It's brain science man. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. Sunday
December 31 2017. This is your award winning give on a should
media assassination episode nine or nine or five. This
is no agenda.
Guarding reality from literacy leashes and broadcasting live
from downtown Austin Tejas, capital drove star stadium in
the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry, and from
Northern Silicon Valley where it's about to rain. I'm John C.
Dvorak. Levin. Bushkill.
Short, sweet, simple to the point. You nailed it.
They did. And first order of business, congratulations on
your award.
Well, thank you. Please, clap. This was this was an unexpected.
Yes. Like, I get that impression.
Yeah. You know, the reason why is first of all, let me explain
what's going on. There is a very strong radio culture in the
Netherlands. And then there's a lot of radio stations, a lot of
disc jockeys.
Yeah, that's because of the Nazis.
Yes, exactly. And I'll remember to mention that in my acceptance
speech,
World War Two, where they stole the bikes everyone got on the
radios.
That's right. Hey, man, you got my my bike back. I'm gonna do a
show. Oh, podcast to get my bike, get my bike back podcast.
Anyway, so they do a big gala gala every year. And they choose
the radio man, radio woman radio show radio station of the year.
And since, like six years or so they've had the Aurora Award,
which is a Lifetime Achievement Award
means egg yolk.
You get the entire egg yolk, I think. Yeah. And I've never
considered myself eligible because the rules aren't that
old. There's that. And the rules clearly state you have to be
active in Dutch radio, in order to be in order to receive this.
Did I think you can hear this show in Holland? No, I
asked to be read it was radio had to be radio radio. Last
year, they asked me if I wanted to come and hand out a prize to
you know, so one of the DJs. And I said, Are you kidding me?
Where's my award? I guess they heard me.
Is that what you said? Yeah,
I'm not gonna do that. And it could be a stupid show. I've
never received an award. So they gave me the award. And the nice
thing about it was it was, you know, also for podcasting. And
they changed the rules of the award to now include online
radio, or as they call it, social radio. That's what the
judge called it. Yeah.
So here's the thing. Yeah, you get a clue.
So here's the thing they desperately admits is a pretty
big deal. And I think it's sanctioned. Somehow it's related
to the nab the National Association of Broadcasters.
Oh, I thought it was the NBA. Exactly.
Because they're using the term the Marconi award, and I think
that somehow is trademarked or registered today. I don't think
so. Yeah, something like that. It's
it's nothing is trademark registered. The guy's dead is
like 100 years ago, the
Marconi award board award for broadcast excellence. Here's the
thing. They desperately want me to be there at the at the gala.
Yeah, you have to go. Yeah, here's the issue. Ah, it's on a
Sunday.
It's on a Thursday, let's make it even worse during the show on
a Thursday, during the actual show. So what is what do you
want to do? I mean, I think I should do it.
Yeah, you shouldn't you have to do it. So how are we going to do
the show jam to change the awards day?
Okay, done. So we're all good. And while we're on the topic of
announcements I spent most of yesterday in the studio but I've
been really not happy with our sound. I've been working on it,
you know, I moved to Windows, all new devices start everything
fresh. And as I looked at it again, with fresh ears and eyes,
I discovered that made a few routing mistakes. And so
hopefully today's show is better. It could also really
suck balls. So I'm just saying I tried and who knows how to work
out
what kind of routing mistakes did you make? God I want to
specifically I will give you the specifics or you send me a batch
file
and here it is specifics dot bat. Know what the out recording
out that be able to find the final signal was not the same
signal that I was hearing in my headphones. It was ah, so and I
was fixing it by putting on compression post show just to
get it to sound right. But I think now I think now we're in a
better in a better, better place by actually hearing what you're
getting. Yes. And it's I'm liking what I'm hearing. But
yeah, they may take another show or two but I'm unrelenting. I
want this show to be good. Yeah. Well, t minus five to the big
1000 Yes, although I did get a note from our former New York
banker he says, geez, you know, show 999 is much more no agenda
like to celebrate
well, we'll celebrate 992 There's got a point there. Yeah,
he's right.
And a programming note right after the show on the live
stream Rhino the bearded will be doing his annual Top 100 Year
End Show. On no agenda stream.com. By can hear your
underwhelmed?
I just thought of something. Okay. I just forgot. I just
realized I forgot to get a clip. But Thanks, Ryan. Now. We can
also get somebody to do some music around the number nine
number nine, three times in a row out of
number nine clips we could have Yeah, I think it would be nice
for people to send some cool stuff in for nein nein nein
nein, nein nein
nein, nein, nein.
Alright, so show day we have a shootings in I think Colorado.
And also we have going on the
Hold on a second. Well, I get my clip list.
Okay. While you do that, let me see if there's something I can
play that can get us get us going. No, not really. Oh, yes,
I can. I'll play a little bit of tech news. This is what
constitutes tech news today. Ladies and gentlemen. This is
from CNET what new phone
takes the best selfie? We tested the iPhone 10 The pixel two XL
the Samsung Note eight, the HTC U 11. And the LG V 30. To find
out
what new phone takes the best self aid. This is indeed tech
news. The answer?
You'll be happy with any of these three phones though it
just depends on your preferences, particularly if you
like those BT filters or not
millions of dollars go into that organization. Fantastic. No
answer. Just all of them will be great. Just depends on your
personal preference have filters
on I'm holding on a while we got while you're on tech news. Yeah,
I have some tech news. Okay. Look up and down. The list of
the clip just went on there. If you can figure it out.
Yeah, Apple batteries local story.
You got it.
New it's six Apple tells its customers. We let you down the
tech giant now saying sorry for slowing down older iPhones.
Tonight. It's trying to make it right. Good evening. I'm Alan
Martin.
Hi, I'm Veronica Dela Cruz capex five. Sharon Chen joins us now
from an Apple store in San Francisco. With what Apple is
giving customers for their trouble Sharon.
Customers are just finding out about the apology. And some say
that they're gonna start the new year with a discount on a new
battery. And the leather the customers Apple said would not
intentionally shorten the life of its phones. But that said a
software update that was supposed to prevent unexpected
shutdowns in the iPhone sixes and S E ended up causing some
firms to work slower. So Apple says starting in late January
and through the next year is offering $50 off battery
replacements. $79 batteries will cost $29. That's for anyone with
an iPhone six or later who needs a new battery even if the
warranty is expired.
I have an older Apple. I've noticed it is slower. I don't
know if it's my imagination or if it's part of what they did to
their software.
But does it surprise anybody? Yeah. How do you get people to
buy your new product,
at least they're doing something about it and they're
acknowledging that there is a problem and trying to remedy it.
Apple said in the statement we know that some of you feel Apple
is let you down We apologize. Our goal has always been to
create products that our customers love and making
iPhones last as long as possible is an important part of that and
the company is facing potential class action lawsuits over the
slower phones. Now early next year. At Walsall says that it's
going to introduce a software update that will help you
determine more information about the health of your battery so
you can determine presumably if it's the battery that's causing
problems on your phone
and the Phone should be made out of Bakelite.
Just want to make sure we got a little tech news jingo in there
from from the grid, you hear the end of that report? Yeah, that
they're gonna issue an update so you can see if your phone sucks.
Well, that's what
I'm doing. Let me listen to it again here. Why is it not
working or online?
lawsuits over the slower phones now early next year. Apple also
says that it's going to introduce a software update that
will help you determine more information about the health of
your A battery so you can determine presumably, if it's
the battery that's causing problems on your phone. Okay.
Okay, well, let's listen to the logic of that. Is it your phone
slowing down? Is the battery causing your phone to slow down?
Well, I'll play Apple
side for a moment. They say because the battery can't handle
the spikes required by the modern OS I read that it was
shutting down. So it's clearly the batteries fault. And you're
not doing it right. Shut up.
Yeah, well, that's pretty much what
the APA everyone's saying, oh, big lawsuit? I don't think so. I
don't think there's going to be any big lawsuit.
I think there's gonna be I think there will be really well here
and here's the reason they're gonna do a class action. And the
reason is that they can get a class action underway and get
accepted by the courts. 1234 discovery. Ooh, discovery
is always fun. Yeah. Then they get to go into Johnny Ives home.
They get to go everywhere. And they get to look at all the
memos and they get to find just one guy saying, hey, why don't
we just screw up the bone old phones? Yeah. Okay, well, I
didn't guy for that one guy in a million. Just says something
like that. And boom, for that
reason. I think it's worth it. Number one. Yeah, boom, count
one. I agree.
So that would be the way they're going to do that. And they're
going to pursue it because everyone knows what a great it'd
be a treasure trove to get into those. That just to have that.
I agree. I agree. I wanted to follow up on the war on
Christmas which we were talking about I was gonna say I was
gonna bring you a couple clips to see can see the see and hear
the thinking of why war on Christmas equals crazy religious
people crazy right to Republicans, Trump. We'll start
with CNN, Don Lemon.
Margaret. I mean, this is a line that we have heard from Donald
Trump Minnie Minnie what does he do is a dog whistle to the base
because no one is
except for that if you turn on some of our competitive cable
networks, they have entire hours and programming about the war on
Christmas and it is intended to go toward cultural base that
feels that other people are taking their America away from
them that's gonna make America great from what right the people
who are taking Christmas away from you the people who are
taking people who are taking you know all your teddy bears away
from you. Right we're gonna make it great. We're gonna make
Christmas right you know, it's disingenuous it's not true there
are but there is a truth but no but there but you have to
understand like there is a cultural
No. Okay, now let's go to MSNBC. Ari Melber is that woman care
some woman on CNN bill? Cookie Cutter is the same woman. This
is Marie Melbourne, not the same woman and claims
of a war on Christmas have been ricocheting around Fox News for
many years. It's just one more stop in a long chain of custody
that gets uglier. The farther back you go. Because the first
rumblings about a war on Christmas stem back to the
fringe John Birch Society and anti semitic pamphlets from the
1920s called the International Jew, the world's foremost
problem.
It's anti semitic. That's what it is. I'm sorry, I was wrong.
Hold on a second. Are they? Are they telling us at the John
Birch Society? 20s.
Oh, that's a good point. Hold
on. Let's wait. That's what they implied.
Let me hear that again. And
claims of a war on Christmas have been ricocheting around Fox
News for many years. But Fox is just one more stop in a long
chain of custody that gets uglier. The farther back you go.
Because the first rumblings about a war on Christmas stem
back to the fringe John Birch Society and anti semitic
pamphlets from the 1920s called the International Jew, the
world's foremost problem
wasn't that Henry Ford's pamphlet? Yes, it was
the one that day by the way. I should as as today's no agenda
tip. I should mention that there's this Henry Ford book.
And I think that's the name of it, but you can look it up on
Wikipedia. That book is still floating around and if you can
get a copy of it Oh yeah. Ford corporation will buy it. Really?
Oh boy. Yeah.
Oh, it's that heavy, huh? And yeah,
they know they've tried to retrieve every one of them
that's ever been put in print and they will pay you a lot of
money.
All right, troll room off you go. Go fine. Wait, did you
receive your email
for the action goes to no agenda? Yes.
I received my E meter.
I never got an E meter. Oh, I don't
know if you You want if the producer wants me to mention his
name, but don't mention him while mentioned it because his
dad was a Scientologist, I guess his dad is no longer with us.
And he said he had to E meters in the garage and so I get this
big box. And it's a suit to John. It's a suit. It's a
flightcase. And this foam in there, there's an old one. No,
it's It's one of the modern ones.
John Birch Society founded 1958.
Boy, while we have to call bullshit on that still anti
semitic Christmas horrible even though it wasn't it, Jesus the
Jew. I'm confused. Anyway, back to my E meter back to my E
meter. i Yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. John is beautiful. It has. It
has the instruction booklets in there. It's got the charging the
wires, it's got little cream for your hands. So you conduct
better yeah. Or whatever. It's whatever you're using it for. It
is a beautiful piece of technology.
I use it on Tina.
Yeah. Let me see if you're clear, baby. We got Check. Check
it out. Make sure you're clear. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. I think
you sent you want to that's why I asked really? Okay,
why didn't get it yet. Okay.
All right. last show of the year. See, we can make it
matter. Maybe we should start with this Iran thing. Because
this there's a couple of ways to read this.
Oops, sorry. Be okay. I actually pushed the mute button. And I'm
a little annoyed by this keyboard having this button now.
It's okay.
Anyway, I'm gonna start actually with Let me see. Yeah, I'm gonna
do a little background report from NBC on the Iran protests.
And we got a note from our dude named Mohammed. Then he said,
just look at who started the hashtag. President Trump.
Hashtag e Ron protests. He says, now you know who's behind it
on the streets of Iran's capital. Days of public protest
reached a boiling point not seen for nearly a decade. The
kindling to this show of anger and desperation is a poor
economy with few jobs and rising prices, brewing unrest that drew
the attention of President Trump's Twitter feed. Iranian
government should respect their people's rights, including right
to express themselves the world is watching. Echoing the
President's message delivered at the United Nations.
The longest suffering victims of Iran's leaders are in fact, its
own people. The vulnerable
conditions today moved many young people to demonstrate
against the government spontaneously as word spread
through social media posts. By contrast, a more organized and
scheduled wave of pro government support turned out to praise the
Supreme Leader Ayatollah homenaje as 1000s back the
regime, the US designates Iran a state sponsor of terror.
President Trump has refused to certify the Obama era agreement
to blunt Iran's nuclear program. This weekend's protest response
is coordinated from the State Department. The United States
strongly condemns the arrest of peaceful protesters, the White
House press secretary, Iranian citizens fed up with the
regime's corruption and did squandering of the nation's
wealth to fund terrorism abroad. And the President tweeted
excerpts of his United Nations address to amplify pressure and
encourage other nations to aid protesters
that Iran's people are what their leaders fear the most.
And demonstrations spread across Iran. There are reports tonight
of bloody violence towards some of those protesters. But those
are unconfirmed reports the Iranian government also
responded to President Trump saying his words were deceitful
and opportunist.
So I kind of liked that report, because she said something in
there, which was either meant as a wagging finger I'm not quite
sure by saying clearly all coordinated over there at the
Trump administration with everyone sending out the same
kind of messaging at the same time. Yeah, I'm kind of thinking
that way. That this is there's so much coming up in in the next
week with Iran. That I'm thinking we were good at it. So
maybe we sparked some of this with some Zhang provoca Canary
get the word maybe.
Okay, good point. This started apparently over eggs and poultry
as the cost of eggs Rose 40%. Overnight.
Yeah, this is the kind of thing where if you remember during the
Arab Spring It was bred,
it was it was bred in Tunisia. Correct. Which was also an
obvious setup for the Arab Spring. Now, the Iranians, I
think 80 or 90% of their diet is poultry. So I can see
need our chickens. It's a war on chicken
really, as far as board. And as a part of the reason is because
the price of feed went up dramatically, also almost
overnight, which I don't know is that because of our sanctions,
they don't have chicken feed, they have to import chicken feed
into Iran. Do you know anything about this?
I don't know anything about the chicken industry in Iran? No.
Okay. Well, I don't know how it operates. I didn't even know
what they just told me now that they were a big chicken eater. I
know they eat chicken like everybody else, but didn't know
that this is a major deal. Yeah, I sent a note Americans put up
with a lot more than this. If you go to the doctor, yeah. Or
just look at your insurance bill. Why don't we have an Arab
spring here?
We'll get to that in a moment. Jay's got a couple of things
that make sense. There's just a show that we're behind this. So
we have the 90 day renewal coming up of the Iran nuclear
deal, which the President has said he I think was a campaign
promise he wants to get rid of that he wants to pull out of
that deal. And so now all of a sudden, worst deal ever. Now,
all of a sudden, we have a whole bunch of things happening, such
as this report from RT, where we apparently have been our troops
have been helping getting ISIS fighters out of Raka.
In quite, I mean, quite a quite a dramatic statement. I mean, do
you think it was the right decision to allow Islamic State
fighters to leave Racker.
Of course, it wasn't the correct decision or our right decision.
But I think it might might also have been a deliberate American
led decision. This isn't the first time we hear stories of
such an essence, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the
Russian military, recently made statements in the same direction
saying that the Americans were actually training or assisting
providing forms of assistance to ISIS. And I think that you have
to put this within the framework of the aftermath of ISIS. We all
know that ISIS is losing ground, it's basically on the verge of
defeat in Syria, already defeated in Iraq. So the fact
that it's on the verge of defeat defeat in Syria, I think that
what the Trump administration might be doing is preparing for
the post ISIS phase. What I meant to say is putting together
maybe a new group, not ISIS, but a new group, which includes
former ISIS fighters, ISIS
to point to ISIS 2.0
is to take on the Syrian army and its allies, first and
foremost, Iran, because the Trump administration and also
Trump's closest ally, is really premier Benjamin Netanyahu, they
have spoken on the necessity to counter Iranian presence inside
Syria. So I think that this latest piece of news is very
closely closely linked to that Trump's strategy and to the
Israeli strategy of escalating against Iran, in Syria, also
against Hezbollah, and what they call the Shia axis in Syria.
I hadn't heard of the Shia axis yet. But it's always good to
throw an axis of something out there.
You know, you just keep thinking, of course, if the
dough agenda, thoughts on this, of course, is that I said we
would go along with this the theory that ISIS was created by
the Americans and the Mossad. Yep. And one of the rationales
that you can use to kind of not to kind of indicate that is the
fact that ISIS doesn't shake his fist at Israel. Right? It's it's
the, you know, like Rania, Iranians and everybody else. Oh,
Israel's must go, that place must disappear. And Palestinians
gotta go. Please never these Jews are terrible. ISIS never
did that. No, no, ever. No. No,
they never attacked Israel.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they went around Israel do attack Egypt.
So it might sound believable as I kind of dug into this. Because
what I'm looking for is, you know, is there a new puppet on
the horizon? This no one has has showed up on the radar yet is
oh, this will be the shot to point out because that's what we
need. Now. If this is a regime change operation, but maybe it's
it's again, maybe it's just meant to rattle them or to get
them all?
I think it's a really, I think the problem they have these are
all regime change operations. But this one has been extremely
unsuccessful. And I think that there's a lot of arrogance with
this idea that that we can just routinely change these regimes
and not leave a mess behind. Maybe Of course, the other
theory is that we want to leave a mess behind verbalize
verbalize. So it's hard to say but you I think that The ISIS
thing where there all of a sudden these guys all
disappeared as the operation has been shut down.
We missed this two weeks ago, but I think this was really the
setup. You recall that there was a the Yemen Houthi rebels shot a
rocket towards Riyadh. I think we had
that there rock I remember the rocket but I thought it was shot
to into Saudi Arabia.
I'm sorry, Saudi Arabia. What am I saying? Riyadh Yes, Saudi
Arabia. Riyadh is in Saudi Arabia, but it was just in Saudi
Arabia.
Yeah. Re but I think it was Riyadh. That was, the trajectory
was I think it was the trajectory. Anyway, so Nikki
Haley, your friend. She did a whole dog and pony show two
weeks ago. I can't believe I missed this. I'm a little pissed
at myself. She had a hanger than aircraft hangar and she had the
actual rocket. The or pieces of the actual rocket behind her.
This is a great report
tonight UN Ambassador Nikki Haley escalating the
administration's war of words against Iran.
It's hard by the way, she's got some clippity clop going on
there. Do you hear that she may be she may be a contender
because he clapped to the club 2.0.
Tonight UN Ambassador Nikki Haley escalating the
administration's war against Iran.
It's hard to find a conflict or terrorist group in the Middle
East that does not have Iran's fingerprints all over it
in an unprecedented step displaying parts of missiles
brought to a US military base, which he calls irrefutable
evidence around violated UN resolutions. I supplying weapons
fired last month and civilian airport in Saudi Arabia launched
by rebels in Yemen, the missiles stamp with a logo of an Iranian
manufacturer.
Just imagine if this missile had been launched at Dulles Airport,
or JFK. Oh, no, the airports in Paris, London or Berlin? That's
what we're talking about here.
No, no, that's actually not what we're talking about is actually
not a missile that went towards Dulles Airport. So no,
that's what Iran is actively supporting
a dramatic photo op to build a case against Iran to justify the
President's larger goal, finally withdrawing from the Iran
nuclear deal. Despite widespread support for the agreement from
European allies and the UN. I think
Haley was trying to buy him a little political space by
underlining for the world, that Iran's behavior in the region is
very bad, even though it's not directly related to the nuclear
agreement.
Unless you're tonight, Iran called Haley's evidence
fabricated, setting the stage for a diplomatic showdown next
month, when President Trump has to again decide whether to
withdraw from the nuclear deal, further isolating him if he does
for most of America's closest allies. Oh, here's
the problem with Miss Haley's little presentation. This was
not a key on one missile, as she stated, this was a modified Scud
B missile, which are manufactured by Russia. In fact,
that even had some Cyrillic markings on on the smaller parts
of it, you could see that in some of their photo evidence. So
what these guys did is they they took a bird con two h warhead,
and they jacked it on to this Scud b And now everyone's saying
this is an Iranian missile, but it was not.
Well, the Yeah, no. Well, I mean, the Russians have sold
that missile to those countries. Yeah, North Korea has them.
Yeah, and they're just junk but you know, they break up in mid
flight and there's all these issues they don't even think
they're making money
but also the Scuds it's my understanding that because the
Scots you know, they're on mobile missile launchers and
they can you know, they roll out they come out a cover, you shake
the leaves off launch, as far as I know, our Patriot missiles and
our Iron Dome and fad has never taken out one of these mobile
Scud rocket launchers which are not that effective. But
yes, that's what we're told. They've never really been
they're doing things are useless anyway. But I got a kick out of
this things. Suppose these was used as if it's a bomb, it would
have exploded. I think a lot of shrapnel but there's the logos
on their
logo. Yeah, it's Iranian logo. Hey, look, there's a logo, man.
The logo is a new it's a Nike swoosh must be them. So I'm
thinking they have this all set up. And they
probably took an old skirt from the dead old years ago when we
were trying to shoot
Iraq. 1.0 Yeah, yeah. So yeah, and my feeling is Trump loves
this stuff. I think he after the Vegas stuff, you're like, oh,
this works really well. We can trick people into believing
anything. Hey, will she vote the bill do that Miss All thing and
because we want to get her I mean, does he really just want
war between Iran and Saudi Arabia? And does he want
this point? Because because we were sent so many mixed messages
and been out and out bullcrap. I think it's impossible to figure
this out, or at least we haven't been able to figure it out and,
and Trump is if you want to go on to some Trumps,
I want to make one more prediction. I want to make a
prediction. A prediction the last time this happened in 2009,
that was the failed. Was that the Green Revolution, I think,
but the purple revolution, whatever it was, and the Rose
Revolution, yes. And Hillary's, the turquoise, right? Or the
orange, maybe orange? Yes. And Hillary. Hillary's techno
experts were supposed to propagate that inside Iran.
Yeah. And they, and they screwed it up, and they failed them when
they failed. What happens when the news went wrong? The big
moment in history. Okay, they killed Michael Jackson. And then
all the Iran news was gone.
So you think somebody's gonna get off? Bigley? Just to pull
this off the newspaper? If
yes, if so, if it doesn't go the way they want it, they're gonna
have to kill a big ass celebrity. I'm thinking Barbra
Streisand.
I don't. Okay, let's walk well, now that we're on this topic,
okay. And stick with it for a minute and we should predict who
it is. I do not think Barbara's true. I think Barbra Streisand's
to devise of a character Okay, to be useful.
Okay, how about Taytay?
Who's taking the Taylor Swift? Oh, Taylor's No, you're not
going to do that. Because obviously, if we're going to
have an argument, let's just say we're in a meeting. Okay. You
and I Euro. A hole from the CIA. A hole from the CIA who is more
down to earth? Why am I the evil aihole You're the AOA I'll be
the one to kill everybody and you but you're not your newbie.
You're a millennial.
Okay, here we go. Roger Stone. Let's kill him.
Well, you don't want to do that. Okay, community. How
about Rosie O'Donnell?
No, I think a lot of people would share
about Tom Cruise we need something really earth
shattering Tom Cruise.
There you go. Is a possibility they have to be okay. Wait,
that's okay. We're gonna go to the net direction Tom Cruise. We
can also consider what's his name the the dancer actor.
Jennifer, Saturday Night Fever. Oh, John Travolta. John
Travolta. Jai. Here's me. Yeah, let me let's take those
suggestions. And here's the way this works. Okay. They're both
private pilots that fly.
Yes, yes. Oh and no, and they also fly Mustangs and stuff like
that and little experimental.
Well, why don't we add Harrison Ford into the mix would be
perfect Star Wars too
old and it already killed them off in Star Wars. So his career
is done. Okay. So that's no good. That two guys that you
mentioned I think are good credit Travolta and cruise.
Okay. And that's because of the pilot thing. Because that's the
easiest way to do it. Just all poor guys. They were they loved
flying so much. They have a retrospective on how much they
loved fly. Yeah, that's a good one. I think you're right.
That's your boat. Scientologists, one less
Scientologists.
Okay, meeting adjourned we know who to kill. Good work. So we'll
see. That's what the whole thing could result in. It's always bad
for celebrities. It's always bad for him. Now they
put themselves in this position. They liked the job. They
volunteered it wasn't something they have chosen.
I agree. I'm in full agreement. We got New Year's Eve coming up
in actually it's about to start there in the United Nations
Gitmo nation of Europe. Deutschland, Deutschland, doing
something a little special this this year.
Just like New Year celebrations the world over hundreds of 1000s
of people are expected to flock to this place here in Berlin to
see the old and ringing the new you can see preparations are
currently undergoing. But keeping everyone safe without
spoiling the atmosphere is a huge challenge for the
authorities. And this year, organizers are going one step
further. Aside from usual safety barriers and alcohol bans, and
so called women's safety area is being set up because female
guests who feel sexually harassed and just uncomfortable
can get special help. It's been manned by members of German Red
Cross hand comes in response to events two years ago back then
hundreds of women are sexually assaulted at New York carnivals
they were probed, robbed, intimidated and separated from
their friends. Three police documents there were more than
1000 cases reported in Cologne and Hamburg alone. More than
2000 men were supposedly involved, most of them asylum
seekers
ixnay on the APR a man we don't talk about that in Deutschland.
It's funny, they wouldn't mention rape. When that was the
biggest complaint. Yeah,
yep. So there you go. Great. That's easy. It's great over
there. It's great. It's just fabulous.
One time when when you we I think we did miss it Thursday
show once we did it on Wednesday.
Yeah, we've done that a couple times in the past. Maybe we
should just do it on Wednesday.
Yeah, I think that's the way to go. And I got kind of gotta go
like what is the date is when is this in between the 25th of
January? It's coming up 25th of January. Coming up? Yeah, you
must wonder. Okay. Well, let's go to Trump. There's a couple of
I got to kick out at his Mar a Lago situation well actually
let's start with the weather because the wet the way they did
it on CBS and I kind of Meyer they're the way they're doing
stuff. They're doing a lot of weird coded messages. For some
purpose or other I'm not sure what it is. But every once a
while, there's a story on CBS, CBS evening news. Same people
that gave us the bullcrap story on the sirens in Hawaii. I've
never played this coded story here. I listened to this
thinking, you know, CBS is maybe messaging some people or sending
the word out. This was a story I'm playing your the entire
story is the Clippers code story. I'm going to play you the
entire story and tell me what you learn from this story. If
anything,
and we have some breaking news to tell you about now. Gunfire
broke out today at a law office in Long Beach, California. At
least three people were shot. Two were killed including the
shooter. Police say the incident is over. That's it.
What did I miss?
What did they tell you?
Let me listen again.
And we have some breaking news to tell you about now. Gunfire
broke out today at a law office in Long Beach, California. At
least three people were shot to or killed including the shooter.
Police say the incident is over.
Yeah, they didn't really tell me anything. I guess. Couple people
got killed. Gun
got some people got killed and the police say the incident is
over. It just sounds like a coded message.
Oh, I get it. I see where you're going. Okay.
I have no idea what this is. I mean, is it a coded message that
there wasn't that nothing happened or something happened
or we don't have zero details? You don't know the name of the
law firm? If it was lawyers or secretaries that were killed?
Was it a woman or a female? Or a female or a male shooter? Was
the shooter a terrorist was the shooter a friend of the family?
Was it there's absolutely nothing in the police say it's
over? It just doesn't seem like a story that you tell on any
news, news outlet and
certainly not breaking news. You'd have a little more that
was 12 seconds.
Yeah, that was breaking news. But anyway, so CBS does a very
good. I only have a piece of it a good thing on the weather. I
think I got it here. Yeah. Yeah, play that and then will they?
They can't get through a story. Without needling Trump then it's
got nothing to do with the weather
in New York and much of the nation have been shivering from
an arctic blast and it's not leaving.
Oh, that's the new term by the way. arctic blast arctic blast
it used to be the polar vortex now it's the arctic blast like a
big fart from the north of New York
and much of the nation have been shivering from an arctic blast
and it's not leaving anytime soon. Some cities have postponed
New Year's events because of the cold and check out these wind
chills projected for overnight 26 below zero in Great Falls
Montana minus 53 and rollin North Dakota. War now from Dean
Reynolds
2017 is departing with a cold slap across the face. People are
bundling up as it for a polar expedition and hypothermia has
returned to the vocabulary. A than that five foot snowfall in
Erie, Pennsylvania is now frozen in place with residents marooned
underneath it. record lows were set at New York's airports
following bone chilling naters in 24 other locales this week,
icy conditions meant airline cancellations and traffic
accidents. And you can see your breath in the car. It's just
It's crazy. homeless shelters in Chicago were jammed with People
like Lee lane
is imagine a person without this I can't even imagine that
you would pretty much down the street you freeze to death.
The Salvation Army's Tamika Rogers was making wellness
checks on people at risk
taking on seniors trying to see if we can get them to warming
centers, as well as family members who who have heat.
Along Cape Cod. Three thresher sharks have washed up frozen
since Wednesday and in Boston. Mayor Martin Walsh warned this
weekend will be Arctic
joining guarantees that the ice sculptures will not melt. The
next three days,
they canceled the St. Louis winter Fest and even its ice
skating along with New Year's Eve fireworks in Omaha.
Saturday's high in Chicago will be a frosty eight above
Minneapolis will be a meat locker from his resort in
Florida where it was 75 degrees today. The President it referred
to the freezing millions up here in the North fight tweeting,
perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old global
warming. Bianna
that tweet definitely garnering a lot of reaction to
the sciences.
That report was a let them eat cake report. Yes, it was making
Trump sound like a douchebag because he's in 75 degree
weather and mocking the mock anybody by the way. But but it's
you could see him mocking them. Because there are a bunch of
north there in all those states who cares about them anyway,
from there's a number of science publications now are coming out
with the following story. I will read the headline, a mini ice
age could happen within the next few decades. It might affect
global warming, you think. But what's great about it is they're
now using my year I've always said this is agenda 2030. And
here it is by 2030 temperatures could reach a low levels that
are so low that the River Thames in England will freeze during
winter that has happened in the past hundreds of years ago.
Similar to what happened in the last little ice age, which span
from the 13th to the 17th century, temperatures will start
plummeting as soon as 2021 According to scientists
predictions based them off a mathematical model of the Sun's
magnetic energy. While this is like we've been talking about
this for years, the phenomenon is called the Maunder Minimum.
Yeah, yeah. This is a cycle that we've discussed many times. And
they're only now figuring it out.
They always figured it out. And that's why I believe that
weren't going to bring this up. Because if we really look at the
global warming situation, it's about money. And it's about our
money, because the date we gotta give our money. This is smaller
countries that somehow we've put in, in the, into the stone age
because of our burning fossil fuels. And that's the reason
that this information has to come out eventually. But the
reason for I'm convinced to this the reason for all the tipping
point tipping point tipping point, since 1980. Tipping
Point. Tomorrow, it's tomorrow
when Al Gore said that we would not have snow anymore. Yeah,
yeah. And that's what was supposed to have happened two
years ago.
Yeah, everything's a tipping point, please. This rush, rush,
rush, signed some agreements, and then take our money. That
seems to me to be the only reason for all and it was rush,
rush, rush, tipping point, tipping point tipping point,
every month, that tipping point is going to be overwhelming to
stop it. Yeah. And that was because this information, which
was touched upon in the 70s during the global cooling fad is
now has to come to light and so then we need some real you know,
we can't just push the global warming agenda as much as we
could and it's I think it's too late for anybody to grab the
money. I think the money's
not there. It's just over. Yeah, I think so. Well, that's too bad
for the green economy. Well, I'm sad now.
We got our little ways with it. We got some dough on we got
those giant turbine generators. Yeah, they go.
Which which generators are these
two big giant props is three blade things. 10 storey
buildings you look like image and the little thing little ant
on top of one when you're standing on him. And and those
are also the ones they explode if they get going too fast.
Yeah. Yep, that breaks.
So I don't know if you caught this but everyone's going crazy
about this Trump New York Times interview of which there was a
trend
I have I have, I have the story.
So the Trump rotation is now back to peace clinically insane.
But he needs to be impeached. Yeah, that's what that's where
we're at because this is a man whose cognitive skills are going
racing downhill. He sounds just as moronic as everyone is when
he talks. I mean, this is how he talks is that this is new to
them.
I guess it is, but let's here's what happened. They played the
they played the weather report on CBS. And then they put the
Trump needle tweet in it, and they use that as the transition
to go to their mera Lago report.
Yeah, I gotcha. Yeah.
Let me tell you something right away. Well, no, I'm gonna I'm
gonna let's extract it from the report. Let's start with Mara
Lago report one.
Well, yes, that's right. It has been warm here in Florida this
week. And not much rain, either. Perfect weather for a
presidential vacation, especially a president who likes
to spend a lot of time on the golf course. For the sixth day
out of seven, Christmas was the only exception. The President
was at Trump International Golf Club today, where yesterday he
did an impromptu interview with New York Times reporter Michael
Schmidt was there as the guest of a Club member.
We're sitting at a table next to the Presidents we went up and
started talking to
him. No staff were present. The President was dining alone.
Okay, all right. I'm gonna start right away with this. This is
the biggest pile of crap I've ever heard reported straight.
Let's let's go through this just with the two, two pieces of
information. One, the President was dining alone,
coincidentally, at a table next to the New York Times reporter
who was there with a guest as a guest of a Mara Lago resort
member brings the guy in sits him right next to the president
who is dining alone
alone in his thought.
And the guy I know what happened that guy brings him in there
puts him right there is a setup for the stupid New York Times
reporter and the guy i There's no doubt about the guy's a
friend of Trump's whoever it was that brought him there and sat
him down next to Trump by himself, which is probably
unusual, because everyone would love to be with him when he's
eating. And, you know, doors, Ivanka, where's anybody? Nobody.
He's sitting there on the table by himself with a I'm sure a
chair or with a Big Mac empty with a couple of empty seats.
The guy leans over the New York Times and guy says, Hey, I bet
you you could go up to Trump right now and probably get an
interview out of him. New York Times guy says, oh, no, I can't
do that. He's a pro. I can't just gloss over that. He's
alone. He's sitting alone. I can't. He's in his thoughts.
He's doing important thinking.
No, no, no, no, no, try it. I've seen this before. A lot of
people just go up to okay, this is the club. This is why the
club is the club
will show you record and they record them on my iPhone.
Well, yeah, minimally, but just go over there and have a chat
with him. Yep, tell him you're going to record me doesn't care.
And he's there by himself. He'd love to have some company. All
right, tots, the guy into going over there. guy goes over there.
And Trump's all ready to do a bullshit interview. Right? This
is bull crap. This is a setup.
It was really funny though. I like how everyone saw Oh my God,
he's so easy. He's, he's unstable. It is no good that
this guy has his finger on the button. So instead
of tweeting some of this complaining, he get the New York
Times or write it up, although they had their slant on it. But
it's still subtle propaganda that he had to feed through the
New York Times. So let's go on with that in mind. And I'm
pretty sure there's no other rationale for this. The New York
Times guy was invited down. Dalia, would you like to come
down and Bill Schmidt is one of the one of the writers, he says,
I got a good table that you can when you sit down and have you
know, it's nice. You won't be in New York, you'd be freezing your
ass. I'll tell you what, I'll fly you down, which of course he
wouldn't report in New York Times can't doesn't allow that.
It's not on I can't do that. The New York Times will let me do
that. So I'll pay for it. I think it would be a good idea.
So he goes down and get suckered. Let's go to part two
on the Russia investigation. Mr. Trump repeated 16 times that
there was no collusion between his campaign 16 times seen and
Russia asked about the special counsel, the President said, I
think that Bob Muller will be fair, but he seemed frustrated.
It's taking so long it puts the country in a very bad position,
he said, so the sooner it's worked out, the better it is for
the country. He ominously suggested he has the power to
intervene, claiming I have absolute right to do what I Want
to do with the Justice Department? But Eric Holder,
President Obama's Attorney General replied in a tweet
wrong, dangerous Trump doesn't have absolute rights with DOJ,
career DOJ people have absolute right to defy illegal orders.
And they will I know them
really high.
So Trump drops all these little easter eggs on this guy from The
New York Times who coincidentally sits next to his
table and gets an interview for some reason. Does
Trump just like this? He must, he must just get off. He loves
it.
I don't know who strategize this in the campaign. But it's so
obvious to anybody who looks at it objectively that this was a
setup to get this guy from The New York Times to go over there
and do a quick interview and get it right. And it's because it
was all well, it was so so outstanding that he could do
this. They put it right on this damn near gave it a whole
feature section in the New York Times. It's not like in the
corner anywhere, right? And so this is I think some whoever
strategize this and got away with it is a genius. But it to
me, it's like the most obvious thing I've ever seen as a setup.
So
what was the message that Trump wanted to send in this setup?
He wanted the message. I believe there's a bunch of messages, but
the one I think mainly was, is hurting the country that we have
this investigation going on that were colluded in collusion with
the Russians, who we have sanctions against. It's hurting
the country. It's hurting the country. And I think that was
what he wanted to get into the New York Times.
Like that certainly worked. He got it in there 16 times. Well,
I
got something in there 16 times. And so So this whole thing is
just an outrageous scam that these guys don't even recognize.
So let's go to the last Mara Lago Clip
The President also did some unsupervised Free Wheeling on
Twitter today in one tweet asking.
Like he's 12 unsupervised freewheeling on Twitter. Oh,
where's Kelly supervising him?
The President also did some unsupervised Free Wheeling on
Twitter today. In one tweet asking the post office why it's
making Amazon and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos richer and
the post office dumber and poorer, should be charging more.
Most previous Presidents have rarely if ever done spur of the
moment interviews with no staff present. But this president
makes clear that he refuses to be reined in. Biana. Wow.
So that's the message board for report sake there. So there's a
message that he refuses to be reined in, when nobody even
considers the fact that this is staged. They don't even think
about it. That's how far away they are from reality. I mean, I
would say half the stuff that we're witnessing with this guy
is staged, just like our foreign all our foreign adventures, a
lot of the stuff that we get his news is staged news. And CBS
does a lot of it themselves. And they don't even spot this.
No, no, I like that. You saw this this way. But I had not
considered that and it seems very obvious now to me. Yeah,
yeah. Yeah. I think he really nailed that. So that was the New
York Times of CNN, who are just being creepy now. They're just
creepy. They were all pissed off about something
different happened today. What was it?
They are dropped down here is to cover the president to tell our
viewers what he is doing on a daily basis. Over the last few
days. We've gotten video of the president golfing at his nearby
golf club, here in West Palm Beach. There's a break in the
hedges really the President Trump president doesn't really
and his staff doesn't really tell us when he is golfing, and
we have taken to, you know, going outside the golf course
and filming him as he golf through a break and hedges near
the club. Today, a big wall, a white box truck parked in front
of those hedges, trying to obscure our shot of President
Trump golfing. Now, this may seem trivial, but it is
important to get video of the President as he does these
things on a daily basis. And it gets to something that is
larger. The president in the White House have tried to
obscure the fact that President Trump golf on a regular basis.
According to our count, he has visited one of his golf courses
at seven times as president. This is a man who ran for
president who criticized President Barack Obama regularly
for golfing during his presidency. But that criticism
hasn't continued into the Trump presidency. President Trump has
regularly visited these golf courses that he owns and White
House
pitch about why Hold on a second. So they say oh, you
know, Obama played a lot of golf but no one's criticized Trump
Trump, while they're doing a long report have criticized
criticizing him for playing golf.
This is a man who ran for president who criticize
President Barack Obama regularly As for golfing during his
presidency, but that criticism hasn't continued into the Trump
presidency, President Trump has regularly visited these golf
courses that he owns. And White House aides have been hesitant
to ever confirm that he is golfing and this box truck in
the video that we have is yet another example of the White
House trying to obscure the fact that he's gotten out to the
White House to secret service and to the the sheriff's
officers down here to confirm was this their truck? What was
this part of? We haven't really gotten many responses back so
far
gone. Yeah, that's not at all like Hillary Clinton. Remember
when she used the static noise machine in Denver, so the press
couldn't hear what they were discussing.
Yeah, no, there's nothing like that was nothing like that.
But I love that. And a whole reaping that creeping on the
president through a hole in the hedge. And then a truck rolls up
like the problem with the truck. It was just a white and not just
a problem. I see it as a huge opportunity. A beautiful white
truck. Where's my no agenda logo? People?
No agenda paint? Yes,
it was perfect for it. Perfect. Yeah, that is the silver
sharpies for people. Do you remember Lance wall now wall
now? He's the busiest pastor I think. And he's the one that
said he predicted God told him that Trump was going to be
president.
I don't remember him. Now. He's
back in the name
of Jesus. I prophesied that Donald Trump is going to
experience a fresh encounter of the Lord in January of this new
year, and will begin to do Bible quoting in public at an
unprecedented rate in Jesus name. Yes, not since Lincoln,
will we find a president who will be such a quoter of the
Bible, he is going to find verses and apply them to
national incidents and international situations. And
I'm praying for him that he's going to continue to drive the
Diviners mad according to Isaiah 43, and 44 and 45, that the
Spirit of the Lord upon him is going to cause the
prognosticators to go crazy because they cannot entrap him,
we call forth the anointing upon him. The anointing remember
this, the anointing is an oil. And that oil is an anointing of
heaven, that makes you slippery in the wrestling match with your
enemy, made this man be anointed with fresh oil from on high, so
that he's so slippery, the enemy can't get a hold of him, and he
keeps on eluding this snare of the fowler and the the net that
they said they fall into themselves. And the pit that
they dug, they fall into themselves, where it is not
against man that they are fighting. But as against that
whom he whom God has anointed. And who is man to question who
God has chosen all
black Jesus grabbed the wheel, but I can't wait. Is that black
guy? No, but But I talked to black Jesus.
That guy's an idiot.
We'll see. We'll see if the quote start coming or not. I'm
not gonna say he's an idiot. I don't speak to God. Yes, yeah.
I'm gonna leave all everything open.
I'm reminded of the river Papa off, pop off. was big anointing
in with oil, essentially. Yeah. Peter Popoff. You can look him
up. Peter Popoff, who was busted a number of times for having
plants in the audience that he healed. Or having microphones
or, you know, it was it's a whole thing is, is sketchy dude.
But he's huge, huge. Makes a lot more money than we do. And yeah,
even after being arrested.
Always so disappointing. So
Peter Popoff has this thing. Early on, when JC was working
for this show, we had a subscription to Peter pomp. He
sent him five bucks to get on the mailing list, because it's
their own rule. Anybody wants to get into direct marketing of any
sort. You want to find one of these guys who likes to send out
letters. Yeah. And Peter Popoff. So one of them, and you will get
probably a year's worth of email, not emails, but physical
letters with crap with little doodads inside and if it's in
sales pitches and different styles of trying to sell you
app. It's an education. It's like market research. It's
fantastic. Yes. I love this man.
That's hard. That's our reverend.
Yeah, pop up. He might have a mailing to that might be worth
collecting.
Well, well. With that. I'd like to thank you for your courage
and say in the morning to you John. C stands for collusion
time 16
to four as well. In the morning to yo Mr. Adam curry Vamana A in
a minute all ships and sea boots on the ground feet in the air,
substance and water and all the days and nights out there.
In the morning to Marcus couch who you brought us the artwork
was an evergreen that we chose for episode nine or nine or for
the title of the episode was sky grommet. And this was a very
nice piece is two goats. And as you know, we're we're big on the
goats these days because of our service goat. And the the goats
are eating the no agenda sign from the wall.
Yes, they would do naturally this was gonna do that's
what goats do. Thank you, Marcus, you can find Marcus's
artwork and every piece that we use for our album art, it's
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you very much to all of our artists for the work that they
do.
Yes, we want to thank and we have a number of fabulous
executive producers for today's show. And they came in with the
three of them as a matter of fact, or even with $1,000 each.
Sneeze at boom boom boom count two and boom count to two. Let's
start with the SIR Niels Niels Banneker who is also what's his
knighthood name you think you have it? Yes,
I have it here because he becomes a barren net today. Let
me see his he is Sir Niels of the hinterland.
Yes. Give me with $1,000 is Hey guys, happy New Year's and New
Year and happy 1000 and advance in j&k. Just happy you're
around. PS just finished watching the latest black. I
have a bone to pick.
Oh, the latest black mirror. I love me some black mirror.
This is was great. Thank you, Adam for recommending it way
back.
Oh, did you recommend it?
I not only recommended it, but I recommended it to you. Yes.
You told me even which episode to start with. If I can recall.
Yes. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And it came because I believe buzzkill
Jr. had been watching it. Now that my brain
was killed Jr. needs the credit. Yes. You were like third party
in this. Do you know,
the new season? We've already watched three of them is very
good. It's very good at but it keeps reminding me of our
favorite team that keeps bringing it up. And I know why.
Our favorite episode of Black Mirror is the one where everyone
has a rating that you can see above their head.
Oh, yeah, that one was very funny. Yeah, but when
you think about it, it's where we're at today. We've got
ratings for air b&b ratings for Uber, which I might add for some
reason. I am 4.98 Someone ding me I had a perfect five Uber
rating.
So somebody danger would happen. You think
when I think See, I think that Tina wrote on my account and she
probably sneered at somebody.
You're gonna blame her
that's what I that's my story. I'm sticking to it.
That's gonna go over tonight. Well, you have a dog house
around there. I'm in it, Brian. No such thing.
Ron, if anything, I'm riding on her coattails with that amazing
FICO score. She's got that's what I'm loving. That's good.
Yeah, so this is a good woman a keeper FICO above 800 Keeper.
Anyway, onward. Adam deal came in with 1000. Again, the boys
course we have show 1000 coming up. So these guys will all get
double, triple we've made triple producer credits. So you'll hear
there'll be a producer on today's show. Executive producer
on next Thursday show and on show 1000 It's a three peat and
I think we're also going to give that to anyway so Adam deal. I
really love all your hard work on the show. You've created a
great product that benefits its producers. I'd like to request
some get well karma for everyone in our office. Okay. We have a
flu season clip. Little boy I'm sick Shut up slave and jobs.
Karma is what he liked for his jingles and he wants to be
knighted as Knight of the facial hair.
Okay, I think we can take care of that.
I'm sick chefs slave
jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma
Sure, on a missive Dogpatch came in also with $1,000 and he sent
in a long note, which is
nice man. This guy is quite the supporter now.
These way up here, become our patron
and is he finally taking a And a peerage position Oh,
he's still takes is just going to expand what he has for his
knighthood at the end. Okay, it's gonna again NJ NK which is
January. Yes, that's correct. I would like to extend my nightly
tile to include both both Dogpatch and lower Slavia. Okay,
John, he's a fan. I don't think
I don't think there'll be any argument from the peerage
committee regarding those two spots.
No, though we're having this dispute currently is between
Baron Mark Tanner and our new Baron down there. Oh, yeah.
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No, this doesn't make any difference because you know,
this is not a tax deductible donation. Oh, yeah,
I know that.
But I think that's what he's maybe All right. Well, it's I
don't know if charitable contributions go into that same
$10,000 pot. That $10,000 pot is the way I see it is state income
tax. And property taxes and sales tax.
Not okay. Just because you know, Tina works at Ronald McDonald
House, the nonprofit world is really freaking out about this.
Well, they're not freaking out about that. Actually, the clip I
have discusses what they're freaking out about. And I
disagree with the reason for the free guide that I think that's a
left wing conspiracy. Just another jab at the president.
You want to do that. Now you can do that after we'll do it after
they'll do it. Afghans do it.
Now. We get to lotta guys. Thank you. Yes. Okay. Well, it is a
long day. We'll keep rolling. It's great. And I mean, great
analysis and research on the show and in the newsletters. I
know keeping it to three hours is important for many reasons.
So I use no show notes even more than before. Thank you. And
people should do that. Thank you and the producers to make the
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notes on Jerusalem included. The comment of an exodus of
Christians from Bethlehem says the Palestinian Authority took
over the place implying their governance may be the issue. I
am attaching a picture I took of the wall around Bethlehem to
protect Israelis from these terrible people. The wall is
around Bethlehem and notice the wire is angled toward the town.
And he's got a picture. Welcome to the birth place of the Prince
of Peace. Business consists of Muslim selling net negativities
to the Christian pilgrims wonder why Christians leave? Because
they can. It is a political blockade and it isn't the
Christians or Muslims doing it. Personally, I bought the nicest
damn to Holy Qur'an you've ever seen plus and great woodwork
nativity pieces? It's the economy stupid. I would like to
extinguish a wives tale about traveling to Israel. If you
travel to Israel, they ask if you want your passport stamped,
or just put on a piece of paper leaving your passport untouched.
That is a political question to reinforce the perspective that
Israel is persecuted around the world. If you traveled to Saudi
Arabia, Iran or Lebanon you cannot leave and have an Israeli
stamp. Lebanon is technically at war with Israel, Iran and South
Africa or just Iran and South Africa. I have been to Israel
many times it always get stamped. I use the same passport
for Jordan, the UAE Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Pakistan,
Egypt, Morocco and other Muslim and non Muslim countries like
any Asian or EU country gives a damn I have a bigger issue
getting into India with a Pakistani visa is right that any
other Muslim country including the ones mentioned with an
Israeli stamp, I'm
glad this guy's not a spook man because he's pretty obvious.
I am David. One of my passports had an Israeli stamp. I went
there a couple of times. And I went into the United Arab
Emirates and elsewhere and people would say how did you get
in? How did you get into the UAE you had an Israeli stamp oil,
please. And I said they didn't even kick say anything. Okay,
I've gotten weird looks when I had Moscow on my passport in 88.
I never got well maybe I didn't want to I gotta I gotta tell
you. Oh, yeah. So I go to Moscow. And this was again this
back like you're talking about ADA kind of before the fall
before the Hoffs brought the wall down. And so I go, I go
into this because I wanted to collect the stamp and but they
put this like staple a piece of paper in my pen. I support the
Russia side and stamped it. And so then I go on that when I
leave the weird thing was it was the exact same guy, which I
thought was peculiar. I
knew anyone, I remember you.
And he takes he never really give give much. So he tears out
this piece of paper and gives me behind your back my passport. So
then I come into London. And the guy's thumbing through my
passport. And he says,
oh, sorry, mate.
Where were you? He says there's nothing in here. I said, No, I
went to Russia. Ah, he just rolls his eyes and gives me my
passport back and I walk Yeah,
I think it was ah, where was I going? No, no, it was I had
Russia Moscow my passport and then they also had Kuwait City
because I went to Iraq that I don't know if it was maybe it
was the it was that the period when I was getting all that crap
coming into the country, I think remember that? Oh, yeah.
That was because of the guy with your name. Yeah. But it was
complicated. Sure, it was, hey, let's go back. So he said goes
on. He says hell I've been questioning leaving Israel about
why I traveled to some of these countries and who I know there
and why I'm in Israel. All Middle Eastern countries are
online with immigration See, they see where you've been and
sometimes put their stamps on the same page as Israel. Israel
seems to love stamping next to Pakistan always the biggest step
anywhere they want so who Pakistan dang right on top of it
and I don't assume is because they're both religiously based
countries founded the same year as part of the breakup of the
United Kingdom or that they were original arm suppliers to
Pakistan when they created the Taliban. Anyway no agenda
listeners are concerned with that and Israeli stamp means you
can't visit other Middle Eastern countries is bullcrap. A bull
crap wives tale maintained for political aim based on my
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Why don't you go ahead and tell everybody about our formula? Our
formula is this we go out we hit people in the mouth shut up all
right. Now we got to go to the charitable giving clips.
Yes, I have this has been a big deal in the news. We do have one
of our one of our who you're gonna meet with understand
eventually in Austin, who's going to give us the rundown to
try to meet with CPA, even for the rich in the San Francisco
area and he says that this is not a big not a big deal. I've
got a big pot of money for the rich he says it's going to make
things more complicated.
Can I get him to do my taxes? Well, no
if you want them to get it out of the state, I don't know if
you can meet up with a guy that much tomorrow. Talk to you he
probably knows some guys nearby. I don't know just ask him.
Thanks. Um, dude, the whole shows really want to take that
on in might? Okay, where's the charitable thing on his list?
Charitable giving one there's two of them. So charitable
giving. There's a couple of assumptions in here and this is
what Tina's freaked out about is what they're going to discuss.
Well, it's the season forgiving but nonprofits are bracing for a
potential drop in donations next year. The new potential signed
by President Trump last week changes the math for writing off
charitable contributions. Jan Crawford explains.
In the nation's capital, this charity serves hundreds of meals
daily to the needy, operating largely through charitable
donations. Under the new tax reform law, nonprofits like so
others might eat soon be taking a big hit.
We are absolutely concerned that tax reform and also just
confusion about what the new laws are going to be will impact
charitable giving.
Alright, so wait a minute, she talks like this with charitable
giving a charitable giving.
I know how to look at that. Yeah, so there is a lot of
confusion. Then the confusion that here's the way I heard it,
the confusion stems around that the charitable giving deduction
will be capped at $10,000 This is what I was told. Okay. And
that, that you know, therefore, maybe people will try it and
kind of like prepaying your your real estate tax that people try
to jam if you if you remind them of this fact that maybe they'll
donate more, but will it be a problem for 2018? This is what's
going on. So this is why we're doing the show to help people
understand. You're typing.
I'm typing. Yes, you can hear it. Yes. I don't believe what
you've heard. is true. Is true at all. Okay, great. Well,
that's good news. But that's not what the problem is. Okay. The
problem is, say here, the GOP has a $10,000. Cap on property
tax, property tax deductions, really property tax, sales tax,
and was the other ones the Oh, yeah. And income tax. Okay,
charitable giving. Here's what the problem is the way way I see
it so far. They are now offering such a big standard deduction
$25,000 for a couple for family here. But that's only if you
don't itemize. That's just the standard deduction, you get the
25 Grand, right. And you don't but now you can itemize. So you
can't take any charge.
Right? Because that would be a Schedule C itemized deduction.
You can't Yeah, you can't. You're out, you're been taken
out of the picture. So they believe that because so many
people will take this at 25,000 because they don't give that
much or anything else is a lot of money. And they want itemize
and so they won't give charitable
deductions. Ah, okay. Understand? Yes.
And that's supposed to that so in other words, is going to be
definitely going to drop down. The problem is people who take
that route probably don't give charitable deductions, that
charitable deductions anyway. And if they do, they're probably
just bags of clothes to Goodwill, and they get 20 bucks
a bag or whatever they write off. It's not that much. Let's
go to part two and then I'll then I'll bitch about the whole
thing. It's a
concern shared by nonprofits across the country because the
new tax law lowers incentives for people to donate, before
people could reduce their tax burden by writing off charitable
donations and itemizing them on their tax returns. Under the new
law, many middle class taxpayers No longer will need to itemize
it instead offers a bigger standard deduction doubled to
$12,000 for individuals and $24,000 for couples. But here's
the rub. If you don't itemize, you can't deduct your charitable
donations.
People will continue to give to charity, they just won't give as
much from the Los Angeles Times before we jump into it. They
state the following actually the title of this GOP tax reform
will devastate charitable giving. And here's how they
explain it. They say the here we go. The problem is that wild tax
cuts and the tax cuts and Jobs Act preserves the deductibility
of charitable charitable contributions preserves, it
restructures the system so that millions will lose incentives to
give. This is where I call bullcrap. Bullshit. People don't
always I just don't believe it, that people donate only because
they can deduct it from their taxes. I don't believe people do
it for that reason. I think people I'm waiting because they
want to give.
Okay, here's the Okay, they have it right. Except for the the
rationale.
Well, I'm sorry, there's a third, a third sentence. Most
people most this is LA Times fact check. Most people donate
from their hearts to causes they care about regardless of taxes.
It is undeniable, however, that the reward for giving will go
down and the cost of giving will go up. I don't think that's
on this kind of contradictory. It's
also not undeniable is not true. If you're getting a $24,000
increase in your money, then maybe that will actually
stimulate giving.
Yes, because you'll have extra cash more money. Exactly. It's
possible they could go the other way. And the other thing is that
these guys and Ronald McDonald be one of them. They really
really Ronald McDonald
House Charities, please.
Exactly. Is one of them. They get they're looking for the big
boys. The big boys that guys would give 10 grand people who
give 100 grand people give a quarter of a million people will
give 5000 That to me as a high donor. And those people usually
are rich. Yeah. And they're deducting everything. They're
not going with the standard deduction that's not worth their
time. Right. Right. They have an accountant who can just write
off every little piece of anything, except you know,
certain things where there's the caps the caps are on sales tax.
Hmm, income tax and property tax. Right. So that's kind of a
GIF. Although you can at least have two pieces of property.
That's
racist man. The gimp racist.
Yes, racist GOP a racist, so. So, I agree with you. And I
think that when you listen to this report, they're all doing
the same thing, because they're all left wingers, that this is
all just anti Trump propaganda, your numbers are going down
because of Trump, what they conclude,
and the more I think about it, because you make a big
statement, like, you know, all the charities are going after
the big boys. While yes, that is true. The majority of certainly
of that particular organization who are all their own chapters,
they don't get anything from from, from the burger place,
there's no money flowing, except for you, if you drop some coin
in the, in their little box there next to the drive thru
window,
then I'm gonna if you're gonna go in, I know where you're going
with this. And if you're gonna go in that direction, and I will
say, if people go to church, and they pass that thing around and
put a fiver in there half the time, you don't even remember to
deduct it from your taxes anyway, exactly.
But I was just going to say that a lot of charities work on a
local level, and the people who who send 500, or even 50, but
you know, 1000, or five, or five, those really do add up at
the end of the year. And then there's a lot of targeting to
get people to do that. You know, the discussion, I think is
small, you know, should we remind people that it's, you
know, that it's their tax deductible donation? I
personally, I don't think that that that matters, because as
you say, the big boys, they deducted anyway. And the
individuals and oh, yeah, I'm not so sure that they, they're
thinking about that.
Well, now I'm going to reveal a dirty little secret about the
show. And our tax deductible, non tax deductible status, we
pay all of our tax that we take the money comes in as simple
income and not a gift or anything else and is not and we
don't get a 5013 C is 501 C three or any of these things and
let me just say when JC when she buzzkill Jr was researching, we
were did a lot of research on it, you know, solicit and read
all the classic books, and it and one and he looked at all
these crazy studies that these people did. And I kind of laugh
to myself when I see one of the podcasts go on about oh, we're
tax deductible 5013. So
why would you want to do that? Why would you want the
government? Well, what you can do,
that's part of the reason you don't want to do it, because
there's a lot of rules, and you got to file more paperwork, and
we already filed too much. And it turns out that you get less
money.
If you're an if your charitable tax deductible donation type of
organization, if you
take a and b and they're both pretty much the same operation.
One is tax deductible once not the one that's not collects more
money, really, this was researched? Ah. And I thought
about this and I say why would that be that? Because it's kind
of a lower Look, look, you can write it off your taxes. Yeah.
Turns out that there's a psychological barrier. And it
turns out that people think that if you're a nonprofit, you're,
you're going to be a low end. I don't know if they think you're
gonna be low end. But it's like, you know, like, you're, it's
something that something has psychological about it that
prevents you from donate, if you had that same. We're talking
about two podcasts that are in a B, same situation. The one that
is no, no, we don't do that gets more money.
That is a very dirty secret, John.
Once it is, and once I heard that, I think but I we reveal
most of our information to our
including including our income, we give you the numbers on the
show. You show
get a calculator, you can add them up. Anyway. So when I heard
that, I said, Well, there's the now I thought there was zero
reason to ever get one of these exemptions. Because it's not
only a pain in the butt. It's not only a lot of extra
paperwork, it's not only letting the government in it is
counterproductive.
I think that's our promo donee no to the no agenda show. not
tax deductible. Right.
That's what Dogbert anonymous, Anonymous was discussing. II
mentions it because we've talked about because people everyone's
all right in, I get the kick out of it. The guy writes in, hey,
I'm going to guide deduct this off my taxes. I said, No. Why
not? I said because we're not a 501 C three, and he wants to
become a 501 C three and I can deduct that okay. are what you,
you know, you're going to give us some you're gonna give us has
some help or not. But very few people have.
I've heard people way back in the beginning of the of our
value for value system, people will say, hey should make a tax
deductible. But there you
go, those are the same people who said we should have
advertisers.
Yes. And more interviews.
Guests, guests. Guests
donate to no agenda. It's not tax deductible. version two,
that's even better.
There may be another that actually may be a real,
psychologically may be oh, those poor guys aren't tax deductible.
This works even better than me. You don't know what's causing me
we got to do
this donate to no agenda. We're not tax deductible. One of the
one of those will work we got to do some ABC testing.
So yeah, well, we but anyway, the research has been done. And
that's what the research has covered. So all you podcasters
out there who are looking at this as a business model for I
don't know why I don't know why. But if you were, that's a little
tidbit for you that no other no other show will reveal.
Donate to no agenda, or only in it for the money.
And by the way, the funny thing is about no other no other
podcast will reveal this sort of information. Because no other
podcast knows anything.
None of them know nothing. I should have thought a double
negative and that's even better.
Anyway, let's go to charitable giving to Oh, I thought we
didn't we just play charitable giving to that I lost track of
the whole show. Well, okay, I'll play
it again, just to make sure
37 share by nonprofits across the country. That's because the
new tax law lowers incentives for people to donate, before
people could reduce their tax, writing off charitable donations
and itemizing them on their tax returns. Okay.
All right. So we played the reason I wanted to play it
because we're playing that second part or even have it was,
I am in total agreement with you. I do not think people are
donating to anything including this show. Because they because
they're incentivized by the government. Thank you. Thanks,
really, in a nutshell. If I, if there's some cause around here
that I feel like what's like you in the five bucks to everybody
who says Hello, yeah. You're not writing that off? I should?
Well, maybe you are. Believing he can't it's actually not a
write
off. No, it's not. They're not a charitable organization.
You're not a 501 C. Oh,
there's another there's another hook for you guys out there
without homes. Yeah, get make yourself a 501 C three. See if
it works.
Can you imagine that overhead? Oh, my God. But,
but it's true. I mean, I happen to know Ronald McDonald House
people donate is always the same. But they hadn't
experienced they haven't. They hadn't experienced someone they
know how to experience. And that's why they do it. It's
never I've never ever heard someone say I'm so happy and
give to them. We can deduct it. Yeah. So anyway, there you go.
We've just debunked an entire talking point.
Yeah. Now of all the charities go down the tubes this next
year.
We're wrong is john@dvorak.org is what it is. But I
don't think that we are I think that charity if it goes down 10%
I'd be surprised. I you know,
we can there's five oh, there's a form 990s Well, we'll know
we'll be able to see how they did. Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. But
well, let me get into some social justice warrior stuff
here for a moment cuz we got some good stories coming out.
Then the first one is from two San Diego State University
professors who contributed a chapter to a new anthology that
argues that farmers markets are, quote, insidious white spaces
where food consumption habits of white people are normalized.
But yeah, it's it's basically ever been to the Georgia Atlanta
farmers market. But anyway, go on. Well,
they're in San Diego. Well, while Farmers markets are just
some yuppies farmers market and make Yes, the generalizing
Yes, while Farmers markets are often established as a way of
fighting food deserts in low income areas. The professor's
claimed that 44% of San Diego's Farmers markets are located in
census tracts with high levels of gentrification.
So they're racist, the kind of that's their race. That's very
racist.
There's well they're saying Farmers markets are racist.
Yeah. Well, let them see what they want. I'll tell you this.
One of the most sensitive areas about this Berkeley California
has a dynamite farmers market. Yeah. And they're not giving it
up.
We got a good farmers market here and my buddy Kevin the
homeless. Yeah, you Have a good farmers market and homeless
homeless Kevin works there on Saturdays now they got all the
they got guys hanging out work and doing stuff it's all these
little little farmers they really come in with their truck
you know it's not it's not a douchebag type of farmers market
I don't think so.
Well maybe in San Diego they have a douchebag this called the
douchebag Farmers Market douchebags Farmers Market
okay
in my ever increasing quest to find out why and what's just
what's going on with young couples not having children but
having dogs The Wall Street Journal had an article and it's
it's disturbing because you know, we need because they treat
the dog like a baby that's the part that's the most disturbing
and here it is. This is honestly what company was this this was a
I see. Okay, this is some outfit in New York City. M particle and
must sounds like a.com operation but okay. As Americans
increasingly this is from the Laura Pino, head of talent
acquisition at M particle in New York. As Americans increasingly
treat their pets like furry children. Employers are
responding by extending family benefits to pets. The trend is
especially strong in New York City, where the colors were the
closest many come to having a child is buying a Schnauzer we
offer maternity and paternity leave. And a pet is another
member of the family. We don't discriminate just because they
aren't human. So now we have pa maternity leave.
Oh my god. Yes, sir.
So when you get your new dog, you get a paternity leave. equal
to that of of actually passing a human being out of your vagina.
Same thing, and you get paternity leave to a cat. tunity
Wow, that well the cat has paws paternity.
What about a bird? What about a parrot?
Well, look to me now. You get the idea. We're off the rails.
This is really not cool. And again, I see
when these guys these guys. This is a $76 million funded you
looked it up good. Operation that does that does big data for
mobile.
She's so they gotta keep the millennials happy. Yeah, they
gotta keep the millennials happy. Okay, got it. That makes
sense. But again, I'm the face bag. And they
probably by the way, I would say it's because it's a Silicon
Valley style operation, even though it's in Manhattan. was
even more expensive. They don't want anyone with kids. These
people did these. Most of these companies and they children
because you can't work your asses off.
Right? That's right. Go ahead. Have a dog take a week off.
That'll keep you they'll keep you really productive. Yeah, I
think you're right.
Encourage this,
but then I get I'm just
human beings.
I see. My buddy Rudy sarzo. He's the heavy metal bass player with
his Merry Christmas Happy holidays on the face bag with
him and the Yorkie
that even his wife is horrible. All right. Then I have something
new in the UK. It's kind of what we are witnessing here. More
political correctness the
British military has caused a stir by watering members of the
armed forces to use gender neutral language
caused a stir I wonder as a phrase from the chaise. Where do
you think that comes from? caused a stir?
Well, it has sexual overtones.
It does once you look that up while I play the clip,
the military has caused a stir by watering members of the armed
forces to use gender neutral language.
These new guidelines are all about avoiding gendered
language. So we've heard that posters have gone up in the
toilets of one particular airbase that trains recruits for
the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force and for the army, but it
got in touch with the MO D to find out all about the new
phrases and they have said that they are promoting a modern,
inclusive working environment to ensure individuals are
recognized and feel valued. Now the guidelines were written by a
unit called the joint equality, diversity and inclusion unit,
which troops reportedly called Jedi for short. That diversity.
I love that. Star Wars reference with the J It is stuff beautiful
and inclusion units, which troops reportedly called Jedi
for short. But diversity and inclusion is a big issue for the
British Army right now. To put this all into context, last
year, women were finally able to take up combat roles in the
army. And from the end of next year, women will be able to
apply for all the same positions as men in the British forces.
So the words you know, you're not allowed to use no, man you
have to say person you know, the typical stuff is not a housewife
but a homemaker.
I can't find out the etymology yet. Oh, really? But it seems to
has a did you bring a means get excited?
Did you bring it?
I'm bi being dead. Okay, being dead, man.
Gotta bring it baby.
And the Oxford stuff to try to find some. Because the stir
tends to be I'm sure it has something to do with this.
Literally stirring with a wooden spoon to cause a stir. Now why
am I all right? All right. All right. I
have I have something from the face bag for you today. I
brought that to the show. But yes, but I'm not going to read
something to you.
By the way stir also. It has the meaning in an 18th century of
jail. Hmm. But in prison, for example, it not it could be
using it as a noun as I've spent 20 years in stir stir.
I don't think that's what they're talking about with no, I
don't think so. either. Okay, onward.
Okay. This is a friend of mine. And not just the face bag
are always a friend of yours or you wouldn't be reading these as
correct.
So they are face bag friends, but he's a friend. I consider
him a friend. But I think we actually did something with him
on pod show back in the day. This is David Ippolito. David,
who is also known as that guitar got man from Central Park. Then
if you go on a Saturday or a Sunday when the weather's warm
enough, he'll be out there he's usually in the same spot. He's
got his guitar is little amp battery powered, he gets a
license. And he does busker he's well he's he's really a great
entertainers beyond a busker? Because he doesn't where there's
little places people can sit on the hill, and he gets everyone
to sing along and there's dancing and it's as he collect
money, yes, he doesn't ask for it. But people but he but people
give him money. But that is that is how he survives value for
value proposition unlike a lot of things. But he's beyond the
budget.
People can make a lot of money as a busker. If they get the
right location. So it's like, sorry, location, location
locations, right.
So at the end of every year, he does a concert indoors. I think
he did it at the when it was still around the Beacon Theater
because at different venues. And people buy tickets and it's
packed and it's great. And it's it's really nice. Yeah, musical
celebration, and he and he writes most of his own material.
Then he also does funny parody songs. Now, the only problem
with my friend David is he is the largest Trump hater in the
universe. But I mean, very, very. In fact, some of the
comments that I read on the show from the face bag are from his
feed. I think the Melania thing men when she was wearing her
high heels. And that was a big problem. No, don't remember.
Yeah, she's wearing her heels to go to see the go to the
hurricane area. People like ADD, she's wearing heels.
She took her heels off.
Okay, but I'm just giving you Okay, fine. Sometimes. So this
is an excerpt from his beer and show. Then it's a new song that
he was working on. And it'll just and just listen to the
words and listen to the audience and you will appreciate the
power of the bag.
It's just us
I'm exhausted from this year. But I have to tell you guys
something and I know it's not popular.
I'm a straight male born this way. No, I'm serious. And I'm
walking down a Broadway and just like apologizing to people.
Starting to understand the dimension he lives in. Oh, yeah.
Okay.
But lately, and I know I'm not alone. Lately, I've been
experiencing an emotion that is new to this straight men. And I
have a feeling it might not just be straight men. It's new to me,
but I bet women and gay people and lesbians and transgender I
bet you everybody, or a lot of people are feeling this emotion.
And I didn't know what to do with it. So I'm working on a
love song. And it's not done but I'm gonna you might be feeling
this too showing you once again that my parents had five kids,
and only four of them had pride.
And where would I be without your sharp mind? Turn on TV
hoping you'll find more collusion with Putin in 2016 I
swear I've never felt like this before. About another special
prosecutor. Like the high school. Bob Muller would I mean,
that man with a bird's nest on top of his head. Me and my
friends seeing red. All of us are hoping you find each crime
and misdemeanor to Indane there are in tweener. All of us,
sincerely hoping you through your investigation. Nail that
whole industry like me, and minutes I'm getting a crush
on you.
And that's we're gonna go on from there.
I think that kind of sums it up.
Or in Jena? orangeries. It's okay to ridicule somebody's
appearance. Yes,
no, it's preferred is the preferred way to do it.
If it's tricky. Yeah, make sure.
So everyone's just so hopeful that Bob Muller is going to do
something.
So we were watching the thing. Mimi's here and we're watching
the news. And she says, because I didn't know so we watch the
CBS
orange wiener by the way. Orange wiener? Yeah, not enough orange
and even worse wiener. Shut his penis shaming.
She says Mueller it's pronounced and Mueller. And I said because
they're because CBS, NBC and ABC pronounced his name Amala.
Mahler. Yes. Now I said that the show we prefer the word Muller,
so I can do the bit. Muller
right. And I say Miller, because that's how we pronounce that in
Texas.
But it's Muller. Yeah. Just so so your songwriter should be
told and
I'll make sure I'll make sure to tell him that that was the only
thing wrong with it.
Yeah, exactly. The only thing wrong is you're not pronouncing
the guy's name right. You're insulting him by mispronouncing
his name. Mueller Mahler.
Man, you know, we have good ideas on this show. And we had a
great idea. It was so stupid on we didn't execute surprise.
Remember the whole idea of no agenda tents? Yes. was a great
idea. No, it's
a good idea. Well,
we've been usurped. There's, there's somebody. Oh, yeah.
There's this project in Brussels called the origami project. And
these guys have foldable cardboard tents for the
homeless. They're beautiful.
Cardboard. Yes. Yes. So it can't get rained on. No, no, no. Yeah.
It was some plan,
but they're completely flat. And then they fold out into the, you
know, like a tripod type tent. You know, like a pup tent. Yeah.
And they fold out and they'd like a harmonica. And that's
perfectly we could have had our logo. Everything is
cheap. Monica, yeah.
Yes, exactly like that. No, like a what do you call it? An
accordion?
Thank you. That's because in Holland you say a pull a pull
harmonica. That's why it's literally called a pool
harmonica.
Well, it's kinda sounds like one. Yeah.
But it's what a great idea was it was not for the is a tent
made out of cardboard.
I think it'd be funny. Well, sad, but I don't think anyone
would not appreciate it. Because where are these tents coming
from? By the way, somebody pointed this out. There are so
many tents now.
Just because you're homeless doesn't mean you don't have a
job or income.
A lot of them do. Yeah, you
just can't. You can't afford a home.
Okay, here's a couple of things about this homeless. Oh,
actually, I have some homeless clips. Let's, let's run, run.
Let's get this newest homeless information based on a Guardian
wrote a big piece on how we're handling the homeless in this
country. And I one thing I wanted to do, and I didn't do
it, I'm gonna do it now. Or you can do it. Look, I'm gonna get
the date of hands across America. Oh, that was the 80s
Hands Across America was going to end. Homelessness.
Homelessness. Yes. May 25 1986 Hands Across America that when
approximately 6.5 million people held hands in a human chain for
15 minutes along a path across the contiguous United States. I
don't think they ever had made the chain. I don't think it
actually worked at it. I thought it failed.
No, it did. It was a fail. Yeah.
Not Not according to Wikipedia. Bless you. Yeah. It's yeah, they
say
they had some bull crap stuff they pulled to make it so that
chain didn't need you know what? That word in the mountains, they
should have had like a nine volt battery on one end and see if it
would shock all the way to the end.
No, I do a light bulb. Anyway, so this is the homeless report.
And they blame Reagan. And really, I think you can blame
Carter, you can blame anybody for this. But it started with
some changes in some government policies, I think was
exacerbated.
Wait a minute, you're telling me that homelessness and because of
some government policy change? How about rents? Are the rents
too high? And the wages too low? How about that? Why did what did
the government do?
They changed the low income, some low income housing loaning
requirements, okay. And that's all but also triggered because
Democrats tried to fix this, even though they may have been
the ones causing it. They tried to fix it by forcing loans,
which became those out of bounds loans that brought the economy
down in 2008. Thanks, Obama. And Obama didn't happen before
Obama. I'm just kidding. Thanks, Obama. Anyway, if why not? It's
a mess, and it's not getting any better and the chance to crush
America didn't do crap. No additional let's play a couple
of homeless clips. This is the first clip is homeless bust out.
Today we talk about a new investigation by the Guardian
that looks at how cities struggled to solve the problem
of homelessness throughout the year, and found many have come
to rely on an old solution, a one way ticket out of town.
Relocation programs that offer homeless people free bus tickets
to move elsewhere have been around for at least three
decades. But as the homeless population rises for the first
time since the Great Recession, relocation programs are becoming
more common and are expanding to more cities.
In its investigation. The Guardian closely examined these
homeless relocation programs by compiling and analyzing a
database of more than 34,000 bus trips or flights taken by
homeless people out of their cities. They found the journey
provided a route out of homelessness for some that many
eventually returned to the city they'd left this is 27 year old
Quinn graver, who traveled nearly 2300 miles over three
days from San Francisco to Indianapolis by bus, only to
return.
I wasn't expecting to come back to San Francisco as soon as I
did, but I knew I was going to end up coming back eventually.
The roughest part about being homeless is the wear and tear
from the concrete and the constant walking and it's hard
to use the restroom because a lot of businesses don't want
homeless people in their restrooms and messing them up.
You know, it really breaks you down. I don't know if I would
ask Homeward Bound for a ticket again just because I know that
you're not really supposed to ask for more than one but if
they you know if they wouldn't be willing to help I'd ask them
you know.
So they're busting everybody out. We know this.
Yeah, we've talked about this in the past I think. Yeah, but they
get it
they've got some more complete information. So apparently the
Guardian is doing a lot of research on this as some guy is
actually local. Here's in San Francisco, but this listen to
him for a minute is to homeless too.
For more we're joined in San Francisco by Alastair G. The
homelessness editor for The Guardian. The new investigation
by the team had left
out Is that do you think they advertise with that job title?
Yeah, we need a homelessness homeless editor. No, no, no, I
mean homeless. Oh, thanks. We're
joined in San Francisco by Alistair Ricci, the homelessness
editor for The Guardian the new investigation by the outside and
America team headlined bust out.
That whole sequence of words is pretty astounding. The
homelessness editor party just listen to it one more time,
Francisco
by austerity, the homelessness editor for The Guardian, the new
investigation by the outside and America team headlined bust out
how America moves. It's healthy outside
America team outside in America outside in America team team.
Let me see your papers less
austere, welcome to Democracy Now just lay out what you found.
Thank you so much for having me. Well, we made dozens of public
records requests. And our goal was to really understand what
effect these bus programs were having on the homeless
population in America. Cities, of course, would say that these
programs are a really great way to offer people more stability.
It's a way to reconnect people with family or with friends in
other locations and, and perhaps offer them a route out of
homelessness. And we found that well, in some cases, that was
that was certainly what happened. For some people, it
certainly was a way to greater stability. For others, it wasn't
quite that simple. We found cases where people simply became
homeless at their destination. In some instances, they even
became homeless again in the city from which they had
departed. So the story really isn't quite as simple. And it
really isn't quite as rosy a picture as cities would portray.
According to a new federal study, the US homeless
population, as we said earlier, Rose this year for the first
time since the great recession. What do you know about why that
is and what the impact of that has been?
Right? That's that's a really good point. Well, the rise has
been driven, in particular by the trends that we're seeing on
the West Coast. And that's to do with a rental affordability
crisis. Everywhere from Seattle down to Los Angeles and San
Diego. It's simply becoming impossible for people earning,
certainly minimum wage, but even even wages above that. It's just
it's it's very, very difficult to afford somewhere to live. So
that's what's really driving the trend. And I think that the
picture though, is in the background here. And it's been a
constant elements of the homelessness crisis in the US is
a long term federal under investment in affordable
housing, something that was was really begun. These cuts in the
Reagan era, in the opinion of advocates has never really been
properly been redressed. Oh, that'll
be fixed with with Ben Carson.
Right, it would have been fixed by the speed, which was started
during the Reagan administration. What happened
during the Clinton administration, what happened
during the Obama administration? How can they they're in for Ben
bush? 16? You know, I'm keeping with the Democrat side. Yes.
Because because there was this is clearly blaming Republicans,
so Bush wouldn't count. So but you did have 16 years of
Democrats running the place, could have done something there.
And there's a lot of blame to be pushed on all sides. When Mimi
was running for city council. She also solicited the church,
there's a bunch of holes, there's homeless issues, not a
big one, but as a small one, which makes it very manageable
in Port Angeles, where there's maybe 20 or 30 people, and she
solicited the churches to you know, because there's some
certain laws that allow homeless to be settled on church parking
lots or something. As she solicited all the churches in
town, and she went, she got a response from none. None of them
wanted to help. No one wanted to help. And although like, and
then Eric apparently pulled something similar with all the
churches either in Port Townsend or Seattle, and got one response
out of I don't know 50 more. Thanks, Obama. And so these
churches aren't doing anybody any favors, and they don't seem
to care. Although the the argument against the do I mean,
the arguments being thrown out. Are you doing stuff for kids in
Africa? Yeah. Yeah. That's the argument. Yes. So all we do
Ethiopia,
about you're doing stuff for dreamers.
You're doing stuff for everyone but the homeless, everyone hates
these people. And hate that homeless. No, you don't. Yeah,
but you had an encampment next door across the street or
I have an encampment, it's called Second Street. It's
filled with homeless people asking for money.
And I'm sure you give each one five bucks as you go by because
that's what you do.
I just don't go outside anymore. Where are you? Saving money?
Thanks. So I need the money to pay for my rent in Austin
because of all the Californians who came here. It's the rent
here is we have what do you call that a rental affordability
crisis?
Yes. I'm sure you do. Yeah. Now. Wait, I had this one last clip
of a home another homeless person on this report, which
went on for like a half hour. And I was thinking what kind of
a situation is this poor woman in because, I mean, everything
that happened to her is just so negative, including well play
this clip.
And this is Rose Thompson, a 58 year old woman who relocated
from Florida to West Virginia. She told The Guardian, she went
back to Key West only three weeks after leaving.
I had a seizure. My heart stopped at the soup kitchen. So
I wanted to go back to West Virginia and stay with my
daughter. They were staying in a three bedroom trailer. And then
her little boys slept on the couch for hours asleep. And so
they wanted me to go to a homeless shelter and plan and
want to stay in a homeless shelter in West Virginia because
I don't know anybody up there anymore. From the time I left
here to the time I got back, it was exactly three weeks.
Was that her own family who didn't want her? Yes. Oh, God.
So she goes to live with her daughter and a three bedroom
trailer. Which I which is really a double wide double wide. Yeah.
And whichever, whichever nice, you can live nicely in a double
wide you can wrong you can get by until a Tornado rips it apart
or
that's what they're for their props for the weather report.
And yeah, you can it's it's livable. And I guess, I don't
know, maybe she's irascible would family kicked her out.
Sad, sad story home and then she didn't like the socio the
sociology of the homeless place there because she didn't know
anybody she says. So she went back to Key West which is
Rousteing Key West that was part of this report. Key West Florida
is rousting all the homeless and they're doing is making their
lives miserable and getting them out of there. So this we're not
going to do very well there and it's just a mess these poor
people and they get into the cycle and they're screwed. I
will
say in Austin though, and there you go. It's Austin. We have
this community first village which is underwritten by Mobile
Loaves and Fishes. Which is a it's mainly a religious group,
but they built this 27 acre planned community with tiny
homes and they you know, they basically re integrate homeless
people in and around Austin into a you know, a living community
and then you know, they get jobs they have to do they have to do
things they get paid addresses address which is a big deal. And
it's a it's it apparently is very successful. But the
homeless
movement is a big deal we're thinking about put some on some
property we have up in Port Angeles
Oh for homeless people know for millennials Hey, I got an
Airstream I'd like to put up there that's a good idea. By the
way, that's a great
problem if I look at the housing situation you know the towns are
in and around Berkeley have in Berkeley to that you could see
that years ago they had a ratcheting system where you can
get into a cheap house like a one that one bedroom cottages
and there's still a number of them in the area that are you
know, in the regular tractor one bedroom cottage or they used to
go you guys used to be able to mine for $15,000 or less in the
70s and now they're 300 $400,000 Yeah, but it's still not what
you average the median in the Bay Area is $750,000 for
everything crazy but there's no point you can't Rach it very
easily What
do you mean by ratchet? Like being on the property ladder?
No, no? Yeah, well, right Yeah. You'd be on the you ratchet by
you buy a house
value goes up you sound like you buy a new one. Bigger. Yeah,
yeah, right. Yeah, got it. You ratchet Leonardo da Vinci
invention. Yeah, he
did that I know he was very big in real estate know that ratchet
boom, count for your fast that was good.
Um, fast, fast, fast. So anyway, so you rat you ratchet up and
you get into bigger and bigger places. And that's what I mean.
That's what you used to do. My parents did it. And we always
lived comfortably. But if you don't have the bottom layer,
which would be tiny homes that are not just not we're not
talking about tiny dinky little pieces of crap. Like they have
the television well, but you know, some thing that's actually
reasonable ones,
the ones on the TV these things are 4050 $1,000
Yes, they're overpriced crazy. And it's like 40 square feet.
Yeah. It seems like the smaller the less square footage you
have, the more expensive they are.
Yeah, that's just that's some sort of scam I can't figure out.
But there's no way of getting into the market. I mean, you
could do it if you I lectured some kid on this, and Mazal just
reveal the lecture. So anyone out there listening young or
millennial listeners, but this guy was working in Silicon
Valley, and he and I met him at a Lexus event. precedent.
Oh, thank God, it was oppressive. And we're like his
press Saturday. I can't wait to go to the Lexus swap meet.
Well, that'd be cool. But the Lexus event first roll out,
they're rolling something out. And this guy's a writer, and his
wife works in Silicon Valley. He's in Silicon Valley. And he
says to me, just casually, I'm never going to be able to buy a
house. And I said, why I said that's bullcrap. You work, your
wife works. You don't have any kids. And you didn't have
student loans, I don't think but it was just like to get into a
house. I think at the time, you needed a downpayment, probably
around 40 grand. And you had to have good credit at that point.
Yeah, but I think 40 grand, so you had that 40 grand. I said,
I'm telling you, you got to do the following thing. Stop going
to restaurants, stop buying iPhones, spend two years just
starving to death and save 40 grand, get 40 grand in the bank.
Do whatever you have to do. Don't be like a typical
millennial throwing money away and dumb crap, which is what
they all do, by the way. And just save that 40 grand and get
into a house start the process of ratcheting. And then you'll
be fine for the rest of your life. And then you can actually
live on the on the profits of the house. And then you can go
buy all this crazy stuff Millennials like so much. It's
overpriced. Yeah,
that is not the methodology we're being taught. We have been
taught reversed saving, which is credit. That's you get it and
why worry? Why save and wait, get it now. Get it now on the
nevernever?
Yes. And then you end up being the guy standing there saying I
will never own a house and you won't with that attitude. That's
correct. But I own a house. My Airstream is a house.
Yes, you could after this show folds. After I've given away the
store with all this secret information.
And all sudden, all podcasts are taken our lunch money. Yes, yes.
Then I live in that.
I'm going to show my school by donating to no agenda. Imagine
all the people who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be fine.
And in fact, we do have some people to thank. And, and and,
you know, the funny thing is that there's a lot of funny
things. Yeah, the funny thing is about you know, my just somebody
because you got the Windows machine now, Microsoft has a
thing. It's you, you find the setting, you're supposed to hit
the Ctrl key and a big giant circle pops up on the screen
know about this? No. Yeah, big giant circle pops up the screen
showing you where your mouse is.
I have control key put but there's no circle popping
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go to the mouse settings. And it tells you to do this. It's a box
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circle pops up around the
Okay, I'm looking at the mouse settings and I need additional
mouse settings I guess Microsoft is very interesting.
Very everything it's unbelievable. Let me see click
Lock
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it flashed for a moment just doesn't work right. Oh, it's
it's lame.
When it worked when it used to work on the older versions of
Windows it would be a big giant circle and it would get would
come on for good two seconds. Now you can find the article
flashes only once like if I hit the Ctrl key now sucks. This is
false advertising.
No we used to work let me restart the computer. It won't
help but we do have a few people think that start with
me while I return this piece of crap option off this is not
even on it might work again when they do an upgrade Okay. not
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Yep. I think so.
I have a I don't know what you want to do here at the end. But
I do have a couple of things kind of DOD report education
related.
Okay, we can do that. I got a short clip. I can play yes. Do
something. Yeah, this is like I'm watching KQED the local
educational channel and they're doing it they got a you know, a
couple of minutes to kill so they get these stupid promotions
in between the two hour mark throwaways. So I got this one.
And I thought about it. It was only actually I thought was
stupid. So I clipped it. And then I as I thought more about
it. I said oh, okay, I understand it. Play urbanize
shrink. Okay, we'll do that. So
big padding at the beginning, the planet is in a precarious
place. And we need to learn to live more compactly in cities
and in a more pedestrian walking type way. And if we can make
urban living, exciting and joyful and engaging, then we can
save the planet. So it's a pretty simple mission.
Where you got to, first of all, I want to help save the planet,
what do I need to do? You need
to jam yourself into the New York City in a tenement that
burns to the ground because some little kid was playing with
matches. Damn. Now, that's first thing that came to mind and just
juxtapose this with the with that clip, but I didn't even
bother with that clip. Because there's nothing deconstruct. But
then I thought about it. This is a plug for the Matt Damon movie.
Ah,
what movie is this?
This is where he shrinks down to? Oh, yeah. And if you listen
to it, and think of the Matt Damon movie, worry, he shrinks
down. And he's a whole new world because they're all living in
his little bitty cities. And all that sort of thing kind
of looks like a fun movie.
I have to it kind of does. But it's kind of creepy. No dove is
going to do very well. Because it's like, there's these movies
that seem like a fun movie. And then you think about it, we go,
That's kind of creepy. I mean, somebody could come along and
just step on the whole community killed 1000s of people. And you
know what happens when the NAT gets in there? So, but play it
again, it's short. It's only a couple of 20 seconds. And think
of that Matt Damon movie.
Oh, it still has that big padding
at the beginning. So the planet is in a precarious place. And we
need to learn to live more compactly in cities and in a
more pedestrian walking type way. And if we can make urban
living, exciting and joyful, engaging, then we can save the
planet. So it's a pretty simple mission.
plug for the movie. There was someone
else who said that we missed a plug for a movie
that I think we're dropping the ball on a lie. We are
we are it was the end. It was for the new. I want to say it
was it Steven Spielberg movie. What's his new movie?
Well, he's got some coming out. You're right.
And there was something now I'm looking for it. I cannot find
this email, which is pissing me off there was some big store
somebody in the chat room will know the new Steve Steven Spiel
already Ready Player
One? What is? Oh, yes, I think it was the the war on gaming.
That's what it was. Yes, that's okay. So the war on gaming is,
and we received a lot of emails about this, as I expected from
our producers. In fact, I'll read this first one from
producer Daniel. He says Adam, the trashing of gamers has
nothing to do with the lack of advertising and I say that with
all due respect. I know next to nothing about this world, but
I'm a hardcore gamer. I can comment on this topic with
confidence you have standing my friend. The Trump movement
success could greatly be attributed to gamers due to
their online discussion of GamerGate and the influence of
social justice warriors on video games as well as their
participation in the MGT O W online movement. What is that
MGT O W
mg and he I have no idea but somebody the chat multi
game or something or other. The MGT O W online movement these
two movements snowballed into this movement snowballed into a
full on troll movement that pushed Donald Trump as a direct
response to the SJW bullshit currently infecting our video
games. TLDR gamers have been blamed for Trump's election and
now the media is trying to paint us as crazy. Oh, by that. Wow.
And he has a number of links Rolling Stone tracing links
between GamerGate GamerGate Trump's supporters All right,
CNET. GamerGate Donald Trump American Nazis how video game
culture blew everything up motherboard vise under Trump
GamerGate can stop pretending it was about games Breitbart
leftist think GamerGate caused Donald Trump maybe they're
right. The interesting
that's very interesting that I've not I didn't get that note.
I don't think forward that to me, because I'm gonna look at
those articles I might get
there in the show notes, but I will forward it to you. And then
this then the the the other concept and
by the way, it just seems they're blaming everything.
Trump is not you know,
you know who's next podcasters We're done for podcasters We're
done for
is heavy metals fault here.
It's the pod. I'm tried watching that Wilson. myth movie.
Speaking of heavy metal
Ah, you talking about the Will Smith net fluorescent bright
bright right yeah as I say don't deal dim it should be the dim
this horrible is I couldn't get horribly acted as though Will
Smith didn't even want to be in the movie it turned
into like Lord of the Rings and I'm out then yeah it's like it's
like Netflix looked at their algo and said okay here's what
people like they like action movies with Will Smith they like
Lord of the Rings I know that put the two together even idea
here's they had a meeting about that that was really rough very
very hard hmm
I will say mind hunters is a really very good I like that a
lot and there's this another one Mimi turned me on to and it is
good. And but the title is unmemorable something the
mischievious Mr. And Mrs. Molly or something it's about a
comedian is it's about the era of Lenny Bruce and who's a
character you know,
I told you about that and use and use hated it. I told you
about that. Yes.
No, you told me about something else. Do you want to clip do I
want a clip of me hating what you told me and I said I saw
I'll go find that clip. Okay, you'll find it I do remember
saying I hated something but it wasn't that was just me. Okay,
no, you're right. You're right. You recommend a lot of stuff and
most of is really crummy
good. Could you do me a favor and set up the face recognition
as boarding pass clip because I'm interested in that.
Yes, you would be. This is a promotion for face recognition.
A couple of airlines are testing biometrics, as full blown ways
of no more boy boarding passes, no more nothing. You just use
your face. Good.
You can board without presenting your boarding pass passport or
other travel document.
This Jet Blue flight leaving Boston for a Aruba has
passengers taking a trip to the future without a boarding pass.
And we're just going to walk up and they're going to take a
picture and that's it amazes me every year, things changed. It
just amazes me that technology.
Compare a picture taken at the gate against the flyers passport
pictures stored in a government database, Francis Sadowski is
sold
or couldn't be faster. Pretty fast.
Delta is testing the technology in New York and Atlanta, and is
also trying out a facial recognition backdrop in
Minneapolis part of a larger effort that envisions your face
or fingerprint as the only thing you'll need to navigate an
airport.
Marrying all of the technologies at each of the steps in the
travel rhythm is a game changer for the experience you can
retrieve go from curb to plane without having to interact with
a human being if you so desire. And
there's also clear a private company that for a fee will
store and verify fliers biometrics, allowing people to
go to the front of the security line at 24 airports nationwide.
But a new report questions if it's legal for the government to
use facial recognition on American citizens and two
senators are asking Customs and Border Protection to halt
expansion of the testing amid security concerns.
As we consolidate biometric data into big databases and we use it
more and more those databases will become targets and the risk
of data breach increases greatly.
The TSA is testing fingerprint verification at at least two
airports in the US and here at Reagan National certain delta
customers can use their fingerprint as their boarding
pass. Chris Van Cleave CBS News, Arlington, Virginia,
oh man, I love how they put it under the you know, it's going
to be easy to be great, Professor Ted, we need your
help.
Now, showing this day showing this process and you go up and
you first of all, you have to have a passport or something
with this photo because they verify your face once you're in
the system with a passport photo system, which is always going to
be a miss not going to be the way to do it. But you can see
that they stand there have their picture taken and they wait for
this thing the database to find them. And then okay, now you can
go Yeah. And they're telling me that's faster than my holding a
piece of paper.
No, no, no, no, the key part was first of all, it's amazing. That
is on as you get to go to the front of line. That's how they
get that's how they do it. It's like oh, if you have the facial
recognition, you get to board first.
No, if you listen to that report, there is no paper ever.
So they're saying that is fast. Yeah, you can go to the front of
the line. That's why it's faster for you the individual doing it
that's it's not faster because I'm saying just this is not the
faster not faster. It's a it's a there's this bullcrap. Yes, but
they're
playing it as if it will be faster because then you're at
the front of the line.
Yeah, well, well, when everybody is going through this system and
giving you their face looked at is not going to be factored in.
Everyone's gonna go to the front of the line. How's that work?
Well, that's what seems to be happening specifically with
Southwest. Because southwest before you get to board, and we
always buy the early bird bird for 995, which doesn't put you
in a group it puts you in B, B 12. B
11. The best absolute seat is b one. You
mean boarding? Yeah. Why?
Because it depends on what gate what, what terminal, you're,
what group what airport you're at? Well, it's certain airports
wait at certain airports like Oakland. Okay, we're getting
ready to board or group a one through 51 through 30. Please
line up and you line up. I don't do that, by the way, just sit
down. But you line up and you stand there sometimes for 10
minutes.
And that's your Good point. Good point, because you're standing
much longer because you know, when A is done, B is going right
in good point. But that's not true. But that's not true.
Because after the a group, okay, now we'll be building everyone
who has a one leg, one leg. And then now we'll be voting
families with small children, small children, a family. And
here's the group where I want to be in. If you have a service
animal, you can burn out the people with the bogus dogs, the
comfort dogs, emotional support goat they get to board before
be. It's an outrage.
What I like to do if I am in a group, which I usually am,
because I pay for it, you know, to get up earlier, early bird
special. And so you early bird special, I find a seat that is
about where my where I'd be standing in a group and I sit
down and stay there. I let all these people stand up and sit
stand in the grip. You make this point you make a grid, they
finally say okay, we're now boarding a one through 15, which
is the first class some first first class they call it
business.
Don't call it for no. Southwest, select Southwest has no clue.
I'm talking southwest.
Yes, I know. But one through 15. You can buy your way into that.
And they call it business select.
Okay. I understand what Yes, you're right. And it cost you
$300 more.
Yeah, exactly. So there's nobody standing there. Yeah. But they
bought that first. As soon as they do that, then I get up and
put most force myself into my spot. I have my I had the
boarding pass. And a look. You have a 10 day what you're a
sick, what's your number? What's your number, get
behind? Get behind me?
I made 23 You're 23. But you're a 24 You shouldn't be in front
of him. So I started organizing people. You know,
here's a question. We were talking about how they have all
those funny little things. You know, this southwest they do the
the fun little announcements with all the standup gags. Why
don't they do that at the gate?
Well, that woman that was singing that we had the clip of
was asked if she was at the gate. Yeah. But that's pretty
unusual. And then he got us that stupid mic. Nobody can
understand it. You did a good imitation by the way of it.
Somehow it was a good bit. Yeah.
All right. I got some so I guess let me you know, this whole DoD
report, the Research Commission, the deliberate dumbing down of
education in America, although it's happening everywhere. Then
how I escaped it is fascinating to me, especially these big
organizations who have grants. And, you know, I'm curious, what
are they teaching our children? I'd like to know I don't have
any school going. Children of school going age. But from time
to time producers send us stuff that the kids come home with,
which is always a head scratcher. This is not
necessarily about school, going to start this package off with
it. This is about the children's workshop, the people who make
Sesame Street now their television people. So they
should make what should they be doing? Making television depends
where the money comes from.
It's not often that you get a chance to change the world. And
that's what feels like
Sherry Weston is with Sesame Workshop, the maker of Sesame
Street. The MacArthur Foundation gave them in the International
Rescue Committee, a $100 million grant to develop early childhood
education programs for Syrian refugees. I asked Sherry Weston,
what kinds of new Sesame Street characters might reflect the
experience of Syrian refugee children. So
I'm not you know, giving away any sort of major storyline, but
I can certainly imagine that there will be a character who
perhaps had to leave their home or lives in a tent or becomes
best friends with their new neighbor. So We want the
characters to be characters that children can identify with, and
storylines that they can relate to. And then, you know, we have
a proven track record of the academic basics, the social
emotional skills, all of that will be embedded in the
curriculum. And it will be through television, but also
through digital through mobile, and then direct services for the
most vulnerable children
that was going to ask do most refugees have access to TV
programs?
Yeah, believe it or not, they do the penetration of both
television and mobile in the region, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and
Lebanon is huge. And I think that surprises people. But the
direct services, again, is a key component where we'll be
creating educational content to reach children through home
visitations and learning centers. And that's, that's
really essential. So it's both the mass broad reach and the
individual touch.
So now we're getting out of the television set, collaborating
with the International Rescue Committee to do face to face
work.
Absolutely. And that's so important to address toxic
stress, toxic stress, you can imagine, for a refugee family
how stressful it might be. But we know from brain science, that
the impact of stress on a child in those first five years of
life can have lifelong repercussions. It literally
affects their brain development. If
it's an example of what somebody's doing, one of these
home visits is likely to do with the parents and children that
they meet,
a home visitor would go in to meet with a caregiver, the
mother, the grandmother, those caring for young children, they
would meet with the parents and the children, and they would be
training them if you will, on the most important way to help a
child overcome trauma. And there's so much proven science
on this, literally, that adult child engagement is the most
important thing. It's called nurturing care. It may sound
intuitive, but when you've been through this kind of situation,
these parents are very stressed themselves, and to give them
techniques and tools and strategies to help their
children overcome the toxic stress. It's it's games, its
content, its storybooks, its apps, it's all sorts of things
that they will engage with a child with. But also you're
giving them the understanding of the importance of that nurturing
care. And there are, again, so many studies that this is the
most impactful way to help children overcome crisis, but it
has never been done to the magnitude that we'll be able to
do with the MacArthur grant is Hey,
hey, hey, yeah. How about taking some of that money for the
homeless and the kids living in those tents in Oakland?
Thank you. No, that's not the idea. The idea is we need to pre
indoctrinate the children before they come to the west, to do
whatever they're meant to do be workers or something. But and
this is a print television production outfit, who was now
doing on site visits with educational material.
was not even educational materials, all socio economic
stuff. It's
brain science man. Didn't you hear say it we know. We knew
from brain brain,
the brain was a five year old that lives in a tent with her
with her mom. And I'm really brothers. I'm with Oakland, and
they don't give me any attention.
So my my quest led me to Dr. George land. He, he's
a familiar name,
brain scientist. And he was involved in a test for NASA
about creativity. There were I should say imaginative thinking.
And again, this is just showing you what is happening in
schools. And I was lucky enough to find a TED talk from six or
seven years ago, where he talked about this, this test that they
did study they did with NASA, which initially was only meant
to be one test, but they drew it out over 10 years, turned it
into a longitudinal study. And here are the results. So
thinking that changed everything for us, and trying to understand
creativity is that somebody from NASA came to us the deputy
director and said, Look, we have a lot of people working for us,
we need some way to select the people that are the most
creative so they can go on the teams that are facing the
toughest problems. Can you give us some kind of an instrument, a
test or something that we can give to find those people? We
didn't have such a thing, but we developed it. We applied it. And
it was very predictive. It worked really well. But the idea
emerged that, gee, we still don't know where creativity
comes from. Is it that some people are born with it others
not? Or is it learned does it come from our experience in
life? And the idea came up this this test is so simple, why
don't we give it to some children and see how they do so
we did we we created a sample of the American population with
1600 children and started out when they were about five years
So now here's a question I want to ask you. This is a test for
the ability to look at a problem and come up with new, different
and innovative ideas. What percentage of those five year
olds fell into what you might call the genius category of
imagination?
I'm just gonna stop it. What do you think?
Well, would have to be high or the question wouldn't be asked.
Yeah. So. So that's unfair for me to guess. But I will say
80% 89.
Wow, this is a great audience. There are some audiences that
don't get quite the high. 98% We were pretty shocked. Some people
like you would probably not be shocked. Do you probably suspect
you have them five year olds. So there you are. But you know, the
information was so astonishing. We decided to turn that into a
longitudinal study, go back five years later and see. So we went
back there now. 10, what would you guess? Somebody came on?
Very close. 30%. We decided to extend it for five more years.
Then now 15? Well, we have some pessimists out there. It was all
the way up to 12. So you can see something of a trend here,
right, that that study ended, because so many people got
depressed. Most of the testing was done by teachers, and they
just didn't want to do it again. But we have tested a lot of
adults. And what would you guess, if you're close to
present? Now, the great historian Oswald Spengler once
said, in the all of his years of studying history, he had
concluded it only takes 2% of a population to create the basic
ideas and that everybody else applies. And it turned out, she
was pretty close to right.
So I thought that was pretty interesting. It's very good. The
2% of adults have a true creative, imaginative creativity
and thinking and all the rest of us is dumbed down. That's the
implication
I guess. No, the implication is it's been it has been beat out
of them.
Yeah. Beaten, just beaten. Yeah. With love.
Nuts beaten out of him by the educational system that's
getting worse. Yeah. Got it exactly what it is
exactly what he says we rule followers, I tell you,
yeah, you think and wrong. That's wrong. That's wrong,
wrong
wrong. Well, they have two more clips. And this is about what
kids are learning in schools into shooting today. It's very
distressing when you see the organizations that are being
contracted to do this kind of stuff. This is what is
important. Yes.
Before he played, I just want to say two words for people out
there who are who are reacting adversely to this palm
schooling, okay, God
is the front page of the Seattle post Intelligencer
neofolk Connells, third grade history class at Bucha. The
school is analyzing old news stories, looking for evidence of
bias people.
If they don't know how to analyze, it will just say, Oh,
wow,
that's true. Fred cotton looks at the choice of words used in a
story about Japanese internment camps during World War Two.
Japanese instead of Japanese Americans,
what was the purpose of that? Why don't they just
say, Oh, we're not imprisoning American citizens will as they
put. We're not evacuating American citizens. We're
evacuating Japanese.
And why did they use the word evacuate.
Another student also notices the language.
I saw some fake advertising for the Japanese internment camps.
They said they were assembling centers. So they
kind of made it seem really cool. And actually it was.
Connell uses examples from the past. So these kids can become
smarter about media messages in the present. Even though they're
only eight years old.
I want to learn how to like analyze it myself, and have my
own opinion.
They soak up everything around them. I think it's important for
kids to be able to control the interpretations that they hear
and see every day instead of the interpretations maybe
controlling them.
Recognizing bias and news stories is one form of media
literacy. Spotting when the news is entirely fabricated, like
these stories, is something else entirely. Often these stories
are designed to look as if they come from legitimate news
organizations and are meant to be easily shared on social
media, resulting in confusion over what's real. During the
recent election season. There have been reports of a concerted
effort to spread fake news in a bid to influence pub liquor
opinion. A recent Stanford University study of almost 1000
students showed they were easily duped online, researchers found
overall, young people's ability to reason about the information
on the Internet can be summed up in one word, bleak. The law in
Washington State encourages educators to develop policies
around media literacy and to share resources. It also allows
districts access to federal technology funding. This new law
in Washington is being used as a model by about a dozen other
states. advocates want to see media literacy taught in all 50
states, there's clearly growing momentum to pass this kind of
legislation. This box uses the play Hamlet to talk about fake
news is about
spying and lying, and how that creates kind of a ripe
environment for the proliferation of fake news.
Sure, it could be a metaphor, but Hamlet has a shocking flesh
eating illness. Could you actually support that with
evidence from the text? Good luck. Fake news is not news you
don't agree with fake news is fabricated news.
spox believes letting her students create their own fake
news will teach them how to critically think through some of
the information they receive, what words are used, who
benefits? So is there any truth to the story?
Anything that starts with share if you're outraged? That's a bad
sign. And outrage is just the lifeblood of fake news.
So this is very concerning to me that we now have legislation in
16 states working on all 50. And this is coming from one out
outfit, the National Association for media literacy education.
They already have the they already have been industry
group. And it's of course, you want kids to have media
literacy. This is the this is the big term, but the buzzword
media literacy. You want them to have that, but you're pumping
bias into them from the get go. Yeah. That's what you want, but
it's very dangerous. And yeah, this is this is what we do we
actually teach MIDI media literacy in an odd ball sort of
way. But no, you're going to get you're going to be and what is
this with using the Japanese internment camps as in the
Seattle intelligence or as as a lesson on how to detect fake
news?
I don't know. But the whole thing is a scheme that Did you
look into this open?
Thought? Yeah, the thing is, there must be 100 little groups.
And they all have your media literacy source. And it's weird
enough productions. Soros? It's, yeah, a lot of it is Soros
money. Here's one This is Common Sense Media they have. What is
this little thing here? How to spot fake news five ways.
Here are five ways to spot fake news. Number one, look for
unusual URLs. If they end with l o or.com.co. Chances are they
aren't legitimate news sites.
That's really interesting. Man, I think it's bullshit.
It's total bullshit. What did they say?
If it's not.com? If it ends in.com dot CEO, or does she say
I owe because we have been at.io, which is kind of cool.
But if it
does just that, it's just a shrinker. So that's not to say
end with l o
or.io. Is not shrinkers. This is a real domain name.
That was a shrinker. What do you mean, you know where you put it
in? Shorten? Does, you know a URL shortener
No. Oh, no, it's a proper top level domain.com Dotco.
Chances are they aren't legitimate news sites. Number
two bisects the layout. Look for grammatical errors, incorrect
dates,
bold. That's every paper I know. It looked for grammatical errors
and dates that are wrong
and sensationalist images. These are all red flags. Number three,
dig deeper. Find out their wrote the article and who supports the
site. If this information doesn't exist, or you need to
register to get it. Then question why.
Yeah, whilst I've watched the Wall Street Journal, The
Washington Post,
New York Times everybody.
Number four, crosscheck. Use fact checking sites to confirm
and potentials and see what Snopes or other credible news
outlets are reporting similar news. Number five, try a reverse
image search. If the same picture appears in unrelated
stories, they have a reason to be suspicious
or if the image was done by Mr. Blogger visit us
at Common Sense.
You're gonna get a note on that. I'm extremely.
But I'm going to try and be creative with my 2% brain power.
And I will try to position as different different ways to in
future shows. But they're corralling the kids into
actually believing the Newspeak bullshit. Yes, this is just for
the kids. It's horrible.
It is really bad.
If you're letting the government and other non governmental
organizations with a lot of money, tell your kids what is
real and what is not. They're not really giving them tools.
With these are your tools. Like if there's a misspelling, or the
date is wrong, and that on the screen says February 31, like
okay, a lot of the news stories, they they don't they sometimes
leave the date off, and they just run it on whatever day that
you know, they put the date in this today's date. Yeah,
exactly.
That was bad. And what about what the Guardians they might
be? What are you looking at the Daily marriage be
something.uk.co? Or yeah, the other way around? That's not.
So these groups, media literacy. Now digital citizenship
Institute, you know, you know, this has our name written all
over it. This is another guy. There's $100 million. This the
Big Bird got?
Yeah, we can get.
We shouldn't be able to get some of that. would think we just we
just have to, you know, say climate.
We need some grams for mentorship. We need a grant guy
out there to get who knows how to write this stuff.
You know that what a great donation idea. If you I mean,
that's a real value for value get value from our show. Why
don't you write in for a grant for our show? Yeah, that's I
mean, it could work that good. You never know. Yeah. Then in go
voucher, when you will do anything you need. Yeah, we'll
do what you have to do. Yeah. Except do whatever the money
says we have to do that. We're not going to do
No, that's don't take the money away. I mean, bitch about it.
That gives you the material
content material. Absolutely. Okay.
Well, I have two clips I want to get rid of and there. But the
marijuana thing which is going through in a couple of days,
groovy group. Oh, and I do want to read Eric's personal request.
He he's doing some schooling projects with his wife in Ah,
okay. I didn't realize that this was him. Okay, good. Yeah. But
you're doing this.
He's doing a bunch of these things. And he's become like a
teacher. Like, and they have apparently they have a robotics
team of kids like nine year olds. And he says the robotics
team. Team, that DNI coach, made it to the state semifinals.
Okay, I guess. I don't know what these death bots. I don't know.
Don't know what bots death bots. You know, the boss said kill
each other. Oh, Robo wars. Yeah, those are great. He's just could
you plug in, I'll give it I'll give him a plug, go fund
me.com/howling chickens. Have a chicken farm. Okay, howling
chickens to help pay for nine kids and their parents to attend
the event. That can't cost much because the event is at Amazon's
HQ in downtown Seattle. So it's a matter of getting the taken a
three hour drive to get there and back. So it shouldn't cost
much on January 20 21st. And the bonus is for our benefit. He'll
add no agenda show to the shirt that the kids will be wearing.
And I guess it'll be selling as a sponsor. If the no agenda
crowd can help us out. Okey doke. And in his case, not
knowing the trick. donations are tax deductible. What a dummy?
No, Eric plays by the rules,
less money for you.
Yeah, it is actually. But he doesn't know that.
He doesn't know. We also didn't have to say you could hope to
brother up but no, you mock him for show content. Good job.
Would? Well, if knowing that you're helping them out by not
reading that last line would have been fine.
Knowing that I'm helping him Oh, you mean that donations are tax
deductible? Yeah. Well, he put it in here to be read. Yeah.
It's just a coincidence that we talked about it not being
effective. So if people ignore that last line I'll edit it out.
You want to know
course not the best part of the show.
And yeah. Well, maybe it works in some situations.
I'm just messing around.
yeah you're giving me crap. So let's go to the because we got
the marijuana is coming in into play on I got one story about
that's dumb okay followed by us another story that's even dumber
nice like California marijuana prices
up creational marijuana will be legal in
June with legalization looming the North Bay medical marijuana,
higher taxes on
medical pot.
I'm sorry, something happened to hell was that I think they both
played at the same time. That was not the intent regional
marijuana
will be legal in California in just three days but with
regulation comes higher taxes on medical pot, capex fires Chris
and errors found a long line that was out the door at a
clinic in Oakland.
Medical cannabis user Mary gold brought a book and a chair and
lined up with hundreds of people.
I came to be part of the last minute shopping. It's like going
to Times Square on New Year's Eve
account down to New Year's Day when state law changes and
recreational marijuana becomes legal in California. No cannabis
card required. But there is a downside. I made my purchase
ahead of time because I know that next week, it'll be more
expensive.
Legalization will mean new taxes higher prices for pot and strict
limits on how much you can buy per day.
Generally we're letting people know that they can expect 10 to
30% higher prices with the with the taxes.
That is what is driving this week's mad dash for marijuana.
harbourside was running low on some inventory by this evening.
But there are long lines here today. And you can see just how
quickly people have been buying these shelves were full earlier
today. They've been cleaned out now by people eager to get a
good deal before prices go up. The rush is expected to only
increase after the New Year. dispensaries in states like
Washington and Colorado saw their customer bases double and
triple after legalization. And even though customers will take
a hit to their pocket books, marijuana advocates say they're
gaining something too.
People are elated that they'll have freedom from prohibition
that they'll have freedom from law enforcement and that they
will be able to loudly and proudly come out of the cannabis
closet
Okay, now this is done for the following Why is California rate
weed This is California all Democrats the whole house and
everything that Governor why are they raising the taxes on
medical marijuana they it's not that you ever have to there's
just because it passes that you can get pot anywhere Why is the
taxes on medical marijuana been raised
to screw with sick people?
Yeah, yeah, I agree. No and and and
to protect the racket of Big Pharma.
I bet you that's part part of it. Now. The next one do you
have to play the douchebag call out at the end of this story
because this story is really stupid and
with legalization looming, and North Bay medical marijuana
distributor is complaining about a recent bust. Last week the CHP
pulled over a truck in Ukiah. carrying nearly one ton of
cannabis two employees of old chi logistics were arrested. The
medical pot company based in Mendocino County has been busy
lately harvesting, testing measuring and moving cannabis
with the law about to change.
opening your doors on January 1 was great but you wouldn't have
any products. There's so many different steps in order for
whatever cannabis product it is to actually be on the shelf.
The CEO says the employees had all the right paperwork but
officers arrested them and issued citations for possession
and unlawful transportation of cannabis. The highway patrol is
defending what happened it says transporting cannabis is not
legal until January 1
It's two days before January 1 They gotta get this stuff in
they could transport it before to the medical marijuana places
but no so these some douchebag and the CHP bust these guys just
out of spite Yeah, this is the kind of spite that this state
has for small entrepreneurs or even the legalization of pot
which you think would be the first state that would want to
legalize this
stuff. Why are you still there?
So I can bitch
oh, okay, well, let's just for the show, then it's okay. All
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Thank you. I share it with you my friend. Just a little bit
late. It's just the base. Maybe
the base. I'll take the base until Thursday
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