It's the young Kim Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, November 8 2018. This is your award winning gizmo
nation media assassination episode 1084. This
is no agenda,
surrendering my heart pass and broadcasting live from the
Capitol, the dorm Star state here in downtown Austin J House
in the studio in the morning, everybody. I'm not encouraging.
And from Northern Silicon Valley where we worried about Ruth
Bader Ginsburg. I'm John Cena.
Raglan Buzzkill.
What are the chances on the day her documentary movie comes out
that she breaks her hip? She's really going all in on the
promotion. Sick. It's true, though. It's it's I said. It's a
coincidence. Did I not?
I would be more likely to think that two producers to get some
publicity forrester
Forrester. I didn't say
hey, Ruth. Oh, I'm so sorry. Ah, there's only three ribs guys.
We're good.
The product is still viable. Is that's in theaters, I think,
isn't it?
What her operation?
Your operation? Her documentary?
I don't know. I don't even know what it was. Yeah, it makes no
sense. Now,
that's what I'm saying. Here. Ginsburg, you're
right. You nailed it.
Let me see. Let me see. It's what is it called again?
Is it just called notorious, I think. But actually, it looks
really
good. They may have taken the title from the old Douglas,
which was Kurt Douglass's kids. What's his name?
Douglas this kid. Mike, Michael Douglas.
Michael Douglas. Yes, we
have a winner.
They took the title from that. Let me see falling down, falling
down.
Falling. The title of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's new documentary
falling down help I've fallen I can't get suburbs or
something. I forget where this very good movie by the way
falling down if you haven't seen Oh, that's a great movie. It's
really where he goes nuts. Yeah, you're really fired. I thought
it fizzled out.
It really fizzled but I've always liked that if I that's
one of the few movies I would gladly Watch again. I found it
so entertaining. Yeah, guys just just loses his crap in traffic.
And just just goes and starts killing everybody.
Everybody can Yes. Which turns out to be a lot of bad guys,
because he's lost as you got stuck in traffic in Los Angeles.
And so he was surrounded by Oh yeah, it was much worse. He will
do worse. Much worse.
Much worse. Speak. Well, speaking of not really films,
but I've watched several episodes of the new house of
cards, which was just released on Netflix. Okay, and I do have
something to say about it.
As I watched the first season and I haven't watched one
anything sense. Yeah, it does. I don't believe in this sort of
being suckered into watching these things.
I think I watched the first I think I watched the first and
the second season and I never saw three or four. But I'm a fan
of Robin Wright. And I wanted to see what what the virtue
signaling would be as she is the female president of virtue
signaling Well, what's interesting is that yeah,
there's lots of it you know, she fires the whole cabinet hires a
new cabinet all women there's tons of virtue signaling but at
the same time they were very honest I feel and because now
there's a lot of main characters are women and they are vicious
conniving and plotting and threatening each other like no
men do is very interesting in that regard. Just really really
evil female stuff you know they go after your kids you know guys
you know will kill you know, he is like your kid right? Why
don't we just let her know about his arrest record? Yeah. Oh,
this whole nasty stuff. But the worst part every single almost
except for on poor almost every single CNN talking head douche
appears in this as themselves on CNN. I think I think that should
be for Bowden
well it's I think it's an ethical it's an ethical Yes.
It's an ethical issue. Absolutely. It's not it's not
just like okay, you're doing it just as well as you do it when
it's about quote unquote real news. It's kind of scary how
well you do that fakery. comes natural to them for some reason.
I just thought that was very obvious. And and yeah,
unethical. unethical.
There you go. Well, then we managed to get off to a good
start here. And kind of, we'll get to the election stuff. I'm
sure you've got some clips.
I have an anecdote.
Oh, I'm all yours. So it's been a weird week. Well, we could
start with talking about Texas. Yeah.
Baito I'm going to get you right into that. So it's been a weird
week of being here alone. Tina was out in Chicago, her her
sister Angie passed away yesterday. So Daya and it's, you
know, it's horrible. And so I'm sitting here and, you know,
it's, it's just it's very strange, you know? And cuz I
have no friends here pretty much except for a couple. And so, you
know, I'd like to call up the couple. And once I had dinner
with Sir Jean, and then, you know, the former New York
Bankers like Okay, that's about all I can do. So he says, We
just said Tuesday, you know, six o'clock at some place, over on
the east side. And yeah, usually just have a meal a drink or two
and just catch up. And we get in there we meet in front of the
place six o'clock, and it's pretty empty. And that's one of
these places that is like a Starbucks in a way, although it
has a house he feel with more than Starbucks, but you have a
bar and open kitchen on one side of this of the place and you get
a number and then they bring you whatever bar food and your
drinks. And so I'm sitting there and all of a sudden the play
starts filling up and he's looking at me and he's starting
to laugh. We were in the middle of Austin's Beto party. And now
the screen went on y'all need friends the big screen went on
free T shirts, no hoodies, John, I did look for you. Free Beto T
shirts and eight starts to get packed. And this is ground
Central. They may have been one other. This is this is a topper
stone. This was the this was the one. And I'd say it was probably
who who would you go with the former New York banker. He
tricked me took you there as a joke. Yes, he
tricked me. I'm like wait a minute. He says I thought you
would enjoy watching the election returns on the big
screen here with all of the BETO fans. Like oh, this is great. So
I put my shirt on. And now let me give you a bit about the
makeup of the of the room. I would say that it was 99.7%
White. Do you think there were three black dudes maybe one
black girl I saw and and not even Brown was just white,
white, white, all wearing black Beto shirts. And I would say was
smooth 40% 40% Women 60% dudes. And these dudes were active. As
in they were hitting on every single woman in the place. It
was just it got to the point where I'm just like, how, and
there was a line of guys outside.
Like there was a pickup party. Yeah, it seemed
like it but it was the party.
That's funny because one of our producers wrote us and said that
he had been following the BETO thing and he found that most of
the hardcore supporters were all all cat ladies.
No, there was no cat lays this was all young, very young. Some
of them looking very stressed. But really what was interesting
is this rest very early on, you know, the start off and with 1%
of the precincts reporting in Texas Beto was 51% versus Cruz
48. And I get it when we walked up and whenever that happened,
and if you know me at a certain point, because I could see the
screen you know, in the distance is that the other side of this
of this restaurant bar. People start cheering I'm like, and it
shows that there's more women winning in some districts. I'm
like, wow. And the banker looks at me says okay, alright, calm
down a little bit. Now you're drawing attention. But it's
women, don't you?
As making a mockery,
that well no, I was I was getting into it. I had Beto
fever, Beto, Beto fever baby. I was. I was all over Beto fever.
But what was so this didn't last very long. As you know, it was
kind of going boom, boom, boom, boom. It was kind of neck and
neck Beto was still ahead. Every time they did an update or local
ABC News Update. People get all crouch 51 still 5148 and a half.
And then you know, there was a lot of cheering, I think. No, I
know that they were more interested in the house that the
Democrats take the house because very early boom Beto last. Yeah.
And they called it and I mean, it was, it was within like half
an hour, I think or maybe an hour of the results coming in
and then I called it for crews real quick.
Now that you mentioned this. I think that these networks are
somebody should have a separate feed for These parties. Well,
they don't need to be putting a wet blanket on all these
campaign parties that are taking place for both sides. By telling
you what happened. I think they should let us stretch it out all
the way so people can get these pick up the date for the night.
Yeah, get out of there. Go watch. Yes.
Yes, it was very disruptive. And we were both paying attention,
you know, because I'm like, Yeah, but and if you see
anything weird for the show, let me know besides everything, and
so he lost, and then people like, oh, because the Democrats
were up and then and that was it. There was no more there was
no crying. There was no hugging or so sorry. nuns, nothing.
People just kept on hitting on each other drinking and then you
know, waiting for the Democrats to take with the house. That's
all they weren't interested in beta. And it was the BETO party.
It was very odd.
That's that's not right.
It was It felt very disingenuous.
Yes. Sounds like it was just a hey, let's go to the BETO party.
Maybe I can pick somebody up that may get some nice, you
know, co Ed from UT where you
we're lucky and we left at 930 there were still a line out the
door of dudes trying to get in. And I'm sure it was a good place
to be
an Austin. Yeah, man.
Well, let's play the BETO clip okay. I have the Texas going
Democrat this was a big CBS report and I do have some
comments about the media in this because I got a we got a nasty
note from somebody which Mr. Read I'm gonna read it anyway. I
found it immediate coverage for this entire election was so
slanted it was I think it was beyond the pale. Normally they
try to fake it a little bit. But and the worst case scenario
actually comes from PBS. PBS had had the absolute war whatever I
mean, the Judy goes to Zephyr when stop everything was what
does the time difference? Well, let's go with the CBS report.
This is a overall report on Texas going Democrat wanting
more
than two dozen House seats gained by the Democrats in the
midterm elections. Two are in Texas districts to build were
traditionally right. Omar via Franchot has more on this.
In suburban Houston Democrat Lizzie Fletcher. Thanks for the
support. All of
you are here because you believe in this campaign
after defeating nine term Republican Congressman John
Culberson reference Republicans have controlled Texas's seventh
district since the late 60s When a young politician named George
HW Bush won the seat. Fletcher's campaign was one of several that
was part of the suburban revolt that helped Democrats take back
control of the House. Democrats flipped at least 29 houses from
Oklahoma to Virginia. One key according to a CBS News exit
poll, suburban women voters swung dramatically in this
election. 53% of women voted for Democratic candidates compared
to only 47% in 2014. Rice University political science
professor Mark Jones he go to Fletcher, took advantage of the
distaste among many of these Republican voters for Donald
Trump. Jones says another factor was Beto O'Rourke's appeal and
its ability to bring out new voters. Federal work alone helps
explain why we saw 12 Texas House representative seats flip
from Republican to democratic to state Senate seats flip and to
congressional seats flip
Lizzie appeal to me and any, even to my Republican husband
because of what she stood for.
Republicans still control Texas on the state and federal level.
But Jones says better O'Rourke's campaign could provide a
blueprint for Democrats to gain power in the Lone Star State.
Now, I'm really surprised that Ted Cruz did almost no
campaigning in Texas. Nothing. It's It's surprising. It's
almost like he knows that. I'll just call Mitt Romney. You know,
he's got the Bain's investment in Diebold in the machines, you
know, the voting machines have him flip it. And that's how
Cavalier he was about it.
Yeah, of course it again. Do you know that for a fact in places
like Dallas where they maybe was promoting himself in Dallas or
places
they had they had the big one in Houston with the with Trump.
That
No, I'm just saying we're Ted was putting his money. He did
have some Miami didn't have as much as Oh,
Ron, you're saying he didn't have the visibility at all,
towards the voters that that all
had? Well, yeah. But again, it's the media plays is
of course, before you just I wanted to play one quickie that
I saw air before was on election day itself. Before the polls
open, Michael Bloomberg did an ad. Yeah, but just listen to
what he says here. Hello,
I speak to you today on
the eve of the midterm elections, not as a Democrat or
Republican. I've been both but as an American who is deeply
concerned with the direction of our nation, like you I've
watched the recent bombings and mass shootings with growing
alarm, the recent bombings and mass shootings and none of them
went off this that's that's pretty egregious. I felt when I
heard
they actually they take they can't even identify the goo that
he put in those bombs apparently none of his explosive. G but
they won't talk about it. They're just like it to discuss
they
also they can't that the day of No.
So he said recent bombings again. Yeah,
it's I just did I find that I found to be nasty. Like you.
I've watched the recent bombings and mass shootings with growing
alarm. What what bombings were you watching? Just tell me what
channel that's on Bloomberg? It's just I don't understand how
that even gets on the air that way. Doesn't someone have to
say? I guess not.
Did they do you can keep stuff like that off the air if you
want it to.
With Dev? Why would they shun the money? shunning the money
and
sending the message out? It's good. It's good Santa? Yes, yes.
Okay, well, anyway, the Bayto thinks seems to be was a big
deal. But I noticed that the way they were doing these reports,
there's a couple of things that really bugged me. I'm gonna
start off with the stuff that bugged me the most All right.
And the person that was the biggest, I think, PBS, the whole
group is disgusting. I'm talking about the news hour. Yeah. And
let me play yeah, I got let's see, I got 12344 clips. I think
I can I can play that will make sense. Let's start with this.
Let's start with a couple Judy clips, so I can just give her a
little grief. Judy. Here's Judy playing random Schumer clip for
what reason I never could figure out Trump and
his party. Now have good reason for worry.
Look, last night was a really good night for Democrats. And
what happened last night doesn't bode well, for President Trump
and Republicans in 2020. And beyond.
And this was the clip she plays what what what is the point of
this?
She also goes and get
Schumer didn't say much else you can always play try.
I think the Democrats are very disappointing. Both sides are
disappointed but the way they played it was very joyous for
the Democrats just with PBS, they would play. I think
everyone was playing it joyous that way. I personally am very
joyous. I love it. I think it's much better than let's let's put
some put some conflict in here.
This is good. Let's play Judy says no new regulations. This is
a very interesting clip. And you if you can identify why
they were watching the election results everywhere Wall Street
rallied on the news from the election analysts said that
divided government will likely mean no new taxes or government
regulations, and no repeal of the Affordable Care Act. The Dow
Jones Industrial Average today gain 545 points. Well, of
course,
I had a I had a heads up because I subscribe to the no agenda
newsletter. So I know. And I love the simple the simplicity
of the analysis, that when they say well, the Affordable Care
Act, no worries about that. That won't be repealed. Let me guess
was the Dow Jones up because of pharma stocks?
Mostly Yeah. Any health care? Yeah. Just went sky. Right. But
what really gave me about that clip was just kind of maybe a
misdirection is this comment? Because anyone who studies
government the modern way we do business regulations do not come
from Congress. They come from the agencies. Yes,
the laws come from Congress and the agencies make up all the
shit in between
all the regulations come from the agencies, so that the idea
that there'll be no new regulations is incredibly, it's
it's wrongheaded. I mean, it's not true. You can have it any
agency can start cranking out regulations, because they were
given the go ahead by Congress years ago to do that. Right.
Congress gave up their rights, insofar as making regulations
and laws for that matter, to these agencies that can then
have all these extra powers. Having worked for one I very
well.
You were aware of your previous superpowers.
So So then we go on with Lisa D jars. Dan, who is a just a
hardcore Democrat, and she's going on talking and she's not
only saying how great everything went, but you Even to losers or
winners as far as she's concerned she, of course, she
does nothing to do nothing about the other side to such an
extreme that I do have a point to make about this after these
clips but let's start with Lisa deja Dan's extolling the losers
O'Rourke and defeat words that spoke of larger movements.
This team, of which we are all members in some way, it's gonna
stay together and it's gonna continue to aspire to do great
things.
And that was also a theme for Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum,
another progressive who fell just short. In his bid to flip
the Florida governor's mansion to the Democrats,
I believe that we have to take have to have a table in the
state that is long enough that is wide enough that is deep
enough to fit all of us. I still believe that we got to have that
table. But y'all, we're just gonna have to do a little bit
more work in order to build that table.
But Guillen was more of an exception on a night where
Democrats took over several Republican governors mansions
defeating Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker winning in Kansas
and in Michigan. The prosecutor Gretchen Whitmer is the governor
elect
goes on and she starts talking about the women. So now she's
gonna go this is Lisa talking about the way all these women
these one of a kind, it's never happened before this woman, that
woman, that woman, this woman, and I want you to pay careful
attention to this clip
is Democratic women stacked up a large number of first takes in
Kansas who is openly gay, she and another winner last night
will be the first Native American women in Congress. The
core
of this campaign has been about trying to figure out ways to
make sure that as many voices and experiences as possible that
we have in this community are being heard by our elected
representatives,
Ayanna Presley and Johanna Hayes will each be the first black
women in Congress from their New England states, and Democrats
Rashida to leave and Ilhan Omar will be the first two Muslim
women to serve in Congress. For each party. Some wins. For the
PBS NewsHour, I'm Lisa.
Lisa. Republican Women No,
no, but she also she left off AOC I'm very surprised.
AOC has been been sidelined. I think if you haven't noticed,
yes. But if you're doing the part if somebody said, Hey,
let's stop talking about her because she's give you put a mic
in front of her. She makes herself out to be a moron. Yeah.
So that's like so they cut her out. But they go on and on about
this, but the one that got me was the first black woman in her
state. Never not mentioning once the first goal, unfortunately,
because it's a Republican, the first Korean woman in the United
States ever to be elected to the House of Representatives. It
wasn't mentioned on CBS. It wasn't missing on NBC. It wasn't
mentioned. And not only that, but it took over Ed Royce's
position was ahead of I think, the Armed Forces old slot in and
she only she took his spot and and she did in California, which
was kind of news in itself. Some Republican would win but no,
this Korean woman was completely blacked out. And I do what I
said I'm gonna find a clip there were somebody mentioned on
findable. I know it was findable on Korean TV cheese. And this is
the clip is at the bottom is Yong Kim and her name is Jung
would like Yong Yong Kim and this is the clip
history during the 2018 US midterm elections as Yong Kim
was elected to the US House of Representatives becoming the
first Korean American woman to win a coveted spot in the US
Congress. He Sanjay has this
report historic day at the 2018 US midterm elections as
California's 39th congressional district election net saw
Republican young Kim the democratic Gilson arrows
cornering 51.3% of the votes. Kim becomes the first Korean
American woman to be elected into Congress and the first
Korean American in 20 years to be elected. It was an emotional
victory for the self made woman who won the tight race
despite all of the millions of dollars that came out. This is
one election that we can prove that we cannot buy ourselves
into a seat.
Ed Royce, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
announced his retirement from California's 39th District seat
in January regen had endorsed him since then.
I want to share with you that over that span of time, in my
opinion, for the people that I've met in public sir Is No.
has ever worked as hard
as young kids? Well, you know,
you don't think this is significant? Yeah, of
course it is. But are you surprised? Yeah, I guess for for
PBS I am a little surprised actually,
PBS has lost.
Or maybe, maybe just the news. Well, the news hours its own
team. It's not all of PBS but the news our sounds very lost.
Yeah. Yeah, I
mean, here's a woman, it's a woman that may was the two
themes were all the blue wave which crapped out, you knew the
funny thing is about these news, the way they handle these, this
this whole election, it I used to write for a bunch of
different financial publications and, and the first thing you
learn if you're gonna do a stock market analysis, is if the
market goes up, you'll find some event to blame it on. And the
funny thing is, you can say, Oh, the stock market went down as a
reaction to the Fed raising rates, right? That's easy. But
if the stock market goes up, you look for something. And so you
can say, well, the stock market went up as a reaction, a counter
reaction to the Fed raising rates. Yes. So you take the same
element and you can play it two different ways. The news media
could play this election as the Democrats could should promised
us that we're going to do a lot better than they didn't. And you
could play the whole thing that way. Oh, and this guy lost and
that guy in Florida Gillum lost instead of going on what a great
guy isn't playing a piece of his if his speech is concession to
wait at least eight days our dance did she played it up or
beta last but beta is the future. Yeah. You could have
said beta is obviously not the future. He spent too much money
and he just loser. I mean, you can play
loser just losers capital l go home Beto.
You can play it any way you want. But they play obviously
played it this way. But it becomes so apparent when you
leave out Yong Kim. Yes. And they left her out. They just
kicked her to the curb. I Woman
Yes. The no agenda shows now proudly stands behind Yong Kim.
We're all behind you. You're behind Yun case. She's ethnic.
Yes.
She's a woman. He she's a woman she got every day she gay.
They'll be perfect.
It would be but she's not. Okay.
Wait, mixed mixed marriage mixed racial marriage. White guy?
I don't doubt I don't know. But where is even a single mention
of her on CBS, NBC, ABC and specifically, which is what I
really complaining about as PBS, which is supposed to be the best
of the group. And it's not. And I'm
thinking I don't even know if the President congratulated her.
I don't think he was just surrounded by people that aren't
working with him. Probably doesn't know either. He would
have actually, if he knew he would have made a bigger fuss.
I think so too. Yeah. Cuz he talked about? Well, he did. He
did something. First of all, I love that whole press
conference. And like, what it was like, it was almost like the
day after Christmas. Yeah. And you find something under the
tree. Oh, here's the package. I haven't opened yet. That press
conference was it to me that I really really enjoyed it from
beginning to end. It was a I was riveted. I have there was there
was a new Trump. He was he was the different Trump. He was
being really calm. He was very, he's like collected. He was
talking with the press for a long time. And you know, you got
all that he liked. Let all kinds of other people speak like him
from bloggers, I think from Brooklyn. And he got you know,
some lots of little fireworks going there. But yeah, I thought
that was perfect. And and he was saying, well, here's these
people who do you know, basically the Never Trump errs
in the Republican Party. He said, Well, you didn't want me
to help you out. So there you go loser. To some people, they're
losers.
That was that was pretty funny. But I still think though that
highlighted that was the Jim Acosta
Well, what I'd like to what I'd like to do is i It's the full
dustup is only two minutes and 37 seconds. I
have one that's 314 that I think is actually his full. Okay,
well,
you probably I cut out the last bits, but we can use that one.
Because it's
way more like well, into the Peter Alexander question. And
Peter Alexander kind of attacks the president in office. Right,
right. I got that too. What else is after that? I don't know why.
Here's his longer. That's kind of weird. Where is it? You've
got Tapper. No, we've got
entire it's under the word entire makes nothing but sense.
All right.
Let's play it. Now. I'll give you my my view right off the
bat. Is this is this is I think it's meant to be Trump calls on
him. He knows how think's gonna happen he needed it, he wanted
it. He wanted to put a cost in his place a cost the just
willing, just perfect, you know jumps in and the reason why
Trump was right in every regard, is he's not even asking you a
question when he starts off. So I want to challenge you. So when
you say, when opening a question, I want to challenge
you on something, then you know what I knew immediately. This is
not going to go well. And then all the other stuff that
happened is perfect. It's he Acosta did a great job. That's
what he does see. And I was watching CNN to see the outrage.
I'm sure they got a nice spike in the ratings. But of course,
he was incredibly rude. And the President called them out on
after having some patience. And it was just again, it was the
the last president under the Christmas tree the day after
Christmas, hundreds
and hundreds of miles away. That's not an invasion.
Honestly.
I think you should let what
that's what you start.
You just started yours.
I'm gonna start my deep No, it's much more important to start
here.
Thank you, Miss President, I want to challenge you on on one
of the state he
starts off I want to challenge you. That was That's That's why
Trump was like, okay,
payments that you made in the tail end of the campaign. In
midterms, there we go. Well, if you don't mind this President,
that this caravan was an invasion, as you consider to be
known as president caravan was not an invasion. It's a it's a
group of migrants moving up from Central America towards the
border with the US.
Thank you for Dan.
I love that. Thank you very much for explaining that. To me. It's
like,
like kind of a press conferences where you're, you're not this is
not asking you questions. No. making accusations? Yes, yes.
That's why I'm surprised that Well, I thought that the Trump
that this was a fake deal. And that cost, I haven't dealt with
even my early thoughts, that it causes you to be kicked out of
there. I mean, you can revoke his credentials, you can not
allow me to building. And it's because I've never done that. I
always assumed that this was all part of a grand scheme, because
it was very good theater. And then later, a cos his
credentials were pulled, which he found out later. Well, and
the and the reason for that, as they say that he laid hands on
the internet, he pushed
her off, whatever, please, I'm not gonna
say let me let me say something. Right, right. Now, when you have
an audience, I don't care if it's a seminar, or if it's a
press conference, or whatever it is. You do not let the audience
ever even if it's reporters hold the mic. This is a bad idea.
Never should and they always want to grab the mic. Don't let
them grab the mic.
I've been to plenty of things where a mic is pastor. I
know I think it's a mistake.
I think it's always a mistake. A lot of the smart money has a mic
on a stand. Yeah, exactly. Have an honest stand. Yes. That would
be funnier with these guys. And be able to turn it off when
someone's just annoying anyway. Don't have that capability. But
yes, they do.
They just don't do it group of migrants.
Let me finish my thought, gee. So I could you never want to go
through the progression here. So I figured that he was not going
to get his credentials, pulled because it was theater, and then
they got him pulled and then you sue us because he touched the
touch the woman. And
that was an excuse that they use that as next they use that as an
excuse as
an excuse, but I didn't think much of it. I said if it's this
technically Yeah, he did. And some people said he didn't he
didn't need it. And including the CNN woman. He says he didn't
touch her. Well, he did is pretty clear. It wasn't you
know, he just pushed you know, he pushed her, her arm down to
because she was grabbing for the mic. She's making a lunge for
the mic, actually. And so they found out the reason there. And
I said, Well, I guess my theories gone. What was your
theory? And
oh, that oh, that it was there was just a setup. Yeah.
Sure, theory was that it was always going to be good. But
then they called his credentials. I said, What was
that all about? Well, then I said, so I figured I was wrong.
But then I realized because I have another clip, which was on
CNN where a caster comes on and gives his side of the store and
he's talking to Jake Tapper, and they're all gassed. And this was
and this clip I realized was before he pulled before they
pulled his credential. Oh, this is his here's all giddy and he's
still playing the game. But what happened? I believe in the
reason his credential was pulled was CNN had written a terse memo
to the President. Well, you know, you're full of crap and he
went on and on about it. And I think that's the reason that
it's okay really fine. Credentials pull. Our game is
over. Yeah, that sounds about right. That sounds about right.
That sounds more like to do The real reason yeah, because it
because tapri wasn't pulled with me, they could have pulled
around this kicked him out, they brought security and you touch
the one and thrown him out. But ultimately,
ultimately, I mean, it was great. And what is always so sad
is that the media only plays the little bits and little clips and
they don't go through the progression of what happened. I
mean, he doesn't ask the question. He says, I want to
challenge you. And then he, you know, there's two or three
questions answered. Everybody kind of got one and maybe one
follow up. And then the President says in the White
House, okay, enough, can you stop and then he just kept
going? That's just an end of story to me. I don't care who
the president is. Well, the other thing, by the way, Obama
should have done the same thing. Instead, he went about bye, bye,
bye. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's what he would do. He
should have done the same thing like I'm telling you to shut up
in the White House. Actually.
People did say that. Some people in the press corps you read my
house All right. Happy that this happened because apparently it
causes a mic hog obviously and when he was on the on this
device where I do have this clip for later they'd tapper Acosta
clip. He starts he's, I didn't realize when I started watching
him, he is one of those guys who apparently used to do a lot of
what they call stand up. Yeah. And that is the guy in the field
where you throw it to him. And he can talk as long as you want
him to Yeah, you need 10 minutes, no problem, you need
five minutes you want one minute doesn't make any difference.
This guy can keep talking.
And he can do it exactly one minute, five minutes or 10
minutes, whatever you want. That's what that's how you guys
nail
it. And he can go forever. And his tendency is to go forever.
And he does it on the other show. Yeah. And so he and some
people don't the other people want to ask questions, too.
Yeah,
no, of course it was rude. I'm sure everyone's a little tired
of it. It was actually it was a good press conference. It was it
was I pulled some stuff out of value, which I'll play later but
let's do you want to play those Acosta clips? You want to go
back to the to the challenge? No, I
want to go back to the press conference. Okay, that cost
Eclipse later.
Well, if you don't mind this President, that this caravan was
an invasion as united as I consider to be known as
president caravan was not an invasion. It's a it's a group of
migrants moving up from Central America towards the border with
the US thank you for 10 Why did you why did you characterize it
as such,
as I consider an invasion, you and I have a difference of a
button to use
and like that, and he was doing a lot of this we just have a
difference of
opinion that you demonized immigrants, not as electron to
try
them I want them to come into the country but they have to
come in legally you know, they have to come in Jim through a
process. I want it to be a process
and I'm so tired of M five M playing this line, that you know
they just want a better life and yeah, but they always leave out
the legal versus illegal part. And I don't know if it was or
this in this clip actually we're Trump says that we need these
people.
And I want people that come in and we need the people your
campaign your campaign. You know why we need the people because
we have hundreds of companies moving in we need the people
for your campaign had an ad showing see no
one no one plays that part of the clip where he's saying we
need the people we need them to come in but we need him to come
in legally. No one plays
that migrants climbing over walls and
stop, stop. Okay, they ask you the same thing you asked me a
minute ago. This surprises you? Man,
they weren't Act are not going to be doing they were an
actress. But no, it's true. Do you think they were actors? Or
they weren't actors? They didn't come from Hollywood. These were
these were people. This was an actual you know, it happened a
few days ago. And
they're hundreds of miles away though. They're hundreds and
hundreds of miles away. That's not an invasion.
Honestly. I think you should let me run the country you run CNN
or and if you did it well, your ratings. Let
me ask you. If I may. If I may ask the question. Are you
worried? That's enough? That's enough president? I'm asked one
of the the other funny
this is where he does need to shut up. I don't care who it is.
Even it was that old bag who's now dead. Remember her? What was
her name in the front? Thomas said Obama kicked out after the
one week in office. You remember Obama claiming Hamas? Yes, I
know. I'm saying I heard you the first three times.
Oh, I do. Sounds like I was dead Mike. No. Do you remember
when Obama kicked her out? And like the first mob presidency?
Yeah. feel shameful. Yeah. And then and then they BDS her?
Because she said Israel was doing horrible things and all
right, and then Oh baju maybe she was she was she?
She was Armenian
Armenian maybe
that's enough for me, ma'am.
Mr. President, that's enough just trusted right one of the
guy may ask on on the Russia investigation. Are
you to dick I mean, he literally said that's enough. This stop
concerned
that that you may have not concerned about
Anything with investigation because it's a hoax? Are you?
That's enough put down the mic.
This president, are you worried about indictments coming down in
this event now
that even the journalists are going to shut up? Mr. President,
I tell you what, CNN should be ashamed of itself having you
working for them. You are a rude, terrible person. You
shouldn't be working for CNN. Go ahead. I think that's under a
very rude person. The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is
horrible. And the way you treat other people are horrible. You
shouldn't treat people that way.
In. In Jim's defense, I've traveled with him and watched
him. He's a diligent reporter who bustles I'm
not a big fan of yours either. To be honest,
let me ask you a question if I can. You repeatedly. You are the
best, Mr. President, you repeatedly over the course of
you just sit
down place. But when you when you report fake news, no. When
you report fake news, which CNN does a lot, you are the enemy of
the people. Go
ahead. He couldn't explain it more often. Was there more on
your clip that you wanted to get into? Was that it?
No, there was a couple of things because Peter Alexander
continued in kind of a funny way that was again more accusatory,
but it was light compared to causes by would rather like to
play the rest of that out of elections
last night. I want to hold them very close because
you gotta go wait.
I gotcha. I gotcha. CNN
should be ashamed of itself. Having you working for them. You
are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn't be working for CNN. Go
ahead. I think that's under a very rude person. The way you
treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible. And the way you treat
other people are horrible. Oh, we
should forgot to mention during the BETO party. When Sarah
Huckabee, because we the screen had ABC on who had an airplane
hangar with 18 people at four desks and it was the most
ridiculous roundabout thing I've ever seen. Sarah Huckabee
Sanders came on the whole place started booing her, it was
really bizarre.
Wow. Yeah. Do blue. Why are they bullying a woman? I don't know.
I'm
just I'm just reporting
and treat people that way. Go ahead. And go ahead, Peter, go
in Jim's defense. I've traveled with him and watched him. He's a
diligent reporter who bustles I'm
not a big fan of yours either. So
I have to be honest. So let me ask you a question if I can. You
repeatedly sorry. You're the best, Mr. President, you
repeatedly over the course of just sit down place.
And this is a cost a cost that kept standing up again, without
the mic just yelling stuff.
When you report fake news? No. When you report fake news, which
CNN does a lot. You are the enemy of the people. Go
ahead, Mr. President over the course over the course of the
last several days in the campaign, Sir. Sir. At the end
of the campaign, you repeatedly said that Americans need to fear
Democrats, you said Democrats would unleash a wave of violent
crime that endangers families everywhere. Why are you? Why are
you pitting Americans against one another Seder?
What are you trying to be him? Now? Let me just tell you, first
of all, because they're very weak on crime, because they have
often suggested members and people within the Democrat party
at a high level have suggested getting rid of ice, getting rid
of law enforcement, that's not going to happen. Okay. We want
to be strong on the borders. We want to be strong on law
enforcement, and I want to I want to cherish ice because ice
does a fantastic job. The what they do for us is so really,
it's so unrecognized, how good a job they do. So we want to take
care of them. And we want to hold them very close because
they do a good job for
the question to be clear. To be clear, though, the question why
are you sit down with a question, but you didn't answer
my question. Just very simply. The question is, why are you
pitting Americans against one another? Sir? I'm not that how
you view Oh, I'm citizens of this country. What?
We want a lot of elections last night. We did very well last
night. But in many ways I think it's going to have I think it's
going to have a very positive impact. I watched NBC this
morning. They didn't report it. To me, but that's you know,
very, very that's the fact with NBC. Nothing I could do about
that. But I want this country to have protection. We want
security in our country. I want security Peter. I mean, you may
be don't think it's so important. And I think when you
don't have it, you are indeed unleashing crime. I feel that
God said he would sign an executive order on birthright
citizenship. Are you still gonna sign the executive order on
birthright birthright citizenship?
question a little bit later. Go ahead. Okay. All right.
Well, so here's his accused. accusation was Why are you
pitting Americans against each other? Yeah. What is that?
These are these are not intelligent questions. Well,
they're
dirt. They're not questions. They're kind of accusations for
their statements. Are you still beating your wife?
Are you still a wife beater? Yes.
Wife Well, I thought, Well, are you still beating her?
It's very Did you? Did you see the whole thing? Did you see the
horse
form I didn't want I saw about about 30 minutes. The whole
thing is interesting. There's a lot of good stuff in there. I
liked the thing where it starts going after the guys who were.
Well, let's play B says we still have Acosta thing. I want to
play this Acosta clip. But he does have the
because I got some more from the press conference. So we got to
circle back.
Yeah, no, I want to definitely because this is going to segue
right into what you're going to do. Because the cost that talks
about this and then you can play that clip because I hope you
have it. This is tapra cost. Got here. Tapper. Acosta, CNN, eight
seconds was listen,
but President Trump did something that I've never seen
an American president do which is go on a personal rant against
the questions you are attempting to ask
a rant rant? I've never seen not a rant. All right.
Okay, this will get to the crux of it, which leads to your clip,
as you're attempting to ask,
Well, Jake, when they go low, we keep doing our jobs. I mean,
that's the way I look at it. And you know, I had a question to
ask. And if we played the tape a little bit before that
exchange? Well, you had an accusation you do wasn't a
question.
You would have seen the question that I was asking, which was
essentially about this lie that he told before the midterm
elections that this caravan of migrants moving from Central
America to the US border with Mexico was somehow an invasion
when it's not there still hundreds of miles away, and they
pose nothing of a threat to the United States for the president
use that language. Obviously, as we've talked about so many times
to galvanize his base, he just didn't like is like hearing that
question. If you don't stop them, he'll just keep going and
like being challenged on that point, and he certainly doesn't
like being called out for his falsehoods. But of course, Jake,
as you were just mentioning, that's That's our job. That's
what we do over here. That's what wolf did when he was over
here as a White House correspondent as well. And we
just can't be intimidated by that sort of thing. I was struck
by,
what does that buttering up broth? Like that's what we'll
follow. So did when he was a new white. In other words, like
you're the next broth. What are you saying
he wasn't good enough hits on? Yeah,
exactly. The
fact that the President we thought was going to come in
there and do this victory lap. It sounded very much like a pity
party. The way he was talking about lawmakers that wouldn't
stand by him on the GOP side, in various House races, he seems to
be sort of unaware of the fact that his immigration rhetoric
and his rhetoric on many levels was just turning off a lot of
those suburban swing district voters. That's why people like
Mike Coffman and Gallup, Colorado, we're staying away
from him, and he just doesn't understand that. All right.
Okay.
Before you play your clip, I gotta say some others Mike
Kaufman thing. I think it's Kaufman or Hoffman. This guy,
because I looked him up. He was the sitting representative. He
was already in the house. He is she was a Trump hater. He's a
Trump. Never Trumper Republican. US Marine, been in Colorado up
to representing Colorado for a long time. He was would take
none of of Trump's help. Trump called him out on it. And he
lost by 10 points to sue a newbie. Yeah. Who is a who had
no political experience, relatively speaking as an ex
Army Ranger. So he's like, it just was stunned by this. But
the way, the way a costa presents, it is that well, the
Trump was toxic. And that's why this guy told him to get lost.
But the guy told him to get lost and he lost. I mean, is that
part of the equation? Do we want to bring that into the picture?
Is that maybe something you want to analyze a little bit? No, no.
Why? Meanwhile, of course, of course, it was filling I could
have played I think it was on for another 15 minutes. Well,
actually, I'm used to Oh, it's because this was before he got
is
well now let me let me play the oats sewing clip with the tapper
and Acosta. We need
to know. The President started out by doing a dance on the
graves of Republicans who did not show him enough fealty.
I love doing a dance on the grave baby
Republicans who for their own purposes, many of them in those
suburban districts that turned out turned away from President
Trump, where he was toxic.
Say this the same toxic that calling him toxic even though he
literally called out all of those Never Trump errs, who
didn't want him and who lost that this is skewed reporting.
Obviously,
that commercial was toxic. His language was toxic. People His
Blood Sweat is toxic. It demands toxic he's just toxic. Orange
Man bad
by Congressman Carlos Curbelo. In Florida, people like a
Congresswoman Barbara Comstock, in Virginia people like
Congresswoman Mia Love in Utah who by the way, her race hasn't
been called yet so his his saying that she lost was is
premature. She may actually end up winning that Did she
win? I don't know. No. know that she did.
He he danced on their grapes. Because they
toxic Trump dances on Grace filled with elevens. And
he was flipped about it. He almost seemed to be happy about
the fact that Congressman, yes. And Republican from the suburbs
of Denver lost.
Yes, I think you did. He made that very clear,
because he didn't want the President's support. I've never
seen a president take delight in people if of his own party
losing and
we only stopped the clip. I watched this part. He wasn't
that delightful. He was irked.
Ah, nice.
I'll give that to you. Yes.
He was snide, very snide.
He was very irked.
He was and I think he felt insulted. I'm the president. You
know?
Well, you're probably right I probably have too much dementia
be watching in me. I'm like, yeah, he was kind of smug about
it. But maybe you're right. He was pissed. Maybe he was just
like idiots as possible as possible.
Well, he needs those people to be in the house and they were
stupid and they lost everybody he supported mostly one I think
there's a few that didn't especially the all the senators
in there happy that they got in. Obama went out on the on the
trail. They don't want to talk about this but everybody he was
stumped for a loss.
years. That was actually the wrong clip. Here's a cost of
this. This clip does contain a cost that with Anderson Cooper,
I
just want to read a statement that CNN has just released the
statement reads the White House announced tonight that it has
revoked the press pass of CNN CHIEF White House correspondent
Jim Acosta. It was done in retaliation for his challenging
questions at today's press conference. In the explanation
press secretary Sarah Sanders lodge she provides accusations
incited an incident that never happened. This unprecedented
decision is correct. Me if
the incident did happen is minor you They use very minor is very
big as minor too. But it
did happen. Yes, it did happen. Well, he didn't lay hands on
her. He swatted her arm down. And she did look kind of
surprised. But she she lunged for the mic. She had the she had
the mic in her hand, and he pushed her way. And I think that
both had a moment of like, what just happened there? But it did
happen. It wasn't it wasn't trying
to chop just from algo dimension a completely. He was karate
chopping her arm right at the elbow point. Hoping, yeah, What
a douche.
Democracy and the country deserves better. Jim Acosta has
our full support. Anything else you want to?
Well, I was you know, I was just trying to ask a question to the
president at this press conference. And it was obviously
a question they didn't like it was about his racist ad on the
caravan that they were running before the midterms.
Did you see that ad? Was it indeed racist? Why was it
racist? I
never saw a racist ad that supposedly has all these illegal
aliens heatings run over the one Epsom town or something, racist
phrase. Now
we're going back and forth there. And as you can see, in
this video, this intern came up to me that they're describing
her as an intern, I don't really know who she is, and attempted
to take the micro phone away from me. All I can say at that
point is that I was trying to hang on to the microphone, so I
could continue to ask the President questions.
It was really it was kind of sad, because I've seen this clip
now with his chops in slow mo. Everything's zoomed in. And I
was I'm looking at the poor girl. Because it happens. She
has this moment of kind of shock. She looks at Acosta turns
to the President looks at him. And that is the moment you know,
it's just
she has a befuddled look on her eyes. And yes, you're sure that
we didn't see him because they don't show that but I think he
gave her a cue to to crouch down,
get out of the way because we'll fly feel bad for be hurt. It's
like, Hey, I was your enemy. They say the White House interns
good abuse, but he's easy does a DC.
Obviously, you know, I didn't put my hands on her or touch her
as they're alleging. And it's just unfortunate that the White
House is saying this. You know, we
didn't even touch her.
Yeah, that's even better. Yeah, that's okay. Gee, are you
surprised a liar? Are you surprised? Are you surprised
show
those over there. And I think I handled myself professionally.
And I appreciate all the comments from my colleagues. I
do think, Anderson that this is a test for all of us. I do think
they're trying to shut us down to some extent, inside the White
House press corps and they're trying to send a message to our
colleagues.
Yes, is sending a message to everybody. They'll shut you
down. They'll take your hard pass away. Okay, I have a couple
more clips that I just want to get in here and then I we do
have to talk about some conclusions. Nancy Paul Losi
started her press conference just a little bit before the
President and is ended his. It was not at all as entertaining.
Oh, actually, this isn't even from the press conference. This
is when they won. It's just a short clip. And I think was just
cute about stopping the GOP. And Mitch McConnell's assault on
Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and the
health care of 130 million Americans living with pre
existing medical conditions. That's more for pre existing
medical conditions.
preexisting medical conditions.
I thought that was funny. That was fun here. Let's hear we need
more people with pre existing conditions. So after this whole
Acosta thing, there was a few more confrontations April Ryan
stood up and asked something and he didn't recognize it didn't
say didn't give her the mic. And he told her to shut up and sit
down, which is probably right on. But so at a certain point,
he's like, Okay, this is kind of going along. He's answering
questions. And
should we keep this going for a little while?
Yeah, this came up a couple of times he'd like missed even
before they started their questions, saying, Mr.
President, this is great. Could you do this more often? This is
really fantastic. And I think Trump even talked about how he
hadn't done press for a month, and it wasn't didn't go well.
And then I had to do more press because you know that I have to
keep our message going my message which gets distorted. I
mean, he was making some sense. He was not dropping as many full
words and sentences as usual, which was surprising. And so he
was, you know, back to the Acosta thing. He's kind of been
a vibe, and he calls on the, on the reporter from PBS. Should
we keep this going for a little while?
Yes, I think he should keep this. When you get bored,
would you please tell me seriously? Tell me, you're never
bored? I don't want to hopefully not. I don't want to overstay.
But please go ahead.
Hi, Mr. President, yummy shell center with PBS NewsHour. On the
campaign trail, you called yourself a nationalist. Some
people saw that as emboldening white nationalist. Now, people
are also saying, well, you're president, you're racist.
There's some people that say that now the Republican Party is
seen as supporting white nationalist rhetoric. What do
you make of that? I
don't believe I just I don't know, why do I have my highest
poll numbers ever with African Americans? Why do I have among
the highest poll numbers with African Americans? I mean, why
do I have my highest volumes? That's such a racist question.
Honestly. I mean, I know you have it written down and you're
gonna tell me, let me say it's a racist question.
And Mr. President, I
love you know what the word is? I love our country. I do. You
call you have nationalists. You have globalists? I also love the
world. And I don't mind helping the world, but we have to
straighten out our country. First. We have a lot of
problems. And this excuse me, but to say that would you say it
is so insulting to me? It's a very terrible thing that you
said. And Mr.
Mr. President, now,
I don't know if the question was racist. I don't think it was a
racist question.
Well, here's the bright it's a Thornton. She would put it later
on the PBS NewsHour, a thorn in his side, his racism, his
racism? No, it's the it's the fact that the left has really
made this word nationalism. Oh, right. into white nationalism by
definition. Yes. And so she is bringing this point up of from a
leftist perspective of PBS NewsHour. And he just found it
offensive. Well, he
said yeah, of course it's offensive but he called it
racist which was not racist.
Well, because it brings in the white nationalists are by
definition racist. And so because it goes like this You
said nationalism which means white nationalism by anybody's
standards except maybe yours and a few other people that are
living in the you know 18th century when nationalism admits
there
was it was very insulting
but I think on a on a mental level it was racist well
Indian by today's standards, of course it was you just said us
why not? I'm sorry. You have a piece of white paper it's
racist. It's got to stop now. yellow pad paper people now she
handled I thought she handled it poorly. She's not very good just
Woman No, I don't know why they're keeping her on it shows
a lot of very low but she's extreme left wing of a please
notice
we always have the black reporter asked the racist
question. It's just it's it may just be scheduling. I don't
know.
That is why on the funniest bit on Seth Meyers Late Late Show,
is he's got a black writer, woman who's I think a lesbian
And he brings her on to tell off color jokes. Because he can't
tell Oh, yes, I've seen this bit. Yeah. And it's actually
quite funny because she'll tell some of the most extremely
offensive
jokes white guy can't say yes.
And a white guy can't say which makes his point. But he's also
kind of, he's making a point and missing a point at the same time
when he does this bit.
So I've figured out most of what is what the President is hiding
with his tax return. Because this came up and man, Trump, he
sometimes you got to listen, you have listened very carefully,
because you get used to the half sentences and half words, and I
got I've gotten pretty good at filling it in. But he also
dropped some bombs to me. They were bombs saying, Okay, I don't
know exactly what it is yet. Maybe it's a question for the
banker, he might know because, you know, his bank used to lend
money to Trump, which by the way, everyone was always happy
with he says everybody always liked doing business with him.
They made a lot of money. But this is about his tax returns
and listen to his giveaways really? All right. Thank
you, Mr. President. And thank you up there, you told me the
other day that you are an open book. So
I think I am an open book.
So point blank, Democrats go after your tax returns, will you
try to block that? Or will you allow them now I
look, as I've told you, they're under audit, they have been for
a long time. They're extremely complex, people wouldn't
understand and they're done by among the biggest and best law
firms in the country. Same thing with the accounting firms. The
accountants are a very, very large, powerful firm from the
standpoint of respect, the highly respected, big firm, a
great law firm, where you would you know it very well, they do
these things, they put them in,
they do these things they put them in. Okay, so that was my
first clue.
But people don't understand tax returns. Now, I did do a filing
of over 100 pages, I believe, which is in the offices and when
people went and saw that filing, and they saw the magnitude of
it, they were very disappointed. And they saw the you know, the
detail, you get far more from that. But it's a it's a great
company, but it's big, and it's complex, and it's probably feet
high. It's it's complex, very complex instrument.
It's a very complex instruments. So whoever his tax firm is,
they're very well respected have a lot of power. They put some
financial instrument into his mix because he just said that to
us. He just said it you wouldn't understand it. The those guys
they put it in it's a very complex instrument. I don't know
what it is. But it's a white bed it's something really fabulous
that you know, that erases billions of debt or makes him
not pay any taxes that yeah, I paid no tax probably zero taxes.
And that's it's probably so awesome when you see it here
like I made $5 billion paid and I got a refund. Yes. Can be one
of those. It could be it could be a refund. Actually.
He may be under some non disclosure
because because it's a proprietary deal mechanism.
Yeah.
And I bet you there's a proprietary thing going on here
and they have found some loophole which is what the New
York Times kind of hinted at now
that's a good point John, they this is a proprietary thing
they've done and it may be an instrument that his very well
respected firm you know maybe with some other very well
respected bank put some instrument together Yeah, that
it
only they know how it works. Yeah. And only they and they
don't want it revealed because it's a it's a competitive edge
against the other tax firms.
Someone in the chat room control room said he files a 1040 ez
be just as embarrassing Yeah.
But I think I think you're right it's some kind of instrument is
proprietary which has been which has been the real reason and it
will end and it would look like he paid no tax or I think worse
he got a refund. It's got to be like so crazy gets Yeah, some
crazy billion dollar refund. It'll look like a refund. It's
something weird. So but he kind of gave that away. I love
listening to the guy if you can, if you really pay attention,
then you can hear these these little things.
Well, that's gonna be one of the things they go after.
Yeah, just so important for the world. That's I'm so happy. So
happy. We're going
on a competitive edge. And
I got one more.
Now this was interesting to me, because I've been following ever
since Kushok. Crikey. Because your mom could sue you because
Shuji Ever since Khashoggi I've been following a number of
things, the oil flows, the relationship between Saudi
Arabia, Turkey, Russia, Qatar, Israel. This is very
interesting. Now, of course, we have the sanctions in place as
well, which is swift, which I have done some research on and
want to talk about later on. But this is a question about Erawan.
And I had to go, I had to go back and it was the president of
Turkey, which is kind of funny because Trump doesn't hear the
guy and then he thinks the guy thinks he's stupid because they
know who Erdogan is. which really shows that really shows
you his weak spot. When people think he's stupid, it really
irritates the hell out of me, you'll hear it right at the
beginning,
Mr. President, Erdogan said he's not gonna follow your sanctions,
and he's gonna keep buying oil from who said, President
Erdogan, Turkey, and you're gonna meet him soon just
can't understand his. Okay.
Again, I understand you brown flock, that's what, that's what
he's thinking, you're gonna meet
him soon, you're gonna have this talk. And some companies are
gonna take the same steps that President or the guys doing.
So let me just tell you about the oil. Okay. So what we
imposed, just recently, the strongest sanctions in the
history of our country just about all I guess, North Korea's
there, too. But I gave some countries a break on the oil. I
did it a little bit, because they really asked for some help.
But I really did it because I don't want to drive oil prices
up to $100 a barrel or $150 a barrel, because I'm driving them
down. If you look at oil prices, they've come down very
substantially over the last couple of months. That's because
of me. Because you have a monopoly called OPEC. And I
don't like weight. And I don't like that monopoly, I don't like
it, and oil prices are coming down. So rather than deciding to
be as tough as I am on most of the sanctions, what I've done is
I said, we're not going to do it that way, we're going to let
some of the oil go out to these countries that really do need
it. Because I don't want to drive the oil prices up to 100
or $150. But which could happen very easily. It's a very fragile
market, very, very fragile. I know it very well. And it's the
absolute right decision. And they'll get tougher as time goes
by, maybe, but I don't want to have any effect on the oil
prices worldwide where I drive them up, because I consider that
to be a tax and I don't like taxes.
You know, and amidst all of this, he did say at the United
Nations, I'm pissed about the oil prices, and they are going
down.
I looked at the monthly and it was down what 15 bucks.
Yeah, when it goes up, it goes down and bit
but let's let's just remember, yeah, it goes up, it goes down.
Well hold on a second. Let's take a look at the moment. Just
take a look at the chart
on the
Well, here we go. So one month it was $75 on the 11th of
October, the ninth of October. And today it's 6060 in one
that's WTI crude. So that's a drop. Yeah. And but maybe
actually, if you look at it from when did the Khashoggi thing
happen?
Does that happen around October? The beginning of October?
This is rather interesting.
The middle of October, I think. October 4, maybe?
October 4 Will October 3 oil was at a better at a year long, high
a year high.
Of let me see here. It's almost 75 bucks.
And it just goes down from there. Never now remember he
said that he was pissed off this before could showed Khashoggi he
said at the United Nations and went up a little bit from there
because it was September, went up, went up went up, we get hit
75. Khashoggi happens and Trump gets pissed off. price comes
down this this stuff going on.
I mean, we're back to one as it were back to April's price. I
just don't think it's coincidental.
Well, probably not. And I like how he says his attacks. Yes.
Thank you. Finally a politician who just says it i gas prices
attacks.
Yeah, when you're in California, they just make it. They make
taxes. We'll talk about that after the break.
Okay. But just before we have a lot of foreign listeners who
live in America, a lot of foreign listeners. So I think
the analysis looking
at are some of the lower I look at our listeners every once in a
while. Producers and producers actually I don't look at the
listeners. I look at the producers because there was a
show up on the spreadsheet. Yeah. So the producers we have a
guy in Oman. We have a get we have guys every We have a lot of
Saudis. But I think even just to give Pete just to give, by the
way, they're all in software, it's like, let's just give some
people some ammo. So my, I'll give you my take away from this
election what it means and you give yours and I'm sure I'll
mess it up. You're much smarter than I am, you are, when it
comes to the
civics it buttering me up for
that, because I just want to get my analysis out before you go.
That's why that's the that's crap, it's come to this point in
our relationship where I have to butter you up just so you won't
interrupt. I'm stupid. I'll free up a bow, kind of like that.
What happened here? The way I see it is almost a replay of the
2016 election. Because you have to understand differences
between representatives in the House, which is based upon the
population, your state, I think California alone has 54 of them.
Versus every state gets two senators, which as you know, the
Democrats and a lot of people on the left hate because Trump won,
and the several presidents have won the Electoral College, which
is the only thing that counts according to our Constitutional
Republic, the way the system works. And if you look at the
amount of extra Senate seats, the states that they're in,
along with the governorships, it bodes very well for the 2020
election, because it looks like the majority of the country, not
by people, but by states really is bent towards the Republicans
or Trump or whatever combination. And so it was net
positive, I think, for the Republicans. And and actually, I
think the Democrats winning the house is net positive for the
Republicans, because they're morons, they can't do anything
when they have, they have all the power, they're just
bumbling, like the Keystone Cops. So who knows?
Now, now that you brought that you brought your little analysis
into play, I have to play this little 39 second clip. And you
if you could pick up the little subtlety here. This, I believe,
is a professor from Sonoma State. He's like a local news is
a local news report is called the local news local professor.
This guy is not we'll never hear him. He's got a little
interesting take on the whole thing. And he does, I think I
think his analysis would match up with yours. And I would agree
with both that your your take is nothing to complain about. I
don't know why you're so paranoid about it. But this is
kind of the same thing. Only he kind of does it on the he
doesn't awkward. There's something in here that you will
get a kick out
of people trying to do here. I would have to say that they were
trying to put a bit of a check on Trump. They were saying we
even though we know that these people are crazy. Well, we need
them to sort of check this guy so he doesn't go too far. So
that's going to block things. Now Trump can advance on
executive orders he can advance of the court, he obviously can
advance in foreign policy. The thing that worries me is the
sort of investigative fight because the Dems are very likely
their temptation is to go there. And if they go there, Trump has
a secret weapon, but the secret weapon is his own justice
department, which he has not controlled. That's the one
department of the executive branch that Trump has not
controlled since he took office. Well, he I think he can now his
big mistake was not to fire Comey and Rosenstein on day one,
but he can fire them now. And it's the perfect time to do it.
And I don't mean Rosenstein, but how it goes sessions goes Rosen
Stein. Trump retake takes, retakes, takes over for the
first time. There's Justice Department, and that of the
Democrats opening investigations. Trump has
tremendous amount of retaliatory firepower. Oh, yes, that
happened.
That happens. That literally happened. That was actually
Denise D'souza predicting the firing of Jeff Sessions.
Really, we well, he nailed it. He nailed it.
But the thing that's funny in there was which this is not the
clip I was hoping for, but the other clip was similar. This is
actually better. But he said he's just casually says, Well,
yeah, they put these Democrats in knowing they're crazy.
Because just to put a load, just check on Drive. Right, right.
All right. I have to agree that Democrats that they talk about
pretty much are crazy. AOC is the worst case example. But that
that Muslim woman they elected in Minnesota and she beat the
other one by 50 points. Wow. She is a Jew hater. They dug up some
old tweets by her from 2012 where she's just going off again
against it's just all about Hamas. I'm telling you.
Yeah, well, it could be but she is to even the Jews know that
the Muslims make better Hamas. Oh, there we go.
That's why if you go there you'll you'll be taken to a
place that's run by Muslims. You don't get a good note. Nobody's
making Hamas as good as these
covered The Israeli lobby.
So the point is, is that, yeah, there's a bunch of nutcases that
are now in and they're gonna be kind of probably yes, I think
Pelosi is my okay, you did your analysis.
Go, go go.
I agree with everything you say, except we have to take into
account what's really going on with these nutty Democrats that
they've elected. And I'm just gonna say it, and it sounds
partisan to somebody bitched about that, and this way it
goes, I think these people are lunatics. I think AOC is a
dummy. I think these other people aren't the brightest
bulbs in the pack, and they feted, they won't mention young
cam is another example of what was wrong with everything Pelosi
has to become and I think Trump knows this has to become the
speaker because she is if you listen to some talk, especially
around here, where she's from, she is one tough cookie behind
the scenes. She may be a bumbling fool in front of the
aisle. She even calls herself an expert negotiator.
She is a toughy and she will put these people in line because
these Democrats will go out get out of control so fast if they
don't have a taskmaster who will go up to him and she looks like
a psycho to begin with. And bug those psycho eyes at him and
tell him to sit down and shut up this guy here you're not telling
us what to do and she's gonna put them in their place and
they're gonna be fine. That's why I think already happened to
AOC Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and she did and you know what, I don't think AOC got a
mention from her either. It was the the Muslim ladies just
mentioned have lots of women but I don't even there was like, no
ALC was not mentioned but not even by been mentioned by
anybody in the last five weeks. Yeah,
yeah. Oh, man. Bring her back.
She's so much fun. I think she's done what's fun she's done in
terms of her profile.
All right, but I think I have a feeling Pelosi will try and get
some stuff done and she's gonna be very surprised that I think
that we will see some form of health care reform with pre
existing conditions that's all they have to have in it. No one
else gives a crap it could be ripping us off as long as that's
in it.
There but they were ripping us off let's face no kidding.
Okay, so that was that. Well, there's more to talk about.
Oh, yes. But for now, I'd like to thank you for your courage
and say in the morning to you the man who put the C and Prop C
John C. Devorah. Back
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at the sea and the beaten the ground and the phone rang in the
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say in the morning to LAX, LAX, LAX, who brought us the artwork
for episode 1083. Now, this is one that came in a show earlier.
We liked it so much and went to two shows earlier when in the
newsletter. And we just had to use it since we did we always
like to pick art about something that was discussed in the show.
And this was the subway spoof of cash Pogi the new cash hoagie,
which is just a brilliant piece of art, one of the one of the
better ones and we haven't heard from lax in a long time.
Now he shows up rarely, but this piece was like it was when it
came in. We had
we had something else that we knew we had something for maybe
for the elections and we knew we always before
that it was it was something that was it was I think it was
11th anniversary shores, it was something that we had, we
couldn't use it. I don't know is the exact reason but there was
something we had to use instead. And we just were kicking
ourselves because it would have been ideal, but it wasn't the
magic. And I think it was the 11th anniversary. And so we
couldn't use it. And I
said well, that's right. It was the 11th anniversary. That's
right. Yeah, it
wasn't gonna work. And so we said, well, we'll put it aside
and then that they were dead. We weren't talking about Khashoggi
enough to put it back up there. And so and I was bitching about
that after the show and it's because I kept wanting to use
it. So I put it in the newsletter, so I made sure at
least it gets used once. And then we had an opportunity to
use it again because the last show and I'll bring this up.
After we do the show we'd pick the art and do the titles and
all the rest of it. We Adam in particular was in a bad mood
foul when And he didn't like any of the art. What do you mean? I
was in? What? There was some art? I thought I wasn't in a
foul mood. Oh, yeah. And so the art, so the all the art was bad.
And I thought it was good, but he does fake news Devora fake
news. And so, so he said, and I missed the algo we have to go to
the Evergreen. So we go to the Evergreen page and look around
and then he just says we got to use the Khashoggi thing now and
I agreed, because that was that was it was okay, that's enough
praise lax do art once says
hold on a second. I'm trying to climb out from under the bus
here one moment. Okay, I'm better now.
And the thing that was so great about was using the no agenda
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was beautiful and the bones and the sandwich
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He's my former what you my former has been my former wives
but she's my former wife, okay. She's my ex wife or she's my
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You never say my ex job to say my former job. My former
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My ex job, whereas I actually love Wait a minute, if you did
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left. I didn't get fired. I left.
You just gave yourself away. In what way? Because when you say
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former. Yeah, that's
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I gotta go. That my first wife?
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Well tell me because they
end the show, hey, it's value for value. All right, everybody.
It's like what? You can't just say it's value for value, send
money. What was the value? You gotta remind me. We just had
Jhansi Dvorak on for an hour. You know, something like that.
It's you know, you've got to, you've got to remind people of
the value can't just say, remembered value for value, send
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In my way, you're you're telling them if I'm to understand this
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No, they exactly they and it's not I think it's they just
haven't thought it through yet. They think you need that as an
essential part of how it works. I mean, your view explained
quite in detail how the model works, but I don't think they
quite figured that part out. They
do. I would recommend that I didn't think of this because I
didn't listen to the end of the show because I was only there
for the interview. And they pieced it together after the
fact so I don't know what happened. The day maybe they
should listen to Jen Briony.
She thinks she did pretty good. I think
Brian, he does a good job of selling it. She she gets this he
starts whining about not getting enough money. Yeah,
that's it's all part of the human experience. All the
elements you need. But it's not like uptempo. Hey, you know,
it's just like it's serious. If you want I said this before, and
I think I mentioned on that interview, is that one of the
things that we did from the beginning, once we decided that
this is what we're going to do not take advertising was you had
to take it pretty seriously. Yeah, and when it's now and when
it's not working out, you haven't done this for a while,
but you can really get worked up about it. You have to seriously
say hey, we you didn't give us you know, this is not enough.
This is no good. And maybe there's nobody listening. If
that's the case, we'll go do something else. I mean, you
really can't just be you know, carefree. Let's put it that way.
And I think that they still have to get over the biggest hump,
which on Twitter will be called begging. Yeah, but in our world,
it's called selling it. Hey, here's selling you got to sell
the idea. This is our concept. This is what we're doing this is
why does PBS they know they don't do that. They say Wouldn't
you like to see more Yanni, though? I don't want to see
Johnny
no PBS, the original concept of PBS were quite well and it was
really sponsored by the list. and churches do the same thing.
Yeah.
But it's it's It feels strange if people have it's a hump yet.
Brian is over the hump. She understands it feels very weird.
The first year like rammed I'm saying, hey, it's really
valuable. Please send me money. It feels weird the first time
you do it, trust me after 11 years. If you understand how the
mechanism works, it's very satisfying. Because if people
think it's shit, then they won't give you money. The value for
value it works itself out automatically, but you do have
to explain it and I think you have to explain it a lot. So
that's just a little tip. I agree.
If that's the way they're ending, they have to fix that
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It's okay. But I mean, you missed the whole producer
network part. I mean, it just didn't come up in the
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I know. I know. It's not your fault.
But an origin story, right? Why did how they get into this? I
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Yes, you did. You did. Yeah. Because it was That's my talk.
But
again, like what again, instead of saying, I scammed Adam and he
gave me a job you like when I became vice president over there
if something like you scammed me, I said okay, I'm in and then
I made you buy I made you Vice President. Yeah,
yeah, that's how it started.
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A, you
definitely need to tell everyone about and propagate that
formula. Our formula
is this. We go out we hit people in
the mouth shut up. So I just like to stick with where we left
off before the break, kind of with the Iran sanctions. And
what is because they are in effect now for two days. And I
do have two clips. I think the first one is from RT the second
one is from Deutsche Avella. Yes, I had to go to different
different corners of the earth to go and find some information
because God forbid our US media talks about anything.
Russian officials recently announced that Moscow and
Beijing are working on creating a cross border payment system,
which will use their national currencies and bilateral trade
with the goal of reducing dependence on the US dollar. by
bypassing the dollar Russia and China avoid transfer fees and
reduce their exposure to potential swings in the value of
the US currency. Both sides also pointed out that growing us
hostilities toward their respective countries that made D
dollarization a task of utmost importance. Russia has also
completed the infrastructure necessary to build a replacement
for swift, the Belgium based financial messaging system used
to carry out dollar denominated transactions. This swift
alternative will allow for countries to more easily trade
with Tehran. Iran has been mercilessly targeted by US
sanctions, which have inhibited the country's ability to make
international payments. Russia's new Swift replacement called
SPFs will be integrated with similar systems in China and
Turkey.
Yeah, the SPFs. It's a competing system to Swift if you want to
know what it was SPFs we talked about it on Sunday. Yes.
Remember this the Sierra
Papa? Foxtrot Sierra
SPSS statistical package for the social sciences.
What? What I find interesting is I don't I think I think it's a
lie that Iran has been taken off the Swift payment messaging
network. Otherwise, how could these other exceptions the
President talked about it? We heard earlier, there are some
exceptions who are still allowed to, to buy oil. So they must
they must be doing that through the SWIFT system. I doubt that,
you know, whoever it was who what company was it, I think
France still had a few, they're allowed to buy a little bit of
oil from Iran. I doubt that they've been that, you know,
this is not going through the SWIFT network. So somewhere,
someone's full of crap. Also, the SWIFT network is laughable.
Because I really want to understand how it works. It's so
it's worth, it's just a secure messaging system. And so if I'm
transferring money to you, then let's just say you're in a
different country doesn't really matter, still use the same
system, then all that really goes to your bank is a message
saying Adam sent $100 to your bank. What happens on the back
end is more interesting. And this is why you have to be a
member of the SWIFT system. Everyone has an account with
everybody else. So what would actually take place is a few
days later, during some kind of settlement, even though you've
received that that money in your account, they actually transfer
money from their account at whatever your bank is into your
account at your bank. And if you were to send something to me, it
would actually be your bank has an account with my bank and they
put something from their bank account into my account at my
bank. It's a very, very antiquated system, especially if
you look at what you know, Bitcoin can do as an example,
which the Russians are talking about, you know, they talking
about Master Chang using that blockchain to replace swift and
he has Deutsche well as a report
and Iran says that it is working with Europe to set up a
mechanism to bypass those sanctions. Let's bring in
Brussels correspondent Teri Schultz. Terry, could this
actually happen?
The European Union maintains that it will happen just Friday
Federica Mogherini, EU foreign policy chief and the governments
of France, Germany and the UK said that their resolve to both
maintain the nuclear deal with Iran and to maintain economic
support for European companies doing business in Europe. Iran
is unwavering. So the European Union says it's setting up this
so called special purpose vehicle, which would allow
payments to go in and out of Iran and bypassing US sanctions.
That's how how it's envisioned. and the EU maintains that this
is going to happen, although it's not operational today. At
the same time, the US has yet another lever, and that is to
demand that Swift, that's the Belgium based financial
messaging service, which handles most of the world's interbank
messaging, the USS swift test to cut off all the sanctions
Iranian institutions. And so if that happens, it's hard to see
how Iran could get around the sanctions, regardless of how
creative they're being.
How about European companies themselves? Because we know that
the United States has threatened them if they don't adhere to
these sanctions. Are they likely to do so or not?
Yes, we have seen European companies pulling out of Iran.
And that's despite the EU itself, threatening sanctions on
companies that pull out in it because of the US sanctions. So
these companies are really in a tough spot, because both
Brussels and Washington are saying they must obey. But what
we have seen is is an exodus of European companies and some very
big German companies, among them, deciding that simply their
bottom line cannot support being in a confrontation with
Washington and that whatever losses they have to take by
cutting contracts in Iran and and possibly annoying Brussels
is going to be worth it.
So I don't think there's any D dollarization. Taking place. I
think that's gonna go.
Sorry, is so interesting. I just do not understand why the US
media doesn't even give it us anything. It's just it's the
young Kim
Yong Yong Yong Kim of stories. I know I find it fascinating,
important.
It's an important thing to know about. Well, particularly
now, I did talk to the former New York banker about this. He
said, You remember when I told you we won, and I think we
talked about on the show a couple of years ago, we won. He
says, the European banks have lost, they cannot function
without the US dollar. It's impossible. They can't do
anything without the US dollar. And he says they're really
really, really in trouble now. And, and, you know, Italy,
talking about a patriot bail in, where where the government is
now proposing, actually proposing and writing what what
20% of whatever you have in the bank, you know, it'll be it'll
get a bond for an IOU and we'll be patriotic do it for Italy.
And people are like, oh, yeah, good. Okay, Mario, is really
bizarre. I mean, they their money is about to get stolen
from them. As if they'd have an option to say no, no, don't take
my 20% It's like what happened in Greece? So yeah, so I don't
think that there's going to be a D dollarization. But certainly,
it's it's very it's risky to our our entire business model of the
United States, which changed in the 70s Well, after a change
much earlier taking us off the gold standard, but once once we
once we 12 That's not entirely true once we made the deal with
the Saudis, which is why this is so interesting with Khashoggi
and all this stuff that's circling around it once we made
the deal with the Saudis which is okay you sell as much oil as
you want you do every whatever you want has to be in dollars
will protect your ass that's always been the deal. It's very
simple. But now it's you know, stuffs a little shaky things are
different. And again, I don't see the dollar D dollarization
taking place any soon but it certainly would start with oil
purchases in a different in a different currency man the way
to get there start with some alternative messaging system
alternative to Swift I mean 40 luck before you know it
you know that war people are over there especially probably
at NSA are working on ways to crack any possible system these
guys come up with I'm actually surprised but it's not hasn't
been cracked well
this is an argument I think what we're actually seeing with some
interesting spikes I think they're using bit not blocked
the blockchain but Bitcoin I think is being used for some
transactions oil transactions as we speak it it makes nothing but
sense. You get your you're guaranteed proof that this is
this is central standard there understand.
I'm just saying you don't use you circumvent the whole you
need a bank account at my bank thing. All of that goes away.
Well, this is a story that needs to be discussed.
Now your beat
Yes. While I've been beating this for a while, your head
against you finally perked up. I'm so happy to have you here.
And the key.
Well, that reminds me I've read a couple of notes I need some
letters to be read. Okay, bitching about me this guy
bitched whiny
who's bitching about you? Oh, mess him up.
This is one of our one of our servers. I won't mention his
name is Matt. Sir Matt nogen is the most valuable content media
out there. I have always struggled with you and Adams
general rudeness. Though I imagine most of your audience
finds it humorous. And or entertaining.
Does he have an example of our said rudeness? Well, it's all
the time.
But please try and stop being so rude to Adam about his segment,
content, length, et cetera. Just because this material is boring,
are already known to you Biggie re wrote it is boring, which is
probably what the thing but he actually means boring to me, or
already known to so I give him credit for that are already
known to you doesn't mean it's familiar to us in the audience.
The bickering makes the show awful to listen to keep up the
good work. All right. You know, I don't quite get to keep up the
good work part, I got another one. Now, by the way, somebody
pointed out the psychology of the letters on this show and it
everywhere else. If you start reading letters like that,
you'll get more letters like that. Yeah, that's a very good
point. So I don't want to read a lot of letters like that. But I
do want to read this one, because this is a dimension B
person. And I'm actually irked by this letter. And I now read
some good letters, because I got actually really good letters. I
keep my subscription, this is a woman, I keep my subscription to
your newsletter so that I can monitor. I'm trying to do an
accurate voice. She's monitoring. I keep my
subscription to your newsletter so that I can monitor whether
the show ever goes back to being less partisan and less about
politics. There's a lot more going on in the world because
they after I'm reading this after you did your report on the
oil and the Iranian, yes, I know a lot more going on in the world
besides Trump and anti Trump. I used to be able to hear about it
by listening to the no agenda. Now it's only the BBC that talks
about more than Trump as a kind of a double entendre in there,
and how much he hates the Democrats. You guys have gone
over to the dark side with your Alex Jones conspiracies of Sandy
Hook, and what appears to be your blind devotion to dj t.
Yes, I remember when Jay C. D. Would chastise Adam, for
repeating stuff he read on Infowars website or prison
planet?
When was this? I don't know.
I don't know. When she was monitoring.
I don't remember you being a big fan of prison planet.
No, I really don't know what she's talking about.
I don't either. And I mean, I don't mind jumping down for
something. But I
know, John, there's clear clearly what's going on here is
orange MAN bad. That's what's going on.
You're out of mainstream perspective used to be unique
and well considered. Now the show sounds like a cross between
Fox News and Alex Jones.
Oh, my frogs gay.
I know, you don't care what I think. And then she goes on with
some issue she had with a spinal cord. And so she's never been a
producer. She's never been a producer. Okay, well, okay. She
doesn't get value. Well, yeah. Well, yeah, she doesn't. She
probably never did. I really did find you guys to be entertaining
and insightful for a very long time. I really miss you guys,
which is why I continue to subscribe to the newsletter, in
the hopes that this partisan outlook on life that you've
acquired, will come back to some kind of equilibrium with reality
at some point. I'll continue to monitor and hope.
I like the idea of monitoring.
Yeah, it's keeping an eye on us.
I think I have to do something as a public service. Because
there's a lot of confusion. I wouldn't mind clearing it up.
We're gonna go and, and it's something that only we can do.
And I could do this myself in five minutes, but I feel if I do
it with you, it'll take a little longer, but it'll be much more
entertaining and you'll be able to fill in some of the blanks
when it comes to the actual history of podcasting. Are you
interested in this one?
Well, first, let me preface it by saying that I believe that
this came up on a recent show by the guy who has been accused of
being an alien
Well, this is this is Joe Rogan show. And the reason I'm doing
this is twofold one because they didn't know. And of course, you
know, here's four guys who first they drink whiskey then they're
drinking Red Bull then a drinking beer then they're
smoking your blunt. I don't know if I could tell the story. It's
a four hour show. They did a very long show this particular
one, but they were trying to figure out some of the genesis
of podcasting and I'll just play a little bit of because it was
like five minutes. I'll just play a bit of it. Yeah,
who was the first ever
creator bass is the first that was Ricky Gervais. First of all,
it got into the mainstream. But
what about the guy from Adam curry?
The Godfather? Let's see the first Yeah, but But what he was
doing it for a while, for a long time, we
should probably establish who was first right like George
Washington was first president. We're all professional
comedians, most professional politicians would be able to
tell you who the first fucking president was.
I really liked that. He said this because now he elevated me
from podcaster to comedian. I did feel kind of good about
that. No idea.
We're like, Who's the first podcaster? We really don't know.
Right? Dude, I've heard this
radio. Radio. populace who is first between
you and Marin? Man, for sure. For sure. I don't know. I don't
know. Here's what I think. So. I think that Adam hurry was number
one. Who's
curry is that guy VJ from MTV? Yeah. And he is known as the pod
father, the guy that started podcasting. was a race, a
marriage that recognizable model.
I don't know where his relationship history but I think
he's the he's, he's George Washington. Adam, I think Yeah.
And that's enough of it. That to me, is a great comparison.
Because he said he was like, Who invented podcast things like who
invented America? I'll just put it on that scale.
Did America should be Thomas Jefferson.
Well, but these ones you see, George Washington was the first
president and he's recognized as the first guy. But there's a lot
of evolution that came before that, which I'd like to do that
for podcasts. And just so people understand for once and for all.
What suits your neck and understand for once and for all.
These other guys come on these podcasts and they don't know
what they're talking about. They're thrown out. Adam Carolla
and Ricky Gervais is the first guy I mean, where did that even
come from? I've heard other things. I mean, it's just gonna
get worse and worse. We didn't get nominated for an I Heart
award of any sort. They don't know who we are. They don't
care. We have a huge audience. We have a successful podcast has
been going on 11 years. There's newer networks.
Shan Shan, snubbed, snubbed? Well, I'm not saying look,
that's their show. And to be honest, I had to smoke a little
weed to really get into it. But then I was really into it. And I
watched quite a bit of it. But that's just a show. They don't
know. They don't know. But it's Rogan's correct it's it's a
disgrace that they're, they're one of the most successful
podcast and they don't know the origin. So he's right. It's
That's disgraceful. More disgraceful. was not even
knowing who you are.
But he does the podcast with there's another thing I was like
science tech guy, some guy named DeVore. Bob Doyle.
But no, Bob Doyle.
Doyle. The funny thing is Rogen and I have community and he
follows me on Twitter.
Bob Doyle,
I think this is a it was it was a what would you call it when
you get back at somebody for calling them a lizard or an
alien?
When we called wrote an alien, you became Bob Doyle.
Yeah. All right, and call him an alien. It was Alex Jones, who
call them an alien. Exactly. Exactly. Okay,
so I want to run through the history. And then you know,
we'll be talking about some technology stuff, but this will
be the ultimate we'll be done with it and we'll never have to
explain it again.
What a foot is like money on that? Well, I
might go. How about this, I won't explain it again. And
people can cut this out. And this will be from my experience.
Alright. We're taught 1999 2000 This how far back this really
goes. I was I just moved back from New Jersey to the
Netherlands and the Netherlands. Amsterdam particular, had cable
modems because the Netherlands is now 90% Of all houses, maybe
even more 98% of all scientists and households have cable. So
cable modems came along very quickly, and they weren't
blazingly fast. It was like maybe 128 kilobits or maybe 250
If you were lucky, but it was it was being sold as not as
broadband it was being sold as always on so you did not have to
dial in with your modem and getting up so there was
multimedia stuff on the web. But there was no experience. It
didn't matter what I mean, the mp3 was just coming along. We
had like the reo and stupid mp3 players that were really quite
antiquated compared to what you see today. So, you know,
broadcasting or streaming or anything like that was it just
wasn't possible there was no way you could do it. There were no
services at the time. I don't think real audio had actually
come out yet. At that point. Maybe it had 9090 though, just
as an aside, I did broadcast the mega music dance experience from
the yard bursts and atria, which was a huge dance party on the M
bone. If you remember that. Remember the M bone? Yeah.
You've walked away. You walked away from my story. I need you
for color. Come back.
Okay, okay. Okay. I remember the M bone. I remember a bunch of I
remember what was that crazy network dead guy did that one
character that had that was there was a bunch of crazy stuff
that was going on during this era
at the ATM. And the N bomb was amazing. And it only worked. It
could only really see it if you're at a university. But it
was multicast. And so it was the exact opposite of the problem
that we have, which is the more people who watch or listen, the
more bandwidth it It eats. And this was kind of like a chained
multicast thing. Anyway, I digress. At the same time
Napster came out
real audio was initial releases April 95.
So it was before that even. But you know, I remember encoding
took forever if you wish, there was no experience. So then
Napster happened. And I remember opening up my Napster client.
And what was so mind blowing about this, is you could see,
oh, this is some guy's computer. And you could you know, there
was if you were searching for a song, it might show up and you
could explore his, his computer. And you could start up these
downloads. And yeah, you might have 1012 downloads go and it
would take a long time because of no bandwidth. But it was
always on the phone line wasn't tied up. And I was like, Oh,
this is, what if, what if I made the experience by changing the
thinking. In other words, your computer's on the whole time,
there's something you want, you want it when it's new, let's say
a new song. That's how I was thinking at the time. And but
you, your computer had initiated a download, but didn't tell you
it was it was available until it actually had downloaded onto the
computer and would pop up a message and say, Hey, I got
something new. You click on it, it plays immediately. Great,
great experience. So really unattended, your computer should
be doing this in the background, and I wrote an essay about it
called the last yard, you could probably find it now at the same
time. So I had this in my head. I'm like broadcasting, how do I
broadcast? How do I use the How can I do this. And as I knew
that there had to be a way just like the news broadcast, you
have no idea how long it takes for people to put the news
together and make that hour long show. There's pre produced
packages. But when it's time, all of that just flows out to
you. So it's kind of the same idea of having everything happen
out of sight of the user. And at the time, Dave Winer had just
become pretty well known with RSS, and he was doing his
blogging software. And you can read a Weinert scripting.com.
And I went to New York, because I had I felt like I could
somehow work with him to use RSS. I wasn't quite sure really.
And I we met in a hotel room. I don't remember why he was there.
I know. I went specifically as for 911. I went specifically to
meet with him about it. And I explained it and he really
brushed me off. He was like, All right, you know, like, Hollywood
guy and TV guy Shut up hair. Hair. Yeah. You know, guys who
were bald, really don't talk to me, right off the bat, for good
reason. So hair. And then I came back the next day and I actually
had some of his software and I tried and I tried to program
what I meant in his software and you know, after another 45
minutes, I get it. i You are forbidden from ever using my
software again. That was horrible. Okay, I don't mind.
And so he came up with the enclosure element and RSS. And
for several years because he had his little radio user land was
his aggregator and blog publishing software. We were
just sending, like 100 megabyte video files back and forth and
it would show up in on my computer after it had
downloaded. And I clicked it and had a great experience. It was
exactly what I envisioned and there was nothing happened with
it until the iPod. I saw the iPod and I went holy crap. This
is not a jukebox. This is a radio receiver. We need to be
able to put radio shows on this iPod. And I started making with
an apple script. A little parser that would go look and was just
for one feed it we'll go look at an RSS feed. Is there a new
item? Yes, download it, download the mp3 file in this case, then
when it's downloaded in a time you had your IP, your i pod was
only you could only put stuff on it by syncing up to your
computer. So the apple script would then that trip, the
sinking of the iPod. And so this all happened. While you didn't
know it, because this was you know, it was polling on a
recurring basis. And the experience was you picked up
your iPod, there was a new radio show, I said, Holy shit, this is
it. And I immediately started the daily source code. The daily
source code was my idea was to bring serialized radio content
every single day. And I called the source code because we
needed receivers, we needed the reception side. So if you
remember the pod catchers, they might have been called. And all
of a sudden, guys started showing up who were doing
applications, again, just you know, podcast apps called iPod
or iPod, or lemon, iPod or X. There's a whole bunch of
different things that were happening, it was going very,
very quickly. Then I met Kevin marks, I want to include him
Kevin marks, who I think now works for Google, he worked for
Apple. And I was having some issue with the the we learned a
lot about how a podcast app works. I was having an issue.
And he actually sent back a much better functioning version of
this apple script. So he has an important part in the story,
because that really tripped off all of this development and me
doing the daily source code. And I called it source code, because
my only audience at that time was dudes named Ben, and was
dudes at the time, who were building this receiving podcast
software. So I
was talking same audiences today.
It's basically and some of the same people. And Bo, so at this
time, and I do want to say that Dave Winer, I think, with Chris
Lydon have done a couple of interviews, and they put that on
the RSS feed. So what was that a podcast, I don't know, was the M
bone podcast, it's irrelevant. The idea that I propagated was
you can make radio this way. And it's different. Because the
radio show comes to you. It's listening by appointment, the
idea of shownotes, which we still call shownotes. Completely
ideated from the from the daily source code. And I also started
the directory that was called the I Potter directory. And how
that worked isn't a whole nother story. But I had the definitive
direct directory directory of all podcasts by country by we
had it, you could break it out any way you want to use kind of
like a distributed database. And then some guy came into the mix.
His name is Danny Gregoire. And Danny Gregoire coined the term
podcast. Cuz we were calling it soliloquy. He's, you know, all
kinds of stupid things. But he he showed up in the comments on
where I like this podcast. And so to me, even though Yes, Ben
Hammersley had used that word years before before. There was
anything really, Danny Gregoire is the guy who used it in
context. So they have the directory, we have all of this
working. And then I get a call in around 2004, four or five.
Hi, it's Eddy Cue from Apple. Steve Jobs wants to meet with
you. Are you interested? Let me check my calendar. So I met him
at All Things D, which is outside of Quincy Jones, one of
the most interesting meetings I've ever had. And he was angry.
And to the point where not about me, he was angry about the fact
that Wi Fi or this is not how I wanted it to be. He was just
angry, and he was yelling, but then we had an hour at night.
And I thought actually, man, you shouldn't you get sick if you
are so mad like that. And we sat for an hour just chit chatting
about stuff and how you know, the RIA was all on his ass to
shut down recorders that can record songs internally on the
computer. And so they've been kind of saying they would and
they just weren't going to do it. And it was just it was like,
wow, it's very interesting. I said, Adam, I want to put
podcasting in iTunes. Is that okay? So yeah, that's fantastic.
And I'll give you my directory. Now, he already had it all
because he went right on stage couple hours later demoed
podcasting in iOS, or the in the MAC, which is a very funny
video, go look at that on the YouTube. So he already had that
already. He knew exactly what he was doing. And then came kind of
the disappointment. Because after you know, now, podcasting
launched, it's like, holy crap, we were in iTunes or on the
iPod. And what Apple did is went straight into putting NPR
bullshit everywhere. Of course, NPR was very instrumental, I
want to say WGBH In Boston was the first PBS NPR station to do
anything independently. They were doing podcasts. But Apple
became this directory that sounded just like everything
else on the radio, which was exactly the wrong thing. That's
the part that that Steve Jobs didn't get. Because when you
hear some of these different voices that is not as polished
or differently polished and the radio, it's exciting. I think a
lot of people went and like, Okay, that's great. I can listen
to NPR. Alright, great. Steve Jobs. Thank you very much. I
think a lot of people missed out on what was really happening.
And then there's a whole story about why podcasting fell off
the radar for 10 years, which has to do with the rise of
social media and YouTube, etc. But that to the best of my
recollection, is how podcasting came to be.
We should clip that whole
thing. Yeah, it's I think it's a separate little podcast. Yeah,
we'll
put on the Embo. Actually, what
we'll do is the history of podcasting, I'll do
five, I feel a giblet coming.
Ah, yes, that was a giblet.
We'll take a little bit, we'll take a transcript of what you
just said, yeah, we'll add some more stuff to it, make it into a
giblet. We'll also do it as clip that out and make a podcast as
standalone, a standalone podcast that says As its name, the
history of podcasting, it's a good idea. It's a very good
idea. And that will take once and for all. So if you go to
Google, and you go history of podcasting, this thing is going
to be on the first page somewhere. And then there's the
book.
Is it a full hunt book, or there's only 8 million books of
how podcasts,
there's going to be a giblet is going to be a small, short
little thing. It's not gonna be a long, boring book, going back
to 1927. It's going to be just about what you said pretty much
and how it kind of came about and how it got named, and how it
got where it got and why just not doing what you'd hoped it
had done. Except in a very few instances, it was draw very
successful.
Well, I mean, if we did a full on, I mean, we'd have to talk
about
co author, it will co authored Adam curry and Bob Doyle.
George Washington group and Bob Doyle.
Man, anyway,
so that kind of sets it straight, I think. But I'd love
to do that. But let that be a project. That's our exit
strategy right there another project?
They can Yes. Well, we got a couple of things here because
that woman moans about us. I have two clips. We're done with
the podcasting story.
Oh, yes. Yes.
We're almost we're almost, we're almost into our break. That's
how done we are the podcasting story.
Well, let's play a couple humorous clips. Yeah, let's do
that. Now. You heard the promises clip from Trump, I hope
the promises clip or you don't
know who did you may not have heard this. This is Trump and
his promises play it.
So all happenings are then anybody could believe even one
of them recently said that President Trump made promises
but he's kept to many more promises. I mean, far more than
I may think of.
That's right. That's because of his really big brain. It houses
more promises than he makes. The guy is amazing. Amazing. Just
amazing. I tell you,
only president I know that if fulfilled more promises that he
actually made. Do that.
That's our president.
It's our presidents our
president. Our President, ladies and gentlemen.
And then we have joy Bay harder. Stupid gerrymandering commented
right in the middle of some guy. Gerrymandering and Bihar,
won the
popular vote last night by 8 million votes. Right. They lose.
But they lose US Senate races in Red Air in red areas, because
gerrymandering is the Constitution can get you to
districts are gerrymandered, but the states are part of the
Constitution.
And I think
you got to explain this to people who don't know our
system.
There's a thing called gerrymandering, which is where
you take a state and you take all the electoral districts for
the for the various representative state senators
Assemblyman, and when you're in power, you move you move the
boundaries of these things, so it favors your guy. So you move
well, this is just we were right now we're in these three towns.
Let's put this fourth town in and take this one town out and
put them in a different disk.
Now this happens. How does redistricting take place that
based upon the census,
there's no well the census is a huge part of it, but it's done
on a state by state level All and it happens constantly using
under different excuses. And it's such a common thing it's
ridiculous to some areas where you have districts that aren't
even connected they're just Oh yeah, it's neighborhoods at all
vote Democrat. Where
does the term gerrymandering come from?
You're gonna have to make me look up the book and knowledge.
Well, knowledge as long
as as long as they make you do that, let's play the jingle was
it a guy named gerrymander?
D actually was a PR guy for years called Jerry Manders.
Gerrymandering is a practice that word is also verb for a
process. History history history difference from Madison origin
entomology, gerrymander originally written Jerry G. Ry
dash Mandor, was used for the first time in the Boston Gazette
in 1812. It was credited in reaction to the redrawing of
Massachusetts State Senate election districts under
Governor Eldridge Jerry, or Elbridge Elbridge. Gerry. So
it's named after a governor of Massachusetts and
was he a Democrat? Yep.
So anyway, mapping goes on right
so Joy so Joy Bay har says, well, they gerrymandered they
rigged the Senate race.
Yeah. Which of course is laughable? Because the senator
race is a state wide and you only get the state vote from
him. There's no it's not possible. I mean, it's like It's
so dumb. It's like ludicrous.
The guy is even kind of zips or just a little bit. Yeah, no,
okay. Yeah. No, not like that. It's in the Constitution. But
okay. You
should have said Yeah, joy, whatever. Dogs.
That's right, everybody dogs are able to, they are more people
than I care to admit. Man, there's so many dogs in this
building. Dogs No, I don't but I'd hate dog owners. I really
do. I mean, the dogs walk out the front door of the building.
The little dogs. They can't hold it. They squat immediately in
front of the door. So the only times have almost slipped and
fallen.
Curl. God You're kidding me?
No, it's that bad. Ah, it's not it's not it's not very pleasant.
It smells
poop. Find out who the owner is
and smeared on their door handle. Well, dogs are sometimes
even above humans. Matthew me
and is from Michigan but now lives in Florida and he says he
was disgusted. Not long after boarding a flight from Atlanta
to Miami.
And it was everywhere. It was on my seats. It was on the floor.
My feet were
in it man says he jumped up and asked the flight crew for help.
This is all I was given to paper towels and a bottle one of those
little bottles of Bombay Sapphire I was in the bathroom
cleaning DCS off of the back of my legs
and me and says he was done when he got off the plane to speak to
a manager.
She said well, that's not my problem. I said sorry. She says
well if the cleaning crew didn't clean your seat, I don't have
any control over that
the faces were from someone service dog that became ill on
the plane earlier me and says because some passengers refused
to sit down until it was cleaned up. Someone simply use some
paper towels and passengers then lay down blankets. But they
still had to endure the smell
filled the entire plastic bag paper towels full of feces and
they
wanted me to sit in a spokesperson for Delta
apologized to some of the customers on the flight and
offered a refund and additional compensation, adding that delta
will conduct a full investigation to prevent this
from happening again.
Oh yes, we need Professor Dookie on the scene
that's we need. We need the proof police. I forgot all about
that. Damn, I should have had that cued up anyway, to police.
It's just that's pretty egregious. Poop Blaze.
Now I'm not going to play. It's too late. It's lost its Mojo.
Mojo lost the Mojo.
When you were talking about the history of podcasting, just as
in the site is worrying. Dave whiners post in 2000 He says to
multiply the number of bits per second times the number of
seconds you're not using your link and get a lot of bits down
the pipe and that both Adam and I believe is the secret to
turning the Internet into a super satisfying broadband
experience a little software so some new protocols maybe not
very new. And we're there Adam has written more about this idea
on his website. Adam curry dot edit this paper.com broadband
dead link. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the internet by the way,
that shell if anyone can find this article called The Last
yard or I think it's, I think it's called the last yard sent
me a link because yeah, it's been fun. very hard to find this
link a lot of a lot of dead links to it. That's the
internet, everything saved in perpetuity, except the shit you
actually want to keep is never dead link. Alright, give us one
more. John, give us another fun clip here.
Well, I do have I don't want to go right back into the
initiative. But here's the thing. Here's the thing on the
state initiatives, which I do want to discuss a little bit
initiatives in the states talked about on CBS. Okay,
a number of key ballot initiatives were decided last
night, Michigan became the first Midwestern state to legalize
recreational marijuana, Missouri and Utah, legalized medical
marijuana. Three Republican states, Utah, Nebraska and Idaho
voted to expand Medicaid, which could cover an additional
325,000 low income Americans and Florida restored voting rights
to nearly one and a half million former felons, and they were not
convicted of sex crimes or murder.
right that there was actually I'm actually for that. Yeah, I
think if you if you've paid paid your dues, yeah. And I think you
should then also be if you're going to let people vote, and
then you should also let them have a firearm.
Now, a couple of things. We did have these initiatives here we
have proposition C, which is being sued over it's where Marc
Benioff decided as
this is the this is the raise money, the rich people of San
Francisco, we're going to save the homeless.
Yeah, of course. I actually had to save Scott Adams had the best
commentary about this when he said, It's not money. It's ideas
that are the shortage problem. Yes, I agree. Because they they
throw money they've thrown already throw $300 million at
the homeless problem in San Francisco, it's done nothing.
Now they're gonna double it. Thanks to mark and they're gonna
do jack up all these guys. It's
just rich people virtue signaling amongst themselves,
getting nothing accom nothing accomplished wasting money, it
will, it'll all go to people who consider these, the homeless as
their clients. It never works. It's like Austin,
they need while the two propositions I liked repeal the
gas tax repeal, the gas tax was mis sold to the public by
putting a lot of money behind it, because everybody knew all
the contractors knew there was it was a it was just going to be
free money. And a guy we got to steal more money from the public
in California. So proposition six was, was voted down even
though it was misleading the way it was presented in the sample
ballot, and they had to change it. But somebody got sued over
that and had to change it, but nobody got to change. The other
one was proposition 10, which I thought was this to me remember,
this was rent control. This reminded me of the California is
not voting marijuana in before Colorado did like two years
earlier, and they just voted no for legalizing marijuana. And
why would they California's do this because they're stupid. And
in fact is rent control thing was really wasn't changing rent
control, it was taking it out of the hands of the state, and
giving it to the locals who could put rent control in
certain cities where it might actually be needed. And it might
actually be useful. But because the huge real estate investment
trusts and all the big, giant real estate companies that it
would expect to over build in California, these tall buildings
and apartments and everything else. No, it's a detriment to
have rent control local, because then it could be you know, in
San Francisco, for example, it could put rent control any you
won't make all this killer money from building these high rises.
You just won't make any money because there is going to be
this fear that they're going to freeze rents and that the
property is not going to be as valuable as a resale item. And
they threw a ton of money at this, including some woman.
So it didn't pass. I take it. Yes, it
got voted out too. Yeah, but this is because the Californians
are
dumb, stupid.
You think they're dumb and I just raised born and raised here
and what are you doing? They're
too stupid to leave apparently.
No, I mean, I love you all but Oh, see Dan follow someone Found
it. Found what found your essay my last yard essay? Yes.
Yeah, well, Google put it on a cookie that would create.com You
better believe
I will. Ah, that's cool. Dan thank you very much. Yeah, just
a stupid here in Austin. Of course it's really Californians
here as we know by the way my guy the build the dorm around
Austin give the cop flame throwers did get almost 3000
votes.
I'm surprised you got that many in that area. At least you got
3000 People you know for a fact to have a sense of humor.
Exactly. Someone's laughing out there. Yes. All right. Different
election and then we'll go to our second break. This is a very
important election as a single as a single candidate, or a
single winner, just one category. And it happens in the
EU it is the EU war of the year, which is a little early, I
think. But are you familiar with the EU word of the year?
imprisonment, Britain's Collins dictionary has chosen single use
as its 2018 Word of the Year. I love that. Two words hyphenated.
His word of the year
marks a rising awareness of the pollution problem in the world's
oceans. The EU is planning to ban some throwaway plastics like
straws and cutlery. The ban could come into effect by 2021.
You know, we still haven't
comment on this. Yes. You know, when I was first went to the
Soviet I went to the Soviet Union, and not Russia Soviet
Yes, around the same time I did.
So I took Aeroflot. Yes, and arrow and two people warned me
about Aeroflot and one of the things they told me is that the
first thing you're going to notice besides the defense the
holes in the floor
No, no, the first it was in a plane was too big for that was
that besides the fact that the stewardesses are all dolled up,
eschewed extreme, which was like kind of eye popping? Is that all
of the plastic cups that they poured because they pour from
big bottles into plastic cups for whatever you wanted to juice
water, orange juice, apple juice, that they recycle them
they they washed washed in plastic cups? Sure. And so every
plastic cup looks like it's been washed about 100 times as all
beat up. This stuff is not necessarily single use if you
don't want it to be very good point
John C. Dvorak once again, but this but something else is going
on John this it's some it's part of agenda 2030 Whatever it is,
it started with the damn turtle with the with their favorite
with whether you have the toothbrush in his in his nose.
Straw straw. Yeah, the straw the straw up his nose. You know, now
they're showing baby turtles floating and classic turtle. But
there's something up with this and that they want to get rid of
plastic cutlery. I mean, this is banned plastics, I guess. I
mean, I don't know someone must have an alternative that is
doing well for them with the removal of all the luxury
luxuries of modern life. But we haven't figured it out yet to I
don't know what it is yet.
It's got to be probably right in front of us. And then because of
all the
things of all the words used during the year in the European
Union, single use sincerely. That was not the the word of the
first was two words hyphenated it's it's a PR campaign Don's
using Oh, hello. Hello, neighbor. Hello Amsterdam
neighbor. Single use. Yep, I got my single use.
Come on. They're promoting something.
Hi, you're asking the wrong guy.
I'm not asking. I'm just wondering if you need what is
the alternative to plastic. There's gotta be some
alternative to plastic. Bags, Bags. It's bags and it's it's
cutlery? I don't know.
Will the plastic there's too much plastic. I'm not going to
argue that. I'm not going to take the other side saying it's
bad that we're kind of trying to cut back on it. But the worst
thing is these little plastic drinking balls with water in
them. I mean, those things are Yeah, no,
those are bad. Yeah. Before we know what the single use condoms
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Okay, that's very good. Let's go to another topic here on NPR.
So we do have a letter from this is a good one from Vinny
iTMi here in Episode 1083. The democracy now record about
56 56,000 immigrants missing or killed worldwide over the last
four years and an increase in migration of 50% since the turn
of the century. I live in Cambodia, recently relocated
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Well, then let me share a note that was forwarded to me by one
of our producers who shall remain anonymous, in this case,
from Humboldt University. Where's this Humboldt University
in Humboldt, I believe is in Humboldt County, Mendocino
County area is that is that is that a big deal? Northern
California is
an important school good school was,
I've heard of it, it's for for a State College is one of the
better ones.
Well, the faculty received an email. Dear colleagues, all
faculty are encouraged to participate in the upcoming two
parts whiteness and microaggressions training on
Thursday, November 15. I just have to read this, the whiteness
and microaggressions training, the dates were selected with
input for that more faculty would be available during these
times. This four hour workshop divided into two two hour
segments, as exciting will offer an introduction to the concept
of whiteness, the significance,
stay with ace, wonder what it was
all about. Stay with me. I gotta, I gotta read it again.
This four hour workshop divided I'm going to do like an
industrial and industrial voiceover for industrial video.
This four hour workshop divided into two two hour segments will
offer an introduction to the concept of whiteness, the
significance of whiteness in our everyday lives, and how
whiteness shapes our interactions. The training
examines how whiteness affects various systems of advantage,
and what that looks like in our community. Additionally, it will
explore how microaggressions are a manifestation of whiteness.
The training will address what microaggressions are, how can we
can identify them, and how they impact our daily interactions
with one another. Finally, the training will examine strategies
to confront and avoid committing microaggressions we welcome you
to participate and join the more than 300 HS U campus and
community members that have already participated in these
whiteness sessions. Your participation will broaden the
circle of shared language and understandings to facilitate
change for equity in classrooms, on campus and in the community.
Well, you know, first of all, you think it was a hoax.
No, it's It's not I haven't the original email forwarded. It's
not a hoax. Sent by Julie Tucker, Julie
tucker@humboldt.edu.
I would love to take this course rubbish. It's a hoot. I mean,
did you know that micro aggressions are a manifestation
of whiteness?
I didn't know that. But I if I took this course I think I would
understand it better.
Well, you know, it's on November 15.
I'm not going fan and don't give me any details.
Come on, man.
You know how far that is from here. It's like it's like a real
high you don't you
don't care about you don't care about the show. But it's all
right. Let's just hurting this show. Let's just Let's just
stick with with whiteness. Let's go to NPR for a moment and talk
about the white the right wing hate groups.
There's plenty of them. Yes. NPR
has figured out where they're coming from
Joan Donovan is with data and society, a research institute.
For years, she has been tracking white supremacist from platform
to platform online. They're really trying
to figure out how we're jumping from platform to platform. It's
like Frogger I'm trying to find Oh, you jumped out
from the platform online.
They were really trying to figure out what young men were
angry about and how they could leverage that to bring about
broad based social movement.
This is the hate groups they're trying to figure out where would
you recruit young hate men John where would you go if you want
to recruit the hate the hate
Texas
now we we already got rid of gab although they're back button
Yeah, so we gab is white racist nationalist horrible people.
Where could it more can be
first person shooter games chatters and video platforms she
says. Good places to find angry young men. Video games are $100
billion. I love that. These are great places to find Angry
Young. Men seriously AI
video platform, she says are good places to find angry young
men. Video games are $100 billion industry. So what are
companies responsibilities to ensure that teens won't
encounter hate groups? Greg Boyd is a lawyer who represents the
game industry for the firm Frankford Carnot. He says
companies take the problem seriously, and remove or banned
people when they're flagged by other players. The scale of the
issue is daunting. You're talking
about Microsoft, PlayStation and steam, you're talking about 48
million 70 million and 130 million monthly active players
or players that are playing, you know, probably on a weekly
basis. I mean, that's the populations of Spain, France and
Russia.
Imagine he says moderating all that chat, text and voice moment
by moment
in literally every language dialect and sub dialects spoken
in the world.
While the industry struggles to contain the threat. Experts say
it's up to parents to keep an ear out. And to step in, if they
notice something that concerns them. John tried and lately he
says his son now 16 seems to have left these ideas behind.
He's playing fewer online shooter games, and on his own,
he started attending church. Oh, he saved
he saved.
Well, this brings up an interesting point. Rockstar
Games is probably the most aggressive Game Maker naked,
probably recruited a lot of people. But there's this video,
there's a lot of these guys, the good, the better players will
post some of the action that they achieve on YouTube. And
some of this has been taken down especially this one player whose
name eludes me and I'm sorry for that. But he's got segments of
Red Dead Redemption two, which is as Yes, it's like with like,
Grand Theft Auto, which they always they also always bring
that one in. Yeah, it's Grand Theft Auto on steroids in the
West. And so there's so I got to I didn't get to see the one that
they took down. But this guy apparently plays a character
goes around punching women. So he's got
that's only white guys do that. By the way. That's all the white
football ever punched a woman right
now? No, not not football players. No.
So the he has one clip that's still up there. And it is there
is something funny about it in some sick way. I have to say
being a white guy does a bunch of aggressions. So the guy's
running around. It is so realistic, it's astonishing, but
he's running around town. And there's some woman suffragette
kind of a fat chick, standing there lecturing everybody about
the right to vote. So the player stops in front of her. And she's
going on and on about the right to vote, and he's has a couple
of snide remarks. And she calls him out for being a jerk. And he
just sucker punches her and knocks on her ass. Bam. And then
he goes running off again back into just through the town. And
this will be taken down for
sure. And this is what game now. Red Dead.
Redemption
two nice.
No, I would recommend this game looks like it's hilarious. It
sounds
really funny. Can you get the black version so you had like,
hidden hidden white people.
I was looking at one review of it. This game. It's kind of like
broken sales records. Apparently this thing is huge
is so deep. It has layers and layers and layers of different
things. You you could probably be on this game for a year, and
not even explore half of it
now. And so basically you run around walloping social justice
warriors, is that the idea
that you actually know that well? No, the idea is us is
pretty much like Grand Theft Auto you're giving certain jobs
and you have to go accomplish something and you get a key
I was like something I'd be bored with very quickly. Well,
it's tedious it seems to me I'm not a big fan of these. I mean,
I like to play little bits of them because you're gonna you
know, punch people or whatever.
aggression and micro aggression is in your whiteness your white
and but if you really liked these complex games that have a
lot of detail, man this thing looks I guess just a killer.
No I'll give it a shot. Yeah, I'm a little surprised this it
doesn't happen often and I had a jingle for it which is why I'm
bummed you have no ISO for me.
Now what Oh? Why? What for Red Dead?
No just any you have no ISO for the end of the show. You have no
ISO
Well, I will next show i You're right. You don't have when I was
thinking about I didn't get any. I do have a couple of things. We
do have to talk about Jeff Sessions getting fired. Well,
before we
talk about that I need to just give my fine A review of the
four part series from Al Jazeera which was quashed, and
subsequently I think aired by RT to at least put on the Internet
called the Israeli lobby because I watched the whole I've watched
all it's almost four hours
the whole thing is about the Israelis
versus the BDS. So that's the boycott diversify and no
boycott. Divest and what's the s four
Come on? I don't remember
it's it's the it's basically the the Israelis versus the
Palestine and it's being played out. Boycott divest. I don't
remember the last one. It's being played out sanction,
sanction. Thank you is being played out in our schools. So
the Israelis through embassies and they have they have actual
recruitment centers in Israeli on on campus, the community
center, and you've got the so the social justice for
Palestine, the SJ peers? This has to stop all of it. It's not
interesting. It's a very stupid documentary, because it pretends
that ha This is it may I'm sure there's an Israeli lobby. What
is in this documentary is just dumb. Because the kids in
college camp on college campuses are being indoctrinated by all
sorts of groups all the time. But these two the Israel and the
and the Palestine the BDS I'm so tired get off all campuses. Both
of you get off.
Well, I will Yes. When the University of California was
going on they were arguing with each other. Always gathering a
crowd is never ending.
It's old commerce.
The Muslims make the best homicide Oh man. Well, okay,
let's get this Jeff Sessions thing out of the way I have.
First I have a weird CBS News opening about session we might
want to play 26 seconds. Okay, by the way, the ISO the good ISO
would be Trump and his promises.
It's too long. Is 12 seconds too long, pretty
thing. I'm Jeff Glor, we are going to be here tonight with a
major shake up in Washington. We are not talking about the
election yet. We will talk soon about what happened in the house
with Democrats taking control. The President said today he
would like to work with them, even though they do have
newfound power to investigate him. But we are going to start
here tonight with the afternoon dismissal of the Attorney
General Jeff Sessions and his replacement by a critic of the
Muller investigation.
I've never heard a news opening that has a bunch of excuses for
not running the story of the day, which is the the elections
Yes. He starts off apologizing immediately, who is just short
of saying we've been again, manipulated by Trump into not
even doing a regular news right now we get to talk about this
sessions thing. And we apologize. It's I've never heard
anything like this in my life. I'm here to get
anything. I'm Jeff Glor, we are going to begin here tonight with
a major shake up in Washington. We are not talking about the
election yet. We will talk soon about what happened in the house
with Democrats taking control. The President said today he
would like to work with them, even though they do have
newfound power to investigate him. But we are going to start
here tonight with the afternoon dismissal of the attorney. Yeah,
they did kind of just throw that into highlights. Yeah, you're
right. You're right. I don't think I've especially with the
elections. But you realize that today at five o'clock is the big
protect Mueller demonstration in 9000 cities across America.
Gee, that's not
organized. But I also said there was one thing I think you should
know that I want to tell you about this tonight.
This is here's your organizer.
And one thing I want to tell you is that there are groups all
across the country who have been preparing for months now. For
the inevitable day when President Trump would take
action to end the Muller investigation. Those groups
decided by
what he hasn't done anything and
that this is it. That this is the break glass in case of
emergency moment for which they have been preparing and
organizing for months. Oh my god. So they have said it's a go
tomorrow at 5pm local time all over the country. There are
already over 900 protests planned to hashtag protect
Mueller. You have been writing for months about these
organizing efforts about what people should do in case of
emergency to save molars team to save its work to prepare to
preserve this investigation. The groups who have been working on
On this decided today that what happened today with the firing
of Jeff Sessions in the installation of this new guy to
oversee the Mueller investigation. The groups who
have been working on this for months today decided that today
is that emergency so we expect protests all over the country
tomorrow 5pm local time I just looked online before I got on
the set there are more than 900 of them planned already
bad Orange Man bad
there you go. That should be fun
protect molars that tonight or tomorrow today that's today
that's today all over the world
from from Tel Aviv to Paris Texas. Yes, protect Mueller.
Let's see how see how how organized it really is.
You don't do things like this during the middle of the we
don't
do and you don't do it after the election. Well I guess that this
is the last in case of emergency.
Okay, so we have to do I got the rundown. I got three different
rundowns on sessions, but I got the best one is the shortest. In
fact, this was not that short, but it's shorter than all the
rest of them because they all had to do an homage to this guy.
But but but as it did more enjoyable because as Jeff
everybody real journalists working in broadcast,
that's right, I got I got into heat. I'm a real journalist and
I got a pinch run out.
Justice Department employee saluted Attorney General Jeff
Sessions as he departed the building hours after resign.
Earlier he delivered a letter to the White House, which started
bluntly Dear Mr. President, at your request, I am submitting my
resignation. CBS News has learned White House Chief of
Staff John Kelly called sessions this morning to inform him of
the President's decision. But at a midday press conference,
President Trump did not tip his hand when asked about sessions
by CBS News Major Garrett, it's possible.
And can you give us clarity, sir, on your thinking currently
now after the midterms about your attorney general and your
deputy attorney general? Do they have long term job security
either
answer that at a little bit different times. We're looking
at a lot of different things.
Shortly after the press conference, Mr. Trump tweeted
the news and said of sessions we wish him well. It was a dramatic
if not surprising end for one of the President's earliest
campaign supporters. But less than a month after being
confirmed as Attorney General Sessions angered the president
by recusing himself from overseeing the Russia
investigation. career prosecutors at the Justice
Department had advised him to do so because of his contacts with
Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak during the 2016
campaign, the President has railed against the move ever
since frequently disparaging sessions on Twitter as very
weak.
railed is now a word that they use over there railed
well to read it, they can't use lashed out which is being
overused by Democracy Now and a few other end the New York Times
so they have to come up with something derailed
railed against the move. Ever since frequently disparaging
sessions on Twitter as very weak.
Jeff Sessions never took control of the Justice Department and
it's a sort of an incredible thing. I'm disappointed in the
attorney general for many reasons.
After sessions recusal Deputy Attorney General rod Rosenstein
took over the Russia probe as Special Counsel Robert Muller
indicted 35 people in companies, including some of the
President's top campaign officials, but now Rosenstein
will likely also be sidelined and newly appointed acting
Attorney General Matthew Whitaker will oversee the
investigation. Whittaker sessions Chief of Staff and a
former US Attorney from Iowa has been critical of the Russia
probe in the past and has written that it could become a
political fishing expedition. In this interview, he spoke about
the President's criticism of sessions.
It's clear that presidents tried to put enough pressure on Jeff
Sessions so that Jeff does what the President I believe would
think would just be honorable.
Even though Whitaker's thinking appears to be in line with the
President's thinking as far as the Russia investigation is
concerned, Mr. Trump tweeted today that he will be nominating
someone else at a later date. One potential candidate Lindsey
Graham appeared to suggest today that not be interested in the
job saying that he will stay in the Senate.
Man wouldn't that be great if Lindsey
Graham, Lindsey Graham would be funny. Seen this guy Whitaker
Yeah, he looks like a beast. He's about six six. Bald and a
ended picture on Twitter. Somebody pointed this out. His
picture on the to his Twitter page is him looks like he's
bench pressing about 650 pounds. Giant weights I mean, this guy.
He is like I don't know why. where they found him, but he has
some tough customer looking guy. Anyway,
so Well, okay, what's the play? what's your takeaway?
I think it's just just nothing. This is not the play. This has
just been it's gonna it's gonna draw these people out of the
woodwork. I think this, I don't think I think they may just call
the I think the
I think I think I think don't tell me what you're really
trying to say.
Perhaps you're gonna maybe cut the budget on the on the pro
because it's wasting a lot of money. And I don't see that as
getting anywhere. I mean, how long does it take to prove this?
Well, Trump has been very clear. And he said this multiple times.
He said I could fire everybody. But I want to because
politically it's the wrong thing to do. He's letting it play out.
Yeah. So he's pretty sure of himself.
Yeah, well, I think you see a lot of it's going to depend on
the tax thing. I do have a Jeff Glor clip because I want to
comment on him a little bit. He's the CBS anchor to go over
from Anthony Mason. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay. Thanks, Igor. It
looks like a 12 year old as a kid.
It's the last one you get John Moran law.
Really? Because we had
Yeah, yeah, we're long. Okay.
This the last one. The only reason I clipped is because I
heard him he uses a Double Mic lab. And when you see him, he's
just listened to his voice. And you see him in a group when he's
talking. He's got the big voice, okay. He's like a little guy,
the big voice. He's got a beautiful voice. But I caught
him trying to talk about something and I think it was
kind of off the record or off the cuff. I mean, yeah. And, and
he does say, um, a lot
more than he should.
Chops anyway, you're gonna hear it? Yeah.
It's, it started off with a good arm right there. I liked it.
So the product out reached out last night also reached out
today than we saw when Nancy Pelosi had to say is there any
chance something gets done here in the next couple of years? I'm
highly skeptical. I think the President doesn't fully
appreciate how intrusive these investigations are going to be.
There's a number of committees that have oversight, the
subpoena powers, they have to subpoena documents to subpoena
any official administration they want, they're gonna start going
into the bowels of a range of different agencies. And when he
says there'll be a little investigating, we'll do some
they'll do some, this is highly intrusive, the base of the
Democratic Party wants this. And I think he has like one speed,
which is war footing. If you're at war with me, I'm at war with
you. And he's not gonna be interested in cooperating with
him on anything else. Go ahead.
I think that Dan is absolutely right. You always have to assume
that Congress won't get something done. But Democrats
are arguing they can walk and chew gum, they say Republicans
had no trouble investigating the Obama administration, and still
trying to work with President Obama to let's say, cut
government spending. And they say that they can do the same
thing and that these presidential threats are empty
threats. They say he needs to show a record of accomplishment
two years from now, so he's going to be compelled to work
with them
if he's doing it in a more advantageous position, at least
with the increased pickup in the Senate now, though. Yeah, he's
got a broader conference. He's got more Republicans in this
conference, and the Republicans that replaced sitting
Republicans are more Trumpy, right? Marsha Blackburn is
stronger Trump sympathizer than Bob Corker. So he's got it he's
got a stronger conference meaning he has to worry less
about Susan Collins potentially Lisa Murkowski on issues like
cabinet whatever else it is that he is going to have a
potentially a fight combative confirmation process for new
attorney general and he now has more of a cushion with more
Republicans and more Republicans that are sympathetic to
that helps him with all judicial nominations.
Okay, Nancy caught
my eyes glazed over stop the pain what were they What were
they talking about?
I think they were telling us that we've got a great show
coming up because of all that conflict that's gonna go on the
crazy investigations Maxine Waters and all these other guys
this is going to be the greatest era of the no agenda show is
what they were discussing. I think you are spot on without
mentioning the show.
But you know that we're thinking it oh my god this is gonna be
great for the no agenda show. Oh my goodness. Well, everybody
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Until then adios mofos. To start to stutter, this group of folks
Eric Holder I know they all look alike. I was I was I was
paid by Mark Zuckerberg
Ram Ram for every opportunity to try to grandstand. Now I didn't
call you responding to the mayor of some of those who are making
a pretty negative statements
or or like President Obama trying to do a little bit of
Tropius. This group is this group of folks. This group of
folks would it be nice?
Should we keep this going for a little while? Yes. There's a lot
to do. There was no anything I didn't. It's a problem that I
don't like even. Okay, please go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go
ahead. Okay, please go ahead. No, go ahead. Please. Go
ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead, please. Go ahead. Go
ahead. Go ahead.
Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. When you get bored, would
you please tell me tell me.
Go ahead, ma'am. Go ahead, Mr. President out for breakfast so
you'll understand. Okay. Please go ahead. No, go ahead. Please.
Go ahead.
Something that you could stop all this by declassifying
I could fire everybody right now. I didn't call you. I didn't
call you. I didn't call you. I don't want to overstay. But
please, please go ahead. I'm extraordinarily happy. And if I
wasn't I'd let you know there's nothing wrong. I only had me I
didn't have anybody else over here that long time ago.
collusion. I don't know who little Johnny. Like come in here
as a nice person.
I feel very fine. I am extraordinarily
happy I really am. And by the way, I tell you if I
wasn't enough, that's President basketball but other folks
that's enough. Pardon me ma'am on
this was me. That's enough turkey.
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