Episode 310 · Sunday, 5 June 2011

Hail the Foot

A mobile broadcast from the California desert uncovers the corporate takeover of Iraq, the collapse of nuclear waste policy, and the pharmaceutical profits behind European health scares.

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A virulent strain of E. coli in Germany has claimed 18 lives and infected 1,800 people, sparking a diplomatic row with Spain and a total Russian ban on European produce. German officials initially blamed Spanish cucumbers for the outbreak, causing massive financial losses for Mediterranean farmers. The pharmaceutical industry stands to profit from the resulting panic as analysts predict the imminent rollout of new antibody therapies and vaccines to address the crisis.

President Obama visited a Chrysler plant in Toledo to celebrate a loan repayment that critics label a calculated refinancing maneuver supported by taxpayer-funded GSA fleet purchases. Meanwhile, the Department of Energy faces backlash for the $25 billion shutdown of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository without a viable disposal alternative. In Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai remains isolated in his palace as reports from author Kim Barker detail his increasing paranoia and alleged history as a CIA asset. Hezbollah has simultaneously established a sophisticated social network that incentivizes martyrdom by providing elite schooling and social advancement for the families of suicide bombers.

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak broadcast from a mobile studio in Borrego Springs to launch the Gitmo Nation Tour 2008. The duo introduces official podcast licenses to mock FCC overreach while Jill Abramson debuts a melodic humming speech pattern as the new executive editor of the New York Times. Hillary Clinton faces a humorous sci-fi conspiracy theory linking her obsession with 38-minute military raids to the sustainment limits of a Stargate wormhole.


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CHAPTER 01 / 36 Discussion

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak Launch Gitmo Nation Tour 2008

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 310 of the No Agenda podcast from a mobile studio in Borrego Springs, California. Curry describes the technical challenges of his new RV setup, including a missing USB hub and dual monitor configuration. The hosts discuss the upcoming "Gitmo Nation Tour 2008" scheduled for mid-July and the logistics of traveling across the United States in a four-winds RV provided by a listener.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· borrego springs· gitmo nation tour· rv life· mobile studio

00:03 Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak It's Sunday June 5th 2011 time for Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode 310 This is no agenda! Podcasting live from the pre-Hot Pockets Gitmo Nation Tour 2008 mobile studio currently docked in Borrego Springs in Gitmo Nation West The People's Republic of Southern California In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry hello alley where I it's is what it is and do what happened just who are you I'm Jesse Dvorak I'm sorry we might as well mess it up in the early on in the show

00:52 It was you do wrong. I do everything Yeah, just did every different buttons you got new buttons yeah, I do so here's what I realized You know when you do it right? So by the way in the morning everybody in the morning to you Adam and in the morning at all ships at sea boots on the ground and Lois Whitman Lois Whitman indeed in the morning to you Lois. Now so right now we are in the Hot Pockets mobile as Miss Mickey and I are doing a pre-test of our Gitmo Nation hot pockets tour across America 2008 We are docked in Borrego Springs, California In the desert It's very warm right now And so we've been on the road for three days and You learn a lot about what you forget

01:39 and so let me work backwards from what I forgot. So, i have the new mobile setup this is the first time we're ever trying it uh... so far knock on wood so far so good. Knock on vinyl! Yeah indeed all thing is carbon fiber plastic whatever it is um... so i have dual monitors i've got the jingle machine here that thing all works everything's perfect i also have uh... the control board for it to do the faders except i forgot that um with the new setup by have like a little external berenger uh... external audio device that's how actually getting everything to you and then skype work but didn't have an extra uh... usb port to plug in the control panel and of course i neglected to bring along my uh... usb hub

02:33 Yeah, yeah so uh so I got to control the controls manually and I potted you down. I'm so sorry Oh, so when I was yakking nothing else coming through very soft Hi, I'm John it was there It was just very quiet he always likes to keep me low You're very low indeed So um yeah, so we're on the road We're rocking and rolling sounds like a auspicious beginning So when are you leaving for real? Mid-July. I don't think we've actually pegged the date yet, but Mickey celebrates her birthday on July 8th We have a big party on the 9th...I think you're invited Did you get an invite? No Then your not invited My daughter's birthday is on the 11th Yeah, the ninth of this party Your daughter is on the eleventh Well you could make it back

03:28 so we'd celebrate on the ninth, you sleep off the hangover on the tenth and then your back on the eleventh no problem. So um... And then you leave? And a couple days later will leave. So yeah you gotta get your flights, you got to get some flights and load everything into luggage in boxes and then you have to hope that those things show up at the other end of the flight now you know why we call him The Buzzkill ladies and gentlemen Yeah so we have Baroness Maggie Vincent of Virginia, of course has kindly offered us her four winds RV. What if you go there and find that her address is just an empty lot? She doesn't really exist Well we'll figure it out won't we I mean There's a lot of stuff that when you do a trip like this is a lot of very wet blankets on things but no actually sending a box of stuff ahead

04:26 and uh... so i know that there you go now you think it's a bit may just be about what if he brought us out of the stuff has been sold as she doesn't really exist yeah but you know i don't know john why don't you tell me mister no at all mr smarty pants so we made a list of things is really good were doing this to make a list of things i think it's a great ideas like that big when the guy gets in the cabins new york keep throws on the stuff in the trunk and they got takes off but i think not yahoo yo-yo mas cello No, so this is a great trip because we've already figured out a lot of things that we need to bring. One of which would be a fan for the mobile studio since I can't have the air conditioner on The air conditioner sounds like i'm in an engine room of a boat

05:14 uh... so i can have that running while we're doing the show interesting point yet and of course it could lead to do you take a shakedown cruise another thing will be really good to bring along is a corkscrew i would hope yeah with our office over the first night we stay up in the joshua tree national park and there's a issue shipped a corkscrew those boxes yes they'll still let So, the first night was Joshua Tree National Park. We're up there and of course there's no Wi-Fi there it's just a campsite with nothing and absolutely no cell phone connection although I have to say that I have three networks with me. I've T-Mobile Verizon AT&T so far AT&T wins hands down as it comes to coverage at least where we've traveled. There is another thing to do! What?

06:10 When you're on your road, keep a map with you and then put the coverage information down. It could be a scandal! What am I? Consumer Reports?! I think so... No well we'll figure it out but Verizon definitely not as great Not in the parts we traveled But anyway it was awesome! It was so phenomenal and by the time we were out of the park on AT&T and I did my email and stuff while Mickey was driving. And you know what? We still like each other! It's only been a couple days, give me a break... Yeah. ...and by the way you should have your seatbelt on when you're in the back Yes, no, we don't- I have seatbelts in the back So um

06:54 Can you tether the 3G connection and make it so it's possible to do Skype or not enough bandwidth? Yeah, if we have pure 3G with AT&T I think we could probably do a show reasonably well. I have to shut down a lot of stuff even on this park Wi-Fi... I gotta shut down my email and everything because it's all like shared bandwidth and stuff and Mickey can't be on the computer but it's reasonable and again knock on plastic! So far so good So it's gonna be a hoot, man. It's gonna be great! Can you stream? Are you streaming? Can you stream from 3G? Yeah. Yeah I think so.

07:34 You know, an average 250 to 300 kilobits upstream should work. That's about what I have now What are you using right now? Right now i'm using the park wifi What park? The park where we're parked of course! You're in a park and what kind of a part is it? Is it national parks or state parks? No, Borrego Springs Are you kidding me?! Borrego Springs It IS a national park that we drove through to get here This is basically a golf course with RVs Okay, so you're there with the old farts. No they're not that old Unfortunately I have to say some of them are probably not more than like six or seven years older than I am and i'm Like oh my god is that what? This is the future witnessing the future it's time traveling into the future

08:21 I could do it though, John. Yeah, I could see you making a life out of this if we're being honest about it. Yeah, I could totally do this! Because your paranoid and crazy enough... Hey John, I'm in Ohio! You gotta bring back the show! Remember the good days? What's interesting though when you're RVing around is 99% of people that you meet are of the slave variety who have their eyes so firmly shut they have no clue. You hear the conversations you're like, oh wow really? We stopped off at what was that sea... I gotta write all this down. Salton on Sea

09:06 Have you ever heard of that? Oh the Salton Sea. Yeah well it's salted on... That thing is just a bunch of, that's just a dead area? With that trailer park! It's got a dead trailer park?! No, well the people in there are alive but barely and then we had lunch at some like place We've just... That's the refuge of the lost souls oh yeah yeah we had just missed the luau last weekend darn But it's fun, you know. You sit there and listen to people... By the way smoking indoors rules and regulations don't apply in Salton Island Sea. Want an ashtray? Yeah thanks that's cool. Anyway no it's a

09:52 it's going to be great and everyone who was out there in Gitmo Nation would like us, would like to offer us some form of hospitality or services just email mickey at curry dot com m i c k y and we've got so many cool things coming in John. It is unbelievable. We could be on the road for years. Yeah but you get a organized, well I guess Mickey is very organized I know that but are you gonna You know, it seems to me you're going to get too much to do. You're not gonna be able to fulfill all the obligations. There's no way we are going to be able to get everybody I don't think and also there is a lot of people in the same place so we may have to combine stuff. Have a meeting! Yeah, yeah, well have a meeting Also... We will probably also need a little bit of time for ourselves from time-to-time Nah! You'll have plenty of time for yourself driving But what you notice is like the show

10:46 The work that goes into the show when you're at home and you've got, y'know like 20 megabits down and 2 megabits up. That makes a big difference when your on the road and your on wifi or 3G Work goes slower And I can't watch C-Span yet because they don't have the... Even though many of the parks have cable hookups So basically i'm watching C-Span over the internet Can you say buffering? Yeah, it's painful. C-Span has the absolute worst video technology you could imagine. Sucks! They just put all their stuff on YouTube... So horrible. Yeah they should why don't they? I dunno. Someone paid 18 million dollars for that website and gotta keep it rolling Gotta keep it used

CHAPTER 02 / 36 Discussion

E. coli Outbreak in Germany and Diplomatic Tensions with Spain

A virulent strain of E. coli in Germany has resulted in 18 deaths and over 1,800 infections since May 1, 2011. German officials initially blamed Spanish cucumbers for the outbreak, causing significant financial damage to Spain's agricultural sector. Russia Today reports suggest the pharmaceutical industry may benefit from the panic, while Russian officials have banned all fruit and vegetable imports from the European Union in response to the crisis.

e. coli· germany· spain· russia today· biological attack· food security

11:31 So, anyway I was able to do plenty of work yesterday and i'd have to say John the number one thing on my mind is the possible biological attack in Europe as everyone has now pooping their guts out. Well I want to hear what you think! I have absolutely no... well there's a couple things. You don't have any thoughts, but I think it's a valid point. I'm empty! I got nothing here. Germany? Well there's like..I want to play a couple of quick clips about this most of it from Euronews which are like as they seem pretty impartial but the most important one is from Russia Today who of course are anything but impartial um...but this isn't this is a big deal I mean you know I have a lot of contact with people in Europe and this is definitely a uh

12:19 Well, it's definitely a scary situation. Nobody knows what they can eat people are dying now It's not huge numbers you know 18 people dying from From anything is not you know overly concerning but if you don't know where its coming from and it could be in your next cucumber But of course they're trying to do, well there are different factions at work here. So first I want to say right off the bat nobody is even considering the biological attack angle and i don't understand why You know, isn't this what we were told in the United States? It's like we you know the most important things for our security food security We had this whole food security bill for this very reason so everything is tracked now mind you we don't have it here in The states but why isn't anyone shouldn't these guys who passed us Bill could be coming out and claiming that they're so awesome They did this. Like yeah, we won't have that here. Well, yeah, we got few food security not like the Europeans a

13:15 I'm actually kind of baffled by it. I didn't take that angle because i was looking at some other stories but now to mention it, uh...I would think that you could use it as a political football obviously just as you said and nobody's doing that and the other thing is that kinda leads-that would lead you to think that or do what your thinking is affected they still haven't isolated the The source. Which is what you want, right? You need to isolate the source but by now I was thinking they're just incompetent boneheads and they can't isolate the source because they don't know what they're doing because we isolate the sources on these breakouts within a couple of days always Yeah yeah We contract it back And i dont even know how that works How the tracebacks work But we seem to be able to do it

14:01 They haven't done it in over a week I think. Alright, so there's a couple of fractions at work here the first of course is calm down everybody don't panic Despite almost 200 new cases in Germany on the first two days this month alone infection rates of the virulent strain E-coli are said to be slowing If true, it'll be good news for the country's fresh produce suppliers whose livelihoods have been decimated in the wake of the outbreak. The vegetables are just ripening now she says. The salads come in parsley radishes all this stuff that can be eaten raw but people don't want it It is all just lying around

14:42 At least 18 people have died and more than 1,800 been infected by the bug since it was detected on the first of May. Germany's apologized for initially blaming cucumbers from Spain but that hasn't stopped hundreds of thousands from being binned The percentage of people who actually have severe complications is higher than we expect and we usually expect to see that in children and in older people. So it's very unusual for us to be seeing this in adults. Scientists say the E-coli strain is a new hybrid form of toxic to humans. Consumers have been warned off fresh produce but EU specialists now say the warning may not be justified as the source has not yet been identified Okay, so there's

15:27 the guys realize it that i a m not what we realized was made for so they have an idea and five did since may first oh yeah no it's been going on for awhile we talked about on the show that early when you know he talks about what it was started to break but i had died i'd suggested time eludes me but the fact is that really might have identified this or snake and do it that's not good now it's not good so uh... So I think those are the guys who were supposed to be responsible for tracking it, basically saying oh don't worry about it. It could be slowing down and its okay but obviously is still a problem or working on it then we get this report. Doctors in Germany are hoping a new antibody therapy will be effective in treating the E-coli bug that has so far killed 19 people. Anti... what was it? What did he say there

16:14 Did you catch that? It was like anti... Anybody. Is that a vaccine? Well, I would think generally speaking it would be but i don't know what they're talking about. They may have some other mechanism there...I don't know! Why they said that? I have no idea. Well because I think that they are going to come out with a vaccine and we have to be very careful you and I cause if Russia Today ever gets some hot chicks or hot blonde chicks to host their shows We could be out of the job cause listen to this report these guys are so like This could be Hello everybody! Hello everybody this is Russia Today

16:50 with no agenda Spain may launch a legal action against Germany which prematurely pointed to its cucumbers as the cause of the fatal E. coli outbreak The hysteria over Spanish produce has crippled the country's farm exports and cost millions of euros in just a week And while the source of infection is still undefined Critics believe the pharmaceutical industry may be the one to benefit from the vegetable panic. So already you're set up, ah really? The pharmaceutical industry will benefit from this! No kidding?! Some cucumbers kill that much is clear and it's also become apparent that although Germany blamed Spain as the source of the E-coli its not

17:36 That's costing innocent Spanish fruit and vegetable exporters around 200 million euros a week. With all this maneuvering, all these statements show an absolute lack of responsibility What is happening today is a checkmate to the Spanish vegetable and fruit industry It's absolutely unacceptable A useless weapon has been produced which will be no use for anyone Do you hear the words that are used here? So, it's an attack from Germany on Spain obviously. It is a weapon and that is not even Russia Today's translation but they are calling it a weapon and just gets better from there. Neither the Germans nor those who are suffering from the disease and it will incur huge losses on Spanish agriculture Calling European health watchdog discredited Russia says had no choice but to ban all fruit

18:34 and vegetable imports from the entire European Union, a reaction Brussels called disproportionate. Russia says it was clear from the beginning the Spanish weren't to blame. Looks as if the accusations brought against the Spanish cucumbers were unfounded This was obvious from the outset. Why? Because if Spain was a source of the disease, why is no one ill there? It's not as if Spain could hide the disease! This isn't a mild flu you can keep secret. German health officials still cannot say what caused the outbreak or what's the transfer factor of the disease and most importantly situation is still not under control it to the discredit of European Health Watchdog

19:14 It's a very delicate time for the Spanish economy, which is teetering on the edge of needing an EU bailout. This is decidedly not a good moment for 150,000 tons of produce to go unsold. It has also struck another blow to the already fragile relationship between Germany and Spain after the German Chancellor implied Spaniards were lazy in spendthrift in his speech earlier this month. We missed that one! So the beauty well, they mean it did I mean this doesn't help the Spanish economy which is already in the tank and is almost I can see it being a a financial attack. It's like, well this is why they're calling it a weapon! Why don't we just blame Spain and screw them? Yeah this is why they're calling it a weapon I mean it could not be more perfect storm I can't believe that Germany would say something like that of course we know...I don't even know who said at first or where came from some ministry of truth but yeah its like hey you know what your not paying us back oh really okay so then why dont we just stick all the way in and move around

CHAPTER 03 / 36 Discussion

Chilean Grape Scare of the 1980s and Media Manipulation

A historical anecdote recalls a mid-1980s trade dispute where two Chilean grapes were allegedly found injected with strychnine. The discovery led to a total halt of Chilean fruit imports, severely damaging the nation's industry before the issue abruptly vanished from the news cycle. The event is cited as an example of how minor or fabricated food safety claims can be used as economic weapons.

chile· grapes· strychnine· san francisco examiner· food safety· trade dispute

20:17 I'm reminded of the situation that occurred when we had a little tiff with chili. This was back in the 80s, i think? In the mid-80's and all of a sudden somehow two grapes that were being imported from Chile were found to have... Seriously! And nobody paid any attention to this fact because it was bogus. Two grapes! Two singular grapes?! Two grapes! Two singular grapes were found with a pinprick and injected with strychnine. Oh, I remember that! Right... Yeah, and they found these two grapes somehow amongst the billions of grapes Amazing yeah we found your grape bitches And they found these two grapes and stopped all imports of Chilean table grapes

21:05 and it put their little, their industry in a tailspin. And then they all of sudden they resolved it and then they just disappeared from the news cycle! And nobody ever explained anything about it and the whole thing was bull crap because how do you find... I remember seeing this photo because actually wrote an op-ed about this in the San Francisco Examiner. I saw the photo cause obviously been deconstructing the news back then. You're a grape expert So I saw the grape with the whole pinprick. How do you find this great? It's ridiculous Bullcrap right so there's more of course to this report and this kind of winds up with a third fraction Which we are all expecting it will over time call for you because not a fractal or fraction Faction, I'm sorry faction a camp

CHAPTER 04 / 36 Discussion

Pharmaceutical Industry Profits from European Health Hysteria

Critics argue that the current E. coli outbreak in Europe follows a pattern of health hysteria designed to benefit large pharmaceutical companies. Previous instances involving bird flu and swine flu resulted in billions of dollars spent on unnecessary vaccines despite much lower death tolls than predicted by the United Nations. Analysts expect the industry to soon announce new antibody therapies or vaccines to address the unrest caused by the new E. coli strain.

pharmaceutical industry· bird flu· swine flu· vaccines· e. coli· world health organization

21:53 A cabal. Or a faction, okay faction. A gang! Because of the loss of product, loss of sales and disruption at this time which is particularly an important time as the harvest comes through on perishable goods which you cannot... This is an economist by the way. ...hold back or resell Cynics say all this is just the media whipping up its latest health hysteria. In 2005, the United Nations warned the world that bird flu could kill up to 150 million people. In reality, the seven years until the end of 2010 saw 303 people die

22:30 More recently, swine flu was the killer. 65 thousand people were supposed to die in Britain alone only around 360 people did Encouraged by pharmaceutical companies European countries spent billions of dollars on unnecessary vaccines As the World Health Organization announces this is a new strain of E-coli some see farmers benefiting yet again I think probably we'll see very soon behind all this new declarations from the large pharmaceutical industry like they did with the swine flu that they have something to protect people against the strain of E. coli that's creating such an unrest across Europe exactly antibody therapy whatever

23:16 So everybody wins. Germany wins because they kick Spain's ass and get to take their beaches for free Pharmaceutical guys win because they get to shoot everybody up in anticipation of the next E-coli outbreak Let's see who doesn't win? Ah yes, Spain doesn't win In fact they lose quite enormously Actually the public as a whole doesn't win Well no, no Somebody has got to get to the bottom of this thing But I by the way, I don't think people should be using the word pharma in stories that have to do with agriculture because it sounds like they're saying farmer Another thing for our list from when we get the consulting gig for Russia today. It's like listen You gotta have a couple say why they haven't called us Really? It's so amazing why they haven't called us you know one of our producers This is funny. No, let me just find it Where is it here we go Who was it

CHAPTER 05 / 36 Discussion

Nestle Response to Hot Pockets Sponsorship Inquiry

A No Agenda producer contacted Nestle to suggest a sponsorship for the "Hot Pockets Tour," receiving a formal rejection from the company's consumer services department. The response from representative Daniel O'Day stated that Nestle does not support business-to-business interactions through that channel and directed marketing proposals to the Prepared Foods Company. The hosts joke about the corporate tone and the possibility of being sued for using the brand name.

nestle· hot pockets· daniel o'day· sponsorship· marketing· legal threat

24:18 producer base sent a note to the hot pockets company and said you should sponsor these guys here's the reply we're gonna sue them here's the reply dear mr. bows i'm sorry not bass bows Thank you for contacting us at Nestle Consumer Services. We apologize, but our department does not support business to business interactions Business to business interactions are handled through various departments of Nestle For marketing and advertising please submit a detailed proposal in writing to Prepared Foods Company Good luck That's from Daniel O'Day consumer response representative that probably the guy who also does At Nestle tweets

25:08 Probably it's her Danielle Daniello day. Yeah, yeah well we appreciate the thought now You know they can follow up and maybe no we don't need any sponsor screw those guys We're just gonna have on the side hot pockets tour 2008 It's just shit sandwich and you know it that's our slogan are you gonna get sued? Don't do it I Got a better version ready yeah Hot pockets. Hey, the key is almost the same! Hot pockets. let's thank some producers john before we get any further see if i know you had a couple of uh... executive produces in a couple of associate executive producers and one second for sponsored today show and producing it as a matter fact including a new uh... donor at least allied do recalls named gary later enrichment virginia three thirty three three three dollars and also is also member of the exclusive three three three club

CHAPTER 06 / 36 Discussion

No Agenda Producer Donations and Podcast License Launch

Executive producers and donors are recognized for their financial support, including Gary Lader of Mat Depot, who provided No Agenda branded floor mats. Adam Curry announces the launch of podcastlicense.com, a service where users can pay a one-time fee for a lifetime "official" podcasting certification and a custom subdomain. The project, developed with producer Gus Raia, aims to provide a humorous form of "authorization" for independent creators.

gary lader· mat depot· podcast license· gus raia· domain names· crowdfunding

26:13 Exactly. Donation today includes your cut of no agenda... Oh, this is a floor mat guy! That's right we know him Gary. He's no agenda floor mats you can find his at Mat Depot MAT that is as a mat and by the way I have one of these things these are perfect floor mats for the kitchen and it has a no agenda logo on them there's actually quite pretty yeah i have mine our garage connects to our kitchen and so i have it right there. So we walk... You gotta have one of those mats in the RV oh yeah, yeah! We're gonna bring it in the RV for sure Right on. Yeah, like maybe bring a- Maybe you could sell a couple out the back of the trunk of the RV We gotta be selling something dude because this thing does 8 miles to the gallon we're gonna need to have to raise funds somehow! Yeah T-shirts, mats... I'm like we're on cruise control- Autographed owl bones

27:02 Just CDs. Autograph some CDs, just buy anybody's CD. It doesn't have to be yours. Here is Jennifer Lopez. Here is a J-Lo CD and we'll sign it for you. Hey Lady Gaga! Cool. We're like cruise control...we are folding the mirrors in. Agenda tour and truck stop boat swap meet And I need to bring a hose to siphon off someone else's gas This is eight miles to the gallon. This is not this is the wrong economy to be doing this Yeah, that's a disability yet That's why people you see him parked in those yeah, they don't leave yeah They sit here and swap wives all day when I'm gonna go driving around so anyway man Gary got us fistful of dollars calm forwarded that didn't know agenda show You can put on your list

27:47 uh... and we didn't bring says we got the virginia pick up your hot pockets lunch truck is stopped by richman to take you guys tomorrow mrs stefan springer in garland texas said member of the three ten club executive producer to help but i had a muse this over spooning morning please tell me again by the way c he'll now be sir stephane donovan elementy may do in uh... courtesies ontario canada Thanks for letting me know I'm not crazy for thinking my news My news is lying to me all the time. Could use some karma for a talk? I have to give it security beside Street st. John St. John's about clouds something you've got karma now it's Is

28:35 Kellen Megu is Kelman an associate? He's an associate. Came in with 22222, he says the big security risk to life and liberty is abuse in the cloud which I agree with And you two seem to be THE ONLY ONES tracking privacy and telecom issues at this level! Yeah, he sent me a somewhat longer note actually... very interesting Jamie, is there anything that we need to read? No not now. It's okay. Jamie Stubblefield in Chattanooga Tennessee which would be a great little place to stop by when you're driving around down there by the way Tennessee has got some great little towns Hey squirrels, little ol' sysadmin here. Fortune 500 insurance company engineers told me about the show but continue to smell douchey Can you bag them? Jason Bob and Dave? Yeah! Douchebag All of you guys with their bagged even bags in Bob and Dave you've been bagged Also for either domain no agenda Calm though what gender hold on I gotta write that one down Noah gender

29:40 But for the Chiners amongst us no agenda he's in he's in for 200 He's an associate executive. I think all of them and all the rest of people donate to work org slash na No agenda show calm and no agenda nation comm and no agenda show calm D'Vorah, please continue helping us out in slash n a yeah Don't get too close to that mic, man. I don't have all the processing... Anyway, I want to thank everybody for... Let me fist it out a little bit here. Measure the distance. What do you mean? You're fisting your microphone now?!

30:18 I take a my fist and then i put it up against the mic in the distance to where the pops with, I'm sorry we had the distance of where the pop screen is according to Heil's own specs should be about four inches from the diaphragm. And if you've ever been four inches from a diaphragm you know what I'm talking about? If your 4 inches from a diaphragm your too close so anyway okay this is better Yes, better. So do you keep... Yes, innuendo. Do you keep your fist there the whole time? If I did that it would sound like this! Okay that's much better actually never sounded so good Really if sounds good I'm gonna keep it this way A couple other PR mentions I'd like to make before we get underway with today's program Thank-you very much Matt for another fine domain name forward a frothy mix of adamandjohn.com

31:15 Which, uh... that visual is rough for me. Another great forward to noagendashow.com from Dave. Bonerintheboxers.com which we knew that was coming. Fistful of Dollars we already discussed that This is actually a cool one Remember Patrick the kid who submitted the paper with all the No Agenda memes? Yeah. So he says, in the morning I've registered naschoolwork.com to make the meme infested school work initiative an official thing I plan to set up a site, but if anyone who actually knows how to write code wants to... ...I'm sure i can set something up with them. The idea is every time you have to write a paper or do any schoolwork... ...you stick in memes wherever you can then send the paper to me and I'll post it on the site! Thanks for mentioning on this show- thanks for mentioning me on- This is 15 year old kid by the way. Thanks for mentioning me on the show all my friends are impressed

32:11 Sorry, I'm not using encryption. I know how to encrypt a doc but you're using your key? I can't quite figure out how to encrypt this email so um I'm working on something extremely cool which folds right into our next domain name forward and have asked Patrick to hold onto any school work calm uh... because i have now set up a with gus raya or area are a y a that's uh... our producer who got podcast license dot com here's how it works if you go to podcast license dot com right now john of course the site will come down they'll come crashing downs to its knees is there don't go to it just let john go please don't don't take it in just yet

32:47 You'll see that we will be able to give you a podcast license, an official podcast license and we also have internet-license.com coming but this is for the podcasters if you pay up your lifetime membership it's a one time fee for a lifetime membership uh... you're certified for the entire duration of your human resource existence You'll get a podcast license and you will get your name, your last name dot podcastlicense.com And that page you will be able to do anything you want with it This is the part I'm working on We give you login, you can forward it to your own domain Put stuff on that site there, change the whole look and feel of it So right now we have adamcurry.podcastlicense.com and gusraia.podcastlicense.com

33:38 uh... and that says of anyone ever asked you if the government ever comes around to take we see a podcast license so i don't know how i want to know uh... how is this automated because yes yes yes yes this was so awesome cc thirty three bucks in and then and then you just type in your name and it creates the subdomain yes as exacted so right now There's just one you know wondered. I only set this up last night from the RV that I can already do it from here Yeah, I'm telling you man This is the new stuff that Dave and I have been working on this is gonna be awesome Hey Adam Can we go out and eat something now? You're just gonna be on the computer all day Nikki was sleeping she's like I'm crashing Throw a whiskey in her computer all day are we gonna go out yeah sure honey Let's go golfing

CHAPTER 07 / 36 Discussion

No Agenda Nation Account Management and Knight Rings

Listeners who have achieved the rank of Knight, Dame, Baron, or Baroness are urged to update their shipping addresses at noagendanation.com. The show is preparing to ship official rings in velour presentation boxes, accompanied by sticks of sealing wax and certification documents. The logistics are being managed by "Eric the Shill" to ensure all high-tier donors receive their physical rewards.

no agenda nation· knight rings· sealing wax· eric the shill· shipping address

34:32 We're gonna have to take up golfing. There's so many RV- uh, golf park combos It's crazy. Anyway, so we're going to do the same thing with Patrick's NASchoolwork.com and also forthcoming with Internet-license.com that may have to be a little bit more expensive since podcast license only encompasses podcasting and internet license might have to be 6666 or I'll just figure that out it's much bigger deal obviously but its certified from the Podfather. I mean seriously from the Podfather

35:08 Yeah, in fact it's gonna say on the license is going to have the two lines where the signatures are with John Hancock and The other one is gonna say pod father and your signature. And I'll keep half of my money for For Dave Weiner because one day he'll say yeah, I want the check anyway No no we've discussed that he said I don't want the money I said I'm just send you a check Don't cash it if you don't want it That's fine. So anyway, three more domain names that are forwarding here we've got 333 dot net and that's number three three spelled out as three number three dot net and dot info And then we also have shill4hire.com

36:00 which is a nice domain forward. And all of these, by the way are all going to be relevant to the same system like podcast license so you'll be able to become part of no agenda domain community not quite sure what I'm gonna call it yet but it's gonna be awesome because then you'll be connected into all these different sites yeah just trust me on that one and finally oh yes a programming note from Eric The Shill and uh... buzzkill junior by the way is the new name for a gc was also good but i still think that's going to do your it's a good name right this is funny i don't know if you did any shows in there something that i've seen him in the chat room in our back channel as buzz kill jr pilot uh... it would be really helpful with all the nights and games and uh... barons and baronesses

36:55 would go to noagendanation.com and create an account if you haven't already done so please add your shipping address to your account at this point he's received a few change of address emails etc... So we've gotta start organizing ourselves better if you're a knight, a dame, a baron or baroness and you want to take possession of your ring which are in there the rings are in the velour presentation boxes along with a stick of sealing wax and your official certification will be on its way to you. And I'm very excited about this, I can't wait to see mine! I can't wait to take pictures... What's your ring size? You don't even know do ya? Yeah it is 8.

37:36 Size 8. What's your ring size? I don't know, I have no idea. He has a big mouth! Well i just said... At least im honest. And then uh and miss Mickey is also an eight shill oh really yeah now we can wear the same rings and that's perfect because i only have to get one. Yeah i'll have to get one i need the one with the diamond on top and then i can propose and take the ring off my finger and say propose to her it's perfect Awesome system. All right, everybody Thank you so much for your PR efforts and of course we want to especially thank our associate executive producer producers Kelman TMA go and Jamie Stubblefield our Executive producer sir Stefan Springer I was also 310 club mender member and our executive producer and exclusive three three three Club member for this episode Of course You can still get in on that three through three is on the way

CHAPTER 08 / 36 Discussion

Jill Abramson and the Berkeley Hummer Speech Pattern

The new executive editor of the New York Times, Jill Abramson, is criticized for a specific speech pattern described as "humming." This vocal habit, characterized by making continuous noise between sentences to prevent interruption, is associated with a specific demographic from Berkeley. A clip from an interview with Abramson is played to demonstrate the slow, melodic cadence of her voice as she discusses her new role at the paper.

jill abramson· new york times· berkeley· speech patterns· humming· journalism

38:32 Gary Lader, thank y'all so much. This is an official credit We're not like those Hollywood phony baloney douchebags if you need someone to vouch for it will be happy to do So everybody else out there You know what to do our formula is simple go out and propagate it our formula Is this we go out? We hit people in the mouth Everybody shut up slave So I got a variety of weird clips. Okay, and one of them I want to they run this is not doesn't there's no follow up on this clip it's just something that I found interesting some years ago my wife actually pointed this out to me and then I kind of developed it actually wrote an article about it about the certain women in Berkeley

39:31 That she always refers to as hummers is what not Hummers because they always hum when they speak and they can't and they never stop talking There's always noise coming from them. It goes like this I let me do a hobby a hummer for a second well Adam I've been around oh, that is I know what that is That's women who don't want to be interrupted So they keep emanating a sound... So I found that the new editor of the New York Times is a hummer.

40:10 is a slow speaking hummer and I would just slap my head in the... Oh my god, this woman's got to be the worst at a meeting and she runs meetings all day. Just play the clip. Chief among many other things she joined The Times from The Wall Street Journal in 1997 Jill Abramson congratulations on welcome Thank you so much, Jim. First just on the personal level what does it mean to you? To become the executive editor of The New York Times It means the world to me. This is great!

40:50 Oh my god! No, wait. Here's what it is funny about when she finishes this little chit chat here he freaks because he's got her obviously on a whole block she's blocked for like the E-block or something right? So he sees listening to her going like this and he's going oh my God I'm gonna get nothing from her and i've got her scheduled for 10 minutes She's a Berkeley Hummer you can hear him panic after she goes to this little humming number right here. I'm here in Manhattan and the New York Times was worshipped in my family and what... Wait a minute, this is unbelievable! I've never heard this in my life John it's like she's on Skype

41:35 No, I mean when sky draws out like that Oh Micah. Can you imagine living with this woman? The time said was true was the truth and so I became an avid reader of the paper as a young school kid And it seems scarcely believable to me that I will hold the top uh... editorial position in the newsroom did you ever find yourself longing to be the boss or dreaming about it? he's already freaking here. He is like what am I going do with her? It wasn't Tanya's question, hilarious we need her to do a jingle for me Kendrills I mean is this a fulfillment of something that you saw coming sometime you didn't know when but maybe

42:30 That's a great description, Jim. I hoped that it would come but felt like definitely it was maybe. I knew because I worked so closely with Bill as his managing editor I got to see his job up close and how much fulfillment he got from it. And we both working together, got such a kick out of running the news report that sure on certain days I would think boy it would be nice to have that job but being managing editor for news was a very sweet job itself

43:10 how significant i'm coming this went on by the way and on and uh... except the whole thing as fantastic a berkeley houses here in new york times editor-in-chief that she is the one with this i am not going to do story hello everybody Hello everybody. So you can thank, I think, I don't know she's probably a nice enough person for a hummer but she is like the one that's calling the shots for all of the essentially setting the agenda this woman is setting the agenda for national news yeah I like it. She's perfect for that

CHAPTER 09 / 36 Discussion

White House Email Harvesting and Campaign Shilling

The official whitehouse.gov website is accused of using a splash screen to harvest email addresses for President Obama's reelection campaign. After entering an email address, the prompt disappears due to browser cookies, leading to concerns that government resources are being used for political fundraising. Plans are discussed to track if these emails result in solicitations from barackobama.com, which would be reported to the Federal Election Committee.

whitehouse.gov· barack obama· email marketing· federal election committee· cookies

44:00 On the, um... topic of chemtrails I am the thank you gym. I am the It's like a Buddhist monk! Exactly she probably is Buddhist! Must be! I'm hello I'm She's doing the Gregorian chant! I am running The New York Times I love it Good call! Clip of the day already. Yeah, I give that one to you right there off the top. Yeah there goes my book review. Hey you know i went too um as they always do want to go see the president's speech

44:47 and the White House is completely, I think...I haven't received any email yet but i think they're completely shilling for the president's campaign. I guess it's okay to do that if you go to whitehouse.gov now I don't think it is! I think its illegal well there's a welcome page, splash screen if you will and it says, would you like to sign up to get periodic updates from President Obama and other administration officials? So of course I immediately entered in my email address. And then you don't get that screen anymore! And it's gone. And I've never seen... and you know me, I go to the whitehouse dot gov all the time! It's what i do. They kept a cookie. Erase all your cookies and they'll show up again. Duh thank you. I know how the internet works that's not the point This is new though. I'm telling people out there not you So anyway I signed up with an email address so I can track it and if I start getting stuff from barackobama.com then we gotta raise a big flag

45:45 You so you are getting anything. So that's my wife is on the mailing list and so she wouldn't be able to try this I'm gonna try it too, but put my an email address in there right now. I'm gonna use a specific one Yeah, because I have you know a variation of them in a variation of yeah. Yeah, you're awesome. I am Somebody uses specific one to this And then I can see if they did they do that? Then I'm going to report it to the federal election committee right on so uh... the president is that the chrysler plant and he's a of course now let's recall from our last show um four hundred thousand on four hundred thousand vehicles are maintained by the g s any as a gsa the general law supply administration whatever they got to know you have a little governmental fleet and they did this big press conference in at all the chrysler vehicles out there uh... chrysler of course

CHAPTER 10 / 36 Discussion

Chrysler Loan Repayment and Government Fleet Purchases

President Obama visited a Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio, to celebrate the company's early repayment of government loans. Critics point out that the repayment was actually a refinancing at lower interest rates and that the government's General Services Administration (GSA) is supporting the company by purchasing thousands of vehicles for the federal fleet. The narrative of a "successful turnaround" is challenged as being a calculated political maneuver involving taxpayer-funded fleet contracts.

chrysler· barack obama· gsa· toledo· auto bailout· refinancing

46:42 paid back their loans to the US government we already busted... Government services administration. Thank you, yes so we already busted Vice President Joe Biden last week as he was filling in for the president should have said that everybody it's a Joe Biden fill-in for the prayers yeah you're going to get next week that's right i'll be back again next time he's out of town so a brock seven none of that is like i'm i want my show back and uh... now and so what you have to remember that uh... they're making a big deal out of this uh... the chrysler paid back their loans six years ahead of time well of course they did that because the day were paying twelve percent interest on the government financing they were able to serve to secure

47:24 uh... five point you know four million dollars a real fight every fight at eight percent and of course part of the uh... the refi deal is that the government through the gsa's buying chrysler vehicle so i can just tell as it would be doing the book business by the way how does that we're going to publisher not interrupted for thought i mean i'm interested in interest in you go to publish your the book do you get your book proposal and then now this is books socks and you say no wait a minute what you look on page three the book proposal we have already pre-sold ten thousand books to this company that's going distribute them free they're gonna buy em at wholesale and they're gonna distribute them free to all their employees nice. That sells the book deal how do you do that? How do you pre sell them? You go to the companies very easy

48:14 You go to a company, say you're writing a book about something specific like vaccines. So you take your vaccine proposal and walk it over to Merck or one of these big drug companies saying, look, you guys can send one of these books all your sales guys and give them to your customers and do this and that once the book is published published, you can get a special price. And they say yeah we'll do that and they sign off on it and then you take it to the book publisher there's tons of books that are being published today because of the pre-sales. Perfect So, that of course is not quite the same amount we're talking about when we're talking about 400 thousand vehicles in the governmental fleet. No! It's not quite the same amount. This is bigger. Right... so uh... Of course Barack is doing his show from the front of the Chrysler plant how do you think he starts it off? I mean remember Joe Biden was there last week with gotta pull everybody back in with our signature catchphrase Hello everybody Hello everybody Hello everybody I'm coming to you from Chrysler

49:14 I'm speaking to you today from a Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio. Toledo, Ohio! Where i just met with workers Workers? I just met with workers... Workers you know we call them slaves Including Jill Opium Joe- Jill was born and raised- I like that little J-Jill Opium So he's throwing the poppy- Jill Opium? Yeah it's her name is Opia but it sounds like opium Hello everybody Alright ill shut up and listen to the clip Hello everybody From a Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio where I just met with workers including Jill Opium Jill was born and raised here in Toledo. Her mom and stepfather retired from this plant She met her husband here, and now they have two children of their own Doesn't it sound like it's a plantation is what it is yeah And they know how to propagate very good had two kids on a show awesome

50:02 This plant has not only been central to the economy of this town, it's been part of the lifeblood of this community. Now the reason I came to Toledo was to congratulate Jill and her co-workers... And that's not true by the way because Corporal Klinger was also from Toledo so Chryslers is not the only life blood in Toledo Ohio The turnaround they helped bring about at Chrysler and throughout the auto industry Today, each of the big three automakers – Chrysler, GM and Ford – is turning a profit for the first time since 2004. Chrysler has repaid every dime and more of what it owes American taxpayers for their support during my presidency…and it repaid that money six years ahead of schedule!

50:46 And this week we reached a deal to sell our remaining stake and that means soon Chrysler will be 100% in private hands. Yeah, of course he doesn't mention that it's in private hands of the other note holders who they switched or refied with So I don't like that! I do not like him taking credit for something that really isn't credit worthy All that he did is screw these guys... I believe Chrysler didn't want the bailout money in the first place They were privatized. I don't think they needed it either. Yeah, no they were forced to take it just like the banks in 2008 Now here's the crazy one So do you remember what Vice President O'Biden said last week about what the perfect life is?

CHAPTER 11 / 36 Discussion

Obama Gaffe Regarding Tough Headwinds and Responsibility

During a speech in Toledo, President Obama appeared to stumble over the phrase "tough headwinds," instead saying "tough Ted wins." The speech emphasized a version of the American dream centered on working hard, acting responsibly, and retiring with dignity. The hosts mock the phrasing and the production quality of the official address, suggesting the President's message essentially tells citizens to "shut up and work."

barack obama· gaffe· headwinds· american dream· toledo· speech

51:27 no i don't remember was like uh... go to school work hard right now you know the shut up and die but this is death to work cnb ideal this is it this isn't this is a the american dream ladies and gentlemen brought to you by barack obama that's how will build an economy where you can see your incomes savings rise again send your kids to college and retire with dignity security and respect and then died literally now He makes a gaffe in here, which I... you know they have so many edits in this thing. I would've asked him to retake it but he didn't That's how we'll make sure we keep that fundamental American promise

52:06 If you work hard and act responsibly, you'll be able to pass on a better life to your kids and your grandkids. Oh I'm sorry... yeah, work ha- Act responsibly And work hard and shut up Then you can pass on A BETTER LIFE of working hard and acting responsibly and shutting UP to your kids and grandkids Emphasis on shhshutting up Yeah shh well He's not really saying shutting up but i hear it in my head I cant help it No we've got a ways to go Even though our economy has created more than 2 million private sector jobs over the past 15 months and continues to grow, we're facing some tough Ted wins. This is what I didn't get! We're facing some tough Ted wins

52:46 because it's tough ted to do you say ted wins if you have a bill it's tough ted wins so i think i think he was really the descriptor in his head with me well i think what happened is that script reads tufted headwinds but in his mind he's so used to saying tough times that the tea crept in there towards how i see our latest off-tent we said ted wins and i had been sharing well you can be sent back either he said topped head winds or top Ted wins either one. Let's listen again and continues to grow we're facing some tough Ted wins Lately, it's high gas prices Whoever is producing that you're fired All right, you're fired no good Anyway, so I thought that was pretty disgusting once again the lies are propagated however some good news John and I would like to congratulate you and

CHAPTER 12 / 36 Discussion

LGBTQ Pride Month Proclamation and Naming Conventions

President Obama officially proclaimed June 2011 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. The discussion covers the evolution of the acronym from GLBT to LGBT and the addition of "Q" for Queer. The hosts joke about the exclusion of "bi-curious" individuals from the proclamation and the internal politics of which letters receive priority in the naming convention.

barack obama· pride month· lgbtq· nomenclature· civil rights· proclamation

53:43 and everyone else to whom this applies to as uh... i will read the bottom of the proclamation signed on the thirty first of may for all of june two thousand eleven now therefore i've morocco mama president of united states of america by virtue of the authority vested in me but a constitution and the laws united states do hereby proclaim june two thousand eleven has lesbian bisexual and transgender pride month It is yep, it's LGBTQ a s USA Pride Month. What's the queue? That's for al-qaeda Okay Don't you remember there was a cue at queer the key was not it was one that was really long We did a whole show your home this and I was out it was Q4 queers lesbian gay bisexual Transgender and queer I thought there was another letter in there too

54:45 But anyway, it was a real log. It was ridiculous! It could be...it wasn't... it was not workable. No. Anyway so uh happy LGBTQA USA month everybody So one of our Brooks who's gay yeah he mentioned one time I was telling him I said how did it become? I always thought it was gay lesbians GLB... it was GLBT And he's element of how you become LG. How did it become L? Whatever it is not old BLT sound too much like a bacon lettuce tomato Well, I was G who was but it started with gays It was gay lesbian blah blah blah and now it's lesbian gay Yeah, how come the lesbians get them about leaving credit He says, you know A lot of people are a little irked about that Oh really interesting. Ah interesting

55:41 Yeah, he says he doesn't know when it happened or why it happened but its a little irksome. And it used to be that gay women were also just gay they had their own world. They could be gay and there'd be two whole separate categories. By the way I feel left out and discriminated against because there's no mention of bicurious and I feel that I should be able to celebrate my month too! You need a month. I need a quarter! I need to queue! Hey everybody, I proclaim this by curious mail quarter! I'm pissed off. Thanks...I think i have a civil lawsuit on my hands for sure

CHAPTER 13 / 36 Discussion

National Spelling Bee Coverage on ESPN

The 2011 National Spelling Bee, broadcast on ESPN, featured contestants spelling obscure words like "hexafoos," a term for a protective mark on Pennsylvania barns. The hosts discuss the high production value of the broadcast and the intense pressure placed on the children, many of whom are homeschooled. They suggest that the spelling bee is more entertaining than televised poker and propose faster clocks to increase the drama.

national spelling bee· espn· hexafoos· education· competitive spelling

56:27 So, uh... all right. So let's take a look at, um... I gotta get back to my list of crazy clips. Crazy clips? What you got? Hey! You know what? Can i just say something? There was- this is interesting here play the hexa- This is tell me guess what this is play HexaFuse Oh hold on second sorry you jumped the gun on me Johnny boy It's also 79 degrees here inside so here we go not bad Hexafuse Hexafoose. Can I please have the definition? A three-toed or triangular mark put on some Pennsylvania barns to keep evil spirits from the cattle or for decoration Is this the New World Order graduation ceremony? Hexafoose?! Seriously? This is the national spelling bee It would be funny if we could have that woman from The New York Times participate Oh! Hexafoose, aaaah, eeeh, gee

57:26 But did you spell hexaphone that you can't because it's on the back and spelled H-E-X-A-F-O-O-S X hexafuse. You got it! Unbelievable So ask Adam, this is an Ask Adam thing Let play a little another minute of the clip and then we'll skip to rest Can I please have the language of origin? It's made up of German elements Luciferian Hexafoos. Which is a little misleading... Can I please have the word used in his sentence? Mr. Brooks... I think you've trumped your clip of the day! ...enlarged his hexafoos when he realized it was the reason tourists stopped at his farm stand. Excuse me, John. I gotta go enlarge my hexafoos and be right back. Are there any alternate pronunciations

58:19 Just the one. Hey, what is it kind of spelling bee? Is this how many things you get to ask are there any alternate pronunciations Yeah And they all asked exact same one is the sky if this is just thinking time that they don't give a crap about that That's just the thing right like I'm only um If you were a tree back no way It is not really stalling because once the words announced at clock begins yet two minutes Oh okay so alright and you love it when these kids This could be our next gig Yeah, I think I'm in the dark room. And now it's... Now the little 10 year old is about to give his answer Umm..I am from The New York Times and i'm narrating the Spelling Bee Championship jokes from Dr Bailey while they're still processing how to spell it Hexafoos H E X A F O O S hexafoos

59:17 Yes, that is where all that time on the bus and from school that he spent awesome spelling every day pays off The triple Lutz on that move was just fantastic John. What did you think of of that answer? I was just amazed I thought the diction was like her weight I liked the way nailed it because it was a confusing of course the guy hinted at it Was it was miss it was confusing there was German in origin because It would be F-U-S, not F-O-O-S. And he didn't manage to name it. I totally agree and think this year's contestants are really raising the bar. What do you think John? Most of them homeschooled as usual. So the Ask Adam is what network

1:00:02 Yeah, I watched probably too much of. Oh yeah had this show on so this and I was going to ask you what network This was on and let me think um Can you can you? Give me the alternative doesn't have three letters no no as I'll give you a hint it has four letters four letters And that's five it's not C span um Four letters. Time's up! Nooo... What is it? ESPN Sports Network. Hi everybody, welcome to the 2011 Spelling Bee sponsored by Hot Pockets. That's better than poker that's the way I see it. Sponsored by Hot Pockets Get rid of poker and put this on Hey don't say that man Annie Duke is a friend of mine

1:00:59 And she makes a lot of money on poker on TV. It's much more... I don't know though, I think i would watch a spelling bee over poker I thought it was actually kind of entertaining. It's a little slow moving because they ask these same four questions, but what they should do to speed it up is make it more interesting and cut the clock down to 60 seconds! So let me ask you a question... Put screws on these kids! Make them sweat little bastards! Hey, did they put answers on screen for viewers at home? Yeah Oh that sucks No, they do it at the very end though. You know that's about what about when when the kid starts to spell it They throw it up Oh well That's perfect timing that's the way I would do it I would do it like Like Wheel of Fortune where I'd have Vanna White revealing each letter Yeah some hot chick we wouldn't be good to me come on man It's a little slicker than it used to because since ESPN obviously has some input right and but you know Can you imagine that pitch meeting?

1:02:03 Hi, we're Adam and John. I've got a great idea for show! We're from the National Spelling Bee Association and we really think this will do great on your network ummm... and we are also the hosts and you know we do the voiceovers. I love it what time is that on? Is that on regular slot? No, it's over now. They just did the one when there was a special or does that preempt sumo? I wish they put sumo back on soon was actually quite entertaining That's so next time will you please call me when that's on because I want to watch in real time. It's cool. No no I don't wanna watch sumo the spelling bee. I like it Thank You. Oh, I would have such a texted yet

CHAPTER 14 / 36 Discussion

Global Drug Policy Reform and Oxycodone Abuse

A United Nations report has called for the legalization of marijuana and the decriminalization of other drugs, labeling the global war on drugs a failure. Meanwhile, the United States is seeing a surge in violent pharmacy robberies committed by individuals addicted to Oxycodone (OxyContin). The history of the drug, synthesized from opium in 1916, is reviewed, highlighting its high potential for addiction even among public figures like Rush Limbaugh.

united nations· drug legalization· oxycodone· oxycontin· opium· pharmacy robbery

1:02:54 So did you see the thing I thought was the big news that has been completely suppressed, we did have a bunch of... somebody blogged it. It's on my blog and is the UN and the International Report on the drug industry and how drugs should be legalized? by marijuana in particular should be legalized and all the rest of them should be decriminalize because this entire thing has been a farce? Yes. And this is signed off by the biggest names in the business? Yeah, and actually all of the old world old Europe leaders are kind of on board with this they they'll think that this is the way to go it's very interesting which is just the EU clip which which clip is this

1:03:33 What do you know? I don't have a clip. Oh, okay! I couldn't find the clip because i have the article but couldn't find any clips because it's been suppressed nobody wants to talk about especially in the US of A. Because let's face we have a drug industry that is making people money You know its ruining peoples lives and screwing up society but then beside the point somebody is making a dime here Yeah there was something else that I was seeing It has gotten so bad and this one from Gitmo Nation East I believe Let me see if I can find it apparently people are so strung out on oxycodone or Oxy as we call it. Is it OxyCotton or Oxycodone? I think Oxycontin is the brand name which I think is still patented and that Oxycodone, I think maybe what the drug is off the top of my head. So people are going and robbing pharmacies at gunpoint! It's like give me all your oxy bitch

1:04:29 I'm gonna start shooting in five minutes if you don't give me the oxy. This is crazy, we have people hooked on the wrong drugs! People are going to get hooked anyway. Yeah, Oxycodone which is Oxycontin is used to relieve moderate and severe... it's a class of medications called Opiate Analgesics Works by changing the way the brain... yeah this stuff's terrible You looked up in The Big Book? Actually I'm looking up at the national NIH.gov, that's where it showed up. It was developed in... here is the big book, The Book of Knowledge mentions it was developed in 1916 Really? Yeah In other words its one of those ones they said oh my god lets just use opium! It IS Opium right? They shelved it No it's like a special, yeah let's read it

1:05:19 So we all know. Yeah, since it's synthesized from opium derived thebane It was developed in 1916 Wait a minute stop right there, stop right there Synthesize from Opium Derived so that means it's a derivative of an opium? It's a derivative of a derivative But it means we need opium to make it yeah okay That is what looks like Right thank you We're gonna have several new semi-synthetic, semi synthetic in other words you don't need as much opi-, I guess. Semi synthetic opioid opioids in an attempt to improve the existing opioids morphine uh heroin and codeine all the good stuff

1:05:56 oxycodone, I mean like opium itself is what should be used for most of this stuff. Yeah why not just take some opium? You know it's because who knows the health... nothing could be as bad as this stuff as it is oxycodone but people I mean Rush Limbaugh was strung out on taking dozens of pills at a pop And he was like a major anti-drug guy. Yeah, right! That should give you pause right there but I guess you can function okay if your on the Oxy. Oh yeah well you can't with all these things So your crazy strung out but still functioning and still do a show

CHAPTER 15 / 36 Discussion

Hamid Karzai and the Taliban Shuffle

Author Kim Barker discusses Afghan President Hamid Karzai in her book "The Taliban Shuffle," describing him as increasingly paranoid and isolated in his palace. While Barker portrays Karzai as a complex figure caught between the West and his own country, critics argue he has been a CIA asset and "oil cabal shill" since the beginning of the conflict. The discussion highlights Karzai's eccentricities, including his sheep-fetus hat and his refusal to grant interviews to male reporters.

hamid karzai· afghanistan· kim barker· cia· taliban shuffle· corruption

1:06:40 We could still do a show. It makes me want, you know you think of it going back to Afghanistan I do have a clip from Afghanistan about Afghanistan which makes me and if you listen this clip it sounds as though Karzai is probably strung out Well, his brother is the biggest dealer in Afghanistan so it makes sense. So we just have a couple minutes left what happened with Karzai? Crazy town... Wait a minute! Who's saying that?! She mumbles this in the background as soon as she's asked the question This is a woman who just wrote a book called The Taliban Shuffle and our book club should take note and put this book on the list her name's Kim Barker she's an ex Chicago

1:07:22 Tribune reporter that went rogue and decided to write books and quit the business. And she's kind of a clownish character, she's very funny... She said crazy town! Yeah he asked the question, she mumbles before she gives her answer, she goes crazy town By the way this is this is the guy lest you forget that wears the Batman cape and has the hat made out of sheep fetus I mean, i don't need to read no book to know this guy is 100% crazy town. Okay? She says that she's one of the last people who got the interview and he won't take interviews with any male reporters The female reporters apparently in Afghanistan have an edge over men That's what I'd do if I was king And uh... Anyway you can hear this whole thing it's quite funny One important question Is she hot

1:08:09 She's not unattractive. So we just have a couple minutes left, what happened with Karzai? Crazy town... There are a couple different things that I think has happened with Karzai First of all we set him up pretty much to fail We love a leader who speaks English and dresses well, we do. How can she say dress as well when he's wearing a fetus, sheep's fetus hat. ...control their country we like dealing with one-stop shopping which is why we kind of like having Musharraf in Pakistan and we kind of liked having all those horrible dictators in the Middle East I mean I think our foreign policy does... We preach a lot about democracy but we'd like having a strong man to deal with and so I think that in the very beginning this sense was okay here's our guy also the Bush administration we loved having our guys in places

1:09:04 And so Karzai was our guy there. I mean, can you remember when the Iraq war happened and everybody was saying God if only there was a Hamid Karzai in Iraq! You know? Think about that for a minute. So and I think that over the years Karzai is paranoid he's known to be paranoid He has become increasingly isolated He's basically in this palace by himself. If you haven't read the story by Elizabeth Rubin about him, it's a great story in the New York Times Magazine and pretty much describes how he got to this point and I think that he is caught between his whole idea that he really believes inside he is the person who will save his country.

1:09:45 that the West is against him and that America is trying to kill him, and America is killing people there. I think all these crazy press conferences he gives? He actually believes that! And that's a problem when your partner has turned into the person who publicly like...and he's always doing a wag-the-dog thing you know allegations of corruption in Kabul Bank. Look at this Florida preacher who said a Quran on fire and then you know you get riots where Afghans end up getting killed and UN people get killed. Yeah, there's this great observation the book about everything will be going to hell and Karzai will come in when everything is kind of over and appeal for calm that's his way of doing things. So last thing uh you mentioned Charlie Wilson's war which was terrific

1:10:27 book, turned into a terrific movie. Well I think that this is a terrific book and this could be a terrific movie and I've... Oh John what a shill! This woman is a complete shill! Karzai was CIA from day one he worked for UNESCO he's an oil cabal shill He's completely educated in America his brother owns a chain of restaurants and she's acting like this guy just popped up out of nowhere? And her books gonna be a movie?! Please!! She never said that he wasn't a shill, she just says he's nuts. Oh yeah but this book and the subsequent movie is all meant to discredit this guy for when whatever we need to do... We need to pin it on the donkey. Well she could be a CIA shill too! That's what I'm saying! She is on the inside It's time for him to get out and maybe uh you know we do this... I learned a couple things from this clip One if you want to be a dictator get some good-looking threads that's clear

1:11:20 You know, so now it's every dictator who has like some hot outfit some cool uniform. He works for us So there's Gaddafi for you? Yeah, that's a meme I like it yeah, I mean she just said that you know we want one-stop shopping Want a guy that looks the part well speaks a little English speaks to me Oscar because I speak fluent English so my english speaking what does sharp dresser dress man and and uh... stooge yeah and let's face it the cape was a nice tidy but we probably are trying to kill him because with the cape was nice wasn't it the cape in that wow you know i should go on trips more often you know normally i'm listening to all their reruns of soap operas

CHAPTER 16 / 36 Discussion

Hezbollah Social Networks and Martyrdom Culture

Author Ken Ballen describes the sophisticated social network built by Hezbollah to support the families of suicide bombers. When a fighter becomes a "martyr," the organization provides psychologists, social workers, and elite schooling for the surviving children. This system creates a social ladder where widows often remarry high-status party members, effectively incentivizing martyrdom as a path to social and economic advancement within the community.

hezbollah· martyrdom· palestine· social ladder· suicide bombing· social welfare

1:12:09 You did some work. This is nice, I like it! Well if you want to hear the best clip before we go to any... Yeah alright, I'll hear the best clip. I think that most interesting clip unfortunately this guy can't speak he's a writer uh let me see if I can find his name here and in fact I had to cut out the beginning actually may take the beginning of this clip which I cut out and put it as a separate clip where he goes uh... for about five minutes uh-huh guys name is finances kim bond s and his book for the book club of people out there's privileged to die and he deconstructs the mechanism used by a uh... has below and hamas to create a culture of of uh... suicide bomb up americans

1:12:59 and it's actually when you hear this little clip, there is one clip where he describes the entire mechanism as a cultural mechanism that actually works to...and you hear what the mechanisms are. The mechanisms based on the fact that women in this particular culture, in the Palestinian culture are very important but they're still forced to marry these douchebags and if they can get the douchebag to kill himself they get knocked up on the, not knocked up as in pregnant but pushed up the ladder. They get pushed up the social ladder let me understand so you want to marry some douchebag who then gets killed? Well you have to marry a douche bag by definition. They choose the douche bag for ya. You're not gonna like this guy. Let's listen to this guy The social network that Hezbollah has built around this idea

1:13:54 When a young fighter, let's say dies and becomes a martyr the party sends psychologists and social workers around to the family to work with them make sure that they deal with their depression make sure that kids are doing okay and adjusting and succeeding at school. And this is for two reasons, right? One is because they care about their members and they want them to be okay. Second reason is because they want people in the society of Islamic resistance to see that the families of the martyrs are the ones who thrive the most so if you have a martyr in your family, The Martyr's Foundation is going to make sure surviving kids go to the best schools They're gonna encourage the widow to remarry and usually to someone of high status within the party

1:14:41 often another fighter and the result is that they build an elite, in the core of this elite are the mothers and widows of these martyrs who sort of exemplify the most successful manifestation of Islamic resistance society. And people say ha! This is to climb to the pinnacle of my society is by being willing to give my life this way and if I am chosen uh... to die then my family will be even more blessed. It's incredibly effective. Awesome! Well, time to move. What's funny about it he does point out the fact that it was the women who make up for this deal. That's unbelievable

1:15:34 Yeah, it's apparently a whole system. Let's not hear you complain about women's rights anymore! Sounds like the... You know it may suck a little bit but once your guy pulls the pin then uh... It's the gravy train. You're on Easy Street. It's the gravy train everybody I love it! I'm gonna show my support by donating to KnowAgenda Imagine all the people who could do that Oh yeah that'd be fab! Yeah On KnowAgenda In mourning We don't like people blowing themselves up. We like him when they help us do this show and we've got a few this week including new donor Dave Rederer out of Evergreen, Colorado although that name rings the bell here's 165 33 double nickels on the dime I'll take three birthday call outs one for myself whose birthday is today i'd also like a birthday call from my lovely wife Claire whose birthday is tomorrow and one for her sister Mary McFarland whose birthday is also tomorrow there's eight years between them I tried getting

CHAPTER 17 / 36 Discussion

No Agenda Donor Recognition and the 111 Calculation

The hosts recognize several donors, including David Yagley, who contributed $111.11 based on a viral age calculation. The "111" phenomenon occurs when the last two digits of a person's birth year added to the age they turn in 2011 equals 111. Other producers, such as Sir Mark and Edward Sheets, are thanked for their contributions as the show continues to operate on a value-for-value model without traditional advertising.

crowdfunding· donations· 111 calculation· sir mark· david yagley· birthday

1:16:34 I tried getting on the No Agenda Nation website to figure out where i am as far as my knighthood goes but to no avail. Can I get a counting of my donations? So apparently, so I've heard him before but he shows up with a new donor so something's missing. Yeah we had uh...I think Eric had a few problems on the system where something had been double counted or whatever anyways is working it out and It's a beta ladies and gentlemen! In other words it doesn't work! It's like Google. It's a beta. It does worse if it doesn't work like google only it doesn't work that's not fair listen i don't want to get the say something nice nice all right yeah at least he's trying to get it to work but I mean it's you know it's ambitious hey you know there's a lot of no and then there's the it'll it'll it'll get fairly little get fixed mark

1:17:21 who soon to be sir mark quite cool cool it totally work colon colon in venu who's in now never in housing then how is the main house and housing feinhausen yes as that hasn't yeah very good okay they're good hey there john and am a little bit hailed the foot exactly hail the foot everybody hello everybody held afoot Love your show. You know what's gonna happen? HailTheFoot.com! It makes sense we talk about those feet washing up on short, hail the foot

1:18:02 tell the for this year it's keeping me saying you guys make me laugh and at the same time here making a very smart and wise man it's a bargain speaking in valuable value terms already being a proud founding producer of no agenda seem like enough to say i'm a night of the no agenda please send me my hookers and cucumbers in the knowledge and i think size twelve who needs a cucumber when you got a size twelve united state minor john loves the stickers but there are no toll booths to stake them on below sea level. We however have, is that right? No tollbooths no everything is all paid for you have no money but there's no toll booths

1:18:43 However, we have lots of traffic. Just stick them on your neighbor or the car next to you during these traffic jams and get more lowlands Therefore I'm preaching the no agenda gospel via my car with a nice big in the morning No agendas go calm on the back greetings from Osterlik or East Lake City Mark Krugman now There is a poster lake Oster like very good hail the flood held afoot. So in these situations where you have no place to stay, and I don't see a lot of it like there are still these little kiosks, these things where they stick up you know sign posters and signs for rock concerts and stuff i think those need to be targeted we're not doing enough of that

1:19:27 Anyway, 15946 Edward Sheets in Brewerton New York. 12345 David Yagley in Pleasanton California just around the corner call out name is Dave Yagley last name pronounced Yaegli Hi John and Adam I did my age birthday calculation we forgot about plugging this idea by the way And we still have six months to go it's stupid Turns out to be 111. Coincidence? I think not, i'm donating in the hopes that you guys will stop bickering amongst each other like a couple- like an old married couple Well it's inevitable alright You know we have Like an old married couple Besides that people there is a whole group of people who listen just for that which I think is sick personally Yes I do It's abhorrent

1:20:09 uh... can you explain what is one eleven thing is how it works yeah so this happens once every was at eight hundred and thirty one years i think so that it may not happen again in your lifetime uh... will you do as you take the aid the year they were born in the last two digits any age you'll become this year or have become this year and if that equals one hundred and eleven and it probably should Then you should consider either signing up for $11.11 a month or going straight for the gambit like David Yagley there with $111.11 and we highly appreciate it. Jared Forrester, Regina

CHAPTER 18 / 36 Discussion

Higher Education Bubble and Career Paths

A debate regarding the value of a college education follows a previous segment about Peter Thiel's views on the "education bubble." Listeners share stories of highly educated individuals, such as Berkeley history majors and Stanford English majors, working as truck drivers. The hosts clarify that while they don't believe college is inherently bad, the high cost and potential for debt make it a risky investment compared to alternative career paths.

berkeley· peter thiel· education bubble· truck drivers· college degree

1:20:52 Regina sorry rhymes with Saskatchewan Canada love the show if you guys don't fight anymore This is what the Illuminati wants you to do talk about the time or your bitching and moaning about something. Yeah $69 let me tell you what it was this was about the college thing, and I got a lot of email You said that college was a piece of shit no I did not I did not and in fact go again let me just say one thing I got a lot of emails about this it's in the show notes at 3 1 0 n a show notes calm I'll give you two things that people said that I thought were interesting basically what what I said was you went to Berkeley and I went to Salem College for three months and dropped out and I just said well here we are you with your college education your degree and meet without one or both doing the same

1:21:39 the way we are both of the same way making a living that's all i said it and say was bad well here is the thing that do you have to be but really appreciate i did go to berkeley and not armor no we wouldn't be doing this shows your homer however uh... two notes came in one if you replay that clip which i don't have on hand um... it was filled you guys missed it was filled with means and the whole this i think was the we're talking about peter teal according to this producer sent his note in the whole thing about this you know uh... the meme of colleges too expensive education bubble is all about joining the army

1:22:18 Because when you join the army, you get your education for free. You think by the way... Oh yeah! By the way forget the limbs that get blown off and then Skyler he says as a truck driver I would like John to know he would be in the company of thousands of Berkeley history majors My second favorite is seeing Stanford English majors and I've even met one former JPL engineer who lost his job during cutbacks. Truck drivers rule! Well, I apologize to all the truck drivers because I didn't mean to demean any of them. Now you inadvertently did... And there's a bunch of history majors that are driving trucks and probably doing very well for themselves. Melissa Deleon in Duncanville Texas 6509 says small start toward my husband's knighthood

1:23:06 sprained jenner a nice house it is our second anniversary so happy anniversary john anthony i love you and thank you for getting me hooked on the no agenda show during a nasty snowstorm you guys john adam are the best and we have been listening way too long not to donate by now but i'm putting my husband through his php program in a cheap uh... as we just saw here's how it works is a blizzard outside honey i know what we can do And she's like oh yeah, I'm getting my hexafoot already My ex of fooz is all I'm all buttered up with my hexa foos and he cracks out the no agenda show That's very sweet. That's a very sweet well in two years you know these things happen two years About two years next thing you know instead of you know Honey

CHAPTER 19 / 36 Discussion

International Donors and Indian Cultural Stereotypes

Abhilash Kumar from Mumbai, India, sends a donation and asks the hosts to address the stereotype that Indians are "tight-fisted." Kumar requests a "double shot of de-douching and karma" for himself and his pregnant wife. The hosts discuss the prevalence of Indian tech workers in Silicon Valley and the unique way the English language is adapted in different cultures, while granting Kumar his requested "karma."

mumbai· india· abhilash kumar· karma· de-douching· stereotypes

1:24:02 Honey, you know it's raining and we're in the RV. I've got an idea why don't we listen to this week in tech? Gaston Gonzales bonar a Bonari bone on bow man Bono Reno That's got to be it. Bonner, Bonnerino that's what it is yeah. Yes and Gonzales boner Bonnerino. Excuse me Sunny Isles Beach Florida 5995 uh here's an interesting one from Moomba Moombai Abhilash Kumar, and by the way you have to try to pronounce his whole name. Can I just interrupt you for one second John? I wouldn't mind you calling me back because you went to like the lowest possible codec that Skype has Okay why don't you call me and see what did with the routing is okay And the good thing about this setup I believe and by the way You can hear the wind picking up here as I have the windows open in the mobile hot pockets Mobitz Mobile Oops! Oh boy! Something went wrong

1:25:07 This is not good. How's this? Hold on a second up there we go I'm back say something testing one two three you sound like crap, but how do I know you sound great okay alright let's go on um I'm getting an echo now really let me try this when we try something okay Try again Testing that better no I still get an echo and it comes in a I can live with it. Oh, I'm sorry I don't know what to do Okay, well let me just go on. Alright. Okay we got Abhilash Kumar and he wants us to try to pronounce his full name once could you see it in there in a note? Yeah I see it in the note here we go down here okay his full name is Diwan Badur Roshan Lai Abhilash Kumar Singh Kula Shrestha Right Pretty good

1:26:12 So he says he's Abhilash Kumar from Mumbai and has been listening to the show for a few months now, and repeatedly heard us talk about the fact that people from India are very tight-fisted and don't like donating ever. Yeah I think we've mentioned that Indians are cheap Yes! We mention it all time And here is what he says Well you're right We don't and when we do, we like to get our money's worth. So it would be nice if you could give me a double shot of de-douching and karma. Alright here we go... You've been de-douched! You've got karma. You still getting that echo? Yeah I'm sorry man i don't know what to do. I can't help it Okay uh he needed for him his wife in a new human resource Ah

1:26:58 He's expecting in a few months. He actually says we should use our accents during, we didn't do our accents. Oh no I'm not going to do the accent! He has a new human resource coming! Idiot when i do it! Do you want Badul Roshan Lal Albilash Kumar Singh Khurshresha? Some karma for you and by the way karma is 100% Indian invention You know the thing about that accent is, well you know it's racist. It's not racist this is the number one way if you take the English language and see the way people pronounce it and use it this is probably the way the majority of English speakers speak yeah And being from Silicon Valley We have a million of them Being from Silicon Valley we know how Indians talk Exactly Very good! You are absolutely correct That will be five million dollars in venture capital

1:27:49 Daniel Hutner, Murphys California double nickels on the dime. John Tucker Omaha Nebraska double nickels on the dime is a donation for mention of their heartland liberty fest taking place in omaha area on saturday august six people can find out more information by going to heartland liberty fes dot com i was like to ask for people to go to the no agenda tour dot com and vote first stop at all my we'd like this the adamant and adam and mickey stopped by the heartland liberty fest during an origin hot pockets store when it's the uh... hardline liberty fest has had a date on there are you know how to get sex august but we might make it We might. We might not, but we might make it! You could park in there with all the RVs Yeah that would be awesome Hey everybody- Hello everybody! Raleigh Recama $55 starting my journey from Helsinki tomorrow and traveling to San Francisco Please hit me with some karma! You've got Karma

CHAPTER 20 / 36 Discussion

Travel Recommendations and Hard Times Karma

A donor from Helsinki traveling to San Francisco receives a restaurant recommendation for Fringale, noted for its high-quality food and relative affordability. In a more somber note, listener John Little shares that he has lost his job and is struggling to support his family in Mississippi. The hosts offer him "karma" and support, promising to keep him in mind as they plan their RV route through the southern United States.

helsinki· san francisco· fringale· john little· mississippi· unemployment

1:28:44 He's gonna need it because he is traveling with his girlfriend. He wants to know any good recommendations, I'm going to recommend Fringall? Yes! I just ate there again the other day and they do-the new cook there is fantastic. What they have another- They have another new chef at Fringall The guy I think is the one we ate there last time, that was the guy. The stuff is just dynamite. Good place to eat and not expensive. Relatively speaking it's not like an RV park but its not expensive for San Francisco From a guy coming in from Europe it's cheap Indeed Stephen Burrell Rochester New York at 5333 first-time donor longtime boner please dedouche and

1:29:30 and car. And a double shot? You've been dedouched, you've got karma. You got it. Double shot. Driving on vacation in time for Sunday morning live show so please give my girlfriend Nikki some karma which she just did yeah uh he likes the he also seems to like this by the way that is a uh... symphony of an official symphony slide whistle it's not just any other. Yeah, this is no such a slide whistle This is the one they would use in the San Francisco Symphony. And so you could be that guy who was just waiting there for the whole concert to do that whistle. He usually plays the triangle cue. Ding! Can you imagine being that guy and missing your cue? Oh man! They'd shoot you. Uh...and finally Jonathan Dodd out

1:30:25 Hamill, Hampstead, Hertfordshire UK. Some monies for your efforts really enjoy the shows John. Fifty bucks I'm sorry also Matthias Merkert and Mike, Michelle Moore in knightsdale north carolina so uh... couple of the new donors that we want to mention even though they're under the fifteen dollar level and of course we really appreciate the lower amounts as well and anyone who's on the five-dollar month program eleven eleven two thirty threes all those under fifty dollars many of them of course one of the captain anonymous purposely so i'm not presuming when buzzkill junior and she'll send me is buzzkill jr. on the payroll now

1:31:05 Or is he just working? I think he's going to end up getting the... Yeah, yeah. He's taking over the shills position. Taking over the shills position. Right because shill is gonna be doing rings and stuff. He's gonna be busy alright uh... so the new donor list uh... thank you calman to make a request for our associate executive producers jamie stubblefield edward sheets david yagley melissa de leon gastron gonzales bonarino uh... abhilash kumar and steven burrell along with jonathan dot doesn't seem like uh... those are under fifteen dollars but it may be i don't know what they have just i'm just reading whatever they send me now one other act

1:31:42 Note here from John little hey, man. It's John little change my email if you remember I'm halfway to knighthood haven't been able to donate lately I lost my job a couple of months ago and me and my family are struggling If you could send me some karma, I would really appreciate it as soon as they get a new gig I'll donate again also if you miss Mickey come through Mississippi how close to New Orleans So that's an option would love to meet y'all Love You Love You Miss Mickey love John And yes sir indeed You've got karma just because you're on hard times doesn't mean we forget you my brother absolutely Are you gonna hit New Orleans? You think with the van We'll try in New Orleans. I don't know about new Orleans, but and by the way it's not a van It's a rig yeah the way we showed up here yesterday At the at the Borrego Springs RV park everybody you can come and stalk me now if you if you can get here through the desert

CHAPTER 21 / 36 Discussion

RV Park Etiquette and National Park Budget Cuts

Adam Curry recounts experiences from the road, including a respectful encounter with a park ranger in Joshua Tree National Park who was an Iraq War veteran. The ranger noted that national park budgets are being cut by 20%, leaving very few staff to manage hundreds of thousands of acres. Curry also details the high cost of operating a Class C motorhome, which gets only eight miles per gallon, necessitating continued listener support.

joshua tree· national parks· ranger· budget cuts· rv life· class c motorhome

1:32:38 And, uh... Well, welcome! This is very- and by the way people are so friendly. Nothing I mean come on, I love them. And Mickey's like oh my god Americans are SO nice and uh... we're going to be thrown by the you know what yes so uh... we show up at the hotel but i don't want your kind here there were several of them like it is a good what are you doing that my brain to like scramble from it recall you mean uh... might rv s

1:33:17 I'm like, we got a rig. All right how big is it? 30 footer okay you ever stayed here before uh no in fact this is our first RV park ever you get a $20 discount for your first time stay all right this is lovely I love it We also um had a nice chat with Ranger Kalem up in That was another nice experience. We have our own little spot there and the ranger drives by around five in the afternoon, and I'm burning wood right? In one of those bins except we neglected to bring firewood another thing on the checklist so we'd found like some crate not broke into pieces and you know were burning it up and the Ranger stops. I'm like oh maybe that you know immediately i'm like city guy like Oh! I did something wrong!

1:34:02 I gotta get arrested and he stands in front of our RV and says do i have permission to enter your campsite Wow, that's really cool. He's a guy with and by the way Rangers What was it typical Ranger look like to you in your mind like a smoky the bear had and right? Yeah A lot of them like that dude this guy has got he's got a smokey the bear hat but he's got his Glock. He's got a Taser he's gotta block yeah, and he's got a bulletproof vest Mickey says that's why he is asking for permission. No kidding! Mickey says, are you wearing a vest? You look really buff I'm sure you're... She's like alright this is Mickey. You look really...I thought you went to the... well of course you go to the gym and you look really good but are you very...are you wearing your vest Ossipher? Of course the guy's a two-tour Iraq veteran

1:34:57 You know, luckily he took advantage of the GI Bill and was able to get a job. But he also used complaint in like they're cutting 20% of the National Park budgets And guess what? The budget consists of people then and people in a couple trucks another screwjob Yeah total screw and they've got like five guys for 750 thousand acres or something like that I don't know what it sounds little big actually how big is Joshua tree do you think I don't know. I have no idea when he visited it once. Oh, it's so beautiful! Anyway look at mickeyseas dot com to see some of her art. You can't call them pictures anymore they're just art So we want to thank everyone for supporting the show and we're going need a lot of support again The Class C motorhome does about 8 miles to the gallon There is only 55-gallon tank on this thing By the time you get going its time to refill

1:35:53 That's like a 747. I'm telling you, it is like... So we're gonna need a lot of help and so when we are out on the road mid-July, I think your right! We'll bring a whole bunch of Lady Gaga cutout CDs and will be selling them just to make up for gas money signing them. Hey have a Justin Bieber CD here ya go. That was my signature or you can sign Justin Bieber who is going to know? No why don't you pre produce that? You signed Justin Bieber At home and ship them to me, and I'll sign Adam and Mickey will sign them. It's going to be great! We're very excited so thank you all so much we highly appreciate it As you know we don't take any commercials this is the new model This is by the way a model that being replicated by some of the shrewdest businessmen in the business You can call us stealing whatever you like but imitation is the highest form of flattery Looking at you Calacanis

CHAPTER 22 / 36 Discussion

No Agenda Knighting Ceremony and Value-for-Value Model

The show conducts a formal knighting ceremony for four donors who contributed $1,000 each: Sir Stefan Springer, Sir Mark Colon, Sir Jared Forrester, and Sir Jason Stevens. The hosts emphasize that their "value-for-value" model is being imitated by other businessmen like Jason Calacanis. They reiterate that the show relies entirely on listener contributions rather than commercials or corporate sponsorships.

knighting· sir stefan· sir mark· sir jared· sir jason· value-for-value

1:36:48 and here's how you do it. And of course if that doesn't work for you, if you should be behind the Great Firewall of China or the Great Firewall India which is often used as an excuse You can go to channeldvorak.com slash NA or just go to noagendanation dot com and click on the donate button there Don't forget! Or I should say remember we have our new show notes system at any show notes dot com you can go to any individual episode i haven't done all the backdate jaded previous episodes but we're uh... we've been rolling for about ten now so you can go to three one zero dot in a show notes dot com and here's our list graduates

1:37:40 I gotta get my USB hub. Dave Retterer congratulates his wife Claire with her birthday tomorrow and his wife's sister Mary McFarlane who also celebrates her birthday tomorrow, I wonder if they're twins? Ah that guy must be a very lucky guy! Happy Birthday very much also to Craig from Blackpool in Gitmo Nation thanks from all of your friends here at the No Agenda Show And then we have, wow! We have a nice little list here John of knights. If you can grab your blade there thank you that's good. Wow this is amazing we got quite a bunch here let's call them forward soon to be recipients of your official Noah agenda knight of the No Agenda Round Table ring Stefan Springer Mark Colon Jared Forrester and Jason Stevens will all please step forward and kneel as

1:38:31 Thank you for your support of the No Agenda Show in the amount...of $1,000. Your rings are on their way gentlemen! We hereby pronounce the Knights of The No Agenda Roundtable Sir Stephan, Sir Mark, Sir Jared, Sir Jason have a seat over here at The Round Table it barely fits in the RV but its ready for YOU All nights of the no agenda roundtable and we could not be more thankful of that. One more time, the place to go to support the show... Devorac.org slash N A And a reminder this show is coming to you this summer wherever you are in Gitmo Nation We're on our way! Wait, we should do a Gitmo Nation Tour 2008 Hot Pockets So John some very important information reached me

CHAPTER 23 / 36 Discussion

Hillary Clinton and the 38-Minute Stargate Theory

A humorous theory links Hillary Clinton's frequent mention of the "38 minutes" duration of the Bin Laden raid to the sci-fi series Stargate. According to the "Book of Knowledge" (Wikipedia), a Stargate wormhole can only be sustained for a maximum of 38 minutes without massive power. The hosts joke that the intense look on Clinton's face in the famous Situation Room photo was actually due to her worrying about a wormhole closing.

hillary clinton· osama bin laden· situation room· stargate· wormhole· wikipedia

1:39:16 and this is a throwback to uh... clips we've been playing throughout uh... the past couple weeks and question i had it was an as john question uh... they didn't have an answer for me but we do have an answer now and i appreciate the multiple law no agenda producers who went out did research consulted book of knowledge uh... so one more time that will play the clip of lucifer hillary clinton and the uh... the picture that uh... Rocked the world with her hand in front of her mouth in the situation room and the key information In this clip. This by the way is the hottie from France who was asking the question one more time

1:39:56 About Osama Bin Laden, can I show you this picture? You know it. It's in the Situation Room. Yes! I remember that picture. I didn't know it was being taken at the time but I saw later So you are holding your hand in front of your mouth What did you think about that moment? Were you frightened? What did you see? I don't know how to describe it other than it was a very intense period uh... the operation went on for thirty eight minutes okay that's the key bit there and of course a what did i say on this very program on thursday i said one of these days when to figure out why this thirty-eight minutes is so important she says in every single interview thirty eight minutes thirty eight minutes well john i have the answer yes go according to the book of knowledge wikipedia

1:40:49 The Stargate will remain open so long as matter or energy continues to pass through it, to a maximum of 38 minutes. Beyond this point massive amounts of power are needed to sustain a wormhole which ordinary sources cannot provide." Where did you get this? From the book of knowledge from Wikipedia look up star gate. You said Wikipedia looked at 38 is that what you look for? No you look at Stargate go look at Stargate So wait a minute, you're implying... hold on a second. I'm not implying the book of knowledge tells all truths No no you're implying that they weren't really even looking at the Bin Laden thing! They were watching this Stargate open up Yes or maybe the star gate was there had been one but they were really worried because the Stargate was going to close and they had to get anything that was going in around through the wormhole then to get it done within those 38 minutes That's why it was the most intense thirty eight minutes ever

1:41:54 So you're now making the assumption that the movie Stargate is actually a documentary. I'm not making no assumption, all i am doing is consulting the book of knowledge and taking it verbatim for the truth that everyone else takes it for John one thing I know Coincidence? I think NOT! There are no coincidences like that my friend It might have been The Stargate in Libya could've been The Stargate in the Gulf of Aden We're not quite sure. One thing we do know, she was worried that the Stargate was going to close before whatever had to go through it came through it and thats why it was the most intense 38 minutes of her life. Apparently uh... Drusilla, the sister of Caligula only lived to be thirty-eight. No I'm not looking at this. This is not how it works It's a book of knowledge my friend Someone sent me a great headline Bad bling! This an Ask John segment

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Lindsay Lohan and the Alcohol Monitoring Bracelet Meme

The media has dubbed Lindsay Lohan's malfunctioning alcohol monitoring bracelet "bad bling." The hosts argue that electronic monitoring is being marketed as a fashionable "meme" to make house arrest and state surveillance seem cool to the public. They suggest that these devices are a way for the prison system to shift costs onto the defendants while maintaining constant oversight.

lindsay lohan· alcohol monitoring· bad bling· electronic monitoring· criminal justice

1:42:58 Can you guess what the he- Guess the story to the headline. Bad bling. Bad bling? Bad bling. Uh, uh... Tungsten filled gold, um... Amulets Nope! Lindsay Lohan's electronic monitoring bracelet had to be replaced after it malfunctioned What did it do? Burn her? It didn't no, it didn't work No. So she had to take it to the shop and they had to chisel it off and put a new one on This is her alcohol monitoring bracelet I wonder how they know it didn't work Hmm, we're not getting any readings from Lindsay It must be malfunctioning But for them to call it bad bling this is indeed the new bling if you want to be a rapper Oh yeah that's a good one Outstanding catch If you wanna be a hip hopper

1:43:48 Bling you got to have a bracelet. I'm telling that would be cool You could be seeking go to the clubs and you can have this bracelet around your leg, and everyone thinks you're cool Yeah, did we not say exactly this? Did we not say when this first happened with Lindsay Lohan We said this is the meme they're setting it up It's gonna be cool to have the bracelet and here you go. And you have to pay for, by the way which takes you out of the prison system so they don't have to pay for your being in there A and B You end up having to...You have to pay for the damn bracelet! Yeah well yeah what's your problem? It's great though I want we would somebody please make these We need the No Agenda Gitmo Nation bling bracelet

1:44:31 It can just be plastic, I mean it doesn't have to have any actual components in there. Although that would be even better. No, it should be blingy! It shouldn't be plastic... That's right we should have like the gold plated with the encrusted with diamond ekes. Hey man, thats my bracelet. Excuse me. So um Why we did have that one Indian donor which is extremely rare. In fact, I think it we probably should be like a three or four indian donors Which makes us like very exceptional? Yeah, because of him I put together a clip called India is fucked up Huh Normally I'm the guy that goes overboard on the language on the show and now you're doing it now It's no longer family episode

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Arundhati Roy on India's Economic Disparity

Novelist Arundhati Roy criticizes the narrative of India as a global success story, pointing out the extreme disparity between the country's billionaires and its 800 million citizens living on less than 30 cents a day. Roy claims that the government is deploying paramilitary forces against its own poorest citizens to facilitate corporate interests. The hosts reflect on the "depressing" reality of India's rapid economic growth failing to reach the masses.

india· arundhati roy· poverty· billionaires· displacement· economy

1:45:24 We have to mark it in iTunes as explicit? No, I can't bleep it out. I wasn't cussing! I was just telling you the name of the clip Can I play it? This is from Newsnight on the BBC The latest set of economic statistics from India show that in the year to March, the economy was growing at 8.5%, and this was regarded in India as something of a disappointment! As an emerging power in the world's largest democracy, India we are repeatedly told is a success story but not according to the Booker Prize winning novelist Avandati Roy She claims tens of thousands of the country's poorest people have been killed and hundreds of thousands tortured by corrupt government governments in the pay of big corporations. My colleague Jeremy Paxman spoke to her

1:46:09 This enormous change, the emergence on the world stage of a power like which has never been seen before. A voice that's never been heard before. Aren't you proud of that? It is a false voice. It is a lie and I am not proud at all because in the early 90s when the economy began to open and the growth rate began to gallop Since then if you look at what it has done to the mass of people in India, you have Yes we have I think the world's largest number of millionaires or billionaires But we have 800 million people living on less than 20 rupees Which is about 30 cents a day You have millions of displaced people. You have more poor people in India than the poorest countries

1:46:59 I'm sorry, misfired. Which is out of control of the government now. They are deploying paramilitary forces... So, 800 million people living on less than 30 rupees a day? Thirty cents! Wow. Well this is you know... Hey send us your rupees! Oh man that's pretty bad. It's just a little side thing. No it's more than the little side thing that's pretty bad

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LIBOR Panic and Global Economic Instability

A financial analyst expresses near-panic over the lack of yield for money managers, warning that the world is on the verge of a "great, great depression." The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) remains a central focus as interest rates are kept low by the Federal Reserve under Ben Bernanke. The analyst suggests that an "innovation slowdown" and the high number of underwater homeowners are contributing to a stagnant and dangerous economic environment.

libor· ben bernanke· interest rates· great depression· innovation slowdown· finance

1:47:49 yeah the whole clip is which goes on and on his uh... this depressing well let me had to press you even further than yay this is from my cnbc i believe the u k addition they have the uh... the largest a representative from the largest live or dealer uh... from the floor of the exchange that we want explain what a live board dealer does john i don't know what a lot more dealers well uh... libor as the london interchange bank something rate maybe the O is just in there just to make it a word and what they do is they swap money around based upon this interest rate which of course is pretty messed up

1:48:33 But listen to the language he's using and you might get more depressed than start thinking about saving up some of your own rupees. Just to be clear, what we've got right now is almost near panic going out with money managers and people who are responsible for money they cannot find a yield You don't want to just be putting your money into commodities or things that are punts, that might work out and they might not depending on what happens with the economy. We need to find real yield and real returns on these assets. So where do you go? That's why we're flocking too...you see bad data! You see the Treasuries rally, you see all bonds and all fixed income rallies, and then

1:49:13 betting against US economy, they start throwing money or getting bearish on stocks. It's a huge mistake! Interest rates are amazingly low and that thanks to Ben Bernanke is driving everything you know I keep making them point you know there's a difference between Ben Bernanke and Harry Houdini Ben Bernanke is not a magician. We're on the verge of a great, great depression. The Fed knows it. We have many, many homeowners who are totally underwater here and cannot get out from under. The technology frontier is limited right now we definitely have an innovation slowdown.

1:50:03 that libor uh... is a is not lesbian borg's as says someone suggested on the chat room is the london interbank offered rate and live or of course sets uh... the of course but let me know what I'm talking about sets the interest rates and this guy sounded pretty panicked he did it and i can't believe you got you didn't discuss this with the war econ your little show over there and devour act believe it or not in their horowitz not this particular thing no you it's a lesson in that clip i'd like to have ideas is a good idea had like they did his it'll but by the way all of the clips you hear on the north general are also available in the assets section of the show notes three one zero dot any shown once dot com and i have a look at service have a little uh... bone to pick with you alright abone light

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FCC Internet Regulation and Podcast Licenses

The Virginia Attorney General warns that the FCC is moving to regulate the internet despite a 2010 court ruling stating they lacked the authority to do so. This move is described as a "brazen disregard for the rule of law" by the Obama administration. In response, the hosts promote their "podcast licenses" as a humorous way for creators to claim authorization when government regulators eventually "knock on the door."

fcc· internet regulation· net neutrality· virginia attorney general· podcast license· rule of law

1:51:00 So I'm reading my favorite website when it comes to technology, PCMag.com Not Dvorak dot org slash blog? No no no that's if i... That's where I do show prep Now a little article penned by a certain John C. Dvorak Sony hacker attack has deeper meaning and I quote from the article I've got nothing. If i were to hazard a guess, it would be that hacker is a single young male with good hacking skills. A lone wolf with a personal grudge! Are you trying to get me locked up my friend? What are you trying to do here? I can't believe...I can't believe you threw an alone wolf meme on PCMag.com. I'm throwing more memes in as we go Perfect Good job

1:51:58 Good job, my friend. Good job! Very funny. So you can find that column and others at PCMag.com Yeah right exactly so I've got a couple of interesting clips...so the Virginia Attorney General who's the guy who took on the Obama administration's Obamacare by him and a bunch other guys are suing left-and-right by calling it unconstitutional Yeah, well actually I got two clips from him where he's blasting the EPA but then he...I would like to play both of them. But let's start with the clip that I normally play second but it is the FCC clip and tell me if you knew about this? You know, you who were here for a reason we being the state, the Commonwealth Virginia and coming to an internet near you this summer The FCC, this is the most brazen one of all

1:52:58 the FCC is going to roll out again an order to regulate the internet. Oh my god! Why is this the most brazen one of all? For one simple reason, a year ago in 2010 they had a court ruling telling them they couldn't do this They thought about it and said we'll do it anyway It's just a court ruling Talk about a brazen disregard disdain

1:53:35 for the rule of law. Now we may not like what courts do all the time, but there's got to be a place where our contests are refereed and fought out this administration doesn't just disrespect states doesn't just disrespect federal law doesn't just disrespect united states constitution but they also have no respect for the courts of this country it's amazing it is amazing and ruling this order, is what they call it. Coming this summer in my view it's the most brazen one of all because of that because they have crossed one more line so brazenly

1:54:21 I'm glad to tell you there are attorneys general, especially that got elected in 2010 all over the country who are now stepping up to the plate and playing a role in defending uh...the constitution, the rule of law and their states in our federalist system. Wow! Let me do the trailer. Coming this summer lock down your modems it's FCC regulation 2011 Well, we'll have the licenses. Yeah I mean that's the beauty of it We have your podcast license go to pod light podcast license calm actually John I need you to put a link up on Dvorak org slash na I'll do it as soon as this shows over I'll create a link and now send you a copy You can put it on that site too Yes Because we need we need and we need the podcast licenses to propagate you get your podcast license at podcastlicence.com and when the

1:55:17 When the FCC regulations come down and someone's knocking on your door, say hey excuse me Ocifer can I just show you my podcast license signed by the podfather in John Hancock himself. Wow so he You might want to play, the funny thing is most of the clips I collected which haven't played too many of it yet are depressing. Involved the government going overboard by doing apparently Department of Energy there's a whole bunch of stuff on C-SPAN hours and hours in material The Department of Energy decided on its own to shut down Yucca Mountain What is Yucca Mountain?

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Yucca Mountain Shutdown and Department of Energy Rogue Actions

The Department of Energy is criticized for unilaterally shutting down the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, a move that has cost taxpayers $25 billion without providing an alternative. During congressional hearings, even Democrats like Jay Inslee of Washington State described the situation as a "failed state" scenario where the government refuses to follow clear law. The abandonment of the site leaves nuclear waste stranded at various reactor sites across the country with no long-term disposal plan.

yucca mountain· department of energy· nuclear waste· gao· jay inslee· washington state

1:55:56 Yucca Mountains were where they're gonna put all the spent uranium fuel because it was deemed the best place in the whole country, where it would be safe. You know earthquake proof and is not going to leak and all the rest of it And...and it may or may not be controversial that they were gonna do this but they decided against all those legal precedents in their own commissions and everything else is just to do this and they're starting they should not only shut it down but they abandoned the site let a bunch of stuff go it's like it does complete disaster I have two clips that kind of relate to this but play the short clip first as this except did energy department goes rogue hold on second you mess me up I was ready with the Virginia attorney okay

1:56:35 Got it. Energy Department goes rogue. They're documented in the April report of the GAO, including disbanding of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management that had managed the program. Like others we have questioned the legal and administrative authority of the Department of Energy to disband this office As you know, the Department of Energy requested no appropriations for the waste program for fiscal year 2011 or 2012 except for support from the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future. Yet when the Nuclear Energy Institute and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

1:57:13 suggested that the Secretary of Energy suspend fee payments by utilities to the Nuclear Waste Fund in 2009. That was denied with an unconvincing pronouncement that all fees are essential. NARUC and the NEI have appealed that decision to the Federal Court of Appeals, which is pending We can only speculate how much time and money it will take the U.S to be ready to accept spent nuclear fuel for disposal if it is other than Yucca Mountain, but its likely to be decades It seems essential then that we seek out and develop one or more central interim storage facilities to take used fuel from the nine sites where reactors are currently shut down and the property cannot be decommissioned returned to other productive uses because of waste remains

1:58:00 such as the former Big Rock nuclear power plant in Michigan. Regardless of what storage, transportation or disposal solutions the Blue Ribbon Commission may recommend they will need certain and reliable financing support concerning the financial impacts of terminating Yucca Mountain a more predictable funding mechanism What was that? Anyway he just goes on and on now so what's interesting to me about this Boy, this echo is now completely out of control. I'm sorry. Uh-uh. I might call you right back Okay, okay Ladies and gentlemen like this is gonna be any better Right might be all right do I have to hang up or I'll hang on? I'm gonna hang up I hung up on ya don't care about you I hung up on you already and now of course sir here we go Let's see if this works is the echo any better. I don't know

1:58:58 that's not a story, it's worse. It reappeared okay here we go let me just finish I watched all these hearings one of the things that cropped up was the and by the way this was both Democrats and Republicans both of them reaming the Department of Energy spokesman who came they wouldn't bring in their secretary because he wasn't going to put up with this And here's an example of a Democrat giving it to the Department of Energy first. By the way, this shutdown of Yucca Mountains costing taxpayers $25 billion with no alternative creating a mess in the entire country basically but play the reaming the Department of Energy clip This is a Democrat who is... let me get his name It's Inslee from Washington State

1:59:50 Thank you. This is very disturbing on a couple of bases, one is in my state and the State of Washington we have people very diligently trying to follow their obligations legally and in their profession getting this waste ready to ship to Yucca they're going to be ready just to ship 9700 canisters to Yucca They're doing their job but the department's not doing its job now that's on a local concern But on a national concern, I just think this situation is one of the failed state. You know they talk about failed states around the world? This... because of failure to follow clear law here this is equivalency of failed state We reached national decision It's unpopular in one local part and beautiful part of country as it will be any part of country that we ever have this decision made And yet we can't execute a decision

2:00:48 Now, this sort of flagrant statement that social acceptance is now a legal criteria I don't understand. Just ask Dr. Lyon, how are we ever to build anything like a nuclear waste repository anywhere in the United States? Okay you can stop it! This is why i usually interrupt the clips that you play because they put me to sleep Well I know but at least its at the end of the show and I interrupted myself yeah but the point this is going on and it's kind of interesting and thats what swings back and relates with Virginia attorney who was actually kinda entertaining uh... says about the e p a which he calls the employment prevention agency

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EPA and NLRB Overreach in the Obama Administration

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under Lisa Jackson, is accused of attempting to "transform the American economy" rather than simply protecting the environment. Additionally, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is fighting South Carolina over its right-to-work laws, attempting to compel unionization. These actions are cited by the Virginia Attorney General as examples of federal agencies ignoring legal boundaries to enact a specific political agenda.

epa· lisa jackson· nlrb· south carolina· unions· economy

2:01:33 uh... blasts them because what's happening and i don't want to get into too many details but we have to start following this is that the obama administration apparently has not following either the court that tells it to do something is not falling in laws is not follow its own commissions is just going rogue on everything well thats a surprise there's an agency in the federal government that so egregiously ignores their own rules and the laws in place to bound their authority and it is already vast authority But no, that's not enough. That's not enough. Lisa Jackson the administrator which is the title of head of EPA said in December 2009 I'm out to transform the American economy and I've got 15000 people at the EPA who are ready to help me do it period full stop end statement No mention of keeping environment clean in that statement Transform the American economy They know what they're doing

2:02:29 and how they're doing it. And again, we are in the last line of defense here more recently you may have read about the National Labor Relations Board working with Alan Wilson Attorney General in South Carolina to fight the NLRB and their attempt to gut the right-to work to keep those 22 states that are free of compelled unionization free...of compelled unionization. Yeah that's lovely Anyway, I just thought I'd cheer you up there with that kind of stuff. Yeah Let me call you back again and then don't ever call for a reconnect on Skype because it just went so bad as horrible Well, I'm just gonna disconnect This is what you get on the road get used to it for the next 20 years everybody What's gonna be? It's what it is. That's what its at hello. Hey Hello. Hello So I guess use if they're getting rid of the echo You just have to regulate your volume their turn down your speakers when you're talking or something and

CHAPTER 30 / 36 Discussion

Google Video Shutdown and Conspiracy of Silence Documentary

As Google Video prepares to shut down and delete its content, producers are urged to download and preserve important documentaries like "Conspiracy of Silence." The film, which investigates allegations of child abuse among Washington D.C. elites, was famously pulled from broadcast and has primarily survived through internet distribution. Other "must-have" documentaries mentioned for preservation include those critical of Monsanto.

google video· boys town· conspiracy of silence· documentary· censorship· archiving

2:03:24 No, actually the weird thing about this echo is that it's louder than you are. Well that makes no sense I know! Let me try something here hold on It'll be worth it let me just try something Hold on a second 1-2...1-2 Okay did it change anything? Ah lets see testing one two three Nope not a thing You still have an echo Yeah and its louder then you Right so what you need to do when you talk turn down your speakers And then when I was a problem, I know I could do that but the problem is and i'll never hear you if you come in Well why don't we say over? Oh god Over hello john over Hey, uh, I want to make a call out to the producers right now. Uh something very important You need to do google video is shutting down

2:04:22 uh... there are them the movie and is it taken off everything to deleting everything so this time to really important stuff up there i'd just found out about this i don't have the bandwidth to do with please right now somebody or some bodies go to google video search for boys town conspiracy of silence it's a documentary documentary that never aired i believe done by either i t v your channel four in get my nation east and uh... download that and uh... re keep it safe because this is the documentary about elites in washington and their miss use of their abuse i should say if children and uh... the boys town usa conspiracy of silence documentary is a must have for uh... for many generations to come uh... particularly cuz its only been aired on the interwebs at uh... at google so please go and download that it's incredibly important

2:05:17 over yes the only place you've ever seen it yeah no I don't think it's available anywhere else of course everyone is like yeah I saw that documentary man, its a Google video but you gotta download we got to keep these things somebody had his ways are doing that too and so with the other thing the Monsanto documentaries on there Yes, exactly. I've never seen that anyplace else. That has to be downloaded. Another important one and there's a little interesting ditty i got from one of our producers Robert now I've been talking about the solar flares and of course we're going to see increased solar activity it happens every 11 years and I believe that is part of the reason we have these power fluxes although they power companies immediately blame it on this squirrels

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Solar Flares and Fox Network IP Distribution

A report from a data center insider suggests that Fox Networks is moving its US distribution from satellite to IP transit (internet protocols) in anticipation of massive solar flare activity in 2012 and 2013. The company reportedly expects solar storms to be severe enough to make satellite transmissions unviewable. This shift in infrastructure is viewed as a dire warning about the potential for significant communication outages in the near future.

solar flares· fox networks· satellite· ip transit· 2012· infrastructure

2:06:00 and another producer sent us a note and said yeah you know I know what guy works the power company they always keep it dead squirrel around to say I squirreled at it so they can blame the power company but you know that was really and then John I think even agree that's probably possible there doing that they blame it on skyward now exactly arm so Adam I just as the latest show one to share some info our US cloud is based in Vegas, I won't give the name out to protect the innocent. It's on a huge power networking hub these guys are Spook Central by the way crazy tier 4 facility they serve places like Area 51 anyway they let it slip that Fox networks are moving all of their distribution for the US transferring them from satellite to IP transit

2:06:49 That means instead of bouncing stuff off the satellite, they're going to be distributing all their programming through internet protocols. Through wires and tubes They explain this because they expect significant solar flare activity in 2012 and 2013 To the extent that satellite transmissions would be unviewable So I think that's a pretty dire warning there That we are going to have some real outages coming if Fox is doing it Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah and I appreciate our producer sending us that note yeah so That's about it for me really? I got a couple more things like out one thing right now I got a couple of things too, but I can hold them. Yeah, please do the one ad because we talked about the education system in this country play the trade school clip and tell me what you think I should do this maybe

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Motorcycle Mechanics Institute and ADR Voiceover Work

An advertisement for the Motorcycle Mechanics Institute (MMI) prompts a discussion about the "manly" voiceover style used in trade school commercials. Adam Curry shares that his wife, Mickey, received significant residual checks for "Additional Dialogue Recording" (ADR) work on the show NCIS. The hosts joke about being in the "wrong business" as they record their podcast in a hot RV while voiceover artists earn high fees for minimal work.

mmi· harley-davidson· voiceover· adr· residuals· ncis

2:07:48 Oh, sounds like John is looking for a gig. Okay... Hold on a second.... Here we go! This guy is Donnie Holtman. He was a Staff Sergeant in the U.S Air Force. Christopher Holmes, he used to deliver flowers if you could believe that! And this is Michael Chaconne. He used to work construction. What do these guys have in common? They all ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. They all used to DO something else and they all followed their dream to Motorcycle Mechanics Institute Today these guy are all on the Harley Davidson program offered at MMI They're training to work on an American legend, Harley-Davidson Motorcycles. MMI has the only 24 week training program developed with and approved by Harley Davidson University It's designed to set you up for a career working in Harley Davidson dealerships And it works! MMI places more Harley Davidson technicians into jobs than any other school I'm John Raffi A Harley Davidson instructor here at Motorcycle Mechanics Institute

2:08:43 These students will tell you, this doesn't work. The passion keeps the legend alive. The Harley-Davidson program at MMI. Visit mmitech.edu or call today to receive a digital brochure! You? I'm in! What a you know, first of all I would love to go to Harley-Davidson University and get my degree in chemistry. Yeah Better living through chemistry You know what kind was it fascinating to me about that ad besides the fact that it was a piece of crap Uh huh Is that, who comes up with the idea of having this deep voiced guy read this kind of copy? I was just like... Wow. Well it's supposed to be manly! You know it's like you want to look at this guy he is John C Dvorak He used to be a podcaster now he rides a Harley Come on man It makes my hucksafooz grow and I immediately wanna go out and ride a Harley Like John C Dvorak You could do voiceover Ah, I wish

2:09:44 I could, you know... Mickey did like one voiceover for NCSI. Oh not- ADR Additional Dialogue Recording And uh she got a residual check for like 900 bucks! For doing a- really? Yeah and so she got paid for the session You know, it's scale so I can tell you that. It's not bad! It was like $1500 for doing the session She goes in there and does a couple words, you know... Like some Berkeley mumbling or something? I don't know. I think we're stupid We missed the episode because I wanted to hear her voice And then she gets a residual check for the first airing For 900 bucks! Wow! I'm sitting here doing a podcast in 90 degree heat in a van

2:10:34 Heh heh. I need to do ADR voiceover work. This is no good! You too can be a Harley rider, get on your Harley. We are in the wrong business But we got a license that's all i know we got a license anyway Be very afraid stop be very afraid the killer jellyfish are here Jellyfish are invading the Florida coast more than 1600 people stung just in the last week alone by its type of jellyfish that is rarely found an American waters Scientists say changing weather patterns may be to blame. Yeah, hold on a second we have a jingle for that. There you go. Yep! Changing weather patterns and of course these are the same people who tell you that climate is not weather. Climate's not weather but changing weather patterns are bringing the jellyfish out to kill ya. 1600 people stung

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Jellyfish Invasions and Sarah Palin Brand Building

Over 1,600 people were stung by jellyfish in Florida in a single week, an event scientists attribute to "changing weather patterns." In political news, the term "building her brand" has become a new meme used to describe Sarah Palin's media strategy. Rumors of an impending divorce between Sarah and Todd Palin are dismissed as a coordinated media attack designed to damage her growing influence and "ink" in the press.

jellyfish· florida· sarah palin· brand building· divorce rumors· media strategy

2:11:32 That's not good. Yeah, no jellyfish are nasty. Especially the man-of-war jellyfish Oh they'll kill ya! yeah exactly They will kill you so um... that's why people should get guns and just shoot them The video on this thing which you can find at shownotes310.nashownotes.com The video is out I mean just they go out in a boat it's just like the whole sea is filled with jelly fish Yeah I know you gotta shoot em' shotgun em'. I'm gonna take a dip Hold on a second. Alright, you can get in the water now no problem and Condoleezza Rice who has been out on a promo tour she's been I guess now we kind of are starting to understand why she was out like By the way new meme new meme alert building the brand This is what everyone's talking about Sarah Palin have you noticed this meme?

2:12:26 She's building her brand. I haven't picked up on it as a meme, but you're right she's building her brand and i'm like what? And by the way You know there's something going on with uh with the Sarah Palin stuff and I think that she's her brand building is so successful That's why they launched this rumor that miss mickey handed this to me yesterday She's helping out with the show prep Hey sarah palins getting a divorce Uh really So I think that this is an attack launched against her because she's getting too much ink. She's getting more ink than Boehner certainly bigger ink on the same page. I noticed that one of the right-wing talk shows they were complaining about this because apparently when like Romney announces and most of the ink goes to Sarah, now they're getting a little annoyed yeah so they launch a rumor that's exactly what you do and please people believe me this is how it works It's like we gotta stop her! We got to turn it around What are we gonna do? Call Hill & Knowlton

2:13:29 Don't worry. We'll take care of it we're gonna launch a rumor that she's getting in divorce you know the press loves that we had the boner in The Boxers and now we're gonna do the Divorce and leave in the first dude is what will call it yeah, there's your meme divorcing the first dude but building the brand is is the new mean and Condoleezza Rice condoleezza Zaraiss has been building her brand and now we know why of course. Do you know what her job was before she became Secretary of... I'm sorry, she was uh What was her title? Was she secretary of the not defense State! Sorry You know what her job was before she became Secretary of State for George W Bush Piano tuner Yes correct you are right a piano tuner at the Chevron Corporation

2:14:24 Hmm, she was on the board of directors at Chevron. Why why would she be on the board of directors? Well, she was gonna be a secretary state you know and being Listen, yeah There's so much going on with all this oil stuff which of course is unstoppable And it's not just the stuff you put in your car. I mean this whole RV I'm in is made of oil The computer I'm using everything oil is everywhere You can't get away from its stoppage economy as the basis for their our economy Yeah It's what we roll on all the plastic all that everything all the you know your lotion Yeah, everything and then we drive through these windmills on the way that we went down to Palm Springs before going to Joshua Tree just I'm like a futile as few ties a scam

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Condoleezza Rice, Chevron, and the Iraq Business Roundtable

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is partnering with Chevron to promote US leadership and economic development in communities worldwide. Meanwhile, the Obama administration's State Department is hosting an "Iraq Business Roundtable" with executives from major corporations like Goldman Sachs, Halliburton, and Monsanto to discuss "economic opportunities" in Iraq. The hosts characterize this as a total corporate takeover of the country by "economic hitmen."

condoleezza rice· chevron· iraq· business roundtable· goldman sachs· monsanto

2:15:08 Yeah, if you think that... Seriously. Each of those things cost $200,000 and it's all subsidized. Hey great! I gotta get in on that And the railroad is running right alongside nice anyway Yeah Mickey took pictures mickeysees.com You got to see Did you stop at the outlet mall? Darn! That was looking for the scenic overlook. You're gonna miss half the country A lot of casinos down that way by the way Oh yeah Anyway, so here's Condoleezza Rice. She's at an event and guess what kind of events she's at It was built as an initiative to promote the leadership of the United States To develop economically communities around the world And featured former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice partnering with Chevron one of the largest oil companies in the world we can help countries to begin to build the infrastructure that

2:16:03 that can attract and properly use private investment and business development which then produces the jobs for its people. While the launch was short on details, there were many references to the important role the US had to play in improving welfare around the globe Global welfare may not be something that pops into the minds of citizens around the globe when they hear the name Condoleezza Rice, more commonly associated with supporting President George W. Bush's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq You don't want another Afghanistan out there you don't want the northern border Mexico to look like a failed state you don't want Yemen

2:16:48 to as it's doing break into civil war and become the new somalia or the new afghanistan you don't want that slave listen what we say you don't want that you want what we have to offer so this is how it works your work at chevron you get all set up all geared-up ball liquored up all lawyer dot ball greased up me going become secretary of state nicole in invading couple countries and then you go uh... out menu would take over and now hillary clinton along with the Deputy Secretary of State Tom Nides, same department as Condoleezza Rice are hosting a group of corporate executives this morning I'm sorry uh... this was Friday morning as part of the Iraq business roundtable

2:17:37 Where corporate executives from approximately 30 major US companies including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs are joining with US and Iraqi officials to discuss economic opportunities in the new Iraq. Total economic hitmen! Total takeover! Where's our news media on this? This is egregious egregious it's a good word right put that on the word so we've got here's here's the company's Bell helicopter Cargill Caterpillar Chevron Citigroup FedEx course we need to fly stuff in quick General Electric Goldman Sachs Halliburton

2:18:24 JP Morgan Chase, KBR. They're already there. Lindsay Corporation Lockheed Martin Microsoft Monsanto National Association of Home Builders Hey John we can probably pick up a nice lot Occidental Petroleum Schlumberger Tupperware! Tupperware? Another oil... Well they go door to door Yeah Hello? Hello? Ahmed? Mohammed here Would you like to buy some tupperwares Ventec it's a toy. It's at the party they're doing their own Tupperware party of Iraq Hey, you want to buy some Iraq? It's disgusting and I'm ashamed I was shamed and that's your Obama administration right there everybody hello everybody buy some Iraq

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European Union Extravagance and Cocktail Party Spending

Despite widespread austerity measures across Europe, the European Commission is under fire for spending hundreds of thousands of euros on lavish cocktail parties and private jets. A report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism revealed that millions are spent on "confidential expenditure" to protect the identities of those benefiting from the funds. While member states cut budgets, EU institutions in Brussels are pressing for more cash to maintain their ceremonies and influential image.

european union· brussels· cocktail parties· private jets· budget increase· bureaucracy

2:19:15 And then... Well, I think we did a great show today. We got depressing economic information, corruption... You're screwed! Human resources? You're screwed! There's no good news! Well, there is. I had more on my mind than that. I've got good news. I have a good news clip. Is it another hexafooze? No, the EU is still partying hardy okay hold on EU parties you know what my hands are so sweaty I can't even operate the trackpad

2:19:53 Now, these are tough times for all of Europe. In fact they're so tough that amid all the sounds of belts being tightened the European Union is asking member governments to finance an increase in the EU budget It is curious then that it turns out certain parts at the EU gravy train appeared have no shortage of gravy David Grossman reports These are difficult times financially, but let us put your mind at rest on one concern that may be keeping you awake at night. Don't worry the EU isn't having to cut back on its parties

2:20:29 According to a report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, in 2009 alone the Commission spent over 300.000 euros on cocktail parties including 75.000 euros on one particularly juicy sounding bash in Amsterdam staged by the EU's research executive agency This event was apparently billed as, quote, a night filled with wonder like no other. State-of-the art technology challenging art combined with trendy cocktails surprising performances and top DJs! We've attempted to recreate just such an event but shall we say we hit budgetary constraints? And... ...we couldn't attract any real Euro type celebrities perhaps because unlike the European Commission we haven't got any fabulous gifts to offer

2:21:18 Between 2008 and 2010, the Commission spent over 20 000 euros showing some special individuals just how much it cares. And it also cares in the air 7.4 million euros on private jets for the commissioners and their advisors between 2006 and 2010 We've got cheese and pineapple Keyline Bar is one of the team who put together the report What we did find were large sums of money which were attributed to what the Commission calls natural persons or confidential expenditure. This is when they feel that to publish what the expenditure would be used for as a security problem, may reveal somebody's identity who doesn't want to be known Is this large sums of money? We're talking millions and hundreds of millions of euro

2:22:09 The Commission has disputed this version of events in a statement they say, the European Commission is not prepared to give credibility to the totally misleading claims made by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. They go on... One thing though is definitely true. While EU member states are having to cut back the amount of money they spend, the EU and its institutions are pressing for more cash to spend First, the European Commission doesn't have to respond to voters. It's not elected. Secondly I think there is a desire in Brussels and in the European institutions to be seen as very important, to be seen as influential and therefore they have a bit of an obsession with gestures with ceremonies with these kind

2:23:06 things that we see them now spend money on rather than actually come up with policies and solutions which citizens have asked for. I love it! And Europe is... I love, I love that they interviewed Mr Oil at the end there of that clip Yeah so anyways so they get to party on. There you go that's your elites in Brussels everybody Everybody in the United States of Europe, they're spending your money on hookers and blow. And you know who that- You know where they got that from? It got taught to them by our American elites Yeah we know how to do it! We know how to party...we know how to use jets Not a problem Well I think despite some echo issues which will figure out and deal with uh..and little bit of phasing and fading in and out on Skype I think we can probably get through the next 20 years this way John as I move my entire life to The Rig

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No Agenda Outro and Support Reminders

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak conclude the episode by thanking their executive producers and reminding listeners to support the show via the value-for-value model. They provide the website addresses for show notes and donations, noting that the "Gitmo Nation Tour" will continue from various unknown locations. The hosts sign off with their traditional "In the Morning" greeting, promising to return the following Thursday.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· value-for-value· show notes· dvorak.org· gitmo nation

2:23:59 I think you should just go for it and sell the uh or not sell but just abandon Abandon the hilltop crack power crack a pot Just like they did with the mountain, just abandon the crackpot center Send the keys back to the landlady And then take off and just go for it The porn industry will be happy they have their house back Yeah probably Alright everybody, so we do need your support for this program. We don't take any ads Please do not send us blankets or anything like that just send us your cash and it's highly appreciated and all of our producers executive producers for the program Congratulations to our Knights Your rings are on the way check out 310 dot na show notes calm And of course you want to go to Dvorak org slash NA to support the show

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