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00:00 Yeah, you just get it out of the air. The energy's around you man! It's around you! Wrapping up the Red Book entries in the lowlands of Gitmo Nation, Day 28 Living In Exile in Amsterdam. In The Morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where it remains cold and chilly...I am John C. Dvorak. And may I be first to wish you a very happy National Stalking Awareness Month

00:42 I didn't know i needed to wear stockings. By presidential proclamation! That also includes, by the way cyber stalking it is... Oh stalking? I thought you meant stockings no national how stalking awareness month that's one of those bogus things you threw in It was not bogus, it was signed by autopan its real the deal is complete I've seen these things. We watch the C-Span, we know what's going on. So um... Happy New Year! Wait wait wait wait wait wait, do you have a happy new year thing?

01:19 What do you mean? And I want, and think we should at least play one clip right off the bat. The New Year's uh... New York New Year celebration thing showing that what happens is you get a guy in there forever four or five terms he becomes a he becomes Mussolini and then you get this kind of report. More than 1 million people from all over the world crammed into several blocks around Times Square three hours before the ball dropped there were so many people you couldn't get close enough to see it! This year there were no food vendors or public toilets Poop on the floor slave! Hold on a second, people say I sound like crap. Do i sound like crap to you? You think I sound good to me?

01:59 Wow, how come no public toilets? I mean how hard is it to throw a couple of porta potties down What's the problem with that all because it obviously be filled with a giant bomb. Oh Right oh yes of course. I'm sorry the giant poop bomb Yeah, well happy new year John let me just say yeah we are here now in 2013 as we enter our Sixth year is it six years already? Is that our is this what we're doing our six and heading to show 500 in about 24 episodes. Oh, I have to say Well first of all let me ask you how your celebration was and I'd like to say something about mine

02:40 Okay, well you probably had more fun than I did because Europeans have you know? Well actually we had We didn't do anything special. We watched the fireworks as that we can do off the porch Yeah Because it was overlook San Francisco so he watched it was actually quite a good display now people not explode their own fireworks on New Year's Eve in the United States correct and That depends on the state. Some states it's legal, but California no. Generally speaking in fact this year they cracked down on what is normally done especially in East Oakland and Richmond where people take their 45s and go outside to take about six rounds a day. I know! I miss home so much. Boom boom boom just like Iraq. Saddam used to do that all the time. I missed bopping off a couple of rounds with the judge

03:29 Would have been nice. I miss my judge. Yeah, well... Let me, so he had some champagne. You know the same old it wasn't anything special Okay well here you can go out anyway they got their million patrols are trying to bust everybody this country has become a bunch of duds Duds? Wait a minute you insulted The Americans on the last episode by saying It'll be hard-pressed to find an American who can find Europe on the map This went viral by the way this uh... this quote of yours and what was the one this country is filled with a bunch of duds let me just make sure we get the court properly that's at the real devorak everybody a bunch of duds well here in gitmo nation lowlands where everyone has apparently the equivalent of what does it the free syrian army has been

04:21 In explosives it was quite annoying. I'm not a big fireworks fan And I like looking at a fireworks display, but I'm not really big into the loud explosions It just freaked me out. It's just like yeah, I don't need this But what is very interesting, is here in the lowlands and I believe it's many countries in Europe but was very interesting to watch. It specifically here they have the big year-end lotteries and this is what everything is centered around the year end lottery And now we have the state lottery And they both may have involvement with government, the state lottery obviously does. But they really pay for most of the entertainment on television

05:08 and they have these really big bombastic shows. And it's so interesting, you could even buy a fifth of a ticket. So a full ticket is 30 euros and you can buy half a ticket or quarter of a ticket or a fifth of the ticket then of course you would share with other co-owners of the tickets but the lottery I wanted to discuss with you briefly and have a really really big event on New Year's Day is the postcode lottery Known as the which would translate to these zip code lottery John I have no idea why this is not going on in America This is the this is a curry Dvorak. It has us written all over it We need to start this lottery and let me explain how it works

05:53 You play via automatic bank payment, so every single month. I love this part already! Every single month you can choose one lottery ticket or two... as many as you want essentially and the drawing is done on zip code So what happens is so let's say I'm here in zip code 1017 DM and that's an entire street. And so they pull the ZIP Code, and then the celebrities who are part of these big television shows it goes on for days the whole wind up for this thing. They didn't come to your home with these huge envelopes

06:36 And they say, you're in the zip code so that means you win. How many tickets do you have? That determines the prize amount and also how many Kanyapunte which is kind of like awesome dude points for that length of time you've been playing and then you get a large cash prize The entire prize is divided up In the neighborhood, so they divide essentially 20 million euros into the amount of winners in the street Whose zip code was chosen now? Here's what I love about this Because invariably you see on television, you see these poor people who like win a million euros or two million euros or even 400 thousand euros and then that you look at the other people in the street who have their curtains drawn because they didn't play.

07:31 They didn't have any tickets. The peer pressure is outstanding! It's outstanding and then they get all... Can we go visit this person who is a loser who didn't play? And you can just see people already like committing suicide. Can you imagine being in the street where the big prize fell and then you didn't buy any tickets? Worse, you didn't have any super awesome bonus points so you got a lousy 200 thousand when your neighbor got two million even then you'll feel like a loser even though you really won it is the It's the most unbelievable peer pressure Gitmo nation thing I've ever seen and the way these celebrities go around to all these people's homes, and they have the big checks. They pull out of the envelopes... And it's sad literally! So the whole New Year's consists of slaves

08:25 who have won money and now they're heroes. It's great, they are heroes for letting this lottery take money from their bank account every month for God knows how long but because they were smart enough to play their national heroes and we have Holland's new millionaires let's see how the new millionaires are doing it is John why is this not being done in United States? This peer pressure is a great system I'm sure it's being considered we need to be in on it because the amount of Entertainment shows that are put together that are sponsored by this zip code lottery is I mean everything is from possible to begin on it because In this country illegal lotteries or well, it doesn't know what they are which is illegal So why should it be legal? It can just it can be a legal lottery. We have Powerball don't me and

09:16 That's a legal lottery based on legislation. Right, so what I'm saying is we need a new lottery based on legislation that works and think about it this could save the postal system. The postal system doesn't need saving! Just play with me now... Well iIm glad you like this sort of scam. I love it! It's awesome! You just sit there watching like ah.... So all my clips today by the way want to mention Somebody has a German, I think it's in Berlin satellite dish C-band. Oh? Slingbox! Ah

09:57 So I was watching what I could. Now there's a bunch of crazy, we should maybe introduce some people to the idea of what's on German television in general not to mention what's on the satellite dishes but let me give you, maybe you can explain it too and have a little piece of German programming which I have as an Ask Adamite man why don't you first guess what this might be? Okay, now you know that I it is possible that I will be able to understand the German. Oh yeah No, I'm sure you can't understand maybe not me too late. Maybe this German essentially a number with a guy the food sick fictive in national Is there something like that? Yeah well why don't you play it

10:36 I'm so happy GX2 is making a living in Germany. That's fantastic for him Yes, I know what this is. Yeah why don't you explain it because when Americans first go to Germany and they flip on the TV they run into these channels and on the satellite dish I swear to God there must be 50 of them! It goes all over Europe but it's not just Germany we have it in the Netherlands... No it is all over but Germany really has a lot of it Right so after hours when it's not cost-effective to put expensive lottery sponsored programming

11:35 Then you basically have a bunch of girls who will be, and it typically is live. They're sitting in a room with a bunch of pillows and they're scantily clad And they'll be on the phone and essentially they are talking to people who are calling that number that 999-222 whatever she said number And then of course you can go private with her. It's kind of like a webcam sex thing, only little different. is occasionally up to them unfortunately there's no a real guide I to this edition said like 2000 channels on punch in the night they spending hours going down channel now okay when it this is what you spent New Year's Day doing isn't it high-speed a lot of time on this thing women only found two worthwhile chance guy news which is actually quite as much better be I don't have this who's whose sling box did you get known sent me this at this log into the Germanness slingbox

12:37 I found a sling box sharing website. Oh, homework! Apparently there's this is this if there's a huge underground of this and I okay because nobody got me at New York Slingbox. All right, don't complain. So what is your question? No it's not a question I'm saying I'm going through these and then there's the occasional channel with, I swear to God it's a 50-60 year old woman. Have you seen this? I don't know what you're going to say but i like it already! A 56 year old horrible looking woman naked with rolls of fat seriously and she is offering her you know to bad boys or something it's some crazy thing I couldn't quite pick up what she was angling for but there was a number of these sites and it was literally

13:29 You know, it was not pleasant. Let's put it that way as you go to whoa and you get hit the channel button as fast as you can trying to get this satellite thing to change channels. Sure John welcome to Europe Yeah sure Oh quick change it change. Oh honey I can't get it to change it won't switch out. What's happening? Okay, well yeah so that sounds like you had a good time there. And by the way hello Hellfro's over New Year's Day you showed up on Google Plus I did. Thought I'd start the new year off right. Thank God for browsing so much Mr. Borak he is never going to show up He is a jerk Yeah that pretty much it That about it I mentioned in

14:20 In the in the intro there that we're gonna wrap up a couple of Redbook predictions You did bring the red book for today's program. I have it right here So let me uh, let me talk about let me take this in sequence here for a moment I caught a couple of things from the US. I tried to soak up as much culture here as possible, obviously and people seem to be liking that this change on the show which I tell you my experience is a lot less likable This has now been a month 28 days in exile full-month dual rent

14:56 cold It's yeah, what do you mean? What are you laughing about it's not funny the other place too. Not that funny You know we're about to get kicked out If you could buy the gate kick down this is hilarious. Oh, it's not anything but hilarious We're about to get kicked out of here And we're about to get kicked out in Austin because you know we had only have the lease until February 15th and I had nightmare okay so I saw quite a little bit of the year-end retrospective from CBS News. You know these year end things? Yeah, you know I was actually thinking of getting one... This is the funny thing! I didn't do one either but i wanted to play for you The piece of CBS News' Year End Retrospective

15:42 of ben gazi now we all remember what happened in the guys would you like to give me a just a if you were to produce this john what would you put in there in the in the bend down here and then he had to have lived in regular canada that they did the public expects which is that was you know s an attack on some sort when in fact we uh... out it at all the evidence tends to point to a failed kidnapping attempt as an october surprise to benefit their mama campaign and that failed and which is which is why Hillary was very upset at the time, you can see it visibly and why she's not going to ever testify before Congress about this episode. So that's the background as far as I know. Well well...you're fired! Even that is way too much! And in Benghazi Libya an armed attack killed US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans

16:41 Four State Department officials eventually resigned over the incident and there you go It would have no less 20 people that they ferried it off in the German ditch. Yeah, and the fact that those four people didn't resign they just resigned one piece of their job and they took other gigs and yeah, all crap And of course we now have hiding Hillary hide-and-go-seek Hillary Clinton and by the way what? Would you let would you let me just go just flow through this before you do it by the way because I'm afraid You're gonna like ruin my whole bit. Yes step on my bid exactly one. No, oh Wrap this up real quick so of course you're not allowed to Come up with any conspiracies about hair Hillary Because you know that's crazy is just crazy talk now of course on the last episode

17:37 I brought up a pretty much clear piece of disinfo that is out there about this accident that Hillary may have had and that related to a SEAL team member who had supposedly committed suicide. And, as I already said you know this is very shaky source that this is coming from and now you kind of see it all over and it looks like it came from Sorsha Fowl which and just bullcrap, just total bullcrap. Our theory has always been very very simple but first let me play a piece of Representative Israel who will tell you how insane you are to think that Hillary might be faking this or there might be something else going on in fact she the representative israel could actually be on this week in tech with Leo. facing direct questions on Benghazi

18:28 well that's what's wrong with washington you know the people who invent conspiracies behind every cloud these are the same people who said that the moon landing staged in a hollywood set there ya go, I'm crazy! The same people... the same people who said the moon landing was staged on a Hollywood set are saying that Hillary has ulterior motives but uh... we found the smoking gun i have it here for you. I've got a smokin' gun our theory of course at least one of the theories is that Hillary is on deck for a complete makeover, a facelift the whole nine because of course she has to rest up get ready you know she's gonna be running in a couple years and she's got a lot of work to do. And if you've seen any recent pictures and you know how many women feel about their parents then you probably would agree with that

19:24 Here is smoking gun proof that she is indeed doing just that. Anthony, Secretary Clinton was just discharged from the hospital. Her car pulled away just moments ago and her spokesperson released this statement saying her medical team advised her that she is making good progress on all fronts and they are confident that she will make a full recovery now earlier today secretary Clinton made her first public appearance in three weeks as she walked out of the Harkness Eye Institute into his secure van

20:13 Okay, let's stop right there and let's take a look at the Edward Harkness Eye Institute which you will be able to find John at ColumbiaEye.org and while you look that up I will tell you that the things they do here is laser vision correction and eye plastic and reconstructive surgery and if you look at all the photographs Yeah, she comes out with it with the huge sunglasses on the Jackie. Oh sunglasses exact by the way by the way yeah This is exactly if I would go back I was thinking about going back and pulling a clip from our own show saying that when you first see her She's gonna have huge sunglasses in a big scarf around in fact right? You said that use I did That's what you do these

21:00 These are not normal sunglasses and why are you wearing them at all? But your huge Sunglasses to cover up two black eyes and notice that Bill and Chelsea And the Secret Service guys not even the Secret Service guys are wearing sunglasses, and they always wear sunglasses She did not have a scarf over the head yet because that work hasn't started yet. It's very obvious that were just as you know i stand yet it's finished the report along with a smiling bill and chelsea clinton and accompanied by security detail now there are private doors here at the hospital she could have used to avoid those cameras but she chose

21:36 to walk out smiling into the cold New York air. And the State Department does say that Secretary Clinton has been very active by phone and in communication with her staff." And I'd like to point out she was also not in a wheelchair, you know someone who has a blood clot and all this stuff going on... You know typically what is she doing in the Eye Institute? Only one thing they don't do anything no one ever said oh she has a vision problem! I didn't hear any of that It's not behind her eyes, the blood clot apparently is somewhere around her ear. No no this is she's going to look dynamite! Well it's gonna take a while yeah it's gonna take another eight weeks for sure but she apparently the procedure hasn't been done yet she just done she's doing it piecemeal so she's got the eye job first So I call this smoking proof what do you say?

22:28 I'm all in. Good, I mean when i saw the sunglasses and saw that picture I said oh brother okay well this is the giveaway but then she had all the stuff wrapped around her neck too but it's obviously she hasn't had her jowls worked on yet so she hasn't had the face part of it done That would take it too long to heal. So this will happen in the off season, but you see this is what? This is very important she's shown that she's alive so that that's what she did as very important that she showed that at least he's not dead You know here's another off-the-wall thing I think that this was just a coincidence that she couldn't do the Benghazi and I think there's a scheduled No no no! It's like oh now they're gonna think I'm trying to avoid the Benghazis I'm just trying to get him with the right doctor

23:18 It's like, look I don't care Benghazi Schmenghazi. Alright? I'm gonna go see that doctor! He...I can't- it's very hard to get a spot open up on Dr. Lewenthal schedule This is just not going to happen Well, in the morning and happy new year to you John C. Dvorak In the morning and happy new year to you Adam Curry also in the morning and happy New Year to all the ships that see boots on the ground feet in the water subs in the water feet in the air And they get all the dames and knights out there who support this show so assiduously Yes another and also our barons are Baronesses we have our black Knights and Black Dames of course thank you and our artists

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24:48 And also, thank you Joe who did a little PR campaign. He says I donated to the VLC Kickstarter. I guess VLC or doing a Windows 8 version or something as part of the Kickstarter they offered me credit for being one of the backers since I don't care that much about such a thing I asked them let the show get my credit Just trying to hit some people in the mouth. So that is and there it says no agenda show calm, no agenda best podcast in the universe I think that's a very good idea if you're gonna know any contribute anywhere You can always contribute in name of the show yeah, I think that's a very good actually a very good idea and other ways to contribute are by following C-SPAN

25:40 Yeah, no one. I've been listening to this. No one does that? No one does that now. Bill in Fort Worth and Colin as an independent. And I think that everything is bull crap what they're doing in the Congress. Do you have a question, sir? Well yeah, I have a question these guys had been screwing around at that point so even you could do it. You have a question Sir yes What is the best podcast in the universe? I give you a choice. Noagendashow.com, no agenda That's how you do it! No one ever does that Think about how legendary that would be It's so easy I think what happens is people think that C-span is probably detrimental to your health You're probably just watching like ugh...it's painful And I was watching In The Middle Of The Night

26:35 Was watching the the fiscal cliff thing votey thingamajig on the streaming website. That's how bad it is I was actually watching that at 3 in the morning and you know, it's like 130 I'm like okay they're gonna do a vote there's like we'll do it in the nine o'clock hour. Oh my god No, that's 3 a.m.. Apparently it wasn't at midnight deadline or anything so as long as the thing was underway during the So the fish so they did most of them they got rid of that a bit that John let's just be honest Let's just be honest is bullshit well apparently hold the whole like oh It has to be done by this total bullcrap

27:18 What they did was bullcrap too. In fact, what's funny about listening to these both the Sky News and the VanCat which has a 24-hour news station in Europe so you can watch news all I mean it's not like the carefully chosen feeds we get right? You get all kinds of weird uh... usages that they won't give to the american and then here's one of them from one of the stations in on the cliff is a fudged deal who uses this term you want to take someone built doesn't go far enough it isn't for steel i think anybody thinks that it's anything else

27:57 My mom used to say this. Probably deludes themselves, I think we are going to hit problems again come February when President Obama presents his budget for 2014 and clearly one of the issues in that is going to be the debt ceiling and a budget deficit which at 16 point 4 trillion dollars is wholly unacceptable I think we need to reintroduce the term, John. Fudge. Fudged? Not just fudge! What does it mean?! Well you can do it in multiple ways... You said fudged! What does that mean? You've made fudge of it! Oh fudge! What's wrong with fudge!? Fudge is a chocolate delight! It's delectable! So why is this bad? Hey fudge you!

28:40 Fudge. What's wrong with what I don't get this? Well, well, I don't see how this term is a negative term Well it's if you think of the British and you think of the American and you think of all the derivatives it somewhere between Fuck and poop its fudged fudged It's a fudge deal. I tell you fooged I got something that you didn't see The Obama campaign sent out a video did you catch this one? I don't think you did. This was not on television, no. So the Obama campaign emailed... because he's going for a third term because Barack Obama campaign is still alive

29:28 I pulled out a like a 40-second clip and it's it's funny because It's really they have different producers and it's not as slick and there's no cool background. This is like a flag You know, the mic isn't placed right? Yeah, obviously just like they grab like hey, hey man Brock Barry Barry do one for the campaign man. We could want okay Alright, I'll do some for the campaign And he put a twist on this, which was... I'll tell you what it is. It's eat more of the rich but then he winds up with just a killer ending. Obviously there is still more to do when it comes to reducing our debt and I'm willing to do more as long we do in balanced way that doesn't put all the burden on seniors You can hear how the audio is all goofy and its poor production for students or middle class families

30:15 but also asks the wealthiest Americans to contribute and pay their fair share. So, wait you have to do more! Rich people pay more! Once we get this done, we can get to work on the issues that will determine whether America prospers not just in the next four years but for the next 40 years Okay it's important write this down John here are things he is going to be doing Winding down the war in Afghanistan in a responsible way. Reforming our immigration system and protecting our children from gun violence. Hold on, let's talk about that reform the immigration system I'm not so happy with it Oh protect the children from gun violence yes? Freeing ourselves from foreign oil Screw you, Fudge You Canada! Harmful effects of climate change. Reforming our schools and opening the doors of higher education to more Americans Now what can all that mean What can all those things combined mean

31:07 Spend more money. In other words, making sure this country remains a place where you can make it if you try. Wait a minute! I can make it if I try? There's a song in there somewhere...there's a lyric We can make it if we try. It might sound a little better, you can make it if you really try I think that could be nice He didn't even say that he just said You can make it... He probably forgot it! You can make it if you really try No he just said try If you just try Yeah and just.. I don't think I'm gonna try it Oh my goodness I apologize to the universe for that For The American Dream being Give it a try

31:58 Well, here's a new he has a new twist that he did pulled out and I think this is kind of interesting He pool on one of his press conferences after the signing. He came up with this which I have the clip is Obama logic And I'm paying bills. He's finally if this is good This could open up a can of worms But this is essentially what he said while I will negotiate over many things I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that they've already racked up through the laws that they passed. Let me repeat, we can't not pay bills that we've already incurred." Okay so he's throwing it at Congress because Congress in fact is responsible for the budget? Well of course although interestingly enough Congress is not only responsible but legally only Congress can write a bill that raises revenue interesting how the Senate did this but

33:02 That's maybe another story. Actually, if you follow Boehner's Twitter feed... I'm sorry! I must have skipped it. I must not be following him? The House initiated it is true. Oh okay. Okay. Boehner had the thing done something that they sent to the Senate and then the Senate just rewrote the whole damn thing and sent it back but it didn't initiate in the Senate It was done properly but nobody follows Boehner's Twitter feed Or to a tweeter. Hold on John. His tweeter feed and so they missed that. I found the song, I found the song. Ah good! This is the song for The American Dream. We'll just wait for the chorus for a moment

33:53 Do you recognize the song John? Oh yeah. John's like, oh yeah I wrote that here we go That's it right that's the one You can make if you try Yeah I think so that where he got it from Okay So And probably him and Michelle must be listening to that song constantly Just the two of us in the 747 just the two of us Gx2 you've got your work cut out for you. That's all I want to say it's 747 yeah, so um of course III read through the I read through the bill and

34:42 Which is H.R 8, that's the Senate version of course it passed unchanged Did you have a chance to look at anything? Did you have any remarks? No I knew you would You love reading legislation It's sad... My father! I know it's so sad because I really do I think its charming A couple things were fixed Your favorite the alternative minimum tax Of course it's not gone, it has just been patched and indexed. Yeah but its index permanently now so we don't have to deal with this crap Well until they change again I mean... That is true yeah They can change at any time! They will change it back! They can do whatever they want

35:23 is congress and i was going to get rid of it actually cbs did a pretty cool rundown of the couple of the couple the bennies that were slipped in there i was surprised at cbs did so all handed over to cds for second and all all uh... mention a few other things fiscal cliff wall passed so quickly many in congress never realized it was full special interest tax breaks one of which allows auto racetrack owners to speed up their tax deductions Another tax write-off goes to Hollywood. A $20 million break any time a TV show or movie is shot in an economically depressed area of the United States

36:03 There's a subsidy for rum made in Puerto Rico, a tax break if you train a mine rescue worker and attacks credit for every kilowatt of electricity produced by the wind. All told, a fiscal cliff law designed to reduce the deficit added 74 billion dollars in spending through changes in the tax law. It was a decent rundown it certainly wasn't everything I mean... If you look at... Let me see what did I have here? I just got to go down my list Extension of Indian employment tax credit. I mean so this cheap bastards don't do anything for the show yet Our government is extending tax credits for the employment of Indians Very annoying to me railroad track maintenance credit There's there's Warren Buffett's gotcha he got his little a little bit wait a minute stop a second

37:02 Indian, and they moan and groan about this. And there's still a tax credit for people like if I was going to use India to outsource? I would get a tax credit to do that right? No! Oh, I believe it is only if you bring Indians over here. Oh even better I'm not kidding you. I don't know why no one brought that up to me, it jumped right out at me. There's an extension of tax-exempt financing for the New York Liberty Zone So if you happen to be lucky enough to be building in the New York Liberty Zone, which of course is where the World Trade Center stood and where the new World Trade Center's being erected. You get a tax-exempt financing so there's a little scammage in there. Extension of credit for two or three wheeled plug-in electric vehicles? I didn't know you could get a credit for that! Did you know that?! Two or three wheels...

38:00 So if you know that means there's a tax credit for a Segway? That's correct. It's a two-wheel plug in electric vehicle Let's see then we have Unemployment benefits yeah, we got all that then we have oh yes There was an extension of the agricultural program that is a supplemental financing for the asparagus farmers Apparently remember this is an extension So I guess this was put in place when Bush was in office and asparagus was doing poorly apparently, and we've now extended it because asparagus has not recovered. Damn that asparagus! Now here's a couple things that I wanted to actually talk to you about cause didn't quite understand improve and make permanent

38:54 the provision authorizing the Internal Revenue Service to disclose certain return and return information to certain prison officials. And I'm not quite sure why, but you know we know the prison system is so corrupt and so rotten and commercialized that when i read in general under... It's a slave labor camp! Well it so apparently I think that IRS is now disclosing what the prison, what prisoners have made and they're disclosing it to prison officials. So I don't know so you like hey that guy's rich let's go you know let's give him some benefits or let's rough them up? Let's rough them up That's very very very strange provision and it's a long one maybe someone out there will be able to figure it out but restrictions on use of disclosed information any return or return information received under this paragraph shall we use only for the purpose

39:52 and to the extent necessary in taking administrative action to prevent the filing of false and fraudulent returns, including administrative actions to address possible violations of administrative rules and regulations of the prison facility. If you're a prisoner do you have to file your tax return? Well I think if you're under the...if you're a prisoner Well, let's see. Okay this has got to be okay I got your attention realistic This is got to have to do with white collar prisons because an average poor black guy caught for smoking a joint in East Oakland or West Texas Which is what most of these dudes are by the way Yeah most of these guys are that and some guy poor schlub in Texas who was in jail And being you know made to do a lot of extra free work for 10 cents an hour It doesn't get to the point where he has to file a tax There's no way

40:42 But a white collar prisoner who's making interest in income, and he's got all these different things going on the side in the background because you can't stop making money. He has to file a tax return of course. Wow! Okay I think you've cleared that one up. So now his tax return goes right to the warden? Is that the deal? Yeah I guess so. It's gotta have something to do with a different class of prisoners. And then of course the film and television productions, I think that's just fascinating. You know how the president and politicians always talk about... Wait wait hold on a second! Stop stop stop! Are they not making any money? Is that the problem?!

41:25 I guess the Hollywood people know those limos and Ferraris and they're not making the dough Justin Bieber and his Fisker and his Ferrari both he's got million cars. I mean is there they're broke? Well, I would like to point out this was not for the music business This is for certain film and television productions I would like to say that you know how the president in particular but politicians in general will talk about The special tax breaks that the oil companies receive This is a lie and we've talked about this many many times on the show That these tax breaks are available to anyone who produces anything in America such as software so Apple and Microsoft they

42:08 They enjoy this tax credit. The film and television and music industries already enjoy this tax credit as well as the oil companies if they produce here, and in fact Hollywood is actually getting the actual additional tax credit that the president and other politicians accuse the oil industry of receiving up to 15... I think they actually change it from $15 million to 20 million dollars. Let me just check here I think it's from 15 to 20 if you produce in like Detroit, which is great because that's all the movies are. That's all anyone needs is a background like Detroit seems like every single movie is Armageddon so that's fantastic and that was pretty much it It was pretty straightforward. I have one more oh yes Yeah, I did have one thing that I found little disturbing

43:08 The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study on the potential of clinical data registries to improve the quality and efficiency of care. That wasn't it, I thought there was like a DNA database thing that I saw. I swear to God! Here it is. Yeah let's throw that in. I'm telling you advancement of clinical data registries to improve the quality of healthcare. Oh yeah this... There was a commission thing. Hold on a second, this was actually quite funny if I can find it that quickly there was for some reason they threw in like a commission thing like we're gonna create a Commission for long-term health care of people on Medicare which to me sounds like a death panel yeah probably yeah so but that's essentially what...I thought had that one marked maybe i didn't

44:11 I got a look at that one, but i'm pretty sure that uh That there was a death panel provision in there. So the whole thing of course is just bogative It was a big show Proving once again that politics is truly hollywood show business for ugly people Everyone got their little moment in the sunshine everybody did that little bit it would the whole deadline was obviously bull crap since didn't mean anything. We could go over the cliff and it's not like it was irreversible, we'll just backdate it." And just to add insult to injury the president signed with his auto pen while vacationing in Hawaii I mean come on how much of a beating do we have to take? And then two months well now I guess we're gonna have that whole stupid debt ceiling conversation again It's like you know reruns work to certain extent in Hollywood but there is a limit

45:01 You know even Terminator can only do so many sequels. You can't continue to do this, we're not gonna care anymore about the debt ceiling and then in the first of March We're going to have the whole sequestration conversation It's boring! it's completely freaking boring So hey did you notice by the way that overnight Al Jazeera bought Current TV? Now this to me is... I have This is mind-boggling to me.

45:38 Mimi, I got it. It's mind boggling what happened. Al Gore sold his crappy television network to Al Jazeera for a rumored $500 million. Yeah well that says bogus. That is what you call as face saving press release. You make it...I've seen this happen and people should be aware of it People say, oh yeah we sold for 500 million terms not disclosed. Terms not disclose is the key because there's no terms because it's not five hundred million its bull crap! There's no way its five hundred million that station isn't worth

46:20 Probably worth a hundred less than 100 million. Well, no no no no clearances Yeah, it's the clearances but they lost time Warner in the deal which is a huge part of that Oh yeah there boom. Yeah, that's done so you know It is truly only the clearance is out and by the way Everyone's fired forget up chunk start looking buddy because you're fired this is just gonna turn into Al Jazeera. It's just Turning into Al Jazeera America. If they got 50 million out of the deal, it would be a miracle. And notice they did it before the fiscal cliff deal was signed so they could beat the increase from 15 to 20% of the capital gains tax. Right. A-holes

47:01 I don't know what the capital gains would be but whatever. It's a shoestring operation everybody, that's why Olbermann quit because he couldn't take it anymore. Listen to this, listen to this. Al and I, what is the CEO name? Isn't it Hyatt? Is that his name? Joel Hyatt who was the CEO? I think its... Let's look at the book of knowledge. Yeah Joel Hyatt Yeah, Joel Hayek. Global reach, award-winning programming and growing influence around the world. That influence has recently been demonstrated by Al Jazeera's important and impactful coverage of the Arab Spring fake which was widely credited as being the most thorough and informative coverage from any media company in fact And here it is Here's the real reason why al jazeera bought current TV

48:08 Colin Powell told Al, that's Gore, that Al Jazeera is the only cable news network he watches. That's right ladies and gentlemen! I'm Colin Powell and i only watch Al Jazeera Did I lose you or are you back? No no I'm back. What okay well because uh Colin Powell and and Gore are both with Kleiner Perkins Yeah they're all... He's in on the deal of course! Duh! Some well Al Jazeera. Here's the problem with LL Jazeera never got on any of the networks consistently They were floating around on MX Z Work, but they're not Comcast time Warner would know that their carry here in there But they don't have like an established conduit that I know of

48:57 It doesn't matter. It was all syndicated from what I could tell there wasn't any 24-7 thing Do you think do you think that they? They said you can have joy Bayhard as a slave that they threw her into the deal You think these like just come pick her up here she is Here's your television network oh, and here's this yeah Maybe the whole thing came around this we're dead had a meeting when I say what did we do about Joy Behar well who hired her I have an idea. Let's sell the station! Get rid of her! Oh, it'd be so funny... Tom you know, I harbor no bad feelings but poor Chunk man what is he going to do? No one is going to hire him

49:36 I was gonna hire anyone from that network now a chunk is going to go on to the he's getting full a Andrew Sullivan and he's going to she's gonna go on he's gonna do what we're doing is gonna bring out a because you got your guy he doesn't know you know He sees guys like, who's the guy that used to be with The Man Show? That's Corolla. Yeah, Adam Corolla is actually just doing what he does. Well he's selling mangina or whatever that stuff is. Yeah well he's selling a lot of stuff but Corolla making serious money on his show. No! He's not making a stop He's not making serious money. He's doing okay, he's not making serious money. It sounds like it doesn't matter whether he is or not. Exactly! If he makes it look good I agree. He looks like he's making serious money and so does Likas by the way... Who's that?

50:27 The fact it would like us is like as did some sort of a deal on his last years as a radio guy. Who's like this? He got to play or pay the essentially walked away with millions of dollars without doing any work who was like, I have no idea who this who is this like you speak Oh, like this is one of the big shots he was in Texas for a while. He's one of these one of the big podcasters now but anyway there's a bunch of these wait a minute I'm the pod father I've never heard of him This cannot be look at my okay he does it he doesn't essentially right So essentially, okay so here's the deal. That's what gonna happen. So Chunk is going... Look at all these guys damn it! Oh they're making all their money selling gold coins. I can sell me some gold coins? How come we're not selling gold coins? We should be selling gold coins my friend. This is...we are so dumb. About to sell gold coins Did you read that whole statement though from

51:25 from the Al Jazeera deal from Joel. It's really funny. No, I didn't is it worth reading? Yeah link in the show notes of course at 475 dot any show notes calm there's a couple of choice if first of all Allen I Allen I are thrilled and proud to announce that a few moments ago current was acquired by al-jazeera the award winning international news organization Here's how. As you may know, Al Jazeera is funded by the government of Qatar which is the United States' closest ally in the Gulf region best as friends and where the United States bases its Middle East Air Force operations

52:05 I have had first-hand knowledge of Qatar's policies as a result of my tenure on the board at the Brookings Institution. The Sabin Center for Middle East Policy is a joint venture with the Brookings Institution in Qatar and has offices in Washington, D.C., and Doha." It's purpose is to propose practical public policies that can contribute to peace in the Middle East and its founding director is my friend Martin Indyk, the former US ambassador Israel. I'm telling you this is this is the funniest thing anyone on the inside or who even knows a little bit how those were it's just I mean it's hilarious to me! What a hail Mary bull crap thing to say

52:48 When it started, it actually was kind of interesting. They were trying to do something different and now Qatar as Suratomic Rod pointed out They are the largest producer of liquid natural gas. So you can be sure that anything that is on this new Al Jazeera America will be promoting the use of LNG, in fact you and I John we can right now here's another thing...here is another great idea we'll never act on which were full off We can put together a whole series of great uses for natural gas, liquid natural gas and we will sell it to them as a series. As a package? As a package! As 13 episode you know we'll have like... We'l show a city bus running on LNG or airplane whatever make some crap up. We could send some producers out into the field just do voice over and were done

53:46 Because that's all it is going to be. It is going to be one big propaganda machine from the country that tries to bring you peace in the Middle East. Well, anyway so that's the end of them. See ya Chunk! Hey everybody its The Joy Behar and Chunk Chink Podcast You know I guess when Gore started doing a show himself he was on and off. And the ratings did nothing, they can't do anything to move the needle you know they said oh man what are we gonna do? You know and finally found somebody to take it off their hands yeah that's a real and yes it's a total Hail Mary

54:32 Total Hail Mary. And I wonder how much, they raised money too didn't they? Didn't they like have to pay something back somewhere? They went public did they go no they didn't go public so they raise a lot of money pre-public and remember that pub the IPO didn't happen No i don't remember any of that. Yeah can't remember that anyway let's thank some producers yes oops you have a couple of producers here that need uh some big time thanks including, we'll start off with the big one. The number one our patron the great and wonderful Baron

55:08 Stephen Pelsmacher's. Uh oh, the Baron? Decided to come in with a New Year's contribution of $2,013.69 Oh my goodness! Wow! Happy New Year and all the best for 2013 I wish upon Jedediah and Amos producers of The Best Podcast In The Universe give yourselves as well as all the dames and knights of the No Agenda Roundtable happy new year karma so that both may that both the show and all of our good fortunes may continue for a long time yet. I added just the sprinkling of swazilnuf karma, 69 cents one never knows when that might come in handy look forward to the pins as a reminder The Barony will also always have room to welcome you both why because min alor besta vence an uke ver mimi en miriam

56:01 What? Very good. How does he know Mickey's real name, that is interesting. Oh really! Well we accept your karma thank you very much Baron Von Pelsmachers You've got karma He sent me a note today He looks like he has a new castle coming up in February, in the barony. Just for those of you who don't know... Who might have skipped that episode, he also has France. Yes! No, he's the Baron of Belgium and France. Maybe the way he is going we'll have to give him Spain and maybe Portugal eventually. Depends on which way he wants to go with this. We could probably pick those up cheaper. He could go toward Austria it might make more sense

56:48 Well, you know there's a lot of him to do in France. We'll keep it with France for awhile now. Yeah well there is a lot we could do in France if we get over there. Thank you very much Number two on the list is Craig Whiting who is an instant knight from East Kilbride South somewhere. Lenarkshire? Lanarkshire? Probably Lanarkshire And he sent a note in on the email. My PayPal didn't have the little box for messages, I don't know why not? Can you credit me as just Sir Craig of Menomina? This is not a drunk or surfer dude donation but a Scottish donation!

57:25 Does Jeb's voice skills stretch to us? No, I don't. I can't...I've worked on it believe me and because i wanted to do Willie of the Simpsons but I have not...i've only achieved a few sentences and they won't fit in so I can't do it. So let me write this down It's Sir Craig of Menomina because that's not how you pronounce sir Sir Craig, a manamana. Okay? Happy New Year slave Adam and slave Jeb! I'm hoping to be the first night of 23... You know what's so funny about this these new these crazy names they just start giving us is that we've made a policy in the show as a meme to rename everybody And now we're getting renamed Now it was just a matter of time before it caught up to us Well its been five years and finally finally people are calling us different something I like what Baron Pelsmacher said there

58:14 Jedediah and Amos. I think that's taking it to a new extreme, appreciate it! I'm hoping for the be the first night of 2013 so I'm sending this shortly after midnight LA time to try to get the first donation of the year and I think you did get that. Uh... I need a quick de-douching in a Chinese ITM karma for a prosperous New Year's for all. Okay, quick douching in a Chinese uh... DOOSHBANG! Ow ow I hit myself, i hit myself with that. I didn't mean to do that. You've been de-douche'd. You've got karma. I had a huntsman just to make up for the slip there. Sorry Paul Boyer in Howell Michigan 65765 Adam's ploy to bake my spirit...I think he meant break but maybe bake? It could be baking and we'll know

59:09 Uh, finally succeeded and the thought of never getting my much desired night ring has driven me to raid my account at the last possible moment top off my donations for the end of the year making myself a member of The Order Of The Knights Of Procrastination. Okay! I have been swishing a jingle combo around in my mouth for the last few months and i would love to see if Adam can pull it off. I would like uh you've been de-dooshed followed by just the end of the Atlas Shrug Jingle In other words, you've been de-douche by Ayn Rand and I would like to send it out to John. Happy New Year! Keep it up. I'll be listening. Ring Size 14. You've been de-douched... ...by Ayn Rand. Nailed it. Nailed it? You should have cut off that farting sound at the end of that clip. That's not at the end of the clip. Julian Cowley in Honolulu Hawaii 475

1:00:06 Just list his name as Jules Reed. Dear John and Adam, in the droning the donation comes just in the nick of time as we fall over the cliff and all the rings go missing. It's still 2012 on this part of the world and hopefully I'm still able to make the deadline which you did. I am looking forward to going through the night's bucket list probably starting with sake and chardonnay tonight but I think I can hold off on The Rent Boys for a while thanks for sharing your keen thoughts and insights unless hope 2013 actually becomes a less interesting year No chance of that. Really good luck pal! Good luck with that one I'm sure you will know what to do if it does not Alright simple karma shot for him happy to bring that to you thank you for your support You've got Karma

1:00:54 And good old Terry Heyman in Baytown, Texas. 371 52 topping off in the morning. Lots to say but no time to say it's just sending my cash happy new year of karma to the both of you your families and all the Noah genders out there enough said you've got karma Texas used to be right down the road for me that bay town did where is Baytown? I don't know but it's a lot more down the road than it is now Yeah Spiros Betas in Napani, Ontario. 33334 I don't have an email from him and we'll just let that stay there but he's going to be a knight today Robert Sears-Sima in Portage Indiana

1:01:36 He'll be Associate Executive Producer, the others are all executive producers for today's show 475. And he says Rob from Portage this is my first donation going toward a 2013 nighting show 474 producer mentioned in the possibility of broadcasting no agenda on the radio as a public affairs show This gave me an idea The FCC is opening up more low-powered FM licenses in October We, by the way had a couple of these years ago. I didn't know anything about this they're opening them so interesting...I'll have to look into this! This is good good info Yeah, maybe some producers could start new community radio stations to propagate the formula and start an anti-NPR that really is a national treasure. If a ham can broadcast around the world from his car how hard could an LPFM station be? Some General Karma would be great. I'll tell you technically that just ain't gonna happen. The LPFM is not going to be broadcasting around the world but it's very short of it.

1:02:38 I'm definitely gonna look into Definitely going to look into the the new low power FM licenses. It's a great idea Yeah, no LPFM broadcast probably like a five square of five miles or two couple square miles Maybe yeah if you're up high enough the antenna is up high enough it's very very low low power its line of sight No skip Yeah, it's a very small area. The LPFM is what you use in like if you go to some museum sometimes they'll actually have a broadcast. And that's usually AM or if you drive by

1:03:14 This house has five bedrooms, two baths... Two and a half bathrooms. Have you ever heard those? The real estate radio? No! I've never but that's funny Oh you've never heard that?! It was really big in Jersey for awhile Really? Yeah yeah it was really corny So you set up an LPFM outside your house that you were selling? Its not even LPFM its like almost like a baby monitor You have to literally be standing Baby Monitor on AM This house has a really nice pool in the backyard. We have some great yard work that's being done. Please inquire at Joe's Real Estate! That's kind of what it sounded like. It was about as legible as it is. Ryan Burget or Burgette, one of the two and Bethel Washington Bothell 20419 Rodney Gravenstein here donating high as a kite on this auspicious day I guess he wants to be referred to as Rodney Gravenstein You should you should be high as a kite

1:04:16 Man, donating high as a kite on this auspicious day. With this amount I shall have attained one of the highest honors in this Gitmo nation in an impressive extended knighthood for use by the maiden hoods of the land It should also put me at the 1-1, 2 0.13 and guarantees me a ring hot damn thanks to bong hits bourbon and the best podcast in the universe I'm well on my way to greatness as we are such animals so think the powers or think the powers that be thank the powers that be with day we must be managed

1:04:56 May this newly minted night receive a lone wolf. Hey citizen to the head best of luck to all NAers My family and friends you rock By the way, Bong hits and bourbon is on the list now That's a good one alright what does he want here lone wolf hey citizen two to the head we got that Okay, Tyler Fox and Flagstaff Arizona is the another associate executive producer two hundred one dollars and three cents thirty cents I some money. I should be sending to the IRS But they gave me 120 days to pay off my 211 tax debt 2011 I figure it's better spent helping you to kick off the new year in some old-fashioned jingle less karma please for all of us self employed slaves paying down tax debt and dodging AMT this year

1:05:58 Here's a quick TSA Goon story. A listener should hear if you don't mind reading it all, my friend Clint flew to Salt Lake City and checked his handgun in a locked case strictly following the TSA website guidelines. Phoenix TSA okayed the case when he flew to Utah a week ago last night during his return at TSA Goon in Utah told him that case was unacceptable and would not allow him to check it. They forced him to buy an overpriced, low-quality case from JetBlue after harassing him as much as possible for wanting to exercise his right to travel with his legally possessed firearm. After buying the case he went back to the offending TSA goon's ID number—got the ID number so they could file a formal complaint. The goon took off when he saw Clint coming

1:06:52 Those bloated lesbians running away Anyway, he says here's a fun freedom fact Arizona concealed carry permits are honored by 37 other states in Arizona drivers license don't have to be renewed until you turn 65 He's like happy new year and good luck to Adam and Mickey in the safe return just hey has anyone at a simple karma So we'll give him that thank you. You've got karma story I like that I like stories like that it's funny No, that's a good story. I enjoy it. That's a good story. Good TSA stories. Two more associate executive producers Matt Astabarian Wauwatosa Wisconsin

1:07:40 Hello, Adelaide and Joanne. Please accept my humble donation to facilitate the creation of the best podcast in all universes that says a lot I'm more worried about my six month old human resource not having received no agenda karma than I am about him not being baptized please give me a double shot of karma one for my sweet little guy and one for me to assist with various conflagrations you want to throw in one hot milf from my one hot milf well I wouldn't say no thanks again for being there for me when CNN Fox ABC and their rest have left me for dead And for some reason I can't find... Where's the milk? Oh, here it is. Got it! Was that One Hot Milk Baby Karma? Yeah. Okay. That's One Hot Milk Baby. There you go. Hello there. You've got karma

1:08:26 And finally, James Hurka in Sydney New South Wales Australia $200 please credit this as James Hurka you have to write this. Well that's what we got. Sydney New South Wales note Happy new year gentlemen the donation is for me to complete my knighthood just before the end of the year and he also has a birthday thing will put him on the list and that concludes our list of broadcast day Pretty much. Our producers and associate executive producers for NOA Agenda 475 want to remind people that we do this show twice a week, and we need your help for the upcoming Sunday show which is usually... Usually the numbers don't come in as well as they did Thursday We want to get this year off to a good start so we can pay more research for you Pay double rent! Poor Adam has paid double rent It's double rent

1:09:15 That's right. That's right well, thank you very much Let me give you the address one more time just in case you didn't know vorac org Slash and of course we always will accept a good helping about hitting our formula is this We go out We hit people in the mouth hey citizen You know I received quite a bit of email about the AEDs that i brought up on the previous program. Of course you're thinking, what the hell is an AED? That is the automated external defibrillator

1:10:07 All right, yeah you talked about that in the last show is they're showing up everywhere. They're buying them for everyone Well what I talked about is that there's a bill that has been introduced by representative Laura Richardson of California to provide a grant for 8 AED automated external defibrillators defibrillator heart starters to be put into all schools everywhere and you know so I'd start, I got a lot of email from people. People saying hey man this is a really good idea we need this and but no one actually had

1:10:49 an example of someone surviving because of some quick thinking and someone grabbing one of these devices, and restarting somebody's heart. A lot people said oh you know these things are really good they're really smart... You grab it off the wall, it starts talking to you so you don't need any training It tells you what to do with little... You must put paddles on bare chest! And then it determines the voltage So this things are amazing They cost about a thousand bucks each I'm like, so what really are we doing here?

1:11:33 I'm thinking if we can do this why don't we have EpiPens at every school? In case a kid has a peanut allergy and he's dying, get an EpiPen. And by the way lots of people have EpiPens in schools so just don't email me at all thank you very much but do we really need government sponsored grant to have EpiPens in all the schools And it turns out that this Congresswoman Laura Richardson is of course a shill for the medical devices industry. I would like just to point that out, just to get my little gram of satisfaction here she also introduced the repeals excise tax on medical devices so she's actually a Democrat by the way, she's actually against

1:12:17 excise tax on medical devices which went into effect as of January 1st. She's trying to repeal that for specific medical devices, which would include defibrillators. It is like a 2.3% tax. Oh, she also has introduced the Breath of Fresh Air Act to provide elementary and secondary schools with nebulizers. Of course if you get an asthma attack there's going to be a whole wall full things like...oh John do you need a nebulizer? Luckily the nebulizer was right here in your office!

1:12:55 I mean, there has to be a point where people just... People do have to fall off the edge of the earth. People do have to die. We can't have a device for every single thing in every single public place. I looked in the statistics There's about 280,000 heart attacks a year in the United States. Not all of those are people that die and by the way these numbers are also like they're also all over the map you know you read other places where you say 300,000 people need a defibrillator doesn't mean that they would have died without it but do you know how many AEDs are deployed nationwide already?

1:13:33 There's more than a million and half of these things hanging everywhere, like theaters. And it is law that these things have to be hanging up and I'm sorry... How many people do you think even know where they are? Well now we do have the international green symbol for the defibrillator which has been internationally recognized as the symbol. It's a green heart with a plus, you have not seen this have you? And of course Laura Richardson's campaign finance reports according to Open Secrets her top donors are all from the medical device and pharmaceutical industry actually if you look at who is donating to her campaign The whole thing is just funny Let me give you couple names So what your suggesting there is corruption involved Yeah there is gambling going on I'm sure

1:14:27 So I'm looking at the symbol. You know what it looks like to me, unfortunately? It looks like a caution sign. It looks like don't come near this thing because there's electricity and it will kill you! Doesn't it?! Yeah, it does! So here is who has donated to her campaign. Just wanted to give you a rundown of the names. Cordoba Corporation Carpenters and Joiners Inc., Landmark Medical Management, New Democrat Coalition, Swift Ships, Teamsters Union, AT&T Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American Association for Justice.

1:15:09 Mueller-Marsk, Boeing Corporation. All these corporations giving all these money to all these congressmen and women is bogative and then they come up with these things like oh we have to have asthma pump on the wall what else you know? We have to have a yeah it's asthma pump I mean there has to be an end this stuff that we are forced by law to put into public places in case someone has an attack I think there is just a limit. Or am I now sounding like, oh wait! A Republican that's what i'll be called next But isn't it just a little crazy? Well since this stuff never gets used... It's just a waste of money That's what I think it is but everyone says Oh this is fantastic we should have these its life saving At certain point how much life saving... You're paying for it

1:16:01 If it was some fat overweight schlub who gets a heart attack, I'm sorry. Hey hold on a second! Yes? Play the clip... This by the way there is this is a huge controversial uh issue in Europe, especially in the UK because the UK just came up with a thing saying anyone's overweight we're going to pull you out of the health care system. Being overweight could actually help you live longer that at least according to controversial new study into the effects of obesity researchers in the United States say carrying a few extra pounds might actually reduce your risk of an early death Sky's Health correspondent Thomas Moore explains

1:16:40 A new year and a new determination to get fit and lose weight, but those extra pounds from Christmas indulgence could in fact be a lifesaver. New research shows people who are a little overweight are less likely to die prematurely than those who stay slim, contradicting the long-standing advice of most doctors It's good to have a little bit of body fat. I don't think you should be trying to stay at very low weight, but it's like everything else is in moderation. That has to be utter b******t excuse my French! You know...it's just that where do they get this stuff from? Oh so you don't believe me at all then? No.

1:17:27 So, in fact you play part two of the clip there it's an interesting they actually this is pretty well documented. American researchers pooled the results from 97 studies involving nearly 3 million people with a range of body weights The findings were consistent Sometimes that surprises people But they really should not be too surprised because in our categories of these 97 studies, 80% of them showed that there was lower mortality and overweight than a normal weight people. So overweight by how much? Because obviously obese... Oh no it's not morbidly obese! Right but I mean how overweight? Honey, focus mom! How overweight like you're probably a little overweight for what you should be

1:18:11 What? Come on, be honest. My butt look big is that what you're telling me? No your butt does not look big at all honey it looks tight and sexy I would say the thing is like 10 or 15 percent in other words you are not buffed essentially Well, you could lose a little weight. That kind of thing. Not like holy crap are you fat! That's very scientific of you Jebediah. They actually brought that up in the report and that you have 29% higher chance of dropping dead if your really big but no they're talking about 10-15 20 percent overweight Can I make a prediction something for the book? You have the book? Okay, got the book. I make a prediction that we will have in public spaces

1:19:03 Just in case of an emergency because you know how incredibly dangerous it could be to the young human resource we will have emergency diaper dispensers. Put it in the book, put it in the book! You laugh at me, you laugh at me. You must have seen one already No but some idiot is gonna get paid by... By the way its a big scam these diapers It's very expensive. Anyone who has kids know this and of course the whole diapers are crap, but it's bad if the whole thing is bad But you will have emergency diaper dispensers You watch That's how far it goes Good idea I think it's a better idea than defibrillators

1:19:44 Okay, okay. Hey we're gonna have a rerun rerun uh-oh what you're talking about the deja vu thing you're bitching about how oh god You know these things keep they hop we get sick of this same story over and over. What do you have? Falklands Okay, here we go. Argentina's president has written an open letter to David Cameron demanding Britain hand over the Falkland Islands Tom Parmenter is here with the details and Tom what exactly is in this letter? This is Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at it again you might say because we've heard this kind of thing before from her but again she's putting the point directly to David Cameron, this time in the form of an open letter that is printed in several of the newspapers this morning saying that we want the Falklands back and she's using today the 180th anniversary of Argentina being forcibly stripped of the Malvinas Islands. That is the phrase she uses. Malvinas Islands has been the Argentinian name for the Falklands so

1:20:40 It's an argument we've heard before and we're likely to hear again because the referendum that is coming up on the islands in March, so this issue is going to be very thorny for some months. And it goes back quite a while because you may remember at the G20 meeting in Mexico last year she thrust a letter right into David Cameron's face as he was walking between meetings. Hmm... interesting! Well you know 180 years ago I mean this is like a pretty, i mean this is like the... why isn't the Mexicans, Mexico want California back? It's less time lost than that. What do you mean they don't want that piece of crap! No they don't want it no places broke and they don't want that. Well they don't now but few years ago they did But this is interesting because Argentina was in the news here as well and I wonder if there's a correlation You know our crown

1:21:35 Princess Maxima who will be Queen when the Prince known as Prince Pilce which is Dutch for beer, when he becomes King. When the Queen abdicates and some are saying it could be in this year 2013 so she is from Argentina And she is Maxima Zorineta. Her dad is once again being accused of disappearing people, up to 30 thousand. Of course the Argentinean government disappeared a lot of people

1:22:14 And this was before Miss Fernandez, but maybe Mr. Fernandez was a part of it But all of the sudden they bring his name up again and he's being accused of disappearing people in Argentina I wonder if there is some kind of thing going on where it's like hey we want those islands back and then Cameron says oh yeah We're gonna start you know pressuring all your people You know what I mean? There could be something going on there Hmm...could be Something's amiss. The Falklanders, by the way they do vote on this occasionally and they've always wanted to stay British. Oh yeah. Chris Christie is running for president.

1:23:02 I mean he hasn't said that. No but it's pretty obvious yeah did you see this complaint of his? Well yeah of course, there is no sandy vote for the 60 billion dollars of bull crap Yeah so i have the clip its quite funny but what hes doing is distancing himself from the current Republican club right so he saw a republican but he's finding a way to push himself away from these essentially a bunch of boneheads you know the good news is that are in con here's this is the good news this guy's gonna live along long time I'm yes president Barack Obama has urged republicans in the House of Representatives to vote on a bill aimed at delivering federal aid states affected by super storm sandy

1:23:46 particular anger was directed toward. I just need to point out that the in case you didn't know it's called super storm sandy because if it were a hurricane different insurance comes into play so a lot of people didn't get a proper insurance payout because it was not classified as an actual hurricane that's why you hear the media consistently calling it super storm sandy. It's house speaker John Boehner for cancelling the expected vote New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican was among those sharply criticizing Boehner before the speaker changed course. There's only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims the House majority and their Speaker John Boehner this is not a Republican or Democratic issue

1:24:36 National disasters happen in red states and blue states, in states with Democratic governors and Republican governor's. We respond to innocent victims of natural disasters not as Republicans or Democrats but as Americans where at least we did until last night Last night politics was placed before our oaths to serve our citizens For me it was disappointing and disgusting to watch Last night, the House of Representatives failed that most basic test of public service. And they did so with callous indifference to the suffering of the people in my state."

1:25:19 If I can just, do you have something you want to say about this? Because I have an opinion. No go ahead. Well of course I read the bailout package, the 60 billion dollar package and this is not for citizens. This is for FEMA, this is for cop cars, new department of homeland security stuff and yeah there will be loans made available but it's not like The way you hear him speak and Peter King was crying in the house, everyone's crying over this package. There is so much bull crap money being thrown into that that has nothing to... I mean there is money for West Virginia in there! It should be discussed it should be debated it shouldn't be rammed through

1:26:06 uh... and it's not like that money is going to go to the actual citizens are my car well i'm so happy i'm helping if my his might people to new jersey you know but it's not like this money is really going directly to help these people just not it should be debated uh... and then and christie's christian The New Jerseyans I know really hated Christie before Sandy. They really, really despised the guy and you know... And I don't forget things easily so this got thrown into his lap and then like oh we love a bit of good hero story But no, I'm just going to say this is bull crap. That Sandy package $60 billion is filled with all kinds of stuff that just doesn't belong there and I think no one should get anything and you should see what your government's actually doing because they don't give a crap about you! Just don't give a fudge at all...a single fudge. Alright well..and I have my opinion

1:27:08 That's my opinion. I could go, I can continue with the clip of the day oh i'm sorry did I say that? I didn't mean to say that because I don't call a clip of the day wait a minute do you have something you think is a candidate Why, you have something? I got plenty but i'm holding back. I'll be like you know...I'l just give you this one and see if you can top it okay It's a childrens TV cartoon series called Liberty's Kids and the clip was shown on The Soup. It's very obscure, but it sits out there. I'd love to get the original series because i'm sure there are more gems like this. There is nothing seditious about an intelligent woman wanting to keep well informed. That's for Black Dick to decide! Bosun pass a towline

1:28:03 Black dick? That's what the sailors call Admiral Howe. Give us black dick and we fear nothing! But why do they call him black? Perhaps he has a dark temperament... Yeah, you got it. There is nothing to fear when black dick is around! Thank you for a juvenile laugh It's always nice. All right, I'm not going to top that but i do have some Bogative PR that I'd like to introduce We love bogative PR and the first is an actual bogative PR move And the second is a is an ad for a drug which I'm dying to try out So bogative PR first

1:28:56 Yeah, hit it. In Aurora Colorado a PR move gone wrong very wrong the movie theater where 12 people were shot to death last summer has offered families of the victims an invitation to attend its grand reopening The families have declined calling it a disgusting offer I would say mission accomplished How can he say it's gone a PR move gone horribly wrong? It's like I know one thing theaters back open Right? Yeah, who is that... where did you get that clip? Um... Sounded like Mansbridge from Canada. No I don't think so. No, I think it was CNN. And here is a new sleeping drug which I'm dying to try out Intermezzo

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1:31:31 So if you suffer from middle of the night insomnia, ask your doctor about Intermezzo and return to sleep again. So this is essentially a pill that works for four hours. And it's intermed so it's called that because we're in the middle of the night, so you wake up at 4 in the morning and you go oh my god its four in the morning why am I awake? And I'm wide awake let me take a pill instead of saying wow im up at four in the morning I can do some work here. I could be productive exactly! Let me do something

1:32:17 By the way, bong hits and bourbon also works. I'm reliably informed and I think that you should try that first! The Best Podcast in the Universe in no way endorses intermezzo as a real aid to be used for sleeping Yeah, take some warm milk will put you out but even read a boring book. When I wake up in the middle of the night, I get up and do something for an hour or two then I'm tired again go back to bed. Everyone should do that! You do that? Or don't do that anymore? No, I do that. That's logical thing if you wake up and your awake In other words, you can't go back...you should fall asleep within seven minutes So if you get up and say well maybe I'll go back to sleep and still awake just can't

1:32:59 It doesn't happen that often, but it does. And just get out of bed! Yeah do something productive! Write an essay. I've done that. Hey good news John very very good news Digicel the telecommunications giant and Marriott International recently broke ground on a 45 million dollar hotel in Haiti! Port-au-Prince Haiti absolutely Opening up in 2015. That's right the 175 room hotel is a milestone for both companies It's Marriott first in Haiti and did you sells first foray into tourism? I'm going to point out Did you sell you may remember received a lot of support, and what does that oh yeah money

1:33:52 to put in place a micro payments cell phone payment system in Haiti. They own the basically they own telecommunications in Haiti so they took this money and you can say it wasn't that money or some other money, its bull crap And they said, oh we have all this money and you know there's a couple hundred thousand people who are pooping their guts out because of cholera living in tents and eating dirt cakes but we'll just make sure that you don't see that from our new hotel that were going to build. It is disgusting to me! This isn't the New York Times who reports this as with the headline business travelers in Haiti will have a new Marriott

1:34:38 Because there's so much business to do in Haiti. Well, there is of course you know we have new factories where we put our slaves to work to build cheap garments Of course there's the gold and mining industry as all that was quickly arranged with a brand-new president who used to be a musician Martelli magic sweet mickey martelli the musician after they kick the other musician out because he was you know his bridges became too big for him and then to top it off here's an amazing story bill clinton and george w bush are closing actually have now closed their haiti fund that's right

1:35:23 Meg Galloway Pierce, Vice President of Marketing and Communications told the Associated Press that the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund will terminate December 31 because it will have spent all of money raised from business organizations and individuals. So how much money do you think they raised that they spent? All this money! All the money from the Clinton-Bush Haiti fund. By the way, we just need cash I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water Just send your cash How much money do you think they raised and spent all of it John?!

1:36:00 I have no idea. Well, let's see it should be like three billion dollars Fifty four point four million dollars what? Yeah, that's it apparently That whole pitch that don't send blankets or water just send your cash all the telethons everything they're all went to the kid to the Clinton Bush Haiti fund was fifty four point four million dollars and I thought they collected like three billion dollars. No, no no! I'm sorry! No that is not correct 54 point four million dollars and all... I can't even talk about it anymore this really turns my stomach and every single time we'll have another benefit for some bull crap to make you feel good

1:36:52 Not you probably, John. But other people. I'll text my 10 bucks and these elites they steal it! That's amazing they love stealing money! I think the Netherlands alone gave more than 54 million dollars It's crazy And Digicel, recipient of some of these funds wherever they would have apparently not from Not just from Clinton Bush Foundation. They're building a 45 million dollar hotel In fact it's almost a one-for-one Just boggles my mind Fudge

1:37:34 Fudge I tell you. How do you spell digicel? D-I-G-I C-E L-L That's the way i'd spell it It's not that's not the way you spell it No, I said that's the way id spell okay because I can give you the url if you want just have to open Actually, yeah, but you are actually wondering if there's a publicly traded did you sell um Hold on second worded uh got to reopen my thing here Digicel is it all one word let me just see it is Oh, it's 1L. D-I-G-I C-E-L Digicel. One word. Digicel Jamaica? They're all over the Caribbean I guess. Yeah. He was probably traded in some weird stock exchange. That's one who is on the board. Oh that's a very good point! Well can you find out any luck on this or... Yeah he can find out if I get their symbol

1:38:29 Usually, unless it's trading in the Jamaican stock market. I'm not going to get very far. I think their symbol is an all-seeing eye with 666. Is that possible? They're in Teguan Barbuda. Hold on they are the country's largest employer hold on... I got a link here New York Times. The Cayman Islands that's where I bet you 10 bucks say they're headquarters are in the Caymans. Well it says Dennis O'Brien is he the two years and I'm reading this here now Impatient buyers retains around under the who is okay? It's a Dennis O'Brien an impatient Irish billionaire who tends to make his points with a few choice profanities like Screw you Haitian brownies is determined to change all that in a recent Sunday morning below His vast telecommunications company did you sell it might be Irish could be

1:39:25 You're not looking you've given up. I'm looking now, I'm looking at my Wikipedia page for Dennis O'Brien The guy looks like a piece of work if you'd you know like yeah he would chew you out Yeah He does what are you looking me up for? Get off my wiki page an MBA from Boston College. It's pretty funny Okay While you're looking that up, let me do a little... I just want to remind everybody that i am still maintaining killlist.curry.com We've had quite a few entries in the past week or two and another one added today Now reports from northwest Pakistan say that a militant commander has been killed in US drone strike Pakistani officials told the BBC that Mullah Nazir and at least five other militants were killed in the missile attack in south Waziristan

1:40:28 Do you notice the use of the word militant seems to have entered the vernacular? No longer is it just terrorists, no longer is enemy combatants. No longer is it Taliban although that does come up later I think. Militant seems to be... Is a militant actually an enemy of ours what's the definition of militant? A militant just means somebody thats agitated Is that the actual... Shaking their fist. Put it down, John! Militant. Let me see what the definition is of militant? So if you're shaking your fist you can now get a drone. Let's see. Militant and I have adjective no we want the noun. A person who is active in this way What does that mean as a militant

1:41:16 Oh in this way would be aggressive and support of a political or social cause typically favoring extreme violent or confrontational methods Okay, that sounds right. Okay? Let's continue near the Afghan border well more now from our Islamabad correspondent Ali Mugbul who has been explaining how well-known Molana Zia is He is one of the key figures within the Taliban in northwest Pakistan he's a man who controlled a large part of south waziristan which is very much a taliban stronghold particularly the area of one and towards the afghan border and certainly the americans will be very pleased indeed that he is now gone because of course are you pleased I didn't never heard in the guy but Americans are very pleased

1:42:07 Well, I... Maybe an American is. I don't know who that might be He said the Americans! I just want to make sure you're pleased Well i'm not... No, no, I don't know any... No, I am NOT pleased The problem in Afghanistan is they are not just fighting the Taliban there but then those militants often escape across the border into Pakistan and Mullah Nazir was somebody who not only provided safe haven within South Waziristan but also provided fighters and material support for the insurgency across the border in Afghanistan. Alright, so let me just explain this one more time because people who listen to The Best Podcast In The Universe know that you would never heard the word Waziristan ever before in your life until you heard it on this show

1:42:51 And the reason why is the pipeline, Turkmenistan-Afghanistan Pakistan India pipeline is supposed to go through Waziristan and these guys should have paid them off but I guess were too cheap. So they said hey get away from me with your pipeline! And everyone who's in the way if you got a village or are in the way of the pipeline you're going to get droned and that's what is going on here. They are no threat to the American security anywhere. We're invading on their turf, the BBC had an entire documentary and no one asked the central question which is what danger are these people? What danger are they? Are they plotting in their yurt? No!

1:43:33 They're protecting their turf or they're angry about being infringed upon and it's all about this stupid pipeline. You just have to, once in awhile we just have to stop and say hold on a second what is going on? Either that or were... We are in the middle of our game show Win! Lose! Or Drone! We really need to get that one going It's better than the postcode lottery Another postcode lottery. I do have another book what nothing? I just a postcode lottery I thought you would like groaning at me like uh, huh I have there's a new Tom Cruise movie coming out in 2013 called oblivion here's a little bit of the trailer 166 back online 60 years ago birth was attacked

1:44:34 We won the war, but they destroyed half the planet. Everyone's been evacuated nothing human remains. We're here for drone repair with mop-up crew. Drone Repair! Hey, you in there? Yeah what's up? Drone Repair called... hey I didn't call Drone Repair no the drone called us Awesome. All right. Let's see what we got, oddball news from the United States that they didn't do you never you had your good view of the of the bill that passed and you had some analysis on Sky News. They took a different tact and they just found some oddball laws to ridicule the Americans from the British side. A couple things are kind of interesting stuff people should know

1:45:35 fiscal cliff and they're talking about the states what's going on there but other things came in and you know this 400 other local and state measures have come in some cracking ones if you go to Kansas yeah in Wellington, you're not allowed more than four cats. They got...and this is a law that has come in nobody heard about this because obviously we were concentrating on the fiscal cliff and Kentucky you are not allowed to release feral hogs You know, the number of stories that sort of get missed but these are laws that are being given as much attention in the local area and I don't know if you spotted at the bottom of that but actually if you go to Illinois you're not allowed have shark fin soup. Yeah. Fascinating. Make fun of the Americans. Cracking! I think just another word you never hear on those shows they give to us

1:46:20 yet is i mean did they wouldn't report that the uh... the president signed the national defense uh... authorization act two thousand thirteen would you and he wouldn't hear that where the with the amendment to protect americans was vitiated method in india and that will be a good word for the brits yes it cracking crack cracking initiated by cracking cracking good amendments now there's nothing like that no one can understand Meanwhile, this is actually... you kind of went past me. This is the last bit of really serious dronage stuff I got to do So there was a lawsuit The ACLU and whole bunch of journalists sued the government over not releasing certain documents under the Freedom Of Information Act regarding the legality of droning American citizens

1:47:20 Okay, so you with me? You with me so far. Yeah. Okay, so the lawsuit Essentially said that it's like, you know they said hey we send in all these Freedom of Information Act requests requesting documentation that shows How you can legally drone people in other countries that we have not declared war upon especially if some of those people might be American citizens and So the judge came back and I have the judgment here, and it says...I'll just read the pertinent piece here. This court is constrained by law and under the law

1:48:10 I can only conclude that the government has not violated Freedom of Information Act by refusing to turn over the documents sought in the Freedom of Information Act requests and so cannot be compelled by this court of law to explain in detail the reasons why its actions do not violate the Constitution and laws United States because, let's go back here uh... the executive branch under the constitution and laws united states indeed has the power to not disclose this then the judge goes on to say the allison wonderland nature of his pronouncement is not lost on me but after careful an extensive consideration i find myself stuck in a paradoxical situation in which i cannot solve a problem because of contradictory constraint and rules

1:49:03 a veritable catch-22. I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the executive branch of our government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws, while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret." How about them apples? Wow, that's a good fine. Isn't it basically if there was a clip that would be the day isn't that basically doesn't it? Basically means like okay we can kill you and It's legal but we can't show you how its legal pretty much I mean is there any Is there any way to

1:49:44 Can this go to the Supreme Court? Is there any way around the conundrum. Yeah, if you get killed you can sue the government and take it to the Supreme Court Unfortunately... You're dead! But if they drone YOU to death I can sue on your behalf Maybe, maybe not. They could have some real interesting things regarding standing which is your ability to sue on somebody else's behalf or concerning somebody else Well I could help Mimi and the kids do it and I can report on it Maybe but they'd probably get droned in the meantime

1:50:21 I would say there's not a, you know the Supreme Court...I don't know. I don't how it could be done. They've been suing as a number of the ACLU and bunch of other guys are suing over this. But this is... Wrongful death suit would be the way to go it seems to me But the thing that really bums me out is, you know this is sealed. The documentation is under seal and of course it will one day be declassified when we actually are dead! That's the thing that bugs me because we'll never get to see these things because these things are sealed for what? 50 years 75 years... they're sealed forever and of course it will be declassified eventually and somewhere in the future some schmucks on a podcast are going to go oh man can't believe this crap

1:51:07 to go through, stupid slaves! Don't you think? Yeah absolutely. I'm bummed about it... Well that brings up the clip i have here which uh yeah you could be bummed about The 60,000... you know now the numbers are coming out of how many people are dead in Syria. Yeah whatever they say sure Whatever they say but here's what I have a take on this Over 60,000 people have been killed since Syria's uprising began in March 2011 That's according to an independent report by the UN Study commissioned by UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay took data from sources including the government and opposition groups The numbers have been steadily increasing as the conflict drags on

1:51:48 Alright, your take. Jeb- Jebediah DeVore So I'm thinking you know if we had gotten more involved with some fly...you know No Fly Zone We could have jacked that number way up! I'm gonna show my salute by donating to KnowAgenda Imagine all the people who could do this Oh yeah that'd be fab On KnowAgenda More dead Syrians In the morning Darling? Could i have a Jameson? Love Here comes Mr. Jameson now, Harvey Lee we want to thank in Federal Way Washington for $120 and 30 cents I could not find a note from you Harvey too many guys people don't have I need to drink there's too many dead people yeah go drinking this show 475 were thanking our producers Alan Silver is Alan just plain Allen in Silverdale Washington 8850 after

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2:02:47 And finally, two more $50... Wait! Hold on. I gotta send the karma. I'm sorry. I gotta send the karma. Hello? You've got Karma. Karma, Karma, Karma! Greg Brunsell, Sir Greg in Kenosha Wisconsin, $50 an anonymous donation it turns out from somewhere in Texas, $50 and finally Benjamin Blondin from Walton... I don't have that. I gotta stretch this out to see what it says. It won't stretch Stretch Walton Hills, Walton Hills Ohio. And he wants I can't read his note it's got all garbled pretty sure I reached knighthood weeks back email John I say look into it sounds like the cycles book yeah very funny here's $50 towards 2013 night pin and apparently he only has you have 930 so you're not quite there yet according to Buzzkill jr buzz kill jr buzz killing

2:03:44 Yeah, and he said something about Atlas shrugged. Oh boy By Ayn Rand I Got a I got a gratuitous one here that I feel like I Something in me in my body told me I had to do this one If you don't mind. Yeah! Doesn't happen often... Hey John and Adam, Wicked Slave here now Wicked Slave has been around the show for a while and has donated before but this is kind of basic plea for help. Wicked Slave here sorry for messaging you without donating I've run into a bit of trouble and could really use some karma on New Year's Day my aunt found out i was wickened and kicked me out in my rump luckily

2:04:32 Luckily a co-worker is allowing me to crash on her couch while I recuperate and i figured it's probably Good policy John for you, and I to be on the good side of the Wiccans if you know what? I mean I think it might not be a bad idea because you know they tend to like, you know, yeah They do these crazy stick put the candles around the bathtub and stick out my candles around the back Stick a knife in yet. Yes So I figured we might as well You want the good karma from the Wiccans? I felt that was okay I think we can take a little is like a down payment

2:05:14 I'm pretty sure the Wiccans will support the show. We know wicked slave has in the past so there you go Thank you very much for kicking off 2013 with support for the best podcast in the universe. We highly appreciate that I think you're getting your money's worth it is totally value-for-value That's the entire system we're not putting anything behind a paywall like Andrew Sullivan, you know, they go you can get free me It's not a freemium model. Can you imagine that if you had to say oh? I have a freemium model It just sounds so wrong. Freemium? What is that?! Oh, you never heard of freemium? I've heard it but it's like one of those cornball venture capitalist terms Exactly! The whole idea... It's freemium! I think that's how Al Gore sold the current to Al Jazeera. It's like freemium You show people this and then tell them the good stuff is somewhere else when they pay for it But it never is

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2:07:31 Even though bear and pal's mockers also in that group. I actually Craig's came in right like you said at one minute before midnight I think they're all be 2013 nights, okay well then grab that grab that that thing okay? Sir Craig a monominal Paul Boyer, Julian Cowley, Terry Heyman, Spyros Bettis, Ryan Burgett James Herka Roy Strayen who will be a Black Knight and Ben Nitis also Black Knight I hereby pronounce the all Knights of the Noah Jenner Round Table for your support in the amount of $1,000 or more Welcome to the Knights of the Noah Jenner Round Table 2013 edition For you hookers of low rent boys and chardonnay hot pants and blues wenches and beer rubinettes luminor rose geistes and sake

2:08:19 Vodka, vanilla, bong hits and bourbon sparkling cider escorts and mutton and mead all here at the round table. Thank you again! Thank you to everyone who supported our show thank you Baron von Pelzmacher looking forward to the new castle and thank you for listening in propagating the formula. Are you reading that? You've memorized that crazy list? Yes, well I- yes and I added the... He's a pro ladies and gentlemen! Hey everybody! And i added the Bobby Hitson bourbon which is.. I want to mention these nights at 2013 Nights that they will all get rings because they all came in for the deadline. Yeah absolutely. Now entering second half of show

2:09:13 There's the theremin, I want one! Somebody has got to find me a real theremin. I bet you we can get us a theremin for ya. Okay so i told you that... By the way yeah what? Can you imagine with me having it there in here It would probably interfere with this computer like so because of all the crazy RF coming off that thing. I love it. You need to use it. I betcha someone or one of our producers has a theremin somewhere That we can use on the show. Oh, somebody should. I hope somebody has a sling box in New York! And if anyone can get us in touch with Maradona in Argentina that would be appreciated Well by the way, a sling box in Australia would be awesome

2:09:59 Okay, so I love it. I love it when we get to cross off another thing out of the Red Book and I think that we've had so many pieces... We started off the show with die-hard proof that Hillary Clinton's getting a face job Now something that I've been all over for more than a year actually been over for much much longer and this is the existence of what I will generally call earthquake machinery Now, many people scoff and laugh at me but of course you can't really do that because I've shown you many times. I've linked to it again in 475.nashowness.com the actual testimony of Secretary of Defense Cohen who testified that many other nations were using biological weapons such as earthquake machines and we needed to have them as well. Do you recall this John?

2:10:53 Apparently there's some mention of earthquake machines in a UN document. Yes, well it but this is actual testimony in our own United States Congress so we don't even need it in the you with the UN called for That no one should have these biological weapons and what Secretary of Defense Cohen said was yeah We probably should have our own just in case So when Fukushima when the earthquake occurred and they've had several large earthquakes off the coast of Japan since, and many prior but this tsunami thing was pretty crazy. It knocked out the reactor which of course has prompted Japan now to stop all nuclear energy. Germany said, stop on nuclear energy be very afraid of nuclear energy it's all going melt down your fish are radioactive we're all gonna die oh the cloud is floating over well were not dead yet and I submit you that this is a cabal move against nuclear energy and now of course will all be told the move to liquid natural gas

2:11:54 Do you remember, I guess it was a couple of months after the Fukushima event that we were getting all these emails from people who say oh the thing is gonna blow. Yeah and there's proof positive it's gonna blow up no agenda should be on this hundreds of thousands of people are going to die! Die! I tell you die from radiation Now, the problem I had with the earthquake and I said it the day after it happened. This was a planned event, it was very shallow earthquake, 1km according to seismology

2:12:36 And I had a problem with it. This feels to me like this was set in motion, remember we even tracked some company that had some weird apparatus they set up? There's all kinds of things pointing to a man-made event that caused this tsunami and of course crazy moon landing guy global warming denier holocaust denier republican racist whatever you want Listen to this report from New Zealand. A secret operation in the 1940s to develop a tsunami bomb in coastal waters on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula north of Auckland has been uncovered The United States and New Zealand conducted secret tests of the bomb designed to inundate coastal cities but the operation, codenamed Project Seal was shelved just months before the atomic bomb was used on Japan in 1945

2:13:32 The secret plans were uncovered during a search by the author and filmmaker Ray Waru. Over a period of several months they carried out almost 4,000 test explosions to kind of calibrate the size of explosions and number of explosions and depth in explosion in water would need to be in order to create a tsunami effect Ray Waru, who uncovered secret tests to develop a tsunami bomb in New Zealand waters. So you can call me whatever you want but there is proof that the United States tested 4,000 tsunami bombs before they dropped an actual atomic bomb on Japan

2:14:14 So you think for one second that these a-hole oil cabal elitists would put, you put it past them? That they would blow one of these things off to make nuclear energy seem really scary. I question you Jeb. Well you know uh i don't think they have the wherewithal but i mean it would be within well they have the money...I don't know maybe when they do those deep drill those deep holes they got the same gear they can put something down in there and blow it up I don't know. It seems unlikely... I just want to point out, unlike earthquakes actually do exist Yeah but this is a very shallow one it was a weird one if it was a weird one but I called it immediately and here's proof that there were tsunami bombs for Japan! Well maybe they put how about this for a concept? No you can't stop you can't refute it well go ahead what your concept

2:15:14 They were testing these things and they planted a bunch of them, and that one didn't go off until then. It's like one of those old bombs! They got these bombs in London they find em everywhere. It went off accidentally? There was just one left over... Sure sure Hey can I- there is something weird i noticed over here All the cars but even really high end taxis like Mercedes They have this economy mode And when you... Echo mode, yeah. Yeah! Does this exist in America? Do you know what this does? This echo mode? Yeah. What? It's existed for 20 years. Oh yeah?! What does it do? It apparently changes the engine a little bit No no no no no, this is different echo mode When you pull up to a stoplight or if you stop The engine cuts out Oh one of those dea- oh I hate that Pfft! It's the most annoying thing

2:16:16 And is this supposed to actually do anything? Well, here's one of the... I've been testing cars but I've been doing this for a number of years. All the cars here have it by the way It must be required by law or whatever. All the hybrids obviously do but that isn't a problem because they're electric These are not hybrids these are just regular cars General Motors about five or six year ago came out with a bunch of cars with this feature And so they wanted me to test one of them, just drive it around with them. It was a truck, pickup truck and so I met him over here somewhere and I jumped into the thing and they said it was fine you know stop at a stoplight that the engine drops dead then punch it and wait until this millisecond is going its kind of annoying but so I said well let me check it lemme see if this thing really is any good

2:17:08 And so, which I do any time there's a car around here to drive around. I always take it up this unbelievably steep hill called Marin that takes you right to the top of Grizzly Peak It's a real painful hill to go up and a painful hill to come down. Right, so then you stopped halfway the engine cuts off... And I go back about a mile before it comes on! So i'm up there at the stop sign but i'm out of like a 30 degree incline and I let go to step on the gas and be-and I do step on the gas but the car is already rolling backwards and this goes back about 20 feet. I said this doesn't seem safe to me

2:17:44 So I so they took it. They never talked to me for a while Is there any evidence that this actually like saves the planet? What is it supposed to do what does it suppose to do as well what it does if you're in the traffic jam and stop dead Yeah, it stops the engine and doesn't just waste gas as you sit there I mean That's all that does but when you start the engined it doesn't take extra gas did you really see anything a little bit more yeah It's not that much. But it, it's unnerving because I'm not used to it and you know um... And we take a cab somewhere and at the stoplight like pffft! It's like dude your engine just quit. Just it feels weird. And luckily there is no... It has got be hard on the battery. And doesn't cut off the air conditioning? They don't need it here obviously but wouldn't that cut off the AC as well? Nah they could be running on battery.

2:18:38 Do you know the battery cars? That's not how it's hooked up. I mean American air conditioners obviously, and i think this has changed in a lot of cars is done by the belt of the engine but there are other ways to do that Did you know that in 1897 actually didn't really start until 1904 I think that electric cars were all the rage that the Roush and Lang electric car that was like the big they were producing I think 50 a month or 200 a month and then everyone was driving electric cars in 1904 until they came out with with the combustion engine. Yeah when it came out with the more practical combustion engine

2:19:21 You know, you could drive and then put some more gas in it and drive some more. But here's the thing... What kind of batteries? Were they using lead acid batteries or...? Yeah, they had to be I mean that's the thing that hasn't really improved Is it just me or can we come up with a better battery? It seems like... When I was writing for Forbes I was doing a lot of energy stories about different technologies including like this zinc air Is that why you're no longer writing for Forbes? No, it was a long story. I got time! So I'm writing these stories so I got into the scene quite a bit and I still kind of keep up and I ran into...I was talking to all the guys who do these really weird exotic batteries will tell you the same thing battery technology hasn't really changed in any meaningful way I mean its change has been tweaked

2:20:10 And you know the lithium batteries are interesting but this is all tweaks on old inventions that go back, almost everything's public domain. They go back a hundred years. No one has come up with a new battery idea. Or has it just been suppressed perhaps? Believe me... No, it hasn't been suppressed. Some magic battery zero point energy? Yes! Yeah you just get it out of the air and the energy's around you man... It's around you. It's Orgone Energy Well y'know you can stick basically a metal pipe in the earth and power a light bulb well its small one but you can power a small light bulb I mean there is indeed energy all around us that's undeniable That's right

2:20:59 Are you being a dick to me? Is that what I'm hearing? Come on, you know I believe in this stuff. It has been suppressed. Oh yeah! It was Tesla. They burned all of his research and documents. You know that guy had something going on. He had some ideas that were way good I don't like the idea of burning documents, that's for sure. But these inventions are out there. If somebody could come up with a great new battery technology especially in this market where everybody wants... Right now and as you know I've mentioned I've driven all those battery cars

2:21:38 and clutch cars, and the battery cars are non-starter for me. I mean it's fine... The Volt is the only one that's acceptable as are the plug in hybrids because if you don't have a motor at some point your gonna go out somewhere and your not going to be able to get back! It's no good. No, I know...I'm just still thinking that there is God. By the way the other thing if you want to talk about old ideas which is still viable one of the other popular cars around in 1920s I suppose was this steam engine car The Stanley Steamer was one of the most famous and things apparently could go like a bat out of hell really go fast What was the fuel supply? Was it coal? Just a little gas burner Anything! You had kerosene, something to heat up the tank

2:22:26 to make the steam. Yeah that would work. Once the thing got a head of steam going you could just go like crazy. Congratulations, you've essentially just created nuclear energy because that's what nukes do is they just heat up water and then there's a turbine right? And there's no reason you can't have a small very... With with with with a Tesla turbine! A little bitty Tesla turbine yeah Tesla turbine come on these things are amazing You need a little bit you get a small Plant that is a size of a computer mouse yes, but that big and you'd have that in your car It would be a perpetual it lasts for 100 years And you'd and you'd be a steam engine of some sort or whatever. You want to use yeah? And you just drive it around forever. You don't you're just one one payment. You're done, and we call it the black dick Okay Yay, hey onward

2:23:27 Um, where's my list of clips? I don't know what you're...I got my list here. You want to hear a funny Sharpton clip? Oh, I love Sharpton! Okay This is obviously someone who called in this...Sharpton has a radio show i guess maybe he has a room or maybe yeah I believe he does He has a radio show Someone called him set him up and then his answer of course was priceless any civilized society you do not see massacres continue to happen from Tucson to Aurora to a Columbine took Virginia Tech to where we are now in In Newtown to Chicago, and you keep the same laws when clearly they're not working What happens when the criminal goes tonight Val?

2:24:17 Then you deal with knives. What did he say? I couldn't understand a word of this So he's like from Aurora to Columbine to Newtown blah-blah-blah You have to deal with the problem and then the caller says what happens when the criminals go to knives Al And he says then you'll deal with knives Take away the knives Yeah, they have to register knives in some part by the way Sandy hook Interesting. So remember last show we were talking about how there was a massacre in Australia and because of that, there was a big ban on certain types of weapons in Australia? Yeah. That was the Port Arthur Massacre and Steve Geat one of our producers I think he might be from Australia pointed me towards The Book Of Knowledge entry in Wikipedia

2:25:15 And here's what interesting about that. I said could this be like our Port Arthur massacre? Here is what he pointed out to me in the book of knowledge, Martin Bryant, bless you darling! He is the guy who eventually pleaded guilty to the crime. He was from Newtown a suburb of Hobart. How about that huh?! That's a good one. That's like a New World Order kind of Illuminati type of thing Yeah, that's a good one I like it and now of course is all kinds of weird stuff happening where...I have the list here Police high school student arrested for doodling He doodled something that looked like a gun arresting kids Oh please Maryland elementary school suspends six-year old boy who pointed finger and said pow

2:26:10 and then we have uh... in san francisco up in your neck of the woods this report it was a dark poem and in the wake of the connecticut tragedy at raised red flags and triggered a quick response by school officials so this is a girl who wrote upon now the student is facing the possibility being expelled I understand the killings in Connecticut. I know why he pulled the trigger." Those words and Courtney Webb's poem prompted school officials at the Life Learning Academy on Treasure Island to suspend the 17-year old senior until further notice. by a dysfunctional community of haters and blamers. The meaning of the poem is just talking about society, and how I understand why things like that incident happened so it's not like i'm agreeing with it but that's how the school made it seem

2:27:02 Courtney says she didn't turn the poem in as an assignment. Instead, the teacher discovered it in class and took it to the principal. What? Yeah! But Courtney says she's turned in dark poems about suicide and sadness in the past with no problem It's a genre she likes For example any person I could think of would be like Stephen King Like he writes weird stuff all the time that doesn't mean He's gonna go do it or act it out Exactly That's a very smart young woman there I have a thing here that is deconstruction worthy.

2:27:46 And we've stayed away from Sandy Hook because we know there's a whole bunch of stuff wrong with that. We know, I mean now... It's undecipherable. There are bullet holes in cars outside But from teachers who were killed inside and there's bullet holes from inside the car going out. I mean you can't even make this stuff up anymore, that's how crazy... I do put the links in the show notes 475.nashownotes.com we're not gonna discuss that what I do want to discuss is this lawsuit

2:28:22 So one of these surviving kids, six-year old girl who was actually been on... you've seen her interviewed here and there certainly on CNN. Her family Started a lawsuit, then retracted the lawsuit. $100 million dollar lawsuit and the lawyer was on CNN one minute of clip of him And then I want to talk about it because i think that It's very obvious what is going on here but listen very very carefully To everything he's saying He's in nut job as well obviously otherwise you wouldn't fit in script And there was dark poem Sorry wrong one

2:28:59 Here we go. An attorney in Connecticut has withdrawn this request to sue the state for a hundred million dollars in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting, and this attorney represents the family of this six-year-old girl who witnessed and survived the shooting just from a couple weeks ago he says the state failed to take steps to protect the children from harm He is Irving Pinsky Ivan Pinsky, he's with us this morning. Forgive me I have two different versions of your first name. You're perfect it's her. Mr. Pinsky good morning let me just first ask you this you know with regard to this young girl what is the family telling you? Why go after the state of Connecticut

2:29:38 Well, that's not really their decision even though legally it is technically. The truth is that our legal strategy and we're not only going after the state of Connecticut but what we had to do get the state of Connecticut was file a request for permission to sue them you can't even just sue them That's the law in Connecticut and many other states so we filed it then we got new evidence coming in plus all this backlash intense nervousness. So we withdrew it, but we reserved all rights to bring it again within the next year. Let's talk a little bit about the backlash I mean John and I were both in Newtown a couple weeks ago toughest story of ever covered very tenuous there right now and imagine just so recent after what happened to these these young people that you have gotten quite a bit of backlash why continue if you still will choose to do so? Well

2:30:26 It's a natural reaction to get that backlash. I know that, but on the other hand... When I get called, I have to save the evidence. I can't wait for the Attorney General to get their evidence or the police to get their evidence as a lawyer. I'm looking for different evidences than they are so i had to go in early and that was not made clear to the public because there's so much of the fog of disaster So I just was doing my job and I'm still doing it and I've got a year to file the request. Real quick what kind of backlash are you talking about? It's like a six minute interview with this guy that is linked in the show notes But I know what i'm hearing. What are you hearing in this? I'm not hearing what you're here, and what are you hearing? I'm hearing shut up money is what I'm hearing the kid clearly saw what happened The guy goes and immediately files the request no intent to sue anything but he has to file a withdraw He gets a whole year then he wants shut-up money Yeah That's what this is about it's shut up money Money's the word I call it shut up money hundred million dollars slave money Shut ups shut up slave money 100 million dollars

2:31:29 It's very obvious. And he's like, I've got the evidence there's new evidence... ...I can't wait for the other and the guys got evidence! Evidence! Yeah well that means this will never come to the fore. Of course not of course not but then you know why else? The guy probably should be bought off or a milled Someone wasn't included in the deal that's for sure yeah apparently some something fit some there's a hole in the story yeah let's just hope they uh nothing weird happens after that I've got a good report from Iraq that was

2:32:05 displayed in Europe, you've probably seen this stuff but I swear that none of this is coming over here about Iraq falling apart. It's actually falling apart! Welcome back it's time for Focus tonight we're turning our attentions to Iraq A country blighted by sectarian rivalry a full year after US troops withdrew Sunnis complain that they are being sidelined by the Shiite government of Nouri al-Maliki they've been staging large protests for more than a week and even managed to block key trade routes. Prime Minister Maliki says he's prepared for dialogue but will not tolerate endless demonstrations, and in a new twist the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has joined the Sunnis He says Iraq should have its own Arab Spring moment Kate Williams has this report I saw this actually because i didn't want to say it but i've been watching Sky News over here because

2:32:58 It's the only news that is actually watchable. Yes, very watchable Yeah, although van cat if you can get the English version is very good to them cat isn't on here for some reason I've got all kinds of other stuff. I've got yeah, I've got sky BBC BBC International is kind of cool cuz Holly garrani is on there Yeah, I can't I can't have not yet defined that I like she still sexy I don't know why they don't use her in the States holly galah holly galani garani was named Holly girl. I don't see you know what? I mean so they're There is a, and there's also kind of breaking news that they play in Europe. And I swear you'd think I know about this but in fact this was a surprise to me it was only because I had this dish in Berlin but they won a Grammy as the clip. Ready?

2:33:45 Yeah, Grammy award-winning punk rock band Green Day have announced that they're getting back on the road following last year's cancelled tour Frontman Billy Joe Armstrong sought treatment for substance abuse after an outburst on stage in Las Vegas The band have notched up five Grammys and sold over 65 million records worldwide. There's your boys Notched up. Notched up, fudged up. Your boy notched it up. It's funny because I had that story as I was going to ask you if you knew that your boy had come out of rehab? You do love those you do love those green day Here's the one that this was my favorite clip This would if it wasn't for the good clip of the day this I think This is a propagating to be as you know that there's a TV show called bones. Yeah, and then watch about at Asperger's genius said that he's good at doing Deconstruction a whole he's an a-hole who? The bones isn't the bones in a hole or I think if something else I'm thinking of a different thing

2:34:49 I don't know what I'm talking about. Anyway, no this is really a good story it's very well constructed but to bring to do the you know they old oh let's see if we can take pictures take a look outside the lens see if you can boost the image so that enhance or my favorite one that we had a couple years ago where they got an image of a guy in a window off of a shiny bolt from a tire or something. Enhance zoom-in rotate Yeah. See if you can get something out of the... Anyway, there's all that crap This one here was like the eye roller I have not heard anything this bad probably for two or three years Why did we shoot Brennan? Ohhhh! I was able to restore part of the text from the paper scraps that you sent me One contains a fraction 1 3rd and the letters A R G A R It comes from the word margarine And the one third is a one third of a cup The papers were from a cookbook

2:35:45 I ran the typeface. It's zingbats, it's diffwhips I ran the typeface through the Library of Congress database. This, this database by the way does not exist obviously because there is no such... What do you mean she ran that typeface and she got the data publication? Give me a break! What kind of idiots do they think the public are?! Say it again say it-do the line what kind of idiots to think the public are? No not that one I mean what she did She ran the typeface through the Library of Congress database

2:36:41 Perfect. Nailed it! What a crock! Butter... It was margarine, I knew that word was margarine! I ran it through the typeface database perfect! Redbook? Yeah I got it Prediction? What? Burma? Burma? Burma Okay Yep Time to start some droning No-fly zone Get ready to move in Of course we know there's a pipeline I don't... Everyone can take a drink, but the prediction is what you see in Syria, Burma next. High in the air above Kachin state not far from the Chinese border A helicopter gunship fires on the ground below Filmed from rebel trenches by an aid agency these pictures clearly show jet planes being used against fighters from the Kachin independence Now please filmed

2:37:47 uh... by rebel fighters buying aid agency please army It's part of a marked escalation in an 18-month long conflict that has displaced more than 75,000 people. As the jet approached it just sounds like it is screaming so loud and... Here is an American photographer who happens to be there? Everyone ran into the bunker and ducked as it turned we could see that wasn't going to fire at our position but started firing machine gun at different KIA positions just couple hundred meters away So just put it in the Red Book. That's why Clippity-Clop was there. Yeah, you know Hillary was there. You know Barack was there we're hugging the hot chicky whatever... It's time! Whatever it is, it's time to do some crap in Burma. And this so delicious woman you're talking about? Yeah that would be the one with big sunglasses. It's almost too delicious to believe my friend. Exactly and she was referring to that woman from Burma exactly exactly

2:38:52 All right, I got nothing else. Really? Nothing else? I have an end to show clip! What might it be? It is about two and a half minutes of explanation on the floor of the house about FISA since no one else is talking about it since you know basically... essentially just tells you that you're going to be eavesdropped on Oh, yeah. You have to play it I mean i think would just be one of those you know like one of those things that may another uplifting thing to begin the new year exactly Mainstream media can't play any of this stuff. You know it's from c-span so we might as well just roll it out

2:39:39 Who was telling me by the way? By the way, you know the C-Span stuff is all public domain. Yeah And not all of it does so they have some exclusive stuff as rare But most that's covered by fair use but then the network should run this stuff without even any issue No no instead we have German chicks in lederhosen over here hawking a phone number for you to call them So you can jerk off Essentially. Yeah, that by the way would be a good start if we had at least that in America Day 28 in exile miss Mickey coming down with the flu and I am going stir crazy But hey! I'm living that American dream everybody just getting by let's reform immigration shall we?

2:40:29 Here in the lowlands of Gitmo Nation, In The Morning everybody I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where the sun is now shining I am John C. Dvorak. And it's grey here once again what a surprise! We'll be back on Sunday right here on No Agenda. It is never okay, never okay for government officials to use a general warrant to deliberately invade the privacy of a law-abiding American. It was not okay for constables and customs officials to do it in colonial days and it is not OK for the National Security Agency to do it today

2:41:18 So if the government is going to use general warrants to collect people's phone calls and emails, it is extremely important to ensure that this authority is only used against foreigners overseas and not against law-abiding Americans. Now, despite what the presiding officer and the Senate may have heard this law doesn't actually prohibit the government from collecting Americans' phone calls and emails without a warrant. The FISA Amendments Act states—and I want to quote here because there's been a lot of inaccuracies and misrepresentations on that...on this

2:42:06 The FISA Amendments Act states that acquisitions made under Section 702 may not quote intentionally target a specific American and may not quote intentionally acquire communications that are known at the time of acquisition to be wholly domestic. But Mr. President, the problem with that is it still leaves a lot of room for circumstances under which American phone calls and emails including purely domestic phone calls and emails could be swept up and reviewed without a warrant

2:42:46 This can happen if the government didn't know that someone is American, or if the government made a technical error or if the American was talking to a foreigner even if that conversation was entirely legitimate. And I'm not talking Mr President about some hypothetical situation. The FISA court in response A concern I and others have had, the FISA Court has already ruled at least once that collection carried out by the government under the FISA Amendments Act violated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.

2:43:26 Senate rules regarding classified information prevent me from discussing the details of that ruling or how many Americans were affected over what period of time. But this fact alone, Mr President clearly demonstrates that the impact of this law on American's privacy has been real and it is not hypothetical. You may return to your business citizen Adios mofo Eat me The best podcast in the universe! Dvorak.org slash N-A-R-K