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	Uh, honey, can you get the Viagra vape?
	I'm ready.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, February 14th, 2016.
	Time once again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 7, Niner Niner!
	This is No Agenda.
	Agenda.
	Un-effing the completely effed up 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 I have my Altoids, which are curiously strong, I'm John C. DeVore.
	And we start off with a native ad.
	Good work.
	You know exactly that's what someone's going to say.
	How much of those guys from Altoids do you?
	Yeah, you got a lot of money from the Altoid people.
	You can send me a case of Altoids would be good.
	Yeah, I'd do it for that.
	Oh, yes.
	Happy Valentine's Day, John.
	Happy Valentine's Day to you.
	Is it Valentine or Valentine's?
	It's actually Valentine's with apostrophe S. It is Valentine's Day.
	Okay, I got it.
	Yeah, confusing, man.
	I don't know what to do with this day.
	Well, give somebody a box of candies.
	Oh, no, no, I'm talking about on the face bag, you know.
	Oh, on face bag?
	Yeah, if your girlfriend posts a picture and says, you know, here's my love and happy Valentine's Day, what do you do?
	Now, do I have to now go find a cool looking picture and say...
	Here's what I would get.
	Some tips.
	Tips.
	Go find a gif of a throbbing heart.
	Throbbing heart.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	All right.
	All right.
	And then what?
	It's going to be throbbing and everyone who sees it will see the throbbing and then put ditto under it.
	Good one, John.
	Ditto.
	I think that's in the player's hand guide, actually.
	Yeah.
	Say ditto.
	Exactly.
	Love and light this morning going out to the team at Stitcher.
	Did you hear about this?
	No.
	Stitcher is a pretty big podcast app.
	And they have an interesting business model where they insert ads before, I think, and after.
	Or if you pause a show, then when you unpause it, an ad will play.
	Anyway, they got a lot of shows on there.
	A lot of people are using their system.
	A lot of people listen to No Agenda show through there as well.
	And they had some catastrophic event take place on Thursday.
	And they're still not up.
	I haven't checked this morning, actually.
	Yeah, that's bad news.
	Well, I had a big problem with MailChimp.
	Yeah, and now, I'm a little confused about this.
	Um...
	You sent out the newsletter, which I received, and then you sent out an emergency newsletter, which was all text.
	No, it wasn't a newsletter, it was a notice.
	No, emergency notice, all text.
	I guess you somehow thought, or maybe you had evidence that we were getting caught in spam, or something didn't work, or why don't you tell us?
	It's definitely a MailChimp problem.
	Here's what happened.
	So I do the newsletter, and I send it to myself.
	I always do a test, so I read it, you know, and...
	You can find a lot of typos that way.
	And I didn't get it.
	Okay, well then I sent myself another test.
	Changed it to subject line.
	Maybe it's a subject line.
	And I don't know why I didn't get it, because it wasn't in my spam box either.
	And I didn't get it again.
	And then the deadline was coming up, so I said, well, I'll just ship it out.
	So I shipped it out, and I noticed some people got it.
	I didn't get it again.
	Hmm.
	And so then I sent out this little notice, and I got, like, there's one guy who sent me a note saying, in fact, I got probably hundreds of people that said, I didn't get the newsletter, I got this, I didn't get the newsletter.
	And they're from all sorts.
	Gmail got the newsletter.
	Gmail didn't get the newsletter.
	Yahoo Mail got the newsletter.
	Yahoo Mail didn't get the newsletter.
	But it wasn't in spam for these people.
	It was just gone.
	It never showed up.
	And the kicker was one guy, he says the following, I run my own email server.
	Yeah, me too.
	I run no filters whatsoever.
	And he didn't get it.
	And he didn't get it.
	Huh.
	Now that tells me it's an ISP level problem or it is a MailChimp problem.
	They're not sending out the whole group of email.
	And have you opened a ticket?
	I sent a letter into my last contact.
	You've got to open a ticket.
	You have to open a ticket.
	Don't you know how that works?
	I'm definitely opening a ticket on this.
	I want to know why.
	In subversion.
	You have to open a ticket in subversion.
	Don't you know how it works?
	I don't know what that even means.
	But all I know is that A lot of people didn't get it, and I'm assuming this is happening more often.
	More often, yeah.
	I thought reviewing it, looking at the original newsletter, I thought maybe it was getting trapped in spam because there was a number of times you said, you know, offer.
	I think, didn't even the subject line have the word offer in it?
	I don't know that it did.
	I don't think that was it.
	It wasn't trapped in spam.
	Nobody found it in spam.
	At least all the notes I've looked at, there's been too many to look at all of them so far, but I'm going to save all the addresses so they can check the addresses.
	Nobody said, oh, I found it in spam.
	No, they said they didn't get it.
	Okay.
	And it wasn't in my spam either.
	I'm sure you'll figure it out.
	No, I'm not going to figure it out.
	MailChimp will figure it out when they'll close the ticket eventually.
	The ticket.
	Open a ticket.
	Pretty interesting.
	Pretty interesting day yesterday.
	Let me guess, you're going to discuss the slam dunk competition that went on forever?
	Let me think.
	No, that's not what I was going to discuss.
	Actually, there was a thing going on at the Ronald McDonald House, and there were like 150 bears that people made to give to the kids and the families who were there.
	So Tina and I were there.
	And they had KVUE. They got the media alert, and they came and filmed.
	You always want to have that.
	It's always good.
	And all of a sudden, this guy's like, yeah, I got to go.
	And he was just one guy.
	These days, when local media covers something, it's one guy.
	One guy, he's got the tripod.
	He's, you know, he's got a microphone.
	He sets himself up in front of the camera.
	And this is a, what is KV? It was at the CBS station here.
	He said, oh, I got a phone call.
	I got to go.
	Yeah, breaking news, breaking news.
	And I'm like, and I'm looking online.
	What could this be?
	Couldn't figure it out.
	You know?
	And then a couple hours later, and then we figured it out.
	We knew what had happened.
	He was probably on his way to Marfa.
	Of all places to die, He's on his way to Marfa?
	Yeah, Marfa.
	That's where...
	Is that where Scalia was?
	Yes!
	He's in Marfa?
	Well, he's not in Marfa anymore.
	That's what I'm saying.
	I didn't know he...
	Yeah, it was in Marfa.
	This ranch...
	Where the Marfa lights are.
	South of it, yeah.
	But this ranch is kind of interesting.
	So we're talking about one of the Supreme Court justices in the United States of Gitmo Nation.
	Yeah, one of the more outspoken...
	Well, not just outspoken, but he was heralded as the bastion of conservative thinking and the original intent of the Constitution.
	Hated pretty much universally by Democrats.
	It was very...
	Interesting to see on the face bag, as soon as this word came out, I mean, here's the typical comment.
	Too bad he's dead, but what an idiot, I'm glad he's gone.
	Nah, we should have killed him much earlier.
	Nah, screw this guy, he was always a douchebag.
	And then, of course, the LGBT community, the loving, inclusive LGBT community, man, they were everywhere just saying, glad that fucker's dead, glad he's gone, glad he's dead.
	Nice to be inclusive.
	It's bizarre, John.
	It's bizarre.
	The guy's dead within seconds.
	It was ding-dong, the witch is dead.
	They were all so happy about it.
	So happy about it.
	Now, I, of course, had exactly the same thought as...
	Let's see, what is his name?
	Why do I not have this here?
	Somewhere I have an Axelrod clip.
	I've got to look for this now.
	Here we go.
	Axelrod, who used to be advisor to...
	President Obama in the beginning, right?
	The first...
	He was the first chief of staff, too, wasn't he?
	When he first got in?
	Yes, he was chief of staff.
	You're right.
	You're right.
	So he was on CNN this morning, and I could not agree with him more.
	I'm Dana Bash.
	There is now an empty seat on the highest court in the land.
	President Obama...
	Oh, this sounds like shit.
	I'm sorry about that.
	Obama has promised to fill it, but who will he pick?
	Joining me now with insights into the president's thinking is David Axelrod, former senior advisor to President Obama.
	What is happening right now inside the White House?
	You have been through this process with this president.
	Well, first let us say that Aaron Sorkin could not have written this script better, dropping this right in the middle of a presidential campaign.
	Exactly.
	That's what I thought.
	Script!
	It's a beautiful script.
	I'm not going to argue with the point that it's well-timed insofar as we have a presidential election coming up.
	We've got these debates that are heating up.
	Finally, the Republicans and the Democrats are both the establishment of both.
	And I've got some funny clips from people that have been watching this.
	Before we do that, just for people who have only been watching it on the sidelines outside of the United States or in Gitmo Nation, who knows, And it's kind of cynical the way this has all of a sudden turned, where now where we had, oh, the whole future of the country hangs in the balance on who will be the next president.
	Now it's, oh, no, the future of the Constitution.
	And this is, it's ratcheted everything up to such an incredible degree, but very, very cynical that, you know, this thinking that the Supreme Court, they're only political.
	That is what you hear from, certainly from left officials.
	A bit from the right, but more...
	Oh, it's so political.
	So political.
	These stupid-ass conservative judges.
	The next president is going to pick four Supreme Court justices.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	That's the line.
	Yeah.
	And, um, uh, the, uh, yeah, so there were, we have nine judges on the court, so you can't have a, you know, a tie vote, and, um, it seems there are five certainly more conservative judges than liberal judges,
	and so that's why this hangs in the balance, and now, of course, we have this interesting phenomenon where the president will, uh, by the laws of the, by the Constitution, he appoints with the advice and consent of the Senate, They have to approve it.
	They have to approve it.
	That would be the consent part.
	And, of course, the Republicans have all immediately come out and said, no, we're just going to stall.
	That is not going to happen.
	Well, that's what some of the candidates have said.
	Yes.
	But that's the general consensus.
	They've got to put it off.
	So that way, instead of letting Obama pick him, you're going to let Hillary pick him.
	That's really smart.
	A lot of people, there's a meme now going around where there's a picture of Obama and it says, hey, thanks Republicans, go ahead, delay it so that Hillary or Bernie can elect me to the Supreme Court.
	That is a good one.
	That's a good point to make.
	I like it a lot.
	But what's really going to happen, and this came in late last night, it's like, oh yes, of course.
	Because, you know, and I don't know why people say that I'm using the moneyball analogy incorrectly.
	I think I'm using it properly where it's, you know, it's not the exact same thing as the baseball, you know, money ball, but the idea of, okay, what's...
	Well, let's stop right there so we can straighten this out.
	Yeah.
	What do you think the money ball, what do you think money ball is all about?
	To me, money ball was you have all the players and you look at all the numbers and you go deep into the statistics and if you have, it's like the superdelegates here, half a vote there, this district over there, gerrymander that, and then we can win.
	That's how I see Moneyball.
	That's a convoluted interpretation.
	I think you're headed in the right direction and then you somehow make a leap of faith.
	I'll tell you what I think it is based on what everybody thinks it is who's a baseball fan.
	And then you tell me how that works into your theory.
	Okay.
	Moneyball is about saving money by finding a player whose stats are better than what he's getting paid and better than his normal acknowledgement.
	In other words, he's not seen as a superstar.
	But if you look at his numbers, this guy, and you can get him cheap, You can put this guy in there and you're going to get more than your money's worth.
	Okay.
	But then the analogy doesn't work.
	You're right.
	I don't think it doesn't work.
	I think it's you just tweaked it funny.
	Yeah.
	I didn't say that you weren't correct.
	No, I received it.
	What you're trying to do is put together something efficiently.
	Yeah, efficiently, but really based upon data.
	Because we know big data is for small minds, and I think that's exactly what they're looking at.
	Oh, big data.
	We can figure it all out, what district is going to do what.
	So it's not exactly the analogy of the movie, but that's kind of the idea.
	And Rachel Maddow...
	Stop using the...
	Come up with your own term.
	Yeah, I'll stop.
	Use your own term.
	It's a definable term.
	I'll work on it.
	I'll work on it.
	I'll use my own term.
	The Curry Concept.
	Here's the curryconcept.com.
	So what are we going to do?
	How do we circumvent...
	How do we circumvent...
	The people's will.
	Not just the people's will.
	No.
	Yeah, good one.
	How do we circumvent the people's will?
	Again.
	No, how do we circumvent the Senate and make them look so stupid that they have to approve whoever the president nominates?
	And Machel Raddow.
	There you go.
	Rachel Maddow came up with this.
	I mean, it's almost harder to imagine something that is going to be a bigger shock to the system than this.
	Barring some major national security event, this is kind of as big a jolt as we can get.
	And so I think anybody who's going to predict exactly what's going to happen here is going to be embarrassed by those predictions just within the next few weeks.
	But I do think that you're going to have to look for non-traditional circumstances.
	In terms of how Supreme Court justices are replaced and how new ones are picked, because the Republicans control the Senate, because Justice Scalia was such an ideological figurehead on the right, because we know that President Obama would replace him with somebody very different than that, all those things combine for a very unpredictable future.
	If I had to throw one scenario into the mix, this might be the kind of time When the president would choose a nominee who effectively has already been vetted, somebody who can kind of jump the line in terms of the United States Senate, somebody who has recently been through a rigorous confirmation process, somebody who, for example, is a cabinet-level official in the Obama administration already, the first person who springs to mind.
	Okay, I'm stopping it right there for an Ask John.
	The first, now, Rachel...
	Before you do the Ask John, I'm giving you a minus one for playing a, not only a Rachel Maddow clip, but one that was horrible.
	That's okay.
	It's not done yet.
	Well, you can start from it with a handicap.
	But it's not done yet.
	Okay, I'll take your handicap and I'll up the ante.
	You tell me...
	Okay, so the question to me, you're asking me.
	I'm asking you.
	Cabinet level, uh, Loretta Lynch.
	No.
	No.
	It's somebody who is leaving soon.
	Somebody who's leaving soon?
	Who is leaving their post soon.
	They are cabinet-level official.
	I've already been through senatorial approval process.
	Not too long ago, really.
	You know what would be good?
	Come on.
	We're going to nominate Hillary and her taking the job.
	Wow, I hadn't thought of that one.
	If I had to choose, I'd take that job.
	That's much better.
	Screw this.
	Have Bernie.
	I'm going to become a Supreme Court justice so I can lord it over all of you.
	Now, notice Rachel is calling in.
	Ben, this is last night.
	So I'm thinking she was at the White House meeting because the White House was, you know, they were meeting all night.
	What are we going to do?
	First, we need a statement.
	Then we have to decide.
	We're going to nominate.
	You're going to nominate.
	Okay, you're going to say yes, you're going to nominate.
	Alright, who can we bring?
	Who can we circumvent with the Curry concept?
	Who can we circumvent?
	Who can circumvent the whole process?
	Here it comes.
	Cabinet-level official in the Obama administration already.
	The first person who springs to mind for that kind of a scenario is Homeland Security Secretary Jay Johnson.
	Mm-hmm.
	Jay Johnson.
	Jay.
	Now, here's her rationale.
	And indeed, Johnson is about to leave.
	I think he has a month or two left.
	Nothing better than having the guy who actually signed the death warrants for the drone attacks to be on the Supreme Court.
	Yeah, having the death judge, the hanging judge.
	The hanging judge.
	Exactly, exactly.
	And this morning there was more of that.
	That was actually very good, very good.
	Do I get my minus one back up to nil?
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	I don't know why these clips sound so crappy.
	Something must have gone wrong.
	But here is Axelrod on his ideas of some people.
	He had, of course, the same concept.
	Axelrod is an insider.
	So what was discussed last night?
	He was talking for us at a meeting.
	Well, but he had different names.
	I saw some names.
	Kamala Harris, the Attorney General of California.
	Oh my God.
	That's what I said.
	Really?
	Kamala Harris?
	Kamala, she is the worst.
	I know.
	She was in San Francisco as a city attorney.
	She wouldn't prosecute anything that wasn't racial.
	She's a racist.
	Some names.
	Kamala Harris, the attorney general of California, who's running for the Senate now.
	Maybe Cory Booker.
	That's about it.
	Cory Booker, oh man.
	There you go.
	Been rendered as such.
	That's how it's going to come down.
	These people need to be rendered.
	A couple of things, though, about this death.
	Now, I find...
	I looked everywhere trying to find protocol.
	If a Supreme Court justice dies, what is the protocol?
	How do you go about doing things?
	He was pronounced dead or...
	He was...
	Within 10 minutes of the...
	What I saw, the first announcement of his passing, every report said, of natural causes.
	He died of natural causes.
	And what's even more interesting is that because of where he was, which is on a ranch south of, it's the Cibolo Creek Ranch south of Marfa, there was no coroner available to pronounce him dead.
	And so there's only one coroner per county or something like that.
	It's a pretty big state.
	So the coroner they found pronounced him dead through the phone.
	So she hadn't actually seen him, but she pronounced him dead.
	He could be on the lam for all we know.
	Well, do you know who owns this ranch?
	Bush?
	No.
	Pretty much, well, worse, I guess.
	No, this is John Poindexter.
	John Poindexter owns a ranch in Texas?
	It's not the John Poindexter you're thinking of.
	No.
	This is the John Poindexter who has very, very close ties with the Republican Party, but has also donated a lot to Democrats, which has made him kind of favorable, unfavorable within the Texas stronghold of Republicans.
	This is a very interesting story about how he got this ranch.
	But, you know, it's a luxury ranch.
	We're talking minimum $500 a night.
	It's a hotel.
	It's hotel rooms.
	Oh, it's a hotel.
	Yeah, it's a hotel.
	See, this is part of what is tricky.
	So you went to a hotel.
	Yeah, it's a resort.
	It's a huge resort.
	It's a dude ranch.
	A very upscale dude ranch.
	Now, when you have someone dying in a hotel room...
	It's not like, oh, we were just all out there, we were having a good time camping, and then he died.
	Yeah, this whole thing seems sketchy.
	Yeah.
	And if we were to follow that logic, I could tell you who I think...
	My logic then, because of course...
	Are you going to give us a crackpot theory?
	Yeah, I'm going to give you a crackpot theory for sure.
	All right, let's go.
	I'm going to give you a real good one.
	Now, the first thing that I read everywhere is...
	The Democrats killed him so Obama can...
	That would be normal, sure.
	Yeah, it's like, okay.
	In that voice, too.
	That's pretty much it.
	Now, my initial thinking was along the Aaron Sorkin lines is, yeah, this is the television industry.
	We have a ton more debates.
	We got another, what is it, eight months to go.
	We had two debates between the last show and this show.
	But we need to keep the ratings.
	We need to make the race more exciting.
	John, if you and I could write anything, this is exactly what we would have written.
	Right down to the timing of it, where everything's getting a little stale.
	There's nothing new really being said at this moment.
	Shots need to be fired.
	Yeah, this thing is now amped up and ramped up.
	But I think, if I were just to give you some crackpot theory here...
	And watching the debate, and this happened right in the beginning, Rubio separated by Bush, who just, what a wet noodle that guy is.
	He had nothing to say.
	And then Cruz.
	And what both of them were saying, and then how it was moderated, and it seemed like to me this was an alley-oop, and I think I used the term correctly, an alley-oop between Rubio and Cruz, And if I were to crackpot it, I would say, Ted Cruz is responsible for killing Scalia.
	And here is the theory.
	So first, let's listen to Rubio queried about Scalia's passing.
	Let me first talk about Justice Scalia.
	His loss is tremendous, and obviously our hearts and prayers go out to his family.
	He will go down as one of the great justices in the history of this republic.
	You talk about someone who defended consistently the original meaning of the Constitution, who understood that the Constitution was not there to be interpreted based on the fads of the moment, but that it was there to be interpreted according to its original meaning.
	Justice Scalia understood that better than anyone in the history of this republic.
	His dissent, for example, on the independent counsel case is a brilliant piece of jurist work.
	So far, he's talking about what a good lawyer he was, and it's all about the original intent and the importance of the original intent of the Constitution for the Supreme Court.
	...dissent on Obergefell as well.
	Number two, I do not believe the president should appoint someone, and it's not unprecedented.
	In fact, it's been over 80 years since a lame duck president has appointed a Supreme Court justice.
	And it reminds us of this.
	How important this election is.
	And someone on this stage will get to choose the balance of the Supreme Court.
	And it will begin by filling this vacancy that's there now.
	And we need to put people on the bench that understand that the Constitution is not a living and breathing document.
	It is to be interpreted as originally meant.
	Okay, so a couple things here.
	Are you using a microphone to record these?
	Yeah, something went wrong with that.
	I'm sorry.
	Something went wrong.
	It's only these two.
	The rest are good.
	So what Rubio is saying is, this is not unprecedented.
	The 80 years since this has happened, and somebody on this stage is going to be the guy who is going to choose that replacement.
	Then we go over to Cruz.
	Now, there was no interruption about the 80 years.
	There's no question about that whatsoever.
	Cruz picks this...
	And Rubio didn't use this to politicize it for himself.
	He just said someone on this stage is the guy who will choose the next Supreme Court justice.
	Right, it's a setup.
	It's a setup.
	That adds the setup of the alley-oop.
	So he has the constitutional power, but you don't think he should.
	Where do you set that date if you're president?
	Does it begin in election year, in December, November, September...
	Once you set the date, when you're president, will you abide by that date?
	So now we're actually going back into that 80-year question, except Rubio got no pushback at all from the moderator.
	Nothing.
	This guy starts immediately questioning Cruz about the date.
	Well, we have 80 years of precedent of not confirming Supreme Court justices in an election year.
	And let me say, Justice Billy...
	I'm sorry to interrupt.
	Now, why didn't he interrupt Rubio with that?
	He didn't interrupt Rubio when he said that.
	No, Cruz.
	Now, I think Cruz was really thrown by this.
	I don't think he expected this question.
	I think he, if I were to crackpot theory, if it was a script, what is this guy doing interrupting the script?
	Everything was going perfectly.
	You could see his face even just going, what?
	Confirmed he was defeated.
	I'm not sure of that.
	I'll tell you why I don't think you may be wrong.
	Let me just finish and I want to hear you.
	Confirmed in 88.
	No, Kennedy was confirmed at 87.
	He was appointed.
	He was appointed at 88.
	That's the question.
	Is it appointing or confirming?
	In this case, it's both, but if I could answer your question.
	Sorry, I just wanted to get the facts straight for the audience.
	This is, that was very weird.
	It's the difference between 87 and 88.
	Need to get the facts straight for the audience.
	Okay.
	I apologize.
	That, by the way, I think was Kasich who was doing that laugh.
	That cackle.
	Kasich's the worst.
	That was weird.
	Let me listen to him, yeah.
	Justice Scalia was a legal giant.
	He was somebody that I knew for 20 years.
	What?
	I said, that sounds like he dropped right back to the script.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	So he has it, it's been laid up, and now we just hammer it home.
	He was a brilliant man.
	He was faithful to the Constitution.
	He changed the arc of American legal history.
	And I'll tell you, his passing tonight, our prayers are with his family, with his wife Maureen, who he adored, his nine children, his 36 grandkids, but it underscores the stakes of this election.
	We are one justice away from a Supreme Court that will strike down every restriction on abortion adopted by the states.
	We are one justice away from a Supreme Court that will reverse the Heller decision, one of Justice Scalia's seminal decisions that upheld the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
	We are one justice away from a Supreme Court that would undermine the religious liberty of millions of Americans.
	Now, Rubio could have easily said all this.
	Easily.
	He tried to say, but he came up with different cases, ones that no one...
	At least everyone knows kind of what Heller is about.
	It's about the Second Amendment.
	Rubio had things, well, I don't know what he's talking about.
	And here's Cruz hammering it home.
	And the stakes of this election for this year, for the Senate, the Senate needs to stand strong and say, we're not going to give up the U.S. Supreme Court for a generation by allowing Barack Obama to make one more liberal appointee.
	And then...
	For the state of South Carolina, one of the most important judgments for the men and women of South Carolina to make is who on this stage has the background, the principle, the character, the judgment, and the strength of resolve to nominate and confirm principled constitutionalists to the court.
	That will be what I will do if I'm elected president.
	Shameless!
	Shameless, I tell you!
	Shameless.
	Yeah, but he said, I am the guy.
	It was a setup.
	Well, it sounds to me that we're going to deal with only crackpot theories.
	Not only, but this is one.
	I think only is a good idea.
	I think there's been a backroom deal and Rubio's been pulled off the campaign.
	Yeah, I agree with you.
	I think that the money shifted and he set up Cruz, whether they killed Scalia or not, that was a setup.
	The same script, the same 80 years.
	Anybody killed Scalia would have been Rance Priebus.
	Shut up.
	That guy.
	He's creepy, man.
	Creepy, the Kasich.
	Why was he laughing?
	Why was he laughing?
	He probably was like, oh my god, he set him up.
	He knew what was going on.
	He knew what was going on.
	Oh my god, it's a script.
	And this is another one.
	Here's the only debate clip I have.
	And the reason I have it is because it shows a couple of things.
	And Trump already busted this out on the last debate.
	This audience was rigged.
	Oh, yeah.
	It was a bunch of donors.
	I have the actual news report.
	Not a clip, unfortunately.
	They were supposed to have a lottery for the tickets.
	I think there were 1,600 tickets.
	They pulled the lottery, and they were only handed out to people.
	You could not get a ticket unless you were connected.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yes, Rance Priebus' shill audience, because they're sick of Trump.
	They're finally fed up, because it's coming down.
	There's a couple of political science professors on different shows, and they were pointing out that we will know the nominee of both parties in six weeks.
	And why is that date of import?
	Well, that's because that's going to be after Super Tuesday.
	That's what's really going to cause in March.
	And there's going to be some wrangling right after those primaries.
	The numbers are going to come out.
	The super delegates are already all in for Hillary.
	And if you want to hear something very funny, I would like you to...
	I have it.
	I have it.
	Debbie Schultz?
	Did you hear this?
	Yeah, of course.
	I'll play your version of the clip.
	Of course I heard this.
	This was beautiful.
	Set it up.
	This is...
	Harry Schultz was on...
	Debbie.
	Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
	Debbie Cakes Schultz was on Jake Tapper's show.
	Yeah.
	And he asked a decent question, and her explanation for why the superdelegates are all in, why they exist...
	Is it fixed?
	And he premises it with, you know, everyone thinks that this is going to look like it's rigged.
	It's rigged for Hillary.
	Well, what do you tell people?
	Well, it's even more interesting, because I know this clip is coming, but you need to learn a new word, because she does something very, very sly.
	She doesn't use the word superdelegate.
	She uses the word unpledged delegate, which is a synonym.
	It's the same thing.
	But it sounds a little more friendly when you're in this situation.
	Yeah, that was very good.
	Yes, good observation.
	Superdelegates, these party insiders, what do you tell voters who are new to the process who says, this makes them feel like it's all rigged?
	Well, let me just make sure that I can clarify exactly what was available.
	This is, I loved how she starts, she's so flummoxed.
	But let me just clarify how this, I can say this to be clear.
	And by the way, the answer is self-contradictory.
	Yeah, oh yeah, I'll just let it play.
	...available.
	During the primaries in Iowa and in New Hampshire, the unpledged delegates are a separate category.
	The only thing available on the ballot in a primary and a caucus is the pledged delegates, those that are tied to the candidate that they are pledged to support and they receive a proportional number of delegates going into our convention.
	Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists.
	We are, as a Democratic Party, really highlight and emphasize inclusiveness and diversity at our convention, and so we want to give Every opportunity to grassroots activists and diverse, committed Democrats to be able to participate, attend, and be a delegate at the convention.
	And so we separate out those unpledged delegates to make sure that there isn't competition between them.
	I'm not sure that that answer would satisfy an anxious young voter, but let's move on.
	So, can you explain what the hell she just said?
	Because it was very confusing.
	She said initially, at the beginning of the little argument, and you can play it again, and it might be worth playing again, she said, we have these unpledged delegates to make sure that in case something goes wrong, And we get some bozo who's a grassroots person.
	We need protection against them.
	That's what she said.
	We need to protect ourselves against these crazy people that come out of the woodwork and they could get in.
	So we have this cushion.
	It's something that helps us maintain stability.
	And then somehow, I don't know what the transition is, somehow she twists it to say the reason that they exist is so these crackpot grassroots people have a voice.
	Yeah.
	It's great.
	That's a nice way to turn it around.
	I don't know how she managed it, but she did.
	She did somehow.
	And she did it very smoothly.
	But it was so nervous.
	And it was in such a short time frame that it became apparent that she was just full of crap.
	This is Hillary.
	The election is rigged.
	Yeah.
	It's rigged.
	It is rigged.
	The Democrats have done this before.
	And what's going to happen is they...
	That was actually...
	My clip had that bit of Tapper in the beginning saying that people think it's rigged.
	Well, mine says it.
	Oh, I couldn't.
	There's a little muff.
	I didn't hear it.
	Okay.
	But yeah.
	So it's rigged, and this is what happened in 1968.
	And we had the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
	Yeah.
	And there were riots.
	And it was riots broke out, head cracking, and the whole thing.
	And if anybody was still a Democrat, after they witnessed this, Didn't go to the Republican Party or someplace else that's safer.
	They were idiots.
	And this is what's going to happen again, because Bernie has got momentum.
	He's kicking Hillary's ass every which way.
	Everybody's coming out against her, except for the establishment people.
	They're all in.
	And it's just something to watch.
	And right at the same time, which is going severely underreported because of Scalia's death, The DNC, Democratic National Committee, has decided to drop the ban on lobbyist and super PAC money, which was what President Obama stopped.
	He said, we're going to change politics.
	We're not going to have this big money anymore.
	And oops, boom, they dropped it.
	Lobbyists, you got money, we'll take it.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Which brings us to a couple of clips from the two debates that were between, which was only a couple of days.
	I know.
	It's three days, and we've got two debates to talk about.
	Luckily, I didn't get a lot of clips, but let's start with...
	Do you want to do that Republican thing you had, the one clip from Republican, or do you want to save that?
	Well, the one clip, yeah, since we're talking about the Republican thing, this is the one thing that I thought was epitomized the debate.
	It was a back and forth between Cruz and Trump yelling at each other, and getting nowhere, and Trump being roundly booed during the whole thing, and...
	And he got a couple shots and Trump did, but I think he was beaten down by...
	Everyone's picking on him.
	The audience hated him because they were brought in to hate him.
	And he took it like a man.
	And I haven't done the analysis myself, and I'm not sure it's true, but there's a couple of people out there who've done digital analysis, and they say, ah...
	You know, the boos were loud, louder for Trump, loud for Trump.
	Any applause for him was, you know, like 10 dog biscuits lower, and it seemed like it was canned applause that was coming out.
	Now, I don't know if that's true, but could be.
	Could be.
	Could be.
	This is it.
	Right now, today, as a candidate, he supports federal taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.
	I disagree with him on that.
	That's a matter of principle, and I'll tell you...
	You are the single biggest liar.
	You probably are worse than Jeb Bush.
	You are the single biggest liar.
	This guy lied.
	Let me just tell you.
	This guy lied about Ben Carson when he took votes away from Ben Carson in Iowa.
	And he just continues.
	And today, we had robocalls saying Donald Trump is not going to run in South Carolina where I'm leading by a lot.
	I'm not going to run.
	Vote for Ted Cruz.
	This is the same thing he did to Ben Carson.
	This guy will say anything.
	Nasty guy.
	Now I know why he doesn't have one endorsement from any of his colleagues.
	He's a nasty guy.
	I will say it is fairly remarkable to see Donald defending Ben after he called him pathological and compared him to a child molester, both of which were offensive and wrong.
	But let me say more broadly, you notice Donald didn't disagree with the substance that he supports taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.
	And Donald has this weird pattern.
	When you point to his own record, he screams, liar, liar, liar.
	If you want to go and watch the video, go to our website, tedcruz.org.
	You can see it out of Donald's own mouth.
	Where did I support it?
	You supported it when we were battling over defunding Planned Parenthood.
	You went on television and said, Planned Parenthood does wonderful things, and we should not defund them.
	It does do wonderful things, but not as it relates to abortion.
	So tell me, what are the wonderful things it does?
	There are wonderful things having to do with women's health.
	You see, you and I disagree on that.
	Not when it comes to abortion.
	The reason principle matters, sadly, was illustrated by the first questions today.
	The next president is going to appoint one, two, three, four Supreme Court justices.
	If Donald Trump is president, he will appoint liberals.
	If Donald Trump is president, your Second Amendment will go away.
	That was pretty good.
	I liked it where Trump said, hey, you know, I grew up.
	I'm older now.
	I've learned.
	I've changed my ideas a bit.
	He also was asked about profanity.
	I got that clip.
	Yeah, the profanity thing, because he's been cussing a lot.
	There's a clip you played at the end, I think.
	Yeah, on the previous show.
	And now they're pointing, think of the children.
	Yeah.
	Listen to this.
	They're all talk.
	They're no action.
	And that's why people are supporting me.
	I do listen to people.
	I hire experts.
	I hire top, top people.
	And I do listen.
	And you know what?
	Sometimes they're wrong.
	You have to know what to do, when to do it.
	But sometimes they're wrong.
	Something in talking to voters that they wish somebody would tell you to cut it out is the profanity.
	What's your reaction?
	I'll tell you.
	Over the years, I've made many speeches.
	People have asked me, big companies have asked me to make speeches and friends of mine that run big companies on success.
	And on occasion, in order to sort of really highlight something, I use a profanity.
	One of the profanities that I got credited with using that I didn't use was a very bad word two weeks ago that I never used.
	I said, you.
	And everybody said, oh, he didn't say anything wrong, but you bleeped it.
	That was interesting.
	That was another one of his little insights into what's going on in the media.
	That's a good one.
	I wonder who was it that Bleep did?
	I think it was CBS, and he even pointed, you know, he was motioning like CBS did that.
	So he did...
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	We've said, as we did the three-by-three, who's backing who?
	And CBS is not backing the Republicans.
	No, no.
	And definitely not backing Trump.
	So this thing would be slanted away from him, and they would be the ones, CBS, would be the ones that were sweetening the sound of the audience.
	But that's really not cool.
	I mean, that is really, really not cool.
	To do that, because what he said is, I said...
	CBS has done this historically.
	Oh, really?
	There was a moment in time during the 60-minute era when Hewitt was running it.
	It was really a hot show, and it was always a good show, where they show with somebody else.
	I can't remember.
	This was during the Reagan administration.
	And they had some guy dogging some...
	Somebody's interview.
	And then they showed the unedited version versus the edited version that ran on the show.
	And it was like the meanings and everything had changed drastically.
	Right.
	Of what they should put on the show.
	Of how they edited it.
	Yeah.
	How they pull that out of context.
	And you can do that.
	Yeah.
	That's why a lot of people demand unedited.
	We don't do that.
	We won't let pictures yak and yak.
	Right.
	But this was just him on stage, and he said the equivalent of F-U, but even the F was silent.
	They just bleeped it so it sounded like he said the full word.
	That's crazy, man.
	Yeah, this reminds us of the Jimmy Kimmel bit.
	Exactly, yeah.
	Whenever he does it, he just bleeps a whole bunch of things, and it always sounds dirty.
	You bleep something that ends with a hard K, and it always sounds like the guy said, you know.
	And so at Kimmel's, it's called This Week in...
	Unneeded censorship or something.
	But it's on Thursday nights, I believe, right after our show.
	And it is phenomenal.
	Sometimes it's like, holy crap, it sounds just like they're describing some sexual act by the judicious bleeping.
	Just on a quick aside, I found something else that relates to the previous debate.
	You recall that Trump was talking about eminent domain, eminent domain, eminent domain.
	It was back and forth.
	Why are they talking about eminent domain?
	And this is when he was in Iowa.
	The reason why there's a huge eminent domain dispute in Iowa right now for an 1,100 mile crude oil pipeline.
	It's another pipeline.
	It's not the keystone, obviously.
	Tens of thousands of pipelines.
	Right.
	So he was pandering, quote-unquote, to a certain demographic in Iowa because eminent domain, there's like 300 Iowa landowners who didn't want this.
	Right, the end of his speech was very...
	Yeah, so the whole eminent domain thing, it was local to Iowa.
	That's why it came up.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah.
	Who knew?
	Who knew?
	Well, they were seemingly against it, and I think you got more votes with that approach, but I guess not.
	All right, so let's switch over to the Democrats.
	Okay.
	And so last night was an event.
	Well, last night was the Republican, but it was two nights ago there was an event, and the best part of it was this bit here.
	This is the Dem debate clip with the back and forth about Henry Kissinger.
	Where the Secretary and I have a very profound difference.
	In the last debate, and I believe in her book, Very good book, by the way.
	In her book and in this last debate, she talked about getting the approval or the support or the mentoring of Henry Kissinger.
	Now, I find it rather amazing, because I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country.
	I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend.
	I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger.
	And in fact, Kissinger's actions in Cambodia, when the United States bombed that country, overthrew Prince Siena, created the instability for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge to come in, who then...
	I love the Khmer Rouge.
	How about Khmer Rouge?
	Khmer Rouge.
	That country overthrew Prince Siena, created the instability for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge to come in, who then butchered some three million innocent people, one of the worst genocides in the history of the world.
	So count me in as somebody who will not be listening to Henry Kissinger.
	Thank you.
	Well, I know journalists have asked who you do listen to on foreign policy, and we have yet to know who that is.
	Well, it ain't Henry Kissinger.
	That's fine.
	That's fine.
	Yes.
	All right.
	Henry Kissinger.
	It's that one-liner in beauty.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	That's a good one.
	So on Democracy Now!, which is clearly pro-Bernie and not on board with Hillary, they kept bringing these people on that were giving these analyses that were absolutely fantastic.
	And they did one with this guy who did the analysis of the Henry Kissinger bit, including the...
	The notion that Henry Kissinger is the one who kind of really was the proponent of regime change and then pointed out that this is pretty much everything that Hillary is all about.
	Yeah, he's the architect of it, of the whole concept.
	And let's see what we got here.
	Let's play, I don't know, I have a couple of clips from Democracy Now!
	But let's play the Democracy Now!
	A party report on Bernie Sanders.
	Professor Matt Karp, you say that the Democratic Party elite has thrown its full weight behind Hillary Clinton.
	How is this reflected in superdelegates and do you think, how do you see this as any different than when Barack Obama first announced he was running for president and started the primary caucus process?
	Well, I think it's very different.
	I think if you sort of zoom out and look at how the Sanders campaign compares to previous sort of insurgent Democratic campaigns in recent memory, I think there are three ways that it really diverges.
	First, Sanders is ideologically significantly to the left of Clinton and of, in some ways, the mainstream of the elected Democratic Party at least.
	Not just, you know, one tick, but I think...
	You know, his rejection of the sort of new Democrat approach, business-friendly economics, and an embrace of a kind of older populism is really a distinct break, and something that we haven't seen from another candidate in this position, you know, since probably Jesse Jackson.
	Who he worked with.
	Second, um, uh, uh, Sanders has won a lot more popular support than a lot of sort of underdog candidates to this point.
	If you're thinking about his historic donor base, which, you know, has three times the number of people that Obama, uh, donors that Obama had recorded up until this point.
	And, you know, he's done better in the early states than, uh, Obama has done, than Obama even had done.
	And in the national polls, he has 37% of the vote, which is higher than Obama.
	Of course, Obama was running against John Edwards too, but, um, uh, Sanders has done really well.
	And, uh, the third thing then is the sort of Total absence of support from the party, which is not at all comparable to Obama or any previous sort of underdog candidate at this point.
	I mean, you mentioned the over 350 superdelegates who committed to Clinton.
	When the Associated Press did the survey of superdelegates in November, they found eight superdelegates who were committed to Sanders, and of those, fully one-eighth were Bernie Sanders.
	You know, as a senator, he is a superdelegate.
	So, 13 percent of his superdelegate coalition is himself.
	And this is really striking.
	I mean, Obama had over 60 superdelegates at this point in his camp.
	Bill Richardson had 25 superdelegates in his camp at this point.
	So those three factors, and a candidate who comes ideologically, makes an ideological break with the party, who has done really well sort of from the bottom up in terms of winning popular support and has virtually zero backing within the party, create a situation that I think is going to put the system to the test in a way that the 2008 campaign didn't necessarily do.
	Well, since they're all in on Bernie, maybe I should play a quick little clip from Susan Sarandon.
	You've been a vocal Bernie supporter, and you've gone on the campaign trail with Bernie.
	Yeah, he has balls, believe me.
	Yeah, he does, he has balls.
	He has balls!
	I've been, when I went to Iowa, I was so moved by the people in Iowa that want to be, to reinvest in this country and really want to believe, and he has really concrete, very simple, you know, FDR kind of plans that are totally possible and should be done.
	I give you Bernie Sanders.
	I knew you were going to get this.
	She's crazy, man.
	He has balls.
	He has balls, John.
	He has balls.
	By the way, it's my prediction.
	You can take this to the bank.
	Because of Bernie's positive response in the audience in this last debate, They're going to rig the audience.
	They'll take a clue from the Republicans and rig the audience.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, there's a lot of rigging going on, if you have a second here.
	We've had some kind of schmears against Cruz and schmears against...
	Clinton and the one that I think is right now is cool to listen to this is video that's being sent around and it's very easy to trace where this is coming from it's obviously being propagated the formula about and I think you'll like this you know the statement that Hillary Clinton made saying I have never changed my vote based upon a donation and so now there's this eight-minute video I I cut it down to about a minute 15 of the pertinent part.
	It's an interview from 2004 with, I have to say, kind of a good-looking Elizabeth Warren.
	I don't know what happened, man.
	Damn, 12 years.
	She had a kind of round, cute face and kind of a 60s hairdo.
	It looks really good.
	And this was, I think, with the guy from Face the Nation or something, this interview.
	And here's what she said, and this is supposed to serve as proof that she did change her, that money did change her vote.
	It was supporting the industry, and because of her...
	President Clinton had been showing that this was another way that he could be helpful to business.
	It wasn't a very high visibility bill.
	This is about the first Consumer Protection Act, Right, this is when she was on the quote-unquote war path on consumer protection, something she's done nothing about.
	And when Mrs.
	Clinton came back with a little better understanding of how it all worked, they reversed course and they reversed course fast.
	Now, what you didn't hear is this whole long story of how Hillary said, come and meet me.
	They met after some event.
	They had hamburgers together in a room alone.
	And Elizabeth Warren said, you know, this is really bad.
	You don't understand what's going on.
	You've got to stop.
	You have to stop this bill.
	We have to stop.
	I'm sorry, you have to pass this bill.
	We have to get this through.
	People need protection.
	And then Hillary went, okay, that's really good.
	And indeed, the proof is in the pudding.
	The last bill that came before President Clinton was that bankruptcy bill that was passed by the House and the Senate in 2000, and he vetoed it.
	And in her autobiography, Mrs.
	Clinton took credit for that veto, and she rightly should.
	She turned around a whole administration on the subject of bankruptcy.
	She got it.
	And then?
	One of the first bills that came up after she was Senator Clinton was the bankruptcy bill.
	This is a bill that's like a vampire.
	It will not die.
	There's a lot of money behind it.
	The bill her husband had vetoed.
	Her husband had vetoed it very much at her urging.
	And?
	She voted in favor of it.
	Whoops!
	Okay, so that's out there.
	Not as imaginative, though, as the anti-Cruise campaign, which I caught, the first clip I caught on the Morning Joe show.
	An ad from the Cruz campaign hitting Marco Rubio on the question of immigration.
	I voted for a guy who was a Tea Party hero on the campaign trail, and then he went to D.C. and played patty cake with Chuck Schumer and cut a deal on Amnesty.
	Does that make you angry?
	Angry?
	Makes me feel dumb for trusting him.
	Maybe you should vote for more than just a pretty face next time.
	All right, so apparently there was a problem there.
	It was revealed that the woman who delivered the key line that we just saw, former porn star.
	Okay, did you hear about this story?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Former porn star.
	Former porn star.
	And they fired her.
	Former porn star.
	Which is hypocritical.
	Who cares, you know?
	But wait, but wait, wait.
	Because when I hear porn star, I think, to the Googles, who is this porn star?
	What movies are she in?
	What has she done?
	Is she a three input?
	I need to know what's going on with this porn star.
	Luckily, Jake Tapper to the rescue.
	Also had roles in some steamy, dare I say erotic films.
	Films with titles such as Carnal Wishes, Insatiable Desires, and of course the classic TimeGate Tales of the Saddle Tramps.
	Though to be fair to Ms.
	Lindsay...
	Classic?
	Well, wait for it.
	Listen to what he's saying.
	Though, to be fair to Ms.
	Lindsay, she is a working actress.
	She's also been on Star Trek Voyager.
	And joining me now is Amy Lindsay, the actress at the center of all this brouhaha.
	Amy, thanks so much for joining us.
	The cruise campaign says that they cast the ad in an open casting call, and they say you were not properly vetted.
	How did you get involved in the ad?
	Was this just a gig, or were you a cruise supporter?
	It was a gig, but I absolutely, when I got the idea of what the campaign was going to be about, I knew that it was supporting a Republican candidate, which is definitely what I'm doing.
	And I thought the writing was smart.
	I thought it was snappy.
	I did not know who it was for.
	But I do identify myself as a conservative Republican, so I knew it was something that I could get behind and support.
	Now, also, to be fair, I mean, this wasn't like, you have not been, as far as I know, in any, like, truly explicit, explicit films.
	This is more kind of like late-night Cinemax kind of stuff.
	It's just, this is, this is like Red Shoe Diaries.
	It's like Red Shoe Diaries.
	She's barely even naked in these things.
	Yeah, all you see is breasts.
	Porn star!
	No.
	No.
	You're not a porn star.
	Well, this is just lies.
	Media lies.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But it's out there now.
	You can't take that back.
	She's a porn star.
	That's good to go.
	And that's obviously a smear against Cruz.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Good one, though.
	And then what makes it worse is they fire her.
	It's so stupid.
	And she's no dummy.
	They fired her from what?
	It wasn't just a one-shot commercial?
	Was it going to be a string of them?
	I don't think so.
	I'm not sure.
	I think the firing thing's a lie, too.
	Yeah, I think they just pulled the ad.
	There's no firing.
	It's just they pulled the ad.
	She did this thing months ago.
	She did the ad months ago.
	She didn't even know who it was for.
	But, interestingly, she's cute.
	She's very well-spoken.
	She's a Republican.
	She's very conservative.
	And she looks forward to talking about her views during the election.
	I'm sure Jake Tapper's going to have her back on.
	That guy was sporting wood throughout the whole interview.
	You've got to see it in the show notes.
	You're a creep.
	So you don't mind showing your breasts?
	Hey, I saw that one movie.
	It's really good.
	I checked all these films out.
	I did some research.
	They weren't that bad.
	No, they're just late night Cinemax.
	Isn't that no big problem?
	Yeah.
	You ever think of doing more?
	Yeah.
	I know I've been looking for a kind of a semi-unknown for my next feature.
	Let's get back to the blasting of Hillary with this segment again on democracy.
	Now, Hillary and the professor.
	Okay.
	Now, wait, let me set it up.
	There's this guy, apparently the Black Caucus PAC, which is not the Black Caucus of the Congress, which is all the black people that were in Congress, but the Black Caucus PAC, which is a separate little independent operation...
	Made an announcement that they're supporting Hillary.
	And they made a big, as though it was the Black Caucus, and a couple people in the Black Caucus, including some Democrats.
	Hey, hey, hey, we're not supporting her.
	What is this?
	What are you misleading the public for?
	But they were misleading the public.
	So they had a spokeshole for the operation.
	Again, he's a big Hillary Black, black guy for Hillary.
	And he was an obvious, like, establishment guy.
	Oh, totally, yeah.
	He's going on and on.
	And so they cut from him to this professor who just reads them the riot act about Hillary.
	Of the State Department under Hillary Clinton and under President Barack Obama, which is a huge change from what it was previously.
	Jeffrey Sachs does not represent any change.
	That is not accurate.
	Does that represent change?
	I'll tell you who she sat down with.
	I would encourage viewers to go back to the New York Times a couple of weeks ago when they unveiled what many of us knew, which was the secret deal of Saudi Arabia and the CIA to fund the destabilization of Syria.
	That's who Hillary Clinton sat down with, with the CIA and with Saudi Arabia.
	And the bloodbath that we have underway right now is irresponsible.
	Wow.
	Sir, go talk to NATO? And it's the same kind of irresponsibility of going in to take out Qaddafi and then leaving a civil war and ISIS in Libya.
	And it's the same irresponsibility of going in to take out Saddam Hussein.
	This is a repeated military-industrial complex, CIA-led coup change.
	And it's bipartisan, by the way.
	I want to go back.
	I mean, that is the land of unconfirmed...
	Yes, we came...
	We saw.
	He died.
	Lady Big Death.
	And there you have it.
	Yeah.
	Wow, so that was the professor who was in the studio?
	Yeah.
	He was great.
	Oh, he went on.
	He also did a thing about the Kissinger.
	I don't have it.
	But he pretty much accused Hillary Clinton of being responsible for the despair in Syria.
	Yeah.
	That's great.
	And was there steam coming out of Amy Goodman's head?
	No, no.
	She's all in with this.
	She loved it.
	She, in fact, will cut the other guys off.
	She is all for Bernie.
	Because Bernie's a true progressive, and she is too.
	Now, the guy also went into a couple of different rants.
	It was really quite a good show.
	People should check it out.
	I think it was from last Thursday, probably.
	And he said at one point that all this so-called experience that Hillary claims to have is all based on her being told what to do by Kissinger.
	Yeah, which he admitted freely.
	Yeah.
	They should have thrown a Soros in there just for good measure.
	Soros did come up in the...
	One of the...
	I didn't clip it, but I don't think.
	Soros came up as...
	There's two people that are supporting Hillary.
	Soros and some other guy.
	And I can't remember his name, but some name doesn't crop up a lot.
	And they're responsible for one of these 15...
	I don't know, it's more than 15 million.
	It's quite a bit of money.
	Super PAC. And it's Soros and this other guy.
	And this was brought up in the debate.
	And Bernie's just, this is a good example right there.
	I mean, I don't have any super PACs and I don't want one.
	And she also meant, then he said, I gotta reiterate this because it dawned on me when he said it.
	He said, then I've got 3 million people that are giving us money.
	And Hillary jumps in and...
	You know, and goes, I have 750,000 people who are giving us money.
	And now I realize that three times a day solicitation that I get from their campaign.
	For chipping in one dollar.
	For a dollar.
	Chipping a dollar.
	You put the dollar in and now, cha-ching, you're now on that list.
	That's how she gets to 750.
	Yeah.
	Which is not, you know, she's got 750,000 people that gave him a dollar.
	A dollar.
	Give me a dollar for the thought.
	Give me a dollar.
	Yeah.
	It's constant hounding for the dollar.
	Then you get to be put on the list.
	You know, another donor.
	There's something on the horizon.
	There's something on the horizon.
	Do you remember the D.C. madam?
	Oh yeah.
	The D.C. madam.
	Very famous.
	Yeah, she was the madam and she served a lot of politicians and high-ranking officials.
	And they never did get her black book, did they?
	Well, her lawyer, Blair Sibley, who represented the D.C. madam, he has now filed a court case Because he cannot talk about the case, but he feels that it is now time, it is permissible, and it is needed to release records that the court holds and that he has knowledge of.
	His quote in the media is, the names in her records could be relevant to this presidential election.
	What was...
	That could be fun.
	What do you interpret that to mean?
	There's only two, three...
	It won't have Trump's name in it.
	No, it won't have Trump's name.
	And Cruz is new.
	He came after she...
	I believe.
	Him and Rubio, I believe, came after the scam.
	After the DC Madam.
	I'm pretty sure.
	And so they won't be in it.
	I don't know.
	Uh...
	Kasich's not in Washington, D.C., so he wouldn't be in it.
	The two people that it might apply to are Bernie Sanders and, more importantly, Hillary Clinton.
	Hillary.
	Yeah.
	Yep.
	That would be, my guess, it's about Hillary.
	I think so, too.
	It seems, even though the Democratic, let's put it this way, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Debbie, she is the one that is promoting the presidential win for Hillary.
	She wants, it's almost her job.
	It's her job, but somebody's decided that Hillary's going to be the establishment candidate, the corrupt candidate.
	Yeah.
	Like you said when you were visiting the area a few years ago, the real powers, the intelligence community, the insiders.
	They do not like her.
	The bureaucrats.
	The people that are there already, they don't like her.
	And there's all these stories now about her and Huma Abedin.
	The Huma, this was more about the Secret Service, and they're complaining about how much they hate Hillary and her personal aide, her body man, as it's known, Huma Abedin.
	And now the story's circulating that there was some event and she had to get in, and of course she was Hillary's whatever.
	Special assistant.
	She didn't have her credentials.
	And they said, no, you can't get in.
	You don't have the right credentials.
	And of course, her response was, do you know who I am?
	I find these stories hard to believe.
	I don't.
	I don't find it hard to believe at all.
	I can see her doing it.
	I've heard people say that millions of times.
	I know people that have said it.
	Yeah.
	It's total douchey.
	And of course, now Debbie Wasserman Schultz is fighting Bill Clinton.
	Because he's not very helpful.
	No, Clint is his own man.
	You have to agree.
	At this point, he's near death.
	Yes, sadly.
	And it's right on schedule, John.
	It's right on schedule.
	It seems like he's in his zone.
	And he likes to go in front of audiences and yak forever.
	He likes to talk.
	He's a talker.
	He's got the gift of gab.
	He likes to say stuff like this.
	She's always making something good happen.
	She's the best change maker I've ever known.
	A lot of people say, oh, well, you don't understand.
	It's different now.
	It's rigged.
	Yeah, it's rigged because you don't have a president who's a changemaker.
	What?
	He said...
	He's referring to Obama?
	Yes.
	You don't have a president.
	This is a recent speech?
	Yeah, this is earlier than the week.
	Oh, rein this guy in.
	That's kind of problematic, isn't it?
	Holy crap!
	I have to revert back.
	I mean, this would solve so much.
	If Bill would die, I just hate to say it, this would change so much.
	Well, if Rance can do the job on the other side.
	Yeah, if you can do it with Scalia.
	Debbie better get her shiv out.
	All you have to do is, hey!
	Just go up to Bill.
	Hey!
	Let's see what happens.
	Tickle him.
	And I like the guy, but this is almost cruel to have him speaking in public in this state.
	You like him in the sense that he's like a mafia Don that is somewhat likable in the public face, even though he's behind the scenes.
	He's not a guy you want to hang out with.
	And we all know he's been shot a couple times.
	He's wounded, but still he's the Don.
	But he's not following the script, and maybe we should analyze what he's saying more closely.
	Maybe he's crying out for help subconsciously.
	I gotta listen to more of what, because he sounds so bad, John.
	It doesn't sound good.
	He's really straining.
	He looks like crap, but people are now making, you know, gifs of him, animated gifs of him just staring into space.
	It's really, it's so sad.
	It's cruel.
	It's cruel.
	Well, you can't just kill a healthy man.
	Well, I don't think Scalia was unhealthy.
	Yeah, but he was 79, so you can get, even though that's actually not that old for an elite.
	That's not old at all.
	That's not old at all.
	I mean, look at the David Rockefeller.
	The guy is 99 or something.
	Yeah, it's...
	Okay, well, let's just assume that Scalia was killed.
	Okay.
	And that Clinton's on somebody's hit list and it's going to happen.
	Well, we've already said this.
	I mean, I think two or three years ago we predicted this.
	Yes.
	I didn't know he's saying screwball stuff that's not party line.
	Yeah, he's not saying good things at all.
	That's not good.
	At all.
	For him.
	No.
	Also, one of our producers called Alex Ross on NPR. Do you remember Alex Ross?
	He was the Silicon Valley whiz kid who was Hillary's chief...
	Yeah, you will remember him.
	Yeah, I do.
	Oh, yeah, that guy.
	Chief information guy.
	He was a hotshot.
	Yeah, big hotshot.
	He was a wunderkind.
	Wunderkind, exactly.
	Exactly.
	So he was asked, because, of course, he was in charge of all things digital, interactive, when Hillary was at the State Department.
	He was the leader of all internets, the techno experts, etc.
	And, of course, he's asked a very pertinent question.
	Being known as Secretary Clinton's tech guru, of course, raises the question.
	I'm sorry, tech guru.
	I should have gotten it right there.
	Tech guru.
	Being known as Secretary Clinton's tech guru, of course, raises the question in many people's minds.
	What about that server?
	Yeah, that wasn't me.
	That was the other guy.
	Well...
	What?
	No, in all seriousness, you know what's funny is...
	It's not funny.
	Most of us had no idea it was a private email server.
	You know, lots of powerful people have sort of obscured email addresses.
	Like, Barack Obama is not...
	I'll give you a hint.
	His email address is not barack.obama at whitehouse.gov.
	And so maybe I'm an idiot, and maybe many of my colleagues and I were idiots, but we didn't necessarily know it was a personal server of hers.
	And my focus when I was traveling around the world was less on, you know, putting servers in people's basements or doing sort of the internal IT than it was figuring out how we could address nasty national security problems using these technologies.
	So he throws his own buddies under the bus there, kind of.
	I'd say.
	It was the other guy.
	Dude named Ben!
	That's right.
	We'll get a dude named Ben.
	We'll hang him up at some point in the future.
	They will, too.
	But now, was he saying that the president's email address is something that maybe is like AOL.com or Hotmail?
	Because it would maybe be POTUS44 at Hotmail.
	It would be something corny, that's for sure.
	Yeah, and then to say, well, I guess we're just idiots.
	But yeah, if you, I mean, do you not see the email address ever?
	Yeah.
	I mean, this is the tech guru?
	Oh, I didn't know.
	Okay.
	Yeah, that's a good point.
	Yeah.
	I wasn't in charge of that.
	Then you just looked at...
	Just send it.
	It wasn't like it didn't say B.Obama.
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	Mm-hmm.
	I thought the guy had some clue.
	No.
	Well, he may, but he's not talking.
	Any more on these debates, which are becoming very annoying to me?
	Yeah, well, they're annoying to everybody, I'm sure.
	And I don't think the recent booing of Trump is going to have much of an effect, because I don't think, especially, you know, you had that debate, I believe it was up against the slam dunk competition for the all-star game of the NBA. And it's, you know,
	and I'm not going to say anything racial, but since I watched it, But I think any black person in South Carolina, if they had a choice between watching some basketball, quality basketball slam dunks, and I'd say the whites too.
	Well, let's see.
	We have, for last night's Republican debate, it looks like a 9.3 household rating on the overnight.
	That is going to be, I'm going to say 13, 14 million people.
	No, it's on CBS, so at least it wasn't a cable station.
	And they had real ads, unlike on CNN and other cable news channels.
	Man, there was boom, boom, boom, big ads.
	They went big.
	You remember, Les Moonves is really happy about this.
	And we had that from his little conference call with the investors.
	How happy.
	Oh, please, call each other names.
	Better for us.
	And they pre-sold this big.
	They made a lot of money last night.
	Well, I don't know how many people in South Carolina watched it, which I think is what you want.
	But, okay.
	We will...
	Oh, a couple more things.
	Hold on.
	There's only 20 more of these debates, so we'll follow them as best we can.
	Damn it, I left my notes in the living room.
	I needed to just ask you what your feeling was from a production standpoint.
	We had two things that I noticed.
	Who was the woman who got to ask questions with the long face?
	On CBS? Yeah.
	She got to ask a couple questions.
	I don't know.
	She had the worst lip smack in the world.
	Oh, yes.
	That's a good point.
	Mr.
	Trump.
	And whoever designed the set and thought that was a good background color should be fired.
	Orange?
	Well, again, if you think about it...
	Yeah, make Trump bleed away into the background with his orange head.
	Yeah, his orange head.
	And orange is not a peaceful color.
	Orange is...
	No.
	We had a guy one time, when I was at Tech TV, when I was doing Silicon Spin, we had this, for years, a couple years, we had this boring blue set that I kept bitching about.
	Blue as in chroma key blue or just blue?
	No, no.
	It was like a baby blue.
	It was a pale blue.
	And we were keyed on green.
	So it was this baby blue and it was stupid.
	And it just looked...
	It was like worse than PBS when in this worst era of news art with that blue...
	And I kept complaining about it.
	Why can't we change the set?
	Can't we do something?
	And I was pushing for what I still like the most, which is what's called the Abyss, which is using a black neutral...
	This cloth is felt that you surround the set with.
	And that's what a Charlie Rose uses.
	So you have no...
	There's no set.
	It's just like an Abyss.
	Yeah, it's infinity.
	It's called an Abyss.
	And it's a cool...
	To take pictures against and everything, because there's nothing there.
	The camera just can't pick it up.
	And I was told that magicians, especially the ones in Las Vegas, use this stuff to an extreme sleight of hand.
	You can't see it.
	It's like it's invisible.
	So the guy that was the production manager of the whole operation, he got sick of listening to me complain.
	He said, okay, we're going to fix the set.
	So he himself...
	Came in one weekend and painted the set orange.
	He was pissed at you.
	Like, I'll get that guy.
	Could be.
	I'll get that guy.
	So I come in, I go, what is this?
	And so we had one, so within a couple of days of this orange and red set, we had some redhead woman come in, and I swear to God, she looked bald on this set.
	Excellent.
	Alright, do we have any more in these debates, or are we done?
	I'm done.
	I don't see anything else on the list.
	Well, in that case, let me thank you for your courage and passion, and say in the morning to you, John C, where the C stands for Chroma, Kimi, and Green, Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning, all boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning, everybody in the chat room, noagendastream.com.
	Good to see you all lined up there this morning.
	In the morning to our artist, Sir Slough, who brought us the artwork for episode 7, 9, or 8.
	And I'm trying to think, what was it?
	This episode was Dangerous Speech and the artwork.
	Oh, yeah.
	It was kind of the no agenda on the Trump plane flying over the donkey and the elephant.
	It was nice.
	Nice piece.
	Yeah, that was an old piece.
	It was an old piece.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can find all of the submissions.
	And we have some people already sending you, and I have a couple as well, artwork for the 800th episode.
	Right.
	The artwork is due Monday.
	Choose something.
	Yes, it's due tomorrow.
	On Monday, a holiday.
	Yeah.
	Isn't that great?
	Right, we have to just make a decision on that artwork.
	Yeah, so I have a couple.
	You have a couple.
	And I want people to know it's still open and available again in these show notes for today.
	Make sure you find the template because somebody said something that was square.
	I don't know what they were thinking.
	I have a link to the exact documents that Apple gave me for the dimensions.
	And the restrictions such as no Nazi stuff.
	Nothing says no agenda like a big swastika.
	I'm really disappointed.
	Actually, the guy who sent one piece is all Nazi stuff.
	Yeah, no.
	Yeah, no.
	Alright, let's thank a few people for show, despite our problems with the mail, and that will continue, I bet.
	I think it accounts for some anomalies I've been noticing.
	We have one executive producer, and then the rest are associate executive producers, so it's down.
	But our...
	Our executive producer is Kobe Hung.
	$400 out of Hong Kong.
	It's Heil John and Adam.
	I want to share my red pocket money from Chinese New Year with you.
	I also bumped myself up to the baronet level.
	Very nice.
	Sir Kobe.
	By the way, Adam, Hung is my Chinese name.
	It's not fake.
	I didn't think it was fake.
	I blame PayPal for putting last names to appear first in the system, even though everything was done in English.
	Eric probably hand-ripped it back.
	And that's not only just in China that they do this.
	In Russia we get...
	Oh yeah, we also reverse, yep.
	Sequoia of Alexander, yep.
	I want de-douching for not donating more frequently.
	And throw in some JDC You Will Obey and Jobs Karma.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Alright, thank you for your courage.
	You've been de-douched.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	That's nice.
	Ronald Gardner in San Diego, California, comes in as associate executive producer, $222.22.
	I do not have a...
	Hold on.
	I think I might have had something from him.
	Hold on a second.
	Yeah, maybe.
	Let me see.
	Gardner.
	I sent a whole bunch of stuff to Eric.
	Um...
	No?
	No.
	No, nothing.
	No, I was wrong.
	Okay.
	Nothing.
	Send us a note.
	Well, hold on a second.
	They just sent it to the email address that's in the newsletter.
	If they get the newsletter.
	How do you spell it?
	Is it I-N-E-R? No.
	Gardner N-E-R. Just Gardner?
	J-R-D-N-E-R? Yeah.
	That's what the spreadsheet says.
	The spreadsheet never lies.
	Never lies.
	Ronald Gardner notification and there's no note.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	That's that.
	We'd get more attention than if he had a note.
	True.
	All right.
	Martin, I think he's a Sir, Sir Ronald.
	Martin Fellner in Austria, $214.15.
	And this is a call-out.
	This is the offer of call-outs today for Valentine's Day.
	Ah, $214.16, yes.
	$214.16.
	Dude, John, in case you're having trouble pronouncing my address, pronounce it like Siri does.
	Wolfshit.
	Go Siri!
	With this donation, my donation exceeds $1,000, but I'd like to give the resulting knighthood to someone else.
	I fought with my girlfriend of three years over Christmas and was forced to break up with her because I couldn't see our future anymore.
	But just two weeks later, I wrote her a letter, and it turns out she started listening to the show.
	They started breaking up.
	This is how it worked.
	She broke up, and they broke up because of the show.
	And so she goes back.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	You've got to go back a little bit.
	You've got to go back a little bit.
	It's more like, this fucking guy, everything he sees, it's bad and evil conspiracy.
	He's always so negative.
	I can't handle this guy anymore.
	He doesn't like life.
	That stupid show.
	That stupid show.
	He's always talking about the guys.
	The guys this, the guys that.
	The guys said this, the guys said that.
	I hate this guy.
	And then these guys.
	So they break up and she says, you know, I've never really listened to this show.
	Yeah.
	Let me listen to a couple and see what it was that broke us up.
	So the first time she listened, she goes, oh my god!
	I was so wrong!
	Yeah.
	These guys are smart!
	Turns out, she started listening to the show.
	I'd always tried to hit her in the mouth, but she always had some excuse why she wouldn't listen or couldn't.
	Now, she did.
	She was pretty much a different person.
	Ah!
	Play the theremin.
	Theremin hit.
	Oh, wow.
	Why can't I find the theremin?
	Is it theremin?
	How do you spell it?
	T-H-E-R. T-H-E-R. A-M-I-N. Oh.
	I don't know where your theremin hit is.
	This is bad.
	Oh.
	All right, well, I'll continue.
	I'll see if I can find it.
	I'll see if I can find it.
	I could do it.
	Instead of the theremin hit, I could do it.
	Don't you have your theremin there live?
	I mean, I only have...
	I always try to hit her in her mouth, but she always has some excuse where she will.
	Now, she did.
	She's pretty much a different person.
	And I could see her future again.
	Did no agenda help her be a better person?
	Coincidence?
	I think not.
	Another hit there.
	And after that, my boss has raised my salary, bought a car for me, and exchanged my debt with a bank for a private loan without interest.
	I believe I got some serious no-agenda karma.
	Anyway, the knighthood goes to her.
	Please name her Lady Lynn, L-I-N, the Dame of Lynn's.
	The Dame of Lidens.
	Is that where they make the chocolate?
	Oh, yes.
	Very nice.
	I give her the full honors of the round table.
	I'd like to request an Obama no-no-no, la cucaracha, because she likes it.
	I don't know.
	Please give her some karma and tell her that she's the most beautiful woman in the world, and I love her more than anything, and tell her this in German.
	Oh, you can do it in Dutch, which is close enough.
	Oh, no, this has got it written here.
	You can do this.
	You can read this better than I can.
	All right.
	I'm happy to go to Austria.
	Good Valentine's Day, my dear.
	Gern to me deduschen.
	What?
	He needs to deduschen.
	You've been deduscht.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	That's not the right one.
	I gotta find the right one.
	You've got karma.
	Yeah.
	I've got to find the cucaracha.
	I'll put it at the end of the show.
	Do the cucaracha at the end.
	I don't know where it is, though.
	That's a problem.
	It's not called...
	How do you get the rest of the show to find it?
	Cucacacacarucha.
	And see if he finds a theremin.
	Jeez.
	I don't know.
	This is very strange.
	I should have been calling for it more often.
	It wouldn't have gotten lost.
	But it did.
	Onward!
	Sir Mad Hatter, Knight of the Fifth Column in Fairfield, Connecticut.
	$214.15.
	And he's got some sort of a thing going on.
	If I can get it to open...
	Alright, you have to start reading.
	Oh, I got it, I got it, I got it finally.
	Donations from Sir Manhattan, Night of the Fifth Column.
	Gentlemen, this donation at 214.16 will bring me to the level of baron.
	I would like to be the baron on Connecticut.
	The baron on Connecticut, as much as I hate this state.
	Make it a baron of Connecticut.
	Yeah, I think that's better.
	On the state, if the state has already been claimed, I'll settle for a baron of Fairfield County.
	Now you got Connecticut.
	Job Karma has paid off or received two offers of employment a couple of weeks ago and accepted a new position, which I will start sometime in March.
	I got to scroll down at the bottom of the page.
	Finally, a happy Valentine's Day.
	Happy Valentine's Day.
	That's not for scotch.
	A happy Valentine's Day to my wife, Dame Jamie.
	She came up with this jingle combo.
	Please play, Hillary.
	We came, we saw, we went, and then the rest of the thing is missing on my sheet.
	Oh, please clap.
	Oh, please.
	Please clap.
	Keep up the excellent deconstruction of the media.
	Thank you for your courage, Sir Mad Hatter.
	Thank you, Sir Mad Hatter.
	So, I mean, that is the land of unconfirmed videos.
	We came, we saw, he died.
	Please clap.
	You've got karma.
	Could you name theremin anything else by any chance?
	Is that possible?
	Theremin.
	Oh, it might be, yeah.
	But I think it was theremin.
	Yeah.
	No, no, no.
	Remember, you sent it to me.
	Maybe you named it something else because it was in response to something that I had sent you.
	Remember?
	Oh, it was a spooky sound or something?
	Yeah, it was.
	Oh, right.
	It was one of those phony names that I give you to play because you think it's going to be one thing and then it's something else that cracks you up.
	Yeah, and now we don't remember what it was.
	That's us.
	Good work.
	Oh!
	Dame Bang Bang.
	$214.16.
	Happy Valentine's Day to Dame Bang Bang.
	The love of my life.
	This obviously did not come from Dame Bang Bang.
	It would be D.H. Slammer.
	So happy with you and the kids.
	We should try for a fourth.
	Now he's asking for sex.
	Thank you for your courage, sir.
	D.H. Slammer.
	Baron of the Central California Coast Ventura to Santa Cruz.
	P.S. If it pleases the host, can I get some more job karma?
	Hey, did you get her book?
	Dane Bang Bang's book about boots on the ground in Syria.
	They did a Kickstarter a while back.
	I think we mentioned it on the show.
	I don't know.
	Maybe.
	I've got a pile of books, unfortunately, I haven't looked at.
	Yeah, it's really cool.
	The front cover of the book is, you know, you see a tent.
	This is shot in Syria.
	And on the 10th is the number 33.
	I mean, these guys are good.
	Ah, nice.
	I like that a lot.
	Jobs, Carmen.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	On for James Jamie Richard.
	Watertown, Massachusetts.
	That's 214-16.
	My Valentine's donation is after my smoking hot, amazing South African wife, Helene.
	Since she's an Afrikaner.
	Afrikaner, yeah.
	Afrikaner.
	I request that Adam read this in his Dutch accent since it's close enough.
	Go!
	Hold on, I was getting his clips.
	Okay, where are we?
	Uh...
	Honey, I love you.
	You make my world complete.
	Thanks for being in my life and sharing your wonderful personality and family with me.
	Even though I'm not perfect, I am doing my best to be better and listen.
	I love you so much, honey.
	Now let me put my dick in it.
	Thank you, Adam and John, for being there for us and guarding our reality.
	I hit Helene in the mouth a few months ago after we started dating, and we listen to you every week.
	Should be twice a week.
	We look forward to hearing your thoughts on the demise of Justice Scalia.
	And that is what you got earlier.
	So we did our job.
	I think we did, yes.
	Onward.
	Wait, didn't he want some things there?
	Oh, yes, he does.
	Give me a shout-out.
	Don't eat me, Hillary.
	Shut up, slave.
	Stay out of my vagina.
	Howard Dean scream.
	Oh, geez.
	Okay, the Dean scream.
	See, this is why it's very difficult for me to read things.
	No, I get it.
	Dean scream.
	What was the whoopee?
	Start with Don't Eat Me Hillary, Shut Up Slave, Stay Out of My Vagina, Howard Dean.
	Don't Eat Me Hillary Clinton!
	Get out of my vagina!
	You've got karma.
	I like the other scream better for that sequence.
	Well, but when you ask the Dean scream, you get the Dean scream.
	Yeah, I know, but can you have the other one at the ready?
	Yeah, the scream, yeah, of course I have that scream.
	Hit it.
	This is the...
	I want to hear it.
	Calm down.
	Yeah, it's much better.
	That's better than the Wilhelm scream.
	Much better.
	That's the best scream ever.
	Symbio Agency, 21416, New York, New York.
	Thanks, Adam and John.
	That's a Valentine's call-out for somebody.
	I don't have anything, but thanks, Adam and John.
	Maybe it's for us.
	Gerald Howard, 21416 Montclair, New Jersey.
	John and Adam, thanks for the amazing show.
	This Valentine is for my soon-to-be wife, Dawn, D-A-W-N Howard.
	She's the guardian of my heart and the shape of my destiny.
	She is beautiful in every way and makes me happy every day.
	Ooh, a rhyme.
	I will love her forever.
	LGY plus karma, please.
	Yay!
	You've got karma now.
	With the 214 without the 16, this is Dame Astrid, Duchess of Japan.
	Does she say anything in this note?
	Dear Adam Congress Curry, dear John Campaign Manager Dvorak, loving you both more and more with every show I listen to.
	Happy Valentine's from Dame Astrid, the Duchess of Japan.
	Nice.
	Very nice.
	Thank you.
	John Miller, 2101 in Walnut Grove, California.
	And he says, oh man.
	I think I'm just going to give a giant monitor.
	Hey guys, I'm giving back to you what I feel is partly yours to receive.
	After my last donation, I would have liked to have asked for job karma.
	But I couldn't give even you enough to cover the value for value you asked for.
	So it wouldn't have been right to ask.
	But I got the job promotion anyway.
	Yeah.
	Perfect.
	You can't beat that.
	So it's like just giving that small amount did the karma trick.
	So here's your portion.
	This is how it works.
	So here's your portion for being the best podcast in the universe.
	And I should also cover my negative debt regarding the value for value I've been missing out on and then some for the future.
	I'd like a de-douching because I've been a douchebag millennial for certain.
	Uh-oh.
	I do feel bad about it, though.
	Thanks for doing what you do.
	Give him that and karma.
	Yeah, of course.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	This is good.
	This is...
	Now we're at a couple $200 donors, which are kind of...
	This is the...
	800 quarters.
	And starting with...
	Craig Dash now in Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia.
	Do I have the beginning of this thing again?
	I've got to scroll up.
	I have after nickel and diming.
	I got it.
	Okay.
	As my $5 a month donation of various $60 and $70 donations in honor of the 800 episode, I am donating 800 quarters.
	I'd like to thank you for keeping me informed about not only the American, but the world in general.
	And by the way, the Australians, if you get Australian television, which I do, they really cover American news to an extreme.
	I agree.
	I think that's one of the reasons they like listening to our show, to find out what's the truth.
	What nuttiness we're up to.
	I'd like to thank Eric for putting up with me as the only Aussie in the Port Angeles meetup, even though it's my hometown.
	Oh, he came from Port Angeles.
	He lives in Australia.
	John, I hope you get your beer.
	Sorry, Adam.
	I tried to send you yours via the post only to find out it was illegal.
	He got his beer, too.
	I got the beer.
	I still have one bottle left.
	Really love.
	You should take that bottle to that meetup that you're going to have in Arkansas.
	Okay, I can do that.
	Don't you think?
	Yeah, that sounds good.
	Gather around and have thumbnails, a shot glass full of no agenda beer.
	And everyone can watch me drink it.
	Great.
	I'll be in Europe until the end of March, until April, so there is a slight chance I can meet up somewhere there.
	There's an Austrian that wants to do a meetup.
	I'd like to ask for a plane seat upgrade karma, and I'm sure Adam can attest there is not enough leg room.
	If you're tall, he's 6'9".
	Holy moly!
	No, that sucks!
	It totally blows unless you've got basketball income.
	Oh, man.
	I'd like to call everyone living in the United States that do not donate as douchebags.
	You bastards can pay $60 while the rest of the world pays $84 or worse.
	Cheap, lazy, worthless, blah, blah, blah.
	He's just scolding the audience.
	As for jingles, please, John and Adam, pick your favorite jingles from two years ago.
	What's your favorite jingle from two years ago?
	I don't know, but I can go back to two years if you want.
	I can just go down randomly.
	I'm going all the way down to the bottom of the list.
	Hold on, let's see what I can get.
	I'm just going to pull something from whatever we get here, and what is this?
	America is one big pothole right now.
	We have not paid attention to our roads and bridges.
	We haven't.
	It's 78 years old, never been arrested before.
	Did you talk to the president?
	That's no good.
	I like the first one.
	Play that again.
	That was kind of interesting, wasn't it?
	I'll play that again and then we'll hit the karma.
	Here we go.
	Where are we here?
	Oh.
	Ah, geez.
	I lost it.
	I'm just going to go with karma.
	You've got karma.
	Alright, that's the end of our little group of producers, associate executive and executive producers.
	We want to remind people we do have a show coming up that could use some help on Thursday, which will be show 800.
	Yes.
	I want to remind people that you can donate $80, $8.
	You can donate $200, which is 800 quarters, or you can donate $800 if you feel like that, which would be very appreciated.
	And go to Dvorak.org slash NA. There's links there.
	You can find the one for the generalized contribution.
	And?
	I doubt if you're going to get a newsletter.
	Yeah.
	Let's get away with us.
	I still have one more guy.
	Did I do...
	No.
	Did you miss someone?
	Yeah.
	Did I do Sir Hank?
	I don't think so.
	No.
	Oh, Sir Hank.
	Viscount of Queens.
	Sorry.
	Q Gardens.
	I don't know why I would jump the gun.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Can I get some travel karma for an upcoming work trip?
	No note.
	Just warm wishes on the 800 show.
	Looking forward to 800 Mars.
	And I want to say Happy Valentine's to Tina Marie.
	Love you.
	You want to say Happy Valentine's to anybody?
	I say Happy Valentine's to my wife and daughter.
	Oh.
	I'll see.
	And I'll say Happy Valentine's to my daughter, too.
	And I got them some very high-end chocolates.
	My daughter does not like Valentine's, eh?
	She doesn't?
	No, she feels a stupid-ass corporate holiday.
	It is.
	It's completely stupid.
	She will not have none of it.
	Well, she goes, she fits right in with the clip that I have.
	Let me thank everybody.
	Let me get out of here.
	Let's do our little thing.
	And then I do want to hear your clip.
	A reminder, we have no agenda meetups going on all over the place.
	We just had one in Connecticut.
	Send me a couple of, that was Dame Jamie, I think.
	That nice little meetup there.
	So get these meetups going, people.
	It's nice.
	Meetup.com slash noagenda.
	And indeed, we'll be thanking people in our regular donation segment.
	And of course, we have another show coming up on Thursday.
	Remember us.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. And before we get to that clip, which is for my daughter, I guess, be out there propagating the formula, please.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Hey, citizens.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Well, here's a Valentine's Day clip.
	Uh-huh.
	It was on PBS. It's news.
	It's a news item.
	And I think she should listen to this clip and reevaluate her take on Valentine's Day.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	And on this Valentine's Day weekend, police in Iran have declared a crackdown.
	They say retailers who run Valentine's promotions will be charged with promoting decadent Western culture.
	In particular, that means no special events at coffee or ice cream shops where young lovers might exchange gifts.
	Aww.
	Aww.
	That's bastards. - Bastards indeed.
	I'm in agreement with it.
	It's a fake bony baloney holiday, but it's a tradition.
	It's a ritual.
	You just can't kick it to the curb.
	No, of course.
	Of course.
	The Hallmark would be out of business.
	Yes, correct.
	And they do good work.
	We sell a little piece of paper for two bucks, you know, with an envelope that fits.
	What are you going to do?
	We had a lot happening in Geneva.
	We already heard that there was a ceasefire probably planned for March 1st, but there seems to be a lot of confusion about exactly what is going on and what is happening and who's in charge.
	I have here...
	There was also Assad.
	Bashir al-Assad did an interview.
	Let me see.
	First, I have the Saudi foreign minister.
	So everyone was out there in Geneva.
	And besides, you know, the talks, which are kind of there, not there, they're in hotels, and everyone's doing interviews.
	And the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, who's a very well-spoken English speaker, he's quite clear what their stance is towards Saudi Arabia at the moment.
	And we know Saudi Arabia has clearly communicated they're ready to invade Syria, put boots on the ground.
	In Syria, we are working to bring about change, political change, if possible, to what is happening in Syria in order to remove a man who is responsible for the murder of 300,000 people, the displacement of 12 million, And the destruction of a nation.
	A man who was the single most effective magnet for extremists and terrorists in the region.
	Kerry?
	That's what you'd think.
	It'd be Noodleman, Kagan, Kerry.
	No, he's talking about Assad.
	Assad gave an interview to AFP, Agent France-Presse, and he made it even more confusing.
	From the beginning, we're going to believe faith.
	We have fully believed in negotiations and in political actions since the beginning of this crisis.
	However, if we negotiate, it does not mean that we stop fighting terrorism.
	The two tracks are inevitable in Syria, first through negotiations and second through fighting terrorism.
	Okay, that is something that is not being highlighted very much.
	But this deal, this apparent ceasefire, is just a ceasefire for what the Russians may be doing.
	But it is not, by any means, a ceasefire against terrorism.
	But of course, we know a lot of these terrorist groups are the opposition that the United States has been been supplying with weapons and I'm sure funding, etc.
	Those are our guys.
	So what they're saying is, you know, we're willing to stop fighting, but we're not going to stop fighting terrorism, which is kind of the same thing.
	The fighting would just continue.
	It seems like a lot of, you know, set dressing.
	So Kerry gave his opinion, a little stand up speech.
	The vast majority, in our opinion, of Russia's attacks have been against legitimate opposition groups.
	And to adhere to the agreement that has been made, we think it is critical that Russia's targeting change.
	And the entire ISSG, including Russia, has agreed to work to make that happen.
	This needed a response from Foreign Minister Lavrov of Russia.
	Simply saying without any foundation for five months that we are doing something wrong and refusing strongly to sit down using maps and look at facts is not an approach.
	It is propaganda.
	Propaganda was popular in Soviet times in our country.
	Right now we have abandoned this.
	Practice, but it seems that a lot of manifestations of such trends are still present in mass media in other countries.
	I believe this is a British media that took an interview from Ban Ki-moon and published this interview with unscrupulous versions of what is said.
	He never mentioned Russia.
	He just called for the end of any actions that lead to sufferings of civilians.
	The interviewer allowed himself to put into the mouth of the UN Secretary General the statements that he was saying all those things about Russia.
	So, yes, they are all lies.
	Okay, so this, obviously that was, Lavrov was speaking in Russian, so that's why I had the translation.
	What happened is the Financial Times, the London's Financial Times, did an interview with Ban Ki-moon where he was talking about, you know, all kinds of situations, things that need to be, you know, certain parties need to do certain things, but he was very, he did not say that he was speaking about Russia, and they published it saying he was clearly talking about Russia.
	And so it was this big blow-up.
	And for FT to do that, that was, I'd say, propagandistic.
	And that's what Lavrov was also douchebagging.
	Very douchebagging.
	And, you know, Bunky Moon had to come out and say something about it.
	Taking orders from our State Department.
	Well, that's what he said.
	He said, it's crazy to accuse us of being propagandists when, oh, look who's doing the very same thing.
	And then we had a little statement from Lavrov, which was, you know, in English because he's really just laying down the line now.
	My point is you should not demonize Assad.
	You shouldn't demonize anyone except terrorists in Syria.
	And the humanitarian issues must be resolved through cooperation.
	Mind you.
	To say, unless all humanitarian problems are over, unless violence stops completely, we're not going to negotiate, is a road to nowhere.
	It's a blunt provocation.
	I like what you said.
	It is a road to nowhere.
	It's a road to nowhere.
	It made me think, you know...
	I thought maybe...
	Hold on a second.
	Let me ISO it.
	If you've confused me, I was perfectly in time.
	Hold on.
	Here we go.
	I'll ISO it here.
	Here we go.
	It's a road to nowhere.
	It's a blunt provocation.
	It's a road to nowhere.
	It's a blunt provocation.
	Hey!
	Hey!
	Anyway, back to MTV Roots.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So it is a road to nowhere.
	Yeah.
	Nothing is going to happen.
	It is going to be some set dressing of some kind.
	Why do they keep trying to pull these stunts?
	A lot of it has to do...
	The State Department is completely out of control.
	And that Kirby guy has just got to go, that guy.
	Did you get anything from Kirby?
	He needs to be a four-star admiral.
	Yeah.
	But he has all the earmarks of like a Navy captain, you know, the guys who run the ships.
	I've talked about this before.
	Yeah.
	And...
	Did you get anything on him?
	Very arrogant.
	Did you get anything on him?
	Anything good?
	On what?
	Kirby?
	From Kirby, yeah.
	Any clips?
	No, I don't.
	Kirby's always kind of cool.
	Let's see.
	I got to change the topic a little bit.
	Okay.
	Well, actually, since we're on propaganda, let's change the topic in this direction.
	Let's play the North Korean rocket.
	This is a report off of CBS. And they're talking about demonizing and propaganda.
	This whole rocket thing from North Korea has been just completely bogus.
	It's just all bullshit.
	They say they launched a satellite.
	That's what they say.
	Supposedly, according to us, it's flipping around.
	It took a picture of the Super Bowl.
	It went over the Super Bowl.
	Oh, look, a picture from them!
	Okay, fine.
	Whatever.
	So play North Korean Rocket One.
	And listen to you for the propaganda about...
	This is just to sell more weapons to South Korea.
	Military industrial complex as confirmed by my Uncle Don.
	Tonight, the U.S. and Pacific allies are considering how to respond to North Korea's latest missile launch.
	The missile reached orbit, but in theory, could have easily reached the United States as well.
	The U.N. has made these tests, and here's David Martin.
	The North Korean launch, which was watched by its brash young leader, succeeded in putting a satellite into space.
	But U.S. officials say it is tumbling.
	Let's listen to the propagandistic term right there.
	It was watched by its brash young...
	Brash.
	Brash, yeah.
	Why don't they just use his name?
	And he's not that young.
	How old is he?
	He's not like 12.
	No.
	Okay, so let's just keep it running.
	Keep the propaganda turned way up.
	Brash young leader.
	And then they have some B-roll of the guy sitting at a desk.
	Launch, which was watched by its brash young leader, succeeded in putting a satellite into space.
	That is propagandistic.
	Extremely.
	Is that the end of that clip?
	That's the end of that clip.
	Then we go to the second part where the guy does a little more.
	There's news media all in with the State Department or whoever, the Defense Department.
	I'm not sure who they're pitching for to just demonize this operation.
	Consider it.
	Oh, they built a missile, even though it's a satellite, put a satellite up, because no one will cooperate with them and let them, you know, they're not sending up a SpaceX satellite.
	You know, they may have, they have use, everyone has uses for satellites.
	North Korea's cut out.
	Because, so they have to do their own missile program.
	So they do a missile program.
	Oh, the missile could carry a nuke, because the satellite weighs about as much as a nuke.
	And so here's the play.
	North Korea, for some reason unknown to anyone, is going to send a missile and then bomb the United States with the one bomb they've got.
	For what purpose and what do they expect out of this except to be completely wiped off the face of the earth by our thousands and thousands of missiles?
	Does this make any sense to Andy?
	No, it does make sense because he's insane!
	He's nuts!
	He's the brash young leader.
	Well, you know what's even crazier?
	That today is the closing date to sign up for the Pyongyang Marathon, which returns April 10, 2016.
	And you can sign up with the DPRK Tour Operator URL Tours, and you can go over there and you can run the marathon.
	Everybody is eligible.
	Well, they're probably going to kill these people.
	They're trying to kill us.
	They will get killed.
	Never posing a threat to the United States, which had its missile defense system on alert just in case.
	The satellite is roughly the same size as a nuclear warhead.
	When combined with last month's underground nuclear explosion, North Korea seems slowly but surely to be developing a long-range missile that could hit the U.S. with a nuclear weapon.
	The U.S. and South Korea immediately announced they would begin talks on sending a new missile defense system to the peninsula.
	In effect, adding another layer to the missile defenses already deployed to protect South Korea.
	What bullcrap.
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	It's your turn.
	Well, I had the thing about DPRK. There was a couple other things we definitely need to talk about.
	Just in regards to the caliphate, Turkey is now playing hardball with Europe, and it's really starting a big problem.
	Erdogan and his cronies are saying, you know, yeah, if you don't pay us 3.3 billion euros, we're going to let another 50,000 people flow into Europe.
	Have you seen this story?
	Yeah, and have you listened to Erdogan and both the Prime Minister and the President berating Europe, telling us we're a-holes?
	Uh-huh.
	This is ridiculous.
	So Orban is the...
	What is Orban?
	He's the Prime Minister?
	Well, he would...
	No, I'm sorry.
	Orban is hungry.
	I'm sorry.
	Orban is hungry, yeah.
	He's got some crazy name I can never remember.
	He's the Prime Minister.
	He's the one we're real for.
	So he is actually accusing...
	Germany and Turkey of a secret pact to flood Europe with another 500,000 quote-unquote illegals.
	The guy from Hungary?
	Yeah, Orban.
	So he's worried.
	Let's say that again?
	He is accusing Germany and Turkey of having a secret pact to flood Europe with another half million illegals.
	That's the quote.
	That's kind of an interesting thesis because the whole thing is kind of suspicious and it was triggered by Germany.
	Yep.
	And now Merkel is looking to form a coalition of the willing now that France has said, you know what?
	We're done.
	No more for us.
	We can't have any more.
	So they're backing out.
	And this is not atypical for France and Germany to get into a little kerfuffle over something before we light it all up.
	She's looking at a coalition of the willing who are willing to take in refugees.
	And this is a big, big discussion point everywhere.
	So she is meeting with this coalition of the willing in Brussels.
	This will be right ahead of the EU summit.
	And let me see, who does she have or who do we suspect that she has in this coalition?
	We have, hold on a second, I think it's Sweden, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, and am I missing anybody?
	I think that's what I got.
	Now, the people in the Netherlands are already freaking out.
	It's like, why should we be in this?
	Greece also will also be in this, and Austria will be in the Coalition of the Willing.
	This is very...
	I would almost say Merkel is now herself trying to break up the EU. You can't have little coalitions in there just because no one can figure out what to do with these migrants, asylum seekers.
	What's the coalition of the willing?
	What is their...
	They're willing to take refugees.
	Well, didn't she just say that they're not going to take any more?
	But she's putting together a deal.
	Whatever is going on, she can't just say no more because Erdogan has come out and said, oh, you don't want to do that?
	We're going to send you all this stuff.
	You want to pay us?
	We're going to send you all these people.
	So whatever her game is, she's bringing these other smaller countries into it.
	And the Dutch are like, why do we have to be in this coalition?
	We got enough people here already.
	We don't want these people in here.
	Especially the country so small.
	Yeah.
	It's neat.
	It's like one of those countries that has a lot of leeway.
	The United States is a big country that has the leeway.
	You just ship them, put them all in Arizona.
	I mean, there's plenty of room.
	And so, of course, George Clooney was over there having a little tea with Merkel, with Amal, which, you know, if you think George Clooney gives a crap about it, you're wrong.
	He's promoting his movie.
	He was on Junket, a promo tour for his movie in Germany.
	Then Amal would never get a sit-down with Merkel unless accompanied by Clooney.
	So they're sitting down.
	Have you read the tabloids about her?
	No.
	I mean, the Truth magazines?
	No.
	Well, there's one, at least.
	Apparently, George is, like, sick and tired of her.
	I think we did discuss this.
	She's demanding her mom live with them.
	Yeah, we did talk about this.
	Yeah, and she doesn't want to live anywhere but in the big house in London, or outside of London, the big castle, where her mom has to be.
	And, you know, Clooney, of course, is all, you know, really...
	He's really...
	He has to be in Lake Como.
	Well, he's thinking of selling it because there's too many ruffians walking around.
	Lake Como?
	Yeah, sailing up to it.
	I think he doesn't want any migrants around this place.
	So he's thinking of selling it because people keep trespassing and walking up and little boats docking at his dock.
	Which, of course, is public property, but the mayor has put some ordinance into effect, much of the chagrin of local fishermen, etc.
	So, yeah, double standard.
	We've got to catch up with this story.
	Yeah.
	But the Coalition of the Willing Things is brand new.
	I just heard about it last night.
	And by the way, this guy marries some...
	Out of the blue, because we would think it was arranged, marries somebody like this woman...
	She's not in his cultural milieu.
	No, and that's hard.
	Yeah, it's very hard.
	For most people, they won't even marry a girl from the town won over.
	I certainly think my previous marriages, there was always a cultural disconnect.
	Even though I... I did grow up formative years in the Netherlands, you know, the first eight years, and there's a lot of stuff that, you know, just cultural stuff that just, it doesn't exist, and you kind of miss it.
	It's hard.
	Yeah, there's a lot of cultural issues when you get carried away.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Onward.
	Yeah, just staying in Euroland for one second.
	This is what's going on in Greece right now.
	The pictures are quite phenomenal to see.
	Which reminds me, that's where hook or crook comes from, I think.
	Shepherd's crooks.
	Shepherd's crooks.
	It's a long cane.
	Was that long cane with a hook on the end?
	I didn't see hooks, but they were like long...
	They're long canes.
	Long canes, yeah.
	So it says we poke a sheep.
	That's what they are, yeah.
	Sheep pokers.
	And these farmers, who all rolled up on these tractors, And, you know, they blocked off highways, and they got flags flying, you know, with, you know, Greek flags, and they walk right up to the riot police and just start hitting them on their shields and on their heads with these sticks.
	Oh, yeah, I saw these clips.
	They're fantastic.
	Protesting farmers attack riot police with shepherds crooks.
	As an angry crowd tries to storm the Ministry of Agriculture.
	Plumes of tear gas fill the air, while protesters take pot shots at office windows.
	Many of these farmers had travelled from the island of Crete to join a day of demonstrations that began with violence.
	From across the country, farmers converged on Athens in their thousands.
	This group came in convoy from Corinth.
	In the last two weeks, farmers have staged at least 70 blockades on highways across the country.
	Now they're taking their anger to the capital.
	The country is the people.
	These laws are not going to help the people.
	They're going to destroy them.
	Not only the farmers.
	Most of the society.
	On Syntagma Square in Athens, close to Parliament, some protesters have pitched tents.
	They say they'll be here for several days.
	We've come here to protest with determination and decisiveness.
	We won't leave here until we've found justice.
	Last year, the Greek government signed an agreement with its lenders, the International Monetary Fund and EU Finance Ministers.
	If it introduces a raft of deep-seated economic reforms, it would have access to a $95 billion bailout.
	The Greek government says the reforms are not a matter of choice, they're a matter of necessity.
	But the reforms will mean tax hikes and sharp increases in pension contributions.
	Changes these farmers say will make their small agricultural businesses no longer viable.
	As evening came, the crowds increased.
	Tractors that have been stopped by police on the edges of the city were allowed into the square.
	It was great!
	Thousands and thousands of people and tractors running everywhere.
	We need that here.
	Well, pay attention.
	You get these Greek farmers pissed off, man.
	They don't care.
	They do not care.
	It's like the French.
	French farmers are the same way.
	Yeah, they do not care.
	And also, apparently, according to this story, the story about Uber, the Uber strike in London, and I think this is beginning...
	You know, Uber's got some problems with this sort of thing.
	In Britain, thousands of taxi drivers brought downtown London to a standstill during a protest against Uber on Wednesday.
	Thousands of taxi drivers shut down the city's main streets and the area around Prime Minister David Cameron's house for 90 minutes.
	The taxi unions say they're protesting new government regulations.
	They say favor Uber and compromise driver safety.
	Wednesday's protest is the latest in a series of demonstrations against Uber.
	Taxi drivers in Paris, Hong Kong, Miami and other major cities have all protested.
	The Wall Street backed companies saying Uber threatens their union rights and livelihood.
	Union rights.
	When will people understand this is a slave wage platform?
	You should be happy with this.
	This will turn.
	When it hits, when the big boom hits in our financial lives, people will be so happy to have Uber.
	To be driving.
	They won't complain.
	Yeah, well, nobody's complaining.
	We're not it now.
	What do you mean they won't complain?
	Oh, you mean the taxi drivers?
	Anybody.
	No.
	It's not just...
	There's a lot of union noise against Uber.
	That's what's driving all of this stuff.
	That's what unions do.
	The problem with the cab drivers is...
	London has a long history of something very outdated, which they need to get over.
	Everybody knows exactly how to go.
	They have the knowledge.
	They learn for years how to drive the best routes, what route to take.
	GPS kind of outdated that.
	Well, it outdated that, but there's still shortcuts and stuff that the GPS doesn't recognize.
	They don't know.
	Right, but that's not saying that nobody knows.
	And by the way, if you go to London and you do take those cabs, and I don't have any objection.
	I mean, they're expensive relatively, but still, you don't use it that much.
	Two things.
	I got two stories.
	One, somebody did an analysis of the time when they had horse-drawn cabs.
	Mm-hmm.
	The analysis of going from point A to point B during that era in the 1700s, and today's cars, and the time from point A to point B is identical when it was horses.
	Really?
	Yeah, because the traffic was so less.
	Yeah, and of course traffic now is horrendous.
	And so there's no change.
	And the other thing, if you're in London, that's just a little tip, a little travel tip.
	If you can find, and there's ways I think you can ask for these cabs from some of the cab companies.
	There are these guys who do competitive cab, they enter their cabs into concourse delegances, which is kind of like a car show where the vehicles are dolled up.
	They're like in mint condition, everything's spit and polished.
	So I was in one of these cabs once and This cab dries up.
	The thing is shining, just glowing.
	It's got chrome rims, chrome wheels, and the inside is all just crazy.
	And I asked the guy, and he has a bunch of awards that he's plastered in the cab.
	It's actually quite interesting.
	It's a very nice ride.
	Pride they take.
	Anyway, onward, we have the same situation kind of happening in France with the Airbnb inspectors.
	Oh, I didn't hear about this.
	It's one of the world's most visited cities, but the tourists coming to Paris might have to find alternative accommodation.
	Holiday rentals such as Airbnb are now facing a clampdown as iPad-wielding authorities seek out apartments with improper authorizations.
	Hello, we're from the government, we have an iPad, we're here to help.
	The first step is finding them.
	We can recognize the building's courtyard from the picture, so we're going to take pictures to have proof of the location.
	In Paris, primary residences can be rented out on a short-term basis for a four-month period.
	But for all uninhabited and furnished residences, the landlord must ask for authorization from the local mayor's office.
	And for this flat owner who's being investigated, that's come as a surprise.
	Once again, I think it's another one of these constraints that France does so well.
	It's a bit of a rearguard action.
	Holiday rentals are a fruitful affair.
	In this building in Paris' central 6th arrondissement, an apartment measuring just over 1,700 square feet is on the market at 500 euros a night.
	The city of Paris is trying to clamp down on these offers to avoid the overinflation of property prices and apartments being left empty.
	What is at stake here is the face of Paris.
	Do we consider Paris to be nothing more than a haven for tourists?
	Or does Paris continue to be a city in which employees and middle-class families can continue to live?
	And if we wish for Paris to remain a city for its residents, that means we must protect housing to make sure they aren't transformed into fully furnished tourist flats.
	According to the Paris mayor's office, there are between 20,000 and 30,000 furnished short-term flats listed every year, the majority of them illegal.
	And with plans to join forces with New York and Barcelona, the crackdown has only just begun.
	This is rather interesting, as Tina and I are planning on going to Paris in April, and I was thinking, well, we'll get an Airbnb.
	And this, last I checked, there were plenty.
	Maybe this will be, oh, maybe we'll get rousted in the middle of the night.
	Might.
	You get rousted and thrown out in the street.
	Oh, man.
	Good news!
	Oh, I have good news.
	I want to point something out in this report that was kind of overlooked in terms of the reporters and the analysis.
	When they said the number, first they're going on, oh, the whole town's going to be ruined by these Airbnb douchebags, and there's not going to be any single-family dwellings.
	The middle class is down for the count.
	All this sort of thing.
	So then they say there's 20,000 of these things, which seems like a lot.
	Okay, there's 20,000, maybe 30, but there's 20,000 of these Airbnbs.
	They're not full-time, most of them.
	I mean, there's a couple.
	There's probably a few thousand people that just bought a flat and they rent it out constantly.
	But that's a minor number.
	But even if all 20,000 were doing this, that is 1%.
	1%, less than 1%, actually, of the population.
	It's very small, yeah.
	The population of Paris is 2.2 million.
	And so this is 20,000.
	Oh, we're doomed!
	What a bogus story.
	I will say that having used Airbnb a lot, certainly in the Netherlands, you run into this all the time now.
	It's just people who have four or five apartments.
	They may even be renting them themselves.
	They may not even own them.
	They're basically subletting.
	It does ruin the experience because it's not the way it was originally set up, which of course is also not the way Uber or Lyft was set up.
	Right.
	But it does kind of ruin the experience.
	But yeah, I don't know.
	Maybe it's just noise.
	I don't know.
	What are they trying to do?
	I don't think Airbnb is a big deal.
	And house sharing and trading is nothing new.
	I mean, before the internet, I knew a guy who was constantly doing this.
	It usually was done by a trading system.
	VBRO has been around for years.
	Yeah.
	And you get a big catalog.
	You get a big book.
	It used to be a book.
	Now it's the internet.
	And you can just do it on the internet.
	But there used to be these big books, which probably cost about five bucks to print.
	And it had all the houses and details you could thumb through.
	It was actually quite entertaining.
	Hey, good news.
	I found the theremin.
	One of the new types?
	No, the theremin sound.
	Oh, what was it called?
	Breathing.np3, remember?
	It was because of the breathing exercise that Tina and I had done.
	Oh, right.
	So now I remember.
	Okay.
	I've renamed it.
	Yes, I've renamed it.
	It's one of my favorite clips of the year.
	It's Valentine's Day.
	And our First Lady and President celebrated this, although not together, but on the Ellen Show.
	It was bizarre.
	I missed it.
	We have a surprise for you.
	Take a look.
	Surprise!
	Hi, honey.
	And hi, Bilal.
	Hold on a second.
	So, Ellen says, we have a surprise for you.
	And then they roll the tape.
	The president's clued in because he's already looking at the monitor.
	So, you know, it's not like a big surprise for him.
	Of course, you'll see this is scripted later on.
	But what is it?
	The first lady says something very strange.
	We have a surprise for you.
	Take a look.
	Surprise!
	Hi, honey.
	And hi, Bilal.
	Hi honey and hi Barack?
	Who's honey?
	Ellen?
	What?
	She says hi honey and hi Barack.
	Play that again so I can pull it out.
	We have a surprise for you.
	Take a look.
	Surprise!
	Hi honey and hi Barack.
	Hi honey and hi Barack.
	She comes in there, and a lesbian show.
	And says, hi, honey.
	Says, hi, honey, to the lesbian.
	Yeah, I think so.
	That's what it is.
	I saw that epic video.
	We have a surprise for you.
	Take a look.
	Surprise!
	Hi, honey.
	And hi for all.
	I just wanted to wish you a happy Valentine's Day.
	Oh, hold on.
	The chat room says there was a small girl next to Barack.
	Maybe I missed that.
	I don't know, but I didn't see her in the shot.
	It's our last one that will spin in the White House.
	And in honor of that, I wrote you a little Valentine's Day poem that I wanted to share.
	Okay, here it comes.
	This is The Ellen Show, one of the highest rated daytime talk shows.
	This is the first lady of the United States of America talking to her husband, the president, and has put together a Valentine poem.
	Roses are red, violets are blue, you are the president, and I am your boo.
	I wrote that while I was doing a hundred push-ups this morning.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Stunning.
	Stunning.
	Do you want to hear the whole bit where he...
	I want to hear more.
	You should try it, Ellen.
	No, really.
	You're the only person I'd share my husband with on Valentine's Day.
	Happy Valentine's Day.
	Yeah, because you're not dangerous.
	I mean, that's like a homophobic thing right there.
	You're the only person.
	I know you don't want him.
	That's obvious.
	You're gay.
	Person I'd share my husband with on Valentine's Day.
	I'm just saying.
	I feel there should have been a trigger warning.
	Happy Valentine's Day to you and Portia.
	And happy Valentine's Day to everyone.
	And Barack, I know there's a seized candy out there, so bring me something chocolatey back.
	You know what you need to do.
	Love to you both.
	Bye-bye.
	Love you, Mina.
	That was very sweet.
	That was very sweet.
	Yes.
	That was very sweet.
	Yes.
	That's her black code.
	So I thought I would help you out because you didn't know she was going to do that.
	So I set up a little...
	I didn't, but I was completely surprised.
	...setting.
	I've got something prepared.
	Which is a lie because he's about to read off the prompter.
	Wow.
	All right.
	Well, then I have a set for you.
	I was going to deliver it to her in person, but we can do it on the set.
	All right.
	On the set.
	All right, so you'll stand there.
	I'm going to stand here with the rose petals.
	I'm going to set the mood.
	Yeah, okay.
	All right.
	Is this good?
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Now, at this point, he really could have done a great job.
	He had the Barry White playing, which had to pot way down.
	He was not in the groove at all.
	It was really sad.
	Somebody call the Situation Room.
	Because things are about to get hot.
	Michelle, this Valentine's Day, I'm gonna treat you right.
	I'm gonna make you some zucchini bread.
	Then I'll spread out...
	That's gotta be code for something.
	Is that like water droplet zucchini?
	Zucchini bread?
	I don't know.
	Zucchini bread.
	It's an emoji joke, I think.
	Then I'll spread out some veggies on a plate.
	Veggies.
	Just the way you like them.
	Then I'm going to give you a massage while you watch Ellen's Design Challenge on HGTV. That was funny.
	Because I love you so much, I, Obama, care about you more than you even know.
	That's right.
	Obama cares.
	Michelle, I've made a lot of great decisions as president.
	The best decision I ever made was choosing you.
	Thanks for putting up with me.
	I love you.
	I would never say to any woman, I chose you.
	I would never say that.
	Would you?
	You know, that's a good question.
	It's not a great question.
	It's a good question.
	I would never say that.
	I chose you.
	I've never done that.
	No, I've never.
	I'd never say that.
	But I do it.
	You do it?
	No, I said no.
	I said would I do it.
	No.
	I don't think you.
	No.
	That's not cool.
	Because I chose you.
	That whole big...
	I think that's kind of slave behavior.
	It's like a...
	Kind of big litter.
	Don't you think that's like a slave thing?
	A slave thing?
	I chose you as my slave?
	No.
	It sounds like I chose you.
	I agree.
	There's something about it.
	It's not romantic.
	It's not a nice thing to say.
	Oh, unless, of course, you're The Bachelor and you're on a TV show.
	And you get the rose.
	Michelle, I've made a lot of great decisions as president.
	The best decision I ever made was choosing you.
	Thanks for putting up with me.
	I love you.
	And Ellen, happy Valentine's Day.
	We'll be right back.
	You can take that to the bank.
	Strange.
	Now, it reminds me, if anyone can look this up on Google, because he said, I, Obama, care for you.
	It's the worst.
	Yeah.
	There was a pun competition.
	They have it apparently every year, and now it's becoming a big deal.
	They're starting to do it here.
	But there's one in England, which would be the place where they do it, because the English language is rife for puns.
	And so look up on Google, look up...
	2016 Pun Champion and then it should be the link you want is The Mirror which is a miserable newspaper site but I have one of these open and I'll read a couple of puns.
	Okay.
	Supposed to be chauffeuring a female vicar but I drove past her.
	Oh God.
	It wasn't much fun having a broken neck but now I can look back and laugh.
	I did a gig at Eaton.
	Toth crowd.
	Counterfeiters, I just don't know how they make money.
	Oh, God.
	Okay, we need to stop.
	We need to stop right away.
	Here's the only thing you need to say to your woman this Valentine's Day.
	You cozy up to her.
	You go over to her.
	And you whisper in her ear.
	Big H Deutschland!
	Here is the Hoff!
	I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	We've got a few people to thank, but...
	But first, if a cat woman decided to go to Nepal, what would cat man do?
	Yeah, I'll leave with that.
	Let's thank a few people.
	Starting off with our buddy Armando.
	Armando Guerra here in Austin, Texas.
	Male carrier extraordinaire.
	Is he a knight now, isn't he, by now?
	He must be pretty close.
	You should ask him.
	I shall.
	Hey, are you a knight yet?
	Let us know.
	He'll get back to me.
	You need to post off as a night guy.
	Ben Blessing, which is a pun, in Surrey Hills, New South Wales, 8888.
	We need to give him a little ham call out.
	Now here we have ham radio, guys.
	Ham radio is the public service network of last resort.
	When the apocalypse comes, we're the guys who are going to save the world, right?
	Yeah, that's right.
	You can wait for it.
	88s.
	From K5AlphaCharlieCharlie.
	We have some well-wishers for our 800 shows.
	Not a lot of them.
	We have a lot of $8 donors, too.
	Nice.
	We have four $80 donors.
	David Oliver in Calistoga, California.
	Wayne Larcombe in Sunnybank someplace, Queensland, Australia.
	Tom Miller in Naperville, Illinois.
	And Chuck Walters in Schaumburg, Illinois.
	This means that Illinois is overrepresented as contributors to our anniversary, which is next Thursday.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A. Anonymous from Illinois, 75.
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	Edward Shidgy.
	It's C-H-I-D-G-E-Y. Could be Chidegy.
	He's in Hertfordshire in the UK, 5510.
	Gareth Kunchinkas, I believe.
	In Southington, Connecticut, double nickels on the diamond.
	The following people are $50 donors, and there's not that many.
	John Haller in Missoula, Montana.
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	Sir Paul from Horseheads in Elmira, New York.
	And finally, our regular Sir Mark Tanner.
	The one and only from Whittier, California, 50 bucks, and that's our group for today.
	Okay.
	Well, thanks to everyone who came in with the special 800s, 800 pennies.
	We had 800 dimes.
	Very nice.
	Appreciate it.
	Big, so this is the next one, 800 episodes.
	Yeah.
	800 pennies is like not even that many.
	We have one, two, three.
	Well, maybe people are holding on for the big day.
	They didn't get the email.
	Oh, they didn't get the email.
	Right.
	Damn.
	That hurts.
	Not even that.
	I had a special donation note.
	Did you see this from the back office from Eric?
	What did it say?
	Let's see.
	From Jack Smith.
	I didn't.
	I missed it.
	In the morning, lads.
	Call out to my girlfriend turned fiancé last night.
	I always said it would be a cliche to do it on Valentine's Day, but there we are.
	Marriage karma is humbly requested.
	Oh, yes.
	We shall do that.
	We shall do that.
	Oh, very nice.
	Very nice.
	Let us know if she said...
	Did she say yes?
	I guess she said yes.
	Well, this is the no agenda.
	She probably did.
	Otherwise, it's a crapshoot.
	They usually listen after the breakup.
	We have learned this.
	It takes a little while.
	All right.
	Well, I like the story about the breakup and then getting back together after she started listening.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	It's like a political thing.
	It's like the show creates a skeptical mindset needed for success in the world, as opposed to slavery and dupery being duped.
	And it makes you think a little differently.
	It sure does.
	All right.
	Thank you all very much.
	Next episode, which will be on Thursday, Thursday the, what is it, 17th?
	No.
	Thursday.
	Episode 800.
	And we appreciate you thinking of us.
	Dvorak.org slash N. A bit of karma for everybody who needed it.
	You've got karma.
	Oh yes indeed.
	Very, very short list today, but let's do it.
	The jingle is longer than the list.
	Steve Edwards celebrates his birthday tomorrow and we say happy birthday from your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe.
	New titles.
	Sir Mad Hatter becomes Baronet.
	Sir Hung becomes Baronet.
	And then we have three...
	Actually, three knights and one dame.
	We have Lynn.
	We need her to come up on the podium.
	Oops.
	Careful, Lynn.
	Careful, careful, careful.
	John, you got your sword somewhere?
	Yeah, here it is.
	Brian Warden needs to come up on the podium.
	And...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I did have...
	Oh, I made a mistake here.
	It's in the wrong list.
	Related birthday to Sir Matthew Greenwich.
	To Richard Futters, who celebrated on the 9th.
	Sorry, I was in the wrong bin.
	So, we have those three, two knights, one dame.
	I say, why don't we get this thing going?
	Come on up!
	Gentlemen!
	Actually, it's just two then, I guess.
	Wow, it's a cluster today.
	Brian Wharton and Lynn, you both have contributed to the best podcast in the universe in the amount of $1,000 or more, and therefore I welcome you to the round table and pronounce the KB Lady Lynn, the Dame of Lynn's.
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	Yes.
	A couple things to discuss in the second half, John.
	You know, I've got a friend who's obsessed with completing his Beatles collection.
	Yeah?
	He needs help.
	Oh, two things I have here.
	There's a couple of...
	Actually, there's a scam going around that I want to alert everybody to that came across my desk earlier this week.
	Ben, this is regarding the Americans with Disability Act, which I think was, what was this sign, the 70s, 78 or something?
	I think this was Reagan.
	Yeah, a while ago.
	There's been some amendments over the years and a couple of years ago there was a very specific amendment known as Section 508 and Section 508 requires certain covered entities to make their web presence Their web presence,
	completely compatible for Americans with disabilities, and that would be if you're entirely blind, somewhat blind, colorblind, if flashing images can trigger...
	It's essentially what they've done.
	I said essentially, but it is true.
	they took the the IETF's web content accessibility guidelines 2.0 which is huge and they said okay you have to adhere to all these things if you are a federal department or federal agency now this is not even in effect right now because the the the board who determines this they've you know they put out requests for comments and they've been doing it for a long time.
	The comments have, I think the deadline ended, but they still have not published their final rulemaking.
	And when they do that, then you have six months to adhere to it.
	And this really is an incredible list, and I'll get into some of the things that need to change and why I think it's insane.
	But what I'm seeing now, because I started to look into this, There are consultants who are out there contacting large organizations, nonprofits as well, claiming that Section 508 requires all nonprofits and most commercial companies to adhere to the Section 508 guidelines, which is a lie.
	And I have written proof that consultants are out there saying this.
	And they'll do it with, well, even if you feel you may not be covered, look what happened to the Cancer Society of America.
	They were sued because someone felt they couldn't get, they were being discriminated against, and they lost these lawsuits.
	And these consultants are out there, and listen to the recommendations.
	So you have to tone down to specific levels the luminance on any image so the colors will look the same to everybody.
	Of course, we have 8% of men who are colorblind.
	I'd fall under that, but I kind of can see your red, green, or I understand what color it is to a certain degree.
	I have some problems with brown and green next to each other.
	So we now have to degrade the image level so that someone who is colorblind or somewhat sighted gets a good experience.
	Adam, why are you demanding this?
	Because everyone has to be equal.
	And so what's happening here is we're degrading my experience as a full-sighted person so that someone else can see it.
	Serif font is no longer allowed because serif is hard to read for people.
	Ah, this is bull.
	Yes, thank you.
	And studied.
	And, and...
	I should mention...
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Serif font for people who like to deal with fonts...
	Makes for faster reading.
	Because the serifs themselves form an invisible line that makes it easier to go from line to line to line.
	You can read faster with serif fonts.
	Serif fonts are superior.
	For many people, for reading, for actual use.
	Well, they are going to be verboten.
	And you can...
	This is...
	I'm telling you, this is the standard.
	This is what these consultants are pushing.
	You can no longer have an image with letters in it.
	You have to have that superimposed over the image.
	So screen...
	Yes, alt tags are good.
	So you have an alt tag, so a screen reader will see...
	Of course, it doesn't see the image, but it says an image named, etc., etc., etc.
	And you could kind of figure out what that image was that you're not seeing as a blind person.
	No, if you have words on an image, you have to separate those in a separate layer so screen readers can get to them.
	Alt tag is not enough.
	Where did you get this story?
	And how come it's not on tech news?
	Well, it is tech news, but I guess I didn't start the jingle.
	And I got this because it's all in the show notes.
	You can see all of these consultants.
	What is the big one that I found?
	The SSB BART group.
	And, you know, of course, the consultants come in and they say, oh, you need to have all this, you're going to get sued.
	And quite honestly, they're probably right.
	Even though it is only for federal departments and agencies, if you do one thing, let's just say you remove serif, then you can't have anything blinking at a certain rate because it might trigger epileptic fits.
	Yeah.
	Then, of course, they say, well, what am I going to do?
	Then they, oh, well, we can, of course, help you get up to...
	It's like Y2K, John.
	This is a Y2K scam.
	That's what it is.
	Y2K scam.
	Create a problem and then sell yourself out as a consultant to solve the problem that didn't exist before you showed up.
	Yes, and non-profits are freaking out because they're getting all this incoming messaging, and it's very hard to find the exact information.
	And, you know, you ask around, people say, yeah, I heard about this, yeah.
	And then, of course, they always say, but, you know, you should do it anyway because it's good for SEO. Oh, okay, thanks.
	Yeah, that's why I'll do it.
	So have a look at the web...
	Content Access Guide 2.0.
	No one could adhere to that.
	No one.
	Yeah, every single government site I've seen so far that is WCAG compliant looks like shit.
	It looks like a gopher.
	It's just text links.
	You might as well give up on making something look good.
	And I find it reprehensible that my experience has to be downgraded I'm fine with alternative versions, but it has to be downgraded because someone else can't see it?
	That's bull.
	I don't know what you're going to do about it unless you have a parallel internet.
	Well, you're allowed in extreme cases, and of course this is not spelled out specifically, if there's no other way to adhere to all this, you can create a separate site that has all of this in it with a separate path for people.
	Now, I've really worked hard throughout my life.
	We make all of our show notes available in structured text format, in OPML format, which is an XML variant.
	Our show notes are really one big page that screen readers can go through.
	If there's anything we can do better, I'd love to hear about it.
	But this is an epic scam.
	And I want to hear how many people in our audience have had consultants come up to them saying they have to adhere to this when that is a blatant lie.
	Blatant lie.
	I was actually going to read you one of these...
	Hold on a second.
	I'll read you one of these lies from a consultant.
	It'll trip you out.
	Hold on a second.
	Where is it?
	Well, that was slick.
	Say something and I'll find it quicker.
	Okay, well, you know, when you're done with that, I want to play a couple clips.
	I want to play the new article in the Nation magazine, Blasting Hillary.
	This will be the Blasting Hillary show.
	There's an update on...
	I have the email, thank you.
	This is from a consultant.
	Corporations and non-profits are required by law to ensure their digital properties are compliant with the American with Disabilities Act standards or have an action plan in place for updating them.
	How about that?
	It's a lie.
	Corporations and non-profits do not, even if you receive federal funding, the Section 508 specifically says you do not have to adhere to it.
	Now, will we have to in the future?
	Of course.
	I'm sure.
	That's a different lie.
	It's not a lie, that's the truth.
	Alright, well let's at least get this one thing out of the way since we're out of tech news now.
	I want to just ask you, just kind of quiz you a little bit about, play this clip, The Record Freeze, which is going on as we speak.
	It's been a relatively mild winter so far by Buffalo standards, but that is about to change.
	A dangerously cold Arctic air mass moving in tonight, meaning by tomorrow morning we could set a 100-year-old record.
	From the Midwest all the way to North Carolina, the National Weather Service's warning conditions will result in frostbite and lead to hypothermia or death if precautions are not taken.
	I think it's a very serious situation.
	The cold is already causing damage.
	A burst pipe in Scranton, Pennsylvania, turning these homes into ice castles.
	In some places, it could feel like 40 below zero this weekend.
	And at temperatures like that, frostbite can set in in just minutes.
	Yay.
	It goes on and on.
	This is, like, going to be one of the worst freezes ever in the history of the country.
	And how come, you know, when they do, like, remember during over Christmas it was kind of warm in New York, I think?
	Yes, yeah.
	For a minute there.
	And everybody brought up the global warming thing.
	Oh, it's global warming is what it's going to be like in the future.
	And then when they have these cold spells, nobody ever brings up the global cooling.
	I think there's...
	The group of people that were into global cooling who still exist.
	Well, it was John P. Holdren, the current science advisor to the president.
	He was a global cooling guy before he became a global warming guy.
	I don't understand why the global cooling guys are...
	I think it's a conspiracy.
	They just don't give them the ink.
	I think it's the media, the press.
	Possibly.
	This is a good time to talk about global cooling.
	This is terrible.
	It'll be the coldest year in history.
	No, even if it's the coldest year in history, it will still be one of the warmest years on history.
	That's how it works.
	I don't know how they manage that, but they do a really good job of it.
	Because every single time someone calls the numbers into, you know, says, hey, these numbers aren't right, or you're reading the numbers wrong, that's when it's shut up, slave.
	You're just listening to the Koch brothers.
	Whatever.
	Here's a good story.
	This is the cluster bomb story that was on RT where they point out a very interesting anomaly about our complaining about cluster bombs that Russians are using.
	That was Secretary of State John Kerry speaking alongside the Egyptian foreign minister at the U.S. Department of State on Tuesday condemning Russia's use of cluster bombs in Syria.
	Yet Kerry did not speak out against the use of U.S. manufactured cluster bombs in another conflict.
	The U.S.-backed Saudi-led offensive in Yemen.
	Amnesty International said it has new evidence that the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition dropped cluster bombs during an air attack on Sana'a on January 6th, which killed a 16-year-old boy and injured at least a half dozen other civilians.
	U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says the January 6th attack may amount to a war crime.
	And do we know exactly what happened?
	Do we really think the Russians were dropping cluster bombs?
	Those blast bombs were our bombs.
	There you go.
	How come we're bitching about the Russians when we make cluster bombs?
	Oh, man.
	Alright, here, let's play this clip.
	This is another Democracy Now!
	clip.
	Because they're going after Hillary, let's face it.
	This is where I'm going to get all my anti-Hillary stuff.
	And this is the Blacks and Hillary.
	This is a new article in the very liberal Nation magazine.
	Meanwhile, Michelle Alexander has written a seething critique of Hillary Clinton, published yesterday in the Nation magazine.
	Alexander, who's the author of The New Jim Crow, argues Clinton does not deserve the black vote, pointing to her role in advocating for the passage of the 1994 crime bill, as well as the 96 Welfare Reform Act.
	Alexander writes, quote, It's difficult to overstate the damage that's been done.
	Generations have been lost to the prison system.
	Countless families have been torn apart or rendered homeless.
	And a school-to-prison pipeline has been born that shuttles young people from their decrepit, underfunded schools to brand-new high-tech prisons.
	Hillary believes that she can win this game in 2016 because this time she's got us the black vote in her back pocket, her lucky card.
	Michelle Alexander goes on to say she may be surprised to discover that the younger generation is no longer wants to play her game.
	There's a lot going on with Black Lives Matter right now in the news.
	Yeah.
	The Grammys are very smart.
	They're looking at the Oscars So White promotion and thinking, you know, that's a great way to get some ratings.
	We're not on Sunday because it's Valentine's Day, so they moved it to Monday night, which I think is new for the Grammy Awards.
	And they've stirred up their own controversy.
	Of course, we always have the Dead segment.
	And Lady Gaga.
	Lady Gaga will perform an 8-minute David Bowie tribute.
	Jackson Brown will honor Glenn Frey.
	Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp will perform a tribute for Lemmy from Motorhead.
	However, there will be no tributes for Maurice White of Earth, Wind& Fire or Natalie Cole.
	They'll just be in a little video package.
	Oh, that's a scandal, especially Natalie Cole.
	Yeah, we've got some...
	And I think that is wrong.
	Because Natalie Cole deserves to have a tribute.
	Well, especially if that one guy you mentioned, I don't even have heard of him.
	Who, Lemmy?
	The guy with the Johnny Depp?
	I don't know who's the guy.
	Lemmy?
	Yeah, Lemmy.
	You don't know who Lemmy is?
	No, I don't.
	He's dead.
	Who is he?
	Lemmy from Motorhead.
	Oh, Motorhead.
	Yeah.
	Natalie Cole and Motorhead.
	Okay.
	No.
	But she's not...
	Natalie Cole does not get a performance.
	She should.
	Of course she should.
	So should Maurice White.
	Yeah, I would think so, too.
	That's great.
	Okay.
	At least if Motorhead gets a tribute...
	Earth, Wind, and Fire should get one.
	I think that the question is...
	They did this on purpose.
	Yeah, for this promotion!
	Yes, exactly.
	There will be a Rival Movie Awards, which is set up by Russell Simmons.
	Wait a minute, hold on a second.
	Hip-hop mogul extraordinaire.
	Yeah, Russell Simmons in it for the money.
	Yes, yes.
	Isn't the People's Choice, isn't the Golden Globes, isn't all those other ones rival movie awards?
	Aren't they all rival movie awards?
	Yeah, but he's going to do one right before the Oscars.
	It'll be the All-Deaf Movie Awards.
	All-Deaf?
	Yeah.
	D-E-F? Def?
	Yeah, I know what it is.
	Well, you didn't know Lemmy.
	I'm trying to help.
	I know Def Jam.
	Yes, very good.
	I didn't know Lemmy.
	Motorhead was not a band I bothered with.
	Motorhead?
	It's okay.
	I mean, come on.
	Oh yeah, Dvorak's a big Motorhead fan.
	And then I just had a question for you.
	I keep seeing, because I follow all the Black Lives Matter stuff, it's phenomenally interesting to me.
	Well, it's partly a beat, but we're all Americans and we're being ripped apart, so I'm interested to see how it's being done and if there's anything that can ever stop it.
	But there's a new meme that I'd like some explanation on.
	I keep reading, we've been through this for 400 years.
	America is, what, 245?
	How many years are we now?
	That's the official America.
	400 years ago, we had settlers.
	1,600.
	Right, but did we have slaves 400 years ago?
	We had a lot of indentured servants.
	And I believe there may have been some slaves, or maybe not.
	Maybe it was a little longer.
	I don't know when the popularity of the slave thing took off.
	It was the Dutch and some of these Europeans always point the finger at us that came up with this idea of grabbing these black Africans and making them slaves.
	Oh, it was totally the Dutch.
	Yeah, the Dutch invented it.
	Yeah, the Dutch were big.
	And the Brits, too.
	They covered it up better.
	And the Africans themselves, I mean, it was black Africans that...
	Came up with the idea.
	One way they vanquished their enemies was to put them in a boat and ship them out of the country.
	That's a pretty...
	But if you want to take 400 years, you can look at everybody and say there was slavery.
	There was slavery in ancient Greece and Rome.
	I mean, come on.
	Rome was built on slavery.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	I find it interesting that this number...
	Now you mentioned it's a little myopic.
	They should go trace it back to Rome in particular.
	You can keep going.
	2,000 years of oppression.
	Yeah.
	It's a gimmick.
	There's nothing I can give.
	I don't like it.
	I have a war on vaping clip for you.
	Something interesting happened.
	There's a bill that was in the house, which did pass, I might add.
	And this is the vaping bill.
	I'm going to tell you what this is.
	Did you hear about this?
	Was this about the senator?
	Yeah, I have the clip.
	I have the clip.
	And who is it?
	So this is a bill put in by Tom Cole.
	And it's House Bill, House Resolution 2058.
	And so in Congress, Duncan Hunter took this, like, pulled out a vape pen, did a huge, big vape inhale and blew a big cloud out.
	People like, you know, like waving their arms, like, oh my God, what has he done?
	And here's his little speech.
	So this is called a vaporizer.
	There's no combustion.
	There's no carcinogens.
	What the gentlelady did not say is that smoking has gone down as the use of vaporizers has gone up.
	There is no burning.
	There's nothing noxious about this whatsoever.
	This has helped thousands of people quit smoking.
	It's helped me quit smoking.
	And in the next decade or so, you're going to be able to inhale ibuprofen.
	You're going to be able to inhale your Prozac and anything else that you need.
	When I heard that, I'm like, holy moly, I had no idea this is where vaping was headed.
	We're going to be able to vape your Prozac.
	I'm good to go.
	You're going to be able to inhale your Prozac.
	Hey, honey, can you get the Viagra vape?
	I'm ready.
	And anything else that you need, drug-wise, you're going to be able to inhale it.
	This is a great future.
	We need to stop this.
	Could I reclaim my time?
	This amendment, I think the general lady already yielded.
	But I'll be happy to yield in just a moment.
	The way that this amendment's written, too, you won't be able to have an asthma inhaler.
	You won't be able to have a nebulizer.
	I got him there.
	You won't be able to inhale anything.
	Exactly.
	This is the future.
	Smoking's going away, and the ability to take in nicotine or any other form of medication in the future will be in something like a vaporizer.
	For freedom's sake, and for the sake of people that are trying to quit smoking and quit dipping and still have nicotine, I would urge my friends here and colleagues to oppose this amendment, and I'd be happy to yield to the gentlelady.
	Now, I think this was really about not vaping on airplanes.
	It seems like, you know, you can't vape in airports.
	You can't vape.
	It's fine.
	Whatever.
	It's fine.
	Even though it makes no sense.
	Really?
	Fine.
	But then...
	I just keep blowing up.
	I don't want people vaping on airplanes.
	Sure.
	But I feel that the future, which is clearly spelled out, the future of vaping your...
	Prozac.
	Your Prozac is dynamite.
	We are trending.
	This is from the future, this stuff.
	This is good.
	It is.
	Play the theremin.
	Fine.
	Now he wants the theremin.
	I always want the theremin.
	It is your future.
	It is your future.
	Nice.
	Very nice.
	And on that tip, we've discussed our healthcare insurance premiums on the previous show.
	Yeah.
	Where I said, I'm paying $500 a month for me.
	The Mimi's paying $600.
	I don't know if you got all this email, but people kept saying, wow, that Obamacare is a ripoff.
	Just so you know.
	I don't have Obamacare.
	I don't qualify for Obamacare.
	This is not Obamacare.
	This is the result of Obamacare.
	I pay $500 a month so there can be an Obamacare.
	I just want people to understand.
	Somehow the world, this is what I noticed.
	Outside of the United States, people have this idea that this is our global healthcare system and that we're all now under this Obamacare thing.
	No, no, no, no.
	That is for people who can't afford it.
	And because of that, insurance companies have jacked up everybody else's rates.
	I just want to be clear.
	They would have jumped them up anyway.
	Oh, sure, sure.
	But people are very confused about what Obamacare is, or the Affordable Care Act, to be specific.
	So I wanted to make sure that people knew that.
	And I really appreciate all the people who are saying, yes, if you run for Congress, I'll help you, I'll do this, I'll do that.
	But so far, nobody is willing to get 500 signatures.
	Hey, when you do that, I'll be ready.
	I'll be here to help you.
	No.
	You have to hire groups that do this for you.
	I don't want that.
	No.
	Well, then you can stand at the corner over by the Whole Foods with a clipboard.
	I will.
	And as everyone goes by, you can say, Hi, I'm Adam Curry.
	I will.
	I want to run for Congress.
	Could you sign my petition?
	I will.
	But I need people to help.
	I need people to help.
	Well, if you were an organizing type, you need to be a community organizer at heart.
	I need an organizer to help.
	That's my point.
	There are plenty of people that can help.
	But they're not showing up.
	No, they're not.
	The first goal is to find them and then get them to show up.
	It's not going to be that easy.
	Okay, I got you.
	Okay, I've got a...
	Here's the...
	What is this clip?
	This is kind of interesting.
	This is the Turkish guy bitching about Syria.
	This is DN, Syria Report on Ethnic Cleansing.
	On Wednesday, the Turkish Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, accused the Assad government and Russian military of carrying out a campaign of, quote, ethnic cleansing in Aleppo.
	We should all accept refugees, but these attacks are also intended to bring about a kind of ethnic cleansing in Syria.
	Holy crap!
	This is great!
	Who is that guy?
	That's fantastic!
	This is about an ethnic cleansing.
	Oh, this is great.
	On Wednesday, the Turkish Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, accused the Assad government and Russian military of carrying out a campaign of, quote, ethnic cleansing in Aleppo.
	We should all accept refugees, but these attacks are also intended to bring about a kind of ethnic cleansing in Syria, so that all people who don't support the Syrian regime, they are driven out of the country.
	This comes as a new report by the Syrian Center for Policy Research says 11.5% of Syria's population has either been killed or injured since 2011.
	Good work.
	Well done.
	Well done.
	I have two.
	My last clip.
	Oh, okay.
	I'm just trying to wrap up.
	Yeah, I have two.
	My last clip is the end of Greyhound Racing.
	I have a thought about this.
	End of Greyhound Racing.
	I think I saw a piece about this somewhere.
	Greyhound racing has been on its last legs for decades.
	It's hanging on in Florida, but pun intended.
	David Begnaud found that even there, the hounds could be nearing the end of their run.
	Peter Sires has been taking his daughter and his grandchildren to the Naples-Fort Myers Greyhound Racing track for 20 years.
	On this day, the grandstands were nearly empty.
	I've seen a big decline in the attendance of there.
	I remember the crowds really cheering.
	Only 19 dog tracks remain in the U.S. Twelve of them are in Florida.
	Isidore Havanick owns two of them.
	To have 50 people come to a business that seats thousands, it's like going to a Dolphins game in December.
	It's an empty building.
	Kavadick says he loses $5 million a year running these races, but he says he has to in order to keep his more profitable poker business open.
	Florida law mandates it.
	We have to run 90% of the amount of racing we ran in 1996 in order to keep our poker room open.
	How many races do you have to run a year?
	Thousands of dog races.
	Havanick supports decoupling the two businesses so he can run his poker rooms without racing the dogs.
	Kerry Thiel is executive director of Grey2K, an organization working to protect greyhounds.
	Greyhound racing is cruel and inhumane.
	These dogs live in small cages for about 22 hours a day.
	The cages are barely large enough for the dogs to stand up or turn around.
	If they don't want to run live greyhound racing, they could stop today.
	Stop today.
	Turn in your permit.
	Jack Corey lobbies for the greyhound industry.
	He insists the dogs are well cared for.
	He blames the audience decline on the track owners.
	Live greyhound racing is alive and well if the tracks wanted to promote it.
	If the tracks wanted to modernize it, Mr.
	Thiel and the animal rights groups and the greyhound tracks all want to become slot casinos.
	Okay.
	That's what's going on because of all this legalized gambling.
	You look at the money flow, the only reason they ever had greyhound racing is because you couldn't do any other kind of gambling in certain areas.
	And it's kind of a form of gambling and you can make some money doing it.
	And it's exciting.
	I would say...
	If anybody out there has not been to a Greyhound race, you better go pretty soon because they're going to ban this product.
	It's interesting because I saw a Greyhound report completely different about track owners maybe three weeks ago.
	Something's up.
	Yeah, something's up for sure.
	Let me talk about this for just a second.
	Go to a Greyhound race.
	They are extremely entertaining.
	And kids, in particular, if you have children, love the race.
	I mean, the atmosphere of these Greyhound tracks has become kind of...
	Cigar-ish, you know, kind of old and beaten and battered, but it's a fantastic process to watch.
	The races are hilarious because about one out of every three or four races, one of the lead dogs falls.
	I love that.
	And all the dogs...
	And it's hilarious because they all get back up and continue the race, but it's actually quite, I don't know, maybe it's cruel, but it's quite funny to watch 15 dogs falling all over themselves.
	I think the consensus amongst politically correct people would be that you are a horrible man for even suggesting that.
	This is all cruel.
	It's all cruel.
	It's so cruel.
	It's all cruel.
	Yeah.
	The dog tracks are betting establishments, so you can bet on the races, even though no one promotes them.
	There's probably, you know, a Seattle slew, or there's some famous dog that could go from place to place, and he's a kick-ass dog that runs really fast.
	I don't know his name.
	This is not a very well-promoted sport, and they can't, you know, I would go see a race, if I was nearby, I'd go see a race with the world's fastest dog, you know, against the local superstars.
	I think it'd be very interesting.
	Mm-hmm.
	But no, they don't promote anything like that.
	It's just a bunch of random dogs.
	And so the betting tip, which I think I've discussed on the show before, the betting tip is you bet on the last dog you see take a dump.
	Then you go bet on that dog.
	Now, I did that.
	Isn't that the same for the horses, though?
	I thought it was the same for ponies.
	You don't see as many horses taking dumps.
	I did that trick in a race.
	I think it was a dog track.
	It was maybe in Connecticut or someplace.
	I'm not sure.
	It wasn't in Florida.
	And it didn't work.
	So don't, you know, that's just a tip.
	It's a great tip.
	Don't follow it.
	I don't know if it works or not.
	Now, the other sport, which is going to go away soon, and they didn't talk about this.
	Dwarf tossing.
	I hear dwarf tossing is on the skids.
	The other one that's going to go away is Hi-Li.
	Oh man, Hi-Li is a great sport to watch.
	It's a great sport to watch.
	And there are very famous Hi-Li players.
	And you can kind of figure out who to bet on.
	It's the same as another betting game.
	And it's not going to be around much longer.
	And it's because, again, there's no promotions.
	It's not the same kind of money as a slot casino.
	You know, where you can just roll in the dough.
	Well, isn't it also just a problem with this cash and, you know, there's just all kinds of stuff going on with this type of betting?
	I don't know.
	It sounds like a lot of different agendas at play than this week.
	Whatever the case, go see a dog race if you can.
	Well, apparently, according to the chat room, there is a dog track in Arkansas, which I'll be at the end of the month.
	Still looking for someone to organize the meetup.
	Please, Arkansas-nians.
	I'll be in Fayetteville.
	So if there's one there, I'll go.
	I will report back.
	Little Rock would be my guess.
	Well, I'll report back.
	I'll see what I can find.
	Yeah, you'd love to see it.
	The dog races are very funny.
	It'd be great.
	I'd like to see them all fall.
	And they're exciting, and they do a lot of them, and the dogs look like they're having a good time.
	It's great for kids.
	By the way, when they showed that scene with the guy and his two daughters, their daughter and son, they're jumping up and down.
	Yeah, they're happy.
	They're loving it.
	I think one of them is holding a ticket to let these kids bet.
	Yeah, of course.
	I swear, the one girl, little girl, she's jumping up and down, she's holding the ticket.
	Oh, like she's just won.
	That's great.
	I think that might be illegal.
	My final bid is to the war on cash.
	Really ratcheting up now in Europe.
	We've been tracking this for three, maybe four years.
	Seems to be getting pretty serious.
	Could its days be numbered?
	Finance ministers are calling on the European Central Bank to look at ways of tightening access to 500 euro notes in a bid to cut terrafunding.
	There are concerns that its high value makes it easy to carry large sums and launder cash.
	There are even calls for it to be scrapped altogether.
	The €500 note is used more to facilitate transactions which are illegal, rather than allowing people like you and me to buy food, he says.
	Therefore, it's normal that we raise the question now about the use of this banknote.
	The ECB is also facing calls for limits to be brought in for cash payments.
	The 500 euro note is one of the highest valued in the world.
	Germany was one of the early champions of it, matching the value of its old 1,000 mark equivalent.
	So in an indirect way, they're also saying, F you, Germany.
	You wanted this?
	Uh-uh, not going to happen.
	And taking away the people's ability to have money.
	Yeah, that way you can wipe them out with a computer.
	Push of a button.
	Boom, you're broke, buddy.
	And you don't think that's going to happen?
	Yeah, it's definitely on its way.
	All right, everybody.
	Thursday, 800 episodes of your podcast, the one that you produce, executive produce, associate executive produce.
	And that we have steadily been producing for you, with your help, for more than eight years.
	And soon to be 800 episodes.
	So John, thank you for your courage and passion.
	Thank you for your courage and thank you for 800 episodes.
	That's right.
	800 episodes.
	And we never had a fight!
	Well, kind of.
	Yeah.
	It's all entertaining.
	Yeah, it is.
	Good try.
	All right, everybody.
	Thank you in the chat room.
	Thank you for showing up and helping us out here.
	And remember us, for the 800th episode, go to dvorak.org slash n-a.
	Coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas.
	FEMA Region 6 is where I'm located.
	In the skyscraper known as the Crackpot Condo.
	In the morning, everybody, my name's Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where it is a...
	Geez, there was a joke in there somewhere.
	I have to go back to the list of puns.
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	We'll be back on Thursday for episode 800.
	See you then.
	Adios, mofos!
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	That's a significant impact.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Dude named Ben OPM.
	You've got something going on and you need a distraction.
	George Clooney is a spy.
	Now, there's a sentence that needs a bit of qualification.
	What are you doing?
	ISIS. We will follow them to the gates of hell.
	ISIS.
	I feel good!
	Fear is freedom.
	Subjugation is liberation.
	Contradiction is truth.
	Those are the facts of this world.
	And you will all surrender to them.
	Use pigs in human clothing!
	Hey!
	Listen!
	You're in my house!
	Come on, guys!
	Shame on you!
	I'm up in the house!
	We're in the booth!
	George Clooney!
	George Clooney!
	is a spine.
	And you can always follow me on Twitter.
	Adios.
	At mofo.
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