If it is the competition is always a good thing to take it
out. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
Sunday, September 2 2018. This is your award winning get nation
media assassination episode 1065. This
is no agenda, calling the
shots and dueling funerals and broadcasting live from the
Capitol the drone Star state here downtown Austin Tejas in
the studio in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley where there's no funerals around
here. And we're close Zephyr I'm John Cena. Kill
it for not post ratio. We're posted Zephyr. We're always
posted. Man. We just used to be simple. You could just be
postmodern and that was it.
Even that was kind of
it was kind of iffy.
Man, we we did have dueling funerals. I was laughing my butt
off.
Yeah. To your favorite people?
No, it was it was from a television production
standpoint. Oh, God from a network. The network producer
running the show. Here's pretty much how it went. Wow, this is
great. So many celebrities at the Aretha Franklin funeral. Oh,
this is fantastic. Oh, looked at. Oh, there's bill. Yes.
That's great. And whoa, wait a minute. But McCain, he's coming
off the plane. Wait a minute, but there's so celebrities over
here. But McCain we made him into the hero. So let's switch
back. Okay, let's do a box in the corner. All right, and he
slipped back over there because it's celebrity coming back to
McKay. And then they're waiting for McCain's coffin to come out
of the plane and there was some malfunction. And the lift
elevator didn't work. And so now we have no Aretha Franklin
celebrities. And we're looking at like a sky box up against the
plane on a scissor lift for 10 minutes. Because you want to cut
away it's like in the caskets coming down. We can't cut away
all right. No commercial breaks whatsoever. It was beautiful. It
was just it they couldn't wasn't even the funeral was just the
you know, just hanging out for a little bit. And we're looking at
the coffin. It was a whole day before the before anyone was
gonna say anything. And that hyped him up so much as one of
the only 31 Americans to ever ever ever get this kind of
treatment that they could not go back to the true moneymaker
which was obviously a wreath of funeral.
Yeah. And the Ariana Grande breast rub.
I have some clips. I got some clips for you.
Yeah, good. Yeah. You can be sure I don't know.
You don't? Well, let's start with a little recap then. As
Martha McCollum rarely get to play something stupid from Fox.
Because either so stupid, or maybe it's true. But Martha had
a gaggle of women and they were they were on a remote shoot. And
I don't know if they were in Detroit, but they were outside.
And as a part of her panel, sitting out there in the
elements, we had Marie Harf. Who was you know, she's she's she
now Fox commentator. Member Murray.
Yeah. Remember when they brought her over? And I've never seen
her bonfire she's
been on a couple of times. Well, the reason you probably don't
see is because neither you or I ever watched Sean Hannity show,
I'm sure. The minute I see that head come on. I'm like now I
just had cancer. And he doesn't even have the giant head box
like on CNN. But anyway, so they they discussed in an odd way
very anti hashtag me too, because that did come up as
well. But there was also a guest that was kind of difficult for
the media, the guests
ranging from world leaders to musical legends, and one
especially controversial figure who was seated in the front row.
Many people kind of wondering what the unapologetic anti
Semite Louis Farrakhan was doing up there. I am joined by Kelly
Grace Torrance, Marie harp, and Kylie Patterson. It was really
such a moving moving Jennifer Hudson was amazing. And Gladys
Knight was amazing, but I did
keep the comment on it pretty much the way they do about the
Oscars, the Grammys or any other award show, just all the
performances were amazing. Just the performances were a massive
hit by Louis Farrakhan, who was in every single shot, I'm
thinking what is what was he doing there? Who wants to start
there?
Well, essentially you saw him because I you know, I looked at
some of the coverage of this and a lot of outlets variety ABC
MSNBC had pictures published on the website cutting him off so
they show the front row with President Clinton.
That's your your press freedom right there everybody. Wow, that
guy's no we can't put him in as cut him off. That's fair. Can we
can't except Medina we don't know what's going on, just cut
him off.
Jesse Jackson Al Sharpton and they cut Farrakhan off. And I,
you know, I thought that was very telling that they they did
that clearly. They thought, wow, why is this guy there to there?
They had the same questions we all know what why why was he
thought of a guest of honor or near Bill Clinton
is something that's supposed to be about Aretha Franklin became
I thought in many ways about some of these gentlemen who were
right behind.
I think that Kylie, we forget that she was really at the head
of the liberation movement for years. I mean, she respects
Natural Woman.
This is interesting, the liberation but does she mean the
Women's Liberation Movement? Good news to me. Well, she was
just about to explain that that's what the song was about.
We forget that she was really at the head of the liberation
movement for years. I mean, she respect natural woman that was a
part of the movement and let her have
to deal with it as Farrakhan Well,
he was also a part of it. I know. But, I
mean, he was also a feminist. Come on, don't you and he was
there because he's a feminist part of the Women's Liberation
Movement. And or does she mean the
more like CNN
is history is his it's mixed with that time the day this is
her funeral. I mean, it's her choice who she wants there, who
she wants, how she, you
know, she didn't leave a will. But she knew exactly who she
wanted there.
And Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan to
be up there.
I think she wanted them at her funeral. Yes,
there was also this moment with Ariana Grande. She's dancing and
then you know, these guys are like, staring at her from the
back.
Now. You know, they're gonna make light of this situation.
And I had a conversation with the keeper about it. Because it
I saw like, you just just holding on to her but I guess it
was too long or if you were to hold me here and you'll know
that you're touching my breasts I maybe I don't know but
regardless should
grab his hand and pick it up. I don't think so. Know why but
generally speaking, when you grab a woman just as you just
kind of snuggle with her on stage for some unknown reason,
but if you feel like you're gonna do that, usually grab by
the waist don't need to grab the waist because this was the
easiest part. She's also a breast.
But I don't know if he I mean, it's hard to tell short she's
four foot nine. So he puts his arm around her and then grabbed
it out. I didn't I couldn't find the clip anymore of course, but
he also grabbed the shoulder that's a very comfortable thing
to do. That's
that's that would have been more appropriate I
think. But yeah the shoulder Yeah.
He did somewhere apologize by say if I if I crossed some some
some border there or something. He I guess he did when I started
a trial
for call for calling her a Taco Bell special. Here we go.
He's dancing. And then you know, these guys are like staring at
her from the back. And of course that was all over ladies guys.
See, now it's funny, Bo now when you have Bill Clinton who
actually, you know, assaulted some women, I think isn't that
historical record at this point?
Or raped a couple.
I don't want to go that far. But now they're just laughing at the
guy. You know, to me he just looked like regular old bill
goofy. You know, just a mess. Because that's what he's looked
like ever since Hillary ran for president again. He just doesn't
doesn't look very healthy sitting nav, it but then now
they're laughing about it. I don't understand that. You're
confusing this white man. Okay, did you what's your reaction?
If I were Ariana Grande, I would have worn something longer not
because she was deceased. And now it's the woman's fault
because she should have worn something longer woman was slut
shaming. I don't understand anymore. I don't understand
me standing. Like it's like a bad version of American Idol.
That is not appropriate to wear to a funeral. Even Aretha
Franklin's funeral she could have gotten something a little
longer with some sequins like I just see.
And that's Marie Harf former spokesman for the State
Department issued of sequins little bit longer slut shaming
her. I'm so
confused. She was wearing black it was fine.
It's not her fault that those guys were leering at her.
I don't think they were all clear and it's just an awkward
delay
on price there's a lot of million but priceless there's
a lot of memes online right now about Bill Clinton and Jesse
Jackson talking and what they will possibly saying in that
moment we're watching PISA as
it was a great day, the performance
the performances were beautiful, but now it's like a comedy of
errors back there.
What like a hen house, these women ESP ICT
then we had to some of the speeches themselves now missing
from the Aretha Franklin funeral, because of course he
was in Washington DC preparing.
Well, let's start with before you go there. Let's get back to
their original moaning and groaning, which was Farrakhan
why was he there? Did anybody in the media from the
answer right now?
No, not a single one. No. And simply ask him say, why are you
here?
Now you good friends have a reasonably low interview a
little one, you know, he's a media whore. He doesn't mind
talking to the media. I
did not see a single interview. And he quotes anything, but just
all lot of speculation. Nobody bothered to ask and I think it
would be a great question. Maybe not a great question, but it
would be great, but a good question will be one of
interest. Yes, of course. I wanted to know, but no, no, no
one asks, who's just there was just problematics. Or cut them
off. Don't ask questions. Just cut them off. serious breaches
your press freedom. That's what you do with your press freedom.
You have the freedom to decide not to ask questions. Somebody
out of the box, someone out of a big like Stalin
used to do Oh, no.
President Obama was not there if I am not mistaken. Didn't Aretha
Franklin sing at his inauguration?
Believe maybe, yeah, it's possible. Let me just double
check that it has to be the 2008 inauguration. The first
one? Yeah. It's possible. I'm pretty sure. Let me see. Yes,
Aretha Franklin. Performed
at but now, which was that the was the 2008? I think it is.
Yeah, that was his that was his? Yes. That she performed right
after his inauguration at the on the mall.
She did My Country Tis of Thee.
So anyway, for what wasn't Obama there?
Well, for him not to show up because he had to make a choice
with the dueling funerals. Now he had to be in, in Washington.
He had to be a part of, you know, the lead in and of course,
he was going to be one of the feature speakers as John McCain.
McCain had requested. And I can it's hard for me to believe that
the Retha had said I want fire accom there. I want out there I
want
to get it i i can answer the question. Okay. Yeah, that's why
it was say cd where he was city Farrakhan a black Muslim was
Obama, he was Obama's,
you're right. That would have been Obama's spot on the stage
too. Yeah. And I'm sure Aretha would have wanted the president,
the first African American president to attend.
Well, I'm gonna call up Farrakhan said hey, can you fill
it for me brother? Hey, bro.
Brockie feelin for me.
Yeah, explains that we've hired it. I
think you nailed it. I think you nailed it. Yeah. Done. This is
all right. Well, we can just finish 13 minutes or show.
Goodnight, everybody.
So Obama didn't show up. He sent a note.
Did you send a note to send a video? No, no, no, not even not
even an iPhone thing. The Obama is so political. That's what he
knows McCain's record. He knows again hated him. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, we'll get to that in a minute. But Michael Eric Dyson
he had the speech of all dueling funerals better than Obama's at
Med McCain's the ceremony because he not only blood slam
President Obama, he added at least 18 new terms to Trump
rotation. So do you have your number two pencil at the ready?
Let me trying to get the right pencil you
will need it.
Here we go. And in that belly of blackness in Detroit, without
apology or excuse, that embrace of her blackness led her to be
political. We got all kinds of music now. That ain't got
nothing to do with nothing except cars and money and glory.
I love ain't got nothing to do with nothing. Cars, money and
glory.
A man dead but she was about getting Angela Davis out of
jail. She was about working with Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse
Jackson and Al Sharpton. She was about transforming the existence
of black America. Preach now Negro scared to save a blank
stare to show up at a to black place. That's why some black
folk ain't here today. They send in letters. They don't want to
get up in this blackness.
Yes, yes, yes. And the crowd goes wild.
They don't want to feel the nasty power of this blackness.
We are black in Detroit. We don't care. Take your shoes off
the water, just baptize
Hello, and not a single news outlet that I saw report on this
as a massive slam towards Obama. I mean, not just, I mean, about
his blackness even. I think it's very significant and extremely
newsworthy, but who am I doesn't matter because now we get into
the good stuff.
Yes. Yeah, no, I'm just saying you're not an editor. No,
of course not. I'm a podcaster. Hello.
And then Dan. Get ready. This orange apparition? Wow. had the
nerve to say she worked for him. You look goober. Yes. Leech. You
doping doppelganger of deceit and deviance. You leave a liar.
You didn't want a dictator, you foolish fascist.
Did you get it? Did you write them
all? Down? They're all on agile, just but there's nothing new in
the rotation. But
it's alliteration to the max. I really was just fine.
He's just a
doppelganger. You.
She worked for you. She worked above you. She worked beyond you
get your preposition right. Then he got the nerve to say he gon
grab it.
I think he's talking about grab her by the pussy. I think and
I'm not it was very much
what he's saying. But he's talking about don't think he's
referring to her or anything. Just Oh, I
know. I know. But it was still because he'll. Yes, you're
right. But he is he is making reference to grabbing it to
grabbing the policy. Yeah, yeah, it's a whole thing was bizarre.
He got the nerve to say, he gon grab it. That ain't what Aretha
Franklin said. I'm gonna give you something you can feel like
your brothers in the streets a tap lightly. Like a woodpecker
with a headache.
I just left that in because I liked it. I mean, that's a
funeral. I want that kind of funeral. I want someone who I
want Reverend Manning to go up there and talk shit about other
people who were not there who snubbed me. And then just say
something nasty about whoever's president. I don't care who it
is.
That's a funeral. Man. That's great.
Very nice one. Now this is this is the only piece you needed. He
goes on for 18 minutes. But this was this was what you really
wanted to hear. Now the
what's his name was his approach or was yeah,
this. You know, Michael, Eric Dyson. Oh, you know, this guy,
you and you see him the guy, that guy, bad guy. So the press
was having kind of this McCain gasm. The wild, wild because he
got flown in from Arizona on Air Force Two. And you know, it's
just this the whole thing. They built him up to such a degree
and he got this. And I don't even know how that works. But I
mean, how do you get this type of ceremonies? Just everyone
says, shoot, it's going to be one of those. Let's do it. Or is
that really planned? I mean, does anyone have to sign off on
this
stuff? Well, we know trumped it, and we wouldn't think so. So the
military, I have no idea or the McCain family. I have no idea of
how Mimi thinks this is was all done as a promotion for one of
the McCain girls or his wife to run for God for Senator.
You Oh, well, I'm sure that she's going to she's at least
going to step in until the midterms, wouldn't she? Isn't
that quite normal?
To step in has to be assigned by the governor. Yeah, the governor
would say step in. The governor would have to assign her the
interim position that he's not going to do it and I guy's wife,
I mean, what, what kind of what kind of a screwball monarchy Are
we living under? No qualifications.
We'll see if we'll see what I mean, like McCain. He had all
the qualifications. But obviously, this the whole thing
all the to me, it was obvious. All of the bombast was purely
political, just as to be able to say, oh, yeah, Trump, this guy
is a hero. That's how I felt.
I agree with you. This all is all about Trump's snide remark
that as far as he's concerned, heroes don't get captured
and where we're all All of the military people, lauding John
McCain, I didn't see one, how many how many military people
went up there and spoke Mattis and he had to go be a part of
it. I know that all the military guys, I know I wouldn't be part
of that.
So, yeah, it was pretty much just a Trump slam.
It was yes, it was very much a Trump slam and I think John
McCain would have loved that. I think the whole thing is, so I'm
torn but I'm kind of happy like this is what he wanted. That's
what he got. Now, again, the press was just saw this is so
great. And John McCain
war monger monger, but the press is all in. So I What is wrong
with these people? So
Alison Camerata has an interview with John Sununu. And he used to
be the was he the attorney general? I think for under Bush.
Gotta know, I believe so. Don't remember he worked for Reagan on
for a long time. I know that.
So he kept now like, so now and talking about Yeah, just talking
about McCain and what's going on and, and all of a sudden it
turns very, very, very sour. Here's the setup to this
interview. Joining
us now to talk about the legacy of John McCain is former New
Hampshire Governor John Sununu. He was Chief of Staff to
President George HW. Governor. Hmm. Allison, how are you? i
Well, oh my gosh, just remembering how much oh my gosh,
time John McCain invested in New Hampshire and how much he loved
politics that
you like how she's articulating the love for John McCain air and
then mixing it up in the stump speeches. You know, Jeff Jacoby
in the Boston Globe this morning, calls him New
Hampshire's third senator, what are your thoughts?
That's very accurate. You know, if you're involved in politics
at all, in New Hampshire, you certainly do get to know at
least on some level, those who are running for president and
and John McCain grew to embrace the style of campaigning that
works well in New Hampshire.
Okay, so so far, so good. And this is, you know, the guy's
he's, he's chill. He's been asked to come on talk about John
McCain. He's perfectly happy to talk about John McCain.
So Governor, what do you think about President Trump rejecting
the practice of putting out an official White House statement
about John McCain's service and sacrifice?
Look, that was printed in the Washington Post? And I have to
be honest with you, I don't give much credence to what I we
also have that reporting. Yeah, well,
same thing applies. I was.
Governor, you come on CNN.
Governor. Governor, I'm going to talk to you in my stern voice
now, Governor, even though we invited you on Governor,
Governor.
Yeah, well, same thing applies house.
Governor, you come on CNN. And we appreciate you coming on CNN,
and we appreciate your take on it. But I don't appreciate you
denigrating our reporting. I think that, you know, we have
excellent reporters here. But are you saying that you don't
want to believe that you don't want to believe that President
Trump would do that about
saying that? I don't want to comment on on a report that I
haven't satisfied myself as correct.
And if that report were true,
I'm not going to answer the hypothetical.
It's not hypothetical. This is our reporting.
It's not hypothetical. This is our reporting. We have excellent
sources. You come on CNN, and you don't question our sources.
The sources who actually say that they were lying those
sources, the backdrop of the Lanny Davis, source, this is
pretty funny. Not
gonna answer the hypothetical.
It's not hypothetical. This is our reporting. We have rock
solid sources in the White House,
they talk about John McCain. I'm here to talk about John McCain.
As I remember him, I'm not here to talk about the president's
handling of a difference between the White House and the press
corps at this time. It's
not the presses handling, its President Trump's handling of
John McCain's death.
Look, John McCain was a great American who deserves to be
recognized as a great American. He is being recognized by his
colleagues and a friend or his friends around Melania. Trump
has certainly put out an exceptionally strong statement
outlining the appreciation for his service. The White House has
recognized the sorrow of the family. And I think Americans
ought to be looking at the positive side not trying to
create a division amongst people who are in enjoying sorrow,
mourning a great American
god, this is just as you should have seen her face she's
couldn't believe what she was hearing that he would not
comment on there. Obviously rock solid sources.
rock solid and to be clear the press didn't create whatever
division exists Oh, President Trump feels that allowed him to
spike the statement that General John Kelly wanted him to put out
about John McCain sacrifice the press,
so that everybody, everybody, everybody reflects their
concerns in ways that are consistent with whatever they
feel. I've expressed my concern. The loss of John McCain, who I
think was a great American, a great American hero in the
military, a great American hero in the political process, and
frankly, a great American hero on a personal level. The people
that knew him, well, you're
not alone, Governor, so many people feel that was this so
many people that she's that she's
what's her name? Kim Allison Camerata. When you see her, you
recognize her,
just seems like she just seems like a stiff,
possibly.
And that's why it is notable that the President doesn't.
Well,
I'm here to talk about my friend John McCain. You appear to be
here to talk about something that you think you can exploit.
And I find that rather unpleasant.
Governor, Governor again, again, we don't have to try to explain
something. This is a fact. This is a true isn't true.
It's a truism. When did when did this word really get this kind
of play this truism, as she could say, fact I tried factors,
okay, or it's the truth. But what does this truism? It's a
truism. Did you take that cookie, Tommy? No, mommy, and
that's a truism.
Gov. Again, we don't have to try to explain something. This is a
fact. This is a truism. Why are
you dwelling on it? The president might comment, I have
given you my comments on it. And I'm here to talk about John
McCain,
sir. And I just reject your premise that this is something
the press has created. It has been customary, probably since
George Washington, George Washington, honor a war
make you should make your inquiries directly to the White
House, if you want to direct answer.
Governor John Sununu. We appreciate you coming on and
giving us your thoughts about what John McCain meant to you.
And to New Hampshire. Thank you very much great loss
for the country and for the world. Indeed.
That guy's never coming on my show. Again. I'll never have
that guy on.
I don't know why it would go on her show. She's not a very
pleasant. She's got a stilted style. That's just
unprofessional nasty.
Oh, the worst and then finally make
some more money than we do combined. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
And then finally, Lindsey Graham. did everything wrong,
just everything wrong. The New York Times even wrote a piece
let me see if this is must have been an editorial. Let me just
open this up for a second. was an editorial. No, this is by
Dana Milbank. So it's an opinion. Yes. Rest in peace.
Lindsey Graham. We lost to Mavericks within a week. On
Saturday, we lost the legendary John McCain. On Tuesday. We lost
his loyal sidekick SENATOR LINDSEY Oh, gray him. Oh Graham
remains alive and well. But after serving for two decades is
robbing to McCain's Batman, Graham buried would have
remained of his own reputation for iconoclasm, even before his
partner's funeral because he had the audacity to go tell people
what he thought and what Trump said about his thoughts. And
he's just he's not a board.
Senator, people who know I cover you as a journalist. I know, I
know. You asked me more than anything else. The following
question, how can Lindsey Graham be the man and politician that
John McCain was and strive to be even more so and play golf with
Donald Trump, be there for Donald Trump and frankly,
sometimes carry the water of Donald Trump
carry the water of Donald Trump which of course is a truism
and it's also carry the water for Donald Trump. I
think she's she This is Dana by the way, Dana Bash from CNN.
She sounds just like the other woman and mill you is creating a
certain style of voice Yes.
Oh, yes. This comes from carrying water for Putin, which
is a favorite of the cable news network. So is carry water water
for Putin. So now it's water for Trump because Trump has put on
his Hitler Stalin's your answer to that question is
pretty simple. If you knew anything about me, I want to be
relevant. I want to make sure that this President Donald
Trump, who I didn't vote for ran against is successful. We went
to President side in Chicago, John,
I don't know we voted for but he's a Republican. He's
supposed to vote for the Republican candidate. Did you
vote for Hillary? This is a question I asked immediately.
Who did you vote for? Well, he said he didn't vote for Trump.
So he told us something about his voting. So let's get to that
to the bottom of it.
Who do you vote for? Well, this is also a part of what we in
America certainly do. Whenever someone is saying something that
could in some way, the only people who don't do it or us, in
some way be misconstrued as defending Trump or even giving
just a small inkling of an idea that maybe you've you sometimes
consider what Trump does in a different light than just
Stalin, Hitler evil dictator, then you have to say, either,
look, I didn't vote for him. But are you are you can say, look, I
certainly don't agree with everything he says. Or you can
say, look, some of the things he says are just out just horrible.
But you got to do that. Because otherwise you can't deliver
commentary in the mainstream media. You just can't. So this
and even Lindsey Graham, who I think is brave here, certainly
for him, he just can't he has to throw something like I didn't
vote for him against is successful, which means a
traitor to his party.
We went to President elect Obama side in Chicago, John and I,
what can we do to help you Mr. President, I regret the
relationship between the two. Jonah's My dearest friend in the
world, and I'm gonna try to help President Trump and I will,
because I think country first means that. And if he'll listen,
I'll talk to him. I've enjoyed my time with him. When he says
something bad about Janet pisses me off. He called yesterday,
after my speech, and he couldn't have been nicer. He said, That
was very sad. I just want to let you know that you did. Did right
by a friend. I said, Thank you, Mr. President. called us. Yes,
he did just walk out of the blue collar, you know, to those who
want me to say the only way you can honor John McCain is to
fight Donald Trump and try to kick him out of office. I don't
agree. I'm going to do what I think is best for the country.
Using what John taught me about the country. You got there you
go.
Yeah, I'm sad and
dead to me.
Yeah. Well, that's yes. He's dead to the New York Times. They
literally said, rest in peace, Lindsey Graham. I mean, I
understand the metaphor, and it's, you know, it's tongue in
cheek, but now, it's a really, really, really, really, really
nasty, just nasty.
These guys are off the rails. Yeah. So I've been having these.
I want to play a couple of clips, and I've got somebody to
some conclusion because I come to a new reason that these guys
are out to get Trump a new reason. Well, I mean, it's not
it's the it's probably the reason, but it's not a reason
we've ever discussed. Okay. And, and it just kind of just fell in
my lap when I was listening to kind of Jim Jordan, you know,
comes on and he's yakking away about one thing or another. He's
the Senator. Now he's a congress, Congressman, Ohio. It
was gonna be a senator. He hopes to he's he's the big Trump
supporter. And he's,
he was the guy that got they said he knew about abuse and he
should be in jail. But yeah, isn't Jim Jordan is the guy that
he apparently knew about some abuse at the athletic department
at the college and he should have known and he should have
said something. Oh, yes. Exact. Yeah. But yeah. Which didn't pan
out didn't pan out Detroit. Yeah. So yeah, they tried to
mirror with me too. Yeah, gotcha. Because he's important
up and comer. Yeah. So you got to Shamir and it didn't stick.
The schmear did not stick.
Not at all. So he's talking about he's on one of the
committees that got to do the secret testimony of Bruce
or Ah, yes. Who was number four guy in the Justice Department
who was still there passing. He's still there. Oh, he's
passing on the steal information after the FBI has 5g
working for him. And yeah, so let's listen to this little
discussion. I think it's kind of interesting, but it brings in an
interesting another interesting, I'm gonna use that word too
often. point that I need to bring up
Yeah. So you spoke to Bruce or yesterday. The President said
this about him in a tweet How the hell is Bruce are still
employed at the Justice Department disgraceful. And
which on Rachel Maddow last night was very concerned about
the Department of Justice, potentially losing Bruce Orr,
and you guys grilling him? Yesterday behind closed doors.
Here's what she said. I don't
know exactly what these targeted attacks by the White House and
congressional Republicans will ultimately do to the cable
abilities of the Justice Department and the FBI when it
comes to fighting things like Russian intelligence operations
in the United States and Russian organized crime and Russian
money laundering through American real estate,
any collusion so resour was key to all that. And she's very
worried that our national security will be in peril if you
guys bully him and he ends up losing a job.
What we shouldn't be worried about is Bruce or senior
official at the Justice Department's wife was working
for the firm hired by the Clintons to put together the
dossier and we know the dossier was the key to all of this. And
he Bruce or Peter struck told us in the hearing five weeks ago,
Martha, Bruce or is the guy who funneled parts of the dossier to
the FBI, his wife's working for the oppo research firm fusion
GPS, who has been hired by the Clinton campaign. And we know
the dossier was taken to the court. And I'll tell you what we
got confirmed yesterday. When they went to the court, the FBI
knew three important things. And they didn't disclose this to the
court. They knew the ORS involvement in production of the
dossier. They knew that that Christopher Steele had this
extreme bias against the president and they knew who paid
for the dossier. And they didn't disclose those key facts to the
court when they went there to get the warrant to spy on Carter
Page and the Trump candidate.
It is remarkable when someone who works with the Department of
Justice is bringing information and I heard you know, basically
giving the thumb drive handing over stuff straight from fusion
GPS over to over to the FBI and saying, here's here's what we
got. And he also admitted to it in his testimony yesterday that
he felt that Steele was bias. So they all know that on that side
of the equation, but but then when they apply for the FISA
warrant, they don't mention that they don't include that that
part of at least you would say all but a good majority of what
they're basing the FISA warrant on is not hasn't been disclosed
that the person who told them is very biased.
Okay. Nothing new really here. Well, to me, there was okay,
what part was new Russian money laundering?
I think because I was thinking about this, who was the big
money laundering guy who's got to know the most about money
laundering that was in those in the business. There are only
less late years of the Obama administration, who was maybe
associated with hbsc, one of the biggest call money like Comey,
Comey. Comey knew about money laundering because he worked
with hbsc, which is the biggest money launderer in the world.
And if you look into it, real estate money laundering, which
is what Rachel brought up, and I'm not even sure why, just
why which is what Russians like to do, is bigger
than bank money laundering. And I think this has been a witch
hunt of sorts. But I think Comey knew that the Trump organization
because he was to competition was our competition.
Oh, my goodness, yes. Keep going.
Who's the competition? Well, this Trump guy, this guy's
kicking ass. He's got all these deals. He's got them all over
the world. If you're looking into it, you go to Google and
start looking up money laundering, how to do it in real
estate. There's a number of good articles.
Well, how don't you put the money into a into a trust?
There's no There's 10 ways and ways to Sunday. I'm just gonna
read a couple of things for so you get a clue about this. Real
estate is an establishment method established method of
money laundering internationally, and the finance
Action Task Force force fattie has recognized that the real
estate sector is a high risk sector for money laundering, and
it frequently attracts criminals who want to monitor, monitor or
launder money. So why is it easier to launder money through
real estate? Then banks,
why why is it? Well, here we go.
It's simpler to real estate than other avenues because of the
related governance in the United States. For example, real estate
brokers and agents are exempted from from performing due
diligence over the buyer. Ah, Australia, there's no reporting
and requirements over real estate brokers and lawyers and
apparently China does all its money laundering through
Australia, United Kingdom any foreign company can buy property
UK without having an in country presence. It goes on about and
there's no there's no, there's no reporting. So the global
just like if I can just say that I remember is true, is because
when we were living in in the UK, I at some point, we were
looking to buy a home and not being a resident. I basically
just had a green card but not not being a full on resident. It
wasn't possible. It was the whole bunch of problems that had
to be could be an offshore company there's Yeah, I Okay. I
recognize some of this
goes on. This report says that the global illicit finance flows
report estimates that China Russia, China, Russia and India
are the top three countries receiving ill gotten money
moving out of the United States. They don't talk about moving
into the United States. But a lot of the money laundering is
going in the other direction is it's a profitable business. We
have a lot of drug dealing in this country. And as you pointed
out before, the banks benefited the most but maybe
certainly, HSBC, HSBC literally benefited from drug
money. There are billions and billions of dollars of illicit
drug money that needs to be laundered in this country,
probably more than any other country. Although apparently the
Chinese
so so. So how does it work? someone shows up and says Trump,
I want to buy an apartment. Okay, that's 5 million bucks. He
gives you 5 million cash. I would presume? No,
no, you have now you have to get into the details. It becomes
there's above See, there's they have eight methodologies listed.
One is cash deposits. These is most common way used by amateur
money launderers. You use cash to buy property renovation and
selling as high end property. Trump Tower in direct payment
renovations Nice. Yeah, renovations a good way to direct
payment using a loan or a mortgage under evaluating the
under valuation of property and it's like I said person and
all he has to do is turn around and and sell it. The price
doesn't matter. Right? Because he keeps he keeps whatever
scams overseas ownership scams excessive so, so let's take a
look at it from this perspective. Comey is a money
launderer or was related and he's not one personally but he
worked at a bank that is notoriously one of the biggest
and weren't that weren't the Clintons also involved in HSBC?
ancillaries.
Clinton's know about this, too. Yeah, I think all these guys do.
There's a corrupt operation running this country. There.
They see the Trump Organization. I don't know if they have any
evidence or proof or anything in between, but he
is doing research in real time. HSBC, donated $81 million to the
Clinton Foundation. Why?
Hillary would shut up when she got elected to charitable
foundation. This is from The Guardian run by Hillary Clinton,
her family's received as much as 81 million from wealthy
international donors who are clients of HSBC is controversial
Swiss bank. Well, I mean, the The easy way is you send 81
million to the Clinton Foundation. No one looks at
their books, and you poop it out somewhere else. And it's like 75
million, and here's your money. You go get it in Africa from the
vaccination people.
There's a lot of ways I don't know how to do the I don't know
the intricacies Oh, we better
learn because the curry divorce rack money laundering Real
Estate Group is already LLC baby.
So now we're taking a look at so this is why they went they
locked up Manafort to figuring that he must know something
about the method about some of this, even though he just didn't
work for Trump's organization. But then they grabbed Trump's
bookkeeper at the of the Trump Organization,
because they want to know how the money flows. Yes, yes. This
is Yes, yes.
Yes. So they grabbed this guy, and now they got him and
they give him immunity because we know that every this is going
on in every real estate company, of course. Right.
Got it. So I'm thinking the following. Based on something I
didn't have, I heard him talk I didn't clip because I didn't
think about until I heard this, Rachel dropped his little gem
about how Bruce Orr is the guy behind the research into money
laundering. And there and so that's why they want to keep him
at the Justice Department. And she's all upset about it because
somebody told her this, because she doesn't say something like
that out of the blue in the circle right to she's, uh, hi.
You know, we get our sources for to tell us different things. She
has her sources, and she's in Washington DC in New York, where
you get to get here all the sources. Yeah, yes. Yeah. And so
this is yeah, we're out to get him because he's your money
line. Alright,
so let's, let's put them Do you have more you want to put this
together? Now? It's gone. I got a couple more to work. Well,
hold on. Hold on. Let me get my need more yarn to string between
the nails in the wall. Okay, go.
So let's think that let's think to here's the thing that John
Dean said, I wanted to recall, who's John Dean. John Dean is
the guy who turned turtle on the Nixon administration. It was the
first guy they bring Nixon to help bring Nixon down. He was
his lawyer. Ah, okay. And so, Trump's lawyer has gone for 30
hours and he's going to quit now and Trump says it's fine. He's
like, he doesn't have any Trump is extremely confident. Yeah,
that there's no problem here. And John Dean made a very
interesting comment on a interview in one of these goes,
which I think is pertinent. He said that Trump's lawyers, they
don't know anything. And they have to kind of deconstruct and
reconstruct and deconstruct and reconstruct, to try to figure
out what the hell's going on. Because Trump never tells him
anything. Right? These deals are all done by Trump. Because he's
smart enough to know that if you're going to be involved in
some sort of some sort of business like this, just to stay
in business and to keep your organization alive, you can't be
it's not a memo about it. Now, who knows what's going on?
There's not
going to be an email or anything, it's just going to be
Hey, I'll see you at the corner with a brown bag. Pretty much.
Yeah.
That's that. And so Trump, they've got nothing on him. And
he might, by the way, have never done anything. But it just
there's just this, this sense that he's his whole organization
is somehow because it's so big, and is international, and it has
all the earmarks golf courses, by the way.
Yes. Yes. What you know, what fits perfectly into this
Bitcoin?
Yeah. Golf courses are used by the Yakuza. And as a as more
than Dame use of and more than money laundering. And there's
some elements of this. With Trump's operations. The Yakuza
would have these own most of these really interesting golf
courses, the best golf courses, and Japan, they tried to buy
Pebble Beach, here in Monterey, they were kind of pushed out
because people know about this, and they know what they were
going to do at Pebble Beach. And they've actually announced that
we're going to do this. And what they do is they have extremely
high annual fees, you have to pay like 10,000 $200,000 a year
to belong to the club. And so typically, what happens in Japan
is that if you like, walk down the street and step on some
Yakuza as foot and a fandom, you end up having to pay tribute. By
taking out a membership.
You will become it's that's kind of the version of the Sharpton
Shakedown only you get killed, it's a
variation. And these are the Shakedowns are the same, so you
have to be a member now. So now it's 10 to $100,000 a year to
become a member. And this is your tribute to these guys,
because you you stepped on his foot. They were gonna buy when
they were gonna buy palm, the pebble, pebble beach, sorry,
Pebble Beach in Monterey, they already talked about bringing
the the owner the club fees to 10,000 to $20,000 a year and
maybe go higher. And that was kind of the TIP office says,
Hey, here's what, here's what, here's the scam they're playing
here. Now, Trump's fees are very expensive, too. But there's no
evidence that is because the tribute to Trump, it's like
maybe access, who knows, we don't know. But it all adds up
to somebody who sees everything in terms of crime, which would
be people like Mueller, and Comey to a lesser extent. And so
they just think he's a bad guy. And it's from the beginning and
the bad guy. Part of it is money laundering, and they're gonna,
they're gonna do everything they can to see if
they can Okay. Let me let me play this back.
So first, we're asserting that there's gambling going on there.
I II, in real estate, there's a lot of money laundering. Yeah,
very shocked about this. But we've seen New York in
particular.
Wait, another element? Giuliani
his right hand man now, Giuliani the ex mayor of New York Don't
kid me about, you know, his. His powers got to be connected.
Yeah.
Right. Okay. So this is much bigger than we've ever even
really thought about it. But what happened was, Comey and the
gang know all about Trump as the money launder.
Did anyone just stay in the middle of Manhattan and look
around and you can see, there's all these apartments, luxury
apartments starting at minimum of $2 million that are empty. So
yeah, that makes a lot of sense. But Comey is in the game. And
he's been doing his own running his own racket. Maybe with the
Clintons maybe that that's what he's most worried about is the
81 million let's just say that was somehow some laundering
deal, because the Clintons have been doing this and with Russia
for sure. With Russia. We know they're made this made me we're
Browder comes in who knows? But Comey just sits there and goes
we can't have a horrible guy like that. So maybe he was
actually pure in his thinking because his I I'm I'm one of
these guys. I'm a horrible person which yet have this
horrible type of person be president? Is that what
you? Did? He was gonna have Hillary?
Well, if we're gonna have to choose between horrible people,
and this really is the lesser of two evils. Maybe he wanted the
new Yeah, the devil, you know versus the laundry? You don't.
But is that really? I mean, is that really the reason? Or is it
just more like, holy crap? We can't, or he'll uncover us? How
about that he knows the game, he'll find it, he'll uncover it,
and we'll be done with it.
Well, you know, Trump talked about this when he was running.
He says, You know, I know, because I've been given campaign
donations. And he already all these implications that he knew
how the system worked better than anybody, because he was on
top of the system. And he may have been talking about more
things than one and yeah, perhaps. And it is the count.
And if it is, the competition is always a good thing to take it
out.
Gives you a clip for the day if you had a clip. That was good. I
liked that. So what do we need to look out for?
Then? Just keep this in mind. Call me
for sure. Still all eyes on Comey?
Yeah, Comey is off the rails. Well, that's very interesting.
I need to I thought it was a different, different way of
looking at it. And I
need to revisit the Comey story with HSBC, because that was that
was quite the mess. That he was in that somehow he is I mean, no
one got indicted of anything. The bank million
dollar prize which nobody got indicted for anything that has
to do with any banks.
He has one of our producers sent us a very long interview. It's a
podcast on the internet, this thing is called intercepted the
Jeremy Scott Hill and interview with Sy Hersh and I was trying
to chop it up this morning. But it was just too much and he
would go off on these tangents. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna try to
Yeah, I'm gonna try difficult to edit. I'll try again for
Thursday, but he's making some claims in there that I think
he's about, while he knows about the criminal activity
surrounding 911. And he says this, I've been on the story, I
have not stopped. It's an effing great story. And it was people
enriching themselves.
Will? Well, let's take another look with the with the Trump and
real estate and Comey and banking and knowing that
according to this report, banks and real estates are the two
major competitors when it comes to money laundering worldwide.
Right. And you have the Obama administration, noting would
even during that after the collapse of the banking system,
pretty much in 2008. Putting nobody in jail, right? That has
to do with the bank. Let's assume that any brought Comey in
from a corrupt bank. And so let's say that the Obama
administration was a banking oriented up and Trump is
protecting the real estate people. So right,
so we have real estate versus banks. Beautiful. Yeah. Ha. Of
course, and sometimes those worlds collide. How about this?
So Trump, let's just say Trump knows there's money to be made I
got I got I got a guy wants to wants to make some money, a
different color. You know, I'm saying like bleach that bleach
bit that money. So he goes to a bank to borrow to buy something.
To buy something that he'll then sell and grab a profit off of
reselling white washing the money to pay back the loan.
You'd also notice that there's a lot of, of the, during this
period of trying to keep Trump from getting elected. They tried
to make him look like he was bankrupt. He's no good. Yeah,
I'm getting you to see his taxes. We need to see his taxes
because
that's that's one of the things it's that Sy Hersh, who's a
Peabody award winning journalist. Pulitzer I'm sorry.
He said that. Muller saw Trump's tax returns in the very
beginning right away, nothing. They're useless.
That'd be the I just says it. I believe it.
I believe it too. And I would say that, which is why Muller
hasn't, you know, gone out of his way to make it make a point.
Team has been shut down. Yeah. By except for dummies. Because
it's probably
whoever says that you can tell they're not part of this system.
They haven't been read in and they're not in the know.
And so
it may be actually a trap. So Trump brings out the C's look.
It may be one of these things at the last minute if he has to do
it. He'll bring him out there'll be nothing there because he's
done such a good job. I mean, this is not a guy who is you can
tell that he's he's pretty guileless. I mean, he's got he
doesn't get shook easy. He gets mad at certain people. He
doesn't like personal insults. He does have some, you know,
personality quirks. But by far as I can tell he's doing the job
he was hired to do. A problem trying to get him and this is
one way of doing it.
This is really fantastic. But I
liked the idea of banks versus real estate people, because
there's two different investment groups. They don't mix very
well. Banks will loan money to create more.
Oops, sorry. I didn't mean to do that. I don't know how that
happened. A
piece of the action, but they don't you know, they're not.
Oh, yeah. Yes. So we have CIA, DIA, and then we have banks
versus real estate companies. That makes sense. Makes sense.
Okay, well, that is very different. And stuff fits in
here all sudden. I'm just stringing the yarn again,
between the nails on the board with the photos of everybody.
Magnitsky Act plays into this whole bunch of things. Yeah.
And, wow, okay. I think the cipher I'm gonna I'm definitely
going to try and chop that up. I think that sigh Hershey
interview will be key to now. Uh, now I need to look at pretty
much everything with a whole different light. I like it.
Like, give yourself a little pat on the shoulder.
I'm dealing with that now. And with
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Well, before I was going to I was going to mention that
was actually Mark Hall who turned me on to this. I didn't
realize but we actually have in Austin, a dockless, mobility
policy. And dockless mobility in case you didn't know is the
bikes and the scooters. What about him? Well, it turns out we
have a policy they had a temporary policy, which they
closed the survey Hold on, let me see if I can find it. Now.
That would be rather disappointing. They said, You
know, when when these companies just dumped all the stuff right
in middle of Austin, they came up with oh, we have an emergency
administrative rule governing dockless mobility. And this went
into effect on May 7. And what's interesting is visa their policy
and I think there's some problems with it. And they had
to serve you to know what you're talking about. Okay, so all of a
sudden, like many places around America, we've been talking
about this for months, companies dropped Scooters and bicycles in
the city without any any just drop them in didn't talk to the
city just dropped right in. So City Council's instead of saying
hey, get the hell out. isn't gonna job to this. And that was
asleep at the wheel. They created emergency administrative
rules. And now those are now becoming the full on rules and
they're deficient.
Well, you're telling me that they actually have a rule to
approve the drawing the bikes all over the place? Because
there's dockless
Yes, well, why? Well, no. Why? Because they're idiots. Oh,
okay. They're idiots. Yes, I
knew it must have been a reason instead
of saying, you know, hey, what are the major gripe I have? I
didn't care if these things are just dumped everywhere. Get off
the sidewalk. They're actually encouraging this on the sidewalk
behavior,
shooting around in high speed scooter on the sidewalk.
We have we have bicycle paths. We are famous for a bicycle
paths that no one used until nobody uses them. Now we have
all these bikes and scooters, but they're saying people who
plan to use dockless mobility services to do so in a safe and
ethical manner. Please follow these guidelines to help keep
Austin moving safely. Pedestrians first yield to
people walking on sidewalks. What the hell? Even a motorized
vehicle on the sidewalk. I don't want to sound like an old fuddy
duddy
you sound like one well screw that party, man. We got to get
around somehow, you know, and this is better than walking.
Right and report. If you see a unit toppled over or parked
improperly help out by writing the unit and reporting the
issues, do the work for them. Yeah. And then report the issue
to Austin 3110311.
I picked up a bicycle. Yeah, good
wired up, good work citizen. Pat yourself on the shoulder citizen
good work. Now here is something that is definitely not being
adhered to.
So I want to stop you first. And mentioned what San Francisco has
done
San Francisco poop on them and light them on fire
in San Francisco. Besides you don't throw the things in the
drink, which some people do. San Francisco collect some the city
collection before the other guy before the owners collect them
because there's trucks going around picking these things up.
But if San Francisco sees one in this lump sum, but just laying
around, they throw it in the truck, and then they impound it,
and it's 150 bucks to get it back. Right. That's a there's a
there's a profit center. Yeah, make these bikes a profit center
for your community.
Well, they're not going to do that.
But Hi,
it's because Oh, didn't we answer that already? Idiots.
That is giant. Don't
you run for city council? I've
no.
I'm doing a podcast here. Now. But I filled out their survey.
And I was very clear that I found this I find this entire
movement to be discriminatory, since you need to have a
smartphone in order to activate it. I agree. So I think that's
discriminatory. But also as part of the rules. This is an I just
don't think they're playing by these rules. Users will have
access to dockless mobility services without having to share
personal personally identifiable information and can opt into
data sharing only after getting clear information about what
data will be shared. Well, bull crap. You have to you have to
give me a driver's license just to be able to use the system. So
that's not true. Yeah, oh, yeah. I'm sure you have to opt in but
they say you should be able to use it without sharing your
information. So they're not doing any of that anyway.
Austin's crazy.
Luckily, it's only downtown. But listen to the following now.
Yeah, well, yeah, now sir. I had lunch with Sir Jean the other
day. And I know we from time that he doesn't leave. He's we
came in downtown, and we're deepening our salads. As as two
dudes do. eeriness and just walk them clean one scooter after
another Jesus I had never seen it like this. It's just showing
one after another on the sidewalk is scooting around. So
listen to this. This is the the company's and number of units
they have. This is just downtown. Bird scooters has 500
scooters and they have 500 supplemental licenses. Then
there's jump they have 250 bicycles, lime has 500 scooters
and additional 500 supplemental licenses. Pace has 500 bicycles.
VO ride has 350 bicycles. But here's what's interesting. There
is 20 Scooters belong to the goat
company. So if anyone sees a goat scooter steal that from me.
And then there's there's one outfit called spin that has one
scooter that's really interesting one scooter. Anyway,
so they're gonna make this all permanent and there's not a
single thing about where you're supposed to operate these, I
think just kind of makes sense. I'm all for it by the way. I'm
not against that. Just put let's let's put it in reverse. Yeah,
well, you don't live downtown Austin. You shouldn't be able to
use them without a smartphone. Anyway,
I saw you actually use droid Oh, okay. So you don't really care
about the scooters being a menace to society?
I do. Yes,
I do. I care about you just care. The fact that you don't
have you can't get them.
No, you know, I knew he would say that. No, but yes, because
what you just said I think that is that is the biggest problem.
And if and if everybody would use it on the street or on the
bike path where it belongs, then I would be okay with it. But
that's not what is the situation is out of control. So now, so
until I I'm just putting my foot in the sand here until they give
me a smartphone. Free.
I'm going to I'm going to happen I'm
going to I'm going to take a Sharpie and every each single
one of these that I see I'm going to scratch out with
indelible Sharpie ink the QR code, so it will render the
whole device useless.
Oh, you've become a vandal.
Yes, I'm going to vandalize. Okay, vandalizing
I think I can have black paint. Spray paint would be easier.
Just a quick little blast. Yeah, but I'm afraid you can, you can
scratch that off and a Sharpie is much harder. But that truly
is its Achilles heel
and use. Well, if you want to have some fun, just take a
little sprayer of acetone.
I'll try that. See if we can get it off. Yes, good one.
No, I don't know just curl up anything that's plastic. Yeah.
Acetone is nasty for plastic.
So So Gina and I had lunch at Mad greens, which is truly as a
salad place. And there was a long line here. This is a great
format. There's a couple of places here flower child has it
and now it's basically a a cafeteria with nice tables. And
you wait in line and then you go by the lunch ladies. And they
you can choose maybe some variation, but it's all it's all
right that like Chipotle,
it's kind of that gets you used to prison that gets you
used to the prison systems learn and they don't give you metal a
silverware that you can rattle so that they don't have that
yet. But when they put those in, you'll know your training is
almost complete. We like the tin cup, sir. Oh, I'm about to
graduate. And it's taken quite a while but you know, we're
chatting away so it's not a problem and we get up to the
front. And because I'm so sorry so sorry. We're really short
handed today so everyone's sick. No, we can't get people to work.
20 means that just don't show up. No, no, we can't hire
people. We need people desperately we cannot hire a
single person. And it's like 15 Guys yo homeless guys vagabonds
walking out front. My head is exploding we have jobs here like
real jobs real necessity they don't pay enough I guess that's
all she says beneath me now. Yeah, that's probably it. But
now I think people should do the to take take advantage of this
opportunity because then you can learn how to also work in the
prison system Yeah, you always you're handing out the prison
for law I'm gonna go in and
it comes in one flavor.
I think they I think they probably are offering 15 bucks
an hour which is good. Yeah, they bring anybody in do you
have do you know anyone who wants to work So was there
any repercussions in the city after the university there in
Austin lost again to the mediocre terrapins from Maryland
and the football game.
Oh, I have no idea. I I didn't didn't realize we had a game. Do
we have a team?
Yeah. No, I buy that game. Yeah, you got to
be Bebo is not our mascot. Be I have no. We have the Longhorn be
no Bebo.
Name of the animal. That's his name. Well, we're
on BMO number eight. I forget what is it vivo? Nobody goes. I
knew I'd get the letter. Right. Vivo. Vivo. Vivo. Yeah, that's,
that's okay. So now, no one's talking about that now. So I'm
not walking outside. It's 100 degrees. And I'm not talking to
anybody. But we're still one of the great quirky places to
retire. We're number one. Everyone's coming to Austin for
retirement now. Yeah. Where's Howard? Nowhere. Great. Quirky
place to retire. All quirky? quirky. Yes. quirky.
quirky. Yeah.
Okay, let's go change a few topics here. I got one this kind
of off the wall. This is Faraj. Apparently, he's thinking about
running for London's mayor. The truth
is a group of people have approached me. They say, look,
there are more people in London that voted for Brexit than voted
for Sadiq Khan, when he became mad. And actually, if you look
at the numbers, that is true, but for those of you wildly
speculating, I have, quite frankly, I've been so busy the
last few last few weeks. I barely given it a moment's
thought. I will give it a moment's thought over the course
of the next week. I'm probably not going to do it, but I will
certainly think about it. Hey, who knows? Mm
hmm. That could be very interesting.
Well, it is a stepping stone to better to hire officers. I
mean, oh, it's a stepping stone to like the real deal. Yeah,
I mean, that's what Boris Johnson came from the right
right position, and he was almost a prime minister. Down.
That would have been so cool. It would have been funnier than
what we've gotten great
for the show. Oh, yeah. Theresa May is boring. And whenever she
does something interesting, it's video. Like her little jig. She
was dancing with the bass. Right? She's
not good for this show. It's not good for the show is very bad
makes a horrible faces and this stuff's all visual now.
It's not good, not good for us.
So she's out. So this could be good. That would be fun. He just
kind of threw it out there. I think as if that was his feeler,
huh? Well, here's
another. Here's another kind of back to the bank versus real
estate. I do have this clip. This is the money funneling
funneling operation, which they're all at Twitter about
thinking that this is another way to get Trump
to tell us about this case of this American lobbyists who
pleaded guilty today to funneling illegally funneling
money from some sort of foreign source to the Trump inaugural
campaign, and also not registering as a foreign agent.
Right. His name is Samuel Patten. He's a longtime
Republican operative political operative here in Washington and
he pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent here
in federal court here in Washington. One of the things
that's interesting about this case, Wolf is that it was
referred from a by the Special Counsel Robert Muller, to the US
attorney here in Washington to to investigate. And as part of
his guilty plea today, he admitted not only to to lying to
Senate investigators when he appeared there in January, but
he also said that he essentially helped a couple of oligarchs
from Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs attend the
inauguration of Donald Trump by essentially buying tickets for
them to hide the fact that they were foreigners, you know, which
is illegal for them to be able to donate to the President's
inaugural, so that he had the scheme essentially where he had
someone else buy the tickets, in order to for them to be able to
attend. And keep in mind, Donald Trump's inaugural raised $107
million, which is twice as much as any of our previous
Presidents have raised for their inauguration. So it is something
we know that the special counsel has been investigating, in
particular, their connections with oligarchs who were asked
about this wizard pro Russian
oligarchs, pro Russian, Ukrainian this is potentially
consequential first of all, pleading guilty to not
registering as a foreign agent that's a felony could go to jail
for five years half a million dollar fine for that, but also
illegally funneling money to the inauguration that's pretty
significant as well.
Yawn well, well we'll spinning
while while that was going on, I was in my head I was thinking
about all the different ways that these payoffs take place
and the minor players need to be helped out. And how does that
work? You know, this is this GoFundMe this has become the the
way to pay people off we're doing some
Oh, that's a great idea. Oh, but we've we've discussed this
before they came but did it Yes. All of
them John. All of them didn't call me also have a GoFundMe I
don't remember call me by no structed struck had one. McCabe
had one and they're huge amounts of money they collected anywhere
from 150 250,000 to now and up. But what if you go in and you
look at those go finance?
This is a great this is a money laundering deal? Well,
you know, if it's just something to consider,
hey, off a methodology for paying off debts because all
blind
John, it's just a thought. But you know, if we had like some
really big Russian donors, no, we don't do the show. Yeah, it
was like, Oh, my God, I can't
I can get like five 600 bucks. Max.
Yes, borders will pay these guys off. What are they worth? 500
bucks. Okay. How much? How much, Ivan? How much do I have to pay
the Comey? Comey has million? No agenda show 500 bucks. Yeah. You
know if if I if I ever started my own podcast, I'm gonna do the
do that model. This should your donations are based on just
money laundering. My show is doing great
money laundering and bribes and I thank you. I
thank you. I thank my customers. Gracias friends. Yeah,
yeah. No, you're right. I was thinking the same kind of thing.
And the same thing when struck got all this. It was like a huge
amount of
money. If you look at the first I can buy out it'd be. John,
listen, you go to the first 20 donations. You can scroll back
in history. Most of them are anonymous. Most of them are for
1000 2000. That's where the big money comes in. Then word gets
out. Oh, yeah. And you have to be on your way that always works
kind of network effect. And then you know, smaller people. The
dupes come in like, oh yeah, I'll help you out. And then
it'll be yummy. And yeah, the dummies and they get closer to
the deadline, then it'll always kind of oh, look, they made
exactly the right amount. They're always kind of fill it
up at the end is I'm telling you, this is what needs to be
investigated.
Think the beauty is,
I think everything needs to be investigated, apparently.
But the Well, yes. And that's going to be on your tombstone,
my friend. His final request? Was this unveiling. It's a scam
exclamation mark.
I don't even know I was gonna say anymore. But and, yes, it's
a scam. GoFundMe tear the GoFundMe? Well, here's what I
was going to try and say, all of these money laundering scams.
It's very hard. You can look at it as a scam or not a scam is
some of them. The way the money flows is just kind of, it's like
art, you know, it's the same thing, artist money laundering.
It's all kind of legit, even though it's money laundering.
You know, I mean, it's like, how are you going to prove there was
money laundering, if you just bought something and sold
something? And?
Well, you can't. And that's the that's the beauty of Yes, yes.
The problem is, you have to find, you know, you had to find
someone who knows is a bunch of illicit illicit cash, is that
just the illicit cash part? That is the problem, they get to move
it through a system so they can have it in their bank account
without having to just walk into the bank and drop in $100,000 in
ones
right. That's where Bitcoin comes in. Yeah, yeah. No, you
keep saying that? No. It's probably a conduit for money
laundering. Yeah. Surprise me
course it is. Yes. But
there's a lot of these things that mean this, if we look at
the world differently, we can see. People need to launder
their money. Yes, yes. cash, cash business, we're in the cash
business. A lot of it is to avoid taxes. I mean, some of
these you see, I go to the bank. And we do pretty much all our
stuff on Pay Pal and checks and mnemonic cash we get we get
some, you know, just drop it in there. But I go to the bank, and
I see somebody coming in from usually Chinese guy running some
sort of an operation with a pot load of Yeah, just a big pile of
cash, shuts it at the teller. She adds it up and turns into
machine.
It is how much they bring in the Chinese guys there.
I take 510 1000 bucks in a pop. Ah, okay. And yeah, but it's,
you know, it's all cash. And you have to assume that some of it
has to be I mean, if you if you're doing an all cash
business, I'm all by the way, I've always suspected all cash
restaurants are probably probably keep an eye on them.
And it's not that you that anyone's doing anything illegal
in the business itself. It's not that they're taking drug money.
And
that's difficult because I know, I know, friends of mine had been
I've been busted in all cash restaurants, you know, back in
the in the 80s, when really no one had credit cards. And the
inspectors will sit in your restaurant or, you know, they'll
they'll take turns and they'll just sit there and look and
watch what people are ordering. And they'll know pretty much
exactly how much you should be filing an income. They're pretty
good at that. They have models. I don't know how they got your
machine learning man.
I have I went to a money laundering restaurant. Mimi used
to work at one.
The restaurant should just be called the money laundering
restaurant.
Mimi used to work at a money laundering restaurant. She says
it's pretty hard to tell sometimes. If she didn't even
know for a while, but I went to a place on assures money
laundering because I ordered a lot of stuff like the place was
a tapas place. It was a it was a jumping joint. It was packed. It
would be very hard to jump in joint.
Were you there and your Zoot Suit. Yeah. So it'd be
pretty hard to figure out how much money was going through
there because you'd be buying all this servers. Do you think
you're buying all this stuff? And then when you get the check,
it's comped?
Oh yeah, that's the that's another great way to do it.
And if you're sitting there trying to to keep track where
there's a sale of this or sale of that, yeah, well, half the
stuff is comped in his restaurant, right? Oh, yeah, I
know him. Comp him. So you get a whole comp meal. I mean, there's
some you'd immediately to me, that's this is what I've never
been here before. They one guy says he knows me. I've never
seen him. And they're competent. My whole thing. Money
laundering. Yeah. And but the idea behind a lot of money
laundering and seems to me is not to is not to like take drug
money and push it through the system, but to avoid income
taxes. So you have an all cash restaurant and you do let's say
a million dollars a year err, and you declare that you do
500,000 a year. A lot of money is saved there if you don't
declare the other 500,000 Because it's all cash and put
that you would wander that. Yeah. So this is going goes on?
Yeah, maybe that's the big pushback against crypto. Because
once once people figure out that you can do all this stuff, and
you and you can really avoid mainly taxes by just by pushing
this money around. Yeah. No way. Does the system want that to
happen? No, no. Well,
they don't like did not like allowing this.
And just to kind of tie this into a conversation we're having
someone sent me a Bloomberg article, and this came out well
only came out on the 30th that Google and MasterCard have had
this deal where they are completely sharing all
information together. Oh, yeah. Like mas MasterCard has 2
billion customers. Yeah, and they really haven't told anyone
that I mean, you sign away, you sign away everything. When you
sign up for your for your car, you can opt out, there's someone
who people have sent me some information you can opt out, I
guess. Or at least you can say it's like pushing the button on
to get the crosswalk. Hey, the button, the button lit up. I
didn't get to cross any earlier. Just empty wires. But yeah, the
slaves. That's you and me. We're just caught in this constant
loop of tracking by everything and everybody and meanwhile, the
elites.
They're out there just passing money around.
Just probably elements of that. Yeah. There's another thing I
got here, which is that I don't know how this fits into the big
picture. But let's play this. This is Trump versus the Koch
brothers and other operation that needs looking at
obvious lashing out at the powerful conservative activists
and donors Charles and David Koch. In a tweet this morning,
the President called the brothers a, quote, total joke in
real Republican circles. He said I don't need their money or bad
ideas. The President went on to call their network quote, highly
overrated. Over the weekend, about 500 Koch donors gathered
for a seminar, Charles Koch, who leaves their political
organization slammed Mr. Trump's trade policies and said they
could trigger a recession. Coke reportedly also said he would
back Democrats, if they aligned with his values. Coke officials
have said they plan to spend between 300 and $400 million on
the upcoming midterm elections.
You know, I'm a little confused. What exactly do they want? I
mean, I know they hate Trump. But what exactly do they want?
What what is their agenda? What furthers their empire and what
helps them
boil their oil based, so anything that helps the oil
industry should help them? Yeah. I don't see why they have Why
don't know what their grudge against Trump is?
That's very confusing to me.
I think but I think it's great. They grow a grudge against Trump
because it just kills the Old Left wing argument. Oh, the Koch
brothers, the Koch brothers, the Koch brothers, always bitching
and moaning about the Koch brothers, you know that in
Citizens United? Oh, Citizens United is ruining the country.
And its dignity. Those are
old talking points. Those don't work. Done. It's racist, racist.
You gotta be racist, racist. That's a talking point. Racist,
racist, racist.
I've been I've been tracking these just calling them social
justice value networks. Because I think that's, that's a
descriptor really, of what they are. And it's been very
interesting to see that In and Out Burger boycott. Have you?
Have you tracked this at all? Yeah. And you know, they say,
Hey, look, we donated the exact amount. Same amount to
everybody, every party in your ward, with at least to the
Republicans and the Democrats. And, and now you know, you have
the social justice value network, there's still
boycotting
that makes the lines shorter in and out burgers is a pain in the
ass to get into. I think it's a benefit. Most people around here
feel the same way.
Right? But I'm talking more about the interest to me
interesting is that the power that these networks have, and
I'm always surprised like, why are you wasting your time on a
burger joint? I mean, it works. You have power. Stop
pussyfooting around, do something set you know, I don't
know we're gonna have one of these where it's going to be two
networks against each other. And it just seems like it's mainly
left that are that are doing this that know how to do it that
know how to order And I know how to get apps together and block
lists and bands and all that stuff. And if the if the right
ever figures it out, there'll be interesting when they figure out
we can do it. But the right does doesn't do it. They don't have a
mechanism they don't have. There's no media matters of the
right. There's no sleeping giants have the right to
a Daily Caller now plays Tucker Carlson to the rescue.
I don't think so. Just a little Ultra mile. This is a great
little clip, someone sent to me, just to show you that when you
really know something about a topic. It's always kind of
interesting when you listen to the news when they report on
things. And you've got to wonder, do they make this
mistake in every other topic? This was about a skydiving plane
crash. I don't think anyone was hurt. But the local reporter
did, of course show up on the scene to talk about the clat
crash landing and the possible cause of the airport
and with the manager and again, as I've said we've really never
had any problems on the airport's run very well.
And Hazelden told us that he believes the issue was with a
defective Flux Capacitor though the NTSB wouldn't comment on the
potential cause today
some guys hey, it's a flux capacitor which she then
pronounces capacitator which is even better he
got it right even got that wrong.
Flux Capacitor
Yeah, so you just need a gag give me a clip of the day for
discovering that one. Well, I percent it I was gonna say I
can't take credit for that. But I thought it was funny. Idiot.
President Tater. Oh, there was not a clip item but NPR had a
really interesting article. And you know, I'm not big on NPR
these days. Certainly not their their podcasts or shows whatever
they call them is a lot of moron spewing moronic crap. But this
was some good reporting. The school shootings that weren't
and what they did is something that oh my god, they actually
had a journalist that you know, we had the this huge number of
school shootings and the hole every every outlet, every
journal everyone's talking about we've had 160 190 200 300
shootings this year school shootings, you remember that?
Oh, yeah. I wonder if we have a clip of that. Do we have like a
compendium of everybody was all nuts about it. No.
school shootings, I thought we there was like some
we have a clip of recent clip of some guy debunking most of this
nonsense and which I don't have to for today's show, but I have
it first Thursday. Yeah.
So what I have here is the spring, the US education
department reported 2015 2016 was nearly 240 schools, with
which reported at least one incident involving a school
related shooting. And NPR reached out to every one of the
schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found
that more than two thirds of those report incidents never
happened.
Sounds right.
They were of the 240 incidents reported and reported ad
nauseam, they were only able to confirm 1111. In 161 cases,
schools or districts attested that no incident took place or
couldn't confirm one in at least four cases they found something
did happen but it didn't meet the government's parameters for
a shooting you know, like a rubber band.
I mean, gun
so this is this should disturb everybody because that the
hysteria was pretty big on this. And every single news outlet
just went along with the with it. And so NPR in their wisdom
summons, you know, we should go check that out. And they did and
they're actually checking up on the US education department. So
this is a governmental check, which is what isn't that what
what the the press freedom is all about? Yeah, checks and
balances. You're the fourth. It's the fourth leg of the
table. Get it out.
Check it out. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I should have had that clip today. But I
thought well, bravo, NPR for doing that. Well, good.
I think the tides turning on the school shootings are trying to
find something else to talk about. I do have as long as clip
which I wanted to do Because I was misled by being a Democrat
for much of my life and by a lot of things, and every time I get
very irked by some of these things, but I had no real
understanding. And as a long clip, that's okay. But it's very
good at it. My understanding of the Fairness Doctrine is not
what I thought it was. And this is a this is Rush Limbaugh going
on and on about the fairness doctrine and how nobody
understands what it is, even though they're talking about it
constantly. And now he and I do a test.
Do you want to do any background before the clip about the
fairness doctrine? Sir, I'm
doing now. Oh, I'm sorry. I will test different Yes, the Fairness
Doctrine was employed after the Roosevelt administration to try
to get a little balance on the radio at the time the radio
almost exclusively on the radio, but radio and television applied
to both. And it really all it really did was say you have to
you can't, when you start looking into it, what it really
had to do it was personal attacks that were unfair. That's
what it was really about. People would go on a TV station or
radio station, say, Bill or dad and curry, his crummy aihole I
hate him.
They had read it back then.
And no, that's what they were doing. They're using the airways
for Reddit. Okay, got it. Got it. So that was there was this
sort of thing created this and other moments and during the
Truman, Roosevelt, switchover created this Fairness Doctrine,
which went into play and 50 in the 50s. I think 52 and and it's
not to be confused with what which is what we always do and
the only mistake in the in this when you listen to brush talk
here. It's He's got everything exactly right. Because I checked
everything out. He said one thing he make one error, which
is the equal rights are equal time there is a thing called the
equal time rule. Yes. He calls it the equal time doctrine.
That's the only mistake he makes, but the rest of it is all
accurate. And
and what brought this on that he was discussing this?
Apparently people are a floating around at night. I've heard this
from him a lot. They have brought it on, we're Esteemed
Scholars, giving talks around the Washington DC area and
elsewhere, talking about how the Fairness Doctrine once Reagan
destroyed it, created the likes of Rush Limbaugh and ran to Fox
News and all these things which wouldn't have existed before the
Fairness Doctrine was repealed.
That's interesting. So they truly only see one side of the
results of repealing this doctrine. They only see the rush
limbaugh's and the Fox News of the World. They don't see CNN
and MSNBC.
Well, the point is, what they're seeing is imaginary. Yes.
Because Rush Limbaugh, as he detest, to in his little spiel,
had been doing the Rush Limbaugh show for three years during the
fairness doctrine and did station in Sacramento. It was
just a coincidence that he showed up right after the
Fairness Doctrine was because
he became the poster child of it kind of, yeah,
inadvertently. And the fairness doctrine has got nothing to do
with anything going on with Rush Limbaugh, Fox News or anything
else about censorship. Well, you're listening to Rush.
This was this morning in Washington, the White House
Historical Association held a forum on the presidents and the
press during a discussion of the evolution of a pinion driven
media. Presidential historian John Meachum, said 1921
radio comes along television in the late 40s. There's something
called the Fairness Doctrine here. We all own the public
airwaves. So the idea was, you could not express an opinion,
unless you gave equal time to both sides. Most people decided
to stay out of that business altogether. And be as part of a
generalized deregulation move President Reagan repeal that in
the 80s as 8687 Rush Limbaugh goes national in 1988 by 1992 is
so important that his support of Pat Buchanan helps bring George
HW Bush down in the 92 New Hampshire primary 96. You have
Fox, MSNBC. CNN was founded at a course but it did began its
move. And so you had this period where we did have more or less
with the kind of and part of it also is that's the media world
in which most of us grew up. We're accustomed this idea of
Cronkite and New York Times times, there was a conversation,
right? We need desperately to get back to these people
mischaracterize the Fairness Doctrine every time they talk
about it. The Fairness Doctrine is not equal time. equal time is
a separate doctrine. It's a separate theory are a separate
regulation. And it applies in campaigns, but the Fairness
Doctrine. Let me briefly tell you what it is. When it was in
play, did I worked in Campi K, do we in Sacramento doing this
show under the Fairness Doctrine, it didn't stop me. It
didn't stop the management of Camp BK. We had. We had me we
had people that discussed carrot cake recipes at the holidays, we
had people discussing local sewage problems, we covered
debate, I happen to be the only one talking about politics. But
there was no limit. And we lived under the fairness dock, the way
it worked was, if I said something on the air that
somebody in the community disagreed with, they wouldn't
they weren't, we invited them in would put them on the program.
They didn't get equal time they got to appear if I wanted to
have one for 10 minutes or 15. That's what we did. But even
that was not a requirement here in this doctrine was simply
something that said there has to be an attempt at balance, but
how you define balance is up to you. But Fairness Doctrine
balances never said that if you do three hours of conservatism,
you got to find out what with three hours of liberalism, it's
never been that. So if you as a radio station, you do three
hours of conservatism. Maybe Sunday morning, you do three
hours a liberal bam, you're balanced. If you do 10 hours a
week of something as long as you do an appreciable amount of
time, during the week doing something else, you're balanced.
It's not equal time. And it doesn't grant opponents
automatic answer. These people don't even know what the
Fairness Doctrine is. All they know is all they think they
know. Is that when it was repealed, was when I finally had
a chance to blossom. They don't know is I worked in Sacramento
doing this exact show. For all intents and purposes. For three
years under the Fairness Doctrine. It was not a
limitation in any way, shape, manner or form.
Oh, that okay, I can see where
that mistake is commonly made. I've we've probably done it
ourselves. I believe so about the fairness doctrine versus was
the equal time equal time rule? Yeah. Which is by itself bull
crap.
It is when you read it, it turns out to be
bullcrap. Well, it's, it's kind of binary. It's like, oh, you
said something, someone else gets to say something. But if a
third person shows up and says, Hey, you had an hour, you gave
him half an hour, give him half an hour. Now I need half an
hour.
Well, actually, let me tell you what their equal time rule
actually says. It specifies that US radio by the way this came
into play in 1927. In the radio act, the US radio and television
broadcast stations must provide an equivalent opportunity to any
opposing political candidate who requested that did for one
thing, you have to request it and it doesn't apply to
editorial here. For example, since 1983 political debates are
not hosted by the media stations are considered news events, and
as a result are not subject to the rule. Consequently, the
debates may include only major party candidates without having
to offer airtime to minority parties are an independent
candidates. talk shows and other regular news programming from
syndicators such as Entertainment Tonight are also
declared exempt from the rule. So the whole thing that's even
just a very weak I mean, the equal time thing doesn't even
really make mean anything right. So this we've been misled
Yeah. Well, that's interesting to know. I should have played
the more you know in the morning just a great little facts just
Yeah, kind of nice. Nice to know.
So Limbaugh brings this up every so often because apparently he
doesn't like
being implicated that his success is due to the repeal of
the act. That's it's all about him. It's always all about him.
Of course.
That's what he does. When he gets to $400 million.
Yeah. Is that what he's making? $400 million?
No, he doesn't make that he makes his $400 million deal he
made to do with make 10 million or something a year it's he's is
loaded this guy.
Yeah. Because you know, often we'll have something on Sunday
right down to Bernstein oops, right down to the clip. And
he'll play it on Monday.
We have people that listen to our show. They do truly we have
people from RT that listen to our show. We have people from
Infowars that listen to our show,
or throw us a bone you know set up a GoFundMe
Let's listen to gonna pay us anything there's gonna take her
stuff. Stand in their eyes and take their stuff.
Those skinny wimps, old white guys will take their stuff.
Yeah. This is I realized as I was listening to some NPR stuff,
because NPR news in their whole news division is, is you know,
they're bordering a little bit on MSNBC at this point. NPR, NPR
News. Oh, no, NPR has gone downhill their whole division.
It's just they, I think, you know, we've discussed this, I
think that they now even when they're doing regular shows,
they've forgotten that it's not a podcast, or maybe it is, you
know, they're all in podcast mode, basically, which is a lot
looser, which I do like with it. Yeah, there's a little more
banter. I think podcasting has changed mainstream delivery,
certainly of certain types of radio with an NPR and I also
realized I'm listening to this. There was a saying in the
Netherlands when Pim Fortuyn who won the election posthumously in
2000, was assassinated a week before the election. And this
was this, this phenomenon this tall, bald, a very flamboyant
gay guy who said enough with Islam, we got to stop it coming
in to our country. And it's always very controversial, but
one of the first ones to say that the multicultural society
was not going to work out. And later on, of course, he was
right about that. He was always talking and the conversation in
the Netherlands at the time when I was living, there was a norm
and Varda norms and values. And I realized that every election
that eventually it comes down to that norms and values. And I
don't think I've really heard it in the US election that much
except with Donald Trump. Now, it's just he's not presidential,
whatever. But have you heard this term norms and values? No.
Well, it's it's now in play, and they actually have two different
norms, Norm Eisen of crew, which is what does that keep keep
politicians on his group. And then another norm, Norm Ornstein
or Ornstein, and they're talking about Trump and his norm. So
they had it was a cute little thing. Oh, it's the norms on
norm, but just listen to how they feel and what they report.
The first one is Eisen of crew.
What's the deal with norms? Why should we care norm Eisen, about
the fact that this was a president who promised to drain
the swamp change the way business is done in Washington,
and certainly at least tonally in terms of behavior, demeanor,
and speech seems to be doing just that.
Well, David, thanks for having me. The reason that we should
care about Trump's transgression, his brutal
violation of norms is because they're in a bucket of things.
I just have to stop his brutal violation. We don't even know
what norms are yet. We're still trying to figure that out. He's
already in brutal violation of
Trump's transgression, his brutal violation of norms is
because they're in a bucket of things that matter to us as
humans, whether you call them norms, ethics, values, or laws,
because these are the underlying concerns that drive our
Constitution, our law, our regulation, really want people
to do the right thing. And that's where drain the swamp
comes from. It's a desire is one that Norm Ornstein and I share
and have devoted our careers to to make Washington function
better, so it serves the people. Instead, Trump has broken it,
he's turned it into unconstitutional, crony
capitalism benefiting himself and those around him. He's
abused the First Amendment and other
he's abused. Like that was my favorite. I would do that I
stopped the interview. How did he abuse the First Amendment
that
perfectly fitting himself and those around him? He's abused
the First Amendment and other normative values that we
Americans buy his attacks on the press, assaults on the
individual people of color, minorities and others who we
marginalizes and on and on everything we care about, has
been transgressed by him and he hasn't brought it he hasn't
drained the swamp. He's filled it with the toxic sludge of
corruption, alligators,
NPR, ladies and gentlemen. Just as I as I was listening to that,
I'm reminded of a bill that is going through the house right
now it's hr 6691. One introduced by was Mr. Handle handle
whatever this is. And it will amend title 18 of the United
States Code. And it will clarify the definition of crime of
violence. And what do you consider and I think it plays
into this because the guy is talking about assaults and, you
know, all these his his didn't even say violent attack or
whatever is bashing all these, all these words and you know,
when all of a sudden something comes across my feed, that is
about the definition of the crime of violence. Like I'm
interested in that, you know, what to you is that is violence.
To me. Yes.
I think harming someone else. Okay, so, so are or blowing
something up? That's violence or arson? Are you harming you or
someone else or property?
Okay, well, if you're interested, I can read some of
the definitions.
But arson,
property harm, assault, carjacking, child abuse, let's
see coercion. Coercion, will also be fall under a crime of
violence, extortion. Fleeing. The term fleeing leading up
means knowingly operating a motor vehicle and following a
law enforcement or not following a law enforcement officers
signal to bring the motor vehicle to a stop failing or
refusing to comply or fleeing or attempting to elude a law
enforcement officer will be a crime of violence. Ah, is where
they blow it. Yeah, the term interference with flight crew
members and attendance. This is specific doing basically you
look at a flight attendant wrong if this thing passes. You're
violent.
Yeah, sounds bad.
Yeah. So anyway, let's listen to the other norm on the norms of
the president Norm
Ornstein. You know, talk to me a little bit, you know, we can get
into how this affects policy, as the hour goes along, but briefly
talk to me a little bit about the decorum that he's broken.
The folkways that he's violated, why do these these things
matter? And we can, you know, pick maybe one to illustrate
what you mean, one of the norms that we've had is that while we
have three branches of government, and this is a norm
that's changed, especially since the Cold War, the President has
a particular place in American society. What the President
does, how the president behaves, sets standards for others. One
of our norms is that once you get elected president, things
are different. You represent all the people. Donald Trump hasn't
represented all the people he's represented his base. The first
thing he did after getting elected was to hold a political
rally leading cries of lock her up. There's another norm
was you see Lee? Was he leading the cries? I don't know if he
was leading them. Was it? Yeah, I guess he will never.
First thing. I don't even think he ever said it.
No, he isn't. I don't think he's ever said the words. But when
they I do recall, at least on one occasion, when they were
chanting, lock him up. The crowd was chanting, lock her up. He
was moving his arms up to kind of
I guess you could say leading I think he was he was like a
conductor. Yes. He misses his the baton.
The conductor of his base.
Elected was to hold a political rally leading cries of lock her
up. There's another norm in a democratic society small d. You
don't try to lock up your political opponents. When you
use rhetoric, Rob?
Yeah, really? recently mentioned that No, no, no, that would make
too much sense if you actually like I said, Hey, that's what
they're trying to do
divides people rather than unites them, including racist
and nativist rhetoric, that basically unleashes people to do
things that otherwise would be viewed as absolutely improper,
like Antifa. Maybe when we have, as we just saw an individual
call up the Boston Globe and threatened to kill everybody
there because you are the enemy of the people, maybe a deranged
individual, but using rhetoric that the President use that we
would have seen as beyond the pale as violating fundamental
norms. And it's important to remember here too, that these
aren't just American norms. Joseph Stalin originated the
term people and used it to kill a lot of millions of people.
When Khrushchev became the head of the Soviet Union. He banned
its use because he said it was too dangerous.
That's MTR NPR, to anything else going on in the world. Oh, yes.
Yes, the European Union is in heavy debate. Juncker the
drunker is all for it but it looks like they're going to ban
daylight saving time. It will always be summer in the EU he
said
so the keep Daylight Savings Time is what you're saying.
Yeah
you're right. Yeah,
it will always be daylight saving time. Yes. In fact I
should have said they back no they back the ending of it well
the BBC is here the BBC Andy
Misa to switch back and forth it but if he says gonna be summer
all the time. This summer is the daylight savings time.
Well, the BBC headline reads clock changes, eu backs ending
Daylight Saving Time.
How's it going to be summer all the time?
And commission, President John Claude Juncker said millions
quote, believe that in future summertime should be year round.
And that's what will happen.
That means that you keep the daylight savings time but you
keep it year round. Once again, the BBC doesn't know what
they're doing.
They don't know. The interns, right. But he said yeah, the
interns are writing it over there. Does your BBC.
Yeah, top top drawer?
Top notch. I do encourage that though. Thanks for throwing us
slaves a bone. Yes, like, you know, we're we're still going to
suppress you. We're gonna give you austerity, but it'll be
summer all the time. In lovely Euro land.
isn't just me I kind of see the sickness of that. I got to know
from Miguel want to read.
And Ruby, the certain death of this unbleached night. This is
for the dating karma I receive for my last donation as an adult
under 40. I'd like to report on the state of furbaby parenthood.
Oh wait, don't we need the jingle? Yeah, play the jingle.
Okay, hold on. Jingle dogs
I've been on the dating apps for a few months now. And there are
an inordinate number of people, women my age that are self
described dog moms. Oh boy. Usually their bios will also
have lines such as, quote, I probably won't like you if my
dog doesn't like you. Or quote, looking for a stepfather for my
dog. I've recently been chatting with a girl that mentioned that
she's looking to get an emotional support dog. I may
have reached the end of the road with her. Thanks for your work
Andrew be weighing
well that fits perfectly with
this clip. And we started to see this demand about five years ago
and all those new urban rental buildings, the rooftop dog
parks, the pet salons, all catering to millennials and
their pets. Well now Millennials are buying homes and a striking
number of them are making decisions based on their pets.
Jessica Evans sold her condo and bought a house for her dog Lucy.
I love living in a downtown area in a condo was great. It was
very convenient. I didn't have housework. But the one thing
that was really missing was my dog's happiness.
And she is far from alone. 73% of millennials currently own a
pet according to the American Pet Products Association. That's
more than any other demographic, and a whopping 89% of
millennials who bought homes so far this year own a pet
according to realtor.com that has Millennials putting their
pets needs front and center in real estate decisions. 79% of
pet owning home buyers who closed this year said they would
pass up and otherwise perfect home if you didn't meet the
needs of their pet according to realtor.com survey, and Jessica
some $12,000 into her new home for her dog and her cat. A new
fence a pet door she even renovated the basement bathroom
for the dog. Millennials want outdoor space or to be very
close to a dog park. They also want to be near pet friendly
restaurants and pet products stores.
I do want to say that your no agenda show has been tracking
this disturbing trend for a couple of years lines a couple
of years. And I have to tell you this is a spoiler. Now you know
if you've watched The Handmaid's Tale now you know what happened
that they had to have women in captivity to bear children is
because all of the young people in this imaginary is coming
true. How was of John doing? Is she okay?
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show tense 65 wishing you a happy birthday and also some
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Labor Day. How about that?
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that came in I got this is I'm not quite sure who sent this to
me. But it was a packet filled with Boeing. I mean, it's from I
don't want to mention the person's name, but from Keller
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look that one up it's kind of interesting what that does, you
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I don't know. It's like, satin. Yes.
Somebody out there to get translated on the spot. I can't
Well, I think it's like we operate in secret. I looked that
one up for to something or other. We operate in secret. But
this is like it says NDM on the coin national. Something. This
must be from some outfit that we're
unaware of some, some private spooks. Yeah. Well, I'd like
to know what that is. And also a Money Gram. It's another great
way to launder money for $70. Thank you. We should put that
in. And then And here's another one. And I got a nice card. And
the card says wishing you an OTG and face bag free birthday. See
you soon. Yours not. I think it's from Mark Hall. But I'm not
sure. Also from Texas. I think. So. The older you get the more
excited you are about two pieces of mail, John. Yeah, but that's
the mail. We did the mailbox. And that's what I found out. It
was really good. Now, next Thursday, we have a regular show
here. At least I'm going to be in the studio. Then Friday. The
keeper and I we take off to go to Italy. My sister's 25th
wedding anniversary which so we actually fly through the night.
We arrived Saturday and the parties on Saturday. And so I'm
we're taking the show off on Sunday. And we have Do we have a
confirmation on what we're doing for the best of
luck. It's gonna be a couple of interviews, and we'll announce
them on Thursday.
Okay, we can't talk about the name that you've mentioned to
me. Now. Yeah.
I mean, I don't know now until these things are in the can. Oh,
I
didn't know how far you were. Yeah. Okay. So there'll be
special interview shows and our best stuff. But a special
interview show John has some interviews lined up. I'm very
excited. As always, always fun, indifferent. And then, although
we will remain in the EU. Now the show will continue as
scheduled. And so we were going to take a little trip up to Lake
Como to check in on George and Amal, and then guy that lives
there. Yes. And then Tina, for my birthday is taking me to see
the Large Hadron Collider in Lucerne.
How did you get tickets to that? I
don't ask questions, man.
I think they're gonna throw you.
I'm going to the Large Hadron Collider or give me some big bow
song. You know, that would be like, What time does the black
hole start?
Go in it.
Hey, is this a ticket ride
tour holes here?
Can I leave to another dimension from here? Is that Is that
possible? As a woman who knows what I need? Hmm,
it's possible that that device is only for going from one
dimension to the other? I suppose it's really built for
question
is is it reversible? That is that is what we need to know.
But there's a woman who loves me.
Yeah, she wants you to get thrown in.
Sure. Okay, boys, you know what to do? Just
back up a little. Yeah, I wanna take this picture back up a
little more. All right, well, who knows what will happen then
but again, thank you all very much for my my birthday
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let's see let's go to Scandinavia for a moment can I
yes yeah you know
Okay, okay let's go there.
Oh boy. So the got the holy herb is now legal. I think in most of
the Canada Navy has it all provinces is a good to go there.
Yeah, it's a national thing. Yeah, but they don't have
edibles aren't legal yet. I don't think anyway, the
candidate. Weird. Well, a good kid. I see this report I think
are good can Navion brothers and sisters. And they have these
signs of things to come here for us. I mean, they're just they're
odd. If you can, I guess. They're having all kinds of
troubles. People who used to remember the holy herb and
they've come back to it now now that it's legal. Yeah, they're
overindulging a tad
you numbers provided to CBC News by the Canadian Institute for
Health Information show Canadians are increasingly
ending up in emergency rooms because of cannabis related
poisoning or overdoses. Over three years, the number of
visits has nearly tripled in Ontario, and nearly doubled in
Alberta.
I wonder if it's if there is a technical term for I mean, for
marijuana overdose? I mean, how do you overdose? What exactly
happens rarely,
you just smoke too much of this super powerful stuff. And you
get so dizzy and nauseous you feel you have to go to the
hospital? You know, they're very sensitive up there in Canada who
is not feeling good. So wait, did they give numbers is they
tripled from what 123 Or from 300 to 900? Do they say
I can't remember
has nearly tripled in Ontario, and nearly doubled in Alberta.
This shows the increase in well, in ER visits. Dr. Zambo knew the
numbers were high, but not this high. So your first thought when
you saw that.
We're pretty shocked that it's that? Yeah, it's gone up that
much. And then I definitely think that those numbers will go
up even more.
So how much of a burden on resources is that?
What's a huge burden, they're occupying beds, they're
occupying nursing time.
From what he's seen. cannabis edibles are a big part of the
problem. They're widely available, but Health Canada
confirmed they won't be legalized until sometime in the
next year, which means they won't be regulated. I would have
liked to have seen public health messaging starting as soon as
the bill passed if not sooner than that.
The Canadian Public Health Association says a quarter of 15
to 24 year olds are already using cannabis products for
people of all ages would benefit from strong provincial public
health campaigns
for people who perhaps consumed cannabis in their teens 20 or 30
years ago. They're going to find the cannabis is a very different
product today. It may be a much more potent product
it think
I Yeah. Couple things if you're going to use edibles. I'll give
you some vise. First of all, it takes two and a half hours
before the edible takes effect. So if you're, I think one of
these things idiots go out there and they take some edibles. And
then hour later they say what to do anything and it takes some
more. And then the hour later the two hours and they go, ah,
do shit, I'm going to have some more. And then it's sort of
taking, telling you, that's what's going on. So the next
thing you know, they're wasted to the point where they're
getting sick. Yeah. And I think you can probably consume more
than you can smoke if you eat it that way. And here's the advice
number two. Besides that knowledge, don't eat anything
from this edible collection. Unless you do you take a little
sample of it. And wait two and a half hours to see what that
sample does. And then go from there. I can't just start
gobbling this stuff down, you get sick as a dog.
I love on this show that you're the one giving marijuana advice.
I'm just giving I'm acting as a chemist. Hold on,
I just gotta get I don't want to see you in your lab coat. Okay,
I just want to get the image I need to be in a lab coat in your
lab coat and you have a beaker, you're holding up a beaker
and I'm holding up a pointer and I've got a whiteboard and I'm
telling people how to adjust these things properly so they
don't get sick or too wasted to be able to find the Rihanna
tracks. And seriously, man now what?
But you are all about the edibles. I know that that's what
you're doing in Washington. I know you like edibles. But the
thing is, is the dose like
that much I take I use and I've taken edibles maybe five times
over the last two
years C stands for chemist we finally know.
But I will say I know enough that you don't take the whole
thing if it's a low chocolate bar they get they divided up
into six pieces. You don't eat a piece of the six. You eat like a
quarter of that piece and see what happened. You wait a little
bit. Yeah, two and a half hours you wait, you wouldn't
have hours as long. That's quite a long time for it to kick in.
In my experience.
That's pretty much how long it takes.
I remember we got the edibles from our meet up in Colorado.
And Tina and I went to a maybe we shouldn't tell the story
from edibles. Yeah, you should try a little bit. Yes. Just a
little bit.
Yeah. And then you get up to but I grew up you have to have the
instantly admin. There's no reason to take any of these
things because you have to get completely wasted that night.
No, no, but if you're taking if you're doing if you're using the
holy herb and the magic flower to get wasted. Yeah, then you're
doing it wrong.
That's not what it's full around. Oh, man. That's not what
it's for Canada for sure.
I like the dabbed. Vape that's kind of my new thing now,
I guess. Yeah. You know what that means? Yeah. Wow. Yeah.
vape.
Yeah. So it's, it's it, you dispense it through a vape vape
pen, only that put the DAB which is the oils, the make this
really potent oil, they put that in and basically just sitting on
a coil, kind of weak, but it's strong enough and they sell the
capsules, you know, it's become very sophisticated. You got a
pre made capsule, the whole thing with the mouthpiece you
screw right into your battery. You're good to go. Yeah. And
it's it doesn't leave a smell trace the whole time. You can do
that hard to do it anywhere like in the cockpit, you can
really doubt that it doesn't leave a smell. I really
seriously doubt it.
Well, not not a lingering smell. Not a lingering smell. It's just
not a burn smell. Anyway, and that is our tip there.
You learned some on this show?
Oh, the more you know, we have the Mexican American trade pact
union thing. Hello. Hello, Enrique. We got that going on.
And Canada Navia is of course involved. And since down here,
in the in the southern poor part of North America. We don't hear
any other news other than Trump Stalin not say it was nice to
hear what you guys are thinking what's going on up there.
We have been positive and engaged and even constructive
and from time to time enthusiastic about the
renegotiation of NAFTA. NAFTA is a 25 year old deal that has that
has many things in it that needed to be updated. So we're
glad to be sitting around the table and looking at ways where
we can make sure that this is the right deal for all three
parties through the through the beginning of the 21st century.
The same time we've been very clear, we're going to be
thoughtful, constructive, creative around the table, but
we're going to ensure that whatever deal gets agreed to is
the right deal for Canada and the right deal for Canadians. I
understand that the Americans and the Mexicans very much want
to try and get things done by Friday. And we're, we're seeing
if we can get to the right place by Friday. But as I've said all
along, it has to be the right deal for Canada. And that's what
we are staying firm on. And quite frankly, what I am so
thankful to Canadians right across the country for because
we have stayed united and firm on this mostly. And the support
of Canadians throughout the summer for each other for
workers affected for the challenges we're facing has
really gone a long way towards ensuring that we've been able to
stay firm, stay strong and stand up for Canadian interests.
You guys guys are so screwed. Exactly.
took forever to say it his edibles
kicked in. Right as he was about to hit the two that Yes. It was
not fantastic. Yeah, but uh, you know, it's like, it's got to be
the right the right deal. My goodness, I'm sure it'll all
work out just fine. Justin. Oh, yeah. That should be okay.
There's a couple of notes in the show notes. I do want to
mention, so we're not getting we're not going to get to it
today. And, but they are these are topics that need to be
revisited. One is Venezuela. We we've had this producer who
would send us stuff about Venezuela, every single show and
it was he sent long, really long notes and you had to pay
attention, pay attention. And you know, that just wasn't all
that much news about Venezuela. And I guess he wanted us to be
the reporting, which we can't do, because we kind of
deconstruct other news about stuff. But he has a very long
note. deconstructed what happened and he's luckily he's
back listening to the show. And but he concludes with, I just
want you to know that what happened in Venezuela is exactly
where the US is. Now. They were like Venezuela in 1994. He says,
Yeah, so I just but I put it in the show notes, na show
notes.com. And you can always find the most recent one there
in the in the archive.
And then when I don't know why people project stuff, like data,
this country, Oh, you guys are just like Venezuela this was
happening. If you remember that no good in the quantitative
easing era, when it was really cranking it up in
2007 2008 2009. And they're pumping money into the economy
to buy bonds and prop up the depression that was just was the
beginning. And it worked out. And But meanwhile, there's all
these people, and you can find them. Ah, we're going to have
hyperinflation, just like Germany in the 30s. We're going
to have a hyperinflation. Just like Brazil, we're gonna have a
hyperinflation. We had no hyperinflation. We've had no
hyperinflation. What are the hyperinflation? I'm asking you
interestingly,
he was talking more about a socialist government. He wasn't
even talking about either. Hello. I'm just saying, but hey,
you know, it's worth the haven't read.
The Read is fine. I'm just saying it. I keep hearing these
people projecting their issues on us. When we're a completely
different animal in terms of economics, governance,
everything in between, right.
Which brings me to some feedback on a comment you made about
fascism not being in our I'm paraphrasing. Fascism, not in
our DNA, not in our DNA, like Germans. Yeah, okay. And so
Behera I
read that note, too. I was I didn't print it out. But oh,
you can read it if you want to read it. I thought it was kind
of interesting, because it all seemed
like they seemed like the gazes hates Jews.
This must be I don't even read that part. Kidding me. I
wouldn't read that. Now. The thing that he said is Harry. Now
that I reread it, yeah, he does hate Jews screw the guy won't
read it. It's just a Jew hater. Yeah, I guess you're right. I
actually taken out any offensive stuff. I wasn't gonna mention
it. But he did say Germans are everywhere. And that's true here
in Texas. We got German, we got to hold German towns. Yeah,
I'm not saying Germans aren't everywhere we had in the Bay
Area we had the German Boond was a huge thing. During war, just
before World War Two broke out, and the Germans had to be
rousted, many were thrown in the same kind of detainment camps
that the Japanese were put in no cars No, but they didn't
complain about it so much. And it was like a huge problem with
the Germans but most of them are they really take a liking to the
way that we do things and they're not going to turn into
Nazis like, you know, they might easily the culture is different
where our American culture is different than the German
culture. Yes. That yeah, the D when he's when I said DNA, he
immediately took that domain the genetic makeup. Yeah, we have a
lot of German DNA and the American makeup. Yes, that's
true. But culturally, we're so alien that I don't see. Although
if you read the can happen here by Sinclair Lewis, you might get
a different impression, but that never happened. And of course,
that was a communist takeover. Right. But you know, socialism,
communism, man with the resistance.
And then I know he took offense. Yeah, that's all right. Yeah.
rereading the note on rise. It's not worth it. What is worth
discussing briefly is it looks like net neutrality in
California is going to happen.
Yeah, that's great.
You'll be such how messed up is California gonna be once they
put net neutrality and I can't wait. i This is beautiful.
I'm waiting looking forward to it. I
mean, the tech guys must be oh, god with it all excited to see
how well is does and keeping everything fair. And it's just
gonna be fabulous. I hope to see a lot of reporting on this great
grand experiment you're gonna try up there?
Well, it's gonna make everyone have to do it. We also have this
other thing is the California bail bond change, which is
really I think this is something that's gonna affect everybody,
because everyone's gonna start thinking about doing this. The
state of California took a landmark step toward criminal
justice reform today, as Governor Jerry Brown signed a
bill that would eliminate cash bail for those awaiting trial,
or Risa lagosians of public television station. KQED has
been covering the story, and she joins me now. Marisa Lagos.
Welcome. So just quickly, who was behind this effort? And what
exactly would this new law do? Well, this
is a change that was backed by the governor, the Chief Justice
of the court system here and a majority of the legislature as
well as some criminal justice groups, it would basically
eliminate cash bail as of October 2019, and replace it
with a system that gives judges a lot more discretion. They
would be guided by risk assessment tools that would
decide whether someone's a low medium or high risk for release.
But ultimately, unless somebody was a misdemeanor defendant, in
which case they would be automatically released or very
high risk or facing a violent felony, the judges would really
make that call. And so it has been a controversial some people
think it's giving judges too much power.
So again, this would apply in all criminal accusation criminal
allegations.
That's right. I mean, this is a huge sea change. We've seen some
other changes in other states that doesn't go this far. You're
gonna use an algo
Yeah.
So this is only for state stuff right. Not federal court.
I don't know a date probably as the Feds got some other day have
their own system
Wow.
It's like I was saying like you know, you have to your baby will
be curfew or you have to do do the chores your sister's chores
Yeah. Yeah the bail bonds guys are all out of businesses of the
yeah that Yeah, but but it still will be some some money from
time to time never again no cash at all.
That's what it sounds like. Wow, don't cash that's takes care of
the bail bonds guys. And you know, it's California has always
been kind of against this whole thing. It's illegal to be a
bounty hunter and California. Dog the Bounty Hunter that guy
he can't come to California just arrest him.
Oh, you can't do that. Oh,
I didn't know that and not do bounty hunting in California.
scratch that off the bucket list. So there's a lot of so now
they're just getting rid of bail all together. Hey, either good
to go. Or you're not good to go.
Okay, it seems like this place is gonna devolve into some
lawlessness.
I have no idea what's going to happen but it's just an
experiment that I guess they've been itching to do for years.
As long as you've got the 1981 Lexus gassed up at all times I'm
okay with you stay on
is really guessed that ready to go
that you got your go bag by the door
because keep a go bag in the car in the trunk very
good in the Lexus outstanding. last clip for me is just really
only just congratulating you on how far in the future use can
see and how well of course you are from the future as well.
Michael Palin of Monty Python fame was in at the Edinburgh TV
festival. And he talked about his experience in North Korea
where he visited I don't know maybe Did he do a documentary
about North Korea? Did I know but maybe, well, what is the
long been your assertion, which is now a show assertion at this
point? Is
North Korea? Is this trying to set itself up as a tourist
attraction tourist trap, if you will?
Yes. And this came to you how many years ago, 5666 years ago,
the city key thing I felt about the whole journey is that North
Korea, I felt as though they were preparing and they wanted
to open up to the rest of the world because they've had to
spend all their money on these missiles and all that the
farming that the the agricultural, and food supplies
are very, very scarce out in the countryside. So now they've got
to get something back. And therefore they're building great
tourist resorts, we saw an airport, an entire airport,
which is totally empty, there were no planes there. But the
airport is built, waiting for people to come to this tourist
resort, which it will serve. So and why build that if they
didn't really want to get tourists in from China, maybe
from the rest of the world? And they let you see that. Yes, you
know, yes, exactly. And they were proud to talk about that
and say, we're going to have wonderful things. And evidently
they had, they've had people who've gone to Disneyland in
Paris to look at that, how you how you build resorts like that,
how you design them. So money had been invested in this
opening up. So it isn't just just a political rapprochement,
I think it's somebody they need for their survival now, but when
they do open up, then what happens to the sort of
regimented, Kim family thought that people are going to say,
well, there's a they do it differently in another part of
the world? Maybe we should do it differently. I just don't know.
It's a very, very interesting time, I think.
pretty much nailed it. Oh, yeah. Fantastic.
It was pretty obvious from the get go. That's what they were up
to. And I still think that just dig if they get their act
together. I would wouldn't mind having the franchise to sell
tickets to that giant spectacular show. Yeah. Big
Show. Yeah, the big show once a year, you could get 1000 bucks a
seat? Oh, yeah. Oh,
boy, I was thinking
about this. In our never ending quest to get out of the
podcasting gig and make some real money.
Another exit strategy?
Well, here's the here's the strategy. So we get someone we
within a network, somebody can at least go buy up a block of
tickets. So we need a block of say, you know, 50 seats, maybe
if we can get 20. We'll take that. And then we're going to do
a whole VIP thing. So we're going to charter the, I mean,
this is really going to be millionaires, like people who
are in the 500,000 Plus category. And it's going to be
we'll take the whole thing, the lodging, the plane will have our
own tents or yurts
an Ikea catering.
A badge? Yeah, badge slot and platinum badge, coin challenge
coin tote bag. For the starter price of I think $7,000. But if
it's a couple, then you know, then we just do, like 12 or
something. Yeah, I was thinking about it to the sweet spot.
Yeah. So get ready, fire up a newsletter.
Yeah. Start working on it. Now. Again, my last tip, which is
that you're gonna like, Alright. This is a guy. I just thought it
was a good clip. This is a guy complaining about his Tesla.
Okay, I
was fed up with Tesla completely to the point where today, if
they want to touch my car, they're not allowed to touch my
car. I'll do my own work on my car now. Great first
and fourth wasn't always this frustrated with Tesla. There's
no
other car that I would want to own honestly than this car.
He pre ordered the Tesla Model S and when he got the car in 2013.
He was a total superfan. He even drove it across the country
before there was a supercharger network.
I don't think many people have not reset their trip indicator.
And so when you look here, I've got 135,004 miles on there. And
the entire time that I've used the car 46,368.9 kilowatts.
Tesla usually called me actually that time, they'd call me and
tell me hey, we noticed that there's a little bit something
going wrong with your car or when I had my flat they did
their courtesy roadside service. They really took care of me
actually is as original preorder. As soon as I exceeded
my warranty period, the kindness interactions all went away. I
was treated like I didn't even really own a Tesla.
Early Adopters like Greg are the first to deal with Tesla service
for the Model S out of warranty. Tesla recommends all repairs go
through its own service centers are authorized providers for
Greg means killing a day drive into the nearest shop.
I actually saw this entire clip the saw the video of it. Yeah.
And it was I sent it to the former New York banker even I
said, look, look at this blog this bullet you dodged. But the
guy he really loves his Tesla. He doesn't mind fix it himself.
So
he says he could fix these door handles stop working. So he
Tesla says they're going to charge him $1,000 To replace the
door handle the ones
for like 770 bucks. 75 bucks. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, he
was it was really an eye opener. It's like you know, they think
they're lamp it's like Lamborghini I mean, but it's not
a Lamborghini it's an everyday car yeah,
it's like a Lego set. Died everybody thank you for
celebrating my birthday with me of course tomorrow is the actual
day and maybe one of my last depending on how the black hole
of the Large Hadron Collider trip goes. But for now coming to
you from downtown Austin Texas capital the drone Star State in
the FEMA Region number six on the governmental maps here in
the five by nine kludi on the common law condo in the morning
everybody I'm Adam
curry and from Northern Silicon Valley am John C. Dvorak we
return
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Secretary I want to do is tell you what we're recommending.
First of all, let me tell you what we found 120 emails or 52
email chains contain classified information.
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