I was getting massive. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. Sunday,
February 24 2019. This is your award winning get my nation
media assassination episode 1115. This
is no agenda, braving the
chills of the tundra and broadcasting live from the
capital of the fields of opportunity here in downtown Des
Moines, Iowa. In an Airbnb in the morning, everybody. Adam
curry
and others Silicon Valley where I can barely hear you by the
way. I'm John C. Dvorak.
Buzzkill.
Pay no attention to if you can hear me. That's only it's only
when something loud is going on. Yes, yes. In the morning. I was
corrected in the morning, sir. In the morning to
you. Good morning to you and good morning. All ships to see
and boots on the ground. feet in the air in the water. There's a
nice out there. Well,
you are very chipper today.
Yeah, I got up. I got up. You know when you get up at the
exact right time. Yeah. Without the alarm going off. Okay. Yes.
You get up 10 minutes too early. You're kind of groggy. You get
up 10 minutes too late. You're kind of groggy. You can't hit
it. Very rarely once you get up exactly the right time.
I don't have these problems. No, you do. No, I don't. I don't. I
don't. I really don't. Yeah, so I'm here in Des Moines, Iowa,
John,
as they like to call it Des Moines. Yes. Des Moines. No, it
was called Des Moines.
They do not they absolutely do not call it Des Moines. That in
fact, quite the opposite. They insist you never pronounced the
Yes. Ah, yeah. I don't know who told you this. But it's not
true. It was a local. Well, anyway, we're here in literally
in downtown Des Moines, which is completely dead in the weekend.
There's nothing going on here. This is besides the fact that it
is 11 degrees outside.
And you think maybe that's part of the reason?
No, I think that's just this all you know, de Moines is very
interesting. It's all in it's the insurance capital of the
country. So it's all basically financial companies that her
downtown. And have you ever have you been to Des Moines?
Yeah, of course. I have. I've been to noted the morning went
to the outskirts and went to the Bridges of Madison County.
I love the Skywalk system they have here. Okay, so you have you
have not been to do if you've been then you know about the
skywalks
during the summertime, potentially this guy. Okay, so
downtown, there's an entire downtown area. And all the
buildings are connected by these enclosed bridges that go from
building to building so you can walk throughout the downtown
area without going outside snow. Yeah, I guess. Minneapolis has
that as well. I think they might. I Des Moines might have
stolen it from Minneapolis.
No, it's not as though these cities don't have these. These
alternate routes. I mean, in in Toronto, and even Edmonton and
also Montreal, they have all this underground network where
you can walk all downtown without ever get coming above
ground.
Right, right. Well, it's no luxury here. I'll tell you oh my
goodness. It is so cold biting cold. It's just crazy. Ah, but
as you can tell, I mean a very large open space. It's kind of
echoey here in the in the air b&b that we got in downtown,
which has a very loud heating system. So loud in fact that it
kind of rivaled the the air conditioner in the air stream of
consciousness. So I have to turn it off during the show. I only
have a sweater on now but I'm pretty sure within about 30 to
45 minutes is going to the temperature is going to drop
pretty significantly here.
My my remembrance of Des Moines is that it is that area you're
talking about his all buildings business offices and the like.
Yeah. There's actually somebody living there somehow.
Yeah, this is there's a what used to be a hotel called the
Kirkwood hotel. They turned it into ice into condos. And of
course no one actually lives here in the condo. So it's just
Airbnbs. And it's I mean it's really affordable. And by the
way, the hotels were completely booked.
is affordable is 11 degrees. I wonder why.
But all are booked all the hotels, the hotels are booked
the hotels downtown. They have a convention going on. No one's
going to convention. I don't know what it is. I know Tulsi
Gabbard is shunning. No, Tulsi Gabbard was in town for three
days, which I didn't know. And of course, we had the wedding
yesterday, so we couldn't I couldn't go check it out. But I
doubt that all the hotels were full just for her.
It seems unlikely. So there's probably no way she'd do it.
That's why I was the first to
deploy de Moines. Everyone goes to Des Moines and and what's the
other command wherever you now own it. In New Hampshire,
New Hampshire. Oh, not
New Hampshire. Come on. Everyone has to start their political
campaign. You always have to go to Des Moines, Des Moines and
New Hampshire.
Those are the two did first start off usually.
So I don't know why. I'm not quite sure. Why don't those are
the ones that that's the first round of elimination, especially
in New Hampshire. If you can't come at first, second or third,
you're gonna have nothing but trouble. Okay. Well, Des Moines
is you can take a pass on that you can take a pass on Iowans,
this caucuses, it's not the same. Well toasted people's vote
in New Hampshire then then is they've made a decision. Okay.
So we had our, our big Iowa meet up on Friday.
Yes, I understand. It was a huge success. This was it was
incredibly successful. I think it's the largest one we've had
to date. We didn't get a complete headcount because the
venue was kind of large, and there were other people. But I
would say we were at least 70, maybe a few more over the course
of four hours. It may through was it three, three? Yeah. More
than three hours? I think it was. This was really, really a
good one. But people came from all over the place from
Minnesota from Kansas, Tennessee. Well, Sir Patrick
Coble, of course came in from Tennessee. We had people from
Indiana from Chicago, it was it was mind boggling people driving
four or five hours to come to the meetup and going back the
same night.
Yeah. Yeah, they're Hardy. They're in the Midwest.
They're dedicated, they really are, it was a great venue to the
hall, which is interesting places where they used to repair
trains, or they, they, I guess they train cars, and they could
roll them into this building and work on them, and then turn them
on to a different track. And half of the building is a
nonprofit, teaching people how to do different kinds of
vocational jobs. And they found that with this, you know,
basically the hall, a big beer hall. And we kind of took over a
whole part and people were really, you know, interested in
what we were doing thinking we were called if, especially when
one of our one of our producers, he he was ready for a knighting
and he brought his his accounting. Now this was Paul
Richardson, and he said, Hey, you know, so I have the final,
the final check here for my knighthood. Can we do it here
lives? And of course, we can't say Oh, good, because I got a
sword in the in my car. I said, bring it in. So we're
brandishing swords. I
saw that tweet about you doing this. And I said, What is Adam?
Adam does drag his sword around with.
This was not my store. It was a family store had been in his
family for I don't know, decades, or maybe longer. It was
very, it was very, very unique to say the least. Now so we'll,
we'll be I guess we'll do a little segment. I mentioned a
couple people a little bit as we first get started. I see you. We
had an interesting crossover, in particular on the die fi and the
child abuse Eclipse. This was quite amazing. What happened
with the sunrise movement?
Yeah, I found it to be chat was child abuse?
Yes. Well, you want to set it up because you got once I saw you
had the clips. I didn't have much to add. But I do think it's
important to let everyone hear what's going on with this.
Well, I don't have the complete set. But I have a lot that I
have the what I thought was the important clips. So what
happened was some teachers who was some 24 year olds, she says
she was 24 when she bitching and moaning about her kids not
voting for Feinstein. Some teacher had gotten her class to
do a big project of writing this huge letter, giant, you know,
like one of those giant checks on is a giant letter.
Encouraging Feinstein to vote yes, on the green New Deal.
These were kids who were what like 1215
to 12 year olds and there's a couple older kids but this
teacher was the instigator is pretty obvious. And she had
convinced these kids you could tell by the way the kids were
talking that they're all going to die in 12 years. Gosh, I mean
needs to be done now and of course this I don't know if she
taught the kids that this bill Bill quote unquote, is actually
just a resolution that really has no doesn't do anything set
you know, kind of has a hopeful kind of a thing behind it. I you
know, I just hopeful as the following is hopeful that we
stop all air traffic only Take trains and I shouldn't mention
to people just because we talked about this before the passenger
train business peaked. It didn't peak in 1955 and then peak in
1945. It peaked in 1929. And somehow they want to revitalize
it like the California High Speed Rail which had to be
cancelled because it was cost overruns were ridiculous. In
other words, the progressives are not progressive, they're
progressive, progressives would be pushing for, it seems to me
if you're progressive looking toward the future, you would go
for supersonic transport. Right, hypersonic hypersonic or
something like that. Anything but trains, yeah. But that's
okay. You know, the whole thing he's got these kids all jacked
up. So let's play a few of the clips or this clip has got the
kids preparing to go in and it cuts over to them. I think
making their first statement is the number one
letter and we're gonna do it all together. In front of Feinstein,
we're asking her or trying to
ask you to vote yes on the green New Deal.
So there's the kids. Did you see the full 14 minutes of the whole
video that I did? I did okay, because I actually pulled a
couple of very short
alternatives because first of all, there's such lack of
respect by the kids i By the way, I love the way the Twitter
verse took it all Feinstein is a douchebag you know, she's
because she was a douchebag but it wasn't she was forced into
being one but the kids they don't it's not we're gonna take
it in front of Senator Dianne Feinstein or miss Feinstein,
Mrs. Feinstein whatever you want to call her. No Feinstein.
Well, they get that from the parents from the from the adults
in the room. That's where they get that that that non etiquette
from Feinstein?
Yes. It's given in front of Feinstein. Yeah, I don't I found
to be anti semitic. But okay. What did you find to be anti
semitic, to Jewish name, and you just use the Jewish Jewish
name, and I got a segment for you later on assaulting.
It was rude, okay. Yeah, no,
I agree. It was it was rude. Alright.
So let's go to two
scientists has said that we have 12 years to turn this around.
Well,
it's not going to get turned around in 10 years, what we can
do.
Around in 10 years, you're looking at the faces of the
people who are going to be living with.
That was the teacher. And she was the most important of the
group. Oh, you're looking at the faces of the people are going to
be living with the consequences. She's egged these kids on told
them that they're all going to die in 12 years.
To be fair, John, it's not just the teacher. This is I mean,
we've talked about this. This is being rammed into kids heads
everywhere, everywhere on television, it's in cartoons,
it's all over the place. It's not just the teacher,
it is just a teacher, in my opinion. Here's why shouldn't
the teacher be backing these kids off from this Neolithic
look at life and saying, Hey, no, you're just fine. You're not
going to die? What if the teacher also believed goats them
into going into see Feinstein? What if
well, okay, let's just set something up. This was not just
one teacher. This was the sunrise movement, of which one
of them was a teacher. There were parents there who are with
the sunrise movement. There were multiple there were people there
who were not teaching these kids, but were in the group. And
by the way, they didn't have an appointment. They just walked
in, taught route. So it's the sunrise movement, who believes
this believes the the the government assessment, which,
which was all over the news, told everybody if we don't turn
this around in 12 years, then it's going to be irreversible.
And that's what AOC is all about, and her green New Deal.
So
the first time we heard the same thing was about 1989. When we
have clips, we have quotes that you have 10 years to live. So by
by the year 2000, we're already
Oh, I'm not I'm not I'm not arguing that. But at this very
moment, it has been so propped propagandize that, and this is
Feinstein Feinstein not being anti semitic di fi said some
very good things to these kids, but she's too chickenshit to
actually say, you're not going to die in 12 years. That's the
part that I thought that I found reprehensible from her.
Well, I found a number of reprehensible things. Well, of
course, she's a Democrat. So she has to kind of deal with this
the As the teacher should be a teacher and not just a
cheerleader for for dying and 12 years, I've found her to be
extremely offensive.
Well, hold on, hold on, hold on one second, let me play you 27
seconds of, of these kids and the teacher talking about
skipping school. And if you listen carefully, they cut
school for this day. All the teachers were on board, it was
part of the key can hear the kid saying, yeah, it's part of the
Global Strike, which means they're seeing that and they
know about the kids in Brussels who are all bundled up and all,
you know, protesting global warming. It's spreading all over
Europe. It's not really discussed that much. But this
was a truancy operation. I have a
friend who works for the LA Unified School District and they
did a similar thing. Yeah. But she was very excited. And
supposedly all the parents were super supportive. And the kids
were very happy to come back to school.
So it's okay. Yeah, kids can skip school if it's for this
cause.
You're right. This is a truancy operation. These people should
be jailed. Okay, yes. Yeah. The old truancy officer. Come along,
back into Paddy Wagon kids. Yeah. Okay. So the olden days,
it won't do that anymore. No, no, you can just take off when
you feel like it's like a bitch about global warming. Here's my
last clip.
I was elected by almost a million vote, plurality. And I
know what I'm doing. So you know, maybe people should listen
a little bit. I hear what you're
saying. But where are the people who voted you? You're supposed
to listen to us?
That's your love the
lack of English grammar. Were the people that voted you think
that was? No, I liked that, too. That was fantastic. You're
supposed to listen to us. That's your old 16 I can't didn't vote
for me. I'm
gonna be the one who's impacted.
I have seven grandchildren voted for you. And I understand it
very well. Senator,
the cost of not taking this action is far higher than the
cost of what the green New Deal.
This is the sunrise movement, Representative bee
and their enormous popularity for this bill around the whole
country here. And we're asking you to do this for us and for
your grandchildren.
All right, good. I have some complimentary Kuwait.
I gotta say, Yeah, of course. Of course. Of course. The first of
all, this woman says it's going to cost is going to cause less
the green New Deal is good. Because yes, the green New Deal
is going to cost nothing because it's just a resolution that is
never brought up. These kids don't even know they think that
they're gonna get votes for this. And next thing, you know,
global warming is over?
Well, not entirely. Well, the kids may not know it, but the
sunrise movement person, whether she's a teacher or a parent, she
knew exactly what was going on here. And I think I have a
feeling they were different video recordings. Because you
would you probably would have clipped this, if you had heard
this. This is here's the lady talking just before the getting
ready to get kicked out which I also have listened to what she
says here.
Senator, we know that no plan is going to pass right now while
the Republicans control the Senate. This is a long game, we
need to be doing this to unite the Democratic Party. I don't
know if you've noticed, but voters haven't been particularly
energized the last couple of years. We need something to
fight for. Your constituents are asking you for this. And I
really believe and 10s of 1000s Millions of people around the
country are asking for this online. They're calling your
phone lines are blocked up.
Look, I understand all of this. And I'm trying to do the best I
can, which was to write a responsible resolution
plan that doesn't take full transformative action is not
going to be what we need.
Well, you know better than I do. So I think one day you should
run for the Senate.
No, actually, I did hear that. Like that is pretty funny. You
should run be it. The touches are being Joe jerk. The
she was right. I mean, do you even
but why? Why didn't she why didn't the following take place?
You know she has she has people she has people who could who
could strategize this. They come to kids come in with the letter,
the big giant letter and faces Oh, this is so wonderful. This
giant letter. Let me we're going to I'm going to take it. We're
gonna go over this letter. We're gonna frame it and put it in the
office. This is great. I have a meeting. And hopefully you guys
can be in touch with me in the field that's
not high. That's not how it went. That Here's how they got
rid of it Listen, I got the clip of house off they kick the kids
out as they decide they want to present this letter now she's
been talking with them for 10 minutes. And again in giant
letter the only thing she had to say was it's just not true
you're not going to die in 12 years and she knows it and I can
prove it which I'll do in a moment. But here they are
getting ready to kick the kids out can they read by
Yeah, I can read it
before I do really taking a stand and not voting present not
saying present when you are asked what you believe on the
future of the most catastrophic What
is this and not voting present thing what is that? Is that some
kind of abstention or
if you can vote President Obama did all of his years in the in
the Senate so
you don't actually vote you just say I'm here Yeah.
So you know abstaining you did they can accuse you of
abstaining,
but she what the what the sun sung sunrise movement person is
saying is please don't just say your present as she says I can
say I just feel
Obama
Yeah, I can read it before I do really taking
a stand and not voting present your answer what you believe on
the future of the most catastrophic event that's facing
our species you have a chance to say yes or no pass the Senate
I may I don't know I may have a president that allowed you
to do it is much much much different than saying
well I understand all that is what they're
asking so they can just have a voice to read that out to you
here comes Can we read now with
that opportunity knowing
people that come from a long place way to come
still have in your leadership?
That doesn't work with me? Okay. Okay, everybody all right. Do
you want to present that?
Yes, goodbye.
Yes. All right. Read it out. We can read it
we're gonna read it. I appreciate you need to get the
mother of this content I can say that I really hope that you
follow the lead of these young people and I think it's the best
chance that really giving
let's just have nine year olds run the country. We need your
leadership Dianne Feinstein Z to these young people that nine
year olds running the country.
All right, so everyone's had a lot of fun. Some good fun with
the with the with this video. But did you have a chance to
look at her resolution? The one she handed to these kids? Yeah.
Oh, well, this is the no agenda way. I'd like to review a little
bit of Dianne Feinstein's draft climate change resolution, it
differs somewhat from the green New Deal.
Well, there's it probably leaves out the part about cow farts.
Yeah, it doesn't have that. But it's there's some more important
differences. The chain is a resolution. This is a resolution
that just says here's the stuff we agree on. And here's the
stuff we say we're going to do. It doesn't do anything else.
It's just kind of an agreement and is used as a dare I say a
framework to start creating legislation from So,
Congressman, yes, you may dare say, I daresay I may Dixon,
Congress finds that the climate is changing as a result of human
activities, primarily the combustion of fossil fuels. The
changes in climate projected in the coming decades threatened
rapid, widespread, concurrent and long lasting, increases in
heat waves, wildfire, disease, drought, crop failure, sea level
rise from loss of glaciers and collapse of ice sheets, ocean
acidification, mass extinction, and collapse of food chains,
mass population migrations and human conflict. Sounds kind of
groovy. Yeah, changes in the climate are already evident that
since the beginning of the 20th century, the atmospheric
concentration of carbon dioxide has increased by more than 1/3
global average temperatures have increased by more than a full
degree Fahrenheit. And then she goes into some interesting
examples. California from the distance you live out there,
California from 2011 to 2017, was likely made 15 to 20% more
intense by global warming. The drought I'm sorry, the drought
in California was likely made 15 to 20% more intense by global
warming, what he likely will he has a lot of likely the next
slide. The rainfall in Texas during Hurricane Harvey in 2017
was likely increased 15 to 19% due to climate change, and the
area burned by wildfire in the western United States between 84
and 2015 was doubled due to climate change, among other
indications. I mean, this is really a very wishy washy, fuzzy
little thing we're supposed to agree upon. But here's what she
says we should do. Number one, instituting a price on carbon.
Yeah, DHI five. We know what you're going for. Yes. Let's see
where she differs from the green New Deal completely the
transition to zero emissions electricity sources to electric
drive surface transportation systems. So she's just talking
about not about airplanes. And also, we need to have efficient
systems for transmission, distribution and storage of
electricity. Uh huh. Yes, of course we do. And by the way,
she wants all of this to take place by 2050. And this is why
I'll be dead by this is why she's chickenshit. The United
States shall reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero
as soon as possible, and by no later than 2050. Now, this is
great. This is why it was originally 2030. We predicted
this five years ago, because 2030 a lot of the old
politicians then really weren't going to maybe be in office in
2030. And Dianne Feinstein, she won't be alive in 2050. So she
can make any resolution she wants, no one's going to call
her on it. That's why this 2050 numbers here. We will need to
resume the development of energy efficient standards for ceiling
fans. Walk in coolers, freezers, uninterruptible power supplies,
portable air conditioners, boilers, central air
conditioners, light bulbs and other appliances. Also, she
would like to maintain the coordinated national program of
fuel economy and vehicle emission standards, which should
exceed 50 miles per gallon. By every every car needs to do that
by 2025. We must remain a party to the Paris Climate Agreement,
reinstate the Interagency Working Group on the social cost
of carbon. And then rebuild our infrastructure infrastructure to
be more resilient to extreme weather fortify coastal
communities against sea level rise, identify alternative
supplies of drinking water, develop crops and agricultural
practices that will maintain a reliable supply of food Hello,
Monsanto. Prepare the public health system for greater risks
of vector borne diseases, asthma, heat stroke and other
health hazards. Hey, how about hypothermia. Seeing as climate
change is causing this cold snap, but it's not in there. And
then the part that AOC would like to hear, the United States
shall ensure a just an equitable transition for all communities,
including guaranteeing pensions for workers in the coal, oil and
gas industry and providing meaningful training for new
economic opportunities within their own communities. And you
know what that learns that code and the code ensuring that the
infrastructure investments required to migrate and adapt to
climate change will offer good high wage paying jobs in the
United States respects the needs and wisdom of local communities
and planning infrastructure, especially communities that have
historically been marginalized or oppressed, including
indigenous people, communities of color, migrant communities,
de industrialized communities, depopulated rural communities,
the poor low income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused
people with disabilities and youth who was who was who was
not in that group of that list as everybody but will old white
men every everybody's in there, but us. And then finally, we
commit to minimizing the extent and speed of climate change,
which will initially this is a great this the last sentence of
the whole document, minimizing the extent and speed of climate
change, which will initially harm the most vulnerable
individuals and communities disproportionately, and we'll
eventually imperil all society
helped me understand even more helped me understand
this sentence. So again, take a look out the window. How are
those how are those
flashy mud flats right now are bigger than I've ever seen. So
there must be some goop that gets Australia sponges sucking
up emotion.
So to me it sounds like she's saying we're screwed no matter
what. But once you read it again, okay, so I'll read this
the heading the United States shall ensure a just an equitable
transition for all communities, including by minimizing the
extent and speed of climate change, which will initially
harmed the most vulnerable individuals and communities
disproportionately, and will eventually imperil all society.
So it sounds like
going to eventually imperil eventually she uses that word
has to kick her Yeah. Eventually imperil all society that Mariah
is
something or not rude to do something well to drive Maybe
she still needs to work on it.
She needs to throw it away.
Anyway, I thought the whole thing was it was combat it was
it was sad. I'm sad about these children. I really am. It's,
you know, kids have projects they get, you know, when you're
older you look back on him. He said I was dumb. But
do you think that these kids who are hearing this stuff that they
really they don't have to like I it's not really when I really
gonna die? It's not really gonna be horrible, or do they really
believe it?
I think a bunch of them do believe it, but I think most of
them are just kids. Well, I mean, when I was a kid, you have
to remember I was the duck and cover generation. And so you
know, okay,
all right, hold up. So specifically duck and cover tell
me how what did that have any effect on you? Were you worried
at the time?
I don't remember being worried to this extent these kids are
about global warming. I mean, yeah, the but Russians are gonna
bomb us Okay, let's go over that period, there's a number of
factors going on. It wasn't until the fission fusion fission
bomb came out that most of this ended people just do have their
arms in the air and said screw it. That's the thermo nuclear
bomb which means it was a fish and bomb that set off and H bomb
which set off a bunch of cheap uranium which poison the earth
for the next you know 100 years before that bomb was invented
which was discussion of this is in a book by Linus Pauling
called no more war which is quite good really a good read if
you can find a copy Anyway, before that they were having us
while you duck you know don't look at the fire ball. And you
know don't look at the fireball guys.
I have the jingle the duck and cover I but I do something. And
so
then and so then during that same era, there was a people
were selling fallout shelters and there was always somebody in
the neighborhood a couple of people in the neighborhood who
bought these things and let's bring out a big construction rig
and dig a huge hole in their backyard and drop in a big tank
which had the entrance to it. And these things are still out
there in the Midwest and throughout the west coast in the
suburbs, mostly suburbs. And they used as you know route
storage. You know can't you put your canned goods on pantries
virtually
let me I think I might have one of the original duck uncovered
jingles that you kids were indoctrinated with schools have
developed protocols and drill on what to do is talk to me oh
that's not I thought we had that somewhere
I think we do anyway just continue Okay, so we had so it
was it was like you know it seemed as though they were gonna
blow the world is gonna blow up and looking back on it I had
other concerns like getting away most of it you know, just this
girl What would she do? I mean it was do concern about getting
killed by a nuke which is going to wipe everybody out really
wasn't something that was at the top of my top of the list of
things to think about and then it just now it just doesn't
Yeah, you duck and cover and your bright look at somebody's
bomb shelter and then you what
it didn't affect you. It did not affect you adversely is what
you're saying
that it did? Well, I think it goes it was looking back on it
and I can see that it was semi-humorous Well, I can see
these kids being any different than any kids well I think
if you take this you take this this threat what you really
can't see I think that's comparable to the nuclear bomb
that you know we yeah, we we really don't know it's never you
know, will it really happen? There is other child abuse going
on as we speak. This took place this past week in Florida,
Stephanie Kearns her daughter Sydney and one of Sydney's
classmates are all able to hug each other after what they
described as a stressful day at politico High School set. The
current says the stress began when an emphatic voice over the
intercom alerted students and staff that an intruder was on
campus.
They said it was a man in a black hoodie with jeans. The
school
went into lockdown Sidney says she and her classmates rushed
into a back room in a separate buildings on campus. She says
the lights of the room were turned off students and teachers
had no idea this was an active shooter drill. How real was it?
It was very real like people were being in the doors kids
were crying saying that me in and they would not let them in.
They had to go in the bathrooms in the
city says she and other students were texting their parents.
While I was freaking out. I
was at work. And I was like, Oh my gosh,
I spoke with one student off camera who said the drill was so
realistic that she had an anxiety attack. She said she
looked over and notice some of her teachers also having panic
attacks. And this is why on one hand, Stephanie Kearns is
worried about unannounced active shooter drills.
I mean, I can appreciate them doing drills. But you know, I
know there's some kids that they suffer from anxiety attacks or
panic attacks or just different issues.
On the other hand, she He agrees with unannounced drills to
better prepare students for a real emergency.
If they tell everyone it's a drill, or they're really going
to take it seriously,
school officials issued a Facebook statement saying they
wanted to see authentic reactions from students and
employees to see possible flaws and make necessary changes. The
drill was handled very well. Oh,
I find this amazing. I mean, people can get hurt with these
unannounced drills I'm
waiting for when somebody dies, from a heart attack or something
during one of these drills as people die of heart attack.
Sure, you know, so many drops dead from one of these drills.
And unexpectedly, as soon as the school district for everything,
they're worth millions of dollars, and then their
insurance rate goes skyrocketing after that, because the
insurance company will pay them the first one but they're not
going to put up with this going on for long. And so you end up
with a cost into public a lot of money. Because they won't eat
they won't eat it. It's just a public that has to eat it but
these higher taxes, this this is an unacceptable.
And I will say that what I think is the the fallout from this is
it's one thing to be you know, this magical climate change
which is going to kill you because it's going to be so warm
and we're sitting here where the sweaters on. But kids who are in
school and colleges, John, they really are traumatized by this,
because they're told it can happen at any moment can happen
to their school at any moment. And then you get a drill that's
unannounced. I think that's pretty irresponsible. Yeah, I
agree. Anyway, kids are abused all the time. And I love it when
the truth comes out. CNBC Yeah, CNBC.
How to Train Your Dragon. The hidden world opens in theaters
nationwide this weekend from Universal Pictures and
DreamWorks which along with CNBC is a subsidiary of Comcast. So
at a time when kids are watching less traditional TV and TV
commercials. How is the studio promoting this film and others
while they've asked us to ask Julia Boorstin she's on the
Oscar red carpet with a look Julia.
Pay attention now.
Well, Kelly, DreamWorks Animation is not relying on
commercials, but rather going to where kids and teenagers spend
their mind spend their time to dry word of mouth and also
social chatter.
Where kids spin their minds. Yeah, yeah. The truth always
wants to come out. spend their money spend their minds on the
social medias. Yes, that's exactly right. That's where they
spend their minds and you're they're corrupting them.
Alright, just to get off the green New Deal. I don't know if
you saw this one last bit from Alexandria, Ocasio Cortez, who
had to fight back against this di fi deal, because this is
unacceptable. And here's how she said that in I think there's
actually a a rare appearance in New York and I read it
and I was like, You know what? I don't care anymore. I don't care
anymore. Because, again, I'm at least trying. And they're not.
So the power is in the person who's trying regardless of the
success. If you're trying, you've got all the power, you're
driving the agenda. You're doing all this stuff, like I just
introduced Green New Deal two weeks ago. And it's creating all
of this conversation. Why? Because no one else has even
tried, because no one else has even tried. So people are like,
Oh, it's unrealistic. Oh,
it's big. Oh, it
doesn't address this little minute thing. And I'm like, you
try. You do it, right. Because you're not. So until you do it.
I'm the boss. That's how you heard it here.
I like how she kind of turns into Jenny on the Jenny from the
block. Yeah, you do it. Oh, really? You do it. And all of a
sudden, there's the Latina coming out in her.
You know, it was a group effort that came up with this thing,
not her. She says when I interviewed, I saw what she
introduced. It was a whole group of people. And they all did they
all went up and said something. She should have said when we
introduced she's not a team player she's gonna get she's
gonna be sorry. Oh, well see? No, I was one of the members of
the group that introduced the green New Deal, but I'm not such
a loudmouth like she is. I'd be irked by that comment, know
that. I did it. I introduced it. I wrote it. She didn't do that.
It's bullcrap.
Well, she's taken the she's taken the glory for whatever it
is for whatever it's worth, whatever. Whatever glory there
is. Yeah. All right. We've been talking about anti semitism with
you. And I've seen this accusation rise significantly in
just the past month. Everything everywhere, there's anti
semitism, anti Semite. Oh, this is it's anti anti semitic. Let's
start
here at home trying to treat Yeah, they're trying to show the
yellow vests and the anti semitism.
Here we go PBS news hour with Jonathan Greenblatt. He is the
executive director of the anti Defamation League if the
President
and his supporters and anyone who is doing what Deborah refers
to as these dog whistle calls, if they all went silent, the
hatred and the bigotry that that is the De Semitism would still
exist, wouldn't it? Well, of course, anti semitism is often
called the oldest hatred. It's been a persistent problem for
centuries, some would argue even millennia. But the issue is this
and we know this from the words of the white supremacists
themselves. The David Dukes, the Richard Spencer's, the Andrew
Anglin, these individuals with their poisonous prejudice they
have celebrated online when they've seen terms like America
first, or globalist, or more recently, nationalist and up
literally in the talking points of candidates and officials
themselves. And I do want to say something and this is important,
this important is not political. After Charlottesville, we saw
leaders from the Republican Party and the Democratic Party
call this out. However, this demands not just saying
something in response to an incident, but rather, it's the
Climate Leaders create every single day. And we need people
in positions of authority across the board. Keep in mind, the 57%
increase included a 90% increase of acts of anti semitism on
college campuses. So whether you're the president of a
university, or the President of the United States, people in
positions of authority need to shut this down as soon as they
hear it. So
now we have Louis which is an interesting translate
You didn't let it play out when he asked me to also add
Farrakhan and the women that new Muslim members because
I didn't find that in the clip. Well, why can
we Farrakhan was left out he's openly anti semitic. And so are
these some of these newer women that just came into the scene?
No, no, no, no, no, that you have it all wrong. You see, it's
the white nationalists, which is really nationalists and let's
just break it down which is really I guess you didn't say
patriotic but that was all that was missing there. You know,
he's just he's just twisting it
into White who is this guy? He has a he's the obvious he's
the director of the anti Defamation League he is the he's
the go to
guy to care about Farrakhan.
Well notice is white nationalist. If you if you claim
to be a white nationalist, what do you think you're mainly
against people who are not white, but for some reason
that's now Jews.
Oh, you see, this is this is this reminds me about what this
was, like months and months ago and Horowitz and DeVore ideation
unplugged. Horror, which says, he says, what? When did I not
become white? Jewish? Yeah.
Now he's not white. He's worked about it. Well, I'm sorry. He
can't he's not in our white club. Go away. Okay, so we're
the same. We're talking the same week. We have this on PBS
newshour Friday night, I guess it is Bill Maher and his HBO
show has an old friend of ours, who I we have not seen for
years. Bernard Henri Levy. Yeah. Who is this guy? He's French. I
can't remember. He's this the French intellectual? Douchebag.
Yeah, he's a French and you need that's what he is. He's a French
intellectual. Douchebag. Okay, Bernard Levy. Let me look him
up. I forgot all about this guy.
Yeah, he was he was in the news. It must have been six years ago.
He was all over the place. And anyway, so he he is accentuating
the anti skid. You got him. You remember? You remember him?
Right? Well, vaguely. Well, he was in the news a lot back in
the day. I look up when we last played a clip from him. Anyway,
he's on.
He's on Bill Maher Neuville philosophies. Yes.
And he's there to basically connect the dots between anti
semitism and the yellow vests. And it's the same stuff, right?
Yeah. Hey, listen, here he comes. Listen to this.
What's going on? Every day I read in the paper about the
yellow jackets. In France. They started out as a protest against
high gas prices. Yeah, not just high gas prices Bill, you can go
ahead and say it was against a carbon tax but gee, you just
can't bring yourself to say okay, what's going on? Every day
I reading a paper about the I know I was being sarcastic but
I'd had to Yellow Jackets. In
France. They started out as a protest against high gas prices,
I think. And it seems to have morphed into something darker
with elements of anti semitism. Why does everything in Europe
wind up being something involved with anti semitism?
I like what he did. Bill Maher is good here. Why is everything
in Europe anti semitic, they're just they're all Jew haters all
over Europe. It's why is that?
In Europe and also sometimes in America. Yes. Remember all these
millions of Twitter's that preceded and followed the
election of Donald Trump? Let you want to competition between
a handbag I don't like this sort of card no no there is today
what is true and again it is I don't want to make too much
advertisement but it is a topic of a book. Wave and tide
populism. Populism means also is the nickname a gentle name for
fascism therefore for anti semitism
okay let's populism is the nickname
Clip of the Day on now
let's just break this down so
a minute ago versus you know you like Adam curry a year right Jew
hater
that's pretty much it first we heard white nationalist is
nationalist is anti globalist is anti semitic. Now we're hearing
populism is Fascism is anti semitic
wave and tide populism. Populism means also is the nickname a
gentle name for fascism, therefore for anti semitism and
these ways is going wiping off all our countries, the West
Europe, America, of course Russia, which is a fatherland of
this of this populism, the place where they their puppet eyes
monetize this populism. So we have that everywhere. And of
course anti semitism is the climax of this populist trend.
And it's absolutely normal that we have it. But it would be
absolutely normal to resist to face and to contain it and we
don't do enough of it.
And that's why I had to clarify something for people. The
fascist movement, which was an Italian, quasi intellectual
movement, and Benito Mussolini was one of the main players in
the development of it in the late 20s, actually mid 20s. It
had absolutely zero period, it was a totalitarian style system
that was very closely hooked to corporatism, where corporations
were part of the government. But it had absolutely zero anti
semitism built within it. In fact, the opposite may actually
be true. It wasn't until Hitler came along and stole the kind of
stole the popularity of the whole system. And he put it into
his anti Jewish prejudices or bigotries into this into the
system and made it anti Jewish. It never traditionally, fascism
does not equal anti semitism by definition on national
socialism, which is the Nazi party. Yes, that's different.
But he didn't say that.
Unfortunately, when you do not defend the meaning of words,
such as gay, meaning happy gleeful, and you allow that to
be changed, you can't stop other words being changed to have
meaning. And it's happening right here before our very eyes
by intellectual elites, who were just telling us these words mean
something different now and you're meant to believe it?
Yeah, it's completely unacceptable.
And can the Navia you're not? You're not to free from this.
And we have the yellow vests also cropping up in Canada. Here
is author slash podcaster Nora Loreto was telling us exactly
what this is about. This is
a movement that is using the cover of jobs and pipelines and
oil exploitation to earn their credibility into the mainstream
press. Well then also talking about the UN being some
international conspiracy theory to I'm not exactly sure what
override Canada with how I don't even want to continue on that
line because it's just so racist and so disgusting.
Taking it to the same place, knighted nations is a conspiracy
theory. verbs and nouns who gets these mixed up, I don't get it.
Yeah, it's fantastic. It's really is not a Well, there you
go. It's just what it is the
President shows I started, joyous, the beginning of the
show, and I'm getting more and more depressed.
Let me see 2011 Is this that's in douchebag. Hold here for a
moment you say I am troubled by a system of justice modestly
termed accusatory, is this easy that anyone can come along and
that is what the complainant to the victim so alleged to have
been shot of 2011 is the last time we heard from him eight
years ago.
And this guy's back frog got a book come out.
That's what he just said. He said this is exactly what his
book is about. His book is about populism turning into anti
semitism. And he's got the anti Defamation League to back
everybody up and you know this there is a coordinate
Defamation League should be ashamed of itself by not
mentioning Farrakhan if they're gonna if they're gonna go there.
Huh
got well, not not in any clips I saw.
So no, because they didn't know because this would kind of
impinge on the Democrat party. This is become a political
organization.
Partisan toward the Democrats, it's unacceptable. So I have a
clip. Well change gears a little bit unless you want to stop and
take a pause, because we're going to have take a couple
extra bucks.
Yeah. So maybe I should talk about the meetup first, before
we before we go into a regular segment, talk about who we saw
and who had what to say, and who had some nice notes, etc.
Yeah, you got a lot more notes than the general meetups get
seems to me because I looked at your little list of things to
talk about. And you had a lot of notes. We don't have to read
every single one of them. No, but you don't want to read the
good ones? Yeah, I do. I gotta start our segment. Let's start
this segment. And then we can do you'll do the meet up reads.
It's a separate group. All right. Well, let's do it. We'll
do the regular the regular stuff and go back to the
well let me start by thanking you for your courage and say in
the morning to you the man who put the sea in cold baths Iowa
John sea.
And in the morning to you, and all the days and nights out
their
seats in the air subs in the water boots on the ground. Get
it at the beginning of the show. Well in the morning to you, sir,
in the morning to all of the human resources in our troll
room. No agenda. stream.com. Good to have you all there.
Thanks. Love you guys showing up helping us out particularly when
we're on location. And things are a little while need a little
more help from the Trolls. And I'd also like to say in the
morning to sirloin brow coo man, it's been a long time since he
had some artwork. He did the art for episode 1114 titled that was
fudged. And this was the orange MAN bad Poison Control patch. It
was a great passion ahead. We I think we got this from
evergreens.
Yeah, it's an older one. He probably doesn't even listen to
the show anymore. Not well, and
I don't know about that.
You know, I'm guessing he probably
does. Probably does. But I don't know. Why couldn't we find any
art that was recently submitted? Do you recall?
Yeah. Cuz it wasn't up to our normal high standards. Okay.
That's it. Or was straddling it was a lot of it was predictive.
A lot of it wasn't it didn't really it wasn't funny.
All right. Predictive. Yeah. A lot of people do this. They'll
they'll think they know what topics we're going to talk about
and make art beforehand. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't doesn't work
very well. Usually.
Generally never works. No.
Okay, so we had our big meet up here in in Des Moines,
Iowa free go before you go into the meetup. How was the wedding?
Well, the meetup was first the wedding was yesterday. And the
wedding was fantastic was it was at the Botanical Gardens, which
is a really great venue. Now it's inside the inside in a
tropical dome. was really nice. And keep an eye dance the night
away. grooving gotten way too late. And I got it nice normally
to do the show. But the meetup was on Friday. As we traveled
from we got to really early Friday morning. We are on a
plane at 10 to six to St. Louis. You cannot get directly to Des
Moines from pretty much anywhere. So we had a layover.
Three hour layover in St. Louis. Pretty much the whole trip
should have taken three hours. Not even from Austin to Des
Moines. Yeah, so we got in and then, you know, got turned
around everything set up and went straight off to the hall,
which again, thanks to the owner for letting us brandish weapons
and and make a right old ruckus said there was about 70 people I
know I think this was coordinated by Joshua Thompson.
I think he was the original coordinator who worked with me
me. Yeah. And so I want to thank him right up front he gave $33
Which was $30 in paper and three, Susan B Anthony silver
dollars.
Are the silver ones are the copper ones.
Do they look like see said there were silver they look silver? I
don't know how would I know if they're copper?
They're made out of nickel then.
It's not silver? No. I like them anyway.
Really, but a minute little thing. Go to one of your go to
the coin stamp store and get a little these little containers
just swing in there. Yes, folded up and you got a coin in a
little square thing. Exactly.
Thanks to an anonymous donor $40 No note no name almost everybody
did a good job with envelopes and and with notes and putting
their name on it, although the $49 that it was a check, and I
don't want to mention their names, because that's kind of an
anonymous, that's one of our signs that that is meant to be
an anonymous donation.
So that's because it is. Yeah. Well, there you go. So as you
would have donated 50 Yes.
$50 from John and Aaron Shriver, they had no note Jake Nichols
$60. And he had a very nice note. And he also gave me a
book, which may have to enter the no agenda, reading list
foundations, their power and influence by Rene warms are. Now
we've talked about the foundations, and how they, how
they, you know, influence education by literally giving
money and saying only if you use it for social justice warrior
stuff. And his donation is dedicated to my late
grandfather, Lloyd D. Johnson and accomplished engineer, who
was part of an engineering team that designed and built the
gyroscopic navigational control module for the moon lander in
the 60s. And legend has it a pair of His shoes were sent in
the time capsule to the moon during one of the trial runs of
the landing.
How about that? Well, there you go.
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Barry Richardson $66 He says in the morning, love the show.
Josiah Thomas 75 No, no Josh Moser. He needed a douching. So
I mean, give him the deducing This is his I think his first
maybe his first ever
bad deed deuced.
Let me see if I can find his note really quickly. I don't
think I can find it. Do you do this so much better than I do
with these notes? All right. Yeah, I know. Right. Then we had
our our knighting on the spot Steve Drewery. And let me see.
Oh, by the way, can I mentioned something? Yes. I'm never going
to do that. Well, just tell everybody in it okay,
that you won't need them to actually this was not this was
this is Steve Drewery who becomes a knight today when he's
completed his knighthood with $80 he becomes circumspect.
Then we have expect the second
must be if $95 from we're not sure the note said Dube, D O B,
so I'm not sure who that was. Scott of The tall corn. He gave
$100. And he had a he gave us some very nice Iowa tags, have a
name tag and there's some stuff in here for you all Iowa related
and lots of nice little goodies and he says that he has a hoodie
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putting the screws to you there. Todd McGreevy $100 He says
please, if you can do more for do more topics about agenda 21,
which I think we kind of call the agenda 2030 Or these days,
we just call the green New Deal. Even though he feels that we've
we do we don't talk about agenda 21 anymore, and people should
definitely.
We used to talk about a lot. Yeah.
Now it's kind of morphed into, you know, some stuff we see
right in front of us. I think green New Deal is a fantastic
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Joshua kratky $100. And he had these beautiful laser cut name
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You've got karma.
Sir Knight of the east side is $100 and then we had the father
son duo mark and Michael how old he'll be. And they had a very
interesting idea. They had a whole stack of 3d printer tags,
you may have seen one of the pictures on Twitter, no respect.
Resist, we march in the morning, and they had this big bowl and
they said, you know, grab any, any any tag you want, value for
value, throw whatever money you want into the, into the bucket,
and 33% of all online orders goes to the show, so they have
more of them at no agenda. tags.com so they they hauled in
190 bucks on on the evening. And so that was donated to the show.
Very nice. Sir John and damy that Dame AMI of house Punahou
Yes, Sir John and Dame AMI of house Punahou $200 and Dame AMI
was very adamant that this has been applied to her donations
not to Sir John. Let's see I don't think we had any other
notes there. Dave al Brecht $200 and P will be knighted today and
he wants spreadsheets and ghost guns on the at the roundtable
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Great Plains and let's see he wanted a mac and cheese and
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money shot Jesus that's a money shot. Conway is a money shot so
we'll see you at the roundtable later sir Dave sir Benjamin T
recurs. Here's a guy who's been around he gave us a couple of
cool challenge coins to divvy up and $200.01 and see I think he
had a quick notes Let me see. Where is he? Yes Here he is to
John Adam. Thank you for the show. It keeps me sane keeps my
amygdala strong and small hopefully I hope the place in
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right grape.
Okay. And we will definitely give you a Karma ESP
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okay, then we have sir Whitney Knight of
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Sir Whitney Knight of the Corn Belt conspiracies and smoking
hot wife Amy. First of Adam, thanks for coming in the
Midwest. It's a pleasure to meet you in Des Moines. Hope you and
Tina enjoy the awful winter weather Yes, we did this
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human resource Warner that'll be February 27. We were both avid
listeners began listening very shortly after his birth the poor
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And then we get Paul Richardson who was knighted at the meetup.
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circuitous, circuitous. Thank you, sir. Cute, what is what a
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If I'm talking, I'm gonna tell you a story about how you get
from point A to point B. But instead I take a circuitous
route of telling the story. It becomes a shaggy dog story and
if I tell you how I got there,
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does. So he's circuitous, circuitous route of the scooter
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Oh, right. Oh, I have an update. Okay, we were talking about the
douchebag reporting from Tucker Carlson regarding skyrocketing
the screaming and vomiting combo yes Chrono which is supposedly
takes place when you smoke too much weed. Yeah. And this has an
actual name cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome ch s. And I
called bullshit on it the first time I call bullshit on the
second time that we came up particularly because I don't
know what Tucker Carlson's problem is with with weed but he
has such a disdain for it but he was very specific him and his
staff doctor, this came from smoking too much weed. That's
that's the way you recall it as well, John.
That is the way I recall it. Now, I want to interject here
that there have been some instances and so certain states,
although I think this may be exaggerated to where people have
too much too many edibles now because they Well, it takes two
hours before they take effect and they after an hour, nothing
happens more and then now still, nothing happens. They take more
the next thing you know they had
three, three of our producers email me and they all had very
similar notes. You're mocking this. It's true. It is true. I
had it. I was screaming and puking. I lost 35 pounds. It was
the most horrible experience ever. And like what I had never
heard of this. It's in an ima daily pretty much daily smoker
of
the flour. That daily errs 35 pounds and what
this went on for weeks, weeks, okay, I figured out what's going
on. This is not repeat not from people smoking weed. This is
from people who Deb and now I understand the problem. And if
you don't know what dabbing is dabbing is an extraction
protocol. It's a smoking wax, essentially THC x which is wax,
which is hash, or they call a wax but it's hash oil which is
extracted using butane so it's butane hash oil at extracts
people are using propane now to extract it and this is an I've
I've had some of this I've smoked some wax I was like this
is not weed this is like some chemical it needs incredibly
strong and it's not pleasurable. But I think that there's this
there's this contingent of people who really love this this
chemically treated mero hash oil hemp oil
can I stop please did all three producers send you that pretty
much the same note and did all three producers imbibe through
this method? Yes. So none of our smoking I mean to me smoking
dope smoking weed smoking the refer any of these things has
been tails making a small cigarette and then smoking it
like as it as if it was something cigarette like yes,
and and that's to me a smoking in this this is not this is the
this is like distributing cocaine and crack.
Yeah, in a way. That's, that's more this is typically and if
you want to know where a lot of these so called vape pen
explosions come from a lot of the dabbers use very high
powered battery vape systems known as mods, which can be very
dangerous if they don't have protection for overload, and
they put a little bit of the wax there on the coil and then they
you know, then it heats it up because of the the essentially
the short circuit you're creating with a lithium ion
battery. And then that is inhaled. But that's not the same
as marijuana. So regardless of whether it's coming from some
cannabinoid product, it is not repeat not from smoking weed.
And so which even which makes Tucker Carlson's report even
stupid especially because he had a doctor there. It is true that
a hot shower helps. And there's you know, and people do have
severe reaction to it which,
but this sort of practice should be discouraged by Tucker Carlson
is not used as evidence against the whole everything exactly.
Very that I consider that to be dishonest reporting.
There is one other thing that one of our producers sent this
and he says what's happening now is in California growers, you
know, there's all kinds of rules and regulations so if they have
moldy marijuana or stuff that may be the caterpillars they've
apparently they have a caterpillar issue and they're
eating up all of the profits. Yeah, eating up the crops. So
then these growers when they can't sell them into the
official market, they will basically hand them off to the
extractors the BHO butane hash oil extractors, which then ends
up in the vape cartridges which are legal to buy anyhow and then
you've got some contaminated shit that you're inhaling again
through a through a vaporizer people just get the flour just
that's that's the way it was intended. You don't need
anything extra just the flour and you're right roll it up. And
that's the way to go. And all this other stuff is I think
you're playing with your life and I cannot recommend it
end of lecture
Yes. end of lecture and end of end of looking out for the for
the Reefer Madness of Fox News and Tucker Carlson
wrong well, I have my theory on that already. Well, go ahead.
Well, I told it before it This is all because of the O'Reilly
market which is what took Carlson took over the O'Reilly
spot right everybody who listens to that moment expects anti
marijuana propaganda
you're right, you're right. No, screw them.
Okay, so there's an Israeli trip to the moon coming Finally,
they gotta go check on the moon bases See, see how they're
doing.
But apparently it can't get there they have to go whipping
around around the earth like up for a month and then get
slingshot it out to the moon because we don't make a big
rocket anymore. The big Saturn five rocket that was used to go
to the moon. And if you ever look at a rocket comparison
chart, you see rocket rocket Titan to Israel these rockets in
his Saturn five monstrosity, which is the biggest thing ever
built. And they can't build them anymore because it cost too much
cheese
in seven days made the trip to the moon and three days thanks
to giant Saturn five rockets. Without that kind of boost. The
Israeli craft has to orbit Earth and growing circles until lunar
gravity finally pulls it in in April. I can't wait
for rockets to not be making it to be crashing, blowing up stuff
to go wrong. It's not gonna happen. I am now more convinced
than ever when I read through in between the lines of all these.
Oh, we're going back to the moon after what is it now? 50 years.
Whoo. Let's see you do it. Please land with one of those
lunar modules. Can't wait.
I'm skeptical as you can tell. Yeah, it's not new. How about
here's this, here's a clip I put these clips and I do I pre
produce them now the day before so sometimes I forget what
they're about. So I'm not sure what the Deborah Eisenstaedt on
sexism weirdo clip is. Let's see what it is. To be honest,
I was battling a lot of sexism on DuBois. I made this really
Yeah. How so? Who was that clip? All right.
That clip I'm saving that clip to use in conjunction with the
Emilia Clarke clip, okay. At a moment in time where we're
talking about this topic, because now I know what it is.
I'm sorry that I I should have not forgotten.
Okay, you want to redeem yourself with something else?
Yes.
I got Jill Abramson.
I knew you would have time for this. I thank you so much,
because this was a C span thing, and I certainly wasn't able to
do it.
Well, I got 123. They're short, said one. No, two of them are
long, actually. Two minutes, but 1234 plus two fabulous. ISOs.
Wow. And as the ISOs you're gonna probably like the most,
okay, but she talks a lot about, you know, we didn't care too
much about her going on and on about what was and what wasn't
plagiarism, but she did lose the plot, you know, that we talked
about, we had a clip from the Canadian land podcast where she,
where they talked about how Jill said that she sent to think
device and then never got anything, but it's not true.
That whole clip from Canada land was very dubious. Unfortunately,
when she starts talking about it in this particular clip where
she loses the plot, she loses her train of thought, and the
woman who's interviewing her, which is that the old NPR CEO,
who's the one who said the
one from advertising, oh, what's her name again?
It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. It doesn't really
matter. But when she sounds like No dude, same I'll think of her
name as we go. But watch how she loses the plot and then the
interviewer which is this x NPR woman. If you if you're losing
your train of thought and you're the interviewer, that's the
problem. That's the problem is pretty much the interviewers
purview to bring you back into line. Yeah, with some, you know,
memorable is anything you try to trigger that no never happens.
We don't even get the end of the story
at VICE because I saw my my portrait overall of them has
been yet balanced and well you do you do document a lot of
Yeah, missteps and you know, some of the, you know, that
little issues around what you said, we're gonna go back to
that issue, but that is why I gave in manuscript version, the
three chapters of vice to this, the Ben spokesmen advice to rate
go over.
Her fry is on fire.
I did, and I am so certain that I may, they didn't give me
anything in writing, whereas the other place I gave manuscript
pages was the times which came back pretty comprehensive land
and writing. So it's possible because I'm better on print than
through my ears on now. I know each news organization saw the
chapter editor at at age one I asked, but anyway, what point
where were we on? We were talking about chart B. Yeah.
That BuzzFeed has been able to embrace and harness this to
well, they, for a long time. I mean, that was
Vivian Schiller is her name. Yeah,
Vivian Schiller, she couldn't get her back on track. And fetch
even pushed her off the track by going on about stuff that wasn't
even discussed. You want to go anyway, so she talks about it
was some good stuff here. Here's what she did. This starts off
with a discussion of how luxury watches started being covered on
the New York Times for no good reason. And then she begins to
talk about how Analytics has affected coverage and why Trump
gets so much negative publicity. I didn't know any of this
knowledge, because I haven't been in a newsroom, probably for
over well over a decade. But I had no idea that for example,
apparently, at the Washington Post, they have a board it's
like, it's like the Max Headroom movie, where the ratings are the
dip. So we got so many clicks on the story number five is doing
another story like that.
Oh, really? Oh, listen to this. This
is the luxury watches, clip,
watch. luxury watch, desperately needed. You know, Bill Keller,
and my collective view was like, there is nothing really
newsworthy about why that was. But of course, you know, that
that does run in the time right now. And it's still, you know,
rankles me I am, you know, I was probably not the executive
editor match perfectly with my time we
challenge, the access the newsrooms access to analytics I,
on how stories are performing. You've talked about you talked
about an episode where it was introduced at the Washington
Post, and
well now and you know, they have these big boards you see by the
SEC, and what, what, what stories are being done. And that
may, dare I say, help explain why sometimes when I'm on the
post, posts app, I have to scroll like maybe twice,
sometimes three times because they mix opinion with news on
one of their one of their apps. It's all Trump. Because, you
know, and maybe Trump is is MIT. And you know, he's obviously the
master news maker. And that's exactly what he wants. But all
of those stories are getting like big audiences and lots of
clap. Yes. And, you know, there is an implied incentive to have
so many and at the times, you know, I have a friend who still
works there, who admitted to me that when they aren't writing on
Trump, and something else, like on Chartbeat are now that times
journalists can easily have access to analytics.
Okay, so breaking this down, what she's saying is, and it's
hard for people who are new to Jill Abraham to understand what
she's talking about. So the journalist writes stories,
there's a an analytics board in the newsroom that shows who's
whose story is getting the most reads clicks, whatever. And then
that's the incentive for them to go and do more of that. Which
for their audience, of course, is Trump flakes. Yeah. Chris
clay we don't even know if it's RISD just clicks.
Well, this is like that's gonna kill them, man.
That's that's gonna kill all News.
I agree because this is something that I that was I've
started writing on the on the web early. And I've always
wanted to see what the analytics were because I always, I kind of
wrote clickbait style headlines and still do. And I can see why
you would start to think that oh, this is just one work this
one didn't. And they kind of encouraged that in some in
magazines, because they want to keep everyone.
But wait, you're saying something important here? It's
not the article. It's the headline.
What is always the headline? Well, I mean,
but the clicks, their analytics are on the clicks and the clicks
are going to be on the headlines, not on the story. And
we don't know if someone necessarily read the story, do
we, in their newsroom analytics, big board,
this thing called Chart stat, or whatever it is, or some, I don't
know what these systems do anymore. But I would assume they
probably emphasize headline writing. And that's why headline
writing is so important. It's got to be Yeah, but it's always
been that way, except you never got the feedback. And, and, and
it wasn't, it's so encouraged. Not everybody can write good
headlines. That's why, for most writers, the headlines aren't
written by the writers there tend to be written by the
editors, right. And even though some editors cannot write very
good headlines, either some can write fabulous headlines, but
very few. This is not, this is what this is needle watching.
This is like, again, Max Headroom, where if you remember
that movie, if fed, especially the movies much better than the
TV show was rent that movie, if you've never seen it, it's like
real time TV where they just you know, they're the ratings are in
real time. So there's a meter going on constantly, you're
talking about something else. And then the meter goes up, talk
about something else, it goes higher, and then it starts
dropping off, you're fired.
And not to toot our own horn. But I think our analytics are
the only ones that are really truthful and honest. And that's
why we're transparent about them. If if if we can't we don't
get enough support to pay rent, then we're not doing it well,
then we're doing something wrong.
I would say that simple. So let's play as her on now.
They're talking about the what model works for the news
business. And there's a there's a kind of a fundamental mistake
made here by the interviewer. What's her name? Vivian. She
jumped she jumps. I mean, I can see why she jumped to this
conclusion. But what Jill said and what Vivian assumes it with
Jill then confirms kind of misses the major point which I'm
going to point out
709 million in earnings per week. It's extraordinary. Do you
think that is a model that can work for other for news? I
wish I wish I could tell. The problem is that only news
companies that do journalism at the highest quality levels and
MIT, you know, publish stories that you can't find anywhere
else, the model while we're gone. But do you think it's only
a matter of quality? I think,
Wait a minute, what are they saying now?
You're talking about what model works for the news business?
Because the New York Times in 708 are some $700 million plus
in digital subscriptions Vivian's asking her what does
that model with that model? Is it possible that everyone can
make this kind of money? And she says, No, you didn't listen to
her clip? Again. It's you know, and she's because we, you know,
we do something the other papers can't do, which is we have a big
debit than they do. They have a large staff of people, when they
dig into things a little more, they have bureaus all over the
place, and smaller places can't do that. They're probably going
to all die. But there's a mistake being made in here. So
play the whole clip again. Okay, hold on.
Shoot, hold on a second. Oh, yes. Model, here we go.
709 million in earnings replete. It's extraordinary. Do you think
that is a model that can work for other for news? I wish
I wish I did to the the problem is that only news companies that
do journalism at the highest quality levels and MIT, you
know, publish stories that you can't find anywhere else. The
model while we're gone, but do you think it's only a matter of
quality? I think that's Oh, I
see. So it's only because they're so incredibly good.
No, no. What it was is what Jill answered was the reasons were is
because of high quality and things you can't find elsewhere.
Right exclusive Vivian says, Oh, do you think it's only because
of high quality? No, that's not what Abram said. Abramson.
That's not what she said. She said high quality and intent
information that can't be found elsewhere. Right? Well, it's the
information that why would it? What's its information that
can't be found elsewhere? That's the key to this. Two qualities,
the secondary.
And the joke of it is all the information that the New York
Times has that can't be found elsewhere comes from multiple
people familiar with the situation and people who would
not go
on record, which is probably not the bad sourcing, okay. In fact,
if you your point actually makes the the high quality things take
a backseat, because high quality is not saying, Oh, this guy
according to sources, we think this guy, we think that we're
having people make stuff up like that editorial. So that quality
at the New York Times is not great. But what's great, what
makes it makes it all work is that they do have stories you
can't find anyplace else.
Yeah, they're bullcrap. But they're white. And that's why
the Wall Street Journal did a paywall made it work, because
the Wall Street Journal has a lot of reporters, digging up
stuff you can't find anyplace else, the quality be damned,
it's not about the quality.
It's just about the exclusive of the stories, which could also
just be playing into your own little bias bubble, but that's
just sneeze out there.
I just think that Vivian blue that she for some reason she had
it in her mind, they had to be quality, quality, quality. So
you can write the most quality. The high quality stuff, you
know, you want a high quality stuff, go buy a book. Yeah.
That's your high quality right there. Okay, so let's go. This
is the last one. This is where I think she got fired. I mean, she
bitched about not getting enough money. But I think this last
one, the native says native, the native ads summary on Jill is
how this is, this is the problem that the New York Times as
digital
world that we're living in today, which brings some
advantages. Much is getting lost and at risk is is that
journalistic ethics has become compromised, is that that I get
that right?
Or more complicated. numbers show or comment compromise,
there are certain things where I think there's been a compromise.
But they aren't things that are directly tied to the news
reports of these places themselves. It has more to do
with something called native advertising or branded
advertising. And we'll talk about what that is, in case what
that is, is advertising that very closely mimics the
publication or video that the advertising as appearing next to
it may be advertising like in The New York Times, or the
Washington Post that has a byline and, yeah, and the
quality is very good. It's just an end it is identified at the
time they call them paid posts I had wanted when this was under
discussion at the times and I didn't want to do any native
advertising. But that was going to be about All right, there it
is I wanted it labeled me the little label to say an ad or
advertising. It's called paid pose. Yeah. So what bothers me
about that is, you know, there has been no scandal about these
ads. So far. I worried there, there might be. But whether it
is something that could sow confusion in the minds of an
audience or readers, and you know, they're the people I care
most about, that's true of the mistakes I've made. I mean, it's
my readers who I really owe an arm sorry.
Yes, she got fired, right.
So do you think the $700 million is just subscriptions? Or does
that include native advertising,
which of course, it includes lots of native Morrison's
Goddess of all advertising on
TV, but they make it sound like because I read the news about
this, they make it sound like we've got digital, we've got
digital subscribers, baby this is we're making bank we we've
cracked the nut, we know what's going on. But that money is also
coming from native ads.
You want to read an article in The New York Times, and you've
run out of your get your four limit, you get free for a month,
and then for free a month, right? You go to a private
browser, just click on private browser on your browser and then
put the URL in there, you'll be able to read it fine.
But there's also all kinds of I think even Safari will do this
when you can say oh, I just want an easy to read screen version,
and it will actually bypass the paywall in many cases. It does
that for WaPo.
Okay, so let's listen to the two ISOs I've got the first one
but before before we go to the ISOs let me remind everybody
Buddy Vivian Schiller since we're talking about advertising
and native advertising when she was still the boss of NPR,
here's what she said. Okay,
moving on to money. How are NPR is corporate underwriting
revenues holding up in the recession? And what about
foundation grants
to different stories? Underwriting is underwriting is
is down, it's down for everybody. I mean, this is this
is this is the area that is most down for us is in is in
sponsorship, underwriting advertising. Call it whatever
you want. Oh,
we'll call it advertising. If you don't mind, Vivian, because
that's what it is.
That's your PBS. So okay, we got two two of them here. One is
Jill rake over to
rake over
wow, I remember that in the piece. It sounded just like it.
Over right, you have another ISO.
Yeah, this one's under Abramson. This is Abramson. Abrams, and
you just play this one you'll crack up. Sorry, my
voice is getting a little froggy.
No kidding. I'm sorry. I like the other one better.
But the other one is.
The Rake over? Yeah, this is this is a dynamite for end of
show, ISO breakover.
Good job, John.
You did get up early this morning to do some work. I
appreciate it. Oh, man, you know, that whole segment would
have been half as long if if it wasn't for the vocal fry. Yeah,
it would have been half as long and unbelievable. Hey, we had
the biggest Samsung Galaxy S 10. Five G introduction the other
day. Yeah. Yeah. You want to hear a little bit of what what
this 5g is going to bring us how fantastic this is going to be.
Are you excited? Are you pumped? Are you ready for 5g 5g? Are you
ready?
Some getting tinnitus already.
We've talked a lot today about the future, a future where our
smartphones are more than just smartphones.
By the way, this introduction of Samsung. It was big was more
flashy than I've ever seen from Apple. They had somehow the the
whole state and was huge. to stage the sides of the stage the
the floor, the back, everything was one giant screen, which I
guess Samsung knows how to
do. Stop for a second. Apple has kind of frozen in time. Yes.
From and I won't even say as the lat last of the Steve Jobs
presentations. But if the presentations done in the 90s,
late 80s and 90s is pretty far as Apple ever went. And
everything since then has been derivative. It's the same. You
know, the black, the black turtleneck, you can walk it out,
you bring a couple of slobs out to talk about something or
other. It's just It's dated. It's very dated.
Yeah. Well, this present this presentation is also dated in
that way, particularly because it's the big fanfare. It's all
of the flashy stuff. It's the you know, the screen on the
stage. But then the guy who's presenting is just some num
knock VP, you know, like, he has no real stage presence. But it
doesn't matter. Because it's 5g, it's going to change the world,
a future led by a generation that expects more from their
technology, they expect more from their technology, a future
where all our devices, including the ones we wear are seamlessly
connected. Oh, yes. But to make that future possible, we need
one more essential element. What could that be a next generation
mobile network, that network in the key to our connected future
is 5g. Now, back in the day, first generation networks
basically let us make phone calls without the courts. Second
generation networks introduced mobile data and that ushered in
an era of texting. It changed the way we communicate. 3g made
connecting the internet on the go reality. It made mobile email
and web browsing the new norm. And over the last decade, 4g
paved the way for new app economy, the rise of social
media in streaming music and video. Oh, I
can't wait. What will 5g Bring us? My goodness? It? It must be
just it's going to be mind blowing.
Each network evolution has been accompanied by mobile
revolution. And 5g represents our biggest step forward. Yeah.
First off, it'll be faster than any network we've ever seen.
Oh, faster, it will be faster. What can that possibly mean?
Roughly
20 times faster. Oh my God than 4g. Second, it'll be capable of
just a millisecond of latency, which is the amount of time
between an action and a reaction. That sounds like I
need to have it and that opens the door for some incredible new
possibilities.
Oh my God, what
can we do with this? Like remote surgery, cloud gaming and
autonomous driving? Well, that's
the future right there. Everybody, I need one
immediately cloud gaming, autonomous vehicles and remote
surgery, maybe it should be in the other order. It's cloud
gaming, autonomous vehicles, and then you'll need some remote
surgery after all that kills you.
In third, it can bring on stress. Yes, many is 1 million
devices per square kilometer. That's 10 times more than what's
possible today. Soon, network congestion will be a thing of
the past.
network congestion will well I thought net neutrality solved.
But already, it will be a thing of the past.
That's 10 times more than what's possible today. Soon, network
congestion will be a thing of the past. 5g will change
everything. It'll enable us to connect and communicate in
entirely
new ways. He doesn't really say how but they keep promising.
It'll Empower
creators and innovators to bring to life ideas we never thought
possible.
Well, John, just imagine what you and I could do. If only we
had more speed and more. Less than something gesture,
gesture, takes up, take a pill you and
you, you and I will be able to do things we never envisioned
before with our show.
And it's true. It won't happen overnight. Oh,
it'll be so hold on a second. I know anybody yell that? No. No.
What Why did he say yes, it's true. He's because Lucy
responding to a very good catch. He's an imaginary person. No,
he's
responding to those douchebags on no agenda, who are playing
his clip this interactive. This is what you can do with 5g. You
can respond to clips in real time, everything.
It'll enable us to connect and communicate in entirely new
ways. It'll Empower creators and innovators to bring to life
ideas we never thought possible. And it's true. It won't happen
overnight. It'll be step by step. The whole tension
by Edge slowly I turned,
has been laying the groundwork for 5g for decades. In Samsung.
We've helped lead the way. All right.
So this is talking about five decades, so decades, meaning
more than one or two decades. 20 years ago, they were doing 5g?
Well,
this is a product launch, so he's totally full of crap, but
5g is the hip term that everyone's talking about. So
hip, in fact, that CBS was able to grab the founder of Huawei
Yes, we continue with the guy whose name we can't pronounce
with more incredibly, innovating information about 5g in the 5g
networks and in this CBS This Morning piece. They went all out
5g
is the latest high speed mobile innovation promising to multiply
wireless internet speeds and increase coverage.
Now we are rolling out 5g And soon we'll welcome six g.
I got a lot of grief from people for us laughing about Trump
saying 5g Six G and it Listen. Yes, there will be six g and
there'll be seven G. But this is bullshit 5g isn't really even a
thing yet. We haven't really agreed in the entire industry as
to what that exactly is going to be. So it's easy to say six g.
But it doesn't mean anything
5g and soon will welcome six g and in the future said there
will be new equipment that is suitable for the United States.
But US intelligence agencies are concerned about Huawei 5g growth
former CIA acting director Michael Morel.
Now I want you to listen very closely to what Mike Morrell
says. So he's trying to tell us that the danger of a 5g network
rolled out on Huawei machinery would be very dangerous to our
national security. But what he says is a little more egregious
about Huawei 5g growth former CIA acting director Michael
Morales
5g is going to allow a much larger number of devices to be
connected to the internet. When you connect more devices, you
create more platforms from which an intelligence service can spy
from
the Trump administration so
he doesn't say the Chinese know he's talking about himself or
his his former his former agency. He's admitting it right
there. You know, 5g we can spy easier on Yeah, yeah, that's
exactly what he's saying that
the more devices you create more platforms from which an
intelligence service can spy from
the Trump administration has warned its allies that it may
reconsider its military relationships with countries
that use Huawei.
I'd hadn't heard this actually. Yeah. So like He's tying 5g,
Huawei must means to NATO or something like if you use
Huawei, and then we won't protect you.
Yeah, something like that. Nice. We cannot
ensure the defense
of the West.
If our allies grow dependent on the east, do you view
that as a threat?
Well, you're coming gang.
First of all, I would like to thank them because they are
great figures. 5g was not known by common people. But now these
great figures are all talking about 5g, and we're becoming
more influential and getting more contracts.
So it's a little bit of sarcasm there.
Oh, please tell them I'm actually thanking them for
promoting us. They've been regarding 5g As the technology
at the same level of though some other military equipment. 5g is
not an atomic mom.
Despite warnings from the Trump administration. Some of our
European allies, including Germany and the UK, are
reportedly considering allowing Huawei to build their high speed
infrastructure for rent. And despite all the criticism from
the administration, he knows his company's future in America is
in the President's hands. He speak very highly of President
Trump yet he is likely to issue an executive order banning your
company from doing any business in the United States. How do you
square the to what you're there to go? Well,
we have never had many sales in the United States, but we didn't
give up our efforts in this country.
dies, okay. I mean, it's he's, I like his attitude about it's
like, Pat, I don't care. But as far as I know, everyone in
Europe has gone with Huawei. They're not they're not backing
down. Germany is not backing down just because it's cheaper.
Yeah, a lot. I what I did find quite humorous was after coming
out of this package, Gail there on CBS This Morning. Do you
recall the the Huawei founders name again? We talked about at
the last show? No, what was
your take on Mr. Huawei? Because Huawei,
and no one blinked an eye. Okay, Mr. Huawei? That's almost kind
of racist.
You're saying, well, then she's the racist. Now you go. I don't
get the appeal. For example, I think morale is, you know, when
he says that just gives you more ways to spy on you. You
mentioned this, you put your little piehole up, and then you
walk past the nest thing. And since starting to send him
signals, he just walked past me. Yes, yeah, we got him located.
He's in the he's in a bedroom. Now. Why does anybody I mean, I
don't get it. Why does anybody think that this is a good idea
to have your house so wired. And I've written about this, where I
believe the great hacks of the future are going to be somebody
who find somebody with at all, you know, a completely automated
house, turning their lights on and off, turning the heat up to
90 and then opening, closing and opening and closing perpetually
opening and closing the garage door.
That's already happening. Yeah, well, I
mean, this is what you do it, it seems to me, this would be this
would be the target. If I was one of those kids board, board
high school that knew how to do all this stuff. And you know, I
would be doing that's what I'd be doing. Well, I talked to a
lot of the kids at the hacking. I talked to a lot of the kids at
the wedding that we were at because you know, we were
definitely the old fogies in the room. These kids don't care.
They don't care. They just don't care. They don't care what it
is. They don't care about the spine. They don't care about the
axis. They don't care. They don't care. They don't care. It
doesn't matter what you say that this is just struggling. And
whatever.
Yeah, I get the same thing from my older millennials. Yeah. And
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it's, well, it's alright kids will be here. When you're really
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So even though he thought he was always running. Oh, by the way,
just before we go into the next segment, I want to talk about
credit cards stolen. This still works as far as I know, I was
told this at a lecture I heard from the then CEO of American
Express, and people can try it. And the trick is if you want to
seek get your card pulled out of the blue, you buy two tanks of
gas. I know this one only gas and then another tank full of
gas and then they aren't supposed to buy sneakers.
Then you go buy sneakers.
It's like Okay, done. All done.
Your card will get pulled instantly. Because it's believed
that a lot of kids who who steal a credit card the first thing
you do is fill up their car and then they fill up their buddy's
car and then they go get some expensive sneakers at footlocker
well what they did our minecart is the first thing so you know I
get text messages immediately and it says fraud alert when end
you have to text yes or no to did you buy something from am
depot for $18 Like as I could I don't know. I mean, did I buy
anything online? So I go looking ammunition ammunition depot,
like no I probably but I actually said no just to make
sure like 18 bucks and I don't because I know what happens The
minute you say yes, your card is frozen, they stop it and you got
to go through the whole rigmarole. So I'm like, now it's
okay. And then it's Oh, did you buy $150 worth of makeup? from
L'Oreal? I'm like, Okay, no, this is not me. And when I'm on
the phone with the fraud detection lady, she says, Oh,
there's all this like five charges coming in, just rolling
in one after another. So what they do is they test the card so
that $18 from the online am depot that was actually
refunded, which tells them that the am depot people may be
complicit in the scam. It's like a whole bunch of stuff going on
with that. Anyway, cash for Adam here. Is that a good drill? And
I'm lucky because you know, at some places these days, you
can't even pay with cash anymore. And I think we've been
following the legislation that has been going on regarding this
and it looks like some states actually want to make it want to
outlaw card only businesses.
There's a lot of restaurants and other businesses that want to go
cashless,
John Longstreet is the president and CEO of the Pennsylvania
Restaurant and Lodging Association. Do you see an
upside to cashless?
Absolutely, because places that handle cash or less safe than
those that don't have cash on hand, everything is reported
directly into the accounting system taxes are paid. Whereas
in the cash society, taxes aren't always paid.
What he doesn't say is that the most employee Wait,
stop. How does that change? In other words, what he's talking
about is skimming or money laundering, or how does that
make you less safe or? Well, depends on Yes, it's about
safety. And then he says you don't pay your taxes that way.
Yeah, but the question is safety of who he's talking about the
government. He's talking about the store owners, that they're
safe from their employees messing up with millennials
can't count stealing money cash disappearing. That's what he's
saying. It's not about you, the consumer, it's about the
business owner
as well, and consumers are getting used to that to us see,
and
now he talks about consumers No, it's about the it's about the
retail owner that's for you for their safety screw the consumer.
Oh,
and they're and they're asking for it. Cash is not accepted.
Asking for it. was asking for it. Who's asking for what he
says he says the consumers are asking for we consumers don't
want cash.
Yeah, that's true. I really believe that to be true. Yes,
it's that clewd you know, but but doesn't include me. But it's
the majority of the same people who don't care about privacy are
get very antsy when they're standing behind you and you pay
cash and someone has to make change and they're like, I need
Henry I was gonna go faster Can't you just swipe it it's so
much easier for everybody move the line lounges to
it too as well and they're and they're asking for it
cash is not accepted. Ratto Lane coffee, and at sweet green the
salad chain. Together they have six stores in Philadelphia.
Nationwide dos todos dig in and tender greens now refuse paper
money. Reportedly milk bar, Starbucks, Amazon Walmart and
Shake Shack have experimented with cashless stores recently.
And that trend worries Philadelphia Councilman Bill
Greenlee,
I'll go and get a cup of coffee. I can get up because I have a
credit card. But the person behind me that doesn't have a
credit card is told they can't get a cup of coffee. That does
something doesn't seem right about that.
According to the Federal Government, more than 14 million
Americans don't have bank accounts. That makes getting
credit cards difficult. A recent survey by the Pew Research
Center found that 34% of black people 17% of Hispanics, and 29%
of people earning less than $30,000 rely on cash.
This is the part that I liked the most. Any store that is
going cashless is racist, and they need to be told that they
are racist because you don't hear a single politician about
this. No Do you? That it's racist. And like it, I like it.
Yeah, racist
for all or just about all of their purchases.
If it's not discrimination, it's elitism. I think government does
have a place to protect people from not being treated fairly.
Councilman Greenlee has introduced a bill that will find
businesses in Philadelphia up to $2,000 If they don't accept
cash, similar laws had been proposed in New York City,
Chicago and Washington DC a statewide ban on cashless stores
is awaiting the governor's signature in New Jersey and
Massachusetts has required retailers to accept cash since
1978. There you go. Good.
How about a Venezuela update?
I have one and you have I have the one from Saturday.
All right. Let's go the National Guard tear gas protesters from
both Venezuela and Colombia who tried to reach bridges between
the two countries. The clashes happened in the bordering cities
of Arabia in Venezuela and Cuba and Colombia. On the Colombian
side of the bridges opposition protesters tried to escort
trucks with emergency food and medical aid into Venezuela using
what leaders call a humanitarian avalanche. On the Venezuelan
side of the border. The Venezuelan National Guard
injured more than two dozen people as protesters set fire to
buses. Earlier opposition leader Juan guaido appeared in Qatar
with the President of Colombia and Paraguay and called on
troops and supporters of Maduro to allow the aid into Venezuela.
The New York Times has Andy's bureau chief Nicolas Cage, he
joins us now from Cucuta, Colombia via Skype.
So basically, the opposition has been trying to get food pass,
Nicolas Maduro has blockaded the borders, and they haven't been
able to. they've amassed hundreds of people on some of
the bridges that looks like there's been 1000s. But Maduro
has been pretty strict about not letting the full number of aid
shipments get in
Nicolas Maduro, this afternoon's severed, basically all
diplomatic and political ties with Colombia. He's saying,
Look, this is a staging ground for violence against
Venezuelans. And
this is huge, because Colombia, and Venezuela have been at
loggerheads many times before they've even had troops on their
borders during Hugo Chavez this time, and for Maduro to come out
and withdrawal the diplomats severing ties to the country
right next to you, is a big deal.
Now, from what I understand, at least I got that from the
intercepted podcast with the Jeremy Scott Hill, or Scahill is
that the you know, that bridge, they say Maduro was keeping
blocked off that that bridge has never been open. And there's
another bridge a couple of miles south or north, that is open for
business, but for some reason they're they're kind of staging
this protest at this bridge that has never actually been
functionally working.
Well, to be honest about it. I think that the New York Times
reporter who was there that was given a last part of that report
on PBS Yeah, I would have mentioned that if if you know,
they could maybe they try that early or maybe it was who knows,
but I don't it's definitely sky sky Hills part of that whole
group that thinks this whole thing is, you know,
guys is a is a coup is a scam. Well,
what is a coup?
Well, normally, normally, when you want to do something like
this, when you need to distract and get this going, Who do you
call?
Clooney, you get some distraction.
I'm sad to report that this jingle will not be played very
often in the future. It seems like Clooney is out but we have
a new guy in none other than Richard Branson,
is what we hope is to draw attention to what's going on in
Venezuela to get much, much needed relief supplies into
Venezuela. And we're hoping that this wonderful, happy free
concert will result in the soldiers on this bridge opening
opening the bridge, and hopefully tomorrow allowing
allowing supplies into the country.
So Richard Branson has called them to put on a free concert at
the border in Colombia. Yeah, this is an I heard this. This is
an interesting strategy. It's going to be streamed live. Hey,
man, we made it work for Live Aid. We can probably do it
again. Where's Bob? Where's Bob Geldof? And I got to see well,
of course, the guy behind this is the neocon supreme in the in
the White House still very confused what he's doing there.
Walrus face John Bolton.
We're in conversation with major American companies now that are
either in Venezuela or in the case of Cisco here in the United
States. I think we're trying to get to the same end result here.
You know, Venezuela is one of the three countries I call it
the troika of tyranny. It'll make a big difference to the
United States economically if we could have American oil
companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in
Venezuela.
There you go. What he's getting out of this.
He's not beat well. You see what happened was like he's not
mentioned in any sex, human trafficking massage parlor
schemes.
We do have the human trafficking things getting it is picking up
again with Julie Brown from the Miami Herald talking about the
Epstein thing.
Well also the also the craft guy getting busted. Well,
let's play the craft busted thing because I think this is
funnier.
I think there's something interesting happening here.
Back in this country. Police in Jupiter, Florida are charging
the owner of the New England Patriots Foot football team,
Robert Kraft was soliciting prostitution. They say that he
was captured on camera at an illicit massage parlor as part
of a crackdown on sex trafficking. The charge is a
misdemeanor. The 77 year old craft denied any wrongdoing
today is this Judy?
Judy is charged as a misdemeanor why are they making such a
national case out of it?
Well, because oh, I'll tell you why. It's because first of all,
it's craft so he's buddies with Trump. This is
this is a hate him in Florida because they keep being yes
dolphins
and this is very close to Mara Lago we have the Epstein thing
bubbling under people are positioning that they can't come
out and say anything just yet but this human trafficking thing
is what is getting almost ignored because of you know,
some guy they're getting a hand job from from a massage parlor
worker. What what I think is interesting is these are all
Chinese run Chinese operated. The the massage therapists are
Chinese. I mean, this is a huge network in my opinion,
you might be right. And it might be right and it's just
all this lacking on the outside of these massage massage places
is no happy ending guaranteed. Otherwise, it's all right. It's
being advertised almost on the on the front door. And they make
a big deal out of this guy. But how about what's actually
happening? The Chinese are taken by the way this Chinese all over
de Moines. There's a Chinese pizzeria.
Oh, God. Best Price. Best Price.
We went there yesterday was pretty interesting. It's a
pizza. Yeah, it's complete Chinese motif. And they got
three of them in Iowa. It's called Fox pizza.
Following
photos so we'll take one it's right around the corner.
How's the pizza was pretty good. We just
had to had luckily on the menu, just a regular kind of pizza.
But you can get all kinds of crazy stuff on your pizza. And,
and I know we took a few Ubers and I'm asking him this gel fun
pizza. What's that? Shall fun. Joseph
Chow fun? No. Is this a joke? I'm missing? Oh, fun. Yeah, I'm
sorry. No.
Well, let's play the let's get to catch up with Epstein. And he
got the Julie Brown on PBS. She's the one who wrote the
article in the Miami Herald Tribune. She brought it back to
the fore. And they asked her about why she did it and all the
rest. And you have to wonder because there's another things
going on in Florida
boggles the mind, though, why it took so long to come to light.
So just start there. Tell us how did you first learn about this
story? Why did you start to dig at it the way you did?
Well, the you know, the pieces of the story. The the outline of
the story had been known for many, many years, a lot of
journalists had written about this deal, sort of scratching
their heads about how could something like this happen. And
when Alexander Acosta, the Miami, US Attorney in Miami was
nominated by President Trump last year as labor secretary or
in 2017, rather, as labor secretary, I sort of wanted to
hear what he was going to say when he would be asked about
this case. And I was kind of astonished that he wasn't asked
much about it at all. And the answers that he did get give
really weren't responsive to the questions he was asked. And so I
thought, you know, it's been a long time this was before the me
to movement. But I kept thinking, I wonder what these
victims these girls at the time, they were 1314 15. Now in their
late 20s, and 30s are thinking about the fact that he has
advanced so far in his career, after in essence, in their minds
betraying them. So I said about trying to find out who these
victims were, and eventually convinced just a handful of
them, quite frankly, to go public. But I spoke to many more
than a handful of them. And the
details that they share in those interviews with you are just so
incredible. jaw dropping and the consistencies across so many of
their stories. I want to share actually just a quick piece of
one interview from one of the women you interviewed. Her name
is Virginia Roberts, and here's what she told you used to happen
at Epstein's house. Okay, it stopped
there. Yeah, the thing that guy there's a reason I wanted to
stop there. And I can't remember what that reason was.
Well, let me take it from here for a second. What I think this
is about, and we've been, you know, the Lolita Express and
Epstein and how the judges, you know, let Epstein off with a
very, very light sentence for effectively being a pedophile
effectively, I don't know if that what he actually had to
agree to that. This is all about Trump. They desperately
desperate He desperately wants to take down Trump, even if it
means they hate to have to take down Bill Clinton, possibly
Hillary Clinton. And I think the one thing in the mix is the
constitutional lawyer, who was also accused of being involved
in this Epstein child sex scandal, Dershowitz. And I think
they're afraid because Dershowitz is threatening
continuously whenever he's on television, if they let him on
television, he's saying, oh, go ahead, please, please get some
stuff going. Because I will sue all of you. But that's this is
it's it's all happening in this around this one area. It's all
Mar Lago it's all about Trump, they want to nail this guy, I
don't think they can. He may actually not be complicit,
although evidence suggests otherwise. Flight logs, etc. I
think that's what this is about.
I'm not gonna say it's not and this all happening in Florida,
and I think the craft thing is part of it. But let's listen to
what one of the women say. And this is what brings it more
questions than answers. With
sexual abuse and intercourse. And then a pat on the back.
You've done a really good job, like, you know, thank you very
much. And here's $200. You know, before you know it, I'm being
lent out to politicians and to academics and people that you
royalty and people that you just, you would never think like
how did you get into that position of power in the first
place if you're this disgusting, evil decrepid person on the
inside?
Julie, women like Virginia lived for over a decade, knowing that
the US Attorney Alex Acosta, in this case declined to prosecute
the man who abused them. When you first approached them. Were
they willing to talk to you?
Now I will hit No, that was probably the hardest part trying
to convince them to trust me because a lot as I mentioned,
there has been a lot written about the case. They have never
really spoken publicly because quite frankly, they felt that
their story really had never been told. So part of what I did
was I I did some homework on it, I interviewed some sexual
assault survivors and some counselors to try to prepare me
not to interview them in such a way as to get to the root of
their trauma without re traumatizing them, which was,
you know, a delicate balance.
Has she done actually more than this? They started writing this
on was a couple months ago that she'd done extra stuff that we
haven't read before. Is there any new revelations or she just
exciting so this is just recycling story alone? It's
recycling right?
Yes, we're looking at it well, then there's a couple of things
that came to mind one is that she says there's a lot of
royalty
Yes, Prince the prince from Monaco. I believe the bald guy
he I think some Brits Yeah, business guys and politicians
way I kept your eye to things once she should name names. I
don't know why that hasn't happened. And if she doesn't
name names, I mean she is she should name names for the one
sole reason not to get killed because she's holding these
names back. Seems to me Yeah, well, I think these women have
their life's at risk if they don't name names and get it out
of the system is a 30 day and I can't stop me now because
already did it. That kind of thing. I don't know what the
logic is.
But in the articles I've read it you know, the the the Monaco
Prince Albert, I guess it was Albert.
Was he?
I think it was Albert. And you know, there's continuous
Dershowitz stories. Yeah. And these are the these these now
women are saying that these are these are the guys that they
service. So, I don't know, I still think it's all about Trump
that just want to get it
done. As about Trump. Gotta get rid of this guy. For some
reason. I like to know what is the real reason? See money is
the unknown money launderer. I mean, which was a possibility
since he's a real estate guy, this money laundering mechanism
that is pretty hard to do anything about I don't know. Or
you could get gold away with these, which I think is total
bullshit. But play Trump is the Russian asset Clippard clapper.
I must have missed this during my travels.
Do you agree with Andrew McCabe it's possible that this the
president united states the President is a Russian asset
Well, the way I completely agree with the way Andy characterize
it, you know, the the it is it is a possibility. And I would
add to that caveat that whether witting or unwitting and that is
a really painful thing, Kim, hold on.
This is his favorite word. witting or unwitting I think was
winning Lee. When he was asked if he's if the NSA spied on the
American people his answers were no not wittingly What is this
wittingly word he likes to use? What is wittingly actually mean?
It means knowingly or unknowingly. In other words, he
knows he is or he doesn't know he is. But he is. Well, I find
in an odd word
that whether witting or unwitting, and that is a really
painful thing to say. But I believe the FBI was
institutionally obligated to do what it did that is to
investigate and to initiate an investigation. And if you go
back, you know, the long view here of the behavior of
candidate Trump and then President Trump and his
deference to the Russians, as specifically as particularly as
personal deference to Putin. And his exhortation about the emails
in July of 16 and then calm all these developments culminating
in in the firing of Director Comey which he acknowledged it
was because of the Russian investigation so yeah, I do
agree is amazing and stunning and depressing is, is that is
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's nothing did you hear Did you hear Michael Steele his
accusation against the president? No, I Oh, this is
fantastic. We had a there was no if it was a six week cycle and
we don't really know exactly all the details other than the FBI
bravely stopped a white nationalist from killing news
people and celebrities and he had a an arsenal of weapons a
day now yes, he had an arsenal of weapons and any had a
spreadsheet and on that we it's no stretch we've not seen any
spreadsheet we've seen We've seen some guns which looks like
honestly any one of our no agenda producers in the Midwest
would probably have this Arsenal it wasn't you know, it's not all
that huge, but okay, the guy had some guns and immediately
they will hold on to give it away is where the all different
guns because good there are gun collectors out there. You go out
shooting with these people that attract a lot of friends,
because it's fun to go shoot with a gun collector, they got
all these different kinds of guns? Well,
that's a good question. Some
guys got a dissenter that now. This is a bunch of different
guns. What's what's the point design an arsenal for shooting
anybody? It's just a collection of guns he likes to shoot?
Well, so I don't know. All we know is that the story was we
got this guy. Luckily, we got him way before he was able to
act out on his spreadsheet. And that was the story. Now you
didn't even hear about this. Did you know? But of course, what is
the problem here is when you have a white nationalist who
apparently was going to kill people. As President, you
immediately that like within 10 minutes have to denounce this if
you don't denounce it. Well, then you know what you are,
don't you? You're a horrible white nationalist yourself.
Michael Steele was the the guy in charge of the Republican
National Committee. And now he's on MSNBC, as a commentator,
listen to what he said about the President's the black guy,
right, the black guy. Listen to what he said about the President
not responding to this story, which you didn't even hear
about.
So why would we be surprised that a self proclaimed
nationalist would not speak out against a self proclaimed white
nationalist? Why why are we acting like, this is a space
that Donald Trump is going to go in on behalf of the American
ideal? No, he's not. And these are his people. All right. And
he's not going to thank law enforcement, because he's
probably not happy about what law enforcement did. Where we
are. That's what we are
up to just so you know, he's probably not happy that law
enforcement stopped this guy from this white nationalist from
killing people. To the President is not happy about that. You
just Just let that sink in for a second. And then realize what
Nicole Wallace says enforcement did. Where we are. That's where
we are.
I mean, I call the space where we are where we are. I mean, I'm
not going to try to address you know, pie in the sky and hopeful
that the next incident Donald Trump will actually get it right
that he will have matured in his presidency enough to actually
act like a president. That's a brave
thing to say. Let
me let me just try. That's so brave of you to say carried out
as the tax What do you think the President would have done?
Well, that's that's the that's the next test in all of this.
That is absolutely that's a very good question. And it's
absolutely the next test. Because we don't we consider it
honestly say we would hope that there would be the appropriate
level of outrage and push back and all hands on deck to your
point about you know, the Justice Department and those
responding, but can we sit and we have to look question mark
over you know, little thought bubble is a question mark. I
don't know what he would do. And that's the that's the sad
thought about all of this is
the President is not happy with law enforcement for stopping a
white nationalist from killing people. Thank you. Thank you.
Wow. Thank you, Michael
Steele.
I feel so much safer now, you know, Michael Steele does
anymore but he's a commentator on MSNBC. That's what he does. I
guess he does. Just as a fun little joke, since no one else
will do it the best podcast in the universe of mine as well.
I'm sure that tonight during the Oscars, there will be some
references to Jussie Smollett, I have a feeling my hope not mad,
he kind of got to expect it, though. I just want to remind
you, when it turned out that as far as I haven't seen any more
updates that Jussie Smollett orchestrated this whole hoax by
himself, which is an egregious here's a verse as a shorter
version of what we played on the previous show with Don Lemond,
the overnight sensation had to say, because, of course, he
doesn't really know just the you know, it's not he was on the
set, and he accepted the compliments from Jesse about how
great Don is, but yeah, he's really I don't really is that
really a friend of mine? I don't really know.
I know him, not best friends, but I do know him. So I spoke to
him while he was at the hospital. His friend who was
there texted me in the middle of the night and said, Hey, this
happened to Jesse, I call the friend and the friend happened
to be there. And he just sees no justice here, because of home.
So he told me, in his own words, what he said happened. But I've
also got to tell you, to be quite honest, that a lot of
people, including people in the community,
which would mean Don himself, people of color,
and gay people had questions about this, from the very
beginning.
So we heard his skeptical skepticism and like, you know,
Don, like doesn't really know Jesse, but really, people in the
community just very skeptical. Let's go back a week before
that, when Don Lemon was with Jada Pinkett Smith, the wife of
Will Smith, and she has a show called the red table talk, which
is where you have to be real. You gotta you can sit at the red
table, but you got to be real. You got to be real, you'll be
honest about your relationship. And this was when we only knew
that Jesse had been attacked by two white Magga hat Maga
country's Trump supporters. And this is how Don talked about
Jesse then when you first heard about the incident with Jesse,
what was your initial reaction?
My initial reaction was sadness.
Wait, I thought it was skepticism must be wrong.
I wasn't shocked. I didn't like that to happen to him. I called
him because we have mutual friends. I got the friend on the
phone. The friend talked to me from him because he's here
seeing the doctor and I talked to Jesse for a minute. And then
he said, I gotta go to the doctors here. And it just made
me sad. So every day, I say, I know you think I'm annoying. I
can show you a text. I know. You think I'm annoying. You, but I
just want to know that you're doing okay, that's your okay.
Yeah. need somebody you can talk to me? Because there's not a lot
of us. Right? Yeah. Sometimes he responds, or does he does he
responded to you or not? Annoying? Amazing.
Well, that's a different story. Well,
Don was skeptical, and the whole community was skeptical. He kept
texting Jesse saying that I'm here for you. And you're not
alone.
I'm here for you. Hey, bullshit. Terrible.
Yeah, well, well, well, Bernie got finally came out of the
closet, shadows and decided to announce and there was a good
little rundown on PBS because they brought in Shields and
Brooks. Actually, shields actually had a very interesting
observations about Bernie. And is this the
Sanders announced PBS
Mark, we have a new entrant. Bernie Sanders announced
officially this week he's going to run again, for president, but
this time, it's a little different.
It's a lot different, Judy. I mean that but the very same
people who wrote Bernie Sanders off in 2015, and our
professional writing them off again, in 2019. Bernie, Bernie
Sanders is cranky. Bernie Sanders is not well groomed,
Bernie Sanders, just connects with voters. I mean, in 2015,
the summer of 2015 he unsuccess of nights in Portland, Seattle,
and Los Angeles. This is August of 2015. drew crowds of
27,500 15,020 8000 into arenas. I mean, the idea of a democratic
event in Los Angeles is basically dinner. It George
Clooney his house, Steven Spielberg and Barbra Streisand
singing? Yeah, no, but that Democrats don't do big events
and, and Bernie cracked it. And I just point out that he raised
$135 million in small in small contributions. I mean, he he
really changed and he raised 50 million more than Donald Trump
did.
Is he running as a Democrat Is that is that known yet? Is that
Is he gonna run his
Democratic Party has to deal with this Democrat socialism
thing? So we don't know. And don't they
have some kind of rule change I keep reading about that will
make it very difficult for Bernie now he's
gonna have to be an impure democratic, he's going to run.
But you know, whether he gets that far or not, but I think his
point was well taken. And I never thought about it much that
the Democrats don't draw big crowds because that wasn't the
case with Roosevelt.
That's true. Well, we also never saw a lot of the Bernie big
crowds. No, they
that was the media. Yeah, they didn't. They weren't gonna show
us anything. So we never fought. Yeah. Which would have, you
know, who knows what would have happened? I have one last clip.
Okay. Which is wolves talk the PBS clip with a kicker?
Well, I veto 100% 100%. And I don't think it survives a veto.
We have too many smart people that want border security. So I
can't imagine it could survive the veto, but I will veto it.
Yes.
Later in a visit to Laredo, Texas Speaker Nancy Pelosi said
there is no national emergency. And then Mr. Trump created a
crisis,
we will be fighting him on this use of usurping the power of
violating the Constitution of the United States, in the
Congress, in the courts, and with the American people. So
this is a path that would not recommend he bow down. I don't
expect him to sign it. But I do expect us to send it.
Meanwhile, Pentagon officials briefed congressional staffers
today on how they might implement the President's order.
Lisa Dejardin spent part of the day of her day at the Pentagon.
And she joins me now. So Lisa, what are you learning about when
the Pentagon plans to try to implement what the President
wants?
I spoke to the same senior Pentagon officials who briefed
Congress, they told me this. Right now they are assessing
exactly what projects that are needed at the border. They're
working with the Department of Homeland Security on that. They
think within weeks they will have that list. Then, Judy, to
my question about timing. They said they think within months,
they hope to be ready through an expedited process to begin some
construction.
So if they're going to take this money and use it to build a
border wall, where is it coming from?
Well, there are two large parts from the Department of Defense
one has to deal with how they fight drug trafficking. Oh,
yeah.
That's right. 10 us code to add for your no agenda. She covered
this on the show your no agenda show nails it again, not to pat
myself.
Even disgust.
That's right. All right, everybody. We'll do more of that
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