Episode 578 · Sunday, 29 December 2013

Blast Wave Accelerator

A massive New York Times investigation reshapes the Benghazi narrative just as 2016 polling places Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton in a dead heat for the presidency.

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The New York Times released a massive investigation into the Benghazi attack, concluding that an anti-Islamic video triggered the violence while Al-Qaeda played no role. This report surfaces as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton enter a statistical tie in 2016 presidential polling. Critics suggest the timing of the Times report serves to clear Clinton’s political path by shifting blame away from State Department failures.

Connecticut State Police finalized a 7,000-page report on the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, detailing Adam Lanza’s obsession with mass murder without establishing a definitive motive. In the tech sector, Google Mail began forcing users toward Google Drive for large attachments, sparking a debate on the original 1969 ARPANET protocols. Meanwhile, A&E reversed the suspension of Phil Robertson following a massive backlash from Duck Dynasty viewers. In Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces a corruption scandal linked to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, while a group of researchers remains stranded in Antarctic sea ice.

Michelle Obama participated in the annual NORAD Santa Tracker, informing children that Santa was flying over South Sudan. The final 2013 knighting ceremony inducts Sir Blake and Sir Bert of Gitmo Nation into the No Agenda Round Table. Producers also explore the psychological fatigue of digital audio and the strange branding of heroin packets labeled Obamacare in Massachusetts.


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CHAPTER 01 / 41 Discussion

Email File Size Limitations, ARPANET History

Google Mail recently began prompting users to utilize Google Drive for attachments exceeding 25 megabytes. A debate regarding the original intent of email protocols follows, contrasting modern file sharing with the 1969 ARPANET system designed for military and academic data exchange. The discussion notes that early email systems were not optimized for large binary transfers.

google mail· arpanet· file attachments· bandwidth· military academia complex

00:00 Yeah, I do. Shut up! Adam Curry John C. Devorak It's Sunday December 29th 2013 time for your Get Mo Nation Media Assassination episode 578 This is no agenda Year with non-can distraction bullcrap from FEMA region 6 here at the Travis Heights Hideout in Austin Tate House Good morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from the northern Silicon Valley Pacific Northwest I'm John C. Devorak It's crackpot and buzzkill Yeah, I had to stop John just before we started because all of a sudden we were talking about something really interesting. Like wait a minute this is not being recorded! It's a travesty

00:42 Travesty. The travesty, I don't know but what was it? I forgot. That's how important it was! Oh wait a minute...I had sent you an email uh I used Google mail and for the first time this happened we were the for some reason Google Mail which used to take big attachments is just balking at the idea so this time instead of just like sending a dead letter into nowhere It gives me an error message which as seen from the first time it says these attachments are too big Would you like to use Google Drive? Well, can I just...I'm looking at your attachments. and the total file size for your attachments is 27.9 megabytes, that's typically too big for just about any mail server most won't accept over 10 I have mine set to 15 but i think for you even have an exception to 20 yeah when you're doing twenty...and what exactly is twenty? where does that size come from let me see what is the big file here there probably one oversized file

01:42 Whatever the case. I'm also encoding at 128 when it should be doing 96. Yeah, there's that then... But anyway, so yes. All I know is in squirrel mail i got a 50 mega...50 uh.. but it's not squirrel mail you know how email works? It's not the interface That's just the interface okay let's so anyways So it asks me to do this so I say okay and so it sends you the files Oh wait! You made a mistake you were supposed to say okay Google So I say, okay Google and it sends it off. And then Adam gets in bitches about it and then he makes the bitches because he has to click an extra button. Then he makes the off-handed comment that email was never meant for such things! So we got into a debate

02:30 I don't think, first of all. I don't think i pontificated like Richard Stallman or anything the way you made that sound. I think what I said is...I do not think email was intended for these file sizes in fact I remember the early days of email and file sizes and one megabyte took exactly one hour to download! And then the chick had her underpants on so... Whoa! So I remember back in the day this was it was never set up with this in mind but But it could be. And I have made the comment, yeah with a slow speed you still have some limitations that were just set by the slow speeds but in...but i made the comment that when ARPANET was developed in 1969 and it was done for the military and academia The Military Academia Complex so they can send stuff around It would be big files because what else are you going to say? Hello! You know goodbye! No it wasn't like Twitter Can I um

03:28 Wow, what was that sound? I was banging the keyboard with my hand as i reached up to grab a cup. Okay... So basically a forward store copy system, which has been long since retired. Although you can still get to a lot of these news groups that were cached I guess but there was a real system And it would break it up into sizable bytes, dependent upon the bandwidth. It was a very interesting non-decentralized system that was working very well for quite awhile that was intended for files. There's always been files people want to send around. That was my point. Yes

CHAPTER 02 / 41 Discussion

Deja News, Usenet History, Early Internet Commercialization

The search engine Deja News previously organized Usenet newsgroups before its acquisition and eventual integration into Google. Early internet culture in the 1990s was often hostile toward commercial entities, exemplified by backlash against the registration of MTV.com. Users during this era frequently complained about "bandwidth theft" when websites linked directly to external images.

deja news· usenet· mtv.com· newsgroups· bandwidth theft

04:24 I'm just thinking that... You're reminding me of another off-topic thing and i hate to bore the public with this crap. Why not? It's the end of the year! News groups, whatever happened in newsgroups for like an interesting phenomenon.. But that what im talking about! Im talking about news groups That is yes but hold on a second do you remember that there was a program that came out that wasn't... Your no doing it right go like this Hey, there was a news group program that was out I wish I could remember the name of it because I really liked it It was like a search engine for news groups and yeah pretty much organized and then Google bought them Yes And then incorporated them into the search engine where's the thing you get click on? I look at new screws. And then it just disappeared with all the news groups on all the data gone What was the name of that?

05:06 Member yeah, no I remember and that member. Yeah, I know Someone's on my ass about that and he's right And I catch myself saying it all the time is really bad. I never got me saying it member no I remember um It was... maybe the chat room will know it. So of course it was Usenet, obviously that's what we're talking about but you're talking about that specific application with the Windows app? Yeah remember that thing or do you re-member that thing I do remember and wait a minute if its re-member then you can member yes but what is member? That's no idea yeah that's a mindfuck isn't it If you can remember then you should be able to member

05:54 Deja news yeah, yeah, thank you call mr. Bobo The chat room is now on my side I'm on their side again Oh wait a minute are we winding up the year with a positive note for the chat room? Yeah if they can come up with deja news Deja News exactly and and I remember oh my gosh there's gonna be a tough one this week When I first was on the internet and i had registered MTV.com And I would go into like the alt dot music dot binaries or whatever, and even just post a message And here's the typical...and by the way it was that guy! You're gonna ruin the internet with that commercial crap!! Oh yeah those guys they were killing it during that era

06:44 Everywhere, they were everywhere. This is a non-commercial news group you can't have an empty dot com email address! Not kidding not kidding this actually happened No I remember that whole era and these guys moaning and groaning this is like the era...this is reminiscent show yes? This is like that period of time that probably ended about five or six years ago when you lifted an image from somebody else's site for your blog or whatever. You didn't take the image because that actually was illegal! I've talked to people like this... Yeah, yeah no you would use a link to it. You're stealing my bandwidth!! You're stealing my bandwidth!!! Wait a minute aren't you on a plan? Aren't you and everybody else on a fixed monthly plan are you paying for bits??

CHAPTER 03 / 41 Discussion

University of Minnesota Gopher Server Licensing Dispute

The University of Minnesota attempted to charge a $5,000 commercial licensing fee for the use of a Gopher server hosted at MTV.com in the early 1990s. To resolve the dispute, a deal was struck where the fee was waived in exchange for a VJ wearing a University of Minnesota Gopher t-shirt on-air. This event highlighted the early friction between academic internet protocols and emerging commercial interests.

gopher· university of minnesota· mtv· licensing fee· internet history

07:31 You're stealing my bandwidth. Now let me give you this story, I don't know if i've told you this story... God it's ah! I gotta ding myself. You remember Gopher obviously before the World Wide Web? Of course okay so I had MTV.com and was a headless Sun 3 running at DigX above the Chinese restaurant and I'd-and it was Sun OS3 I guess or whatever So there wasn't even Solaris I don't know what it was doesn't matter And so I got the binary, uh...I think now I might have even compiled the Gopher Demon. Gopher D. Set up a gopher server and I had you know like a couple bits of what I call- I think i called it cyber sleaze or something and I had little bits in news and snippets and that was about it. Then I got an email from the University of Minnesota saying that this was an inappropriate use of the gopherserver and I had to pay $5,000 license

08:27 What yeah, because I was using I wasn't but they felt that was a commercial use of the gopher Server and I said well. I don't have $5,000 and And I did not as I did not have five thousand dollars. I was a boy believe me VJ didn't get paid a lot of money And I cut a deal with them and if you google Adam Curry gopher t-shirt, you can see it. There's a video of it and they agreed...and somewhere I might have an email in writing that they would waive the $5,000 fee If I wore a University of Minnesota gopher T shirt on MTV This is just to show you how stupid it was

09:06 And they said, oh okay well if you do that then we'll waive the $5,000 license. Go gophers! And there's a video somewhere on YouTube of me wearing a gopher t-shirt and I remember MTV guys going like what is up with that? Because they had no idea. They were like hey we're on AOL this thing rocks who needs the internet We got keywords Keywords Yeah, well this is... you know what? I think it's interesting sometimes to stand still and reminisce about how far we've come where we've come from and then to see that we have Twitter today now more as a higher market cap than 50% of the standard and poor companies based upon absolutely no profits

CHAPTER 04 / 41 Discussion

Internet Monetization Failures, Search Engine Dominance

Twitter maintains a high market capitalization despite a lack of consistent profits, illustrating ongoing attempts to monetize network connections. While early search engines like AltaVista and Yahoo struggled to find sustainable models, Google successfully leveraged the Adsense advertising platform. The network itself remains difficult to monetize directly without intermediary advertising services.

twitter· altavista· adsense· yahoo· monetization

10:01 and just another version of someone trying to monetize the network itself, which is impossible. You cannot monetize the network just by making connections between people This has been tried time and time again It doesn't work this you can get very rich tricking investors and speculators into thinking that you're doing it but it never works out ever Name one time it's really worked out And you call yourself a technology journalist? But seriously, I don't think the only thing that has truly worked and I remember it was search. It's got to be searched searches. Search is going to rule the internet and boy were they right! And of course we had AltaVista

10:53 And you know that I think that eventually also was but was that purchased by Yahoo maybe who bought AltaVista? I think Yahoo. I think it was Yahoo matter of fact, but search was was of course gonna equate dropping the ball in one company right That would be Yahoo and it wasn't until essentially Google Kind of tripped over the idea of Adsense which also wasn't theirs I believe they acquired that if i'm not mistaken yes, they did in fact. They ran into one of the developers of that code once for lunch and and that is you know and that was genius because of the The concept of searching and essentially getting advertising back And it may not look like advertising but wow It's advertising

11:42 Every almost every single link is advertising one way that didn't just rap genius or rap guru Whatever just got put in the Google jail anytime on the internet You have a way that someone can cut off your way to make money Then it was never a good idea in the first place and its and it's another failed attempt at monetizing The network. The network is the network Anyway, I don't want to get in that rant too early because that's bucket Oh You know what? So this is the conversation you just got from us. The only thing we didn't talk about was Fidonet We could have of course been on CNN with Anderson Pooper! When you look back at the year, what stands out in terms of these kind of... Scandal-wise? Yeah Oh my god it's like a buffet Listen to this roundtable of a retrospective Who is that laughing hyena?!

CHAPTER 05 / 41 Discussion

CNN Year-End Coverage, Rob Ford Scandal

CNN and other mainstream media outlets focused heavily on the scandals of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford during their 2013 year-end retrospectives. Critics argue that such coverage prioritizes entertainment and triviality over substantive news reporting. The segment highlights a specific interview involving Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, discussing her romance memoir.

cnn· anderson cooper· rob ford· toronto· mainstream media

12:29 I don't know, it might be S.E. Cupp or somebody... This guy, the buffet of scandal The most important story of the year is Rob, the mayor of Toronto Rob Ford, this was so lovely! I want to be an American patriot but really for me Rob Ford too I love a good cunnilingus joke on the evening news Wow, this is this is your CNN people cunnilingus But wait Anderson can make it better. My mom went for a romance memoir about the men she had dated and I use that term loosely, and she described one guy She was currently dating who my mom was 85 at the time as the Nijinsky of Cunnilingus write it down John show title in the Jinsky of cunnilingus Thank You Anderson And she made me proofread the book. What is the point of that joke?

13:26 The point is to show you how useless mainstream media is because when it comes to the end of the year and they just have to show up just to complete their timesheet, this is what you get. Because God forbid there be any I don't know news No, the PR companies are all on vacation so there's nothing to talk about. Oh I'm sorry yes no there is something to talk about why don't we get started really really early? We should start early on let's get it going now! Speaking of Chris Christie A new poll shows that he would be neck and neck in a race with Hillary Clinton if you were running for president There ya go Let's make it neck and neck NOW

14:08 Why wait? Exactly. Because Nick, I mean we should remind our newer listeners of one of the No Agenda theses which is like feces. Yeah. Wait a minute, they will forever have these candidates running neck and neck no matter what so they can extract as much advertising revenue from each of them as humanly possible. And here's how they do it listen because this report does go on a little bit but you know this is so key

CHAPTER 06 / 41 Discussion

Chris Christie vs. Hillary Clinton 2016 Polling

A CNN-ORC International poll shows New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton in a statistical tie for a hypothetical 2016 presidential race. Media outlets like The Huffington Post are already beginning intensive coverage 24 months ahead of the election to maximize advertising revenue. Analysts suggest Christie's "bridgegate" traffic scandal may impact his perceived standing as a principled governor.

chris christie· hillary clinton· huffington post· cnn-orc poll· 2016 election

14:46 And it has to start 24 months out. That's kind of what it is these days because... More money! Exactly, we need to get the advertising budget set and he will actually talk about this in this piece. The CNN-ORC international poll shows Chris Christie leads Clinton 48% to 46%, with an error of 3%. Meaning basically its a wash Now they're going to bring in some... This by the way is The Huffington Post who has these news videos and they have some guy who is the executive editor, whose at home on his Skype. Stop before you go on I have to make some mention of this so i had a clip for the last show it's not important but let me just explain The Huffington Post or HuffPo as its commonly referred to by these people has gotten into somehow gotten into mainstream media through backhanded way

15:38 There was a Today Show segment last, that's on I think it's on regularly. Where the three Today Show hosts sit in three cat bird seats bar stools next to each other across from another stool which is the Huffington Post guy and they show photos of the week's news They asked this called the photo segments of best photos of the week of the news and they're not good photos They're just crap, and they show the photo in The Huffington Post guy describes what happened He tells what the new story is and there's three of them I'm gonna bring the clip back out for the next show by because it now that I think about it There are three of them giggle and laugh and and he or

16:21 all the while this guy is describing the news story. This is a new show! This is the news people sitting there laughing and giggling at this Huffington Post guy telling them what the news was What is this? Well, they're so amazed that someone actually has taken time to talk about the news instead of promoting their corporations other entertainment products They're tickled pink Oh my gosh it's a news guy oh my god I didn't know they still existed because that's all that's going on is promotion of other corporate properties. But anyway go on with this the Huffington Post person, Zach if this thing happens it is gonna be one and of course it's like some British accent type guy this is all we know that this is kind of

17:08 Let's defer, in other words let the American public...let's defer our thinking and analysis to some British phony. Yeah if you got a British accent you can get pretty far in the news business here Look at Piers Morgan. He's maybe Australian or Kiwi, doesn't matter it is that anglophile thing. Now just listen to this analysis because you're gonna be killed with this for three years straight you're gonna hear this crap

17:45 holding their nose about the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency who will then shut up and vote if she actually is on the ticket. I would be very enthusiastic about voting for the first woman president. Chris Christie has done a good job, up until this very bizarre traffic scandal of painting himself as a good governing principled person. And also I don't know what happened? I don't know what this traffic scandal is because- Traffic scandal! If I saw it or heard about it, it completely passed through my noggin But this is what we're going to have. And they're starting now, John. Somewhere someone made a decision and once one starts they all have to go because when it starts then the money starts to flow and they have to grab it! And it's gonna be like, oh scandal! Oh...and then you know what? Here's proof that it's happening The New York Times The New York effing Times comes out with the most ludicrous year-end analysis of Benghazi

CHAPTER 07 / 41 Discussion

New York Times Benghazi Report, Hillary Clinton 2016

The New York Times published an extensive investigation into the Benghazi attack, concluding that an anti-Islamic video played a significant role while Al-Qaeda did not. Critics suggest this report serves to clear a political path for Hillary Clinton by shifting blame away from systemic State Department failures. Alternative theories propose the event was a botched kidnapping attempt intended to influence the 2012 election.

benghazi· new york times· chris stevens· david kirkpatrick· al-qaeda

18:40 And at the end of this huge study they've done, John. The innocence of Mohammed or Muslims, the video according to The New York Times study actually did have influence on what happened in Benghazi! I am gobsmacked by this Gobsmacked! A new report suggests there's no evidence Al-Qaeda played a role in last years attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. U.S Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in that incident An extensive investigation by The New York Times concluded that the truth is very complex It suggested an American made video criticizing Islam did spark anger in the run up to the attack

19:26 and that Al-Qaeda did not infiltrate Benghazi prior to that attack. Instead it blames local militants, the report says the attack was not meticulously planned but it wasn't spontaneous either and there were some warning signs It also suggests the current US focus on fighting al Qaeda distracts from protecting broader American interest So this is clearly The New York Times clearing a path For Hillary because we had this is the this is the albatross and it has to happen now because we're heating up We got the Chris Christie thing happening, and we need to get this out of the way. And this is pure Propaganda I mean not much written by David Kirkpatrick too is isn't that the guy who did The Vogue piece on Hillary?

20:11 I bet you it is. He may have, but he's been around for a while. He used to be at Fortune. Uh...I've run into him a number of times if he bumped heads. Let me read ya the Chris Christie scandal! New documents reveal that a high-ranking official in the administration of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie knew that Fort Lee, NJ had issues with traffic congestion around the George Washington Bridge long before he authorized this seemingly unnecessary study that closed down lanes to the bridge and made traffic worse. Wow! That's it? That's the scandal?! Yeah

20:53 Yeah, lanes were closed down unnecessarily. On Meet the Press this morning David Kirkpatrick blamed the video for the attack in Benghazi I guess this was... This must have been this morning which we haven't seen yet of course. Kirkpatrick is the Cairo Bureau Chief for The New York Times And the title of this particular piece is David Kirkpatrick, The New York Times gives Hillary a gift for 2016. Yeah putting the blame back on the video and no mention of course that The Times actually says there's two things that could have happened here they don't even take into consideration the third which is what we believe to be true this was supposed to be a kidnapping of the ambassador

21:39 to have an October surprise, to solidify the win for the president in his re-election bid and it went horribly wrong. The messaging was off everything you know Hillary was beside herself... It was coincidental with a CIA operation that was going on right next door Right they moved guns And of course yes and of course the irony is that he won anyway and he was always going to win it was only the media with those bull crap oh it's neck and neck right to the end yeah to keep the money flowing that actually freaked out the campaign they actually if you read some of the back story they actually were concerned that they would lose

CHAPTER 08 / 41 Discussion

District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871, Sovereign Citizen Claims

Claims circulating online suggest the United States became a corporation via the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871. This theory often asserts that individuals' names in capital letters represent corporate entities owned by the government. Legal analysis refutes these claims, noting that the 1871 Act was largely repealed in 1874 and does not fundamentally alter the nature of American citizenship or governance.

act of 1871· district of columbia· corporation· sovereign citizen· legal entity

22:20 And the guy who, for The New York Times again. The genius who was always predicting it which wasn't all that hard What's his name again? He had like a... Right he went over to ESPN and he is this sports statistician guy with really good numbers So where could be making if you're in politics there is more money in politics than in sport forecasting I would think Well with the right consultants I'm sure This guy he could be predicting the stock market his algorithms were so genius. He was Unbelievable, he beat out everybody everybody had it wrong. He had it right Yeah yeah speaking of wrong and right I looked into this thing okay So here's what happened John we got a received an email And it mentioned the Berkeley Freedom Club and then John got into this whole thing about

23:17 the Freedom Club and the Act of 1871 is what I found out that it's really about, where the claim is the United States in 1871 with the creation of the District of Columbia really became a corporation for the...and most of the articles they read about this were the evil bankers Sometimes as evil Jewish bankers just to add a little bit on top of it And that you know your name capitalized is your Legal corporate entity name that you don't own that the United States owns anyway So so you look into this and you called it a big phony bullcrap and such in so many words well kind of and subsequently Here's what I get

24:04 He does that same guy why does he keep listening to the show here's a video that will prove it and I get some guy like That's the video So I did look into this and i spent an inordinate amount of time going through, and actually... Oh! I'm sorry. No no it's important because when people email blanket things like he's wrong this is the truth My airline tickets still have my name in all caps. Does that mean my corporate entity is traveling? And can I get a tax refund, you know it's... This is there's absolutely no evidence! No evidence and don't send me YouTube videos with some guy saying there's evidence and putting some things up on the screen. I looked at the act of 1871. I looked at the 1874 because of course in 1874 the 1871 Act was removed

25:08 And then there was the third act. I read all of it! I can read, and nowhere...and let's just take even if it was true there is very little difference between a corporation and a country. And you've got great companies, and great countries, and crappy corporations in crappy countries... ...and it's all about the leadership and what you allow to happen as a person but it's a cop-out! It's a cop out! So what if we're corporate? Even if were true so?!

25:43 You still get to kick people out, you still get to vote. You still have a voice but you've let yourself be completely suppressed like a moron and that happens in companies too what are you afraid of? Anyway I got really angry at the messaging it all came to me and i said please send this to John! I can't find your email oh here it is john at dvorak dot org D-V-O-R-A-K dot org john at dvorak dot org Oh I'll email him tomorrow What?! What it's easier to email maybe people get think it's funny that I get a rise out did. I get angry Maybe I find it highly amusing It's uh, it's frustrating It's like the it's like the view this is it's like the Fukushima thing and and I'm And I try to stay away from this because

CHAPTER 09 / 41 Discussion

Fukushima Radiation Rumors, San Francisco Beach Geiger Counter

Viral videos showing Geiger counters alarming on San Francisco beaches have sparked fears of Fukushima radiation reaching the California coast. Nuclear physicists clarify that the readings often represent normal background radiation levels rather than toxic contamination. The alarm thresholds on consumer-grade devices are frequently set low, leading to misleading conclusions about public safety.

fukushima· radiation· geiger counter· san francisco· background radiation

26:34 You know, yeah I'm a crackpot but at a certain point... ...I have to. I just have to stop and pull the plug okay? So now there's this video and this has been sent to me by number of people This guy is on the beach with a Geiger counter! And it's going crazy because the Fukushima radiation is now in San Francisco!! And here's the audio from this guys Geiger counter Here I am over background The alarm is going off The alarm's going off! That's sort of the levels we're dealing with here. It's the levels we're dealing with, it's 150 CPM and the alarm is going off And so this gets emailed to me multiple times Most people saying I don't know man but you should look at this because it's a Geiger counter and its going beep Here's the headline Fukushima radiation hits San Francisco Fukushima radiation reaching California beaches

27:44 You're you are you not why aren't you dead? You should be oh no, you're up in the north. You're not in san I wouldn't go home Don't go to san francisco. You're gonna die of course when people have to realize that if you're looking at these Cpms Really that's only a tenth of the background radiation in that particular count cpms counts per minute He don't even know it's alpha beta or gamma radiation with this geiger counter But the way people are so good It's beeping I set the alarm at 99, it's going off! At 150. Well yeah you set the alarm at 99 And if you really- and i put the calculations in the show notes from someone who knows what they're talking about From a nuclear physicist Get tired of doing it Um but we have to stop There has been 100 children are dying of thyroid cancer in Fukushima But that press is not talking about it It's a secret Now That we didn't land on the moon? Okay im with ya But this stuff has to stop Alright

CHAPTER 10 / 41 Discussion

NORAD Santa Tracker, Michelle Obama, South Sudan

First Lady Michelle Obama participated in the annual NORAD Santa Tracker program, answering phone calls from children on Christmas Eve. Transcripts reveal the First Lady informed children that Santa was flying over South Sudan and Rwanda. Observers contrasted the high technical performance of the Santa tracking website with the significant technical failures of the Healthcare.gov rollout.

norad· santa tracker· michelle obama· south sudan· healthcare.gov

28:52 But here's part of... This is a pet peeve show. This is our theme, we always have a theme in every show Let me add this to it You'll like this And I think there's more This is all about lies So from a very young age I don't recall this happening when i was a kid quite honestly. But now we are propagating... Now Santa Claus is fun and everything, and it's nice you know? And we have a little bit of fight about whether he's black or white or fat or skinny and if he comes from Holland does he have slaves as black people whatever it is But then we have this NORAD, and this is the military. And we've seen the videos... That's Peeve number two! We've seen how the NORAD is tracking Santa and we got F-16s flying, accompanying him to shoot off any evil Al Qaeda trying to down him. Then on Christmas Eve or maybe it was the 20th, yeah Christmas eve, we have the first lady of the United States Michelle Obama

29:52 taking calls, they took 117 thousand calls this year from children. And by the way the website took 20 million unique visitors It's amazing how we can set up a website to track a phantom guy with a sleigh flying through the air but healthcare dot gov doesn't work it is pretty amazing how our government has put together That is that very good observation and uh...we have a transcript of Michelle Obama, here it is. Photos and remarks from the first lady's conversations with children while tracking Santa. And I wish i had video or audio because it would make it so much more entertaining for the show! How old are you Colleen? I'm six. You're six what's the number one gift you asked Santa for this year child inaudible yes well you've been good this year have you been a good girl this year yes

30:44 Mrs. Obama, yes alright well I think Santa's on his way to your house so you better go to sleep because he won't come home and...he won't come until you've gone asleep okay? Yes that's okay! And then as we move along the first lady starts telling the children let me see if i can find uh here is hello is this Ella child yes miss obama hi ella this is first lady Michelle Obama by the way she really say that Hi, I'm first this is First Lady Michelle Obama. She must have been reading a script. I'm here today... Yeah she was reading a script Here's her script hi Ella comma skip logic This is First Lady Michelle Obama your name here? I'm here today helping the folks out at NORAD track Santa and Is that what you're calling for are you calling to find out where Santa is child yes miss Obama Yes well I'm looking on the radar screen And I see his sleigh with eight tiny reindeer and right now He's over

31:39 South Sudan that's in Africa and then she goes on about south Sudan to every kid oh he is in South Sudan. South Sudan? What?! Yes! He's in South Sudan right now, that's Africa make sure you know and maybe next time you read about South Sudan when we drone some kids there from Djibouti then you'll know what's going on and be prepared disgusting John Way to tell kids that the fake guy with a sleigh over South Sudan I mean, the fake guy with the sleigh is one. That we're tracking him through our most sophisticated radar technology is two But that he's over South Sudan? Really?! Wow! That'd be clip of the day If it was a clip... Yeah It's not No, I looked believe me Oh please let there be some video It's just photos Eh Yeah, photos

32:41 And yeah, South Sudan. Then I think over Rwanda later on... Oh it's over Rwanda now! So they're actually like let's see how long would it take to get from South Sudan to Rwanda with eight reindeer? Well Mr Obama its 20 minutes later and you should talk about Rwanda also within easy flying distance with the drones from Djibouti Sad. Well that is just the way this is not getting any better No it's not It's not getting any better at all Especially with Hillary in office Well, yeah. With Hillary in office... You know as I reflect back on the end of this year human beings they just they will it's all we have egos and we only care about ourselves and we will do anything to screw somebody else to make ourselves feel better We'll do anything And its gotten pretty bad

CHAPTER 11 / 41 Discussion

House of Cards, Washington DC Political Culture

The Netflix series House of Cards depicts Washington D.C. politicians as duplicitous and unsympathetic characters. President Barack Obama reportedly referenced the show in meetings with technology executives, expressing a desire for the efficiency displayed by the fictional protagonist. The discussion also mentions the Amazon Prime series Rubicon as a more realistic portrayal of intelligence and political circles.

house of cards· netflix· barack obama· washington dc· rubicon

33:38 You know, I'm... and this will sound... iIm just losing faith in humanity. I'm losing faith! Is this your revelation? Is this what happens when you get up there on the years and all of a sudden you're like hey wait a minute humans are assholes hmmm and they're pretty much just mean to each other all the time well you know I think that's the appeal I finally started it was gonna have it finished but I'll probably have it finished by Thursday finally started watching House of Cards Ah, very good. Very good and it's like everyone in this about the politics of Washington people should definitely watch if you have a Netflix account is free I also started re-watching Rubicon which is also free for a prime account on Amazon.com so that's also worth watching again but some watching this thing and Mimi seen it a couple times since she's...I said these people are

34:28 Are all every single is there a sympathetic person in the show? They're all a-holes. They're all backstabbers, they're all duplicitous, they're all creeps and Mimi yeah no that's it they're all A-holes everyone in Washington and what got me about that just at that thought is how is Obama with all these tech guys sitting around the table in Washington DC referencing the show as if it's some sort of he'd like to be like that guy. I have a president, isn't this? Yeah no you're absolutely right! I wish I could be like him because I get something done yeah so you'd be a bigger A-hole yeah wow man sad man

CHAPTER 12 / 41 Discussion

Duck Dynasty, Phil Robertson Suspension Reversal

A&E lifted the suspension of Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson just nine days after it was initially announced. The rapid reversal suggests the suspension may have been a calculated PR stunt or a reaction to the show's immense financial value to the network and its parent companies. Analysts believe corporate interests at Comcast and A&E prioritized ratings over the initial controversy.

duck dynasty· phil robertson· a&e· comcast· suspension

35:15 Well anyway, as we wind down 2013... Gee John! That didn't take long. I suppose this is the kind of thing that was expected to happen at some point but i'm surprised it happened so fast nobody really thought Duck Dynasty was going away the show is too valuable to A&E and its too valuable to the Robertson family but it's interesting that only took about a week between the time suspension was announced and now the time it has lifted Face palm. I can't believe it. They've lifted the suspension on the Robertson fellow Wow Gee, what a surprise? Yeah. Yeah besides you predicting it was walking down Broadway yeah but within a week Pretty quick he was a little quicker than apparently it was like somebody really got to phone call. I think it was somebody down from Comcast Central

36:09 Oh yeah, well if you follow the... Wait a minute. We didn't approve this promotional stunt! Hey who signed off on this PR job here? What is this check you sent to this company?! Exactly. So they kill that quick and it'll just disappear from all known... talking about things disappearing, so I had-I'm listening to the rundown going through ABC's news rundowns have you know should watch do it on let's do online or watch them online is a good one be like in 1 minute commercial than a minute of this horrible commercial ratio

CHAPTER 13 / 41 Discussion

John Wayne Gacy Execution, ABC News Archival Footage

ABC News recently included a 1994 report on the execution of serial killer John Wayne Gacy in its modern digital news cycle without clear context. The archival footage, featuring the late Peter Jennings, describes the technical failures of Gacy's lethal injection in Illinois. The inclusion of the 20-year-old story in a current news rundown led to confusion among viewers regarding its timeliness.

john wayne gacy· peter jennings· lethal injection· abc news· death penalty

36:45 But I'm going through and then all of a sudden they play this clip right in the middle of things is the WTF clip. It comes out and boom, they're playing it 14 years after he was convicted for the torture murder of 33 young men and boys John Wayne Gacy has been executed He died early this morning of a lethal injection in an Illinois prison Here's ABC's Aaron Hayes Wow hold on a second first of all magic number In Chicago, Illinois. I love it! Hundreds had waited outside to hear that John Gacy had finally died after last words he called his execution an injustice Gacy was given a fatal injection of chemicals He was gasping or choking or something and then after that it was pretty much nothing in the execution chamber an IV was placed in Gacy's arm three chemicals were to flow through one to knock him unconscious another to stop his breathing and a final one to stop his heart

37:41 John, we're more humane with dogs. Why don't we just chop the guy's head off? Did you hear that he was choking and couldn't breathe and then he died Put this on TV, people! But there was a problem. The killing chemicals got clogged. The second chemical didn't completely go in the first instance because it was a gelling or clogging in the line It took 18 minutes for Gacy to die about four times longer than expected and his attorneys insist that may have meant excruciating suffering for Gacy No one deserves to suffer. The particular method that they're using here is inhumane

38:19 Casey's prosecutor though said he had little sympathy for someone who had killed and tortured 33 young men. He got a much easier death than any of his victims, in my opinion he got an easier death that he deserved This is not the first time an execution has gone awry in this country. In Texas, injection lines leak spraying chemicals at witnesses Florida flame shot out of one man's head as he died in the electric chair Alabama and electric chair malfunction requiring two tries to bring death That's our first season right there Opponents of the death penalty say executions are at times torture And that no matter the crimes of the individual is wrong

39:01 The state of Illinois plans a review of its lethal injection procedures. Thus far, no more executions have been scheduled here. Erin Hayes ABC News Chicago Wow! Okay so the number things I want to get to before besides the amount of messaging in this old news story my wife walks and she says oh they finally killed Gacy then she says i'm sure that all the appeals is what made it go on forever I'm saying no, this story is from May 10th 1994. Peter Jennings the guy at this front of the story has been dead for a decade Why is this new story sitting in the middle of The Rundown? It's not it was a may 1994 there's no anniversary There's no coincidental date There's no explanation for the story being In The Rundown They just played it! There's got to be a reality show on the way

39:54 There could be a reality show. What channel was this on? The 33 thing is in there, there's...there could be and finally she at I'm talking to her about this later and she says you know maybe there's like some message in there for something like robots they had to run this story again because it triggered something Hey what channel was that This was on the ABC News website, where they have all the news stories one after the other with a commercial in between each one and it would just show up right in the middle of it all. Okay I'm just googling ABC reality show execution The name of their reality show would be Death Row Well of course And it would be about guys on death row

40:41 Let's just see ABC reality show death row. Let's just google that hold on you never know I mean how long am i predicting this and this is gonna happen? No, I know you predict this commonly yeah so China has the show but they it got uh Guess it got what they have a death row show I think it's called isn't there some but it's about people on death row But then actually go all the way through to the execution. I don't know It's probably one of their every case as I found this extremely disturbing yeah, I have no idea why it was going on Then I found it even more disturbing that my wife Thought it was recent. Yeah, I actually... intellectually, I'm like John McGacy that was a long time ago but when i hear this I'm like..I don't know! I could have easily believed that happened yesterday too yeah why? Because the man on the TV said so?! Exactly It's like we've already lost track of some of the most important or important in some sick way events This happened in 94' This was like 20 years ago Wow

41:44 And it plays like, well this just happened. Oh they finally killed the guy! It's about time the son of a bitch should have been killed years ago Some suggestions from the chatroom Death Dynasty for the reality show or Ho ho ho you're on death row which I kind of like But you know what John? Even though it's 15 years too late I know because it just when i started to hear actually when i first heard, I had the same reaction except When I saw it. I saw Peter Jennings on the screen and immediately know that was story You knew that was wrong of course of course but I can see where a half of our listeners Just right now we're thinking the same thing That's why didn't say anything in the meantime right?

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Sandy Hook Investigation, Final Police Report Release

Connecticut State Police released a final 7,000-page report on the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, officially closing the case. The documents include photos of Adam Lanza’s home and a smashed computer hard drive, though many graphic details and victim names remain redacted. Investigators concluded that while Lanza had an obsession with mass murders, a definitive motive for the massacre remains undetermined.

sandy hook· adam lanza· connecticut state police· nancy lanza· evidence

42:44 I find this very, very disturbing. We had to distract from that. Also, you probably know she didn't hear a lot about the Duck Dynasty guy going back on the Duck Dynasty. That one was not top of mind but oh no we got something good! Case closed people! Troubling new details about last year's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the man who went on that deadly killing spree today police released thousands of documents from their investigation including revelations

43:20 the killer's mother had considered moving to our state and enrolling her son in a special school. So I have a couple reports here from different news networks regarding this, and then i of course downloaded all of the documents gigabytes worth of documents of video or photos there is pretty much absolutely nothing new but they're going to recur regurgitate again instead of Actual discussion about the crime scene which, oh I'm sorry it doesn't exist anymore because it's been leveled. These things tend to happen with really horrible questionable incidents you know they they tend to break stuff down and ship it off to China and turn into coins commemorative coins

44:11 So Sandy Hook, of course all we're going to talk about is the crazy kid. Not about anything else but we have tons of video inside his house look at the computer hard drive he smashed which by the way there were multiple computer hard drives and there was tons of information they got off of hard drives but they make it sound like impossible. He had smashed it so we'll never know what motivated him ABC's Marci Gonzalez has more It is now a closed case the investigators John, closed case everything else you're about to hear is irrelevant ...into the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School concluding today with Connecticut State Police releasing their full report the thousands of pages... stop stop

44:55 This woman is not Soledad O'Brien but sounds exactly like her. I've noticed this voice is cropping up with a number of women announcers it's very specific sounding voice and Soledad is the one, the first one that I ever heard use it. It is... Did you notice this? Yes absolutely and has a sense of urgency so its pushing moving you forward but not really delivering on anything other than the words. Right, the voice itself creates the sense of... which is weird because when she started doing that voice, urgent voice she was like on The Fast Track to be a top star at NBC and then she got sidetracked ended up floating all over the place now she's doing God knows what but this voice that this woman has every time I hear it I think of Soledad

45:47 Yeah, no I agree. It's a little different tomber? Tomber maybe but it is the cadence and the urgency and the case is now closed covering witness statements and nearly every other... Every other! Nearly every how would you like it if I talked to you like this the whole time?! You would think my god this guy really has some kind of issue detail of the investigation while graphic images and details were redacted the report does include video showing shell casings on the floor of the school where 20 students and six educators were murdered remember it's twenty students and what happened to the youngest most innocent twenty at the youngest and most innocent and as said six educators why do they keep

46:34 There is some messaging going on with that and I wish they could figure out why. But again, what we don't have and it turns out this is Connecticut law that the victims are never not even identified by name They are, the names have been redacted. All photographic evidence is blacked out on these PDFs that I downloaded Everything in the video is redacted We know from the previous report that the ballistics are 100% in every single case of all shell casings inconclusive

47:11 that these were fired from the Bushmaster. Inconclusive, it says it right there black and white but of course we couldn't talk about that because that would bring a wrong sense of urgency! Inconclusive... There's a picture of the Glock he apparently used to kill himself with Spotless Spotless this Glock is. I really examined this, not a speck of brain matter or... ...I don't know how he killed himself because why tell us? I thought he shot himself in the head! Spotless not as not a speck, not an nothing completely clean last December As well as images from inside killer Adam Lanza's home A gun on the floor of his mother Nancy's bedroom. A gun on the floor! Where she was shot to death in Lanza's bedroom The video and how can we don't see a picture of her shot to death? I need to see some of this stuff I'm sorry you can call me

48:07 A horrible person, but I need to see it. I can't believe our news media! I can't believe...I just don't believe you!" "...shows garbage bags covering the windows and there are images of the computer police say Lanza smashed destroying a potentially key piece of evidence that could have helped investigators learn more about how the 20-year old planned the massacre and why." What's very clear is that he was thinking about committing this crime Though the motive was not determined, there are details giving insight into the killer's emotional issues and his obsession with mass murders. I haven't even heard someone talk about someone like this since Adolf Hitler when he was in the Eagle's Nest! That's right that's right we were inside with guns on the floor

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Sandy Hook Media Narratives, 911 Calls

Media coverage of the Sandy Hook report release focused on Adam Lanza's access to firearms and his mother's volunteer work at the school. Discrepancies in early reporting, such as the location of victim deaths and the demeanor of 911 callers, continue to fuel public skepticism. Some reports suggest Lanza may have been motivated by resentment toward his mother's involvement with the school dating back to 1999.

al jazeera america· 911 calls· sandy hook· adam lanza· gun range

48:53 Do you remember when we first attacked this story and we had those clips that have all seemed to disappear where the next door neighbor says, yeah he seemed like a normal kid? Oh yeah. Never... Just a kid, I didn't see anything weird at all about him Or hadn't seen him for 20 years that we had one of those neighbors Yeah, well here. Let's let's listen to Al Jazeera's way This is a news model actually and Al Jazeera I have to say is getting pretty good They've got news models have you seen them on AJA? No, no I have not. Okay, I have AJA now. I think they took Al Jazeera off my... or they moved it. Well they added it here. They moved on my dish and ran it where it is. Oh well they've added it. I have AJA baby! I got AJA now and we have Newsma. We got Pretty Girls. Pretty Girls! Her name's AJA? What was her name? A-J-A? That's Al Jazeera America. Oh okay what about the girl's name? Uh, uh, I think its at the beginning.

49:49 I don't know. Can you remind us? It doesn't matter, but we'll do it. Stephanie the report is roughly 7000 pages long and it gives the most detailed picture yet of Adam Lanzo's fascination with guns and violence again. It doesn't tell us anything about the murder anything that really happened if there was a murder gives us no evidence whatsoever. It has exactly the same active custodian guy 9-1-1 tapes but But hey, you know what? Most importantly we've got 7000 pages of incredible detailed look at Adam Lanza. Still his motive remains a mystery. The report includes videos photos and recordings of 911 calls this footage of Lanza's home shows that in almost every room there were guns or materials related to guns Oh yes I'm sorry

50:38 She says guns or materials related to guns and then they zoom in to a closet and way back in the closet there's a target with some bullet holes in it. Which by the way I have a couple of those laying around my side too. I always keep them laying around. Of course you do! They're cool! Yeah, oh by the way... A new range opened here? In Austin just south of Austin And you know what's great about a new gun range No bullcrap. No one has complained yet, so there's no crazy rule we were blowing up cars They had know this range has just some car stay and they put Tanner right on top of it And you blow up the Tanner right and and I'm on the 26th of December We missed that they had machine guns You could you could just rent a machine gun and blast for a while fantastic but of course yeah

51:28 That means you're probably prone to killing somebody. Like ammunition and receipts for gun purchases. Lanza shot his mom in their home before heading to Sandy Hook School where he killed 26 people The report includes images like this but photos and videos of the young victims at the scene are withheld or blacked out In one 911 call a wounded kindergarten... Now listen to this You'll recall this 911 call. This is where the woman said, and there's another state trooper on the line it's like I'm shot in the foot she's really calm you remember that John?

52:03 Of course, we're the only ones who ever played that clip. She's really calm and she says no look this you know I'm here there are six other adults in the room The doors closed but it's not locked and she was it was a very calm and collected call now Here is the news model And she's going to maybe should get that call just play next to it She's going to tell you how the call went and see if you if you feel any more agony over it. She answers, no he's out in the hallway. And Stephanie the state police commissioner wrote a letter accompanying the report and she says she hopes its release though difficult for families will help them heal Now I'm not quite sure why it would help the families of victims heal other than i don't know the cover story is complete but we heard that 9-1-1 tape and didn't sound anything like what she said it was she was shot in the foot

53:13 There was no mention of that. She was wounded, yeah wounded but you know shot in the foot and she sounded way different but you know what? I'll tell you why don't we just bring it all around with this report back to the original narrative The day this happened on the day itself What was the reason John? What was the reason that this happened do you recall No as a matter of fact i've been lost in translation They'll bring it around and they somehow have facts and proof that this is why this happened. Just over an hour ago authorities in Connecticut released the full state police report on the Sandy Hook shooting now the report includes thousands of pages with some information redacted as well as images, some of them graphic related to... How do you know they're graphic if they're redacted lady? The elementary school rampage by Adam Lanza

54:06 We're coming through the details now, and while there's still no clear motive one early finding based on an interview with a relative shows Adam Lanza may have been angry with his mother who was his first victim for volunteer work that she did at Sandy Hook. Volunteer work that was confirmed in a thank you note to Nancy Lanza dating back to 1999 There ya go! Perfect! An interview with a distant relative which is apart of this 7000 pages Really proves that he was mad, MAD because his mom volunteered- And the letter dated back to 1999. A thank you letter! Thank you for your service in 1999 Yes and that's why that's clearly why He was mad because he's crazy and his mother she worked at the school You know what so all of this stuff they will slip up somewhere

55:04 Something will happen and the web will find it. The internet will find it if its there I mean, I feel horrible. You've already found tons of stuff! But I feel horrible about this because it feels so wrong that they have to question what happened but every picture... John not anywhere and according to the stories they had one child was taken at a hospital died in the hospital That never happened then we have the coroner saying all bodies are still in there We left everything in there. We didn't take anybody out There was nothing none of that happened. I'm not crazy Oh, it's oh yo-yo. I just I just get super so I get super Thank you for your courage and everything else I found it yeah, you did you found it? Thank You well actually a lot of people sent it to me

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Podcast Production, iTunes Metadata, Donation Strategy

The technical process of podcast production involves hand-coding iTunes tags for album art and managing RSS feeds. Recent updates to the Apple podcast app have changed how metadata and artwork are displayed to users. Additionally, listeners are encouraged to use sequential numbers like $579.11 for donations to align with upcoming episode numbers in 2014.

podcasting· itunes· metadata· feed creator· windows 8

55:58 That's right John C. Dvorak, thank you for your courage and in the morning to you! In the morning to you Mr Adam in the courage curry something? Yeah And in the morning all ships of sea boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the water and all the dames and all the knights both of them are out there Yes and thank you human resources in chat room Norgentostream.com good to see you all lined up ready to go looking all purdy Thank you to our artist dictator provided us with the album art for episode 577 and I will say again, I'm very happy that apparently if you wait a while it also works on the new podcast app. But it's not immediate you have to add a couple episodes have to come through and then you get the album art but its working on a whole bunch of other things so this is good! This is very very good very happy about this. It always like a work in progress they get these systems even do what they're supposed to do

56:57 I blame you. You invented it! Yeah, well no what happened is Apple improved it and they improved it with all this proprietary stuff so that says iTunes by the way... Do you actually hand code this stuff? Yes yes I do How long does that take Well, okay. So here's the post-production process besides the show notes which takes a lot of time It is pretty automated but I do have to make sure...I have to go through it to make sure all the credits are right and make sure i don't leave emails in with people's email addresses or other things they don't want disclosed. Have to be very careful about that

57:35 That part goes pretty quick, but I have to edit the file. Take off the beginning and ending add a fun little opening to it as well which means i have to post-process The whole thing has to render out And then once I've done blog posts with show notes I copy that into...I have a little thing called feed Feed creator or something and it does some of the iTunes tags, but not all of them. Nothing really does Are you sad you asked yeah very But I actually have to hand code this line in every single time For the album art because there's no program. I have that done and please don't email me with all your great ideas Yeah, this app doesn't all runs on Windows NT

58:27 Yeah, oh I got a lot of that too. A lot of John doesn't know shit about Windows 8 You make me cry people! I don't care if there's a small Skype app. I just don't care send it to him I'm glad you think is funny It's hilarious. It's not people always- John doesn't know crap My favorite one I'm so disappointed in John for not knowing. Did i forward that one to you? That you could download a regular version of the Skype and put it into regular... yeah, well that's no what im doing okay? Go and get it! I got it from the Skype site and this Skype site nowadays doesn't really have alternatives to Windows 8 Skype Hey forget about that man This is our last show for this year Our last show The next show

59:24 will be in January and someone sent me an interesting note about that. He has a great donation, I love this people are really trying to help us out! I've got a great donation amount for the first show of the new year which would be $579.11 The amount should be 579.11 four in a row perfect fit like yeah we'll see how many people give us that Why is 579 such a good number better than 578 or 560? Well, it's sequential. Five seven nine eleven. Sequential odd numbers. Five seven nine eleven... that's interesting. It's different. Anyway- It's not like the killer ones we missed. Right. 12 13 14 which is coming up this year by the way! We missed quite a lot of them. Get ready for it.

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No Agenda Producer Donations, Knighting Ceremony

The show acknowledges significant financial contributions from its "producers" under the value-for-value model. Notable donations include annual contributions for "job karma" and large sums to achieve the rank of Knight or Executive Producer. The segment emphasizes the community-driven nature of the show's funding, eschewing traditional advertising.

donations· knighthood· karma· executive producer· value-for-value

1:00:20 All right, let's thank a few people who helped us out on show 578 including the no people that belongs to the 578 Club Richard Sir Richard Bagwell 123456 in Jupiter Florida This is my third annual contribution. He does this every year of one two three four five six I had to get it in for the years and to keep the streak alive It's gonna ask for some job karma because in the past the past job karma I've received I can continue donating like this because of it. Okay, sorry i can't get that sentence out but because of the apparently the job car was kicked butt with him okay thank you for your courage and giving me the hope to continue living the american dream of just getting by cordially sir rs bagwell jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs

1:01:11 Thank you very much sir Richard Bagwell for your annual contribution and huge support of the best podcasting universe. And this surely brings him up to... is three a baron? I think so yeah. He should look and see if, um, i don't think that's on the list does it do we have him listed as a change? I don't think. Let him tell us what he wants for his barony yes what protectorate Meanwhile, the Duke of Silicon Valley Sir David Foley came in with a sack of 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999

1:02:11 You know how hard it can be. Name the song. They're gonna crucify me. Yeah, all right. Sir Brian Ferguson in Foothill Ranch California 333 33 as per JCD I can do songs from this song not the lyrics As for JCD's newsletter sorry 2013 was so miserable hopefully this makes it better The karma from my previous contributions has paid off this year another guy I love that. So he's paying it forward, please give me a little girl yay no conflict karma uh baronet brfg Brfg? That's what he calls himself Okay There is no real conflict! You've got karma Nice nice nice nice And James Wells from Flagstaff Arizona whose note is unfindable if he has one He just sent us

1:03:12 Donation of 300 bucks and we'll make it will push him up to executive producer. So we have four makes it nice and balanced Jean from the Hague 227.50, hey Adam and John the donation should land my knighthood accounting included with the email I kindly request to be knighted as Chevalier Jean. Chevalier Jean nice additionally like another round of real estate karma from my smoking hot girlfriend Nancy since it worked great last time And he needs the little information from you. Oh, Jean email me directly so I can give you the Wi-Fi info and here you go thank you very much Jean! You've got karma. We shall be knighting you later on in the program

1:04:05 Nick guys, Mendy 222 22 in Waterford Michigan. Hey you and that other guy just giving my valet for value Hopefully my donation counts is to make it rains please call Diane and Vera my dad's Oh bot friends I had people in the mouth guy will do we'll do another Segment at the club probably next Thursday yes Or if next Sunday one of the two I hit people in the mouth constantly I have but I've been writing these down I have my laptop outfitted with an in the morning bumper sticker and you know, my daughter has...I don't know where these stickers came from but she has a clear in the morning bumper sticker that she puts on her suitcase. Really? And as she walks around with it and it just looks like this suitcase was made for this bumper sticker. I've never seen these! Yeah, I don't know where they came from there is a...they're clear. I do have a painting of you wearing

1:05:02 wearing a uniform. If I don't have any... I have my laptop outfitted with an in the morning bumper sticker and i wear my slave t-shirt everywhere, wash it once while many ask if the barcode's real when I'm at home I listen to this show why play computer games? I turn the music off and just listened to you too This works too well as I have run out of current shows to listen to. Hopefully that will help inspire those who have fallen behind, please add my birthday to the list which is on there. I'd like some George Clooney spy karma it's my younger brothers favorite jingle thanks and i love the show from Nick Esmendi. George Clooney! George Clooney! George Clooney! Is a spy

1:05:46 You've got karma. And that's a nice combo actually That's a nice musical combo works well together I like it this does work nice and thank you Niaz Mendi Daniel Rudin in Cedar Rapids, Iowa $211 11 cents He says the 33 is the magic number karma? And he says thanks no agenda is one of a kind keep up the good work okay No problem You've got karma It is indeed the magic number We still don't know what the magics about but it's one of these days then we can close down the show Blake Israel $200 and two cents. It's a palindrome Sending this donation from arrest stop somewhere in Virginia nuts actually be, Virginia peanuts if you think about it

1:06:39 This should complete my knighthood. If possible, I'd like to be known as the Knight of Procrastination since I told myself that I would complete my knighthood in 2013 and I slacked off like normal until the last possible opportunity. Can I get some moving karma with a kicker of Adam's Choice for my upcoming move from Connecticut to California? Thanks! And keep it up in 2014!" Yes indeed and we will be knighting you on the night of procrastination so its a Karma with something of my choice huh okay You've got karma. and DAW in Montclair, New Jersey. This season says the future-in-laws ruined Christmas for me this year and it's abundantly clear that I will never be accepted into their shitty family! I have decided to donate to no agenda family instead Adam you're delightfully eccentric and empathetic older brother I never had John... You are the quasi genius cranky hoarder uncle i've never had. I adore you both and to show more than words can express can I please get a douchebag call out from my in laws as well as a two to the head

1:08:00 Oh, I'm sorry. Give him that try it again As well as the two to the head for a friend of the douchebag family who shall remain nameless Yeah Love and redacted comments which apparently is uh it's not seen this everywhere now Redacted. Slave D! Love and redacted documents actually. Yeah, I think we want to thank Don and the rest of the producers for No Agenda 578 And good luck with your karma And remind people go to dvork.org slash NA for the next show The first of 2014 let's start off with a bang dvorak.org slash na Wait a minute you said that like your stripper guy

1:08:56 That started off 2014 with a bang! Yeah, you did. Nah, this Trevor guy's different. I heard it. And we'll be knighting you later on people so stay tuned for that and continue to propagate the formula! Our formula is this... We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Shut up slaves. That's right slaves. Hey, I saw that movie speaking of slaves The Butler?

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The Butler, Civil Rights History, Weinstein Company

The film The Butler, produced by the Weinstein Company, provides a historical perspective on the Civil Rights Movement leading up to the 2008 election. While praised for its performances, the movie is criticized for revisionist history regarding John F. Kennedy's assassination and its depiction of racial tensions. The film features a large ensemble cast including Lenny Kravitz and Mariah Carey.

the butler· harvey weinstein· civil rights· barack obama· john f. kennedy

1:09:36 Oh yeah, The Butler. Have you seen it? No It was pretty good I don't see things until they show up on HBO Ed well this is Mickey's uh... You know the SAG Awards thing she gets all the movies now Alright you get all of the movies for free We're on The Bender Yeah well it's a- and these are all the Weinstein These Weinstein guys They know how to do it man! No wonder they win so much They almost hand deliver these DVDs It's every day, bing bing bing here is another one. Oh! Another Weinstein production That's not a bad movie it really... Weinstein and Weintraub No Weinsteins Harvey? Harvey Weinstein Harvey and his brother A pretty good movie I would say And it certainly gave me an alternative view that of course I intellectually knew but had not really

1:10:28 had not been portrayed or depicted before my eyes until this movie about the path from the Civil Rights Movement when I was born, literally in 63-64 all the way through to the election and inauguration of President Barack Obama from an African American i.e., black standpoint with some historical context which was pretty well done there were some things that went ugh Really? Such as, the movie really made it look like John F. Kennedy was killed because he said something about segregation in the South I'm not kidding! It was very very closely connected that was...I thought that was an unfair... I thought that was revisionist Totally And there was something else Oh yes When Martin Luther King Jr. Was killed

1:11:28 in the movie there's rioting and it's completely obvious that the black rioters are breaking Jewish shops with like, you know... literally almost like Weinstein's jewelry store. And I thought that was maybe I missed something but I'd never heard about that But it really made it look like we had black on Jew violence So those things were... Yeah, it sounds dubious. But man! It's something like a propaganda film Oh wait it was a Hollywood movie never mind. No but Mariah Carey she doesn't have a single line in the movie which is very well done in the beginning Lenny Kravitz is in this thing and you have no idea it's Lennie Kravitz You're like hey shit that's Lennie Kravitz he's good yeah good actor anyway it was really uh it was nice um I would recommend everyone to have

1:12:32 Yeah, well if I had a bunch of screeners in the house. I probably would have a look at it Yeah, I know you would so I have a few interesting clips first of all just since we're slamming immediate the beginning is trying to put this in here This is they I just got their biggest kick out of this story There's some guy shot up The shop his first he shoots his wife and then goes and shoots his old boss He just takes care of a lot of grudges that shoots himself Of course And that's one of the big stories. That seems to be the way you do it these days, we used to just go and shoot people and then we'd say okay arrest me I didn't mean it but now you gotta shoot them and kill yourself Yeah so I have this shooting spree clip where you can play But the better one is there was this black woman in Texas who shot her husband Then she moved to Seattle

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Cold Case Arrest, Media Fear Tactics

A woman was arrested in Michigan for a 1977 attempted murder in Texas after living under an assumed name for decades. Local news coverage utilized the arrest to encourage viewers to be suspicious of their neighbors. This type of reporting is criticized for fostering unnecessary fear and paranoia within quiet suburban communities.

cold case· detroit· texas· murder· media sensationalism

1:13:28 Michigan or someplace and they finally tracked her down in a dead case, you know, a dead cold case. They found her and it was big deal, big story all over the place but it wasn't the story that was even remotely interesting this is the murderer clip It wasn't the story that was interesting, it was the way they they handle the you know, the man on the street. Oh yeah. Instead of actually give us any insight they have to put it and I just thought this really set it off for 2013 in the media and then just making the public what it is. Gina Huff was indicted in Texas back in 1977 for trying to kill her common-law husband investigators from a cold case unit tracked her to a suburban neighborhood outside Detroit she apparently avoided being caught by moving to Seattle then to Michigan she married him even changed last name

1:14:16 I'm thinking like now, I need to be careful. You know? Like you never know who is your neighbor. Like you live in a quiet neighborhood but... ...you never know who's live behind this door, you know?" Stay home people! Be fearful do not leave your house. You never know whose living there could be a killer. This brings me to an email we received from producer Brad For those of you new to the show our listeners are producers and boy is Brad a producer Adam, uh listen producer recently got an email at work which is a for-profit education institute probably a charter school that included the following which appeared to be from a form not sure if it is or not

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FEMA Active Shooter Training, Workplace Indicators

FEMA has developed an online instructional course regarding active shooter situations in occupied buildings. The training outlines behavioral indicators of potentially violent employees, such as increased absenteeism, financial problems, and resistance to policy changes. It also details the primary responsibility of law enforcement to eliminate threats before assisting injured persons.

fema· active shooter· workplace violence· law enforcement· indicators

1:14:59 There have been several incidents involving armed individuals who enter occupied buildings with the intent to physically harm the occupants, men women and children. The Federal Emergency Management Administration has developed an online instructional course to address this type of situation yes John this is the active shooter course from FEMA 911 what is the nature of your emergency? Active shooter situations are unpredictable and evolve quickly. Are you prepared? No! That's how that's how the course starts off Would you like to, I don't have clips but i have a few choice little bits from this course. Oh I would, all ears go! Okay and again this is Brad who did a great job of copy pasting and giving us all kinds of nice little excerpts understanding active shooter incidents one of the slides here Active shooter incidents are becoming more frequent according to FEMA well I think that's probably a lie we have the data to show it's not more frequent All employees can help prevent and prepare for potential active shooter situations

1:15:59 An active shooter is an individual killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area. You want to write that down, just so we know for sure? That's what an active shooter is? Typically there is no pattern in the selection of victims in an active shooter incident Common motives include anger revenge ideology and untreated mental illness Are you catching a pattern here Good practices for response include being aware of your environment and any possible dangers, like the guy with the gun. Taking note of nearest exits in any facility you visit so wherever you are just like an airplane always be looking for the exits You never know! If you're in office stay there and secure the door if you're in hallway getting into room securing the door as absolute last resort

1:16:55 attempting to take the active shooter down. Here's the primary goal of law enforcement in an active shooter attack is to eliminate the threat as exact wording of the douchebag cop who essentially was reading from this memo which douche bag cop is this? The douche bag cop and that thing Oh yeah, oh yeah Of course yes As the first responders' primary responsibility is to eliminate the threat they will not be able to stop and help injured persons until the environment is safe Officers may arrive in teams with tactical equipment such as vests, helmets, rifles, tanks. Officers will need to take command of the situation. Expect to experience officers shouting orders and even pushing individuals to the ground for their safety. Saving the crap outta you!

1:17:49 Additional officers may arrive in teams. These teams may wear regular patrol uniforms or external bulletproof vests, Kevlar helmets and other tactical equipment They may be armed with rifles shotguns and or handguns they may use pepper spray or tear gas to control the situation They may shout commands and may push individuals to the ground for their safety And finally you really need to be vigilant Current or former employees typically do not become violently and unexpectedly instead they display indicators of potentially violent behavior over time I remember John this is part of the training so you need to be on the lookout for current or former employees who may be displaying indicators

1:18:38 That's right. For example, days before the office shooting at a software company... ...the shooter angrily confronted management over personal financial issues! One member of payroll told her family that his behavior frightened her A few days later the shooter then asked two of his co-workers to sign his will The shooter at the warehouse incident was fired six months earlier for poor performance. It was reported he showed up late or missed entire days and WAS ARGUMENTATIVE! Explosive outburst of anger, talk of financial problems and repeated violations of company policies are just some indicators of potentially violent behavior

1:19:21 In order to help prevent potential active shooter incidents, we must alert a supervisor or other official if we believe an employee or co-worker exhibits potentially violent behavior. So here it is indicators of potentially violent behavior by an employee may include increased use of alcohol and or illegal drugs unexplained increase in absenteeism vague physical complaints Noticeable decrease in attention to appearance and hygiene. Depression or withdrawal, resistance and overreaction to changes in policy and procedures, repeated violation of company policies, increased severe mood swings, noticeably unstable emotional responses, explosive outbursts of anger or rage without provocation

1:20:23 suicidal, comments about putting things in order behavior that may suggest paranoia i.e., everybody's against me Increasingly frequent mentions of problems at home, escalation of domestic problems in the workplace. Talk of severe financial problems talk of previous incidents of violence empathy with individuals committing violence increase in unsolicited comments about firearms or other dangerous weapons and violent crimes maintain your strength citizen how is this not everyone? Your jurisdiction is in peril yeah of course that's everybody

CHAPTER 21 / 41 Discussion

Sick Leave Strategies, General Malaise

A former supervisor at an air pollution district advised employees to exhaust their sick leave before resigning, as it is rarely paid out upon departure. The strategy involved calling in with "general malaise" on Mondays or Fridays to avoid accumulating excessive leave. This anecdote serves as a humorous counterpoint to the rigid behavioral monitoring suggested in FEMA training.

sick leave· air pollution district· employment· general malaise· workplace

1:21:08 People bitch and moan, that's what they do. In fact I'm reporting you! Why? What did i say? Well there are all kinds of increases in your issues Like what?! Well you've had explosive outbursts of anger or rage without provocation Never There is definitely increased use of alcohol Nooo...I am actually cutting back Noticeable decrease in attention to appearance and hygiene. I haven't heard you clipping your nails recently That's only what i'm doing the show And you've repeatedly violated company policies well, they're bad policies Talking about that there was one thing I thought of when they mentioned the kind of bogus excuses for not coming into work Yeah, I had a supervisor when I was with the air pollution district

1:21:55 who was, uh... who always advised everybody said you have to make sure you use all your sick leave and time off just don't let it build up. Right So another so the way they go and it happened I actually managed to do this when you quit You have no sick leave because they don't pay for sick leave after when you quit They do pay for time off that maybe they do depends on a company but essentially what you want to leave is zero Which means you took all your sick leave when you could. And his main thing is if you start to accumulate too much sick leave, take off Fridays or Mondays and call in with General Malaise! And that's on the list! Mr D.C. Vorak Open up the door, Jim Dyer... now!! He's hoarding in there. He's collecting, he's archiving all kinds of what-is-he building in there. 911 What is the nature of your emergency?

CHAPTER 22 / 41 Discussion

Tyra Banks, Special K Fat Talk Campaign

Tyra Banks is collaborating with Special K on a campaign to "fight fat talk," encouraging women to stop making self-deprecating comments about their bodies. Banks utilized social media to promote the initiative, sharing "selfies" to engage her followers. The discussion critiques Banks' public persona and the perceived vanity of the modeling industry.

tyra banks· special k· fat talk· twitter· modeling

1:22:58 So I would... so. Anyway, I ran into the you know that fat thing it came and went. Oh the fat talk? Tyra Banks apparently had to get in on this oh yeah of course clip so she was on her show or she had a website or some YouTube video or something and just said You know I mean this woman who I find her to be one of the more annoying personalities on television Hey what's up i'm tyra banks and this is parade rewind

1:23:47 When I was a little girl in elementary school, I was very outspoken but not necessarily in the right way. So like I would talk a lot in class and get sent to the principal's office so I like that now I can shift my vocal-ness for positive. So just found out number 57 on Twitter and that's so amazing. Number 57 in entire world it's like wow where does that come from because there are people who are way more known than I am. There is group of people that I like to follow and it might be like sarcastic tweets and a lot of them are teenagers. Like, i'll follow them they're like oh my god Tyra thanks for following me on the ninth grade! I'm like oh my gosh...I'm working with Special K to fight fat talk there are so many ways- Wait a minute she's in on the special k promotion?!

1:24:32 Yeah, God that um that do fat talk but look in the mirror and say that they're not good enough So I want to put a stop to that You know And there's so many different ways That we can be better like a mom can say you know what? I'm not gonna do fat talk in front of my daughter. I'll try to improve my body I'll try to eat healthy I'll try to work out But I'm not going to say that I'm disgusting in front of her so people can get involved by sharing their shush So what I did is I did a selfie of myself and I did a picture me going shh And I did a selfie, click. And I hashtagged it fight fat talk. I don't miss modeling very much because I have America's Next Top Model. So for the past 10 years, I'm creating photo shoots, executive producing a television show and I do look back to those modeling days when it was just some people on your nails, somebody on your hair, somebody on your makeup and you're just like... It was a pretty non-challenging life but it wasn't easy. You know there is a lot of isolation with modeling. You are by yourself constantly. Stop the clip!

1:25:47 Thank you for your courage and everything else. Wow, that was pretty bad! This woman is the worst she's so full of herself Did you wrote a column I think that I saw the other day? What was that it would somehow...I was thinking about it how related to this Maybe it was about there the code org maybe that's what it was Somehow related to okay. I see what it was in PC magazine was a good column by the way Did you write this before Christmas must have ever probably? I don't know maybe oh, what's it um well It was kind of uh well of course you see code org is employed to sell more computers Oh, I'm sorry. You have to skip this ad one second that was really handy PC Magazine Code dot-org is dumb and if you want to see how dumb it is watch some videos on its tumblr

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STEM Education, Code.org Criticism

An article in PC Magazine argues that initiatives like Code.org are primarily designed to sell more hardware to schools rather than improve education. Critics suggest that the American curriculum is being "dumbed down" while students remain unable to perform basic geography. The focus on coding is seen as a distraction from declining test scores in science, technology, engineering, and math.

stem· code.org· pc magazine· computer science· education

1:26:50 Yeah, but then so what's the point of all this? This is actually this is very good John America wants more students to gravitate towards stem Science technology engineering and math. This is turning out to be harder than anyone in power expected And here comes the genius of your article for one thing Boys and girls are dissuaded by the social norms to care about STEM They look around see that too many people in these fields are unemployed and they bail which is hipster talk And the American curriculum is being dumbed down, proven by declining test scores despite teaching for these tests. Kids can't find Missouri on a map but these code folks are pushing for schools to buy computers and tablets Maybe that will help! Help the computer companies bottom line that is

1:27:37 Based on what's popular on TV the media only extols the virtues of singing not the virtues of a STEM education Teens are more likely to be watching and admiring some idiot driving his bike off of her roof on YouTube than anything else That my friends is writing That's poetry Yeah, boy. Yeah borderline poetry Yes singing I'm pretty yeah, just I was watching you're right should I watch the voice or America's Next? singer or America's Got Talent Just so right in your dance and sing yeah You nailed it that's why I like the other that's why I like the article so much you totally nailed it only nailed it

CHAPTER 24 / 41 Discussion

Crack vs. Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity

Sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine were adjusted in 2010 to reduce the disparity relative to powder cocaine from 100-to-1 down to 18-to-1. However, the Obama administration and the Department of Justice under Eric Holder have opposed applying these changes retroactively to those already in prison. The Black Agenda Report highlights this as a failure of civil rights leadership and the "prison industrial complex."

crack cocaine· powder cocaine· sentencing reform· eric holder· naacp

1:28:25 A couple things that are bubbling out, bubbling under, bubbling around. Interesting court case... You will recall in 2010 we changed the rules of engagement but also the rules surrounding incarceration time for people who are dealing crack cocaine versus people who are dealing powder cocaine and if you're dealing crack cocaine you can pretty much get sent away to prison for life and without a doubt this would hang in there what's that you need some water it's okay I'll be okay and the end of course this was seen as inherently racist because crack cocaine is used in poor and according to the debate at the time predominantly black

1:29:21 And Hispanic neighborhoods, but I would say black most especially that's where the crack cocaine is being used so people who are poor and are dealing drugs The the poor people's drug get thrown into jail possibly for life while people who are dealing the rich folks drug Which of course would be white they get they it's much easier on them in fact just look at that guy from Florida you know even he was using, he didn't even have to go sit one day in jail. The senator or I think it was senator? Yeah so there was a court case and very interesting that the NAACP was not honest about this um the court case uh results around the reformed ratio from 100 to 1 so 100 times the punishment for crack cocaine

1:30:13 X for powder cocaine to 18 to 1. So, for some reason still we have to have crack and really is there a difference? Not that I've ever smoked crack but okay so somehow that changed in 2010 and the idea was that it would be applied retroactively so everyone who's been in jail instead of your 100-1 sentence or dealing crack you get reduced to 18-1 and the Obama administration Specifically, the Justice Department and Holder in particular sued to have that overturned. I got this from the Black Agenda Report by the way which is kind of cool we've got no agenda we've got the black agendas like that like that Black Panther fraction of the faction of The No Agenda Show

1:31:02 And so the NAAC reports on this neglects to mention that it was the White House and in particular, the Department of Justice who wanted this overturned to keep people in prison. So, not retroactive. Do not apply this retroactively and of course we know why because politically that would be too hot of an item for the prison industrial complex i.e., the prison state that we live in And there it is! There are two foremost black men in the country you can't get much higher than that who do not want this to be applied retroactively

1:31:42 this incredibly racist issue that was not even overturned but adjusted in 2010. I was blown away by that and the fact that no one reports on it except The Black Agenda Report. Well, we're...I think we really to be honest about it we've stopped being blown away by people not reporting on good topics Okay, I should use a different language then. I'm not sure what to say either. Oh there he goes again! There's a million things you can say but we're not yet honest with all within if you're gonna be honest with yourself You really yeah? Yeah, it is true. It's true. I'm not really blown away

CHAPTER 25 / 41 Discussion

Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden, MSNBC Media Feud

Journalist Glenn Greenwald defended his reporting on Edward Snowden during a contentious interview on MSNBC. Greenwald argued that all journalists have agendas, accusing MSNBC of being a defensive arm for the Obama administration. Critics of Greenwald suggest his close relationship with Snowden crosses the line from journalism into advocacy.

glenn greenwald· edward snowden· msnbc· journalism· nsa

1:32:22 It's true. I'm disappointed to say the least Disappointed that a disappointed but not completely stunned by the simple fact that they don't care Though they're told not to report on it, and then there be all in and they're all in bed with the White House Let's face it yeah, it was kind of funny There was a lot of your rock very well stuff going around with he did his is our long keynote for the Computer Chaos Club in Germany, which was and he did it via video conference But no he's not gonna leave Brazil ever all these things He supposed to be a South by Southwest right I bet she's not coming to South by but she's gonna be on video conference Yeah, that's all he does now Skype. Yeah It was pretty funny idea and by the way can somebody go visit him and show him how to mic himself? it's on Skype with one of those shotgun mics off of a cheap camera

1:33:24 He should be miked. He always sounds like he's in a bucket Yeah, that's definitely not great. But he also... It is extremely annoying! And so I only really started watching the video this morning around 730 and it was an hour and now you know i was doing a lot of other stuff and I'm like okay I'm not gonna... Which video? Was this the testimony video? No this is the keynote that he did for... Oh okay, he did a testimony in front of one European... Oh yeah, I saw that. That was unwatchable. But he tried to do shtick on the and let me tell you I'm doing stick on a video conference It's not a good idea because you can't really get the timing of the audience of them laughing You can't really feel what's going on. And then, you know, you're making all these pregnant pauses to kind of you know it to let did the the audience fill in with a laughter and it falls flat and is very uncomfortable to watch

1:34:25 And he starts off by saying, you know I almost lost the most important story of news in the history of all mankind because i couldn't figure out PGP. and just the way he said that...you know it's like not like I almost lost the opportunity to change the perception of the American public and the world no no I oh I I almost lost the most important news story! He was an egomaniac But he did do some funny stuff on MSNBC, which I want to play because i'm an equal opportunity offender and this did make me laugh. I'm like yeah you go green green don't run! Well Glenn some people have looked at the journalists whom Snowden has chosen to give information to speak with it's a select group of journalists what do you say to your critics who say that you've become more of a spokesman for Edward Snowden?

1:35:23 I think that's ludicrous is what i say to that. Every journalist has an agenda we're on MSNBC now where close to 24 hours a day the agenda of President Obama and the Democratic Party are promoted, defended glorified The agenda of Republican party is undermined That doesn't mean people who appear on MSNBC aren't journalists They are! I think every journalist has a viewpoint My viewpoint is very clear I don't hide it It's just that I think Edward Snowden did was very admirable and heroic But at the same time, the ultimate test of a journalist is what you publish accurate and reliable. And I think with regard to every story that we've published over the last six months there hasn't been a single correction made to any of them very few have been called into question and i think that's the ultimate question when it comes to this journalism

1:36:08 Well of course, when you're showing it to the White House and the NSA and the CIA all up front. No there's not going be a lot of question because they're fine with you publishing two or three pages from a full PowerPoint deck that suggests something sure that's yeah of course they're not gonna question that well how come the person on MSNBC didn't ask that simple question? Because she was too busy defending MSNBC. I think the point is not so much about MSNBC and what happens here but more that sometimes when you talk about Edward Snowden, You do defend him and some people wonder if that crosses a line Sure, I do defend him. Just like people on MSNBC defend President Obama and his officials and Democratic Party leaders 24 hours a day. Well not everyone on MSNBC does that 24 hours a day! No not everybody but a lot of people on MSNBC do That's where he screwed it up in the end He shouldn't have just said that That was unnecessary He was way ahead And then went A LOT OF THEM DO? Nah nah nah nah Anyway I thought that was kind of funny Yeah no he blew that He got defensive when he should've said

1:37:13 But it was funny, I thought it was. The line would have been well that's interesting as news to me or anything something glib yeah exactly brush it off a little more Yeah no he's in fight with the... It's funny he's fighting the media now! It is the ultimate circle jerk where he's now fighting the media. It's no longer about the actual story it's about Grand Green Route and how he's you know justified about him, him, him. Yeah no that's true we're stuck with Glenn Greenwald for the next couple years yeah I will see we'll see i'm not so sure about that why what do you think is going to happen? I think he's gonna change careers! I think it's gonna stop being a journalist and do what?! I don't know go back to law or something I don't know consultant maybe

CHAPTER 26 / 41 Discussion

Legends Football League, Unpaid Labor, Media Exposure

The Legends Football League, formerly the Lingerie Football League, features women playing full-contact football without pay or health insurance. A Nightline report on the league was criticized for being a "puff piece" that ignored the exploitative nature of the business model. The discussion warns against working for free in exchange for "exposure," a common practice in the entertainment and tech industries.

legends football league· lingerie football· nightline· unpaid labor· mtv

1:38:11 Let's change topics. Lingerie Football League Is this somehow a theme that comes back every year at the end of the year? Hand toned and just as tough as the guys No, these aren't pro athletes. They're the girls next door some even moms I feel really good. It's halftime in a football locker room Even though they're ahead their coach is not at all pleased After 18 years of coaching men, Coach Hack feels the biggest compliment he can pay these ladies is to treat them just like the guys. The worst defense in a f***ing league stops you! You guys are much better than this... Welcome to the big leagues-the Legends Football League where ladies dressed in nothing but a bra and booty shorts play football None of the players get paid so her day job? We're gonna go through that information together first Selling life insurance

1:39:12 Her brother, Simeon Rice played 12 years in the NFL and even won a Super Bowl. Wow! Why did you throw that on me? Was that really necessary? Yep because there's a line in there and it was a line that came up later on the show they don't talk about this is a nightline and this one of those unctuous women that are yeah... Hold on, this was on Nightline? Yeah It was on Nightline or ABC I think it was Nightline. It was on a news show. It was a major news item 7 1⁄2 minute piece They do not get paid They mention this and they gloss it over. And later they say to be playing in the league you have to have insurance but the league won't pay for the insurance, and if I get injured the league won't pay for any of it. That sounds like slavery?

1:39:57 So I'm watching this and there's a bunch of, these are girls dressed in you know essentially bras and panties out playing football to a crowd of people. And it's broadcast on some cable network. Now two things come to mind one why isn't that the issue of the story instead of just a puff piece for The League? A which again is the news media's fault they don't give a crap about anything And B, how come this can't be like twisted into the... Gee I wonder why women don't get as much money as men. If you're going to volunteer yourself to work for free in a game that's actually a rough sport, that you can injure yourself easily and one of them was the dentist worried about her hands. You know don't start moaning and groaning or asking for legal recourse Don't play! Don't work for free it's just that simple The world is filled with people who are working for free And its killing everybody

1:40:56 Anyway, this but I found is extremely annoying that they would run a piece like this talk about how these women are working for free in a commercial operation. This is the same by the way you're gonna be every somebody out there you get invited to talk at CES Ask him how much they're gonna pay ya Why are you doing it zero? Yeah Good will for the publicity you're gonna get any publicity from any of these things. It's good with all work for free Yeah, I agree with that. I think that's a very that if there's any advice You take away from the no agenda show in 2013 don't work for free and a lot of people do it particularly when it comes to show business And I've seen this all my life

1:41:37 Oh yeah, but you know it's goodwill. I get interview requests all the time from the Netherlands in particular where I'm still famous for all the wrong reasons Right, your famous for all the wrong reasons All the wrong reasons Although we do have listeners from there Yeah we do And they'll always say oh can you come on this show and uh I'm like, uh... you know i live in Austin. Oh yeah! So are you going to send me tickets or which- You know? I think with two round trip tickets and maybe a hotel that would consider going on a show and espousing some of my logic Yeah get a trip at least No it's not And the answer is always the same oh well we thought maybe you'd be uh you know in town anyway Uh really?! And you want me to spruce up your little television talk show

1:42:24 Well, don't you want the exposure against the criticasters? No this is it. I get invites to events every so often Oh! Get your special VIP. You're gonna fly me there?! Well no we don't have a budget for that We'll give you cool looking badge When are you making money on this thing? Why can't you fly me there? We'll give you cool badge We can't do that It's not in the budget. We can't afford it Then why would you go... oh you want ME To spend the money to go to your crappy event Yes On my dime. Right? Yeah, exactly! You're starting to figure it out... Oh this is the PR- It's on MTV too apparently There you have it all makes sense now Viacom Cheap bastards via MTV were always notorious for not paying people enough or nothing Or Union Busters The only shop I think still in New York City that is nonunion In New York thats hard Its hard to be a nonunion shop You have to buy off a lot of people

CHAPTER 27 / 41 Discussion

H1N1 Flu Outbreak, Vaccine Efficacy, Dr. Jennifer Ashton

The CDC reports widespread flu activity across ten states, with the H1N1 strain being the predominant virus this season. Medical experts like Dr. Jennifer Ashton urge the public to get vaccinated, even late in the season, noting that the current vaccine is well-matched to the circulating strain. Critics point out the irony of medical professionals who promote vaccines but still contract the virus themselves.

h1n1· flu vaccine· cdc· dr. jennifer ashton· boston

1:43:29 Well, that's what cost you more in fees. Yeah to keep the union out there if you were Unionized Tom Freston was pretty good at doing stuff like that He was pretty good I have to say well that guess what? What flu season I see the clip already. Turning now to a health alert this morning, we're seeing a real jump in the flu across America. Ten states are now seeing widespread outbreaks out from just four one week earlier let's go down to Dr. Jennifer Ashton who is in Boston this morning. Dr. Ashton good morning. Wait a minute let me do it. Sound effect. How severe is the flu were seeing at this point in the season?

1:44:09 Well, Dan in terms of severity it's really the same severity that we've been seeing so far. The flu season hasn't peaked yet We expect that to happen in January February But what's changed recently is how many states are affected as you said now ten spray States reporting widespread flu activity That's up from four and if you look at a map It's everywhere from Alaska and Wyoming to New York and right here in Massachusetts. It's interesting to see house spread out it is. What flu strain is predominant and... You know, John I don't know if you've looked at this graphic that we have up on the screen but my god! It's interesting to see how spread out this is Have you seen the colors?

1:44:49 Have you seen all the orange? I mean there's orange here and there, and some red. It is very interesting. What are the signs and symptoms of this particular strain? Pukin! So far what states are reporting to CDC and their local health offices are the influenza A H1N1 strain. This is a strain that caused the pandemic in 2009. Oh it's back! It is containable. Well, we can do it now! Thank you very much for watching! much for bringing it back people. This year's flu vaccine so it's well matched to the circulating strain and we have to remember the symptoms are not subtle this causes very high fever, severe headache chest pain body aches cough you can remain sick for a week and remain contagious for up to a week after that oh well this is exactly what I had

1:45:42 But I've already had the H1N1 in 2009, so it was not as severe as it was. I didn't even really complain on the show about how I felt." You did this time! No, no, I didn't today. I didn't complain about not feeling well today... No, not today. You're okay now. I'm totally okay but I had this... Although your voice is down at least one dog biscuit There already have been deaths and unfortunately Dan we do expect there to be more So if you get the flu you're not going to be questioning whether you have the flu it won't be subtle as you said Here's the question you hear all the time especially when we get to this point in the season Is it too late to get vaccinated? Oh! Whoa hold on a second

1:46:23 Let's take a look for second here. I'm going to put $20 on no, it's never too late how about you? John C. Dvorak what is your bet in this round? I think they're gonna say it's never too late Never too late! I am saying not too late John says never too late let's go the videotape Absolutely not It is not too late to vaccinate Ohhhh...I think I win No I said not and you said never No, I said not too late to get the vaccination. And you said never! I said not and you said never.

1:47:10 Who's how it does take about two weeks for you to get that immune protection. So you should talk to your clinic, your pharmacy, your doctor about getting that vaccine right now and we have to remember this is not a bad cold I actually had H1N1 one few years ago i do not smoke I do not have asthma Dan I thought I was gonna die Hold on I smoked cigarettes and weed at the time in 2009. I got h1n1, I stopped smoking momentarily and at no point in a week did I feel like I was going to die ever Here's the thing that is kind of overlooked with this story like this when she comes off with off-the-wall just bullcrap

1:47:58 You know, these are the people that are all in on this vaccine. How come she didn't get a vaccination? How'd she get it in the first place? Oh! Now is she listening to her own news stories? Oh, it's never too late! John C. Dvorak On the ball again, noticing that little nitty gritty thing. And I'm sure the guy asks her that right? In the remaining 11 seconds of this report he'll say... Of course not! It is very serious and needs to be taken seriously. I think i remember it really knocked you out Dr Ashton thank you very much and again just a hand She's a doctor no less! She's a doctor! Oh crap

CHAPTER 28 / 41 Discussion

Multivitamin Study, Media Advertising Influence

A panel of experts recently reviewed studies on multivitamins and found no evidence that they prevent chronic disease, suggesting some supplements may even be harmful. The segment theorizes that such "hit pieces" in the news may be retaliatory measures by media networks when large supplement brands like Centrum reduce their advertising budgets.

multivitamins· abc news· centrum· supplements· advertising

1:48:37 Oh crap. I, you know this doesn't happen very often but i'm going to give it to you again. Yeah yeah she's a doctor! Yeah she's a doctor and she got another word... She wasn't taking her own advice because probably good reason because she's a doctor like so transparent nobody notices of course oh she got sick that's terrible I better get my shot Good punchline John. I like that a lot That was good well I have a little follow-on clip I've been keeping for Crap three weeks now many people believe daily supplements will keep them healthy But a panel of experts reviewing three studies on multivitamins finds no evidence Supplements prevent chronic disease or death and they should be avoided. Oh Have you followed this?

1:49:21 Why? Yeah, I have. But why avoid it? Well because it can actually kill you! There is no evidence of benefit and there is evidence of harm. Our recommendation... Harm?! Evidence of harm! ...don't waste your money Previous research has shown beta carotene vitamin E and possibly high doses a vitamin A can increase death and that other antioxidants have no benefits About half of people in the US take multivitamins. It's a massive industry taking in about 30 billion dollars a year." The Council for Responsible Nutrition disagrees with the latest review, it argues supplements are an appropriate option for consumers who aren't getting enough nutrients from food. How are you? Dr Robert Graham agrees. There may be an argument to continue taking a multivitamin to replace or supplement your

1:50:09 Not healthy diet. Yeah, here's how this goes by the way. Hello! Come on in! Yeah, are you? Oh where's Bill. I'm the new product manager for Centrum Okay well i'm with ABC News so we need a couple spots open for you guys on Thursday night Wednesday night Friday night Saturday night Sunday night what do you think oh no No We're cutting way back on our advertising. We don't think it's very effective on the television. Oh really Cut to article

1:50:46 Hello? Hello, ABC News advertising division. Are you calling from the field? Yeah they were losing our ass out here! What's happening what's going wrong what's that what's the problem They stopped advertising the Centrum product and a couple of these other vitamin companies have bailed on us we got to go after them now Hold on a second let me call over to the news division they know what to do with these people News division! Wait for it to ring. Hello? News division! Hey, news division! Hey listen we got a problem with these Centrum guys can you uh I don't know do a hit piece yeah we already got a piece in the can will run it tonight put it right after that doctor who never took the flu shot that's a good one too We'll get- we'll pick up some- You're a real asshole by the way

1:51:40 Hey, the news division. Do you have a green visor when you talk like that? Yeah I do! Shut up! Ohhhh... That was a good one Alright well thank you very much people That's-that's how the big boys do it We on the other hand... I do have a few people to thank, starting with Jonas Astrom from PayPal sucks in Sweden. It's a nice little town! It is a very small town. $130 clearing out my PayPal account to thank you for a great 2013 Thank you for your courage. Thank You Jonas

CHAPTER 29 / 41 Discussion

International Donations, Indian Brahmin Producer

A listener from Tamil Nadu, India, identifying as an "arrogant Indian Brahmin," sent a $100 donation to the show. This marks a rare direct contribution from within India, as most Indian-origin listeners are typically expats in the US or UK. The donation was accompanied by a humorous note regarding previous comments made about Indian "cheapskates."

india· brahmin· donations· tamil nadu· expat

1:52:30 Justin Gearing in Manhattan, Kansas $111.33 call to the stage my girl Trixie My wife will understand sure yeah I never agree with all your analysis but it's always like this Yeah okay fine and ever agree with all your analysis But your research is top-notch too bad you're fucking up on that report Thank ya for the hard work Justin You killing me man And i'm sure we are wifel understand about uh Trixie Yeah, Trixie. Maybe Thursday when we hit the club! We'll get her maybe Thursday the club will reopen. You should probably say something like we don't really agree with how she dances but her boobs are top notch. Santosh Narayanan...Narayanan. There you go. Wait a minute! Hold on a second what's going on here?

1:53:27 He's actually in Tamil Nadu, India? This is the... To deny $100. What?! Is this the first or second time ever? This is, I do know from India itself. I believe this to be the first time we've had a lot of Indians you know from England and the US right? And expats! And Pakistanis acting like Indians which doesn't count either No that's not even close All right then read this whole note Dear Adam and Eve in the morning it finally happened i'm an outrageously arrogant indian brahmin who lives in a castle in India and has servants Yay All you can come up with is a hundred? Really?! He's a cheap-ass Indian! Noah Jennings has been part of my bedtime routine for at least five years now. You should wash your hands by now then. You guys have not only helped me sleep...

1:54:17 This is so good. But it also helped identify the BS and propaganda in the news for what really is part of government program to brainwash citizens and make us slaves! And he actually has slaves, this is the funny thing about it Yeah well that's good for him After John's multiple attempts to demean Indians I decided to take matters into my own hands and make a donation of $100 which is .0000000008 per person of India's 1.23 billion population I hope this is enough to keep John happy for at least some time because contrary to popular belief arrogant Indian Brahmins are also just getting by although we hate to admit it because we're superior! Keep up the good work and continue entertaining us but stop bad-mouthing the Indians Happy New Year, Santosh from India

1:55:13 Well, I'm not I don't know how I feel about this. I Feel very positive. I feel positive This is a see how long this sort of thing will put an in abeyance the common You know crap I dish out to the Indian cheapskates is going now into the into the vault for a while well Yes, I think that's I think that's proper but also I think that you know we can call it a streak and history we're on a team one more indian or are you doing it in the industry cladison gentleman is great regret sir graham you want to tell him and i'm not going to be there was a very great year of entertainment and news analysis gerald small and chesterfield missouri seventy eight ninety mac tank seven seven dot seven seven in la jolla can you miss my daughter when he's deemed donation from september fourteenth

1:56:09 So I guess that makes her a black lady and this is what is happening here. Why is this not highlighted? What's going on? Hey, you missed my daughter's Winnie Dame donation back on September 14th so I guess that makes her a black lady karma for the hosts and listeners Will, uh... Will says she's already a black dame. Can you have Eric look into that? We can look into this and it will go on Thursday show. Yes. Eric will be sent a note. Will you do that? Can I count on you? Yes he will take care of the accounting. And we appreciate the sack-of-sevens and we apologize if we mess that one up. Stuff does happen. It happens a lot! Not too much but it does happen. It happens enough. Matthew Lay in London 7777

CHAPTER 30 / 41 Discussion

Producer Credits, Strip Club DJ Offer

The show continues to acknowledge various donations from listeners in the US, UK, and Canada. One producer from London offered a guest DJ slot at a strip club in Piccadilly, leading to a humorous discussion about potential career changes. The segment reinforces the personal connection between the hosts and their global audience.

donations· london· strip club· dj· producer

1:56:52 He's been listening to the show for over a year and has been increasingly more guilty for not donating. So good, he says you could call himself out as a boner Why don't you give him a de-douching? I'd be happy too You've been de-douched James Catalano in Hopkins, Minnesota $75 is also just new on the agenda. Brian Rogers $70 and 7 cents a palindrome from New York City. I'm sorry Gary Rosenbarker in Endewell. Gary Rosenbarker in Endewell New York

1:57:41 Christopher Gray in Grand Blanc, Michigan. If I can just interrupt this is kind of interesting long time boner first-time donor says Kerry I decided to triple the amount of my post tax Christmas bonus what do you work for Scrooge McDuck? You tripled this is your this your post tax Christmas bonus was... This is three times your Christmas bonus? So he got 30 bucks after taxes not even Yeah, he may be facetious here. I don't know it's not much of a bonus must hand that out in cash Buy a six pack of designer beer

1:58:22 Sam Lung in Toronto 69-69 that kills it. You got Christopher Gray, right? You got him Yeah, Christopher gray and Grand Blanc right well It's only three we're not even gonna close the jingle no No We don't close on three done Michael Siegenthaler 6666 Bruce Johnson any from parts unknown Bruce Johnson and Edina Minnesota 60 Kevin wood in Auburn New Hampshire 55 double nickels on the dime Hank Weavers in Loo-vardin. Ha ha! Hank Vafors in Leovarden. Hank Vabers in Leovarden. Close enough Paul Webb and Twickenham, Middlesex and last but not least we've got a very short list here Hey ho ho hold on a second Paul Webb, Twickenham says John if you fancy your career change I run a strip club in Piccadilly London You would be perfect for the Monday afternoon DJ slot

1:59:18 That's the lowest of the slots, but I'll take it. You got a deal! How about a guest job first? When I show up in London next time, I'll work the Monday afternoon. I will pay money for a video of that. In fact... I have to sunglasses on. I think that would be worth a lot of dough. A crazy shirt that is just out of control. That would be worth quite a bit of money. And I can find some music that would work. Yeah you bring your own tracks Bring some tracks? Bring some tracks. Hey, JCD you got some tracks on your stick And finally of all parts unknown, Peter Tote's $50 net and donations segment for show 570 reminding people that we do have a new year. So let's start off with a bang 57911 will be an interesting one it is 579 will be our first episode number in 2014 and yes we'll kick it off with the bang quick note here from Sir GQ you know we always if way far nights have something important to say

CHAPTER 31 / 41 Discussion

Moon Landing Skepticism, Richard Branson, Elon Musk

A discussion of the "Wagging the Moon Doggies" essay explores skepticism regarding the 1960s moon landings. The hosts question why modern billionaires like Richard Branson and Elon Musk struggle with space travel despite having access to vastly superior technology compared to the Apollo era. The segment suggests that the original moon landings may have served as a geopolitical distraction during the Vietnam War.

moon landing· richard branson· elon musk· spacex· wagging the moon doggies

2:00:21 Adam John, thank you for your courage. Please let my beautiful wife Steph know that quitting smoking is difficult pictures to follow Dude he sent me like some really pornographic shit Of him and his wife nice do you want him? I'll send them out at least I can be grossed out with the rest of us It's not well interestingly She's smoking Okay, boy. That's what she's trying to stop Hey I do have to read from Callum McKenzie's note he donated 3330T in Glasgow. He's a knight today. I've been on the mothership boarding pass for the last 29 months, thought i'd throw on double this month to round off the year and if you would kindly throw in a penny to complete my knighthood. I'm not expecting the mothership to launch anytime soon but expect it will still leave before Richard Branson has anyone down that spaceship

2:01:18 Can I ask for a short shot of karma for all No Agenda Monthly subscribers and for me to be knighted? Sir Bert of Gitmo. Absolutely, and it's Gitmo Nation independent wild haggis Yeah well he makes an excellent point so two points actually first of all People who are on the layaways or on the you know monthlies whatever number eventually you get the ring You get the brass Ring of Life? you get to know agenda night ring and you get knighted and you sit at the table and you get the hookers and blow with The Ramp boys in Chardonnay. It does happen This is beautiful to see that he's been doing this 29 months, and we thank him for his courage for that but also He says something interesting about Richard Branson And I put in the show notes under the out there

2:02:02 category a very the probably the best moon hoax explanation, moon landing hoax explanation I've ever read. It's from 2009 it's called Wagging The Moon Doggies and when i read this about Richard Branson I thought to myself you know it's interesting why we are now...it's been 47 years since we landed on the moon and we did this how many times that would land on the moon? Eight times I don't remember the number anymore. And it was interesting because you remember who was president during all these moon landings? I believe it's Lyndon Johnson Yeah, and Nixon A lot of... Right later it was Nixon You know what was going on in the world when these guys got in is we had Vietnam and kids were getting blowed up everywhere right there's riots in the street yeah whenever something bad happened we just threw a bunch of guys into our cigar tube and said go land on the moon

2:03:00 And we loved it. America was great for it, but I don't understand why Richard Branson of all people... Here's a guy who has access to capital he has an international airline he has a United States airline Why made off the record business we should add he has record labels. He's got an island He's got all this stuff why is he dicking around and you can't even get this one little rinky-dink? You know 400 mile into space thing together when there's enough people who would pay tons of money to land on the moon And bounce around it's kind of cool, you know that that gravity which makes you go slow motion It's funny how gravity does that

2:03:39 Why doesn't he do that? Why doesn't he go all the way is it so hard why does an Elon Musk Do this it seems like that there's so much more money in that I That's what I mean come on. It's a long mosque if yeah, yes spacex He has he has all those rockets why doesn't you do that? Yeah? It's 47 year old technology You just put some of that gold aluminum foil to protect yourself from the radiation around you know The legs are that lunar module thing and you have that, you know... Well I think the gauntlet is- The challenge has been made. Yes! And I really am very disappointed in again Elon Musk That dune buggy thing that folds out of a suitcase Whatever happened to that technology? That was some cool crap man Yeah, I don't even know what your talking about The lunar dune buggy Oh yeah, the dune buggy It folded out of a suitcase Yeah it's... I'd love to have one of those

2:04:42 So let's give a shot at karma for all the NOAGENDA monthly subscribers. There you go everybody! You've got karma. And we'd love to start the new year off with a bang so please go to... devorek dot org slash n-a It's your birthday, birthday On NOAGENDA And happy birthday Nick! As Mendy celebrates on Tuesday the 31st, Daniel Rudin turns 33 on January 1st. My sister will also celebrate on January 1st and James Catalano celebrating on the 31st! Happy birthday to all of you as we wind out 2013 from The Best Podcast in The Universe with your buddies here at the No Agenda Show!

CHAPTER 32 / 41 Discussion

2013 Year-End Knighting Ceremony

The final knighting ceremony of 2013 inducts three new members into the No Agenda Round Table: Chevalier Jean, Sir Blake (Knight of Procrastination), and Sir Bert of Gitmo Nation. New knights are instructed to register for their official rings and are welcomed with the show's traditional humorous perks.

knighthood· round table· chardonnay· rings· producers

2:05:27 And so we have not one, not two but we have three knightings to do. So this is great just under you will be the 2013 knights I thought you brought that thing up there? Here it is! Oh okay, I see it perfect Jean from The Hague step forward Blake Israel come on down and Callum McKenzie Gentlemen It's time to induct you into the round table of the Knights in the Dame so hereby I proudly present thee pronounce thee Chevalier Jean Sir Blake, Knight of Procrastination and Sir Bert of Gitmo Nation Independent Wild Haggis. Gentlemen for you! Of course we've got the hookers and blow the rent boys in Chardonnay We've got all kinds of goodies but most of all mutton and mead sparkling cider and escorts because that's maybe the bong hits and bourbon if you're into that

2:06:19 And we're looking forward to more goodies for the Knights in 2014 besides the rings and all of the three of you need to go to noagenomination.com slash rings To fill out the info if you haven't done so already and If you want, you can get your hot librarians and Jaeger bombs or opium and warm orange juice or your cannabis and cabernet It's all there at noagenomation.com slash rings and check out the store while you're there. Anybody picture of us? What's the worst? A picture of us. Oh, so here we go- I like yours better than mine you get a bear on your shoulder Yeah but it's an old picture It's my old glasses it's my old hair dude You look good though you look better than I do You look really dapper Yeah little too dapper I'd say No I think you look dynamite actually Although you don't have that flesh wound from the hockey puck you got hit with apparently no one told me about that I had to find out about that on some show

CHAPTER 33 / 41 Discussion

Bill de Blasio Inauguration, Bill Clinton

Former President Bill Clinton is set to swear in Bill de Blasio as the new Mayor of New York City. De Blasio previously served as Hillary Clinton's campaign manager for her Senate run, highlighting deep ties to the Clinton political machine. Observers find it unusual for a former president to swear in a municipal mayor, suggesting a broader political strategy.

bill de blasio· bill clinton· new york city· mayor· hillary clinton

2:07:17 Yeah, yeah the hockey puck thing. It was terrible And by the way that's what all abused kids say Is Mimi beating you again up there man? The hockey puck I fell down the stairs and a hockey puck hit me in the head Are we doing predictions? Well it's for the goal You know when the guy slaps the thing back at me hits right in the head it hurt like hell are we doing predictions Let's do predictions little later. I want to ask you a couple questions first is it multiple choice just one No, it's just as simple of an essay Okay, let me get my number two pencil. Why is Bill Clinton swearing in this DeBasio guy from New York City as mayor? Oh the new mayor of New York? Yeah Well he's a Clinton operative and this is what you do... This how the mob does it because Clinton will also take him out when its time And then you can say I brought you in, I could take you out

2:08:14 You didn't find this peculiar? No, not at all. New York politics and ever since he uh... this de Blasio was Hillary's campaign manager for her senatorial run it makes total sense I, no. I don't see the problem Why would it be a problem? He's... It's not a problem! I just find it peculiar he is not in New York Oh wait, yes he does have an office in New York Totally new, he has an office in Harlem But he's not in politics there And when does the next president start you know swearing-in New York City mayors That's pretty peculiar unless..I don't know that this happened before Well when does the first lady teach children about Santa flying over South Sudan Come on what more realistic

CHAPTER 34 / 41 Discussion

Turkey Political Unrest, Fethullah Gulen, Russia Connection

Protests and corruption scandals are rocking the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The unrest is linked to a feud with US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whose movement has significant influence in Turkish media and police. Analysts suggest Russia has a vested interest in Turkish stability due to natural gas pipelines and may be using its media arm, RT, to influence the narrative.

turkey· erdogan· fethullah gulen· rt· russia

2:08:59 Now let me ask you a different question. Okay, how come only RT seems to be the only network station that is covering the riots in Turkey? Because the Russians have an inherent interest in Turkey because all of their pipelines and the future trans-eurasian rail line which they're doing with the Chinese will run through turkey I do think... Do you think the russians want this Erdogan out Is there really a push in this, is it rising? I mean it's the top of the news on RT. Well this is a good question and I have two entries in the Turkey heading for The Show Notes

2:09:42 One is that the and this is from I think yes Associated Press. The quote rift with US-based cleric widens, is the title of this and this of course is the Gulen movement run by the guy who's in Pennsylvania placed there by the CIA and the State Department as if there's a difference Fethullah Gulen I have to think that the rubble that is being orchestrated, the rubble as you call it... ...is a CIA move because this guy is essentially causing this scandal. Which I don't think has to do with the riots per se. Tom, I would think the Russians they they don't want this rubble They wanted to be relatively stable. I don't think there on the causing crap sandwich side Do you?

2:10:34 Well, my consideration is the fact that the only people covering it and they're not covering it from a perspective like you mentioned that this character... Petula Guna. Yeah, that guy is behind or the US intelligence's behind here anybody else's behind it they're covering it like Like this guy, like the Erdogan's gotta go. I think it's Erdogan. Yeah, I'm sorry, Erdogan. The Erdogans is a missing name. Ah okay well this makes sense. No it's Erdogan. But I think you pronounced it Erdogan I think it's kind of the G becomes... Well, I'm going to find out while you tell me your thesis. I'm gonna put it in the name pronouncer which I have to use now and again. Okay have the name pronouncer pronounce your last name and then I'll believe the name pronouncer if it says Dvorak and not Dvorak. It will say Dvořák What does it say? For it won't say Dvořák forever again No no hadn't expected that. True

2:11:39 Okay, here we go. I've got pronounced names there's two of these things pronouncednames.com is one of them let me see oh yeah i can't write it because uh this is windows jack Oh you ran it? Yeah Dvorak on your site Jack or Jack yeah that's mispronounced well do Erdogan okay Erdogan Okay, so this thing sucks. Okay that's sucks you got to find the other one but anyway just beside the point somethings amiss that all I have to say okay here is what a miss The economic miracle that was Turkey which expanded 10% annual rate of GDP in 2011-2012 Yeah they were kicking ass to show about it They, the lira, its the lira Turkish Lira has collapsed This thing is collapsing

2:12:32 Now we can't discount the Chinese in all of this. Do we have any China news besides the fact that they're lending money and selling their missiles? I think it's two sides. What riots exactly are they showing? RT? They're showing some nasty riots, like although again if you remember the newsletter from a few weeks ago where they had that great photo showing the guy standing in front of a set of people that look like they're protesting... Remember that one? Yeah I mean, you don't know because of the way they shoot it. But there are some long distance shots that look like it was tens of thousands of people burning a place down making rubble and the way RT handles it... It's like I was beside myself because they're just as new especially now more than ever than the news arm of the Russians According to AP many believe the probe and this is the probe of several members of his cabinet who have had to resign or been fired

2:13:37 The probe was orchestrated by followers of Pennsylvania-based spiritual leader Fetullah Gulen, a moderate preacher whose network of Muslim believers command a global empire of business media and education interests. Well I think that sounds like Stavros Blofeld, sounds like a James Bond guy. It kind of sums it up as far as i'm concerned. Dvorak's ball sack Sorry, I don't know where that came from. Gulen was a government backer until recently but the power feud between Erdogan and Gulen has become increasingly public in recent weeks. Gulen has prayed that quote God bring fire to their houses this is a good article and Erdogan responded with a promise to quote go into their caves and expose them

2:14:30 Neither side has named each other directly, but they have left no doubt as to the target of their words. So this is pretty serious Bring he did the the moderate preacher wants to bring God to bring fire to their houses and that's fighting words Well there was a falling out and you can basically assume that there's some corruption involved on both sides Mm-hmm I mean, I don't buy this Gulen's guys story at all Let's see what it says in the Wikipedia about him Oh Do you have a half an hour? What, by Googling it? He looks like a sad sack. I never realized he's just... he's just a sorry looking guy. Doesn't look that moderate to me. He's running and father nobody wants him Of course! Of course he is not moderate but i don't know about sad sack You read the book of knowledge on this guy And we have

2:15:29 We have a producer Who is feeding me as much as possible about what's going on? That's where I get a lot of this information from and he's on top of this He's really investigating a lot of what's going on even. He is not quite sure but I'll ask him about the Russia connection But the only thing I can see geopolitically Is all of the gas pipes from well, not all but a majority of the gas pipes run through Turkey and and the Chinese are in there with their missiles and they want to have a railroad built which the Russians will also benefit from. So yeah, so here's the thing in the Wikipedia that is interesting views on contemporary issues Gulen has criticized laicism as politics rooted in a philosophy of reductionist materialism blah blah blah who cares? He has also argued that Islam and democracy are compatible and he encourages greater democracy within Turkey That's us

2:16:28 That's our approach to this. That's what we'd like to see because then we can manipulate it, right? He argues that a secular approach is not anti-religious and allows for freedom of religion which is of course Turks have always been secular at least since Ataturk According to Gulen Democratic Secular Countries 95% of Islamic principles are permissible and practically feasible there's no problem with them and the remaining 5% are not worth fighting for, which I mean is stoning people. So there's something fishy about this guy There's something fishy about the riots or something fishy about RT being the only real heavy duty coverage of the problem

2:17:08 I'm thinking that maybe the Russians are in bed with what's left of the military, which had mostly been rousted by Erdogan. And they're ready to take over the place with a military junta Now you're now...I think you're saying something very important because if i was If I were Russia and I was riding a horse with my shirt off shooting me some tigers I would be very happy with what the Yankee Doodles are doing It's kind of a reverse of what we do. So, we cause this stir with our shill and PA everything starts to fall apart Erdogan is looking bad the Russians like hey let's go in! And you're right maybe they and maybe part of that is the junta you said? Is that... Well there wouldn't be a junta it would just be military takeover yeah could be done in a lot of different ways but the military was hated this ever again to begin with he got rid of most of the main guys who would because Turkey has a history

2:18:06 of being secular by law and every time some creepy Islamist gets in there they would take over the country and kill the guy, and then do another election until they got somebody that liked him. And then the guy would stay in there this last time around because Erdogan was so popular he got to them before they got to him and their now kind of a reduced group They're not as powerful as they once were but it's possible that working with the Russians something might be going on Saturday, an estimated 4,000 people gathered in central Ankara for a protest organized by a quote civil servants union calling on the government to step down over scandal and chanting may the thieves hands be broken. No violence was immediately reported on Friday riot police use water cannons tear gas and plastic bullets to push back hundreds of protesters trying to reach Istanbul's main square

2:19:01 police also broke up a similar demonstration in Ankara, the number of protesters. You know I think there is just you know...I am so happy that Anderson Pooper talks about his mom's conilingus instead of this stuff because honestly i mean this is just so unimportant Yeah, who cares right let's talk about some Why does any why do these people live with themselves? You know the thing is I'm sure they would try to do a story or even try just discuss this So you know the American public doesn't care about what the hell is going on in Turkey get that crap off there We gotta sell some vitamins here

CHAPTER 35 / 41 Discussion

Antarctic Expedition Stranded, Rich Kids of Instagram

A group of researchers and tourists is currently stranded in Antarctic sea ice, awaiting rescue by an icebreaker. The media coverage has been mocked for focusing on the "elite" nature of the travelers, dubbed the "Rich Kids of Instagram." The incident is also used by skeptics to question narratives regarding global warming and the melting of polar ice.

antarctica· icebreaker· cnn· global warming· rich kids of instagram

2:19:43 Let's see what well now right now. I'll just look over at the CNNs and oh, they're actually doing a story on what I thought was very funny And I'll play it for you. I have a clip You know this is Yeah, I know what it is. It's these boneheads that got themselves... you know these elite kids of the elites have decided to get in a boat and let's go visit an old camp in Antarctica because we're cool and we've got nothing else to do. The rich kids of Instagram. Rich Kids! This is a perfect reality show send the rich kids of Instagram to the Antarctic have their boat for...I hope they freeze to death

2:20:28 Because they're showing a lot. You know, it's a possibility. That boat may be there forever because you know that could be just surrounding boom freeze up solid they can't get to them they have to chopper him out if they can in my if the blizzard you can't I see a chopper flying right now and It's not live. Icebreaker gets closer to stranded ship! Ah crap, John they've got an icebreaker on the way Yeah but that doesn't mean the ice breaker can get there yeah but then they can get the helicopter well maybe the ice breaker could get stuck too it all fits perfectly with the global warming Yeah they gotta kill this story Well they're not thats CNNs only thing The rich kids of Instagram are stuck in the ice

2:21:09 That's a funny story. The rich kids of Instagram, that's the perfect title! Great Christmas we've just been unfortunately incredibly unfortunate with deeply frustrated not getting out to the open... And by the way if you know any rich bastards this is how they talk Incredibly unfortunate old chap that we got which were just about to get out of here as we'd reached the camp the base camp with it You know We spent a couple million bob on doing this little trip down here Just to see if we could do it Incredibly what a spot of bad luck that is I say. a little picnic down there? Working on the Antarctic continent. The ship was heading north, we were able to get out but satellite data had been great the day before but just as we were coming back to the ship conditions are closing in and we moved as quickly as we could But the uh... the ship just couldn't get through and Christmas morning We had put the alert out saying please someone help! Oh we put the alert out, we had the flags up, shot some flares! Let's break out So how much time passed Chris before you just I guess hoped that maybe

2:22:24 the sea ice or the wind might change its direction and when you realized, okay we're not getting out of this on our own. Don't answer that! We hope you never get- Rich kids have Instagram stuck on ice which reminds me since you talking about the Brits let's go to uh...to Parliament Oh And they had a special section segment of the bit special meeting in parliament oh is this about the law? Sorry Is this about the new law? This is about the bullying law Yeah Yeah, the bullying law. So they had all these kids from every part of the country and from Wales and everywhere else And they all came in told about how bad bullying is and how they had to put a stop to it This is just one example I couldn't record much of this because it was so bad Parliament will now consider the second motion of the day relating to zero tolerance towards bullying In schools as printed on the order paper

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UK Anti-Bullying Laws, IPNA, Pharmaceutical Ties

The UK Parliament is considering strict anti-bullying and "anti-annoyance" laws, such as the Injunction to Prevent Nuisance and Annoyance (IPNA). Research suggests that some legal advocates for these laws have ties to pharmaceutical companies that profit from medicating children. Critics argue these laws infringe on free speech and the traditional "sticks and stones" social resilience.

bullying· uk parliament· ipna· pharmaceuticals· anti-social behavior

2:23:22 To move the motion I call and invite you warmly to welcome from the east of England Mr. Jakub Makowski Thank you for your courage! Thank You mr speaker everyone is unique special different everybody's beautiful it is fair to say that if we were all exactly the same this world would be an extremely dull place Unfortunately, a lot of young people get bullied because they are unique or different. But aggression is not natural. Causing suffering is not either. No human is born evil. Bullied- Oh stop! All humans are born evil I am convinced of it. Bullying is something that people learn

2:24:10 According to a national survey for the charity A Beat Bullying, 69% of young people in the UK report being victims of bullying. But what about all the people that do not report it? This problem is real and it affects thousands of young people so it's our duty to do something about this. We have to choose this as a national campaign and make our mark because we must help reduce bullying and we must do it now The amount of bullying that takes place is hugely concerning. But the fact that it became normal, natural and accepted is more concerning Yeah, this law went on and on. Do you send me a link to that because I don't...I wouldn't mind watching the whole thing? That is fascinating! Well it's fascinating because we have a First Amendment here in the United States which is in California really no longer valid because you have anti-bullying laws and there are more states that are coming onboard with this. And bullying has become sticks and stones will break my bones used to be the old saying but names will never hurt me

2:25:14 But now that's done. I want to, i was talking uh to the official brain professor of the No Agenda Show about this um...I don't know a week or two ago and I reminded myself of something that we identified in the whenever there is a suicide and not well I'm generalizing but in every case we've tracked when there's a suicide of an LGBTQQI youngster either the exact same or same type of lawyers appear on the scene talking about anti-bullying laws. And if you'll recall, John we tracked this a while when there were two or three suicides in a row of these kids and most of them are special so they were LGBTQQI and they were bullied and then they committed suicide

2:26:10 And the lawyers who show up, I'm going to see if i can find it in the show notes. This may have been before we had the search index but I'll see if I can find it The lawyers who show up and start pushing for anti-bullying laws are pharmaceutical lawyers They represent pharmaceutical firms Who have these kids on drugs It's always the same lawyers. Do you recall that we did this research? No, but this doesn't surprise me as possible though I just forgot it Yeah it was one of the girls...I'm gonna look for and if I can find that'll put in the show notes And we tracked these two women these two women lawyers who were all about the anti-bullying laws and we have to get this in place and this is crazy But their clients were pharmaceuticals! And that's the thing that has never really looked at when it comes

2:26:58 suicides of and that's really the only time it's in the news but now the United Kingdom has gone so far over to one side that you have the Indra is that what its called? I don't know. Yeah well, you can't annoy anyone! That's what this is about. Oh yeah, you can't annoy... It's against a law to be annoying. Yes UK anti-annoyance I think that's what it was anti-annoyance law yes kids too annoying Anti-social injunction plan, anti social but it wasn't anti social had a different name. I think it was... Let me see if I can find this. I wonder when is gonna where how long's it taking for they start picking up podcasters at the border say you fly to London? You have an annoying podcast! Yes well this I'd have to say thank you for your courage. You're absolutely right with that we aim

2:27:57 The IPNA, which stands for Injunction to Prevent Nuisance and Annoyance. A replacement for the Antisocial Behavior Order. You're annoying! Here's a fine." Yeah that's where it's going Although Farmer Chris at the market he said that for some reason the 577... He said he was laughing so hard. He said he thought the show was hilarious. 577? Yeah the last show one before this I don't know where he gets it from But I said, well this is great because you know we really want to just win comedy awards. That's really what we're all about In an unusual drug bust in Massachusetts police found 1200 packets of heroin labeled Obamacare Hey that was a good one! I've been keeping that for weeks

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Heroin Labeled Obamacare, Obama's DC Exchange Enrollment

Police in Massachusetts seized 1,200 packets of heroin branded with the name "Obamacare," reflecting a trend of drug dealers using pop-culture labels. Meanwhile, President Obama symbolically enrolled in the DC health exchange, though his staff reportedly encountered difficulties verifying his identity in government databases.

heroin· obamacare· barack obama· dc exchange· healthcare.gov

2:28:51 Well, you know if you remember the series The Wire. Yeah I never really watched it. Which now is mocked as like the only thing white people ever thought was good TV. There was all and i think this is true all the various when they had to Hamsterdam when they opened up the free market of just selling in the street quasi-legally every piece every drug, every form of heroin apparently was packaged differently and given a name like a firecracker. So they had all these different names for every product and there was good better ones cost little more than all the rest so I'm sure that that and i think this is accurate I think Obamacare probably when they said what would you like? I guess some Obamacare oh yeah okay thats the good stuff

2:29:35 Oh, the good stuff. Yeah! So the good stuff is Obamacare. Ah yeah we got some of that. It's gonna cost you 20 bucks And then there was this little report which... Well this isn't Ask John Rarely get to do this? that his personal information is not in various government databases so healthcare.gov could not actually verify his identity oddly enough. That's a beauty! Now there you go, that would have been clip of the day

2:30:24 I love that clip. He had to do it in person this weekend, but he was in Hawaii not Washington so he was signing up for the DC exchange So his staff did it and they say look this is a symbolic gesture To get behind it But the bottom line here is The president liked his plan And will get to keep his plan Which isn't exactly the exchange They don't even realize themselves what they're saying No, they've completely lost it. So the president is not identifiable in any government databases? How does that work how can that be didn't he did he not file his taxes I They always put his tax return on whitehouse.gov It does that not actually get filed Does he not really pay the money does he did does he not sign something it looks like an official form this could be a scam I mean

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Smart Meter Conspiracy, NASA Document, Directed Energy Weapons

A viral video features a woman discussing a NASA document that allegedly outlines plans to use smart meters and directed energy weapons against the population. The theory claims that the "Internet of Things" is a surveillance and weaponry grid designed for social control. While the claims are extreme, they touch on real concerns regarding privacy and the deployment of RFID technology.

smart meters· nasa· directed energy weapons· rfid· internet of things

2:31:13 No, what you I think you're dead on it's like and they don't even notice that they're saying this sort of thing funny isn't it? It's depressing. That's not the pressing hey let's do that depressing What's depressing so I got this document from NASA that was a which I can send out or maybe I'll make a link to in the newsletter and And this nutty lady I sent you the link to this woman and you couldn't take it. Oh no, not this... First of all hello 2010 is like just nutty lady we know this nutty lady yeah she's a nutty lady. How does this nutty lady I mean i just couldn't care but was watching her and it's just like how do you come to the how do you even make these? How do you think like this? This is what

2:32:01 Maybe our show helps to prevent this sort of thing, but people go crazy. And just so you know this is why I brought up the wagging the moon doggy thing because i couldn't believe that you would send... if John is interested in NASA stuff let me give you something really good to look at and but no he sends me the nutty lady clip as if and it's like whoa this is really good we should watch this like I've never seen.. It IS good! It's hilarious come on play a little bit of the system but they talk what's going on with your smart meters that are being deployed around the globe the replacement of our electric meters which will also and does include the replacement of all of our gas meters and our water meters by the way do you recognize what the voice kind of sounds like no Mimi

2:32:52 No, yes. Yes listen to the well could be and we'll be connected to our food supply when they collapse the currency and they issue energy allowances And that will all be controlled through the metering system and by the way She's spot-on about the smart meters But if they talk about these low frequencies microwave frequency as the Internet of Things This is what this is exactly what the CIA is doing ease and they mention in this NASA document the US Army report. The US Army report is on our website

2:33:29 smartmetersmurder.com by the way great domain name I mean come on this is funny material you're right though maybe it made me would be like this if I wasn't a stabilizing influence if you left her alone for too long and didn't like check in with her this she could totally see your posting on Facebook the smart meters you know this is exactly how they're going to kill us. They're going to take our money and shut down the electricity well, Mimi... oh okay I'm sorry it was a private conversation so i won't bring it up about what she did to certain celebrities up there yeah It's about a 20 page army document that talks about

2:34:22 the enemy. We're the enemy! Yes, and they say 100% we are the enemy. We are the slaves... you know what this is good stuff let's play them all out I'm gonna do some commentary. This is good thank You John I didn't have to do it great of the human population will be affected by these frequencies yes what's her name again John just give me her name Nutty lady. Yeah, nutty lady here we go part two of nutty lady document the US Army report The US Army report is on our website Smart meters. This is... how did you cut this up? This is crap! I expected this to go differently so I had to do a reprise of it again. So, how did the elite shield themselves from their own weapons? Oh they have the magic potion of course which they ingest. This guy by the way during the interview was trying to keep his straight face How do the elites shield themselves from their own weapons? Let's find out Well that's a really good question

2:35:25 And some of the information that we've come across is, of course they have methods far ahead of anything that we... Oh they have secret space technology. Of course they do! ...have available to ourselves such as cancer cures. They don't get... Yes how many elites do you know die of cancer? Well none. There's chip mechanisms that we understand can fend off certain frequency attacks. We also know that they're interested in transhumanism, so much of what they're doing globally they are interested in. Yes! Transhumanism let's move on to the next clip. Allow people to be targeted with

2:36:05 the weaponry that they cannot wait to roll out on us. Oh yeah, they're already doing it! You know those newscasters who start going... That's the weapon!! You add the drones you add the micro dust you and in the beam weapons that they tell us Directed Energy Beam Weapons and not Micro Dust but RFID Dust yes Internet of Things Ask anyone tweet today last Twitter this season? No its a rerun. Too bad the next day long haul for me I had to do it over true but the next time you're on the show at when someone says Internet of Things ask him what the origin is of Internet of Things because this is like what should be answer B the the answer is

2:36:50 Petraeus at the In-Q-Tel CEO conference. He's the one that talked about the Internet of Things and everyone now talks about, oh it's gonna be great you know we have the Internet of Things everything will be connected my refrigerator will be able to order milk for me when I'm out But meanwhile, the Internet of Things is spying on you and tracking you. And this woman! This nutty lady is right! They have... they also have a blast wave accelerator? Blast wave ac- write that down. Ha ha! Blast wave accelerator Okay. Come on, this is gold! Yeah it is. And when you look at the population of the United States... The majority of the population lives along the coastlines and the blast wave accelerator was a tidal wave invention that the United States used on Fukushima's dreamt up with the Soviet Union back in the 40s actually it was going to be used in World War II instead of bombs but they decided to use the bombs instead

2:37:52 And the blast wave accelerator exploits the methane deposits on the seabed and causes a fingerprintless, plumeless tidal wave on low-lying areas around the perimeter of any country. I want that on a T-shirt! A plumeless... What did she say? Plumeless. Anyway beautiful John great thank you You making my point for me Apparently that was a mistake on my part. All right, wrapping up my end here in the six-week cycle the Anthony's Ciencia or better known as CIA and CIA who was He is accused of The LAX airport shooting spree right who interestingly enough also got shot in the neck just like the

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LAX Shooter, Digital vs. Analog Audio

The suspect in the LAX airport shooting pleaded not guilty, following a pattern seen in other high-profile mass shootings. In a separate cultural discussion, producer T-Bone Burnett argues that digital audio is "psychologically fatiguing" because it contains empty spaces between data samples. Audio engineers counter that this is a misunderstanding of how digital-to-analog conversion works.

lax shooting· digital audio· analog· t-bone burnett· fidelity

2:38:51 Sarnoff bro. No, that's interesting Yes He pleaded not guilty what they've stuck in their neck or the shoot him but he pleaded not guilty this is just like the Holmes has pleaded not guilty a lot of these guys plead not guilty and I don't know if it's a technicality They're pleading not guilty to be deemed not guilty by way of insanity Or I'm not sure what it is And there's another thing, JC Buzzkill Jr. sent out this link to I think he sent it to both of us about the identifiable images of bystanders extracted from corneal reflections? Yeah i got that Why don't we have any of that from Boston so we can see the kids you know putting the backpacks into the trash containers why don't we have any of this It seems so perfect Well I think is because there's something phony about those backpacks

2:39:55 I have one last clip. Digital vs Analyte here, I want to set this clip up This is...I did these clips last night and i do not remember what this clip's about. T-Bone Burnett, who you know and love Charlie Rose said digital sound has dehumanized us and it's taken away so much of what we hear without telling us He's correct in that. I think the downfall in technology within the 80s when digital equipment started to come around really saturated music with really bad feelings and tones There is an analogy about analog vs digital Analog is this, if you drop a needle or magnet on tape recorder

2:40:42 And you record, you're dragging that pencil across the table and your recording digital is this. It doesn't matter how many samples you do per second it's still that there's empty space constantly through and I think some people think is psychologically fatiguing which is a whole other story but the idea is these scratches in this table some people think that actually recording sound if I scratch this table right now possibly could be recording what we're talking about right now And, um... So I think we need- Were you high by any chance when you recorded this clip? No. I was just annoyed. Tell me about this crap! What?! This is kind of bullcrap. I've heard this before and yeah maybe when you do the D to A conversion back to analog You don't have a bunch of spaces in there

2:41:29 It's bullcrap. I've heard this before, there is like this anti-digital when it comes to certain technologies Oh my god you know it's killing us because there are all these holes in the data You know as you're hearing bap bap bap bap bap...You're not hearing that Anyway I just found it extremely irksome I found it. It's superstition is what it is, you know? You know So I think there is definitely when you listen to mp3s There's no doubt that your brain is filling in blanks because of the compression You are getting a degraded signal. It's just degraded, it is not high fidelity I'm not going to argue against the degradation but there is no blank spaces in there if you slowed it down and took a look at the waveform That's just a moron trying to explain something Let's get to our predictions Okay Here are my first predictions

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2014 Predictions, Apple Stock, Bio-Weapon Accident

The hosts offer several predictions for 2014, including a significant decline in Apple's stock following a poor product rollout. Other forecasts include an accidental bio-weapon release from a space station, a major rupture of the San Andreas Fault, and the invasion of Turkey. These predictions range from technological shifts to global geopolitical catastrophes.

predictions· apple· motorola· bio-weapon· turkey

2:42:29 I will get into a huge argument and row with someone because i will be responding to an iOS iMessage group chat without knowing it, and say something shitty about the person who's on the group chat. That is my first prediction What kind of a prediction is this? Because group chats... Okay, my prediction then. I'll pick up the phone and drop it on the floor Group chats have to stop You don't know what it is. You have no idea what this horrible, horrible invention from Apple is. Apple has created in their iMessage which you use for your SMS text messaging the ability to text message people like its a group chat and then all of sudden everyone's chatting with each other through SMS Why not just do that on Twitter?

2:43:27 No, but this is supposed to be private and then when you want to go send a message to somebody You see their name in the list instead of your new message look through the address book. You just click one Of those old messages and you send the message and then it turns out it's on a group chat Oh that's not right It's totally wrong like recording The After Show on no agenda voila All right I have three more predictions your next one Well, besides dropping the phone? Yeah. Okay my first prediction is on the same level of yours I will get a new uh... phone this year and i don't know what it will be but believe it'll be a Motorola A space station accident will release a bio weapon What?! That's one of my predictions for 2014

2:44:24 What kind of a bioweapon is being used you're saying that they're developing bio weapons up north there? No, they're up North Yeah Yes. A bioweapon will be released accidentally from a space station not the International Space Station Okay Okay then I'll come up with this one and do it on the fly The six-week cycle will end in 2014 ooh what happens to the agency Think it's there either be funded or they'll be some another way of getting money, and something else will happen But they can't keep this up because it's getting so obvious that too many people in somebody besides us is gonna pick up on And they're gonna say let's stop doing do you think as a part of this prediction that we will have one big final hurrah? Maybe before they go but here's. It's a one huge amazing

2:45:19 just outlandish honeypot event which yeah and then and then it and then the meeting will be oh Jesus we can't excuse me for taking the Lord's name in vain. We can't be doing this boys, we got to shut this down is that what you envision? Yeah well something was gonna happen because this can't go on if they went their whole year I'd be stunned The San Andreas Fault will rupture Where? Southern California. Yeah, that's been in the cards for a while I think it's coming 2014 we need that yeah We do and wait you have one more before I give my final one A famous celebrity That's in our list of famous celebrities who are always stooging for the government will be killed Don't laugh Turkey will be invaded and the entire EU will be destabilized

2:46:21 Faded by who? Well, we'll see. I don't know who What did you get these in a dream yes they can't I wrote and your Casey style I wrote them down or somebody no the real answer was I was Mickey wrote them down as I babbled them off No, no You laugh all you want I will Okay Apple will fail Fail? Yeah, I think this stock's gonna collapse after a bad rollout of some crappy product. But when you say fail to what degree do you mean fail? It's going get a lot of attention. Will it hurt the company significantly? Yes! It will seriously hurt the company image Do you think Tim Collins will be thrown out? Tim Collins... Maybe. Could happen

2:47:19 Yeah, I could see that happening. Wow! I didn't expect a technology prediction from you. Not throw it in because people think i'm an Apple basher and might as well bash a little bit. True. He's always saying that... It's that same guy Yes, I know him well All right then if that's it then uh Well, then that's it Well we'll start a- We can continue the predictions for the first couple of weeks of January You just don't like my predictions? You just don't like that I'm predicting doom and gloom Is it really doom and gloom? I just thought they were lame. Okay You know the bio weapon, how's it gonna survive you know, it just doesn't make sense okay Well we'll see won't we

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Show Outro, Independence from Networks

The final episode of 2013 concludes with a call for creators to remain independent of traditional media networks. The hosts argue that networks are "money scams" that stifle creativity and take a disproportionate share of revenue. Listeners are thanked for their support through the value-for-value model as the show prepares for 2014.

independent media· networks· value-for-value· 2014· podcasting

2:48:11 I mean, that's one arrogant way of putting it. Yeah, I'm sorry... I'm sorry you didn't like my predictions? Yours were stupid! That's okay we listened to- When we all die, you'll know why Alright, we listened to 8 minutes of the lady talking about the murdering smart grid The murdering smart grid Alright everybody that will do it for 2013. We thank you for your courage we appreciate your support of the program and we will need a lot more because it seems like there's going to be plenty of work ahead in 2014 Plenty of work then the only way, we can do it with is with your support And as you know what? We don't just sit here and say send us money. We give you credit executive producers associate executive producers producers we

2:49:00 Have full transparency. Full disclosure! Because it's all we do, there is nothing else we do except... I don't know John writes some columns which are pretty good And as you know he doesn't do them for free Or maybe does Hey PC Magazine let me do this for free It's good for my image Somehow i dont think so It's so exciting. All right coming to you from FEMA region 6 hopefully it'll still be here Happy New Year everybody talk to you next year in the morning I'm Adam Curry and from The Pacific Northwest Silicon version of Silicon Valley, which is really not much to brag about I'm John C DeVore I will talk to you again next year right here on no agenda enjoy

2:50:02 Thank you for your courage and everything else. There is no necessity for a network of anything anymore Every individual who has a creative idea or wants to communicate something the tools are there for you to do this It used to be you had to join a network because the network had the access, the network had... ...the radio transmitter, the television transmitter, the cable channel,... ...the newspaper printer etc., this is simply no longer necessary in fact it's a detriment and detractor from your mission if you have something to say like this show

2:50:40 Go and do it. Find a way to sustain yourself, networks will take away all your money! It is completely against the true internet interconnected network way of communicating it is a money scam and they're going to take away money no one will make anything there'll be nothing but tears will come from this...it never works out this way ever Amen Smart Grid Murder.