Episode 480 · Sunday, 20 January 2013

War on Brains

From the expansion of federal background check databases to French military maneuvers in Mali, the intersection of domestic surveillance and global energy security takes center stage.

By The No Agenda Show | 2h 50m listen | 41 chapters
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The No Agenda Show · No. 480

About this episode

Barack Obama prepares for his second inauguration in the White House Blue Room, marking a historic double swearing-in ceremony that ties the record of Franklin D. Roosevelt. While the President navigates French Empire aesthetics and official protocols, the administration is simultaneously issuing executive memoranda to expand the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. This NICS expansion integrates records from the Department of Defense and Social Security Administration, effectively creating a permanent digital dossier on citizens under the guise of mental health safety.

France has launched a military intervention in Mali to combat Islamic militants, though the move appears driven by energy security and the protection of uranium deposits vital for French nuclear plants. The conflict features the rise of Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed Al-Qaeda mastermind known as Mr. Marlboro, whose cinematic branding masks a history of cigarette smuggling and alleged Western intelligence ties. Domestically, the TSA is removing RapiScan backscatter X-ray machines from airports after failing to mask naked images, while VIPER teams in tactical gear begin patrolling Amtrak stations in Emeryville, California.

Adam Carolla faces a patent infringement lawsuit from Personal Audio over episodic content distribution, a move many label as patent trolling. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton’s appearance in thick corrective lenses ahead of her Benghazi testimony sparks speculation about her health and the strategic timing of her public statements. The program also explores the lead-crime hypothesis, the mechanics of H&K upper receivers, and the curious case of a Bulgarian assassination attempt where the weapon failed at point-blank range.


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CHAPTER 01 / 41 Discussion

Barack Obama, Second Inauguration and White House Blue Room

Barack Obama prepares for his second inauguration, tying Franklin D. Roosevelt's record for two double swearing-in ceremonies. The first ceremony is a private event held on Sunday, January 20, 2013, in the White House Blue Room, followed by a public ceremony on Monday. The Blue Room is noted for its French Empire style and historical furniture dating back to the Monroe administration.

barack obama· inauguration· white house· blue room· franklin d roosevelt· john roberts· constitutional oath

00:00 It's an interesting A, B, C, D, E...E...D,C,B,A. Adam Curry John C. DeVore Act Sunday January 20th 2013 time to get Monation Media Assassination episode 480 This is no agenda Celebrating Obama number one's inauguration day from the capital of the drone star state here in Austin, Tejas. In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where i'll be celebrating obama number two's inauguration tomorrow. Well you can celebrate both I mean it's you know they're both they're both valid presidents. I only believe in the one Obama They are both valid presidents No, I liked his number two guy better I was watching this so they have for those of you who'd You know the one with the ear anomaly that's the giveaway Yeah i think its just the gray hair I don't think is the ear anomaly I think it's the gray hair yeah

00:58 Yeah, he said he was dying his hair and you know. So we've had the press corps sitting outside in their little panels for I guess just to like white smoke to rise out of the White House that the Pope has been inaugurated. Here's a little thing that I picked up. President Obama though is going to tie a record on come Monday. He's gonna tie Franklin D Roosevelt's record getting two Two double swearing-in ceremonies. Hard to believe. Two double swearing in ceremonies? No, no... She blew the report! No wait she's not done yet. That's right I mean look back to 2009 during the swearing in when Justice Roberts was giving the oath that was sort of a public one they stepped on each other and then there was one word faithfully that was moved out of place and there were some talk as to whether or not it was legitimate

01:49 and I know at the time we asked the White House whether they would repeat it, they said no but in fact they did. There was a second oath that was administered it was private. This time is a different issue according to the Constitution if the oath has to be administered just before noon on the 20th well The inauguration doesn't typically take place on a Sunday, so they will have a private ceremony on Sunday with just some family members in the blue room at the White House. And then on Monday you'll have this sort of official public oath administered. Yeah... I- yeah so uh.. So i guess it doesn't typically fall on a Sunday although coincidentally tomorrow of course is I think Martin Luther King Day isn't it? Monday? A federal holiday? Thought that was Friday! I thought that was Monday! Oh man did I miss it again?!

02:40 I thought it was Monday. No, Monday! Is that right? I don't know now you've confused me. I thought Martin Luther... Then there was a poor celebration i'll tell you that. Maybe your right because the post office delivered the mail January 21st yes tomorrow exactly its tomorrow so for those of you who are new to the program this is actually a John C Dvorak Theorem is that we have two presidents and the first time this happened where there was a private inauguration, a second private inauguration. That was questionable but now indeed we have yet again two inaugurations and it appears from what I understand despite pleas from the press that this will be private and there may be some like a pool photographer but i don't know if there's going to be video of the event in the blue room

03:39 This is one where the devil appears The blue room by the way is I wrote this down for I picked up there's a Wikipedia article. It's it's a very elitist room It's the it's kind of like a French Elitists thing second, and I can't find enough the bat the Blue Room here we go Blue Room White House Uh, the blue room is furnished in French Empire style. Ha! Fitting... Eight pieces of gilded European beach furniture

04:21 Purchased during the Monroe administration furnished the room from Beelzebub himself Included is a bear share. That's an armchair within that's a throne. Hey, it's enough there's a throne in their Béjaire armchair with enclosed sides Small thrown That's funny. Everybody's eyes turn red in there In the blue room, your eyes turn red in the blue room Be careful! And they rise from the fire pit Yeah anyway You know what? What is what the oath is in there I am...I'm hurting today John you get the flu no remember I threw my back out while in Amsterdam

CHAPTER 02 / 41 Discussion

Myofascial Release, PNM Therapy and Dr. Ken

A host describes seeking treatment for chronic back pain resulting from a 2002 motorcycle accident. The treatment, performed by Dr. Ken in Austin, involves PNM (pin-and-move) myofascial release using rubber bands and a wooden stick to apply deep tissue pressure. The procedure is described as intense but effective for healing long-term joint and muscle pain.

myofascial release· pnm therapy· applied kinesiology· chronic pain· deep tissue massage

05:15 Oh yeah, well you were right. And he had to fly back with a bad back that's gotta be not good Yeah so it hasn't gone away and this of course is originally from a motorcycle accident I had in...I think it was 2002 when I landed on my back and thats when I decided flying helicopters is much safer than motorcycles And so I, you know after much prodding and you know me. I don't like the inside of hospitals. I don't like doctors. I don't like the pharmaceutical industry but i'll try kind of anything else and I'm still a loyal fan. Yeah yeah you go to court... You don't mind going into quacks? No! I don't. I don't and in fact I think that's where many of the secrets of healing exist

05:59 So I still go to our applied kinesiologist and acupuncturist, Dr. Ron and no allergies anymore and I feel great. Are you whistling at me again? What are you doing? Are you listening to my story? Yeah yeah, you're talking to the applied kinesiologist that's why he uses speakers. So Mickey has had very severe joint pain probably most of her life and she found a guy about half a year ago who has completely healed her, Dr. Ken and I thought you'd be interested in this John he practices something called PNM myofascial release. Release? Yeah and PNM stands for pin-and-move myofascial release

06:58 How do you spell myofascial? M-Y-O F-A-S-C-I-A-L. And it's a, I got it here... It is a combination of myofascial release, what this called? Ischemic pressure and deep tissue massage with movement through targeted ranges of motion and areas being treated So while your looking that up, ill tell you basically what it is So you lay down on a massage table and he has these rubber bands. You almost said tabla I don't know what happened I'm still on my French elitist, and it almost said taffle which is Dutch for table I know where that came from so you laid down in the massage tabla

07:49 And he puts you one leg at a time in a big rubber band. So it's kind of like a sex swing idea where do we... Oh, yeah I'm telling you! Is this the glass rod treating it perchance? Well here comes so and then what he does is he'll press really really hard on your muscles and while he's doing that he's moving your limb around basically your leg and then at a certain point and this is where I got a little creeped out He said, okay I'm on my right side and one- and my left leg is in the rubber band. And he has a stick! I kid you not John, he has a stick maybe... I'll bet he does About three quarters of the size of a baseball bat. An then he pulls my pants down behind me like oh uh oh That's what i'd say

08:42 What are you doing with that stick? But then he uses the stick like a rolling pin almost, but literally just leaning on these muscles with a lot of force. And as crazy as it sounds and is kind of frightening as it was... It's really done an amazing amount of good just in... I had like two massages in Amsterdam And this guy is he's fascinating, fascinating guy. You know his job is to drive all pharmaceutical pharma based companies out of Austin He says I can fix anything with my stick and my rubber band. And you know he was talking and slowly...and then I'm like ah this guys member the Academy right? He's one of us

CHAPTER 03 / 41 Discussion

Gun Safety, Pharmaceutical Industry and Accidental Discharge

A discussion regarding gun legislation shifts to the theory that modern focus on firearms is actually a cover for medicating children. An anecdote is shared about a therapist who recently purchased a 9mm handgun for protection but accidentally discharged a round through a couch and into the floor. The incident highlights the need for basic gun safety education among new owners.

gun safety· 9mm· pharmaceutical industry· accidental discharge· mental health meds

09:31 And I know Miss Mickey had already been talking to him, so you know, I'm listening to what he's saying. Then and then it was like, how about this gun legislation? And I lay into it and said oh dude this isn't about guns, its actually right up your alley! This is about getting kids on meds And he's like, and I tell him about the stuff that we talked in the previous show. He was like oh man! Oh that is so cool that I know this because I got all these guns and went out and bought a whole bunch of guns. Another sucker. And he has his 9mm and you need to help me because there is something with the ammo...and literally opens the cupboard and it's in his office. The 9mm. You never know.

10:15 And he's like, I had a problem yesterday and I haven't taken it out to the range but this one cartridge got stuck. And then it fired and look there is the hole in the couch! It went right through the couch of the floor. Okay we need a little bit gun safety lessons which have to talk about But this guy really very fascinating and he did my, tested my blood. I don't want any needles or anything. Really really...I just hate that! And because you know what your blood type is? No i dont. Do you know your blood type John? Nahh..you know I used to know it. It's something that....I mean I guess its kinda handy to know

CHAPTER 04 / 41 Discussion

Blood Type Diets, Evolution and Dietary Restrictions

A theory is presented regarding the evolutionary history of blood types, suggesting that O-positive was the original type in Africa and others morphed through dietary changes. The discussion covers the "Blood Type Diet," which claims certain foods like tomatoes or red meat act as toxins depending on one's blood chemistry. Skepticism is expressed regarding the scientific validity of these dietary claims.

blood type diet· o positive· a positive· glucose· evolution· dietary restrictions

11:04 Yeah, yeah. So I knew it was why ask about it and they go okay never get well I'm a positive as his miss Mickey turns out and yeah can give each other blood? I think maybe it's illegal for us to have children or something. I don't know No, that's a good one. I don't know just Anyway, so yeah We could give each other blood but so he was telling me kind of the history cuz I'm like you know what is this bullcrap O positive A positive A minus AB positive and And in he kind of synopsized it for me You know while these hurting my finger because then I don't like being cut

11:43 And he says, you know the original people from like Africa were all O positive. And as we migrated out all over the world, depending on the diets that we had. We were eating a lot of fish or meat or whatever it started with just basically through evolution that morphed somewhat and I'm not going to say it exactly the way...I am sure I am not exactly right but the difference in if for instance 75% of all Native Americans are O positive versus a majority of citizens in the US which are no longer O positive. And the difference between an A positive or an O positive, or AB negative whatever is basically one molecule of glucose I think that's what he said it was but it's like one... It's like the way I equated to 1 bit you know of a processer One bit is different

12:44 And he says that's why what happens is if you get, if you're A positive and you get a minus negative blood in the transfusion. That negative blood is essentially going to be attacking your A positive blood and it will kill you because I know that I know it's like you have to have the right blood right otherwise you'll die If someone gives you the transfusion do you know anything about this? Are you going somewhere with this story Yeah I am Do you know anything about this You know how this works I know that it works. I'm not like sitting around and musing over it, no. Have you ever thought about this? No! But it turns out that there's many foods that have this one molecule... Oh yeah?!

13:31 Don't be so skeptical immediately! Oh brother. Okay, I want to hear more of this now And you should avoid foods that have this one molecule because they are actually bad... don't do it- I hate it when you do that Hey, don't do that What? You're mocking me. I haven't even gotten through the story No, I'm just listening and listening intently You're going muahhh So the one molecule that's different is thus poison for your blood type. Oh no! I am not supposed to eat tomatoes? No! You don't like tomatoes, is that what you're telling me? No. I do like tomatoes but i'm not supposed... Otherwise wouldn't you eat them? Well apparently it's-it's not of a good sort for my blood type Really?! What happens to you then when you eat tomatoes that your blood type reds and your body rejects you puke?? No but yeah it can hurt your digestive tract somewhat Yeah And I'm not supposed to have red meat But of course you want too much red meat anyway

14:38 But you know just weird things that you can't look for instance cashews are not good for me from my blood type, but this is bullcrap Why it's not bull crap. I mean I carry out put up with a guy with his massage therapy But now we're dealing with just nonsense. I think yeah already science book and everything there is I'm gonna read up on it. He looks good! I tell ya, he's 53 and he looks 33. Yeah? Well...

CHAPTER 05 / 41 Discussion

Austin Real Estate, Dilapidated Mansion and Moving Logistics

The hosts discuss a potential move to a rundown mansion in Austin that features a circular driveway, a gold swan bathtub faucet, and a backyard pond. Plans for the property include renting out teepees on the front lawn during the South by Southwest festival. A moving company called "Two Guys in the Van" has been contacted to facilitate the relocation.

austin· real estate· dilapidated mansion· moving company· south by southwest· teepees

15:18 And yeah, well I'm glad you took us around. Glad you took us on that little tour Well, I think people are genuinely interested in my health and my well-being Anyway we got to get done on time today with the show because our landlord... We have to get out of here Our landlord has put the place up for sale So, you know and we're like yeah they're cool. You know so yeah we'll do whatever he has a big lock box on the door now. That guy's coming in at noon. I'm telling ya it's like people are like three showings a day! And if and if you're not home then you kind of got to put your crap away you don't want... Right because people steal it. Exactly We usually go to these home openings just to filter through things Just to steal stuff? Look that book! You know I've been looking for that book

16:11 But there is, there may be good news on the horizon. There is this kind of dilapidated mansion in Austin...in town... Dilapidated! Is it dilapidated? What did I say? Dilapitated. It might be the way they pronounce it in Texas but believe me... What is dilapitated? Is that a word? No there's no such thing as dilapitated. Okay it's dilapidated? Dilapidated yeah. Doesn't sound good Well, no that's why it made you sick sounds like it means did this still happen a bit. It's run down And as a rundown mansion yes and I like it And it looks like swear to God it looks like the White House ah Don't think twice well so need a couple dogs You need some hound dogs out front literally has one of the bathrooms has a gold swan as a faucet

17:08 So I threw in like a real lowball number and they call back. And they're like, yeah no we'll let you know on Monday but we're definitely considering this if you'll do at least 18 months. Like are you kidding me? Who's gonna fix up the place? Well, no you know to fill with bugs. Well there's there's a few issues For instance There's a like a water feature in the back which I swear There's an alligator or crocodile living in there so we have to clean that water what a water feature Like upon some water feature it's a pond like a movie It's a pond with a pump You have a pond in the backyard oh yeah

17:49 So there's a swamp in the backyard. And there is pool, swimming pool with... I guarantee it is green colored. Oh yeah and then there is swimming pool with flamingos on the bottom Is the pool clear or just mossy? Now the pool looks okay Okay well that good But you know its like You gotta put lot of chlorine in those pools Some rooms are okay and some rooms are bit dilapidated But you know we could make it work. We could totally make it work sounds like it'd be fun Yeah, that's what I said and yeah me is did did Make Marjorie see if Marjorie yes she was there It took her a second to kind of get over say well She first went I would I would hate for people to look at the at this house And then think that I actually am living there um

18:41 Why? It's a big... it sounds like the White House. It's an old southern mansion, it sounds like to me with the big pillars. It is Tara! But you know- Just little run down and your down on your luck You don't actually see the rundown part from the front Oh perfect! It's the facade! It's total façade And we're gonna put teepees in the front and rent them out Look where Curry's living he's eating his money That's exactly what people are going to say I like it. Everything sounds, so far the checklist is you're not missing a beat. I thought we were pretty good to me there's certainly room enough for everything we need to do this is that yeah we can have our own mommy and daddy room with special things. Is there a ballroom in the place? A what? Ballroom! A ballroom?! Yeah a ballroom well...yeah...you know where you dance. Not with a dancing floor

19:36 It's not necessarily a ballroom. No, it's kind of Center Hall colonial Is there a giant dining room? Yeah With a chandelier Really? Yeah, oh yeah. But the bathtub with a golden swan... Wait wait we're not talking about this topic! Is there a table in it that will hold like 20 people I know we have to supply our own table but i think you would just put some work horses up and... Noooo You gonna have to do something else We'll have to think about this There's certainly enough room for a new camp mofo

20:23 There's no problem there, and if you come to visit we'll never see you But your bathroom West wing that your bathroom needs some grouting work but on the back the back wall because a garden by the way when I travel I bring my own caulk With caulking gun yes, okay? Could I have a gun if you need one. I got I got a cocking gun oh Anyway, so we're really really hoping now kind of that this happens because that would be very funny. It has a circular driveway I kid you not

21:02 Oh nice! Yeah, where you can pull up front and then drive through- I wish there were junk cars. Get some miscellaneous cars in hangin' in there Hello? That's all we have is miscellaneous junk cars What are you talking about? You could buy a couple more Put one up on blocks One...You gotta put one up on blocks Just to make it look good Well Mickey is talking about putting up- You need a couch A couch ON the veranda No just on the front lawn Not on the veranda On the front lawn We're just sitting there. A brown leather couch with holes, with springs popping out that's what we need. Now Ms. Mickey wants to put teepees up and rent them out for South by Southwest on the front lawn which I think is a brilliant idea! It's definitely off the beat path an idea. Maybe it's zoning issue. Zoning? You think?

22:00 Anyway, so we'll keep you posted. We should know by Thursday's show because we do have to move out of here and we've already called a great name for company By the way two guys in the van This is the best this is the best marketing I've ever seen for a moving company Two guys in the van So they're gonna probably not a moving companies too guys It's exactly what it is his two guys in the van and a Google ad where AdSense that's what it is So they're gonna move us but we just don't know where yet. Hopefully that's it because we're just looking for something that fits our personality and I think we've struck personality gold with the swan. We should have taken a picture of that, The gold swan is outrageous when you see it on the bathtub It's just... Anyway so it's a bit murky and danky and dusty and moldy and everything but if we can make it work! With a little bit elbow grease

CHAPTER 06 / 41 Discussion

New Dutch Photography, Facebook Likes and Cover Art Contest

Producer Mickey is a finalist for the cover of the 2013 New Dutch Photography book, with the winner determined by Facebook likes. The hosts criticize the "like" system as a marketing scam but encourage listeners to visit a specific URL to vote for Mickey's entry. They compare her art against other entries, including one featuring a "kid cut in half," which is currently leading the vote.

new dutch photography· facebook likes· cover art· social media marketing· photography book

22:59 So we'll see I'll keep you tuned and in order to facilitate our move, I would like to Put a request out to the no agenda producer arm a fraction Miss Mickey's art is in the running to be the cover of The 2013 new Dutch photography book which is a hardcover book which is You know goes to all the collectors and agencies and art directors, and it's a really big deal. But now what the publishers done is something I really hate is they said well we're gonna put up 10 covers And the one that gets the most likes on Facebook will be hit! You know I read your column and this is you know go ahead talk about the column in regards to this

23:52 I, well here's the thing that triggered the call. This was for Market Watch. I was moaning about this idiotic likes and likes like anybody cares you know you got a bunch of likes oh he's got so many likes what bothers me is now i'm finding web pages where I go to the webpage and the webpage grays out completely so I can't see it and there's a little bitty icon in the middle of the page that is the Facebook logo and it says likes underneath it. And then there's a very small X to kill this thing or I click on the logo, and it gives this website a like So in other words they're giving me a splash screen for all practical purposes Yeah yeah, I've seen this happen...so I can give them a likes even though I've never seen this page before You just gotta do it now How could I like it? I don't even know what it is

24:44 That shows you what a scam this whole likes thing is. They should, they should get rid of it! No no you're going to facilitate now because we're going to use this like scam to uh get Miss Mickey some uh some work here so go to coverart.curry.com You should do it now John before the chat room catches it I don't have Facebook account just know it's public cover art dot curry com It's a public site So you'll be able to see it And if you don't have Facebook sign up for Facebook. No, I'm not signing and like miss Mickey's art cover art curry calm Does it just take you to Facebook and you can't log in it shows the art? Yeah Okay What do you think that this is hers with yeah, but the woman with the mask of stuff That's a dude so dude whatever but anyway It isn't that a handsome cover yeah, that's very and it looks very Dutch. Yeah, I mean it has a dutch accent

25:41 Kind of a style to it that is hard to describe unless you've been there a few times. It's nice though, isn't it? So that we want everyone to like that I don't like this one. It's a pretty girl but not that good. I don't think the other ones are very good. I think they're okay and they're beautiful but as covers I don't think they quite do it yet Let's see There's one with a kid cut in half is no good at sick No, no. See? There's only three! Yeah but they're also loading them over time so... Oh there is another one. This is terrible this one the hand and blocking the sun on a woman's face That's not very good. I'm telling you Miss Mickey has got it. It's a lock-in we just need all the lights. This one here at the back of somebody's head or whatever it is I can't even figure out which one is that. I don't see the one with the back someone's head

26:38 It's like a bunch of blonde hair and it looks like a wig. I don't even know what it is. So how many... It creeps me out for some reason. Oh, this guy is horrible! I can't figure out how many likes he has. This guy with all the freckles or whatever he's got? He's got a burnt face So, oh man Mickey has 200. I like the one with the bird what is this? It's hard to read the logo against that light yellow background it almost washes it out This is a problem because you see that the kid cut in half yeah That's got 228 likes And Mickey has 201 likes. Oh you gotta pound it! This is crazy and that's, I mean with all due respect that's not a cover the kid cutting half thing No they're got a bot pounding the thing Yeah this is a scam

CHAPTER 07 / 41 Discussion

Facebook Social Engineering, MarketWatch Column and Fake Engagement

The discussion expands on a MarketWatch column regarding the psychological manipulation of Facebook "likes" and the pressure to present a fake, positive version of reality. The hosts argue that social media has created a "self-esteem generation" where people feel obligated to like content they actually dislike. An update confirms that the listener "army" has successfully pushed Mickey's art into the lead.

facebook· marketwatch· social engineering· google plus· fake engagement· self-esteem

27:36 And the other thing that bothers me, it's like while we're on it is like you go to some say go come to our site and you go to a somebody direction to go to something because they're going to give you information let's say. And it's her face but says you got to log in through or how about this software here's some new date book software they help you remind you of this and that use your Facebook login. Oh no I don't do that. No I don't do that for now I don't So the guy that has 228, he's uh... I think he's at a... Does he teach at the academy? He's got all kinds of stooges. We've had thousands of listeners and some have Facebook accounts. It's a disappointment but they do. Yeah, I'm translating here for people who haven't done it yet like my picture just hit the picture and click like! Of course that's what everyone is doing

28:41 This like thing it was so I'll tell you just just to go along with your your article cuz I read your articles a good article and in market watch calm Yeah, funny enough. I found the article because Mike Elgin Google plused it this is that Google Plus thing is pretty outrageous It kind of works So But I'm gonna try not Well, hopefully these people don't listen. I'll just tell you this story. So there's a Someone who does photography and it's of certain Clothing etc. And you know, and Mickey's like I've seen these pictures. I'm like, yeah No, of course not a sit-down let me open up Facebook. I'll look and then she's like oh that one's really now That's how that's a horrible picture I don't she said the dress or the picture whatever and I'd look at I see but it says you liked It and you just told me that is horrible yet You'd like the picture what does that say?

29:35 And what was her excuse for this anomaly? She went, yeah you're right. What is up with that?! Because all you're doing is... You don't actually want to comment and say hey that picture or that dress sucks it blows so instead of that I'll just click like and my conscience is clear That's what it is! All of Facebook...Facebook is so Idiotic and I just have to make jokes about it all the time because if the whole thing is one big positive Fakeness world you never do you see someone post on Facebook? Oh, I think I want to throw up from dinner. No It's like look at my amazing dinner here's a picture of my food whoo awesome I love the pictures in this yeah You know never does not that I've never taken pictures of food But I don't recall but it's all about everybody's amazing life

30:29 You know, in the picture. I think that is your theory and i think you're right It's a reality show Look at all my friends! I got all these friends! I'm communicating with my friends! I'm amazing! This is just amazing it's so awesome My life rocks I just never read on this self-esteem generation. I never read about someone saying my life actually my daughter does that She's a terrorist on Facebook, so like this sucks That's my daughter Danny who? So they had that Google Plus thing which I forgot to call the woman to get verified Clarissa was an incler issa you can't be in much of a hurry with that job for

31:16 See, here's Mickey with an update. 249 likes! We've beat the other guy! Keep it coming! Keep it rocking! So far now its a war Yeah well of course its war and this is just the live audience This is just the live army yeah? De no agenda army fraccione once we go podcast It's gonna be all over Yeah... I'm just... It'll be good Good for the entire enterprise here The infrastructure Anyway, John I'm so happy we have a new bad guy and aren't you gonna say hi first? Hi

CHAPTER 08 / 41 Discussion

No Agenda Art Generator, Paul Couture and Technical Issues

The No Agenda Art Generator website is reportedly experiencing technical difficulties, preventing new artists from creating accounts. The site is registered to Paul Couture, and the hosts discuss the need to contact him to fix the back-end issues before the domain expires in July. The platform is essential for the show's community-driven artwork model.

no agenda art generator· paul couture· website maintenance· digital art· community contributions

31:54 In the morning to you John C. Dvorak! I was hoping you'd say that so i could say in the morning do you Adam Curry also in the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground subs and the water feet in the air and all the knights and dames out there yes and of course our No Agenda Arme Fraccione in the chat room noagendastream.com noagendachat.net thanks everybody for liking Mickey's work Just linking the liking. And our artist, Martin JJ struck again on episode 479-er this is 480 and you never know what the artwork will be check it out noagendaartgenerator.com It seems as though the artwork No Agenda Art Generator is failing

32:35 Yeah. I got another note this morning saying, like, can't log on or whatever People can't create a new account Was it Paul Couture? Or was it one of the other guys who did that thing? I don't remember but...I think people can't create an account Is that the problem? So we can't get new artists This is great We have to put up another site if we can't get this one fixed Because I do not know who owns and has the back end keys Let me see Who is no agenda Could've been Randy...I thought it was Randy Asher who did this site But he disappeared. Well this is what happens you know they're like Van Gogh's. Paul Couture? I have his email it's more hello i forgot what it... It's registered to Paul Couture okay so i said i said What was his email? Email here is paul at paul couture dot com Oh well try that, I have a different one from some yeah now i saw what you sent well i really really let me see when does the expire ah it expires july 29th of this year

CHAPTER 09 / 41 Discussion

Afghanistan Fighting Season, Coast Guard Drones and GI Joe

A donor report from Afghanistan describes the "fighting season" as a cycle where foreign fighters enter in spring and leave before winter. The discussion touches on the "Troops to Teachers" program and the potential for the Coast Guard, under Janet Napolitano, to serve as a loophole for flying drones domestically. Additionally, the delay of the GI Joe movie is questioned as potentially being too close to current events.

afghanistan· fighting season· coast guard· drones· gi joe movie· janet napolitano

33:32 Wake up get your artwork in quick people Everything is going down the tube. It's it's a witness by today's lousy donations, which were yeah hard to say the least Thank our executive producers before we continue Yeah, they do have a story that we've been missing We have three we have one executive producer of it and and two associates. The executive producer is Melody Muggler in Fountain, Colorado who came in with 250 bucks so she's got the good bonus executive producer number and she wants to say greetings to Yoda Hanan Leah long time boner one-year first time donor found out about the best podcast in years from Leo shows while deployed in Afghanistan hey

34:21 I should have written in sooner about the fighting season over there. Fact! Yeah, most of... I'm sorry It's just like oh man just got back from the fighting season in Afghanistan Most of the fighters are imported into spring and leave the country before winter hits The locals are more or less waiting it out until 2014 Thanks for providing your insight to what is reported out there? I've included a list of possible subjects you may want to look into Quote troops to teachers program. Oh man, hold on all coast guard and drones Hold on I gotta write this down home honest are you having trouble hearing me today? No He's just ignoring me okay hold on troops To teachers and this is stuff we got a look at man. This is good stuff okay What else do we have oh?

35:11 Boot camp for all Coast Guard and drones. Should the Coast Guard be a loophole for drones to be flown in the US? Or just start at the civilian military force, that's interesting. Of course! Well, the Coast Guard reports to Lucy Napolitano... And I have a clip because they brought the Tiger teams into the Bay Area Do you want to do that now or...? No. It's not the Tiger team by the way, it's the Viper Team but I like-I like the Tiger Team. Tiger Team, Viper Team... Advertising. GI Joe movie pulled from last summer release for 3D effects redo. Was the plot too much like something that happened in current events or something that is in the works? She wonders

35:56 Hmm. Anyways, we'll look into these things. Karma request a Hey Citizen John saying fudged deal which you don't have as a clip We don't know but I think we can say it yeah You can just do this live as that's an idea. So we're gonna have to say hey citizen say fudged deal And then I have to play Hillary too delicious to believe and then karma okay? Are you ready she's in drip pan fort Of course in Colorado whatever Yeah hit it Hey citizen, fudge deal. It's almost too delicious to believe my friend You've got karma I did not... I'm a little bearish on your uh.. On your fudge deal there You didn't like it? Yeah yeah yeah, it didn't sound gooey I could have probably put more into it Yeah you... I'm not getting work anyways in acting

CHAPTER 10 / 41 Discussion

AR-15 Mechanics, Upper Receivers and Gas Piston Systems

A listener provides technical details on the H&K upper receiver for the M16/M4 platform, which utilizes a piston system rather than direct gas blowback. This modification is intended to prevent the weapon from fouling and jamming over time. The hosts link this technical update back to their earlier discussion on the influx of new gun owners.

ar-15· m16· upper receiver· gas piston· h&k· firearm maintenance

36:53 Well, maybe you can get in that new GI Joe redo. Stephen Vanderhaal, source Stephen to UN Bell Haven North Carolina 22345. My donation amount relates to the two firearms I've acquired since the November election. Another one taken in by the... pharmaceutical complex. He got an AR-15 Colt 223 and a Remington 1911 .45 automatic I am ready to defend my life, my family, and my little bit of property really against what the choppers? Black helicopters? Against the flu! Against the weaponized flu? To answer your question a few shows ago John H&K came out with a new upper receiver for the M16M4 that uses a piston to push the bolt back

37:43 Earlier models have direct gas gas blowback which over time will foul and jam the weapon I'm not a credited gun buff, but that was one thing. I heard about last year you apparently are a gun buff Talk to my talk to my massage guy with the stick and the rubber bands in the special ops who Verified the article would like they have a job as jobs jobs don't look over there Italian shut up slave Okay, glad you're back. Oh, maybe you can read that I'm just waiting for you to finish the the ad they have mr.. And mrs.. Curry back in the United States get mo there you go jobs Jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs Thank You sir Steven

CHAPTER 11 / 41 Discussion

Al Roker, White House Incident and Media Sensationalism

The hosts discuss a news story involving Al Roker admitting to an embarrassing gastrointestinal accident at the White House. They criticize the media for focusing on such trivial and distasteful stories while ignoring more substantive issues. The segment highlights a perceived decline in journalistic standards and the value of the "value-for-value" model.

al roker· white house· media tour· journalism· sensationalism

38:35 Michael Levin in Brooklyn, New York $200. It was another associate executive producer ITM Jeremiah Alfonso and Marjorie Alfonso? He just he what he wants some karma I have a feeling that these these nicknames...I think they're hurting donations You've got something Karma Yeah, I mean this is this has not been a good week for sure No. Why is that? Are we sucking, is the value down? I mean must be! I can't imagine it are we just not doing a good job or are hitting the wrong things Well I got a story that should liven things up You know what it is because I think its cause we missed it We failed to report this story This was from about 2-3 weeks ago and we just dropped the ball on it

39:28 and talking about dropping stuff. So you do hear about, you know Al Roker goes to the White House and takes it down to his parents? Oh really this is... You're really gonna do this story? It's just the only explanation I can have for these donations Okay, where is it? How come I can't find the clip. I know what clip you mean by can still clip I got no clip that he pooped his pants wanted your thought No, man asked for somebody else's thoughts once in a while. Yes of course. I'm sorry out a clip Can you imagine being in a normal situation at a bar? So really yeah, I have a clip That's funny that's how I talk to people all the time

40:08 Hey man, how about those 49ers? Yeah they're pretty good. Did you see what happened the other day? In fact John this is how people operate They do show clips That's what the whole smartphone thing is about Hey man look at this crazy cat video It happens all the time. No, no I think what we so yes Al Roker pooped his pants and actually went on a press tour for it And then he takes this is dirty underwears and shoves him in one of the heat they left them there You know about that right? Yeah He threw him out left him in the garbage in one of the bathrooms in the White House Yes, I know Disgusting why would even tell that story guys an a-hole you know and I want to thank I want to thank Joe

CHAPTER 12 / 41 Discussion

Healthy Surprise, Austin Migration and Value-for-Value

Joe from Healthy Surprise sends a gift box of snacks and expresses his intention to move his business from California to Austin, Texas. The hosts use this as an opportunity to explain their "value-for-value" funding model, which relies on listener donations rather than traditional advertising. They encourage listeners to join the mailing list and support the show's infrastructure.

healthy surprise· austin texas· california migration· value-for-value· donation model

40:52 of healthy surprise calm who's always said these boxes are not you know nothing to be sneezed at John or Snowson don't check it out with your blood type that you can eat all that stuff no because I got the box before i got the blood type thing but I did I did have a immediately ate the apple chips yeah and like those only I did too he has a yes they're good but you know there eighty five dollars for one baggage Adam, every year around this time I sit down and make a list of everything that I'm grateful for. You and the No Agenda show are on that list! I don't have to go on about how much I enjoy the NA Show or how you're doing something no one else is really doing. You've also inspired me about Austin Texas and getting out of California. Healthy Surprise has been growing over the last year-and-a-half and when we outgrow our current facility, I am thinking about moving out to Texas and the Land Of Liberty

41:47 Enjoy these snacks. If you don't I know miss Mickey will it's to a great 2013 Thank You Joe, that's really kind that's very very sweet and like that and You know yes, you should definitely come and check out Austin everyone else from California thinking about moving to Texas We hear Dallas is nice Move on. I like Dallas so the script is playing out once again John and we have a new bad guy And this is a great bad guy because he's hot he's hot looking and he's got an awesome nickname He's got a name that you can his real name You can remember III'm just so delighted that now that you know, We will see zero dark thirty in

42:32 It's of course in the running for several Academy Awards. It will win one of them. Five actually, can I say something before you go on to this? Of course! Yeah, of course One other reason we're probably not doing well with donations because we don't mention that perhaps if they went to Dvorak dot org slash NA it would increase the So it's kind of like, you know... Maybe mention telling people where they can go. Where they can help us? Yeah that's true. Org dot org slash nb. And might be worthwhile to get people legit on the mailing list. Yeah the mailing list is very worthwhile and you can find that in the show notes. Today's show notes will be 480

43:13 That's a part of the deal of our value for value proposition. We'll talk about that later on and, of course if you do want to do something You can always propagate the formula Our formula is this we go out we hit people in the mouth Yes, thank you for catching me. Okay who's our new... tell us about the new Osama? Well first let's listen to the script because we've fixed

CHAPTER 13 / 41 Discussion

Mali Conflict, French Intervention and Natural Resources

France has intervened in Mali, officially to combat Islamic militants, but analysts suggest the move is driven by energy security. Mali possesses significant gold and uranium deposits, the latter of which is vital for France's nuclear power plants following labor strikes in Niger. The conflict is following a familiar geopolitical script similar to the intervention in Libya.

mali· france· uranium· gold· islamic militants· energy security

43:55 Osama, we got to get a new leader for the Al-Qaeda's. We have Libya, we pretty much have Egypt in our back pocket looks like Syria is taken care of for now you know that's just over on the other side there but in Northern Africa or in Africa itself, we have these very important oil-rich nations which would be Mali and Algeria. And we need to be in there! Actually I question the Mali thesis...and I have a clip. Mali is not about the oil

44:33 Okay. There's no oil there, generally? There is most definitely oil... Then it says not about the oil and that's why the French are involved Well let's listen As we've just heard some analysts suggest Africa's untapped natural resources could be the main reason attracting Western powers to the continent It's also being cited as a pretext for the intervention in Mali Despite their country being considered among the world's poorest nations it has plenty to offer when it comes to the wealth that lies beneath Well, the African nation is the continent's third largest producer of gold as you can see here It trails only South Africa and Ghana in that respect And there are some forecasts which you tell me this is about gold instead of oil then you're falling for that. You're falling for it Nope I'm not saying that at all. Alright. It could move into first place in Gold exports in a near future

45:25 Well, energy is another of Mali's economic trump cards with its uranium deposits believed to number over 5,000 tons. France relies almost entirely on uranium as fuel for its nuclear power plants and it's believed the French government is now eyeing the Mali deposits after its main source of uranium supply in Niger was threatened by major workforce strikes there. Oh, very good. But it's about something that they want to steal from Mali. Yeah and gold is a bonus! It's a huge bonus now so let's just say there's stuff there that we want and we certainly don't want the China... It's still the energy business so there is an oil angle which if you're getting energy from saying the oil companies do this, there's something going on. There's no oil there. We also certainly wanna make sure the China stay out

46:16 That's always the case. We always want to keep the Chinas away from it, so we just roll out the script again France's troops in Mali may have the support of the locals but back home in Paris The government is calling for a lot more aid The battle for Mali where Islamic militants control much of the country is proving more difficult than expected A West African force to total 5,000 troops is being deployed to lead the fight. But French and African leaders are asking other world powers for funding and logistical help. Sound familiar? Sound kind of like Libya? Residents of northern Mali have been fleeing south in a refugee crisis that the United Nations is warning could lead to hundreds of thousands of people being displaced.

47:03 The Islamists have been targeting groups of girls and women to rape them. Oh, that's right! That's why I left Gao with my daughters. Prediction? Angelina Jolie coming up... Came here Safety is also a concern in areas outside the insurgents' control. Human Rights Watch has reported abuses by Malian security forces in the central town of Nyono." I'm just waiting for the Viagra angle, where they say, oh they were handing out Viagras so that could rape their women and children! And then kill them! That was one shot because it got too much blowback... No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no we'll see. It never was used again So we have a new guy who has been working for the CIA since 2003

CHAPTER 14 / 41 Discussion

Mokhtar Belmokhtar, Al-Qaeda and Mr. Marlboro

Mokhtar Belmokhtar is identified as the mastermind behind recent attacks in Algeria and Mali. Known by the nickname "Mr. Marlboro" due to his history of cigarette smuggling, he is a one-eyed veteran of the 1990s conflicts. The hosts suggest he may have ties to the CIA dating back to 2003, following a pattern of Western-backed militants becoming future adversaries.

mokhtar belmokhtar· al-qaeda· mr. marlboro· cia· algeria· cigarette smuggling

47:49 As back in the day he was a part of the group preaching and combat The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat is what it is G SPC And he's been in Algeria and Mali since 2003 his name is mukhtar Mokhtar! Listen to this. This is the mastermind of the attack. Mastermind, okay listen this is ABC News by the way and as you know ABC News is the most compromised news organization in business producers are married to people who were direct advisors to the president it's a complete incestuous business. Mokhtar Bell Mokhtar

48:37 Ruthless rogue Al Qaeda leader. RUTHLESS ROGUE AL QAEDA LEADER! Who bizarrely also runs an African organized crime network that reportedly has made tens of millions of dollars in ransom from kidnappings and the successful smuggling of diamonds, drugs and cigarettes. Cigarettes! Okay now this guy if you look at his picture it is... You know how we have the Sheen legacy? Where we have Martin Sheen and then we have uh... Mukhtar Mukhtar So yeah Mukhtar Belmuktar So this guy looks like a very young Osama Bin Laden, a handsome devilishly handsome rogue man and he's made millions in kidnappings and smuggling cigarettes. And we call him... His nickname is Mr Marlboro. Mr Marlboro! That's right now in 2003 we used to call him the one-eyed that I that's according to a BBC report that I have here

49:32 He was known as one-eyed, one eyed Muktar Belmuktar Mr. Marlboro. He's very cold, very businesslike. Canadian Robert Fowler a former UN diplomat in Africa was held hostage for four months by Belmuktar Now when you say UN diplomat that is essentially spook I think this guy was Canadian so he is going to tell us how Muktar Belmuktar is very cold and businesslike. He's a rogue, he is the new devil." Until freed in 2009 Fowler says he is a man to be feared. I was afraid for my life all the time oh I was afraid for my life when I woke up in the morning and when I went to sleep at night but he's a very serious player Serious player

50:18 There you go. Mukhtar Belmukhtar everybody! That is the new man, the new kid in town Mr. Marlboro One-Eye Mukhtar Belmukhtar What's the one eye? I don't know that's... He has two eyes Yeah, I'm just saying. I am reading it directly from BBC website He used to be in a band The band of around 300 fighters reportedly aims to topple the Algerian government. Now if you look at the timeline 2003 this guy definitely is CIA 100% just like Bin Laden Another psycho they've got on there Of course, but have you seen pictures?

51:13 I'm trying to find pictures of him. I got one picture of some black guy Yeah, he's got black hair No and he has a turban this guy So if you look at Mokhtar Belmokhtar How come we can't find the picture? It must be easy to find the picture Maybe your not spelling it right Yeah, how am I supposed to spell it? M-O-K H-T-A-R. M-O-K...H-T-A-R Well that's different than i'm spelling it! Well yeah but you know you might be dilapidated. M-O-K-H-T-A-R And then... M-O-K-H-T-A-R Moktar Belmoktar Okay bel B-E-L Yeah so its all one word. Now my Google is not working

CHAPTER 15 / 41 Discussion

Media Branding, One-Eyed Warlords and Screenplay Ideas

The hosts analyze the media's "branding" of Mokhtar Belmokhtar, noting his cinematic qualities such as his glass eye and his battalion's name, "Those Who Sign in Blood." They joke about writing a screenplay or treatment for a movie titled "Smoke Him If You Got Him." The discussion highlights how news organizations build up "bad guy" personas to fit a narrative.

mokhtar belmokhtar· media branding· sharia law· glass eye· screenplay· the weinstein company

51:58 He looks handsome. They don't want me to see his picture because they'll probably say... Yeah, and right there in images it's like the... I got nothing! I got a blank screen Oh this is so great The PR is rocking Moktar, this is the telegraph in the UK Moktar Bel Moktar face-to-face with the untouchable jihadist leader yeah Moktar Bel Moktar Ah they are building this mother up Well they've been doing that for a couple weeks we probably could have gotten on this earlier I always thought it was a good name. You know my browser's down, am i dead here? Browser down! Browser down! We have a buzzkill browser down to vector 5! Is your internet explorer not working? That's what it looks like hang on What was that browser that used to come with AOL? Didn't they have didn't AOL have like a crazy ass browser what was that

53:00 No, wasn't that Netscape's browser eventually? I don't remember. Are you still using NCSA's mosaic with the dynamically rendering images? Remember that? This machine... this second machine would luckily have gone to a two-machine approach to the show. Oh! Whoa! A two-machine approach everybody it's welcome to year six of The NO Agenda Show Thanks. Hey, can't take a chance. Reading from the Independent. Mr. Malbrough Mokdar Bell Mokdars reign of terror struck fear into the heart of Molly I mean this is amazing oh here's how he got his nickname Oh this is great! The application of Sharia law in the central eastern city by the supposed righteous one-eyed warlord He's blinded one eye you should have a patch

54:00 Patch would do it. That'd be so much better! Yeah, they look like a pirate His battalion is named those who sign in blood I mean this is... I can't f- Can you imagine? M O C T M O C H T A R right? John, I'm telli- MOK Oh, MOK M OK H T A R Jeez Louise I'm telling you we should be writing the screenplay now It's got everything He's got everything. Come on, this is just- it's got everything you need in here! This is great!

54:45 Are you still not have you still my struggling with this? Let me try. Have you been able to find one? It's saying do you mean ah finally The guy the guy looks like a total psycho, but look it doesn't he look great and yeah And he has one eye according to the reports He's blue he has one eye He must be blind yeah, I know his Is his left eye you know is right? Eye. His right eye looks closed no It's right eye to you But his left eye which one do you think is the bogative eye I think the eye that's true That's his left his left but that one's open more it says bugged open because it's like a bit some phony eye And this just stuck in there. It's a glass eye

55:36 Yeah, it would be. Oh man! Does this get any better? I'm just... He had a glass eye. There's only one picture of him. He made millions smuggling cigarettes. No wait that's the second picture of him His name is Mokhtar Bel-Mokhtar Mr. Marlboro coming to kick your ass whether you're in Mali or Algeria Here's a picture of him from back in... Now The Weinstein Company presents Mr. Marlboro You know the voiceover job is you know yours for the asking. Yeah. Moktar, Bell Moktar. Moktar, Bell Moktar. Theater now playing in theaters nationwide I think it's what should what will the title of the movie be? He's got well here's Mr. Marlboro goes to Washington and that'd be uh... Moktar smokes him

56:31 Whoa, I like that. Moktar smoke him if you got him how about that? Moktar Bell Mokdar in Smoke Him If You Got Him because it's a series It's not just one so he made his living as a cigarette smuggler yes Yeah okay but how did we lose the eye let me see oh you put a butt out on him Let me see let me see if it says how he look up Oh here it is On the BBC must be true all right I got it The guy has a great story. One-eye veteran, he's a veteran. Okay... Belmoktar lost his left eye fighting with government troops in the 90s and now wears a false eye? It's glass! That's what I said!

57:23 Do you actually, is it? You know the one reason that I figured that went out because i was watching something on the military channel the other day and there were some poor CIA guy who had gotten into a wreck. And I kept looking at him saying what's wrong with this guy he every time he blinked his only right eye blinked and then I noticed his other eye which was bugged out was a glass eye because it got burned Do you think this guy's got the same look is that do you I just just a Vocabulary question. Do you wear a false eye? Is that is that the is that correct? No, no Because of the beat the BBC says he now wears a false eye. Yes. They're not like oh it's like a hat know What somewhere as a false eye is that what you do my belt if the BBC says that I gave it must be true

58:15 the sign anyway so what do you think okay so we got the same script. We've seen this in military I don't understand why they can't come up with... Why bother coming up with something new when you already bought the cow? But that's but this is what i'm saying, is you and I and were already late I totally agree but if we get on it now week we could have a screenplay done in six weeks we could start shopping this thing yeah will I mean this is this is its it's a guaranteed winner people option it though definitely option What we have to do is a small book, all of No Agenda World do this book for us. Everyone can get a chapter and volunteer. Crank out a book that is the story and then we can option the book as a screenplay. Unless you want to do a treatment? Is what your saying. We have to have a screenplay. Do a treatment before I do a screenplay

CHAPTER 16 / 41 Discussion

Ham Radio, Digital Transceivers and Bakelite Insulation

A host discusses prototyping a new digital mode SDR (Software Defined Radio) transceiver for the ham radio market. The conversation shifts to the properties of Bakelite, an early plastic used for its excellent electrical and heat insulation. They explore the history of Bakelite in vintage electronics and its unique physical characteristics, such as its tendency to shatter when struck.

ham radio· sdr transceiver· bakelite· morse code· digital modes· insulation

59:11 No, we just have to... Nobody looks at screenplays anymore. They look at treatments! We just want- no, we just wanna have the uh..we wanna have the book so that someone can option the book To go write a screenplay. To do the screenplay right? Or we can do it a treatment which is less size than a book. John let's be honest were not even gonna write a fricking book. Eh well treatments shorter But maybe could you know what important is... How about doing one page outline? That kind of- thats more our style Yeah, you get right on that after the show. No one page outline now I'm too busy man. I'm busy cuz you know this show is not gonna not gonna carry me through the rest of my life So I'm making a product. I'm making an HF Sdr QRP digital mode Transceiver what yeah exactly have made in China oh yeah? No well of course they want to talk to you about that

1:00:12 Oh! Should I upgrade my Java? No, probably not. Okay let's go over some of the clips we got here Well i was going to play something, I was leading into my clip oh I thought you were done I was leading into my clip that i'm creating a product for ham radio operators. Oh no, you have a clip about that? Yes I do! A clip about Moktar Moktar No not...I am done with him We're gonna do an outline after the show of one pager and then we'll chop that around Alright, we are in the money Hell yeah And while waiting for our ship to come in I will try building a Chinese piece-of-crap product and sell it to Ham Radio Operators around the world Tell me about it The audience has got be big

1:00:52 I mean, how many hand operators are there? There's got to be millions of them. I hope so! You only have to advertise in three magazines and they spend thousands of dollars Yeah that is kind of the advantage when you have such targeted marketing Exactly So i've come up with it and I'm already prototyping it And its going to be really fun Really kick ass But I have another market Call it Radio Narco. It's enough telecom equipment to communicate across states and international borders State-of-the-art gear that include antennas, transmitters receivers and other equipment in this case seized by the Mexican Army Equipment is available to just about everybody

1:01:36 and it could be set up in just a matter of a few hours. Lozano says the cost of installing a radio station can be as low as $5,000 more sophisticated systems can cost up to 30,000 small change for international criminal organizations exactly I think we're good to go my product is perfect for Mexican narcos So you're okay. It's perfect for it! It's some sort of repeater? No, no, stop guessing it's gonna be a great product the point is...it's a digital product that's going to get a lot of people interested in ham radio and maybe just put an ICOM sticker on it then it'll sell for sure I know exactly what it is You do? Something I want Tell me what you want It's a digital

1:02:27 Continuous wave code key broadcasts are all you do is type in the computer and it sends out as Morse code Yeah, only that it can do the Morse code but it's a little faster if we use Olivia or PSK 63 CW Yeah, okay. We'll make a special we'll make a bake light version for you that does CW Okay, no problem and Bakelite You know I think I've always wanted to own a bake-a-light place the factory that makes bake-a-light But you know bakelight is still manufactured What is it used for? I mean I use light as the original plastic No I know what it is because I used to have a phone made out of bake light with a rotary thing on it

1:03:12 But where does it come in handy these days? It comes in handy in situations where you don't want, it won't transmit electricity. You can't get energy...it's essentially an insulator. It like insulates from electrical current and insulates from heat. Ah right! It's very useful Right right right And also makes funky things because they got that feel that kind of weird feel of Bakelite is not cold is not hot. It's hard to when you've got it You have bakelite in your hands because of the heft and the relative temperature of the bakelite compared to the temperature of the room. You know you've got bakelite! Right, and it's cool when you hit it with a hammer It shatters Yeah In one go It's awesome Bakelite Yeah I used to have a bakelite How about a clip? Yes how about one

CHAPTER 17 / 41 Discussion

TSA RapiScan, Backscatter Scanners and Privacy Lies

The TSA is removing RapiScan backscatter X-ray machines from airports after the company failed to develop privacy software that masks naked images. The contract has been shifted to L3 Communications. The hosts argue that the government lied about the ability to fix these machines and mention legal concerns regarding the scanning of minors, which they equate to the collection of prohibited imagery.

tsa· rapiscan· backscatter· l3 communications· privacy software· kiddie porn

1:04:05 Viper teams in Emeryville now I want you to pay careful attention To the man on the street that they interview and it gives you all this insight So we think we need to set it up just a little bit and comes along with The news which was completely misinterpreted by many. I'm so surprised that TSA is removing the initial slave scanners, I actually have two of those clips too Okay, well I'll- I'll- I'll- I'll- I'm gonna set it up and then we'll you roll out the clippage. So... Umm.. The RapiScan Backscatter

1:04:41 Contract has been terminated which by the way means that l3 communications gets the new contract so this is just money going from one slave scanner to another slave scanner and Strangely enough there were people who actually know me who sent me email saying isn't it great. They're going away And as a part of the complete Entrapment of the citizenry, we have these viper teams which is the rapid response.

1:05:16 TSA agents who show up at sporting events, school sock hops and train stations apparently. Which one's the most important? Let's play a couple body scanner clips because what's interesting... Hey let's play some body scanner clips! Here is what interesting to me about it is that yeah they're going to pull them out but there are two things I was under the impression, and tell me that you were too or don't. Yeah, absolutely so. But I was under the impression that they had fixed these RapaScan jobs So all we got was an outline Oh! We only get an outline You can see the naked body Blah blah blah And now we understand That you can't They never did this It's all bogus They lied to us

1:06:02 Yeah, that's one thing. I think the second thing is and i think the real reason for this you know because they software apparently what if they can't fix it with software so they have to pull them all out So but the other thing I think they still have not addressed or gotten around is the kiddie porn issue It is against the law in this country to even have a kiddie porn image, even if you don't look at it. But if you are in possession under any circumstances where there's no circumstances where you can be in possession of a kiddie porn image... That is not true! If you work with the Pentagon that is okay

1:06:42 because they... Right, well these people don't work at the Pentagon so the TSA people are collecting kiddie porn essentially every time they send a little girl through their scanners and they do that even though some of them try not to so much. But anyways, so you can never get around that but then the other thing is which was in one of the reports if you read the news that is not covered by any of these TV stores and I have two TV stores here never mentioned apparently RapaScan had phonied up some test results and they were caught red-handed with a bunch of bad information and they were just this part of this is the process of scolding them for bullcrap. And we saw this in testimony when... No, but we didn't see all it because some that testimonial was locked and we wanted to keep it secret!

CHAPTER 18 / 41 Discussion

Body Scanner Removal, Media Complicity and Automated Target Recognition

News reports from Dulles Airport confirm that 174 naked-image scanners will be removed because they are too revealing. The hosts mock the media's sudden shift in tone after years of defending the technology. They also criticize "man-on-the-street" interviews that feature passengers who claim they don't mind the privacy intrusion, labeling it as "TSA theater."

dulles airport· osi systems· exhibitionism· automated target recognition· tsa theater

1:07:29 But anyway, so let's just play these two things and you get the idea. Body scanners one and body scanners two. This recent memory is being removed now from airports. The TSA said it couldn't resolve privacy problems with those expensive and revealing full-body x-ray scanners but that doesn't mean that all of the scanners are going away Natasha Barrett is at Dulles Airport tonight with a look at what to expect next time you fly. Natasha? Well Leon there's been a lot of talk about those revealing body scanners right now. Interesting how now that all the now they're talking revealing, revealing so revealing you know it's the same press who were sucking in the Politanos cock the whole time when they were rolling them out as much radiation is from his cell phone yeah and now it's like oh it was revealing you whores

1:08:14 Six of them have been removed from airports nationwide. 174 to go, including the ones here at Dulles Airport but before all that happens the new and improved ones have to be installed The company that makes the RapidScan body scanners used at Dulles Airport and nationwide couldn't make passenger images less revealing. Now, the Transportation Security Administration will remove the naked image scanners at all airports! The company OSI Systems loses its $5 million contract with the government and must pay to remove the scanners. If you're a freaking flyer like... Wait stop stop Do you think we can pick a couple of these up?

1:08:57 That'd be cool. Surplus? Can you imagine how awesome at the front of the White House, our White House here in Austin You have to go through the naked body scanner I don't see why not They should go for like maybe a couple hundred bucks Yeah, yeah, we're gonna have to either scrap them or sell them Oh John! I have another great business idea We buy up a couple of these and turn em into showers I guess you don't like my idea. I'm trying to imagine what you're talking about You take one of... you make showers and sell them as a cool looking shower

1:09:35 You mean you walk between them and get blasted with water? No, no. People put these in their bathrooms as a shower It's a conversation piece Yeah well that for sure you have to have a pretty big bathroom Alright body scanners part two I want to finish one. I'm digging your clip Internationally if you want to maintain high degree of security The RapidScan machines will be replaced by new body image scanners which must have privacy software 60 new scanners will be installed this month and next month. I mean it doesn't matter to me if somebody can see my body for like a split minute or something 30 seconds that doesn't bother me. Bitch, now! You know i was thinking the same thing here she is it doesn't bother me if somebody show me your tits yeah right for just a split second just remember there's only a split minute oh come on flash a nip come on baby come on just for a second you don't mind

1:10:27 I mean what is it you know these news reporters they only what happened to the journalism school thing we're supposed to get two sides, oh I'm supposed to get a pro and con so you get the one guy says safety I need this is safety that I feel real good about the safety and then he gets somebody else say I think these things are stupid. What good do they do? They just a bunch of TSA theater what Where's that clip? Instead we have a guy saying it's great because it makes me feel safe when I travel internationally and then some chick who wants to be an exhibitionist. How is that balanced reporting? Does it get better than this, does it even get better than the one I just heard? No, that's the best I can do. I want to hear it again. I want to hear it again. You can see my body for like a split

1:11:12 Minute or something you know 30 seconds that doesn't she's even defy 30 seconds. You know it's like a minute I'm okay with 30 second listen and for those of you listening at home, okay? Let's try it right now let's let's just look at 30 seconds okay Are you ready and time you're ready you ready to go? Yeah? I'm ready Okay And I'm going to look at your boobs go oh And I got the time, I got the stopwatch going. I'm looking at him from the side... Maybe look at it from a top profile view. Hmmmm is your nipple stiffening just because of me looking at it? Because there's only 12 seconds so far. You sure you're okay with this? Yeah are you really okay? Oh yeah. The left one seems bigger than the right one that's kind of interesting

1:11:59 Oh well, I have to say it's been very nice this little encounter we've had together and you can now pack up your boobs in 2... 1.. Thank you very much. Yeah it was a long time It is more about security than you? Yeah! I'm more concerned with security yeah Well your secure ma'am please move along TSA released this statement today By June 2013 travelers will only see machines which have automated target recognition Automated target recognition Well I know where i'm putting the bullseye. That allow for faster throughput, this means faster lanes for the traveler and enhanced security as always use of this technology is optional yeah thank you because we prefer valet service We don't want targeted service one valet service You can skip clip two let's go on to the viper teams because in the viper team's clip

CHAPTER 19 / 41 Discussion

VIPER Teams, Amtrak Security and Emeryville Station

TSA VIPER (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) teams have begun patrolling the Emeryville Amtrak station in California. These teams consist of armed agents in black tactical gear, often carrying sidearms in specialized holsters. Despite the heavy security presence, passengers interviewed in news clips express support for the measures, citing the "better safe than sorry" mantra.

viper teams· tsa· amtrak· emeryville· rail security· armed agents

1:12:51 And I've always believed that this whole thing is a, well we both think so. This is scam to sell these machines and they're going to put them in everywhere and they're gonna put them at this idiotic train station which is... But anyway, so the Viper teams show up in Emeryville and the report we get this fawning report about how great it is shows no balance again. So one guy does say I don't think we need any more security than we have but everybody else is going on and on about how great it is because it's better to be safe than sorry. Might as well be prepared! This Amtrak passenger says... I love it! This is fantastic stuff. She noticed them right away, the many black-clad TSA inspectors at the Emeryville Amtrak station and its a presence she appreciates Would you like to see them out here more often? I would Why? Can't hurt Just in case you never know Ladies and gentlemen this is train 5

1:13:44 As part of their nationwide Viper Team effort, the Transportation Safety Administration put about a dozen agents at the Emeryville station to see and be seen. We've blurred their faces because some of these TSA inspectors also work undercover The visible deterrent is making a presence known at the station, getting on the train talking to passengers letting the bad guys know that we're here and letting the passengers know that were here and working with law enforcement really tailor our Viper teams to their needs. The idea is to look for signs of trouble in a place they can be difficult to police because it's wide open environment That said the TSA and Amtrak believe that working together they can make rail travel as safe as it could be We do have random baggage checks

1:14:28 And we do have, at some of the larger stations, canine units and we do random sweeps in stations and tracks infrastructure. Some of those who regularly travel on Amtrak told us they think the current level of security is just enough You wouldn't want to go through screening would you? No I would hope that we don't come to that. I can see trains being really a source for security problems But maybe I'm not imaginative enough. Now the TSA's Viper teams aren't just used to patrol transportation sites like this one, they also have been and will be used at high profile events many of them here in the Bay Area we'll have more for you on that tonight on ABC 7 News at 6. CNN Emeryville, Lori Anthony, ABC7 News. I would just like to play a quick clip from our president uh...just ah.. couple years back Imagine boarding a train in the center of the city

1:15:20 No racing to an airport, and across a terminal. No delays no sitting on the tarmac, no lost luggage... ...no taking off your shoes. So, uh... so they're walking around this. So the bad guys-so that makes the bad guys aware that they're there Why don't they just arrest the bad guy? What is happening on the trains that they need these idiots roaming around The Gestapo in their all black Needs we remind you 45 on their hip I do not think they are armed Are they armed? Oh God yes! The TS-not the TSA

1:16:07 It's those these viper teams have gotten out fives on their hips and there are big ones Really? Yep. Let me take a look at that, but it's not just the normal like of its shoulder or 45 Normal holster its its kind of oh my god on some sort of a pivot Yeah, they got looks like a fast draw hole. They got the leg brace the leg the leg strap yeah Oh My God It's a really fancy looking thing. It looks expensive, whatever it is. It has got a big clip over the top and probably got that magnet so only you can get it out of the holster Wow, but I thought TSA... What do i know? Nah guys look they're armed to the gills and they're walking up and down the train those guys look scary. And it's like we're making everyone aware that were here make sure the bad guys know where here what bad guys was the blood people randomly paying $40 to ride the train Mr. Marlborough Mokdar Bell Moktar

1:17:05 Mr.. Marlboro really I mean, I just thought it was and nobody's upset you have some old woman. Oh It is great you better to be safe than sorry Better to be safe than sorry it's gray play the very beginning of that clip again so you can hear that woman Okay, what was she on Viper team right? No yeah Might as well be prepared. This Amtrak... Might as well be prepared! A passenger says she noticed them right away, the many black clad TSA inspectors at the Emeryville Amtrak station and it's a presence she appreciates Would you like to see them out here more often? I would Why? Can't hurt. Can't hurt? It's all good. You can't hurt What an idiot Well all of this is now they're really ratcheting it up again And I do have

CHAPTER 20 / 41 Discussion

Alaska Airlines Flight 819, Hijack Hoax and Operation Noble Eagle

An anonymous phone call to the FBI in Honolulu triggered a national security response for Alaska Airlines Flight 819. NORAD launched "Operation Noble Eagle," scrambling two F-15 fighter jets to escort the commercial airliner to Seattle. The incident was determined to be a hoax, and the FBI is investigating the caller for causing a massive waste of government resources.

alaska airlines· norad· operation noble eagle· fbi· honolulu· hijack hoax

1:17:52 Some interesting news that kind of relates to... I thought we killed Bin Laden. I forgot to mention in the Zero Dark Thirty movie, they referred to him once again as Osama bin Laden This has never really been explained to me Right? We actually discussed this about four years ago Yeah The difference between the Osama and the Usama Must be a different guy Right? Could be Well do you remember the outcome of that discussion It was just it was a style of consideration depending on the media outlet. Well then but the movie and I would say that you know, The president everyone's talking about Osama Osama Osama in the movie it's all Osama Osama Osama they're all saying yes Yes, Osama must be coach or something Or they or they just say bin Laden which is even even trickier because Bin Laden there's the hundred people in that family? It could be anyone been laden

1:18:53 Yeah, anyway. So we did have an interesting occurrence... Take place up there in the Seattle's coming in from Hawaii. We had a quite a scare NORAD was alerted and This all goes along these media reports is all apart of just indoctrinating the citizenry of Gitmo nation with fear fear of death But the words matter in this one are just very interesting to listen to this report It was a call that triggered a national security response This is just right there You already know enough. You can make a call, a call could be made A national security response which is bullcrap I didn't get like some kind of air raid sirens going off in Austin Texas Like, ahhhh! Phone call made! Phone call made! Trigger the alert! This afternoon the FBI office in Honolulu Hawaii received an anonymous phone call from somebody indicating that there was a hijacker on board Alaska flight 819

1:19:52 Hijacker now notice when is last time we had a hijacker in the 70s. I think I mean really what it take this plane to Canada Oh It's a dreamliner crap land it quick from Kona on Hawaii's Big Island bound for Seattle, I mean if you're if you're a hijacker I mean just logically, who hijacks an airplane going away from Hawaii? This is crazy. What? Take me to Cuba, really from Hawaii which way you want to go I mean a hijacker You know they didn't say terrorist this is why the thing is bogative and yeah I don't hear the word he wasn't screaming Allah Akbar none of this stuff there's no... Hijacker Seriously last time a plane was hijacked it is 70s I can't remember anything past that

1:20:50 And it the caller actually gave the name of a person who was in fact a passenger on that flight The FBI alerted the flight crew onboard. They monitored the passenger, but noticed nothing unusual What does that even mean? Hey Jim, monitor the passenger in 35H. Yeah I got my eye on him. Can you imagine somebody calls you in some joker calls you and then everyone walks by after that whole flight looking funny at ya like... Alright Airlines 819 monitor a passenger in seat 35A POSSIBLE HIJACKER!

1:21:28 Yet NORAD confirms out of an abundance of caution it launched Operation Noble Eagle. Operation Noble Eagle! America, fuck yeah! You got a hijacker? We're launching Operation Noble Eagle bitches! He scrambled two fifteen aircraft and directed them to escort a commercial airliner. After guiding the plane to a safe landing, Port of Seattle Police... So it couldn't land safely without the guidance of the jets? It's impossible, because they might have flown to Quebec. This guy did nothing to indicate he was a hijacker on the plane and there is nothing in his background that indicates he has a proclivity for that So now the FBI may have another case to investigate whether or not that anonymous person called in a hijack hoax I can promise you that the FBI in Honolulu will investigate that because it just isn't something we can stand

1:22:25 That's just not something we can stand for. Now, we had Operation Noble Eagle in full effect and this was a hijack! I'm not going to stand for that! So okay here is where I saw the story and said well there is some...this guy The guy is the key to figure out who called it in, because I would assume that unless the guy was a complete moron which is possible and he called it in from the land. He didn't call from his cell phone on another plane So how would he know anything was going on? But that's okay so he calls it in from some probably...I would think of phone booth or someplace but he else's Do they still exist? Do phone booths exists? Can you find one? Well yeah there are still 1-2 around

1:23:15 I don't know how you're gonna get away with this because unless he had a burner or found a phone or somebody else's SIM card, whatever the case is. This is some buddy... These guys are like frat pals and this guy thought it would be funny! Hey, I got a funny idea! Check this out! You know Bill's flying back to Seattle? I'm gonna call him in as a hijacker! Oh yeah that would be great!! The kind of clowns that we have, you know this is the kind of thing that goes on. And meanwhile the security apparatus can't deal with it. They're gonna throw the book at us! But they're angry like... This costs hundreds and thousands of dollars to scramble jets We are not going to have this! The FBI's not going to have this hijacking hoax business

1:24:00 It's not just gonna... Listen to the guy. Called in a hijack hoax I can promise you that the FBI and Honolulu is going to investigate that because it's just not something we can stand for That's just not something we can stand for young man You know when your mom would like grab your face and squeeze your chin really hard and say This is just nothing you could stand for little man Geez Louise No, yeah my mom did That was her thing If if I was uh a brat in public Then she'd take her hand and put it around my... underneath my chin, around my face and squeeze my cheeks really hard. But she would be like, oh honey now we're gonna be really nice aren't we? Now you have permanent rosy cheeks! She would say something like, aww now were gonna be really sweet aren't we while she was squeezing my cheeks. And despite- Child abuse! Nah fuck that

CHAPTER 21 / 41 Discussion

Mental Health in Schools Act, HR 751 and Pharma Lobbying

The Mental Health in Schools Act (HR 751) is being promoted in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy to increase funding for school-based mental health services. The hosts argue this is a lobbying effort by the pharmaceutical industry to embed "legitimate drug dealers" in schools. They suggest the goal is to identify and medicate children as young as kindergarten.

mental health in schools act· hr 751· pharmaceutical industry· sandy hook· school counselors· lobbying

1:24:53 I miss her. She's dead now, this sucks! I'd give anything for her to squeeze my face... You know what she also threatened me with the hairbrush? Is like so... She combed your hair?! No no! If she was gonna threaten you in particular and say I'm gonna cut your hair off!? No, but she would spank me with the hair brush and as a... But yeah, she only did it once or twice but as a uber threat if you do- There is leverage on a hairbrush that not good spanking! Wait there is here is the leverage If you do that, I'm spanking you with a hairbrush bristle side down. Oh... That was her leverage. It was one of the spikey ones with like the metal- Yeah! And to make you think your gonna be punctured. I WAS abused as a child! Hold on a second this is bad? Well just start taking notes because everything you've told me so far is pretty abusive. I'm having flashbacks! I'm having flashbacks! Oh no! I've been abused! I'm an abused child! He was always abused. Ah which leads me right into our The War On Brains Everybody

1:25:50 Yeah, the war on brains. So of course we discovered on the previous episode and this is really why you should be donating to this show because You know you're not going to find anywhere an analysis of this gun legislation that is really just a the icing on the cake for the pharmaceutical, for the entire pharma industry. For the health care industry which is what it is and we have to... And we're now going to find 750 minimum 750 thousand new folks young folks in schools who have mental health issues and were going to cure them which of course we do with all kinds medication

1:26:35 And the reason you're not seeing any of that analysis is because the pharmaceutical business, the industry pays for most media. Just look at the commercials! A shout out by the way to farmer Chris in Austin where we get our eggs. His wife gave him a smartphone for his birthday and so now he can listen to this show And he's freaking out. He loves the show so much and he is now like complete crackpot, connecting dots. It sounds like he should start giving you free eggs! No no we pay for our... there is value for value

1:27:17 He thought that the PBA drug, the laughing and crying drug. I love that drug! He though it was very convenient that came out right around the time when we had all of these Sandy Hook parents laughing hysterically. Interesting right? Interesting... I liked it. Hey that actor! Yep. And anyway so is he but he was funny about his wife he's like My wife, she's drinking the Kool-Aid. She is totally hypnotized and she watches the news and they'll say how was the news honey? She said there were only drug commercials. Exactly! Alright so this is from PBS which is another national treasure here in the United States of Gitmo Nation it's public television

1:28:04 where they get money from advertisers. That's right, every 16 minutes they roll out commercials on this public utility and they have this woman on and she is from a DC organization. She's a doctor at 480.nashownotes.com. She's from the nation's children's hospital the Children's National Medical Center, which is in DC. Which I'm not quite sure what it is but looks probably like a front for lobbying and here's this doctor who thinks its just great that the president has enacted these presidential memoranda

1:28:45 So we can get mental health, finally some help in schools. Really to provide the services in the school systems by having counselors, by having psychologists, mental health social workers in the school setting because that's where children spend most of their day It's easily accessible and in fact there was a mental health and school act that was proposed in the 112th Congress that put forth funding for this particular intervention. And I'm hoping that you know, this sad horrific event will make us rethink

1:29:25 supporting this particular bill so we can put the resources in the school system. Great, so we're getting lots of resources into the school system and I checked HR 751 that is the Mental Health in Schools Act of 2011 The purpose of the act is to revise, increase funding for and expand the scope of the Safe Schools Healthy Students program in order to provide access to more comprehensive school-based mental health services and supports. Now, do you really think that they're going to put these psychologists, counselors monitors? That these people are going to be in the school going, Oh come here Timmy. Let me hold your hand let's talk about your fears. No! It's like here Timmy pop this pill it'll be groovy This is the legitimate drug dealers now being welcomed into your child's school

CHAPTER 22 / 41 Discussion

Early Intervention, Lead Poisoning Theory and Crime Rates

A doctor advocates for catching mental illness before age 14, while a competing theory suggests that historical spikes in violent crime were actually caused by lead poisoning from gasoline. The "lead-crime hypothesis" posits that brain damage from tetraethyl lead in the environment until the 1970s led to a generation of violent individuals, and the subsequent drop in crime is due to the removal of lead rather than policing.

early intervention· leaded gasoline· brain damage· crime rates· environmental health

1:30:24 It's interesting about this, there are a couple of little sub stories going on but one of the things that is interesting to me is that with the Sandy Hook thing it was kind of double edged sword because they're trying to push stuff. But these are second first and second graders in kindergarten what are they gonna do? Oh I'm glad you asked we need to catch them early on John! But at the same time its well known fact that 50% of... Well known facts science! I want you hear everything she kinda hard to hear 50% of those who have eventually a mental illness starts before the age of 14 and about three quarters have mental illnesses by the time they reach 24. So in my mind, and from my perspective, mental health is really a children's issue so if we can catch them young and intervene early on I think it will go along way in not seeing adults becoming aggressive violent because we'll be able to treat some other illnesses early on. Let me just review

1:31:23 We gotta catch them, we gotta catch them early. We can treat them! Catch em' early? Treat them. Catch em' early? Treat them." The kind of substars... I actually saw that woman do that thing and couldn't...I didn't think it was clip worthy but you have better backup material But there's a couple other things going on One was Chunk He did a whole thing, I clipped it but didn't bring it to the party. You didn't bring it to the party? Didn't bring it to the party... I shouldn't have brought that clip to the party! You're at the wrong party my friend But now he came up with this thing that was just hilarious and an analysis and actually I was thinking about it

1:32:04 Because I was in the petroleum industry during this era when we switched from leaded gas to unleaded gas. And there's a thesis floating around out there that all the school violence and all these guys, especially as they're getting older were all brain damaged by the amount of lead that was put into the environment until about 1972 or so when lead was taken out of gasoline. So you had this huge spike in crime through say you're a little kid and you were affected by the lead in 1970, you'd be 14 years old. You would be like in the mid 80s, you would be violent

1:32:41 character. Right, right you'd be brain damaged and then you'll be violent and then that's it he showed in the I had to say the chart was good how crime went up and up and up yeah but this is a story that has been around I didn't even know... Yeah its been around but then but I think there are two interesting kickers one its a possibility and 2 was at all that stuff with police chief Bratton and all these other guys and the current downtrend in the crime has nothing to do with the police Which he wouldn't come out right on and say it, but the police are kind of not important in this whole scheme of things. And the drug kids now is like... they don't need it now because there's not this lead in the environment The second thing was and this what really galls me

CHAPTER 23 / 41 Discussion

Ronald Reagan, Mental Health Deinstitutionalization and Liberal Initiatives

Bette Midler and other public figures have blamed Ronald Reagan for the current mental health crisis, citing the closure of state hospitals. However, the hosts point out that the deinstitutionalization movement began in the 1960s as a liberal initiative, fueled by cultural touchstones like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Reagan, as Governor of California, simply followed the prevailing legislative trend of the time.

ronald reagan· deinstitutionalization· bette midler· one flew over the cuckoo's nest· mental hospitals

1:33:26 I don't want to get too far off the track, but there was a thing that happened with Bette Midler who came out with a couple other people and bitched about the reason we're having all these school shootings and other things which are as we know are really not uncommon. It's not more than ever is because of Ronald Reagan And how he let all the insane people out in California and they closed the mental hospitals. Yeah, yeah! I actually have a small clip of that here but then i want to comment on it because to me it's-it's the most outrageous thing Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it It's about crazy people fits right in The Reagan uh... Insane Asylum is ready? Yeah Basically Dr. Joshi if Oops sorry And went into effect 1972

1:34:05 Oh, no. No, no, you and Bette Midler need your head examined okay? Maybe you guys should be... not you maybe her institutionalized the number of institutionalized mentally ill people in the US dropped from 560 thousand to 130 thousand in the 60s long before Reagan came into play he did do that and now we're trying to do is gun control law deputizing doctors it's very dangerous making them informants. To Greg's point, it should be the family who knows the patient best that commits them. So Dana on one hand she compares uh... the gun debate to Hitler and Osama bin Laden but Miller says its Reagan's fault Robert Redford said I don't know- Okay you can stop.

1:34:50 I remember this period, and it actually did begin in the 60s long before Reagan. And it began and got into full steam...and again by the way there was lots of lead in the atmosphere, there was a lot tetraethyl lead that was in the environment during this era. There were a lot of people locked up in insane asylums we had a bunch of them they were all closed during Reagan's administration. But this was a liberal initiative, it was the liberals who were breaking down the wall saying these places are horrible they're torturing people and then the book in 1962 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest came out. Excellent movie!

1:35:29 and then became a movie in the early seventies, and that shut the door on the whole idea that we should be locking people up left to right. But this was all... there wasn't one conservative in the country that was for this! And Reagan just went along with it because he's in a liberal state in California when he was governor He essentially shut down half of the places and all the liberals not to make this a dichotomous complaint but all the liberals were applauding it and now they're blaming him I mean Make up your mind people on what side of the fence you want to be on with anything that goes on out there done Juicy fruit my favorite kind. Hey, hey, how about that? Anyway I find it fascinating That

CHAPTER 24 / 41 Discussion

Gun Control Rationale, Pistol Grips and Privacy vs. Safety

The debate over gun control features arguments about cosmetic features like pistol grips, which proponents claim prevent "muzzle rise" during firing. More significantly, the discussion focuses on the "fine line" between patient privacy and public safety, as doctors are increasingly encouraged to report patients they deem "unsafe" to authorities, potentially violating HIPAA-style protections.

gun control· pistol grips· privacy· public safety· medical reporting

1:36:19 I have some more backup material about what is really happening here because we are, all of our rights and privacy and basic things are being so violated. Like a big huge tree trunk is reaming us from behind while we're all being distracted with this like can it have a pistol grip bull crap? Seriously, this is... I know that one still cracks me up. It's a big joke! Have you heard of the rationale for that? No. We actually had a clip where it was suggested. No what is it? Well the pistol grip keeps the gun from riding when your firing in semi-automatic mode and starts lifting on ya. How come shotguns they do skeet shooting with don't have that then?

1:37:09 Well, because you're shooting one shot at a time. Actually when you shoot in traps you can shoot two or three shots off. Yeah not two... well no I mean You don't have to use the side by side and over and under. I think i've seen the competitions where the over-and-under guys reload Don't they? Am I imagining that? Maybe I'm imagining it. So let me wrap up this thing with this woman and of course, the culmination of the conversation is really what we're talking about here. If your doctor can report on you being an unsafe person then

1:38:06 then there's a discussion here to be had about your privacy versus safety of the citizens in general. Briefly, Dr Joshi, of course at the same time there is all this need to find these people and identify them and let authorities know I love this we gotta find him John! We gotta root him out! We gotta get the crazies The ones who are going to snap any moment it could be my neighbor You know, again as I said earlier it's sort of walking a fine line balancing the individuality and privacy of the patient and at the same time keeping folks safe. Did you hear it?

1:38:44 Keeping folks safe. So this is it, keeping folks safe versus privacy of the individual patient? I think we have to be deliberate and thoughtful about how we proceed and we will have to see how best to really identify at the same time being able to provide services But my sense is before we even get to the point of severe aggression in some of these youngsters Hopefully, we can catch it early so it doesn't get to that point Today's kids are the boys are all wearing dresses John you sound like an old man when you say that Boys are not wearing dresses all the boys. Yeah, but boys are not wearing dresses anyway To wrap this up

CHAPTER 25 / 41 Discussion

NICS Database Expansion, Executive Memoranda and Skynet Files

President Obama issued executive memoranda to expand the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) by integrating records from various federal agencies. This allows the Department of Defense, Social Security Administration, and others to share "adjudications" regarding mental health. Critics warn this creates a "Skynet" style permanent record that could be used to strip citizens of their rights based on subjective agency decisions.

nics· executive memoranda· department of justice· mental health records· data integration· privacy

1:39:32 President Obama really only put in a couple of presidential memoranda and the one that is interesting is the improving ability of relevant executive branch records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System Memorandum for the heads of executive departments and agencies. Now this is the NICS, and this has glossed over... In fact I glossed over it as well thinking oh that's just you know just some thing And when you buy a gun, then someone calls up the NICS and they check and see if you're not wanted. Well let me tell you this is the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. This is not just...this is the list John! This is the list of all lists. As part of the new memoranda, The President is asking for new measures

1:40:30 That, I'm going to get the wordage here. Okay there's a couple of points here New measures for the relevant records possessed by any agency that can be shared. Number of those records submitted to the databases accessible by the NICS, okay? So the NICS is not one system and not one database it's a database that connects to other databases from other agencies so this is going to be like your FICA score in fact it'll probably connected to your FICA score Efforts made to increase the percentage of relevant records possessed by the agency that are submitted to the data bass, I got a data bass. Accessible by the NICS for agencies that make qualifying educations related to the mental health of a person. The measures put in place provide notice and programs for relief from disabilities as required under the NIAA

1:41:31 So the important part of what I just read there is that the agencies, and i'm going to give you the list of the agencies. Department of Defense Health and Human Services Transportation Veteran Affairs Homeland Security Social Security Administration Office of Personnel Management and Budget, or any other agencies such as the chair may designate. They will be able to make adjudications formal judgment or decision about a problem or disputed matter. They'll be able to make adjudications about your mental health and put that on your record, which can then be accessed by the Social Security Administration!

1:42:25 This is the, this needs to be fought people. This is what's bad. But wait a minute... So you're telling me from what you've uncovered and I wonder why they were mispronouncing that because earlier it didn't make any sense in the sentence but I thought might be some new usage You're telling me that any of these agencies can have access this file? The Skynet file Yeah And put in there, this guy's nuts They can tag yeah exactly So you get some a-hole that works in some agency, Department of Education? Yes. And he's got a hard on for you and thinks that you should be...he doesn't like ya. This guy is impossible to work with and he's an A-hole and probably insane. Put that right in there.

1:43:21 You can make a- Don't tell Mimi about this. Why? She's always yelling at people, so when she deals with agency she gets hot! Well oh really? Smoking hot... Yeah she chews them out. She gets hot huh baby Well, so you know the obvious... So you yell at some guy over the phone and next thing you know your considered criminally insane. No! How about you just post something stupid on Facebook? That's a database that goes straight into it It's connected. It's all connect this is what... I've always been telling people you know why do you get, it's like especially the youngest generation that seems to care less about they don't because they're not educated on the importance of privacy and our own history of the country and so they become extremely careless about themselves and then good though you'll see a whole page of flicker images of somebody who's plastered

CHAPTER 26 / 41 Discussion

Government Dossiers, Data Storage and Costco Hard Drives

The hosts discuss the ease with which the government can now build massive dossiers on citizens due to the plummeting cost of digital storage. They note that a four-terabyte hard drive can be purchased at Costco for under $150, making file space virtually unlimited for state agencies. This leads to a "better safe than sorry" approach where all personal data is permanently archived.

dossiers· data storage· costco· privacy· government surveillance

1:44:22 drunk and then grabbing women's breasts and having his tongue sticking out making all these silly faces, and he thinks that's hilarious or she a lot of women. Yes she yeah and then you go, and if you're like due diligence on employment. You look in your find their pictures and I'm not hiring this guy but if it gets worse than that these things get permanently put into a record run by the government How does anybody think this is good? So here's the final one so they're putting together of course the NICS consultation and coordination working group And this to ensure adequate agency input In the guidance required

1:45:02 this memorandum for subsequent decisions about whether an agency possesses relevant records and determinations concerning the in records to be input and provided to the NICS so they are it's a call it's a come-to-Jesus all hands on deck all hands meeting yeah, and everyone has to bring their data bass And we're all gonna say, what do you got? Well I see. I've got the DUI records good hey alright let's connect that up Alright What do you got over there? Oh You know I got Let me see what I got I got this thing from Facebook oh very good lets connect that to the database Very good Bring it all together

1:45:44 The working group shall convene regularly and is needed to allow for consultation and coordination between the Department of Justice, and agencies affected by the Attorney General's implementation including with respect to guidance required by Section 1A... blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah. Okay. Well can I interject here? Yeah knowing how having worked inside a government agency and know how things generally work anyway especially with this as we listen to these clips that we've been listening to today where you still start hearing that better-to-be safe than sorry kind of thing. That would say within an agency, that would mean well you know this we don't think this is relevant put it in any way exactly just better to be safe than sorry. Better safe than sorry

1:46:30 and you end up with these humongous dossiers because, you know, I can buy a four terabyte myself. Four terabyte hard disk at Costco for less than 150 bucks. Four terabytes! So the government has got so many of them they've got...so their file space is unlimited. So just load it up with everything you can and when you have to look someone up, you could probably find something in there that could condemn them." Are you sure you're not a Fed? Just kidding. That's the way I do it! Anyway everybody, so this is what we do This is the No Agenda Podcast sometimes known as... The Best Podcast in the Universe Where you will not hear analysis like this anywhere else If you do please send me a link Send me a link to wherever your hearing this type of analysis And if you think its bull crap send that link too

CHAPTER 27 / 41 Discussion

Donor Acknowledgments, James Ward and Cello Hits

The show acknowledges several high-tier donors, including James Ward from London and Daniel from Spring, Texas. Daniel, a cellist, is asked to provide "cello hits" for the show's production. The hosts perform a syncopated "Shut Up Science" jingle as requested by a donor, reinforcing the interactive nature of their funding model.

donations· james ward· cello· syncopation· value-for-value· london

1:47:21 Wait, that would be a link to ourselves. That would be kind of bad Yeah, it's fine. We'll listen yeah we call it our value for value model in order for us to continue doing this takes a lot of time a lot of research a lot of work goes into It a lot of clipping and the only way that we can really succeed in this model is if we do not Bring on advertisers and we've chosen not to do that And therefore we ask for your help I'm gonna show my sublude by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that! Oh yeah, that'd be fab! He might be a fed... So we start with some thank yous to some of our donors for today's show 480 which i thought would get a bigger response but just 480 is kind of a cool number eights you know have four or four seven

1:48:14 Anyway, James Ward in London 150 bucks have a big interview Friday need a sha bit of shut jobs karma. Oh Hold on jobs. I'm sorry. I was a little behind there My mouse is from you like the butcher who backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work jobs Jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for John You've got karma Daniel sends in spring Texas nice town hundred bucks from your na cellist oh hey we can use a couple eight we could use some some cello hits yeah we need some some some chelea some some no hits jello hits jell-o hits that's right way what you doing man hey I'm doing chello hits with the vorac shut up man

1:49:07 Yeah, we could use some cello hits. You got a little recorder you know blahblahblah or something anything you can have a bunch of we'd have A whole little slew a little punch up of cello hits doodoodoo Yes, stuff like that. Anything! Anything Daniel? He would like to request a shut up science followed by quick and syncopated way of bi- way... syncopated way by a science and a fiscal so he wants shutupscience science and fiscal cliff probably good the karma but he wants it uh syncopated which is you know requires my musician skills Shut Up already! Science! Science!

1:49:52 Right? Nice. Yeah, yeah, syncopated. That was actually a keeper He didn't ask for any karma No he didn't Greg Sizemore in Glen Burnie Maryland Thanks for the great show he just wants to karma shot You've got Karma Another hundred dollars from Sir Kelly in Charlotte, North Carolina. Soon to be... Sir Shurn. I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. Soon to be Sir Herbie thinks has hijacked Sir Jake's laptop to donate because he listens too. Please give one dollar to Adam and 99 to John. Get it? Yeah how come we didn't get a lot of sleep last night what happened

CHAPTER 28 / 41 Discussion

Surfer Bird Mashup, Music Editing and Creative Medleys

A host describes a late-night music editing session involving a complex mashup of "Surfer Bird" by The Trashmen and other tracks. The creative process involves meticulously timing transitions to create a "mashup medley." The discussion touches on the technical challenges of getting the timing right and the potential for these creative works to be shared with the audience.

surfer bird· trashmen· music editing· mashups· medleys· creative process

1:50:41 Oh, I don't know. I had no idea... I ended up... Were you restless? Go ahead just talk to me. I was staying up late and then all of a sudden I was downloading some piece of music that i wanted to edit and then I found my old clip You know how I used to do those interviews but I found this clip I've been working on for couple years where I take.. Now you're going to think I'm nuts No hold on one second So first of all, we're learning a lot here. We're learning that you have been working on the clip for a number of years and you are the Van Gogh of clippage right now my friend. And in the middle of the night I just want everyone to have this visual John is hunched over he's got his green visor on with one single lamp on the bureau He's editing

1:51:30 Okay, okay. I'm into the song I took this song surfer bird From the trash men you mean about the bird bird bird bird about the bird yeah in the middle of that song Yeah So I took the thing and I took it like and I slipped that out and actually put the Papa Mama's song in Then took it halfway through and then I cut into the middle of that and started It started cutting into the middle of these songs and dropping other songs half of other songs in here And then I'm coming out the other side you're doing a mashup. Well, this is kind of a it's an interesting ABCDEEDCBA So it ends with surfer bird

1:52:22 Anyways, I can't wait to hear this. When is it? Well the problem is that... When does your new joint drop yo? So the problem with this thing is that its so long that I mean you start playing with this thing at like 12 and your's like 1.30 because you gotta listen to it so you get the right moments cause when you start doing these medleys, in fact there is another one I was working on It's a mashup medley! I love it! So when I have this one with the whole bunch of little intros and then I got this one spot I can't clean it up In other words everything sounds like it fits

1:53:00 is that for this right in the middle of it there's one little thing i can't quite get the timing rights so that it's just jerks you know it's just like some talks and then they do doesn't sound good no i don't but isn't going to question each other to that is a uh... what does he the ultimate destination for this fine product your creatives as it just had his doing for the love of music now that's great district we use because these days Is it listenable yet? Can you send me something so I can... I could send you some stuff. I'd love to, come on this is awesome! Yeah and by the way- I'll do a CD for ya. I'm thinking that there's some commerce in here. I think there's commerce in some of this stuff yeah I agree

CHAPTER 29 / 41 Discussion

Social Media Creeping, Australian Real Estate and Dental Knights

The hosts recap a "creeping" segment where they used Google Plus and LinkedIn to research a person mentioned on the show. They also review a real estate listing in Perth, Australia, for a "rammed earth" home. Additionally, a listener reports being "hit in the mouth" by a dentist who is a fan of the show, leading to a new "Dentite Knight" designation.

social media· perth australia· dental knight· real estate· social engineering

1:53:41 And meanwhile, Sizzy in Toronto Ontario sent us $99.99 referring to him or herself as Sizzy. There you go Exactly A Getmo Nation lockout over donation for last show's real-time demonstration of creeping the art of checking out chicks We were creeping weren't we? With Clarissa Oh right, okay. Kudos for the use of Google Plus linked in and other social media to peep Clarissa. For the next level research try the horizontal creep checking out her likes friends or employers to get at other pictures of her just hilarious! Shut up it's science due to the head little girl yay karma. Shut up already! It's science

1:54:39 You've got karma. And that was kind of creepy actually I think, I didn't even think of it at the time The creepy part? We were creeping we were creeping on that girl Creeping on the show! That's why we didn't get any donations! Finally Earth Radio sent us $99 from Parsons Tennessee and could not find a note Eon Larson in Auckland 9696 in the morning Josiah and Aiden Aiden I take this opportunity to donate to the best podcast in the universe And would request that you credit it to the 6969 segment why because? I hit my wife in the mouth the other day and got so energetic in my discussion That she said to me if you are getting so wound up by listening to these two jerks You should probably stop listening

1:55:29 So I decided to donate 96.96 because after that pronouncement, she ain't getting lucky and we are stepping back-to-back Hey, you know I don't know you got to be careful. You know yeah 26th anniversary 24 some flowers would help so I figured I'd donate to you guys instead of buying her a gift This is not a good strategy that will teach her to disparage the best guest in the universe He says

1:56:06 The gift that keeps on giving is no agenda considering pay-do bear when you're playing the jingles don't eat me Hillary Clinton it's almost too delicious to believe if your supposition that Hillary is a lesbian are true and then that sequence takes on a slightly sinister perspective when a young girl's voice please not to be eaten. Please! And that's Jeremy. Happy... No wonder his wife is mad at him! Yeah, you gotta ease her into it my friend and she'll get there. Jeremy Johnson of Port Angeles Washington comes in with 8888. Bites Ham 1 Carlos & Mabel That's our international ham donation 8888 Please send a slide whistle to Sir Greg Birch Our Dentite Knight For hitting me in the mouth at my last dental appointment

1:56:56 Really? That's great! That is great. Especially when a dentist does it Yeah, because what are you gonna do? Yeah, you know you gotta listen to the show You've ever heard of these guys? Oliver Reich in South San Francisco Uh oh Oh, here we go again. 69! 69, dudes! Did not find a note. Oh. Bummer. Sir Sam Lung from Toronto 6969 keep up the great work Kingman Mouth especially these trying times looking for some little some Parliament yay followed by a little girl yay from my smoking hot girlfriend who has an audition for the symphony We have a lot of musicians listening to the show. Musicians know where it's at

CHAPTER 30 / 41 Discussion

Baron von Pelzmacher, Dame Hood and Rammed Earth Homes

Baron von Pelzmacher from Belgium discusses the potential "Dame Hood" for a producer named Lizzie. The conversation returns to the Australian real estate listing, describing the "rammed earth" construction as a unique European-style home reminiscent of Tuscany or Provence. The hosts express admiration for the property's aesthetic despite the unusual building material.

belgium· dame hood· rammed earth· tuscany· provence· real estate

1:57:58 Hold on a second. That's surfer bird So he wants the Parliament mumble yay little girl yay karma is that it yeah? I guess yeah, cuz she's looking for job okay I Don't have enough slots in the jingle player anymore for all these combos You need a second an assistant is what I need oh Can you imagine? Or, you know... Baron von Pelzmacher's in Belgium France. ITM and Laurel & Hardy. Belgium France. Sadly I need to preserve some money to pay for the new castle but nevertheless i want to express once again my appreciation for a fantastic series of recent shows that had me laughing a lot the absolute best thing to do under the circumstances that bedevil me

1:58:53 And what better way to do that than to help with the Swazzle Enough streak alive, keep it alive. I understand there's talk of getting a fantastic Lizzie the fantastic Lizzie a Dame Hood and I want to be more than happy to donate any of my recent contributions toward this end. She is more than deserving, please give her some of our own little girl yay and a massive dose of karma as well. Lizzie Jebent Gevelding. Geweldig! Very good. Can you imagine so you know Lizzy's gonna become a dame? And she's...and i could just see it like what does this pin what is this crap what is this dame hood that you speak of

1:59:31 She's not gonna want it. Sh-sh-she's just gonna be completely blase about it. Nah, I think she'll be very happy and pleased. Oh okay well I hope so too then. You've got karma. Bradley Carrier Lexington Michigan 6969 I've been in a rut for a few months now. I decided it's time to shake off my bad mojo and there is no better way to do that than by donating to the best podcast in the universe! Gonna get some karma and a Don't Eat Me Hillary, help me get back to being a productive slave By the way, I would have loved to see the looks on the TSA agents' faces when Adam yelled, just go through this slave scanner! They were actually kind of cool about it for some reason. It's almost too delicious to believe my friend. Oh sorry that was a wrong one. This is the one you wanted. Don't eat me Hillary Clinton You've got karma. Now you get a bonus there

2:00:30 Jessica Blevins in Tampa, Florida. I could not find a note from Jessica when she came over 6969 I'm sure she has the story to tell David Eckersley and yellum yelling up lat yelling up Western Australia 6969 He says I don't need the getting laid karma, but it could definitely do with some house selling karma instead. Anyone after an Aussie property bargain on the outskirts of Perth that could be us check out makeanoffer.com.au Let's take a look at that while the Karma plays. You've got Karma. Make and offer dot com dot au let's see what we get

2:01:20 We get... Oh! You know, we should move our operations so we're in the South Hemisphere during the winter and the North Hemisphere during the summer like birds. Have you seen this place? Perth Hill's best-kept secret hidden away on 21 acres but still within the Perth metropolitan area is this wonderful European country home that reminds most who visit it of Tuscany or Provence surrounded by a parkland setting this rammed earth home Is unique in every way and has- It's a dirt hut? And is featured in both Bell Magazine, hold on a second this looks fucking beautiful man. Why don't you move there You know it's very hard to get a um... Work permit in Australia Yeah yeah yeah It's nice place This does look like a Tuscan uh... It's beautiful Yeah it's very pretty Oh my god well I hope you sell it It looks very- it's rammed earth How do they how did they do that ramming earth

CHAPTER 31 / 41 Discussion

Hillary Clinton, Eye Surgery and Benghazi Testimony

Hillary Clinton's recent appearance in thick, fishbowl-like glasses sparks speculation that she underwent eye surgery or a "multi-phase" plastic surgery procedure during her hospital stay. The timing of her upcoming Benghazi testimony is noted as being strategically placed right after the inauguration festivities to minimize media scrutiny.

hillary clinton· eye surgery· benghazi· plastic surgery· susan rice· inauguration ball

2:02:20 This looks like it's made out of wood. Hmm Roger Ramjet, he's your man ramming earth Yes, he can good okay? Well you got your karma Hope it works Thank you very much for supporting the show above all view by the way Yeah, Justin Robinson in Colorado spring 66 11 double sixes on the sticks Okay, I'm not sure if my first donation went through. I donated yesterday and the funds have not left my bank We just moved in the address on my PayPal doesn't make me match My bank records not sure if it prevented from going through blah blah blah This should be a donation for his wife Elisa Robinson turning 24 today. Didn't we do this one? I'm pretty sure we did, remember that came in at the last minute. Oh yeah, this is the one that came through, okay. Right Yeah Lisa We put her on the list but i don't know if we... We didn't repeat this He's giving my brother Sean and his girlfriend Lara

2:03:15 Automobile Karma. Oh, that's what he okay. He needs some automobile karma a hey citizen to the head Yeah, okay there you go back to the mashups all right there you go Some reason that clip sometimes doesn't want to fire properly You've got karma. Actually, I like that one. Haters Citizen with the gunshots. Yeah? Hey citizen! That's common. It does sound kind of good. It's like hey buddy boom and then they shoot ya. It's not buddy... Hey Buddy. Hey Folks. Folks. Gene Paul Krishner whose note i cannot find. Hey folks. I looked 5555 Robert Hall in Phoenix Arizona 5555 Dear Judd and Atom

2:04:03 Thanks for keeping it real. Can I please get a shut up at science fiscal cliff scream? Robbed the American cubicle dweller in Hellas, Ona Already Steven Nelson in Wheat Ridge, Colorado 51 to double nickels on the dime Robert Luke Sandy Utah double nickels on the dime This is shit us and 2k on g+. I can't really say a like Google Plus. It's more like their version version of facelift In the mold of Adams background but I'm here to support my hero by hero John C Dvorak I have followed him for near 30 years

2:04:49 I make no excuses as to my reasons. Armudgence forever! Speaking of facelift, have you noticed the glasses Hillary Clinton is wearing? Have you noticed... I'm glad because I did too. She comes out and she's wearing...I swear to God I've looked at lots of pictures over and I don't ever remember her ever wearing glasses. Um, no i've seen her wear reading glasses but these are like there's like a concave there's like a whole fishbowl on the inside wrapping around her eye it's almost like she has glasses over glasses It's really crazy and that of course is you know to help strengthen the tissue from the eyelift

2:05:31 that she had during her so-called bout in the hospital. She came out of the actual eye clinic. Maybe she had Lasik surgery too? But also, her jowls... You obviously don't know what happened but it's something. Look at her jowls! She still has them. I think we're just looking at puffiness, this was phase one she was looking pretty rough as a plastic surgeon assistant because my ex-wife had a lot of work done This is a multi phase approach in about three months from now she's going back in

2:06:13 Now there won't be a whole news story and everything, but she is going back in. About three months from now. But as soon as she quits the job... Because you know what was supposed to happen? Is Susan Rice was supposed to- You know they're supposed to be more focused on her and there were supposed to be hearings and Senate select whatever! She's scheduled with the right guys, she just could not get out of it. Interesting that the day after the inauguration is when she's supposed to testify about Benghazi On Tuesday is when she's supposed to testify and the news will be nothing but, yeah this was what the ball was like. And here was the president and first lady at the other ball. And look they're dancing! And there's Bianchi singing for them. Oh it's so lovely isn't it? It's so fantastic. Michelle Obama by the way... God she looks good. She does this Hollywood... Miss Mickey was saying that. She is the height of fashion. She IS Vogue magazine right now

CHAPTER 32 / 41 Discussion

Religious Recitations, De-douching and Birthday Wishes

A host recites 1 Peter 1:3-4 and Psalm 121 in response to a donor's prayer request. The segment also includes a "de-douching" ceremony for a listener who previously followed a different podcast network. Birthday wishes are sent to several listeners, including "Dougie Fresh," as part of the show's community engagement.

psalm 121· 1 peter· de-douching· birthday· religious text

2:07:10 It's I think the first time ever we've had a First Lady that is literally pushing fashion. Man, Jackie Kennedy had a lot of influence all right let's go Robert Stokes mid Midlothian Texas double nickels on the dime thanks for what you guys do i'm saying a prayer for you two today oh can I say it sure blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ According to his great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead To an inheritance that is imperishable undefiled and unfading kept in heaven for you who by God's power are being guarded through faith for salvation Ready to be revealed in the last time

2:07:54 One Peter, one... three to four. Isn't that what the guy is? You'd actually be a good preacher you got the right voice. I lift up my hills... let me try this. I lift up by eyes into the hills from whence cometh my help My help cometh from the Lord he that shall keep with me so the sun shall not burn me day and the moon shall not burn thee by night What are you? Got a problem with me doing Psalm 121? What are you atheist? You got a problem with that Kevin Lecombe in Port Orchard, Washington 5369 I've been a douchebag since the twit episode when JCD first talked about doing no agenda. Please de-douche me

2:08:36 I hit Joe Lacks ITM, but he's still a douche. Give him hell and a douche bag! You forced me to donate because now i hear things like when the president said on gun health control there will be pundits and politicians that...and special interest lobbies publicly warning of a tyrannical all-out assault on liberty six not because that's true but because they want to gin up fear or higher ratings for our revenues for themselves My head tilted to the side when I heard, not because that's true. Oh that's funny! Words do matter...I didn't catch that. I didn't catch it either. Geez, that really would not be embarrassing. There will be pundits and politicians and special interest lobbyists publicly want- Did we really miss that, Dvorak? That's embarrassing. Hold on a second, hold on a second

2:09:31 continue I'm gonna look that up keep up the good work John and Adam you're the best podcast in the universe that's for sure can i have two to the head little girl yay karma or just two to the head what if he don't want a de-douching? That's what he wanted. You've been dedouche Well, you look up that. I'll continue with Paul Lindquist in Hammond Wisconsin 5115 Followed by Sir Scott in Herndon Virginia and all he wants is a shut-up at Science Karma For me to grant for first grad school and other personal endeavors Okay ready hit it hey Miss firing what happened? Oh my god. It's broken Shut up already

2:10:19 Science! You've got karma. Okay, well the other gal be the other one round rock Texas 50 bucks my husband. I are huge fans My husband and I uh-huh says you other guys You know our huge fans you obviously doing something wrong today is his birthday And he will be listening so happy birthday Dougie fresh Love sugar tits no

CHAPTER 33 / 41 Discussion

Pundits and Politicians, Obama Quote and Fact Checking

The hosts attempt to verify a specific quote from President Obama's gun control speech regarding "pundits and politicians" who warn of tyranny to "gin up fear." They express embarrassment for potentially missing the nuance of the quote during their initial analysis and emphasize the importance of their listeners acting as "producers" to help fact-check the show.

barack obama· pundits· politicians· fact checking· gun control speech

2:10:58 Mark Giddens, Bainbridge Island. Simon Horn in Carindale Queensland Sir Mike Westerfield in Parts Unknown and Kyle Bauer in Wooster Ohio also all get 50 bucks without comment that'll be our donation segment for today's show 480 we want to remind you go to Dvorak.org slash NA please help us for show 481 we're head towards show 500 which should be a big deal also Channel of org comm slash na and no generation calm and no agenda show.com should have someplace you can click and Get to the donation button I'm almost there not because that's true Let's see, no results found maybe Not looking in the right place III would be blown away Because yeah, it would be stunned that we didn't uh

2:11:55 Pundits, right? Pun-dits. Is the key word here or pundits? You're looking at your own punnets why don't you just do a not big... How do you spell pundits? P U N like pun hey! Pun D I T S like d i t s Yeah how come you gotta... So if people do punns and they're ditts Well I must not be in the right one then East Room Talk to Chris We'll look it up we'll look it up yeah that's really bugging me I mean that's just crazy Can't believe that we actually missed that one. Oh my god Wow, you know this is this is what our show was about This is why our listeners are producers and this is why you support the program and you really need to get on the stick yo Devorah slash

2:12:40 It's your birthday party I'm Noah Jender! I'm pretty sure we've done it, but you know... Doesn't hurt doing it twice. Justin Robinson congratulates his wife Alyssa. Turns 24 today Olivia Guerra says happy birthday to her hubby Dougie Fresh And the Get Fresh Crew! And Jeremy Johnson's brother Blake celebrates along with Forrest Mulcahy who congratulates Joe Graceffo. Happy birthday from all your friends here at the best podcast in the universe! And as you already guessed, no... No nightings. Sorry to say

CHAPTER 34 / 41 Discussion

Filmfare Awards, Bollywood and Post-Show Post-Mortems

A brief segment features a red carpet report from the Filmfare Awards in India, highlighting the prestige of the Bollywood ceremony. This leads to a discussion about the show's production process, including "post-mortem" meetings where the hosts select titles and artwork, and the rule that they rarely speak to each other outside of the recorded program.

filmfare awards· bollywood· india· post-mortem· podcast production

2:13:26 Alright, be that as it may. Nothing going on but the rents. Well there is something going on I want to ask you a simple question What major film festival is going on as we speak? Is this the Cannes Film Festival? No You should know this! Is it Sundance? It's funny you should say that because that is probably the answer I'd give, but the real one I have it's the Hindu Film Festival in Bollywood. And here's a red carpet report from the film festival. Do you have to be part of this red carpet report or we just have our reporter standing by? I think our reporter will be there on the spot for us. Rakesh Chup, Varun Dhawan and Ayushman Khurana each looking dapper than the other Here is what they said at the event. The Filmfare Award is always said that it is the most prestigious award to win because its an archived award which has been going on since years

2:14:24 Nearly 60 years of filmfare has happened. So Zia Hiraay is a very special award, it's an important award This year there are many different types of films whether it be Kahaani Vicky Donor or Ekta Tiger or Dabangg which have made a lot of noise at the box office. There are all kinds of films and new talent has come in like I had launched through my film Shunto Diya then Ayushman, Arjun, My Students, Parineeti, Alia, Illiana Okay, so you know is it you mocked? You just mock. You mark the second half of the show entering Somehow somewhere along the line while you were in between mashing up songs from 1932 you somehow thought that it was be funny to mock the second half of the show with and and mock the entire nation of India India

2:15:17 Yeah, well you know that was pretty fun. They don't contribute to the show at all They really don't Not second half material necessarily but something that you actually tweeted and this is funny just to show it so use of people who are new To the program know how it works we never Speak outside of the program there's only two times We might speak like three seconds before the show starts But we always have a kind of a post-mortem after the show where you know, like yeah what we do Okay. How did we think? Yeah about this but that usually consists of John saying don't say this you should never do this Exactly what it is because I had never have anything negative to say about you ever ever and then And then we choose the art

2:16:09 And then we choose the title, which usually goes John going I got nothing. That's not true either! Come on! Here is what it is...I write down about 30 titles and then I read them off you go that stinks that's no good nah sucks no I don't say that! No, no, no and then it's like well that's it? Okay, so after the and sometimes there will be a topic that just comes up and we'll talk about it. And after Thursday's show this patent came up that is being discussed on other shows about pod and I just wanted to say a few things because it's getting a little bit out of control and you know I got to hit everybody in the mouth on this

CHAPTER 35 / 41 Discussion

Personal Audio Patent, Adam Carolla and Patent Trolls

A company called Personal Audio has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Adam Carolla's Ace Broadcasting and HowStuffWorks.com. The patent, which dates back to 1996, involves the distribution of episodic content and playlists. While many label the company a "patent troll," the hosts note that the inventor, Jim Logan, has a legitimate background in touchscreen technology and has licensed patents to major corporations like Apple.

personal audio· adam carolla· patent troll· jim logan· playlist patent· litigation

2:17:00 And so you tweet, what's funny is you tweeted and said we talked about it on Thursday show. I thought we did? No! We talked about it right after the show. That's the whole problem is that we talked about after the show. This was one of our theories as why shouldn't be talking at all ever. Exactly this is the big mistake So thats why I want to bring up now an see in because I dove back into it Okay so whats going on here? I'm giving you the floor Well I need your input There's a company called Personal Audio and they have filed suit against Ace Broadcasting, that is the broadcasting network, the podcasting network that Adam Carolla... Adam Carolla Entertainment. Yes I guess he owns it? I don't know if he has partners? Well he had partners and then he fired him and now they're suing him too! Oh i didn't know that, that's interesting. He's got two suits going on. Interesting side note we'll talk about that now that's very interesting I didn't

2:17:58 But also howstuffworks.com and I read the complaint and the complaint basically says we have this patent 8.112.504 and as a part of that patent we feel that our rights have been infringed upon, and their main patent they're not the 504 but they have a couple of patents by the way the inventors people say patent trolls! Patents trolls! I mean no one has actually taken the time to read anything i can tell from how Leo's talking how Corolla is talking and no one has actually looked at what's going on

2:18:37 The personal audio system was designed by Jim Logan, Dan Gussling and Charles Kahl. Jim Logan a serial entrepreneur had previously been the founder and CEO of Micro Touch Systems Inc., just stop me if you heard any of this John if you know these companies... A public company that by 1996 had grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of touchscreen systems so not necessarily a patent troll Logan is named a named inventor on 39 US patents some of which became the basis for another company founded go to it media subsequently licensed patents to Universal Music Cisco Motorola and others before being sold and Etc etc. So they have Their one of their patents is the 504 patent is licensed so they came up with it in nine 1996

2:19:26 But they incorporated this personal audio in 2011 or 2012. So it's not like this is a new patent that all of the sudden popped up, it has been a patent from 1996 and these guys at the time I guess were smart enough to say hey you know we should patent the idea of a playlist And you know like it or not that's the patent system. You can you can patent that and it's very detailed and they patented at the same time a system where you have episodic content, and it stored on his server and commercials are inserted Hello does this ring a bell with anyone? And then you have a player on the other end which is why they mainly of licensed their technology to companies that make players

2:20:07 like Apple and you know some of these other companies that actually have hardware and for a system that consists of the server and a client, which essentially you could maybe make an argument that a Flash player that knows who you are when you log into a site and says hey there's new episode here. You should go get this it's arguable but that would fall underneath their patent Now they have put out a memo about podcasting and I just want to read a bit of this so you understand why it might relate to pod...why they're trying to make it sound like podcasting. So this patent that they have, and they say today

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Podcasting Litigation, Licensing Scams and Expert Witnesses

The hosts analyze the strategy behind the Personal Audio lawsuit, suggesting it is a "trial balloon" to establish the validity of a pending patent. They argue that if the company wanted real money, they would target well-funded entities like NPR or the BBC rather than independent podcasters. One host discusses his experience as an expert witness in patent cases and warns of "quasi-scams" where companies settle for undisclosed licensing fees.

podcasting· litigation· licensing· expert witness· npr· bbc

2:20:56 Podcasts typically take the form of an industry standard RSS or Atom compliant file whose URL is stored by the client player device when the user subscribes to the podcast. By 2013, it's expected that more than 39 million users will listen to podcasts. Personal Audio is 1996 precursor to podcasting so they're not saying that they invented it and I'd say have a patent on their precursor is described in claim then personal audio in there 504 patent and an additional pending divisional application, both of which are entitled System for Disseminating Media Content Representing Episodes in a Serialized Sequence. So seeing as the complaint that they have filed against what people are calling podcasters... I'm sorry HowStuffWorks.com which is 50% of the people being sued it's not a podcaster! Okay? It's just not

2:21:54 That may, I think this is just a trial balloon for this patent they have pending. They're trying to prove that they have a valid patent that has not been approved yet by taking someone who's going to be vocal and who is visible The mistake people are making is by saying they're going after podcasting! They're getting the guys at the top first and then everyone's gonna get fucked No, no if they really were gonna go after money. They would go to NPR Okay, that is the number one podcaster I'm sorry it is not a Twit network It is not Leo LaPorte's thing there's not ace ace Broadcasting in his NPR and they have a lot of money and these company and the government

2:22:42 the sponsored enterprises, they license stuff very quickly. These guys are trying to prove something and they're taking an easy target, someone who doesn't have a lot of money, there's no money to gain And they're just going to try and prove through whatever Corolla has on its website, and HowStuffWorks.com which is not a podcaster! It's not a podcast okay? It's the site that has some things that look similar They're trying to make a case They don't have a case They are trying to make a case That what is going on here and nothing more So this whole way we've got to bond together Podcasters United

2:23:22 Let's get a lawyer! No. Are you insane? Who is that person in there with you? This is total insanity. There was supposed to be two of us doing this show, and you got somebody in there screaming. Hey Dvorak stop screaming So well here's one of the things that these guys like to do because I've been involved as an expert witness on a lot of these patent lawsuits over the years. I haven't done too much recently but should if we keep getting donations like this Exactly, we should be doing this in this racket. You get to have you know the expert witness work is about it's about typically $350 to $500 an hour depending on what... An hour? Yeah! Holy crap

2:24:07 Nice. All right, all right well 350 is what I charge. May i just point out one thing John? What when it comes to podcasting do you think I could be an expert witness do I have some credibility yeah oh no you'd be top of the list thank you of the expert witness and which you may be used for but here's what the trick is yeah one of the things you learn when you do a lot of this stuff and I don't do things for the money uh I do them so I can learn about how that mechanism works Even though I didn't know about the show at the time so anyway one of the things these guys like to do is if you'll see You can spot this when you deconstructed final news story. Is that? Adam curl ace entertainment and whatever the name of this company is has come to an agreement Exactly, I would say This is why our show works because I'd do this And then you give me that perfect continue

2:24:59 comes to an agreement, details not disclosed. We will be paying our patent fees for this thing and what these guys like to do and I've been told this by a number of patent attorneys is the old trick it's the oldest trick in the book as a matter fact you go out They'd like to do it with bigger companies than they have here, but you go out and find some company. You show them that you're going to sue them and they know that can beat you with 40 grand. We don't really want to sue ya'. What we wanna' do is come to an agreement and you will license our technology. Can I take it one step better? I'll betcha' Corolla makes money out of the deal!

2:25:40 That's rare, but anyway it is possible. He doesn't know how to make money But anyway you were gonna be publicly licensed so now in the future there Oh Corolla licenses it even though he's not paying anything or even Leo would be they can might get two Or three people involved in this that's a quasi scam when you do business what'd you do? He's licensing we're suing you yeah and Nobody's really like I mean the whole thing is just like a smoke screen for Maybe people should fight these things but anyway, you see that term's not disclosed. But your point is you're right on target because it's the reverse all right and by the way I think that this they don't have a case at all and if they do well you know then okay if you have a player or some crap like that certainly if you know if you have a device you got to pay licensing fee okay so what? That's what it is

2:26:38 We don't have to pay a license fee because I don't have a player. I don't have a flash player with episodes or anything, it just won't do it You know fine then you'll just have to go to my site and download it if you have to get a bit torrent Or whatever fine. You know this like we will work that out is what it is? You know you don't want patents to work that way Do something about it stop bitching and complaining about we're good little wine everyone's little whiny bitch That's the biggest problem I have without having actually read the documentation and their strategy, you're right is try and get people to say okay because this you watch they'll fold all of them. Yeah we're licensing the technology and then they go after the NPR and BBC in The Big Guys where the real money is there's no real money in this it was never intended to be real money the internet is not meant to be real money yeah that's pretty much a deal so let's see how well it shakes out

CHAPTER 37 / 41 Discussion

Governor Dan Malloy, Sandy Hook and Preparedness Comments

Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy is heard in a clip stating that he had been "spoken to" about the possibility of a tragedy like Sandy Hook "playing itself out" in his state. The hosts find the phrasing "played itself out" and "spoken to" highly suspicious, suggesting it implies prior knowledge or a scripted nature to the event's aftermath.

dan malloy· connecticut· sandy hook· preparedness· crisis management

2:27:31 We don't have a player, we don't have a playlist. We are players though! I mean i have a playlist of my surfer bird thing Now that you can go to jail for. That's like... It's private, I'm just doing it for my own amusement. That's like slashing Rembrandt paintings Cutting up the surfer bird man, thats not good I only have two, well if we're technically still in second half which i think we are getting close to the end here. I'd like to play a clip of Connecticut Governor Malloy and these clips are now coming kind of after the fact

2:28:18 This is amazing. Sandy Hook is kind of a hobby now, not for the show it's going to be like 9-11 you can go on forever there never going to be some big court trial and all the guilty are going to be hung this is not gonna happen ever so I'm kinda giving up on it but when someone says words and you listen to them and they're just so clear what they're actually saying Yeah, but it's ignored. It's interesting to me and entertaining here is the governor Malloy of Connecticut right after these Sandy Hook tragedy or today a Tragedy of unspeakable terms played itself out in this community Lieutenant Governor and I have been Spoken too and in an attempt that we might be prepared for something like this playing itself out in our state

2:29:19 Did you hear it? He said it twice. Played itself out! We have been spoken to... Oh, he's been spoken to. We've also said- We have been spoken that something like this might play out in our state So who spoke to him? Play the whole clip again Spoken to and an attempt that we might be prepared for something like this playing itself out in our state I got it You're right. I missed it. We've been spoken to That something like this might happen. Might play itself out in our state Right, and that was also there was a right I thought we're not gonna talk about this anymore It's the second half of the show come on! I get to do that all right The only other thing i need to uh...do is um Give you guys a little bit of mouth punching about this event What was that John? You know what that was

CHAPTER 38 / 41 Discussion

Bulgaria Assassination Attempt, Oil Pipelines and Political Messages

An assassination attempt on a Bulgarian political leader, where the gun misfired at point-blank range, is analyzed as a potential "message" rather than a genuine killing attempt. The incident coincided with Bulgaria pulling out of the Burgas-Alexandropolis oil pipeline project, which is a major Russian interest. The hosts suggest the event was rigged to intimidate the government.

bulgaria· assassination attempt· oil pipeline· russia· burgas-alexandropolis· political theater

2:30:17 It was a girl fight in the New York subways? Yes, exactly. No that was the Bulgarian political party leader who was on stage and the dude came up and tried to shoot him in the head. Oh he tried to shoot him and then the gun misfired. Right so... Coincidentally What do you think that's about? Well let me think pipelines! Yayyyy I would like you to go to europipes.curry.com, e-u-r-o-p-i-p-e-s dot curry dot com while i read you the most recent headline Bulgaria pulls out of controversial oil pipeline project so this is the Burgas Alexandropolis Oil Pipeline which is very important to uh... the Russians

2:31:11 And it's these guys who literally, the relatively new political party who have come in and all of a sudden they said hey screw you we're not going to do this pipeline. Then get out of here! So I question whether the gun was meant to fire at all? You can rig a gun easy enough not to fire. I have, I have a feeling it was uh... it was just a little message Well if you saw the pictures of the guy I mean the guy got up on stage and go over to the guy had the gun at him for really long time in normal situations I mean this is an American situation their snipers would've taken that guy out long before he even got the gun close to the other guy Right right So this is not right This whole thing looks..I was very skeptical about this too

2:32:01 But yeah, that would make sense. Yeah well they learned their lesson and then they probably left a message Hey! Remember Poland? Exactly! Take out the whole government if you guys don't play ball And by the way nobody's the wiser That's right Plan I have an end to show clip if you want to play it well, I was just gonna finish this up If you if you don't mind okay with us so I know he didn't go to it But bookmark euro pipes curry comm. It is the best map I've seen yet It's a beauty of all of the pipelines and if you see central to that map is Baku

CHAPTER 39 / 41 Discussion

Airbus A350, Boeing 787 Problems and Ray LaHood

The grounding of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner due to battery issues is discussed alongside the development of the Airbus A350. Both aircraft utilize composite "plastic" materials for fuel efficiency. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's "laissez-faire" attitude toward the grounding is criticized, with the hosts suggesting the media is sensationalizing minor technical issues like cracked windows.

airbus a350· boeing 787· ray lahood· faa· plastic airplanes· battery failure

2:32:38 It's right smack that the map is almost built around Baku. Yeah, who have now also greenlit the TNAP pipeline to Europe through Turkey and so that's the trans Anatolian pipeline and That of course is ours This BP stat oil total. Oh, it's a fest the frogs I'm sorry the Brits and the frogs. They're turning their attention to uranium, yeah uranium. Uranium! And I think... let me just see if i had any because I had a quick little Boeing versus Airbus thing Oh okay I want to hear that Yeah so I kind of you know just was looking more closely now this is the we have an airbus competitor coming

2:33:34 Right, the uh... It's like the 350 or is it the 380? What is the one that's coming John? Well the 380 is the double-decker that they released. It'd probably be a smaller jet with good gas mileage because the 380 is a competitor to the 747 for long haul. Yeah but the 380 hasn't actually sold yet? Are they selling them? No no, they're out and about Maybe it was the 350. Well anyway, first of all I'll look it up this is a these planes are plastic okay and so the whole part about these planes is the plastic airplane It's supposed to be cheaper make less noise you know that uses less gas. Here it is, it is a 350 Airbus 350 unlikely to be affected by Boeing 787 problems. I told ya its a 350 I told ya. That's what they're doing What is that? What is besides being plastic

2:34:30 It's a wide body. It is actually made out of rubber bands is what it was originally conceived as a variant of the A330 with a few changes to compete with the 787 and the larger 777 The design was unanimously rejected by prospective customers and Airbus is forced to revise the proposal. It has 8% lower operating costs than the 787, so it's more fuel efficient. Even more fuel efficient? Yeah. So this... That means there is more plastic! Yes much more. Now you can't park these things in the desert heat

2:35:12 uh... the launch customer which is qatar airways so they'd they definitely had a way to condition has the winglets got the curve look it looks like its stolen eighty seven yeah so but did that these plastic planes in general i'm just not by don't like them at all and think i've sheet metal rivets unlike the whole idea and this evening and have been coaches three three and three really worse off as horrible who was for your own someone's always than demand out you can sit with your buddy So when these plastic planes fly, just like the previous Airbus, things happen and they do get grounded. But the media is trumping this up and I'm like why is this happening?

2:35:57 This definitely Boeing didn't blow someone properly and then I got a clip of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. Oh that guy so he's like, yeah Well, he's the crook involved in this is the worst and he's dumb well, but he's obviously the crook Well, tell us about... you know. Because he's a public official so you can call him a crook. Yeah! Go on. What? You can't do that? Not to people no it's liable And what could they do sue me for every bullet I own Well, you know I got my second it your life judgment proof. It's liable a judgement proof But it is libelous I mean don't don't people have to have heard what I said for it to be libelous like more than ten No Just if so ever just say to you hey that guy's a crook and someone else hears That's three people total now know it that's libelous yes bullshit. That's bullshit I'm telling ya You can get sued for that and when we're good as that

2:37:00 Well, in your case it's not good about... It is not going to do anybody any good. I'm just saying So I speak without fear? Yeah because you're broke By the way guys want a couple more specs before you do your thing The 787 seats 210-250 The 350 with better gas mileage the XWB extra wide body I guess Seats 314 It looks like a better plane same basically the same range of 15,000 kilometers so when you listen to Ray LaHood who is above the FCC at the FAA and you hear the laissez-faire attitude with which he speaks about this it's obvious. Is this a grounding that could possibly be lifted by next week? Here's what he had to say

2:37:56 This is complicated because we want to make sure we get it right and the flying public expects us to get it right. And so, its going to take a little bit of time. Can you get it done by early next week? Oh I don't know the answer to that. Im not doing the examination and work so well just see where it takes us It's gonna take a little bit of time, you know Yeah, I'm waiting for the uh... maybe uh... I need a new car. You know what i'm saying? We'll see maybe next week it kind of depends on what happens There is no rush really we want to get it right The public expects us to get it right Listen, this battery crap big deal cracked windows

2:38:44 Cracked windows, big deal. It's not a big deal! Windows crack all the time on aircrafts it's not a big deal. It's being trumped up by the complicit media and dumb media quite honestly because you know we should all be taking the train and going through naked body scanners and having viper teams shake ya down but this guy is what a crook Alright, I'm gonna do a little thing here. So I just want to make sure we keep up people up-to-date with some breaking stuff Kashmir is heating up again? I want to play this clip so people realize that this bet this thing between Pakistan and India is not done

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Kashmir Conflict, India-Pakistan Tensions and Led Zeppelin

Tensions are rising in the Kashmir region following the beheading of an Indian soldier and violations of the ceasefire by the Pakistani army. The hosts use the news as a segue to discuss the Led Zeppelin song "Kashmir" and their experiences with high-quality cover bands. They debate the difference between "tribute" bands and "cover" bands in terms of musical virtuosity.

kashmir· india· pakistan· ceasefire· led zeppelin· cover bands

2:37:56 This is complicated because we want to make sure we get it right and the flying public expects us to get it right. And so, its going to take a little bit of time. Can you get it done by early next week? Oh I don't know the answer to that. Im not doing the examination and work so well just see where it takes us It's gonna take a little bit of time, you know Yeah, I'm waiting for the uh... maybe uh... I need a new car. You know what i'm saying? We'll see maybe next week it kind of depends on what happens There is no rush really we want to get it right The public expects us to get it right Listen, this battery crap big deal cracked windows

2:38:44 Cracked windows, big deal. It's not a big deal! Windows crack all the time on aircrafts it's not a big deal. It's being trumped up by the complicit media and dumb media quite honestly because you know we should all be taking the train and going through naked body scanners and having viper teams shake ya down but this guy is what a crook Alright, I'm gonna do a little thing here. So I just want to make sure we keep up people up-to-date with some breaking stuff Kashmir is heating up again? I want to play this clip so people realize that this bet this thing between Pakistan and India is not done

2:39:23 India demonstrated its resolve to fight fire with fire along the volatile line of control, directing all of his battalion commanders on the fiercely contested boundary to retaliate with all their might if the Pakistani army provokes them by violating the ceasefire or by pushing militants into Jammu and Kashmir. The fact that the Army Chief issued an unequivocal warning to Pakistan to cease and desist from misadventures along the border is a confirmation that there is going to be no immediate de-escalation of tension, especially as a defiant Pakistan refused to own up to the beheading of an Indian soldier and mutilation of another soldier's body by its elite SSG commandos on January 8th.

2:40:05 Speaking around the same time that Pakistan brushed aside India's charges at the Brigadier-level flag meeting at the Chakkan Daba crossing point in Poonch district, Jain Singh accused Islamabad of resorting to outright lies. Although Jain Singh emphasized the current tension would not escalate into a conflagration, holding that several stages have to be crossed before the two countries go to full scale war. He did admit that first stage of spiral had been reached. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would decide on Islamabad's offer for foreign minister level talks. Alright it is good enough you get the idea. Hold up man I am playing your tune

2:40:46 You know that don't you? Yeah. What is it I can't remember It's Led Zeppelin's Kashmir Oh, I never knew the name of the title of that song Really?! Yeah, its funny oh my god okay cuz That's how long that bullcrap has been going on nothings gonna happen Nah but they reached the first level of the thing yeah I know but its just I just wanna make sure Its into the mix here so if something happens we dont We could say wow Wow we knew that Wait a minute, why don't you just throw a whole bunch of stuff out there? I'm gonna start doing that by the way. Hey can i just say that I saw Led Zeppelin 2 in concert on Friday night Who are they missing it's a cover band oh how are they amazing

2:41:35 So this band travels, certainly all around the country. I think they're from Chicago But they've been around the world and basically it's Led Zeppelin You know one time when i was at some event in Seattle and went out with a friend We started floating around the bars of Pioneer Square And there was a cover band Of Kiss Well there is a million kiss cover bands Yeah but im telling you This band Was so good It was like You wonder why people waste their, you know... It seems to me to be kind of an ironic waste of talent. Well, yeah I mean. Yeah, I was thinking about this because I don't think I've ever been to a cover band show And this is not a tribute. I wouldn't call it attribute There's a difference you got tribute bands you got cover bands and these guys they just take it They are really good musicians of course You know you can't can get Led Zeppelin back on stage cuz you know the guys are some guys that they're dead You know It was like this kind of right? I think this was kind of a combination because it would they were dressed up in the same I mean if it was just a cover band singing their songs But these guys are dressed up They had them

2:42:37 Pyro techniques they did everything right well so the Led Zeppelin you know was not really a big pyro band So but the singer, you know he's kind of got this sexy. You know plant look with his new shirt open and the guitar player I mean the The other guitar player Jimmy Page has kind of you know kind of hair and everything And but you know the music was really really good and of course they you know They just played hits And it was great and the audience, there were 20 year old kids there who knew all the lyrics. And then they were smoking hot hippie chicks walking around you know people smoking dope and drinking beer... Then there were really old hippies like me

2:43:19 uh... it was it was very entertaining how i would not that it wasn't a night at no problem with that kind of thing i just find it hard to be there can come close to the virtual so playing abilities and of uh... of plant i mean he when i saw him in a band you mean page? page, I'm sorry. Page. Yeah. That's the singer. See, see, I didn't see-I've met Plant and Page but never have seen them play as Led Zeppelin So I'm bummed about that Page would pull out and one of the songs he pulls out a violin bow. Yeah, oh yeah No, no Maybe I don't know I didn't see him do he might have I didn't see him do it Anyway, yeah sure was entertaining anyway. I got a couple of in to show clips Well you could only play one. I know I'm gonna ask you to which one there's I got Nigel Farage Farage on Russia Today

CHAPTER 41 / 41 Discussion

Ben Bernanke, Auditing the Fed and Monetary Policy Independence

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke addresses the "Audit the Fed" movement during a C-SPAN appearance. He argues that the Fed's financials are already thoroughly audited by private firms and the GAO. He claims the proposed legislation is a "misnomer" intended to allow Congress to interfere with independent monetary policy decisions, which he believes would harm the economy.

ben bernanke· federal reserve· audit the fed· gao· monetary policy· central bank

2:44:15 Going on about the upcoming Cameron speech. Yeah, this is the speech where that Nike no BMW and other big companies are saying oh man don't do this speech yeah well Farage says it's all bullcrap to speeches just as it's just a cover-up for the pro EU I think that's boring compared to something that is actually seemingly boring and it's a little slow moving, its from C-SPAN. It's Bernanke discussing auditing the Fed and talking about what a scam it is!

2:44:56 Oh, about the audit and they're never really gonna audit you mean? No! Nobody knows what they're talking... He says though you have to hear it. It's a great clip because it's like educational for the no agenda listeners who've never heard this before all that Ron Paul people don't realize they've been duped. Duped?! Wow, okay well I think that's the better of the two. The Nigel clip is floating around everyone can see that. The Bernank is something from C-SPAN which is our speciality I might point out this is what we do so you don't have to so you're not going to see this or hear this anywhere necessarily all right Jean Claude that's great happy Obama gray hair with the air nominally inauguration day

2:45:42 Exactly. Tomorrow is the other dude. Yeah, the other guy's Obama number two. It'll be great with Beyond K. He's singing and everything it will be fantastic Coming to you from the capital of the drone star state here where we need your support and your donations Please think of us in the morning I'm Adam Curry And in the morning from Northern Silicon Valley, where I reside. I'm John C. Dvorak We will be back on Thursday once again for another action-packed episode of The Best Podcast In The Universe here on No Agenda This question comes from an audience member How do you respond to the people who question the constitutionality Of the Federal Reserve and would like to severely weaken it? Furthermore how do you respond To members of Congress who wish to audit the Fed

2:46:41 Well, I'm not a lawyer. So I do know Article 1 – never mind – I'm not a lawyer but the Fed has been around now for a century and nobody so far has had a Supreme Court case. performs the critical role of managing the monetary system, which is of course a power that Congress has to delegate. Which it has done. Let me talk about the other issue which I think is more substantive As you know there are bills in Congress that would quote audit the Fed and

2:47:23 It sounds like something, how could anybody object to auditing the Fed? I mean don't you have to look at people's books and see what is on their books. Well the trouble with audit the fed is that it isnít what itís about. Itís a misnomer The Fed's books are thoroughly and completely audited. We are audited first by an outside private sector accounting firm, which gives us a clean bill of health. Secondly all of our books, all of our financials everything is open to the GAO, the Government Accountability Office which works for Congress and for the government and can look at anything it wants to look at

2:48:05 And third, we also have an independent inspector general that is able to evaluate any aspect of the Fed's financials or activities that it would like. If you'd like to see more about this, the Fed's website, federalreserve.gov has a detailed discussion of all the various audits that the Federal Reserve goes through. So all our financials, all of our activities are thoroughly audited With one exception, and that exception is that in the law which created the Government Accountability Office, the GAO. There is an exception made for monetary policy In other words, a GAO can do anything it wants at the Federal Reserve but what it can't do Is go in and audit a monetary policy decision Now what the Audit of Fed Bill would do is very simple It would strike that

2:49:02 clause. So if the audit of the Fed bill passed, then a congressman who didn't like the Fed's latest interest rate move could say GAO go audit that and what that would mean would be it would be the government accountability office would send its staff into the Federal Reserve to look an see you know why did you guys raise interest rates? And begin to investigate that decision. It seems to me thats the first step toward basically the Federal Reserve no longer being an independent central bank Now, there's a very strong agreement around the world that if you want monetary policy made based on long-term considerations and not based on short term political considerations then the central bank needs to have some independence in making monetary policy. What this bill would do is strike at the very heart of that independence so

2:49:54 It's my opinion that many people who support the bill just think it means what it sounds like, which is something about the financials. Has nothing to do with the financials. It has to do with whether or not Congress can ask the GAO to investigate a decision by the Fed that it doesn't like and again I think if you want a healthy economy You want to have a strong and independent central bank, and that is not consistent with that bill. Shut up, Ray! You will obey the best podcast in the universe! Devorak dot org slash nn