Word to the wise. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak on December
3 2017.
This is your award winning get my nation media assassination
episode nine or eight seven. This is no agenda. Walk into the
world of windows and broadcasting live from downtown
Austin Tejas capital, the co star state here in the
morning everybody.
Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley with a Zephyr has gone by
without carrying anything. The sun is out everything's fine.
Johnson
is Greg Lawton, Buzzkill.
Everything's kind of fine. But yeah,
yes. Tell everyone what you're doing.
Yes, what I'm doing, I've switched to Windows, the whole
show was running on Windows as of today. And that means that
you can expect to experience the unexpected.
And may you lower might I ask is why you made this switch?
Well, I've been thinking about this for a long time, I've
watched Apple successfully alienate the video, professional
video industry. I see the weirdness going on with upgrades
particularly when it pertains to USB. They've really they don't
care. You know, there was a USB problem about a year ago and
they left that problem going for him. Six months. fester is the
word you'll have fester nice, yes, faster. And I don't trust
him. And I N honestly, I became quite enamored with the, you
know, the Windows product and Windows 10. I'd like to surface
machines, although I'm not on a surface machine. I'm kind of
enamored by it all. And I think that they're, you know, maybe
it's a cycle, it's time for them to cycle up. Now I would have
done this on Linux. If Linux had any kind of tools for her got
nothing for podcast production and shorting it. Please don't
send me the links to the open source mixer went out.
You went through this with all the guys trying because I wanted
to put a really small Linux box to run Skype. Yeah, I don't need
the other stuff that you have. And I could Skype doesn't work
on Linux.
It doesn't work. It works. That's fairly
so anyway, well, you can try this and use this and use all
you got you got the wrong Linux you should use instead of that
Linux use this Linux is really made for multimedia. I loaded
that. And I wouldn't even load that Linux. I mean, it's
ridiculous.
I know exactly what you mean. No, hey, man, Jack pilot, it
works great for audio. No, it doesn't. Really,
here's what it usually got me there was an advertisement on
the TV. And it showed some little girl with her iPad and a
keyboard on the iPad. And she's doing all her homework because
she's doing all this stuff. And at the very end of the
commercial, the mom says something like, Well, can you go
to some about our computers? And she says, Can you do something
with a computer? I don't remember what
did you do that all on your computer and the kid is working
on an iPad and I must say, if you haven't seen the
commercials, it's really good because the positioning is so
well done. My favorite part actually is the kids ordering
like I think maybe he ordered a an ice cream cone or something.
And he's a little girl could be I don't know who knows these
days. And and he or she can conclude Poom slams on the on
the iPad, which immediately says to any parent, all things
indestructible, fantastic. My moron kid won't break it
immediately. And then the kids lying in the grass typing on the
on the keyboard of the iPad, I think it's iPad Pro. And mom
says hey, you've been working on and you do that on your on your
computer. And the kid goes, What's the computer and we
talked about this yesterday briefly when we were testing and
and that hadn't even hit me like that. Like there's proof they're
giving up entirely the MAC MAC OS it's gone.
Right is because at the end of this commercial, they said iOS
Yeah, actually had the iOS camera. And we know that they
wanted to move the iOS to the Mac where they were trying to
and which was just would have been a joke as far as I'm
concerned. And they kind of gave up on that. And I think they're
gonna bail. I think there's no they got bookkeepers there that
can look at these numbers and say, the amount of resources we
put into maintaining this Macintosh in a world of changing
everything is not worth the trouble. We'd make more we can
make more margin just with phones and I and everyone loves
the I pad and I don't think it's a mistake.
Yeah, and for me, you know, migrating to Windows and I've
actually been using just pure windows all week and if anything
goes wrong, I'd switch right back to the Mac. The setup is
good to go. So you know if we don't like it, we can always go
back. But man, everything So much faster and just the filing,
although Windows has it little problems. Oh my god. Oh, File
Explorer. Oh, wait a minute, it's busy. How long do you have
to look into a directory to tell me what files are in there? What
are you busy doing? But anyway?
It's fast. I
haven't seen that message for years. I don't know what we got
going on who they?
Well, there you go. Case in point. Yeah, there's like all
kinds of little quirks and little things that are just pop
up on Windows. I mean, I was almost working. That was almost
as that's sorry. It was a quirky, it's quirky. And there's
some quirks in it for sure. But not
as bad as it used to be? I think windows 10 Is, is usable, very
usable. Yeah.
And it kind of works the way my my mind thinks about where my
files are and where I want stuff. And in the Mac has, you
know, it's kind of it's it's tricky how the Mac obfuscates
that, but they do it. They currently really obfuscate the
filing system, which is the whole point of iOS, I think.
Yeah, you don't know where anything is? Yeah, yes, the
photos have to be in photos. Why would you want to put your
photos anyplace other than photos? Well,
I gotta tell you, and I hate to do a tech segment here. But
windows I had, I have a little folder, and I'm dropping all the
files in for today's show. And I have a JPEG, I dropped it in
immediately the folder goes, like, where's my date modified?
Sort of? No, it had automatically decided it would
optimize that folder for pictures. So if you hide now,
this
is a real issue.
I mean, that's stupid. Yes,
I agree. In fact, the I've had the same problem with you. I
mean, you can go to View.
Yeah, you can change it, but I don't want it to change
automatically. No, it
just decides that Whoa, this is your photo. So they would this
guy obviously once as he wants this information, when it's not
necessarily true. I have the same problem with the clips. I
have this pilot clips. And it doesn't get it doesn't. It says
oh, there's all music. It's all this guy cares about his music
because it all mp3 files. So I don't get the lengths, I have to
actually go in there and hand pick view length. So I can when
I get my list of clips, I have the length so I can go as a
short clip as a long clip. Yeah, you know, and kind of regulate
my clip edge.
Well, here's the cool thing
about our setup, not and I found this program, which I think is
really going to work well for us we'll find out because you know
the workflows are untested as of yet but it does have a SQL
database built in. So all of our clips are all categorized and
even. I can change I can tag things easily and it should be
easy to find things. In fact, just going through just
migrating all this stuff, I found some amazing stuff that I
didn't I don't even remember. I remember we had it but I'm doing
this off a Motu interface Mark of the Unicorn. Which is only
five 600 bucks.
It's getting affordable. What is
it? What's it I don't even know what you're talking
Oh, well there's hardware I'm not doing it you can't do this
kind of stuff in we've been software you have to do it in
hardware. So we've got a mark of the uniform unicorn audio device
and it provides the digital signal processing for EQ for
compression and for gate which is really all you need once you
have those things in hardware. But that box is new is like five
600 bucks that's all
and then you use their residuary Universal Audio control right
but I wanted to use that but it only the only you have to use
Thunderbolt so you have to get a remember the whole thing that
PCI Express card to USBC dongle to a thunderbolt you've switched
over
you switched over your hardware Yeah, I
went I went big time and that Universal Audio but time you get
the plugins that's 1500 Co 1700 bucks. So you know this is I'm
sure
you're on board with Mark of the Unicorn as well so far
but last night we had all sudden the you got little all kinds of
bits and bytes and started to sound like crap so if that
happens I won't be so on board but we'll have to figure it out
all right, well let's get started by doing everything back
as word and I like this play the job Joy Bay hard goes nuts
you know when you have an ISO and you have the
ability I do have the ISO but that's for later yeah, okay.
Obviously I have this clip to do we want to set it up because I
there I believe the while that while the producer running onto
the set writers are coming back from the commercial break is an
obvious scripted setup moment.
Oh yeah, cuz she can't act. That is pretty obvious. Nor could
that guy for that matter. Switch. Okay, let me set it up.
Now this is regarding and we do have more clips about this is
Brian Ross at ABC produced A false report for which he was
that do you have I could not. No, no report.
I have the second one because the first one was pulled Yeah,
it was only showed up on the East Coast in time to sink the
stock market. And
it was it was crazy. I saw this happening and I was listening to
CNBC. And there they were pumping it off. As the end the
Trump trade is over. Trump. Oh, it's all it's all gonna fall
down now. We're all gonna die. Yeah,
well, they're in their little help. Well, before we played
both Bay are they let's get catch this up. Rub play the
Brian it says Ryan Ross suspended KTVU local clip
under our Oh,
Ryan, I'm sorry. I got it. Okay.
ABC News apologized today for a serious error and suspended
reporter Brian Ross for a month without pay for an erroneous
report on retired General Michael Flynn. Ross had
delivered what was billed as an exclusive report about Flynn.
The report said Flynn would testify that Donald Trump had
ordered him to make contact with Russians about foreign policy
while Mr. Trump was still a candidate. The report said off
calls for the president's impeachment and sent the Dow
into a freefall. But later in the day, ABC issued a
clarification saying President Trump's directive came during
the transition after he'd been elected president, which is a
key distinction. Ross appeared on World News Tonight to correct
that report.
Now, I wish and this is the problem with Google. Because you
know, you even did a minus sign suspend. So that todos should
omit those was anything that has suspension in its content would
not show up in search results. You cannot find the original
video. It's done. It's gone.
Yeah,
I know. When you can. What you can come up with. Is this
report. This is the Brian Ross second this is the this was the
one that he did as the mayor culpa. And the way they describe
it in the other report is all he takes? No, no. They just kind of
ran through this as though it was the original report. Yeah.
And it's that as I've only have it clipped at the end, because
this thing is it's actually the original report with his little
bit taken out and then him put back in selling it correctly.
And you can play this and it's kind of you know, you show it's
kind of wishy washy.
Two weeks later, Flynn was fired. And Comey says the
President later asked him to go easy on the general, I
understood him to be saying that what he wanted me to do was drop
any investigation connected to Flynn's account of his
conversations with the Russians settled even after Flynn was
gone. The President still praised it and
General Flynn is a wonderful man. I think it's really a sad
thing that he was treated so badly.
And David, the clarification tonight on something one of
Flynn's confidants told us and we reported earlier today, he
said the president have asked Flynn to contact Russia during
the campaign. He's now clarifying that saying,
According to Flynn, candidate, Trump asked him during the
campaign to find ways to repair relations with Russia and other
hotspots. And then after the election, that President Elect
Ascon told him to contact Russia on issues including working
together to fight ISIS, David,
before and after. And in the meantime, Brian, we do have a
statement from Michael Flynn tonight. He said I accept full
responsibility for my actions.
That's right. And Flynn's confidence as Flynn's extremely
angry at the White House tonight that he was going broke with
crippling legal fees and made this deal for his family. His
son, Michael, Jr. had also been under investigation, but he was
not charged today. David alright.
Brian Ross leading us off tonight. Brian, thank,
you know, the whole financial angle, which is not really being
discussed. That was odd.
Why was it I don't
know. It just it felt off to me. Oh, I mean, how this market
is panicky, they ended they see Trump as a no, no, no,
no, no, I'm sorry, not about that. What it was odd was about
Flynn that he, you know, a million dollars in legal bills.
Did he tell them that? I mean, is that what Flynn said?
I don't know. I don't trust that. I don't trust that. Well,
Brian, Brian Ross has been condemned a couple of times by
media, the on the media, that PBS show where they've looked
into some of his reporting. And he's not really that good. I
mean, Jeff, per day is the guy who's that guy I think is really
good. And he never makes these sorts of mistakes. Right? This
is just just, I mean, it was a huge blunder and make any sense
if I looked at the timeline, but
the mistake it must have come from so sources. Yeah.
Yeah. Somebody told him this. Yeah. Yeah. And he didn't check
it out. Or he didn't. All he had to do is look at the timeline.
Yeah. And then look, because the timeline dispute the timeline
itself. It's all about when Obama put in those sketchy
sanctions in December, which is after the election, which would
means it would be okay. After the election, and then you know,
they kick those guys out of that Maryland House and those houses
and in the San Francisco place, it kicked the Russians out so
they can rewire the brain lugs haven't let them back in yet,
but they will. And because I think was an illegal what they
did, but so let's I have the good report on Flynn on CBS,
which Jeff gazes
doing. Of course, he's an award winning pooper.
He's got eight. But before we do that, let's play the joy Bay
haar and talk about a biased, horrible person. This is that
sketch that they did, because they thought the Brian Ross
report was accurate. Breaking news,
oh my God. Oh, Breaking News, ABC News, Brian
Ross is reporting Michael Flynn promised full cooperation to the
Muller team and is prepared to testify that as a candidate,
Donald Trump directed him to make contact with the Russians.
Like she won the Academy Award
is unbelievable.
I mean, that's, I mean, that clip is going around to everyone
probably saw it by now. But I mean, yeah, first of all, it's
so poorly acted on both the production assistants part or
the producer, whoever that was floor producer, or director. And
that hurt. Oh, breaking news, huh? I'm shocked. And then it
kind of need the video to go with it. Because you just see
the face. Yeah, I was so happy. Oh, yeah.
No, that's it. Well, except for the two Republicans or the one
Republican. That's there. But
But before we go any further, let me just try and understand
it. So what we now know, according to still sources, even
though the second report was a correction of the first report
is still from sources. I don't think it's from
any official. Anything, is it?
I think there's some official statement. Sure. Is distributing
and nobody's disputing what's going on. Right. But
the the the request was, please go talk to everybody on the UN
Security Council and talk to the Russians and everybody and let's
make sure that we know we're doing.
We listen to the Flynn report a CBS one. And there's, they
actually explain what this is really all about. And you have
to ask yourself and when it stops after a while, you have to
ask yourself, why was this considered anything other than
business as usual?
Question. Good evening, I'm Anthony Mason, the Special
Counsel got himself a three star witness. retired General Michael
Flynn pleaded guilty today to lying to the FBI and agreed to
cooperate with Robert Mueller. Mueller is investigating Russian
interference in the US election, whether anyone in the Trump
campaign was involved and any other crimes he may find along
the way, including obstruction of justice Flynn, the
President's first national security adviser.
So he's already supposing that those are crimes as any other
crimes that he may have found what crime is there?
Yeah. Good quarter.
Anyone in the Trump campaign was involved?
No, stop, stop. No, the crime was lying to the FBI. Ah, okay.
Which I think is kind of funny.
How all the right wing media are saying, oh, that's the Martha
Stewart punishment. Yeah, it's like that's
the story. And so that it does pop. And this Papadopoulos got
his other guy, this this, this, this outlier. That's also busted
for lying to the FBI is supposed to be cooperating. Yeah, he
really wasn't part of anything that I looked at his indictment.
And his lie was like missing the dates. Really? Yeah. You
shouldn't look at it. It's like what? Well, I mean, I said it
was on July 3, but it was July 4, is that he's so he lied.
I have a let me see if I have it here. I do have a piece of the
document about Flynn. And I can paraphrase it, but I want to see
if I can find it.
In essence, the
the crime he committed is punishable by zero to six months
in jail. And or 4999 to $909,999. And typically, there's
never jail sentence served, or even the fine levied, but that's
exactly what Martha Stewart got. She got the full monty. She got
the fine and she got the six months.
Yeah. So she's a hazard to the public, I guess. Anyway, maybe
this isn't the rest of this. And you see what this is really
about is kind of it's very interesting that they don't know
sorry play
crimes you may find along the way, including obstruction of
justice Flynn, the President's first national security adviser
was an advisor to the campaign. He could serve as a guide as
investigators look into the Trump team's contacts with
Russia. Before and after the election, Jeff gays begins our
coverage.
Michael Flynn arrived at the courthouse this morning to plead
guilty to making false statements to the FBI. Once
inside, a federal judge asked him if he was doing so willingly
and voluntarily. The 58 year old former Lieutenant General
answered with a simple es, sir. According to court papers, Flynn
lied to FBI agents about the details of two phone calls he
had with then Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak during
the presidential transition. CBS News's Lauren Flynn was directed
to make the first call by President Trump's son in law
Jared Kushner, described in court papers as a very senior
member of the transition team.
He's in rare form today, our Jeff gazes he's really in the
upper regions needing to go on
record to make the first call by President Trump's son in law
Jared Kushner described in court papers as a very senior member
of the transition team on December 22 2016. Flynn called
Kislyak to urge Russia to delay or defeat a United Nations
resolution concerning Israeli settlements. A week later, Flynn
spoke to Kislyak again, this time about new sanctions imposed
by the Obama administration on Russia. He relayed to the
ambassador that the Trump team did not want Russia to escalate
the situation. Flynn made that call after consulting with
someone court papers identify as a senior transition official.
CBS News is learn that was Flynn's deputy Katie McFarland,
after the second Kislyak call Russian President Vladimir Putin
announced that he would not retaliate for the US sanctions.
And President elect Trump tweeted Putin who was very
smart.
Now, a couple of things this, this is the only report that
mentions Katie McFarland, who we know is the former security
adviser to Bush, I believe, and she looks like a spook. And so I
don't know what what the connection is there with her
and, and this whole, this whole fiasco, but the fiasco part of
it is, what the conversations were about. Yeah, it was just
doing trying to get business started on one was on Israeli
settlements. And the other one was on emptying out these, these
houses and kicking the Russians out of the country and, and
telling the Putin maybe not to overreact to it. Right. So what
was
but more importantly, why does CNN and MSNBC and all of ABC and
everybody, everybody, why do they think that because there's
this information that, that that, that it means anything or
it sounds really delusional? Yes. And I hate when I have to
say that because it's like, come on. You These are intelligent
people. Well, they are excluded. But they're intelligent people.
How can they think this how can they not just listen to the to
the evidence and or the that's not even evidence, the bullshit
they're spewing and think that that's something that there's
something happening? I am baffled, I'm really baffled by
it.
Dimension athletes.
I'm baffled by a couple of things. I'm also baffled by
there's no reason for Flynn to have to lie about this stuff.
Because it wasn't anything meaningful. It's just a
conversation about Israel and
settlements, and maybe he had something else going who yeah,
there's there's some well, he does have accepted
that what's going on is trying to kidnap the gulag and some of
his other crap. But he, and maybe he's got Alzheimer's. Ha,
how do we we don't know. I mean, he maybe forgot the
conversations. And he should have known they were being
recorded. If because everything Kislyak does in this country or
anywhere else is being recorded as Yeah. So the whole thing is
making it less and less sense to me and let's
well I was gonna say unless, you know, it's like one of those,
you know, he lied, but it was about a date or something and
it's just being blown all out of proportion.
Yeah, well as
wish I think there's a delusion I think is wishful thinking. I
think you could tell the pent up wishful thinking when Bae har
went nuts. I have the ISO replay ISO OMG Bae heart.
Oh my god. That this is totally Oh my god.
Oh my god. Anyway, so let's go to clip two of this report.
What does Flynn's cooperation signal about the direction of
this investigation signals? It's going forward and it's moving
and advancing very quickly. Peters Eisenberg is a former
federal prosecutor. If anyone
was gonna be interacting with the Russians or would know about
it, it would be Flynn. So if you can get him to talk it would be
worth giving him a great deal.
of court papers say Flynn could get Up to six months behind
bars, but he was under scrutiny for other alleged crimes,
including failing to disclose payments from Russian backed
companies and trying to orchestrate the kidnapping of a
Turkish cleric in exchange for $15 million. Anthony
Jeff Okay, Thanks, Jeff.
Now I'm thinking this is an era This is crocodile tears about a
lot of this about, oh, I'm gonna go broke after cooperate, if
nothing were actually happened, which we believe to be true. In
terms of collusion? Yeah. Wouldn't this be a great
opportunity for Flynn to turn himself in, plead guilty and do
a deal that gets him off the hook for all the other weird
crap that he was doing?
What would he have to give up for said deal?
He just has to answer every question that has anything to do
with anything will and a lie detector.
I mean, he's cooperating, yeah.
Whatever that means. Well, let's go to the last clip. And we'll
get a little wrap up
here. Let's go now to our chief White House correspondent Major
Garrett Major. This is the first time current and former White
House officials have been implicated in the investigation.
What's the significance of that?
Well, it reveals the high level status of talks with the Trump
transition and Russia, and suggests or certainly points to
an openness and an easy level of engagement with a rival nation,
already suspected at that time, and confirmed by some US
officials of meddling in the 2016 elections. Still, these
revelations today do not necessarily suggest that either
Jared Kushner, or Katie McFarland committed a crime. The
two issues involved criticizing Israeli settlements, and Russian
reaction to new sanctions would be relevant to any incoming
administration. And engaging the Russians is something a
presidential transition team might reasonably try to
accomplish. But in the context of so many transition and White
House denials, about dealings with Russia, today's court
revelations strongly contradict at least some of those denials,
putting them in a sharply different contexts.
So what is the White House saying about today's
developments, Major? Well, the
President was notified this morning, and he considered it a
sad event for sure for General Flynn and a serious crime for
three star general retired to admit you. But the President
still believes nothing that was revealed today threatens either
him or his administration. And those close to the President
tell us that he was neither angry nor frustrated by this
particular development of the special counsels investigation
and reassured that nothing that Flynn pled guilty to touched his
campaign. And the actions that Flynn did plead guilty to dealt
with him and him alone.
And by the way, that contradicts the Brian Ross report where
everyone's freaked out, right. There's Ross's sideline now for
a month.
The thing that's,
that's really taking place is stuff that we track on the on
the more singular item level, is, it's very apparent when
reading the face bag is like, you know, this is the proof. The
proof is here, Muller is going to make it happen. These guys
are all effed. And the details no longer matter. And this will
go down in history. I mean, as just false facts. It's like the,
you know, like what Trump said, Yeah, you're famous, you can
grab him by the pussy. No, not what it is now is admitted sex
offender. You know, it's that kind of, it's really a
psychological operation.
Well, the the interesting thing is the, the when I first found
the bay Hart clip, it was on Twitter and some guy had pointed
out how this this and this alone is a false. It's false news.
It's it's fake news. But everybody, I bet you would start
to see it crop up as fact. Yes. All over the places. So Well,
Dave, he's done now. And yeah, wait a minute, it was already
been disproven, the guy who did the report has been suspended.
This is a major deal. By the way. You're not one of these
guys that works on the network as an investigative reporter,
one of the top guys top men, and you get suspended for a month
without pay.
Yeah, and let's talk about that for a second. Because you know,
from a from a journal perspective, what are the levels
of discipline that you can get and where does this particular
disciplinary disciplinary measure where does it fit in on
that scale?
Well, you can get fired
why didn't he get fired?
Oh, he because he they like him? I think he's I think he is
presents himself well and he is very authoritative he's good.
But he's but he's loose with the facts and he's done this before
and I don't think he would have even gotten a suspension if he
hadn't been caught doing stuff like this in the past. So what a
month without pays a lot of money for a guy like that for
anybody. Yeah. But he I don't know what he makes, but he's not
right. But is that if, if someone at the New York Times,
I've never
seen it, I've never seen it. That's my most the time it's
just reprimand and the nasty node in your file. I've never
seen a guy suspended for a month. I mean, that's probably
just under getting fired. Yeah.
And I wonder why that why not fire? Why? Well, you right,
like, and and of course, it still launched kind of a fake
story that you know, will go down in history as the story.
Yeah, yeah. And Bihar didn't help. She just passed on fake
news. I have one last report this Pierre Thomas is on ABC.
He's kind of the Jeff but gays be somewhere between the gays
and what's his name? Stick out bliss. Know this guy. We know
the guy just got fired or didn't get fired. Charlie Rose? Know,
the guy we're talking about Ryan. Wow. Brian Ross. Okay. You
didn't get fired. He's been in between the two guys a little
bit. And I think he's credible.
That one count of lying to the FBI, Robert Mueller, a seasoned
prosecutor here? Is he trying to show as little of his hand as
possible?
They would make no mistake, Muller approved this deal to get
something he's an aggressive, crazy prosecutor who has been
targeting the Trump campaign to transition and potentially the
White House inner circle. Flynn now faces hours of FBI
interrogations in the coming months subjected to lie detector
tests along the way to prove he's telling the truth. Mueller
wants to know did Trump campaign officials and White House
advisors know about any contact with the Russians to impact the
election? And David, those transition advisors mentioned it
today's charges face the possibility of being called
before grand jury and if they've already been interviewed, they
better have told the truth.
They've been in touch with us tonight as well.
Scary?
Well, a It's not ending anytime soon. It's gonna be in the
background for the next six months at least.
But you know, the journalists are on notice now. Hey, you
gotta be careful. Gotta be careful with your sources.
Because you know, Brian Ross I'm sure is doing okay. Even even
with a month's pay docked. But you don't want to be lower on
any totem pole and have that happen to you. I love commies
reaction.
Now we have the fired FBI Director James Comey tweeting.
So let me just share this with everyone. Here's the quote but
justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever
flowing stream. If you actually look at his Instagram, it's this
whole picture of the stream and rocks Amos 524. What?
What kind of guy does that nut ball? It's doesn't doesn't seem
to fit with his character.
You know what I mean? Yeah, I didn't. Maybe he's a religious
guy. I don't know. I just find it very peculiar.
Yeah. How how current do you interpret that? He's hammered.
Yeah, here's a broken the CNN panel trying to figure it out.
Comey doesn't tweet much. But when he does, he likes to quote
important weighty things. I think this is him kind of
sitting back and having his moment of thinking hmm, I said,
so I knew that I wasn't. I mean, look, the guy got pushed out of
his job.
Wait, he thinks this is the guy that says lordy. Yes, very
waiting. Lordy, lordy, have you ever find that for you,
Lady things? I think this is him kind of sitting back and having
his moment of thinking hmm, I said, so I knew that I wasn't. I
mean, look, the guy got pushed out of his job by the President.
And it was connected to connect you to people that are involved
in the events of today. And so he's clearly watching all this.
He clearly has thoughts and feelings about that. He's
expressing it all in a tweet that is using somebody else's
words, which is if you look through his Twitter profile,
it's how he tweets when He very seldom tweets. So that's just
kind of, you know, the
good work good investigative work. You look through his
Twitter profile that their inner
voice off to the side really, of James Comey remarking on this
whole proceeding, and and certainly it's still he's firing
is what touched off, you know, much of this right. I mean, you
can't take that out of the equation. You had the president,
not gotten rid of Comey, there never would have been a special
counsel, the special counsel would then never be looking at,
at Michael Flynn and the very senior members of the Trump
transition team that he apparently was speaking with
when it came to doing what he now he admits he lied about to
the FBI. So
do you hear she's building this story and just you lied? That
FBI rather, it just all sounds like they're all going to jail.
It's just exactly what that defense attorney said. I was
defending the the convicted illegal immigrant kill Yeah, who
killed that girl? He says, hey, you know, these guys got to shut
up because they're under investigation themselves. What
are they No,
cheese. That's weird.
That's not really a legal perspective. Very well.
I actually have a clip here this little night quite off topic,
but I'll bring it up later. But this is a half. There's a very
funny lawyer clip here that it's got to do with it another story.
So I'll just reminded when I play it out, I mentioned I do
have one little sanctions issue ABC wrong info question that we
can play to get this out of the way. Sanctions issue.
We know that Michael Flynn has now pleaded guilty to lying to
the FBI about conversations with the Russian ambassador, but many
have pointed out don't all incoming presidents and their
teams start to reach out to other countries during the
transition. Let's get to Dan Abrams. Tonight, our chief legal
analyst in Danbury get it lying to the FBI is no good. But many
people have pointed out that these transition teams often
reach out to other governments. So what is it about this
conversation? That's a problem?
Part of it is the timing. President Obama had just issued
sanctions against the Russians for meddling in the election,
then you have Flynn effectively calling the Russians and saying
please don't retaliate. And then you have President Trump saying
Oh, it's great that President Putin didn't retaliate
Yeah
I gotta tell you the face bag has never been so entertaining
and now we have this the tax bill now did they did the Senate
pass a version of it last night? Is that what happened?
Oh, yeah, yeah, it got passed at the last minute very late.
You're probably in bed when it happened. I think it was like a
four in the morning
yes, I'm sure I was in bed
yeah got past 51 to 48 or 49
Okay so on the edge there as expected
was always going to be on the edge Democrats refused I have a
tax bill clip
Yeah, cuz I want to read something from face bag.
Okay, okay. Great. But let's play the tax bill clip we'll
catch up. This is not a there's not a great there's not a great
and or long synopsis is just a little little tidbits that that
I picked up that I thought were funny
initially get a tax break averaging $2,200. But only until
2025.
Millions of Americans must be watching. In stunned disbelief
tonight.
Democratic senators without enough votes to stop the bill
could only protest
they're sending around their edits. As we speak. Can you tell
me what that word is?
Retiring Tennessee Senator Bob Corker. The lone Republican
holdout was frustrated the Bill added over a trillion dollars to
the deficit over the next decade. And it just came down to
sort of the ballpark between fiscal issues. And my concern
about our long term debt. The Senate's bill now heads into
conference where Republicans will work to reconcile it with
the House version, ironing out key differences. Now President
Trump wants congressional Republicans to get him a final
tax bill to sign before Christmas. This is in addition
to other pending deadlines. Republicans are also preparing a
two week spending bill to avoid a government shutdown before
federal funding runs out this upcoming Friday. Right now.
Carol Burnett from the White House, thank
you arrow.
Now a couple of things. Couple things. One is that the
Democrats are making a huge fuss over well, you know, they're
gonna have a tax break for the middle class, but it ends and
2025 they're gonna be screwed. Now. 2025 is a long ways away, I
think to get a nice tax break for, you know, eight years.
Is it a sunset clause? Is that the idea? Yes. Something
like this is just tax break ends. And you go back to your
old taxes. I'm assuming it doesn't go up. But
come on. We know one thing for sure. Taxes always go
by Nope. I mean, it's not intended as a trick to go up
right. The other one is abysmal white in the guy with a
screwball voice in Oregon, who says the ESA is the Republican
do electorate must be stunned disbelief.
I don't think what you're talking about stunned disbelief.
electorate is padded playing World of Warcraft where you're
talking about you give a crap.
This is really another one. This guy says. Can you read this? And
he points out a little. So there's a bunch of scribbling on
half of these bills are trying to
Yeah, they just did the markup and redlining that was a big
complaint I read about
and so I'm looking at says a four I think it says a four
mentioned or acknowledgement or something. I saw the word. I
don't remember specifically what it said. But I when I saw it as
I can read it, so it's bullcrap. Right? Now,
I like to follow this stuff. And you know, it's very hard to even
get a hold of the right publication. And this was too
long for me to get anything. You know, the problem with these
types of this type of legislation I'd like to I like
to read this I really do. It's a hobby. I love it, is it they
refer to the current law in almost everything, it's a change
and then it's like, okay, so, insert this word and change that
word for this word over in that document. And that's almost is
impossible to parse. In fact, it would be a great project for
someone to put it together. So you know, it would all be
hyperlinked. How about that for a concept? Doll, just a just a
thought. The concept behind the tax bill, I understand, but I
just have no idea what's in there now. And I'm just on the
surface of it. I'm not thinking it's going to be all that great.
What do you think?
I would agree they're never great, right? Unless they go to
some radical change, like a flat tax, or reverse income tax or
something. Excuse me something really radical. It's just going
to be a bunch of patchwork crap, right? And it's going to benefit
a few people that you won't find out about until after the things
passed. Well, to create his birds
that's a really bad one. Sorry, I didn't realize that was the
one anyway, let's get an opinion on what's going on. Regarding
the tax bill from one of my face bag friends. This is a local
Austin woman used to live in California, she is in her early
60s. Code phrases, states rights equals right to own slaves,
small government equals deregulation of industry and
removal of consumer protections. GOP tax plan equals majority of
citizens subsidizing increases that subjugate us to the greed
of the 1%. And thus, psycho fans and Congress, Make America Great
Again equals, if you voted for me, you're a self defeating
fool, a white nationalist or a greedy sob. I don't really care.
I made my money bankrupting small businesses and
manipulating the tax code. It'll be a cold day at Mar a Lago
before I show you my returns. It's all a return to our
murderous roots, give the American Indians back their
country, we've undone any good that may have emerged from our
original sins of creation and our wallowing and shit. Turning
away immigrants, when virtually every one of us has immigrant
roots, denying health care, education, liberty, and most
definitely the pursuit of happiness. I am disgusted that
we cannot muster the National Cohesion to recognize that devil
is now in power and the devil must be banished and the devil
minions to
she's Jewish, by the way.
Now these people get religion all of a sudden,
I don't know.
But well, that's a person that's about to have a nervous
breakdown. That's why I
you know, a lot of people are on the verge. You can tell the
smallest thing triggers people these days. Yeah, just the
smallest things.
Yeah, well.
Well, I want to hear more of these Facebook Notes. I keep
telling you this.
Yeah. Well, I just I brought one. This is where you say thank
you. May I have more?
Yes. Thank you. Me. I have more.
All right. Let's let me see while we're in the a block. I
think we're kind of done with a Brian Brian Ross and Russia
story for now. It's show day. Who knows who knows what will be
coming? Who knows? A little follow up. I think we may have
discussed this but now it finally went through
he diplomats of bats extending the use of the weed killer
glyphosate. A new five year license will enter into force
after the current one expires on December the 15th.
We're so disappointed we see that those who are supposed to
protect our environment and to protect our health are failing
to do their job. They're basically not doing what they're
supposed to do. They're betraying the trust that
Europeans place in them and they leave us with another five years
of glyphosate, which contaminates our environment
contaminates our bodies isn't our food. It's hard to avoid.
One study said glyphosate was probably carcinogenic, but
others have found that it's safe. We are talking about
Hold on I need to talk to our resident chemical expert, Dr.
DeVore, AKQA Glice of fate safe or not safe. We need a jingle
for that. For not safe
people out there that don't know what we're talking about. This
is Monsanto, Roundup, Monsanto. Well, I don't know if it's safe
or not safe. But there's a lot of I think there's more evidence
that is very unsafe than there is any evidence that it's safe.
It's our bodies
isn't our food. It's hard to avoid.
One study said glyphosate was probably carcinogenic, but
others have found that it's safe.
We are talking about very widely used chemical substances that is
considered safe. We use it in a very responsible manner in
Europe. We are by law trained And our sprayers are tested
quite quite frequently. And we are quite disappointed that all
these work and especially with the with the assessment of Epson
eco European institutions, and in this case now European member
states representatives went for decision that certainly doesn't
follow that consistency.
The glyphosate decision created some considerable collateral
damage within Germany's caretaker government instead of
abstaining as Berlin did before the German representative on the
council voted yes, following an order by the conservative
agriculture minister and ignoring the expressed wishes of
the Environment Minister, a Social Democrat result, the
Social Democrats were livid. Here's the tricky thing though.
Merkel's conservatives are desperately courting the Social
Democrats to form a new grand coalition. But SPD leaders are
now decrying a breach of trust. Merkel, who was in Africa this
week, reprimanded her conservative cabinet colleague,
stopping short of firing him a face saving measure that won't
make negotiations with the Social Democrats easier.
I left that bit on the clip because it it shows there's a
political issue with this in Germany. Yeah, I'm glad you did.
And I think we are we are able to identify immediate
distraction in its very infancy. So infant, in fact that I don't
have a clip. But Germany has launched another issue. Now
remember, this was Glyphosate. Glyphosate? Yeah, I think so.
Glyphosate. And now they so from Germany comes now the threat
only the threat but it's getting big, big headlines everywhere
starting in the UK comes the threat that the EU Parliament's
Health Committee, which Germany has a large hand in is going to
object to allow the use of phosphate additives in such
important meals as frozen kebab meat and and this is this is
creating outrage. This is to listen and if you've got Glice
of fate, we've got phosphate so people are gonna forget the
Monsanto news because Shut up already it's science. And I
think this is what's going to grab the headlines.
Well, this phosphate in in kabobs Turkish kebabs to be
specific I caught me off guard because I don't know what
they're talking about. Right the idea of no clips I didn't even
look into it that much. Because is it what are they doing? What
is in? Is it in the seasoning and we were we talking about?
Yes, yes,
phosphate additives are used in many foods to enhance flavor and
moisture in not only frozen meats us often in kebabs but
also in cheese, brands, cereals and other baked goods. However,
a 2012 study found that phosphate is linked to heart
disease, prompting some members of European Parliament to act
including crystal shadow mouse of Denmark.
Is it like is that like an MSG?
I have no idea. I've never heard of this. I mean, I know about
phosphoric acid being used in soda. But that's about it. I
don't know anything about you.
You need to know about it because this is all like drugs.
I feel
like I'm completely that's my beat. I don't know what the
hell's going on. Yeah.
Well, this is this is also used, of course in some pharma, which
is my favorite meal in whenever I'm in Amsterdam, and I guess
it's gonna ruin this is disgusting
meal. You keep discussing it. You don't like shawarma? Isn't
it? chopped kale and mashed potatoes. No, no,
no, no, shawarma is it's like, it's like kebab in a pita. We
have it as a special garlic sauce and a little bit of
lettuce and
tomato. So it's like a hand roll.
No, it's they Oh, they slice the pizza bread open at the top.
Then stuff and then stuff in. Lettuce, tomato and then kebab
meat. Yeah, yeah,
they sell those in New York City. Yes. No, they sell them in
Austin. They sell them everywhere. Yeah, I've had that
just delicious so
well. They're not going to be so delicious. When to take the
phosphate out.
I guess. I don't know that. Well, let's do some research.
I think we should
Okay, let's go phosphates and food. Okay, we'll start there.
Because it
sounds like because what I liked about MSG, which is mono SUTA
flag a flag of flights.
Mono sodium glutamate.
What I liked about MSG, is that what it really did is it made
you think the food was tastier now that's that's a groovy
ingredient.
Right actually what it gives it gives it
I thought I thought it affected your tastebuds or your brain or
something.
It doesn't umami thing. Umami. Yeah, umami is the is the IS
gives it a Mommy is like this the eighth sense it's like, it's
like something you can't actually taste. It's just
something you sense. And umami is in mushrooms and it's in MSG.
And it's so I look it up. Look, Mommy,
I think we have the umami of podcasting.
All right. I'm looking at phosphates and food additives.
Yes. We'll see what we got. What foods are high in phosphate
phosphate additives in food? I health risk according to the
National ASTM or other. NIH included? Let's see what it is.
It's it's sodium phosphate. LIVESTRONG
says phosphates include health risk, hyper blah, blah, blah has
been identified in the past decades from
at least mumble into the microphone.
Sorry.
I'm still getting this you get apparently get chronic kidney
disease Nice. From some sort of phosphates.
Sounds like a day wrecker? Yeah.
Australia's food additives. What is sodium phosphate? This must
be all about sodium phosphate. Because this is the LIVESTRONG
website. Okay, any sodium solid phosphoric acid are commonly
used, added to food and may serve a variety of purposes.
Sodium phosphates have been well studied and are generally
considered safe. When used as a food additive. And this kind of
contradicts the other thing. Yeah. In phosphate, we refer to
any of three specific Okay, okay, what is it supposed to do
to you? Alright, well, I'll get started. Now, I'll work this
out, figure out what the hell's going on. It's emulsifier a
leavening agent, a surface active agent, a neutralizing
agent and nutrient
nice.
I don't know what you're using it with the kabobs for it.
kabobs. Just well, maybe
maybe it's not even that important. Maybe it's just I
guess I introduced the story as a possible distraction from the
Monsanto because Monsanto doesn't want this attention.
They don't want Oh, they don't and everyone hates the Turks.
And this dude, specifically talking about Turkish lavage
is alright. Yeah. But the thing is, the Brits love their kebab.
Not annoying. So well. Wait a minute.
Hold on. Was it as German kabobs
Yeah, but while they're still in, this is an EU thing. while
they're still in the EU, they'll have to adhere to it. So maybe
it's interesting. It could be a let's really Brexit or it could
be Hey, yeah, let's just mess with those guys before we get
rid of them.
You know, that's always a possibility. I wish they'd have
more things to do with their time than something like that
would allow. You mean and destroy a good five minutes of
no agenda? Show contents? No, no, no, I don't think you're on
the right track.
So I run into this turkeys mechanic and Mechanical Turk.
He's from I think he's from he's not from Istanbul, but he's from
somewhere in Turkey. And he just starts telling I was asking him
questions, obviously, like you do with the cab drivers. And he
says gulaman is the best thing that's ever happened to Turkey.
Really? Not I'm sorry. What am I thinking? Not gulaman but
Areaware Dhawan? Oh yeah, and that gulaman Irwin, let me get
district. Berta was the best he says before IrDA one. If you
went to a hospital, you'd wait for eight hours, everything was
falling apart. The infrastructure was crap. He says
the whole country was falling apart. It was a mess. And he
says especially the medical system, which was just down the
toilet, he says ever since Gula, or keep wanting to say gulaman
everyone got in. He's straighten that out. He's straight. He's
actually he's like a dictator, obviously. But he's
straightening out the country. So is it places very livable now
he says it's fantastic. And he goes on and on and on and on
singing his praises. So without area one, we'd be screwed. It'd
be a mess. And then they went on to condemn Goulandris should be
shot according.
Did you ask him why he wasn't back living in Turkey.
He likes it here.
No surprise.
And with that guy, relatives, it goes through all the time. He's
got relatives Darren, he just says it's just like night and
day. He says pre air to one to place was was hellish. And he
says now it's like he says all the new hospitals. He's built
hospitals all over the place. He's put new infrastructure in
the place has been modernized, all and he says you can go and
he said that he named about 10 Little cities to check these
cities out before and after. They're all old, crappy old dirt
roads, and now they're all fancy and new. He says the people love
him. Well, I think this is not the story we're getting. No,
this is definitely not the story I'm getting from the Uber
drivers but maybe it's different from the cab.
No, this wasn't a cab who was this guy?
Now this is a mechanic candle
mechanic auto mechanic. Yeah, the Mechanical Turk. Right.
Well I'll keep talking. I think there's something I think he's,
I mean, he just may be a Maven, you know, fanatic. But it seems
to me that he was because I checked a few of these things
out and there is a modernization process going on, which is one
of the things that caused that. You know, he was going to he was
going to but
I thought they went completely you know, secularism is gone
yeah, that seems it seems to be Yeah, that's that's kind of the
I think that's mostly propaganda.
We need to get some Turkish experts
do we have do we have listeners as Turkey? I don't think we have
any.
I don't think we have any. Maybe some guy passed through ones I
don't think so. We're looking at you a boots on the ground in
Turkey. We need some help here. Be able to deconstruct this
because that that's very I mean, Turkey is such an important
country when it comes to you know, the the pipelines for
energy, everything dead, the immigrants.
I don't believe anything the media tells us I think the whole
thing should be I think the guy couldn't be right.
Or that I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the
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note about the toilet paper roll when he was biking. We laughed
our ass off about that.
I don't remember. Yeah, he's
the one that told us about the Narcan. Like he'd give someone
you know, he's an EMT. So
alright, he's the guy to talk to about the guy be hyped up on
meth. Yeah, the narc is not the heroin down and he'd be a meth
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it. Here's the kind of guy he is. He's like, Yeah, I'm just a
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And it's supposed to be agonised.
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like, thrown his brother out of the house one time because he
was smoking some weed. You know, he's really anti all that. So
they started talking about the dispensaries in Colorado and
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Well hey, why don't we go get some CBD oil see how it goes?
Ever and apparently was quite funny because, you know, he felt
like it was all illegal and it just didn't even though it's not
he felt really weird inside the dispensary and he puts it on his
hands who his dad, his dad, his dad, his dad has arthritis. Once
you get in there a few times you notice a bunch of women and
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maybe it's my brain that we're in the car on the way home, he
says, I already feel it working. So I already feel it working.
And this is a guy who's really against the whole idea. So
anyway, yeah. Unbelievable. So yeah, I
got a big fan for later in the show.
That's my beat. What are you doing? I'm gonna do it on my
beat.
No one is always promoting pot. You're the you're the one who's
your beat is smoking. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. I think I'll actually
have something to do with this clip. All right, last last you
got Brian ladder can ladder Wait.
No. Timothy Pierce I see here.
Oh, yeah, no, this is Timothy Pierce. He was on the two shows
ago three shows ago the same donation with the No no, no, no.
From at 14. I which I read last show and I read it before and
I'm not reading it again. You sure that
he's not donating over and over again, just sending us the same
note.
He's not sending the same note. He only has one notice from the
14th. Then what's going on here? And we're in December? I don't
know. I think he got carried over for some unknown reason.
I'll say Timothy Pierce $233 No note. Maybe he can straighten
this out. Baron ladder kin or ladder Quinn and Houston. $200
it I'm knighted on show 978 But never deduced.
Oh, no. Well, let's do that. Yeah.
You've been D deuced.
Does that make me a black douche? I have to ask. Are you
black?
A black douche.
Anyway, throw D douching. Anyway, any anyhow. Anyhow.
Merry Christmas. And thank you guys, for all you're doing.
That's about it. All right.
Well, I'm glad you got your D douching. In there. Fantastic.
I do have a couple of notes from people. And I do have the list
of and I'm gonna read these separately the list of everyone
who donated over 50 pounds in Oh, in the UK at the meetup.
Yes, I get to do that now or I can do at the beginning of the
next Saturday. But I have to do it before the night in because
there's a couple of nights and
why don't you just do it now because this was a lightless.
Anyway.
Yeah, it was. So I will be grabbed the notes.
No notes in a special spot. All right. Let's start with Toby
Lankford, who says from Birmingham. And by the way, I'm
going to talk to people about these notes in the envelopes.
It's nice to have in the envelope. It's nice to have your
name and where you're from. There's nobody did and your
actual full name as you can or just a nickname if you want to
use that. And then if there's a note, you know, it'd be nice.
And we Toby Langford, Birmingham 50. pounds, Kaz to be knighted.
You might want to get your pen out.
No, hold on.
Kaz. Kaz que ese Kaz. Yeah, yeah. Okay, Kas, he donated 50
pounds and he already had enough to be knighted as cert Kas of
the 30 trees.
Sir, cause of the 30 trees. Yeah, the 30 trees.
He said that he actually dropped off a card. Ah, didn't really
say anything is a nightmare. Mr. Kas, and he's got us as re
anyways, get this. So as a funny card. Leslie and Dan 33 pounds.
I have note, by the way, 50 pounds is six 6.6 $6.
thought that was interesting.
She wrote a little short little note that was actually kind of
pleasant. I was gonna read it. And I had a long chat with her.
She was trying to bring her dad to the thing. He didn't want to
come. Now he did want to come but he couldn't make it.
Too bad.
Yeah, here's another 10 years. My dad is a veteran listener to
the show. And it was really hoping again, some time off.
Work to swing by the meetup. So this is donations from my dad
and I he introduced me to the show two years ago, and I
haven't missed an episode sense. There you go. Nice. Keep up the
great work and I have an excellent trip time in London.
And there you have it. That's Lesley and Dan. Dennis the dad.
Sir Robert claesson. One of our regulars $100 Sir. nuked to be
now he has 200 and he wants he's gonna does another pen. You
gotta write this down.
Again, no, let me get to know versus a knighting it's gonna be
Yeah.
It gets never good enough to name or anything he just said
Sir nuked to be. So he's going to be Oh wait, no, he's not
going to be a nightie. He's going to eventually be Okay,
gotcha and but he never left the name is set nuked so what does
it tell you? Okay, onward. Doug kit kit sig 50 pounds. Answer
nuke ws 200 Sure. Luke Rainier, rainier Baron of London 50
pounds. He has a note
the new cut to be
two shows the big ones sure re aired. Yeah, here it is. Never
thought I'd see a meet up here in my barony. The Baron of
London, of course included this donation as you're becoming ever
Oh, with a 50 pound note as they're being rare, because a
lot of people won't even take him he says. So he's doing
himself a favor because he can't get anyone any lot of shops
won't take them. Do you know this? No. As of today's
exchange,
just because it's not classified or it's not the plastic money? I
don't
know. He just says they won't take him. As of today's exchange
rate this donation is six, six 6.66 Keep up the great work.
Hope to see Adam here at some point, sir. Look. Onward.
Richard footer 250 pounds. He isn't note. So he'll be an
executive producer. Well, actually, no, that'd be over 301
Yeah, there'll be as executive producer.
Okay, so we're gonna do these names after the show. You're
gonna give them to me again because I didn't follow
everything. Okay, good. Yeah. Like Oh, no. Was I supposed to
write down and
just write down tonight? Okay, I've been listening since the
Burning Man. When hit in the mouth by Sir Matt Wittering have
been hooked ever since listen to your shows at least twice during
my morning and evening commutes so he's a tutor dog guy. Well
this is twice still on the road to be knighted didn't want a
blog off one. So let the time pass before I next donate love
everything you guys do. Thanks for the saving me from being
another zombie millennial. Yes, that's
what we do. Yeah, welcome
Yeah, it will be an executive producer for this show.
Happy to help
Richard footer and then Sir John, South London $200 have no
he'll also be a he'll be what does that get to? I don't know
50s 3666 times four. No, no just doesn't quit he'll be a social
executive producer. All right. And I do have a note from him
please find enclosed $200 Hope you enjoy it enjoy the trip.
that's it nothing really they these notes are very not not
elaborated. nuked I got nukes north I should read it longtime
Boehner first time donor except my 200 and cold hard sterling as
my first contribution to the BP itu been too afraid to donate
via pay pet Pay Pal you guys need to set up a bitcoin address
and you helped my two girls to shout I needs a shout out first
two girls Hello girls. Elise eight and sub Skaia five subject
to your show every time they're in the car. Very good girls. And
he needs a D douching with John saying you know Bert, okay, here
we go.
D deuced
you know Bert
net Well, I think that covers it. No,
I have a I have one more note here. So it's a note that was
hand delivered to me yesterday here in Austin from Brandon toy
of
the Michigan local one.
Oh, Michigan local one
Michigan local one was in the house or in town. And he
delivered a scroll which was that was I was notified. We have
a messenger from Michigan local one with a scroll. This is
parchment paper it has the ever recognizable night ring implant
on some sealing wax. So we know it's official, Be it known in
the year of our Lord 2017 that the no agenda produces of
Michigan local one request the visit of Adam Clark curry
beloved among us as the crackpot and his royal consort the keeper
to our lands in the near future. The undersigned of Gitmo nation
mitten. Brandon toys are Timothy Kiernan Baronet of the no fix
title cervix Baron of the hot southern Bush, sir Nick dragon
of the four domains Sir Mark the wandering night. Brian and Susie
Churchill and Lisa
think it's bomber Bemer. So that one's really matter.
So that means we got to go I should say I got
Michigan's fantastic suit very entertaining place, but you're
going to judge demand because since you would be their their
leader, I somebody take you over to the Packard plant and also
the old train station which has been abandoned. for sightseeing.
Okay, now troit Detroit is fabulous sightseeing now even
though a lot of the good stuff has been torn down,
I've been told that it's probably best to do the meet up
in
Ann Arbor. Yes, but that's a short drive. Okay. Yeah, it's
like 45 minutes or something. It's
not that bad. It's not that long. But yes. And Arbor is the
place to do the meet up, but you want it you definitely want to
tour Detroit. It's fantastic.
Yeah, so we're gonna have to do that. We have to plan that we
got a lot of stuff we got to plan. We got to get through
Christmas first. Holy moly. All right, everybody, thank you very
much. Special thanks to people came to meetups and came to
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Now we were talking just the beginning of the of the Vblock.
There about the fruit machine. Yeah,
yes, the fruit.
I actually had forgotten what the topic was. And I asked the
troll room and they reminded me the fruit machine. So there is
this actually there's a did a little bit of looking into this
organization. It's called the We demand an apology network.
They're the ones who started this all off. And they wanted to
well, I'll just read you a little bit of the introduction
here that we demand an apology network demands an apology for
the historical wrongs committed by the Canadian government
against LGBT people. I noticed there's no Two Spirit on their
demand, letterhead, the WE DEMAND apology network demands
an apology for the historical wrongs committed by the Canadian
government against LGBT people. We bring together people who
were directly affected by the National Security campaigns to
purge homosexuals from public service, the RCMP and the
military and supporters and researchers who believed an
injustice was done. And so this is a lot of texts they got on
this website, but they're the ones that came up with the idea
of really reparations in a way. Money, money, money, money. And
I'm going to give you just a quick background, or here's
Trudeau, who we played on the last show. A number of clips
about this apology and how how just inhumane it was. And here's
a bit about the outfit behind it. This we demand that apology
network.
We also think members of the We demand an apology network, our
LGBTQ to apology Advisory Council, and the just society
committee committee for a GAO as well as the individuals who have
long advocated for this overdue
apology. You There you go. So we looked up these fruit machines.
Yeah. And he called them
Yeah. And we both said almost simultaneously. Wow. I think you
said what a collectible. And I said, Yeah, I really need one of
these. Oh, my God. Beautiful. And as you look a little
further, the manufacturer went on to create the Church of
Scientology II meters. Yeah, it looked the same. It's the same
technology
only there's more knobs and buttons and little switches and
gears and or whatever, all kinds of crazy stuff on the fruit
machine. The meters are pretty simple.
Yeah. Well, it's just I think it's an abstraction really, of
what the the gaydar was. But if you look at it, that's, that's
the Matheson. Matheson made, went on to make the E meters is
called the electro psychomotor. That's, it's,
yes, this has been debunked more than a few times.
I want one of these so badly. meet you. Oh, my goodness.
Wouldn't you love to have to have this? Yeah. I have a Geiger
counter from the World War Two, one of those yellow ones. I like
that. Beautiful. I have a Geiger counter. Yeah, those are cool.
And it still works. But to have one of these in my collection,
man. And it kind of begs the question of when the when the E
meters were used based on the exact same principle. What was
the Church of Scientology thinking,
let's find gays. I have no idea.
I have no, I haven't got a clue. You'd have to. I don't know,
you'd have to find some insider in the Church of Scientology.
Yeah, they'd have to go way back because the E meter thing was
used I think when? Probably not during the Dianetics
era, right, which was what the 70 6070s It was the 60s or the
right. And that's the same time as the purge. Yeah. So maybe, I
don't know. I have no idea when gays but that No, no, but you
Scientology
and then what's you know, what's interesting about it, you know,
there's, there's always been the story that Ron l Hubbard, he
made this I was a bed, he made up the whole church. And he was
on the back of a napkin in a bar. And hahaha, and I'll write
about this stuff. And I'll show you that I can make it happen.
I got a better story from Jerry Pournelle, who used to be as
good
friend. But all I'm going to say in addition to that, and I want
to hear the p&l story, of course, rip. Is Maybe he went
hey, that's not the That's not funny enough. Watch this. Let me
get this fruit machine from the Canadians and we'll use it to
clear people with their E meter status.
Yeah, that's
it kind of sounds like it. So what a Cornell have to say about
we're now set the whole thing was a beef that Hubbard had with
the government, especially the the tax guy taxes. Yeah. And he
decided to start a religion. And then he took it to the extremes
to tell the government to screw off but they still kept coming
after him. I guess he had back taxes. I don't know what his tax
status was, but apparently wasn't good. And that's when he
had to retreat to the boat. Stay on that thing.
That's when the sea org started, I think. Yeah. But
no, it was all about taxes. And the governor was a guy.
Right. Okay. But then it wasn't a lark. Right? That's okay. But
then it still holds true. Like, okay, I'll just, you know, it's
a lark. And let me just not a
lark. Lark is just do it to goof off. It did it with a purpose in
mind.
Right. And then he took it really seriously by putting the
taking the fruit machine.
I just love that.
Well, we don't know that. No, but I've sold a bill of goods by
that manufacturing company possibly could have expanded it,
or he may have dreamed it up himself as not an N. It's a I
think it's a Wheatstone bridge. I'm not sure the name of it is a
galvanic response device. And it's simple. It's like a simple
light it light detector. Basically, it didn't have all
this bells and whistles of the fruit machine. It has a knob. I
love the meters, the meters have 20 different scales on and all
kinds of lines and colors is fantastic.
It does a line gay.
No way. Here we go. Oh, just the catalog. I'm looking at eBay.
Just the catalog alone for the model e 54. The catalog from
1953. Electro, electro psycho psych electro cytometer $500.
Just for the catalog. Oh, geez. This is bad news.
Somebody's discovered these long before we did
yeah. And went collectible. Oh, man.
See, you know the other thing I want to get a hold of when
you're talking about collectors, I want to get a hold of an
Enigma machine. I played with a couple of them to people I know
have them really are two organizations have and one of
them's that Silicon Valley. And I saw another one that some
trade show. And I talked a little message and it's kind of
cool. And but it's the most of them that are floating around
and for sale art and Mac in immaculate condition.
Okay, we have two things we need.
And what you know. So we're talking about the journey of the
JA
the code the code machine. Code machine.
Yeah, that end but the this other thing, this new thing, the
fruit machine. I never heard of this thing, but this gotta be
great to ask.
Now there was an artist switching gears here. There was
an article in The New York Times actually an op ed i should say,
by Jill Phillip Phillip Phillip Povich I don't know who she is.
Actually, I do know she used to work at the times I think she
then went on to work for The Guardian and stuff. And I liked
it because it kind of corroborates a bit with what I
some of our thinking regarding the hashtag me too. Oh, we need
our sexual sexual update.
We do I got it sexual update for us.
No, we need. It's the jingle jingle.
And now it's time for your sexual harassment.
Sexual harassment update. So this op ed is titled The men who
cost Clinton the election. And I'll just read a bit of it. Matt
Lauer like Charlie Rose and Mark Halperin before him. He's a
journalist out of a job after his employer fired him for
sexually harassing female colleagues. It's good news that
real penalties are now leveled on men who harass after
centuries of the cost mostly before in the women When do
harassment do yada yada yada yada? And then she goes on to
say Mark Halperin and Charlie Rose said much of the televised
political discourse on the race interviewing other pundits
opinion being opining themselves and obsessing over the electoral
play by play Mr. Rose after the election took her tone similar
to Mr Lauer's with Mrs. Clinton talking down to her,
interrupting her, portraying her as untrustworthy. Mr. Halpern
was a harsh critic of Mrs. Clinton painting her as ruthless
and corrupt, while going surprisingly easy on Mr. Trump.
And then I did a little bit before
not completely buying that argument. I watched help Ron and
his friend, John, who I know. I don't think he was going that
easy on anybody.
But that's the argument is not him going easy. The argument is,
you will recall, Matt Lauer interviewed Mrs. Clinton and Mr.
Trump and an official commander in chief formed for NBC he
notoriously peppered and interrupted Mrs. Clinton with
cold, aggressive, condescending questions hyper focused on her
emails, only to pitch softballs and Mr. Trump. So forget the
easy and other publications.
I'm not gonna argue that one, this goes
back to the takedown. Why did this happen? And we've got three
guys who Hillary hates. And you've got the New York Times,
but you're doing you're putting two and two together on
connecting the dots
baby.
Could be I mean, why not?
Why not? When they go after Harvey Weinstein.
No, no, no. Look, the cats out of the bag. Now. It's just who
are the targets? We could think John, you and I know at least
one person right now today on this show. We could destroy his
career.
We do. Yes, of course we do. Okay,
well, we don't do that because we're not we're not vindictive
and we don't have an axe to grind with it with anybody with
everybody. We got an axe with everybody, but not anybody. So
you know, I think this is being misused abused. For all kinds of
personal vendettas all kinds of gain. Yeah, well, it's
definitely going on. Well, let's guess as you played the jingle,
let's play the update. And I have an update and I have a
follow up. Clip we already played on i I chopped it down a
little bit to get because there's a new piece of
information in here which leads me to believe that NBC is full
of crap about a lot of this stuff. But let's play the Matt
Lauer. This is the final and then at the very end, they kick
it up by also in kind of indicting Russell Simmons, the
hip hop guy, he was kind of using his power over her.
According to Variety magazine, several women say they
complained to executives at the network about Lauer's behavior,
which fell on deaf ears given the lucrative advertising
surrounding today, Jeff Zucker, the former president of NBC
Universal, who led the today's show when he was just 26 had
this to say
obviously, I've known Matt for 25 years. And I didn't know this
Matt
BCWS current management doc.
Oh, it's getting so close the fires getting hot from
Zach on Matt for 25 years. And I didn't know this Matt,
and NBCs current management double down, releasing a
statement unequivocally denying any prior knowledge of
complaints about Matt Lauer's conduct, but Variety magazine is
questioning the validity of that statement.
It is at odds with our reporting. We had talked to
dozens of former and current staffers who say that there was
general knowledge within all ranks of NBC between staffers,
high ranking executives, other anchors that were on air with
Matt knowing detailing speaking about what Matt was doing,
pursuing women who wish
me well.
Matt Lauer's firing is also bringing the tearful departure
of Ann Curry back into the headlines. Curry is now speaking
out about Lauer's firing, telling people magazine she is
still processing it, adding the women's movement goddess into
the workplace, but it didn't make us safe once we got there.
And the battle lines are now clear. We need to move this
revolution forward and make our workplaces safe.
And Lindsey Davis back with us here tonight. And this evening.
We're also learning details of of what NBC News employees were
told by their boss after Matt Lauer's firing.
Yeah and David he would not give the details about that
complaint, but he did describe a power dynamic at play, which he
said made the encounters inappropriate.
Alright, Lindsey Davis leading us off Lindsay thank you and one
more major name music and movie mogul Russell Simmons resigning
from all of his companies today. After facing a new claim of
sexual assault. Screenwriter Jenny Lumet Writing in The
Hollywood Reporter about the incident from 1991 when she says
she was around 24 years old, claiming Simmons offered her a
ride home then locked the car doors and they had to drive her
take her to his home where she says he's sexually assaulted her
classmates denies the assault saying he remembers the night
differently, but apologizes for being thoughtless and
insensitive in relationships over the years. We do move on to
Yeah. Now let's move on.
I want to go back on the comment that the variety guys just said
it doesn't match our reporting. We talked to a bunch of guys I
want to go swing back to the original de Lauer was fired and
just play a piece of what Savannah Guthrie was reading,
which was the memo that came in from Andy LAC and this is the
Andy lac memo and then I have a comment about this.
Okay. Yes,
lack memo. Just moments ago, NBC News Chairman Andy lack sent the
following note to our organization. Dear colleagues,
on Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a
colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace
by Matt Lauer. It represented after serious review, a clear
violation of our company's standards. As a result, we have
decided to terminate his employment. While it is the
first complaint about his behavior in the over 20 years he
has been at NBC News. We were also presented with reason to
believe this may not have been an isolated incident.
Okay. Okay. First complaint has never happened. Gosh, we're
stunned by this. The variety reporter contradicted that. And
so I like to ask the question, how can you trust a news
organization, NBC, if they lie about their own situation? This
is a lie, that they'd never got a complaint before because once
the variety guy started looking into it, there were tons of
complaints. Everybody knew what was going on with this guy. And
I would say Savannah Guthrie, new to as you read this thing,
you know, it's, you know, with the crocodile tears. So this is
bullcrap. I do not this just tells me that NBC is a corrupt
bad news organization. They lie. They're liars. Yeah.
Well, they hire liars. Liar, hires, liars, hires. But how
about Brian? Brian Williams another liar. Yeah, and they lie
over there. Yeah. What's what's always cool though, is when
you've had a 20 or 25 year television career. And if he's
25, because he worked at VH. One was way below us. There's a lot
of material. There's a lot of fun stuff. I just love over and
over showing him being all self righteous about women. But nor
McDonald, who I think is a an undervalued comic. He, he hosted
the acquired taste, he is an acquired taste. So he hosted the
White House Correspondents Dinner years ago.
It's been great to be in Washington. I can tell you that
man. Oh, my God, I had a lovely stay here. So far. I've been
sightseeing, you know. And in fact, I stopped at a museum.
It's probably interesting to you guys. They have this news
Museum. Now. He's saying this. It's a museum that's dedicated
to broadcast journalism. And they have all sorts of you know,
tributes to to Edward R. Murrow and such, you know, and that is
one fascinating place. It's a kind of an interactive display.
And visitors. What they can do is they can appear on camera and
pretend that they are real journalists. You know, so far
it's been visited 20 times by Matt Lauer, but
that was pretty good. Matt Lauer always been the joke of the
industry.
The poor guy. No more. No, yeah.
So Pelosi finally changed her tune, Nancy Pelosi, about
representative Conyers. How can you
say you smacked your lip?
Oh, no, it's the it's the new setup. It's not me.
Well, the allegations against Congressman Conyers, as we have
learned more since Sunday are serious, disappointing,
disappointing and very credible. Very sad. The brave women have
came forward are owed justice. I pray for Congressman Conyers and
his family and wish them well. How ever Congressman Conyers
should resign. As Dean Congressman Conyers has served
our Congress for more than five decades and shapes some of the
most consequential legislation of the last half century.
However, zero tolerance means consequences for everyone, no
matter how great the legacy it's no lice to harass or
discriminate.
So she's very clear but still, you know, he's been a great guy.
Fabulous. His lawyers a whole different story, though. Do you
see this guy Conyers lawyer?
Not today? Well,
this guy is great is he's a black guy with a bow tie. So,
you know, just it's a look. It's a very, very specific kind of
look. He's not having any of it and if you listen to the
rebuttals from any of these accused men, that you know, they
remember the night differently, I don't yell at this.
circumstances weren't quite that way.
Mr. Campbell indicates that he never saw anything and verified
that the Congressman hired the accusers daughter. But there
became a problem all hell broke loose when the Congressman fired
the daughter. And then all of a sudden, we get the sexual
harassment, sexual allegation problem. Here's the predator
that she's talking about.
He's holding a picture of the two of them in party dress,
at the barista wall, the 2011 barista ball, she said that he
took every opportunity during hours to harass her. He was an
animal, but you boot up with him at the barrister ball, come on
now. Come on doesn't work like that.
Like, come on now. You know, it doesn't work like that. But it
Oh, come
on. Now. It doesn't work like that. But you want to get angry
and you want to get mad when the Congressman defends himself.
This, ladies and gentlemen, I promise you if this nonsense
continues, this is just the harbinger of what's to come. And
I want to thank all the media who are here who have been fair,
who have been trying to get out the other side of the story,
because there is another side of the story.
Now.
Conyers looks like it could be creepy, but when you hear about
you know, someone's daughter got fired. And this could be
retribution than you know everything if you're a hammer,
everything looks like a nail.
And yeah, but when you when you hear the story, you can also
take it from the perspective that she didn't put out so she
got fired.
What possible. It's possible. I don't know. But you know what?
No one is talking about this. No one is really have I hate to use
the word no one's having the conversation. Yeah, they can't
do it on mainstream media. You can't you can, for one second
talk about the real problems that's going on. You know.
Pamela Anderson, she got slammed, but slammed the Angela
Lansbury. Oh my god. Did you read what she wrote it
Pamela Anderson do besides go hang out with what?
She said, You know what you're getting into? If you go into a
hotel room
alone? She Yeah, yeah, yes. I
think you're right, right. Angela Lansbury said, there's no
excuse whatsoever for men to harass women in abusive sexual
manner. And I am devastated anyone should deem me capable of
thinking otherwise, because she wrote something. And the women's
feminists, I guess, risk got all over her. Speaking to radio
thomassie was her original,
original statement. Oh, yeah, here it is.
She was speaking to Radio Times. She's 92. By the way, we have to
own up to the fact that women since time immemorial, have gone
out of their way to make themselves attractive. And
unfortunately, it has backfired on us. And this is where we are
today. Although it's awful to say we can't make ourselves look
as attractive as possible without being knocked down and
raped. And they got people got in their face about that. But
you know, that's the problem. You know, we're never going to
get anywhere if you can't talk about this stuff, honestly.
Because there there are two sides to every story. But the
power structure that's that's where it's egregious. It's abuse
of power, egregious abuse of power. And that's, that's that's
the real problem. But you can't deny the tension between men and
women, which has been going on since men and women.
Well, this is why I brought up I forgot which of Jessica Chasteen
coming out on one of the shows with that slit dress, showing
all that leg. I thought that was abuse of is just not necessary.
Well, this is the problem with show business. Now.
It's not a new problem with show.
It's Surprise, surprise. It's not something that's really new.
Although cool. Lauer's wife is Dutch I'd forgotten about that.
So yes,
she is a Dutch woman. Yeah, the Dutch German together they do
not look like a matching couple.
This is his second or third. I think he is his second. But he's
probably been like this all his life.
Well, before he got went bald, yeah. And became kind of a goofy
looking guy. He was a good looking guy with his hair. Yeah,
younger got that sucker was he was one of those guys who you
know that may have abused the situation. There are a lot of
that some of the best looking guys I've ever known. Really,
some of them hate women. We had a number of salesmen at PC
Magazine, who were just amazingly good looking guys it
was what you want as a salesperson. Yeah, you want good
looking guys good looking women. They got the That's yeah. And
one of these guys who may have been the best looking of the
group. I mean, it's just a male model. No doubt about it. And he
hated women. Oh. I mean, he just hated them. And I think he is it
he was he got tired Okay, I think women threw themselves at
him. And he didn't like that he you know, I have a brain or
something.
Wow. Of all the things you guys never hear of Oh, what a
punishment to have to go through life being a handsome dude.
Horrible.
We wish we had my favorite one of my favorite it was a fairly I
still sniper haven't seen for years. But I remember the time I
were at an event in Atlanta. If I told this story before, but
we're in Atlanta and there's a PC Magazine event and there's a
bunch of we have hired local models to man the table. Booth
beds was the table for you come in, you get your badge table
trolls. Well, I don't know what you call them. But anyway, one
of them was a couple. I think they're all like Atlanta, hawks
cheerleader. Okay. And so one on one, it was just gorgeous. And
they were and Mark is the guy. And he knows the story. Kept
eyeballing him. And so I'm like the troublemaker trends that you
should get.
Let's just stop. Yes, you are a troublemaker. Yes, you are.
And so I said, You gotta get a day with this girl. She's
literally she's just staring at ya. And yeah, I don't think so I
got other things to do. And I cut mine. And so I you know, I
finally go to dementia. And so he got his date and it and I
liked the day after the day. So what happened? It sounds like it
could have been funny. He says, first of all, she lived in a
trailer park. And the second thing was, she was a communist.
Oh, no. And she spent the whole date berating me for being an
enemy of the people. What? Yeah, that's this. This was the worst
date he's ever had. She was beautiful. Wrong again, Dvorak?
That was right. I got a great story.
We have his final update here. We have another allegation
against Senator our
new woman is coming forward this morning to say that Senator Al
Franken groped her years ago. Her name is Stephanie Kaplan.
She is a 41 year old Army veteran. She says that when she
was deployed in Kuwait in December of 2003, she met
Senator Franken while he was touring with the USO to visit
American troops abroad. Now this is what Stephanie told CNN about
the interaction that she had with him. During a photo op. She
said when he put his arm around me, he groped my right breast.
He kept his hand all the way over on my breast. And I
remember thinking, is he going to move his hand? Was it an
accident, was he going to move his hand. Now she says that the
touching lasted at least five seconds and that at some point,
she shifted her body so that his hand was no longer directly on
her breasts. As you can see in that photo, you can see Senator
Franklin's hand is on her side. Now she says that she felt
ashamed. She felt embarrassed and she was in shock in the
moment and that she did not say anything directly to Senator
Franken at the time. Now, I will note that we reached out to
frankenz office last night, and this is the spokespersons a
statement provided to CNN. The spokesperson says as Senator
Franken made clear this week, he takes 1000s of photos and has
met 10s of 1000s of people. And he has never intentionally
engaged in this kind of conduct. He remains fully committed to
cooperating with the ethics investigation. Now Alison and
Chris just to put all of this into context, Stephanie is the
fifth woman now in a period of around two weeks to accuse
Senator Franken of inappropriate touching. And she is also the
second woman to say that this kind of misconduct took place
while he was on tour with the USO.
Yeah, it's a pattern.
Yeah. They always come out of the woodwork at the
NAND I am seeing it around it. I'm semi authorized to tell you
that I intend to do some boots on the ground investigative work
as the no agenda show could possibly have a live broadcast
or two from Kandahar. Kandahar? Yes. Or maybe the other base,
whatever it is. I may be going.
Yeah, you said that. Well, I don't think I've mentioned on
the show. No, you haven't because it's not a done deal.
Yeah,
so we're working on that. But the logistics are kind of there.
We just have to figure out when and I think it'd be kind of
cool. Do the show live from Afghanistan? My end? Get some
dudes and some Some grunt
talk about what's happening. I'm, I'm thinking leg. No, no,
no, no that they've got. I think they have 20 megabits, which is
backhauled Straight to into it means it's. It shouldn't be too
bad. We'll find out.
Definitely we'll find out. Yeah, take a camera.
Yes. I think that might be a good idea. It might be the trip
of a lifetime you want to come?
Probably not.
I mean, I might I think about it when the when this when the
logistics are all worked out.
Okay. It's not It's it seems like it's pretty
straightforward. Yeah, I'll let you know. So anyway, we'll do
the goods. I think maybe the boots on the ground reporting
you'd be interested as well. We'll introduce some people. So
some of the Franken
Yeah, does sound good. And now it's time
to update I need a closer general. This was your sexual
harassment update.
Yeah. And close the door. I do have an interesting clip, which
will include the lawyer clip that I teased at the beginning
of the show. Okay. Have you heard about the brainwashing
killer? The brainwashed killer No, no brainwashed by his own
shrink? No.
X? No. Okay. What where's this report from?
This is I think at CBS.
We have new developments in a bizarre attempted murder case
that we first saw
this morning show about last year and when I doing the
reporting is taken over from Charlie Rose. He is a very
skinny, young, blue, light skinned bald black kid who's has
sounds gay.
What's his name?
They found the right guy. I don't know. It's okay. All
right,
a new star. We'll be on the lookout for him.
We have new developments in a bizarre attempted murder case
that we first told you about last year. A young man Jake
Nolan claims he was brainwashed by his psychiatrist so he could
kill on her behalf. He is serving time in prison. Now.
Five years after the attack. The woman he claims was the
mastermind Dr. Pamela bookbinder is under arrest for eight hours
of correspondent Peter Van Zandt has a preview of
Jake Nolan readily admits he walked into a New York City high
rise on November 12 2012. With Murder on his mind. I planned on
killing Michael Weiss. Dr. Michael Weiss is a psychiatrist
inside Jake's duffel bag, a knife and a large sledge hammer.
He sees the sledgehammer
and charges at me and I reached for the night. Jake's attorney
Roger Stavis This is not a who done it. He did what he was
accused of doing. But the big question was why? I saw Jake
Nolan brainwashed by Dr. Pamela bookbinder.
Dr. Bookbinder is another psychiatrist and Jake's cousin.
She and Dr. Weiss were battling over custody of their son.
They hated each other. And in turn, she made me hate him.
Jake claims Dr. Bookfinder manipulated him to kill by
filling his head with horror stories about her ex. And he
says he was vulnerable because he suffers from bipolar and
other disorders
and she morphed me into whatever she wanted me to be.
This surveillance footage shows Dr. Bookbinder with Jake paying
for that Sledgehammer the night before the attack.
Wow. Now sledge hammer it's it's a bit crude. Yeah, I
would say you come in there you bust in there. Then you crack
the guy's head with a sledgehammer I guess or kneecap
him and then smash him with. I don't know it sounds pretty
gruesome. But meanwhile, she has a lawyer she's in the slammer.
She has a lawyer and this is the this is the bookbinders lawyer
WTF clip and this lawyer comes up with I think is really a poor
analogy.
The law have finally caught up with this ivy league
psychiatrist. Eric fronds, one of Dr. bookbinders lawyers says
Jake acted alone. Pamela bookbinder is an educated
psychiatrist not wily Coyote. Dr. Pamela bookbinder remains in
Rikers Island jail to
wily Coyote.
I'm not quite sure I understand the analogy.
I don't get there is no analogy is a stupid thing to say. Wily
coyote is not to Hitler.
While we're doing that, I have two whipsaws CBS whipsaw someone
sent me. Oh, yeah, I think they're pretty good actually
whipsaw you want to explain the concept quickly.
Yeah, the concept is you are doing a story and by the way,
good reporters, Jeff agaist, by the way, as I have never caught
him doing this, and good reporters don't do it. And what
it is, is where you make an assertion, and then you back it
up with a clip. But when unplanned careful examination,
that clip has absolutely nothing to do with the assertion.
Here's click one,
but CBS News confirmed there's a plan to put CIA director Mike
Pompeo at the State Department replacing him with either
retired Vice Admiral Robert hardward, or Arkansas senator
and Trump loyalist Tom Cotton. I'm proud to be
representing the people of Arkansas would you like to be
seen? I'm very proud to be representing the people of
Arkansas
cotton denied that he was looking for a new job. It wasn't
really a complete
whipsaw wasn't a perfect one that we haven't discussed this
before. Tom Cotton is the worst guy. I mean, he's, you know,
he's a slick operator and everything. But if we talked
about him on the show before, he's kind of a sketchy
character. Yeah, yeah. Next,
second one is better. And the handling of tensions with North
Korea boiled over just a few weeks ago.
We disagree and a couple of things. Sometimes I'd like him
to be a little bit tougher.
That came after reports that Tillerson has become frustrated
with the President and had even referred to him as a moron. I
have never considered leaving this post.
These are all just two in a row. They're just got nothing to do
with what they're asserting. How's it boiling over?
I don't know. I just thought it was really
funny. Got it. Play that one again, because it was good. You
have two good assertions followed by clipped it's got
nothing to do with anything. And to say and the other one was
just a nonsense. Oh, by the way, these are technically non
sequiturs,
and the handling of tensions with North Korea.
I also like just the gratuitous missile launch to start off any
North Korea report
and the handling of tensions with North Korea boiled over
just a few weeks ago,
we did to me and a couple of things. Sometimes I'd like him
to be a little bit tougher.
That came after reports that Tillerson has become frustrated
with the President and had even referred to him as a moron. I
have never considered leaving this post.
sure that these weren't just clipped together by the guy who
said,
No, well, I'm not 100% It doesn't surprise me. It doesn't
surprise you either, does
it? No. I've heard I've heard worse. Yeah. But they're non
sequiturs. They're stupid. And a good reporter wouldn't do them.
They I mean, they just they're lazy. They just, you're gonna
tell you're talking about Tillerson it just drops and you
make an assertion then drop some random clip that's got nothing
to do with anything that was just Tillerson saying something.
This is not good news.
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But Wired magazine is now saying they're going to put up a
paywall.
Goodbye, not Anona Hey, hey, so they'll be gone. And
I get irked when I run in one of these things. I just get mad.
Somebody says I read this article and I can't get to it. I
said I always tell people if you're gonna send me an article
to read his it's a clip in his like some paywall just cut and
paste it right out. I can read it that way. Otherwise, I'm not
going to bother.
We also saw a video service shutter and this was a service
that vid me. Vi DME. Yeah. Vid me. Yeah, it was a video sharing
platform they've closed. Yeah. And they. Why do you think that
is? Well, they actually, they talked about that in their
goodbye note where they say, well, although we still
glad to see these things go.
Yeah. Although we still believe that the world would greatly
benefit from a creator first video platform. You hear that
creator first? Yeah. And I love this creator, what are you I'm a
creator, the Creator. I create blogs.
I go to these big conferences from Adobe, they always come to
the creatives,
the creatives, I'm a creator in the creatives industry. Yeah, we
weren't. Okay. Although we still believe the world would greatly
benefit from a creator first video platform, we weren't able
to find a path to financial sustainability. You don't say?
Here are major obstacles we encountered in our attempts. Now
let's pay attention. Number one. Monetizing user generated
content is increasingly challenging. And this is yeah,
and this is what I wanted to focus on. So people understand
why YouTube is doing what it's doing. And Google is doing what
it's doing and what your future is as a creator, because you're
pretty much fucked. Here we go. Advertisers one to target
specific audiences, which means a new platform that doesn't
store troves of personal user data is at a severe disadvantage
relative to Facebook and Google, which combined controls 60% of
online ad spending in the US. Two, most advertisers want their
ads to be to complement, quote, brand safe content.
Yeah, as a word I've haven't heard for a while,
unfortunately, just a week.
Yeah, this is a subjective designation, which is difficult
to define and enforce content, therefore must be thoroughly
reviewed and moderated and expensive prospect. As YouTube
recently learned with the ad pocalypse. Even a single poorly
moderated video can result in a PR disaster and undermine
advertiser trust. Few advertisers have three few
advertisers are willing to negotiate direct deals with
platforms that don't have enormous scale, meaning ad
revenue rates are lower for newer platforms. In turn,
there's less overall revenue to be shared with creators, which
means creators are less likely to support newer platforms for a
sustained period of time. Oh, no, it's a catch 22.
For All, yes.
Can you send me this document? Because it sounds like a column
table.
Here's a column. John, I will send this to you. Thanks.
Although we introduced direct fan patronage as an additional
business model, let me just say, let me stop you right there.
Whenever you use the term direct fan patronage, and call that a
business model, you deserve to go out of business. This is how
stupid can you be? Alright, the profit margin was insufficient
to cover the high costs of storing and delivering video.
Yes, EDOs expensive to store and deliver storing and
delivering video is becoming less expensive, but remains
extremely, extremely costly. Videos are often massive files,
making them globally available at any time is expensive.
YouTube sold to Google just 18 months after launching, partly
because of YouTube's high burn rate and to this day, is still
likely operating at a loss. I agree. When we launched in 2014,
we projected that infrastructure costs would decline due to
decreased competition in the CDN and data storage industries.
While marginal prices have fallen dramatically over the
past few years, our aggregate costs still outpace our ability
to generate meaningful revenue. And this is what no
this before going in before going in. Yeah, but
who cares? You know, they had some hook, I'm sure they had
some great deck they showed on Tuesday to the VC. And they got
a bunch of money and they they went for it and they couldn't
ramp. And I think it shows that, you know, there's if you're if
you're banking your future on a career as a creator, you might
want to start looking at some other vocation. Because unless
you are a superstar in bed with the the video platform, then
let's face it, there's only YouTube really, you're not going
to make money, and you're probably going to get
demonetized
and eventually kicked off. So it's a word to the wise
word to the wise.
To the wise,
another phrase from the chaise that has not been used. Yeah.
Good reason. Well, that's good. Well,
you had something to say you got something you got more to add to
this? Well, I just I do
want to add something else. I want to add the because this is
what's going to be conflated with this is net neutrality. And
we have we touched on it briefly at the end of the last show. I
know we've been through this several times. I think we again
need to remind people why this is a bullcrap argument and that
it's Google and Apple and face bag and not Netflix anymore
because they fix their problem. They don't they don't even go
over the net anymore. They're in all the all the data barns and
all the storage centers right near
the right in the network. Yeah, they're in the network.
But the amount of people who just think that and of course it
helps with, you know, this being Trump's guy, as you know,
because everything he does is wrong. But believe me, let's
give you an example, again of telemedicine and just how that
fits in with net neutrality. This is very important because
people are being
hoodwinked only to one of many. Yeah, it's one of many examples.
I did a column in 2014, I think is being passed around once
again on the Twitter. And I think this is the best column.
I've done this column, maybe six times different variations of
the net neutrality column. But I think the 2014 version was the
best. And one of my arguments is that all bits are equal. Well,
how does that make any sense when you have to deal with the
quality of service? Should a video bid be equal to a text
bid? And more importantly, what are you going to do when you
have this tell? To limit the talent, I know what you call it,
but it's remote control telemetry, telemetry, telemetry
operations. Yeah. So you got a doctor in, you know, in Sydney,
Australia, and he's got his rig and he's on the internet and
he's going to operate on somebody in the middle of
nowhere outside of Perth. And he needs to he needs the the, the
good bits, and he needs them, you know, priority
priority scheduling of his traffic
you got, you know, better than I do. Why don't you tell this
story? Anyway, so I wrote the column. Exactly. Can I write
this stuff? But I can't remember.
But okay, so here's, here's the problem. The first of all,
you're being hoodwinked. And my favorite has got to be I'm sure
you've seen this one is the, it looks like an ad for an ISP. And
it's always always from Portugal, or someone you know,
someplace, you clearly can't verify it. And it's showing you
Hey, do you want 30 hours of face bag this month? That's
1495. Hey, you want to be good on Twitter? That's 995. Extra
does. And people. First of all, they look at this Oh, man, this
is what's coming. This is what's going to happen. Okay.
How's that working? I
don't know. And second, is your life so pathetic, that you're
upset about losing access to face back?
That's really bad.
I mean, that's, that's the level that we're at. And it's very,
that
is the level they're selling. Because that's the that's, you
know, that's exactly where the motional nut balls are in this
where you have to, it's where you go after them. Yeah, anyway,
everybody's all in on this. I mean, we can bitch and moan
about it. Well, here's like,
let me just give you the main players and their reasons. So
the face bag, Google, the apple, they want. They want regulation,
they really do the same. They don't, but they really want they
want regulation in their favor. What's being done here is, is a
different kind of problem. It's not about you getting on your
Facebook or Twitter or anything like that, not about stuff not
coming through. It's about the language of the regulations that
we're talking about, where certain types of content will be
deemed illegal and thus can be filtered. And certain types of
network traffic can be deemed illegal, and they haven't
defined those. But you can pretty much bet it's going to be
peer to peer. It could be blockchain traffic might become
illegal, that would be an easy one. So particularly proponents
of Bitcoin, you should be outraged by the entire concept
of the government having any kind of legislative power over
the internet. That's what you don't want. All this other stuff
is pathetic, it's pathetic
point I make over and over and over again. So when the internet
got its start getting going, in today's you know, with,
especially with the emergence of the web browser, and 93 or so
everybody was all thy hand, the government hands off, hands off,
hands off the internet, don't touch the internet, and now
they're begging people to touch the internet. Does anybody see a
conflict of interest here? You know, do you first you don't
want the government involved? Now you want the government
involved? Yeah. I mean, this is the original thinkers were
correct. You don't want the government involved but they're
going to be involved in you're not going to be able to do
anything about it once they are involved. And they are going to
you know start I think bit torrents a good example that's
you can spot those packets nowadays, all
peer to peer traffic will be deemed illegal, all of it. Yeah.
But blockchain in particular, looked at already cracking down
as any of the IRS is getting into the game. There's all kinds
there's a lot happening in, in the cryptocurrency scene.
I just think it's interesting that they've sold the tech
community and most of the public ability good, and they're all in
on it. Yeah, they're all in on if you listen to anybody talk
about any of this. They're all you know, they're all in on it.
And by the way, we're the blockchain. We're going to put
that in the next
Yeah. Oh, that's an update. It's the 2017 version. blockchain
will remember, it's illegal network traffic. That is the
main thing that's not even about the content. But I would say
network traffic is also First Amendment. You can argue it
sounds good.
But weren't these talking about that? So I'm in I'm in London
and everything is BT British Telecom. Yeah, everything. So
Eric, so you're in a I'm in an air b&b. And they and you go
online and they give us a password to use their system.
Everybody apparently has been plugged into everyone's got BT
routers there. Because you'd get a you get a list when you do
your list of what's local nearby wi Fi's. And it's all right down
to 100 of them bt 603 dot
phi. It's kind of late at AT and T in an apartment building.
Yeah, it's all
biti biti biti biti. You can not go to the no agenda show.com You
can not go to dinner. All right.org What? Yes.
How about currie.com?
No dead.
You are not allowed to go that you can you just get limited
access, as JC pointed out to very large corporate sites you
can go to going to hearing, and he has no way to bypass it. Yes,
there is. If you're a customer of BT and you sign in, you can
go on everything.
Ah, yeah. Well, that sucks.
Yeah.
What we got on a list what listed we get on
it? We're not big enough.
We're not no, we're not big enough for payoffs.
I would like to have some of our British knights and barons and
people look into this and see what why we can be accessed on
the first level. Yeah,
I find that to be very, very stress that is distressing.
douchebags.
So yeah, I don't think I don't think that your child is going
to have anything to do with any of this. The net neutrality
thing is a scam. Now, I do. I did make a list of some things I
also wanted to talk about because you can have some
knowledge of this. Okay, which is the washing machines and
dryers in Europe in general.
You mean the combo washer dryer? Well, there's
the combo when we only had a washer, but then they had some
drying mechanism but but the combo washer dryers classic but
the washing machine just in itself. There. They seem to all
be made by Bosch or some other like Tronic German electronic
company. They're all extremely small. Yeah, I know when,
when Tina and I were in Amsterdam on our last trip, they
had one of these as well. And our experience was, you can't
fit anything in it. And then it's just stays damp. And it
runs for like five hours.
Well, the washing cycles got a timer on it to show you what it
is. The washing cycle is two hours and 40 minutes. Okay, in
you put your stuff in there and it because good spins around. It
sloshes back and forth because it's a front loader, so you
can't open it right. And once you start with a bad manager and
spins around and stops, five minutes go by, it spins around
spins around stops. And this does this for two out so
it's some kind of power saver mode. It's feels like it goes
zum zum zum zum, Shoo.
JOOM JOOM JOOM JOOM JOOM JOOM JOOM JOOM
instead of instead of a normal machine, which is off to the
races and does
a good demo American may tag or any of our Whirlpool any of them
can more. They Yes, you'd load you can put in 30 pounds of
clothes and fill it up and turn it on and 15 minutes later the
closer wash I
think this is another EU thing, man this is this is energy
saving.
It's the EU I first noticed this in the 70s. Wow. This is the
stupid washing machines are idiotic. And then there's the
combo when that you mentioned we didn't have this time, but I've
seen I've used them. You're right. It takes about five
hours and everything's damp.
Down. It doesn't do any drying.
I don't understand it. I don't get it either. It's
just beyond me. So what was your question? Why is this common
thing and nobody says anything about it?
That is a great question. And that is I love that question
that that is my favorite question ever asked of me on
this podcast. Just picked up.
That's a good one. That's a good one.
It's a keeper. Hey, you know you had a nice little Expo. In a
theory behind Meghan Markel.
The new princess to be. Yeah, yeah. Spy theory. Yeah,
the spy theory and not she's touted as an actress but I
looked at her IMDb and yeah, she's got a lot of, you know,
third person on the right.
Yeah, she's definitely got a lot of sitting at the table in the
back. Yeah, a lot of screen extras guild stuff.
Yeah, screen extras go I don't think there's a guild called the
screen extras guild. But I'd
like you want to look it up.
Really? Is that true?
Yeah, we had a person that me view that I never thought about
it. But we had a person that me view that was a member of the
Screen extras guild.
Holy crap.
Let me see. Hold on. I find it.
Screen extras guild. I had no idea that existed. Oh my god.
Well, it's a party. Oh, yeah. The extra unions screen extras
guild segue.
Ah, yeah. There you go. How about God no longer. Oh, yeah.
Anyway, so I can't get in that either. You can't go on.
You can't get on that website. You can't get into the union.
The union. So sorry, man. So
I would say
this is you hit on something really big here. And I have a
piece of her at the United nations Women's Conference. And
I think that you know, your assertion is this is a marriage
of CIA possibly mi six. Yeah, he
looks at my six to me. The prince he just had he just has a
look of a guy who's in he's the perfect guy. You need a guy like
that. Yeah, you need a guy that likes to horses in Africa. Nice
blue.
Horse around. He's like he likes to party. Yeah, party with
booze. He's likes that he's not into drugs into boost.
Perfect. Most of the a lot of these guys. Their main job is to
recruit.
Yeah, well, her job
he did recruit, and I think he can recruit very well, both of
us.
Here's a little background, we're gonna have to start
following her because I would like you to meet the new
Angelina Jolie.
See, I had been in school watching a TV show in elementary
school. And this commercial came on with the tagline for this
dishwashing liquid and the tagline said, women all over
America are fighting greasy pots and pans. Two boys from my class
said, yeah, that's where women belong. In the kitchen. Oh, I
remember. Feeling
shocked. Remember, she's 11
and angry. Yeah.
Yeah. And that's it. This is a fan. Yes. These are stories
about little girls that are shocked about stuff, or said
certain things. We see this all the time. These are all bull
crap stories.
Well, you're gonna love this one. This is a tale to tell.
shocked
and angry. And also just feeling so hurt. It just wasn't right
and something needed to be done. So I went home and I told my dad
what had happened. And he encouraged me to write letters.
So I did to the most powerful people I could think of. Now my
11 year old self worked out that if I really wanted someone to
hear me, well then I should write a letter to the First
Lady. So off I went, scribbling away to our first lady at the
time, Hillary Clinton. I also put pen to paper and I wrote a
letter to my new source at the time, Linda Ellerby, who hosted
a kid's news program love Linda, and then to powerhouse attorney
Gloria Allred. Because even at 11, I wanted to cover all my
bases, of course. Finally, I wrote to the soap manufacturer.
And a few weeks went by. And to my surprise, I received letters
of encouragement from Hillary Clinton, from Linda Ellerby. And
from Gloria all read. It was amazing. The kids news show,
they sent a camera crew to my home to cover the story. And it
was roughly a month later, when the soap manufacturer Procter
and Gamble changed the commercial for their ivory clear
dishwashing liquid. They changed it from women all over America
are fighting greasy pots and pans to people all over America
it was at that moment that I realized the magnitude of my
actions at the age of 11 I had created my small level of impact
by standing up for equality. Oh
man she's going to be a force to reckon with
Diana 2.0
crap story how does 11 year old know or even care about Gloria
all read? Are you kidding me?
Maybe she's from a spook family maybe that's how it worked? I
don't know. I like it I like her
your international studies and she's got the old got the right
everything. Yeah. And she looks the part yeah. So does he and
it'd be great to be all over the world floating around Mr. And
Mrs. Smith it's the new hot couple I think they're going too
far outstrip what's his face wills and Kate?
No, yeah, no,
no, they're they're willing Kate They are. They got their job,
which is to become the next king and queen, whatever. She
becomes, I'm not sure but he this other guy. He's a
freelancer can go out and do whatever he wants. I mean The
likelihood of him ever becoming king or even being something he
has to worry about is nil. Like fifth or fifth I think and
success. I
think she I think she's got Angelenos job. They're the UN
although she was she's High Representative for refugees, and
I guess
Angelina kind of blew herself up.
Yeah. Yeah. Shall I take her off the beat? Yeah. I wonder who her
handlers going to be? We'll find out soon enough. Hey,
the handler will be we'll see that whoever the handler is way
too often.
Did I think I asked if there was a vaccine for Hepatitis A. Yeah.
Is there a vaccine? Yeah, I
think so. Cuz I
didn't know I thought once you got hepatitis A You're dead.
You're over
dead you can get you can get yours. It's curable.
Oh, it is curable. Okay. Yeah. Well, the VAX Well, there's a
couple of things about vaccines and the
vaccines are short lived. One is something that's only in
situations where you're Yeah,
listen to it. Listen to
appetite is a is a liver infection that is highly
contagious. It's caused by a virus that creates inflammation
and impairs liver function. It can be spread many ways,
including ingesting even a small amount of contaminated fecal
matter. Eating food handled by someone with the virus who
didn't wash his or her hands, drinking contaminated water,
eating raw shellfish from polluted waters, having sex with
someone who has the virus. Symptoms don't appear until
after you've had the virus for a few weeks and include low grade
fever, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, clay
color, bowel movements, dark urine and joint pain. Not
everyone with the condition develops symptoms. There's no
specific treatment and your body will clear the infection in a
few weeks. If you've been exposed to the virus, the
hepatitis A vaccine may protect you from infection within two
weeks of contact, hand washing and avoiding infected people are
key to prevention. There are five types of hepatitis A
through E each causes some form of liver problems. Unlike B or
C, hepatitis A does not cause chronic liver disease and is
rarely fatal.
All these vaccines that don't really work is getting on my
nerves. Yeah. I mean, here's the we've talked about the latest
flu.
I think it's a vaccine. I think it's some preventative thing
like maybe I don't call them they shouldn't call it like the
vaccine to stop smoking. It's not as a vaccine. They're using
the word too loosely. Well,
the flu vaccine for this year is hose. How many times have we
heard this? Oh, yeah, wrong strain or something went wrong
as well. Here you go.
US health officials say they're bracing for a devastating flu
season. And they worry that the flu shot might not help. This
year, only 10% of flu vaccines were effective in Australia.
That is according to a study published by the New England
Journal of Medicine, and it also found that the shot was most
ineffective against influenza A which is historically the most
dangerous. Dr. Anthony Fauci told W T. O P quote, what
happened to Bellamy? Yeah, that guy of the vaccine as we grow it
in eggs, the virus itself mutate a bit, so that there was almost
an accidental mismatch purely on the basis of the virus trying to
adapt itself to growing in eggs. That's what happened in
Australia. It is likely that that's what we're going to see
here. Last year, US flu shots were 34% effective according to
the study, and while the outlook looks more grim this year, Dr.
Fauci says Americans still need to take the time to get
vaccinated. The CDC estimated a flu vaccine saved 40,000 lives
between 2005 So it doesn't doesn't 14
it doesn't work but get your shot anyway, stupid slaves. And
now my favorite. Sanofi Pasteur Sanofi. They have asked for
health authorities to update information provided to
physicians and patients about its Dengue Fever vaccine, dengue
dengue vaccine. And this is what is known as a label update,
which means you'll never hear about it. Based on this is from
their official document. Based on up to six years of clinical
data, the new analysis evaluated long term safety and efficacy of
Dengvaxia and people who had been infected with dengue prior
to vaccination those who had not. The analysis confirmed that
dengue vaccine provides persistent protective benefit
against dengue fever in those who had prior infection. For
those not previously infected by the dengue virus. However, the
analysis found that in the longer term, more cases of
severe disease could occur following vaccination upon a
subsequent Dengue infection. Why It
basically under the base theory of vaccinations, that doesn't
make any sense at all.
But it's also it's not a great message. Hey, if you want this
Dengue Fever vaccine, and you've never had Dengue fever, you
might get really horrible Dengue fever.
Yeah, sounds like a thing to avoid. Luckily, it's not
required anywhere. No, but Hi, I'm
surprised. I mean, I think this is a big thing. This
is big news. Yeah, well, I
let me see let me turn on the TV see what they're talking about.
I don't think so. No, they're not talking about it. Pick this
up today. Kathy Griffin sold her Hollywood Hills home.
Four points. Nice place
very nice place very famous. Famous there upon the Yeah, the
hills $4.49 million.
Do you think she needed the money? I don't think so. I don't
know.
I think it's nonsense that she's making good money touring
internationally. Sure.
Seems to be bitching about it.
Kathy Griffin bitching, huh? Okay, I got one for you.
Is the Hawaiian airway to air rate alert? Listen to this
shorty. Okay. Why isn't applying
across Hawaii today, a blast from the past weren't warning
sirens in paradise they blared in Hawaiian cities and villages
for the first time since the end of the Cold War. It was just a
test in response to the threat of an attack on North Korea.
Really? No.
Did they really do that? Just a test because of North Korea?
Now? That's fear mongering. That's terrorism right there.
I agree. That's not okay. Oh, douchebags
do well, Hawaii is doing what we predicted what happened. The
Honolulu Police Department has issued an order for medical
marijuana users to surrender their firearms. Okay. And I have
a copy of a letter that looks pretty official. November 13,
Dear Mr. And redacted. This letter is to inform you that
under the provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, section
134 Dash seven eight, you are disqualified from firearms
ownership possession of controlling firearms. And your
medical marijuana use disqualifies you from ownership
of firearms and ammunition. HRS 134 Dash 7.3 seizure firearms
upon disqualification if you currently own or have any
firearms, you have 30 days upon receipt of this letter to
voluntary surrender your voluntarily surrender your
firearms permit and ammunition to the Honolulu Police
Department or otherwise transfer ownership. A medical doctor's
clearance letter as required for any future firearms applications
or return of firearms from a from HPD evidence. There you go.
Yeah, that's a test case. It's it'll be everywhere. Do you
think I believe likely the recreational laws will will
transcend the problem?
What do you mean? Well,
because you're not going to be registered,
you know, go if it's recreational. Ah, yeah, good
point. Good point.
But when you have to register and get your you know, get a
permission, it's not gonna
work. Can they do that though? Is that something
that states can do whatever they want, pretty much all right, I
got my last clip. I have a couple clips here but I'm going
to play this when the last time we got to we have we're on time.
I know. Isn't it beautiful?
Okay, this is the weird now there's a lot of this was a
freelance story that ran on I think it ran on local TV. I
don't know what the point of it was. It's got nothing to do with
the Bay Area that I know of. And it's a story about pot in
Minnesota.
Health
officials in Minnesota have added autism spectrum disorders
to the list of conditions that qualify for medical cannabis.
Fox reporter Iris Perez spoke with two mothers who say their
son's lives change for the better thanks to medical
marijuana.
And you see that all the time. Oh, yeah, we do.
Heather tid and her 13 year old son TJ, flip through a chapter
of life that for eight years was difficult to grasp
pre cannabis TJ had a really difficult time reading.
She adopted TJ when he was four at 10. He was diagnosed with
Tourette's school
was horrible. I was I had to quit my job. I had to pick him
up several times a week. By the
time TJ was 11. Heather had tried it all until 2015 When she
was certified to treat TJ with medical cannabis
Yesterday we had the police at our house every day we had holes
in the walls he was trying to hurt himself and others. That
all ended immediately. We have not had the police here sense
that life change is one Victoria grants which also attest to,
we tried everything else iris and nothing else stop the self
injurious behavior and the aggression that we were seeing
every day for a year.
Her 14 year old son Julian suffers autism and a seizure
disorder.
And that is how we got him qualified for medical cannabis.
This was Julian in January before he started taking medical
cannabis.
He was giving himself black eyes, we couldn't stop it.
It was his way of crying out in pain. But these are snapshots of
Julian now.
This is the first time in my child's life. I'm truly seeing
him painfully and I'm seeing my child
thrive. Both Victoria and Heather represent only two moms
relieved to learn autism is now a condition Minnesota considers
eligible for the alternative treatment.
Within a year he went up three grades in his reading abilities,
treatments that
leads them away from stories of pain, and has them now flipping
on two pages of joy,
people with autism will have an opportunity to become successful
because of this choice.
No, I can't argue any of that. No, of course not. But why are
they running this story? In this restaurant irises
we're sorry, where did it run the story TV,
you local.
Local drugstore Hill Bay Area
is like Oakland. Yeah. And it's just a story out of Minnesota.
Lisa per Iris Perez is the reporter and she's a local
reporter at Fox nine in Minnesota somewhere. And I and
she put this package together obviously as a with it to be a
syndicator or something. I don't know. Why would I it's just
baffling to me why this story's got any you know, it's a local
story from Minnesota. I don't know,
as well. You know, the Tourette's thing. It's true. It
certainly helps. It really does. It just it's makes it very
difficult to do television appearances when you're stoned.
But otherwise it helps with the Tourette's.
There's a lot of people stone on TV from
no clip, but final story. Maybe you can help out? I think we
can. The creative work Consulting Group is available
for this type of service President Trump's staff complain
of cockroach mice and ant infestations at the White House
ants.
Ants.
Yeah, I wondered about the store because it came out to get a lot
of play. I wouldn't be surprised if it was true. But it seemed
like just as kind of a slam because Trump called the place a
dump supposedly leave that either. So I don't know if it's
real story or not, but could be. I mean, it's a big place and old
big old place. It's yeah, it was built, you know, like a long
time ago and it could be filled in this infested with all kinds
of stuff. And we're
all for sure we'll be playing our favorite and song so that
the staffers at the White House can learn what to do and what
not to do. Because
they don't think they have Argentinian ants in Washington
DC. I think they got those big, big boys.
But you can still you still got to kill the right one.
I'm not sure how it works for those other hands.
Maybe you could do a little study so we can pitch our
services to a nation
send me out there on alert.
All right, everybody.
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