You can't handle the Yak Adam curry Jhansi Devora Thursday,
April 28 2022. This is your award winning combination media
assassination episode 1446. This is no agenda, tweeting my life
away and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill
Country here and FEMA Region number six in the morning,
everybody. I'm Adam curry, from Northern Silicon Valley where I
declare this seven DS day. I'm John C. Dvorak.
Buzzkill.
Oh, hold on a second. We got something for that. Let's see,
he's calling it seven. He's declaring it 70s day that makes
mean that something is happening with our call back to the 1970s.
Time now, for know what gender 70s Flashback
just one of many jingles I'm sure will receive.
Here's the deal. Yeah. Here's the deal. Oh, hello, Joe. Here's
the deal. Here's the deal, no joke.
I have a list of 70s terms, that some of them came from the late
60s and get swept over the 70s and even went into the 80s. But
most of them are from the 70s. I'm gonna have this huge list.
Huge list. It just is Oh, wow. On it. Of course. Yes. Good. But
it's not the one I wanted. The ones I picked. Oh, I could use
it. I
I'm going to use 10 of these words in today's show. Okay.
It's up to you.
Ignore them or ring the bell? I know that you're aware.
I think you'll miss probably most of them. Oh, really? Oh,
yeah. Yeah, you'll miss it. Because you're kind of already
talking this way. And wow. And
and then I'm going to drop in a term that I've isolated as only
from the 80s. There's no way it was ever a 70s term. And I'm
going to use that one. And it will be interesting to see if
you can that's the only one I wonder if you can spot. It'd be
interesting to see how you're going to do this. So you're
going to have a normal conversation with me. But yet
you have this background process running right in
to insert insert words throughout the show. Okay? Yeah.
All right. Oh,
come on, man that you already have three of them now.
There's only seven. I told you. I'm not using Oh, wow. Okay to
them?
Well, everybody wants to know our opinion.
was usual about Twitter about Elon Musk buying toy? Yeah,
you're the one who said he wasn't gonna do it? No. That's
not what I said. I said he will destroy Twitter. That's what I
said. That's very different. It's very different from he's
not going to do it. And I had, I had a whole opinion, but I read
your sub stack.
And it helped me a little bit form an opinion of what I think
might really be happening. Another opinion number two,
yeah, but he to read throughs version 2.0. Still, the result
is still the same thing. But it's a little different based
upon your your substack which was outstanding, I might say.
Yeah, movie.
Before we do that, let's, let's just have some fun listening to
the M five m talking about this deal of Elon Musk purchasing
Twitter, the deal is done. Twitter has been sold to Elon
Musk. My company meter says there's something just not great
about this. He talks about it being a free speech platform.
I'm not sure what that means. This guy has no experience
whatsoever. With any of the lines of business involved in
Twitter, it seems to me that it's about free speech of
straight white men. And in many ways Twitter has been a dark,
dark place. I hope it doesn't get any darker. Yeah, this is a
weird guy.
It's gonna be a private company. Our public conversations
shouldn't be at the whims of anybody, Amazon founder Jeff
Bezos, also throwing shade at the deal. questioning whether
China would gain more influence over Twitter. If you have $44
billion and you use it to buy Twitter, you make bad decisions.
This affects all of us in terms of misinformation. You know, I
guess billionaires want to take over free speech and I'm not
here for it. He talks about it being a place where there's
trust where there's open algorithms, so it's a lot of
words and it's kind of a word salad. I'm confused about what
to do. You know, we all use Twitter. Do I stop or do I wait
and see what happens and for me, that is something that is a bit
scary.
It was beautiful to see just for however long this lasts of
apparently people can post anything they want now.
Bots are returning to everyone's account to follower numbers are
up people who are shadow banned are no longer shadow banned.
Have you been following
Some of these, these observations, tweets and say,
Hey, can you see this now? Can you see me? Yeah, and people
Yeah, I see your follower count go up. No. Oh mine did.
Yours didn't go up at all. Not even 100 Or two. Yeah, now
really, I must have gone up at least 500.
And it's all bots, it's crap.
Get a bunch. I must have bots already. It's Bitcoin bots. Coin
boss. That should be that was. So that was obviously I didn't
make that super cut. But there was an even better clip that we
have from Ari Melbourne from MSNBC, who just without without
even understanding how how blatantly he's letting the truth
come out. Or what you set by yourself. Media Corp due to
health is just this one of the most beautiful clips, it's 30
seconds. I think it'll be an evergreen, you own all of
Twitter or Facebook or what have you. You don't have to explain
yourself. You don't even have to be transparent. You could
secretly ban one party's candidate or all of its
candidates, all of its nominees. Or you could just secretly turn
down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of
something else. And the rest of us might not even find out about
it till after the election. Oh, no. Elon Musk says this is all
to help people because he is just a free speech.
Philosophically clear, open minded helper.
Gee, is it possible you think that could happen during the
election that they were dialed down opponents and maybe not
talk about the bow Hunter Biden laptop, stuff like that? Yeah.
Jim Psaki these guys are so these guys are so I don't know
what their problem is. So
they just don't be is beyond?
Of course, sometimes, of course, you know what's going on? You
know exactly what it is. Because they know that this is exactly
how it's worked. And they're worried that they're going to
lose this capability.
It's not like Ari doesn't know how the system works. Democrats
a stop that that's the difference between you and me. I
think there's a level of sincerity that you don't think
exists.
Wow. Well, it's very sad if he's 100%. Sincere. Hey, maybe that
guy's dope. So now you go. Now you're getting the White House.
Also quite concerned. He has Jen Psaki,
breaking news, Twitter agreeing to let Elon Musk purchase this
purchase. Give a response to that. And does the White House
have any concern that this new agreement might have President
Trump back on? Oh, Trump? Well, no comment on a specific
transaction. What I can tell you as a general matter, no matter
who owns or runs. Twitter, the President has long been
concerned about the power of large social media platforms.
Oh, that power? He's always even know what they are.
Well, you know what? Well, this is section 230. Talk is what
this is the get the ramp and the oh, now section 230. Maybe we
may need to look at it. The President has long been
concerned about the power of large social media platforms.
What they have the power they have over our everyday lives,
has long argued that tech platforms must be held
accountable for the harms they cause. He has been a strong
supporter of fundamental reforms to achieve that goal, including
reforms to Section 230, enacting antitrust reforms requiring more
transparency, and more. And he's encouraged that there's
bipartisan interest in Congress, in terms of what hypothetical
policies might happen. I'm just not going to speak to that at
this point in time.
Yes, section 230. anti anti competitive. Yeah, we should be
looking at all this. So before we get to your substack, what
really happened over the weekend, it was quite
interesting how we went from poison pill not gonna happen to
all of a sudden No, it looks like the deal is done looks like
it looks like is happening. And of course, it was a bloodbath
Monday on the on the market in the markets. It was the Dow
Jones was down almost 1000 points. And now, I heard a
couple of things. One is that Twitter might be on set to
report really bad earnings. And so they they didn't want to have
the share price go down too much, because that would give
Elon the opportunity to bid lower. Did you have any insight
on this?
Nobody's I didn't see any of that. So this was this is my
line around though.
For why why did why do you think this happened so quickly?
Suddenly in the background?
I thought well, I was started probably before we knew about it
and they
have no I mean, they just I think that the word is that the
shareholders demanding because they wanted to make some quick,
quick profits and, you know, get out of dodge, because Twitter is
always blast
It is a does a dog it just in sheep's clothing and I don't
know I never know what the speed of it it just it's just happened
I did poison pill thing we poor woods and I were discussing what
happened to that I didn't do anything No
I thought that they had filed it and it was you know I think
right now the company is sabotaging the deal I think the
numbers went out back and and the employees there's a good
Babylon B video that's floating around I may have posted on no
agenda social. But you know the police being all bent out of
shape about this whole operation apparently is woke me I
suggested that they were sabotaging as well. And I
immediately got hit back. No, they were told to freeze the
code, but many changes, right? People don't. Yeah, you're told
to freeze the code and everybody obeys.
Yeah, please. Yeah, exactly. When you're? Yes, that's what
techies do. Of course they lockstep obey, they don't know
about throwing a wrench in the works or kicking somebody in the
nuts. They don't know anything about that. So by the way, I had
to disrupt STATCOM. I do have to mention somebody because I, I
had to go back and within a few minutes, but I had to add a
disclaimer on one of the tweets that I had posted within the
thing because people kept saying, you know, that was
unserious? I had one of those same tweets, a similar tweet in
the newsletter, and I want to read this tweet, okay. Because I
had a bunch of tweets interspersed within the call.
Yeah, showing people being all panicky.
So this one is from Dr. Matt Walsh, Women's Studies school.
And he says, my four year old pan genders, child, Star Dust,
just asked Matt, if Elon Musk takes control a Twitter, will a
hate speech be normalized? Is democracy over will life even be
worth living? I looked at them and replied, Yes, yes and no.
And we simply held each other and sobbed.
Yeah, Matt Walsh is even his Twitter description, their
women's studies, if he's, this is all obviously a joke, because
he is he's like a ban and war room type guy. Now, I will say a
couple of things about this guy. It's extremely well done. For
example, he has the four year old pan child called calling a
man's child, not saying Dad says, Matt, I like that too.
Which is a good bit. And then he does the other one he calls the
kid them because at four years old kid has been properly taught
by the teachers of this country to be decided to be at them.
I just thought it was a beauty. So I had to put a little
disclaimer on there saying this is not a serious tweet as a
satire. But yeah, that's I guess some people were, did you know
that this is not true? This tweet was out of sight.
Was that on your list?
Honestly, if I'm not sure,
don't worry, man, I think I can I think I can catch them all.
Now, but let's just talk about your substack per se, you're
looking good. This was this was old Silicon Valley. Knowledge as
in length of in depth of historical knowledge of how
things work. And this was, well, why don't you just give us
synopsis because this was, I don't know Fred Gibbons am I
supposed to know who uses Fred Gibbons was the very sad story.
He's a professor, but he started he was one of the big three. In
the beginning of the personal computing revolution. It was
Bill Gates, it was a Mitch Kaye poor with Lotus and then Fred
Gibbons with personal snow, where he's the guy who left the
Beatles.
Pete best, best, best. So Fred was the third guy and the big
three that were kind of run it and dominate the early days. He
brands, personal software, and people are going to look it up
as to the kind of stuff they did was very early on, office kind
of things. And pre pre Microsoft doing it. And Fred, this was I
think he's in his 20s, or something he was is a ski or
avid skier had a stroke. Oh, on the slopes. And it took him
years to recover from it and had to screw it up all his is being
in the business. So he went off and became a he's the guy by the
way, he one time I saw him at some some meeting. And he made
sure to, to corner me and to tell me this is I think in the
90s He says, I'm the one who who invented the term information at
your fingertips. Bill Gates.
stole it from me. I totally believe that. Oh, boy, I totally
believe it to course. And it's not the kind of thing gates
would dream up. And it's not a great slogan, guys, as far as I
know. No, I've never heard one slogan is not a slogan guy or a
joke teller. No, hey, Two Jews walked into a bar is not going
to do that. So Gibbons is, is a great guy. And he's a became a
professor in electronic engineering, but he teaches a
lot of business courses. And so I had lunch with him about two
or three years ago. And he says, he says to me, he says, Elon
Musk is the real deal, because there's all these guys that come
and go from Silicon Valley. They're their kind of lucky
entrepreneurs, but he's actually a guy who, who is a visionary.
And thinks way he thinks outside of the box, and everything
you've seen from him is maybe did he ever make any money in
anything? Or Is he is he Oh, again, the Brian Jones of this?
Did Gibbons. Yeah. Did he make any money in Silicon Valley? No,
no, only the Brian Jones cheese. As far as I know, I don't he's
not poor. And he's lives in
a house in Palo Alto, you make plenty of money just sitting
there. Right? So he's, he's okay. But so when he tells me
that it's okay. And I didn't really think much about it. But
then I've watched much since then, with that in mind. And I
have to say that the reason he busted by Twitter's for business
reason that he's not talking about. And then I start thinking
about some of the elements of Twitter that were they're just
throwing money away. They're not advertising properly. They're
not using the user base. They're not doing anything right there.
You're running clickbait ads, here and there, and they stink.
I think it's a goldmine. And so the only question I have is,
where does the goldmine come from? The sub stack explains
very well about how much you can glean from even a list of a
database of email. How much is that? Some of this has been
added, of course, has continued to be used to understand
your business. I had years ago, when I was doing this radio show
called Software Hard Talk. I had a guy on in the 80s in the 80s
guy comes in, maybe the early 90s. I gotta listen, I gotta
hear this show Hard Talk from John C. Dvorak. I'm
your industry. And I didn't name the show.
The
I think, is maybe around 9394. Because the guy comes in, he's
got these algorithms got all this stuff. He says, here's what
we do. And I wished I'd lost his card as I would tend to do. And
because I've always wanted to get a hold of this guy, again,
see what he's up to. But he at the time had this company that
would go into a corporation, and then down, get all the email,
without really, you know, identifying anybody. Yeah.
Right. And slammed through all the email messages from person
to person, it just everything and be able to glean out
expertise, based on who people wrote about what they said what
they did, and figure out that there are people within the
company that would be good at a job they're going to have open,
that's going to be a very special job for somebody that
knows about, you know,
you joints or who knows what he says you can. He says that most
companies are filled with talent that they don't, they don't know
how to tap. And he and he talked about how you could do this by
analyzing email. And I always thought this was like, his ties
being a breach of privacy. I always thought it was genius.
And that's the kind of thing that Facebook kind of does.
Yeah. Twitter has the better opportunity, they can kick total
ass if they wanted to pull a stunt like that just based on
public tweets. So you don't even have to read their email to do
it. It's got to be worth a million billions, billions of
dollars. It's just, it's just wide open for that. But they're
too stupid. Because there's moderating and trying to protect
the Democrat party to ever take advantage of it. I think you're
absolutely right. And it doesn't even have to be advertising. So.
So just a couple of things where we get to my kind of conclusion
where I'm at right now. First of all, the unleashing of the bots
and everything. I think that has another reason, you know, why
would they necessarily do this? Why would they sabotage it in
that manner? I think the deal right now is in due diligence,
they have until October 24 to complete the deal. In that time
period.
There's a breakup fee if Elon Musk pulls out for reasons other
than stipulated like you know, lies lies of their of their user
numbers could be one I mean, there's a lot of you know how
many I he probably has a million out if he has out but
But doesn't really matter.
The Breakup fee is a billion dollars. So it would be it would
be a fun thing to do.
Just to take them all the way to the end and melt down the entire
Twitter universe for a billion dollars that that if you have a
lot of billions that could be like it's a fun ticket,
something to to waste some money on. Now Twitter also has a
breakup fee of a billion dollars if they if there's if they
accept a an offer from another suitor another company. And I
find it odd that no one has stepped up. I mean, if if Elon
if the valley knows how smart Elon Musk is how dumb is the
valley? Where's John Doerr? You know, where's Sequoia? Capital?
Eldo they're probably in the deal with Elon. But where are
all the other? Where's Google? Or apple? Or no one no one is
interested in making an offer. I just find that odd. Google
apparently in 2014 and there's some video some tape of it
filter. I have a copy. offered to by Twitter, they weren't
going to go for it.
This was after you know, the one of the guys behind Twitter's has
ever had.
Evan Williams, who? Who invented blogging, he, by the way,
Twitter didn't start as a microblogging platform just to
correct you. It started as a podcast platform.
Well, when I listened to the lecture from ever head,
who's not a silicone, it's been who hated me
to join the Club.
He they made it sound like it was a pot, it was always a
makeup microblogging platform bullshit. There was only it was
audio, audio, it was the when we're not when we're pod show,
and then they never really, they did launch for about a month,
and then they close it down. And they took the whole
infrastructure of RSS and turn it into Twitter. And you know,
and of course, RSS didn't scale for them that way. So that's why
you had the fail whale for years. And it started out only
his text messaging, if you remember, he couldn't even you
couldn't even do it online.
Do you remember that? I don't remember any of that.
Yeah, I got a weird memory that way. But okay, microblogging
platform. So as I'm looking through, you know, what could
happen in it? First of all, if you don't the platform,
everybody and everybody can say whatever they whatever they
want, I think the game kind of gets less fun. Right now. It's a
real game between left right, you know, black, white, you name
it, like, Oh, let's see what I can say before I get it before I
get to suspended. Oh, he got kicked off Twitter. That's an
outrage, you know, the game kind of breaks. I think that will be
super detrimental to the entire entire operation. But you
already heard Saki saying, Oh 230 anti competitive section 230
who have said we're going to do the European Union, they
actually will block shit they don't want now they're doing a
lot of this already. They have that new Digital Services Act,
which makes it very clear that hate speech cannot even be
posted and you have to have all kinds of systems to get rid of
it and be able to remove it immediately. And so that was
gonna be if if it truly is Elon Musk doing the Free Speech say
whatever you want. I think the European Union maybe other
countries are going to block it. There's
I've never really
envied anybody who has to run Twitter who gets the call from
the president from Zimbabwe. You know, like, Hey, man, people
trying to kill me. Shut that shit down. Or hey, man, this
guy's no good, you know, baby McCrone? Hey, you got to, you
know, you got to press down on that LePen getting too popular.
I mean, you can just imagine what the, what the call list is
like.
Yeah, but you know, there's the other side of it too, you know,
Craig's List. And the thing about Twitter and their blocking
has always bothered me is that you can report Carl Reiner the
number one hater on Twitter, who and people I know for a fact
that been reporting him left and right about calling Trump a
criminal and he's still doing it. By the way, go to the Carl
Reiners feed. It's just all about Trump is always been about
Trump. This guy should have been kicked off. Well, this is not
about Trump
is still about Trump. If you go right now and go look, you'll
see every other tweet, or every tweet will be about Trump.
On in meanwhile, and people have also talked about being
impersonated. I know one guy personally, who's got copies of
him floating around Twitter. He bitches and moans about it
constantly. Nothing comes of it. Oh, that's you
saying
I'm sorry. I was looking up Carl Reiner. And somehow you slam me
and I missed it. No, I didn't slam me. I was just saying that
you have like phony Adam curry people.
of Twitter that you can't get rid of. You've hit UK you have
issues with them. Yeah, don't do anything about it. No, no, I,
but if you're like, you know, but Trump gets kicked off the
platform and all these other things happen that are all Oh,
geez, we got to get rid of that person. I mean, they have
literal Nazis. Nazis in terms of Black Lives Matter Nazis on the
platform, calling for violence, and they don't do anything about
is really unbalanced. Yes.
So I'm thinking what, so after reading your substack, I'm like,
Okay, I know Elon Musk is a government shill, everything, he
just launched another NASA Space X mission
Skylink, there's so many things, he works to government angles
better than anyone. That's the way to put it, he works the
government angle, or maybe the government angle works him,
that's just a matter of opinion. So clearly, he has to have a
real good reason to because he's also he's leveraging his own
Tesla stock against this, which is fun for people who like
shorting Tesla, because now, if something really goes wrong with
Twitter, or the perception is wrong, um, that something might
happen to the investment leveraged against Tesla, or
Tesla just goes down a bit anyway, here's a good margin
call. And there's all kinds of things that could happen. That
would make it exciting for people who play the stock
market. So he has to have a good bit, I agree, he has to have a
good business reason. And it is complete when I read what you
would discuss with your professor friend. They're like,
yeah, that's it. That's where the value is. But it's not quite
there yet. And I think we will see one change and one change
only, which fixes everything that is wrong about Twitter, it
also introduces a huge problem. And Ilan, let this cat out of
the bag when he was discussing, actually, Jack Dorsey was doing
some conference, I have no idea. It might have been a Twitter
conference, the audio is understandable, but you have to
kind of listen to it's only about a minute. Dorsey says what
can we do when he was still this is a while ago, what can twitter
do to make Twitter better? And then Elon has an answer, which I
think holds the future. And the key to what we'll see from
Twitter was
give us some direct feedback, critique, what are we doing
poorly? What can we be doing better? And what's your hope for
our potential as a as a service? If you're running Twitter? By
the way, do you want to run Twitter?
What would you do? I think it'd be helpful to differentiate
between real
and
real diversified.
Can you even hear what he's saying? No, I can't understand a
word. He's saying. What he's I could kind of understand Dorsey,
what would you do? Would you want to run Twitter? And
so what he says is the problem is you can't really see what his
real opinion what is bots are what is a troll farm going after
something to shape opinion. So he keeps coming back to it would
be really interesting to use Twitter to understand what
people really are thinking what what the mood is of the country,
or the world of a group. And then it hit me, it's so simple,
and Twitter should have, well, it's probably time for Twitter
to do this. We are going to go to a Twitter, which will be I
think, pretty much open for you to say whatever you want,
within, within some obvious constitutional for the US and
maybe other countries have issues how, how they want to
deal with some things. But slander is still a thing. You
know, there's tort laws that are in place. So you can kind of let
everyone say what they want. But every single account will be
verified with it with identification and
authentication, it will be musc. Somewhere along the lines, the
last few weeks have has mentioned the sack same, that's
exactly what was on this on this recording. And that's and that's
for everyone has to be real, not just real, verified,
authenticated, we have identification from you. And I
think it'd be great for Twitter than also to have the universal
authentication for everything. I vote for your code. But forget
how it's done for your COVID passport for your regular
passport, it will be that it could be the Twitter at the
government in well, of course, that's why it's not going to be
probably the government's will love that. And you will have
spent what we're not going to give it to the government we're
going to sell it to the government and we can sell
opinion. So you can really see what people think if you remove
all of the bots if you remove all of the advertising, all of
the bull crap that's on Twitter and its actual people. And you
know, it's people and now we kind of see how genius the the
blue checkmark idea was. Well, it's it's going to be perfect.
It will be the next
It'll be another piece of the puzzle that Musk is feeding
together with Skylink
the global tracking system, and everyone will I think everyone
will go Oh, yeah, cool. We'll Twitter we could say whatever
you want. You just have to give me your driver's license.
What do you think?
All right. Well, I liked it as a thesis. I think you got a good
one there. You could happen. I mean, I think it's ambitious. I
think the fact that even the checkmark never really worked
out when you had the check mark was elitist. That was the
problem. That's what 12 was. So stupid names that have named it
had fictional names, you would get a check mark. I mean, it
was, of course bullcrap. With the check mark. Hey, I, it's
just ridiculous. So I don't know. Well, this is exactly why
we're going to have to.
Look, I think that everybody went if Elon Musk says Okay,
here you go. It's open season, say whatever you want within the
obvious guidelines of your country, or whatever it is, say
Do as you wish, he might even adjust the algorithm because the
algorithm doesn't really matter. At that point. As long as people
keep talking, he doesn't have to sell anything. He just wants to
know what people think he wants to know. Let me see. All these
people have sir or Dame in their handle? Okay, let's see, well,
this seems to be some kind of cult. This is a cult to see what
they're thinking.
So in that regard, is genius. And of course, that will ruin
Twitter. Because I'm not going to authenticate myself on
Twitter. I'm not going to do it. I'm going to do it. Probably not
know, any reason why I'd want to save for promoting the show.
Yeah. Now I will say this.
Mimi had a good another idea in a third angle, what it must
comes in. And just I think this fact I think companies should be
people should be doing this. I've always felt this way about
OS two, for example, my favorite Oh, come in, take the code base
and turn it open source. And just let it out there. This is
exactly what
Jack Dorsey has been saying is, as a protocol, he feels true.
Twitter is fantastic and very valuable. That's all that's all
Elon needs to do. Here's the protocol, by the way, excuse me,
you should be able to set up
different versions of Twitter with the protocol. Like, once
it's just a protocol, it doesn't matter. The only caveat will be
you have to be a real person, you'll be identified and
authenticated.
And the world I mean, that's the grid that it's the final piece,
and that will ruin Twitter, but it will complete Elon mission.
This guy's fans, I mean, I gotta hand it to him. got ahead of
time net. Of course, it's Skynet. This thing is called Sky
link. And now we can connect everybody to it. So now we know
exactly who's walking there. Not just Twitter user Joe Blow. 359.
No. John C. Dvorak, right there posting, tweeting about the
show. Let's see what see what that show is. He's still there.
Let's see. Where's he going? He's not going anywhere. Staying
right there. We're going to Okay, bringing the black chopper
he seems to be the same, that same spot for weeks.
He doesn't he doesn't move this location. Except to some
building. What does that post office? I wonder what this guy
is doing is very suspicious.
No, that makes sense. And that. And that's also the reason why
no one else jumps in. They all know it's like, okay, this is a
government deal. The government's gonna get
everything they want while being bitches towards towards Elon,
while this is setting up and they're going to have kind of a
controlled opposition. That was so horrible free speech. Ha, ha
now Kantai at the meanwhile, the government the governments of
the world will love this. But
of course, we will continue to build out Mastodon there was a
quite an increase
in the fediverse, Mastodon users more more users coming online,
which is fantastic because it's all complete lefties. And
there's an there's quite a mix of of left, right, all kinds of
different people on the fediverse. The fediverse is in
fact that a bit of what what Twitter could be, except the
Twitter having it all verified everybody really you you will
know that this is not a bot. This is not this is not not an
exercise. This is the real deal. It's in that regard. Just
brilliant. Okay, so that's it everybody. Send your driver's
license to Elon, what could possibly go wrong?
way you describe as a downer to a
let's move to Ukraine. I saw you've got quite a sequence so
I'll set you up overnight a drastic move Russia cutting all
gas deliveries to Bulgaria and Poland to NATO members. This
comes after Putin's ultimatum last month, demanding that quote
unfriendly nations pay for gas and Russian rubles. Poland's
Prime Minister not backing down, saying we will be
be able to protect our economy protect our households and Poles
against such a dramatic step by Russia. Yep, yep. This is a fun
one.
Yeah, I have a series on the Russia, Poland Bulgaria deal and
which brings in the pipeline. My favorite usually I do these
segments but you've jumped into my lanes pipeline is coming in
from Norway. And you know, they're passing it off as though
it's going to be online and ready to go any second. And it's
talking about Nord Stream two now. No, Norway pipeline Norway
pipeline. Okay.
And they talked about it in here at some detail, and it's, but it
won't be online till they say late this year. And I you know,
you and I both of us started the whole pipeline thing. And these
things are always off. They're never on the timeline. They
always fall behind and when we're
not always Are you sure that this isn't this isn't?
Which pipeline is this? I need to know. Is it this discussed in
the NG it's a it's a pipeline from Norway.
Okay, but Norway, Norway to Poland? Okay. I see. Yes. All
right. We begin today with Russia starting to squeeze the
flow of Europe's energy supplies. The Russian state
controlled energy company Gazprom says it has suspended
natural gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria because neither
country complied with a Kremlin demand to start paying their
bills in rubles. The European Union says Russia is attempting
blackmail, with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
promising an end to European dependence on Russian fossil
fuels. Russia's latest move in the conflict goes beyond the
battlefield in Ukraine to the gas pipelines into Europe. In
what has been seen as an aggressive move. Russia has cut
the gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria. Russian energy giant
Gazprom said it had turned off the gas tap to the to EU and
NATO members after not receiving payment in rubles. The Kremlin
demanded that bills be paid in its own currency as a response
to international sanctions, which left it unable to utilize
foreign currency and its own reserves. Those immediately
affected were quick to respond. The Polish Prime Minister
declared his country was energy safe, having built up reserves
and applied that Poland's preparations including an
alternative Baltic pipeline might help the EU wean itself
off Russian energy Yeah, in fact this one's called the Baltic
pipe
no I don't see the you know if Russia is giving them gas and
oil and they can't pay Russia in the norm rubles in normal
fashion because they've been cut off and Russia is okay well if
you want the gas and all you're gonna have to pay us in rubles
how's that blackmail?
Well, depends just wanna get paid. I'm over here i You owe me
money. Hey, Adam. You owe me money. Yeah, send me some Pay
Pal money. Oh, I can't use Pay Pal anymore because my Pay Pal
accounts been blackmailing me. Well, then you're gonna have to
send me a check. Blackmail.
How's that blackmail? I just want to get paid. That's it,
period. I have okay, but we're gonna keep on this because this
is the theme. This is from Deutsche Vela. And you know
they're not too happy. I have a part to ship on interconnector?
Let me remind you that we have interconnectors to Germany and
the Czech Republic, as well as our gas terminal and Chino chi,
which can receive even larger amounts of liquefied gas. So we
will try to rise to the occasion in this difficult time. Step
change, Kim, Tasha, astonishing. This is
Bulgaria a country almost totally reliant on Russia's gas
looks to the EU for solidarity and security. I spoke with
Ursula von der Leyen. Joe said that a unilateral breach of the
agreement between Gazprom and Bulgaria is not just a problem
for Bulgaria. This is a problem for the whole of the EU and the
response will be united. They used to but adopt including
a strongly worded tweet from EU Commission President Ursula von
der Leyen.
By the way, I have heard that the traders have found many ways
around the conversion to rubles, they're doing it through certain
derivatives. So the purchasing does especially at Italy is full
of crap. They just did buying it through all kinds of ways.
That just an aside, the problem remains.
I stopped it there because there was a little ditty at the end
that I just thought was priceless. So you talked over
the little ditty. I didn't say anything. Oh, I thought I
couldn't. I thought that was you. Well, let me hear you and
then bass fish too. But adoption, including his hopes
were echoed in a strongly worded tweet from EU Commission
President Ursula von der Leyen
Yes, strongly worded tweet. A strong up. Hey, if you don't
stop it, I'm going to write a strongly worded tweet.
Which is a strongly worded tweet. Is this the modern
version of what? In a strongly worded tweet? Come on? Well,
what was the what was the sweet bunch of chat children? I'd like
to know what the tweet was. I strongly, strongly worded
clearly it was. Okay.
All right. That's supposedly this gas comes from Norway. Is
that how it works? Because they have a new one. Norway is a
major snag.
They get plying go Norway.
Yeah, they're taken advantage of the situation.
Onward, got firms announcement as another attempt by Russia to
blackmail us with gas. We're prepared for the scenario. We're
mapping out our coordinated you response Europeans can trust
that we stand united and in solidarity with the member
states impacted. British Foreign Minister Liz truss called on all
of Europe to cut off Russian energy imports a plan that is in
the pipeline. Although Russia might try to preempt that move,
it has just stated that it might hold the guests to other EU
countries. Well, let's explore this with Dr. Benjamin L.
Schmidt is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is also served as
European energy security adviser to the US State Department.
Welcome to DW Why do you think Russia started with Poland and
Bulgaria? Who? Well, that's a very good question. Maybe
starting with Germany would be too obvious.
So they bring this guy and I'm not a fan of this guy. He's kind
of full of crap. And he's, he's a hack from, I think,
Obama, it goes way back. And he's like his astrophysicist
that somehow got an energy policy or that sort of thing
does happen. And he's wearing a hoodie, and he's a big fat guy.
And
he says a few things in here that are questionable, but I
think he's reflecting Biden policy. But at the end of these
clips, you'll hear one specific thing that I think negates
everything he says, but we can start listening. Why do you
think Russia started with Poland and Bulgaria? Well, that's a
great question.
I think that you know, in part they they're able to go after
Poland because they've in particular, cast Poland as a
quote unfriendly country to the Russian Federation. This is
obviously not true.
This is something that from a public perception in the Russian
Federation domestically standpoint that that I think is
part of that decision. It's really going to backfire. And
I'll tell you why. Poland of all countries in the EU is one of
the most forward looking over the past you know decade but
especially over the past seven or eight years on building up
diversification infrastructure. Remember back in 2015 The
European Union built up its Energy Union European Energy
Union policy framework where you were basically looking at the EU
building out diversification infrastructure to reduce its
physical infrastructure and volumetric hydrocarbon reliance
on Russian energy resources but also build on Wow Hold on a
second I want to hear him say that again. Well, you metric
bull shower by the way as you know since the during our show
they the Russians like killed off the entire Polish government
some years back with that airplane thing Oh yeah, that was
great. And then they had bunch of guys out there shooting The
Guys and they had they just want to lie this one alive get him
Yeah.
No, no Russians and polish they're they're good pal buddies
buddy buddy buddy up bro. I want to hear that sequence of words
again you building out diversification infrastructure
to were looses its physical infrastructure and volumetric
hydrocarbon reliance on Russian energy resources but also the
women volumetric hype. So what he's saying is the large amount
of shit they need from Russia. Is that Is that what he's
saying? All you met hydrocarbon reliance on Russia.
In other words, they need the Russian gas. But no, that's not
that's, ah, that's so cool Asian infrastructure to reduce its its
physical infrastructure and volumetric hydrocarbon reliance
on Russian energy resources, but also build out its regulatory
models to push back on Russia and in particular gas problems,
monopolistic practices in the market. So what what did Poland
do in response, it went out and built the Baltic pipe that's
going to come online later this year from Norway to Denmark to
Poland to bring natural gas for the first time from the North
Sea directly to Central and Eastern Europe. It has expanded
its capacity at the swing of least to terminal on the German
Polish border and it's looking to do other things and it's
built up a connector with Lithuania.
and is also looking to build out a Gdansk terminal.
So Russia might well have picked the wrong target,
man. So how does how was Russia anti competitive? Were they were
they holding a gun? While they I guess they were holding a gun to
Poland's head back in the day when they killed the whole the
whole half of the government. But how was the anti
competitive? They don't let anyone else sell gas? Or is this
not a lot of people have gas? How come Norway hasn't done this
a long time ago?
It probably wanted to but to get to Russia has they're very
competitive. They look they keep the prices low.
They have comes pouring in every Yes, but not anti competitive.
That was the accusation?
I don't see any evidence of that either. No, don't give it a 25%
discount to India right now. Yeah, that's just racist that
has nothing to do with this. A lot of this is being is very
poor analysis. But anyway, the real kicker comes in the next
clip, I explained if you can some of Russia's thinking
because of course, he's under heavy financial sanctions
because of this this war. So turning off the taps to Poland
and Bulgaria, one presumes rubs the Kremlin of much needed hard
currency. So
what what were they thinking? Well, I think there's two
actions here that the criminal is trying to get across in terms
of its response. Russia has weaponized energy. And I've
talked about this, on the day many times weaponized energy for
many, many years. They've they've threatened or overly
foot off gas to Europe, through Ukraine, through other other
conduits on numerous occasions. And this is just the latest in
that what they're trying to do is two things Number one, they
are desperate to increase the value of the ruble, the rubles
value has plummeted since international sanctions
Yeah, no, it's it's rebounded quite nice. Okay. Now, this was
from yesterday, really call. It's from yesterday. So if this
guy in the end of ruble, recovered within, I don't know,
less than a week, it has had higher levels than it was before
the invasion. Now, it's not back to 2014 levels when it
definitely when it got weaker after the my Dawn invasion, but
it's back to those levels is back to 2014 levels.
So this guy is just, this is from yesterday. So if this guy
is the big expert that dw is going to have on the show, and
he doesn't know that one simple thing, and makes this and makes
this claim that's not true. It's a lie, either knows it and he's
lying. Or he doesn't know it, which means why are we listening
to him, which is the way I ended up approaching it. And I stopped
that was the last of these clubs. He goes on with some
other analysis. I don't know I don't believe a word of it.
Again, nor can you but I'm glad we listened to five clips that
now you just told us was all bullshit. Thanks. Thanks. Good
to know, you know,
let's say it was I had to get the volumetric values or
whatever. Volumetric hypo hydrocarbon requirements. Okay,
your gas tank is empty.
I do have I do have a couple clips. This is a there's some
concern in the European Union, you know, the old Bulgaria,
Poland. Now, who's next? Oh, what's it gonna cost? What's
What's the fallout going to be? This is a major, I'm sorry, this
shouldn't say this is a
oil futures trader, this is a major shot across the bow. And I
think he picked the low hanging fruit initially by targeting
Poland, and Bulgaria, because they're not going to impact the
entire pipeline system under Europe. The bigger concern now
is that they cut off a larger country that if they cut off
Germany, for example, the entire continent is going to see
reduced gas flows. And because of that, they're going to have
to use other fuels to keep the lights on. And that means diesel
fuel, that means oil. And right now, the world doesn't have
enough of this. And we've already seen a major impact here
in the United States, because of Vladimir Putin's actions. We've
seen natural gas prices surge, but really where we saw it hit
hardest, was a record breaking rally in diesel fuel. In New
York harbor where we price most of our diesel for the country.
We hit an all time record high because of this, I had $4.75
that is the equivalent in the real world of about $200 a
barrel crude oil, and that means truckers across America are
going to see record high diesel prices. And it could get worse
if Putin decides to go any further.
Putin is Putin now used to be put in points for it's there's
pulling out putting up replace the T with a D, prudence, fault
prudence, Prudence fault
Uh, I think that the war in Ukraine was used very
effectively in the French election. And I would expect
this to continue in the US midterm election now that the
State Department is asking Congress for aid for Ukraine for
the next five months,
five months, but you don't even need the aid for Ukraine. You
just say, hey, Democrat, Democrat candidate. You're for
Ukraine, Republican, clearly Russia. Emmanuel Macron has been
reelected as president of France defeating far right challenger
Marine LePen. It's viewed as a sign of continued support for
Ukraine, after LePen spoke out against economic sanctions on
Russia. She's known for anti NATO and anti immigration
policies that Kron won 59% of 41%. But analysts say the
election results show the far right is now mainstream in
France. Yeah, baby.
So I think I think that'll be used here quite effectively. You
know, it's like, Oh, you don't I agree. I don't agree. I agree
that it'll be used here quite effectively by this crowd. I
think not. Okay. It shouldn't be used effectively. But this Yeah,
this crowd Good point. Good point.
To President Biden's asking Congress for new powers. Well,
before we leave that that area, I do want to play that Moldova
stuff. Sure. Well, this is still about Ukraine. But yes, you got
Moldova for sure. Moldova is in the in the crosshairs. According
to the at least the way the the European media sees it. We're
not talking about that in this country yet. I think we're
holding back because I think there's some we can instigate
something that may do more for the midterms.
If we get another country to feel bad for we get to Moldova
juicy in there. Well, I think that Mordovian is the woman that
runs that country I because I was watching her speak. And she
looks like she just has this look on her face, like, hey, we
need some love to you know, you're sending all this stuff
over to Ukraine, and they're gonna just try and ship it to
the Middle East. Who knows what they're gonna do with all this?
They got more Stinger missiles? In fact, a stinger. Do you know
the stinger missile hasn't been made? For 2018 years? I do know
that. Yeah, of course. That's why you want to give them away.
And so they're giving them away, and they're gonna end they're
gonna end up in the Middle East or someplace else, they're gonna
make some good, they're gonna make some bank as the bank bank,
they make bank on the moving these missiles out of there, it
could use some cash that move over is, I believe directly in
the pipeline trajectory that comes from Ukraine, I think, is
right. Is it start at the bottom? No, it's to the left,
bottom left. It's just outside. It's just north. I say North
East of Odessa, which is north northwest of the West,
Northwest. It's east of Romania, north of Bulgaria. So I think
I'm going to check it out. I think they have I think that the
pipeline goes through Moldova, it wouldn't surprise me if it
plod right through there. But let's listen to what's going to
happen there. Because it turns out, there's a small strip of
land, very small strip of land reminds me of a Woody Allen
movie where the guy holds a little piece of land in his
hand. I have a small piece of land
that's on the on the east coast of Moldova that's butted up
against Ukraine, and it's rented a bunch of Russians are there
and they've been there forever. And they don't seem to want to
leave. And it's just like the bad you know, it's like a either
a bad penny or the neighbor who comes in to stay overnight and
stay for a month forever. So this situation is becoming an
issue. And they I think that we the United States can turn this
into something big that we can use to leverage our voters for
the upcoming elections. Let's play these clips. There are
growing fears that the war in Ukraine could spill over into
neighboring countries the UN has called for calm and Moldova
to Ukraine after a series of explosions, a targeted radio
masts used to broadcast Russian programs in the breakaway
territory of trans Dniester. Around 1500 Russian troops are
already based in the region which has been controlled by
separatists since a war with Moldova about 30 years ago. So
here's a look at what's been raising tensions there for the
last few days. Thank you.
Stuck in that Soviet past, but still marching in step with
Moscow. The army of transistor on parade, soldiers in the
service of a breakaway state unrecognized by the world.
Russian troops are also here. They supported separatist forces
after the region broke away from Moldova. A ceasefire ended
fighting in 1992.
But the conflict was never truly resolved and wishing forces
never left.
Long seen as an anomaly on the map of Europe, transistor could
soon be pulled into Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
Transistor is sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine. Keith
believes Russia plans to capture the port city of Odessa, and
then drive to the border, opening a corridor to a
breakaway region and linking up with its troops there. The
region is politically and economically dependent on
Russia. A majority of those living here are Russian
speakers, like in eastern Ukraine. Kyiv has long feared
that Russia could intervene here to
never createUser cannot be ruled out that the Armed Forces of the
Russian Federation could carry out provocative actions in the
transmissive region of the Republic of Moldova so that they
can accuse Ukraine of aggression against a neighboring state. Oh,
man, I'd forgotten all about trans nista
is like a little strip of land, nothing. It's a joke. And they
have these soldiers marching around like a bunch of idiots
wearing old costumes from the 1918 era. I mean, the whole
thing is just like a Peter Sellars movie, this little area,
it's kind of like a big Civil War reenactment. Exactly. And
they're, they're trying to make hay with this. And it's like, we
do have a, you know, a quarter of the population are
Ukrainians. Of course 30% of Russians, but oh yeah, how many
people live there?
in Moldova as a whole No, no, no transmission just in transit.
Malta scribbled over trends and this is like the hot place to be
more than 50,000 people.
No, no, no, no, no, no. No. to 347,000 Well, it's bigger than
Iceland. Yeah.
Wow. All right.
Good.
This is covered yet in this country. We're going to get this
is gonna happen you watch I and it's also fun to say trans
desta.
fits in with our current narrative always a trans
as you see trans, the trans Okay, well, let's go to part to
it. Yes, all the people there are called the Moldova has
opened its doors to those fleeing the war in Ukraine. But
it to fears becoming a victim of the conflict. Part of the
country is already under Kremlin control. And its leaders want to
avoid a repeat of events in eastern Ukraine, where
separatist forces appealed to Moscow for help.
The troops of the Russian Federation have been illegally
stationed on the territory of our country for decades, that
makes us vulnerable.
Not just that is very junior Northern, we cannot feel safe in
the region.
Especially after witnessing the war in Ukraine.
Much depends on whether Putin's forces can make inroads in
southern Ukraine. If so, trans Nistor a state that doesn't
formally exist, could become the new focus of Russia and for
West.
Now, I'm confused. Is it Transnistria or Transnistria? Or
you just kind of swallow the eye there? What do you I just trans.
So just to make it easy transplant, so transplant,
transplant, young transplant. The idea is that if you look at
the map, people should look at the map and see where this place
is. It's like a little edge is the edge of
Eastern Moldova. And you they think that Russia will take
Odessa i don't think so. And then they're going to sneak up
and then grab onto this chunk. So they're gonna have a kind of
a U shaped
attachment to Russia. It's not now now, but they're going to I
think we're going to try to make that happen. I think our state
depart would love to because one of the they didn't talk about
this in our in our news, but one of the shots they had a woman
talk and then they pulled it did a pullback and boom, there's
blink. And he's they're there with her. Oh, really? in
Moldova? Yep. Then it's on deck. Yeah, of course. It's on deck.
Great catch.
Yeah, there's tons of pipelines going through. They're all from
Russia and several through Ukraine. People don't realize
but Okay, cut it all off. Can't wait to see how it gets in the
winter, nice and cold.
So as a part of this, we continue to do platform Russia
as much as we can. And President Biden or whoever is pulling the
strings has
will be proposing a comprehensive legislative
package.
and that will enhance the United States government authority to
hold the Russian government and Russian oligarchs accountable,
accountable for President Putin's war against Ukraine.
Now, I, of course, have not seen any legislation yet, but the
question is always it will it be specifically for Russians or
it'll just be for any old oligarch or anybody that the
government deems no good. The measures would result in the
forfeiture of property linked to Russian Kleptocracy, allowing
the US government to use the proceeds to support Ukraine. So
this is cool. Yeah, it was steal the money from one from two
criminals and give it to Peter, give it to Paul. Yeah, there you
go. Under the proposal, authorities will be able to
impound property in the US owned by sanctioned Russian oligarchs
and have a connection to so how is this legal specified well,
and that have a connection to specified unlawful conduct?
Biden wants to make to criminalize any person to
knowingly or intentionally possessed proceeds directly
obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian government.
will ship man that could be a Pay Pal for to us.
I mean, anybody who, who has died Pay Pal is cut off brushes
I know but someone else could be straw man. You see, straw man?
Yes. Straw Man would be a straw man for Russia. Putin. Putin.
Yeah. This is This is Oh, none of this is good.
Oh, it's good. It's good. Take the money from anyone they just
would flip a switch. Next thing you know, they're stealing
everybody's money. What do you what they're trying to do
anyway? When the when the White House was asked the could not
yet to explain what will be determined to define corrupt,
which is also kind of an open term. Yeah. Good luck. Yeah.
What about 100? Biden is anything involving him? I don't
know. Oh, by the way, I want what about ism? John, that's
what about ism, false equivalence. I want to go back
to what you said. Which is you said, whoever's running the
place. Who is so we have to come up with some theories. Yeah,
I'm, I My thinking is the following. The National Security
Council, which has become a you know, started off as a small do
two or three people has become a large bureaucracy. I think
there's like 300 people in it.
It's like, it's got its own. It's got his own offices. It's
got a bunch of people in there and they're all deep state. And
they're, and Jake Tapper, a Jake Tapper. Jake Sullivan is the guy
running it, but he's like a dork and I don't think he's running
it in any real way. Because
he went to Saudi Arabia got kicked out. He got into a
shouting match, supposedly, with the with the prince there. Yeah.
Because he brought up some bus Khashoggi, which wasn't going to
fly. And so the guy got ousted. So he's just a bonehead. And you
watch him he's like a robot with a funny shaped head. But I think
it's clear, very obvious who's running the country who's
running Biden. Mr. Obama, I know I'm not saying Obama is the
brains behind the operation, but he did you not see him with
Kamala Harris walking through totally. And around by himself
like an idiot. I think we talked about we also said it was was
worse, I didn't realize because I think we're talking about
after the last show that so yeah, it's the White House
reception. And Obama is hanging out with Kamala talking
everybody and Joe Biden is behind him, puts his hand on his
shoulder and and holds it there kind of like hey, Brock, Brock,
Daddy, Daddy, Daddy ignored Obama. Obama look doesn't even
look at him sees out of his peripheral vision that it's
Biden and just ignores him turns right back. That said everything
Obama is come on Jen Psaki. Oh, I love I love coming to work and
working for President Obama every day. Yeah, truth wants to
come out, you know, could be just a flood. I don't think so.
I think this is he's running it. Now. Is he being run by the same
people that ran him previously? Ie intelligence? Most likely
CIA? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I then National Security Council,
the same people.
Same people, whatever, it's jobs, but yeah, who?
I want to know who do we have people that in these operations
that listen to the show?
Yeah, I'd like to know I'm gonna name there's got to be one guy.
That's the dominant character that really calls the shots. Who
is it?
I don't know. It's already Obama's a good frontman. I
Obama's definitely their top honcho representative.
Because he's not out and about typically, he is the
representative internally. And people know that. Oh, my God,
third term. So, you know, Obama wasn't making the decisions when
he was president and most presidents don't do Trump was an
anomaly.
only actors. Yeah, Trump, that's what they had to get rid of.
They can't have they can't have the president thinking and
acting for himself president. So that's no good. So it could be
Pelosi, for all I know, it could be all kinds of people could be
and we know it's not Pelosi.
We don't know what's now Pelosi, we don't know. We just don't We
don't know anything. And it's it's either much, much, much
more sinister. Now, like,
some banking family.
It's possible that or, you know, it's Open Society Institute, and
I doubt Soros is asking people if there's someone that must
know,
tech can just throw a name at us and say, here's this guy is
some, you know, Fred schmuck. I mean, did we go who never heard
of this guy? Exactly. Ever hear of him either. You know,
vindman, someone like that?
Dykeman I love I love. Speaking of Pelosi, she's so smart. She
knows how to do this stuff. She's even though the old old
cow. She is going to have the Ukrainian Ambassador unveil a
photo exhibit of the Russian invasion at the Capitol, you
know, so Oh, another PR moment. We can show the horrible Putin.
Putin. And you know, what that, you know, that gets tons of ink
and coverage, just by the media. But yeah, the public doesn't
care. I think the public is, it's hard to I think they're all
in on the idea of helping Ukraine, but that's about it.
You know, okay, we'll help them. I don't think that it's going to
affect the vote. And because the real kicker, and everyone talks
about it, they've talked about it forever. It's the price of
gasoline. It's the inflation. It's all that would get you
voted. I agree. I agree. But it's doing what they can. And
it's not like the news is focusing on anything else. So
the programming is still very strong, buddy. I agree. And it
probably is too little too late. And it's all the wrong stuff.
So we have yet another package being put together so I've lost
count, but we had 800 million 800 million now I believe
another 700 million. And just throwing money at him and
potholes are not being fixed in this country. You know,
Christina came back from New York with us to stay here for a
few days until she goes back back to Holland. Yeah, she had
skin she she hadn't as white as
if it's unrecognizable to me. I'm just going to consider it
from the 70s. So, you know, take a chill pill, man.
I don't get a bell for that.
I don't have my bell.
The bell?
Sure. Come on. I got Oh, I was leaning back in the shade. You
weren't right. There you go. And she says that in the Netherlands
people are are pissed because, of course, they have refugees
coming in immediately. You cannot get a house in Holland.
There's an incredible housing shortage students. That's been a
problem for 30 years now. They can't even go to school they
cannot get a place to stay but miraculously, the perception is
that the
the refugees are taken care of and it's pissing people off the
same way as sending all this money and eight or eight more
than money to Ukraine is pissing off people about the border and
and all inflation all the issues that we see the simple simple
questions or the simple gripes.
I gotta throw this in. Since you brought that in. There's a lot
of stories. I don't have any clips. But there's a bunch of
news stories about how Afghani refugees are being kicked out.
And Ukraine refugees are being moved in is causing all kinds of
problems. This is where in in Europe or here in Europe, and
here here too. In fact, a lot of Afghanis, a game like 2000 bucks
total or 1000, something very low money, and they gave them a
place they can't pay rent now, and they're booting them out
left and right. This is going to be a huge problem. We're gonna
have a bunch of murders and crazy things happening with
these Afghani
refugees who have failed to learn English. I mean, it's a
it's a nightmare. Almost ready to happen. It's going to happen.
So this is all part of the great reset. I don't have to tell you
to scrape bullet Reese Well, you have to break something before
you can reset it. It has to clearly be stuck. New. They've
done a good job at that. The BBC did a fancy kind of good job.
The BBC did a good job of very short explaining where this
money is going to. And of course it corroborates completely with
our thesis on extra military assistance as well. $700 million
of that. What do you think they're going to get? What are
they asking for 300 million of that is going to the Ukrainians
directly. That's for them to spend on whatever they think is
required. And the other 400 million is going to other NATO
members
So basically, it's going to people who've got to neighboring
countries, many of whom have old Soviet equipment that Ukrainians
already use. It's basically to allow them to donate that to
Ukraine and then buy new equipment for themselves.
So, we're funding NATO. So NATO gives all their crap to Ukraine
and buys new stuff from us.
The answer is fantastic. It's really, really good
luck and we're not in any of these schemes. pisses me off.
We're having fun reporting on the schemes. So just about
France, you know, the, the Ukraine war was used there as
some talking points for McCrone victory.
A lot of video evidence I've seen of the French ballots and
if you caught any of this, the way the French nun the way the
French ballots show up at home, it's in a sealed bag little
looks like one of those plastic bags that made is made of the
aluminum balloons you know, it's you have to pull it apart. It's
completely sealed. And in that it's two pieces of paper about
index card side one says McCrone one says LePen and the LePen one
is ripped at the bottom and there's this video of people
opening a ballot bag after a ballot bag and every single
LePen ballot is ripped has like a cut a rip on one side of it.
Which from what I understand invalidates the ballot. Could be
true I don't know.
Well, I'm sure there's some Hanky Panky going on there all
these elections Yes. A democratic countries. Yes.
That's how democracy works.
It is
just Microsoft Works who can jack the ballots better? It's
always what it's about you to do that you don't on the heels of
the election results. There was a deliberate deliberate sabotage
a multiple fire fiber cuts across France physical cable
cuts multiple locations.
It caught off and I believe it may still have cut off large
portions of networks that deliver the Internet to France.
Yeah, this is part of the the 10 days or listeners
the 10 days of darkness, you know, the inner road, this is
part of what we were promised with the with Trump with the
power would go out Internet will be shut off and then all of a
sudden we're reborn. I mean, everything's good again. So but
people cutting fiber is is definitely a problem because the
internet is used for more than just Twitter. Now important
things like the show, but also health, finances all kinds of
things run through it to commerce,
bad actors, bad actors afoot. Well, I'm surprised this hasn't
happened more often to be honest about it. Right after me like to
have a fiber in this country fiber in the in the rural areas
is clearly marked. We have it up in Port Angeles, you drive
around in the with a fiber is there's a bunch of sticks, and
kind of orange colored strings. And they telling you that
there's fiber there. So don't dig around there. This is like
the Warren you from, you know, excavating. I've seen the
photos. This is not this is not a someone putting a backhoe into
a fiber. Now this is an actual and they didn't just cut it.
They cut it in two places. So they removed the piece. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying is that it's you can find the fiber. If
you wanted to pull that Yes. Yeah, it's not that easy. All
right. Yeah. It's not that hard to do.
And cutting out a piece so that's kind of as chicken shit,
because you name it because now that means you got to do double
splice, splice to one and a guy with no tie. It's just extra
time, extra time.
Well, let's just continue with our great reset stories while
we're at it. So we get that done with
right after McCrone won the election, France immediately
announces a digital ID passport, not for COVID but digital
identity that they had tabled several months ago like and
we're not going to do that now. And boom, it's back on. And they
are they are now spearheading with all of the UK EU, an
international facial recognition system which fits right into
this. And
this is why don't you writing something of researching about
digital ID
did you give up on that or? No I never I don't give up on
anything. I'm still working on the vinegar book for God's sake.
There. Here's actually wired has a story about it. Europe is
building a huge international facial recognition system. Yes,
surprise. But France just like we're back in it's good to go.
They're going to link this to DNA and I'm I've been telling
Christine I said I don't know what your plan is but you better
you better move out of there out of the EU before
I'm gonna have to do an extraction. That's gonna suck is
much harder probably should leave. Yeah. She has to. It's
horrible. It's all going to shit and it's always Europe where the
wars take place. Yeah, and it's always France and Germany the
representative moment of peace which, you know, I think the 60s
perhaps 70s. I mean, it's great. But it's good. It has the
persona as jinxed. I don't know what it is. It goes back too far
historically to figure out exactly what the mechanism is
that causes the go to crap every so often.
Money,
money and maybe money, and it's always about money. And money's
got something to do with it.
Um, I don't think I had much Oh, yes, other than a disturbing
trend from MasterCard. MasterCard is a big partner of
the World Economic Forum, they are doing the carbon credit
card. So you can track your carbon based upon your
purchases. And I believe you can set levels yourself to stop
yourself from from purchasing something once you've reached
your your self imposed carbon limit,
which will be self imposed first, before and before it's
government imposed. And here's the here's the internal
communication. We're linking employee compensation to ESG
sustainability goals.
And here's what they say hello employees. Last year, we
introduced the new compensation model for our executives at the
executive vice president level and above, their bonus was
determined in part by the company's performance on three
environmental, social and corporate governance priorities,
carbon neutrality, financial inclusion, and gender pay
parity.
Because of their work in yours, we either met or exceeded our
goals, which is kind of a bullshit thing to say, Did you
meet it or not? So this is how it will work. You as an employee
will be compensated.
Your compensation will be determined by how well you did
in these areas in your regular job.
This is where you go, this is where you go. I'm looking for
another job. Yeah.
Those good people with these kind of policies. Yeah, we'll
see. I mean, once you mandate this stuff, it's kind of de
facto man, every company has this now.
Every company is going to require its employees to I mean,
it flows all the way through the ESG starts with your employees,
but also your customers. And you're going to have to turn
customers away.
I'm really sorry, we can't have you as a customer, you're not
ESG Frendo like you and every single employee will be caught
woke get out every every employee becomes part of the ESG
score of the entire corporation.
So you will be penalized for you know, for throwing a rapper on
the ground as an example to extreme.
Extreme, but I like the image. I have a few more clips from this
from this discussion for this discussion. Okay. I want to get
these other way that one of them is
is the fact that now the EU hates Hungary? Yes, of course or
not. Because he likes Tucker Carlson's everybody hates Orban
yeah yeah or ban he got just reelected this guy they rolled
their eyes as a we a disguise getting on our nerves. And so
here's the latest on that. The European Union has initiated a
never before used procedure against member nation Hungary
over alleged violations of the rule of law. It could see EU
funding to the Eastern European country cut and comes just over
three weeks after Prime Minister Viktor Orban reelection
now I didn't quite understand what the issue was you're
cutting them off from a lot of the EU funding that they
normally give him they give him free money like we do we do that
with all their states. Right I say it's government gives but
underwater but under what legal pretext? Are they doing this
aren't they a full fledged member
this some he mentioned it was something obscure some let me
here I'm gonna here to get the European Union has initiated a
never before used procedure against member nation Hungary
over alleged violations of the rule of law. It could see EU
funding to the Eastern European country cut and comes just over
three weeks after Prime Minister Viktor Orban reelection. i This
feels very incomplete to me, I need to understand this. I'm not
going to argue that it's very incomplete. I'm going to try to
look funny that whole story is not going to be reported here.
So I have to dig around in the European sources. Here's another
one. This is one that from NPR that
I clipped to be kept it around
Something about sanctions.
If you'd listen to this report, these sanctions are not to
accomplish anything. They're just to punish. Oh, yeah. It's,
it's not like it's not going to teach anybody anything other
than pain. No, it's not going to change anything. So it's
pointless. But it makes us feel good because we can punish, do
sanctions work? That is a question worth asking as US and
other Western nations keep hammering Russia with economic
sanctions. If the war in Ukraine drags on for months or even
years, how many more sanctions can the West impose? And what is
the end game? Mr. Ashford is an expert on foreign policy at the
Atlantic Council. And she joins me now to talk about this
welcome to All Things Considered. Great to be here.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday, the new
sanctions did, quote, achieve certain results. So how have
sanctions impacted Russia's economy. So far, the sanctions
that we've put on Russia's economy have caused the ruble to
go into decline, anything up to 600 multinational corporations
have left Russia. And so the Russian economy is suffering
from sanctions. What we don't know yet is the extent of that
suffering, and whether or not it will translate into into any
actual policy change. Well, first, how are these sanctions
harming ordinary Russians who have nothing to do with the war?
I mean, I've spoken to people in Russia who say it's hard to
travel abroad. Now. It's hard to even access foreign made
medicines, inflation is high. So how do the sanctions affect the
ordinary person, in theory, targeted financial sanctions are
meant to hit a government and not the people within a country.
But in practice, that's very difficult to do. What we
actually see and much of the studies that have been done on
sanctions is that leaders, particularly in authoritarian
states, are very good at insulating themselves from the
effects of sanctions. Certainly, Vladimir Putin himself has been
sanctioned, the people around him have all been, but that
doesn't necessarily mean that their lifestyles at home are
going to suffer, they may be able to pass some of that burden
onto other people inside Russia. And so this, again, is one of
those big problems. And unfortunately, the history of
sanctions suggests that we're good at causing the economic
pain. We're not good at getting policy changes out of it. I have
a I while we were playing and listening to that clip, I
understand the rule of law mechanism,
which is what the European Union is using against Hungary. This
was only approved about a year ago right in time. It was
created by the European Union as a tool to withhold funds from
member states that breach the rule of law, for example,
curtailing judicial independence, or eroding the
separation of powers. In hungries case, according to the
accusations
I'm reading here from Deutsche Avella, a large recipient to
Hungary, a large recipient of EU funds has come under increasing
criticism over the past few years. We're veering away from
democratic norms, with policies such as exerting excessive
control over the judiciary, stifling media freedom, and
denying the rights of LGBT people.
So it's pretty vague how they're using this but they can they can
remove up to 55% all all the all money that they get from the EU
to a country or state. But 55% I think is what they're aiming at.
So it's not always vague bull crap EU things. It's like we
don't know just like we don't like how you play the game.
It's funny because those same things about stifling free
speech and fooling around the judiciary in particular. Pretty
much what Ukraine does. Yeah. Just throwing money at them.
Well, they're not a member of that they don't have to play
nice they're not a member of the EU so they get to do whatever
they want. That's nuts. is very nice. Now I have two more clips
but I can push these let's do your two more clips in the
moment. This is a there's a show like this kind of like the BBC
is hardball where they ask these questions they get to get you
get the
personas the interviewer asked me is mean Oh yeah, well if you
say that Ba ba ba they get there's just a mean kind of
interview show which the D Europeans have more of these and
we have none. Andy Andy Andy, what's the name? Andrew
I saw this guy recently Okay, forget about yes I know exactly
what you mean. I know exactly like a one on one and then just
spit question is slamming him in there slam but it's a very it's
a hard it's a it's a rude that guys are rude. The viewers are
rude. Yeah. You could do the show and stand or you could do a
show like this. We soft pedal okay. So the DW has this shows
called explosion or targeting or since get some crazy very
aggressive name is very similar to the beat
BC show. And this is this guy Andy, who's kind of a
spokesperson for China. And he is on talking about China's
relationship with Russia. And are they going to? Are they
really going to go along with the crap that Russia is doing in
Ukraine, and they get into some mean spirited interview, but it
goes, goes off the rails and starts talking about nuclear
nuclear war and how cool it would be generally recognized
that the use of nuclear weapons would be a very bad thing,
certainly would set a terrible precedent. But we also need to
see though, Tim, that this is not happening in a vacuum.
Secretary of Defense Secretary of State, Austin and Blinken
were recently in Ukraine, there were comments made by the
Defense Secretary that weakening or degrading the Russian
military is now seen as an American objective. So again, I
think we come back to this idea that
is this an unprovoked action? Or is there some precipitating
event? And is that precipitating event?
Causing a legitimate response or not? I think we don't know. If
you didn't, you didn't answer my question and the market as to
whether this nuclear war would be a red line, at which point Xi
Jinping with the phone to Mr. Putin and say, That's too far,
we're not going with you on that? Well, the only way we can
interpret this Tim is if the US provokes a nuclear attack by
Russia, how will the world including that's what we want, I
think is a question I hope no one has to answer. But, you
know, again, to just frame this up, you're not gonna give me a
straight answer on this RU. Let me let me let me put it another
way. The the joint statement issued by your two governments,
Russia and China in early February, talking of a No Limits
partnership, was apparently the first time China explicitly
joined Russia in opposing any further NATO expansion. If NATO
is expanding, it's because the threat is expanding Russian
expansionism in Europe and Beijing's increasingly
increasing militarization of the South China Sea. Can't you
understand that that's a reason why NATO is expanding and why
people are looking to join because they require more
protection in these dangerous uncertain times. Where's this
show air?
He Avella
but he's he's easy talk.
Alright, who's worried? who's worried now? Are they all just
shaking in their boots about nuclear war?
You know, I'm watching this show. And it's like, again, it's
like these shows where the conference is confrontational?
Which I kind of, like the fact that somebody does force the
question to be answered if you ask it.
Yeah, they're kind of all shaking in their boots. And, and
it's like, and then that he's kind of implying that they
Secretary defense guys inviting a new nuclear attack. So we can
like, figure out what to do. The whole thing is nuts. Well, let's
play the rest. I just want to say you also see, every this
lots of news reports, you know, a Russian foreign minister says,
oh, you know, we won't hold back. Putin says, oh, we'll be
swift. And the media interprets that as nuclear war and nuclear
strikes for strike versus attack.
I personally don't think that's going to happen at all. Let's
hope not. Well, no, it would be a day record. I'm just saying I
don't think it just
was doing the show anymore. For sure. Well, it depends. You
know, we could maybe just without you, California would be
a prime target, Texas. That's North Korea is the one that
targets Texas. That's not in Russia might be right. You're
not gonna definitely not gonna get Fredericksburg. No, no
offense. Well, I would agree with the last part of what
you're saying. To answer your question. I would say don't you
remember the map? Back in the Obama days? Kim Jong Hoon? He
had a map and it showed Boston as a major strike zone for
nuclear weapons? Do you remember that?
I don't remember it to be honest. Yeah. But it wouldn't
surprise me. It was.
Do we have a clue? Was it to let it was a big joke at the time?
Well, I would agree with the last part of what you're saying.
To answer your question. I would say it really depends. And
again, if the US launched a nuclear attack against Russia
and Russia retaliated in kind, this would be one situation. If
Russia that was not provoked and use the nuclear weapon, that
would be a completely different situation. I think we're
unfortunately in this gray area. And this is again, to simply
answer your question, I would say it depends, and I have no
way of
No. Let's talk about the South China Sea for a moment. Why did
why did China break a specific promise by Xi Jinping in 2015?
Not to put military equipment on the Spratly Islands. He said at
the time relevant construction activity that China is
undertaking does not target or impact any country and there is
no intention to militarize, we now see on these islands, anti
aircraft, anti ship missiles, runways, seaports and white
domed radar installations. What's that if not
militarization? And the mark? Well term again, unfortunately,
or fortunately, we do not live in a static world
times change, interests change in the promises get broken?
Well, I think, again, times change. And I think people have
to adapt countries have to adapt. There's no government
intending to do to Taiwan, what Russia is doing to Ukraine, is
that what all this is about? I think any country, especially
any large country, especially a continental country, with
increasingly global interests, I think cannot reduce its security
concerns to a single issue or to a single dimension. And so when
we look at Taiwan, and of course, is very important to
China. But
China, again, has increasingly complex, I think, security
challenges, and I would say also opportunities as well. But with
Taiwan, clearly, the government's position has been
peaceful. reunification is the goal. But if other courses of
action became
inescapable, then that is also on the table as well.
I can't believe you you could stay awake throughout this whole
interview. Oh, I did. Well, I watched the whole thing. It went
on for a half an hour show. And I'm saying it seems like okay,
just a half an hour of this guy apologizing for everything China
does or says. Yeah, it's just like the classic apologist and
we're going to talk about China after I thank you for your
courage and say in the morning to you the man who put the sea
in the double fiber cut ladies and gentlemen, Mr. John, see you
do
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We had discussed just briefly, we discussed on the last episode
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So can we start Sunday and our new time?
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I mean, I've talked about a big lead up like a week or two or
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hour and ya know I Why?
Because I'm in a rut.
kind of enjoy it. Like getting up at time I get up I get up at
nine do the other. I mean, we get to a dis Sunday. But I would
like to get a little more feedback. I want to wait at
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just want you to understand you're in a rut, but it's
different from you. My production schedule. Yeah, it's
very it's a lot tougher because you get up at nine. And whatever
you start winning you get no I don't get up at nine the show
started and I get up at eight. You get up at eight you get up
every day at eight, right? Yeah, I get up two days a week at
five. It's very disruptive. So what happens is I never really
wait after now. After 15 years you're complaining?
Yes, I'm complaining exactly after 15 years jumped to the 11
o'clock.
Yours yes, no, it's not right away. It's half a month.
We've been talking about this and we determined that the Oh
no, no, we haven't been talking about a half a month we do
started talking about after your, your little sojourn to New
York that's 10 days okay? It's it's a third of a month. But but
we but this is not 15 years that's not true because I used
to do the show in the afternoon when I was in Europe. That was
the first yeah the first 100 episodes that's where we came up
with it I'm I'm gaming I'm convinced we're going to have to
move it to the 11 o'clock spike and we just wait till next
Thursday do of course thank you. I forced an answer good next
Thursday. Perfect they won't restrict me
Yeah, I did proud of at least Okay, so May May we began to new
our well I think Sunday. Sunday's is April Okay, so
Thursday Thursday. Yes, Thursday the fifth
which is May Day May Okay there you go. There's your promotion
celebrate is your promotion we have something to celebrate good
Well, thank you very much troll go to my Oh, it's not made a
made I think is May 1. All right. That is the Sanko has
even been a first is Sunday.
No. Yes, Sunday is May 1
For me 30 days has September April June and November. Oh
yeah, you're right may versus Sunday. Oh good. What are we
gonna do it on May Day then and then make Cinco de Mayo? Let's
do with Cinco de Mayo. Cinco de Maya it was better I think it Oh
my I think Pittston. It was because we were a Cinco de Mayo
show. We are the OG Cinco Demayo. You say Cinco de Mayo?
Every show we've ever done this had the
every every show that's been good. Every fat lady show has
got using Sanko to mouth for at least a decade because if I
didn't say it, then the show inevitably sucks or something
that's
superstitious as hell.
I got the keeper saying it's not Sanko it's cinco she's half
Mexican. So now she's correcting me with their Mexican half.
Never hear about the pipelines and Lithuania from your
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Cinco Demayo Why do we say Sanko? You say Sanko? Well, you
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I don't know. Don't worry, trolls will let you know I'm
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me you're getting up at five everyday so you can stay in the
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it's a good way get you get up with the sun. You get to work as
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nailed it with the plastic choo choo train with Mayor Pete budaj
as our transportation secretary. I mean, it was did we even
consider anything else there was so yeah, we were looking at
things.
Okay, let me see. Looking to see what it was. Yeah. I think we
both in this case it was we're jointly attracted to this piece
because it's so it's just a pretty piece. It has a nice
kind of
it has a well the plastic train is just beautiful. It's it's
nails it which I'm sure it's just a smart
clipart of a trade. Now I want to I want to do a call out for a
sizzle Tron because there was a piece that he did on the
previously that I looked at. I don't think we even talked about
it. We never compliment
And that's for sure. And that's when we were bitching about the
artists you know, overdoing it or getting carried over produced
over produced images were produced. So did a piece he or
she I think it's a he did a piece called too slick by half.
And it shows somebody scribbling like a maniac and then a one of
those talking bubbles coming out of my divorce rack, saying calm
down Picasso.
And,
and so what I did was I am going to start doing this more often
with these overlooked pieces that are really good, is I mind
his page. He's done art for a number of years to find a piece
for the for the newsletter. So I went back and found the oldest
piece I could find by him, which was I since I was talking about
some new memes. Were it it was a picture of Martin Luther King
saying, I have a meme. Yes. Which is just a bad pun. That
but I just wanted to call out sizzle Tron for doing this calm
down Picasso piece that we overlooked completely. I don't
even know where it is. I can't I see seems to go back to page
two. I saw the sizzle Tron. Let me see. Go back to page two. And
then you got Oh, yeah. Oh, it's the scribble. Okay, I see it. I
was looking for something else. I don't remember seeing it
before me honest about it. Yeah. Because it's, it's although I
get the joke and the reference because it's totally something
you'd overlook. Because like, what does it even mean? It has
to be I think we need to be careful sometimes with for
instance, a lot of people put in Windows blue screen of death
failing windows. Well, no one heard that on the show, because
we cut all of that failure right out of it. Yeah. So this is a
mistake. What you're hearing on the live stream, you have to
consider that some things.
Just they won't be a joke. They're
the CNN the CNN plus stuff.
And what was interesting about that is all the artwork depicts
CNN plus going down the drain the Hindenburg, which was the
kind of funny ended kind of funny where that was also
happen, though, but it also that's not what happened. We
deconstructed it and told you exactly what happened had
nothing to do with not enough subscribers. It was not part of
the new owners idea. And that's why it was canceled so and that
would just be propagating dumb Twitter meme shit. Blew my mind
that you're bringing up this kind of complaining? We're not
going to use Elon Musk on the cover art. No, of course not.
Course is not happening. You're saying this because there's
already five or six pieces we bought 123456789 pieces.
And why won't we use it? Elon Musk has cover our John explain
explain why we won't do this. Well, a couple of things. One,
you it's actually illegal. But it's his legal thing that
remains illegal. You can't use the image of some person of some
public personality to promote it to use it as promotion in any
way satirical or otherwise. It's illegal.
Oh, hold on a sec. Without paying them you have to pay them
for their image at public personality if you just throw
their picture up on an ad. I love this show. Well, how are
the legal well, how are these ads? These are satirical images.
These are guaranteed to be used for our album art.
satirical works in most situations, it doesn't really
technically work. I mean, we've slipped it in here and there.
But generally speaking, it's an especially with somebody a high
profile like musk. Not going to happen but as Biden, okay, or
Trump is okay or biases. Okay. There's a difference between a
public figure who's a politician.
Okay. But if you have them promoting Another words, if you
use them as an ad, saying I recommended no agenda show which
somebody might do, as opposed to ridiculing him like we do with
Biden, that's different is a budget there's a fine line in
here. And all I'm gonna say is two things. One,
the illegality of using Musk's image A and B, I think is is not
an attractive image. He's not an attractive man. By the way. He
is just a he's a weird looking guys not a try. And I can't say
he's not that ugly or not ugly. He's just a weird looking guy
looks different. But so that's part of it. And the other thing
is enough, but what do we need to give them publicity? Thank
you. That's the only reason that's valid is who gives a crap
about that guy. So now he's out. Okay, Elon is out there. So you
know, Elon is out
talkative today you are and I like it. It's probably because
you get two hours more sleep than I do. That's one of the
reasons but the other reason is is because
As I'm trying to,
I'm trying to get everybody stoked. Oh, and so I'm laughing.
You can you can slip them by me Devorah I think I'm five for
five now, you trippin six for six.
That's interesting because tripping is used very commonly
in hip hop parlance today. Yeah.
Thank you very much Dame Kenny Ben for bringing us Mayor Pete,
our transportation secretary in the United States in his little
train, doing nothing for the air transportation system. I must
say, we only had one, one delay of our flight coming back from
New York, we fly out of JFK on Delta.
And of course, this we got this delay message while we were in
the car on the way to the airport. That was not busy at
all. In the Delta terminal. We have pretty much the only people
we walked in everybody who was there at the desks was masked,
we were not masked is no longer necessary in in airport
terminals. But there was the signage was still there mask
mandatory, which was interesting.
I felt personally that when we were
dropping our bags off, I always make a chat with people. I'm
always like, Hey, how you doing? I felt that the masked Delta
employees were kind of a stink eye as shitty towards us are
probably the DC Party Republicans. Republicans come
back to Texas do this. Delta's woke Dell party that woke mass
we've been known to massively woke
on the air now we had the delay. So we of course, went to the
Delta sky lounge. As we discussed previously, the sky
lounge in JFK is huge. In that has to be because of all the
delayed and canceled flights.
I mean, it's unbelievable. And again, you walk in everyone's
mad all the people we were the first ones in it got really
busy, which is why you know, again, it's so big.
Employees all masked. And it's you know, there's a big mask to
mandatory sign that they still have up there. But of course you
don't use it. You don't have the mask. And I would say on the
flight as well as in the lounge. 40% Masks. Oh, I forgot. Oh, can
I just tell you one more story about the wokeness of New York.
Before we get to So
Tina was going to have was she was going to have the afternoon
with with her daughter who lives in Brooklyn, and Christina and I
were like, Okay, we're gonna go, we're gonna go hang out, we'll
go find something to do. We're gonna go to a bookstore. She
loves buying books. And let's go let's go find a bookstore. And
we're in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn. Also, it's
everything, everything. I don't know if it's fancy or not. It's
all woked. Fancy fancy. So there's a bookstore nearby about
half a mile. And so we start walking and famous Adam
tradition. We're walking exactly the wrong direction. And all
sudden, we're in the Hasidic Jew neighborhood, which was
phenomenal to see. And boy, at no mass there. I'll tell you
that. But the did get a lot of weird looks. What are these
Gentiles doing here? So we pop in an Uber. And we go to
Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Now, which I have no idea. I think this is
probably where Hillary Clinton had her headquarters. And
there's a lot of new buildings there. And we go to the green
point, bookstore. And the doors are wide open, and we walk into
a sizable bookstore for any New York bookstore. Walk in right
away. Excuse me. Do you have your mask with you? Kind of
sorry, that's not clear. No glue number four group? No, we don't
have our masks. Oh, well, here's a mask. Oh, well, thank thank
you for the free mask. And it was hard because I had I had not
had a mask on a long time. And I just remembered,
can't breathe. My glasses are fogging up. This bookstore was
the weakest bookstore I've ever seen. Everything was black lives
matter. Black women, women who love black women. Stacey Abrams,
all of her books. I just edit it was
just one and it wasn't even divided by section was woke more
woke woke just and just Oh yeah. And just an alarm like, Hey, do
you have a religion section I'm looking at I want to tell you.
Eight books. Eight, eight books away in the corner by the
bathroom. I think they're probably seven books about
Judaism. And the rest was atheism.
It's just it was just unbelievable. Just and Christine
No, it's just trying to say I can't fight. She wound up
getting a Vonnegut book that's about the only publishing going
there for just what she likes reading books. She likes buying
books. Why would you go to that bookstore in New York? Well how
that they did not know it was I did not know Greenpoint
bookstore it looked like a nice big buy saw that looked at the
pictures on the on the search engine like oh, that looks like
an ice. So you were just done aware? Yeah, of course. I was
unaware. It doesn't say, hey, the woke is bloke or I should
say the woke is bookstore in Brooklyn. Everybody, then must
have been trippin now. Use that one. Now. The worst part is, as
we're driving to the, we're having dinner, we're going to
join a dinner and I know we're some somewhere around dinner and
we're in the car. And I'm relaying the story to Tina.
Christina says later, the driver of the Uber was rolling his eyes
shaking his head she said I thought he was going to kick us
out. Because of what I just said the way I explained it to you i
was the same like this place was so woke. And the dresser
my advice is you had a woke driver. I woke woke. It's all
Waukee style. He says corrupt. I'm telling you in New York City
is really it's gone. Yeah. It is gonna know what to tell you by
me. I know what to do about are you what to say about it? Stay
away. But yeah, I'm thinking stay away. There's no reason.
It's, I felt discriminated against. I just felt like Wow,
man, people just looking at me like a like I'm an a hole.
Yeah, you are discriminated against. And I am. I am in a
hole. So that makes it even beside the point.
In case you're dealing with the well, you know what, don't go to
New York City. Don't go to work Brooklyn, don't go to the works
work bookstore. And don't use woke podcast apps like Spotify
and Apple. ditch those get us a roundabout way to get to your
point. I'm so happy I did that. Please try a new podcast app,
which will be you can't be de platformed off of the podcast
and 2.0 apps and there's all kinds of superduper features is
superduper. Is that a 70s? Term? I'm trying to work in my own no
super duper features, grab one at do podcast apps.com. There's
a lot of different ones to try. You can try them all for free.
You can use them for free. But it's it's a total upgrade of
your experience and censorship resistance. Now let us thank our
executive and Associate Executive producers for episode
1446.
We don't have a lot of execs and Associates, but they did send in
long notes for some reason. Yes, and I think you should cut them
down especially if there's one note that so long I can't read
if it comes to me because it's just bows on my page. And it's
in this immaterial information. It's not like interesting is a
guy talking about his pal. Well in very annoying notes.
We appreciate all the support but you do have to understand
that you're not the only person sending in a note and other
people send in a note and before you know we're doing an hour of
its content but an hour of your notes. And it's some of it is
just a little off point. But we start in Dublin Ireland this has
not happened for a while that that our top donor comes from
Dublin or Ireland or anywhere in that region. Peter McClay three
three 3.50 Now I do not know if this is the total
Euro amounts or if so, if this is a specific dollar amount that
came through I just don't know unfortunately, but maybe we'll
find out here. In the note in the morning gentlemen, I'm
producing a note and a brogue.
Did you say broke? I say broke whatever that is. It's a 70
throwback. I am a producer since Adam appeared on Tom woods in
June 2021 I don't know what possessed me to check to check
in on an episode evolving into me to read that again. I don't
know what possessed me to check in on an episode involving an ex
MTV hack.
But I'm sure glad I did. It's kind of rude. No I'd say M five
M wisdom here in Ireland holds that the Biden Harris ticket is
a safe is a safe pair of hands is the Lenski is a saint and
lockdowns masks and wonder drugs have saved us all from the
killer plague by Gus. Ireland is very similar. It's very similar
to Brooklyn. Needless to say, the ones fighting irish now
lumber around the island under the weight of their badly
swollen amygdalus Yes, sadly, I can believe it right away.
That's why I'm so glad to have found the bi weekly dose of no
agenda sanity. You guys have kept me going during the never
ending craziness of COVID and a more happy to continue
supporting your deconstruction of the rest of the clown world.
I complete my 50s journey around the sun tomorrow April 29. So
I thought I'd take the opportunity to reward myself
with an executive producer ship a property douching would also
be appreciated.
Use bandied deuced thank you for your courage and may you never
find an exit strategy strategy and let's go Brandon. Peter
McClay Thank you, Peter. Nice. Congratulations. You are of
course on the list
with John Brown Lee's next on the list and he's in declara.
Iowa to be Decker I think it's the Cora 333 dot three for my
first donation. Oh, you know, he doesn't ask for it. But give him
a D douching.
Used bandied? deuced he says he's a former austenite who fled
the city for rural Iowa. Some some that's a nice move as some
sticking Fred by the way. People don't realize it rural I Iowa
which is the land of those covered bridges. Madison County.
Yes. is beautiful. It's hilly, it's rolling hills is beautiful,
beautiful area. Keep up the important work up sign John in
the Iowa driftless area.
Once you grab the next one, and I'll do the longer one here,
Samantha.
Happy birthday to my smokin hot husband Peter three.
She says let me see if I expand this. No, I guess not.
Thank a Peter three. Love you and thanks for hitting me in the
mouth. The goat karma please. Okay, Samantha Falgun.
You've got
karma. Oh, I shouldn't mention I should mention that she's gave
333 33 from and she's in a town called Beauty point.
In Tasmania. Wow. Australia. Tasmania, is Tasmania,
Australia. Tasmania was New Zealand. Am I nuts? No, it's I'm
pretty sure it's Australia.
Okay.
Bill Crocker lives in Bedford, New Hampshire.
Associate Executive executive producer, ship. Three, three. We
love these types of executive producer numbers. This is a
rather long one. So we'll see if I can do some editing on the fly
says in the morning gentlemen, my donation is a good old
fashioned switch a roo just to make it even more interesting.
Yes, Switch Row, switch a Roo. And I'm going to do the
switcheroo right now. So I don't forget that at a certain point.
Hold on a second boom Switch Row initiated. That good old
fashioned switcheroo anybody can buy somebody a lame gift. Get by
easy with a gift card or give them a bottle of booze on their
birthday but a true friend or family member would give the
gift of a donation to the greatest podcast in the
universe. The no agenda show. You two are very, very important
part of our weekly Sunday funday we get together every weekend
enjoy time together and as a family we drink our craft beer,
smoke our medicine. Hey, and enjoy our dose of information
from you guys. As he sits down today and smokes his Cuban cigar
takes a sip of his Sam Adams utopia and enjoys his 40th trip
around the sun. This donation is a surprise birthday gift for
you, Mark Jinty or Ginty no pronated no pronunciation guide
we provided Ginty you think Ginty I think is Ginty. He
prefers to go by the pronouns of douchebag prick or asshole. This
man called me out as a douchebag last month and when he gifted a
donation for his brother and in return, I will take the call out
and give my donation to him. That's very nice. He's not only
my neighbor, best friend of over 35 years, but he's truly my
brother. I want to take this time to say thank you Mark for
everything we've been through. And I've had so and we have so
many more adventures in front of us. There are not many people
who have someone like you by their side. You're a great
husband.
You are the number one dad you fight like hell to protect your
family and the best friend anyone can ask for truly no
words I can say to express how thankful and blessed we all are.
For all the things we've been through together. I also want to
give a shout out to his wife Jasmine. Her birthday was April
15. I couldn't donate to both she's the glue that holds the
rock together and introduce me to my future wife best wife in
the universe. Oh, this is very different than that might be
swingers John in the future. I'm thinking we have some swing and
he does sound a lot like swingers. Where are you man?
Come on. Wake up. Where's your punch line? We're currently
waiting for immigration to let her in from the Philippines.
Hello.
We've only been waiting for two years to finally get her here.
It's a long time we could have just joined the convoy and
walked across the southern border but decided against it.
Yeah, that's true. Thank you, Adam. John, for all you do kept
us sane while we were in the COVID jail while in Panama
getting an injection of alien stem cells and also helping us
smack people in the mouth and educate our friends and family
to what is really going on in the world. You know those stem
cells are doing in Panama I've been hearing about that.
Miraculous stuff is going on
And it's illegal or, you know, it's not. It's not illegal in
the US, I guess because it works or it makes sense. Yeah. Bichon?
Yeah. I would like to request a solid round of goat karma and
our two d two karma to get us through the road ahead. Also a
true de douching for mark on his birthday.
You spend deed deuced I hope this is one of many great gifts
and donations for Mark Happy Birthday My brother thank you
from Bill Crocker.
Jasmine Nancy and Alexander do great in Naugatuck Connecticut
333 33 I started listening to guys during the vid time because
my of my husband I started listening to guys. Maybe you
guys probably do guys. My husband's been listening to guys
for years. Again, thanks to him and your you our podcasts that
keep me away from to keep me away from all from to all the
insanity. Since then I look forward to listen to you guys
every Thursday and Sunday. He donated for my birthday last
year. And he also donated for his little brother Alexander the
Great for he he's birthday letter next month last month.
And now is time to surprise him to donate for his birthday. He's
smokin hot wife Jasmine is mother Nancy and his little
brother legs come up the idea to donate for husband Mark Ginty
turning 40 Today again this is like it's like the note you just
read
Ginty Oh, this is a guilty note. Okay, what's interesting, please
add him to your birthday list. I think he's on there and dead
dose him I think I think this may be a Russian native speakers
who are writing this talk give him a little kid give him a
little bit of leniency
dee doo
dee dodged.
Maybe that's just D Dawson. Dawson you're off the internet.
That boy during COVID time I noticed he kept dropping his
beer glass I told him to slow down with the IPA you're getting
drunk and to go see the doctors was long process after the
doctor's appointment test. He was diagnosed with MS which is
horrible. A month after that we all got the COVID I feel like I
got hit with tornadoes during the cold the craziness my
husband is still nonstop he built our walkway while
he had COVID
work as kept drinking beer. He said the beer took his headache
away he's most strongest man I've ever known in my life. I
love him to the moon and back.
I pray God will put him through for me and pull them through for
me and are two human resources. I learned a lot from him.
Especially here in America. She's a Filipino woman and proud
to be an American and she's learning English Okay, so I give
her slack on her first two sentences a bit more than slack
charm.
have given her slack for two cents I'm reading the rest of it
from
editing as I go along. Can I have karma for his MS 33 is the
magic number the noodle gun and China is asshole. Absolutely in
the country long enough to know those. Both course we are
international. You don't have to live in America to understand
the China's asshole the noodle guns or the 33 is the magic
number. And we're very very happy Jasmine was fantastic.
Can't wait for you to join us here in the United States. You
are welcome
that's the magic
the magic number
with the Maduro gun you
I got the my pasta glands locked and loaded.
Chinese ask.
You've got karma.
Very nice.
Elizabeth Yancey, Dame anonymous of the colonial places in
Richmond, Virginia, the colonial place 333. John, in your
substack essay Did you make up the tweet about Star Dust the
pangender four year old I want to believe that over the
alternatives that some scholar of women's studies whose name
implies he is male has abused his child into believing his
genderless fearing Elon Musk and probably believe in the world
will end due to climate change before its eighth birthday. Keep
up the good work.
Thanks, Dave anonymous of the colonial place. Yeah, excellent.
Well, we we know how that went down. We discussed it so very
good.
Baronet surfer comes in with a note he wrote a check
Send it in Orlando, Florida $320.
He says ITM great work, keep going, loving lit all that shit.
Nice. aironet surfer Orlando, Florida. There's a note for you
makes up for the other ones. It's a give and take. It's like
a penny in take a penny out. It's working out fine. Actually,
I think we're just writing the balance today. John Jacob
Wicklund? is in Bellingham, Washington a row of ducks to
2222 D douching. Please show
us ben de deuced. Also douchebag call outs for Shawn green.
And John banner says
thank you for your courage. Thank you very much. We
appreciate it. Short, sweet to the point and effective, sir,
ever have the watt from Lynwood, Michigan $200. Now he wrote a
note zaxy explanatory don't have to read it. But he was given a
title upgrade and he was short mine he assumed the title of
Baron and and it was put on the list as Baron. We titled him as
Baron, but we question if his numbers added up. It's all the
honor system. So you question that and he got back to us
through a donation which is, of course the right way to do it.
And he also changed his title to Baron net, which he thought I'll
read this part. He says, additionally, noted our titles
are mutually independent fiscal events, though. I thought a
Baronet was a lady, not part of the royalty hierarchy, and it's
Baronet tests for the ladies to correct my foibles I've sent
$200 in the Donate website, which puts me in his money.
Baronet, you know that Baronet of you know that place so that's
what he is now. Cheers from
he's in Ecuador. Nice Oh, really? Yeah, he's in Ecuador.
That's post I've never been to Ecuador but is supposed to be
gorgeous.
Second, we'll see if we have this note. No, we don't.
So he will a rare title downgrade today on the show.
I think this is the first
very
rapid I'm gonna give you a good karma just for the best for
being super honest. Thank you
karma
really liked that. Joshua McLean is in Bryan College Station and
says that a donation
a donation was sent from this email so it was I don't have an
email I don't know if there's I don't know if there's intended
to tell us why don't you I'll go look but you read the next note
which is our last and final contribution very short today.
Very short. 12 Total 11 Actually
it is very disappointing but you know at this people are trying
to get back into groove cars read that well, I'm gonna see if
I can find an email from you just address and by the way I
wanted to say hi to Eric whose mom told him to donate and and
listen to hit him in the mouth and he's listening to the show.
Just want to make sure we said hi and we look forward to that.
Anonymous is from Clarks summit Pennsylvania $200 You don't read
the email? No, we won't Don't worry about him emailing you
about two things. So first, Adam asked about auto Sears on
episode 1445 and a n t PQ 36 Fire finder radar. So he
explains the auto sear which I don't think we have to explain
but there was something about the most this other thing
the here we go
the automatic few YouTube videos for the a n t PQ 36 Firefinder
radar
which we're sending to you wow that's the that's that's the
things we're sending to Ukraine that you supposedly can can zap
stuff out of the air? No, I thought that radar was for the
purposes of finding where it was shot from blood this is why this
is why He sent a Wikipedia entry which we could have looked up
while we were talking about it on the show. Stupid a wheat let
me just see. See what it says here before we thank him mobile
radar system
detect and track incoming mortar artillery and rocket fire to
determine the point of origin for counter battery fire. Yes,
we got it. Fantastic. We appreciate that. Thank you for
that. I think we've been on the show correctly. We probably did.
And just a couple of links there to some auto Sears Glock switch
and Firefinder which are all just fine weapons.
And I really have no problem with the with those with people
having those the legality of course is an issue in the US but
if we think with cannons should still be allowed all kinds of
weaponry. It's just it sucks if bad guys have him. He can't kind
of want one and not the other.
They're so anonymous. We'll give you a karma for that. Thank you
very much for supporting the show. You've got karma
that was rather short despite the longer notes but you know,
I'm producing a gadget. I got the note from Joshua McLean
groovy. We did not put donation in the subject line, which
probably violation
but he put donate
I when I search when I go through my email I just do d o n
a t and I don't do the IO n or E yeah okay. I'm just giving you
10 rights. He wants to go requests ham save the world and
goat karma and he is que je five PDU 70 threes from him ITM Dear
John and Adam greetings from the Bryan College Station Texas is
my third Associate Executive producer credit for the month of
April. As I'm chasing knighthood. I cannot say enough
good things about the quality of the show the audio quality sets
the standard
for the industry, and is set me on a journey to acquire quality
gear for my eventual podcast. We need more podcasters the overall
production is fantastic. And bringing a truly unique
experience for the producers of the show. Then content is
relevant and brings understanding regarding current
events. The mainstream media should be doing this however,
they cannot be bothered to do their jobs. I'm glad we found
the note.
Instead, they offer hyperbole and completely incorrect
reporting with Miss represented facts and non existent existent
quote, sources familiar with the matter, essentially keeping us
dumb and afraid.
Now he goes into a long exposition on the battle of
victory was rebelled of Jumonville Glen, which I'm not
going to read, and he talks about how it only lasts 15
minutes but he finishes with ITM 70 threes kg five PDU
in the morning to you and 73 kilo five Alpha Charlie Charlie
when the apocalypse comes where the guys who are going to save
the world. Right? Right. You've got
my mind was something I was gonna say was about the hand was
what was the beginning was note again, John, how did you start
that off? Something that he's posted? I'm sorry, there was
something in there. Oh, he cookie here he did. I found it.
Brittany is from Bryan College Station is my third executive
producer ship blah, blah, blah. Can't say enough good things.
Oh, no, no, no, no, stop.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. That is that is what triggered
it. After. So when I had the if you're listening to the podcast,
you don't know this. But there was on the live show we the epic
crash of the system while I was in New York, and it gave me a
blue screen of death. And yes, it did like a fool. But I really
did it too. Because you know, the stream was down it was down
for 15 minutes had to reboot everything as it was not. And I
tweet this screenshot of it. And I just want to say a couple
things. If you used Linux, please don't be an a hole.
Because you don't know what you're that we go through this
every single time. People will say everyone who uses Linux is
in a hole. It's a known fact. Well, I use Linux every single
day for everything I do except the show for a very specific
reason.
Thanks, John. And, and what he's really good. Besides the a lot
of people unplug it, plug it back in, and I blocked people
over that, too. If you're blocked. That's because you're a
dick. Because on my note, no, I didn't see your note. I bet I
bet it was dynamite. What did you say? jiggle jiggle the
handle? Okay, also lame, but on par. The one that really
disturbed me get stirred up, use Linux etc.
And so I've been through a long series of experimentation, to
get Linux to work with that particular very specific device
that I use. But people think that the problem of audio
devices with Linux has been solved, but they have no idea
what they're talking about. Now it's okay. I'm okay.
I'll take a breath. It got so bad that I finally said I will
give anybody $5,000 in Bitcoin bounty if you can solve this
problem for me. So now I can just ignore people who say and
actually I bought Linux, Motu, bounty.com and it points to this
tweet and this thread and still people you know just it works
man just not doing it. Right. And he did. He did pipe wire.
And and like, I've been running a professional studio for five
years in Linux. You know better.
That's a good voice. I should use that one.
More often, I liked that voice. So I enjoy that voice. So I got
really frustrated. Now, it turns out there is another out of
another model of exactly what I use that has been that had been
upgraded because it didn't use to have noise gate
functionality. And it, it possibly could work. And I was
delighted. So I immediately ordered one of these devices.
They all cost about 500 bucks and like wow, this could really
solve it. I could do the show on Linux because it's really just
the the interfacing and the drivers and and then
there's a special little service that has to run to be able to
manipulate the digital signal processing to create said
fantastic production values. So, so I ordered this while we're in
the lounge before we before we fly, when we land as a
voicemail, hey, it's dawn from Sweetwater I ordered from
Sweetwater and then the way they the way they the Sweetwater
operates, you get a you get a guy and they walk you through
it, and then of course there to upsell as well. And he says,
Well, Adam, we haven't charged your card, I just want you to
know, currently they're out of stock, and sadly could be a
while before we get them because, well, there was a huge
fire the entire factory was destroyed a year and a half ago,
and they don't expect to be able to get chips for another two
years. So could I interest you in something else?
So the Linux production of this program will have to remain
elusive for quite a while. And what are the what are the what
are the odds of having a complete fire melting down your
entire production facility during a supply chain problem
where chips are impossible to get? I mean, that's some bad
karma.
And with that his head was gone.
No, it was I had I was just locked. Everything was locked.
They couldn't do anything because normally they have a
drop out I just reset it real quick and then usually be you
doesn't know this was everything was frozen. So what are the odds
of us discussing Linus Linus Linus, Linux for the show
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formula is this. We go out we hit people in the mouth
we get into the topic just wanted to bring up something
that I found rather interesting particularly in the
In the land and in the days of political pizza playbook where
pedophilia and groomers is bandied about everywhere,
Christina told me and check, we actually watched it the three of
us that there's a documentary on Netflix about
Jimmy Savile, the GMO fix a guy.
And this is a horrific story because the guy was just revered
by the entire United Kingdom. And all of Britain loved him
because he did great things for children for children's
hospitals. And then it turned out that he was
having sex and inappropriate contact with lots of children.
But even people who were eight years old, he was a
necrophiliac, the whole thing was just a horrific, horrific
story. And it broke around 2012. And we know it very well,
because we covered that extensively on the show, mainly
because I was also I think, was I wasn't living in the UK at the
time, but knew a lot about it. And so we watched this thing.
And so we watched the first part, and as a lot of
background, a lot of great historical footage. And then we
and then we watched the second
what I thought was episode, I don't know about 45 minutes into
it. I say, Christina, how many episodes are this is no, this is
it. It's just a two parter. I'm like what? So this entire thing,
which by the way, is not a documentary, it's it's actually
produced by kind of a commercial production house who do promo
reels and stuff, you know, like, big brother.
Sub shows, stuff like that.
It's called
72 films production
has like this is a cover up. This is a cover up of what went
down because and I went to being at.io.
Just because this has indexed our show notes for Well,
certainly back to 2012. And if you remember Jill Dando, the
journalist who tried to bring out that there were no sports
people, 75 BBC executives, tons of politicians who were involved
in this, there were there were bones of hundreds of kids found
outside of orphanages on the Jersey and the Isle of Jersey,
was incredible. And everything got shut down. There was
corruption and all the reporting. And I put the link to
the finishers of the UK where he had Edward Heath, Edward Heath,
all of this, and none of that was in this documentary. So I
just needed to bring this up as elk screen big. Well, how about
smokes we just, oh, when you bring up Savile NAS? Oh, that
guy. But I mean, Jill Dando, the country stopped for a week. That
was because she got shot in the head in front of her house in
London. Yeah, yeah. So they weren't too pleased to have a
look at the at the bing.io search query, if you want to
know more about that, but I bring it up. Because yeah,
there's a reason this was done by some production house and was
billed as, as a documentary stinks. The way you do it.
Yeah. Well, I don't like it. Now. There was something still
at play. Something's up. Yes. Something's up for sure. I mean,
if it was just over and done with and Savile was in the ER,
he died, and no, who cares? That would have been a real
documentary would have been interesting. But no, you knew
something's still going on. This is you know, let's, let's do
this. Well, there's a lot of a lot of, you know, there's a lot
of stuff coming out these issues. Well, not just the UK
John. Not just the UK. There's about the UK specifically. I
don't think it was. I don't think Sam was part of an
international group maybe was there's you know, we learned a
lot about connections between people between Savile and
Epstein. So yeah, I do believe so. And a lot of that was I do
believe I do believe No, I You do believe I do believe I caught
myself. Thanks. I caught myself.
Yeah, I think something much bigger is bubbling up and Lord
knows but eyes eyes, find eyes on it. By the way, I will
mention you know that x 22. Podcast? Yes. That guy all he
does is say I do believe he says he has never once said I believe
he says I do believe I do believe he says it at least 10
times to show now he says a couple of things. He says I do
believe he also says the private Western central banks, the
private Western central banks, the private Western central
banks, the private Western central banks, and he says let's
talk about your health. Let's talk about your safety. Let's
talk about your food. But there's something about the show
I product. Yeah, you have to keep listening. You can't not
listen to the show. The Patriots are at war against the private
Western central banks do
Let's talk about our health.
Yeah, that's a good podcast only available on podcasting 2.0 apps
gonna kicked off of Spotify and Apple, probably because of the I
do believe
are out
that China, I have two quick clips to bring us up to speed on
what's going on in China's specifically Shanghai turning to
the pandemic, China is installing what's being
described as COVID cages around some buildings and neighborhoods
in Shanghai. The barriers are part of China's increasingly
strict zero COVID policy. Shanghai has been locked down
for weeks amid China's worst COVID outbreak so far.
Meanwhile, in Beijing, people in some areas are now required to
get tested three times per week.
What's interesting is that they're now it's five or six
weeks, this has been happening with specifically with with
Shanghai, and we have producers in Shanghai, a couple of them.
And I'm very concerned, you know, I'll be emailing and they
say, Well, yeah, it's true. You know, we're not really in the
apartment problem where the, the lights are on and you got a
bucket to poop in and, you know, a bottle of water and the
separating kids, but even they are like, No, things are fine.
You know, we got three pickles.
Like, do you realize I mean, I think I think that they, they've
become accustomed to it, being accustomed to the Chinese just
saying no, no, no food for you. And maybe they've been in the
country too long, but they really feel no, no, we're
fortunate. We've got we got five, you know, got 50 eggs,
three pickles, and some corn and we'll be good for the next
month. I mean, it's, it's really interesting. And I keep saying
Don't you want to leave? I will see you know, once this is over,
we'll see how it's going to.
My heart goes out to them. I hope that okay, because things
are not good in China this morning China racing to control
a rise in COVID 19 cases in Beijing and forcing an expanding
mass testing in 11 of its 16 districts line sneaking around
the block with residents waiting to get swamped.
Authorities are cracking down police restricting people's
movements. They're stepping up their efforts to prevent a
larger outbreak like the one in Shanghai.
Shanghai has now been shut down for five weeks for the city's 25
million people trapped in their homes. Fences are put up or
COVID cases have been confirmed to stop residents from leaving.
Speaking to ABC News, one resident holed up in her
apartment with her two children and parents since the beginning
of March, a lack of access to readily available food forcing
her to eat just one meal a day. I'm angry, but I have no choice
actually. I have no power to use. I have no right to do
something. Those who do test positive our center and
isolation facility like this one. Multiple people forced to
share rooms some and cramped and unsanitary conditions. But these
strict measures two years after the start of the outbreak have
border implications. And Shanghai's port cargo ships
filled with trade goods from around the world are backed up
threatening the global supply chain once again. And I just
want to point out that this is complete deja vu all over again
including the report that has come out now. The world's first
h three N eight bird flu human infection reported in China
this is kind of the way it goes now this is COVID and bird flu
two different things but it they're going to do anything
they can it's so obvious to me that the any kind of virus they
can figure out oh, we got that one to jump to humans. We're all
going to die and you know, maybe we'll die from the bird flu. I
don't know. But we've China there asshole.
We got to stop this now.
I really believe they're going to try and do this again.
Well, good for you. And good for them. They're they're out of
luck. But I mean also also, wish you had you have the clip. i If
you don't have it. I'll get it for Sunday. Have the guy
screaming Kill me Kill me now kill me. No, how come you don't
have that clip? Well, I have a thing I do. Well, I but I but
this leads into
what's something that we've been talking about? And we actually
had questions about how tree tree disease work in the United
States. And now the World Health Organization has a promo video
out and this is happening. It's not stopping it will it will be
ratified approved everywhere in the world. It is the
the World Health Organization pandemic Treaty, which directly
affects the International Health Regulations which is a thing in
COVID 19 pandemic is one of the biggest
challenges we are facing has been a stark and painful
reminder that nobody is safe until everyone is safe. There
will be other pandemics and other major health emergencies.
No single government or Multilateral agency can address
this threat alone. And together, we must be better prepared to
predict, prevent, detect, assess and effectively respond to
pandemics in a highly coordinated fashion. The 194
member states of the World Health Organization resolved to
work together towards a new international instrument for
pandemic preparedness and response. This renewed
collective commitment is a milestone in stepping up
pandemic preparedness at the highest political level. Such an
agreement rooted in the World Health Organization constitution
could strengthen existing international health
instruments, especially the International Health
Regulations, and provide a firm and tested foundation on which
we can build and improve. The agreement also has the potential
to foster and all of government and all of society approach and
strengthening national, regional and global capacities and
resilience to future pandemics. This could include greatly
enhancing international cooperation to improve alert
systems data sharing, research, and local regional and global
production and distribution of medical public health
countermeasures, such as vaccines, diagnostics, and
personal protective equipment. The agreement could also
recognize the One Health approach that connects the
health of humans, animals and our planet, to achieve this, who
will support its member states in their work and facilitate the
involvement of relevant stakeholders, including from
civil society and the private sector, pandemic preparedness
needs global leadership for a global health system fit for
this millennium? To make this commitment a reality? We must be
guided by solidarity, fairness, transparency, inclusiveness and
equity. Yeah, throw some equity in there. This is making me
sick. This is while Trump had the right IDs rid of this Yes,
he did. He had the right idea. And I'm gonna make a prediction.
It'll be very similar to my prediction that I made in 2015.
By the time 2024 rolls around, it is my belief and my sincere
belief. Or I could say I do believe that people, even people
on the left will be begging for Trump. There'll be begging for
him to come back and fix it. That's my prediction. You write
it down? Yeah, that's a pretty wild one. That's I want to stop
the show for a second and say I guess got to just didn't know
what to throw back to the earlier. Defense. One alert just
came out through the email system. There's been a nuclear
strike. No, not yet. Request will help fight Russia in the
longer term. Biden says they're asking Congress to approve
another not an eight what was it? 700 million they did this
morning. There's 800 million 800 million. 700 million was the new
number. They're doing another one never 33 billion Oh, to
provide more military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine so
they can go the long run? Are you kidding me? No.
President Joe Biden just asked Congress on Thursday. That's
today. For 33 billion. My goodness.
Doesn't magic number.
The magic number
doesn't seem like a lot, actually.
33 billion. That's got nothing to do with it's just throwing 33
billion away. But why is it 33? What are they trying to tell us?
Yeah, well, that's sorry. Please explain. Part of this is a
lesson that came out just during the show to let us know that my
earlier thesis that the National Security Council is running
everything they're listening to throw this antique shows in
front of my just to let us know. It's just for us. Yeah.
QA anyway, Trump will be people will be begging for him. And
although he's stupid, because he says he's not going to join
Twitter. He's not even if he's invited back. He won't rejoin
Twitter because he's got a throat sensual. Have you heard
about his new social network? Yes, we have. We both have
accounts to give the American people their voice back by
building something called throat. Truth central throat. He
said throat throat truth Central.
He doesn't even know his own social network. That was bad.
Throat sensual as bad throat sensual. Come on, man. I didn't
get that one. Yeah,
Right, you're on Do you still talk about China? Let's talk
about Australia and China's a bunch of other stuff that's not
being reported. The Europeans talk about this. Australia is
having issues with China right now and there are everyone's
freaked out. Australia's government says it's very likely
that Beijing could deploy Chinese troops on its doorstep
in the next year. The Warning follows the signing of a new
security pact between China and the Solomon Islands, which about
2000 kilometers from Northeast Australia. A leaked draft of the
deal suggests that China could deploy security forces to the
island or even build a military base there. Australian Prime
Minister Scott Morrison says that's a red line. And with
federal elections less than a month away, this has become a
hot political issue. Australia's opposition has promised a
defense school to train neighboring armies if it wins to
May elections. This as a response to China's potential
military presence on the Solomon Islands. The prospect of a
Chinese base less than 2000 kilometers from Australia's
coastline is dramatically detrimental to Australia's
security interests. And that is a colonel Mr. Morrison's watch.
The Labour Party is criticizing Prime Minister Scott Morrison
over a security pact announced last week between China and the
Solomon Islands. The leak of the draft deal in March indicates
that Chinese military personnel and naval ships could be
permitted to land or dock here that has sent shockwaves across
the region. Where's this report from?
Deutsche Vela has made news shows source for it today. Okay,
I like it.
Part two. But China denies seeking a military foothold.
Their
cooperation aims to help the Solomon Islands maintain social
order, respond to natural disasters and carry out
humanitarian assistance. The island nation has also defended
a pact to his public. Let me assure the people of Solomon
Islands that we entered into an arrangement with China, with our
eyes wide open, guided by our national interests, but the
Solomon Islands is far from United about the decision.
Deadly unrest erupted last year, after the government switch ties
from Taiwan to China. Australia sent troops to restore calm. And
soon after China began to train local riot forces on the island.
A move that cost and society in Australia then came to new
security pact. It has accelerated Canberra has plans
to purchase long range missiles. I am concerned about the outlook
I'm concerned about not just the next few years, but over the
course of the next decade as well. There was a working
assumption that
an act of aggression by China toward Taiwan might take place
in the 2040s. I think that timeline now has been
dramatically compressed. I think China has been very open and
honest about their intentions. And certainly not just through
their words, but through their actions. With elections looming
next month, issues around regional stability will continue
to take center stage in Australia's domestic politics.
Yes, I think there was maybe two or three years ago that there
was already some worry about. Yeah, that's when the Solomon
Islands said, we're not going to recognize Taiwan. And we're
going to recognize China and I opened the door and now we've
got this is a big deal in Australia. That's what they're
talking about. No, no, they're talking about the price of gas.
And inflation. Inflation. It's kind of scary, though, because I
think Australia is rather vulnerable. Do they? I mean,
guess we'd have to? Well, they're not part of NATO. So
they can't, they can count on our help if they need it. Oh,
they can count on our help as part of the Five Eyes network.
Are you kidding? Oh, yeah, true. True. But three, with AWS chief
international editor Richard Walker caught up with former
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, at a security conference
in Delhi. His view this deal, there's absolutely no doubt that
having secured much of the first island chain, they're now
turning their attention to what they call the second island
chain.
the Solomon Islands are very strategically significant. You
might remember that one of the most savage battles of the
Pacific War was a Guadalcanal which of course, is a part of
the Solomon Islands. So
it's absolutely understandable that from China's purposes, they
would want to secure a significant foothold,
ultimately, perhaps a major military base in the Solomon
Islands. Likewise, as far as Australia is concerned, as the
Prime Minister said, this is really a red line that shouldn't
be crossed. And I want to ask about that. As you say, Prime
Minister Scott Morrison has called that a red line. What
does that mean if China crosses that
Red Line, what happens? Well, that's a very good question.
One of the things that the sensible statesman to try to
ensure is that we don't over telegraph, what might happen.
I am very confident that the entire Australian apparatus is
bending every energy right now, to ensure that this Chinese base
doesn't happen, and that the Solomon Islands, and their
people appreciate that their long term best interests lie in
maintaining the long and happy friendship that they've had with
Australia. Just to drill down on that, and with the language of
red lines tends to imply that if they are crossed, there could be
some kind of military action taken. Is Australia really
threatening some form of military action? If China takes
that step? Well, I think everyone needs to understand
just how serious this is.
The world was comparatively
oblivious to what happened in the South China Sea. And we're
now confronted with
a very drastic alteration of the situation on the ground the
facts on the ground.
Wow, this is interesting. turn of events. I mean, what's the
Japanese now? It's the Chinese? Yeah. Hmm. Is there something I
guess it's the location of the Solomon Islands that makes it so
perfect, obviously, you know, they're trying to block off
and set up a situation where they can't be blocked off
themselves. And that's where they're trading pads. And right
now need Australia and their way I put the thing up there to sort
of stop Australia from getting too involved in anything.
I just want to go back to the war machine for a second. And
Trump because I forgot one clip that I thought was kind of
interesting, because there's a little more information behind
the recent
losses that Boeing reported. Boeing, of course, big, big
contractor for the military. And the CEO mentioned something in
this, I think it's a CNBC interview about these losses.
And I looked it up and it's pretty funny, Dave, they set it
up perfectly. You miss on the top on the bottom line, you had
a number of charges in there, it was not a good looking quarter
at all, what do you say to Boeing investors who are looking
at their shares moving lower now, and tell them that you
believe you have a game plan for not only the second quarter, but
the rest of this year? Phil, first, great to have you here in
South Carolina and great great to see some tales behind us on
the production line,
Messier quarter than any of us would have liked.
familiar themes, supply chain constraints COVID inflation,
have disproportionate impact on our company in one specific
area. And that's our fixed price development contracts that we do
with our defense business. And they took a hit. Without without
a doubt we had Air Force One, which is a program most most
people know a lot about. It took a hit our trainer took a hit and
our MQ 25. We love those development programs. And we
love the work we're doing in the performance of the airplanes.
But the accounting proved to be difficult. The accounting proved
to be difficult. So I looked into this. If you recall,
President Trump at the time made a deal with Boeing for Air Force
One. That was a big deal because it'd be new planes and two
planes actually. And Boeing lost over a billion dollars on the
deal. How did it happen? Something incredibly
interesting. Trump did something that the US government never
does with the military industrial complex he put in
there that overruns would have to be paid for by Boeing
themselves. And I don't know if they missed it
in miss it, they came up 600 million short or something like
that right per plane and they have come up with that
themselves. That's whining now. I love that finally someone who
did something right with those eight holes but then pay for it
with your overruns. Yeah, the only baloney over was he saw
that I mean everyone knows about this scam Yeah.
Yeah, okay, we got it low bid. Now we're just running it up. So
I think that you know, they bid it bid it out at like a billion
and it goes for three and a half billion when it's finally done
and we pay with the taxpayers pay. Of course, I know. I saw
that report is very interesting.
Some news for you from the food intelligence sector.
We discussed your yak Fest on the last show. Yeah. And the Yak
meat and and that was yak burgers. Do you have yak
burgers? Yeah, Yak burgers, act burgers. He got some yak steaks
coming and I got some but another report coming
On Sunday, well here's the power of John C. Dvorak got a note
from Dr. Jay says brother Adam ordered Jack meat from the
Colorado farmer that John mentioned in 1441. I told the
owner who wrote me a very nice note after you receive payment
that I learned about his farm from no agenda he told me there
had been an explosion of orders
not just now he's listening to no agenda to and it can be a
really oh I see an explosion of orders I say might be time to
make the Yak the official no agenda get mo nation animal.
Well, that may be taking it a bit far. The goat the goat will
not be kicked aside that easy. No, it could be hard or no
agenda dinner meet.
I've looked into it a little more. It's got besides being 97%
fat free. And the fact that it does have as the good duck fat,
basically, it for the most beef that is that fat free is tough.
This is not a tough meat. That's what makes it interesting. And
especially a lightened kind of I would say fluffy. It's also
referred to for marketing purposes as Himalayan beef.
Well, that's no good. Yak is much better. I agree. I agree.
But they said apparently that the American you know, to
squeamish American. We can't handle the Yeah, yeah, I can't
eat that. You can't handle the Yak.
So as we will have another report complete report on Sunday
regarding my situation with the Yak. Well, if Americans are
having trouble with Yak, they're not going to like this. Well,
Brian volunteers are putting their tastebuds to the test at
the University of Adelaide. Researchers are preparing common
insects for consumption. Insisting sustainable food
sources are the future sustainable crickets, ants and
mealworms usually the last things you want to see in a
kitchen.
But forget using words like creepy or crawly to describe the
dishes. They're playing up at the University of Adelaide
crunchy and flaking. It's pretty delicious. People often assume
that what they might taste like is kind of this insect and
that's often something that's a bit squishy and squelchy and not
too appetizing. Researchers want to change that frying, roasting
and dehydrating insects to be included in an everyday diet.
Yeah, so really high in protein and good fats, they can be
raised using very little environmental resources. And
that's a big win global food production accounts for more
than a third of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
Researchers say the way that insects are prepared is key. Now
I'm told the roasted mealworm is one of the most palatable for
beginners so one appetit.
Tastes like poop and like roast chicken.
In a powdered form where you can't see them feedback from the
unis taste testers will create a sensory guide which can then be
used by industries for product creation, or by anyone curious
enough to try. A lot of our retailers in Australia have
their insects available online Tony Jones seven years and if
you think this is just a fun little joke, who everybody
listening to this podcast is not it's coming. We've been
predicting this for over a decade, we accurately predicted
mac and cheese as being the only food you'll actually serve your
children. And Northern Ireland is the first to have a shining
example. You heard it there and it's like
beef beef bad animals. Nope, no good you can't you can't have
animal protein No, you need bugs. Here's what's happening
Northern Ireland will have to either call remove or stop
breeding over a million sheep and cattle to meet climate
targets of the sustainable development goals of the
starship command and European Union and all that crap.
A million.
So they're making you kill the birds they debase sheep are
mostly used for wool. So not only are they freezing you out
by not giving Russian gas.
But now you can't even wear a sweater. But you can eat bugs.
It's the whole thing is so disgusting. I'm gonna show my
mood by donating to no agenda. People who could do that. Oh
yeah, that'd be fun
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Brandon, Mississippi, Sean and Norberg in Seattle, Washington,
Chris Goodman in Leander, Texas. Douglas Ellis in New York City.
Josh Springer in Indianapolis, anonymous in St. Louis,
Missouri. Jack Schofield in yankeetown, Florida, Shayne
Morrison in Clark, New Jersey. And last but not least, our old
friend Sir Alan Bean, who's now in Beaverton, Oregon. I want to
thank these folks are making show 1446 a possibility. And we
have a title upgrade from Dame Carol Ann who says thank you for
the best podcast in universe Thank you for keeping me more
sane in such an insane world. I'd like to update my title from
Dame care Atlanta East hatchet Ranch, the Baroness of southern
Colorado. Oh, there you go. I've been on a subscription plan for
years and also have given some additional executive producer
donations. I've been listeners since October of 2016. After my
two sons hit Sir Joshua and Sir Isaac since and my two sons, Sir
Joshua and Sir Isaac hit me in the mouth. We are hosting a two
day meet up on May 28 and may 29. Today may the 28th will be
for those slaves interested in some free range time on our
ranch with an instructor present.
May 29 We'll be adjusting Oryx ranch I don't know. I'm
wondering what what is the instructor for Sunday 20 May 29
will be just non triggering food and drink with some optional
games all are welcome. Just go to no agenda meetup.com for
information PS we do have goats for real goat karma for all who
attend Well, that sounds like a dynamite dynamite affair. And I
believe that will while that is on the list, of course no agenda
meetups.com And your title upgrade will be reflected. Thank
you very much. Thank you to all of our producers who supported
us for episode 14 For
The sixth of course people under $50 For reasons of anonymity.
Now you can get on those subscription programs that you
find there those are appreciated if you'd like more information
check this out. vote.org/and a big jobs karma as promised jobs,
jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, got karma
and here's your list. Edgar Decker Happy Birthday to a
smokin hot wife. That's Decker that was on April 16. Sir Chris
protector of psychotic sauces dogs have converted to John Kim
and to celebrate on the 24th. Jasmine's husband Mark Ginty 40.
Today, Bill cracker also for Mark Ginty 40 on April 28, and
Jasmine, who celebrated on April 15. Maria color Carla resu turns
33 Today the magic numbers. Peter McClay 50 Tomorrow Tim
Howard Rehan says Happy Birthday to Arno who turns 50
on May 2, we may be a little early on that one we will do it
again on Sunday and Samantha Phogat Happy Birthday to were
smoking hot husband Peter Craig Nismo to his brother Scott and
Mark builder of fine yard walls is celebrating happy birthday
for everybody. Here's the best podcast in the universe
don't want to be a douche there she is deemed Carolina East
hatchet ranch now becomes the Baroness of southern Colorado.
And we have some information I guess about their two day meet
up thank you very much for your support Dame Carol Ann Welcome
to the upgrade on the peerage list. No knights or dams today
so that does make that part much easier, although we're a little
sad about it. So let's get straight to the meetups. No one
no agenda meetups.com These are completely producer organized
meetups all around the world where you just get together hang
out. Maybe you have a drink a little snack can be at bars. It
can be at people's personal homes. It's a fantastic
experience. If you've never been to one you must go find
something near you have no agenda meetups.com Let me see we
have a meet up reports from Sioux Falls, who say they had
another great meetup. And they talked about homeschooling
entrepreneurship. The dude named Ben ship, centralized maternity
care pet snakes, the history of silencers and that was just what
I heard it by end of the table. Special thanks to Woody the
Baron of blood Ron and to all esteemed producers in
attendance. Look for another gathering soon in April. Now
that is from April, sorry, the Toronto meet up in the morning.
Thank you. Again for no agenda. We had a nice and low key meet
up in Toronto, April 16. It was Easter weekend so many had
family plans. But a few of us gathered together to enjoy a few
beers on a heated patio. This is Canada after all, and they sent
to a recording
which was just not
not for public broadcast. There was no beginning no ending just
some people kind of ordering stuff a little bit of Tourette's
like oddly enough,
but it is appreciated. And we do have one report from I believe
Pennsylvania. This is the TMI evac zone. Let's see what their
report says here. Hey, John and Adam, it's there. 737 from
Crosswater for the Three Mile Island evac zone monthly meet
up. Others have said thank you to Adam and to the man who put
the sea in Crosswater distilling This is Laura Renegade and I'm
happy to be here this is Jake and headed to West Virginia next
this is Chris with my not so secret no agenda don't really
Mickey Mouse Vicki rouses the buffalo shout out to the old
tech grouch good material lives full ever since search had
Pharaoh in the morning, Jason. Great re T's dot com here with
my smokin hot fiance, Natasha. Hey, John and Adam. We're
starting to fill up restaurants. Hopefully someday we'll see you
here in the morning from snob Nam. It's Patrick. It's just
like a party. Or here in the morning. This is Mrs. Sir 737.
Wow, I guess I gotta let the cat out. Rob, it's good to be here.
Big fan and no agenda. Maxwell Reeves looking forward to seeing
you Adam and the keeper in Charleston. Some people say the
grouse will be the next great American movie. But JCD on Nick.
The rat was one of the best interviews of all time. Did you
go on Nick's show again?
No, I went on once. Oh, so he's just talking about that. How
great. You know, those guys have sent are the ones What are you
eating?
I had the my lozenge I was off. Okay. I listened to Adam and
Texas slim on a show in October 2021. Yeah.
that show should be on a loop. 24/7 This is from JD. Oh, what
is he talking about? I did what Texas limb the beef initiative
in Texas. They had a really big, their first conference in
Kerviel. The weekend that I was in New York, I was supposed to
speak at this. teaching people how to connect with ranchers
learning about beef about where it comes from the good beef, not
just the crap that you buy in the store as we get it from the
rancher. It's a whole it's a whole push about teaching people
what good food is again.
And we've got people, people are being taught how to eat bugs,
and we have to have counter programming. That's what Texas
swimmers do. So I have a podcast that I call with Adam curry, and
it was Texas limb with Adam curry. And really I use that
podcast to take clips out and we pay played some of those clips
on this show. Which you may wonder.
Yeah, you're fighting the good fight. Yes, yes. The very good
guests are reptilians who are teaching us to eat bugs and
become like them. And tastier to them. At meetups, today, there
are a couple of meetups taking place. One in Bellevue
Washington at the Irish bar fun times. Six o'clock Patty's coins
Irish Bob. Irish Pub. Excuse me. The north the NA Central Iowa
meet up seven o'clock this evening at poor choices
neighborhood bar in Iowa and Grimes, Iowa you have to RSVP
returned at the Denver City Park meet up seven o'clock mountain
Denver City Park today as well. Then tomorrow, the Oregon local
33 ITM extravaganza 530 at Dick's primal burger in
Portland, Oregon. We have what is this in Croatia. This is also
on Friday at IKEA Malvasia, Z jaw and Loza in emperor's palace
eight o'clock at Luke's or cafe in Horvath Scout Croatia asked
for Alex. Details and no agenda meetups.com Saturday, the New
Hampshire meetup at 1230 Eastern shooter's Tavern and we're
everywhere John, this is crazy. in Belmont, New Hampshire. Get
one nation Freelands meet up four o'clock A Kuhmo sushi and
hibachi in Windham, New Hampshire Saturday as well
CENSORED FOR YOUR safety masquerade meetup one o'clock
harmonic brewing in San Francisco, right in your
backyard, you should go visit this one.
The shrunken amygdala support group Cincinnati two o'clock
Eastern on Saturday at Tufts brew corium Cincinnati, Ohio,
the Punta Gorda posse parley at three o'clock at propaganda
place.
Wherever that is
local one final meet at the rink five Eastern the private rink
Oh, this is in Rochester, Minnesota or Michigan, Michigan,
I guess Rochester Michigan. Yes, Michigan you have to RSVP for
that. Local 251 International Brotherhood of mouth hitters in
Jason's Deli mobiel Mobile Alabama. Stay in your lane
bowling night 7pm in wind Woods lane, Ardmore, Pennsylvania the
ins and outs into Saturday still the most logical Midwest meet up
seven o'clock at shipping port Brewing Company in Louisville,
Kentucky. Curious George meet up on Sunday Breaux Bridge bridge
brew works in Fayetteville, West Virginia, and then may 1 On
Sunday the low lands Labor Day meet up three o'clock lowlands
time at City Beach in Harlem. This has been a change of
organization so make sure you check out no agenda meetups.com
And I could go all the way down the list for all of May into
June and even into July. I just want to highlight we have the
main 90s Charlotte, North Carolina North Carolina no may
16. Charleston, South Carolina. That's the one that the keeper
and I will be at and that's a lot of people coming in for
that. And of course Dane jam Jennifer is is organizing. I
think she's organized she's organizing a lot with the keeper
we got to maybe I heard that even Mackenzie Kelly arts
council woman who has just become a no agenda aficionado
that she may be flying there as well. The old counselor one from
Austin. Wow. Yep. And I think Nussbaum is coming in. And Bob
and I guarantee you, Patrick Coble is going to be there.
It's going to be a hootenanny. No agenda meet ups.com If you
have not been to a meet up, definitely go check one out. You
will not regret it. It's like a potty. Sometimes you want to go
hang out with the
day.
You wouldn't be you won't be triggered.
You wouldn't be everybody feels the same.
It's like
God, I suppose.
No, none. I forgot.
What are the things you freaked out? Interesting. You got
freaked out. I freaked out.
I didn't get any clips. You have any? Yeah, I do. I'm just trying
to, like, if you got some sight, I'm just trying to understand
how you forgot.
It's like, you don't forget. So one of those things I usually
hear a melody reminds me Ah, that's a good one. Okay, I just
didn't get any. Okay, let's try this one Satan's controlling the
church. No, don't like that one.
about this. It's so hard.
childish, but we like it. This could be a one or a twofer. Is
that true?
Like that kinda, especially if you do. That's true.
We could do a twofer there. That would be dynamite. True. Okay.
I'm glad you like that. Let me let me cue them up properly. Is
that true? And then that's true. Yeah.
Let me just queue them up properly. Make sure they work
together. Put this one here. Is that true? True. Okay, those two
right. Well, you didn't hear it. You just did the one. No, I did
both of them. Is that true? Hear it? Do you hear this one? Is
that true? Are you hearing that? I hear that but I don't hear the
other one. That's true.
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like the regular? That's true. That's what I thought you were.
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it. Hold on. Let me let me find out what we're still that's true
girls. Okay, that's true. That's the one where are they? That's
true.
Where are these two crazy women
here it is. That's true. Okay. Finally took me it took me a
half a day when just boost this is that true?
Sound roll this back. Sorry. Everybody. Bear with me. Is that
true? That's true. Okay, we got him fine. Nate. Now you're
talking Yeah, now we got
anything else before we get out? Because I know there's stuff
that we should do. But yeah, okay. I can push it all off
except for this one. Okay. Disinformation police. Oh, yes,
I'm glad you got this apartment of Homeland Security is now
aiming to counteract fake news. During a congressional hearing
today, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
testified that they've established a new disinformation
governance board. Majorca says the board will combat threats to
election and Homeland Security ahead of the midterm elections.
Politico reports that the team will focus on news about
immigration and Russia. Disinformation expert Nina Janka
wits will head the board as executive director. She's the
Soviet or what is a piece of work? Yeah, this is fantastic. I
want to volunteer Do you think they have a volunteer corps can
I be deputized? I'd love to be part of the disinformation
police unbelievable do that I think is disgusting that the
even that the government is going to have a censorship
bureau. Thank you very much. Democrats. It's gonna be
fantastic. I don't know. What are you talking about? Think
about the show.
We'll get we're gonna get censored.
Who's gonna censor us is podcasting. 2.0 baby. Here
tripping. Okay, how do I do that? Catch them all. You didn't
get you missed a shocker to me. I missed the eye. You miss
looking good. Which is actually the one that's from the 80s
Well, then that doesn't count. But okay. No, but that's what I
was hoping you'd catch because that's the one. That's right.
Right, right. You got downer you got out of sight in May.
I got out of sight freak out. Joke. Tripping. I don't want to
freak out. No, I miss freak out. I missed freak out. I said freak
out twice. I know. And I didn't catch it as a 70s Darn. Yeah,
totally. 70s and the one I didn't get in was was righteous.
All right, I will have my 70 See if you can catch him for a
Sunday show. Okay, this is a fun game.
We'd like to entertain ourselves. That's why we're
podcasters coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill
Country. FEMA Region number six in the morning, everybody. I'm
Adam curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm
tripping socket to me.
Yeah, you're Jhansi Dvorak. Yes. Oh, I'm John C. Dvorak. drapped.
Coming up next we've got an AI cooking which is comic strip
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large so I can remain anonymous and snarky snarky
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when he has a vision for Mars, it's the right vision and I
think he can articulate something really compelling and
I don't understand half of what he's saying like this guy knows
what he's talking about when he talks about moving equipment
into the atmosphere for less money using reusable rockets
when he talks about electric vehicles. He has absolutely no
vision here other than First Amendment blather none of it
makes any sense. What does he want to kill my puppy on Twitter
spaces what what is he talking about?
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