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Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday May 23 2013. Time for
your gizmo nation media assassination episode 515.
This is no agenda.
massaging my aching amygdala here in the Travis heights
hideout where so called meets mofo and Austin teahouse in the
morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
and from Northern Silicon Valley where there are no fascists. I'm
John C. Dvorak. Raglan Buzzkill.
Really now talking about you guys, guys, they handled
armbands and every street corner
those are communists. No, those
are fascist fascist. Do that, too.
I don't know if I don't see any armbands around. Uh huh. All
right.
Why did you bring it up?
I don't know. came to mind. I don't write these things out in
advance, like Clearly.
Clearly, clearly. You don't just like
what prompts are running? Or running. What
is John talking about? Man? Well, well, well, well, well,
once again, has been very, very busy.
Yeah, you know, I ended up wasting my time. Oh, no, I hate
you. I know. I did. I wasted my time. I watched probably the
entire IRS.
Oh, yeah. No, believe me. I wasted my time on that, too. I
do have it in a nutshell, by the way. Oh, you've
got like a little cliff notes. Executive Summary.
I think taxonomies. In a nutshell. I think this would
essentially if you this is pretty much yet.
That is that my cue?
Yeah, well was let me try. This. This is this clip I have is
pretty much it. Are you sure you're being squared with us
today? Mr. Schulman?
Absolutely telling you the truth today? Absolutely.
Well, that's interesting, because Mr. Lynch just just
cited your testimony from a year ago. And you use similar
language, when in front of the Ways and Means Committee. Can
you give us assurances that the IRS is not targeting particular
groups? Thanks for bringing this up. Because I think there's been
a lot of press about this. There was we found out and a lot of
moving information. So I appreciate the opportunity to
clarify. First, let me start by saying yes, I can give you
assurances. I don't think you can say it any stronger. We
pride ourselves on being non political, nonpartisan
organization. And that's why people are wondering if you're
being square with us today, because you said you could
assure everyone the American people in the Congress then that
nothing was going on. And the gentleman sitting beside you
just issued a report last week that says what you told the
Congress what you told the American people a year ago is
absolutely wrong. And you should be in square with us. Excuse me.
Look over here
to see ya. Yeah.
Yeah. And then there was that? Yeah. There's a lot of
I can't remember there was so there was so much they were
yelling at him. He was almost in tears a couple of times. Yeah.
Yeah. And he bring himself back up and then he then he started
sense with so
Oh, yeah. Yes. So and that's, that's a favorite. That's a real
favorite. So although I did see a couple things slowly start to
take place. Of course, my I we had one of those dinners last
night, by the way. Oh, with the I can't call them Oh,
this is the discrete Trump of the bourgeoisie. watch that
movie.
Whatever it is, I agree. bourgeoise, this time we had
dinner at the at the professor and Mary Ann's house,
Jennifer the Yeah, she's often placed to play around around
and around and around we go right and Jennifer's an
architect. So I will have important information from the
from the professor who runs the the brain Studies Institute and
neuroscience thing here at University of Texas. Very
important information. But anyway, so they I threw out my
theory last night that that this thing had made no sense that the
way it was leaked in the right into the conference call by the
by the learner woman herself, and that this clearly was a
setup for the Republican Party to be taken down for the midterm
elections once everyone finds out that it was of course the
Republican Party who was spying on these Tea Party groups which
are basically mom and pops who really cared. And probably
libertarians to a lot of love the original Tea Party and it
went over pretty well John, so I think I can't really call them
Obama bots and him although that is Obama thing? No.
Just because they agreed to that theory which I which is still
sketchy because of the because of the timeframe has been
changed well above it they'd be that as it may just because they
agree that there doesn't mean they're not a bomb busted them
they end with with great Glee all you did was confirmed
superiority of the Democrat Party and the smartness and
their smartness and the boneheaded pneus of the
Republicans. And so you by saying that Republicans are
boneheaded, how can you and they go and they cheer? They probably
stood up and clap. No, say they're not Obama bots. I don't
listen to what MSNBC the Obama bot channel had to say. And I
think they're starting to catch up whether or not there's
anything that was wrong doing or was broken and broken. It just
doesn't look good. At the same time, though, this is a massive
overreach. I
mean, there's something about this that I find stunning that
we're talking about this. Now. Everybody knew about this
investigation long before the election. So if they were that
freaked out about it, why did Romney make more of a big deal
of it during the election?
Yeah, well, you're good point. Romney ever made a big deal
about anything. But he made
a big point about Benghazi, because of course, he he knew
the true score there.
You know, he didn't get anywhere. No, no, there was a
goodness. There was one thing that was interesting in the
entire that had really nothing to do with the badgering of the
showman guy. And, and I do have learners giving up and quitting,
which I thought was kind of funny. Do you have that clip? If
you don't have it?
Yeah, I think that was kind of cool. I will play it the learner
takes the fifth.
On May 14, the Treasury Inspector General released a
report finding that the exempt organizations field office in
Cincinnati, Ohio used inappropriate criteria to
identify for further review applications from organizations
that plan to engage in political activity, which may mean that
they did not qualify for tax exemption. On that same day, the
Department of Justice launched an investigation into the
matters described in the Inspector General's report. In
addition, members of this committee have accused me of
providing false information. When I responded to questions
about the IRS processing of applications for tax exemption.
I have not done anything wrong.
I did not have sexual relations with that woman,
any laws, I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations.
And I have not provided false information to this or any other
congressional committee.
By the way, this is you should get your kids to listen to this
podcast and you say, Kids, here's what it sounds like when
grownups really mess up and they then they lie about it. So don't
become this lady.
And while I would very much like to answer the committee's
questions today, I've been advised by my counsel to assert
my constitutional right not to testify or answer questions
related to the subject matter of this hearing. After very careful
consideration, I've decided to follow my counsels advice, and
not testify or answer any of the questions today. Because I'm
asserting my right not to testify, I know that some people
will assume that I've done something wrong. I have not. You
know, this is true. She's right. Yeah.
But I have to say that all being fair and everything. You know,
if someone pleads the fifth, and you know, we are slowly or so
slowly getting rid of all parts of our Constitution, you have to
give someone the benefit of the doubt. And you can't do what you
just did, which I did it. I did it. I don't like it. I don't I
think that's not okay. It's not a
fact. It's a fact. What if you go plead the fifth because we've
seen so many movies and we've watched so much gangster films.
Yeah, if you plead the fifth that means you're guilty. That
is the message that we've been given
by the media I know but I'm against it I fight against the
good fight all you want. I'm telling you, I might have to use
this one day so I'm gonna
possibility and everyone will think you're guilty
is one of the basic functions of the Fifth Amendment is to
protect innocent individuals. And that is the protection I'm
invoking today. Thank you.
Thank you for your testimony. Get the fuck out.
Anyway, there's kind of the battle now anyway, so I'm by the
way, there's a couple interesting things about this.
One is they got a cliffhanger at the at the end of the lot of the
test, where they finally got to the point deep into the at the
end, pretty much before they're going to start bringing other
people up. Yeah. They finally concluded that somebody in
Washington DC Direct did some of this. Yeah, that was at the end
and then they never figured out anything because they just does
IGS guy that's just
Oh, do you know when I found out about it
what we what did you find here? And here's to me. This guy is a
black guy. He was the inspector general. I think he was the
elephant in the room. Nobody had the guts. And I think it's, I do
think it's an it's a, you take a lot of guts. Are you ready?
Are you ready for it? Oh, he dated Michelle Obama.
Oh, geez. Yeah. Clip with the day if there
was a clip. It is it's a clip right here. I'm doing it for it.
Yep. Yeah, he,
he talked to me this guy was the elephant in the room because you
played coy. And he was like, you know, I was, you know, I'm only
doing it's only an audit. It's not an investigation. Oh, I
couldn't do this. I couldn't do that. And you say, Well, you
know, we you were you protect it you you're black. 97% of
American blacks all voted for Obama. They're all proud of
Obama. And this guy is black. It seems to me to be a conflict of
interest to be honest about it. No one even would come close to
suggesting it now that you say dated Michelle Obama. Would you
get that?
Oh, as a couple of sources. I'd have to look it up for you. Now.
Google it. Go ahead. Google it. He would
love to see somebody approached me. I've never been so
bended. Pretty funny. You got a big ass mouth? You sure? Did.
You like it? That's, that's when I was like, You're right. The
elephant in the room. I have my mic is like really hot here.
Hold on. I'm listening to this guy talk. And I'm like, This guy
has his attitude. You know Who died and made him king king IG.
You know what I mean? It's like, that's when I started to
research and I come up with all these links. Not like I have a
photo like photographic prom picture evidence of doing it
now. And we don't know. I don't know if they did it. But
apparently, I don't know that they even Well, yeah.
No, we don't know anything about the other than apparently they
dated once or twice back in the Chicago days.
So the guys out of Chicago to yell Yeah.
Dude, this is Chicago mafia is the whole Chicago mafia is
running is running the show. And of course, for those of you who
received the newsletter, that, you know, there's a lot of news
coming out of Chicago, which g the minority media has not been
able to tell us because they're too obsessed with the fact that
people who live in tornado lands have no shelters in the ground
to go sit in when the tornado comes over. Which is another
floor. That
seems to be the big distraction. But they haven't lived up just
finishes texting before. Yeah. All right. All right, go off to
the other direction. There's one little tidbit that came up that
I didn't know. And that nobody followed up on and nobody
considered and it's also a defense mechanism being used by
showman who was trying to explain why, by some odd
definition, these Tea Party people weren't singled out, they
kind of single themselves out, because they followed a certain
procedure, which they didn't have to follow. And nobody said
anything about this, but I was stunned to hear this, this
particular little ditty, where when this is the clip that says
questions about volunteering starts with IRS.
Yeah, that's so that's not okay. Nevermind, you'll never
understand how I do this.
That's what I'm actually trying to say. Okay. So I said there
was no targeting in the sense that a 501 C four had two
options to operate, they could apply or they could start
operating there's no need to go through this application process
you can be a 501 C four do your business and file a tax return
at the end of the year. I said there was no targeting in the
sense that in from conversations that I had had, that these
people had voluntarily come in and so the question that had
been posed to me was, why are they getting all this quest?
So just begin with the word so
yeah, yeah, I heard it. What so the point you're making is that
if you want to be a 501 C four you don't have to have any
approval you can just go ahead and do it and then you just file
that at the end of the year that's what you're that's the
point Yeah, we didn't know
that. Well, I'm wondering what the big five who cares about any
of this if this is true why did the Tea Party people all go
through this this volunteer process to get some sort of a
blessing from the government which seems like the last thing
you'd want to do if you don't have to?
So again, your I don't think your your understanding that
this is a setup this whole this whole thing is not only all
Coulson put it this way, potential setup, the whole Well
conversation is a distraction from the real issues at hand.
And as you rightly said, it is also a reminder to the citizenry
of the United States of Gitmo nation, that the IRS can mess
with you. It is a reminder of how powerful this agency is as a
Department of the Treasury, and that they are pretty much
untouchable.
Yeah, making that quite clear.
So you're right, Werner
she doesn't even want to be talked to
so you're right. We wasted our time watching this thinking
something great would come out. And by the way, Eisah is boring
me. I'm extremely bored with this guy.
You know, it's really funny because this this particular
group has the best people and he got Eisah they got that much
mouths Cummings guy
and he and he didn't even have anything good.
Mica, you didn't have anything good to say and then they got
that? Nothing. That Georgia guy who talks you know with a nice
accent? You mean Mr. Jordan? No, no, no, the other one. I can't
get it looks like his face has been wrapped and stretched with
it a Photoshop tool? Yeah, no.
The gray you mean? Yeah, the guy with the white hair? The guy who
said that's not okay. That's not how it works.
Right? You leave here you can't they got shut down by both ice
and
like, dude, like, Dude, shut up. No, no, it was it was it was
really I had almost took a picture of what I had. I had
spokes Hall Kearney from the previous day on one screen. I
have the IRS and the other screen and I had C span. The C
span to with with cook,
cook, which I get the picture those three guys. You're taking
the oath. Track me up.
So at a certain point I'm watching cook being grilled by
who was it? Levin. And it's like it's Wesley mooch, from Atlas
Shrugged, yelling at Hank Rearden. I mean, it was it was
so freakin surreal. John, I'm like, Oh, this is exactly like
the book by Iran, and this is. And this is a coordinated
effort. By the way. I figured it out. It's like, oh, no, it is so
obvious. Do you remember when haiku Herman, the President of
the United States of Euro land, said just a couple of weeks ago,
we are going to put tax fraud onto the radar. Remember that?
Yeah, the clip. So here he is opening up the new session
is the right moment for a strategic debate. We'd also
returning to the question of tax evasion, and tax fraud, which
will already took up in March. Here. It's high time to step up
the fight. Yeah, we've seen headline after headline
highlight loopholes in tech systems. And we know it's a
problem. No one of you can solve on his or her own. And that
Europe wide, hundreds of billions of Euro are at stake.
So we need to channel the momentum and keep up the
pressure. Just to be perfectly clear. We are not talking about
harmonizing taxes, or Europe taxing more or taxing less? No,
we are talking about jointly finding unacceptable practices
that allow some people to avoid paying taxes altogether. It
simply a matter of fairness,
oh, fairness, and this is the big word now fairness, pay your
fair share. So this is what the grilling of Cook was about. And
of course, Apple has said they're this everyone has the HP
everyone's got all their stuff set up in Ireland and in the
Netherlands shoot you to has it set up that way. I mean, please
get Bondo in there and grill his ugly as is one of the few times
and I'm you know, I kind of I'm not a real lover of big
corporations. But I was like, you know, this is bull crap.
What's going on? This is grandstanding. And it was
actually a page out of Atlas Shrugged. Luckily. Luckily, we
have our own John Galt in the form of Nigel Farage, who got up
and said the following. He has a great degree of unity here this
morning a common enemy, rich people, successful companies,
evading tax which of course is a problem avoiding tax which is
not illegal. But it gives this whole chamber this morning a
high moral tone. And as Mr Barroso says it's all about the
perception of fairness. Because there is the added bonus, of
course that it drives a wedge between the United Kingdom and
the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, and the Caymans. But before
we declare our virtues, perhaps we ought to look just a little
bit closer to home and I hope that The taxpayers all over
Europe. Listen to this. If we look at the officials that work
for the European Commission, I work for the European
Parliament. The highest category are people that earn a net take
home pay of just over 100,000 pounds a year. And yet, under EU
rules, they pay tax of 12%. It's tax fraud on an absolutely
massive scale. And mr. Barroso, I would say to you that how can
that be deemed to be fair? How can people out there struggling,
the 16 million unemployed in the euro zone? How can I look at
these institutions, not only paying people vast sums of
money, but allowing them tax, and also, of course, pension
benefits on a scale not seen anywhere else in the world. So I
suggest we have a bit less of this high moral tone. And one of
these officials given us? Well, they were the architects of the
euro, which is a complete disaster. Their obsession with
global warming, which chimes very strongly here means we
despoiling our landscapes and seascapes with these disgusting
wind turbines and driving up energy prices. But never let it
be said. Never let it be said that I can't acknowledge success
when I see it. And I'm sure the citizens of Europe will all clap
and cheer loudly that the grave mortal danger of olive oil in
dipping bowls has been removed by the officials. Well done,
everybody. I want that I want to do a show with that guy so bad.
By the way that was turned they overturn the olive oil ban.
Yeah, so
that wasn't reported.
They've shelved that because, you know, it was too
controversial. So stupid. So the European
have a butter and a bowl either you hadn't attacked. So the
Pat, whoever came up with the major of a pet? I don't know. So
I won so big last night. Again, when I said and so Russell is
he's, he's like, he's a he's a sought after scientist. You
know, it's like he's got other schools like,
and you're hanging out with hell yeah.
With Stanford, Stanford, UCLA, they all want to have him they
want to buy him and he's
a guy who won't sit down with a Republican for dinner, right?
No, no,
no, that's not Russell. Oh, boy. What, who wants it done with the
Republican? Yeah, that's a different guy. I don't want to
embarrass him.
Why would you be embarrassing him, you'd be extolling his
virtues?
And so on. So yeah, so we got a lot of science talk. You know
how much I love this. The science talk. Yeah. And so, at,
first of all, he really he ripped me off because, you know,
Laurie, Laurie Frick. Apparently she grew up, LDS. And I said,
Well, you know, a lot of Mormons listen to our show. They really
like it. And he without the beat. He says, of course, people
who believe in the biggest bull crap story in the universe of
some dude from 100 years ago. They believe anything, wouldn't
they? Right? Holy crap. He just I was quiet for 20 minutes.
Like, Wow, that really hurt man. But I got him back on. When I
still
didn't just stop right there and say, Wow, I have heard some
bigotry in my life. But you take the cake. No,
no, come on. It's his house. I'm not gonna insult the guy in his
house. You can say whatever you want. I'm not like that. Oh, no,
I am. I know. That's why you don't get invited anywhere. I
have a few friends. I'm trying to hold on to him, John. I'm
having a good time. But he did not know that the Richter scale
had been replaced by some bullcrap media number. Oh,
really? And he was like, No, that is that. I can't believe
that. That's my dream. Wow. He said the US audit. You nailed
Oh, yeah. And after that, then I had his attention. I said, you
know, the USGS has changed his number. And they're just using a
whole different scale. He
said, What I just made up. Well, and
then he looked at so then I got the USGS website. You know, this
has now been 11 years ago. They changed this in 2002. Because we
looked it up. Right? That much to the chagrin of everyone else.
Everyone else is talking fun stuff. And we're like, how are
you doing over in the corner over Richter. Richter. And why
do you think they got rid of Richter and then he gets it guys
when he says, Because Richter was a douche. Like, okay. But
anyway, so the real important question that I had for him
relates to the war on crazy and he he is a he is an authority on
the brain and behavior and interestingly enough, ADHD and
Tourette Syndrome. To which cuz I looked him up. I'm like, I
gotta find Did
he noticed that you had Tourette's had
no idea? Ah,
bullying number two. Isn't that
interesting? Isn't that interesting? Exactly. But the
big thing was this article in The New York Times this guy,
he's he's certified science authority when it comes to brain
and how the brain works for as little as we know. And this is
the New York Times editorial in the Eureka section written by
and I thought this was very funny that anyone would actually
want to have this as their credit. Maggie cord Baker, who
is also science editor at boing boing. Which is like if you're
writing something in New York Times, I don't think you want to
be known as the science editor at boing boing.
Even though there was a science editor,
she's not a scientist. She's not a scientist. Did you read this
article? Why rational people buy into conspiracy theories?
You know, I may have it is
the most disgusting piece of the way I thought it of propaganda.
And I need to read a few pieces probably Yeah, I'm
all I'm ears. Okay.
In the days following the bombings of the Boston Marathon
speculation online regarding the identity and motive of the
unknown perpetrator or perpetrators was rampant. And
once the Tsarnaev brothers were identified in the manhunt came
to a close, the speculation didn't cease, it took a new form
a sampling. Maybe the brothers char Neff, were just patsies
foul guys set up to take the heat for a mysterious Saudi with
high level connections. Well, maybe they were innocent. But
instead of the Saudis, the actual bomber had acted on
behalf of a rogue branch of our own government, or what if the
sovereign apps were behind the attacks but secretly working for
a larger organization? Crazy as these theories are? Those
propagating them are not they're quite normal, in fact, but
recent scientific research tells us this much science science
people,
if you want a second, we've worked it out, forget if you
keep going. So one of her thesis is is that they may have been
part of a larger organization. And that's some sort of a weird
conspiracy thesis. Yes. Based on what she says yes. Isn't that
exactly what the government was thinking? When they started
investigating? Everybody? They could
I remind everyone that you know, I remind everyone the word
conspiracy comes from the root word to conspire, which I
believe in comes from Latin, which means to breathe together.
So yes, of course, it's a conspiracy theory from the
government from the people who have some secret videotape, we
can't see of them putting the bombs into the trash cans. I
digress. Recent scientific recent scientific research tells
us this much. If you think one of the theories above is
plausible, you probably feel the same way about others, even
though they contradict one another. And this is very likely
isn't the only news story that makes you feel as if shadowy
forces are behind major world events. And here's here's the
line from her authority. The best predictor of belief in a
conspiracy theory is belief in other conspiracy theories, says
Viron Swami.
Swami here
though he's from England, Veyron Swami. Yes, I mean, anyone who's
named Swami and is a psychology professor who studies conspiracy
belief at the University of Westminster in England.
Psychologists say that's because a conspiracy theory isn't so
much a response to a single event, as it is an expression of
an overarching worldview. Now, I'm not going to read the entire
article, but very important piece here. I'm just looking at
up here. I have to look up the word. Here we go. economic
recessions, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters are
massive looming threats. But we have little power over when they
occur or how or what happens afterward. In these moments of
powerlessness and uncertainty, a part of the brain called the
amygdala kicks into action. Paul Whelan, a scientist at Dartmouth
College who studies the amygdala says it doesn't exactly do
anything on its own. Instead, the amygdala jumpstarts the rest
of the brain into analytical overdrive, prompting repeated
reassessments of information in an attempt to create a coherent
and understandable narrative to understand what just happened,
what threats did exist and what should be done. Now, this may be
a useful way to understand how writ large the brain's capacity
for generating new narratives after shocking events can
contribute to so much paranoia in this country. So it's She is
saying that scientists are saying that it is a brain
dysfunction, that you have a hyperactive amygdala that makes
you into a paranoid conspiracy theorist. And I am allowed to
tell you today that the professor of all things brain at
YouTube YouTube a UT said I could quote him on this that
this is a load of horseshit.
I like it, dammit. And load him. He says that. He says the
studies are absolutely inconclusive. It's horse crap.
And he doesn't believe any of this. And but the whole article
on which was emailed probably the most emailed thing of this
past week is a part of a larger strategy, by the completely
compromised minority media to make anyone with an alternative
thought into an idiot. And of course, the next step will be a
medicated idiot. Because that's literally where it goes. And of
course, at the end of the column, she brings in Alex
Jones. And, you know, just all just one after another of all
these crazy, crazy conspiracy theories, and she, I mean, the
only thing she didn't put on there was Moon Landing stuff,
but everything else is in there from AIDS, to vaccinations to
just, you know, to
Bush being potentially walking the walk. Oh,
but she's not a science scientist. She's not a licensed.
I know,
I was just like, she's an expert. So the joy Bay heart
going off on its global warming, saying, Well, why how can these
people say such things they're not scientists don't they know
that also, and then now she becomes one.
Now I'll take this one step further, because we also talked
about the insular because I had now I wasn't able to share this
report with him because it's a video which means I have a clip.
But there this is the Wall Street Journal, who now are
helping you understand when someone in your family starts to
act a little differently. It may be because their insula is
acting up, which of this is also bullcrap. And that it might be
time to take them to see a professional,
surely when we talk about changes in social behavior.
havior walk us through a few examples. I mentioned lying, but
what are some others that would make doctors worry that brain
disease might be at play
brain disease? John, take note of this. This is very important
stuff, because your neighbors will be saying, I think he has
brain disease or brain brain disease.
Whatever thanks to the lying point. It's actually all forms
of insincere behaviors or insincere talk so much.
Yeah, this is this is the ones who do insincere talk is She's a
scientist, I might point out
your talk that way, it gets better, I think, sarcasm
sarcasm. Sometimes people lose the ability to do that.
Otherwise different kinds of social behaviors would be people
who just act differently than they used to, they may be less
empathetic, less good at telling people's feelings and acting
appropriately, they may start to ignore social etiquette or
social norms. These kinds of changes oftentimes apply some
kind of change in the brain that shows up first in social
behaviors before you might notice it and other kinds of
behaviors such as planning or thinking in a sort of more
organized way, the social changes somehow come first, is
there a part of the blank brain surely that they think is
specifically affected with impaired emotional responses?
Yeah, there are lots of different parts of the brain
that they think work together. And impairment in any one of
those probably helps disrupt a lot of these functions. But one
in particular is a region called the insula, which is helpful in
helping us recognize important information. So we might
recognize that facial expressions that gives us
important information we should have pay attention to that, but
for some people when they have this disruption,
and I'm that unfortunately, I wasn't able to get a clip of it
this morning. There's now a new story, and I'm sure this
coincides with this, that there are people who can Brad Pitt
apparently suffers from this horrible syndrome. People who
have facial recognition Wow, what's the word is not dyslexia
it's Hold on a second. It is Pross proso process let me try
it again. prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness. Oh,
this is a new one. Yeah. As pro so
they go up that you wait you know the guy who's got the worst
case of this notorious anyway okay is the is the what Bill
Gates
he is I don't know I'm just guessing I thought you're gonna
say Bill good
is a pretty well guessed no is the great artists Chuck Close
Chuck Close cannot recognize if you're talking to him he and you
tell him who you are and then you'd go profile is a different
person if you come in again later dive I don't know right he
can't see his name for this I'm looking at his wiki page now see
what
it's prosopagnosia. Pros. Okay, prosopagnosia. I'm reading it
right here, also known as face blindness disorder of the face
perception, where the ability to recognize faces is impaired. But
it's a part of this overall narrative. And when you bring
out Brad Pitt as a sufferer, hello, this is what you do you
bring on a celebrity, and then that person has and I find
that hard to believe. So in other words, I could go
wandering up to Brad Pitt said, Hey, Brad, how can we didn't
have that meeting yesterday? And he wouldn't recognize me?
He'd be like, oh, yeah, let's do it. Now, man. Let's do it.
That seems to stem for at least in part from this part of the
brain, then they cease recognizing that that's really
important information, we should notice people's expressions and
emotions. And instead, those people seem to stop, stop
noticing it. And that might cause them to either act
inappropriately, or seem like they don't care anymore about
people's emotions. So when we say someone when we don't think
someone is empathetic enough, right, if we don't think that
they respond the correct way, in a social situation, pay
attention, John, you're talking to us here?
Are we just think they're cruel? Or mean? Does that necessarily
mean they have brain disease? Or is it a fine line between having
disease and just kind of being an awful person?
I'm so luckily, we're going to the nation are going to make a
distinction between a total a hole or brain disease, you know,
I got an idea.
Well, of course, there's never an easy answer with that, in
general does not saying that anyone who has a cork or is
sometimes unsympathetic doesn't has a brain disease. But if you
notice changes in a person that can can be a clue. So for
example, there was a family member who, you know, who used
to be very good at listening to other people. And now they sort
of seem to walk away when you start to talk, that could be a
signal that there's something off, but something's off.
Like getting old timey short boards, which is walk, listen to
your family credit,
there might be people who just for personality reasons, tend to
be less empathetic. And for that person, perhaps not so much that
it's a brain disease, but rather that something about the way
their brain is set up sets up that personality, those
sciences, and
so I think we should have cards printed up. You don't remember,
this used to happen when I was a kid. And you know, someone would
come by, you know, you'd be somewhere and they'd hand you a
card and would say, I'm not ignoring you. I'm deaf or
something like that.
Yeah. Right. You said these little cards that had some signs
on the back. Yeah. And it would be said then, and then they
expect you to give give money card they gave you
exactly. So I think we should have I'm not an asshole. I'm
just suffering from brain disease of the insula, and my
amygdala is crapping out to give me $100 This is so insane where
we're headed with this because medication is next. It really
is. This is this is
this Brad Pitt thing bothers me. Yeah, buying it.
So the DSM five is out. Do you want to hear a couple of the new
diseases we have got five interesting ones. Okay. So DSM
five DSM, is the is the Bible of the pharmaceutical industry that
describes
you firstly, plow through this or you pick this up from other
sources
this I picked up from other sources. I have not had time to
plow through everything.
I'm sure you'll find out their stuff. And of course, I
Well, I did find some that there's actually a cup Well,
this is the face thing is I think that's now added, but I
have to check that came on now. I just like, come
take drugs for it. You will possibly I would fix that.
Okay, so here is the number one new one. And we already knew
this was coming. Hoarding Disorder, hoarding disorder.
We've been programmed for that one. Yeah. And I think I suffer
from it you do? But I'm actually an archivist. Well, it's
funny because they archiving disorder. EMBC this is this was
I know that it's not these aren't being an archivist is not
a disorder. It's a skill. Because if, as I said, however,
they're already combating my protection of you by saying that
these people will all they will also kind of get into The people
who suffer from the disorder will often define themselves as
collectors.
So wait a minute so every stamp collector you suffer wait train
collector, car collector, you're all nice. You suffer from with
that may be true.
You suffer from hoarding disorder. Next up, we have binge
eating disorder, which I think is probably, you know, a real
you know, it's I think it falls under bulimia and anorexia. And
that's I don't understand why they have to have a separate
except for they have they they keep mentioning the acronym,
which I think is cool bed. So your bed suffer binge eating
disorder. I'm not quite sure why it was put in outside of stuff
that's already in there. Here's a weird one. skin picking
disorder.
I've heard of this. A skinny man. And as somebody who had
this disorder,
yes, skin picking has been documented in medical literate
literature since the 19th century. Yeah, but only now has
it been. I suffer from that a little bit. I think. I think
it's a part of obsessive compulsiveness. If I have a
mosquito bite or like I gotta fire and bite the other day like
a week ago. Yeah, on my arm that hurt. I'm not as much as I
thought I
would when I was a million of them. Ya know, I'd
be pissed. Which would make me psycho brain disease
drugs. So you got bit by fire and you start picking at it.
Yeah.
And then and then maybe it's because of the irritant of the
venom, which I'm sure would have gone. And then I'm like, I'm
like why am I why am I doing this? Why am I picking it this?
That's like stupid. So I think
that's what is it entails to actually grab what is picking at
your skin and tail I mean, you're picking once you scratch
it.
Let me see if I can. skin picking disorder affects around
two to 5% of people in the United States not simply a
harmless habit nor merely a symptom of another disorder. Oh,
it's specific skin picking may result in significant tissue
damage ha often leads to medical complications, such as local
infections and sepsis set to SEMA. See Mia? Yes, you can
become septic. data from multiple researchers around the
world consistently shows skin picking disorder has distinct
characteristics important neurobiological links and
documented responsiveness to treatments, medication can work.
Okay. Then we have the third somatic symptom disorder a new
standalone disorder for people who experience a
disproportionate sense of anxiety about their health, and
at least one physical symptom such as a persistent headache.
How does this differ from hypochondria?
Well, this is it because they say it's new. And I think it
makes sense because we're inundated with all this stuff
you're supposed to have. Right? Right, right.
We all we're all sick, we're all gonna die. And we should take a
drug and we should ask our doctor if it's right for us. And
it gives you a headache like, yeah,
it gives you a headache. Now, how is this different from
hypochondria?
I don't have I don't have an answer to that. Oh, some one of
our doctors. Can I submit that in writing for the record? I'm
learning. I'm learning from all this C span stuff. And then the
one that really kind of got me is a newly created category of
behavioral addiction known as internet addiction.
Oh, well, was there a subcategory Facebook addiction?
No, that falls into this newly defined condition associated
with loss of control over internet use leads to negative
site psycho social and physical results such as impairment of
academic failure. That doesn't make sense it should be academic
failure, not impairment of academic failure. That would be
the opposite social deficits, criminal activities and even
death. It consists of three main subtypes subtypes excessive
gaming, sexual preoccupations, and email slash text messaging.
And Facebook they Yeah, it's not it's not called out specifically
but I think it would fall under no I haven't they don't there's
no it doesn't say Facebook. There is treatment however. You
know what the included treatment is? valium electric shock
therapy.
What? Yeah, no, yes. Somebody bull crap. Do you read this in
somebody? Somebody put this Soon as a joke
no this is not a joke. No this is that's actually in The
Guardian even I'm looking at a link here
You're kidding me? No, I'm
not kidding you.
So in other words, because you do too much texting which is
like every high school girl yeah, you gotta wait guys they
should put you in a bad tie you down stick a ball in your mouth.
So you can bite down a jolt your brain and knock your IQ down to
35 points is that what you're telling me?
Telling you that there is a note here that electroshock therapy
has been deemed to work against internet addiction.
So as you have your head chopped off Speaking of which,
before we go any further let me say in the morning to you John.
Good morning to you
Adam curry in the morning to all the ships at sea boots on the
ground feet in the water subs in the air and all that night games
and nights out there and while you're
being inundated with bull crap about how you have a brain
disease disease this program which hopefully brings you the
type of value you're looking for is bringing you actual news
confirmed from a an official dude who knows what he's talking
about who says it's bull crap he's never gonna He's never
getting any more funding from the NIH I'll tell you that.
Oh, the NIH doesn't listen to this show. Okay,
thank goodness
Yeah, we do have a few executive producers to thank and beginning
with we have one to two executive producers Mr. Keith
both of them nights course Sir Keith in Medford oregon 645 15
He wants to do they had a whip it whip whip whip it whip it
thing LG why it's science okay, what is this for? Well love to
tune in early in here Adam sing along with the fat lady. Yeah,
well sets up the whole show for him.
Oh, that's nice. So we'll give him a tutor the head whip at LG
why it's science. Okay. Oh, sorry. I didn't mean what
you go Thank you, sir. Keith. What an interesting amount.
264 515 Do you think that's about
explanation for it? Ah, sir Dr. Sharkey in Jackson, Tennessee.
Dr. Sharkey is really, he's stepping up man.
Here's checker 515 up if you get this before show 514 Make me
number of the 514 club. So we had to make a note,
but he's gonna be the 515 Club.
Well, he says if he gets it in early, which he did
515 He didn't get it in early. It's in for 515 Well, I said
we're on 515 Yes, but he says Make me a 514 club member that
would have been last week show. Oh, oh, good work. John. zactly
brain disease. It starts early. Hey, huh? John's attitude is
really changing. Hey, I wonder
Yeah, well it's always a possibility. Anyway, he says
hold on one second. To do something there we go nuts. As
soon as I get back to the work add the extra dollars to tip
anyway. Dr. Sharkey got PS How about some Shut up slaves? I'm
the Attorney General. Do we have that? Oh, yeah. We have to clip
it that's that's the clip where I know exactly. Attorney General
dammit. I do must respect me.
You know that's a good clip to make but I haven't I don't have
I can do the Shut up slave. I don't have the
karma. And he was serious about the Cipro prescriptions for the
upcoming anthrax apocalypse. Yeah, he
wants to be our dealer. Okay, if you want some if you want some
Cipro Well, thank you very much, sir. Dr. Sharkey, sir Sharkey, I
should say, and it's always good to have a medical doctor on
board with us for one year, when we actually need some help. So
thank you very much. Here we got what little you've got Carmax.
All right. onward we have an associate exec or Associate
Executive Producer, Eric luzinski. Who? Yeah, that's
okay. I'm gonna admit I'm going to plead the fifth.
Shall I just read it while you figure out why I'm
dicking around like this, Adam, give me pre emptive karma for my
startup a couple of years ago, I gave it you gave him some and we
were pretty well now. So we're pretty well, we're doing pretty
well now. So here's part of my dues to 20 I need some more
karma. My wife worked for the state of Connecticut after being
harassed by her boss, and didn't apparently apparently sue him.
It was Let go and our killer health insurance is gone. Wow.
So you need some old Welcome to Obamacare karma.
For real. You've got karma. And I'd like to point out but lots
of people invest in, in startups. And typically,
certainly if there's a venture capitalist involved, you will
not see your money ever again. I think our investment was a good
one John, it paid off in spades here, pre emptive karma, and we
and we got a nice associate producers shipping support out
of it. Thank you, Eric. And that's our investment is that's
our investment. Our investment was well spent.
Wayne lar comb and Sunny Hills, Queensland 205 14. And I cannot
find a note from him anywhere. So I don't think he left one. I
think he's just given us two or $5.14. We can read something
later on Steven Williams, also $201 in Boise, Idaho, that
actually there was a note but that wasn't for him. He's came
in as a check from one of the banks. So he just needs some
karma. Okay. You've got karma, since we were reading some
notes, and that he'll be our less Associate Executive
Producer for show. Well, 515. I did get a note. That's kind of
an interesting note from from Benjamin Ripken sort of hand
written this so JC couldn't read it, which I think is now I
realized, we can write Oh,
if you want to write something, you know how parents used to
speak in Pig Latin. Yeah. So the kids would know what they're
talking about. Now you just write it just write on a piece
of paper that could be like, what's that scribbling but
scribbling? What is I don't understand what is that?
He says, I'll be sending. I did this as a point of interest. I
will be sending my donations via cheque. From now on. I don't
like this intimidation by Pay Pal. And think it is like the
IRS demanding donors list of the Tea Party groups. So we are
getting some flack about that. Apparently there's a message
comes up a message comes up saying we're looking into you.
Yeah, this is the the if it's if it complies with REG, we're
gonna, it's very possible. We are about to be in big trouble
with PayPal. That's the way I see it. i To me, it feels like
we're there's something rockin on the wall. And it has to do
with the word donation, I'm telling you. Because it's in
particularly because the PayPal team or whoever you talk to over
there says, Now the best thing is putting donation on it.
That's really that it worked great. I guarantee you this is
there's something going on with this. And everyone's getting
investigated. And it doesn't even even It could even be just
intimidation. It's like, oh, yeah, just send the money to
those guys. Yes, we're going to hold on to your money. It could
take 72 hours I think is what it says 48 or 72 hours to see if it
complies with regulations. That's a scary message. It's not
a nice thing to Pay Pal is not being okay with this. And
a meanwhile, Google dropped their shopping cart completely
because they were never very cooperative anyway. So we
couldn't use them. What do you mean we mail? Well, until they
shut down the post office. And everything goes to hell.
Well, interesting. I got a note from an unnamed producer Adam,
many of us work in sensitive positions. He's talking about
the producers who will listen to the show, and contribute. The
dilemma we are posed with is during our periodic review for
our clearances, we need to report on organizations to which
we donate. My colleagues and I have discussed the issue at
length. And the real concern is that although no agenda is doing
nothing illegal, our donations could look unfavorable to a
douchebag investigator who was still asleep. I know you're very
knowledgeable in business and it but if you could please allow me
to humbly make a suggestion, make it easy for us by putting a
price on the iTunes download. Even if you need to create a
premium version that is exactly the same but has a price tag
this will allow us to purchase a product, thus avoiding the whole
donation dilemma altogether. Like you said on the show, it
will always be freely available for download on your site. So it
is still in the public domain. This compromise allows those of
us who are concerned about our careers to give up during that
to give during each episode. My colleagues this pathetic well
hold on me finish. My colleagues and I introduce the colleagues I
introduced to the show love it. I hope you consider the proposed
compromise even if just for a trial on a trial basis to prove
that people want to pay Yes, it is. It is very sad is what it is
sad.
Yeah, this is what our country's come to. I mean, I agree with
him I think he's dead on and this whole thing and if I was
working in the government right now, especially in a sensitive
position, whatever that might be, and there's plenty of them.
Most jobs actually seem so now because everything's classified
and a bunch of snow keeps rolling around trying to button
to your business and make sure you toeing the line. And all the
rest of it is really a sad indictment. I mean, this is like
every once in a while we talked about this over the dinner
table. It was this what it was like, and I don't want to bring
this up too casually or like, jokingly, but what was it like
day to day everyday living? When you were in Germany in the late
30s? You know
what it was? People were like, Hey, that Hitler guy is pretty
cool. Yeah, he's doing good stuff. They loved him.
They did love him. But what was the dinner table conversation
like what was it like when somebody says, Oh, you can't go
to that meeting? Oh, you can't do this because they're going to
find out and then you're going to lose your job. Or you're
going to I mean, this the FICO score you can lose your job over
when you first of all you can't get a job you won't get called
back for your interview because it's a part of the process.
Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, no, we will diminish you think about
how we can do that because I agree with you I have an idea a
really cool idea. I just have a specialist the same exact
episode
I have an idea okay, tell him I think that it should not be a
digital download. The first of all, here's my main problem main
problem is why the heck should we give 30% to any of these
eight holes there's no reason for that at all.
Well, that's right if we put a fee on the the apple's gonna get
a bunch of our money
anyone's gonna get a bunch of your money so perhaps the
easiest way so we can still because you know, we we still
kind of have to so we don't get crushed by the IRS. It's very
it's easy for us to have everything run through either
check, or, or through some other system. And I'm thinking maybe
we just have some bullcrap thing up on on Ebay. I think eBay is
fees are very low. And if not, we'll find we'll find some other
one. And it has just has to be something really really simple.
But we could do this through no agenda nation I mean, Eric has a
yes this is my point. Shopping carts as much as sell something
that is gratuitous. Yes. You know, you don't really get
anything you just buy a token or something that allows you to
listen to the show. Let's make
it funny. What should it be something really funny that the
cost nothing that we don't have to manufacture doesn't say
anything to we just call it an ounce of air
airtime
airtime. There you go. And we and we send an empty bag full of
air How cool would that be?
That'd be great. I can just no not a can that's no no candy you
could actually have in your office you could have a candy
hair no not egg is gonna deflate and it's gonna be it's gonna be
hard to do
talking about a little bag like you were you put that you put we
oh like
those, like those religious guys.
Coke bag. You know, like a dime bag. I'm talking something
really small. dime bag. You're already making Eric the shield
like, Hey, I'm gonna manufacture cans. Yeah, I got a great idea.
No, no stop. Don't do that. We're not going to do that. Just
just get a bunch of those bags. I have them here. I get like
transistor. If I buy a resistor or a capacitor it comes in.
Let's take let's just look at it from an more practical
perspective. Instead of having him do anything extra. Let's do
the following. Now Eric's going to put on the market the bag 33
Correct. Yes. Which is invisible bag. We can have a premium
version for no agenda listeners bag. Same exact bag, right?
Wouldn't that cost like you know, 20 bucks instead of Okay.
Okay. And that way he ships out the same thing. So it's goes
it's in this this guy, almost it's got to s this SKU with the
last one no agenda,
nation SKU numbering order system. So it should be like
outrageous, it should really be like, cuz I don't know what the
bags. So the bag is gonna be like, what, three bucks or four
bucks or whatever, whatever the no agenda bag. And and then
you'll have the same, the same. But it'll be like with special
air time.
The same exact bag with a cross. Great. And if you want to make
it live, we're making something easy, like, just say $10. And
then if the guy is $100, you know likes to donate $100 In a
pop, he just buys 10 of the bags. And it'll be it gets 10
bags in the price. Exactly.
And it's great because when you're walking around the halls
of the agency, and so you see someone else with a 33 bag,
you'll be like, ah, say no more about it
that's the magic number. The magic anyway, for those of you
who are currently not working in an agency and do want to support
the work that we do, the countless hours of bullcrap we
had to sit through or that I risk friendships by getting
endorsements from professors to call out the New York Times, and
the science editor of Boing Boing as complete a whole,
she'll full of crap dudes, then consider going to our website to
vorak.org/a. And we'd also like to thank Jesse Anderson for the
artwork for episode 514. We've gotten begin a lot of good work
in and that is highly appreciated. No agenda, art
generator.com. Keep it coming. Because the more choice we have,
the better we can serve everybody else. And then there's
the formula. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people
in the mouth.
Want to do a brief little technology intermezzo, if you
don't mind, John? Sure. Because you know, I got a lot of
feedback from the whole Gustavo thing about the webmaster,
Webmaster Tools and all that crap. So turns out, Bing is
doing exactly the same thing. So now, so now not only we have to
go through Webmaster Tools at to Google, but you'll also have to
sign up for Webmaster Tools over there, Bing, and they've got
their own grand gentleman, their own version of Matt Cutts. His
name is Dwayne Forrester. Hey gang, Duane Forrester here
today, gang. Hey, Hey, gang, Bing Webmaster Tools. We see a
lot of this question heard about it, different conferences. We
see it on our discussions. Yeah, he's a Canadian, and generally I
get emails about it. But the question ultimately revolves
around controlling thing bots crawl rate, Bing bots, crawlers,
so he goes into this whole thing about the Webmaster Tools and I
and let me read to you a little bit of the Webmaster Tools. Bing
has a malware reevaluation process to aid you the
webmaster. In case Bing has discovered that you have some
malware. And we have of course, discussed in some great detail
that this malware although it is indeed a piece of malicious code
running on your site is not intended to necessarily screw
the the user of said website but to gain the results in the
search engines such as Google and Bing which is why they then
turn your site off in Internet Explorer telling the visitors
that you are a crook a thief you got like your like your little
scary dude, you know, could kill you, you're gonna die. So in
Bing's Webmaster Tools, you get a review, you can go in and say,
Okay, I fixed the problem. During the review period,
Microsoft will perform quote, several deep rescans. If all is
clear, after those several scans, Bing will notify you with
an all clear notification. And remove the malware label is
being still finds issues. And here comes John. So let's say
you know, like, you think you've got it, you think you've got the
hidden frame off, it'll ruin beings business of people
scamming to get higher results to make money, which has nothing
to do really with you, or do people want to read your stuff.
So if they still find issues, you will then be notified of the
failure. And quote, you will not be able to submit another
reevaluation request for some time.
Yeah, actually, when we went through our little process with
Google, one of our producers wrote me saying, you said that
you're lucky that you got this thing through within a few days.
Because if you were if this was with Bing, it takes months.
Yeah. So they're just a sloppy but in fact, Eric, the shill has
a couple of articles he's going to write for Gina Smith's a new
domain, where he has Eric for some reason he's I guess, he has
some mental disorder, where he likes to see what the workings
of something are. brain disease is a bit obviously something
wrong with him because he actually wants to know what's
going on see a skin picker. Now he's looks at code,
oh, code reader, who
is a code reader. So he's read watching the bot. He's been
studying the Google versus the Microsoft bots. Great detailing.
He did have a look just a little teaser here. He did discover
that. If you're using Chrome and you hit any website, a Google
bot will come by within about 10 minutes and hit it and just
rescan it. And it's almost as if the people who use Chrome are
doing all the you know they're doing the crawling And of course
you are so you're doing all the work for you they don't have
just massive crawlers out there they're watching what you do and
so there's a website we haven't seen it's just just crawl it and
index it and then why to see what else is at it does Yeah. So
anyway, he's discovered that that goes on and he also says
that the the Google bots are still 100 times more efficient
and smarter than the Microsoft bots which he claims are crude
and idiotic. Well, I
first of all, Eric, the show needs some as the show needs
some electroshock therapy because the this is not good.
The stuff he's doing he's he's looking at things you should not
be looking at. So he's prime prime target to be treated.
Second, it is no wonder that the Bing bots are that stupid as
bots in the universe. Witness a video that popped up right after
I'm looking at this Duane Forrester, idiot that went Hey,
gang. Hey, gang, you're ruining my business, dude. Hey, gang,
for your own benefit. So here's to deuces. And they're sitting
there and they're going to show you the wonderous Windows eight
tablet, Bing search. Are you ready for this? This will show
you why Microsoft has the dumbest Bing bots. How, why they
are doomed, doomed as not just as a company, but as human
beings.
Hey, folks, welcome back. Stephen White's here with David
Lin Heimer, one of our great product managers across a bunch
of cool
across a bunch of cool various experiences. It's an experience,
John is not a search experience on the
tablet and inside of Bing. And so you want to show you a very
cool new app that comes pre loaded on all the new Windows
eight devices. It's the Bing app for servers, right? That's
right, right. Yeah, that's right. All right. Check it out.
So you'll see it up here in the corner, right here. I can tap
it. And I go into this beautiful full page experience like a full
page
experience. John, are you are you witnessing full page
experience? Hello, John, John, John, John, John, John. John, do
you get full page experience?
I loved it when it was in DOS. That's
the homepage image of the day. You see hotspots on there, which
are great. I can go back and see previous ones and look out my
personal favorite feature, the hotspots actually move around.
It's having a hotspot
talking so fast, what was problem, wait for it. So that's,
that's all there for the main main experience. Let's go ahead
and do what it's an experience.
Now you gotta get a list. Don't play the harmonica. I want you
listening to this. This is important you write about this
stuff.
First, I'll never feature the hotspot to actually move around.
I just think that's so cool. Like it's having a hotspot see
whether there's that's not that's all there for the main
main experience. Let's go ahead and do what this app is designed
from the ground up to do which is reimagine the search on a
tablet and
this app being searched was was intended to reimagine search.
reimagined search John now wait for the excitement of this
experience help you get
to an answer or gets your task done very quickly. So I'm gonna
go ahead and tap on the the bar here. And I see trending
searches right now. So I can not to type it all right, but what's
what else can I do here? Well, for
example, let's say you're interested in the Olympics, and
you want to do a quick search on one swimmer. So what I'll do is
just tap in there and start typing first few characters of
one of the swimmers Ryan last year, Brian and you'll
immediately get auto suggest we're Ryan lots of news are
timely auto suggests.
So Ryan Lochte Oh, look at that experience. finger friendly,
like normally across I can see. Friendly pop in as I'm going to
the right, I guess the related searches right in line two,
which is great. So I'm actually able to refine my search or do
related searches right from the search experience, which is
pretty slick. Okay, watch. So we're gonna go and tap into one
right pick one of those
tap right into it. What you'll see at this point is Internet
Explorer loading and bringing up the page now in this case, a
Wikipedia page
Eric cool. Get back I think this is my favorite thing of the
whole app here I can actually go ahead and use Windows eight new
stat feature snap that to the side of the screen here and
Blair look at that results right there and was
looking at experiences finger friendly. Sell all Microsoft
stock now sell these people are idiots. How could
what, what drugs are they on that they're talking this fast
and that you allow someone to talk about your search app as an
experience? It's an experience. It's not DMT dude. It's a
frickin app that ties into a second rate search and that goes
to wiki pedia with a search query. Boom. Let me that
experience
full
screen app is finger friendly. No, that shouldn't be their
slogan Microsoft
thinker, Fred Baker friendly. Give us the finger.
It's finger friendly. They should be hiring me for this
stuff. They should be hiring us in general, we know what we're
talking about.
seems unlikely to get hired.
No, we're not gonna get hired for anything. All right? We got
no, no, we gotta get we got to talk about fast and furious
because we know exactly what's gonna happen. If we don't do it,
we're gonna wind up talking about a title for the show. And
we're like, oh, we forgot to talk about Fast and Furious
stuff. We have to do this
time, because
this, this was one of the better newsletters and not only teased
what we were going to talk about, which is why I'm catching
it, but also had to go ahead and PDF in there, which I have
copied into the shownotes. You'll be able to find that
after the show at 515 dot na shownotes.com. I have marked it
up for your convenience or you marked it up. Yeah, of course I
did. Well, hey, it's what I do. Alright, so tell us about this,
John.
Well, apparently what's happened is that in a case in Chicago,
and here's kind of what they've captured some guy from the
Sinaloa Cartel in some situation that took place
in Vinsanto. Hey, Soos, Zambada? Niebla.
Yeah, it was like the now he was like one top three of the
bosses. And he was meeting with our people, our government, FBI,
FBI in Mexico, somewhere. And then because he is going to be
the new contact guy, because apparently we have been doing an
intelligence deal with, with the Sinaloa Cartel, specifically.
And what's interesting, if you start looking at people who have
been busted for gun running, recently, every one of them is
is selling to the other cartels. Anyone sells to the Sinaloa
Cartel. They're kind of off the hook, because it's it's
according to this guy. He says that, that Fast and Furious was
not a test of anything. It was literally gun hunting with the
idea that you build up the Sinaloa Cartel, blow them up
with the best weapons you can find. Let them take over and
kill the other cartels. And so there's only one cartel left,
and then we would go in there. You know, and arrest numbers. We
don't know. Well,
no, I'll let let me interject right there. So according to
this document, which is a court document, which is why why it's
cool to have it, the Sinaloa Cartel was allowed free range of
drug trafficking their drugs into the United States. And we
were bringing giving them weapons so that they could get
rid of all the other cartels. And I'm a little more cynical,
John, I think that once it was only one cartel, then we just
have one supplier, one guy to deal with. We don't have you
know, so we don't have a mess. I mean, it makes no sense that you
say, Okay, we're gonna help you.
I'm Bob by that complete. Thank you. So anyway, so the idea so
this guy, somehow there was some double dealing or something
happened in Mexico, because this guy's supposed to be
he got he got arrested in Mexico and the Mexican Yeah. And but
then they extra they, he was extradited to the US. And what
he's saying is he wants that he can prove that he's had all
these conversations with the DEA with the FBI. And that and he
knows exactly what documents are there. And this is essentially a
court request for documents from these agencies to prove that all
of this happened that this discovery of I'm just read from
the documents as a market anyway. Mr. Zambada Niebla was
told he would not be arrested that the agents knew of his
prior cooperation through lawyer and they just want to continue
receiving information from him. He was also told that the
arrangements with him had been approved at the highest levels
of the United States government. He was told that a Washington DC
indictment would be dismissed and that he would be immune from
further process prosecution. There was also evidence that at
the hotel, Mr. Zambada Niebla did did accept the agreement.
And thereafter reliance on that agreement provided further
information regarding rival drug cartels. I was arrested
approximately five hours after the meeting by Mexican
authorities so there was some double crossing going on. But
what's interesting in the argument, did you read the
document? Did you have a chance to read the whole thing? Yeah,
read it. They refer to Why do you Bolger? Right. So you know,
it's like, it's so obvious what is going on here and this of
course, and in fact, here. They refer to the new Cocaine Cowboys
how to defeat Mexico's drug cartels, where all this is kind
of laid out. And even worse, and this is the thing that bugs me.
I have received messages from people who listen to this show,
who have told me that this is an exact replica of seasons five,
the four was it four otherwise, five, four and five have Sons of
Anarchy on on the FX, which of course I'm like, oh, like, you
know, it took me a frickin year to even to watch Rubicon. And
everyone's like, holy shit, this is exactly what went down. And
now we have to reevaluate our viewing strategy where we've
spent so much time on C span where a lot of the messaging
like Rubicon, but also like Sons of Anarchy, if you really want
to communicate something, secretly you put it in plain
sight
in fiction, guess. No, it's always been believed that your
best messaging tool is fiction.
Well, and it's so anyway. So there's so there's
so we already know that. And by the way, this is nothing. I
mean, the Iran Contra affair, Iran Contra affair and some of
these other things that we've seen We've seen the government
do this before that that Arkansas operation where they're
running cocaine into the country Mena, Arkansas, Clint, yeah,
there's a bunch of this has been going on. So there's no reason
not to believe that this guy's not accurate. Like he wanted. I
think what happened personally, I think they picked the guy up
in Mexico, the Mexicans didn't. And I think there's an attempt
because we have kept the Mexican government out of the Fast and
Furious deal. They weren't told about it. And you know, they
didn't they don't like this idea that we're controlling the drug
gangs in, in their country. I think they they arrested the guy
to embarrass us, they shipped them and kept an eye on this
whole deal, waiting for us to make a mistake. So Mexico can
could humiliate us if they if we let the guy go. And so I think
we've been forced to follow into that we now all of a sudden,
it's your he's in the system, this poor guy is a criminal, but
he's, he's in the system, and that, and now he's trying to get
out of the system and our government, you know, being what
the way we do business? Well, you know, too bad. So, so
starting to spill the beans. And
to add, to add to this, we already were like, wow, why did
President Obama head over heels run over to Mexico to discuss,
you know, how the drug stuff was being handled? Because the CIA
was, apparently was in charge of a lot of the communication and
stuff that was going on? And the new president said, Now, we're
gonna do that directly through my office now, if you don't
mind. So I think that not only and this, of course, is not just
this administration. This has been going on for a long time.
But unfortunately, President Obama is the guy who has the gig
right now. Not only is he an evil is the whole
administration, a bunch of evil drug dealing gunrunning
criminal, eight holes, they suck at it. This is the thing that
bugs me the most. I don't care if we're if we're going to be a
criminal country. Great. But don't suck at it.
Yeah, well, there's that. Whatever the case, I'm trying to
make a situation Obama, I think is spun out of control. Yeah.
Now the idea is and I put this in the in the newsletter, people
should read that newsletter again, because it's actually was
educational. And people say oh, you never write any I write
newsletters that are newsletters occasionally. So don't drop
football for the subscription list because you didn't like
something. Anyway, I think that I think they're got they're
going to do everything they can and I believe that I was
correct. And the last couple shows where I said there this is
the time they're going to try to get Obama because all these
things are happening at once they have to quash this they got
to get this out of the public right now. It's it's going to be
Alex Jones. Glenn Beck I think drudge has been maybe brought
this up though it was maybe creep into may be even though I
doubt it might creep into a fox show but more likely stuff on
the radio, Michael Savage those types of guys, Hannity on the
radio, maybe. But if this thing goes into the mainstream medium,
and people start looking into it, this this is going to be a
mess, a big mess.
Okay, so now this is a nice tie in because if you want any
information, because here because you're right, here's
what's gonna happen. We're gonna have and there's gonna be
yelling and screaming. We're I think we're, well, of course,
I'm yelling and screaming, because I can't believe how
shitty a job our government isn't being criminals, which is
just disappointing. You know, like, we invented the mob, and
please, or we import it from Sicily, and we just ruined the
whole idea of organized crime, which is no good at it. So there
gonna be people with brain disease who are yelling about
this, and they're insane, and they're crazy. And it's all
being set up. And everyone's talking about conspiracy
theories. Oh, you believe in all these conspiracies. This is a
conspiracy conspiracy. Go ahead, go to your browser, John, and
type in fast and furious. And you'll see that the Google wash
has already taken place. Because what do you see when you type in
fast and furious? I'm
trying to get the browser to come up. What's the problem
here? is very, this makes me want to go do this.
Before you say anything before you respond, I want you to know
that the movie industry can change movie releases and they
do it all the time. They will delay a release, they will
accelerate a release. And it's very important because a lot of
money involved and if you can,
right so you're typing fast and furious and there's nothing
about no
what is that? What do you see movies, movies,
movies, movies, movies, movies, which movie theaters may 24th
Thank you. Fast and Furious six area
go completely Google washed by the movie.
Well, that was a wise thing to do is to name it after a movie.
The movie is brilliant. And you can go all the way to the
bottom. I don't see anything at the very bottom of page one not
on Fast and Furious scandal returns to haunt Obama not on
mine. On my it is
really are you logged in?
I don't I don't log in on this machine.
Okay, I'm logged in to Google to do my Google Plus account and
let me see. First Page second page. No, I'm gonna go down.
Third page. No, okay, now I'm gonna go to Bing. Bing, I
haven't been to Bing ever? I don't think so I don't have an
account there. I'm not logged in. I'll do fast and furious.
And boom, second link Wikipedia. So if you're logged in, they are
definitely obfuscating it.
Why would they do that?
Why would they do it to somebody logged in and not do it to
somebody not logged in?
Well, I'm not I don't know why they would do it. Somebody's not
logged in. But I'm logged in. I'm not getting it. That's my
point.
Yeah, so I understand what your point is. But the rationale is
what's eluding me
now is the rush, okay. I don't I can't answer why they're not
doing it. For people who aren't logged in, but it sure makes
sense to doing it for people who who are logged in. Let me sign
out see what happens from Google. Let me say so fast and
furious play you can play along at home people. Fast and
Furious.
federal gun trafficking investigation? I don't know.
It's still not showing up. Well, who knows? Maybe it's because
you're in Texas.
Austin. I'm pretty sure it's an Austin thing.
Yeah, we can't have any of this in Washington. We can't have
that happening in
Austin. That would be that would be really, really bad.
Yeah. But anyway, the point is, is Yeah, yeah, no, that was
actually you. Oh, that's there's a sign of competence. But we'll
see if they can keep this lid on. Yeah, I mean,
are you kidding me? That will just spin up another tornado or
something, we'll get something going doesn't matter. This is
not going to be on the radar. And when I'm looking at this
document. The joint staff report prepared for Darryl our Eisah.
Chairman, the United States House of Representatives
Committee on Oversight government reform and Senator
Charles Grassley ranking member have materials relevant to this
to defense. The joint staff report revealed that the
operation known and authorized at the highest levels of the
Justice Department, which included agents from ATF, DEA,
FBI and IRS huh. I didn't know that allowed guns to be legally
purchased in the United States transported to Mexico to end up
in the hands of members of drug cartels, this chain of events
inevitably placed the guns in the hands of violent criminals,
which department just was not only aware but sponsor and
supported the Department of Justice and its agency partners
knew that the foreseeable result of this strategy was the death
and death and destruction would occur in Mexico. Indeed, as
confirmed in the report violence and death did occur. Okay. Oh,
and the result was not only approved but regarded with quote
giddy optimism by ATF supervisors. Giddy optimism, you
know that giddy giddy that apparently is in the
congressional committee report that there was giddy optimism.
Wow. Yeah. So now, is this an impeachable offense?
Well, I would, yeah, probably.
Yeah. Do you think so? I'm running.
Yeah, it's a presidential level.
But when I mean, it's just done. We sell guns to everybody else.
I mean,
it's, there's, it's a bunch of Well, I don't know if it's any
more impeachable than anything else. A couple of events that
took place and what's going on with Brad Bradley Manning, which
is another little thing going on Yeah, and I do have a couple of
Bradley Manning clips I want to get to but it's rocket this
rocket. Well okay so so there's this woman I keep forgetting her
name Allison something Aleksa O'Brien she apparently is the
only person in the world who's hanging out outside the the
military court and going in the only one nobody else know but
but in the media during the Bradley Manning hearings, which
are in the in these courts and apparently the public can go in
under some circumstances even though they won't tell you when
they're doing anything and see she's had to go by the theory
that when they tell her that she won't do probably nothing for
her to do. That's when she goes in and there's there they are.
So she's been essentially documenting every day of the
trial. And she's kind of befuddled by the fact and so and
this was on Harry Shearer's podcast, so you have to go to an
obscure podcast, another obscure podcast to get anything from
anyone sound believable. Okay, so I got a couple 100 things
things that are kind of unique. First of all, Manning is being
railroaded. And they also have a number of crazy things that
they're charging him with including something called
wanton publishing. And I want to play wantons publishing
interesting. Play this one, this is Bradley Manning and a new
crime of wantonly publishing butter.
In the case of the SP pled to every lesser included offense
for every espionage charge against him, except for what was
called spec 11 of charge two, which relates to the Gorani
video. And that is dovetails into the Grand Jury
investigating WikiLeaks. And there's a reason why he didn't.
He pled not guilty to stealing US government property. He pled
not guilty to the multiple charges of there's two charges
of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which is are very
provocative charges. Because he did he had access, he didn't
hack anything. He also pled not guilty to the aiding the enemy
charge. And then he pled not guilty to one of the more
provocative and disturbing charges against him. It's never
been used before. In fact, it's not tied to any existing federal
criminal violation or punitive article under the Uniform Code
of Military Justice. It's what's called wantonly publishing.
I think we do both of us do that every day.
Yeah, that's why it's so so terrifying. But the crazy thing
about this charge is that the knowledge element, it parallels
the knowledge element in the aiding the enemy charge. So it
essentially dovetails into aiding the enemy.
Now wanted wantonly publishing is actually legislative language
in some some law.
Well, in oral arguments early on in the pre trial, the government
argued that it was, you know, in terms of punishment, that it was
analogous to espionage, but it that it was far, far worse than
espionage. And plow.
Wanton. I'm looking at it now. And there's very little you have
to actually put wantonly publishing in quotes to get
anything off of the compromised Central Intelligence Agency
database known as Google. This is scarier than anything else
I've heard.
Yeah, I thought so too. And she she felt the same way. Yeah,
they did. This is by the way, this is ours.
And this and this is us. I mean, we are
wantonly publishing espionage, which is a direct attack on the
on the free press. But if you listen to this whole discussion,
there's an I got a two parter here. One is the Manning and the
president Manning in the press part two, but play Manning in
the press, because nobody is covering this case. And it makes
zero sense, but then there is a slight explanation. What's so
interesting about the man in case in context with the federal
investigation into Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, say,
media organization in the digital age, as well as the sort
of socio economic changes that have been happening with the the
essentially the maturation of the game generation or the
digital generation visa vie the boomers is the fact that in many
regards, this trial encompasses
a, a joining together of all the major issues of our age in the
post 911 World hook, for example, the entire interagency
process has been zeroed in on this young soldier and the
WikiLeaks organization and probably one of the largest
criminal investigations in US history. And yet the press
hasn't been covering it.
Well, no, because they were complicit in all of it. Because
it was It wasn't wiki. Edgar was actually the press that
published all of this stuff.
Well, wantedly published wantonly published, yes. So but
they're not covering this case for crap and I think she has
explains it in a kind of a is one explanation. I think there's
others. But that played the part too. And did you hear what she
thinks?
I think there's is this has multiple layers to it, I think
on one sense if we look at it purely from the bottom line
perspective, is that WikiLeaks represents a challenge to the
market power that the mainstream media organizations have over
audiences. And of course, you know, it costs a lot of money
upfront to produce news, and especially investigative
journalism,
as all those sets you got to build, it's really hard to
produce news
and entertainment, it costs relatively little in the digital
age to distribute it. And so therefore, control of audiences
is very, very important, as these media organizations enter
this new era. So I think that they've taken a defensive
posture towards WikiLeaks. Because of that, fundamentally,
and I think also, it's a question of access to
information. I mean, WikiLeaks the reason why it's so
revolutionary is that it allows the janitor to leak and not
simply the high level Obama administration authorized leak
to you know, Bob Woodward, so to speak, to sell war or a
particular political agenda of the elites. So there's a lot
going on here that is reason for them not to cover it
all right, John, step back, step back just a little bit you're on
the chaise lounge right now.
Well, there you have it in a nutshell, in a nutshell the
entire reason why you the producer of this program, a or
listen to this program, and be why you are the producer of this
program in whatever way you contribute. There it is. There
it is. That was beautiful. She hot too. She sounds kind of hot.
It was audio podcast. Yeah. No, but what's her name? Alexa
O'Brien Alexa O'Brien I
have a feeling. I got a feelin. Oh, my goodness
Dern to me
she Yes, she looks a little Stern. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, she's the only one doing this. She got to walk away the
Pulitzer. I'm sure
we got to. We got to protect her. No, she won't. I kind of
give it not going to honor her.
You'd be surprised we got to. We got to protect
her. Meanwhile,
they kept mentioning this Karani video the Karani video, the
Karani video. And this apparently was something I don't
remember hearing about it. I guess it was something they've
glossed over. It was never put out there. WikiLeaks never
released it. But when you hear about what it was, you know that
video the first thing they were they were just shooting a
helicopter and here's another one. Let's get him there. Bah
bah bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, good
work. Well, apparently this karate video is much worse. And
they don't even talk about too much of it here. But did they at
least give you a little overview under the missing video clip
legend karate video. Although we're, it's pretty clear because
that's been said in testimony by agents. The Gorani video is what
we call Collateral Murder or is it different? No, it's another
video that was unpublished by what it was never published by
WikiLeaks. Essentially, this is a video of a an agent said it's
a flight over battlespace, but the grani air strike in May
2009. killed hundreds of of women and children in the Farah
province of Afghanistan. Human Rights Organizations referred to
it as Judgment Day. And it was a very it was a very damning
incident. The Pentagon it said that they were going to release
the video and then they backtracked from it. Damn.
Now I want this
and apparently there's like lots of gory still photos. And
there's a video of this. Yeah,
no, it's total porn. It's total porn for these violent violence.
Idiots. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. And they just blew up a bunch of women and children just
was let me
guess. Let me guess. Was it drones? Or was it helicopter
gunships?
No, no. Not discussed not discussed much. But I'm sure we
can do a little research and figure it out. I found it to be
kind of disturbing. It's very disturbing. But it reminds me of
the time if you remember during the Abu Grob the the the the
pictures that came out by these boneheads and then and then
there are Defense Secretary Rumsfeld came in front of the
mic and said well there's there's worse to come remember
that? Yeah, there was never any worse to come because they
didn't release anything else. He just said there was worse to
come and you have to be prepared for it. Apparently that was just
kind of a staging tactic in case these other photos ever did get
out. But they never did so then apparently they were worse and I
think this this video is must be horrible.
I wonder if any if anyone has someone so someone has it some
Where?
Well, the Defense Department has it. WikiLeaks must have it. They
just never published it because it was. I don't know why. I
don't know what's going on. Hmm.
Wow. Well, so let's go back to your premise. You're sitting
around the table. It's, it's 1928.
Now it's 1934 3045 35
Hello, John. I know what you're Johan. Johan. Yeah, this fits
Yeah. Hey, once you think about facts that the government is
killing people.
Oh, I think is exaggerated and killing people. Just a great
government. We've got Johan, what
happened to you accent? John, are you a spy? You sound like
you sound like a spy for the American Yankee.
Now you went Japanese. So by the way, I want to remind people if
they're not, you know, if they're not listening to our
podcast, there's alternatives out there. And I have a little
clip from it's called This Week in modern broadcasting. This is
a kind of a clip that you will find if you want to go listen to
other stuff, you can go you can listen to this sort of thing.
Five kilobyte Productions Presents. When associate
association with Can you turn off a fan? Presents?
Those guys are wicked on the soundboard.
I'm gonna show my school by donate to no agenda. Imagine all
the people who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be fun the
money
a double shot of in the morning. Good job, John. I like this new.
This new a little thing you have. Yeah, well, you get what
you get. It's actually a service where we are showing you other
podcasts that you could be listening to. Not all you could
go elsewhere. Not all carry the award of Best podcast in the
universe. But you know. It's pretty funny. So man, can you
turn off the well, we've had a couple of shows on the Hot
Pockets tour. It was kind of like that.
Yeah. Okay. All right. So we've got that we may have a note
here. I haven't seen it. Stephen Schultz and who's in somewhere
part unknown. It looks sounds like it was sounds Korean. I
want to look him up afterwards and see Swan CV on the walk
though. Maybe it's it's either Korean or God knows where
swans see. Swans see is yeah, it's south of Seoul.
Okay. It says, yes. Yeah. Take a quick look on the email here.
See
if you're in if you're in Korea, South Korea, or if you're in
North Korea even better. First of all, know that Greg Sohn
sends his regards. And give us some info. You know, send us
some stuff about what's going on in your neck of the world?
Because it's like, we don't get a lot of information about
what's happening over there. Again, bullcrap. Yeah, very
hard. Then this link boxes, there must be boxes
are everywhere. I mean, you just put a site if you got an
internet connection, you hook your sling box to it. And that's
the way it works.
I always find it kind of like sad whenever you know, it's
like, oh, no, we can look at cars. You know, South Korea,
South Korean television, you know, it's basically all SCI
colors all the time. You know, it's probably insane. And it
doesn't represent the beauty of the people at all. Just I think
they've taken the propaganda the telescreen to a whole new level
over there with robotic crap and just
there they like busy, busy, busy area and other websites too.
Everything's wiggling around $110.85 from Stephen Andrew
green in London $101 Derek Boley is New South Wales $100. And
he's going to work on getting a knighthood Nice. Kevin Johnson
and Talladega, home of the Talladega racetrack, Alabama
$100 One of the big trucks in NASCAR and he does he have
a job? Do you have any more useless car racing trivia that
you can throw in there?
Look, as he says he has a call sign. Give me a shout out when
he phonetically spells out his callsign you mean Kevin Johnson
six liquid natural gas. Okay. 73 is my friend Peter McConnell
Stockholm New Jersey phone home at the Stockholm Syndrome it's
actually in Suzhou China, which is so he watched click Print gun
the other day couldn't help it. By Jim Jeanette is our next show
necky the very Same guy who produced Fahrenheit 911 and
Bowling for Columbine.
Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Jim's are Nicki produced
that. Oh, well. Hello, use me once again with the best
producers in the universe, I can't believe no one else picked
up on that. Well, in fact, it's obvious now that that thing is a
setup.
Talking about Chinese says it stinks. I tell you. And now the
report for me give you a report from China. Soil equals bad
water equals bad air equals bad. I saw a squirrel once about four
years ago.
Yeah, all right. So with nein nein nein Nein. So give him
that. Okay, hold on a second. Very funny
Interesting,
very interesting. And he said something else about what he
said that the kitchen had no food.
Yeah, kitchen was completely devoid of food heads. Various
anarchists readings casually strewn about he's talking about
on the movie. Go click Print gun. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Things
like a Democrat agenda. He says Yeah. Anyway, okay. We'll look
into this. Yes. We weren't in fact, I wrote a column this last
week about the called the 3d printer hype.
Oh, really? Oh, good job. What did you put in there?
I said that it would got to me was the fact besides that these
guns don't work. And there's just a scam of some sort. And
then the 3d printed food? No, no. And then NASA wants to put
it on the spaceship this shuttles the 3d printers so they
can print food? I don't think so.
Yeah, it's everything. Everything. Nice. It's funny
because Russ didn't see this last night when I brought it up.
Smart guy I said, this is industry is the most worrisome
thing that's come along in in millennia. He's like, what? Who
cares? You gotta print the phone. I said, How short sighted
Are you? The your entire universe revolves around
products, bullcrap products. Everything we do in America is
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yeah. Funny. We didn't catch that.
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Well, that's why we have great producers. Yeah, they catch it
up. So let's just repeat that the commander's capability to
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new Qantas Emirates deal is not to make Dubai a destination in
and of itself but rather the main hub way port for all
international quantas flights. So they're going to be a hub
there. But this previously previously flew out of Singapore
as the primary international hub. I daresay there have been
many horror stories of Western women being jailed in Dubai, but
the media is only picking up on them now. Because of the extra
focus Dubai is receiving because of the new quantas deal. Okay,
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struggling to make myself understood. I probably shouldn't
be the first be the one saying this but I can't believe
how bad the two of you mangle the language. Anyway, here's a
quick pedantic tip. The Spanish in the morning jingle says por
la Manyana not parlimen Jana, any other podcast might consider
this to be nitpicking. But we're doing the best podcast in the
universe here. Every detail counts. Thank you boss. Yeah,
like can you know it's funny, Ms. Makina? Yesterday, we were
talking about future you know, it's like, where are we? I think
I said do you think we will live in Austin for a long time
forever? What's forever Of course. And we both agreed that
we could kind of see ourselves in like a seaside shack, which
would have you know, kind of a bedroom you know, table
off the coast near Barcelona.
Yeah. Yeah, kind of big, big ham radio and. Yeah. And that the
only thing is is like the Spanish you know, I don't know
if I have patience for him.
You could loot learn Spanish? No, I can learn the language.
But do you think the Spanish themselves are annoying?
The culture? Maybe Maybe? I don't know. Maybe? I don't know.
I don't have a good time. I
like American culture. Anyway, it's, I had to put the kibosh on
the whole thing because when I said you know, we can have our
computers, we can have computers, you know, she brings
her photo equipment. I bring, by that time my podcast or mini
studio will be done. So a very small footprint, a ham radio
antenna, and then she's like, Well, what about the closet?
Like, okay,
I need a big closet with lots of shoes.
Now she has a problem, the shoes she has, like, size 12 or
something so the shoes don't come. They don't make Manolo
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We have an interesting listening first of all, sir Jean Baron de
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that. And then we get everybody here. We got Rachel and Rachel
from Jordan. Like God, Bill, Hey, happy birthday, everybody
from your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe. My
wife's Rachel's birthday is on Thursday. 23rd She's turning
shout out. Something's wrong here. It's turning 30 She'd been
bugging Oh, here it is. My wife Rachel's birthday is on
Thursday. 23rd She's turning 30 She's been bugging me for a
month to make sure she gets a birthday shout out.
This is just the beginning of the end.
All right. So husband, Jordan, soon to be ex husband, Jordan.
That's how that's how it goes. Of course, if you're all in
Dallas, you're invited to a party or we're not Oh, kegs of
beer and some home pulled pork. My smoked meat is amazing. Yeah,
Jordan keep saying that. And I want to thank
like to challenge him to a smoke off. Oh,
I'd like to thank a double and jerky. percent. Did you get any
jerky? Yeah, I
got some double and jerky did have you tried it? Yeah, it's
very good. We also got some Dublin cheese.
The only thing that I didn't know Dublin cheese. Well, you
know
it's a cheddar. It's a cheddar.
I don't care how come I didn't get the cheese. How come well
you
can ask him I don't know maybe that's it. These things are
cheesy enough. So so the cheese came into these blocks huge
block and it's a pretty common like normal like a Wisconsin
Michigan CI so and it came in is nice sealed by and I decided to
take one of the blocks and I'm gonna keep it in the car in a
cooler and then when I see some guy that's homeless it says
hungry for food.
Give him some cheese. Yes. Why would you eat the cheese?
I got the cheese I ate the cheese. I've been eating the
cheese but I got this extra block. It's my block that you're
giving away was so white. I can't ship it to you don't melt
and make a mess by the time it gets to your place.
Hey and happy birthday. My god she's young. On to mop. Molly.
Kristen would.
Oh, she has a birthday. Yes today so let's do our show.
No, but she's a friend of the show. She is. She's a friend of
the show. Okay, to her picture. Hey, could we've changed my
picture on Wikipedia people? Molly's picture on Wikipedia is
split. Molly's picture is in place of Adam's picture,
please. I look so much better as Molly's got in this picture.
Holy crap. Look at it. You're not looking at it.
I'm not looking at it. I'm sitting back and listening to
you. Okay, let me you might look it up. She
was she used to be a writer for Associated Press.
Li would wiki. Yeah, look at the picture. I'm getting there is
the one on the Wikipedia or the other one. I think the other
one's better looking. Which is the other one, the one that
shows up as a just a bio picture on on the Google. Look at that.
She is born May 23. That's today shows the birthday.
Yes. How come Conan O'Brien shows up in an image search with
Mollywood. Let's find out that's kind of scary. I think it's just
maybe she did a show once. Is that possible? No. Came out with
some gizmos. Look at this. Oh, that's so cool that he drops on
the floor kicks around. That's a
great. Well, that's our whole show. Now she's got that always
on show where it's basically Molly going to exotic locations
and throwing gadgets into like out of helicopters, driving over
them with sports cars. This is the kind of shit we used to do
at MTV. I love doing this Hey, I got a great idea for a show.
Let's go to Hawaii and drop the iPad from the helicopter. See
survival style of a show of show which is just a complete waste
of money. Now you have a great time if you're on the show don't
like people that benefit from this style is the people on the
show and the producer
be mean to her this is her she's
having the time of her life. I'm just saying this is not a this
is you know a bogus ative way of producing stuff that's go to do
this safe shells and and put some laptops on the beach and
see what happens if the water hits them. Yeah, mine.
Great show. It's a great show. It's fantastic. I love this
concept. Hey, look at us. We're two schmucks doing a podcast
from our house lot homes. Do the podcast.
How is the weather there in Texas by the way it
has been? We have it's been warm and has been it's gotten into
the 90s which is still unseasonably cool. It's up
there. And you know, of
course we you know, you got allergies. You said I had it's
constant here for me. Why? Because we live in under trees.
We've got these. I mean, we're in the oldest section of Austin.
We have these oak trees four times a year. The live oak trees
just spew off stuff. You know, and then it's yellow crap. And
then it's and it's just if just gets into everything is
beautiful, though. I mean, these oak trees are hundreds of years
old.
What can I recommend something when you finally get a barbecue?
I'm not gonna get a barbecue and I don't I don't do barbecues
anymore.
Why? Because that oak tree is probably delicious. That's what
to eat it. Yeah, no, you smoke with it. That means that you
have to trim the branches anyway. So you cut off pieces of
the oak tree as it grows. Good idea. And then you use the oak
wood to let it sit for about six months. Almost a year. Start
now. Yeah, yeah, start now start piling up oak chunks. And then
you cook with it. And you now have to buy any brick hats. It's
a much better product than a brick hat. Right? And it tastes
a lot better and everybody's oak tree like I have an oak tree
that I've been eating, as it were smoke lice and the smoke
is right
next to the house is absolutely delicious is maybe the best I've
ever eaten.
So speaking of throwing things out of a helicopter Did you see
that to two members of the FBI elite counterterrorism unit who
were in Boston as a part of the search mission for the Boston
bombers died. What Yes, they were rappelling from a
helicopter and they fell to their death into the water.
What were they repelling from a helicopter over the water for
raining? Oh training the old training accident.
But they apparently they were rappelling from such a great
height that they were dead when they hit the water. Yeah, I'll
bet So not only do I have to clean those two guys up but then
we have this other loose end in Florida Chechen man
with ties to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamlyn sir knife
was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Orlando, Florida early
today, the man allegedly attacked the agent according to
the FBI. Oh, hold
on a second. Breaking news breaking news. Hello. What's
going on? Breaking news closely resembles the types of attacks
we faced before 911. In the 1980s, we lost Americans to
terrorism at our Embassy in Beirut when you born me alright.
danger to us interest I guess that's the new the new thing.
Yeah, he says consular facilities everything's in
danger. deranged or alienated people can do enormous danger.
The domestic terror threat. Oh, wow. Right now there's a podcast
going on to drains lunatics. Clearly, they have brain
disease. Now, I'm not gonna sit here and say that everyone has
brain disease, but we can help them with electroshock therapy.
Who also fix them boys up good.
So this news comes out and Anderson Cooper who of course is
on the scene in Oklahoma. He can't even he can't believe and
was Was he alone with an FBI agent when he was shot? Or was
there were there multiple? You said there were state police
also in the room? Like, wait a minute, so the cops got this guy
he confesses. And then he grabs a knife.
It makes nothing but sense still unclear
how many people were in the room at the time. But we are told
that after he had confessed to being involved in the triple
murder, that he attacked, according to our sources
attacked an FBI agent with a knife.
So here's how I've envisioned this. This this testimony? Yes,
yes. Don't you remember you guys were there with me those you
remember that when we killed those drug dealers and then
smokers and then we slit their throats and we threw weed on
them as a sign to the other gangs? Don't you remember? Yeah,
okay. Yeah, yeah, we remember that one for sure. Sorry, pal.
You shouldn't have you shouldn't have pretended to grab the
knife.
And so it was after the it is unclear how many people were in
the room. It's unclear whether that knife has been recovered.
Presumably it was. But whenever there is an FBI involved
shooting yet the FBI agent then shot allegedly, this man,
because I am told that he was felt directly threatened that
his life was threatened.
Yeah. Okay. So let me just get this straight. Very similar to
let me just draw the analogies for you. Okay. Couple things
going on. So when when we have been logged in which by the way,
I have the clip here, you know, the appeals court has said Nope,
we're not going to release any pictures of him of anything. We
can't do that. So then we have the Dzhokhar brothers, as shorn
of brothers. And even the governor of the state of
Massachusetts has not seen the actual video, we've seen video
from every angle. Excuse me, we have not seen the actual video
of the brothers putting the explosive backpacks into the
trash can never everyone says that it exists, but we're sure
it exists. Sure it exists, but we have not been allowed to see
it. I guess that also would spark you know, like people
would want to kill Americans for doing that. And in the case of
bin Laden, we had a whole Chinook helicopter full of seal,
special troops, special ops troops who were killed, who were
in that same operation. Now we have another one of these
mysterious things where there's no video, we can show you the
video. And then two of the guys who were involved in the search,
die, rappelling out of a helicopter. And then a third
guy, just coincidence, I mean, and I'm the crazy one.
Yeah, you're nuts, man. And so we do have this one little clip
we want to play which was the roof report that we kind of
missed the last show of the of the Joker guy in the boat. And
apparently it just came out later. He while he was there, he
wrote some sort of like a confession or something or other
in in the boat inside of a plastic vote. Which means he
must have had a Sharpie because you can't write on a boat. I
know you've been in any of these little boats, right? They're
made out of this fiberglass fabric. You can't put anything
on there. And here's the way the report comes down from Democracy
Now.
And CBS News is reporting Boston Marathon bombing suspect Joe har
Sinai have left a note describing the attack as a
response to the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. then. So now I
have reportedly scrawled the note on the inside wall of a
boat in the Boston area driveway where he was found hiding from
police days after the attack. In the message he reportedly
referred to the victims of the bombing as collateral damage
writing quote, when you attack one Muslim you attack on
Muslims.
That's really interesting because this is the exact same
strategy of tension narrative that has just been shown to us
on the streets of London. When you attract one Muslim you
attack all of us now we have this so did you see all this
bullcrap? This Somali guy who's walking around with a kitchen
knife, there's a apparently someone has had has been chopped
off in the street yet there's not a drop of blood. Not a drop
of blood anywhere. people claiming to have gone over and
felt for a pulse. Okay, look, there's a guy in the street with
his head chopped off. What's the point? You are lying to me?
Okay, you are lying. This is this is tension. This is what it
is, is you make people crazy. I can't wait to see what the
President is talking about. He's not talking about plaatsen,
Denmark, Germany, UK, US. He's talking to distract the public
special forces team. Is he? I mean, are we collectively this
stupid that we're now going to fall for this one? So what do
they have to do? They have to light something off again to
prove it. Or no, no, no, no, don't don't say it.
What do you got? It's the sixth week.
Is it? Is it that time? Yeah. She's probably made me so tired
with this so tired.
Oh, it doesn't even wear out the public. They lap it up. Good.
Wrapping it up. So we had a situation with the Oklahoma
bombing. And we had my one of my favorites that had to say I
don't want to play the whole thing. But I guess we could we
have broth, interviewing some poor mom. And then for some
reason at the end of this little interview, which is stupid. He
he asked her Did you thank the Lord for being saved from the
tornado? And she didn't say anything. And then he asked her
again. He starts badgering her. What is the point of this? I'm
sorry? That no play this and tell me what you think.
You got this from Media Research Center TV. Yeah. We are we in
the same sources? Is that where you get clips from?
No, rarely, most of my clips coming off to television.
Did you at least clip off the obvious.
I did. I don't know.
He talks a lot. But he's not. He's pretty shy right now. He's
he just needs something there. Yeah, I think he's happier.
Happy little guy. Yeah. And you're happy young lady. I
couldn't be happier. I saw it. Think about it. If you would
have stayed in that house. There's no way or bats have was
full of debris. Like the place I would have been just full of
like, two by fours and everything else. You know,
there's nothing. There's no way. And that's hard to think about
tenders. I'm going to train you now to become an anchor man.
Okay. He doesn't want you to hold it like this. You put it in
front of your mouth. And look at the camera.
Wait, what is he? What is he doing? He said, What is it? What
do we put down?
Three year old does? She's holding and he's trying to get
the kid to say something to the mind.
Can you say? I'm Anders and this is Sienna. Can you say that? Can
you say how old are you? No, he's not gonna say anything. Can
you say bye? Bye
you're scaring in this year frightening dude, bro. Good bye.
Bye. Can you high five. A stop to stop here. This is something
that bugs the shit out of me. Parents who teach their kids to
high five. Have you noticed this? disturbing.
I didn't. Yeah, it's annoying is stop is really annoying. It's
wrong.
It's just wrong.
I find a high five teacher teaching a kid MATT Yeah.
We're how to shake your hand. Look him in the eye and say nice
to meet you broth. That's what you want to teach your kid not
to high five. It's not cute. It's not a dog. No,
no. Sweet little guy. Well, you're blessed. Brian, your
husband is blessed. And he just O'Brien So we're happy you're
here. You guys did a great job. And I guess you got to thank the
Lord. Right. Do you think for that split second decision? I
actually made the right call. Yeah, yeah, we are here and then
for and you know, I don't I don't blame anybody for thanking
the Lord for Dr. Fauci. Thanks so much as always for joining
us. Good to be here, bro.
It's good. Yeah. So, yeah, what was that all about? I think he's
sick or something is he's now he's, he's what I say. Did you
thank the Lord? Did you thank the Lord? Did you thank the
Lord? Is that all about rain
disease? Well, because? I don't know. I don't know. I don't
know. I don't know.
Anyway, I thought it was then somebody sent me that clip. So
that's why. Okay, I will next time I will be careful.
Can I play some random crap on you? Yeah, sure. Something we
missed. Carl Bernstein. You familiar with his work? First?
Okay. Who was Carl Bernstein?
Carl Bernstein is the other half of Woodward. But he's not the
CIA half. He's actually just a workaday guy that has to far as
I know, go out and get his own material.
Would you consider him to be a reliable source of information?
I would have depend on the on the material and I'd have to do
a little. I'd have to look into it. I generally, I would, I
would think so.
We miss something when he was on the morning, Joe Show, the day
that everyone was in Texas for the George W. Bush museum thing.
Yeah. And here's what he said insane.
That brought us well, economically. Morally, we went
to these talking about Iraq war against a guy who had absolutely
nothing to do with 911. It was a total pretext. It's it's
inexplicable. And there you go to Cheney, there. You go to bush
there you go to the Jewish Neo cons, who wanted to remake the
world, maybe I can say that, because I'm Jewish, and to bring
about a certain result,
that he says there's a pretext from Jewish Neo cons for nine
elevens in response to the invasion in Iraq.
Yeah. Wow. Oh, he's talking about Wolfowitz and those guys.
So Well, I always thought they were thought of as Jewish Neo
cons or a former communist can't say
that on television. Again, if you're Jewish. No, no, no, no,
no, no, no.
Okay. Go ahead. Much worse of a Southern Baptist said that. But
I think
and then, of course, morning, Joe goes into this whole defense
of the Bush regime. So that's one, then this is other ones. So
Matt Damon started with this. water.org Have you looked I've
looked at this water.org thing. Yeah, I've looked at it. And
well, do you notice anything?
Well, I haven't looked at it for a while. So I'm gonna go look at
it again.
Just go to the board of directors, which is our fair bit
the usual suspects, I'm sure from Merck, and you know, it's
like, oh, it's like a whole bunch of pharmaceutical guys.
And, and oh, there's Bano and the only Abano is on the front
page and Richard Branson and Olivia Wilde and Matt Damon. So
in order to get some kind of traction since you know Bano by
himself. It's just annoying. At this point. No one cares what he
has to say anymore. Matt Damon came up with this. Haha,
hilarious. I'm not going to go to the bathroom anymore until
everybody has water. And so now they have a follow up. Now, but
this follow up clip is extremely disturbing. Now remember, what
we say is if you want to hide something, hide it in plain
sight.
Everybody has access to clean water and sanitation. I will not
go to the bathroom. Before the strike is important. All right,
who's supporting Matt Damon's toilet strike and what do you
mean? We won't go to the bar we won't go to the bath. We won't
go to the bathroom until everyone in the world access to
Okay, so we get the joke very funny. We're not gonna go poop.
We're not gonna go peepee because that's a funny way to
get attention. But then clean water sanitation. Millions of
people spend hours each day just fetching clean water. Women
can't earn a living girls can't go to school. Yeah, I remember
when Matt first brought up the idea it was not a meeting of the
Illuminati. bado was so mad. Damon who let you into our
secret Illuminati meeting and Bano started beating Matt with a
two by four. I mean, it's embarrassing. I'm a pacifist.
No, I get it. We're the Illuminati. We have to be picky.
I only got in because I'm an Android from the future. I'll
tweet tranquilize Bono Matt told us about the worldwide water and
sanitation crisis 780 million people that's one in nine lacks
access to safe water. Wow, man. Oh no any more statistics? Yeah.
How do you say nerd in Irish wanker? So I said, Matt, don't
lecture us about philanthropy since great anger. I wrote every
waking hour to it. Olivia founded a school in Haiti and
proud of that, and Bono is freaking bado whereas Matt Damon
is what's the word Weicker Wangka wanker. Join the millions
of famous people who've already joined my strike because this is
one conspiracy we can all agree on and remember if you don't use
the toilet you're a celebrity but Matt You better not speak at
all clubhouse again. Richard let go let's get to him. By format
support Matt Striker go to strike with me.org Illuminati
assemble. I just wanted to have it on the record that we played
it
quite a beard thing to produce. Yeah. Yeah. That's a very it's
it has a certain kind of a of a first of all, for nicing
arrogance to the whole thing to it. Just like it's not funny.
Let's start with number one.
Yeah, it's not funny.
Not funny. It's patronizing as hell. It's really bad. And it
says, it's really just kind of if it's put off you should that
nothing else is like, Oh, what are these people think they are?
He's Bano.
But you've always been.
I hate that guy. Yeah, you know, because he's an insincere
aihole.
I mean, insincerity is part of the document. Oh, it's
just part of the brain disease. So, yes, we have. We have this
issue of Federal Appeals
Court today refused to order the release of photos and video of
Osama bin Laden from the US raid that killed him in 2011. The
Obama administration argued the images could reveal intelligence
methods and trigger violence against Americans. Today, a
three judge panel in Washington agreed it rejected a bid by the
conservative watchdog group judicial defense to make the
pictures
public. In I read the defense, you
hear the little, the little the little in the little gotcha in
there. Oh, crap. What did I miss? Replay reveals
intelligence techniques.
Oh, yes. No, I did hear that. Yeah.
What does that mean? Did they chop off? Or do they cut him
open his skull and pull his brain out or, and poke at him?
Or what? What was the techniques? Are there little red
marks where they gave him a electroshock therapy? Was there
a needle mark? Or was his eyeballs missing? I mean, what
was the technique?
Until I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. But I think
it's offensive that that we're not allowed to. So they're
saying, now I'm just like we have our war machine is
everything on every corner of the earth. And we can have
drones flying over and killing people. We have apparently video
of hundreds of women and children being slaughtered. We
have a movie of this bin Laden thing, which which gets
nominated for awards. Yet we can't show the actual pictures,
which would be kind of proof. Even if they doctored it, it
would be proof because that would make the men and women
around the world unsafe. It makes no sense. It's insulting.
Well,
we're stuck with it.
No, I understand. But I just I can't gloss over this stuff. I
just can't. I refuse. And then there's a man. This, this this,
you know, we've been tracking this bullying stuff. For a long
time, actually. Now, now the department
since the beginning, yeah, we associated with the attack on
freedom of speech. Right. So
and where and where would you actually want freedom of speech
to be really, really, really guaranteed? What is it really
important place for freedom of speech to to just be out there
no matter what, no matter how
schools and school environment? Yeah, that would
be good colleges, Department of Justice and Department of
Education are now saying to colleges, you need to adhere to
the following rules. Or you may have your federal funding cut
off. University of Montana received a letter that
explicitly states that it is intended as a blueprint for
colleges and universities throughout the country. The
problem is adjusting education have mandated a breathtakingly
broad definition of sexual harassment. So here are the
things that are no longer permitted. If you want to Keep
your funding for your university. unwelcome or sexual
jokes. unwelcome by the way, spreading unwelcome sexual
rumors without any limitation to false rumors, engaging in
unwelcome circulating or showing emails of websites of a sexual
nature, engaging in unwelcome display or distribution of
sexually explicit drawings, pictures or written materials,
like 50 Shades of Grey, I guess, making unwelcome sexual
invitations, which is what you do at college. Hello, Hey, baby,
I want to get laid. So this term of unwelcome is a problem.
That's a real problem. And so the document is like 31 pages,
it's this huge document of what you can do. And they've got the
legal of course, a legal justification for everything.
This is this is it. And they've gotten to know the legal
standards. And I like to pretend I'm a lawyer. But even this is
just I just don't have the time in the day to go cross reference
all of this stuff that's in here, what you have to go look
at and what code and footnotes and title regulation CFR one six
dot a. So somehow, you know, like most things we're seeing
from the White House, and there's been going on for a long
time, of course, not this White House in particular. It's just
they come up with all these legal justifications, just
telling you to, you know, basically shut up defining
sexual harassment as a hostile environment. But, you know, the
idea of unwelcome you know, this is this is going too far, John,
and this is this is directly related to the bullying that
we've been talking about.
Yeah, freedom of speech issue. Welcome are not welcome. Who
cares? You can say what you want, you should be able to?
Well, but now they're just saying, Oh, well, that's just
gonna come down to money. Meanwhile, at the Department of
Justice, all managers so, you know, obviously, you can't
discriminate against LGBT citizens, which, by the way, I
feel discriminated against, because I feel that, you know,
there's lesbian, there's gay, there's bisexual, there's
transgendered. But I feel a discriminated group is the
BioCurious. Which is it isn't it is a category on Craigslist. It
is a category, we are a category by curious I, you know, it's
like maybe I want to become full fledged b. Or maybe G or L. I
wouldn't be an L but a B or a G.
Or you could be an L. Right? Yeah, well, I am an L there is
the male the male lesbian movement.
Well, but you know, but I so I'm, I'm, I'm still developing
myself, I'm in a very critical phase. But I don't have the same
rights as my gay and lesbian and bisexual brothers and sisters, I
am discriminated against. Anyway, at the Department of
Justice. There is now some do's and don'ts that have been handed
out to the managers, things they should do and things they should
not do or don't. And I'd like to share some of those with you.
Think don't is very negative.
Yeah, that's exactly what it is. So, we have, do assume that LGBT
employees and their allies are listening to what you're saying.
And we'll read what you're writing. Do talk and staff
meetings about why diversity is important to you as a manager,
and make it clear you define diversity to include both sexual
orientation and gender identity, do provide explicit verbal
reassurance that advancement and development opportunities are
based strictly on merit. And regardless of personal beliefs,
every manager should be a vocal advocate for L LGBT. Until I get
the exact verbiage Hold on, I gotta go to this. I gotta go to
this page. I didn't save it. My brows are stuck, please.
So why would you have to be a vocal advocate of LGBT and not
be, let's say a vocal advocate of Mormonism or a vocal advocate
of Satanism, or a vocal advocate of pedophilia, for that matter,
are a vocal advocate of any number of things. Why do you
have to be a vocal advocate of anything? If you're not going to
be a vocal? advocate of everything.
Well, let's go back to our dinner table conversation in
1938. It's all training. We want to do something fun something
nice here. Can we just let's talk about something nice Vogel
advocate
of surfing
Well, I would say the good news is the BBC reports. Scientists
say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead
to lower temperature rises in the short term, John. This is
good news,
as sunspots are having their effects since
1998, there has been an unexplained standstill in the
heating in the of the Earth's atmosphere. Writing in Nature
Geoscience Researchers say this will reduce predicted warming in
the coming decades. However, long term, the expected
temperature rises will not alter significantly. So this is very
good news. We're not going to die anytime soon.
Oh, there you go. Isn't that a coincidence? So we have this
piece that I actually tweeted about, which is a really nice
piece from Newsweek, April 28 1975, discussing the cooling
world. And they quoted this guy Reed Bryson who died in 19 2008
University Chicago climatologist who was one of the leaders. And
then he kind of gave up on it of the global cooling thing, but
there's still a bunch of guys in the cooling movement that are
still saying cooling but they're not they're being shouted down
by the warm is because the warm is are they they see a better
opportunity for making money with because of this cap and
trade thing. So let me read a couple This is little thing,
just a very small piece from about read in the excuse me, the
Wikipedia. He goes on about in later years, it was clear that
climate was indeed warming. Bryson argued that while climate
change and a global increase in temperature are real, he did not
believe they're caused by any human activity rather than are
they a part of a natural global climate of cycles, particularly
at the end of the Little Ice Age. Quote, all this argument is
the temperature going up or not as absurd? Bryson says, of
course, it's going up it's been going up since the early
1800s 1800s before the Industrial Revolution because
we're coming out of a little ice age not because you're putting
more carbon dioxide into the air and then he died shortly
thereafter
that's almost funny, John. And then he died. Oh, well.
Oh, well, another guest skeptic so let me
give you the latest then this is there's another little
commercial for you from the elites from New World Order from
New World Order productions. Al Gore he has the Climate Reality
thing that he that he was produced you know Climate
Reality day or whatever. You know, what do you know about
this? Hello. Hello? On the ego you mock with the elite so you
get cut off? Where are ya? Did I did I lose my connection? No,
I'm still here. Ah, let me go to Webmaster Tools over there and
Microsoft master tools. I need my experience back can you
please make my experience come back Skype see here. The problem
with this call hold on when we tried to get the call back.
Would you get your fault
I was just answering the Skype questionnaire.
Oh, I believe that was an internet connection problem on
my end.
Okay. Because I wasn't already talking about a bad experience.
Oh, well was a bit hung up on your mind. I think you can
experience all right. So back so Climate Reality This is the
latest to prepare us for of course what is coming is a
carbon tax which has already been implemented for our good
friends there in Australia.
Yeah, so even though the Gallard there said she would never do
that ever,
ever. Here is the setup and it's a beautiful little cartoon, the
audio will suffice.
Your wallet, your bank account. You keep a close eye on them.
You pay for your groceries, pay for your car. You pay for your
stuff you pay For your roads, your schools, the things we all
share. You know what else you're paying for? Carbon pollution? Oh
yes, you're paying for carbon. Science tells us carbon
pollution is the leading cause of climate disruption. The
burning of dirty energy is raising our planet's
temperatures which makes extreme and erratic weather more likely.
The result you've been living in
2012 was the hottest year in the United States. Since weather
scientists started keeping records.
And half of all US counties were declared disaster zones due to
last summer's crippling drought. And because of the droughts,
wildfires scorched one and a half times more land than usual.
on the East Coast, crazy storms have led to record breaking
flooding. We've always had extreme weather. But now thanks
to carbon pollution, we have weather on steroids. And we're
paying for it. Congress has agreed on more than $50 billion
in relief for the victims of Superstorm Sandy. The costliest
global disasters of 2012 were Hurricane Sandy cost 65 billion
and the year long Midwest plains drought that cost us 35 billion
drought relief disasters, battling wildfires building sea
walls, all these expenses add up. And that's the price of
carbon. But big oil isn't paying. And big coal isn't
paying. They are using the atmosphere as an open sewer
while you are paying the tab to taxes, medical bills, higher
food prices, insurance rates and more. But no wallet in the world
is big enough. It's time to take action. It's time to tell the
world we are paying the price of carbon. It's time to put a price
on carbon and make the polluters stop the carbon destruction.
Tell your friends tell our leaders, it's time to have the
carbon conversation.
The carbon conversation, John.
Couple of good ones in there. Whether on steroids, whether on
steroids is good. Also, I liked the change of the moniker to
cartoon climate disruption.
Uh huh. Very good. Yeah,
that was very good. I liked that. And I liked it that the
the visual and I'm sure they showed some smoking stacks,
which hasn't happened for 25 years. But it's another story
air as an open sewer. That was a very good image, good imagery.
And
I want you to write this down. It's not a prediction, but write
it down in the book, May 23 2013. The day the police
state was finalized. I am just reading the captions that's on
CNN right now with our president. He's lost his
marbles.
What's he done?
I mean, he's doing a press conference, which has been going
on I can't wait to watch all this. Yeah, we'll
be reporting on on Sunday. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. We're gonna have
to dissect this entire and by the way, this is a holiday
weekend. So we're probably going to have crap donations as usual.
Of course. I hope people listen to the
upcoming show. This is an I've seen we need a media shield law
reviewing the rules on leak probes.
You already know the media shield law is a fraud. Yes.
Nobody's talking to me. He's talking about American
terrorists. Drones. He I think without even hearing what he's
saying. He's lost his marbles. He is gone out there and the
police state he's I think he's this is the announcement of the
police state. I think this is it. Okay, Attorney General to
meet with media groups to hear concerns. Oh, my God.
You may enter. Now, what's your concerns?
Hey, people, remember, remember one thing? You know what I'm
gonna say, Don't you John? Yeah, but it's the most powerful thing
on the planet. That's all I'm gonna say. Pretty good. Just
remember that because it is true, no matter how bad it may
seem. You're not alone. You're in it here with us. The minority
is what is on television because people are not believing that
crap anymore. And we're your buddies. We are the guardians of
reality. We of course have overactive Oregon's and when I
say Oregon, I'm talking about the amygdala. Okay. It's a
little sensitive. But because of that we can help you steer your
own ship to the poop was bestowed upon you trying to
bring you down and make you feel low, but you're not. You're all
beautiful human beings. And one day we will prevail. We take it
to the mountaintop. Stop me, John,
please. And don't just stop peeing, just don't stop. It's
not a good thing.
We'll be back on Sunday. There's a holiday weekend here in the
United States of GIBBO nation. So please remember that it'll be
a rough one for us. And we'll have tons of deconstruction
about whatever has just taken place. It never stops. And
that's the nature of the business coming to you from
Austin, Texas, capital of the drone Star State in the morning,
everybody. My name is Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley. I follow with my name,
John C. Dvorak, talk
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