Episode 207 · Thursday, 10 June 2010

What do you call Soy milk?

Corporate terminology, government insolvency, and the suspicious technical failures behind the Gulf oil disaster collide in a look at the week’s most suppressed headlines.

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The No Agenda Show · No. 207

About this episode

The Deepwater Horizon disaster and the federal moratorium on offshore drilling are fueling speculation of a massive spike in oil prices designed to push cap-and-trade legislation. Rumors within the industry suggest Schlumberger technicians warned BP officials of well instability hours before the explosion, only to have their requests for evacuation ignored. This catastrophe may serve as a catalyst for liquidating BP and consolidating control under financial giants like JP Morgan.

In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders has secured a major electoral victory, prompting a "purple plus" coalition strategy from the Labor Party to marginalize his influence. Meanwhile, Carly Fiorina’s California primary win over Barbara Boxer has analysts predicting her potential as the first female President. Domestic concerns rise as the FCC partners with Sam Knows to embed surveillance software in Netgear routers, and the Social Security Administration warns that trust funds will be exhausted by 2037, paying out only 76 cents on the dollar. In the UK, actor Nicholas Williams was cleared of assault after blaming the anti-smoking drug Champix for a violent reaction, while the TSA faces scrutiny for screeners at O'Hare selecting attractive passengers for full-body scans.

Personal updates include a recovery shout-out for a listener named Rachel battling Lupus complications and a critique of the term human resources as a demeaning corporate label. The program also examines the absurdity of celebrity news, from Kate Hudson’s son’s hand splint to the naming of Lee Ling’s baby as a tribute to Bill Clinton following her North Korea rescue.


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CHAPTER 01 / 31 Discussion

Human Resources Terminology and Corporate Culture

The term "human resources" is criticized as being demeaning and unfriendly compared to the traditional "personnel manager." Observations from a company with 37 employees suggest the phrase treats people as mere assets or "eaters" rather than individuals. The shift in corporate vocabulary is described as an abhorrent development in modern workplace culture.

human resources· personnel manager· corporate culture· mevo· language· demeaning

00:00 That is really a great job! Some really good information there, baby! It's unbelievable. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's June 10th, 2010. Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 207. This is no agenda. Fighting the stomach cramps and the evil elites and coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California. In the morning. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where the sun's come out again. It's gonna be a little chilly with a slight breeze. I'm John C. Dvorak.

00:37 It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! And in the morning to you. And in the morning to everyone listening. And in the morning to all the human resources around the world. Just realized what that really means but human resources Yeah, that's why they and now all of a sudden I understand why you're a human resource in the company isn't that pathetic? It's it's it's abhorrent actually if you think about it where we're along with the human resources There's another human resource. Let's dig a hole. It's like because you know we have we have like human resource going on at At me vo and we're like 37 people we have an HR department and I was thinking isn't that just a horrible word Hey, you you eat you you're just an eater. That's all you are you do nothing but eat but you're a resource you human

01:24 It's just, when did that creep into the vocabulary? Well it used to be personnel manager. Right, that's a little more friendly, but this human resource is like, eugh. You know, I'd like to probably track it myself because it seems to me, I agree with you, I've always thought it was a bad term, but, I don't know. It's nasty, it's really human unfriendly. It's demeaning. Yes, it's human unfriendly, and no one thinks about it. Except us, I guess. so uh... let me just tell you something a foul mood for a number of reasons one i have an upset stomach but i think i've uh... i've taken the dis jockey uh... cure or upset stomach two shots of a modem are you still with me yeah well it's just so that stops everything about some of the bike or you know jad look i just needed and a quick fix or don't not run around throughout the whole show uh... but here's the here's the thing yet

CHAPTER 02 / 31 Discussion

Social Security Administration Benefits and Financial Solvency

A formal letter from the Social Security Administration informs a recipient of their eligibility for benefits while simultaneously warning of future financial instability. The document claims the trust fund will be exhausted by 2037, leading to a projected payout of only 76 cents on the dollar. The communication is characterized as a propaganda effort to excuse decades of government mismanagement of tax contributions.

social security administration· retirement benefits· social security trust fund· taxes· propaganda· 2037

02:26 I came home after I've been away for three days. I come home. I have a letter from the Social Security Administrator Administration office and I've never received one of well, and I know I've never received one of these you have no Social Security number No, I have a Social Security number. You know what they say? Congratulations You you won Congratulations, you have earned enough credits to qualify for benefits now. Now I know I'm old Congratulations! I've never received one of these letters. So, well maybe you... What kind of benefits are they talking about? Well, so it has a whole list here of how much...

03:08 Social Security earnings? Oh, they're trying to get you to retire early. No! No, quite the contrary. Listen to this. So in 1987, that's when I guess I started paying Social Security taxes up to 2009. I totaled them now, of course, there's a gap 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 because I wasn't living in the country not paying Social Security taxes. So it's well over a million dollars that I've paid in Social Security taxes. Really? Yes. Well, yeah. I'm just looking at the numbers. So if I continue at the current rate at age 67, I will be eligible for $2,474 a month.

03:52 So how long will it take you to get your million back? Well, I'll be 350. This is what I mean. That sounds like a scam. Well, but check this out. So Mickey's like, let me see that. She says, hey, if you die, family and spouse can get up to 4,200 a month. I'm literally worth more dead than alive at this moment. Yeah. Yeah. My child can get 1,800, so she'd just move in with Mickey. And then my spouse, now she's like, let's get married, let's get married. And my spouse can make like $2,400. I'm literally worth more dead than alive. But on this document, John, this is what the crazy thing. So it's like, what social security means to you? Congratulations, you're now eligible. This is the front page of this little brochure about social security's future.

04:46 Social Security is a compact between generations. Have you ever heard of that? A compact? No, no, no, this is all new. This is a good letter you've got. Yeah, it's so, what does this mean? Social Security is a compact between generations. Not a contract, but a compact. Anyway, since 1935, America has kept the promise of security for its workers and their families. Now, however, The social security system is facing serious financial problems and action is needed soon to make sure the system will be sound when today's younger workers are ready for retirement. This is the letter they're sending me where they're telling me that basically I'm not going to have any social security. In 2016, that's like five and a half years from now,

05:31 We will begin paying more in benefits than we collect in taxes. Without changes by 2037... This is a propaganda letter. It gets worse. The social security... Wait a minute, hold on a second. You already gave them a million dollars and they're making this complaint. You know that's because they've been robbing the system. Yeah, it's like my million bucks is going to be gone here without changes. By 2037 the Social Security Trust Fund will be exhausted and there will be enough money to pay only about 76 cents for each dollar of the scheduled benefits.

06:10 But then it's like, we need to resolve these issues soon to make sure Social Security continues to provide a foundation of protection for future generations. Visit socialsecurity.gov on the internet. When you're ready to apply for benefits, use our improved online application. It's so easy! Exclamation point. Well thank you! And that's it. And then it's like, hey, thanks for the million bucks. You're worth more dead than you are alive. Yay! It's it's it's so realize about that dead part. Yeah, and and now I'm this has put me in a pretty pretty bad mood if you don't mind Well besides the stomachache. Yeah, but maybe this gave me a stomachache. It's just like what so they took a million bucks They stole it and and I'm gonna get to so it would be to get it back I'd have to it would be 500 months right seems unlikely Unless you're dead you might know don't speed up the process. What a scam

07:15 A total utter scam. Well, it wasn't meant to be a scam, it just turned into one because they've been stealing from the fund. Yeah, and they pretend like there's any actual money in there, which I guess there's just not, right? No, it's a bookkeeper's game. Some smart, crooked bookkeeper, not that we don't have a few in this country, came along and cooked the books, and now they're sending out these excuse letters because apparently it's going to bite him in the butt pretty soon. Mickey what are you doing with that gun go away no clunk and I'll take over the show now oh yeah see that's the problem that's the problem is uh yeah the show would suck with one person yeah the show is no good without you and the show is no good without me so we're having we're like well and meanwhile let's get to our executive producer we only have one

CHAPTER 03 / 31 Discussion

Executive Producer Donation and Silverdale Costco Optometry

Raj Dosanjh from Gig Harbor, Washington, donated $333.33 to the program, earning his 15-year-old son, Rajdeep, an executive producer credit for the episode. Raj operates as an optometrist at the Silverdale Costco, where listeners are encouraged to visit for a potential discount. The hosts suggest the producer credit could serve as a valuable extracurricular activity for the teenager's future college applications.

raj dosanjh· gig harbor· silverdale costco· optometrist· executive producer· donation

08:07 We get everybody step just to add insult to injury. Yeah, this will just further depression We got one, but at least he's a you know is a good local boy. It's up in Washington, okay It's and for Chris. I won't pronounce his name, but Raj will call him Raj dosanjh Who is from giga Harbor, Washington? he has a he mentions that he's an Indian and He, his son, last week his son called him out, called him a douchebag for not donating. Oh wait, this is his son who says I haven't donated because A, I'm 15 and B, I'm Indian? Yeah.

08:51 And so the guy says, I don't want to perpetuate that Indian certificate. Now let's stop here for a second. We're not talking about Indians that live in the United States and gig a harbor and have an ongoing business. We're talking about Indians in India. So this doesn't prove anything except that he has donated $333.33, which is a good number. uh... and signed up for the five dollar monthly subscription and he wants to give the executive producer credit to his son right rajdeep okay dosanjh dosanjh so we put rajdeep in the executive producer of no agenda all is not technically i don't think it's technically true he can put it on his college application as an extracurricular activity this is true yes absolutely this is no joke and by the way he also says he is a uh... uh... he's a uh... o.d

09:39 in uh... silverdale so if you go to the silverdale costco and i'm sure there's more than a few listeners from that area desperate only costco in the silverdale he's an optometrist and i i i doctor glad i glasses guy i'd ask i if you say in the morning and had a fifteen percent discount while sam see everybody wins This is great. Yeah, so the Costco and Silverdale, you guys all know where that is who's around the area and I say hi to Raj while you're at it. So first let me I think we also need to de-douche Raj because You've been de-douched

10:19 I think he deserves that. And so Rajdeep will become the executive producer. For what amount has this taken place, John? $333.33. Wow! So that means we might potentially have the youngest knight soon if he can coerce us. This old man wants to keep coughing up the money for the kid. Why not? He's only 15. We could be here. Yeah, why not? I don't know. Great education for the kid. I think it's fantastic. Well, he could be a knight and you put that on his resume for Harvard and he's in. Hell yeah. It's like skull and bones only a little different. I think Harvard, Yale, it's like a no-brainer.

10:55 So Raj, thank you very much and of course Raj Deep, thank you for guilting your dad into becoming the executive producer of No Agenda episode 207. Everybody else out there, you know what you gotta do. Help us propagate the formula, please. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. And there's more where that came from. We might as well all sing along with the mantra. Shut up snake. So this is a legitimate credit and we recommend people, anyone who gives over $200 becomes one of the either associate or executive producer of the show and you can just go to noagendashow.com and click on the box there or dvork.org slash NA and just that amount comes up in the database. Boom. You're in.

CHAPTER 04 / 31 Discussion

San Francisco Corporate Meetings and Productivity

Frustration is expressed regarding the time-consuming nature of corporate meetings in San Francisco following a stint at Cranky Geeks. Despite attempts to avoid administrative obligations by appearing on Buzz Out Loud, a three-hour block of back-to-back meetings proved physically draining. The experience highlights a preference for independent work over traditional office environments.

san francisco· cranky geeks· buzz out loud· corporate meetings· productivity· nick mack

11:52 do it yes please and by the way we need more five dollar a month subscribers we're getting to the point we're about halfway to our goal almost so I'm God you know three you go three days in San Francisco and just get behind you know this is you sit and this is why I don't like being in the office like oh sit in this meeting let's wait a minute I'm gonna reveal some hidden truth here on this complaining You avoided all the meetings. This is why I'm so pissed off because after Cranky Geeks yesterday... An excellent show I might add, crankygeeks.com. Yes, and of course I tried to avoid all the meetings. I avoided the Tuesday meeting by going on Buzz Out Loud, which was great. But then I'm sitting down, you know, I'm actually like working with my team there with Nick Mack

12:48 And then there's like two meetings back to back that I get dragged into, three hours in total. And the second one, I swear to God, I was passing out. You know that feeling where you're just like, it's warm and your eyes are going like, and I'm going to fall down. Luckily there was a bottle of water and I drank that and it kind of like... I thought you know what you should do to make the point is dump it on your head. So a bit of a... Fabulous Mimi news not as in Mimi your wife Mimi but as in a meme Coming out of Gitmo Nation East which is a throwback to the shantix Cabal that we have discussed on this program shantix is the drug

CHAPTER 05 / 31 Discussion

Champix Side Effects and Nicholas Williams Assault Case

Actor Nicholas Williams, known for the British series Casualty, was cleared of assault charges after blaming his violent behavior on the anti-smoking drug Champix. The court heard details of a "waterboarding" incident involving a shower head and the actor's ex-girlfriend, which the defense attributed to a reaction between the medication and alcohol. The case highlights ongoing concerns regarding the psychiatric side effects of varenicline.

champix· chantix· nicholas williams· casualty· assault· side effects

13:36 that does is indeed quite effective at helping you stop smoking unfortunately you tend to kill yourself and others around you in the process. Well you stop smoking. And this is it is marketed as sham picks in with a P in Gitmo Nation East so here's the headline. Oh what's the name I'm sorry? Sham picks. Huh interesting. So they change the P to a T it's probably a licensing thing or something. I'm sure. So the headline is great, but then the story is even better. He gave me a waterboarding is the headline. Ex-girlfriend hits out as actor is cleared of assault after blaming attack on anti-smoking drug. A fantastic story of Nicholas Williams who was an actor on, I think it's a British TV series, Casualty. So he was trying to kick the smoking habit

14:35 and he was taking sham pics and apparently, we have lots of reports of people going nuts, like not remembering where they were, what they were doing, what they ate, who they slept with. So the guy comes home and he's like freaking out and she says something and then he throws her, she was in the shower, he throws her out on the street naked with a towel for like 15 minutes. Then then he lets her back in, because it's the middle of the night and then he jams the shower head in her face. God! The shower head in her mouth! Some pent up hostility maybe this drug brings out. It's a little different than the James Cagney shoving the grapefruit in the girl's face. I mean, the shower head, man. This is like, this is hardcore. I guess maybe the shower head came first and then he threw her out into the street. So anyway, the judge says, well, you know,

15:30 Clearly this is because you mix champix with alcohol. It's like a triple whammy this. We've got waterboarding, we've got demon drink alcohol, and then the guy gets a heart attack in court. Oh God, really? And of course nowhere is there any mention in the story of, hmm, maybe we should evaluate this champix. This might not be a good thing to take. It's just crazy. This is absolutely crazy. And while we're kind of on the health tip, I didn't want to wait until the donations to do this. Hey Adam and John, in the morning to you. I was wondering if you could give my girlfriend and future No Agenda dame Rachel a shout out on an upcoming show. She had a...

CHAPTER 06 / 31 Discussion

Lupus Complications and Dame Rachel Shout-out

A listener's girlfriend, Rachel, is recovering in a regular hospital room after suffering life-threatening platelet complications and seizures caused by Lupus. Despite a dire initial prognosis from ER doctors on Friday, she regained consciousness in the ICU and inquired about the latest podcast episodes. The hosts offer their well-wishes for her ongoing recovery from the incurable autoimmune disease.

lupus· platelets· intensive care unit· seizures· dame rachel· recovery

16:22 She had platelet complications from lupus on Friday. What's that, John? Platelet complications. I don't know. It's got something to do with the blood. Lupus is the weirdest, crappiest thing you can imagine getting. Yeah, it can also... It's like natural champix, right? It can make you crazy, can't it? That's the worst thing. I mean, it's so bad that... Feels like you're itching on the inside? I don't know. I mean, it's a crazy crap. Even if you bring the topic up to a lot of people, they get irked that you even mentioned it. Well, anyway, she had platelet complications from lupus on Friday, had two seizures in the waiting room of the ER. The ER doctor told me on Friday she probably wasn't going to make it.

17:04 But they just released her from the ICU intensive care unit to a regular room this morning. Things are looking good right now. One of the first things she asked when she woke up for the first time on Saturday was if the Thursday show was any good and if any babies had been eaten by a fox. Well, she keeps up. I love her. Future Dame Rachel, we're happy to hear you're doing better. Yes, get well. Although that ailment is terrible. Yeah, and it's like incurable, right? I don't know. It's just like, I don't know. It's just bad. But, you know, I think, I don't know. Hopefully she'll be okay. I think we've established you don't know. I don't know anything. All right, so luckily,

CHAPTER 07 / 31 Discussion

Dutch General Election and Geert Wilders

The Dutch general election results show a close race between the right-wing and the left-wing Labor Party, with Geert Wilders securing a significant portion of the vote. Political analysts discuss the possibility of a "purple plus" coalition designed to marginalize Wilders by forming a government without his party. The strategy aims to keep the controversial figure in the opposition despite his electoral gains.

netherlands· geert wilders· labor party· purple government· elections· right-wing

17:55 You send in a whole bunch of clips, so I'm expecting genius and greatness from you today. There's not going to be that much genius. You do have a couple of interesting things that you've been holding out on about the oil spill. But let me talk about the elections. You know, there was a couple of interesting things. One, it was like, this is supposed to be the time to do it. What elections? There was a primary yesterday. Oh, I thought you were going to talk about Gitmo Nation Lowlands elections. or actually the primaries on Tuesday what am I thinking? What about the Gitmo nation lowlands elections? Well they were um... They finally put together a government? I don't know, see this is another one of these things that perturbs me. I do know that Geert Wilders was shot out of the gate to like 25 or 26 percent of the vote and when I went to bed last night I think it was still neck and neck

18:46 between the right-wing party and the left-wing labor party and they were already talking, this is what I heard, I haven't kept up with the news and I feel stupid for it. They were talking about a pink plus government or a purple plus I should say, which would mean the combination of right-wing red, no, Or in right-wing orange and left-wing red would give you purple and they would cut wielders out altogether and make him the opposition Which is weird because you know, I don't see how the right wing and the left we can have a successful government together It's fucked. Apparently this one to marginalize wielders. That's what it would that's what it appears So I don't know. I'd I'd literally was just so ill this morning. I didn't have time, you know outside of all the other

CHAPTER 08 / 31 Discussion

Carly Fiorina California Senate Campaign and Presidential Potential

Carly Fiorina's victory in the California Republican primary sets up a high-stakes Senate race against incumbent Barbara Boxer. Fiorina is praised for her polished political style and effective use of rhetoric, leading to a prediction that she could become the first female President of the United States. Her campaign strategy utilizes personal anecdotes and sharp critiques of the Obama administration's economic policies.

carly fiorina· barbara boxer· california senate· republican party· ronald reagan· 2010 primary

19:37 uh... stories have to look into some sure so you're puking i don't i haven't thrown up in thirty years you have a list of the show as i need a lot of that and i use it as a you deserve it in the morning there absolutely so uh... okay so we had our election so i'm gonna make about not prediction here i could be wrong of course but this prediction uh... i was watching carly fiorina uh... to enter acceptance speech because she beat uh... the guy she was running against and uh... she is interesting because uh... she's a breast cancer survivor she's a woman she has all these you know she's a kind of i think a failed c e l a h p she she she was running for uh... governor is this what this is a senator a senator right egg whitman

20:31 So a different style of those two women are slightly different. I doubt if they get along again. So wait a minute, let me just get this straight. So this is for the senatorship of California and this is the Senate, the U.S. Senate. uh... c that is now owned by barbara boxer right now and you put the tina put carly next to barbara they are you with each other and carly looks you know fresh and vibrant and sharp and smarter she definitely smarter definitely smarter and and uh... barbara boxer who just looks like an old slut they now so you got the two is another in the morning you missed I'm still... So anyways, they got the two of them side by side. So I'm watching this now, I've never been a fan of Carly Fiorina's when she was... Let me just understand, it's gonna be these two against each other in the final senatorial election? Yes, in November. Okay, thank you. And of course our concentration for November is to get the marijuana law passed, but there's all kinds of weird stuff going around that.

21:27 So these two are going to go off against each other. So I've got four clips of Fiorina and they're kind of interesting because she apparently, I mean I thought her acceptance speech for winning the primary was one of the best I've ever heard. A, it was loaded with little memes and all kinds of cute niceties and then of course she finishes off with something which I consider to be total bullcrap. And she would be the Democratic candidate. No, she's the Republican. Well, that's the paper. No Barbara Boxer is in there now. You need to help out here You know people around the world don't all understand or necessarily I know about California Most of the people that listen to the show speak English and many of them are expats and they're all around the world but this Barbara Boxer is the US senator from California with Dianne Feinstein. They're both Democrats and brain-dead

22:18 the literally and then the carly fiorina once said that they were in the california republican party's been running just losers one after the other because the party is dominated by a bunch of religious nut balls from southern california who can't put together a candidate they can actually win Meanwhile, Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman are loaded. And so they just finance their own campaigns and screw what anybody thinks. And so they, but Carly, I realized while watching her that she is a born politician. The way she got her job obviously at HP is she's political. She seems dissociated, but she seems like a slick politician who's been doing it all her life even though she's totally an outsider. She's a natural. She's so good, my prediction, she will be the first

23:04 female president of the United States. Really? Is she hot? She's not hot, but she's very attractive and she's sharp. She's really sharp and it's obvious that she has the potential if she doesn't screw it up. to go right into the White House if she doesn't stay in the Senate too long. Because if you stay in the Senate too long, you just build up too much evidence against you. But listen to Diddy, number one. She's given one of her little... and she's got some speechwriters, obviously. I can't believe she's writing this stuff herself. Take my word for it. It's just slick. Here we go. In her 28 years as a career politician in Washington, D.C., Barbara Boxer is a bitter partisan who has said much but accomplished little. She may get an A for politics, but she gets an F for achievement. So I'm watching her construct these little things that she puts together, and it's obvious that it's all been canned and put together for her.

24:07 But it's actually somewhat impressive. And she's got a... Most politicians and a lot of businessmen, you'll see them do what I call the inappropriate smile at the inappropriate time. Which is somebody's talking away, blah blah blah, and then they go, eeeh, and they give a big smile right in the middle of a sentence. And it's like always, it disturbs me personally. She actually does this, but she does it with the right timing. She's not like, you know, Bill Gates does this constantly. He's obviously, somebody told him to do it. And Bill Gates, if you listen, watch him talk. He'll put his smile, he'll just put a gratuitous smile in the middle of some nowhere for some unknown reason. Well to me it's almost like he's thinking something, he knows something and he's actually thinking, shut up slave. Yeah maybe, well whatever the case is, she actually has a real pleasant smile.

25:00 she's looks she looks and she's very presentable in terms of site you can see her being a senator she'd you'd she would represents herself and her voters well i'm telling you this woman has it all the potential to be the branches got though female vote easy cuz now it's gonna be you know you can't be a woman just gonna vote for a woman uh... with two women running against each other says a no-brainer they're gonna pick her she just shy i was going to some way to number two recluse here that she promised would reduce unemployment to 8% or less. She has become so tone deaf about reality that she has deluded herself into believing that the word grumpy actually describes the desperation and despair caused by big government folly, big government bailouts, and the buildup of $13 trillion of national debt.

25:54 It is precisely this kind of old politics, the failure to listen, the failure to understand, that has caused tens of millions of Americans to feel betrayed. Our fellow citizens feel betrayed by the distant and isolated politics of incumbency, entrenchment, and incompetence. This election is also about Big differences between the kind of people we are and what we believe I believe that each person everywhere has enormous potential if they are given the freedom and the Opportunity to fulfill it. What did you record this off of a.m. Radio? No, it was a bad feed from C-SPAN wireless

26:48 and johnson is that night with his with his cat i was not the issues that a bunch of means are starting to crop up a betrayal is one of them began i know that said that's you know that change in hope and all the rest of it that obama throws out the you'd a counteraction to that i said what we're going to go with this are you telling me that uh... that she is being pimped out and being uh... polished up to uh... take the baton from obama is that what you're saying here well it's either going to be in the yeah but i don't know if they did they're gonna run around right away should she hasn't do a little justin beat uh... but chilled i think she's gonna i think that she can not only be uh... uh... boxer easily i think she is the one they could almost get whitman to beat jerry brown because she's the one is going to be the party because she's such an attractive candidate played the clip three

27:40 We must end the failure and the disgrace of California being responsible for one out of every six unemployed Americans. Barbara Boxer's answer of rhetoric over reality stops now. So now you notice another meme coming up which is rhetoric over reality which is again not really about Boxer it's about Obama. Betrayals about Obama, rhetoric about Obama. This is really frontal attack on Obama. Now, the fourth clip I have is the indicator that she is a total politician with this bull crap story that these things were essentially developed and perfected by Ronald Reagan, you know, where you have the personal anecdote about somebody, and Reagan would always at least say who they were,

28:31 This is just a bull crap anecdote that she throws out there that is classic political, you know, crapola that people eat up. And when I heard it, I said, oh, this woman is just obviously a, I mean, she's like a career politician without ever being one. Throughout this campaign, I have met tens of thousands of Californians from every walk of life. And even with all the challenges of policy and government facing America, What I heard most often as I traveled up and down this great and glorious state was a concern about the core of America, our soul and our spirit. People fear that something is slipping away from us, that America is drifting. What is happening to us? It was symbolized for me by a woman who gripped my hand and looked into my eyes and said,

29:29 I have never voted before, but I am voting for you because I fear for my children's future. I knew instantly what she meant. Dreamers and patriots founded our country on a single radical idea that anyone from anywhere could live the life they choose and rise to fulfill their own potential. That the pursuit of happiness is a protected right. Alright, what a crock. Hold on, let me say this about it. This sounds like a mumbo jumbo black magic bull crap. Pretty much. Yeah. So I'm now predicting that she will be the first woman president. Okay, alright, no, this is good. This is a long bet, but... It's a long bet, I'm way ahead of it. I like it, I like it, I like it. I see this coming down Broadway, she's really slick. Anyway.

CHAPTER 10 / 31 Discussion

World Health Organization Alcohol Policy and Neo-Prohibitionism

The World Health Organization is accused of pursuing a neo-prohibitionist agenda aimed at restricting global alcohol consumption. Reports from Scotland link alcohol to a series of murders, which critics view as a pretext for increased public control. The argument suggests that removing social lubricants like alcohol makes the population easier for authorities to manage.

world health organization· alcohol ban· prohibition· scotland· social lubricant· control

39:42 I don't know. She won't do that. She may be in the position as a person but I somehow... I don't think she's got enough on the ball to make that switch of mentality. No. I think she's pretty much mind controlled. Part of the president's slut squad. Anyway, so just to kind of, you know, we now know that the World Health Organization is out to pretty much ban drinking around the world because it's not good for you. They've heard. Yeah, drinking, well this is the new prohibition, neo-prohibitionist, and I think by the way that the salt thing may be related to that because once you take those salty snacks out of bars people will drink less. Oh wow, that could be related, you're right.

40:27 Well, so the, um, here it is, uh, the head of Scotland's biggest police force has said alcohol played a major role in 14 murders in his area in the past, in the past 10 weeks. It's the demon drink. Yeah, every time I have a drink I want to shoot somebody. It's the demon drink, I tell ya. The demon drink. No, this is neo-prohibitionism. Because you know the public is harder to control and and they actually do a little more thinking for themselves When they're when they have a drink, it's a social lubricant It's not you know Digestive for people who you know you know want to have a glass of wine with their meal but you know if you can get everybody to stop drinking which of course we know doesn't work and

41:09 because it just becomes a nightmare for law enforcement. But this is the idea, because you can control the public better. This is why some religions, I believe, ban all use of alcohol, because sometimes somebody's going to say, wait a minute, this doesn't make any sense if they have a drink. Related, Hartford Hospital conducted a study about the effect of marijuana while driving. And the news story is great because it's like Hartford local television.

CHAPTER 11 / 31 Discussion

Hartford Hospital Marijuana Driving Study

A three-year study conducted by Hartford Hospital researchers found that smoking marijuana has minimal impact on actual driving performance, though it increases susceptibility to distraction. Volunteers in a driving simulator tended to drive slower and more cautiously after consuming the drug. The findings come as California prepares to vote on marijuana legalization in the upcoming November election.

hartford hospital· marijuana· driving study· fox ct· simulation· distraction

41:45 I have to share this with you for a moment. We've all heard about the dangers of drinking and driving, but what about smoking marijuana and getting behind the wheel? By the way, this is a Fox affiliate. Fox CT, everybody. And she's wearing a lovely yellow dress, our info babe here. A new study by Hartford Hospital researchers says smoking pot has minimal effects on how you drive. While doctors say the study has its limitations, the findings were surprising. Fox 61's Narmeen Choudhury joins us now with more. Narmeen. Right now the researchers say they by no means are trying to say that it is safe to drive under the influence of marijuana, but it does show the increasing need to study the effects of the drug just like we do with drinking and driving.

42:29 Marijuana remains a controlled substance and illegal under federal law. However, more and more states have legalized the medicinal uses of the drug. It's a big hit in California and some other states. You know, I think it's coming down the pike. As pot seems to creep into everyday life, some say it's more important than... I love how the script is amazing, how Pot seems to creep into everyday life. It's like so loaded. Ah, I love it. Oh my. ...than ever to look into its effects. Get the studies done now and...

43:06 you know, come out with decisions after that. Legal or not, many people are driving under the influence of marijuana and it's important to actually understand the science and what's going on. Ah, the science! The science! Policy decisions. Researchers from Hartford Hospital concluded a three-year study looking at the effects of marijuana use and driving eighty-five volunteers smoked what's equivalent to a joint then were asked to respond to test the resimulated driving machine complete with obstacles like dogs running out into the street busy interstate world manager obvious effects on the brain researchers found it had little impact on driving performance that you know i was too intoxicated on marijuana would slow down

43:50 It's like how much did they spend over three years to figure out that when you're stoned you drive slower Really now they drive slower apparently impaired I'll Defer to the science. I mean science science You know taking mind-altering substances and driving endangering other people But it's kind of like drinking and driving you can only legislate behavior so much So limited effects on driving skills, however, researchers did find volunteers were more easily distracted after smoking. No big surprise there. No big surprise there. Big surprise there, she said? No big surprise there. She said no big surprise. What is she, a stoner?

44:40 So, meanwhile, California's got it on their ballot in November, but Washington State's tried to get it on their ballot. In Washington State, apparently they can't get enough people to sign because the guys are so stoned that they can't get out and get signatures. It's like, come on man, we couldn't. One of these guys says, The man liked it was like we couldn't get anyone to we couldn't be afford enough to get people to go out with to pay people to go out and get signatures man, so we didn't do Signatures real simple all you got to say is free pizza here free fruit loops here then ever a man these guys these donors in Washington State are too lazy to get out the vote and

45:28 Unfortunately, I really would have loved, they talk about the science and how your brain reacts. I would have liked to have known what the actual science is or what they claim the science to be. I told you that I did my own study flying stoned in a helicopter under supervision of an expert instructor who was aware of the situation. And I don't think I've made a better landing in my life. It took me a while, it was like 10 minutes of like, I'm almost there. Why does it take this guy so long? I'm taking my time. What's the rush? I'm in no hurry, man. I just want to set her down nice and gently. I wonder what's going to actually change in California if they pass this thing, and I hope they do. I'm almost guaranteeing that the usage will go down.

CHAPTER 12 / 31 Discussion

Lee Ling and Bill Clinton North Korea Rescue

Journalist Lee Ling, who was rescued from North Korea by Bill Clinton in 2009, has given birth to a baby girl. The child was named Lee Jefferson Clayton, with the middle name serving as a tribute to the former President's middle name. The announcement sparked humorous speculation regarding the circumstances of the rescue mission and the timing of the birth.

lee ling· bill clinton· north korea· baby· lisa ling· jefferson

46:16 and and things won't do won't be it won't even be remotely noticeable that is legal said he said occasionally when you go out to outdoor concerts you get a semi already smelled open those places but you know some more because we didn't win the music's playing people just gonna light up oh my goodness john i can't believe we miss this one one of our producers actually pointed out to us and i was just like wow Oh yeah, dog gone it, we did miss this. Lee Ling... I wish we had that clip. Yeah, I have it somewhere. Lee Ling who wandered into North Korea with a camera and who was thrown into a five-star hotel and who of course Bill Clinton had to go and liberate

47:20 Has uh... Was that about nine months ago that Clinton did that? You know, it makes you wonder what happened on that plane when they were flying back. Yeah, she's pregnant. Yeah, well no, she gave birth to a baby girl. Yeah, named Bill Clinton. She named it after Bill Clinton. Lee Jefferson Clayton. How does that work? Is her name Lee Ling or Lee Ling Clayton? I guess she married some guy named Clayton. Oh yeah, the father is Ling's husband, financial analyst Lane Clayton. The baby's first name Lee is a nod to Ling's sister Lisa, a former co-host of The View, and Jefferson is Clinton's middle name. Oh, isn't that special? Oh, that's so sweet. Yes. Yeah, we did miss that. Yeah, that is real news, no agenda style right there. So I got a clip from WNYW in New York. WNYW!

CHAPTER 13 / 31 Discussion

Kate Hudson and Ryder Hudson Media Coverage

Actress Kate Hudson appeared on the Letterman show to clarify that her son Ryder's hand splint was merely a childhood phase rather than a serious injury. The media coverage of Hudson walking with her son in Manhattan is mocked as "inane bull crap" presented as breaking news. The segment highlights the trivial nature of celebrity-focused infotainment.

kate hudson· ryder hudson· david letterman· Manhattan· celebrity news· injury

48:17 Which we should have played, this is not a new clip but I forgot about it, it was on the DVR. I keep forgetting to record this. Play the soy one, the soy clip. I think we played this on the show already, John. I want to play it again. Okay, but we already played this. You don't remember, do you? No. Tell me you actually don't remember playing, we played this at the end of a show. Oh, geez. I'm getting worried about you now. The things like the soy milk, you know the rice milk. Yeah, what else are we gonna call it? Soy juice? You can't do that. Soy jism. Rosetta. Okay, that's an option too. I don't know what's funnier, the clip or that you forgot that we already played it. You don't know that we played it. I know that we played it. Document it.

49:10 See in the olden days when when Bubba was doing the show notes we had all this stuff documented now It's undocumented you can't prove it. It's I'm not gonna argue with an old man. I do have a real news clip, okay? Play yeah theme but the extra thing i've got this is the kind of this is what people watch as news and and then here's what what's interesting about somebody comes up with his inane bull crap that nobody cares about it's about kate hudson walking around spiraling she walked around public with her son she's like this is a breaking news promoting a movie she was on let him in the other night and this woman who was the comment is that is great information and i'm done time watching this going

49:58 Great information for what in what what on Neptune? Okay, Nisi and another cute couple you have news on Kate's date. Oh, yes. All right, Lisa. It was a little mommy and me time for Kate's adorable six year old boy, Ryder Hudson. He visited his mom on the set of Something Borrowed in Manhattan. Now if you look closely at the picture, you can see that his hand is injured. I don't know what happened, baby, but feel Meanwhile Kate Hudson explained it on the Letterman Show. The kid is like in one of these phases where he thinks it's cool to have like a so-called injury and it's nothing it's just like just his hand was wrapped up with the splint. You know kids go through that phase it's really dumb.

CHAPTER 14 / 31 Discussion

Gavin Newsom and California Green Energy Policy

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's primary victory speech focused heavily on environmental legislation and the Kyoto Protocol. Critics argue that prioritizing cap-and-trade and green energy initiatives is inappropriate given California's high unemployment rate. Newsom's claims that European countries like the UK and Germany achieved higher growth through similar policies are dismissed as factually incorrect.

gavin newsom· ab 32· kyoto protocol· unemployment· green energy· california

50:52 I never had any of my kids go through that phase. Dumb kids go through it. No, they didn't have it. And so she... That's great information! Oh my goodness! Honey, honey, honey, did you just hear that great information on the TV? Great information. Yeah. So, um... Let me do one more political thing since we're talking about Carly. I'm trying to forget. Compare what she said to, this is the typical, the Democrats versus the Republicans are getting more and more extreme on this. The Democrats seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that nobody's got a job and maybe needs to get back to work. And so Gavin Newsom, another local boy, the mayor of San Francisco who's running for attorney general I think or one of these, or lieutenant governor I guess.

51:42 uh... he is uh... he won his primary which means he gets to run in the november elections and he comes out in his acceptance speech compare that to carly's is mostly about Cap and trade, like what Califor... We got the worst unemployment in the state of California and he's talking about screwing us even more. Play the news. I'm speaking right now to a crowd of about 300 supporters. Let's listen in for a couple of moments. Those who support implementation in the spirit of AB 32 and SB 375 and those that do not. That want to either suspend it or end it. Consider this fundamental fact. There are four countries that actually reach or exceed the Chiaro protocols. Of the 44 that signed them,

52:23 Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom and Germany. And I think it's an important point, an important point of consideration for all of you to consider this fact. Before, as my good Chief of Staff Steve Kava says, before Lehman Day, before September 15th, 2008, all four of these countries had three things in common vis-a-vis the United States. Lower unemployment, higher growth, and lower income disparities. What's interesting about these four countries is it dramatically shifted their... He goes on and on about how they went green and so they got to hire, you know, they got lower unemployment and the rest... I'm looking at what, the UK is in the tank. Oh, big time, yeah. Sweden and Denmark, I mean, they're countries with very small populations.

53:20 Uh, and he's talking about lower unemployment, higher growth? Bullshit! What is he talking about? That's total bullcrap. It's total bullcrap! You know... So he's promoting, so he wins his primary and he's talking about Kyoto. Well here's what I think is happening John and again it was just a tough week and it happens once or twice a month where I'm just away from my crackpot command center and I just can't get all the research in that I want to do because like I have to have a real job to make ends meet. The news is nothing but

CHAPTER 15 / 31 Discussion

BP Oil Spill and Gulf of Mexico Drilling Moratorium

The Deepwater Horizon disaster and the subsequent federal moratorium on offshore drilling are viewed as a catalyst for a massive spike in oil prices. Speculation suggests the crisis will be used to push through cap-and-trade legislation and potentially liquidate BP, benefiting larger financial entities like JP Morgan. The economic fallout is expected to devastate the Gulf Coast region, potentially leading to a "Haiti-style" redevelopment of the area.

bp· deepwater horizon· gulf of mexico· drilling moratorium· cap and trade· oil prices

53:57 Disaster biggest disaster. We're all going to die the ocean is going to get sick. It is all over forget about it Now there's a report that you know, this is not just a second oil spill that is that is 11 miles up from the transocean disaster but that the whole ocean floor is cracked and it's all over. It's all over. And in fact, the response from the government is making it all over. Where are these people without jobs? Not because of fishing, because the oil industry has just been shut down in the Gulf of Mexico. And it's been there since 1947.

54:42 And it's not just drilling, it's refineries, it's storage. People think that, oh, it's the shrimping industry. No, no. These people are going to starve, they're going to get thrown out of their homes because of the moratorium on drilling on oil. And this is the beginning of the last final push in my book. The oil cabal is making one while they're still in their 60s. Because let's face it they're getting up there and then they have to hand it off to the younger generation They don't give a crap about them either. It's like one last final push already the oil futures We're looking at a hundred and one dollars a barrel for the you know, I have the information here For December not that price by the way, I'm sorry. I'm December 2018 you got you got it. This is this is it's a long-term game. This is not like happening tomorrow. I

55:42 Long-term gain so so here's the plan the way I see it and this and this does lead into cap-and-trade Which is great by the way for the oil companies cap-and-trade rocks for them. They want it This is the next thing you're gonna hear you're gonna hear of the president. It's all gonna be about cap-and-trade so first we need to Liquidate BP. Okay, and BP is not an oil company. They're like a bank. They're an administrative office and It's a virtual company. Yeah, you know... Like most big companies today. Yeah, the real company that actually owns the oil is JP Morgan. They actually own it. And they've got tankers floating around.

56:21 So, this is just, you know, they just buy rights, contract it out to companies like Transocean just to run the money through it. So, this was all planned but not in the way that people think it was planned. This is all just to do one more big shove it up your rectum oil hike which is coming in the next two to three years but I'd say 18 months is when it's really going to start and we'll see uh... prices for uh... dollar per barrel of oil well in excess of a hundred dollars maybe close to two hundred dollars and they're just going to one last big push so they can all go down to paraguay and laugh at us stupid slaves and we're going well i'm not buying this argument all i don't think they're gonna be they can't sustain that prizes of the big barely keep it at seventy five bucks even with as well blown out

57:11 It's going to be so easy and they'll never get it that high. Shell or maybe Exxon or someone is going to buy whatever so-called assets are left from BP because it will go out of business and it'll give everyone a real satisfied feeling. Well that will definitely if you can you don't just go bankrupt like this predicted in the recent Fortune magazine article which sunk the stock price of BP because the guy said within the next 30 days This expert, he says, this is bull crap. He says there's no way they can pay all these legitimate claims, whether they're legitimate or not, because they're just going to put it into litigation and they're going to give away as much money as they can, put themselves in a balance sheet that's in arrears, and then say, chapter 11, bye. And then what's going to happen to all the people down in the Gulf?

58:02 Well, you know there's a state has got a Republican governor so screw him I'm telling you the plan is to let him die it's It's just that they're human. They've been wanting to redo the New Orleans area to make it kind of a Riviera, you know, kind of a Yup-ified place. There you go. Haiti. Haiti. It's Haiti. Exactly. Let's turn it into a beautiful... Let's get rid of those black people that are better off in Houston. Yep. Let's get them out of there. Yep. Move them out. It's a beautiful area. If it was fixed up, the place is a dump. Yeah. We need some high-speed trains to move all those people out.

58:39 Move them out and we'll turn it into a beautiful resort and it's a long-term plan and and everyone is being fooled into thinking Oh, yes. Well now we need some electric cars and reduce our dependence on foreign oil with dependence on foreign oil is that American oil? and so cap and trade is going to be it's I believe it's a part of the plan you can say never let a good crisis go to waste but cap and trade is going to sail through now at the whole country every but this is the biggest fear I have I'm gonna be on Stern Monday by the way are you gonna be on Howard Stern with yeah but it's gonna be on the phone so it's like that sucks I hate that I want to be in the studio it's gonna be on the phone yeah it blows

CHAPTER 16 / 31 Discussion

Deepwater Horizon Sabotage Theories and Industry Gossip

Rumors circulating within the oil industry suggest potential sabotage or undocumented modifications to the Deepwater Horizon rig's blowout preventer. While Congress and BP investigate technical failures, some argue that the focus on the disaster is being used as theater to justify a transition away from fossil fuels. The total shutdown of drilling is criticized as a move that will harm the American economy without providing a viable energy alternative.

deepwater horizon· sabotage· bp· transocean· rov· congress

59:24 I don't want to be on the phone. It's gonna suck. I ran up to her and I'm on the phone. Yeah, but I heard him talking about, you know, about exactly this issue on the show. And I'm like, oh god, they're so hook, line, and sinker into all of this. And they think, oh, well, we need the government to... And meanwhile, Scott the engineer, who was the douchebag of the show, actually has it by the right hand. And he's getting berated. It's just like, ugh. Well, he suggested this whole thing's a giant scam? Yeah, and that the government is complicit. Like, yeah. So we didn't tell the story about the gossip going around the rigs about Schlumberger and his experience with that particular rig that blew up.

1:00:10 Well, there's a couple of, of course not just a couple, there's like a million different stories running around. One is that there could have been some sabotage according to BP's own report. There's all these different discrepancies that they're now seeing with the underwater robots. What is it here? Post the explosion numerous ROV hot stab interventions were conducted in attempt to activate blind shear rams, variable pipe rams, LMRP disconnect. Everyone's an expert by the way now. Everyone knows exactly what all this means, particularly in Congress. So they found leaks, unidentified and undocumented modifications. So there's all kinds of conspiracies about it being

1:00:58 sabotage, it may be, it doesn't matter. Either way, the worst thing to do is to shut it down. That's the stupidest thing we can do is to shut down all drilling. It's going to kill the people down there, kill them. It's going to kill all of us with all the money we're going to have to pay for costly oil-based products with some stupid dream that wind and solar will save us tomorrow if you're alive right now and you're over 30 you're never going to see it happen. No it's not possible. The transition is way too slow. I'm down with it. I believe that there's free energy out there. I'm a big fan of wind power. They're never going to get enough things up. It's ridiculous.

CHAPTER 17 / 31 Discussion

Schlumberger Safety Warnings and Oil Rig Negligence

A report claims that Schlumberger technicians warned BP officials that the Deepwater Horizon well was unstable and should be plugged hours before the explosion. According to the account, the technicians requested an immediate helicopter evacuation after their warnings were ignored. This incident is cited as an example of the "production at all costs" mentality prevalent in the oil industry, which often leads to criminal negligence.

schlumberger· bp· oil rig· safety inspection· negligence· union oil

1:01:45 Why are you just all it's all theater? Yeah, it is. It's not and there's no sincere attempts And of course everyone said that's not true. This is the It's this has been going on for a hundred years. These people don't give a crap about that They really don't care about you and in the game back to Clinton who pardoned Mark rich and pink is green and all these guys who are running the biggest companies in the world and It's huge. Haiti, all a part of it. Jamaica, gonna overrun, taking their oil. Now, makes me sick. This is why I have the runs. You have what? Never mind. So talk about Slumberger.

1:02:29 Well, the story goes is that a Schlumberger, before that rig went online, Schlumberger apparently has to come out and okay something or other. And they went and looked at the, I guess they did their inspection with a robot or whatever, and they decided that the well was unsafe. This is the way the story goes, by the way. Right. The well was unsafe, and they told the BP guy that was on the rig, that they should plug it right now because the thing is just not stable. He's gonna blow! And the guy, BP says, the guy says, no it's fine, it's stable, we're not plugging anything. And the guy says, well our advice is to plug it, we want to get off this rig now.

1:03:10 and the BP guy says, well we don't have any more helicopter scheduled today, it'll be tomorrow. And the guy says, well we want to get off this thing now. He says, no you can't. And he says, okay. And so he got on the horn and called back to the shore and said send us a chopper immediately, we want to get off this rig. The Schlumberger guys got off and six hours later the thing blew up. So how does that work? He got off and it blew up, I don't know. You were telling me because you were in the oil business for a while, right? I was in the right was worked for I worked for Union Oil and then I was also an inspector For the air pollution district at the Standard Oil Refinery you might I bet you were a real dick as an inspector No, I was actually one of the better guys. Oh, did you take bribes? No, you can't take bribes in California if I was working Jersey, I would for sure Okay, cuz I we had a couple guys from Jersey and they said that's just the way it works there. I

1:04:09 Anyway, so this is apparently Jersey, just all bribes. Anyway, the thing you run into are these guys that at night, the night shift, and I was on shift work, so you get to work night once in a while, apparently the guys that manages the foreman of the various crackers and cokers and all these different devices that they use to refine the oil, crank it up to the point where the whole place is about to blow up. It's shuddering, right? And then the morning shift guys came in when the managers show back up and said, holy crap, what the hell are you doing? And they have to turn everything back to normal. But meanwhile, this guy's got this huge production number. So he gets like, you know, the guy gets like a promotion. Wow, those are fantastic numbers, Jim. Jerry, how come you don't have this kind of production?

1:04:54 And so that's basically the mentality of the oil business and you know that's what was going on in this rig. These guys, yeah, yeah, we're gonna handle it, don't worry about it. And of course then the thing blows up. I think there's criminal negligence involved and I hope somebody throws a book at these jokers. Yeah, they won't. Would people please remember that BP, a foreign company by the way, not quite sure how that works, but BP donated a lot of money to the presidential election campaign for Barack Obama. They have an office in the US and makes it legal. I'm sure they got an office somewhere.

CHAPTER 18 / 31 Discussion

Listener Donations and James Taylor PBS Shilling

The program acknowledges various listener donations, including a "Karma Club" contribution intended to help a listener's girlfriend find employment. The hosts contrast their independent, commercial-free model with the "begathons" of PBS, featuring a clip of musician James Taylor soliciting funds for the public broadcaster. Listeners are encouraged to maintain their five-dollar monthly subscriptions to ensure the show's continued independence.

james taylor· pbs· donations· karma club· subscriptions· user-supported

1:05:30 It's so obvious. And people just really, well, it doesn't matter. I think the people that listen to the show, this is the, what do you call it, the preaching to the choir? Yeah, kinda. We need more choir. A choir is too small. Let's get bigger. Yeah, hell yeah. So let's talk about some donations. We didn't get a lot this last, this is kind of a disappointing week to be honest about it, but again I think a lot of it has to do with the vacation. Maybe we're just sucking. But we may be boring people. That's possible. Maybe we should do more real news. This is my, my... Your theory, your theory is we need to do more... My theory is we're not doing enough real news and I have a clip that's really cool, maybe we should play it before the... Okay. Well first of all, I did Lindsey Lohan. It's soy. No, I'm not going to do soy again.

1:06:15 I did a Lindsay Lohan and tied it into what's really going on. I mean, come on, we're trying to, we did the extra, the great information clip. Yeah, okay, well let's do a good work. Thank you people. Lucas, you got, this is yours, but it looks like Thai Hema, I don't know. Thai Hema, I would say. From egg toast Netherlands. Oestreest, egg toast. Who's taste? Looks like egg toast. $125, you want to thank him. And Brian Kaufman from Tempe, Arizona, he gave us $69 and something to do with his girlfriend, Teresa Tenbrink. Well it's a Karma Club donation for my girlfriend, Teresa Tenbrink.

1:07:05 I will email you the longer explanation. Did you get an email? Yeah, I think so. Could you please forward that to me? I'm very interested in the Soixante-Neuf donation. Kurt Sissle from Evansville, Illinois gave us 5510. Looks like he gave it to us twice. I think it's Evansville, Indiana. Ryan Heck. I think it's... is that Indiana? Yeah, he's in Evansville, Indiana. He's gonna have a birthday call out for Ryan Heck. Well, hey there, Ryan Heck.

1:07:46 uh... it is your birthday on june eleventh and seeing as you introduced kurt sissle to the no agenda choir uh... we take great pride in uh... wishing you a very happy birthday on behalf of your buddies john and adam so let's see here we go uh... here's the uh... i'd just donate sixty nine dollars is a card this is from uh... brian I just donated $69 as a Karma Club donation for my girlfriend Teresa Tenbrink. We met a year ago at my sister's wedding and have been traveling to see each other. She lives in Wichita or did in Kansas where he's from. He's in Tempe. She quit her job in Kansas a couple of weeks ago. We moved her down here over Memorial Day weekend. She has no job. She's totally stressed about it. Listening to the last show realized the Karma Club

1:08:38 was the most surefire way to help her land a job. I think so that she'll probably get work shortly. Let us know what she does or go to the Karma Club site which is what? Noagendacarmaclub.com? What is it? Noagendacarma.com. Noagendacarma.com and post your uh... good news couple a way people easily and robert alter also donation from lauren austerman from innsbruck austria and i think he had or she did that say he uh... he's actually someplace else or i think we have a correct it is in innsbruck so i want to thank everybody go to know agenda show dot com to work out or slash n a and um...

1:09:18 channeldvorak.com slash N A and help us out we need to pick up the pace a little bit we would like to see people out there if you can't give a call out donation at least get a subscription it's five dollars a month is no big deal and people who have the five dollar subscription please check to see if it's still being taken out we lose a couple I keep every week right every week we lose a couple we lose a couple everyday we actually lose a couple and every time i write him he says oh that's interesting yeah i did change my credit card i forgot all about it people if you change your credit we have it so you so the thing turns off

1:09:54 if you don't have one payment is miss you you're dropped from the list because i don't believe we should have the the hounding style you can check a box and make it that way but we don't want to do that and uh... so just take the take a once in a while check to see if the donations still coming through and if you're useful if you're new to this uh... sorry if you need to this program and of course we uh... we we are getting new choir members uh... daily The reason why we have a complete user supported show is so that we can talk about anything in any way we want and we don't play commercials. We've looked at what PBS does, our national treasure. Our national treasure! And they actually had one of those begathons the other day and James Taylor was on.

1:10:47 And of course, James Taylor gets paid for doing that. Do you want to hear his shilling message for our national treasure? It's here because you support it. And the only way that works is if you will step up to the plate and give as much as you can. If this is valuable to you, anywhere near as valuable to you as it is to me, you'll back that up. You'll follow through. You'll do the right thing. And you'll come up with some cash, give as much as you can, because that's how this works. Send us your cash. That's a nice bit of encouragement from none other than James Taylor. Hello.

CHAPTER 19 / 31 Discussion

Fox News Homeschooling and Terrorism Claims

A Fox News segment featuring Rosanna Scotto and security specialist Robert Strang suggested that homeschooled children and "unpopular" students are at a higher risk of becoming radicalized terrorists. The commentary characterized those who are disenfranchised or bullied in school as potential threats to national security. This messaging is criticized as an attempt by the government to discourage homeschooling and maintain control over education.

fox news· homeschooling· rosanna scotto· robert strang· terrorism· radicalization

1:11:29 is this james taylor's is the guy was the head of nigeria's this kind of a different guy no so uh... it's the house the in fine i've seen ring so uh... we are listener supported a hundred percent we had we don't want to do it any other way and if you uh... when the support stops and we stop doing it it's just that simple uh... and if we go off the track you know we can kind of see well maybe we should talk about this more that more but i think most people kind of Use the show as a background while they're driving. This is a commuter show as far as I can tell so you You've homeschooled your kids, right? One of them. Oh the successful one. She's the one yeah Well, she's the she gets the best grades of any kid in the family after being homeschooled Which is not an unusual phenomenon. I might add So yeah, why oh because she will be a terrorist. Oh

1:12:21 And I have proof. She's already a terror. I'm going to document it for you with Fox News. These are all people who have become disenfranchised in the community, they become radicalized, and they do the kinds of horrid things that we saw in Times Square. You know, some of the things that they tell us about their background, oh, that, you know, they weren't popular in school. They were taken out of class, some were homeschooled. Do we look at everybody who's a loser in high school and say this could be a potential terrorist? I mean, what are we doing? Yeah, pretty much. What show was this? What disgusting show were you listening to? This is the Feds... Let me see, what was this for?

1:13:02 This was the, this is more of this homegrown terror. They arrested someone somewhere who God knows who were talking. What show is this? Who is that? That's Rosanna, Rosanna Scotto. And she's talking to, on Fox News, talking to security specialist Robert Strang. This is on Fox News? Yes! What's wrong with these people? Well, they're on board with the program. They want to make sure that... Yeah, Fox News is run by Democrats, you're right. Yes, it is. If you homeschool your kids, they will turn into terrorists. So the Feds apparently recorded some kids talking about jihad against Americans, which is just bull crap. And it's a good day in New York, actually. Rosanna Scotto. She's big in New York. Everyone knows her in New York.

1:13:46 She's on there with you want to hear it again. You listen carefully to what she says yeah, she's got a checklist She's getting a little because you were they were bullied in school. They were yeah, we had no class We got them all we don't want homeschooling in this country because God knows you know the government will lose control of your kids and then The security said she says so they'll just turn into terrorists yeah, and this and the security specialist says yeah pretty much These are all people who have become disenfranchised in the community they become radicalized and they do the kinds of hard are

CHAPTER 20 / 31 Discussion

Obama "Kick Some Ass" Comment and Media Racialization

President Obama's comment about looking for "whose ass to kick" regarding the BP oil spill sparked a heated debate on CNN about racial stereotypes. Pundits discussed whether the President was "going street" or if critics were using racialized language to describe his display of anger. The media coverage is described as a deliberate attempt to stir up racial tension rather than focusing on the administration's policy failures.

barack obama· don lemon· matt drudge· robert gibbs· bp oil spill· racism

1:14:34 Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, pretty much. So essentially if you're not popular even a Loser as she would put it so in other words the unpopular kids who may be thoughtful or they may be studious or they may just be you know not into Joining everything they run across and they're losers by her standards and potentially a terrorist. This is wonderful messaging Yeah, it's great It's not quite as good and we can listen to a little bit of it because it's my favorite guy from CNN. Don Lemon everybody, I'm Don Lemon. So as predicted, we played the clip of Bill Maher joking stereotypically about the president and black men. Yeah, you want your president to go in with a gun in his belt under his t-shirt and tell BP, put a cap in somebody's ass here.

1:15:27 and of course the president is now uh... you know this is big what do they call it uh... uh... the samuel jackson is gonna kick some ass you know kick some ass so but but but now they uh... we have listed a little bit this conversation and immediately is like well the republicans are bound to you know like be racist like everyone's fuckin racist now this is it's it's a little crazy and he's got a panel with the Jesse Jackson I'm sorry I got a fucking pre-roll see I didn't have I was too ill and didn't have time to wow this pre-roll is making me want to have sex with her what can she sell me oh a Suzuki motorcycle cool okay here we go thank you all for joining me tonight press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about those comments at the White House briefing today I want you to listen to that and then we'll talk about it

1:16:21 Any second thoughts on his choice of language? Is that appropriate language for a president? I just want the transcript to reflect it. Ed was a little nervous about this. Jake, not so much. Just so the... so the... That's the jabroni Gibbs. I was laughing it up there with the White House shills. Who's the douchebag in the reporting complex asking if it's appropriate language? I don't know. Shut up, Schleyer. No, I've not heard any regrets about the... This is about the President saying he's going to kick some ass. Yeah, obviously.

1:17:00 Alright, so let's get to it. Roland, you know, after all the... I'm sorry, this is not... this is Roland. This is the other shill that's always on CNN with Don Lemon. ...uproar about him not getting angry. Once he does more criticism, what's going on here? It's called a double standard. Folks want to say he should get upset, then he gets upset, then the same people who criticize him for not getting upset, all of a sudden now they're mad because he actually used this particular phrase. But the reality is, the president, his nature is not one where he is going to have a flash of anger. He is who he is. And so that's really what this speaks to. And so I understand people want him to show some emotion, but you have to do you. And what he's saying is fix the problem. That's more important. Yeah. And I want to talk to Tim about this. Tim, you heard Roland mention a double standard here. When he does get angry, can he do it without being stereotyped? The Drudge Report said...

1:17:53 Here it is stereotyping. Okay, so we just had the black guy now Let's have the white guy respond. The president was quote going street with his comments to Matt Lauer Well, well, that's the kind of racialized language that fools like Matt drudge and people on the right use fools fools And people on the right. No, that's the same language that people on the left use. It's just like oh You don't want to hear any more of this truck. Yeah, I do. Oh, really? Okay, you asked for it to push those white racial resentment buttons with the public look no matter what the president does He was going to get attacked. So if he says something angrily, that's what's gonna come from drudge If he says something calmly they're gonna say he's being professorial Let me just say this the politics are no win the president needs if he feels anger to express that anger he needs to lead from a position of

1:18:47 principle and I think it's an open question as to whether or not he's done enough of that if white folks can't handle it if we get nervous because the big bad black man is raising his voice that's our problem. What is wrong with these people? Oh my goodness there's some chick in a yellow outfit maybe maybe she'll say something funny Oh my God. I have to worry about that. I'm going to let you get in on this too, but I want to... Roland, were you laughing? Did I hear you laughing about that? Why? Well, first of all, whenever I get to hit Tim or put some folks in check, I always have a good laugh. This subject has been going game busters online, in newspapers, on the blogs. I told you, it's annoying.

CHAPTER 21 / 31 Discussion

CIA Heroin Trade and NCIS Media Messaging

Reports suggest the CIA's involvement in the Afghan heroin trade is causing significant friction with Russia, where drug-related deaths are surging. Meanwhile, a segment from the television show NCIS is highlighted for its portrayal of the CIA and Homeland Security as agencies that can legally drain bank accounts of "bad guys" to fund operations. This is viewed as a form of predictive programming to normalize extrajudicial financial seizures.

cia· afghanistan· heroin· russia· ncis· homeland security

1:19:34 but cnn is is just stirring up racial hatred so yeah i do has been a little bit democrats of the races let's face it yes so uh... i just wanted to give people a chat us of the did was as we get closer to the show i have a kind of i found the uh... the uh... selvo initial selvo that we're going to be getting out of afghanistan sooner than later apparently the cia has uh... you know stablish the right relationships with the people there to get the drugs without having barf armed forces there seems right apparently most of the going to russia by the way russia's really pissed off about this i don't blame him yeah i mean there's like thirty thousand dead in the in the past year or some crazy statistic like that just from hot heroin yeah coming in for the the cia is bringing in russia and and there's no there's reports from the kremlin that uh...

1:20:29 uh... the russian mine strike back at the cia in afghanistan and my start to kick some ass over there and get him to stop news selling the heroin in russia Well, that'll be interesting to observe. That might be another good reason to get out. Meanwhile, I have a CIA meme I picked up on an NCIS show. Uh-huh. Which they mentioned two interesting facts. One is that the CIA and Homeland Security apparently can drain bank accounts for cause. Oh yeah, absolutely. But I knew the CIA could do it, but I didn't know Homeland Security. The IRS can do it.

1:21:07 So, yeah they do. And they do it. So, here's the meme, the way it went. This is the end of the show, an NCIS show where the CIA guy apparently found some evil doer and started stealing his money for the benefit of the agency. And there was just a couple of interesting points made in this little This little back and forth between the CIA guy who happens to have an English accent, not even a normal English accent, but one of those evil, crazy, Euro trash English accents. He's Johnny Ive, I tell you. Close. And then you hear this little message just like, you know, how does the CIA get his money? You weren't after the pirate. You were after his treasure. Found his phony health fund and cleared it out.

1:21:53 I didn't know he would take it so personally. It seemed like an opportune time to cash in a favor. $300 million, I'd say you got your money's worth. CIA keeps it. And you get Saravo as promised. A major threat has been neutralized. You thought I was gonna shoot him? Just let him get him back, that's all. Couldn't have him hide behind immunity, now could we? Bank robberies from bad guys? Is that a CIA finances or operations? I'm just trying to get back in the starting lineup. It's possible. You're even more dangerous behind a desk Wow, yeah, I can find that to be a fascinating little tidbit they throw on national TV

CHAPTER 22 / 31 Discussion

Afghanistan Withdrawal Predictions and Blackwater Sale

Senator Russ Feingold's appearance on the Tavis Smiley show is interpreted as a signal that the U.S. is preparing for a withdrawal from Afghanistan before the next presidential election. The news that Eric Prince is putting Blackwater up for sale further supports the theory that the "economic hitman" phase of the conflict is concluding. The war is described as a drain on American resources that has reached its logical end for commercial interests.

afghanistan· russ feingold· tavis smiley· blackwater· eric prince· barack obama

1:22:45 There's a little too much of the making the CIA part of everyday society. I mean there's too much promotion of it. Now they have obits in the New York Times about dead spies and it has their background and all the stuff they did. It's just, I don't know, I'm not comfortable with it. Meanwhile, so I pick up on this one. this is right now this is the this is the first opening sell when i can this is my second prediction of the show we're gonna be out of afghanistan sooner than later definitely before obama's uh... runs for re-election if i think he's gonna get us out of everything before cuz that's always gonna possibly win take that to the back so uh...

1:23:25 So you look for things out there that are floating around and kind of the edges of the structure. And you just look for the messaging that's going on, because all this stuff is official. I mean, these guys aren't... This is Russ Feingold on Tavis Smiley, who we already know as a stooge. Who's Russ Feingold? Russ Feingold is one of the guys on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he may be the head of it. He is like basically telling us why we shouldn't be in Afghanistan, which I think is interesting He's a Democrat and he's a and it just sounds like messaging to me and what it says to me when you listen to the whole thing You'll hear the same thing. We are done with this place It's a waste of money waste of time and a waste of everything else Smiley has his line to deliver which you'll hear he has this it's like here's the script smiley read this and

1:24:19 and uh... it says to me that we can expect to be out of this place pretty soon and then that means that the obviously the cia whoever's you know going to be left behind are in in good you know there they're hooked up the way they wanted to be and we don't need the soldiers there anymore all boy i have a good story that goes along with the circumstances of the clip and are not principally operating on afghanistan so what sense does it make to wait for conditions on the ground and get stuck further in a ground war in Afghanistan when this organization recruits and goes around the world and finds other weak spots. It is not a logical strategy. I think it's a formula for bleeding our country of our resources, weakening our military and weakening our national security. How should the American people read that this is now the longest war in all of US history?

1:25:11 Well, I think they will understand why it began. I voted to go after these guys in Afghanistan. Much of their operation moved into Pakistan when we unfortunately did not do the best job we should have to go after Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants. Actually, under President Obama, we're having much greater success. of going after these people in other places around the world. And I congratulate the President, the administration, the military, and intelligence people and others that are succeeding in this regard. But what doesn't make sense is to further weaken our economy. We're talking about $80 to $100 billion next year. to further weaken our military and to further alienate the people in Afghanistan in a way that causes more foreign fighters to join the cause against us. We don't want to drive the Taliban and the Al-Qaeda any closer together.

1:26:01 And this is exactly what this continued action causes. You know, this is perceived as an occupation and who can really blame people to perceive it as an occupation after nine years? So it's understandable that it started this way. It's much harder to understand for the American people an open-ended commitment to something that doesn't seem to be at the very core of our national security anymore. So I really like your prediction John, particularly when you take the following news article into account that Blackwater, or the company formerly known as Blackwater, is up for sale. Yeah, who'd buy them?

CHAPTER 23 / 31 Discussion

Iraq War Strategy and the Jimmy Carter Parallel

While a withdrawal from Afghanistan is predicted, the ongoing costs of the Iraq War remain a significant burden on the U.S. economy. Analysts suggest that political opponents may attempt to frame President Obama as a modern-day Jimmy Carter by engineering a crisis that makes him appear inept. The presence of Zbigniew Brzezinski as a recurring advisor to both administrations is noted as a point of strategic continuity.

iraq· afghanistan· barack obama· jimmy carter· zbigniew brzezinski· contractors

1:26:42 Well, the guys who are going to be there and I mean it's done right? So we went in, the main reason of course was the UNICOL pipeline so we got to protect all that, we got to get all the bases in. There's a 100 billion dollar base being built in Afghanistan. We will never be completely out but who's going to populate the base? Well, it's going to be a complete commercial venture. It's like the American people and the NATO countries, those people all paid for it and we sent everyone over there and we kicked some ass and we set it all up and now we're in cahoots with Karzai, of course we always have been, and now all the commercial companies are all set up.

1:27:22 economic hitman scenario. It's all set up now Eric Prince is like okay I'm done you can take over that anyone who wants to buy this and of course gonna be some huge conglomerate you know they're rolling it up right what's the Cerberon I'm sure will buy it because they did the three-headed dog who guard the gates from hell run by who's the jabroni the ex-VP Come on, help me. No, no, no, no, no. Dan Quayle. Dan Quayle. Dan Quayle. That's his name. Dan Quayle. Yeah, Quayle. Right. So, you know, he runs one of the largest contracting firms in the world right now. It's all set up. Of course we're going to get out. Well, of course we have to go somewhere else.

1:28:01 Well, the other thing, you know, everything Feingold said, I only played a small clip of his little interview there with Smiley. You know how Smiley came in with the longest war in history. Yeah. Which is his setup line. Everything he said, everything without exception that he said applies to Iraq, but he doesn't bring Iraq into the conversation, which is costing us a heck of a lot more money than Afghanistan is costing us. So that I don't get. Well he's on our national treasure. He has to follow. Why are we staying in Iraq? This argument applies to both of these situations. But I do think Obama is going to pull us first out of Afghanistan because it's going to be okay. Everything will be settled and then they'll have some contractors left.

1:28:40 And then he's got to get us out of Iraq before his re-election campaign because he's got to try to jumpstart the economy. And he doesn't want to, but again, of course, we talked about this before, the counter elements are the people that are trying to make him into the next Jimmy Carter. So there has to be, so even if he gets us out of Afghanistan and Iraq and sets a sets things in motion so he can maybe get re-elected, they're gonna set him up with some sort of a weird kind of a, you know, like the hostage crisis that hung around Jimmy Carter's neck till the end and they also kept the economy from cranking up until Reagan got in. So I think he's gonna have a, I think it's not gonna, it's not

1:29:18 going as smoothly as... Maybe we need to move the troops into Korea now. Maybe that's the next... maybe we have to do a re-run. The Korea thing is a re-run, you know, it's like it was back in the 50s. I don't think the Korean thing is gonna work. The Koreans aren't for it. Here's how the meeting goes. Hey, Dvorak, what do you think? Should we do the Korean cabal again? What do you think? Can we do it? It worked in the 50s. It's a re-run. It worked in the 50s. Should we do it again? so i don't know that no they're gonna do another it's going to be something like the hostage can be some sort of a thing that's going to make him look inept according to the jessica are you going to get you think we had a bar hold the demise he was captured and everyone's held hostage in carter couldn't do crap about it and they said helicopters over there they got stuck in the mud and you know essentially got sand in their own motors and they all died and it's just a thing was a fiasco and they just voted him out this is what this is what they they have to do to obama was some sort of a

CHAPTER 24 / 31 Discussion

Bill Gates Foundation Haiti Mobile Banking Project

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has launched a $10 million fund to establish mobile banking services in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Critics argue that providing digital cash and cell phone banking is a tone-deaf response to a population in need of basic necessities like clean water and food. The project is characterized as an attempt to integrate the impoverished nation into a global digital financial system.

bill gates· haiti· mobile banking· malaria· earthquake· cash

1:30:12 crazy scenario that makes him look like a bonehead so what is the constant what is the the constant between carter and obama well they're both democrats that's a constant this is a big new brzezinski oh both uh... both carter and obama have him advising on foreign policy yeah he may be an agent provocateur you think? you think? so um... bill gates saver of the world with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, you know I said I have huge question marks around that foundation and what they're doing. Yeah. I'm not alone. So Bill of course, you know, I'm pretty sure he could go and help the people of Haiti if he really wanted to. He could buy the place. Right. Well he has a plan. Hotels? No, it's better than that. Oh, it's much better than that. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has created a ten million dollar fund

1:31:11 for mobile banking services in Haiti. How is this got anything to do with all the reasons for this foundation to exist to end malaria? Because the new project will give Haitians control over their cash. ATM machines? ATM machines and mobile banking on your cell phone. Brother. Oh yeah. Yeah, I'm seeing if I can find a choice quote after the earthquake in Haiti There were huge difficulties in getting cash to families there now by getting water if none of these guys They don't give a crap if only there had been a mobile a mobile money system Operations, what is it? If only there had been a mobile money system operating a lot of problems would have been reduced and people could have started rebuilding their lives immediately

1:32:05 Geez, Marie Antoinette has nothing on these guys. People will have to Google that, people under 40. It's unconscionable is what it is. That's another one of our favorite words. Yes, and then I have a picture of two Haitians there looking at a mobile phone. Oh, I just received some cash. It's not really money, it's just like a text message, but I feel really good about it. Oh my god, speaking of cell phones, this has been around for a while, this story, I haven't really talked about it. Big push now from Chuck Schumer that you can't buy a prepaid, what you call a burner phone, without identifying yourself. You have to show your papers before you can buy one, because you could be a drug dealer. Yeah, great. Which I think is almost as crazy as the FCC

CHAPTER 25 / 31 Discussion

Sam Knows Secret Sauce and FCC Router Surveillance

The FCC has partnered with a UK-based company called Sam Knows to embed "secret sauce" software into consumer routers, starting with Netgear models. While marketed as a tool to measure broadband speeds, the technology is criticized as a potential backdoor for government surveillance of internet traffic. The company's opaque corporate structure and use of privacy-shielding services for its domain registration have raised significant red flags.

sam knows· fcc· netgear· broadband· surveillance· secret sauce

1:33:02 And this kind of frightened me. I'd heard about, you know, there was some software you could download and then you use that and it tests your broadband connection and then it sends the information to the FCC so that they have a clear understanding of broadband speeds. Which, to me, it sounds like I'm not installing any software that does that. But now, but but you go to speed tester I mean just go Google's you know broadband speed and run one of those online tests. Yeah but now they've teamed up with a company called Sam knows have you heard of this company? Sam knows? Sam knows as N-O-S-E? A K-N-O-W-S. Sam knows dot com.

1:33:49 and sam knows dot com and it is a fantastic story of course is nothing on the website it tells me about the really uh... about the company we should do a good list of the sam knows dot com and there's here it is So this is broadband performance, availability and speed. And it says secret sauce inside. Secret sauce inside. Sam Crawford, a young software developer, noticed that his internet connection seemed slow to slow down considerably in the evenings. Yeah, prime porn time, Sam. Web-based speed tests seemed to show everything was okay, but Sam was sure that this couldn't be right. He tried developing his own test, which he installed on an old PC in front of his internet connection. Still, nothing seemed to be wrong. This reads like a dot-com, doesn't it? No, it actually reads like one of those about us items that you see on gimmick restaurants like Carlos Murphy, about the supposed guy Carlos Murphy who doesn't really exist. So it gets better.

1:34:50 Yeah, exactly. He realized he was ignoring all of his wireless traffic and the only way truly to measure his internet connection was by installing his text tests on the actual router. With no other choice, Sam set about building his own router with his tests embedded. This magic box worked, and he was able to build a report card on the performance of his internet connection, which he sent to his ISP. Eager to spread the word, Sam posted a research paper detailing his solution online and was inundated by requests from other consumers who also wanted to accurately measure the performance of their broadband.

1:35:32 Only two years later, Sam Knows has expanded from Sam's bedroom into an international corporation. And Sam's original recipe with the latest generation of those same tests have now been adopted as the worldwide industry standard by the American and United Kingdom regulators and form the basis of government reports. So, Faced with the need to produce industrial quantities of magic boxes and literally magic boxes for variety of ISPs and government clients Sam knows develop a technology which can convert any Manufacturers router gateway or internet device into spelled with an s into one of Sam's magic boxes

1:36:17 This secret sauce is still based around Sam's original recipe of tests, although Sam and now his team of professional programmers have made numerous improvements to the original bedroom version. The first router manufactured to launch a Sam Knows enabled device is Netgear. Sam and his team are currently working with other device, with an S, manufacturers worldwide to make the tests available to every consumer. So what's happening is the government is contracting this company who spells device with an S to put crap into our routers that you get from your ISP to upload your shit to the fucking government. Yeah, Eric's actually looking this guy up now but apparently it's a London based company. It's a UK company, yes.

1:37:03 uh... proper in the u k okay that's and it says there are uh... because cdl is listed in the neck your press release i'm looking at and uh... i have a net gear here the time warner cable gave me a net here i bet you that crops in there in really in a release alex salter who is the ceo said why would be a guy named alex salter bsc you have a little company that run by a guy named sam where sam go did he get fired as you just the cto sorry sam sorry sam but thanks but this is this is now oh here's an interesting point so this company of course eric's doing it who is good good good good good it's a privacy who is service one of those that hides the you know real source oh really so that's pretty suspicious what what's what is the point of hiding your who is information unless you're not a virginia if you know what i'm saying

1:38:03 the results will appear in a state of broadband report later this year and form the FCC's effort to deliver on the ambitious national broadband plan this is putting crap in your router that does not belong there. It's backdoors. It's total backdoors So, he comes up with London Online, comes up third floor Prospero House, which is apparently where Prospero Petroleum is located. Oh, gee, hold on a second. We'll figure it out eventually. I think not! It's a, yeah, this is bad. I think that you're, I don't know what the deal is with Netgear. What's the point? Why don't you put this crap in your router?

1:38:55 or innovative as they say in the UK, branded networking solutions today announced that Netgear will be embedding the Sam No's secret sauce into its standard 3500 series routers. The secret sauce! I don't want secret sauces in my router. And we all know it's just tartar sauce. I don't want secret sauce. These guys, they have no fucking shame John. Now they're just calling it secret sauce. It's like you might as well know it's secret sauce. This freaks me out. This is really, it's like the end is nigh. I'll be that guy with the beard walking around with the end is near, John 18. Back to the who is research, the phone links back to ASIO Technologies in Denmark.

1:39:45 Joe just where's the Sam guy anyway? I'm telling you sorry Sam Thanks for the secret sauce. We've got a secret sauce. We don't need Sam anymore Yeah, if you guys see a router out there ladies and gentlemen that is got this stuff in it. I would buy something else How can you know because I actually got you know they time This is what freaks me out time Warner cable came out because I'm having all kinds of problems Oh gonna install a new net gear for you. Yeah, this one rocks. Oh Yeah, secrets. It should have a little logo secret sauce inside. This is so you know that it's in there now You seen there the sauce. All right. Well, I got one more clip It's a little lighter. I'm trying to keep the show like, you know, I have to poop Yeah Let me let me just I'll keep it light for you. Um, so everyone's like my daughter your daughter's gouging you and

CHAPTER 26 / 31 Discussion

UK TV Licensing and BBC Top Gear

In the United Kingdom, residents are required to pay a 142-pound annual TV license fee, which now applies to anyone with an internet connection regardless of television ownership. The fee supports the BBC, which is praised for producing high-quality content like Top Gear. The show's lack of commercial sponsors allows for honest, often brutal reviews of vehicles, such as the Ford F-150.

bbc· tv license· top gear· united kingdom· internet connection· ford f-150

1:40:45 Oh yeah, here we go. About the TV licensing? Yeah, you gave a number that is inaccurate. Well, I said 300 pounds, but I guess I meant $300 and it's not even that anymore with the pound, because the pound is now what, 145? So it's 142 pounds is the TV license. One interesting bit that did come in from Mark in the UK who says, If you have an internet connection, you also have to buy the TV license, even if you don't have a TV license or a television. That makes sense to me. Because you can get television through the internet connection. Yeah. But it's 142 pounds and most Brits find it a tremendous deal for their national treasure, the BBC, and I will agree to that. I think it is a very good deal.

1:41:39 for the BBC for what you get for Top Gear I'd pay a hundred and forty two pounds a year just to see Top Gear everybody loves Top Gear everybody loves Top Gear yeah because it's it's like our show because they have no commercial interest they can say hey this car sucks we don't have a show. Yeah, they do it constantly. Yeah, we don't have a show like that over here. No. Because you have to watch Top Gear to get good reviews of American autos. Yeah. I like that they did a review of the Ford F-150 and he's driving around, he's talking about all the good features of it and he says, but in the end it's rubbish. It's rubbish. It's rubbish. It's rubbish. Wait, before you do your clip, why don't we do this first. All aboard, trains good, planes bad.

CHAPTER 27 / 31 Discussion

High-Speed Rail Propaganda and Bakersfield Route

The marketing for the new iPhone 4 mentions the use of aluminosilicate glass, the same material used in high-speed trains, which is viewed as a subtle "trains good, planes bad" propaganda effort. In California, the proposed high-speed rail route through Bakersfield is criticized as a front for expanding freight capacity rather than serving passengers. Local opposition is growing as the planned 200-mph tracks threaten schools and historic buildings.

high-speed rail· apple· iphone 4· bakersfield· freight trains· california

1:42:22 There's some really, really good stories about how bad trains are. For those of you who are in the choir and new to the program, we have identified that high-speed rail is good and is great and it will be fantastic and we need to spend hundreds of billions on it. And planes are bad. Really, really, really, really bad. So, lots of little clues, John. The new iPhone 4 was announced today, and one of the touted features is the aluminium-so-silicate glass on the front and back. It is, according to Apple's marketing materials, the same type of glass used in the windshields of helicopters and high-speed trains.

1:43:07 I think that is an obvious... Yeah, that's an obvious plug for the idea. Trains good, planes bad. Well now that you mention this segment, there's something going on that's kind of interesting which I think affirms my theory that they're just trying to gouge the public to lay new tracks for freight trains. and it's the route through Bakersfield. The high-speed train that supposedly California's gonna build for getting us to LA in an hour and a half or two hours or whatever it is, look longer than an airplane ride, apparently goes through Bakersfield and past some old fancy, some old, couple old buildings and a school or something, and the locals are pissed off about this thing. It's gonna ruin the school and you can't do anything if these trains going by at 200 miles an hour. I'm thinking, why would you route

1:43:56 a train through Bakersfield at 200 miles an hour when it would seem to be a lot cheaper and easier to route it in the normalized desert area that surrounds Bakersfield, which is kind of off the beaten track to be honest about it. So it seems to me that this route through Bakersfield at 200 miles an hour is bogus and it's the only reason they're going through Bakersfield is because they're going to create a stop there for the high-speed freight i mean there's no you know it's not gonna have a stop date is not shown as a stopping point for the uh... for the passengers that i know of it if it is that would slow things down so some there is a limit this scam is is just only too obvious to me well so the uh... the best way and of course uh... we know that hill and nolton is uh... behind uh... they are the p r company for high-rise emily's work we can't stop it is unstoppable unstoppable and you'd almost think that this story in the wall street journal

CHAPTER 28 / 31 Discussion

TSA Body Scanners and Airport Privacy Concerns

The Wall Street Journal reports that TSA screeners at airports like O'Hare are disproportionately selecting "good-looking" passengers for full-body scans. Incidents of travelers being harassed for attempting to hold up their pants during the "prisoner-style" screening process have led to formal complaints. The technology is criticized for creating a "naked picture" database that screeners use for entertainment, further degrading the air travel experience.

tsa· body scanners· o'hare airport· wall street journal· privacy· screening

1:44:53 Is a part of their work. This is about the 80 new body scanners installed at 27 airports A story about Mike Murdoch, this is a great story, who travels on two or three flights a week. One morning in May was ordered to put his belt and other belongings through the baggage x-ray machine and step into the body scanning machine at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. So normally he leaves his belt on and keeps his wallet in his pocket when he goes through a metal detector. When Mr. Murdoch tried repeatedly to hold up his pants because they were falling down, which by the way, this is an issue because you have to put your hands up in the body scanner.

1:45:32 uh... he says a screener kept barking at him to keep his hands over his head prisoner style that way that machine could get a clear picture of his whole body he says yes of course he didn't like this very much he filed a complaint with the tsa about being separated from the from his valuables and being yelled at about his pants and his uh... supervisor from chicago responded with an apology and suggested in future simply go to a screening checkpoint without body scanners well that's what you think but uh... What's happening now is, this is great, the TSA has been caught according to this article, because you can choose, right? You can say I don't want to go through that, I want to go through the metal detector. But the screener basically chooses you and says please go left, please go right. They are sending good-looking people

1:46:25 through the body scanner according to wall street journal all the good hot young people they send to the body scanner because they can look at them naked yeah no i read this story and the overweight people it's unpatriotic if you don't follow these instructions which i find ironic but here's the deal imagine yourself people don't like the TSA anyway they let you scan so you're creating a lot of bad vibes bad karma And and you so you've got this job, so you're okay. You're kind of bored with this job You know that they're taking pictures so what more entertain what could be more entertaining than some girl coming through she's looking pretty good She looks pretty hot. Let's see what she looks like naked and you put her in there and you go wow look at her She's pretty hot looking naked too. She's pretty hot. Yeah, what do you think yeah? I give her a seven

1:47:12 and so then the grading and the next chick goes through and you got a picture of her naked and the next one and the next one and you got a bunch of na- this is entertainment! What else would you do if you had this job? I would do the same thing exactly. But where is the outrage from people? It's now so obvious we know that they make fun of their co-workers uh... the hollywood stars have been uh... that had to put autographs on their naked pictures where is the outrage we have a couple of his name is they don't care if you are saying that all right then i got one clip and that that there's a whole bunch of links in the show notes and no agenda show dot com not showing you how horrible air travel is but this one takes the cake takes that cake and of course it's on fox

CHAPTER 29 / 31 Discussion

Continental Airlines Jewelry Theft and Travel Scares

A suspicious news report details a woman's claim that her drink was spiked and her Swarovski jewelry stolen during a Continental Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Newark. The story, which involves a "long walk" from row 16 to purchase a soda, is dismissed as a fabricated scare tactic designed to make air travel seem dangerous. The FBI is reportedly investigating the incident, though critics point out numerous factual inconsistencies in the victim's account.

continental airlines· jewelry theft· fbi· tel aviv· newark· spiked drink

1:47:59 run by the Democrats. Listen to what a horrible horrible situation. A woman claims she was drugged and robbed all while on board a commercial airline flight. She says another passenger spiked her drink and then got away with her jewelry. Fox's Linda Schmidt has the story. Well, the alleged victim says another woman, a stranger, was sitting right next to her on the plane and she says this woman spiked her soda and then stole jewelry out of her purse. She was totally knocked out. Community activist Isaac Abraham says the victim's family called him for help. He says the woman was on board a continental flight from Tel Aviv to Newark Thursday afternoon. She says a woman who was sitting next to her did not talk to her for seven hours. Oh my God, you didn't

1:48:43 I didn't talk for seven hours! This is... Air travel is horrible, John. They don't talk to you for seven hours. They sit right next to you. A flight. Until she opened her purse to take out a sandwich. And that's when she says the woman could see her Swarovski jewelry. She takes the sandwich out of her purse and this jewelry bag with this Arnold's name appears. The lady passenger to the right makes a comment, oh you have that type of jewelry, I can show you some that I have on my computer or my laptop. The victim says the woman then offered numerous times to buy her a soda but she said no. By the way, that's where you can tell the story is bullshit because you don't have to buy a soda on any airline anywhere in the world. That shit's free.

1:49:28 Unbelievable that they would make that mistake. I mean, if... Do these people ever travel? If you're setting it up, you know, and this is someone at Hill & Knowlton needs to get fired for writing this script. Can I buy you a soda? This... well, it gets better. The woman got out of her seat. Then this passenger lady got up and on her own walked all the way back to the plane from aisle 16. That's a long walk. It's a long walk from aisle 16. Oh John, I'm so tired. I came from aisle 16 And this is what she tells me it was a soda it was a diet coke she left it on her

1:50:06 table there for a good 10 minutes. After 10 minutes she took the full drink. Abraham says the next thing the victim remembers is waking up as the plane was landing feeling groggy. It was the next day that she realized her jewelry wasn't in her purse. It was gone. Now the Port Authority did confirm for Fox 5 that this woman did in fact file a report with them, a complaint with them on Sunday. However, they forwarded that complaint on to the FBI because the Port Authority says that would fall under the FBI's jurisdiction. FBI? It also reached out to the FBI but it will not comment on whether or not it's investigating. Brother, what a crock of crap that is all around.

1:50:54 You know, by the way, that jingle, if you think about it during the day, you end up thinking about it all day. Don't tell me about it. It's like, it's, everyone's sitting on it. Play it one more time so we can just annoy the listeners. Come on. Here we go. All aboard, trains good, planes bad. Woohoo! I'm groggy from walking back from row 16 with my purchased Diet Coke. Two minutes and seven seconds of my life. I will never get back again. Yeah, you're not missing anything. Oh my god. Well the clip I have we can run next week because it's kind of an evergreen. We'll do it then. All right. Well, is it funny?

CHAPTER 30 / 31 Discussion

UK Fox Attacks and Google Caffeine Search Update

In the UK, a series of fox attacks has sparked a debate over culling the animals, with Queen guitarist Brian May advocating for their protection. Simultaneously, the European Parliament is considering a plan to force Google to store all user search data for two years. Google has also rolled out a new search architecture called "Caffeine," though users complain that search results are increasingly dominated by commercial SEO content rather than relevant information.

brian may· foxes· google caffeine· search engine· european parliament· surveillance

1:51:36 It's only it's remote. It's not as funny as this idea I got a note from one of them from Eric saying that apparently Ryanair easyjet frontier in Alaska are now charging for sodas Yeah, but this was continental this was continental overseas. They're not charging for sodas from coming in from Israel I can assure you so but well I was just gonna wrap up a couple of things before it kind of goes away the the Fox attack and in Gitmo Nation East. Still hasn't eaten a baby yet. No, well actually the Scotland Yard is still investigating the crime scene apparently. They're dusting for paw prints. But this is now being spun and there was another attack by the way in Moore County. Let me see.

1:52:24 or well you can look at that yourself in the show notes uh... but this is being used uh... to tell people that they have to put their trash in their beans that apparently is the problem no i thought they would be fines anyway if you didn't put your trash in your bdm's well they have cameras now a lot of the beans in the in the in the beans does make sure that you're not putting too much trash in uh... yes beans you have to clean up your trash as it's crazy they had uh... I don't have a clip of it unfortunately, but they had Brian May, the guitarist from Queen, in a debate with a politician. I think it was, maybe he was like from the Fox Hunting Society. So that guy's like, hey, we gotta go shoot some foxes. We're being overrun. And Brian May, who I know personally is a lovely guy, he's like, no man, they're beautiful. We can't go killing foxes. They're really pretty. They're just like dogs.

1:53:22 We don't want to kill them, do we? It's turning into just a crazy situation. Sometimes you just got to kill some things if you want to live. Yeah, or they'll kill you. Yeah, if you want your baby or your babies. Yes. And sinkhole outbreak all over China after the Guatemala hole. There's a number of these are real looking sinkholes. They're not like the crazy one in Guatemala. Right. Well, yeah, these do look a little bit more sinkholish. uh... but the chinese residents uh... are very worried because they believe it is a clear sign of another huge earthquake yet to come and uh... i think we might as well just mention i think actually mention this on maybe cranky geeks that uh... the uh... european parliament is a plan now to uh... force google to save every search you have done for two years

1:54:24 as if the secret sauce in your router wasn't enough. Now they're going to save your searches for two years. People will start hating Google for this. I'm quite sure of it. They're gonna get pissed off and they're just gonna start using something else. What do you think? Well, you know, Google just released their new Search or there. I think is that rolling it out their new search They have a new search engine behind everything called caffeine Which I think is to eliminate the problem that Google has which I complain about bitterly constantly Is that you can't find anything?

1:55:03 yeah you all you find is the sco'd crap that my rises to the top the selling is something you can't find any of the other things a moving target google goes in and they shut somebody down to the pool some stunt mahalo mahalo is a good example and so then they don't show up anywhere anymore but that meanwhile these guys who got countermeasures or goes back to the second little war going on between the sco guys who are a small cadre of people that observe this very closely, people, a lot of them ex-Googlers I might add, and Google itself is trying to eliminate the problem, but they can't. They have been unable to eliminate the problem because it's just too tricky, and so I can't find the best weed whacker. I can't, you know, if you put in best weed whacker, I get just a bunch of commercial places selling weed whackers. I'm not finding the best one. No, and did you ever get your weed whacker? Yeah, I bought one, whatever it was on sale.

CHAPTER 31 / 31 Discussion

Sarah Palin Media Speculation and Howard Stern Strategy

Media outlets like Entertainment Tonight are focusing on speculation regarding whether Sarah Palin underwent cosmetic surgery. Meanwhile, plans are discussed for an upcoming appearance on the Howard Stern Show, where the hosts intend to challenge Stern's outdated views on broadcasting. They suggest Stern could earn significantly more by moving to an independent, user-supported streaming model rather than staying with satellite radio.

sarah palin· howard stern· satellite radio· streaming· entertainment tonight· donations

1:55:53 All right, then I would like to wind up we'll save your clip for a Sunday I will wind up with a very typical prediction prediction prediction this will be the headline for the next week this will be the question on everybody's lips it will be an extra it will be on entertainment tonight everyone will be asking the question did sarah palin get a boob job oh yeah i saw this one yeah now you're the you're the guy that usually will say photoshop no no this doesn't look like photoshop it looks like one of those fancy bras that you know you pump air into the next thing you know you got a big top

1:56:33 I've always thought she's hot, but then there's one picture. She is like a not so hot like arm. Yeah, you know she can be hot looking Yeah, she's photogenic generally speaking. Yeah, I think it's when she's talking with that screechy voice that you got to put a sock on you got a you got to put a showerhead in her mouth, but otherwise Otherwise she's fine You watch, this will be top of the news, I guarantee you. It might be, you could be right. I guarantee. It depends on if she's got a publicist or not pumping it. But you're right, it would be on Entertainment Tonight, Extra, Hollywood, Re-Insider, and the 25 shows that are about nothing. Well, I am... So that's all the leftover clip, we'll do it on Sunday. I want to remind people to go to Dvorak.org slash NA. I'm gonna probably promote this more if we don't get our donation levels up.

1:57:27 and uh... well it's all a slip in some in the mornings monday on the howard stern show yet definitely slip in some stuff on howard stern show plugged in the agenda show i'm gonna offer him a job obviously so you do that That's easy. I thought it was, you know, his commentary was so out of touch with modern reality. He has no idea what streaming is. He doesn't know what anything is. I mean, he used to be like an OS2 guy. Do you remember that? An OS2 guy, yeah. But that was a big deal back then to be in that camp where you'd actually have a comment about it. And he just seems to have lost his, you know, he got that big bonus, a big pile of money, and then the next thing you know, he doesn't keep up with anything. He's out of it. I wonder how much money he actually got cashed up with.

1:58:12 You know what I mean? Yeah, I know. These deals always sound good. When the press release comes out, it's a huge deal, but you know, would you really get something else? Yeah, that is always the question, is how much it really was. But he got enough, I think, to stop keeping up. But it's going to be tough, because I'm going to be on the phone, you know, then there's always a weird energy. He's going to laugh at me. He's going to say you're full of crap. Oh, yeah. He's going to pull some... Yeah, you're going to be slammed. Yeah. There's no way to win other than to get an in-the-morning and noagendershow.com. And if I get that in then it'll be worth it but I had there's no way I can win I mean I just listened to the clip of him he's like that douchebag whatever you would care about if you go to extremes with the guy I've noticed that most effective people you know whatever he says is trying to instead of denying or whatever you go the other direction and make it even more exaggerated tell him we're making ten million dollars

1:59:03 on the no agenda show from user donations. Okay, done. So we're making $10 million a year and we're ramping up. And we're just getting started. This is bullshit. Here's my strategy. Howard, I was so surprised when you went to satellite. Satellite is not big enough for Howard Stern. You need the biggest network in the world. You are going to take home $10 million a month. I guarantee it. Right yeah, go that way right right right right let him prove you're wrong. Yeah, come on over. It's the internet Explain to him what's going on? This is not this is that the world's changed This is the way all broadcasting will be done eventually yeah that that that I agree. We know he's afraid He's just afraid he doesn't want to starve. He'd actually do really well on the on the net dude I mean he

1:59:58 Just get everyone to pay him $10 a month that like him. He'll take home $30 million a month. Are you kidding me? Yeah, no, he'd kick ass. Yeah, it's so easy. It's so easy. And then add a couple of GoDaddy codes and a couple of pre-rolls on the video stuff. The guy would be richer than Warren Buffett. Snapple. He would, you should tell him. Yeah, I know, I know. Well, he probably... Tell him to, you know, get off his ass and quit bullshitting everybody. I'll guarantee him $10 million a month. Take home pay. Right off the bat. We could do it easy. Yeah, well get the plug in, that's all I care about. Hell yeah. All right. devolved.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org

2:00:42 So we can continue and do more. Coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower, Crackpot Command Center, and Gitmo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California, where my buttcheeks are clenched, but we made it! I'm Adam Curry. And he'll be crapping in a minute. I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll talk to you again on Sunday for early morning service right here on No Agenda.