What are they gonna do? They can hit the side of a barn with
these missiles. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
Thursday, January 11 2018. This is your award winning get more
nation media assassination episode nine or nine or eight.
This is no agenda dressed in black because it's the new black
and broadcasting live from downtown Austin chaos capital of
droves. Our state in the studio in the morning, everybody. I'm
Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley where the Third time's a charm,
especially when you do it twice. I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's just It's the year it's 2018. It's just not going to be
kind to technology.
I'm calling it's about time. I'm
calling it now. We had caller ID
Yes. Power add year for technology.
I'm so tired of technology.
Well listen to this. I mean, again, I mean, let's start off
with this graphic. I have the clip for it. The lights were I
mean, this is what you just said. I think you might be
right. The lights went off on at CES. They went ces blackout. If
there's
one thing you need it the world's biggest electronics show
it is electricity, but the power was knocked out for two hours.
At the CES technology Show in Las Vegas. Nevada energy blamed
the blackout on the convention centers equipments. Yeah.
Yep. Oh, yeah. Everyone's blaming each other. Yeah.
You know what it is? It's the union.
It's the tasers they Oh, no, they do this all the time. They
used to do that in the Javits Center in New York all the time.
It'd be at noon, you know, that you're loading in and someone
touched something they weren't supposed to. And then
electricity goes off, and they turn it back on. And then the
word goes out? Yeah. Stop touching stuff.
Well, I do believe that to be true, they pull stuff like that.
Whether this is the case here in Vegas, where I don't believe
this is unionized, as in New York, I It remains to be seen
whatever the case, I think it's
somatic. I think Vegas, I thought the convention center is
very unionized in Vegas, I couldn't be wrong.
We need some verification that my understanding is it's not
okay. But Javits? Yes, yeah. Absolutely.
Yeah. No, but it's just like, you know, it's so much
interdependency on things. All every every little
services architecture, baby. Yeah, but it's yes,
it's true. Isn't microservices architecture that is exactly the
problem. You know, I have this touchscreen, which I use for the
jingle. So I can, you know, easily play myself a little ding
there. And I just boot up this morning, I've changed nothing.
Of course, I rebooted How foolish of me. And you know,
it's all we don't recognize the screen, plug it in, you always
plug in a different port. Oh, setting up your device, which I
thought was set up before. Now we're setting it up again. A
different port. And then you have to calibrate it. I defy you
to find in one go how you calibrate a touchscreen on
Windows. It's one of those menus that looks like it was it's from
the Windows NT days. I've never seen it. Yeah. Yes. Like, touch
screen input settings. Widget thing. My Bob.
does it entail poking a lot at the screen?
No. Yes, yeah, you do? Yes. You have to. If this is not the
screen, hit ENTER Then touch the screen. So that's at 7am Yeah,
it's just little little early for me of doing all this stuff.
And then we had Yeah, then we had our streaming issues again,
but we're backup and we're good to go. And it is the second show
of the new year. Second show third show. How many shows I
don't know somebody called me out for bitching about low
numbers in the last shows. Say it was the lowest of the year.
It was it was the first
of the year okay. A guy says hey, well you weren't like the
lowest of the year is like saying the first day of the year
is to get the highest temperature of the year low is
that the same
record temperature record low for the entire year so far it's
the coldest year on record of this year no the coldest month
on record of the year or something like
that. Another guy one of our normals note saying hey, I'm
sick of this newsletter begging for money you're gonna get all
the money you ever wanted in the on the show. 1000 And then he
says I guaranteed Of course I don't know what that means. No.
And he says in that newsletter I we threatened to quit your jobs
you
have threatened to quit several times. But you
threatened to quit if I'm talking about the newsletter
specifically. You're always threatening to quit Yeah. But
what but the newsletter there was nothing in there that said
there were
no I don't think so at this somewhere. So I must have said I
must have said at some point I will take you to 1000 and then
we're done. You know people also send me email and say you have
said that before you have said that people send me emails now.
Why do you hate animal So
why why do you hate animals?
Because you said, I hate dogs, which is not true. It's not
true. I don't hate dogs. I've had many dogs. And then you know
whenever I'm bitching about service dogs or anything of the
like, service goats for all I care then I get to read you hate
your animals, man. What's wrong with you?
Yeah, I was wondering myself,
well, no, I don't I hate people who abused animals to get ahead
in like Peta. them to really but you know, people kill
a lot of animals. PETA kills I think more animals than anyone,
people. People who
are used it's John at the vortec.org people who are using
animals as emotional support animals to get preferential
treatment and bring their animal with listen to this. You'll love
this.
Therapy Dogs are pretty common in schools and nursing homes.
But have you heard of a therapy donkey? Well, we're introducing
you to Jane and her big ears and soft coat and bringing smiles to
everyone in the Northland. She likes me scratch her name is
Jane and she's a therapy donkey. Yeah, she's the only one in this
area. It's not every day you see a donkey and canal Park. I love
donkeys and it's so soft and friendly. It's so hard to
believe. How can you not grab a quick photo? Say cheese? But
that's exactly what gene therapy donkey is there for. Even people
that don't like animals love these donkeys.
Even people like me who don't like animals, they just love the
donkey.
Very few people will walk by her without stopping which stopped
to see you know the waterfront and of all things we did not
expect to see a donkey
and this Jenny isn't fast or anything.
She loves dogs. She loves people. She doesn't see trailers
and she loves new places.
Jane's owner Tracy Blue Gene is the only certified therapy
donkey in the area bullshit gaining that certification in
December.
I mean there's no certification for this that's a lie. There is
no shortage a
whole there's a whole group is a sort of medical group called the
donkey certification company.
There's James Yeah,
I was wondering how long you're gonna take to find that lucky
break.
It only took a minute to do.
He loves dogs. She loves people. She doesn't she loves being
trailered and she loves new places
according to she can kick someone on their ass.
Listen to the to the certification beta gun owner
Tracy blue jean is the only certified therapy donkey in the
area gaining that certification in December.
She had to be taught not to be scared of pets. Listen, stop
talking over it
the only certified therapy donkey in the area gaining that
certification in December.
She had to be taught not to be scared of strollers and bikes
and skateboards and Rollerblades and wheelchairs in the lake.
So aside from spending some time in the sun, take your walk
around Come on. Alright, so this is clearly a disturbed person
who is lying No She's no she is she's disturbed but she but I
like it because she gets she gets the attention she needs
because of her dog. Which is okay and ended people like it
but stop with it certified. That's bull crap. That's just
bull crap.
certified by who? That's the question. I want to know. Doggy
certification, donkey certification startup, our own
donkey sort of? Excuse me? Yes. Finally,
it's something that we can do. Service donkey certification,
and we know we can have Oh, John, do you know we're so
sorry. I'm so stupid. I can't believe it. It's been staring me
in the face the whole time. We need to go big. What do we have?
We have the best artists. We can create harnesses sashes
certification, you're on parchment paper. Shoot man we
can even repurpose our no agenda rings and call it Neo service
donkey ring. Yeah, we can do this stuff. This is a great
idea.
One of our best Yes.
Oh, welcome to excuse me ma'am. I'm from the donkey
certification inspection. Your donkey does not seem to be
certified to but here's a coupon
Oh my goodness. Just a thought yeah,
just go to the
Welcome to the show.
Welcome to the show. Welcome to the show. If you're just new all
you newcomers, this is the way it's gonna be. It's how it
always is.
Well, Are we dead yet?
Why were what was going to kill us this time?
Because of Trump's bigger button tweet. How are we dead yet? Has
a big button. Have we been nuked yet?
You know, I don't know. by Christine Lagarde he definitely
has a big butt chin.
So whereas we were about to die a week ago, not only was it now
a week and a half ago because of this tweet and people were very,
very upset about what the President has done is the
president of South Korea says hey, man, thanks
a surprising approval for Donald Trump's hardline on North Korea
from the south. President Moon Jae In said Wednesday, Trump's
fire and fury threats for Kim Jong Un might have done its job
number.
I think President Trump deserves big credit for bringing the
inter Korean talks.
It comes after the two Koreas held talks on to state for the
first time in more than two years, where the North agreed to
hold military talks with the South and send a large
delegation to the Winter Olympics next month after
initial skepticism of the talks from Washington. As Reuters
Christine Kim explains, moons shout out to Trump sends a
strong message
outside observers have said Moon's comments should be seen
as a smart strategic move. It's pretty much the best move you
can play in this situation. Analysts say South Korea
standing firm and showing North Korea the alliance between the
United States and South Korea is strong that South Korea probably
won't be to relenting and giving Pena what it wants this time
around. While it maintains a strong relationship with the
United States.
The North for its part made it clear and talks its weapons
program isn't up for discussion. But the south shouldn't worry
its missiles are only pointed at the US
analysts say North Korea is likely to use these recent talks
and their friendly gesture of sending people to the Olympics
to further their insistence that North Korea is a responsible
nuclear power. At the same time, North Korea would want to create
some distance between South Korea and the United States and
perhaps later down the road corner South Korea taking sides
between North Korea and the United States by saying the
nuclear issue is something that does not involve South Korea.
Still Washington welcomed Tuesday's talks as a first step
towards solving the nuclear crisis. And the US State
Department said it would even be interested in joining future
talks. There may be an opportunity for that more talks
are slated for the two Koreas before the pins on the Olympics
next month.
I wonder what uncle Don thinks about that?
I don't know. They also said in one of the reports that the
possibility of Kim Jong Hoon and Trump meeting is pretty high,
which I'm sure it is. I'm sure I'm sure that he's we would love
to have that happen.
So I'm jumping ahead immediately walk to the to the travel when
we can vacation over there. And I'm thinking I was thinking
about this. You know, the thing you really want to go to North
Korea for is to see that that show they put on once a year.
Yeah, the the military show. The big thing. It's at the stadium.
They have all these dancing girls. Oh, that's military. Yes.
Is that not the military show? No, no. Military stores in the
street. This is the one that giant stadium they get this huge
one of the biggest stadiums in the world. And they filled out
with women with flags. And this is a synchronized thing. It's,
you've seen movies of it. It's spectacular. Madeleine Albright
was lucky enough to get to go see it. Damn nice thing and I'm
thinking why just once a year, they could pack because they can
pack this sucker in
John, they could do three times a day. Just like Universal
Studios, Universal Studios people.
Maybe, but they can definitely do once a month.
That'd be great.
Because these people they practice all year Why don't they
just do the doing the show? It's kind of like practice right? And
they can just keep doing the show once a month I can do this
thing cost a lot of money to put on but they can pack that
stadium. They won't charge right I mean, this is the amateur hour
with these guys. You know they're gonna they won't know
what you know what they charge the locals five bucks to get in?
Or maybe it just an invite. I have no idea. But I think they
can get 100 bucks a seat.
Hold on a second. The locals are in the show. They're not in the
stands. Every single seat is for tourists. John, what do you
think it
was a lot of foreign guests, I'm sure but the thing is gonna be
I'm saying they got to put somebody in the seats now
because they don't have enough tourists.
By me, whatever. I'm only one step removed from Kim Jong from
Dennis Rodman at this point I'm still working on Yes,
I'm still Yeah, well. Yeah.
We should be doing the show from there.
Well, I don't know if their internet connection is good.
What are you talking about? They hacked into Sony?
Yes, it did. Oh, yeah.
Oh, there is a history. There is historic precedence, though with
Olympic games being important for nasty countries. I take you
back to 1936. The 1936 Olympics when the Germans participated
in this fight African American athletes causing Hitler's some
embarrassment. The German team achieves overall success. They
win 33 gold medals, nine more than the Americans as they Top
the table. And the event itself is a resounding success. The
ultra modern feeling showcase receives almost universal
praise.
So what if North Korea does extremely well? They won't there
was a 33 By the way, 1933 Olympics? Yeah, it makes sense.
Of course.
Of course. Well,
I know it's a positive development, you don't hear much
about it,
you know, because nobody wants it to be any positive
development because it does mean he says to me, why don't you
guys try to do one whole show without ever mentioning Trump?
Oh, she's on this bandwagon now to who else
is on the bandwagon? Everybody?
Oh, the past couple of shows is, you
know, people just said we could we could do it. It wouldn't be a
problem. No, we can't do it today. We can't do it when
there's, you know, just stuff going down. Now we can do it.
Let me Can I read some from Karl Rove put in this little article,
you read Karl Rove Interesting?
Yeah, I do. Not a lot. But I just want to, I just think just
give us a little perspective.
Long before the presidential election, the populace
candidates mental state was under attack. The New York Times
ran a series over several days suggesting he was unfit for
office and included a letter from an anonymous psychiatrist.
diagnosing the candidates make the magala main and megalomania
and saying he presents in speech and actions striking and
alarming evidence of a mine not entirely sound. Another piece of
the political outsider was laboring under the delusion he
is persecuted, and possess an enormous passion for ringing
every time he sees a crowd gathered. One psychologist
refused to call the condition ordinarily crazy, but added, I
would like to examine him. Well, another said he was beset with
what I believe to be delusions. These articles appeared in 1896
targeting William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic
presidential nominee. Well, one of those Switcheroos we like to
do every so often. Ah, very nice. So I'm thinking, Well,
I've written this, I have a list. This is what this is the
distance the Democrats pay back for what we did to them in 1896.
I have a list. I have a list of sites psychiatric disorders in
US presidents from 1979 1776 to 1974.
Nice catch
from my sources. So we have it's a little column here we got the
president, we have the diagnosis. Confidence level,
which is seems like that's only a one or a two. So two is less
confident apparent. No. I don't know. I don't have a legend on
this for some reason. evident in office, persistent or recurrent,
impaired evident to others or sought treatment. And if it is,
by today's standard, a DSM four criteria. Are you game? It John
Quincy Adams, bipolar disorder was evident in office. It was
recurrent. Yeah, he was impaired by it. Jefferson social phobia,
which is not a DSM four criteria. So we're going to skip
that. He was just shy. Yeah. Madison, that makes
zero sense to anybody. But okay. This is from no it was a while
ago and probably
I should have mentioned this is from the Journal of Nervous and
Mental disease. Which sounds official Madison major
depressive disorder. John. I'm sorry, Pierce, alcohol
dependence, major depressive disorder. Lincoln.
We should stop stop there. Okay. JC Bosco Jr. We talked about
this because he was there was some moment we're studying this.
It'd be before prohibition. The amount of prohibition did
anything. It backed everybody off from the outrageous amount
of drinking? Yeah. Yeah, they would drink so much. So
alcoholism had to be a serious problem. Yeah. Yeah.
Lincoln, Lincoln major depressive disorder, recurrent
with psychotic features. Grant, alcoholic social phobia specific
foe hit a phobia for blood. I have that too. But only if it's
coming to him a duck only if it's coming out of my arm into a
needle if it's you. It's okay. Hayes major depressive disorder,
Garfield depressed depressive disorder, Teddy Roosevelt,
bipolar, Taft, breathing related sleep disorder. Wilson anxiety
disorder Generalized Anxiety Disorder major depressive
disorder personality change due to stroke. Harding stemmata form
disorder I don't know what that is. Either. Coolidge social
phobia major depressive disorder hypochondriasis. Coover, Major
Depressive Eisenhower, Major Depressive Johnson bipolar, and
Nixon alcohol abuse. So this is not new. You know, it's it's how
we roll. Come on.
Kennedy had some issues with Ted Kennedy
was, was doped up and was not. We had the Reagan who was just
ex addict. Yes, Reagan, who demented early. Alzheimer's, and
Reagan has Alzheimer's that in his last few years, yes,
yeah. In fact, Nancy was running the show. Well, I'm glad you
brought this up. Because I have a clip. Alan Dershowitz did a
little explanation on one of the morning shows. And he is a
Democrat. Who is being shunned now, of course, because he's
telling the truth speaking truth to power. But no, that's not
acceptable in all dimensions. And he brings up the Goldwater
rule.
Well, it's very dangerous. You know, there's only one thing
worse than trying to criminalize political differences. And
that's trying to psychiatrists that now who are trying to
diagnose without ever having met the man, that's what they did in
Russia, I represented dissidents who they locked up in mental
hospitals. That's what they did in China. That's what they did
in apartheid South
Africa. I'm so glad he's bringing this up. I hope people
see the irony, how dare
liberals, people on the left, try to undo democracy by
accusing a president of being mentally ill without any basis.
Look, the 25th Amendment doesn't apply. Everybody knew who Donald
Trump was. When they elected him. I didn't vote for him. I
voted against them. People voted for him. But he hasn't changed
office. And this idea of diagnosing him, instead of
opposing him politically, poses an enormous danger. He was
arguably one of
the most vetted candidates to ever run for office in public
life, and that the left went after him. But the President
even pointed out himself. This is not the first time the left
has gone at Republicans. They did the same thing to Barry
Goldwater.
They did the same thing to Ronald Reagan. Right. What is it
about Republican presidents that leads the left to say we don't
just disagree with your policies, you must be crazy.
Well, you
know, I think over 1000 psychiatrists diagnosed Barry
Goldwater and said he was a mentally ill, they were then
rebuked by the American Psychiatric Association and
said, do not make diagnoses without seeing the patient. And
they continue to do it today. Look about Ronald Reagan. They
had a point he was perhaps beginning to develop
Alzheimer's, we have a 25th amendment for that. But the 25th
amendment is not supposed to be invoked. If you don't like
somebody's politics, or you don't like his style, and vote
against them. The 25th amendment requires the Vice President to
invoke this and then it requires two thirds of both houses. It's
not going to happen. It's designed for people who are
totally incompetent, not people who you disagree with.
There you go.
Dershowitz isn't making any friends. Yeah, he's
making huge enemies. People really dislike him for this and
he's now on Fox and Friends a morning show on Fox that's
pretty low. It's just low. That's all you can score, then
you know, then I'm sure it's hurting with clientele as well.
But this is what happens with these guys, when they're really
desperate people assume that they're of a political style and
bent like like a Noam Chomsky, for example. And they assume
that they're going to just follow the party line when
they're actually free thinkers.
Have you been following the chart? I guess I didn't delve
into but Noam Chomsky said that there's nothing there in the in
the
Russian Yeah, he says the Russian thing is a scam.
So how's that going over?
Well, it hasn't been really taken. But nobody knows quite
what to do about it. This is a real mind screw job because
Chomsky is a is a self loathing Jew hater of the United States
in a lot of different ways and doesn't make a lot of sense
these these were supposed to be our public intellectual. These
are extremely politically biased. He still suffers from
the fact that I remember when I was a kid, I am siding with the
Khmer Rouge and he denies it of course, but there's plenty of
evidence.
Jane got over the whole Hanoi Jane thing to quite definitely.
She had to change your identity.
And he had a couple of ribs.
Ribs removed a couple of facelifts Not even shorter,
could be a stamp
might not be that the pieces made a different day, they'd
actually put those pieces together again another person.
Exactly. As an old Joan Rivers joke. credit credit where
credit's
just just to go back to what Mimi said for a moment. Yeah,
with our job is to deconstruct media. And if the media is
talking about this, I mean, I'm surprised how much we bring to
the table that the media is not covering, because we feel that
that's deconstruction of news as well
as by sharing and what are you going to do when you have when
you have and we're going to switch topics to the Golden
Globes? What are you going to do when you have your host come out
and say, I'm not going to talk about Trump? And every other
joke? Yeah, he never mentions Trump's name. He just talks
about the president. Yeah. So the whole night was I
thought about this, I just wanted to say one more thing
about it, that we may cause the impression that we are pro
Trump, which and we're I think we're truly agnostic. The thing
that I think the context you have to understand this in is
that we find him incredibly we're older guys, you know, I
was like to not worry, you know, it's like if Kim Jong Un is
going to kill us, like okay, fine, whatever, is good now. I
find him incredibly entertaining and find the whole situation
entertaining, and we laugh a lot. Because it's just, you
know, it's our dream come true of Kurt to be able to see this
unfold before our eyes. We live in fantastic times. So, you
know, just because we don't act scared or apprehensive. I think
that's probably
Yeah, well, this is what we're trying to convey to the
listeners too. And the producers we know, this is all bull crap.
I mean, to get all worked up about this stuff, when they're
right with it. And I've said it right at the beginning when this
whole thing began with with North Korea. What are they going
to do? Yes, and they can hit the side of a barn with these
missiles. And they're going to blow us they're going to blow up
some city they're not going to and how could they dare attack
would be it would just be destroyed. Don't be dead. It
doesn't make any logical sense that everyone oh my god, they
launched another missile. I think even Trump over reacts to
this thing. Although he may be overreacting for other reasons,
I would recommend an article and I forgot to send it to you. But
um, it was in the Federalist and it was called to understand
Trump's talk you must speak out or burrow.
Did someone say Boro?
Boro?
Boro. Boro, Sorry, I misunderstood
is a very good article, and it was it's a good taxi kind of
came out with Scott Scott bayeaux kind of introduced the
idea. He says, people from the outer boroughs, exaggerate
everything, according to accent experts who help actors prepare
for parser, a few basic elements of the Queen's accent. And this
is basically a guy from Queens, who's raised in Queens, he's
always been from Queens. He's never been accepted in
Manhattan. And he does what the people in the outer boroughs do.
They exaggerate, they lie. Hey, I've been waiting two weeks for
a cup of coffee as the example they give. And does somebody
come out and say, Oh, my God, he's a liar. He said he's waited
two weeks, he's only been waiting 10 minutes.
Well, this was what President Obama was very good at is every
word that came out of his mouth was he was like a robot. You
know, he knew how we could backup every single word. And
that's why he was boring unless he was telling written jokes.
And boy could he deliver. But he was good. Yeah, good. Fantastic
comedic timing. And this may be the point where I remind
everybody I haven't done this usually do it once a year. I
haven't done this in a while. Just look for the Zen TV
experiment. The Zen TV experiment. It'll take you a
little bit just go through it. It'll take you about 30 minutes.
And it's just a couple of very simple steps. You can you can
easily bring it you'll be you'll be able to find a thing
about that. Dynamite.
You know what, that you know, what's crazy about that you
think somebody would give us work just to do these things for
them. That's actually
a Microsoft Bing commercial, apparently is apparently never
aired.
Of course.
There's three of them. Hold on. It's the COVID that was called
the Bing tone that's what it was called. They did a whole
campaign for a Bing tone. Here's another one a Bing
bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing
bing bing bing bing.
Somebody somebody has a clue. Yeah, but
then of course, they had to take it away because you know, oh,
this is no good.
Thing Thing. Thing thing like this One thing Thing, Thing,
Thing, Thing thing thing.
I think that's the best one.
It's catchy. It's got a nice rhythm to it. It's
very catchy. Joe Tapper. Yes, sir. It is a toe Tapper. Indeed.
Anyway, being it the Zen TV experiment, by the way, I love
one of the many things I love about the show is let me just
tell you how much I love the show. Despite my now increasing
hatred of technology. Yeah, I really love doing the show, you
know, even though we're basically already paid, you
know, because of that, screw it, we'll do it and I'll do it on
Sunday. And when everything's broken, you know, we'll figure
it out another time. Yeah, we really want to do the show.
Unlike you know, I've nothing against let's say, train
conductor. I would use driving the train that guy, but if the
trains broken, I'm sure he's like to have another cup of
coffee. He doesn't care about driving the train. We care about
doing the show.
Well, that's a reference that eludes me.
The train Guy Yeah, I was just trying to think what kind of guy
wouldn't care if if he showed up to work and he couldn't work but
he still got paid?
Oh, a train guy. Yeah, yeah. A train guy. Yeah, exactly. I'm
kisses boring. You know? Yeah. So you going along going on?
Well, you get to do very rarely but once in a while you get to
go usually through a residential area to in the morning, if
you're BNSF.
Yeah. Yeah, there. We have it in Austin. They come to Austin to
and they're quite loud.
Alright, well, yeah, we're good. gold. Golden Globes. Ah, yes.
Now. I thought I don't have any clips. I don't know if you have
any. I have to Okay, good. I thought that I saw SAS monologue
was pretty good.
I thought it was insulting. And I'm gonna I'm gonna play the
part you played, preapproved previewed it. This is Seth
Meyers. I think he's being incredibly condescending, and
insulting. The people who actually put these movies
together. The people that have to work their asses off on these
very low pay. By the way, their makeup artist, typical makeup
artist doesn't get paid much. A lot of people to wardrobe people
get paid very little. And then for him to say what he says
here. This is a systemized idea that this is the American dream,
I thought was incredibly insensitive.
If you're watching at home, and you see everyone in their
tuxedos and gowns, this looks like a room of privileged
Hollywood elite. And that's fair. But everyone in this room
knows that Hollywood is so much more than that. When you're on a
film set. You meet hairdressers and camera people in script
supervisors. Most of the jobs on film sets are jobs for people
who work long, hard hours, they are American dream jobs. Those
people aren't there those people aren't there and thanks to their
rich dad, except for that one, PA. Okay.
I was really talking about the jokes because the joke about the
PA I thought was pretty funny. If you're talking about an
industry event that go on
well, I'm just thinking what he said there was it was just sent
a condescending it that it was in and we have the little people
and they have their American dream jobs and we don't want to
forget about them. Let's have a little
you know, I took this, the first thing that triggered in my mind
was, oh, maybe a lot of these dreamers are working on film
sets. That was that's exactly what I thought. Well, it might
be true. I don't know.
The other thing that I mean, I there's a lot of stuff you could
have taken from this. I thought the awards generally. I did
figure something out is that a lot of these movies, I mean, the
number of movies that were nominated and the ones that were
ignored, especially the tentpole pictures they've gotten to the
point I thought about this. Why are the tentpole pictures pretty
much given nothing, then we'll get anything he'll get an award
for there's some action x actors have some different kinds of
things that go on in these big movies. The Bigs you know that
Thor movies was to have this some of the best special effects
ever seen.
Well, this I can explain. This comes right down to the
controversy about Marky Mark and Williams,
because well, I actually said you want to change a little bit.
I want to go actually, I want to change. I'm gonna hold off. I
have that clip. Okay, because my version of that because it ties
together what you just said. Why are the tentpole pictures? Why
don't they get any awards?
I mean, let's play okay, this is related to the Golden Globes.
Let's play it. I've got the Wahlberg Williams unanswered
questions.
Next night, the new uproar over unequal pay just days after
declaring time's up at the Golden Globes, a new report
tonight about Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams. Both
reshooting scenes for a movie one paid $80 A day The other
getting a reported 1.5 million for the callback. Here's ABC
pilgrim
tonight backlash over an alleged massive gender wage gap during
the emergency reshoot for the kidnapping drama all the money
in the world. After sexual misconduct allegations surfaced
against Kevin Spacey, director Ridley Scott pulled spacey from
the movie and hurriedly reshot his scenes. Oh Scott reportedly
saying all the actors agreed to return to work for free.
And I said not only would I but I'll give you back my salary, if
that would help. And I'll give you my Thanksgiving break if
that would help
USA Today. Now reporting Michelle Williams, nominated for
a Golden Globe for her role in the film did the reshoot for
just 80 bucks a day, while Mark Wahlberg team negotiated a $1.5
million fee. And that Williams, who was represented by the same
agency, as Wahlberg wasn't told she'd be making less than 1% of
her male co stars fee on Twitter comedian Billy Eichner calling
it shameful director Judd Apatow writes, This is so messed up
that it's almost hard to believe, almost daily, the
source close to the production says the distributor Sony had
nothing to do with pay negotiations. No comment from
Wahlberg's reps or Williams? David,
thank you. Okay, I have some thoughts here. That just tying
back into the previous topic, the film industry is
embarrassed. And most of them are very left. They're
embarrassed about their riches. And so they're always that's
where all a lot of this political correctness comes
from. And so they offset that with prestige. And this is why
you see all these British actors winning our Oscars and our our
Golden Globes, is, you know, they need to continue to fill
that with prestige. And this is about the art and that Oh, yes,
well, we might get paid a lot, but it's a lost art. And if you
read any story about Williams that consistently say she
deserves, if anything, she deserves twice the amount of
money Marky Mark made, because she has been she's a four time
Oscar nominee, you see. And so it's part of this embarrassment,
and I'm pretty sure I know. I know for sure that Mark Wahlberg
snubbed Obama many times about some things he may be Republican
for all I know, I don't think it might be I don't think he came
out and said, Go Hillary. So but he is he's a producer. This guy
is not just some dude, who's an actor. I've read many pieces.
Just saying, Well, you know, it's only a big part. Basically,
it's not a, you know, he, he doesn't have he's never been
nominated for an Oscar. It's just, it's like, Oh, my God.
They're so full of crap. Everybody understands
that? We know they're full of crap. By the way, before you go
on with the spiel. I do have to before we get too far away from
the clip. Don't you think they should have mentioned what the
agency was? They both had the same agency? And I
couldn't find it anywhere. I know exactly. I mean, I'd looked
it up if I looked up who was just one
of the big boys, but it's embarrassing to see one of the
agencies and they wouldn't and what kind of reporting is it
down to? That's the first thing Oh, who was it?
Right? Yeah, you'd like to know. Well, that's another thing, you
know, oh, they can't say because they don't want to get into all
kinds of trouble and want to have access anymore to any
celebrities. This is exactly this is exactly what's
happening. He had it in his contract reshoots have cost you
money. He hasn't in every contract this. I had an agent in
Hollywood once. And I remember very specifically all you know,
we always put in there. It's paid to play you know, so even
if you even if you're not used or any of that you still get
paid. There's no money for reshoots. Now, and he just said,
No, you know, I don't even know how it went down. They say yeah,
reshoots is in the contract. This is what this is what it'll
cost you. I'm thinking what Haha, I'm going to screw the
movie. And you know, and maybe he did. So what ever but you
know, to tie this back into the Oscars and how Hollywood is
rediscovering itself and fixing all these issues. And time's up.
I think you're I think you're right about all that. And I
think there's this situation where I was just wondering who
the Asians were because they she, you're right, he probably
had a better contract. And she did. Yeah. And she's
volunteering to give up this and that and as you know, whose
fault is that? But get back to the tent pole thing? I don't
think it I don't think it's any of this. I think what you're,
you know, it's nice to project that maybe they have a guilty
conscience. And so the billion dollar movies that you're
pushing, you know, the first billion dollar movie and then
the second one now we did a billion we're going to be doing
2 billion and putting 500 million into making the movie
and all the rest of it. They don't put any of these movies on
the awards. Because it guilt things because
what do you think, screeners
they can't afford All right. Oh, yeah, good point.
What happens in the underground is that at this time a year, all
you find is DVD screeners and these are the screeners that
these guys get during the system. During the system, you
get screeners and they there's guys out there that can take all
the Goldwater marks off the screeners and take the little
message at the bottom with the 800 number. I've got screeners
too. And they just take all that off, they clean it up, and they
put it right into the underground and pirates Bay has
the movie. Good quality, not a stupid cam movie, which are
useless. That can be tentpole movies do have no screeners out
there. Yeah. Because they they can't they can't
afford to. Yeah, you're right. That's a very, very good point.
So it's just the opposite of what you said. Because it's not
about it's about the greed. It's about the grid, they want more
money.
So, yes, and then they cover that up with all of this
prestige. Exactly. Then it's a very indecent business. And
it's, it's always been an indecent business should be no
surprise anybody. So this is just what it is.
If you read about the movie business in the 20s, and 30s,
especially Disney go read up on Disney.
It's the same thing.
I read somewhere that I believe the actual accusers like McGowan
and a couple other of Harvey Weinstein, they weren't even
invited to the award ceremony. Yeah, and instead and this look
plan to me, I didn't do any good chance. I didn't do any research
into it. But looking at the red carpet, because I love the red
carpet, I watch ease red carpet coverage, and I switch back and
forth. And a lot of a lot of the nominated actresses had I'm
going to tell you my impression, and I'm probably gonna piss some
people off with it. But a lot of these actresses had an activist
with them I guess with some I don't know who initiated it, but
like Yeah, and you know, everyone bring an activist with
you and they were all being interviewed on the red carpet.
And it felt so contrived to me like I'm to believe that you've
been working with this person all your life or you've been
very involved in their cause. I think a lot of them some of the
possibly but most of them it just seems like they they you
know, been given a briefing they met them probably met him a
couple times, but may not have been working with him for a long
time. And it was it was a very scripted type of deal. Did you
see any of that any of the red carpet covered?
I did not. I don't watch that.
You know what it really looked like it looked like bring your
Negro to work day. That's yeah, it was really insulting. It was
really insulting. I felt like because it was every activist
was black, a black woman. And I just didn't seem like it was
sincere. I was
a world of being a phony.
Yeah, yeah. It's make believe world. Yes.
So here's the one here's the one set scene that got my attention
the most because it was like, this was like a total WTF kind
of what what is this and why? Why are we looking at this and
why are they doing this? And this is the WTF Golden Globes in
the rock.
With the jungle, Dwayne Johnson, along with Simone Garcia
Johnson.
All right. As part of the 75th anniversary of the Golden
Globes, the hfpa is creating a new Honor. Golden Globe
ambassador with an expanded role that embodies the hfpa year
round philanthropic efforts. Throughout my personal and
professional life. I'm surrounded by brilliant and
strong women. Ladies and gentlemen, I am thrilled to
introduce the first ever Ambassador my 16 year old
daughter, Simone Garcia Johnson. Simone, I am so incredibly proud
of you.
I want to thank my parents and I'm so honor the hfpa selected
me to be the first ambassador. I look forward to working with
global NGO media, an organization that works to
empower young women from underserved communities and new
media journalism.
Yeah, that was if anything, that
was awkward, awkward. It was ridiculous. Some 16 year old
comes out they give her more time to talk didn't have the
people accepting awards. Why Why does she get this? Why does she
get this honor? Because she's the rock a 16
Yeah, back to back to our entire conversation. The rock is not
going to get an award. Did you get an award?
No, of course not. He does attend polls.
So how do you offset that? No, you let his daughter do
something for the foundation. Come on. This is this is exactly
what we're talking about thing is so corrupt. Disgusting. I was
a
part of it. Well, never really part of the movie business. But
oh, yeah, it's completely corrupt door. Anyway, the best
part was no doubt I want him now. I want Oprah to be
president. I will do another 1000 shows
She comes down and lectures everybody that all we hear about
on every little talk show the next day from the real the talk
the Jew, the Jews is still behind so it wasn't a Jew, but
all the rest of it all the daytime, all pro Oprah, Oprah,
Oprah, Oprah. And then even when they had the mudslides in
Montecito Santa Barbara County got ruined by mudslides more and
more more news yeah more Oprah she's walking around in a mud we
don't know if her houses are really destroyed because they
never kind of they kind of beat around the bush or show I didn't
ever see it. You know it's just like she's just walking around.
But yeah, grilling not not.
Oh, come on. Just from a show from a show perspective is
not running in a million years. Al talked about it the next day
on the on the CBS Morning Show and
just to since I'm on the shortlist anyway, what's wrong
with Stedman mean? He looks like he's had a stroke and he just
kind of looks like Bush Senior only younger, I just know what
he's like his mouth is hanging half open
like some guy and when
Oprah got up he did the right thing and he escorts are halfway
you know, kind of like here to the first rung of that.
They had some goons by the bottom of the stairs for all the
women finally Yeah, one of our gripes the stairs one of our
gripes one of Yeah, perpetual Greg, because your way unless
you want to see one of these gals tumbled down the stairs,
you know, head over heels, which would be funny.
That's not funny. Oh, no press president.
Oprah is precious. I do a pratfall. It could be
Oprah as president. Oh, God, I just it's the stuff dreams are
made up.
Well, the rock wants to run for president too. It's going to be
funny to see who thinks they're going to get anywhere. I mean,
Hillary is going to run again, which I think is the most
interesting of the group. Yeah. I get to feel that Hillary's and
behind the scenes going, you guys promised me the presidency.
It was part of the system. I was supposed to be next. So I'm
running again until I get this job,
right. Like the Energizer Bunny.
Well, right. So what did you think of that? Event? Overall?
Had boring?
Yeah, it was pretty boring. There wasn't there was no real
controversial stuff that anyone said. There was and everyone
wore black. You said to one woman who won the award for that
movie. Yeah,
there was kind of a funny story. I
would Tanya movie has a funny story in the Dutch press.
There's this
used to be a singer. And I know him quite well. Gordon. He
doesn't have a last name just Gordon like Madonna. Raging
queen. Yeah, he's probably about 230 pounds you know, six feet
tall, big guy kind of bearish like guy. And he's just he's
really Queenie all the time and he's on you know, every game
show every talk show. You know, we want to you know, you know
the kind of person I'm talking about. I don't know that
reference, but it's funny. I'll take your word for it. Like
Bruno from Dancing with the Stars. That's a
lot of these guys that just do it. They play the Queen game
constantly. So they do
so he had this big thing. I'm going to the Oscars and of
course I'll be covering it for show news. Which means show News
asked Hey, would you like to go stand on the red carpet and
interview people because he obviously didn't have a seat
inside but that's how it's played off in the press and you
know he's a love them or hate it guy. And so he shows up in you
know, with this all this fanfare and you know, the televising
some of this in a red like Eddie Murphy, red jumpsuit, made a
leather and
that was of course, the feather bowl at the top it almost it
was completely inappropriate when he because he didn't he
literally did not get the memo about everybody go black. So
he's looked like a real douche. That's funny.
Yeah, that is funny. Yeah. Let's see. All right. Well,
okay. We have a couple of things. One of the things the
big breaking news, of course, is the wolf book.
Yes. Now, first, I'd like to say although I replied immediately
and said thanks, it wasn't until several hours later that I
realized when a producer sent both you and I a copy of this
book through email that I realized that it had been you
know, copied, repurpose published and was being
circulated very it was going viral on the internet. And you
know, my stance about this, you know, I thought oh, the books
not even available or whatever someone sending me that happens
from time to time I typically buy the book anyway on to read
on Kindle. If you know these PDFs, that it's not always that
easy to read as a book format. But to me, I believe you're
better. Yeah. But I believe that a majority of liberals and
Democrats stole this book and read and distributed. I mean, I
saw a lot of evidence of this on the face bag. Tada, look at this
read this. Here it is finally it's here with complete
disregard for ownership and intellectual property. And it
kind of pissed me off.
Well, it's not as though the book didn't sell a lot. I have
no idea that there's contrary theories. I'm going to chime in
here. Okay. There's contrary theories about this. Nobody
wants their stuff stolen. And as a writer, I can say that and I
don't want my stuff stolen. But there's lots of evidence that
when something goes into the public domain, like that sales
actually increase.
I'm not going to argue. Now I know, I know of this evidence.
But it's more about the concept.
Yeah, the constant like I understand what you're saying,
and especially the HIPAA.
Hackers. Yeah. hypocrisy of it. Yes. That's really what I was
taught.
That's what you're bitching about. Really? Yeah. Like, it's
that money out of Wolf's pocket. Let's put it that. But
I just want to reiterate, I pay for my content. You know, I do I
say no, I say no, I don't want the stolen thing. Just bought.
Yeah, I
don't blame you. Because that's how I live.
That's how you live. This is how so let's take a look. So you
would so if somebody sent you a free computer, you wouldn't
take it. That has nothing to do with intellectual property. John
does
a lot of intellectual property in a computer. Let me tell you
okay, but a computer you have. It's not
I'm just wondering.
It's not the same thing. Is it stolen? Is it a stolen computer?
No, I don't want it. Okay,
well, if it was stolen.
It's it goes into a lot of debate. Let's go and look at the
book though. Okay, this book, I didn't realize it. He was a wolf
came on Colbert. I know, Wolf. I've never met him. But I know
his work. And I know what he does. He's good. But he, but
this book is just a book of dimension B stuff done by a guy
stuck in dimension B. And coming from a dimension B attitude. And
then when you think about his methodology, which he describes,
here, you go, Oh my God, there's no way that any of this this
could all be just bullcrap, which he admits might be true.
But he says the Colbert that is, you have to read it as though
it's all true. Are you gonna miss the point? I guess? Okay.
Well, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No, I'm sorry. Because that you, you
hit it just right.
Okay. Well, you said in this
in the foreword of this, you say want to get this right, you say?
But your authors say, you eventually after going through
all your materials settled on a version of events, I believe to
be true. What does that mean? It means it's the Trump White
House, everybody is telling you different stories. Let's put it
this way. Everybody is lying in their own particular way.
Because that's what you do in the Trump White House. I had to
go and take whatever the event was, find as many people as I
could, and then use my judgment.
So use it's just a judgment call as to what stories to include.
Well, what version of stories to include, in other words, in
other words, there's a story in the book between a fight between
Steve Bannon and Banyan and they run down there running down the
halls of the West Wing, in the, into the Oval Office. And I got
to pretty different accounts there from one side and from the
other. So then I went to other people and thought, Okay, I know
these people well enough. I think I'm competent. I've got
it. Who did it, I get it. It was a combination, you would have to
believe neither of them in these in this situation. So some, you
know, okay, this is the hope side and this sort of seems
true. This is the abandoned side. This sort of seems true.
No, this is the this is the Trump White House. So everybody
I mean they're they would kill each other. You have two
fundamental, these two sides, who would be each other's
assassins if they could be. So therefore, how do you get the
truth out of out of the out of one side telling you one thing
one side telling it telling you the other
before you even say anything? I cannot believe that we went
through two minutes on a late night talk show without at least
two funny interjections by the host. This is ruining late night
television.
Well, that's the way Jack Paar used to do it too. So look where
that got him. Let's remind ourselves of what I'm going to
talk about by playing the wolf So which I believe is the
premise for the book.
Let's put it this way everybody is lying in their own particular
way, because that's what you do in the Trump White House. So,
yeah, you know, hold us just Stop, just stop. I'm gonna give
you a clip at the end of this
clip. Thank you. Because
that is got you nailed it. You totally nailed it.
So if the premise is everybody's a liar, yeah. And your dimension
B person, you're going to see what you want to see as the
truth.
I mean, he's, he's, he's actually right on the money.
He's saying there's two dimensions, A and B, and
everyone's lying. And what he thinks he could do was straddle
and take it all in from both sides and make an honest
judgment between the two dimensions. not realize is
that premises? Yeah, it's impossible. And his own premise
that everybody's a liar. Just belies the his his whole thesis
of of being able to pull the stunt off when it is a stunt by
the way. Yeah. And so he goes in there with dimension B, in his
heart, believes everybody's just the lying a hole, takes what he
wants, puts it together and creates a narrative that the
White House says is bullcrap. And I believe it, he himself, it
is bullcrap. It's a bullcrap book. Yeah. There's some funny
stories in there, but it's still bullcrap.
So you haven't read it or just read a little bit of it. I
only read two pieces of it. I, you know,
wasn't entertaining. He's a good writer. That's not my question.
Well, a good writer makes it entertaining. Yes, totally
entertaining. Okay,
so the way he answered the question is it's entertained.
Totally entertaining. He's a good writer. Yeah, yeah, he is.
Well, I have a clip to actually where he talks about the you
know, the stuff you mentioned in your intro to the Colbert clip.
But I thought this was funnier if you understand the context of
it. This is Wolf being interviewed by Katy Tur. Now,
why is this interesting?
This is where you go. I know.
Why? Because she has a book out about Trump. Oh, and no one
killed her no one gives a crap about her book at the moment.
And she's pissed about it. So the context of this
happens a lot by the way, exploit this I just slipped by
with I'm now I'm anticipating this clip as being great.
It's it's so yeah, I mean, with that context in mind, I thought
this was fun.
Tom barrack is saying that he's misquoted. Katie Walsh is saying
she's misquoted. Are they all long?
Because you know that she had footnotes and source every she
seems like one of those anal people completely sourced every
little bit and
she's the sorority girl days and it's not a scholarship, this
sorority girl of the journos. Exactly, exactly.
They are all lying. I mean, they are all you know, they're in a
situation. I mean, we're in a situation now where Donald Trump
has come to think that this book is a mortal threat. I don't know
if it is or it isn't. But he certainly feels that way. And he
is making demands on everybody. You know, I know I hear through
the grapevine that you know that Katie Walsh's job is, is is at
issue now and which i i regret and even that she's not really
saying that I misquoted her she's saying that. She was
quoting something like she was quoting Steve Bannon who said
he's a child. Everybody says he's a child, in fact. So we're
having people are scrambling and they are panicked, which I
absolutely understand. Nobody saw this book coming. Nobody saw
that it would
be that Mustang when she hears that, like, nobody saw this book
coming like so. You know, that's why no one's buying yours, Katie
Turner, she must go.
I think he's she's definitely turned on her. Because when he
was on Colbert, I didn't clip this. But he said that he didn't
think the book was going to be as big a hit as it become and
told the publishers that they were printing too many. Really?
Yeah. So he has a negative attitude about the book, in this
case, which he what he's doing with her, which I don't know if
it came before or afterwards, I think he I think you're exactly
right. He's giving her the needle top. Exactly. Because
she's she questioning him in such a way that it's like, okay,
you want to play that game? I can do it. That's exactly what's
happened.
Who said he's a child. Everybody says it's a trial, in fact.
So that's not a fact. The In fact, you know, not everybody
just can't be as impossible. That's a fact.
We're having people are scrambling and they are
panicked, which I absolutely understand. Nobody saw this book
coming. Nobody saw that it would be as as big as it see. seems to
be and everybody has caught a deer caught in the headlights
you have tapes? Are you going to release the tapes? No
I'm going to do I have what every journal
Why would we Why would I do something like release on my
tapes man that'd be just
stopped for say he addressed this on Colbert to Uh huh And on
Colbert he said hey, I'm in the writing business I'm not in the
tape business
this is what's interesting because he's gonna use that same
excuse except then he then he compares himself to a journalist
it's like he goes back and I'm I'm a writer and then no one
I've worked product listen to
nobody saw that it would be as as big as it seems to be and in
everybody is caught a deer caught in the headlights you
have tapes? Are you going to release the tapes? No, I'm
going to do you know I have what every journalist I work like
like every journalist I have taped I have notes are
questioning it
why not produce you
notice that now he says as a journalist right, just so you
know, he switched stripes their
evidence? Because because that's not what what you're I'm not I'm
not in your business. I know. Now he's not in your business.
But is the book read the book? If it makes sense to you? If it
strikes a chord that rings true? It is true. Here's the thing.
I love that if it rings true it is true. Confirmation bias
confirmation bias exemplified by this guy isn't that beautiful?
It's fantastic. That is a great little quote within his
left eye so that remind me to I saw that that's a good
view. I you know, I have what every journalist I work like,
like every journalist. Before I
get this, I want to get this thought out of the way. That is
exactly why hoaxes work. They ring true, but they're not true.
Exactly.
We're questioning it. Why not produce the evidence?
Because because that's not what what you're I'm not I'm not in
your business. I my evidence is the book. Read the book, if it
makes sense to you,
who was that infomercial? Read the book. Remember that
infomercial? No, I don't. There was an infomercial. And it was,
it was maybe it was about UFOs about strange things. Now I'm
talking 80s. And throughout the whole thing was like, ever
wondered about area 51. And this one was go read the book.
thinks they should still work.
While he's doing it right here.
I'm not I'm not in your business. I my evidence is the
book. Read the book, if it makes sense to you, if it strikes a
chord if it rings true, it is true.
Here's the troll rumors saying that that was a Dianetics
commercial. And that may be right.
I don't know maybe but I just go back to what he just said to
her. This was an opportunity for her to do what I just did and
ask about hoaxes and other things. Just because it's
something rings true. Doesn't mean it is true. She he says if
it rings true, it is true. She should have jumped all over that
what is she doing? She's
too caught up with the fact that it's not her book. That's what
she's not. She's thinking how can I discredit this guy? I
mean, she's not doing it on purpose, probably. But she's
vengeful, she's really
drugged down. This is dropping the ball big time. Exactly.
Evidence is the book, read the book, if it makes sense to you,
if it strikes a chord that rings true, it is true.
If it strikes a quiff. I mean, this guy's all over the map.
And I read it I a lot of the stuff did read as at felt didn't
feel true. There were a lot of factual errors as well. We're
living in a time with with this president where everybody's
factual errors. I you know, you get pinned on this because
everybody's
errors, and I wrote a book about Donald Trump. So
I mixed up with Mark Berman or vice versa. CNN was not the one
who released the the dossier that
is absolutely completely untrue. No,
not now. She's doing what we in Holland call and fucking, she's
like, Well, you had this name wrong. And it wasn't CNN who
released it first. You know, these are very simple facts. You
could verify the fact check files, files, check false.
CNN reported CNN. CNN was first on that story. They reported on
it, but they didn't release. Okay, we're talking about this.
Do you see the low level that she's at? With this?
She's a very brand versus BuzzFeed. We know BuzzFeed
released
at a very low level of English.
This is an association thing. I've seen this done before and
is the ideas good? She had her opportunity when she dropped the
ball on the if it rings true, it is true. I mean, that is just so
she just drops the ball on that now she's going and get
nitpicking and nitpicking is like yes, you try to do that. To
show that oh, he's inaccurate about this day. Are for he's
Nagar about everything right? Oh, you made this mistake.
Therefore you may everything's a mistake. I get letters from
people because I write something and I make a little miss error
or small errors some sort of, well, I know I can't believe
anything you say. So she's trying to do pull that off,
which you can't do especially with this guy who is sharper
than she is.
Yeah. much sharper. She's just playing in a very low level. And
isn't it interesting that in the Netherlands, it's very accepted
to say and fucking and it's literally the translation. Yeah,
and you can say that in a business meeting. You can never
say that here. We know we have nitpicking
and nitpicking. CNN was first on this,
by the way, stop. I hate to keep interrupt. That's fine. This is
great. This is too much fun picking nitpicking is a much
better term. Because you can't really you can't fucking and is
not possible. But you do. Pick the Oh, this one right here. Let
me get it. Let me get it. So nitpicking is a much superior
term. I think the Dutch is like saying and fucking.
I have no argument.
Right? They reported on it, but they didn't release the book.
Okay, we're talking about? No, but that's my point. We're told
that's the level that we're talking about.
I understand that. But as somebody who wrote a book about
Donald, I was really cautious that every single fact in there
was correct, because
I'm the sorority of the journey. Because you just you're just not
good. You're not good. Getting a good
delts dry delts and
triceps. Oh, time code. Hold on. I love you, man. You're the gift
that keeps on giving. So I didn't know what the hell I was
gonna say about that. She is
you're calling her out for being the sorority sister. That's just
all upset about some things. She's you know, she's got her
panties in a bunch.
I know. It's it comes right back to she is here. It's with the
Oscars and the money. I made sure. Yeah. She is like, I did
the work. I'm a journal. Try delts go. And I deserve to have
the success. But you schmuck. You know you Will Smith of
journalism. You Marky Mark
of cable news. Yeah, you
get more money than me. You're just not that good. You're not
and she did all the work. She did put all the it's just like
get get the willingness girl when she says I'll give them my
Thanksgiving. And yes, I'm
good. I'm a social justice warrior.
Yeah, because she didn't she made sure everything every fact
was correct.
And believe me, she said to all her friends. I'm really not
doing this for the money. I'm doing it because it's what needs
to be done. It's important for the future of our country. Now,
she probably said this country instead of our country.
I digress. Somebody who wrote a book about Donald Trump, I was
really cautious that every single fact in there was
correct, because I didn't want anybody to say your book isn't
true. Because look at this tiny little thing. So did you have a
fact checker go through?
We had actually three fact checkers, but this is I
go Yeah, you think you had a fact checker Missy? I had three
fact checkers. Is this guy gay?
I you know, I can't I don't pick it up that he is he might be but
he's throwing stuff. But I
doubt that was bitchy. That was like I had three fact checkers.
Well, I think I actually doubt it. I don't know any well, maybe
I missed possible but why is the whole thing was ad lib and
they should have picked up on a few of these little mistakes. If
they were three fact checkers. Yes. Yeah,
another opportunity miss. She should have said well, they
didn't do a very good job. Exactly.
I absolutely had actually three fact checkers but this is I
listen, I stand by why open
yourself up. It's my question.
Why open yourself up? I'm because I wouldn't do that. I
understand what
as I'm, as I say wallet up first.
I think it is said come on in money.
Actually, if you read the book, I think it is abundantly clear
and you just have to just have to read the book.
She's she's she's now she's crying.
I love this. This is great. Yeah.
First of all, I mean, I think it is actually if you read the
book, I think it is abundantly clear and you just have to, but
there are just have to read the book when some when an author
writes a book. It's a that's a that's a it's a very
significant a huge thing. I know, because I put my life into
it in thing.
Here's the evidence. It's the book. I read the book. I agree
and you should read the book. 100 bucks this idea that that
let's
Why did she say you should read the book? I agree. She's saying
that to him. I think what she means is Yeah, you should read
the book, my book. I think that's what she's saying to him
there. She's saying that to the audience. She looking right at
him, she's looking right at
me. She's saying it to the audience.
That's a very significant thing. Here's the evidence. It's the
book. I read the book. I agree. And you should read the book 100
bucks this idea that that. So, let's, let's go dret and address
the idea of tapes. I have. Everything that I do has been,
has been has been specifically, closely sourced. That's what we
do. We take notes, would you show your reporting? Now he's a
reporter again, murder? Would you open your notes to the
world? That's, you know, there's it's called work product.
Is that what it's called John work product?
Did I know of I O. And those people don't want to open their
notes, because they're also careless.
I love some work product in the guest bathroom this morning.
And then and that turns into a book if I were in the television
business, and that's what we do. We have cameras, audio.
That's what we do. Now. He's in the television business. We
wrote a book.
That's one thing. I'm a writer, I'm now he's a writer, a writer.
This is a Incredibly, this is a written story. I've told a
story. So the story, you know, just read it. If you if you
think if you think it's if you don't think it's true, which 35%
of the country is not going to think it's true that Donald
Trump
31 these bogus numbers,
this? Yeah, you got 35% of the country is nuts are idiots. And
that's and that's crappy, because they're all buying my
book. You know, if I were him, I would have added to the end. And
I'm also very proud to say it's already been optioned for a
movie, just to just to press the needle in a little further.
That would have been a great one that he I don't think he has the
opening for it. I think listening to the way he wrapped
it. I don't think he quite had the ecatalog earlier. I think he
could have done that. But that you're right that would be
putting that's twisting the knife. Knees at the end of his
little gun is bitch, bitch.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage to say the
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Devorah Sorry, I wasn't prepared.
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Got a couple of little offbeat stories. One of them I wanted to
add. This seems like there. There's a really new idea I may
be it just a coincidence that actually happened but I thought
it might have been sweetened to get your attention might be
something we can use in the future. And it came out the end
of this flu report. I want to play the flu ABC. This is the
flu story and then I'm going to play Eisah which happened to
slightly after the story is over.
Up on the hill, Mary Thanks as always, we're going to turn next
here to the deadly flu outbreak across this country. From a 21
year old son he was an aspiring trainer to a 19 month old boy
both dying from the flu among many victims, the earliest and
most severe in years. But disease now spreading across 46
states hospitalizations doubling in just a week. So why is it so
powerful this year and if you get the flu shot now, how soon
before it helps? Here's ABCs Gio Benitez.
Tonight a dangerous strain of the flu is hitting the nation
hard. The CDC says the h three and to strain is causing one of
the worst seasons in recent history.
This virus answer effect. older peoples are over 65 and very
young under year
19 month old Nathaniel Downey of Toledo, Ohio, died Monday from
the flu The family says he suddenly started coughing and
within an hour couldn't breathe. Even the seemingly fit can be
affected. This 21 year old aspiring to be a personal
trainer died. The family says a simple cold turned into a
serious flu. We showed his photo to the doctor. He says cases
like these are very rare and he needs to know more. But that any
age group can catch the flu
certainly are an awful and scary story. And when you're looking
at the overall numbers and of people in his age group, this
person isn't necessarily at increased risk of adverse
outcomes.
Tonight, the CDC still urging people to get the flu shot even
though it's only estimated to be 30% effective against this
year's main flu strain.
And Gio Benitez Outside Mount Sinai Hospital here in New York
City where doctors say they're seeing a spike in flu cases and
Gio two experts think wild temperature changes that we've
seen across this country hurting our immunity when it comes to
fighting the flu. And the other question we're getting from a
lot of people is if you get the flu shot now, how soon before it
takes effect?
You know, David in fact, experts are actually trying to figure
out if there's any relationship between the flu and those
extreme temperature changes but you know what, regardless, they
say get that flu shot. It's not too late to get it they say it
takes about two weeks to be fully effective. So the sooner
the veteran
Benitez Okay, now there's you know, this is just trying to get
rid of this stalks of useless flu
shots. I just say something as an aside both of my sister
There's one living in the Netherlands one living in in
Italy have also been struck by the flu. Yeah, it's all over the
world. It's global man.
It's a it's a it's a bad strain and I would hope that everybody
especially no agenda listeners would have pre ordered Relenza
if you're doing this. Well, Relenza or Tamiflu. Relenza is
the is the is the is a harder to use product and I'm not sure I
like it better. But if
you had Why is it why is it harder to use? Because it's a
powder that you inhale? Yeah, but you don't inhale it that
way. You have to have it's just a special device and you have to
poke it and as power comes in, you have to breathe it in. And
because it goes into the lungs, the idea not up your nose at all
right? And it's, it's so it's a little more difficult. I think
it is more effective. And it makes more sense to me that
Relenza, but either one Relenza or Tamiflu, you should always
have this in your cupboard and when you have for one, one
package for everyone in the family, and if the flu comes on
you just you know you There you go and you're going to be fine,
which we did when we went to England I think everyone caught
the flu in some form or other and we all didn't we just kind
of floated through it because it's not that much of a problem
if you're prepared. Right But anyway, back to the story.
That's a good tip. It is a good tip. I think people should take
it serious don't
take the flu shot that's for sure don't do that
obviously doesn't work. So what good is it and it also gives you
overconfidence so even if you take the flu shot you should
have the time to
wash your hands wash your hands a lot.
So here's the this is the very end of the this the ISO the end
of this segment, they they transition to something else and
I'm wondering you can hear it there is a little piece of
sweetening in here or perhaps this actually occurred but I
think it sounds great. It really brings your attention to this to
this story.
So the sooner the better. Benitez and we'll stay on this
flew in the meantime we turn next tonight to the outrage
after a
Yeah of course. Yeah, now I have an alternate version of that.
Okay, here we go.
So the sooner the veteran
Benitez and we'll stay on this flew Next tonight to the outrage
after it
that's how they're guessing I was guessing you to do the
missile launch.
Now the donkey donkey is the new missile my friend. Donkey is the
new missile. I caught something very, you know, the all over the
educational stuff. And so people sent me a lot of interesting
things ever since the DoD report that we did talking about the
deliberate dumbing down of the American education system.
There's a lot of interesting data points as to you know,
what's happening with the with the labor market with jobs, what
jobs are paying the most money, and this was on Fox, I think Fox
Business. This is a the Anthony Anthony Rinaldi, Anthony
Rinaldi, and he's a construction guy in New York, you know,
construction guy. And so they're talking about labor rates. And
you know, actually, it's interesting that we're talking
about unions or non unions with the Javits Center, but this is
about construction and wages. And, you know, the type of labor
that is needed in New York City, New
York City that unionized I would take it right. Both, both and,
believe it or not, there's there's, there's a lot of work
going on in New York City, people don't realize it today,
over 80% of the permits being pulled today are being pulled on
non union projects. Really, really what this is New York
City, but what kind of and this is part of the demand. Well,
this is part of the demand,
what kind of hourly wage are you're looking at here for a
skilled steel guy?
It all depends if you're talking union or non union. Union,
skilled guys could be over $100 an hour. operator operating
engineers, I'll give you a reality. Operating Engineers,
these guys are making $400,000 a year,
an operating engineer would be a crane crane operator crane
operator, Karina $400,000 A year 400,000 minimal
manual,
what would you get in Miami?
I'm gonna say probably Miami there in 250,000. But
you can't employ just somebody off the street who says yeah, I
can drive that.
Engineers is a different it's a different skill set. 100% But
we're trained like that I would have thought that labor would be
pouring in go to trade schools or something but get qualified
for that kind of money.
Well, you know what it is? It's the work is booming. I mean,
there's so much work going on right now. There's just not
enough bodies to fill it.
How about that?
Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.
You know, $100,000 Well, I
knew that I mean, that's the guys over in Oakland that run
those giant cranes, they get that kind of they get like 250
or 300,000 a year. But those things are hard to operate.
They're really take an extra It
this is this is labor supply that drives wages. I have a
feeling that is not always been the I mean, just not going to
$100 an hour for some guys. It's really been that way for quite a
while. Right but yet everyone wants to be a lawyer.
Well, they will take give they're funneling kids to
schools that trades schools are largely funked Yes, a lot of
then a whole bunch of phony ones cropped up during this recent
period because of some government because of student
loan scam. They just don't want to scam kids. And so it's really
a mess. I mean, there is the guy's right, there's a shortage
of especially some of those $200 An hour hour jobs or there's
not. You can't find people for that you can't bring them in you
can't get it's not like that. Silicon Valley jobs where you
know, they can learn it how to design a chip, and then they'll
hire him at lower wages and it's one of the semiconductor
companies. But yeah, yeah, that's gold does net net net it
surprises me.
Wow. All right. I thought it was onto something like screw
podcasting. fly an airplane. I'm sure it can learn how to drive a
crane. Operator crane.
Yeah, you probably could.
There was also something else. So this this relates to the new
tax law that we have in Gitmo nation proper. Something about
the 529 rule. Do you ever heard of the 529 rule?
When you explained it out? Bitch, I heard of it.
Man. It seems like a hidden gem to screw states over
think of the 529 plan as a lump child born in the mid 90s to
your federal and state governments. They named it in a
flash of creativity after a section of the tax code. States
generally manage the investment plans while the Feds let the
money grow long term tax free. Many states also try to
encourage savers with a little short term reward. When families
make a contribution. They get a credit or deduction on their
state income taxes.
Most often the state tax credit or deduction is the foot in the
door
Troy Montenegro overseas Indiana's 529 program where
savers get a tax credit 33 states do this putting extra
skin in the game. That credit in Indiana or deduction in Oklahoma
means less tax revenue coming in states just figure it's worth it
if it gets more people to college. But all of this is why
Congress's sudden expansion of the program into K 12 schools
has some experts
worried this change allows private school families to put
their money through 529 accounts and avoid state income
taxes. Net Malka studies Edie policy at the American
Enterprise Institute. It's a conservative leaning Think Tank,
it's
a change from the federal level that puts a number of states in
a pretty tough position moving forward.
Malka says if lots of new families sign up and current
families contribute more, well, then states could end up losing
a lot more money in tax breaks,
I think it would immediately create a unintended budgetary
hit to the state's budget.
Greg Burke of the New York State Council of school
superintendents says this expansion surprised states after
all, it came top down from Washington and states haven't
budgeted for it. New York offers savers a $10,000 deduction on
their state taxes in Illinois, where Michael Frerichs is
treasurer. It's even more generous $20,000 He says 520
nines were meant to save long term for college, and that
letting families use them for kindergarten changes things. If
they're
putting money in one month and taking out the next. They don't
really have that advantage of long term investing. That's
really good using them to get around state taxes.
Seems like a pretty big deal to the States as
well. Yes. And it's going to be more important than ever because
you can only take out so much $10,000 cap on state taxes,
local taxes, sales tax and
something else. Real estate taxes.
Yeah, right. Real estate tax. Right. Yeah, it's all Yeah,
Texas Real Estate. So So
what you're saying is because this this will be a loophole to
allow if as long as you can take the deduction or you're spending
on education, you can it'll be closer to like 20,000 10,000
cap. Yeah, maybe.
Interesting.
Yeah, this is very interesting.
Kind of a disaster for some people. Yeah. Mostly, as you've
mentioned with the guru, you know, this is a tax cut for the
rich is really going to screwed. This is not a tax cut for the
rich, as you pointed out with your meeting with the anonymous
accountant who handles billionaires. Now they're gonna
take a huge hit because it because a lot of them live in
California or New York where there's already a huge income
tax in New York City. They have You have a city tax to have an
income tax state income tax, which amounts to a lot it caps
it 10 grand is like, nothing for some of these guys. And, yeah,
it's gonna be a screw job. For the rich,
I noticed that there's a new business model. And it's social
justice. And when I say business model I'm talking about, really,
I mean, we've we've seen social justice, creep into education
system into government, you know, it's everywhere. But now
it's also in the investment community in Silicon Valley. And
it took me a while I saw an inch, I don't think this in this
piece, I saw an interview with one of these investors, and
they're going after Apple for their products. So they're
invested in the company, and yet they're going after the company
to change it to their activist investors. But instead of
getting rid of the CEO, or you know, the other typical stuff
that you will hear,
yes, this has been done with environmentalists too. Yes,
exactly. There's been activist environmentalist who go into
these companies and they make a big fuss about you're wasting
energy and all the rest, they can't do that with Apple. No.
But they can always pull out the thing of the children bit. And,
and in the context of this is that the investment firm, not
the retirement fund, but the investment firm in the story.
They're raising a new fund. And you know, the way that works is
you say, Okay, we're raising a Kleiner Perkins is not Kleiner
Perkins, I forget who it is John, oh, Jane or something.
We're raising, you know, investment fund 2018 version
two, and it's $1 billion. And here's what we're gonna do with
it. And then you get a prospectus and it says, Okay,
we're going to invest in a Silicon Valley company and
startups, but they all have to be socially aware, where they
all have to recognize equal justice for all
a rift is brewing among Apple investors over whether the
company should address fears that too much screen time may be
harmful for kids to major Apple investors are urging the company
to take action against iPhone addiction. An Open Letter to
Apple sent by hedge fund powerhouse Jana partners and a
California pension fund. cites recent studies that find screen
overuse could hurt the development of children's
brains, and is contributing to depression and suicide risk in
teens. But Reuters reporter Trevor Honeycutt spoke with some
apple investors who say getting hooked on smartphones is exactly
the point.
What they're telling us is that the fact that Apple products are
addictive is what makes the company so great. So a lot of
investors like stocks that are hated by some people, they like
stocks like alcohol, tobacco gambling, why because even in a
recession, people spend money on those things. And some people
are starting to think of Apple as being us in stock kind of
like those
manager says the real culprits are social media companies. And
that Apple is merely the portal through which Facebook and
Snapchat keep kids coming back for more Apple has not commented
on the letter. And while its products come with parental
controls, some fear of Apple doesn't do more proactively, the
government just might
technology companies have been the market leaders. They have
been the stocks that have seen the biggest rise over the last
few years. And the only shot kind of shadow on the horizon is
this idea that maybe someday, the attention that these
companies are going to get is going to lead to more
regulation, and it's going to cut back on their profits. So
there there is a corollary to what happened with the tobacco
industry where they faced a number of lawsuits and
regulation that curtailed their profits. So that's kind of the
biggest fear for investors over the long run.
Investors have already seen some regulatory backlash. France, for
instance, is banning mobile phones from schools at the start
of the next school year. A trend
and I think it is a trend, and I think these phones should have
been banned in schools years ago.
And it's an it's interesting, because you're going to see and
we maybe we can even touch on the lawsuit that in that group,
the Google kid brought against Google after he wrote the
document document about Yeah, it's a good lawsuit. Oh, it
mean, did you read that thing? No, no. I have a couple of
excerpts. We can look at that in a minute.
No, but I was just an theoretically it seems that it
was an unfair just firing
off but when you but he gives all these examples of what
actually goes on within Google as they call it the googly way.
You know, I read his document.
Oh, that's what I'm saying. No, no. The in the lawsuit. They
have a hell of a lot more.
Okay. I have not looked at that leeway,
the googly way. But I was going to say that it Tucker Carlson
has become a little unwatchable because he's he's always to same
topics, you know, why do immigrants who are here
illegally get preferential treatment over Americans? You
know, no one ever answers. The question is kind of
Yeah, and he's got that look on his face constantly. That's
like, Dude,
he's not going to answer. And you know, and he might gives
people hypotheticals now, well, what if it was
Hillary's himself into a corner? It's not good.
And another one is he says that he's more afraid of Silicon
Valley than the government. And I'll say there's something to
that.
Um, but, you know,
the importance that is given to these companies, in this type of
news story, rarely does anyone ever kind of offer the crazy
notion that, you know, you don't have to use Facebook, you don't
have to use an iPhone, you know, and these, these companies are
doing just horrible stuff.
horrible stuff.
You know, in every single time, I think, you know, what are the
alternatives just in general.
You know, love this. I think that
there's only one company that you can kind of trust even
though their operating system is all full of all kinds of spyware
and stuff. I think, when it comes to just what the cloud is
doing, and how they're going to track you, I think that I'm the
most honest guys in the room. And that's saying a lot for
Silicon Valley is going to be Microsoft. They've been through
that they've been around a long time. They've been through all
of this bull crap, anti competitive stuff. They've still
have stuff to learn. They got that new guy who seems like he
has some integrity. And, and I'm telling you, they're
counterculture. But if this would be my pro tip, Microsoft
for the win. I'm not kidding.
He switches to Microsoft. And now hear him Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
No, I, I freely admit that. But just I've dealt with the
company, you know, I've looked at their mixed reality stuff,
interesting ideas. But let me tell you, this VR stuff is bull
crap, this total bull crap. I mean, he got some games. And I
mean, I was really interested in having my own space where I
could set up my desktop windows that was a whole
jacked up about and just the last show, right. So it's kind
of there, you need better resolution. And I thought you
could, you could open up all these new like all these
different windows, and I could have a panel from my from my
carts over here. Now you can basically pull up a desktop, you
can put an app full screen in the desktop, but you can only
have one open at a time. And but that's not even the thing that
irks me the most. So you set up this and the idea is great. I
mean, it's totally Snow Crash, and I think they're on but
they're going in this weird direction. And in all of this VR
stuff is filled with it. I just want a black space, maybe we can
put a background it's a room, whatever, no, you they give you
a Cliff House, and the Cliff House you always hear you know,
the see the surf and the birds. And when you move your head,
then I don't want to hear that I want to do some email, you know,
it's great to have an email the size of a movie screen and sit
back and kind of do your email and it does work to a degree.
But there has to be this like James Bond villain house and you
can't change any of that I don't want to house I don't have to
teleport to the to the movie theater. You know, I just want
to do it here. You know, just put stuff in. And you know, if
people want to go berserk and build stuff, fine. But it's
everything I go into one of these virtual chats. It's like
old fashioned, like, modernized Roman or Greek architecture, and
you sit on these luscious chairs, and you go, Huh, and the
hands look crummy and it's stupid. Is there a long way a
long way from being anything good? Yeah, but again, I think
oh, you know, screw Google. Seriously. People talk about you
can do without their email you know, we're all stuck with him
not we're not I
don't use it was my own sir. I've had my monster remark for
Cal runs the server and it's on squirt. We got squirrel mail or
any pop client or or IMAP? No problem. I can run it through
something else. I don't have to just do through squirrel mail. I
just like squirrel mail. And I don't use Google. I mean, I use
Google for one thing is to send you clips. Yeah, that's, that's
that's only because it's got one because it's easier to send a
whole crapload of stuff now without having to click more
than once. Yeah. But that can be fixed someplace else, I don't
know. And
the same with you know, just how I I'm still baffled wide and we
can't get decentralized search up and running. that would that
would change the game. And then we probably need our own
browser, which I guess could be done. But why? Why are all these
great open source gurus not really putting some it must be
possible beyond the realm of what it is today, because it's
shite. And I've experimented with all of them. But the idea
is should be able to work. And then you change the game. But
no, that's not what's happening. We're all creating little
startups. If you nothingness.
mil that's the way it is anyway. Tech News,
yo, current bitcoin price 13,422 I hope you all bought on that
dip at 15
I have the tech news.
Oh, I was gonna do a Bitcoin report. You're leaving tech
news. But I can push this tech played a Bitcoin jingle.
I know I heard that. And if you didn't give me a chance to get
my tech news and after you did your
Oh, I see I'm sorry, I wasn't really tech news. But go ahead,
please do was definitely tech news. It was more usability news
about tech. No, it was our mini version of CES. Except we had
the electricity on and it's just everything is shit. VR
is not the same thing at CES. What are you talking about?
Yeah. All right. Where's
your tech news?
This is well, this is kind of an interesting story. This is the
story that came up on CBS, which is the story I was complaining
about. I mean, not I wasn't in Leone, Massachusetts, or
wherever it is. New York, I'm not sure. Anyway, I was talking
about how I get routed through neighborhoods. I think I put
this in a column, I get routed to neighborhoods on some undid
one particular route to place in Oakland, will take instead of
going an extra two blocks up and taking a right on some main
drag. They robbed me through some little neighborhood, past a
bunch of homes. Kids playing baseball in the field in the
street. Now you're talking about.
You're talking about Google Maps,
or Google Maps. Yeah, they all do this. And then I go back to
the street, it saves no time. It may be saved a 10th of a mile.
And then I'm back on the same main stream I would have been on
if I'd gone straight. And so this is purely as a bigger deal
than I thought it was if you listen to this as the Leonia in
T tech news.
This will change life and Leone. It should this new sign and
Leone in New Jersey is a low tech solution to a high tech
problem.
There's approximately 60 streets that are going to be closed
a way to control the out of control traffic for residents
like Melissa Salzman, how long does it take you to get out of
your driveway take
10 minutes, 15 minutes, it depends on who's going to be
nice and how much I'm going to push up against their car till
they let me out.
Leonia is a one square mile town in the shadow of New York City's
George Washington Bridge. For years. Whenever traffic would
backup at the bridge savvy commuters would get off the
highway and take a shortcut through Leonia. If you knew the
secret, there were ways to beat the jam, stay to the right to
exit seven da Leonia. But now everyone has ways or other
traffic apps that routes them through Leonia. And once the
main streets get clogged, start sending commuters to residential
side streets. Mayor Judas eaglais
Because they have an app that says Take a right and a left and
a right and a left to shave three minutes off your commute.
Now they're all over every narrow side street in this
municipality.
This is what it can look like on the once quiet streets of Leonia
their plan, restrict the streets during rush hour just to Leonie
residents, have a hang tag in your car or get a ticket. We're
not talking about 20 bucks.
Now we're talking about $200 200 bucks has some teeth from
Medford mass to Fremont California, communities have
become victims of the traffic apps. As Leonese police chief
tom row discovered, if you pass a law, it will remove
sidestreets from its menu of shortcuts on people
will do whatever the app tells them to do. And it's scary
sometimes.
It's what the app stops telling them to do. That should make
life less scary here.
And 1000 feet stay to the right is funny. It reminds me of the
early days of GPS. We would have a story every now and then now
and again. About some guy who turned right right into a drink
into the drink. Boat Ramp, something like that. Yeah, yeah,
that's I think we're in acceleration mode. Where the
technology is really in every aspect of our life. And the we I
told you we had power go down during the extreme, the extreme
climate change cold.
And you know the thing Yeah, I don't think you mentioned this.
Yeah, we did. We talked about it. The building is all they
actually they gave us a $50 gift certificate.
Yeah, they should give me $50 off on your rent.
Yeah, let's look politique, which you would like.
The policy. I don't know what that even is.
It's a brand new restaurant in Austin and it's the chef is from
Joel Robuchon.
Oh which route was shown operation that went to Vegas,
I think so. It's probably the French Laundry. Yes, friendship.
So if you ever get here, I'll save my money and we can go
there. Sounds like a winner. Now why was I saying that? was
saying I
gave you 50 bucks.
What I'm saying is we're in acceleration mode, or
acceleration of all this stuff. You know, and now we're
recognizing openly that these things that the phones are not
good that the apps that you run are not good that none of it's
healthy. But there's no real outrage. We're all just like her
because you got to did you there's no time for outrage. You
got to check your Facebook updates.
It's really true.
I was just Professor Ted Man, he was right. And the sad thing or
the funny the The irony is that he has no internet. So he does,
he doesn't know what's going on. No one tells him what's
happening.
So they should go visit him. All right, here we go.
So as I said, I hope you all loaded up on the dip at 1500
seeing is this now 13 409 15,000? You mean? 15,000?
Yeah. Yeah, people getting screwed on this.
I feel what is that? 25,000 you'll be singing a different
tune.
Yeah, but what happens is, you know, people get caught up in
the hype, and then it goes down. And then you know, they're like,
when do we cut our losses? And then it goes back up. Of course,
that's the whole idea of a loading zone is buffered on
cryptocurrencies, the good old boy from Omaha
in terms of crypto currencies, generally, I can say almost with
certainty that they will come to a bad ending now, when it
happens, or how or anything else? I don't know. But I know
this if I could buy long term puts, I could buy a five year
put every one of the cryptocurrencies I'd be glad to
do it. But I would never short a dimes worth thought about
trading futures to take a negative position of Bitcoin.
Oh, you would not do that? No, there's there's no reason I get
into enough trouble with things I think I know something about
why in the world should I take a long or short position or
something I don't know anything about so we don't have to know
what cocoa beans are gonna do. Or cryptocurrencies. We just
thought that
was an interesting little cockup he made there. He confuses
cryptocurrency with cocoa beans. And that's obviously a Freudian
slip and just wondering, Is he is he doing something with cocoa
beans?
Well, I'm thinking he's, he's trying to think of the futures
market and cocoa beans, of course. Yeah. And so I guess he
just conflated or did whatever the word was really supposed to
use?
Well, he has cocoa beans on his mind. But do you think because
she asked about the futures market because he was talking
about puts
which is a future where he brought maybe trading cocoa
beans? I don't that's why I'm interested. Coffee is like a big
thing that trade. I don't know what the cocoa beans how you
even do that? It
wasn't there at all? No, no, wait, wait, wait. Remember the
story that global warming is? Is we won't have any more cocoa
beans? Or is that cacao? Is that the same? Yeah, it's the same.
Okay, so maybe that's why he's thinking about it. Because the
new stories that were there will be no more cocoa beans prep
story,
or something I don't know anything about so we don't have
to know what cocoa beans are gonna do. Or, or, or crypto
currencies, we
just actually think we should just can refer to it as cocoa
coin. And from now on. It's the same thing.
Focus on eight or 10 stocks, the businesses basically that we
think are decent businesses. But I do think that I think what's
going on definitely will come to a bad ending. I mean, you've got
virtually every but I have a class. I have 11 schools coming
on Friday. The questions will be on Bitcoin. And I won't know the
answers
on that when we sat down. Warren, you did say I should
have announced that we were getting involved in Bitcoin this
morning. Well,
that is true. I mean, if I had to, that would be much more
interesting to the audience. Issue a whole series of
cryptocurrencies tomorrow, but we aren't, believe me, and we
don't own any we're not sure that they will never have a
position
here. And he very clearly talks about shorting the Bitcoins, and
the Kryptos, which is what's happening, told people don't do
it. The crooks are in people.
You know, but I
think let's go long, long on cocoa futures. Because he
probably knows that it's bull crap. That you know, there's
nothing's gonna happen, but you know, now the news
is gonna happen or not doesn't affect the price. Does what
people think is gonna happen or not what's going to happen?
Thank
you. But at a certain point, there's, there's a turning
point, after everyone has said, Oh, it's going to go up, it's
going to skyrocket. So you can make money that way and then be
ready.
Then if you're like, a genius that nobody is When you can
sense the top Yeah. And then which nobody can do they think
they can. And once in a while you do and then you think you
can all the time and of course you can't because you got lucky
that one time. It's a horrible stay out of the markets. buy
real estate. Like, do a podcast, do a podcast I mean, you know,
then ask for money. Fabulous. Yeah. And there was your segue.
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So democracy now has been trying to listen to him more because
they have some of these offbeat stories, but at least they
covered the Assange thing, but they didn't cover it completely.
Play the Assange thing and I explained what I think might be
going on here.
Ecuador's Foreign Minister After says WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange just stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London is
untenable. Assange first sought refuge and political asylum in
the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012, when he faced possible
extradition to Sweden amidst a sexual assault investigation,
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Assange estate to be ended through international mediation.
Okay,
so what wasn't covered is there's now the move to make
Assange an Ecuadorian citizen, with a passport from Ecuador.
And I believe this is a pretext to making him a diplomat.
Ah, and diplomats can do anything they want.
Then he can walk walk outside of the embassy can beat someone up
can park illegally? Yeah, well, to a point. And so you'll waltz
out of the embassy, they can't touch him. He'll then go to
Ecuador, where he'll be assigned as some diplomatic duties in
Australia to get back home and then wipe his brow and you hope
that the Australians don't Senator the United States and
because so I think he's correct are trying to bring him in the
United States. He's not an American citizen, but somehow
he's a traitor. Hmm. It'd be a great move.
No one thought of this before it seems like such an obvious to
me. It's such an obvious thing. Well, I have a bit of news from
our buddy Nigel Farage, this is from his radio show. He's on
board with us now
that my mind is actually changing on this all i What is
for certain is that the Clegg's the Blair's the Adonis is will
never ever, ever give up. They will go on whinging and whining
and moaning all the way through this process. So maybe, just
maybe, I'm reaching the point of thinking that we should have a
second referendum on because we're on EU membership. The
whole thing? Yes, of course, of course. Unless you want to have
a multiple choice. No, no, no. I think if we had a second
referendum on EU membership, we'd kill it off for a
generation. The percentage that would vote to leave next time
would be very much bigger than it was last time I just finished
the whole thing off and Blair can disappear off into total
obscurity has
he flipped?
Well, he's flipped but he's at I think he's flipped much the way
Theresa May flipped flipped out. She decides to have a snap
election so she can get bit more power and she lost power stupid.
Yeah. I think the same thing is gonna happen here. Why is he
doing way the propaganda machine works. You give it two shots.
It'll be Yeah. Yep.
Seems to work that
way. Yeah.
Today is interesting this show day, but Project Veritas
releasing a whole bunch of videos, undercover videos, which
again, I love. I love the idea of love the project. I feel they
they they do a lot of baiting of people. And this is you may have
seen some of this. They did some undercover video within Twitter,
talking specifically about the President's tweets. And you
can't be so the It's a hidden camera and the girl who was
asking the questions young lady, you see her hand in her hand has
some kind of sexy bracelet. She has a very good looking hand.
But she's really leading this guy on this guy's got it
probably has a hard on under his desk, because this was hot
girls.
You bring in somebody like that. And you'll just agree with
whatever she says, Whatever, whatever
the I 47 seconds of some of these jokes. This is better
audio than usual. But I'll just play it just for so we've played
it and we have the clip in the archives. It's really and that's
the problem with the whole project bear toss is doesn't
really translate well. It sounds just it's very, very bad. So
you're not a Trump lover.
For more than happy to help the Department of Justice and their
little investigation. Cow, basically given every single
tooth that he's posted, okay, even the ones he's deleted.
Okay. Any direct messages? Mentions? Oh, yeah. I don't like
being part of the machine that is contributing to the downfall.
You should look at junior and senior senior and see what's in
there. We can absolutely look at every single message every
single tweet, whatever you want into what profile pictures you
upload with profile pictures that you've done, we're going to
do
you ever come to DOJ currently on that? So you really can't
hear that. Well, I guess.
I kind of I didn't you get here just like to get Trump
right Well, there's a couple of things in these and just
paraphrasing. So one is, you know, they appear to want to be
helping out the FBI with or the special counsel with, quote that
little investigation by also giving DMS and I guess that DMS
between the President and his kid. And so the handing that
off, and I was like, Oh, we got all this stuff. Like, yeah, so
what, you know, a lot of it's just, it's really not important,
but it's the mindset, it's really the way now. I think it's
it was a Daily Caller news Foundation, they have evidence
that Google is filtering out conservative websites. So
there's a lot of a lot of weird stuff going on a lot of bias,
and it's affecting, it's affecting lives. And, and this
kind of shows just how Silicon Valley is thinking Twitter's not
very significant anymore. I don't think they also
specifically talk about shadow banning. So it is a real thing
known within Twitter. And now you know why I've never been
verified. I'm not a whole from the no agenda show.
Well, you were in a hole before the no agenda show. Thank you.
And you weren't verified then either.
What do you mean? You're blaming
the no agenda show? And I think it's just somebody doesn't like
you. And because I think somebody asked us, he'll never
get verified even though you're famous. Yeah. You have every
year mark of a person who should be verified a Marconi award
winner, my friend, and your Marconi award winner on top of
that, not to mention the podcast award. And there's no annual
famous for being an early VJ, if not the originator, and on and
on. That Porsche verify. says,
I don't know. Now, I don't want it.
Yeah, you say that?
Oh, yeah. No, if it happens, I'm closing my account. Absolutely.
It's the mark of the beast. That's how they're going to
track people and who to kill first. They're the verified ones
go first.
Yeah, you just say that because you're you're just irked.
No, I'm not I'm really I used to be I'm not anymore.
Well, let's let's change topics.
This guy Norman Finkelstein. And the only reason I got these
clips because you're going to hear this guy talk and you're
gonna go Oh, my God white as He clipped this guy is
unpresentable, droopy dog voice is worse than anyone you've ever
heard. But his information is so interesting. And he is a genuine
he's not on the Council of Foreign Relations. I check this
guy's background. He's a lot of books on the Middle East seems
to know what the hell's going on to an extreme. And he comes on
Democracy Now to do one of those holes shows of me talking kind
of thing. And I just find it as fascinating because he has some
real interesting kind of dirt. But I haven't let I haven't.
What's
his background? What's his background,
he's a writer, he's a researcher is of a I don't have to go look
at his bio, but he's done on a crapload of books about the
Middle East and Middle East expert. All right now. Now he,
I've set it up. So that the end is you guys talk about his next
topic, and they kind of bring it in. And I'll give you the choice
whether we want to continue listening or not after each
break.
I'm pretty I'm pretty easygoing,
actual refugees and shojin refugees. But under the
categorization used in Gaza, they're all classified as
refugees. So that's 70%. Secondly, half of Gaza's
population and slightly more are children. And so you have this
overwhelmingly refugee child population. And they rely
overwhelmingly on UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency
on Raw is finance between 25 and 30%, by the United States, and
that comes to about $300 million a year. And so the threat of
cutting the money to UNRWA would be it would be devastating for
an already devastated population, overwhelmingly
children. Nonetheless, I would like to keep things in
proportion. So it would be a catastrophe. No doubt about it.
If Onra is defunded, by the United States, however, let's
look at the numbers. We're talking about $300 million
annually. Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi
Arabia, he paid $500 million for a yacht that would have covered
all of unrighteous expenses American the American portion,
for more than a year. He paid $450 million for the VINCI
painting that would have covered or US expenses. Again for more
than a year, he paid $300 million for a house in
Versailles that would have quote covered all the UN expense, you
unwrap expenses by the United States. And God only knows how
much money he paid for Tom Friedman's column in the New
York Times,
well, why don't you explain what you're referring to the Op Ed
piece in The New York Times about Mohammed bin Salman, the
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia?
Wow, there's a lot to unpack there.
So you want to listen to what he has to say about? We have, by
the way, in the show notes, we should have that column. I send
it over there. It's a very interesting thing to read if you
want to read well, I don't know it's up to you. You want to hear
any more?
No, no, I'm completely done. Are you kidding me clipped to
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia,
young people here? So I have to be careful about my language.
But all it was, was a very expensive cancer, no cursing?
No, it's not cursing, but it was a pro track. It was a verbal
blow job. Probably the most expensive one in world history.
That was administered to Mohammed bin What does a Jew
know
about blow jobs?
Salman,
stop, stop for a second. That term is actually in use in the
business of writing, especially journalism.
I thought it was hagiography blow job.
Blow Job is a very common phrase used by writers in journalists
mostly when somebody writes a piece that is so ridiculous,
fawning is beyond hagiography. Well, it's a blow job. This
is great, because that will be the title of my book when I
write it below job. It's a blow job bio, by the way.
But just to interrupt one more time, I guess you should
everyone out there should read this piece. It is horrible. It
is exactly what he says. And it's about which prints the new
one or the old is about the new guy that bin Salman. Now, well,
this Yeah, free Friedman, you gotta remember is a guy we've
identified probably working for one of the agencies, three
letter agency, a three time Pulitzer winner with which is
really almost impossible to achieve without some help. And
member of the Council on Foreign Relations, which I believe by
the way, a working journalist should not be a member of that
organization. It's got to be more realistic. I'm an executive
and him and sang are both of them. The New York Times they're
both in the members. It's got a globalist agenda. They shouldn't
be members of it. It's got a perspective, and you have to
kind of sign on to it. And anyway, but Let them guide talk
I'm sorry,
expensive one world history that was administered to Mohammed bin
Salman. The column he wrote in The Times, it was vintage Tom
Friedman. He goes into Saudi Arabia for three days, says
everything is wonderful talks to the Crown Prince, his sister,
who's representative of the people of Saudi Arabia says
they're all very enthusiastic about him. And then he walks
away and writes this column.
started mentioning in in this column, among other issues,
Yemen, well, Mohammed bin Salman, who is in charge of the
US back Saudi assault on Yemen.
Yes. Well, Yemen is, look, the fact of the matter is that every
reactionary, every regressive movement in the Arab world, is
financed by the Saudis. Whether it's Yemen, whether it's
Bahrain, whether it's Syria, whether it's Egypt, everywhere,
it's the Saudi money, and it's also incidentally, the Saudi
money that keeps the Palestinian Authority afloat. That's why
they have to pay all they have to pay deference to the Saudis.
It's so a wretched parasitic regime.
What about Jared Kushner his relationship with Solomon, and
how does that play in here?
Just as a programming note, I personally would have rather had
this in the B Block, I think is good enough for the Be.
Yeah, well, I couldn't find a way to work it in. Well, now
you're going on to part three, which you can make it you can
choose to listen or not. Listen, this part is about Jared
Kushner. Oh, are
you kidding? We definitely want the dirt on the Kushner.
Yeah, habit. Okay.
regime.
What about Jared Kushner his relationship with Mohammed bin
Salman and how does that play in here? He's gone repeatedly to
Saudi Arabia, Jared Kushner In your adviser to his father in
law, President Trump apparently is in charge of the Middle East
peace process. And they have apparently cooked up a plan
Jared Kushner and Mohammed bin Salman, for peace in the Middle
East.
Well, first of all, we have to look at the context.
Does this guy look like Harvey Weinstein? No, He's skinny.
Damn. He's on death's door. I'm glad you got this for prosperity
sake.
Jared Kushner knows nothing about anything. That Jared
Kushner is only there because he's married to Trump's
daughter. He's the son of Charles Kushner. Charles Kushner
is a real estate mogul, a billionaire who has the
distinguishing characteristic of actually having been arrested
and spending time in jail.
Now that's very chris Christie when he was a prosecutor in New
Jersey is very rare in the United States, a billionaire, to
spend time in jail. Among other things, he hired the prostitute
and had her photographed in order to convert hired a
prostitute to have his brother in law photograph, and then
presented the video, his wife, that's some family gathering.
Jared Kushner, got into Harvard University. Because the year he
applied, his father gave $2.3 million to Harvard. Everybody
agreed he didn't have the grades, he didn't have the test
scores. These are people who who profit, who profit from their
parents profit. There's no no knowledge that he possesses
about the Middle East. And incidentally, it's the same
thing with Mohammed. Bin Salman, his only interest is has only
one interest. And of course, the interest is to maintain his
power. The Saudi regime is a parasitic regime work literally
in Saudi Arabia. Work is the four letter word. If you say
that you have a job that you work. So the Saudi ruling class
looks at you with contempt, you work. And so the Saudis know, in
there now battle with Iran. They know that they couldn't prevail
against Iran, on the military level on a strategic level, you
know, around this 5000 year old civilization, it's a very
impressive place. And so they're hoping that the United States
and Israel will take their chestnuts out
of the fire,
huh? This guy is good. Yeah, he's got a good grip on things.
And he
is a horrible orator. But he's very his knowledge. And I love
how he just if he throws it all out there, it's great if
somebody would just put take that guy aside, but you know,
these types of guys are really this they don't, they don't care
if we would have great podcast potential.
So he has his one last, this is why we're gonna play. This is
interesting, because this last little clip, which is very
short, I just clipped it out of there. It is a long piece, this
whole thing, because he uses the same terminology, that Wesley
Clark Hughes when he goes through his list, and as soon as
I heard, I said, this is an interesting common way of
putting something
will take their chestnuts out of the fire. So they want Israel in
the United States to go to war with Iran. And so they're
willing to do anything, you know, they'll give away
Palestine, or they'll give away this studio. They'll purchase it
and give it away to get the United States and Israel to do
their bidding. So we're not really talking about a peace
plan. We're talking about handing Israel everything it
wants in exchange for Israel and the United States. Taking out
the rent.
Taking the taking out Iran.
Yeah, taking out
this list in seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq,
and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing
off Iran.
It's not quite the same
thing off. No, he should finish finishing. I think it was the
earlier one. And he's done that, of course that clip a number of
times, but I kind of remember somebody saying taking out for
big, but I think he's right. This is like you know, and maybe
the Saudis behind that whole list that Wesley Clark elucidate
is they seem
to be behind everything except this damn show. Where's where's
our chairs are Saudi Czech bitches? Dan 1000 shows? Yeah,
we have not. It's been very hard to pay a lot of attention to
what's going on there. And you really a lot of the focus has
been on the Clintons because they were so brazen about it.
But you look at John McCain. And yeah, I mean, Kushner is bad
actor.
He's a dummy. You can just see it, you can just see it. So when
he talks to the specialists notice it so I hope Moeller
takes
him out which he came out. They only recently think Muller is
allowed to continue. And we'll see on that there's been a lot
of a lot of news about was, I guess, sneaky Dianne Dianne
Feinstein as the president now it calls her released the
transcript of the testimony from the owner of fusion GPS, does
that right? Yes.
And yeah, I'm sorry. But I actually have a clip of her a
pretty good clip from the I'm sure you have a clip. Yeah. But
I have a long clip of it. They actually got a mic and Diane's
face on democracy. Now. It wasn't them. Of course, there's
somebody else but they actually played it's kind of interesting.
Looking for it. Well,
where would it be? Oh,
I see. I got it here
and her head was gone.
It was compiled by a former British spy named Christopher
Steele. It alleges there was a conspiracy of cooperation
between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. This is
California Senator Dianne Feinstein explaining why she
released the transcript.
I think people are entitled to know what was said. And the
lawyers also wanted it released. I see no problem with releasing
Senator Feinstein. Senator Grassley says you jeopardize
their ability to get certain witnesses like Kushner your
reaction?
Oh, I don't think so. That's been difficult. In any event,
and to my knowledge, there has not been a single fact in that
report that has been proven to be incorrect. But it's really to
muddy the waters and create a problem. You know, Steele
brought this information into the FBI. And it's quite amazing
that you get punished for providing information.
The founders of fusion GPS asked for the transcripts to be
released publicly. President Trump's lawyers have sued both
fusion GPS and Buzzfeed the news outlet that first published the
dossier.
Alright, let me just give you my take on this. I just did not
have enough time because of our technical difficulties. I was
going to pull the clip of this meeting that the President had
with his cabinet and with the leaders from both parties, the
bicameral Summit, love bicameral, as a word finally
using that the bicameral Summit, and Feinstein said so Mr. You
know, she was given the floor. They were almost right across
from each other looks like pretty strategic placement. And
she said something which costs a little bit of confusion. She
said, Well, would you be willing to do it in phases where we have
phase one, we deal with the DACA issue, and then we do all the
rest? And Trump said, Yeah, I have no problem with that.
Which, by some accounts, people say, Well, he didn't. He's a
dummy. He didn't understand that she was asking for a clean bill.
I'm not quite sure. But here's how I my take on it was the
following. He made a deal with her. She's been kind to him in
the past. She said some not flattering things, but she's
she's given him the benefit of the doubt. I think he made a
deal with her. She's old and why she doesn't give a shit. What if
he calls her sneaky, Dianne, which is probably even a cool
name, really. And the deal was, look, you I'll make you look
good. I'll say we'll do something. We'll definitely do
it in phases, whatever it is, and so that was perfect, but
you've got to release the testimony. Now, the question is,
why is everyone freaking out about this about this
transcript, because there's nothing really bad in it, if
anything, it unmatched a couple of other things, but it's my
belief that this was a setup and the setup and the setup was you
release that so that we can then go demand that everything be
released. So here's Grassley slamming Feinstein right after
this took place.
The powerful Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee said the ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein's
decision to release the transcript from Glenn Simpson,
whose firm was behind the dossier is a breach of trust
that could derail efforts to secure Jared Kushner his
testimony, the president's son in law,
these transcripts would have been released eventually,
anyway. But I think it does create some problems. For
instance, when you're getting people to voluntarily come to
you,
Senator Grassley was asked but did not comment on this tweet
where President Trump called Senator Feinstein sneaky,
underhanded and her actions possibly illegal. All this went
down as Democrats released a new report commissioned by Senator
Ben Cardin that documented the Russian president's decades long
strategy to undermine democracy, and it concluded Moscow will
likely target the 2020 elections press
ok. So
from that, so we did okay, fine. So you shouldn't have done that.
That's crazy. Then we move to Mark Meadows. He's the
congressman from I forget where he's from. But he's the chief of
the committee. He's a big kahuna, in this whole
investigation, and now he's saying, Well, how we should have
everything open and out on the table. And what they desperately
want now, is the FISA report. First, it needs to be shown to
all members of Congress and then to the American public. And
there, they are just Jizan over themselves that they're able to
call for this now.
Well, exactly. And so it's not only troubling there, but I
think it's time and Jim Jordan and I are here tonight to call
on our leadership, to say that what we need to do is let every
member have access not only to that FISA application, but to
all the outstanding work that Chairman Nunez has put forth in
terms of gathering documents. It's time that every member has
the access to those documents. And so we're calling on our
leadership to make that available.
And I think that was the setup.
Well, that was probably agreed upon then that he could blast
her and Twitter. Sure.
She doesn't. She's She's a smart cookie shouldn't care.
No, she's not that smart. I did call her a cookie.
Well, one other thing that came out and this is, I think, in
that report, it's even in there is that somebody in the Trump
administration was working with the FBI.
That's now been debunked. That's been debunked. Yeah. And that
was in the wolf book.
But okay, yeah.
The whole thing is a mess. It's a mess. It's a mess. And it's,
it's going to come to light that, you know, this is the
whole thing is current FBI, come on, the FBI was built on
corruption. And Robert Mueller, who was who unconstitutionally
stayed an extra two years in that post because he had the
goods on 911 Or who came in right before 911. And they gave
him an extra two years. The whole reason for that 10 year
term is because of the group's the DNA of the FBI with fiefdoms
of power such as Hoover. Now, what's his face?
But Herbert Hoover now the FBI guy I mean, you mean I J. Edgar
Hoover.
J. Edgar Hoover? Yes. Yeah. I mean, that's that now he's
running this investigation. Come on,
wake up. Wake up people. I'm woke bro. Meanwhile,
another is a first we had the stroke crew scrotum guy, he got
demoted to the HR department, which I'm sure it's just what
the news media says Who the hell knows. Now the other guy whose
wife worked at Fusion GPS. He's with the FBI. He got demoted a
senior
Justice Department official with an apparent conflict over fusion
GPS. The firm behind the Trump dossier has been demoted for a
second time. Bruce Orr is no longer head of the organized
crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. He was stripped of his
role as Associate Deputy Attorney General in December,
after Fox News reported or had meetings unknown to his
superiors with the co founder of fusion GPS, former journalist
Glenn Simpson, as well as former British spy Christopher Steele,
who compiled the dossier research, so unclear where or
has landed, though he is still a Justice Department employee, or
his wife. Nellie is a Russia specialist who did research for
the Trump project, which was funded by the DNC and Clinton
campaign as division head for organized crime or was also
directly involved with an interagency investigation that
tracked a drug and money laundering scheme to Iran.
Critics say the investigation and potential prosecutions were
derailed by the Obama administration, fearing it would
upset Iran leading up to the 2015 nuclear deal or scheduled
to testify to the House Intelligence Committee behind
closed doors. January 17.
I was harridge
Yes, yeah. The pixie girl twos
pixie girl pixie spy pixie girl.
And what I've now also learned is that our assertion about how
how the media works with the intelligence community comes out
of the text between scrotum and his girlfriend, Lisa, where they
leak information to a newspaper. Then it gets published. They say
oh, look what the newspaper just published and then they run it
up the flagpole inside the agency.
Yeah, that's an old trick.
And there's evidence of it now. Just evidence. Lacking is the
outrage.
Yeah, there's no outrage. Nobody cares. And you know, there's a
funny thing. There's a nobody cares moment in there. There's a
lot of coverage of the flooding. Yeah. And I have this flood
event and there's somebody brought up a new term, because
they were wondering why the during this when the big
mudslide came much is the worst. In California. There's areas
where you have this susceptibility to this and it's
like, there's nothing worse than a C have mud now it'll kill you
and it'll kill you and it makes you a lot and you'd get drowned
in the mud. You can't get any mud in your lungs even when you
get water in your lungs you can get survive it. You can you
can't get out of the mud. It brings everything with it cars
and other houses and trees because the mud is like so dense
that it can carry everything and it can be as high as a 10 foot
wall of mud
for voluntary evacuation orders were issued but only 15% of
residents left many who got caught in the mudslides had just
evacuated in December during the wildfires after what you've
seen. Are you surprised that so many people die? Absolutely.
This town has evacuation fatigue. A lot of people were
complacent.
This is what people had to escape through large trees,
boulders, even cars washing down the street and through the
homes. In this case, you can still see about three feet of
mud inside the home right now. It's thick. It's like quicksand.
It's
difficult to walk through.
But the good news, Jeff, the family that lives here was not
home at the time.
Evacuation fatigue, and you're talking about why are people not
being outraged? I don't think they can be outraged anymore.
Because they're sick of it. And this but and the worst case, or
the worst thing about this evacuation fatigue in Santa
Barbara, how many events they were going through an evacuation
a month it wasn't like the bombing of London. It was like
the one fire and everyone's to get out of town. You got to get
out of town because of the fire. And then they came back home and
now I gotta gotta get out of town because of the mud. They
were evacuated once. And then now it's evacuation fatigue at
all. It was so much work to leave the last time. I mean,
that's the American public today.
Well, to be fair, yeah, when the earthquake hits you just lay in
your bed and wait.
Yes, because I've been through enough earthquakes that I know
that that's your best. That's your that's your number one way
to go.
That's not a form of fatigue.
I don't think so. I think it's a it's a form of reality. There's
no reality about not evacuating when this mud is coming down on
you
right and so they had gotten How does that work? How do they do
that through the the trip everyone's iPhone everyone knows
I know
they were going they were going door to door door I know. Not
leaving now a friend of mine Montecito
and he also didn't leave. He's okay but geez and there was also
gas lines erupted or explosions.
Oh yeah. Cuz that might I'll take takes the telephone pole
right out of the ground. Yeah. And the poles are everywhere
wires is a mess. That cleaning up the mud is worse than
cleaning up of the aftermath of those fires in Sonoma County
because it doesn't have them they're just sweep. Yeah, but
this is like just not in the sweep. You got I got three feet
of mud but
California space in California is cursed
to have that part of California and Santa Barbara area. I have
always been convinced as cursed. Yeah, I think it's it's a bad
area. But anyway, so check, evacuation fatigue. Do it once
is enough. I'm done.
We Yeah.
We're in trouble.
Well, usually an economic collapse fix resets a lot of
stuff.
Oh, when is it? You know, when's when's the cycle come and do
is actually due last year. So I know
what's keeping it up Trump?
Well, a lot of and we talked about this a little bit on
Horowitz it was keeping it up as the government has been really
doing what it can to manipulate the market as much as keep
things propped up.
Our Ponzi scheme that started
this Ponzi scheme going on? It's no one's Yeah, yeah. So cheap
money. They can borrow cheap money, stocks go up. Everyone's
Wall Street's making money. Yeah, but it also flows into
401k. So everyone's happy. Everyone's happy. So we can just
keep you're a big proponent of jam and money into the system.
So this could go on for a while. We could never get
into it. Well, this happened in the 1850s. And you can jam money
into the system only so long before it coughs it goes away. I
mean, it was after the
49 or gold rush. Yeah. So it was just too much money. Too much
gold.
Too much gold. That was one of the reasons that the economy
collapsed in 1857. And that was considered America's first
genuine depression.
Well, I want everyone to remember now that when it hits
when the big one hits, we're gonna need your support.
And you can say this. Yeah, well, we will need your support.
Luckily, a lot of people are wealth healed. But you know,
also say this, when it hits you heard it here first. Four years.
And fourth, and fifth.
And then there's this advertisement for IKEA Swedish
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which reads peeing on this ad may change your life wants women
to prove their with child to receive the discount which some
are saying could be interpreted as sexist and others argue is
just plain gross mothers will have to bring the soiled ads
into stores which unfortunate cashiers will then have to
handle to process the discount
going into stores being in the stores I'll give you a clip of
the borderline
oh okay borderline I never I think he should go to the store
and pee right there in the store.
Yeah, hey, what about this look, I'm pregnant and honestly, you
know, how do you not for men sir.
When are we going to stop the
ladies night in bars?
Yeah, I think this should be illegal. I agree with that.
Yeah,
it was played fair people. A another chink in the armor for
education in the Me too. And time's up extravaganza
novelist is calling on Concordia to clean up what she calls a
culture of harassment.
This is Concordia University in Montreal. The university's
president says it is looking into allegations of sexual
misconduct by members of the English department. Now only the
former graduate is the first to give interviews about the
experience. What is she saying?
Well, Heather O'Neill says that she has been speaking out
publicly not only about her personal experience, but also
the culture within the university's creative writing
department for many years. So she has mixed feelings about why
it's only getting attention now in reaction to a blog post by
another author and former student Mike Spry, in which he
says that he not only heard about a but also witnessed
instances of groping inappropriate remarks and
propositions within the department. CTV reached out to
Spry, but he didn't want to comment any further. However,
award winning author Heather O'Neill says it happened to her
when she was a graduate student in the creative writing program
20 years ago, for her the harassment began with one
professor saying that he wanted to publish her poems in a
literary magazine and inviting her for a drink at a bar to
choose those poems. Now, she says that at the time, it didn't
raise any red flags, because it was considered acceptable part
of networking to do so. But what that when she got to the bar,
there was no mention of the poems at all rather sexual
advances that she refused. She says that there were that
happened again another half dozen invitations follow that
one and that she refused But Heather O'Neil really describes
it as a struggle for her as a young student.
You go it's happening in academia
just straight struggle for the poor girl.
Yeah, what's happening? It's happening. You predicted it and
it's nailed it. No, it's
obvious.
You get a donkey get one donkey one service donkey for you, sir.
All right, wind us up. John.
I got one. I got a couple of things here. I got an update on
the Cuba story. Some of the motion and I'm just gonna have
I'm gonna play a this is the CBS clip. And this is I thought was
a disgusting story. And it goes on everywhere and happened to my
my wife years and years ago because this is not a new
phenomenon. Patient dumping.
So you're just gonna leave this lady out here with no clothes on
overnight, a mom who Baraka was walking past a Baltimore
hospital when he noticed something he says he'll never
forget.
I'm assuming that you all are with the security department.
Okay. Is there a supervisor available?
The hospital's security guards and just wheeled a patient to a
bus stop. And in the freezing temperatures, they left her
there. The only thing she had on was a hospital gown.
It's about 30 degrees out here right now. Are you okay? Are you
unable to speak? Are you Okay ma'am? Do you need me to call
the police?
It's called Patient dumping. And it doesn't just happen in
Baltimore, in 2007 60 minutes investigated the practice of
removing homeless patients from Los Angeles hospitals and
leaving them downtown. Often the patients are not insured or have
other financial issues. It's unclear if that was the case in
Baltimore.
Go in sit down okay, man, go ahead and sit down. Thank you.
I'm gonna call to get you some help.
In a statement, the University of Maryland medical center said
they share the shock and disappointment of men. In the
end, they say we clearly failed to fulfill our mission with this
patient The man who recorded the video called 911. He says medics
ended up taking the patient back to the same hospital for review
is underway that could lead to personnel action against the
hospital employees involved.
I know we've talked about this before explaining exactly what's
going on. How can this be with Obamacare, by the way,
because it doesn't because Obamacare is not anything that
got anything to do with anything but insurance companies. It is a
it's just a driver, I can profit. And these guys this is
unprofitable patient comes in that has you'd actually have to
treat and they did want to get the chance they look left and
look right. They put her in her wheelchair and throw her down
outside the place and drop her off at a bus stop. She's still
wearing a gown with their butt hanging out in 30 degree weather
they don't give a shit they hope they hope that she dies. This is
the way the medical system is working. Now in this country, it
is pathetic is profit oriented, never used to be never you
couldn't make money and in the medical medical business, you
can you can make a salary you get a doctor Anzhi scheme, and
now it's just a bunch of insurance scams. And they did
people like this they gotta get rid of them and they gotta find
some way to move them out. They do it in Los Angeles. They do it
here. They've been doing it for years
and years. I think it because I do listen to your other podcast
you were talking about just homelessness. Forget the patient
dumping. Did you tell me and I looked it up and Tina and I were
looking at it on La online last night that there's a whole tent
city in front of the city hall and Berkeley Yeah, yeah. of home
and meanwhile, you turn on the news. It's only arguments about
Trump.
Yeah, the tent city in front of Berkeley ended with the big sigh
I've mentioned this on the horror which show big sign in
front says the first day come for the homeless which of course
is a reference to that as they come from the gym they came from
me yeah and but yes, right in dried on the lawn if I would
take some pictures of it and try to
post it. Yeah, newsletter good one good, big
giant. I drove past them and holy crap. But
in reality, the media, the media is doing the public a huge
disservice by not focusing on some of these issues. This is an
I think that probably half of our audience is a paycheck away.
I know that
I used probably a few you get
you get a couple of bad donation shows is like huh. A lot of
people live paycheck to homelessness or suffering from
homelessness,
but you can fall into that trap, especially if you have no any
sort of safety net.
Yeah, it's very easy. It's very most people I don't think have a
safety net is also not
being taught. Now they're no not being taught anything. You're
being
groomed to be a credit score.
Yeah, that's rent a renter. Hey, oh, offense.
That was really depressing. Thanks for that.
Well, I'm just saying that's what happens. We renters can go
from renters to homeless. No, I'm
just saying the whole report. You're winding up the show on a
very depressing note. Let's see if it works for donations.
I don't know. It's a test. Maybe that was a mistake, Bill.
All right. Well, you effed up the Vblock so guys, everybody
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