Episode 599 · Thursday, 13 March 2014

Nuclear Tipped

Military radar silence fuels theories on the disappearance of Flight 370 while Sheryl Sandberg and Lady Gaga face scrutiny over their high-profile non-profit initiatives.

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About this episode

A fatal drunk driving incident at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, involving a Prius that struck 23 people, led to an unexpected diplomatic proposal. During a meeting with the Dutch delegation and the Secretary of Economics from DC, an informal offer was made for a host to become the honorary consul to the Netherlands. This potential role includes an expense account and diplomatic license plates, highlighting the strange intersections of local tragedy and international relations.

Questions persist regarding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 as military radar reports from Kuala Lumpur remain suppressed. While the Pentagon utilizes global satellite tracking, the lack of crash evidence suggests the plane may have landed at a remote military airstrip rather than suffering a structural failure. Meanwhile, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and the Girl Scouts of America launched the Ban Bossy campaign to police language in leadership. Financial records for Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation reveal that only $5,000 of $2.2 million in income was distributed as grants, with the majority of funds covering a $348,000 bus tour production. Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room continues to pressure the shipping industry toward a low-carbon economy, which critics view as a front for a universal carbon tax.

Edward Snowden appeared at South by Southwest via a Google Hangout, a platform choice that drew sharp criticism from privacy advocates like Chris Soghoian. The segment captures the irony of using centralized cloud services to discuss NSA malware spoofing. In a lighter moment, the hosts critique the branding of listener-submitted art for the upcoming 600th episode, reminding the audience to adhere to the strict Crackpot and Buzzkill style guidelines.


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CHAPTER 01 / 24 Discussion

South by Southwest Drunk Driving Incident and Honorary Consul Offer

A fatal drunk driving incident occurred at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, involving a Prius that struck 23 people. Following the tragedy, one of the hosts describes a meeting with the Dutch delegation and the Secretary of Economics from DC. During this meeting, an informal offer was made for a host to become the honorary consul to the Netherlands in Austin, which would include an expense account and diplomatic license plates.

south by southwest· austin· prius· netherlands· honorary consul· diplomatic license plates· sutherland

00:00 I gotta take a dump! And things you need to know about great sex on this show! From FEMA Region 6 and Travis Heights Hideout in Austin, Texas, in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where I'm freshly back from Silliness by SW, whatever the hell it was called anyway, I'm John Cena. You didn't even do a good fake with me on Twitter, let alone that you messed up the opening about it. It was time consuming.

00:43 You didn't, you didn't... I was having too much fun partying! Here I am tweeting with at the real Dvorak backstage at Coldplay. Do you know that people actually emailed me about that? What'd they say? Dude, that's so gay man, you can't go to Coldplay, what's up with that? So you embarrassed yourself? I did! What's gay about Coldplay? Coldplay is not... Come on, Coldplay is not like a... This is not a rock... It's Coldplay! I don't follow it. Let's put it this way. They're no Green Day. Oh. Oh, it's a band. Alright, there you go. I was gonna complain about how I got really sick from people spitting in my face at South by Southwest until

01:37 You know this morning... You Dutch talkers. Oh. Until I heard this morning that you know some people died. They didn't die at least. Yeah you heard about that right? No. Ah so and this will be interesting. So last night around 12 or around midnight Some guy tried to avoid a DUI checkpoint on Red River, Red River and 10th I believe, and he wound up driving the wrong way down 9th Street, turning, plowing through 23 people, hitting a moped, killing those two people, then slamming into a cab.

02:24 Finally, you know the getting out hoof, you know trying to run away and then the cops tased him and got him War zone the crazy thing was this guy was in a Prius. Yeah, that's for some reason that makes the ultimate sense to me and drunk driving in a Prius Yeah, so that's sad. I don't think anything like that's ever happened at a South by well, it's gotten out of control. Yeah Although my first thought was, man, if the guy was in a Prius, maybe his accelerator was stuck. That's, yeah. It's possible. Except for the drunk part. Well. Yeah, I know every time I'm in a Prius, I'm always worried that this guy's gonna drive out of control. Exactly. Yeah, so Miss Mickey and I were, we were at the Dutch house.

03:16 Every year, South by Southwest, the Dutch delegation comes in from Houston, the Consul General, and this time the Secretary of Economics from DC was in. And now these are the guys who I called and who when when Miss Mickey was deported and you know they were actually quite helpful so of course now I owe them. Yes did you give them as payment did you give them a couple no agenda CDs? CDs, bags, the whole thing. Cool. But check this out I was informally what would the word be if someone is

03:59 I guess informally I was probed if I would be interested in becoming the honorary consul to the Netherlands in Austin. Does that mean money? Well, funny you ask. What it means is, it's very specific. First of all, you get an expense account. So it's a zero-sum game. That's perfect. So travel and all this stuff. But you're done! So you have to, on December 5th, you have to, you know, arrange like the Sinterklaas thing. You mean with Black Freddy? Black Pete or Rainbow Color Pleat, whatever we'll do. That'll be a controversy, I'm sure.

04:49 You have to, once every six to eight weeks, you gotta do like a dinner or something for the Dutch community within Austin. Right? Yeah. And of course if the king and the queen come to Texas, you know, I have to entertain them. But here's the best. I get diplomatic license plates. No. Yes. I'm like, I'd do it for that alone, man. Oh yeah, that's payment right there. Put that on my truck. Diplomatic license. Can you just imagine me with CD plates? How funny is that? Oh no, I'm thinking you just better be nice to them and get that gig. Well, it's an actual possibility. It could really happen. Well, you're a good representative. I said, Mickey's very worried. She's like, but do you hear the things that come out of your mouth? What comes out of your mouth? She's nuts. I'm always saying horrible things. Oh.

05:48 By American standards you're not. Okay. So what day is it? What day was Black Pete day? December 5th. Let's take a look at the calendar. Make sure it's not an agenda day. Wow, Miss Mickey just texted me. She said one of the people who was killed is actually Dutch. Wow. Saturday, good. You're good to go. Oh, a Dutch guy. Oh, that's terrible. Well, it's horrible. Saturday's good. You're good to go on Black Pete. You're good for the gig. Because it's not a Sunday? Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Okay. So of course, you know, we were hanging out at the Dutch house and everyone's like, you know, shaking my hand and talking. Yeah, well people talk at these conferences. And by the way, to back up a second, Mickey's concern with your grousing is what she's really concerned about. Yes. Because you complain about this and that. A lot of this stuff's aimed at Holland. Some of it. And of course you have a reputation for being a shit disturber when you were there. Yes. Although it turns out I was right.

06:43 Yes front front page that makes a difference page news. I will tell you about the guy that the pedo bear guy I think though that I think it you're you're generally and you're well known in I think it's notoriety more than it is Anything else for this sort of gig? They don't want some dud. No, no, that's the whole... Some guy no one's ever heard of and they're, hey, would you like to come over to Fritz's house for dinner? I don't even know who this guy is. I'm perfect for the gig because they know me in Holland, they know me in America. I mean, it could not be any better. I get a little pin, a little Dutch-American flag pin. Would you cordially invite it to the household of Adam Curry? Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. There will be no... No, I'm not going to have people over at the house.

07:27 Oh, oh my lord, to the Ritz-Carlton! Thank you! Exactly, now you're talking. To the Ritz-Carlton. I think it's gonna be perfect. I'll work on it. I'll let you know what happens. Honorary consul. Probably with your expense account. Which is, you know, one of those things that depends on how much they let you, they allow you or how they like. You're gonna not be able to spend it generally. I mean, you can try. You probably... No, I mean, this is for travel. I have to go to the Netherlands, you know, travel to get my... You should probably bring someone. Yeah, like Mickey maybe? No! Oh, you mean my secretary? Me? Yeah, my secretary. Yeah, my secretary. My attaché? Yeah, trip. It'd be a nice trip.

CHAPTER 02 / 24 Discussion

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Disappearance and Military Radar Theories

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 remains unexplained, with skeptics pointing to the lack of crash evidence despite global satellite tracking by the Pentagon. Theories discussed include the intentional disabling of transponders by the crew, a waiver for 1,000 pounds of extra lithium batteries on board, and suppressed military radar reports from Kuala Lumpur. The possibility of the plane landing at a remote military airstrip is considered more likely than a structural failure or explosion.

malaysia airlines· flight 370· pentagon· transponders· military radar· lithium batteries· kuala lumpur

08:13 Hey everybody, I'm very sorry about the glitches in the Matrix. Wow! The thing's out of control. We got planes disappearing. We got soldiers without identifying marks in Crimea. This thing's out of control. It's not functioning properly. So what's your latest on the plane? Because I got a couple clips that are interesting. Well the latest on the... okay so first of all my initial take is pretty much still intact. I said there's zero evidence this thing has crashed. It's never taken off right? Well I said it's possible but I said there's zero evidence it's crashed that for sure. Oh yeah there's no evidence it's crashed. Now there's a besides all and what a distraction annoying distraction this is

08:59 There are, we've got the, at the Pentagon, I got some emails from some of our sysadmin friends who are contractors. The Pentagon tracks every ship, every aircraft, every submarine, every satellite, all commercial aircraft worldwide. We've got spy satellites that can see a pimple on the tip of your nose. So everything that is being shown, like these Chinese, like oh there's some wreckage 72 feet by 79 feet, which doesn't fit in any dimensions of this aircraft at all. You know, none of this makes any sense. It's all one huge distraction. I have to say a couple things. One, transponders.

09:44 Pilots turn off transponders all the time, certainly in general aviation. I used to do it when we would be flying helicopters and we want to go down, we were flying around the Schiphol airspace and there were all the sailboats and we'd go down with the chopper and we'd blow the sailboats along. But of course, you know, you're doing something off the book so you turn off the transponder and you're down low enough so the radar doesn't catch you. So, these guys, someone turned off the transponder. I don't think this was any, you know, massive event where the structural issue or explosion, because we certainly would have seen something by now if not on the thermal prints from the spy satellites or sonar registration for sound, none of that. Malaysia, of course, is a weird place. They love the terrorists over there. Not real fond of Americans, by the way.

10:39 There's still kind of evidence of this being possibly an Airbus versus Boeing war, but I think when you look at the manifest, which I haven't heard many people talk about, there was one thing that struck me as odd. First of all, there was no x-ray of the cargo, which doesn't have to happen all the time, but they had a waiver for an additional 1,000 pounds of lithium batteries. that you're only allowed to have a certain amount of lithium batteries on board for fire hazard, but they had a waiver for a thousand pounds extra. And I'm thinking, what? Maybe that thousand pounds of something extra wasn't batteries. And the consensus from people I'm talking to is the crew was in on this,

11:28 They flipped off the transponder, went down below the radar, flew somewhere. I think the passengers are dead. I think that you just turn off the oxygen, everyone kind of dies off. And this plane landed somewhere. There's hundreds if not thousands of airstrips all around that area, military airstrips. And there was something that was on that plane that they wanted. That's the only logical conclusion I can come to. Everything else is bogative. Well, there's the crazy stuff that is interesting. And the only reason I bring that up, and I'm not into this kind of thing, although having read the Day After Roswell, I'll just let myself go for a minute. Are we going to do cloaking and alien stuff? No, I'm not going to do any of that. I'm just going to play this clip, which seems to be a piece of suppressed information. It was played on NHK, and it was done by a correspondent from Kuala Lumpur who's

12:26 Talking to the military and this is the suppressed report and this is kind of interesting. Hold on one second. Civilian air traffic controllers lost contact with a jet. But government sources in Malaysia say military radar has identified a possible clue to what happened. An object was detected moving from east to west from the area where controllers lost contact with the aircraft. The object crossed the Malay Peninsula and continued for about 70 minutes before disappearing over the Straits of Malacca. The Malaysian government says it analyzed the data but not everything adds up. The signal was weak for a passenger jet. The object was also traveling slower than a normal aircraft.

13:19 And if the plane didn't make a U-turn, why wasn't it detected by civilian radar? Government officials have been unable to identify the flying object that was detected by the military radar. That leaves them with a little option but to continue searching. By boat and from the air, vast stretches of water from the South China Sea to the Straits of Malacca. All right, that's bullshit. Before you go on with that's bullshit. No it is. Sorry, that's bullshit. Russia launches this ICBM for some unknown reason. This is still in my craw. It was a scheduled test, yes? Yeah, a scheduled test. Sure. What schedule are we talking about? Hold on a second, John. Did you get a memo? Months ago? But what you're talking about is...

14:11 On the on the flight tracking 24-7 radar website is all of a sudden this circle appears then it turns into a plane. Trust me, this is bullshit. And also that the plane was turning left and right. These things are this complete, these abnormalities happen all the time with this ADS-B type of tracking. This, this, no, I'm sorry, it's no. No. No. And... It's not a reliable source. Please, I saw Bill Nye the science guy on CNN last night with a big black box talking about what it was.

14:51 Big orange things, oh this is the black box. No. This is complete bullcrap. If it was blown out of the sky, there would be heat, this would have registered on... It was blown out of the sky. Well if it was an ICBM, like... No, no, no, no, no. The ICBM is different. The ICBM was launched for some other purpose and this was the retaliatory strike. No, no, no, no. Because that would show up, John. There's thousands of satellite systems to track all this. No. No, no, no. And also this the military radar tracked it and they didn't say anything for three days. No. And then everyone's backtracking on all of that. No, no, no. The only, besides my theory, which is it never took off at all, which is possible, there is a theory out there that it was cloaked.

15:40 And they can't... that's the only other one, that's the only other theory that makes any sense. Although I have no idea about the technology, but everything else... There is none. ...crashing, there's zero evidence of a crash. Wait, you're not going to go down with the aliens grabbing these guys as opposed to cloaking? No. No. No, a military cloaking exercise? Yeah, I think that would be real. And why would they do it with this flight? They're gonna do it, they're gonna be doing it around here somewhere. Heaven forbid that the cooking technology gets into the wrong hands. No, of course not. You want to do it in an obscure part of the world. Yeah, with American gear. With a bunch of Chiners who no one cares about.

16:20 We have a whole bunch of free scale guys right there from your neck of the woods on that plane. Yeah, well, oh well. Valuable assets to the alien forces. The bottom line is we know absolutely nothing. I still think the possibility of the flight crew being in on it and landing this thing somewhere and whatever was on board taking that off, you know, that's not unthinkable. No, I would say that of all the crazy things you've said, that's actually very believable. And especially since that flight crew's already been kind of outed as a bunch of kind of offbeat characters. Well, let me say something about that. Just because they don't have the same rules as we do. No, no, I agree. I've been on flight decks myself. Yeah, I've been on flight decks. And what you saw there was basically what all pilots want is to get laid.

17:12 That's half the reason for becoming a pilot. You're going to have to have more evidence about something going on with these guys landing in the middle of nowhere. I think the plane could be down somewhere in the middle of nowhere on some little... Who's going to find it? Once you land it and put it in a hangar, you're not going to find it. You only need 3,500 feet to land this thing. And there's tons of, I'm seriously, there's probably 500 airstrips throughout that entire region that it could have landed. Now what is kind of interesting as a side note to all of this is the amount of articles and news bulletins, because of course everyone's out of things to say, that are cropping up about how old-fashioned the technology is and we need to have all of these planes need to be connected, they should be streaming the black box information.

CHAPTER 03 / 24 Discussion

Global ID Systems and Carbon Tax Proposals

Discussions regarding stolen passports on Flight 370 have transitioned into a broader push for a centralized international identification system. Media figures like Thom Hartmann are observed linking global crises to the necessity of a universal carbon tax. These initiatives are framed as steps toward a New World Order governed by international bodies like the United Nations.

real id· stolen passports· united nations· carbon tax· thom hartmann· world id· global governance

18:06 Well, I think you're missing one of the little memes that cropped up in the thing and I spotted it And I think this and I'm gonna put in the red book that this is gonna start to show up over and over again What you mean the fact that they don't want to pilots anymore. We have to get rid of pilots the the continuing meme No, that's a good way. Sure. Yes, I went down to yeah pilots suck It should all be automated and we should have someone at home base flying it like a drone. Oh No, I think it will have more to do with centralized identification system for the New World Order. They have, you know, there was a big deal about these two missing passports and there was report after report about, oh, it's pretty common. There's over 1 million people flying on stolen passports. And they went on and on about this. It's such an extreme. And I'm thinking about real ID and all this, you know, the United States, we've tried to push this, shove this down the throat of the American public, you know, into federal ID.

18:59 And I think that this is this has been in play and it's not going away And they're gonna come up with something some universal thing. It's gonna. You know I'm listening to watching this Unfold with the ID the all these stories about the ID. Oh these guys are Iranians looking for Iranians looking for some place to move to Germany or something like that, and then I'm watching Thom Hartmann going on and on about with some guy about carbon tax and would you think the whole thing would be solved with carbon tax you know a universal worldwide carbon tax what would that solve planes going down i don't understand i'm just thinking about i did brought me back no of course not it brought me maybe it brought me back to this this this kind of world view thinking where you want i everyone has a world id you know something that does that everyone can get from the is like from the

CHAPTER 04 / 24 Discussion

Richard Branson and the Carbon War Room NGO

Richard Branson founded the Carbon War Room, an NGO focused on market-driven carbon emission mitigation across sectors like shipping and trucking. Financial records from Form 990 reveal high consulting fees paid to executives like Jose Maria Figueres Olsen while the organization pressures industries toward a low-carbon economy. Critics view the group's "Smart Island" initiatives in Aruba as a front for global carbon tax implementation.

richard branson· carbon war room· necker island· jose maria figueres olsen· ngo· carbon emissions· 990 form

19:53 United Nations or whoever because the carbon tax thing always boils down to universal international carbon tax. Where does this money go? You know, it's funny you say that because I came across an outfit. Let me see if I have their promo video here, which I had not heard of. It's been set up by Richard Branson, which of course makes sense because he's in the aviation business. It's called the Carbon War Room. Have you heard of these guys? No.

20:43 If the only choice is to do and have less, then we're going to lose. So what's the other choice? The other choice was to decide that you could build a prosperous low-carbon world. is helping create good viable business opportunities out of carbon emission mitigation. You gotta listen to the bullcrap these people are spouting who by the way are all paid consultants for this outfit. Carbon emissions mitigation? Yeah, yeah. It works well for job creation and it works well for the environment. So their whole idea is, I guess they pressure businesses into building greener things and that's basically, as you'll hear in a moment, going to create jobs. Harbour More Room is focused on a very powerful force and that's business, you know, that's capitalism, that's the entrepreneurial spirit. You know, there's nothing wrong

21:42 with a bunch of motivated people creating innovation to solve problems and making money while doing it. So what they all do is they all go to Branson's Necker Island and they all have a meeting and David Haas is in here. David Haas is the Council on Foreign Relations and there's the Carbon War Room President Jose Maria Figueiras Olsen who's getting paid $150,000 in consulting. I pulled their form 990. I don't know what their scam is, but you know it's coming down to a carbon tax on some global scale from the Carbon War Room. Carbon War Room takes a sector approach. And we ask which sectors could be making money from reducing CO2. Whether that be insulating our buildings to be more energy efficient. Let me ask you, John, which sectors can make money from reducing CO2?

22:36 Actually the petroleum industry can with their sequestering scams. Yeah, or maybe the the funeral business By taking carbon away from people efficient or making our ships cleaner to save in fuel We are looking for measures that can and if I see one more video that uses this kind of bogative Apple Music I'm gonna throw up. Okay. So here's what we're looking at. I We're looking at, because I would assume that this web page has the messages. Yes in plain sight. Yeah, so we have four or five different things that they're focused on and and citizen each of Operations shipping efficiency. Mm-hmm, which means they want to gouge the shipping companies out there force them into into new shipping some extra little tax and Put somewhere renewable jet fuels. I have no idea what if you can even make battery battery planes

23:39 Battery planes green capital. This is a winner a green capital Smart island economies. Oh would that have anything to do with Necker Island by any chance might be mm-hmm and then finally another gouge trucking efficiency so Somebody says Saturn say you know how we can how can we make some extra money? Oh? I got an idea. Let's listen to the Aruba and carbonist Dutch Aruba and carbon war room bid to flip Caribbean island off of fossil fuels What is the island gonna run on? Yeah, this is weird farts The carbon or when the government of Aruba announced a partnership for 100% renewable energy if successful

24:30 They will not die. Oh, they will create the first ever fossil fuel free economy. This isn't a 10, 20% improvement. This is Aruba being potentially one of the... Here's Peter Boyd. Who's this Jibroni? This Peter Boyd guy. Peter Boyd? Yeah. With his Windsor knot. I have trouble trusting a guy with a Windsor knot. That's what's... just a very standard tie knot. What difference does it make? What do you think? What, you're a fan of the four in hand? That piece of shit? Yeah, exactly. We just clip off fossil fuels entirely and show the world how to get that done. Okay. Anyway. Peter Boyd. Anyway, so this is the carbon war room. This is... How did we even get here? Because I mentioned Thom Hartmann and slowly you turned step by step inch by inch. I'm sorry.

25:23 I'm watching these guys, you know the funny thing is since I was a I would say a little child there has been a frontal attack on the petroleum business. Nobody ever lied. I think it really stems from a deep hatred that never really went away even though he became a great philanthropist of Rockefeller. And there's just been this frontal attack and whatever you can do to screw with them and try to get them to either, you know, they do it with the peak oil crap. You do it by, you know, blowing up a rig or you do it by taxing them and taxing them and taxing them because there's so much throughput. I mean, you can really, they have a lot of leeway for being taxed to death. It's just astonishing to me. And it's just watching Thaum and this other guy go on and on about how we have to get rid of

26:12 We have to leave it in the ground. Leave it in the ground. Leave all the coal and oil on the ground. The carbon. So here's, they spent this carbon war room. I had to pull their 990 because that's really where you get all the cool information. Oh, by the way, I should mention something. If you left all the petroleum in the ground, we wouldn't, half of the stuff that you have, if you look around, you just take a look at how much is paint, plastic, all these things. It's all petroleum. They spent $422,000 on research. The Research and Intelligence Group took that money and they worked to identify opportunities that have cost-negative gigaton-scale carbon reduction potential. Whoo! That's a bumper sticker right there. Gigaton-scale carbon reduction potential over the next 10 years. The primary audience is the investment community, entrepreneurs, NGOs, and policy makers. Carbon War Room has identified 17 subsectors across 7 sectors.

27:11 Each sector vector accounts for over one gigatons or more than 2% of global CO2 emissions annually. These sectors encompass the full spectrum of challenges that must be met to implement a low-carbon economy. Oh, here it is. Jose Maria Figueres Olson. He is an independent contractor, even though he's the CEO. He billed them $208,000, whoever them is. And there's all kinds of consulting things. This is one of my pet peeves, of course, is all these bogative NGOs. And finally, although I wish it would have been, we could have gotten some credit, but of course we didn't do this one. Someone pulled the 990 for Lady Gaga. And it's quite funny. Oh, that's a great idea. So her 990,

CHAPTER 05 / 24 Discussion

Lady Gaga Born This Way Foundation Financial Analysis

An analysis of the 501(c)(3) tax filings for Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation reveals that out of $2.2 million in income, only $5,000 was distributed as a grant. Significant expenditures were allocated to travel, legal fees, social media consulting, and a $348,000 bus tour production. The findings suggest the non-profit serves primarily as a tax-advantaged vehicle for tour-related expenses rather than direct charitable giving.

lady gaga· born this way foundation· 501c3· 990 form· stephanie germanotta· non-profit· grants

28:16 I have it in front of me here. You'll love this. Okay, so the total income, which was presumed, we don't know, it's never listed who on a 5013 C Corp. Total income for the current year $2.2 million. We're going to presume that came from her. that she put that in. Money goes to herself as a director, Stephanie Germanotta, her mom, Cynthia, her dad, Joseph, and then two other jabronis. Oh, I think one is the manager. And you know that her manager has, you know, it's all part of this 360 deal and they really run everything. But here's what's interesting. They spent, hold on a second,

29:06 $115,000 on travel expenses, consulting fees, legal fees. Then there's some of the salaries. Then there is... they spent looks like $10,000 on the bus. I guess the tour bus is now written off as part of the non-profit. Yes, the bus traveled nationwide to empower youth by connecting them with community. Let's see what else they did. So I'm sorry, that's $348,000 for the bus tour production. Strategic consulting for web and digital total fees, $300,000. Stage productions, $62,000. Social media, $50,000.

30:04 and then coordination meetings 47 825 thousand and they actually did hand out some money to as a grant for $5,000. Oh $5,000. Yeah. So essentially here it is grants and other assistance to governments and organizations $5,000 and that actually if you if you drill down into it that was for making their site PayPal compatible with European PayPal. So they essentially have just written off all of this tax-free stuff on a non-profit, the little monster. And this is the person that your wife idolizes? No, yeah, needless to say after I showed her this she went, I'm not going to go see Gaga now. Yeah, right.

CHAPTER 06 / 24 Discussion

Sheryl Sandberg and the Ban Bossy Campaign

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg launched the "Ban Bossy" public service campaign in partnership with the Girl Scouts of America. Supported by celebrities like Beyonce and Condoleezza Rice, the initiative argues that the word "bossy" discourages young girls from pursuing leadership roles. Critics argue the campaign is a pretentious branding exercise for Sandberg's "Lean In" organization and an attempt to police language.

sheryl sandberg· lean in· ban bossy· beyonce· girl scouts· condoleezza rice· facebook

31:07 Okay, I was just I've been I like doing that 990 stuff. Everybody can do that by the way Yes, you should tell people how to do that so they can all just do it casually Yeah, go to guide star calm. I think it's calm. Let me check Is it GuideStar? Oh, GuideStar.org. And you have to register in order to get all the 990s and you can just search and boop, stuff pops up. That's just like, like Lean In. I thought that was some huge organization that's a Sheryl Sandberg thing that is now banning the word bossy. Oh yeah, I have a bunch of clips on that. The whole organization, I think she's put a hundred, 140,000 bucks into it, which probably went to that stupid commercial with Bianchi.

31:51 I have not heard a single woman say anything positive about this campaign. The Ban Bossy campaign. Yeah, you want to do that a bit, get through this, because this is like, I think it's part of the never ending, I think it's essentially, besides being just ludicrous, because when you think about it, and there's a bunch of little girls, there's a nightline, special nightline report with 60 of them fat and Cynthia McFadden decides to do a whole thing on this because she's a huge worshipper. Should we step back so I play the the promo for a second so everyone knows what we're talking about? Yes, play the promo. All right, so this is now you're going to see or they're not identified by name but they are in the video. It's a Beyonce Sheryl Sandberg who's the chief operating officer of Facebook. We have Jane Lynch actress. We have Jennifer Gardner.

32:49 Who else is in that, John? Well, I know the first lady is not in it, but she's been promoting it heavily. And the whole idea is to ban the word bossy. This is ban bossy, take one. Pushy. Stubborn. Stubborn. Pushy. Pushy. Stubborn. Stubborn. Bossy. Bossy. Bossy. When I was growing up, I was called bossy. I think the word bossy is just a squasher being labeled something matters By middle school girls are less interested in leadership than boys and that's because they worry about being called called Bossy. We need to tell them it's okay to be ambitious. We need to help them lean in. We need to. Let's just ban the word Bossy and encourage girls to lead, to be strong and be ambitious. Listen to your own voice. There are no limits. Dare to be you. You can change the world. Let's ban Bossy. Be brave. Be you. Join us to ban Bossy. A condo leaves the rice isn't there?

33:55 And this is a joint venture between lean in org which is several Sheryl Sandberg's Nonprofit NGO NGO and the Girl Scouts of America and so they have teamed up and the whole idea and if I understand correctly We need to ban the word bossy because when you say to a young woman or a girl you're bossy, that immediately shuts them up and they're afraid to become a leader. Ruins their lives, Adam! Get it straight! Yeah, it ruins their lives.

34:33 Boys, little boys are bossy too, but if you have a little three or four year old bossing everybody around, you call him bossy. I don't think this is a big deal. Can I, well, first I'd like to give you the etymology of bossy because interestingly enough, this is from a Dutch word, the Dutch word, baas, B-A-A-S. And if you look at the actual synonyms, hold on a second, let me open this up. So, Bas, as in Basrich, we have from early 19th century. A person in charge of a worker or, that's Bas, I want the adjective, actually an adjective, Bas, if you're Bas, then you can be excellent or outstanding. But Bas is head, chief, director, president, principal, chair, manager.

35:26 All of these really good words. But apparently the minute you say someone's bossy, then what you are telling them is they should not be assertive. That's what I've understood from their website. And the women that I spoke to, let me start with the one closest to me, my wife, she says, yeah, I'm bossy. And if people hadn't called me bossy as a kid, then I would have never known how to test my limits and how to be more or less bossy to become a strong leading woman. Well, there's the counter-argument. In fact, Sheryl Sandberg moans incessantly about being called bossy, and she's a billionaire. Yeah.

36:07 So it did her more good than harm it seems to me. What was she gonna be? Rule the world she's gonna be Ming the Magnificent if no one called her boss Well the same goes for Beyonce the same goes for Condoleezza Rice the same goes for Jennifer Gardner the same goes for Jane Lynch I don't understand is this this is the never-ending equality meme where everybody has to be equal and This is also part of the anti-free speech subtext. Yeah, well. We're going to ban the word, do not use this word. Let's see if we can get people to stop using a word. But let's play these clips because they're very educational. Alright. This is all from a special with Cynthia McFadden. So we'll start with one.

CHAPTER 07 / 24 Discussion

Gender Leadership Statistics and Workplace Equality Debate

Sheryl Sandberg cites statistics claiming women perform 66% of the world's work but own only 1% of property to justify her advocacy for banning the word "bossy." Skeptics challenge these figures and the assertion that gendered language is the primary barrier to female leadership. The discussion suggests that social media habits and personal ambition are more significant factors than childhood labels in determining career trajectories.

sheryl sandberg· gender pay gap· leadership· poverty rate· workplace equality· feminism· statistics

36:52 Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg changed the conversation about women in the workplace. I love it when someone can change the conversation. She didn't change no conversation. You're sucking up to her because she's a billionaire. That's all. That's how it works in Hollywood land. With her best-selling book Lean In, which came out exactly a year ago. I feel, I will say, I feel bad I have not read the book. And I'm going to read it now because I really need to get inside your heads. You know what? Here's the problem with the book. I'm gonna tell you. Have you read the book? I haven't read the whole thing. I read pieces of it. You're going to be irked.

37:31 It's an irksome product and these things are it's just it's pretentious it's a Silicon Valley style book with that kind of lame writing that is shallow and it's kind of interesting in some modern very modern up-to-date way but you know ten years from now this is not gonna be like Vance Packard or anybody like that it's gonna be this is the forgotten piece of crap like all these other books that come out around here. She's launching a new public service campaign to ban the word bossy. Why? Because she says it's a big part of the reason so few women make it to leadership positions and there is some research that backs her up. I think it's the only reason women make it to leadership positions. I am flabbergasted by this, this thing. I know I'm on board with your thinking on this. Yeah, I mean this is, by the way, I grew up, I think we've discussed this, what my mom always used to say.

38:29 Life's not fair. I'd be like that's not fair life's not fair What a mom did you never hear that? Did you never get my mama? Oh poor, baby? You get a prize just for competing Now put your helmet back on and go play outside. We sat down at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park to talk about the other B word when I was growing up bolo tie Uh, bolero? I was called bossy. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and newly minted billionaire, has launched a campaign today to ban a surprisingly powerful word. Bossy, bossy, bossy, bossy. And she's pulled together a group of celebrity friends to help her pull it off. This is the other B word. We call girls bossy on the playground. We then call them too aggressive or other B words in the workplace.

39:26 Bully or bitchy is it bitch is that the problem is that the word? Because that's what she's apparently called at work a lot I think this is where the stems from she must be terrible to work with It's the only thing I can think of and she just seems like it. She's just not bought. I wish she's you know. She's just a I don't know, she's one of those people that just can't stop talking. Let's try number two because there's a three and four the short clips on this have got some very interesting little tricks propagandistically that you definitely have to listen to. What we know is that stereotypes are holding women back from leadership roles all over the world. No we don't. She argues those negative stereotypes get a big boost from the use of the word bossy. I've asked audiences all over the world and this is what women face

40:13 They're bossy as little girls and then they're aggressive, political, shrill, too ambitious as women. Are they talking about Hillary Clinton? Because I'm a little confused. They're talking about each other, Hillary Clinton? It's like they're looking in the mirror. Yeah, but this is great. I love women who... Hello? Do it wait a minute. This is a good example. No, you know, we did a show a couple of that Not the last one but the show before I thought we were too much anti women stuff in the show and it of course Unfortunately, we got more donations, but that's beside the works Keep I don't want to get into an anti-woman rant But these are these are two women that seem to be bitching literally bitching about nothing They just to bitch we must be missing something John there must be so I don't understand this. I

41:02 There must be some other reason that they're doing this. Well, for Cheryl, it's to sell more books so she can be, you know... Really? To do what? It's just a bragging rights thing amongst her little peer group. Oh, I have a bestseller on the New York Times. What did you do? Do you really think that's it? Yeah. Then why is Beyonce doing this? Why? I... I... Well, they... Shan... Sandberg is a... Powerful, powerful. ...at the base, is a saleswoman. Yeah, she'll get to... She'll put out... She'll... Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So let's finish this clip and then we'll get to a kicker. I was called Bossy. Were you called Bossy? I was called Bossy when I was in the eighth grade. Oh, we're called Bossy! My teacher took my best friend Mindy aside and she said, you shouldn't be friends with Cheryl, she's Bossy. And then she became a billionaire! This...

41:49 I think they're trying to actually remove all competition. Yeah, well that's an interesting idea. That's the only thing I think of. Some women are starting to make a move on her. Hey, hey, this is no good. These bossy, get them, get them. You know, she's bossy. You know she's bossy. All right, yeah, she's totally bossy. Okay, so here's the number three clip which I think there's a, there's a very, to me it was, this is what got me to do this clipping at all. Research shows a direct link. A third of the girls who don't want to be leaders say it's because they fear being called bossy or being disliked by their peers. Well then you're not a leader. You're missing the point of this clip. Don't say it. Let me listen to it again. Let me listen to this. Research shows a direct link. A third of the girls who don't want to be leaders say it's because they fear being called bossy or being disliked by their peers. They don't want to be leaders.

42:43 What am I missing? What am I missing? The whole premise and they started with the first clip about, well, research is shown, research is shown, research is shown. And this, by the way, people out there listen to this sort of thing. This is essentially jobs created or saved. And what they've done here and then you couldn't pick it up and I can see nobody picking it up. But what happened here was they say it's because they're using the word bossy or And the reason is, no, it's not because maybe one person, you got 10 people that say, why don't you do this this way? Well, because I'm afraid of being called bossy. Number one. Number two, no one's going to like me. Number three, no one's going to like me. Number four, no one's going to like me. Number five, no one's going to like me. They went and asked a bunch of little girls and that's what they all said. This is bull crap. The word bossy's got nothing to do with it.

43:38 I love it when you get all in my face about it. Play the clip again. The three? You want me to play the three again? Yeah, so you can hear what the scam is. I gotcha. Research shows a direct link of A third of the girls who don't want to be leaders say it's because they fear being called bossy or being disliked by their peers. You mean that's not research? That's not science? It could be research, but if it was mostly people not wanting to be liked, they'd slip the bossy thing to make it sound as though they were used as number one in the list. Yeah. This is bogus. Nobody says, oh, I, you know, I'm afraid of being called bossy. Well, what does that ever happen? What research was that? Well, it's really beside the point at this point, but anyway, play four where now it's just completely nuts. If you look at the world, women do 66% of the work in the world. Women produce 50% of the food. Women make 10% of the income and women own 1% of the property.

44:35 In every country in the world, women are 5% of the top company CEOs. We live in a world that is overwhelmingly run and owned by men. If you paid women as much as men, you would cut the poverty rate for this nation's children in half. So you really think you can change 77 cents on a dollar by banning Bossy? We think it all goes together. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. I thought this was about empowering women. This is about fucking men over. You noticed. It was hard. I caught that pretty quickly, didn't I? Wow, that has nothing to do with banning bossy. That has to do with banning men. Why don't you just say it, Cheryl? Killallmen.org. That's exactly what she should. That's your next book. Ban men. Ban dudes. There it is. Ban dudes. Get rid of dudes. Let me... Here are the partners on this thing. Girl Scouts of America, Lifetime, BBDO, AARP,

45:31 Always what is always it looks like a always looks like what is always it looks like a? Sexual club looks like a feminine hygiene product always on its yet teen Teen tampons. Yes feminine products. Okay. Yeah, babel BB y-o What is bby? Oh? Oh the Jewish teen leadership Sandburg of course Beeinggirl, blogher, common sense media, another fine NGO. Edmodo. What's Edmodo? Edmodo. What's Edmodo? I don't know. Hold on. Edmodo. Echo Delta Mike Oscar Delta Oscar. Where learning happens. Join over 32 million teachers and students. Safely connecting in online classrooms. Collaborating on assignments. Discovering new resources and more. Watch demo.

46:33 Would you like to watch the demo? I think you should play the demo. Yeah, here's Marsha Simmons and she is a... Oops. I think in public education we need to offer ways to be relevant. Wow, statement of the decade. Get that off my screen. Free the children. Getty Images. Girls Leadership Institute. Kidsinthehouse.com. What's- is that like kids in the hall only better? Expert parenting advice. Okay. What is kids in the house? My god, this is- this whole page is just NGO after NGO. It's just everyone sucking off the teat of- of Sandberg apparently. Yeah, I'm sure she enjoys that. National Council of La Raza. Pantene. Gotta have your shampoo in there.

47:29 Teach for America up worthy an urban sitter. Urban sitter. Yeah, this is basically, it's not fair! Men run the world, it's not fair! I hope, excuse me one second. I'm not a truly religious man, and I'm not mocking. What I'm about to say I really mean. Dear God, please, I know I really have not been good talking to you, reaching out to you, ever. I accept whenever things are really crap, which has happened time and time in my life, and then I pray to you. I pray, dear God, please make Hillary Clinton president of the United States of America. Please. Please. First of all, I'll be guaranteed eight years of show material. And secondly, after those eight years, I'll be able to tell all these women, see? See what happened? Girls suck just as bad as men, boys, whatever.

48:32 You get, you, you, please. I thought you were going to make a prayer to God saying, smite this woman. No, I want to hear that one again. If you look at the world, women do 66% of the work in the world. Well, how, where is this coming from, 66%? And why is that 2 times 33? What are you trying to tell me, Sheryl Sandberg? 60, if you look at the, what does she say? If you look at the what the data is that what she said? I don't know what she's talking about. If you look at the world. If you look at the world. You look at the world. Let's get Google Maps for a second. So basically 60 years old. I'm looking at the world. I'm looking of course it's bullcrap, but I want to hear it. Women do 66% of the work in the world. Really? I don't know if that's true. I guess if she says it's true. Women produce 50% of the food. They produce 50% of the food.

49:22 Women make 10% of the income and 10% of the income women own 1% of the property in every country in the world women are 5% Of the top company CEOs we live in a world well You know what you should do you should tell more girls that they're bossy so that they can become bossy and become boss and start to run the show You're doing it exactly the right. I don't understand. I would like to see these stats backed up. Yeah, I bet you all of them are refutable All of them. And I don't see any of these stats on her website, on her bandbossy.com. You can go on these shows, if you're Sheryl Sandberg and you can just blather off a bunch of stats without any references by the way, you don't hear one reference, it's just she's saying, I say so. And so bossy that she is. And I'm sure that's all refutable. I doubt these stats. I think it's bullcrap. I'm upset that she doesn't have them on the website. That's where they should be.

50:16 Now there's leadership tips. And then she says if you paid women the same amount as you paid men it would eliminate 77% of the poverty or something at the end. And I'm thinking pay them for what? There's a woman living in poverty in Oakland who is uneducated and she's raising her kids and she can't get a job and she's on welfare. What are you gonna... the welfare check she gets is the same that a welfare check is given to a guy? I mean, no, I'm not buying this argument. This is an equal work for equal pay kind of thing too, which is also a red herring. When it comes to girls and ambition, the pattern is clear. Girls are discouraged from leading. Now I'm offended by that remark. I have built several companies with large, large employee base, six, 700 people, the majority of whom were women and who led, were on the board.

51:13 Of course, I was the boss because, you know, I started it. When a little boy asserts himself, he's called a leader. No he's not, he's called bossy too. Have you ever seen a little, like, five-year-old bossing people around? What do you call him? Dick. Get out of the way, kid, you're bossy. Yeah, shit, little shit is what I call him. Yeah, yeah, this is bullcrap. Oh, my little six-year-old is telling me what to do. He's a great leader. This is a lie. This woman is a fraud. Yet when a little girl does the same, she risks being branded bossy. A precursor to words like aggressive, angry, and too ambitious. We should ban all these words. What kind of six-year-old is too ambitious? These are words that plague strong female leaders. What's going on in the backyard with a six-year-old? Hey, he's building a Ferrari from scratch.

52:09 Calling girls bossy is one of the many things we do to discourage them from leading. We go out of our way to discourage the girls. You know what I do? I kick them in the shins to discourage them from leading. That's my trick. It's no wonder that by middle school, girls are less interested in leadership roles than boys. A trend that continues into adulthood. I just don't see it as... Well, that's because, you know, the women in general, because of the sociology of women, essentially, or more into making friends and doing social stuff and getting... So they're not on the right track according to her. Sandberg must have been a friendless moaner. Can I... let me just say something. The number one reason why girls are not turning into leaders is because they're occupied with posting selfies on your fucking Facebook! That's the problem, Sandberg!

CHAPTER 08 / 24 Discussion

No Agenda Art Generator and Branding Guidelines

The hosts review recent submissions to the No Agenda Art Generator, criticizing a piece that used incorrect monikers for the presenters. They emphasize the importance of adhering to the show's established branding and style guide, specifically regarding the names "Crackpot" and "Buzzkill." Listeners are encouraged to submit higher-quality artwork for the upcoming 600th episode.

nick the rat· no agenda art generator· branding· style guide· podcast art· gitmo nation

53:09 There you have it. In a nutshell. Thank you. Alright, enough of this. Yes. Hey, kittens and courage and in the morning to you John C. Dvorak. In the morning to you Adam Curry. In the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there. And to everyone in the chat room, in the morning to y'all and to our artist Nick the Rat, thank you very much. for the, I think, didn't we use a Nick Evergreen? The art was not good on the last episode. No, the art of last week's show, we will say this. I don't know what happened. By the way, there are some people that you're still making the type font too small. You've got to remember we reduced these things. Anyway, no, the art was terrible and so we went to the well and found a simplistic piece

53:55 From Nick Durrett, and I don't even know why he did this piece because it's not his style, but he did it And it's just nothing. It's just a plain, but it was We chose it because it was so funny. It was just it was just a slide as an ironic piece It was a flag as a way to basically flag no agenda art just like not a false flag No agenda art generator calm is where you can find all the submissions. We'd love to have something yeah something a little more Yeah, and we'd like to mention something while we're talking about this. I was looking at the note, in fact let's go over there, noagendaartgenerator, and I want to point something out to people. Especially when they actually have, they've got a good idea but they're not quite, this is like if you were talking to your art director, you'd be discussing something like this.

54:44 Now I'm looking at, for example, the best of the 600 so far is the No Agenda 600 thing, which has got a nice look like the Coca-Cola 600s to take off of a NASCAR race, and it's not bad. You know, the branding of the show is what the branding of the show is. It's Adam, Crackpot, Curry, and Dvorak's the buzzkill. That's what we stick with. You don't change these monikers to Loose Nut and Boogity. You just don't do that. I mean, it's like very pretentious. I mean, it's okay for us to call everyone different names, but you don't do that to us. No. No.

55:25 Not and not with the art so you got this you know gorgeous piece of work No agenda 600 racing to you from Gitmo nation great, then it says Adam loose nut where did that come from? Where'd that come from I don't know we never used it no so so this piece redo the piece Kevlar was too late I'm sure Kevlar is not listening live think about your branding rules as a style guide people Yeah, just don't do this kind of thing. It's just rejected out of hand because of it. Anyway, I'm not going to edit it. So let's thank a few people for being executive producers, associate executive producers for show 599. We're coming up on show 600.

CHAPTER 09 / 24 Discussion

Executive Producer Donations and Show 600 Milestones

Donors contribute significant funds, often cited as IRS tax returns, to support the podcast as it approaches its 600th episode. Notable contributors include John Streg and Craig Porter (Hazmat Slave), who are recognized for their "value for value" support. The segment includes the reading of letters from listeners who use the show as an alternative to mainstream media disinformation.

craig porter· john streg· irs tax return· knighthood· 600 club· donations· value for value

56:06 we're appreciating everyone who is celebrating in one way or another either with a $60 donation or $600 donation in the case of Craig Porter. But number one donor on today's show is John Streg or Strage Streg I'm sure could be Streggy too. 619 good morning gentlemen I must have a stutter today because donating $69,669 which is $50 from his monthly night in training Brother I gotta stretch this and 619 from my yearly governmental Atta boy for your mental with caps at a boy for your money Pat on the head as a retired army vet That's why you'll stand in front. Yeah for our freedom is real here as it was over there overseas Can I please get a two to the head for governmental mac and cheese, please? Keep up with a good fight

56:59 And John, thanks for the karma I asked for in January. It just came. X2. Wow. Next I plan on hitting her in the mouth with our formula. All joking aside, thank you for your educational insight. For the truth, you two are truly a beacon of light in the bay of BS. Yeah. Baaan the BS. Alright, we'll get that for him right here. You've got karma. Yeah, nice! Thank you very much, John. And of course, he'll be a special producer and a member of the 600 Club.

57:49 Craig Porter, 600, he also wants to be referred to as Hazmat Slave during the read. He never mentions his name during the read, but that's what he said. This is the email you got. Yeah. In the morning slaves, the IRS gave me back some of my money. It stole from me last year, so I decided, so he'll be Sir Hazmat, no he's not Sir yet, but he will be eventually Sir Hazmat Slave. I decided Some of the money they stole from me last year, so I decided to use it to celebrate reaching show 600. Up to that point, I've been living the mac and cheese life, therefore unable to donate a significant amount. I'm proud to contribute to this fine work you both do. You guys keep me sane. It's draining to be bombarded with disinformation, native advertising, and the slaves who eat it up, which is, by the way, the worst part.

58:40 Your show's my medicine. I'd like to thank you for watching C-SPAN so I don't have to. Can you please call the friend who hit me in the mouth, Sean, a douchebag. Douchebag! For being a non-donating douchebag. And he'd like some Hey Citizen karma. Okey dokey. Hey Citizen. You've got karma. You got it. Thank you very much. Sir JD in San Jose, California. It's 346. In the morning gents from Sir JD. Please give a jobs jobs jobs little girl yay Karma shot to all the producers nights and no agenda families out there This is the third in my show 600 progressive donation three four six hundred Thank you for your courage and keep up the excellent work on the best podcast in the universe sir JD Yeah, that's the new moniker. Did you catch it by the way kittens and courage?

59:38 Yeah, I did. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs! You've got karma. Buddy, sir, Boris love mana Maranoff in Trabuco Canyon, California $300 I need some government get on my bathroom karma So I can get my bathroom extension approved who knew adding a shower to your own bathroom requires special permits My engineer is telling me that from the city standpoint. I am a violator that needs to be punished for doing something in my own bathroom Stop doing that citizen you cannot have a shower extension

1:00:18 Government overreach anyone this has been going on for a long time this zoning and all this California What do you live in if you live you live in an unincorporated area? This is not a problem, but he's in California is this? You've got karma, but you can't even poop in your toilet without a permit without a permit The poop mint renewed about once every couple weeks I gotta take a dump Just do it. Just do it. I'm monitoring the flushing. Open up, Mr. Dvorak. You know, in Berkeley they have, they actually go through, they don't do this everywhere in the, around Berkeley, but in Berkeley they actually go through your trash to see if you've left, if you put a bottle in the trash instead of the recycle. Oh, you put it in the recycle. Yeah, well, they learned that from the United Kingdom. Yeah, the UK does. Yeah, they have, they put little cameras into your bin.

1:01:18 It's anonymous in Amsterdam 300 bucks Thanks for your hard work and for keeping my daily commute from Amsterdam to the Hague interesting that must be a government official Must be what else would you do in the Hague unless he works at miniature world? Sir Ryan Burgett in Seattle, Washington I have a note which I believe is the Sir Bourbon and Bong hits. Ah, Bong hits and Bourbon. Yeah, Sir B&B wants to call himself. Okay. Following up on my email from the weekend of my $300 donation, I shall send another $300 on Thursday if you take me upon my proposition of a third producer credit for the combined total in honor of show 600. Well, since you're a knight, we'll do it. Thanks for consistently buzzing my crack?

1:02:15 Thank you for buzzing consistently buzzing my crack. Huh keep helping these is handwritten keep helping the slaves to recognize truth Oh guardians of reality sign sir B&B hmm all right. Thank you. I'll give him a karma or something For buzzing his crack or whatever you've got St. Hubert Quebec so there $250. Hi John and Adam, it's been too long, way too long since my last donation but I've decided to rectify the situation today on the eve of show 599. Could I please get a Clooney is a spy karma for myself and all NOAgenda listeners fighting health issues. Keep up the incredible work you do. Alright, absolutely. George Clooney, George Clooney, George Clooney is a spy. You've got karma. That by the way is a nice combo.

1:03:16 It's got a nice pace and flow. It does. Carlos grab book grab grab BICS grabics Carlos grabics in Mechanicsville, Virginia And if you know what a mechanic is you know what that means two hundred forty eight dollars Thanks for the champagne suggestion from show 569 it does indeed go with everything I think it was mentioned that champagne is should be used as a dinner one Yes, that was for one of the obot dinners, and you suggested. I serve champagne yes Always a winner If you can get it at a reasonable price. And if it's real champagne. Looking for some general karma for my 48th birthday today, March 9th, hence the 248 donation along with some science from Dr. Kiki. No, absolutely. Shut up already! Science! You've got karma. There you go. John Donovan. I got another. Oh, I did. Damn it. I had to look it up.

1:04:20 Hold on a second while you stall okay, ban bossy You could have done a better job of stolen than that that John Donovan. Okay here. We go here He is been fighting with PayPal multiple passwords chits changes earlier today So emailing this and well in case it doesn't get through which apparently didn't ITM Jensen's sir JD Please give a jobs jobs jobs little girl yay karma shout out to all the producers nights and no agenda families out there This is the third on my in my show sick

1:04:56 600 progression. How many guys are doing this? Oh, he's got SirJD up above. Yeah, it's the same. Oh, okay. It's SirJD. Yeah, SirJD twice. Okay. Did we miss one somehow? No, it's up there. It says SirJD. Okay. Let me see what this one says. Here's another note from him. People send a lot of email. Although I have to say that in general, I prefer if people use email properly Which is with hashtags in the subject line because if you say make the subject make sense people don't understand that. If you say put a hashtag, oh okay. And don't, yeah seriously, and don't, here's what gets you not opened. Check this out! And then you just have a link. Video you must see!

1:05:46 By the way, if there's no wordage with the link, it's usually spam. No, I almost have no spam, I have to say. I'm running my own mail server. Yeah. All right, that's onward. All right, well, he needs a job, job, jobs, karma. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Karma. Nice. Somebody's gonna get jobs today. Oh yeah. Ed Lee Boutelier in Hesperia, California. $200. I finally got my tax return. Another guy with his tax return. So here's some value for value. I was thinking about giving it to the Hillary for Emperor in 2016 campaign, but I just couldn't do it. Mwahaha, he says. Not really. You guys are so much more deserving. Thank you. And finally, the Baroness Von Stealth Mode, our friend from Capital Bank. Dame Francine, yeah.

1:06:41 says 500 did she get her tax return finally this is no this first celebration of show 600 been listening to shows for so long they no longer sounds wacky to me it's all too real going I love you both I love you too of course she also she also wears Google Glass yes well as you know she can't she's not perfect So everybody, we want to thank everyone who's come in here for an executive producership or a producership, associate executive producership for show 599. We do have 600 coming up on Sunday and we look forward to a good day and a lot of fun. Go to Dvorak.org slash NA. We have some special features. That's going to be our big 600. What are you wearing for the big 600? Underwear.

CHAPTER 10 / 24 Discussion

Edward Snowden at South by Southwest via Google Hangout

Edward Snowden appeared at South by Southwest via a Google Hangout, a choice of platform criticized by privacy advocates given Google's relationship with the intelligence community. ACLU lawyer Chris Soghoian defended the move, while skeptics suggest Snowden remains a CIA asset whose messaging is restricted to promoting encryption. The discussion highlights the irony of using centralized cloud services to discuss surveillance.

edward snowden· south by southwest· google hangout· aclu· encryption· cia· chris soghoian

1:07:30 Lovely. Well, there you go everybody. And while you're at it, I want you to hop over to noagentination.com. Check out the bags in the store and other things that are on sale there. And as John said, Sunday there will be another program, The Big 600. Devorak.org. Slash N-A. Of course, you still need to do some very important work which is going out and propagating the formula. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. So with all of this Flight 370 business going on, which... By the way, the news readers, the news models really have no shame.

1:08:30 They will go and they're beside themselves with nothing to tell us. Yeah, and and and they just go on and on and seriously I didn't I wasn't able to get a clip of it yet But Bill Nye the science guy with Pierce moron sitting there with a big orange box that says flight data recorder really That's not television anymore. Oh, I think I saw it this morning. So it was probably a rerun or something And that was quite disturbing. I have to say So there is a lot of other stuff going on in the world. Would you like to reach into my flight data recorder? I'm staying here locally in Austin Then I spent a lot of time again, you know here check out everything at South by Southwest. Yeah. What is yeah? Yeah, you didn't really get to talk much about that. But okay. Well, see it's just a douchebag fest Did you see this stuff people are posting? Yeah Geez, yeah, I some of those things I have to retweet. I

1:09:29 Retweet some of that likes and one guy tweeted Everybody looks like they're either gonna barf or take their pants off. I thought that was a good one. It's retweetable. Yeah Of course we had the rock star status, you know what I'm talking about. Don't you know? Snowden yeah, I'm not kidding. That is that was what everybody was talking about Snowden was like a rock star Rockstar status and this... You know, we both looked at that and looked over the... How boring can any one person be? Pretty boring. But also I felt really jumping the shark big time. Okay, so Chris Segoian, I think is his name, he's from ACLU. So they basically had two handlers

1:10:29 on stage and these guys were jabronis. They were like, oh no one's no no applause for me maybe you'll have some applause for our guest today and then and you know the whole green screen. Yeah I heard that too. Oh please get somebody on there that at least knows how to introduce someone. And then the whole green screen with the Constitution in the background. Oh really? And starting off by saying, well we're going through seven proxies. Hey, we all know he's in Russia. It's not like this is some big secret. Yeah, I was going to ask about that. I was going to bring that up on the show. I'm glad you reminded me. What's this big secret we have to have all these proxies? What was the point of seven proxies? You think that the CIA has no knowledge of where he is? All you have to do is follow the hot chick in the little black dress. They got his room bugged.

1:11:20 So, oh no, but no, that, that, we used to do that. We used to make stuff up and say, oh well, you know, because of the satellite interference is why, when we basically some sound engineer screwed something up. No, it was just a crappy connection. They were using a Google Hangout. A Google Hangout! The irony is not lost on any of us. And here's Chris Shegoigan. The ACLU lawyer and he was on C-SPAN during the the Washington question hour How did you actually set up a Google hangout with Edward Snowden yesterday? Well, we went to google.com Google Ploth It wasn't easy. Oh John, it just wasn't easy. It was very very complicated to set up this and this Google hangout. I

1:12:06 As I said in my remarks at the event yesterday, it wasn't... The irony that we were using a Google product to communicate with Ed Snowden about spying was not lost on me. But the fact is that there aren't a lot of easy-to-use secure communications tools. We really had to make a difficult choice between a tool that would better protect information about where he was and a tool that was easy to use and that would work. We ultimately went with Google's tool, but then we had to layer on some additional protections to make sure that his location stayed private. Okay, I'm gonna call big bullcrap on this. Like big, big, big bullcrap. And first of all, we all know that Snowden is CIA.

1:12:48 That's he never worked for the NSA. He was a contractor for Booz Allen. Right, and he still carries his CIA credentials. Yeah, with Booz Allen, which is owned by the Carlyle Group, which is, you know, these guys are all, it's all the same. So he's CIA and all the CIA guys use Google. We know that they use Gmail. Come on, that's what the, what's his name? Who was our CIA guy who was? Petraeus. Petraeus. They all use Gmail. So it's a company product, it's okay. But don't give me all this, oh, seriously, there is no other product out there that's open source that can give you real quality video. Bull crap. We get emails at least two a week, try this out. Oh, here's the stuff that works on Linux. There's so many alternatives. There's a lot of alternatives. So this is just not true.

1:13:44 So, you know... It's a plug for Google. It's like native advertising. Thank you. And, well, let's play this second bit here. Consumers really need to re-evaluate the relationship with the companies to whom they're entrusting their most private information because Google really does know an awful lot about you. They know when you're sick before you go to the doctor. They know when you're unhappy in your relationship. You've got to listen to this. This is really good. This is what they're claiming Google knows about you. Google really does know an awful lot about you. They know when you're sick before you go to the doctor. Okay. They know when you're sick because, you know, Google apparently already knew I was sick before I even started the show this morning. They know when you're unhappy in your relationship. Why? Because I'm looking at porn?

1:14:31 before you tell your spouse. They know if you're having suicidal thoughts because you're typing those things into the search engine. So we really need to make sure that the companies that have this private data really have our best interests in mind. These guys are, I've said this so many times, these guys are protecting Silicon Valley to a degree that is just vile. And Snowden's basic message was encryption, which is totally ludicrous. I mean if you look at the real problem is people and that's why this guy is kind of funny what he was talking about. The real problem is we entrust all of our stuff to these cloud-based companies who are not really in the business. Google's not really in the business of search or email. They're in the business of selling you.

1:15:23 That's their business and by law if the government comes along, just one of the many guys but it could be a lawyer, people find it strange that I don't carry a cell phone anymore. I stopped carrying a cell phone, what is it now John, six months? It's been a while. Yeah, five, six months. Like really? You're the NSA, they can listen to you anyway. You don't understand, I've been in court And when you're in court and all of a sudden the oppose and for business stuff and the opposing lawyer pops up and says well here's where you were on this day according to your cell phone records. That's what's scary. It's that anyone can subpoena this stuff and get it from any of these companies. So if you own it yourself then a whole new set of rules applies. That's why we need to get off of all of these centralized systems. There's no reason for it. And no one is saying that including Snowden. And I find this disturbing.

CHAPTER 11 / 24 Discussion

NSA Malware Spoofing and PowerPoint Whistleblowers

Reports from Glenn Greenwald's First Look Media suggest the NSA has spoofed Facebook servers to infect user computers with malware. The hosts discuss the validity of using single PowerPoint slides as proof of intelligence operations, noting that high-level officials like Robert Mueller have close ties to Silicon Valley firms. They propose that such "leaks" could easily be fabricated using standard templates.

nsa· facebook· malware· powerpoint· whistleblower· glenn greenwald· first look media

1:16:17 It's not, yes encryption is important, of course, of course. Well if Snowden is CIA still, which we believe to be true, he is not going to message outside the parameters of what he's allowed to say and what he should be promoting and that's what he promotes. Exactly. More encryption. Yeah. And we know it's bullcrap, encryption doesn't do anything. Well it's certainly not at the end, at the end point. Now that yet another PowerPoint slide one PowerPoint slide, you know, you gotta love green green well done rap his his intercept first look media Pierre drive my car thing You know, it's funny you mentioned that cuz I haven't looked at that for almost a week and a half Well, I I subscribed they finally fixed the RSS feed. So I do it actually works Yeah, so I do get the the article and or the articles I get the article a week

1:17:05 And so they have one PowerPoint slide and you know what John, I got an idea. Let me tell you what it is first and then bookmark that I have an idea. They have this one PowerPoint slide and the PowerPoint slide kind of says or it's pictures, it's like a cartoon and it says that the NSA has spoofed, they made it look like you were connecting to a Facebook server when you really weren't and that way they put all kinds of malware on your PC. Now first of all we know that the intelligence community is inside Facebook. Mueller. Robert Mueller was a go read the Time Magazine article he's just popping his head around the corner. He probably has an office there. Hey how you doing Mark? I was just in the building anyway just wanted to say hi I was checking up on the fake server we're using.

1:17:56 So, duh, again another reason not to use this stuff. So your encryption is not going to help if they're sitting there taking screen grabs or whatever they're doing. The minute you decrypt, whoop, there it is, you can read everything. So it's flawed, the whole idea is flawed. Better is run your own mail server. Well, actually it's not completely flawed if you can actually type in encryption. So you have some sort of huge device that's encrypting every letter and you push the button for it. You're going to type in and you push the button you get a Q. Okay Q. A-N-N. I'm going to have to and you push the button and it gives you like an ampersand. You put that in. Alright. You could do that. Yeah I could. So here's my idea. Seeing as that that is a business model.

1:18:47 You're good at PowerPoint. Let's just create some slides and say we got them from some whistleblower. Yeah. But we'll make up something really outrageous. That's all I ever see. That's all I only see PowerPoint slides. Yeah, yeah, and you'd be Ruby slide 12. No, we have to make it something like slide 33 And the only clues in oh, yeah, and of course and then the way you make it look official as you put at the bottom you put in parentheses Slash sig int no for and you know just put some of that stuff in there. So it's official garbage We can do this you can do this. Yeah, I think you know just use some of the templates. That's all they're doing and

1:19:29 And I just want to say this is no proof of anything, even though I'm sure it's true. It's no proof. It could just be a pitch. Who the hell knows what they're doing? Anyway, so the narrative of course is in on Snowden. It continues. MSNBC has gotten some kind of memo to hate Snowden. I mean really, really hate him. Oh really? Oh yeah. Of course. I haven't picked this up. Ah, well, you are not watching Frank Sinatra's kid. Oh, you're right, I'm not watching Frank Sinatra's kids. I'm sorry, the award-winning journalist. Yeah, this guy was on the air for three days, he wins a Cronkite award, apparently a second. Now he's up for an honorary degree from two or three journalism schools. What is this? The guy's been on the air for a month and he's like the famous guy. What are they grooming this guy for? MKUltra?

CHAPTER 12 / 24 Discussion

MSNBC Coverage of Edward Snowden and Ukraine

MSNBC host Ronan Farrow and New Republic contributor Sean Wilentz have intensified their rhetoric against Edward Snowden, labeling him a traitor. Wilentz claimed that Snowden is protected by Vladimir Putin's lawyer while Russia launches cyber attacks against Ukraine. The commentary is characterized by critics as state-aligned propaganda designed to discredit the whistleblower.

ronan farrow· msnbc· edward snowden· vladimir putin· ukraine· cyber attack· new republic

1:20:22 Muscle, well he does he has an MK ultra look he has a look about him. Well here He is on his show. This is what I think what's your name was one of those people Oh Mia Farrow definitely totally she's nuts. This is Ronan Farrow Daly and He has on his show a little poll the first up next that brings us to our final update on today's battle of the day Remember we asked is Edward Snowden a traitor or a hero? this is Could this guy sound any more gay? This is Cronkite award-winning material in my book. Today, remember, we asked is Edward Snowden a traitor or a hero? Black and white terms for a pretty gray question. The winner, to my surprise, RFD traitor with 61%. It's interesting that if you look at the numbers of this around the country, it skews very age specific with people under the age of 30 in a majority vote saying that his actions were good for national security and people over 30 less certain of it.

1:21:22 Thank you everyone who weighed in a lot of passionate opinions on that and this is a story on surveillance in this country that we will keep coming back to again and again. That wraps things up for this edition of Ronan Farrow, Dave Bland. What kind of survey was this? Well, no, the people tweeted. It's not a survey, it's a bunch of tweets. Tweeters. And they used that as their numbers? Yeah, at the beginning. No, a number of people tweeted no. At the beginning of the show, he says Snowden, traitor or hero, and then you tweet and somehow And I can't believe management has to slap him around over this. You can't say, wow, that's crazy. Young people think he's a hero, but since 60, 66% thought he was a traitor, that means only old people watch the show. You don't give your age on Twitter. Well, that's what he said. Where'd the age come from? Oh, wait a minute. Are we supposed to put your age down? John, all of a sudden, you're not really going to take any of this seriously, are you? Well, I'm just asking a simple question. I don't have the answer.

1:22:20 Okay, all right, so that's a little crap from the get-go, but the message is clear Snowden traitor now I picked up another piece from MSNBC where they were and this was with some some douche knuckle on some show and Wow He said quote the NSA is setting fire to the future of the internet And then he called the people in the audience listening to his speech the firefighters Yeah, that bugged me as well, that Snowden said all that. Yeah, you're the firefighters. No, we're not. We just want to use our four square. He said encryption in the future is key. Very well worth it to continue this debate of security versus safety. Back to you. And Sean Willans is an author, a historian and contributor to the New Republic. Is the New Republic, is that a right leaning or left leaning publication? It's kind of funny because it's not really either one. It's a kind of like

1:23:22 It's an old throwback. to a kind of a, not a Barry Goldwater type conservative, but something just kind of alien. It's a very strange world viewpoint they have. So he's been told to hate Snowden. And has written extensively on Edward Snowden. Thank you so much for being here, Sean. First I want to get your overall reaction to the Snowden presentation today. Well I had three reactions. Disbelief, double disbelief, and confirmation. The disbelief was disbelief double disbelief and confirmation is that guy was doing stand-up at the local Pub? To be funny yeah, I guess double disbelief and confirmation the disbelief was more or less what you began with I mean he was Edward Snowden in Moscow talking about how the American government could be imitated by evil governments elsewhere and

1:24:17 at the very moment that his protector Vladimir Putin is launching a cyber attack on Ukraine. Now, I was unaware that there was some kind of cyber attack launched on Ukraine. Did you read about this? No. Putin! So, this guy is a liar. With a malware and so forth. With a malware and so forth. And so forth. With a malware. Not malware, but with a malware. With a malware and so forth. People wonder why we watch this stuff because laughter actually repairs all the tears in the Matrix. That's why we have a comedy show. Putin is launching a cyber attack on Ukraine with malware and so forth. With malware and so forth!

1:25:07 I just like to throw that out from time to time. Hey, watch out. I could have a malware and so forth. I- it just boggled my mind. Boggled my mind. Nothing was said. Your mind must be boggle-able. Nothing was going to be said, of course. Of course. But it ought to be asked. Were you surprised that no one in the audience... I mean, maybe the questions were pre-screened, we just don't know, but were you surprised that no one brought up... Who's this fast-talking chick? I don't know. Just listen to what she has to say. She's bossy. Yeah, shit. sort of those questions and that irony about Russia. Yeah, I gather they were pre-screened so look he is under the protection of the intelligence... He doesn't know that! Well he thinks the whole thing was set up. He is under the protection of the intelligence service, the secret service of Russia. He has you know Vladimir Putin's lawyer is his lawyer. What is this?

1:25:57 He says Vladimir Putin's lawyer is his lawyer so apparently the ACLU is apparently working for the Russians now. Isn't that weird? Why would he say that? Why would you say Vladimir Putin... I'm watching a lot of these shows on, you know, less CNN but these other MSNBC and Fox and a lot of these other, these kind of quasi news operations and they bring people on and they talk through their ass and they just say stuff. RT has the same thing, same problem, so does Democracy Now!

1:26:35 They just say stuff as if it's true and then they, you know, just like when the Tham guy, this is what triggered me, got me off the deep end at the beginning of the show, when the guy says, well, as climate change worsens, the guy offhandedly just throws it out there. Just says it. As climate change worsens. I'm thinking since when did it start worsening? There was just a big article in The Economist showing that it's gone on pause. How's that worsening? Anyway, it's just a bit bothersome. Well, there's two sides to that. One is there is a large majority of all news media, all print, radio, television, internet, that is following a mandate. And people say, that's conspiracy theory. OK, fine. And the other side is people, they don't care. They're just throwing crap out there. No one's producing journalism.

1:27:35 like grand reenactment service of russia he has you know vladimir putin's lawyer is his lawyer he's not about to talk about that um if he were to talk about it well it would be interesting to see if the russians let him talk about it but uh it's all with mirrors within mirrors which is what a lot of what the story is all about it reminds me um let me tell you what this reminds me of um back in the early 90s i'd go to uh z100 the morning zoo with scott shannon And he would have people on who would do like entertainment stuff, we'd call him up and in the entertainment world, people just make stuff up like this. And it's unchallenged, like, oh, we all laugh about it. Ring the bell, bang the drum. It's just... He's also mixing metaphors in some odd way, like mirrors within mirrors. What the hell is that supposed to mean? You know what? All he cares about is that he's on TV,

CHAPTER 13 / 24 Discussion

CIA Spying on Senate Intelligence Committee

Senator Dianne Feinstein accused the CIA of improperly searching a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee to investigate the Bush-era torture program. CIA Director John Brennan denied the hacking allegations, suggesting the agency was merely monitoring its own equipment. This public rift is interpreted as a power struggle between the CIA and the NSA over congressional oversight and funding.

dianne feinstein· john brennan· cia· senate intelligence committee· torture report· constitutional oversight· hacking

1:28:34 Having the time of his life Maybe he'll get laid. That's pretty much it that because you know, we're not getting paid. That's for sure And then of course we had the real fun stuff, which is also completely being mischaracterized for what it really is Did you have a short clip of? Fine fine knuckle. I have something I have three minutes. Oh you got 128. Oh I have a this is this is this is within the I'm sorry it's within a bigger is it within a context then let me let me play a small bit a Dianne Feinstein senator Feinstein

1:29:19 Well, actually, I think this is a good setup clip, so I think you should play mine first. Should I set it up, the clip, or does this clip set it up itself? I think the clip sets it up. The CIA and the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee blew up publicly today. California Democrat Dianne Feinstein accused the agency of improperly searching a computer network set up for senators to review classified material. It was part of a probe into interrogations of terror suspects. The CIA's search may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution, including the speech and debate clause. It may have undermined the constitutional framework essential to effective congressional oversight of intelligence activities or any other government function.

1:30:12 The head of the CIA, John Brennan, later disputed any claim that the agency tried to obstruct the Senate investigation. He spoke at an event in Washington. We are not trying at all to prevent its release. As far as the allegations of CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldn't do that. When the facts come out on this, I think a lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved wrong. The issue has now been referred to the Justice Department to determine if there were any criminal wrongdoing.

1:30:53 As it saying that, oh, this is really about the Bush torture program. But of course it's not. What this is about is the NSA versus the CIA. And to me, at least to me, it was clearly very obvious. Whereas Feinstein, who has been all in on NSA spying on citizens, All of a sudden, you know, she has an opportunity to lash out at the CIA and the CIA is the are the ones that are trying to bring the whole NSA down a peg because those guys got all the money and I think that's big time in play. Now I watched the whole Brennan

1:31:34 Event which was mentioned here in this clip. Yeah, I was at the Council of Foreign Relations I think or one of those things and Andrea Mitchell who is a news model She wasn't she was interviewing him and narrating the event And she stopped the event and break first And so if there was any inappropriate actions that were taken related to that review either by CIA or by the SSI staff I'll be the first one to say we need to get to the bottom of it. And if I did something wrong, I will go to the president and I will explain to him exactly what I did and what the findings were. And he is the one who can ask me to stay or to go. Okay. Well, that's the words we need to hear. The president. And of course, if I were the president, I wouldn't fire the guy who can drone me. Hey, why don't you hang around? You're just fine, Mr. Brennan. I think there is a part of this that is out to get Brennan.

1:32:31 I don't know what part but I get the sense there is and also this is a convoluted story at the base. If you listen to the Newshour report he says, you know, we don't care about anyone preventing the release. He never mentions what it is. It's this huge 6,000 page report on torture and then it turns out that The Justice Department or I'm sorry the CIA filed a complaint with the Justice Department against the committee Which doesn't get talked about hardly at all no because what happened was the way the way I understand you tell me what you Understand is that the CIA actually set up a special computer system owned by the CIA for the committee's use and

1:33:11 so they were monitoring it and apparently the committee was using this free computer and then the stuff would start to disappear from it because the CIA was knowing everything that was going on and that's because it's their computer. Now what happened apparently is one of the staffers or a whistleblower from the possibly the NSA got into the system and printed out some memos that weren't supposed to be seen or taken away from the secure area and they were taken out of the secure area and handed over to Feinstein and the committee and they blew up. Yeah. Say wait a minute we didn't know this we're supposed to know everything. Meanwhile they put this indictment out and so then Feinstein countered with her indictment of interfering with the oversight committee and this is now just a joke.

1:34:01 And it's not clear where it's headed. You want to hear a joke? Brennan starts off this thing, this Council on Foreign Relations. Now, I remember us talking about this on the show. I was surprised he actually stood up there, admitted it, and made like it was hilarious. Now, just over a year ago, I had the privilege of placing my hand on the very first printed copy of the Constitution. a draft edited and annotated personally by George Washington himself that is one of the most treasured items held in the National Archives. With my hand on that document, Vice President Biden swore me in as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. I chose to take my oath on that precious piece of history as a clear affirmation of what the Constitution means to all of us at the agency. We have no higher duty than to uphold and defend the rule of law as we strive every day to protect our fellow citizens.

1:34:59 Like so many things involving CIA, though, people read nefarious intentions into my decision to take my oath on an early draft of the Constitution that did not contain the Bill of Rights, our Constitution's first ten amendments. So at the risk of disappointing any conspiracy theorists who might be here today, let me assure all of you that I, along with my CIA colleagues, firmly believe in and honor not only the Constitution, but also the Bill of Rights, as well as all subsequent amendments to our Constitution. Well, that's that then. We're done. Yeah. He basically took the oath but not on the first 10 amendments which include, I don't know, speech, freedom of press, right to bear arms, a warrantless search. But he has the gall to stand there and say, hey you conspiracy theorists who might be here.

CHAPTER 14 / 24 Discussion

Liz Wahl and CNN International Bahrain Controversy

Former RT anchor Liz Wahl, who resigned on-air to protest Russian propaganda, is scrutinized for her previous interest in working for CNN. A 2012 interview is resurfaced where Wahl spoke with Amber Lyon about CNN International suppressing a documentary on Bahrain because the regime was a paying customer. The segment highlights the perceived hypocrisy of news models moving between state-funded and corporate-funded networks.

liz wahl· cnn international· bahrain· amber lyon· rt· vladimir putin· journalism

1:35:55 I don't remember us talking about it, but we probably did. I would have thought the following. The guy's religious and he couldn't put his hand on the Bible and swear the oath because he knows he's full of crap. He'd be hit by lightning. Boo time! Immediately. Oh yes. Now, I saw you had something on Abby Martin? Yeah, I'm yeah, Abby Martin. I have a follow-up. I have a Liz wall follow-up. Well, this is on this is her going off on on Nuclear power. Oh good in a very awkward way that I thought was and it's just really kind of an evergreen piece It's if it's about Liz wall is then none to do with it. Okay. Well, should we hold on to this or do you want to? No, I'm gonna hold on to it. Okay, so we're not gonna play good then. Let me let me play this Liz wall thing I

1:36:54 Doug back a little bit, you know to some of her previous work as a news model a news model of the future multi culti girl She has the look Let us reminisce for one moment a callback to her answer to Neil Cavuto's questions Would you go to MSNBC? Maybe would you go to CNN? Yes. Would you go to Fox? Oh my gosh, well we'll see what offers stand. It's all a promotional anyway, isn't it?

1:37:43 barbaric Putin and the lies that the Russian government has makes her say or I don't know it's just some dumb reason. Here she is from 2012 interviewing Amberlynn from CNN. Now the documentary that we just saw a clip of never aired it never aired on CNN International why not? Well Well, I still haven't been given an exact reason as to why not, why it didn't air. I went and visited with the president of CNN International, Tony Maddox, twice on behalf of my dumbfounded crew and we were never given an answer. And so I started

1:38:29 investigating the situation, Liz, after several employees who'd been at the network for years approached me and said, you need to look into this, there's something going on. It's very strange they're not airing your documentary. I should mention this is the documentary about Bahrain. uh... that was not a re and after some investigation we found out that cnn international is actually making money from the buffering regime they they are a a customer of offering barbara is paying cnn national to create content that shows buffering in a favorable light uh... and and then air also not only to create that content list to then air that content on cnn international uh...

1:39:10 The military troops shot and killed unarmed protesters. I'm very, I'm surprised. Do you think Liz forgot? Okay, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Is that the end of the clip? It goes a little, it goes on if you... Yeah, that's the clip of the day. Thank you so much. Let's cut. Let me just check one more time. Would you go to MSNBC? Uh, maybe. Would you go to CNN? Yes. Oh, okay. Yeah! Because, you know, CNN is... Beautiful. CNN is... Beautiful catch. CNN is obviously... It's like over the head, running toward the wall, slamming off the wall... Putin! With the ball in your hand. And that is how we call out the bossy morons. I'm gonna show my salute by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab.

CHAPTER 15 / 24 Discussion

PBS Style Donation Pitch for No Agenda

A satirical donation pitch is presented in the style of a PBS pledge drive, emphasizing the value of thoughtful news analysis without angry confrontations. The segment encourages listeners to visit the show's website to provide financial support for independent journalism.

pbs· public broadcasting· donation pitch· value for value· journalism· media analysis

1:40:05 Yeah, my mistake I see it here. Shall I just play it? No. I'm sorry. I have to set this up. We're going to start this over again and you're going to play that after this is done. I'm sorry. I slipped. I do a lot of work. I slipped. I'm sorry. I didn't do it on purpose. I'm just going to explain to the audience. I went to a lot of work. I was watching some of the professionals who know how to ask for money on PBS. Yeah, and I realize that they're essentially asking for the people out there to donate to our show and with some very very very slick editing I put together this little pre donation clip That will just show you I mean this is I think it's they're talking about us now. Hold on a second This is PBS public broadcasters and this is the television guys who even though they have commercials every 15 minutes

1:41:04 real commercials they still ask pitch they have to pitch for money from viewers like you and and this is and you have done you have done some produce some journalism here So it's now a slick production for the No Agenda Show. Every contribution will go straight to work for us. So even though you might be hard-pressed to put a dollar value on everything you get from the No Agenda Show, please take a minute to give it a try. Just ask yourself how much it's worth to hear thoughtful discussion and analysis of news stories without the angry confrontations you find elsewhere.

1:41:42 Think about the value of journalists who explore those issues in depth with solid reporting and valuable insights. A program like The No Agenda Show makes you a more informed citizen and helps you make important decisions in your life. That's why we think you'll agree that it's NoAgendaShow.com is worth your support. I'm gonna show my support by donating to no agenda imagine all the people who could do that. Oh, yeah Very good By the way, I think somehow I'm not sure how it works, but you get a clip of the day as well It's produced

CHAPTER 16 / 24 Discussion

Listener Birthdays, Karma Requests, and Email Technicalities

The hosts process a long list of listener donations, birthday wishes, and "karma" requests for various personal milestones. A technical discussion ensues regarding the use of hashtags in email subject lines, which may be causing messages to be flagged as spam. One host explains the complexities of running a private mail server and the aggressive blocking policies of providers like AOL.

karma· birthdays· paypal· email server· hashtags· spam filters· aol

1:42:36 Smick, I might add. Smick. I'm starting to get a job using that as my reel. Able to Colorado, we want to thank a few people who helped us up on show 599. Able to Colorado, $146.01 from Broomfield, Colorado. You guys are always keeping me ahead of the news. So for my value for value, I'm throwing ahead of the curve with one for 601. And it is 14601. Nice. Which is the gimmicky little way of doing it. We got that from somebody who came in for 1-4-6-hundred, 1-4-6-dot-oh-oh. Maxwell Thin, $111.11 from Seattle. I don't have a note from him, I'm sure he wants to bring some people up on the stage. Kevin Benson, $100.01, we're not doing the stage today anyway. Kevin Benson, $101.01 from Yowie Bay, New South Wales. And that apparently is 33 in binary. Ooh. Ooh. Nice, huh? Nice. Huh.

1:43:36 Okay, one zero zero zero one. Yeah, we'll have to deal with that sir Stephen McGrath and Darien, Illinois $100 even Jay Kumar in Beverly, Massachusetts 100 Kurt kubal and mound, Minnesota nuts with 999 and then also Jared Wolfe in Nederland which is where you can have those meetings with your buddies in the diplomatic. That's right. Texas, Nederland, Texas. Please give me and my wife some newlywed karma. Jared and Whitney Wolfe were honeymooning in Fredericksburg, Texas and will be listening to the show on the long drive home.

1:44:27 Oh, that's nice. Well, I mean, let me give him a little bit of honeymoon karma there. You've got karma. Sometimes we can do that. Okay, Sir Grebulon chimes in from Tel Aviv at 6970 and he does have something to say which I have to mention. He says, I'm reading this... I'm reading State of Fear and I have to say it's a bad book. Not only it's boring, but it also feels propagandistic. Be sure that I don't buy into the global warming crap, but this book doesn't help. I don't recommend reading it. If you're a believer, it won't turn you and you're not no point in boring yourself. But the book is not meant to change anyone's mind. It's a novel. Yeah, it's fiction. Yeah. Well, he was looking for something else and he's highly disappointed.

1:45:21 Sir Andrew Gardner in Charlotte Hall. He's from Israel. He's an angry Jew, John. That's what happens. Angry Jew. He's... Grebulon's always been angry. Yeah, he has. So let's go to our little theme song here. 69! 69, dude! Also only two today. Back down to two, which is our thematic number. Sir Andrew Gardner is in Charlotte Hall, Maryland. And he is matched up with James Deering in Conroe, Texas. And we do have a happy birthday coming up. And so something here about Elliot Garner. Do we have Elliot Garner as a knight? Well, this is what's interesting. I sent you, I forwarded, you were copied on the email, I forwarded the email, I sent it again and you just refused to answer. I did? Yes.

1:46:15 So we'll just do the birthday part and we'll talk about the other part. Okay. Sir Andrew, I don't remember getting this mail. Ah well because... Sir, okay, I'm not going to worry about it. But anyway, he wants to wish Elliot Gardner a happy birthday tomorrow on the 14th, which we will do. But he was... you know what, we need to discuss it anyway. Sir Andrew Lemonson, Lemonson. Hold on a second. He wanted to transfer credits for you can't transfer your credits to someone else's knighthood. You can't do that, can you? We do it all the time. No, but no, but I've already donated. So he... Is he a double knight? Okay, we'll talk about it. We're to have a meeting. Yeah, well, that's why I sent you the email twice. Well, I didn't see it. I don't know what maybe this title subject line. It was something I didn't want to look at. Listen, I'll shut up. When you send me an email, I read it.

1:47:14 Yeah? I sent you an email, the subject's not good enough? No, I don't know why I didn't open it. You know, it probably came in at some weird hour. You have those strange Texas hours. I don't know. I'm sorry. I normally read your email. I'm sorry, I didn't realize that your emails, the way you consume emails, is based on time. It's a fact. So if I send it in the middle of the night, the chances are it won't get read? Probably, because I'll wake up in the morning with 400 emails backed up and I just kind of glance at them and I'm on my way to do the email that comes in in the morning. Wow. I get a lot of email. From who?

1:47:51 You want me to go over the list? Yeah, would you go over the list for the last hour at the 400 500 names? It's no one from the no agenda show because they always email me when they say tell John he's wrong Tell John there were 16,000 people dead in the tsunami. Did you get those emails? No, cuz well you said that was wrong with 1600 I must have received a hundred emails John's wrong! It's 16,000, the report was right! You didn't get a single one of those emails. No. So what are these 400 emails you're getting? Please join us at South by Southwest for our whiskey tasting. Wow. Okay, here's the ones I got from you that I haven't opened. There's three of them, they just came in. Just now? No, there's got to be more. No, well I can read all the ones that... Okay, break... Okay, here's one.

1:48:45 Adam here's one from March 12th. It says our e newsletter, please read ASAP I did not open this but now I'm gonna open it. It says some of them could bring a pretty penny Okay. All right. I didn't need to open that. I don't know what it means It was a response to your to your email, but the joke about the newsletter. Oh, okay Because you had you you okay. Here's the other one that you sent that I didn't open world's owners somebody else Compensation math I don't have the email about about that's the one right there What is what is compensation mathematics slash Common Core? No? ITM na 599 donation 3 4 600 no intro So you're telling me that you don't have an email. Well. This is a problem I find this to be a serious problem if you're not getting my emails I don't have any email that I haven't opened and what was the title of it? I'm gonna tell you right now

1:49:56 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. You have a scent box? Yes, I do. It was birthday request. No, that's not it. I'm sorry. No, that's not it. That's not it. That's not it. Hold on. That's not it. Here it is. A Gardner hashtag donation note hashtag nighting hashtag birthday. Okay, well, let me just look up in the search engine hashtag birthday and see if I got anything in here because it's not showing up on this list. Hashtag birthday.

1:50:35 I forwarded it twice. Well, no! No messages found with hashtag birthday. Hmm. Don't put hashtags in the subject line. It probably gets pulled away as spam. Wow, no wonder you're not getting any email. Everybody's putting hashtags in this. I don't recommend it. I recommend it. I'm looking in the spam, hi spam box is not in here. What kind of setup are you running there? It went right to spam because it looks like a piece of spam. It's not spam. You're sending me spam. No wonder I'm not opening your mail. All right, onward then. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out, Sir Andrew. Don't worry about it.

1:51:15 I'll look into the hashtag thing but I believe that's what it is. Which is great! Yeah, for you. Anthony Coangelo, back to work. $60.05. Congratulations on show 600. We got a lot of 60s. We had 6009, 6005. Robert McBeth, 6005. This means they want us to go dark. He's in Vancouver. Alan Covado III in Midlothian, Virginia. $60.05. It means he wants us to go dark.

1:51:50 On 420 which is Easter which is the day you're taking off and coincidentally is 420 day. Hello, it's going back on to stuff That's right I'm going back on to 420. Okay, uh Brian Doherty in Brooklyn, New York And by the way, these people all say I think you guys need to take a break Well, it doesn't mean we can't do a clip show Dame Monica Lansing in Drayton Valley, Alberta she gave $60.04 so it's the fourth thing I remember what it was Paul Robertson Uppertrack West Virginia $60.04 Michael Kowalczyk in Bell Mead New Jersey $60.02 Israel Cazares in Houston $60.02

1:52:43 Matthew Januszewski in Chicago, 6002. The rest of these are $60 congratulatory donations. See if there's anything, read along there and see if there's anything we should mention. James Callahan in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Brandy Prunier in Phoenix, Arizona. It was her birthday there. Mark Montgomery in Mississauga, Ontario. Dave Carey in Clermont, Florida. Scott Fuller in Cumming, Georgia. Luke DiCarlo in Bay City, Michigan. And scroll down sir Timothy Chang night and mothership pass holder here Just want some karma for my girlfriend Nouria for being with me through thick and thin But we do we do break for nights. So might as well do that one for a second. You've got karma. We try Massachusetts Massachusetts nuts, I'm sorry Sebastian white in Castle Rock, Colorado $60 in here. He got some job karma and liked it sir Sander

1:53:44 Hossbergen in Zondam. So this is his third. He says he's now, I think he's a Baron now. He's a Baron. Yeah. Hey. Hey Baron. Eric McCarowich in Socorro, New Mexico. Second Mile Productions in Liberty, Maine. That's our friends who used to be in Ohio where we stayed on the Hot Pockets tour and they're now in Maine. You guys are the best, he says. Mikael Garber in Issaquah, Washington, 60.

1:54:20 Eric Wells 60 from Jefferson, Georgia and next to him is Sean Reed in Bethlehem, Georgia 60 sir Brian Ferguson Foothill Ranch, California He's baronet actually Daniel Hoffman Urbana, Illinois 60 we got a lot of 60s here. Well, that's because it's a celebration. Holy Springs, North Carolina Tim Conner in Edmonton, Alberta and finally Patrick Began in Arlington, Massachusetts and Kyle Media Group K I le media group at Mount Airy Maryland onward Richard Gordon 59 94 and Greeley, Colorado and he

1:55:02 Really really is what is about greedy? There's something about there's a story about that place Stephen Schwartz in Schwartz shirts shirts, Texas is it shirts here in Texas. I don't know 5992 I don't and there's Ed Kvist in Holger Sten Sweden 5678 sir Kevin Payne Richmond, Virginia 5069 Shannon Adkins in Warren, Michigan 50-50. 50-50. You don't get enough of those. Barcelona Jazz, $50.01 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, UK.

1:55:41 Walter Grant IV in Moreno Valley, California. These are all $50 donors. Brandon Savoie, parts unknown. Mike Westerfield, parts unknown. Paul Vela in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK. Finally, Antonio McMullen, Jason Fortin, Geneva, Illinois. Sukovi Alexander in Moscow. Say hi to Snowden, by the way. John Streg in San Antonio, Texas, who sent a nice note. Kevin Hamilton in Chantilly, Virginia and finally Scott Soltis is a common contributor from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Wow nice list. Thank you all very much for the 600

1:56:25 Congratulations. We of course those are the 60s and the 600s are many many thanks to our executive producers for today's show our special producers special executive producers and our associate executive producers and of course the big 600 is on Sunday and we really appreciate everyone helping us out as we all really keeping the show going. Yes we have to have these events every once in a while And I'd just like to remind everybody how it works and why we do it. Every contribution will go straight to work for us. So even though you might be hard-pressed to put a dollar value on everything you get from the NO AGENDA SHOW, please take a minute to give it a try.

1:57:07 Just ask yourself how much it's worth to hear thoughtful discussion and analysis of news stories without the angry confrontations you find elsewhere. Think about the value of journalists who explore those issues in depth with solid reporting and valuable insights. A program like The No Agenda Show makes you a more informed citizen and helps you make important decisions in your life. That's why we think you'll agree that it's NoAgendaShow.com is worth your support. There you go. And here's the karma for everybody who requested some. You've got karma. And help us out for Sunday's show.

1:57:54 Dan Wycheck celebrated two days ago, March 11th. Cartus Graubich Jr. turns 48 today. And Sir Andrew Gardner says happy birthday to Elliot Gardner. He'll be celebrating tomorrow on the 14th. And Brandi Prunier says happy birthday to Dominic Massangelo, born on the 10th of March of this year. Happy birthday! Welcome human resource from your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe And we congratulate sir Sander Huxbergen Who has now become a baron of the no agendas and we do not have his protector info yet But I presume he'll want to do something in the lowlands Maybe he should take Groningen. They need to protecting up there from all the fracking all the earthquakes so what I could do is

1:58:51 is I can put you, I never thought I'd have to do this but I'm gonna do it. Put me on the whitelist. I'm gonna put you on the whitelist which has never been a problem before but that's before you start using hashtags in the subject line. And so I will put you on the white list, I won't have to worry about the hashtags in the subject line anymore. But it's, so a one character determines whether it goes to spam or not? Well you said yourself it was hashtag this, hashtag that, hashtag this, it looks like a piece of spam. Apparently people are doing this, it's probably some new spam trick that is being, that some people use, I don't know, I have no idea, all I know is it disappeared. I don't know how spam, you know, I have enough trouble getting people to open our newsletter. Yeah, that's true. I got an email from someone today, you know, telling us with a picture of that we ran this picture in December. Of course, I'm always scolding some of these people. You do the same thing. Sends me the picture that we ran in the newsletter and talked about in December of Obama chatting up the Danish woman with

1:59:53 Mrs. Obama giving him the step guy. Right, right, right. He sends me these pictures, he says, send this to Adam, this proves that there's an affair going on. Yeah, and I said, what are you, this is like old, under the, water under the bridge. He said, thanks for listening. Yeah, and I said, then I criticized him for not looking at the newsletter. Now we're listening for that. I think a lot of people don't listen to the show and then they send us stuff. You know, those guys are no agenda with like this. Yeah, no, no, it's worse than that. The people have, what's that iPad app? The, uh, it's like the, the turns everything into like a magazine flip board. Yeah. Flip board. Yeah. And so they, you know, like, wow, this is interesting article. Let me send it. Click. That's the problem. But it's okay. I don't mind.

2:00:42 Because I have a, I run my own mail server. I run it so if things start to disappear or don't show up, then I can make them appear. I don't have to talk to some guy. I believe that you can't even receive email from AOL currently. Probably. Just letting you know. So. All right, let's stay. What makes you say that? Because I know your guy. And he's kind of aggressive. Yeah, that's what he does. Okay, so for some reason, here's what happens. For some reason, your email, if you send it to an AOL.com address, AOL automatically blocks that. So what he does is, oh, fuck him, I'll block him back! Which means you don't get any email from anyone in an AOL.com account. Do I want any email from anyone in AOL.com? Maybe not, it's not a problem for me.

CHAPTER 17 / 24 Discussion

ABC World News Nuclear War and Ukraine Propaganda

ABC World News and Diane Sawyer are criticized for using Cold War-era sound effects and mushroom cloud imagery to hype the threat of nuclear war with Russia. The coverage includes reports on Russian ICBM tests and alleged landmines at the Crimean border. Critics argue the media is manufacturing a narrative of inevitable civil war in Ukraine to support Western intervention.

abc world news· diane sawyer· icbm· nuclear war· crimea· ukraine· propaganda

2:01:42 Let's talk about Ukraine for a moment. I do have some concerns. Amidst all of the very important news that Bill Nye the Science Guy is telling us about the black boxes and Chinese satellite pictures, amidst all of that, wow, I checked out some ABC World news tonight. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. They are really, really hyping it. You played that, I think, the Diane Sawyer stuff with all the sound effects? They keep doing this. This is really insane. And they brought back clips from the 50s even. That signal means to stop whatever you are doing and get to the nearest safe place fast.

2:02:29 That very real threat of nuclear war seems a long time ago. But watching developments this week, it was hard not to think about those bad old days of the Cold War. Russian troops on the march, the U.S. sending fighter jets to Eastern Europe. Vladimir Putin test firing an intercontinental ballistic missile. That ICBM though unarmed, an especially sharp reminder that America still remains on alert for nuclear war. Listen to all these great sound effects. They literally are showing the ICBM, the jets, they're showing satellite dishes spinning. Nuclear!

2:03:13 across mushroom clouds planes of our country are scattered. I'm not kidding, they just showed a mushroom cloud. 450 of them nuclear tipped missiles that could destroy the world still manned every hour of every day. You can drive by this remote site and have no idea there was a nuclear missile silo here but essentially the nuclear warhead is just 10 feet below me. They actually went out of the studio and did a remote like ENG shoot in the desert to go talk to the nuke the the the tip the nuclear tipped operators that's not the way she said that kind of sounded kind of sexual by the way the tip the tip is armed didn't you hear that yeah no but i drive by this i want to hear that again

2:04:10 Everything on television is sexually based. ...planes of our country are scattered 450 of them nuclear-tipped missiles that could destroy the world. I've got a nuclear-tipped missile in my pants for you baby. Alright so okay so they're they're hyping up and this works by the way people watch ABC and look at this and go holy crap nuclear war I see a mushroom cloud there's a nuclear-tipped missile But they're also hyping, and this is dangerous, civil war in Ukraine, which there is really no

2:04:46 discussion about, but they're just making it up. This is so not true. The country's not going to split apart. Thanks for having me on tonight. My argument is that we are truly in a time of need.

2:05:28 And it's not like it's gonna like jump up and run over to Russia, but it's also there's not gonna be a split the middle of the country, but that's what they want you to believe. Good morning, Alex. Good morning. Good morning, Martha. These forces are part of what is believed to be a growing Russian presence here. Believed, yeah, because they have no insignias. This morning, their control tightening by the minute. Of course, Russia is denying these troops are even theirs. on the move large unmarked convoys of troops believed to be Russian weekend crisscrossing the Crimean Peninsula the Ukraine Crimea border reportedly now littered with landmines planted by don't you love it Oh Russian forces

2:06:11 who for the past three days have blocked international military monitors from entering Crimea, even firing warning shots. In just 10 days, Russia has seized Crimea, border crossings, airports, government buildings and military bases. Just a handful still in Ukrainian control, but surrounded. And diplomatic efforts are still going nowhere. Presidents Obama and Putin talking past each other on an hour-long phone call. The US criticizing next weekend's scheduled vote here to decide if Crimea should break off and join Russia. Crimea is Ukraine. We support territorial integrity. Now listen, now we're gonna get man on the street.

2:06:54 of Ukraine. As Crimea prepares for next Sunday's referendum, this mostly Russian region is showing where its allegiances lie. So what kind of passport would you like to have? Russian. I hate Ukrainians. I hate Ukrainians! I hate you! So this is so... this is real propaganda. Wow, that was bad. Yeah, this is huge, huge, huge propaganda. Yeah, what is the point? Answer me that, Batman. Oh, okay. The point is Unfortunately, to further the neocon, the neoconservative agenda, and I went back and looked it all up, the Project for the New American Century, which, oh by the way,

2:07:36 The Republican hero Marco Rubio is all in on. Thanks for having me on tonight. My argument is that we're actually on the verge of a new American century. So much of what's happening around the world is of such tremendous benefit, but there's some things we're going to have to do to get that right. It's within our reach, but we're going to have to change our laws and we're going to have to change our tax code and we're going to have to change a number of regulations that we have so that we can encourage innovation, investment, expanding access to markets. So this is that's his new American century literally a neoconservative term and thinking and then we had yes we got us in just what broke the country when we went to Iraq. Iraq is all part of that scheme. Yes and while we're at it why don't we bring back the the vampire the zombie Dick Cheney. Why did he even let this guy, everyone hates him.

CHAPTER 18 / 24 Discussion

Dick Cheney and the Neoconservative Agenda in Europe

Former Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on Sunday news shows to advocate for reinstating ballistic missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. Cheney used the term "appeasement" to describe President Obama's foreign policy, drawing parallels to Neville Chamberlain and Hitler. The neoconservative agenda, supported by figures like Marco Rubio, pushes for increased military presence and NATO commitments in the Baltic states.

dick cheney· marco rubio· neocon· nato· poland· ballistic missile defense· appeasement

2:06:54 of Ukraine. As Crimea prepares for next Sunday's referendum, this mostly Russian region is showing where its allegiances lie. So what kind of passport would you like to have? Russian. I hate Ukrainians. I hate Ukrainians! I hate you! So this is so... this is real propaganda. Wow, that was bad. Yeah, this is huge, huge, huge propaganda. Yeah, what is the point? Answer me that, Batman. Oh, okay. The point is Unfortunately, to further the neocon, the neoconservative agenda, and I went back and looked it all up, the Project for the New American Century, which, oh by the way,

2:07:36 The Republican hero Marco Rubio is all in on. Thanks for having me on tonight. My argument is that we're actually on the verge of a new American century. So much of what's happening around the world is of such tremendous benefit, but there's some things we're going to have to do to get that right. It's within our reach, but we're going to have to change our laws and we're going to have to change our tax code and we're going to have to change a number of regulations that we have so that we can encourage innovation, investment, expanding access to markets. So this is that's his new American century literally a neoconservative term and thinking and then we had yes we got us in just what broke the country when we went to Iraq. Iraq is all part of that scheme. Yes and while we're at it why don't we bring back the the vampire the zombie Dick Cheney. Why did he even let this guy, everyone hates him.

2:08:30 He shoots his friends in the face, and he, oh please come back on, he was on Not Meet the Press, one of those Sunday shows. And he sits there and listened to the code that he threw out about, now remember, At least I think we're kind of in agreement here. President Obama had no idea what was going on. He's not running this show. This is the State Department, this is John Kerry, this is Skull and Bones, this is Yale, this is literally the same people, Victoria Noodleman's husband and his brother. These are the Project for the New American Century people. These are the neoconservatives. They want to go back.

2:09:13 to the plan they had when Bush was still president, which means get the missiles back in Poland and start screwing with Putin again. But listen to the code that Cheney used. Tell me what our options are. today? Well, I think I worry when we begin to address a crisis by the first thing we do is take options off the table. I don't think the administration should do that. Have they done that? I'm in a sense saying no military. He seems to operate that way most of the time. There are military options that don't involve putting troops on the ground in Crimea. We could go back and reinstate the ballistic missile defense program that was taken out.

2:09:56 originally going to go in Poland, Czech Republic, Obama took it out to appease Putin. We could do training exercises and... Did you catch it? What, training exercises? To appease Putin. Oh, to appease Putin, yeah. This is of course a code for saying he's like Chamberlain who appeases Hitler. Yeah, they've used the word appease as a problem. Yeah, basically he's saying, oh, he's letting Hitler take over. If you look at the years... I wrote a column just using these kind of hot terms. I believe it was in the 80s or something. It was when Rambus was a player. They had developed a high-speed memory chip.

2:10:39 system that was based on computer networking protocols for the chip to communicate with within itself and within other chips it was advanced. Sounds sexy. And there was some bunches lawsuits flying around and I used the word and this was a company run by Indians and I used the word... Towelhead? That would be a Sikh by the way, very few Indians have a towel on their head. I use the word that they've, something about it, they had to pay a fee or they had to pay a tribute, I use the word tribute to Intel and the CEO got on the phone and he went on and on about we don't pay tribute

2:11:23 to any the term tribute itself had offended him so gravely because it was like a some sort of an insult that was beyond me I don't know what it was but apparently was some religious thing or you only pay tribute you you I don't know all I know is that the guy was very upset about and maybe an Indian or one Indian listener will tell me why the word tribute is offensive and apparently it is interesting and I just thought it was the biggest kind of weirdness, but the appease is another one of these hot terms and it's used to sway the public. You're right, he used it for a reason. Oh yes, if you look at the the book of knowledge, appeasement, Neville Chamberlain, September 27th, 1938,

2:12:06 refusal to accept Nazi demands to cede border areas to Germany. Appeasement in the political context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict. The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of British Prime Minister Minister Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany between 37 and 39 and of course famously that didn't work and then you know the whole bunch of Jews died. That's basically the message Cheney is sending. Go in Poland, Czech Republic, Obama took it out to appease Putin. We could do training exercises. By the way, I like how he says Crimea. Poland, join. I got Crimea. We can offer military assistance in terms of equipment, training and so forth to the Ukrainians themselves. So there's an activation of military forces, are there not?

2:12:53 some activation. In terms of having forces come and make their appearance there. On our part? Yes. I'm not aware of any detail. NATO, I'm sure NATO will think about it. Right. So now here is basically, this is a good one, he's now going to say our president is weak. I think there's no question, he believes he is weak. He has seen the so-called reset policy that's led to giving up on the ballistic missile defenses for example. We have created an image around the world, not just for the Russians, of weakness and indecisiveness. The Syrian situation is a classic. We've got all ready to do something. A lot of the allies signed on at the last minute. Obama backed off. This guy is unbelievable. He basically wants to kill people. This guy is the biggest a-hole in the universe. If I was near him, I would unplug his pacemaker and just rip that thing out of his pocket. Die.

2:13:53 This is really unbelievable. This guy's just sitting there, we got to put the missiles back, put it back the way it was. He just wants war. He just wants war machinery for his war machine companies to go and we don't even need the war, although that would be just jolly if we could have that. But let's get ready for it at least. This guy, this guy is, he needs to be stopped. Here's his steps now. Why do they keep putting him on the air? Because he owns everybody. Somebody owns somebody. And here are his final steps. This is the agenda of what we're going to do. You know, the guy, let's stop right there. The guy, as far as I can tell, looking at all the evidence that's been laid out, is a war criminal. Yes! He should not be on television. No, they should not give him the time of day. He shouldn't even be alive. This guy is living on a battery. Yeah, that makes you wonder. He's living on a battery pack.

2:14:50 For all of the... I remember when everyone hated this guy. Now they put him on television, ask him his opinion about what we should do. Senior statesman. Yes. Because, friends of the No Agenda Show, these are the guys running this scene, this play, this act. They are the ones running this show. Your president is running nothing. He sits with yats in the big brown leather chairs going blah blah blah blah blah And you know he gets to receive the guy with the pencil pants This this is so this is frightening and all they have to do is start, you know, so of course ABC What are they gonna do? Oh, yeah, we'll start talking about the Civil War. Yeah, you watch the missiles are going back in Poland. It's gonna happen

2:15:46 And we're gonna start this thing all over again. This was the first thing that Obama did and it just like screw that guy Screw that president we're taking over and they are all right. Here's here's the here's the plan He's gonna tell you in one minute. Here's what's gonna happen. You do not believe we should allow him What are we prepared to do to stop him? Well, that's the key question. What's your answer? Then my answer is reinstate the ballistic missile defense program in Poland he cares a lot about that and conduct joint military exercises with our NATO friends close to the Russian border. Yeah, these are all great ideas. Why don't you go up to the bully and kick sand in his face? Yes. Offer up equipment and training to the Ukrainian military. Yeah, equipment and training and consultants. Take steps that will guarantee and convey the notion, especially to our friends in Europe, that we keep our commitments. So far that's in doubt.

2:16:40 and I think it's as matter much a matter of sending a strong signal. What do you mean? Yeah we keep our commitments but it's got what's it got to do the with Ukraine and Crimea? We have no commitments to them. No he's talking about NATO commitments. What's this got to do with NATO? Is NATO state under attack? No no no I think what he's referring to is that we didn't go in and bomb Syria. That we didn't keep our commitment the red line all that. I think that's what he's referring to everybody was ready That's what he said everybody was ready. We were all ready to go and Syria attacking NATO. I don't remember that part of the story no

2:17:21 But NATO was going to go in and attack Syria. NATO is a defensive organization. It's designed to protect those nations in Western Europe. What did NATO do with Libya? Was Libya attacking one of the states? No. One of the Western European states? No, but that's what NATO does. They go in and kill people. This doesn't make sense to me. NATO is supposed to be a protective organization. Yeah, well... It protects. Yes, we protect citizens. We protect citizens who are... It's like the police coming over to your house out of the blue just beating the crap out of you just because. But the US will keep its commitments to our...

2:18:05 our friends and allies that's been in doubt for some time now because of the policies of the... Yeah, the schwarz says no good! Obama administration this becomes a crucial moment. So you think those nations in those Baltic nations... Why doesn't he just say it? He should... This guy I think is a racist. Of all the people I always defend, I think this guy actually really hates Obama. Mainly because he's black. Cheney? Of course. Mainly because he's black. I truly believe... From Wyoming, no offense to you. No offense to Wyoming. The two people from Wyoming that listen to the show. Cheney is just... you can just... that guy is a dick. Oh! That's his name. Should be nervous as to whether NATO and their members of the NATO alliance will come to their defense. Yep. We have a treaty obligation under Article 5 of the NATO Treaty.

2:18:50 would attack against ones and hack it all against all and we absolutely Nobody, but it's just he's a warmonger. We'll find if you go to Lithuania Latvia Estonia today that our friends there recognize they've got Russian minority populations inside they were under the control of the old Soviet Union for decades and Now they're free and independent states, but they depend upon the United States for leadership and guaranteeing their leadership That's what we're looking for. Leadership by pointing our nuclear-tipped missiles in your direction. Who needs this? I am so sick of these people. And people in Europe?

2:19:33 You should be sick of it too. And you should be sick of the hijacking that has taken place in Ukraine. Do not buy into these lies. Now the president is like, oh yes, it was a constitutional coup. He's still, no one has recognized the Syrian interim government or the Libyan interim government or anybody, but these guys within three days, oh yeah, that's him, that's the government, we recognize him, oh, it's good to go. Just, ugh. There's still an aspect of this that can't be overlooked in my opinion. Go. Which is that this is still part of the... they've got Snowden and we have to keep up the pressure. I think it's beyond irksome that Russia's just holding on to Snowden. Maybe, maybe, maybe. I think during the the State of the Union, the president

CHAPTER 19 / 24 Discussion

Kathleen Sebelius and the Birth-to-Five Proposal

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discussed the Obama administration's "birth-to-five" proposal, which includes government-funded home visiting programs for newborns. Critics characterize the initiative as an attempt by the state to intervene in early childhood development and social-emotional training. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee is also mocked for a gaffe claiming the U.S. Constitution has been in place for 400 years.

kathleen sebelius· pre-k· home visiting· department of health and human services· education· sheila jackson lee

2:20:30 was talking about pre-K, pre-kindergarten, and we have to get kids in... Yeah, I think those kids started early. And I found this clip of Kathleen Sebelius, as she is the slave master, I would say, because what these schools, these kindergarten and pre-kindergarten is child garden. It's like, you know, you plant the kids in the soil, then you put bull crap in the soil and then the kids soak it up and they become little bull crap children. Here she is explaining why and how we need to deal with our children. Well I would echo everything that Arnie just said about the need to make this a national movement. I

2:21:17 I think that there still needs to be a great understanding that what the president has put on the table is really a birth to five proposal. A birth to five proposal. So, the minute you come out of your mom's uterus, here's the government. Recognizing that you can't start at four year olds. We really need to start at birth. So there will be an enhancement of home visiting, which we know... Home visiting! Hello? I'm from the government, here to check your newborn, make sure your kid is learning. It's an evidence-based strategy that helps parents... Evidence-based! ...the parents from the outset. Helps the first and best teacher a child will ever have learn important skills. It moves in... Learn important skills like pooping and walking and sucking your thumb. ...to then early head start in child care where a lot of parents

2:22:11 choose to have their children as they go to work and make sure that those as you go to camp are quality based programs but also with curriculum and social and emotional skills emotional skills and social skills people the government wants your children they want to enslave your kids living in Sparta the minute it pops out of your uterus hey knock knock home home visit Hi, I'm from the government here to check on your newborn. Yeah, so that you we got to take care of your newborn birth to five. So we can take you so we so you can go to work. Don't be bossy. People aren't up in a hurry upset about this sort of talk. Because because only no agenda show plays this stuff. Where else are you going to get this kind of great stuff? Birth to five. kindergarten is bullcrap. kindergarten is the pre

2:23:12 It's the pre. Yeah. There was, you know, and that was a recent invention. It used to go to the first grade. There was no grade zero. We're not living in a world of computers. All zero one, two, three. It was one first grade. That's the first grade. That's when you start. Oh, wait a minute. Let's start a little earlier. OK, we'll do a little thing for some of the kids that want to, you know, they like to mix it up, throw blocks. Let's start to a kindergarten and they can take naps there. OK, we'll do that now pre kindergarten. And then this bullcrap, birth. But seriously, home visits. Yeah, home visits. I don't want people showing up at my house. They're coming. Yes, the president has put it on the table. We're required to have a home visit once every week. And you know what's going to happen? Oh, I'm sorry. Government jobs, by the way, for the people who can't get work. They're going to take your children away. Yeah. That's what this is about. Don't worry. What a better parent than you. Yeah, the government's much better.

2:24:11 Of course, if you don't do that, and there is some proof to this, if we don't start educating your children while you're at the work camp, they will grow up to be like Sheila Jackson Lee. who says stuff like this. that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years operating under a constitution that clearly defines... Let me see.

2:24:59 How well it is? What is she talking about? 400 years. 400 years? Yeah, apparently. The woman is an idiot. Apparently, well no, she did not, she wasn't on that birth to five program so she was not educated properly. Apparently she believes the Constitution has been in place for over 400 years. Well I think a little math skills would be useful. Wow. So that would put it back in 1614 I guess. We have... Pilgrims are digging out of a mud hut. Now, as you know, one of the things that I like to do in my, well, as part of what we do is read legislation. It's really, I really get off on it, I love it, and one of the things that I spent a lot of time on was the Affordable Care Act. And you probably saw the president did this

CHAPTER 20 / 24 Discussion

Obama on Between Two Ferns and Healthcare Bailouts

President Obama appeared on the comedy web series "Between Two Ferns" with Zach Galifianakis to encourage young people to sign up for the Affordable Care Act before the enrollment deadline. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney touted the video's viral success as a primary referral source for Healthcare.gov. However, analysts point to Section 1342 of the ACA, the "risk corridor" provision, as a taxpayer-funded bailout for insurance companies facing shortfalls.

barack obama· zach galifianakis· funny or die· affordable care act· risk corridor· insurance bailout

2:26:07 Really unfunny video with Zach for lack of Niffin is yeah, everyone saw it well not everyone saw it, but I First of all it was severely edited if you go back and you watch it And you listen just to the audio you can hear the the edits They put a lot of his gestures and stupid stuff. They did that later on and of course that's why you have, you know, a big black background so you can basically split the screen. I really didn't think it was that funny. I didn't think it was funny at all. No. I was kind of like, whoa. Yeah, it was quite dumb. Here's a little bit of spokeshole Carney defending the interview and then I want to read you a little passage, an article from the Affordable Care Act and talk to you about what is really going on here while the mainstream media is fawning over how fantastic this, my goodness, this is just so good.

2:27:05 Of course, it's a last-ditch effort by the president. I never heard that. What? That people were fawning all over this piece of crap. Oh, I didn't even... If you want it, I can grab these clips. I'll play them for you on Sunday. All the mainstream guys were all doing it. Oh, so funny! The youngins, the young people, they know, they love this stuff, the young people. Those young people love those Funny or Die clips, don't they? Will Ferrell and all those people. A lot of Americans are going to sign up and that A lot of young Americans are going to sign up. We saw that in earlier numbers, is that the growth in enrollments is substantial in the 18 to 34 age category. And we expect that to continue. Bullshit! The President's interview with

2:27:55 I've already laughing myself because it was so hilarious Zach Galifianakis on between two ferns was designed to reach Americans Where they live and you know they watch this show in hey stop stop stop stop stop back that up He said did he say between two ferns or two fines ferns ferns ferns he say ferns I think so we can listen again with Zach Galifianakis on Between Two Ferns was designed... He says fines. Fines. Fines. To reach Americans where they live. And, you know, they watch this show in huge numbers. I think the average video gets something like six million views. I'm convinced we're going to break that average. And in fact, as I was walking out here, I think we were close to three million. And that's a good thing. More importantly,

2:28:49 And that's a good thing. Oh, well luckily the press is kind of buying into it. We have seen that the Funny or Die is at least again as I was walking out here was the number one referral to healthcare.gov referral source. Wow. He must have... Actually that is so pathetic if true. that is the number one referral source of course is pathetic late this morning so uh... that's a good thing to work you know we're engaged in an effort to reach every what'd you say i think what it says is that gone are the days when uh... your broadcasts are yours or or yours uh... can reach everybody that we need to reach and that's really smart to say j you know uh...

2:29:40 Tell the press that they're losers. You bring in Zach Galifianakis and all your problems are solved. That's a good quote. You bring in Zach Galifianakis and all your problems are solved? I didn't say that. We're involved in a multifaceted effort to reach communities out there of folks who can benefit from quality affordable health insurance, avail themselves of the options that they'll find. This guy's boring. Why don't you get to your point. Okay, so here's my point. The reason why this is happening now is this is the last ditch effort. There's two more days, I believe, until the open enrollment is over. And the only way the Affordable Care Act works is if there is enough young people who apparently all watch Funny or Die, who then go and are referred to the Gov site and they go and sign up and they get some insurance. Now, of course, we know they're nowhere near the numbers that they need to have.

2:30:34 So there is section 1342 the risk corridor provision which mandates any losses from the insurance company industry be covered up to 80% by taxpayers. This is a bailout of the insurance companies. And this is just a, what's gonna happen is there's gonna be a big ass check is going to be written. We have talked about this before on the show, the reinsurance clause. So the insurers are all reinsured by the government, that's your money, if there's a shortfall in signups. There will be. Millions and millions of people, which is billions of dollars, the government is going to write a big check and the president will go,

2:31:26 Look, I went on Funny or Die and Michelle even went out there and tried to promote it and Valerie Jarrett went out there to promote it. We did everything we could. We did everything we could. Sorry. There you go. It is a bailout. Good catch. It's a bailout. Can I ask you something? I think that's a good catch, but I have to ask you something. Have you ever made any sense to you about this? Open enrollment is over deadline? No, I have no idea what that means. Why don't you just have enrollment? Sign up sign up when you feel like why is there a due date? What's the open enrollment and when we're at admi video? They had this you got the you had November came around every year and says oh, it's open enrollment You can change your health care plan. Yeah, well, why can't you just change your health care plan when you feel like it? No, why is there a short 30-day period where you could jockey around because the Why I don't know it's I'm sure it has something to do with you getting screwed absolutely

CHAPTER 21 / 24 Discussion

Suburgatory and the State of Modern Television

The hosts critique the writing of the ABC show "Suburgatory," describing it as vapid and poorly written. They also discuss the "Real Housewives of New York," specifically a scene involving a prosthetic leg, as an example of the low quality of modern entertainment.

abc· suburgatory· real housewives of new york· television· satire· hollywood

2:32:26 I just find it always to be, it's always annoying. Oh you missed, oh no you missed the day open enrollments closed. Yeah I know exactly what you mean. It's an artificial construct that's being used, it's being used to screw the public. Anyway while we're on, you're talking about ABC and I got these clips, a little off topic, something that's gonna annoy you to no end. You know, I had this thing I was trying to develop for the show that nobody was really warming up to and you didn't like. And in fact, I don't even think you like entertainment anyway. About Guess the Movie. You know, if you haven't guessed the movie, I actually now have a jingle. I was dropping Guess the Movie. What's the jingle? And now it's time for another episode of Guess that Movie. Genius, I tell you. Genius! Brother.

2:33:31 Genius! Is that the thing going off the track? I guess so. Yeah, that's the film. I gotta guess the TV show. I don't have a jingle for that. Well, it's okay. You can say it was a guest movie. But this is the kind of crap that's on ABC. And I want to play... There's two parts to this. It is the worst written garbage I think I've watched the show once before and so I'm watching it just because everything is reruns this weekend I don't know why and I had the TV I was looking for clips and then it would when I turned off the recorder it would flip over to the TV show and then I caught this and this is the piece of this you can try to guess you never will ABC drama one

2:34:13 Sex symbol, doting mom, businesswoman, chat swinning. When we strip away our labels, strip away the ways in which we define ourselves, what's left? Who are we at the core? For Dallas, the answer was a mousy brunette with a limp. Hello! Sorry, we don't have any spare change. Honey, it's me. It's mommy. Oh my god, mommy, no. You look like a New Yorker cartoon. I'm supposed to guess something here. No, I'm not expecting you to guess this is ridiculous But I just show this is I'll tell you what the answer is and then you play the second clip which is you wonder What are they what how much is there that much cocaine in Hollywood? This is a piece of crap show on ABC. Is that a rhetorical question? Oh

2:35:08 Yeah, it's a rhetorical question. Sub-purgatory. Okay. It's about these women living in the suburbs or something, I don't know, and this annoying girl and her mom, and the annoying girl talks with just a phoniest valley girl accent, and you end up with scenes like this. Mommy, no, you look so bad. I miss my old mommy. But your old mommy was only interested in pleasing men. Therefore, she was a monster, not a mommy. This is the new me, and my sweater may itch, my face may be patchy, my hair may be brittle, but at least I'm happy. You don't look happy. I'm miserable. But I guess that's just the price I pay for being myself. But you're not being yourself.

2:36:00 Yourself goes to bed with a full face of makeup, then reapplies lip gloss in the middle of the night. Yourself got a splenectomy just to hit your goal weight. And sure, yourself cares about looks, but yourself also cares about other stuff. This is a show about my ex-wife. Hey, you know, I actually have to say I watched some really bad TV the other day. Yeah, that's almost all TV. Well, Real Housewives of New York. I haven't yet to see that. I think I've seen clips. You have to watch at least one episode because there's this one Aviva this is one house why and I don't know what her deal is, but she has a fake leg. She has a prosthetic And she's doing a fashion show and she slips leg comes off

CHAPTER 22 / 24 Discussion

Neil deGrasse Tyson and the War on Science

Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of the "Cosmos" reboot on Fox, appeared on CNN to discuss the "war on science." Tyson argued that scientific truths are not subject to "cherry-picking" and compared climate change skeptics to members of the Flat Earth Society. Critics argue that Tyson and the media are using science as a political tool to shut down debate on issues like man-made global warming.

neil degrasse tyson· cosmos· fox· climate change· vaccine deniers· flat earth society· science

2:36:58 Well, that's the space thing. You can't get much lower. You just can't get much lower. That is borderline slapstick. Well, it's completely slapstick. It is slapstick. It was meant to fall. Speaking of which, Fox TV has brought back the television show Cosmos. I tried watching that piece of crap. It's produced by the guy who did the Star Trek Enterprise They had to have a dream, making the whole series was a dream sequence. That guy's the director and then Seth MacFarlane is one of the producers and they're just... I don't know, maybe you liked it. I thought it was shallow, vapid, condescending, patronizing garbage. Well, I didn't see it. I did however catch Neil deGrasse Tyson who is the host of Cosmos who, I guess he's a scientist.

2:37:54 Or maybe he's a guy who runs a telescope in New York. And he, if you want to know where the condescending crap comes from, it's from this guy. This interview on CNN where he's promoting this show. We all know we live in a politically divided country where almost anything is fair game for snipers on both sides. But science? Shouldn't science be immune from politics? After all, it's called scientific fact for a reason. This is such a great a great piece everything is about shut up scientific fact it's called and so here's a reason in fact here's a we have a new meme uh i should probably uh we have we have a new jingle for the new meme i should probably play that real quick so we can do that here we go

2:38:42 You will catch the meme very... you can use the meme with different language but the meme remains the same. And yet there are millions of climate deniers, evolution deniers, vaccine deniers out there. Last year in a speech on climate... Wait, wait, wait, hold on a second. A vaccine denier? There's no such thing as a vaccine! Is that what he taught? What does it mean? Vaccine denier. Vaccine... You know what he means. We know what we're talking about. Change. President Obama summed up the war on science this way. I don't have much... The war on science. It's a war on science, John. The war on science. Patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real. We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society. Shut up already. It's science.

2:39:34 Many Americans agree with him, but many other Americans see science as an attack. An attack on their values, or on their religion, or on what they believe to be true. Or the fact that we just don't believe in your particular science. Or your bullcrap. My next guest, I am so excited he's here today. I'm so excited. He may just be the man who can end the war on science. Sit down, get- Martha, get me a beer! You have like two clips of the day He's got a better chance than you or I have he's Neil deGrasse Tyson an astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York and tonight Fox will be premiering his new series cosmos. Can you imagine a primetime network television show all about science? Imagine pretty amazing pretty amazing amazing

2:40:22 It's not as it's not just amazing. It's more than amazing. It's Tyson an astrophysicist and director of the Hayden planetarium in New York and tonight Fox will be premiering his new series Cosmos. Can you imagine a primetime network television show all about science? Pretty amazing. Neil, welcome to the program. Thanks for having me. I want to talk all about Cosmos in a moment, but I first want to ask you, do you think there is a war on science the way I'm describing? And if so, how do you think we can broker a peace? This is so great. He sent him the questions beforehand, obviously. I'm going to ask you about the war on science.

2:41:07 And here's the question, and I'm going to ask it exactly this way. Our civilization, our civilization is built the innovations of scientists and technologists and engineers. Here comes the meme, John. Who have shaped everything that we so take for granted today. So some of the science deniers or science haters, these are people who are telling you, telling that to you while they're on their mobile phone. They're saying, I don't like science, science is bad. Oh, yeah, GPS just told us to go left. Yeah, okay. So the meme is

2:41:43 You don't get to fly on an airplane and deny global warming. You don't get to use a cell phone and deny man-made global warming. Because... Well, it's science! Science! This is going to come back many, many times. I don't... So it's time for people to sort of sit back and reassess what role science has actually played in our lives. And note and learn how to embrace that going forward because without it we will just regress back into the cave. Back to the cave without science. You don't... So let me get this straight.

2:42:19 So one issue, there's one issue in all this. Let's face reality, there's one single issue which is, and I want to point this out to people, global warming, climate change, whatever you want to call it, is political. There's no coincidence that the Democrats are on one side and the Republicans are on the other. It's very political. How can this have anything to do with science when it's transparently political? So you're going to take this political football and you're going to extrapolate everything you do based on your side of the argument.

2:43:00 So if you're on the side that says this looks like a hoax or it's a bunch of bullshit or the data's not in or you're making it up as you go along or you're lying to the public or whatever, you're going to take those people and then surround them with other bullcrap that's got nothing to do with this one political issue and then condemn them? This is nonsense, John. It's madness. You don't get to cherry-pick science. We'll erase that going forward because without it we will just regress back into the cave. You don't talk about the spherical Earth with NASA in it and then say, oh now let's give equal time to the flat earthers. Plus science is not there for you to cherry-pick. It's not there for you to cherry-pick. Science is science.

2:43:43 It's not there to cherry pick. The whole thing is about cherry picking. That is science. I know. I said this once and it's gotten a lot of... Who's the gatekeeper of truth and exact... Science. I don't know. Exactitude. Science. 97% of all scientists... 97% of all scientists... The science is in! The science is in! Science! Science! Science! You don't get the... ...issues, people that hate the petroleum industry. They're the unscientific ones. Did you see... ...down everybody who has anything... I have a question. No! Shut down! Get out of here, denier!

2:44:29 Meet a lot of internet play. I said the good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it Science is true science equal true whether or not you believe in it. That's the good thing about science. Yeah Science is true. All right. I guess you can use true science is true. Shut up. It's a process You know, it's clear. We should have started with the birth to five thing with you. I You are not cherry picking science. It's true whether you like it or not. It's true whether or not you believe in it. Alright? I guess you can decide whether to not believe in it, but that doesn't change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.

2:45:13 So, for example, one of the most stunning visuals is the cosmic calendar where we take the 14th, 13.8 billion year history of the universe. Which I'm sure is exactly the right number. Don't argue! Science, it's fact. You don't get to cherry pick the number. It's 13.8 billion. Okay? Somebody figured out it was 13.9. And lay it onto a football field sized year at a glance calendar. And the value of that is we all know what a calendar is. We know how far into the year June is. or July, we have a sense of that. So if I say the Big Bang was January 1st and today is December 31st, when was our galaxy formed?

2:45:58 January 1st, wait. December 31st. Well let's go back. Today is December 31st. I gotta get it right now. July, we have a sense of that. So if I say the Big Bang was January 1st and today is December 31st, when was our galaxy formed? When was our galaxy formed, John? There's an answer to this. Oh, let me think. Let's see, the galaxy was probably formed, I'm thinking, let's see, there's how many, 13 billion, and probably the last, I would say the last couple billion. I would say the galaxy would, my guess, Alex, would be the galaxy was formed on November 15th.

CHAPTER 23 / 24 Discussion

Harry Reid and the Koch Brothers Climate Debate

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid attacked "climate change deniers" in Congress, specifically targeting the Koch brothers for their influence on the Republican party. Reid praised Senators Schatz and Whitehouse for their all-night climate change session. The rhetoric is viewed as part of a broader political effort to demonize the petroleum industry.

harry reid· koch brothers· climate change· senate· environment committee· oil barons

2:46:35 31st, when was our galaxy formed, the Milky Way? That was formed on March 15th. March 15th? Science! March 15th, right? I didn't understand that at all! And then there was something going on in Congress that had an all-night climate change session. Yeah. And gee, I forgot to watch, but I did catch Harry Reid. Despite overwhelming scientific evidence, overwhelming public opinion, Hey, stop doing that, because you can't hear what Harry Reid is saying. Despite overwhelming scientific evidence and overwhelming public opinion, climate change deniers still exist. There's lots of them. Yeah, they're in Congress. Half of them are... they're all Republicans. Now listen to what he says next. They exist in this country. They exist, I'm sorry to say, in this Congress. Yes! Does that tell you something, Harry Reid? That chosen representatives have a different view of this?

2:47:36 But I guess therefore they should be shot or burned at the stake? In the House and in the Senate. Crazy. So I'm very grateful. Senator Schatz, Senator Whitehouse, and the chairman of that very important environment committee, Senator Boxer. Senator Boxer. Why are the same people, these science, oh science, science, science, science, these same science nuts, and I'll put it that way, all in on man-made global warming and they're all anti-nuke. All of them. They're all anti-nuke. No, no, we can't have that. It'll blow up. There's gonna be contamination. It's, we're all gonna die.

2:48:16 That seems very unscientific to me. It seems like they're flat earthers, those people. It seems as though they're like religious denialists. I mean, they're denying the obvious. This is the solution to their problem. They're denying actual science. Nuclear science. No, it's too expensive and too dangerous. That's always the common retort. It's not. No, of course not. It's not too dangerous, not too expensive. But you know who's really to blame for this, don't you? Al Gore. No, come on. If you're Harry Reid, you know who's to blame. Obama. Close. And many other senators who will join this climate change debate and presentation tonight for standing up against the deniers. Climate change is real. It's here. And it's gonna suck your cock. It's time to stop acting like those who ignore this crisis.

2:49:15 For example, the oil baron Koch brothers. There they are. Oh, here we go. They don't. I'm sorry. It was the clip of the day. It was the Tourette's. I'm sorry. Astonishing. Koch brothers. I hear that being used as an excuse for everything. I want some Koch brothers money. I want some Koch brothers money. She hires Koch brothers. I want some Koch brothers money. Koch brothers don't care about us. They don't even know about the show. Nobody who is even connected to these people even listen. We have our own cadre of true, you know, true listeners to the show that will support the show and we thank them profusely, but apparently it doesn't trickle up to these mysterious mythical Koch brothers. Well, we have the evil Kraut brothers. Yeah, we have the evil Kraut brothers. Which is kind of cool. We don't have Soros either. We could use some Soros money. We need some Bill Gates money. That'll be the day.

CHAPTER 24 / 24 Discussion

Xeni Jardin and Social Media Design Limitations

Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing appeared on the News Hour to discuss how social media is changing human interaction. The hosts mock the academic language used to describe these changes, such as "design limitations." The episode concludes with a reminder of the upcoming 600th show on Sunday.

xeni jardin· boing boing· news hour· social media· design limitations· show 600

2:50:17 Yeah, I guess the only one else I got nothing else except one little thing. Okay, we gotta go. We're way overdue here. Are we? Well, it's like five more minutes. Let's do this then. Because there's, I found another, it's not a meme, but I think it's something we can use. Jenny Jardan was on the, whatever her real name is, was on the News Hour and they were all talking about how The social medias and all this other crap is changing the way we interact. Nobody talks to each other anymore and they made the point and kids they just text, they never talk on the phone. It's considered gauche. Although I see kids talking on the phone all the time and they texting too but that's beside the point. So they asked her and this I got two clips but the one is the first one which is Zenny and the perfect answer. I think she has had and I'll deconstruct it after she says it.

2:51:07 I think she's got the perfect answer for everything. Okay, all right so ask me anything and I'm gonna my answer is gonna be what if this problem we're discussing is just design limitations Yes That that's the answer that's the answer to everything. No. I just want to try it out with you. Okay. What is what happens it? Will it be a problem if? Crimea secedes and and wants to become a part of Russia

2:52:02 I think we can look at this problem differently. Why don't we look at it as if there was some political design limitations? The political system, maybe in the future when we're all dead, it will be a different system. Designed differently. Yes. By the way, she can't catch a break. First she gets the breast cancer, then her husband's or partner's arm gets amputated. Yeah, I know she's got a curse or something. That sucks. Yeah, I know. She's actually a pretty sweet person. I've met, she interviewed me once in LA. She seemed very preoccupied though. She seems to be thinking about stuff all the time. Yeah, but she is very sweet. But yeah, Jesus, sorry, didn't mean to say that. She always got blasted when she was doing the boing boing all the time. They had to cut off the comments because people just gave her crap.

2:52:52 Yeah, whatever. She's almost like, it's almost like, it's almost like she went, I'll show you. Don't be mean to me now. You can't be mean to me. That sucks. She's a little bossy. Oh. Alright, that's good. Not the second one? Well, the second one is, okay, the second one the guy comes up with a bunch of crap that's, he says, this guy's worse. He's got him for one thing, the giveaway he's a big fat guy with a bald head and a bow tie. Okay, now that tells you right there. And he's an interviewer? He is being interviewed by, on the News Hour. He's one of the, he's sitting next to Jenny. Okay, got it.

2:53:32 As we think about how far we've come in 25 years, in the evolution of the technology, in the evolution of our social lives built around it, as Catherine is suggesting, I think it's really important to recognize that all of these technologies, the web, is really a work in progress. It is changing so much and I think that our goal ought to be to make sure that it's changing in response to human needs. I hereby dub thee Sir Douchebag. Congratulations. Wow, okay. Nice! It's just getting worse. Yeah. Well, there's never been a- it is the best of times and the worst of times, my friends. Best of the web and the worst of the web. That's right. Best of native advertising and the worst of native advertising. And there's a difference between the web and the network. Network's not the web, but the web's not the network.

2:54:29 The network is the web and the web can be the network but the network cannot be both the web and the network without being the network. The network is the computer. Alright. Hey everybody! I'm sure we will have all kinds of things to talk about like, I don't know, lost planes, show 600. That's right! Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday show 600! It's a lot of shows. It's a lot of talk, a lot of analysis, and a lot of love. But do we do it? That is a question we shall answer on Sunday. Coming to you from FEMA Region 6 here in Austin, Texas in the morning, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where I've got a machine that makes racket, I'm John C. Dvorak. Talk to you on Sunday for Show 6.

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