Malgorzata worse. He's a demon Adam curry, John C Devora
December 27 2018 This is your award winning give on nation
media assassination episode 1098 This
is no agenda.
rubbing your feet with CBD and broadcasting live from the
capital of the drone stars staying here in downtown Austin
Jay Haas in the Claudio in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam
curry
and from Northern Silicon Valley where people have mistakenly put
their garbage out for collection even though it will be
collected. I'm John Cena, Martin, Raglan buzzkill
I think we should stop the show right now you should go out and
knock on everyone's door and inform them of this issue.
What happened was that waste management operation instead of
giving a phone call with an automated message about the
change in delivery, they sent out an email oh I read the email
it says it'll be picked up tomorrow but knew
you did some weird sound in the background you got there
yesterday
disconnected phone during his first day disconnect a little
late
Do you want to you want to go hang it up was it just didn't go
up? Somebody will call on asking me if they're there you know if
I want to change my credit card relationships, okay, you should
stop I don't know why. You're actually louder than several
the only guy I know who still has a phone that you can take
off the hook so that people won't call you Yeah, we have
this
call to landline I know it's so weird for when even understand
that this exists Do Not
Disturb mode but no no no no, this is this is rotary or is it
push it touchtone
I don't even know if rotary works anymore. Oh, that's
a good question. Actually. I bet it does.
I think it's a marriage that doesn't hadn't even considered
that it's been deprecated well or whatever deprecated or the
way the only starting up again for
I don't know.
Let me go move we've never
we never have this problem. Well, regardless, welcome to the
no agenda show. This is the best podcast in the universe. And
unlike everywhere else in media, no retrospectives here. No Best
Funny news stories of the year here. No counting down to the
new year here no just media deconstruction, whatever there
was out there seems like everybody's on vacation. We as
to podcasters, we weather the storm to bring you something
I actually have a couple of retrospective clips.
wait before you before you go to the Layout way before you go
anywhere. I want to lecture you a little more. It was
interesting. surprising to see you on twit last Sunday. Yeah, a
lot of people will notice this. How was it? I had three
goals. Get my Twitter followers up. Okay. Plug the hell out of
that. No agenda show? Yes. Which you did? I did. Thank you very
much. i Good. Yep. And a pathway to promoting some upcoming
books. Yeah, sounds good.
Wow, okay. I watched most of the show. I do have to comments if
you're interested just to to comments from an executive one
executive producer to another Yeah. What one that in general.
I think that it is time for people on podcasts who deal with
technology to keep referring to the audience as normal people
regular people who quote dot dot dot won't understand won't get
won't care won't know you did not. I'm not saying you I'm
saying in general. I'm so tired of hearing regular people they
want
they wish that was very common theme on that show. It's next to
your hair. What about it?
Well, because of the lighting it's it's you know, this looks
normal things out a little bit as you get older. The lighting
is so harsh there twit that
kind of stuff know half the time I look bald, it's
more like you know like you're in chemo
which is nothing it's a joke about lighting is extreme. Yes,
ridiculous. So there
is makeup for this which I was going to recommend. You know
don't use makeup on there. You should have your own little kit
bro if you're gonna do that anymore. You need to look good.
Yeah
nothing personal just the general television observation
percent of the people that listen to twit do it on audio so
I'm not too concerned. All right. No, but I understand I
agree with you on both these points.
Okay. Then I have one household question. Was that you in the
newsletter? Where so you sent out a newsletter a very good
rundown about madness, leading Yeah. Which is why people should
subscribe to this product. It's fantastic. It's a bonus, just
like the show notes is all kinds of things you get outside of the
no agenda Show podcast itself. You had funny computer ads, many
of which are just lovely to check out.
There was none with me in there. Oh,
because the guy with the two chicks. Yeah, a little bit could
have been.
No. Okay. All right, that was just that was too funny. To
women going to bite him just
well, just just the times, man, the things that you could get
away with back in the day.
Yeah, versus now is anyone who didn't get the newsletter missed
out on the kind of a rundown of just part one, I think I have
about three of these I can do of all these old computer ads from
the 70s. It's very interesting. They're great in a lot of
celebrities. Dom delouis was in there. Bill Cosby,
whatever liked is you see the Apple everyone's advertising
about their, you know, 10 megabyte drive, you know, their
their 4800 baud modem, and Apple back then. Alright. It's like,
oh, you will be able to solve your business problems, you will
be able to do this and be nothing about what was really
inside the box, which was quite interesting.
And it was fun. Yeah, they were selling benefits, not features.
Yeah. Yeah. And markedly different from she had a real
advertising agency that knew that rule.
Right. Was that Leo Burnett back then? Or would I think it was
Shine? Shine day?
I think it was. Yeah, guys.
Good. Anyway, so already set us all up that there's no news
because no one's working. So we had no news. There is actually
just not being discussed on the news. There's, there's events
happening.
But there was some stuff to discuss on the news, mostly how,
you know, here, Trump goes to Iraq. I think I have one clip of
it. Yeah. Trump goes to Iraq and under whole news stories about
how he went after the date that Bush went, or after the day,
Obama went three went overseas three, three months after he
became president. What is it? What kind of a comparison is
this?
Ah, I tell you, he's late. He's late. He didn't go until we
until we shamed him.
When did Reagan go first overseas to the wars? Oh, wait a
minute. We didn't have a bunch of war zones, then. Now they've
normalized war zones? Yes. Yes, of course. Unbelievable. Do you
have a clip? You said? I do. I
don't know. You said you might have a clip. I'm looking. I
don't see one. Oh, probably don't have one that this you
want to? Well, that you want to talk about? Mattis just for a
second? Yeah, sure. I thought your rundown was quite good that
you did the put the newsletter. I had a call with pathetic. And
you know, he's all about the military intelligence. Yeah. And
he had a couple of interesting things to say. Pick my notes
here. You gotta write down this stuff when Chyna calls. Okay, so
he says I Well, it's very sad to generals are out Kelly and
Mattis because, you know, we really counted on them. Kelly
hung in as long as he could, because he just could not handle
what botanic calls Woody Woodpecker, which is how he
categorizes Trump. Okay. And he gave me this concept. I don't
know if it's a psychological or mental concept of idealization
and realization as a personality. Well, I guess you'd
say trait and what he means by that, and I recognize this
immediately when he said it is Trump does the following when he
meets somebody who we know obviously wants or even if he
doesn't, ah, I'll give an example. Oh, divorce. Oh, man,
you're the best I can't believe it. It's so great to have you
here. I've loved what you've done with your with your
computing books and I love what you do with your columns. Oh,
this is look at it. Look at this guy. Is he the best ever is he
that best ever or what? But then a couple down the road two weeks
when you do something he doesn't like? It's exactly the opposite.
Wow, why don't even hire that guy. What an idiot Why'd
Yeah, it's like a classic Silicon Valley CEO. Well, it's
interesting because I said it sounds like every New York Jew
I've worked with had to. He's a Jew. And he said yeah, that's
That's exactly it. It's it's it's New York attitude, but it's
he calls it the idealization and realization personality trait.
Yeah, yeah. So yeah, that makes nothing but sense. I like it,
but it is difficult. He believes that. The new guy the Chief of
Staff, what's his name?
Shanahan No,
no, no, that's that's the Department of Defense as
Chief of Staff guy's name is unmemorable. Yeah, that guy.
Pretending says he will not last through 2020 This is impossible.
No one can deal with that. Now the new guy. Shanahan he likes
him a lot for a number Reasons. He says this guy. Well,
actually, Mattis. Mattis also hung in as long as he could. And
then he just gave up. It was just just like, and he didn't
have to really do. You know, he had a couple more months left.
But yeah,
well, according to some reports, which I put it, I hinted at in
the in the rundown that I did. Pompeo told Mattis that he was
that Trump was going to fire him. That's when Mattis wrote
the note and quit. Right and nobody. So and the media picks
it up, as the media likes to twist it in their way, which is,
oh, Trump pulled out of Syria. And of course, that's important
to us the media, because we're all war mongers and think we
should be in Syria of all places with our troops, who cares? But
I mean, as long as it doesn't hurt me, right. So Trump pulls
out of Syria, thus Mattis quit in disgust.
Well, that, of course, is the story. And if it looks good, you
can read it that way. And it may be exactly that, but pathetic is
very happy with Shanahan coming in and he believes Trump
understands this. He is MIT Boeing cyber guy. He understands
a lot more than an old dog like Mattis, who understands kinetic
warfare for structures going out blowing shit up tanks, troops,
etc. Yeah, that is all shifting and Shanahan will shift this big
responsibility and maybe focus I'd be interested on the
Geospatial Intelligence Agency, because it's all about a quote,
cyber satellites and missiles. That's what warfare is cyber
satellites and missiles. Everything else is pretty much
unimportant. And of course, the Russia supersonic missile comes
into play here Sonic the hypersonics since we, the US
appears to be not able to deter that until well, it's all kind
of like a demo where as far as I can tell right now,
I do have a report you can play okay, what you got hypersonic,
hypersonic supersonic. President
Vladimir Putin testing a new intercontinental missile and
President Donald Trump's metal from a Moscow command center.
Putin watch the hypersonic missile leave its launch tube
and according to the Russians strike a target 3700 miles away,
declaring it invulnerable to intercept. Russia says it can be
armed with a nuclear weapon and travel up to 20 times the speed
of sound. without confirming the results of today's test. The
Pentagon has acknowledged that America is vulnerable.
We don't have any defense that could deny the employment of
such a weapon against us
adding urgency to the Pentagon's own plan to develop an American
version
that hypersonics is a is a game changing technology. It's so
important for us to for us to embrace
How far are we from actually building that technology
ourselves.
So I think we'll put a hypersonic system in the field.
Before 2023.
Russia first touted their hypersonic missile in March with
an animation showing warheads flying towards Florida,
both offensively and defensively. The United States
military is working very hard on hypersonics. We are in an arms
race.
But for Putin, his new missile is a perfect New Year's gift for
the country. Hans Nichols, NBC News, the Pentagon.
Here's the thing about all that, first of all, after supersonic
will have hypersonic you know that whatever Trump comes up
with, it'll be warp speed, but guarantee you warp speed is how
fast we fly SpaceForce thing about these missiles is if you
can control the cyber side of it, if you can get into systems
now then you then you don't need to be able to shoot the thing
out of the sky because it's going so fast. So this is it's
really moving towards a whole new battlefield.
I think the whole thing is bogus. First of all, hypersonic
is nothing new. I remember and I'll give you the story that I
first heard of, and I think they experimented with a hypersonic
missile, the Air Force, I believe in the 80s. And the
reason I say that is because when I wrote the book
hypergrowth with Adam Osborne. That's where I got the term
from. I used hyper growth was by coined it based on I saw a
hypersonic missile test in the 80s. And I said that's a great
name for something super fast. And so I took the term, so that
so this is something there's something basically bogus about
this whole thing. It looks like some sort of an excuse to spend
more money.
It wouldn't surprise me it wouldn't surprise me. I think
we've discussed this before if Putin and Trump are just eating
out talking to each other. All right, man, do that demo that
you have of the of that hypersonic thing so we can both
start building some more and do a little more, get some more
money out of our of our government coffers. I would make
nothing but since
and the other thing is when they showed that hypersonic launch,
if you looked at it, they actually put the camera on the
missile. Yeah, I have seen missile launches from our silos.
You can't get that missile is out of range of the camera
immediately. It's gotta be Yeah. Goes like a rocket ride. But so
there's something screwy about this. And it sounds to me like,
I hate to keep saying, Sam. Yeah, but there's a scam here.
Yeah. Oh, we're way behind. How do we wave is stopped here, we
get the seven, six $700 billion budget? How are we two or three
years behind the Russians? How does that happen? Don't look at
the audit, please. Whatever you do, there's Yezdi. Now going
back to Shanahan he is an MBA and he might and he did work for
Boeing. And it was part of the 787 and some of these other
major projects, it might be able to do the audit.
He's the kind of guy that would be able to do it, or at least
clean up the books. I mean, I don't think anything the
Pentagon cannot get through an audit at all. So maybe just
clean it up and kind of bring in some accountability. Speaking of
which, I was reading one of those government. It blogs that
I like to like to scan and the there's a there's a procurement
system that is out for tender.
Oh, yeah. Hi, get one of these things to the general listeners
a mile long of stuff.
Well, the general service now this is a little different. The
General Services Administration is in the process of creating an
acquisition platform, as mandated by Congress from the
2018 National Defense Authorization Act. So this this
stuff is you know, bits done on PDFs. It's done on Word docs,
whatever the hell it was SharePoint, I don't know what
they're using. But there was this mandate in the NDAA. For an
E commerce acquisition, guess who's been doing all the work on
this e commerce acquisition platform?
You tell me, Amazon? Oh, yeah, Amazon's got their fingers in
everything. No
wonder they're there. And in. This is why now it starts to
become clear what's going on? Amazon is the government with
with the CIA cloud services. Now with all acquisition, the
procurement platform.
Yeah, which should be just a rewrite of the Amazon code at
this shoppers use.
They just take the just white label. There you go. Plug in
your products seems pretty good. They already advised on the
portal get just on the RFP. They advise when it's a shoo in for
these guys.
Well, if you advise them the RFP, you're advising for
yourself, you're pointing the finger at you. That's how
our guts how our process works. That's the beauty of government
contracts. I did want to if
he's becoming you look more like an evil bond character. Yeah.
Just on the pullouts, the pullouts of Afghanistan and
Syria. I do have a bit of a retrospective if you just want
to listen to the news from 2011. The world is exactly flip
flopped. Please hear how as we know now is Trump's pulling out
of Syria Afghanistan. Oh, we're screwing our partners is the
ISIS it's gonna be horrible that more war need more war need more
stuff, more missiles hypersonic. It was exactly the opposite with
the two parties in 2011.
The US president has been accused of ignoring the advice
of his top military commanders on troop withdrawals from
Afghanistan. Barack Obama announced that 33,000 troops
will be hunted by September next year. military chiefs say that
plan is riskier and more aggressive than the one they
recommended.
Republicans believe Barack Obama's Afghanistan decision has
more to do with politics than military thinking.
Are there any of the Joint Chiefs or any of the commanders
on the ground that recommended this particular action that the
President is taking it and I'm not going to talk about
individual recommendations.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs did acknowledge that withdrawing
10,000 US troops this year wasn't his choice, and it was
more
aggressive. And it has more risk than you know I was originally
prepared to then I then I recommended the course
and Afghanistan Commander General David Petraeus TOLD US
Senate hearing, it wasn't his either. The
ultimate decision was a more aggressive formulation, if you
will, in terms of the timeline. Then what we had recommended the
US military leaders sides their job to salute and execute the
president's order. Here. Republicans are worried the
coalition allies won't have Hang around France and Germany plan
to follow the US lead.
I predict you now that our allies will accelerate their
reductions in presence in Afghanistan.
And for the most part, our allies, the Australians, others
are saying we're in it. We're committed.
The President was at Fort Drum thanking Afghanistan veterans,
our job is not finished. Many Democrats wanted Barack Obama to
go much further, and are still hoping the drawdown will only
accelerate
my my oh my oh my,
wait a minute, this doesn't make any sense. Damn, Democrats
wanted Obama to draw down even faster, I guess. So they don't
they want us to put people back in raises, making no sense to me
and these Democrats. And
then in 2014, the President Obama at the time came into the
out to the Rose Garden,
bringing America's longest war to an end, President Obama
called reporters to the White House Rose Garden, to lay out
his plan for pulling out the 32,000 US troops now left in
Afghanistan,
America's combat mission will be over by the end of this year.
Starting next year, I
just noticed. In the first report, they talked about 33,000
magic number, we're always looking forward in reports. And
then in this one,
we've lost 1000. Now left in Afghanistan,
it was it was 32,000 instead of 33. I don't know if it has any
significance, but to lay
out his plan for pulling out the 32,000 US troops now left in
Afghanistan,
America's combat mission will be over by the end of this year,
over the next year, Afghans will be fully responsible for
securing their American personnel will be in an advisory
role, we will no longer patrol Afghan cities or towns,
mountains or valleys. That is a task for the Afghan people.
Afghan forces have been in the lead against insurgents since
last year. And the 9800 US troops will stay to continue
training them and to support counterterrorism operations. And
of course, that
will that also didn't happen. So that's what it was when Obama
was president and everyone was on board. And I think we were
also like, yeah, good. Get him out. Draw down stupid stop.
We're staunch anti war.
Last is bogus wars. Yeah. For the poppies. It was a poppies
mostly.
Yeah. But it feels a bit like there may be well, we'll get to
that in a moment. It just there's wars, when there's war
starting everywhere. Well, this. I'm not quite sure why this was
thrown out there and why the script has been replicated, but
it has
people can be seen lighting things to fire this has been
taking place. All throughout this week. There have been
numerous clashes, and numerous people who have been arrested,
and they are revolting against the poverty in the country. And
this all started after a journalist has said that he was
going to light himself on fire, he posted a video that'll bring
up here, where he talks about how he had been trying to find a
good job for the last eight years without any luck.
This is in Tunisia, where the Arab Spring started. In this
video, you can actually see him holding a bottle of gasoline. He
says he's going to light himself on fire. And he's calling on the
unemployed to take to the streets to revolt. We later see
in another video that he is lit on fire, and he ended up dying.
It's unclear whether he let that match himself, or if someone
else did. But what we have seen are these mass protests in
Tunisia as a result, and some people say that this is actually
reminiscent of what we saw in 2010. Remember this man, the
Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire to protest
against police harassment, and that led to revolts not only in
his country, but of course, all throughout the Middle East.
Well, in the eight years since that happened in the eight years
since the Arab Spring began, this journalist says that
nothing has changed in his country, and in his words, that
everything is lies. And that is why he has called his fellow
Tunisians to take to the streets to revolt against the economic
conditions in his country. Now, this
was a report from AFP, French international outfit, right. And
they have lots of what do you call it interests in the region?
Yes, it's a friendship. It was a friendship outpost actually.
Yeah,
exactly. But they have interests in the region in the region as
well. And so now we have a German out of work journalist
who hasn't been able to get work for what He's eight years. But
he says, Yeah, we don't know who he is. We don't know who he
worked for. We don't know if someone lit the match or if he
did it. I don't even know if it's him in the video. But
someone's trying to get something Started.
Yes, this looks like a pro a provocation. And what's
interesting about this and this is of course, you're right as a
fractal of the earlier event, which started the Arab Spring is
that Muslims aren't the ones who self emulate it's it's the
Buddhists do that. Practice. So we find the whole thing so
suspicious and interesting.
Well, there's there's stuff going on in Africa. First of
all, the Congo was supposed to have their election today. Yeah,
I have a clip. Oh, good. I do too. What do you have? I have
AFP again, because they're all over this.
I gotta, I gotta give a net. No, I think it's, yes, I
see PBS IVs. I want to listen.
Also today, Congo delayed elections in three cities where
a deadly Ebola outbreak is centered. The cities are
considered opposition strongholds, and the delay will
affect some 1 million voters. They will now wait until March
to cast ballots. The rest of the country votes on Sunday.
That's their entire report. Yes,
that's PBS. It's only going to give you
that is your PBS News. That's all that didn't even mention.
What's what's going on. Now this is in this is incredible.
Well, my beat I got the mainstream to review. Yes, the
real story.
Yeah. To review. I've been following the election that
we've been following the Congo in general, whenever Ebola shows
up, that's usually when troops follow. We haven't seen that
happen yet. But in this particular region, is where very
important minerals are mined for everyone's cell phone, there's
less than most oil and all of Africa apparently comes from the
Congo. There's always strife there, the Chinese are running
rammos
oil actually comes from Nigeria. I thought
that they have the most oil, it may not all come from there. But
I think they have the most isn't a very, it's not as each
research gone. But they definitely owned that minerals.
They own
the minerals, gold diamonds, and there's 50 militia groups
running around killing each other. It's all about power to
get these minerals as cheaply as possible. Whoever leads the
country will be the king, and whoever funds the king rules.
And they had the voting machines which they want to bring in the
population. staunchly against it, call them, you know, the
lying or the column, the maybe in this report, they see them as
not real. That's not the way to vote. And of course, you don't
want touchscreens anywhere. There's Ebola, but there's also
that the reports from Janelle fronds press about the election
doesn't even mention Ebola. If if I can recall saw
in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where opposition leaders
have slammed the postponement lands country had been due to
vote this Sunday in a poll It was hoped would end the two year
old crisis over the future of President Joseph Kabila. On
Thursday. DRC is Electoral Commission ordered the Poby put
back a week in order to replace voting equipment lost in a
warehouse fire alliance of parties backing opposition said
any further
delay will not be accepted. We know very well that this delay
has nothing to do with the reasons put forward by the
Electoral Commission to give us excuse after excuse me one day
they'll run out of excuses. On December 30. We'll put a stop to
their excuses
for leaks GC Katie told his supporters to remain calm in the
next few days but the 30th of December is Red Line according
to the UDP as a red line that shall not be crossed otherwise,
the militants would take the matter in their own hands
without waiting for the party's instruction according to the
Secretary General. Meanwhile, on Friday, Joseph L. ng co the
president of the government commission charged with
monitoring the elections preparation urged the
authorities to accept the UN help to deploy voting materials
across the country so that the election can be held on the 30th
of December. Meanwhile, several
people have been killed after a plane charted by DRCs National
Electoral Commission crashed near Kinshasa, the Antonov 26
operated by the company go mare was a returning to the capital
of delivering election results forms the central city of
Shikarpur have been at varying accounts of the number of people
on board and the number of casualties.
So why while PBS omit the fact that two thirds of the voting
machines burned in a fire, and that people from the election
committee died in the fiery plane crash and they had
election forms on board. Oh, looks like they'll just vote a
remark. Unbelievable. Yes, really.
That is BS nowadays, whether they're writing or what what?
Completely happen, but they've turned into a very I think it's
like not even in on par with NBC News.
Well, if they were NBC at least would be something to laugh at.
This is not even funny. Now this, this may have something to
do with China, this is what I keep referring to, but I really
can't find anything that points to them directly or who the key
I mean, we're obviously a player in this fight. I don't know who
we're with, or what side we're on with China is now moving into
the next phase of their no road three belt strategy. And because
Kenya could not repay a loan, the giant infrastructure loan
the Chinese had given to them. They now have taken possession
of Kenya's Main port.
Economic Hitman. Bigger This is huge. Oh, they just do it
differently.
Yeah, no, no bloodshed. Yeah, I mean, people will be hurt know
this. But in general, hey, just give him give them an offer.
They can't refuse that they actually can't even fulfill and
then take over whatever you need.
You know, they took over the port.
Yeah. Just came out. Just came out. Over Yeah.
Well, well, that should be interesting. The geopolitics in
China or China and Africa is just fascinating. Yeah.
So anyway, so maybe now is the time to send in troops for you
know,
the Ebola issue? Yes. Close. No, unless,
unless it's going the way we want it. I mean, it would have
to be not not for Kenya, but I mean, for, for the, for the
Congo DRC,
it probably is going the way we want it to go. I don't know what
to put the troops of right. And just to serve some other
function? I don't know.
All right. Well, at least we're on it. You know, somebody is
like PBS, PBS man. Unbelievable. And then we have Wesley Clark,
showing up in the news again.
Maybe if you're going to run for president again. Well, that's
an interesting point. That's a reminder about Wesley Clark. He
told the story a few years after 911, about something that
happened to him in the Pentagon two weeks after 911 where he
received the following briefing. We call it the West Clark seven.
So I came back to see him a few weeks later. And by that time,
we were bombing in Afghanistan, I said, Are we still going to
war with Iraq? And he said, Oh, it's worse than that. He said,
He reached over on his desk, he picked up a piece of paper. He
said, I just he said, I just got this down from upstairs, meaning
the secretary Defense Office today. And he said this a memo
that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in
five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya,
Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.
So that was the plan. The plan is probably still on the books.
But here he is speaking of the pullout, which, of course, he
would be staunchly against. Although Syria wasn't on his
list. He understands how the neocon war machine works. And
he's a part of it. General,
let me start with you, CNN reporting that the abrupt
decision to withdraw from Syria that started this cascading
events occurred after the President spoke with Turkish
president ERD. One and essentially said, take it, it's
yours. We're out. Turkey is part of the NATO coalition that you
once led. How concerned are you about this process or lack
thereof, and the essential giving ceding of influence to
Turkey? And presumably other actors and other ones orbit?
Well, I'm very concerned because there doesn't seem to be any
strategic rationale for the decision. And if there's no
strategic rationale for the decision, then you have to ask,
why was the decision made? I can tell you that people around the
world are asking this. And some of our friends and allies in the
Middle East are asking, Well, did arowana bail the president?
Was there a payoff or something? What is why would a guy make a
decision like this? Because all the
was Did everyone blackmail the president? Was there a payoff?
The President recommendations
were against it? And it looked like that all the facts are
against it, too. We're not quite finished with ISIS. We're not
taking a lot of casualties over there. The Kurds have been
reliable allies costing us
billions. Why do this huge casualties the American taxpayer
right now, and this is the matter that's of most concern,
or should be most concerned to us is what does this say about
the foreign policy of the United States that we're not reliable,
that we make strategic decisions based on no strategic logic? So
what kind of person is driving the helm? That's the issue, but
this is a political issue, not a military issue. Jim Mattis took
a political post in this administration. His job was to
support the president united states when all the chips are
down. He couldn't do it. He left Trump's now replace Trim all
that is in accordance with the way it should be
the odd man.
Everything's in the court. It's just the way it should be. Then
what's your complaint? See,
I wasn't quite sure exactly. I mean, is this the truth wants to
come out? Or let's just listen to that last bit. Again, I found
it. Incomprehensible
not a military issue. Jim Mattis took a political post in this
administration. His job was to support the president united
states when all the chips are down. He couldn't do it he left
Trump's now replaced him all that is in accordance with the
way it should be.
Interesting. That is, that must be a truce should come out thing
not quite, quite sure. This is okay. What what he may be saying
is madness is out. And that's the way it should be. We need an
amount of there for something else, or we needed the other guy
in
or No, Mattis is not getting any work anywhere. I mean, I put it
very made very clear in a newsletter and I'll reiterate
this one of the points. He was a board member and made a big
point of being a board and the board of Toronto's the, perhaps
the biggest scam in Silicon Valley history. And he's on the
board of directors this guy, and that's because and i my i kind
of accused him of being a sucker for the Blondie that ran the
place. It was a I batter, you know, Heino with the big day,
you know, I have a deep voice and what that means I'm sexy.
And so and on top of that, you know, you have to remember this
guy is a bachelor, he be proposed to one woman ever and
she at the day of the wedding or just before the way she called
it off.
I didn't know this about Mattis never
been married, certainly heartbroken. But nine, so he's
got a Napoleonic complex. And he is not a guy that you should
just assume that not having even working in the position of
authority like that.
Because he's unstable, because he got dumped.
He got dumped on his wedding he got could run around by this by
Elizabeth Holmes, and made a fool out of himself. He should
have never gotten a position of any sort after that experience.
Right. What's he doing there? I didn't I couldn't see through
this scam that he was dealing with.
Well, the problem with Theranos or Toronto is that a lot of guys
like that got scammed, including Colin Powell. He was in that
group as well on the board.
Yeah, guys who are susceptible to some Blondie you know,
bleached blonde, let's make that clear. Who likes to manipulate
men? Hey, middle aged men very susceptible to this if they're,
you know, any bit you know, thinking of that feeling their
oats as it were, see who
else let me just look at this board again. See who was on
let's see who else is, is unfit?
Yeah, I believe anyone who was on that board is unfit to have
to have a position of authority. Riley is just missed the mark of
the devil. You're out.
Riley Bechtel of the Bechtel group, economic hitman. thinktel
David Boies. The lawyer boys Schiller and Flexner Yeah, old
older guy. William Fuzhou, former director CDC. Richard
covered ceviche Wells Fargo, another crook. Breezy. Algoma.
Crook. What?
So you can't call him a crook?
No. Okay. I can't call him a crook. was running a crap
organization? Yes. Can I say that? Yes. Okay. Thank you don't
want to get sued for Breazeale. Banani Amgen? Well, that makes
sense. And then Mattis so he was really that the board is much
smaller than I thought at least that was the 2016 board. Yeah,
it may have been bigger earlier, because I was quite sure that
Colin Powell was on there.
I think he has some association. You know, Tim Draper did he was
in love with her. And
was Was he still thinks she can make a comeback. No, he does.
That's true guys. Little audio character. Testing. Meanwhile,
the Washington Post is doing their job to make Trump look bad
in this headline in Syria Assad's government is doubling
down on executions of political prisoners. Course atrocities we
need another ah, we need another Doctors Without Borders.
chemical
attack. The last time there was a doctor's or a border thing. I
think it was our troops that blew one of their hospitals to
smithereens. Remember that? Yep. The big, the big. That's one of
the big planes it has a lot of guns on one side. kept circling
it and pounding on the old
big plane gun. A big gun playing lane with big Playing with guns
gunship also known as Turkey also now making all kinds of
moves against Greece making noise. This is so much going
when it comes to the G
don't even know how much of this is accurate, though.
Of what, of all these news reports? Well, none of this
talk is doing what with Greece?
I'll tell you what, it's all well, here's the issue. The
issue is, I think, as always, it's all about the energy and
the pipeline. So we know that Israel wants their pipelines to
come up through Greece. They're, you know, they're Leviathan
field that Turkey is in bed with Russia for all of this. And they
want their TurkStream to be the you know, the thing that brings
everything in they they want to stop all at all costs and sowed
the talking about you know, airspace who owns Cyprus all
this crap? It's the same stuff they always do but they're
making noise and they'll probably position ships in the
region or blob a pipeline. Meanwhile, Poland if we talked
about it, Poland has now signed their third agreement with us
liquid natural liquefied natural gas for their country instead of
taking gas from Russia through Ukraine.
I don't know what the you know, the polls do anything to get a
better visa deal with us. I guess. Gotta
tell you. That's the one thing that Trump really I don't
understand why he won't let let the polls be part of esta you
just need you just visit the US with a with a quick online form.
He promised it.
Yeah. But somehow getting pushback from someone. A lot of
Bill says Israelis
that would be Botanics conclusion as well.
But hey, he's Trump's done enough favors for the Israelis.
He can do this favor for the polls. Yeah. Who's going to?
Who's going to tell? Are they gonna edge the rally is going to
turn on us. If that deal is done. Come on
now. Thanks. So so what I have seen in the in the mainstream,
by the way, how was your Christmas was a good did you did
you guys all together? Were you up? There were people down there
and what you do
know everybody scattered around? So our Christmas is coming in
about five days? Oh, yes.
The DeVore acts always celebrating on a different date
for every occasion. You guys kill me.
Merry Christmas, and I get some sales.
Well, you have the tree up and everything still, when y'all get
together? Yeah, my great. Interesting. The news is, and I
think it's a mistake, but they believe it's the way to go for
ratings. They're now all pivoting after our end of year
retrospectives, all pivoting to 2020. That's all about who's
going to be running for 2020. They're just going to believe
that political news and I'm talking about the three big
mainstream M five M news channels, MSNBC, CNN and Fox.
That's all they seem to be able to talk about three B's and a
cameltoe. That's right, everybody. That's who's running.
Bernie Biden Beto and Kamala Harris.
Yeah, well, those are, those are that's four of them. There's, in
fact, of course, we have dozens of people running on both sides,
because the people think they can take out Trump. So we have
losers like case which is going on about how he's gonna run
because he doesn't think this president's doing well, and the
public wants him. I mean, these guys, I've never seen so many
delusional people. The only person that really, if we're
gonna go, you know, this is the it's the, well, if Trump can
win, anyone can win, I can win. Realize that Trump has been his
high profile character that can win. He gets votes, because he's
so high profile. The only person like that is Oprah. Right? And
the different and people say, well, Oprah can
not there's another one Tom Hanks.
Tom Hanks isn't? Well,
I think he could do it. I
think he could do it. Well, here's the problem with Oprah.
She would we know of Trump wanting to run for president
since the 80s. He's always talked about it. And
interestingly with the same agenda about China it's it has
not wavered when it comes to this
waiver much. Oprah was never shown any interest in it at all.
So she'd be forced into it so she's not going to do it. Tom
Hanks it's a lark is when it goes through the grind of it,
especially a Hollywood characters all the luggage this
Hollywood people have been it'd be miserable.
Right. But what I'm saying is the media has already the media
has already chosen on the Democrat side. They've chosen
that's what had to do. They had to take a stand because it's
part of the strategy to block Hillary.
Yeah, and Every story I've seen, right, every story I've seen is
followed by 70% of Democrats don't want Hillary anywhere near
the word run.
Yeah, which is a lie. That's a lie. People who are screaming in
the street streets after Trump won, and we're gathered at
Javits, and we're in tears afterwards. They don't hate
Hillary now. Right.
Rand Paul is paying
they're they're just, this is the skin upside. They're gonna
use it again. This is a fraud. Yes, Hillary is probably the
leading candidate, if you ask me.
That's interesting. She will she has yet to raise her ugly head.
Look how long it took the first time because if she doesn't
raise her ugly head for a long time, she gets to gather a lot
of money and that money goes in a different account. So if she
doesn't win anything, debt money still is hers. Yeah,
I agree, though. I have not seen I've not seen the candidate that
would would make it work. Biden four years ago, I mean, it's all
about appearance. And I'll say it again that's how we elect our
presidents we buy our soap it's all the same way. It's got to
look pretty make you feel nice and white afterwards. Give you a
nice smile.
Well, if you remember the guy, the CIA ex CIA guy who wrote
that be behind the scenes book in the White House during the
waning years of the Obama administration slammed Biden for
being wrong on every single topic. It doesn't hasn't got a
prayer doesn't really
matter. It doesn't really matter the President doesn't have to be
right especially if you're running you know, your your
sales guy to sales guy in a puppy or a mommy,
you have to sell sell past the media is a real problem. Rand
Paul,
I think is going to make another run. Okay,
I think he just does that for to keep his profile
high. Well, but he's he's changed something. He's now he
is honing his tweeting skills. I'm not kidding this. You should
look at his Twitter feed. Okay, he's, you know, he's standing on
a beach next to a bunch of sticks looks like a bonfire, but
I guess you could say looks like a teepee. And his tweet is by
came to say Happy Festivus to my friend, Elizabeth Warren, but I
can't find her. I mean, this. Wow, why he's trolling
going after Warren
Street. That's a direct hit. See, what was the other one?
Speaking of criminal justice reform, I have to give Jared
Kushner credit. He was great on this and I'm glad I got to know
him. Because before that I was a bit suspicious. He was the kid
from the Omen movie all grown up. Okay, this is
that sounds like it's professionally written. Yeah.
You have
a writer? Yeah. As a writer. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So he's anyways
making fun of Ted Cruz posting memes of Cruz with a crazy
beard. And that I think he's testing his Twitter skills. He
knows where that is where the 2020 election will be fought, of
course, or whatever on the Twitter feeds Twitter, Twitter.
That's where that's that's where you when rules are changed. And
he at least seems to understand that I don't think he has it in
him.
I've always liked him. Kind of, well, he says your stuff is too
public. Don't ever go for it. We've been sold to American
Polish been sold on a bill of war. Here's JILA
brand on the Van Jones show on CNN. She wants to run the Oh,
she does. But she kind of cuts herself out in an odd way.
I have a vision for America about what's right in the world.
I do believe we should fight for each other's kids as hard as I
do believe that. What
is your question? What is the issue with saying I do believe?
What's the difference between you saying I do believe and
saying I believe
it would be someone who would say that because they have the
feeling idea or perhaps proof that someone thinks you don't
believe that.
But there's no evidence of that you she's just saying I do
believe I did reach their goals. But I see a lot of professional
athletes who many of which are many of whom are borderline, if
not illiterate,
despite their college degrees.
It rarely, most of them quit college because they go to the
pros and make all these millions, you know, unlike to
the suckers who stay in school says hey,
they're your kids. There you go. There's Uncle John telling you
like it is.
So they they're borderline illiterate. They say I do
believe.
Well, so does Jill Bran.
I have a vision for America about what's right in the world.
I do believe we should fight for each other's kids as hard as we
fight for our own. I do believe that we should restore the
golden rule and actually care about one another. And I do
believe no matter what block you grew up on, you should have a
chance to live up
This is a big thing this this block you grow up on or zip code
you grow up in. And I hear this everywhere. This poor this poor
kid, you'll hear the music. This poor child if only were born in
one zip code over would have had a very different life as if the
physical place my sister was born in Uganda January 1 1967.
So you tell me Yeah, it's a bad zip code. That's not a good zip
code to grow it but to grow up in for sure. So anyway, there's
a lot of that you should have
a chance to live up Chicago. Um, so that means good schools,
better public schools, you know, debt free college things that
really make opportunity possible. So I have debt
free college another Zinger. I missed that the first time.
Oh, that is a that's a good way of putting it. That's a great
campaign line. I believe in debt free college, because you kind
of just, yeah, I believe in debt free homes. I believe in a debt
free
car free college things that really make opportunity
possible. So I have that vision. And so the question is, do I do
that from a presidential platform? Or do I do it from the
US Senate? And so that is the question, I will decide very
soon.
We got a poll, we should put this up. But I did notice in
that poll that the top three were, I think, Biden, Bernie and
Bayto, three B's, and all white guys, in a party as diverse as
ours doesn't worry you to see the top three being white guys.
Yes. Guys, why why
I aspire for our country to recognize the beauty of our
diversity in some point in the future. And I hope someday we
have one president, I love the fact that Barack Obama was our
president for eight years, I hope more people of color, not
only aspire and win the presidency, because that's what
makes America so extraordinary that where we are all of that we
are everything. And I think a more inclusive America is a
stronger America.
What is interesting to me is here's Van Jones, on CNN, the
actual organization who has pre chosen the three B's, it's not
like there's no one else running to all we hear about is the
three B's and the cameltoe. That's all we hear about three
B's, instead of saying, Oh, it's the party. No, yes, CNN, maybe
you should include some other people on your list to give
themselves some exposure. Yes, it is. I agree. WaPo time CNN,
CNN just, I mean, they they went all in very quickly. And they
seem to have dropped Kamala Harris
years before. Give me a break. Nicholas is
I'm telling even the MH 17 flight that was lost. After a
year CNN finally just had to give up. I mean, this too much.
You can have too much pro of one type of programming. The public
will not either. Look, we've been in television a long time,
John. If you switch and every every channel you go to is
election this election that it's going to get old ratings will
slip. Yeah. I agree. But maybe it's all just a deal making
stage for the for the ads. Hey, look, we're we've been really
good to you guys. We've we've we've done the three B's. And
you know, you might be right. It's almost like the network
news, people. People. I've said this before we've talked about
on the show. Everyone bit Oh, those those network news. It's
only old people who watched it that knows new stages. It's a
dying audience, although nobody takes into account that new
people are getting old. But that's okay. It's a dying
audience is terrible. Now, the network news folk appeal to the
old stirs because they have ads for them specifically, yes, lots
of drug ads, aches and pains, ads, you know, incontinence ads,
all this stuff that old people need. So it's not like they're
doing it, they're screwing up.
And what's interesting is that the derivative of the audience
they're talking to. And what I mean by that is little clips
that show up on social media. That's kind of a bonus. You
know, they they know they can't with a straight face, say to any
ad agency or media buyer. Here, we got 18 to 24. We're right
here in the pocket. They can't say it because no one will
believe them. It's not true. They can say look, we got 55
plus. And it's a big market for Pharma. And the derivative is
just what is posted online and circulates around the people who
are looking at this are not watching those channels. They're
just taking the snippets and throwing it into the outrage
machine and feeding back in just you know, it's part of the big
loop. And it's really quite genius.
I mean, not that anyone's out they make money not that anyone
can do
Now, before we take a break, I'd like to get your take on the
gyrations in the financial markets. Because the funniest
thing I saw over Christmas was a tweet from the president after
we closed Christmas day with no two days or three days down in a
row and all horrible, worst Christmas clothes ever. The
president after Mnuchin has called the Working Group on
Financial markets to see how they're doing with cash. Last
time we use that name. We call them by their nickname the
plunge protection team. Oh, that's right. I
forgot. Yes. Working. You're working
group on financial markets. That is the plunge protection team.
Yeah. So he called them to all this is said everyone into you
know, you just know Santa rally. Let's put it like that. And then
the President the next day tweets, if I were you, I'd buy
the dip. My mind exploded he's doing by BTF D, buy the dip,
everybody and it shoots up 1000 points.
The next market day think 1085 Something like that. It was the
most in history.
That was fantastic. He is the stock whisperer. Of course you
had to sell at the end of the day, otherwise, you get screwed.
I'm sure it's down today's no domestic
look.
I'm sure it is. I'm sure it is. I think it was down three or 400
points at open this morning. Yeah.
Did you find it best? I've heard the best commentary I've heard
was down 396. Yeah. The best commentary I've ever heard was
some some real old timer was on one of these financial station
shows. And he says, since this is this is his computer trading.
It's just the way it works. nowadays. You have a downward
trend for a little while, the computers all jump on it and
they they they position themselves that that is going to
go down.
It's what it is. It's algorithmic amplification.
itself.
This is exactly what it is. He says it's gotten exaggerated,
some more exaggerated than ever because it computers will push
away down and then it goes starts to go up and they Oh, and
then they all go nuts. The computers in a matter of form.
They all go nuts and things skyrockets and then it goes down
it goes up it goes down it's crazy. It's just like seems like
the perfect time if you have any clue about how the how it's
actually working you as a day trader you should be able to
make millions of dollars a year well, it off cycle
you're Yeah, you're done. I think you can do it on indexes
but individual stocks is a little more a little more
complicated because the out there's there's probably five
basic algos, I've studied some of them. And we have some really
dumb that'll just go on and on a certain time of day if they're
an upward motion, but they obviously they will, they will
suppress the price your true pricing. I think algorithmic
amplifier amplification may be the only thing. Today's
algorithms are really good at no matter what it is. That's what
we've seen on the social media networks like what what do the
algos do this
is a good point because this is actually stems from the fractal
of the semiconductors. And one of the greatest things
semiconductors could do is amplify.
It's yeah, it is a fractal. That's where it's either
compression or amplification. You could do that too. Yes.
Because the world that mean we love Mr. Compression? Yeah.
Well, there's different kinds of compression but compression in
time and you know, abstraction of operations. Anything that can
be compressed is it's it's in our human DNA almost to want to
compress things, but the amplification part that that is
truly what computers do, amplify
us decompress. Yeah. Ha, modulate demodulate Well, here's
Rick's hairy man. Bionaire Hey,
baby bound. Binary man. There's nothing else to it. Rick
Santelli from CNBC had his own take on this Olson
is the Treasury Secretary during the crisis? You know, at first
they were gonna borrow three quarters of a trillion dollars
to buy toxic assets that never materialized it morphed on the
fly, things could get messy. I can't believe some of the
nuances though, really, they can't understand that anybody
would be worried about liquidity. I'll tell you what,
go visit any major FCM in this business and ask them how many
hours a day they're putting in when markets are moving like
this, or talk about margin and leverage for how many times
Treasury Secretary minutiae was concerned about market structure
all the articles beginning in December? Listen, I understand
every nuance is the wrong nuance because the message isn't really
any of these individual thoughts. But what the Treasury
Secretary saying the issue is quite simple. The central banks
of the world propped up the stock market to a point where it
and sustain itself during normalization and normalization
of only a few of the participants in the grand
liquified scheme of things. That is the main issue that marketers
have to contend with. And they could point blame what whatever
they want. There's an industry that does that. And this
President certainly doesn't get the benefits of much.
What did he actually say?
I have no idea. I mean, I kind of was catching it. And then at
the end, he talks about the President doesn't get something
and I don't know what he meant by that.
I don't know. But I think our thesis here is actually quite a
good one. Because end of the year, there's always stuff going
on. There's a pension institutional rebalancing. Thank
you, chat room, troll room. There's a number of things, but
it's the algorithmic amplification that gives you
these wild swings. And we can probably look to see, this is
something we need to be on the lookout for. Anywhere an
algorithm is running. Let's see if we can find the amplification
or over amplification, because eventually something has to
break.
Yeah, amplification for amplification sake is not the
way to go. That's why audio amplifiers need a preamp with it
with a volume control on it. You can stick your stuff into the
amp straight up and then it just gets blasted blocked you blow
your house up. But if you have a preamp, which is a little
controller that says hey, I'm not gonna give you a little bit
of this juice, not all of it. Then it comes down. We don't
have a preamp for the economy.
Interesting. What the Fed I guess would want to be the dial
Turner to dial out the volume control Yeah, the volume control
they I guess that's what the how what they feel their role is you
know, turn up interest rates, turn them down or inflate the
money supply.
Tone control,
but then they know there you go. And with that, I'd like to say
in the morning to you and thank you to the man who put the C in
compression John.
I want to thank you. And I want to thank all the boots on the
ground feeding the air subs in the water and all the names and
dates out there in the
morning to the troll room. Let me see how many trolls we got
here today. Let me just do a quick little scan. Wow 896
That's not bad for a Christmas week. Well in the morning to you
trolls. Good to see you got your troll polls with you know agenda
stream.com is where you can always tune into the program
when we stream it live on Thursdays and Sundays. Also, I
would like to say in the morning to comic strip blogger who
brought us the artwork for episode 1097 title of that to a
sword. And again, lots of art. We chose this one because it was
it really vile. It was nice illustration. There was the
White House and a bunch of protesters in comics or Blogger
to form with his his comic comic strip drawing and they were
holding up protest signs such as peace sucks stop peace. Trump do
war not more war let's do war. That was very appropriate I
think for for the episode. Was there any there was other art? I
think that
was some art that was okay. It was good and was in great but I
personally liked this one because it had the it had the
the tone that we're bitching about which is all these
Democrats and you just proved that with some earlier clips.
Yep. All these you know, peace Nick's war. peaceniks for war
was the only sign he left out
yeah, not American enough to know that one. But it was good
we appreciate it no agenda art generator.com We always love
looking at all the art the artists available for anyone to
see it is a part of the value for value system that we started
here. And we appreciate the value that comics are blogger
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We do a few people thing and cluding three Whoppers at the
beginning of the list that came in with $1,000 Plus whoa yeah.
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for a while. I don't think he was at the meetup. But he's in
San Ramon California so could easily become a member of the
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It's been a number of months, this being
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donation is from for my father. So okay, I think I hit him. I
think I hit Baron, but I cannot find all the receipts. And I
really don't pay that much attention because it's more
important to keep the show alive. Also, I received
tremendous value from it. So the value for value model works. The
show means so much to me because it embodies what my father
taught me about questioning what I see and hear and not to take
things at their face value. Technically, I guess I'm a
Baronet. Since I know I'm a knight, and this doubles the
amount. The other thing is, like the way he's kind of frustrated
by his his knowledge that he slips it in, in and out. He's in
and out of consciousness. It's great. The other changes given
since then was 100 here 100 There. No jingles? No karma. I
don't waste time with the jingles or note.
Well, I'd like to do an F and F. F cans. Yeah,
we'll do that for sure.
Let me do it. Let me do it. Now. It's an import. Everyone's
talking about it. You've got a car for anyone who needs it.
Thank you very much, Sir Mark Millman and why don't you let us
know if you have a protector if you are a baron, and we'll
gladly upgrade. There
is no rush to know what goes on. Oh, I'm sorry. I do not need
karma. But I do need karma because I need the satellite
deal to come through or else I'll need job karma. Your last
Sunday show is right on target with my assignment of the Huawei
with my assessment of the Huawei situation or already explained
another component of the fuck Trump and China plan from the
deep state. These elitist assholes don't care who they
ruin, but Boeing SpaceX, us and the others are involved in it so
they are messing with the big boys except for Elon, who is
just a little boy. Isn't the business Yeah. Oh, yeah. Those
up in that area, you know, yes. I hope you to have a merry Chris
to your respective families thank you for covering these
beats. So I don't have to my amygdala can handle the M five
at all. It is for in his current form, including Fox News and
WSJ. I always see so much more when I read or watch anything
from the MSN. I always see so much more when I read or watch
anything from the M five M. Thanks to us, Adam. I hope your
theory about AOC is wrong. I know she provides great source
for the show, but she is an idiot. There is no simpler and
nicest way to put it. The problem is that many of the
millennial idiots think she's a genius. Let the fucking of
Hillary began. I know Bernie recognizes that his political
life is ending so he will pump up AOC that should be
entertaining. It should be an entertaining ride. We need to
give him a satellite camera.
Yes. And that, of course is the bottom line. As long as it's an
entertaining ride for the no agenda show and our network. We
don't care. Sir Mark Milam and I know exactly what he does. I
know why he wants to sidelight karma and I really hope it
works. Here you go. You've got karma. We have some of the most
amazing people in our audience. Did you see the the great
Twitter thread? The no agenda? Selfie thread on Twitter? No.
Um, I think, who started off two of our producers, I think in
Colorado, and then everyone was doing really close up selfies of
half your head and you know, when we got some interesting
looking people.
Well, that's a fact. Oh, my
goodness was great, though. You didn't know Sir Chris, of course
with his, you know, his washed up on the beach. You know, been
on a desert island for 30 years. His prophetic. Everyone jumped
in on it usually just look at this thread because people we
got good lookers the Illuminati in her lab coat. I mean, it was
just fun to see everyone working on the day after Christmas, and
where they were and what they were doing. I don't know. It was
something about what people would call community but what I
call our value for value network where the network was fun.
Yeah. Okay, now we have an interesting one. Kyle from
Cincinnati. 799 dot 88. from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Ah,
right. He actually let me reach over Hold on a second. Yeah,
reach around. Around. Reaching around reaching around always
good for the dirty, the dirty little jive and that's what
you're keen to do. Okay. I don't think you know, he sent a check
in. And he has some. No, I don't really have anything.
Shall I go back to my dirty jobs then again to entertain people
or buy your dirty Chai? While you look? Why don't I read?
Look, that's not not getting we're moving on. He's just said
to check with I think very just uh, no jingles or something
along those lines. What I got a kick out as Kyle from Cincinnati
was in Chapel Hill. So all right. Maybe wants to say some
big yes. No, thank you very much, Kyle. Michael Hall. Bohol.
The I'm sorry, Michael. How be Michael Halabi and Marian,
Louisiana, Iowa Murray, Iowa 333 33. These are all executive
producers. By the way. This donation completes my knighthood
joining my father at the round table been listening to the best
podcast in the Universe since episode 50. Also a listener of
the daily source code way back before iTunes had podcast
support. And when I was still in high school, whoo. I even
remember John on silicon spin way back in the ZD TV days. I've
been extremely fortunate this year. So it seems only
appropriate to cap off the year. completing my knighthood Merry
Christmas. Happy New Year. Michael.
Tell me Oh, Michael, thank you so much. That's very you know,
it's it's interesting, those old days, the old days back into,
like this kind of theme, you know, with the with the old
advertisements that you put in the newsletter.
I put? Yeah, if you didn't see the newsletter you missed out.
But
someone sent me I'll just play you tell me what you want me to
stop a clip of you, which I think is from the 80s. About
then you were being interviewed about viruses. Can I play a
little bit just as I want
to? I'm interested now. Why
do hackers plant viruses? What kind of guys are these? We
visited computer columnist John Dvorak to learn more about oh,
where's the sea? Whoa, what's up with that? Yeah, psychological
profile
of the virus hacker.
They're young. They're mostly male. Probably like pizza and
Coca Cola. You can probably find them by the 711. And they
probably have weird hours. You know, they stay up real late.
And that may sound like the description of a typical
teenager, but beware because it may also Read the picture of a
typical computer hacker. According to the computer virus
Industry Association, some 60,000 PCs across the country
are infected by viruses every month. hackers try to infiltrate
the systems for a variety of reasons. For some, it's just a
practical joke. Others may have a score to settle with a former
boss. The real reason may be a whole lot simpler. But just as
harm comes.
There's two things that make people create viruses. One is
some peer group pressure, they are in a group that does this
kind of stuff. The other one is boredom. Because they, you know,
these people are employed. And actually there are some people
who are employed, they create viruses, and there's just a
cheap thrill of doing it and seeing seeing what happens to
your creation. It is a little bit like graffiti art in that
regard. You know, throwing something up on the wall and
then taken off before the police catch you. You know it's not
your wall.
John, I love hearing this stuff. That's That's it, man. That's
That's what that's why hackers do what they do. Yeah.
Dad was the hackers then and then they decide they figured
out that you make money in it.
Oh, yeah. No, it's a very different situation. It's just
funny. I mean, if you play some clips from me from MTV, for
those sound very stupid, believe me.
I'll get them. Yeah, you should. Hey, I'm not gonna hate people
out there. I know a lot of you have clicked Adams old MTV
stuff. Send me some of the better stuff. There we go. It's
not your wall. Man. Your wall that your wall man
is pretty good. Randall. Meanwhile, Randall Scheibel in
Somerville, Massachusetts came with $333 I've been listening
for the last nine months and I've decided to donate Can I
please get a deed? douching Yes, you can.
You've been deed deuced I would
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no no. Trash Bag. Yes. Double douchebaggery
can I get it to to the head respect from Al Sharpton and
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Somerville.
Thanks, Hillary. Oh, I think I know what it is. Here we go. ESP
I see T thanks, fiance. You've got karma. Thanks. Beyonce. Was
that it was Hillary saying thanks, Beyonce.
Where did that come from?
We play it again. I don't know. It's my new search system. It's
bringing up interesting results.
Thanks, Beyonce.
That's That's all right. So right there. Oh, thanks.
Beyonce.
Christopher BD are bead 333 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year to John Adams in the no agenda
family. I just read an article that joy from giving lasts much
longer than joy from getting though. But let me read that
again. Joy from giving lasts much longer than joy from
getting so I'm sorry to have to do this. But it's been far too
long since my last donation. I know these podcasts don't make
themselves many thanks, Chris bead from Indianapolis.
Thank you very much, Chris. That's so kind.
Now we need a somebody's jingle
I you know what it's I even looked ahead today just to make
sure that it had everything lined up and knows Bob
knew she knows. Virginia 314 59 By the way, it's van Steen Berg
again. Is our guy the marine. No I mispronounce his name on his
show. Archduke nous bomb Happy Christmas and happy holidays to
one at all make 2019 a rockin great year. Love to all of the
no agenda nation boomed on the boners hugs for Adam and JCD now
let's drink so we awakened 2019 2019 Because they're
already starting to jingle goat no karma. Random jingle
goat no car.
Boom shakalaka brother.
You got it. He said no karma. Hello, David. Drew's in
Henderson, Nevada 23456. And he emailed something to us is Uncle
Dave on the on the old Warwick blog
or was that who that is? Yeah, Uncle Dave.
He's He's. He's coming here. loves the show, sir Uncle Dave
Knight of the retired old farts here with the New Year's
donation of 23456. And a personal thank you for what you
two did for me this year. What was that you say? Actually, it
should be what was that you ask? If you remember, at the
beginning of April, I started my retirement with a driving trip
to Arizona. While heading down a lonesome desert road a deer ran
across a head of me, I swerved and my newer used car bought
four days before ended up on its side off the road demolished in
a boulder Ouch. After cutting me out of the car, I was airlifted
to the hospital where I stayed for over a week Holy crap. The
following months, I healed my battered body. And with some of
my doctors considered an amazing rate, which I attribute to the
no agenda show. Wait a minute, I don't always agree with your
conclusions. By the way, people don't have to mention that to us
because we know your studied analysis and commentary against
the insanity of the M five M belches out belches out quieted
my amygdala. So much so that I could concentrate on healing was
an interesting theory. So he never had got the swollen
amygdala, and that could he could heal better instead of,
you know, being
all freaked out. There may be something to that.
I think so too. And I'm not normally buying into a lot of
this. But I kind of think that's probably true. Because the ever
since we found out about the amygdala issue, yeah. I bet
there are others who have been mentally healed by you. By the
power invested in me by me. I pronounced you doctors of
deconstruction. Unlike my doctors, listeners can partake
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donation prescription is recommended. Of course don't
forget to list your doctorates on your LinkedIn profiles, or
when you find you need to get real jobs. Thanks, Doctor John
and Dr. Adam. needed healing work was no okay, because you've
always supplied me with enough already.
Thanks, Dave. Well, Dave, the I think they're this is very
interesting. Doctors of
doctors of deconstruction. Yeah. Next time we do business, it's
very
it's very similar to the way medicine used to work in the old
days. You know, the doctor, the town doctor, no one would pay
him he'd get value in return. Here's chicken, I'll help you
build your barn. It's a very similar system. They paid him
not what not in Little House on the Prairie. They didn't. The
doctor was always out of money. Well, so are we that's what I
mean. So exactly. It's the same My point exactly. Thank you.
James Williams $220.46 should complete my knighthood may be
granted the title of Sir James night of the paradise star.
Nice. Thank you for the discussions of lesser covered
topics. research performed for the show and overall value of
this product. Yes, this product is great. Jingles. Dark Side
Yoko and lone wolf
will do and I'll see you at the podium later for uniting. It's
been too long. been too long since we played that one. Thanks
for bringing it back.
Perfect with the wool. Yeah. Right and Hava in pin yaka sign
knocker, pain knocker? 233 cents. John and Adam. No long
notice a short thanks for all the awesome work you guys do.
And the entertainment and sanity you provide. Merry Christmas
regards, Roy.
Thank you, Roy. Duncanville.
Pardon me, Roy, is that the cat that chewed your new shoes?
I've heard it differently. Is that the kid? Is that the cat
that shit on your shoes?
No, that would be the again the dirty version ah, ecologist or,
alas, those Associate Executive Producers just fake ecologist.
He's, and by the way, he obscured everything. I have no
idea who this person is. He's fake College.
Just he I think I blocked him on Twitter. You did? I think so.
It's I mean, there's a guy named psychologists who Yeah, I think
I blocked and unblocked and blog get some, some people whatever
and doesn't matter. What does he have a notes Do we know anything
about us?
I have a note here. My blog fake colleges.com is all about
exposing media fakery. Every major media event you can go
check it out. Is a hyper realistic Drill portrayed as
real, including 911 It was inspired by the least promoted
video of all time, September clues, which shows that every
bit of 911 video was prefabricated like a movie,
including nine and 11 second, the nine and 11 second collapse
from footage of towers one and two. You can watch it on YouTube
or on fake colleges.com
Meanwhile, can you call out douchebag Simon shack? Boy
Boolean Wilson thanks for your great work and have a good 2019
Fake colleges he wants to following jingles oh you
bought Yeah, I should have told you this earlier. Sorry. Obama
stuttering if stuttering if if if if the beautiful yum which is
that gonna be harder to find. We haven't used that for a while.
I'm a rule follower. And Adam is favorite dubby a TC seven will
go away. And we we
Okay, I think I have most of these. Let's give it a shot if
we if we fall
for you to fall.
rule follower. So if the rule is that we have to do it, then I'll
do it. You've got karma? scuze me?
Debbie doubter.
Well, you didn't get the Wii in there. Oh, I
didn't hear that. I didn't understand he wanted the Wii.
Yeah.
But that was fantastic. I'm surprised you could find those
that fast. But you did. That's our last this socially sick.
There's the way I could have done the way we that's our loss
Associate Executive Producer want to thank all these folks
for being executive producers and Associate Executive
producers and supporting the show show number 1098 headed
toward show 1100, which will be a special event is the first
show of the 2019 Yeah, that's
coincidence. I think not. Well, I'm very happy with the gifts
we've been given for for the end of the year for Christmas.
Anyone showing up at all, we never really know when you when
actually we do know is it's very difficult to get people to do
stuff in this Christmas break. And not only I would have people
listening, we have people supporting the show also with
the the other part, the other elements of our value for a
value system, with artwork, with jingles with clips with
knowledge. It's also highly appreciated and will thank more
people in our second donation segment. Of course, just before
the New Year's we will have a another show on Sunday, remember
us and support us at avora.org/and
A it was pretty easy today,
you've got so much deconstruction, you can beat
anybody just propagate it.
Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth
I'm gonna do something new today a test which won't affect
anything before you get worried about it. I've been worried
about it. Well, it's something with the publishing of the show,
believe me, you're worried. But it's completely separate. I've
been following IPFS for a couple of years. And I've been messing
around with it. It's IPFS stands for the interplanetary file
system. Yeah. And yesterday, I did the ultimate this
something that one of these like Tim Berners Lee, or one of these
types of guys are came up with no, no, not at all.
Who did it? I think the main guy is a kid from Stanford. Okay.
And though it's not in anyone's interest, except us to have
something like this running. And what what tipped me over the I
went, I revisit these these things from time to time to see
if they're useful. And I've come to the conclusion that IPFS the
interplanetary file system is almost useful for large podcast
distribution. Now, I'm not going to get it. I'm not going to get
into the way it works. But very nicely Cloudflare has set up a
gateway in order for this to work and it's a distributed file
system. And of course, it's you know, the the internet age of
the cloud and everyone's hosting your files and a lot of stuff
that you've heard before, but this one seems to be something
that can get legs because they've incorporated into
blockchain. In fact, it's very similar to what GitHub does.
It's very similar type of system ology or system with clout so if
you don't have the software running to basically a little
local server to use the because it's just a hash instead of a
full URL. You can you can use a public gateway and Cloudflare
set up a public gateway for this kid. Yeah, that would they said,
it's stimulate, to stimulate. Now, in all these cases, having
a main front end or like a distribution network where even
if you can distribute between other peers that are hosting the
file that's being requested. It's not bad to have, you know,
a couple of to have a system that can rotate amongst these
public gateways for people who don't have them. Anyway, long
story short, I've started a second RSS feed is completely
separate. I've tested it, it works. It'll be in the show
notes and a show notes.com or no agenda show.com. And if anyone
wants to try it out, because pretty much I'm uploading 120
meg file, which is the average size for our show, and it's
going into the I PFS I'm not hosting it. I'm hosting one
original copy on my laptop, and everyone who subscribes to that
should be able to receive it. And I'm just interested to see
how well that works. If just you know, it's a test, but I think
it's an important one
was hosting it. Well,
no one's hosted with the Father. He just floats
around his data in the cloud, and then it gets picked off.
Yeah. Yeah. So that was his freeloading?
Well, it's no different than freeloading, then torrents only
you don't have to have a central tracker as long as you have the
hash of the file you're requesting. And that's what
pushed me over the edge. I tweeted just a hash, not a URL,
just a hash that can anyone see this. And it was a hash for an
image I'd drawn that said it worked. And a lot of people got
it. And they knew how to retrieve it. I was like, Okay,
so there's enough out there to start testing. I know, there's
some, just with all this deep platforming going on. There is
stuff that's working. And I love trying to lead that charge
because there's no money in this. There's no money anywhere.
So
yeah, it's like somebody can't screw you. It's like podcasting.
Learning from these guys, because we're losing money
because we are associated with them. Exactly. Yeah, can't do
that. So I'm glad you're doing this. There's also a last thing
in the world. I do. I don't trust any of this stuff. Yeah.
Well, this is interesting. Because it's, it's created with
a blockchain, there's interesting ways you can add in
payments for either hosting or storing some of it or for
content. I mean, I'm not too interested in that part. But I
am very interested in the ability to just share a file
with anybody by dropping it into a folder on mine. And you know,
it's the ultimate goal is like Dropbox. You know, it's like you
wish think at Dropbox when you Yeah, and it just came to me as
well. It's pretty much like Dropbox, you throw it in, you
copy the location, which is not a URL, and then anyone can go
and get it. Now the issue, of course, is you put something up
there, there's no way for you to ever get it off. Where it's
unlikely. Because once copies are made, you know, you're
removing it, unlike Dropbox is not going to remove it. So you
want to be careful what you put up. Anyway, that'll be a test
and I'd love to hear back from our dudes and dudettes named Ben
and Ben and Ben Jimena to see if they had any success with that.
And we'll continue to look good. Yeah, yeah. How about this drone
story, this Gatwick drone story, some
long version of it, because this,
this now that as I understand it, Gatwick was shut down for at
least 24 hours. 36 hours. This is an outrage and aviation
outrage and makes no sense someone is lying. I mean,
there's a million ways to detect that they couldn't find it could
there's no way to find a signal there was controlling the drone.
I don't even think there was even a picture of the drone.
Well, it's going to sell some new products. Yes.
I've noticed this as well. The drone Dome Security.
No, there's a couple of them. There's one. Domestic there's
one in Israel the both of them are discussing the drone threat.
at airports report from NBC NBC
with millions of Americans flying over these holidays. US
officials tonight are growing increasingly concerned that our
airports could face an illegal drone disruption like the one
that shut down a major airport last week. And BCS Pete Williams
now on the push to protect the skies. After struggling with
dozens of drone sightings by shutting down operations twice.
Gatwick Airport south of London finally brought in a system
designed by an Israeli company to detect drones according to
British media, the challenge Keeping drones and planes apart
is growing more difficult, and even accidentally bumping into a
plane could be disastrous.
A larger format drone 10 to 15 pounds could do a significant
amount of damage to an airplane and if it were close to the
ground, it could result in loss of the airplane. Even more
worrisome is the prospect of an intentional attack. ISIS
terrorists overseas have been using hobbyist drones to carry
explosives or dropped small bombs. Congress has been slow to
respond to the drone threat and only recently gave the federal
government authority to disable drones that fly into restricted
airspace and security experts say most airports are not
prepared to deal with them. Salt Lake city's airport is
monitoring two of its runways with a system to deal with
potential drones made by a Utah company. It uses radar to detect
them and dispatches a drone hunter to bring them down. Joe
says it's not just airports that are unprepared
when we go into stadiums when we go to airports. There's fences,
there's all sorts of checkpoints. And what we're
learning now is that America needs to invest in airspace
security, just like ground security.
It's a rapidly growing threat with 2 million drones estimated
to be in the hands of American hobbyists by the end of 2019.
I'm still on the drone killers are these drones that have nets
and they just go get to the drone and throw it net on him.
The one company I have is Rafael Advanced Defense Systems they
make the drone dome has now been ordered by the UK first customer
for the counter unmanned air system equipment. Yeah,
that's the one I think was discussed. And of course they
did find some saps and blamed it all on them and the media went
wild and it turned out oopsie it no it wasn't them the couple
arrested and later released without being charged for a
drone disruption at Gatwick Airport in London last week they
are now speaking on for the first time Paul Gates says they
were treated very badly. As you
can probably imagine, we're feeling very feeling completely
violated. A home has been searched and our privacy and
identity completely exposed. Our names photos, and other personal
information had been broadcast throughout the world.
And even their response was so odd. I have a different theory
though. I'm,
well I would say if you just go just a just a surface
superficial theory, the company that makes the drone dome is the
one who sent a drone in there. We probably have one that's not
controlled, you don't use a lot of them or nowadays, you can
just program the drone to do stuff and it goes out and does
it and comes back home or go someplace else or whatever you
want it to do. And you go in there and just mess with them.
And then you come in there with your sales guys and say hey,
look, we got that would be the most superficial analysis.
What's missing from this is evidence of any drone at all.
What's missing from this is more than one aircraft reporting a
drone did not happen. There's no recording of it. There's no one
saying there's drones about drones are all over airports
people are assholes, they fly these things and I say that as
an aviator they fly these things everywhere. Airports do deal
with this and to shut down and Gatwick for 36 hours can only be
because of one thing. What unidentified flying object. Ah,
Ray and I'm serious about that. I'm not saying it was a
spaceship but I think there was something unidentified they
couldn't figure it out. And they had to bring in a whole bunch of
people. And we'll never hear about radar
because if there was visible they would be there'd be videos
all over the place.
Oh man UFOs don't show up on radar. Hello, how
was this visible? What are you talking about?
I think I think it was visible. I've seen I've seen a picture
which I don't think is I mean who the hell knows. I seen a
picture of where something is flying there that looks like it
might be some kind of disk shaped object I don't know could
be a Frisbee for all I know. I'm saying this type of shut down
for 36 hours is not because do we think someone's flying a
drone around which we haven't seen have no pictures of no
radar in no groundless ground radar, nothing. This was
something much bigger
Well, it's not it's not the outcomes razor. Analysis. No.
But that's not why people come to the no agenda show John.
Moore will be He revealed yes so obviously this is all the
mainstream news and most of it was about scammers really hit.
You must have felt right at home. Sorry and you must have
felt right at home.
Yeah, everything's a scam scam. So scam scam. So, they, they, I
got two of these clips one of them is I think educational I
think people will enjoy listening to it. But the other
one is just like what is this stupidity? This is a This to me
is a native ad for Netflix. Because the the scam they're
about to discuss is not even anything new and specific or
specific to Netflix has been going on with Pay Pal for
decades. But play the Netflix CBS scam for Dummies the Federal
Trade
Commission warning Netflix customers about a new email scam
criminals are posing as Netflix and these emails asking
recipients to confirm payment details. Experts say it's a good
idea to avoid clicking on links and emails like this all
together. Best to log on to your Netflix account on the Netflix
site.
Yeah, that's not the most egregious of them. The one I am
despising is the Amazon gift card.
I have the gift card one but it's not the Amazon gift card.
This one here was a generic gift card scam. And Amazon was never
mentioned. Oh, interesting. So it wasn't a native ad. I fed it
wasn't an ad for anything. I thought this was an actually a
mainly because Andrew Horowitz his father in law fell for this
brother. Yes. And he's apparently Andrew is beside
himself. How
bad Wow, bad that again. What happened to all is
like something like 10 grand or some. Here's one here's a gift
card scammer. This is the rundown of how it works. I have
more details from some from that. Let
me just before before we play the report. Here's my
observation with the amazon giftcard scam. It comes in, you
see the subject line
and it's oh no, no, this
is not email. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. I have an email issue.
Some years is different. You can tell us later but it's not this
cards are an increasingly popular holiday present. Turns
out thieves like them to federal regulators say in the past three
years gift card fraud has jumped 270% 20 to cocoa spoke with
someone who's been scammed.
All the steps that were being done and taken seemed real
Trinidad Gonzales says a man claiming to be her grandson
called saying he was in jail and needed 1000s of dollars
immediately. He then put someone on the phone who posed as an
attorney.
You know, I was hesitant because that's a lot of money. But the
caller said he
would make it easy for the 76 year old grandmother. He told
her to purchase gift cards from Walmart and give him the numbers
on the back of the cards. He warned her not to answer
questions from store employees
Massman Do you know what this man is going to understand is
going to my grandchildren.
That night she figured out her real grandson was at home in
Virginia. By that point Gonzales who had recently lost her
husband was out $4,000
So much money. So much money for me to hand over to a stranger
like that.
According to the Federal Trade Commission. 26% of victims paid
scammers with a gift card between January and September
this year. That's up from only 7% in 2015. It's a huge issue.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, why wouldn't a
scammer just asked for cash or credit card number? Well,
typically with cash, you'd have to have a meet up somehow and
so they don't want to create that risk. And on a credit card
that's much easier to trace and easier for the bank to shut
down. The money flowing to the scammer
Trinidad Gonzalez says she hopes her story will put others on
high alert.
I hope it helps somebody. Somebody who likes me thinks
they're smart enough not to fall for it. And to question thanks,
Marcus. I didn't question anything.
Yeah, this one that happened with Horowitz is I think his
father in law. There was his father's father in law. The kid
was in Tijuana is gigantic grand son. Kid was in Tijuana. It just
got busted. And he's got to get out of jail otherwise just had
to spend a month in a Tijuana prison or some Legos like
Andrews kid. No is one of one of the kids Oh, whose kid was was
one of the grandkids some somewhere in the family. I don't
have the map of it. But it was one of these kids everyone knows
who it is. And he has to get this money to him immediately.
And so he went did the same thing same routine and gave me
sending us money meanwhile the kid is you know, parked in
Loveland, Colorado or disobey Fort Lauderdale or something
he's home all the time. No. And nobody bothered to call him or
say Hey, what is you know, because you wasn't the day it
wasn't in Mexico at all. Wow. So of course, now you have to eat
crap for the rest of your life for being a sucker. But this
apparently goes on and it says hit the Andrew got is one of the
people that's familiar with it. So people should know about
this. This guy, his gift cards are dubious anyway. So what's
the one you're talking about?
The one I'm talking about, as you get an email, and I get
emails from Amazon, I still order some things to them. I'm
really trying to curtail my purchases from Amazon Evil Corp.
So they'll send they'll send something about, Oh, get your
amazon giftcard. And it's something about the wording, the
sophisticated, the wording, even the return email address, which
is what you usually want to look at. And I've gone so far as to
load images on one of these, because I have my images turned
off because that's how they track one of the many ways they
can track if you're if you're if you read their mail. And so of
course, the minute I turned on the images, and I'm like, wait a
minute, this isn't really from Amazon, that I'd already
signaled them that, hey, here's a sucker send some more. And you
can keep changing the email address and you don't really
want to block the word Amazon, so it becomes a little
complicated. It's a good one, though.
I don't know that I've seen this.
Yeah, it's like a $50 gift card if you fill out their survey.
Where's this more you lot you log in when you log in with your
Amazon credentials, Hulu? Oh, you know, you don't actually get
a gift card. Surprise surprise. Earlier, one of our producers in
the donation segment talked about AOC Alexandria, Ocasio
Cortez, and how stupid she is. And his word he used idiots. He
said idiot or stupid idiot.
He said idiot. All right.
Well, I think she is going to be very big in our future. I've
said this before. And her green New Deal is catching all kinds
of steam if she made it the Green New Deal, I could actually
get on board with that. But I don't know if if show a nukes
bad nucleus bad according to the younger generation. But this
constant new she is leading the charge of children who have been
abused by their parents and by the media their parents consume,
it's all around us. And the message and I'll just
reiterating for those of you who are new who can come to us from
this week in tech that they were overlooking the children are
being told they're going to die. You have 10 more years before
you die, the planet will be held. Children are dragging
kindergarten and are drawing pictures of the world is hell of
fiery hell, and we're all dead. And we're surprised by this. So
to get us into the child abuse, which is as I see it, abusing
children to propagate this message and this is a real
whammy. This is the 15 year old girl. This was at the end of the
Poland Climate Summit. This is the 15 year old Swedish girl
just play that so you can hear the abuse that is taking place.
15
year old environmental activist from Sweden is scolding world
leaders on what she says is their failure to address climate
change. Greta Thunberg addressed the climate change summit that
wrapped up in Poland on Sunday, on Saturday, and she didn't hold
back. She accused the negotiators from nearly 200
nations of abandoning young people and stealing their future
by refusing to commit to measures that will truly halt
global warming.
You are not mature enough to tell it like it is even that
burden you leave to us children. But I don't care about being
unpopular. I care about climate justice and the living planet.
Our civilization is being sacrificed for the opportunity
of a very small number of people to continue making enormous
amounts of money.
Fenberry became a hero to many young environmentalists after
she skipped school back in September to protest climate
change outside the Swedish parliament. So this Yes.
Just a girl I play the clip of last show. Yes, show before I
know.
That's why I said to reiterate, ah, that's the key word. Now. So
this type of abuse of this young girl, which is being propagated
onto her peer group, and she's looking for climate justice,
which I love that she she's looking for that has resulted in
an affliction and the affliction needs to be dealt with. It is
serious. A lot of kids have it and it is called Climate grief.
If you pay attention to climate change news these days this is
NBC it's pretty distressing.
I don't know if I'm hopeful that we will avoid climate
catastrophe it seems like that window of time is rapidly
closing
climate catastrophe another good one, hold on I gotta write the
climate catastrophe. Hmm.
Marcella Mulholland is 21 years old. She's a college student
from Orlando for a few years now. She has been feeling angst
over the climate choosing
to be pay attention and to be aware in the world at this time
is like a deeply painful daily exercise. And definitely anxious
like totally, totally and just really sad about the world but
yeah,
now there's a name for what she's feeling. Climate grief,
climate grief is such a thing. And I'm glad that they there's a
label for it now and people are working on
to Prosecco fry out of your boys, lady.
That's climate grief because it's so real.
I asked Marcela, when did she first feel climate grief?
So the first time,
John, John, when did you first feel climate?
First, I looked outside is dead bird.
So the first time I became aware of like climate, wow, what
does that tell? Why is she laughing? was interesting. Did
she Yeah. Listen, again, the question, when did you first
feel climate grief? Yes,
Marcella, when did she first feel climate grief?
So the first time I became aware of like, climate change as like
a severe existential threat to humanity into all of life on
Earth was my freshman year of college and I took a
sustainability class. Oh, there it is.
You got it. You nailed that you
go to school, and then they tried to make you feel like
you're gonna die.
And I was really sad for a while. And I was just really mad
that I had lived in the world for like 18 years and had never,
like, no one ever told me that we were like rapidly. Luckily,
luckily, now, I don't want to take away from this young lady's
experience. She may really be feeling that she clearly she has
climate grief. And there is there they do have some
solutions. There's ways you can deal with climate grief,
Amy Lewis Ro And Laura Schmidt are the founders of the good
grief network, the hell the session at the conference and
how to deal with climate grief. Before the session, I asked
Laura, what exactly is climate grief?
Climate grief is the gut punch that you feel when you realize
that your imagined future may not exist anymore. When you
realize that what we've done to the planet will not make
tomorrow look like yesterday,
I asked Amy, what she hoped people would get out of the
session
tools and community and reminders that they're not
alone. So is this the climate depression session?
That's Kelton, one of the 17 people who showed up at the
session.
That sounds like you or me when we were young. This is the
climate depression session.
And Laura said it low to the ground chairs in a circle in the
grass in a circle. That group was surrounded by tall trees and
desert mountains sitting under the clear blue sky. Now the
cloud in sight is incredibly quiet. The only sound was a
little bit of wind passing by.
Yeah, that's how you you go to the good grief network and, and
they take care of your climate grief. And I think there's one
last term we need to learn a couple of
years ago, Amy and Laura started working on a 10 step program to
deal with collective grief. Things like mass shootings and
climate change.
Alright, 10 steps to psychosocial resilience, psycho
social resilience,
holy moly.
What is that?
They shared their steps at the uplift session.
One except the problem and its severity, to acknowledge that I
am part of the problem as well as the solution
are you following along because this is going to help you get
through you're part of the product and
she's part of the problem. It's
sad. It's so sad what these children are being put through.
They have so this is the mantra that let's let's deconstruct
them
acknowledge that I am part of the problem. That was the first
one one except the problem and its severity.
So the right off
the bat the severity, is they using the 12 step up Yes, Yes
brother.
And so they're doing it with the first one is you have to accept
that you're going to die existential problem to
acknowledge that I am part of the problem as well as the
solution. Part of the problem. Man step three, practice sitting
with uncertainty.
Practice sitting with uncertainty. These are life
skills here
for confront my own mortality and the mortality of all
five feel my feelings. John,
I feel my feelings. Do you feel my feelings? How do you not feel
your feelings?
Six do inner work. Step Seven
do inner work is working on yourself, John working on your
mental health at me He might have to take
breaks and rest is needed.
Ah, there it is. Yeah, luckily we can take some breaks and rest
when we
breaks and rest as needed. I you know, I've thought about this
over my most of my life, I've thought about this idea of
taking breaks and resting, you know, like go into bed. Yeah, I
think it's a pretty good idea. It should be on the list.
But this is more when needed. So you can say I'm sorry. I need to
stop working right now. I need a little break. Oh,
I need a site. Nailed it. That's exactly what this is more of
that noodle boy stuff. Yes.
I need a social psycho social resilience.
Excuse me? Excuse me. Yes, I need a break.
What do you need the rest for? What's the problem?
I just need it. I have my inner feelings. I understand myself
and I know when I need a break. And as I'm telling myself in
there, internally, inside myself, I'm saying to myself, I
need a break. So I need a break.
Step seven, take breaks and rest is needed. Step eight, develop
awareness of brain patterns and perception brain pattern.
Develop.
Step eight, develop awareness of brain patterns and perception
develop awareness of brain patterns and perception.
As deep as what? It's inane. It's, it's monkey going. Nine,
nine, show up. Show up show up.
Show up. 10 reinvest into problem solving efforts.
Wow. This is the this is a 10 step program for morons. I give
you a clip of the day by the way.
Oh, thank you. Oh, I thought it was a nice little collection of
the show. Clips.
From finger number one, they
made the made the show. What is the thing I've seen about this
as you're starting this thing? You're you're gonna continue I'm
sure No, no. But I'm thinking about the child abuse thing is
when you have these I never thought about it quite like
this. But I'm going to is I'm going to express so you have
these kindergarteners and first graders drawing the little stick
figures with crayons of the world on fire. And then you use
you for some reason how did they get this idea in the first
place? And then you take the pictures? Look, even the little
kids are saying the world is a horrible place it's going to be
burned to the ground because it climate change we've got to do
something for the children is really sick.
That's exactly what's happening. And parents are not have zero
realization of the harm they're doing. And Al Gore up front.
We outdoors the worst he's a demon.
I mean, it used to be you saw the sad little polar bear and
kids could kind of get into that even though the polar bear can
slim, you know, swim very well doesn't need the little piece of
ice doesn't
need ice and the polar bear population has increased
substantially. Yeah,
so popular right wing trope,
his white right wing trope.
All right trope. There
you go. All right.
But but now we changed it to, in particular, this, this last
report, which we have 10 years before we die. And that's the
way it's being interpreted. Even though that's not even what it
says that has really pushed these kids over, over the the
tipping point. And as we heard in the clip, they all learn
about this and all become afflicted with climate grief,
once they hit college where they're taught, you're going to
die.
Unbelievable. What college was this that? I don't know? I don't
know. You know, in a good college, well, at least when I
was a kid, in a good university, the kids are pretty smart. And
they they question authority, or they used to I don't think they
do much anymore. They just there's not an America.
Just climate stuff has been rammed in and I mean, if you
question climate change, you deny it, you're basically
denying the Holocaust. I mean, where were you where all this
has been taking place? This is you cannot question sciences in
how many times do we have to tell the children this? That's
okay, if you want to believe and we believe in all kinds of crazy
science, like we went to the moon in 1965
years, you're muddying your own water. My point
is, when you tell the children, you're going to die from
something because nothing's been done about it. That's a whole
that's next level stuff. And that's where we're where we're
at today. And it's going to affect it's affecting children.
The joke of it to me, and I think in some ways to you and
everybody that listens to the show, is nuclear energy. Yeah.
Now is the technology that yeah, I was thinking about this for
possibly another book that I'm not going to write. Most every
technology that ever shows up is always dangerous when it first
shows up, I mean steam all technology. All technology,
steam is a good example. They were blowing up boilers, people
were dying left and right from boiler explosions from the 1800s
of Twitterati 1800s. And it took a long time to detain the steam
demon. Yeah, nuke was not very safe the way it was being
handled by General Electric and some of these other guys. But it
all those problems have been solved, including including the
waste. Yeah, everything has been solved. So you could use it's
the cleanest form of energy. And if you're all in on climate
change, you don't you're not. I don't have a problem with
somebody who's all in on climate change. But what the problem I
have is that they're all in a climate change. Why aren't they
all in on nuclear energy?
Because this was another great campaign. It started with The
China Syndrome and Three Mile Island lovely plans, right
within a week of each other. With Hollywood, we're all going
to die from nuclear.
And this syndrome was a fictional story.
Yep. And it was released in the same week, that three mile Three
Mile Island.
Is that's absolutely true. Yes, it is. Yes.
Yes, it is. It is true. We've even discussed this on the show.
And I think you said the same thing. I don't know if that's
true. It was like it was like, three days every time I heard
that, yes. Within three within very. Yeah, it was. Yeah, but if
you look at all of the, the nuclear disasters we've had, and
Chernobyl, I think really is the worst, because that was a
military grade installation, which exploded. And, and but
it's not that many people died, I think, you know, low 20s.
Of course, all of the all of Europe, tyre country of France
is run by as a whole string of nuclear power plants. They're
all over the place. And they bitched about him. They've
nobody's died from any of them. They've haven't had any
problems. They're low. They're not the highest yield most
efficient, but they're the ones that are the most practical, and
they're going to shut those down because of these idiots.
You know that McCrone has Manu has already announced that
you're going to start dismantling Well, Germany did
the same.
Germany did and the cost of energy was skyrocketing the
economies who actually went to a kind of flatlined Yep, no,
instead
we're going to get projects that test aerosols in the air and
let's see if we can reflect the sun in the back and so we did
doesn't warm up here and the chemtrails, basically the geo
geo engineering there's I got stuff in the shownotes people
who look at
it. Go watch the movie Snowpiercer that's where it ends
up.
There you go see one last thing but yeah, got
a couple let me get out of the way. Because we're talking about
scammers. I forgot about this one. This was a this is that
this is a whatever happened to I have this VI you have a new
thing on the show. I have another one. Mine is whatever
happened to Okay. You know like this is these are clips from
like 234 or five years ago that were scandalous things. And I'm
asking whatever happened to they don't even talk about this stuff
anymore. Let's do charity fraud.
For us cancer charities are being accused of massive fraud.
The Federal Trade Commission says the group's funneled some
180 $7 million into top officials pockets. The charities
are the Cancer Fund of America Cancer Support Services,
Children's Cancer Fund of America and the Breast Cancer
Society. It could be one of the largest charity fraud cases of
all time. Whatever happened, whatever happened,
not right 15 Whatever happened, then nothing. No follow up.
Here's another one. Here's another whatever happened is
bank scandal, bank scandal
or down right before the end of the closing day. So they're
actually able to manipulate the currency market. This is
actually an antitrust case. So these banks are guilty of
colluding to manipulate the foreign exchange market. And
it's very rare that you see a financial institution that
actually has to plead guilty to any charges must lead to an
antitrust charge.
So it sounds as if there's no question the people involved
knew what they were doing was wrong was illegal. What about
higher ups carry Geiger? Did they know what was going on? And
if they didn't, why not? Well, I
mean this, this calls into the question of basically how banks,
compliance works and banks. These Wall Street banks are huge
giant operations and it looks like that the senior executive
at these banks did not know this active But he was going, I'm
sure if they did, it would have been stopped because they
obviously don't want illegal activity happening in their
banks. But the larger problem is that it's become virtually
impossible as we've seen over the last couple of years with
all these enforcement actions against Wall Street to police,
every individual that's working in these banks.
Oh, we just can't do that. We can't police everybody now only
for stupid slaves at home. We can police you. Yeah, whatever
happened to it? Nothing.
That's the answer, by the way, as I continue this series, yes,
that will be the answer to all of that. I will
have my answer ready for your series. I look forward to it.
And before we take our break, thanks. Some people hear a word
about and you this is another thing you always put in the in
the newsletter. And I don't think we discuss it regularly or
Yeah, regular enough. And that is advertising on the Internet
and how we made a conscious decision not to do that we have
content creation decisions, production decisions, where we
don't want anyone to tell us what we can or can't do which
you win. When you bow to the god advertiser. You are locked in,
you just cannot get around that. But New York Magazine finally
did a little bit of work in there. December 26. edition. How
much of the internet is fake? Turns out a lot of it actually.
And this is a very into another actually, whatever happened to
you recall the eight people accused of click fraud $36
million. With bot traffic that masqueraded as humans it was a
couple of weeks ago. Yeah,
it happens all the time. So this this article, and it happened to
Yes. I'll give you the just the headline the paragraph headlines
that that they're dealing with, it's worth reading. No agenda.
producers know what it is. So a lot of it's fake. The metrics
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agenda show. And there you have it. Just a quick note in this
flu season. Everyone's being told to go and get your flu
shot. Flu shot, okay, get your flu shot, get your flu shot,
just didn't get a lot of play. And it's kind of sad because
he's quite young. Senator Jose Peralta in New York State was a
big proponent of the flu vaccine flu shot. And he in fact he he
did a huge push to get everyone to get the flu shot. He got his
own flu shot on November 20. And four days later, he died. And
what happened? Is he became septic. No, no, I don't want to
blame this on the flu shot. But man, that sucks.
Yeah, yeah. Blame it on the flu shot. Just saying one of those
things when people Tamiflu.
And there was an update to an old friend of ours, the Smith
Mundt act? Well, let's put it this way. There's an update in
news around it. The Smith Mundt Act was brought in was brought
in the 80s I believe. And what the Smith Mundt Act basically
said is as law, the United States government may not
propagandize its own people. So it's okay if you have Voice of
America overseas, and you're you're broadcasting propaganda
to Russia and China or wherever we have all the VOA stations,
but you can't do it to your American audience. Now, it is
true that no matter what if Americans saw it, because they
sought it out themselves, that was deemed okay. But now there
is a congressional issue as it appears Voice of America, which
is completely funded by the US government, the Broadcasting
Board of Governors is violating the Smith Mundt act and is
interesting because I've seen this and didn't didn't even hit
me. But luckily, someone in Congress is doing something
about it. And as I turned it over to the attorney general,
they had been advertising on face bag about their Voice of
America services. And they actually, they pulled out the,
the, you know, there was a request for all of the ads that
they've purchased on Facebook, and they're targeting them at
Americans in American states by American age ranges. And they're
in trouble now. I don't know what kind of trouble they're
gonna get in, but at least it's being raised.
And the trouble is a slap on the wrist.
Questionable Content, recent Voice of America as run in the
Democratic Republic of Congo from promoted, promoted this
show, I can just stop there, you know, enough, ya know, enough.
It's how it works. And even though it was repealed in 2012,
as a part of the 2013, National Defense Authorization Act, you
still, even though if you find it on the internet, it's okay.
But you're not okay for them to be targeting Americans to read
this. So violation.
So I have there is a they're talking about on Democracy Now.
They were talking about Mattis before guy and then the Shanahan
gets took over. But instead of putting it in a positive,
positive spin, of course, they won't do that. And just the
positive spin, which we would put it in, which is that you got
a guy's big shot from Boeing, right, that can maybe do an
audit and maybe get to the bottom of the maintenance
budget. Yeah,
maybe do some important stuff like cyber satellites and
missiles.
There's a million possibilities that are positive but no,
democracy now doesn't see things that when I want you for let's
start with when I say talk to you about Boeing, what do you
think about what do you think mostly, they make giant plane
passenger planes. That's
what that's what most people think of? Yes.
Yeah. Okay, well, let's play this clip, Mattis Shanahan
Boeing,
the break for the richest Americans and President Trump
says he was improving the economy and now the stock market
has plummeted back to the depression times. Explain.
Well, you know, we've had an economy that never really is.
One, it's one no, you playing Richard Wolff, D and one.
I'm sorry. What did you tell me to play?
Mattis Shanahan
Oh, my God, I'm so sorry. Here we go. We'll take it again
from the top after growing increasingly angry with his
defense chief Trump said Mattis will leave on January 1. He
previously been expected to retire at the end of February to
attend a NATO meeting. Patrick Shanahan will be connecting
Secretary of Defense Shanahan is a former executive at the US
weapons manufacturer at Boeing.
Why didn't you say aerospace and defense which would be the the
actual term? Yeah,
no weapons man. Weapons.
Killing Machine maker? Yes, Judy. No. What's your name? Amy.
Amy. Yes, Amy.
Amy that with the permanent vocal fry,
in case you missed it. That's our number one foam finger
industry killing machines. Yep, it is.
So she brought on this, this this economist from one of the
schools and he's a Trump hater. And she and this is where this
clip is played before. The guy he makes an assertion about you.
If you were Trump, you wouldn't even pass IQ economics 101 You
can always one, which is fine, but I wanted to play two clips
from him where I don't think he could pass it either. Okay,
start with this clip one.
The break for the richest American kids and President
Trump says he was improving the economy and now the stock market
has plummeted back to the depression times. Explain.
Well, you know, we've had an economy that never really
escaped the crash of 2008. In a way the last 10 years have been
an economy on life support vast amounts of money pumped into the
economy, record drops and interest rates in guiding
everybody, business individuals, governments to borrow money, a
debt sustained situation. And after a while, you can't mount
up the debt on the basis of an economy that hasn't really
gotten going. And we're seeing the eventual break. You know,
the capitalist system has a downturn every four to seven
years. It's had that for centuries. And the last big
downturn was 2008, and nine so if you do four and seven years
added the nine would do for one on every major stock market
stock.
It's like conspiracy theory stuff, you add the three to the
one times five, you get 33.
He says you have a downturn every four to seven years,
that's almost double look at 2009. And you add four plus
seven,
they just threw that in there. It just makes it up.
What you don't add the numbers if you for horses. So that's a
little played out. So you have as assertion about not passing
economics one
centuries. And the last big downturn was 2008, and nine, so
if you do four and seven, you edit the nine would do for one
and every major stock market observer bank and so on predicts
that we're having a downturn. So it's really only a question of
exactly when, and the stock market anticipates this. And so
we're having, in a way, economic chickens coming home to roost.
And the notion that it's just the Feds policy that explains
this is really the kind of remark that would get a student
a very low grade at any economics course.
But okay, so yellow granite, because I guess maybe it's math
that he you would get that kind of lowest grade. Yeah. But he
does have an economics issue with the next clip, which I
think is just even better. Richard,
why if over the last 10 years, the Federal Reserve kept
interest rates alone provides so much cheap money and why hasn't
inflation increased dramatically in the US over this period of
time?
Well, you know, the irony is, it's one of the bizarre ways in
the economy works. There was no incentive to take all that money
and go in and produce things that might have driven up prices
and so on.
What if you produce things? You would put a glut? It would It
would reduce prices, it wouldn't push prices up and such. Who is
this guy? This guy's Richard Wolff Wol fe. And he is like an
economist at one of the schools back east chair. And it's like,
everything he says is like that. It's like,
nobody's nobody knows. Nobody knows. It's like it's back to
our baby. I'm talking about basic economic theory that
you're taught in college. Yeah. Supply and demand. Yes, that's a
supply increases, the price goes down,
not it doesn't go up not in his book.
And such, which is another thing that you by the way, is that
such and such.
I think we just add that to everything and such. And such,
you can just end the end a sentence. Listen, I'm not having
any of this and such. Such and Such audio, smartphones and
such. Yeah, it works everywhere. You can put it in everything.
Yeah, it's great. It's one of the best. Yeah, the Mark Levin,
a radio guy, he always says and so on and so forth. You can say,
yeah, there's this, this pillows got feathers and so on and so
forth and such. And so I think
the combos and so on and so forth and such I think the combo
is the way to go.
Yeah, let's see if we can maybe get a job in radio.
Dogs. Yes, we had a lot dogs. Britain, United Kingdom Gitmo
nation East is now forbidding puppies and kittens from being
sold by pet shops. What? Yes, the government said it will roll
out the legislation next year. There's a 95% support for the
ban. Here we have a
quote this will be 95% support. Yes.
This will mean that anyone looking to buy or adopt a puppy
or kitten under six months must either deal directly with the
breeder or with an animal re homing center.
Animal re homing
Yes, yes it gray title, every animal rehoming center with our
E and such the Department of Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs. Defra said this on Sunday as a part of its
Christmas animal welfare push. Yes. Let's be too much geeks. Do
you know that people want a dog a puppy and a kitten that don't
really want it and they get abused and they toss them out
and they get mistreated? This does give me the opportunity
to have a generality. Well, that's
what they I can't hate the Brits. I did want to say one
thing is we're a couple months away from moving out of downtown
Austin. For now.
You're planning to live downtown, probably the one of
the Nexus, a nexus point in the universe and you're living in it
and you're going to leave it
well, I'm not going to move that far. We just need to get out of
downtown. Two reasons. two big reasons. This building is to
keep in with the dogs are people too. is what is known as a pet
friendly building.
And something you don't want?
Well, I think that when they when you start you have a
building like this and you make it smoke free pet friendly. You
probably expect there to be people with dogs. Yeah, but
today, we I think we have about 70% of the apartments in this
building have dogs. Okay, usually more than one.
Oh, the problem is the dog needs a friend.
The problem is, every day, everywhere, every entrance,
every exit for the garage, the elevators everywhere. There's
hair and dog piss everywhere. And of course, they don't clean
every single day. It's also not feasible really to do that. So
the dogs of the pet owners are becoming a problem. Because they
they mean it's really disgusting. I'll do a video.
I'll do a video.
Just be fantastic. Yes, everywhere. It's gonna link to
it in the newsletter.
Yes, I'll make sure you get that. The other problem is just
been upped once again, is the dockless mobility craze that
Austin is ground zero. You're right. We're at the Nexus now
the Ford Motor Company who have spin. A rideshare company
dropped 100 Extra scooters into the Austin streets on Friday
with hundreds more planned
cheeses scooter overload
How many do you think we have in downtown Austin? Now today?
10,000. Wow. 9000. The city of Austin allows each is from KFC
and our local NBC affiliate. The city of Austin allows each
rideshare company to have up to 500 Scooters in the downtown
area. But there's no limit on how many companies can operate
in the city. As a result, there are about 9000 Scooters licensed
to operate in downtown Austin, operated by seven major
companies, which sounds kind of wrong.
Doesn't sound right to me. If you're allowed to have 500 Yeah,
it should only be 3500 scooters,
right. But there's 9000 Now downtown, and yesterday I threw
my first I cast my first one aside in anger. Because I'm
pretty I'm pretty mellow. But there was right in the middle of
the sidewalk and now there's a torches that's opened up near
our building and it was at upscales shitty tacos it's a
it's a taco place
or taco place in Texas. That's a chain.
Oh yeah. Oh, we have tons of chains here. Yeah, torches. M So
NEB someone wrote the charts and torch and the lunch hour parked
and right in the middle of the sidewalk. I picked it up by its
stem and throw it in anger against the wall of torches. And
I felt interesting. I felt pretty good about it. But they
all have these wires. I gotta study him I gotta talk to her
friend yeah our friend who does this I'm just going to carry
along a clipper clip the wires
well that's a funny idea.
Not if it's the break I don't know which
the brake line you can figure that out what clip what wire you
want to clip it's got to be some electrical thing.
We got to clip something because it's a scourge. Yeah. Anyway,
yay. Yay, Austin
so you're moving to where you are so you're downtown at the
Nexus yes all the actions so there's dog pee probably poop.
Oh, that's yep poop.
The library is right nearby filled with homeless with
homeless is the brand new bridge between the the extension of
downtown the westward extension.
There's a footbridge bicyclists turning into California
Completely.
Completely
California Uber all this
exactly. So where are you moving? We're gonna stay in
Austin just got to downtown.
So you're looking now to find a place should we?
Well, since we'll be renting
she buys a piece of property outside of town
and with what was what John with what?
Your good looks? Yeah, I think it credit.
I have a FICO score in the five hundreds.
Nevermind.
Yeah, Tina barely wants to marry me because of it. She's afraid
that her FICO score of 9000 will be affected. See she could get
anything she wants. It's me. That's the problem.
Well let her do the preliminary work, get things set up and then
get married afterwards.
What are we going to I don't want a house. I want to be able
to get out when it gets gets too bad
HUD
Quonset hut. Listen, we're in our 50s Neither of us is going
to make this as an investment. Yeah, whoa, let's invest. Have
you seen the property taxes? It's worse than California now.
California is all mu to Austin. Yeah. Come on in here. The
weather is better in Austin. Yeah, yeah. Well, good luck in
your happy hunting.
Yeah, we'll find something. We'll find something good. I
mean, we don't we don't need much. And we'll definitely it'll
be cheaper. For sure. That's a plus Austin is I think now the
most expensive city to live in.
It's ridiculous. Yes, it is ridiculous. wants you to move to
New York City.
Yeah, it's worth considering. I mean, you can move anywhere and
move. It's not just the cost. It's douchebaggery.
That's the problem. Yeah, well, I think you're adapting to the
Texas lifestyle. Yeah.
Yes. I don't want to be I don't want my Texas lifestyle tainted
by California goo.
Yeah, well, our dogs
I've won last year.
Japan begins whaling again. I think that is a story that we
need to follow.
Yeah, I saw big
headlines about it. Japan says it will quit the International
Whaling Commission and resumed commercial whale hunting for the
first time in 30 years. Japanese officials say whale stocks have
recovered sufficiently something wildlife groups dispute the new
Hans will be limited to Japan's territorial waters and will not
extend to the Antarctic.
No. Okay. So so that's their own water.
Yeah, they can do whatever they want. I think so.
What do they use the what is the besides that oh, it's sad. We're
killing whales. What is the what is so important about whaling
what is
used of fat and some of that lot of their cosmetics? Okay. And
they eat the meat.
And they don't care if they are whales in are they in extinction
mode?
The Japanese claimed there they're back on track to
propagating and the whaling authorities say No they're not.
So we don't know the facts. Okay.
It does make a lot of people hate Japanese again. Well, yeah,
it does.
European Union parliament member forget her name Reese I think
her name is is on a on a mission. To get rid of the use
of single use plastics. This is a European Union mandate. That
will be coming down the pike to all the Nationals at the
national state level you will not be able to purchase or
consume single use plastics as she explains what she means and
what that means here. But the kicker is at the end,
the effort to end plastic pollution in our oceans was one
of the key themes of 2018 with European Union lawmakers ending
the year with an agreement to ban certain single use plastics
by 2021. Belgian MEP Frederick Reese is behind the law,
the glue sticks, the stirrers, the cuttin birds, the straws, I
should have started with the straws to place are going to be
banned and why are they going to be bent because they are the
articles that you mostly found on our beaches in our oceans.
And because there are alternatives.
A central issue in the single use plastic ban is who is going
to pay. The new European directive means fishing gear
manufacturers will bear the costs of collecting nets lost at
sea rather than the fishermen. The same kind of principle is
being applied to the tobacco industry and it's plastic
cigarette and an estimated 8 million tons of plastic waste
ends up in the oceans every year. The EU's ban is
significant in terms of setting a policy precedent, but it won't
change the seas very much as 90% of the plastic pollution is
believed to come from 10 rivers, eight in Asia and two in Africa.
Wow, we are so stupid in the West. So Africa is a great clip
Africa is polluting the water with single use plastics and we
get blamed for it. And we get shamed, shamed into using
that money for global warming.
Oh my goodness, Africa. You know what, we're moving to Africa. I
mean, finding one of those elite strongholds where the European
leaders are all hanging out we're gonna go to there it's
going to be safe and
beautiful and the rivers and throw your stuff Windows you
can go get it in California here Dvorak is my straw. My wildness
Yeah,
I don't know if I can top that. I do have a way I could talk
with the weather report which because a lot of people I guess
I'm surprised we get the kind of great donations we got because
of the blizzards,
the blizzards they'd be accom we had a big storm last night in
Austin. Yeah, I
heard that I just looking at the map there showing the blizzards
a report came out. And I saw Austin surrounded by a giant red
like a dome
right? Yes, right downtown and it woke us up and woke us up and
then you got the flash boom right a crackling boom. So it
was right over downtown.
Millions of Americans could have trouble getting home after
Christmas. A powerful winter storm is blowing across the
country. Parts of the Plains and Midwest will get the worst of
it. blizzard conditions are possible in the Dakotas tonight.
Powerful winds floods and even tornadoes could hit the
Southwest what
no mention of climate change.
Well, it was it wasn't a fire
on fire that guy fire that guy. No good. You gotta have to do it
a climate change in that
initiative.
Alright everybody that is your deconstruction for this 27th of
December 2018 winding down the year no retrospective no look
backs just whatever happened to us. And we'll do another brand
new fresh episode for you on Sunday just before we say
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doing nothing. They're having a party. They're having parties
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