Le Show; 2013-09-29

From deep inside your radio, back in London, ladies and gentlemen, from a week in Osford. Not Mississippi, the Faulkner fans can rest easy, uh, no, and so I don't really mean Oxford. I mean, Oxford, if you get what I mean, do you? Yeah. I nailed it down, the university town in England, you know, famous for the smart people. Well, here's the good news, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, it is a architecturally awe-inspiring place. All the buildings have spires on top of them, you know, I guess they didn't know about flat roofs in those days, but it is, as I say, at least momentarily awe-inspiring. Until I, uh, think about perhaps the truest thing that's said about academic life, which is the battles are so fierce because the stakes are so low.

But I, so I was, is it Oxford, Oxford Oxford? And as I say, you know, it's, it's university town, it's, it's supposedly full of some of the smartest people on the planet. That could be intimidating, that could be, uh, a bit daunting. Here's the good news, ladies and gentlemen. They may be among the smartest people on the planet by day. But once the sun goes down, a lot of them are drunk, and they're just as dumb and loud as any other drunks on the planet. That's, that is the good news. Hello and welcome to the show. I got 29 waves to make it do my baby stone. I got 29 waves to make it do my baby stone.

And if she needs me bad again, find about two or three more, want through the basement two down the hall. When they're going, get stuff, I got a hole in the wall, I got 29 waves to make it do my baby stone. If she needs me bad again, find about two or three more. I can come through the chimney like Santa Claus, go through the window and then ain't out. I got 29 waves, I don't want you to know. I even got a hole through the bathroom floor, I got 29 waves to make it do my baby stone. And if she needs me bad again, find about two or three more. Two down the hall. I can come through my lovely baby stone. To my lovely baby stone. To my lovely baby stone. To my lovely baby stone. To my lovely baby stone. To my lovely baby stone. And if she needs me bad again, find about two or three more.

I can come through the chimney like Santa Claus, go through the window and then ain't out. And if she needs me bad again, find about two or three more. I got a way through the closet behind a cloak, a way through the attic that no one knows.

I got a man's to keep, to fit any lock, hidden door behind grandfathers clock, I got a way through the window and then ain't out. And if she needs me bad again, find about two or three more. baby song, one, two, many of my wife to my lovely baby song, to my lovely baby song, to my lovely baby song, to my lovely baby song, to my lovely baby song, sweet, sweet, lovely baby song, and it's a one, two, many of my. From London, England, home of the live-or scandal, do you hear about that? I'm Harry Sharer, welcome you to this edition of the show, yes, the, um, putting the live-back in live-or for nearly five years, Britain's Icap operation had brokers who were so brazen about rigging benchmark interest rates around the world that

they demanded bribes to keep the scheme going in emails and internet chat rooms, don't you know? At one point, a broker at Icap asked a senior yend trader, quote, how about some form of performance bonus per quarter from your bonus pool to, to me, for the live-or service, unquote. Those are the detailed in the commodity futures training commission enforcement order this week that names Icap as a culprit in manipulating the global interest rate known as live-or. That's an interest rate used as the basis, the benchmark for interest rates paid by people around the world in various, various transactions, including your mortgages. Global authorities have uncovered a sweeping conspiracy to rig the live-or rate. Trillions of dollars involved, federal, but, but, venerable banks or beads, such as UBS and Barclays have been, uh, fingered, not fisted, but just fingered in the scheme. Regulator suspect involves even more well-known institutions, but Icap has been busted and

is paying the grand total of $87 million. Company admits several of its brokers scheme to manipulate rates, either either keeping them artificially high or low to increase profits. Well, there's your reason right there. Best reason in the world. Yes, once again, a chunk change fine for, uh, either gaining or losing somebody, trillions of dollars, the, uh, I deeply regret and strong condemn the actions of the brokers according to Chief Executive Michael Spencer. This has been a difficult episode for this company, but one we can begin to move on from. Oh, the brits have adopted American usage, move on, sure. I believe other parts of the world are calling, they call that sweep that under the rug. The company has spent more than $27 million to improve its compliance controls and train

its brokers. Don't use email next time. No senior managers were involved in the scheme, says Spencer. Regulators didn't find any evidence of the company deliberately engaging in misconduct. So that would be different from let's HAP Morgan Chase. Oh, no, none of them were prosecuted either. Well, tales of accountability just go on and on. For example, ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to present, let us try a ballot of the US Army Corps of Engineers. Let us try to stand the tide, to beautify our countryside, we offer you our hand. Let us try. It's too sexy. News of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, ladies and gentlemen, fish that live near

around just above Bonneville Dam. It's in our Pacific Northwest. Our so chock full of contaminants, health authorities this week advised the public not to eat them at all. Don't eat those fish. It also urged the public to limit the consumption of so-called resident fish, fish that live near around in that area, in 150 miles stretch upstream from the dam, doesn't affect migratory fish such as salmon. Tests were done on Columbia River Fish, collected a couple of years ago into the auspices of US Army Corps of Engineers. Oregon Public Health got the results this past May, then performed extensive analysis according to OregonLive.com. The results were surprising, the threshold for a health advisory for polychlorinated bifinals, PCBs to you and me, is.047 parts per million, what we saw on the fish, 183 parts per million. That's higher than I've ever seen, says Oregon's public health toxicologist. Fish further upstream were contaminated with mercury,.77 parts per million.

These especially aimed at women of childbearing age, what isn't? The contaminants that did fear were brain development, causing learning dips abilities, I say, disabilities and behavioral problems. The test results primarily affect tribes of Native Americans that depend on the Columbia River for food, according to the toxicologist. It's alarming and extremely disappointing of the tribal leadership and the fishing community. Says the executive director of the Iter Tribal Fish Commission. As I've known about the problem for some time, the PCBs were used as insulating fluid in large-scale electrical components in the dam, before they were banned in the 70s when the components wore out. They were illegally dumped in the river and employees at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pushed them off a cliff between the 1960s and 1980s, or at least they tried. The mercury comes from burning coal, even from as far away as Asia, when lands on the

water, it sinks and gets bound in the sediment like PCBs, bugs that live in the sediment absorb them, they're eaten by small fish and so forth. As I say, officials have known about the problem for some time, and 2,000 the Corps sent divers to remove the electrical components, but some of the PCBs had leaked. In 2007, the Corps dredged the area around the island. Next year, they'll blow up the island. And billions and cost-overrents and years of delay at a southern Illinois dam project are unacceptable, standing in the way of other vital projects along the nation's marine transportation system, said Senators from Missouri and Illinois, and shipping industry leaders have moved to distance themselves from the Army Corps of Engineers' work overseeing the Olmstead and dam project in that area, arguing that the inland waterways users board had no authority to force a change in dam-building methods during the long and troubled project, instead of building it the usual way, the Corps decided to build it in the wet. Look it up. Let us try.

Let us try to get in the wet, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and now, ladies and gentlemen, news of the Olympic movement, produced by Jim Eversall, Jr. When Tokyo was awarded the 1964 Summer Games, 30-year-old Coye Geno discovered that his home and business were on the site of what would become the Olympic Park. He was forced to pack up and resettle in another town for two years, until the government gave him a replacement home, which was located on the edge of the Olympic Stadium. Now the games are coming back for 2020, and the new Olympic Stadium is going to go right where the old one is, only it's going to be a lot bigger.

And again, in the sights in the target zone for removal, Geno's home and tobacco store. I don't want to see the Olympics at all, Geno told Ajahn's France press, deep inside I have a kind of grudge against the Olympics. The government is offered to resettle him, but Geno is now 79 years old and he doesn't want to go anywhere else. Luckily I may go where you can't set up a tobacco store. He says, that means I will lose my reason for living. They lined Sochi, Russian President of Baltimore, Putin is admitted there are still some ongoing glitches in preparations for next year's Winter Olympics, like the flooding that's occurred in the Sochi area this week, but he insists that overall the job is on track. Overall that's a normal thing for such a large project, says Putin. There's nothing out of the ordinary. He just can't lie.

We know the time the Olympics start and we can't slip it all he added. He says he's going to be dropping in on the host city on a regular basis to keep tabs on the work. And down Rio de Janeiro way, public prosecutors in Brazil have threatened to close Rio de Janeiro's Marracona Stadium amid fears the venue does not meet minimum safety standards. Prosecutor Glicia Creespin has written to the Brazilian Football Confederation requesting the submission of a new engineering report. In the letter, Christmas at the current report does not meet requirements set by Brazil's sports ministry. The organization has 30 days to provide a satisfactory response failure to do so could result in the stadium's closure. No further details were given about the stadium's alleged failings. The demand is cast, newed out over Brazil's ability to successfully host next year's

World Cup and the Rio 2016 Olympics. Rio's Enginal Stadium, which will stage track and field events at the 2016 Olympics, was closed in March. After an independent engineering report found the roof was in danger of collapsing, that venue won't reopen until June of next year. Only can move it to Sochi. The Olympics. It's a movement. And we all need one. Every day! Ladies and gentlemen, a report this week released by the Zerce Society for Invertebrate Conservation said some light. We haven't talked about this in a while in this broadcast on colony collapse disorder. What's happening with the bees? By-by bees. The spotlight has been moved by this report from the risk's neonicotinoids, that's a class of insecticide, posed to bees, to the impact of neonicotinoids, to invertebrates such

as earthworms, or lady beetles. Lord and lady beetle will be here in a moment, but first, beyond the birds of the bees provides a comprehensive review of published articles and pulls together the growing body research that demonstrates risks from neonicotinoids to these beneficial insects, particularly in agricultural systems, but also in urban and suburban ornamental landscapes, although neonicotinoids have been promoted as safe or safer for beneficial insects than older insecticides, the balance of evidence says that supports suggest neonicotinoids are generally harmful to a variety of beneficial insects. Wide spread preemptive application of these or any pesticide represents a fundamental shift away from so-called integrated pest management since chemicals are frequently applied before pest damage has occurred and often in the absence of any current pest abundance data. Use of neonicotinoids seed treatments on annual field crops has increased dramatically in the last decade, yet these treatments may not consistently result in yield benefits, though neonicotinoids seed treatments may be unnecessary or more expensive than other

treatments in some circumstances, it's challenging for farmers to obtain non-organic field crop seed that is not treated with neonicotinoids. Well, you could go organic. Neonicotinoid resistance has been documented in a number of pests, the environmental persistence of neonicotinoids such as, I'm not even going to try to pronounce those, coupled with the widespread use can facilitate resistance, and although there's been less research on the impact of these insecticides to soil organisms, most studies today have found that neonicotinoids may have negative effects on earthworms and other soil invertebrates. Beetles and wasps play critical roles in healthy functioning ecosystems, although I'll kill a wasp if I get a chance, don't cross me with those wasps. Neonicotinoids are now the most widely used group of insecticides in the world. They're using the US has been steadily increasing since their initial registration in the mid-90s. Don't tell the bees. And now, ladies and gentlemen, it's going to sound like this is from some dystopian piece of fiction, but it's from the Guardian in London, right here.

The armed forces should seek to make British involvement in future wars more palatable to the public by reducing the public profile of repatriation ceremonies for casualties. That's according to a Ministry of Defense unit that formulates strategy for the British government. Other suggestions made by the M.O.D. think tank in a discussion paper examining how to assuage casualty of verse public opinion, including the greater use of mercenaries and unmanned vehicles, as well as special forces. The document written last year and obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act discusses how public reaction to casualties can be influenced and recommends that the armed forces should have a, quote, clear and constant information campaign in order to influence the major areas of present public opinion, unquote. It says that to support such a campaign, the defense ministry should consider a number of steps, one of which would be to reduce the profile of the repatriation ceremonies and apparent reference to the processions of herses carrying coffins draped in the flag that were driven through towns near bases where bodies were brought back.

The paper by the Ministry of Defense's Development Concepts and Doctrine Center, the DC-DC, recommends taking steps to reduce public sensitivity to the penalties inherent in military ops. It says the Ministry should inculcate an attitude that service may involve sacrifice. The paper amounts to what can be considered an analysis of why the British public and MPs, members of parliament, are so reluctant to support the attack on Syria. It also says any conflict should be clearly explained to the public. That would help. The eight-page paper argues the military may have come to wrongly believe the public and as a result of government has become more risk-averse on the basis of recent campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. Quote, however, this assertion is based on recent post-2000 experience and we're in danger of learning false lessons concerning the public's attitude to our military operations. It says the paper, which has no named Arthur, author, author. Quote, historically, once the public are convinced they have a stake in the conflict they're prepared to endorse military risks and will accept casualties.

Neither the action in Iraq nor the operations in Afghanistan have enjoyed public support. They point out the public have become better informed and opponents more sophisticated in the exploitation of the sources of information with the net's result that convincing the nation of the need to run military risks has become more difficult, but no less essential. Donate the growth of private security companies has proceeded at a spectacular rate during the past ten years. The paper adds neither the media nor the public in the west appear to identify with contractors in the way that they do with their military personnel. Thus casualties from within the contract-derived force are more acceptable in pursuit of military ends than those from among our own forces. Investing in greater numbers of special forces is also recommended. The paper says the public appear to have a more robust attitude towards special forces losses. The loss of 19 special forces, soldiers in a single aircraft incident during the Falklands campaign did not arouse any significant comment.

How to sell a war. And how to sell fracking like a war. CNBC has reported on an oil industry conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston. A little while back. An industry confab, panel discussions, light refreshments, and exchange of ideas. Things took an unexpected twist, though CNBC obtained audio tapes of the event on which one presenter could be heard recommending his colleagues, well, listen for yourself. Hello, the U.S. Army slash Marine Corps counter-insurgency manual, because we are dealing with an insurgency. There's a lot of good lessons in there. And coming from a military background, I've found that insight in that extremely remarkable. Another speaker at this conference on fracking. That's what the subject matter is, the hydraulic fracking industry told this company, told the attendees that his company has several former siops specialists on staff working in

the Pennsylvania area. One thing that we've worked a lot at range is getting more proactive in the community. It's not something that we've done before. In other parts of the nation, it makes no sense for us to do that. In other parts of Pennsylvania, for instance, we have several, I think Matt raised the issue of looking to other industries. In this case, the Army and the Marines, we have several former siops folks that work for us at range because they're very comfortable in dealing with localized issues and local governments. Really all they do is spend most of the time helping folks develop local ordinances and things like that. Very much having that understanding of siops and the Army and the Middle East has applied very healthily here for us in Pennsylvania. You never know when siops is going to come in handy, might as well have them on hand. Almost outside the bubble, certainly off of the radar screen of most national media, you're aware ladies and gentlemen by now of the mortgage foreclosure, securitized mortgage segment

of the financial crisis, the fraudulent basis of it, discussed here and elsewhere by among others, William Black, who was involved in the prosecution of the SNL crisis, a couple of decades ago when thousands of financial industry executives were prosecuted, a lot of them went to jail, much like this, oh no, and you're probably also aware of, as I mentioned earlier, the LIBOR scandal where the benchmark interest rate was manipulated by big banks of all people, I can't figure out how that would. And other problems that were, or could be laid at the hands of the financial industry or laid at the feet of them, laid at whatever extremities you like. Now comes a new one, it comes into more focus, the problem of pensions and particularly

public employee pensions now, private employees have for years been told, all those pensions that we signed contracts with you about were changing the deal. Sanctity of contracts be damned, you don't have the pensions you thought you had. But now it's, those particular chickens are coming home to roost for public employees in a big way, brought to real focus by the bankruptcy of Detroit and some cities and California's, among other places, and the discussion is focusing on, well, the unfunded pension fund liabilities of these cities, that's the problem. And then we learned through much reporting that a lot of these cities in the mid-2000s were sold, sophisticated financial instruments, derivatives to try to mitigate or hedge against

interest rate risk when they borrowed money. These were, you know, swaps and other derivatives betting on interest rates to protect them in case interest rates went up, except interest rates went down because of the financial crisis and they were caught holding the bag for a lot of money, including trying to unwind those deals, cost them termination fees. And also now we've learned that a lot of those municipal pension funds, well, a lot of the city governments were borrowing the money that had been deposited into those pension funds to pay for current expenditures during the lush times, that's how lush they were. So now, of course, there's a big hole in the pensions and so a couple of organizations

are leading the fight to reform, i.e. reduce, i.e. maybe end public employee pensions. We learned this week from a left-leaning web magazine salon that among those organizations is one of the parts of the Pew charity, P-E-W, a division of the charitable trust known as the Pew Public Sector Retirement Systems Project in association with a gentleman by the name of John Arnold, who did some of his best work for End Run. We'll be hearing more about this. I'm sure on public radio shows that receive money from Pew. But ladies and gentlemen, the news this week, of course, dominated in the United States by the wrangle over whether to shut the government down, whether to defund Obamacare. The president involved in two major, the spectacle right now is of major games of chicken

being played by the grownups all over the place, in one case, whether we were going to conduct military operations against Syria, against the wishes of the Russians and the Chinese, we know how that has come out so far with a UN Security Council resolution that doesn't include the threat of military force, and the other game of chicken being played between the Republicans, Democrats, and Washington, and since the first one worked out so well, maybe President Obama would be well advised to ask President Putin to step in on the second one as well. More about Pew in a moment here on the show. Now you, moon blue, rivers with love you shine, bathed me in light of light, let me

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You just caught up and out You just caught up and out This is La Show and we're late in September, we're into autumn, and of course, right around the corner is a very special time of year for a lot of us, Halloween. And perhaps, coincidentally, there was a poll this last couple of weeks by, I believe, the Pew Organization, not Peppy, just Pew, that indicated that now 57% of the American people believe in the existence of the devil. And coincidentally, we have on our newsmaker line today to comment on that and perhaps

other things. The man himself, the fallen angel himself, his self, fellow we know is Satan. And welcome back to La Show. Larry, so good to talk to you again, hello everybody, this is my time of year, this is my season. I'm excited. Larry, I can't talk too long. My dog walker didn't show up, I have to walk the dogs of hell. You have to walk the dogs of hell today, yourself. Really? Well, it's not over something like that. Oh, okay. What do you seem so chipper? So chipper for the Supreme Evil one. Fantastic. Yeah. You know, I took a, I'm, I'm just doing a, a, a cleanse, really, you know, I take just one of those food cleanses. Yeah. Fantastic. Wow. The devil needs a cleanse. He had devil needs a cleanse. And you know, I feel, I feel a lighter, I feel like a move, you know, you know, I spend an hour a day, I haven't noticed about me, Larry, but I, I'm ballet, not, and I have a ballet

bar here in hell. And I took an hour of bar work, B-A-R-R-E, got it, and I know this is radio, but I am wearing advanced belt. Wow. Right now. Which is either here or there. You can cut that out. Well, I think, I think it's probably there, but that's, that's just surmise on my part. Now, and let me ask you a question, follow up, which I'm famous for. When you say you, you're doing a cleanse, I would have thought that, that the devil likes to have toxins in his system. You do, Larry, but you want to shift it up a little bit, you know, I mean, you want to, you want to kind of, you know, keep yourself interested. Uh-huh. So you change it up a little bit, variety, variety is the spice of hell. Is that what you're saying? Of course. I was in the Mediterranean diet for a while. Yeah. But then you're low-key. Low-key. So does that mean you don't enjoy tormenting people as much when you're, when you're feeling that way?

Yeah. Well, it's always enjoyed. But, um, you know, you have to sort of take care of yourself. You can't just do. You have to sometimes be. You're saying you can't just do two others. You have to do for yourself. That's right, Larry. And I wish you slow down a little bit. I know you're always with the going and the doing and the charity work. You have that capital over for which kids is that you? That's not me. No. Oh, yeah. Maybe you should keep going. Okay. Thank you. But thanks for thinking of me in that context. Oh, I'm always thinking of you, my friend. Uh-oh. There's a good question. Yeah. I want to get out subject. I keep friending you on Facebook. Yeah. Why don't you accept me? Uh, same reason I don't connect with you on LinkedIn. Oh, okay. Yeah. I can't forget that one out. Yeah. Me neither. I think is that one of yours? LinkedIn? No. You don't photograph with me where I can look like vintage age photographs. Oh. I love that. I really love it.

That's one of yours? Yeah. Yeah. To put on a Confederate uniform and take a lot of shots of myself. Wow. You don't engage in actual Civil War reenactment, though, do you? No. But as you know, Harry, um, I dabbled in the theaters and I'm devil. And you know, anyone can act. Not everyone can reenact. And I think that's something, uh, you're acting right now. A wonderful play, by the way. Yeah. Well, we don't. Yeah. No, we don't need to promote that. Do you have an angel to bring that into the Yorker Broadway? I think you. Well, obviously. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, no, we don't at this point. Uh, we could use. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. And you're saying that because you wish me ill. Of course. I do hear it. Uh, that's how I roll. You know that. Uh, personally, I just think you're fantastic. All right. All the things you do. Are you still working in the business? Yeah. I am. I am still working in the business. Okay. I can help you with that. But anyway, that's another conversation. Okay.

So Halloween. Do you have any special plans for Halloween this year? Is this. This is. It must be your big day of the year, isn't it? Oh, it's just your state. For the yellow. Do you know, Harry? I'm just playing a little piece this year. Uh, I'll tell you the truth. The color of the flood has left me from this totally. So I'm going to be honest. I'm going to just have some close friends over. Stay on the house. I'm going to have to come over. King's on you. Yeah. Some of the cast in the original course line, who I'm sure you know, a wonderful show. Yeah. My life throws. Yeah. A little scrap. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Satan has a life coach. Why do you have a tone? It's from how that's negative. No, I'm just saying. I'd like a little help. Maybe I'm maybe, maybe, uh, well, you know, you can always improve. Yeah. And, um, my life coach has been fantastic and helping me see, even now where I am now, the world I'd like to be in a hundred years. Wow. Uh, you know, where would you like to be in a hundred years? Well, I'm part of my accomplishments now. You know, I'm a type A. Yeah. I'm a type A. Sure.

And I'm trying to look at that. But you know, if you say to me or anybody say to me, particularly you for something, I don't know why I said it. But I can't say what's horrible and imaginable, pain suffering that you cause are you most proud of? Yeah. You know, it's like a little bit of a asking, who should never try? You know, of course. And by the way, uh, I have to answer, if you did ask me, I'd say the amazing Crescan. Do you see me recently? No, he's amazing, right? He, he is amazing. You know, at the end of most of the shows, the, uh, provider of the club will hide his paycheck. And, you know, in question, we'll have to find the paycheck somewhere in the theater. I'll tell you what. You, you're just so excited when you do it. He always told that I'm fine. He's fantastic. Wow. So, uh, now, Yeah. Yeah. Now, speaking of that, is, is Ryan Secrest one of yours? No, no, he's, he's just doing great without me. We'll see what happens.

Say now to, say now to, uh, cute. Is that you got the interview? You could cut that with that interview. You, you, you, you got it. You got it. Paul that could save you profession. Got it. Uh, so you might say that the end of your, your little Halloween party with Hitler and the cast. Yeah. Say now. Yeah. I go up and put on my, uh, my showy robe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now you, we have this image of you from, uh, all of the art that has been done, uh, religious art over the years. years, do you actually have a tail and horns? Is that? Yeah. I don't tell anyone, sir. I do kind of a down trunk. I go out. Yeah. And I have kind of a special, you know, thanks on the standards for being very, very long down. And that's true. That was something I, you know, I poured into the pot for Frank years ago. He had a special rubber underpants, because he was selling that. Yes, he's new. And I have the same kind of thing for my tail, but only mine's in the pot. Yeah.

Mine's got a little story here. I don't have that time for quick children. Sure. You want to do it. Yeah. You probably want to use it when you're set fire, or whatever you do. Yeah. And your man says, it's fun. How do you do it? Maybe even if it's not, I can't say any more. I went to the beach. I tried it. It's a good one. Next time you go to the beach, the senses. Put a potato where you're underpants. And the guy says, are you OK? Next week he sees a guy with eyes at the beach. You just get lucky to meet the girls. He says, just put the potato in like I told you, because yeah, put it in the front next time. Cute. I knew it was like that. Yeah. No, that's a cute. Put it in the front next time. Sayon as you look around the world today, what are you most proud of? I would say, can the enemies to include the choreographers in the prime time show? Wow. Yeah. You've heard the kids. That was me. Yeah. And although they didn't go all the way with what I wanted, you know, because it also, the other thing was me this year.

I mean, did you catch me any of those? No. I'm in England. What? I'm in England. I'm in England. I love England. The club was mine. Wow. Yeah. Anyway, Neil Patrick Harris, fantastic performer. Yeah. I don't care what, you know, who he's tender with. Yeah. Anyway, you know, the kids, the choreographers, I mean, that happened. And they didn't go all the way. I suggested that you also get a tribute to Kennedy's assessment. So I've been trying to get that in the end. Yes. Or in a certain awards. Yeah. I've been trying that for a year. But I wanted the kids to kind of dance, kind of a wonderful boxing dance with the public moves and everything. But with Jack Wu becoming a dancing unit and killing you hardy as well. And that might be going with more hats possibly with you as one, two, three. Sure. You know, at the, at the odd angle, at the jazz angle. Yeah. If you have an angle in the knees now going, oh, he shot me. I'm doing a standing hand. Yeah. And he has a cut. And I'm still a wet or something. No, I'm not a choreographer.

No. You're, you're the devil. I am devil. Yeah. Well, it sounds okay. I'm a little, you can stop. You know, I've been hung over since the George Soros wedding. I haven't really, I've planted a little too hard. Wow. Now, the devil does, what do you drink? Or do you do drugs? Or what do you, how do you party too hard? Well, what do you got this fresh? Haha. Yeah. Now, what do you, what, speaking of which, you're depicted so often as just an embodiment of pure evil. Thank you much. My pleasure. My pleasure. What do you, what do you do for fun? Oh gosh. I like the chipskin. Really? Uh, you know, I'm a cook, uh, you know, since we spoke last year, I'm, uh, I've got it into cooking. You know, if I go to a hotel, I bring out an entire kitchen with me. Like I said, it gives you a new suit. Yeah. Pots and pans. Um, wait, um, wait, you go into hotels? Sure. You leave hell. He's got to get out. He's got to get out. He's got to get away. He's got to get away. He's got to see what everybody out there is thinking. Have you seen under cover balls?

No. No, I haven't. Very much like that. Yeah. I don't know how people say they want to get something back. I'd like to take a little more. Wow. What are you with now? What age you see? Are you with, by the way? I'm not with an agency. Huh? I'm not with an agency. Oh, okay. Which explains a lot. Sure. Yeah. Uh, do you program American television? Is that, I mean, are you? I have a package. I have a one. I have a huge package. And also, I have cable. Okay. And I guess how I want this? Because your reception down here is terribly continuing. Why is that? The brimstone? Well, you're looking below. You're on your health area. Yeah. And I still find out you don't get any use of self-service. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, what do you mean? I'll find out. What? Not just shopping. Oh, okay. Now, uh. You're going to be fine. You're going right there. Okay. Thank you. Is there any new technology for tormenting people that you've come up with over the years? Because obviously fire in brimstone is kind of old-fashioned. Old-fashioned at this point.

It's old school, as the kids say. And it's a cliche. We never had brimstone use polystones. Fire and public stones. But you know, that doesn't treat the need of sensibilities to press. Yeah. You know, the drive by press. Yeah. You know, they want to have brimstones that they are. Yeah. You know, that'd be... What is brimstone, by the way? Uh, you tell me. I always thought brimstone was the stone that's made out of old-fashioned instant coffee. You know, I think that's brimstone. That's brimstone. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You know, brimstones were a dark holiday. I think, uh, they all died. You okay, Coral or something. I'm not a history bus. Yeah. So, what are some of the latest techniques you use for tormenting souls? Well, um, I'm hoping to start a new website for singles. So, you're soulmate.com. You people want to be... I don't think I can plug. Wow. On your show.

Yeah, sure. So, you're soulmate.com. And I want to give you an ear when people are just falling in love. That's what I like to plant. The seeds of evil. Oh, very clever. That's a wonderful thing. You know, first of all, I... I believe marriage should be between a man and a woman. Mm-hmm. And maybe a circus animal. Okay. That's me. Sounds like you. You look at me. Yeah. Um, speaking of marriage, we... I don't think I've ever asked you this. You're married, actually. I am indeed. I'm a married couple. Is there a... Is there a Mrs. Satan? Or is there a gleam in Satan's eye at this point? Well, you know, I'm between marriage now, Harry. Um, I've been out there, kind of, doing the same thing for about 20 years now. It's been old. Yeah. As are you. Oh, I've worked on it. I have just the eyes. I went to Nancy Pelosi's guy. Wonderful guy at Paraguayan. Yeah. Yeah. You ought to work on the Nazis. Yeah. So you know he's good. Yeah.

And he did what to your eyes? So it's just... Looks like I had a wonderful vacation. You wouldn't even know I had any work done. Except they weren't closed. So it's like I had a wonderful vacation. I don't want to... I don't want to miss a thing. Kind of a walk. I would have thought that your eyes wouldn't close anyway, but you might miss some opportunity to torment. I mean, isn't that part of your gig? Well, we never closed. Down here in hell. You're like Denny's. We never had any old gone fishing sign on hell. This is a country sign I'm working on as well. So Satan, any other thoughts you have before we wrap this up because we do have other things to cover on today's bright. It's hard to believe we do. Oh, well, you didn't say it in the brush for you. No. No, I'm just saying. You get some crush, my friend. I guess I do, but anything else... We covered the Soros wedding. Yes, we did. Yeah, we did. I know this is actually just a form of your complaint department. It's not about you. It's about the ending to begin. I need to bring it back there. Yeah. I think it was long for the ending to be used as a platform

to the networks to promote their full lineup. Really? Yeah. People would say, I'm wrong. You know, the yellow one. They're doing homesick belief over the world. But you think the television arts and sciences folks would show a little class. That's all. That's why I want to end this interview with a downer. No. I want to be Satan downer. Why wouldn't you want to end it with a downer? Hey, you're right. Yeah. See? You know, this is where I was talking to you. Yeah. See, I could take Lemonade and turn it back into a lemon for you. How would you... Satan, happy Halloween. Happy Halloween to you and your parents. Bless your heart. And we love you. Keep up everything you're doing. Thank you. Thank you. You need to see me come to my part of the world. The last place is on. I don't know what that means. Yeah. Well, the whole... The whole place is in flames. So I'll see it from a distance. I would imagine. You sure will. Yeah. And you're always welcome.

But is that... Is that... The right thing to do is to say happy Halloween because it's a celebration of death. So I don't know if that's the right usage. But... You know what? There are no rules. There are only rules. You do have a life coach. It shows, but... Yeah, it does. It's for the kids. Yeah. You know, it's for the kids. Well, they're tomorrow's leaders. They have a hope. And of course, for you, I guess they're the crop. They are. You know, people say there's no place for the young sinners to be bad anymore. Yeah. Hi, hell. Hi, hell is what I say. Interesting. Say no. Say no. Say no. Thank you. I brought it back. You did indeed. Thanks for the call. Satan on our newsmaker line today here on the show. And now, ladies and gentlemen, the apologies of the week. It's so sorry. San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker as a apologize for uttering a gay slur, an anti-gay slur, actually, during France's overtime victory against Spain in the final...

Somebody finals of the European basketball tournament. He said in the press conference following the game that France were playing like Toppets, T-A-P-E-T-T-E-S. Toppets, during a first half, in which they trailed by double digits. The word translates loosely into fairy. He apologized for the comment at a later press conference. I'd like to apologize to the gay community. He said, I did not want to offend them if I... If I have offended the gay community, I apologize. That's an ifpology, of course. It was not my attention at all. It is not right to say what I said. I'm sorry. And I apologize. France went on to crush Lithuania. The chairman of the Italian pasta company, Barrio. Guido Barrio. He's apologized on Facebook after remarks he made on a radio program inspired calls from around the world for a boycott of the pasta maker. He said on Facebook, with reference to my statements yesterday to the press, I apologize if my words have offended some people. For clarity, I would like to point out I have the deepest respect for all people without distinction of any kind.

I have the utmost respect for homosexuals and freedom of expression. But he and his advertising has always chosen to represent the family because this is the symbol of hospitality and love for everyone. He had said the previous night on a radio program, I would never do a commercial with a homosexual family if the gays don't like it, they can go and eat another brand. But now he's sorry. If more than 70 years after it called for the removal of Japanese Canadians from Canada's Pacific Coast, Vancouver's city council is officially apologized for its complicity in the forced internment of thousands of former residents. Yes, it happened in Canada too. In 1942, the city of Vancouver passed the motion imploring the federal government to remove all residents of Japanese racial origin and enemy aliens to areas of Canada will remove from the Pacific Coast. On Tuesday of this week, Mayor Gregor Roberts issued a motion apologizing for that motion. Mayor Robertson said the city is considering renaming some of the streets

in the old Japanese neighborhood after some of the former residents. About 22,000 Japanese Canadians were banned from the West Coast despite the fact many were citizens whose families had been living there for generations. They were told to pack a single suitcase and sent to internment camps in the BC interior, British Columbia, where they lived in rough shacks for much of the war. In 1943, all their property homes and fishing boats were auctioned off by the government. 25 years ago, the federal government issued an official apology and cast compensation for the survivors. Last year, the state government issued an apology without compensation. Because they're just a state. Deadline Tokyo, the pharmaceutical head of Swiss firm Novartis, has apologized to the Japanese public for alleged manipulation of data in trials of its best-selling blood pressure drug, Dio Van, saying an employee had acted inappropriately. David Epstein made the comments after meeting with Japanese health minister, nor he said, tamura. He agreed with the ministry to resolve the issue. We expressed our deep regret for the concern. The issue was brought to patients to the medical society as well as the ministry. We're very willing to work with them and take additional actions and potential actions. Epstein, several Japanese hospitals have stopped offering the drug

after two universities, retracted papers, printed in foreign medical journeys on the drug's efficacy. The other three universities that published research on Dio Van are still investigating the matter. Epstein set a former Novartis employee who assisted in all five trials had acted in a way beyond what we consider appropriate. The company had responded by strengthening its training and oversight procedures. Like, don't get caught. From the British newspaper, the evening standard, in our article Museum finally signs its deal to be fine and dandy. We referred to the exhibition of the late Sebastian Horsley suits at the Museum of London and the Horsley Show and Exhibition of his pictures at the outsider's gallery. By unfortunate error, we referred to Rachel Garley, the late Sebastian Horsley's girlfriend who arranged the exhibitions as a prostitute. We accept that Ms. Garley is not and has never been a prostitute. We offer our sincere apologies to Ms. Garley for the damage to her reputation and the distressed and embarrassment she has suffered as a result. The newspaper, by the way, is given away. So what do you want for free? Dataline Tallahassee, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondy is finally speaking about a decision

to delay the execution date of a convicted killer. This week she made her first substantive public comments about the incidents since it was revealed the governor had delayed the execution of Marshall Lee Gore because it conflicted with a Bondy campaign fundraiser. She called her decision wrong and apologized. She also vowed it would never happen again. The prisoner will be executed October 1st. A U.S. delegation of the Russian-American Forum for Children Rights Protection in Russia's Siberian City of Kante-Massisk has reportedly apologized to Russian children rights, Umbudsman Pavel Ostakov, for comments recently made by U.S. Senator Mary Landroup from Louisiana. She criticized Ostakov's support for ban on the adoption of Russian children by U.S. citizens saying, quote, he's an ass. We've now apologized for that. The head of insurer American International Group has apologized for poor choice of words this week after coming under fire for equating criticism of banker's bonuses with the lynching of African Americans in the deep south. Outrage over bonuses paid to bankers, he said,

was intended to stir public anger to get everybody out there with their pitchforks and their nooses and all that, sort of like what we did in the deep south decades ago. Said chief executive Bob Benmoche. His words provoked a sharp reaction. He has now apologized for their remarks. It was a poor choice of words I never meant to offend anyone by it. He said. And here in the United Kingdom, two supermarket chains have apologized for selling Halloween costumes that offend. Asda has been forced to apologize after it advertised a outfit featuring someone covered in blood and brandishing a machete as a, quote, mental patient fancy dress costume. We'd like to offer our sincere apologies for the offense it's caused. We'll be making a sizable donation to the mind charity, said Asda. Antesco is withdrawn an inflatable gay best friend doll from sale and apologized after admitting it is offensive. The web page should have been removed.

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