delta delta delta, Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
Sunday, January 12 2020. This is your award winning keep our
nation media assassination episode 12 107
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Capitol, the drone Star State in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam
curry and from Northern Silicon Valley.
I'm John Cena and buzzkill
okay, you're in the mood today. I can already tell what I didn't
get a proper hate it I got it. And then what kind of opening
was that? I mean, this
was my opening. It was spectacular, kid. Okay. Well,
there are some ideas for the opening. I could come up with
nothing. Sorry.
problem in media land. Oh, yeah. Big problem. Rarely Yeah. We're
no longer seeing impeachment news. As the most important item
discussed
gone off the radar.
Well, I've been by bit D will be after the debates which are on
Tuesday. Yeah, they will do a pivot.
I'm not so sure man. We've got us a story that is so big it's
it's too hard to resist CNN has already switched. It's now in
hot rotation.
All right, tell me what it but tell me about I'm not sure what
you're talking about. But I'm sure I'll I will know in a
minute.
My exit Oh,
no. Yes.
All day yesterday wall the wall. That Harry and Megan. Okay.
What's your wall Walter wall
gate now that you brought this up by by now worked and myself
are not grabbing this clip of Michael Bloomberg going on and
on about the robot to thing Oh, he's being interviewed in a
train. And they asked him this. They asked her that. And the
only thing he was excited about or seemed to want to talk about
was this. The fact that Harry and Megan are trying to extract
themselves although a lot of people just think Megan has
gaslighted Harry.
Well, there's a lot going on here. First of all the obsession
with the royal family in the United Kingdom for one and as
you know a lot of the press here in the United States. Just copy
and paste the Daily Mail anyway. I'm looking at you Silicon
Valley shit rags is like oh, this is a good story clickbait.
Yay. I'll write it a little differently. No problem. America
is obsessed. We're obsessed with royalty. And we're we're just
all jittery about it. And one after another of these royalty
experts on CNN yesterday, just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
They love the love, love love. Megan and Harry. And it's
obvious they got the Diana deal. I'm sorry. Oh, the Diana deal.
Yeah,
what's the Diana deals? You're
gonna die. That's the Diana deal. You have
bank is gonna get killed by the Eidelman No, I do. Or you think
she's gonna get killed by the Kingsman? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
I think it's all over. Listen. She She came in and this is not
a real royal he's the he's the son of the was the didn't the
Navy captain or whoever Diana had that
forever redhead?
Whoever the redhead was. It's kind of a giveaway.
Redhead is a problem. Yeah. So
the Queen brought it all right. You know what it's okay,
bringing Megan and then oh, she's she's Brown. I'm shipping
you off to Africa, which is I'm telling you, racist. They are
over there. So yeah, you go do a tour of Africa. That'd be good.
Because, you know, you'll you'll help reconnect the bonds with
the British Empire and with the royal family because, you know,
it's, you know, you're kind of brown. So, you know, but then
Harry, I think caught on to what was really going on. And this is
precisely how it went down with Diana, and she tried to extract
herself. She went on the world stage. She did a lot of good,
and she wound up dead. And there's this interview that I
found with Prince Harry. I'm fairly sure it's the real deal.
It could be a deep fake, but it was a video so I watched as
close as I could. It sounds like him. I think it's him. And what
he's saying isn't all that extraordinary unless you think
About the Diana deal,
my mum clearly told me a certain set of values, of which I will
always try and uphold despite the role in the job, that's
sometimes that entails if you don't, I mean, but I think I
will always I will always protect my family. And now I
have a family to protect. So everything that everything that
she went through and what happened to her is incredibly
raw every single day. And that's not me being paranoid. That's
just me. Not wanting a repeat of the past. And if anybody else
knew what I knew, be a better father, a better husband, anyone
you do, should probably do be doing exactly what I what I'm
doing as well.
If anyone else knew what I knew, you'd probably do the same
thing. That's what he says now. Can we interpret that as the
paparazzi will be the death of Yeah, I don't think they're
quite at that level. But certainly Megan Markel has all
of the same. personality traits with the crash with Hollywood.
Yes.
I have a quick analysis. If anyone knew what I knew, now
knowing that he was born out of from Dianna F, via some
character that you mentioned earlier. Yeah. He may know,
because he's not a lizard.
Think that's very possible. Particularly if you listen to
this. Okay. Are you doing? If you listen to this report,
they're hanging out with lizards, your reporting
is that they're gonna move to LA for the most part. Do you have a
residence in Canada as well? But it looks like Megan is going
back to LA Yes.
I mean, that's where she grew up. That's where her mother is.
She's an LA girl. You know, that's where her friends are.
You know, and also with since marrying Harry, they've got more
showbiz friends like the Clooneys and Oprah. You know,
that's where they want to be. That's where Megan
doesn't you take a lot of advice from Oprah and the Clooneys and
then that absolutely and
and you know, we're hearing that they have that had a lot of
advice on this and encouragement on this to break out.
Shell and the Clooneys man, the Clooneys did it there's proof
there
and saying but I cannot underestimate what an earthquake
this is in the UK as far as the break from protocol. The Queen
didn't know anything about at the royal family are furious.
Harry's Father, Prince Charles is furious. It really is a huge
Gansler not
abdicating they're just kind of stepping back. So really, they
want the benefits, but they just don't want the full time gig.
Exactly. So they're becoming they they're giving up being
senior Royals, which mean they keep the HRH title. You know,
she'll still be a princess. He's still a prince. But they don't
have to do
his job was that she's not a princess. She's a duchess, isn't
she? Yeah. Yeah.
But she she wished refused Princess dumb? Yes, by the
Queen. She's not a prince. And that's what pissed her off
apparently.
Title. You know, she'll still be a princess. He's still a prince.
But they don't have to do all the oil jobs that they're
expected to do. And the main thing is they said they want to
make their own money. And this is what everybody's upset in
England about because they get I don't
understand there's a very obvious path for them to make
money. I don't get it. Why is this so hard for everybody to
understand? All they need to do is start a podcast. No money in
the bank moment,
they get around 4 million pounds a year from the Queen and from
Prince Charles. So run that households pay their staff. And
they'll still continue getting a lot of that money for quite a
while unless they do really want to work and stand on their own.
By the way, 5.2 me I'm being told 5.2 million US that's
pretty good, tidy sum of money. How in the world? Do you protect
these two when they're in Los Angeles and they want to come
over to the Gallagher's house, are we going to have a big
contingent of security officers around Los Angeles
that they are guaranteed security for life by from the
British people, and the British taxpayer pays for it, which is
around a million dollars US a year. So that won't change
whatever they do that will not change should make
their own money. Does she go back to acting Do you think?
Well, I mean, there's been a lot of
debate about that, that, you know, we think that, you know,
she'll be doing more influencing open her Instagram accounts,
again, doing more paid appearances, and maybe some
acting if it's deemed to be tasteful enough, but they're
certainly going to be earning money in different ways that
they could not do in England.
So I remain baffled by this being 2020 and people still
having this obsession with these fake people with funky hats who
have great houses in the middle of awesome places and they Pay
them because it's tradition. We need to keep the tradition Yeah,
this is all mega mega. This is all Michaels doing. Terry's
pussy whipped he's a he's nothing sad. So everybody thinks
I'm pretty sure. But the fact remains and we'll see this
coming week. I have a feeling that there's so much fatigue of
seeing Skeletor Pelosi and everyone bitching and moaning
and Moscow, Mitch and all this crap. Is it particularly on the
cable news networks. This is a breath of fresh air and awesome
I can get obsessed. Remember,
during the MSNBC began as kind of a generalised Microsoft joint
venture with NBC or did. I had worked there
i were i helped them launch.
And they had no ratings. They couldn't get Jack ratings. We
had a show called the site that was on MSNBC was a text thing.
They couldn't get any ratings. That thing was a dud. And Dave
did the Diana got killed? Boom, they switched their coverage all
24/7 Diana, Diana, Diana, Diana, and then they said this is we're
getting numbers. Hell with this other crap. Exactly. And
I guarantee you CNN is seeing numbers. They did this with mh
17. A full year they stayed on that topic. Top of the news.
Every hour, every panel was all about, Oh, where'd this plane
go? Was it mh 17? Was it three, three? The the one that I just
remember the numbers, the one that disappeared? And poof,
yeah. And it was an obsession for them. And there was there
were other things going on in the year. I mean, we had a show.
So something was happening. And now they've grabbed onto this
and if you've got a British accent, then you are in like
Flynn. You've got money in the bank. Just say you're a royalty
watcher and you're good to go. And they're all cute. All the
all the women who show up to talk about you know, who are
royalty watchers, the good looking easy to look at. I think
it's a ratings Bonanza, and it's gonna be very hard for them to
move away from it. Yes, like, yeah, it's a slightly addicting,
tasty candy. Yeah. And what it is and why it is. It'll always
baffle me. But it is a fact. So that's going to be problematic.
And that, of course, will affect us to less clips,
because we don't have any good clips from CNN making fools of
themselves.
And before we tell Well, before we dive into the topic, likely
Democracy
Now never make that change.
So we had there were a number of severe storms that came through
the southwest. United States also threw candy Navia In fact,
I got texts from Sir do suffer. He said, worst hail storm ever
coming your way Park everything in the garage or I think he said
park your best vehicle in the garage. The storm came through
it was it was short and violent. But there were no hair. There
was no hail. And of course, I knew exactly what this was. It
also came from the southeast. It's so obvious. This is from
our rain sticks. Probably this is the blowback that we can
always expect.
Well, I don't like using them.
Well, but just a couple of reports there Andy from Terrigal
beach in the morning Adam hadn't rained here for many months
before the rain stick all the grass was totally Brown. We
routinely had days over 110 Fahrenheit and we're in constant
fear of the fires. After the rain stick, we had at least four
days of proper rain and the grass has started to grow. I
think this would be true also for Sir Chris in Marrickville
and Sir bass and bateau Bay. My father who doesn't listen to the
podcast has no rain. And there are still many areas burning out
of control. Could it be we are only getting the rain stick
effect in places where no agenda is being listened to. I'm
interested to know if there's a correlation between where the
listeners are and where the rain fell. Many thanks. I believe so.
Oh, I could totally. And I watched a movie. I don't know
how old I think it's relatively new. It's not a great movie.
It's called the Mandela effect. And the movie centres around a
father a couple and their daughter dies she drowns on the
beach. And he starts noticing the Mandela effect. And the
movie kind of you should explain
what that is because I think that has been passed over. Okay
over long since forgotten that one.
The Mandela Effect is it gets its name from things in history
that that a large group of people are very Sure we're a
certain way, and turned out not to be true. One is that the guy
on the monopoly box has a monocle. He does not. The Baron
Stein bears turns out it was Berenstain Bears. Sinbad was
never a genie in a movie. And it gets its name from Mandela. That
the there's a belief that Nelson Mandela died while in prison.
And there's even video of George Bush saying he's dead while he
was in prison, a W. Bush. So that's the Mandela effect. And
the end the thinking is, is this a glitch in the matrix, you know
what is going on. So they kind of used this mandela effect to
get into the we live in a simulation. And long story
short, the dad who is a game developer, he figures out a way
where the supercomputer I know it's going off the rails to
already set a mount point just before his daughter drowns, and
then reboot, it basically overloads the entire simulation
that's running, that's running the world. And then it reboots
right before he makes a decision that in this case, in the in the
previous case, his daughter died. Now he makes a different
decision. And the thinking behind it is that the simulation
throughout the world,
whatever is driving it, whatever is powering it is not powerful
enough to keep everything running all at the same time. So
very much like a video game. Until someone observes a certain
area. It's just dormant, it's dead, it's not running, it's
completely still. And then when someone or it maybe has to be
more than one person sees this area, then the sim comes back to
life. And that's where these glitches sometimes, and I said
it glitches
said it and they said it was beating. You said to you, I said
it sincerely. I did. You caught yourself though. Yeah.
So so just taking this as a premise. I think the karma and
the rain sticks is a version of that. It's a version of somehow
we're cutting through the system. And we're able to affect
change on the simulation in certain areas or with certain
individuals.
That's what thinking
as you know, you know, you agree a kind of with with Scott Adams,
he's a he's a, he tries to throw into simulation gag every so
often really?
Yeah. But he's approaching it from an intellectual standpoint.
Now, which I'm just I'm talking about a movie. I just watched
the movie, and it had an impact on me. But we've had a lot of
success with jobs, karma we've had a lot of I don't think the
rain sticks have failed once. Every single time we've been
requested to shake the sticks. It happens. And we always get
the blowback with bad weather here in Austin. I don't know if
you had any. But I always get bad weather after the rains. We
had
a lot in Washington state test for sure. But talking about
going back to Scott Adams, about you and him being in agreement.
I got a little irked by this. So I have a clip from Scott Adams.
Okay. And it has a little bit to do with his thesis and it's your
dis bothersome, that you're in Scott Adams are in agreement on
certain things. This one is really the one that's the is the
bad one. It really is annoying to say the least this is just a
clip is Matt gates. He's talking about Matt gates being a perfect
presidential candidate.
Now have I told you before the following things. Number one,
Matt gates is a strong contender. And I will I'll go so
far as to say probable presidential contender at some
point in the future. Probable probable winner as well. Because
just based on his skill set, he has all the skills. He has all
the skills, I don't think he's missing a single skill to be a
GOP candidate. And I think he would I think he would clean the
table on any Democrat that ran against them. With the
exception. There's only one exception. There's only one
Democrat I can imagine in the future. Remember, we're
projecting now 510 years in the future, whatever. And that's
AOC.
One last bit again. I love it when you produce in
the future, whatever. And that's AOC
Yeah, well, we agree. We agree on a OC We sure do. Sandy. Sandy
Oh, Susan in San President Sandy air now. I haven't thought about
it in a long time. Time. She has a dog though she's got that
she's just got a dog. No kid, she's got a dog. So that's
perfect. got approved for the White House? Well, I think the
President has been put on notice. Not about this in
particular, but there was something that happened that
caught my eye. And these are the things that we interpreted in a
particular way from the New York Times. A former United States
Marine posed as a security team member for Marine One to
helicopter the transports President Trump and breach two
checkpoints last week at Palm Beach International Airport. Ah,
they used to pull this stunt with Obama and they did it with
Obama all the time is just a message. Just so you know, we
can get to you anytime we want.
Well, this brings us back to the Jeffrey Epstein hanging as some
of the screen this has been showing up the BBC reporting
that apparently, Comey his daughter was somehow involved in
the disappearance of the of the tapes.
She's a special prosecutor at the Southern District of New
York. She's She was put in there specifically?
Yeah, the tapes disappear. They kept well, we kept the wrong
tapes near I have the clip. Jeffrey Epstein's hanging story
with this in a secure prison facility is the warning to
everybody that anybody can is done if you if you would they
want to get rid of you. It's very easy to do and now they
pull in to start with. Now Trump has his own people.
Yeah, this.
See? This guy? He just slipped through?
Yeah, what did they do with this guy once they caught him? And
did they bring him beside and grill him about how why he did
this who who, who's behind it and throw him in jail, which
they should do.
He was released on a $100,000 bond according to court records,
neither Mr. Magnum nor his lawyer could be reached Saturday
if convicted. He faces a maximum of three years in prison a fine
of $250,000 in a year of supervised release, so they let
they let them off with the we'll
see how that goes. To see what goes
how that goes. Whether the guy does admit it in prison or
probably not, but the guy was. He is listed in the Florida
Department of Law Enforcement sex offender registry. He was
released from the Marines dishonourable discharge, because
of some sex offence, apparently. And this guy with fake
credentials mind you fake credential the only reason why
he got stopped is a sheriff's deputy noticed he wasn't wearing
the right Marine Corps uniform standard during presidential
travel. Well, how about that, huh? All you got to do is have a
fake ID and kind of look the part message
Oh, thank goodness for the local police
message to you, Rudy. Here's the Epstein clip since you brought
it up.
jailhouse video of the area around Jeffrey Epstein sell on
the day of an apparent suicide attempt no longer exists.
Federal prosecutors made that admission to a judge yesterday.
They said the New York City Jail thought it preserved the footage
of guards finding Epstein on July 23. But it actually saved
video from a different part of the jail. The FBI also
determined the recording wasn't on the backup system due to
technical errors. Later hanged himself in August while he
awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.
I'm surprised that no one has used the glitch. I keep looking
for it. No one has used the glitch word in this unfortunate
circumstance where the backup even didn't have a copy Tao is
so it's so coincidental
that it's unbelievable. Well, glitch may be code.
Yeah, for shity shity code how's that? Its code for crap code.
That's what it is. But this this is not a glitch. They could have
they could have easily have said it was a glitch. It could have
said something went wrong in the backup. None of that died. Yeah,
I'm surprised maybe
absence of the term is the meaning.
Possibly, possibly.
Alright, let's talk about Iran. Looks like we're getting more
right by the day.
Well, let's see. I do have maybe a backup kind of a a
backgrounder overview overview. The Iran Iran update on
Democracy Now might be appropriate.
The House of Representatives has voted to approve a non binding
War Powers Resolution aimed at limiting President Trump's
ability to take further military action against Iran without
congressional approval precedent. Trump ratcheted up
tensions with Iran by assassinating Iranian commander
Qasem Soleimani. And a targeted drone strike at the Baghdad
International Airport last week. Thursday's 224 To 194 house vote
included three Republicans voting yes. And eight Democrats
voting no the resolution now heads to the Senate. The vote
came as Iran's ambassador to the United Nations blasted the US at
the UN Security Council speaking on behalf of Iranian Foreign
Minister Javad Zarif, who was unable to address the Security
Council himself after the US denied him the visa and
violation of a 1947 us un agreement. This is Ambassador
Maggi tak Lavanchy. I'm here today to deliver a statement on
behalf of His Excellency, Mr. Zary, whose visa was denied by
the United States in contravention of the HUD
headquarters agreement. And here is his a statement. We are
meeting today to discuss a momentous imperative or we are
all confronted with the world is a is at the crossroads. With the
end of monopolies on power. One unhinged regime is frantically
clamouring to turn back 1000s gathered in Chicago
he said unhinged regime. Yeah, great did he did he have the
talking points on the prompter is the question Was it just
right in front of his face.
At the end of monopolies on power. One unhinged regime is
frantically clamouring to turn back time 1000s gathered in
Chicago, New York, Seattle and dozens of other cities to
protest war with Iran Thursday night. The New York Times has
obtained video that appears to show an Iranian missile hitting
the Boeing 737 jet that crashed shortly after takeoff in Tehran
Wednesday killing all 176 people on board.
All right. So there's a lot to deconstruct here. I'd like to go
back a few days before we had the admission from apparently an
Iranian top dog.
Well before before you go back a few days. Let's go back even a
few more days. So I can get this one thing out of the way which
is the guy who died that's triggered the whole thing. Want
to get his name out of the way? What would the clip be called
guy who died is no clip I just have? Yes, go for it because
nobody talks about this guy. So it's not a clip. I can't get a
clip. Got it. But his name was now Reese Walid her mid lived in
Sacramento. The best story written about him was in the
Sacramento Bee when his wife because his wife was upset about
this to say the least. And I'll just read a few paragraphs.
Hameed, who worked as a linguist and had attended classes at
American River College was killed in a military base new
near Kirk cook. On a by rocket attack. The US blamed katiba
Hezbollah, a militia group. His wife was notified by his
employer, valiant integrated services. Valiant is I've just
read in just a couple of random graphs, you get a feeling for
this valiant is based in Herndon, Virginia, and offers a
range of international services including interpreters involving
INSCOM, the Army Intelligence and Security Command, support
for special operation forces and counter intelligence services,
according to its website, so spook the guy. Sorry. So the guy
was a spook amongst others, and he got killed, and this was not
acceptable. So they the whole thing began when they don't
start killing our people.
Exactly. Well, you'd think that that would be the message. And
I've learned over the years that when you you're the use of the
word, but is you got to be very careful with the but it one must
be careful with the buzz word. When you say something, and then
you put a bullet in there. Or if you say something I say well,
while yes, John indeed. But
yeah, there's always a big but it negates
everything that came before the but then it's only post but that
matters. And this is all that I heard over the past couple of
days when this all came out. And of course, we have a montage
Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of
American troops and 1000s of innocent lives throughout the
region. But it was not the whole of the regime.
There is no question that Soleimani had American blood on
his hands that he was a bad actor in the region. But if
there is anything that we have learned
Soleimani he's a person with American blood on his hands. But
we also know that this guy was sitting was a bad news guy, but
he was a ranking official. no illusions about Soleimani was a
terrible person did bad things. But it's Soleimani
was a bad guy.
But sulemani is an evil man. He has absolutely ordered the
murder of hundreds of Americans. But
Soleimani was a malignant and dangerous character.
But Soleimani has been a threat to America and Americans and our
allies for a very long time. However,
undoubtedly, General Soleimani was a very bad man, but he
Soleimani certainly a murderous individual.
But there was Soleimani was a bad guy. There's no question
about that.
But this was an awful person. However,
Soleimani was a terrorist, so no one's going to lament his death.
But,
so this is all politicising the event. And it was immediate, and
it was shameless, on all on all sides.
I do have to mention something I didn't realise that there's an
intellectual variation of but which is however,
I know, I considered using that myself. I was like, Yes,
darling, however.
Exactly. However, people,
you won't even you won't even hear the shoe coming. So it was
completely politicised, which anyone who is now Boo who wore f
you what a bunch of phonies immediately taking to
politicisation they don't care about even the guy was a spook
because American citizen, there were other just contractors or
other Americans of whatever ilk who were also wounded. Shit was
blown up. Now, that doesn't matter at all. They don't care.
And by the way, they don't care. They don't care how many
servicemen and women get killed. You never see that on the news.
Oh, maybe there's a little announcement here there. No one
cares anymore. At least in the news media. It's not important.
It's all about power and politics. Here's Joe Biden on
the trail six
months ago, here in New York City, I made the case that
Donald Trump was dangerously incompetent and incapable of
world leadership, and the past few days in the wake of the
killing of the Iranian General Soleimani. I think Donald Trump
has proven beyond that comment beyond dispute. The haphazard
decision making process that led up to it, the failure to consult
with our allies or Congress, and the reckless disregard for the
consequences that would surely follow was in my view,
dangerously incompetent. We have not heard a sober minded
explanation to assure the American reassure the American
people that this decision and its consequences, were thought
through no level headed words meant to dial down the tensions
and to take us off the path of conflict. No press conference or
confrontation with our Congress.
I love that he's asking for press conferences with Congress
or consultation
tensions. Take a listen to no level headed words meant to dial
down the tensions and to take us off the path of conflict. No
press conference or consultation with our Congress
consultation.
This this know what we've heard so far, from this President, our
tweets, threats, and tantrums. And however you may feel about
American military presence in the Middle East. There's a right
way and a wrong way to draw down our troops. Our true presence,
getting unceremoniously kicked out is unequivocally the wrong
way
to complete politicisation, which I guess Joe makes sense
that he's doing that. But again, it's it's all about Trump. And
it's very clear, it should be obvious to most that this will
be the next impeachment Article of Impeachment or whatever
they're going to call it. That's why the War Powers Resolution
came out, which is resolution is not law doesn't restrict
anything above what the Constitution says, which is very
clear, and which has been ignored by every president since
I've been alive. Except for that one time, when we got approval
from Congress to go to war against Iraq, Afghanistan, we
just went into all kinds of places. So it doesn't matter
whether they give permission or not. It's it's a crapshoot. But
the idea is to Catch him, catch him doing it the next time he
kills some evil guy. Well, then we're done with odd and we're
gonna impeach him again. Here's Jackie Speier, who is from
California on CNN.
Are you blaming the president in any way for the fact that it
appears that Iran shot down that jetliner?
No, but I am saying that, but for the escalation and the
actions taken by Iran, there would not be 176 people dead
today, it all emanates, emanates from the killing of Soleimani.
Well,
again, the administration would say that Soleimani
what's interesting here is the CNN host is is really trying to
explain to her the viewer, I don't know that we'll we'll hold
on a second you know, it really was the Iranians who shot
something off and apparently it had hit the plane I mean, that's
reads really is them. And I think he's not doing it to say,
lighten up on the president. I think he's doing it to allow her
to continuously say, Yeah, but if he hadn't gotten up in the
morning, you know, none of this would have happened. If he
wasn't president, none of this would happen.
Well, again, the administration would say that Soleimani himself
was plotting attacks on Americans. So the attack on
Soleimani itself emanates from Soleimani. But just to be clear,
it was Iran. That shot down apparently, that jet. What
culpability do they have? How do you think they should be held to
account?
And certainly it needs to be looked at from many
perspectives. I mean, if it was accidental, that certainly needs
to be taken into account as well. But we need to remember
how this all started.
This Trump was born. That's how it started, as
started from the time the President of the United States
reneged on
the reneged, isn't reneged? I've
heard it pronounced both ways.
Oh, you know, I kind of remind Renee,
this has started from the time the President of the United
States reneged on the nucular deal that we had with Iran, and
then impose severe sanctions on Iran that has hurt them
economically, then call the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist
organisation. He keeps ramping.
They didn't call it didn't call it a terrorist organisation. It
was designated as such. I'm not sure if that needs congressional
approval, but it was a quite a conversation. And yes, then they
were they were designated not necessarily by the President,
the Revolutionary Guard, a terrorist organisation. He keeps
ramping it up. And the result is that they respond, we should be
at the negotiating table, trying to develop a plan for peace,
trying to develop a new JCPOA, if necessary, with the
President's imprimatur on it, so that we don't have around
building nuclear weapons. But what generated them shooting
missiles in the air was the fact that they were providing
vengeance or a tit for tat to the United States for having
killed their general
Orange Man bad. Let's look at it
from the dead. That's shameless. Yeah.
Well, and the the Republicans were out in mass to a particular
Mike Pompeo. Let's remember that he is also former spook, and he
knows a lot and he's been involved.
The guy who's been wanting to kill this guy for a decade.
So they played a clip of his while talking to watermelon
head, John Kerry on CNN on the
JCPOA. You know, when you were watching President Trump earlier
this week, they're standing at the White House. He he said it
was the Obama administration who who essentially paid for those
Iranian missiles that were aimed at Americans. And then your
successor, Mike Pompeo, was asked about that. And about you
on Fox News. And this is what he
said, Stop, stop, stop. She has this is
what Brooke. Yeah, Brooke, Brooke. She has the same cadence
even though she steps up to speed a little bit, as the
Jackie Speier did, which indicates to me they're all in
the same milieu. Oh,
they probably go to lunch together. Death. I mean,
they sound almost identical in the wit and their cadence. You
know, they do. I'm sorry.
That's okay. Well, and by the way, Trump did start this this
political part which Pompeo was propagating the resources they
had the ability to build out the militias in Syria, to underwrite
Hezbollah to build their missile programme. All the things that
we are now confronting, are a direct result of the resources
that the regime had available as a result of that terrible
nuclear by
the way, John Kerry admitted back in 2016, that this could be
an eventuality with the money being used. So he already
spilled the beans on that.
He knew that risk and it's now coming to fruition. So I don't
know about John Kerry knowing anything previously but there
you go. Bunch of chicken shit hawks out there as well. You
know, if Obama hadn't given all that the cash the pallets of
cash, this wouldn't have happened. Now, please. If Obama
wasn't born, it wouldn't have happened. It's disgusting. I'm
not going to play Kerry's clip because we have a rule about
that. Anyway, so. So oh, you
know what we do and I'm glad that you are abiding by it.
One of our producers Lila puke, did an end of show mix, which
had another another one of those talking points everyone's saying
it now he didn't send me the source material. I could not
find the source material as far as I know. It's not a super
cuts. So I'm just going to I'll play the full thing at the end
of the show. Obviously just want you to hear another meme that
was out there. That he extra We put together in this end of show
mix.
fire missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal and fast. Brand
new information
was not a scintilla of evidence presented to justify the so
called imminent threat.
There's no clear evidence of an imminent threat. You can't have
two stories. You can't say that something was imminent when it
was not. There was no evidence of an imminent and specific
threat, transparently lying about an imminent threat.
This administration has not made the case that there was an
imminent threat.
They did not show us that they were dealing with an imminent
threat. I saw no evidence of that whatsoever.
The President puts his interests above America's interests.
Okay, so you get the idea of imminent threat. This is what
was lacking. And this is where Gates who you played a clip from
earlier, straight from the Republican Party, and said, you
know, yeah, I think I'm gonna be on board with the War Powers
Resolution, which is easy for him to do because it's the same
as what's already on the books. It's just kind of a
confirmation. So imminent threat is there was a lack of imminent
threat. You just went off crazy. unhinged. You heard the talking
points from the ambassador there. unhinged crazy imminent
there was no imminent threat. What are you doing just probably
probably just to distract from the impeachment. But it really
does
chip in what she is a talking point that I think I have a clip
on this. Okay. Let's see worse. I didn't think about you jumped
me you got me caught me on my flat footed. I've really done a
poor job of naming the clips today. So I cannot find
anything. Okay. But I do have it, but I don't I can't find it.
Nevermind just
it would be here it is Colonel Wilkerson on Iran and
impeachment. I think that would be the one
on December 17 1998. The front page banner headline read
impeachment vote in house delayed as Clinton launches Iraq
airstrikes citing military need to move swiftly. Colonel
Wilkerson, can you respond?
For 15 years, Amy, I've taught this to over 400 students on two
campuses, national security decision making taught it's
call. One of the influences I emphasise is domestic politics.
I would be a traitor to the academic curriculum which I
teach, I would be a traitor to the truth. If I didn't say, of
course, that had something to do with it. And watch out because
there will be more because there will be more impeachment.
Then more and more of the time.
managed to play the second half of that clip, which is final
words. This is a Wilkerson going off
any final words, Colonel Wilkerson, as we move into this
very critical period, with President Trump saying if Iran
responds to the US assassination of one of their leaders, that
the US will hit 52 sites, including cultural institutions,
which is by the way considered war crime. 52 for the 50
Oh, yes, war criminal, I'm sorry, that would that that's
really we need to we need to take him to the Criminal Court
in The Hague. That's where Trump belongs,
which is, by the way considered war crime. 52 for the 52
hostages, Iran took more than 40 years ago.
If that were the case, and we actually executed such a
package, we would solidify 80 million people in a way that for
the next 30 years would cost the lives of countless Americans,
business people, tourists and so forth throughout the region and
perhaps throughout the world. I know what the packages look like
for bombing Iran. Okay,
and it goes on,
but let's just move quickly through the facts and then we'll
deconstruct what probably was going on here. So now we know
that well. Yeah, well, here's Trump actually, I thought that
was kind of a cute clip.
Because somebody could have made a mistake on the other side
could have could have made a mistake. It was flying. It was
it was flying and not our system now has nothing to do with us.
It was flying in a pretty rough neighbourhood. And somebody
hey, man, that's what you get for flying in a rough
neighbourhood man, you shouldn't be flying in rough
neighbourhoods at 8000 feet pretty
rough neighbourhood and somebody could have made mistake. Some
people say was mechanical. I personally don't think that's
even a question personally.
And then we have, of course, Trudeau we have
intelligence from multiple sources, including our allies
and
was this after the it was already in the news that he says
we have intelligence or did he actually knows I think
this was just before but that particular clip intrigued me for
some other reason, which is, when did Trudeau decide to wear
a beer and have a good kind of a go t? Yeah. Like an evil guys go
t he looks like the bad guy in one of these movies. Yeah, he's,
he's wrapping himself up. Is this getting ready for war baby,
we have intelligence from multiple sources, including our
allies and our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the
plane was shot down by an Iranian surface to air missile.
This may well have been unintentional, it
may well have been let's see, always of interest when these
things happen, who was on the aircraft's
grief all consuming at so many of Canada's universities? Here
at Western memorial to promising students their futures robbed,
its Massoud Zachary lost his friend had his high at devotee,
a PhD student of hoping that she lost the plane. saw the official
name of shall list of names of new students from more than 10
Canadian universities died in the crash driven by troubled
politics with the US and Canada's academic reputation.
This country is a popular destination for Iranian students
is does Canada have a reputation for their education? And
they have a couple of really outstanding colleges. Yeah,
I got a note from one of our knights, hills being one of
them. One of our knights who was an intelligence analyst, I do
not know where but he asked me to keep his identity anonymous
in this case, I'll read his note. It's short. It's coming
out that the Canadians and a few Russians on the Ukrainian on the
Ukraine plane shot down we're primarily scientists and
engineers working in Iranian nuclear plants. Fearful that
those plants could be US drone targets, the scientists decided
to leave as a group so no one would be held hostage until the
conflict was over. Because they knew the plans and operations of
the Iran nuclear programme. They could be debriefed So Iran told
the scientists they would be moved to safety but warned they
would not be allowed to leave Iran. They did not listen. Now,
I don't know if that's true. But that would certainly give a
reason for the Iranians to purposefully target that
aircraft. i It's fanciful. You know, it sounds great for the
movie. I don't know,
for the movie. So Tom Clancy, totally,
totally. It really doesn't matter. Because the
administration, the president, everybody knows one thing in the
legendary words of Rahm Emanuel, never let a crisis go to waste.
Immediately. We're trying to get shit started in Iran, which is
the whole point. The point is you need to have an uprising for
regime change. So the president tweeted in Farsi, which also had
a translation, but he tweeted in Farsi, to the brave, long
suffering people of Iran. I've stood with you since the
beginning of my presidency. And my administration will continue
to stand with you. We are following your protests closely
and are inspired by your courage. Facebook, is now being
not just Facebook, Twitter, but think Facebook's the main one
Iranian journal, a journalist, journalists, Russian
journalists, of course. But I think some in the US possibly
are demanding an end of Iranian censorship of Iranian media on
Instagram and Facebook. According to RT, Facebook
thought police's censoring pro Iran posts to comply with US
sanctions. I'm not sure about that. But I'm damn sure that the
intelligence services are inside of Facebook and making sure that
we don't see anything that we don't want to wear. We want is
people protesting against the regime. We want flags, we want
some signs. We want banners. It's All on it's full on every
they're really trying to spark it up now right down to the
ambassador from the United Kingdom standing out there. Oh,
why is this is this not going to play now all of a sudden see if
it plays like this now crap. Like you clips one of my clips
is broken Damn it was a good one too, that the ambassador to the
UK was arrested at a an anti regime protest which of course
is played off as I was a mistake. I was I thought it was
a vigil. I was there for five minutes. And then I left and
they detain me or the arrested me and we figured it out. No,
this is full on. This is the idea. We need protests. We need
images of protests, you need Facebook and Instagram protests,
nothing else. And I think they're going to do it, they may
just pull it off.
I'm looking at average called the last show or two. I
mentioned that the Kinect most of these, not the majority, but
there was a lot of Canadians killed in the crash. Yeah. And
I'm just relating back to what your spooky informant may have
said. Well, there was a they were connected to the University
of Alberta. Okay, a lot of students and I guess some
professors. And based on what he said I actually look at the
University of Alberta nuclear facilities. They have assisted
did the University of Alberta is one of the nuke places they have
Slowpoke a nucular facility, they do a bunch of they do
nucleotide productions, they do neutron activation analysis they
do all these high and in the middle of nowhere and the
University of Alberta, they do these this is it is a centre of
research.
And there was a story that I can't find make sense
what he said, Now based on this, if we're going to put two and
two together.
Well, that's that's obviously one way we could look at it. And
I'm I'm pretty sure from the evidence that we have, and also
how many of these things are out there. And the similarities
between the 1980 was 89, a 1989. downing of an Iranian jetliner
that we took responsibility for which was done with a man pad
with a stinger missile fight, you know, shoulder fired, those
things are pretty good.
Oh, no, it was it was done off of the ship by one of the
surface to air missile
from Yes, it was a stinger on a ship. I looked it up
stinger on a ship. Yep. It was a surface to airlines that be an
accident.
It wasn't. It wasn't an accident. They it was an
accident that they targeted that they were confused. It was it
was confusion. It wasn't purposeful. So so so they say
who the hell knows. But I like the theory that the Iranians
were so afraid that they killed all the scientists. I mean, I
don't like it. But you know, here,
here's a little chip for, for people trying to escape. So they
all got on the plane together not thinking, you know, about
the possibility of them all getting killed at once. One of
them's collusion, stayed back and then snuck out of the taking
a train out of town. I mean, there's other ways to leave.
Seems to me,
I think wanted to miss the flight. And so there's been some
stories about that. Now, conversely, let's just say
that's all coincidence. It's happens to be nuclear students,
scientists in studying scientists, although there was a
report that I did not clip where someone said that girl was a PhD
in disguise, meaning that she was incredibly smart. But there
you go, it said. It could also have been that we wanted at
although a very risky and very evil scenario, let's just take
it as a possibility that they spoofed the transponder, made it
look like something else we discussed as a possibility, just
to get the Iranians to shoot it down. And then to say up exactly
what's happening now. I mean, the result is the same. It
really doesn't matter who did it, or why they did it. The
result is it happened. And now we see report after report,
filtered, expertly filtered expertly, because if you look
around outside of the bag face bag in the waters, you'll see
that there's, you know, it's from all sides. There's all
kinds of things going on Iran is not just anti regime, but that's
what we're going to see. Well,
this stop for a second and then also reflect on a couple of
other incidents that took place and this was from Israeli
intelligence, and this took place a number of years ago,
where the a couple of very famous Iranian nuke The year
scientists were were assassinated in the streets won
by a guy in a motorcycle
ride. I remember that. Yeah, that's not that long ago even.
Yeah. And
this was attributed by some people, I think were Ray
McGovern was one of them to Mossad. And so Mossad could have
actually been involved because they're pretty good about
staying out of the limelight. They if there was a transponder
swap out, or some sort of, you know, some sort of a spoof, I
wouldn't, I don't think it would be anything we'd ever do to be
honest about it. In this regard, because we don't care about the
scientists who cares about
not the scientists, but just to have civilians killed, painted
on Iran, and then get protest started, I'm just looking at as
an eyes and
I think that's minor compared to the realities of trying to get
rid of these scientists clip
from 2012
are the families for five Iranian nuclear scientists say
Israel, Great Britain and the US assassinated their loved ones.
Those families are now asking Iran's legal system to pursue
their complaint through international courts. Iran
claims the attacks were part of a covert mission by Israel and
the West to sabotage its nuclear programme. The US and Britain
have denied any involvement in the murders. Israel has not
commented on the matter students,
I just want to say that there is no other media property that I'm
aware of that on the fly, can talk about something, one host
who clearly should never be able to recall these things. has the
longest memory in history, remembers it, and production
fires off the clip within seconds. Please appreciate that,
as producers,
because producers Applause Applause please. Please, clap.
Well, I'm glad you're glad you found that clip. But the point
is, is that it seems to me if we're going to go in that
direction, it would be Mossad with either one of these guys.
And because it does put a kind of a chink in the armour of the
programme. Just saying, but it did this University of Alberta
thing, it kind of has me like, whoa,
well, our intelligence analysts said this, you know, so
it's so that hasn't come up in the conversation on CNN.
It would be it would be useful for at least one of these
outfits. I think they could use that. I think they could throw
that in the mix. But I'm not so sure. And by the way,
the corporate interests don't or didn't want to hear about it.
Right. Sorry.
Well, we're waiting for the revolution. And I think the
signs are being printed, the flags are being ironed. And you
know, we'll get everything over there. lickety split. We'll load
everybody up. But we did it with Hong Kong, this should be no
problem at all to just redirect the team and send them over to
Tehran, or any other handy place where we can get some cameras
in. And it'll be good to go.
Yeah, we'll see. Well,
let's just look at the headlines. Let's let's do a
test. I will go to the the news.google.com, which doesn't
even auto complete on my computer since I don't use
Google. Top of the list Boom 1000s of Iranian protesters hit
streets condemning leaders over downed plane. I didn't search
for Iran or anything. This is I just went to Google News. And
that is the top headline. The ones below free fewer in Iran
and abroad. Iran faces growing criticism at home. That's the
main one. So CNN is all over it. They're they're pushing the
you're pushing with they're told to push
Well, of course. And that's the 1000s of protesters. We need
more. But that's a good start. All right. And just to show you
that we have our eye on the ball while all of this was taking
place. While we were all looking at Iran, Israel turned on their
pipeline. And liquid a gas is now flowing from the Leviathan
fields actually the I think the Tamra Tamarin fields, which is
part of that but right next door off the coast, now flowing into
Israel and they will become a energy producer for the first
time in their history. And I'm sure a Bill Clinton is very
happy because this is Noble Energy. What's interesting
actually did I wonder if our producers still invested in
Noble Energy Do you remember he was? He was he started
investing. Oh, well, it looks like it went up to 22. Last time
I looked it was $8
I should have bought
it. What do I know? I'm a dope. I don't know. I never pay any
attention to this stuff. Yeah, so, so everything's good. No one
pay attention to what's happening over there. And they
have their deals with Greece and Cyprus. And they're going to be
selling that to to Europe. So it all ratchets up and hopefully we
get the hell out of the way. And with that, I'd like to thank you
for your courage and say in the morning to you the man who
literally put the sea in the chink in the armour
in the morning to you Mr. Miranda curiosa in the morning.
Oh, she boots on the ground, feet in the air sumps in the
water and all the names and lights out.
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for episode 1206 We titled it tolerized a new word a new
Trumpism and the artwork was Darren O'Neal. That was his
first when I think of the of the new year he was very excited and
rightfully so. He again, we're in this popping mode or we're
just looking at the art and if it pops we it has a leg up and
this was the New Coke bro now with Soros kind of take off on
the Coca Cola New Coke. Yeah, and we both liked it. It made
sense to me there were actually was a lot of art. Yes, there was
something else I thought I
liked. We looking at
I don't really remember. I mean a lot of people don't like did
the toilet roll robot. stuff with small words. You got to
you've got to look at it objectively people and you got
you got it's got to pop off the page. We were looking at 25
pieces, boom. You know, you see it and you see it immediately.
Well, thank you, Darren, we really appreciate it. And I
can't thank Darren O'Neil enough. I mean he does our pre
shows the pre stream before every single show gets everyone
all riled up playing a lot of rush this morning of course. And
Neil Peart died from rush. I was never a rush fan. I don't know
about you, John.
I've never liked rush ever. No. But on the same layer,
progressive rock, there was a progressive rock and actually
Nick was a musician explained probably why he didn't like it
appeared here has he appeared, I'm sorry, appeared appeared. I
said it wrong.
He had. He says he says Russia was probably one of the greatest
progressive rock bands with a very specific style of rock and
roll that does not appeal to everybody.
No, it never appealed to me either. But I do know how people
are affected by this. They were really a lot of sadness
rushes to Canada's band.
Sadly, on the same day, Rick Kelman who was my first friend
in New York and the longtime audio engineer at MTV. He passed
away in his sleep. Which I was a shocker. Yeah, this was like,
oh, it's like shit. Kalman really sucked. How old was he?
Ricky couldn't have been over 60 I think was probably I was
probably 5960. Yikes. Yeah. Well, he'd been through some
some challenging times, but we kept in contact.
Anyway, sorry, onward with
enough of the dead segue. We did a segment he's a little music
show. We need a little music to play with, you. Know, no, it has
to be something. You are the wind beneath my wings. Alright,
let's thank some folks.
All right. Anonymous starts us off at New York City. To
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Looking to the next 12 years episode 1206 had me laughing out
loud with your CES coverage.
You know a lot of people gave us feedback on that and said they
really, they really liked it. I had no idea that mocking CES
coverage would be better than the CES coverage itself. Hey,
I made a career out of this.
I do have I do have two quick products announced at CES
headline donation segment. No, I'm just gonna do it right now.
It's
just it's just too too quick headlines. I built my own
glamourous vibrator at CES. And it was made it has no self for
his back and it was magical. And then Roomba and this was all
over the news Roombas makers future robot will have arms may
do dishes. Oh my god. They've invented a washing machine at
dishwasher no less. Crazy.
Room by a tech company.
You hate that you like actually hate the spa? Yeah,
yeah. Oh, well, I've said this on the show before a bitch and
moan about room all the time, my robot, our robot
room remind us
they had me thrown out of an event because I snuck in too
early to get some scoops on stuff. And they busted me and
they security comes in and drags me out. And I said Who the hell?
What was that all about? Yesterday, I said who turned me
in. And they said Roomba. The Roomba people.
Roomba are narcs and I
was doing this. I was actually interviewing one of their people
at the time. And I was gonna give him some good coverage.
Well, no. It makes total sense. That is the that is the the
culture within the company. And that's why it's the same room of
people who were mapping your house and selling the data. You
should get rid of narcs narcs.
And I never got an apology. I bitched and moaned about this,
and I thought oh, I know the CEO of this company. Well, once you
tell him what a jerk the company is to do this, and the nothing
gotten up. And I've been by the way it's been going on for years
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in Texas he says but if you see one, and it has an orange rim on
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The stinkbug that has an orange rim on its shell are apparently
called the deadly bug the deadline. He didn't give me any
an orange rim bug. So we just call it the Trump bug. Yeah,
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I didn't know usually the guy was just putting me on.
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This comes in from one of our regular producers Glen Edward
has passed through Saturday morning, I suppose.
Unfortunately, I don't remember where he's from. So this is kind
of V should have doesn't put it in here. I spotted a marmalade
boy he put marmalade that would be the orange one. Yes. By
perched on my bathroom sink faucet, possibly resting after
getting a drink. I keep the house pretty dry but never
Laura's in 33% Humidity details we don't need. This is the first
stink bug I've seen in a few years that managed to get into
the house. So I assume with this rare appearance and with your
last shows report their numbers have jumped. This one must have
been near the edge of the back porch and he could goes on about
that. I grabbed him by the legs with tweezers and escorted it
outside where it came from. It did not like that I would
suggest using an empty pill bottle in the future to trap
them inside. I just have to work out a slight a sliding flap. I
don't understand why nobody makes bug removing tools for the
sake for the home. They're cheap enough to sell the dollar stores
I'm frequently trap some crawling things off the wall to
take outside rather than smashing it into the paint job.
The stinkbug presents a unique problem they will stink if you
squish them and they take flight when provoked into a kind of a
beetle. But they're slow apparently they're quite they're
slow enough to capture when they're just crawling you can't
see them against the most woodwork or anything else that's
dark but they show up against anything else they perch on and
they could be inside your home for days before you spot them
when they do fly. Page two there about the Lord loudest bug I've
ever heard. Oh, oh, it's it's must be how their wings whip the
air they don't bite or staying just annoy cats will probably
play with them but nothing wants to eat them. Okay, so there you
go.
I have an update. The orange rim stink bug is actually known as a
kissing bug. Currently found so far in Tennessee and Georgia. It
is not a it is not the stink bug looks very similar to it. It
does have orange rim and you do not want to touch these to try
and catch them because this has ChoGath disease EAS, CH a G A S
and can be fatal if left untreated. They feed on the
blood of mammals, including humans and dogs. So it's a form
of a tick near only looks like a stinkbug.
Just ticks. Yeah,
we need more chickens is no country was filled with
chickens. We wouldn't have any of these problems. Yeah, when
you go to Slovenia, I should say the whole country is filled with
chickens. They're all over the place. Unfortunately, we have a
lot of raccoons and other critters here that would like to
eat these chickens. But most chickens, if you have a roosting
place you can they'll go back into their rooster and you can
close it up for the night.
Anyway, amidst all of the possible regime change, orange
why Orange Man bad. We have news from Venezuela. And I was I got
the I got this from a podcast, believe it or not. The
podcasters name is Ania param pill param pill. I believe she
may be from Venezuela. Apparently one guy DOE's
presidency is over. He's been replaced and no one heard about
it. And the report is fantastic.
Whelan opposition leader Juan guaido is termed as president of
the country's National Assembly. It came to an end on Sunday,
January 5, guaido had hoped to extend his reign beyond the
legally mandated year long term limit. However, after it became
clear that he did not have enough votes to win, the rookie
politician actually attempted to jump the fence surrounding
Venezuela's legislature in order to make it appear as though the
government had prevented him from entering guaido could have
entered the building to the front door as
the video of him trying to jump over the fence, you know,
basically looks like Obama in a blue suit trying to jump over
the fence, but he could have just gone in the front door, but
that wouldn't have been the right visual. You see.
One opposition lawmaker told reporters and most were able to
enter without incident yet guaido repeatedly attempted to
enter the building alongside lawmakers who had been banned
from the National Assembly over their alleged involvement in
criminal activity. Louis Stiva, who was elected as the new
president of the National Assembly, claims guaido stage
the incident because he did not have enough votes to win. US
backed Venezuelan coup officials such as Guido's or so called
ambassador to Washington, Carlos vecchio shared video of the
day's events claiming it depicted a valiant guaido
Overcoming government repression. US acting
Undersecretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
Michael Kodak tweeted shortly after the melee claiming, quote
Juan guaido remains Venezuela's interim president under its
constitution. This morning's phoney National Assembly session
lacked a legal quorum, there was no vote, yet at least 140 out of
Venezuela's 167 legislators were present at the meeting well
above the 50% required for a legal quorum. 81 of them voted
to instal bada a legislator from the US back to pre metal who CCF
party as president of the National Assembly, officially
putting Guido's rule to an end. Still, guaido held his own
swearing in ceremony at the offices of LSU now and
opposition owned newspaper in order to keep up appearances
considering the US has cited his control of Venezuela's National
Assembly as the legal justification for its
recognition of guaido as president of the entire country.
These developments are perhaps the most fatal blow dealt to the
Trump administration's who policy to date. Yeah, fail.
And then it's so bad that the guy's got to pretend to look
like Oh, I'm a hero. And I'm standing up against the
oppressors. I'm jumping over the fence, and they just voted in a
different guy. And then he said, No, no, no, that's not fair. And
he went back to it to his own Casa and did his own swearing in
ceremony. No, I'm still the guy. This is sad.
I mean, did it really come meet it?
Did Pompeo just abandon the guy I mean, did Bolton abandon the
guy caught
it? What to get in cut he probably was a bolton guy.
I know but what is this pathetic trying this is real a
new guy the new guys is an American pack he's also a part
he's
also a spook different guy? Yes. Clearly was alright. We got to
get this guy in because that old guy I mean, I guess the Obama
look is not working anymore. Have we seen the new guy? Do we
know what the new guy looks like? What's his name? Rio. She
mentioned it to you and we see Venezuela. new president a to
get put the Etn for president a
doesn't even say
it's not even. It's not even showing up.
You the president, but what's what's your search criteria?
The new president? Well,
that would be yet new precedent. Venezuela. Yeah, I
tried that. Let me see maybe the left to go to the Google News
again, see if they've got anything. Listen to the
headlines. This is interesting. Washington Post guaido.
Opposition lawmakers defy security forces burst into
Venezuela's National Assembly. We just heard a woman who was
there who says that didn't happen. Los Angeles Times.
Venezuela opposition leader Juan guaido takes new oath amid
chaos. Wow.
They won't even go with the new guy. That's crazy.
But as of now we this is dual dim to me. We're witnessing
duelling intelligence agencies. Yes. And my guess is the one
that's causing the trouble and all the contradictions and
Biden, who's pushing his buttons in these newspapers, but
obviously they're hooked up to somebody is that is that little
State Department, Intel agency, that little mysterious one?
That's always getting in the way and causing trouble? Yes,
because
I'm reading here that Elliott Abrams, the US representative
for Venezuela now we know Elliott Abrams. He's he's a,
he's a real bad actor. Yeah, he welcomed the reelection of
guaido. Abrams said US officials remain undaunted and will
continue to put economic pressure on the Maduro
government through additional sanctions. And in this whole
report, and I'm reading Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles
Times, there's not a mention of the guy who was sworn in.
Now we're not looking at even the Venezuelan presidential
crisis on Wikipedia, which is kept up to date has not gotten
mentioned. So this is really this is just unbelievable. I
mean, our news media's just totally corrupt.
It's not worth it's not worth it. It's just so Wow, well,
thank God for Anya Pompeyo. Thanks. She's
Russian. Okay, whatevs. Russians or Russians are running a game
anyway. I thought that was information is terrible, even
though even Amy hasn't gotten anything good.
They're not trying. They're not they're not trying. They just
aren't trying. Well, we
know the Chinese, the Russians and us all want that oil field?
Yes, possibly the biggest in the Western Hemisphere. Yes. So we
got three big superpowers. We're the closest to it. We should
have it by default.
Hey, man should be actually that was it was an interesting. Going
back to Iran for a second. The Iraqi prime minister claimed
that Trump threatened false flag attacks on protesters if he
didn't accept the oil deals. And what Trump said we got the oil
we got the oil. And we were demanding 50% of the oil.
Yeah, just as all unverified Oh, it's
just a data point. I'm just throwing it in there. Just what
it is.
All right. Well, let's go to the upcoming debate. rundown this
debate rundown just for Tuesday. Ah,
very good. And this will be on it's going to be on CNN, who's
hosting at this time, I believe so.
election news six presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren,
Bernie Sanders, Pete Buddha, Judge Amy Klobuchar, Joe Biden
and Tom Steyer will take to the stage for the final democratic
debate before the Iowa caucus. It will happen in Des Moines
next Tuesday. All the candidates on stage will be white after New
Jersey Senator Cory Booker and entrepreneur Andrew Yang did not
qualify for the debate. Billionaire Tom Steyer,
qualified after pouring more than $115 million of his own
money into his campaign. Billionaire former New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg did not qualify for the debate despite
spending nearly $170 million of his own money on ads.
I picked up a report from Rachel that I wanted to share. We don't
play much Rachel Maddow on this show, because well, and I did
cut out almost every pause and every roll I roll and next
stretch and all the things she does just to chop it down to
under two minutes. But this was hilarious in context of her
hating all Republicans are hating everything that is not
the Democrat party being MSNBC. And now we have these two
billionaires, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg, who are are
messing it all up.
Last night, Tom Steyer officially qualified for the
next Democratic candidates debate which will be in Iowa
next week. The deadline to qualify today and he has made it
in the days leading up to today's deadline. It really
didn't seem like Tom Steyer was going to make it onto that
debate stage. He was in low single digits in most national
and statewide polls. He needed better numbers in at least two
polls. But then last night, last minute, almost out of nowhere,
he came in really close to the top of the of the polls in two
early states, polling third tied with Elizabeth Warren for third
in Nevada.
I guess we should just point out just to reiterate that the
election debate Committee, which used to be the women League,
voters who quit in disgust, have determined that for the primary
and I think it's a it's more DNC, that you have to have
certain qualifications to even appear on the debate stage, and
you're seeing the results. were apparently you know, you
couldn't pop ahead really easy.
A whopping 12% double digits, right. 12% Tied for third and
liberis second place in South Carolina Joe Biden's way out of
front. Right. But look, Tom Steyer. 15% in South Carolina
wrinkly a surprise for politics geeks, right for those of us who
pour over each new poll,
do you think that she sits there in your office in his poring
over each new poll? I need to get to the bottom of these stats
and information. And it's yes isn't a just like simple
question. And it's just polling. I mean, don't don't just look at
the result. Is there stuff to pour over?
For politics geeks, right for those of us who are over each
pupil. But if you are a TV watcher in the great state of
South Carolina or the great state of Nevada, it was probably
less surprising to you because check this out, along with the
fresh numbers we got today on total ad spending for all the
candidates. We also got a breakdown of what the candidates
are spending by state and it makes the puzzle kind of easy to
solve. Alright, so far, the candidates combined have spent
$17 million on political ads just in the state of South
Carolina, okay. 17 million in TV and radio ads. South Carolina
alone, here's how you solve the puzzle of that $17 million spent
in South Carolina, 14 million of it was spent by Tom Steyer.
Oh, that's how it works. That by the way is the eye so
Tom Steyer has spent more on ads in South Carolina than Pete
Buttigieg or Bernie Sanders has spent on ads nationwide for
their entire campaign. Same thing in Nevada, the other state
that helped deliver Tom Steyer, a surprise spot on the debate
stage. So far, there have been $11.6 million in total spent on
political ads in Nevada by everybody of that $11.6 million
total spent on Nevada ads. 10 point 4 million of that spent by
Tom Steyer, his Nevada only ad spending is more than all of the
ad spending by Biden, Warren and Klobuchar combined. Oh my gosh.
Can you see that juice?
Yes. As it turns out,
oh, and she she's so shocked by this. And it's a revelation to
her.
It turns out that douchebag billionaires can buy your
election too. We this is how we vote in America the same way we
buy our washing powder. You see a lot of ads on TV and go okay,
let's tie guy Steyer tied Steyer tide
sounds the same whatever. This must be driving people insane.
I mean, yeah, especially since we're dealing with the
billionaire class, which is the Democrat Party yellow.
Here's the ISO for end of show I was considering. Oh, that's how
it works.
Perfect. I think it's dynamite. Yeah.
Okay. I sewed it myself before the show knowing you'd like it
that much.
So now we have a situation with all these guys, these rich guys
running and there's a and they're in this. Coincidentally,
the Netflix special, the great hack has arrived. And it tells
the story of Cambridge analytics and how Trump won. And let me
let
me stop you two things. One, I think has been out for a couple
of weeks too. Yeah, it's Cambridge Analytica. Yeah,
okay, you're right. It's been out for a couple of weeks and
his Cambridge Analytica got it now, so they had the producers
and director they had the CO directors and then some other
woman. Her name is Brittany Kaiser, who's a whistleblower
that worked for Cambridge. And they had him on the NAB Show and
there were some revelations in there that I thought may would
be worth discussing because they do apply to you know, the what's
going on with these elections.
There were just ecologists that were looking to date. Sorry,
I thought you there was very clear pause and lead up and I
jumped the
gun was when I was getting my glasses. I would say, the one
you want to play for just three clips, there's the Brittany
Kaiser Cambridges to Brittany on crooked Hillary. And there's the
complaining co director. Okay, which of the three clips, okay,
you're gonna play the probably, you probably were playing the
right clip, which is, let's play Brittany Kaiser on Cambridge,
there were groups ecologists that were looking into how they
could understand that data and convert that into messaging that
was just for you. I need to remind everybody that the Trump
campaign put together over a million different advertisements
that were put out a million different advertisements with
10s of 1000s of different campaigns. Some of these
messages were for just you refer 50 people, 100 people,
obviously, certain groups are 1000s 10s of 1000s, or millions,
but some of them were targeted very much directly at the
individual to know exactly what you're going to click on and
exactly what you care about.
Don't don't know, that is so unfair. You can't this,
this woman who wrote the book, she wrote the book targeted and
she's moaning and groaning. And she was working for Cambridge.
And she was aghast by everything. And but she was
apparently so predisposed to being aghast by everything that
they wanted. There was an event where they invited Ann Coulter
to talk to him about something rather. And instead of sticking
around, which I would do, even if I was a Democrat, no, no, no,
she felt she had the need to bug out. So she didn't have to hear
whatever evil words and my plant your brain,
and I can't I'm looking at being a.io I'm trying to see if I put
it in shownotes there was someone did an analysis, I think
was a Facebook person, maybe. And the and now I'm just
paraphrasing, I'll have to find it was saying that, in
actuality, Cambridge Analytica was really shit is really not
good at what they do. have not done anything spectacular beyond
what any other basic advertising targeting does. But it still was
the thing this article said, you know, it was Brad parscale who
figured out what the messages should be but it wasn't you
know, as highly targeted and sophisticated or even as good as
people make Cambridge analytic out to be Now Hi, this but I'm
not going to argue that point. I think I think this is going on
constantly with everybody that's in the business of doing this
sort of analysis and Cambridge analytical just for some reason.
I think it had something to do with Brexit to be honest about
it. Yeah. Got got singled out. And so I thought I agree with
this is bullcrap. But let's listen to some of the stuff they
did do. That was funny. This is Brittany again. On the crooked
Hillary campaign. This is fascinating.
Can you talk about the crooked Hillary campaign and how it
developed?
Absolutely. So this started as a Super PAC that was built for Ted
Cruz keep the promise one which was run by Kellyanne Conway and
funded by the Mercer's that was then
she's she worked at Cambridge Analytica. And so, Brittany,
she's talking like a pundit. I mean, she's not talking like
someone who's been
she's on a book tour and so she's,
oh, she wrote a
book was run by Kellyanne Conway and funded by the Mercer's that
was then converted to becoming a Super PAC for Donald Trump. They
tried to register with the Federal Election Commission, the
name defeat crooked Hillary, and FEC luckily did not allow them
to do that. So it was called Make America number one. The
Super PAC was headed by David bossy someone that you might
remember from Citizens United, basically, primary dark money
into our politics and allow hold on
dark money. Oh, I
had dark politics before.
No, never happened. Ever seen it? No. It's racist. That dark
money? No, this is bullshit. But I
like it brought dark money into our politics and allowed this
was on
Democracy Now. Yeah. Did Amy jump in and say, Well, you know,
obviously, dark money has been in our politics for a long time
way. I mean, from day one, pretty much
endless amounts of money to be funnelled into these types of
vehicles.
This is a total talking point, this woman's so that we
don't know where all of the money is coming from from these
types of manipulative communications. Oh, he was in
charge of this campaign. Now it's I'm
sorry. This is great. Manipulative communications.
What do you think?
But that's what you do. That's all communications, oh,
marketing is manipulation.
The money is coming from for these types of manipulative
communications. And he was in charge of this campaign. Now, on
that two day long debrief that I talked about, and if you want to
know more, you can read about it in my book, they told
us and explain where you were and who was in the room. So
I was in New York, in our boardroom for Cambridge analytic
his office on Fifth Avenue. And all of our offices from around
the world had called in to video cast. And everybody from the
super PAC and the Trump campaign took us through all of their
tactics and strategies and implementation and what they had
done. Now, when we got to this defeat, crooked Hillary super
PAC, they explained to us what they had done, which was to run
experiments on psychographic groups to figure out what was
working and then what wasn't. Unfortunately, what they found
out was the only very successful tactic was sending fear base
scaremongering messaging to people that were identified as
being neurotic. And it was so successful in their first
experiments that they spent the rest of the money from the super
PAC over the rest of the campaign. Only on negative
messaging.
Oh, no. To net rhotic. negative negative advertising, targeting
Neeraj. I'd say it's a crime almost,
that is evil, evil, evil, evil Laborat guests, these
people are neurotic and then you send them fear mongering
messages. Wow. I mean, like clear and present danger. The
President is a clear and present danger needs to be impeached
immediately because who knows what he could do you mean like
that? Is that is that are we talking about? Brittany? I think
that's
something like that. You know, guys unhinge Yeah,
just bend over here it comes again for you, sir. Clear. Well
deserved.
Thank you. Now we have a couple of others that are in that same
group. Now we have the this guy Kareem Amir. And he talks this
is the one that's do the star with this one. This is him. He's
the complaining. Clip his complaining co director
to people who have come forward from Cambridge analytical. Why
is that? Both of them?
That's the that's the complaint. That's the other one. This is
the that'll be the last clip. The clip before that is a little
lengthy, but it's it's more fascinating than anything so
far. And it's under the you have to look it up under L L Kareem
Amir. Gotcha. All right. And he talks about how they did some
experiments in Trinidad.
To know, Cambridge, Analytica used brown people to do conduct
evil experiments, yes, data with data. And they and they they
psychologically manipulated them. I can't believe this is
going on what is happening to the world?
Well, let's listen to this very funny story.
I asked cream Omer to talk about what Cambridge analytical effort
to suppress the vote in Trinidad and Tobago.
It was important for us to show in the film, the expansiveness
of Cambridge is worth this went beyond the borders of the United
States and even beyond the borders of the EU and the UK.
Because what we find is that, you know, Cambridge use the the,
in pursuing this global influence industry that they
were very much a part of. They use different countries as petri
dishes to learn and get to know how about different tactics and
from improving those tactics, they can then sell them for a
higher cost higher margin in western democracies, where the
election budgets are used to lift remember, I think it's
important to predicate that the election business has become
multibillion dollar global business, right? So remember
that while we are upset with companies like Cambridge, we
allowed for the commoditization of our democratic process,
right? So people are exploiting this now because it's become a
business. And we and as purveyors of this can't really
be as upset as we want to be when we've justified that. So I
want to preface it with that. Now, that being said, what's
happened as a result is a company that Cambridge can
practice tactics in a place like Trinidad that's very unregulated
in terms of what they can and can't do. Learn from that know
how, and then, you know, use it, parlay it into activities United
States, what they did in Trinidad, and why it was
important for us shooting the film, is they led something
called the do so campaign where they admit to making it cool and
popular among youth to get out and not vote. And they
knew the Indian population and the black population. And
there's a lot of historic tension between those two, and a
lot of generational differences as well between those two. And
the do so campaign targeted, it was was done in a way to you
know by looking at the data and look think that the predictive
analysis of which group would vote or not vote, get enough
people to dissuade them from voting so that they could flip
the election targeted at targeted at at the youth. And so
this is really like when
you were so actually do so.
Vote yes, exactly.
And then it became cool not to vote Exactly.
And then you look at the level of calculation behind this, and
it's quite frightening.
Do these people ever see an advertisement for anything
anywhere in their lives?
Now this guy that was yakking away there was one of the CO
directors, tech guys was a blowhard. And every time he
would ask anybody else, anything he jumped in before they could
start talking. And he liked to hear himself talk. But the other
woman, and this is what kind of got my attention was this
particular clip, which is the last clip. And this is the this
is the other co director, woman and she tells a story that is
slightly reminiscent. This is the complaining co director, can
you
two people have come forward from Cambridge analytical? Why
is that both of the people that have come forward, Brittany and
Chris, and also with Carol's writing have been targeted
personally. And it's been a very, very difficult story to
tell. Even with us, when we released the film in January,
every single time we have entered into the country, we
have been stopped for four to six hours of questioning at the
border that stopped by stopped by the border of the US and JFK
Airport where you're taken into the back, ask for all of your
social media handles question for four to six hours every
single time we enter the country since when since we released the
film. So since Sundance since January, we've every time we've
come back into the US and
on what grounds are they saying they're stopping it no
explanation?
Yeah, it sounds a lot like me. I know.
This sounds like the cock and bull story we got from Laura
Poitras, if you recall, she in staffing, we're doing something
and there was always this the same star was never the guys
telling the story. It's always a woman. And they keep talking
about getting pulled over. Not not like you go way back, but
I'm talking about within the recent memory. The woman who is
a co director, producer, whatever it is gets pulled over
Yeah, coming in. She can't say it's TSA. She's
gotten it would be it would be Customs Border Patrol, not to
you.
Well, if somebody pulls them out, and then gives them a four
hour conversation. And it seems to me that this is canned. This
the same Poitras almost identical story. Now is it
possible to getting pulled over, but she but this was since
January, so let's take another look at this and Poitras I think
had the same issues. How many times since January of last
year, I guess are they in and out in in and out in and out of
the country? And why? Yeah. What is she to movies out you're on
the down the road what
what she's doing is insinuating that orange MAN bad has put his
SS Let's see her heights police psi on the case and as making
sure that she's harassed every single time, because you'll get
her We'll get her. Get her you whistleblower you Cambridge
analytical whistleblower. We'll get you we'll get you. Yeah, I
don't believe it. That may be true. I don't
know. But it might be true. But I don't believe that it's going
to end with Trump or said something else is causing it.
And will the case with you is a good example, which is turned
out to be a reasonably good reason, which was there's a guy
with the same name as you that lived somewhere in the northern
states, Oklahoma. It was Montana.
I think it was Oklahoma. And he was also in aviation. Yeah,
yeah. That happened for a couple of years.
Yeah, we the first couple years of the show, you would give us a
rundown. In fact, you even recorded one of the episodes,
one of the moments where the guys grilling you. Yeah.
It was great. Good.
Yes. And I'm sure at the time I said it's obvious. It's obvious.
The Obama administration wants to stifle me. They're harassing
me, John. Well, all of this obviously leads to
OTG going, Oh, no teacher guy, the guy
just be OTG people going, Oh, none of those mean messages can
get to you. They'll never be able to target you properly.
They won't know because it's your data. You need to be
responsible for it. So don't make as much. I've decided
that's my new thing. If you want to be safe, you want your data
to stay safe. It's your data in the first place. Do Don't make
so much of it. Which is why I have the fine Alcatel go flip
three flip phone which is functioning just nicely for me.
For what I need to do all the other work is done still on zoom
as
Alcatel con contacted you and said You want another one of
these phones so thanks for the plug.
In fact I bought I bought another one for my stepdaughter.
She's She's OTG way Oh, she liked it. She liked your phone.
Oh my God. Now this is Ellen. This is not Elise's Ellen. So
this is she actually has recited Kaczynski to me. And I take
credit for it, believe me. Now so I bought a second one. It's
only it's 70 bucks, you know, it's a it's very effective.
battery lasts for a long time. And by the way, I'm not creating
a lot of data, I run new my Linux installed, still running
loose Ubuntu, which is lightweight, it does exactly
what I want. And nothing more. And actually that, that pops in
my head today. Back when we had DOS, we just had command line
DOS, she had Word Perfect. And stuff worked. It was fast. It
may wasn't visual, of course. But if you could, you could get
stuff done pretty quickly. Uh, you, you worked a lot more with
dos than I ever did. But it was very effective to create bat
batch files. You could create little programmes that did
things. And then we got visual with Windows 95. And I believe
since then, all these
things you got when Windows why? Well,
you're to 3.3 point. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. You're right. 3.1.
You're right. I remember running NT 3.1. That was the hot sheet
OS man if you want to be cool. But what's happened is we have
every application that you have on your computer, then the
operating system itself is continuously doing crap in the
background. If it's not looking, pinging for updates, and do I
need to notify it's it's just sucking up all this computing
power. That's why you have to have faster and faster computers
because everybody Yeah, the OS if Windows, it's updating in the
background, it's sharing part of it with other things on your
network. It's sending stuff back to Microsoft information. It's
it's, it's, it's almost like the screen savers back in the day. A
screensaver would kick in and it would you know, your computer
wasn't doing anything. But if it was like a rendering, it will
use up computer resources. This is happening all the time inside
your computer. It's always doing stuff. It's re indexing, it's
making your life easier, but it's not really it's just
slowing down the machine. Anyway, make less make less
data. And don't give it away to people like 23 and me. You paid
for the privilege. And now 23 of me sold the rights to a drug it
developed thanks to its genetic database and your data. And
you're not getting a cut of it. Can you believe this? People are
so stupid. Government funded Android phones apparently that's
the Obama phone comes with pre-installed and unremovable
malware Of course, why wouldn't we be spying on you? Of course
it does.
It got to spy on those poor people. Then my favourite
ring doorbell confirms it fired for employees for watching
customer videos. I was surprised now by but instead of reporting
on this atrocity of Silicon Valley spying on you know a CBS
Austin they'll run a native ad.
We weren't getting the notifications little did Arturo
gara No, those notifications would show this man Henry
Ludwick breaking into his home gara was on a cruise with his
family for Christmas and had spotty Wi Fi so he was not able
to access his video while out at sea. He didn't look until a day
later when his neighbour called him to say they see a car that
did not belong to them in their driveway. On the drive back
home. They looked at the video before calling police are seeing
him kind of look at the front door initially and look for like
a secret key he's obviously looking in the window seeing if
anybody's home trying to get in. The only thing you see on the
rink towards the last clips as he's coming out of the front
door and he's got some of my clothes on which is sort of
interesting. Ludwig was caught on camera over a three hour
stretch in the early morning hours. The day after Christmas.
He broke a window of garish garage and after taking some
personal items also stole his mother in law's car. Obviously
it's just feels incredibly violating and everyone's kind of
nervous and on edge and it had never happened. You know, it's a
nice neighbourhood were at the long dead end cul de sac so we
never thought
all right, so I'm just gonna pause it here. It's almost done
because this is the setup. This is, by the way, Cambridge
analytical lady. This is how manipulative things are. So
Sometimes in marketing is how it works. So we're gonna give you
this human interest story. We feel really bad that people on a
cruise, they didn't get the ring doorbell notification because
they had spotty Wi Fi, which means you've never taken a
cruise again ever. But we have to do something. What can we do
to help solve these problems in our
house would be that kind of a target. It was pretty unusual,
but it's frightening at first. It's funny now, one week left
behind some of his own belongings, including his
driver's licence and is now behind bars facing home burglary
and unauthorised use of vehicle charges. Garrett got the car
back, but does not think he will get back all of the items Ludwig
stole now, Garrett says when he hears that notification from his
ring app, he will look and see what's at his door. We've set up
marine cameras now just to kind of have a little bit of the
overall front of the house and then particularly at night, it's
a little now it's sort of the chime is alarming. You know, it
just sort of jolts your system.
He's got the he's got more ring doorbell videos. He's got the
played the chime. So I know what it sounds like. This is so
despicable.
But you know what's really what gets me is that same old bromide
was a guy if I let's say misheard it left his driver's
licence behind so they could find him.
Yeah, yeah. Sounds really believable.
We hear this story on a lot of these clips where you know, the
the terrorist in Paris at the Hebdo operation, you know, the
guy leaves his driver's licence on your right. Yeah, right. It's
one driver's licence his driver's licence? I don't know.
I've never just casually have my driver's licence someplace
special. I'm robbing the place. Although I don't rob places.
I don't know. I have no idea. No idea.
Anyway, yes, that was a native ad. I caught a couple of weird
native ads of late that were convoluted, but they're always
native ads.
Anything good?
No, not on this list. Oh,
my God. Some new reports of more complaining. There's this
Australian just a bunch of I don't know if the guy's a Nazi
or what he is but his rally against immigration is going on
in these Australians are meeting up and bitching and moaning I
got a weird clip. Somebody sent me this this guy. He's on a
bullhorn moaning and groaning and he's got a huge audience.
And it sounds like a fascist, but it's don't have Australian
flags. There's no fascist flags like we would use a bunch of
play that
is this government's worst fear? This is Australian workers
united against their own courts, recognising their own ethnic
replacement, recognising a problem recognising corruption,
and institutional corruption. Countries under attack, we see
it every day. We feel it when we travelled to work. We are so
congested. Our population is growing so rapidly. And we put
such a kind of private capital is filling our country with as
many immigrants as possible, right? Because they'll live in
smaller spaces. They weren't sick. And I won't complain. You
think too much. You think the assaults, you pick the families,
you demand a higher standard of living, and that is against
their interests. That's why this crime, whether it's violent
crime, terrorism, whatever comes from these immigrants, we are
not supposed to talk about it. Because these immigrants are the
perfect global citizens.
Sounds a bit like someone couldn't lay who would have been
from Europe. Eu possibly. I mean, that's the same kind of
talk they have over there.
Yeah, this is going on should be noted. I don't know what to make
of it personally yet.
No. If you don't have anything,
I have a bunch of things.
I'd like I'd like you to take us into one more. And then I've got
something that we need to deconstruct which is a little
longer.
Okay, I can do. I can go on a flyer right here and give you my
early prediction for who's going to be the vice presidential
candidate if Joe Biden is chosen, which I believe he will
be because John, John Cooper, a real hack Democrat hack, but a
voice of the of the establishment, who's a Twitter
guy, we follow each other. And he is made the claim that Biden
is going to win for that he has the reasons and Biden appears to
be the guy that just gonna pick because he's on the list. He's
on the waiting list. He's going To get picked, who is he going
to pick for vice president? And so I went through the list
trying to find who the possibilities are and did it
now.
I presume that my my pick is not yours. Otherwise, you know,
we've
yours just Stacey Abrams. Yes.
Yeah,
I think Stacey Stacey Abrams is a plant. Intelligence planners
also,
Oh, I thought you meant like actual vegetation.
She might be. I look at her bio, I have which GABA dossier on
her. And it's just just everything.
Women, you are the people that Abrams dossier I like it is that
Microsoft OneNote
everything is just something really, you know how she get on
everything she's she's, she has very few accomplishments, but
yet she's picked for everything she's on everything she could be
I think that a lot of people think she is the number one one
of the candidates for VP. I personally liked the idea of it.
And the Democrats have always been successful. And they've
used a ticket that is, has a broader range from East Coast to
West Coast. And she's an East Coast person, even though she's
from Georgia. So she could say she's from the south. And she
could maybe bring the black vote. But Biden is not the one
suffering from, you know, black nihilism. I mean, I mean,
Buttigieg won't get any black votes. Warren might not get any
black votes. But I think Biden who will because he worked for
Obama will get the black votes, so they don't need a black
candidate. And Cory Booker, I think also is out because he's
from the same region, geographical reason, or region.
So I'm looking to the West Coast, okay. And who on the West
Coast, there's a there's a dark horse. And if you look at the
list of pictures, you'll find your name, you've never heard of
her. And I started looking into her she is quite the character
and she matches a number of criteria as a woman. So you get
that little balance. Now the Democrats have to know that they
that woman is a vice presidential candidate has been
unsuccessful and before but they're expecting it's going to
have to work one of these days. And it's a five foot one very
strange person named Luann. Grisham Michelle Lujan Grisham.
She is the governor, a governor. So she has executive experience.
Unlike Stacey Abrams, she has executive experience. She's the
governor of New Mexico. And she is a real character. She In
fact, I have a clip of her at one of her ads. She did an ad
when she ran, she was a congresswoman. And then she ran
for governor and got it easily because she kicks ass, because
she has radical ideas for how to do that advertising. She's
crawling around here and there. And she's in this case flying
around town and rollerblades and this is the Gershom in the
rollerblades story that took place in the local news
coverage. In New Mexico.
It's hard to ignore if you've seen the campaign out of the
rollerblading. Congresswoman, you probably have an opinion.
New Thirteen's, Catherine ozone asked her campaign about it and
New Mexicans what they think about it, Catherine,
Jessica, it's one of three ads Michelle Lujan Grisham released
this election season and reps say it's by far the most unique
and that's the point. They say they want the ad to stick in
voters minds and many of the ones we spoke to say it does.
People say I'm always moving well, in hard times, you gotta
quit. Oh,
politics aside, plenty have something to say about Michelle
Lujan Grisham latest campaign
has different for sure. Like I especially ran for Congress. You
don't expect to see that. It's really corny, but it should
appreciate that better than the negative stuff.
The Congresswoman received a lot of feedback online to most of it
positive.
We felt like this would be something memorable. If pulled
off.
Gilbert Gago says Christians spokesperson, he says he doesn't
know of many politicians who could pull off an ad like this.
This was
a very fun and positive ad but still reflects her
accomplishments. And in her personality, while they admit
it's different.
She's out there. Being active and it's not just a stuffy suit.
Some are left scratching their heads. Why rollerblades? Yeah,
why do that?
The rollerblades were actually her idea. The cop car
ambulance and military plane raised other's eyebrows. I'm
sure she had permission to do that, right. Turns out Grisham
was never on base for this at GEICO says they were actually on
a private runway nearby.
Our producers got one shot at it and they she took off on the
rollerblades and did it in one take with the plane taking off
so it wasn't anything we planned. Are you knew what was
going to be coming.
Gago says the police car and the ambulance were rented props.
Volunteers actually drove them back to Jessica. All right,
thank you, Catherine. We contacted Gresham's opponents in
the congressional race, Republican Richard Priem, but
did not hear back.
Now she is Latin X.
She's Latin X, she's also a Native American was. She's in
the caucus for but she's in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus,
and she's also in the Native American Caucus. Wow. So she's
got a lot going on. She's the caucus and she's part of his
Hispanic Native American and the caucus for women's issues. So
she's got checks a lot of boxes. And if you read her complete bio
as I have in the dossier, she is pretty much the perfect down the
line Democrat, but she's got a lot of spunk. She's got really
radical ideas for campaigning, and she's a fire she's just a
hot, she's hot in terms of her. You know, she's doesn't put up
with anything. She's the perfect candidate for VP. And I think
she could bring the Hispanic vote in and it would help Biden
a lot. And I don't think it's gonna it would be a very, it's
the biggest plus he could get for a VP. That would make things
kind of interesting, right. So that's my prediction.
The problem with your prediction, which I like I've
never heard of her. I think calling someone with who has
spunk is probably a hightest. I think short people are the ones
that have spunk, and you're a little twerp, you spunky. That
is definitely hightest. Gosh, I mean, the problem is, I'm still
waiting for Hillary to be the nominee. And now you've switched
to Joe Biden, you know, kind of underhandedly?
Well, I'm not just I still have not pulled my Hillary
prediction. But I am saying if Joe Biden II, I made it clear
that if Joe Biden is the candidate, which I believe it
will be up to Hillary doesn't jump in because of Cooper,
saying you will be and I believe he is going to be, and he's
going to have to pick somebody and he's going to, and I don't
think he's going to pick any of his any of his competitors. So
anybody who saw up on stage with him, I mean, nobody that I know
of has ever done that. They never pick a guy that they
debated against, right. She wasn't debating against Trump.
No, no, she's also a Tri Delt. Yeah, yeah,
she's a trade. Dell, you caught that. Yes. Delta Delta Delta.
I don't know if that's good, good, good. But okay, well,
that's reasonable. Although I still I, what I see is the black
vote is in play. And it's not guest Joe as a safe choice. But
if Joe doesn't win, which I really think I I'm not so sure
he's going to make it like physically going to make it
mentally going to make it to the time I'm not being a dick.
There's the possibility of him dropping dead on the campaign
trail, that would be screw up the election.
That's a day record. But my point is to keep them alive.
They know how to do that no matter who becomes VP. The
assumption is, that person will become president because Joe
will never make it through for years.
Yes, and having someone who's a governor, with executive
experience, as opposed to somebody who never got to that
including Stacey Abrams. is a plus you want somebody with
executive experience. You don't just want some some legislative
type person they don't know how to run anything. They just know
how to vote for bills.
She looks she looks the business though. She looks like she could
kick your ass and get something done. She does look like that.
Yeah, she does. But I also think a little bit Klobuchar has a bit
of that look, I like and she's still in the race. How was it?
Yes,
a little bit chart has no executive experience whatsoever.
And he ate her
salad with her comb. That is just a will never leave my
memory. I liked it. I like that. I like that. I like what
she does. She's also a mean spirited person, supposedly, and
I don't like Klobuchar at all and I I can't imagine a Biden
Klobuchar. It may even Klobuchar on a bumper sticker doesn't
work. Does Gresham's a good name. It's a good American
sounding name, even though she's, you know, she apparently
goes back to pre Columbian times. But Biden Grisham is a
good look. I think Biden Abrams is a good sound too, but I don't
think that's going to happen.
Biden, Booker, not so much. You guys think of the bumper
sticker.
This? You're listening to a podcast ladies and gentlemen,
podcasting is is apparently hot, hot, hot. And of course, we're
still looking for exit, which is apparently not going to happen
because no one has any good ideas that we can fulfil. But
Goldman Sachs did a report. I'm sorry, not Goldman Sachs, Morgan
Stanley, did a report on podcast, podcasting and podcast
monetization. And I figured we would have a listen to this as
the Morgan Stanley guide dropped by on CNBC. This is obviously
financial,
famous podcaster. Right. Yeah.
And obviously, they didn't interview me for their report
review anybody that seems but the guy mustard he doesn't need
the interviewing, because he knows the business because he's
been in the business. He
knows that. And I will say, as an aside, killer, Knowlton did
reach out to me and did interview me for a report they
are doing for their client, Spotify. And I thought that
would be fun to do. Then I appreciated and by the way, it
wasn't the American Hill and Knowlton. No, of course not. It
was the Swedish Hill and Knowlton. And they're doing a
report for their client who was in Sweden. And they and they
actually called me and said, Can we ask you a few questions and
that that's, I mean, since you
mentioned Could I have a quick aside because I'm gonna forget
to mention this is a clips on it. But apparently, in Sweden,
Swedish airlines are complaining because now there's a thing
called flight. Flight chain light shaming. Thank you, Greta.
Yep. Yeah. You can be shamed. Yeah, yeah. We shamed we went on
an aeroplane. Anyway. Yeah, now, I'll take the boat to Los
Angeles.
You and Roger McGuane. Will. So CNBC gets this Jumoke on and
maybe I should just preface that in 2005, I built a podcast
network of companies have shows, and we had the model that pretty
much everybody else has now, a typical Adam curry fashion 10
years too early, almost 15 years too early. No Exit, like the
gimlets of the world, etc. But the question is, where's the
money? Is this a bubble? And it is my belief that you cannot
monetize the network. And when I say that I in this case,
specifically, a podcast network cannot be monetized. The main
reason being the Dave Winer, and I set this up on an open format,
open standard RSS, nobody owns it. The first thing we did,
first thing I did in particular, was incentivize and support and
work through the daily source code work with engineers and
software developers around the world to build what we now call
pod catchers or podcast apps. Apple has the most used one.
Personally, I think that a lot of people like overcast but
there's many other apps because of the open nature, no one has
been able to own podcasting. You want to talk about video,
YouTube owns it, number of reasons for that, but they also
had the flash technology very early on and own that.
Podcasting is not owned by anybody. Apple does not own
podcasting. I don't see any indication they want to own it.
But they do want people to use their devices and software while
enjoying it. Spotify is the one with a distant second Pandora
who are trying to become all things podcasting. So we'll
listen to this report. We'll probably stop it to discuss a
few things. Because of course, as you'd expect, it's utterly
stupid.
What is behind the big boost that podcasts are getting not
just Apple versus Spotify, but anywhere you get your podcast,
which is what they say on the pack.
So right off the bat. This woman doesn't she thinks that Apple
owns podcasting that Apple has podcast where Spotify, you
actually have to give them permission to stream your
podcast on their app podcast.
Yeah, well, thanks for having me Contessa. Yeah, look, the audio
market is highly competitive, because it's growing, consumers
are engaging more and more. And we think 2019 We saw about 100
million users in the United States streaming. The almost 50%
of smartphone users are now in subscription streaming. So it's
a big market and there's a lot of focus on it. One way to
differentiate your product is by investing in podcasts. And so
there has been a explosion of podcasts available to consumers.
And there's been a lot of investment by Apple, Spotify,
Amazon and others to try to bring more podcasts to the
consumer and for Spotify. Okay, let's
stop for Second, I don't know what this guy is talking about
about investment. I mean, yes, Apple has a team. And I know
that's an investment. He's making a lot of assumptions
here. And it's not because they want to diversify. Spotify has a
big problem, their cost follow their usage. When you listen to
one song, one stream, there's a cost associated with that to
them that they have to pay to the publisher, record company,
etc. The PRL whatever their deal is. So they're looking for
anything, anything they can own, that doesn't have a per play
usage fee. That's the reason Morgan Stanley. Yeah, this
is really important. This is where they compete. Apple's a
massive company does a lot of things incredibly well, for
Spotify. It's all about audio. And so they've made podcasts
incredibly important to their strategy.
Listening has reportedly ticked up to 4.4 hours weekly. Apple
says it has 800,000 podcasts, how do you differentiate your
service to advertisers? Oh, right
away. There's no other way to do it. We got to do ads.
Yeah. Look, I mean, I think one of the challenges in audio,
whether it's music or podcasts is generally content is not
exclusive. You mentioned the Netflix Apple competition. There
you have exclusive programme, and that's not as easy in the
audio space. So it's really about discovery. You just
mentioned how many podcasts there are how do people like you
and I figure out what to listen to that?
Did you think they really, they really did some research on
this? Because this is the same lie that I heard 15 years ago.
It's about discovery, man, because no one can discover it
when you discover it. It's bull crap. People have no trouble
finding things. They hear about it from their friends. It's not
the front page of apple that matters. It's not whatever
podcast portal of Google or Amazon. People hear about it
from their friends. It's how it's always gone. By the way.
It's how it works with music to you people have no power over
promoting this stuff. It's really senseless.
And so curation and discovery and the user interface. That's
really where the differentiation is increasingly showing up. And
again, I think our survey suggests that for the first
time, Spotify has moved past Apple as the most popular
platform. For podcast consumption and podcasts premium
users actually consume over five hours a week of podcasts. So
you're seeing their consumer base actually even more engaged.
Last hour, we were just talking about 1 trillion music streams
last year, which surely is a record. If streaming music is
seeing a boost and podcasts are seeing this big boost. Who's
losing out?
We'll probably sleep. We'll do. Generally speaking there. Look,
there's probably some cannibalization of music
consumption because of the rise of podcasts, but the big talents
here contessa are smartphone adoption, unlimited data plans.
This is a global phenomenon. Increasingly smart speakers, we
think almost a third of us homes now have smart speakers, and
eventually connected cars. So we're more connected than ever,
which allows for more content consumption. And that's growing
the pie overall.
So So explain to me briefly, Ben, if you could, the money
machine here.
I'm gonna stop just on that the money machine. What do you
think, John, what do you think? What do you think the
extrapolation here is of the money machine?
The big urbanite. But
the money machine here, I get how the Podcast Producer makes
money as she or he or they sell advertising that is either
dropped into the podcast or bumpers it on either end. But
how does Spotify and Apple make money from this?
Yeah, it's a very good question and one that investors are
highly focused on. And I think the answer is today. They're
not. In fact, while podcasts are not new, monetization of
podcasts really is just beginning. And it's an
advertiser.
How long have we heard this? How long have we heard is just
beginning the monetization of podcasts?
Tell me? Well, I would say probably since 2000, before you
started, pod show. So probably around 2003. So at least 1516
I'd say 17 years close to 17 years, at least 15 years.
Yes. Where it's all it's happening. Now. It's, we did
this 15 years ago, we saw that it wouldn't work. You idiots.
Cats are not new. monetization of podcasts really is just
beginning and it's an advertising supported platform
in general, where the the artist or entertainer is reading an ad,
which is pretty old school. But you're just starting to see for
example, Spotify announced some streaming advertising insertion
technology at CES this week.
We have this But 13 years ago, dynamically inserted ads,
advertisers don't want to be a part of it. They don't want the
risk. They do not want their ads showing up on a podcast where
someone might say poop, or something else they don't like,
or I don't know, Trump, that it's not going to work. They
don't want it. And even if they did, people who hate that
podcast, and there's a lot of them, will go after the
advertisers and say these guys are shitting the advertisers
walk away for the same reason. It is no longer a model Morgan
Stanley, CNBC
too, we're starting to see more and more investment in the tech
behind it to make it a more monetizable audience as a highly
engaging media. So I think I think the opportunity is there,
but we're just getting started. There are some small
subscription services that are ad free. But you know, I'd
emphasise the word small today. Oh, yeah. Harvey was
really ahead of his time was
Yeah, Paul Harvey was ahead of his time.
What does that mean? Well, I guess they're assuming that Paul
Harvey who was self syndicated got paid for you know, these
different radio stations that brought poor Paul Harvey little,
these little news snippets had some who suddenly podcasting to
this woman at this woman doesn't know what she
knows she really doesn't know what she's talking about. But
the guy from Morgan Stanley is just as clueless
I thought he was an old pro.
They're making the same assumptions and the same
mistakes we've seen go
on. People have to make new assumptions and new mistakes
that's the way I see it. Well, we've made
lots of mistakes our assumption is is not going to work we could
not do the show we want to do it would not be interesting enough
if we had advertisements and if we did, even then it would still
be the Tommy John's me undies Squarespace Casper mattress of
the world. Because that's the margins of advertising. You can
always get that if you want. If you want to restrict what you do
if you want to be like that.
I think you should replay the Peter Gryphon clip from last
show.
That's a good idea. What is it family guys the name of the
show? Yeah. Okay, here we go.
Here we have got to prove Lois as innocent as right. And the
best way to crack any high profile crime case is to do a
podcast before you have all the facts. Okay. And the key to any
podcast is poor sound quality and tonnes of commercials. All
right, we've got Lois calling in from prison. She's only got
three minutes.
Thanks for looking at my case, guys.
You bet lawyers. My first question is, do you get a good
night's sleep?
Now because I'm in prison and my cellmate is bipolar? Well, if
you get a Casper mattress now you have 100 days to decide if
it's the right mattress for you. I don't have time for this. I
don't have time for underwear that bunches up. That's why I
wear me undies perfect underwear for hanging yourself in your
jail cell.
Can we talk about the case? I have 30 seconds before they haul
me off to the freakin cafeteria.
Sounds like you could use Blue Apron. Have you ever wanted to
receive a vegetable in the mail? That you need Blue Apron? I'm
like obsessed with the stir fry. Brian here likes the Moroccan
beef. I have no opinion on the Moroccan beef Peter Bryan, this
is not art. This is commerce
P that before I go I need a new lawyer. This one made a sexual
past happy.
Oh boy. Everyone knows hiring is a nightmare. At least it was
before zip recruiter, zip recruiter, we vastly
overestimate how many podcast listeners are in a position to
hire someone. Alright.
So to wrap this up, I would like to say that I am a believer in
our model. And I love how well it has worked and continues to
work because 12 years is nothing to be sneezed at. We have an
incredible community of producers who understand the
value for value concept and understand that this show was
produced with many hands and a lot of hands doing a lot of
work, including financial contributions. The only thing
that and this, by the way is our exit strategy. The only way to
exit is to sell the whole kit and caboodle to some to the next
add it up the line
that you're looking at your I think first of all, you have a
negative attitude. But you're overlooking something I think it
should be pointed out, which is when you mentioned discovery,
and how the reason that our show got to where it is which is got
a lot of listeners and it's a lot of it's word of mouth but
discovery used to be with music which did did kind of ended
during the Napster era. Used to be the radio Yep. Because you'd
listen to songs on the radio and if there was a demon to pay all
the days for people would pay they have the songs done. We
have the no agenda stream Exactly, which is a 24/7 stream
of our choices of the best podcasts that you can listen to
on a streaming basis. And if you could, jerry rigged it up just
right, you can have it just streaming in your car as you're
driving around. And the no agenda stream is a good example
of, I don't know anybody else doing that. And that's really
the future of the whole thing, it seems to me, which are these
channels of pod casts, which is what we have, even if you go to
one of the networks, these podcast networks, they don't
have a channel of podcast, they just have a bunch of them. They
have an array, there's a difference between an array of
shows and a stream of shows. Were the only ones that
pioneered the streaming shows. And if
I may add, when you go to the stream, if you're if you go
there on the no agenda stream.com You're in there in a
chat room with people who are also recommending things. I
mean, it's a whole ecosystem. I think we've cracked it. And I
like that we have other shows who are also taking donations. I
don't think we have a single show that has any ads in their.
In their episodes that we we ban that I think from the get go. I
don't think anyone does that. Lots of people who are on the
stream have value for value propositions and it's working.
And long story short. Take your money out of Morgan Stanley,
those guys are idiots.
I'm going to show my little by donation to no agenda. Imagine
all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fun.
Well, after all that self promotion we have a very short
list today. Starting with Christopher Pike food, I think
in Buckeye, Arizona came in and had $11.11 followed by Ron Van
Dyck in Holland. $200. Richard Hey, Hillenbrand, eight bow at
oh six which is the lopsided boob. Matthew Mongan 69 Maurice
de Haas and den hug. Hey 2555 Anthony Rodriguez in Tucson
Arizona. 5510 Andrew Gardner has got a birthday coming up for the
510 it's got something to do. Happy birthday. It'll be up
coming coming coming. Amber Simpson 5510. Sure. Mike and
Ewing, New Jersey. 5460s 546 770 threes by the way. Katie Katie
to FTX
70 threes K five ACC.
Robert kerbeck in Essex Ville, Michigan 50. The following
people or $50 donors. Right then 10 hava and pine ocher Very
good. Sir. Lab Rat. Well, he continues to donate and probably
stops now get it right. Screw Roy 10 haev in pin gender pin
jacker you'll have to
support us again to get it right.
Sir lab rat of the Texas hill country you want to read this
note, I think is is interesting.
As I continue to share the show with my family. There's one
thing I found that really brings my Gen Z age human resource to
the table. It's the no agenda animated show. This is what's on
YouTube yet just searched no agenda animated. These clips are
short, well produced and have the perfect amount of punch him
in the mouth as we say hit him in the mouth and draws these Gen
Z kids into the no agenda family. I would like to add my
daughter and Nika I think it is Annika it's I have squiggly
lines here. Yeah, I don't know. I can't say it either to the
dame driveless. There's nothing better than educating the next
generation on the importance of keeping one's amygdala at a
healthy size. Thanks to both of you and Phillip producers. For
my daughter. Could you please play John Brenners Okay. Bless
you. Sorry. And a goat karma. Oh, John's Jahad John Brennan.
John's Okay, Boomer. Yay. So bless you again. Let's see.
Okay, Boomer. Okay, Boomer is okay with you. It's okay with
me. Okay, Boomer who came over? It's okay. Yeah.
Baby up Thank you, sir lab. Thank you, sir. Lab Rat of
Texas. So yes, I agree. Dame Jennifer does a great job on
animated no agenda. Then I get the same response and my
daughter who really hasn't listened to a long time. I
started listening again after she saw i She had to show her
the animated Dogen and she laughed and said Ah, this is
good. And now they're listening. So you're right. It's it's
perfect for this generation.
had to say. Really Robert Deccan A's up on the list. These are
all $50 donors name and location, Fairfax, Virginia,
Rawson touch cov in London, UK. Kimberly Redman in Toronto,
Ontario, Jonathan Ferris and liberal Kansas. And that's it.
Boom done. Very short list today. Hopefully, things start
to pick up as the year progresses.
Yeah, we do hope so indeed. And uh, since we have a few moments,
I went to the PIO box. I want to thank sir dude named Ben
autonomous. For sending me the copy of reason magazine had a
really nice spread on Mobile Loaves and Fishes community,
first village, and let me see, he's a big fan of synonymous of
Dogpatch and lower Sloboda. In fact, he says he's adopted him
as his no agenda spiritual father, because he says, sweet,
just as you had to say goodbye to your dad last month. I had to
bury my own biological father earlier this summer, and I still
miss him terribly. I love hearing John reads your Animus
is incredibly well reasoned and code sprinkled missives every
few weeks. I assume he's not just a highly skilled spook, but
probably a well heeled world traveller. I can only fantasise
that he might welcome me as the spiritual son he's never met,
and someday deemed me worthy to be included in his will. Yeah,
that. We all want that. And then, I think it was anonymous,
but I got two great books and I really love books. Laurel Canyon
covert ops and the dark heart of the hippie dream, weird scenes
inside the canyon. You ever heard of this book? No, but
I I don't know how he or she has anything to do with once upon a
time in Hollywood
is probably similar. I've seen that one.
No. And yeah, I'm thinking of the movie.
And the other book is by Lincoln Lawrence, where we controlled
the assassination of President Kennedy.
That should be interesting. Yeah. So
it's I love I love getting books. Thank you very much. And
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I have a request from Sir Chris Wilson from Down Under I just
left my friend's studio. He had some session work playing bass.
Sadly, I don't have anything for you today. Tomorrow I'll be
programming my Asterix system. What I do Chris is a crazy guy.
A small favour, Kylie that's his keeper. Kylie's old school
friend Leone needs an F cancer and some goat karma. They found
spots on her liver and she starts chemo on Monday. Yes, and
we had a couple other one or two for Neil Pierre, of course an F
cancer and some jobs karmas.
Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs for jobs.
No surprise shortlist for that as well. But we say Happy
belated birthday. No Happy Birthday. And in fact to Justin
Edelman. 33 the magic number for him today. Sir Ray Jacobson of
Ashland. Virginia will be celebrating his 58th trip around
the sun tomorrow. And Andrew Gardner says Happy Birthday to
his daughter michelina Who is celebrating today I believe
happy birthday for everybody here at the best podcast in the
universe. Well, it's been a few shows, but we do have a nice
thing to take care of.
Show. Grab this blade here.
Ooh, yeah, that's the short one. But it'll work. It's good. I got
my hand perfect. Up on the podium please. Shawn That's
right Shawn. Thanks to the supports $1,000 or more to the
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for your support in producing the no agenda show. No one. It's
like a party. The party blowing out my air. Yes, we have a
meetup reports to start with. This is the meetup from Long
Island. Our first meet up in Long Island. Tom Starkweather.
You know him? Well, Tom has done work for for the no agenda show
producing in Manhattan. He also does quite a few end of show
mixes along with his clearly better half. Alexis? Yes, I want
to say Alexis, and they recorded their meet up the way they
should do. We're coming to
you from Long Island, the first Long Island meet up with host
Andrew Grasso.
Yeah, we hope that many more one time executive producer here.
I'll do that many more times as well. And great time.
I'm Tom Starkweather. And you are
I'm Josie and I am Andrew's wife. I'm seven months pregnant.
So expecting our first child in two months. And I would love
some good karma. Hi, hello world here in St. James. Not the walk.
But we're gonna get there.
Hey, I'm Mike the boyfriend Bushwick and I'm really glad to
be out here in the town. Hi,
I'm Alex. You might know Alex from the station ID in the
mining Yes,
I meant of course Alex not. So that goat karma out right away.
That was a good request. All right, here's what's coming up
meetups in the future. Now, Mimi sent me what I have so this the
first upcoming one is the 16th Thursday that makes sense. And
that'll be an awesome the awesome local 512 Doc's backyard
and Sunset Valley seven o'clock in the evening. It will be the
first meetup since the meetup meet shoot event. And Sir Scott
Barron out of the no agenda, armoury is hoping we can get
some photos and share some stories from the event and
additionally they'll be taking a collection for the show with a
goal to gain a group associate producer credit this coming
Friday we have the Charlotte meetup number to seven o'clock
in evening as well as Sycamore brewing look for the large
crackpot and buzzkill heads, bio camera and organising that now
there's a change on the New York City meetup. It'll now be five a
clock five o clock and this is Athena and Alex are organising
join us in the afternoon in the heart of the silly city have
swollen amygdala for much needed post-holiday midwinter relief
and joyous camaraderie that will be at the Laurel a beer garden.
And again at the new time it was two o'clock and now it is 5pm on
Saturday. Also on Saturday flight of the no agenda on the
other coast in Los Angeles that will be at 2pm that will be
right near lax. I believe. It's the proud bird food bazaar.
Bring your appetites and thirst as Leo Bravo next Saturday. No
agenda tune man tour continues. This is Jesse Coyne Nelson. He
will be in the AMIGO pub in Amman, Jordan. Please if you are
anywhere near please join this meetup. That'd be spectacular.
Again, Saturday the 18th in the AMIGO pub in Amman, Jordan,
Nashville will be celebrating its six week cycle on that
Saturday as well. Make sure you go to no agenda meetups.com to
get all the information on the horizon. I'll just give you a
quick list. Moscow in Russia on the 25th East Westminster,
Massachusetts also on the 25th Atlanta Georgia on the 25th.
Then on the 26th Alexandria, Virginia Philly, the end of the
month Colorado Springs. And remember on February 21, the
keeper and I will be at Delray Beach in Florida. And we're
looking forward to seeing everybody there at the meetup no
agenda meetups.com which we can get all the information where
you can find out what meetups are happening near you if you
can't find one, start one, two great place to get to know
people hang out non triggering conversation and meet children
from other lands is good for you. It's good for your amygdala
good for your health
sounds good?
Yes. When are you so when you go into another one next week, I
try to organise that Silicon Valley when pretty soon.
Oh, good.
Now I have a couple of clips. I have a series of clips but I
have a one clip that's kind of a standalone and it has to be
played because it's got two plus marks that music is funny. Yes,
and this really won't make me one I really have. I really am
fearful, especially since the seven is starting with the 787
Dreamliner fiasco, where they outsourced everything and it
became impossible to make the plane it finally got it off the
ground.
Well, oops. Oh, did Boeing just issue a strike? And that
was my mic. Okay, cashed it out podcast. So I I've been very
worried about Boeing and this is the report that democracy now
produced I never heard I heard some of these snippets but this
this this presentation by Amy I think was the best
me inquiry into the plane crash in Tehran comes as the Jets
manufacturer, Boeing is facing even more scrutiny over its
troubled 737 Max jet has released internal email show
Boeing employees talking about deceiving federal regulators and
joking about potential safety flaws in the planes design ahead
of the two fatal plane crashes that killed all 346 people on
board and Indonesia and Ethiopia. In one email and
employee wrote quote, this aeroplane is designed by clowns
who are in turn supervised by monkeys, unquote. And another an
employee asked a colleague, quote, would you put your family
on a max simulator trained aircraft I wouldn't, unquote.
And a third worker wrote and apparent reference to
interactions with the FAA quote, I still haven't been forgiven by
God for the covering up I did last year, unquote. The Boeing
737 Max has been grounded worldwide.
Your thing is, this is not new. I mean, we had these messages
weeks ago. This is now just I guess, because of the Iranian
crash or the Ukraine airlines crash that they're dredging it
up. And now that guy's a hook. It is a hook.
Yeah.
Yeah. And I never heard the there's a he's reading these
notes. I mean, they're designed by clowns I heard by never heard
supervised by monkey. So they've been clipping these clip these
little snippets. I just thought it was funny. I just wonder
about Boeing. I mean, you. It's not unusual to have disgruntled
employees. That's for sure all companies have them. And
I don't think there's Yeah, but it's not nice to hear that about
something that's flying through the air. Yeah. I got this. I
don't want to hear these things.
I got a Boeing report from CNBC spot the gaff,
a new twist in the saga of the Boeing 737 Max as internal
messages were released, showing what Boeing Boeing employees
were saying about the max one reads, this aeroplane is
designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys.
I gotta hand it to CNBC for the acting little better than when
Amy did. I mean, she really put some emphasis into it did a good
job
about joins us now with more fallout from this latest
embarrassment for Boeing. But Phil, does it reveal anything
new that's problematic for the airline?
Not? Did you hear it?
Reveal? No. No, didn't reveal anything new about the Arab
glisten now with more fallout from this latest embarrassment
for Boeing. But Phil, does it reveal anything new that's
problematic for the airline.
She apparently thinks Boeing is an airline What an idiot.
Yeah. I didn't catch it though. So yeah, she got away with it.
Well,
I listened to it 18 times you know, before you can't say yeah,
we listen. Again. This proves our point about you know, you
listen and listen and listen to because we produce these clips.
You have to listen to them over and over. You start picking
stuff up.
I have this I've had this, this clip for at least a week, maybe
even three shows. I just wanted to put it out there
Universal Music Group. It's the world's biggest music label,
home to Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and greats like
The Beatles, and now to be shared with a consortium led by
Tencent universals owner Vivendi disclosing on Tuesday that it
has finalised an agreement to sell a 10% stake to the Chinese
firm, and its CO investors. The deal valued universal at $34
billion and the consortium has an option to buy another stake
by early 2021. Talks between the two groups were first revealed
in August. The agreement will allow both to expand in a
recovering global market, with Tencent getting more access To
us artists and universal tapping into Korea's Kpop and other
Asian stars, the revenues are their 2018 saw a fourth year of
strong growth. After a decade of decline, much of the upsurge
driven by Spotify and other streaming services, they made up
nearly half of all revenues. The deal will also be music to the
ears of Vance on bollore, the French billionaire who controls
Vivendi and who's been seeking to cash in on the revival,
I think this will have more implications and people
implications that people realise the Chinese don't like all kinds
of content. And it's true man you know, and Universal Music
Man is that's a big one. That's a that's a really big one. And
we sold everything sold everything to the Chinese could
work.
34 billion at all backlist.
Yeah. Oh, yeah, sure. Well, it's all streaming. Money. Money in
the Bank. It's the only thing we don't have. But
I'm happy man. And every single day I show up to do this show,
which is every day because we're always working on it. I am so
thankful I get to do this job. Very, very thankful.
Well, you're thankful. Yes, we have. Are we wrapping?
I'd like to.
Okay, well, if you want to wrap it I did want to do a little bit
about the worldwide protests. But we can turn our
back show no, I think if you want to do it now we can do it.
I don't want to do it. Stop. Stop stopped the end of
show tune. Well, then you got to listen to a bunch of clips
including the French women protest which is new. Oh,
no, no, no, we'll do we'll do that on the next Sunday. Which
will be Thursday. Thursday's
good for talking about Ryan's Moe Factz with
Adam curry episode number 20 is up on no agenda stream you're
right John. It's a great place to go listen to cool podcasts
discovery it's built into it. No agenda stream.com And you don't
have to get an app you don't have to buy it.
Yes on the it's on the internet is on the web just clicking the
button to get done.
And have show mixes Lee Oh, love pukes or Chris Wilson and who's
the third one from like to have a credit on third one. But we
definitely will be back with you on Thursday to bring you another
two to three hours of media deconstruction. I am coming to
you from opportunity zone 33 Here in the frontier of Austin,
Texas FEMA Region number six in the governmental maps, remember
us at the VOR act.org/na. Until then, in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley. I'm John C. Dvorak. We
return on
Thursday. Please join us right here. No agenda stream.com no
agenda show.com I no agenda. Until then. Adios, my photos and
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