What's your demo? You and I have enough people in that group?
Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
Today, march 4 2018. This is your award winning game on
nation media assassination episode 1013. This
is no agenda.
Russians are here and they're everywhere and broadcasting live
from downtown Austin Tejas capital, the drone Star State in
the studio in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm here asking the
proverbial question. What does pasture raised really mean? On
John C, Dvorak?
Buzzkill
pasture raised is this for your chicken?
No, I just have just bought some eggs box as pasture raised.
So you mean the eggs were actually raised? They weren't
what they mean. It doesn't mean any of these bowl craps
marketing, baby. It's marketing. Yes. Marketing.
It is. Like free range.
Yeah, well, if free range is understood, and you get a little
little bit of grass to poop. Ah,
that's about it.
All right. And
here we are. Sunday to answer the studio. No. Yeah,
I got them kicking.
Have you ever not been under attack by ants in the studio?
Most of the time. This is like a first time in a couple of years.
No, no, you've you've had ants in the studio just in the past
six months?
Well, maybe. Yeah, that's what you're after them. And there's
nothing up here. They're just roaming around stupidly.
It's too bad baby because I got ants. Nothing like that. All
right, and the show song again, every time you have damn ants
gotta play that.
All right, it's not like there's just like a bunch of a stream of
them. They're just random ants roaming around. Okay,
so it's still in the early stages of the of the
encirclement and attack of the siege. Yeah, well, you're living
on a did. Did you see that? Would it was in the newsletter.
There you go. About the colony of penguins that no one knew
about.
I find that distressing. Now, is it really
because it seems like they had seen guano? Which is a
scientific word for poop. They'd seen guano from their space
satellites, which other ones would you have? And they'd been
seeing this for a long time. Only now. It was the first time
they went to investigate.
I mean, they can't see a million penguins from the satellite.
Well, I don't know. I'm asking you you wrote it. The newsletter
was your discovery. So for people
who don't have the my discoveries, my discovery of the
discovery? Yes.
Well, for people who did not subscribe to the newsletter, go
to any of our no agenda websites, like no agenda
show.com and subscribe. Tell us what was what what was the
sports the discovery,
they discovered with this penguin that supposedly was
going extinct. A specific Penguin i can't remember that a
erielle or some crazy name, never heard of it, that they
found a colony exists on one of these islands and the colony
consists of 1.5 million of these things. And they were stunned
what they thought global warming was killing these things. And
that turns out they get
the global it's luckily it's back not global warming, but
climate change. Luckily, I don't know where to have this. It was
somewhat fragile. I
have we have to we when we went to England for Thanksgiving, we
ended up with some friends and those friends live out in
Cornwall, and they both got stuck. One of them was a nurse
and she got stuck at the hospital. She couldn't come
home. And then the daughter was stuck at school or at a friend's
house and they
were talking about the horrible weather in Europe in let's not
say horrible. It's a cold weather really cold people. The
Dutch are using the Amsterdam canals for transportation.
That's how cold it is.
And they call it they actually have a name for it. It's I think
it's called the Siberian beasts. Yes,
yes, this the site Desai be the sai beast. And because it is so
much warmer at the pole, now I understand. Oh, okay. Yeah.
Yeah, that's how it works. It's so it's 20 degrees warmer. I
think they're talking about Fahrenheit. I don't know. Then
then typical. Oh, yeah. And that's why all of a sudden we
have the site and of course, it also brings in Russia, which I
thought was cute. Yeah, you gotta bring Russia is Russia
thing is their fault that we've that we it's the Siberian beast.
Yeah. No, I
don't know. I thought
you were telling me when we began this show, years ago, that
it was predicted that they would never see snow again, except in
a snow globe. That's right, the British Isles
and they said that 12 years ago, and they said it wouldn't happen
by I think it was even some crazy date like 2010 or 2012.
Yeah. Tell me that didn't turn out so well.
Seems so cheesy. They were full of crap. Yeah. All right.
That's our show everybody. Thanks for coming. I think the
main things what do we have? I've got a lot of Russia, again,
from a whole whole bunch of different angles. More Mueller,
Mueller Mueller Mueller. Oh, Oscars tonight. There you go. So
let's get that out of the way before we go to our clips.
Right. So now the past number of award shows where we've been
expecting to be a lot of political rhetoric. It wasn't
all that bad. Actually, Golden Globes slipped a bit. They had
some gone but you know, all the other show and then frankly,
they were quite boring.
When they tried to shoehorn it in it became a problem. I think
Kim was going to definitely shoehorn a few of these games.
You know, yeah, opening monologue maybe maybe I have a
new I have a new thing for the Trump list which I'll talk about
later. Okay, I think they're going to try to slip in
well what do you think movie the year will be maybe that's
something we should just go to watch
what's the list you have the list in front of you I segment
Oh, I'm sorry. I just your segment
Oscar Here we go. I've haven't prepared Oscar movie of the
year.
No, like we have a couple predictions I'm sure will
happen.
Well I have a clip with a prediction here we go award here
nominees 2018 Let's see best picture we have call me by your
name. Do we have a little too gay? Maybe we have darkest hour?
A little bit? Yeah, maybe it's a maybe it's a
maybe but it would be hard to give Gary Oldman that kind of
cred because all the reshoots and it was Kevin I think it's
too toxic with Kevin Spacey dropping out.
It wasn't Gary Oldman you get the wrong darkest hour. Which is
the one No, I'm you're thinking about who knows spacey dropped
out of a different movie.
Sorry, who dropped out of darkest hour out of the
Churchill. Nobody
know but I think I think he's gonna win for Churchill. But
that movie won't win.
Dunkirk. No, no Dunkirk No, no.
We're the Getty the Getty kidnapping movie. Yeah.
Oh, wait, we then we have Get out.
Get out. Get out is a first movie by one of the guys one of
the comedians comic director who did this as kind of a semi
comedy. It's a there's just not going to give us a new director.
The Academy Award for Best Picture even though that's a
really good movie. ladybird. ladybird has a lot of
possibility to do when the Golden Globes Did you like
ladybird? I can't watch a movie like this wouldn't and chick
flick. Yeah.
You got it. I watched it with Tina and I like was okay. But
you know, she really made me cry. No, no, I cried about
something else I'll talk about later. Phantom thread. Phantom
thread. What was that one? I don't know. I haven't seen this.
No,
I don't know. Yeah, didn't hear it. Phantom thread. Phantom
thread,
thread. Needle and Thread phantom thread.
Oh, yeah. I've heard I don't know what even what it's about
Okay, so now there was this candle when no the post that
Yeah, exactly. I didn't win anything. It stinks shape of
water. Shape of water is plagiarized. Oh, from somebody
some guy I think he was even a play or a novel. But he sued him
or the writer and it sounds a lot like the same exact movie
woman who's a cleaning lady maybe handicapped. I'm not sure
about the original falls in love with an alien
I know the the concept of the story but yeah, what was
plagiarized from this other guy's story? Yeah, like there's
an original thought in Hollywood's bones anywhere
that's beside the point is
that I think that poison the movie. Okay, the laws are a
gotcha. And then finally, this would be the one that I liked
the most of the ones I've seen which is pretty much only this
one and Ladybird three billboards outside ebbing
Missouri as a shot as a shot but if you believe the NPR kids,
because the kids do talk over there on the NPR is that it's
been a minute they have a very clear prediction and they have a
reason for it.
Before we leave our film jet we got to just talk the awards
themselves the Oscars this weekend. Do we have any idea
about who is going to win?
Why do you have to talk like this on I was asking the same
questions just so called raise a
shape of water. The amphibian man Love Story No, you don't
know not so much. I mean I love get out but I would love big
push last minute to try to win they're everywhere. Lottery I
have to disagree. I think Get out is going to win
rarely you oh please tell me why I think it
is going to win I think that you're seeing this year right
there's definitely something in the in the atmosphere these past
couple days where you're seeing a major push for it I think when
a lot of people sit down to vote and they think to themselves
like What movie did I enjoy watching the most as your What
did I have the most fun? Also, what would I just love to see?
Named
Best Picture?
What would make me look the most woke? Yeah.
There you go. There it is. You want to look woke? You vote for
get out? I think they're right or other
I think no, right. Hi there. Now that right about Hollywood does
is a bunch of old fogies are not going to go with what these kids
think. Now the
Hollywood is not just a bunch of old fogies
of voters or old fogies. Not talking about Hollywood some of
the voters so it's got to be some more traditional movie now.
I'm going I'm gonna I like I like their their thinking.
But I don't know why you would ever like why did you like their
thinking?
Because they talked me right down into it. My Millennials
stay well, I think the stay WOKE vibe is there. But we're not in
Hollywood. We don't know what's going on.
And we don't care. I'll be doing this segment. But I when I have
a crossover segment. Okay.
technical term good one, a crossover segment, everybody.
Jennifer Lawrence, was on the PBS NewsHour. So they could plug
her movie RED Scarlet, to an extreme red Sparrow, to an
extreme Yarlung. Really, please check false. And all she does is
complain. And I'm listening to this. And they do mention the
fact that she had a run in with Harvey Weinstein and never
really said too much about it. And ever since then, she's
getting two movies a year. So interesting. So I'm just adding
to and to personally but you can see or think whatever you want,
but she likes to complain. I haven't been good at just played
clip one.
She won an Oscar for Best Actress for Silver Linings
Playbook, and was the highest paid actress in the world in
2015 and 2016. But a leaked memo revealed it on the film American
Hustle. Lawrence and co star Amy Adams are much less than their
male counterparts, Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale, she
published an essay that helped jumpstart a conversation about
pay a
point of view and that essay was really just my own mentality on
the whole thing. You know, why did I not feel like I deserved
to be paid equally. I was more interested in that. And even
though I have kind of a weird job, that's probably not
relatable to most. I felt like my mentality on that. If I'm
feeling this way, in Hollywood, I can't imagine how many women
across the world must be feeling that why don't we? You know, I
had won an Oscar by the time I was doing American Hustle. I had
led movies to be number one at the box office. I was just
curious, why did I not feel like I deserved equal pay?
You asked yourself and then you hear she said something
weird? Actually. You just listen to that again. This last bit
here.
Time I was doing American Hustle. I had led movies to be
number one at the box office. I was just curious. Why did I not
feel like I deserved equal pay?
Why did I not feel that I deserve equal pay?
yet? I heard that too. You asked her so what? Wait, stop, stop.
Why did I not feel like? I mean, what she shows you what she's
saying is that she didn't feel that she needed equal pay? Yeah,
yeah. That's what she's saying. The I'm pretty sure she didn't I
think that's what I think that's what she meant to say.
And that's typically what
she's saying that she's saying the problem is, I didn't feel I
needed equal pay until now. Now I feel that I
think that's a good point. Do you know what she made on this?
I don't know. 10 million. I just some ridiculous. Oh, gypped
the box office? I was just curious. Why did I not feel like
I deserved equal pay? You asked yourself
and then you ask women.
The simple answer is MK Ultra baby. That's why
she has elements of that debt. For sure. But here's what I when
I heard her bitching and moaning in this clip and then the second
part two, which will play after I make this commentary. I'm
gonna because I'm gonna like an ask Adam, I'm gonna ask you.
When she does when any actor in Hollywood High End especially
does a movie. Do they go in with the producer of the movie and
ask around and see what everyone's making so she can get
as much or once we get this, who does that work? The agency? The
agency does all the work. Yes. And
the agents at William Morris are creative artists, or any one of
three or four. Yeah.
And so why is she, who she blaming here? She never once
mentioned as as the agent is the money. She's blaming
old white men. Hello.
It's your agent who made the deal with old white. He's the
one who accepted the deal. That's the way Hollywood works.
And it's not like you're getting a job. And you get, oh, let's
look down the fee schedule Woman Oh, minus 20% what everybody
else gets, they could have given gotten her to get more money
than the other guys if the guy was doing his job. Okay, so I
use a light roll. I never saw the movie. And
I think I can help you with this. The way Hollywood works is
you have your slate, you have your your films. And sometimes
these films sit on the shelf for many, many years, depending on
the environment in which they want to release it. So I'm
looking now at this movie, when was it actually produced,
she already said, but it's beside the point because she
already said she had already won her Academy Award and taken a
number of movies to the top spot by the time she did this movie.
So she answered it. And that's your your question right in
there. Right? So the thing that still doesn't get brought up?
And why doesn't Jeffrey, at PBS assays are about this says
anything? Like what is it? The agents are the ones who make
these deals and you just accept it or don't accept it? It's up
to you to the agent does the deal? The agent does the deal?
You don't. So what is she bitching about?
She needs new agents. She does really well, I think I think
she's ready for new representation. And once again,
here's where we come in John, the curry divorce agency,
which, that's what we need to do. We don't want to do
anything, do deals and collect 10% or 15 in some cases.
Alright, let's go with the part two.
Okay. You know, we have to reshape the way that we're that
we're treated, things that were normalized before are no longer
going to be normalized. Due to surprise, you
know, it didn't it didn't surprise me. I think there's a
huge gap between the amount of men and women that are working
in higher level jobs and decision making jobs. And it's
something that just has to change.
Yeah, okay.
Production started January 5 2017. And it was originally
scheduled to be written to be released November 10 2017. But
they delayed it. So this was done before the controversy
kicked in at all any of this. So it now it makes sense. You know,
why? What was I thinking? Look at this opportunity. I could
have bitched and moaned about it right here. And now.
Well, that's what she's doing.
Now. Instead, she's Yes, she
is. Now she's did the second clip, she says, things are
getting you got to play the beginning of that again, tell me
what is what is she saying? She says things used to be
normalized. And now they have to normalize that new way or
something. What is she talking about?
You know, we have to reshape the way that we're that we're
treated things that were normalized before,
okay, I'm going to try and deconstruct it for you. We have
to reshape which is code for renegotiate things that were
normal before women get gypped we've got to change that
are no longer going to be normalized. So it's no longer
gonna be there. Now it's time for the new normal, I guess.
Did it surprise you?
No, it didn't. It didn't surprise me. I think there's a
huge gap. Who's this talking to? The director of the red Sparrow
moving between the amount of men and women that are working and
higher level jobs and decision making jobs?
Oh, see old white men. I told you that was the problem,
because it's the old white men, decision makers who are up in
the in the upper echelons who are making the choices and
screwing women out of money.
And it's something that just has to change. It's got to change.
Yeah.
It's true. It's got to change. All of this has to change. Yeah,
we need women running everything.
Another agent, why doesn't Jeffrey mentioned this simple
fact of life in Hollywood. It's the agents who do these deals.
It wasn't in this script. He's not a real jerk. No, I don't
know. Why are you so surprised?
I'm just I'm not surprised at all. That's the and that in
itself makes me annoyed. Okay. Why am I not surprised? Yes. I'm
not surprised that the can answer an obvious question
that's sitting right there. I guess like a blog out low
balling on a tee, you can just swing at it and you swing a
number of times the ball is not moving.
Ready with the ball once again? All right. I'm done with the
Oscars for now.
Go get good. I'm glad to hear that's okay.
I made a rather bold prediction, I believe on the last show where
I said the social nets are in trouble. And, yes, I'm doing
more and more of this Newspeak. I really,
here's my tip, because you think it's going to annoy me? Here's
my take on it. You're going to annoy yourself so much doing
this. I will see as you get used, here's what's going to
happen is going to go into your regular speech as you're
wandering around Austin.
It's already happened. This is not a prediction. It's gorgeous.
I tell you. All I got many I wrote them down. It's gorgeous.
It's just gorge. All right. We've talked about this bill,
which is known as the cloud act. Only we didn't know what's
called the cloud act. When we talked about the first time it
was called the Backpage. Act. You remember this? Yeah, you
think the Backpage act? Well, let's let's go.
Back Page, the back page, the horse, the horse,
the horse industry, yes, the horse, the horse index, or
index. This is about section 203 of the Communications Decency
Act, probably the most important piece of legislation that helped
spurn and propagate the internet and Commerce on the internet.
And I'm thinking it was Bill Clinton who put it in place, or
Bill was under Clinton's regime that this came into view. And
the idea was, we treat services on the internet, kind of like a
library, where the person or the entity that is in control of the
service is not liable for the speech that is exchanged on the
service. And you can see why this is extremely important
because you can't have the situation that we're going to
right now. They tried to stop where Google has to bring in
10,000 People just to evaluate YouTube videos, stuff has to be
taken down. There's all kinds of issues now they're doing a lot
of this voluntarily. But the fear is you get on the slippery
slope of legislating one little piece of it, ie the whore index.
And then before you know it, you can start tacking all kinds of
stuff on to that so the back Backpage was fighting very hard
with Google and face bag and Twitter and everybody on their
side to stop this bill and it just passed the House about
seven
years ago, a group of high school students asked Rob
Portman, a Republican senator from Ohio to talk to them about
human trafficking. He'd heard about the problem before, when
he traveled across his state to learn about the opioid epidemic.
He'd met women and girls who are survivors of trafficking,
drugged by the people who had sold them for sex.
The more I learned about what was going on in my state and
around the country, the more discouraging it got.
Every year human trafficking groups report 1000s of cases
adults and children in the US being forced into prostitution
to Portman, that number is growing for two main reasons,
one opioids, but two and primarily the internet would run
into women and girls back home who would say you know, it's
moved from the street corner to the smartphone, and it's
ruthlessly efficient.
The most egregious offender is a website called Backpage, which
is known for its adult services ads, but also as the number one
place to search for victims of child sex trafficking. In the
past, several victims tried to sue Backpage for facilitating
the crimes. But in case after case, Backpage successfully
claimed immunity, and it relied on a law called Section 230 of
the Communications Decency Act 30. This law protects online
platforms from liability over posts made by users
perhaps the most important law in the development of the
internet we have today
Evan angstrom runs the advocacy group engine which represents
internet startups and companies like Reddit and Pinterest
started others in star review without section 230 websites
like YouTube Facebook, Yelp would have long been sued out of
existence. It says
websites should only be liable for their users speech in very
limited circumstances if they've created the speech if they've
developed the speech. But now
Congress is planning to add new circumstances when people could
sue websites for knowingly promoting or facilitating sex
trafficking. angstrom argues this could prove
counterproductive. He says websites especially small ones
might decide to not even know at all what happens on their
platforms to avoid liability. Portman argues the tech industry
is overreacting about the law
to the point that they weren't willing to look at the obvious
problem, which is that it's been abused to say Help people
online.
He hopes the Senate will follow the house and vote on the sex
trafficking bill. In the next few weeks.
I made two mistakes in my intro one was section 239 203. And is
not the cloud act. That's a different Act, which is going to
talk about next. But you hear it, this is where it starts.
And, and this is the part of this
is the demise. This has been the debate since day one. Yeah, but
now it's now we have legislation that's passed the house, it's a
start.
It may not pass the Senate because those guys need the
other older guys. They need they need these girls.
Well, we have I have an amendment for one website that
should stay one amendment. It's
a Mitzi, Mitzi galore. She needs she needs to,
she needs freedom of speech on her website with her girls who
are writing on her website. Yeah, we'll see. I don't know. I
mean, so now actually, I'll go to the cloud Act, which is
another fine piece of legislation. This is a court
case, I've been going for a number of, I think three or four
years. And it is the United States government. Who wants to
subpoena records that Microsoft is storing.
I have been trying to write a column about this for a month.
Oh, good. And but I couldn't come up with anything that mood
is interesting enough to write I'm now all ears.
I don't know if I can well, maybe we'll come up with
something that's interesting enough to write. So the problem
is they want to subpoena email. I think it's email records,
maybe from their outlook.com service of an individual who is
either in Europe, but certainly that person's data lives in
Europe and the EU has in
the United States, but the data is in Europe, I think that's the
key
difference. Yeah. And okay. That makes a lot of sense, actually.
And Microsoft said, No, we're not giving that to you, because
we have to adhere to EU regulations, which are very
strict about the privacy. And this came before the Supreme
Court earlier this week at Microsoft, we this is Brad Smith
of Microsoft. Did he run the Xbox division once?
No, Brad Smith has always been the lawyer there. Oh, I don't I
haven't met him. Yet. You probably had a brief very
sociable.
Yeah, I thought no, I thought he was the Xbox guy. Okay, he's the
thing. So
I'm I could be wrong. I mean, it's possible. But lawyer
lawyer at Microsoft, we filed this case over four years ago in
2013. And the day we filed that we said that we were prepared to
take this case all the way to the Supreme Court, if that's
what it took to protect the privacy of our customers around
the world. Here we are today, on the steps of the Supreme Court,
having made our argument to the nine justices. I certainly come
out of the courthouse if anything more in court
encouraged than when we walked in this morning. Because in
fact, I think that what this case makes clear, and what this
morning has further made clear is that we need 21st century
laws to protect 21st century technology.
And I'm not quite sure what side Brad is on when he says that.
But I think they just wanted they don't want to have to deal
with it, period. But I've looked at the cloud act.
Actually, that's a good point. Because I'm not not to mention
it. He could be actually saying, Hey, we have to defend this
thing by can we have like more modern law. So we don't have to
go through this hassle. Because for the chief lawyer of
Microsoft to go to the Supreme Court and go through all the
steps to get to the Supreme Court. This is like this wasting
his time.
Yeah, he's got he's got deals to do. He's got deals to put
together. Crap, cloud oysters to crack the cloud act, of course,
have an acronym. They're in Congress, clarifying lawful
overseas use of data. They're so creative. And I think the crux
is really article 2713, which will actually this is an
amendment to chapter 121 of title 18 of the United States
Code, required preservation and disclosure of communications and
records. A provider of electronic communications
service or remote computing service shall comply with the
obligations of this chapter to preserve backup or disclose the
contents of a wire or electronic communication and any record or
other information pertaining to a customer or subscriber within
such providers possession, custody or control, regardless
of whether such communication record or other information is
located within or outside of the United States. Though that will
be the request. I think that's the crux of the bill. So if you
have data overseas, about that includes data about human
beings, you need to retain all of that in the US and be able to
make that available to the court system. And this can only come
down to a battle between the EU and the US.
Will I think it should be handled differently. Okay. I
think that that data is not overseas. It's virtualized, it's
he actually here so when I go on my computer to get my email and
hit show it's in okay, it's on the server in Ireland, but I'm,
it's on my computer for the moment because I did that
computer and Ireland is not is really just a it's a virtual
device in the biggest sense of virtual not in the sense of a
separate machine right even though it is separate machine.
So I think I think all this stuff should I think she by
definition is in the United States.
And if what will the EU say about that? If I mean, they have
very, they have very strict laws that if you are serving
customers in the EU, you have to store that data in the EU and
you may not share that up there just any willy nilly willy nilly
circumstance.
Yeah, if they're EU citizens, and they're using that.
I'm not sure I'm not so sure you have to be an EU citizen. Just
if you're in the EU, and you're using Hotmail. Well,
if that's the case, why do they knuckle under, under the
circumstance, which I think is a lot more important to most
people in the world, which is the banking system? If you're an
American using a European bank, why don't you tell us about your
experiences with the EU banking? Yeah,
that's problematic. But I don't
see how it give the infer they're forced to give the
information the United States? How's that? How is that any
different than some virtualized crap that's on an Irish server?
I don't see it. Well, okay. I think the banking system
worldwide globally is a little more integrated than, than
social networks and email.
I don't but I think what you just said is nonsense. I can't
think of anything more integrated than email. In
government. No, no, not in government. I'm talking about
just as basic as the banking system
and government are closely intertwined globally, is social
networks, not closely intertwined with the government,
except for the US government.
All I'm doing is arguing against the basis of the thesis, which
is what you would be like, you know, which is oh, God, we got
our we had to protect everybody. You know, what, they have no
protections for the bank banking people, members of the banking
community and their users. No protections.
It's obvious you don't have a column.
Don't. Oh, he said that.
That's what they should be saying. Screw those guys. But
the third and most damning piece of evidence that I picked up
this week, telling me that the social nets are on the way down
is the 60 minutes profile of Brad parscale. Brad parscale,
allegedly ran the Trump digital campaign, and they did a profile
of this guy. Did you see this by any chance?
No, but not you mentioned I wish I had, I have cut
down the relevant bits for you. And you will hear you will know
immediately that this cannot Well, on the one hand, yes, we
need more of the social network to get reelected, but we need to
control it. That's for sure. It's dangerous.
I understood early that Facebook was how Donald Trump was going
to win. Twitter's how he talked to the people. Facebook was
gonna be how he won.
And Facebook is how he won. I think so.
Trump won.
He's gonna say, Do you want to just listen to the guy and then
we can talk about it afterwards?
We'll be had to be taking notes. I'd rather well, let's let's
let's do them again. And we'll interrupt. There we go.
I understood early that Facebook was how Donald Trump is going to
win. Twitter is how he talked to the people. Facebook was gonna
be how it won't.
And Facebook is how he won.
I think so who says he does.
Tito, he says and she says that's how he won. He she said
he said, That's how he's going to win. And she says the end.
That's how he won. What evidence do we have that is Facebook that
got him elected? I've never heard this before. Maybe
the next two minutes and 26 seconds will contain the answers
to your questions about the universe. I
mean, I think Donald Trump won. But I think Facebook is was the
method. It was the highway in which his car drove on.
And Brad parscale was in the driver's seat. In the beginning
of the campaign, he worked alone at home in San Antonio. But by
the end, he had 100 people reporting to him. One of his
main jobs was to send out carefully tailored low cost
digital ads to millions of people. And these were ads on
Facebook,
Facebook, we did on twitter, google search other platforms.
Facebook was the 500 pound gorilla 80% of the budget kind
of thing.
Facebook's advertising technology helped President
Obama in 2012 but today Facebook offers something far more
precise and sophisticated. While the President recently tweeted
that Facebook was always antiTrump parscale relied
heavily on the company, particularly on its cutting edge
targeting tools. One of the best things Facebook did for you I
heard was Peniche. Right, the rural vote
set. Yeah, so Facebook now lets you get to places and places
possibly, that you would never go at TV ads. Now I can find 15
People in the Florida Panhandle that I would never buy a TV
commercial for. And we took opportunities that I think the
other side didn't like what we had, are their staff embedded
inside our offices, what Facebook employees would show
up,
what, like she hadn't heard this before. We've even played clips
of that, that they had and beds, but what, whoa, whoa, I sewed it
actually just go. What, what? It's like Scooby Doo.
What, what
for? And we took opportunities that I think the other side
didn't like what we had, are their staff embedded inside our
offices. What? Yeah, Facebook employees would show up for work
every day in our offices.
Wait a minute, Facebook employees showed up at the Trump
headquarters and Twitter employees. They were embedded in
your campaign.
I mean, like they were there multiple days a week, three,
four days a week, two days a week, doing inside helping teach
us how to use their platform, how to get elected, I asked each
one of them by email. I want to every single secret button,
click technology you have I want to everything you would tell
Hillary's campaign plus some and I want your people here to teach
me how to use it inside. Yeah, I want to sit right, even though
they weren't Trojan horses, because I'd asked them to be
Republicans and I would talk to him. Oh, you only wanted
Republicans. I wanted people who supported Donald Trump.
I love that they were Republicans who work within
Facebook. Oh, from their
companies. And that's what you got. Yeah, they already have
divisions set up that way. What do you mean, they already have
groups of people in their political divisions that are
Republican Democrat? They're kidding. They're businesses that
publicly traded companies with stock price. Did Hillary's
campaign have someone invited her that they didn't accept any
of their offers?
So you're saying Facebook and the others offered an embed and
they said no, that's what I've heard. People in the Clinton
campaign confirmed that the offer was made in turn down
legislation coming down baby there's no way they're gonna
allow this to go unregulated. No way. Especially Hillary now she
has proof proof
because she was the Russians. What's this got to do with the
Russian Hello,
these guys with the help of Facebook, all the Russians had
to do was just turn on the bots. I can clearly see the
communication strategy from the Democrats.
Well, this is ironic, especially that they may give you tip of
the day for that because I should have watched this I would
have gotten the same clip but you win.
I love the smell of victory.
Fascinating. During the dance, this
has to result in at least discussion a combo on the hills.
Because if this is true and 60 minutes at these, these mofos
they watch this they this holy oh man, pillar didn't use the
face bag. embedd. Wait a minute. How do we know who these embeds
are? They could be the wall we have to live with net
legislation?
Well, let's take this back up a couple of steps and realize this
is the third time Hillary has been running for this office and
every time except this time when everyone blames the Russians.
They always blame the incompetence of the Hillary
campaign and the dummies that run it. Yeah. So hey, just
another piece of evidence that it was the same old, same old if
I can use a trace from the chaise, that it happened again.
They were too dumb to say, well, let's check this out. Yeah. And
you're getting free people that come over there and train you.
You say no, we don't really.
And the fact that there's just the fact that there's
Republicans who work and face back is a problem.
Well, I'm sure that they're ostracized. Yes, but that has to
be very good. I give them Ted now I have high hopes for the
company and I don't have high hopes for the legislation but
did legislation should be promote pushed by the mainstream
media just Facebook you know these Facebook and Google both
are killing these guys. Yeah, well,
that's I think that's coming. I'd look it's my beat now. I'll
stay on it. I made
you know, you can't legislate good ideas. The the newspapers
and magazines is getting pathetic. You go on any of
these. Oh, you got an ad blocker on? Oh, oh, please take his
whitelist this take the ad blocker off. I mean, come on.
Give me a break as you have to if that's your problem. Sure,
make any money because somebody has other problems. Let
me Frager problem. you frame it for you. So we just passed the
law in the house. It's not done yet. We just passed the law in
the house to stop the horror index. You passed a bill a bill
Bill pass the bill. That's right. Sorry, as Bill can't
become an act yet, or law. So we just we just passed that in the
house. Why wouldn't we see? I mean, what's more important our
democracy under attack by the Russians,
or some horse?
Well, first of all, the Republicans at the moment still
own both houses, and they're not going to vote. I don't think
they're going to vote the horrors out of business. But I
think the this bill would definitely go nowhere. Because
they say, Wow, that's how come we want all these things. How
can we not using it more locally? I think the Democrats
are going to see it say to themselves, they looked around
it to say,
hey, wait, I just had an idea. Maybe they can do a combo. And
it only be Russian horse. That would get traction. They're all
they're all spies. Known KGB, it's
probably no evidence of that at all. They gotta get off his
Russian kick. Anyway, they get it, they're gonna the Democrats
can use this. They now saw the light. There's too many smart
guys out there. Democrat guys that work in campaigns, campaign
strategists who aren't gonna want to see a law like this
because they want to say, Well, we were smarter than the
Republicans, we have better education. We're just smarter.
They're all dumb. So we could do a better job if we just did the
job. Hillary didn't do the job she screwed up and then they
went you know, she wasn't going to do well anyway. But you know,
for the next go round we can do it Obama didn't used it. They
said is what they said in the report. Obama used these guys.
Yes. And he won.
Well, look, we'll see.
I think you're on I think you're Yes, your beat but you're not
gonna get I don't think it's going anywhere.
Did you have the clip of Adam Schiff talking about Russia
loves our Second Amendment. Was that your clip that we have a
clip? I don't remember the clip. Yeah, it was it was I think you
had a he was somewhere saying, Oh, the Russians, they love our
Second Amendment because they just want to, you know, cause
all kinds of problems with that. They love it. They love stirring
up shit around the the NRA. And I know that second amendment
specifically.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I
remember I thought we had a clip. It was a YouTube clip
floating around. I can't I don't see it here. However, to some
degree, depends on what dimension you're living in. He
was right. And this was a great piece on this. Maybe NPR? Again,
let me see. Yes. Regarding the Russian ties to the NRA, I mean,
it's not it's not enough to have dead kids to defund the NRA and
defund the Republicans for this. For this election year, the
midterm, oh, we're gonna add some Russian to it.
So Alexander Torshin. He's a former Russian senator, he
serves as a deputy governor to the Bank of Russia. He's known
to be a Putin ally. And when he was
in the Russia, I should say Putin is instead of Putin ally.
In my opinion, Duma,
he spent time on Russia's national anti terrorism
committee. That's a powerful state body. That includes the
director of the FSB, which is Russia's Internal Security
Service, and the ministers of defense and foreign affairs. So
I previously reported that he was a an is a paid lifetime
member of the NRA. And over six years, he developed ties with
leaders of the NRA, and use them to get deeper into American
politics. And we can see this because he documented all these
efforts in real time. It was actually hiding in plain sight
among 150,000 Russian language tweets that NPR has translated.
That's why people hadn't noticed it until now. They hadn't gone
to the trouble of translating it hadn't people that didn't
notice. This is such a great journey. Oh, United States
anyway. So what was he doing at NRA conventions in his own
words?
So he went to every NRA convention between 2012 and
2016. We had a known that he was going every single year, and he
met with four presidents of the NRA. During this time, he
appears to have developed a pretty close relationship with
david keene, who was a former NRA president and the former
president of the American Conservative Union. He even says
that he met Donald Trump threw the NRA at their convention in
2015. So the context of this is, was defending over the course of
the later presidential campaign and torch and said, Look, I know
Donald Trump through the NRA. This is what he writes in
Russian. I know Donald Trump's with the NRA. He's a decent man.
But there is the added interest of investigative bodies and
McClatchy reported last month that the FBI is investigating
whether or not Alexander torsion illegally directed any sort of
money towards the NRA in order to help Donald Trump in the 2016
election.
I don't know what you had on your rotation coming up next,
but this could get legs nothing better than tying Russia into
the NRA.
yeah I don't know if it's anything separate than the
Russian collusion you know because anything's pot you know
guys kinky it's like to joke about using the Russian salad
dressing collusion yes. No no I have something completely
different but I can put this on the list of like if you're a how
to itemize national
Russian
Russian Rifle Association
versus Russian right the R ra the Russian Rifle Association I
think it's a beautiful time between the school shooting in
the Russians
think it's a stretch all right. Today's theme is Adams got all
kinds of cool stretches.
No Today's theme is John has his eyes closed he's wearing
blinders dig licenses so now if you're a dick I say just dig but
now you've wearing blinders yeah i don't know i this i Look I
think like a mainstream guy when I have to and I can see this I
can see this getting legs
we'll see if it gets legs if they did we'd hear anything more
about it. I like this a theory as a possibility but it's like
throwing mud on the wall united against said there's a stick and
bounce off. Okay, so let's go to what let's move over to
something that's that's going on is big in the news.
trade wars
trade wars now I have too many clips on trade wars but a lot of
them are
I have a few as well but too much yeah, you drive you drive
let's
start a couple of things they have a there's you can see that
here's when CBS does its report and everybody else every CBS I
have to say is really brought themselves into a line of
actually presenting news that's not so slanted even when they
put slant in it. They have counter slant. Okay, and they do
it pretty
often to actually put a counter opinion in that
you make sense so yes, oh, that's unheard of. I know it's
weird so we I'm not getting many clips from them. Because if I
get clips from CBS is just a stolen clip. There's really
nothing I can do with the clip. Because you know we have our
clips are fair use because we we use them for other things that
we don't use them just to report stories. We use them to comment
on the clip. Yeah, but so let's start off with I think the
number one clip would be the NBC course they hate this idea.
They're ganging up on Trump. Just trade war Trump, NBC and
this is the logic
what the Commerce Secretary calls a tremendous overreaction,
arguing any price hike pass to consumers is chump change. Well,
I
just bought this can today, that a 711 down here, and a price was
$1.99. So who in the world is going to be too bothered by six
tenths of a cent? But the
risk isn't just that higher costs could get past to you.
It's the other countries could retaliate, making it more
expensive for American workers to sell their products overseas,
like wheat from farms like this one. We
depend a lot on exports and the fact that that something
threatens those exports really makes it tough for us.
The President aiming to protect us metal workers tweeting at
times trade wars are good and easy to win.
Trade battles can be easy and impossible to win. trade wars
are damaging to everybody.
So why now NBC News has learned the president became unglued
this week. By a series of events including Hope Hicks testimony
to lawmakers on Russia. That's according to two officials
familiar with the matter seething and spoiling for a
fight. The President picked one on trade throwing the markets
and his westwing into turmoil with a single sentence.
It'll be 25% for steel, it'll be 10% for aluminum.
Okay, that was stop. It's not a single sentence. Let's start
right there. I'm sorry, it will be blah, blah, blah. It will be
that it's either long is a run on sentence. If it's one
sentence. Yeah, it's two sentences. She doesn't even know
grammar. That is two sentences, which he's supposed to have
said. Seriously? Yeah.
Okay. Yeah, it's it's minor in the grand scheme of things. But
yeah, just
incorrect. I don't think it's minor at all. Bad journo. I
think she was supposed to say or should have said it, rewind it
back and I'll tell you what, you should have said it. That would
work.
Okay, about here somewhere into turmoil
with a single sentence.
It'll be 25% for steel, it'll be 10% for aluminum.
That's not a common sense.
If she has said in a single statement. Okay. The word is
statement statement.
I gotcha. Well, I
know this was when I heard that i Oh, my God. Well, what do you
mean no offense, but I'm telling you this is a professional This
is a house because of professional issue I got you. I
got you and and okay and you did catch the word of the day. Yes.
On the blue new word.
Yes unglued
now I want to switch over instead of continuing with just
the straight stuff.
Well I about the the can I mean can I do something real quick
here
21 It no because I want to get my unglued thing at I go. So
let's start and then you can jump because I just want to get
you. That's either Shields and Brooks or Shields and Brooks to
let's start with Shields and Brooks.
Okay.
Every day. What matters in all of this
with Mattis is chaos in the White House is bad for the
United States and bad for the world. There is no rational
order. Imagine, for example, what you've described the morale
at the White House. Every report is just incredibly low. Work in
any White House Judy is is an act of both self sacrifice and
self interest you miss birthdays, you miss
anniversaries, recitals, but use a sense of mission, a sense of
history a sense, also the special, you got part of
something special, you get status and recognition, all that
is missing here. This is a civil war in the leper colony. There
is there is no sense of direction.
What did you say this is civil war? What
civil war in a leper colony, as in
a colony of people who have lemper lepers really isn't that
politically completely off the chart?
I thought it was outrageous that he'd said that
a colony of lepers I mean, geez enough about San Antonio people.
This is a civil war and a leper colony. There is there is no
sense of direction. The steel quote is being a perfect
example. There was no preparation of tariffs, rather,
there was no preparation politically, there was no
preparation for making a case, there was no preparation for the
press. There was no preparation within the White House. There's
nothing organization, it's all act on impulse and chaos of the
President himself.
It's almost there's almost a temptation, David to look at all
of this as some kind of sideshow. But there are real
consequences, aren't there? Yeah,
I'm actually thinking of Trump think of historical parallels
when we've had this much chaos in the American presidency. You
know, Richard Nixon had some bad days at the end there, but he
had a very high quality staff around him. Woodrow Wilson had a
stroke, I'm going through the list. I can't think of anything
quite like this, where we have the comp of the combination of a
semi competent or missing staff, and an emotionally and
intellectually unstable president. Reince Priebus, the
former chief of staff said in an interview not long ago that when
you look from the outside, it's actually 50 times worse from the
inside. And we're getting a glimpse of that. And one thing
that leapt out at me and I think this is the key thing, the most
important thing that is has real world consequences is we're not
just fighting over whether it has a military parade or not.
The steel tariffs thing is real consequences. And the word that
leapt out at me one of one of his staffers at one of his
allies said he made the decision because he became unglued.
Okay, first, I think we should also take a little bit of props
for the recognition of the word chaos, it's everywhere. Yes,
everywhere, including times.
This again, is the problem they're having they can't focus.
And by the way, this is Brooks, this is the guy supposed to be
the Republican, he brings unglued into the picture, who
wanted this guy such a phony,
but it was an unnamed source in the White House who said he did
it in a moment of being unglued. Yeah. Yeah.
Now that I was thinking about this, before we go to your
switch over Yeah. Why unglued they because they wanted to use
here's the way I'm looking at it. For one thing. I think this
is made up because they don't want to have the sources
anymore. He mentions rands, previous previous was the leaker
so they don't really have a leak or now now they're trying to
figure out what might be going on. So they're making up
according to sources people would familiar with the matter
which is what NBC uses. And they somebody came up with unglued
because they because here's the way that thought process would
go we can't use unhinged anymore. There's been people
that have been mocking the use of it. There's these long you
know, you get it, clipping it but unhinged, unhinged and
hidden Shanahan jazz Tim are people saying no to me, so you
need something new and and unglued is better. They would
argue if I was going to be a strategist coming up with this
word, because it makes it sounds like cheap, like Trump, when
he's unhinged that Mises like, you know, solid construction,
but God is glue is like Elmo is like a cheat sheet and paste
glued together.
So I'm from China that falls apart loony.
Now he's unglued. The problem is it's not a phrase anybody ever
uses they use unhinged nuts off the wall. Yeah million things
but unglued so it stands out like a sore thumb is a creation
that somebody put together. Yeah, because nobody's saying
he's unglued if I'm a staffer and actually doing this, which I
don't believe anyone's doing. I think this is bullcrap. And you
should be
fired for your word. That's
the guy's a freaked out. Yeah, I'm not gonna say he's unglued.
Nobody would say that. This is bold crap.
Was that in the New York Times?
Do you think the unglued thing I don't know? But it's been
everybody's been bandied about he said that he
said that in the clip he said the that I think it was in the
New York Times that someone on the inside said quote, hey, we
go coming unglued. This is Oh, that's nice. Oh, 1992 Oh, sorry.
That's a book we should look. Back then everything comes back
around.
But I got very digital. I mean, what is the point of
time he likes to use this word. David Mayer date David Dinkins
coalition appeared to have become frayed rather than
unglued.
This that's 93
So you might be on to something. Listen to this is just a New
York Times creation that they like to use now, isn't it?
March 4 2013. I was an emotional wreck, angry, disconnected and
unglued. The first time I took Adderall Oh Hmm. They might try
to tie that in
there. So just try to tie some men. Okay, I just have to ask
the question of news hour Why do you have two guys pretty much
spewing the same exact party Democrat line when one of us
supposed to represent the Republican side there are people
that can argue from the other perspective but they don't
bother with that they just like when they do their global
warming stuff. It's just global. Go for it. Go for it. Go for it.
Yeah, screw you if you want us to give you any balance at all
remind me to tell you about the CIA guy working for the LA Times
because that does kind of fit into this but first I'll go to
very short clip this is from CNBC and I the trick was the
clip was triggered in my mind because of your clip where the
guy said I just drank a can and he was one said this is the mean
this is the Republican talking points about the trade war those
who are for it, which is not a lot.
If you put a 10% tariff on aluminum. How much do you think
that increases the price of the six pack of beer? You have any
idea? You're gonna tell me a penny one cents? I'm gonna tell
you a penny. How much do you think it increases the price of
an automobile if all the costs are passed through $45 How much
you think it increases the cost of it? 777 Dreamliner the cost
$300 million. You know how much that is? Take a guess. So
why do you want it there you go. That's that's the talking
points.
Yeah, I sounds like it but I thought the Dreamliner was all
glued together. Just aluminum in there.
Maybe the the cutlery? I don't know. That's a good that's a
good point. He did mention the Airbus specifically a not a
Boeing. A very good point. A Nice catch. Actually. It's a
plastic airplane. Yeah.
Me for the fuselage or something aluminum?
Yeah, but still it would be much higher for a 747
Oh, yeah. Well, they're going to stop making the 747
Do you know why? Price of aluminum is through the roof?
That's what you can argue with. They already made that decision.
They can't they just don't they can't afford that plane is too
expensive or it doesn't get the gas mileage. I don't know what
they're doing. That's a greatest plane ever made. My opinion.
Just so comfortable to fly on. I used to fly.
Oh, go on with a tariff. Okay.
Ah, when I was a kid, we used to fly in a 47 across they
have aluminum coasters from the Concorde, which I flew on whose
story is going to be better?
I think mine okay, like it. Let's go to let's finish with
Shields and Brooks to
Okay, Liza Minnelli was on my flight and she was drunk.
And so we have a president makes the decision becomes as he comes
unglued. A decision totally an avoidance of the entire process.
And then to combine the chaos of it. He issued a tweet this
morning, which to me was a topper even by Trump's
standards, that a trade war is good and easily won. A concept
that no economist of any stripe and no historian of any stripe
could possibly think is other anything other than crazy.
Crazy unglued and chaos lewd words in there. Do you want me
to quickly read the list? Yes. Which I do have in front of me.
And I'd also like to know what I what I don't understand. Well,
maybe well, I have some clips that may shed some light on it.
But Obama raised the tariffs I believe over 200% Bush raised
tariffs on every The president has raised tariffs on steel for
sure. I'm not sure I'm not so certain about aluminum the at
one point during their administration, and usually it
said all bad idea, bad idea, bad idea. But now it's unglued and
the guy's nuts and crazy. I mean, is it just because it's
Trump and it really doesn't make any difference, historically
speaking?
What do you think? Is it just because I'm
also asking you as an economist, if what you think about the
whole I don't like
the I personally, I think at this thing set off stock market
collapses, the first example of that cash out now, that's the
first example of that was Thomas Jefferson. And he's right in the
middle of that 80 year cycle. What happened he decided to put
all kinds of tariffs on the on a bunch of stuff and the economy
collapsed right shortly thereafter. And this has
happened over and over again. All right, let's go with it. I
just want you to read the list. It's yours. Sure. Oh, wait a
minute. This is no no John Doe. It
is too long. Oh, John. It's too long. Give
me half. Illegitimate President lost the popular vote
incompetent, unhinged. Updated to unglued, liar, Hitler demands
loyalty. cheeseburgers is all he eats. Sex Offender Russian agent
never says anything bad about Putin, white supremacist
narcissist, mentally unfit, insane, unstable clown. foreign
leaders hate him hates women misogynist, admitted molester.
25th Amendment should be instituted should be impeached
hates immigrants, hates Mexicans in particular says all Mexicans
are rapists racist, small hands small penis big red button
should not have nucular codes. Immature child like you need an
adult in the room tweets too much thin skinned bully holds
grudges forever mean bank corrupt does not have any money
long ties. fatter than 239 pounds plays too much golf after
criticizing Obama hypocrite by action, seldom called one
incestuous would date daughter, divorce say golden showers
pervert tax cheat obstruction of justice money laundering runs
the mob.
The best thing is the one thing they literally refuse to call
them is president. A good one. We'll call him everything except
for he's not my president. I can't even call it I won't even
I can't even use the name Trump and President and the same
Bravo.
But not my president on the list. Okay.
Good. I'm glad you're keeping track of that. That's a good
list.
It is I'm gonna post it online eventually. I should post it
online with the next newsletter. Yeah. Okay. But it's it's all in
there. I mean, you can hear their stuff they stepped out and
they come up with enhanced during these strikes me I get I
see it. Well. Well, you got a new one.
CNBC did something very interesting. I think they wanted
to explain it to dumb people who watch CNBC. For more on that
listen to Devora Horowitz unplugged, and they brought in a
clip to explain how bad this was. This is from a favorite
movie, and one of your favorites. Ferris Bueller's Day
Off. I know you're already interested now. Right? Like, how
did they
hear what the clip is? And all that, you know,
in that movie? Bueller? Yes. Ben Stiller, Ben Stein is the
teacher and he asks the class a very specific question in 1930,
the Republican controlled House of Representatives in an effort
to alleviate the effects of the Anyone, anyone? The Great
Depression, past the anyone? Anyone? A tariff bill, the
Hawley Smoot Tariff Act, which anyone raised or lowered, raised
tariffs in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal
government. Did it work anyone anyone know the effects? It did
not work and the United States sank deeper into the Great
Depression.
I think that's the bears. That is American history right there.
That's how we teach people just plain old Ferris Bueller clip
Okay, well that's good we shouldn't do it is a good one.
The only thing that was better is Ben Stein came on and he had
a different take.
My reaction is a trade wars are always a bad thing. But then we
have a special category for steel and aluminum which is that
their vital defense commodity and we are in that stage where
the Cold War is heating up incredibly rapidly. The days
when there was no cold war over Russia is bragging threatening.
There's a real danger of real conflict. We need to have a
strong metals industry and guys there is war. I'm sure it looks
to me like there's gonna be some kind of war We need to have a
dynamic metals industry. I don't believe that anti free trade is
a good idea. But I think in certain categories, we do need
to have some protection for our own industries. And as as
certain members of President Trump circle, were saying, the
additional cost of the of the materials, because this tariff
is trivial, I mean, people don't understand steel and aluminum do
not cost very much. If you raise the price of it by plenty by
present, it doesn't change the price of the automobile by very
much our refrigerator very much at all.
So Stein says war hot war war.
Yeah. Where he's getting that from Yo, Stan is a super
conservative
Afghanistan, maybe. Oh,
no, no, now that you brought that clip into play, I admit, I
have to think about it. You just could be blathering maybe.
Ben Stein pretty much is just a blather. I agree. But now there
was one explanation that only that made sense. But it was like
it was like poo pooed. By the because this was done by Mark
Shields on the PBS NewsHour when he explained a possible actual
not chaotic, but a strategy that Trump is employing. But it was
the way he presented it was like, well, there's no way
because he's an idiot, and he's unglued. And but but but this
couldn't be possible. And you know, when you listen to this,
this is the only thing that actually makes any sense. This
is trade war explained.
Explained sorry. But it was PBS clip. Here we go.
Keeping up with promises made for 30 years on on steel tariffs
was that the 18th District of Pennsylvania is in two weeks.
The special election for a Republican seat that the
Democrats have not even contested in 2014 and 2016 that
Donald Trump carried Southwestern Pennsylvania blue
collar by 20 points. And the Democrat Conor lamb, former
Marine former prosecutor, a US prosecutor is even with the
Republican nominee and a defeat here would send such panic this
this is Trump territory. And that this This was seen as
standing up for American jobs. That's the most plausible
explanation. Politically, it's not a defense. But it's it's an
explanation
panic into the ranks of Republicans worried about the
fall midterm elections. Yes,
yes. But David,
I mean, if that's what he was trying to do, I think a lot of
Republicans didn't get the message because right and left
there today asking asking you to reconsider saying this is not a
good thing. We don't need a trade war.
Oh, I like it. If you can keep it going.
Until the until November.
Well, no, that'd be great if you keep going till November, but he
needs to do some butter. This special election in two weeks.
Oh, this
is in two weeks. Oh, well, that makes perfect sense. So here's
what we do. We wait for everything to bottom out because
we're going to hear more. This is top of the news. This is the
number one or number two story. Just wait for everything to
start the shootings to die down. Yeah, shootings
have to die down. But we but we need to keep this tariff noise
in play. Then after the election. The special election
is the moment to buy and Trump will say hey, well, we'll do it
later. Yeah, and everything. Everything will pop up.
Yeah, maybe we'll see stock market tomorrow. Be interesting.
Don't
take our advice. That's for sure. I think that's a very
that's not he did run on the on this. It's not like a big shot.
It shouldn't be a surprise
because he talked and talked and talked about doing this since he
first came down the escalator. Yeah, it was Mexicans are
rapists. We gotta do some trade.
i That's exactly what he said. Mexicans are rapists. We got to
do something about trade. Vote for me. I love true dough, our
candy Navion brother up there. Who you Stein, I'm really
starting to understand this guy. He's not much more than an
actor. He's a pretty good one. And he
does he plays he plays kind of a hippie
dippie character. You know,
he's lovable like Hugh Grant. That's what it is. He's just
lovable. And teddy bear. Yeah, you want you know, and maybe in
his background, he had sex with a trainee. You know, that's kind
of Trudeau. You think all those thoughts run through your mind
when you look at him? And so he's trying to respond because
this will be a problem with if we have these tariffs. Also
against Scandinavia, we have quite an active steel trade. I
think we get a lot from Scandinavia, it'll be a problem.
And he's trying to explain this to the press. And he knows very
well how it works in the studio environment. He just read he
flubs his lines. You know, his statement, which is he clearly
hasn't in his mind, he is rehearsed. He rehearsed it with
somebody, I don't think that's uncommon. It's very normal for
your typical politician, and he floods and just restarts three
times if
we import more steel than the Americans. We have a significant
trade surplus, and the Americans have introduced a significant
trade surplus with us on steel, which means, which means we buy
steel from them, they buy from us
to em, and you're right. He's a flubber. He's a Flubber joson.
Well, you know, the other thing and it was all worked out. But
even though it's meant to me, they're all worked up about
Canada, China, all these, but there's these boats, the
present, his next week, is supposed to present a list of
countries, specific countries that he's going to do this
tariff, but not everyone. It may Canada may not be on
the same seven. This is very interesting, just like the so
called Muslim ban, which was for a number of countries previously
on Obama's list. I believe the sanctions that Obama put in
place were for seven or eight countries, and he probably will
replicate that.
Well, that's what he definitely should do. Because if the if
anyone bitches his Hey, yeah, I just took Obama's list and ran
it by again, it was okay, then I bet it's not okay. Now, what was
wrong with you people
didn't work so well with the Muslim ban. They tried that, but
that would be the defense. Yeah. What do you
think is going to work? Well, because it's Trump.
Yeah, I mean, isn't that the world? The World Trade
Organization is supposed to be in control of all this? Isn't
this just purely an anti globalist move? I mean, no one
does this stuff without talking to WTO and the partners first,
that will be the only reason I think is good. They go ahead.
What, ultimately, I'd rather see him break a whole bunch of
stuff. I don't care at this point. I really don't. The
Republican
you make an actual good point. And this is another surprise,
because I'm so so this. My theme today is surprised. I'm
surprised. I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this, which
you just mentioned casually. The WTO which everybody signs on to
is the really the ruling God that tells you what you can and
cannot do in this regard. You can't have subsidized product
coming back and forth. And when you have a problem, which we
apparently have you go to file your complaint with a WTO and
they're supposed to adjudicate it.
Right. And the Chinese are members now, aren't they?
Yeah, they wanted to be members. Yeah. So where's that night? Was
that not in the conversation? What is wrong with these people?
What's wrong is they're beholden to advertisers and other kinds
of money and agendas, and we don't have those and that's why
I want to thank you for your courage and say in the morning
to you John C raise his hand for cost of steel
DeVore AK in the morning do Mr. Adam curry in the morning all
ships at sea boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the
water and all the Dames and all the Knights out there in
the morning, everybody in the troll room? No agenda.
stream.com always fine to see some familiar names in there.
The new word of the day in the troll room is soy boy for some
reason. I've seen a lot more soy boy, I'm seeing this a lot.
Instead of instead of snowflake. You would call a mass a male.
Liberal a soy boy. Yeah, yeah, they call male conservatives to
Nazis. Nazis. Nazis, and yeah, there's soy boys. Sorry, boy.
It's kind of cute. The soy boy. It's very, it's very insulting.
Sounds gotta be. It's very insulting.
It's another soy boy on his bicycle, soy boy.
I also want to thank arrow Shamrock. Arrow shamrock brought
us the artwork for episode 1012 titled that episode value combo.
And this was a derivative of a recent commissary blogger,
artwork. We had the familiar Obama filter from hope. And this
was once again Hope Hicks only now the title was not hope it
was hopeless. And after some discussion, we decided that was
a good representation for our
show. Yeah, it actually took a discussion a little bit. Yeah,
well, it usually does. But sometimes some stuff pops out at
you more than other stuff.
It worked. We like it. We really appreciate the work that arrow
shamrock did and all of our artists who upload diligently
before the show ends often to no agenda art generator.com
And we do check these artworks out to see if the images are
stolen and not we try to use them appropriately. In other
words, they have to be you do turn somebody into a parody
somehow there's all Different ways of doing it. But some
people just take an image that they saw, that's funny. They
put, they put it through the generator and put the logo on
it. And they're done at Nana, you can't do that. And also try
to keep our pictures off. We've decided though that's bad. Yeah.
Because we had the first two or three years of this, these art
works was fine until we got sick of ourselves.
It's just the same two pictures of us constantly. And one day we
put our foot down. Yeah,
we just said no moss, it's got to stop.
So we have a funny balance today with one executive producer and
12345 Associates. And the one executive producer comes in as
anonymous with a note supposedly got it? Yeah, got it. Oh, you
do?
I did. Yeah.
Can you read it? Let me start off. Yeah, go ahead. Came up
with 1013 dot 33. Which is nice. Isn't an incident. Sorry. And he
anonymous, anonymous anonymous, which we banished to do.
Hopefully I'll email a note before Sunday. If not, here are
the basics instant night. Something first three quarters.
I want to say I'm here with it.
I've got it here. Okay, I've got his note, N J and K by okay says
the donation the amount is made up of so 101 1.2 A dot Yeah.
1011 dot 12 on show 1011 because it likes sequential numbers like
that. But I always seem to be day late $1 short, it's my first
donation but no need to deduce I'll explain later. Also in J
and K. I'd like to be known as Sir anonymous of the 1.5 time
playback as I listened to all podcasts at 1.5 times speed.
I've tried to slow down to one time. But to me it makes you
guys sound drunk. So guess what? We are drunk. This also makes me
unable to listen to the live stream. But that's not your
issue. It's mine. I find this interesting. Because I think
that already we're seeing people's brains change. Yeah,
you can wear glasses that portray the world upside down.
And after what is it maybe half a day?
You're used to it. But yeah, you get used to I don't know how
long it takes.
So I think that you've gotten used to this, this speed just
like I predict in the future, and maybe even now already,
people look at other people. And they don't see how ugly they
are. They just see the Instagram filters already in place. And I
think well that's good for Ugly people. Well, yes, and but the
resolution that we're accepting is so low because let's face it,
Instagram filters and you wind up with a pretty low resolution.
It's all smoothed out so that your face looks smooth. But the
same with mp3 These kids don't know what good sound is anymore.
I'm sorry to call you kids but screw your kids. You don't know
what good sound is. You'd hear mp3 Everything's great. It's not
Well, I think it's less the mp3 and more of the delivery
mechanism. Well your buds cans all these little things you
don't have any age doesn't help doesn't there's no frequency
versus you know, that's represented properly. Yeah, it's
today's also my birthday so if you could add me to the list
you're on it I would greatly appreciate I've been listening
for a few years. I'm not exactly sure how long I originally found
you when I started to wonder why John had not been on any net
casts for quite a while. I enjoyed cranky geeks and loves
John smart old man cranky no BS attitude. Adam, I do remember
you from your MTV days, but only because of older siblings
watching. Jeez, That's harsh. That's even more insulting than
old man cranky. I kind of watched half heartedly as I
straddled the Gen X and Gen Y millennial fence and I've never
really cared about pop culture. Adam, I love your drive to dig
into the details of things. Listen to no agenda has given me
a whole new perspective on the news, US and world happenings. I
used to be one of those people that felt like it was my life's
mission to repost and retweet all things that frustrated me
and in turn, would take off my dimension be friends and family
no agenda has given me a mental balance that I didn't realize I
need it. I laugh inside when I hear people talk about news. I
now patiently sit there and allow them to vent their
frustrations about a story as it seems to be therapy for them.
Then I calmly explain to them the rest of the story. Usually I
just get silence and blank stares as they tend to be
dimensioned be people that want to live in constant state of
frustration where the world interesting of note is that
because I impatient with them, and calmly explained things they
seem to at least they seem to seem to at least at least be
respectful of me when I fill them in on the details that the
M five M doesn't. My wife comes from a very popular polite and
conservative upbringing. I continue to try to corrupt this
but it's a slow process. I've tried over and over to hit her
in the mouth but she has a major adverse into the word douche.
Interesting too. I can't play segments of the show here and
there for her. I can play segments of the show for her
here and there. But I haven't been able to get her fully on
board yet usually just filler on the details I learned from the
best podcast in the universe. As I begin my 40th year heading
towards 40. I look forward to more great media deconstruction
and the balance you guys bring me keep up the great work
sincerely, Sir Ben animus of the 1.5 time playback. Nice note.
So he is 40 ish. So his wife is between 35 and 45. I'm guessing
this he married you know, younger woman or an older woman.
And she doesn't like the word douche. No. So they're I want to
nominate what were they were that age? bracket? Is that fine.
We had some member if you remember, in the early days, we
had some people that didn't like hookers and below, thinking it
referred to blow jobs.
Yeah, when they found out was cocaine. They were on board with
Oh.
Yeah, he was like, Oh, stop. Oh, it's cocaine. Oh, I get it now.
Which I found peculiar. And but there's some we do have
offensive moments. Oh, many of these days just cursing, you
know, that was used to be endemic earlier on a show. I was
pretty, it's pretty bad.
You know what, what is interesting is that, you see,
people will Tweet us on the tweeters, and try to be
offensively funny. But you see doesn't work it unless it's in
the context of the show where you know what you're getting
when you jump in. And you know, we probably don't walk around
saying these things on the street because we'd be dead.
We'd get
punched out.
Totally beaten up. So douche bag, douche bag. We actually
don't go out on the street too much. That's part one. And also
it's within the context of the show. So it's very difficult. I
don't know. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. I'm
sorry that that offends her. But we're not going to stop it for
sure. No, we can we It wasn't our idea either. We it wasn't
our idea. Tell her that we don't even like it. There's there's at
least hundreds of people who listen to the show who decided
that was what was going to happen.
Yeah, and they all use it as a as a whatever they use it for.
All right, onward. Thank you. Robert. Romain, Romeo, Robert
Romeo. Romeo. Oscar talent. Bear Delaware bear Delaware. $200.07.
It'd be a first Associate Executive Producer. Sorry had
been a douchebag for too long. Hey, there you go. Oops. So I've
been a douche bag douche bag for so long. But I am wonderful. I'm
a wonderful slave Keep up the great work like a we and some
house renovation karma. So my wife and I do not kill each
other throughout the Reno. Oh, Rena Arendt Reno,
Reno. Ah, another word where we probably list but what do we
miss this category of words?
I don't know. But you've you're maintaining the list. I'll keep
track of the Trump stuff.
I'm putting the Reno in here hold on Reno Reno is on a list
and I'm gonna add for the sensitive listeners among us. I
will add a one time alternative douchebag alternative de
douching A one? A two. A one two. Maybe this is douchebag. Oh
no, it's for douchebag so we can't play that. Oh, he needs a
D do. You spend D Do we have a douchebag call on
psoralen bows in Langley British Columbia. No relation. It says
the reason that Canadian donations has seem low is our
first one for a while. Is that Trudeau may be a joke to us and
the world but we as Canadians are in shock. Due to our
pummeling account our plunging economy is plummeting is where
you base your plunging increasing costs and deficit
budgets while Trump has lit a fire under the US economy. The
future looks uncertain, but likely bad. It's like It's like
watching a slow speed train wreck. But at least no agenda
keeps me smiling.
This makes no sense. To me. This is exactly where you'd want to
support the show. You want to support the show because we help
your fellow candidate avions understand what's going on.
Yeah, makes no sense. Make psoralen make this make no
sense.
But we appreciate it. Thank you very much sir Alan for your
courage.
Dominic DeVito in Middletown, New York 200. I've been
listening for a year and a half and only recently started to
donate. So please accept his donation. Keep doing what you're
doing. And can I please get a D douching.
Yes, I'll give it to him right
deuced also, can I please get any Al Sharpton clip thanks for
making my commute bearable. And does he want to karma he didn't
say that but I give him one because he asked for
a clip I'm just grabbing a random Reverend
cable and watch captain says he shot the teen and self defense.
But the young man was not armed. He was going back home after
buying an iced tea and skillets Qantas name calling no
incendiary language. Just the facts. A young man did. The
assailant says self defense? What is frowned on the young man
skillets and iced tea?
Can you harm skillets
that's an old classic an old classic classic clip here on
the no agenda show he meant to say Skittles but it came up to
him at skillet and seeing it's quite a love hate relationship
with promoting skillets on MTV for eight years. It's hard to
get you were one of the main sponsors but first this work
from Skittles. Really? Oh yeah, Skittles was huge. They were one
of the core
for advertisers to dopers candy.
Oh, hell yeah. Hello, MTV. We think these kids were doing in
the basement that mom's house.
Sir Lucas are the last bits another $200 I just received my
bonus so it must be time to donate a shot of jobs karma
would be greatly appreciated.
Oh, that's easy. Jobs. Jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for
jobs.
Karma dot and last Sudan Silva down there. And you will beach
Hawaii, Hawaii. 200 bucks as a note. You know, a guy goes
another guest. How do you pronounce Hawaii? Is it Hawaii
or a v top and the guy says Hawaii and he says Oh, that's
great. He says You're welcome.
We have ways of making you say Hawaii.
Okay, John and Adam. I'm an old grouch. 81. He's 81. This is our
desert demo. Oh, yes. At 10 are
love I love we have listeners from 16 to 81. We look younger
than that we got
younger than that. But I want to say because we this is by the
way, this is what because because we don't do advertising.
Advertisers demand that you focus on a demo. That's right.
And your content has to talk speak to the demo.
And demo is short for demographic.
Put the word in there demo.
Yes, demo demo would be one of those words. I was one of those.
So you have to have this little did these certain demos for
their certain products. So older demos, a lot of drugs, products,
younger downloads, you know, Nikes there's a point when but
they want now what's your demo? Yeah, and I have enough people
in that group. So you never get a broad audience. You can't
because it's not allowed. I mean, you might get somebody
that does that at one that would be listening, but it's, it's
frowned upon.
I love how you actually do the voice of your typical
advertiser.
And give a good demo. The demo demo. I stopped or rather
neglected to contribute to no agenda show for some time now. I
do remember when he first was contributing in the good stuff.
I've always liked the banter of the two of you. It's always
interesting. I've not missed the show since day one. news clips
ranged from brilliant to downright annoying some of these
Yahoo's just are into their shit and can't seem to think straight
or they are ridiculous propagandists and I haven't
contributed because of them. But that's like punishing the
messenger so here's my contribution no jingles no
comrade, just your good vibes is enough.
Well, thank you. And thank you for realizing that you does help
when you help even though you know that goes against sometimes
your feeling. It really works. You put something into our into
our value network, which is what I call it, and you get something
out of it. Everybody does. If not, then you need to seriously
consider going away. I mean, that's, that's fair. It's fair
to say.
Yeah, what are you going to do is way goes, so we have one and
five and I want to thank all these folks who are helping
produce the greatest podcast in the universe and best podcast in
the universe. Keep my branding correct. And stay on message.
Thanks a lot. Um, thank you.
Does the show have a LinkedIn page?
No, we don't really
well. There are two apparently because someone sent me a note
said, hey, thanks you all executive producers and
Associate Executive producers on the show. These are real titles.
It's not some willy nilly thing will vouch for you will will
back you if anyone has any questions when people put it on
their LinkedIn accounts, and they seem to get more interest
because it said, Yeah, executive, Associate Executive
Producer, executive producer of the no agenda Show, episode
number, but someone sent me notes that I'd like to link to
something. And if they sent me two links, neither of them
looked like anything official. Should we have one? Should we
have an official LinkedIn page? That could help people when they
technically we should? Yes, because I think it would help if
he was oh, no, just click on it. And it will have like some
really expensive, it doesn't have to be a lot of content. You
just do some Photoshop, but you always do make it look really
expensive. Like it's a big deal. So it doesn't look like a
podcast, I guess is what I'm saying.
Don't Okay, well, we can work on that we can have something done
by the end of the year.
Wow, man, that's fast. You think we can do it by Thank you,
everybody. We appreciate it. As I said the credits are real,
we'll be thanking more people in our E block, who came in at $50
or above it is what keeps the program running and it keeps it
as free and open. As you hear today. And we appreciate it and
appreciate you thinking of us for our show coming up on
thursday.org/and Remember tonight's are your predictions
around and go out there and propagate the formula? Our
formula is this for yet people in the mouth You know, one of
Tina's daughters is here staying for the weekend come from from
school. She's the youngest. She's 21. And I'm always very
interested and one of her friends was over and I love just
listening to what they're talking about because you learn
stuff. It's like what do you do with the kids? Right and we call
them kids because we can't their kids. And, and with all this war
on men stuff. I was extremely surprised by a Netflix
recommends reco and Netflix reco. But that on the list, it's
on the list. I just put it there reco and Netflix reco double
CEO, which turned out to be I think that'd be i You'll you
will probably watch it and laugh your ass off and think I'm nuts.
But with the war on men taking place everywhere. It was so nice
in this one program to see vulnerability, masculine energy,
complete breaking down of stereotypes. And it came from
such an unexpected source. Because I'd seen this show when
it was on commercial television, which I hated it. It was you
know, it was over the top all that was in there was just
flamboyance and bullcrap and made no sense. It was insulting,
I thought, really. But that was because you can't really talk
like a human being in commercial broadcast. Everything's
interrupted by commercials, every segment has to end on a QA
gotta stay tuned throughout the commercial block. And so they've
revamped the show. It used to be called Queer Eye for the
Straight Guy. Now it's just called Queer Eye. Have you by
any chance seen any of these episodes on Netflix?
No, I always thought Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was an
interesting show the original. It was a little flamboyant. And
it was lame. It was no good. It was kind of lame, I would say.
But it was an interesting idea to
what they've done. And then you know, each show now the
commercials are all gone. But they, I guess every season
they'll be headquartered in a particular state or town. And so
they start the season off there in Georgia and Atlanta, Georgia,
and the guys are going to transform. You know, one's a cop
who also who has Trump pence, you know, plastered all over his
garage. He's got he is like the Talladega guy, you know, he has
all these crazy outfits. When when Talladega is on the you got
to redneck abuse you convince is going to hate the black gay guys
convincing and hate all the gay guys you got a real Christian
fundamentalist who, of course completely loves the gay guys at
the end. And the format John is mind boggling. It has everything
in there. So I'll just give you the format until you understand.
So first you get the profile of the person who's nominated is
going to be this horrible guy, you know, or someone who you
think oh, how can he handle five fags coming in to straighten him
out via this will be great. Then you get the uncomfortable
meeting. And then they split off that like the X Men of gay one
guy does Home Improvement fixes the losers home the other guy
makes him over you know hair cut the trim the beard, the other
guy teaches them how to cook. We have the fashion guy and then
the big black guy who's the culture emotional therapist, and
then you know they they really help them come to an emotional
breakthrough. Everybody's crying. Me too. I have to say,
and then and then after they've after the emotional segment,
then they go back to their, their gay loft. And they flip on
the TV and they watch as you know, their their watch how
their work pays off. Like kind of like watching an animal in a
cage. And of course, it always turns out great. Now, this is
entirely scripted. We know how reality television works. But
the gut ends well cast, the people they cast are just so
outstanding. And that part of their emotion is real. And it's
really nice to see, guys in different light is the ultimate
Red Pill series disguised as a bunch of gay guys. And these
millennials, they don't really even see what's happening. But
they're accepting it was beautiful to see like, Oh,
you're so sweet. And, you know, and their perception is
changing. The black guy in the white cop, you know, they they
talk in the car about how the black guy feels and the cop
fields. It's, I have to say, I never expected to say I think
it's one of the best things on television right now.
Interesting. Yeah. Well, I tried to check it out. You might like
it. And you still haven't gotten to Stranger Things. Yeah,
very different. Very different. Very different. But unless
these, these cast members are incredible actors, you know, the
target. That was surprised me because these guys, they should
be on the show tonight at the Oscars if the if they're faking
this or acting it. That part is just it's really nice. As a man
who doesn't really give a shit that we're being targeted as the
problem of everything, the patriarchy. To see this in the
mainstream was refreshing.
I have something else being targeted, I decided I was going
to ask she actually sent a note to you. suggesting you dig up
the old clip? Which I don't know if you can find it. But it's the
old clip about how they changed the state laws in California,
too. Lower the lower the importance of Yeah, of car car
break ins.
What would you have titled that?
Probably some say we'd have somebody with car break ins or
car break ins? I don't know. I have no idea
what it Yes, yes, I have it. I have the car break ins and the
car break ins update
to give trump the first one. Okay,
car break ins are on the rise across the Bay Area. In fact,
2017 was a record breaking year for our three largest cities.
But that's not it. That's the one I just sent you today. Oh,
it just showed up in search. But maybe it's maybe it's this one
too many
break ins not enough arrest an alarming lack of accountability
in San Francisco's car breaking epidemic. It's now prompting
action from city lawmakers. Out of more than 81,000 reports of
car break ins during the past seven years. 81,013 resulted in
arrest 13 out of 81,000, the police chief says there's an
average of 85 brake kids a day in the city. He says based on
that number, it is not practical to have officers show up and
investigate every case. This map here highlights the break in
hotspots most happen around very familiar big landmarks. And that
wasn't
it, I know what you're talking about. But they
they changed the law. So the break ins are not given the kind
I believe I do believe that because it was noticed this when
I was a chemist at Union oil, every time we did a test, you
had to go into the into a giant drawer and pull out a punch card
that had the test on it and you put it in a pile. And those are
the tests you did that day. And I saw I was looking at one of
these data card punch today. This is the olden days with card
punches, I would look at these things. And on the if you if you
decoded what was actually on this card, it gave a value it
gave a value for the test. And the value would vary from it
knows you get so much credit. So the higher value you got for
doing X number of tests you'd get a number at the end is shows
that you were doing a lot of work. And I had kind of reverse
engineered the whole thing to figure out what tests I needed
to do to get the highest values and just skip the other ones
until I was like maybe at the end of the shift or something.
And so I'd always rack up these huge numbers. I've been looking
at the most productive guy in the world,
just like you do on the show. Exactly.
And so there was a way of doing this the amount because there
was all these tests available to do and tend to you tend to do
the easy ones. But But there'll be some that were harder but
they weren't harder to the point where you get all this extra
credit. Right. Those are the tests I did right. And I think
that in in police work and a lot of other jobs they have some way
they have to have some way of deciding what your value is if
you just Give me a bunch of parking tickets out as you want
to get a couple of bucks I got my color I mean read it for I
mean value like what's right and wrong in life or
no value in terms of what the what the value is have you
killed arresting a burglar? Ah, gotcha. And that's why these
cops in the cop shows they kind of indicate this by bitching if
they don't get the color as they like to say. But what happened
in San Francisco, California is they changed the law to make car
break ins useless and so far as your total points are concerned,
because they don't do anything about it. That's the clip I'm
looking for. Because we had that clip. I didn't realize it was
going to become automatic. Because I got this clip today
which we should play which is car break ins. Again no mention
of the California law change car
break ins are on the rise across the Bay Area. In fact, 2017 was
a record breaking year for our three largest cities, but kippax
fives Donlin on the top spots for Smash and grabs.
Chances are this has happened to you or someone you know. We're
seeing record numbers of car burglaries in San Francisco, San
Jose and Oakland San Francisco leads the pack with 31,120 break
ins last year in that same period San Jose reported 6476
car burglaries, San Jose Police say that's the highest they have
ever seen a 17% increase compared to 2016. That's also a
record in Oakland 10,007 reported cases that's up 32%
Compared to the previous year. Unlike San Francisco where
burglars target rental cars and tourist destinations in Oakland,
the majority of the break ins are in commercial districts
where people shop and dine. Oakland Police a more than 60%
of their cases happen west of Lake Merritt we're talking about
from West Oakland to downtown all the way up to Montclair,
fewer homicides, more burglaries. It's the opposite in
East Oakland, fewer burglaries, more homicides. So why the
optics, while the things left in cars have gotten more expensive
over the years, like laptops and smartphones. Also chances of
getting caught are very slim. In San Francisco. It's less than
2%.
Oh, my car's been broken into four times already. And I just
feel frustrated because there's nothing that's been been
nominated debate, should I sell my car? Should I not have a car
at all? Even Even if I have two little kids that I need my car
for my two little kids? If you're
wondering what are the police doing? While in San Francisco,
the DEA is asking the city for $1 million to form a burglary
Task Force. But in most Bay Area cities, it's a low priority
crime. And the statistical truth is very few car break ins get
solved.
Yeah. I was looking for the original clip wall wood that was
playing. I really can't find it
below. I'll have to find it myself. Low Priority criminals
because they've the it's low priority is zero. They've D
prioritize it and you don't get this much credit for that. So
this is going on. And I think it's done on purpose, I believe,
because they're so protective of Uber and Lyft. That I think this
is a war on cars. San Francisco's always hated cars.
They hate people to drive cars, they don't have any they don't
the parking is costs $1 a minute. It's unbelievable. They
do not want you driving a car in San Francisco. They don't know
why. But they don't want you to driving them. It's all part of
this oldest habit. Everyone should be on a bicycle. Shuman,
I remember when we had pod show slash vvO. In parking in front
of the building was was it 25 cents for five minutes? Yeah,
something like some crazy number like that.
Yeah, yeah. And it would change. San Francisco's put these
special meters in that that fluctuate. They they're all
right where they change. Yeah. So
if you're if we have surge parking pricing, it's exactly
and they did $1 Like for five minutes is like $1. And it
because they don't want to go into the baseball game. And once
you go into the lot, the whole thing is a giant scam. How long
are you going to be able to stand it?
Now that now that I see this guy a couple of the reports that
came in were one guy in fact that that report goes on a
little longer. They say that they say probably those numbers
at 31,000 is probably according to the police is probably very
low because most people don't even report it anymore because
nobody even comes out.
Well, there's more problems in San Francisco. So the cops
aren't going after car break ins, but when they have
something real going on, they seem reasonably inadequate.
San Francisco Police say the man inside the RV is the murder
suspect accused of shooting two men in The Golden Gate Park
Panhandle earlier in the day, including a 28 year old man who
died from his wounds. Yeah, he's in. He's in their lane down.
Police say after the suspect Joe Armstrong carjacked a vehicle to
get away they tracked him to Alameda and to Haro streets. He
refuses to come out after repeated orders. Miss northstone
Come out your heads up. Three people and a dog emerge but the
suspect stays inside. Moments later police here two shots
fired from inside the RV the officers fired back
according to the police report, seven officers fired 65 Shots
the suspect fired two shots a total of 67 shots nobody was hit
like the movie what are they doing? 6067 shots nobody got
hit. San Francisco everybody beautiful
there's another dynamite
this just proves you can't you can't write this stuff. It
writes itself. Real life is better than anything you can
make up
so there's this story which is I eat when I told me about anybody
clip this. She said you got anything good for the show
tomorrow again.
I can't uncanny your your impersonation. She's so
sexy. And it's this seems to be the only voice that you have.
And by the way talking about voices. Why are these cops
whatever happened to the bullhorn? Oh, we shouting
Come on. Yeah, good times. But that was more hostage situation.
And this was an RV situation.
Well, they should have a bullhorn in the car. Yeah, I
agree. So this shouting, man wow. It's really annoying. It
makes a cop sound like a douche. Oh, you said the word. Anyway
onward. So this story comes out and and just the sheer number.
The sheer number of murders that this guy committed. I mean, this
is the same as the school in terms of numbers. And this guy's
roaming around. This is the weirdest story. local store. I
think people should be concerned when they hear this story. This
murders murder arrested.
This is the SWAT raid on a street in Reno that rolled up a
suspect wanted for murder in the East Bay. 27 year old cartel
waters within the home of Omar Zuniga when he was taken into
custody. When detectives in Washoe County ran his name
through the system. They found an outstanding born out of
Contra Costa County for 17 counts of murder in the first
degree, along with carjacking, robbery and burglary. Waters is
allegedly a member of an East Bay crime bring responsible for
a multitude of crimes, including the robbery and attempted murder
of it or rent a couple in their driveway while wearing Halloween
masks.
So we still on the loose. Now they got him. Yeah, let me give
him 10 million bail. This guy killed 17 Different people may
ask
you a question. This is gonna be a hard a hard one. But I got to
ask it. Was this guy white or a different color?
He was black. Ah,
there you go. It's not a white guy. Only white guys who kill
people get lifted into national spotlight. It's discrimination.
But it is discrimination. It's also deplorable, that a guy
could kill 70. I mean, I've seen you see stories about oh, the
mob. You know, this guy was a hitman for the mob. And he talks
about like six guys he killed I believe or eight. This guy's
killed 17 people.
Well, why isn't it a top of the news? I don't know. It's beyond.
It's not beyond me. Because the guy was not white number of
people. I'm telling you. This is how the news media works. If
it's not white, they don't care. There was another school
shooting black kid, actually, about
15 minutes ago, our investigator briefed me on where we are in
our criminal investigation. And there is one witness who stated
that Mr. Davis was seen coming from the parking lot into the
residence hall with a gun in his hand. And we have videos, photos
of that as well to support that. So just prior to the actual
incident, Mr. Davis came into our residence hall with a weapon
and went to the fourth floor where we believe he shot and
killed his father and his mother, Mr. Davis said and left
on foot. He went out into out of the building and onto the
railroad track and was running north on the railroad track. And
it was we have again a number of video photos that show a
progression of moving north along that railroad track. And
the last place we could actually put him from the video is around
Cherry Street on the railroad track.
This was Central Michigan University. And I don't see is
there really any real difference between the Menendez brothers
who shot their parents now? They were rich white people. The news
media doesn't care. They don't care.
Well, they try to play the story of the year talking about where
he is. Dad was a cop didn't work. Good looking couple. Yeah,
they tried to play it up because it's another school shooting
when it had nothing to do with the school. It was more
domestic issue. Yeah, but it happened. But it happened. But
it happened in the school. Yeah, good. No, no, the kid had just
come back from a psych recycler yet Psych. psychiatric
evaluation. Yeah, thank you from a psychiatric evaluation. Which
is even more egregious. I mean, this story, this has all kinds
of great subplots in it. You could milk this for a lot. The
couple of the parents are good looking the kids very young kid.
Good looking. No, nothing. I mean, yeah, a little bit of
play, but nothing like it could have been if they were white.
Just watch it the news media. And it may be advanced to do
something with art, art culture and get more West and get more
proper in general. Maybe we don't care.
Well, there's that elements always in play. Sad. Because you
know, the 17. Guys, this guy murdered? I'm guessing 17
blacks? Oh, yeah, of course. That's why, who cares? Oh, the D
when they went into a render of all places, which is a lily
white community. It was whites that they attacked, but it
didn't kill anybody who shot him. This guy was this is a top
of the fold story, it seems to me 17. Yeah. But now, nothing,
nothing, just that little, that even that story,
even if even if he killed them and ate them, they wouldn't run
a story. They don't care. They just don't care. In that regard,
Chris Rock is right now he's half right. He wants to see
crying white moms on TV, which he got. But he forgot this. You
forgot to tell him that, you know, really, that won't make
any difference? Because you still won't see the stories in
the same light as your huge outrage. And why wouldn't? Why
would someone who really cares about the NRA? Why wouldn't they
say Jesus? You know, this guy should never had a gun. What's
going on how the kid get into this is we have the mental
aspect. Everything is in the in the story for this kid?
Everything everything you need? No, not a second. Yeah, I agree.
I do have a fun little two parter from NPR about the Second
Amendment. I guess they're all out of stories about the NRA.
And someone decided to do a whole minute on what it would
take to repeal the Second Amendment, which is what any
politician who is serious about getting rid of guns will have to
address. It's the only way. And the I don't know if the word is
lackadaisical, but that's not it. You almost can hear the
reporter like flow. We all know that'll never work. I mean, the
whole point of the Bill of Rights and the idea that you can
amend and change the constitution
is what done, it's been done with they put prohibition in
place and removed it yet, right, which took both those things
took a lot of effort. Yeah.
But everybody was in agreement. That's the whole point. So if
you say, well, it can never get done. That's only because no
one's in agreement. Nobody really
wants to do it either. I think is this something of a hoax?
They're the Young Turks and they have their own audience. They
did an online poll on Twitter. They got I don't know.
Oh, I saw that. Yeah, like at a
number of people had joined the poll. And who else looks at the
Young Turks. Twitter feed is dimension beat people. And if
you are Russian bots ruin their poll man. Could be but the point
was, is they said Shouldn't they we should immediately take
action against the assault rifles. Right? And it was yes.
15%. No. 85% was embarrassing. Yes.
Well, here's the NPR story about what it would take to repeal the
Second Amendment. What would it actually
take? There is a process for it. It's right there at the end of
the Constitution.
It's like a big reveal for these people who lose weight. Where's
my eyes? Let's see if I can fit this in. Okay,
what would it actually take?
There is a process for it. It's right there at the end of the
constitution. So the founding fathers were at least willing to
be edited. They just really made it hard. First, you need to get
super majorities in Congress, two thirds in both the House and
the Senate. And that's an enormous hurdle, especially in
the Senate. But even if you get it through Congress us still
need to get your amendment ratified by three fourths of the
states. That's at least 38. States that has happened only
once in the last 40 plus years. And it's a big lift even before
you start to talk about the popularity of guns and the power
of the NRA.
So not very likely. That is what I hear you saying?
likely given our current politics or the current makeup
of Congress, or of the many state legislatures, How about
how about Kratt?
How about the current makeup of people who just don't want it as
much, but
that is not to say it's impossible in time, it just
means you need a lot of things to change, and things that have
not changed yet, even after all these mass shootings that we've
had,
which would all can only really be the will of the people. And
what they're insinuating is that it can't happen because the NRA
owns all the politicians, well, then you need to go out and be
you need to say we got to vote all these NRA people out, which
is kind of what they're doing.
Yeah, it won't change anything. That's a joke of it.
That's the fun part. Here's part two, which is the I think, some
some argument about the right the actual right to bear arms,
which shall not be infringed. But this is about the language,
which was clarified by the Supreme Court in the Heller
case, 1011 years ago.
So recent polling, though, right now, there's a lot of people in
this country who want tighter gun laws.
No, no, no, no, no. Did you not read the Young Turks polling
data? I'm sorry, I think you're wrong.
So recent polling, though, right. Now, there's a lot of
people in this country who want tighter gun laws. I mean,
doesn't that put some kind of pressure on Congress to to do
something?
Yes, yes, it does. And they may well do something. The Supreme
Court has said that the individual right, while it is
individual, it may be regulated. And this time, we may get
stronger background checks or a higher purchase age or some of
the other things that you were talking about a moment ago. But
all those things could be done without repealing the Second
Amendment, and then it would be up to the courts to decide if
this stricter limits violated the Second Amendment. And if the
courts did decide that, perhaps that then would put more
pressure on the amendment itself.
Now, I don't even understand how you know if we all agree that
yes, okay. The Supreme Court ruled it's uh, you're allowed to
have to defend yourself? That I think that's the the wording of
it, you're allowed to defend yourself and you may use a
firearm for that. And that right shall not be infringed. How can
you still put in legislation to infringe on that exact right, I
don't understand how that is all blather is your Word of the
month. But explain what you mean.
Yes, I think it is. I think that is my word of the month, and the
month is just getting started. It just bullcrap that you can
just talk and talk and get more Democrats, but she was sincere.
And I'll tell you why. I think that because my liberal friends
out here, they get into a little tizzy, because I get linked into
their direct SMS stuff, direct messages of phones. Yeah. And
they're going back and forth and back and forth about something
they get themselves into. They all worked out because the only
people they hang out with except for me, and they're not like
hanging out with me all day. It's just all lockstep. It's
just like knee jerk. It's unbelievable. The latest was
that this is that McMasters going to quit and then that's
going to be followed. This is what this thinking. McMaster is
going to quit the White House because he can't take it
anymore. This chaos. He's going to quit. And then Trump's gonna
resign. They've been saying Trump's gonna resign since he
was elected.
Are they still on the resignation? Tip? That's that's,
that is unbelievable. I can't believe it.
Yeah, I could read that I could sit and open. Well, you should
be reading from it. You should be reading. All you're hearing
is and I was thinking to myself, was this McMaster thing come
from, and then I noticed the New York Times wrote some bogus
article about McMasters fed up, and insiders that have that have
some knowledge of the situation. They're saying he's going to
quit and Kelly is going to quit, they're all going to quit. And
meanwhile, Kelly, of course, came out and says I'm not gonna
quit, and there's no reason to quit and you can eat pound salt.
They're not quitting because you brought it up. Last time anyone
brought it up? And I brought it up to this group. I said, Hey,
it's the military intelligence Running Phase. Why Are any of
these guys going to quit? Makes no sense now.
And didn't I see a was that a New York Times article? That or
maybe it's just a story that would the people I'm looking for
in my list now. This up, you know, Kelly, really wanted it
Jovanka out exactly as we predicted. Yeah, now that's in
the mainstream. Where was that story? Huh?
I think he probably does. Well. Yeah, it's
what we deconstructed and now they're writing about a dam and
I can't find it.
Well, if you're writing about that means that things are gonna
come to it. It was easy it was
it was able to get kicked down. Well, it was even better it was
the insinuation was that Trump wanted Jovanka out. And then
when they listen to our show, I think so. Shit. Where was that?
Maybe someone in the troll room can find can find that article
for me real quick.
Yeah. And boom,
boom, number one. Boom, count whitely. Yes. Alright, well, I
got a story this week though. off people switch. The subject
is entre MMA is a good story. Especially good out here. This
is apple glass walls. Yeah, we're used
to hearing about the fancy perks at Bay Area Tech offices, but
not the hidden hazards. Apple employees have been left injured
and bleeding after walking straight into glass walls at the
Spaceship campus in Cupertino. KPIX fives Kenny Nelson has the
911 calls
for emergency 336 What's the address of the emergency?
This isn't the way the new Apple Park wanted to get on the map.
It can be one apple Park, Cupertino, the new $5 billion
spaceship Campus opened right after the first of the year with
a corporate wide kickoff event led by Apple CEO Tim
Cook Apple Park has been built to reflect Apple's values for
both technology and the environment.
But the environment inside wasn't exactly employee
friendly. Almost immediately after the campus opened in
January, people started getting hurt by accidentally walking
into the buildings glass walls. The San Francisco Chronicle got
the recordings of the 911 calls for help.
We had an individual who ran into a glass wall pain it
through the glass door on the first floor of Apple Park. They
are bleeding. Slightly disoriented.
Pertino building inspector Albert Salvatore told us right
after the 911 calls, Apple immediately tried to fix the
problems. They put markings like these on the glass walls. And he
says that fix appears to be working because in the last two
months, they haven't gotten any more reports of injuries from
people walking into walls in Santa Clara Katie Nielsen KPI x
five well those markers Apple is using on the glass or nothing
high tech like you might expect they're actually regular
stickers.
Yeah, this has been going on for a while.
The thing that got me was the board. CO anchor. Yeah. If you
can play that little just the last few seconds again, listen
to what he says. Hold on a second.
Let me wrap it up
here. Well, those markers Apple is using on the glass or nothing
high tech like you might expect they're actually regular
stickers. What do they
think of next?
What will they think of next? He didn't even listen to the damn
story.
No inappropriate reaction what they think of next
Yeah, I think that people are on their phones. Well
I have that story pedestrian deaths deaths, which is also a
war on cars
didn't didn't I have this store. I didn't have a clip but I think
I had this story the other day.
According to a new study, people are being hit and killed by cars
and trucks at a rate not seen in 25 years. Dunkin reports
smartphones and legal marijuana, maybe partially to blame. Oh
crap.
Simply walking has gotten more dangerous because of this
routine site. Pedestrians crossing a busy street had down
glued to their cell phones oblivious to the dangers just
steps away. He caught
me red handed up Guilty as
charged regularly.
It's just a natural. Fortunately, I try not to do it
when I'm crossing the street.
According to a new report, 2017 is projected to have nearly 6000
deaths from people on foot who lost their lives in traffic they
know
we call them 6000 deaths from walking with your your phone,
calling the dummies a good start
fatalities. Marking the second year in a row at numbers not
seen in 25 years. Pedestrians now account for approximately
16% of all traffic deaths compared to 11%. Just a few
years ago. Jonathan Atkins is with the Governor's Highway
Safety Association.
We don't see any sign that the numbers are gonna start going
back into safer direction. We're seeing less people killed in
vehicles because vehicles are safer. More of us are buckling
up, but it's pedestrian safety features.
The rising has that person driven on the road recently. Are
you kidding me? I've never seen drivers be so unsafe They're all
texting in the car please more of
us are buckling up. But as pedestrians there's not we don't
have any new safety features.
The rising trend and pedestrian fatalities according to the
report coincides with legalization of recreational
marijuana and growth in smartphone use.
Still dangerous don't do it. If you're walking, the last thing
you want to see is a red light and then a car hitting you.
New York and four other states each had more than 100
pedestrian deaths in the first six months of 2017. But here in
New York City, pedestrian deaths have actually declined. That's
because of an initiative that focuses on reducing the speed
limit, as well as stricter enforcement of moving
violations. To Rika Duncan, CBS News, New York.
Well, I can already hear the Silicon Valley lobbying groups
making sure that our lawmakers understand this is not about the
smartphones but about the devil weed. The UK is really
ratcheting it up you had that whole scrum at bull crap
Yeah, and now I think you're right and one hand but I think
there's a number of messages going on at the same time one
dope makes you stupid and you walk into the street you get hit
yep even though there's no evidence now is zero the other
one is all you know smart cars the auto self driving cars they
see pedestrian
much safer Yes.
So that's another to me it's another strike against cars
Yeah, yeah, I'm seeing it more as the the war on weed is
ratcheting
in the UK or we as but we've been
following, but there's new ones. There's new ones in the UK about
the Super skunk. The I couldn't get a good enough clip, which
apparently has been smuggled in on the flower trucks from
Holland.
Holland is making super super super skunk Yeah.
And so what they would do is we have the big auction the flower
market I used to work at the flower market auction Aalsmeer
and you get there three in the morning. They do the auction
they get the flowers, you got to load them onto the trucks. And
these guys were putting up to a million pounds a month of super
skunk in in these flower transports. And that's how
they're coming into the UK.
Oh pretty cool.
But the super skunk is is making people crazy it can give you all
kinds of neurological permanent damage all the things that are
completely untrue. I have standing
ever had super skunk dogs. Yeah.
It when people say oh, it was just not the same no weed we had
when I was a kid. I've been smoking since I was 13 years
old. It Yes, it's gotten better, but it's not like good. Like I'm
crazy. And I'm well maybe I came on stolen
faster. It's not even the way I see it.
Maybe I don't know how that goes pretty fast. Anyway, if you
smoke
I was a kid I see
the super skunk has to benefit. That's a product improvement.
What is their problem?
They don't want it because people start smoking dope. And
they? I don't know. Do they vote differently? I think they still
vote with the way they don't think change the way the voting
habits maybe go to vote.
People don't vote at all.
I vote Cheetos peanut butter.
I vote to get grilled cheese. James, I vote English muffin
with butter and honey. Sorry, bringing my personal stuff into
the show again. All right before we take our break. You are the
sports is your beat. And then I'm a little dismayed that you
had not identified this. Maybe it's not being televised. The
story is that the NBA some NBA teams have been playing an
alternative national anthem at their games.
I have not known this. In fact, it makes no sense as a sentence.
But I said Miami Heat players stand together in this picture
here I see during the singing of the national anthem. But several
teams also played the so called Negro national anthem at games
during Black History Month. And since we are looking for a
replacement, and I thought it might be you know, we already
have America the Beautiful. I don't think this song is
appropriate as a national anthem. The song would be Lift
Every Voice Are you familiar with Lift Every Voice?
No, no, but I'm gonna be familiar when you're done with
this segment.
Well, yeah, I have a little bit of Ray Charles. This is from the
three Cavett Show. Got a job
in mumbles make me more Mushaf
I'd never heard the song that I can remember.
I've heard So let's get to the chorus
we could all be in the stands singing along Yeah, I think
there's a problem with the song as national anthem.
Yes, you're not Ray Charles is the problem and white people
always clap
on the one and the three so it's just not going to work. It won't
be synchronized. No rhythm
This is the worst song for that. I mean, the James Brown song has
got more
Oh, no doubt living in America is the way to go. I completely
agree with that completely agree. But we will keep bringing
you the alternatives until one is chosen pride
I'm now of the opinion that one will never be chosen.
I'm going to show my mood by donating to no agenda
Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fun
yes, we do have a few people to thank starting with Jonathan
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Tanya. That would seem to me is Israel. Yeah, it
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while since I donated JCD How about removing my block? Okay,
what's your what is your Twitter name?
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I see. Now this is
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probably you know if you would put the name you know, because I
want to Show's over Adam will tell you this. I forget
everything. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Maybe Adam does too. We start
working on the next show. Not really well, I do. I go from
show to show and they're each one's individual. So if this
isn't mentioned in here, it will be forgotten by the end and now
we're gonna do anything so
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block him
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tweeting and looking at the Twitter's and I'm just trying to
collect material. And if somebody says something like you
idiot, or something like that block, I don't bother even react
sometimes if I react and I might do I don't know. John Robin
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Ah, the rock'n'roll geek show, one of the first podcasts and
longest one of the longest running and just an outstanding
product.
He's a he's the real original.
Why isn't why isn't he on our stream with his show? What is
wrong with us?
I don't know if you'd even produces it anymore. Yes, he
does. He says to me, I went back and forth because they were
talking about this place where the salah is the name of this
place where they butcher live animals right in front of you.
So you can eat him that night, guys, if you hang him. And so he
turned me on to that place. And I go back right so would you've
been listening to the show. He says Now I stopped listening a
couple years ago. Bullshit. I know is bullshit. But he has to
say that that's him. Yeah, that's true. He says I've been
an NRA member for years, says Butler. There's never been one
car rental or hotel discount offered on any mailings I've
ever received. Also, I've been shopping at Dick's and Big Five
for years. I've never seen an AR 15 for sale. This is good free
publicity, though. Yeah. Do you think you know putting out a
press release saying that I'm ending my rock and roll geek
show partnership with the NRA? It might get me new subscribers
of one or two. So he saw through that scam. Oh, nice. To thinker.
Yes.
That's pretty funny. You know, I think Walmart in 2015 they
discontinued sales of AR 15. And they made a big stink about it
then. Yeah, so they just did it twice. I don't think Dick sold
the ARS at all either.
I don't think so. This horse they just Horse Trials.
jewelr horse the horse trying to make make a name, virtue signal
off the backs of dead people children. Course. It's pretty
pathetic. It is right. What do you got? I have a couple things
here. Russia, Russia. Oh wait. First we got to talk about Ken
Delano, Ian Delaney and Ken Delaney. And this is a guy who
was I think it was a staffer at the LA Times. And they now they
outed him as a CIA collaborator. And they've distanced himself
themselves from him. They know he's no staff is CIA. Yeah, but
somehow this guy screwed up. At least one occasion he rewrote a
lead led, as per the CIA dictates. He also reported as
fact in the pages of the Los Angeles Times a CIA claimed that
there was no Collateral Murder in a 2012 drone strike on al
Qaeda leader, Abu Yahya Al Libi, an Amnesty International report
disputes that sanitized version of events citing eyewitnesses
that claim upwards of 15 people including Afghan tribesmen and
affiliated with with al Qaeda, etc, etc. and
war crimes, yes.
And he's, they have distanced themselves from this reporter,
but
they get outed. Excuse me. How did he get outed?
outed by Huffington Post.
Oh, that's interesting.
Jonathan Melania. Oh, that is
what this these looking into. Okay. Yeah.
Well, that's that's the kind of stuff that you're really good at
looking at a journos? The guy's goofy look in this candle,
Iranian. And he's now referred to buy the LA Times as the
journos should be on the list. Journal. You're right. As a
tribune, Washington bureau staffer, so I don't know what's
going on with that. Let me put journaux on the list, as a good
list. But he's still working at MSNBC. And yes, and he comes in
really an odd report. What if
I get caught? What if I get caught doing this? Don't worry
about it. We got 10 Other places where you can work which at
MSNBC, you'll be fine.
Brian Williams loves people who lie. So that you need to keep in
the back of your mind. The guy is CIA shield. When you hear
this report, we're
told that special counsel Robert Mueller is moving toward an
indictment or multiple indictments that would serve the
same purpose as that document filed last month. Essentially,
as you recall, that document left out the hacks of the DNC,
the leaking operation, which played a significant role in the
election was a big part of the Russian meddling. So these new
charges
don't see this. This is what we've been hearing where and I
think I identified it a week ago. The conflagration I'm going
to use it or really confusion of the DNC hack, which a turns out
to not be really a hack at all, but it was from what we
understand from any forensics that around it was side by side
offloaded onto a USB drive.
Yeah, at high speeds. Also on the net, the hack,
if anything, was a password hack, a fishing expedition?
Yeah, when the FBI never saw the server, it was all cloud fires
that then in the pew pew, guys, the pew pew pew pew. So the FBI
has never even seen it yet. This spook is able to tell us exactly
what how important it was the Russians did it
would tell the story of how that happened. And name the Russians
who were involved allegedly, and they will lie we are told
heavily on secret intelligence provided to Mueller by the CIA
the National Security Agency, DHS potential charges include
conspiracy. Violations of election are violations of the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which is the anti hacking
statute. Now you pointed out some of the big unanswered
questions here. One of them is will this indictment or
potential indictment name Vladimir Putin because we
already reported the US has intelligence suggesting that
Putin ordered and supervise this operation but that's really
sensitive intelligence. It's unclear whether the government
would be willing to put that in a court document. Another
question is will they charge Russian government intelligence
officials who supervise these freelance hackers who allegedly
carried out this operation? Another question is the least a
super
hackers?
Let me supervise these freelance hackers.
Supervise you supervise the freedom back it up more,
I think maybe says no,
I don't think so. I think I certainly correct that and a
court document. Another question is will they charge Russian
government intelligence officials who supervise these
freelance hackers who allegedly carried out this operation?
Another huge question is the role of WikiLeaks. Obviously the
bulk of these leaked emails came through WikiLeaks and the CIA
director Mike Pompeo has accused He likes being in essentially a
hostile non state intelligence service and arm of the Russian
government in this instance. But WikiLeaks will come back and
claim they had acted as journalists that could pose a
problem for a potential prosecution. So unknown Oh, they
will be named in these potential charges. But it's clear that the
Mueller investigation is picking up steam and this would be
another big shoe to drop in terms of laying out how this
case happened.
I think he lets on a lot of interesting bits about what we
might hear as the narrative
agency is freaking out. They're not getting anywhere at this
crap.
They're not and what you just heard him say, and I don't know
if this has been discussed yet. Or if it's if it's coming into
the lexicon, but WikiLeaks will claim they are journos, and
therefore they can't be prosecuted or what I don't think
impossible.
Why would that ask the simple question what who? What, under
what law? Can they be prosecuted? They? Assange is an
Australian guy. And he's
no, I understand, I understand. But it's more about the
messaging. Like, what you're right. We're going to go after
Putin. We're going to go after WikiLeaks. We're going to say
that Trump ordered the hacking, which he did with a joke, and he
totally asked for it. But he was asking for Hillary's emails, not
the DNC emails.
Yes. And this is always ignored. We got we can't like really say
what's really going on. But we can send Megan Kelly to Russia.
I have interviewed Putin.
Yes, I have it, too. We'll play your version.
But what about Russian citizens who have been indicted in the
special counsel investigation? And BCWS? Megan Kelly asked him
about that today.
And yes, then that we cannot respond to that if they do not
violate Russian laws,
would this violate Russian law?
I have to see first what they've done. Give us materials give us
information,
hacking into the Democratic National Committee, creating
interference in our election by creating bots that spread false
information on Twitter, on Facebook, spreading
misinformation, when it comes to black lives matter when it comes
to our presidential election. That's what I'm talking about.
But even
with all due respect for you personally, with all due respect
for Congress, you must have people with legal degrees 100%.
You do? And people who are well educated who must understand
that we Russia cannot prosecute anyone if they have not violated
Russian law? If you do, yes, if you don't have a legal degree, I
can explain to you because then you have to understand what it
takes is an official request to the General Prosecutor of the
Russian Federation. Give us a document, give us an official
request. You
said that the last time and now I'm back with an indictment. And
no, this has
to go through official channels, not through the press or yelling
and hollering in the United States Congress.
Well, that much more of Megan's reporting from Russia in the
coming days.
Good debt.
So they send her NBC funds. What can we do with this woman she's
not getting the ratings we want she's horrible on this morning
show. And so they decided put her back in a job she used to
do, pretty girl that people will take an in with a law degree
with a law degree. Or they should law her law degree that
ton unless she's ever done anything with. But I'm sure that
they sent a note. Hey, hey, Putin. Hey, boss, it is hottie
over there. How to?
Well, no. Would you like to send the hottie over again? This is
our second interview.
You right? She thought you were there's flirting with each other
just being mean. And he's being coy. And he laughs and he smiles
at her dumb questions and does everything short of rolling his
eyes. And she's just remember Mad Dog Mad Dog, Megan. Yeah.
And I liked his response, like, hey, why don't you just give us
the indictment and we'll take it through the Russian court
system? That would be an idea. Unless the indictment has that's
the whole thing's no crap. Well, well, I have a history lesson
from Professor Stephen Cohen, who you always refer to as
Stefan or Stefan. But it's really Stephen Curry with a pH.
And he is the professor at
which emeritus I think it was at Columbia or someplace, or
Princeton, Columbia something but he's not. He's not working
anymore.
Not well, because he says all the wrong things. No wonder he
has doesn't have a job. But he gave us a little history lesson
on exactly what happened during the Clinton years between the US
and Russia. It's a good reminder how
many Americans today remember what we did in Russia in 1996?
My guess is, most people under 40 or under 35. Do not.
Barnsley, Boris Yeltsin, who was the first post Soviet president
when the Soviet Union ended in Gorbachev departed, Yeltsin was
elected president. And he was embraced very firmly and
fulsomely by the Clinton administration. Russia was in
despair. He was in very bad shape politically and
physically. He had bypass surgery, he was known to drink
heavily. It had been observed on his visits to the United States.
The poll showed him and about four or 5%, with no chance to
win. And Washington was in a panic, because the main
Challenger was the new Communist Party of the Russian Federation,
which by then had become a kind of social democratic party. It
wasn't going to carry out a revolution, but there were many
candidates. So what happened was, is the Clinton
administration shopped around for people like Paul Manafort
people you can hire, to come to your country and help you win
elections, there are dozens, if not scores of the so called
electoral experts, lobbyists for hire in Washington. They settled
on a firm. And they went and they set up and I was in Moscow
in 1996, when the campaign began, so it was quite visible
to me, they set up shop in what was called the Presidential
Hotel. Yeltsin hadn't paid pensions in Russia, in about
three years. Old people were dying, they weren't getting
their pensions, state employees were not being paid their wages.
This was been the end of any electoral candidate Clinton
arrange for I think it was I may have the number wrong, a
emergency $4 billion loan to Yeltsin, through the
International Monetary Fund. So the Grant administration went
all out. And I know personally, from from, from what I was told
at least, that there were at least 2/3 Party candidates that
would have taken votes from Yeltsin. And they were told by
the Americans, if you don't get out of the race, you have no
future at all, certainly not with us. And one dropped out,
one stayed in. And so if you have to get 51% of the vote in
the first round, make it to the second a Yeltsin neither Yeltsin
nor the Communist leaders who gone have got it. So there was a
second round and Yeltsin one. Alright, so the first thing to
be said is we were very proud of that the United States so proud
that Time Magazine shortly after the election, in 1996, put it on
the cover of its magazine with the title something like yanks
to the rescue. How Washington saved Yeltsin.
There you go. That's not meddling.
Yeah. That's a good clip.
It's nice to get a history lesson from time to time. Yeah.
Well, nobody wants to do that in schools. No. And by the way, so
he's Meritus at both Princeton and NYU.
Yeah. So he kind of knows what he's talking about. Yeah, couple
of is 79. A couple of interesting updates. On the
heels of my interest in public library, libraries, libraries,
and homelessness. The public is a movie coming out very soon
Written and directed by Emilio esta vez. And it's about
homeless guys in a public library.
And in mystery and murder, and then a mystery ensues Of course,
there's a mystery and a murder in it. But it's really a feel
good story about how one guy says hey, these people just
dying here in the cold and and he runs the library at night or
something like that. And so he does a standoff with the cops
and he's protecting the homeless guys. It's I think it's a will
be interesting. I look forward to the movie.
Yeah, it sounds like some might check out too. I want a flu
update. Just got a little thing at the end just kind of made me
go what
do I need to open the the swine flu thing or?
No, no, no, just just short
too short. Back in this country, it appears the worst of the flu
season has passed. The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention reported today that the number of cases peaked in
early February and is now declining. It is still unclear
why this season flu vaccine did not work better than it did
well gonna die. What
what it's a new kid did you hear this new kid?
ideas and new kid sounds good. Well gonna
die. That's the young Sheldon.
Yeah, oh, yeah. Sting. Yeah. And what the what is combined, so
it's just one clip. You know to do that, don't
you'd like you'd like to combo you'd like to combo. Oh, good.
What? Yes, perfect, but you should clip it up together. I
think so. Okay. Now, she says that the end is uncertain what
Wait, wait a minute. It would either be because they didn't
have the right flu vaccine vaccine. They usually put four
in there. Or something went wrong. They don't know. Now of
course, that missing CDC guy The rumor is and I think this could
be implanted by the Russians.
Yes, that and retweeted by bots.
I believe it's possible. Now,
I've been following the story, but I could never really find
the origin of key also worked on the flu vaccine. I could never
find, oh,
no, he never worked on the flu vaccine. What he said was he's
treated flu victims who all died and they all coincidentally had
the flu shot. He never said he worked out
but do you have an origin for that story?
No, not me neither. That's why I didn't bring it to this horse.
It could be Russians. Yeah, and the Russian bots, but the guy
has disappeared and there seems to be a lot of dead people. And
I don't know that they all have the flu shot and maybe the flu
shots got something into the killed them. And then we have
this at the end of Judy's report where they said they don't know
why the flu shot didn't work at all, which apparently didn't.
And there's also the stuff do you remember we did all this but
hold on, hold on, let's let's just not gloss over that. The
CDC and the government have made such an incredible stink about
the flu shot. I mean, really?
Well that's what I'm saying. They they're saying if you
remembered what
I'm saying for her to just pass it off in 20 seconds.
Yeah, I know. She just drops it when the message was well, even
if you had the flu, you should get the shot. Why are they
telling you that?
Because you need you need to get the neuro then the neurotoxin.
Now the ya know, the transmitters, the B column.
He dropped a joke.
Yeah, but the nanobots the nanobots? That's what nano the
Nano robots. Yes, cowbell. More cowbell.
So I just found this, this whole situation to be well,
so the flu vaccine was really rammed down our throats rammed
down the throats of many health workers who really wanted no
part of it. They're smart. Like I don't want the government in
telling me what to inject into my body. I got a note from our
one of our producers in the state of Connecticut, about a
bill that is going through the sesh. Bill Number 2016 an act
concerning the prophylactic treatment of minors for sexually
transmitted disease. And when you hear prophylactic you think
ah, you know, condoms, but no, no, it says here as used in this
subsection prophylactic means a medicine or course of action
used to prevent disease. And this bill if it passes, would as
here's the statement any Municipal Health Department
state institutional facility licensed physician or public or
private hospital or clinic may examine or provide treatment
including prophylactic treatment for venereal sexually
transmitted disease for a minor. If the physician or facility is
qualified to provide such examination or treatment, the
consent of the parents or guardian of the minor shall not
be a prerequisite to the examination or the treatment,
which would of course be Gardasil, the HPV shot they've
been out they've had these guys have so much money that they're
now getting a bill put through to specifically because you're
what other what other prophylactic shot treat medical
treatment is their
dad never heard of one. He mentioned Gardasil
HPV that's the only one that had people in Connecticut stop this
insanity can have the government telling telling you that you did
they can just inspect your child and inject them with something
if they feel like it
No, that's bad.
Yeah
it's not it's not just bad it's to me it's an outrage
sounds like money's changing hands.
And then to story I got back to back we've been hearing about
men's sperm count dropping significantly you have some
ideas about that I believe and I forget what they were but the
this is from came from Yahoo News was probably a news wire
men's sperm counts are dropping scientists don't know why. Well,
you had an you had a theory about
we had a clip
we did. If you play that clip our mind myself.
How about Siri would sperm be in? Sperm? I
would hope No, it's not in there. That's not the one
fertility that we're that we're at
let's see. And no, no, no, we lose once again. Oh, God, we're
using our clips. I
have no idea. No idea. Well, anyway, hackers,
Russian hackers. I thought get back on.
You said it was some kind of pesticide.
It was either pesticides or the oils or something along those
lines. It was a pesticide. It was the name
of it. has like I can't believe he can't remember. I'm sorry.
Okay. Well, the National Academy of Sciences, even though
scientists apparently don't know why nor do you have done a
study, and this was mind boggling is going to change my
behavior. Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce
a state of compensated hypogonadism. Something you
definitely don't want is hypogonadism. No. Ibuprofen.
Who knew people take that stuff by the by the gallon? Yes, yes.
This was good. I always question when there's something that you
know, there's two things out there. There's the there's the
ibuprofen and then there's the other stuff which, which is in
Aleve, which is some hydroxide thing. And these two guys are
competing with each other and I always wonder if one of them's
not dropping, and that was some of these stories. Yeah. And then
you always do it you have something to do with your sexual
organs and you know, put that in there. That'll that'll stop it.
And then we have we have a heart attack. Much of this stuff you
did? What exactly back to aspirin
what yeah, what exactly is hypogonadism
typo when Mr. Your balls shrink? Or the shrink? Yeah, hyper means
they get it right. They get small balls. Hey, whatever your
balls. Oh, no, no, ma'am. I have lost his headaches.
The headaches gone. I don't know. I think if I had a really
splitting headache, I'd like shrink balls. shrink them. We
live in good times. Everybody Better Living Through Chemistry.
That has happened right here. Lovely
Alicia. That's another tip. By the way.
Stop taking ibuprofen to show Yes, stop taking ibuprofen. Go
back to aspirin. Alright, one last serious topic clip. I like
to follow the wars, the war on weed the war on men the war on
crazy the war on guns, the war on ammo. The war on water is
raging. It's much further along than we realize. And it is in an
important region.
Ethiopia is undertaking a huge infrastructure project a mega
dam on the Nile River. It's a $4 billion development that
Ethiopia sees as key to its future. But critics fear the dam
could trigger a water war in Africa. Alister tell us first,
why does Ethiopia want to build this dam, they want
to build it because they want hydro electricity. This is a dam
that's going to create a huge amount of electricity. As the
water flows through the dam, it will generate more electricity
than any dam does. Currently in Africa, Ethiopia has huge
ambition to try and become a middle income country. It has
ambition to put huge numbers of people to work. And it's doing
that by trying to generate electricity. And that is why the
dam is so important to them.
There are some who do not believe that this will be a good
project that this dam makes sense for them. And that's Egypt
is really what we're talking about.
It is it's complicated. You have these traditional old allies
Egypt and Sudan, who had a deal that they did many years ago a
treaty over how they dealt with the water. Sudan is now backing
what Ethiopia is doing, because they will get cheap power, they
won't have the kind of dramatic floods they have, once the dam
is in place. Egypt though, is very concerned. They are running
short of water. They see what Ethiopia is doing as a threat.
The Pharaohs used to say about Egypt, but it was the Gift of
the Nile. They used to worship the river as a god. And they now
see a country upstream with a big tap that if they want to,
they can turn off that river slow. And that is what are
concerned about.
So is there any chance the opponents will be able to stop
the completion of the dam?
No. The dam is essentially built, more is being done. But
it's already crossing the Nile. It's about diplomacy. It's about
trying to bring these countries, these three countries in the
Lunel together to have a diplomatic solution to what
could be a very serious problem. People talk about the first war
about water. And people are very concerned that this could happen
on the Nile. If these countries don't get together. Egypt has
had control politically at the Nile for millennia. And suddenly
Ethiopia has now come along in the middle of the Arab Spring,
they started building this dam. Now they can if they want to
control the flow, they say that's not what it's about. It's
about trying to generate power to help them develop as a
country. Egypt is very suspicious and that's the
problem.
I think we're gonna see some massive shit go down.
Yeah, sounds like it. And of course,
you know who's building all this stuff. The Chinese course well
Oh, it's an Italian construction firm. So it's kind of
obfuscated. Yeah, the Chinese, the Chinese. I was talking to, I
think I told you about the two Uber drivers from Ethiopia. We
have quite a number of them here in Austin, for some reason to
community
told a story about where you guys heads whipped around when
you said the Chinese Chinese.
And so I spoke to this other guy. Then he says, you know,
they're really integrating because I'm now we know that
they're there. We know. They're building roads, hospitals, etc.
pipelines, trains, roads, dams, everything. And so but they but
they keep it to themselves and the integration. Oh, no, they're
all marrying Ethiopian girls, so they
can get the different than the old story from a decade ago.
Yeah,
well, this is the story. Now they're marrying Ethiopian women
having kids, so they're, they are assured of residency, and
they integrate fine. He says, you know, they own everything.
They run everything they've taken over the country, but they
integrate pretty well.
Yeah, that's good.
Well, it's just some good Chinese restaurants. Yeah, yeah.
That I can assure you.
Just as a minor aside, I Heart Radio might declare bankruptcy
today or tomorrow. Oh, I've been tracking it. As you know, they
skip their most recent payment. $100 million payment. Oops. And
I think Sirius XM is now offering to buy them. One point
16 billion in cash, which is gonna mean that's really pennies
to the dollar. But it'll be interesting to see how there's,
there's how 10s of 1000s of people who were very nervous
this weekend who work in in radio at the I heart stations
are going to shut the stations down.
Eventually, they'll have to if they if they can't pay for it.
Yeah, of course they will. I mean, they're gonna have to have
some kind of some kind of sale, but I mean, Sirius XM if they if
they bought it, then they're going to I don't know, what are
they going to do? It's a losing business. Especially after the
Bain Capital. Thank you, Mitt. Everyone raped the company.
That's what a lot of these guys do. Yeah. Right. And fire it up,
rape it. Go podcasting and then kick it. Kick it back to the
curb. That's right. So people should be pooping by the way.
Yeah, that's only in San Francisco. I know you gotta go
John.
So you only have one clip two clips. I can put these clips up
to the doctors. They'll give us a fun one to leave with. I don't
have a fun one. I do have Richard angle floating around
the world and is, you know, looking for Russian ships. Let
me see what I have trade the trade. Going back to the trade
show. I got Wilbur Ross that Wilbur is talking about how it's
all it's all good. It's all good. He's our commerce
secretary who's always kind of cracks me up. Let's play his
clip.
on CNBC. today. He is Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross defended
the decision. If we
aren't the least protectionist major country in the world.
Please tell me who is. So what's really been going on is the
other countries have been picking away at us dumping
materials in here subsidizing their industries. And we haven't
been fighting back.
But there was opposition building here at home including
among some Republicans. In a statement Nebraska Senator Ben
Sasse, called the policy, kooky 18th century protectionism that
will jack up prices on American families and kill American jobs.
That's what every trade war ultimately does. Wisconsin
Governor Scott Walker, who's been a dependable ally of the
President joined a GOP backlash. He said it would lead to the
exact opposite outcome of the administration stated objective,
which is to protect American jobs cut the President Trump is
expected to formally sign his tariff decision next week. He
has not yet announced which countries will be named and
which would be exempted. Worries about trade wars and interest
rates at Wall Street on more sharp swings. The Dow Jones
Industrial Average fell nearly 400 points before rebounding. It
finished with a loss of 71 points to close at 24,005 38.
Man
I agree, kind of man
Ben Ben Sasse is a notorious anti Trump er so he doesn't even
count. So there you go. So it's all bull crap. We'll just see
what happens. Next Thursday. We'll know
Yes. And we'll also know who walked away with the best movie
Oscar. Go woke. Get out for go Oh, go look for get out.
Now gonna happen
i Everybody the second half of your bi weekly media
deconstruction is over. We do have some fun little ditties for
the end of show. And we'll be back on Thursday. Looking
forward to that. It is a show day you never know what can
happen. Maybe we'll find out if someone pays $10 million for
Hope Hicks's diary. But for sure, I'll be here in FEMA
Region six downtown Austin Tejas capital, the drone Star State in
the fight by including on the common law condo until next
Thursday, in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley where it's turned out to be a
nice day. After some rain the other day, that's what happened.
Somebody complained about me just talking about the weather.
So I'll stop I'm John C. Dvorak we return
on Thursday right here no agenda until then. Adios mofos. Showing
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