kinda gruesome Yeah. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
Sunday, May 4 2014. Time to get my nation media assassination
episode 614. This is no agenda running at 1.3 degrees
Fahrenheit here and FEMA Region six of the Travis Knight tied up
Austin, Texas in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
and from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm cuddling up with a
copy of 1956 February radio electronics highlighting
portable scintillation counter. I'm John C. Dvorak, Greg Levin
Buzzkill. 35 cents. Yeah,
there you go. Oh, man, I am sick as a dog. Now what? Oh, no, it's
what I had on Sunday. Thursday. Yeah, yeah. So I've been in bed
all since the end of the show. Thursday. I've been in bed
and bed literally in bed in bed in bed. What you can't stand up.
No, I'm
dizzy. Yes. So it's I have a combination. I have a I have a
bronchial congestion.
Okay, I have
well, of course, the mould is still
super high. Love the mould. So that makes
me dizzy if you know so I gotta I gotta take these questions in
things every every, I guess like to an hour, which, which does
help. I had an ioniser on in the studio all morning, which really
works by the way, this removes all of the mould stuff and I
slept well.
Last night. Have you had a HEPA filter before?
Well, that's what this is. It's a HEPA filter and an ioniser.
All in one. Oh, nice. Yeah, yeah, it's, we have three of
them. Actually.
That should suck up most stuff. Yeah, make the air beautiful.
Yeah, except in the in the studio. It's, you know, it's
literally the corner of the house with all windows
underneath the oak tree couldn't get couldn't be any worse for
collecting stuff.
Well, that is that the device will take care of it. It
probably recirculated into the entire room full of air every
hour.
Yes, except I can't have it on during the show. Because then it
sounds like a hit me this as you get this, this haste on on the
microphone.
So then you'll be doing the show. We'll get into it. We'll
finish the show probably at an earlier time. A hope. And then
you'll be but then you'll be near dead. Yeah. And you'll be
you'll crawl on your hands and knees. Hold your hand out very
slowly. just flicked the switch on Yes. Save your own lives.
Barely.
If I could only reach my utility bill, Batman. And yours. So here
I am. I'm thinking like, what do I have? This is crazy. And it's
and of course, I'm also trying to work you know, I had to
figure out why the the new setup was crashing, which I think I
figured out Fingers crossed.
You jump at the one hour thing? Yeah, every hour. You guys will
know
when an hour from now. Yep. So I tried to figure that out. Of
course, you know, there was still prep to do and I'm like
what is going on? Because I had this really, really deep cough.
And then And then notice
in that but yeah, well I haven't done it yet. You want to hear
it? Here's what No, no, no. That's that's a call a
productive cough? No,
here's what it is.
A first case of the potentially fatal MERS virus which has
killed more than 100 people in Saudi Arabia has been detected
in the United States. The male health worker had flown from
Riyadh via London to Chicago before travelling on to Indiana.
It's raised new concerns about the spread of the respiratory
disease which emerged in the Middle East. It's similar to the
SARS virus that killed some 800 people over a decade ago. Me you
go.
And it's obvious what it is. I've gotten worse. Middle
Eastern respiratory disease.
It's possible. And so Wow, who's going to these events with
national personalities? There's probably some guy there from
Saudi Arabia, I
shouldn't have tongue kiss the guy from Saudi Arabia would have
it right there or the burqa Bay, we shouldn't have
done that. Dave is always dangerous.
And then I'm thinking about that because of course, there's no
vaccine available for this, this merge disease. And I hadn't
thought because it was another report that came across the wire
now and get mo nation lowlands. If your kid is very similar to
everywhere. Now, if your kid is not, hasn't had its
vaccinations, then the kids not allowed to work or not allowed
to school. Very similar. You know, there's a lot of
hospitals, certainly, but lots of places now, where if you have
not had your vaccinations, you're not allowed to
participate. And I have a question for you. Since I'm not
Yes, since I'm dying of Merce.
Well, you're not dying. You just have it down to how many people
I think it has a death rate that's a little more than SARS,
which is one out of 330 3%
There you
go. Death 33 the magic number.
Okay, so we're going to so every kid these days, certainly in
America, by the time they're three has had 24 Different
vaccinations. It's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot more than it
used to be. Yeah, it
used to be a couple. Yeah.
Then it was no polio. And I think we got what did we get
back in the day? Polio? No, polio wasn't even a shot. It was
a sugar cube.
Yeah, it was live oral there. You got diphtheria? You got the
dead here and combination. It was diptheria, tetanus, tetanus,
tetanus, right, the rusty nail thing. Yeah, tetanus dip, there
may be measles. I think I might have gotten the measles shot.
But
my day there was no needles. Okay.
So I just definitely did not
get mumps or rubella. But in my day, we had smallpox. Right.
Okay, so they stopped giving that out, which I just, you
know, I don't know.
So here's the question. We're going to assume that these
vaccinations, these 24 vaccinations work. Right? But
that would be the theory that's going to assume that they all
work,
even though they could all be crap, because companies don't
care because they can't be sued. Oh, no, but
let's just say let's just say they work. All right, they work.
Why if if a kid doesn't have its vaccinations, and it goes to
school anyway, what's the danger? If all the other kids
are vaccinated? The kid you know, has mumps or Rubella or
measles.
That would be the logic of a homeschool who cares? Yeah, no,
it's Well, that's one of the theories about not taking the
flu shot.
But that's my quote. So flip flu shots. Another great example.
Why can't the kid go to school if he if he or she hasn't had a
flu shot if the flu shot works? Or does it?
Now you're delirious. No,
but seriously said. That's when I came up with this stuff. I'm
thinking hey,
it could all not work. It's an all a giant scam.
Yes, I was thinking big water into
these kids would know too.
Oh, but seriously, I mean, whenever someone says that
that's the answer, like, well, you know what, if your vaccine
works, who cares? If I show up and I'm sick? You're not gonna
get it? I'll get sick and I'll have to go home bad on me.
Yeah, well, that's kind of what happened with the Jaycees wife
who had measles. Right. She got a measles shot and Sheena with
the measles. Right. And she's in the, you know, dark room for
about two or three days. And I didn't get it. But
that's just that's just your hobby space. At the house. Yeah.
It's one of the archives.
Right. And you didn't get it?
No, I didn't get it. And I didn't worry about it because I
had the measles. I didn't get a shot though. I can't say because
I had a shot. It's because I had the measles and apparently
that's pretty good. Way to not get it. But it's funny, JC
buzzkill Jr, had chickenpox when he was a little kid. And it was
weird because he had the chickenpox and it was confirmed,
but he only had like three pox.
You know, you told us this,
yeah, still baffles us. One on his leg. Like,
just staying on this for just a minute. So there was a German
study that concluded that stress? Well, that it's not such
a stretch. Really, when you think about it, the German
science scientists have found that stress is contagious, and
can rub off on both strangers and your partner and it can even
be transmitted through television shows. Stress. Yes.
So observing another person, this stressful situation can be
enough to make our own bodies release the stress hormone
cortisol. And this is the Max Planck Institute for cognitive
and brain scientists in Leipzig, and the Texas Technical
University in Dresden today's didn't and so there's a couple
of things about this. First of all, that doesn't surprise me
that television can stress you out. But of course now they've
actually measured that you that you released the stress hormone
Well, this
is one of the reasons our show is so good.
Yes, yes, exactly. This is so I was thinking that but also do
you know what we're doing to kids with this climate change
bull crap? Does anyone stressing them out? Yeah, there was
another see were
gonna die kid. No, it's gonna die and you're gonna get floods.
Let me see where is it? I
have on the water. I haven't seen any anything going on youth
anxiety
here. This is who did this? What story was this? From the Globe
and Mail but okay. Let's see. Youth anxiety on the rise due to
climate change. A reporting
nice and it was good for something she's
so good but no one really talks about that. And we think about
these young kids who are coming home six years old and they're
you know, they've been taught at school that the earth is dying.
Then we get an email from one of our one of our nights the other
day. Yeah. And the kids are all freaked out and mad. It's like
what is going on with all this? Yeah, yes, this is this is this
is dying kid. Yeah, this is your evil parents. Yeah.
These things are not very good.
No, we actually, ya know, especially in public schools.
You know, there's good public schools, but most of them they
scare the kids. They given bad information. It's it's a
horrible experience. Surprise, any of these kids get out alive.
at all, ever. Seriously, you had the when I was a kid, it was
different.
You have the window open again?
No, I don't have anything open. Are you hearing noise?
Yeah, a little bit. Just and you know, it's the new system. Now I
can hear everything we used to have. And you always have that
second grade, you know, Grade B, the audio stuff, and you know,
now all of a sudden I'm hearing things. Oh, okay. Well, it
could be delusional to yes, no.
Well, this is fact. Fact. I have 100.3 I'm tripping. You have
100 Right now you're at 100.3. Yes. That's terrible.
Yeah, it's, it's this is not I'm not very good at being ill
either.
And we have one of those. Well,
you know, I just I want the windows closed. Leave me alone.
Go away. And the sad thing is Mickey's niece's here. She's
with us for two weeks for 16. She's 16 year old. Oh, yeah.
Which is actually that's kind of great. Because you know, I'm
following the divorce X School of children child rearing. Hey,
kid, give me some coffee. What are you good for? Coffee. Hey,
give me some coffee. Here's here's I'm gonna show you how
this thing works. Now the sad because I can't participate in
everything. I've just been laying in bed like,
like probably get stuff you could tell you to that would be
interesting. Yeah. Oh, no, I've
learned a lot. Just observing the kid on the iPad. Oh my god.
I gotta
learn something the other day. Apparently, there's a resurgence
of grimy, sleazy kind of perverted burlesque amongst the
hipsters. Oh, Burleigh?
Yeah. In Austin Burlesque is there's quite a revival here.
And it's not as
that's a good judge. And now I'm even more because I get this
information at a dinner table. And then I talked to Mimi later
in the day I said you know about this burlesque thing going on?
Because yeah, oh yeah. Really high hanging out? Yeah. She says
she explained it as she apparently noted because she's
connected to the comedy community because she used to
produce Yeah, and she says that it's just kind of some of the
worst lamest crappy burlesque with the holiest women and
there's some word term that is up for these women called fat as
it is called sex without guilt or some some crazy term for
people showing their really misshapen bodies off in public.
Oh, and it's that it's like a major trend now you're telling
me that this? I just somehow this I can't believe that it's
just shot right over my head.
Yeah, no, this is a we know a number of people here who are in
the burlesque scene. And so one of our one of our friends we
talked about on the show one of our friends, she almost died,
she she caught some respiratory disease funny enough. And that
she was in the hospital for three months. And by what you
got, gotta hope not that she went into they actually induced
coma. Anyway, she came out of it. And she was a burlesque
dancer. And I had never actually seen her perform. But then they
did a benefit because of course, she had no health insurance. And
so he went to go see. We talked about this. Yeah. And then when
we went to the benefit and was like, okay. Yeah, great. And
it's If anything, it's, I don't know. It's not it's not
particularly great. In my book.
That's what Mimi said. Yeah. But Deborah the hipsters are all
over it. Oh, the hipsters are all over everything. These
hipsters?
Ah, anyway,
patrolling the culture right now. No, they're
not. No. Yeah. No, they're not. Yeah, yeah. Ghazi, Benghazi,
Benghazi. So the same way, there's so many fun things going
on right now.
We wait stop a second and re evaluate our six week cycle
which seems to be we still have a couple of days left for
something to happen.
Well, we had a number of things that I think fit within the
system.
But do you think that kid trying to blow up the school and kill
his parents?
Well no, no no no I'm thinking about the guy who wanted to add
the fake explosive up in Seattle where this the explosives for
the Space Needle for Walmart is gonna blow gas stations the Feds
and it was FBI is involved okay
with it that one is Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah
so the Feds were prompting them along and then he yelled
she doesn't get the media attention is what's missing
well,
well it does. Just like the last time when we had the guy who
idiots up in Wichita right it's they don't really need that much
media it's good if they get it but all they have to do is just
check the boxes on the report and say oh, here's what we did.
Oh and by the way the guy died sorry about that. The guy died
in custody
Yeah, maybe that's what it was maybe that but I was expecting
something a little more interesting
but when Yeah, but the problem is we have we got you know you
people burning alive in Ukraine. We have the ferry we've got all
this stuff happening we you got too many bodies and other
places, which is beyond the FBIs control. Remember, the six week
cycle is it has to adhere to a number of things. First, it has
to be a patsy being set up by the FBI specifically, for weeks
or months in advance how this all works. That typically the
guy would have a three new have a middle name. Now that didn't
hit it on this one. It was Larry Jillette there was no middle
name. So I didn't like that. But then you know the guy they have
to thwart the plot by giving him a phoney cell phone. Hey, if you
press this it'll blow up. And also this wasn't really there
was no radicalization angle to it but he appeared that he had
been in touch with somebody in Syria or or any of that. So it
was with a pure lone wolf it was yeah, it was weak at best so
maybe it maybe this wasn't it maybe this was just
that if nothing happens in the next five or by Thursday, I will
put that down the list as the the event and it will have to
wait another six weeks.
It does quite a qualifies pretty much on the main points.
Right. It has the check boxes checked, which didn't work out
and all the rest. Yeah, another foiled plot. Okay, with that?
Was it gonna say?
I don't know. Well, while you were doing that, when you talked
about the correspondents dinner, you were actually off on some
tangent that you wanted to finish that you began with your
sickness?
I don't know. I don't know blood boil. Let me before we go into
correspondents dinner. We need to look at the Presidential
proclamations for some reason may now we already had all the
Oh see, it's national seniors month we now pretty much both
qualify I almost qualify you are overqualified.
I'm overqualified for a lot of things. That's why I can't get
work.
That's why he'd welcome to the podcast. On Friday, it was World
Press Freedom Day. That's the United Nations. I know. Funny,
isn't it? That's the United Nations celebration. But listen
to this. We have this week. It is National Charter Schools
Week. By presidential proclamation. As the president
says at the heart of who we are as Americans, a simple but
profound idea. No matter who you are, what you look like or where
you're from or who you love. You can get a world class education
in a charter school run by Bill Gates.
That's right. It is today, or is this May 1 was National Law Day.
Who needs a day for
law? I don't know we get enough laws.
Let's see if this law day pay special tribute to the right to
vote the cornerstone of democracy. Okay, then we have
well the month is being shared now along with Asian American
and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Do you think that what
happens is that someone sees all these things going on? And then
some lobbying group calls up and says hey, wait a minute. We they
need me we need some attention or to the or do you think it's
they have bills running around in Congress and or someone has
some agenda and they just just just call up and say hey, add
this to the list? No, I
think your former commentary was exactly what happens and then
they are they get a hold of their senator usually. Or even a
congressman and then they say hey, and they tell a bit To
them, and then they when they have that open speech part of
the day where they were guys just come out they get five
minutes and say whatever they want. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah,
right. I thank the postmaster as a talk about the roads in their
town being fixed and as a great town to live in. And then they
say and they they put into the record that has to do something
for the Pan American, you know, residual award winners of the
Pan American Games of the 1930s or whatever. And then they get
it becomes a day or some I don't I mean, something like that is
sure that's what it is. They don't just have a suggestion
box.
May 1 was loyalty de 2014. If you're wondering what that is,
of course, yeah. What is it over 150 years ago was as soon as a
civil war threatened to dissolve our Union President Abraham
Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, defining the American
experiment as conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal. Yeah, he resolved
that our nation shall not perish from the earth. Yeah, he
understood that what makes America most worth preserving
our founding ideals. These ideals compelled colonists to
rise up against an empire. And they have sustained generations
of service members through the darkest days of war. It's an
army thing. In the United States of America, well, you never
mentioned the word here comes the United States of America. We
do not define loyalty as adherence to any single leader
party or political platform. Oh, no. When we make big decisions
as a country, we necessarily stir up passions and
controversy. These debates are a hallmark of democracy. They
allow us to trade ideas, question antiquated notions and
ensure our nation's Republicans Shut up.
Shut up. Yet, even I think Congress, yeah, yeah. Yeah,
nothing is as I keep reminding me, I have to remind people that
you want a do nothing Congress. Yeah,
that's exactly that's what I'm supposed to do.
Otherwise, you just write all kinds of nutty laws. One more
here. We have mace at Friday, May 2 was National Day of
Prayer.
Okay, why as
we give thanks for our liberties, we must never forget
those around the world, including Americans who are
being held or persecuted because of their convictions. Let us
remember all prisoners of conscience today, especially
those in Guantanamo Bay. I'm sorry, it doesn't say that I
just made it should yeah, it should let us continue to take
every action within our power to secure their release from
Guantanamo Bay. And let us carry forward our nation's tradition
of religious liberty, which protects Americans rights to
pray and to practice our face as we see fit. And then finally, it
is and I think we've already had one of these months, I don't
think I think they're giving it two months a year. It's National
Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness Month.
That sounds familiar. I
think we already had that. A proclamation. Despite great
strides in our understanding of mental illness and vast
improvements in the dialogue surrounding it, too many still
suffer in silence. 10s of millions of Americans face
mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, by sell
more pills, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or post traumatic
stress disorder, from killing brown people in sand. During
National Mental Health Awareness Month, we reaffirm our
commitment to building our understanding of mental illness,
increasing access to treatment, and ensuring those who are
struggling to know they are not alone. We've got the answer in
this little bill for you. Oh, this is a Obamacare thing. Over
the course of a year, one in five adults will experience a
mental illness, yet less than half will receive treatment.
Because this is unacceptable. My administration is fighting back
to make mental health care more accessible than ever through the
Affordable Care Act. We are extending mental health and
substance use disorder benefits and parody protections to over
60 million Americans. Let's read that again. Mental health and
substance use disorder benefits. Wow, free drugs. Man oh man. Oh
man. Oh, man.
We maybe you could do the same thing with some pot for them.
They legalised marijuana.
That's just a social experiment. John that's not that's not
really medicine.
That's right. That's right. It's been defined as a social
experiment. And it's funny the only matches Colorado fails.
snubs the state of Washington.
Yeah. Yeah. I thought that was interesting, too. So last night,
and I, I I got up around. I think around six o'clock in the
afternoon, in the evening, and some here and someone was
tweeting Oh, man, you gotta check it out. And I've
completely forgotten about the White House Correspondents
Dinner and the dinner is one thing where this is where the
President does his 15 You know, 20 minutes of jokes and they
always have a comedian read a list of jokes.
And by the way, maybe I'm wrong because we've been watching this
thing on and off for the last five, six years. I always
thought that the President came on after
it's funny you say that I thought that too. But then when
I when I went back, no, it turns out the President is always
first and then it's the host.
Then you check this out with Yeah, private. Yes. Yeah,
I went back and looked. Ah, hmm. I don't know why I thought that
I also handled
I don't know why I thought it except it seems more like why
would the prey you're the host. That means you're the emcee.
You're not You're not You're just the guy who reads the
lizard jokes.
Yeah. And then the case that this was the worst one for a
long time because Joel McHale is it really more of a comedic
actor? He's not a stand up comic. And these are all Henny
Youngman. one liners. But
I recall, that's what it was last time, too. It really has
gone on much when
Colbert was on there who they don't like they mentioned in
that documentary as as a guy who bombed because he got it all
wrong. Colbert Who's that?
Well, I thought both the President and Joel McHale were
bombing at times, but they both had really good moments. But But
before we get to that, what I love, and that's why I was happy
that I was up at six because that's when the C span live
coverage of the red carpet started.
Did you see who did you see? Oh, well, by the way, who are these
people have nothing to do with the White House corresponding
anything?
Well, of course, you see a lot of politicians and you see a lot
of the you know, there's actually there were not that
many Hollywood celebrities. I thought it was interesting to
see many I saw a couple of women walking around like Claire
Underwood. Yeah, they have the
Yeah, I saw a lot of Claire. Claire under
it's so funny. It's so funny. Let's see, I have I got a
article here. Because of course, it's not just about the dinner,
but it's about the party. This was a big Silicon Valley year.
Marissa Meyer was there.
Right? She was with his name has just lost his name. But he was
there and he had absolutely nothing to do with
it and see who she was with. I
saw that. She was with a bunch of Yahoo is Yeah, because Yahoo
apparently got on the board. They have a big table in front.
Yeah. So there's a bunch of Yahoo. Yahoo's there.
Yeah. The guys from Vice media.
I saw Steve Case roaming around. Yeah, I
saw him to the former AOL chairman. You know what you got
to do with it. You know, and Valerie Jarrett, and she was at
the table with her boyfriend. Rashad. What's his name? Ahmad
Rashad, the former sports guy. Yeah. Yeah. But he but not
sitting next to her. Yeah, well, boy. We're nothing Nothing to
see here. Patrick Duffy, all of a sudden from Dallas shows up.
Yeah, they had David McCallum from NCIS was there talking to
some woman? Yeah, yeah, we It wasn't really stars but it but
I really like watching because the people who are there they
don't realise that that cameras cameras are on. Yeah, and and
you see women hoisting up their booths TAs and but it's it's so
house of cards like where you see these the bespectacled women
who threw on some too expensive dress that is ill fitting you
know, networking running around going from table to table
bumping in you're looking around who am I supposed to talk to
now? That's and then watching Charlie Rose eat a salad is its
stomach churning. And the man demand he like shovels this
leaves into his mouth and forward. I was already not
feeling well. I'm gonna have to watch that as you hold the fork
yet. Well, he holds it correctly. Not like you. We all
know you hold the fork incorrectly. Now I will say
Michelle Obama's marchais side gown. Stunning. Stunning. I felt
the same way I really did. I really liked it. But you did it.
Anyway anywho
I get to play my jingle when I say those things. When
somebody gives me an Apple TV or in general these. These White
House Correspondents dinners are supposed to be self deprecating,
and I thought the President did a poor job of making fun of
himself. Yeah, there was some of it there but no he really he
really went after everybody else.
Let me play a few clips that are not from the the event but about
the event at these dead C span which does a great job I love
and I don't know if you also saw the walk in where they came in
so that's the red carpet of course huge bags. I'm trying to
go there's just too they just they should just for hours they
show just people mingling. Yeah. Which is it's very valuable. I
think
that is the best reality television on television today.
I'm totally with you on that then they have these idiots
coming through on the red carpets posing so you see Eric
Holder man with his wife hold for the camera and he's doing
the twist and he moves sideways. And then
just doesn't his wife looks scary. I mean, not like ugly or
anything but she looks like me and spirits mean spirited.
Exactly. She does. She does like to beat your head off.
And that idiot Sharpton comes in and he's he's never he's
running. He's running
around like who can i Who can I mail today?
Well, he's pestering people.
It was like oh, crap. They're Sharpton hide.
And then there was some blonde that they kept shooting lots of
pictures of she had just kind of a wide bottom woman a very kind
of attractive but who was she? I mean, there's a bunch of these,
you know,
the way the there was one woman on the on the Deus who had her
breasts were as big as my head.
Oh, that's the one from urban radio. No, no, no, that
was the black one. There was a there was a white one in like a
silver like a glitter ball dress. She recognised you know,
you know, I say this every single year we make the mistake.
You and I should get the livestream going. Okay, next
year. We're if we were still alive last year. Do we need to
live stream commentary?
Yeah, like science fiction theatre three. That would be
just over why she dressed?
Exactly. And I'll do commentary about the about the outfits.
Yeah, you can do that.
We could probably this is now a mad we should have done that
man. Oh, we're
so stupid. We always get caught off guard and we're you know,
it's a lot of work.
No, it's not we just turn the stream on and watch television
and talk. That's not a lot of work at all. It's easy. Next
time next time. Next, play a
couple of clips here. Alright. Let's see. Let's start with the
one I this is one of my favourite ones. I thought this
was kind of this was determined here is telling. And this is the
clip. That's the drinking club clip. This is very interesting.
CD drinking.
Okay, I just gotta get into your naming here. Here we go.
And as you know, this dinner has grown exponentially in size,
about 2600 people now, obviously, our main celebrity is
the president united states very kind and gracious has come every
year since 1981.
And you're talking about just how large it's gotten. How has
the dinner changed and evolved over the years?
Well, in a number of ways, one, there's no smoking at the
dinner, I was just talking to the three, three or four of the
most senior waiters at the Hilton who've been waiting on
the head table for about 40 or 45 years. And I asked him the
same thing. And so one of the key things is there's no
smoking, the drinking has changed. Reporters used to drink
many bottles of scotch whiskey at every table. Now it's a lot
less drinking more wine and as waiters told me a lot of fruit
flavoured drinks. What
to this What's wrong with fruit flavoured drink? The not
drinking anymore?
Did I drink it anymore? Now this is bad. This is very bad. So I
thought that was the most telling a little speech. They
had these these these staffers. They were interviewing staffers.
And here's another one that I thought was interesting. This is
the 2008 anomaly, which actually tells me something.
Golden food and beverage manager, Gordon Maher, and got
his perspective.
How many years have you worked at the Hilton? I'm on 34 years
right now. 34 years and how many of these White House
Correspondents Dinner strategy you've seen? Pretty sure I'm on
34 this year. Does any stand out? Looking back? I think
probably the first year that President
Obama was in office that seemed to become you know, the, the
Hollywood one everybody seemed to be here. And it was while
we've had celebrities for many, many years. That first one was
just overwhelming with the number of celebrities that
decided they had to go through the kitchen because they didn't
want to get stopped by the crowds because there's literally
1000s of people here and everybody wants to meet
everybody. So we just had you know people welcome through the
kitchen all night long. I'm kind of difficult to keep a team
getting a meal out for that many people when they see different
celebrities walking through.
Now, that was interesting to me, because what that tells me was
that when Obama got elected you, as you recall, you had all these
people talking about how the world is going to change because
Obama Hope and Change and all the rest of it, none of it
happened. And they so they were all in so the place was
apparently chock full of all these Hollywood types in 2008.
And then year after year after year, more droning. Yeah, you
know, all these things, the liberals hate and now they just
kind of bailed and I just think it's interesting how they must
be feel so disappointed,
except for the Duck Dynasty guy. Who was there one of them? Yeah,
the Duck Dynasty
guy. Now, the one that I also thought that this one, I do want
to explain a little bit after you play it, and this is the New
York Times The New York Times does not go to this event. Oh,
really? Yeah. And they have a good excuse. And you can play
the New York Times. exposition on this. The issue
some people have with a mixture of politicians and celebrities
at this dinner. We spoke with New York Times Magazine
correspondent Mark Leibovich last year and asked him about
the very same question, what he thought of that that whole
issue, and he raised the issue of media as celebrity, here's
some of what he had to say. Well, I think is, as we found
out this weekend, it's all pretty, pretty closely, pretty
closely aligned. I mean, I think one of the things about
Washington that's somewhat unique is that, really, since
All the President's Men, I mean, what journalists in DC have
become more of a celebrity class than in other cities, which is
an odd thing. But there's a level of self congratulation and
self celebration, and, and so forth, that can be very, you
know, somewhat somewhat at odds with the mood of the rest of the
country and how people view the media and so forth. So it's all
very, it's very, very unique to this culture, in some ways. But
I do think that many people would think it odd that we now
have about two dozen parties to celebrate the efforts of the
Washington media over a single weekend at a time when, frankly,
a lot of people are not happy with the performance of
Washington or the media. Now, the New
York Times does not attend the correspondents dinner anymore.
Why is that?
Well, I think the reasoning is, and Dean Baquet, who was then
the Washington bureau chief, and I think this was around 2007,
decided that it just felt too cosy. It felt too, not too
festive, but it did not feel like the right message to be
sending to our readers to really be you know, in such a a chummy
and sort of festive setting, with the people we're covering.
And I think people that that's obviously a view that somehow
but not everyone, and, you know, we don't pass judgement on those
who do go and obviously, when I did used to go and I worked at
another newspaper, I got a lot of work done. And so there's a
lot of fun to be had. But I think, I mean, that has been the
paper's philosophy for a number of years now. And I don't see it
changing at least certainly not this year.
I'll hand it to the New York Times for that because that is
one of the things that annoys me a lot.
Yeah, no, I didn't know he's me too. But let's let's be more
realistic. The New York Times is just cheap. Very expensive
proposition I wrote for the one year for the New York Times, and
I got art by the
way, I'll give it to you. I'll give it to you when you got a
picture of you
know, art done. In other words, they do the illustrations around
the piece was difficult. I was at Comdex and I had to deal with
kind of a slam at Comdex that the times got to run because
they did not want to send anybody to Comdex they didn't
send anybody because it just thought it was too expensive.
The New York Times guys, you know, get they get a per diem
that's high. They always want to they had to fly them out. Put
them up in hotels is a very expensive process and they pay
for all of it. And I think that they just bailed on this already
because it's ridiculous. And then there's the politics which
I think is even more important. Well, yeah, politics of do I get
to go
Oh, internal politics in the company. you mean who
1000s of reporters and a lot of them cover this stuff? Why don't
I get to go? Why does he get to go Why does she get to go Why is
she going she's not hasn't even been here to half as long as I
have. Well, it's like
when any company that I've had people I was like, Oh, we got to
go to South by like no, that's ridiculous and nothing no, no
business there. You just want to go drink and get laid. No one
goes. I'd never been to South by until I moved here.
I've never been to South but yeah, it's it's virtually
Yeah, it's a lot of fun to drink and get laid. If someone else is
paying the bill.
I don't notice it that many people are getting laid. Oh
yeah. Oh, yeah. There's
a lot of getting laid going on. Oh, yeah.
Well, that's a plus anyway, so
there's something we missed out on. Yet again, yet again, John.
That's the way it works. Anyway, the New York State but because
you see CBS, they really, you know, they they bring in they
there's people there that shouldn't be at this event and
you know that there's people irked at the back at the office
because they do a lot of work. And they don't get to go
the whole today's show is there, including Carson Daly.
Yeah. And Savannah was there yakking away smile?
It's it's just shows the broker was there. Yeah, it just shows
the collusion. And what is
brokers a weatherman? Why
is he there? Well, because he left his dirty underwear in the
White House. You don't
read crap in the White House?
I did. I did think the I think there were a couple of things
that were very funny. One because I had a little video
which that smokin hot babe from a&e. She's the CEO. She's very
smart, very, very smart lady. She's the one that started the
whole controversy with the Duck Dynasty guys. And she says she's
just one smart cookie. So she did the whole video that they
always put together. And it included Joe Biden driving
around in a yellow Corvette with Selena Meyer played by Julia
Louis Dreyfus in her Veep role, and I thought that I thought
that was really good for Biden. I thought that was very funny.
Because he's such a boob, doofus. Yeah, he's
a doofus. That's right. And, you know, the whole it was great
until they all started acting it with with Michelle Obama in the
kitchen, then and it fell apart. The whole idea of you know,
sunglasses, and we're driving in the Corvette, that was cool. And
then it did, then the whole thing just kind of fell apart.
But But Biden was getting pooped on, even by the President when
he shows during his little stand up, and he shows, you know, he's
talking talking about Hillary Clinton, and that he shows a
picture of Joe Biden holding an Adidas gym shoe like he had
thrown the shoe at Hillary in Vegas.
Yeah. That they were given Biden a little ribbing. So what else?
And Biden I don't think was at the event
that he can't be? I don't think they're allowed to be.
I don't think that's true. You said he was at the I think he
was at the event last year? I don't know. I don't think so. It
there's no reason for the two of them. They they do a lot of
stuff together.
Yeah. Well, let's, let's just put it this way. How come we
have a six week cycle? We've got the the everything would be
solved. In one go. You know what I'm saying? John? Everything
could be solved in one fell swoop every douchebag in the
world. And it's in the Hilton Hotel. It's so easy. The Hilton
Hotel come alQaeda doesn't see this this opportunity,
because there is no you know why? Because it's all bull crap.
When I'll take one more clip from an insider talking about
the celebrities over history, which is kind of interesting.
This is the why celebrities more there's more. There's been more
celebrities in the last 20 years, even though there's
always been celebrities. Apparently
we've had Hollywood celebrities. We actually have had Hollywood
celebrities. Before we've had waves in the 40s we would have
multiple entertainers, including Frank Sinatra, and Jimmy
duranie, and Bing Crosby and animal acts, and we still have
an entertainer and we've had Hollywood guest Barbra Streisand
came to her first dinner in 1962. We've had more of them in
the last 20 years, we've added scholarship players, the
association only started sponsoring a scholarship. But 20
years ago now, it's a big part of our evening, we use all the
proceeds from the theatre, raise money for the scholarships, and
we award them at the dinner and the scholarship winners get to
meet the President and this first lady particularly enjoys
coming up to hand them out. And it's a high point of our
evening. And so why didn't use organisations invite celebrities
to the dinner? And what do they have to do with the dinner?
Well, you'd have to define celebrity for me now, I think if
you were inviting the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, in my world, that's a celebrity. And I'm lucky enough
to sit at the head table with the president knighted states to
me that's the biggest celebrity in the room and always is. So
there are other celebrities who come and I assume that you're
talking about Hollywood or actors and actresses. You know,
some news organisations who are members, particularly the TV
networks invite the people who work for their TV networks. Yes,
continue to arrive with
just all right. And now there's one thing that they did mention
was that the precedent apparently is not didn't always
come to this thing. No, it was literally a meeting of for the
club. And but starting in 1981 is when they apparently every
every year since 1981, which is Reagan and Reagan Of course,
being a borderline stand up comic would come to the thing
and then he did every year for like, I guess seven years. And
but since he got elected at one three, essentially. So he did he
started coming and then now everyone has to come and so now
they all come, but he actually said set this table for that
right? Now I do have a customer. And I
just want to say before we get to the jokes. Google had had a
lot of parties going on on Friday and Saturday evening
Google did they did a they did something with another company I
think. Let me just check real quick it's kind of like a little
south by now for you know, for the for the high end. Silicon
Valley types right at Google. Google Netflix actually here we
go the Google Netflix bash at the Institute of Peace. enjoyed
a strong media turnout, including Fox News as Greta Van
Susteren Chris Matthews, Peter Alexander from NBC Shane Smith
of vice media, Joanna Coles as she's editor of Cosmo. Of
course, Ronan Farrow. Servers and bartenders sported red
suspenders that stood out in the all white decor. Wow. Three
dangling white signs spelled out story two and screen in capital
letters and invisible hand sketched massive drawings across
one wall that were wiped clean and replaced throughout the
evening. Nancy Pelosi took a picture with the cast from House
of Cards, including Michael Kelly, Sebastian R. Salas,
Sakina Jaffrey, and Michael Gill, whoever these are, oh Gil,
who played the president on cards, said that he takes
inspiration from President Barack Obama. I've never seen a
president work so hard. He told Politico. Who else was there?
Well, how about members cast members from scandal, including
Katie Lowe's, Guillermo Diaz, Bellamy young don't forget Uzo
Aduba of Orange is the New Black. And there's Robin Wright
with Molly Parker from H OC which HSC O house of cards. So
I'm so not into the Hollywood lingo anymore. It's H OC. I'm
sorry. Ah see? Hello. All right, let's get to the jokes.
All right now, I only got I only have three here that are good.
All right. First of all, let's do the Obama material. Obama did
this thing about Putin he went off on and that but in any had a
picture this, and I thought it was gay innuendo q&a. And I
think it was it was deplorable.
Considering the the new conservative darling is none
other than Vladimir Putin. Last year, Pat Buchanan said, Putin's
headed straight for the Nobel Peace Prize. He said this. I
know it sounds crazy. But to be fair, they give those to just
about anybody these days. I was fighting so I could happen. But
it's not just pat. Rudy Giuliani said Putin is what you call a
leader. Mike Huckabee and Sean Hannity keep talking about his
bare chest. Which is kind of weird.
There's your liberal crowd laughing at gays. Yeah, that's
pretty funny. Faggots look it up. They talk about it a lot.
They must be in that tube.
During that love that laugh interlude. It was funny though.
I thought it was funny. It was funny and but they put a picture
up a poster. Yeah, that was Vladimir Putin with his bare
chest. And then they had these three guys. Huckabee and Hannah.
Yeah, like, dreamy eyes, and then the whole thing was very
gay. Yeah, it was. It was good. It was gay. Gay. Yeah, very
good. That was fun. And the only thing that everyone would think
everybody loves a good gay joke, John, you just can't do it
unless you're the president. Yeah.
I'm going to wonder whether the guys on gay news will pick up on
this and say anything. So when Mikhail came out, I took what I
thought was two best lines. I don't think everyone would agree
with me. But here's what I thought was the here's the
second best joke is the way I see it.
Now over 8 million people have signed up for Obamacare, which
sounds impressive until you realise Ashley Tisdale has 12
million Twitter followers. So yeah, that was pretty funny.
Now the top joke for me, which I thought was the most insulting
joke he could have done, and it was very subtly insulting. Well,
not suddenly to anyone listening. But this was the this
was the to me was the top joke of the day. There's a lot of
celebrities here tonight. They're the ones that don't look
like ghouls.
Short and sweet. Yeah. Well, I'd like that. He started off by
saying, you know, hey, that Guantanamo Bay thing that was
funny,
ya know, the bay thing was a good line, but
I think McHale bombed a lot. He had a he had a A lot of sweaty
moments there. And the President had some some visual joke that
failed. Which was bad. Yeah. But I mean, here's the way here's
the only thing. The only joke that mattered to me was this
one.
And speaking of conservative heroes, the Koch brothers bought
a table here tonight. But as usual, they use the shadowy
right
wing now, this is a this is not the joke that I carry on Fox
News. Listen to this.
I'm just kidding. Let's face some facts, you'll miss me when
I'm gone will be harder to convince the American people
that Hillary was born in Kenya.
So that's basically saying Hillary is going to be the next
president.
Yeah, I was gonna clip that too. I think that's exactly what it
said.
I mean, that's, that's basically a Biden screw you by the way.
No, he put down Biden a couple of times said Hillary would be I
can't imagine that Biden is too happy with this. No, not that it
was insulted. And then he would then Hillary was already given
these crowned. She's crowned president. Yeah. Which is by the
way, which is not going to work. That's why I'm sticking with my
Elizabeth Warren move Pocahontas. Pocahontas. I yeah,
I and he did the Kenyan thing a couple of times. He did that
joke twice. And I just want to mention that because I follow
all these. This is bullcrap of all the networks and people that
say he was born in Kenya it Fox News is not one of them. They're
not a big promote promoter of that concept. It's mostly right
wing talk radio guys. Yeah, that's just old crap. I don't
even know where he's coming. It's like, you know, just
gratuitous old jokes. Yeah, well, anyway, just know the
thing overall was a B, I gotta give it up. B minus
o b minus Yeah. But it was always always good to see the
the people who were in collusion with each other hanging out and
actually doing it out in the water hugging
Yeah, inside phoney kiss which not even a kiss now. They just
bumped cheeks. Yeah, notice this? Yeah. It's like begging
you go up then bump this bump the cheek. Did
you watch any of the awards? The where the the handout? The? The
scholarships? Yeah,
I watched all I've watched
the first girl that came up. Did you see the president? Yeah,
Mickey caught this actually, like, Hold hold. We rewound it.
He was gonna he was like, Hey. You look good. And it was
hugging Michelle to do it. I have to say she does that very
well. She feels like a first lady like a mama. You know, you
want a hugger? Everyone's like, ooh, let me hug you. Who does
that? Well, I like that.
That's first lady's go. Yeah, no, she's
okay. You don't want to like like Nancy Reagan bag of bones.
You know?
Whoever that crushed a woman. Yeah, you were imagined
having to hug Hillary Clinton. Anyway, good. Good wrap up
there. John. Thank you for your courage and in the morning to
you John C. Dvorak. I know
morning to you Adam curry in the morning all ships at sea boots
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have it on the oops. This is what you get when you're when
you're deathly ill let me see who did the artwork on the 613
that was done by Oh Nick the rat. Of course I should have
known. Oh, yes. It was the carry with his his little sphincter
mouth. And his tongue stick.
Yeah, this was a controversial one because we controversial
choice. There was no real good art by our definition or what
we're looking for which is kind of thematic always automatic,
something that says something outrageous that was done on the
show or some. You know, good deconstruction turned into art
spot art. Yeah. And there was nothing really it was like
everything was kind of borderline funny, but not funny
enough. And you kind of picked out one I had other ideas, but I
had to agree because in fact there was that big, because I
think it was kind of it's a gruesome picture. I don't like
putting art up that is gruesome. It's kind of gruesome. Yeah.
Well, that tongue is good. It's creepy. Yeah, because mouth is a
little button little slit. He's got this huge, long, long,
skinny tongue.
It's called the creative freedom. It's called a gruesome
colour what you want. I liked it. I'm happy we had it. Though.
Of course. We're always looking forward to seeing what we can
put in our album art, no agenda, art generator.com. We do it
right after the show. So it's It's a real challenge for
artists but we highly appreciate the work that all of them do.
Now having been in bed fever, sweating coughing, I'm I'm
almost sorry I showed up today.
Little Yeah, a very low turnout of of contribution. And I don't
understand
why. I know last Thursday show was hard because I was sick. I
think we still, you know, I think we still delivered,
I will tell you what I noticed, because I'm trying to figure out
why, you know, although this is the beginning of vacation time,
and some people just aren't going to be following the show
at all. They don't care. Ever since we did that for our show
donations have been down. And I'm thinking you know, the old
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more, so you don't give them the full you know, the jadad that
was great. I wish there was more but we did two hours and gave
him too much.
But we did two hours and 31 minutes on Thursday which was
bright on the nose seemed like a lot more than that. It was well
it's because the we had to restart a lot. Yeah, and by the
way, we're coming up on our one hour we'll see if this thing
hangs in there or not.
Yeah, yeah, this is a very funny anomaly, but it's okay we I
think it because you gotta go do post and that's the last thing
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You're not fat.
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no, that's not true. I've been. I've been I've had allergies
worse. I had allergies the first year in Austin and then I found
the Voodoo guy and he fixed it. But then we moved to this new
place under the oak trees and I've gotten all these other
allergies and I'm just learning how to control it. So the mould
I have kind of under control but I have to when it's really
severe like this, and it's been off the chart for months. I have
to take two quercetin every hour, which is my own
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is swelling because of the mould and that's why I get dizzy and
fall down.
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he's managed to do the show. This is a this is a what you
call a trooper?
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and found in fruits, vegetables, blah, blah, blah. Okay, curranz
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that drug site. Do I always forget the name of that? Were
the guys you every no new drive these guys take it? Oh, no, I
like that. That's cool. Then they write these long, you know,
episodic things about it.
I tried injecting it. I love I love those. I tried injecting it
and then I was snort it. They snort it. They do it. Take it
Annalee they inject it to do everything to to determine the
right high. Now those guys are doses. You know, some people
admire Neil Armstrong and astronauts, those guys, I admire
them. Yeah. The President the President had his little podcast
going again.
Yeah, we haven't heard from him for a while off the phone. Yeah.
Well, it's been
I only have 13 seconds because his podcast is lame. I mean,
seriously, no album art. It's an edit. It's sloppily edited. And
it's
lost his heart is a short timer is a lame duck.
And it's annoying, because he always does. He does this to me
a couple times a year. When he tells me what his number one
priority is this president. Now I know what the number one
priority is as president
is to defend the Constitution.
Are you sure?
Well, that's what I've always understood. Hmm, I'll get jobs.
I don't know.
Of course it should be to defend the Constitution. That's that's
exactly the point. But that's never what he says.
Your number one priority as President is doing whatever I
can to create more jobs and opportunity for hard work. I
mean, really, that's your number one the number one priority?
What am I defending the country?
No wonder no wonder al Qaeda is, is trying to blow us up
doing a crappy job if that's his number one priority. Hey, really
crappy. Hey,
hey, Mohammed. Yes. What's up Abdul? He's trying to create
jobs. Now's our time. Let's go. I like bar.
Well, we have a buddy out there doing that.
We have big, big election coming up in the euro zone in the Euro
land. I believe. This is the month. This is the month where
millions nay, hundreds of millions of euro landers are
going to vote. Very interesting this time around where we have.
And you're going to start to see the propaganda flowing very,
very soon. It is already working quite well. So we have a number
of parties. Who are you could collectively call them the Euro
sceptics in their cropping up everywhere. Well, so in France,
it's Marine LePen. Right. In Portugal, it's the the P the
FPU. I think now that's Germany. If they born in Portugal, we
have in the Netherlands you have the party of freedom. That's a
feared builders. And they are all there. They're making a lot
of noise about talking talking of working together to turn back
a lot of the political machine that is the EU now the
consistent message. The way I hear it from people like Nigel
Farage and from here to builders, and from to a certain
degree from what is translated from LePen is, you know, we want
Well, we definitely want a European economic partnership.
But the fact that now 70 to 80% of most laws are created by
unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. That's the main thing
they want to turn back. And if they could, they would all like
to actually get rid of the Euro too, because there's some
problems
and they're doing something like four laws a minute. Yeah, it's
crazy.
And what you're seeing in, in the media in the UK is really
rampant where they will anyone who's a Euro sceptic is going to
be called a right wing racist nut job conspiracy theorists,
this is pretty much what they're doing with Nigel Farage. And we
have producers who listen to this show who have bought into
that Oh, yeah. And then I realised as
an idiot Yeah, I mean we this one guy get read us the riot act
about Faraj saying this party nobody takes it seriously even
though they're now being taken very seriously. Yeah, this is
why nobody ever will ever take these bozos seriously.
This is why the the media who of course are complicit with the
incumbents. This is why they They are starting to spout the
racist Nazis right wing crazies, Neo Nazis, you'll get this
you're gonna hear this about all of these different parties
because the the incumbent Euro Kratts are very, very worried
that people are actually going to start voting for these
parties. And I think I think we are seeing a change and peered
fielder's did an interview with that, I think it might have been
our tea. Oh, yes. Artie was Sophie Shevardnadze. He was a
very irritating woman. Oh, and she makes us arrogant Russian
woman faces when she's listening to someone else. Yeah, so I cut
her out of this. Here he is, here's here's builders, just two
quick clips about this. I thought it'd be interesting for
people who, you know are interested in I don't know
what's going on in the world, but they don't seem to get it
from, from their, their traditional news sources. So we
have to route around and find it for you. Here's here's builders,
they're really laying down the truth about the European Union
and the organisation not so much about Europe as a whole and how
Europeans want and should be working together on economic
level of but the the bureaucracy that has become the European
Union. And what's happened in the last decades is that our
national sovereignty in the European Union collapsed, that
became a European Super state of all European elections that
nobody in Holland or in Belgium or in the United Kingdom, nobody
not only knows them, but nobody voted for them. And they are in
charge now of almost all the lawmaking process in our own
country. So we lost our identity, we lost our national
sovereignty to the European Union, an institution that
really a lot of people in the West don't like so much anymore.
I have nothing against Europe. But I have a lot against the
European Union as an organisation and what we want,
we want to regain control over our own borders, over our own
money over our own budget, all rights, that rights that we have
given to the bureaucrats in Brussels, and we want it back. I
mean, everybody knows that Spanish people are different
than Swedish people. My own Dutch people are not the same as
Portuguese. And it's a good thing. There is not a European
people. It doesn't exist. I mean, several countries exist.
So I believe we should cooperate in an economical way with the
internal market and trade between one another everybody
can benefit from that, that we should stop with the political
project called the European Union, because that's a big
failure to be honest. Sounds like a neo Nazi to me. Oh,
racist. Super, super racist. Yeah, the
Portuguese are different than the Swede. That's
right. Racist bastard. Yeah. And believe me, the media does. And
of course, guys like this and Faraj they attract nut jobs, no
doubt about it. They do attract.
Attract and that, yes, thank
you, thank you. So of course, it attracts not jobs, and then they
say and with Twitter there. And this actually kind of fun to see
how Twitter is such a great system for people to follow up.
You get these nut jobs all over the place, by the way, every
single political party and they just spout off and then they
gotta go, you know, you gotta you gotta get rid of him. But
the leaders in this case, I think they're spot on. And
actually, here's, here's builders giving you the
rationale as to why this has to be turned back, which we always
play for Raj, and he's a lot more entertaining. I'll give you
that. But this wielders guy, he's, he's a pretty straight
shooter. It started in a good way. And I wish it should have
stayed like that, because it started with economical
cooperation. And I believe in economical cooperation. I
believe in free trade. Everybody, every country can
benefit from trading with one another. But then, after the 50s
and the 60s, the 70s, the 80s and later, it became a political
project instead of economical cooperation, a free trade, it
changed into a kind of European superstate, where politicians
try to make foreign policy you will see you see what happened
in the Ukraine. What a mess they made about it, they try with one
coin one currency with the Euro zone. They try to be stronger
economically, and it was a disaster. The western countries
the northern part of Europe, paid for the southern part of
Europe and our economy did not grow in the last year, the
Netherlands had more economical growth before we entered the
Euro zone. Then after we were part of the Euro zone, and you
didn't bring bring peace either. Once again, the example at the
Ukraine where he make made a big mess of it, but also in the form
of wars and Yugoslavia. Look at Bosnia You're dead. Nothing is
where the artists like like, like America, that came to help.
So Europe was not good for our sovereignty was not good for our
economy is bad for foreign policy. So I believe we can be
far better off outside the eurozone and outside the
European Union. And more and more, not a majority today, but
more and more people in any European country share this
view. So I really believe that the elections later in the month
time will be historic. In our continent, Europe, right wing
racist nut job.
Oh, yeah. No, no doubt about it. Yeah,
job, but you can just wait for it. And people will say, well,
they'll send in the articles these guys will be vilified as
crazy. Nationalists, which is, you know, is is bad code for
Nazi.
Yeah, no, in fact, the only country benefiting from the
Eurozone, and if you want to mention the word Nazi is is
Deutschland Germany is doing very well for itself. In fact,
they're, they're essentially, in some ways outside of the of the
euro. They run they've essentially suppressed the EU in
their favour. And now play this clip. This was a this is the
China and Berlin clip. And this is a clip that I listened to the
McLaughlin report, and they the show has gotten so poor that now
they're doing research packages where baclofen goes, does a
package that is so long, this is long. And this is only half of
it, by the way. That actually does a pretty good job of giving
you a briefing on what's going on. And this is God telling me
that how is this benefiting the Euro zone, it's not
close ties with China give Germany a foothold in Asia, and
Beijing a line of influence through Berlin. In fact, the
increase in trade between China and Germany particularly in
German exports to China has exceeded all expectations.
Germany is China's number one trade partner in the EU. And the
top foreign investment destination for German companies
is China. Based on this emerging economic symbiosis between China
and Germany, quote, a special relationship unquote, is now
emerging item. China needs technology in Germany needs
market. structural similarities and shared economic interests
are key for this emerging special relationship. Item.
Germany's approach to China is mostly driven on the need of US
exporters. Germany's foreign policy is based on the idea that
economic exchange will lead to political and societal change in
China. China sees Germany as the most useful country for its
economic development. Germany is an attractive partner because of
Germany's prominent role in the EU, but also because of
increased German dependence on China. Item. Nearly a quarter of
EU imports from China go to Germany. During 2010, Germany's
trade with China grew by 34% to $181 billion. China is now the
second largest market for German exports, outside of the EU.
Chinese demand is especially high for German machinery and
cars. China is the biggest market for the Mercedes S Class.
Chinese officials are driven around Beijing and then the
confluence of these factors makes Germany one of the most
influential if not the pivotal foreign policy player on the
world stage. Uber Allah
Well, you know that now, everyone after we reported on
this months ago, a P and everyone's waking up and saying,
Hey, did you know that there's a train that goes from China to
Germany? This is this thing is cranking up, John these and they
got pictures and the containers are rolling out. It's 16 days
from Ching Ching Wong Ching Wong and eastern China, through
Russia, into Dyersburg into Germany, and they're bringing
everything it's half the amount of time of the sea, the sea
route, which of course includes the Strait of Malacca, which we
own and you got angula Hanging out with Brock Obama. Do you
really think that that charade was about oh yeah, sanctions
bull crap. Angular went there and said, Listen, you're gonna
stop doing you got to stop this bra. I think she said, You must
stop this bra.
Well, it's something is definitely up in this Chinese
connection, which is still outside the EU as far as I'm
concerned with the so called special relationship. It's,
there's two, for one thing that Germans are naive about the
Chinese, because at some point at all those with the machine
machining machines or the drum machines, like you know, lathes
and these things that helped make other machines. They're
shipping a bunch of that to China, they're essentially going
to clone the Mercedes, I would say, and I put it I'll put this
in the Red Book within the next decade. Well, I
agree with you on that. That's a good point.
China will have a clone of the any Mercedes, you're the S
Class. Really high.
Okay. It's hubris, John, it's hubris. The German M they may be
right. The Germans have always believed that you can you can do
whatever you want. Because honestly, you know, everyone's
tried to, you know, Chrysler has tried to make or Cadillac has
tried to make you know, the emulate the Mercedes. Everyone's
there even doing commercials like this is the American
Mercedes. They, and I think they're right, I think you look
at some of the German engineering, there is no second.
So they Oh, go ahead. You can make off the knockoff stuff. We
sell the high end, that's always been their business model. They
don't make a cheap BMW, John. They don't make a cheap
Mercedes.
Actually, they do make it cheap when they're using cabs in
Germany.
Oh, I'm sorry. I have one parked outside my door because they're
so cheap.
Well, they don't bring the cheap ones over here. They don't send
the cheap ones to China either. And the and I don't care what
anybody says the Chinese can do it. They can they can, we won't
do it. Because we have you know, accountant said, oh, wait a
minute, this is this is not This is No, we can't make this car
this price. And we're not going to make a clone of a Mercedes,
which I'm sure American technology can do. But it would
cost too much. I'd say the Tesla S is a good example of a
Mercedes like quality car, but it's $80,000. And you might be
able to get a Mercedes cheaper, and it may or may not have the
same prestige as an S model. But the Chinese can do it and they
can do it cheap because they their cost structures in the way
they do their accounting is totally alien to anybody in the
normal world. When
you're saying it's not slave labour. It's just the
accounting. It's just a different GAAP
standard, as far as I'm concerned.
What do you mean, explain that? What does that mean? How does
that work? Well, I
mean, how is their whole economy work at all?
I don't know the slaves.
Profits, this is a huge problem for the investors. We don't see
the Chinese as honest. That was again revealed at that Edelman
thing I went to where they talked about, you know, honesty
and who sees who was honest. And the American public, the
American corporations, American government, we have figured out
that the Chinese as a whole are not people you want to do
business with, and we've heard the stories years ago, where
you'd go over there and then they'd steal your whole company,
essentially, because they do the they don't let you actually open
a Mercedes manufacturing facility. You have to partner
with them. And then the partnership dies and they you
end up leaving the fat that facility there.
Okay, well, by the way, I see. So the Germans
are gonna get screwed by the
it's a two way street. Right now the Germans are the gateway
they're becoming the new gateway to go to Europe for China. So
your iPhone, your next iPhone is going to come to the United
States through Germany. Or if your it'd
be released in Europe before it gets released? Very good. Not an
uncommon thing for these companies. By the
way. I just found this out that let's see where is it the
Chinese. They are expected to win control of the biggest the
largest port in Greece. And that whole sell off. Oh, yeah. So
they've got the gateway to Europe in Greece, which saves
them a whole bunch of hassle. Costco Chinese government owned
shipping and logistics giant costs. That's not Costco where
you shop is it does cost
CEOs CEO. Yeah. As opposed to cost. Okay.
Costco. Costco. Yeah. So they are expected to complete the
purchase of a controlling stake in the Piraeus Piraeus port.
Yeah. Yeah. So they're very very smart that they're they're all
over this and you know, they're they're tight with the with the
Russians. This is this is the this is the real game that is
happening. And it to me, Ah, man, you know, Can we can we do
a can we do an accelerated election? Can we get Obama out
now and get Hillary and we need her May and I think she's
actually already positioning herself now and trying to suck
the oxygen out of the room and she's doing a pretty good job
here and there. She's got to start talking policy and start
making some moves and making some noise because Kerry is too
dumb. Obama is weak, literally weak and the Pete and I don't
know, is there anyone still around him who wants to do
anything? Or do they all just know, like, whatever, they're, I
think they're all tired. Really.
They want to drink those fruity drinks, flavoured drinks.
Because just look at it, man. And when you see the when you
see how this train thing is going, this is a big deal. This
is really, really big.
No, the train thing is really big.
And I'm not and I'm not so sure that yeah, I'm not so sure that
Germany is on, you know, on our side in this Ukraine kerfuffle.
In fact, Agent Orange sent me
Why would they be exactly? Ancient? Why would any Why would
Germany be on our site on anything know that we are there?
We're still essentially a competing party. Yeah. And we
play dirty, and they're just going to cosy up to China,
because we we've put delimited, you know, kind of we do. Like I
said, we don't trust China, we do. And we treat him that that
way. I mean, they're all in
if you want, if you want to understand what kind of money is
at play here, and I can speak and read German. I try to get
translated articles are built and they do have English
articles. But if you look at BASF, a huge, huge chemical
company pharmaceuticals, everything. Siemens, Volkswagen,
Adidas, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bank, hello, these pm Germany is
a major, major player. And then we think it's all cute when when
Obama and Angola are in the Rose Garden together. And this is the
best that President Obama can come up with. Hey, oh, wow, did
that and why is that not playing? Well, so let me try
that, again.
The various Russian mouthpieces that are out there. You've also
seen suggestions or implications that somehow Americans are
responsible for meddling inside Ukraine. I have to say that our
only interest is for Ukraine to be able to make its own
decisions. And the last thing we want is disorder and chaos. In
the centre of Europe, so you know, for the German audience
who perhaps is tuning into Russian TV I would just advise
to stay focused on the facts and what's happened on the ground
has this guy ever been to Germany? When he was there at
the at the at the gate? Did he watch any German television? It
was watching Russian TV. watching Disney Channel what?
What is he talking
about? Exactly? This is completely stupid.
This is this preoccupation with our tea. Yeah, there are about
50 people that watch our tea we're two of them and we only
watch it once in a while it when there's hot chicks on and then
I'm like you know free speech TV RT, the home shopping network,
the home shopping network channel, it gets more viewers
than RT. So from that they don't even have numbers they don't
even have overnights
so the Germans are not in the Obama camp on this or in the
carry camps or hears from built this morning. 1000s of CIA and
FBI advisors are now in Kyiv 1000s According to the German
media build it's not there's not a shit magazine.
No, no, that's a very reliable source
1000s are and you know what it is when the advisors are in you
know what that means? Yeah, they're making trouble making
trouble and you know, and burning did we not have in the
red book that I not put Odessa in the Red Book. I don't
remember I have a feeling I put Odessa in because of the drugs.
I don't remember time ago. If you have a chance to skim look
it up. But there was a there was actually a very good piece on
the BBC, one of our producers caught this and sent it to me.
This is Sir Tony Brenton. He is a former ambassador to Russia
from the UK. And he actually goes against the I think it's on
the Today programme. He goes against the narrative of all yes
what what they're going to be We're going to be killing
everybody and he's gonna be fighting because this of course,
is not what Russia wants. Russia has has no benefit to, to
Ukraine falling apart, which is exactly why. And I just have to
say it, it's, it's not even the EU it's not the EU. This is the
United States. This is the neocon Carrie camp, and Nudelman
and, and Ben, her husband and her brother and his brother,
these eight holes, they're the ones that are going that are
that are the only one the shooting is the Ukrainian army.
That's the only people who are who are firing anything and
lighting fires and killing people. And this is to divide
this country and turn into rubble, which is not to any
certainly not to Russia's benefit. Listen to the
ambassador, he actually lays out quite well and he goes against
you can even hear the the hosts that might be Paxman, I'm not
sure who it is. He's even surprised like, Oh, really,
because everyone's been so brainwashed into this idea that
Putin is this crazy mofo and all he wants to do is turn the clock
back 30 years and just wants it to be the way it was when we
were the USSR.
What do you make of the pictures? Well, it's very
depressing, isn't it? I mean, that yesterday was the day of
the biggest violence since the whole crisis began. The society
is obviously increasingly polarised with sliding very
visibly towards towards civil war unless unless the western
Russia between them can consorted out. Well, they've
tried and failed. Well, they have tried with the Geneva
agreement, it failed. It looks as if it did well, it's
obviously not working very well. Russia doesn't want to invade
Ukraine, that simply makes things much, much worse from
their point of view in all sorts of ways. Right. But just to be
clear about that he
doesn't want to do it not because it couldn't it obviously
has the military wherewithal to do so. But the economic price of
that would be huge.
Well, I don't think it's so much the economic price. So this is a
matter of,
oh, wait a minute, but I've been brainwashed into thinking that
oh, more importance
in economics to the Russian government. It would land them
in a shooting war, probably with the Ukrainian army, which is
unthinkable for them. And it would land them with ultimate
responsibility for bankrupt ungovernable eastern Ukraine,
which they don't want either. So the Russian interest is very
clearly in having a Ukraine which is neutral as requested,
where the concerns of the Russian population are
protected, which they've also requested, but which they don't
particularly want to run. Now, that ought to be an achievable
set of objectives. Western policy, meanwhile,
unfortunately, sanctions and all that is looking just
increasingly self indulgent and irrelevant. No Western minister
or official is claiming that sanctions are going to change
Russian policy in the short term. And the short term is now
what it's all about. And while talking to Mr. Putin may look
very unpalatable. Not talking to him is looking increasingly
disastrous. But irrelevant is one word you self indulgent, in
what sense? In the sense that in America, what Mr. Obama is
having to do is look tough for a right wing Congress, what is
going on over here in Europe is the same. Russia has done
something we don't like it, we need to be seen to do something
about it. There's nothing effective we can do. So we
introduced slightly more sanctions each time, which if
they do anything, they further alienate the Russians and make
it more difficult to do the ultimate deal we're going to
have to do what else could
they do? I mean, in May, you may
be right, or if you're absolutely right, so I've been
doing that irrelevant, all the rest of what could they do part
of what? We've done some sanctions, they've made no
difference. You keep on talking tough, but you find channels to
Russia, which will begin a constructive dialogue. And you
restrain the key of authorities from pursuing their campaign in
East if you can, that's very true. I mean, I don't think the
Russians have as much control as everyone is claiming over the
dissidents there. I don't think the Ukrainians and we have as
much control over the western Ukrainians, as everybody is
claiming. But if you can you restrain them from pursuing
their course in in eastern Ukraine, which is leading to
greater violence. And it's fair to say, which is making much
more difficult, the moment when we could begin to see a
resolution of all this, which is the presidential election on the
25th of May, as the situation continues to deteriorate, the
likelihood of being able to hold a presidential election, which
holds any credibility at all steadily goes down.
So here is that now we're down to the real nitty gritty, this
is all about this election, which of course will be a sham.
And if you look at the players, all of a sudden we're hearing
all this noise about the OH S C E and the OSC e inspectors who
were you know, had been kidnapped and these are
and they shouldn't have been there but that's okay. And oh,
first of all, the O S C E, which this thing was created during
the last Cold War. This this Oh, SCE outfit that it is intended
to propagate Cold War. You've never heard of this thing
before. Unless you're as old as John and I are. It's always been
you and this UN that know now or she or like, or she's the most
important thing that we've never heard of this thing. And these
by the way, we're not OSDE observers. They were active duty
and NATO military officers. They were from the Guylian Kirk and
intelligence base. This is all bull crap. Now. Let's talk about
the Geneva agreement. Because I thought it would be interesting
to look up this agreement. Yo, I like legislation. I like reading
this stuff. So I'm so I'm in bed. I'm sweating. I'm drinking
Nyquil. DayQuil actually, to keep me going. And that's what I
call flu medication. John to answer your email. That's what
that's flu medication is not as DayQuil is basically speed. I'm
drinking speed in syrup form. And I'm expecting this huge
document. I can it's four paragraphs would you like me to
read and share with you the this is what watermelon had Carrie is
making such a big this is what it's all about. You're not
agreeing, oh, we have the Geneva agreement. Like like that, like
it's on a big scroll. I can just Is that what you imagine the way
these guys talk about it?
That's what they try to promote or at least it's bound. Here it
is. The Geneva meeting on the situation in Ukraine. Ukraine
agreed on initial concrete steps to de escalate tensions and
restore security for all citizens. This is the actual
document. It's not even it has no paragraph points. It's just
what's a one pager. All sides must refrain from any violence,
intimidation or provocative actions. The participants
strongly condemned and rejected all expressions of extremism,
racism and religious intolerance including anti semitism. Okay,
that you don't have to do anything. They're all illegal
armed groups must be disarmed. All illegally seized buildings
must be returned to legitimate owners. All illegally occupied
streets, squares and other public places in Ukrainian
cities and towns must be vacated. So no one's done any of
that. Amnesty will be granted to protesters and to those who have
left buildings and other public places and surrendered weapons
with the exception of those found guilty of capital crimes.
It was agreed that the OSC special monitoring mission
should play a leading role in assisting Ukrainian authorities
and local communities in the immediate implementation of the
de escalation measures wherever they are needed most beginning
in the coming days. The US EU and Russia commit to support
this mission, including by providing monitors. So that's
our there's your monitors, I'm sorry, we have our our 1000s of
monitors are now in there. FBI, CIA agents, according to the
Germans, the announced constitutional process will be
inclusive, transparent and accountable. It will include the
immediate establishment of a broad national dialogue, the
smoke, with outreach to all of Ukraine's regions and political
constituencies and allow for the consideration of public comments
and proposed amendments. Haven't seen any of that. The
participants underline the importance of economic and
financial stability in Ukraine, and we'll be ready to discuss
additional support as the above steps are implemented. That's
the document that everyone this is this thing that everyone's
talking about this vapour Yeah, I mean, I have to agree to more
when I when I use an Apple product. Give. It's crazy. Yeah.
Yeah. Thank you, Irina now. Thank
you. Now the IMF, they are completely complicit in this
realisation plan. We now have two articles from so we have AP
and Reuters. And both the citing regard, saying oh, well, you
know, Ukraine. If, if you lose the east, which of course is
important because it has all the minds. Here it is. Reuters
International Monetary Fund warned on Thursday, it would be
forced to redesign its $17 billion bailout for Ukraine and
require additional financing if the country lost territory in
its rest of eastern region. So you see how this works?
No, this is good one. This is this is the catch of the day.
This is this is this is really nasty crap. Yeah. So here's how
it
works. And we got all our guys there to help
it happen. So you give them a billion dollars, which went to
Putin. Anyway, we got all our guys in there. And we say, Okay,
you want the rest of the money. You got to kick everybody out.
How do we do that? I don't know. Go go burn some people. Oh,
okay. Well, but it's not working too well because our armies
deserting I don't care if we're gonna we're not gonna give you
the rest of the money. Oh, the President of Ukraine, what's his
name and other? Yes is the prime minister the president, he's
walking around in combat fatigues. Now. This is sad. This
is so sad that what's happening? They had that what is the
actually they got $3.2 billion. I think a billion they get to I
bet you're not a single dollar went anywhere except maybe 2
billion to Russia to Gazprom and 1 billion to some American
companies to you know, help bring the advisors in. But this
is it that you know, I gotta find this one. Lagarde has this
beautiful term for it. She has this term it's like it's like
changing the EDA is
all economic hitman oh yeah extreme she talks
about the the the economic outlook is changing or the
economic outlook will have to change that's code for yeah I'm
sorry we're gonna have to change the deal that's literally what
is being said here deal
with just shook on my way. Yeah. Oh, well, you know, the deal
included
the East you don't have the east or you don't have Odessa, we're
supposed to run the drugs through Odessa. Now. I'm sorry,
if you don't have Odessa. So this is the place is going to be
realised. Now. The so at issue here, let's look at the man for
a second. John. Let's just take a quick look here. I need some
help. If we look at so let's look at Ukraine. And then let's
look at where the pipelines are one thing for the for the gas,
we know that that's an issue, but that's going to that's going
to be fixed. We're going to we're going to ram it through
either eastern or western Iraq, which of course now is we've got
the ISI LP guys or whatever those morons are, they're acting
up and you know, between Syria and Iraq, but we have to run a
pipeline from Qatar to get gas into Turkey. We that that just
has to happen because Ukraine is going to fall apart. Now, the
real
real news any any lines going through there will be torched.
Oh, yeah, it's so so yes, and this doesn't happen overnight,
but it is happening for real. So what did I get? We got to write
off Ukraine because the whole idea is realise that because the
whole plan is to contain Russia contain China primarily. If not,
I'm thinking we've got to stop this train.
Now we're at now the train I don't have a map of the train.
That's what
that's that's what I'm looking for. So if you do have a second
for some reason, Google Maps not not being very nice. I think it
goes through Kazakhstan. What is what is it might what does
it mean to e to Germany? Yeah,
I have to look at my other map.
Now the logical thing for these goods goes through Moscow.
It goes it goes straight through Russia.
Here's the China Germany freight train makes made in Germany made
in Germany.
Yeah, that's the one we talked about. So it goes to douse Berg.
And let me see what what
countries does. Google is running slow today. Yeah,
recently.
I have exactly the same problem. Funny you say that? Let's see.
So I have the train from China to here it is. Okay. So it runs
through. It goes to Belarus. That's what that's okay. Belarus
to Poland to Germany.
Okay, so that's good. It's running south of Moscow. Yeah.
It runs through Kazakhstan south of Moscow, through Belarus into
Poland so and from Poland into Germany so Poland probably stop
in Poland to drop stuff off. Or pick stuff up by these good you
know, this is it'd be interesting and then into
Germany. So Bella router is to go into where what city? Is it
going to Berlin? Is it going to leave Zig Dyersburg dow isberg.
Yeah. Okay. Delta uniform India, Sierra dow isberg. Yeah, that's
where it goes. All right. So Bella Russa would say is in
play, then he because they're not going to make they're not
going to make a big stink in any way. That makes sense. Belrose
it's north of Ukraine. That would be the place where I would
look for some or or or surrounded start some crap and
Lithuania first, which is above Belarus.
It's going to be hard to do this.
Well, we just need some al Qaeda to show up.
I think we can realise the rub rub allies Ukraine because I
think they're in play and it's happening as we speak. And
there's some interesting little if you look at the map just like
a natural thing. border which consists of a bunch of lakes and
rivers. There was naturally create an eastern Ukraine which
could happen, and then I don't think you're gonna be able to do
anything. I think that train is that train is on. I think oil is
going to be at play is going to be the pipelines. I think that
train is a separate issue. It's got nothing to do with this
event.
Mm hmm. Well, that's already happening. I mean, that that is
what Syria is about Syria. And then we have Eastern, sorry,
western Iraq, eastern Syria, and then we just had a report about
that today. Hold on, I can find it for you. Where is it here? We
have Yeah, 1000s Flee rebel clashes and serious east. At
least 60,000 people have fled towns in dare Zor province in
eastern Syria, which has been the scene of fierce clashes
between rival rebel groups fighting between Al Qaeda
affiliate Al Nusra. Front and the breakaway Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant. What is this this like? And it's like
Morris day in the in the time ISIL Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant. Were these douchebags I don't know. That's
fine. We got we got to look this up. This. This is a this is the
stuff that we're made of. Okay, Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant. I 's Slyke, Gladys Knight and the Pips.
What is this ISIL? Yeah,
active group in Iraq and Syria, established in the early years
of the Iraq War, pledged allegiance to al Qaeda in 2004,
becoming known as Al Qaeda in Iraq. Ah, variety of insurgents,
including its predecessor, the Mujahideen of the CIA. All
right. And so to be so the gas needs to come from Qatar. And it
needs to go up to Turkey this is this is it has to happen. And
the pipelines are already there. If you want to get it going
through palms through Aleppo. This is where the pipelines are.
So we this has to happen. And then we can cut off Ukraine. And
then we can deal with the railroad. But I think the
railroad the railroad is cranking up, John, I'm seeing it
everywhere. I'm seeing this is a big, a big, it's a big story.
Now people say oh, it's the New Silk Road. Oh, it's Oh, we
didn't know this was happening. And so producer pointed out to
me. You recall I was moaning about the Global Entry System
that. Yeah, goes. Adam says producer Ben, you mentioned the
strange date format and the Global Entry website, year,
month day, that happens to be the standard format in China.
I'm guessing the Global Entry programme is pushing this format
as an international standard for future IDs, passports,
documents, etc. I didn't know that.
I didn't know that either.
It's actually the it's it's funny enough. It's this. I use
that format for our files. I happen to like it. But I didn't
know that was the standard format. And China. Makes me
wonder if that would make sense. One hour, 48 minutes. We're
still alive. We have not crashed.
Yeah, no, I think you fix whatever the problem was, you
know what the problem was? Okay. So I have the two I have
everything on one computer now. The whole show runs on one
computer. One MacBook Air, right? Which is quite amazing.
When you think about it. Just say it.
It's astonishing. I don't like using the word amazing.
Okay, astonishing. The problem was I was using remote desktop
to control it from my other computer. A and I think the
remote that was the weather was Yeah, so I spent hours looking
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would quit each time because it would run out of memory. And
then I started hunting around. And it turns out that when you
use remote desktop on OSX, that has some kind of resource thing
that it can mess with you right? If you then do a write to the
drive, it can crash it. There's a million things. It's ship
product, basically. Remote Desktop. So I'm just running it
now. The whole show right now is run on the laptop.
Yeah, so you can go you can move. Yeah, I'm
good. You know what? I'm ready to be
on the road forever. Yeah, not from the law. To no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be
fun.
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I don't know about sleeping and trains. It's not really Yeah.
I'll never forget the time they told me. Ah, Adam, you're doing
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fantastic one of the classic all time classic train rides there
right? It's one of the that's a very famous train right? Yes,
it's 24
hours. The most boring 24 hours in my life it is and they say
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Yeah, I've seen pictures of this train
and you go through that looks pretty boring. You go through
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Well, this ride was not boring. It went through some nice
scenery and it had it was slow too. And they had a television
and a bunch of movies you could watch like caught up on some
movie watching and you can get Wi Fi most of the time so I
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It was better. But it wasn't you know, wasn't fast. Anyway.
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Oh, well, yeah, that's, that's always a bummer.
And then she says thank you for your courage.
But what if she played I hope it's cello.
I did a little research and violin.
That's good too. But cello is such a sexy instrument for a
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You know, I think most of the Elena's can play the cello if
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you know used to play cello who was that was the
I hung out with her once she liked that actress or whatever
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That was a good note.
It's funny. We were talking about women. And wasn't did I
write that down for this show? Let me see. I think let me see.
I had an email about that.
Well, talking about women isn't there's one little news item
that keeps cropping up and it's bothersome. Oh, which is what is
the deal with the especially Chase man Chase Bank? Oh, enough
all the strippers right, porn stars, right bank accounts.
Right? So
this is several people have emailed me about this. This is
the clearing account. So if you have if you have a porn
business, online porn, or if you're a webcam girl or
something like that, you'll typically go through one guy
who's who has an account, credit card account, who's in good
standing with a bank like Chase. And he'll take a small
percentage to clear your transactions. And, and Chase has
been closing these accounts. Now this is part of there was a I
had this in the show notes one or two shows ago, there was an
initiative from the Obama administration that even had a
name like Operation Stockholm, or something crazy name like
that, which is the shut down all of these go between guys. And of
course, the problem is if you know if you want if you have an
online porn business, you're just not going to be able to do
it anymore, you're not going to be able to get any kind of
transaction account. And it's very possible that this will hit
us one of these days, you know, they pay
the private accounts have been shut down the stripper or just
the stripper the porn girl
the webcam girls.
Well, the girl Steuer, who is a high end porn star, one of the
AVN winners. As a matter of fact, she doesn't do that stuff.
She doesn't do webcams or anything. She's just a straight
up porn that's beneath her, please. Yes. And she got cut
off. She got a solid outline in her Twitter account.
Well, yeah, but she probably has her own website and she probably
sell. So here's the problem. The way I see it. There's a high
amount of returns from on the credit card. So here's how it
goes, guys, you know, it's like I'm horny. Alright, let me go
find some porn. And then he's looking around, he finds story.
I'm like, Oh, crap, ah, I don't get to see the come shot. Oh,
let me swipe my card. Now you can get the extended video. And
then he does the gets a you know, then he gets his first
bill. It's like, it doesn't even matter. It's like 10 bucks. And
his wife goes would he says, oh, no, that's a false charge.
Honey, I didn't do that. And then they claim they go to the
credit card company and say, Oh, we didn't make this charge. And
it's reversed. And there's a high amount of this on these
porn sites that So ultimately, I would say it is the crappy
customers to blame.
Well, we're gonna definitely get notes because I it's probably
true that we have some of these people listening to our show.
I'm not sure that what you just said is the reason why this is
going on. According to at least the article that was in the
Welcome to the beta one of the advice magazines magazine. So
online, they they talk to bankers about this and the guy
says the bankers are irked about this is the Justice Department
is telling him to do this.
So that does go back to that operation Stockholm thing.
It's actually there's an opera right? There's an operational
name for this. It's called Operation choke point.
That's what it is choke point, Stockholm, same thing. They
Yeah, thank you. We had that in the show notes. We just never
got to it. Right. And what does it say? What is this operation
choke point? What is it about because I forgot
it's a Justice Department deciding supposedly and this is
all speculation on the part of vices writers and I think some
of the women the Justice Department has decided that
certain things certain businesses in the United States
need to be shut down the payday lenders is what this is about.
And payday lenders is one of them so they're gonna kill all
the get you got to personal account if you happen to own a
payday lending operation, you're probably going to get
endogenous. There's other ways of dealing with people like
payday lenders, there used to be ursery laws in this country. And
it used to, in fact, there used to be lots of them, and you
could not charge these ridiculous interest rates. And
you couldn't create these kinds of things like payday lenders,
but if they had ursery loss today, the big losers would be
the credit card company so why that scam works, so they're just
gonna do it on their own. So you're gonna force people out of
the business well, then how
why why are the bankers actually complaining? If this is to
benefit the banks? It's not to benefit the banks. That's the
point who is it benefiting them?
It benefits the Justice Department that wants to shut
this been pressured to shut down certain by whom?
By whom? Have they been pressured to shut this down?
Just I don't know. Okay, well, Operation choke point is an
effort born out of the financial fraud Enforcement Task Force. A
group created in 2009 is a kind of League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen of law enforcement, drinking club of douchebags,
including the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade
Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. It's
okay, the DOJ handles the criminal aspects the FTC
regulates business FDIC regulates banks. The theory
behind operation choke point is that by cutting I'm reading from
The Guardian, by the way, is it by cutting off the access that
scammers and fraudsters have to banks there will be less fraud.
To determine who the potential fraudsters are the regulator's
came up with a black mist of potential bad guys credit card
schemes gambling escort services Ponzi This is ruining escorts
now there's now we have a problem. What next beer?
What next? podcasters who say anti government stuff?
Yeah, no, no, that's coming for sure. Let me turn off the
ioniser Hold on
No, I think good people out there who listen to our
broadcasts.
It's funny because this Yeah, because now I'm wishing that
Bitcoin had worked out.
Well, that was never going to happen. Did you hear
what what how this went down with Bitcoin, by the way with
this is pretty crazy. No. Okay. So there's this group of
investors who are buying Mt. Gox. And now remember the FBI.
They FBI. You know, has all these has like the largest
bitcoin wallet. And then Mt. Gox. went bankrupt in Japan, I
believe. And now there's this group of investors, which
includes a former FBI guy, which coincidentally and and this this
x TV star kid, and they're buying and they're buying up
Mount Gox. And then magically, they found a 200,000 Bitcoin
wallet all of a sudden, and looks like they're going to buy
out some of these. Some of the people who lost money in it and
brought it with Brock Pierce is the kid's name Brock Pierce. He
was he was in he was like a kid starred in The Mighty Ducks. And
he was a part of the den Do you remember den? The Digital
Entertainment Network? Oh, yeah, I do. Right. So the which was a
huge scam failure. Yeah. So these guys are all involved in
it. But this brought kid he was also mentioned in that in that
recent scandal with the kid that was sodomised in Hollywood.
No, this is not ringing a bell. Yeah, yeah, of course. It's also
kind of it probably happens a lot, but it's not ringing a
bell.
Okay. Yeah, we did because Clinton's name came up in this
as well.
All right, well, that's beside the point. Anyway,
so but anyway, so this is there's this there's something
really fishy going on with this. The way mount Gox was went out
of business. Then they found 200,000 bitcoins in a wallet
somewhere in like a box. Oh, and then these guys are buying it
out with with a whole whole new bunch of investors. Including
the Digital Entertainment Network people. very sketchy.
And a former FBI guy. This is this thing reeks of. Well,
honey, pot a and also scam. Big, big scam. I just I had that
still written down. I want to make sure we talked about it.
Yeah. Okay. All right. Back to the war on men. From Jennifer, I
am the wife you're referring to in show 612 trying to convince
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actually my very wise, quote, male privileged now 70 10 year
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Down. You know, I've known Leo forever. Yeah, sorry. He's not
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Here's what you do. Here's here's how you do it.
Stop A shout out, John.
Here's here's how you do it. We never landed on the moon. That's
all you have to do it and you're good to go.
No, that was the US like, yeah, you're right, Leo. Yeah,
exactly.
That's all you got to do. Therefore, my opinion is there's
a small fraction of humans of both genders who enjoy your no
agenda. Walking eyebright does not guarantee intelligence.
Thank you both so much for the best podcast the universe. I'm
seeking to know what is really going on. But glad nonetheless.
My previous reference to male privilege is the feminazi speak
of my son's teacher, apparently, it is a crime to be a male these
days, especially white. White women are so put upon. Please, I
will stop now. Sorry for the long commentary. But you did ask
the question. Thank you, Jennifer from wasn't that long.
It wasn't at all northern Mexico. She says aka Escondido,
California.
So yeah, yeah, I'm sure
it's that's thank you for your privilege is what is what we
shouldn't be saying. Thank you for your privilege, John, for
being a white man. Well,
thank you for your privilege.
It is. And I was I was I was actually noticing that during
the the correspondents dinner. When they had that video. It was
like, could they show more women in the video? It was just it was
all women. There was no gun. No dudes, it was like, please, I
want you to know, we have black people and women
are the guy made a big point of it? Yeah. And the guy who runs
the correspondents club.
Yeah. And granted it was you know, granted that they were a
bunch of racist, a holes racist misogynist. They were Yeah,
dicks. So you were very right about the on Rob grand green
route. As he is now on the speaking circuit, Glenn
Greenwald, effectively has been castrated from reporting
anything. He will release his book and he's prepping for that
and he's on the speaking circuit. And he did in Canadia.
Scandinavia, did the Munk debates, which I'd never heard
of before. Apparently, it's quite famous. Yeah. Have you
ever heard of the Munk debate? I
have heard of him. I knew that this was going on. And I just
for some reason I was thinking about listening in. And I
decided against well, you would have had to pay for it. Oh, I
didn't know that. Yeah, listen in on the internet's
for the live stream yet to become a member of anyways. Not
anymore. It's, it's out there now. And it was so well, I
watched the whole thing last night from my, from my deathbed.
And well, it was Greg green. Rob.
Is he and how the show works. By the way, you one of us doesn't
do anything. The
other one does it? What's amazing how that works.
It's astonishing.
I'm sorry. It's astonishing. That's why I hope you lead a
long and healthy life, John, and you better hope the same for me
because I'm not doing too well.
You'll be fine tomorrow.
It was grand green bah. And the kid from Reddit.
So somebody wrote in, by the way, I'm gonna interrupt you
saying Why does Adam keep saying grand greenwall and I didn't
have an answer,
because it's funnier. Okay, because well, we have you So
you started doing this a long time ago, and I just didn't
think much about it.
Well, it comes from this. It comes from this particular bit
bone put off, right, you're laughing Why
are you laughing? Don't don't shut up. I get angry. Well, I
don't know. I didn't because I was fine. I like you don't mind
you don't mind.
It's enjoyable.
Thank you. It's him and the kid from Reddit who founded Reddit.
What's his name? Alexei? Yeah, who is it by the way Reddit is
owned by Conde Nast. It's not like some underdog the I keep
hearing about Reddit. Oh read it's so cool. You know now it's
Conde Nast is a huge multinational that owns that.
You know
the multinationals own pieces of everything I you know, the they
own all of Reddit, as far as I'd like to tell people that
mainstream media includes Reddit, Fox, Reddit. Yeah, all
these things are all mainstream media. We're the only one of the
very few outlets of true non mainstream media.
So this guy seems like he's like, like, it's like if you
wanted to draw a picture of the guy who got pulled out of
college to become a CIA agent. This is him. But he's on the
Glenn Greenwald team. And he's and he's he's drippy, is drippy
and he's Oh, I'm a nerd. Okay, whatever. Then we had On the
other side, we had General Michael Hayden. And Alan
Dershowitz who I thought he was a divorce lawyer.
No, no, no, yeah. Alan Dershowitz is a law instructor.
And he is a notorious, hyper progressive. And he takes on a
lot of great he gets involved in a lot of crazy cases that are
all of a sudden he used to do divorce
law.
And not that I know of,
why, why I lived in New and maybe I'm wrong. And while I'm
sure I'm wrong, let me just check. I thought, Alan dersh
show it's divorce. I thought he did high profile divorce cases.
Not that I know
of, Am I thinking of somebody else? Must probably must, would
be. Yeah, must be. It's, it's the Nyquil. It's the de quill.
All right. So it was pretty bland,
as you could expect. Yeah, it was Why am I not surprised?
Yeah.
I mean, and, you know, I think Glenn Greenwald was, by
the way, and Hayden is not going to be a good guy to put on a
debate because he's going to be under indictment. Well, we're
gonna say anything hold
on. Key, I only have clips from him. Oh, key was pretty funny.
Well, he can be funny. I like to have a beer with the guy
here is, so I'm going to play it in reverse order only have two
clips, because really, there wasn't anything else. Dershowitz
wants to listen to Dershowitz. And that Aleksey guy was just
like, oh, the same technology that allows us to do selfies as
being used against us. Okay. And, you know, Glenn Greenwald
was just all over this same vibe this year, his regular thing.
But here, so do you know what the NSA slogan is? That is on
all of their websites and their documentation?
I have. I do know, but it doesn't come to mind collect at
all. Oh, I didn't know that the elected
and ends of Greenwald starts off being a hoarder. These are
hoarders, the archive. Yeah, hoarders aren't digital
hoarders. Yeah, they're hoarders. No, you're right. The
NSA are hoarders collected all
which means it's they've got a screw loose.
Yes. And so Greenwald throughout the essentially here's how the
debate would Greenwald keeps bringing up this collected all
collected all. Alexei keeps saying police, state police,
state police state and the Hayden and Dershowitz keep
saying terrorism, terrorism terrorism. That is essentially
the debate. Wow. But at the end, yeah, at the at the end. After
this whole half hour, 45 minutes of have collected all, Hayden
says this
metric collected all doesn't mean collect it all. They drown
they can't use it. What it means is they want the ability to
cover any communications by any method at any time by those who
would do you harm. Trust me, if what Glenn hears is true or
true. I'd vote for him to
kind of hard to hear probably but terrible. Yeah, audio. Do
they feed you? Yeah, shit. But he says but so what he says is
collected all doesn't mean collect at all. Yeah, no, of
course not. And here's the only other thing
even though all the evidence in the case, they're actually doing
that. Yes.
Talk about scare tactics.
I think it's out of phase. That's I think I think it's
something went out of phase. If I can reverse the phase on this.
Now I don't worry about it.
Okay, all right. Here we go.
Talk about scare tactics. We need to run the tape some time
and count how many times out and I said terrorism and how many
times Glenn? And Alexis said surveillance state. What do they
really mean by surveillance state 1.7 Billion US emails a
day collected? No, that's just not true. The surveillance state
is out of control, or monitoring. Just now Alex, every
single one of us. We're gathering up the information on
far more innocent people. I need to know the what it's hard for
me to counter that. What is it you think we're doing? I love
the Snowden quote. It kind of, you know, it comes your text
messages, your work history, your searches you've ever made.
That's Google. That's not NSA.
Yeah, exactly. Sorry. It was out of phase
for somebody. Yeah. No, it was you could hear it. Yeah, it was
out of phase. And weirdly. Yeah, it sounds like a waste of time.
But yeah, there was an interesting how he slams Google,
which of course is not the NSA. It's the CIA. Ah, Right. Yeah,
yeah. propagate. Now Hayden is making the rounds.
Hayden is trying to bolster his image. Right. Why? What are
like? Well, he's still there's still a lot of well, that paper
that that Feinstein said the that secret reports that were
supposed to be prepared by the Intelligence Committee of the
Senate. That's supposedly 6000 pages cut way down. It has
damning evidence in there that he and his buddy Rodriguez and
the other guy are essentially war criminals. They green
lighted the torture. Right, right. Right. Right. So Hayden,
this guy's got to make you know, he's doing everything he can to
make himself look good. Well, he he was he was on
he was on a different programme. This was in a this was some oh,
by the way. Book. Right. He was on a think tank chat show.
Talking about the red line on Syria. And I was reading, let's
see, was a reading this. This, the the intelligence community,
but the Neo cons, everyone is so mad about what happened with
Syria. Of course, we know why, because the timing was perfect.
We had to realise the place get the pipes connected, have the
gas flowing from Qatar to Turkey, then we cut off Ukraine,
everything was set, good to go. And then Obama stopped it. And
here is Hayden talking about that.
The red line thing. My raw emotion, watching it from the
outside was just embarrassment. I mean, as someone who has
actually kind of played this sport, you can look at and go,
Wow, it's like Casey Stengel in the what was it? 60 something
that, you know, again, anybody here played this game? It just
cost in so many ways. And that sounds judgmental, and it
probably was that. And I try not to do that being an intelligence
officer. But it I just don't understand that was a
presidential speech. I mean, it really was, and a good one. I
mean, if you're gonna go to war. And so we were all geared up for
the Saturday morning announcement, the next day,
where the President would have said, forming the American
public that two hours ago, and so on and so forth. And he
didn't, what he said was, Dennis and I took a walk on the South
Lawn last night. And we decided we'll toss this to Congress,
they'll decide. I just, you know, the sometimes the
certainty of an action is far more powerful than the severity
of an action. And we've made everything uncertain, which
actually makes you appear weak at sometimes. That also then
demands that when you want to appear strong, you may have to
be overly severe. To overcome the uncertainty. It's just that
all around
you go cost us in so many ways, bad all round, weak. That's some
pretty big words.
He doesn't seem to be on board with Obama. Now for the public,
there's an interesting another one of these things that went on
on the McLaughlin report about isolationism in the country,
even though he caught it. This is the new isolationism clip.
McLaughlin does his long package. Again, I only have
again, just part of it, and then kicks it over to Pat Buchanan
who I think misinterprets this because I don't think Pat
Buchanan knows what isolationism modern isolationism is which is
what we are experiencing, which does affect foreign policy, and
try this
majority. 47% say that the United States should be less
active in world affairs as compared to 19%. More active 30%
believe the current level of activity is about right. The 47%
Who wants the US to be less active is a new majority as
compared to earlier years. When similar questions were asked by
these pollsters only 14% of Americans wanted a less active
role in 2001 13 years ago, and 32% said the same in 1997 17
years ago, a similar poll done by the Pew Research Centre last
year showed a record number of Americans said that the US
should quote unquote, mind its own business internationally,
unquote. 53%. In 1964 50 years ago, how many Americans said we
should mind our own business internationally? Only 20%
Question Is America becoming isolationist Pat Buchanan. No, I
would not say so. John, most Americans want to maintain
diplomatic economic ties with every country in the world. They
like to factor in negotiating with Iran. But what they are is
they are anti interventionist anti going into these
unnecessary wars like Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya. They're
all fed up with that they don't want to fight in Ukraine. They
don't want to fight and cry me and you
so that elements of play and Michael Hayden, of course, is
old school and he was he thinks that we should have bomb, you
know, that phoney, that would have been the phoniest thing to
do the Syrian bombing that he said Obama wisely backed off of
that, and I don't think is hurt him politically.
No, but it wasn't the setup. It wasn't the the idea is, is we
need to know, in fact that we're not It's not isolation with the
United States. It's isolationism of China and Russia. That's what
it is. We're trying but we needed the problem and see what
the what these guys don't understand. And if they hired
us, the curry Devorah Consulting Group, they would get the proper
advice. They they started off really strong, blaming and
making Putin hate the gays. That was really smart. That was
really, really good. You're worked but they dropped it now
and the dogs and the dogs was tree dogs Great.
Icing on the cake.
That was really good. But they dropped that whole thing. You
know, you've got to kill more gays. You have to have Putin
killing Ukrainian gays. We need to we need rainbow flag. Yeah,
we need gays like crying in the streets, then you want to see
some happen? Haha. Then you'll see people jumped into
attention. I don't do they are they blind? Do they not see
this? This is so obvious to me.
I don't know. It's beyond you agree? Right. I
mean, that's all that that's literally all they have to do.
Well, that's one of a that's a that's a primary strategy that
can be continued, which they didn't do it, it seems to me,
you know, of course, a lot of this I still believe has to do
with Snowden. Yeah. But they first of all, they they didn't
much of that early smear campaign against Putin, right to
kind of lessen the impact of the Winter Games, the Winter
Olympics. Right, right. And it was all done prior to that. And
then after the games were over, then they've kind of dropped the
ball they didn't think of this as a continuing strategy. So
right now the only thing they do is just nothing they just bitch
and then they send in these people in the you know
troublemakers into the into Ukraine to to help verbalise it,
but it's not the same, but the propaganda side of it's missing.
You know, they, yes, they had some good propaganda going, and
the public was lapping it up. But they dropped the ball.
So now the mainstream media is all over. Benghazi, Benghazi,
Benghazi. I love this. I think it's just at the end of the show
here, John, I think it's worth reiterating our take on this.
This was and they've almost got it right there. They're very
close to the point closer, getting close to what really
went on. We we saw this,
and some people know what went on. And they they tried to push
in that direction. They just can't come out and say it
right. And of course at the time, I was told by Tony the
terrorists in San Francisco, who was a cab driver that near the
Tunisians had received the call we need you to go into Benghazi,
we need you to kidnap the ambassador and hold on to him.
And then this will be a surefire October surprise for the
President to be reelected. When he negotiates a his freedom. And
I'm pretty confident that Hillary was in on it.
Oh, yeah. No, she was totally inept because we saw her with a
very pissed look very pissed right after white during this
happen. And then she blew up at Congress with what difference
does it make? Right? And all the rest of it? She was totally in
on this. Yes.
And, and of course, things went awry. And, and the ambassador
was not just killed. I mean, this guy, they they raped him
with broomsticks. It was horrible. None of that's been
formed, none of that's been reported was really, it really,
really, really Rhett went wrong.
And I want to mention that people will say, Well, you know,
Obama, why would that be? What was he worried about? We have to
remember that during the election, did media goes out of
its way to make the Election sound like an even Steven match?
Exactly. Oh, Romney is ahead by a point and they always down by
a point. He's ahead by a point. Because this gives them money.
They get money from both parties that feel the need to advertise
more, which is why campaign finance will never get through,
by the way, because you're trying to an amendment. Now we
can talk about in the next show. Yeah, I watched them. So they
show that so Obama's camp wasn't except for that. There's like
one guy who had it all figured out but nobody would believing
because he's the only one you had Karl Rove coming on these TV
shows guaranteeing that Romney would win
Romney believed that trust me I'm sure he did he was given the
guarantee
so they so there was a scam and so they needed this October
surprise to shut the deal down and and the whole thing is, is
laughable Yeah.
And of course now it's being used politically I think it's
actually good for Hillary Clinton. I think that everyone
loves this I think it puts her it right now it's pushing a lot
of stuff off onto Obama.
I don't think is as good for Hillary as you might I think
this is the Warren camp may actually be part of this could
be convinced bring this up a little bit maybe we can smear
Hillary that all we need all you need is one thing like this yeah
the smear her she's done did you same thing to him with Chris
Christie the guy even though
it'll take a lot more to know I don't know. All right. It's
okay.
I could be wrong I felt the same way you do before but the more I
have a couple clips they just laugh about first here is Nancy
Pelosi is so annoyed with all this and then whenever Nancy
Pelosi gets annoyed it's funny
you emailed nothing Ghazi that come out. And that says that
your White House essentially guys to talk about the the
video. Essentially, the attack on the embassy and
I haven't seen that. But what I will say is again, diversion
subterfuge. Then Ghazi Benghazi, Benghazi, why aren't we talking
about something else?
Why are we talking about something else? Because it's
pretty interesting, Nancy. That's why here is National
Security Council spokes hold Tommy Victor. And this guy. He's
been around for a while he's young. And he's dumb. He does.
He shouldn't he has no business being on television. And this I
thought was the funniest thing. I've heard any spokes whole say
when being grilled about anything. But of course Benghazi
is perfect white house.
You me add a line about the administration warning of
September 10 of social media reports calling for
demonstrations. True. I believe so. Did you also change attacks
to demonstrations in the talking points? Maybe I don't really
remember. You don't remember? Did this was like two years ago?
We're
still talking about dude. Dude, this is like so two years ago,
dude. Wow.
He's a dude. Or like live.
Listen to that again. Dude, this was like two years ago we're
still talking about money. And Brett Bear says dude he says the
dudes
talking about money. Everybody's talking about
talking about the process of editing talking points. That's
what bureaucrats do all day long here are their producers edit
scripts the key
to demonstration Yeah. Did you do that? No. What what are we
what is the question Did I edit it was edited from attacks to
demonstrate no Michael Morel has testified about what he changed.
And what was changed in those dude. Dude,
dude. All right, here's just for those you want a little
background? Here's an extra email came out. This is why this
is all this man. You gotta wonder how this happens. You
know, and this was Ben Rhodes, who I thought was one of the
President's closest allies. But anyway, somehow some FISA that
Pfizer fika Fuka a FOIA now we go, I got it takes me a minute.
Some FOIA request finally got honoured. Yeah, this was the
rare and this is the hidden email since late
March alone. We have received over 3200 new documents, many of
which have never been seen before. By anyone outside of the
administration. Why
is this John? Well, why do you think this all of a sudden these
these new documents pop up? Elizabeth Warren, huh? Okay,
possible,
and all of which, and I repeat, all of which should have been
turned over more than a year and a half ago when the committee
last launched its investigation. Some of these documents, which
were brought to light only days ago, through a four year request
by an organisation known as Judicial Watch, show, a direct
White House role outside. I'm going to repeat this, the
documents from judicial watches for you, which were pursuant to
our request more than a year and a half ago. She Do a direct
White House role outside of talking points prepared by the
intelligence community. The White House produced the talking
points that Ambassador Rice used, not the intelligence
community in pushing the false narrative that a YouTube video
was responsible for the deaths of four brave Americans. It is
disturbing and perhaps criminal, that these documents the
documents like these were hidden by the Obama administration from
Congress and the public alike.
Criminal. That's a that's some pretty big words, Darryl. Yeah,
that's a Yeah. That's not good,
particularly after Secretary Kerry pledged cooperation. And
the President himself told the American people in November of
2012 that, quote, every bit of information we have on Benghazi
has been provided,
and they've now subpoenaed Kerry, so that's gonna piss him
off.
Oh, yeah. He'll have some he'll be snide. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
With his little shipping here. He is a horrible presenter when
he is being
when he when he isn't when he's uncomfortable. Yeah. And then
being
is tongue darts in and out.
Then we have finally this is Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters.
Now this is one of the guys from the pond operation pundit. You
know, you retire but you don't really retire. You just get
well,
if you notice when Hayden spoke he still said he is he didn't
say I'm a former intelligence officer. When it was he said,
I'm an intelligence. Yeah. As an intelligence officer as an
intelligence officer.
So this is retired Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters talking
about the president. And in regards to what happened in
Benghazi,
we failed, the administration failed. The President failed.
And you know, worst of all, this is part of a pattern for
President Obama. He can't make timely decisions. He has no
courage. It's whether it's Ben Ghazi or Syria or Iran or now
Vladimir Putin. For the first time in our history. We've had
great presidents, we've had terrible presidents, we have
most presidents somewhere in between. But this is the first
time we've ever had a president who's an outright coward.
idemia that's what that's the new way to pronounce Mayor la de
mayor of La de mer. Well, then, that brings me right back to the
true contender. Joe Biden. This is the man he really believes
he's the he's the man for the job. And it's always funny. That
and I've saved the best for last
is all ie the guy is diluted. So he is
speaking at Chris DODDS MPAA the Motion Picture Association of
America Hollywood essentially. And, and here he comes Joe
Biden, who of course he needs to speak to Hollywood because he
knows they know Jill, I can't become president without
Hollywood. I gotta get them pansies on board. He really
truly believes it. Here. He is a friend Joe by my great friend
Joe Biden, everybody. Listen to how important he is. Hey,
everybody, how are you?
You're gonna love this.
Well, if there have been rumours all those years, and Chris and I
served in the Senate that although I was chairman, he
controlled me. And we've just, I've given new life to those
rumours because, and I was physically a few minutes ago, in
a room for an hour and a half of the room called the Oval Office
with Chancellor Merkel and the President talking about a number
of things we finally turn to trade. And I had to literally
stand up and say, Mr. President, I have to go over and talk about
trade with Chris Dodd and his group.
So awesome. I just, I just there was this little room called the
oval. And I said, Hey, Merkel, a president. I gotta go. Because
I'm Joe effing Biden. Okay.
Angela Merkel looked at me like what in the hell is he talking
about? So there's no question that you've got the right guy
with the right influence? No, because I
can just piss in the wind against Angular Mergo. I'm the
right guy with the right influence. Look,
I'm gonna skip the introductions because I'm supposed to go back
and, and have lunch, working lunch with Chancellor Merkel.
And but it's, I want you to know that it's not for lack of
interest, and I wish I could stay longer. It's incredibly
busy.
I have a working lunch with Angela Merkel Jones out of his
mind Wow, isn't that great? Don't you love that guy just
name dropping? preening is preening
so now let's let's get down to the nuts and bolts of what why
I'm here for you people
today the face of piracy in your industry is changing. It used to
be a man not too many years ago sitting in the movie theatre
with a camcorder trying to beat go unnoticed inconspicuously.
And that camcorder was about the size of a golf bag.
Yeah, that was in 1932. Joe, but okay. That's why no one's
laughing. Well, is Joe talking about
recording the movies that they were going to pirate. Though the
cameras are obviously smaller today, to a remarkable extent is
a practice continues remarkable. But now the face of piracy is
also a computer server in a far off country, stealing an illegal
version of a Hollywood movie, to send it around the world, the
click of a mouse there you go
through the series of tubes. That's all that you had to say
it would have been perfect.
And Rob, you rob, you steal from you steal from you. What is
yours is yours. So technologies evolve. And so must our laws,
including international to deal in a way that's tough and smart.
As well as persistent. With those who engage in large still,
scaling is still even illegal copper
is just losing it now
infringing on movies and music
that don't infringe on my movie. That's nasty. Get a tissue
the mega upload websites enabling mass theft,
no douchebag mega upload websites,
in the same way laws already on the books to do offline to on
the books. There you go.
There you go. Joe is a copyright these the key is the copyright
president. That's who Joe is. And then he said, This is my
last clip on this and he rounded up with this. Jim,
the question is how do we create a global economic order that
favours creativity and innovation a global
economic order I love that you've just say new Joe just say
no New World Order Come on say it. So
the question is, how do we create a global economic order
that favours creativity and innovation? Everywhere? That's
what I want to talk to you a little bit about today. Of
course the society is different and some are fundamentally
different but there's a certain common ingredients that make up
success. basic liberties so citizens can think and speak
freely and journalists can tell people the truth and even tell
people what is not the truth. What what
what does that mean what is he saying?
Listen to that again was can tell people the truth and even
tell people what is not the truth?
Okay what is up with that?
I don't know. Just more I think it's just more bumbling from
this guy. Biden just
want to live in a society where journalists can tell tell people
what is not the truth. Oh, man, all right. Are you doing twit
today?
Not that I know of a preview you
better check you know,
I did I sent to the chat a note I haven't heard back because I
have another another one that I'm not planning on going okay.
Someone sent me some thoughts and again, this is great when
you're ill and you're you're in a whole different plateau. Day
Quill is something amazing still what is in DayQuil?
Probably some ephedrine
let's see what is the what is it ingredients does have
ingredients here. Active ingredients. Citric acid
doesn't that's just a preservative I
D and C yellow number 10 F F D and C. Yellow number six
flavour. It has flavours and active ingredient. High fructose
corn syrup, polyethylene glycine, Gly Sol purified water
saccharin sodium and sodium citrate well there's nothing in
here what does that does nothing
well that doesn't make it within your stone on your own good
looks.
It's the non drowsy alcohol is is the wrong one. Who wants the
non drowsy
oh well. What good is it sounds like it's just got a bunch of
snow good Sarah. Drink and sugar taken sugar water here was
working for Maybe it's just a shirt or
lemon shallow
regarding net neutrality because a lot, you know, a lot of
interesting emails flowing back and forth, the people have a lot
to say a lot of people are very thankful that we're at least
bringing some sanity to the conversation. But let me give
you one more nugget. If and I believe that there's enough
morons out there who are screaming net neutrality, net
neutrality, the only way you can bring about true net neutrality,
you know, what is what does everyone says, John, we want
every packet packet equality.
Every packet is equal. Yeah, packet equality pack. Yeah,
packet equalities. There's only
one way you can get packet equality. Deep Packet
Inspection. Why? If you if, in order to make every packet
equal, you have to know what every packet is doing. There's
going to be deep packet inspection every single packet.
Well, that's not that is going on anyway.
Not necessarily now, it will be not just now it will be legally
binding.
Well, okay, I find the debate tedious.
Ah, yeah, but okay. Really not
especially if it goes on you have a you heard it. Now, you
know, you had these yet three people going on and on about oh,
my god, the Internet as we know it is dead, and they won't have
a go packets. And Leo going, Oh, my God, I'm gonna be realised
how much I'm gonna I'm gonna get screwed somehow. He's always
gonna get screwed. Never has been screwed. But he's gonna get
screwed. And everybody's all in a tizzy. And I'm thinking, Well,
I'm not seeing that, you know, I see a lot of and that you know,
and I like Comcast. There you go. All right. Well, yes, it's
Comcast. Service from
them. You are You are Mr. Comcastic. Although I
have to say it doesn't work on Skype very well, very well. And
that's because of something going on. Even I was I'm using
DSL for this podcast, but I have the alternatives here. So I'm
not completely freaked out about it. And I suppose if I live
someplace else, it might be very problematic. But
well, here's the good news. I can live wherever I want now,
because we went through the entire show. Nothing crashed.
And it's all done on a single laptop.
Yeah, that's pretty astonishing. Yeah, I'd say amazing. No,
astonishing. It's a great
word. Of course, on Thursday, we'll know more about these 11
terrorists with links to al Qaeda and al Qaeda affiliates
who have been arrested for the disappearance of Flight MH 370.
And as I said, it's about the cargo manifest. But that's the
first thing I said I remember I talked about the batteries and I
talked about the extra stuff that was undocumented.
That is the I will vouch for you.
Thank you very much. If
you want to go back and listen to these things, the tape is
true. I will vouch for you absolutely is talked about the
batteries.
We'll be back on Thursday. Hopefully I'll be in some better
health or who knows, might be having a new co host.
Well, as long as you can do the show from the hospital.
Coming to you from FEMA Region six in the morning. I'm Adam
curry
and from Northern Silicon Valley, where I'll continue
reading the February 1956 edition of radio electronics and
learn more about television. I'm John C. Dvorak and
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