So many people on the plane were really annoyed with me playing
this harmonica.
Adam curry, John C.
Dvorak. Sterling November 21 2013. Time Period Gitmo
nation media assassination, Episode Five, six.
This is no agenda,
freezing my butt off as we await the 11 city skating tour from
the heart of Amsterdam and get my nation low lands in the
morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry,
and from Gitmo nation. Mouse ears. I'm John C. Dvorak. Skill.
So you had I don't know, like three days and the several hours
to prepare what you were going to say but no, he waits for the
intro to say Gitmo nation. Mouse ears very nice.
Yes, I was thinking about it. Well, I had some ideas, and then
I just kind of froze. So that to two beats, boom, boom, John's
thinking. But yeah, all
right. All right. So where are you what's going on? What's
happening?
No. I'll be in Orlando till tonight. And it's and unlike
your weather, this is beautiful. You're I got the doors open and
I'm getting the nice, humid. Mid Florida breeze. It's nice. Okay.
You want to divulge what you're doing there? I mean, you don't
I'm at a conference.
That was the enterprise software operation called open text,
where I just still hosted a couple panels that were I don't
know uninspired.
Okay. In other words, someone paid you to actually leave the
house and you did. This is the amazing thing you've been known
to, to turn around and go home on your way to the airport.
Okay, I've done that. Yes. Usually, it happens in the bed
though. The buzzers going off at six. I'm going Why am I getting
up at six? I mean, if somebody's paying me I'm gonna obviously
get up at a for some some volunteer thing or some Oh, no,
screwvala
Screw volunteer work. I mean, that's right. I
try to refuse all these things. Because it's because I don't
like it's not that I don't like to do stuff for people that want
stuff done. It's just it's always inconvenient. It's like,
I have to get up really early, which is outside my schedule. Or
it's luckily we got this Thursday and Sunday thing going
on, which is not can't work I had met at Thursday's out. And
Sunday candy gotta be due to show. Once in a while the as you
have noticed over the years, I believe it's something in Vegas
or someplace and we tried to do hook up and it seems we have a
good connection here. So that's fine.
That's a decent so I'm still going to Amsterdam for those of
you who were wondering, and we'll be flying back to to
Austin tomorrow. And it's kind of the same thing. You know,
when when I'm over here, then it's like, well, yeah, I can't
really do anything on Sunday night or, or Thursday night. And
normally we start the show, it's six here. 6pm. So instead of
doing my prep all day, Wednesday up until like midnight, or one
on Wednesday. I just get up on Thursday and go all day. You
hear the car alarms, this is also we're two hours earlier
here now we started like a little after four instead of
six. So we still have construction in the street. You
know, it's a city that is like real and as a car alarm going
off very nice. I can't hear it. Now it's because I had the noise
gate on. Boo, boo be boo. Anyway, so it's been been
interesting here and in the lowlands, of course, I was
afraid it would happen. And indeed it did. They had a huge
celebrate he filled telethon for the Philippines, the stupid
Dutch, they fell for it against.
It was the money it's into where's the money supposed to
go?
Well, it's interesting. So they have well, they they have a
central collection system. This kind of goes back to the way
banking used to work in the Netherlands. Back in the day
when I was a kid. We and I may still, I guess it still exists
you had the post office would also had free banking services
available to the citizens. And you would have what was known as
a hero reckoning or a gyro account, G I R O. And so you
could you a tank here to take your bank book to the post
office, you can say okay, here's my book, and it says my number
and I want, you know, 25 guilders or whatever it was on
50 guilders or you could go put money into your account, it was
all free. And the statements and everything was all mailed around
the Postal Service, the government run Postal Service
managed all that. And you'd have these little cards. And so when
you had to pay a bill like your electric bill or or utilities
were pretty much any any bill that that you didn't pay in
cash. You would take one of the He's kind of computerised it was
like a punch card. Now, in fact, it was a punch card. Now that I
think of it, it was a punch card size of just a standard punch
card size, and you'd fill in the number of the, of the gyro
account that you were sending the money to, and your gyro
number account. And then you put that an envelope, no, no postage
necessary, you'd send it off and it would, you know, the whole
system would work and you'd kind of get your your statement once
a month or whatever. That is obviously been overtaken by by a
proper banking system, quote unquote, proper. But they still
have the gyro system. So the when they have a big a big
telethon like this, they use the standard gyro 555 number, which
you can send to from your age, some people, I guess, still have
the the old fashioned accounts, but you can also send to it from
your bank account. And that's like a central clearing house.
And it's that you asked this, John, but it's not really clear
what happens with the money after that point. It's just kind
of what makes it fun. It's like they have the there's like an
NGO that will attach itself to the to the five, five and five
number for that particular time period. And they'll disperse it.
And of course, everyone had gone through this several years ago
with Haiti. And there were some questions about well, how do we
know the money's really going to get there and and everyone all
about politicians and everyone was on television assuring
everybody that they had changed things and it was all going to
get to the to the proper organisations this time and
there would be better oversight. They have a saying here called
the filth with under strike stoke blind hunger. You're still
with me? Yeah. Just want to make sure I wasn't doing a soliloquy
here.
It's always like you're talking to somebody on the phone
disconnected.
And that is a that's a saying that I'm not quite sure where it
stems from. But what it means is, when someone's playing the
violin, and you're using your you have your bow on the violin,
like sometimes if you really push the ball all the way, it
might catch a couple couple of bank notes and you'd pull it
back and then you could like, flick, slip it in your pocket.
I'm not sure where that saying comes from.
Wow, that's a weird one.
I should have probably looked that one up. I have no idea
where that comes from. But it's called getting us to
bend from beggars and some day that used to play the violin on
the street and people would attach money to the end of the
bow.
I'm gonna look it up right now. Because I should have figured
that one out. Let's see. I'm just facts of life. Oh, hang on.
Let me see. See where it comes from? Of course I'm translating
this on the fly
I'm gonna have to look at I'm going to look into this the
client will do it but yeah, but anyway is it means that money's
being kind of drops off anything that drops onto the floor God
can keep essentially so they did the whole thing and had all the
public broadcasters the commercial broadcasters
everything all you know all doing you know, the common
broadcast and they had the celebrities manning the phones
and they had the poor poor people and then of course the
the Filipino community dropped by and they had cooked food for
the celebrate it. phone bank operators. I was just like, wow,
my two people never learn anything. That was and one of
our well known singers here. Thank you. Oh, sir house as she
had put on Facebook, I will donate a euro for every like
that I get
spying likes, she
got 200,000 likes.
Oh, yeah. Now she what she gonna do?
Well, and this is the funny thing is because she got a total
pass. And all the TV shows and the news. I was like, oh, man,
you know, this is? No, of course she doesn't have to pay for
that. You know, I'm sure she really didn't mean it that way.
She didn't expect her to her, hers her, her her campaign to be
so incredibly popular. So but she will be giving royally she
promised us and let me tell you something. If I had done that,
I'd have I've had the fucking cops outside the house. say
where's the money curry? These other seller buddies, they get a
pass on this stuff. That was pretty unbelievable.
That's just sleazy. Yeah,
and everyone's there. You know, everyone was like some some
other celebrities. were serving beer and at a well known bar and
you know the beer. You know, the proceeds would go to the to the
gyro 555 And it's just everyone's in it for themselves
and no one would admit it, but they're all in and just just for
their own popularity. Oh, and look, I'm going to auction off
the first, the pink, Ruby studded jacket that I wore in my
video clip in 1991. I mean, please, so insulting. It's like
people care about the people in the Philippines. Not at all. Not
buying it. But the Dutch. Yeah, there you go 18 and a half
million euros. So pretty much the Euro can feel better. And
pretty much well, that's
theirs that goes right into the coffers of the Red Cross. Well,
a lot of it does. But unfortunately, no one ever talks
about the reality of what's really going on for so this was
not the worst storm ever nor the most people killed during a
typhoon in the Philippines in this region. This is this is
nothing new all but I guess because we have, I don't know,
video of it. What we barely even have video of the storm itself.
In fact,
we don't have that much video of the storm. That's kind of
interesting. But we do have a lot of overhead ducks helicopter
shots of the ravaged areas. And then we also have the same ones
from the crazy, weird storm that the tornadoes which I don't want
to sound like you know, because I'm not buying into a lot of the
weather modification stuff. But I do have a clip, which brings
up a couple of interesting points about these tornadoes
that ravaged Illinois last week.
Do you want to come back to the Philippines? Because we want to
go
once you finish the Philippines and then we'll go on with this
because it just I find it peculiar. I mean, even though it
hasn't been blended, we're thinking about the latest thing.
I haven't heard enough global warming. Well, yeah,
no. Okay. We'll transition we'll transition into that because of
course, the Philippines is a part of the global warming mean,
but you have to know now remember, we have the $27
billion aircraft carrier, the George Washington sitting there.
We now have and this is what I'm pretty much convinced it's all
about it's just the strategic location of military assets.
Japan is sending.
Definitely going on. It's definitely going Yeah,
Japan is sending itself Defence Forces, which is I believe
that's I think it's 4000 troops. Japan, it's like getting pretty
transparent guys. Australia has a ship they've sent over. Let's
see, we have another the Chinese Of course, they're like, Oh,
hold on a second. So they're deploying their relief ship.
Because this is all happening in the in the sea of China. And
when you look at some of this relief, I mean, it the whole
thing is really quite despicable. Particularly when
you know that a lot of the a lot of that packages that have
arrived have been unpacked and then repackaged by the local
Filipino government officials so that it says, you know, what is
the guy's name one of the, like, the Minister of Internal
Affairs, he was like, repackaged with his name on it, and his
ministry on it, taking me a couple of days extra so they can
repackage the relief. So that it's politically is a political
win for the internal government. So the whole thing is obviously,
if it wasn't a scam to start off with, with whatever started it
and whatever is motivating it, it certainly is being misused,
to a great degree. And again, and and in the shownotes. I have
a couple of links to many other storms going back to the 70s.
Which, and this is the interesting thing. I think it
was 19. Let me see I have it here. I believe it was 1970.
There was a huge a typhoon in the exact same region. And guess
what it was blamed on?
Well, who was in the 70s? They may blame it on global cooling.
That's exactly right. The exact same region, a huge typhoon
blamed on global cooling in 1970. Oh, how quickly we forget.
And of course, there's your media, not reminding you not
helping you out at all. The only thing that stinks, the only
thing that's obviously happening is is being misused for for
global warming purposes. I'm seeing that the political
cartoons pop up everywhere. It's already being talked about in at
the cop 19. And we can talk about that or we can go into
your Illinois clip now which it does seem kind of coincidental
if you read state of fear by Michael Crighton. You'll know
that you know these kinds of things. It's it's it's kind of
fun when they coincidently happen when you have a big
Climate Conference, where a lot of people are saying they need a
lot of money and compensation for all the horrible co2 that's
killing the people in the poor third world country He's
anything they do to soak the American taxpayer. And of
course, the Chinese and the Indians aren't playing ball. And
so it's all in our court, which is kind of interesting. Yeah,
these were just play this and then tell me what you think.
Because I think and I don't normally go in this direction.
It's it says, as if there was a cloud seeding experiment gone,
gone wrong or something, because there's a number. There's a
couple of factoids in here, which Glenn I folded is
discussing this with the climatologist from my, from the
University, or from Oklahoma State, I think. And he's talking
about these anomalies, and then she's obviously paying no
attention. Because at the end, and I cut it off, she asked the
question that he answers right at the beginning, throughout the
entire Midwest,
how unusual was it to see a wave of storms like this?
Well, it's very unusual to see a wave of storms like this this
time of year. This is something that we expect might happen in
March or April. But it's extremely unusual to have such a
widespread outbreak in the Midwest, that in November.
Well, let's walk through some of the unusual features here. When
was the time of day when these tornado struck? We're kind of
used to hearing about late afternoon warnings that come
touchdowns of tornadoes, but not an early morning one.
Yes, this was extremely unusual. I believe the storms began
around nine o'clock in the morning. And usually we need to
get the sun's heating during the day to get the storms going. But
in this case, a very, very powerful storm system came
through. They lifted the air very, very early. And we did
need to get to be very warm for the storms to be triggered. How
about a tonne of gear? We just heard that. What a douche.
I know she asked this question that he answered right off the
bat. So she's paying she saw it. That was I could have played
that whole thing. But she obviously he had to say it
again. It was November instead of April. I know. Right? Right.
But she's obviously not listening. So I just thought it
was
a problem with this. The problem with most certainly with most
interviews, I would say with most conversations in general,
even when people aren't broadcasting they're not
listening. All people wait for us for when is it my time to
talk I want to talk when is it my turn to talk? I wonder where
am I going yet? Is it me now? Is it me? Is it me? as well? That's
very sad when people are paid lots of money to do that as I'm
sure she is. So what do you think
I was? I was amused by the it takes place in November which is
screwy and then there was the morning it would this never
happens in the Moran these were Whoppers they weren't there's no
fives he said but there were a lot of fours and they ripped up
a bunch of places that are never normally hit. And I just thought
the whole thing was slightly fishy even though I'm not of
that mindset. Yeah. But you since you weren't in town to
someone that someone has to do we harp weather well, but I'm
glad I'm over here because there are a lot of interesting things
happening and although it's not really hitting super mainstream.
There was a report here in the in one of the main Dutch
newspapers about a Dutch climatologist who we just
published a report in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences. That's P NAS P and as he said DNS, yeah,
P N A s.org.
Last year.
Do you hear me? Did you did you lose me?
I think they have a loose connection.
No, no. I'm I'm broadcast tonight. Yeah. Can you hear me?
I'm good. You're good? Yeah, okay, sorry.
So you heard about the P NAS? No, I don't
know anything about the P and I know nothing about the P and A S
Alright. So there was a Dutch climatologist who published a
study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on
their website the penis.org and it was there was a report about
it in the in the Dutch press here the report done by siebrand
Dr. out I love those Dutch names last name Dr. Howard means
driftwood. And the title of his is spontaneous abrupt climate
change due to atmospheric blocking sea ice ocean feedback
and an unforced climate model simulation. And that doesn't
mean a lot until you get into it and this is what luckily had
been published here and his models so he is he's a part of
the the big overall IPCC and you know, this is all peer reviewed,
the models that he is using and we know that the big problem
with the with the governmental All reports has been their
models have been off. His models are showing a quite severe and
quite lengthy. A cooling, but like mini ice age.
Yeah. This first of these, these were the theory he's developed
in the 70s. And a number of people, there's been some
reviews of this. And there's been a number of people that
were involved in, there's a funny thing about the global
cooling stuff from the 70s that people switched over to warming
and the other hand, about half of them stayed with cooling, and
they have not changed their attitude that we're having going
to have a mini ice age, which is going to be a huge disaster
under whatever circumstance. So I suppose the sky,
if you live, if you live in Austin, it's going to be quite
nice. It's gonna be fantastic.
It takes a while for these things to unfold. So what else
did he say in the? So I'm looking at my bell, because I've
said so, so many times. All right, I
got a bell for you. So essentially, he says, you know,
it looks like around 2030s When the ice age will start, and it
could last until well into 2070. And it could actually be quite,
quite cold. And let's see, he's saying that the last I'm just
kind of this is I'm also translating some of this on the
fly. The last little ice age we had was between 13 118 50 which
gave us a really, really horrible winters but nice and
cool winters. Summers, I mean, so we'll, you know, as I said,
Austin will be pretty nice. When this does kick in if it does,
but it's just kind of interesting to see how these are
these things are starting to show up in these journals. And
by the way, what is peer reviewed? I mean, I understand
what it's what it's what it says, but does that mean that's
like a big circle jerk? And should it be reviewed by non
peers or, or some other way this this whole thing that it's like
whenever someone says
no, I agree, it's not true. It's essentially refers to having the
paper out for review by other experts who can go through the
data before it's published. Go through the data and find flaws
and say, Oh, this two plus two is not 5.1 sort of thing or this
spreadsheet formula was wrong because there's a bunch of you
know, this is kind of like peer review is what devolved into
these Trekkies the guys who say Oh, the badge on your costume is
over and fire Federation would never put a bad
way. You're not telling me that climatologist peer review
system? is a derivative of Star Trek conventions.
No, no, it's it's not the Star Trek dimensions device. Although
I get it I guess my thesis I got it. It's fine tooth comb. Okay.
Oh, I see the microphone and shit in frame 56 of the shot
number 10. Right. And I kind of like those guys now.
Well, okay, could be I just get a little tired of hearing it
that's all but peer review. Oh, just like that. It's fact it's
peer reviewed and you know it's like it's like you could peer
review stuff together
you're not appear you could become one if you went over
these things. I took one of these papers and then you said
all Then did you find all these mistakes? And then you presented
the mistakes to the group? And it was it well this guy's right.
I've never heard of him. Who is this? Adam curry fell in a lot.
Oh no. Let's send him more stuff to do. ends up being a
nightmare. But yeah, you have to be peer reviewed.
So all this is going down. We have these reports coming out of
course we have a cop 19 Is is in full swing and lo and behold it
turns out that everybody's in it for the money who knew
and I still walk out or something. Yeah.
You had to clip you have a clip I'm trying to throw it right to
you my friend.
I don't know that I have a clip of the walkout out.
I'm pretty sure I saw a walkout clip maybe maybe I misread it
maybe I was just wishful thinking. I think
is wasteful thing because it was just as I was going to bed they
were reporting the walkout. Okay, I don't I don't ever have
a good clip of it. So all right.
And so I don't have a clip of it. But 133 countries, was it
countries or delegates? Hold on. Let me tell them. Let me double
check this. though. I know 133 countries walk out of UN climate
meeting over global warming compensation. argument that gee
77 Plus China group of 133 133 countries walked out of United
Nations Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, on the
loss and damage mechanism, after developed nations refuse to
agree to terms. And as you read through the reports, essentially
what these what these countries wanted is an automatic
compensation mechanism that if they have a storm or something,
some horrible event that they automatically that they get
money sent to him. But this is insane. What are we what are we
trying to do? What areas and it's it's it's an eye, it's
actually it's B, it's beyond insane and hilarious. It's
disgusting. So it really turns out that this is just all about
a bunch of poor countries. Let me just put it that way. If you
want to soak us, yeah. And it's all its
toll. I thought that from the first time I saw one of these
conferences when Amy Goodman was there and all she ended up
talking to people from Micronesia, or somebody from
some island in the middle of nowhere. It and they're all
bitching and moaning about how we've screwed up the world. And
they we owe them money.
But for them to be so blatant about it, I was like what? So
here's the new term. Climate Finance. This is the this is the
word you've got to look out for, according to a report by the
World Resource Institute, developed nations have spent $35
billion in international climate finance through the fast start
finance period between 2010 2012 exceeding the initial target of
30 billion. Just listen to this. Five countries Germany, Japan,
Norway, Britain and the United States gave a combined sum of
$27 billion adaptation funding received 5 billion while
mitigating receive 22 point 1 billion. And so so these these
233 countries, they went, well, that's not good enough. We don't
care how you guys do it, but just got to make sure that we we
get money for extreme weather. Like wow, this is it. And why is
that everyone up in arms about this?
We are well,
yeah, we're pretty tiny in this regard. But if people cares
about what we think I'm reading from The Guardian, US fears
climate talks. So actually, here's a report from the 13th,
where it was kind of set up in The Guardian, that US climate
officials were afraid that the talks would break down to this
very point that the focus would be on compensation for extreme
weather. Boom, then we get the Philippines. You know, the whole
thing happening the typhoon, the end all of this money, I guess,
the President said that we've spent or we've sent 32 It wasn't
33 I would remember what is it a $30 million range, which of
course is bogus, because every day that the USS George
Washington is sitting there with 5000 men and in a $27 billion
write off that's got to be a million bucks a day at least if
not more. So it's you know, it's everyone's misusing this thing
for a whole bunch of reasons but this climate change thing is
just nuts.
Well, it's true.
Meanwhile, the reports here and in the lowlands, it's kind of
good to be here to get the vibe about stuff. And of course me
being here. I'm getting for some reason Dutch people send me more
email than than usual I guess. And he's sending me all these
nearby Yeah, he's close. He's close. It sent me all these
things but Fukushima and here's a report I got and this is this
is a robot I think this This might even have been in Forbes
let me see is the ecologist the ecologist.org. Is that a real
publication? The ecologist
well, they must have gotten that that's a great URL, so they must
have done it
early sound sounds sounds pretty legit. Oh, we should look into
it. Here it is. Fukushima Fallout damaged thyroid glands
of California babies.
Bullcrap colleges is a fraud.
Whether you love the wording, a new study finds that radioactive
iodine from Fukushima has caused a significant increase in
hypothyroidism amongst babies in California 5000 miles across the
Pacific Ocean. And they and this is the article will be published
next week, so I couldn't review it for you but it is in the peer
reviewed journal. The Open Journal of Paediatrics
congenital congenital hypothyroidism hypothyroidism is
a rare but serious condition normally affecting about one
child in 2001 that demands clinical intervention. So If you
read through this article, they say that they studied the whole
bunch of babies born before, during and after the Fukushima
malfunction of the reactor, and that they can show there was a
21% increase in babies that were that have hyperthyroidism, and
they're claiming this is because of the Fukushima radiation
cloud. And you know, I can't wait to see the report. And I'm
not quite sure exactly what the Journal of these are all good
names. By the way, the Open Journal of Paediatrics I
mean, that could be like a liquid a subscription to these
things costs.
Let's take a look at what the Open Journal of Paediatrics
could be like, it could be like the, you know, the Palm OS of
Paediatrics. I don't know what it is what it what it is, let's
just have a paediatrician on the list. Tell us sure we but you'll
find this subscription is like 1000s of dollars and issue is
that these things are somewhat built for papers for publishing
papers. You know, you you probably it's almost like you
know the who's who books. That would you would you like to be
in the who's who of the West? invited the who's who of the
West? Who's Who in business? Also the marquee who is who the
big one? And it's always the same you can you can get your
name in there with a who's who listening. And then you should
then be part of the deal as you buy a book.
Oh, yeah, no, of course I have to you have to buy the book.
Well, I'm looking here, Open Journal of paediatrics, and it
doesn't it doesn't really look like they have a website. It
looks like it's it is actually a journal.
Yeah. Yeah, they can't put the stuff on the web. To make your
money
people might read it. Well, it seems like you can download it.
When I say published special issues. Sponsors associates in
links, that's always my favourite. When it comes out.
I'll take a look at it. And I'll go through it. But we don't even
have these kinds of numbers for for Chernobyl. And there's
there's nothing, nothing like
that. Yes, 5000 miles away, it's pretty unlikely.
So then, so they got a lot of numbers a lot, a lot of stuff, a
lot of facts. And the facts. Of course, this is published by the
urine committee, the European Committee on radiation risk. My
God, there's so many NGOs, euro, euro, D comm.org.
What to do an NGO because this is the only way to go.
And I don't want to mention the name because Okay, so there's a
guy I know, from television from a long time ago, and I hook up
again with him in Austin. And he's actually kind of well known
as a writer, producer. I worked with him. He was a writer on a
TV show was on and he's he's also been in some pretty big
cereal stuff recently as an actor. And but you know, not
like he's not swimming in dough. Let's put it that way. He's an
actor. You know, it's he does bit parts. And then yes, that's
about it. You're just getting by. He's getting by exactly.
He's living in Austin. Yeah. Enough said. And, but I meet him
through some of our other friends and actually some of the
wealthier robots. And, and they've been talking about,
about him, and when this project he was doing, which involves,
you know, like, kids in Kenya, I can't even say specifically
what? And you know, and we bought a table for the big
dinner, and you guys have to come here. So I go looking at,
you know, me,
like, oh, okay, those dinners where you buy tables for your
friends, yeah, for 10
grand or whatever, and you get a seat 691 odd person out, you
know, me, it's like, I'm gonna go look at the form 990 and see
what this is about. And it was like, Oh, they got revenue, so
that they they raised $350,000, his wife is that runs it, she
gets paid a salary of 71. He's a paid advisor to make the videos
that are made for the site, and he gets 50,000. And there's
30,000 in rent, which, although I don't know, probably is a
portion going to their home, wherever they're
running. It took barbell home business.
So there's like, you know, there's half of the money is to
keep these people running. And I'm like, That's messed up. I
don't like that. You know, it's just like, this is just it's a
scam. To me. I mean, I'm sure it's well meant and everything.
And I know that they're really doing the work. But, I mean,
it's really kids in Kenya. Have you seen the money that's being
poured into Kenya by the United States State Department by the
Chinese? I mean, it's not like Kenyans it's not all just, you
know, kids with flies and pot bellies hanging around, you
know, there's some money flowing in there. And so whatever's left
of the 350 Grand,
you know, the kids and all the thank yous and all thank you
or anywhere in the United States. That's my that's what I
was thinking like, I like to help a little more low. Killian,
Mason, you know, I know people go, well you're a dickhead how
we want to help people. Well, yeah, I want to help people that
I can actually. It's that guy again. It's the same guy who
comes out whenever someone hates me.
Did I ever I must have told him I think I told his story like
three or four years ago, I'll tell it again. I'm in London.
And there was some beggar on the street. And I gave him a pound
note, I believe. And some guy in a lorry, which is London for
huge truck, stops the truck in the middle of the street and
starts screaming at me. Forgiving this guy in $1 a pound
because he's those people are full of shit. You shouldn't be
giving him money. He says it's ruining the country. Guys like
you. And he just yelling at me. And I think Jesus is terrible.
What is the problem there? I don't know. I just found a
befuddling. Well,
no. I think to a certain degree, the guy might have been right
depending on. It's kind of like the squeegee guys that we used
to have when you drove by the Lincoln Tunnel
didn't want him to touch your windshield because they mucked
it up. It was extortion. Yes, of course. It's all extortion.
Yeah, it was extortion. But But it's my business, not the truck
drivers.
Right. But you know, you're you're just some tourist and you
will come in here over here and ruin and everything. We can't
have that. You know, it's like,
clearly that's what does go on in India. When you I haven't
been to India, that's one of the places I've never been, I've
always wanted to go but less and less likely to go and less and
less wanting to go.
Mc is gone. She still shouldn't she'll never go back again.
I've heard that from a number of people. He said it's rarely in
some of the towns you walk out of the of your taxi or you walk
off the train or whatever it is, and a million beggars. You know,
people with one leg and one they're all miserable looking at
it. They're all in rags. And they're all you know, just kind
of things wrapped around them and nuts hanging out. And they
all hold like beat up old cups or you've seen these pictures.
Yes,
of course. That's one of the reasons I'll never go. And they
all come up
to you. Last year I was you rich. Yeah, of course. It this
is not right.
I've pre guilt of going there. I could never I could never go
it's horrible. By the way the spreadsheet came in. Oh, yeah.
Good old Eric. Alrighty, righty. Nice. Well, although I don't
know, I don't know. It'd be that happy, quick, quick glance at
the spreadsheet.
That was when we travel we never do well, no, you're right.
No, well, anyway. So no, Mickey was telling me that they would
have you know, you know, they have like a million kids. And
they take one kid and the kids like, you know, like open sores
and stuff. And you just throw them on the side of the road
with a bucket and sign they just wait. And it's horrible. It's
horrible. It's not exactly the same thing as what we're talking
about here. But But anyway, just the NGO thing. And in America in
recent time, because they also get I saw the you know, there
they get money from three or four different NGOs and those
NGOs at the end of the day, all the NGO money comes from the
taxpayer. It's going to the really big NGOs. Like you know,
the what was it the Robin Hood Foundation, remember, they did
the the Hurricane Sandy, I'm sorry, Superstorm Sandy benefit
show. And we and we looked at it, they distribute everything
to all these little, little tiny NGOs all around the country.
They also put a whole bunch of because it's run by bankers,
they put a whole bunch of derivatives and other stuff on
I'm sure they make money on it, you know, because that's what
those guys do anyway, they're just, they're just putting into
vehicles they know will make money. And the whole thing is
just you know, that trickles down. Let's keep it all these
people kind of work in and yeah. Is it important? Do we have a
culture of philanthropy? Yeah, we do have a culture of
philanthropy in America in America, but I think it's gone
too far. And I just see too many people with their little, little
nonprofits. And like, Dell has this too. I sit in an office and
people say, How can you come and do this thing? And it's for the
Dell Foundation? And what's your involvement? Well, I have an
NGO, nonprofit, and we do the organisation of the artists. So
basically, you're a booker, but you're not paying taxes. Yeah,
it's like it makes me angry. Booker, this is what they want.
They are their
Booker, but they're just the meal and their book and their
specialty is getting people to work for free. Yes. So Delkin
get a bigger tax. You know, that organisation, you get a big tax
write off on your dime. Exactly.
So it's, and by the way, oh, but
the problem is, you can't it's hard to like, you know, sort of
like be upfront.
It's gotten really, he's gotten easy for me. I just say no, I
don't believe in what you're doing. I like you as a guy, but
now, I'm just saying that I don't care that I can't be I
can't fake it anymore. And by the way, this is this is the got
this virus, Dude, I got this virus from you. What? I got this
virus from you,
but virus is just
being straightforward and honesty thing. Oh,
what do you know is a disease?
Yes, it's very contagious.
Well, you say I'd like but I liked the wording. I don't
believe in what you're doing. I haven't used that. You should
try actually quite quite, because your other one was? No.
What was the other one? No, no.
No, it depends. It's like, Do you Do you want to? Whether you
want to hate children? Do you want to help children? No, I
hate children.
Just whatever it is. I hate it. Yeah, yeah. Even what you're
doing is much softer. I could use that myself. Well, you
should give it away. Although I don't you know, I tend to I'm
trying to think when i i tend to be one of those chickenshit
avoider, aren't you? Yeah, it's like I go around the block. I
need my exercise. So I'll take a block route around some guys go
by him or go by the guy. Hey, I need some money. Oh, I'm gonna
go get a pizza and I'll be right back with I'll have some chain
change and that's one reasons to admit it. I mean, I need to be
more like a you know even though you say you got it from me I'd
need to do more to these the ways you handle it. You actually
Aren't you proud of me? Yeah, especially with that last one. I
really like to believe in what you're doing. It's hard to say
that to just a bum but I don't believe in what you're doing. So
I'll do that the other one is the boat cruise. It bothers me
when somebody comes up to me at a gas station which is not in
your Yeah, that happens at night playing with a credit card I
gotten broke. Okay, all right, right right. But yeah, I don't
believe in what you're doing. No, these guys are all over the
place and they're just not a no it is I think it's a dishonesty
of it if they were upfront and said here's what we're doing
we're trying to do some good here and we need to make we need
to make a living doing it's kind of like our show yeah, we need
we need to make a living doing this and so we're asking for
help from anywhere we can so we can afford to continue this
work. I'd be a little more amenable to that than this kind
of a scam ish Exactly. Oh, you know you're just I don't even
know how they do it but I think NGO is probably a real
moneymaker.
Well it's it's a lifestyle John it's not just a money maker.
Look at who's the the pink. The pink ladies what's the what they
call the one the Nina is her name? I have the crazy lady
who's always always standing up. pink slip people, not the pink
slip. Go. The pink ladies that was Greece. Actually. I'm sorry.
I'm a little confused. Yeah,
no pain reason that I said pink slip because that's how it'd be
Gan. Code Pink was originally to give George Bush
right in the pink slip. You're right. You're right. You're
right. So the the kind of crazy who by the way in to me in a
very perverted way. I think she's kind of hot. I'm not quite
sure why an old woman. It's not old. That's not old. What's old,
your old? She's not old.
She's older than me.
Oh, no, she is not older than you. Is. She says she's like mid
50s Maybe. Now let's take a look. Code Pink. What's an
Amina? Isn't her name Mina something or other. She actually
called Pink. changed her name. I know that for some reason. Amina
Benjamin. There
you go. Mina,
I think it's Mina. Let's see A Madea Mina Medea. She is age 61.
So she's a little bit younger than you. But she you know, I'm
looking at her again. She's not hot.
Yeah, I don't know what you're thinking.
Well, I don't know. Something. I don't know if sometimes, before
we
go especially I shouldn't mention something. I think
somebody had rushed it I find at this hotel for some reason. They
have the Russia Today network rather than just a couple of
shows. They have the whole network. Yeah. And they've got
this new woman who does this show called boom or bust. And
she used to she just she just got a weird background. But she
is exempt. She's pretty close to what we as the consulting group.
The hickory Dvorak consulting group would have picked this
woman's name is Erin. Aid, which is a bad last name is a D.
O. Oh,
I see what she is a she's a. Here's the zero. I'll give you
the rundown. We're going to do just for a moment, we're going
to do our little TV producer douchebag and discussion.
Yes, it's a big hit with the ladies. By the way. This this
segment on the show. It works really well. Okay, what's her
name again, her name is Erin.
me or I M A D. So she comes on and he Here's the way I see it.
For one thing she has got world class legs. Yes, she does and
she shows she shows them off. She gets in a stool sits
awkwardly so her entire legs are one of them's crossed over and
the other ones down in the floor and she's got high heels and
you know what you know what I like about her? Is she has too
many teeth for the size of her mouth.
She has a huge huge if she puts on number one they're number one
smile maxed out Yeah, every tooth in her mouth it but that's
but that as long as we keep her smiling we need you know like
even though with horses they put ginger in there but to make the
tail stay up in a horse show. So we need to find the this you
don't know about that? No. Oh yeah. In a horse show. When the
horses are in Parade they put a little bit of ginger in there
but to the table always stay all you know that we have the tail
up. So we need the equivalent of that for her mouth. So just
because I'm seeing a look under picture here on on the Google
images where she's not smiling. And it looks really goofy.
Ya know? She's she's not as good looking. But with the big
monster smile, monster smile. It's almost it's almost
freakishly big.
Yeah, yeah, this is it's actually shots
curiously attractive in some funny way.
She needs big hair, though. If she if the hair is flat, it
doesn't work and He's big.
He's got different hair do couture. I've seen two or three
hairdos for they have some promos over. I think they're
working with it. Now here's the problem I have I think they got
the right idea. But I watch her do her show. Now I realised that
Abby Martin and this woman both there there's the same coach
involved now she can't read. Well, besides the reading she
were her reading is not good. But it's you know, it's
acceptable because she's kind of attractive. But I'm telling you,
if you watch Abby Martin her heads bobbing all over the
place, her arms are waving around, and she's trying to walk
on these crazy steps and she can barely handle high heels and
staggering around the set with her head bobbing in her arms
waving. And this girl does when when I first saw her I said this
is a clone of Abby Martin. Same thing waving her arms and
staggering around I said like she's about to fall over you're
worried sick that she's gonna land on her ass. It the whole
thing and I'm thinking this has got to be a common a common
coach. There's somebody at that network that is teaching these
girls how to you know, handle themselves and they're teaching
them wrong
and that person needs to be fired I'm looking at just needs
to be fired found on YouTube a video she uploaded, which looks
like her reel. It has her contact info here and her mobile
number and I guess she was an ESPN star sports reporter based
in Singapore and even has her apartment number in Singapore to
see if there's some video on this thing. That's Can you tell
me a little bit about this engine? You're gonna have to
keep watching to find out. Oh, she did racing segments. Oh,
man. Oh, cool. Oh, she's like it's three extreme sports stuff,
John.
Yeah, it was if you look at her wiki page, she worked for some
crappy local network that some Turkish station in Schenectady
or something like that. I think somebody grabbed her and said
hey, wait a minute we could
and this by the way is what we are excellent at is finding
these women on little little rinky dink stations and and
turning them into superstars Actually,
I'll tell you that we could do a better job with both that weapon
than the coach that's got these women staggering around the
stage All
right, let's move on. Because we could talk about that for the
whole show, which is the sad part of it unfortunately.
But anyway, so you have to keep an eye out for her she's gonna
she's gonna go places. Well as we do this,
as we do this by Continental show and we're both on remote
remote and I'm here in the air b&b in Amsterdam and you're in
the in the hotel in Florida. I think it is time to say in the
morning to you John C. Dvorak and
in the morning to you Adam curry in the morning lordships as he
boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the water and all
the dames knights out there
yes and and in the morning to our human resource resources in
the chat room, who at this point also are able to listen to the
stream. So thanks to our team for getting that up and running
as we were a couple hours earlier than than typical for a
for a show time. And of course, thank all of you for your
courage and thank you to our artists who are always working
hard bringing us the artwork and no agenda. Our generator.com
Martin JJ gave us the art on the previous episode 566 And today
is of course we forgot to mention it 567 which would have
been an excellent donating opportunity. And we as typical
we forgot to mention it
to you Ever thought that we forgot anything?
It didn't do the right didn't think. Think of it
exactly why six seven is a great number for the numerologists out
there who like to donate certain kinds of crazy numbers
568-569-5657 D, the there's nothing again for I don't know
forever, but we do have a few people with including Sir
Anthony Montgomery, if that is indeed his last name, because I
have to stretch by been a little laptop up so I can't so you have
to correct my mistakes. Well, I'm
also on I'm on two laptops and one is running the show and the
other is smaller on his running the spreadsheet. So yeah,
Anthony sir. Anthony Montgomery.
Right in West field, Indiana five. And he did come up, but he
came up with the idea on his own. Yeah. 567
He's been waiting for he's like, yes, yes. There you go. Typical
that people are smarter than we are.
Yeah, well, it's it seems to be the case generally. Speaking, as
a little note here, I was knighted last Thanksgiving and
have not donated sense. So this is a ketchup catch me up so to
speak. And I'm also answering the call for support and the
call for Kale recipes. I strongly dislike kale but I do
occasionally eat it because my lovely wife makes it truly
delicious. Okay, so she has a recipe for the Tuscan potato
soup. Being an engineer I was interested in the chemistry
required to make kale tastes so good. The short answer is that
kale contains many healthy but foul tasting compounds, mostly
sulphurous. Some of these are water soluble and some are fat
soluble. Her recipe for Tuscan potato soup includes cream
spinach, spicy I'm sorry spicy Italian sausage, and of course
potatoes and kale. The combination of fats and starches
causes the kale to absorb the fats from the cream and sausage
also to give up its fowl or flavours.
Sounds sounds exactly like what it is is falling.
everything blends together in a wonderful way. He says there is
no room to share the full recipe if you can send it to me, John
at the bark.org but there are very many variations of Tuscan
potato soup by the way the Tuscan kale which is also called
Dinosaur kale or black kale is not as bad as the other kales
and
that's where we're headed right we're headed towards the Tuscan
black stuff is that isn't that what yeah,
that seems to be the goal here on the by the kale producers.
Anyway, some this is funny, he says some versions claim that is
optimal, but trust me it isn't. Some recipes even encourage you
to discard the kale after it's been fat.
I think you're supposed to give it to the cows fat is supposed
to give it to the cows.
This is heresy that is the best part I believe is the only way
to make kale taste good and it's worth it. Thank you for the best
podcast in the universe. And Blessings to you all.
Thank you so much. And thank you so much sir Anthony for the not
just for supporting the show, but to doing it with such a with
it. Well, of course you'll not only be executive producer, but
also the sole member of the 567 Club. And it's highly
appreciated on the kale tip for a minute John, you know what's
big here? Quinoa.
Yeah, there was a big there was a good thing on PBS the other
day about canola apparently Canola is we know what it is
everything most people do canola as a kind of a grain that is
from South America, I believe and Peru maybe or Colombia or
someplace. Ecuador. And canola has become like some sort of
super food. It's like
super food it is there it is
squirrel so canola he here's the problem is apparently the
sustenance product for the indigenous people. Yeah, and
we're stealing it is
the exact same report they had the same report here in the
Netherlands. So it's, it's apply the
weak people or the foreign people to stop us from using
canola.
No, actually, the report here because they went down to South
America and they showed you know that oh, oh, we're starving
because all the rich white people are eating our canola and
the and we have to plant more so we're gonna have to make money,
we're gonna have to raise the price. It was all about gouging
the customer gouge. Okay. That was a gouge. Easy one.
There was a funny story that buzzkill Jr. Told me apparently,
canola, they've been trying to popularise it. And one of the
problems with it, it's a little ball shaped product with a hard
shell on the outside. Yeah. And the hard shells
if you don't do it just right, then the hard shell stays on its
hurts and
it's no big problem. So they so the geneticists decided to breed
a batch of canola without the hard shell, G Eric and yeah,
they're gonna do it. GM version with it or even there's no there
was a fast way to do it. So they had they had this huge test
field supposedly, of the shell this canola. And as soon as the
stuff got to the point was ripe, was ripe and could be picked.
Millions of birds descended on the field and wiped it out.
There wasn't one grain left. Excellent. Apparently the hard
shell is to keep birds from just devouring this stuff. So another
another misplay by the
end is it pronounced canola or is it q1 Or
I pronounce it quinoa, but it may be Kinyua. But that sounds
kind of weird. Did you get a note from Sir Laurie Utila in
Helsinki, Finland? Will I be 3333
I have a note on the spreadsheet. Oh, Adam and John
greetings from Finland the Nordic country east of
Scandinavia of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
This is weird I don't have anything here it's just a big
blank. If I click on
the way the spreadsheets operated this donation is a
birthday gift to myself and necessarily Lauria is he's
friends with Sir Luca wonder Hill. These like the only two
people in Finland they do meetups which I think basically
meet this honey, I'm wanting to have a beer exactly honey I
gotta know agenda meet up I gotta go and they're out there
just drink drinking beer. So a birthday gift to myself for
tomorrow November 22. Turning 33 Turning 33 on 1122 There must be
something special about it. Therefore I'm celebrating but
with a donation to the best podcast the universe is 333 33
donation is also a to a triple making it rain donation. I'd
like John to call onto the stage write these down John.
Second, I got the sheet here.
We have to have a separate admin for the club. For the make it
ring club, we should just call the club rain.
Who is he want? Sophie? Percy. Okay, put her on stage one. Yes.
Pearl. Pearl. I think pearl to the champagne room.
I got the thing written. Okay. All right. And do that.
And here's here's a name we haven't had in the club for a
while. Because she's smokin hot. Her name is Matilda.
Matilda.
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You cover news and events that others ignore or don't dare to
touch? Yes, like calling out nonprofits and NGOs. And do it
with great analysis and humour. When we do try. Please give a
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you with some karma there. You've got karma. Good, sir. And
thank you for your courage.
Okay, now I'm trying to get this thing to read out.
There are two executive producers and then we have some
1231212123 Associate Executive producers for the show.
Yeah, including staying. Yeah, that's funny, because this week,
of course, besides his laptop being too small to deal with his
wide column, and it's not word wrapping. It's a I'm using Libre
Office, which is actually what Eric ships it in. Now I'm using
OpenOffice works. Okay, here we go. John annatto, who didn't
hold on? Bernard Glynn joining a Windows from Blair mountain, New
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short term noob who was put into your show but are put onto your
show by my sceptical older brother Tony, who to my
knowledge has not yet contributed. I'm now hooked on
no agenda. He didn't call out for a douche bag. It slipped.
I'm now hooked on no agenda and after having finally caught up
with some back issues now feel there is nothing to do but to
join the Associate Executive producers of the best podcast in
the universe. I Freddie the firewall would be so kind as to
open up port 81 which according to the book of knowledge is Tor
Park Onion Routing port. I'd be much obliged as I want to see
how I get get. How do I route an onion enjoy computer? Yeah, I
guess you wouldn't be able to the $20 is for your great work
and $81 is for Freddie. Oh M jus My question this donation but in
case she does Can I get an initial D douching for me and my
brother Tony, and a MILF shout out to assuage her anger.
Absolutely. You've been de deuced
Michael, first name only in Sherwood Arkansas 20 $22.22 see
what he's got to say use my first name only Michael a double
making it rain to making it rains
on the stage,
but I want to hear the stock market sound by said Adam mixed
also credit 111 to this and my boy David who needs to be
deduced as well as as aka John Conrad.
When we do the de Deus Ex first. Ben de deuced what is the stock
soundbites? What is he talking about?
stock sound bites
stock sound bites cattle stock market that's
what I'm thinking stock market
I don't know he's gonna have to be more specific. We have to do
it next time. Yeah. Okay. All right. Let me slide the
spreadsheet back over to anonymous in lost wages in
Nevada. What do we got here? Cheese some nightmare. These
laptops are I can imagine if people do this on on
the people actually use those to work. Know that
people actually do just say screw a laptop. Let's get a pad.
It's got to be worse. I can't get spread this uh, you have to
read this one. Okay.
I'll spread it for you, Johnny. Boy, no worries. Anonymous use
my flu shot coercion in the Las Vegas hospitals that killed the
health care workers are being forced to get a flu shot. But
what happens if you choose not to get a flu shot? Well, you
have to wear a surgical mask at work until March. You look like
an idiot and are uncomfortable as hell for your entire shift.
Who paid off the hospital administrators to implement
this? Please deed please. Douchebag the flu shot Nazis. I
get a lot of email about this. And I think it stemmed from the
the medical sales guys and gals. And there's something about the
course. No, but I mean, they were forced to do it first
because they were going from hospital, to hospital to
hospital. And they were like, they were like carrying germs.
And there's something to it. I can't quite exactly remember
what it was. But that does give me an opportunity to play this
little ad, which I picked up from the new campaign, which is
now being rolled out nationwide brought to you by the people who
make the vaccines. You don't want to be a fugitive John
because if you're a fluid additive,
oh your biceps thunder and lightning. Are you under the
impression that someone is physically bodacious as yourself
as impervious to getting sick? Have you ever done parkour? Then
you just might be blue jays. Number four, the fitness
fanatic. This gym rat thinks he's invincible. But today he's
about to have his preconceived ideas challenged thanks to Blue
Zone intradermal vaccine and its next generation device that
quickly helps deliver protection against the flu just under the
skin surface.
And by the way, this is not a goof. This is real. And they
have 10 of them. They have all these different characters. So
this is the guy who thinks he's so buff in the gym that he
doesn't need a flu shot. So he's fugitive number four.
Flu genitive,
yeah. As a whole big campaign.
Talking about crazy words. So I'm at this event, which is for
enterprise guys, and I'm always like, it's all buzzwords EIM CRM
BRGs bps,
what's it? What's a big
a big red gun? Okay. So somebody actually they should put a slide
up and they actually use this new invention invented where
which I because this is kind of like one of your Ron Blum ones.
Not an architecture. It's a market. Wow.
Market texture. Wow. What was he selling?
Content Management stuff
architecture. It by the way isn't the big it's the big
Salesforce thing going on in San Francisco was that last week and
it was last week? No, I
think it was. I think he just ended but yeah, there's there
was a big Salesforce thing going on.
Those words are so beautiful. The words that you had
apparently
the, what's his name? The guy who runs that company was named
Mike Jenine. On spent bending off and he says, go to work
anymore. He's and somebody told me he is most of his time is now
spent in his new residents. Of course he wants to get out of
California, I'm sure with all his money. Maui. So he commutes
from Maui, right? Oh, yeah,
I can exact with the Jed me and Pierre Pierre Omidyar, we
couldn't we commute from Maui to go pick up. Glenn Greenwald with
a with a jet
anonymous $200 from Amsterdam. Hey, thanks for the hard work.
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came a little late. So let's see there's there's a number of
things going on that we can certainly discuss today during
our little little broadcast here. I'm trying to keep some
local stuff since that's always fun or over here. Let me see.
Oh, I will say that he'll be talking a lot of people. And
it's kind of interesting. Just you know, I'm always interested
in how media influences people's thinking certainly about the
United States. And I would say so pretty much they think that
the United States Congress is filled with a bunch of nut jobs,
and that they're purposely taken down the whole country and the
government just to kill off Obamacare. Yeah, so that meme is
propagated very, very well. The Greenpeace 30 are out on bail.
That was big news here. Of course it contains a number of a
number of Dutch elements. These are the Greenpeace so called
protesters who were climbed up video climbed up on the the
Russian oil drilling rig. Of course not really protesting
oil, oil drilling in general that just protesting the Russian
oil drilling. So that was kind of big news. And in other words,
that people are pretty depressed, nothing else really
said their last
trends. They just, it's it's been it's like we have not seen
sun for a single day. It's grey. It's there and it's either grey
or it's grey and it's raining and now it's grey and it's cold.
Really The cold
Are you going to be you're getting depressed yourself? Is
that the deal?
Well, we're leaving tomorrow so I'm going to be okay. And the
royal family which is really our queen here. Gosh, everyone loves
the queen. The new the art No, no, no I love her the
Argentinian the one the new one maximum.
Oh the hot Whoa, are
you kidding me? No, I love her to the role of the king in the
queen. They went to the islands. They went to Curacao, Aruba,
Bonaire and Saba. Which of course, the Dutch, the Dutch,
they're all the Netherlands. So this this is the kind of their
their high, high royal visit to say hi to the other subjects.
And they're doing a nice job of it. You know, they're talking
and then they allow microphones which is kind of new, the old
queen wouldn't wouldn't allow that. Was you clean? Well, so
that so when they're talking to people when they're hanging out,
when they're talking to the crowds, then they allow that,
like in their mind, Hey, look over their head. Yeah. So you
can hear what they're what they're saying. Oh, actually,
she's got you know, it's got her
a very modern and gosh, she's so beautiful. And He's so ugly.
That's what that's the that's what it's kind of like Billy
Joel and Christie Brinkley. You go like, Oh my God, if it wasn't
Billy Joel, you know, she wouldn't be against this guy.
And of course you like the guy wasn't the king, you know, she
wouldn't be with him. Nobody's perfect. And it works so well.
And she's so Royal. I gotta say as much as I think it's a farce
and stupid. Nor really, it's not a force that probably have a lot
of power. We didn't you know, people just don't want to
believe it. And then at one point, something funny happened.
So they're walking together and a journalist I think was a
German journalist kind of pops out of the line and he wants to
stick a mic into the Queen's face and ask her a question. And
the king. He just you know, he's he's walking like, he shoves the
guy with one hand and just keep smiling keeps what shuts him
right back. And he just walking straight along. Oh, and like as
if nothing happened. It was it was a cool move. Very slick. So
that's, that's pretty much
it. Nothing. Well, I got to meet some royalty. Oh, yes. Shatner.
Oh,
that is a true American royalty. He was there. Yeah. As he's at
this time to autograph my Avengers. Man book that he
wrote.
Wow, did you know he was gonna be there? You must have
Yeah, of course. Oh, how cool. Was one of these seeds are going
to do big photoshoot with a bunch of the people that were
been invited to be in the photo which I was one. And I was
listening, overhearing the PR women chattering amongst
themselves. Mr. Shatner, Mr. Kennedy, they don't want him
talking to anybody. They want to get him in and out. And so I
said I, I have to figure this one out. Because I wanted to get
this this another autographed secret normally, but I figured I
might as well get this one. He's gonna die
in one of these days. So it's good to get him now. He looks
good. Oh, really? Okay. Sometimes I wondered. I'm like,
I didn't look so good.
He's, you know, he's a little bit he's not, you know, he's one
of these guys I reminded of. I met Arnold Toynbee, when he was
still alive. And I don't know, Toynbee is a famous historian
who wrote the study of history a huge, very famous, so join me
was alive. And I wanted him autograph a book. And I got him
to autograph book, I made a mistake. Because when I just had
a monograph, a book, some other idiot, said, I want you to write
this in my book and gave 20 me this huge list of things to say,
Oh, you're the greatest guy ever. And he wrote it out. It
was just astonishing. But Toynbee was like, in his late
80s, and he was like, This guy was like, you know, it was just
really slow. And it was like, This guy's and he's gonna give
us a speech. So he's gonna do a speech at the University of
California. So he gets up there. And he turns from this old old
man to this dynamic speaker.
Oh, just like buying the show. Business thing. Cool.
Very cool. Shatner is in that mode. You could just tell him
you know, they just like Jesus kind of doesn't give a shit
about stuff. He's really nice guys. Not like one of those a
whole.
They must have blown the budget on him. What do you think he
charges for that? 100 grand.
I think he works cheaper than that. I don't think Shatner's a
high high overpaid guy. I think he probably did it for 25 to 50.
Really? Just to get out of the house. Yeah.
Okay. You know, I'm a little disappointed because all we
really needed was yes, this is the best podcast in the
universe.
His handler was not happy with Okay. All right. I mean, she was
giving me the I even consider this give me the stink guy.
Well, I was just trying to get him to autograph this thing
because because nobody else approached them. I was the only
one I think got some feedback. You had somebody come in
I know how they are. I know there are there are
so but anyway, so I got the autograph and I taught chatting
with him a little bit and he was just, you know, just kind of
amenable but I get the sense that he's like the Toynbee guy
because he's old. He's like in his 80s I believe and And he, he
looks good. He doesn't look bad. But I'm under the impression
that when you when the camera light comes on the guy's a
different person, which I think is pretty common with a lot of
these guys. Sure. So anyway, that was my celebrity.
That's when the media is running. And that's why it's
important. It's important. Well, back in, in Washington, we had
the interesting event, the United States medal of honour,
medals of Honour, I should say, We're, and it's always the
highest award, ever,
whatever award is the freedom that we'll use this medal of
honour is just a Freedom
Award or whatever. This is the out now. And now you've confused
me, I think presidential thing is the Freedom Award, isn't it?
Yeah, it's not like that. But but they are. They're always
like the highest award that can ever be given.
National Medal of honour was the highest word. This is the
President's Award, the other ones accounting Congressional
Award?
Well, let me say it's the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
And I'm going to read because I think it says everywhere that
it's the hot maybe it's the highest award that the President
can give out. That could be Yeah, so he gave it to President
Clinton. Oh, yep. But also to Oprah Winfrey. Now this is
interesting, because she's a big supporter. She
deserves it.
Well done. You know that there's been a lot there's there's been
a lot going on, because the President has specifically asked
if Oprah would get on the band jump on the bandwagon promoting
the Affordable Care Act. And she had said, No, she wouldn't do
it. And she sent like an intern to go take a meeting, because
she felt that the President and this is just, you know, the
rumour, of course, but specifically Michelle Obama,
which sounds kind of feasible, and Valerie Jarrett had been
keeping her away from the President, even though she'd
done huge fundraisers the first time around. So she felt like,
you know, Screw that guy. I'm not gonna do anything. So for
her to now come and accept that award. Could be a quid pro quo
for something. She deserves it. If Clinton deserves that, she
deserves it.
Oh, well, Clinton deserves it that you do. Yeah.
Yeah. Good luck with that. But what was interesting, there was
a Gloria Steinem also received the the Freedom Award. And she
and and she said something in you know, because it's kind of
it's kind of like the Grammys, you know, the whole thing than
annual after you have a little press moment in front of the
sponsor wall, which I think was the sponsor while was the press
club or something. And she said, she talked about someone who we
have discussed on the show not too long ago, and I found that
interesting a, that she would dedicate this to this person's
memory, and be that no one really said, Hey, but hold on a
second,
the power of this honour may be even more evident in the
withholding than in the giving. I was reminded by Ellen Chesler
biographer of Margaret Sanger, that President Lyndon Johnson,
even as he signed the first federal and international Family
Planning Act into law, refused to bestow the Medal of Freedom
on Sanger. He feared reprisal from the Catholic Church. Ellen
told me that when she looked at singers, private history papers
at Smith College, I'm proud to say the biggest archive of
women's history, she found a poignant, little handwritten
note from Sanger asking that her body be buried here next to her
husband, but that her heart be removed to Japan, the only
country in the world that had ever bestowed a public honour on
her.
Yeah, because she was a
eugenicist was a eugenicist? And she started when she was
essentially Hitler. She said,
Yes. She said, no kill Black people. Don't let them breed
with white people. She wrote this. And of course, she started
Planned Parenthood, which is at the outset was involved. Yeah,
but it was the genesis organisation. And for Gloria
Steinem to say she was great, and oh, by the way, for the
entire press to not say pay. Didn't she hate black people?
What is up with that? Unbelievable. I don't think
people even know or they didn't know what the word is. It's
apathy. It's just apathy of people not caring. Then we got
Yeah, I got a soundbite from Steinem. She went on about some
John broad who had her hard to take into job, whatever.
Fukushima Yeah, they don't know what they're talking about.
Global warming. Yeah. And then of course, you know, it's so
obvious and this report really hammered at home. That CNN is
like, hey, you know, this is a problem. We need ratings. We
need ratings here. And we got this nut job mayor of Toronto,
but we can't be the candidate avions got the lock on the on
the crazy coked out the politician. We got to get us
one.
And good evening, everyone. I'm Erin Burnett outfront tonight we
begin with the breaking news a congressman busted for cocaine.
Yeah, we
got one to Florida Congressman
Trey raydale arrested for quote unlawfully knowingly and
intentionally possessing cocaine and he's a Republican. The
freshman will appear in court tomorrow. And it gets better. He
faces misdemeanour charges and up to 180 days in prison, by the
way, how
does that work? 180 days. If you are my brother from another
mother in the hood, you're going to jail for 10 Brah 180 days. He
had coke in possession of coke and he gets an ad I think he
doesn't even have to do any time.
I want to put over this bracelet is thankful for that. But wait
until the end. When you it's the real kicker when you find out
why you know why they're using this guy as the as the
replacement. And by the way, they had his news conference
carried live, and he's crying about how he let down his
family. Dude, you did some coke. Maybe all of our congressmen
were on coke that something would happen. Or weed or MDMA or
something.
Dana Bash is out front with the latest and Danna, what more can
you tell us about this? wiring the Congressman himself released
a statement this evening apologising for letting his
constituents and his family down and he also announced that he's
an alcoholic I want to be part of it. He said I struggle with
the disease of alcoholism.
Wait for an undercover videos. Come on. You
know what's coming. This led to an extremely irresponsible
Cheeseman. Are
they good, he's hammered. And he snort and
this is the same fractal as Ford. He's used coke because he
was plastered. Yes.
I'm telling you this is this the American version because we're
gonna run out of steam. It's not so funny when it's in the
Windsor, Canada Navion. It's got to be an American, but
they can find a guy more entertaining. At least that
other guy's funny. Whoa. Chris Farley,
this is this is just starting. We might have video
as the father of a young son and a husband to a loving wife, a
loving wife. How do you know that Dana Bash, she may be a
nightmare to be with. That's maybe that's why he's drinking.
You don't know that to get help. So I can be Oh, it's his words.
I'm sorry, a better
man for both of them. And we also said it's a blessing in
disguise because this is forcing him to get treatment. I should
note that he hasn't voted at all this week, not since Friday, and
one of his colleagues, fellow freshmen told our congressional
producer Deirdre Walsh earlier this evening that he's been
trying to call Rachel to offer him support but can't reach him.
For her, he's a colourful character. That's right. We can
probably expect some cool stuff from this guy. He's a colourful
character.
He certainly is. He is, as you said, he's a house freshman. He
is not somebody who people who people know but he is sort of
one of those in the newer mould of members of Congress because
he is 37. He is somebody who's trying to kind of be different
than his than the elder statesman. And also he has been
pushing the envelope for Republicans as well. In fact, he
did an interview. In fact, forgive me, he didn't do an
interview, he wrote an online piece, where he said he's a hip
hop conservative. And the way he described it is that he said, or
there you say, there you see it, Congressman Trey RADLE. Why my
hip hop conservative, and he even said that public enemy has
some conservative messages. He said fight the power is
something that he sees as a quite conservative message.
Now how do we know that this is all set up and it's all in the
in the pocket hat?
Well can read that to get a sense of that. But the other
thing is that he might not be well known, but he really
gravitated towards those of us who covered him, especially
those of us who work in TV news because he used to be a TV
reporter before he went and ran for Congress.
Oh, there you go. A TV reporter running for Congress drunk on
coke hanging out with with Eazy E now or towards Chuck E. Well,
isn't public. It was the guy that beat the buck. Now Chuck II
know who was the guy with the big clock.
Oh, that Oh, that guy? Yeah, yeah, Chuck D.
But then Chuck D was kind of normal. He's kinda like a
business guy. What was the guy's name now?
I can't remember. Wow, that's bad. Look it up.
I was on MTV. I was on MTV. I don't even know that. God
at the big clock. A couple of times on the silicon on spin
shows a really nice guy.
Ya know, I've hung out with him a couple times kind of
conservative.
Well, that's what that's what the Congressman just said.
Yeah, there you have it. Well, that Congressman is going places
coked up. Hip Hop jerk. Love it.
Let's see what was that guy's name?
Now he has his own reality TV show too.
It still has it is it is popular, I think.
Yeah, he's got flavour, flavour, flavour, flavour, flavour.
flavour. Yeah, so Eva flavourful, horrible show
magic fantastic show.
So I'm watching talking about it. douchebags like that
Congressman. So I'm watching 60 minutes. I don't know if the
clip really captures it. But these billionaire douchebags on
60 minutes. There's a group that Charlie Rose has got, you know,
he's he's kind of always enamoured with wealth. They used
to always ask people what it's like to be rich. He's a groupie.
He's a groupie. He stole group. He's a jock sniffer. And so he's
got Buffett and four other rich billionaire, supposedly
billionaires sitting on a purchase. And then below them
are four other five other billionaires. And they're all
talking about how they're going to give so much of their money
away. And that's their responsibility. Because if we
got so much of it, and so and they're all just so glib and
full of themselves, Pierre Omidyar on
there as well was Pierre Omidyar on the panel, he should be on
that. He's one of those,
you know, he may have been on there. I don't remember the
names of all of them, but, but I just remember buffet doing this
little bit at the end, laughing and they all laughed and laughed
and chuckled. It was just so it was it was it was the one of the
most, and Charlie's yucking it up because of Buffett's great
humour. It keeps people rolling in the aisles apparently, and I
just found the whole thing to be just a kind of Marie Antoinette
moment that was just like, Oh, these people are sickening. But
as Warren Buffett is finding out, not every billionaire
feels that way. I've gotten a lot of yeses, but I've called
people but I've gotten a lot of those too. And I am tempted,
because I've been calling people with a billion dollars or more,
they can sign up for 50%. Maybe I should write a book on how to
get by on 500 million.
Dick unbelievable.
Well, this does kind of fit into, we have to talk about
what's happening with the with the new code news. This is a
pure alMihdhar. Finally, some people are starting to write
some good articles about Pierre Omidyar at the new Daddy
Warbucks for Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scott
Hill, and they brought in some other guys and editor and now
now drumroll please. In case you hadn't heard of John, I know
you're hanging out with you know, with Captain Kirk and
everything. But NY use own Jay Rosen has now joined the team.
Oh, good. And this
is. This is weird. To Jay Rosen. Jarvis.
Yeah, I'm sure if you if you follow the Twitter streams,
there's a whole bunch of people going like, hey, you know, we
should talk. Hey, Jay, remember me? I did some work over here.
We should talk about you know what you're doing over there
with Glenn Greenwald. And in P O become P O now. P capital P
capital O Pierre Omidyar Omni er O. And what's really good is
that people are starting to needle Glenn Greenwald. And this
is appropriate, by the way, because essentially the way I
look at it, Glenn Greenwald screwed. Edward Snowden out of
all his information, though, he doesn't talk to Ed Snowden
anymore. We got all the documents. We know that because
his boyfriend husband brought it back to his gun, all the
documents. And essentially Edward Snowden was like, Well,
hey, Moscow is not too bad. And Oh, and here's that here's
Julian Assange, his girlfriend. We pass her off from
whistleblower the whistleblower, so tag your ID. And even she was
like, Jesus guys. Boring. She's back in Germany. Probably.
She left him yeah, she's
hanging out with with Applebaum and Poitras I miss that. Oh,
yeah. Oh, yeah. So you know, of course, Apple
next so so Snowden is essentially now just stuck with
Russian hookers.
If that. And anyway, he got a candlestick. Hey, great. So the
candy candlestick wars. So
then I call it a hot day the reward goes away.
Right. And so, you know, essentially what Greenwald has
now done is he has monetized with Silicon Valley. I mean,
it's so obvious this is this is this is what has happened. And
he's and he's, so you got to read Glenn Greenwald's tweets
really carefully. So a couple things. One, there was this
great article. Let me see if I can find it here. It was
actually, it was funny. It was it was on that site that we have
very little regard for which was run by Ed NSW corp.com, which is
run by that drip Paul Carr. You know, that English English guy.
So he didn't he didn't write it. Mark Ames and Yasha Levine, I
don't know who they are. They wrote a pretty decent article
and called the extraordinary Pierre Ahmed Omidyar and It's,
it's really about these rich, really rich, you know, these
billionaires who go into you know, philanthropy but you know,
the Omni doors thing is, well, I need to make a profit. So you
know, we want to enable people to, to, you know, we need to
teach them how to fish so they can fish every single day. And
he got into the the witch, the big thing now that's being
propagated by I guess it's Hillary Clinton, this
microfinance.
And that's been going on for a while. Right. Right. So
he but he isn't, but there's a lot of talk about it of late.
I've seen more people talk about the micro financing goes as a
faddish thing to talk about so they really went deep into this
thing. And a couple of these investments, particularly the
Indian s k s, which was invent, you know, took investments from
the Omidyar Network. You know, these people that go they go to
collect and of course, it's mainly women, because you know,
the whole meme is, well, women are great you in microfinance,
micro investments in women, they always pay back on time. Yes, by
prostituting their children. It gets so bad and this is all
pretty well documented, because they can't pay back Ahmed Yars
loans is micro loans that kill themselves they drink rat
poison, and they drown themselves. And this is this is
pretty shameful what's going on? And so these people like
noodling Greenwald say, hey, you know, are you going to report on
your, on your, your new sugar daddy route know how all these
great investments are killing people, and they're whoring out
their children to pay him back. And he's like, I have no idea
what you're talking about. That's not my beat. It's just
funny to watch my beat. It's funny to watch. It's
interesting. It's really really funny to have a beat. And so
today he came out with or yesterday, I think, as he says,
our first product and this so they're doing exactly what we
predicted using
product words word product. Yes, sir.
Yeah, and they sold an article to Norway to the Norwegian. I'm
sorry, that's not the right one. Where is it to and you can't
read the article because it's behind a paywall. But it's
double funny because the title is USA watch 33 million
Norwegian calls. I guess it will be listened to but this was a as
a translation dog, dog blooded gold. Let's see if we can get
anything here a dog blooded gold by Glenn Greenwald and Arno
Halverson. So it's exactly what we predicted that they're
monetizing the Snowden documents, which they
essentially took from him and gave him a candlestick.
Right. So snow doesn't get a piece of any of this. None of
his none of that Greenwald's now scoring,
and so I'm Googling around, and I'm seeing a couple of people
saying, Oh, well, this is kind of interesting because the
Russians have been this is kind of a just another step in a huge
Russian anti Norway propaganda push. Because the Russians,
yeah, it's our oil and gas and they're all up north and
everything. It's the Russians have been discrediting Norway
for a while, which kind of makes the whole Snowdens in Russia.
Omidyar is Iranian, it kind of becomes a little transparent
when you start to connect these dots. And Glenn Greenwald. I'm
sorry, people, you gotta like question what he's doing. I
really do.
And then earlier starting Well, at least well kibitzers, the
ankle biters on Twitter,
right. But then you see Jay Rosen, who was supposed to he is
from New York University. He is a media critic. It's what he
does. He's he is supposed to criticise, and he's this sort
of thing. Yes. This is so join it. bought him off. I think it
took much
I have a personal announcement. I am joining up with the new
venture and news that Pierre Omidyar, Glenn Greenwald, Laura
Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill are creating along with Lilian
sicura Dan froomkin, Eric Bates and others who are coming on
board to give shape to this thing, which we are calling New
co until we are ready to release the name rather, It's sickening
but it's kind of good because it will give us more to mock
Oh yeah, no, this will be great as they can especially when you
connect the dots and find the Norwegian story connected to the
anti Norway that Norway is an interesting country because it's
one of the two that told the EU to go pound salt. Yeah. And and
they have a lot of money because of the oil. The oil, they're
asking the money around and they're doing just fine without
being in the EU and great. That exactly why the Russia was I
guess the Russians are probably in dispute with a couple of
spots they want to drill but that's what I think it is. Yeah.
Uh, but I'm sure the EU would like to defame them too. They
don't like the idea of these indemnity. They can't do much
about Switzerland because everybody in the EU still has to
keep their money someplace that's safe from the EU.
So I just I think it's, it's, I don't I never look at Twitter,
as you know, like at the home, whatever page to see I just go
to Twitter pages directly. Yeah, that's what I do, just to see
what what Glenn granule I guess. When there was a 60 Minutes
interview with the guy from the, what's the what's the guy's
name, who the Watergate guy reporting with Bob, Bob
Woodward,
a Bob Woodward.
And so Woodward was like, Wow, I'm kind of amazed that Snowden
didn't come to me. And Glenn Greenwald's like, Oh, really?
Don't you understand? Bob Woodward. Here's some facts
about you. I mean, he says he's like he's pissing on other
journalists. And this is from experience, I can tell you, this
does come around.
Oh, yeah. This says this
stuff does boomerang around. And you got to be really, really
careful when you do this stuff when you talk like this, for
instance. Here's an example of Elon Musk, another one of my
favourites. So now we've had not one, not two, but three of these
cars have his burst into flames.
After wondering by the way, when he gets the Presidential Freedom
Award,
oh, well, he says something and he actually they do something at
the end of this little report, which came out the other day,
which are words he will eat. So apparently, the the Model S if
you hit something, particularly when you're driving on the
highway, and I guess the suspension lowers down, and if
it hits the battery, then the battery pretty much catches fire
on this impact. And so now he's gone on the defensive, which is
always funny. Here
is the battery pack in this car. In August, we talked to Tesla
CEO, Elon Musk. Yeah, that's where the battery pack goes. The
battery pack is placed under the passenger compartment. at
highway speeds, the car is just five inches from the ground. If
debris pierces the battery pack, it can ignite is the challenge
here kind of the fear of the unknown the fear of the
technology that some people think is still unproven.
And by the way, electric cars were a driving around in 1890
and were taken out of of business by the compact much
more a power to weight ratio of the combustion engine. So
there's no history
actually even the steam engine was more competitive that
no no questioning no history given to the stupid media
watching public as usual.
Yeah, absolutely. I think the electric car is still an unknown
thing to most people it takes it takes most people a while to get
comfortable with with new technology and and
yeah, I found caught on pretty quick
and verify that it really works as claimed,
Tesla has sold about 19,000 model S's so three fires is one
fire per 6333 Tesla cars. By comparison there was one vehicle
fire out of every 1450 vehicles on the road
now here comes the money quote, I'm going to save it as an
evergreen safety was
was always top of the list. And at least at least so far nobody
has ever died in a Tesla vehicle kit.
Yes, get rid of your Tesla now get rid of it now that is
essentially a call to arms for every single auto manufacturer
to kill someone in a Tesla. He said hey, hey, get on that Silk
Road thing get one of those guys you can we'll kill people. Let's
let's get someone to die in a Tesla.
You know, they've always accused I don't believe it necessarily.
But they've always accused the industry as being a monolith
that does not like sort of competitors coming in and
changing the model because there's money to be made. And
yeah, billions of dollars be they don't like the idea some
and the real thing that he's done. Must that changed the
model isn't the car anyway, even though you could that's the
easiest thing to go after is the fact that there's no dealers.
Yeah.
Any stolen any stolen Tesla's name?
Yeah, I stole totally stole Tesla's name. There's no
dealers. And actually, he stole the lotus, the Lotus tellurite.
It
was initially it was the lotus. I mean, before he made this car
was just a lotus body.
I know. But there was there was a longer story to this that I
have to get the details of that because just because must went
and met with some guys and then he rousted him from the company
and
so he is the Thomas Edison of the automobile industry,
essentially.
I don't even put him in that league. I think he's a really
creative guy with a lot of energy and you And
no, he has a cool accent and he looks kind of nice that is South
Africa. Exactly. Well, let's let's finish up because they
actually did, they did do something.
Now Tesla is now extending the warranty on its cars to cover
fire damage. And that's fire damage, even if it's caused by
the driver. And Scott, this is interesting, the company is also
issuing a software upgrade for the suspension system on the
Model S, that will prevent the cars from getting too close to
the ground at freeway speeds.
Software, I think to be honest about it, it should be closer to
the ground. Because if there's something that is that you hit
that goes up, it would be it would go into more of a oblique
angle. If the thing was down low as it was it was not kind of a
thing. It's been tossed up
battery. This is why I'm not starting a car company with you.
Because that makes absolutely no sense. What you're saying makes
plenty
of sense.
Did you see any of well, no sooner had we ended our
programme on Sunday? As now remember, I've predicted Bitcoin
will be at 1000 by the end of the year. And yeah, well it went
up. This is why there was a beautiful example of why this
indicates the currency has to be stable. This is a very important
important part of the whole idea. And it's not it went up
200 It went down 200. I mean, $200 up and down. This is this
does not a currency make it. And part of it because of the
hearings that were held two days in a row in Congress regarding
virtual currencies, and to some degree, specifically, Bitcoin.
And what is funny is because of course I follow this, as as we
know, this is the beanie baby of this bubble. And currently it is
backup at $753.18. The average here on bitcoin@e.org. So a lot
of people made a lot of money by doing this. But it's based on
you know, this positive noise that you see particularly on on
Reddit is based on what people were saying in these hearings,
and I really didn't hear anything positive, which is
really interesting, because I was like, yeah, it was it was
great and supportive is that's not what people were saying. I'd
like to actually play something from some people who matter who
are out to the screw you as an individual in general. I'd say
Chuck Schumer fits right into that. This is the most corrupt
person I've ever met in my life. He's on the Banking Committee
met him. I've met him I've interviewed him and he gave me
the creeps, is he was pushing Anthony wiener.
We've talked about this. But yeah, this is our old thing.
Yeah, this is the he
was weaning weaning was his boy. And Schumer is always he's he
gets huge money from Wall Street. He's Democrat, of course
makes total sense. And here's what he actually said about
Bitcoin, which proves a couple of things. And by the way, the
constant theme was near anonymity. It whenever they talk
about virtual currency or Bitcoin in this context in these
hearings, yes, this is currency that gives you near anonymity.
No one said anonymous, it was always near anonymity, because
they know it, you're not anonymous, it's just you
couldn't you couldn't move some stuff around. But if you
actually want to use that money for like money, you know, unless
you want, you're buying a cloud server or something, which is
about all you can buy with it. Or you're ripping somebody off.
Or you're even we're drugs, which was the very expensive
drugs by the way, because of the way the your stuff sits in its
escrow. It's totally stupid as a as a
as a fundraiser expensive for when the Silk Road was running
extremely expensive. Well, that's funny, because that
contradicts would, you know, I'd mentioned a couple of shows ago
where they showed a screenshot and all those drugs were dirt
cheap. Bullshit. Yeah, well, I'm just saying this is part of a
giant scam, because on the
Silk Road, they never were cheap, because people were
selling a gramme of coke. For like, zero point, like, it's
like a like a Bitcoin. And when it was when we were talking
about that stuff, when I was looking into it, like it was
like two 300 bucks, then even it was $100. That's too expensive.
If you go down to the corner, and no, it's very, very
expensive is a total rip off. I think it's just I think, really
people who were buying from the Silk Road were people who were
very afraid, or novices or, but not people who are actually drug
users. I don't think you're like, Oh, I'll try some of this.
Who cares? This is the Bitcoin. Now I'll try some of this now.
That was good. I'll try some more. Here's Schumer and listen
to what he says because he's firstly taking credit for taking
down the Silk Road. And he doesn't realise, oh, yeah, he
doesn't really understand how it works. And he's talking to the
guy at Bitcoin a Bitpay. They were very I knew they gave the
Bitpay gave me an account. And so if I put if I transfer
bitcoins into my Bitpay account, that although they don't tell me
what the price is, before I put it in, they will then say, Oh,
congratulations, we will be sending you this amount to your
bank account in two days, which they have done when I when I've
sent bitcoins in, but you don't really get to negotiate a price
or anything. So what says the price now on Mount Gox? May be
750? I might only get 500 for it if I sent it into Bitpay. But
you know, so you would suspect that, you know, I wouldn't be
money laundering, but how does he know? How does he know what
I'm doing where I get my money from? Well, he claims he does.
Anyway, I want to thank Chairman Merkley and Warner for letting
us have this hearing and asking, allowing me to participate. I've
been very interested in this issue. I have a somewhat
different approach. Then, Senator Heitkamp. While back as
you know, I called on federal authorities to shut down the
website Silk Road, which they recently did, by the
way, I never remembered him calling for that. I don't
either. I think he's full of crap.
Many people interpreted my action at the times as directed
at Bitcoin, because Bitcoin was the sole method of payment on
Silk Road and assume that I also wanted to shut down or stamp out
Bitcoin that is not the case. I do not want to shut down or
stamp out Bitcoin.
Now. This is like, Oh, yes, price goes up positive. Chuck
Schumer likes us. And we tell you anytime Chuck Chuck Schumer
is on your side is when you got to watch your back because
there's a dagger coming.
New York sits in many ways, at the nexus of all the issues
being discussed today. As financial capital, the potential
for creation of a new payment platform and the rise of
alternative currencies could have profound and exciting
implications for the way we conduct financial transactions.
As a rapidly growing hub for technology and VC venture
capital. New York has every interest in building on the
promise that technologies like Bitcoin have to revolutionise
payment systems or even form the building blocks for whole new
technology platforms. So
right now you know that a he didn't write this b He has no
idea what Bitcoin is. He would know a Bitcoin from a bit tramp,
or a bit bucket guy gives him that in the knows nothing.
But oh, it's really suspicious that he's even going on like
this.
Wow, I got a little more if you're interested in hearing it.
Promises threatened by the Association of virtual
currencies with criminal activities,
unlike real money with criminal activities.
Yeah, that never happens.
From purchasing illicit goods and services to money
laundering. Let
me see Do you ever do we ever purchase drugs or, or
prostitutes with real money? No, never
happened? That never happened? Yes.
Bitcoin continues to attract attention, mostly as a way to
finance purchases on websites like Silk Road, it's going to
find itself in the digital wasteland.
Oh, curse snap. Don't you dare try and buy no hookers and blow
with your Bitcoin because you'll be in a digital wasteland?
Because I'm Chuck Schumer and I took down the Silk Road biatch.
So in order for the legitimate uses of technology like Bitcoin
to flourish, it's imperative that its susceptibility to
illicit uses be addressed. There must be a way to separate the
wheat from the chaff.
How can people take this as positive news for Bitcoin?
I don't even read the play. Play it out is this interesting news
guy, this guy's got some angle here. I wonder what he will
obviously there's money involved for him. So
hold on. We heard that one Chuck. Bottom
line. So it's very simple. I would ask Mr. Gallow. He
the guy's been there for two hours, and Schumer still doesn't
know how to pronounce his name Philippi.
The lippie? Yes, I would ask Mr. Gliffy. That's that's the Bitpay
CEO. Do you have any specific suggestions of how we'd separate
the wheat from the chaff? What would you suggest to the
witnesses on panel one to ensure that we address legitimate law
enforcement concerns without dually inhibiting the
development of these promising new technologies? MR. GILLESPIE?
Yes, thank you, Senator Schumer. So I think you have to first
understand that there's multiple parts of Bitcoin there is the
low level protocol, which are the bits and bytes that make it
work. And then there's the application and service layer
that businesses and consumers can engage in. And this is
typically where you find businesses like like mine
operating, so when you want to try it To separate the
legitimate uses from the legitimate ones, you know,
clearly, you know, the point to do that are by the visible
service providers like like ourselves like Bitpay. We have
over 12,000 businesses using our service to accept Bitcoin. And
we have a very strict Know Your Customer policy to make sure
that we know every merchant know who they are and what they're
selling. So this is
my point. Exactly. Here we are, how long until someone
determines that those guys doing that podcast dates and they're
not okay. You can't that can't be a customer of yours. You
can't be accepting Bitcoins from them. They can't be you can't be
doing that. Who knows what they're getting money from
Russians, from from, you know, from our Iranians from Dutch.
You know, that could be terrorists, you know, and this
judge cut the cut them off,
because we only want the legitimate and good actors using
our service. Oh, well, we're
great actors. I mean, Jesus, I've been in the swamp thing.
I'm a fantastic actor and John, you know, he could you know,
he's it'd be good when he gets his bid part.
Yes, the bad guys are going to try to figure it out how to do
it on their own. But it shows you what the recent arrest of
the guy from Socorro that just because you use Bitcoin doesn't
mean that you can evade law enforcement right? They caught
the guy he's in jail. So know about this. Yeah. What?
Well, yeah, they picked up we still don't know anything if
he's vault all of their role was whatever happened today? We
don't even hear the story anymore. So I think I think
there's a lot of effort and services like like ours and
others are willing to work with regulators just yeah, you're
right. Well, it's funny you say that because the LAX guy. The
What was his name again?
Feel soon they forget. Yeah, exactly. No,
I know. Paul. Paul Anthony, CIA and CIA, Seon, CICS CIA and CIA.
Yeah.
He was discharged from the hospital. No one knows where he
went.
What this is from Okay, you got me. Okay. Fortunately, one point
I don't have
a clip unfortunately. But here's from KL KTLA five in LA, they
dumped. I'm sure they'll have a video for it later, but I'm on
the wrong time zone. Policy onsea, the suspected gunman in
November one shooting spree at LAX had been released from the
hospital and was in federal custody. But no one knows
exactly where no court appearance has been scheduled.
No details about his custody status, or the location where
he's being held are being released. According to the
United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of
California, yay. And so the the news media is like, well, we
don't know where he is. Oh, well.
You know, I'm watching I had to bring this up. So one of the
things I do want to talk about is the is the plane that
crashed. Okay. The end, we were still, this was a breaking news
story, we have the information that indicates there's a bunch
of General Electric finance guys on board.
It was the it was actually was a couple of guys from the GE
Capital, and they were about to sell a division of GE, to a
Russian bank. It wasn't a huge deal. But those guys were on
board. And we heard about that from our from our producer who
works at GE not a lot of coverage at all about the being
GE Capital people on the on the
there was no coverage at all that I could find. And then
there was a couple of dignitaries and we don't know, I
mean, there was a lot of action. I was doing some research on
this area. And there's a lot of anti nuke stuff that focuses on
them a lot of terrorism activity, the their story wasn't
covered. And so the day of the crash, I decided, well, let's
see what the network news people have about it. Because that will
be interesting. And so I choose not to bait nobody carried it.
Nobody talks about this crash on the top of the network stuff. So
I'm listening to Diane Sawyer. Oh. You know what she was in
between. She was a little slurry, but it wasn't bad. Hold
on. Again.
Dial John again.
But this is ABC World News, ABC World News and World News. There
is no world news on this show. And so I'm watching the whole
thing and here's the way the show ends. It never talks about
this plane crash. never talks about that. Obviously not going
to have the G guys being on the crash or dead Americans usually
that gets news coverage, no nothing. This is the way the
world knew. ends with Diane so it is the way it ends.
And it's an American classic A Boy and His Dog will a modern
take tonight on that idea. We follow the two year old toddler
and Theo the three month old puppy. Napping together mom
snapping away. Tonight everyone sharing a little of this nestled
up. Puppy Love. Coming up next, right here tonight, 50 years
after the death of an American President, the film that
captured that moment, showing us something in a whole new way
tonight. Yeah, world news.
That's right news. It was a picture of a baby in a dog
sleeping together.
It just kind of. It's a very cute picture. I've seen that
picture.
It's a very cute picture. It's not world news. It's a YouTube
photo or Flickr photo. I mean, it's so there's no coverage.
There's nothing on this show.
And that was the GE money bank. That's a GE money bank. Russia's
Sava comm bank was slated to buy this thing I have the have the
link here was just like, I think it's like a billion dollar deal.
I was trying to find anything else, you know, with GE Capital.
They've been trying to spin off their credit card business.
They've been trying to do that for a while. Actually, I don't
think that has anything to do with it. But you know, so there
is there's that. And then one of our producers was very kind
because he did something that we couldn't even get over here.
I've looked all over the aviation forums, he translated
what the Russians wrote about what was on the black box. Now,
the his translation was not exactly completely aeronautical
terms. But what it sounds like to me, is the 737 did a go
around. Wishes when you when you don't feel comfortable landing
for whatever reason, you go around, and you try it again,
and you call go around. But when they did the go around, they
only pulled the flaps to 59. I'm not rated on a 737. So I'm only
doing by flying literally flying by the seat of my pants as as a
as an aviator, what I know, it appears that they they over over
pulled and installed the aircraft. And went below which I
think is about 140 knots indicated is about the stall
speed. So it says that we're about 125 knots at 700 metres
and 700 metres is what that's about 1400 feet, not even know,
times 312 100 feet no 22,000 feet, does it Yeah, 2100 to 2000
feet. In order to recover from a stall, which the only way to do
that is to push the nose down and and full throttle until you
can pull it up. I'm pretty sure I you can do that in a Cessna.
But I'm pretty sure that's not enough room for a 737. But there
is nothing else to do I mean,
the nose down and slammed into the ground nose for that sick,
then
that's what you saw. I mean, and we don't even know what we saw,
we just saw some video of something slamming into the
ground. But so we really have very little information. But But
this, of course immediately reminded me of the entire Polish
government.
When they flew, I was thinking to the Polish, same thing
was like, oh, we can't land and then all of a sudden they're
crashing.
You know, everybody was commenting on one of the Russian
forums about how why did they do the go around in the first place
because they were cleared for lamb, but they were in pretty
good shape. So who knows whatever the case
is, it can be it can just you can scratch your nose and not
feel good. I mean, that's but maybe I'm thinking, if anything,
maybe something happened on that aircraft. That's the only thing
that I can think of it doesn't seem like there were a lot of
external factors. So something must be must have been going on
in the flight deck. And you don't know. Yeah, you don't
know. But there were and it was also only like 30 people. Was
this a private flight? That's all there is definitely people.
Yeah, but the 737 union can do a lot more than that.
They hold about 200. Yeah, yeah. But you know, I was on the
flight from my took southwest coast to coast, which I rarely
do. Oh, and by the way, I do talk about I got into TSA Pre
test where you're in the pre check.
I'm just gonna tolerate that. But let me just mention this. So
I'm on a taken southwest across the country never did this
before it it's a lot cheaper. And what I figured you know what
the American and these other guys are cramming you in,
they're charging you for bags, and now they're charging for
carry. But southwest isn't charging for bags. No, I'm
saying these other carriers do. So why don't I just take
Southwest and I'd stop in Kansas City for a few minutes. I get
out stretch my legs, grab some barbecue seasoning and get back
on the plane. And the flight from or from Oakland to Kansas
City was half empty. There couldn't have been more than
6070 people on the flight because everyone going to Disney
World, right? So it's possible. I mean, who's gonna be flying
around there anyway? I mean, I know it doesn't sound right.
Student but I've been on flights like that occasionally. Nobody's
on the flight.
Okay, but these were all dignitaries and I just wondered
if it was if it was privately chartered. There was another
thing as a new law.
We never find out anything because because there's the
little puppy dog sleeping next to the baby. A lot more more.
Oh, we also have the Brittany Murphy to to the head story. Let
me do the facts. We have the
another to the Hollywood whackers
are new questions surrounding the death of actress Brittany
Murphy. A lab report suggests Murphy who died in 2009 at the
age of 32 may have been poisoned. Her official cause of
death was pneumonia and anaemia. But an independent toxicology
report ordered by Murphy's family detected heavy metals and
toxins commonly found in rat poisons and insecticides. The
report also suggests a quote perpetrator with criminal intent
may be responsible. So
this has been suspicious to a lot of people for a long time
her husband died five months after Brittany Murphy also have
pneumonia. So these are two relatively young people die of
pneumonia within relatively short time. So a lot of people
have asked questions for a while and now there's this report. So
the mystery continues.
The mystery continues, and now on to our puppy and dog sleeping
story.
Bush he did report that they were being something was going
on beforehand. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. That was then we talked about it, I think
briefly. Yeah. Maybe they just had bad coke from the Silk Road.
with rat poison cause red poisoning is it's anything's
possible.
Yeah, it is. Anything is possible. Now
it's, or maybe they just said, Let's try some rat poison. You
don't know. You don't know what these kids at these Hollywood
kids. Although what happened in New York? Yeah, but that's much
more important than then then this. So there was also the I
guess Russia is, although it'd be pretty extreme. It was
extreme these days to get something done. Russia wants to
usher in some legislation that you can't be flying planes that
are more than 20 years old. That's what our Russian producer
sent us. Yeah, like, Okay, this plane was 20 years old. So,
okay, maybe maybe. I don't know, from an aviation standpoint with
what I know, which is pretty much nothing. It seems like a
bad day.
Yeah, seems like a bad day. And there's plenty of planes that
fly over 20 years old.
Yeah, I mean, it's not like every every nut and bolt is 20
years old. Every single every element on this aircraft have a
a lifecycle and they get replaced everything every single
it's essentially a new plane in except for the parts of the
actual frame, which just can't be replaced.
Yeah, pretty well. Belinda,
we take a little break. The show
must move by donate to no agenda. Imagine all the people
who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be fun
all right. We have a few people with $111.11 to start us off
including Jeffrey stack Krauth. from Norfolk, Virginia. He says
he does definitely desperately needs a D douching. And some job
karma will do that for him since we'll be talking about these
guys.
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with it.
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surace gonna doubt I don't have a note from him.
He's also making it rain.
He's making it rain and it gets they're all making it rain for
Sophie Pearl and Matilda.
What is Sir Richard Gardner have from Chicago he would make it
rain to write.
Yeah, but he's got no name mentioned. Really take a quick
quick look at by mail. The search for Austin to Dallas if
there's anything in here. Oscar and Adele.
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getting give me the I'm not on the regular rig you say so. It's
C Echo Echo Echo. What should we do? Echo Echo, dub delay, no.
Delay,
reverb. Reverb? Nothing from nothing from us. That's wrong.
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ladies and gentlemen get ready
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that's not gonna cut it no I can't stop it. Oh my god this is
bad like your buddy Hold on a second. This isn't
architecture
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is horrible John I'm try this one. Give me a little
Oh, I sound like crap.
There's no I don't think I can do it I'd for some reason I
don't have that's crazy think I'd have
some sort of reverb delay or echo, echo, echo echo.
Yeah, well, I have a delay, but it's a really long delay. It's
not it's
not it's changed a bit of milliseconds. Yeah, I'm
trying to hold on here's the dynamics processor distortion
filter High Pass. These are pretty much the standard we
never have to do any kind of echo so I'm not prepared for
this. All I got well dubbed
Sorry, sorry. Sorry. Let's try this is any good? Hello? Okay,
try again. Hello, ladies and gents. Get ready. Okay.
Yeah, hold on a second
here they come. On stage. Put your hands together for Sophie.
Just like us. On stage, we have four BBQ sausage making. Thank
you build up. This dude. He has like puppies. And standing on
her head. Maybe we'll get lucky
All right. Well, I can't wait to be back in Austin to make it
rain properly. That was one of our funnier ones. Was it? Well,
it depends on how you look at it. But did you just drop down
in volume? Big time? Hello?
Because I probably boosted the hell out of it with all that
yelling. Yeah, let's
see if it picks up. There's like your something kicked in and
really
lowered your volume. And auto on here. Hold on. No. Whatever you
did undo it. I'm undoing it as we speak. How's that? That
better? A little better. Maybe I configured it here adequately.
Wow. I
can't even fix it here. Wow.
You're messed up. Yeah,
thank you. Oh, much better. Hello, everybody. Okay. Yeah, by
the way people people feel that are stripped joint was pretty
sleazy today, like a cheap ass strip joint. That's what it's
supposed to be. No, but this was like really, really shit.
Grumpy places where you go and you look around and then you
just turn right around and go right out.
Right? You hear that? announced me like, Okay, I'm not making it
right. Exactly. All right, onward.
Yeah, so I'm sorry. I've been fooling around with the Skype
here and I gotta go back to the spreadsheet. So let's see what
else we got. We got sir. Bear soft. Baron off our buddy from
diesel viejo for 7777. That's all we got for 7777 by the way.
Wow. He got the house alone. He wants to let us know. Good news.
Bad news is of a 70 $700,000 mortgage.
Oh, oh, well, but he still got what he wanted. We're happy.
Yes, you know, good with the bad. Brian Clark 7575 from
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That is it. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't even be playing
that jingle. We're not playing the out jingle anymore. All
right. Onward. Ryan Van 6666 from Mesa Arizona. These things
come and go. We have the internet. Right now. A 111 11
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apparently from Wooster, Ohio. Michael gates from Colorado
Springs and finally Steven Sandler in Birmingham, Alabama,
and he says he's a longtime Boehner. He's got a birthday
coming up his sister and a mouth while it was spurred to shed my
Boehner status the other day. He recently graduated from college
and manage he says graduated college. Stephen, Stephen, we
talk about this you didn't graduate college? Because you
didn't have a college to graduate you graduated from
college. This is a European F affliction. It's an English
British British, I should say.
Going to hospital. Anyway, so we got a birthday call for his
sister. And that's it. That's all we got. Wow. All right.
Well, I'll be happy when we get back usually it gets better when
we get back is it people just not like it when we're on the
road? Is that is you know, we just, we just not do the
shows are more more interesting when we're on the road because
we see some local stuff.
Yeah, like Bill Shatner, and be honest. There you have it. Could
you imagine Bill Shatner doing the Make It Rain segment?
Oh, God, that'd be great.
That'd be so awesome. Oh, wow. Well, you should you got to suck
up to the handler.
I wish she just looked like a mean, you're like she knew
karate.
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announced would would start happening and no I didn't play
that clip. I don't think but he was yelling from Rome boy or
Barroso or someone saying oh, there's, you know, there's
something happening. There's a swell coming. And this was
something that happened just here recently in Gitmo lowlands.
According to your own news, Poland's Euroskeptic politician
Garrett Villars, head of the Freedom Party, alongside French
National Front leader Marine LePen at a session in the Dutch
parliament, it is their hope to forge closer ties between the
two parties and an eventual permanent alliances in the
European Parliament with anti immigration one of their main
policies. It is the second such meeting and what is seen as a
growing relationship ahead of next year's European elections
no longer. We want to give back freedom to our people. We want
to give back sovereignty to our countries. Those two things
alone should be enough to justify the fact we are here at
the start of working together. The third provide or coma.
Analysts believe that two could team up with groups such as the
Vlaams Belang in Belgium and Austria's Freedom Party to form
an alliance they would need a minimum of 25 Mbps from at least
seven EU member states. The pence National Fund was ahead in
a recent opinion poll in France from a European elections
Villars Freedom Party currently tops opinion polls in Holland.
This is where you gotta watch out for is you'll be hearing
things soon in the media for those of you who are in the Euro
land zone, such as far right fascist Neo Nazis racist. You
watch. homophobes pours, that's the Golden Dawn party in Greece.
They've arrested them. Just the rest of them. What else do we
have? Yeah, it's but it's so it's fun to see what is
happening and what it'll be in more More interesting obviously
to see if, if they can really if they can if they can connect all
of those parties and it's kind of fun because the Marine Le
Pen's party and hered builders do have some very definite
opposite views on certain things. But they both feel that,
you know, the elitist eight holes have to get out. So it
should be fun it should because you know, some interesting
little fireworks although, unfortunately, you know, there's
it's messing up everything else. Like, you know what we need over
in the States, we need this European free trade and free
trade agreement and we need this stuff. It's all gonna mess it
up.
So that PTT, apparently I was watching our tea, and there's
this woman, I'm going to look her up and get more quotes from
her she's going over the thing with a fine tooth comb. Her name
is Lori Wallach, and she was on the show with the with leggy
that woman. She was explaining the PTT. He's got a couple of
very interesting little gotchas in there. I mean, the TPP, the
TPP, Trans Pacific trade, whatever it is, well, you mean
the Asian one or the European? Yeah, the Asian one. The TPP?
Yeah.
Yeah. The TPP. The Asian one it has it apparently a gives it
within the document it gives the president you had Right now,
Congress has all control over commerce. Yeah. Well, at this
transfers it to the President, the executive, hello. Hilarious.
And what was it was wanna
John, you agree with me? The document gives nobody nothing?
It says it's still an ongoing, kind of he
opens the door, because if the Congress passes, which she
doesn't think they will, you know, I think that they're
always the executive officers wants to take over the place.
Yeah, and the Congress has already given up way too much
power, this war thing is completely out of control is
what happens when the President gets to declare war, whatever
you want to call these, these battles, you know, on on a whim.
It just the Congress has just given up I mean, I don't know
what their problem is. They should be the they should be
like dominating the situation. But they're not. They're just a
bunch of passive puppies. With boys sleeping with little boys
and you take pictures. That's fun. It was kind of interesting.
I'd like to take us to,
by the way, I'm watching this RT network. Larry King's on it now.
Oh, yeah. No, I know. I got the quote of the Year from Larry
King. Oh, you're interviewing somebody says, and there's the
quote, no, Jews like cats. Wow.
Larry King said that
key words that GM fo
M do.
Anyway, go on. And I
was gonna read his email. On the no agenda show.
There are a couple of topics that we broach from time to time
on the no agenda show that really hit a chord with people.
And I kind of expected it but not to the degree and I'm only
going to read one for you today. Adam and John was listening to
the latest show and have some insight into how common core
will affect College. Now Common Core is, man, well, we've
struggled with this one, John.
Yeah, this is a huge winner. This is going to take us through
the year.
And it turns out, we
we do admire at the high school kids, I was talking about this
with somebody the other day, it's like high school kids who
listen to this show. When they write in it's always really
interesting. Their observations are very, very unique.
The fact that they're listening to the show and then write in
and it warms my heart I will tell you're not slouches. No. So
this is I'm a PhD, PhD student in engineering mechanics, which
is basically applied physics with an engineering focus.
currently researching education, ie flipped classrooms and team
based learning. In addition to my PhD research, Common Core
will affect universities. Common Core is being implemented in K
12. Something similar is being actually slowly implemented in
undergraduate and graduate programmes, universities and now
businesses. And a business can best maximise profit by
maximising throughput while minimising quality, all the
while convincing the public that its product is absolutely
necessary for survival. And it's a good observation because
you're seeing the pattern start to form here. When you know the
President. One of his main points of the American Dream is
you know, Senate besides retiring with dignity is sending
your kids to college. All academic standards are being
constantly lowered to meet the throughput requirements, because
the students ie the customers are coming in with less and less
ability, a college education We'll still be necessary. After
all, how can you get a job without a bachelor of drone
Adam? Here's the current education climate in colleges,
universities note that these are current trends. And these trends
are slow to take hold, because most professors are too lazy to
implement them. Some professors do actually care about
education, take into some education buzzwords to look out
for TBL which is task based learning, I think, flipped
classroom, continuous improvement. Of course, STEM
education we knew about that. underrepresented minorities.
Let's see. Are the ends up here? Oh, for some reason, I'm missing
the second half of this on this is no good. Oh, crap. Well, that
was really good. I really set us up
for the conclusion. I got it.
I got us all the way to the conclusion, which I didn't have
for some reason.
Well, I'm not crazy. But I ran another one. Besides the market
texture. There's a voc. Voc do these now? And you have to guess
what they mean,
voc? Is this a common core thing? Or is this a market? This
is a
marketing thing. Just so you'd find it the voice of the
customer? You knew
this? No. It's easy to guess once you get into the idiocy of
it. Oh, yeah, that's not that hard. Here's another one. What
is what is what is that one guy was bitching about? Oh, it's
stuff like that. It's now it's it's all the whole thing is all
marketing. So I don't want to get off track of the common core
things I have, like all this stuff that I've that I've looked
into? Go. Yeah. Okay. So it's really Pearson. This, this is
what it comes down to one
somebody did send us you mentioned this, we should
probably put it in the show notes in
the show notes. It's it's a diagram that shows you all the
things that are linked to Common Core. Now of course, Common Core
is really implemented and funded by the the Council of governors.
But when you when you look when you really pick it when you
really pick up the curtain and look behind it. Pearson is
really the company that has the most skin in the game. And yeah,
here's publishing. Yeah, so they own Wow, when Wharton pocket
when Prentice Hall, just everybody I mean, it's I
can I give my Pearson story to give you a background on how
these guys operate, please. So in the early days of the
computer business, there was all these computer books that would
come out there was all these independent computer companies
selling computer books, we went to the store that the computer
books are about, you know, words stock are and all the rest of
all by 10 different publishers. And Pearson decided that the
best way to go about taking over the business, which is by all
the publishers so they bought everybody they bought Simon and
Schuster, they bought Macmillan, they bought Peachpit press, they
bought everybody there. But the core company that they ran was Q
and Q was which was out of the Midwest and Q was interesting in
one way. And one way only they paid no royalties. Q Did
everything. It's like oh, here's 5000 bucks, there's 10,000
bucks, write me a book and then go away, you're done. Everybody
else was a normal book publisher. And they paid
whatever royalties seven to 15%. So now they owned all the
companies. And so every company had their same same bunch of
writers working for him. So let's say Macmillan had a book
that they were going to print and or say say, I think Prentice
Hall is even in this group, they put a book out about some
product, the book starts to sell well. And immediately they take
and have a guide, do the book for Q and put all their
publishing PR and all the effort on their own marketing the Q
book, right? To screw anybody that actually had to be paid
royalties, right. And this was this is the way that I always
thought this was actually genius for that from their perspective,
because it was just basically but it was again to screw you
know, this, like that's play the game. Let's be let's play this
new game we've come up with. And so now they're, I would believe
it wouldn't surprise me in the least that they were right
behind this whole scam. Well,
so they are they're really the guys who are cashing in. But
there's a couple other little organisations that we have to
look at. One of them being America's Promise Alliance. And
this is set up by Colin Powell and his wife and this goes back
to bow This is 15 years old. And if you look at the hola It's
America's promise.org And if you look at who's on who's was
involved in this thing, let's look at the trustees. Let's see
we have Kathy Payne of State Farm Insurance. We have Stacey
Stewart of United Way. We have Nicole Anderson of a TN t we
have a CD that's going to get the names that we all know Let
me go down here. Wow, this list is so incredibly long. We read
the Casey Family programmes we have George W. Bush Institute.
We have the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, the Boys and
Girls Club of America Voices for National Service, of course the
National Governors Governors Association. We have the
National PTA,
I'm looking, I'm looking at the partners page. And it shows that
this one page has 81 showing 81 out of 160 out of 369 partners,
all on the level that you're mentioning First Bank was
focused on firefighters finance project feed the children
fidelity corporation. So it foundation right so where's
Motor Company fund?
Let's look at the board of directors. So of course, almost
Jay Powell, who is Colin Powell, his wife is the chair. Then we
have Kathleen Murphy. She is the Secretary so of course she's
with fidelity, and we have General Powell himself. Then we
have Donna and James Barksdale. Isn't he the Netscape guy, James
Barksdale? So these are all really rich people who all you
know, want to make the world better. And of course, they're
the ones to do it because they're rich. So they're right.
You know, that's how it works. They're rich, everything
they do is right. It's everything they
do is going to be fantastic. We
should be, we should be thankful, privileged to be in
the process.
And until you look at the you mentioned the partner page, so I
found one of their partners is Crayola. And they are funding
something called the Partnership for the 21st century skills. You
got to see this thing I mean, this is all of this is connected
to teaching your children, not how math works, but how to apply
math in everyday situations, ie giving change it to the drive
thru. So the strategic Council which is p 20 one.org. Partner
for 21st century skills, you have to look at this John P
20 one.org. On the Executive Board, the president of Lego
education. We have Dr Lizabeth Fogle of the Walt Disney
Corporation. We have Robert Lippincott of course of
strategic partnerships at PBS. We have let's see, we have oh of
course Kathy Hurley who was president of vice president of
education alliances of the Pearson foundation we're going
love okay Taylor I said hey we have let's see what is down here
the Crayola of course is on the on the board here to all these
people are all UNICEF it's just it's it's really Common Sense
Media oh my god remember those guys? Common Sense Media? No. Oh
hold on a second we did a whole thing on Common Sense Media
homie find these guys. They are the ones that do. Didn't they do
like ratings or something at some point? You see what the
hell are these guys about? We remember we looked into them it
was another one of those.
Anyway, government tax money goes into this
craps it's billions of dollars billions wrestlers wrap. Now you
wonder why the government spent so much money I mean, you didn't
use the power versus all these extra government guys that can't
just leave that leave out their life without getting rich on
this crap. And then we know somebody.
So Crayola. Yes, the people who make crayons they have launched
the creativity is 21st century skill programme at the US
Department of Education. That by the way, is the definition of
fascism. When you have the government in bed with the
crayon company, are you kidding me? Crayola has teamed up with
the National Association of elementary school principals,
the National Art Education Association and the Partnership
for 21st Century Skills Pete 21 to create the champion
creatively alive children programme, that fuck is that
champion creatively alive children programme? What is
that? If you don't champion dead people, or I don't know what is
this? Creativity is a skill that every child needs and Mike Perry
creola, president and chief executive officer, we started
this programme asking ourselves what if every principal and
teacher champion creativity alive children in their schools?
Creatively alive? Oh, okay. So it turns out this is also
happening in other parts of the world. And remember, we talked
about the number lines and all these crazy concepts. It's
predominantly the math part. This is now also happening here
and get Molo lands. The exact same thing. And it's, it's, it's
really it's really astounding how far the here they call it
the cypher Lena, which is basically number lines, it has
the same names. And, and you know, it's this new version is,
this is,
you know, I want to mention I got a letter from one of our
producers that I believe was a female she said when until you
talked about SM S G student man study group at MIT which
hold on, John, I lost you. Come back. I had I completely lost
you there. Are you they're still there.
On a reconnecting, let me see that I lose the stream? I don't
think so. Let's see who's still appear to be streaming. Oh,
would you like to leave a video message for John? No, I'd like
you not to interrupt our call. Thank you very much. Crap, hola.
I'll see if he reconnects. Um, you see, I can go back and do a
little bit more on this. Some of the stuff I got in from Common
Core. Arne Duncan, who is the Secretary of Education here in
the United States of Gitmo nation, he's backpedalling a
little bit about what he said about the US just urban white
moms who were all in a huff and puff about the creative Core
Standards. Okay, I think you know what happened you know,
here's what I'm thinking happened I'm thinking I'll try
to call John again that maybe he's in the hotel room and he
had bought the Wi Fi and but he only was cheap so maybe he only
bought it until a certain time and they just cut them off wow
he's online
let me check Skype lady make sure it's all working here
Hello, welcome to Skype call Testing Service is working
even look like he's online really
hope we get him back I don't mind doing the Edit
would you put up
think my internet went down.
Yeah, I was we were thinking that you're you getting kicked
out of the room you have to check out and the internet just
died. Check this guy out. Hey, pull the plug on that mofo.
Anyway. So tell me again about the email from your our female
producer. Yeah.
She said that. She always wondered why she never could do
calculus when she got to college. And realise that when I
told her about smsd She had the same thing. She got shovelled
into this bullcrap programme which was discontinued, and now
she realised that it was, it did ruined it made you think,
awkwardly and you couldn't do calculus? It was a complete
disaster.
It's funny because I got one email from one of our producers
who he's like, I'm a you know, I'm a genius. And I can
programme in 30 computer languages. And you're wrong
about common core because this is this is higher level
thinking. I'm like, Yeah, you are exactly the problem. This is
exactly what we kids need to learn long division and I don't
see how there can be a new system based upon essentially
visual memory tricks because I've really been looking at this
a lot of people are sending in Oh, Wish I could find this.
There was one. There was one email I got. And it was like,
the question was like, what? And this was for his, I think is
third grader. What is 47? Plus 23? And then the second question
immediately, yeah.
The question after that was why did you why did you not get to
this by adding 10 plus 41st? Or something? It's like, what?
Yeah,
right. We I got that letter to you have
do you have that image he sent us that it was like an image
that was a part of it was yeah, it was it was insanity.
Yeah.
Yes. So I'm like, wow, you know, how does this really I had its
people gotta stop this. But we
have to get to the bottom of it. There's more to it than I mean,
we have the graph, we have the chart, the one guy idea, and we
identified Pearson, there's also a couple of players that I've
noticed a couple of names keep cropping up on that chart, and
I think what's I think so, Pearson, of course, is the big
name. And then there's a whole bunch of people who are just
sitting around in a circle jerk because they're all rich, and
they all have to fix everything and make it better. And his guys
like Bill Gates, because Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are
very big into this. I think it's because after the programming
guy note, I'm like, Yeah, that makes sense. A whack job who's
really good at programming, which, by the way, I don't think
is a math skill. I think writing code is more writing than
anything. It's not.
Historically, historically, programmers are always
considered failed mathematicians.
My point, so it's like, for some reason, we have to teach them
this applied math. And it just, you know, I've looked at it,
I've had other teachers, I know look at it, and I have no idea
what they're even saying in this thing. What what are we teaching
these kids? It just it seems to defy logic? And, and all it
does, essentially, is the I think, get them ready for some
kind of test. But the test may not be you know, here's a here's
a mathematical problem that tests may be, you know, P works
at the drive thru, and has to have 15 Hamburgers ready by 730?
If someone comes up with an EBT card, I mean, what else? Could
it be John?
Yeah, you know, make sure to say Would you like fries? And then
what something to drink?
In addition to that, you know, of course, there's it's
completely removing educators from the equation, they've now
become spreadsheet jockeys. And it's not I can't point to one
single thing because just the the deluge of information and
videos and, and documents that is being sent by people is quite
astounding. And I think the general consensus is it's all
pretty much crap.
Well, what's interesting to me is that nobody except this show,
your no agenda show seems to be discussing it in these terms. I
mean, nobody I have not heard anything, any critical analysis
of this or read anything. We've noticed a few things.
Yeah. Now we got a couple of links to look at. But nothing
really mainstream for sure. So what about you know? Yeah,
here's a here's an interesting one. And all this is in the show
notes. It goes 5656 seven.na shownotes.com You
see this is this? It's a catchy little title. This is actually
from the Orlando Sentinel. So right down the street from you,
John.
Yeah, go ahead and say hi,
Common Core comments, Ron from great to kami brainwashing
Oh, that's a way to There you go. What that accomplishes what
yeah, what
does it accomplish nothing.
It Well, no, it accomplishes Joel the only nut jobs are
against this actually. You want to associate associate if you
take a thing that's a piece of crap and then you associate the
negative input with some nut jobs. And then so you have to
accept it because otherwise you're a nut job.
So this is kind of the typical mainstream reporting now that I
look at this article I recall again, Florida's Common Core
education standards make for dry reading.
Yes dry
Oh boy. But they've created such a fierce political battle mind
you political battle not about educators or teachers who hate
this crap. That this when the state asked for public comments
more than 19,000 of them poured in and then they have a sampling
let's do a little sampling here. No Common Core period our
federal government can no longer be trusted keep everything
having to do with schools at the state level know for the common
good commie brainwashing wrote a parent. So that's what they
start off with. So there's your tea party, not job or republican
with a gun. What's more dangerous to a child and a
stranger with candy How about a government subliminally
attacking our children with negative reading material in our
schools? It is my feeling this is an attempt to attack the
minds of our young to adapt a liberal passive mindset stop
Common Core as quickly as you can wrote a resident a right
this is really the extreme stuff of now on the other side, I love
Common Core, please do not bend to political pressure from a
small group of non educators wrote one teacher, keep all the
Common Core State Standards This is the true abbreviation is CCSS
students in Florida need to be held to the same high standards
as the rest of the United States. We want our students to
be able to compete in the job market now and in the future.
Yeah, how about the artists, the musicians? The Crazy Ones? This
is exactly what we want our students to do. It is the heart
of mathematics instruction rota teacher. So just to wrap this up
for for now, because we'll get a lot of email. This is one of
these guys who's a part of this who wrote something wrote some
of these books that are part of this new, new mathematical
applied thinking is a gentleman named James Stewart. Are you
familiar with
James Stewart? He used to be an actor yet no.
No, James Stewart made his fortune writing textbooks. And
this is a great article we have in the show notes in his 18,000
square foot home, which is one of the most important homes in
North America. He's a candid avian, and he wrote one of these
books. These have been writing a lot of these books, but it was
apparently a best seller. And his house cost $30 million. So
you know, these are the guys that are in on this. This great
common core stuff.
The guy's a textbook writer, and he's living in a $30 million
house. Yeah. Wow. I took the wrong road.
Uh huh. And all I got was the Silk Road All right. I think
they're about to shut down all your internet so we should
probably Yeah, probably not a bad luck on out of here you're
flying back now right on a couple of Yep. An hour or so.
Okay. I will be leaving tomorrow and I shall arrive tomorrow
evening late in Austin to us and we'll be busting my little
behind to make sure we got some good stuff for Sunday. I think
the common core stuff will continue there's some war on men
stuff we got to talk about internet freedom a lot of
activity in Africa, Africa
and don't forget bully don't forget bullying don't forget it
is also so I've got a interesting commercial. But
actually it's a news story which turns out to be a butterball
commercial do we
play that as as end of show clip here
you couldn't allow set it up it's a bit it's a classic
produced butterball yo yo commercial that somebody gave to
a dud station and said here you know, here's the play this but
the kicker on this one I had to just give me generally speaking
and ever have anything like this, the person who put their
name your puts push themselves into this phoney package at the
end. She comes out of it and she says, you know, we went to the
store and this is all bullcrap.
The main dish at most Thanksgiving meals, the turkey
is the centrepiece the turkey and the dressing to Turkey, and
more and more people now want them fresh. I like the taste. We
think it tastes better, but fresh turkeys may be harder to
find this year, especially if you'd like them large since the
60s. And well Rodriguez of Lucky supermarket says butterball the
nation's largest Turkey producer is advising markets around the
country to expect fewer fresh birds. We won't know until this
week. How many we're getting. butterball says it expects to
ship about half its usual supply of big birds between now and
thanksgiving. The reason the company says it's Tom turkeys,
those that are supposed to weigh between 16 and 20 pounds aren't
eating and a statement that says we experienced a decline in
weight gains at some of our farms and we are continuing to
evaluate the potential causes. Some brochures are crying foul.
This is the Superbowl of the turkey season, but not to worry.
Other Turkey suppliers say they have their usual fresh stock.
But butterball does make up 25% of the market. And there should
still be plenty of frozen birds out there. Just remember large
turkeys take three to four days to defrost so you better buy
them soon. And it's not too soon to buy a fresh turkey. It kept
refrigerated it should stay fresh until the big day.
Two to three weeks. There is a expiration date on the turkey as
long as the customer doesn't open up that nice seal there
should be no problem
but don't wait too long or you may be out of luck. And that has
some Thanksgiving cooks pondering some new recipes had
probably get like another poultry like roasted duck So how
big a problem is this really well today we actually saw a
fresh turkeys on sale for less than the frozen ones
all right
yeah well she actually went out and did the thing did a follow
up and found the whole thing was bogus I don't know why they ran
the package at all
except to promote butterball
yeah well they did promote butterball but but they at least
they didn't just kill it there and just go on with another
story. They said this butterball things may be dubious. By the
way, butterball is the worst turkey out there as far as I can
tell. They're tasteless. They distinct. Get in a heritage bird
people.
Well, I'm gonna be all alone on Thanksgiving. What? Yeah. First
of all, we have the show.
Yeah, we always do the show on Thanksgiving. Right? And that
Mickey has a huge shoot she's doing in Los Angeles. And she
said, hey, you know, today don't even think about it go.
Oh, yeah. So to
fly out to the coast here. You can have dinner with us.
I'm not falling for that. I've done that. I did that one year.
You won't let me up into the studio. I'm not interested.
It's gonna stay that way.
Now All righty. That's it. Have a good flight. Thank you. And
now, yeah, bullying, we got all kinds of stuff. Cool. Boy, it's
been a quick trip. It's been weird doing it late at night,
but we always do our best to bring you the value for value
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