small donors can survive because that's real support.
And the funny thing with Trump that people overlook is he talks about, you know, I don't want your money, I'm financing my own campaign.
He's not.
He's not.
If you go back and look, because he's not buying TV ads, so he's not spending big, he actually has enough small donations unsolicited coming into his campaign that he's financing it with their money.
So we have been reminded that the money primary does matter, and that is in the small donor, not necessarily the big donor.
Yeah, that's part of the interesting paradox of Trump, that this billionaire would serve as the most effective vehicle for this populist.
This populist strain is something we've heard going back several cycles, certainly to Pat Buchanan, but that Trump is able to call out the donor class the way he has because he's been a member of it is kind of remarkable.
I didn't see this, but I'm sure that right after this they said it's so amazing that this was supposed to be the year of Citizens United, the super PACs, the Koch brothers were going to buy the elections, buy the Senate!
And I guess they didn't mention that, did they?
That is exactly the point I think that was being made, even though this show has made that point before.
Oh, okay.
And if you listen to this discussion, it's actually sane.
Because they're not...
I mean, if it was on meet the president, how does a clown like Trump manage to pull this off?
Okay, okay.
I like what you're saying.
You're giving props.
This is on, is this Fox or CBS? CBS. Alright, well I'll start watching it.
CBS, everything's CBS. I got a clip of Trump about his, he's now going to start spending on ads?
Yes, good.
I'll be spending a minimum of two million dollars a week and perhaps substantially more.
Where?
Jeff has spent forty million dollars and he hasn't said anything.
He hasn't spent forty million, he's wasted forty million.
Ha ha ha ha!
Oh, that's great.
This is an opportunity.
Did you see Savannah Guthrie?
She's on the CBS show, right?
Savannah Guthrie's on NBC. She had Trump on the phone.
Now, Savannah is beautiful.
She kind of fell apart.
She was beautiful.
She's a news model.
She's a news model.
I don't know why, but Well, actually, I think I do know why.
Because having been in the media and when you're at a big, you know, at a corporation and the conversation, especially if it's live, it's not going the way you think the suits will want it, you get flustered.
You get nervous.
Oh, this is not how it's supposed to happen.
Oh, no, I don't know what to say.
Donald Trump, I'm afraid of him.
He also said that he has, and this is a different tweet, quote, a terrible record of women abuse.
And I wondered if you could get specific about that.
What do you mean?
What are you referring to in particular?
Well, if you look at the different situations, of course, we can name many of them.
I can get you a list, and I'll have it sent to your office in two seconds.
But there were certainly a lot of abusive women, and you look at whether it's Monica Lewinsky or Paula Jones or many of them, and that certainly will be fair game.
Certainly if they play the woman's card with respect to me, that will be fair game.
You mentioned Monica Lewinsky.
Are you saying an alleged extramarital affair that, of course, he has now admitted, is that fair game in a campaign?
Is that alleged?
I don't think that's alleged.
No, he's admitted it.
He's admitted it.
He's admitted it.
You don't have to use the word alleged.
Right, exactly.
So are you saying an extramarital affair by Bill Clinton is fair game and something that you think should be in the campaign?
Wow, that's a good catch.
You don't have to use the word alleged.
She's using it just randomly.
Well, to protect the Clintons, of course.
That's what you do.
That's what you do.
But I think the other thing you've noticed when going back again to this discussion of grassroots support...
You mean conversation?
As about...
No, I mean discussion.
Oh, okay.
And Citizens United...
Citizens United has not come up in the conversation from anybody.
Discussion, you mean?
No, the conversation.
The conversation.
They have...
It has just not shown up.
I mean...
Oh, no, because...
Bernie Sanders stopped?
No.
Because it's like moot now.
So they've shot themselves in the foot because Trump is not supported by the Koch brothers.
Nor is Bernie Sanders.
Right, exactly.
Yeah.
Hopefully this will stop and people realize that this is just the 40 million that Jeb Bush wasted.
It went to people.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, we know it went to people.
Yeah, it went to people.
Oh, I saw the Spike Lee movie.
And it was called...
Chirac?
Okay.
And I didn't...
Once I... I wonder what circumstance did you see it?
On Amazon.
I did not realize it's an Amazon Studios production.
Oh, okay.
So it was on Amazon.
You could download it.
Right.
Did you have to pay?
Yes.
Okay.
$14.99.
Wow!
Yeah.
Oh, but you know, I... I never complain about movie prices.
Just look at the credits at the end.
No, I understand that a lot goes into it.
But I do have a quickie review.
I have a quickie review of this.
Let me take a look at this thing.
I didn't realize it was Amazon Studios.
But of course, because it is Amazon Studios, everybody made money on this.
Spike Lee, of course, at the top.
But everyone's in it.
All those guys are in it.
I'm looking for my notes here.
Yeah, Amazon is not considered one of the smart investors in movies.
So they probably throw money away.
Yeah, I just really don't think they know how to.
But yeah, there's great cameos.
Not even cameos.
Full-on roles.
Lots of superstars.
Are we supposed to pay that guy $1,500 for that one second?
Oh, yeah.
We're coming.
But...
Watching it, and what it is, it's the story of...
Lysistrata, which of course is a great Greek tragedy, where the women, I think of Sparta, say, we're going to stop, we don't want war anymore, so we're not going to have sex with our men anymore.
And this is a very old story, and it's retold.
Almost all of the dialogue in the movie is rhymed or rapped, because of course it's in Chicago and there's a lot of hip-hop rap things around it, which makes it a little jarring to watch.
But the big problem, Is this thing is just jam-packed with war on guns.
Everything's brought up.
Sandy Hook, South Carolina, the gun show loophole.
It's like watching CNN in a movie.
Wow.
Or Democracy Now!
Maybe, I should say.
Well, if it was Democracy Now!, there'd be more climate change issues in the movie.
Correct.
That didn't show up.
But as an art piece, interesting to watch, but it's so blatant.
It's almost like they plug these bits into the story.
Hey, let's make sure we hit these talking points.
It's complete talking points.
Very disappointing.
So you're telling this that the movie stinks?
Yeah, it sucks.
It's nice to watch as an art.
The guy's a great director.
I don't know about that.
No, it's worth watching for the cinematography, but the message is...
Of course, no one will watch this.
You're right.
$14.99.
I know.
No!
Please!
I'm not going to watch that!
No.
Not going to happen.
It'll show up probably on History Channel eventually.
Eventually.
Now, Germany's much more creative with their new product.
For the first time in 70 years, Germany is publishing a new edition of Adolf Hitler's political treatise, Mein Kampf.
The barbarian government has held the copyright to the work, but that expires at the end of the year, and Munich's Institute for Contemporary History plans to begin selling copies.
Germany's Justice Minister, Heiko Maas, says officials can do little to stop them.
It's not easy to ban this for copyright reasons.
However, anything that seems to be a hate crime can be pursued.
Criminal offenses related to hate crime will be very systematically pursued in the future.
The new edition will include thousands of critical comments, and a survey shows 51% of Germans are in favor of allowing its sale.
But Jewish leaders fear the new printing will inflame racist sentiments in Germany.
Why racist?
Why not xenophobic or anti-Semitic?
I didn't understand.
Everything is racist.
It's easier to understand.
But this is a business opportunity, John.
It's out of copyright.
We can make beautiful, leather-bound, Mein Kampf books and sell them.
Yeah.
Okay.
Or...
It's not really our...
No, I know.
The exact same thing is going on with the diary of Anne Frank.
You'll recall maybe a couple years back we detected there's a fight between two different foundations.
You have the Anne Frank Foundation and then the Anne Frank something else.
One is in France, one is in Belgium, and they've been arguing over the copyrights.
Is it Anne Frank's hideout in Holland?
Yes, Amsterdam.
Well, I don't know.
I didn't look it up.
But I know there's two different groups who claim to own the copyright.
Now, this is...
The copyright expires on January 1st.
Which would mean it should be able to be put online and put on just anywhere so people can read.
It's a very important book.
It's a very important document, historically.
But now these two groups are fighting because they believe that they own the copyrights and that they have done so much significant additional work to the diary that they now have new copyright on it.
Well, they have a copyright on their additional new work.
That's probably true.
But they don't...
I guess the point is...
They think they're a pill company?
They think they're a big pharma?
They can pull this kind of crap off?
No.
It's about money.
It's about money.
And I find it unbelievable.
That's not doable with copyright.
No, I find it unbelievable.
Just put it out.
This is for generations.
Now this is needed more than ever.
Honey, what are we going to do for our income?
This is all we've got.
We haven't planned for the future.
Enough about this podcast.
But I'm talking about the book.
Hey.
Check your privilege, people.
Stop.
This is great.
Now more than ever, people should be reading this book.
Kids, let them read it for free.
Nah.
Nah, copyright.
We don't copyright.
Just sell it.
Sell it.
Horrible people.
Money-grubbing horrible people.
So on a lighter note, so I've been watching the 3x3 thing because there's a little 3x3 action.
There's nothing I love more than a little 3x3.
And now it's time for 3x3.
Experiment by JCD. Comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and NBC. The never-ending 3x3.
Alrighty, 3x3, it's been, what is it now, and it's 13 months.
Three years.
So, I've been watching ABC looking for the, I'm kind of concentrating on the native advertising.
And they do it on, all the ABC shows do it.
And they do it more than anyone.
Is it like product placement or real native advertising?
I think you need to differentiate.
Well, a little bit of both.
I'm looking for real native advertising.
And let's see, I've got two examples here.
But what they've done, it seems to me, because they can't seem to sell the C Block anymore.
Even though they had a couple of, they got a couple of gimmicks.
And one of them actually turns out to be an Ask Adam.
I'll do that one later.
But they've moved it to the D Block.
And now they're selling the entire D-block to whoever wants to buy it.
As a native ad, the whole block could be yours.
But in this case, because they can't sell out, I don't know who's selling this.
I don't know if you've ever met TV and radio advertising salesmen.
Let me think.
Yeah, I've employed many of them.
What are you talking about?
Most of them are terrible.
They have brown shoes.
They all wear brown shoes.
Brown shoes, hey, you sell ads?
Yeah.
You got a good show, they can sell plenty of ads.
And I have my stories to tell, too.
So they've gone to the D-Block, and so they've decided to use the D-Block as much as they can for, like, native advertising house...
Oh, for their own stuff, for their own...
So the main thing now is they've been running the...
Oh, you've got to watch the ABC New Year's Eve party, and they do all kinds of teases for it.
But the worst one was this one, and this is the D-Block native ad, house ad.
Finally tonight, the famous stars who are in the new Star Wars movie.
But like so many of you, I didn't catch it either.
Here's Nick Watt.
Records are tumbling as the force awakens.
Now the biggest opening two weekends of all time, biggest Christmas day, and the fastest movie to pass a billion box office dollars.
Unicorn!
Inevitably, her secrets are spilling out.
007's Daniel Craig plays an ineffectual stormtrooper.
Spectre was filming in the studio next door to Star Wars.
Craig just popped over for a day.
Star Wars alums Ewan McGregor and the late Alec Guinness lend their voices.
Carrie Fisher's daughter Billy Lord is a resistance fighter, briefly.
Oh, and Bill Hader of SNL and Trainwreck fame was a voice consultant for BB-8.
The Force Awakens made by our parent company Walt Disney is already the 15th highest grossing movie of all time.
But The Force Awakens hasn't even opened yet in China.
Our planet's second biggest market.
Nick Watt, ABC News, Los Angeles.
At least they disclaim it.
That's kind of nice.
But that I think is the proof.
But I think that is the proof that it's a native ad.
The FTC has made very specific guidelines for online and television.
You have to disclaim it somewhere.
Yeah.
So they did that.
Yeah.
Well, I'm not saying they didn't do that, but it's just like, give me a break.
Who cares?
It's the stupidest story I've ever heard.
But they keep doing this.
The one thing I have to say, though, and this is a little side thing.
I promise I was going to talk about this a couple of shows ago and I mentioned in the newsletter.
What Disney's done is something I really don't see that much of, which is normal marketing strategies.
Generally speaking, when you're selling stuff, if you have a hot...
You know, the movie industry, we've seen this.
They have a crap movie, and so they push the heck out of it before it comes out, and they let it die in the box office, and everyone goes, oh, well.
Right.
But when they have a hot movie, they don't milk it the way Disney's doing.
They're still doing deals for all sorts of tie-ins for this movie.
And that's what you're supposed to do when you do genuine marketing.
You don't let the thing throw it against the wall after all this heavy-duty marketing and just let it die on the vine.
You keep marketing and marketing and marketing.
You never stop.
And that's what they're doing.
And I'm actually very impressed by that.
They're going to crack all records for total sales using this technique.
Oh, yeah.
And of course, they're still working licensing deals continuously.
It's great.
Now, the other native ad that I saw, I think is an ad that went unsold.
I think they packaged this up.
It's about streaming the Beatles.
They packaged it up and played it in the C Block as usual, but nobody bought.
They didn't have Pandora or Spotify or anybody take the bait on this.
So they didn't mention a brand, but they did this story anyway.
So I decided just to take the story because it's kind of interesting.
This is the clip here.
You've got to be careful.
This is Ask Adam Beatles, A-D-A-B-C-1.
Well, the Beatles, their music streaming online for the first time on Christmas Eve, and can you guess which song was the clear winner?
Well, I stopped it right there.
Uh-huh.
What song was the clear?
I'm asking you.
You're the guy.
What song was the clear winner?
In fact, if you can give us the top three, it'd be great.
Oh, man.
I know this is a toughie.
I'm sorry.
And I'm not looking it up because it would be very easy.
And I think I saw this news article flow by and I was not interested.
How about...
Okay.
I'll give you five that I think...
One of them has got to be...
Let me write it down.
So it has to be...
Come together...
Just guessing.
What else would be...
not help uh uh help little help from my friends yeah um I'll say imagine doesn't It has to be Beatles?
It can't be solo work?
I don't know.
I don't know, man.
Can I play the answer?
I don't think I have any of them, probably.
Can I play the answer?
Yeah, play the answer.
Well, the Beatles, their music streaming online for the first time on Christmas Eve, and can you guess which song was the clear winner?
Hey!
Woohoo!
There you have it.
Come together, the most popular followed by A.B. and Jude.
I rule!
I rule!
What were the other two he mentioned?
I didn't hear them.
Well, what were you doing?
I was too busy celebrating.
I had the number one.
Are you kidding me?
I nailed it.
Come Together, the most popular, followed by Let It Be and Hey Jude.
Alright, let's look at these songs.
Come Together, Let It Be, Hey Jude.
I think they're all on the same album, aren't they?
I don't know if they're on the same album or not, but these are all politically themed songs in today's world, which makes me very suspicious.
And I don't know why you'd pick Come Together.
It was the best Beatles song.
No, I didn't say it was my best Beatles song.
I'm thinking about the people.
I'm a disco jockey.
I know the public.
Well, explain to me why Come Together is such a great song.
If I could explain 35 years of radio disc jockey experience, I would.
I can't.
And they didn't say it's the best song, it's the most streamed song.
Yeah, the most played.
So Come Together, which is a song about getting, you know, it's an anti-Donald Trump song.
Let's start with that.
You're saying it's rigged.
It's Spotify, those damn Swedes, rigging our elections again.
I'm telling you.
I'll take it, I'll take it.
Now Come Together, I truly think...
I don't need any more than, let's face it, it's an anti-Donald Trump song.
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
This is also incredibly unfair and bullcrap.
You're right, they should have sold it to Spotify.
You know, we find out, oh, the Beatles, you can stream them, you go, you open Spotify, and there's like a couple tracks they have right there, which you're going to click first.
So it's, you know, it's what is played most, not ranked, rated, or popular.
Oh, so they have it set up that way.
So that falls into your thesis.
That falls into your thesis.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Falls right into my thesis.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Although you guessing the song ruined the whole thing, but that's okay.
The long shot.
I think you probably read it somewhere.
No, no, no.
Why do you throw shade on me?
No, I'm sorry.
You throw shade on the theory.
No, I just gave you the theory.
It's an anti-Donald Trump thing.
I gave you props for your theory.
I know.
You're very proud of yourself.
Let's go to the second song, Let It Be.
When you find yourself in times of trouble, Hillary Clinton comes to me.
I think you might be onto something with that.
Yeah, Mother Mary.
Mother Mary...
Okay.
Mother Hillary.
Mother Hillary.
Okay.
Okay, so this is, I think these are two politically themed songs that they've phonally, balonally put up at the top.
And then the last one, Hey Jude, this is an Israeli, anti-Israeli tune.
Of course it is.
Hey Jude.
Yeah.
Well, this is, here it is, the number three most popular song, most streamed song from the Beatles on Spotify.
Hey!
They should have added this one.
Go look for the basketball safety, Jude.
Step right this way.
Ow.
So, hey, Jude.
Okay, come together, you probably guessed for a good reason, but there's no...
Hey Jude is not the...
If given a choice of the entire catalog of Beatles songs, Hey Jude wouldn't be in the top ten.
I disagree.
I disagree.
These are boring tunes.
John, check your privilege.
I don't know why I said that, but it sounds great.
I'm a disc jockey.
I've played these songs for 40 years.
No, 37 years.
These are the songs they want.
Yesterday, they want Hey Jude, they want Come Together.
I'm just telling you, this is what they want.
And that song, Hey Jude, was written about Julian, Julian Lennon.
I just changed it from Hey Jules to Hey Jude.
I think this is a politically motivated list.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
And then he couldn't sell it to pots.
Maybe Spotify said, well, I don't know.
They're the ones that put the list together.
Well, but was it only Spotify?
It's a scam.
Yeah.
Okay.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, John C, where the C stands for Come Together, Dvorak.
Ugh!
Okay, well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Also in the morning, all ships at sea.
Boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
And in the morning, everybody in the chat room, noagendastream.com.
Good to see you all there on the last day of 2015.
And in the morning to all of our artists and Nick the Rat.
Did you get that email from PewDiePie?
Yeah.
He's all out, man.
It's all out art war.
Well, you know, I looked at the art.
If PewDiePie would put his effort into actually trying to make art that we'd pick instead of just anti-Nick the Rat art, I think it'd be time better spent.
I agree.
I agree.
Then it's also cheapening the page.
Yeah, and the whole idea.
Yeah, I agree.
Yeah.
You know, this is like a volunteer thing.
People can, you know, do what, you know, they don't have to submit anything.
And just because Nick the Rat happens to be on a roll, and I mentioned to PewDiePie, whatever his name is, that, you know, for a while we had the dominance, the ruling years of Martin J. That's right.
That's right.
They were kind of unstoppable.
Anyway, noagendaartgenerator.com, and thank you to all of the artists who have participated for the past year, of course, and for all time.
It really makes the show.
Oh, I didn't tweet that we're live, do we?
I did.
It really makes the show.
I remember that.
And it looks so pretty in podcast apps that actually understand how to show the individual artwork.
Yeah.
It's, you know, it's, it's, I don't understand why people, just change anything.
People change their icon on Facebook for anything, but they don't do any different artwork for their podcast.
I don't understand.
Don't understand.
Don't understand.
All right, well, let's start with a, uh, we need a theme song.
Before we start, our donation.
Innocents and slaves of Gimno Nation, please rise in recognition of Sir David Coley, Grand Duke of Duna.
Alright, the Grand Duke!
Alright, this is Grand Duke Sir David Foley, $333.33.
Whoops.
I need my little mouse here.
Where's my arrow?
There it is.
Greetings from the Great Wasteland.
Sorry I've been out of touch, but while on this journey I'm completely off the grid with no ability to find internet connectivity.
Wishing you both a new year and looking forward to catching up next year.
So he's in for 333.33.
Completely off the grid.
Okay.
Well, this must have been his last transmission, then.
Hold on, hold on.
I'm going to give the Grand Duke a little bit of grid karma.
You've got karma.
Thank you very much.
Sir David Foley.
Maybe he's on a cruise.
Nick Ismendi, 33322, Waterford, Michigan.
The cruise was a reference to Leo's cruise.
Have you seen the pictures?
No.
No.
Greetings, John and Adam.
The 31st of my 22nd birthday, and I need swazzle enough karma because the girl I was crushing on isn't really into men after all.
This is...
Crush the puss.
Yeah.
Hey!
Yeah, this is what the kids say.
Also, please tell the folks at No Agenda Player I am willing to donate my time into archiving old shows.
Oh, nice.
Thank you for the show.
I cannot stand the crap my millennial friends consider news.
Don't read the last bit.
For some reason.
I guess he wanted...
Ismendi.
Oh, Nick, it's always good to have a switched-on millennial in our midst.
And thank you very much for your very generous year-end donation.
Got some Swazenov karma for you.
You've got karma.
Crush it!
Crush it!
Sir Justin Hilton in Festus.
Festus, Missouri.
We have a player on the Golden State Warriors named Festus.
3-21-16.
I'm glad this year is finally over.
In 2015, my dad, grandpa, and uncle all died, and I lost my job.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
Can I use some jobs karma and just karma in general?
Here's hoping to her fantastic 2016.
Keep up the good work, guys.
Happy New Year, and go podcasting!
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Yay.
All right.
Surotaku in Louisville, Texas.
321-16.
Dear John and Adam, have a new year to the best podcast in the universe.
Hope 2016 provides even more entertainment as the powers that be try to keep all of us slaves in check.
Can I get some mac and cheese, Carmen?
A little girl, yay?
K5VZ. Ah, 7-3's.
Kilo Fox 5.
Sierra Lima November.
Dittos.
Mac and cheese.
By Ayn Rand.
Yeah!
You've got karma.
Yeah, this is now a thing that guys on the ham bands, they're all saying, ditto.
Ditto.
They've heard you.
I think Tom Waits told them.
Is Tom a big ham?
He better be.
Ditto.
Alex Vanderhankston, Springfield, Tennessee, 32116.
What does this number mean?
Oh, maybe it's the number that you put in the newsletter?
Oh, yeah!
Could be.
Hello?
Yeah, the countdown to New Year's.
3-2-1-16.
Oh, 3-2-1-16.
So we have three people that took us up on it.
That's good.
And the guy who thought of it forgot.
Yeah.
What am I going to do?
Nothing.
All right.
I don't know.
I have a note from...
Do you have a note from Alex?
I don't see one.
Ah.
I don't think.
It seems like that's a Dutch name.
Yeah, he would have sent you a note.
Let me see.
Alex Winderhengst.
They may have something?
No.
I got none.
I don't think so.
Okay.
Nope, you just got the Alex Evander-Hanks via PayPal thing.
The only email I have from him is from January 24th, 2014.
Well, Alex, we're going to give you some karma anyway.
Absolutely.
You've got karma.
Mike Savella sent us a post office money order.
Nice.
In Shelby Township, Michigan, 22309.
I didn't have a notice, a little note on the bottom of the money order saying, great, you guys are great, keep it up.
Thank you.
So give him karma.
Of course.
Always.
Pleasure.
Pleasure to dole it out.
You've got karma.
Remember whether they like it or not.
That's right.
Sir Corwin Underwood in Hamilton, Ohio, 22222.
Gentlemen, sorry donations are slow through the holiday season.
I am myself several episodes behind because I have a new human resource.
He's five months old now, but any parent can understand a new human resource consumes all of your time.
Therefore, this donation is wherever due.
Please keep up with the good work.
Can I get a Trump ping-pong bing-pong Obama A-team and some human resource karma?
Let me see.
I think the Trump bing, bing, bong, bong may be too long.
Oh no, I have a short version.
And what was the other one he wanted?
He wants a Obama A-Team and the Karma, or Human Resource.
Alright, okay.
Yes, I think we can do this.
Here's a short Trump.
Bing, bing, bong, bong, bing, bing.
There's a need for a rescue mission.
When the world is threatened, the world needs help, it calls on America.
And that's the story.
You've got karma.
And I'm going to make a sound request of the bing, bing, bong, bong sound at the end of the show.
The sound, or do you want the whole...
The music, the music.
Yeah, the song.
The song I meant.
Okay.
I want to mention something here.
Mimi showed the other day, she was on Facebook.
Facebag.
Facebag.
I like that.
Yeah, I think it's good, too.
On the No Agenda pages.
And there was a guy on there, because I don't look at that, and the guy on there was railing about how he went back.
First, he condemned me for saying you shouldn't have to go back and listen to all the shows because it's dumb.
So he spent the last two and a half years.
I saw her posting.
I know what you're going to talk about.
Try.
So you said for the last two and a half, he doesn't care what I think.
It's interesting.
And so he's listening to all the shows from episode one all through to the current shows.
And he says it's interesting because you get a true feeling for the breadth of the show as it develops.
I don't believe you have to go all the way to one to do that.
I think you can start at a hundred.
But he's feeling for the breath of the show.
But then he said, which I thought was interesting, it's amazing how often those guys are like six months out on their predictions.
They'll say something six months out, and then it'll happen.
And I said, well, that's a good observation.
Because sometimes when you're out way too far, like six months, then no one cares by the time it comes around.
When it comes around, everyone else is taking credit who is like two weeks out.
So it is true.
We do that.
We're very good at it.
Mimi's comment was actually a little different on the Facebook page.
Yeah, she said, just because he says he doesn't need it doesn't mean you have to listen to him.
That's what she said.
That's what you said.
Robert Slout Jr., $222.22 from Glendale, Arizona.
We get an email from him.
I don't see one.
Let me see.
Let me take one last look.
I'm still...
Okay, I finally got the end of show.
If I can get this thing to work...
What are you looking for, bro?
Slout.
S-L-A-U-G-H-T. Slout.
S-L-A-U-G-H-T. Do I have it spelled right?
Robert?
Nothing.
Thank you, Robert.
Kevin Strange, which I love that name.
Strange.
20333 from Norwich, UK. He says, he's got a note.
He's a new listener.
Three months listening and it's clear.
You chaps have more cheek than Kim Kardashian.
Thanks for helping me find the sanity balance between the mass media lies and the nuclear bunker fear seed buying paranoia.
Would appreciate some baby girl pregnancy karma.
Four boys and a dream.
For Mrs.
Strange and the little girl will be more fun.
And some producer credits for Kevin Strangelove of Gitmo Nation East.
Cardiff, Wales, UK residing in Norfolk due to tax breaks for bringing new jeans into the pool.
That's interesting.
Would like an F the EU, two to the head, shut up, slave little girl.
And then he says this in his note because it kind of carries over.
P.S. HDR monitors with high nits.
Oh, this is a note to me because I wrote a column about this.
Okay.
But high nits will change the way advanced human elites see the gaming and VR metaverse if you have a Radeon GPU driving your...
Yeah, that's what I was meant for you.
Yeah, obviously.
All right, here comes his collection of requested jingles.
Thank you very much, Kevin, and Happy New Year to you.
While I'm driving off laughing, this is what I'll say.
Shut up, flame!
Slay!
Yay!
You've got karma.
Sorry, I was quite proud of that myself, actually.
That was good.
Sir Craig Allen Harris in Wichita, Kansas, 20160.
Excellent Star Wars analysis never would have picked up on all the running J.C.D.N. brought to my attention.
I've seen people comment on official reviews online, and there's always a comment saying, Yeah, you forgot to mention all the running!
Dvorak troll army is out there.
That's good for the troll army.
Get out there and point it out.
Very good.
Because then when you see it, you go, oh my god, that's all this movie is.
Anyway, he needs help from any and all no-agenda nurses out there.
My girlfriend is an RN and I have been trying to hit her in the mouth for over two years with no success.
Any advice or tactics from the registered nurses would be greatly appreciated.
And then he says...
Well, I have two divorces that say probably not.
You say probably not what?
I probably can't hit her in the mouth.
It's not going to work.
He just wants girlfriend advice.
I don't have a girlfriend advice.
Oh, I thought he just wanted girlfriend advice to get the girlfriends to...
To hit her in the mouth.
To let her, yeah, to watch the show, listen to the show.
Oh, I know how.
I know how.
Yeah, that's what he's looking for.
If you go to the No Agenda player, and you could just go through the different episodes and find one where we're talking nice about nurses.
There's plenty of those.
Lots of them.
Nurses in the post office.
We are very fond of nurses and postal workers.
Absolutely.
I'm giving some karma.
He definitely wants that for 2016.
Congratulations.
Thank you for your support.
You've got karma.
Victor, 20160 from St.
Petersburg, Russia.
Maybe he can give me a tour of the museum.
With the donation, I'd like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
I would like to give yourself and your families a big shoot of karma and play any jingle that you enjoy.
John, I was wondering if you would be willing to create a Kickstarter for your cycles book.
Ha ha ha!
You do have to give the money back if you don't deliver, you know.
I was thinking about this.
About a Kickstarter?
No, about...
What was the thing that I got onto just recently?
You started looking into something.
Oh, Flat Earth.
No, no.
Something real to actually learn about.
Oh, you mean resonant antennas?
No, no, but that's part of the...
Magloops?
No, no, no, something newer.
Oh, yeah, okay, I got it.
I got it.
Sorry for the delay.
ETA on Dvorak's brain.
One minute.
Something about you, and I should explain a couple of things.
One of the things that...
I'm already not liking how you're starting this.
I'm already not liking...
You do something similar, but not the same.
And then the rest of my family does kind of the same thing I do, which is like the cycles book.
The cycles book is done.
I just need a little impetus to finish it, to produce it.
I did the cycles book for myself to understand some of these cycles.
Now I understand them.
It's kind of over.
I totally understand that.
Now the other thing is the vinegar book.
I did the same thing.
The vinegar book is like a week from being done.
I can finish it at any time.
But I kind of learned what I needed to know.
I got the buzzwords and I know pretty much everything I need to know about making vinegar.
I just haven't done the book part of it.
Now, you do this very similar thing, but you take it to more of an extreme than I do.
And I'm actually kind of like amazed by it.
And you've done this before.
And here's what I'm going to predict.
You have, you get into something, like you got into the, you got into the podcast and you invented it for a practical person.
You actually implemented it.
And then you got, for some reason, you had made some investments that were really good and you started a helicopter company.
Because you got into, for some reason, you got deep into it to the point where you lost all your money.
I just want to point out that my business partner in the venture was a crook and ran away.
He was wanted by the Scotland Yard and ran out of money.
So it wasn't exactly that the idea was bad.
But it doesn't matter.
Pick the wrong guy.
Pick the wrong partner.
What does it say about me?
Don't know.
Now, I became a ham.
You decided to become a ham.
A bunch of people became hams.
You got carried away.
You just went deep into it.
Deep.
You're now designing antennas.
I don't know what you're up to.
You're in the 20 meter band.
80 meter band.
With a loop.
Oh my god.
So, okay.
The next thing you're doing, because I just spotted this.
What is he doing here?
Hold on.
Hold on.
Let me think.
The next thing I'll be doing...
Yes, the next thing you'll be doing, because you're a nut...
Thank you.
...is private rail cars.
Now, you're just starting to look...
I gotta tell you...
Wow.
You know me.
When I saw that Railcar 33, and I saw that thing, and I thought, first of all, I thought, why don't I just sell the Airstream, rent this thing, because it goes all the way across the country.
Have you seen this?
With a master bedroom, it's got stripper poles, it's fantastic.
And just do the show from the train.
Or get one and rent it out.
I'm thinking the following is going to occur if you stay interested, which you tend to do.
You're more focused.
I'm really not a train guy, but I am interested in personalized transportation.
You can be a train guy.
I can be the Uber of train.
Well, I'm thinking along those lines.
Here's why I'm thinking it.
All of a sudden, your interest has been peaked, and you're looking into it.
This is the first signs of what's going to happen.
The second thing is, you've already done kind of a leasing business in the past with the helicopters.
Yeah, I know.
And you know, you make money on the deadheads.
That's how you make the money.
And so here you have a business that's wide open for internet connectivity.
I mean, nobody has really...
Done anything with these private rail cars.
They're all individual.
You're one of onesies and twosies.
I've got two of them.
I can be the Uber of trains.
You could be some guy who's like a train guy.
In fact, hold on a second.
Now, I know a lot of train guys.
You're one of them.
I've never been a train guy.
I never had a train set.
I was never really interested.
Yeah, I had a train set.
Before I mention this, let me just get the URL. Let me get the domain name.
Let me see if it's available.
Please say yes.
No, too bad.
I was going to get truber.com.
That would have been great.
It's been taken.
The Uber of trains.
Truber.
Oh, I get it.
How about Uber T? Uber T? I bet you all of that stuff is taken, man.
You can just bet on it.
Who is Uber...
T.com.
That's going to be taken.
Yeah, that's taken.
By some German outfit.
I want my domain name back.
Hmm.
Work on it.
Okay.
Well, maybe.
It may be true.
But it's a possibility, and I think it would be fantastic, because those trains are dynamite.
There's all kinds of them.
There's so many of them out there, these private cars.
Now, here's the part that people may not...
Some people have figured this out, but in some cases, it is my belief that you live vicariously through me.
And I am thinking that all you are really pushing for is for me to drive up right in front of your house behind the Zephyr.
Johnny Boy on the bar!
Am I right?
Am I right?
This is exactly true.
Of course.
Outstanding.
Good.
Let's move on.
Let's give Victor's karma.
We'll put a couple of good jingles at the end of the show.
I have a jingle for him that is also one for you because you requested it.
Bill from Indy came through.
I've been watching you.
No, no, no, no, no.
Come on.
Where was I?
No, no, no, no.
Hey, listen.
No, no, no, no.
Shame on you.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm sorry.
Sing it!
I'm just going to wait until we get this done.
This is a rowdy crowd.
I don't want you guys to break anything while you're here now.
He also did a medium version, but I wanted to play the long one for you.
That's a good one.
Yeah, isn't that great?
We need a couple more.
These songs, man, they really do it.
I like the Calypsos.
Yeah.
And we should do a Louie Louie for your collection.
How many do you have?
I told Tina you have 300 of them.
No, I don't have 300.
I have about 40.
Oh, I thought it was much more than that.
Oh, okay.
No, 40 is plenty.
Yeah.
There's a couple good ones, too.
There's actually...
I think Iggy Pop's version of Louie Louie is pretty...
I've never heard that.
Oh, yeah.
Excellent.
Let me give him a little karma.
I forgot to add that again.
You've got karma.
And finally, last but not least, is Brian, who is in Irvine, California, and all he wants to be known as is Brian.
And let's see here.
Where is he?
I don't know.
Please keep me anonymous.
Just call me Brian of Irvine.
Bri-a-vine.
That should be anonymous.
I'd be a complete douchebag.
I've been listening from the very first episode, or he puts it in the very fifth episode.
I've never contributed, even though I love the show.
Please de-douche me.
No, let's do that right now.
You've been de-douched.
I also want to comment that the shows are never long enough.
The longer the better.
When I catch up on No Agenda episodes, I have to listen to other podcasts.
It's a very sad time for me.
When he listens to other podcasts, I can't get enough of No Agenda.
Thank you so much for the work you guys do to make this the best podcast in the universe.
Thanks.
Have a great New Year, Brian.
Happy New Year to you, Brian.
I want to give you a big dose of closing out the last executive or associate executive producer donation for 2015.
Thank you very much, Brian.
You've got karma.
And that'll conclude our Executive Associate Executive Producers for show 786.
I want to remind you that next show is 787, which will end the Mile High Club offer.
Yep.
You get in the Mile High Club, the 787 JET, the last Boeing number they've used.
They haven't done a 97.
I'm sure they'll do a 999 or something one of these days.
But remember to go to Dvorak.org slash NA. We do have a...
Another show coming up on, oh, I guess it'll be the third, first, second, third.
First show of the new year.
First show of the new year.
Yeah.
So, anyway, Dvorak.org slash NA. Dvorak.org slash NA. Thank you all very much for these end-of-year contributions to the best podcast in the universe.
Always be out there propagating the formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Hey, citizens.
Shut up, slave!
Shut up, slave!
Oh, I have two promo items.
We have a brand new No Agenda CD, which is titled AGWWTF. This is from, of course, our producer.
Why am I spacing?
Ramsey.
Ramsey.
Thank you very much.
Cain.
Sir.
Sir Ramsey Cain.
I don't know what happened there.
It must have been that MK Ultra weapon focusing on my head.
Finally, new NA CD. This one's a whopper.
I pulled enough clips for four No Agenda CDs, and this is the first.
The forthcoming CDs will all be topic-specific.
The first one being focused on anthropogenic global warming is titled AGWWTF and can be found, as usual, at NoAgendaCD.com.
Propagate the formula, slaves!
Hail Apple!
Thank you very much.
It's a good idea.
It's great.
I remember during the era of the trucers, in the mid-2000s, there used to be a group of them that hung out around San Francisco's financial district with signs, and they were handing out CDs, which was just a bunch of little documentaries about 9-11 attacks.
It's very interesting.
They've got a lot of attention.
They've got a lot of CDs out.
You can also download the MP3s if you want to do it that way.
But it's fun to download them.
He's got even the ISO, so you can burn the CDs.
He's got the labels, everything.
It's a great initiative.
We really appreciate it.
Also, Matthew J. Stevens said, Adam, please remember to plug the Meetup site, meetup.com slash noagenda.
Looking for anyone wanting to organize meetups for the human resources.
Anyone wanting to host, let me know.
I'll make them the organizer.
In most cases, it's actually very little work.
Pick a location, a time.
I keep hearing people want to have a meetup, so let's get it going.
Next meetup.
Yeah, we need to do that.
Next meetup, Dallas-Fort Worth, January 9, 4 p.m., Bedford, Texas.
Already a half dozen human resources planning to attend.
Hey, I might go out there.
Where's Bedford, Texas?
Near the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
I'm looking at my email because I just noticed something in my email.
I have an email from Chelsea Clinton.
Asking you to chip in a dollar for mom?
My mom could really use your help today.
I hate it when they say chip in.
Chip in.
They always use that word, chip in.
And I got a...
Who else sent an email on the Hillary account?
Let me just see.
Bill.
Bill sent one on the Hillary account?
Yeah.
John, see, it would mean so much to my mom to have your support before the year ends tonight.
Yeah.
This campaign wouldn't be possible without it.
Without my donation, it won't be possible.
Here's the...
Pitch in a dollar before midnight.
Mimi.
Because, remember, I'm Mimi on the email.
I can't say it.
You blame Mimi.
You know, I thought back on this.
This is not true.
What?
It was an accident that I put Mimi.
Yeah, adamatkurry.com, name Mimi.
Very funny.
Mimi, says Hillary.
I can't say it any more clearly.
If we lose Iowa or New Hampshire, it's going to be a lot harder to win the nomination, and we're going to be in a weaker position when it comes time to keep a Republican out of the White House.
Before midnight's deadline, chip in $1 to help win the crucial early primaries.
Mine was pitching.
You got chipping.
I got chipping, yeah.
Yeah, I got pitching.
But this message doesn't...
I mean, I don't understand.
You know this better than I do.
I feel this is not exciting.
I don't want to donate when, if we lose, it could be hard to win.
Really?
Is that Hillary playing the underdog card again, like we discussed?
Is that her idea?
Because I don't find that to be very motivating, other than, you know, look at what Trump's doing.
We're great.
We're winning.
We're doing a great job.
And the title of the subject of her email.
Taking a negative approach like that is not a positive thing.
It's not good.
But does it work?
The thing that I see missing from the pitches, and we get all the pitches.
I get the pitches on this mailing list.
The main thing I see missing is because they're trying to get the youth vote.
The youth vote.
The youth.
They want to get the youth to vote.
They're passing up on the whole thing about these millennials.
They want a story!
They want some story!
We were talking about this after the show.
John and I, the only time we really talk is after the show.
And I should be recording.
And I should be recording because sometimes you read things from the web.
And they're just beautiful reads, man.
It's just so beautiful.
But we're talking about this, like Whole Foods.
If you go into Whole Foods, and I'm going to let you come up with the punchline.
You go into Whole Foods, anything you buy there has a story.
Oh, my grandmother made this lemonade, and then she died of cancer, and I found in the bottom drawer the recipe, and everyone loves Grandma Lucy's fantastic lemonade.
Hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
And then, of course, the big selling point is...
What?
You told me.
I did.
I have it on my salt.
Oh, yeah.
Small batch.
Small batch.
That's right.
Small batch.
Yeah.
I noticed this when we were Christmas shopping.
Mimi and I were at this housewares place called Sur La Tabla, which is this one in Seattle.
Which means on the table.
Something like that.
And...
It's really expensive stuff.
So I went over, and there's these little bottles.
They're not little, little, but they're small.
I'd say they're probably 12-ounce, maybe 14-ounce bottle.
That was grenadine syrup, but it wasn't grenadine syrup like the $6 quart you can buy at a liquor store.
It was small batch.
Small batch.
Small batch grenadine syrup.
I love that.
Peter's small batch grenadine syrup, and it was $20.
Yeah, small batch.
So it costs twice as much just for the moniker, small batch.
So I was mentioning this to Adam, and then he pulls up some salt that I have in the kitchen.
Yes, in the kitchen, which makes you wonder.
But he brings this salt, and it says, how do you have small batch salt?
What makes you wonder?
What makes you wonder?
That I have salt in the kitchen?
No, that you'd have small batch salt.
Okay.
Well, Tina gave me these as a gift.
Yeah, those are gift salts.
And we actually were talking about salts.
And then I said, oh my god, you won't believe what it says right on the top.
Small batch.
Yeah, it's not like there's a whole ocean full of salt.
But small batch.
The best podcast in the universe.
Small batch edition.
Small batch.
Well, Hillary did...
So they're doing a crappy job to summarize.
Yes.
No, it's totally crap.
Hillary had a little moment, and you can just see...
And this, of course, was scripted, set up with some kid about...
What is her?
The pay perspective, I think, is what she calls it in this clip.
The pay perspective.
Pay perspective to equal pay.
But this is how the youths of America have been corrupted and how, of course, this propagates through these scripted appearances.
Clinton did not mention Trump by name at a rally in New Hampshire.
She argued the economy does better when a Democrat is president.
She also got a question about equal pay for women.
It came from a young boy whose mother is a teacher and father is an engineer.
I think my mother is working more harder than my father.
And she deserves to have more money.
Like, get more money than my father.
Oh, that is really so sweet!
This is so wrong.
So the takeaway for this kid on equal pay is, my mom works harder for my dad.
She should have more money.
This kid needs to be taught something right away.
That how hard you work does not equate how much money you make.
Right, which is a bad message, by the way.
It's a very bad message.
I mean, so a guy who digs up coal, you know, a guy who just digs a ditch by hand works a lot harder than a guy with a backhoe to get some more money.
I was talking about this at dinner the other night.
Or we were talking about this.
The American male, particularly middle-aged white guy, is portrayed endlessly everywhere as a doofus loser.
Okay, honey, I'm sorry.
I forgot to get it.
I'm sorry, honey.
It's been going on since the 50s.
It's been a concerted effort since the 50s in media to portray the American white male family man as a doofus.
Maybe it started with All in the Family when it really...
No, no, no.
It was way before that.
All in the Family just exaggerated it and mocked it.
Actually mocked the model.
Yeah.
But before that, with Father Knows Best, and all those black and white shows, Ozzie and Harriet.
What did Ozzie ever do?
What did he do for a living?
I don't know.
Simpsons, of course, has been more recent.
That's been ongoing for a long time.
Well, The Simpsons, of course, is just another...
Family guy.
But The Simpsons, again, is the same thing taken to an extreme, which is kind of what All in the Family was.
It made the guy an even bigger a-hole.
And what was annoying about that guy...
Bewitched.
Bewitched.
Yeah, just a bonehead, stumbling, bumbling guy.
The thing about All in the Family was, the guy was, it was the Norman Lear, a left-wing propagandist, promoting this guy, supposedly, and during this era, this made no sense.
He was portrayed, this guy, Archie, would have been a middle-class, suburban-living, kind of a right-wing Democrat.
He would have always been a Democrat.
That was that era where those people were, the working class, the entire working class was Democrats during most of this country's history.
This guy, for some reason, because it didn't fit the model perfectly, Norman Lear decided to make him a Republican.
And that works very well.
Which makes no sense at all.
But it worked well.
Well, it worked well for the ratings, and it was great for the liberals in the Hollywood market.
I have to say that I'm not inspired or anything, but I do think that the relationship between men and women in ISIS is much more attractive to me.
Among the many Islamic State rules unearthed by a U.S. military raid is a detailed code for how to deal with female sex slaves, including when the so-called owners of those women can have sex with them.
Jonathan Landay is on the story.
It appears that this fatwa, this religious order, was issued to settle disputes that arose between members of the Islamic State.
Hey man, that's my slave!
Over the treatment of female slaves.
So it deals with when sex can be had with a woman captive, who can have sex with them.
There's actually very, very humane ideas they've got here.
When they can have sex with them, the different prohibitions on the different kinds of sexual activities that can be had with them, and that kind of thing.
Many of the sex slaves are from religious minorities like the Yazidis, who have faced intense persecution from ISIS since the militants rolled into Iraq last year, and their often brutal treatment is presented in shocking detail.
Here comes my favorite.
So one of the prohibitions mentioned in this fatwa is one against an owner having sex with a captive woman and her daughter.
It's the old mother-daughter combo, John.
Woo-hoo-hoo!
Woo-hoo!
Nos verboten!
You can see why you have these morons from different places deciding to join ISIS thinking they're going to get some sort of a deal.
No, it's not a good deal because you can't have sex with the mother and the daughter at the same time, which goes against all rules of pornography.
Daughter.
The prohibition says you can either have sex with the mother or you can have sex with the daughter.
Let me think.
But you can't have sex with both.
Most mainstream scholars reject Islamic State's interpretation, saying the practice of slavery is forbidden in Islam.
Well, those ISIS guys, man.
I don't think it's forbidden in any religion, actually, in the religious texts.
But, yeah.
What's that woman that's going to write you another letter?
I'm sure.
Misogynist Adam.
It's misogynistadam at curry.com.
That's right.
That would be me.
It would be me.
So where were we?
We kind of lost track of what the...
We were talking about salt and stuff, so yeah.
Salt!
Yeah.
Okay, we can move on.
I think we've got a small batch.
Very small batch.
I think I have another...
Let's talk...
Hey, I tell you what.
I think it's time to open the climate gate.
Ooh, I'd love to go to the gate.
To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
To the climate gate.
Usually I'm the one at the gate opening it up.
Yes, I rarely do this.
Very excited.
Because I've been watching as part of my 3x3, I've also been watching Democracy Now and Amy Goodman, who's the big pusher of climate science.
And let's start with early in the week when we had all these floods.
There was like a really strange weather.
Do you recall we had tornadoes and you were scoffing at me that Dallas and another 20 people died around here?
Yeah.
It is terrible.
Now, Dallas was, and she did a great job of showing what a mess it was.
So Texas got hit hard.
And I want to say I was in the Aries net.
I was participating, passing traffic back and forth when needed.
Oh, good, good.
That's what being a ham is all about.
We could save your life.
Honey, I need to buy this $2,000 transmitter because it could save your life.
It'll save somebody's life and life is worth more than $2,000.
Absolutely.
Now, let's start with the first of the week, and Amy does a great roundup of all the disasters happening everywhere in the world.
This is weather porn, and this is Amy Goodman's Weather Report One.
Hold on.
Yes.
One.
At least 43 people died over the Christmas holiday weekend in a series of storms that hit the South, Southwest, and Midwest United States, Missouri, and New Mexico have declared a state of emergency.
Tornadoes were reported in 10 states, including Michigan, which recorded its first ever tornado in December.
The deadliest storms were in Texas, where at least 11 people died when tornadoes hit areas near Dallas.
Now a historic snowstorm is heading toward Dallas after causing blizzard-like conditions in New Mexico, Oklahoma and western Texas.
Another ten people died in tornadoes in Mississippi, six more in Tennessee.
Flash floods also killed at least 13 people in Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas where as much as nine inches of rain fell on some areas.
A Birmingham, Alabama resident described the destruction after a tornado touchdown.
Meanwhile, heat records were broken on Christmas Day across the East Coast from Maine to Florida.
On Christmas Eve, the thermometer topped a record-breaking 70 degrees in New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
Extreme weather also continues around the world.
More than 100,000 people have had To evacuate their homes in areas of Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina amid severe flooding.
And British Prime Minister David Cameron has deployed 500 soldiers to address unprecedented flooding in Northern England.
Scores of flood warnings have been issued across England, Wales and Scotland.
We'll have more on the links between record-breaking heat, tornadoes and climate change after headlines with a leading climate scientist.
She brings it all together.
You know, you know.
Weather's not climate, but okay.
I feel so sad for the children of England.
They'll never see snow again, only in snow globes.
Yes.
I wish we had a clip of that.
No, it's just an article.
By the end of this series, like yesterday, the day before the show, she decided to wrap the weather again.
But this time, let's see, what's the name of this clip?
Beating the drum.
Beating the drum, yeah.
This is beating the drum.
Yesterday, she decided that this report that we just heard was just too long before she could get to her punchline about climate change, so she rewrote it, and this is the way she handled the second go-round.
Extreme weather, fueled by climate change, continues to ravage parts of the United States.
Severe flooding across the South caused two barges to sink in Mississippi while a road collapsed in South Carolina.
In Wichita, Kansas, powerful winds forced a passenger jet carrying 160 people off the runway.
Meanwhile, officials in Missouri say four international soldiers who were in the state for training are among the flooding victims.
Their car was swept away as they drove.
I thought this was all caused by El Nino.
Well, it's caused by climate change.
Let's face it.
Hey, hold on, hold on!
The science is in!
Science!
So she brings this guy on who's this expert who just wrote some paper about tornadoes.
And she brings him on, and the first thing the guy does is this, and in some journal I've never heard of, but the first thing she does is bring this guy on, and this is clip number one, and he kind of soft-pedals her whole idea because she's so into this.
And then play this, and then I have a little comment because I will now...
Playing the role of a journalist, I will ask the next question after this clip.
...of the paper, The Increasing Efficiency of Tornado Days in the United States, recently published by the journal Climate Dynamics.
Professor, welcome to Democracy Now!
Can you start off by talking about the weather we've seen, especially the tornadoes?
Is there a link to climate change?
Well, first of all, Amy, it's really important to note that the link between climate change and tornadoes is still in its infancy.
Nothing is conclusive.
What we do see, though, is that tornadoes seem to be coming in bigger bunches.
So in the past, we might see a day with five or six tornadoes.
Now we're seeing days with 10 to 15 tornadoes.
Seem.
Allegedly.
Now, this is the spot where she comes in, and this is where she would, if she's doing her job, or instead of just pounding the drum for climate change, she would say, well, there's more.
Is it possible that it has something to do with the way they're reported?
Because reporting has changed a lot over the years.
And ever since that movie that came out, the Cyclone movie, I can't remember the name of it.
Cyclone.
I think it's called Cyclone.
Sharknado.
No, Sharknado.
I'm talking about Twister, not Sharknado.
People have been more aware now, they popularized tornado chasers, so tornadoes come and go, and they get reported differently than they used to be 50 years ago.
So there might be more because there's just more reporting.
And maybe there's more access to media.
Yeah, a lot of things have changed.
So what exactly would your question be?
That would be the question.
Is it possible that the reason for the more observed tornadoes is because the reporting has changed?
Oh, that's a great question!
So that's the kind of question I'd ask in this circumstance.
Let's see what Amy does.
We might see a day with five or six tornadoes.
Now we're seeing days...
Is she biting into an apple?
I heard that on the first clip, too.
What is she doing?
It's like she bit into an apple.
We might see a day with five or six tornadoes.
Now we're seeing days with 10 to 15 tornadoes.
And so talk about those links, the links to, well, both the numbers and also the intensity?
Intensity?
Yeah, so there are actually two things that we see.
Not only are we seeing tornadoes come in bigger bunches, we're also seeing them last longer.
Once they hit the ground, they seem to be...
They seem to be.
This is all bull crap.
Yes, total lies.
They seem to be.
We don't know.
Is there any numbers to back any of the seems to be stuff?
No.
Also, the word now is a slate.
The scariest part of this season's weird weather is coming soon.
It will heat up the North Pole!
Oh, yeah.
We're going to get a North Pole heat wave now.
Yeah, the North Pole heat wave.
Fabulous.
That's enough.
Fabulous.
All right.
It's hard to take much of this, but that's my version of your climate report.
That's a good one.
I like it.
I like it.
You can close the gate.
Yes.
Here we go.
And I probably should close the three-by-three.
Kind of closed.
To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
All right, we got some, I don't know why I have two clips of this about, well, Let's see.
How long are they?
Two reports.
The Israeli government is suggesting that it may file a formal complaint with the Obama administration because of allegations published in the Wall Street Journal that the White House has continued to spy on the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and on other top Israeli officials.
The journal's story suggests that the Obama administration continued to spy on the Israeli government because of concerns that Israel was going to try to find a way to derail the negotiations between the P5 plus 1 and Iran over that country's nuclear program.
Even though the White House has not formally condemned or rejected the story, officials unnamed in the Wall Street Journal piece suggested that they had to continue doing things like this for national security purposes.
Let me play the second clip because there's something a little more interesting.
So the NSA was conducting foreign surveillance on Israeli officials, including Prime Minister...
Mr.
Benjamin Netanyahu.
And within that dragnet surveillance, some communications from those officials to members of Congress was also included.
So, incidentally, members of Congress, senators and representatives, their communications during the Iran nuclear negotiations were surveilled by the Obama administration.
This flies in the face of President Obama's statements in the aftermath of the Edward Snowden leaks on NSA surveillance of U.S. allies such as Germany's Angela Merkel.
Unless there is a compelling national security purpose, we will not monitor the communications of heads of state and government of our close friends and allies.
So the problem here is that the congresspersons and senators, their communications were eavesdropped.
And of course, you can do that to the citizens of a state, but you do it to their leaders, their rulers.
They got all bent out of shape.
I would love to see some of this, because of course we have a disproportionate percentage of Jewish congresspersons and senators who clearly have very direct links to Israel, and I would have loved to have seen what was going back and forth.
Yeah.
I would have loved to have seen that.
Schumer, and Head is Gone Lady, and all of them.
I mean, it's just interesting that the amount of Jewish congresspersons and senators is disproportionately high to the makeup of the population that they represent.
I don't know how high it is.
Yeah, of course.
No, it's very high.
Okay, well, it could be.
Let me find out.
Most of them come from, well there's a couple of them that don't, but most of them come from pretty Jewish districts and they tend to be in the House.
So 2% of the adult population in the United States is Jewish?
Who is this from?
This is ABC. Can we trust ABC? Generally.
Unless it's an ad.
Jewish representation accounts for 7% of Congress and 12% of the Senate.
Which ABC News says is a considerably high percentage.
So before you call me a Nazi, before you call me a Nazi, what people do.
Pointing it out.
Hate.
Hate speech.
Yeah.
Hate speech.
Thank you.
In New York, New York is coming up with some new regulation, which I find interesting.
New York City has warned landlords, employers, and businesses they could be running afoul of the law by purposely calling a transgender woman him or mister when she prefers a female title and pronoun or by barring her from using a women's restroom.
New guidelines detail the legal protections of transgender and gender nonconforming New Yorkers, gender nonconforming New Yorkers, and what constitutes discrimination under the city's human rights law.
There's an old thing that you always see.
Coaches will do it.
Sergeants in the army will do it.
Cops will do it.
A lot of people will do it.
There's a fight or something breaks.
Two guys start beating each other up.
And somebody comes in to interrupt it and they come in and they say, ladies, ladies, stop it.
Right.
Oh, you can't do that.
Is this a hate speech?
Yes.
It's rude.
Yeah.
I mean, it's meant to be rude.
It's misogynistic.
It's rude.
It's everything.
Everything's wrong about it.
The whole American culture is being ruined by this stuff.
That's always been a funny scene.
Call a bunch of guys ladies.
Alright.
Here we go.
Today's guidelines strengthen those laws by ensuring that every transgender and gender non-conforming person in New York receives the dignity and respect they deserve.
This is Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The guidelines state, dress codes requiring men to wear ties or women to wear skirts are discriminatory.
Failing to provide, yeah.
So if you have a dress code at your work and it requires men to wear ties or women to wear skirts, you can be fined for this.
What?
In New York, yeah.
New York, the town that everyone wears a suit and tie?
Only if it's a required dress code.
So as long as you don't require it.
You guys don't have to wear a suit and tie here in the office.
But if you want to work here, you might want to consider it.
You might want to consider it.
So we have to resort to unwritten rules to run the society now.
If you write something down, you're going to get sued.
This will end, John.
I think it will begin to end when we have the 2017 depression.
Right.
Because people won't care who they're eating.
I don't care what your pronoun is.
You're tasty.
Very nice.
I don't know if I saved this.
They call it front-stabbing.
This is Wall Street Journal that came out today.
And they're saying that companies are encouraging their employees to no longer be nice to each other.
Well, you can be nice, be cordial, but just say it, just state it.
You don't have to pussyfoot around everything.
And I really agree.
This is hurting business.
Well, you can't be, you can't talk at all if you're in a meeting.
Anything you say could violate someone's safe space or you've hurt them.
And companies are now really saying, hey, you know, let's just be...
They call it front stabbing.
Put your finger in someone's chest.
Please, just cut to the bone.
Get it out there.
No one's going to do that.
No, but it does highlight how anti-competitive all this stuff is.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's bad.
Alright, what else we got?
I'll say.
Well, probably right about now, Angela Merkel is giving her New Year's Eve speech.
And for, this will be about an hour and 15 minutes, for the first time ever, there will be Arabic subtitles.
Arabic?
Mm-hmm.
Huh.
For the migrants.
Is it Arabic that they speak in in Syria?
Yeah, I think so.
It's a dialect.
All Arabic is all a dialect.
There should be some gaffes.
That's going to drive people crazy in Germany.
Ah, yeah.
I've got several emails about it.
And Angela in general is not doing too well.
It's been a busy Christmas for German police in the Bavarian city of Rosenheim.
Every day they say up to 2,000 migrants cross into the country from Austria.
It's hard on our families because they are without us and the federal police are on duty around the clock.
Most officers consider it part of their job, but not everyone in Germany supports Angela Merkel's policy.
According to the developed newspaper, Germany's federal states are planning to spend around 17 billion euros dealing with the refugee crisis in 2016.
That's almost 2 billion more than the central government allocated to its education and research ministry this year.
Who cares?
The German economy can cope.
Latest data suggests industrial companies plan to increase investments by 6% in 2016.
And long-term Germany needs migrants.
Migration in sort of pure economic terms will be good for the German economy.
It will help to maintain growth, especially when you consider that population growth in Germany itself is weak.
But it is a very tricky balancing act, and I'm not sure that Merkel is quite as in charge as she should be of the current situation.
Her popularity rating has fallen in recent months as a result of the migrant situation, and De Velt said the latest figure could end up being far higher.
It was apparently based on estimates that 800,000 refugees would come to Germany in 2015.
At the end of November, the actual figure was already 965,000.
Yeah, and this policy is so mind-boggling to me.
I've seen this policy fail drastically.
Well, you're going to see it again.
Oh, it's much worse.
They're expecting 35 million Muslim immigrants living and working in Germany by 2100.
How many?
35 million.
That's built.
They have a lot of kids, because I guess they like having kids, but also you get money for each kid you produce.
Right.
It's a moneymaker.
Yeah, and if you can get the kids to be productive, it's okay, but I'm not so sure.
Well, this will be a problem.
Now, also in Euroland, the bail-ins are back.
Two banks failed and have seen bail-ins, meaning the shareholders in the bank lose.
And of course, oftentimes people are coerced into investing in a bond that the bank perhaps holds.
So Portugal had a bank bail-in, and Italy had a bank bail-in.
Which is very similar to what happened in Cyprus.
And this is kind of the new Troika idea.
Like, if your bank's failing, we don't really care.
You just screw the shareholders.
Or depositors, even.
Because they take some of the depositors.
Well, they should take the depositors with them.
Alright, well now, I've got a couple things here I want to get out of the way.
One is, there's been a lot of discussion about Gitmo, which has really irked me.
Of course.
Obama's making a last ditch.
You can take that to the bank.
To close this thing.
That's what he said.
He said...
You can take that to the bank.
I'm going to close Guantanamo.
You can take it to the bank.
He's never going to take it to the bank.
It's a bail-in of his bank, apparently.
And what happened, it seems to me, I got these reports from Democracy Now!
It seems as though, I don't think Obama wants to close Gitmo, or ever cared to close Gitmo.
He's full of crap.
But the liberal news media, specifically Democracy Now!
is so naive, if they just look at the facts, they'd realize...
Obama did not release as many prisoners as George Bush did, but they blamed the Republicans that he can't release them because the Republicans led George Bush to it, but the Republicans wouldn't let him do it, even though he, of course, had the House and Senate to himself at the beginning.
He could have just closed the place.
And now they're blaming the Pentagon.
Oh, the Pentagon won't let him close it.
It just goes on and on and on with one story after another, but he can't close it because everybody else doesn't want to close it.
I think he doesn't want to close, and I think that the giveaway here is what they don't bring up, is take a look at the drone numbers.
George Bush killed, I don't know, a few hundred, maybe a hundred or something like that with the drones.
I don't have the number.
But we do know Obama is like a drone maniac.
He's killing people left and right as much as he can.
He's way over what Bush ever did.
And they're just blind to this.
And so I'm going to play the report.
Well, they're not only blind to it, they think it's funny.
I have two words for you.
Predator drones.
You will never see it coming.
Yeah, exactly.
So start with Gitmo update.
This month will mark seven years since President Obama's inauguration.
That also means it will be seven years since the president ordered the closure of the Guantanamo Bay military prison in one of his first executive actions.
We all know that has not panned out, with 107 prisoners still there.
It's also well known that congressional Republicans are the biggest obstacle, passing a series of measures blocking Obama's efforts.
But now a new report sheds light on another hurdle that's received far less attention.
According to Reuters, the Pentagon has thwarted the Obama administration's efforts to close Guantanamo by imposing bureaucratic hurdles to delay or derail prisoners' release.
A former official compared negotiating prisoner releases with the military brass to punching a pillow.
Pentagon delays forced four Afghans to spend an additional four years in Guantanamo, despite their approval for transfer.
The Pentagon has even meddled with the effort to enlist other countries in accepting free prisoners.
It's refused to provide foreign governments with photographs and basic documentation necessary for the transfer process.
And it's barred foreign delegations from spending the night at Guantanamo and reduced their interview times with eligible prisoners, making the prisoners much harder to vet.
Maybe it's appropriate right now to explain...
The issue of Guantanamo Bay.
I think that the people don't even talk about it anymore.
What exactly is the issue?
Why was the president so adamant about closing it?
Well, it was determined by the left, mostly, that this was a horrible place.
It was a place where you could just imprison people without due cause, without habeas corpus or anything.
You just throw them in there.
It's like a throwaway the key.
It's like Devil's Island kind of an operation.
Yeah, but habeas corpus is for American citizens.
It's not...
Well, but there's no military.
Yes, that's the point.
You get them off U.S. soil.
Even if it's an American, you can take an American.
I think they tried to do that.
That one guy was supposedly a terrorist.
I'm just trying to understand.
Why was everyone so crazy about closing it?
It wasn't Abu Ghraib.
I think a lot of people may be confused.
Well, there was a crossover with Abu Ghraib.
Because there was some supposed torturing going on by the CIA at Guantanamo, too.
And that's why he was going to close it?
I don't remember.
The reason was because we didn't think it was bad.
It was not in the United States' interests to have this sort of Devil's Island prison.
It was bad for our image.
It was just a bad thing.
What was the point?
What good was it doing?
It wasn't doing anything good.
It became a campaign issue in 2006, 2007.
Thank you.
And so he was all in on it.
Oh, okay.
Well, we're going to close this.
Take it to the bank.
We're going to close it right away.
And so he got in and immediately signed some papers to close it and nothing happened.
And I just doubt his sincerity about the whole thing because it's handy.
I think Guantanamo is seen as.
I don't think it's a good thing to have either.
But it's seen as handy because you can threaten people with it.
You can throw them in there.
And once you throw them in there, you throw away the key.
They don't have to be guilty of anything.
You can just throw them in.
It's great.
It's great for the Empire.
And somebody briefed him on it, I think, and I think he's been all in on it.
I think this is nonsense, this report on democracy now.
Because Obama's the poor, oh, the poor victim is Obama.
Because Republicans.
And the Republicans are causing it as if he can't Take a team and walk over there and find out what the problem is.
Why can't you get these Afghans out of here?
And then start firing people.
So you want a dishonorable discharge, and you can sue the government trying to get your pension if you don't get this guy out of here tomorrow.
You can do that.
He's the president.
I mean, you do have some abilities to take action and make things happen.
He's not doing any of it.
No.
No.
It's bullcrap.
So here's part two, where he's blaming the...
Again, it's all these...
It's the Republicans' fault for everything.
...the obstruction of peers reserved for President Obama.
While President Bush transferred 532 prisoners out of Guantanamo and faced no political opposition, Obama has only been able to transfer 131 during his two terms.
Obama has said he'll push Congress on closure during his final year in the White House, but Reuters notes, with the added obstacles from the Pentagon, it's increasingly doubtful that...
Obama will be able to fulfill his pledge.
Yeah.
Poor guy.
Yeah.
He does a good job playing the victim card.
He doesn't want to close any more than any of these other guys want to close.
It's too handy.
It's nice to have a place where you just throw away the key.
It's like that Chicago operation, which they finally cracked down on.
That building.
Take your prisoner.
That's more egregious than anything.
Well, that's on our property.
I mean, it's on the United States soil.
It's outrageous that that's going on in Chicago.
Well, we're talking about this.
A report came out, an investigation.
The Pentagon, Department of Defense, has to be audit-ready by 2017.
So their last year is coming up.
Oh, I have not heard this.
Yes.
Well, there's two other nuggets of information.
One, the amount of money the Army, not the Defense Department, the Army alone lost track of between 2003-2011, $5.8 billion.
They just don't know where it is.
Just lost track of it.
Lost track of it.
Now, the Pentagon spoke to Reuters and said, we're probably not going to meet the deadline.
They got two years, a year, a whole year.
Would you like to know their reasoning?
To put a bunch of auditors in place and have people start looking at numbers.
Would you like to know their reason?
I'll bet.
The main reason is rooted in the Pentagon's continuing reliance on a tangle of thousands of disparate, obsolete, largely incompatible accounting and business management systems.
Many of those systems were built in the 70s and use outmoded computer languages such as COBOL and old mainframes.
They use antiquated file systems that make it difficult or impossible to search for data.
Okay.
Bullshit! - Shit!
Go look at SAP or Bonn.
These guys are still running crap on COBOL. That's what they do!
What a lie!
And Reuters, okay, I'll write that down!
Yeah, with a hook in their mouth.
Reel them in.
Here's the final quote from a former defense official.
It's like if every electrical socket in the Pentagon had a different shape and voltage.
No.
No.
Come on.
Well, it's Reuters.
They lose all credibility.
Technology.
When it comes to technology reporting, people really, really don't know what to do.
The journalists are clueless.
The tech horny news journalists are clueless.
Well, they only want to talk about phones.
And oh, there's a new Google Glass.
It's remodeled.
Oh my god.
Well, this is bull crap.
It's a lie.
It is an outright lie.
It's a lie.
In fact, I would wager to say that COBOL, if you've got the AS400, these IBM systems, it may be old iron, but it does work.
It's not that hard.
It's not working.
Numbers are going in and coming out.
Yes, of course.
No, it's fraud, waste, abuse, and criminal activity.
Oh, poor boy.
I guess they can't do it.
They're doing the best.
We are a nation that we love violence and war.
I'm sorry.
It's who we are.
We have bombs and rockets in our national anthem.
I don't think that's in most national anthems.
We got bombs bursting in air.
That's who we are.
That's who we are.
Here's an interesting story.
Oh, this one, by the way, did you catch this?
This is about the Secret Service guys?
No.
It's a very strange story out of the blue.
It happens to be Hillary's boys.
For some reason, this happened.
There is another headline we're following on the campaign trail tonight.
A deadly crash involving four Secret Service agents assigned to keep candidates safe.
In this case, assigned to a Clinton rally.
ABC's Lindsay Janis is in New Hampshire.
This is what's left of the four tourists that was carrying four Secret Service agents who were on duty protecting Hillary Clinton.
The agents, two men and two women, were driving down this New Hampshire highway during a snowstorm last night when the driver of a vehicle in the oncoming lane crossed over double yellow lines, hitting them.
Two ambulances requested a motor vehicle crash with entrapment.
This is a head-on collision.
That's correct, yeah.
So both vehicles collided with each other and then spun off of each other.
All the victims, including those four agents, had to be cut out of their vehicles.
The driver of the car that caused the crash, 45-year-old Bruce Danforth, died on the scene.
Police say Danforth, who has previous arrests for drugs, was driving on a suspended license.
Today, Hillary Clinton giving her condolences to the victims and saying she's grateful every day for the Secret Service.
Kill the ones that want to pop the news about her, is what I say.
That's what I'm looking at.
And the way they showed this, this was like an orchestrated hit, reminding me of the series Rubicon.
Yeah.
This guy's in the lane.
He moves over for a perfect head-on with the one car that's got the Secret Service guy in it.
Did I misunderstand?
It speeds up.
Was this a former Hillary Secret Service person?
These are the current Hillary Secret Service people.
The current ones?
I think.
Or they're the ones that were doing the...
The ones who...
I don't know.
The troublemakers.
This is a message to somebody.
I have no idea.
It's the troublemakers.
Oh, yeah.
Wow.
But this is definitely, you know, something's up with this.
I thought it was very fishy.
Well, just to reiterate, we heard very early on from insiders that the Secret Service hate her and that they will totally, you know, what is the term?
Sabotage.
No, they would...
That's a Dutch saying.
I can't come up with an English version for it.
Which means they would clap out of school.
Clap out of school.
I know, it doesn't really translate.
No, they're going to rat on her.
They're going to tell everyone about what she's really up to.
I don't think they're going to get aware of that.
I think this was a message.
There's another one.
Here's an odd murder that seems suspicious.
Ah, okay.
The one from Democracy Now.
An odd murder.
Syrian journalist and documentary filmmaker who worked to expose atrocities by the self-proclaimed Islamic State has been killed in Turkey.
Najee Girff worked with the citizen journalist group Raqqa is being slaughtered silently.
In a statement, the group said Girff was assassinated with a silencer-equipped pistol in a Turkish town near the Syrian border.
He was due to fly with his family the next day to seek asylum in France.
Did you hear about the Ian Murdoch death?
No.
He is the founder of Debian Linux.
Oh yeah, the Linux guy.
Right, so many people requested us to discuss this.
I've never heard about it.
I looked into it.
I looked into it too, and here's what I can't find.
I can't find any official announcement that he either killed himself or was killed.
I mean, we only have tweets.
Yeah.
And then someone said that he committed suicide.
Where?
And then the tweets all disappeared, and the whole thing is very suspicious.
What is being said is, oh, you know, he was being abused, and then he was tweeting about the abuse.
I don't see how you can be in jail and tweeting at the same time if you're arrested.
He was being beat up by the police.
Came over, beat him up once, and they came back, three of them, including a lady cop from San Francisco, and beat him up again.
For what?
Well, But we don't know.
We only know that's what he tweeted.
It's a horrible story.
I want more information.
I was really unable to maybe, you know, by tomorrow or something we'll have more.
But I can't really comment on it because I just don't know anything else than tweets.
I mean, I guess the insinuation is, you know, he was working on, you know, very successful open source projects like Docker and, of course, Debian Linux.
You know, well, I guess we have to, you know, they're killing him off to stop Linux?
I don't think so.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Somebody said, oh, he is very big in the open source community.
He made lots of enemies.
I'm thinking, why is somebody trying to take a shot at Richard Stallman?
There's a guy who's made nothing but enemies.
You don't hear any of this because this doesn't happen.
There's no reason.
What did the guy do that he would be targeted because he's an open source?
I mean, come on.
So I got a note here.
Adam, read the fucking chat room!
I don't know.
I'm doing a show here.
So let me see.
With a heavy heart, Debian's pass.
I mourn the passing.
I don't see it.
I just don't see it.
They don't say how he died.
Yeah, was he hung?
Did he shoot himself?
Did he cut his wrist?
Did he take pills?
I mean, come on, one of them.
Nothing.
I need a little more info, for sure.
And why did it become such a, out of the blue, become such a tweeted up Well, people are obviously...
Oh, no, it was a murder.
You're insinuating it's a murder.
If you see the tweets, yes.
I just don't understand how you can be tweeting when you're being beat up in jail.
I just don't get it.
It's okay.
We'll find out.
We'll find something out.
I doubt it.
I think this whole thing is...
I don't know.
I really don't know.
But people are obviously shocked because he's a big presence on the, you know, these mailing lists are huge and a lot of people are shocked.
Guy's 42, he's apparently dead and maybe it's police brutality, who knows?
But there's no, I've seen no reporting other than, you know, from some tech press.
So, chat room, give me something I can really use.
He's got all their information from the tweets.
That's what I think, yeah.
Which is not really, you know.
People don't even know if it's him tweeting these things.
It could be Rita Katz for all I know.
Just saying.
I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
Dance in the morning.
Well, as usual, we have people to thank.
We want to thank them profusely for helping support show 786.
And as soon as I find my cursor...
It's attached to that thing no one will use.
It's called a mouse.
There it is.
Jeez.
786.
Alright, let's start with Sam Leung in Toronto, Canada.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
And he...
By the way, the amount of hate from the chat room that we are just saying, give me some reporting, is pretty crazy.
The chat room's nuts.
It's a real problem.
In fact, the chat room, because we have a real chat room, we let them condemn us.
It's very poorly moderated.
We don't want moderation.
No, but I'd like disruption to be taken out.
That's not disruption.
There's no disruption.
No, I'm saying disruption.
What if some guy, for example, Joe Schmo is on there and he just has, you know, something, just a line that goes down to the bottom and all the way and keeps going and says, Go Patriots!
Yeah, yeah.
We have moderation for that.
That does not happen.
That's what I'm talking about.
We have that.
But people just being mean and yelling at us.
That's okay.
It actually gives me power.
Anyway, Sam would like, and he's one of our long-standing knights, would like, and says, Happy New Year's.
May 2016 be full of podcasting.
Some travel karma would be highly appreciated.
I'm sitting in an airport for a 2.5 week trip to Asia.
Go podcasting.
So if you can give him a...
What does he want?
A karma.
A karma?
Okay.
Okay.
You've got karma.
And then we have Bonjour John and Adam from Gilles Peveau in Paris.
Hey!
$23.10.
Overdue donation, he says.
Gilles!
Merci!
Merci!
Gilles!
It's his birthday.
We got him on the list.
Which is a cool day to have a birthday.
No, it's not.
It's his crap day.
No, it's a great day because then you don't have to worry about people celebrating your birthday.
This is crap.
My sister's birthday is January 1st.
Oh, that's the worst.
It can't be any worse than that.
She was born 49 years ago in Uganda on New Year's Eve.
Let me tell you, my mom was not happy with that whole experience.
I wonder why.
Ronald Beavis, $111.11 from Winnipeg.
You wonder why, but you just shut up is what you're saying.
Okay, got it.
I mean, I think we beat it up.
It's a funny story, but...
Why is it funny?
You'll never know.
Dame Kline, good.
Dame Kline, if it was funny, you would have had to move the punchline up.
You cut me off before the punchline.
Okay, I'm going to stop the show until you give us a punchline to this hilarious...
Do not stop the show.
Do not stop the show.
Continue.
Do not stop the show.
Dame Clyde.
All right.
Astrid will love that new nickname.
Dame Clyde, the Duchess of Japan.
Dame Astrid.
Duchess of Japan.
It says Dame Clyde Astrid.
I'll read this.
Dear John and Adam, wishing you that all your dreams come true.
Unicorns et al.
May good humor never leave you and the force be with you.
Day mastered.
Duchess of Japan.
And she also sent me a lovely personal note.
Very nice.
Yeah?
Mm-hmm.
She just says me anything.
No, because she thinks my jokes are good.
Gary Zachman in Lost Wages, Nevada, $101.68.
Preston Thaler in Sonoma, California, $101.16.
I can't get it out any other way.
Carter Blumeier in Vindemere, Florida, $101.16.
These are the special $101.16 donations that were in the newsletter.
Oh, yeah.
What was that in recognition of?
It was the first day of...
Oh, 101.16.
Got it.
It's actually 01.01.16.
Which actually works both in the United States and Europe.
Mm-hmm.
Which I kind of tried to put in there and I decided it was stupid.
Carter Blumeier again.
Chad Watson in Euless, Texas, 101.16.
Phil Brown in Clayfield, Queensland, Australia.
He has something to say between the two of you each week.
What does he say?
Happy New Year.
Thanks for your hard work throughout...
What is that I'm hearing in the background?
My tuba!
It's Auld Lang Syne tuba.
That's crazy!
Oh, you had Merry Christmas last week, so now you're playing Auld Lang Syne.
Yes.
Sounds like somebody's farting in a bit.
It sounds like someone has a breathing issue.
Obviously not the best tuba player.
That's all right.
Excellent analysis and hilarious banter between the two.
I don't know about that.
Phil Brown.
That's Phil Brown in Queensland, Australia.
Martin Fellner in Austria.
In Golling and Salzak.
Golling and Salzak.
Salzak.
Yeah.
101.16.
Oh, he confirms 55 is ha-ha.
If you text 55, that's apparently ha-ha in Thailand.
Oh, interesting.
F5 is actually pronounced as ha in Thai.
Oh, cool.
How much?
How much?
You love me a long time.
Ha.
Ha.
Five bucks.
Alon Baker, parts unknown, $100.
Patrick Coble, Sir Patrick Coble.
My life!
In Fairview, Tennessee.
I have a question in for him.
Ben Von Kerwick.
Kirkweig.
Kirkweig.
Kirkweig, probably.
Kirkweig, because he's from California.
In Auburn, California.
And he came in at 89.90.
Josh Wilson, 78.60.
Where'd the tuba go?
It's still there.
Oh, okay.
78.60.
Farmingham, New Mexico.
William Mitchell, Vestal, New York.
66.66.
Lucas Zua in Munich, Deutschland.
55.66.
München.
Lucas Sue, okay.
James Moore in San Pablo, California.
It's right up here.
We should do a meetup around here.
5555.
Reed Guanty, I believe, in Towson, Maryland.
Carl Penfeld in Reston, Virginia.
Jeffrey Schwab in Olympia, Washington.
These are 55 tens for those two, both of them.
Brian Murakod in Tacoma, Washington.
I don't know if that can't be pronounced.
It can't be yet.
53, 49.
Morasad, it's got to be.
Don't you think?
I think...
Murakade?
Maybe?
Yeah, it's very light.
Murakade?
Could be Murakade.
P.S. Thank you for the Star Wars spoilers.
A lot of people did not appreciate that.
No, but I thought it was...
You talked me into it.
It's your fault.
Oh, I did not talk you into it.
Oh, you go back.
You actually had a whole...
Yeah, I know, because you had a whole thing saying, why?
This is ridiculous.
Why can't we do spoilers?
This is true.
This is your idea.
I agree with that.
I did that, but then I relented.
Okay.
And you said it would be good for chit-chat at the water cooler for people who actually didn't get to see the movie.
That's right.
Christopher Dolan, Adam at Curry.com.
Christopher Dolan, Brookline, Massachusetts, $51.50.
David Dural, $50.
Wait, one $50 donation and normally a list of them?
That's it.
It closes it.
David Dural in Malta, New York, $50.
And that concludes our list of well-wishers and contributors to the show.
Prior to show 787, it's show 786.
The big 787 show coming up on Sunday.
Sunday.
And thank you all very much for supporting the best podcast in the universe.
Thank you to the regular subscription donors who are on the...
Plans like 33 or 12-12s, 11-11s.
All of that really, really helps.
Please check your credit cards.
Check your PayPal.
Make sure it's continuing through the new year.
PayPal just shuts these things off at random, or so it seems, and certainly don't let you know about it.
And Happy New Year to everybody.
Thank you very much for supporting the best podcast in the universe for yet one more year.
Dvorak.org slash NA. And today, the cusp of the new year, we congratulate Sir Otaku, who turned 52 yesterday.
Nick Aismendi was 31 on the 22nd.
Gilles Pavot celebrating today.
Gary Zachman says happy birthday to his wonderful wife, Christine.
She'll be celebrating tomorrow, along with my sister, Tiffany Curry, 49 tomorrow.
And finally, Joey Baird says happy birthday.
Jody Baird says happy birthday to her husband, Ryan.
A very happy 31st.
And that, of course, goes from all of us here at The Best Podcast in the Universe.
It's your birthday, yeah!
The gong really blows out the process.
When you hit the gong, it has some frequency, and the compressor limiter goes nuts.
That's not good.
No.
Hey, we have one nighting.
Nick Asmendi.
We had a pronunciation guide.
I want to make sure I do it right.
He told us how to do it, didn't he?
Yeah.
As Mindy.
Okay, got it.
As Mindy.
All right.
Blade?
Yeah, here it comes.
Okay.
Where's my...
Oh, shit.
Hold on.
Oh, got it.
Here it is.
Nick Esmendi!
Come on up!
Thank you very much for your support of the No Agenda Show and the amount of $1,000 or more for that.
You now have earned a coveted space at the No Agenda Roundtable, and I hereby pronounce the case, the Sonic Dragon of the Four Domains.
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I had...
Oh yes, here it is.
I was actually going to do a little second half.
I'm not going to play the jingle.
Do we do the birthdays?
I miss them?
Thanks for participating in the show.
I was looking at some notes.
Let me read a couple of notes that are just random ones from the bottom.
Thank you, John and Adam, for all the hard work and dedication of the show.
You two have helped me develop the critical thinking skills and you two consistently demonstrate the process of analyzing things that just don't seem right.
It's a skill that will carry me for the rest of my life.
I thought that was a sweet note.
It's true.
It's true.
And then someone from Athens, Greece wrote in, my last chance to end the year as a donor and not a boner, so here's my 2016 cents to wish you and your...
Great.
We wish you a good slide into the new year.
Or Guten Rutsch, as they say in German.
Keep up the good work and keep the fire between you two burning.
The more I listen, the more I realize how amazing your combined talent really is.
It's yin and yang.
There you go.
There you have it.
It's push and pull.
I've had a lot of different ideas, and of course all of them pretty much deemed nutty by you.
No.
In particular, yes.
I didn't say the rental train cars are nutty.
No, I'm talking second.
I didn't say the ham guy was nutty.
No.
Everything else.
Well, maybe.
Well, you know, the second half of the show.
What about it?
I never said it was nutty.
Yes.
I said that space elevators were the future.
Though a tried and tested way to launch space missions, firing rockets isn't fuel efficient.
Thoth Technology of Canada says its planned 20-kilometer-high space elevator tower could solve that.
If you have a 20 kilometer tall tower and you launch from the tower, then you can get to space in a single stage to orbit.
So normally on a rocket launch you launch vertically for a while and then you expel those stages of the propellant and those kind of will fall down back to the ocean and then you continue on.
By this, you would eliminate that part of the journey.
The Thoth X tower could cut mission fuel costs by 30%.
The tower will be built of reinforced inflatable sections, while a hollow middle would allow an elevator car to bring the rocket to the top.
Thoth says it could also be used for communications to generate wind energy and even for tourism.
There's a lot of opportunities for the structure.
Now, so I'm hearing this.
I'm thinking, this guy's full of crap.
Why did they even do this report?
But listen.
Tourism is one.
You'd have a great sight of the earth at 20 kilometers up.
You see about 1,000 kilometers in any direction.
Thoth has a U.S. patent for the tower, which will be more than 20 times higher than any other man-made structure.
It plans to build a working prototype within five years.
The company is also part of NASA's mission to land on the asteroid Bennu.
Yeah, so they're part of NASA. So let's see.
You get in the elevator, and you'd go up 100,000 feet.
Mm-hmm.
Which is what they say.
Yeah, 20 kilometers.
Which, of course, there's no air up there.
And so you have to bring a Scott Air Pack or something.
And I don't know how long it'd take to go up 100,000 feet.
That's 20 miles, they say.
20 kilometers.
Okay.
Well, we'll call it 20 miles just to round things off so I can do the math.
No, that's like two times as much.
No, it's not.
It's like 20% more.
It's not even that much.
A kilometer is 1.8 something.
A mile is 1.8 kilometers.
It's almost two kilometers.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I must be nuts again.
Second half of the show.
Crazy curry.
1.8 kilometers.
That number is wrong.
Okay.
Not 1.8 miles.
How many?
We go to the Google.
You're right.
It is 1.6.
It was that high.
Yeah.
And the Canadian dollar is 72 cents.
It's more frightening than not knowing.
The irony of the Canadian dollar is that it was worth more than a dollar about three years ago.
A couple years ago.
I've never seen a thing collapse so fast.
We should go live in Scandinavia.
Well, the shopping in Canada is fantastic.
Of course, and it makes oil cheap for us.
Everything.
How does that work?
Why is their currency down?
I mean, it's down by 25% almost.
Which is the same in miles.
I've never seen a collapse like this.
And they're expecting another 20% drop.
Wow.
Yeah.
Anyway, okay, whatever the case is, you go away.
It would take forever to get up to the top.
It takes forever.
I just love that you thought a mile and a kilometer were about the same.
Well, I never thought they were the same because I look at my speedometer and I can see that if I'm doing 100 kilometers, I'm not doing anywhere.
60% more is not the same as 20%.
Well, it's definitely not the same as 1.8.
1.8 is closer to 1.6 than 1.2.
Yeah.
You just can't stand it, can you?
It should have been 1.4.
New rules.
The mile is now 1.4 kilometers.
Screw y'all.
Whatever the case, it's still a long ways up, and if a bird hits that thing, the whole thing will come tumbling.
That thing is stupid.
That's the stupidest idea ever.
Well, it's funded.
By NASA. It's funded.
That makes no sense to me.
That's taxpayers' money at NASA. Yes, sir.
So you're paying to build this fiasco.
Yes.
Yes.
And you think it's fine?
I think it's...
I'm not even...
You know what?
I'm not taking your bait.
Okay.
I learned something interesting about the Volkswagen scandal.
Yes.
Which I still think is, increasing evidence actually is showing that it was a real hit job on the German economy.
Definitely.
And now Bosch is being brought into it.
What did Bosch got to do with it?
Well, Bosch, they sell the engineering, the electronic, the ECU, the electronic control unit for these cars.
The software is in the ECU. So now Bosch is being brought into it.
And Bosch is huge!
Oh my gosh!
I don't know if they have different divisions, if they can protect other divisions.
They can just spin off this one.
They'll have to.
Um...
Well, they're probably where Zelda coders were.
I wouldn't be surprised if Bosch didn't come up with the idea.
So some research includes insight into cheating for advanced managers and code extraction from ECUs from eBay.
So they've been trading this code around, too.
Bosch is going to be in trouble.
And it's just another company, another German company that's being hit.
I find it very fascinating, actually.
Well, if you're an American company and you're playing by the rules, or at least you're cheating in a way that's not so obvious or so bad, you'd probably bust these guys and target them.
Because they're the competition.
I still think it's a good time to buy a Volkswagen.
I would.
I would.
If I had the money.
They're on sale, the whole thing.
I wanted to mention something about the internet.org and Mark Zuckerberg all bent out of shape and saying that this is wrong and unfair.
I'm talking about the free internet that Facebook is providing.
They just shut it down in Egypt.
They shut it down in India.
And, you know, this was the big vision, the big dream of Mark Zuckerberg to connect another billion people.
And I applaud the government of India.
I applaud the government of Egypt, for whatever radicals are running in it.
For I looked into what is actually going on, and it is a despicable operation that Zuckerberg is trying to put together.
Explain.
The idea is you get free internet in the form of something called the Free Basics.
Okay?
And I'm going to go to their website.
You can check it out.
I said okay.
I know I did.
But it says it's a Silicon Valley story, so you have to say okay and write a couple times, otherwise people don't think you know what you're talking about.
So, here it is, at internet.org.
So they have this platform.
Reach the next wave of people coming to the internet.
Join the Free Basics platform by adding your app, website, or service to Free Basics, which provides people free access to a range of basic services and markets where internet access may be less affordable.
So the rub with these governments, and they call it net neutrality, but...
What is going on is you get the access, but only for the free basics.
If you want to go onto the internet, any other website than the free basics, then you have to pay.
And even that, they say that you can, I immediately uploaded noagendashow.com, you go through this whole process of why it should be on the free basics, why should everybody have it, and then I looked at the guidelines.
The participation guidelines as to what what these free basics will do with your internet content and how egregious and this is the Zuckerberg building the biggest walled garden ever so stop You've actually, instead of just doing a report on this, you've actually taken part.
Yes, I registered our website, of course.
Great.
I've not been approved.
That sounds like a winner for us.
When we get that Indian market, even though they never donate because they're cheap, they will at least listen.
No, we're not going to be approved.
We won't.
But where's my approval?
I'm still waiting.
Listen to the participation guidelines of Free Basics and what these guys are really doing.
So if you say, alright, my site, NoAgendaShow.com, please put that in the Free Basics.
Here are the five points.
Your site may be proxied to make your content available through Free Basics.
You can let us know that you want to pull your site from FreeBasics at any time, but because we may need to make product and marketing adjustments, we may require up to 60 days from receipt of your notice to transition gracefully.
So right up front, they're saying, here's how you get out.
Don't read the rest.
In order for your content to be proxied as described above, your URLs may be rewritten, and embedded content like JavaScript and content originating from other domains will be removed.
Your name and logo may be included in free basics, product screenshots of the service and press releases, but we won't use your brand in larger marketing promotion without first asking your approval.
Any data or reporting we provide is deemed Facebook confidential information and cannot be used by you for any advertising purposes or shared with third parties.
What does that mean?
It means they just own your content.
You cannot get any information about it.
And any information you have cannot be used to sell to advertisers.
Developer participation on the FreeBasics platform, including the information submitted with your application, is otherwise governed by our standard legal terms.
By clicking Submit below, you confirm that you are authorized to agree to these terms, etc.
So what they're doing is they are taking your content, removing all links, disconnecting it from the free and open web, and putting it into FreeBasics and giving that to the stupid shittisons of the world.
They want to completely control everything.
I think it's very, very smart, tech savvy of India and Egypt to say, no, screw you.
There is no free lunch.
Then they want to control everything, right down to what your content is.
Of course they do.
Yeah, but it's pretty egregious when you see what they really want to do.
Well, say we've got to prove what would happen.
I would be very surprised, is what would happen.
Why would you be surprised?
I see no reason why they're going to allow a website that has heavy download available and talk shit about them.
I see no reason why they would ever allow that.
Well, we don't really talk poorly.
I mean, besides the face bag complaints, it seems that I don't think we make a...
It's not like a...
We don't have a theme song for it.
Not yet!
We do it so much.
But then again...
It's face bag blowback.
Yeah, you're probably right if they actually listen to the show.
Not that no one does.
That's only Tom Waits, the only other guy who listens to the show.
Well, at least you tried.
Tried what?
They say within seven days, but I don't think it's going to happen.
But I totally agree.
This is very, very bad.
Why not just give people internet access with a web browser?
I predict.
We haven't done predictions.
You always get to do predictions.
Oh, you want to do some predictions for the next year?
Yeah, I'll do a prediction.
Okay.
Apps...
Are going to die.
Phone apps.
Yeah.
It has to go to the browser.
We are...
And there's a whole bunch of reasons for it.
Maybe we should do that next show.
And it's not going to happen in one year.
But I see the shift.
It has to go to the open protocols.
And, like, the HTML5 protocols.
Well, one of the...
Okay, let's stop, stop, stop, stop.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, I'm going to give you some, I'm going to start grilling you now with this.
Since you, you know, no reason to do a vapid prediction without backing it up.
Okay.
What about the flashlight?
I got a thing that says flashlight, it lights up my screen and I go down the stairs.
Yeah.
Why would that have to go to the browser?
I find that to be more...
That's a hardware.
It's a functionality of hardware.
What about the camera?
Same thing?
Same thing.
It's hardware.
What about the Magic 8-Ball?
Here's why...
If you have some serious questions, I'll answer them.
Those are questions.
No, you're just naming apps.
Yes, because I want to know why these apps need to go to the browser.
The reason why is people don't update their apps.
It's very hard to deploy a new version.
Oh, it's also a pain in the ass.
Every time you start the phone up, I mean, I only turn my phone off and on once in a while.
You have 50 apps that need updating.
Why?
Thank you for making my point.
Why do they need constant updating?
Well, if you look at how the Internet and open protocols work, Everything is updated, but you don't need to do anything to update.
So this is reason one.
Reason two, the amount of storage that these apps are taking up is growing out of control.
Memory is cheap.
Okay.
But people are running into trouble.
And ultimately, the app ecosystem is limiting.
Okay.
It is limiting in functionality.
I would say the number one problem is the updates.
People don't do the updates.
Functionality stays behind.
Developers pull their hair out.
There won't be enough money to create apps for all the different platforms.
It's an insane...
Alright, I get it.
I get it.
I get it.
We were centralized.
We went decentralized.
We're centralized.
It's going to come back.
That doesn't mean Facebook is going to go away.
And I use Facebook on the browser.
I don't install the app for, I think, some obvious reasons.
But, you know, it works reasonably well that way.
It's not like a huge downer on functionality.
That's my prediction.
It will have to go away from apps.
It is unsustainable for developers.
You can't build a plan if people aren't upgrading and you have to jack the storage.
I think it's time for the pendulum to swing back.
Okay.
Your prediction.
I don't really have one.
Oh.
But I can dream one up.
You wrote a nice article in PC Magazine.
I like that about the cloud.
On which one?
The cloud.
Oh, the cloud, yeah.
Yeah, it was a good article.
I put it in the show notes even.
Okay, the cloud's dead.
We'll make that prediction.
Actually, you know one of the things that's going to...
Microsoft's going to have to do something about their cloud.
It just doesn't work well.
You think it works, and then it doesn't work.
It's just like, it's a very sketchy product.
Hold on.
I've got to get an aspirin.
You have to get an aspirin.
I've got a pounding headache.
He has a pounding headache.
Well, he's off to get the aspirin.
I will then lecture you about the gong.
Whoever gave it to me.
Now, the gong comes with a little, one of these little gongers.
It's the thing you hold, and you gong it with it.
It doesn't happen often.
Now, what's interesting is that the gong from downstairs has a different kind of a gonger, and when I hit it against this gong, it barely, it doesn't really register.
It has a softer sound, and here it comes.
Beautiful.
Squirrel!
How's that sound?
It sounds like it's time to go, is what it sounds.
It sounds like it'll get rid of your head.
It sounds like, yeah, that...
Alright.
I'll do a prediction on the next show.
Okay.
I have one last clip.
I'll tell you, the cloud is getting on my nerves.
The cloud has been on your nerves from day one.
Yeah, well now it's on my nerves.
So, just say why.
Because it doesn't work as advertised.
Yeah.
Alright, last news story from me.
A Denver nonprofit is trying to raise awareness about homelessness by passing out drugs.
The group Cannabis Can handed out hundreds of pre-rolled marijuana joints to homeless men and women.
This group says it's trying to get the people of Denver to pay more attention to the homeless in their community.
A lot of the people that we spoke with really were just like, if I had a regular access to a shower and a haircut, my life would be so much better.
I'd have so much more opportunity.
Cannabis gets them there, but it's their idea.
Under Colorado law, it is illegal to smoke weed in public, but it can still be given as a gift.
Recipients must be 21 or older, and no money can change hands.
I think it's a great idea.
Money changes hands.
It's legal.
It's bullcrap, but I have two clips.
Okay.
Alright, I have the...
This is a short clip.
I watched the McLaughlin report in it.
They do their predictions for the next year.
They have two shows of these.
Bye-bye!
You nailed it.
So he does his prediction on what's the most defining political moment of the year.
This is McLaughlin himself.
And this cracked me up.
Play it.
The most defining political moment.
President Obama's decision to skip the international rally in Paris after the massacre of the editorial staff at Charlie Hebdo's magazine.
More than 40 world leaders attended the march.
Drawing more than 3 million Parisians.
How is Mr.
Hebdo doing after the attack?
So he is apparently promoting the idea that there was actually, these guys were actually in front of a large march.
I ran the photo of this newsletter.
This is bullcrap.
This was a photo op.
He didn't even know that?
Apparently not, or he wouldn't have presented it that way.
I think a lot of people don't know it.
That's why it was in the newsletter.
I had the photo of the photo op, and there's a bunch of guys, there's a group which shot a certain way.
I'm surprised that the news media even ran it, because it was such a phony setup.
It was phony.
And maybe Obama didn't want to be involved in some bull crap.
Didn't Kerry go at the last minute?
No, I don't know who went.
Was it Kerry?
Somebody went.
Now, the last one is, this was an interesting kind of news.
It looks like, and this is the way under the radar news, it looks like we're going to keep people in Afghanistan forever because JSOC is going to be headquartered there.
JSOC is the Joint Forces Operation.
What do you know?
It's the kind of Joint Strike Force Group.
White House is reportedly considering a Pentagon plan to maintain at least one base in Afghanistan, despite President Obama's initial pledge to withdraw most U.S. troops by the time he leaves office.
In October, Obama reversed that plan, saying 5,500 troops would remain in Afghanistan through the end of his term.
As the Obama administration expands its use of special operations forces around the world...
The New York Times reports a proposal now under consideration would use a base in Afghanistan as a hub for special operations troops and intelligence operatives throughout Central and South Asia.
Yeah, I'm reading that General Campbell said, I want to keep as many troops here on the ground as possible and does not rule out seeking additional forces.
Huh.
Well, you know, that's when they let that guy out of Gitmo that that was going to take care of the problem.
You can take that to the bank.
You know what it is.
At the very end, you know, there'll be a lot of posture at the end of his presidency, a lot of posturing and a couple of like, woo, look what I did, and then go off and do your big boys and girls billion dollar speeches and break it in and enjoy it in style.
Yeah, that's how it works best.
All right, everybody.
Another year.
Happy New Year to everybody.
Yes.
And we mean that.
Happy New Year to everybody.
Be safe.
Make smart choices.
And remember...
Wash your hands after...
That's exactly...
Yes.
Always wash your hands after touching raw meat.
Thank you very much for a great year.
Thank you, John.
Happy New Year to you.
Well, Happy New Year to you.
I hope you have a lot of fun there in Texas.
I want to remind people, just a little tip here.
If you look at today's Google, they have a little egg that's going to hatch at midnight.
But who wants to monitor that?
Just go to the google.fr and you can see what's in that egg when it hatches in France.
The French hatch earlier.
Yes, they hatch early.
Coming to you from FEMA Region 6 here in the capital of the drone star state in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley where I have my gong and I'm on my way, I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll be back next year right here on No Agenda.
Obviously, things went wrong.
No, no, no, no.
Shame on you.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm just going to wait until we get this going.
This is a rowdy crowd.
I want you guys to break anything while you're here.
Ebola.
Here you go from Africa.
And wash your hands after touching any raw meat.
Jeb Bush or Hillary or one of these politicians, all talk, no action.
All controlled by lobbyists and donors and donors.
All controlled by lobbyists and donors, donors, donors.
All controlled by lobbyists and donors and donors.
People like me from previous months.
Okay?
They're going to call me.
Not going to be any good.
They didn't give me any money.
Not going to be any good.
They didn't give me any money.
They didn't take care of me.
I don't need it.
I don't want it.
I couldn't care less.
Couldn't care less.
You are going to love President Trump.
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