Get a weapon right here. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. 13. April
10 2014.
It's time for your getting our nation media assassination
episode 607.
This is no agenda, reminding you I'm not paranoid.
I'm just visionary here in FEMA Region six and traverse town.
I'm in Austin, Texas in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam
Korean
from Northern Silicon Valley where I just dropped my mouse on
the floor. I'm John C. Dvorak. Von Bushkill.
You know, you open yourself up for ridicule now, for dropping
the mouse. Yeah, well, I could say there's no evidence you need
one.
I don't actually I have a little thing to track point. I barely
use my mouse if I can avoid it. I'm not using the mouse. I'm the
keyboard command line guy all the way. Just typing away. No,
even the the show notes, I have an outliner. And it's, it runs
in the browser. But I still use 99% keyboard commands to control
it. Okay, and it's much faster people have no no no
keyboards much fast. Always. If you ever watch a guy who's using
Linux and he needs to do something that's very
complicated. Take 1000 clicks. Right long line and boom,
instantly. My favourite is the Tab key. Like you type like the
first three letters of something. You hit the Tab key
and it autocompletes
Yeah, that's cool. Now you can go through real fast if your
keyboard oriented.
Hey, before we do anything, John. Congratulations. We made
it into space. What we made it into space our show. Yeah, we're
not just our show. You and me, buddy. The crack crackpot in the
buzzkill
for it Oh, right. Or rocket tear?
Did you see that video? Yeah. Oh my goodness. Those of you
listening on the stream where if you're in a safe place, go to
rocket.no agenda notes.com. This is say, what's his name? Again?
I wrote it down. Alex zoek Glynn Soglin producer, and he had this
giant rocket and this thing was seriously God said like five
five min. Height?
It was yeah, it's it was a big one. He's one of those real
serious hobbyists.
That's not a hobby. Come on. What do you think that thing
cost?
Price probably wasn't. It was probably I don't know. I mean,
you guys mostly work with government surplus? Yeah. And so
they get that for nothing because who the heck wants a
rocket body is probably from like a bunch of
like, from Syria. left over? Right Syria. Leftover chemical
weapon rocket from Syria.
Yeah, something like I don't know. He did. Donate today's
really? Oh, really? I didn't know that. Why he's at the top
of the list. And you can see it see him there and he will
explain to us in a future letter. I'm guessing exactly
where he got all the parts. Well,
I loved it. I was I was blind. I only really saw the whole thing
this morning. I put it right there and I give it a domain
name even but I put it right there in the show notes. It's
just fantastic.
I should tweet it. I should tweet that we're doing the show.
Yeah, there you go. Anyway, so this rocket has a big crackpot
and buzzkill you know, painted like a real nice paint job to on
the side. You know, or would say USA NASA. None of that. No, no.
crackpot buzzkill into space. And he did GoPro cameras all
over the thing. I loved it. It was great. I think we made up to
17,000 feet.
Oh, that's that's up there.
It's not quite space.
No, it's not even quite there the atmosphere that they we fly
in but yeah, you can
actually even breathe there. Kinda. Yeah.
Oh, boy. All right. I don't even see your tweet here. I did
tweet. Anyway,
let me see. Let me get us underway with he must be so
proud of himself. Do you think John Kerry is still writing all
his own stuff?
I think so. I don't see why he wouldn't unless he's been
scolded. And they want Jen Sacchi to write for him then I
don't
know. I don't know who he did another three hour session. And
I think all the good stuff this week, or these past couple of
days, was on C span. I mean from from and it's just everything
else is boring. But C span had some of the goods and carry no,
of course in his never ending quest to humiliate and belittle
Vladimir Putin. And to F Russia. Out of the SDR I guess. I came
up with with quite the line.
No one should be fooled. And believe me, no one is fooled by
what could potentially be a contrived pretext for military
intervention. Do Just as we saw in Crimea, it is clear that
Russian special forces and agents have been the catalyst
behind the chaos in the last 24 hours. Some have even been
arrested and exposed. And equally as clear, must be the
reality that the United States and our allies will not hesitate
to use 21st century tools to hold Russia accountable for 19th
century behaviour.
We had a beer back at HQ over that one
ran into a funny little piece that was on Democracy Now. It
just they just throw away and it was and it kind of refers to
this but play the Blackwater clip. Okay.
Russia's Foreign Ministry claims Ukraine's forces in the East
have been joined by both right wing nationalists and US
mercenaries from the private military firm Greystone
greystones, affiliated with the private security firm Academy,
formerly known as Blackwater, which has previously denied
accusations that staff are working in Ukraine that she
forgot that when they were called Z,
yeah, no, she did. That was a mistake. Z.
Yeah. Well, this is so obvious what's going on. And
it's so obvious. And me well, Carrie is a such a blustering
blow. The Russians, really, I don't know how to have a real
answer for any of this. In a propagandist extents it used to
be good at this.
There was there was one other thing that really ticked me off
and someone tried to throw this at me. Someone close to me,
which will go unnamed at the for the moment
was Mickey
No, no, no, no, we're saying, you know, yeah, Adam, you may be
right about all this about our involvement in the State
Department, Skull and Bones. But Vladimir Putin is insane. That
is possible, right? But then here's the proof for it. And of
course, this is he still loves, you know, the Russian Empire and
can't you know, that whole line, all right. So that's this
picture. And it was in the Washington Post. That that is of
Ronald Reagan meeting a kid in Red Square, back in the 80s. And
next to the kid is what the caption says, you know, looks a
lot like Vladimir Putin. And the photographer. Now this is, this
is kind of where tipped me off, like, hold on a second. The
photographer is Pete Souza. And he is still a White House
photographer. He's the one that took the picture of the
situation room with Hillary with her hand to her mouth.
Laura. Yeah. About 50 shots. Right. So this guy is in your
hand was in her mouth. She was smelling her up.
Yeah. Stop, stop, stop, stop. And so first of all, it doesn't
Yeah, it looks a little bit like Vladimir Putin this, this photo
but what the Washington Post. And I'll point out Washington
Post is of course owned by the same guy who has a company that
has a $600 million deal with the CIA have failed to point out
Jeff Bezos Yes. Failed to point out that this exact same picture
was used in 2009 Right after the Georgia fractious with the it's
the exact same thing this is now what are we five years later the
picture
doesn't back it up. Alright, so
the point of the picture
is to is alongside anyone he's always hanging out he's putting
Putin his law so he's a long term KGB agent. That's that's
that's so here's the Sousa said he asked the Secret Service
agent how these tourists in the Soviet Union. I'm asking these
pointed questions because that apparently was the so called
younger Putin who was asking questions. And yet know the the
guy next to the kid with a camera. Yeah, who looks like a
tourist. Okay. And the answer was, Oh, these are all KGB
family families. Sousa said he was told the tourists with the
camera was Putin. And it certainly does look like him.
Don't you think? This is the Washington Post?
They did this to you. They did this the second thing reprise?
Yeah, there was a yes. Before. Yes.
They're bringing it back five years later, which I pointed out
to this person who said this to me. And I said really? I mean,
isn't obvious that this is you know, this is just on file.
It's the file shot to us. Yeah. Hey, what
can we do to file shot B? Okay, we choose that. Yeah. When? 2009
Ah, good. Good. Good to go. Man. It was It wasn't in the post was
in The Telegraph. Yes. Good. So it's just these little
irritating things. Well, yeah, of course, Putin may be nuts, no
less nuts than John Kerry. Or how about this John McCain.
These guys are all nuts.
McCain is completely he's just off the rails.
So food by
Russia. fight fans in rare public appearances, another
Washington Post. Oh, yeah, yeah, the post is all over. He's at a
World Wrestling Federation only, em called M one is at some
Russian version. And he's in the, in the squared circle with
a microphone. And I suppose he's calling somebody a pencil neck
or something. Let's get ready to rumble and Putin boo. And here's
the caption, this was when was this run? I'll get the picture
in a second. The caption is Putin was booed by Russian fight
fans, in rare public show of disapproval. Do we expected to
believe all this propaganda? I don't know. If I mean, if I'm at
the Russian fight, and Putin shows up and he's in the ring.
Yeah, maybe I'm Buddha, but it'd be a joke. It'd be like, I'll be
very quiet. Boo. Boo. It's brand new November 21 2011.
It's running again. No, no,
this is when it ran. I didn't know it's running. Just sitting
there. spreading these out, apparently.
Alright, so let's just looking at the Ukraine F Russian news.
Okay. We have this was my favourite, I have to say comes
from the New York Times. The New York Times headline Russia
didn't share all details on Boston bombing suspect. Uh huh.
So now Putin is responsible for the Boston bombing.
Putin bomb. Yeah.
The report was produced by Inspector General the
intelligence community. No. Yeah, really? I shouldn't. Where
am I? I'm late on all this stuff. See, response was 17
separate agencies. And the inspector general from the
department, Homeland Security Justice Department and the CIA.
It has not been made public this report. Of course, it's in the
New York Times, but it has not been made public. But members of
Congress are scheduled to be briefed on it Thursday.
That's today. The time is getting before everyone else.
Some of its findings are expected to be released before
Tuesday, the first anniversary of the bombings in content, its
contents were described by several senior American
officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, because the report
has not been publicly released. This is this New York Times like
leaking stuff. And it's several American officials. Come on. You
know, it's like there's no one questions this anymore. Oh,
sure. That makes sense. It's not because of great reporting.
There's no guy with a with a hat and a press card sticking in his
in the rim of his hat like, hey, no.
Mila. Nice to hear we got something. Yeah, you need you
need to run this. Exactly. Yeah, I I figured out the NASA thing.
So everyone was reporting that NASA is cutting all ties with
Russia, except for the International Space Station,
which is the only tie they have with Russia. And I could not
find anything. It as it turns out, they did. They did write an
announcement on Google Plus. Of all places, so not on their
official website. Not on Twitter, not on Facebook, but on
Google Plus.
Let's weird. Yeah, and,
and when you look at the actual statements, because I also have
an internal email from NASA, which is a little different,
which makes it kind of interesting. statement regarding
suspension of subnet some NASS activities with Russian
government representatives that listen to the wording, Given
Russia's ongoing violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and
territorial integrity. That's quite a statement from NASA.
NASA is suspending the majority of its ongoing engagements with
the Russian Federation. NASA and the Ross comm. Os Ross cosmos
will, however, continue to work together to maintain safe and
continuous operation of the International Space Station.
Well, then, what's the point? NASA is full out of the space
station.
Well, you got dudes up there. NASA is laser focused on a plan
to return human spaceflight launchers to American soil and
end our reliance on Russia to get into space. You see what's
happening here? These guys just delivered their $17 billion
budget to Congress. And they're using this to, I guess get more
money to return to our own space missions and not relying on
other countries.
What's that statement about never let a crisis go to waste
never lay out Rahm Emanuel never let a good crisis go to waste
exactly as what they're doing. And this is a crisis weekend
horn in on NASA has got nothing to do with any of this but we
can horn in on this.
The actual internal NASA email which I've received from several
American intelligence sources who are unnamed because if they
were not authorised Give this to me. That's Given Russia's
ongoing violence. What sounds about right Given Russia's
ongoing violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial
integrity until further notice, comma that was not in the
official release. The US government has determined that
all NASA contacts with Russia and government representatives
are suspended unless the activity has been specifically
accepted. Oh, yeah, let's not say this suspension includes
NASA travelled to Russia and visits by Russian government
representatives to NASA facilities, bilateral meetings,
email through teleconferences or video conferences.
Oh no.
I was like, yay. At the present time, only operational
International Space Station activities have been accepted.
There you go. In addition, multilateral meetings held
outside of Russia that may include Russian participation
are not precluded under the present guidance. If desired,
our office will assist in communication with Russian
entities regarding the suspension of activities.
specific questions regarding the implementation, this guidance
can be ready to be directed to Mrs. Meredith McKay. We remain
in close contact with the Department of State and other US
government departments and agencies, which means Department
of State, if the situation changes, further guidance will
be disseminated. So it's a little different in the in the
official email, but it's big. They they feel as big internally
at NASA. And they all feel that it's being used, you know there
for an agenda to, I guess get Elon Musk more money. That seems
to be the prime that it ends up. Now along with this another
email from one of our producers, I'll just read this, because I
hadn't read the preload the prelude to this atom. But a
month or so ago, I sent you a note about a classmate of mine
that as a trade negotiator for the EPA and the assertion she
made to me that the TTIP that's the European Free Trade
Agreement had nothing to do with liquid natural gas, but rather
was predominantly about property rights. Your response in keeping
with the most recent podcasts was that government employees
are deliberately kept compartmentalised so that no one
person has the whole picture and can root out the high level
strategy. Yeah, I think that's usually the way it goes. Well,
imagine my surprise Friday morning when she came into class
saw me immediately ran up to me saying, oh, Brian, I have to
tell you something. Oh, that's almost like a Stewie. Oh, Brian.
I have to tell you something. According to her the TTIP
discussions in which she is involved have changed completely
since Russia invaded Crimea. It is now 100% About liquid natural
gas exports, who's going to get what volume when pricing
distribution, you name it? Well, isn't that interesting? Isn't
that interesting?
He we never hear anybody condemn any of these analyses. Right?
And then they always have to come back to No, you guys were
right. Well, months later.
That's all right. That's all right. Yeah. Oh, guess who we
had dinner with?
Obama? No. No.
You had dinner with Joe and his partner Shannon from healthy
surprise from the healthy surprise.
Another box app with no note in it. I
know. I got I got the box the day after we had dinner. used to
write a friendly little note, but now the company's got so
big.
Yeah, now they're rolling in the dough. He has this new stickers.
What is it? Gluten is evil. Did you see those in the box?
No, I just opened the box yesterday.
So when you think about Joe, what? What what visual do you
get from this guy? What do you think he looks like?
Okay, I'll give him a here's why I think he's tall with a one of
the douchebag beard type was kind of a trim beard all around
and a fool around his face. And kind of a mop top. That's one
let me give you Okay. Can I have a short pudgy bald guy?
Okay, do you have a third version? Or is that it? No, I
got honestly, I somehow had kind of like a he's in California and
Los Angeles. Oh, do
you think it's surfer dude? No, I
had kind of a corporate kind of guy in mind. You know, a little
a little corporate.
I never got that impression. Yeah. So
so he's a total Burning Man guy. And he has, you know, he doesn't
have a douchebag beard and a mop top. He has kind of the Kabuki
hair tight in the back. Oh, with a not good looking guy. And his
girlfriend is clean shaven? Yeah. stabilised but it's as
good as Shannon she's a doll. She's fantastic.
One by the way, Shante is the women who are behind that
douchebag look. Give you a story. So, so, Aaron, who is
married to Jolie O'Dell? Yes. He has one of those douchebag
trimmed. You know, Tom Merritt is has you know what we know
everyone knows what we're talking
this used to be the Don Johnson look and somehow it turned into
douchebag
Well, it's because because many of the people who you know, said
it's a certain look, you see it all over the place.
Are they still using the Don Johnson Braun? Razor razors?
I didn't know whether I you know, I keep forgetting to ask
people how they trim because how do you do that? Some trimmer
that did that leaves like oh god, guess what? An eighth of an
inch of stubble? Yeah. So it's stabilised anyway. So. So Aaron
mentions that she joins us on the show one this some time ago.
She's told me that she likes her men to have the beard she that
was different, right? Yeah. Hello. She needs your beard,
shaved
it off once and one other show and she was mad at him. And he
had to grow it back. Yeah, well,
some women need a beard. That's all that's all I can say about
Julio del. Okay. Yeah, well, you brought it up.
Yeah, I did. I walked right into right into it. I was like
walking into a prop.
Anyway, so let me let me just tell you about Joe. So he want
he really wants to move to Austin but he can't because of
his new venture.
Okay,
yeah, he's in California. He now is Los Angeles. He has a he has
a doing in Austin. There's a paleo conference. And Shannon
had the Paleo diet. Yeah. And Shannon has this. She has a
company called give us the dirt. And she does natural toothpaste
and lip balm and it's gluten free paleo and dirt.
Buzzkill Jr's wife is paleo.
She must be cute then. She why she must be cute. Just cute.
Yeah, Paleo girls are cute. It look a little hungry. Anyway, so
his new his new his new product which is this good. I've seen
this guy and he's he's here today. He's gonna be a
millionaire tomorrow. Organic John Bo J A N D O cannabis
superfood I don't think I don't think he has a website yet for
it. Don't miss. It is here it is at Jambo superfoods.com You know
he's been listening to the show. He's like, yes, superfood.
That's the ticket. Kelly's making. He's making a weed cake.
And calling and calling it Jambo cannabis superfood. Paleo, non
refined sugars gluten free and guaranteed to blow your mind.
How do you do a non refined sugar? I'd ask him that.
I have no I don't know. I'm
just chunked. What would you do? What would you be given because
I'm beat you got to refine it. If it's from a cane, you got to
refine it. You got to put it in a pot and boil it. That's the
least you can do that's kind of part of the refining process. I
don't know there's no such thing as you can't go pick sugar off a
tree. No,
I don't know. Look, I
mean, even maple syrup.
You have to boil it down. Believe me people who are eating
this do not care. Yeah, they just put up with all this. And
here's the recommendation for the serving start with half an
increase as you become comfortable.
Spinning man Supermud who ate too much? Start with half until
you're comfortable stoned out of your gourd
I said this is the best idea I've seen ever because if you
think about it, you stay sober meant doing it. But here's the
edibles. It's always
brownies, chocolate chip cookie or gummy bears.
There's no happiness to the lollipops in Holland. Yeah, but
there's no healthy, paleo, gluten free hippie version. And
here it is.
Yeah, it's a winner and he calls it a superfood. Hello. Come on.
Yeah, no, I like to superfood moniker, we got to keep using it
or eventually mean nothing. Just what the idea is.
Anyway, it is of course by presidential proclamation
national Equal Pay Day today, as you know, that is right in line
with the President's signing of some Bogota bill which backfired
blew up in his face was quite funny.
And if you followed any of that, no, I did not follow any of
that.
So we have already been we've been tracking for a while these
blanket statements. The first one I think came from Sheryl
Sandberg and it was 60s. 6% of women do 90% Of all the work and
get 30% of the pay or something like that. Right. So what what
happened now is, you know, the President has been running
around saying women only make 77 cents to each male dollar. And
77% job, that's the difference. Well,
there's there's a whole bunch of differences. You know, of
course, if there's people look at minimum wage, but not not
necessarily maximum wage, and of course, there are more male CEOs
who make, you know, $15 billion a year, and those are counted
two. So there's a lot of a lot of things in statistics, you can
make it work any way you want. But the most unfortunate thing
is that a couple of studies came out and everyone picked up on
it, including, well, CBS, who of course, had been a little weird,
with presidential propaganda. And two things came out of this
study. One is that if you really look at the numbers the way the
President looks at his own White House, it will be more like 93
cents to 100 cents on the dollar, which is a lot closer
than 77. But of course, the damning thing is is that within
the own his own administration, women only make 88 cents. And
spokes hold, Carney goes out and say well, at least we're not as
bad as the national average. Well, good
morning, the White House is getting as you indicated nor
roughed up by its own pay equity rhetoric and analysis of White
House salaries which nobody here dispute shows that the median
income of female staffers is 88% of that of male staffers. Now,
this study also showed that men and women with the same White
House jobs earn exactly the same salary. Now the White House said
its gender pay gap is tied to job experience, education and
hours worked among other factors. This matters because
those explanations, according to the labour department explained
a good deal of the gender pay gap nationally the big
difference in these stories, when President Obama discusses
this issue nationally, he doesn't mention those other work
variables only the broad figure that 77 cents per dollar is what
women earn compared to men and median wages when the factors
that the White House used to defend its gender pay gap are
used nationally. The Labour Department says the difference
in median wages between men and women shrinks to about five
cents to seven cents on the dollar.
Right. So that's the intelligent CVS version, then we have the
response from facebook.com/carroll CNN now.
Exactly. And
this question that you raised Hill goes to a very real
political problem for this White House. They're sort of they're
trying to move on to other topics here with with the
midterms coming up and talking about these women's issues. But
yet here they have a rollout of an issue of equal pay. It didn't
quite work out the way they intended.
Christine, were you gonna say something? Because I'm stunned
by his answer.
No. I'm stunned.
Really?
I guess the they haven't done their advertising purchase yet.
They haven't done their buy on CNN. So everyone's stunned.
Yeah, that would be right. All right. No, I didn't know that.
But
you know, really, it's it's it's not that important. It's just an
executive order. It's not like a big thing. We did. We did get a
another presidential proclamation. National former
prisoner of war Recognition Day. I'm not sure why what that's
about. But I do but okay. And then, the White House has
announced America has prepare a THON.
Who will prepare a THON. Yes. First want to get in on that? Do
you? Well, this April 30. First day of soon, and let's see. I'm
sure that have all it. So this is America's prepare Athan. It's
a nationwide community based campaign for action to increase
emergency preparedness and resilience through hazard
specific drills group discussions. Oh my gosh, there's
a hurricane. Let's have it. Let's chat group this group
discussion and exercises conducted at the national level.
And of course, I'm sure they have all kinds of stuff in here
about ham radios.
You should know they don't Oh, not a word.
This this embers maybe I should try and get in on this. If I
could get my giblet ready by April 30.
You never make it now. You're I haven't even written an outline.
Introduction. That's it. The John C. Dvorak School of a
school of book publishing.
So I ran into a couple of interesting things that were off
off these main topics. There's and this I'll make it where it
came from I'm kind of sorry, had to go there. But it was from the
blaze. They had this women who these three teachers who had
gone before Congress, and had testified against common core.
Oh, really? Yeah, one of them was very interesting. And she
went on to blaze now with Glenn Beck but was one of the other
shows. And I started talking about some of the stuff and it
was actually kind of very entertaining and interesting,
because when you when you heard the whole story from her, you
got it the it was like pretty disgusting, what's going on? And
then apparently, they're trying to shut these women up.
What was the what was the session they were testifying in?
I don't know what specific session was, but it had to do
something. Is it one of the educational
hearings was Arne Duncan there the education secretary?
I don't think he was there during this particular
testimony. I'm gonna have to go back and find it whatever the
case was, I was kind of intrigued by some of the stuff
these women said, but but listen to this part one and tell me,
you know, just give me some feedback, what you think she's
what she thinks she's actually talking about made you guys
think that this was the right thing to do? Well, I
have seen the curriculum for the average viewer teaching the
early childhood curriculum in math. And it was so bad and we
were so tied to the lessons, they were teacher scripted.
Students scripted it with PE T says this as says, If you don't
get the right response, and T says this. And they weren't
developmentally appropriate, they were not written by
educators. And before prior to this, the teachers actually had
a say in the learning goals. And we did not in this. And I've
seen how inappropriate it is for young kids, for example, just in
shapes, they were wanting to teach them triangles, as
powerfully as triangles on to use triangles, acute triangle
hexagons, rhombuses trapezoid, it was just one quadrilateral
that was ever the kids heads, they don't have the vocabulary
for that. And then instead of using manipulatives, to teach
those lessons, and we have tonnes of manipulatives, they
wanted them to cut the shape out of paper. And a lot of those
kids don't even have the fine motor skills at that age to do
that. Okay,
so this was a little confusing, because there was a couple
things that happened. First of all, she's talking about some
common core sounded like a play where everyone had lines to read
and the teacher had a script and the students had a script. It's
what it sounds like. And I was but then she went into this
stuff that I don't understand either. She's talking about, she
lost me after triangles rhomboid ROM, like Romulans, I have no
idea what you're talking about. What's interesting
about this trapezoid, I was trying to figure out how what do
you what was she talking about? The giveaway was in clip two,
okay? Isn't number bonds or
bonds. And so they might take a five and put it in a circle. And
then they put it in? This is a kindergarten level, it gets way
more complicated. And then they draw
on you telling me that the government has moved this ugly
head into kindergarten,
oh, we're in pre K, what are you talking about? This is nothing.
They're
trying to teach kids. They're making kids use scissors and cut
things out. And then there was Scribd. And then they're running
this crappy math where you get the five with his you know,
we've talked about math before. In
fact, I think I think they're teaching the kids to run with
scissors in kindergarten, that seems to be sort of a plan. And
does run around with this. Yeah. Yeah, I guess. I mean, we know
that the whole plan is birth to five was to start off with the
New York City. And that's being funded pre K.
And by the way, I saw I just while I was doing this, I
decided I do this, every time I put my clips together, I look at
what clips I had last year, because I have yet to sort out
the main files, and they're right next to each other. Let me
take a look. Play the clip. This is from last year. This is one
of Obama's people. I can't remember who it was. We met we
talked about it, but play the clip from last year. Who do the
kids belong to?
And this is from exactly one year ago? Yep, exactly.
We have never invested as much in public education as we should
have. Because we've always had kind of a private notion of
children, your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We
haven't had a very collective notion of these are our
children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind
of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong
to their families and recognise that kids belong to whole
communities. Once it's everybody's responsibility and
not just the households, then we start making better investment
and was this not an MSNBC lien? forward lean in promo if I'm
recalling correctly, I
think so it was Wow, NBC thinks it's funny because notice as you
use the word better investments, it's always you know, as they
Oh, yeah, no capitalist seem to use these capitalistic terms.
It's
all about investing in the kids and making sure the kids are
good workers as we move forward. Here's a an ad that is currently
a pre roll on YouTube, which we captured
this year has been phenomenal for my daughter as far as the
new common cold. By
the way, listen to the douchebag kid who put that little quick
little line in the middle of this or
I see the deeper thinking. Great point. But I went a little bit
more broad with that idea. Knowing facts is not necessarily
because you hear it.
I couldn't understand it. But he sounded like he was sound like a
Silicon Valley
exactly the kid Exactly. Because like I want a little more a
little bit more broader with that idea. He's ready like
Microsoft can hire him. Now
here has been phenomenal for my daughter. As far as the new
Common Core, I see the deeper thinking
notice the new Common Core, these are all very, very subtle
tricks to make you believe that it's been around forever. The
new common core, Common Core is new.
Great, great catch. I
just heard it now. It's the new Common Core as
far as the new Common Core, I see the deeper thinking. But I
want a little bit more broad
with that idea. is ready for an incubator.
Knowing facts is not necessarily going to get you anywhere in
life. But knowing how to think deeply about things and how to
problem solve. I think those are all important skills that our
kids are learning through the Common Core.
Here's what I'm seeing happening. So yeah, so this is
knowing facts is not and by the way, since when did we now some
facts are not important. Everything has to be fact fact.
Fact Check fact, but oh, we have to understand and rationalise.
Here's an important thing that is I think this is how it's
going to play out.
Before you go on how Yeah, that's another good observation.
This way. No. Discard facts. Yeah. How does that play out
with anything that's going on right now as science fact? Yeah.
So the way I think this plays out, is there another meme
you'll hear is critical thinking. And this is a callback
to something that popped up in the I think it was it was a
Texas school policy document maybe you recall from probably
the 2012 elections were and it was a Republican document or
something like that. And it said You know, we don't want our kid
no critical thinking it got turned around into essentially
here's the mean you're either Common Core or you're you're a
religious freak. That's essentially what it's coming
down to. Yeah, and it's really this war on religion is it's
very very very dangerous and it's also um I don't I can't
justify it. I can't justify this this isn't the government is
supposed to stay out of that
they're just as a rear end run. Yeah and sneak attack this is
the you know, yeah, we can't do this directly. But we can we can
do it with climate change. So everybody you know boy, you're
just a religious nut if you think Oh, you don't you're a
climate change denier oh probably because you think the
year the earth is only 6000 years old.
Right? They do they make these religious nuts short circuit any
real debate.
I don't want to cut your common core short and I do have some
other stuff that ties into it. You have a couple more than we
finish this clip before
I go back to the common card which I do have a couple more
things which kind of ties into what you just said. Let's take
it let's take a another side trip. Because you mentioned that
kid he sound like a Silicon Valley douchebag and he's only
what 567
I don't want to go a little bit broader than that. So with my
stock options,
so the so the show silicon Oh, we watched so I have a couple of
clips from it that this is essentially exactly if you're in
and around the Valley I find it very hard to watch because it's
so disgusting with douchebags. It's just all a douchebag show
and this is a Mike Judge show who of course is famous for his
space. Of course I'm Beavis and Butthead, and Beavis and
Butthead and he I actually ended up watching the episode three
times I finally now I'm relaxed with it. I actually like what
he's trying to do. But I do have two clips, which are like that
kid. Now the first clip is the opening clip. Some guy had made
two and a million dollars and now he's living it up. And he's
having Kid Rock in his house. Give a party to a bunch of
people that don't care.
Someone that was very recognisable, by the way.
Let's see. Yes, no, we've all seen you and I have seen Oh,
yes, Mandy. These events. And so the guy that douchebag, owner of
the company that was sold to Google, like many of these guys
decides to get on the microphone and congratulate himself and
tell everybody what a great guy is, what a great company it is.
And this is all this is actually what it sounds like when
somebody does this. Hello. That
Mickey and I looked at each other like, yeah, we've been to
those parties. That some douchebag does that at his own
party.
I got seven words for you. I love coolly bids, integrated
multi platform functionality. But seriously, you know, a few
days ago, when we were sitting down with Brock Obama, I, I
turned to these guys and said, Okay, we're making a lot of
money. And yes, we're disrupting digital media. But most
importantly, we're making the world a better place through
constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse, and
extensibility. So everyone, here's to many more nights, just
like this one. Take it away my good friend, Kid Rock.
What? No. So we watched this, and I'm laughing a little more
than I did when I watched it.
No, that's what the that's the typical Mike Judge stuff. It's
really in your face. It takes some getting used to what he's
gonna what he's up to, but
what is he up to? What is the point?
He is just going to ridicule this? I think this, you have to
always remember the pilot is the softest of all the episodes and
nothing's done. said I was a salesman. Yeah. Yeah, so I don't
know. But I think he's just gonna go so deeply after these
guys had to someone's gonna kill him. But I'm gonna just play
this shorter clip, which is the second clip from the show, where
this guy who's unbelievable douchebag running an incubator,
he's never really done anything. He sold one company, he always
wears T shirts. And this is the way he talks to some kid
pitching a stupid idea.
And that's how I got to where I am.
So what do you got? Okay, here it is.
Bit soup. It's like alphabet soup. But it's ones and zeros
instead of the letters.
Because it's binary. You know, binary is just ones and see I
know what binary is. Jesus Christ. I memorise the
hexadecimal times tables when I was 14 Writing machine code.
Okay, as we would nine times out fits it's 7575
Yeah, okay, it's deep. But still I don't think there's a huge
audience for this in making these into every show watch
almost anything except the you know horror movie she can't
watch a horror movie because she gets into this stuff. She you
know, she's a method actor so you really she really engrossed
herself and she believes it's all real. So we wind up watching
a lot of movies on Movie Night with the women who die of
terminal cancer because it's not fun movie night here at the know
the traverse high tide out. But but she couldn't she said she
didn't know even though she knows these people. She couldn't
get into it. I agree. I don't I just don't see it having a big
audience it's you know, it's not like entourage where it's all
inside baseball but at least everyone understands celebrate
he's you know,
well, it'll be remains to be seen whether it can be
successful he may only go 13 shows or seven right? But
whatever the case is, he definitely has a lot of these
characters nailed as Yeah,
although they're a little bit you know, I'm looking for I'm
looking for the John Doerr. You know,
those guys will be later on
the Randy coma czars, you
know, the doors in Tacoma stars and those guys in their style. I
mean, they'd be touches on it a little bit with the two guys
that are bidding for this kids product. The Peter Oh, mudhar
guy appears that's pure drive my car. He is totally That is him
because he's the one who offered the money to kids not to go to
school.
No, no, no, that's Peter Thiel.
I thought it was Oh my god. No teal Thiel. That's Peter Thiel
one character and the other characters I don't know some
sort of nut case Steve Jobs or someone some mystic
interesting you bring this up I was watching a Now what the heck
was this? This was a speech by I think a Swedish guy or huh.
Anyway, he was talking about something called he was doing a
keynote speech and he was explaining how the intelligence
community which has these huge billion dollar budgets, how we
were really focusing on the wrong things. So yeah, you know,
there's, of course they have surveillance, but you know, and
then apparently we've they bribed someone to plant bugs
into SSL. All of that's totally possible. But he says what's
what's really going on is venture capital. So you have a
lot of these Angel guys, these venture guys, they'll find
something they'll find a product which maybe is not so good for
the intelligence community makes it harder for someone to listen
in. So maybe a programme that does great email and you know,
with built in encryption, just as an example. And these guys
will either go out and find a patent that is very similar and
sue them out of existence. Or the VC guys you know, will give
them like half a million dollars and you'll never hear from the
company again. And he says that this is rampant that this is
going on everywhere. When really good products, we are not the
not the bullcrap that you know that Facebook buys, you know for
for selfies, but the stuff that could actually improve our lives
and privacy. That these are being taken out by all these,
you know, these little angel VC guys. I said, Look at look at
what happened with Skype, said eBay, of course a big Friends of
the NSA. They they bought Skype, but they bungled the purchase,
they screwed it up, they didn't get they didn't get the goods,
they didn't get the algorithm and all the stuff on the back
end to then they had to bring in Microsoft to do it. And when you
think about how weird that acquisition was by eBay in the
first place, oh, what we're now going to need Skype to buy Pez
dispensers.
Yeah, the rationale was weak to the rationale was, oh, the
buyers and sellers are going to want to talk to each other.
Right? And thus, they're going to use Skype to do it. And that
I far as I can tell, I never I've never seen an offer on eBay
where somebody even offered to wanted to talk. But now
but now here's here's the round robin. Who runs eBay?
Exactly. Who here drive by car? Oh, yeah, yeah,
there's, there's your round robin. You see, this is how it
works, is they come in and they buy the stuff? Either they get a
patent that's just like it and then you know, and licenced that
temporarily unscrew these guys out of existence, or much
easier. Just take the guy out, give the guy a million bucks.
It's called a Aqua hire.
And it's just gone.
Well, you know, that smacks a little bit of the discussion
about the pill that turns a barrel full of water into
gasoline.
I logic.
And so I'm not completely, you know, convinced that some of
these this is going on to any extreme. I'm sure there's a few
technologies out there that have been shelved because it's
competitive. anti competitive behaviour seems to be what
people do mostly, as opposed to anti, you know, somebody's
trying to end run the government.
I just want everyone out there to know that I'm willing to
entertain a couple million dollars with Dave Jones there
for the freedom controller, you can take us out anytime you
want.
Yeah, yeah, you should have been offering money by now if you
base that on that theory.
I think we have 14 users. I don't think
all these products is a problem.
Well, no, it's great. We're using it for for our show. It's
fantastic.
The Skype thing by the time anyone noticed that in this
country. I had seen it in Europe and because everyone was on it.
Those guys
were in Amsterdam, they were doing this stuff. And we hung
out with him a little bit back in the in the Jambi days. This
is that was way way before it came over. The United States
became popular and all of a sudden there was a look at this
sounds good. And then you had all these clones come out Google
Talk is trying to do the Microsoft messenger. Well,
this is this has always been the issue according to this guy. And
I'll post the link to his talk in the in the show notes. He's
saying the one thing that has always been retarded by the
intelligence services is VoIP. They've always wanted to know
what is this what are the protocols sip? Well, we know one
thing about sip it sucks balls. It's the worst thing ever. It
doesn't work they've you know, it's just chit. And the only
thing that was really good was Skype. And now everything runs
through the Microsoft servers everything can be decrypted
everything can be turned around and underneath and that's that's
that's the only reason for Microsoft to have it and I'm
sure they're making money on selling whatever they need to to
the to the intelligence community.
And of course, they're coming out with a new version of Skype
for professionals. Oh really? You have heard this Yes, Skype,
something Skype XYZ or something. We're odd casters
really going to be extremely expensive.
Really well we should look into that
I'm looking into him on the mailing list to get the first
announcement when they finally price it
and meanwhile I'm sure you follow the Jessalyn Radek emails
with Glenn Greenwald
not really
this is so this is kind of played out a little bit like
encryption email doesn't work by the way but
just to take your thing in fractionalize it the idea of
take people out I think Greenwald has been taken out
Yeah. Oh, this is precisely what Yeah, no, this is a good example
of the soul essentially sold out. I mean, Pierre, what's his
name? Gives him your supposedly promises $250 million for this
horrible website that is just a piece of crap.
And it's just it's just words. I mean, he's never put in 200 It's
not like a bank account somewhere the grand Greenwell
shop, Dora has has a debit card for
Yeah, and Greenwald's. Now out of the picture, essentially
separate his little Spats he has what was this one you're talking
about?
Well, so this is Jessalyn Radek, who claims to be Snowdens.
Lawyer, but there's a couple of people who claim to be his
lawyer
is just the one with the speech impediment. Yes. Yes. Did you
want to talk a little like, yes, yeah, I am the lawyer,
but she's kind of hot in
a lot of makeup. But then
she talks kind of weird out of the side of her face. So an
email was intercepted and decrypted, which he sent with
the peach. I think GPG not PGP GPG. And the reason why this
actually happened to me, if you look at the MIT key server, the
public key server, there's four or five different keys for grand
green Rob. And actually, if you look at my, you searched for my
name, you'll also see a couple of different keys. One of them
is a fake key. So what happens with on the key management is
one of the hard parts of encryption. Anyone if people are
stupid, they can't. You can't even keep their house key.
without you being dumped. You have a fake key.
Someone put it up there. Yeah. So they can collect your
messages. So
yeah. So if you if you have one of these programmes that just
automatically searches you say, oh, it's the top one click. And
that's it. You don't really look at what it's saying. And this
has happened to me where someone said, Oh, I sent you an email,
but you didn't get it. And I said, What key did you use? And
it was this fake key? And of course, I have no way to get it
off. So it's an issue. So this happened.
Wow, that isn't, it's probably never even thought, yeah, that's
a horrible issue.
And so the email that comes in, which is also kind of funny, was
Hi, Glenn. Congrats on the McGill award. I look forward to
seeing you at pokes. On that note, is my client making a
surprise appearance? BG said you mentioned this to him at the
Poke media event. We presume that's Barton Gellman. I won't
tell anyone including BG if it's a surprise, but as his attorney
I'd like to know. And also what medium would be used Google or
Bing bot? Thanks, Jess. But this kind of shows you the that whole
email exchange made me a little it's find that creepy. Now maybe
that's just her. I don't know if Greenwalt is is in your has that
creepy, kind of syrupy talk with her. But it's kind of funny that
it you know that this was intercepted, and of course, his
whole email threads on crypto. And Apple Baum jumps in this guy
is another annoying piece of crap. He's like a pimple on my
butt. He's always Oh, this is good. That's exactly what that's
when he opens his pie hole. So yeah, he's he's there with the
first look media crew. And if we go look at the intercept. And
I'm looking at it right now, the last time he published was April
4, it was the Cuban Twitter scam, which wasn't even his
story
now.
And then before that it was the 31st of March before that, and
that was the NSA blows its own top secret programme in order to
propagandise. But I don't even know what that was about.
I always get the sense that well, I've said this, we talked
about this on email. I now be I'm just coming to the
conclusion as possible that Greenwald actually can't write
or can't write. Well, yeah, that's a good point you made and
all his stuff because he he was at the salon for a while and he
would that's where he became i That's when I started following
him because I liked his stuff. And he was a little long winded,
but it's possible that he had heavy editing there. And then
when he went to The Guardian, I know he had editing there
because you're not working for one of those papers, without two
or three layers of editors I've written for the New York Times
and it's like the The kind of editing they do there is almost
it's I don't know how people can work there, it's very
unbearable. I mean, any new word you use, I get to approve it at
different layers of the company. It's astonishing how much work
goes into these articles. So it's possible that Greenwald,
you know, was heavily edited. And the giveaway to that may be
and I couldn't be wrong, you know, somebody could prove this
wrong. I had no notice in his Twitter feed or anything that
he's writing eloquently. But it's, if a guy usually is
bringing in a lot of money for the company, he's getting a lot
of attention for the publication, like Greenwald was
doing there for a while with the guardian. And he walks to
someplace else, they counter off and they make a big deal about
and they will overpay to an extreme
right, particularly the guardian. I'm sure they they, I
mean, it's an intelligence operation. They got money to
spend. Yeah, so
they could drag and drop a lot of money on him. And by that, I
mean, 750 to a million dollars a year. Yeah. As a coach,
I'm sure is what he's making. Could be. Of course, he's all
about the money. I'm sure he's making that whatever
the case is, that was never done, which makes me think that
because of his, whatever his capabilities are, somebody along
the lines, you know, is one of those deals where they're going
around the circle and why guess why take a chance at the end.
But what somebody along the line said, you know, the guy's more
troubling than he's worth. He was too much work, we get it, we
get too many people working on his stuff and blah, blah, blah,
they just let him slide. Because they figured you know, he was he
wasn't doing what he should be. I don't know if he was a lawyer
or not a writer and his possibility. His writing is not
up to par. You can say that about anybody, by the way, but
it seems to me that did fact there was no counteroffer and he
would any waltz. And now the stuff he's producing is junk
and it's long, it's too long.
It's long and junky. It's very difficult to read is poorly
organised. It's not interesting. He doesn't punch it up, right.
It's just not good.
Pay when they hire you will know it's all over.
Yeah, then you know, the things I would definitely bail. But
so yeah, and of course it is. It's pure drama car. It's the
guy who bought Skype. who screwed it up. Maybe there's Oh,
I'll do it right this time, boys. I'll take care of that
Greenwald for good. He'll never and by the way, where's all his
stuff? Where's the Snowden stuff? Did it just dry up? It's
just gone.
I mean, that's another good question. Because he supposedly
he had the entire Snowden files. He had all of them and he was
careful, careful not to carry him around. And he got I guess
additional stuff when his boyfriend came ploughed back
into the country got stopped in England, when he didn't have to
really go through England. But as we discussed, yeah, no, I
know. I'm now wondering if that whole thing which is bullcrap.
So
check this up. Here's here's Gregory Ha, here's his march 1.
On the meaning of journalistic independence. This is in
response to the panto article, which was funny, Paul card, you
know, you're a douche, but you're kind of a hero, we do a
douche with a cape. Then, march 4, RT host Abby Martin condemns
Russian incursion into Crimea on RT, really. Then six days later,
the intercept welcomes its new editor and two new writers,
Editor in Chief, John Cook, who was at Gawker, then 13 days
later, that's two weeks. Yeah, without producing anything, some
facts about how NSA stories are reported, which is a response to
a New York Times article. And then the 25th Obama's new NSA
proposal and democratic partisan hackery so that's just like,
okay, that's just, I mean, our analysis of this is better than
he's putting down there. And then
I like the way he writes it the first person to you rarely,
rarely see anyone, a writer start unless he's writing a
novel. And he's, he's playing a private detective. I does the
first set first thing he says, I vividly recall the first time I
realised just how mindless and uncritically supportive of
President Obama, many Democrats are willing to be. Run out of
breath with that sentence with the two eyes in it. Well, let's
look at the next one. Selecting this year's single most brazen
example of political self delusion is never easy, but if
forced to choose for 2013, I'd pick British Prime Minister
David Cameron public condemnation of George Galloway.
It's a lot of eyes in there. Anyway. So the point is, it
seems like he served his purpose. I'm thinking
unfortunate self erotic asphyxiation, accident. Yeah.
Put it in the book, put it in the book. I put it in the book.
All right. These things do happen. You know, you found
a good way. Murder. humiliate them at the same time
you find with a necktie naked with a dildo up your butt and
these things happen.
Yeah, I'm sure that there's a special team. Especially team
takes care of it.
You've heard of wet work. Well, this is just a difference. And
by the way, if you find me dead in that situation, that's what
that's what I'm into. What can I say? No foul play. his longtime
radio partner, John C. Dvorak said, Oh, no, I don't suspect
foul play if that's how they found him. It was in the hot tub
with the lid on it. Okay. But no, no, no, no, no, this is
a hot tub with the lids a giveaway.
Oh, wow. Yeah. So Scahill, I think he's taken out. Poydras
Oh, yes. Scahill. Well, Poydras is still hanging in there, which
is what she got the order and I don't think she's all in on
this. ski hills. Definitely. He they probably gave him a pot
full of money to do some other unneeded documentary. And well,
pointers can be taken out the same way. But she seems to be a
little more aggressive. I think I've always thought she was in
the agency to begin with. Yeah, well, we talked about this.
Yeah. But we know
she comes from money.
Yeah, she comes from money. She's got a sketchy background,
and she may be a spy. So and I've noticed that she's still
kind of bouncing around. And she's definitely not writing
articles for this intercept. Haven't seen anything by her.
Yeah, no, she did write something. She wrote, I think
she wrote one article she came in and see.
Yeah, hi, welcome to me kind of thing.
Ya know, welcome to the intercept. February 10th.
Yeah, that's it. And now she's done her job. Maybe she's the
one responsible for setting this whole thing up possible. And,
you know, getting these guys out of the picture. She knows who
the problems are.
Well, I've tried to clip some stuff from her that she's been
on a couple of things recently. And she's boring. It's no, she's
nothing interesting coming out of her now. But anyway, as we've
been yapping away here, I do want to thank you for your
courage, of course, John and say in the morning to you John C.
Dvorak.
Oh, yeah. Really? Yeah, morning to you then. Adam see curry.
Also in the morning all the ships to see boots on the ground
feet in the air subs in the wildland dame's in the nights
out there.
And in the morning to our artists, thank you very much.
Well, we actually contemplated it, but it was the best piece of
art Martin JJ two in a row going for the hat trick. Yeah, no
agenda, art generator.com.
We actually had a lot we had long discussions about the art
on this boy, we always do. We don't choose it Cavalier,
sometimes there's just one that just stun or you just pick it to
a disk, there was a lot of discussion. So
it was a nice piece. And we will always look forward to all
submissions. They're all and there's a there's a an e book
that's available, you can find it on iBooks there's someone's I
think someone's working on a coffee book, coffee table book,
there's a lot of different things that can be done with
this art. And it's also it's pretty to look at and you use it
in the newsletters. And we really appreciate the work that
goes into it. It's always a pleasure to look at what's
what's what's been created. And it's all even better when we can
when we choose someone and we give them credit for helping us
out. And in the morning. I'm just gonna say in the morning to
the chat room. No agenda stream.com no agenda chat.
dotnet Good to see you human resources all lined up and and
good to go there today.
chat rooms operating. Yeah. Okay, well, we have three people
that showed up for the executive producer ships. And we will
mention the Alex Zog Lin who you've talked about already. And
he's the one who just launched the rocket.
That's funny because I did not know that he had come in as an
executive producer today.
Yeah, he came in and he's also a member of the 607 clubs.
This guy literally has money to burn. Yeah, he's burning he's
burning it in the sky.
He says it he's got the links which we'll put in the show
notes. I believe this puts me way over the top of my
knighthood So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. Okay,
reference there to Doug Adams. Sir Jim Baron of Jamaica Plain a
three out of $33.33 I started chemo Thursday all this terrible
he would appreciate some screw cancer and karma sir Jim barely
gonna make a plane and surrounding plantations.
Oh god. Um, that's a we met Sir Jim. And when we did the first
Hot Pockets tour. This is this is well at least as I guess he's
on the chemo. So that's a that's a start. That's the beginning.
So yeah, Jim, we're looking at for you.
gave me an extra F Cancer blast. Good. It's better than the
chemo. And Raja.
And then finally, Associate Executive producers. David goes,
who just sent in a simple note saying you won the bat or
something. There's something we agreed to. And he promised, He
says, as promised, I forgot what it was. It was it was some time
ago. There's also another person there's already a
night though. He's Sir David and his I think his son is also a
night,
right? What was there somebody that one is some call out on the
fun 14 And I for the life of me can't find his paperwork. And he
never sent a reminder. And I want to tell people this just
since was short anyway, that I operate. i
Wait, hold on a second. Let me get a piece of pen and a piece
of paper. John's gonna tell us how we operate.
I operate a certain way. And it's called LIFO. LIFO. Yeah,
and
how is that Li Fe dash? Oh,
no. Li F Oh, it's a it's an accounting. Oh, LIFO.
Last In First Out?
Yes. Okay. I've always disagree only way I can survive this
world is by operating as a last in first out guy and people who
know me always have always or they get stuff to meet at the
last minute. And that's the first to come out. So lastin
first out, as opposed to what I would normal people should do.
And they try to do and I think it's impossible to do in this
helter skelter world, which is first in first out. So if you
have a bunch of projects, the first one on the list is what
you're supposed to do. And then you go out and you've worked
your way to the end, as opposed to doing the last idea first.
And so if it's now sir rice that knows this, I believe because
when he came up with his idea of getting credit for show 6060
Yeah,
he had this whole plan set up. And then he reminded you at the
last minute, every single show before the show. Yes. And that
worked, although
I did have this thing pinned up and I would have pull it off.
But if I didn't know it was just nice to get the reminders. And
that's the idea. I got no reminders. I haven't heard from
this guy since so. I'm sorry. But you, you get a Well,
I do know about Sir David is he is part of the big autism
conference in Austin on Saturday. And did you know that
Andrew Wakefield lives in Austin now? The does that name ring a
bell? He's the guy that proved that autism was related to
vaccinations. And then he got completely learning rates with a
with a broomstick screwed him. Yeah, right. But it turns out
that the I can't remember exactly. But I know that we
looked into it. And the British wasn't in Britain. Yeah. And
they completely got vilified because of some that he had. He
had paid someone to do something, he made a mistake.
And that once and for all, just remove the whole conversation of
vaccines causing autism. But Sir David has invited me to go on
Saturday, there's a number of reasons why I don't think I can
go. But apparently, all the kids are there. And you know, these
kids have all turned to mush, you know, from after their
vaccines. And so there is there's a real correlation, at
least with these kids, apparently. But you can't say
that anymore in today's world, because you know, you can't you
can't question just anything you can't question. You'll be
ridiculed as a religious freak.
Yeah, no, I think your religious commentary there at the
beginning of the show is outstanding. And I think that's
exactly what you're going to do. If you don't, if you have a
litany thing, that's why Common Core, I believe, is going to be
used to push out. Really, Oh, you don't like common core, you
must be a religious freak. You might you don't like concrete,
you must be some sort of a Christian nut ball.
By the way, it only applies to Christian nut balls, not to Jews
and not to Muslims.
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They can't see how it works. They have to bid on it first. If
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is this. We go out. We hit people in the mouth
shot at us. That's weird. We were talking today. We're not
doing a lot of clips. We're just talking.
We're doing a lot of clips. We're but we're talking Sure. I
think that's usually somebody starts at the beginning of the
show with a with a package then we play more clips. I do have a
one thing I'd like to play this kind of off. I can either do
something funny. Oh, by the way, here's a this was an analysis, I
believe it was on Al Jazeera. Tell me you don't see some irony
in this funny gun control clip. This is about Fort Hood
presidents citing their heroic actions, protecting their fellow
soldiers as the Rampage played out over eight long minutes. Mr.
Obama also referred to two issues that have been raised in
the wake of the tragedy, the mental health of the alleged
gunman and the mental health of all returning veterans, and the
call to end the ban on soldiers carrying concealed weapons while
on a military base. The logic is that if they had those weapons,
then the tragedy could have been stopped much sooner.
Yeah, you know, this whole thing. extremely disturbing to
me. And it also had happened here almost in our backyard, I
actually have a short clip where
you're disturbed by the thing that happened or disturbed by
the notion that now they're advocating concealed carry when
this is against all of the all of the liberal thought process
that involves it. Because if you that logic right there that was
expressed, by the way, and I never got a clip from Obama
actually saying that, but that logic that was expressed right
there should apply to the whole country.
Yeah, I'm disturbed by the whole politicisation of what happened.
And really the war on crazy which is being stirred up by
this to the President. Yeah, things happen. But you know, he
has to go to Fort Hood, and he has to go speak at the ceremony.
When we got kids. I'm on planes with bodies coming from
overseas. He's not there. It's only when it's politically
advantageous as you show up to some dead kids funeral. Ha,
yeah. Yeah, here he is. Yeah. And the beat write this one
down. Yeah. And the BBC. And the BBC. Even they showed that did
this package and they mixed taps. Oh, underneath. I couldn't
even do it. I had to cut the beginning off because they had
the taps playing. And then they mix the president while taps was
still playing, which believe me, that didn't happen. Alright, no
one talks during taps. But they but the BBC lies essentially by
editing it this way. The BBC they've now. Yeah. So here's
what the President said,
as a nation. We can do more.
Do you hear this? This is this by the way, guys. dBc. You are
horrible people to do. They are horrible people. And that is you
are, by definition lying. With your piece here. This did not
happen this way. The President did not have this background
track playing while he's pontificate as
a nation. We can do more. To help counsel those with mental
health issues. To keep firearms out of the hands of those who
are having such deep difficulties.
Now this is a very important thing, what'd he say? Keep
firearms out of the hands of those that are having such deep
difficulties. Wow. You know, where's the knock on my door any
day now? Yeah. Mr. Curry, we heard your podcast. We think
you're deeply troubled.
As military we must continue to do everything in our power to
secure our facilities and spare others this pain we must honour
these men by doing more to care for our fellow Americans living
with mental illness. civilian and military.
Yeah. All right. Yeah, they're
gonna care the egg of the crap out of me.
Yeah, well, you you're sound deeply disturbed, yeah. Yeah.
Did you get one of those little Tourette's tantrums? Knocking on
the door in a minute? Here now?
No, that right there is good enough is enough. I'm sorry. You
have Tourette's you cannot own a firearm and you really shouldn't
be around kids either. Or cats.
Yeah, we had to put you on the list.
Yeah, I think you should be on this list we have Oh, yeah. No,
I think I'm too old. They don't care anymore.
That's true that at some point you're kind of grandfathered in.
Is like a fence. That's too close and curse.
Words. Intro So what? Do you want to kill him? Jewish Jewish
work. Okay. Guys are hard to kill. Who cares? Who cares? Who
cares? Who listens to these people?
Did you catch this? This Sharpton thing this? I thought
this was beautiful. Because the guy weaselled His way out
instantly. So Al Sharpton, who you will know on this show from
no
real contract.
The man who? Yeah, I worked with he also he also did the instead
of Skittles, he said skillets
and this is this guy this skillet swoosh.
But he's an SMD. Such, you know, the
guy is an obvious low IQ bonehead. And he is representing
NBC. Yeah. How did he ever get this job?
Oh, well, apparently, he's been working for the government for a
long time as an informant for the FBI. And
this for the FBI. So that's that's reason enough.
Yeah, he was informant for the FBI back in the This must have
been the 80s. And smoking gun.com got a hold of what it
was the informant number 17, or something like that. And so he
goes on a stage, they're at his little National Action
Committee, which is his, this is the thing that he uses to
pressure people into giving him money. They, you know, we're
gonna be really annoying unless you support our nonprofit. And
here's his response. And much to the, to the GI of the people
attending
knew about this story. Ben, was the one that set up the meeting
with this guy sounds. So
right there. What Sal and Joe BANA
I've done a lot of things in life, some that if I could do
again, I would do differently.
I would ask for more money.
But in this situation, I did what was right. I did what I was
always raised in the values of a praying mother to do. And I did
what I tell kids every day, all over this country that they
should do. And that is deal with getting guns and crime out of
their community and cooperate with the law. Now,
he was an informant against some some guys who were like concert
promoters who were ripping off artists. But somehow he's able
to spin this into keys. A guy's trying to get guns off the
street. He's really, he's phenomenal. It's really quite a
quite a talent. But but he's not. He's untouchable. You
cannot touch the guy. If I
was doing business for James Brown, I had no choice but to
meet with guys who would later be alleged or early be alleged
to be masked. But like I was saying, Hey, I heard you was
with the song. So family, let's chill together one like that.
The conversations were recorded. And I would record them today,
if somebody threatened rats are usually people that were what
are the rats out was not an am not a rat. Because I went with
the rats. I'm a cat. And whether it's a rat in racial profiling,
or police brutality, or monsters, exploiting black
artists, don't get me confused.
Yeah, I'm a cat, not a rat. And then, and then he he does
something. And actually, I'm reversing into this because Eric
Holder did something very similar in the same setting,
actually, here he is on MSNBC on his own show. And now he's
allowed to apologise but he's doing something very tricky,
which is a genius. By the way, when you're stuck in in a weird
situation,
the right thing working with the authorities. I didn't consider
myself quote an informant wasn't told I was that I was an
American citizen with every right to call law enforcement.
And that's the lesson I want to emphasise tonight. Forget me
I'll fight my battles.
This is the one forget forget about it. being me. This is a
very this have you ever noticed this being used? Forget forget,
forget probably but I haven't noticed it to deconstruct it,
forget it even being me. And, and I will start to deconstruct
this because I have to play one little thing before I give you
the holder example. So Eric Holder, our Attorney General,
the highest guy and justice in the land here and Gitmo nation
was in Congress, and he got into a fight with Gohmert. And so
Gohmert essentially said, wow, you know, you don't seem to
think it's such a big deal about being contempt. And I presume
was this fast and furious? Or Benghazi or both?
I think it was Gohmert was going after holder a lot on Fast and
Furious. Yeah.
And so he's the Justice Department has not produced the
documents. So he's been found in contempt
is fast and furious. Yeah. And here
is this little exchange that took place? Well, I think, well,
we and by the way, the microphone situation in Congress
that is on C span, I don't know what happened. But someone
thought it was funny to like, put only mid range in. Have you
noticed this? All the microphones are crap. Chinese.
Chinese mics? Exactly, we got an upgrade.
Well, I think what we promised to do is to provide you and your
staff with,
sir, I've read you, which your department promised and it is
inadequate. And I realise that contempt is not a big deal to
our attorney general. But it is important that we have proper
oversight. So you don't want to go there.
You don't want to go there, buddy.
You don't want to go there?
Is this guy a bully? Or you don't want to go there, buddy?
Buddy. I'm
new here. The buddy play? I
know you got it's in the background. Again. Apologies for
the mic situation. Why
is that contempt is not a big deal to our attorney general.
But it is important that we have proper oversight, buddy.
You don't want to go there,
buddy. So you don't want to go there. Okay.
I don't want to go there. No,
not very hip to the way the kids talk. I don't want to go there.
You don't want to go there? Okay.
I don't want to go there know about the contempt.
You should not assume that that is not a big deal to me. I think
that it was inappropriate, I think was unjust, but never
think that that was not a big deal to me. Don't ever think
that?
Well, I'm just looking for evidence. And normally we're
known by our fruits. And there have been no indications that it
was a big deal, because your department has still not been
forthcoming in producing the documents that were the subject
of the contempt. Now let me move on. If there have been other
questions asked about
the documents that we were prepared to make available, then
we were prepared to make available now, that would have
popped me to the whole need. This was all about the gun lobby
and a desire to have.
So we've been trying to get to the bottom of Fast and Furious
where people died, were at least a couple of 100 Mexicans died.
And we can't get the information to get to the bottom of that. So
I don't need lectures from you about contempt. And I don't get
called to deal with asking questions. As a former judge.
I'd never have asked questions of someone who's been held in
contempt.
So that was just one. One little thing that took place and then
you know, these blowhards
go back and forth if they go Marta, you know these Congress's
this is just the charade. They felt this way about it, they
would put hold him in contempt doing it. Well,
here's Blake, let me see. Why is this Blake Farenthold from
Texas, Republican and he wouldn't even ask questions. I'm
committed
to maintaining the constitutional balance of power
and the authority that this branch this legislative branch
has. And I just don't think it's appropriate that Mr. Holder be
here if an American citizen had not complied with one of the
Justice Department subpoenas they would be in jail. Yeah, not
sitting here in front of you right on mystifying but I
realised there questions to be asked and I'll yield the
remainder of my time.
So okay, so this is of course outrageous. I mean, don't go
there buddy. Now holder then shows up at Sharpton thing the
next day. If the National Action Committees I would have called
National Action Committee
Yeah, the I don't know what shuffle is now. Now remember,
Sharpton was using this whole boat but you know forget about
me. Just look at the situation forget about me. Now here's
holder I get apologies He's he's really killing the mic there the
Action Committee.
I am pleased to note that the last five years have been
defined by significant strides and by lasting reforms, even in
the face, even in the face of unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly
and divisive adversity. If you believe that you look at the
array and forget about
me, forget about me, forget about me, forget about me.
You look at the way the Attorney General, the United States was
treated yesterday, by a House committee had nothing to do with
me forget that one attorney general has ever had to deal
with that kind of treat.
So forget about me, forget about me, which really means think
about me, because let me think, Oh, yes, I'm black
president has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment.
This is to this forget about me, business really means forget
about me, take me out of the equation. But think about me in
this context. And what Attorney General has ever had to live
through that horrible, horrible treatment from white guys from
Texas.
There you go. That's what it's really all about. And Gohmert
wasn't doing much. He was just being a little snide. And he was
asking for the documents. Yeah. And I bet you there's plenty of
ways if you start looking C span Attorney General's testifying,
there's plenty of abuse. Oh, yeah. Give me a break. He was
hurt doe, buddy.
Don't go that. Well. Did you he had this little I actually
wasn't going to play it for you. But this is what there was this
line here. See if you can catch it here in this clip.
Well, let me ask you.
The time of the gentleman has expired. Unfortunately. Chair
recognises the gentleman asparagus.
Did you hear what he said? Some bite asparagus. Good luck
with your asparagus. Is that what he said? That's what hold
her said to Gohmert. So I had to look this up. Why did
he say that? Joe, he's just up there being a wise ass.
Good luck with your asparagus. But here's what happened. In
2013, when this started when, when when Gohmert started
getting into his face, he said and it was kind of a it's kind
of a lawyer joke. I didn't I didn't understand this. The
Attorney General will not cast aspersions on my asparagus. This
is a call back to Percy Foreman. Which this is what old white
guys do believe me, like non sequitur that nobody cares
about? Who who used this in, in trials to to put everyone on the
wrong foot as it were. But of course the Attorney General
doesn't get it. And he's been waiting a year to say I guess
good luck with your asparagus or whatever. Don't think is very
strange.
Would that be a reference to the good? In other words, he's
saying to Gohmert in an offhanded way. Good luck with
you're trying to get anywhere with this. Yeah, probably.
Because you're you know, you're getting nowhere already or
you're an asshole.
Probably something like that.
Yeah. Good luck with yours.
Good luck with your asparagus. All right. John, have you seen
as a border length Clip of the Day? No, no, no, it's in.
No, no, no. Have you seen Years of Living Dangerously? I sent
you a link. I didn't do a LIFO which is probably a mistake, but
it's an hour long show. So yeah, yeah. Okay, usually
I know I didn't write it out and watched it. No Years of
Living Dangerously is the Showtime series. Produced by
this is the Robert Redford, Matt Damon, Tom Friedman. Lots of
celebrate ease. And it's it's essentially the televised series
of an inconvenient truth how climate change is going to kill
us all. Dead, like just dead. So you haven't seen I've heard
about this. We've played the trailer, like six months ago.
So the first episode is already available on YouTube. And
Friedman, Thomas Friedman. Now he's not a climatologist, I
don't think is he
know nothing like the Saudis. Economists columnist for the New
York Times. Oh, yes, that's right. He believes to be agency
reference. Oh,
yeah. Okay, so you okay, that helps. So he could be a spook is
what you're saying? Well, he's one of the main figures in this
in this documentary series. Why? Well, you'll find out He's there
on I think, talk to the hand, Meet the Press that something
What's the with the Bob Schieffer guy face the face the
face the hand face the palm and with Heidi Colin who is from the
nonprofit NGO Climate Central Inc. Yes Climate Central and
Climate Central, you might want to know where they received
their funding from. I've looked that up just for your
convenience so you understand who was talking and who was a
part of this you can find them at climate central.org funding
from bu anonymous. Let's see Packard Foundation foundation
environmental research, Google Island, NASA NASA Langley NASA
Headquarters Northrop Grumman. Let's see Gordon Betty Moore
Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers, the Robertson
Foundation, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Bureau of
Reclamation, US Department of Energy US Department of State's
World Bank, kind of a New World Order organisation, not really a
no agenda type outfit.
No, it sounds pretty questionable, sketchy,
sketchy at best. And by the way, they have not released their
2012 form 990 which is in violation of all rules. Well, I
don't understand how these people get away with that.
I don't know either. If I didn't do that, you know, she's there
six months late at this point. And that's after a six month
extension. So alright, fine. Okay, so they don't do that they
can do whatever they want. So Heidi Collins there along with
Tom Friedman, who apparently now is in the climate business. And
within the first five minutes of this episode one, we find out
well, I'm not going to spoil it for you. I'm gonna have Tom
Friedman explain it to you. It's
a nine part series and people can watch the first one
tomorrow, actually on YouTube years of living dangerously.com
Get it for free. For me, it's been really the most remarkable
documentary project I've ever been involved with, I got to do,
looking at environmental and climate stresses in the Middle
East. So
climate stresses in the Middle East climate stresses actually
go to Syria
and show how the drought in Syria is connected to the
revolution, get to go to Yemen, look at the next for city in the
world have you run out of
water? And so climate change is responsible for the revolution
in Syria? Of course, where else we have al Qaeda in Yemen,
there'll be the first country without water
and and then teach
Egypt Of course, another place. It's all climate change. It's
not CIA is climate change. What water
did they ever have in Yemen? Most of those countries, you
visit them that you find out that most of the water they have
is reclaimed ocean water, they don't none of them have water.
But listen, you're not Tom Friedman, so you just need to
shut up and sit down and watch the documentary.
Climate stresses were involved in the recession. They're
participating in the series. You know, we have Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Matt Damon Harrison Ford, Don Cheadle, Mark
Bittman. Really? Leslie Stahl from from CBS.
Second, all men I don't know who that is. Mark Bittman is a food
guy. Food Network who is I don't know if he's the one he's either
the one is two of these guys. Bittman Zimmerman. One day they
eat everything they can and they discuss it. If I'm not mistaken,
Bittman who is also a food columnist. challenged his famous
chefs so they can they come on a show and then he they cook
something and he cooks it better. If if this is the same
if I do I'm
not No that wouldn't surprise me. Wouldn't surprise me. But is
he Why is he on this? Well, we need celebrate the appeal. You
see that? Why is it why is the Harrison Ford on why is Matt
Damon on it?
Harrison Ford was sober.
Put them on quick
and Cheadle Mark Bittman. Really, Leslie stole from CVS.
Leslie Stahl she's the talking head
there but he had to say that because you heard Bob going,
boy, yes. Oh, yeah. Because it's CBS face. The problem is on CBS
CBS Harrison Ford. Mark Bittman really literally stole from them
CBS remarkable group of people remarkable ideas to bring this
home through personal stories. And it does it amazing,
amazingly effective.
Well, you ain't seen nothing yet. Now, I'm no climatologist,
but some of the things that what's her name? Heidi Colin
says I think is borderline criminal. And so of course, when
it comes to a needle here, Bob Bob is off his rocker. He's
really confused. I think he's not I think he's not buying any
of this. But she first Yeah, I think he's completely like this
bullcrap.
Well, Schieffer might be kind of on the fence about this because
he spends a lot of time now. A hosting or being During the guy
in the middle, a lot of Brookings and some of these
other major think tanks events, he's like the kinda guy can't
hear anything in the coordinating, hosting that
hosting. But you know, when you're the panel ahead of the
panel, right, the moderator moderator moderator is
moderating a lot of this stuff and he's probably getting an
earful,
right. Well, here's the MS column.
It helped me with this. For example, the the ratio of storms
we've had the thing that hit New Jersey a Big Sandy
it was the thing that hit New Jersey, John, The Big Sandy, big
sand he's like, Yeah, help me. thing that hit New Jersey, Big
Sandy, a big a big bertha. Sandy helped me
with this. For example, the the ratio of storms we've had that
thing that hit New Jersey, a Big Sandy and all of that. Is that
because
I can start with global he this was on the documentary.
No, no, this is they're talking about the documentary they're
talking about. Okay. This is a promotion for the documentary. I
believe CBS also owned Showtime if I'm not mistaken. I don't
think yeah, no, I'm pretty sure it isn't CBS Viacom company, I
think back deadzone shutdown. So that's why this is forced on
them. Yeah.
Sumner go
handy. And all of that, is that because of global warming
because of climate change,
there is no doubt in my mind that glow
beautiful. What a performative there is no doubt in my mind.
This is beautiful the way she's doing this. So climate change,
there is no doubt in my mind that Hurricane Sandy was made
worse as a result of global warming, specifically, the sea
level rise components. So you think about that massive storm
surge during Hurricane Sandy, there's an additional foot of
sea level rise that we can tie directly to additional flooding.
You look at News Now
hold on a second. Nowhere have I heard anyone claim an additional
foot of sea level rise because of global warming inches. Yeah,
maybe an additional foot
full of crap jersey, for example, an additional 25 square
miles were flooded. That's about 40,000 people that were
impacted, who wouldn't have been and then think about how bad
Sandy was 60 billion in damage more than 125 dead. And then
fast forward to a point where sea level is now four feet
higher. And we're talking about a sandy level flooding event in
a place like New Jersey happening every year. So we've
got to think about the fact that if we don't do anything now, our
grandchildren are dealing with risks they cannot cope with
that we're having a Katrina every year there hasn't been one
sense.
Now it's a Big Sandy every year the kids are going to die. It's
just it's it's all over. However, we need to switch back
to Tom, by the
way. That was if I'm not mistaken. Sandy was in two
220 12. So we should have had what was the one that 2013 Since
was happening every year? Yeah. Well, I'm
sorry, we didn't have I didn't have one. Oh, no, no, don't
worry, but it's gonna be four feet. Okay, 60 billion, by the
way, the 60 billion people are putting more expensive houses
there. That's why that number goes up.
All right, up to 68 less than my look. Now Tom
is a being a good company, man. He is going to help launch a new
meme. Because he finds that this global warming, that's just not
cutting it. No, no. No one is doing this climate change
communication properly. But this guy smart man, New York Times
writer intellectuelle he'll do it for you.
Well, let me put it in personal terms. So your your son or
daughter has a disease and you go to 100 doctors 97% of them.
Say this is the cause and this
is the cure. It's only if your doctor's son or daughter is
involved. And 3%
say this is the cause this is secure. That's what it is on the
climate science. 97% of experts say this 3% say that and
conservatives are saying I'm gonna go with the 3% that's not
conservative. That's Trotskyite radical, okay, that you would go
with the 3% not the 97%. Now get ready for it to pick up on
something that Heidi said, I actually don't like to use the
term global warming, because that sounds so cuddly to
Minnesota. Boy, Bob, that sounds like golf in February. I much
prefer the term Global Weirding. Okay? Because that's actually
what happens. The hots get hotter, the West get wetter, the
dries get drier. And the more violent storms for the reasons
Heidi outlined are most likely to become more severe. And
that's what we saw in Syria. We saw a four year drought worst in
series modern history that preceded the revolution there
and produced a million refugees that basically laid the
predicate for that revolution.
You Go Global Weirding equals Syria. It's so obvious
Wow. That's a boy They're like
no no no no no I don't think any of them are clipper they this is
just no I'm just saying yes it was Tip of the Day would have
called it alright so
then it let's just wind it up with the with the obvious play
because you know better safe than sorry I think is kind of
the mean, Global Weirding Better safe than sorry 797 doctors not
the three crazy we're probably religious crazy doctors. By the
way, it gets back
to a central point. Yes, some people say you know, climate
change is a hoax to just say, you know, if it's a hoax, it
will be the greatest hoax that ever happened to us. Because if
we do everything we need to do to prevent climate change, and
it doesn't happen, we will be like someone who trained for the
Olympic triathlon, and the triathlon never came, we will be
stronger, we will have cleaner air, we will have healthier
society, we will have more innovative industries will
have less money. So what
he's saying even if it is bull crap, better off,
we'll have a stronger dollar will have a stronger dollar or
less dependent on the worst active traders in the world.
No, no, no way. You have to listen to this. Putin. Okay,
whatever it is, it's Putin and
on the worst Petro dictators in the world, starting with
Vladimir Putin
will say, we'll have a better petro dollar
we get Putin thrown in now.
Let's dependant on the worst Petro dictators in the world,
starting with Vladimir Putin and the likes of him. So to me, if
it's a I don't think it's a hoax in the least. But if it were,
and we did everything we could to prevent it, we'd only be
stronger. By the way. If it's not a hoax, and we don't do
anything. We will be a bad biological experiment.
Bad biological experiment.
Guys, it should be a novelist. Yeah.
Yeah. No, I just you have to watch this thing is beautifully
done. You know, every
now I'm gonna head out. You know, I'm resisting watching it.
And I think now that I know you're watching it, I'm even
more resisting. The AlJazeera had an interesting little piece,
which kind of fits into this a little bit. They made the note.
Yeah, we've talked about this, but we haven't taken it too
seriously. But I think the I think the public relations
machine has started. And I think we're going to start hearing
more and more. And this is going to be one of our themes of the
show because this woman is completely nuts. And it's going
to be a lot a lot of fun to watch her run against Hillary
because she can actually beat Hillary and it's Elizabeth
Warren,
and 2012. For tonight's power politics segment, we look at a
female Democratic senator who's turning heads many are
responding to her calls for equality. And her statements
bashing the GOP are going viral. David Schuster has that story.
She is the potential 2016 Democratic presidential
candidate that Hillary Clinton's team fears the most
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. I'm fighting
to build real opportunity, fighting to give every child a
chance to build something extraordinary. And I want you to
fight along beside me. We are in this together.
What What was this on John? What? What? This is 000 interest
this past
weekend in that same speech in Minnesota Warren hammer to the
Republican Party's biggest stars. She accused House budget
Chairman Paul Ryan of caring only about the rich.
That may be Paul Ryan's vision of how America works. But that's
not our vision of this great country.
And she ridiculed Republican Senator Ted Cruz who led last
year's government shutdown.
Now the shutdown that sucked $24 billion out of the economy. Talk
about a financial genius.
Born and raised in Oklahoma, the 64 year old Warren has spent
most of her life working as a law professor most recently at
Harvard. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. She was
named Chair of an oversight panel for the Troubled Asset
Relief programme or tarp. In 2012. Warren ran for US Senate.
One grainy video of her speaking inside a home got more than a
million views on YouTube. There is
nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You
built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear
you move your goods to market on the roads. The rest of his paid
for Warren then
received $40 million in campaign contributions and handily
defeated Republican Scott Brown over the last three months in
only her second year in the Senate record show Warren has
raised over $2 million for Democratic candidates and
senators up for reelection this year. That's more than anybody
except for President Obama. Warren's exceptionally liberal
policy views have also set her apart. She believes the minimum
wage should be raised to $22 an hour and she has introduced led
to inflation that would make student loans interest free.
Hey, I'm voting for 22 bucks an hour go Elizabeth Warren.
Loans are free.
And credit cards don't screw. Yeah. We won't see the one who
was supposed to make sure that doesn't happen.
Yeah, it didn't work out for a big talker.
By the way. Check this out. Our bank by design is not just our
bank, I'm sure. But after we got nailed in the target, Neiman
Marcus thing. Yeah, they've now lowered we only have debit cards
$750. Is this problematic when you use a card to purchase an
airline ticket to Tokyo?
You'd call the bank up and they'll change it.
Yeah. You think it's easy that they've very complicated that
they are not changing it back to what it was? They're not doing
it? No, but they'll do it for the purchase. Yeah, but you got
to call them every single time now.
No, I mean, I don't know you can get it changed now. I've changed
mine a number of times. Wow. All right.
Cash, I'm back to cash and I'm going to walk to Tokyo. So
Elizabeth Warren Yeah, I don't like her.
No, I don't like her either. She's bombastic. She's a
professor of law at Harvard. Give me a break. We just hired a
professor to be president. He didn't do a very good job. And
she's a radical. But the thing is, somebody pointed out in this
piece, which went on and on that she is radically more left than
Hillary. And the base. In other words, when they do the
primaries, Hillary can easily win in the general election. And
Warren maybe can't win in the general election. But the base
of Democrats when they vote in the primaries tend to vote for
the most left radical that's that's famous that they all
know. And that would be her so she could actually beat Hillary,
just the way Obama did with all his blather. Now, it's, again,
possible that the Republicans are actually pushing this agenda
because she's a perfect red herring. Right? Bringing all
this crazy stuff that she's done, and she then maybe a
Republican can sneak in.
Well, I will say and a lot of people who a lot of our
producers have tried this as well, when you when you roll out
the line. Hillary Clinton is uniquely qualified to run the
Empire. More and more Obama bought. personnel are well,
first of all, they blows their mind when you say that, but they
always like really You think she can when I feel this pullback?
Oh, really? Yeah. I think they're afraid of her. And I Oh,
and I always say yeah, Hillary's
her own worst enemy. Yeah, she's, well, she's the best
Republican
they'll ever have is what I would have my follow up line,
and good Republican to Neo liberals. Is that left place to
call him? No, but I'm
feeling I'm feeling a little bit of apprehension. And there, I'm
not sure what it is why I you know, I don't know there's
something about it. That is not correct. And it's bothering
people. Now. There is no one else as far as I can tell.
Except for this Elizabeth Warren. I didn't even know that
she was seriously be considered.
Yeah, we actually talked about this once as a possibility
because she's come up in the conversation conversation a few
times. But yeah, that credit card thing. She is a big topic
talker. And how she get $40 million to run against the other
guy unless it was from the banks. Wall Street man, which is
a good book that just came out by nao Nate a Nomi.
Prins. Yeah. Have you read the book?
I'm just getting a copy from my Kindle. But I do have a cheat
showed up on Democracy Now. And I got two clips of her. She's,
she's actually because she because she's, I'm always
confused.
Goldman. She's ex Bear Stearns. She's ex Lehman Brothers. Is she
hot? She's very, I like her. I think she's pretty. But she I'm
gonna tell you this before you listen to the clips and you're
gonna start hearing it.
Now. There's a nice shot of her here kind of in a in a wife
beater a black wife.
She's very she's sharp. She's quick. With hairs. She's hot.
But she has a slit. You're going to hear a doctor. I say this. We
start listening. She has this sounds a little bit like Annie
Hall. Oh, okay. Which ones first? The first one you want is
this is her discussion. This is Nomi versus the bankers
but in that clip and a lot of what Obama has said, you know,
what is said publicly and what actually happens inside the
private office and with respect to what's going on with bankers,
you know, shows up in in the reformed that shows up in the
structures, it shows up in the minions of lobbyists and lawyers
that continue to funnel money and little chips away at even
very weak but existing rules. And Obama has allowed that to
happen. He's never come out and named a name against a banker
who talks about Wall Street fat cats as some sort of like big,
broad category. He's not name names. He's not said what Wall
Street needs to done. It's just it just sort of fluffy rhetoric.
Would he even say what he said? In 2009, talking about the fat
cat bankers today.
No, you know why? Because he believes or he says I shouldn't
say believes, I don't know. But but the 2010 Dodd Frank Act was
somehow sweeping reform and he characterises it as being
relative to to FDR is reform when he did the Glass Steagall
Act in the New Deal and created the SEC and all sorts of things.
And it simply wasn't, as I mentioned, before, banks got
bigger their concentration of our deposits and assets and
risks got bigger, nothing was fixed by that, quote, Reform
Act. And so he would, he doesn't need to say that now. He said it
kind of in the beginning to consolidate his base to get
elected, whatever it was, but many presidents and actually
Democrats are a little bit more guilty of this than Republicans,
because I think they feel they need to do is from Wilson on
have always bashed the bankers in their campaign speeches. And
then when it comes right down to it, most of them have been very
helpful and very symbiotic with them after they have been in
office. So it tends to get said to the public,
well, this is a big revelation. And politicians,
documents a lot of it, though, but she does have some good
stories, apparently, in the book, and the and the Goldman
Sachs story. It's not like really pertinent to the show or
anything. But it's, I think it's a good little history that we
should know, it's essentially FDR is the one who saved the
company, but play this go. This is a history of Goldman Sachs,
Goldman Sachs, and that it wasn't always as powerful as it
is today.
Yeah, Goldman Sachs almost died in 1928. Or, well, basically,
between 98 and 1929, they had a trading partnership, partnership
in which investors invested money in the stock of that trust
went up to 320 something dollars, and then it
subsequently went down to one. And there were a lot of angry
investors around the street and so forth. But a man named Sidney
Weinberg, who was the chairman of Goldman at the time, who
actually joined Goldman in the panic of 1907, as sort of a an
underling decided that if he could be friend FDR in such a
manner as to help him run his 1932 campaign, he would kind of
have a seat at the table. And so the legitimacy of Goldman with
respect to FDR also allowed FDR to create the first business
council that Sidney Weinberg pushed in Washington to forge
relationships between the business financial community in
Washington, and so on. Sidney Mike Weinberg also was behind
LBJ, his choice of Henry Fowler as a treasury secretary, who
then joined Goldman Sachs after being a treasury secretary. And
of course, we had Henry Paulson, who did the other way. Bush
picked him to be the Treasury Secretary George W. Bush. And
then of course, Clinton kicked coming from Goldman Sachs to be
the Treasury Secretary in his administration. So but it
started with Sidney Weinberg and FDR.
Yeah. Okay. So this is something that we always used to talk
about. We stopped talking about the revolving door of Goldman
and the government. And I don't know why we stopped
that I know, it's because it's some of these things, a lot of
the topics that we have discussed, have become kind of
like passe. We forget the that this is going on? Yeah.
We got to be careful of that. We do forget these things. Well,
let me tie into that then. It was very interesting. Two
stories came out on Bloomberg. literally hours within each
other. The first and written by the same journalist, I might add
the first one derivatives derivatives rule softened in
victory for big banks. No, I'm sorry. The first one was tough
swap standards, drive up trade costs 92 fold. And then right
back, was the second article derivatives rules softened in
victory for big banks. This is about the Basel three standards.
Because of these, you know, it's now it's like $300 trillion in
derivatives that are out there. This is kind of being looked at,
in both these articles as a very dangerous thing.
Yeah, yeah. I think everybody thinks it's dangerous. Yeah. And
regulated Wild West situation. That could literally the thing
is, you know, it's like, you could break the world with this
300 trillion, although the likelihood is pretty is
less and less. I mean, it's all it's all fantasy. Anyway, it's
just paper. Everything is just digits and paper. And it's it
really mean it's really meaningless. It's not real. It's
just an illusion. If you really look at it,
but now let's take an illusion people can send the no agenda
show all their illusionary yes,
no, no, we know it's and I'm paying my rent with illusionary
digital. I totally agree. Look, here's some a couple other
articles Britain urges us Congress to stop blocking IMF
reform. This is the 2010 IMF reform that we've been talking
about that might usher in some form of international money.
Frankfurt has now become a trading hub for the Rehman
Rehman be how do you pronounce that renminbi revenue be? I
don't know, rent revenue be it's the Chinese thing. Yeah,
I heard it pronounced but I doesn't come to me remenham B.
So now you can exchange your money in Frankfurt and London
soon. So the Chinese are starting to move into different
mainstream trading hubs. And then there's this guy, Jim
Rickards, and he wrote a book called The, I think it's like
the depth of money or something. I have not read the book. But it
was interesting to hear his take on the BRICs. That's Brazil,
Russia, India, China, and South Africa. And the IMF, I think
this was from Russia today, which you need to know because
there's always a slant, but the guy is an American. And, and
he's a, he's a money writer, he's made a lot of sense.
What they really want is what's called more voice voice is one
of those jargon terms, but it means votes at the IMF, they
want more votes, the votes of the IMF are set up at Bretton
Woods in 1944, they've been changed a little bit over the
years, but relative to the size of the economies, they're
overweighted towards Europe. In other words, China doesn't have
as many votes as it should have, based on the size of its
economy, it's 10% of global GDP, but has nowhere near 10% of the
votes of the IMF, same thing with Brazil and the other
countries you mentioned. So they want more voice, the US has
denied that the US has not agreed to that within the
governance process of the IMF. But the US is trying to keep
everyone on their best behaviour saying you know, you've got to
support the dollar. Actually, they want a stronger Chinese
currency. So they can cheapen the dollar, which is actually
part of the currency where so there's a standoff right now
between what the US wants, and what the BRICS won, or what the
BRICS have done is they said, Fine, if we don't get a larger
voice in the IMF, we're going to create our own institutions.
They'll have a sort of an IMF, a multilateral reserve fund
lending fund, just among the bricks, the bricks are building
their own internet backbone, the bricks are building up their own
lending institutions, or their own reserve funds, etc. And so
the bricks who say, hey, IMF, treat us fairly, or we'll go our
own way instead of bricks institutions, and I guarantee
those institutions will not have the dollar as a reserve
currency. So that's just another trend away from the dollar. And
there are many others around the world.
So what he's talking about is this big meeting coming up two
more things this weekend. Friday throughout the weekend, which
has all the financial ministers of all the G 20. And apparently,
obviously, we didn't pass any reforms not that I know of,
unless that happens, pushed around by these clowns.
So they might be starting their own networks now the Swift
this will be fun. Yeah, well, you know, what's
gonna happen? Oh, realisation obviously,
well, I don't know what you can't verbalise China and and
obviously, we're South America, Brazil,
before for South Africa, where we talk about what is going to
happen. Let's listen to Rickards take on what is going to happen.
I thought, this is interesting, no such thing
as a strong national security with a weak currency, the two
things don't go together a strong country has a strong
currency. I've actually advised the Pentagon on this, I've said,
you know, the day will come when you're enabled, so you recruit
your cruiser will pull up at a fuel depot and say Singapore,
and you'll say, hey, fill it up with fuel. And the operator will
say, Sure, pay me and SDRs. In other words, they'll no longer
accept ours. I said, for the first time, the US will have a
very expensive, forward deployed military that we have to pay for
in a currency that we don't print, as if the US one says the
RS is going to have to earn them like any other country with a
surplus and its balance of payments. And so this is a whole
new world. We're moving in this direction. You mentioned the
GCC, you know, we talked a little bit about Russia and
China in the BRICs. But the other threat comes from Saudi
Arabia. For 45 years, Saudi Arabia has put a prop under the
dollar under the petro dollar deal. And what they said was in
the rest of OPEC said, oil must be priced in dollars. So
everybody needs oil. That means everyone needs dollars to pay
for the oil. But Saudi Arabia says we'll price oil in dollars,
but you the United States guarantee or national security,
the United States in December stab Saudi Arabia in the back by
having a talk with Iran and making Iran the regional power.
So Saudi Arabia now that we're no longer defending them, in
fact, they have no no further reason to support the dollar. So
whether it's the bricks, whether it's Saudi Arabia, whether it's
financial warfare, the threats are everywhere, they're building
up, they don't happen overnight, but it's just a matter of time.
So this may be what really went down. And I'm not quite sure
exactly. You know, we know Obama was just in Saudi Arabia trying
to suck up to them because these guys are now in bed with the
Chinese. Who have the RMB that's how you pronounce it. RMB? Well,
they could be verbalised. Yes, they call you're a real prime
candidate for this. So this is not going to happen. And this
guy by the way, they use the example of a jet aircraft
carrier pulling in and having to pay STR for fuel is is very Bull
crap because this these are all nuclear powered and they run
forever, and they're not going to pull up anywhere and ask for
fuel. So even bring that that idea.
I'm obviously playing these clips because he supports my
thesis I'm not, you know, obviously. But I it's the Saudi
thing I thought was very appropriate and who pushed the
Iran thing I know who was against it? I never thought I'd
actually say maybe he had a point. But if you want to
maintain the petro dollar and you and I kind of agree with
what he's saying about the deal with the Saudis, you price in
dollars will protect you. And then we all went all in on this
Oh, and you know, we love Iran, we're gonna have a deal with him
and John McCain was like, bomb them, were you crazy? You can't
trust these guys. In essence, maybe he was trying to protect
the petro dollar.
Well, I think we've concluded that McCain is nuts. He's in bed
with that other creep. And there's it's all about some
money making deals is guys don't care about the country.
Well, so this final clip, and then and just just to play just
to get it out there is how something like this would be
introduced. And this kind of comes back to this big swap
thing. If we could make this whole, this whole crazy $300
trillion $600 trillion, somehow look like it's about to
collapse, then we could start to do some interesting moves this
way
to understand that the Fed has a printing press, they can print
dollars, the IMF has a printing press, they can print SDRs, and
they will print the SDRs. The next time there's a liquidity
crisis because the next crisis for the reason I explained
earlier, it's going to be bigger than the Fed and the fed the
Feds already insolvent on a mark to market basis. They're
leveraged 80 to one they look like a bad hedge fund the Feds
at the outer limit of what they can do. And so the only clean
balance sheet left in the world is the IMF, they're only
leveraged about three to one so they have a lot more headroom,
and they're going to issue this FCS by the way they did issue
STRS in 2009, I think I might have been the only one who
noticed other than, you know, Dominique Strauss Kahn and the
rest of the people, the IMF, but the fact is, it's world money,
it won't be issued on a calm day it will be issued in a crisis
because it is meant to provide liquidity remains to be seen if
people will accept it, but they might not have any choice
because they don't understand it. You know, the IMF is not
elected they've got kings, dictators, communists and others
on their executive committee and so people don't understand it.
So peg, we won't have them in our pockets STRS are not walking
around money will still have dollars, but they'll be like
Mexican pesos or it'll be a local currency won't be the
world currency. The world currency will be the SDR
it'll be like wampum will be like beads at Club Med.
Yeah, this isn't gonna happen. I've said it before.
But you know, what if we
what do you think we're sitting around on our hands going? Oh,
God, I guess we can No,
no, no, no, I'm not. I'm not what the only thing I could
think is that Wall Street is already all in and don't give a
crap about America. These guys don't care. If they're, if
they're saying, hey, it's been 100 years or 70 years, it's time
to do something new, they'll do it. That's That's my
goes off shore like that. Now, they're nobody's going to do
this. And they're gonna let these guys sang themselves. And
I think they're going to, I believe that knowing the way
this has happened in the past, it's like when Japan was buying
up the country in the 80s, and they bought Rockefeller centre,
and all the rest of it had to walk from the deal, which is my
favourite story ever. And they lost their butts in Hawaii and
all the rest, they're gonna let these guys go do their own thing
without the you know, the insiders that we'd have working
for us, I think Goldman and all these other companies, and JP
Morgan and the rest of these schemers, they're going to let
them go off and they're going to set them up. For some really bad
deals that are dead, we're gonna go in and rub allies the place
and break these guys into this, this whole IMF to the alternate
IMF or whatever, all IMF, or whatever you want to call it is
just going to lose its butt. And they're gonna come back begging
for us. And this is the reason that this whole thing that we're
actually getting stronger in terms of the in terms of where
the dollar sits in the scheme of things, because if you look at
our stock market, there's no reason it should be as high as
it is in the 16 1000s. And it kind of looks pretty healthy,
even though all these companies are borderline broke. Because
all the other alternatives out there which and there's plenty
people, they gravitate toward the US the US markets and
everything in the US because it's safe. We are we're the safe
haven and this whole thing was Saudi Arabia's they would be
they know they'd be asking for trouble. It wouldn't take
anything to topple that government and make it into
another row Syria, be easy. Nobody come to their defence.
Nobody likes them.
You make a very compelling argument. So you're saying that
this could be either a setup or just just laughing and waiting
for them to screw it up?
Yeah. And probably some setup aspect too, because there's
money to be made on the short side, by the way, and that would
be what would be going on with them and you can do a lot of
damage. That was shorting stuff too. Have you know what they're
doing? They're going to start the IMF started in the 40s I
mean it was just been around it's got just got legs and
they're not gonna just let any and all we want more voice.
Screw you What did you What did you voice
okay. Oh, good point. So let's put it this way. Alright this is
I actually like this better so there's this whole thing and
everyone's and we got our agents going around saying hey, we're
gonna screw these guys we're gonna screw these americanos
we're gonna get together with Brazil and Russia India and
China look even the Saudis are in man Hey, come on join us and
then we have some kind of event and then we have to tank
everybody I guess with the event
Yeah, yeah, just tank the tank to help pull the rug out from
under the hole.
How do we how do you and I How to Adam and John make money on
it? How
do we pray? How
do we profit from this? Yeah, how do we how do we hedge just
just on the off chance? Remember, I am from the future,
just on the off chance that I'm right. How do we hedge against
that?
Well, I mean, you can hedge against it with gold. Probably
or platinum, which is one of my favourite metals.
I like the gold. But
I don't know You know, this is the problem with these when
because everything is new. I mean, people don't realise Well,
I mean it's there's there's a history repeating itself aspect
which is might mean my cycles in the market but the thing that's
common to all the cycles is that none of them actually look the
same. When you examine them, they're one does because of one
thing, I mean, who would have predicted was the housing crisis
that caused his last downturn because it used to be the stock
market there man it was Russia it was Russia What are you
talking about Putin Putin did that yeah Putin blame anybody
you want but there's all these elements in it then I also think
the be another secondary collapse and because of the
printing of the money at some point it stops working but but
yeah, I don't know how to profit from it if I knew how to profit
from I wouldn't be doing this wouldn't
be doing this crappy show exactly. Imagine all the legal
no SDRs accepted
you might think it's a crappy show from the lack of support we
got
maybe we're just not doing anything right anymore.
Well we need to print more money Yes, here you go. I will say
that you know the yeah finding a way to profit from I think all
you have here you want to know how to profit just wait to this
thing collapses just short Twitter. A sequence. Facebook
not so much with Twitter is way out of control probably Musk's
company too. Although he's so good. I'd be sceptical
you know, so just a little secret I don't care Yeah, I can
go to the farmers market I can buy enough for the two of us we
got our cars are eight and 12 years old. It's fine. They drive
nice they got no spyware in it. And I'm a happy man and my wife
is hot. What else do I want?
Yeah, I got everything you need. You got good conversation.
Good conversation twice if we can get people who email me when
they really are trying to email you you know it's it's great to
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You get to go out with a via bots and yell and scream. Oh,
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checks and notes and whatever. And they have the sealing wax
and they seal it on the back of the envelope.
I know isn't it great?
It looks cool. I love it. Of course then there's the one guy
and I want to remind people sealing wax is not paraffin I'm
okay with regular put some wax. No, that doesn't does not work.
My candle doesn't push it down in that whole thing. Leaked oil
all over the everything was mess.
Let's do a little technology here for a moment. First, here's
a little clip I picked up.
You know, I think it's really a small minority of people who are
worried about privacy at this point. Okay.
Give me the Clip of the Day. It was that, Leo?
That's Leo? Oh, he'll listen to the whole clip.
You know, I think it's really a small minority people who are
worried about privacy at this point. I don't think it's a
movement. Leo Laporte, the tech guy moving on to Gary. Because
he believes it.
Oh, I'm gonna call him out on that when I see him. It's not
a movement. i This has been really bothering me as a
licenced all
about what? I just find this shocking that he would say that
it is well, yeah. That's why he needs me back on his little
show.
Well, that's not gonna happen. No, it's not. Okay. Especially
after you did this.
Yes, in fact, they've actually I can't even connect to their
stream now. Or to be kicked out of the chat room. Oh, there's
something that's really been bothering me. When it comes to
technology. Of course, I am. A licenced pilot. In fixed wing
and rotary. I am a licenced radio amature. I'm allowed to
broadcast up to many, many watts of power around the world with
wires and everything. And then I hear this about the pinger. This
Malaysian Airline thing. Now, we already kind of all know that.
You know, this is not about the plane. But when all of a sudden
we get this magic number popping up. It's 33.3 hertz instead of
37.5. There's a couple of things that are very bothersome about
this. But first let me play you Associated Press A P, would you
say there's a standard AP John of fact checking and stuff?
Yeah, no Associated Press has a lot of rules. And they even have
their own style guy, which they print they publish, which a lot
of people use, showing you how to pronounce and say things and
the way things should be spelled and how they should be used. So
when they have an aviation expert, you would expect the
expert to actually know what he's talking about. I would
expect an aviation expert working for the AP specifically
as opposed to just being one of the casual guys that submit
stuff to the AP. Yes.
Let's listen to this.
AP Radio News. I'm Rita Foley. The latest pinging heard by a
search ship looking for a missing jetliner in the Indian
Ocean is not exactly on the same frequency as the black boxes
onboard the aircraft would usually be. But our airline
expert Scott Mayer wit says that doesn't mean that this is a dead
end.
What we've heard right now is 33.3 megahertz it's not exactly
a sound you'd hear normally from nature or anything underwater.
Did you catch it?
Catch What did you catch what he said? What he says is a 33.3
which is the sound we'd normally dirty? 3.3 What what are you
said megahertz? Yes. Six
hertz, not megahertz kilohertz douche
megahertz
MHz. That'd be kind of hard to it that would
not travel very far underwater wouldn't get through. And this
is the Associated Press expert. So these things bother me
because how can you trust anything else? The Associated
Press and
this myself though, I mean, every once in a while, I'm
talking about herbs and megahertz. And I, I just dropped
megahertz and when it should be something else, and I'm like, I
give the guy a little pass.
I give the guy No Pass. And I also don't give where is the
analysis? Now the question
is yes or no. Did the No Pass should go like this. Why didn't
she call him on it?
Because it's a pre produced packet. She wasn't even there.
She wasn't talking to him. All right. All right. Now here is
the thing that bothers me. This except so first of all, whenever
a magic number pops up, it means bullshit. And to have 33.3 Mega,
mega, I did it myself. I'm gonna go shoot myself here. Well, now
I'm just gonna go home. I'm gonna take, I'm gonna take my
toys and get out of the sandbox. I suck. Alright. So this 33.3
kilohertz which I think it's actually I don't know if it's
hertz or kilohertz now, but it's not megahertz. Yeah, it's
probably killer. Okay, so whenever 33 pops up in the news,
it's a plant and it means bullcrap. Now to have a pinger
that transmits. We talked about this
a lot. We talked about the 33 thing a lot. We say what we say
about the Bs, and this appears to be the case. And for some
reason, we don't know why this is being planted and who's
planning it and how they do it.
Well, at this point, I think it's just to throw it in my
face. Hey, Carrie. If you have this sophisticated piece of
machinery that is supposed to transmit a signal, periodic
signal at 37.5 kilohertz I know a lot about transmitters. What
is now being said, Is all well, maybe because of the battery,
the battery ran out and then the frequency shifted. Are you
kidding me? No, that is bull shit. That That makes no one.
Even the guy who makes the machinery is lying about it. But
he won't even admit that this is happening when he specifically
asked the question, and I think it's only for insurance reasons.
But here he is with Erin Burnett, the guy who make the
news from Duquesne see calm. And she's going to ask him
specifically and he's and he's not he's going to subvert the
query is going to avoid answering the question. And so
this means that this 33.3 has been planted in there for a
reason
and there has been some discrepancy out there.
Obviously, we know that the signal that has been picked up
in both cases here by the US pinger locator was at 33.3
kilohertz and usually a black box such as the one that pinger
that you might manufacture you manufacture will be 37 and a
half. Does this discrepancy concern you make you think that
they're listening to the wrong thing?
Well, it's something that we need to study further. There's a
lot of variables that come into play age of battery depth of
water relay age of battery temperature of water, possible
debris that could be refracting or changing the frequency guide
Oh, anything exactly these things need to be examined. The
more data we have, the more we can help them.
So when you hear 33.3 is what this is broadcasting on, you're
not going you're not throwing your hands up and saying that's
not it. You're saying this very well could be it right.
We're optimistic but cautious. We don't think it's dolphins.
Okay, I
guess dolphins Is that what he said?
Yeah, we don't think asparagus. That should be our new one.
Yeah, I think it's asparagus. Wow. Well, we'll see. Sneak this
story they still run the crap out of it on CNN.
Oh, okay. I
have a clip for you. Yeah. Now this one he does a clip I took
it this was gonna be this could have been a number of things. I
couldn't use this clip earlier in the show to drop it in as
though it was it was these Gohmert and hold her talking got
X class or maybe holder talking to somebody. Or it could have
been an ask Adam about the guests the movie. And I just
decided it's probably the greatest dialogue I've ever
heard on a film ever.
I'm really thinking which one would it be? Good dialogue is
the key word there. Sorry. I don't see it.
Yes, dialogue of the decade is right after
it's alphabetical. I'm sorry.
Who does that Poke saccharina Stick he's playing with?
It doesn't make sense. Why would saccharides hate us? Because
he's trying to start a war.
Somebody's knocking up his men to men. I
don't believe that for one minute.
You know what I think? I think saccharides did himself and he's
trying to pin it on us. He's playing us for suckers. Jack. He
wants our territory. Believe that. War loses as much as we
do. Oh, come on. Jack, wake up.
Wow.
Great stuff.
Yeah. How come? We didn't just do a movie clip of the day. I
don't know what that is John
Deathwish for
with Charles Bronson. Yeah, wow.
The overacting is just especially this character is
just Oh, it's just like, Wow, that's good. That's good. That's
good. Anyway,
I actually you kind of jumped the gun. That was I had another
update from our actress. Sarah beige back.
Okay.
Who? Where was she last one. We had her on set. We had her in
Malaysia. And she was talking about fighter jets. escorting
the plane that that had her partner long term partner from
Texas on it. Yeah. It to do. Oh, she's no longer in Malaysia.
People
are giving up. Please help me convince them. We must keep
trying to find you. Just a small sign. I love you. As Jay
terribIe. Jack is in Beijing. And she joins us now. Live
Sarah,
remember she said she would wouldn't go to the the Beijing
the Chinese briefing for obvious reasons.
Yeah, she says you wouldn't. Right now she's in Beijing. No,
she had that other clip? Because yes, we'll go for obvious
reasons. What reasons. Yeah. And all of these reporters that
don't let these you know, I know what it is you get on you make a
lot of money. You're sitting there asking somebody questions.
And you are bored stiff. You know you're not on pins and
needles. Listen to what they say. Anyway, go on.
Well, it's a lot of people are now really looking into her. But
particularly the YouTube people. Hey, everybody, it's It's Joe
379 here on YouTube. I love. Love the YouTube people do the
screen. Joe 379. Here. Look at this lady. She's crazy. And she
apparently she worked for a Israeli high tech firm. She was
a teacher in Beijing. And she got us all suspicious. Very
interesting. Pat, thanks
so much for doing this. Let me start off by saying that my
heart goes out to you and I admire your strength. Are you
still
there? She said, Thank you for your courage that would have
been better
following the day to day developments in the search for
the plane? Or are you tuning out everything until some
substantial evidence comes?
First of all, thank you for having me on the show.
Whoo, thank you for having me on the show. This is not not the
way a distraught person talks. I'm sorry, just not.
And I am continuing to follow the investigative reporting that
I'm seeing mostly on CNN but a number of the other high quality
agencies are also pursuing a continued look into what the
evidence may or may not tell us
agencies, agencies. What they may or may not tell us she
sounds like a robot working for some one of these agencies.
But I've stopped looking at things like the pings and other
government provided information because it's all proven to be
wrong so far.
In fact, you've been vocally critical of How the Malaysian
government has handled this investigation and
you said Times Square what's the deal? Yes, yes, it's the sound
effects she's
she's she's no longer
seeing and there's a bunch of there's no horn honking in
Beijing the I heard a horn.
Actually the background is pure white you can't even see
anything in the bag is all washed out you know
just think they're in over their heads you think there's a cover
up here explain what you mean by that. Do you think it's a cover
up of some tremendous ineptitude leading the witness? Or do you
think there's something potentially more nefarious
there?
Is he setting her up or
while the thesis?
Well, that the criticism that I've rallied against the
Malaysian government's involvement so far has been
their ineptitude, in communicating things properly.
They say uses the same language one thing and then they say
another they're constantly contradicting each other.
Whether or not they the government itself is covering
something up or has made a mistake. I don't know.
All right, darling. You continue to entertain me.
Wow. Yeah, well, she'll be on for what should be next probably
in Moscow, but
she seems to be the CNN thing seems to be her to her home kind
of. So
I got a new story. Here's kind of interesting, I thought got a
kick out of it. Now what I got a kick out of his little fight.
This story was reported over and over and over again, this the
Medicare story where they released all the numbers and
they found some doctor made $30 million a year off of Medicare
charges. And another guy 20 and another guy can't get out. Now,
was this explained? Was this a Freedom of Information Act
thing? Or was this
something that Congress demanded that they release? I don't know
who was behind it, but it got released and everybody picked it
up. But only one of the reporting, reports reportage,
only one report Taj brought in a little tidbit in here, which
they dropped in. I think this was either I think this may have
been LG zero
quarters for the first time in 35 years Medicare releasing
payment data and the numbers are staggering. We're learning that
in 2012, seven doctors got more than $10 million in
reimbursements for services billed to Medicare, one received
21 million. He's currently enmeshed in a criminal inquiry,
all told $77 billion paid out to 880,000 doctors, the American
Medical Association had an injunction in place since 1979.
To prevent the information from being released, the data finally
released after a court order.
So nobody brought this up. This by the way, was the blaze.
Believe it or not,
this is upsetting.
The everybody talked about the story, but nobody except this
woman, as the news reporter there mentioned that the AMA had
put in an injunction in 1979 to prevent this information from
coming out. What kind of a corrupt operation is the AMA?
Yeah, they didn't even bring this up on the show that just
said it. But I've when I heard it, because I've heard the story
two or three times I had different copies of the story.
And then when she said that, wait a minute. That's
interesting, huh?
Well, it's a big and powerful organisation. I know that.
Well, the fact that they would, since 1979, you couldn't tell
how Medicare money was being spent. This whole thing is
like, you mean there's corruption going on in the
government? So if you were tell, do tell.
Another piece of short news, which I picked up on This is
Democracy Now. I'm sure. I just this is not the whole thing I
want to famous writer novelist, you run it won a number of
awards, who started the Paris Review, and I just love the way
AMY GOODMAN just reads this stuff straight faced. It wins
when she drops the real bomb in here on this guy,
and Peter Matheson's final novel comes out today, three days
after the celebrated author and naturalist died of leukaemia at
the age of 86. In his 20s Peter Matheson helped found the Paris
Review which he later admitted using as a cover for spying on
Americans and France as a CIA agent. Yeah, uh huh. Yeah,
I always just think that's fun. That's what that's what most of
what the CIA does people don't realise that and it's actually
beautiful because the way the New York Times who of course are
complicit in this is they can say, Oh, the Paris Review wrote
dot dot dot Yeah. Or the you know, the Amsterdam telegraph
wrote dot dot dot therefore, it gives credence and legitimacy.
Yeah. To a bull crap story. Yeah. Yeah, no, this is the this
is what we're fighting against. I want to mention this to
everybody who listens to this show. This is why what we on
this show fight against because it's the only source. I think
you're going to find that is always on the lookout for this
sort of thing. It consciously we are constantly, consciously and
constantly on the lookout for this sort of thing, and that's
why we need yours. Report.
And so I got a lot of emails I'm sure you get. Well, maybe you
didn't I probably get all your email. Just don't even email
John. Just send it to me. Yeah. This Mozilla CEO thing.
Oh, more.
Yeah. Well, I'm sure you
heard that. But the guy the guy who did OKCupid guy gave money
to this, this real anti gay congressman. Yeah,
there's that Assemblyman. Yeah, there's that. But what I thought
was more interesting. Was the tie in to Google.
No, okay. I'm listening.
Yeah, so I can read this to you verbatim. Actually, it's a it
was a slash dot thing. Over the years, Mozilla's reliance on
Google is continuing to grow. And Ditas report on Brendan Eich
promotion of CEO of Mozilla, the Wall Street Journal noted that
Google accounted for nearly 90% of Mozilla is $311 million in
revenue. So with its sugar daddy having also gone on record as
being very virulent ly opposed to Proposition eight to think
that Google support didn't enter into discussions of whether Prop
Eight backer ice should stay or go seems well, pretty much
unthinkable. It is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the
proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to
publicly oppose proposition eight explain google co founder
Sergey Brin in 2008. We should not eliminate anyone's
fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality to marry the
person they love. Interestingly, breaking the news of Ike's
resignation was journalist Kara Swisher, whose right to marry a
top Google exec in 2008 was nearly eliminated by Prop Eight.
Quote in an interview this morning wrote Swisher Mozilla
executive Chairwoman Mitchell Baker said that ability to lead
the company that makes the Firefox web browser had been
badly damaged by the continued scrutiny over the hot button
issue, which had actually been known since 2012. Inside the
Mozilla community. Now, I think there's validity to this. To
what that that this guy was pushed out by Google. Oh, and
and Kara Swisher is probably part of the gay Inc mafia. Who
pushed him out?
Well, she definitely had a conflict of interest when she
got involved in the story.
Thank you.
But of course, as long as you say full disclosure, then
everything's okay. Yes, it is. It makes me laugh. So hard. Full
disclosure. I'm paid by the CIA. Now, let me give you my opinion.
Oh, well, he had disclosed it. So it's fine. There's no
problem. Yeah. It's become an interesting way of doing of
producing journalism. And, of course, not a word out of the
news that Egypt has thrown for gay men in jail.
For should be up, somebody should be up in arms about that.
Yeah, we should be banning something or yelling at
somebody. In fact, I think the problem is we don't have we
don't know who to yell at in Egypt anymore. Who's running the
show there?
I don't know. That's probably what it is. We don't know who to
yell at. Just the military is. So I have this clip, bugging me.
It says the clip is intelligence oversight. One. That's just I
don't have an intelligence oversight to. I'm thinking, and
I don't remember the clip. Can you play that clip?
Now a bipartisan push has begun on Capitol Hill to make parts of
the black budget public Democratic Congress member Peter
Welch affirms you need
to set something up here. Well, this is the guy who this is not
gonna get anywhere but they this one Republican, a Democrat and a
bunch of other people are all because I think of Snowden.
They've been demanding and they want to get a bill through
that's going to make the Obama administration at any subsequent
president have to reveal exactly how much money is going to these
agencies because it's not just
Oh, right. That's the CIA black budget. Right. Right. Yeah.
Right. Okay.
Montana Republican congresswoman there. Cynthia Lummis of
Wyoming. both members of the House Oversight Committee on
national security have co written legislation to force the
president to include the total dollar amount requested for each
intelligence agency in his annual budget submission to
Congress. The bill is called the intelligence budget Transparency
Act. Congress member Peter Welch joins us now from Capitol Hill.
Welcome to Democracy Now, Congressman, can you talk about
just what this act would make transparent,
pretty basic information, how much of taxpayer money is being
spent on intelligence gathering activities, the top line number,
you know, there's not just the NSA and the CIA, we have like 17
different intelligence gathering agencies, and those budgets have
exploded, they're up over 50% Even as as pointed out of the
National Institute of Health, that budget is down 22% And if
you are going to have any oversight whatsoever, you have
didn't know what the budget is. In fact, the 911 Commission
advocated this you know, somebody with solid credentials
on national security. Lee Hamilton is a strong proponent
of letting the taxpayers know how much is being spent.
I don't like to know what it's being spent on. I'd like to know
if we're spending it on venture capitalist
that we won't know that but that at least these committees will
get to look into who's duplicating effort right that's
what they're concerned about. Like to you know, there's
dentists we the 17 different agencies spying all over the
place that Defence Intelligence that one crazy one that the the
Department of carry Karis groups got an intelligent AI by the
way, this reminds me, you know, I think that woman that was
that's dating our economic hitman who works for that group,
the State Department intelligence agency, I think she
put the clamps I haven't
heard from him. Oh, yeah, no, I'm pretty sure we messed that
up. Well, maybe
whatever the case was, or she probably got a memo. Hey,
I, this. I'm sure everyone's going to be talking with
someone. Well, I guess it's not really a movement, this private
privacy thing. But this Heartbleed is Heartbleed bug.
Yeah, that's just showed up. You know? Isn't that just a SSL bug?
Well, who named it? I don't know, when did the name come up?
Well, okay. So the reason why is because it's a part of SSL, SSL,
open SSL, I should say, has a heartbeat. It's kind of like a
monitoring function. It's like a pinging. Yeah, you know, you can
see how it's doing, how it's performing. And you can actually
compile it without that. And what I was interested in is I
was looking you know, who committed this, this bug. But
you know, this this kind of deflated me a little bit keep
winning we having always an open source supposed to be that
people check stuff and make sure it works. And
exactly the irony open source is supposed to be and it's just
another one of these little go to kind of things apparently,
but open source is supposed to be scrutinised by the community.
So just safer than anything because of the scrutiny of the
community. Apparently not. Yeah.
And it's been around I mean, essentially, it's everything is
just everything's compromised everything. I because I run to
servers that had this issue, of course, I patched them. And by
the way, Rackspace, what a bunch of douchebags, it took them like
36 hours to to get their even their message out to people.
Amazon was on a pretty I have one server at Amazon, one at
Rackspace, both the Linux servers and, and I did some of
these, I ran some of the scripts that you can run to see it's
really unbelievable. It just it literally returns the most
recent connection with password everything right back. It's
crazy. Yeah, man. I mean, you have to think, but I mean, maybe
this is why the NSA is just laughing. We had access to
everything anyway for years.
Yeah, yeah, I know. Which makes you wonder why they couldn't
stop the Boston bombing. Hello. Yeah. Well, that's it was it
they're not interested in that just all blackmail but because
of getting their way in Congress getting that budget. I'm
surprised this budget bill where they're going to make it
transparent how much money they've gotten, how much they're
spending never going to happen. And it may just blackmailed
congressman, floozy that you were with last Tuesday, an awful
lot of money on champagne furred and yeah,
that and that floozy was a dude. And by the way, by the way, she
was a dude. And now Condoleezza Rice is joining dropboxes board.
What is she got to do with Dropbox?
I don't know. But I'm stopped going to stop using it. Who
would want anyone in their right mind? I mean, it's like, invite
the wolf in.
Yeah, you don't want these government people on your board?
No.
It's, well, maybe they have other weird people on board.
like kind of like Dropbox. They're all in there. They're
letting everybody in. They're scanning your stuff. If you have
songs that may have copyrighted songs,
they can get away with anything done.
They're done. I'm thinking, you remember how you complain about
tech shows being technology reporting pretty much being
about phones and stuff. And wearable technology. You know,
we used to talk about chips and processor speeds, but this is
really the stuff that should be talked about is, you know, how
does open source How should it work that you know, when we have
these things sitting around for two years, in an open source
repository of open SSL, which everybody is using, and it's
just it's completely compromised. Just these are the
conversations that need to be at I don't even hear anyone talking
about how did it happen? It's like all you got to change your
passwords to thanks. And all the certificates have to be
reissued. what's the implication of that is frightening. Who was
you know the all new certificates Oh, yeah. You
always gotta wonder when certificates are coming into
play.
Yeah, so this seems to stick the whole system sucks.
Well, it's it really the whole it's I'm glad I'm a ham radio
operator, man. Because we're gonna totally need this stuff.
Oops, hold on a second. Something really bad happened
here, John.
Something bad happened. Yeah,
I have no control over my computer.
Oh, yeah, I can be able to play my last clip. Well, if you wait,
hold on a second. And I only thought by the way that you're
gonna cringe when this clip is because I think it was a big
news story this week. It was like it was like a cycle six
weeks Cycle Start but it wasn't obviously. And it's the stabbing
story. Yeah. Which we didn't cover on the show at the
beginning because I didn't I agree with you. It's just
another one of these just somebody some incident with
somebody going nuts. Yeah, I'm back. But when you when you
think about the story, the one thing that they still don't talk
about which is and they tried to discuss this kid was an
introvert or he wasn't an introvert and he was shy or he
wasn't shy. And he stabs a bunch of kids and this is the
background on it this clip but nobody brings up was he on
Ritalin was was even bring it according
now to a disturbing story out of Pennsylvania. Police say a 16
year old student walked into a high school into town of
Murrysville this morning just outside of Pittsburgh and
started stabbing his fellow students. When it was over 22
people injured. Five students are in critical condition.
Morgan Radford is here with the latest on that Morgan.
That's right, John, a 16 year old Alex for bra was charged
this evening with two dozen felony counts including
attempted homicide and aggravated assault. believe they
this was all after he went on a rampage with knives. He's now
being held without bail. Alex freeball just 16 years old, but
now an adult in the eyes of the law, charged in a rampage
through the halls of his high school. I don't know what I got
going on here. But I need to get School How to Get Started when
panic erupted. According to police a 16 year old walking the
first floor at Franklin Regional High School just outside of
Pittsburgh slashed students at random with two large kitchen
knives. Yeah,
yeah, that that doesn't sound drug induced at all, does it?
No. No, none of that question. The only thing I'm hearing is,
man, thank God, it wasn't a gun.
Yeah, yeah, my favourite shows up but ya know, the drug thing
doesn't come up at all. I mean,
never never with suicide, gay teen suicides. None of that
never never questioned about what drugs these kids are on.
And and I'm telling you, they're pushing it on all these kids. I
have two, two Sayanora clips. One is Chuck Schumer, this was
on C span. This is about the media shield bill which is
coming, coming up for vote pretty soon it's gonna be taken
to the floor. And of course, the most interesting thing in this
is what who will be covered under this media shield? Which
is kind of the precursor to being a licenced and officially
approved journalist. Right? And is there a definition of
journalists anywhere that you feel is appropriate?
I think anyone who who notes the world around them and publishes
in any form, or even tells people about it is a journalist,
essentially everybody can be a journalist by just declaring
themselves to be one way. That's my definition. Ah, yeah.
You're missing, you're missing one important, one important
fact. And I'm blown away that this is being accepted. In fact,
you'll hear Chuck Schumer say that we have accepted it. What's
your
definition? Well, the bill is not the definition we started
with again, because my job is to get something passed and make
the situation better. And I spend my credo my whole life
that don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. This is
another
great meme that's out there. Don't let the perfect be the
enemy of the good. I'm going to try that honey. I'm sorry. But
don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. I mean, I
really tried.
The original bill I introduced said that as long as you had an
intent to gather news, you're a journalist and protect
this is what did not Chuck good. As long as you had the intent.
Well, that of course, can never pass anywhere. That's no good.
And two people on the on the Democratic side and the
committee didn't like that senators, Feinstein and Durbin
are much more similar to mine than the people who opposed it
for now. General Security, but they thought that, you know,
bloggers and people like that. They want to just traditional
journalists to be protected. And so we came up with a compromise.
And the compromise basically says, three things, if you're a
traditional journalist, you are covered. And a traditional
journalist doesn't just mean someone who writes for a
newspaper, it doesn't. Our definition does not separate the
medium by which you send out news. But it does say that you
have had some relationship in terms of being a journalist,
some commercial relationship, at some point in time, if you
haven't now, you're being paid by somebody to do something,
you're fine. If you had at once, in the last 20 years, for a year
or so you've written five freelance articles, you're
covered. The people who are not covered, I wish they were, but
they're not automatically are people who have written
freelance articles and never gotten paid for them, and that
they should be covered. So what we did is we put in a safety
valve, that if you're in that situation, you're not
automatically covered. But if the judge finds and I want you
to get the words right here, that it is, quote, in the
interest of justice and necessary to protect lawful and
legitimate news gathering activities, you are covered,
most judges have been quite liberal in this most state
judges have been quite liberal in applying this law. And
frankly, we did not get too much opposition from the blog or new
media community when we put this in. They didn't like it. Oh,
I'm sorry. I'm looking Do you? Do you have your questionnaire
somewhere? I never heard about this. Are we not members of the
blogger and new media community? We're definitely
members of the blogger new media community. And I'm also a legit
by this definition of very legitimate you are very
legitimate. I never heard of this. Yeah. So sneaking this in
at the dead of night. So
this is essentially
Oh, we got no, no, nobody said nothing. To the way there's
something when it came out. You didn't say anything.
What they are saying is, if you're not getting paid, you're
not a journalist. Okay. Which, of course, is the most
disgusting form of corruption? Because if you are getting paid,
you're obviously open to corruption and collusion and
influence. Because Oh, I don't know, job. But if you are a true
journalist, and like I think we are, I mean, we're performers,
obviously men who knew
the money we need to but
ladies and gentlemen, we are journalists. Yeah.
And we cannot be compromised, because we do not have a
commercial relationship. That's no good. Do you see the
reason we talk about this for a course this escape? The whole
thing is just as long term scheme to be able to to
eventually licence that's the long term. That's the end around
that's the that's the goal licence. So you so then, because
here's what the deal is, here's the way I see this, this playing
out. Schumer's, you know, and he seems so sympathetic. So he goes
on, it's too bad. It's too bad. But the way it's gonna be, and
so he says, but luckily, some judges but then when he says
some judges, that means not all know. So this is going to become
a bone of contention. Oh, what are we going to do? This guy's
the one judge says this one judge says that? Well, what we
have to do to solve this problem, which is becoming worse
and worse
is licencing.
We have to licence it that way. It's already pre concluded that
the story is over. You get a licence if you can't get the
licence and you'd be good, better find some way of getting
it. You get your licence and then now you're covered. And we
don't have to have this all this controversial judges saying this
in that. Yeah, no, this is this is so obvious. It's like walking
down Broadway is going to be licenced you can be a licenced
blogger. licenced podcaster licenced journalist, it's all
gonna be licenced. You're gonna have to get permission from the
government to be a podcaster. And our show will be under
attack.
Well, it is already under attack. And I haven't and I
encourage everybody in the shownotes find out about the
BitTorrent Sync programme, which is also available for your
iPhone and your Android. But you should set we set it up at home.
And it's magic. I drop it into a folder and it shows up
everywhere. It's peer to peer it's like BitTorrent. It is the
future of media publishing and quite honestly, the The only way
we're going to be able to publish in the future that's the
way I see it. And it's, you know, you don't need domain
names or anything like that. You just need the, the, the secret
key and the client. Yeah. Yeah. That and it's the future. It
truly is the future of media publishing, it's the only way
we're going to be able to be heard, I believe.
Well, yeah. And you know, our audience is always going to be a
dilettante Who are they really want real news and they don't
want to do just by the, the general public at large. And Leo
may actually be right about this because of the nature of the
public not wanting to get to they don't want to really know
any more than they, you know, little entertainment news and a
couple of headlines and you get scared about this and that oh my
god, what are we going to do? And let's go back to work. So
have a nice dinner. Have some canned foods, macaroni and
cheese?
Some mac and cheese.
You know, a nice fresh chat with a family. It's not a big deal.
Watch a little bit of the voice. Little Voice with the voices.
Good show.
Good show. How about Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Now good. Good to show this as well. I
watched the of New York. That's a good show.
And that's going to be that so I think that's a little bit of
porn. A little bit of porn now. And again, not too much. You
know what? You gotta be careful. Well, yeah,
but you know, it's like for dudes. That's all dudes do now.
What do we do? We go to work. We work. We get some porn. I'm home
and wife is angry and crabby. Kids are all jacked up on drugs.
Am I disagree? Am I describing your life?
You got it? I think you're nailing. Yeah.
So your kids are all jacked up the drugged out? You guys, you
gotta get the military during the football game. gonna stand
at attention you go. All right. Well, I think that's,
that settles it.
Last In First Out. That's that's all I gotta say.
That's the key. That's it.
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