Episode 354 · Monday, 7 November 2011

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Technocratic bankers seize the reins in Europe as the White House bypasses Congress, while scripted media narratives and drone warfare redefine the global landscape.

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Lucas Papademos assumes the role of Greek Prime Minister without a public referendum, signaling a broader shift toward technocratic rule by former European Central Bank and Goldman Sachs executives. This transition coincides with the International Monetary Fund and European Commission initiating economic surveillance in Italy, while President Barack Obama navigates diplomatic tensions at the G20 summit in Cannes. The administration’s pivot toward executive power through the We Can't Wait campaign further consolidates authority, bypassing legislative hurdles to implement sweeping policy changes.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Nancy-Ann DeParle defends these executive actions despite her history on corporate boards under federal investigation. In Pakistan, the death of 12-year-old Tariq in a U.S. drone strike highlights the human cost of signature strikes, even as Germany prepares to lease Israeli Heron drones for its own fleet. Domestically, the Emergency Alert System undergoes a nationwide test that excludes modern social platforms, while Oklahoma faces a 5.6 magnitude earthquake linked to fracking operations in T. Boone Pickens territory. Activist Angela Davis utilizes the human microphone tactic in Oakland to demand free housing, and filmmaker Michael Moore faces scrutiny over his net worth during a Denver confrontation.

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak dismantle the scripted uniformity of local news after a viral Conan O'Brien montage reveals identical reporting across dozens of stations. The duo critiques the bizarre marketing of the Moxie Girl doll and the upcoming DSM-5 categorization of socio-political deviance as a mental disorder. Between palindrome donations and 11-11-11 sweepstakes, the episode captures the final moments of the California studio before the move to Texas.


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CHAPTER 01 / 48 Discussion

No Agenda Episode 354 Introduction, Podcast Awards Snub

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 354 of the No Agenda show from their respective locations in Southern California and Silicon Valley. They discuss their recent snub by the Podcast Awards despite owning the domain for the "best podcast in the universe." The hosts also address listener communication issues regarding monthly mailings and knight ring sizes.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· gitmo nation· podcast awards· no agenda episode 354

00:00 Gerrymandering isn't in the Constitution. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Monday, November 7th, 2011 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 354. This is no agenda. Coveting the award for best podcast in the universe here at the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center at Gitmo Nation West, the People's Republic of Southern California. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! That's right! The Best Podcast in the Universe! Yeah, but apparently not according to the podcast awards. What do you mean? If you go to thebestpodcastintheuniverse.com, you come to our show. Clearly we're the winners! Congratulations, my friend!

00:52 Well, congratulations to you. And greetings to all the ships at sea. And the boots on the ground and the feet in the air and the foots in the beaches and everybody in between. And all of our China friends. In the morning, everybody in the chat room, of course, hanging out on this Monday morning in Gitmo Nation. At no agenda chat on that no agenda stream calm good to see everybody we have a quorum which is always nice to see Sorry about yesterday. You were warned not everyone got the the memo of course. It's always it always amazes me Yeah, well when I do I mean we do a mailing every month yeah, and only I don't know if typically 55% of the people open it and then another one say you know it did never or then we also have a

01:40 Like Eric, you know, we have all our nights get these rings and so he has to send out an email asking for the ring sizes and then you know, he gets back about half of them and then everybody else sends me email complaining, I don't know why, you know, why didn't you send me something? I don't know who to talk to. Trust me, it's not just you who gets the email. After you don't answer, then I get the email. But it's like they had a day if they would open their email. Yeah, I know I know Maybe we should start a Facebook page that seems to work that doesn't work either No, it doesn't for some reason my tweet got stuck on Facebook and people got the Facebook message today That said hey no agenda tomorrow now put in now add to that the time change that we had here I'm messed up. It's really it's confusing

CHAPTER 02 / 48 Discussion

Re-Surge Gala Charity Event, Kim Kardashian Joke

One of the hosts recounts performing hosting duties at the annual Re-Surge Gala in San Francisco, a medical charity for children with cleft lips and burn wounds. The event raised nearly one million dollars and featured a joke about Kim Kardashian's wedding that resonated with the venture capitalist audience. A high-selling auction item included tickets to the American Idol finale.

re-surge gala· san francisco· charity auction· kim kardashian· american idol

02:31 It really is. So how was your little trip to the San Francisco Bay Area? It was very nice, thank you very much. We did our annual hosting duties for the Re-Surge Gala, which is the charity for messed up kids worldwide, which we always do. And I think we raised just shy of a million dollars, which was really nice. Wow, yeah, that's cool. That's cool. And I did a good Kim Kardashian joke which really hit which I was happy about Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not gonna do it here, but it was like we want to hear the joke so the we want to hear the joke it's

03:09 It won't work, I'll try, but it's a no. I know it would, that's why I wanted to hear the joke. So the room is filled with venture capitalists in the medical field and doctors and their trophy wives. Some of them were actually real wives, but a lot of them were, you know. Could you tell? Yeah. So I figured that would work with them. And I said, you know, it's because Mickey had a beautiful opening speech about how fantastic the work is and everything. You're really nice. And so the tone is set. And I can't say we do live in very crazy times. You can't turn on the television or open a paper and see news about what I say, sovereign, sovereign breakups. I can't remember what it was like, sovereign breakups.

03:57 It doesn't work John. But anyway, do the joke. So about sovereign breakups, monetary demise, a culture of me, me, me, screw the rest. But enough about Kim Kardashian's wedding. It was something like that. Oh, okay. That's a standard style of setup joke. Yeah, well, I mean... Bing, da-bing, da-bing, da-bing, this, you know, send them off in a different direction than drop them. Exactly. I'm no David Blumenauer. It could have worked. It worked. It worked. I could see you getting a big laugh with that joke. Yeah, that was the laugh.

04:35 That was the one. And now look at these children with cleft lips and burn wounds. How you doing everybody? Good evening. What was really telling though is they had this auction at the end and that's where they raise all the money and it was sad because you know what item, you know they have like you can bid on a trip to go on one of their missions, you know there's all kinds of amazing things you can bid on. You know what one of the highest things was? One of the highest winning items? Two tickets to the final live show of American Idol. Wow. Yeah, I know. That's kind of like pathetic. Well actually it's great because now I know next year just got to get more of that crap and we'll raise more money. So anyways. Our audience isn't that, isn't the same. Our audience is getting by unlike that audience. Trust me. But anyway I appreciate everyone indulging and letting us do the show on Monday.

CHAPTER 03 / 48 Discussion

Lucas Papademos Appointment, Greek Government Banking Ties

The discussion shifts to the political transition in Greece, where Lucas Papademos was appointed Prime Minister without a public referendum. Papademos is identified as a former Vice President of the European Central Bank and a member of the Trilateral Commission. The hosts argue that European governments are increasingly being run by bankers, noting Mario Draghi's transition from Goldman Sachs to the ECB.

lucas papademos· greece· european central bank· trilateral commission· mario draghi

05:35 And the sole reason for that is we did it last year and I did from the hotel and the connectivity sucked and it was hard getting the show uploaded and we're getting kicked out of the room and you know the I remember getting kicked out of the room that was a good one right and the thing is on Saturday night yeah Mr. Curry well that almost sounded like it was here and you know this I don't have enough time to prep and there's so much going on I was extremely wrong though Wow was I was I off the mark Oh type right in the book Yeah, well you don't have to write it in the book, you can cross it off. I thought we were, for sure I thought we were going to get a referendum in Greece and it would be rigged. Instead, we got a new prime minister and a whole new government. This is interesting. Of course, I went to go look up our... So what happened... So instead of the slaves of Greece getting a chance to actually say no, we don't want these austerity measures, which is I think another word for slavery,

06:38 Instead of that, let's just make a government, a new government, and you won't be able, you didn't vote on this government, you Greek friends. And listen to the guy they put in charge, Lucas Papademos. Have you done any investigation on our friend Lucas? No. What did you find out? Well, let's see. Lucas Dimitrius Papademos As a former vice president of the European Central Bank, that's one. Currently serving as a visiting professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a fine Greek school. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gaining a degree in physics in 1970, a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1972 and a doctorate in economics in 1978.

07:28 He followed an academic career at Columbia University where he taught economics from 75 to 1984. Again, another fine Greek school. He served as the senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. And after leaving the Bank of Greece where he also served, he became the vice president to Jean-Claude Trichet at the European Central Bank. And here's my favorite. Since 1998 he's been a member of the Trilateral Commission. That's a drinking club. This is great. This is like, just make every banker should be a prime minister. It's perfect. Who cares anymore? So what you actually were predicting, which was that the Greeks were in the pocket of the United States, is actually true. Apparently wasn't enough in the pocket. I didn't see through it far enough.

08:19 And then I start looking at what other bankers have just moved into new spots. This Mario Draghi guy, the new head of the European Central Bank, he used to be at Goldman Sachs. It's so funny. Like, hello, you're owned and run by the banks. And you didn't vote him in, they just showed up. Congratulations to you all, everybody. That's just great. So funny. Definitely funny. So we had the big G20 over the weekend and I was watching some someone sent me a link to a French like comedy news program But they actually they got a quote from Obama two quotes from Obama that we didn't see or hear over here And this one it may be a little hard to hear so I'll after I play it It's just very very short so Obama sitting down it's like kind of one of those press things where the whole table is filled with all the douchebags and

CHAPTER 04 / 48 Discussion

Barack Obama at G20, Nicolas Sarkozy Appearance Comments

President Barack Obama's appearance at the G20 summit in Cannes is analyzed through French media clips. Obama joked that he hoped to see movies while in Cannes and made a comment suggesting Nicolas Sarkozy’s daughter Julia inherited her mother Carla Bruni's looks rather than her father's. The hosts interpret the remark as a diplomatic gaffe regarding Sarkozy's appearance.

barack obama· nicolas sarkozy· g20 summit· cannes· carla bruni

09:18 And they ask him, you know, so what are you gonna do while you're here in Cannes, Mr. President? And they ask it in kind of like French accent of course. What are you going- ehh, ehh, Barack Obama, what are you going to do when you are here in Cannes? You hear that? Yeah, she's gonna go see some movies. Yeah, I'm hoping to go see some movies. What does he think he's at the film festival? Yeah, wait a minute. This isn't the film festival. That's not okay. What? Hey, hey, hey, Valerie, Valerie, you told me this was gonna be the film festival. Where's Clooney? No movies here at all. Where's Clooney? And then he does a speech next to Nicolas Sarkozy. That's how you gotta pronounce it. Sarkozy.

10:08 And he slams the guy! Did you see this? No! Oh, it's great. Here, listen. And finally, I want to make mention that this is our first meeting since the arrival of the newest Sarkozy. And so I want to congratulate Nicola and Carla on the birth of Julia. and I informed Nicola on the way in that I am confident that Julia inherited her mother's looks rather than her father's which the crowd was like I think is an excellent thing. It's an excellent thing. It's an excellent thing that he's not like that ugly F. We share

10:55 One of the greatest challenges and blessings of life is looking ugly. You know the thing is is that I don't know if Obama realizes this but Sarkozy Thinks he's good-looking. I know this is he's got the hot, babe. I know it's like Sarkozy sitting there like you look at your a have you look at your your accessory bitch It's like Wow butts between our two women. It was like that's that was pretty outrageous. I It's just it's like it's not you know some idiot in the window White House so obviously thought that it was fun or Obama actually thought he wrote it wrote his own material. Yeah, no no no he didn't write his own material Please now that they've changed so much staff that there's a new writer in but it kind of bombed and there was a little bit of a I would think You just called the French guy ugly I Like that yeah good work good work and

CHAPTER 05 / 48 Discussion

IMF Surveillance of Italy, Bunga Bunga Parties

The International Monetary Fund and the European Commission have initiated surveillance of Italy's economy to ensure compliance with austerity measures. Officials describe the monitoring as a "serene" cooperation rather than a dictated imposition. The hosts contrast the situation in Italy with Greece, jokingly referencing Silvio Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" parties.

italy· imf· european commission· bunga bunga· silvio berlusconi

11:51 Yeah, they talk about Bush making gas. Yeah, really president. Hey, why just puke on him? That's the other bush. Well, there you go Bush Bush. Yeah, there was some serious talk though haiku Herman came out and of course We now know as we've discussed on the program many times because we read the documents at the troika the IMF the European Starfleet command and the European Central Bank will be performing surveillance on Italy So they're gonna be boots on the ground surveilling to make sure that there's no bunga bunga parties that aren't accounted for and so the question was posed to Heiko Hermann, like hey aren't you like a dictator? We haven't put Italy in a corner, not at all.

12:38 They proposed themselves to invite the International Monetary Funds. Yes, for tea! Come by for an International Monetary Fund for tea! To make that kind of monitoring. And we decided already in the European Council... No! A Starfleet command! ...on the monitoring by the European Commission, which is the most fundamental one. Yes. So there is... All the discussions we had with the Italian authorities was in a very serene atmosphere. Did he say, I think he meant serene, but it came out like Syrian, which is like, okay, all right, Syrian atmosphere. Not in an atmosphere of diktat imposing them something. Not in an atmosphere of diktat imposing! It's not like that! Not, not, not, not, not!

13:20 No, it was in an atmosphere of cooperation enhancing the credibility of the program. The situation of Italy is totally different and the situation comparatively different than the situation in Greece. Yes, because they have a bunga bunga parties. Totally different. Yes. Bunga bunga in Italy, no bunga bunga in Greece. So, it just continues to be a shambles over there. It's great. It's really, really great. And then Uncle Joe I guess Obama was too busy with the flying back from the Cannes Film Festival, so Joe had to do the weekly address.

CHAPTER 06 / 48 Discussion

Joe Biden University of Pittsburgh Speech, Executive Power Expansion

Vice President Joe Biden spoke at the University of Pittsburgh regarding student debt and private sector job growth. The administration has launched the "We Can't Wait" campaign, signaling a shift toward using executive power to bypass Congress on issues like mortgage refinancing and prescription drug regulations. The hosts characterize this as an expansion of "king-like" authority.

joe biden· university of pittsburgh· student debt· executive orders· we can't wait

14:02 And of course Joe does what he does best. He's out there campaigning, trying to get some college kids to vote for him. Hi, this is Joe Biden. Hey everybody. I'm speaking to you from the University of Pittsburgh where I just spoke to students here about what we've done to help ease the burden on them when it comes to the rising cost of tuition. If they vote for me. And the accumulated student debt. And what we're going to do to help create jobs when they graduate. If they vote for me. You know, today we found out we've had the 20th month in a row where we've increased private sector jobs. How can he be bragging about that? That is not... Yeah, you lost $100,000 because you need to create at least a quarter million a month. No, $150,000.

14:44 Oh really? Well, he's still... Yeah, 150 is the baseline. So they still lost 50 grand, 50,000, easy. Yeah, because they got 80,000 new jobs and they needed 150, so they're still... It's getting worse. In the hole. It's government math. It's different than what you and I use. 104,000 this month. 104,000 private sector jobs. But as all of you know, that's not nearly enough. No, we have to increase the pace. We have to act now. Everything. Wait, wait, no, no, no, it's not. You know the meme, John. Come on now. Say it with me now. What's the mean? I don't know. I have a great way of forgetting memes. All right. It's coming up. Keep this economy moving and to grow jobs.

15:22 President Obama is on his way back from France. We just met with the leaders of the 20 largest economies in the world and watched the movies. We urged our European friends to step up and stabilize their own economies because if they fail it will affect the whole world. Too many Americans are still struggling. Too many college students here at the University of Pittsburgh and elsewhere are worrying about the rising cost of their tuition and the increasing accumulation of debt. Stop rising it. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Well vote for me, otherwise you'll die. No, the meme, John, is we can't wait! Well, we think everybody should pay their fair share and that's why we added a small surtax on the first dollar after a person makes his first million dollars. Oh, what? To pay for it. Yeah, after you make your first million then you gotta pay a little extra. Okay. Yeah. It seems fair to us. It's fair. It's a small price to pay to put hundreds of thousands of people back to work. Yeah.

16:16 How's that going to put anyone back to work? Well, the government jobs. It's the government jobs. We can't wait for Congress to start acting responsibly. We can't wait. We can't wait. That's why the president has begun to use his executive power. Now this is very interesting. Because this comes back in another clip that I have right after this. He's starting to use, so we can't wait. Now listen to what he's saying. We can't wait. That's why the president is starting to use his executive power, i.e. king-like emperor powers. and making announcements like one that will put hundreds of thousands of people will be able to go and refinance their homes from the 6% interest they're paying to 4% which is what the rate is now. That would save them $2,000 a year. That's why the president announced that beginning next year no student will have to pay back more than 10% of their discretionary income toward their student debt.

17:08 He also announced new regulations regarding prescription drugs to prevent price gouging. Which is patently untrue as we discussed. And there's more to come. More to come. More to come. Hey, stay tuned. More gouging? I guess so. Congress won't join us. We're going to continue to act on our own. So if Congress won't join us, we're just going to act on our own like kings. To make the changes that we can to bring relief to middle class families and those aspiring to get into the middle class. Look, it's simple look we refuse to take no for an answer. Uh-huh. Yeah, okay I know these steps taken alone are not going to solve all of our problems But they will make a difference in the lives of millions of American families, right? So we can't wait so they're pulling out this whole The whole White House gov is just filled with we can't wait. We can't wait banners at the top is all we can't wait We can't wait screw Congress screw the system. We can't wait now they have

CHAPTER 07 / 48 Discussion

Nancy-Ann DeParle White House Email, Corporate Board History

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Nancy-Ann DeParle issued an email blast defending the President's use of executive actions on student loans and national monuments. The discussion highlights DeParle's past lucrative service on corporate boards for companies under federal investigation. Her background in private equity and healthcare is scrutinized in the context of her current policy role.

nancy-ann deparle· white house· executive power· corporate boards· ccmp capital

18:04 This woman, Nancy-Ann DeParle, she should be a Hummer but she doesn't quite do it. She sent out an email blast which I received, which has nothing to do with, I don't think with what WhiteHouse.gov should be communicating. I got that blast, I'm on the mailing list now. Well I got it twice, so maybe I got yours. Nancy and the part Nancy and the part says we can't wait I I edited down her statement. What's the What is who did it come from what was I want to do a search and see if I have it Nancy and Nancy Nancy Nancy and the parole D-E-P-A-R-L-E. Oh there it is, November 4th, you tell me. Yeah, you tell me, we can't wait. You tell me! You wanna read through it or? When President Obama says that we can't wait to put Americans back to work, he's not just talking about the White House, he's talking about all of us. We can't wait, can you wait? That we is everyone. So here's her chop down statement, which is exactly, this is the whole message.

19:08 We can't wait. Screw the government. We're taking care of it. Hi, my name is Nancy-Ann DeParle and I'm the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and a Senior Advisor to President Obama. We can't wait for Congress to pull it together to try to help solve these problems. But the we and we can't wait doesn't just include those of us who work here at the White House. It includes everyone. And that's why we're asking for your help. Let me give you some examples of the kinds of things we've done so far. Last week we took action to make it easier for families to refinance their mortgages and for graduates to repay their student loans. The president also announced steps to put veterans back to work and to help U.S. businesses create jobs and strengthen their competitiveness in a global economy. Very good. On Monday, the president directed the FDA to take steps to prevent shortages of critical drugs. Yeah. And on Tuesday, the president designated Fort Monroe in Virginia as a new national monument. Yeah. That'll help. He's just doing whatever he wants to do.

20:07 That's it. It's just done. It's just, everyone's going to be, yeah, we can't wait. You know, I'm so glad that the president's finally doing some something here. He's taking leadership and just avoiding the entire process. With an executive order, you can just do whatever you want, I guess. This woman's doing well for herself. DeParle has drawn criticism for her lucrative service on corporate boards after her tenure in the Clinton administration. It was reported she was paid more than six million dollars and served as director of half a dozen companies that faced federal investigations, whistleblower lawsuits, and other regulatory actions. Excellent. She's on Boston Scientific, Acredo Health Inc.

20:51 Cerner Corp, Davida Guidant, Medco Health Solutions, Specialty Labs, and Triad Hospital. She's a managing director of CCMP Capital. Huh. Well, isn't that interesting? Shadow Puppet Theater! Welcome, Nancy-Ann DeParle, senior advisor. They won't let Hummers into those big companies. So, So I'm watching 60 Minutes and they had that old, famous lobbyist who got thrown in jail, Abramoff. And he mentioned something to me which I think applies to what we're talking about here.

21:30 He mentioned that and he gave a specific example of some bill that had a writer that was just this, you know, we agreed to repeal section 3.3-45 of such and such repealing such as that. It was just a bunch of bullshit and it was like maybe three sentences. And that writer turned out to be legalizing gambling someplace. New York probably because they just like you had to see that you had to research this and they go back step after step to figure out what this really was and everyone just signed off on it yeah but that's because that's what's so beautiful this is what I love about the internet and that's what I love doing is I get these things I read through them and I go and search for all that stuff and you find it's not that hard to do no and that

CHAPTER 08 / 48 Discussion

Jack Abramoff Lobbying Tactics, American Jobs Act Analysis

Referencing a 60 Minutes interview with lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the hosts discuss how legislative riders are used to hide significant policy changes. They express skepticism toward the 165-page American Jobs Act, suggesting it contains hidden benefits for bankers and high-speed rail interests like Warren Buffett. They vow to analyze the PDF for "obfuscations" that might be pushed through executive orders.

jack abramoff· american jobs act· lobbying· executive orders· high-speed rail

20:51 Cerner Corp, Davida Guidant, Medco Health Solutions, Specialty Labs, and Triad Hospital. She's a managing director of CCMP Capital. Huh. Well, isn't that interesting? Shadow Puppet Theater! Welcome, Nancy-Ann DeParle, senior advisor. They won't let Hummers into those big companies. So, So I'm watching 60 Minutes and they had that old, famous lobbyist who got thrown in jail, Abramoff. And he mentioned something to me which I think applies to what we're talking about here.

21:30 He mentioned that and he gave a specific example of some bill that had a writer that was just this, you know, we agreed to repeal section 3.3-45 of such and such repealing such as that. It was just a bunch of bullshit and it was like maybe three sentences. And that writer turned out to be legalizing gambling someplace. New York probably because they just like you had to see that you had to research this and they go back step after step to figure out what this really was and everyone just signed off on it yeah but that's because that's what's so beautiful this is what I love about the internet and that's what I love doing is I get these things I read through them and I go and search for all that stuff and you find it's not that hard to do no and that

22:10 Which brought to point to me is that what's wrong with the staffs of these congressmen that they're not bringing that they don't do any work at all? I guess. No. They do no work at all. Okay. So now I'm wondering about this thing going on that you're just talking about which is we can't wait and I've got the bill and I've been looking at 165 pages. You mean the American Jobs Act? Yeah. There has got to be something in there that is so important to pass that solves an obfuscation for that one thing like this casino thing that Abramson or Abramoff talked about. And now I think it's gonna be a little easier to figure out what it is if he's gonna start throwing things in as executive orders. What he's gonna do is gonna be like one of those mysteries where, you know, like a law and order where they, five people are shot and it turns out that the four of them were just to draw attention away from the fifth guy who was the one that was a hit on. Right. So there's something in this, there is something that I do. Well I can remember some of it.

23:12 One is a couple billion dollars for high-speed rail that was in there so he has to do that But he has to do that for Buffett because he promised that yeah A lot of rules and regulations FCC by the way and people should go get this bill you can download it There's nothing this is a there's no jobs in this bill. This is bull crap No, that's not true the jobs that are in the remember they had free slaves you could get free slaves Yeah, you can get a free intern. Free slaves. And who the government will pay for. Yeah, which is interesting. Yeah, I'd love to get me some. I wouldn't mind having a few slaves. I got some cleaning to do. You know? You got cleaning to do? I gotta sort papers. Yeah, come on. Hey, we need a slave to clean up John's... No, I'm sorry. We need a phalanx of slaves to clean up John's office.

24:04 There was also the cheap way for banks to buy homes for nothing. Remember that? Right. Like free loans. This has got to be maybe for the bankers because I know that they're stuck with these tax bills that they don't want to pay. Yeah. So that maybe get them off the hook on the property taxes. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I think it's I think by forcing his hand, the Republicans apparently went completely into, you know, this last week they decided to just talk about the upholding the motto in God we trust which was essentially a form of a filibuster to the so they get to the end of the week so they could go on vacation they're on vacation this week yeah

24:45 Nice job you can get so so they it forces Obama's hand to pull these executive work And I think maybe that's what this is all about is to stall him to see what because he'll reveal it when he puts executive order probably about the fifth or sixth one will be the thing it'll be the one will be like oh of course that's the well you know what I will make a commitment to reread the AJ the American Jobs Act and see if I can find it. I think the slaves is a good one though. I think everyone's, you know, everyone wants a slave. Yeah but that can't be it. There's no rush. I mean what's the rush? We got to do this now. We got to pass this bill, pass this bill. You know we must act. We must do this. We know we have to. We can't wait.

25:30 It just seems to me that there's some reason for rushing and so now he's panicked. It's got to be probably something before the end of the year has to happen and it's gonna have to be done with an executive order which will reveal more easily what the thing is because it could be buried that we you know I could have read the bill and it could be one of these crazy things like Abramoff talked about which is just some reference that you just gloss over. Hmm well I think it was episode 338 that we looked at the American Jobs Act and I'm pretty sure if you go to 338.nashownotes.com that you can get the bill from there.

26:12 And I'll put another link to it to the PDF in the in the show notes for today so we can believe me I've also done searches on people who try to go over this stuff and know and I haven't found any analysis that's Oh, please don't Vegas. We're better than that. We're better. There's nobody doing anything. It's just pathetic We're better than that man. All right, so now we'll look into it, but I think your assessment is probably right on there's there's something there that we just haven't seen yet and We just haven't caught it. Yeah, well we will. You can run but you can't hide. That's right, that's right because we are the best podcast in the universe. So while we're the best podcast in the universe we probably should thank our three executive producers for today's show. Yes, let's do that.

CHAPTER 09 / 48 Discussion

Baron von Pelsmachers Palindrome Donations, 11-11-11 Sweepstakes

Producer Baron von Pelsmachers contributed a series of palindrome donations to create three new knighthoods. He proposed a sweepstakes for the upcoming November 11, 2011 (11-11-11) date, where three donors will be selected for knighthood. The hosts discuss the logistics of crowning these knights during the Sunday show following the unique date.

baron von pelsmachers· palindrome· knighthood· 11-11-11· donations

27:05 And we have one from, I don't know if I have a note, did we get a note from Oscar Nadal who is our executive producer with Came In With 33333? No, I didn't see anything. Well, for a reason, Tijuana. Maybe they won't let the correspondence go across the river. I want to thank Oscar for becoming the executive producer. I also want to just, I know he didn't put it in to be executive producer, but I want to put Baron von Pell's mockers in as executive producer, although what he would actually did was one, two, three, four palindromes. Yeah, and with that he's created three knighthoods and he came up with a nice idea doing an 11-11-11 sweepstakes

27:49 And the idea is with his three palind- his four palindrome donations today, with the ones he already did, because he had, uh... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and he had a couple others. No, wait a minute, that wasn't the palindrome. Which ones did he have? 1131111411115111161111711 Right, so now he's, with this he's created three additional knighthoods and he wants us on the 13th show, on the November 13th, because of course the 111111 falls on this Friday, he wants us to pick three 1111 donors regardless whether it's 111111 or 111111 or 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

28:31 and crown them knights, courtesy of Baron Stephen von Pelsmachers in Gitmo Nation, Brussels Sprouts. Who has the ability to create knights at will, apparently. Could you imagine being that powerful? You think Zuckerberg's powerful, man? Yeah, Von Pelsmacher's has got Zuckerberg beat. Hell yeah. He's like, ah, when I get up in the morning, I create night hoods. So you want to do that on Thursday show? Do you want to just push it till, uh, until after Sunday, the Sunday? Yeah, that'd be cool. Yeah. Cause everyone has still has a chance to donate on 1111 because I know a lot of people actually want to donate.

CHAPTER 10 / 48 Discussion

Ville Miloni Donation, Nokia E71 Podcast History

Associate Executive Producer Ville Miloni from Helsinki shares his history of listening to the show on a Nokia E71. The segment touches on Adam Curry's past career at MTV and his departure from Headbangers Ball involving Axl Rose. Miloni credits these events with eventually leading to the creation of the No Agenda podcast.

ville miloni· helsinki· nokia e71· axl rose· headbangers ball

29:10 a combination of 1111 at 1111 on the 11th of the 11th of 2011 it probably bring down PayPal anonymous has got nothing on us are she blows that's right that'd be cool so okay and then we have a third Do we have a third executive producer? No, we have two executive producers and two associate executive producers. And one is Ville Miloni, I guess would be the pronunciation from Helsinki. John and Adam, I've been listening to your show since 2008. I discovered Noah Jenner was on sick leave and had nothing to do. Somehow I actually managed to find your show on the podcast menu. My then cutting-edge E71. You know that's right. I think it was Wonderhelm.

30:01 Who put us somehow got us into the podcast directory on the Nokia platform, which is probably still there actually Yeah, maybe yeah, I give Nokia some karma if you feel like it. They could use it. I agree with a Big shot of karma you've got It's too bad they never really got the good smartphones, because I always liked their phones. I used the E71 a lot. The hardware is very nice. Battery life, hardware, fantastic. E71 is still a good phone. After a couple of shows I was hooked. The only downside being the stitches on my stomach, which could barely take it, but what really hit me was Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak together!

30:41 I remember Adam from television when I was a teen. There's your music box, then later MTV. But after I had no clue what was going on in his career as and John as an IT journalist tech geek guru. His columns are familiar to me in many IT magazines. But what on earth were Adam and former VJ and John the IT journalist doing together and why? And we still don't have the answer. We don't know the answer to that. We haven't figured it out. Well, after three years and a few hundred episodes later, I know, and oh boy am I happy that Axel Rose got Adam fired from Headbangers Ball. That even remotely helped Adam become the podfather and start No Agenda. I've donated earlier and have gotten at least one other person to... One other person. One. Yeah. And then I'm cut off here, so. Well, I'm happy. Thank you, Axel.

CHAPTER 11 / 48 Discussion

Nolan Wah Donation, Children Voice Clips

Nolan Wah from New Zealand donated $220 and requested a karma shout-out for his wife's job interview. The segment features a controversial audio clip of a child saying "That's one hot MILF, baby," leading to a discussion about the humor of using children's voices for podcast stingers and potential future recordings of first graders.

nolan wah· karma· milf· voice clips· first graders

31:28 Axel. Thank you Axel Rose. Thank you very much. Nolan Wah in Otorohanga. Which I don't know where that is because I don't have the second thing to it. $220. And by the way, Ville Maloney was $222.22 in this $220. In the morning, gentlemen, I'd just like to say thanks once again for the continued thought-provoking entertainment you provide with every episode. Can I also ask for a karma shout-out to my darling wife Jill for her upcoming job interview? Yeah, well, absolutely. Hold on, I've got a special karma for her. That's one hot milk, baby. You've got karma.

32:05 I love it when our our producers get their kids to say things like milf. It's so good play that again You didn't hear it It was it was actually kind of distorted play just by itself. Okay. Hold on a second. Here we go. That's one hot milk, baby I thought he said hot male. No, that's one hot milf baby. Yeah, kids like eight. Yeah, we gotta get more kids to say stuff. There you go. You know the funniest thing I've always wanted to do is to go to a school and you know tell them you know that you do these audio things and get it like a whole classroom of like

32:44 First graders to say different things because a whole group of kids saying in chorus You know various sayings and comments is hilarious. It just sounds hilarious, and I you know so if anyone's got a School full of kids and we mic up let me give you a little example of what that might sound like in the morning Adios Still my favorite. Now do you have any kids because that was Rick Perry right? Yeah. You can host the show next year. So anyway we want to thank the executive producers for supporting this show.

33:36 and want to welcome anyone else to become an executive producer it's quite easy go to Dvorak.org slash NA channel Dvorak.com slash NA noagendashow.com click on the donate button and noagendanation.com where you can also pick up a mug or a t-shirt that says slave and there's a donation button there too, it'll take you to different sites. Some of the sites we know, for example, Korea doesn't like Dvorak.org for some reason, at least some ISPs, and it becomes a problem, but it's not that we have a lot of Koreans that are donating to the show. That could be the reason. We got a couple. Yeah, we do have a couple. Yeah. I'm just putting in the American Jobs Act PDF into today's show notes. That is 354.nashownotes.com.

CHAPTER 12 / 48 Discussion

No Agenda Donation Methods, American Jobs Act PDF

The hosts provide instructions for donating to the show via various URLs and mention that the American Jobs Act PDF has been added to the show notes. They emphasize that they will vouch for the credits of their executive producers on professional platforms like IMDB, contrasting themselves with "phonies in Hollywood."

donation· american jobs act· pdf· show notes· executive producers

32:44 First graders to say different things because a whole group of kids saying in chorus You know various sayings and comments is hilarious. It just sounds hilarious, and I you know so if anyone's got a School full of kids and we mic up let me give you a little example of what that might sound like in the morning Adios Still my favorite. Now do you have any kids because that was Rick Perry right? Yeah. You can host the show next year. So anyway we want to thank the executive producers for supporting this show.

33:36 and want to welcome anyone else to become an executive producer it's quite easy go to Dvorak.org slash NA channel Dvorak.com slash NA noagendashow.com click on the donate button and noagendanation.com where you can also pick up a mug or a t-shirt that says slave and there's a donation button there too, it'll take you to different sites. Some of the sites we know, for example, Korea doesn't like Dvorak.org for some reason, at least some ISPs, and it becomes a problem, but it's not that we have a lot of Koreans that are donating to the show. That could be the reason. We got a couple. Yeah, we do have a couple. Yeah. I'm just putting in the American Jobs Act PDF into today's show notes. That is 354.nashownotes.com.

34:22 And yes, thank you to our executive producers and associate executive producers. Your support is kindly welcome. These are real credits, of course. If you have anywhere you want to put them on your business card, credit card, that's where credits would look good, or your IMDB, you can put it in there. Unlike the phonies in Hollywood, we will actually vouch for you if someone questions your contribution to the program. And again as John said just to program your brain to vorac.org Slash and a we need all the help we can get now of course there is something you could do even on this Monday Which is propagate the formula our formula is this we go out we hit people in the mouth I Almost forgot we have the three PR initiatives. I just wanted to mention these are generally

CHAPTER 13 / 48 Discussion

Domain Forwarding Initiatives, No Agenda Drone Origami

Listener C. Peter has forwarded several domains, including occupygetmonation.com, to the show's website. A new premium item is announced: a downloadable PDF to create a "No Agenda drone" via origami. This leads to a brief tangent about the host's daughter making elaborate paper planes that can fly long distances.

domain forwarding· origami· drone· paper planes· occupy gitmo nation

35:22 These are domain names of forward to knowagendershow.com This is from C. Peter. He says he's forwarding occupygetmonation.com to knowagendershow.com which is nice slaveguider.com and fastlearning.info forwarding to the show site and the.endofinter.net also endofinter.net Which is probably appropriate. I don't know if it's gonna get a lot of SEO juice, but certainly and I've got an exciting thing coming up one of our producers out there I

35:59 He sent me the PDF, but I'm not but he wants to a premium offer he does He has a website where you can download PDFs you pay for them It's like a couple bucks And you can fold stuff out of the you know you cut it you cut out whatever's on the on the once you've printed it out you cut it out and Then you fold it and then it becomes like a thing right it's like origami only for different objects, and he's created a no agenda drone and That yeah, that's really nice. It has all the lettering and everything on it so probably by Thursday show I'll have that up and it'll be a premium item you can purchase from his website portion of those proceeds of course going to know agenda show calm and Create your own no agenda drone, which I think is a nice get one of those myself. Yeah, it's a project Can't wait to fold

36:51 My daughter kind of got into a little origami. She also makes, she went out of her way to, and she probably would do this, I'd give it to her. She makes, she went, did a lot of research online for paper planes and she makes one, she makes a paper plane. That really works? I mean like really works. Like if you throw it off the porch it goes for like about a half a mile. Wow. I mean, but it's really elaborate. It's got little flaps and it's got it's just it's right It's too much work to actually make I just you know do the three folds and make up a kind of a dart having seen The pictures of the no agenda drone not thinking it's gonna fly very far It's unmotorized Not gonna fly too far speaking of which

CHAPTER 14 / 48 Discussion

Conan O'Brien Media Montage, Scripted Local News

A viral montage from Conan O'Brien demonstrates dozens of local news stations using the exact same "push the envelope" script regarding O'Brien wedding a gay couple on air. The hosts argue this proves that news is a centralized feed rather than independent reporting. They discuss how this uniformity makes the media "hackable" for those who can inject memes into the system.

conan o'brien· local news· media montage· push the envelope· scripted news

37:40 Folding, I'm just gonna transition this into envelopes. A lot of people emailed me this video and I'm sure you received it as well. It probably went some version of viral. In case you didn't see this, it so solidifies what we're always talking about, how news is not news in the Gitmo nations, all over Gitmo nation, not just here in the United States. And how essentially one news feed is news everywhere regardless of how stupid it is and it's exactly identical. This is the Conan O'Brien thing, you saw this? Yeah, play it. So just to set up, because I didn't want to put the whole set up in there, Conan O'Brien is going to wed a gay couple on the air and so they send out a press release I presume and they had a little montage of all the local news stations in the United States and how they reacted to this news.

38:38 Talk show host Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on late night television. Conan O'Brien may be able to push the envelope on late night television. Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on late night television. Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on late night television. Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on his late night television. Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on late night television. Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on late night television. Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on late night TV. Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on late night television. Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on late night television. Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope once again on late night TV.

39:22 Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on late night television. Conan O'Brien is looking to push the envelope on late night television. Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on late night TV. Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on late night television. Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on late night television. Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on late night television. Conan O'Brien may be preparing to push the late night envelope. So I thought it was great of course we would had a very different response I have to say Andy Richter's punchline was the best ever We've got a god bless our media we've got to get an envelope that was a good line

40:14 But I like the way some of the people punch it up a little different. One or two changed the word. It just obviously was right in the press release. People just read right from it. We know this, they do this in the newspapers. Same thing. And generally speaking, you know, Jon Stewart deconstructs this. In other words, you can figure out where the news is coming from, but this is the first good example of somebody overtly pushing the news out and then bringing back the stories exactly as written. Well, the good news about this, John, is that, of course, when the media is so replicable, it's extremely hackable.

40:51 So once you get a good meme out there which has a message in it, they'll just repeat it. So that's kind of the good news. We just have to figure out how to... We can't even crack the podcast awards unfortunately. Those things, like somebody pointed out, should have been called the bot awards. You know, I was so sad. They were supposed to announce it. I like Todd and everything, you know, the guy who puts that together. He seems like a nice guy. He's actually a donor. But you know he's like yeah, we'll announce the show at 130, and you know I'm waiting I'm waiting It's like 430 is still no. Yeah, it's like okay. Yeah, whatever and then the gaming podcast wins Yeah, all right, okay for best political podcast. I think that was pretty weird so anyway

CHAPTER 16 / 48 Discussion

Gendered Toy Marketing, Summer's Eve Vagina Commercials

The discussion of television commercials continues with an Olivia dollhouse ad featuring pirate themes for girls. This transitions into a critique of a Summer's Eve "Hail to the V" commercial for vaginal wash. The hosts mock the "vagina extravaganza" on television and the lack of catchy jingles for such products.

olivia doll· summer's eve· hail to the v· jingles· vaginal wash

43:47 commercial for Olivia some doll or something in that and it's selling a dollhouse and I don't know about you but When did little girls all of a sudden say argh and want to be pirates? Hi, I'm Olivia, and this is my house. It opens to so many rooms What would be really great is if it were a Well, that is very obvious. That is another plug for Hillary Clinton.

44:40 You know we came we saw he died her Telescope where's me telescope? Well I'll tell you wait. I found a commercial to John One might say it's the most powerful thing on earth

45:17 What could it be? What is the most powerful thing on earth, John? Hillary Clinton. Close! So come on ladies, show it a little love. Cleansing wash and cloths from Summer's Eve. Hail to the V. What? Hail to the V! That commercial was for soap? For vaginal wash. A douche bag if you will. Hail to the V. There you go. It's all part of our vagina extravaganza on television. Hail to the V. You had hail to the foot, now it's hail to the V. You know, this stuff still doesn't work like a good jingle. No, I mean you should...

45:54 If you see something, wash something. I mean they gotta do something better with this Hail to the V. Yeah, no it should be catchy. Try the I got another short one I had to cut this one down because it was a little too long. It was like a two minute commercial for a hat. I can see Jeff Smith going right now, oh I can't, I gotta make a vagina commercial. Happy Napper song. Oh my goodness, okay. Oh boy. They are happy as I am and they always know about them. You can be a happy napper too. Every Happy Napper is reversible. They go from a comfy pillow to a lovable friend with a simple zip. They'll play with you all day, then you can tuck them inside to sleep the night away. You can also plug on it. What is this? They'll make all your dreams come true. Bullcrap! The Happy Napper. Here's what'll make your dreams come true. Napp for humanity. If you smell something, rinse something,

CHAPTER 17 / 48 Discussion

New York Times Celebrity News, Horseland Cartoon Analysis

The hosts discuss a perceived shift at the New York Times toward celebrity news and "investigative" stories about fictional stars. They play clips from a cartoon called "Horseland" that depicts school bloggers making up stories, which they characterize as a form of media programming for children to normalize fake news.

new york times· celebrity news· horseland· brainwashing· investigative journalism

47:06 My goodness, jingles are just... Happy Napper is a convertible pillow that turns into a stuffed animal and then it folds up into a pillow. Nice. Happy Nappers. Well, at least the jingles... We have led this charge, John. We have shown the world that jingles are the way to program people's brains. Devorak.org slash N-A We know it's working. What else you got? Well I just was flipping around so I turned in and I ended up watching all these crazy things. I ran into a staff meeting at the New York Times where they're talking about doing celebrity news and how they're going to go about it. It was very interesting. A staff meeting at the New York Times deciding to do celebrity news. Is this like TMZ or something now all of a sudden? This is hard.

47:54 Too bad there aren't any movie stars living around here. Yeah, that'd make a great story. And you know, there is a star who lives around here. Who? Catrice Clare. Who? Well, she's not a star star, but she helped you make up for a car commercial last year. That's practically a star. Yeah. I knew that I knew there was gonna be one of those you always do that to me and and and the follow-up when they finally get down to the investigative part the New York Times meeting continues with the New York Times meeting with investigative reporters which is the second clip I don't see it's there it's under in God we trust wrapped him on to a week's vacation

48:40 Ah, well thanks. How am I supposed to guess that one? It's 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This one? No. New York Times meeting with investigative reporters. Oh crap. Hold on. I never heard of any movie stars living around here. Well, duh. That's what makes it an ultra secret. Who is this person? Yeah, what's her name? Uh, sorry, you can't say. Yeah, she made us promise not to tell who she was. Oh, I think I know who it is. You do? Lucy DiCarlo, right? Oh yeah, Lucy DiCarlo. Right. Can we see where she lives?

49:27 No! We promised to respect her privacy. Right. A reporter's word is important. I'm impressed with your skills as investigative journalist. So what's your next big news story? Oh, just wait and see! Yeah, it's going to top this one by a mile. Come on, tell us! Wasn't it one of these undercover videos at Jay Rosen's class at Jay School? It was the exact, it was Bill Keller, and then there was a couple of these journalists, investigative reporters at the Times. Alright, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more. No more. There is no more. I don't have any more. Good. This is a show called Horseland and it had these two girls who were reporters for the school paper or whatever and they were also bloggers and they started making stories up.

CHAPTER 18 / 48 Discussion

Ben Stiller Tower Heist Promotion, Occupy Wall Street Timing

Ben Stiller appeared on Piers Morgan to promote his film "Tower Heist," which features a plot about a Wall Street criminal played by Alan Alda. Stiller denied that the movie's release was intentionally timed to coincide with the Occupy Wall Street movement. The hosts express disbelief at Stiller's claim, suggesting the timing was a calculated promotional move.

ben stiller· tower heist· piers morgan· occupy wall street· alan alda

50:17 And it was very, it was actually one of the funnier things I've ever seen on television, even though it seemed to me to be marginalizing the whole news as it exists. It was a piece of brainwashing. Yeah, definitely. Or programming to, you know, so the kids think that that's real news. Oh, okay. That's how it works. That's what news is. I got it. Now I understand it. I thought it was just not news, but now I understand it's real news. That's possible. It could be. There was an actual movie star in the news this week, well news, with Piers Morgan. Brought Ben Stiller on to talk about his coincidentally timed movie which of course totally explains the Occupy Wall Street movement which he's really like he's angry about it when Piers Morgan starts saying well that's kind of coincidental that you're

51:10 Your movie is about douchebags on Wall Street and people getting angry about it and gee, you couldn't do any better with this promotion. It's also fantastically well-timed. If you could have imagined this movie coming out with Occupy Wall Street kicking off all over the country, it couldn't be better time. We're going to find out now if this is a popular movement or not by your ratings. I guess so. All right. If you want to do it that way. How can he have not thought that?

51:54 What a lie. That's a lie. Why would you do that? Yeah, we were gonna do this movie about something that knew it was gonna be completely blow, it would completely blow over by the time we got the movie out so we'd make no money. Yeah. Is that what he just said? Really, yeah. Really just, yeah, we didn't expect that at all. We were making the film and when the movie came out we were I didn't know. The plot is basically nice guys get done in by capitalist fat cat greedy git and then seek horrific revenge. Which is sort of a timeless concept. Yes! And it does happen to be indicative of where we're at now. Is Alan Alda's in this thing? It's just, it's like the whole Occupy Wall, you know, they had this movie. They just released it now. That's what Ben Stiller won't admit.

52:37 And it's not like this movie, oh boy, we just finished it. Boy, isn't that coincidental? No. Do we have a wrap date? It's available. We should get a subscription to the Hollywood Reporter because they keep all that information. I'm sure you can get that on IMDB. Yeah, probably. What's the name of the movie? Tower Heist. And it's about Alan Alda plays a Wall Street douchebag. You can find it right here. I can tell you exactly when this thing was wrapped. Came out November Okay, we understand that I don't have you need I guess you need the professional version all right. Thanks. Thanks Thanks for nothing IMDB. You're not helpful. Yeah, we just doesn't have it no the release date, but you know before it's not perfect, but occupy is We already identified what was happening with this remember our guys at occupy Los Angeles left

CHAPTER 19 / 48 Discussion

Occupy Philadelphia Weddings, Mic Check Protest Tactic

The Occupy movement has seen a rise in "human microphone" weddings in Philadelphia and appearances by activists like Angela Davis in Oakland. The "mic check" tactic was notably used to disrupt a speech by Governor Scott Walker in Chicago. The hosts praise the effectiveness of the tactic in frightening "elitists" and disrupting formal events.

occupy philadelphia· angela davis· scott walker· mic check· human microphone

53:41 Because they started doing weddings. Well this of course is now the hot new wedding ticket occupy Occupy Philadelphia here we go So they're doing the human microphone for the wedding vows and this and this of course is now the news like it's great Go to occupy Wall Street and get married So play here's a so in Oakland the old communist herself Angela Davis shows up and She starts yakking about stuff, and then you see that there's like becoming a brainwashing thing because they make him repeat everything mm-hmm But the joke of this one is that as you listen to this Angela Davis

54:31 thing she has a mic and amplifier thousands had flooded downtown oakland as the I'm sorry that the general strike one no Angela Davis in oakland yeah that would make sense with it the day of action was a famous author activist and scholar my name is Angela Davis I think we should just start this ourselves. No Agenda podcast, come on chat room, No Agenda podcast is the best podcast in the universe. Dvorak.org slash NA. You know, I have to say though,

55:28 that it is a very, very powerful tool if used differently. In Chicago, Scott Walker, who was the governor of Minnesota, Right he's the guy yeah, he was talking in some elitist douchebag Breakfast thing it had like bankers and the Chicago mercantile exchange And all of a sudden he gets the dreaded mic check, and it was it was I have to say it totally Screwed these guys they had no idea how to deal with it listen to this And it just goes on and on and then you know like the moderator comes back on stage and he tries to stop but they're handing out you know there must have been 50 people there and I think this is a great idea but you need to do it in Congress at the congressional hearings just Mike check Mike

56:32 Mic check! Because whenever you scream that, everyone knows exactly what's going to happen. And when you have 50 people screaming the same thing, it's frightening to these elitists. It's scary. You can see them all like, what? What? And then the guy with the mic is trying to override the crowd. No way. It's not happening. That, I think, is a great outcome. It's a very powerful tool if you use it in this way to disrupt things. It's great. It really works. I love it. So back to Angela Davis. So glad you agree. Yeah, I know I do. I think it's a funny idea. You brought it up before you think that somebody should mic check no agenda, no agenda. Yeah, mic check. Adam Curry, Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak, John C. Dvorak, the best podcast, the best podcast in the universe, in the universe.

CHAPTER 20 / 48 Discussion

Angela Davis Oakland Speech, Free Housing Subliminal

During a speech in Oakland, activist Angela Davis used the human microphone to lead a call-and-response. The hosts highlight a specific moment where she seemingly led the crowd toward a demand for "free housing." They characterize Davis as an "old commie" using sophisticated programming tricks to influence the audience.

angela davis· oakland· free housing· communism· programming

57:25 So anyway, Angela does this, you know, call and blah blah blah, just like repeat after me is what it's become. But tell me if you can catch the little, it's like, remember she's a communist. See if you can catch the little bitty, just a little subtle kind of thing where you kind of answer but it's not really what she says next but you're already kind of into it. Is this the general strike thing? Yeah, no, no, this is the Angela Davis clip that you... Oh, the one I interrupted? Yeah. Oh, I'm so sorry. Yeah, the real point I'm trying to make is something else. Okay. The David Action was a famous author, activist and scholar. Now what am I supposed to be listening for here? We'll move it up a little bit so she's yacking away and she starts to say, here's what we want and here's what we want and then she starts naming things and then she drops kind of a bomb in there that you go, oh wait a minute, but she doesn't pull it. You'll see and then we'll talk about it.

58:20 in defense of Scott Olsen and the memory of Oscar Grant, we do ascent to community, to Didn't you want to say free housing? Yes, I did. I wanted to say free housing. Exactly. Wow.

59:04 Very nice. This is an old commie that's like got all the tricks, you know And she had everybody cuz when I saw it, that's the first thing came to mind Yeah, free housing the way she did it. I was in fact, I was ready I was ready to laugh out loud at it, but it didn't know Wow, that is that is real programming right there, huh? And who is she again? Angela Davis. Look her up. She's an old hack from Berkeley, the Berkeley area. Then she became a professor or something. But she's, you know, an old socialist troublemaker from the 60s. So Michael Moore is getting hammered at this Occupy Wall Street thing.

CHAPTER 21 / 48 Discussion

Michael Moore Denver Confrontation, One Percent Status

Filmmaker Michael Moore was confronted by a reporter in Denver regarding his estimated $50 million net worth and status in the "1 percent." Moore denied the $50 million figure and called the reporter "punk media" while insisting he wants his own taxes raised. The hosts mock Moore's defensiveness and his use of a security detail.

michael moore· denver· 1 percent· taxes· punk media

59:47 Because remember the guy we had who was like don't you have 50 million which by the way Of course the guy doesn't have 50 million in cash and he's doing doing real well with 50 million in cash a lot of money So that's that of course is bullcrap But now he's getting all defensive. He's like, no, I just want you to raise my taxes. And so the guy from Denver, he was in Denver for a book signing. Oh boy. Oh, imagine that. How is that possible? Coincidence? I think not. And then he's got his goon squad surrounding his SUV so that he doesn't get attacked as he goes to the bookstore. And then he gets out and then the local reporter asks him about the 50 million.

1:00:27 Michael, Michael, it's rumored you're worth $15 million. Aren't you part of the 1%? Aren't you part of the 1%? I do very well and... How are you helping these people? Because I do well. I want taxes raised on people who do well, including mine. How are you helping these people with your 50 million? I don't have 50 million dollars. That's what it's rumored you're worth. Well really, is that what you do? Sell rumors? We're asking you the truth. You're just punk media. That's all you are. You lie. You lie. You lie. You lie. Stop lying. Stop lying. Stop lying. What else do you want to say? Are you not part of the 1%? Just don't lie, okay? Just don't lie, okay? I'm not gonna answer your question, you punk media. Punk media, don't- Punk media, I like that. Punk media, don't lie. Don't lie. Don't lie. I just wanna raise my taxes, man. Don't lie.

CHAPTER 22 / 48 Discussion

Bill Maher Blue Collar Comments, Billionaire Voting Patterns

Bill Maher questioned why blue-collar workers vote for Republicans who represent the "top 1 percent." The hosts counter this by listing numerous billionaires who support the Democratic Party, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and John Doerr. They argue that Democrats protect the status quo for the wealthy while promising delivery to the poor.

bill maher· republicans· democrats· billionaires· warren buffett

1:01:15 What is that? That's part of the 1% which brings me to a Bill Maher clip. Are you going to piss me off now? No, this is a short clip. The one that's going to piss you off is later. Bill Maher on Republicans. I just wanted to comment on this. He bitches and moans about this, you know, this. He brings some guy on who is a comic who is supposedly a working class comic. And he represents the middle class and he comes on and Bill's preoccupied with this He's obsessed with the, he's bewildered by the fact that some working class people vote Republican and then he makes a comment that I just have to say something about, especially with the fact that Michael Moore just talked. Also, I just wanted someone here because we don't have enough people here on this show who represent middle America. I agree.

1:02:08 So, so you have to explain to me because you're the blue collar guy, right? Why the blue collar people, half of them vote for the Republican Party. Vote for the party that constantly backs the top 1%. I understand why the 1% I get rich is 1% vote for the Republicans. I don't understand why anybody else does. I really don't. This is such a meme that the Obama White House propagates. Yeah, no, it's bullshit. Now let me ask you, here's an Ask Adam. The top 1% vote for the Republicans. Do they really? No, they vote Democrat. They vote Democrat. You know the Hearsts? What Hearst in the history of their families, they're all billionaires, votes Republican? How about Warren Buffett? How about Warren Buffett? How about Bill Gates? He's like one of the richest men in the world. What does he vote?

1:02:58 Wait, let's say we both jointly know another billionaire, John Doerr. Who's he vote for? Bah! Democratica! He's not a vote for him, he's a packager. In fact, Kleiner Perkins is one of the largest Silicon Valley venture firms. There's only one Republican in the place, that's Ray Lane. Everyone else is a Democrat and he's like, he's uncomfortable. Yeah, so where's this 1% of these top, all these rich guys? Ask yourself this. If you're a billionaire, why are you voting and promoting the Democrat Party that's such an extreme unless it's to, because you're trying to protect your wealth. Obviously the Democrats do a better job of it.

1:03:40 They keep the status quo, they keep the rich in place, they keep the poor where they belong, they appeal to the poor by promising them a lot of stuff and never delivering anything and they all buy it because they're idiots. But there's... I'm not... So this is... So Maher is a complete moron to make this assertion. Yeah, but this is the whole... John Dvorak just stated the obvious. Yeah, thank you. Well, but this is the whole meme that the administration is propagating. They keep saying, oh, Republicans, Republicans, bad. It's like, I'm so tired of it. You know, I wouldn't vote Republican, Democrat. I don't vote for a party. I don't. I don't vote for a party. Is this in the Constitution that we have to have two parties? Does it say anywhere in the Constitution, thou shalt have two parties, thou shalt vote for a party? No, apparently they were worried sick that that was going to happen. And this is exactly what happened! Yeah, well, at least they had their eye on the ball.

1:04:37 I anytime you want by the way. Yeah, you can play that happy napper song again. That is the best jingle ever I'm not gonna play the happy napper song no I don't want to play the happy napper song no rather play the V song no no oh Man, wow hey, I got a quote. I got a good one. Okay, Tom Hartman I got Tom Hartman nailed is exactly what he said I have him on tape Tom oh Thumb is this from his Russia Today show or looks like they dumped that show. He's back on his old format Oh, let's have more teen suicides a Good idea thumb Way to go dude what an idiot alright, so here's what's going on around around northern Africa and and the Middle East

CHAPTER 23 / 48 Discussion

Al-Qaeda Medical Arm, Somalia Aid Operations

Al-Qaeda has reportedly established a medical arm in Somalia to provide aid. An official envoy, identified as Abu Abdullah Muhajir, spoke to the media with an American accent. The hosts discuss the presence of Westerners, including Americans and Britons, within Al-Qaeda's ranks and the organization's shift toward humanitarian branding.

al-qaeda· somalia· al-shabaab· abu abdullah muhajir· medical aid

1:05:30 There's always something interesting happening. Actually, let's go to Somalia first, not necessarily Northern Africa. Thank you, darling. Something I did not know about, you know, we know that Al-Qaeda is of course an international organization. We know that we got the number one guy, the number two guy moved up. We got a couple of other number one guys. We got their media information officer. We got, who else did we get? They have affiliates, they're expanding, they have franchisees. Yes, they apparently now have a new arm, a medical arm.

1:06:07 We are honored and blessed to take this opportunity to send our heartfelt greetings to our brothers and sisters in Somalia. It is under these strenuous circumstances that we remember the role played by our beloved Sheikh, Sheikh Osama Bin Laden. May Allah have mercy upon him. This man was introduced as Al-Qaeda's official envoy to Somalia. They have official envoys now. Al-Shabaab calls him Abu Abdullah Muhajir. He spoke English with an American accent. Ah, very interesting. English with an American accent. This is the medical arm sending aid to Somalia. They say he's a white American, though there's no way of verifying this. The West's biggest fear is Al-Qaeda establishing a base in Somalia, and here they are.

CHAPTER 24 / 48 Discussion

IAEA Iran Report, Condoleezza Rice Military Action Comments

The International Atomic Energy Agency is set to release a report on Iran's nuclear weaponization efforts. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appeared on ABC to argue that military action should remain "on the table." The hosts criticize the use of metaphors like "cards on the table" and Rice's push for confrontation.

iaea· iran· condoleezza rice· nuclear weapons· military action

1:06:57 Among the dozens of men I had European accents including English. So what is up with Al-Qaeda? They got Americans, they got Brits. Am I confused? Yes, you're totally confused. I thought that these were just horrible terrorists. They seem to be bringing aid to Somalia and they are Americans and Brits. Go figure. How does that work? I don't know. Then we have of course the long-awaited international atomic energy What does the final A stand for? Association? Agency. Agency. Their assessment, this is of course the United Nations organization, their assessment of the nuclear weapons in Iran

1:07:45 And of course this is what we've all been waiting for. We've all been waiting for the report and every and I don't think it's actually gonna happen but everyone's rattling the sabers. Oh Israel's gonna go and bomb Iran because they've got a nuke, they've got a nuke, they've got a nuke. And Condoleezza Rice who's another one of the clippity-clop family she's plugging her book and she's telling Christiane Anampour on ABC the Ministry of Truth that oh this is it get ready for we gotta go we gotta go we gotta go get him. In your book you also write about Iran. The IAEA, the nuclear agency of the UN, this week is about to reveal apparently more details showing apparently that Iran is... I love how she's apparently, apparently, apparently... is trying to weaponize. Do you think the United States, the Obama administration has to ratchet up the confrontation? You talked this week about confronting Iran. Does that involve military confrontation by the US?

1:08:40 Well, the United States should certainly make clear that the President of the United States will consider military action if necessary because you never want to take that card off the table. I think there are other ways to confront Iran. You can confront Iran through even tougher sanctions. I think we should confront him on X-Factor. That's what I think we should do. Bring them bitches on X-Factor. We'll show them who's boss. So, thank you, Christian. This is one of the downsides of having our forces out of Iraq. because we can confront the Iranians in Iraq. So yes, I think it's time to confront the Iranian regime because it's the poster child for state sponsorship of terrorism. It's trying to get a nuclear weapon. It's repressed its own people. The regime has absolutely no legitimacy left. We should be doing everything we can to bring it down and never take military force off the table. Let's drone them bitches!

CHAPTER 25 / 48 Discussion

Drone Strikes in Pakistan, Tariq the 12-Year-Old

A New York Times report detailed the death of a 12-year-old Pakistani boy named Tariq, who was killed by a U.S. drone strike while trying to document drone casualties. The hosts discuss "signature strikes" based on behavioral patterns and the lack of public outcry over civilian deaths. They also note Rick Perry's support for using drones on the U.S. border.

drones· pakistan· tariq· signature strikes· rick perry

1:09:31 Why do they always say you don't want to take that card off the table? Card off the table? What card? We need all these stupid metaphors. What table? We need the metaphors. What table? What card? You need to make it clear, otherwise slaves don't understand what you're talking about. It's got to be really... What's the card? Yeah, it's the nuke card. It's the military card. What's the card doing there? Who printed it? Yeah, I don't know. Maybe Condoleezza herself. How'd a card get on the table? What are we doing with the table? I'm just not following it. I don't like the cards at all. So I think everyone, and I'm still trying to figure out why, because whenever Danger Room reports on something, and of course Danger Room was really only, that's Wired Magazine's military page, they of course reprinted basically the story that was in the New York Times about the drones in Pakistan killing children. Killing children. So the reporter, I think it was an op-ed actually,

1:10:30 Made friends with this 12 year old Tariq who was going to go gather proof that these drones were not just killing terrorists and he went to go take some pictures and then he got droned. Oh jeez. Yeah, it is unbelievable. And this is in the New York Times. It says right here. Yeah, which is like, you know, on the other, you know, right, they're on the right side of things. The right side of history. The right side of history. And, uh, well I don't know, I don't know why, I just asked somebody why this out and out murder is allowed to continue.

1:11:08 We're not at war with Pakistan. At the behest of our Chief of State. I mean it makes no sense. We're not at war with anyone in Pakistan. We've got drones flying around their country blowing people up. So they have two... It's like gangsters. Chicago. Yeah. Well we have two types of drone strikes apparently. You have the signature strike which essentially is Look at You know looks like a bunch of bad guys with with weapons Which by the way is a signature strike is what killed a couple of our own guys because it was you know It's just a I guess it's a biometric signature or maybe it's just a weapon signature And then we have the smaller drone smaller bigger draw. This is just crazy. You know what the intelligence community is horny for this stuff and

1:11:57 It's like giving them a remote-controlled car for Christmas. They're just jacking off to it. They love it so much. And it's killing children. You don't see any... You don't see the children running out of their homes at night when the drones are circling overhead. You don't see that on television. It's making me puke. It's really, really, really messed up. Well, it's gonna make you puke even more when we have the drones over our own population. Yeah, well, we know that's not when. I just haven't seen it yet. and encouraged by people like Rick Perry. That's right. He wants drones over the border, but I think they're already there. I think they're... well, I know we know that they're over the Canadian border. Germany is going to purchase its own drones. Right now they're leasing. You know, it was a better option for them. Oh yeah, you get a monthly fee. Yeah, they're leasing the Israeli Heron. $3.99 a month with a, you know, with a small down payment. Yeah. No, actually it's a 0% APR until 2015, I hear.

CHAPTER 26 / 48 Discussion

German Drone Leasing, Israeli Heron Drones

Germany is currently leasing Israeli Heron drones but is looking to purchase its own fleet. The hosts mock the design of the Heron drone and joke about the possibility of a "BMW drone." They also express confusion over a report mentioning "MDA" in relation to drones, jokingly asking if the Muscular Dystrophy Association is manufacturing them.

germany· israel· heron drone· mda· leasing

1:12:58 It's the Heron drone. What does that thing look like? Let me just, uh, let me take a look at this for a second. Ooh, the Heron drone is nice looking. That thing's good. Heron as bird? Yeah, H-E-R-O-N. It looks a lot like a predator. No, it's not good looking, it looks terrible. It's got the dual tails. Hold on a second. It has a vertical system. It can, do you see that? It can, it can hover vertically, I think, the Heron drone. That's a nice ass drone. I'd take... oh no, wait a minute. Look more... No. I don't think you're right about that. No, it's a cheap ass drone. That's not a good drone. They need to upgrade. We need to put you in a 2012 model, son. It's no good for you. Made by MDA. That's right. Muscular Dystrophy Association is making drones? Are you kidding me? Oh, when is someone going to say this is not okay? Will someone please step up and say no, this has to stop.

1:13:57 It has to stop! There must have been something along the line. I mean, what's the difference? They don't want to have jets flying around, because that would be bad. Yeah, yeah. So you have these drones. So there's a new douchebag at the State Department. Now here's an Israeli drone. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The Heron drone is the Israeli drone. Oh, okay. That's what Germany is leasing those, but they want to now go and buy their own. They want to get into the purchase program, according to the report. Nice. Can't Germany make their own damn drones? How hard can it be? Well, I don't know. Could you imagine the BMW drone?

1:14:42 That'd be kind of cool, wouldn't it? I'd like that. And tell us what they can win on... Win, Lose, or Drone! That's right, to our Israeli contestants. Why do you just want to mess around with selling off those leasing drones to the Germans? The Germans got their own. It's a brand new BMW drone! Win, Lose, or Drone! With bucket seats and air conditioning. Anything to play that jingle. So they brought in... Or the M-Class drone. Yeah, the M-Class. The Bayern München Dronverken. Are you familiar with the United States Institute of Peace? Oh yeah, we talked about it before on the show. Or at least I did. Refresh my memory. It's a group of douchebags that created this. It's like really got a lot of money.

CHAPTER 27 / 48 Discussion

William B. Taylor Appointment, Middle East Transitions

William B. Taylor has been appointed as a special coordinator for Middle East transitions at the State Department, focusing on Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. Taylor previously worked at the U.S. Institute of Peace and managed Iraq reconstruction funds. The hosts suggest he is a "fixer" who will oversee large sums of money that may disappear into the pockets of contractors.

william b. taylor· state department· egypt· libya· hillary clinton

1:15:40 And it's another drinking club, it's called the Institute for Peace and if you find all these people on you find a bunch of, you know, there's a bunch of army guys, military, it's like I don't know get the peace part of it but it's yes a big it's a huge operation, it's big and they have these two or three of these events every year where they all get together and talk about peace. Well, they brought Bill Taylor, known as William B. Taylor, who was working at the Institute of Peace, and they've brought him now as an undersecretary at the Department of State, and I guess he's handling the money that now has to go into Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya.

1:16:19 And he does an introductory thing, and it's not so much what he's saying, but listen to how he's talking about his lord boss, his uber-lord, his clippity-clop Hillary. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be with you. I will just have a couple of comments and look forward to your questions. As Toria says, I've been appointed to a position here in the Parliaments, a new position. We didn't have this before. No, because we didn't have control of all this before. It's a recognition, it's a demonstration of the importance that the Secretary places on success of these transitions in the Middle East. Now listen to how he talks about how she's commanded him. As Toria said, right now we are focused on Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.

1:17:03 She told me, the secretary told me that she wants someone who will be thinking about how we can support these transitions seven days a week, 365 days a year. I have been doing that with a small group of staff that we have that are focused exactly on this. This is important, we think. The Secretary has taken this step because it matters to us if these transitions succeed. It matters for all kinds of reasons that we've talked about, I'm sure, with you over the weeks, but this is something that is very important. It's like Tori and I started working together 20 years ago when the former Soviet Union disappeared. I was 10. That's right. I was 10. This is a journalist, ladies and gentlemen. That's a journalist for you. I was 10

1:17:50 when that happened. That's right, exactly. She doesn't look any different. Today she is just exactly the same. So we've been doing... So like, do you blow Hillary any more please? Is this William B. Taylor? Yes, that's the guy. William B. Taylor, who is a... He was the representative to the Quartet's effort to facilitate the Israeli disengagement from Gaza. Special envoy to James Wolfensohn in Jerusalem. And then he's, this is how you know he's the money guy. He served in Baghdad as director of the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office. Those are the guys that had the pallets of money. They got lost.

CHAPTER 28 / 48 Discussion

UN Human Rights Award, Muammar Gaddafi Recognition

In January 2011, the United Nations was reportedly preparing to give Muammar Gaddafi an award for achievements in human rights. The hosts cite a UN document praising Libya's legal framework and wealth distribution. They contrast this with the subsequent NATO bombing of Libya just months later, questioning what triggered the sudden shift in international policy.

muammar gaddafi· united nations· human rights· libya· jamahiriya

1:18:35 They can't find billions of dollars. That's the guy. Yeah, that's the guy. So once again, pallets of money are going to go into Egypt, Tunisia and Libya and they're going to disappear. Probably into the pockets of contractors who were out there building crap for us, for the spoils of war. In the green zone. The thing that's crazy about Libya, I was reading through some UN documents as I like to do in my time off, in January This is before we started bombing. The United Nations was actually about to give Colonel Gaddafi an award for its achievement in the area of human rights. How interesting is that, huh? There's a whole report from the International Human Rights Committee.

1:19:28 that says, you know, they've done a great job, they've got freedom of religion, and you know, everyone's okay, and it's great there, and there's no hurt, and everyone's fantastic. That was January. And then like, three months later, all of a sudden it's like, oh, he's 42 years of dictatorship, we're killing people from the exact same United Nations. We've gone over this. I know but it's nice when you actually find the document it's linked in the show notes at 354.nashownotes.com I just thought that was fascinating to read. Yeah what would be fascinating is to find the triggering mechanism. What changed? Well we still, well you and I still believe it's that he let the Chinese in. He gave all the oil to the Chinese. He said you guys come in because they took a cheaper deal.

1:20:12 Yeah, that's gotta be it. It's the only thing that's logical. There's also something with the fisheries offshore. I'm looking at this Taylor guy still, sorry. Yeah, it's okay. So he's... Okay, he's a graduate of West Point army guy mm-hmm Stanford Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government that seems to be a Yeah, hot spot. Oh, yeah, definitely served in post in Iraq Afghanistan the Middle East former Soviet Union ambassador to the Ukraine Of course he is really And he's like you know he's the

1:20:50 He's at the peace Institute when he was at the peace Institute of the US United States the Institute of Peace Vice President Center for post-conflict peace and stability operation in other words. He's the he's the fixer who comes in yeah with the money post-conflict peace yeah, it's It's a new position, newly created. So this Peace Institute is about, okay we blew up somebody so now the Peace Institute gets involved. Right. They got nothing to do with, you know, keeping the peace. Managing the peace. It's fantastic. I love it. And uh... You know what, I'll bet you that they have, I just said you know what, you should ring the bell on that. No, that's okay, but I'll give you a buzzer.

CHAPTER 29 / 48 Discussion

Libya Oil Interests, Chinese Refinery Attacks

The hosts theorize that the intervention in Libya was triggered by Muammar Gaddafi's dealings with China and his attempt to change oil revenue splits with Western companies like BP. They note that the first people evacuated from Libya were 30,000 Chinese workers and that a Chinese refinery was targeted early in the conflict.

libya· china· bp· oil· muammar gaddafi

1:21:34 I bet you that there's some good and they have a lot of papers and this looks like one of those. It's actually a kind of a think tank. government-sponsored think tank. I bet you there's a lot of good information in here that gives away, it's like you know you're discovering that vaccine thing in the powerpoint. Right, oh yeah it's probably out in the open. I only discovered this this morning. It's always out in the open, that's the joke of it because they don't care because there's nobody like us that care to read this stuff except people that are either in business you know implementing it or the media which does seems to be I was 10 when that happened. Douche knuckle. Yeah, so there's one disturbing meme that's out there. Actually, I think I just saw it scroll by in the chat room. That Gaddafi was going to sell oil for gold. I don't believe that. That's bull crap. Yeah, I think that's bull crap. I think that's just wishful thinking. I think, you know, look, the first 30,000 people to be evacuated from Libya were Chinese.

1:22:35 That's the first people who got up. And if you remember the early reports, there was an attack on the Chinese refinery. Right, right. It's the only main attack and they blew the shit out of it. Yeah. Whoops! Here's your Chinese refinery. Yeah. They blew it up and then the Chinese all evacuated. Yeah. Now it's obviously, you know, the whole... That's kind of the story that Tony the terrorist told me too. You know the driver in San Francisco. Yeah, he said you know Gaddafi told BP and Total Fina, he said you know instead of us taking 20% we're gonna flip it around. We're gonna take 80%, you're gonna take 20%. And then they said screw you and also remember he got the refurbished weapons? Yeah. Yeah, you got you know they sold him refurbished weapons like hey

1:23:18 I paid top dollar for this crap, man. And then he said, you know what? Screw you. I'm going to buy weapons from the Chinese and sell them my oil at the 80-20 rule and they'll take it. The Chinese don't care. No, they're just buying up what they can. Yeah, they don't care that to the extremes that BP does. No. No. Yeah, no, I mean the guy dug his own grave. I wonder what he was thinking. But it's too bad. At some point I guess some of these guys actually think that they're running the show. But they should have at least, he should have just waited until he got the award. I mean that would have looked good. That would have been better. Could you think how funny it would be? His timing is bad. Yeah, right, because once he got the award then he's got everybody over a barrel. No man, you can have some guy who was wearing his hat and, look I got his International Human Rights Award. That would have been really funny.

1:24:04 Yeah, that would be but that I don't think that would have played out the same way. No, of course not. You can't just say everything is a really thing they'd have to deal with it would have been a secret just been kind of a crazy assassination or something Oh could obvious killed by one of his own generals. It wouldn't have been the way they did it But the the report is really quite fascinating to read because yeah, they went there they they literally Visited it was the here. It's a report of the working group of on the what is it called what was his government the government of the people government of the masses the some crap like that the libyan jama hiria jama hiria uh yeah i'll just i'll just scroll through it for a second you can introduce maybe there's a summary somewhere uh your summary uh the delegation noted the national report has been prepared in a transparent and consultative manner uh

1:25:07 The Libyan Arab Jamaria also referred to its interaction with the human rights special procedures. The legalization of all rights and freedoms were contained in a coherent, consolidated legal framework. It's all good. Protection of human rights was guaranteed. This included not only political rights but also economic, social, and cultural rights. The Libyan Arab Jamaria referred to its pioneering experience in the field of wealth distribution and labor rights. It was great. Everything was good. I can't believe they didn't take this down. How can you leave this... Nobody maintains websites well. No, this is... oh crap. Where's the webmaster on that thing? It's just nuts. Oh, here it is. In a footnote, a list of countries that praised Colonel Gaddafi.

CHAPTER 30 / 48 Discussion

NPR Remnant Inventory, Public Radio Advertising

National Public Media, the commercial arm of NPR, is selling "remnant inventory" on its websites at high CPM rates of $15 to $20. The hosts argue that this is a move toward blatant commercial advertising for a network that claims to be listener-supported. They contrast NPR's high ad rates with the lower rates typical for standard websites.

npr· national public media· advertising· remnant inventory· cpm

1:25:59 and the state of the masses, that's the Libyan Jamahiriya, in support of the General Assembly Human Rights Council's decision to bestow this award upon Colonel Gaddafi. And here's the list. Denmark, China, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Australia. Wait a minute, weren't those all people who were bombing Libya? That sounds like it to me. It's just unbelievable. Well, no, it's not unbelievable actually. Nothing is unbelievable. Tell me what remnant inventory is, John. Remnant inventory in a store would be where you have like, you've bought a thousand items and you got them packed in the store and then you're selling and you keep replenishing the store shelves. How about an advertising? An advertising? Geez, I have no idea. Really?

1:27:02 Well, I mean I could, I probably know it if you tell me what it is then I'll say, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that. Okay, so let's just imagine you have tons of public radio stations around Gitmo Nation. You mean like PBS would have? Like NPR. NPR I mean, yeah. Essentially, let's just say, you know, public radio that lives on, not on advertising, but you know, donations. So let's say they've got a lot of web pages writing whatever you call. Yeah, whatever you want to call Let's say they have a lot of web pages that don't get any They can't sell ads on that would be called remnant inventory. So now the sales arm of NPR This is okay. This is the inventory of the of their websites sites. Okay website Yeah, it's like basically what we have right so now in a blatant move

1:27:56 National Public Media, which is the commercial arm of NPR. You see, NPR doesn't actually sell anything directly. They do it through a middleman. So the National Public Media, they're the guys out there selling. And they sell just as hard as any other commercial network. They are going to sell all the remnant pages of all the NPR stations around the country, and check this, at a $15 to $20 CPM. So for every 1,000 pages viewed, they get 15 to 20 bucks. That's a lot for these guys. Dude! Dude, for a website it's like $2. I've seen 75 cents a thousand. They're getting 15 to 20 per thousand. And of course, everyone's buying into this bullcrap. And it's just, it's advertising! It's complete advertising. They're selling it so commercially, it's just not funny anymore.

CHAPTER 31 / 48 Discussion

Listener Donations, JFK Airport Train Spying

Sir James Briscoe donated and commented on the unmanned trains at JFK Airport, suggesting that red-jacketed personnel are there to spy for Homeland Security rather than assist passengers. Another donor, Sam Lung from Toronto, registered several domain names for the show, including commerceshots.com and ladiesslavetshirts.com.

jfk airport· airtrain· homeland security· sam lung· donations

1:28:59 And here we are, begging away. Well we don't have the National Public Radio audience necessarily but our people are smarter. Hell yeah. Including Sir James Briscoe who came up with 197.45. Hey John and Adam, here's my donation to help you through the turkey times. I certainly don't need the money really. jokingly says that. disagree with your point, they're indeed unmanned and I'm not a big fan of that. But there are countless red-jacketed personnel walking around most of the time, presumably making sure it's running smoothly. They're around spying on you to report you to the authorities. That's what they're doing. They can't do anything. I think if that train goes crazy, that red-jacketed guy can't actually do anything. No, he's just there to report you to Homeland Security.

1:30:11 I will say it's incredibly convenient for myself and other psycho Long Islanders making their way to JFK or other Long Island or Manhattan. There's a blog post in the varg.org slash blog about this. This is the way people should get from JFK to Manhattan. He needs a good piece of karma to smita the love of his life and her job She definitely needs more than I do working at that place. Whatever it is. I hope she goes to the holiday party this year Thanks for the great show adios mofos. Yeah, I'll give this is for her giving her a little bit of karma. Is that what? You've got karma Emodulate that thing a little bit. I'm sorry Sam lung in Ljung

1:30:54 In Toronto, Ontario, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Hi John and Adam, been pretty quiet donating at the 3333 monthly level but decided to pipe up for a few reasons. I've registered a number of different domains for the show pointing to a number of different places in alphabetical order. Commerceshots.com, ladiesslavetshirts.com. Noagendanation, oh this that points to Noagendanation and my other one points to the donation site. Magicnumber33.com, slavetshirts.com. And just pointing to a generation, we don't take ads. We don't take ads. We don't take ads.com?

CHAPTER 32 / 48 Discussion

Palindrome Donations, Emerson College Digital Publishing

The hosts read several donations centered around the 11-11-11 date, including a contribution from a professor at Emerson College who uses the show as an example in digital publishing classes. Other donors requested "de-douching" or karma for medical recoveries, such as a case of acute pancreatitis.

palindrome· emerson college· digital publishing· 11-11-11· karma

1:31:35 pointing to no agenda show. I thought about registering slave t-shirts for the Korea. For North Korea. For North Korea. I'm not sure our fair weather friends in Gitmore North Kimchi would be able to reach that. I hope you make use of the domains I did register though. I wanted a karma shout out for my friend Greg who got laid off this week for his construction job after being asked to join the union the day before. Great! Oh yeah, let's give him a karma shot there for sure. You've got karma. And then we have Baron von Pell's mockers we mentioned earlier came in with 11411, 11511, 11611, 111711. The only one that took full advantage of these weird days of Palindrome monies and dates.

1:32:24 Andrew Stein, Phoenix, Arizona, $111.11. Sensei John Nanna, first of all I want to say that you have been have an awesome show, been a listener for several months now, but this is my first donation so may I please have a de-douching for being a boner for so long. You've been de-douched. And for his brother he needs a shot at karma, just got out of the hospital with acute pancreatitis, just want to have him speedy recovery. You've got karma. And he'll go back to just getting by apparently. Greg Sizemore, Gregory Sizemore, he's in the army, APO someplace or other. $11.11 John Rodsville, Glenn Mills, Pennsylvania.

1:33:08 111, hi John and Adam, I teach digital publishing at Emerson College in Boston, which I guess makes me part of the military industrial academic complex. This semester I've started using the show in my classes. Two weeks ago I showed the students the domain forwarding page as an example of how to think about domain names. Hopefully got one or two students to check the show out and propagate the formula. I'm doing a directed study this fall which gives me a little extra dollars I was hoping to donate before 11-11, 11-1-11 but the payment was a little late. Thanks for the show. It became my main source of news and takes my mind off the commute. I'm so happy about that. I mean, it's, that's, that really warms my heart, man. When we have educators trying to turn kids on to some real news. And they might get a kick out of it too. I hope. Yeah. Uh, let's see.

1:34:00 I don't know, wait. Okay, now we got, I'm sorry, I don't know how to get this one over. I think it's Peter. Piotr. Yeah, it's probably called Peter in Kirkland, Washington. Chizuski, I'm guessing. Hail the foot Dr. Suzuki here with a $111.11 donation looking to ride the 111111 Karma train. Also two 3333 podcast license donations filed separately from my friends back in Gitmo Nation, Kielbasa, Bartolo Suzuki and Madame Clue. Their livelihoods depend on their continuous ability to emit online content. AI the no agenda podcast license should serve them well in years to come. That probably says something else. Also, please give them a friendly douchebag call out as they have enjoyed the program without donating.

1:34:53 As I get I've got an I don't get as I get in a and I got a I as well Oh as okay good. This probably right Scott Henkel sir Scott Henkel to you uh... sunland california little behind my eleven eleven eleven donation by thought it would use my birthday donation my brother's eleven five to help adamant is moved to texas thank you love those limits as from scott tells kind of interesting that that the way that was all our eleven eleven donations and hoping a lot more for eleven eleven eleven and you know barons even jumping on the bandwagon after we've been talking about this for a long time they say in a recent article forget the chinese year of the rabbit this is the year of money

CHAPTER 33 / 48 Discussion

Year of Money, Drunk Donating Initiative

A strategist at Raymond James reportedly called 2011 the "year of money" based on a mathematical age formula, a concept later picked up by Barron's. The hosts encourage "drunk donating" and reading notes from intoxicated supporters, though they note most listeners seem to be "teetotalers." Several donors from Kansas, Texas, and Germany are acknowledged.

year of money· barron's· drunk donating· jason laskowski· karma

1:35:31 Actually Jeffrey Soutt, chief investment strategist at Raymond James said that to his clients and this is the you know you take the year of your birth last two digits add that to what you're going to what age you turn this year and if it's a hundred and eleven then you should donate. Now all of a sudden these geniuses of money at Barron's have figured this out. Really? They're so smart. Barron's magazine comes through at the last minute. Yeah, idiots. Jason Laskowski in Salina, Kansas, $100. Oracle Broadcasting in Sound Rock, Texas, $100. Anonymous from Kalispell, Montana. In the morning from Gitmo Nation, Big Sky, where it's illegal to sell liquor before 8 a.m.

1:36:15 $1 per proof to support your drinking and donating initiative, $80 for you. Oh yeah, this is the only... we wanted more people to not just donate but write notes drunk and we haven't gotten any. I didn't see any drunk notes. No, I think our people are teetotalers. I think drunk donating is a good initiative. They probably get drunk and then fall asleep and they forget to donate until they wake up. What was I gonna do last night? I forgot. It's like the hangover. Jason Morel Augusta, Georgia 7777 to all NOAgenda listeners give these two hard-working kings of media the money they deserve. They have earned it. Be a donor, not a boner. The fact alone that they watch C-SPAN so you don't have to is worth at least a dollar an hour. Now get your asses out there and propagate the formula. To both of you, if I ever become a multi-millionaire, you guys are each going to get a million from me. Just promise you will keep doing the show the exact same way you've been doing it for all these past years. To ACC,

1:37:10 Though my birthday isn't coming up until 12 7 11 I'm a hundred percent sure we could use some singing during the birthday jingle brother well You know I think this will be a good investment for our future million dollars and and when I have a million dollars I will say I will go down to occupy Wall Street and say tax me more To JCD, this may sound a little pathetic to you, but you really made my day on 11-3 at 11 by following me on Twitter. Obviously it's completely up to you as to whether or not you want to read this part on the air. I did. Sorry if this was a little long-winded, but I just feel you guys are a glimmer of light in a very dark world. Thank you for the best podcast in the universe and may God richly bless both of you. That's so nice. That's beautiful. That was good. Yeah, I love it.

1:37:58 Werner Bogula in Hamburg, Deutschland. It could be Bogula. Hi John and Adam, I already bought the super karma coin for 11 11 11 to turbocharge the karma I added a binary 11 11 11 1 equals $63 as a donation. Please deduce and send some karma on top You've been deduced you've got karma tight to Germany All the best Werner from Hamburg Duncan my point Jan-Jurjen Zward Jan-Jurjen Zward Jan-Jurjen Zward Not bad. And Nudwick Naudwijk Hi John, I'd like to get a MILF from my girlfriend who recently gave birth to my two children Fjair and Ellen Fjair and Ellen I think That's one hot MILF baby MILF! That's one mother I'd like to f***

CHAPTER 34 / 48 Discussion

Birthday Shout-outs, Occupy Wall Street Trademarks

The hosts perform several birthday shout-outs for producers and their families. They mention that "Occupy Wall Street" and "The 99 Percent" have become subjects of trademark applications. Adam Curry also acknowledges karma for his upcoming move to "Camp MoFo" in Texas, while a donor in Colorado asks if listening to the show increases penis size.

birthday· trademarks· occupy wall street· camp mofo· texas move

1:39:01 They were born on week 29 of her pregnancy so a truckload of karma for them. I also want to send out the drones to de-douche the incredible Wolfman. I'm sure he will donate shortly after this one. Give Wolfman a... no wait, get a karma for the wife. Yeah, here we go. You've got karma. And then give a douchebag call out to the Wolfman. And you can always follow me on Twitter. Rolf, man. Actually, Rolf. Rolf. Oh, Rolf. I thought it was Wolf. I love it. Kind regards. I thought it was Wolf. Wolf, man. Okay. Wolf, man. It was Rolf. I hit a wolf when it was a Rolf. Brian Irwin in Arlington, Virginia. 5555 in the morning. Gent's been listening to the show a while now. Want to donate for this fine research of the jobs bill? Haven't got to figure it out yet. Learned about the show from Twit, but since it became This Week in Drunk and Chicks, I have not been listening.

1:39:59 Wait a minute, did I miss an episode somehow? Did I miss the drunken chicks? I didn't see the drunken chicks episode. I was out on Sunday. Were there drunken chicks? Please send karma to Adam and Miss Mickey on the big move to Camp MoFo. Oh, thank you so much. That's very kind. We'll take that. Hold on. You've got karma. Are you going to still call it Camp MoFo? So far, yeah. I don't have any other names. Camp MoFo in the Lone Star State. We're very excited. Joe Joe McGinnis in Waltham, Massachusetts. Happy birthday. Shout out to Cameron aka cool Pat C Watson on reaching the mid-century mark as Richard Manuel once declared. I just want to break even. It's cool papa C. Cool papa C. Sorry. 5555 Wayne Braunnikowski in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. I'd like to give a shout out to my girlfriend Lisa because she needs some karma working on her life.

1:40:52 All right. You've got karma. Good old Craig Kuttner in Norwalk, Connecticut. Hey, fellow producers, I did a birthday shout out last year, which I'm doing now for this year and got a nice birthday card from Adam and John as apparently a database entry by the shill. So if every boner gave a shout out, we could greatly improve the quality of our media assassins demeanor and reduce the number of pledge drives in our global quality global programming service. P.S. Maybe I should have a podcast license since I stole the PBS line. Yeah, you better be careful. You get sued. Did you know, by the way, that that there are now several trademark applications for Occupy Wall Street and for the 99 percent? Yeah, it's ridiculous. Someone's going to wind up owning that.

1:41:38 So, Kuttner's indicating that maybe he should get a birthday call. Why don't you put him on the list? I think he is on the list, isn't he? He's not on the spreadsheet with the birthday cake on it. We have icons on this thing. Craig Kuttner. Yeah. He's on there? I'm putting him on now. Adrian Cooper in Durham, North Carolina, 53-33. In the morning, John Danner had a job interview on Monday. I was planning to donate and get some karma, but you guys moved the show to Monday. Oh boy. Since I live on the East Coast, the show won't be on the air until after the show... I won't be on to listen to it after the show's over. I decided to donate anyway, and like Condoleezza Rice, I have to wait to see if the mice are feet up or feet down.

1:42:20 Hail the mice feet. No he says hail the rice mice foot. Rice mice foot. Your reading is atrocious today. Anyway here's some karma for you. You've got karma. Just another manic Monday. $50.23 from Kelby Koenig in Grover Colorado. In the morning long time boner first time donor I'm sending 50 23 54 birthday shout out on the next show since my birthday is today 11 6 and 23 for how old I will be turning I really wanted to request karma for our family farm hoping we can make some more money and I could donate once again But a few shows back and I'm stated by listening to no agenda would be increased my penis size Did it work I figured donating would increase it twofold

1:43:07 Seeing that there's no jingle for this. I'm glad they accept some karma for work Please tell Adam and Mickey and hopefully John to stop in beautiful, Colorado for the 2009 Hot Pockets tour. All right. Here's some penis karma You've got karma My evil plan is working. They're buying it Jefferson C post in North East of Massachusetts Adam should send some karma his way for choosing quality over a deadline I know this was a tougher decision for him than for the guy reading this He wants to donate for a rare Monday show so yeah, I'll take I'll take that karma. Thank you karma Finally Kieran Burke and framing him at Framingham, Massachusetts $50 and that would be it for today's Supporters and we want to thank all of them make sure they go to know agenda or make sure the rest of you go to know agendas show.com Devorah org slash and a channel of orac comm and no agenda nation

CHAPTER 35 / 48 Discussion

Google AdWords Campaign, New Mexico Travel Route

A sysadmin from Texas set up a Google AdWords campaign to promote the No Agenda formula. The hosts discuss their travel route to Austin, which will take them through Arizona and New Mexico. They emphasize the importance of supporting independent media, quoting a sentiment that if you don't pay for something, you shouldn't expect it to be there tomorrow.

google adwords· sysadmin· new mexico· arizona· travel

1:44:09 and help us out for the upcoming Thursday show which will predate the famous 11-11-11 by one day and hopefully people will make the donation although I think a lot of people will probably do it just on 11-11-11 just for that. At 11-11! That's the way you do it. You do it exactly, you have a whole minute for PayPal to process the transaction Or, even better maybe, and it's also on the donation page at... devorak.org slash N-A You can send your check on 11-11 and have it dated and postmarked on 11-11. That's a good idea. Hey look, Barron's is calling it the year of money. It's special, it's sacred, it's great. Not coming back for a while. Nope. I got a separate note here.

1:45:02 In the morning Adam and John, I just set up an AdWords campaign on the Googles that hopefully will help propagate the formula. I'm still working on where to get to the point where I'm living Obama's American dream of just getting by as a student loan. I have student loan bills of over $111,000 that still plague my mailbox and deplete my bank account. Thus I'm only able to donate in Google Ad campaign money. Thank you, because of course, thank you all for everything you do. He's a sysadmin. You know the sysadmins they get all the all when they register domains and stuff they get all the the Google AdWords stuff for free. He says thank you so much for everything you do. The best podcast in the universe from Carl sysadmin from Texas with his finger on the red button which is always nice. We know our sysadmins can bring down the entire world when we make the call.

1:45:50 And we will not be going through Colorado unfortunately. We're going through Arizona and New Mexico I believe we have a couple of nights in New Mexico. You could send me an email Yes, we're working on it. We're getting there. I'll be happy to be happy to drop by and say hi Since we are taking the New Mexico route and then finally something I read on the on the tubes That I think is very appropriate. If you're not paying for something, you have no reason to expect it to be there tomorrow. There you go, as promised. Happy birthday, James Briscoe. He celebrated yesterday. Scott Hankel, he congratulates himself as he celebrated his birthday on Saturday. Joe McGuinness says happy birthday, Cameron, aka Cool Papa C. Watson, who turns 50. Kelly Koenig congratulates herself. She's turning 23. She turned 23 yesterday. And as promised, Craig Kutner. Happy birthday from all of your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.

CHAPTER 36 / 48 Discussion

Mars Railway Station Discovery, Joseph Skipper Research

Researcher Joseph Skipper claims to have found evidence of a railway station and carriage in high-resolution Google Mars images. The hosts joke about whether this is a scheme to promote high-speed rail on other planets. They provide a link to the images in the show notes for listeners to examine the "tracks and train" themselves.

mars· railway station· joseph skipper· google mars· high-speed rail

1:46:57 The best podcast in the universe, hands down. Wow wow wow John, big news. You know Joseph Skipper? Name rings a bell. He's a pretty well known researcher. He's known for his meticulous studies of high resolution Google Mars space images. He now reports, and you can find this all in the show notes at 354.nashownotes.com, he has found a railway station and railway carriage on Mars. And I'd have to say the evidence is pretty convincing. He said he got this crater. So you don't think that this is all part of the scheme to get people to buy more high-speed rail? Well, I'm all for it if we're gonna put it on Mars.

1:47:52 So uh... I got no problem with that. Send me a link. Okay, it's in the show notes. 354.NHShowNotes.com I wanna see it now. It's hard to... Go to the show prep. I can't do it right now. It's on a different box. Yeah. I'm convinced. It look... I mean literally it looks like a station with tracks and a train. I'm a believer. You know I'm a believer. You know I... We got moon bases and train stations. Train stations on Mars. Oh man that that is a Ziggy Stardust song. I'm sure of it then of course this is Widely recognized as the truth huge sunspot has appeared Was it called AR 1339?

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Asteroid YU 55, Earth Flyby Distance

Asteroid YU 55, which is roughly the size of an aircraft carrier, is scheduled to pass Earth at a distance closer than the moon. NASA has mapped its path, and experts suggest that if it were to hit Earth, it could destroy a city the size of North London. The hosts discuss why the object will not be visible to the naked eye.

asteroid yu 55· nasa· moon· north london· astronomy

1:48:41 which is 50,000 miles long 25,000 miles wide and I've been once again I've been getting all the the solar flares only M class so nothing to be worried about but of course this does kind of flow right into Two other things happening one, and I don't understand why no one is really taught Why is the news not like freaking out about this asteroid? That's gonna fly closer than the moon. It's gonna come right past us Why isn't I mean why is no one talking about it that concerns me actually you know if you read about this this? YU 55

1:49:19 I read about it some time back. I don't believe it's coming within the distance of the moon. Yes it is. NASA has the path. And so you have the orbit of the moon. It's coming about three... What's the asteroid number again? Yankee Uniform 55. It'll be passing the earth closer than the moon. It's about the size of an aircraft carrier. Which I saw a BBC report, unfortunately no audio, they said that if this were to, it won't hit earth, but if it were to hit earth, it would wipe out a size of the city like North London. I thought that was kind of funny. Like screw you North London, you're gone. You're a goner, nice comparison.

1:50:02 Now we won't be able to see it. Which I... How does that work? Comets are on fire, but asteroids aren't on fire. They just have a lot of ice coming off and it reflects the sun rather nicely. So how come we won't be able to see this one? I guess it's maybe it's bull crap. How about that for an idea? Well the thing that concerns... You still gonna see it, you think, under the right circumstances? Well they say the asteroid will not be visible to the naked eye unless you have a reflective... Well it is pretty small. It's not that, I mean, you know, you can't see a rocket, you know, or you know, there's probably, you haven't seen the space... But won't it have any... The space station is about the same size it seems to me, or a little smaller, but you can't see that with the naked eye. Won't it have like fire shooting off of its butt? Why would it do that? It's not gonna hit the atmosphere.

CHAPTER 38 / 48 Discussion

Emergency Alert System Test, FCC Regulations

A nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) is scheduled, requiring participation from broadcasters, cable systems, and satellite providers. The hosts speculate whether the system will be used for political messaging by President Obama. They criticize the test for not including modern platforms like Twitter and Facebook, calling it a failure if it doesn't reach mobile users.

emergency alert system· eas· fcc· obama· national emergency

1:50:56 Okay, well if you have a reflecting telescope with a light gathering mirror six inches or more in diameter You will be able to see it nuts anyway, so that thing's supposed to come by tomorrow night just in time for Wednesday's Emergency alert system. No. Yeah, this is this is gonna be really interesting. I want you know are they gonna are they gonna interrupt Twitter and Are they gonna, is everyone's Facebook gonna update with an alert? This will be interesting to see. I'm not so interested in the television and radio portion of it as I am... what's that? Okay. So what time are they supposed to do that thing? They had an announcement last night, I didn't tape it, but they had a pre-announcement telling everyone they're gonna do this. It was on one of the network TV shows.

1:51:45 Let's... Okay, I'm going to FCC.gov and we'll get the exact information. And I understand it's a break. Is it gonna... am I gonna get a text on my phone? I don't know. We're gonna find out. It would be cool to get a text on your phone. I did read that some stations... yeah, here it is. Okay, background, blah blah blah, how it works. The Emergency Alert System, which used to be the EBS, National Public Warning System that requires TV and radio broadcasters, cable television systems, wireless cable systems, satellite digital audio radio service providers, direct broadcast satellite service providers, and wireline video service providers to offer to the President the communications capability to address the American public during a national emergency.

1:52:41 The system may also be used by... Are they gonna switch it over to Obama and he's gonna say, we must pass this bill, we can't wait. We can't wait! That would be great. That would be so awesome. Yeah, I don't think so. Let's see if they... Oh, you can complain by the way, if you don't like it. Oh, cool. I'm going to complain. You interrupted the Kardashians. I'm very upset about this. So they don't actually say anything about... hmm... Well that's lame! I mean, the only people watching television are the same people who are in the market for a reverse mortgage, a hearing aid, and a free electric cart. Seriously! That summarizes one audience. That summarizes the entire audience. See, they've got a printable thing here.

1:53:41 No. Well, you can file a complaint if you don't like it. That's all. That's weird. Along with its capability of providing an emergency message to the entire nation simultaneously, the EAS allows authorized state and local authorities to quickly distribute important local emergency information. Additionally, EAS equipment can directly monitor the National Weather Service for local weather and, you know, this is not good. I mean, this is no good. If I'm not getting a tweet and a Facebook interruption, then I'm calling it a failure. You know what I mean? I agree, because most people aren't, you know, they're either getting TV from Hulu or maybe they're on the DVR so you go back and then you get the emergency message the next day. How does that work? I don't think so. So anyway, all of these sunspots, just to get back to that for a second, kind of play into this big earthquake they had in Oklahoma. Now, the day before there were northern lights in Oklahoma and

CHAPTER 39 / 48 Discussion

Oklahoma Earthquakes, Fracking and Radar Anomalies

Oklahoma recently experienced a series of earthquakes, including a 5.6 magnitude shaker. While officials attributed radar anomalies to birds and bugs, the hosts suggest "chemtrails" or fracking as more likely causes. They note that the region is "T. Boone Pickens territory" and that fracking is widespread in Kansas and Oklahoma.

oklahoma· earthquakes· fracking· t. boone pickens· radar

1:54:46 You know, I want to say I'm not really thinking this is an earthquake machine event, but when they come out with reports that say on the radar we saw this big, big dot, you know, this big massive thing that was moving around and it turns out that was birds and bugs who were flying en masse and they got picked up by radar. That's bull crap. What was going on there? There must have been something else. Chemtrail maybe? A collection of chemtrails for heart? Well, if you pick a chemtrail up on radar, that's even less likely. Oh no, that's not true. That's absolutely not true. There's tons of reports of chemtrails that are so dense and they actually say, you know, this is persistent jet contrails that are reflecting on the radar. No, no, no. But birds and bugs, like all the birds and bugs went, hey, let's fly! Hey, I'll tell you, there's a lot of bugs in those states. Yeah, but still. Georgia's got even more.

1:55:42 I think it's fracking, personally. No, I think it's fracking too. So they're fracking away like crazy because this is T. Boone Pickens territory. He owns the state. Ah, right. And so he's probably fracking up the place and there's definitely some fracking going on in Kansas. There was an earthquake there, which is bullcrap. There should never be an earthquake in Kansas. These are pretty good earthquakes though. 5, 5.6, 5.2. Yeah, but these rate, this scheme that they rate them at now, we don't even know what this means. Well, it's a shaker. It's like quasi, yes, it was a shaker. It's quasi arbitrary. It's what you had recently in Berkeley. You're still alive. It's okay. It was on all the time around here and these parts.

CHAPTER 40 / 48 Discussion

Walmart PA System Hack, Listener Apathy

A listener provided instructions on how to access a Walmart store's public address system from an outside phone line using social engineering. The hosts challenge the audience to try the "hack," but lament that their listeners are often too tired or apathetic to perform such "actual work," preferring to send money instead.

walmart· pa system· intercom· hack· social engineering

1:56:26 But you know the middle of no middle of the Midwest earthquake and I don't know Buildings aren't meant for it. You know they're got brick buildings and things like that all over the place We have no brick buildings around here. We got producer Drake who sent me a little info man we were talking about how you can walk into Walmart, and you can find out the code and The code to get on the public address system so you can say crazy crazy stuff and So he says, you know, there's a way to get on the Walmart PA system from outside. He said, here's how we used to do it. No. Yeah. You call any department except women's clothing. Don't call that department. Apologize and say you're trying to reach women's clothing. They'll transfer you.

1:57:10 Apologize again, pretending to be an employee calling from the department you were just transferred from and say you were trying to reach the page out. That's the code. Nine out of ten times they'll transfer you to the intercom. So you could actually do this from your cell phone. That's a good idea. I have to say there's a memo, I'm sure about this, and I would challenge anybody listening to this show to try to pull this off. I'd like anyone to do anything. Our audience does nothing. You know, they don't even create bots for us. Yeah, for the... yeah, to win the podcast awards. What an obvious opportunity for us. And we've got all these sysadmins. Yeah, here's some money. It's like, well, I'm too tired. Let me just send him some money. It'll be so much easier. I want to do actual work. Uh-oh.

CHAPTER 41 / 48 Discussion

Gabby Giffords 2012 Prediction, ABC Interview Special

The hosts revisit a prediction that Gabby Giffords will be the real Democratic candidate for 2012 if Obama steps down. They point to an upcoming exclusive ABC interview with Diane Sawyer as evidence that the "Ministry of Truth" is ramping up her public profile. The segment also critiques a profile of Giffords' recovery in "The Daily" iPad app.

gabby giffords· mark kelly· abc news· 2012 election· diane sawyer

1:58:10 Uh, looks like my prediction's coming true, baby boy. It's ramping up. It's ramping up. What's my prediction? Who's gonna be the real Democratic candidate after Obama quits? What do you mean, your prediction? My... what do you mean? Yeah, it's my prediction. After Obama quits, I have predicted who the candidate will be for 2012 for the Democratic Party. Who? Gabby Giffords, I keep telling you this. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is your prediction, right? So here's another piece to the puzzle It's one of the most extraordinary stories you'll ever hear Congresswoman Gabby Giffords whose life changed in the blink of an eye and her astronaut husband Mark Kelly for the first time their powerful and transforming story of courage shock strength and love

1:59:02 and personal home video of Gabby's fight back Diane Sawyer together with Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly exclusive Monday night November 14th at 10 9 central on ABC uh-huh uh-huh ABC you know it's the ministry of truth they're ramping her up baby yeah maybe they're getting her ready well it may just be a hedge but I think they're ramping her up man I think they got they got her ready to go they had some you know the daily Just before she got shot, she did an interview for the Daily. That's that Murdoch iPad only app, right? Yeah. And it was so... I mean, she is a shill to the interviewer. And she's like, oh yeah, iPad is awesome. It's so fancy. She doesn't even know what she's talking about. You know, I feel sorry for the woman that she... I guess she got shot. Although I'm... I don't know.

2:00:01 And then they have, they literally say here's the doctor who acted when she came in. They had this doctor like, you know, showing how, I guess how they scripted the scenario or something. It was a really weird report. She talked about her love for the iPad. How much of a bull crap is that? So they interviewed her, she's like, oh the daily, I gotta get on their right side. Oh yeah. It's all great to have it in the cloud. While you're flying, really? You got all that in the cloud while you're flying? Please. Just weeks later, Giffords was fighting for her life. In her book, she describes that day in three words. Shot, shocked, and scary.

2:00:54 The Daily profiled a doctor who played a role in saving her life. A doctor who played a role in saving her life. Words matter to me. She actually came in from one of the elevators down the hallway. She was brought up the hallway and I met her here at this intersection of both walkways. We brought her into this room over here where we began to resuscitate her. Each step of the way, the public followed Gifford's miraculous recovery. The Daily interviewed her surgeon at a critical juncture when a third of her skull was replaced with a synthetic plate. Just like Joe Biden. I don't know John. I'm telling you I feel good about my prediction. Okay, well I mean I'll go from it'll come out in the wash Something will happen for sure Okay So I went over capacity on Twitter right here. You went over capacity. No. It just is over capacity I get that stupid error message. Oh fail. Well type thing yeah, I'm gonna get back to my mailbox cuz I have a couple more clips I have a

CHAPTER 42 / 48 Discussion

New Girl and Alan Gregory Critiques, Family Guy Radio Bit

The hosts critique current television comedies, calling the Fox show "New Girl" terrible and "Alan Gregory" unwatchable. They describe the main character of "Alan Gregory" as a "midget Elton John." A brief clip from "Family Guy" features a return of the "Weenie and the Butt" radio station parody, which the hosts find disappointing.

new girl· alan gregory· fox· family guy· elton john

2:01:59 I can I can do a There's a you know the new girl show on Fox. Oh, yeah, it's a terrible show How can we have a mature conversation when you can't even say the word penis I can say the word keen said yeah, yes, what? Pierre yes, you said fairness How is this funny?

2:03:03 They could have at least added a laugh track. Now if I wanted to really make you irked, I would have made some clips from the show that debuted recently called the Alan Gregory Show. I don't watch television. This is a new cartoon show where this little midget, Alan Gregory, This little midget alien. Oh, it's from the Makers of Family guy, isn't it? No, it's not. It's a totally alien production group. And the kid, this little kid, he looks like, what's the name of the gay singer? They always have the big glasses and the... The gay singer? Flamboyant. Gay singer with big... well hold on a second. Let me just Google that. Gay singer with big glasses. If Google's good then they can tell me who this is. Let's see. It was famous. I don't know why his name's not coming to my... Elton John? Elton John. It was the number one hit on Google too by the way.

2:04:02 Google's amazing. Who's the gay singer with the big glasses? Elton John? So this kid is like a little midget Elton John only more gay. And it's a cartoon though, right? Yeah, it's a cartoon. It is terrible. This is so cocaine. I mean you just you can you can almost be sniffing the coke while you're watching this thing. I mean it's so reverse and not funny and Terrible that you really have to wonder what is wrong with the people at Fox. I mean it's unwatchable But you take that new girl things on Fox too. I mean it's there any vagina references in it It could just be another ad for hail the V. I don't think so oh

2:04:50 Hey, but there is one thing that did happen on Family Guy last night. I just have a little clip of that. What happened? Which is the return of Weenie and the Butt. Oh no! Butt on the Yonder! As a callback. Look at me, I'm driving. I'm driving a real car. I don't believe it. Well, I'd say we need to put on some tunes. Hey, welcome back to weenie in the butt on 97.1 97.1 Weenie in the butt just like the grown-ups listen to and that was baby by Justin Bieber featuring ludicrous Which means it's time to give away some Justin Bieber tickets. Oh, that's right, but our fifth caller will ween those tickets God Okay

CHAPTER 43 / 48 Discussion

DSM-5 Socio-Political Deviance, Mental Disorder Categorization

The upcoming DSM-5 manual for psychiatrists reportedly includes "socio-political deviance" as a potential mental disorder. The hosts compare this to George Orwell's "1984," suggesting that political dissenters like themselves or Ron Paul could be categorized as mentally ill. They joke about being on a list for "re-education."

dsm-5· psychiatry· socio-political deviance· mental disorder· 1984

2:05:31 Could have been better. It could have been better. They didn't quite then they never showed weenie in the butt They just had him on the radio, so so disappointing this Friday is Veterans Day which coincides with 11 11 11 by Presidential proclamation, you know that was I thought was always always on a Monday Veterans Day. There's too much going on this week a little uh I don't know I'm a little scared about it all. Why? I don't know. With the emergency alert system, with the asteroid flying by, with 11-11-11. I don't know. You get like that creepy feeling where something's going to happen? No. You're creepy feeling as you're moving to Austin. It's not creepy, man. And you have to drive through Arizona and New Mexico. Yeah, I'm very excited about that. It's going to be great.

2:06:27 There's a memory the DSM 5 this is the the recommendation for psych psychiatrists so that you know basically whatever's in here can be deemed as something you can prescribe drugs for yeah so there that I only found out was really in it when I saw this petition which was sent to be one of our producers against the against a specific piece of language in the DSM-5. You can find that at dsm5.org. And it's about... let me just find the exact wording here. It's a socio-political deviance which DSM-5 wants to categorize as a mental disorder.

2:07:26 social socio-political deviance in case you political yes socio-political deviance in case you didn't notice that will be you and I and Ron Paul yeah so if you have behavioral symptoms that can be caused by socio-political descent well this is just like the 1984 story from Orwell I mean you you know the fact of the matter is based on our show boy oh damn it almost made to a whole show yeah Let me mark the time 11 16. Mark that down. You will be flogged appropriately. So the problem or what I see is that we are we are already on the list for reeducation. Right. Based on the show. It's kind of just waiting for the

CHAPTER 44 / 48 Discussion

Forbes Most Powerful People List, PR Scams

Forbes released its list of the most powerful people, with Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin at the top. The hosts dismiss the list as a PR exercise designed to generate publicity for the magazine. They argue that including figures like Mark Zuckerberg is a "screwball" choice meant to provoke bloggers and that true power lies with shadow government figures not on the list.

forbes· barack obama· vladimir putin· mark zuckerberg· bill gates

2:08:20 I'm happy. I'm- I am very happy I'm gonna be. It's gonna be a lot harder for them to actually get a hold of me while I'm in Texas, I think. Gonna be a lot harder. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Uh, okay. Maybe just a time for... And now, back to real news. Almost as important as the podcast awards, Forbes came out with the most powerful people in the universe. Oh, yeah, geez well I Jikes re-explain how these things work. Yeah, let me just give you the top ten and then you can explain how it works number one Barack Obama number two Vladimir Putin number three who's in town number four hair Merkel number five Bill Gates number six Abdullah bin Abdullah Ziz al-saud

2:09:18 Number 7, Pope Benedict. Number 8, Ben Bernanke. Number 9, Mark Zuckerberg. And number 10, David Cameron. I can't believe that Hillary Clinton doesn't show up until number 16 and Bill Clinton's way down in like the 40s. Yeah, well Hillary should definitely be in the top 10. Yeah, she should be like number 2. Or 1. Yeah, depending on which drone strike you're getting. But unless you have the ability to declare somebody dead and to be able to direct drones, I don't think Zuckerberg belongs on this list at all. No, not... And neither does Gates for that matter. It's totally just jerking them off. Yes, and that's what they're doing. In fact, the way these lists work, and I'll explain it again, I've explained it in columns and I've explained it on the show about once a year, I'll do it again. When you're in an editorial team, first of all, when it's a list like this, you already have the old list. Right.

2:10:15 So you take the old list and you're usually sitting around eating sandwiches, you're at lunch, it's a meeting, you say, oh, we gotta do this list. When's it due? Oh, we got it, what? We have to do it today? Okay, okay, let's get Jim, Bill, and Fred, we're gonna sit around here, and then Sally, and we'll figure this out. And you get the old list, so you start with that, but you gotta juggle the names a little bit so it looks like you've done something. And then you have to do a couple of screwball things, like the Zuckerberg thing is one of them. Let's drop this guy's name in the top ten. That'll get people talking and they'll be talking about the list and they'll be blogging about the list because Zuckerberg's number nine and I guarantee that'll get some attention. That's great, boss!

2:10:54 And so the whole thing is just an exercise in, you know... PR for yourself. PR for your magazine. Yeah, it's all point of view, you get yourself publicity. There's always a couple outrageous things on there. You say, this makes no sense. Because the whole thing makes no sense and it's impossible to do. And probably the true, you know, there's probably at least two or three shadow government people that aren't on the list at all that have more influence than everybody on the list. And who knows? I mean, but this is a scam. And I remember doing these lists. And one of the things we always did when I was, had anything to do with me, was you'd wanted to have a couple of screw you choices.

2:11:35 Just to annoy people. Right, to annoy the other people on the list. Yeah, or people that weren't didn't make the list at all. Right, right. Yeah, well this is clearly... The distraction of the week on the Woods' agenda. Look over there. I'm sorry, what? I looked at the list it was... Yeah, who cares? You know, when I lived in Gitmo Nation lowlands when I was rich And I was seriously a millionaire, no doubt about it. But they would always, you know, there was kind of like their version of Forbes quote magazine, which was taken very seriously as the financial magazine. They would have me like at 150 million. It's like, really? If I counted everything up and then doubled it, you know, like still no way, no way.

CHAPTER 45 / 48 Discussion

Bill Maher Constitution Comments, Second Amendment Repeal

On Bill Maher's show, MSNBC's Alex Wagner suggested getting rid of the Second Amendment, arguing that the right to bear arms is not on the same level as free speech. The hosts mock Wagner and Maher for wanting to rewrite the Constitution while being ignorant of its contents, such as claiming gerrymandering and corporate personhood are in the original text.

bill maher· alex wagner· constitution· second amendment· msnbc

2:12:28 But of course that's how the list works, you know. You should have gotten yourself some meetings. Yeah, exactly. You should have collected a few business cards while you were on that thing. So I was watching Bill Maher as I mentioned earlier in the show. Oh boy. And so here we go with the let's kill the Constitution meme and start over because we know so much better than somebody like Thomas Jefferson might have known about the way things ought to be. And they had this douchebag on, this woman who's just the worst person in the world. Her name is Alex Wagner. You know, her first name's Alex.

2:13:05 and she's from MSNBC and she chimes in on the second amendment and the whole thing was like we not only want to change the Constitution but definitely got to get rid of these guns. What we're Bobiden about which is how should we change the Constitution he says we don't need a page one rewrite I think we do I can name like five or six things right off the top of my head we mentioned gerrymandering I think you should go corporate personhood should go. Let's ask Sally, what would you change in the Constitution? I'm going to be pilloried for this. I'd get rid of the Second Amendment, right to bear arms. I just think in the grand scheme of things, we all want right of assembly, free speech.

2:13:51 owning a gun does not it does not tally on the same level as as those other constitutional rights were given and and being more discreet about who gets to have a firearm and the right to kill with a firearm I think is something that we would be well it would be in our international interest to revisit that that that yeah yeah the only person should be able to do that is Barack with the drone yeah and Hillary with the drone yeah no don't give people get guns of people give it to our it to our Uber Lord to go drone people. Who is that whore? I told you Alex Wagner. My goodness. Is she hot? She's kind of pretty in a snide, liberal college girl way. Oh no she's not. She's got that. Cheeks, you got the cheekbones. She's got like the big cheekbones. She's got that ooh men look. You know, you guys know what I'm talking about.

2:14:44 But anyway, she says the right to kill. What right to kill do you have? That's only for your Uber Lord Obama has the right to kill. And then that idiot Marr goes on about I'd like to change the Constitution from page one, get rid of gerrymandering. Gerrymandering isn't in the Constitution. Get rid of corporate personhood? That's not in the Constitution. John, we need, because he's an idiot, we need to rewrite the Constitution that only the President and the Secretary of State, if their names are Obama and Clinton, should be allowed to drone brown people in deserts. And I think it should be in the Constitution that we never show that on television. And in the Constitution, we change weeks to days.

2:15:28 So that we're very clear when we say days that we know what it really means. I mean really this is... and who are those drones in the audience applauding this? You are so stupid. They will come for you. They will come for you. That audience is terrible. Oh my goodness and this woman. No, she's... I don't know what her problem is, but MSNBC strikes again. They wondered, you know, there's big news this week in the New York Times and elsewhere about NBC, now that they're owned by CableTown, have... the ratings are even worse than the tank. They got no new shows worth a crap. They have one show that we've been watching that looks like it could be highly entertaining if they could sustain it, which is called Grimm, which is kind of a fantasy story. It's quite interesting, very well done.

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NBC Ratings Decline, Grimm Fantasy Series

NBC's ratings have significantly declined since being acquired by Comcast (CableTown), with the network relying heavily on football for viewership. The hosts note that most new shows are failing, with the exception of the fantasy series "Grimm." They argue that television executives are "too stupid" to hire successful creative talent to run the business.

nbc· cablevision· ratings· grimm· television executives

2:14:44 But anyway, she says the right to kill. What right to kill do you have? That's only for your Uber Lord Obama has the right to kill. And then that idiot Marr goes on about I'd like to change the Constitution from page one, get rid of gerrymandering. Gerrymandering isn't in the Constitution. Get rid of corporate personhood? That's not in the Constitution. John, we need, because he's an idiot, we need to rewrite the Constitution that only the President and the Secretary of State, if their names are Obama and Clinton, should be allowed to drone brown people in deserts. And I think it should be in the Constitution that we never show that on television. And in the Constitution, we change weeks to days.

2:15:28 So that we're very clear when we say days that we know what it really means. I mean really this is... and who are those drones in the audience applauding this? You are so stupid. They will come for you. They will come for you. That audience is terrible. Oh my goodness and this woman. No, she's... I don't know what her problem is, but MSNBC strikes again. They wondered, you know, there's big news this week in the New York Times and elsewhere about NBC, now that they're owned by CableTown, have... the ratings are even worse than the tank. They got no new shows worth a crap. They have one show that we've been watching that looks like it could be highly entertaining if they could sustain it, which is called Grimm, which is kind of a fantasy story. It's quite interesting, very well done.

2:16:17 Except for that, all the shows are dogs, they're all failing left and right, and they got no new comedies, and their ratings are in the toilet. The only good ratings they got is from football games. And they don't know what to do, they're beside themselves, and it's obvious they got no talent that can pick, you know, it's like this crazy show on Fox, this stupid show with this cartoon that's not funny. Find somebody who knows what they're doing and why don't they take somebody, say they got like Tina Fey who seems to have some, creates a hit show for NBC. Why don't you find somebody like her or somebody else who's been successful over and over again like that Harmon guy who's on NCIS apparently has a history of always picking and being on these hit shows, that being the top show. Why doesn't one of these executives hire these people

2:17:03 And say, look, why don't you be an executive for a year and show us how to do it right because we are too stupid to do it. They never do this. I think you're a little too obsessed with this. You know, my kids... I like watching TV. I like watching an entertainment show. Well, you're in the market! You're in their market! You're in the market for a hearing aid and a free electric chair. I am not watching shows that have free electric chair. Those are all on Fox. And CNN. I don't watch CNN. You do. Yeah. No, the kids don't watch television, John. It's over. For good reason. But it's a dead game. They don't give a crap. They really don't care. They'll watch a good show on Hulu, but there's very few. No wonder they're stealing it. It's not worth paying anything to get all the other crap you have to sit through. No, it's over. It's over. It's easy to see that it's over. That's a problem.

CHAPTER 47 / 48 Discussion

Adam Curry Wealth Clarification, Direct Audience Connection

Adam Curry clarifies his financial history, explaining that he lost much of his wealth due to a business partner who was a fugitive from Scotland Yard and through ten years of spending. He expresses that he has never been happier than he is now, supported directly by his audience. The hosts also discuss Louis CK's experiment in selling a comedy special directly to fans for five dollars.

adam curry· wealth· scotland yard· louis ck· independent media

2:17:57 Because the more over it is the less important the the stuff they say and our clips won't matter and then I'll show we'll die I just like to clarify something that's what I say you know I'd like to I'd like to clarify something for people who are questioning this hold on I'll play the happy now That's right kids just go to sleep everything will be fine be a happy now just a jazzy little tune I'd like to clarify People saying hard Adam lose his money. I look it's very easy listen hear me now

2:18:46 First I lost your now. Oh hold on a second you're actually now We're in a you're in a dialogue with the chat room on the show because I saw the chat room question is I figured there will be people who are listening who want to know that because when they say you got divorced now I had my money was gone before that let me just explain I had a business partner who turned out to be using a false name and And that was wanted by the Scotland Yard for 15 years. And he ran away. And so that, and of course when you do that publicly, that shuts down all the businesses. So a lot of it I lost in business. And then for 10 years I spent it. That's not so crazy is it? A lot of people spend their way through a few mil. Yeah, it was easy.

2:19:38 Oh yeah, your lifestyle. Now you're penny pinching. I don't care. You know, I've never been this happy. I've never been as happy to wake up in the morning. First of all, I'm waking up. First of all, I'm waking up. I'm like, hey, I'm awake. I'm alive. And then to know that my life is supported by the people who listen to the fruits of my labor. That makes me very happy. I've never been this happy in my life. It's a direct connection with the audience. It's very unusual to do that. I'm sorry? I said it's a direct connection of the audience. We are very unusual in our approach and the fact that we have a direct connection community that supports our efforts because they like what we do. Very, it's very hard to come by.

2:20:16 Don't you have the same thing? I mean, I literally wake up, I'm like, wow, this is so amazing. Well, as a writer, I've always been talking to the people that read me, so I mean, it's not that new to me. No, but the fact that it's a direct connection, it is new. That is completely new to me. Yeah. Okay, it's five years old, we've been doing it for a while, and it's finally kind of making sense, and it's kind of working. But yeah, I love that. And there should be more of that. And this is where it's gonna go. It's where it's gonna go... This is why television is losing. They don't understand. They just don't understand what's happening. Suits. Yeah. What's his name? Lewis CK? Yeah. He's not even gonna do his comedy special. He's not selling it to HBO or Showtime. He's just gonna sell it directly. Yeah, pay me five bucks. I think he's making a mistake. He's gonna do like a... You have to...

2:21:11 Yeah, you have to PayPal $5. I think you should keep it open I think I'd pay 50 bucks if I had it I'd pay 50 bucks for a good Louis CK concert That would be the guy who should experiment cuz he's got a real following He's actually funny Hey, yeah, we're not unfunny. No we're not so You got an ender shower. I got a couple of things for that. They're nothing really that great No, I think I think I'm good. We'll just keep it for what it is Yeah, then I'll do the hey-hey moxie girl at the end I Like that one a lot more the hey-hey bestiality the reference to the horse kissing her yeah I don't know that's pretty that's pretty sketchy. It does it for me Anywho

CHAPTER 48 / 48 Discussion

Show Outro, Move to Texas, Moxie Girl Sign-off

The hosts conclude the Monday show, noting that the studio will be dismantled for the move to Austin, Texas. They plan to return for a Thursday show before the 11-11-11 date. The episode ends with a repeat of the "Moxie Girl" horse commercial and the standard "Adios mofo" sign-off.

texas· austin· sign-off· moxie girl· adios mofo

2:22:08 Thursday will be back to be a weird show as the crackpot command center moving out. Yeah, they'll be deconstructing the entire house around me and all I'm gonna be left with is the studio and the minute I'm done and uploaded the show then they're taking the studio away and Then we hop in the car and we start driving out east through Arizona a through New Mexico II and into Texas and you ever driven through New Mexico. I don't believe so I It's gorgeous. I'm looking for the nights. So coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center here in Goodman Nation West in the morning everybody on this lovely Monday my name is Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley it is a Monday and it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood here I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll be back on Thursday right here with no agenda. Now let's rock cricket girls. She loves to talk. Moxie horses really walk. Don't we look cute? No kissing you.

2:23:24 Hey, hey, hey! Moxie Girls Horse Riding Club! Dolls, horses and stable each sold separately. If you see something, say something! Adios, mofo. Dvorak.org slash N-A