Hey Bill, go drink some poop. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
January 8 2015 Time for your Gitmo nation media assassination
episode 685 This is no agenda feeling like I should be curled
up in the fetal position live from FEMA Region six to capital
the drone Star State in Austin, Texas in the morning everybody
I'm Adam curry
in Silicon Valley with no further ado, I'm John Cena
buzzkill
is the first time I actually considered calling in sick for
the show. I got I got it finally.
Hi, everybody got it? Because if Dave was if it was in the shot,
so if you got the shot, you'd get it. I didn't get the shot.
No, but if you got to shoot you would have got it sooner so it
would have been better timed.
Okay, better time for it, so wouldn't fall on the show day.
So did you get to some Relenza or some Tamiflu to to buffer the
effects of the flu?
No, no, because no one's here and I'm all alone. And
I get some Relenza, you can make a phone call. You can go to the
doctor you can call someone I don't even
have a doctor. I don't have doctors. I don't have a regular
like a regular doctor. I don't have a doctor. I don't go to
doctors.
Okay, yeah. Anyone you want to enjoy this? This particular
ailment?
How long does it last?
Well see everybody here got it. Yeah. And
and just to be clear, this is it starts off with painting your
back shoulders, you're really tired and that's kind of
unnecessarily Oh, okay, that's what I have. I mean, something
different with everybody. I may be strung out on heroin. I don't
know.
Everybody got a different version of it. And I had really
use Relenza and so it just lessened the effect. So I did
get a cough which nagging cough which is annoying, but I never
got a fever. I never got to aching anything. I never got to
energy problems. I just had this cough and congestion. So I still
have a little bit of that. Okay. And that's all I got. And but I
use Relenza, so I which I believe is I think is the best
antiviral right and now JC and his wife both got it and they
had they use Tamiflu. JC had the mildest version and he didn't
really he I think he stayed in bed for two days. And he was
good. Right. And Eric had took nothing. Right. And he was
miserable. He was Yeah, in fact, he mentioned he was done for two
days. He was down on as he was down. He was
down, right. So here I am. I'm still standing.
Yeah, you won't be tomorrow. Well, it
started Tuesday. Yes, I woke up Tuesday, and I had and I felt
like okay, this is you're fighting it off. Right, right.
And then, so Tuesday, I also spent all day trying to install
that stupid Pete PlayStation. My daughter is coming today. She's
coming to visit
for a week. Oh, you're gonna give her the flu then?
I hopefully I'm no longer contagious. Oh, well. You don't
know. I know. I don't know. She's just coming from a week of
partying in LA. I don't care. I'll show how she'll be
bringing. She'll be bringing all kinds of goodies with it. I'm
sure. So I had to get the Grand Theft Auto loaded. Oh,
by the way, this flu coincides beautifully with CES.
Yeah, does.
There's no, there's no everybody's going to be sick.
Yeah. Yeah. That's dope to see yes. And get the flu. No
wonder it's an epidemic. And so then yesterday, Wednesday, I
stayed in bed and was it was bad. I'm just like, I feel
horrible. Horrible. Horrible.
Yeah. Both of the knockoff night store.
No sore throat. That's that's the problem source of sore
throat. Yeah. And then yesterday, right around noon.
I'm like, okay, fever broke. With me. It's like my body goes
into shake mode and get the fee to get the stuff out with a
fever or you get the heebie jeebies. Yep. And so I had to go
to the shopping because Christina is coming. So I think
you know, grocery shopping and you know, what, what is that?
So you were down what you saw you were down for the count
what? On Monday and Tuesday or Tuesday and Wednesday, it
was Tuesday, and then Wednesday at noon. I got up. So that's not
that's what does that 30 hours or something? Oh, yeah. Okay.
Yeah, but, but, and then I'm just trying to stay active. And
of course, I gotta prep. Right? I got to do all kinds of stuff.
And then I had forgotten that yesterday was Orthodox
Christmas. Right. And I'd been invited by Sir Jean, Earl of
Texas, to join him and some of his other Russian spy friends at
Russian house for a traditional Have fun. Yeah. traditional
Russian Orthodox Christmas dinner. Right? Yeah, supposed to
be great. Well, you know why it's great.
Lots of vodka. You went? Yeah, of
course. I went. Oh, good. Yeah. I figured you know, whatever the
vodka is good for you. It might. Yeah, it certainly helped boost
my energy. Like 630 or something when we we we got there. And
yeah, you drink and a couple of vodka as you're eating. God
knows what. A lot of beats the Russian, they love them beats
was actually quite nice. I've had borscht before. So borscht
is good. Boris. I'd like to Borssele I was a very good
board. And I had like, beef stroganoff apparently that's a
Russian dish. And someone that a couple other things. But it was
nice. It was but the energy it just drink. It totally sapped me
out.
Yesterday, got home and went back to bed back to bed. And are
you recording the show? By the way? Yes. Yes. Thank you. I'm
just checking on your weekend ahead.
Thank you for asking. Yes, I'm multiple systems. Mem. So then
I'm trying to, to do stuff in bed last night, and it's not
working really well. Like get up early, like six. You know,
where? You know, that feeling when you're like, you have
something in your hand, like a laptop even. And you're lying on
your back? And then you just fall asleep? And like the laptop
falls in your face or something? Have you ever
lived? Yeah, I actually do. Yes, I have had that happen. I don't
hold the laptop over my head. But I have had a book fall in my
face. Right? This is this was happening this morning. Um, so
my brain is shutting down and I'm like, Whoa, I got it. I got
to stay away here. So anyway, it's okay. Because and I do want
to talk to you because, you know, we've had some interesting
things take place once again. Which begs some analysis from
the crack team here at the best podcast in the universe.
Yes, things are beginning to this shaking out already to look
like a pretty good year.
Yeah. I have an idea, which I think will solve everything
everywhere. And this is for the, obviously, Florida. What
happened in Paris?
is just an idea that stems from your stupor? Yes. Obviously from
my
delirium. Yes. So what is the what is the slogan everyone's
saying? Using just we
just shoot just we just Shabbat or whatever? The name of Shavon
Shavon.
Now the name of magazine? Yeah. Hamadan. Just Sui, Charlie. No,
Charlie, Charlie.
That's it. I keep thinking of Charlie Sheen when that comes
up.
So just sweet Charlie. Which I think is I don't know who made
that up. But that's lame.
I don't know how it works. Whatever works. Now, here's what
we need to name it barely picks it up. I
know, well, if you if we really want to be bold, let's just for
a moment presume that indeed, this is, this is real. I can't I
can't even bring the energy up to do that. This is real. And
this really is these crazy brothers who apparently have
been been doing this since 2005. And this is all about the
depiction of the Prophet Mohammed. Then why don't we all
today, change our Twitter icon to the Prophet Muhammad? Oh,
there you go. This is what we should be doing. stumbled on
one. This is what we should be doing. And then the whole world
does this. We're like, fuck you. And then we can have cartoon
versions and all kinds of funny versions. Now, wouldn't that
show that this is how the world really should work?
Yes, that's exactly right. Adam, I think you've stumbled on the
exact thing everyone should do. And I would recommend they all
do it.
Are you gonna do it? No, I
never I don't change my icons. Anything. Okay. Right. Are you
gonna do it? You should do it.
No, I'll totally do it. I don't give a crap. I just need it. I
want to go to
zero supposedly dry. This is what kills me about this. We
brought this up during the Danish cardio,
which is all stems from that originally.
So I'm fit. Yeah, it was just this magazine published those
cartoons too. But there's a couple of things that I can come
away with this one is that the the French concept of freedom of
speech makes our concept of freedom of speech look sick.
Oh, totally agreed. Yeah, no,
it's good to bring that up. Good. What is the freedom of
speech and action? Go to France, you're not gonna get any here.
Closest you're gonna come as this show. And that tells you
something. Yes. Then that tells you something. We're not
changing our icons. I haven't changed my icons. Okay, go do
it. But did think that we brought this up before is that A
depiction of Mohammed. So you draw a stick figure. And then
you put an arrow toward it. And then you write Mohammed. That is
somehow a depiction of Mohammed.
And that's also. Well, that's
a good one picture of anything.
Well, so I wanted to look at this from a number of angles.
And the first one is, which was also my initial response before
I saw the video when I saw the video of these guys on the
street, and there's some anomalies there that I'm not too
interested anymore in trying to discover every minut detail of
one little piece of video.
If people do go out and shoot and kill people instead of one.
Yeah, exactly. It's not necessarily crazy conspiracy.
Every murder in the world is not part of some FBI plies not
all a false flag. Not all but when I saw how methodical these
guys were, how it felt to me, the first thing that popped in
my head was like, glad but Gladio B or something. Yeah,
this is the strategy of tension. Let's go make people crazy. But
I know the story behind you know, behind a lot of these
journalists, and many people have sent in emails who either
live in France or do live in France. And a couple of these
guys, you know, they're very famous. illustrators. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. extremely famous in certainly in France,
and set the French
Yeah. Oh, yeah. This is, you know, it would be like give me
an American example. We have done we Scott Adams. He's dead.
Yeah, Scott Adams would be a good idea, though. Yeah, like
that. Or Schultz, you know, from Peanuts, something like that.
Yeah, the dead guy. So there you go. That's why they don't kill
any of our bar illustrators because all the good ones are
dead. But but it is interesting, that if you look at what is it,
whether intentional or not, on the on the killing side, but
certainly on the media side, I mean, if you want to bring
attention to anything, if you want to get if you want to get
something going, you got to take out a journalist or someone who
works at a journalistic function.
Yeah, because because the media picked data.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So I think it's pretty obvious you
know, who gets beheaded journalist who gets shot for
drawing pictures, you know, journalistic types. And then, of
course, we found an ID at the shooting scene, please. You're
insulting me.
I do have a couple of clips, we can play that back to ourselves.
I just I just want to finish my, my intro my just my my intro cuz
I got some clips too. But my intro is having having lived in
the Netherlands, having been through the assassination of Pim
Fortuyn, who was the as they would call him the LePen of the
lowlands. And interestingly enough, he was a very professor,
openly gay Professor D was going to win the Dutch elections, in
fact that posthumously his party did when sweep swept the
elections, was assassinated two weeks before becoming the de
facto Prime Minister. And he had he had written books, and was
really pushing very hard about the Islamification of Europe.
And we've had many warning signals about this multicultural
integration, this multicultural society, really just not working
out too well. So this does not come as any surprise really, to
me, being a someone who was really grown up and lived in
Europe,
it shouldn't be a surprise to anybody. Well, yeah, unless
you're like some dimwit.
I don't think people really understand I disagree, John, I
don't think people in if you're if you have not lived recently
or live in Europe, the EU, I disagree. I don't think you
really understand what that tension is. We're just walking
down the street. And how, in the Netherlands how Moroccans will
talk to girls and it's not just catcalls. It's it's it's hard.
It's really really important. You know, it's like hey, girl
Hey girl, and if you don't respond who are who are sloth or
it's crazy? Yeah, no, I don't think people understand that.
That would if that happened in America? No, if that happened in
Texas, do you be eaten lead? And by the way, there's an argument
to be made for, you know, just having guns.
Please, police had guns. Maybe they weren't there. No two of
them were killed. What do you mean they weren't there? Okay.
No, he had a full time. He had a full time police guard Yeah,
I heard different I heard that that had kind of gone away if
there was
there are two dead cops in this scenario at least unless they're
lying about that. There's no reason to i don't know
i we really have no information at this point. I don't think I
have any information. Really. I have some video.
I think they're, I think there's more than enough information to
finish do not care anymore personally. But here's the
cartoon shooting PVS run now, which I think kind of summarizes
much of this
shock and disbelief grip Parisians moments after the
military style attack. Three hooded men with assault rifles
forced their way into the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a
satirical newspaper. Within minutes they killed the editor,
nine others, including two prominent political cartoonist
and a police guard. Back outside they riddled a police car with
bullets and gunned down another officer.
Sort of uncoil I was on my balcony, and I heard a loud
noise. And then I saw an injured policeman. The
amateur video captured a gunman who approached the wounded
officer and killed him with a shot to the head. Before driving
away, the attacker shouted in Arabic Allahu Akbar, God is
great. And in French we avenge the Prophet Mohammed we killed
Charlie Hebdo
Okay, can I say two things about this? Go ahead. One it is my
understanding from whatever delirious research I was able to
do that a true Islamist would never talk about the event about
avenging the Prophet Muhammad in French he would definitely do
that in in Arabic which is it's an anomaly I don't know what
else it means the the shooting of the wounded officer is is
very unclear. The video is actually not all that unclear.
And that I do not believe that there was a direct hit to the
officer or that who knows but there's I know what comes out of
an AK 47 If that had hit this this person's head it did not
there wasn't it didn't hit anything as far as I can tell
maybe the sidewalk I did not see any any hit there and strangely
enough all the news footage now has cut that part out. They've
blurred the officer and then the running and shooting the officer
they've just cut the whole piece out look at CNN right now that
just been eliminated for CNN doesn't show anything just
saying it's it's it's been taken out.
I don't know why. Because they don't show anything. Right.
That's why I have the last time you saw a good gruesome anything
on see CNN. Oh, no, the last time they did it was like one
dead kid. And the guys that that was it. So I have
a Stefan Sherborn. Yay, from 2012. When he was there, of
course in 2011. Their offices were firebombed. And in 2012. I
think this is ABC, who dug this out of their archives.
We are provocative today. We will be provocative tomorrow.
And it's our job. Why do you do this? I do this because it's our
job to to throw a boat. actuality. But the news about
us? Yeah. Our job is not to defend freedom of speech. But
without freedom of speech. We are dead. We can't We can't live
in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than
live like rats.
And to be afraid of being speaking
I haven't the right time to be afraid. I have things to do.
And I will say that not a single mainstream channel in the in the
United States has actually showed the cartoons. Not a
single one.
Huffington Post,
I'm talking about ABC NBC show it's not a single one has shown
that day. Well, actually, when there's show footage of this
shocking to you know, I'm just pointing it out when they have
the the candlelight vigils that are even going so far as to
digitize people holding up signs with with the Prophet drawn on
them. That's weak. That just shows you that
York Times won't even run the curl. I know, I know. It's weak.
Why is what I said at the beginning at the outset. Yeah,
you're right. We're we have no freedom of speech in this
country. It's all self censor, but it's all self censored. The
government telling you no, no,
no. Here's Mark Stein. On the self censorship, and I think he
actually repeats
what this was the only publication that was willing to
publish the Mohamed the Danish Mohamed cartoons in 2006 because
they decided to stand by those Danish cartoonists. I'm proud to
have written for the only Canadian magazine to publish
those Mohamed cartoons and it's because the New York Times
didn't and Lemond in Paris didn't and the London Times
didn't. And all the other great newspapers the world didn't have
only Charlie Hebdo and my magazine in Canada and a few
others did, that they were forced to bear a burden that
should have been more widely dispersed. I mean, I see all
these Terry candlelit vigils and everyone claiming suddenly to be
for freedom of speech. I think one consequence of this is that
a lot of people will retreat even further into self
censorship. The New York Daily News won't even show dishonors
the dead in Paris by not even showing properly the cartoons
they pixelated Muhammad out of it. So it looks like Mohamed has
entered the witness protection program. But they left the hook
nose juin, and that exactly gets to the double standard here. You
can say anything you like about Christianity, you can say
anything you like about Judaism. But these guys, everyone
understands the message that if you say something about Islam,
these guys will kill you. And we will be retreating into a lot
more self censorship. If if the pacified Western media doesn't
man up and decide to disperse the risk so they can't just kill
one little small French satirical magazine? They gotta
kill all of us. Well, yeah, kill all
of us have these irregular and the right wing talk show.
I've seen him everywhere now.
I didn't get sighs it's very easy to get that British accent.
So that makes him more credible than Glenn Beck.
I seriously Will someone please put together a great little
Twitter icon package that we that we can have everyone
changed the Twitter icon to be very funny. This is a genius
idea.
Oh, yeah. Delirium. It's called delirium. It's genius.
So what I do find interesting, and this is, you know, as kind
of a student of the, the jihadi movement, the bloodless Jihad
into the EU. If the opportunity is being met, or the opportunity
was made, and has been taken advantage of immediately, to
bring in terms such as Islamophobia. Oh, yeah. There we
go. Let's see, what do we have here? Josh Earnest, the
spokesman for the White House.
I'm glad you got this clip. I first I could not get this cut.
But I know about it. I hope
it's the one you think it is. I thought it was good. I hope he's
grown
extremism is something that, you know, that the world has been
dealing with for more than a decade now. And we obviously are
trying to monitor what we consider to be a really
important threat, which is this, this threat of foreign fighters.
So
I thought it very interesting, this is only a piece of this
whole bit that he did. So first, he's talking about foreign
fighters. So now that of course means that people have been to
Syria and have come back. So these immediately turning this
right into, it should be dashed, but he's gonna say ISIL, ISIS,
ISIL, whatever.
You know, it is clear that ISIL does harbor the ambition to try
and radicalize people all across the globe. And one core
component of our strategy has been mobilized has been to
mobilize the forces, or the leaders in the Muslim community,
particularly the moderate voices in the Muslim community, to talk
about what the values of Islam really are to peaceful religion.
This is my favorite part. This is a peaceful religion that's
working.
And it's terrible that we're seeing some radical extremists
attempt to use some of the values and tenets of that
religion and distort them greatly and inspire people to
commit terrible acts of violence. Now,
it hasn't religion been used for centuries, or millennia as a
reason to go to war. But Islam
was formed for the purpose of joining the Arab, you know, the
Arabs together one large army to go kick some ass and take over a
lot of places. Yeah, but he seems he seems
to be refreezing a piece. And he seems to be forgetting this,
this history of Islam. Again, I
don't want to get ahead of of this situation. It's still under
investigation. We don't know exactly what happened yet. It's
still not clear who was responsible or what their
motivations were. But we are very cognizant of this threat.
that's posed by foreign fighters. It's posed by ISIS
attempts to use social media in a rather sophisticated way.
Whoa, hold on a second. I'd like to know how ISIL is using social
media. What rather sophisticated way is that? Are they using
hashtags? Are they using retweets in a new manner that
I'm unaware of?
No, to try to inspire people around the globe to commit other
acts of violence, and it's something that we work very
closely with our allies on a daily basis to combat
Yes. So that clearly wasn't what you were thinking of, I guess,
but I had some Was this not the clip you wanted? Yeah.
He goes on and on. Yeah, he really
does. I do have. Let's see. So we have care car.
The apologists Right. This is Hamas everybody.
Yeah, exactly. Well, yes. But you know, they gotta get some
airtime in there, they gotta run some interfere and they booked.
They're interested in
a good PR, they got somebody, probably, I don't know, I gotta
say, but they get booked too much
mainstream followers of all faiths need to get together and
marginalize the Muslims marginalizing the extremists on
their side, and also people of other faiths, marginalizing this
growing Islamophobic movement in the West. And now in Europe,
you've seen 10s of 1000s of people marching against Islam
and Europe. And that sends a very negative message, it's
creates this sense of alienation. And it adds to this
downward spiral that we all somehow need to get out of,
I don't know, man, but the people in Europe that I know are
sick and tired of this crap. So you know, we've got it and
because they're demonstrating it's Islamophobia. It's contrary
it's not true. That is not what the word means. I don't think
people have an irrational fear of Islam. I think they're sick
and tired of it. Sick and tired of what what is being done in
name of Islam?
Well, I've said it before on this show, which is that if you
really go out there and start looking on the intertubes,
you'll find plenty of moderate Islam promoters and adherence
that are complaining about this bitterly all over the place and
never get picked up. Nobody ever brings them on the show.
Exactly. And and the whole idea so you stay with the litany, oh,
they why don't they do something about this themselves. And as
much as they try this, it's hopeless. And this is just
coming to a head there was it's also being used, I think from I
mean, obviously, obviously, average this, or all sorts of
things he but here's listen to this French woman is the French
woman. i By the way, this is the French accent I want to
cultivate is a French woman that explained the cultural aspect of
all this and how it was something we don't understand
the United States was this was extremely hurtful to the French
culture. And the French people. These guys are very important
people they killed.
But tell us about this magazine, and its place in French media.
This is a very special magazine for the French the older men
walk. They're one that today wanted to do journalism, they
wanted to do serious journalism, but they also wanted to make
people smile about real issues. France is completely traumatized
by what happened. It's the journalists which has been
killed to the the French people cannot understand why there's so
much horror, tourism as against trike journalism. And people
really wanted to change the world and who believed in
freedom, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom to be
able to do whatever you want and to say whatever you want.
Laura, do we see 1000s of people in France today in Paris holding
up the sign? Just we Sharlee? Was that the feeling? I suspect
it wasn't the feeling about the magazine before today.
It's the feeling that something has changed in France. I know
that in the United States, your voice or France has this
beautiful country with a lot of women wind French conquer. This
is completely over. And after today, it's more over than ever.
She forgot to say that what we really think is that women have
hairy armpits in France. That's what we think here.
That's bigotry. I'm just telling you I've never noticed this No,
it's
unless thing is true. But that's that is a long running meme is
stupid Americans think that French women don't see as more
Europeans
that think that than Americans. Really? Yeah, that's what I
think you get it.
Hmm, okay. Well the President spoke about all this Yeah, and
then what is the point if I saw this you sitting down in a chair
right now because with another guy and there's just two Dead
kittens on two microphones which is what that is called I think
they put on and their their microphones are on long booms
and it sounds like shit. That's because the microphones are five
miles away from these
might have been off I think someone was just running wild
sound on the in the cameras onboard Am I what sucks? Yeah,
did did suck. So the first thing I the way the President does I
don't like I really disapprove of these types of things that he
says it's
gonna be important for us to make sure that we recognize
these kinds of attacks can happen anywhere in the world.
I don't like this I disapprove of this message. why did why is
he gonna say we have to really realize now people that these
types of attacks can can happen anywhere in the world. It could
happen in downtown Austin. That is that is just scaring
people I'm looking at parking lot can happen there wonder,
why does he do this? That's because
it's part of the terror thing.
And one things I'll be discussing with Secretary Kerry
today is to make sure that we remain vigilant, not just with
respect to Americans living in Paris, but Americans living in
Europe and the Middle East in other parts of the world and
making sure that we stay vigilant,
stay vigilant.
I think he may as well I have a clip, which I will it's just a
kind of a funny clip, but I haven't, I haven't mislabeled,
but this is should be this should be what he should, he
should announce this. And he should do this. And they should
just make this part of the entire schema schema for what he
has to say about you know, this fear that we have to just be
shaking in our boots constantly play the North Korean
announcement.
This is the ministry of fear, a network of terror that lays bare
the secrets locked in every man's mind, using strange
hypnotic torture, relentless cunning, tangling their quality
and a web of horror until he reaches the brink of madness.
Who speaks who said that?
Exactly a citizen
you may return to your harpsichord. Excellent. Yeah,
that's it. I mean, the President, it's just sitting
there. That's the president. He's just scaring everybody our
president is our president can happen anywhere. If fear if
you're an American, you know, we're going to be vigilant,
vigilant fear
this world
I'm telling you, fiction becomes
if this had happened in the United States, they wouldn't
have had any of these visuals epic stay home because another
attack is imminent.
Yeah. Well, depends on where it would be.
What dependents in Texas and Texas? Nobody cares.
I think I think I think they wouldn't have gotten as many
people. Maybe I don't, I'm not gonna get an argument. Let me
finish.
Somebody would have they would have gotten they would have
gotten. Yeah, we've gotten exactly.
Hey, hey, what do you what are your balaclava Muslim Crazy guy?
Get back in your back in that situation?
Yeah, good guy. Here's the guy who used to run the onion. And I
think that this was a interesting little clip. This
was on, I think, Lawrence O'Donnell Show. And I think it's
interesting the way he talks. He doesn't know that he's doing it,
but he's actually discussing self censorship and why this
wouldn't happen here because we will run we're too scared to run
these pictures.
Joe Randazzo. This was a tough one for you. And I'm gonna read
something you wrote today. As a former editor of the onion, you
said 12 people were murdered at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a
French satirical newspaper today, apparently, for doing the
very thing the onion does satire. But Joe, they did one
thing that the onion hasn't done they actually included images of
Mohammed.
Yeah, well, as far as my recollection goes, there hasn't
been a time when onion has run an image of Mohammed, especially
not for any inflammatory reasons. So I do think that
there's a there is a kind of fine line that has to be walked
which is a sensitivity to the cultural preferences of your
readership or anybody in the world, versus the freedom to
publish anything you see fit in a free society. So there while
the onion has poked a lot of fun and called out radical Islam, I
don't remember a time when when it has run an image of Muhammad
not for any particular reason beyond that, I just don't recall
having come up
this guy is self censoring the entire time he's talking Oh,
yeah, they can't even be can't even think straight. He's,
I don't want to look this way. Let's start off with the initial
premise images of Mohawk these are not images. No, it's images
of Mohammed it's a cartoon to drawing it's a drawing with an
AI if it didn't have the it could say you know, Sheikh Abdul
you know, it doesn't this generic character that they just
point out an arrow so that we're gonna we're calling that
Mohammed it's not an image. It's it's a miss the whole thing is
bullcrap. At that level,
here's an the President was going to say this, because of
course, whenever he's sitting in that chair, whenever he talks
about another country, we always know that it's our number one
ally. They're our best friends and are, you know our
relationship is special? What planet is he from,
but I thought it was appropriate for me to express my deepest
sympathies for the people of Paris and the people of France
for the terrible terrorist attack that took place earlier
today. I think that all of us recognize that France is one of
our oldest allies, our strongest allies. They have been with us
at every moment when we from 911 on.
No, no, no. Have we forgotten freedom fries? Apparently, they
were not. No, we hated them. We weren't we were not eating.
They were not into helping us. No, they were not helping to
help us out at all. Now. Oh, so how does the President what is
he doing? What does he Why is he saying all this? Because he's
just
you know why? Because nobody pays any attention to facts. And
he just sounds great. It just bull credit cycles. It's
ridiculous.
So myself, right now I agree. So now, Putin, Putin, bode well,
not Putin himself. By the way, I want to say that the dinner last
night was actually very nice. I have to say, there's Putin
there. No, but we talked we talked a lot about Putin.
Oh, well, let's take an aside. Let's take a take a breather and
give us a little rundown on this.
Well, the funny thing is, is not everybody was Russian genius.
invited a whole bunch of people. Okay, well, he does that. Yeah.
And Brian Brushwood showed up, but never we'd never met in
person. Right. He's
been wanting to meet you. Oh, you know what, it was a setup.
It was a setup. Yes. I think I agree. I think it was a setup.
Yeah, you were totally set up. Because Brian has been wanting
to meet you forever. We kind of sounds great job of avoiding
him. And obviously the sheriff Earl knows about just because he
keeps tabs and he's a gossip monger. So he said the whole
thing ever now he's just he's job my job is I have
done it now. That's funny. Brian's a good guy. We do know
we've never had a chance to hook up but then he had so I know
that his two other friends pure Peter and Oksana and
those are Brian's friend no these are genes for these
Russian jeans Russian friends it Brian just come by himself.
He just stopped by he just kind of did it fly by. But the Peter
guy he comes from the very famous Russian clowns circus
clowns in fact I think his dad consulted on Moscow on the
Hudson and and there was a clown in the in the movie that was
supposed to be his dad or grandfather I'm not sure
but so there's so there's a Russian sell. Oh, we lost very
big Russian so major. And probably every cap these
Russian girls cute. All of them. The girl serving at this
restaurant. Cute. And I wasn't I was not I was not
within and koi Russian style.
What do you mean Koi?
There's a coin is to a certain run. So that's a certain coin is
I think coin
is the is the right description? Yes. And so of course jeans
yapping in Russia and all these girls in the server waitress
whatever. And, and I was not informed. I was sick. You know,
so just nothing was working for me. And, and I and I kind of
like hey, you know, I did Hey, girl. Hey. And I don't remember
what I said. But she basically came back with Oh, thank you
very much. But I'm not interested. No. It was not
hingeless I'm not to be interested. Everything Chiara
Did you say? I don't know. But it was it was lame. I'm sure.
The mom being distracted by Peter's wife Oksana who was just
if the hair were red, it would be Chapman. You know, she's
Stunning. Stunning. And she has that sexy accent and the you
know, but all these guys are probably gonna shoot me with
some drug and kill me if I look at. Be careful with this stuff
and nut jobs. manually but be careful, but I have to say very
enjoyable and the Russian Russian food is interesting.
I guess you could say that. Some
of it is is just vile. Most of its pickled. Yeah, it's pickled
beets and pretty good. sturgeon. It's good. They have this urgent
so they have this salad which is it's a meat potato beet salad.
And what Oksana said is whenever you celebrate something a bird
De or you get a raise or whatever it is, you know, Putin
invades the country, then you the outcomes this salad and it's
it's a celebration salad is and it's Manet's it's some kind of
mystery meat. I've seen this salad and with the beats in it,
and oh, it's called something with with something with hair on
it. It's like, yes. I'm telling you the old country. Yes. And
then they had a little sign because it was a buffet style.
And there's this girl playing some instruments I've never seen
not a ballet like, No, it was, so it had the triangular shape
like an autoharp would have, but it didn't have any of the
buttons that an autoharp would have. And it did not have a
neck. So it's kind of like a harp that she was plucking. With
both hands. Yeah, there's probably a name for that. And
she was also cute and was just crazy. Okay, so back to
your delirious though. They may have all been mediocre looking.
No, no, no, no, no. eyes don't fool me now. Okay. So Putin,
this guy comes out what's his name? The foreign the was it.
The Foreign Affairs parliamentary good. Yeah. It
wasn't the foreign minister. Oh, no,
it wasn't Medvedev either. No, no,
no, it was a lower level guy. And he says the tragedy in Paris
shows it's not Russia threatening Europe a little too
early I think dude on this
Yeah. Well, they're trying to they're that's part of their
never ending Chechnya angle. Yes. Always trying to. So you're
always bitching about Dr. human rights abuses in Chechnya? How
do you like it, and then just needle west as much as they can
about?
That's what they do.
See, we got a problem and you don't help us.
So the end by the way, even though I was listening to NPR,
and I couldn't watch TV, but TV so useless. We really have to
come up with a countermeasure for people who keep talking
about wanting to have that conversation. Oh, that's another
this thing has been so overused.
Yeah, no, hey, I'm writing it down. And we really
need to have that conversation about our broken immigration
system, which occurred due to a glitch in the Affordable Care
Act versus
stems from that clue tree Cluetrain Manifesto book just
stems from so it's
really the the conversation have that conversation right
conversation?
Oh, you know, it's not marketing anymore. It's the conversations
not marketing. We don't market to your customers have
conversation. Have a conversation. That's what social
media is so good. Have a conversation of social media and
then you'll you'll see that I get the biggest kick and I've
been seeing this more and more these they're coming out of the
woodwork because they're on LinkedIn everywhere is because
there's no job so all these women, mostly women, but there's
a few guys but I would say is 90% women, their social media
experts. Oh, yeah. SEO and social media.
I'm just trying to find the music seems like it's
inappropriate. It's where I remember that song that we
played
from that social media. Show social.
I'm trying to I'm trying to I'm trying to find it. What would it
be late?
Well, let me continue with my rant, please. So everyone if am
I see these these women come in cropping up a social media SEO
can you know they have all these? Jack in the Box
commercial? I actually made fun of them once, of course, that
was quickly shoved aside because it was sexist or something. Like
I suppose I'm being now. Not at all. So I always look these
women up, I check them out, I go to Twitter, they have like a
social media expert. And they got like 214 followers. Every
one of them. I ran into one of the social media, she doesn't
even have the 500 minimum connections on LinkedIn.
I got I'm gonna top you on that. I took an Uber the other day.
And it was very nice, very nice girl who was driving? And you
know, as you know, I'm continuously trying to figure
out what's going on how they're feeling, what's the what's up
with the company? Did they like it? And she said, Well, you
know, I'm a social media expert and you know to fill in some of
the the gaps. My social media expert is now my Uber driver
that kind of shows you
Hey, now y'all can we just get real? Do we really care about
our fans? Or is this just another deal Said another way
that we lost our way socials about the people remember people
to be really good another life painters share another poster
show up everywhere. I hope is scattered that we never fought
this
is not the one this is a different one. No, this is post
live forever, even when we go to oh here
Wow, wow, it's oh my god listen to that. I can't the people that
do these conferences and use social media, they have the same
kind of, quote unquote community like YouTubers. You know what I
mean to do? YouTubers will all the youtubers got together and
then we've just, I mean it's really crazy that guys so great.
It's just this
social media experts all hang out together and the only thing
they're social with each other Yeah, yeah, that's I'm convinced
this the biggest crock of crap ever I'm
convinced that the youtubers it's a it's a loop you know
they're all eating each other's tails. I'm not blinded. Well,
I'd stand corrected. You watch a lot of these stupid people on
YouTube, only to send language to me. I know.
Well, careful. You finally threatened me to bring it back
had that crazy hat on?
Yeah, right. And I like the guy in the background. So show base
man on some old doowop group the 50s
Yeah, there's newsflash Dude, you're not the hurtful. Anyway,
so this conversation we have to have, that's where we came from.
And we're gonna and this is the conversation we have, which by
the way, I am convinced means we're never going to talk about
it. When people say yes, this is a conversation we need to have.
That means we're never ever, ever, ever ever going to talk
about it. Yeah, it's actually become a version of Hollywood
speak.
Yes. And this is truly about the political correctness and I was
I'm, I gotta say America is the worst. You can't say retarded
say the R word. You can't say what are you can't say anything
around. You can't say just you got gypped Oh, you don't? What
do you have against gypsies? You're hurting somebody's
feelings, man. You're a bully. Well, let's have this
conversation right now. Here is Howard Dean. The Howard Dean
failed presidential candidate. He is now the new the head
honcho of the Democratic Party.
I think it was for a while. I think he's been replaced. I
don't know what he's doing. I think he's running some PAC.
They're all running PAC Super PACs now, which is what we
should be doing. But I want to
harken back Do you know the title of the show has no agenda.
So in case you missed that, well, can I played this little
clip from
high school I do a little background on this guy before on
our Dean good. And how this guy was he was a shoo in for the
presidential candidacy of 22,008 I believe you're way ahead of
the curve he had he had all this social stuff going on. He had
meetings David What did
you say social
don't
good work everybody. Mary McCoy. Sorry. So no one's ever seen
this guy and he was the number he was rumored front runner. And
but no one's ever seen him. Never seen him talk. Never seen
him anything. He they brought him on. I hit I think it was on
the Leno Show. And he comes out and he's got a tie a big red tie
that's down to his knees. For Okay, and he looks like a clown
because of this tie. And he comes and he's a goofball. And
so he right there. He's ruined the candidacy of himself. And
then of course, he finally finished himself out when he was
easily out. You made that yell at the end and it was like an
ISO. That's why they killed him. Yeah. That was like just look
like an idiot. Yeah. Okay, so he but he's still around and go,
but I'm just trying to find out what he does right now. He is a
C.
Oh, you should have found out I'm reading
while you're giving me all this background. I don't think he
Howard the Duck. I
don't really know what he does. Is not a Wikipedia. Yeah, but
it's the Wikipedia is big and long. And that was it should
just say at the topic is currently this.
No, you're right. It should for people like us.
If they show to do it from rap. I actually send money
to Wikipedia. Five bucks, or three bucks, whatever. They want
it.
No, I send 50 bucks. Yeah, I think that's you know, that's
fair. It's just
a resource that we use. So I think we owe money.
But then, unfortunately, that begging thing pops up
everywhere. They should make it okay. Hey, thanks. Just say
thanks. And then Don't pop that thing up everywhere. So from
2000 I would say the chairman of the National Democratic
committee from 2005 to 2009. Yeah no he's doesn't do anything
I'm looking at this I still a go to guy for MSNBC then I guess
well there Danny, buddy. Yeah, because this is on the he's on
the Morning Joe Show. By the way, I must say. I think I'm
switching from Team Taylor to Team Mica.
You can't do that. I can't budget just because of a lesbian
kisses that we're finding out about. Now. This
is a chronic problem. I stopped calling these people Muslim
terrorists. They're about as Muslim as I am. I mean, they
have no they have no respect for anybody else's life. That's not
what the Quran says. And he's an
expert on the Koran, by the way, just so you know, he's, he's
read the Quran in In Arabic, apparently, because, you know,
that's the only way to read it.
You know, Europe has an enormous radical problem and the enormous
I think ISIS is a cult, not an Islamic culture thing.
He's all over the map. Europe has an enormous radical problem.
ISIS is a cult, really.
And I think that, you know, you got to deal with these people.
The interesting thing here is we talked about guns the last time
in regarding the United States regarding how guns get in the
hands of the kind of people that kill the two police officers
here. Two weeks ago. France has tremendous gun control laws, and
yet these people were able to get caught Kalashnikov. So you
know, it's this is really complicated stuff.
Oh, yeah. So he just did the worst thing you could do for a
an anti gun political party. He pretty much said, it really
doesn't matter how tough the gun laws are, the bad guys will get
whatever they want, including ak 47.
That's the old meme. But when guns are outlawed, only outlaws
will have guns circa 1965 and go
Boom shakalaka. So it really goes against the grain of what
he should be saying. It almost makes an argument you know, said
well in America if that happened in Texas, you know that the
outcome might have been different. People will not be
sitting up there shooting these guys with their iPhones. I
seriously think that if if I if I was in that position, I would
take someone out. I'm no hero.
Nobody got a guy shooting this Calista cough. Randomly it
everybody. Yeah, they got on. Yeah. behind something start
firing.
Yeah. Hell yeah. Just randomly. I'm sorry, lady. Sorry.
And I think you have to treat these people nicely mass
murderers. But I do not think that we should accord them any
particular religious respects because I don't think that
whatever they're claiming their motivation is clearly is a
twisted cultish mind now.
So what we're getting now and this is this
is very impressed by this divorce kind of analysis.
Right. But what what is happening here is the big effort
is being made to say all but it's not, you know, it's not all
Muslims. It's not all it's not just Islam. Why does this
continuously happen? Why do they have to go to such lengths to
say, oh, but it's not all Muslims?
No, no, you know, if they wanted to do that, if they want to kind
of keep the Muslim aspect office, or away from the
argument, why don't they just don't even discuss it just
discuss these guys as cold blooded killers that had that
had a grudge against this magazine? And yeah, well, who
cares about the Muslim angle? They're assholes. The only
reason
we were talking about the Muslim angle is because someone said we
don't have that someone documented saying this. That
they screamed, Allahu Akbar, and then you know, revenge for the
Prophet French. But we don't I mean, I have no evidence of
this. I don't know.
Well, maybe they did. Maybe they didn't do beside the point
they're idiots. Yeah.
And I thought it was kind of interesting how it
I think, I think the real point that you're making which is one
that we have to consider every so often is one of the French
were armed in that situation. Yeah, they were lacks anyway
they were they apparently the guys had to go there and strong
arm some girl to give them the password to get through the
gate. Right. I guess there's a door is gotta be buzzed in with
a coat. No, it was a code. I think it has a code. You punch
the code in and you're in. Yeah, that's not much security.
No, no. To shift a little bit, just one last clip from me.
Unless you got something on this.
I rather get. Yeah, okay. You can play your assignment. I'm
done with this. This is I'm done
with Paris. But I'm moving on now to my other favorite spokes
all now, you know, I can't even Of course no one can really
compete with Jen and Marie. I like Josh because he's an idiot.
But the biggest ad of all spokes halls has got to be this Kirby
guy. For that pentagon. Oh, yeah, that guy's great Rear
Admiral and I gotta I gotta
I gotta start watching him more because he's, he's a comedy act
in himself. He really he's, he's I would question whether he's
not maybe the best of the group in terms of being a bonehead. I
think
he is the problem is he doesn't have good question. questioners.
They need if you put Matt Lee and they will be much, much
funnier. So listen to this guy completely screw up. And by the
way, this may be the truth, but he's completely screwing up the
positioning on ISIS. ISIL is dosh advertising, whatever you
want to call it, but he throws some some metaphors in there
that are just head scratchers know that hundreds of ISIL
fighters have been killed. Can you be more specific on that
number, and
I cannot give you a more specific number of of, of how
many ISIL fighters, we just know, it's hundreds, several 100
It's not. I'd like to make two points. First of all, we don't
have the ability to count every knows that we SWAC but
we don't have the ability to count every knows that we should
whack. How does this even come from? Wow.
I'm gonna have to stop the show. That is the stupidest thing I've
ever heard. It has to be Clip of the Day,
I knew that I had an radio clip. From his deathbed, he throws out
the Clip of the Day. Nose to track it and I'll play it again
for you just because it was so nice.
It's not. I'd like to make two points. First of all, we don't
have the ability to count every nose that we track.
Is that a Yiddish term track?
We're gonna have to look into this homology this usage would
be why would it be official use of the Pentagon? The way they
referring to killing people? And we strapped a few guys this
week, Bill, you know, we have a head count. We haven't got a
nose count man.
SWAC Miriam? Yeah, sch WAC que?
Conditioner and then we'll
go to Merriam Webster. A large amount now that can't be right.
No, I can't be right. He said we should watch. This is a
verb isn't in the urban dictionary. Yeah. Whack. Whack.
And
here's kind of in here and let me read this
sentence is a word used in
addition, it's just it's the smack one with one's penis.
On your nose. You know, maybe this is what those guys were all
talking. Maybe they're rocking around the Pentagon like hey,
man, I see that guy over there. I just whacked his nose.
I shrugged and Jeff and his mom in the face last night before
going to sleep. What does that even mean?
Oh my goodness shroud
like Gulch and came across a sniper. He didn't know I was
behind him. So I gave him a shot whack and took his sniper rifle
then proceeded to go on a killing spree.
Is that from Call of Duty?
It doesn't have I don't know where that came from. Does it
say?
common term amongst fellow South LA surfer dudes. SWAC is a term
often to describe the sound of a surfboard hitting the wave. Do
Dude did you see that goth kid. He was so SWAC This is
Wow, let's see.
Yeah. Oh, he has no I sweat. Yeah, this is the one you
dislike swag. Jeff and his mom in the face last night.
Here's another one a combination of bitch slap and smack. And
also that cool means cool. That band was shot whack. I never
heard that.
Wow. Well, maybe. Maybe
I'm on the number six. To hit drink or smoke something. The
hit drink or puff of said something as a verb. I extract
my leg off of the desk and it hurt like hell. I took a swag of
my soda at lunch.
So apparently more people thought this was rather
peculiar. I've been reading I did a search on Shrek in the
nose. I just wondered does anyone have an analysis of what
he really meant by think I know what he means. No, I meant
he killed the guys that make people we kill Shrek.
But why would he not anyway okay, promise. Thanks.
Have you thought of the mobster term whack Yeah, right. And then
I don't know what it is. You probably I don't know what the
schwag where they so we thought well, maybe my just not gonna
Yiddish it up a little bit. Yeah, I had a little shove in
there and they got a shirt they got during whack. I got the SWAC
That's what I'm afraid of it. But I'm afraid that this was
some kind of Yiddish kind of thing that just came through on
Mr. Kirby there. I don't know. Either that, or you know,
someone just whacked him in the face where the schlong last
night and he's still thinking about it.
It's not, I'd like to make two points. First of all, we don't
have the ability to count every nose that we should whack.
Number two, that's not the goal.
Ah, just so you know, our goal is not to strike every nose this
is good because I was gonna get be bit worried about our
Pentagon and what their mission is. That is not the goal is
whacking what is the goal, then, Mr. Kirby,
that's not the goal. The less of these guys that are out there,
certainly, that's the better, but the goal was to degrade and
destroy their capabilities. And we're not getting into an issue
a body count. And that's why I don't have that number handy. I
wouldn't, I wouldn't have asked my staff to give me that number.
Before I came out here.
I think I think this is significant. Of course, also
bullcrap. No one followed up with a Why of course. So the
major what has been the major of success of the war on ISIS? If
body count doesn't count we have to degrade and ultimately
destroy this this did now this this degrade and destroy thing
is, is annoying. Have we ever done this with any enemy ever in
our history? We're not going to kill you. We just want to
degrade your capabilities. What is this?
This is all nonsense.
Yeah, but there's a reason that the there must be a reason for
this.
Well, I'm sure there is a reason and which will be which will
reveal itself over time. Yeah,
25 years. On classifies maybe we can maybe LeapFrog? I don't have
it. But to me it's it just means we are we have more to do with
Dash ISIS. ISIL is then we are letting on. Because we don't
want to know killing our own.
As in we're behind it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we can argue that
point. Yeah.
Because you know, we don't want to be killing please don't get
into counting bodies because we're going to degrade it. Well,
you can degrade it just by turning off the money supply.
You know, I'm looking at the 36 I think it's 36 B 36. Yeah, 36 B
entries. On the on the register. The National Register. Okay,
there's a couple of things to note here. I actually I want to
also do a throwback question or observation. First of all, the
banking system is pretty secure. Universally, you can't run
around with you can't be thrown billions of dollars through the
system. unnoticed that you can't put a stop to it. Right? The
system can put a stop to it. Right the banking system can put
a stop to these guys that that was the end of it. They don't
have any money they have to use you know, good gold coin if
they're gonna do anything. The other thing by the way, I want
to mention just says we kind of passed on it. I forgot to
mention it during the discussion is, hey, where was NSA with
these two guys shooting up the shooting up to cartoon so they
gotta they got their ears on everybody. How come they didn't
spot this coming in and give mile away? Yeah. Where it was
all, you know, the great security systems out there that
are spying on Americans. You know, who are your trading
stocks? Why can't they find these two guys ever using cell
phones every day? They're connected like everyone else?
Ah, yeah. Huh.
I asked you I can only agree. This is the 336 B one arm sales
notification. From January 6 2015. A bad chat out there in
Colorado. He's the one that always tracks his data. He puts
us on the no agenda, news network. And if let's see so we
have a deputy when you sell something to some other people
out it was just when you sell weapons, you got to register
your thing with the with the Pentagon. In fact, this letter
goes to the Speaker of the House actually John Boehner became a
speaker pursuant to the reporting requirements 36 V one
arms Export Control Act, as amended, do we are 14 here with
transmittal number 13 Dash 45 Concerning the department of the
Army's proposed letter, letters of offer and acceptance to Iraq
for defense articles and services estimated to cost $2.4
billion and and of course the way the letters written its
major defense equipment with an asterix 1.7 billion and that
includes 175 full track and one a one Abrams tanks. Now, I think
I've seen ISIS driving these things. Yeah, yeah. So we're
sending
they grabbed him. Yeah, sure. Yeah, they get the training to
drive one of those things. I don't think I could just jump in
an Abrams tank and hit The start button and driving around oh
well Seth Rogen could then there's the my favorite category
on the, ya know, my favorite categories other and that's
that's probably the training 1.7 billion as well so that's a full
track and one a one Abrams tanks with 120 mil guns modified and
upgraded to Oh to the configuration 15 M 88 A to
improve tank recovery vehicles. We've got 175 50 caliber m two
machine guns with a Chrysler mount. What is a Chrysler mount?
Does that mean it won't fit on a Toyota?
It could be I don't know. Well, now you got me interested. We're
gonna be looking it up. I got a lot of ammo on a machine gun,
right?
Yes, the 50 caliber m two machine gun with Chrysler mount.
That's got to be the ones used on the trucks. Yeah, for a
Chrysler I presume? Well, maybe originally
multipurpose tracer ammo. Use tracer ammo.
I use that because it looks better.
Target prac Oh target practice multipurpose tracer ammo. Okay.
vehicula Dulong range radio systems, cargo vehicles,
receiver transmitters, simulators, communications,
quality assurance teams. Oh, there we go. Here we go. support
equipment, fuel, transportation, spit, we're selling the fuel to
spare and repair parts, site surveys, quality assurance
teams, special tools and test equipment, personnel training,
training, equipment, publications, technical
documentation, US government and contractor technical engineering
and logistical support services and related elements of
programming, logistic support. So it's all in there, the
training is all a part of it. We don't just send off a couple of
tanks and say here you go.
No, no, of course not. But this is the stuff these guys are all
system. It's a system we're selling. Yes. We're selling
systems. A platform is a platform. Exactly. It's
a platform. Did you find the Chrysler mounts or?
Yeah, it's I'm looking at it. They do. They haven't used them
on Jeeps? It's a usually it's in the tank. For the machine gun, I
guess it goes looking at this one picture. Yeah, well, I will
look into it more. I think it is. Must have I know where they
get these things. Yeah.
So you know, yeah, no wonder we're only trying to degrade. We
don't actually want to put anybody out of business because
we have stuff to sell. Yeah. And there's lots of stuff. And I
don't know, man, maybe it's just me. That's fine. too strange.
Why shouldn't it just be on camera? Just also be on the
news. Hey, we just sold $2.4 billion worth of stuff to Iraq,
that should help degrade and defeat ISIL ultimately,
they'll die so guys, we'll end up with it. That's me, we have
to sell
more. Yes. Now you're catching on to it. That's why we can i So
goes to the body can we can't sweat our noses.
Now. Nowadays, we sell for $2 billion with this stuff. I sold
it they put it somewhere like in mozal. An ISO comes along. They
take it all. And so they're driving down the streets and all
our stuff that they did the Iraqis bought, now they gotta
buy more stuff because they had their stuff stolen. I think
we'll be selling another $2 billion worth of stuff. And then
that gets stolen. So we got to sell them another $2 billion,
where the stuff? We scold them, of course, of course, how much
of this stuff do we have to sell you before you don't have it
stolen every time? And then we go steal it?
All right, John. With that, I would like to thank you for your
courage and say in the morning to you John C. Chrysler, Mount
Dvorak.
Yeah, well, in the morning to you Adam curry in the morning
all ships to see boots on the ground feet in the air subs in
the water and all the Dames and nights out there.
And a reminder, the subs are always in the water. Just so you
know. And they are always listening and in the morning to
all of our human resources. They're in the chat room who are
getting social with each other good to see y'all social,
social, social media. No agenda stream.com And thank you to our
artists we had I think it was let me see I wrote it down there
PewDiePie who did the art for episode six, eight for now. I
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is this was the welcome center piece. Very nice. Yeah, that was
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always happy. Always, always happy to see the art that shows
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be this schwag the nose. Maybe this would be a t shirt or you
know we got to do something with that. Sure. Maybe it could be a
dance. It'll be a show title. SWAC the nose.
There you go. So we have a little competition going on. I
see a worldwide competition between our well heeled nights.
Oh, starting with Paul Simon who contributed seven or $9.99 out
of Toronto and does have a note that he mailed in. Wow.
Which I will go read. Now does he move into a business become
a Baronet and he wants to be the Baron Vaughn sighs mark of the
upper horseshoe
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well, he's no he's got to hear his size and he's changed it.
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sighs mark of the upper horseshoe. Okay, let me make
sure I have that. Here's what he says in the morning, Rogaine and
Flacco the rapid ascent of Sir Don Tomas so this is the kind of
thing that used to take place during the feudal era. The rapid
ascent of Sir Don Tommaso de Toronto has me concerned as I do
not want to wake up one day homeless in the get mo back
bacon. Once conquered by our forefathers. I am making the
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please done me Baron Vaughn sighs mark of the upper
horseshoe and I'd like to expand my territory westward. To Butte
surge Gerald's eastern border if Sir Don likes he can formalize
our claim on Cuba.
I think we need stakes in the ground.
So I'd like to James Brown ISIS in America followed by drone
again and a much needed job karma to keep this donation
party going wow. Baron Vaughn sighs Mark Okay or says Mark
could be says Mark says Mark of well Upper Canada that's what
this is Mark sorry, Aaron. That's okay. We're gonna fight
going is a battle
is great. I love it. All right, here we go.
Follow them to the gate. ISIS. By the way, that's not true.
We're not going to follow ISIS to the gates of hell because
we're not supposed to be swapping the noses.
I think that's the best clip. I've decided. Jobs, jobs, jobs
and jobs for jobs.
The sick thing about that? Is that whole vote for jobs that
we've been playing for eight years or whatever, we've been
playing this now there's no jobs no jobs did we voted? We didn't
actually get any jobs.
No, no jobs came for jobs. She yells this when she was as house
speaker. Yeah. Hard to remember that she's at now. Oh, wow. No,
not quite. Maybe you might be alright. Onward. Francis. M she
he came in with $600 from Worcester, Massachusetts. And
much of a note here, but there is one. By this time, I
shouldn't be a night. The note I think is true. And I am
recognized as not important. Well, I am not looking for
karma. I do not wish to be deduced. I only want this to
continue the show that is Yeah, adios mofos
Well, thank you oh, you know fine bill still do a ceremony
for you if you don't mind Francis.
And this is Francis ism is she? It's a male good because it says
night so I'm presuming it's so it says night so I'm assuming is
because Francis is ambiguous name. Like pat pat. Yes.
Anonymous from Parts Unknown seminars. $67.89. And we have no
information on this person. And they went out of their way to be
anonymous as hell so probably intelligence community.
Well, someone wants to be Obama. It's someone who likes what
we're doing. Jessica flood we're gonna be sad if it was like, you
know, it was like Ted Cruz who really liked us or something.
That'd be a little disabilities. That'd be
great. Now, yeah, because we'd be influencing Ted Cruz. Okay,
in is influencing that guy. That's true. Jessica Fletcher is
the sweetest note I believe this is this is the note that now
other women will have to top this note and
I have to say John sent a reply to this. And CC me on it. And
and you actually said sweetest note, ever I think you had e v h
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did not ever, never. I said every ve Our Dear John, this is
Jessica in West Babylon, New York three to $33.33. And she
asked to read the no we always read the notes if they're over
200. So you don't have to really request that I'm donating today
on behalf of my husband, Justin flood. Friday, January 9 is his
33rd birthday. Three, three, and I couldn't think of a better
gift than to donate to his favorite podcast. We can't think
of a better gift either. He listens to it during his commute
and I know it makes the New York traffic a little less crappy. I
can imagine just as to Justin, despite all the terrible news
and all the setbacks of the last year we still had each other and
we still have our dreams there's no one else I'd rather go
through life's ups and downs with then you hopefully 2015
will be much better to us than 2014 was happy birthday honey I
love you please give us some karma and also play his favorite
jingle which is don't Raph thanks for all the hard work
guys keep hitting him in the mouth. Jessica flood ah from
tasty I get get mo tasty bagels. So
that's that's beautiful.
I thought so.
Since she wanted don't laugh and what else
download the long version adult wrath and obviously some karma
some
karma. Oh, that's beautiful. That's very nice. I can
understand. And of course, she gave all the magic numbers so
she must be listening to.
Yeah, obviously a lot of threes involved in this note. Don't put
up why you're laughing Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. You've got
just send us a picture.
And finally, from Cardiff UK upskirt. tuner $90 from Eric's
harjot Hi, Adam and John thank you for your amazing news
analysis and entertainment mix you guys are truly the best
we don't have an entertainment mix. But what does that mean?
What he's made meaning is that the news entertaining and
together becomes an entertainment mix now on
magic 95 Five Great News Analysis and the fantastic
entertainment mix
and whether on the eighth you're truly the best podcast in the
universe can I have an Obama a team and karma from my eBay shop
and I asked him to what eBay shop wasn't I don't think I got
to know back yet.
Oh, I'd love to know what the eBay shop is. Yeah, I'm gonna
look him up It must be hard eBay shop
it depends I think if you have really if you get if you get the
right stuff to sell I think you do pretty well.
There isn't a need for rescue mission when the world is
threatened. The world needs help calls on America
and that's the story you've got karma yay always happy to do
that. And that's the table
let me take one quick look for the eBay shop. Okay, we can give
him a quick plug here it is donation eBay shop
chat room suggest perhaps he sells Chrysler mounts at his
eBay shop
that would be in the money
well, you know just resources and clothes and
stuff. Is any it's a UK shop is stores ebay.co.uk And it's it's
called gorgeous clothes and stuff was in an just an N and he
is shot first aid kit for awareness. Okay.
Well Holy Moly people thank you very much for helping us out. So
we have a couple of nice things later on today. Looking forward
to that
we do have a Sunday show coming up to remind people to go to
divorce.org/anais also chanted imore.com which I think is still
down so don't go there. But you can go to the no agenda nation
or no agenda show actually on the on the button there and
you'll go right to one of the pages but divorce.org/and A is
the key
and these credits are real. You can put them on your business
cards you can put them on LinkedIn it's what everyone
seems to like to use them and they do apparently work people
are interested way how does this person get this? Producers going
on here and of course will always vouch for you if there's
any doubt about the fact that you are an executive or
Associate Executive Producer. I have one PR plug request Wired
magazine, or wired.com Someone sent me this so many podcasts My
phone's about to cave in under the weight of all the shows I've
downloaded but haven't listened to yet. Even so we here at Wired
are always on the lookout for more got any great
recommendations, please leave them here. It was time for us to
start getting on this bandwagon.
Yeah, we need more promotion. Yeah. So what's your right to
this guy and wired what would you get uploaded but you put
this on the show notes
starts in the show notes and I just posted
okay, what is it? What's the guy who is this guy? Eric Steuer
okay, go to
blog, the whole link just go to the show notes is the link for
this things in the show notes. It's
one step too many for a lot of people. Well then Pat is telling
you as one step
into the into the chat room and then that'll be a good boost.
Okay, we
just get to any we just need a few people to do it. Yeah, just
this guy probably like our show most ad most people who aren't
clinically insane. Love our show. Yeah, they do. It's true.
When they figure out what the show is about, I'm sorry, said
when they got to get into the show that shows pretty well. I
got I got a note from the nurses that we were talking about.
Yeah, now they said thanks for the thanks for the nurse. Prop
props. Nurse props.
Yeah. Oh, that was it. Is your name here is a lot of people
will say
hey, go out there and propagate our formula. Is this. We go out.
We hit people in the mouth
Hello, your name here. I had a great time meeting you. Thanks
for the nurse props. Okay, nice.
All righty then. Alrighty, then. Ah,
let me see. I've been there's a new mean. And this meme came to
mean, with a link to let's say, this was a little report here.
And an anonymous but not anonymous to me person who I do
believe is in a position to know that this is happening. That's
all I can say. That that we have, there's going to be a new
avenue in the fight against climate change. Oh, good. Yes.
I am getting tired of the old stuff.
Yes. So they're going to feel something new in there. You
ready for it?
Ah, okay.
The Delaware sighs methane cloud over New Mexico has become an
increasing cause for concern and a point of contention among
environmentalists and energy companies. The Washington Post
reports that despite its 2500 square miles spread, the plume
isn't visible from the ground, and thus were largely undetected
for some time. About three years ago, its presence was brought to
light when it showed up on images taken by NASA satellites.
The researchers who looked into the matter were so shocked by
the readings that they were certain something had
malfunctioned. It turned out that was not the case and the
massive gaseous spread is real. The primary cause is fuel
mining, as methane release is a side effect of a number of
extraction processes. Well, methane itself is an energy
source. It's not one that companies drilling for oil are
particularly interested in collecting or containing
environmentalists and a number of scientists, on the other
hand, are greatly concerned about the effects of leaving
such a powerful greenhouse gas flow freely into the air.
President Obama is expected to soon announce measures to shrink
the cloud size. But while the specifics are not known, members
of Congress who support the energy industry are expected to
push back he's going to shrink the cloud size shrink to cloud
Barak. Yeah, so the message I got is methane is the new carbon
dioxide. And it was suggested we actually put this in the book
even in the Red Book. That and the reason why is is kind of
simple. So first of all, this this methane cloud is over New
Mexico, which really doesn't make a lot of sense the way the
the global warming climate change. Community has been
looking at the creation of methane. They all pretty much
universally say, Oh, well, it's because of the acidification and
the co2 goes into the ocean and then methane comes out and
becomes pooping out of the ocean. And speaking of pooping,
the other way we get methane is cow farts, which you know, it's
funny and then permafrost permafrost melts you get methane
released
live second let's back up. They claim at least did that what I
heard from that clip is that this is a function of the
fracking fracking and the guys don't give a crap about it
correct? Is it this is but methane is what they're
collecting mostly.
This I wouldn't
art of natural gas a big chunk of it a big component is
methane. So what So why don't they give a crap? I don't know.
Here we are fracking away all the hell with it. Let it all go
into the air. Is that what they're saying? Because that's
what
I heard. That's what I heard. Yeah.
But he specifically said that, oh, they don't give a crap about
the methane because methane is only here as a greenhouse
greenhouse gas that we can exploit. I mean, seriously?
Well, I don't know if we need to be debating that. I just wanted
us to get it on our radar and, and our producers out there to
be listening for methane to move into, look, the co2 thing. It's
just not working anymore, that we had 350 parts per million, it
would be catastrophic if we went past that. And we're now at 460
parts per million. And I don't know, let me check. I can still
breathe. I'm not dead yet. So it just hasn't worked for them. But
methane, yeah, the methane Yeah, you can start pushing a lot more
buttons, and it's much, much more dangerous. And we have a
methane cloud we can talk about, there's no carbon dioxide cloud.
methane in the form of compressed natural gas is used
as a vehicle fuel. Methane is important for electrical
generation by burning it as a fuel in a gas turbine, or steam
generator. Compared to other hydrocarbon fuels. Burning
methane produces less carbon dioxide. But yet, these drillers
are just throwing the methane away. That's what the guy said.
Yeah. Oh, they don't care about the methane. Yeah, they care
about the methane.
So this is very interesting. Because if if the if they really
start going on and on about the about methane as a, as the, it
could become the greenhouse gas that we're all talking about.
And they continue on this stuff. It's the frackers, then that
would be a big mistake.
Was because they've got this whoever dream this pitch up is
an idiot. That's the problem. Oh, the giant cloud of methane.
Well, let's go grab that cloud is worth money. This is this is
the I don't think this is gonna fly. Okay. This will be the last
we hear of it. Wait, wait, take it back. Give it 30 days, then
it'll be the last one.
Well give it 30 days. This is the message I got from someone
who I think probably sits in meetings where this person would
hear this? Well, methane is the new co2.
It's okay. I do they've always said that they liked the idea of
methane being that because it is insofar as the source of this
chemistry is in is concerned. Methane is like co2 in terms of
being a greenhouse gas. And and they like to argue that the
permafrost the people up in the weather from Greenland, for
example. Yeah. Yeah, it's got lots of built up methane in the
snow. It's all in there. Yeah. And once you melt it all, and
boom, that methane all goes into the air.
But that's what we had hoped to do. Yeah, we're doing we just
don't really know how much it'll take.
Well, this has to do with a cloud over New Mexico from
fracking is beyond me thing. Now here, and why doesn't disappear,
we do have atmospheric conditions that would blow this
crap all over the place.
Well, you recall that the President is going to announce
measures to shrink the size of the cloud. Now, this could be
interesting. You could do that with well, geoengineering, I
would say that can get fun.
While the topic of this is I find to be funny story, because
what did you play that geoengineering?
Oh, I see. Oh, yeah, you could probably spray the methane was
something you know, like, lighter fluid and then just want
to watch the whole thing off. Play quakes in Texas and Tom was
was missing from this report done on the network news.
The ground won't stop shaking and Texas 11 quakes have various
strengths in the last 24 hours, mostly in the Fort Worth area.
No injuries, no cause no serious damage quite yet, just to
people's nervous systems.
No, cause where there's fracking is going crazy. Of course, it's
fracking. This is of no unknown factor in the earthquakes is an
area in Nevada, that or Nevada that has a bunch of fracking and
against nothing but quakes going on these little shakers, they're
annoying. Yeah. And are they really? Yeah, quakes are
annoying. You don't think so?
No, it was found them to be interesting.
They're annoying. It's just something to talk about. Well,
I'd rather talk about other things, whatever the case. And I
think, you know, the idea of putting all these lubricants
into the faults where there's areas where there's
I haven't heard about this lubricants. Well, I mean,
this is what they're doing. This is what it sounds like. You get
into this some of these crazy fall areas like Texas has a lot
of faults that never get. They never move because they're just
been there forever. And but they're there. I guess they move
every million year. or something and then you just throw a bunch
of oil and lubricants down in there. Just move it in there and
give me an oil up and then they start to move lube up Mother
Earth. So that lubing of California seems to be like the
worst idea in the world, it's likely that California decided
to ban fracking. I
don't think the California is needed any more lube, I think
the lubed up enough as is.
Well, there's that. Anyway, I just thought it was funny how he
just glossed it just has
no idea why it's happening. It's a mystery I was looking at. Of
course, it's snowing again over in Europe. Some something that
the poor British children would never see ever again. According
to a clip of that. I don't know. It's only an article in was the
Guardian was
a big deal. There was a lot of people writing about it. But it
was 10 years ago. So yes, unfortunately,
the only place children would see snow would be in snow
globes. And in Disney movies.
Yes, that would that's what the pronouncement was by the
experts.
Now in the UK, but also the Netherlands has many places,
they have these wind farms in the North Sea, or the channel
and they, in this case, the north Wales coastline. And I
used to see them all the time, of course, because I'd fly you
know, flying over. And this reason it's, I find it to be so
strange that that it's like hey, let's just put this stuff into
the water. I've never liked the idea. But now that it's so cold,
and there's not a lot of wind, they they literally are powering
these windmills, with diesel powered energy to keep them
turning. So that didn't freeze and break. Ah, this is yeah. So
to the modern world, this is so crazy. Because they did not
turning and it's cold. We have to now use electricity to turn
these things over to keep them rotating.
Comey came out with a confirmation that it was North
Korea. Did you hear this? I
just I read about it. Do you have a clue?
I have the clip is great. Here's the funny thing to listen to
carefully because you you're the one who spotted this. When Comey
sued him for he doesn't do it every time he does it the first
time.
He's little Right. Right. Am I right? But embarrass that's very
solid. He's very sorry. It's very so right. It's very, it's
right. You know? We already
Yeah. The director of the FBI now says there is very clear
evidence that North Korea was behind the hacking of Sony
Pictures. James Comey sought today to answer skeptics who've
said the US provided no evidence to support his claim. He told a
conference in New York that US Investigators tracked the
hackers and found the evidence
several times they got sloppy several times, either because
they forgot or they had a technical problem. They
connected directly. And we could see them. And we could see that
the IP addresses that were being used to post and to send the
emails were coming from IPs that were exclusively used by the
North Koreans.
The Sony Pictures computer network was crippled as the
company promoted the interview, a comedy about a plot to kill
North Korea's leader. The film is now available online and in a
limited number of theaters.
So I only heard him do it once. Right?
Yeah, it was. It was there. It was at the beginning.
But is this the secret evidence? This is yeah, this is secret
evidence that if
not an IP address. By the way, it's not as if somebody can't
route through that address afford that somebody can't spoof
that address, or somebody can't do a million things with that IP
or there was
a Chinese guy sitting there or worse an American agent at that
IP address. Like it could be anything that's proof that this
guy, this is not proof of anything. It's not proof of
anything is
it's just less proof. It seems to me they got nothing. And
Comey is not from the FBI gets a hair up their ass about
something they can't get off it they could never say Well, we
were thinking that week what's gonna happen is eventually the
guys who did this because they're gonna get cocky or
something's gonna happen and they're gonna get caught the
real guys that do X Sony employees some Sony's gonna
probably put investigators on this till they find the guys
because this is guys need to be found. So they'll find the guys
and there'll be a big deal about it. And then the FBI will be
asked about this and then they they'll have some bull crap
excuse for the Prusa Well, you know, we at the time, we didn't
think was that important? I
don't even think they'll respond. They won't even do they
won't. They won't be necessary. They're just gonna forget about
it. Now maybe I got a note from Don The plot thickens.
Well, I had sent him a note. And I'd said, See what I wrote here.
Now that I said, you know about the crazy demonization by the
administration for the Sony hack, you know, even though
clearly the This isn't this is not a shoo in. And I say
interesting how almost covered up by this continuous messaging
from Pyongyang President Park about a possible reunification?
Yeah. So that's the real news here. And he comes back says
Adam, I think it's very significant that Kim Jong Un
himself spoke, giving his New Year's message which I've not
read through I read through the translated transcript. It's
pretty funny. And saying that he would like to meet with part Jin
Zhu when Hawaii see I only said Park which is of course a faux
pas. So Don comes back. It's Park Geun ke Ki, I guess. This
has evoked positive responses from the ROK. Prime Minister.
This is something I wanted to point out to you. South. We
don't say South Korea, we say our Okay, all caps. If you're
okay, yeah, just so you know, just a note. This has evoked
positive responses from the ROK, Prime Minister and unification
unification minister, so that is good. I think controversy
controversy will continue to swirl around us charges of NK
hacking. Also notable and Kay. And the new sanctions will not
amount to much so on we go. Cheers, Dawn. Whatever that
means. On On we go.
I'm sure the same bullcrap continues. But it means
couple of interesting things. I gotta gotta think before you
play the Blitzer teaser. Oh, boy.
A 10s of 1000s of lives potentially at risk and what
could be the worst flu season here in the United States? In
years? A leading doctor tells me though, it's not too late to
protect yourself.
Da like a Buddha condom over my head. Yes, thank goodness.
brawls that was from three years ago. Oh, really?
A good word. Yeah, that was good. That's good. You got me
there. You got me. Harry Reid, who I saw on your newsletter.
So beat up. We got to talk about this.
Yes. And I thought it was the someone went to his house and
interviewed him. And I think this we believe particularly
because the guy is in Nevada, Nevada, Nevada. Now he's coming
into you know, there's a new house. He is now minority
ousted from the he was the he's the Senate. Senate. I'm sorry.
He's but he's been ousted, but it's something he did something
wrong or said something wrong. And someone beat him up. Yeah,
seems very obvious. He got a big black eye.
I don't see broken ribs where they kicked him. Yeah,
I don't see any other damage. But his right eye is like
someone really sock
they broke his eye socket. Yeah, that's what it looks like. Yeah,
probably with a baseball bat.
Now. We analyze how people talk all the time. And often when
someone is lying, they will actually try and refute the lie
in the lie. And it will be a big tell because even though you
haven't asked now remember, he's just saying this was some
exercise equipment. That something snapped. That was the
initial reports that it was like one of those rubber bands which
I have never heard of those snapping but okay,
and then when they snap they don't they don't snap like a
rubber band and they don't break your eyes. They go dead. It's a
strange type of rubber is very safety oriented. So I think
Harry Reid went way overboard and trying to play down that you
have this clear any thinking whatsoever, but you know, maybe
he was beat up
beat to the No, I thought for a couple of years. After any one
of those fights I never looked like I do now. However, I didn't
get this black guy by sparring with Manny by challenging Floyd
Mayweather. I didn't go bull riding. I was riding a
motorcycle. I was exercising in my new home. And the doctors
have told me I better take it easy. I had my presentational
made to start the new Congress. I've been doing new congresses
for me my 33rd year and I really have some homesickness for lack
of a better description.
So he's he drops into 33 which is always a clue for us. And he
was exercising his new home just whatever you think he was not
fighting He was not boxing didn't challenge Merriweather,
who asked you that. In all the years of boxing, I never looked
this bad. Who asked
you that? We did make that point clear.
But I think that to me means this wasn't a fair fight. It was
three guys. I was exercising my home. They came in and they beat
me up.
Well, that's apparently what happened.
I think so.
So here's an interesting thing. He assumed office in 1987. Add
33 to that.
I'm too fuzzy to do that.
But I can do that. 0389 1011 12. That would be I guess, 2020.
So it can't quite be his 33rd years what you're saying?
Well, it looks like the assumed office on January
3 1980 789 1011 12. You, you add 33 to that, because that's the
number he dropped in for an obvious reason that we believe
was code. It always is. And the number comes out to be 2020.
What's the date? What do you what year are we dealing with to
burn? We're 2015.
So that's just five years off? They would it would have been
even better if he said, Look, I didn't get swept in the nose.
No, it didn't. It gets whacked in the eye. schwag. So this is
very sketchy. No, because what it is we don't know. I mean, the
corruption of the style of corruption and mob type
corruption in in Nevada is beyond our comprehension. Right.
And the kind of deals that this guy has done over the years is
completely outside of our purview. We have no idea No,
we're not even close to having a clue. But it was something that
much we know.
I wanted I was looking for this earlier, but just because of my
my state. And by the way, I'm not eating I have a lozenge for
my sore throat I'm not going to comply. I'm telling everyone so
that
you were eating to discuss you don't want to hear Hey, can we
talk before we leave the Harry Reid thing? Can we talk a minute
about marketing because I think everyone's well people there's
people out there I'd like to know some of the things I do
want to do the newsletter Yes, please. This time, and I just
thought this was kind of fascinating. I don't do this
that often. I do it once in a while but I did an A B split on
the last newsletter.
Oh you wait you went you went for a this was a marketing test?
Yes, I did a marketing test okay, and I find it fascinating
and identities before I don't do them a lot but I do them once in
a while and I usually learn nothing. Now and I never talked
about it on the show well, so I must have learned something and
I have it's very interesting. And this is just about the you
know the kind of when I do the new I do the newsletter I'm glad
people this they respond to some things some things they don't
it's like it's it's a it's a it's like a little world unto
itself in the newsletter because but it's never been more
apparent than with this particular A B split. Okay. The
A B split was was and this is the nothing is different is have
one thing because I have to test very specifically and this was
the the subject line. Okay, the subject line and Group A was
first cute kitten pic of 2015 Burr with brr with
I didn't get that one. I got a different one.
You got a pic of Harry Reid. Seaton up what happened? Yes,
that's
the one I got.
All right. So I learned to code. This is very interesting. Now,
first of all, let me just ask you just, you know, because you
don't know until you test, but what would you think would be
the results of this in terms of opens? There was a difference in
open? Okay,
so I would think and that is also because when I saw the
newsletter come in, I went Oh, that's interesting. I want to
see this picture. So I would think that the Harry Reid beaten
up picture would rule. Okay. over the over the first kitten
pic of the year,
right? Yeah, okay, the Harry. Now that difference was minor,
but it was not. But it was significant minor, but
significant. Makes no sense. But it was it was noticeably
different. The Harry Reid picture did outperform in terms
of opens and in terms of reloads, so people opened more
and then they looked at it when they went back for more. They
went a lot of people do they go back some people 10 times they
go through and maybe there's something new in here. I don't
know why they do it but they do this thing. But that's not what
happened initially when the when the results first came in when
the thing was shipped out. The kitten pig just jumped ahead of
the Harry Reid picture. And then it moved over Over time, as
people later in the day started picking up their emails or
whatever. In other words, the enthusiast people who are just
on their email all the time, and as soon as it comes in, they
open, right? Those types of people apparently are a
different type of person than would that would be attracted.
They'd be attracted to kittens as a picture of the Harry Reid
being beaten up as a different type of person. So we have two
different kinds of people. Once you get that kind of thing, then
you get some info, interesting information. Here's what was
interesting. I can go over this for hours. But I think that we
really got me was the total clicks. And now there was people
who clicked on one of the links that was either donate or boon,
which is the only links I had in this particular newsletters to
donate, you
click on the pictures to get bigger versions of the pictures.
No, no. Okay. I had none of those variables. The picture was
the picture
chat room believes they are all your lab rats, by the way.
Now, when you do that, when you when you're trying to get people
to read and open newsletters, you have to, you have to there's
30 things you have to do to get them to do it because they won't
open these letters. Here's here's the only thing. Number
10. Nobody will open it. Okay. But what I
would like to do, and I enjoy listening to this, and I think
it's very good that we do this on the show, but I would like to
call it John C. Dvorak, X big data report. Instead newsletter
sounds a little wonky, big data, we need to, we need to position
ourselves as the Big Data guys who know what they're talking
about
it this was the interesting part of it. The difference between
opens was about 2% 2% More people opened, Harry Reid being
beaten up.
Well, that's is that not just negligence?
That's a big deal. Okay. Well, yeah. Percentages are a big deal
with this sort of thing. But this is the thing that
fascinates me. Total clicks was twice over twice as many people
clicked on the kitten. User, these newsletters were
identical, by the way. Click on one and not the other. If you
got the newsletter open and you
know why they were like, where's the where's the cute kitten was
a cute kitten?
The kitten the kitten was at the end is Julio kitten. You saw the
kitten to both and pick both of the newsletters had the kitten
picture. Their newsletters were totally identical. But the
people who clicked on Harry Reid being beaten up. And the people
who clicked on the first cute kitten pic. It were a different
type of person. Yeah. So in other words, the kitten. People
are more. They're just they seem to be nicer. They're just nicer
people. They don't want to see some guy who's been beaten up.
So and so they clicked more. Wow. So it created an actual
world that the subject line itself created a world, the
world of kittens and the world of a beaten up senator, and the
world of kittens is more more open to clicking and donating I
doubt if anybody who opened the Harry Reid,
email sent, donate anything. Oh, okay. Fascinating.
So you have to keep this so this is the message for you marketers
out there. You got to be upbeat. No matter what you just need to
upbeat is better, as opposed to downbeat because Harry Reid
being beaten up his downbeat messages. It's only in the
subject line newsletter was exactly the same. But it's
downbeat. You're immediately down all the guys been beaten
up. These Oh, look at that he's been beaten up because you focus
on it. The other one Oh, where's the cute kitten? Where's the
cute kitten? Oh, that's great. I'll give him give it out,
donate or contribute or maybe become a producer. So that's I
learned I personally found that to be extremely eye opening.
Wow. Yeah, but Well, let's
play the song
Alright, so before next, for the next newsletter, I suggest will
you do another A B test. And the first one is extremely cute
kitten picture. And the other end the B would be extremely
cute puppy picture. Do you think it'll make a difference?
No. Okay. It would be some bit worn off because I think it's
some sort of a gag. Yeah. But you could do I could try kittens
versus dogs. I think that might be
because you know, we've blown it. Because now you said it now
people are going to be waiting for them.
Yeah, it'd be looking for so I had to wait out. Wait, it just
takes a while. But six months from now I can run another test.
You're funny, but at least I learned something. I mean, I was
actually stunned by this. This data, I can understand. Wow.
People do not like to be bummed out. Well, okay. And then why
there's me when somebody says to do because we try to make our
show so you get a kick out of the news and the crazy lies that
you're being presented by the mainstream media. Yes. But
everyone says, Oh, I get so depressed Listening to your
show. Well,
let's try and price spice it up a little bit. Wow. Okay. I
wanted to go back to, to the FBI and Comey. Okay. And I was
looking for it earlier, but I couldn't find it that quickly.
The FBI has said, we all know about the sting rays, these
boxes and they suck up looks like a cell tower and then your
cell phone connects to it, it sucks all your data out. Which
is still not a we don't exactly know what it sucks out. But the
was I think the ACLU sent a FOIA request. No, I think actually
suing the FBI. Let me see if I can find that here. And the
question was, do you not need? What do you need a warrant when
you have a Cessna flying over? Over a city, and so they can
pick up you know, 10s of 1000s of cell phone, IMEI numbers, and
a whole bunch of things that can suck out of these out of the
cell phones, when they fly it over? Over a city or any open
space or if there's a protest or demonstration going on? And the
FBI, you wouldn't believe it, but they literally have said
here we go. FBI policy requires FBI agents to obtain a search
warrant whenever a call site simulator, that's what it's
officially called, is used as part of an FBI investigation or
operation unless one of this several exceptions apply,
including cases that pose an imminent danger to public
safety, which of course the ones can always evoke, but cases that
involve a fugitive or, and this is the interesting one, cases in
which the technology is used in public places or other locations
in which the FBI deems there's no reasonable expectation of
privacy. Which means the FBI is equating the sucking the sucking
of your cell phone with you walking down the street and so
on to observing you walking down the street with a camera are the
kinds of surveillance which I find to be an abhorrent
comparison,
I think is specious too because there's it's not the same No,
for one thing you know, you I see people walking down the
street and yakking about something I guess I could follow
them and hear what they're saying. But I can't hear the
other side of that conversation. And you can with and I don't
know who they're talking to. Exactly. What's the well in an
airplane you get this you guys some blow hard? And he's Yeah,
well, I'll tell you, you know, I'll be at the the line guy give
me a call at 717555. And it goes on with some number I write it
down, right. And then I call the guy and the salute message. So
this has
risen up to the level of what's Chuck Grassley and some other
dude, Leahy and they are now asking Comey questions because
they really and hold her so this NJ John Joe Johnson, John
Johnson. Then here's a bit of their letter Dear Attorney
General Holder and Secretary Johnson in recent months media
reports have detailed the use of cell site simulators often
referred to as IMSI catchers or sting rays. I've been federal
state law enforcement agencies and they have another cool in in
here. The Wall Street Journal reported that the United States
Marshal Service regularly deploys airborne cell site
simulators referred to as dirt boxes. I've never heard of this
either. DRT dirt box from five metropolitan area airports
across the United States. Like the more common Stingray devices
these dirt boxes mimic standard cell towers forcing effective
cell phones to reveal their approximate location and
registration information. But yeah, that's all it is really.
And let me tell you that when they put it when Obama comes to
town and he stays usually at the Intercontinental or his store he
puts an office up there which is nearby where buzzkill Jr works
and the last time he was in town and we have told us this you
realize right yeah mentality again good. Last time he was in
town all of a sudden all the iPhones that were in the office
was essentially drained from their battery the battery life
just went to hell because the phones he believes they don't
know it he believes the they lock onto the phone and then
they suck it dry make it produce all his data and they send it
over that's what he thinks is going on. And of course I told
him and I always tell people this when you feel that your
iPhone is being tapped like that, which is apparently what's
going on just take the battery out and
I don't I don't have a phone. This is the beauty of it. No, me
no phone Have you missed the battery gag I got no I laugh at
the battery gag with the iPhone. I got the battery gag. It's just
you know. I got the gag John. Seriously.
Okay, you can also wrap the phone in aluminum foil, folks. I
have the flu. Yeah, a dirt box or Dr. tee boxes. DRT is, I
guess one of the keys is digital receiver technology. That's the
name of the company is a phone device mimicking a cell phone
tower designed to create a strong signal strong enough
within the short range as to force dominant or dormant mobile
phones to automatically switch over to it. It's used by the US
Marshal Service mounted on aircraft or all over the US to
detect and locate cell phones and thus collect information and
can be used to jam. The name stems from the company that
originally developed a digital receiver technology Inc,
abbreviated DRT. Owned by Boeing. Oh, yeah.
Well, since we're talking about the software, you might as well
view phones or landlines, and the phone should be made out of
Bakelite. Hey, now, tech
news, everybody wasn't gonna say about the tech news. Oh, yes.
Have you followed any of the CES? Yeah, yeah. Coverage. What
do you think?
Well, it's just the same show. As usual. It's a bunch of crap.
Nobody need I think it's
worse. I think it's degraded into wearable things that are
completely useless. Totally Smart Home things that are
completely useless. Yes. And and the people who are useless that
go to CES to look at these useless things. Pretty much the
self watering flowerpot. I mean, I'm hearing the same pitch now.
This is year 30. I'm hearing about your smart home, and how
it's going to know when you come in and turn on the lights. i It
makes me want to throw up.
It's been going on forever. When I was I think I was still in
high school or college when they had the first x three or this x
10x 10. And they RadioShack sold this stuff.
Yeah, that was the only time that was a standard actually.
Yeah.
And it was around I think I bought a couple of devices. I
put one in my mom's house I remember and then she couldn't
deal with and she tried to take it out. It's too complicated.
You had those cheap Jack like remote controls with the with
the bar, and you clicked on one side for on and would also be a
dimmer and ultimately they all buzzed.
They're all right, y'all buzz
cause horrible interference everywhere. But it's
been going on forever. I don't know what the appeal of this
mole. Here's a thermostat that programs that sell. I don't want
my thermostat programming anything.
I literally heard someone say it was some woman. She was good,
you know, these product pitch people. And I think she said,
Oh, is it? So you know, really, when you get up in the morning,
just choose the tracker that you want for that day? Like, wow, if
you just remove yourself for a minute and put yourself into
like a futuristic sci fi movie, where people have actually been
trained to put on the tracker that's appropriate for that day.
Nuts. Yeah. Smart lightbulbs.
Yeah, the Internet of Things has become a big deal to show and
the Internet of Things is a joke. I mean, there's some I
could see something some, you know, in some situation, but
they're making dissenters they had like somebody there was a
woman on one of these podcasts video podcasts going on about no
it was audio, whatever the case was, she's at the show with
these other people because every newspaper magazine has got five
or six people. They're looking for stuff. And she's going on
and on about it. Oh, and then there's there's Bluetooth, a
Bluetooth light bulb. And it's only $30 For this light bulb and
you can turn it on and off with your phone. Oh my goodness. And
I'm thinking why do I need to turn off this? This $30
overpriced light bulb and didn't have like a lousy lumens to it.
It was like I didn't have enough oomph to do anything. So it was
like $30 for a crappy light bulb it barely lights and it's
Bluetooth enabled. Like and she was giddy about this thing.
Yeah.
Now I have just seen absolutely nothing of nothing of any
appeal. Other than oh, here's what I saw. I saw the the
keynote was the CEO of Samsung and he highlighted our grand
dukes outfit there the ultra flicks. Yeah with this for
because if you want 4k content that's what our guy does. Grand
dude David Foley and they got an award gay
guy he's the 4k and he got an ad to show yeah, he
sure is yeah, that was when I when I see these tech shows like
oh, there's no 4k content. Well, maybe you should like Google
once or twice
yeah, there's plenty of 4k
Yeah, there's lava. Yeah, it's coming online. I think the but I
think the the marketing is the problem as usual. Because 4k is
now you know, some companies are marketing it as Ultra HD.
Okay. They just stuck with four cans. That was great. Yeah, yeah
it is then when it goes to a k you can figure it out. Yeah, but
you can do ultra ultra HD ha uhhh UHD some other bull crap
Yeah, they got a bunch of 4k sets all over the place a lot of
curved screens which I don't understand the appeal of that.
But it gives you a good viewing angle no matter where you sit is
the idea. How does
that even work if
you think about it, I don't know but my
makes no logical sense. The girl has they The thing is curved
away from you. If you're over far enough, you can't see them
right side. The girl's far to the right. The girl is curved.
The Girl
of the nail salon. Who does my pedicure? She has one he has a
curved TV is me. Yeah, you heard me.
Take the pedicure.
Oh, yeah. Mickey takes me Sure. I like it.
I bet you do.
Dude, have you ever been to a chick salon for pedicure? No.
Let me tell you about this experience.
The one I was faced with the fish eat your toes either.
Oh, no. Let me let me tell you about this experience. So you go
in it's called the I don't know what's called a cam. Okay, so
you go into the salon. And there's big Barco lounger tight
chairs be comfortable. You know, and they recline. And you drink
champagne. And there's movies playing on as your as you tilt
back. You can watch a movie.
There's so far there's nothing you've said that I can't do at
home. Well, but
then these cute girls come up and then they put your feet in
the water. And then ran. No
cute girls I said girls can be cute.
Not not the nail salons not the nail salon Korean girls. Oh,
cute girls. And and then they massage your feet, man. massage
them and yeah, they're like stroking him. And then a clip
your nails have bitten and they massage some more and stroke
some more. I'm telling you. Alright, you come to Austin,
I'll take you to the salon.
Yeah, we can do it together. Yeah, it'd be great. That's not
That's not weird.
It's not. There's nothing wrong with it.
Alright, go back to your little story about the dirt bags.
Well, no, I don't think I have much more on the dirt bags.
Other than that, we need to get an answer by let me on that. I
will tell you.
We need to get an answer by what about what? Oh, well,
what the? How the how the FBI? Justify.
We need to get an answer. Well, let's get to see. Yes, that's
what it was.
Yeah, that's where I was. And then you asked me about the
question. Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. So see, yes, I saw nothing. So
Callie Louis weather Geek Beat sales job. And I chose because
they had what at least they're streaming these these, but they
just take money from people that promote the products. It's yeah.
Works. On Okay, yeah. Okay, here's thanks for the money and
give us some free product and what do you what is your product
do? Oh, it's fantastic. That product is oh, I want one so
bad.
It's amazing. It's just amazing what it can do. How do you guys
do? It's just amazing. It's so amazing. It's really it's
outstanding. Amazing. Yeah. No, I watched both sick of course
I'm sitting down just watching nothing, nothing at all of any
interest. It seems like we are in stuck in such a rut. With
with technology. I predict I predict right now here today
that there is the whole technology news business is
going to start falling apart.
Going to start well yeah,
it's only been increasing and getting more space and more
people doing I think it's
even more people are doing it. It's causing it to fall apart.
That's part of it. But there's also nothing new nothing.
There's nothing new to talk about.
And let me go I'm gonna go to my flagship PC Magazine and see
because they got a bunch of people there. I could have gone
I guess he had a party you can go get some flu. Yeah, that's
what's gonna happen to everybody. You're gonna get the
flu. It's pretty funny. So here we go. Best of CES 2015 is what
they found to be the best. Okay, best phone the LG G Flex two.
It's a phone that's bent
Yeah, I don't want to bend in my phone any more than I want to
bend in my penis
Okay, what else we got here anything? I don't want to bend
phone either. Okay, what are we getting next? We got Oh, best
phone accents accessory. Oh, the Lenovo Vibe extension selfie
flash. Oh, by the way, this is odd.
Please say it's not true. Yeah, selfie. extension,
the selfie vibe extension flat flash extension so you can do
some really fancy footwork. Now I was gonna get you we don't buy
each other gifts. No, but I was gonna get you a gift and it was
going to be one of those sticks. Yeah, the selfie stick this
selfie stick.
People actually walk around with these things. Yeah, and they
got their phone on the end.
I see him all the time.
I think it's even funnier when they have to answer the phone
and it's hooked to the stick. And then they're talking and
walking knocking people over with the stick. Hey, what are
you talking about? Boom. And it goes somebody hits the deck.
They have
the new you have the Belfie stick now to was a Belfie it's
it has another joint in it so you can take pictures of your
butt. No, yes, yes.
You want to get their butts too big. No, it's for speaking if
you're preoccupied with your button being too big it's too
big here Belfie stick Okay, best smartwatch was the Lenovo Vibe
band and VB 10 Is anyone wants to get a stupid watch which I
don't see any reason for the best fitness gadget is the
Garmin Vivoactive the best health gadget what does this is
it this crap who needs these things? Temperature track. So
you hypochondriacs out there can know your temperature 24/7 The
best digital home gadget this is a good one.
This is PC Magazine who made this list? Yeah.
There believe me this is not any different than anybody else's
best digital home. This is a home gadget they call us the
gadget. This is not this I would I would condemn the writer for
calling this a gadget because not a gadget. It's an appliance.
It's an LG twin washing machine. The washing machine is not a
gadget but okay. Best kitchen gadget everything has to be a
gadget I guess it's not a gadget it's an appliance. A robot
designed to pump out fresh homemade roti. The roti Matic
holds up to 20 rotis I don't know what a roti is,
isn't a Suriname dish of ballots of rusty sorry and I don't want
to row what is it? I don't want to row to you. It looks
like it's it looks like it's a little pancake
routine. It's it's like a potato pancake. I was right.
Yeah. Okay,
hold on a second. I gotta come in through John. The Belfie
stick. Hold on. I have audio from ABC no less. From the year
of the selfie.
I like tonight the global phenomenon. ABCs David Wright
tells us why 2014 is the year of the selfie.
Selfies were already a thing by the time Elon set out to break
the internet. It better br started image from Oscar night
2014 set a new standard popes and presidents a Beatle and a
billionaire the Queen herself even some award winning news
anchor sad state the world is the winner this year the word
selfie finish in 99 Pathetic the Oxford English Dictionary
defines selfie as a photo one has taken of oneself a
masturbatory movement so any background will do Come on show
me the Bill Bradley for take forever for selfie from I don't
want your fun facts lies this year selfie technology improved
dramatically. Oh selfies from space. Selfies from other
species Say cheese and selfies that must have seemed like a
good idea. Come on with a stick these fuckers br Screw it. They
gypped me.
Yeah, you got gypped I
have a whole story about the belfry stick and then they have
the video which is not about the selfie stick on.com Here you go.
on.com
is that the selfie stick they have the selfie stick? Yes
on.com
Is the name it calls my butt too big. Or does my butt look big in
this?
Just look at this look at this. making me look authentic sadness
of this look at this.
Look at this on.com Because
this is so pathetic.
I'm looking I'm looking I'm looking I'm trying to get there.
This is like a big selfie.
Boom me through photos. That's never been done before. Wow.
Ooh, meet you photos.
This is really wrong.
I get don't get anything here sent me through photos. on.to
trade my OC no Belfie
Okay, nevermind it. I'm already done with it. But there is a
selfie stick and that so you can do a photo selfie? Featuring
your rear end.
Why don't you just have a friend take a picture of your ass and
it would be a frothy selfie. That's the whole idea.
Yeah, you're so lonely. You can't even ask a stranger. Hey,
can you take a picture my ass on my phone right
they have a short clip the beginning of a long clip, which
I'm not going to play. I'm just gonna play a little clip of
boiling sledge for Bill Gates, so we can talk about that a
minute. So the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded a new kind of
treatment plant in Sedro Woolley, Washington, about 70
miles north of Seattle. Here's some of the video that is
getting attention on YouTube showing how it works. Over two
and a half billion people have no access to safe sanitation.
We asked really an engineer to help us solve this problem. And
one of those engineers actually has proposed a solution where
the waste is valuable.
The AMI processor turns sewer sludge, just kind of nasty into
clean drinking water, electricity and ash that is
pathogen free. This is where the sludge enters the machine goes
up this conveyor belt is fed into these large tubes we call
the dryer that's where we boil the sludge.
So they boil this ledge and then our wad comes water and there's
bill to drink it right. So it's all built drinks crap. Somehow,
the Omni processor,
he looks like crap himself. He looks terrible in this video. I
want people to go look at it and
I see the video. It's he's got to cut back on the poop drinkin.
As far as I
get it has to be poop drinking. That's what it is.
He has he says after having studied the engineering behind
it, I would happily drink it every day. It's that safe.
However, what are the chemicals and crap that are in the same
guy who said we never needed what more than 640 K RAM? Yeah.
Although, you know, he denies that he says that? No, no, he
can. Oh, sure. I have a bit that I do in my speeches that
involves that quote, which I want to do. I'm not gonna
steal it from you. So what is this point here is you're going
to be selling this this huge. It looks like a huge contraption.
It's a
contraption. Yeah, it's a big thing. And I'm sure it doesn't
work in the field.
I mean, you can of course you could be you can boil down
sludge into something drinkable as long as you got the tech. The
technology is all there. Huh? What is he trying to do to
promote?
I don't know what he's up to. I think it's just as this random
crap that he's up to.
He just has nothing better to do maybe. And then Melissa is
taking care of all the other business building right. What's
her name? Melissa. Belinda, Belinda. Hello. Go with that.
And Melinda.
Let's go with Belinda. Belinda. The Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation,
the Mel and Melinda Gates Foundation. And he's also
reinventing the toilet. Maybe trying to combine those two.
It must have something going on. He's got this a psychological
thing is is it created as a cry for help. I agree.
You've said this before and I agree with it. But this man is
is is really crying out for help. Yeah, because he just
wants to sit in a room with a couple other geeks and like look
at code and stuff and he's got blinged out they're making him
do all this stuff. Hey, hey, Bill. Go drink some poop. Now do
I have to believe that? Yes, it's important
drink poop or else I'm telling you, Greg doggy dish All right.
I'm going to show my school by donating to no agenda Imagine
all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fun
I am tripping I'm almost falling down.
You're falling asleep you said like almost falling Yeah,
almost. Yeah. You You're not my I can't hear you and I'm not
feeling well. Oh yeah. Well, that's you we're almost done.
Another half hour where you can go to bed.
Now I gotta go pick up my daughter at the airport or
worse. No, brother. You're gonna get into
an accident. I hope not. Get some find some some Texas Joy
juice or something before you take off that Jesus juice. Yes,
Sir Patrick J dairy in Sarnia. Ohio. 12345. No note. Want to
thank him. John Donovan Sir John Donovan and sand Josie 10305
parently it only counts as a drunk donation if you hit the
donate button otherwise he's just drunk. That's true. He's
got some some something in the email we have to read to
ourselves. Herb lamb same is a vineyard that's very famous in
the Napa Valley from sugar Herald Georgia 9999 He says me
sorry for not donating for a few shows. He's been out of town and
now listening to the Christmas show ever was behind that's why
we get the number of opens is down
we also get people saying there's a lot of wasted time
just in general. Gonna say hey, you should look at this like,
Yeah,
we talked about I looked at two shows ago. They're not kept damn
kept up. Yeah, the behind Heather Simpkin and Henley on
Thames, Oxford Sure 6789 Heather in England in a great name,
Adrian ver no age in Hasselt Netherlands are annoying. For
noisy
hustled hustle. They by the way, that euro is almost on parity
now that we've been waiting for
a buck 19 bucks 18 bucks closer. Well let me Okay, we're gonna
stop the show. We're stopping the show because this is
important. I think if you know
what the what the exchange rate is, yeah, I think I thought it
was lower than 19 I thought it was
exactly what it is up to the minute I have a site that I go
to that has all this information, including the price
of oil. Okay, it is right now sitting at a buck 1783 Hello
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I think you mentioned this. I don't know if it was in a
previous newsletter. But we always look at this every year
when the UN ODC report comes out. That is the United Nations
Office of Drug drugs and crime. And again, Poppy up this is the
Afghan guy yeah the Afghanistan gratulations. Yes. Well here
there's something there's there's an anomaly here that the
that I have not seen and maybe the reporting it differently. So
this is the Afghanistan opium survey 2014 which provides a
quote, detailed picture of the outcome of the current year's
opium season, together with data from the previous years, and
there's been an increase never has been this high the output.
But here's what's interesting. Do you know why the poppy output
has increased so dramatic?
We increase Is production on a non demand? Ah,
but it's actually the the the the Hector Ridge because they
give us Hector's here the heck carriage packed carriage. Yeah,
of the poppies, which means the fields have expanded. Yeah, of
course. Well, I didn't think of it that way and but, but we have
bases all around these poppy fields.
Oh of course. So you have to protect these things right
but then are we just saying oh yeah, you could expand a little
bit we just allowing that.
What are you kidding me? You're just being facetious. This is
what you always do to me. You always do not. I have sincere to
the to the core. I never pull that kind of tricky
trickery. So the total Hector reg tech Tirage it you have to
say it that way. hectar edge.
So I want to say it
was estimated to be 224,000 hectares hectares. I think it's
hectares hectares hectares in what is a hectare in acres, is
that about
two acres something like that.
So this 224,000 hectares in 2014, seven increase 7% increase
over 2013. Look at is doing very well. The opium production
Afghanistan amounts for 80% of the global opium production five
and a half tonnes Wow. That's just never see a lot of good
documentaries about that.
2.47 acres per hectare Nice.
So yeah, it was two and a half. That's, that's also our
business.
Yeah, no, and we're, you know,
we're doing well.
You don't want to get a glut on the market, though. It is. Vijay
Hara was really cheap. Now. It's like 1/3 Not sorry, was like 1/5
the price 1/10 The price of meth. Really? Yeah, somebody's
outrageous. I was reading some stats on this
watch. That's too cheap nuts, nuts, nuts.
There's no money, they gotta Jack the price up.
Let me see. I have a few more things. Oh, yeah. Interesting
little update on Ebola. This is Senator Coons and what are with
what I believe is an accurate report. But this is net not
represented this way in your traditional media. They and
the doctors and nurses of the CDC and the uniformed Public
Health Service have really turned the corner on the Ebola
epidemic in Liberia. But I'm calling for a change in strategy
by the Pentagon. We can't declare mission accomplished and
withdraw too early here. We can bring home 1000 or more of these
troops. Now. They're currently bored because they've
accomplished a lot of their mission of building
infrastructure, building new Ebola treatment units all over
the country, deploying new military testing labs all over
the country and setting up a vital infrastructure. The raging
epidemic that threatened the whole country in September is
now down to a few embers scattered across this country.
But we need a new strategy to adapt to conditions on the
ground. Our troops should remain some of them for the rest of the
year, to help make sure that Liberians can transition our
emergency Ebola treatment units into community level health
clinics, and transition our high tech military mobile testing
labs into Liberia and run local labs. So that going forward,
this epidemic really is brought to Liberia
is Africa so pathetic that they can't even build a building
without American soldiers. Well, you know, the analysts are
saying that's what the subtext is, you know, the anti Africa is
so pathetic. They're idiots. They can't even build a stupid
building.
That's that's why we have to be there. And then for a long time,
and we've gotten a lot of people there, we got to keep it up. But
this is Khan. This is completely the opposite of the messaging
where we're if we're receiving it, of course not right now
because you know, Paris is Oh, no, it's nuts. I heard on NPR
yesterday. Now we're now up to 9000 people dead. They just keep
they just making the numbers of
whatever happened to by now, by the way by January 1. Yeah,
there's 20,000 10,000 cases a weak
Sha. But why isn't anyone jumping up and down claiming
victory? This guy is Kuhn says, hey, you know it's only a few
embers left? Yeah, I think this is good news. I mean, easy lying
to me.
I doubt it.
Just wanted to play that for you.
This is an interesting little, little tidbit. Clip. Play drones
everywhere.
is rapidly becoming are they safe, and how should they be
regulated? science correspondent Miles O'Brien has our report.
The sky may be big and blue. but it is getting more crowded every
day as makers of small unmanned aerial vehicles or drones, test
their limits and things very fast. It can fly about 70 miles
an hour. The man at the controls is Michael Shimbun. He works for
a company that is growing faster than he can flick a joystick,
China based DJI innovations, the market leader in the personal
drone industry,
we've gone from 50 employees to 3000 employees.
Okay, well, so they said this was a long piece, so I only cut
out to give you the beginning. So these drones, I'm getting a
drone, I'm gonna buy one of these things. Chris Anderson,
who used to be the editor of Wired, started this company up
and he's in this piece. And he's got a place in a company in
Berkeley that he's got these drones that have cameras on him,
and then you pre programmed the drone, and you send it on his
way and you don't drive it does
it goes off and takes the pictures comes back.
Yeah, I think this is a good idea. I'm gonna get one of these
I want to learn how to fly a good drone. So I was at the toy
shop just before Christmas, and they had a bunch of drones,
piles of images shot as one of the high end toy stores. And I
asked the guy and he pointed out some cheap $99 drone that was a
learner's drone. It's about the size of a teacup. Very small,
little
one. It's got four little ruffle on it for four blades. Yep.
And he says yeah, and watch it takes the thing and he crushes
it and then he pops back and it crushes it. So you can't run
this indestructible Yeah, so that's the one you learn when
you get bigger and bigger until you get the bigger drones once
you learn how to fly these things correctly because you're
gonna smash it up. And I think this has been you have been
saying we should have a drone company Yeah, but it hasn't that
idea we want can we dropped the ball on it we dropped the drone
Yeah, we did. The good news is this the way the FAA is leaning
is they will require commercial drone companies to have licensed
pilots flying the drones that's good news for me. Yeah, because
I'm a licensed pilot
but according to this report the the amateur drone guys can
there's no license requirement you can go off and do your own
thing
I know there will be the severe restrictions
well they're not yet they had the FAA guy on I was gonna go
I'm gonna go have a meeting with Chris but I'm
against it I'm against this I'm against drones in any in any
form yes
it's your you're shoveling crap against the tide there's you
know, I know that was position your
time I know that this okay, but I have shotgun
I think some there's some other ancillary F screw the shotgun
ancillary products that are just begging to be built. Okay, okay,
maybe when the first idea came up,
these are these could be billion dollar ideas people.
One is the drone protection system. Because these little
bitty ones that got cameras, the dependents they are showing
this, how small they can get and they go guy can come right up to
your window. I have windows here and can be just sitting there
taking movies of me or whatever, in a bed in the bedroom in the
bathroom. It you know, it's just a horrible kind of Peeping Tom
stuff. So what you want is you want a little system that is
over the edge of the roof. And it's a netting system. You push
a button and it drops the net on the drone. Yeah, it drops the
net on the drone and brings it down to the ground. And now that
drone I believe you can make a case that this drone now belongs
to you. Oh yeah, you totally own it. Yeah, so I own the drone and
there has so you get the you get the net tech drew catches the
drone. And then you have somebody you look up some
software or something that allows you to to reconfigure the
drone so it's now your drone own the drone. So I think there's I
think there's potential here for this sort of thing. Okay, I like
some catching shotguns no good. You blocked the drone. So what
did you do accomplish? Right? You made a noise? You got the
neighbors pissed off. Could he hurt somebody? Hmm.
Well, you could also have those those guns that fire a net?
Ah, yeah, that would be that'd be kind of cool. Yeah, net gun
but I liked I liked the slogan for the packaging own. The drone
also addresses the curry DeVore ag drone protection system and
we have big D P S. And then own the drone. Yeah, I like it.
That's pretty good. It's a cheaper way to get the drone if
you can make the protection system you know, inexpensive and
then we
should have these honey pot type things where, you know, it looks
like there's a naked chick in the backyard and just a painting
rough.
Cut out. Yeah. And then the drone comes close on its own the
drone. Like Rockem sockem robots. I mean, that's like
knock my block off. Maybe your own my drone. I can I'm already
envisioning the television commercial, John. Pretty good.
Yeah, I think I can see him too.
Okay, sticking on aviation is the last one I have energy for.
I'm just, I'm toast. I'm still following the Air Asia. By the
way, this is the owner of AirAsia. This a Tony guy? What's
his name? Tony. I think his name is Tony and Tony, horny. And so
there was this hit? He did a whole bunch of interesting stock
stock transactions the day before the crash happened. What
Yeah, I know. It's just seeing where if I have I know I have it
here. There's another company which is an insurance company,
which is insurance company for the for the airline. And I guess
he owned a lot of it. And he sold all of it. I think he owned
half the company sold all of that. Either 24 or 36 hours
before this crash. It could just be pure coincidence, obviously.
I don't
think so. I could be I don't know. That's a pretty long shot.
Coincidence. Yeah. Well,
let me see. I have it here. What's the guy's name again?
Bony? Yeah,
Tony Fernandez. Is that his name?
I don't know. I have no idea, wasn't it? Yeah,
I think it is. This. This is an interesting guy actually. Huh,
yeah. He started with a show on a shoestring budget.
Yeah, he actually check this out. He he's actually Tom three
Anthony Francis. He has I think he has a yeah order the British
Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire for
services to promote commercial educational links between
Malaysia and the United Kingdom member of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants wherever that he and I see the way he
acquired this airline was also in here December 26, the
Malaysian insider reported that Fernanda is the founder of toon
group, which owns AirAsia sold a total of 944,800 shares in tune
insurance holdings with 850,000 shares being dumped on December
22 and the other 94,800 being sold the day after. Or according
to its official website tune insurance holdings as an
insurance product manager for Air Asia in which insurance
products are sold to Air Asia along with customers as part of
the online booking process, so it's not just for the airline
but also for its you know, it's your flight insurance that you
can get when you when you buy a an airline ticket. So that it is
interesting that he did that to such a degree right before this
crash. or
Yes, I would be say that would be called suspicious
transactions.
And I have not heard this anywhere
else. Well, you heard it on the no agenda show.
Then I have this little clip because of course people are
still trying to figure it out. And I love the idiocy 23 year
old pendra Gunawan seawall took what may have been the last
photograph of flight 8501. And before it took off, so obsessed
with this less than an hour later, the plane disappeared.
Even as the search continues, Indonesian authorities have
concluded that weather caused the crash weather caused the
crash. Okay, satellite image showed cloud temperatures as
cold as 121 degrees below 03 days after the crash, the
Indonesian aviation authorities imposed mandatory up to date
weather briefings for pilots. But in an open letter, one pilot
dismissed the directive. Pilots of airlines around the world do
self briefings he wrote they get printed weather information from
systems used by their airlines. Today was the best weather the
searchers have had since the plane went down. I just play
this stuff just to give people a little bit of Accuracy in
Reporting because this report is complete crap from beginning to
end. Yes, all pilots get their own weather report. Then the
data is standardized. And this is very normal. You go into your
the flight briefing room you get your it's not like you're
getting this from the although it does happen. But it's not
like you're just getting it from your company. In fact, most
pilots I know most airmen would say I don't even trust what my
company gives me. I want to see it coming through from the Met
itself. I want to make sure I have the data that that I they
want to be responsible themselves. That's one
then to say what happens when robots start flying the plane
Yeah,
fucked stupidest thing ever because of because of stuff like
this because of weather changing weather it's you can't just
program that into an algorithm. And this weather report does not
talk about the cloud temperature and I don't I have to see what
they're talking about with this cloud temperature that was that
was reported somewhere that minus 122 degrees so they're
inferring here when simulating that somehow they got into a
cloud that was very chilly. Is this bullshit Yeah, I hate it
when they do this.
Can't hide you hey, we noticed Yeah, and so anyway, I gotta
David Foley letter I gotta read this from our Grand Duke David
Foley
well you know when when was probably in Vegas last I was
gonna do a folio played played with
recognition
waiting in the security line at SFO heading to CES delay lady
barking out slave instruction spoke the truth and no one
picked up on it Oh, after telling everyone to put on or
putting on the our shoes and belts should be done away from
the conveyor belts. So as not to slow down the line. She then
made this statement. If you do everything I say. Then there
will be no delay and and we may have to work and we may have to
work. No Minobu late no delay, we may have to. Word on here and
I knew what it was and I forgot to write it in anyway. He said
Our goal is not to do any work is what the woman's okay. So
move along. We don't want to do a bunch of work here. He
couldn't help but say says ask but isn't your goal to provide
screening for safe travel?
Let me guess what happened.
You have an extra pat down and bag search.
We call that a massage. Yeah, I bet he did. Oh, man. Foley
Foley. You got it. Man chill on that stuff. We're not
in the hot story. Of course in mostly in Europe, not so much in
the United States. But they're playing this up in ok. Magazine.
One of your favorites. Is Taylor Swift secretly dating Carly
Closs. Okay, and then a long story about their fantastic
relationship.
That was really unnecessary. I really didn't have to do that.
I just threw it in. It wasn't Taylor, you gotta you gotta you
gotta dig it.
I'm no longer on Team Taylor. I just switched. Saying,
is this the reason? Because you got when you got your last copy
of Okay. Magazine? No,
no, it's because I used to you said that. She has a flat
button. I looked in your right. And so that kind of ruined the
whole thing.
Oh, sorry. I did that now.
No, you're not. Okay. Bless you. It sounds like we're both kind
of sick.
All right. All right.
Shall we get it covered? Do the Digi kept people up to date?
Yes. Without a doubt.
Let me send a screw that happens before Sunday.
Hello. I'm looking forward to it. I can I can't swallow. It's
no, that's the that's the
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