She looks like William Shatner, Adam curry,
John C. Dvorak, Sunday, February 11 2018. This is your award
winning gizmo nation media assassination episode one double
oh seven.
This is no agenda,
suffering from a Olympic fever and broadcasting live from
downtown Austin Tejas capital, the drone Star State in the
gluteal in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley I'm here tweeting. I'm John C.
Dvorak. Raglan Buzzkill.
Okay, okay, rough opening.
We'll get there. I can't get enough that gag
of your tweeting. Yeah, yeah. It was funny. The first four or
five weeks.
Yeah, but nobody no one's ever heard that. That particular gag.
Okay, no one's ever heard. I'm saying I'm tweeting that I make
the tweaks and
but the question is, John, do you have Olympic fever?
No, I have I would like to see the lose girl. And girl. Yeah,
girl I didn't get to see here just look but here's what
bothers me. The Olympic a holes they don't let anyone actually
cover these games.
Correct?
That's true. You don't you can't
see anything. You have to watch NBC or watch NBC
all you get is just nothing. Yeah. And so I have not I've yet
to see that are super good. Skater fall on his ass. And
that's what I've been wanting to see. Oh, chin. Yeah. Oh,
it was so sad. Was it? Yeah. I watched on Thursday night after
the show. I watched the game was kind of like a pre was the team
competition, which doesn't really count. It does. But it's
just for the team. Every everybody was falling, including
our guy who
was damaged. So I love seeing that stuff. It was the best it
was
boom, boom, it was so dramatic. And then the and we have these
commentators who are former skaters one is a very little
woman. And then there's the super gay guy. Both of them are
Olympics top quality skaters and you know, that's what you do you
move on to that gig, but they're wearing like, you know, pink
glitter glasses. Their microphones are all glitter
glammed and glittered up it was a little over the top for me,
geez, man. Feel bad. I feel bad. I missed that. That sounds like
the best part of the whole thing
was, and I had recorded it. So I could fast forward through all
the bullcrap. And then they go back to the studio and do some a
package of oh, look at South Korea. Okay, great. Faster. Oh,
by the way, there's nothing here's what else bothers me.
Besides the fact that nobody gets to cover it. Is the is
these human interest stories that drag on? Yes.
And then we have the, or the ORS we have a new team, the oars,
Olympic athletes from Russia, because of course, you know,
Russia can't participate. So they have a little booth and a
little dugout and a little section for the ORS the Olympic
athletes from Russia. And they can't say they're letting him do
stuff. It's it's really quite, it's just an if I find it
shameful, really. It is shameful. I mean, there's
there's enough countries participating who, well it's
about the doping and understand and was it 30 She
got a punishment. You got to
punish them. Yeah, you got to punish him. But I was watching
the opening ceremony. And you're right, no one else can cover
him. They take everything off YouTube. And I I was like, Yeah,
I'll get it off YouTube. And I'll get it tomorrow more. Yes,
Sunday morning, I'll find it no problem. So of course, I could
only find a clip of this, that someone did shooting the TV,
which is very annoying from the audio perspective. But this is
when you know, after they do the big Illuminati opening, and boy
wasn't good. They had me hypnotized and in trance. After
the big opening, then the athletes stream in and
everyone's you know, it's the parade. And the Dutch came by.
And you know, this is one of these things where if you read
something in the New York Times that you really know about, you
really have understanding of the topic and you see all of the
mistakes that The New York Times makes. Oh, yeah, just terrible.
You just lose faith in in anything else. The New York
Times writes. And Katie Couric was brought in which I feel was
a massive slam towards Megan. Megan Kelly should have been
doing that.
But oh, my guess Yeah. So she's then coming. She did? Well, I
don't know. Yeah.
Yeah, I think I think it was a slam towards Megyn. Kelly. I
was yeah, there's a fight going on.
For I did it. I don't want to do that. Stop it.
Don't do that. Katie Couric as she could.
She's reading the she's reading the script. And the Dutch come
in and why are the Dutch so good at skating John, why do they why
do they have so many metals? Why are the Dutch so good at
skating?
Because the whole country is a frozen lake of ice.
Next is the Netherlands is probably not a newsflash to tell
you. The Dutch are really, really good in speed skating.
All the five of the 110 Medals they won have been on the speed
skating oval. Now. Why are they so good? You may be asking
yourselves, because skating is an important mode of
transportation in a city like Amsterdam, which sits at sea
level. As you all know, it has lots of canals that can freeze
in the winter. So for as long as those canals have existed, the
Dutch have skated on them to get from place to place to rate race
each other.
Okay, so first of all, Amsterdam is below sea level, not at sea
level, as you all know. And no, we do not jump on the canals in
Amsterdam for transportation in the winter, Katie Couric
Can I ask you a question? How do you get down there?
They have ladders there's little ladders and stuff game. Well,
that sounds inconvenient. But yeah,
come on. Oh, yes, the Dutch for centuries. As you know, when the
canals reason Amsterdam, they just strap on their Hans Brinker
skates and use it for transportation.
So you get from here to there.
Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Well, you know, we'll hold on, I'm gonna mention something.
There is a in Ottawa city. They do have this huge river. And
they and that does freeze over constantly, because it's really
cold up there, comparative to Amsterdam. Yeah. And there's two
Canadians all jump on that thing. And they do go to some
often go to work.
Fine. But that's this is the opening to the Olympics is
stupid. But if you're wondering why the Dutch are good at
skating, I'll tell you why. There is of course, there's a
skating tradition, but throughout as long as I can
remember, and I think this goes back to the 50s, certainly early
50s, maybe even the 40s they have the 11 city skate
competition. And that only happens on natural ice. And it
only happens when the ice is thick enough. All these canals
have to be frozen over it's hundreds of kilometers. I don't
know exactly how long it is. And you know, people freeze half to
death or fingers get chopped off they because you know you can't
you sometimes you can't go under the bridge, you have to then go
on your knees. It's called Karuna. And you have to go on
your knees around on, you know, around the bridge and then get
back on your skates. And the minute it starts to get cold,
every young male in the Netherlands starts to practice.
I am going to do it this year, I'm going to be I'm going to win
it. I'm going to be in
New York Mayor Boston Marathon except it
doesn't happen. So let me see the last time they had one.
Because they had no they have these committees who go out and
measure the ice and everyone's really all Is it time. Will it
happen? Is this
global warming this?
Exactly. I can't I can't remember when the last time is
that they did one? I don't know. Maybe the troll room might know
last time they did it. But it's every 1015 years is that they're
full of crap. Yes. Big big time full of crap. But it doesn't
matter. I'm a big fan. I liked that. We have now the where's
the bobsled team from this year? The joke bobsled team the women
isn't the isn't the females from women? Yes. From Nigeria? Maybe?
No, no. It's from Bahamas or some warm place. I said Why
should one of those islands is some Caribbean population?
I'd like that. Let me see. It's the it is Nigeria make it? No,
no, no, the Jamaican bobsled team. They
made the movie about it. Now it's they have now they have two
women Jamaican no
Nigerian John. It's not Jamaican. It's Nigerian. Well,
yeah, there's a difference. There's a difference. That's
interesting. You bring that up. Last night we went to thing here
in Austin. And we were in the Uber. And you know, I was like
to talk to the Uber guy and see where he's from. And they a lot
of the drivers we've had recently are from Nigeria. And
what's the other one Somalia. And so my, my standard staple is
always Oh, how's the Chinese? You know, that's when they do
their head whips around they go what you know about that. And
this guy was from Kenya, but it had a great, you know, Cadence
and I heard like a little English twangs that don't tell
me, let me guess where you're from. So I go through a couple
of different I'm wrong, wrong, wrong wrong. And then I hit on
Kenya. And he's like, Yeah, that's right. And then I said
up. Obama's birthplace. The US throw this out that he says he
turns to me says, you know, he speaks fluent Swahili, don't
you? I see. He does Yes, fluently, fluently, but he won't
do it in in Kenya. Because politically he can't do it. He
says because then everyone will know the gig is up. That's
literally what the guy said. This is totally free. Kenya
Wow, never heard
that one. And I didn't know he was fluent in Swahili.
Like you're all the bullcrap. He's even talked to Obama
himself.
Okay, he's an Uber driver John take it for the face take it at
face value, if you don't mind. Anyway All right. Okay, it's
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by where do we start? John? There's a lot of I think
interesting things happening some stuff that is not
necessarily in the at the front of the news. And
I have the front of the new stuff in front of the news top
mainly this scandal The so called scandal because of this
guy who punched out his wife. There's two things that went on
one. This guy punched out his wife supposedly but we don't
know that. And then the other one you apparently verbally
verbally abused as you're talking about Porter. Yeah, I
got a bunch of stuff because I have the ABC report, which is
the report itself is scandalous, because it is got whipsaws and
false accusations. And the funny thing is on Saturday, another
guy resigned which I think then this guy does sound like a wife
beater, play this Soros and resigns a clip. So it gets a
White House speech writer David Sorensen stepped down yesterday
after his ex wife alleged that he was violent and emotionally
abusive during their marriage. He is the second White House
official this week to resign following allegations of
domestic abuse. In an interview with the Washington Post,
Sorensen's ex wife Jessica Corbett detail the allegations,
including that he ran a car over her foot and put a cigarette out
on her hand. Am
Now that sounds like some guy there are guys like that.
I don't know any of them. But okay. Oh, I
don't personally know him. I know of them. And they're,
they're out there. And they're just creeps. I think that's the
real key. He didn't even bother for anything to get any further
than that. And he just quit. Right? As opposed to the other
guy who hung on since apparently January or February whenever
they really first find out about it and I'm dubious about the
first guy. But let's play the scandal so we can take take a
look at the whole story overall with the little the little bitty
whips I love. Some of them are minor. Some of them are
outrageous. This is
the ROB Porter scandal. Yeah. And this is we just we just set
this up a little bit or is that in the intro? It's in
the intro right. And
I President Trump speaking publicly for the first time
about the domestic abuse scandal involving his former close aide
Rob Porter and allegations now made by Porter's two ex wives.
The president today praising Porter's work wishing him well
telling reporters quote, he says he's innocent. And I think you
have to remember that the President adding it's been a
tough time for Porter, White House Communications Director
Hope Hicks, who has been romantically linked to Porter
was right there in the Oval Office as the president weighed
in today. And late today, sources telling ABC News that
Chief of Staff John Kelly has now expressed to President Trump
his willingness to resign over his handling of the scandal. ABC
senior White House correspondent Cecile de Vega leading
okay
now we go into it and Cecilia is Trump hater. And and the way she
presents the story, I think sounds objective but then you
hear these little whipsaws that are pretty, pretty, pretty
obvious when you would go through it. Now this guy you
have to assume a couple of things. Trump never met the
women so he never says much about the X Y wives. And you, I
have to assume you don't have to assume anything. But I have to
assume that the way I'm looking at this thing is that he talked
to Hope Hicks about the guy.
Yep. I have some thoughts about that. But I'll wait for you.
Yeah, you can do your thoughts that you I'm sure your thoughts
will be more interested in mine at the end of this, but because
my concentration is really on the poor job, that they are not
the poor job, there's a really good job if you're going to if
you're going to produce a hit piece against Trump, and hide it
as though it's about something else. But that's what
well, for sure, this entire scandal is not about the
scandal. It's about Trump's Trump Trump. It's about Trump,
and he has shitty people, and he's hired shitty people. And
John Kelly is shitty and everyone's shit. It's not even
it's not even it's not even about the actual abuse that that
went away very quickly. I will say, the in no small part,
thanks to not Trump may be weird. But well, he's statement
and I didn't I thought actually you thought you might have it.
But his you have
it? It's in here. Okay. Well, he's just started I just that
was just the intro. And I'll just
say his statement, and we'll hear it in whatever piece. He
doesn't say stuff like that, or it, let's say put it this way.
He has the uncanny knack to say something outrageous like, Obama
wiretapped me. And then much later, it turns out that he
wasn't far off the mark. Not the way he presented this was
completely colorblind and tone deaf. I mean, what did he
expect? I understand he really believes the guy is innocent. I
can tell. That's his his word, just saying the guy is innocent.
He only might as well say this, this girl is full of crap.
That's problematic in PR world.
Well, it's problematic with Trump in particular. Yes. So
let's go on with the first subtle whipsaw.
With his White House under fire. Today, President Trump breaking
his silence, praising his former staff Secretary Rob Porter, who
resigned amid allegations he abused both of his former wives.
We certainly
wish him well. It's a obviously tough time. For him. He did a
very good job when he was in the White House. And we hope he has
a wonderful career and hopefully he will have a great career
ahead of him. But it was very sad when we heard about it. And
certainly he's also very sad. Now he also, as you probably
know, he says he's innocent. And I think you have to remember
that he said very strongly yesterday that he's innocent.
While the President talks about the tough time for Porter, no
mention of the women Porter's two ex wives who went public
with their accusations of verbal and physical abuse. One
releasing this photo of a black and blue eye. She says from
porters punch, as President Trump spoke right there in that
room communications director Hope Hicks who is romantically
linked to Porter and Chief of Staff John Kelly, who was
brought in to restore order in the West Wing, but Kelly
reportedly knew about the abuse allegations against Porter for
months, and sources telling ABC News The president is furious
with how both aides handled the West Wing crisis Hicks, those
sources say helped write the administration's initial public
statements defending Porter, the
President Chief of Staff have had full confidence and trust in
his abilities and his performance. So defending
defending is not the same as saying we liked his performance.
Oh, well, but it's the same as you know, defending keh keh keh
and white nationalists in Charlottesville, which he also
didn't explicitly do.
No, he didn't. No, not even he didn't even come close to
explicitly doing that. That doesn't matter that is now in
the lexicon. It's done by innuendo. And they're really
good at it. This is not the best example. But this this whole
thing where first they praised him, he's really talking about
something else. Yeah, they use these clips very carefully to
mislead you. Let's go to three.
When the story first broke, Kelly called porter a man of
true integrity and honor. But tonight Sources tell ABC News
that within the past 24 hours, Kelly told the president he
would be willing to resign. They say the President has spoken to
confidants about possibly replacing Kelly, including
gauging businessman and longtime friend Tom Barix interest in the
job. Merrick said he's not interested.
Okay, now, this is an example of you. We don't know anything
about barracks. I've never even heard his name. I never heard
his name either. But they bring him in. So they can be it's
almost as though they said Who can we call? Hey, Adam, did you
get a call for it? Are you interested in taking Trump's
job? You said I'd never I haven't been offered the job.
No, I'm not interested in the least. So that they report that
even Adam curry wouldn't take the
job. That would be a good one. forte by the way, that'd be kind
of cool.
It will he wouldn't even he's not taking the job and then they
have a clip of you saying I'm not interested of anything else.
I mean, this is like, I this is ABC and his best. So let's go on
to the next one.
This is Kelly does some damage control of his own sending this
letter to staffers saying the White House takes matters of
domestic violence very seriously. And in a meeting
first thing this morning, the Washington Post says Kelly told
staffers to say he took action to remove Porter within 40
minutes of learning the ex wives allegations were credible. But
Porter's ex wives tell ABC News, they told the FBI about his
alleged abuse last January, when they were interviewed as part of
his White House security clearance. His second wife,
Jenny Willoughby says she told them everything.
I told them, all of the details of my marriage, including verbal
and emotional abuse. Okay, verbal
and emotional, but No, all right.
Verbal and emotional abuse, which means you're yelling at
your wife.
Verbal and emotional abuse is very real. And it's very
religious. Generally speaking, I'm not taking the you're
talking to a divorce a, who's been wronged by the guy and the
first woman in particular, by the second woman. Yes, this guy
jumps from woman to woman, he's not going to get good reviews.
His Yelp star is not rising.
And verbal abuse isn't the same as punching somebody.
I agree. I agree. They don't have a clip of the other ex wife
I presume? No. Right. If they did, here's the here's the thing
that is confusing me and I, of course I Well, first of all,
this is a moment where it's so here we have this Rob guy, Rob
Porter. He is saying this didn't happen. It's not true. And I
gave that picture to authorities a long time ago, I but I can't
find anything and no one seems to. I'm interested in what
happened. Because moving forward, when you have an
accusation, you have to take it extremely seriously. And it
needs to be looked into not like this. This isn't this is not the
way to do it. As far as I'm concerned. You know, just say,
Trump's an asshole. Nobody wants a job. This guy's a douchebag
he's sure looks like a douchebag every everything I read about
his douchebag but everybody deserves to have his quote day
in court. And if he explicitly says I'm not guilty, I'm
interested in how he wants to prove that but I can't No one's
reporting on that. I can't find it so well
as he's already gone. He's gonna have to do this on his own time.
And I mean, I'm every problem I always have is I'm always
reminded of the Duke lacrosse team. Oh, yeah, that was falsely
accused of rape, and pretty much run out of town the whole team
unfairly because the whole thing was was trumped up. Or the or
the rapist fraternity that was written up in Rolling Stone
which turned out to be a woman creating a story that some
gullible reporter bid on and wrote it up and they had the
whole magazine had to apologize to the frat and this guy thing
was Cornell I can't remember the school and just
just to stop you.
This does happen.
I can see eyes roll. No, but I believe that everyone in the M
five M media is too pussy to say what we're saying. It's like,
okay, everything show me all the circumstantial evidence, more
than circumstantial actually says this guy abused his ex
wives. But he's saying he's innocent. So now I'd like to
know. Okay. Let's find out.
We also made some commentary about that picture. Yeah.
He was He gave it to the authorities years ago. I don't
understand what did he give was
a backstory behind the picture. He says, right, but what is the
backstory? Was it somebody asked him? I can't find it. I found
Yes. Because it's not out there. Now this. The thing that
bothered me the most is the Sorenson character who does
sound I mean, he's got the earmarks of one of these
characters that is, you know, documented as a you know, put it
I mean, it's just disgusting. This guy just seems like an a
hole.
Right? Well, surprised. They're everywhere.
Especially at that level. You get up into the CEO levels of
most companies, you're gonna run into stuff like that. That's
where you see the holes. Yep. So I think we're going to which is
which one is you just play?
Yeah, you know, this is the last one is the Whopper.
Okay. The Washington Post reporting. White House Counsel
Don McGann first learned of the abuse allegations around the
time of the President's inauguration. Porter denies
abusing his ex wives saying these outrageous allegations are
simply false. I took the photos and the reality behind them is
nowhere close to what is being described. Well, we wish him
well. This is not the first time the President has come to the
defense of a man accused of violence against women. He
endorsed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore in the face
of multiple sexual misconduct accusations.
Let's bring that back. All right, this is the worst of the
good. This is just a lie. This is not the first time the
President has come to the defense of someone who committed
violence against the women. And then cites Roy Moore when
there was no violence accusations there. Were there.
There was
zero via violence. accusation, it was mostly pedophilic kind of
accusations of anything underage. Underage or of yeah,
that yeah, underage underage dating. So, so she just lied,
and then backed it up by using the Roy Moore example, I found
this to be and this was at the end of the report Depart you to
remember, I found it to be just borderline disgusting on the
part of ABC to report like, I don't want to hear to me it's
not bad enough that they're piling on which is okay, they
can do whatever they want. But but to do it with lies. Yeah.
And you'd end exemplified with something that's gotten which
actually is impugning Roy Moore even more than already, which I
found to be very poor. It is it was just made me sick, that I do
have an addendum clip, which is just kind of a little casual
thing that was added at the end when they did a little
discussion.
And Cecilia, the other major issue is still out there. We
know that Rob Porter was working with a temporary security
clearance because of those accusations against him and more
than a year into this administration. Now, he's not
the only one in the West Wing who still have not been granted
full security clearance.
And yet David in the White House is refusing to provide a
specific number on how many people are still using this
temporary path. But our sources say that Jared Kushner, the
President's own son in law is among them.
Yeah. Okay. So our sources, and then at the White House have
not, did not say that he have any numbers out of anybody,
right? But they had to impugn Jared Kushner. Yes. Jared
Kushner is one of the major targets right now. And I say
that because I got into a I am phone texting debate with my two
liberal friends. When
what what what application were you actually using? Was it text?
Was it AOL Instant Messenger? Or was it WhatsApp? What were you
using?
Phone texts, phone text? And that Kushner is that is the is
obviously the target because they were just going on and on
about how this could happen. And how Trump can be president is
just horrible, that he even says anything positive about this,
this guy who's you know, who punched his wife, and just
completely off the rails and they said, and Kushner is going
down. Kushner and Don Jr. is what I'm told those two, they're
the targets and they're going to, they're going to arrest the
two of them. And they're going to end the two of them are going
to flip on Done. Trump. We're gonna flip both of them now
because they're weaning.
I don't think that's I see something else. Then it's it
came is giving
you with these.
Your guys have zero credibility.
I know they still interested. No, they're plugged into this
dimension B and whatever they're saying is a reflection of his
thinking, Oh, that's interesting that people are thinking that
way.
Well, I'm thinking we have a black widow in the White House.
And she's dangerous and she's working for Ivanka and that's
Hope Hicks. Anything hope any man Hope Hicks touches gets
fired? You know, she had a relationship with Corey
Lewandowski gone. She had a relationship with Rob Porter
gone. I believe and she's very good friends with Ivanka that's
she comes from the Ivanka camp from Ivanka US company. I will
say that Ivanka and the Daily Mail where this story broke
about Rob Porter, you know, they have a very close relationship.
She She does a lot with the Daily Mail. Certainly PR wise.
This is where this broken again, I just it's lackluster
reporting. If the guy says he didn't do it, I'd like to know
about it. But if you just go look at pictures of just look
Hope Hicks picture. Yeah, I know she looks like me. But you want
to see when she's next to she she touched she's one of she's a
woman who touches men all the time when she's talking to them.
And I have picture after picture of her touching Reince Priebus
gone. Rudy Giuliani actually kissing Rudy Giuliani, you know,
embrace like, Oh, yes to death. Yeah, kiss of death gone. Corey
Lewandowski as I said, Gary Cohen would be next. She's like
she's just rubbing up against Gary Cohen in pictures. And John
Kelly to you know, she, she takes a picture, she'll put her
flat palm on the man's chest. You
know what that is? Yeah. In fact, what's her name? Does that
to Kellyanne Conway? And who else does it? Hillary? Hillary
with Harvey Harvey and Harvey Weinstein, she's putting her two
flat palms against his chest and transferring some debt.
I definitely wish Jeff entered his office he goes
now we're using your interpretation that takes on a
whole new meaning. Yes.
I'm telling you that Hope Hicks is on a mission. I don't know if
it's for herself. I don't know if it's for Ivanka, but I think
she is the Black Widow in the White House. And people should
stay away from her.
It'd be for the reptilians though the greys you don't know.
Okay, well, I'm just throwing it out there as an observation. And
you know, if you want to protect the Kush, anyone who's getting
in the way will get bitten by the Black Widow.
Well, that takes that's a I am now reconsidering the photos
that I see. Wait. You'll see, you'll see Hillary for that
matter.
I have a great Hillary clip. As a fun little entre monde on
Trump while she was at the makers Conference, which I
thought was cool. Until I found out it wasn't about maker space.
It was about time's up. I'm not sure exactly what this makers
conference was about. And here we got brave enough
to question and examine our own beliefs, brave enough to
acknowledge that even those of us who have spent much of our
life thinking about and fighting about gender issues, who even
have first hand experiences of navigating male dominated
industries may not always get it right. I pledge to continue to
speak out I pledge to never give up. I will do everything I can.
Here we go. To keep my voice number one to advance the rights
and opportunities of women
in the midst of this snowstorm, to stay on the frontlines of
democracy
so you go she's deathly ill again
to try to cough up a baby. Small lizard. I'm giving you a clip
for the day because I knew that clip existed but I couldn't find
I couldn't help making a loop out of it because it's so
rhythmic you just want it you just want the guys you go on the
fly everybody jam session.
I was thinking about the hope not i Hope Hicks names got you
got me bugged.
I knew I knew I would get you without it. Look at the
pictures. And that's not gonna say one thing about that the
palm on the chest. I've talked with the keeper about this. He
said if there was a picture that showed up with you and a woman
had her hand on your chest like that said she'd be upset and I
said yeah, I understand. I don't I think I would say excuse me,
you just not do that. I find it very forward. I don't I don't
put my hand on women's chest.
I will you like to. I'm not. I wouldn't say stop doing that a
guy bite them. bite them. Okay,
fine. But you understand what I'm saying is it's a very
aggressive move.
Yes, it's very aggressive now. But anyway, I was thinking about
this in the background of Hillary's
death coughing up a lizard. Yeah.
And it is possible that it's just the opposite of what you
think, Okay, I'm all here is the white widow. She is getting rid
of the evil around Trump. Very possible. Because everybody had
mentioned brands previous the leaker Lewandowski she's friends
but she's friends with Ivanka. And she would have to then get
rid of Jared which would be
which is what is going on when you listen to
play. All right. So prediction. She falls on her sword has an
affair with Jared every everything blows up.
That would do it. It's gonna do a better than what these
Democrats think is gonna happen. But that would do it. Okay. And
if she's that good, you know, they have a seductress,
but in a short section in a short amount of time, and, look,
it's a workplace I understand, but she did have a relationship
with Corey Lewandowski. He did get fired and had a relationship
with Rob border when he got fired. You know, she's been
cuddling up to literally just Look at the pictures. You can't
see it any other way than cuddling up and the guides in
the pictures that she cuddles up to get fired.
So maybe she's cleaning house.
It feels like it.
Well I would say I would I would make the assumption that's for
the good. Okay. All right. Well, I'm just gonna do that because
there's it could be.
She's a spider. We just don't know if she's black or white
yet. Okay, Spider, spider spider. Spider lady telling you.
Okay, well, I think nobody's covered this subject as much as
well as we as we just did.
Well, there's certainly a lot more to the story. I think that
that's so evident.
But nobody cares about that. They're this story about Trump.
Yeah, it's not about this guy Porter,
but they don't even care about the they don't care about the
women. They Oh, Trump said nothing about the women. Yeah,
well, you're not reporting on it either.
What's he supposed to say? i By the way, I find it admirable
that Trump would stand by his guy.
And I'm telling you, he he's a goofball. But he doesn't do that
unless he really thinks there was some railroading going on
because
well, I'm sure he does think that but but you know, to be one
of these member when or member I said, Hey, a member or other
remember when it was Breitbart that took a speech from that
woman that was the part in the black woman is the Department of
Agriculture, something and they he took a speech, we had a we
covered it thoroughly, and clipped it in such a way that
she sound like she was just being a racist at some meeting.
And Obama fired her immediately. I'm trying
to think I don't remember that. No, I don't remember that.
It was inadvertent. And then then it turned out to people
found the whole speech and the whole thing was completely
ridiculous. Yeah, out of context. Breitbart, it's done.
It was a setup. I think it was before Breitbart himself was
still I think it was still alive. And, and, and everybody
had to Oh, my God, we fired her unfairly. And it was a big,
it was that Michelle fields? No,
no. She makes cookies. I think that when he? I can't remember.
I can't remember either. But you do remember the incident? Very
that is not That's not what I want to see from a president now
panicky, you know, somebody made an accusation, get them out of
here, right. So I didn't think it was a big deal that Trump was
like, took his time about getting the guy fired or having
him resign, personally, because it wasn't an issue of national
security. It was his personal life.
Surely, surely. Shirat tsherige? Sure. Sure. Ross shared
it may have been something like that. Yeah. Yeah, we'll put
maybe
well, I'm trying to I'm trying to find the spelling. See if I
can find it. No, I What would you have titled the clip? Do you
know?
Bright by me had Brian. Try that I try that right. Share it. And
I don't know firing. I probably titled this something incredibly
stupid.
Sorry, we don't have it. Okay.
But the point is, is that AI is a is a leader. I mean, there's
it's there is due process, and all these elements that are
being ignored, just panicking, because somebody made an
accusation. In fact, I got a message from a friend of mine
who said he's friend working at some bank in New York and just
got fired from an anonymous accusation from some woman
saying he abused or something really, you never find out
anything about it and got fired your friend. Termination like a
friend of yours. No, the friend of mine did get fired his Galaga
and he is bitching about it?
Right? Well, that's what we mean now have to do secretly we can
bitch about it, but we can only bitch to each other and not in
public.
This is a fact that we can you and I can pitch in public. You
know, because we don't have bosses.
Yeah, we don't. But it is it. There's a lot of aggravation
that comes with just talking about stuff.
Yeah, well, you had a lot as the couch.
I do have a few other updates in in this genre. If we say this
would be hashtag me too. In fact, maybe we should
do this. Now. It's time for your sexual harassment.
That's right. Sexual harassment update. We have a change in the
law for Congress for the Congress, men in particular, I
guess. It is the king Rational sexual harassment and
discrimination addendum act I think something like that Jackie
Speier has headed this Jackie Speier
has been a major voice for change on the Hill during the
metoo movement. And her announcement today essentially
will allow for this bill, this bipartisan legislation to go up
for a vote it could come anytime this week. And what this bill
would do as amended congressional accountability act
to require the members of Congress who settle sexual
harassment claims must pay the settlements themselves no longer
with taxpayer dollars. And in addition to that, it will allow
the accusers to file complaints without having to sign a
nondisclosure agreement, something we've heard so much
about in the last few months, these NDAs that keep people from
being able to talk about what they alleged happened to them.
Now, there's a lot of support for this bill, a lot of people
who say that this is a much needed change. But there are a
fair amount of criticisms as well. Some people say that it
does not go nearly far enough. And in fact that it limits the
ability for victims to file a lawsuit outside of this process
on Capitol Hill, it would also require claims to be made under
oath, which some say can be pretty problematic, because a
lot of these allegations don't come with real evidence. It's
often a he said she said situation now, all of that said,
I'm told that it is expected to pass with unanimous if not near,
and unanimous support when it does go up for a vote in the
House in the next few days.
And it did pass. So I did not law yet, but it passed that
hurdle. And it should be very interesting to see what happens
now.
Because yeah, well, that was proposed some time. But we
actually talked about this. I know actually a couple months
ago. Yes, we did. Well, here I thought it was I didn't think it
was unreasonable. Because the apparently these guys were
paying off huge settlements with taxpayer money.
Yeah, but there's that. But to get a black widow in there, and
well, it's going to be because then they'll have to be hearings
under oath and b is going to jam C span. It'll just be in you
know, everyone will be only talking about
stuff is kind of entertaining. Ah,
not really, you know, the New York Times had a list of
published a list of the 68 firings and resignations,
actually after Weinstein colon 68 men accused of sexual
misconduct and their fall from power.
And all of them actually in there.
There's a lot yeah, there's a lot who I haven't we haven't
discussed and didn't know about. So would you like to go on the
list briefly.
I would love to go down the list briefly.
So we have Daniel's Verbling. He's an investigative reporter
at NPR. And he won his accusations are
just read the names. And now if they're interesting, we'll ask
for the accusations that we plow through it.
Vincent, the sister and Tony, Hollywood manager, John Copely,
stage director at the Met Wayne but shell chief executive of the
Humane Society. That's pretty cool.
That is funny. That is. That's ironic.
Yeah, accused of sexual harassment of three women
including forced kissing, which is very egregious.
Well, you know, it bothers me that love for sketching is just
so egregious, horrible. But what bothers me is the is what
happened to John Lasseter on the list.
Well, let me go down the list that No, he's not. Okay, well,
he should be on the list. Well, I'm just the list is incomplete.
That's all I wanted to find out. But John last year was rousted
from Pixar for unwelcome hugging.
He might be on the list. I thought it was alphabetical.
It's not. It's chronological. Okay, go then we have Steve Wynn
Barry Lubin. Do you know Barry luminous?
I don't know who Barry blueberry Lubin
is grandma the clown for the Big Apple Circus. So imagine being
harassed sexually harassed by a clown?
Well, I think most women feel that way about most men Gordon,
Gordon Edelstein, artistic director of the Long Wharf
Theatre, Patrick Mian, Mian Meaghan o Mead Maalik, which
caught me for a second because I thought it was oh, Maalik. But
he's omitted Maalik, apparently a different guy Managing
Director of Bank of America James Rosen. Fox correspondent
Mike Germano Chief Digital Officer advice. Don Hasan,
journalist and executive director of AlterNet Marcelo
Gomes, ballet dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, Charles
Dutoit conductor and artistic director of the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra. Man does orchestra guys they get around,
don't they? The club's boring job, the classical the classical
arts, Morgan Spurlock documentary probably
do they probably do classical harassment? Yeah,
of course kissing. It's classical, darling. Not that
modern Weinstein jerk off in the plant stuff. We do. classic,
classic, classic, classic, classic arrest classical
harassment. Donovan McNabb, former NFL player, radio host
ESPN Eric Davis, also former NFL player and radio host on ESPN
Mario Batali. Chief, a chef, restaurant owner, co host of the
to one of your favorite shows.
Well, he's actually more of a he's a very famous chef and owns
a number of starred restaurants. Bobbo being his hot spot in New
York City, and he always seemed like kind of a creepy guy, but
he's a chef. I mean, some of them are, you know, the chef
said, we have a lot of chefs listen to the show. And you
know, these guys. It's a little community of people and they
know there's a lot of creeps in their
groups everywhere. Yeah, well, Ryan Lizza, writer for The New
Yorker and political analyst for CNN, Alex Kaczynski, federal
judge appeals court, Trent Franks and a representative for
Arizona Lauren Stein, editor of the Paris Review. Matt Dubbin, a
California State Assemblyman Peter Martin's leader of New
York City Ballet, again, the classical the classical arts.
There's a problem in the classical arts here, Israel
Horvitz playwright, founding artistic director of the
Gloucester stage theater. We have Shervin Pishevar these from
Sherpa capital. Justin Huff a Broadway casting director. Gee,
how could you expect that from a casting director? Garrison?
Keylor killer killer? That's the that's the he's not the
killer killer. Yeah,
the NPR Guy, Matt Lauer. Johnny on the prairie loose Zini. Chef
and judge on the great American baking show. Charlie Rose, John
Conyers, Coyne Conyers, Jr. These Michigan representative
Russell Simmons Al Franken. David Russell Simmons.
Yes, sir. Oh, yeah. Oh, he's admitted to that. I'm not an
officer. So
I'm sorry. He has not he has not he I vehemently deny all these
allegations. I've already heard the allegations. Sexual assault
of two women and rape of three others. He's gay. Russell
Simmons.
Oh, Russell Simmons. I was thinking to Richard Simmons.
Okay. Oh, Russell Simmons. I think I've always thought he was
gay that those accusations kind of surprised me.
David Sweeney, chief news editor at NPR. Stephen or Stephen
Vitel, Florida Democratic Party chairman. West Goodman, Ohio
State Representative Mark Shuang director and producer of One
Tree Hill and the Royals. Eddie Berganza. editor at DC Comics
Andrew Kreisberg, executive producer of Arrow Supergirl and
the flash. Tony Cornish representative who's that those
Super Girl guy? Andrew Kreisberg, executive producer of
Arrow Supergirl and the flash accusation section sexual
harrassment of more than a dozen people fired by Warner Brothers
TV group response I have made comments on women's appearances
and clothes in my capacity as an executive producer but they were
not sexualized. Sounds a lot like us.
Yeah, sounds when we do our executive bid. Yep. So this is
common. I don't know why, you know, what are these? What's
going on? Well, I got fired because gonna get fired by our
by our imaginary bosses. If we keep this bid up, Louie CK
Dan schoon, Minnesota State Senator Benjamin Janak Keough,
Executive Director at the Armory Show Art Fair. Ed Westwick.
actor David Guillard, Gilead co executive, co chief executive of
primary wave entertainment agency, Danny Masterson, actor
Andy Dick actor, Andy Dick. Chase. Yes, he's groped me. Andy
did close everybody. Matt he's probably proud of being on the
list. Nyko Yeah. Michael rascasse. Oh, I didn't know head
of news that NPR and former New York Times editor that NPR news
department is doing well.
Hamilton is getting his numbers up. Yeah. Amongst other things.
Hamilton fish, oh. President and publisher of the New Republic
Kevin Spacey, Kurt Webster, publicist for music business
rule. Bocanegra, California State Assemblyman Mark Halperin.
We know him from NBC News. Rick Najera, Director of CBS
diversity showcase.
That's a good one. Yeah, no more irony. Yeah, sexual
harassment, including inappropriate comments to
performers. He resigned. And his response
was means you suck. Could be anything.
Night Landesman, publisher of The Art Forum to classics man,
it's really
you guys. Where's the opportunity to do the
harassment?
Baby? Let me see you your art. Sexual harassment of at least
nine women including groping, he resigned and his response I
fully recognize I have tested I've tested certain boundaries,
which I'm working hard to correct. Steve Jurvetson that's
the VC guy. Who Jurvetson Steve Jurvetson Steve Jurvetson Yeah.
Co Founder of venture capital firm a board member. Yeah. Leon
recent. What did Jurvetson do? Sexual misconduct is all it says
the term resigned from the firm taking leave of absence from all
boards he's on. And his response was let me be perfectly clear.
No such allegations are true. Nice performance the way he quit
everything right. Leon because well, you know, in corporate
life can't have this they they don't want to risk a boycott or
anything. So, yeah. Implications enough. Leon vehcile tier editor
at the New Republic. Terry Richardson, fashion photographer
John Besh, Chief Executive of the Best Restaurant Group,
another one of these restaurant guys. Lockard steel and
editorial director of Vox media, Robert Scoble, tech blogger, co
founder of the transformation group, Clif height, senator from
Ohio, Chris Savino, creator and showrunner of the loud house,
Roy price head of Amazon Studios, and the signori, Senior
Vice President of content for defy media and then we have
Harvey Weinstein and then there's Jesus 28 suspensions and
other foul it's very long even Ben for Where's Bill O'Reilly
and not on there. Ben Vereen? I know Ben Vereen was on the list,
and Vereen? Yeah, what about Roger Ailes and Bill Bill
O'Reilly I can guarantee you I mean, this is the New York Times
what did they have they overlooked these guys not
on the list. That's interesting.
That's a point to this list are some politics about this because
they left those guys off. I think
people want to Riley they want free tickets to all the
classical shows probably. Our guys
getting any, I get a ticket. So let's go.
Then we have a very interesting revelation.
Come in, by the way end of the hugger over here. Yes, Christina
listed either Lasseter.
Well, the one that should be on the list is California
Assemblywoman Christina Garcia, Assemblywoman
Garcia, the Democrat from Bell Gardens. She is accused of
inappropriately touching a staffer from another office at a
legislative softball game back in 2014. The staffer who now has
his own communications firm, told the publication politico
that he was in the dugout after the game and that when the
assemblywoman came in, he says she appeared drunk and touched
him inappropriately. He said he decided to come forward now
because he was troubled by seeing her role in the me to
movement. Garcia Bell Gardens Democrat, as we said, has been a
strong voice in that me too movement and was profiled in
Time Magazine's recent Person of the Year Edition.
That's pretty egregious.
I would say for one thing, if you're some guy and some drunk
woman comes up and grabs your balls or something but buttocks
or buttocks, it shoves her away, or I'd say keep doing it. I
mean, you'd be you wouldn't go run into the media. Oh,
only only in political cases. Do you run to the
pulpit but because he saw her as some holier than thou type with
the me to movement. He says, come out.
Women Garcia issue. Anybody
got a second clip here.
Assemblywoman Garcia issued this statement regarding the
allegations. She says she will fully participate in any
investigation into her conduct. She did confirm that she was
present at that softball game back in 2014. But she says she
does not recall any inappropriate behavior.
She was plastered. Of course he doesn't
recall it. Last night we went to flower child are you familiar
with this chain of eateries flower never heard of it. It's
pretty it's actually I think it's a golden formula. They have
you know, kind of like quinoa bowls and stuff and kale, which
I won't eat, but they have no wraps with the avocado and other
things and deconstructed burrito bowls. And, and they have no
service which is great. Yeah, you walk up your order, you get
a number and then they bring it to your table. I think there's
like a Mexican tacos sounds like a Mexican Thai Korea and he
plays
with the with the douchey attitude, basically. Okay. Yeah,
sounds right. And so I walk in and the guy goes, Oh, my God for
a second when you put your glasses on, I thought you were
my favorite psychologist. I'm like Who says I'm not. But who
is your favorite psychologist? And guy says, Jordan Peterson.
Do you see a resemblance? None. That was obvious as well with
you. You're tall and your dad dashing and you've got the
grayish hair.
You have a scarf? No, I didn't throw it back.
But I do have an interesting clip from Mr. Peterson. Who was
in an interview with Vice I think. Yeah, he's
the hot topic right now.
This always very hot topic and he does a little Like you do me,
you know, so you'll ask, I can ask you a question you'll give
me an asshole answer. You know what I'm talking about? You'll
hear he
ever done that
sexual harassment in the workplace? Yes. Should it stop?
That'd be good, will it? Well, not at the moment it won't
because we don't know what the rules are. Do you think men and
women can work in the workplace together? You don't know,
without sexual harassment?
We'll see. That's a Devorah answer.
Yes, that was that. That was That asshole answers just didn't
answer
at the moment. It won't. Because we don't know what the rules
are. Do you think men and women can work in the workplace
together? You don't know. Without sexual harassment? We'll
see. Well, how many years will it take for men and women
working in the workplace together? More than four data
sets
more than 40? Don't
know what the rules are? Like, what? Here's a rule. Don't talk
about no makeup in the workplace. Oh, why would that?
Why should you wear makeup in the workplace? Isn't that
sexually provocative? No, it's not. No. What is it? Then?
What's the purpose of makeup? Some people would like to just
put on makeup. Why? To? I don't know why. Why do you make your
lips red? Because they turn red during sexual arousal. That's
why why do you put rouge on your cheeks? Same reason? I mean,
look, how about high heels? We're going to think What about
hey, what about them? They're there to exaggerate sexual
attractiveness. That's what high heels do. Now, I'm not saying
that people shouldn't use sexual displays in the workplace. I'm
not saying I do. But I am saying that that is what they're doing.
And that is what they're doing it Do you feel like a serious
woman who does not want sexual harassment in the workplace? Do
you feel like if she wears makeup in the workplace, that
she is somewhat being critical? Yeah. I do think that Boom
shakalaka
Wow, he's right, done. I've come tatical simpatico with this guy.
See, I knew you would like it. I compared you to him. And now you
feel good about Yeah,
I'm fine. I admire that you did that or admire? I thank you for
doing
that. You do admire it. Yes.
But yes, I'm totally in agreement with this. You know,
what do you wait? I don't think it's a big deal, by the way. And
I think a lot of women would just assume, assume, would I'm
sorry, I think most women would gladly not wear makeup, and have
to get all dolled up. I mean, Texas is the worst for this and
you live down there. If you work in Texas, have the women like
it, by the way, because I've discussed this with the women
who moved from elsewhere to Texas. Yeah. Where they're now
dolled up in the office. Yeah, and many of them think it's
fantastic. It's just like it's because it's fun to get all
dolled up. And it's you know, it's not necessarily trying to
get laid, you just like to get dolled up and in Texas that you
can really get carried away with that and you go to some of these
Texas offices and all the women are and you go to a little
restaurant in the middle of nowhere a little I remember
running into I was in Judas in Georgia not Texas but similar
situation. I'm I never could find this place again. It was a
very obscure but absolutely fantastic rib joint in the
middle of nowhere, Georgia. I was stuck in Georgia for an
extra day before my plane was gonna leave in the evening. So I
decided to drive around South Georgia where I found this this
rib joint in the middle of nowhere. I was the only guy in
there and this waitress comes out she's she's dolled up to the
10s she had big red lips and have all kinds of makeup on a
hair all done up and everything. I was just very impressed by
that. Impressed no less, but I would have to say that I agree
with him again, I've been promoting this idea that in a
workplace environment especially where you have a lot of this
harassment going on. You should not women should not wear makeup
or get all dolled up they should wear what men wear. Wear but
suits but women's suits pants probably shouldn't even be
showing any legs. I think pants pants is fine. And you're good
now now that we get you even ground nothing, nothing. There's
nothing going on there.
Well I would find that very sad.
Well, we don't work in offices either one of us so it's not as
though that would affect us. But yeah, yeah, it is kind of sad,
but the way things are going is kind of sad. And
your sexual harassment update
Yeah. All right.
Well, with that I would actually like to thank you for your
courage and say in the morning to you John. As he stands for
cosmetics in the workplace double rag
Willie in the morning to you Mr. Adam curry. Also, in the morning
Joel boots on the ground feed near sums in the water all the
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RCA, it said CIA as the label, which was cute.
Yeah, it was cute. And
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Indeed, we have a few people that think I have to adjust the
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Yeah. Okay. So your spreadsheet and what happened?
Well, I, I was I blow it up to 150%. So it fills the screen and
I got it. So it's very readable from a distance because I'm mile
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wanted to do, I put in 5%.
And so the spreadsheet you thought you had forgotten your
medication,
and the spreadsheet became very small. Yes, very small. All
right, well, we do have to thank one person profusely, and I'm
going to introduce his Insta Baron.
What very,
I think it's like a third one that we've had. And I'm going to
put it into the barrens. I'm going to go back to something I
forgot about this policy we had for big donors like this, okay.
But we used to we this is Roger Colburn. He came in with $3,000,
he sent a note it is that you have a standalone executive
producer ship. So you have instead of executive producers
and have a whole bunch of people, you have one standalone
executive producer, and then another executive producers and
a whole bunch of people, which
is not just not uncommon in Hollywood credits either.
Very common. The only problem this time is that we have no
other executive producer so you stand out.
You pick the bad day, my friend.
But that said, that's what that's what I
can't wait to hear his notes. I mean, he clearly derived a lot
of value from the show and I'd love to hear about it.
Yeah, he sent a note in a greetings from the Frozen
Traverse City, Michigan, which is funny. That's where Jason's
wife comes from Jesse. I have been a loyal listener since
episode 333. encloses my racist contribution of three fifths of
a vie count according to the complex math that should make me
an Insta Baron. Why is it racist? Because it's additional
three
slaves Okay, gotcha. Nice. There you go. That no agenda show
taking racist donations.
As the rule follower, I had my son's research peerage rules.
All their research revealed was there questions of why should be
donating to people whose last names are a keyboard layout or a
type of spice?
Usually, I appreciate that because usually is like an old
hack and a washed up Vijay. That's usually what people say
about our last names but yeah,
yeah. And the observation that a knighthood from the Queen would
be better. Oh, good news is they did agree to listen to this
episode. I'd like to sign honorary titles of Sheriff and
magistrate to my sons, Alex and Eric. Done. Okay, it felt good
to have my son see see let's see a life lesson in integrity by
seeing me support your value for value model. I wrote a book on
the subject of value for value but that's for another episode.
If they want to read it I want to read it now. I'm curious look
him
up he's probably on go to Amazon Amazon. Look up bull burn. Yes.
if the rules allow I would like to be knighted. Sir James Bond
of episode one double oh seven. Nice. Overseeing the territory
of North Korea.
Is that on my list of do I have to add this in manually? I think
I have to add it in manually.
But North Korea No no, no,
this this title. Let me just see. Roger, what was what will
his name be again?
Sir James Bond of episode one double oh seven. Okay. Adam,
please inform your uncle, he may begin dealing with me directly.
There has been recent cancer diagnosis for my sister and dad,
I would like to request some F cancer karma to reset the recent
bad luck for myself and my family. More demands from the
Barony later, maybe lunch in Austin or in some neutral
territory, obviously not California.
I'm all in private meetup. And I want to I, this sounds like a
very interesting guy.
Yeah, he's got the value from he probably has some research that
we don't know. And we've done we have a lot of research that
we've done to for our value for value model so we can make it
work even though it didn't work in this
show. Holy crap. This guy, this guy has written some books. It's
okay. Well, if this is the guy, let me see.
Yeah, probably she really depends on what the subject is.
Personal currency the future of money.
Could be that could be him.
See, I don't see anything. Well, maybe maybe that's maybe that's
in the maybe the value for value was in that book?
And is Roger, right. Yeah. Roger called unusual spelling. So it's
probably not too many people.
Okay, well, good. I want to read his book. Fantastic. Thank you
very much. So he needs F cancer karma.
Yep, right here.
Got karma and thank you very much. I look forward to your
ceremony coming up.
This still okay, we got Morgan corkle Corkhill 250 bucks,
you'll be our Associate Executive Producer one of four
showed one double oh seven. This donation will cast me into a sea
of Knighthood and in this cess pit of sensibility since since a
boldness sensible bonus, I wish to be referred to as Sir Captain
Morgan and requested Captain Morgan and morale morally
questionable women at the ceremony. I'm a bit behind in my
show watching. So are we because we don't watch the show but
okay, but heard something of a few shows ago and I was
wondering if anyone else heard it as I did. It was a short clip
where a vegan was talking about why a vegan would not eat
cheese. He said it was cow rape. Yes. And the farmer would stick
his hand up to cow's ass and fertilize the cows. Not sure
about this, but I think he got it wrong. I got the wrong whole.
Guess he can't be blamed for being malnourished by the vegan
diet. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you don't stick it up the cow's ass.
That's funny. technicality didn't catch that.
No, it's Well, I I wasn't really thinking about it that deeply.
You know, Jay was no nothing, I
guess. Oh, so he wants Captain Morgans. And what else does he
want?
Questionable women with questionable morals. With good
moral women. Make it easier or suitable.
Oh, this is happening again. Dammit.
But your thing's going out again. Yeah. I think you better
have your tubes checked.
Well, what happens is you just stopped tape. No, I haven't
stopped tape. I can You can continue while i is just the
jingles will be problematic. It's just USB is rebooting or
something. I don't know. Windows.
J Well, you're the one that went over there. You know those
dapple guys would love to take you back. Jamie Christiansen and
Johnston, New York. 20 $14.63. And he sends a note in by email.
Oh, and by the way, here's the jingles. You're gonna have to
queue up. Slaves can eat mac and cheese living in the mac and
cheese life. We and a goat farmer
I have a feeling you missed a whole bunch of Morgan Corkhill
jingles if I'm not mistaken. Oh, I don't want to come up on my
screen. Well, it's in the in it's on the thing.
Not on mine. I'm clicking on it trying to expand. It's been a
couple
of years since my last donation so I think I deserve de douching
we'll let you decide. I also humbly request Donald loves
Nazis as it totally cracks me up and karma if you want to.
I can't bring that up. Well, hold on. Let me try something
here. We go into the file and go into nope, nope, nope, nope.
Nope, will not will not expand. And I'm using the new Microsoft
Excel.
Well, you've really got to work on that because this has been a
problem for about five years.
I just don't think I could do if it wasn't what am I supposed to
do? What am I supposed to do?
I don't know why why how do I have no problem seeing the
spreadsheet ever?
The I have no idea. I looking at it now. I can't get it. I don't
dance with vegan diet.
Well, let me give him his D douching.
As Ben de deuced Donald loves Nazis. Donald loves Nazis. CNN
say that he's PKK having shot sic hell with it. Wow.
You've got karma.
Now, you're there to back it up. So not worried about that. What
were these other jingles for the next one.
The next one is our slaves can eat mac and cheese. Live in the
mac and cheese life. We and the goat scream karma.
Okay. Was there any other note to
it? Yes, I got a whole note here. Okay, go for it. Just
giving you the jingles up front like you want. For Mr. Jamie of
the highway rolling through paradox New York ITM Jensen's,
I'm over. I'm in over the road truck driver who has been
listening for nearly five years and only now am I financially
able to support the best podcast in the universe. This donation
of 20 $14.63 represents my birthdate. So two to 14. We had
to put her on the birthday last Yes. Even though she requested
for this, which has to do to 14 requests, my birth date and
celebration of completing 55 trips around the sun. this
coming Wednesday. Wow. Wow, that's a lot of driving. Do you
think about it? For jingles I'd like a double helping a Mac. I
guess if you're driving cross country and you're cross country
and you just constantly on the road. You put a lot of miles up
55 nautical miles to do five trips around the sun. Virginia
was like a double helping of mac and cheese. We and some good DX
karma for all the hams out there. All righty she's a she's
a ham.
Oh, what's your what's your call sign?
I'm looking at here she's an avid she's a while. Yeah, while
73 for Miss Jamie
73 Alpha Charlie Charlie.
No, here it is November three echo Oscar Papa mobile. All
right. Your slaves get used to Macintosh Macintosh mac and
cheese macaroni and cheese shatter melted together mac and
cheese mac and cheese mac and cheese.
Mac and cheese mac and cheese by ein Rand. You've got karma okay.
Next, Charles Schultz came in as a check in Madison, Alabama. And
there is an email that came in transcript transparently and in
parallel. I just scheduled a bank check to be sent to your
post office boxes represents 10% of my first Social Security
quote unquote check. Like a good Slave I waited till my full
retirement age to claim my Social Security benefit. So I
can continue to work full time and collect my entitlement
without a reduction in the payment. I guess I consider it a
phased retirement since I'll be able to since I'll be able to
back off on the amount of overtime and the side hustles
I've been working for years. This payment to the show is long
overdue since Pay Pal randomly killed off my $5 per month
payment years ago. Please de douche me. You've been de deuced
and a dose of karma wouldn't help he says
Okay, anything else would just go for the karma that's it.
Otherwise they would have read through
your you've got karma. And that's Chuck Schultz cave for CA
Why 70 threes? We have a lot of ham hams baby it's the hams You
betcha the hams are saving the show. Edie love booty Yay 200
bucks and is appears to be no jingles no comment but he does
say Be My Valentine. Ah. Now we did have a special offer that
nobody took up on which is to get your name in the newsletter
is calling out your partner lover wife, husband, whatever.
For as as your Valentine. And nobody picked up on this and I
thought about this. Because it was like I thought it was a good
idea. It was a good gimmick people give 200 This and that is
not like completely outrageous. I'm going to reintroduce it
again on Tuesday before Wednesday, but I don't know if
it's going to help. I concluded that it was my write up on the
newsletter. That was the problem. Okay, what happened? I
think it was confusing. Poorly sold. I think it was done
poorly. I should have put more of the information at the top
not not after explaining the whole damn thing. It was very
poorly done. I think people who like to study the newsletter for
its sales attributes because there's a sales pitch in there
every newsletter, but sometimes it's strong sometimes it's weak
and See how poorly then this was it was just poorly done it was
reminded me of the more recent poorly done newsletter where I
confused people about the double your you know, you get to
executive producer credits and some people including the chef's
thought that it
might get me out there was all kinds of crap with that. Yeah,
so I'm now I'm concerned. Yes.
I know you took a beat 12 this morning, so that can't be it.
I don't know. They just had me losing my time. Have
you been socializing with the strange people?
Well, I socialize with the two liberals that are just mine.
Yeah, well if you're if you're if you're flame texting with
them that kind of thrown your game off man.
Trying to think that I do that before after the note. See, I
don't know I did. Well, I don't have a timeline. So I don't
know. Well, I knew I feel disappointed. Yeah, nobody
cares. You know, but didn't know of apparently nobody has any
love in their life if they wanted it.
I personally although Yeah, the newsletter I thought was a bit
weak.
Thank you. So it was a good idea. You said this was a very
it was a good idea. But yeah, when I when I saw it come
through you know because I only get the text beforehand. I don't
get the full the full thing. So maybe it was laid out but I
think the issue is last puts that we need to ride on
something like a Valentine's Day. You know, we need the
mainstream to kind of that is a way we can ride and they don't
really crank it up until until tomorrow. And you know it's it's
no one's thinking really about Valentine's Day yet. On Saturday
when the newsletter comes out. Maybe
you might be right but it's Valentine's Day is Wednesday and
our next shows on Thursday in the no no but you know I think
it's a maybe it's a kids thing you know, you know Valentine's
Day you can select a little boy you know, if you're a girl,
little girl, you shouldn't get a Valentine from her. She feels
bad.
It was a year old man's job, but still. Yo man's job. Yo, man.
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, man, Yo, man.
Well, anyway, I feel the was like a fail customer. Hashtag
fail. But you have some funny pictures in there, including
that one from Saudi Arabia. And I want to mention since since
that was I put a little note at the bottom saying Can anyone
verify this and somebody indeed verified it that that is legit.
That in McDonald's? In Saudi Arabia, women are allowed.
Please, no women? No women in the
McDonald's bet
your 10 bucks your your service dog can go in but no women?
Yeah. Well, this is a part of our this is our value for value
model, which works reasonably well. And the idea that you can
monetize the network is something I've said is just
really not possible. And boy, in a prom in our second donation
segment, we should talk about it. Well, maybe we should do it
in the second one.
Well, we should do a little bit but I want to make sure that if
you put a note down, we have to talk about the Newsweek
situation. That's
what I'm going to talk about in the second segment. That's
exactly what I said. I'm not a psychic. I can read your mind as
well, since you
and I had an email thing about it. I figured maybe you'd be
psychic.
Yeah, well, not that I can remember doing that. So
but but I do want to know because we have all these
interesting things like karma, F cancer, karma, jobs, karma. And
there's something about the the no agenda community and the
value for value model that struck me really hard. While
reading this book by a guy named Joe Han Hari, it's called Lost
connections, uncovering the real causes of depression and the
unexpected solutions. This is a fascinating book, which you get
pressed? No. Which are you?
No, no, be
sure because you you do exhibit some of the symptoms. So yeah,
like what? Well, look, if you read the book, and I will
definitely I want to tell you a little bit about it. Because
what this guy gave me a summary. If you stop interrupting me, I
shall good. This guy went to as many researchers who had done
studies about depression as you could because he had suffered
from depression. And what he found as and this is why he
wrote this book, is it's no surprise to us in the no agenda
thinking that SSRIs you know, these are the, the serotonin
inhibitors. This is all the is it Prozac as an SSRI as well,
was that the belief so mack daddy of them all. But all these
all these different medications? If you if you do the FOIA
requests, and you really see the studies, of course, you know,
there's 500 500 studies, studies 498 are not published, although
they do have to give them to the FDA. But the two successful ones
that say, oh, you know, people who have depression the best,
it's it works, it's perfect, and then it gets on the market. And
there's a lot of studies that found this, there'll be no
surprise that it really, you know, people are given a placebo
don't see much less of an improvement over people who
receive the drug. I mean, really like, like 1%, it's really,
really low. And the story and this is this is what fascinated
me is that he had been roped into SSRIs, which he wound up
taking for 14 years, the story is that you have a chemical
imbalance in your brain. And that's how they've been sold.
Although I didn't know this, there is zero study anywhere
that says, depression comes from a chemical imbalance in the
brain. If you look at someone who's depressed, you do a scan,
you're gonna see something different than someone who is
not depressed. But that is a symptom, not the cause. So he
went back to try and find out what is really the cause of
depression. And it's a whole bunch of things that very
obvious, but no one has ever stopped to ask people, why are
you depressed? Are you depressed, this SSRI will help
you, which it does temporarily takes away a little bit of that
feeling. But then, you know, the depression creeps up, they upped
the dosage. And that's how you just stay on the ladder for the
rest of your life until it ends up usually it winds out pretty
badly for people. But as he goes through it, it turns out that a
lot of depression comes from the lifestyle that we have today.
And what humans apparently really need is connection. And
social media plays right into this. But it's really, it's
fake. It's not a real, it's not a real connection. Which it does
gives people incredible endorphins, and all the stuff,
all the stuff, you need to feel very happy when you're part of a
community like the no agenda community. But it only works.
And this is why I bring this up. And I'm sure we'll be talking
about this book more in the future. It only works if you
also have in person contact. We are built for it. We're geared
for it, it's necessary. And I am committing now we've talked
about this, but I am committing to do meetups regularly. And it
shows that the no agenda community do meetups without us,
they get together because they need it. We all need it. So bear
that isn't
good meetups is a good meters because you have people that
have been kind of broken away from the pack.
Totally, and who are who are either healthy or desperately
want to be healthy. Because today's life is anything. But
again, this book, it's just really nicely worded. There's
nothing that we don't know of, because obviously advertising is
geared to let you know that you're a loser. Unless you drink
this beer you'll never get laid. If you don't have that car,
you're just a dumb shit. These days, they even make the men
look like dumb shits in the commercials on purpose. So it's
meant to scare you into it. And if you are human, and this is a
big thing that really hit me. If you're in a job that doesn't
really do anything for you doesn't excite you is just a job
to make money, you're gonna get depressed if you aren't
depressed already.
And now if you like making money, well, people
who like making money are the most depressed. Well, they are
the most they are the most depressed because you cannot
trick your human psyche into feeling happy just because you
made more money. That's the materialistic ego and it doesn't
work. But anyway, meet up coming in Austin very soon. So Texas
and all surrounding states. Be ready because not only do you
need it, I need it too. So we need some personal connection.
And you're going out for more meetups to John.
Yeah, I got a berry meetup coming up, probably do another
one in LA. Like to do a Seattle meetup.
We have an idea to and I asked you to pick a date, which you
haven't done yet. We'll pick a date. We're going to do a meet
up in Austin. And we're going to connect that meet up with your
Meetup. So we'll do it on the same day, more or less the same
time dudes
name band, and we're gonna play some big screens and have two
cameras on each meetup and you'll be kind of a joint
meetup. Yeah.
Yeah. And we could even do more if we wanted. Like, what? Well,
we can have more people with their meetups connecting Oh,
yeah, maybe? Well, let's do the one first, and then we can start
it. I started with that. If we even get that done. Anyway, the
book is
called Lost connections. It's, it's on Kindle. I think.
It's like it's condemning the social media, if
that's part of what it does. But when you read this, I realized
once again, it's no wonder I love my job, because it doesn't
feel like a job. And as long as I can pay the rent and eat, I
really don't care. I know you may feel differently. You may be
a little more depressed
than me. Why not? I'm not depressed. Why would you say I'm
depressed? Do I sound depressed? Do I sound depressed? Once you
wrap this because if you do mention eating, I have a whole I
have three clips on eating.
I would like to thank everybody who came in today as an
Associate Executive Producer and our instant Baron big executive
producer, single standing line we will be thinking more people
and talking more about advertising, which doesn't seem
to work as well versus our modeling. In our second segment,
and please remember another show coming up on Thursday. VO
req.org/n A and you have four days in the meantime to go out
there talk to everybody propagate the formula. Our
formula is this we go out we hit people in the mouth all right.
That was woman it was on C span I'm looking for stuff that you
once while you get the book TV is very interesting on C span
because you get these authors, and they pretty much give you
the book. I mean, this they summarize their own book and
it's like very interesting. So this woman comes on I didn't I
wasn't planning on watching this. I just caught it. And
she's reading from her book on eating and her name is Rebecca
hearse hertz, he r z and she is an expert on eating. And I'm
gonna just play get three clips to play one is this the end of
her reading about the book where she got a round of applause and
she says reading from her book is not as entertaining but as
she's talking about how you can use smells. To do dieting, by if
you're getting like an urge to eat or you're really hungry or
something you tick you smell something that has nothing to do
with food, like crayons or she'd like to use methyl acetate
personally always
so that can deter you from eating or or make you eat or
either way No, no,
that deters you in vanilla makes you eat more if you smell that,
uh, but generally speaking, smelling something that's not
food related, that is memorable smell will take your brain and
scrambles it is not on a yoga and when we think about this,
you'd lose your appetite. Oh interesting. It's too short. It
doesn't last forever, but it's something you can do to trick
yourself into not eating when you get the munchies. So that's
the this is the this clip is hertz this is her summary
reading from the book and that gets interesting.
Odors trigger our most emotional and evocative memories.
Therefore the most effective way to use them as a diet aide is to
find an aroma or several which not only distracts you from
thoughts of donuts, but triggers personal memories potent enough
to disrupt what you were thinking about donuts or
otherwise. aromas that take you want to trip down memory lane or
transport you back to a moment when you are especially
fulfilled or inspire you with feelings of confidence can rent
you from your cravings while also delivering a punch of
positive emotion that may give you the fortitude to move beyond
your unbidden food desires. The key is to find the aromas that
are a particularly evocative for you. As due to our unique
experiences the sense connected to the most motivating memories
are different for everyone. Once you found aromas that carry you
to special moments in time, or uplift you with invigorating
emotions, try inhaling one when a craving that you want to
dispel hits, even after the intensity of the memory and
feeling fades. Now that you've reoriented yourself mentally,
you're craving should be diminished, so that you can get
on with what you were doing without succumbing to
temptation, at least for a little while. odors and tastes
are extremely powerful sensory forces, and they guide and in
shape our experiences with food and life in a multitude of
extraordinary ways. But there are also many other sensory and
psychological factors that play a pivotal role in whether we
reach for a burger or a banana and how much we eat when we do
know that sounds plausible? Yeah, the author she's the book
of the book is why you eat what you eat. And she is very
interesting.
I have the munchies. That's why I know
so but when the question and answers came up, it became I
thought a lot more fascinating because there was more specifics
and she talked about some research. So let's I have two
more clips and this is the one this is the loud noises and
sweet flavors clip
their giant oven somewhere that are invisible but in fact there
aren't so actually Cinnabon is a classic example. Their aroma
cinnamon is extremely intense and alluring. And there's no one
baking cinnamon buns anywhere nearby. And a bunch of coffee
establishments often will do the same kind of tricks, restaurants
as well. If there's like an Italian restaurant, often
they'll pipe out sort of garlicky aromas. And this is to
lure people in by their noses. Because often even when we're
not hungry, if we smell something that's really
appetizing, it will not only make us want to eat but make us
want to eat that specific food. So yes, there is food marketing
in that way that's being done. And to a certain extent. There's
also things that restaurants I think, don't realize that
they're doing which have counterproductive effects on
eating especially the more expensive restaurants and trendy
restaurants which is playing really loud music. And even
though that might be cool, that actually has a detrimental
effect on your experience of eating for two reasons. One
because really Loud music and especially really fast music
makes you eat more quickly, it makes you want to leave more
quickly so that you're not, you know, getting the full enjoyment
of the meal. And another thing actually has to do with the fact
that loud noise, in fact, influences our ability to taste.
And this is why on airplanes, food never tastes very good even
when you're in first class. And that's because out loud ambient
noise actually affects the one of the cranial nerves that's
involved in our ability to taste foods. So the chorda tympani
nerve, which is the cranial nerve involved in hearing is
actually also involved in taste perception, and really loud
noise which is activating that has a dampening effect on sweet
taste and salty taste to taste that we'd like a lot. So you
know, whatever you're eating, when it's really loud, like the
80 to 90 decibel rumble on an aeroplane is going to taste less
sweet and less salty, and so less good. It doesn't however,
affect bitterness. So the grapefruit that you get in your
morning transcontinental flight is, is really bitter and doesn't
have any of the sweetness or doesn't have as much of the
sweetness as you would have gotten otherwise. So loud noise
and restaurants. Like I said, even I don't think restaurants
realize this has a detrimental impact on diners experiences.
I didn't know that. I didn't know it either. But it makes
sense when the way she explains it. Yeah. And I've always found
that really loud places, I don't like to go there. I don't like
to go to loud memory restaurants that are so loud, you can hear
the other person talk. Yeah,
we went to when we were in Chicago over Christmas, he went
to a steak house and the music was just a little too loud. And
then, and it was also kind of 70s 80s music, which is odd for
this type of place. And it detract from the experience for
sure.
Ya know what they're thinking. And here's the last one, which I
thought was another thing that we should all note.
Are there like different patterns or desires? With food
intake? If you were like, say eating alone, or eating like at
the dinner table with a group of people, and you're in a
speaker's conversation or something like that?
Yeah, absolutely. In fact, the number of people you with
exponentially influences how much you consume. And so eating
with just one other person increases, how much one eat if
you're eating with six other people, it's much, much more
than that. Even eating with strangers makes you eat more
than when you're by yourself, although not to the same extent.
And there's another factor which you also mentioned in your
question, which is that what you're doing with those other
people talking vigorously, being excited, and if you're
especially if it's something that you're celebrating, that
also encourages more eating, and if food is also in front of you
for longer than you, you know, Keep on reaching into it. And
another really interesting thing is if you don't see the discard
from your food, so let's say you went to a bar with your friends
after a softball game, and you're ordering nachos and
chicken wings, and this and that. And the server is
continuously clearing the table so that you don't see how much
you've consumed. You'll keep ordering, you know, another
round or chicken wings over here. If you see the bones
piling, you're more likely to say, Oh, my goodness, hold on a
second. So there's definitely the social environment has a
really big
impact. Okay, you always learn something on the no agenda show.
Well, I'll add to that, from that. Rub that what was the name
of her book?
Uh, why we eat? Why you eat what you eat.
So loss connections, was looking into obesity. And there was in
the study, it's great to start. I looked a couple of them up
there, you know, yes, footnotes and everything. These are
studies that have been funded properly and done. And they
wanted to see well, what if you just like a political prisoner
who goes on a hunger strike? What if you just have people not
eat but you give them the nutrients they need? So you
know, enough vitamin C's that don't die of scurvy and all this
other stuff. And this one study was done with I think, 400
people who were around 400 pounds obese. P imagine that
room. And so they they did exactly that. And they were able
to take people from 400 pounds to 150 pounds in about four
months. But once they were done, within three weeks, they'd be
eating so much. They were 250 pounds, and they just rocketed
back up to 400. And they said well, why? Why is this
happening? It obviously is the intake of food, the amount of
food Ed and no one had done this. 60% of all the obese
people in this study had been sexually abused as a child. And
the number one way to protect yourself is to make yourself
unattractive. 60% John, that's crazy. That's been under
40%. That word narrower, still fat. You had to deal with them.
I'm not sure what she has. She has a discussion about this. She
says it's an hour talking about the 40% not the abused. She says
that everybody has a Some, there's some study that talks
about you get there's a middle ground where you, you're going
to gravitate toward this weight and size. If you go over, you
gravitate back down, if you go under you gravitate back up. And
there are some people that are just big. Sure. And there is
Texas by the way.
Well, we eat entire cows at a time. We eat we eat a lot.
The I felt there was something in there. Yeah. I'll read that
book. Mr. Good. So in other words, if you're going to going
to be in first class, and you're going to get good food, you get
the caviar, you get the the good wine. cognacs. Put those
headphones
on. Yeah, you gotta have the noise cancelling headphones.
Yeah, you put those on and Fudo tastes a lot better.
I'm gonna try. That's an easy experiment to try at home. Yeah.
Well, just when I thought the pipeline wars were over, they
pulled me back in. Yeah, we're at war once again, now in Syria.
At a very interesting spot where we have bombed back. That is
what the term I've heard us mom back the Syrian army. Now it's
it's a spot where the old pipeline would cross. You know,
we still have the competing pipelines, the Qatari pipeline,
which is supposed to go up and regionally to Turkey, but it may
go into Greece, and we still have the the Iran, Iran, Iraq,
Syria pipeline, and that's part of what this is. But just a
backgrounder. On February 2, Associated Press reporting. The
United States has no evidence to confirm reports from aid groups
and others that the Syrian government has used deadly
chemical sarin on its citizens. This is Mattis, Mad Dog, quote,
we have other reports from the battlefield from people who
claim it's been used. We do not have evidence of it by but, but
just a couple days later, good old Heather, they're in the
State Department.
The Secretary recently talked about this. And let me just
underscore and highlight some of the important things that we
would like to see take place with regard to Russia, as it
pertains to Syria. They need to stop using chemical weapons
Syria does but we also know that chemical weapons use is enabled
by Russia. They need to support a new mandate. Like we know
it's just a fact we know chemical weapons are enabled by
Russia. I'm not sure what it means. Does that mean they're
giving them to them then they're looking at
the Russians helped take those weapons out? Do we actually
there was a disposed of them
well, apparently, even though there's no evidence according to
Mad Dog, the state disarmed
Mad Dog says there's no evidence we on this show have pointed out
study after study that showed that one attack not the most
recent one, but the last one, or the one that earlier that was
attributed during the Obama administration. Yeah, that one
was shown to be bold crap, because missiles went too far
the wrong kind of missiles is the wrong kind. Again,
they tested chemical weapons in the UK. This is why Obama didn't
attack. And once he got the report, it's like, oh, shit,
that's not theirs. You remember that?
Yeah, I do remember that. And it was like it became a problem
because he didn't attack he didn't attack right. Because the
world order the Neo cons and everybody that's all war.
Hungry. Well,
they're back. They're back was finished. Just listen to
Heather's she, she This is a PR job of epic proportions. You'll
hear her. She even breaks her her typical cadence to really
add some emotional emphasis to how horrible this is
Syria does. But we also know that chemical weapons use is
enabled by Russia. They need to support a new mandate, like the
jam the JM which has been foiled multiple times. And the UN
Security Council, Secretary Tillerson and we talked about
this the other day, took part in the Paris signing of a new
entity that's been set up by the French with I believe it's 25
other governments who care about having an Investigative
Mechanism put in place so that we can prevent the use of
chemical weapons against civilians. Let me remind you six
times in the last 30 days, some form of chemical weapons have
been used on the Syrian people. It's disgusting. It's horrific,
and it's evil. And we would like to see that stop, but we'll keep
following this will keep working on it. The government is meeting
I have to assure you that this is a top issue for us. Yeah,
it's
a top issue. And she's promoting this because we need a cover for
the war that we're now starting, or just continuing or whatever
it is. And there's a lot of issues in this region. We know
that we now have as we talked about pool maybe five years ago
now, there's a dispute about the Leviathan oil fields, the gas
field, Israel says it's theirs now Leben On is saying, ya know,
that's it's part of it's ours, you know, whose is it really? So
there's trouble there. But the Golan Heights, the Golan
Heights, this is the region that lies right in between Syria and
Israel. This is occupied territory, Israel claim that
after the 67, Six Day War, and in 2015, you will never guess
but they discovered this may have the largest largest oil
field underneath it larger than what Saudi Arabia can tap into.
That's pretty big. I don't know anything about the numbers that
they're saying here about the Strada and whatever it is, but
this is disputed territory. And I'm sure the Russians do not
want Israel and America to get that.
You know, I want to mention something. Heather would not be
getting away with this if gay on chichi Khan, or any Russian in
that room that used to be in the room during the Obama
administration, grilling them anytime they brought up Russia
or blaming Russia for something that's not verified or provable?
Yep.
Yeah, you're right. You're right. This is very weak.
They've kicked all those people out. Though there is a company
that has the drilling rights, that company is called ethic A F
E. C, it is a no. Believe me, I check. It is a subsidiary of
Genie, oil and gas.
And is that public? Um,
I don't know. Let me see. I don't believe so.
Let me just check. Somebody's gotta be public.
Yes, je E G, H, E, N E. That's their symbol. Good. If you want
to look it up. Gne. I'm gonna do that right now. Okay, this will
this now depending on how the war goes? It'll be long or
short. We're not really sure yet.
Well, that probably won't be a short because usually these
companies aren't that short, double, they just would just do
it. They just stay where they were, they're not going to go
down unless they've already unless they've skyrocketed well
to know about when I
when I read the following names to you, you'll want to go along.
Now a reminder that our our Secretary of State who Heather
works for is Rex Tillerson, he's an oil guy. So you know i
There's no doubt about in my mind where once again we the we
send in the US melon military known as the United States
mineral extraction unit to be send them in kill everybody
around and we protect it all so that we can go and drill this
strategic advisory board of Genie oil and gas. You ready?
For dollars a share?
All steel?
Well, you don't know that could go broke tomorrow. And then we
go on.
On the strategic advisory board. Dick Cheney. nuber Rupert
Murdoch. Yep. Bill Richardson. James are our James Woolsey,
former CIA director, Dr. Lawrence Summers. And then my
favorite Jacob Rothschild. Oh my god, the trifecta.
More than a trifecta. Quadra effect, yes.
So that's the fact that's what this is about. And they're going
to call and we're going to use the cover of their use. We need
that knew that we needed a gym, which was the joint what does
that the joint investigation? Ma I forget what it's gonna have it
here. So at Joint Investigative Mechanism, which was which was
blown up a couple of years ago, the Russians said screw this. We
don't want to be they vetoed it. It's so un thing, which no one
really cares, but they're just looking for cover. They're
looking for cover. And that's what this is about. It's just
extracting resources from arguably stolen land or disputed
land. Let's put it that way. It's disputed, disputed,
disputed.
But you when you visit Israel, they'll tell you that there's
good reasons for it. But you know, you'll be floating around
the cities and they pointed the Golan Heights to say see you up
there they can be bombing us from up there. It's up in the
air, you know, you can throw rocks ago mile.
Anyway, anyways, disappointed by this behavior. And more. More
disappointed. There's no one the State Department who stands up
like you said guy on TwitchCon and says, Hey, what has
nothing to do with your story? Now, let's play action over
Syria. This is the Saturday report from yesterday and what's
good this is from PBS. Looking forward, back exit. Got it.
Good evening, and thanks for joining us conflict in the skies
over Syria and Israel this evening, following the most
serious skirmishes between the two countries since 2011. Right
now two Israeli pilots are being treated for injuries after Syria
shot down their F 16. They were striking what Israel says are
Iranian air bases within Syria. But today's violence began after
Israel shot down an Iranian drone, which entered Israeli
airspace from Syria. and Israeli military spokesman warned Iran
is dragging the region into an adventure in which it doesn't
know how it will end
towards Iran now. Okay, good. We're back to the west part. So
you know, now it's very suspicious because of you this
the day went on with the store with some woman who's with the
biggest blue eyes have ever seen shouldn't be English girl. And
she was doing a remote on Skype. And normally, I would play at
least some of it. If you don't mind, the whole thing sounding
like this is too harsh. I know. It's rough. And so I wasn't
gonna play it. And she went on to discuss it. There was a
second strike. That first the first strike was against Iranian
drone base. Yeah. And the second strike was another Iranian drone
base. And that's what got my attention, which is, why would
they have two drone bases in Syria that needed to be bombed?
Do they? I doubt it.
I mean, are they talking about little drones? There's a dude
with a remote control on the ground. And all of a sudden,
he's
talking about drone bases, which means they're talking about big
drones, the big boys? That's my guess. I mean, it could be
bullshit. But where was where was the drone shot down? We
don't know is it shot down over Golan Heights? That's, you know,
they just scoping out the area that is got the oil that you say
is there could be that somebody says is there or and then where
they bomb in the edge of the pipelines? We're gonna go I
mean, this whole thing with that information, the new information
that was said that you're putting in a different light,
doesn't it? It puts everything in a different light. And now we
have to look at it from that perspective, skeptical and
doesn't help. I was
very dissatisfied with my military contacts. I said, Well,
why are we why are we bombing the Syrians? And what I got back
was, they came too close. And, and by the way, it's funny
because ISIS is actually in the, in the no man's land in between
the Assyrians and us. So they're, they're basically
caught in the hellfire. But, you know, it was like, they got too
close. I got into my buying it that. I don't like your answer.
This is the answer.
Well, without anybody asking strong questions in the State
Department briefing, we'll never find out. Which is why you need
our tea in there. And the fact that it's not been discussed
that we don't have any Russians, I don't know. Maybe there is a
Russian or they're not saying anything. But usually we would
have a Russian or even Matt. Yep. Stop them at this because
you can't say what she said was was the usual stuff that Matt
usually stops and to, which is we know, the Russians are doing
this. Well, how do we know that? And of course, you'd have to say
the Russian investigation with Trump is also part of this
smokescreen. So we're dealing with a smokescreen here. A big
one, as usual? Well, it's because a lot of money's
involved. Jacob Rothschild, wow. I mean, you can do you ever see
that video of the kid who goes up to Russia? Because Rothschild
well, when? When he's in his garden? No, no, he's Roman, or
he just left a meeting Ana, and he's roaming around the streets
is roaming, because a lot of these rich guys are like that.
Because you don't know what they look like. They just don't feel
very comfortable just roaming around your body Guards, guards
body, God's God's God. And so he's roaming around his guy
caught basically a costume started grilling him about the
Illuminati. Know what the kids talking about? Yeah, he does.
Think so. Yeah.
Victoria Kagan Nudelman.
That's right, everybody we've been looking for she has emerged
as the CEO of a top warmongering Think Tank, Victoria Kagan
Nudelman. She's reappearing on the scene now as the CEO of what
does that outfit called again?
This is she just a PR woman. Now she's the CEO. Well,
she's the one that works. She's the wife of and she was an
ambassador, come on, you know, she was the Deputy Secretary of
State.
Well, she started off as a PR woman, how did she get to there
even Well, alright, so the problem
started off as a builder of slums. And I mean, come on, kind
of question is that it's a good one. It's the Center for a New
American Security. So I've heard of these ones war mongering
Think Tank, pretty much I'd like to remind you
who else is in that group. There's a whole bunch of creeps
in.
Yeah, we went through the list. I can tell you now, what does it
Center for American Security Center for American security?
Let's see why, man. She's looking a little rough. Vicki.
I don't think she's a happy camper.
No, probably not. Okay, let's say c n a s.org. C. NASS. And
let's see if we can find about I think I've read this list
previously, people, board of advisors. Let's see,
she looks like she just doesn't look good. If she looks like
William Shatner.
There's a lot of insults you can give out but
my shadow is fine. But he's at I mean, you know, he's, you know,
puffy.
So the board of advisors is not it's not easy. It's just all
military people, as far as I can see them see on the board of
directors, Armitage course. Lieberman Johnson, James
Murdoch, those guys spread out the Murdochs, don't they?
Actually, it's a military outfit. Anyway, she was
interviewed by political one of her best friends who works at
political left that out of it. Let's remember what she said. In
that tape telephone conversation that the Russians released, we
believe it was the Russians. This is where the way I recall
it. We went in saying the Russians are trying to screw up
the elections are trying to take over the place we gotta go in
and we got to rig the elections. And we're gonna put our guys in,
and this was caught on tape. And the Russians published that. And
here's a copy of the damning parts. Remember,
if I told you this, or if I only told Washington this that when I
talked to Jeff Feltman this morning, he had a new name for
the UN guy, Robert Serry, did I read that this morning? Yeah, I
saw that. He's now gotten both celery and Bong Ki Moon to agree
that celery could come in Monday or Tuesday. Okay. So that would
be great, I think to help glue this thing and have the UN help
glue it. And, you know, fuck the EU,
though. Exactly. And I think we've got to do something to
make it stick together. Because you can be pretty sure that if
it does, if it does start to gain altitude, the Russians will
be working behind the scenes to try to torpedo it.
Okay, so I think that kind of backs up our theory. And if you
listen to the whole conversation, they're talking
about the boxer, we got to get in him, but we got to put them
in the background because he's really no good. You recall these
they
picked the leaders, they picked the mayor.
I mean, we just let's just be honest about it. We picked him.
And we were fighting, fighting the Russians, and we were
meddling in someone else's elections to an extreme, I might
point out to an extreme where hand
picking people laugh, and this is what I'll say. You know, the
Russians must be beside themselves, thinking that that
release of that tape would have sunk her forever. And that she's
now vacuuming? Well, she's never laughs She's always been in the
well, she actually mentioned
that. So this is a it's a long interview. I just picked out one
piece about this particular situation. Well, in
some ways, they've been quite successful at doing that, not
only in the 2016 election hacking, which, which, of
course, well,
look, I let you know how much I love that when people journos
just say the 2016 election hacking. What is that supposed
to mean? That is, that is
horrible. It's a meme. But it's it's a lie. It's a total lie.
And what hacking specifically? Yeah,
well, in some ways, they've been quite successful at doing that,
not only in the 2016 election hacking, which, which, of
course, we'll we'll talk about, but let's go back in time to
2014. Arguably, you were at the leading edge of this, you were
being hacked before as before it was fashionable, but,
you know, now everything's hacked. The
world was fashionable before 2014 By the way, yes, it wasn't
fashionable, but now it's fashionable. Hello, whoa. But
what did you learn from that incident? You know, let's talk
about it. You're you're there in Ukraine as this street
revolution, in fact, is is unfolding around it and a pro
Russia regime ultimately is replaced with a pro Western
regime. And you were taped. Unbeknownst to you.
Well, I thought she was hacked, but now she was taped,
talking with your colleague, the US Ambassador Ukraine. So
uh, Uh, I knew that this movement that was going on in
Ukraine, which remember was about integrating with the EU as
they wanted to join the EU. They didn't even want to join the EU
they just wanted to be able to trade and have have free was
crap.
What was it about?
They wanted to join the EU is a big deal. In fact, it was the
Russians who demanded that never ever think about it. They said
wait a minute, we want to join the EU. It'd be cool.
There was the whole ascension thing it was it happened amongst
the myths of the Ukraine shutting off Russian gas into
Euro they
want to join the EU so
they want it to be in the EU
Vicki that this
she knows she's a liar
gets better what's going on in Ukraine, which remember was
about integrating with the EU was they wanted to join. They
didn't even want to join the EU. They just wanted to be able to
trade and have just tray so threatening to the Putin
administration that they would pull out a cold wallet worst
style dirty tricks. Not just about me against me but of
course against the Ukrainians and against others who supported
them. And that the the gloves were coming out off and the
knife knives were coming out that we were not going to have a
fair fight to allow folks to to choose for themselves that this
was going to be a real struggle.
So we had to meddle in their elections pretty
hostile act to you know, publicly released this phone
call which is inflammatory hostile. We're saying if the EU,
I'm sure that need for some fun conversations with your your
fellow diplomats.
So just to recap that moment, what was going on was you know,
we had had 200,000 protesters on the streets of of the of
Ukraine. Yes,
we saw you handing out cookies.
Yeah, my Dawn and
a second back and stop it back a little bit. When she says this.
Yeah, of course. This is Lisa, Dr. Dan, that can spot her voice
interviewing her. And she's the one with the big nose and the
one who's got Yes, some connection to one of the donors
of the to the show. I mentioned this before. Victoria says we
Yes. As we had 200,000 people yesterday. Yes.
Thank you. Remember we had Yeah, because we organized it. We had
two dozen. It wasn't they had to do the Ukrainians had 2000
people but they it's we we had 200,000 here now that believable
and check. Does Lisa say anything about your usage? No.
Because
well, I didn't, I should have clipped the opening. It's like
my good friend Victoria Nuland. Liquid?
Al's Yes, you know, publicly released this phone call, which
has this inflammatory moment where you're saying after the
EU, I'm sure that made for some fun conversations with your your
fellow diplomats.
So just to recap that moment, what was going on was, you know,
we had had 200,000 protesters on the streets of of the of Ukraine
on the My Dawn and down in the snow for two months, protesting
that their leader was realigning with Russia and not allowing
them to integrate with the EU. And there was no clear
constitutional way for them to express their views through the
ballot box. So the we were trying to form some kind of a
work with Ukrainians to form some kind of technical.
Again, we and then she catches herself. We're trying to work
with the Ukrainians.
about all the different politicians who are in the mix
for this job, one of whom I saw is going to be here in
Washington
this week, next week. Right, so So essentially, what was
happening was we were trying to help midwife between the
government and the opposition, a coalition government. And we
were getting closer finally, and and and Jana COVID, had finally
offered the the opposition, some slots in this government. But
the opposition wasn't going to negotiate unless there wasn't a
neutral observer. And so we were trying to get the EU to come in
and be that neutral observer. And they were
How can you be neutral if part of the argument is they want to
be in the EU? That's not neutral, indecisive. And by the
way, that's bullshit because they wanted to bring in the UN
and the Dutch guy. That's what they wanted to bring in to do
some negotiations.
I remember that moment was about to pass. So in my private
conversation out of frustration, it wasn't a you know, strategic
frustration. It was a tactical frustration.
What is a tactical frustration versus a strategic drive
frustrating
as a brother? It's unbelievable to even say that,
what does it mean?
It doesn't mean anything.
What is it? Well, she's she's, she's saying it like I should.
It wasn't as well maybe
it means something to her tactical frustration. That means
she was on fish. That means she was frustrated on purpose.
Yes, that's what I'm
thinking, the opposition, some slots in this government. But
the opposition wasn't going to negotiate unless there was an a
neutral observer. And so we were trying to get the EU to come in
and be that neutral observer, and they were indecisive. And
the moment was about to pass. So in my private conversation out
of frustration, there wasn't a, you know, strategic frustration.
It was a tactical frustration. I use this barnyard epithet and
say, let's use the UN as the negotiator. And then of course,
the Russians tried to make that an indictment of us of me too.
Because we were, frankly, being too effective on the ground and
they wanted to get us off the boards. What's
what's interesting, right in hindsight, well, a in hindsight,
it seemed kind of quaint, I mean, frankly, Barnard epithet,
but now look at the, you know, language we use in public now,
in our debates, but um, you know,
what is she talking about?
Well, that, that, apparently, in our debates these days, ever
since Donald Trump was president, let's just dig at
him. We use the F word all the time. I guess that's where she
was the last time you heard Trump use the F word. Never.
I've never heard it.
No, I've heard him use the S word but not the F word.
shithole. Yeah, round
and they wanted to get us off the boards with
Did you ever hear him actually say
that? No, but I was. He has said we should bomb the shit out of
them. I've heard him say that. Not the shithole. I've heard.
Yeah, in hindsight. Well, a in hindsight, it's you've kind of
Queen I mean, frankly, sad. It's a partner episode. But now look
at the, you know, language we use in public now, in our
debasement, right, you know? Yeah. No, you weren't you were.
But you know,
ahead of the curve. She was ahead of the curve with the
effort.
She's responsible for Trump. That's right. We
did we understand that that was a pretty aggressive move by the
Russians to that was pretty aggressive at that moment in
time.
Ya know, I certainly knew that they were hearing the
conversation. And frankly, I
thought, Well, did you hear what she says? I certainly knew they
were hearing the conversation. Really. Now, Vicki,
I was almost again ahead of time.
Yeah. No, you weren't you were ahead of the curve. But you
know, did we? Did we understand that that month was a pretty
aggressive move by the Russians to that was pretty aggressive at
that moment in time?
Yeah. No, I certainly knew that they were hearing the
conversation. And frankly, I thought it was a matter of
transparency between us and them
right there. It we're fine with
midwife a coalition which might have helped them.
That's interesting. So now she's claiming she knew they were
listening. And she thought it would be good if they heard what
she was trying to do. Because it would also benefit the Russians,
that is now her story to do unbelievable
it as well. But to but to release it the way they did in
an effort to to embarrass us, you know, perhaps get the
president to fire me or whatever. That of course,
backfired. But that was only the first that was elbow right at
it. And then later when the State Department was hacked, and
and in 2015. So they really began using these asymmetric
tools, a symmetric
tools. No. Does that mean we don't have the capability to
wiretap and publish it? Why is that asymmetric? Asymmetric is
in my understanding used more for terrorism, for the hotties
who come in. And they're undercuts. Asymmetric
means that the two sides have differing powers. One has
massive power, and the other one is like sniper. Yeah, it would
be asymmetric, right? This is not even it's not symmetric. So
I don't know what she's talking about
the first that was elbow right it and then later when the State
Department was hacked, and and in 2015. So they really began
using these asymmetric tools Hold on
a second stop. If it's if she's gonna make the claim that as
asymmetric. That means the Russians probably didn't hack
anything because they haven't got the power. When you're using
that term, which I think you analyze correctly. That means
you're the weak partner. Yeah. And you're using chickenshit
tactics. But you can't do much more because you don't you
haven't really got is like, the ISIS, they haven't got ships.
They haven't got jets, right. They haven't got anything. They
got a bunch of stolen tanks, right. And so there you make it
a solid to Russia, the Russians have no capabilities that you
have to use these chickenshit tactics. And they didn't hack
the DNC. But they did
hack something else. It and then later when the State Department
was hacked, and and in 2015. So they really began using these
asymmetric tools that they had used on their own population
that they had used in Ukraine that they'd used in Eastern
Europe. They began using them very aggressively on us, right.
So
that's what was new about the incident with you is that it was
taking this playbook, arguably sort of a KGB playbook adapted
to a new technological era.
But this is baffling. Come to me. And they're in agreement.
Like this is new.
Right taking that playbook, and they used it in their
neighboring countries, correct?
Actually, you know, I should be grateful that they used a tape
rather than polonium. Right.
Well, they also they didn't get your email. Yes.
Well, we'll talk about that another time.
Okay. We'll talk about your emails.
So, needless to say, she doesn't go back to the emails that
Nudelman just said there that they she admitted they someone
she would claim the Russians hacked into her email, which we
have not heard of. This is a huge scoop. Huge, and it and
she's, she's flustered for a moment. Yeah. He's got to go
back. She's flustered. And then she said, well, we'll just talk
about that another time taking that
playbook. And they used it in their neighboring countries.
Correct?
Actually, you know, I should be grateful that they used a tape
rather than polonium, right.
Well, that's right. They also they didn't get your email.
Well, we'll talk about that another time.
Okay. We'll talk about your emails.
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nudge. really despicable. So, she's back.
Well, she's, she's a creep.
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show your size. And when you get everything in, tweeted when I
saw three this past week, there was a really good one from West
Texas. Do you see that with a guy had like his fists with a
ring and a big oil rig in the background?
I didn't see that. I retweeted when I see him.
It's on the tweeters. Yeah, it's very good. Now you sent me this
article about Newsweek. And I knew that they were going
through some crap, but this really was is quite
extraordinary.
Yeah, tell us your read from it, read read from it. And
the publisher of Newsweek and the Internet, International
Business Times has been engaging in fraudulent online traffic
practices that helped secure a major ad buy from a US
government agency, according to a new report released today by
independent ad fraud researchers. That is the meat of
the story. They were invaded by the Attorney General's office,
they had a raid for their books and their computers. And, you
know, this has now gotten down to the newsroom of blame game in
the newsroom, which maybe you can speak to.
Well, now we're having there was a couple of things going on with
his with the, the publisher and the editor. And a lot of people
quit. Because because these are these are these insightful
reporters that don't seem to understand what's going on. And
then they, when they found out a little bit, they decided to
report on it. Maybe a
strange maybe a strange question. But could you explain
the functions of the editor versus the publisher?
The publisher sells ads, the editor, Phil creates content?
Are they on equal footing? Depends. It's varies from
publication to publication. There's some structures are very
complicated. And some structures are very simple. And generally
speaking, they're both very powerful, and they're both tried
to keep to themselves. And one side sells ads and fills up the
ads and pays for the editors to create content to put into the
publication. Yeah, in a nutshell. And they're not
supposed to intermingle? Because it is church and state. Yes,
yes. Yes.
It's a Chinese wall.
So one of the reporters, I guess, wrote up some of the
hanky panky in an article about their own paper, or about
Newsweek itself. And this got everybody bent out of shape,
because the reporter and the editor said, Well, we're just
reporting based on the facts that are and then the approach
is just a badass, we're gonna you're gonna put us out of
business, you idiots. And it is usually not done. I mean, when
well, but the tension, the tension with online
publications, because this is really all about online. And,
and to reiterate, we've discussed many times on this
show. What can make money? Well, I was gonna say the way it's
done is you go to companies like Monopoly Inc. And there's other
outfits out there. You say, Okay, I want to 2 million clicks
this month. Okay, that'll cost you. There'll be a $5 CPM.
That's cost per 1000. So that would be $5,000 for 1,002,000
for 10,000 for 2 million, and then you turn around and you
sell that, those clicks, those so called views, or clicks or
views or whatever it is more views, but you sell that for $7.
CPM that I'm just giving you numbers, there's a spread in
there. It's called arbitrage and that's how they make money. But
you still have the pressure of creating stories that get
clicks, which and that's what the publisher was then mad at
the editor, because they would they did some bogus story. Which
story was that?
There seems to be a lot of bitching and moaning going
around, but from both sides. Yeah. I found that yeah, they
weren't doing enough clickbait. Yeah, they didn't have enough
clickbait for sure. It wasn't enough clickbait, which is true
gold through. And there was also the way they were doing it was,
you know, buying? They were obviously they never said in
here, but it was obviously they were buying clicks from click
farms. Yes. Which is verboten. It's against the law. Oh,
I didn't realize it's against the law.
I think as it gets, yes, it's advertising fraud.
Well, then all of Silicon Valley can go down the tubes.
Everybody's doing this.
I think you've been saying that for years. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah, I
guess what you haven't been hearing for years is against the
law, I did
not realize it was actually illegal to do. It's
fraud. Just simple fraud. Gotcha. And no matter how you do
it, you're gonna do something that people use bots, bots come
in to click away, or the bots are trained to go onto a page
from different IP addresses, click on a couple of things as
if they were actually there. And then go away, and come in again,
two seconds later, with a different IP address spoofing
something else, and they gotta wait, there's ways of doing
this. And there's people who have set up shop all over the
world that do this. In some cases they may be the more
advanced versions are in the Philippines. And I think in
India, where they have people there, instead of a bot, you
actually have people coming in every couple of seconds. And
there's you have you can have a room of 100 people, they can
crank crank up a lot
of numbers, the Philippines is where you get that service
Philippines
together, this is what they said. And they go in there
clicking on different kinds of random stuff. So it's almost
impossible to determine, except for the fact that they're in the
Philippines. Minor minor point, it's hard to just stop that
because of the bot thing. So it's the whole thing is really
the I've seen all these online operations that are supposedly
making a lot of money doing this, or doing this Yeah,
especially with a lot of the video operations in particular.
And eight because nobody really has a way to perfectly monetize
doing what you could do in print and on television, to do that
online and make money. It's done, it can't be done. I think
it can be done. Not not with this model. I just said I think
it can be done. I have no idea how to do it. I mean, what we do
is like just bypassing the model and doing and going with a very
old fashioned model, which is you help us keep the show going
by contributing to it. And that's that's goes back to the
dark ages as before anyone even dreamed up an advertisement. But
there's gotta be a way of doing it. I don't know what it is. But
this you think then again, maybe the numbers are just so low
because nobody really you know, I mean, YouTube has probably got
the most clicks going through and I don't see that to not lose
in their ass. Oh they definitely is in millions and millions of
definitely you to eventually shutter they're going to shutter
it
well that's why they keep experimenting now they got this
TV thing they're advertising which I'm sure it's costing them
a fortune to advertise.
Well, not just to advertise they have to get all the licenses
Yes, i Big deal. If Google was forced to spin out their numbers
really spin them out instead of just throwing out vague numbers
losing proposition which is impossible to get them to do
because of the nature there's a stock is all class you know,
some sort of class you have no voting rights. You can't do
anything. It's a dumb shot. At the we see that YouTube is gotta
be just a huge dog, a dog. But there's no way of taking the New
York Times. I mean, they've Yeah, they charge you for this,
but like people say, you know, just click on the private
browser and you can get the New York Times for free. You don't
have that limit. I mean, it's all and it's all the hacking
going on not hacking, but yeah, hacking. So people are
downloading movies. And again, free content here is In the
online things to disaster for publishers and people who want
to do media in general
in the old way, yes. If you're used
to the old way, there's no new way. I mean, Google found a new
way to make money from search. That's and that's the last new
thoughts anyone had.
That's new. You're right. That's new. That's the only thing
that's really new. Yeah. Now that journalists are moving into
a new protected class, you'll be happy to hear, although I'm not
sure you qualify, we will look through the documentation. There
is a bill, HR 4935 may also be cited as the journalist
Protection Act. We Yes, in general, and this is something
that gets added to Chapter Seven title 18. United States Code.
This is assault against journalists general whenever in
or affecting interstate or foreign commerce intentionally
commits or attempts to commit a an act described in subsection B
I'll explain that shall be fined under this title or imprisoned
no more than three years. Or both. It says both should be
some money there. But you can get maximum six years for
creating bodily injury to a journalist. An act describing
this subsection is an act that causes a bodily injury to an
individual who A is a journalist, be committed with
knowledge or reason to no such individual is a journalist and
three committed while such journalist is taking part in
news gathering or with the intention of intimidating or
impeding news gathering by such a journalist. And then we have
the serious bodily injury to a journalist, which is the same so
it's really these two things. They define a few pieces in this
which is important news gathering. The term news
gathering means engaging in the regular gathering, preparation,
collection, photographing, recording, writing, editing,
reporting, or publishing concerning local, national
international events or other matters of public interest. I
think we we do that we gather news that way.
That's all we do.
But what is the journalist?
Does it say yes,
this is the legal definition now. Oh, we
have a legal definition of something that's, that's
protected by the US Constitution. Okay, I like to
hear that.
The term journalist means an individual who is an employee,
independent contractor, or agent of an entity or service that
disseminates news or information. That's us so far,
so good, by means of newspaper, nonfiction book, wire service,
news agency, news website, mobile application or other news
or information service, whether distributed digitally or
otherwise, news program, magazine, or other periodical,
whether in print, electronic, or other format. And is broadcast
through television, radio, multi channel, video programming,
distributor, or motion picture for public showing, and with a
primary intent to investigate events or procure material in
order to disseminate the public news or information concerning
local blah, blah, blah. I'm sorry, you have to belong to an
organization that disseminates their news through television
broadcast, radio broadcast, multi channel video programming,
which is defined as a combination of those in the
Communications Act of 1934, or motion picture. So just a you
know you with your with your little podcast, you're not a
journalist.
I have other outlets. You're not a journalist.
Are you on broadcast radio, multichannel video programming
or radio broadcast? No.
What about print prints covered by the by the First Amendment? I
thought it just said you you're a news distribution company. In
unless you're on on the TV, you're not a journalist. Is that
what you're reading? To me?
That's what it sounds like.
What about the magazines? What about the newspaper? What are
the New York Times? How's that not covered by
the you know, I'm just telling you how it's written. It's very
unclear.
Well, I wouldn't be up in arms. If I was at the New York Times
or if
you were a journalist, maybe you should consider being up in
arms.
Yeah, they won't be up and no normally gets up in arms unless
it's about Trump. Blame Trump somehow and then you get up in
arms.
Well, anyway, and it's always a little disappointing. But with
you know, the breadth of knowledge that we have the
amount of people that we have who contribute to this program,
when the most emailed articles about the emotional support
hamster. I mean, the thing the thing is, like, people want us
to go on a cover that story is so stupid. People want us
to go a little deeper. I understand because I've been on
the bus after the peacock. I thought we were kind of done
with laughing about it all like, okay, it's stupid. We know it.
But now it's still the number one most emailed article,
Texas State student is considering legal action after
she claims. Spirit Airlines told her to flush her support hamster
down the toilet. And she did it.
So flush please. Hold on to the facade I'll be back.
Okay, so wait a minute. Let me get this straight. So we're only
covering the short because somebody wrote a jingle like
that.
Yeah. That's the no agenda show right there, my friend. That is
how we roll? Yes. I looked into this. I was little irked about
this whole parade thing. And, you know, the Trump has not said
he wants this parade. And, you know, I did a deeper dive into
exactly what's going on. I actually found a really good I
thought it was a good conversation on CBS n of all
things. A CBS n is I think it's it only online.
Yes, the online news service. Yeah.
So they bring in this douchebag from some think tank. And it's
the whole conversation was, I mean, it was a little bit of
dimension, a lot of dimension B, but they're missing an important
fact, which I'll get to after this. But it's just listen to
these as two news hosts. And then this jabroni
earlier, we asked the DSU senior Global Affairs contributor and
president of the Eurasia group, Ian Bremmer about what this type
of message would send to the rest of the world.
First of all, you know, Trump likes the spectacle, that's
pretty clear. And while the, by the way, he has vocal fry, the
economy is doing quite well, right now. It's also clear to
most around the Trump administration that the ability
to actually really provide economically for Trump's base is
pretty, right. I mean, they're not doing all that much better
in the next four or eight years, given the lack of inclusive
growth that's happening, you can give them 1000 bucks, you know,
sort of in a tax bonus, you couldn't you saw the dollar 50 A
week, you know, Paul Ryan comment and the rest. But the
reality is that a lot of what Trump is giving them, is his
refusal to be politically correct is his going after the
NFL players for taking a knee? Is his board a wall, I'm going
to look out for people like you out for your security and your
stability. And, you know, this is a good example of that. It's
bread and circuses, right. And he wants to have a military
parade. And, you know, in times where people don't feel good,
having a national rallies around the flag in a way that really
divides.
And by the way, I'd like to point out based on his own
theory, that most of the military personnel come from the
states that Trump trumped up. So yes, of course, he's playing to
the base with this, if this is exactly what he's thinking,
us versus them, and you're a part of us, is a good feeling.
And so I think that politically, what Trump is doing is actually
quite smart. It's kind of like the memo. Right? I mean, he
released the memo and delegitimize the FBI. And if you
know, the investigation is a problem for you that the best
way to go is to have your base, just say, this entire process is
is not worthy of us in our country. It's fake, it's false.
And I think it's all part of the same message. And so far, I
mean, Trump one.
I don't think there's anybody who's, you know, an American
would not want to see our Sailors, Marines, soldiers,
airmen, you know, martial arts industry, and it's pretty cool
to see all that hardware. The fanboy in me would totally dig
that. The question is it really publican? And you know, it's
going to cost X amount of millions of dollars, where are
you going to get that money
now that I mean, the last time I think it was like $8 million,
and that was quite a number of years. That's a lot cheaper.
That number keeps changing. Was that that number cost and 91 is
eight 20 million is 5 million. It's unbelievable. We are
a wealthy country, right, you can find
here's a question and I know we're sort of going long but I
thought you know, a lot of people are going to ask why not?
Why not show off our hardware. They do do it in other
countries. I'm glad you just said that. Stealing they do the
best.
She said to do.
Queensboro Bridge can do it. So North Koreans can do it. Why
can't we have to see
how he's trying to bring it back to because? Well, the French did
it the English do it. And he's like, Yeah, North Koreans want
to make sure you see Eve all evil dictator.
That's ugly. You know, in the case of Europe, they've done it
for the Queen's right. The Brits have done it with everything.
We don't even have a clinic.
We don't have a queen. But it's not about synchronized
applause or, you know, we don't have a queen. I understand that.
But it is sort of a show of greatness. And I'm sure there
are a lot of people, Trump supporters, but probably not
Trump supporters who are gonna say, What's the big deal? You're
like, we do have the money.
Yeah, I think that the the opposition, because the country
is so divided right now, the easiest thing for those that
hate Trump to do is to simply point out how anti patriotic
Trump is personally, like this would be a much easier thing to
organize and get behind. If Trump were McCain. Right. I
mean, a war right. Oh,
do you hear what the saying that was? Right. Right. It's very
interesting, right? He's saying this would be much easier if it
was McCain. Everybody be like, Ah, sure is fantastic. Let's do
it. So, you know, it's it's all based on the premise that this
needs to be some kind of spur of the moment. Now maybe we funded
the whole thing with the military is the best. Let's go
show King Kim Jong Un Exactly. What
were your dynamics pay for it? They'll do it.
But what did Trump actually say and ask for? Allergy again, this
is his conversation with this is the only time he's mentioned it,
as far as I know. And from this, the Pentagon was readying for
something very specific. I mean, what do you just your your what
you've heard in the news, your own with your own biases, like
we all have? What do you believe they're talking about when they
say Trump wants a parade? What do you think it is supposed to
be?
I have no idea because I've taken already taken the position
that he never asked for a military parade. And it's, you
know, unless I hear Him say something like, I was talking to
him saying, use a shithole word. Yeah. It's nuts. I hear it now.
I'm not buying any because I think they just lie to us. Yes.
Well, you can't know because they lie so much. But here is
the only thing you said, which was with McCrone after he saw
the the French parade, the military? I did see this. Well,
yeah. Did you hear what he what he really said? Because I
vaguely remember he thought it was cool. And maybe we should do
something like that
I was your guest at the steel. And it was one of the greatest
parades I've ever seen. It was two hours on the button. And it
was military might. And I think a tremendous thing for France
and for the spirit of friends. And people don't know what great
warriors they are in France. But when you see that, and you see
all the victories. There was a tremendous today. And to a large
extent, because of what I witnessed, we may do something
like that on July 4, in Washington down.
That's a little different. July 4, we have all kinds of military
shit going on. Yeah, what's wrong with that?
He's it's trumped.
Okay, but it's July 4. And he reiterates it
I don't know, the topic, but we had a lot of planes going over
and we had a lot of military might. And it was really a
beautiful thing to see. They had representatives from different
wars and different beautiful rooms. It was really so well
done. But I came back. And one of my early calls where I think
we're gonna have to start looking at that stuff. So we're
actually thinking about Fourth of July, Pennsylvania Avenue
having a really great parade to show our military strength.
Where is that in the reporting? Could anyone please just add,
Trump wants to parade on the Fourth of July? It's it's lying
by omission?
No, they're they're in implying that he just wants a parade for
himself.
Right. But did they not go check and see what he actually said?
Are this just being omitted on purpose?
I don't think he's being omitted on purpose. I just think it's
just poor reporting. Oh,
well, Chuck Schumer likes the idea of parades to Here's an old
you know, the internet is a great Wayback Machine. I love
Eris. I love to hear Chuck Schumer
all these men risked their lives to protect us. They experienced
terrible trauma and tragedy along the way.
Senator Charles Schumer is appealing to the Department of
Defense for approval of a grand event of the canyon of heroes.
That would include military brass color cars, military bands
and flyovers. It's still in the planning stages, but DoD
officials say it's certainly not unprecedented.
We might want to remind chuck of that. And another one from the
way back machine Trump about the stock market, but what an idiot
to take to take credit for the stock market what a douchebag
and never do that. Because when it goes down what are you going
to say now? Ha Trump? did Obama ever do that?
I'm sure he did two years
after the worst recession most of us have ever known. The stock
market has come roaring back, the stock market recovered. So
people's 401 k's and retirement accounts got replenished. Now,
I'm glad that corporate profits are high. And I'm glad that the
stock market is booming home values are back on the rise.
Stock markets nearly doubled home values are rising. The
stock market has rebounded or stock market is rebounding. Hey,
stock market that has doubled in the stock market has now doubled
even as the stock market shatters records, the stock
market has more than doubled since 2009. And since I took
office, the stock market has more than doubled. Corporate
profits are up stock markets up but we did it in the stock
market double stock markets doing great stock markets nearly
tripled. The stock market was down. When I first took office
in the first few months I was in office, about 3000 points lower
than it is now. Thanks, Obama.
There you go. The Internet Wayback Machine ladies and
gentlemen.
Well, I think you kind of nailed the Trump haters there with that
one. You indicate that the media is like slanted.
I have I have a question for you. Then actually have a
question for the producers out there military producers. So
this new movie, the 1517 to Paris is about this incident
that took place on the tallies from Amsterdam to Paris, where
we had two American heroes, three American heroes, actually,
who all three boyhood friends, all military guys, they're all
hanging out in Europe before they go back, or they just come
back for somewhere. And a terrorist grabs a gun and they
take them out. They don't kill them, actually, but they take
them out. Now, Clint Eastwood directs this movie, and he
decides, oh, I've got a great idea. Why don't I Clint Eastwood
put all of my creative reputation on the on the table
by having the three original guys play themselves in the
movie. This, I think is pretty. I mean, they are the the main
characters. Yes. And so now the terrorist right and so now they
are
they didn't have him play his original role that would have
been better who the terrorists.
But so for some odd reason, they were on Tucker Carlson. And he
was interviewing them a fawning over them. Which leads me to
believe I couldn't find offhand a an entertainment connection to
the fox properties, but I'm sure it's there somewhere.
We'll search probably might be searchlight I think as Fox.
But the way the the way it comes across to me, you see these
three guys sitting there, the one in the middle is in a suit.
He's buttoned up. He has a you know, the square shoulders
military guy. The two guys on the right and the left there it
really dress casual that just in the way they spoke about certain
things. Just to lay it out made me question. It somehow if there
may be not really military, then we don't know much about this
attack other than what happened on one car of a train. I mean,
just think about the opportunity. If if I was of the
conspiratorial nature, you get, you get two actors and you use
one real guy. And you stage this thing, you film it. And then you
release it later as a movie. Yeah, so maybe you can't come
back and do it again. You know, re recreate the scene, but maybe
it's
it you think the whole thing is a bunch of bullshit.
Yes. And my issue with it is I listened to these guys. I've
known military personnel my entire life. Certainly intensely
in the past 10 or 1520. Yeah, just listen to him
earlier this story just got more amazing. Not only did you do
this, and you know one of the one of the great good deeds
ever, but she got whole new careers out of it. What was it
like at any of you acted before?
Never, never, not even a school play?
Well then to go from like zero to Hollywood film directed by
Clint Eastwood's con a lot. How did you do it?
We honestly just did it. How we did it the first time really?
That's pretty much the only advice he gave us was just be
ourselves and do it how we did it. Only Clint
Eastwood can pull something like this off. So when he asked us he
gave us the competence to attempt it. So we just had to
try it.
Yeah, we just trust him so much. I mean, we knew going into it
that he was going to do the story justice. And just having
him like Anthony said have the competence in us with was
already needed. What is it
was it hard?
It was fun. I mean, it was hard at first getting used to it. But
I think we got a rhythm with it pretty quickly. And we actually
had finished ahead of
us the guy in the middle casual, I believe
he takes the weight of shooting a Big Picture Motion Picture off
of you. He just keeps it real light. And he's like your what
your two friends just do what you did, and capture the rest.
And when Clint Eastwood says you gotta cap, you got to trust him
on that.
Yeah. And you said, What was it like filming the pivotal scene,
in the movie and in your lives on the train? It was
honestly just a lot of fun. I mean, a lot of people think it'd
be traumatizing. But luckily, we don't have PTSD. I mean, nobody
died that day on the train.
This is the part where it caught my attention. I don't believe
there's any military person who would speak so cavalierly about
PTSD. Like, no, it's not like we had PTSD. Nobody died that day.
If you're in the military, you know, PTSD does not come from
dying, necessarily comes from a lot of different things. And I
and I'm just shooting from the hip, John, I could be completely
wrong. I do know that over 500 movies, 600, television shows
all have been influenced by the Pentagon with money with script
rewrites. I mean, there's huge documentation now available
about that this did not happen in a vacuum without the
Pentagon,
Ives on the train.
It was honestly just a lot of fun. I mean, a lot of people
think it'd be traumatizing. But luckily, we don't have PTSD. I
mean, nobody died that day on the train. And I mean, we just
got to hang out for like, a week on a train with YouTube best
friends and Clint Eastwood. So
you get to do it, you get to do it twice. That's pretty cool.
It's more than just the headline, everybody gets to see
actually what happened, how messy it was, how crazy it was.
And hopefully it inspires people to maybe do some situations.
I feel like, That's it right
there. And I'm not judging anyone. I haven't been in that
kind of situation. But you see, a lot of these things unfolded.
Nobody does that. Why do you think that is?
People are scared, we were scared as well to I think the
unique thing about our situation is we were just on a train and
we had nowhere to go. So I know that all these situations are
different, you know, all these different attacks and stuff like
that. But hopefully this change the narrative a little bit and
inspires people out there that you know, the common man can do
something, if they find themselves in the same
situation.
You have their brave head, which you guys are and that's always
the that's always the key. It's had any of you thought, a
scenario like that through before you got on the train? If
I'm ever in this situation? Here's what I'm gonna do.
Actually, yeah, we have we had talked about it. I mean,
numerous times beforehand. I mean, we kind of played war
growing up together. So we'd always ask each other, like, if
a guy comes in this room, what are you gonna do? And their
answers were always the same.
I think that was the biggest contributing factor. So far, and
we all knew we'd be on the same page or something like that
happened. Sure.
But you actually did it. People just talking about it. You did
it.
We were just surprised.
Yeah. Given the opportunity, and, and that's really
good. Well, I'm glad Hollywood came to memorialize this far.
Thank you for joining us today.
Man. Thanks. I don't know. I smell something here.
Well, I'm not going to say you're full of crap or your
life. This is dogs a deep band because there's nothing no
evidence one way or the other. And I It does sound a little
some of the comments are a little bit much. Yeah. But yeah,
we thought about this before it happened. And I don't know how
can you guys talk about that? When it took place? I
think we talked about it. We thought we thought it was there
was something about I tried to hunt around I couldn't remember
what
the it's just a promotion for something.
Well, it's well, the military of course, being brave. Join the
join the military. I mean, it's it's Penza. They
have to do their marketing. It's more you know, it's more
marketing. Eastwood needs to keep his movie thing going
because he's gonna drop dead if he doesn't keep doing movies.
Last time I saw him that he's at the at the local golf
tournament. in Monterey, guys, skinnies again must weigh 80
pounds. He's
nice. eat a cheeseburger.
Eat some. Listen to this woman, Rachel hertz and you know, yeah,
brief is Snellman Ella sniff some glue man. Some vanilla
vanilla supposed to make eat 25% more. So, all right. I know.
It's an interesting theory. Definitely no agenda. Yeah, that
was my second half a show. That's that's all I really got
for you on that. Oh, except, I do want to mention that in the
UK now big scandal, as they've uncovered who uncovered this the
Daily Mail uncovered that George Soros is backing a 400,000 or
actually backed a 400,000 pound campaign against Brexit to stay
in the EU? Yes, yes. is big news. Yes. Because that's called
meddling in someone else's affairs. He's not British. No,
he's not. Now it's is it any worse than the than the Russians
buying Facebook ads?
No, they hacked the election man. Yeah, man.
They hacked Brexit baby. Definitely. To
play this clip Facebook sued in the EU
getting sued in the EU.
Well, Facebook is set to come under scrutiny and Austrian law
graduate is spearheading a class action case against Facebook for
allegedly breaching privacy. It's officially filed the suit
in the Vienna courtroom
and a closely watched case 25,000 Facebook users are suing
the social media giant for rights violations ranging from
the illegal tracking of their data under the EU law to its
involvement in the NSA surveillance program that
targeted millions of innocent citizens.
None of us are 27 year old student Max trims has a bone to
pick with Facebook over alleged privacy violations. His class
action lawsuit is seeking 500 euros in damages for each of the
25,000 Facebook users whose data may have been shared with
government agencies or commercial interests.
Europe are not enforcing our fundamental rights right now.
There are almost no penalties there is hardly any lawsuits
ever. And that is the basic idea to say, you know, guys, this is
a fundamental right in Europe. So constitutional like right,
you have to stick to it, you can just you know, ignore it.
Facebook is trying to get the litigation tossed out on
procedural grounds. The company insists the court in Vienna does
not even have jurisdiction. And it questions whether SRAMs has
the right to bring the suit on behalf of 1000s of others. The
judge will rule within a few months and whether the lawsuit
is admissible. Experts say it may become a test case for
European data protection laws.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that clip was from five years ago.
Yeah,
I was waiting for it. Good one. So they still haven't still
haven't sued him what's going on very data.
No, this hasn't been brought up in the conversation sense.
It's a very odd it's a very odd world we live in John.
We keep we keep everyone honest.
We try. That's for sure. Dan, we will try to do that again on
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