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	What the hell is a cylinder of excellence?
	Adam Curry, John Devorak.
	It's Thursday, February 4th, 2016.
	Time once again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 7, Niner 6.
	This is no agenda.
	Guarding reality for citizens of Gitmo Nation and broadcasting live from the capital of the Drone Star State, Austin Tejas, FEMA Region 6.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where there's also Super Bowl City, I'm John C. Devorah.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Woo!
	All right, give me a little level, John.
	You were low there.
	I shouldn't have been.
	I was.
	I was depressed.
	You know, you wear your heart on your sleeve, my friend.
	That is for sure.
	You wear your heart on your sleeve.
	Hey, good news!
	Okay.
	Last night, last evening, I was invited to dinner with...
	James Boggs and his team from the Apple Podcast Division, the Global Podcast Division.
	That's right.
	You had an meeting with Apple.
	I did.
	I did.
	It was nice.
	They were in town.
	We have a pretty big campus here in Austin.
	I didn't know how big it was.
	University of Austin?
	No, for the Apple campus.
	I mean, oh, the Apple Campus.
	Apple Campus, yeah.
	It's pretty big.
	There's no University of Austin, I don't think.
	No.
	Texas, I was thinking.
	Exactly.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	So here, a lot of things discussed.
	Did you go to their lunch, their cafeteria?
	No, I went to dinner, and they took me to Geraldine's, which is a new restaurant here in Austin.
	It was nice.
	It's on the campus?
	No, no, no.
	It's the Hotel Van Zandt.
	It's near Rainy Street.
	Steve Van Zandt owns the hotel?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	The only reason I bring it up, John, the only reason I bring it up is I've got a commitment.
	We talked about a lot of stuff.
	It was really nice catching up.
	It's nice they came to Austin.
	They know they have to kiss the ring with the podfather.
	I appreciate that.
	So for episode 800, they're very proud to present us on the homepage of iTunes.
	And so I think we should right now tell everybody that you only have four episodes to get your artwork ready.
	Oh, cool.
	Yeah.
	And there's some specifications that they're going to send me.
	It's changed a little.
	It has to be big and whatever.
	Okay, I'm sure the artists will love that.
	How cool is that?
	Yeah, we'll be on the homepage for our 800th episode.
	That's very cool.
	Yeah, that'll pick up some new people.
	I hope so.
	Or get more hate mail.
	Man, we're doing well on that front, aren't we?
	You see that Dutch guy?
	That Dutch guy's nuts.
	Maybe we'll bring it up later.
	Anyway, so because of this, I didn't get home until quarter to ten.
	Then I was rushing to...
	I hadn't even started on my clips yet.
	So the one thing I didn't do is I did not watch the CNN town hall in Iowa.
	Yeah, good.
	Did you?
	Yeah.
	Perfect.
	I knew it.
	I knew I could count on you.
	The Zephyr just went by.
	I'm writing the times down now.
	Because it never goes by at the same time.
	Usually 9.16 is 9.14.
	Alright, you want to start with the Town Hall?
	I might as well.
	I mean, I did not see anything.
	First of all, was it any fun?
	Was it any good?
	Was there anything of any note?
	No.
	Bernie came off better than Hillary.
	She seemed very stiff and cold.
	And matter of fact, she was a snot.
	What was the format?
	Because I haven't even seen that.
	The same one you saw the other day where they bring each out individually and then they chat.
	And did they have lower thirds ready for everybody?
	Yeah.
	The questions were in the lower third.
	But how about the people's names?
	Were they in the lower third?
	Who stood up?
	Oh, I can't remember.
	I think they did.
	They had something.
	Yeah, I believe so.
	I think they had their title or something like that.
	So it was nice and spontaneous.
	Yeah, it was totally spontaneous.
	Gotcha.
	But the only real good one was, and it was Anderson Pooper, who will not be on Hillary's best.
	She's going to go after him.
	Stop.
	I take it back.
	I saw one shot of Pooper and Hillary, and I need to make two comments.
	One, Hillary's pants were too short.
	Because she was kind of wearing boots, I think, little booties.
	She's looking like a doofus.
	Yeah, her pants were too short, and Pooper's pants were too long.
	Well, there you have it.
	They probably got in the wrong clothes just before the show.
	This is your fashion portion of the No Agenda show.
	So here's the one.
	This is...
	I think it says Doldman on the clip, but this is her very insincerely trying to get out of the, why were you paid so much money for this Goldman Sachs speech?
	And this was the, what was it?
	What did you get paid?
	$250,000 or something?
	$650,000.
	I'm sorry.
	A couple of speeches.
	Any more set up?
	Good to go?
	No, go.
	A lot of your critics point to is you made three speeches for Goldman Sachs.
	You were paid $675,000 for three speeches.
	Was that a mistake?
	I mean, was that a bad error in judgment?
	Look, I made speeches to lots of groups.
	I told them what I thought.
	I answered questions.
	But did you have to be paid $675,000?
	Well, I don't know.
	That's what they offered.
	So, you know, every secretary of state that I know has done that.
	Well, that's usually once they're in office and not running for an office again.
	Well, I didn't know.
	To be honest, I wasn't committed to running.
	I didn't know whether I would or not.
	I didn't.
	You know, when I was Secretary of State, several...
	Sorry?
	Cue up the bull crap.
	I got it.
	Sometimes I said...
	You should have been right there.
	You know, I think I'm done.
	Well, if you want, we can just twist it back a little bit.
	Let's get this here.
	There you go.
	Come on.
	I didn't.
	You know, when I was Secretary of State, several times...
	Bullshit!
	There, kind of?
	Yeah.
	Actually, with this particular spiel, anywhere.
	Anywhere.
	Well, let's just start.
	Here we go.
	One, two.
	Bullshit!
	You think you were going to run for president again?
	I didn't.
	You know, when I was Secretary of State, several times I said, you know, I think I'm done.
	And...
	You know, so many people came to me, started talking to me.
	The circumstances, the concerns I had about the Republicans taking back the White House, because I think they wrecked what we achieved in the 90s with 23 million new jobs and incomes going up for everybody.
	I did not want to see that happen again.
	I want to defend President Obama's accomplishments and the progress we've made.
	I want to go further.
	So, yeah, I was convinced.
	But, you know, anybody...
	Anybody who knows me, who thinks that they can influence me, name anything they've influenced me on.
	Just name one thing.
	How much time do we have on the show to be able to do it?
	We're not going to do it because we need hours.
	I'm out here every day saying I'm going to shut them down.
	I'm going after them.
	I'm going to jail them if they should be jailed.
	I'm going to break them up.
	Break them up.
	They're not giving me very much money now, I can tell you that much.
	Oh, cheap bastards.
	Fine with me.
	I'm proud to have 90% of my donations from small donors and 60%, the highest ever from women, which I'm really, really proud of.
	I'd love to see those numbers laid out for me.
	So, just to be clear, that's not something you regret, those three speeches?
	No, I don't.
	You know, I don't feel that I pay any price for it, and I am very clear about what I will do, and they're on notice.
	They're on notice.
	So all this tells us, after being overpaid for three speeches, so she can answer questions and mingle, they're on notice.
	So she's a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Let me officiate that, yes?
	That was the main, at least to me, that was the most interesting thing.
	The rest of it was pretty lame.
	It was lightweight stuff.
	It was Bernie doing his thing and Hillary doing her thing.
	It wasn't that good.
	I didn't miss anything.
	I picked up a couple things in and around it.
	Let me see.
	Let me see.
	I just got a few things early on.
	This was...
	MSNBC was funny as usual.
	Some of the things I saw in the pre-show.
	And this is Maddow with Brian Williams.
	And kind of describing how Democratic caucuses work.
	Those are not vote equivalents?
	Of course not.
	They're not votes in the same way that they do actually represent votes on the Republican side.
	The Democrats count differently.
	What we're watching here is a Republican caucus, and they're tallying up these paper ballots that were cast by every participant at this particular Republican caucus site in Des Moines.
	On the Democratic side, you don't count folded pieces of paper, you count heads.
	You count human beings that move themselves to a specific part of the room.
	In herds.
	In herds, yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Like sheep.
	In herds.
	Yes.
	Like sheep is how you do it.
	For somebody explaining how they round up and round down and the whole thing is so convoluted.
	Well, she actually says that at the end of this clip here.
	To indicate who they supported and then what's reported out of that caucus is state delegate equivalents, which is something that is too boring to understand at this point in the race.
	We won't need to understand it unless we get really, really, really arcane in the closeness of this race.
	No.
	Brian Williams didn't explain anything.
	Of course not.
	Brian Williams was back.
	Of course, after all his lying and all of his mistakes about the truth.
	Yeah, he's a pathological liar.
	Yes, he was demoted to MSNBC to do the breaking news stuff.
	And he said something just fabulous.
	Also, there's going to be some data floating around, especially the internet tonight, because there are entry polls getting taken of people going into their caucuses.
	Entry pollster hands you a form.
	You kind of choose to self-define yourself.
	The first wave of that data is notoriously suspect.
	So don't believe everything you see and hear tonight.
	We hopefully will be the purveyors of truth and justice here.
	That's a borderline clip of the day.
	I'll take borderline.
	Borderline.
	I got two other ones from the debate.
	Let's get them out of the way.
	This is Hillary.
	I got a ISO for you.
	This is a gift to you.
	A gift.
	A freebie for me.
	Let me try it out.
	We need to have a conversation in our country.
	Thank you.
	That goes...
	Thank you.
	That's beautiful.
	But she didn't really pronounce it right.
	Well, you can probably fiddle with it and make it sound better.
	I can work on it.
	And then I got this wild sentence that she produced.
	Obviously, she's trying to piece some idea together.
	You just have to listen to this.
	You know it's just like she's trying to...
	She drops a...
	Just you better play.
	They have a view that I just fundamentally disagree with about what the way we have to keep the balance of power in our society is.
	That is, you know, that should have been an ISO, really.
	It is.
	It's a little long.
	Play it again because it's just so funny.
	Yeah, I do have to play that again.
	Hold on, let me rewind that back.
	Here we go.
	They have a view that I just fundamentally disagree with about what the way we have to keep the balance of power in our society is.
	But resist, we much.
	Yeah, it's the same speechwriter.
	Same thing.
	I think I need to put that at the end of the show as well, John.
	Holy moly.
	That's a good one.
	Thank you.
	Oh, man.
	We're rocking.
	She's just piecing words together and trying to glue it together.
	MSNBC earlier went live to what looked like a group of millennials, but one girl was very angry.
	She was a young woman having problems with the Veterans Administration.
	So this is live on MSNBC. And of course, you know, we're going to bring you all the truth and everything.
	This shows you just how pathetic mainstream media is compared to, I don't know, you know, you're the best podcast in the universe.
	How?
	Because I get VA. I am VA. I am a vet.
	My mom's a vet.
	How is he going to fix it?
	Because I can tell you right now that the VA is more screwed up than it has been in a while.
	The fact that I haven't gotten benefits in three months because the VA is so fucked up.
	Really?
	So, okay.
	She says, live on TV, she says, oh, it's so fucked up.
	And everybody, their faces are like, no, what do we do?
	She's like, what do we do?
	It's on MSNBC though, right?
	Yeah, it's MSNBC, but then they have to...
	So it's cable, so who cares?
	They have to fix it.
	No, just listen.
	It fits in three months because the VA is so fucked up.
	Really, really makes me concerned.
	So how is Bernie going to fix it?
	Everyone's freaking out now.
	Bernie's whole thing is that if you can...
	What?
	If you can...
	Shoot, Brian!
	Brian, go!
	You know, when you listen in to caucuses, you take the good with the bad, and people often speak the way they do out on the street.
	And we apologize.
	I know Jacob apologizes.
	We all join him in apologizing for a bit of French that snuck in to our English language translation.
	Wow, hands across America.
	We're so sorry for that French that snuck in to our English.
	Fuck you, Brian Williams!
	Jeez!
	I think the bigger point is being missed.
	This is cable.
	Why do they suddenly feel that they're bound by the FCC? Isn't there a watershed rule?
	I think there's a watershed rule.
	I think.
	I don't think so.
	I think if you're on cable, you're on cable.
	Why do they feel, why do they get so upset with themselves?
	Well, because the people who watch MSN... This would be finable.
	If this was broadcast television, it would be finable because the argument is, well, you could have a delay mechanism on there and you don't have to let this stuff slip through.
	But this is not broadcast television.
	This is not going over the airways.
	Why are they upset?
	Because they are worried they did not have a trigger warning and people are in their safe space at home and then they hear this.
	Actually, I think that's probably the excuse they'd have in a meeting.
	And I think you're probably right about that's the way they think.
	But this is a horrible situation to witness.
	I believe that there is a difference.
	I'm just thinking back to my MTV days because, man, when we hit basic cable, Which was right around the time I arrived.
	We could not make any funny jokes.
	Nothing.
	Why?
	Because the basic cable package, when you're included in that, is very important.
	So it's not so much about rules.
	Who's making these rules?
	Let me give you the...
	I'm trying to explain to you.
	Okay, I'm listening.
	Basic cable is a package that is the lowest possible package given out by the cable operators.
	If the cable operators don't like you, they can take you out of their basic cable package.
	Let's be honest, MSNBC, ratings-wise, doesn't really deserve to be in the basic cable package.
	That's the only reason that they made technical reasons.
	So their couch, I'm summarizing.
	Mm-hmm.
	They're kowtowing to the operators who are packaging them.
	Hell yes!
	Hell yes!
	Of course!
	The packagers, the basic cable guys, have decided to make these sorts of rules.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	You're missing the point.
	I'm not...
	I don't think so.
	There is no written rule.
	There's no rule from the cable operators.
	But the cable operators, historically, who have always thought they were...
	Listen, I grew up in the beginning of cable, really, when it was popping open.
	Yeah, I understand that.
	So it's the cable operators they have to be worried about.
	Because they'll say, hey, we've had bad words, you're off.
	That's what I said.
	Yeah, but it's not a rule.
	It's not a rule.
	It's no written rule.
	Okay, it's not except for the fact that it's an unwritten rule.
	Unwritten rule, yeah.
	Exactly.
	It's lame.
	This is 2016.
	I'm with you.
	Of course.
	I'm with you.
	And to be all freaky about it, especially on a network nobody listens to, and I'm sure the basic cable guys aren't clued in.
	Of course, then you have the old lady, did you hear what they said on there?
	That's how it goes.
	Because the public is led to believe that you can't cuss.
	Mm-hmm.
	They're led to believe, so they would complain.
	Mm-hmm.
	And then the cable goes, well, you know, you guys are walking on a tin day.
	All right.
	Do you have anything else about the...
	I think that's all I got.
	I didn't clip Bernie that I can recall.
	I don't think there's any Bernie clips in here.
	I don't have...
	No, there's nothing.
	Anything.
	What I do have, this was sent to me this morning by one of our producers.
	He believes that Donald Trump technically tied for first place with Ted Cruz.
	And this is because of the bylaws of the Iowa delegation of the Republican National Convention.
	And he sent me everything in the show notes, and I didn't have a lot of time to really go back and fact-check everything.
	However...
	However, read it anyway.
	Here he goes.
	The Iowa delegation to the Republic National Convention, and I did check this, this is in their bylaws, shall be bound on the first ballot to vote proportionally in accordance with the outcome of the Iowa caucuses.
	The proportional delegate allocation shall be rounded to the nearest whole delegate.
	So if you look at Cruz...
	Trump who had 51,666, coincidence, I think not, votes.
	Trump had 45,427.
	Now, the difference between those two is 28% and 24%.
	However, according to the bylaws, the way you do it is you take the amount of crews...
	And you divide that by the total amount, which was 186,874.
	You come up with 7.46.
	Trump at 45,427.
	Actually, first you have to multiply it by 27.
	Then you divide it, and you come up with 6.56.
	So Trump would be rounded up to 7, and Cruz would be rounded down to 7, which would make it a tie.
	Yeah, we have another note from one of our producers that discusses within each little...
	This group of caucusers, which also produces these screwball numbers.
	That's why Bernie and Hillary tied, which is really pretty close to impossible, tied in six instances.
	Right.
	Because Bernie had the most votes, but he had to round down and she had to round up after some calculation, which he described, which is very convoluted.
	And so they were tied in most of these groups.
	And then they flipped the coin and Hillary won all six coin flips for some reason.
	But, you know, there's such a thing called a double-headed coin.
	You ever heard of those things?
	Keep one of these quarters in your pocket and you can pull it out.
	Always handy to have.
	Nobody ever stops to look and check it.
	Right, right, right.
	Are you saying I'm cheating?
	Oh.
	So Trump came on the Morning Joe's program, and we're always looking at money being spent, and we talk about money being spent, of course, advertising money.
	I think Morning Joe has always been pushing for Trump to spend more money.
	They had this chart up on the screen that showed that Donald Trump paid approximately $300 per vote versus Jeb Bush.
	Who spent $2,500 per vote.
	I'm not quite sure how they...
	I guess they take the amount spent and then divide it by votes they got.
	By votes, yeah.
	Here was Trump talking about his defeat.
	Now, this is not even super PAC money.
	If this were super PAC money, the numbers would be a lot higher.
	And if I am investing in Donald Trump's operation, I would invest with a guy that gets the most bang for his buck.
	That is you at 300.
	But then there's the question, should you have spent more money in Iowa?
	You're the most efficient spender there, but going to New Hampshire, going to South Carolina, will you spend more money to make sure you finish the deal in future states?
	I mean, why doesn't he just hold up the rate card when he does that?
	Hey, look, here's what you can get for a spot on our channel.
	Yeah, Joe, there's no limit on the spending.
	The reason I didn't spend that much in Iowa was everyone told me I couldn't win, so I sort of just went through the motions a little bit, and then I came in second place.
	I was surprised, because it only came out in the very last couple of days where it looked like I could win Iowa with this poll.
	Well, it's a nice way of putting it.
	He changed his tune when he found out what Trump had, or what Cruz, the dirty trick Cruz pulled.
	And I have a couple clips of that, which I think we should play.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
	Let's do this.
	This is the Cruz douchebag one.
	All righty then.
	Tonight, Donald Trump accusing Senator Ted Cruz of using dirty tricks to win the Iowa caucuses.
	The accusation coming after Team Cruz spread word on caucus day that Dr.
	Ben Carson might be dropping out.
	He insulted Ben Carson by doing what he did to Ben Carson.
	That was a disgrace.
	On the day of the caucuses, the Cruz campaign sending supporters this email, stating the press is reporting that Carson is taking time off after Iowa and making a big announcement next week.
	It goes on to say, please inform any Carson caucus goers of this news and urge them to caucus for Ted Cruz.
	What he did is unthinkable.
	He said the man has just left the race, and he said it during the caucus.
	Carson today saying the Cruz move cost him votes, describing what happened when his wife Candy showed up at a caucus location.
	My wife went to a caucus and the Cruz representative had spoken and told people that I was in fact not going to be continuing.
	And she obviously...
	Disabused him of that notion.
	Cruz has now apologized to Carson, but stands by his campaign's actions.
	Will you fire or suspend anyone in your campaign for putting out misinformation?
	No, we're not going to scapegoat anybody.
	And I would note...
	That the news story that our team passed on was true and accurate.
	CNN reported it, and in fact, Ben, did go to Florida instead of New Hampshire or South Carolina.
	And so, you've got to understand...
	Is it a dirty trick to confuse voters?
	Is it a dirty trick to pass on your news stories?
	You're in the business.
	Would you think it was a dirty trick if I was forwarding an ABC story?
	You know, this is really...
	His voice right here, in this inflection point, really is a turn-off.
	I mean, I don't like Cruz in general.
	He's creepy, but wow!
	Can you imagine if he's president?
	Would you think it was a dirty trick if I was forwarding an ABC story?
	Or is it just a dirty trick to pass on CNN stories?
	Then, just moments after Cruz said that, CNN, live on the air, saying Cruz was trying to, quote, throw them under the bus.
	Here are the facts.
	Dr.
	Carson's staff told us that he would return home to Florida to, quote-unquote, take a breath.
	From the campaign before resuming his activities on the campaign trail.
	CNN saying they never reported anything about a special announcement.
	Trump now calling for an investigation.
	Alright, hopefully you've investigated this and deconstructed for us because it seems very confusing.
	Nothing to deconstruct, it's just a sleazeball move.
	Just explain it to me, please.
	Explain what?
	What did he do?
	What exactly was the sleazeball move?
	He comes out, and at the last minute, during the caucuses, he has all his people, the people that go into the caucuses, and gives them the orders to say, and they give him, obviously, a sheet to read from.
	That Ben Carson is going to...
	He's going to go to...
	He's stopping his campaigning.
	Right.
	Stopping.
	And going to Florida to rethink everything.
	And then there's going to be a big announcement next week.
	So whatever you do, vote for Cruz because...
	Voting for Carson is a waste of your vote.
	Right.
	Using that old trick.
	Yeah.
	It's a goodie, though.
	Oldie but a goodie.
	It's a beauty.
	And then, of course, Cruz...
	Note that voice thing that you've noticed.
	This is the type of...
	You've got to remember that Cruz is a master debater.
	He is considered by everybody to be...
	Have you ever seen competitive debating?
	Yes, of course.
	That's his competitive debating voice.
	Which is annoying because to be a good debater, you have to be annoying and you've got to catch people off guard and you've got to just go after them and you've got to screech at them and you've got to rattle off as much stuff as you can to confuse them.
	I mean, competitive debating.
	We're not talking about two people just arguing about something.
	We're talking about competitive debating.
	You don't see it that much on American television, but they do show it in England quite a bit.
	We have it here right after cheerleading competition on ESPN, I think.
	And so Cruz is really, apparently, one of the best in the world.
	And that's what he went into at that moment.
	And that's what you found offensive.
	Which is the way it works.
	So the whole thing was a scam, just to sneak off a few extra votes.
	And part two just kind of wraps it up.
	Well, listen, it is no surprise that Donald is throwing yet another temper tantrum, or if you like, yet another trumper tantrum.
	Oh, well-written Trumper tantrum.
	The Trumper tantrum thing I thought was maybe picked up by the Daily News in New York who hates Trump, but that is the stupidest thing to think that you're coining a phrase with something that's that lame.
	It is pretty much as childish as a temper tantrum would be to call it Trumper tantrum.
	But the Daily News, did they put it on the front page?
	Cruz tries to divert everything from him to Trump.
	Right.
	Of course.
	Well done.
	That Donald is throwing yet another temper tantrum, or if you like, yet another Trumper tantrum.
	Cruz then taking it further.
	I don't know anyone.
	Who would be comfortable with someone who behaves this way having his finger on the button.
	I mean, we're liable to wake up on...
	Wow, we're still doing the finger on the button joke, huh?
	...morning.
	And Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark.
	Yes, I'm sure that would have happened.
	And Tom...
	That was, to me, a funny line.
	Nuked Denmark.
	Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark.
	And Tom Thomas with us tonight, live in New Hampshire.
	And Tom, you were...
	Hold on.
	Do I need to hear the rest of that?
	Are we okay on that?
	I got a piece of crew, another part of his annoying persona, after he claimed victory.
	We're here today, standing on the promises of 2 Chronicles 7.14.
	Oh, man.
	Really?
	If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray.
	And I will heal their land.
	And put your hands on the podcast device.
	I think that was a mistake.
	I think he's made so many mistakes.
	It's a huge mistake.
	He's a douchebag for doing that trick.
	Douchebag!
	And he's obviously, you know, this religious thing he's promoting to an extreme.
	I mentioned this probably about three or four months ago when he was at one of those conservative meetings, and he held a prayer fest at the end, and we had a clip.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We had that clip, yeah.
	Yeah, and he's standing.
	Okay, we all have to hold hands, and he led into prayer.
	And it was all prayer about him, mostly, but this is not going to fly.
	No.
	It's not working.
	No.
	Because he's insincere.
	He seems like a douchebag, phony preacher.
	He doesn't seem like a normal, sincere person.
	It seems like he's almost doing an imitation.
	It's almost like a Saturday Night Live.
	It's a parody.
	It's like a parody of a Texas preacher.
	Meanwhile, CNN, again, I didn't see the town hall, but I saw a lot of the run-up.
	Brian Todd is on the floor, and this is where they got the papers, and they're pouring it into little coffee cups and tins and bits and pieces.
	And this, ladies and gentlemen, is television.
	This is live television.
	The first moment of truth is at hand right now.
	This is the balloting.
	They just did last call for the ballots.
	Look, they stuffed them all into these popcorn baskets.
	Woo!
	Pop!
	And people are still putting them into these baskets over here.
	They're going to be counting them manually in just a few minutes.
	We're going to be bringing you that count in real-time, Wolf.
	That's what makes us so exciting.
	Real-time voting as you're looking at it.
	Real-time counting, live on international television.
	This is what caucusing looks like, folks.
	This is where it gets exciting.
	This is so exciting!
	There's literally a table and people...
	Did he say, this is why it's so exciting?
	Yes!
	It's so exciting.
	Not exciting.
	I'm just over the moon with excitement about looking pieces of paper going to popcorn baskets.
	This wolf is what it's all about.
	My dick.
	Meanwhile, over at the Jeb Bush camp...
	So here's my pledge to you.
	I will be a commander in chief that will have the back of the military.
	I won't trash talk.
	I won't be a divider in chief or an agitator in chief.
	I won't be out there blowharding, talking a big game without backing it up.
	I think the next president needs to be a lot quieter, but send a signal that we're prepared to act in the national security interests of this country to get back in the business of creating a more peaceful world.
	Please clap.
	So he's sitting there, he's standing there.
	These people, I think I saw a note that he was paying people $25 to just come and fill the seats.
	And then there's a complete silence and he goes, please clap.
	And then, oh yeah, we'll clap.
	Please clap.
	Please clap.
	Who said please clap?
	I thought that was you.
	No, that was Bush.
	What?
	Yes, I'll play it again.
	Play that part again.
	I'll play that part for you again.
	Please clap.
	Wait, you've got to hear it a little bit, because he's ramping up, right?
	He's doing one of these ramp-ups, and then it's just like a pin drop.
	...of this country to get back in the business of creating a more peaceful world.
	Please clap.
	He's an idiot for not having a clap guy out there.
	Yeah.
	Or, you know, this guy, whoever's giving to his campaign, stop.
	You're wasting your money.
	You're wasting your dough.
	In a situation like that, you fill the audience with about 20, he should pay like 100 bucks to about 25 people, scatter them around, and they're shills, and they start clapping.
	No, you'll misunderstand.
	They were all shills, but they had no instruction.
	There was no, you're right, no clapping guy.
	So they were just sitting there making their 25 bucks and he's looking around like, hold on a second, I just said, you know, we're gonna, America, America, America!
	Please clap.
	Oh, okay.
	It's sad.
	Wow, that is so incompetent.
	You think?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Actually, they were all shills and none of them knew to clap.
	No, no one told them.
	Oh, well, they're here.
	Oh, we got people, Jeb.
	Jeb.
	We got people, Jeb.
	Quick, let's go.
	Okay, then we have little things, a couple things that were happening in and around.
	That's borderline clip of the day, by the way.
	Again?
	I mean, I have two borderlines, doesn't it?
	Come on, man.
	How about ISO of the day?
	Can I get an ISO of the day, maybe?
	No.
	What?
	It was an ISO. Oh, no.
	No problem.
	Let me see.
	I had a few things.
	Yes, let's see.
	So while all this is taking place, we have...
	You seem like you're on a roll, so I'm expecting a clip of the day shortly.
	Okay, let's try this one.
	This is really only for you.
	Because this is something that I've been on the lookout because I trust your judgment theory and your version of the future.
	This is O'Reilly with Krauthammer.
	I'm talking about what possibly could be happening next, and I think you'll like it.
	You are also right that the most important primary on the Democratic side is not Iowa, it's not New Hampshire.
	It is the Comey primary.
	Comey being the head of the FBI. If he makes a criminal referral, she topples over and then you get a Biden and perhaps even with a Warren as his running mate.
	But you will not get a Bernie Sanders.
	Now, how late can Biden get in and get on all the ballots, you know?
	It's sort of like, well, I don't know the rules on this, but I'm sure the DNC will change the rules.
	If she is literally knocked out, look, the Democrats can change any rule any time that they want.
	It's not going to look good.
	It's going to anger the saggish people, but it can be done, and they will do it.
	So there you go.
	This is interesting.
	Somebody mentioned, one of our producers mentioned, Warren's already signed up for the whole country.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Now, what he said there, I thought, was right on the money because we've been talking about James Comey, director of the FBI, being the guy who holds the purse strings right now.
	He's the guy that can totally screw Hillary Clinton.
	He's a longtime Republican.
	There's an FBI investigation going, which I have a couple clips for if we're interested.
	But what happened just a couple days ago...
	Is a judge, let me see, what is this judge's name?
	John Gleason, the Brooklyn federal judge, ruled that the public has the right to see a sealed report that HSBC fought tooth and nail to keep private details of the bank's failure to catch and prevent money laundering, among other violations, which to my knowledge, Jim Comey was on the board of directors at HSBC when this was taking place.
	So I'm thinking, hold on a second.
	We've got Comey threatening, you know, he's holding something over Clinton.
	I already know what you're going to say, and I'm in total agreement.
	But check this out.
	Who appointed this Brooklyn federal judge?
	You don't have to guess.
	Bill Clinton.
	And the guy's retiring right after this.
	Yeah, this is a quid pro quo.
	This is like, okay, Comey's threatening, he's saber-rattling, he's Hillary.
	We're going to send the other guy over there and have him take care of this problem.
	Fabulous.
	One of the Clinton stooges.
	This is such a corrupt group of people that we should not even be thinking about.
	Why do people want to even vote for Hillary?
	Well, people don't, John.
	They really don't.
	They don't.
	They don't want to vote for her.
	Everyone who is a bot, they don't really want to vote for her.
	Then we have this guy.
	How is this guy's name?
	He wrote a book about Dan Bongino.
	I think his name is.
	He wrote a book.
	And in this book, he apparently had some information about the email server.
	I don't.
	I have to look up which book this is.
	Yeah, I discussed this in the book in one of the final chapters.
	I think it's the penultimate chapter there.
	And I wanted to leave the reader with an idea of just how damaging this is, Frank.
	We're talking about a woman here, Hillary Clinton, who a source fed this to me, and I stood on this for a long time before I decided to write about it.
	I was very careful and very deliberate in the words I used, because again, hyperbole does us no favors here.
	But an unimpeachable source, a first-hand source...
	Who told me that the Clintons knew the server was compromised.
	Compromised by some very dangerous people who were reading the emails as they were being sourced through that server.
	She knew it and she continued to do it.
	Now that doesn't sound realistic to me, but it's out there and it's in the book.
	So I did want to bring that to the table.
	And here's, of course, CNN finally on the emails.
	I think this is maybe...
	Before you go on...
	I was thinking about that, as that played.
	There was a lot of assertions, and it makes nothing but sense to me, that the Russians and the Chinese and anybody in between, and God knows who else, feels like the NSA was all over it, were tapped into that thing.
	Because why wouldn't you be?
	I mean, if you're doing your job, if the Russians are paying attention, they are getting all these emails.
	There's no question about it, right?
	Right, right, right, right.
	Maybe we should have asked our friend.
	Now, assuming that...
	Hillary had some reasonable people who knew kind of what they were doing and they probably would have warned her or said we could maybe beef it up or do something.
	And she didn't want to or maybe she made the decision.
	We don't know.
	But wouldn't it be if she was in cahoots?
	There's a lot of assertions that Bill Clinton and the Chinese were always kind of in bed together.
	Got all of our nuclear secrets and a bunch of stuff from us.
	Missile information.
	We bailed.
	We kind of set off the let's outsource everything to China during his era.
	That she would just say no, no, no.
	Maybe she wanted.
	How about this?
	How about this for a compromise?
	She wanted to spy on us.
	How about this?
	How about Make your donation.
	And, well, you know, there might be something in my email.
	That's up to you guys.
	I might have put something in the draft folder that you might want to read.
	That's the way I see it.
	Yeah, that would not surprise me at all.
	I think this is Hillary with Brolf.
	Not Brolf, obviously.
	It's not Brolf.
	Here we go.
	Secretary, let's talk about the issue that has bedeviled your campaign, and that, of course, is the ongoing investigation into your emails.
	On Friday, the State Department withheld 22 emails.
	They didn't release them because of material deemed top secret.
	I know you've been asked this six ways to Sunday along the campaign trail.
	Isn't it six ways from Sunday?
	Just out of curiosity.
	I've heard this six ways from this and that so much recently that I've lost track of the original.
	Well, the idea is the Lord created Earth on, you know, Sunday is the Lord's day and then you worked all six days after that.
	I think it's six ways from Sunday.
	I don't know.
	I don't think that doesn't sound right.
	I looked it up.
	You did?
	Six ways from Sunday?
	Yes.
	But you can say it.
	It also was quoted as six ways to Sunday.
	You can do it both, I think.
	...to Sunday along the campaign trail, and I know that you've always said there's nothing there, but your opponents have said that this is big.
	It's a big deal.
	Huge!
	How do you convince voters today not to be concerned about this?
	Well, Alison, there is nothing new, and I think the facts are quite helpful here.
	It's a little bit like what the Republicans and others have tried to do with respect to Benghazi, just a lot of innuendo, a lot of attacks, and I just know that after I testified for 11 hours, answered every question, nothing new came up, and most voters have made up their minds, and I'm grateful for that.
	But Secretary Clinton, something does seem...
	Stop, stop, stop.
	The beginning of that whole spiel of her, she says the facts are quite useful, and then she never says a fact.
	She says, and you know, listen to me now, the facts are quite useful.
	Let me listen again, hold on.
	Joe, a lot of attack.
	Let me go back a little.
	He's right at the beginning.
	Back to Bengali.
	Who are quite helpful here.
	Helpful, she says.
	That was it, but you missed it.
	Yeah, I got it.
	Facts are quite helpful here.
	It's a little bit like what the Republicans...
	She never delivers a fact!
	Well, she has another 30 seconds.
	Maybe she'll get it at the end.
	I don't know.
	Others have tried to do, with respect to Benghazi, just a lot of innuendo, a lot of attacks, and I just know that after I testified for 11 hours, answered every question, nothing new came up, and most voters have made up their minds, and I'm grateful for that.
	But Secretary Clinton, something does seem to be happening with this investigation, or at least the FBI seems to be talking about it more, because in the past week, several media outlets have said that their sources in the FBI say, quote, something's going to happen.
	What does that mean to you?
	And that's what we had on the last show.
	We had Chuck Scarborough.
	Chuck Scarborough?
	Yeah, Chuck Scarborough saying that everybody knows.
	Everyone's talking about it.
	When are you guys going to start?
	When are you going to start talking about it?
	This is what she's talking about.
	This is going to happen.
	What does that mean to you?
	It means that people are selectively leaking and making comments that have no basis in anything I am aware of.
	And, you know, I regret that that seems to be part of the atmosphere because we need to, you know, let this inquiry run its course, get it resolved.
	It was Joe Scarborough, of course.
	Where's her fact that she's going to...
	She has no fact.
	No, of course not.
	There's no fact.
	I like the way she starts it off, though.
	You know, the facts will...
	I'll tell you, I can't even...
	We've got to play just the beginning again, because that's a very nicely structured kind of bullshit thing to say.
	Okay, let me go to where I think approximately that was.
	My new board enables me to do all of this with such ease.
	I totally love it.
	Here we go.
	Facts.
	It's nothing new, and...
	and I know that you've always said nothing there, but your opponents have said that this is big.
	It's a big deal.
	How do you convince voters today not to be concerned about this?
	Well, Alison, there is nothing new, and I think the facts are quite helpful here.
	The facts are quite helpful here.
	That's what it is.
	Adam, there's nothing new, and the facts are quite helpful.
	Do you know something?
	That is the first time in years you've actually just said my name in a sentence.
	I always find it annoying when I hear people saying each other's names on a show when you know who they are.
	Really?
	Yeah, I do.
	Oh, I like it very much.
	You touched my heart for a moment.
	The facts are quite helpful here.
	I touched your heart.
	What?
	My heart is filled with love and light.
	Love and light.
	Then we have this nice little bit one of our producers sent in to me.
	But Hillary, just before, she's getting ready for the caucus.
	Man, this woman is out of control.
	I guess they threw in five vivances, a couple of Adderalls.
	I am a better candidate, and thanks to you, I will be a better president.
	I hope you will go.
	I hope you will stand up for me.
	I hope you will fight for me.
	And I promise you this.
	I will stand up and fight for you every single day of this campaign.
	And then when we win, I will fight for you in the White House.
	Thank you, and God bless you!
	Damn!
	Woo!
	You should play that little thing.
	Okay, you got it.
	That's your clip of the day.
	You'll get one.
	Oh, thank you.
	Finally, I got it.
	Woo!
	Celebrate!
	Clip of the day.
	What do I have to follow it up with?
	Howard.
	Howard Dean go, woo!
	The Dean scream.
	It would be perfect at the end.
	Hold on.
	Dean scream.
	All right.
	Let's try this again.
	That is so beautiful, what she's doing there.
	That was great.
	I am a better candidate, and thanks to you, I will be a better president.
	I hope you will go.
	I hope you will stand up for me.
	I hope you will fight for me.
	And I promise you this.
	I will stand up and fight for you every single day of this campaign.
	And then when we win, I will fight for you in the White House.
	Thank you, and God bless you!
	Perfect!
	Well, you better calm down, man.
	You're going to bust a gut over that.
	Yeah, take it easy, girl.
	You got to take it easy.
	That's crazy.
	Yeah, I think that's pretty much all I have on that.
	I did want to say, we really need to stop bringing commercial companies into our elections, if only for the fact that Microsoft had some app and they were doing, and of course, not the app, but the website didn't load and they couldn't display the results.
	And of course, with Marco Rubio's surge, everyone's now saying, welcome to Marcosoft.
	In a way, claiming, oh, maybe, because, you know, Bill Gates is a huge donor to his campaign.
	The number two, I think.
	Bill Gates to Marco Rubio?
	Yes!
	Yes, I didn't know that either.
	Good catch.
	So, you know, you can't do this, even just for the possibility that there may be some, you know, some funny business going on.
	Get it out!
	Get Facebook out!
	Possibility?
	Yeah, well, get Facebook out, get Microsoft, just no, just don't do that.
	This is, I don't like that at all.
	It's a real turnoff.
	We have enough commercialism in this whole process.
	Yeah, like the Facebook debates.
	Oh, man.
	With the big F next to all the Republicans.
	Yeah, it's just annoying.
	Very, very annoying.
	Okay, let's see.
	What else did we have?
	Oh, yes.
	Now, this was interesting.
	Kerry, this is from, I guess, a week and a half ago.
	John Kerry...
	Was in Davos talking about the money that will be released that will go to Iran that everyone's all in a huff about.
	And first of all, Iranian money going back to Iran.
	Right.
	Now, because you are very annoyed by Kerry speaking on this program, and he is, even when I cut out the pauses and everything, we have a little Vida Gutmacher for you to feel good about the John Kerry clip I'm about to play.
	Jason G. Falls asleep When Carrie's Dick.
	Little John Leighton for you there.
	I like the buzzsaw.
	Yeah, it's Public Image Limited.
	Johnny Rotten.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	I'm glad you liked it.
	It's a long road.
	And we'll get approximately, according to the Treasury Department and all of the analysis of our intelligence community, about $55 billion.
	Why won't they get the hundred that some people refer to?
	Because a large chunk of it is already committed to China, to other countries through loans and long-term commitments that have been made.
	Now, hold on a second.
	What?
	I know.
	I know.
	And so, whoa!
	Hold on a minute.
	I've got to figure out what's going on with this.
	China gets a chunk, and it's now 55.
	Where did 150 billion come from?
	He showed up on the Morning Joe show.
	I want to take advantage of this just in your question to make something crystal clear.
	Crystal clear.
	Joe, I've heard you.
	I hear the Wall Street Journal.
	I hear people saying, oh, they're going to get $100 billion.
	They're going to get $150 billion.
	No, they are not.
	That is a fictional number.
	I don't know where it comes from.
	They will get about 55 billion dollars over a period of time, and Iran has well over 500 to 700, 800 million dollars of requirements just to build its Oil drilling capacity back just to begin to build its infrastructure back.
	They have massive needs within their country and we will be able to track where this money is going and what is happening with it.
	If indeed the IRGC continues activities which have been sanctionable in the past, they will be inviting further sanctions.
	So this is a moment of test for everybody.
	So, Mr.
	Secretary, I want to clarify.
	Originally, we heard $150 billion, and certainly not just from the Wall Street Journal or myself, but it's been reported $150 billion.
	We saw $100 billion across news agencies across the world.
	You're saying the number is closer to $55 billion?
	That is correct.
	The number actually released by the lifting of these sanctions.
	Now, what some people may be doing is calculating something that may come from a business deal with Airbus or a business deal with Renault Automobile.
	You're talking about calculating future deals, perhaps?
	I think that is possible.
	But the actual...
	Did he just say John?
	Did he just say John instead of secretary?
	That's interesting.
	I didn't hear it.
	Let me roll back a little bit further.
	I think he said John?
	Talking about calculating future deals, perhaps?
	Crap, more.
	Here we go.
	Actually released by the lifting of these sanctions.
	Now what some people may be doing is calculating something that may come from a business deal with Airbus or a business deal with Renault Automobile.
	You're talking about calculating?
	Yeah, he says John.
	Sorry.
	Don't bring the backroom stuffing onto the show, Morning Joe.
	You're talking about calculating future deals, perhaps?
	I think that is possible.
	But the actual money release...
	I still didn't hear John.
	Yeah, he says it's very clear.
	It's right here.
	John, isn't it?
	John, yeah.
	You're talking about calculating future deals?
	John.
	No!
	You don't hear it?
	No!
	I can't help you.
	He's saying it.
	John, I can't help you.
	Listen.
	A business deal with Airbus or a business deal with Renault Automobile.
	You're talking about calculating future deals?
	Yeah, John, are you calculating future deals?
	He says, John!
	I'm not hearing it.
	I think that is possible.
	But the actual money released, the Treasury Department and others have scoped that very carefully.
	Right.
	And they calculated at $55 billion over a period of time.
	Now, the only thing he's not mentioning in this, and this may be where it came...
	Yes, go ahead.
	Well, we can research this and get the number.
	Well, I have some...
	I've done the research.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, then you can give us the number.
	But this was...
	The way I understood this from the get-go was these were frozen assets.
	Yes.
	This was from 1979-1980 when they took over our embassy.
	We froze all Iranian assets.
	Mainly from an arms deal that did not happen because of the Iranian hostage crisis in the late 70s.
	There was a bunch of money that was frozen back then.
	And it was...
	And I think they froze all their accounts.
	They just froze everything.
	And I don't see how this had anything to do with an Airbus deal or anything like that.
	No, but what he's saying is...
	So, first of all, Washington Post, New York Times, we deserve an explanation from you on your reporting.
	Where did the paper of record, the New York Times, come up with this $150 billion number?
	And what Kerry is not mentioning, of course, is the lawsuit against him as a representative of the State Department and Jack Lew, the secretary of the Treasury, who are being sued by the the secretary of the Treasury, who are being sued by the group of It was a very interesting lawsuit.
	I put it in the show notes, the whole lawsuit.
	It's a number of people who were killed in Gaza.
	People who were killed not in America.
	And they all have legitimate claims from the United States district courts.
	And that total, and this is where it might have happened, that total is $152 million.
	Maybe someone misread it and went, oh, that's $150 billion.
	We know there's been a lock and a hold.
	This is why the lawsuit is taking place, because these people want their money.
	They have legitimate claims from U.S. courts.
	Yeah, I think they deserve it, too, but I think that's far-fetched.
	That's the only thing I can come up with, because there is nothing else.
	There is nothing else.
	But I'd like to know where the New York Times came, how they came up with that number.
	Well, in fact, why would it be...
	Interesting.
	Yeah, how did they come up with the number?
	They are very, very quiet at the moment.
	They probably got it from the State Department.
	I'm sure that's where...
	It must be.
	I mean, they're the ones that are most hooked in with the government.
	But it also seems that the State Department can't really show any calculations either.
	They say, well, you know, they owe China some money.
	I don't get the China thing.
	I don't get it either.
	Where China all of a sudden get into the picture, scamming some of the money.
	Must be some deal for something.
	Well, this opens up a can of worms.
	We need to, well, I'm sure someone will be able to help us.
	Maybe not.
	Well, there's that.
	And with that, I think it's time for me to thank you very much for your courage and passion and say in the morning to you, John C. Clip of the day, Giver Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also, in the morning...
	And by the way, I used your name there.
	In the morning to all ships and sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water.
	And all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to everybody in the chatroom, noagendastream.com.
	And thank you very much to all of our artists.
	But in particular, I'd like to thank CZM137, who gave us one of the better pieces of artwork.
	This was the pinball machine, which is just a beautiful piece.
	Yeah, he sent us a note, or tweeted us, I can't remember which, maybe tweet.
	Complimenting us picking it, because he thought it was his best work ever, and then we never even mentioned it.
	We don't even remember seeing it before.
	No, and sometimes it happens, it slips by.
	So I'm guessing it came in late.
	Could be.
	But it was in the Evergreens and it was fabulous.
	No, actually it wasn't in the Evergreens.
	Oh, you're right.
	It was like page six or something.
	It was way back there.
	It was on a regular show.
	Yeah.
	Alright, well, let's thank a few people, and we do have a few people to thank, and this time we've got some nice people to thank for giving us good donations and contributions, including Dustin Marquise.
	I think it's Marquise.
	He's going to be a knight, so he gives $800.
	I like to title Sir Jailbird, Knight of the 45-inch.
	Okay.
	Well, maybe that's not...
	Maybe that's the knight of the.45.
	So he's got.45.
	So he's talking about a.45 caliber.
	So he's knight of the.45.
	Okay.
	Very nice.
	Very nice.
	Also, since he's married, he could use some BJ karma.
	Okay.
	I think we got something for him there.
	Oh, my gosh!
	Can you see that juice?
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	You've got karma.
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	Shannon Goad in Bettendorf, Iowa.
	56789.
	One of my absolute favorite donations.
	My husband, Danny, is a long-time listener, big fan of your show.
	I am always giving him crap for referring to you two as the guys.
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	I'm sure that's exactly the voice she would use.
	His 40th birthday is coming up on Tuesday the 8th, and I could think of no better gift than to give him a no-agenda knighthood.
	According to my records, the following amount is in addition to his past donation should surpass the knighthood requirement.
	I was hoping he could be named Sir Yet to be Determined.
	As I could not find a sneaky way to get his desired knighthood moniker, get it out of him.
	Please accept this donation in his name, Dennis Goad Jr.
	And my thanks for giving my husband something to listen to that isn't techno.
	Can I please get a little girl yay for turning 40 in the morning and a boom shakalaka for my daughters?
	And I like bugs that one's for me.
	Bugs, I guess the bugs too.
	Bugs, yeah, bugs.
	And lastly, a little birthday karma for the birthday boy.
	Thanks.
	Keep doing what you're doing to Denny.
	Surprise!
	Happy birthday.
	Ding, ding, ding, boom, boom, chakalak, boom, boom, boom, boom, chakalak, boom, boom.
	In the morning.
	I love bugs. Bugs, bugs, bugs.
	Tastes like poo.
	You've got karma.
	Woo!
	Thank you.
	That's a lovely gift.
	Yeah, it was a lovely gift.
	Very nice gift.
	And she does say at the end, she says, shower him with lots of hookers and blow.
	Done.
	What else is going on in Bettendorf Iowa?
	Done.
	Done your hookers and blow idea.
	Did you read that one of the three winners of the $1.3 billion Powerball Lotto died?
	I won!
	So he bought a house immediately.
	I think he won $370 million.
	He bought a house, and they found him, and he got eight hookers in, and he found him dead in his bedroom with his face pretty much in a bag, a kilo bag of Coke.
	This is idiotic.
	What's wrong with people?
	This is like the one of the guys who won.
	He's like, you know, I'm going to continue working.
	He's like a clerk somewhere.
	Yeah, sure.
	Always that.
	Wow.
	Hookers and blow killed him.
	That's right.
	It's a deadly...
	It's not a great combo in general, but here you go.
	I wonder what the hookers all...
	You know, you see these movies where something like this happens, there's a group of hookers.
	Oh, what are we going to do?
	I don't know.
	Let's get out of here.
	Let's get the hell out of here.
	Hey, hey, hey, take that bag.
	Yeah, take that bag.
	What else can you grab?
	Get the little soap bars.
	Towels.
	Hand towels.
	Towels.
	Get the towels.
	Let's get out of here.
	Bathroom.
	Terrell Ellison.
	In Aachen, Deutschland.
	Aachen.
	557-08.
	Hi, guys.
	We need some...
	Oh, by the way, I got some German clip.
	I want you to listen to it and tell us what's going on because I have questions.
	You want to do that now?
	Do you need German input?
	You want to do that now or later?
	No, no.
	It's too...
	No.
	Let's get this...
	Hi guys, this donation comes with all the regular thanks.
	Thanks!
	Your work is really appreciated.
	I'm just requesting some karma as I gave more than just a few euros to a friend to keep him out of jail.
	I'm now waiting for the money to flow back into my coffers and I guess karma won't hurt.
	All the best from Aachen, Germany.
	Sir Ralph Barron of Neutral, Morsnet, and Germany.
	P.S. This should complete my fifth knighthood.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	Aren't you an earl then at that point?
	I think you...
	I don't know.
	I have to go look.
	Let me go look.
	It's Knight Baronet Baron.
	Earl?
	Would you please look that up and I'll do the karma business here?
	We can do it for another time.
	You've got karma.
	Very nice, sir, Ralph.
	Thank you.
	Danke.
	Danke, Shane.
	Is it peers or peerage?
	Tschüss.
	Grüß Gott.
	Papish.htm.
	Okay, here we go.
	He's how many knights?
	Five.
	Oh, he's a Viscount.
	Ooh!
	Very nice.
	Seven is an Earl.
	Good.
	Viscount.
	Cool.
	And people can look this up.
	Dvorak.org slash peerage dot htm.
	Cool.
	You still do htm.
	Nice.
	You running that on DOS, that server of yours?
	Yes!
	HTM. My goodness.
	So much wrong with that, John.
	Yeah, that was funny when they came out with it.
	I kind of like it.
	Onward.
	Onward, indeed.
	Mick Roch.
	Mick.
	It's not Mick.
	Roch.
	It's Mike.
	It says Mitch here, though.
	Oh, okay.
	I see Mike over here.
	I got it.
	Spreadsheet issue.
	No problem.
	This is one of those joke names, you know, as though we're the...
	Yeah, I get it.
	Mike Roch.
	It took me a moment, but I'm there.
	Yeah, I think he could have probably gone with Hunt as the last name.
	It's always good for a big laugh at the bar.
	Or if you have someone page Mike Hunt in the mall.
	That's always fun.
	Yeah, that's great.
	I'm assuming that Mike here is in the high school.
	So, um, still scattered, but gathering my thoughts to eulogize my father, Santa Dave, has to involve the hours of thoughtful conversation and discussion.
	Hold on one second, because he actually sent, like, five emails late last night.
	His dad just passed away.
	I feel bad about this.
	Yeah, and so he was like, oh my god.
	So that's why.
	His dad, Santa Dave, passed away.
	He sent this note in, like, just hours later.
	After that happened.
	The fact of the matter is...
	He puts a lot of these gags in here.
	He's a funny guy, I guess.
	He must be hilarious.
	We take time exploring and rest in another day's drive.
	Apparently he's hung out a lot together and he's going to miss him.
	The way I see it, the show is part of our open banner.
	I do believe I'd be remiss if I didn't receive notice.
	If it, that means the show.
	Requesting it to be knighted is Sir Mike Roach.
	Knight of the pseudonym.
	Yes. - Yeah.
	And so I replied to him and I said, as corny as it sounds, Mike, love and light.
	That's what I said.
	He appreciated that.
	You've got karma.
	We'll be knighting you later on.
	Thank you so much.
	Yeah, we wondered whether we should use his...
	He wants the name Mike Roch.
	So we're leaving it at that, but that's not his name, obviously.
	Okay, sorry.
	Philip Rhodokonakis.
	I think Rhodokonakis.
	Yeah, Rhodokonakis.
	That's got to be it.
	That's a Greek name.
	No, no, no.
	Rhodokonakis.
	384 from Oak Hill, Virginia.
	My donation of 384 is based on the Hillary winning all six coin tosses in Iowa, which has a probability of one in 64.
	I then multiplied 64 by the six losses to make my donation more worthwhile to the best podcasts in the universe.
	By the way, John tells me that I lead a decadent life By giving my proclivity to continuously upgrade to the newest Apple devices, please give me some job karma so that I can continue to afford my decadent lifestyle.
	Did you have a conversation with him, or is this just...
	No, we went back and forth on the email.
	Oh, okay.
	He'd written a nasty note, and I had...
	Wait, so he wrote a nasty note, and then you somehow got him to donate.
	No, he decided to donate on his own, but what happened was he wrote a nasty note condemning me for something I said on the Horowitz show.
	Oh, well, send it to the Horowitz show.
	Well, no, he's fine where he is.
	He then said he's a big fan of this show.
	He just happened to hear me on the Horowitz show.
	Andy Horowitz.
	Andy.
	Andy, Andrew Horowitz said, I got the new iPhone.
	And I said, oh, why?
	He says, it's faster.
	And I said, what?
	It's faster?
	It makes phone calls faster?
	What's faster about it?
	And I got all hissy-fitty about what's it faster about.
	So he writes in saying...
	You condemn me faster.
	You know what faster means?
	Faster means it's faster.
	And so I said, no, I don't.
	Nobody knows what's so faster about it.
	I mean, tell me specifically.
	It's just it's faster because somebody, some marketing guy says it's faster.
	I refused and I went into one of my...
	I would like to give everybody a tip.
	Whenever John C. Dvorak says, oh yeah, what's so?
	Fill in the blank.
	Just walk away.
	Just back up.
	Just back up.
	Just back up is not worth it.
	Just back up.
	So we went back and forth and back and forth, and then I said, and it's decadent to be buying these phones all the time.
	Yeah.
	And so he still irked at me, obviously.
	Or he wouldn't have thrown this decadent thing in.
	Let me give him some jobs, karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	You've got karma.
	Excellent.
	But thinking about it, he's probably just an argumentative Greek.
	Eh, you're not.
	Sir Eric Holbritter in South Ogden, Utah.
	Ogden Aviation.
	Very famous company in Ogden, Utah.
	ITM gentlemen, thanks so much for the deconstruction.
	I tried to watch the Iowa caucuses and failed.
	And as this is the year of the pig, it's the year of the monkey.
	Monkey, yeah.
	Was last year the year of the pig?
	Possible.
	Apparently a cock block this bone financially.
	What?
	Oh, no, he's got this wrong.
	And he says as...
	Oh, as of the year of the pig.
	Will, which is not happening, will apparently cock block this boar, B-O-R-E, financially, but it could be B-O-A-R. Or B-O-O-R. I am hustling off my value for value in case I cannot help later this year.
	Well, that's nice.
	Keep on keeping, gents.
	A bit of karma would be nice, as I mentioned, to the new startup as their head dude named Ben, a.k.a.
	their CISO. What's CISO? Chief Information...
	Something Officer?
	Information System.
	Yeah, Chief Information System Officer.
	There we go.
	We got it.
	We got it.
	Congratulations.
	You've got karma.
	Here's your karma.
	Douglas.
	Thank you.
	David Haberdank.
	In Placerville, California, you also came in with 33333.
	We want to thank all these executive and associate executive producers, especially for helping us in the last couple of shows.
	I've been a listener of yours since graduating high school.
	Graduating from high school.
	You're not living in Europe.
	Yeah, what high school was it?
	Since graduating high school in 2008.
	I went straight to hospital.
	From university.
	Straight to hospital, then to university.
	To uni.
	And I got in cab.
	I have only donated once in that time since 2008.
	Last month, I finally made the decision to quit my job and relocate from rural Northern California, where I've lived nearly my entire life, to Austin, Texas, with nothing but my hopes and dreams.
	Well, good luck.
	Good luck with that.
	Well, listening to Sunday's show the following day and contemplating whether or not to donate for some job karma, my phone started ringing off the hook with companies I had been interviewing with over the past two weeks.
	Within the course of 12 hours, I had received five job offers and ended up accepting one with only some light negotiation.
	Thanks, Art of the Deal.
	That's great.
	This was an obvious sign letting me know that I need to donate to the best podcast in the universe.
	So here it is.
	Thanks again for everything you guys do.
	Can I get a de-douching?
	Yes.
	And please de-douche me and send some karma my way.
	Nah, you got it.
	You've been de-douched.
	And let us know when you hit town, man.
	Or wait if you're in town.
	We'll drink some coffee.
	You've got karma.
	Or something.
	Something, something.
	Alright, now we go to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with Douglas Kuhlman, who has a...
	Old subscriber, but new night.
	See my email from coolmanoy.h.
	See if you can find this email.
	I'm looking.
	Douglas Kuhlman.
	I do have, let me see.
	It's Kuhlmanoy.
	Yeah, I got it.
	I got it.
	No, I don't.
	No, I don't have anything.
	I'm sorry.
	Oh.
	I thought I might, but no.
	No, no, no.
	In here, maybe?
	No.
	Interesting.
	How could that not happen?
	Well, let me take a look at my email box.
	It's obvious he sent me something because I do have...
	Here we go.
	What's this?
	Sorry, man.
	I don't have anything.
	Well, hold on.
	Holding on.
	Holding on.
	Hold on a second.
	Everybody hold on.
	And that's a five for the hold.
	And stop tape.
	There we go.
	I found it.
	And roll tape.
	Dear Honey Ochre and Bindlestiff, with this great pleasure, I submit the donation to one to honor my birthday, which we have on there, I think.
	Do we?
	I'll check.
	Keep going.
	He's on his birthday.
	Gain admittance to those hallowed halls and round table chambers in the Fortress for Truth and Justice after a week, a big week of donations.
	The next show seems to fall flat.
	This is true.
	And this is coming on Sunday.
	He's going to be 69, our Doug is.
	Oh, that's cool.
	And you and me, only my soul hurts when that happens, when the donations fall off, he says.
	Which they do, and it will on Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday, there's not going to be anybody listening.
	I'm doing what I can to alleviate the possibility, and damn it, I wish more listeners would too.
	I only met one other listener, and he quickly gave me a combat disapology.
	I only listened because...
	I only met one listener who gave me this apology.
	I only listened because I'm a tech weenie and I follow JCD. I don't give them money or anything.
	Yeah.
	I have to say that the Apple guys, and these are young, you know, they're in their 30s, young guys.
	And they were, you know, they were nice.
	We listened to the most recent show, you know, just make sure we're up to speed on what you're doing.
	Man, they were doing imitations of you.
	It was unbelievable.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	They were doing a pretty good job.
	Well, good for them.
	Donate.
	Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
	How do you combat that kind of attitude?
	We don't.
	By donating more myself, I guess.
	He takes it upon himself.
	I've been in it since the beginning in a monthly subscription since you guys asked for $2 a month.
	My accounting, there's about two of those left.
	My accounting per PayPal, I don't think they go all the way back to that, but it's okay.
	So he's got enough for a knighthood.
	He's listed as a knight, I guess.
	Yeah.
	Yes, he is.
	But here he is.
	But here's his thing.
	He wants to be knighted as Sir Wood, W-O-U-L-D-E. So it's Sir Woody of the Dakota Territory.
	Am I missing a joke?
	No.
	Okay.
	I mean, yeah, probably, but I am too.
	Okay.
	He's on the list.
	Ceremony coming up there.
	Woody, Douglas Kuhlman, former minute man from the great north woods of Minnesota.
	He only had this right.
	I read this email earlier.
	Programmer's joke.
	This is a good one.
	All right.
	Well, depends on what you think is good.
	We're waiting.
	Yeah, bated breath.
	To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
	Yeah, that's a very old programmer's joke.
	PHP! Alright.
	How about some karma form while you get to the next one?
	You've got karma.
	It's a pretty old joke.
	An oldie but a goodie.
	Actually, I've never heard that joke.
	Well, programmers love recursion, which is, you know, where you kind of, your tail winds up, you know, in your mouth.
	Biting your tail.
	Matt Workman in Dayton, or Matic Workman in Dayton, Ohio, $300.
	You'll have a note from him.
	We'll read it if he wants to send us something.
	Okay.
	Lauren Smudski in Pleasant Grove, California, $270.
	Okay.
	He's got an interesting comment from a Polak NorCal rice farmer.
	It's okay.
	You can say that because he's Polish.
	NorCal rice farmer.
	I didn't know we had any rice farmers in northern California.
	I thought they were all in the valley.
	We have rice farmers right here in Texas.
	Texas grows a lot of rice.
	That's where our Lake Travis water goes to.
	And the poop.
	Listen to five or six shows.
	Started feeling Hebrew.
	I can say that too.
	Maybe.
	It's so nice to hear people who are not a bunch of idiots.
	And to think you are listener-supported is encouraging.
	If this buys it, could I get a hope my wife Ashley has a safe delivery of twins on tax day, Karma.
	You two take care and all the listeners as well.
	On tax day, do you have to give one to the government?
	Yes.
	All right, man.
	Hope it all goes well.
	I'm sure it will.
	You've got Karma.
	Thank you so much for your support of the work.
	Michael Levin in Brooklyn, New York.
	250 bucks.
	Apologies, John and Adam.
	Feel like a complete douchebag after your dire note.
	Please, this is from the last show.
	Please de-douche me and send me some karma, Sir Levin.
	Yes, Sir Levin.
	Thank you so much.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	Nice.
	Chris Perry in Silver Springs, Maryland, $250.
	Already into $150 for the layaway night.
	Count this toward that.
	Perhaps I should check my other recent donations.
	Yes.
	Also, perhaps some karma.
	Not so that I lose my job, of course, but rather that I get a killer job, offer back from the West Coast, or remote work.
	I do so much better when I work from home.
	Let's give him a jobs card.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	David Prince in Colfax, California.
	23456.
	I have no note from him, but I'll look for one.
	This is going to be fun.
	Okay.
	So now we have Benjamin Vernoy.
	Very good.
	In...
	Wanna be a perv.
	Netherlands.
	Wanna be a perv?
	Is that what it says?
	Wanna perven.
	Wanna profane.
	Wanna profane.
	Okay.
	Same thing.
	Well, at least I got the first name right.
	Where I moved him.
	Okay, here he is.
	ITM John and Adam requesting job karma for Sir Adrian.
	Also, can I get a general F cancer and a beautiful yum?
	Don't eat me, Hillary.
	Can you see that juice and chemtrails?
	By the way, Adam, you're spot on with how the Dutch speak English.
	Yes, and that is why I'm looking for all of your jingles that you want.
	Don't eat me, Hillary.
	Hold on a second.
	Don't.
	Oh, fuck.
	What is this?
	Don't eat me.
	What else did you want, Sean?
	You want to see the juice?
	The shoes?
	Beautiful.
	Beautiful.
	Yum.
	Can you see the juice?
	It's all one.
	And chemtrails and shoes.
	I can't find the shoes, man.
	Can you see that juice?
	You played it a lot last show.
	Yes.
	You've got to be right on top of the queue.
	Yes, I know, I know.
	And then, what is the other one?
	The last one is...
	Don't eat me, Hillary.
	I got it, I got it!
	How's your mouth now?
	Beautiful.
	Yum.
	Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton.
	Oh my gosh!
	Can you see that juice?
	Chemtrails.
	You've got karma.
	What did you think?
	What did you think?
	Excellent.
	Excellent, thanks.
	See you later, man.
	In the canteen, we have a drink.
	Everybody loves your voice.
	In the canteen, no, not everybody.
	I have Pim Om.
	That's right.
	Somebody bitched about it with some note.
	Well, you know, there's a...
	Okay, hold on a second.
	There's a follow-up to this.
	This guy is Pim.
	I don't know what happened, but he came out and he just laid into me so hard.
	And I copied you on the reply because I didn't understand.
	And let's see what he said.
	It was a really strange note.
	It's like, well, you guys are...
	I should probably get the note, actually.
	Yeah, get the note.
	Let me get the note.
	Let's do this.
	Okay.
	It was negative feedback, all caps.
	Here we go.
	Yeah, I'll do the Dutch voice because I'm sure he speaks that way.
	Yeah, why use a nice little story about NASA when you can have so much fun with politicians misspeaking?
	It has become sort of a political gossip show.
	And you can have your circle jerk group say over and over again, it's the best podcast in the universe.
	But by what standard, I wonder?
	Shut up you.
	I can't imagine a new listener getting beyond the 30 minute mark.
	And you're sucking up to big money.
	First Koch brothers and now Trump.
	It's so obvious.
	This is the no content show.
	So we go back and forth.
	Clearly the guy sent me something that I don't know.
	I missed it.
	I said, I have no idea what nice little story from NASA you're referring to.
	I really don't know what that's about.
	And then he says, he comes back.
	I didn't copy it and all this stuff.
	From blacklisted to officially blacklisted.
	Does this come with the title?
	Because I said, you know, shut up, man.
	If you're not going to tell me what it is.
	And I was like, look, I don't know what your problem is, man.
	I really don't.
	I actually said, hey, I'm busy.
	Send me stuff again if you didn't hear from me.
	This is no longer a valid offer for you.
	You had the wrong approach.
	And then this morning, here's what comes in.
	I put you on my no driving list.
	So, next time you fly to Schriephol, make sure your plane has a gate connection or you will be walking the apron, buddy.
	What?
	Well, apparently, I think he drives one of those golf carts at the airport.
	I put you on my no driving list.
	So next time you fly to Schiphol, make sure your plane has gate connections.
	I saw this note, and I couldn't figure out what he was irked about.
	I thought it was kind of a gag.
	No, he's really mad.
	When you said, don't write me back, for all practical purposes.
	I didn't get this last note where he's still, now he's irked with you.
	But I went back in my email.
	He's done this before.
	You didn't play my clip!
	Oh, one of those guys.
	Yeah, that's the problem there.
	You didn't use my art.
	You didn't play my clip.
	You didn't mention my wife.
	You didn't give us a birthday.
	This and that.
	Okay.
	Let's go on.
	Desmond Lowe in Toronto, Ontario.
	$204.
	I don't have a note from him.
	Sir Paul Schneider in Edmonton, Alberta.
	$200.
	Now these are all $200.
	We have the $200.
	It's $800 quarters.
	This is a celebration donation.
	We thank everybody who does this.
	This is a lot.
	A very generous donation.
	And by the way, our first donor that's at the top, Dustin, did give $800.
	So he gets a double producer credit for...
	Show 800.
	Sir Paul Schneider in Edmonton, Alberta.
	Please credit me as Sir Paul Schneider.
	Also, please add me to the birthday list on February 4th.
	You're on.
	He's on.
	Sir Brad Doherty.
	Brad Doherty, I think, is a sir.
	I think so, too.
	In Brooklyn.
	I'm pretty sure.
	Yes, he's Baron of the Jersey Shore, of course.
	Oh, yeah, he's Baron of the Jersey Shore, of course.
	800 episodes, incredible accomplishments.
	Please keep up the great work, Sir Brad, Baron of the Jersey Shore.
	Jason Daniels in Dallas, Texas.
	No note.
	Sir Norman McDonough, a baronet in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, he says 800 U.S. quarters, not Canadian.
	Does this continue?
	I can't tell.
	No.
	No, it doesn't.
	So give him a karma.
	You've got Carmen.
	I know Jason Daniel was at the meetup in Dallas, but I don't see any note from him.
	Peter, I don't have, I've got screwy characters.
	I'm guessing Charmuller?
	Yeah.
	Overdragberg?
	Charmuller.
	I think it's Charmuller.
	I'm missing a U if it's in there.
	Austria, 200.
	Being a proud Minuteman, I already found out that I didn't donate since my student days.
	I listened to No Agenda on my journeys through Austria, which makes commuting a charm.
	I need some job karma since I'm in the Austrian Armed Forces and applied for a staff officer post.
	Oh, good.
	Please keep up the good work.
	Love you guys, no homo.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	John Robinet, depending on how he wants to pronounce it, $200 from Army Post Office.
	He's somewhere.
	Sending my 800 quarters to prepare for the show 800.
	First time donor who has listened for a few months and felt progressively more like a douchebag.
	Could I get a de-douching and a boom shakalaka?
	Yes.
	Maybe we should do a...
	Maybe do a Nick's Kid.
	It's always good to do a Nick's Kid.
	So...
	De-douching on your way here, sir.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	MUSIC Adam Barrett in London, UK, $200.
	I don't quite have anything.
	If he has something, he can send it.
	We'll read it.
	And last but not least, Marv Santella.
	I'm guessing that's how you pronounce his name.
	Santella, I guess, or Santella.
	Santella, Tucson.
	He's got a note he sent in, handwritten, in longhand.
	Thank you for providing the No Agenda goggles.
	You guys have definitely changed the way I view the world.
	I've been listening since Adam was living in Gitmo East.
	I certainly have not donated enough.
	I would like a birthday call out.
	Oh, get your pen out.
	This is not on the list.
	Hold on a second.
	Yeah, hold on.
	All right, and this is for...
	Well, the birthday is a call out for May Miley.
	M-A-I-L-E. It's from Marv Santiala, right?
	Yeah, that's what I guess.
	Santiala, and it's for who?
	Miley.
	M-A-I-L-E. Miley, I think.
	Riley.
	R-E-I-L-L-Y. She's celebrating her birthday on the 1st of February.
	A... A douchebag call-out.
	Oh, here we go.
	Ready?
	Yep.
	To Sherry Tunsey.
	Douchebag!
	And Stan Cook.
	Douchebag!
	They're long-term listeners and have not donated.
	Also, a shout-out to Derby Dyke.
	Finally, can you play the following jingles?
	Don't Eat Me, Hillary.
	This is funny.
	This is the random number.
	Don't Eat Me, Hillary.
	See That Juice and Too Delicious to Believe.
	Thank you for your courage.
	To the best podcast in the universe, Marv.
	Aqua Linda Pools.
	He runs, I guess, a pool company.
	Aqua Linda Pools in Tucson, Arizona.
	Very nice.
	Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton!
	Oh my gosh!
	Can you see that juice?
	It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
	You've got karma.
	Done, done, done!
	So that concludes our executive producers and associate executive producers for show seven.
	96.
	Seven, nine or six.
	Four to go.
	Seven, nine or six, yes.
	And we still have meetups happening.
	Kind of rekindled the meetup culture of the show since the Dallas meetup.
	Go to meetup.com slash noagenda.
	And I'm going to be in Fayetteville, Arkansas at the end of the month.
	I think the 25th or 26th for a couple of days.
	So if we have anybody in the area, let's do a meetup.
	I'd like to ask why.
	Why the meetup?
	Fayetteville.
	Ah.
	Tina Marie's, one of her daughters, goes to the University of Arkansas.
	Oh.
	And they have a Mother's Day...
	Razorbacks.
	Yes.
	They have a Mother's Weekend, I think.
	And so, you know, it's the daughters.
	We have like one person in Arkansas.
	Oh, we don't know.
	Anyway, so I said, well, why don't we, because, you know, you don't want to, so why don't we drive up with the airstream of consciousness and I'll park and you go party with your daughter and whatever and I'll see if we can get a meetup going.
	I'll do the show from there and, you know, have some fun.
	I'll send a note to the local.
	Yes, you can do that, right?
	You can send it to the.
	Yeah, I can send it by state.
	To the local federales.
	So what states do I want to send to?
	Arkansas.
	Arkansas.
	Texas.
	Oklahoma.
	Oklahoma.
	Texas.
	And Missouri, maybe?
	Yeah, why not?
	Throw Missouri.
	And just for yucks, put Rhode Island on just to mess with them.
	Thank you so much to our executive producers and associate executive producers.
	Without you, the show wouldn't happen.
	We'll be happy to thank everybody later on who also produced this episode, 7, 9, or 6.
	And unlike the douchebag phonies in Hollywood, if anyone questions these credits, which are real, we'd be very happy to vouch for you.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A And while we're at it, I'll...
	Whoa, hello.
	There we go.
	Misfire.
	Hey, go out there!
	Do something important like promulgate the formula!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Hey, citizens.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	All righty.
	Let me see what we have.
	What a show we got going on today.
	A little migrant update, if we just want to head over to...
	Yeah, you can go there.
	I want to talk about Zika again.
	Yeah, I definitely want to do that.
	So we had this, you know, the talks in Geneva, new talks for Syria, broke down, everybody left, although everyone's still kind of Really happy they came.
	Here's a report that I think is pertinent.
	The United Nations has suspended peace talks aimed at ending Syria's five-year civil war.
	Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura made the announcement, citing a lack of progress as the reason to postpone the talks until February the 25th.
	What about us?
	This is not the end and it's not the failure of the talks.
	Why?
	They came and they stayed.
	Not only, but both sides insisted on the fact that they are interested in having the political process started.
	The whole matter is, again...
	Are we here to have another Geneva conference without any result for the Syrian people, or are we serious about what we have been saying?
	The talks look doomed from the start, with the Syrian opposition refusing to speak directly to the Syrian government, and the Syrian government unaware of the make-up of the opposition team or the agenda.
	To add to the gloom, the Syrian government has announced it may not even attend.
	The rescheduled peace talks.
	More than 250,000 people have been killed in almost five years of conflict, and 11 million people have been forced to leave their homes.
	And then we have Finland, who is following on Sweden's promise to deport everybody who has no right to asylum, which could equal 80,000.
	Finland says they are going to take a similar...
	And they have about 32,000 migrants who have sought asylum in the past year.
	Finland believes 20,000 will be sent back.
	Meanwhile, all of this happening, guess who's going to be paying for all of these problems, everybody?
	We already know that, what is it now, we've sent 6 billion, I think, to Turkey, to...
	Thanks for keeping your prisoners there or whatever.
	Let's get some more.
	As the fighting continues and the diplomats discuss, world leaders have gathered in London to raise money for Syria.
	An urgent plea has gone out for billions of euros to help refugees from the war-torn country.
	60 countries are represented at the conference, including 30 world leaders.
	The aim is to raise more than 8 billion euros.
	Finding work for the 4.6 million refugees in Syria's neighboring countries is also a primary aim.
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	Hello, citizens of Europe.
	I mean, we spend all the money on the war.
	So does France and Britain and even Holland has a couple guys.
	And then we got refugees coming over, migrants.
	Let's get some more money.
	I mean, does anyone see how nutty this is?
	How can you...
	Yeah.
	Now, a couple...
	Free money.
	Maybe two weeks back, there was a report.
	It was in between shows.
	I don't even know if we discussed it.
	But, you know, I've always said, hey, you've got to identify these people.
	You know, who are the migrants?
	And then there was this idea to give all migrants a red armband or a bracelet so they could be identified as migrants, something you can't take off.
	And I was like, oh, my God, yellow star next.
	This will be great.
	So that kind of fell by the wayside.
	There's a lot of pushback.
	But now we're going to do something very similar.
	As the European Union struggles with trying to agree a common policy on the refugee crisis, several Western Balkan countries have unilaterally agreed to establish common registration procedures for migrants who pass through their territory.
	Yes, we put you on a list.
	Police chiefs from the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, along with Austria, stressed it would be a coordinated approach.
	What we need is a standardization of the document issued to migrants, and we've agreed on what exactly this document must contain, but it's important that it originates from the countries who are going to accept the migrants.
	If the destination countries, including Germany, agree, the move should alleviate bottlenecks of migrants at different borders.
	Police say the creation of a document with information entered on a database shared and accepted by all EU member states will also help speed up security checks.
	Can you imagine just to get this done, this database and paperwork?
	It'll take three years before they're done with all that.
	This is a fiasco.
	It's a disaster.
	It's a humanitarian disaster of epic proportions.
	Epic!
	Now, the Australians deal with this a lot differently.
	This story doesn't get played on the American press at all.
	The clip is the Australians of the island.
	Australia's top court has given the okay to a controversial policy of detaining asylum seekers offshore.
	It ruled that shipping them to a camp on the small Pacific island of Nauru is legal.
	The verdict clears the way for the deportation of hundreds of refugees, including many children, to the island.
	Human rights activists say conditions there are inhumane and dangerous.
	So they got this island, and what they've done is they just ship them there.
	They don't even do anything.
	Some private companies have gone in there and built some housing and tent cities and sell them stuff, I guess, at high prices and whatever.
	But they just keep coming.
	They keep moving to this island.
	And they just, hey, there you go.
	This, of course, would stem from Australia's own history.
	Yeah, they were the prisoner island.
	It was a prison island.
	And these guys are bitching all these refugees coming from all over the place, I guess.
	They boat in and they just ship them right to the island.
	So there you go.
	They could do that in Europe.
	Just give them Denmark.
	No, don't be like that.
	That's not nice.
	I like Denmark.
	I like Denmark.
	Give them Ibiza.
	Just put them on Ibiza.
	Turn on some techno beats.
	There you go.
	Perfect.
	And you know, it takes care of all the douchebags in Ibiza at the same time.
	Yeah, no.
	You said yeah, no.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	Ibiza.
	You have to do with the T-H. Ibiza.
	We have a conversation in Ibiza.
	That's why I call Ibiza like everybody else.
	Ibiza.
	Not like everybody else.
	I think it's a good idea.
	You can also, you can take your rubber boat straight there.
	And there's plenty to eat and drink.
	You can take your rubber boat.
	Don't go to Greece, go to Ibiza.
	Yeah, I think it's an idea.
	I think it is an idea.
	Hello!
	DJ Migrento!
	Hey, everybody, welcome to Pasha.
	It's DJ Migrento.
	The president went to a mosque in Baltimore.
	Yeah, he says it's the first mosque he's been to since becoming president.
	Does that imply that he used to go to the mosque all the time?
	Let's listen to what he said.
	I often hear it said that we need moral clarity in this fight.
	And the suggestion is somehow that...
	If I would simply say these are all Islamic terrorists, then we would actually have solved the problem by now, apparently.
	Why didn't he say radical Islamic terrorists?
	Because that's what everyone wants him to say.
	He still couldn't say it, interestingly.
	Huh.
	Well, I agree we actually do need moral clarity.
	Let's have some moral clarity.
	All right.
	Let's do it.
	Groups like ISIL are desperate for legitimacy.
	They try to portray themselves as religious leaders and holy warriors who speak for Islam.
	I refuse to give them legitimacy.
	We must never give them that legitimacy.
	What?
	Where does he get that unctuousness?
	I refuse!
	I don't know where he gets that from.
	Well, he's mad, I guess.
	Let's see.
	Give them that legitimacy.
	You want to hear that I refuse to give them that legitimacy?
	Let's listen to them.
	Legitimacy.
	We must never give them that legitimacy.
	They're not defending Islam.
	They're not defending Muslims.
	The vast majority of the people they kill are innocent Muslim men, women and children.
	With American guns.
	And by the way, the notion that America's at war with Islam ignores the fact that...
	Now, who said that?
	He did.
	He did.
	The world's religions are a part of who we are.
	We can't be at war with any other religion because the world's religions are a part of the very fabric of the United States, our national character.
	This is audience clapping at everything he says.
	Are you talking before Congress?
	These are the Muslims in the mosque where he's speaking.
	So the best way for us to fight terrorism is to deny these organizations legitimacy.
	Yeah, that'll work.
	Yeah, that's all it takes.
	It's just, hey, you're denied.
	Step back.
	Show that here in the United States of America, we do not suppress Islam.
	We celebrate and lift up the success of Muslim Americans.
	That's how we show the lie that they're trying to propagate.
	We shouldn't play into terrorist propaganda.
	And we can't suggest that Islam itself is at the root of the problem.
	That betrays our values.
	So here's my place...
	Oops, sorry.
	Now, so that was...
	That part.
	This part was...
	Imam of the day.
	Yeah.
	He said some...
	Well, that's interesting you bring that up.
	Listen to this question.
	There's a moment when, as Americans, we have to truly listen to each other and learn from each other.
	And I believe it has to begin with a common understanding of some basic facts.
	And...
	Listen to this, man.
	He wants to do some basic facts.
	I believe it has to begin with a common understanding of some basic facts.
	That's his tell for the big lie.
	I don't know what he's going to say, but he's having problems telling the truth again.
	I express these facts Although they'd be obvious to many of the people in this place.
	I don't know what he's saying.
	He said they'd be obvious.
	He said they'd be obvious?
	Yeah, go back.
	Although they'd be obvious to many of the people in this...
	Oh, man.
	He's flustered.
	It should be they are obvious or it's obvious.
	They'd be obvious.
	They'd be obvious, motherfucker.
	In this place.
	Because, unfortunately, it's not Facts that are communicated on a regular basis through our media.
	Facts.
	But the facts are not communicated on a regular basis through our media.
	It's the media's fault, I guess.
	Oh, the media.
	The damn media.
	Now, he says something that I had to look into, and I'm just not...
	...communicated on a regular basis through our media.
	So let's start with this fact.
	For more than a thousand years, people have been drawn to Islam's message of peace.
	And the very word itself, Islam, comes from salaam.
	Peace.
	The standard greeting is...
	As-salamu alaykum.
	Peace be upon you.
	Nailed it.
	Inside his head there's a thought bottle.
	Fuck, nailed it.
	As-salamu alaykum.
	Nailed it.
	Peace be upon you.
	And like so many faiths, Islam is rooted in a commitment to compassion.
	Now listen to this, because I looked this up and had trouble finding it.
	And mercy.
	And justice.
	And charity.
	Whoever wants to enter paradise, the Prophet Muhammad taught, let him treat people the way he would love to be treated.
	Please clap.
	For Christians like myself, I'm assuming that sounds familiar.
	Please clap.
	Now, I looked this up.
	Please clap.
	I don't think Muhammad said that.
	I found 25 ways to enter Jannah, paradise, and none of them, as far as I can tell, how much searching can I do in an evening?
	We have a bunch of Muslims that are listeners.
	Yes, we even have a dude named Muhammad who could probably help us out.
	In the show notes, I have 25 ways to enter Jannah, which is from the Hadiths.
	But I could not find...
	The Hadiths are, like, pretty sketchy.
	Okay.
	Well, I just don't know if that was...
	And if he got that wrong, that's important to me.
	Because if he says that and it was completely...
	Well, then he's not a Muslim.
	Oh, well, maybe.
	He might not be a Muslim.
	I mean, we just assume he's a Muslim.
	Yeah.
	No, you assume he's a Muslim.
	I do.
	Not me.
	You assume he's a Muslim.
	Well, I just assume he is.
	Well, let's talk about what, you know, funny he goes and does this, but he doesn't mention anything about this poor Saudi, I have the clip that says Saudi pot beheading, but this Palestinian poet who was found guilty and there was a big outrage over, he wrote some poem and the Saudis took offense.
	And they chopped his head off?
	They haven't done it yet?
	No.
	Can we still get the broadcast rights for the beheading?
	They're backing off.
	Oh man, this would be perfect!
	In Saudi Arabia, a court has overturned the death sentence against Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayad, instead sentencing him to eight years in prison.
	Fayad will also be subjected to 800 lashes to be carried out over 16 sessions and forced to renounce his poetry publicly.
	Fayad had previously been convicted of apostasy and sentenced to beheading, sparking an international outcry among fellow artists.
	Well, that's weak.
	What's weak?
	That they're not going to chop his head off.
	Yeah, well, you know, I guess once in a while.
	Just one judge decided they weren't going to do it, so he just overturned the ruling or changed it to eight years in prison.
	Yeah, that's the kind of thing.
	There you go.
	There's your allies.
	Meanwhile, so I've got this clip that I wanted to play because I couldn't make heads or tails in terms of the logic.
	In other words, none of this actually makes sense.
	And I want to talk about it, and I hope our German knights...
	Maybe straighten this out, but this is the Germany, this is off Deutsche Welle, so it's going to definitely be slanted toward the German government.
	This is Germany versus Russia weirdness.
	Relations between the German and Russian governments, well, they're on the rocks.
	A series of recent incidents have contributed to that, among them an accusation from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
	Last month, he said German police covered up the alleged rape of a Russian-speaking girl here in Berlin.
	She later admitted to lying about the assault.
	Right, this is what you had, the clip on Sunday.
	That was the girl?
	Yeah, this clip was played on Sunday.
	No, no, that was the girl who...
	Yes, the girl that we played on Sunday.
	Same girl.
	But lawmakers in Berlin say these accusations by Russian authorities undermine Germany.
	Last spring, members of the German parliament received a flood of emails containing attachments with Trojan viruses.
	The cyber attack forced a temporary stop.
	So there was a phishing email with with it with bogus attachments.
	And that is now a cyber attack.
	Well, then I should be headline news attack forced a temporary shutdown of the parliamentary network.
	German lawmakers said they weren't surprised when it emerged that Russian military intelligence was possibly behind the attack.
	Possibly.
	Oh, yeah.
	It was to be expected.
	The attack was clearly from abroad and carried all the markings of the Russian strategy.
	They support German right-wing radical networks and finance demonstration against Chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policy.
	Lawmakers cite recent demonstrations over the alleged abduction and rape of a young Russian-speaking girl in Berlin by people she described as foreigners.
	The story turned out to be a hoax, but it was still propagated by Russian media.
	Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused German authorities of suppressing the story to avoid questions over Germany's refugee policy.
	The German Foreign Minister denies the charge.
	Many German politicians claim Russia is pursuing a campaign of misinformation.
	Okay.
	Okay, now let's take a look at the logic of this.
	I want to know from somebody out there, because I thought about it and looked at it, tried to figure out background.
	You might have some thoughts.
	Why?
	A bunch of questions.
	First of all, it sounds more like an American attack, because we're the ones who do more of that stuff.
	Or even Iran, which is one of the number one organizations or countries that goes after computer systems.
	Okay.
	In fact, they're probably leading their charge on most of this stuff.
	But here's what crops up in the conversation.
	First, why do they want to blame the Russians just without any proof whatsoever?
	Why do the Russians want to promote right-wing networks in Germany?
	Makes no sense.
	Why would the Russians, of all people, want to turn German right-wing?
	They've already run into problems when that happened in the past, it seems to me.
	But how does that fit in with the cyber attack?
	That's complicated.
	I don't understand.
	Well, they're just dropping all the stuff in, but the messaging they're trying to get us is the Russians are cyber-attacking Germany.
	The Russians want Germany to go right-wing.
	Ah.
	Why?
	Because?
	And the third message that I got out of this was the Russians...
	Why?
	What difference does it make to them?
	Wouldn't it be a benefit for Germany to suck up a bunch of immigrants?
	I have a thought.
	I mean, tell me, what am I missing here?
	This is a crazy story.
	I have a thought.
	The Geneva talks for Syria, the breakdown is being blamed on the Russians.
	So maybe this follows in the...
	Look, if you want to blame anybody for anything going wrong, you either blame ISIS or you blame Putin.
	And so the Russians are being blamed for the breakdown of the Syria talks in Geneva.
	Maybe this is a part of it.
	Actually, someone sent me the email with this so-called cyber attack attachment.
	Let's double-click it.
	I have a Mac, so I'm not too worried about it.
	Well, nothing's going to happen at all if you have a Mac.
	Oh, hold on.
	Oh, there you go.
	Now, since you mentioned that either blame Putin or ISIS, which is something of a meme, play my Farage clip where he blames Putin for being in bed with ISIS. Where is the clip?
	Oh.
	You'd think it would say Farage.
	Yes.
	Oh, I got it.
	I got it.
	I got it.
	If we're going to beat ISIS, we have to recognize Putin's on that side.
	And maybe we have to swallow really hard, Mr.
	Cameron.
	And we have to say to ourselves, perhaps even Assad.
	Leading Britain's conversation.
	I didn't get much of that.
	Let me play that again.
	That was tough for me to hear.
	But if we're going to beat ISIS, we have to recognize Putin's on that side.
	And maybe we have to swallow really hard, Mr.
	Cameron.
	And we have to say to ourselves, perhaps even Assad.
	Leading Britain's conversation.
	What is the last word he says?
	The overproduced teaser for his show.
	Overcompressed, overproduced, yes.
	Yeah, it's overproduced crap.
	But what he says, if we're going to blame ISIS, we have to recognize, and you can play it again after you hear me, If we're going to blame ISIS, we have to recognize that Putin is on their side, and maybe even Assad.
	Oh, huh.
	This was a teaser for his talk show.
	He does a talk show.
	Yeah, that's what he's on LBC, the big London LBC. It's a fun show that he has there.
	Yeah, I listen to it.
	I listen to it a little bit.
	It's kind of cool.
	Okay, so now we've got that little thing in play, which is anti-Putin.
	It's all anti-Putin stuff, but this thing going on in Germany where the Russians are demanding or wanting Germany to go right-wing makes zero sense.
	And then they want to interrupt the immigration thing.
	What difference does it make to the Russians?
	This is crazy.
	Well, you need this.
	If you're going to start a war, you need all kinds of Back and forth, and they only have this year left until the war breaks out.
	Speaking of cyber, just briefly, do you recall the company with that threat vector map that we were laughing at so hard?
	Oh, the threat vector map.
	I forgot all about that.
	And I went back and I looked, I did a...
	I did a search on the show notes and, you know, it's the IP Viking live attack map.
	The board of directors of this corporation was a pretty interesting board.
	We talked about them a lot.
	Guess what happened?
	Belly up.
	They went out of business.
	Oh man, we should have taken the code for the threat vector map.
	It was a total VC-funded douchebag company and they created this map with these so-called honeypots and all these little...
	Let me see if the map is still up.
	Let me see.
	I wonder.
	It's gone.
	Norse IP Viking threat map.
	Let's see.
	I should have checked that last night.
	Norse attack map.
	Norsecorp.com.
	And they're out of business, but the threats are still coming.
	You've got to look at this thing again, John.
	It's beautiful.
	Oh, we're being shot at now.
	Oh, you've got to see this.
	Okay, go to map.norsecorp.com.
	November Oscar, Romeo, Sierra, Echo, Charlie, Oscar, Romeo, Papa.
	Map.norsecorp.
	Look at this.
	Oh, my God.
	We've got incoming!
	Map.NorseCorp.com.
	We are being hit from Austin.
	Austin is being hit, John.
	Austin.
	Boom, boom, boom.
	Look at this.
	It looks like Star Wars.
	Holy crap.
	Somebody in the Midwest is getting pounded.
	They improved.
	You know, that's not abnormal that someone in the Midwest gets pounded.
	Oh, man.
	Very nice.
	Yeah, they're out of business.
	They ran right out of road.
	Oh, they were going to save everything.
	Part of this may have to do with a big reorganization at the NSA. That has just been announced by...
	Somebody forgot to take the map down.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's just running on a loop.
	Not like it's anything real.
	No, it's on port 443.
	There's an SSL attack.
	That's an SSL attack, yeah, 443.
	Number 117.
	I don't know what that even means, 117.
	Attacker.
	Oh, here's all the different attackers.
	NSA is reorganizing.
	They're creating a directive of operations that combines the operational elements of both offensive and defensive cyber teams.
	You have to do that when you want to give somebody a raise in government.
	It's very difficult to get a raise unless you change the title.
	This traditional approach we have where we created these two cylinders of excellence.
	Let's write that down, John.
	What the hell is a cylinder of excellence?
	Does he mean silo?
	The cylinder of excellence!
	That should be an award on the Oscars.
	The Cylinder of Excellence.
	It should go like this.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	John, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	Stop, stop, stop, stop.
	Please do it again.
	You going to record it?
	Yep.
	Okay, I got to get the gonger ready.
	The Cylinder of Excellence.
	I think I stepped on the excellence.
	What you need to do is when you're done, be quiet because the echo is still reverberating, so you need to just wait for that.
	Okay, go.
	The Cylinder of Excellence!
	How's that?
	You still could have waited.
	The gong was still going, but it's good enough.
	I'll keep it.
	It's good.
	It's good.
	We'll keep it.
	We'll keep it.
	Just fade it out.
	Cylinder of excellence.
	Two cylinders of excellence and then built walls of granite between them.
	It's really not the way for us to do business, said NSA director Michael S. Rogers, hinting at the reorganization dubbed NSA-21.
	That is expected to be rolled out publicly this week.
	And he said, Okay.
	It's fighting words.
	So no more cylinders.
	No more cylinders of excellence.
	That is over.
	Huh.
	That is over.
	And then this cool kind of story, which was not cool, but it was interesting to see what happened, as we've been told many other outcomes were possible.
	Investigators think a bomb probably caused an onboard explosion that forced an Airbus A321 to return to Mogadishu and make an emergency landing.
	One man was killed in the blast on the Dalo Airlines jet on Tuesday.
	Two passengers were injured.
	There's been no immediate comment from Al-Shabaab, the Somali Islamist group that's engaged in an insurgency in the country.
	Local authorities north of the Somali capital say the body of a 55-year-old man was found in the area.
	He's thought to have been sucked out through the hole in the fuselage.
	I'm thinking that this is the great bomb maker, the mastermind that we keep hearing about.
	This guy got a bomb because we have to do something in Somalia, whatever happened.
	Thing went off, blew out him, probably blew his head off, blew out a hole in the aircraft.
	Now, they were only at 12,000 or 13,000 feet, so there was no huge decompression event, although you're already in a pressurized situation.
	But you go down a couple thousand feet and you're good to go.
	And the plane didn't break apart.
	And quite a feat.
	It was a plastic airplane, an Airbus.
	That was interesting that it didn't just snap into two pieces.
	And the guy sucked out.
	And I thought that was quite telling about the...
	We need more.
	I see no reporting.
	No one's doing anything on this.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I thought it was a funny story, too.
	All right, let's talk about Zika for a minute.
	I have a background, just to get us started, about what the World Health Organization is very concerned about this, and then I'll let you go.
	Yeah, that might help.
	Yeah, I think it's actually helpful.
	The World Health Organization has voiced its concern over reports that a case of the Zika virus contracted in the US state of Texas was transmitted sexually.
	As a Zika outbreak quickly spreads, health ministers from South America gathered in Uruguay to discuss how the region could coordinate its fight against the virus.
	Uruguay's health minister told reporters, studies by the region's health ministries confirm there is cause for concern.
	The Pan American Health Organization estimates there will be four million additional cases of infection from the Zika virus in the Americas region by the end of 2016.
	Brazil's health ministry said the number of suspected microcephaly cases in newborn babies that may be linked to Zika was up.
	A number of drug developers are trying to produce a vaccine to combat the virus, but experts say that would take months or even years to develop.
	Okay.
	Alright, so they're freaked out here and there.
	Florida, I guess, is the worst.
	Well, this happened in Texas, you know, so a guy had sex with someone and he had this Zika virus and now everyone's really worried here in Texas.
	Yeah, exactly how that came about.
	Well, this is the Ebola script, John.
	This is the same script that we saw for Ebola.
	Yeah, it's a similar script.
	My favorite, I forgot I had this extra clip.
	I don't think I see it on here.
	One guy, well play the Zika in Florida clip.
	It might be in there.
	Yeah, I got that.
	Syndrome, a type of progressive paralysis.
	In Brazil, the Rio Olympic Committee reassuring athletes they will be safe.
	But today, one of the world's most prominent ethicists is calling for Brazil to cancel the Olympics.
	There we go.
	Epidemic control at the same time.
	And Dr.
	Besser is with us again tonight from Brazil.
	And Rich, you're well aware of Florida declaring a health emergency now.
	And of course, the case in Dallas, person-to-person transmission after sex.
	So what are the warnings tonight for Americans when it comes to the Zika virus?
	Some are saying for additional prevention, men who've been to countries where Zika is transmitting can use protection for 28 days if their partners are pregnant or are trying to get pregnant.
	That will ensure that the virus does not transmit.
	Trying to get pregnant, you can use protection.
	You kind of missed the point of how that works.
	That's okay.
	That makes sense.
	So meanwhile, I go to the alternative networks, and I believe this was not, it wasn't RT, but it may have been Deutsche Covelle or somebody.
	And this is, again, somebody from the WHO, not the panic crazy Chinese lady, but one of the scientists, and he has a couple of things to say.
	Again, pretty much reiterating what I played on our last show at the end of the show.
	People should go back and listen to that.
	I think there's a different guy named Linda Meyer.
	I think the other guy was some other scientist.
	And there's a couple of zingers in here that you have to really pay careful attention to.
	Again, saying, we don't really know that Zika's got anything to do with any of this.
	I'm joined now by Christian Lindmeyer.
	He's a spokesman with the World Health Organization.
	Good evening to you, Mr.
	Lindmeyer.
	You just heard right there your boss saying that we have a global health emergency.
	What does that mean in concrete terms?
	That is right.
	And it wouldn't affect any of us in a concrete way on a daily life.
	It means that the combined effort now of the international community in terms of health research, in terms of science, should be focused on establishing the possible link between microcephaly and this neurological syndrome, namely Guillain-Barré, to Zika.
	Hold on a second.
	So there's a couple things in here.
	What was the actual small head defect called?
	What did he say that was called?
	Microcephaly?
	Microencephaly or something like that.
	And then he said...
	That's the thing.
	I keep hearing Guillain-Barre...
	That's what they're concerned about because it keeps showing up in these same areas where this small head syndrome is.
	But you know where Guillain-Barre mainly comes from.
	What induces that illness is vaccinations.
	My cousin has this.
	And he had a vaccination.
	Sorry?
	Continue to play.
	The possible link between microcephaly and this neurological syndrome, namely Guillain-Barré, To Zika, where are the roots of this disease?
	Why do we have this outbreak in Brazil right now with more than 4,000 cases of mycosephaly?
	Why do we not see it in other places yet?
	Is it Zika?
	Is it something else?
	What are the reasons for it?
	We have to be clear about that, too.
	It's still not proven that Zika is causing these birth defects, right?
	You're absolutely right.
	This is exactly why this call has been made to combine efforts of the international community to look into this.
	Because if we had a link, if we had a clear link in whatever way, we could work towards eliminating it or fighting it.
	But we know so little about this virus and so little about the links to the possible links to microcephaly that this needs to be established.
	There could be many other links or many other reasons for microcephaly in general.
	The list is long from From various factors, other infections, drugs, alcohol, vaccines even, dengue, chikungunya, or environmental factors.
	So it needs to be really pinned down what we are talking here about.
	Huh.
	What we are talking here about.
	Well, that's German for sure.
	That would be the Dutch version.
	What say you?
	So they have...
	What say you about this?
	They have no clue.
	And this Zika thing has got nothing to do with anything potentially.
	And there's something else going on, including vaccines.
	I like the fact that he dropped that in there casually as though everyone knew this.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, and Guillain-Barre disease has been traced to some vaccines too, yes.
	That's not something you want to get.
	No, it's horrible.
	My cousin still wears leg braces from this crap.
	Now, there's an organization called ATCC. I'm not quite sure what the acronym is for.
	The ATCC was established in 1925 when a committee of scientists recognized a need for a central collection of microorganisms That would serve scientists all over the world.
	The early years were spent at the McCormick Institute in Chicago until the organization moved to Georgetown University in D.C. in 1937.
	As research in biosciences expanded, ATCC began to diversify its holdings, and as the collections grew, ATCC occupied a series of sites, each providing more storage space.
	So this is a clearinghouse when you find a virus, then you register it, and I guess you also leave a sample with them.
	So I looked up Zika virus.
	Deposited in 1947.
	The source of the deposits, blood from an experimental forest sentinel rhesus monkey in Uganda.
	But here's the interesting thing.
	The depositor is a certain Jay Casals of the Rockefeller Foundation.
	Huh.
	You know, if I wanted to call some crap and I'm a Rockefeller...
	Hey!
	Hey, do we have anything on file?
	This reminds me of, so I go to the pharmacy, and every time I've been to the pharmacy, they say, would you like a flu shot?
	Yeah.
	So the last time I went, I said, you know, I keep saying I don't want a flu shot.
	I said, I'm not getting a flu shot.
	I'd just as soon use Tamiflu if I happen to get the flu, or I'll take a D3 megadose, and it tends to not give me.
	I never get the flu.
	I haven't had the flu for years.
	And the pharmacist says, I wouldn't get that shot.
	Exactly.
	I never get it.
	I never get it.
	No, of course not.
	That's what he said.
	That's what the pharmacist said.
	No, of course the pharmacist won't get it.
	The nurses don't get it either.
	Then they have to wear face masks for a while, whenever.
	I'm not getting that shot.
	So, they made a bunch of nurses get it during the swine flu fiasco, the flu that comes out of Mexico somehow.
	Yeah, this is all fishy.
	Yeah.
	Anything else before we...
	I got the Super Bowl...
	I got a funny Super Bowl security thing.
	I went and visited Super Bowl City.
	We'll talk about that after.
	Okay.
	There was kind of a nice little collaboration that happened online.
	Let's see.
	This came from...
	Sir Craig Allen tweeted something and then John Fletcher was inspired by it to create a jingle.
	I thought we'd share this.
	I want the whole song, please.
	That is fantastic.
	What did it say?
	My Sharia.
	Instead of my Sharona.
	Yeah, my Sharia.
	It's great.
	My Sharia.
	I'm going to show myself a little by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	We want a verse.
	At least maybe two.
	Yeah.
	It could be an end-of-show song about maybe, I don't know, two minutes.
	Yeah.
	It'd be great.
	Jeffrey Young in Upton, Massachusetts Nuts.
	We have to thank him for sending in $142.
	Tim Nutting also in Mukiliteo.
	Let me just interrupt you for one second, John.
	I also got a note, which would be in this area.
	We got a check from Sir Bernie Atema.
	One, two, three, four, five.
	Did you receive his...
	He sent a whole bunch of election stuff from Iowa and...
	No, I didn't get anything.
	Okay, so anyway, I have that and we thank Sir Bernie very much for that.
	Thank you.
	Checks going to John.
	Great.
	When did he send it to you in the first place?
	I don't know.
	It shouldn't be that way, but I want to make sure that we thanked him.
	I want to mention a couple of things like that since you brought it up.
	All righty.
	You know, we have people that keep sending me...
	Like, donations sent to my email address, john or jay at dvorak.org, or whatever, through PowerPay or PopPay.
	What are the kids using these days?
	Like, Vimo?
	Is that it?
	Vimo?
	It's a PayPal product.
	That millennials are using.
	Oh, it doesn't bother.
	I don't know.
	But please stop.
	Don't send us your help.
	I can't.
	I mean, yeah, I think there's a lot of people, I hate PayPal.
	Just send us a check.
	You have a post office box.
	You have a checking account, I'm sure.
	Venmo.
	Use PayPal or use the pay by electronic pay.
	It's called pay by electronic.
	I don't know.
	I'll put it in a newsletter.
	But there's all kinds of ways you can do it.
	There's all kinds of systems that result in us either getting a check or you can send a check or it goes through one of these or you can use your bank to send us a check.
	Which is what most people do who are looking for alternatives.
	But this pop pay and some of these corny things that are out there, they're inconvenient.
	They go into the wrong account.
	It's borderline illegal.
	It's just going to get us in trouble with the IRS if we start mixing accounts.
	It is one of the worst things you can do.
	They hate that.
	And if you start mixing accounts, they think you're like stealing money.
	Yeah, I just noticed Bernie wrote this check out to me, which means I have to write a check out to no agenda.
	It is a little complicated.
	You can send me the check and say, pay to the order of no agenda on the back.
	Oh, I'll do that.
	Oh, thank you.
	I didn't know I could do that.
	Cool.
	Yes.
	That's what's called a third-party check.
	And since you're in the same account, you're in the Mechanics Bank anyway, it's not going to be an issue.
	Okay.
	But again, it's still borderline mixing accounts.
	It's not as though, I mean, we look at all this stuff.
	We've looked at all the alternative systems, and we've stuck with PayPal for a reason.
	The alternative systems are no good.
	They have all kinds of issues.
	If you think PayPal's got kind of picky issues, they don't compare.
	To some of these newbies out there.
	Until we see something that works nicely, we're sticking with what we're doing.
	But again, checks are great.
	The Apple guys were like, hey, can we get you to use Apple Pay?
	And I said, how does that work?
	Do you just tap your phone on itself?
	How would we use Apple Pay?
	Apple Pay is the near-field communication.
	Yeah, it's a thing you have to tap somewhere.
	I know.
	I didn't quite understand why he suggested that.
	I don't know.
	I think they don't listen to the show as much as they should.
	No.
	Anyway, so that's just a message.
	Somebody named Jennifer, and there's two or three of these things, and then they hound you.
	How come you didn't take the money?
	Not the donors, the Jennifers of the world.
	It's the company, the PopPay or whatever it is.
	They just inundate you with mail.
	Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up.
	Take the money.
	So it's a pain in the ass.
	And it's sketchy.
	And you don't want to say anything negative about PayPal because Elon will turn your account off.
	Well, Elon's got nothing to do with PayPal anymore, but that's a funny story, though.
	About Alsop?
	Yeah, Alsop.
	I love that.
	He's a complainer.
	Yeah, but I have news for Elon.
	I don't know how it is in South Africa, but in America, the customer's always right.
	Yeah, he doesn't get that part.
	No, he doesn't.
	He doesn't.
	He's not a customer's always right kind of guy.
	No.
	Especially since we're paying for it as taxpayers.
	Yes, it's true.
	Just a small side note.
	Anyway, I want to thank Tim.
	Jay Anonymous came in from Tigard, Oregon.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	Mason Berryman in Marietta, Georgia.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	And Trevor Merkin in Bubbery.
	France, he got a note to you, he says.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	Trevor, yes.
	Hold on a second.
	There was something from Trevor.
	Hold on.
	This is one of the things I believe we sent.
	Here we go.
	Donation note.
	Here we go.
	Adam, I'm not sure if it'll go through.
	Dear Messieurs Smith and Munt, an unappreciative and uninformed public allowed the demise of your act.
	I'm giving this donation to Messieurs Dvorak and Curry for their steadfast work in the field of anti-propaganda and in the hope that their act will not suffer a similar fate.
	Sincerely, Trevor Merkin.
	Who's he referring to?
	Somebody that shut him off the air?
	Mr.
	Smith and Munt, the Smith-Munt Act, which was overturned.
	Yes.
	I get it.
	Now you're talking.
	All right, onward.
	Trevor Merkin, Damien Taman in Perth, Australia, $111.11.
	Andrei Kelka in the Czech Republic.
	He says, show must be sustained.
	My contribution here.
	We have a number of Czech Republic listeners.
	Hobby Hunter in Bismarck, North Dakota, $100.01.
	Keith Jacobs, $100 from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
	Matthew Kelch in Littlestown, Pennsylvania, $100.
	Daniel Armstrong in Schweitzingen, Deutschland.
	Another German who could help us in my thesis about the Russians and the Germans.
	Anonymous in San Jose, California.
	Lynn Fogwell in Raleigh, North Carolina.
	That's 100.
	John, so is Anonymous.
	John Knowles in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, which is also where Coble, our Knight Coble is.
	Patrick Coble.
	That's for Paul Baldwin in Willamette.
	Willamette.
	No, it's Willamette.
	Willamette.
	Is it Willamette?
	That's where I got my license, my pilot's license, how I know it's Willamette.
	In Illinois?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I thought it was Oregon.
	No, this didn't.
	I'm wrong.
	Willamette?
	It just says Willamette.
	Sorry.
	So that's probably where he's from.
	He says he's in Chicago.
	I take it back.
	So it's Paul Baldwin in Chicago.
	Ah, there you go.
	You got Christopher...
	That's 99.99.
	Christopher Peterson, Portland, Oregon.
	88.88.
	Seven threes and 88s.
	Andrew Carlson in St.
	Paul, Minnesota.
	Okay.
	Let's see if he has something to say that's kind of interesting.
	Ken Burchill in Ottawa, Ontario, 80.
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	That's right, November Charlie 4 Alpha Golf, 7 threes from Kilo Fox 5, Sierra Leone, November.
	Ditto.
	Sir Arthur Gobitz in Zandam, Netherlands.
	6969.
	Sir Kevin McLaughlin in Locust, North Carolina.
	6969.
	Ignacio Garcia Perez in Bilbao.
	I thought he was in Madrid.
	We need more Spaniards.
	6666.
	Jeremy Webb in Inverness, Florida.
	55.60.
	Which, hold on, that is the NATO bullet caliber 5.56.
	Oh, cool.
	Interesting donation, 55.60.
	That's very good, 55.60.
	Captain Dodo in Vero Beach, Florida, 55.55.
	Daniel Rudin in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 55.10.
	Double nickels on the dime from Robert T. McNamara.
	Can I stop you for one second?
	Just for one second.
	Captain Dodo, important note, I'm a Florida-based boat captain, have been walking the same dock since the late 70s.
	I am happy to report my feet are still dry.
	What?
	However, due to the future prospects of climate change, I'm looking forward to marlin fishing on Collins Avenue.
	It will save a ton of fuel not having to run so far offshore.
	Excellent.
	Well, that's not the reports we've been hearing.
	There's fish flopping on the streets of Miami, baby.
	They're flopping.
	They're flopping on the streets of Miami.
	Daniel Rudin in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 55-10.
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	Stephen or Stephen Whalen in Milford, Michigan.
	Milford!
	5510.
	He has a douchebag call-out.
	Oh, so he does.
	Stephen Wallen says, you guys are great, please call out Jeff.
	Douchebags.
	And John.
	Douchebags.
	He has douchebags.
	Those douchebags.
	John Gaynor in Eldie, Virginia, 5280.
	Sir Sluff, 5280.
	$50.27.
	And the rest of these are $50 donors, and I will read them in order that they're presented.
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	Uh, Albany, Oregon.
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	Schellekens.
	Schellekens.
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	Victoria, Australia.
	Stephan Bory in Adelaide, Australia.
	And as we wrap up with Andrew Randazzo in Staten Island.
	Brian Edelin in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
	Shane Rozdilski.
	Sir Shane, if I'm not mistaken.
	Definitely.
	I could be wrong.
	It's Sir Shane.
	In Saskatoon.
	Kasper Rettvig in Oak Ridge, North Carolina.
	Anonymous lesbian.
	Parts unknown.
	I don't know where she is.
	Johan Peters in Lear, Belgium.
	Johan Peters.
	Johan Peters.
	Right.
	Sorry.
	I knew that.
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	That concludes our $50 donors and all the ones above that and everyone in between.
	I want to thank them all for supporting show 796 and...
	I'm glad that we got our numbers back up where they belong.
	Yes, a good way to start off February.
	Yes, February's off to a growing start, hopefully.
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	Highly appreciate your support of the program.
	If you don't have a monthly or something on a more regular basis, always good to put that in there to help continue the production of this program.
	That's what you are, your producers.
	Thank you very much.
	We have a show coming up on Sunday, and we need all the help we can get, as usual.
	Dvorak.org.
	Hold on a second.
	I have...
	Wow, there's a big list of stuff here.
	A ton of birthdays.
	We've got lots of nights.
	We've got a couple of dames.
	So when we get to the birthdays.
	We got Sir Silent Night sent me a note just before the program.
	He wants a birthday call out for his daughter Lauren.
	He's been trying to hit her in the mouth, but it's had limited effects.
	So he says, please say happy birthday to her from me, Sir Silent Knight.
	Then we say happy birthday to Miley Riley, who celebrated on the 1st of February for Marv Santiala.
	Doug Kuhlman turns 69 on the 2nd of February.
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	Shannon Goads is happy birthday to her husband, Denny, who will turn 40 in Big 4-0 on February 8th.
	And finally, Maurice Fallon turns 34 on February 11th.
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	Is it Dame Sarah?
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	Okay, Dame.
	Hold on.
	Dame.
	And they're celebrating their wedding anniversary tomorrow.
	Congratulations from us.
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	We need Sarah Harris on the podium.
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	I miss the cirrhosis.
	Oh God, I miss that too.
	That's quite good actually.
	Cirrhosis.
	That's quite good.
	I received a lot of email about our last show, John.
	A lot.
	About the HTTPS everywhere.
	Oh yeah, you did get a lot.
	I saw some of it.
	Yeah.
	So I spent a lot of time yesterday.
	I actually had lunch with Sir Gene.
	I think it was based on your thesis that with HTTPS it's easier to do something about ad blocking and there's no proof of that.
	There's no evidence of that.
	But I... I had lunch with Sir Gene.
	He's, you know, for the kind of the intelligence angle, let's put it that way.
	And I spoke with Voice Zero, our 12-inch rack night.
	A couple hours yesterday about the technical side of it and really trying to figure out why Google is doing this.
	Because it's one thing we know for sure, they are forcing by shame people to upgrade to HTTPS, which seems kind of strange because I don't really have anything on our websites and there is a cost to it.
	So, I kind of took the approach which I'm liking more and more.
	I took a real Occam's Razor approach.
	And actually, it was something you had written in PC Magazine that kind of got me on this track.
	It is ultimately about advertising.
	And I think what's happening is, but first of all, it's EFF and Google, and every techie I know, very hard to talk to them about the business side of it, because they're all like, this is the way it should be, this is great, we need to encrypt anywhere, although void zero says DNS exists.
	Secure DNS, DNSSEC is actually the way to go, so you don't have to deal with third-party certificate authorities, and there's a whole bunch of things that can go wrong, pinning certificates.
	There are a whole million reasons why this could go horribly wrong.
	I think what's happening is, and of course we have the Mozilla Foundation, and people identified that correctly.
	Google used to give them hundreds of millions of dollars to have Google as the default search.
	They switched to Yahoo in 2014, and And I have a feeling there's some buyer's remorse on the Mozilla Foundation's part.
	Because Yahoo could be, I don't know, out of business by the end of the year.
	It could be gone.
	So they're probably thinking, oh crap, what do we do?
	And so Google brought them in maybe under, in my theory at least it makes sense.
	And here's what I think is happening.
	They want to make their environment, which for all intents and purposes is the open web and Android.
	They want to have advertisers but also users alike to feel that they're safe.
	This is a complete branding exercise.
	You're safe with us.
	Come to us.
	And I believe the reason is...
	The minute Facebook launches their browser, which they may not launch a whole separate browser right away.
	I think their app will have...
	They're already beta testing the browser that pops up in their app.
	And instead of it being the standard kind of web kit that you can access, they have their own browser.
	And what is going to happen is they will be able to combine search, which I think they're going to take from Bing.
	They're already using some of those Bing results.
	They'll take the Bing search results.
	Then they flow some of their knowledge about people on top of it.
	And I'll explain how an example would be.
	I'm in, I'm on Facebook where I am all day.
	Cause that's what most people are.
	We're not That's the internet.
	I'm on Facebook.
	And I want to search for a present for Tina.
	And so I'll type in, you know, I'm looking for maybe, let's say a bag.
	I'll just say a bag.
	And then the search results would come back with everything that Bing would find.
	And in addition, it would have a little separate thing on the side that says, oh, you know, you're looking for a bag.
	Tina liked this bag earlier.
	Do you see how powerful that would be for Facebook?
	And Facebook, in a strange way, is going to create this all-encompassing, all-safe, safe space, no nipples, no side boob, and the best search.
	Why go anywhere else?
	It's kind of AOL in reverse.
	Well, they've been threatening this for a number of years to the point, this is why Google, of course, started Google+.
	Which failed.
	Because they were fearful that these guys were going to...
	And, of course, they don't know anything about that mechanism.
	I mean...
	Zuckerberg is like some sort of a weirdo in the fact that he is Facebook.
	He knows what it's all about.
	He's got a clue.
	He's very smart about Facebook.
	He's not necessarily smart about anything else, but he just really knows what he's doing.
	And the Google guys are all pretty asocial.
	They don't know what they're doing.
	They put a social network together.
	They don't understand how the mechanism works, and they can't hire Zuckerberg.
	I don't know why they didn't get in bed with Facebook earlier, but...
	Well, they have in a way.
	Maybe there's a deal that we don't know about because it was only several months ago that Facebook allowed Google to index Facebook.
	So we have that side of it.
	You know, what are they really indexing?
	I don't know if it's all that...
	I have no idea.
	I don't know if it's all that valuable.
	But Facebook could put their browser into, you know, WhatsApp.
	They can put it in, you know, so you click on a link in WhatsApp, this new beautiful browser will open up and it'll have enhanced search results.
	And so we have no...
	This new beautiful browser, we have no clue.
	There are beta test reports coming in.
	And they've all said it's beautiful?
	Yeah.
	It's very loaded.
	Yeah.
	And it's mixing web search results with results from people in your circle, your friends on Facebook.
	It's kind of sickening, but okay.
	It seems like, you know, I think Google is very worried.
	They should be very worried.
	Yeah, of course.
	And this push is to get, you know, it's safe.
	It's all safe.
	We're safe.
	Your ads are safe.
	Everything's safe.
	You can be with us.
	It's okay.
	You're safe.
	You're safe in Android.
	You're safe, safe, safe, safe, safe.
	And I think they will lose.
	You think Google's going to lose?
	If Facebook launches their in-browser, and eventually a standalone browser, I'm sure, that has these types of results, yeah.
	I think search engine, you know, search advertising, that's the business.
	They will lose some of their market share.
	It could be a significant amount.
	So they need to be the default in the browsers, which I think is why they brought Mozilla back in.
	Just because they went away doesn't mean that they won't come back and take money from Google.
	Well, I like the theory.
	And the social engineering of it is great.
	I personally don't think it's going to happen the way you portray it because I just can't see.
	Tell me what you think.
	Well, first of all, doing a browser that actually works well and it's effective and it plays videos and does all the things it's supposed to do and it renders correctly and it doesn't screw.
	It's not constantly tracking you with a bunch of millions of cookies that you don't need.
	Whether it works on a proxy, whether it works out of the country, whether it works on a VPN. There's all these elements that at this point it's a non-trivial thing.
	I agree it's non-trivial.
	But the reason why Google really wants you using Chrome is for all this stuff it does in the background.
	It's syncing your contacts.
	It's doing all this additional stuff.
	Yeah, it does all that stuff.
	I still don't use it.
	And people like it because it's very fast, and there's still huge trust for Google.
	There's a lot of trust.
	I don't use it.
	I'm using Safari right now.
	The new Safari is kicking ass.
	I still use Firefox.
	Opera?
	I've used Opera on and off, but there's something about Opera I don't like.
	I don't like it either.
	I can't put my finger on it.
	I have to go back and use it so I can...
	So besides the obvious that once everybody is encrypted and you only have a couple of certificates that are...
	This is the big problem is this third party.
	Obviously, if you crack one root cert, which has happened in the Netherlands, this does happen, then it would be very easy for people to snoop on a lot of people.
	But also...
	Google could say, you know what, we're not going to put your cert into our browser, or we'll block that.
	So there's a lot of...
	The browser is very, very important to Google.
	And yes, the reason why people adopted Chrome is because Firefox was going through a period of real wonkiness and breaking and crashing, and they came out with a super fast browser.
	I think all these browsers have this problem to an extent.
	Mm-hmm.
	Which is blocking a site with a guy, a policeman, holding his hand up.
	Oh, a site's not safe.
	Yeah, that's what they're going to do if you don't have HTTPS. You'll get a red X. But what is Facebook going to do?
	They're going to be worse.
	No, worse with what?
	Worse with stopping you from going to sites because they're not approved.
	I mean, look what they do with their own content.
	They kick people off of Facebook.
	They don't let you show a side tit, you know, whatever you call it.
	Side boob.
	Side boob.
	It's all this stuff they do.
	It's just a horrible operation in that regard, and the browser's going to have to reflect that.
	It may.
	But most importantly, search.
	Most importantly, search.
	We'll see.
	Well...
	And then I did have one other quick update from Iris.
	I was on a roll with Void Zero.
	It's his partner.
	They have their little human resource, Steven.
	And she is a muckety-muck man in psychiatry.
	She's about to do her PhD, actually.
	And she'll be a full-blown practicing psychiatrist by 2017.
	And she heard my...
	My question, my query about kids being told they have autism through a, and I said incorrectly, a CAT scan.
	She said, no, CAT scan, definitely not.
	An fMRI.
	I thought there was reference to CAT scans.
	Well, I think I made a mistake.
	I think I heard CAT scan, but it was probably fMRI.
	But there's nothing about CAT scans and autism.
	Nothing, nothing, nothing.
	Okay.
	When it comes to fMRI, there have been three studies so far, all with men, I might point out.
	So they have not even studied this with women.
	So it's interesting that two millennials that I know have been told due to an MRI that That they have autism.
	In these three separate studies, one with 13 men, one with 22 men, one with 30 men, that's all she could find right now.
	So this is not a huge sample.
	What they found is that if they took people who were diagnosed with autism, there's also one study with diagnosis of Asperger's, but typically ASD, the autism spectrum disorder, Yes, if you took half of the people who were not diagnosed and took half who were diagnosed,
	the people who were diagnosed had statistically significant differences.
	between the non-diagnosed which means they're different but it doesn't prove anything and in all the studies they are very clear to say there is no proof there are no studies that show that you can actually determine someone has autism spectrum disorder based upon an MRI and if someone is telling you or your kid That it's proof you have maybe your ADHD
	or you have autism or whatever it is.
	And I also checked for binge eating disorder and for depression.
	There are no...
	Nothing is in practice officially that has been approved for this diagnosis.
	Okay.
	So if that is being said, you are being hoodwinked.
	Probably.
	I thought that was pretty important.
	To get that out.
	Well, it's like being hoodwinked.
	It's like this story...
	Play this story on...
	I think it says...
	It says Jillian, but it's G-I-L-E-A, and this story that's been floating around, which is extremely annoying, just part of the whole system of corruption in the medical arena.
	Well, today, Congress investigated why veterans are being denied a cure for a deadly form of hepatitis.
	In a CBS News investigation, we told you that the cure was developed by a doctor working for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
	The doctor got rich, but at $1,000 a pill, the VA can't afford it.
	Here's Chip Reid.
	If I were you, I would be outraged.
	Certainly the taxpayers should be outraged.
	Much of the anger at today's hearing was directed at someone who wasn't even in the room.
	Dr.
	Raymond Shanazi, who played a leading role developing a drug that cures Hepatitis C. When he sold his company to pharmaceutical giant Gilead in 2012, he made over $400 million.
	And he did it all while working seven-eighths of his time for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
	So not full-time, but what I do with my remaining time is up to me.
	We first met Dr.
	Shanazi in December.
	Has anybody ever questioned the arrangement that you have that allows you to become very wealthy while working seven-eighths of your time with the government?
	Nobody's ever questioned yet.
	That changed today as members, including Tim Hulskamp, grilled David Shulkin, the VA's undersecretary for health.
	But he just sold a company for $400 million.
	Did anybody know about that?
	I'm not aware of who knew what three or four years ago.
	Congressman Mike Kaufman wanted to know why Shinazi got rich, but the VA got nothing for a drug that one of its own doctors helped develop.
	Is it bureaucratic incompetence or is it corruption or is it a combination of the two?
	This wasted resource is why this nation is unable to take care of the men and women who have served this country in uniform.
	Others were upset that Shanazi wasn't here to be questioned.
	The VA says Shanazi retired just two days ago.
	The person that's responsible always seems to retire just before the investigation starts.
	Yeah.
	They also had that douchebag on.
	I didn't clip it.
	I haven't seen the whole thing yet.
	They had the Skirilli, whatever his name is.
	He was also testifying, I believe.
	Maybe.
	Yeah.
	I thought the guy was arrested in jail.
	So what's your take on this?
	I think there's just the tip of the eye.
	This is the way the whole system is operating right now.
	And it's part of the Obamacare scam that is allowing these...
	Because they mentioned around at the beginning $1,000 a pill for a cure for hepatitis C, which is a really nasty thing to get.
	It's a cure.
	Yeah, it's a cure.
	And it's a cure.
	Tommy Lee has jacked the prices up, so it's like, well, what is your life worth to you?
	$1,000 a pill?
	A quarter of a million a year?
	What?
	What's your life worth?
	They tested this on Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson who both had hepatitis C and they're cured.
	So it does work.
	Yeah.
	But yeah, you'd think there would be, for a real cure, there should be, should there be different rules and regulations?
	Is there a humanitarian aspect or do we stay our...
	There's a huge humanitarian aspect of the whole thing.
	The entire industry.
	But it's been, no, no.
	What can we get for that pill?
	Oh, the guy's going to die?
	Oh, let's jack up the price.
	If you haven't seen some of these CEOs of some of these drug companies, they all look and act like gangsters.
	I think it's been taken over by a bunch of criminals.
	Yeah, you think?
	I mean, look at what they're doing with lying to children to get them on drugs.
	Yeah, there you go.
	And the whole thing is like this.
	Almost like the pharmacist who says, well, he says to me, you know, we're told to push the flu vaccine hard.
	I never take it.
	Push it hard.
	I never take it.
	Yeah.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	Going to my beat?
	My beat?
	Okay.
	What is your beat?
	Your beat is The View and CNN. That's right.
	I got The View.
	And the last time I played a whoopee clip, it wasn't too bad, and I gotta say, she's making sense.
	I might have to check myself in.
	You know, I went from being colored, to being a negro, to being black, to being African-American.
	So I just figured I would land on America.
	And you know what?
	Save your tweets!
	Save your tweets, because here's the deal.
	Here's the deal.
	You know, people get all up in arms.
	You know, I know I'm black.
	I've been black from the moment I was born.
	I'm very clear about it.
	But while they're very upset, they say, you just don't want to be black.
	No, it's not something you can change.
	I am black.
	I, as an American, you don't really call lots of white folks white Americans.
	You don't call them that.
	You don't call them Italian-Americans.
	You don't do that.
	We still do it.
	Some people do Italian-Americans.
	Some people do it, but it's not how you're addressed.
	No.
	I don't address you as an Italian-American.
	No.
	I don't.
	I mean, I'm half Lebanese.
	I don't necessarily consider myself an Arab-American.
	I'm an American, but I have Arab roots.
	I'm the same way.
	And every time you put, you hyphenate American.
	Any time you put something in front of it, it's like you're not a real American.
	Well, I'm a whole lot of all American.
	This is my country.
	And save your tweets and save your hate mail because you know, in this case, I don't care.
	So I should just call you black?
	You should just call me Whoopi.
	Get out of my vagina!
	I like it.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Whoopi.
	Finally.
	Call me Whoopi.
	I like it.
	I like it.
	I should call you just black.
	It was the tweeters that got into her.
	Of course.
	A lot of people really get worked up by what the tweeters do.
	Oh, God.
	And then there was a fun little equalizer on the hill.
	There was a big conversation.
	We had Senator McCaskill talking to the senior military leaders.
	This is the Armed Services Committee, Senatorial Committee.
	And the question was, should women be forced to register for the draft?
	Which is something...
	Yeah, this is...
	This came up on the debate...
	Oh, yeah?
	What happened?
	What did they say about it?
	No, it was some convoluted yak-yak-yak.
	I have no idea what they said.
	Okay.
	Let's find out what our military leaders think of this.
	Asking women to register, as we ask men to register, would maybe possibly open up more recruits.
	As women began to think about, well, the military is an option for me.
	And if you would, briefly go down the line and give me your sense as to whether or not Congress should look at requiring selective service registration for all Americans.
	Senator, it's my personal view that, based on this lifting of restrictions for assignment to unit MOS, that every American who's physically qualified should register for the draft.
	Secretary Mavis?
	Senator, I think this, you very correctly pointed out, this needs to be looked at as part of a national debate, given the changed circumstances.
	The one thing you did say that's not selective service related, but that we do believe that this will open up recruiting, that more women will be interested in, I'll just talk about the Marines, in the Marines because these blast restrictions have been removed.
	Secretary Murphy?
	Senator, I believe that, yes, it should be a national debate, and I encourage the legislature to look at that.
	I would say that, unlike the decision in 1981, where we're now in the longest war in American history, over the last almost 15 years, that we've had over 1,000 women killed or injured in combat.
	Oh, good start.
	Let's get some more in there.
	Now, with this implementation, if you can meet the standard, you're on the team no matter what MOS it is.
	So I highly encourage that national debate, ma'am.
	You would encourage what?
	Now, this is interesting.
	McCain jumped.
	Everyone's saying we should have a national debate, national debate, national debate.
	And this guy says we should have a national debate.
	And then McCain calls him on it for some reason.
	But MLS it is.
	So I highly encourage that national debate, ma'am.
	You would encourage what?
	The debate.
	The national debate, Mr.
	Chairman.
	You asked for your opinion, Mr.
	Secretary.
	Yes.
	He had some bug up his ass.
	McCain, I guess they agreed he would say yes or something.
	I don't know.
	McCain, very strangely jumped in on that.
	Yes.
	General, finally.
	Senator, I think that all eligible and qualified men and women should register for the draft.
	Well, I do too.
	Me too.
	Great.
	Kill all women.
	We already have a thousand dead.
	Good start.
	Woo!
	I think I have an end-of-show clip.
	It's reasonably short.
	By the way, this is one of the things that was going to be debated eventually, and it was Laura's reason that a lot of people don't realize is that the Equal Rights Amendment has never been passed.
	That's correct.
	And Phyllis Schlafly is probably one of the people that submarined it.
	And this is one element of her complaints about the Equal Rights Amendment not really being equal.
	They're anti-woman.
	And I think this is too.
	I mean, I don't want to sound old-fashioned, but I don't get why the people who reproduce the human race to be into these wars, if the culture is not really amenable to it.
	I mean, yeah, sure, there are some cultures in the past that have women dominated everything and they were the soldiers, but if you haven't noticed, those cultures are all dead.
	It does seem to have a bad ending from time to time.
	Getting them in there.
	Anyway.
	I was saying that I have an, I think, an appropriate end of show clip.
	Two minutes.
	John Cleese on political correctness.
	I could play it now.
	I could play it now.
	What do you want to do if you want to do?
	Have you seen this?
	I thought we agreed we weren't going to do those.
	And to show clips.
	Because we're doing too many of them at one point.
	Then why don't I save it for Sunday and I'll play it on Sunday.
	You can save it for Sunday, but I want to play it during the show.
	Yeah, I'll play it during the show on Sunday.
	Good deal.
	Okay.
	Then we can talk about it.
	You got anything?
	Anything?
	Now we have the...
	What do we got?
	What do we got?
	Where are we at?
	Well, we got a Super Bowl coming up.
	We got to pay attention to that.
	I do have a Super Bowl clip, but instead of that, I'll save that to Sunday because that's Sunday's Super Bowl.
	Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
	We got Google and the EU and a little commentary by Snowden.
	This doesn't get much play.
	European officials have unveiled a deal with the United States to allow corporations, including Google and Amazon, to continue moving user data back and forth overseas.
	The so-called EU-US privacy shield comes after the European Court of Justice struck down a prior agreement following revelations of US mass surveillance from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
	The deal includes written US assurances that intelligence agencies will not have indiscriminate access to European user data.
	Snowden was among those to criticize the new PAC, tweeting, quote, it's not a privacy shield, it's an accountability shield, he tweeted.
	Well, that kind of makes sense with some...
	I didn't clip it, but there's a story about Microsoft testing underwater data centers?
	Yeah.
	So here's what I would do if I was in Europe and I had these issues.
	I'd just take it 12 miles offshore, drop the data center down, and then your problems are solved.
	Yeah, this submergible data center is kind of interesting.
	It seems like...
	Yeah, it would solve a lot of problems, but, I mean, the initial problem it's supposed to solve is cooling.
	Yes.
	But, and then they said, and then I was reading this story, too, and they made some offhanded remark that, well, you know, the concern is, you know, if you have failures within the data center, what are you going to do?
	Well, that's been resolved years ago.
	That was Google's original design, where if you have a server that fails the...
	Microsoft.com slash jobs.
	Looking for dude named Ben with wetsuit.
	The idea is that you don't care.
	You just let the thing be dead in there.
	You just reroute around it as though it was a bad sector on a hard disk.
	Yeah, there you go.
	That's the idea.
	You never use the dead servers that are in there.
	You just leave them in there dead.
	You don't even take them out.
	And that was a Google idea when they first started up.
	And that's, as far as I know, is the way they still do it.
	A blade goes out.
	Boom.
	You just ride around.
	You go just bypass it.
	All right.
	I think that's it.
	Yeah, we'll talk about Super Bowl on Sunday.
	Super Bowl.
	Is there something?
	And I'll talk about my visit to Super Bowl City.
	When was this?
	I went there on Monday.
	It's last Monday.
	I went to Super Bowl City.
	It's just a joke.
	I wrote up a column that PCMag should be running today or tomorrow.
	Okay.
	Or should have run yesterday, I think.
	Excellent.
	And cops.
	Just millions of cops.
	Guardian nothing.
	That will be coming up on Sunday along with the rest of the deconstruction of everything that is going on in your life, our life, everyone's life in Gitmo Nation.
	We are your guardians of reality and appreciate you for the support.
	Remember, we do have that show coming up on Sunday.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. And you can even try slash index.htm.
	Ha, ha, ha, ha.
	Actually, you could.
	I'm sure it'll work.
	No, it won't, because actually the index...
	Index dot.
	ASP. There you go.
	You're chiding me for using HTML. I am.
	I am.
	I am a little bit.
	Instead of HTML. I am, for sure.
	Bye.
	Bye.
	Thank you very much.
	Alright.
	Yeah, pretty good.
	Better on Sunday.
	We go for better every single day.
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	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where I'm a two-gong family, I'm John C. Devorak.
	We will return on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	Adios, mofos.
	Sucking in soot. Sucking in soot. Sucking in soot. Sucking
	in soot. Sucking in soot. Sucking in soot. Sucking in soot.
	Sucking in soot. Sucking in soot.
	You might die.
	In law... In law... In law... In law...
	We're not going to chill.
	In fact, it's time to drill, baby, drill down.
	And hold these folks accountable.
	Drill, drill, drill, drill.
	Drill, drill, drill, drill, drill.
	Suck it in soot.
	Burning in my chest.
	Suck it in soot.
	Burning in my chest.
	Drill, drill, drill, drill.
	Suck it in soot.
	Sucking in soot.
	Burning in my chest.
	Sucking in soot.
	They have a clue that I just fundamentally disagree with about what the way we have to keep the balance of power in our society is.
	We need to have a conversation in our country.
	Please clap.
	I hope you will go.
	I hope you will stand up for me.
	I hope you will fight for me.
	And then when we win, I will fight for you in the White House.
	Thank you and God bless you.
	Adios, mofo.
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