you'd like their arms straight down and they're still stiff and
they're just blood guide. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
Sunday, March 29 2015. Time for your Gitmo nation media
assassination episode 708.
This is no agenda, diving deep into
the ADSB extended Splinter spec and broadcasting live from the
tripod condo in downtown Austin, Texas FEMA Region six in the
morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
and from Northern Silicon Valley where I received a bad signal
that John C. Dvorak was killed.
He didn't actually received the bad signal.
This is a fact.
The bad signal has been expanded. Addenbrooke's, who has
the no agenda? Was it the no agenda, which the pocket no
agenda app is working on? What happened was the provider that
provides the push services no longer provides a free tier.
They what they no longer provide a free tier it costs money to do
these alerts on
how much could it cost?
Believe me, it's like 200 bucks a month
to send out a bad signal of eight times a month to have it
appear on the iPhone with a with an alert. Yes, there's a whole
industry built around that. That is a gyp just so people know the
bad signal is whenever I tweet with a with a special hashtag
thing that comes from my account, that triggers at least
one app, but there's also other apps that have been made. And
for a while the pocket nogen app has been kind of down because of
this change. But now we have two new two new apps you can use
Pushbullet and push over
Pushbullet Pushbullet and push over over pushovers funny. Yeah.
And
that says a letter Gilbert did that and I can't see who our
other producer was who did the Pushbullet stuff. Anyway, you
can find those links in the show notes at 708 dot no agenda
notes.com And it works I just tested it. So gives you a nice
little push notification.
What does the push notification consists of? What do you what is
your it's always some noise it could honks the
horn honk your horn. Yeah, and it says says no agenda bad
signal. We are now live this might tweet with no agenda
episode 708 And has the link to the no agenda stream.
You have any idea how many people subscribe to the bat
signal?
Not yet.
Wait and now. So did the other service provide you a
information
I probably but the developers of this thing will have to tell me
I don't know. I just send out the tweet.
Okay. Seems like her 200 bucks a month seems pretty
price. Crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy.
When Twitter by the way is free.
Yeah, you're not the product at all. No. Breaking news, John.
I use ad blocker Go Breaking
News. Breaking news breaking news. The Germanwings pilot had
a clubfoot and narcolepsy figured out just add to the
bullshit.
Narco narcolepsy actually doesn't make sense. I did have
this one.
Before before we do anything I got a few I just I know you do.
I just want to point out that this is so irregular yet I don't
believe people really are onto what's happening here. So if
this guy was gay then he wasn't gay then he was living with a
with a with a girl but then he had broken up with her but it
was a different girlfriend who said he was gonna go do
something crazy there's antidepressants at home he was
hiding his his craziness he had bad eyesight a he also he also
be converted to convert to Islam.
I haven't seen that well yeah. Oh
yeah. That came up for a brief moment. Yeah,
but they also tore up his note
well the note was already torn and it was in the trash hitting
the note from his doctor
oh I'm tear up this notice throw it in the trash.
So there's two things is going on one is it's certainly in the
United States media but I saw the Dutch newspapers and they
were doing exactly well there's actually three things one is we
need to have more safety in the in the in the air in general
with multiple pilots on deck never had one person there of
course the next generation aviation comes into play which I
will be talking about and and then we have all this now what
does the term psych psychological autopsy love that
term? And it's you know, it's like the war on crazy we need to
we should not have secrecy but if you're not so we need to know
all this stuff.
We need to know all this stuff. That's just throw it back to the
reporters and all the investigate isn't everybody and
asked the simple question which nobody seems to ask. And they
say there's drugs involved. What's the drugs?
Well, they never tell you, do they? But now I heard that there
are certain ways
why is it so hard to tell us the drugs it's not privacy's dead
because the drug companies won't let him tell the drugs,
everything goes through mass media and mass media reporters
won't ask about the drugs because they'll lose some
sponsors. And if you if you can't drive this point home
enough apparently the newsletter
Well, if you combine the the so called reports of his depression
and and taking medication for that, if you look at TCAS tri
cyclic antidepressants, such as lithium, benzodiazepines, benzos
Bennys. I was at carbamazepine all these SSRIs they give me
yeah, they are very known what are the side effects is a vision
problems. So this is now all fitting perfectly together. But
it's a little difficult to go reporting now saying well,
because he was taking these antidepressants, you know, he
had vision problems. This is not necessarily something the
pharmaceuticals want out there except in their standard.
Disclaimer, you know, anal leakage vision problems do not
operate Arab Airbus operate in there. Not enough right and
Airbus. But I got a lot of feedback from
I got an interesting note, I'll read from one of our donors
who's anonymous. He used to be a air bus guy, I worked in an
airline with a fleet of a 320 aircraft. One morning I woke to
find the FAA had grounded the fleet for an uncontrolled
maneuver, there had been a near miss situation in the plane flew
itself out of the problem. But the pilot was surprised when the
plane did not go where it was supposed to go. Oops, well,
under computer control, it turned out that in the most
recently delivered aircraft, Airbus had changed the escape
procedure from climb and bank to one side to climb and bank to
the other side. Oh, yeah, nice. But the change was buried in the
7000 Plus page operating manual and not highlighted as a change
is the kind of crap that goes on. Generally speaking with
software, which will bring us when we go to the tech segment
later in the show, give me my opportunity to pitch in mode
about Microsoft OneDrive.
Okay, good. Holy, hold on, just
hold on to that. Hold on to that. I see you have clips, I
only have just one thing to lead you into. And maybe that is a
reminder that the expediency at which this airman was blamed.
And the of course, there's a lot of misinformation about medical,
medical certificates, you have first second third class what
they mean about privacy laws. But really, this guy is just
being dragged over the coals posthumously. Yeah, so what you
do is bad. But I would like to have a couple pieces of data of
actual data such as the recording from the cockpit voice
recorder, which I believe many it's just like the like the
Boston bombing video that that doesn't seem to exist. Lots of
people have been told what's on the audio or what the audio
contained from the cockpit voice recorder but have not heard it
themselves. And from the prosecutor, we know that you
could hear his steady constant breathing all the way down to
the end. And I wonder, you know, I've listened to cockpit voice
recordings before this, you know, there's ambient oil noise,
you're going you know, you have a pretty rapid rate of descent,
so that there's noise involved with that. And as you get
closer, I wonder if they could hear him really breathing all
the way to the ground, because this is pretty much what you're
going to be hearing the last few 100 feet, glide slope,
pull up terrain ahead, pull up, sink rate, up terrain, pull up.
Don't sink. don't sink to low terrain.
And that just keeps on going. Too low. Doesn't stop Yeah, it
doesn't stop and that's the noise of the year. That's what
it's up to.
Well, the thing is the breathing thing bugs me too. In fact, they
have a breathing clip just to confirm it. You might as well
play that clip. This is the copilot bonus breathing story
for these families to make made even more difficult by the
revelation that the copilot appears to have crashed the
plane deliberately killing himself 149 other people it was
this mangled cockpit voice recorder which gave up its
secret. It seems the copilot locked the captain out of the
cabin And then steer the plane into its final descent. The
prosecutor handling this investigation, talking of
deliberate intent to destroy the aircraft
proves him that provides some level of formal
copilot. The most plausible and probable interpretation for us
is that the copilot refused to open the door to the cockpit to
the flight Captain but physically activated the button
to start the descent does
the prosecutor describe the flights final 10 minutes, he
said the captain left the cockpit perhaps to use the
bathroom, leaving the copilot alone or the controls to start
the planes descent. The captain is heard pleading to be let back
in. But there is no response. The only cockpit noise the sound
of the copilot breathing normally, with passengers heard
screen just before the moment of impact,
that is just not true because you will hit that's not true.
Two things not true. One that is not the only thing you're going
to hear and that you cannot as far as I know, I've never looked
at manuals, and I've talked to Airbus Airmen, you can turn off
these T casts warnings of the pull up, you know saying great
terrain, you can't turn those off those are there for a
reason. So that just makes no sense. And there is there is one
piece of data that I've been going after about the
intentional or the intent of the aircraft based on the flight
management controls wish there is some actual data after your
Eclipse. We'll get into that. But there is no data whatsoever
about a button push that causes this descent does not collect
corroborate with that there is some data, amateur data doesn't
corroborate that at all. So this report is bogus. We'll just take
a
look. And I mentioned a few things here. First of all, this
is Mike live that they'd be hearing and breathing in the
first place. Did he have the was he broadcasting this brief?
Okay, so if he was just breathing, I do not believe that
would be enough to trigger his headphone microphone does a
squelch setting on those and it's and you set it higher than
your breathing obviously. Otherwise you keep you clean and
breathe and you never hear anything and it's single duplex.
I'm not mistaken, isn't it?
Single duplex is a contradiction in terms.
It's duplex. It's not duplex. No it's not duplex. It's half
duplex. Well.
I know that's not true. It is full duplex but it's noise
gated.
Okay, that's what it okay.
But most but most cockpit voice recorders I don't even know if
they if they record that audio specifically. I know they record
the ambient audio. And you would have and you would have heard
them I'm pretty sure the the warnings would have punched
through it doesn't matter. We have no evidence no data, as far
as I'm concerned is all
bull crap. What are you doing?
I'm breathing normally Allah Disha so that's always seemed
like bulk up they this guy keyed up you know
what happened to he was gay. We were that he was gay that went
away. Gay part. Yeah, the gay part
but it just seemed like you're right there'd be all this other
rec racket going on. And in that report this guy says there's you
all you could hear was screaming and the guy breathing normally
how does those two things mixed together?
The point is they whoever's reporting this wherever that was
from they are reporting on hearsay speculation and at best
rumor because they have never heard this so they're reporting
here's
here's eyes here's what I've noticed that guy listen to him
with this British accent is put together a package and news are
added another person with another British accent putting
together a package and everything I've seen has been
some British guy. Always a British guy doing these reports
I've never heard of these people that are doing these reports
ah did you write down any names because that could be you know,
I
didn't only realize it when I started saying why why is
everybody British all of a sudden? And it's like I can take
their names up but might be this these reports are all you know
done. Of course then and while you know it's in the mountains
of the middle of nowhere and we don't really have a reporter
there. Why don't
we Why don't we do your clips and then I'd like to like to
come back with with the research that I've done.
All right. Well, here's the tips. Just a dubious background,
which is co pilot clip one is so be followed by the innuendo
which I find to be skipped.
Let's do a dubious background or first started.
neocon Array of Independent Television News has this report
from the current pilots family home in Mount aboard Germany.
What was his name by Mrs. Connery
from independent news independent TV out of the UK
neocon Array of Independent Television News has this report
from the copilots family home in Mount aboard Germany.
Behind the energetic and healthy appearance. What turmoil could
have driven Andreas Lubitz to do what he did? More clues
uncovered about his mental State are starting to surface.
Documents with medical information discovered at the
house he shared with his parents are helping investigators trying
to understand his actions and his flat in Dusseldorf where he
sometimes stayed torn up sick notes for Lubitz a helping
prosecutors build up a picture of the 27 year old, their own
stand still owing to the fact that a ripped up current signal
which covered the day of the crash was found, supports the
assumption that he kept his illness secret from his
employer. Prosecutors says neighbors say Lubitz appeared to
be in excellent physical shape. But evidence is growing of some
other problem. In his flat along with torn up sick notes,
investigators found medical documents relating to an exactly
what
you went from a torn up sick note to sick notes.
Oh, yeah, in his trash can, which means you didn't use him.
If he used it doesn't matter. Yeah, but let me tell you
something. If people came into my and I've only been here for
four months, or they came into my condo here,
they are a neat freak, we should mention. Yeah,
but you would find that he had transmitters and weird looking
antennas such as this alpha loop known for his World War One
capabilities. As like, he had all kinds of dubious bottles of
pills, which of course are from my voodoo doctor and they
have a lot of trouble with anything. Because
one investigator was killed archivist. One investigator was
killed as missing as the pile fell over. Exactly. It's it's
just disconcerting. Now I thought was this. I take that
back. I think this is pretty much a very good example of how
industry ran this new story. And I'm just taking my stance that
something was wrong with this aircraft. We have multiple
German wing aircrew who refuse to fly. So but I'm gonna find
and of course, there's all a 320s that they fly. And no one's
going to necessarily come out and say because of this, but
they don't trust it. There was a maintenance issue with land from
nosewheel landing gear doors, but they're just not fine. And
that's not typical. For a for this type of incident, as
explained, did Egypt air go on strike? And when when do we had
the Allahu Akbar guy go down? No, I don't think so.
Well, they're doing a good job if this is a cover up. And so
let's go to you can skip the rest and go to the innuendo. And
there's actually a couple of little snippets in here that
make it make you do scratch your head a little bit
at the local flying club where Lubitz was a member there in
disbelief. Similar tells me none of this makes sense. Will
homeless get strange? This isn't an everyday event emitted
someone kills themselves and takes 149 others with them under
a meal not admitting them for another dish does some things
happen. But to take an innocent people with you like this? It's
just terrible. The regional mayor told me his thoughts are
with all those suffering. Alone within Mongolia, we mourn with
all the families including the family of the co pilot, he says.
But there's no proof so far that the media reports are what
really happened. There's been more police activity at Lubitz
his parents home with items taken away as this investigation
continues. As the hours pass, more details continue to emerge
about the real Andreas Lubitz. Really
fantastic how, how it works when all you have to do is just
insert this basic story. And then everyone is investigating
things that could be based on just a false premise. And it
just did go on and on and on. And then we're all crazy. And we
need to we need to have psychological evaluations for
all which is a part of your first class medical of course,
but doesn't matter. I think I mean, I'm all in let's have
psychological evaluations for bus drivers, train drivers, Uber
drivers, for teachers, for nurses, doctors, babysitters,
because they could all come in one day and kill you. Yeah, the
war on crazy is just full blown now.
And of course the again the news are being looked at this from
this perspective. The news hour is sponsored by these big
companies in one way or another and you know, well I know I know
Boeing is a frequent vo Boeing's a big sponsor. I don't know if
Airbus EA DS. I
think I've seen their logo why they may want
to step up They're advertising, some gratitude or this may be
maybe a sales job
going on here. But news our does a fake news our has by the
way, I want to say the one the one psychological evaluation
that you'll never hear anyone pleading for is politicians. And
they really should be the top of the list.
I would say play them. This is an interlude here play the PBS
pitch for news hour. Okay?
Where can you turn for news you can trust that we make sense.
on PBS, we believe journalism should never stop asking
questions
to your PBS station and support in depth independent journalism.
The answer
to no one but you
and our corporate advertisers. I mean, underwriters, I mean
sponsor, I'm
gonna accuse them of doing a slipshod job here to basically
cover up a corporate scandal if there was one we don't know.
That's the point. But they there is it's interesting how they
passed off the story to ITN and let them do the story. Neat. And
you can go away. Wow, it was their reporting ran their story.
I don't know. Good point. Excellent point. Because
normally they run their own stories. Hmm. So here's the
nurse. That's that's of note. Yes. That is of note. Yes.
The third clip, which is this one, which is there's been a
number of reports and it was one of them was on news hour, when
they had this guy on we had a clip of where the guy says,
Well, you know what the procedure is, you never leave
two people in the cockpit. Just one you don't leave a loaner in
the cockpit. You always put a flight attendant or somebody
else in there. Maybe you remember that clip. And now we
keep hearing the guy was locked himself in there, buddy. We
don't know that he physically pushed the guy out. He just
blocked himself in or however that works. So they had to fix
the backstory. So let's let's fix the backstory. So we make
this more clear so people aren't confused by what we've already
done on the show.
Lubitz locked himself in the cockpit alone before the crash
that prompted Europe's Aviation Safety Agency today to recommend
all airlines adopt the two person cockpit rule as soon as
possible. US rules already require it.
Okay, we got that straight. Yes. So then now that we're
good to go onward with the bullcrap
just cracks me up. That's all I've got. Okay, so
here, here's where the things that I was looking at the
official story, there's some bothersome pieces, besides the
fact that we'd not have not actually heard the audio, which
I don't see why they wouldn't release that. I mean, it just
makes no sense. We had audio of flight 93 Let's roll we had
that. That wasn't necessarily cockpit voice recording. But we
had a lot of these different.
We had the cockpit voice recording from the flight that
was forced down.
Right from Yes, yes. Well, that was ATC that wasn't cockpit that
was okay, was ATC. But this is not unprecedented that this
stuff is released. Particularly. If you look if I was running a
news program, that I couldn't get a recording of the car, the
captain banging on the door and passenger screaming before it
cuts out. Oh, yeah, that's ratings in the can baby. Yeah,
that'd be freedom of information requests. I mean, that may be
more difficult because it's, it's technically maybe it's
German property. I don't know if it's French property, maybe
German, but still, it would just help me a lot. They would help
me personally as a favor, it would be nice if they did that.
Now, there is other data and there is this is part of the
next generation aircraft system. And this is the so called ATS B
technology and the ATSB is it it is a system like a transponder.
You know we have the old mode A B and C transponders that send a
code which is just to identify which aircraft also sends the
aircraft registration number, a few other pieces of data. The
newer systems and there's two that are being rolled out
worldwide two is the 978 ua T and the 1090 E S. And people are
upgrading to this because eventually it will be mandatory.
And these transponders can send and receive from radar stations
but you can also just receive their signal on one of these
little USB SDR software defined radio sticks which cost like 20
bucks or something and people have been hacking on this stuff
for a long time. It operates around the one gigahertz
frequency. And there's a network now of people who are receiving
the signals and aggregate ate it through sites, the most
predominant one is flight radar 20 four.com, which appears to be
on the up and up. And these guys, they sell their
professional app. They have their their full blown app, and
they have in app purchases, and apparently they're doing about
$2.9 million a year in in profit. They have nine people
work for the company have no venture funding that is that has
been announced at least. And they say they're just running on
their own revenues. And they have no like, you can track
flights based upon this system. Now they don't have all flights
because only about 20% of commercial airlines in the
United States have this I've not, I was not able to find out
if the German wings. Airbus 320 had either of these installed.
But according to flight radar 24, they did. And here's what's
interesting. There is one data register in this, I think it's
56 framed or something that that these transmitters poop out,
there's one register 40 is what it's called. And if that if the
ground station interrogate the aircraft, which is not abnormal,
but again, it's you know, this is not really a rolled out
complete system at all. It can say give me flight management
control data. And every I think it's every second or so the this
transponder will spit out a signal. And the flight radar
20 four.com guys have three entries only three they say. And
they say they received it from they had to aggregate a whole
bunch of ground stations which includes amateur data received
by people with just laptops and little USB stick and and a wire
hanging out of it. But of course, there are also ground
stations that are being built for the true next generation
aircraft system or air management system which in
theory makes some sense that you can know the intent of an
aircraft what the flight crew has intended. And the example is
here at 209 30. Zulu, oh 930 52 Zulu, they are there was an
entry from the register 40 In this which apparently was
interrogated by ground station, and it came back altitude
setting for FMC flight management computer 38,000 feet
with the has the Q and h which is the pressure 1006 Which is
normal. Then at 930 54. Zulu, the flight management bit comes
back as the setting for the for the altitude lt is 13,008 feet,
and then at 930 55 Zulu, so this happens within a couple seconds
of each other. The flight management computer reports
altitude 96 feet, which would indicate that someone turned the
altitude dial now to go from 38,000 feet to 96 feet, you
probably have to dial you had to spin the dial to the LEFT twice,
which would make sense if you then wound up at 13,008 feet
halfway to the 96 feet setting. Now what's interesting is that
they only have three entries of this intent, nothing before,
nothing after and they say it was probably just good luck that
one of these ground stations caught that and they took two
days to decode all this information. I don't want to say
that it's not true. If it is true, this clearly shows at
least a setting on the flight management computer with the
altimeter if the autopilot was engaged, it would indeed take
this aircraft down. The problem is there's no data before or
after which is suspicious. There is very, if any reporting on
these three entries and an ADSB is of course hackable. You could
put these lines right into the into the data dump because added
Emanuel just type it in. But you can also sue easily spoof the
transponder code, there's no good authentication as far as
I've been able to find out. It looks like it's legit. But the
one thing we know is not the guy pressing a button because this
was specifically him twirling the the the altitude setting to
the left twice. And this is all part of what they call the
extended squinter registries in this new in this in this new
ADSB system. I don't understand why people this is not being
used as evidence. I don't I don't get it. It seems like if
if this is proof that he did that, and I think it's only
because of the the backstory which we fix part of as we just
played says that he pressed his button to take it all the way
down in a controlled descent. That does not jive with what
flight radar 24 dot coms data is saying. Oh Oh, exactly
sounds like we need another correction to the backstory?
Well, we might, we might, and I don't want to accuse these guys,
the only thing I could think of is that the flight radar
20 four.com, maybe they've got some deal on the back end,
because you know, they're intended to get the customer the
flying public accustomed to this form of, of tracking and
reporting of aircraft, it also, the conversation that I keep
hearing is, we need to stream data live from all these
airplanes. That's exactly what this is. This is data being
streamed live with some interesting additional data is a
lot of things that this extended squid or spec contains that can
be put into the, into the broadcast. But it's funny that
of all the different fields of all the things you can get from
the extended squid or this is the only thing is this two
inputs to the to the flight management computer and with the
altitude control. So I don't know exactly where this will
head, I think you'll never hear about this ATSB data, even
though it would be fantastic as proof. But I, I really
questioned all of it now. And by the way, is there not a single
body these disintegrated completely there's not an arm of
foot a piece of an ear nothing.
Well, they're I think they're still really, I don't know,
you don't know. I know you don't know,
they can't get up there. It's in the it's cold
once I'm gonna do sir Charlie, by the way, for really a he's an
ADSB expert, when of course, that's what our intelligence
network is all about. And he, I put his his notes verbatim into
the show notes so you can see all the background and how this
stuff works. It's really interesting to see how this, how
this works. There's a lot of people playing around with this
on the receiving side. But you can also easily transmit you
could you could spoof this from from your laptop, technically.
Yeah, well, we're not going to get to the bottom acknowledge
the scheme is under foot and media is not going to go any
deeper than you're going to get from these ITN guys, I remain
whoever else was assigned the story. I remain
skeptical. I remain. I believe it still is an Airbus versus
Boeing thing. The timing is weird. With sales jobs going on
big sales jobs to Middle Eastern countries and the war machine is
cranking up, I do get an email from one of our producers. Adam,
John, I'm a pilot in the military industrial complex to
fly a navy variant of Boeing 707. And I agree 100% with your
assessment of fly by wire and Flight Engineers. So what I said
is the the fly by wire, now we're seeing the unintended
consequences of technology. And we used to have the third guy on
deck. He continues I love knowing that if the shit hits
the fan and we lose all power and or hydraulics I can still
fly the good old 707 Since it uses all old school manual
controls, don't get me wrong. It's a pig, but it always works.
Also, my flight engineers kept me from doing stupid shit all
the time. Every time I read about that Air France story how
the fly by wire system contributed to the crash it
pisses me off more and more and makes me realize what a dumb F
system this is that Airbus installed. There is some
religion to this, the Boeing versus the Airbus guys. And now
they're talking about command and control and we can remotely
land the play. All of this is going to be misused if
technology is going to kill more people as we grow older.
Oh, yeah, well, just fine job of killing people. Yeah,
I did like one theory that would be typically second half of
show. But since we're talking about it anyway, this crash was
on the 25th the Large Hadron Collider cranked up on the 20 or
24th. It's just about 130 miles north of the crash. So it could
have been just magnetism. Dragging the aircraft
down to the earth. core of the Earth. Yeah,
changing it into little protons. And what was this other one who
was on the plough someone came up with a crazy Oh, yeah, there
was apparent this i i didn't even go into this one. But
apparently, there was an investigative team who were on
their way to look into war coming back or on their way to
look into massive banking fraud. Tied to crypto AG, Siemens, the
Vatican Bank Mossad and the CIA. I can't think of one more name
to put in there.
The AI be upcoming bank.
No, they were not on there. No. They don't have to kill anybody
for that that's going nowhere except everyone's joining. So
I'm sorry, I don't have any answers because we have
absolutely zero information except for the data that I just
gave you. And that's all there is, as far as I'm concerned. And
that does support the intent, the intentional crash, it does
support it. But I, you know, there's no one is there's no way
to really authenticate this data. And I'm just not too sure
about this outfit that that produced it. Although I have no
reason to doubt them. And that's it. That is the true story that
so you'll hear CNN go on for five more days. Oh, yeah. But
this is really all we got.
It's really well, apparently, in terms of news as all CNN ever
has wrecked planes. He does
bring me to something else that I wanted to talk about. I went
to dinner with Christina, I went to dinner with my ex banker
friend and his wife, the banker, the banker, the exit New York
banker, right? And we have other stuff to discuss about, you know
what was going on. But at a certain point, he said, during
the dinner, he says capitalism is gossip and power. And like,
and I said, Wow, where did that come from? You said well think
about it. That's what it is. That's how we That's how
capitalism works. And I wrote it down. And when I went home, I
decided to give it a little a search. And I wound up with a
guy who I'd never heard of, I'm very surprised but I'm sure you
have. Walter Winchell. Yeah, Walter Winchell is it's pretty
much credited as the father of the schlock bull crap celebrity
driven news cycle that we have today.
It's funny that of all the people that never heard of
Walter windshields he me I know I know is very humorous people
out there who know Walter Winchell are laughing to
themselves.
I don't know if there's many people who do know him. Oh,
yeah, but I have a few clips.
Walter what you have him?
No, I have clips from the old clips from 1994 Neal Gabler. He
is the author of power gossip and the culture of celebrity. So
he wrote the book about Walter Winchell. And I thought it was I
thought it would be an interesting exercise to just
learn a little bit about Walter Winchell as he is the founder of
what we are in today and actually listen to an example as
well. So I'd like to play here the back this is from PBS and
it's from the 90s speaking to and you'll Gabler. It's kind of
the background or on the whole concept. There was
no real gossip and mainstream press before Walter Winchell,
this
winter was in the was in the 20s. And the 30s. Was that his
his time? The the 30s and 40s. Oh, I thought it was I thought
there was some 20s there but it was during Oh, there might be
but it was reused a radio personality. Yes. Well, he
started as a columnist for the New York Post,
right. But he became famous as a radio personality ended up
wielding a lot of power because he had understood a new medium,
here we go. And that medium had not really been fully developed
in the 20s to the point where somebody like that can emerge
vented. And I use that word advisedly, invented the
mainstream gossip column. gospels always been
marginalized, before Winchell, and by that I mean that there
were things like town topics, which was a society scandal
sheet. And there was a scandal sheet called Broadway remedies,
which wrote gossip about various, you know, Broadway
personalities. But these had very small circulations. And
they certainly didn't hit the mainstream readership. They
weren't part of the mainstream mainstream journalism, or the
mainstream media environment. And then when Joe comes along,
and single handedly, and it was single handed, he creates this
column, in which he talks about who is romancing whom and who's
about to divorce and who's anticipating a birth and, and
who's consorting with gangsters, and who's watching on bats, and
who's ill, and all of these things that had previously been
shielded from public view. But we gossip over the over the
backyard fence, we gossip about our neighbors, and that's one
thing. But the only way that this gossip, that is mainstream,
gossip in any newspaper, and ultimately syndicated gossip
across the country, is is irrelevant at all, is if you're
gossiping about people that everyone knows, and the people
that everyone knows, are, almost by definition, members of some
kind of elite, whether it's a financial elite or a social
elite, or a celebrity elite. Now, when you take all of those
factors, and you put yourself in the position of someone who's
reading, which was column in the late 20s, or 30s, or even later,
but let's get back to the kind of inception of that column, and
you're reading about some movie star who's who's had getting
divorced or some socialite who's lost a fortune in some way or
another You are penetrating the veil, the veil that has always
existed, you're punching a hole in it, or you're letting which
will punch the hole in it and you're looking through that
hole. And that empowers you. That gives you a sense of power
over the people about when you're reading, by invading
their privacy, you are in a way appropriating them.
That is, it's of course I know this intellectually been I've
witnessed it, but that is exactly what it is it empowers
the slaves who feel disenfranchised, have no power.
Feel No, their vote doesn't count. And it's a human
mechanism. That, as of course, we'll hear in this next clip was
geniusly exploited.
He writes again and again and again, how tired he is of
writing these columns, how much he would like to retire sounds
like you, John. He only does it for the money. He's always
looking for something else to do. And I think he was he got
bored with gossip. He said this explicitly later on. But you
know, if gossip just bores me now when I can deal with the
affairs of the world. So I think that that would have happened. I
think, too, that there was always the political potential
within which that he understood, at some point the the, the
relationship between the culture of democracy he served and the
political democracy he could serve. Certainly, the anti
Defamation League understood that and using which was column
to fight the Nazis, both abroad and domestically, and others
came to Winchell on a regular basis civil rights leaders would
come to Winchell because they understood the way in which the
column could serve their purposes.
Sound familiar?
Yeah, windshields interesting, I did little I just looked him up
on the wicked P I remember him when I was a kid. He was still
around until he died and 72 you
actually use part of his legacy? Well, I'm
stuck with it. I guess that's okay. But he began his radiuses
radio things. What really made him he was good at he did the
thing about
so we're here to hear an example. Because what I like so
much do I
could do an invitation. No, no, no. Let's do this. I don't have
it. And you have an example of him.
I do. And this is really nice. Because first of all, he starts
off with something that, you know, obviously, you're
influenced by him through the ages, although I don't think
directly. But he also has, he has a little sound is because
this is a video and you can see it in the show notes from C
span, actually. And he has a little kind of like a telegraph
sound. And it's a button that he's pushing himself. And he's
firing off these things and the topics is what makes it
fantastic. By the way, this was around the McCarthy era. And
although he always denied it, he was as you'll even hear in this
clip, he was a central figure in calling out the communist of the
McCarthy era. Um, so here is a piece of a Walter Winchell.
Time America. I'm born and raised by grilla the first Asian
watch the finest block you can wear the finest watch you can
give Ranger the man who views the New York Daily Mirror on the
Washington Post. A South American
Muslim is an American and all the ships at sea. I love it. You
should add Mr. And Mrs. America except say Mr. or Mrs. Gitmo
nation and all the ships at sea.
The Texas special of the Katie line has been wrecked nearby
City, Texas, between San Antonio
and St. Louis love that San Antonio St. Louis,
several reported killed. We may have more on that later.
That's the tease. The classic to recall was probably
a Puerto Rico was on the march. They are fighting violence and
maybe a revolution after reading on the city. The police in New
York have a new hot lead. He was killed last week for welshing on
commissions due to adult spring and he
this is like your criminal news. He's thrown in there. Hey, we
got the news. He was well done on the bed.
The mayor elect Wagner will name a police commissioner this week,
maybe Wednesday. The field is now down to six including
Assistant District Attorney Vincent O'Connor and surprise
Chief Inspector Rockland gas through good man.
It's unbelievable because we have the pilot of the plane was
on medication.
Washington DC. It's a baby boy from a Peter Pan battleground.
And they go to the elite baby boy and wait
on the hospital walk around New York City's next commissioner of
investigation. The city it's a baby boy from the John Costello
civil rights Sanitarium. The lovely mother is the song. Nancy
Donovan. The offset he hear this therapy podcast. The famous
playwright and poet will make a speech in the office on the 17th
in Greenwich Village, probably on both streets on We have a
communist now an American jail for conspiring to overthrow the
United States. Good girl Good girl.
Dorothy Parker communist. Well, he was powerful.
He actually well, he was a way past his peak by this. He peaked
in 1948 in Korea, and I believe this to be true, because he was
very anti Nazi. anti communist later when he was a
Jew, he was a Jew with a non Jewish isn't he changed his
name,
right. But he was a very pro Roosevelt kind of peaked with
Roosevelt. And so in any style,
it wasn't not Roosevelt, who was influenced with his was at
fireside chats from Roosevelt not influenced by him.
I really doubt it. He had he the only lasting influence he had
with his style was Paul Harvey.
Good. That's a story. Good, all good. Well, Harvey,
without the high speed patter, did his type type of news.
That's the story. That was Paul Harvey's amusing, because at one
point, and I remember this was too funny, because Paul Harvey
had that extremely outrageous. Paul Harvey
radio voice This is the story behind the story. Something like
that. I can probably do the
was actually hired and was on the 60 minute show for about a
year. And they couldn't deal with him. Paul Harvey. Yeah,
really? Paul Harvey I remember I said
he's a radio guy. They want him on 60 minutes TV. Yeah, that's
no good. They
put him on. A bit of Paul Harvey. This guy's not a TV guy.
It would TV came out around 1948 And that's when Winchell peak
because TV changed the way or and if you read McLuhan's
theories, you know you had a hot medium and a cold media and the
two mediums radio versus TV were so different. That Winchell
couldn't make the transition to TV because you'd be annoyed if
you watch this guy
now on I'm quoting an open letter.
That's gone hard as Paul Harvey Yeah, yeah. Yeah, play a little
bit of Paul Hart, My dear children. And believe me, that
is all of you.
Oh, this is that's crazy. From letter from God. Here. Let me
try this one. If I were the devil. Now that's also not a
good example. Well, somewhere on this. Everyone's heard Paul
Harvey on everyone. dead now. Yes.
When did he die? He died in 2002.
I just thought it was interesting when I hear that.
And it just reminded that it truly is that people get
empowerment from celebrity gossip and Haha, she has
cellulite. Ah,
well, it's funny. You bring this up because I was thinking about
this about the mechanism on daytime TV which is really where
most of this stuff really occurs. And I thought about the
main shows including the new ones like the real and some of
these shows, we have a bunch of people around the table like it
will be Goldberg so yeah, so you have these things and they're a
little bit gossipy. But if anybody out there wants to
really see this at work and now that you mentioned it and had
that clip which I think was a great clip, almost a worthy but
not quite. Is you have the some of the shows for example on the
daytime with the individual personalities, which I would say
from your thesis would stem from Paul Winchell. Yes Hey, Paul
Winchell,
it would be not Paul.
Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney is a cart desert comic act.
Nevermind. So yeah, Walter Winchell would be queen, the
Tifa. She comes to mind the Ellen DeGeneres Show. And
Meredith Vieira has got a show but the Show of
Shows TMZ.
I think that's that's a that's a different model. Okay. The show
talking about shows where you interact with an audience, no
audience at TMZ. There's no way to have the Bill Maher. Bill
Maher is a comedy show. He does jokes. All right. I'll shut up.
And I'm talking about daytime shows during the daytime show
bringing home and Miss Yeah, I don't know why he said Bill
Maher, the show that talks about gossip Bill Maher doesn't talk
about gossip. I mean, he talks about political gossip a little
bit, but it's not it's not to an extreme that we're talking about
here that you brought up. The Show of Shows if anybody wants
to watch how this really works, you have to watch the Wendy
Williams Show. Wendy Williams is a black woman who is intimate
with the audience. The audience and he Wendy Williams are as one
on the show. It's a it's genuinely a work of art in this
regard. And all it is from beginning to end is extremely
inside baseball, celebrity gossip where she brings out Oh,
she has and what happened? Why she have a swollen toe? And then
she'll make some back some, some kind of call back that you don't
know. I don't know. It's almost like listening to the Jim Rome
show this sports talk guy, or some of these guys who have
created their own universe and to watch the Wendy Williams
Show, which in some ways is nauseating. Because all it is is
extreme celebrity gossip, and the audience is all in with her.
And she's a big jump big woman all in with her when she does
something like that. Oh, did you see the cellulite on her ass?
The audience is all in. Yeah, it's astonishing. The show
anyone who wants to you won't be able to our listeners won't be
able to watch very well, I have a one exactly what you're
talking about no Wendy Williams Show just 32nd
clip back to the PBS interview with with the author of that
book about the transition to the celebrity culture, which is I
should have played this just before where you said actually,
he created a preoccupation with celebrity, with gossip with
trivia. And that grew and grew and grew and grew until it
really kind of subsume the press. I mean, that process is
still going on. Now. If one wants to see the origins of this
media environment in which we live, where we're more
interested in what happens to Michael Jackson's marriage than
we are and what happens to Haiti. If one wants to
understand the origins of that, one has to go back to Walter
Winchell. And needless
to say, I've ordered this book, which does not exist on Kindle,
and I shall read it. And if there's anything else in there
that I was the name of this book is the title of the book is it's
called Winchell, subtitle, power gossip and the culture of
celebrity. It's only as you think I got one of the last two
new copies so you can get it secondhand, but certainly not on
Kindle.
It's interesting how this form I liked I'm gonna get this book
too. I wear your winch on your place in which a winch will
actually mix the gossip and he had an IE mix it in with news,
right, the purest form of this again, I'll bring it up as Wendy
Williams, she mixes it with no news.
Well, here's the good. Here's the cool thing. I believe that
the transition that we have seen is from politicians and leaders,
they have become the celebrities. And that is now and
in some cases it's extreme Clinton, Obama. Kerry wishes he
just too fucking stupid to be a celebrity. He's stupider than
them stupid celebrity. But then the association that's that's
another big one. The association with George Clooney and you can
go on and on. And that is really how the Empowered I liked that
empowerment angle like when you can AHA we found out that he's
smoking cigarettes. The President is high have control
over him now because I know what he's doing. It's that it's it's
sad. It's sad. And I don't know exactly what the antidote is. I
don't know exactly what it is, but we should be able to help
people Well, screw it to help anybody. People who listen to
the show will just be reminded how this came together. I
thought I just like I like this this was the rabbit hole. I like
going down and never heard of the guy. I'm very disappointed
in my historical knowledge
of what you raised probably away from him.
And not about him to you, I think just made up a while
he was even if you're young you would have been introduced to
him via Saturday morning cartoons. The guy was so famous
that all the cartoon they cartoons were mocking him and
doing caricatures characterizing him and Bugs Bunny
is his legacy. His legacy is still alive today in Texas by
the way. Did you know that? No.
God for 25 years they've been growing babies and cows. That's
right yeah, you did not know that you
mentioned that's exactly see. Ah, good call.
I know. I know. 20 plus years they've had glow in the dark
dogs you can buy parts jellyfish want one more for 20 years
they've been growing open air HIV corn and Texas production.
You know about pharmacological corn.
HIV corn. I
thought I was nuts.
Corn they've been selling glow in the dark, dark, dark, dark
glow in the dark dogs. Yes,
jellyfish for 20 plus years they've had glow in the dark
dogs. You can buy that are part jelly fish.
I would like to order them along with my sea monkeys, please.
Wow. Yeah, I know send you those. You're not listening to
him.
I had to ask did you edit this? Did you make this up? Because
that's almost the literal definition of incredible. I say
no, that's exactly what it is, man. Okay, fine. Now of course I
had no time to listen to him you crazy. No time for that. Wow,
I'm busy
listening to get those clips doing busy
doing the Wow. Lots of people listen. Nothing wrong with that.
No, it's fine. Buying seeds and nice of seeds while you're at
it. And boner pills. It's all good. It's all good.
We had we've had everyone's was somebody quits? They go
overboard. We've talked about this man overboard?
Yes. I thought someone gave me a splash sound.
Some guy went over splash splash went over the side?
Well, this was an email that you you for? Yes. I
mean, I'm not gonna say who this is. But I have to read some of
this before we think you should. That's a good segment. Yeah.
Because it's distressing, is It's distressing on a number of
different dimensions. Because we're not trying to be mean
spirited or a holes on this show we're trying to make we do make
light of things a little bit,
let me reiterate those two things, people that new new
listeners misunderstand two things. One, we're really just
trying to make light of the situation. Because if you laugh
about it, it changes it changes your chemical composition. And
you can feel better about a typically things that are not
You're not being told the truth about it. Or it may be just a
little disappointing. In general, because of all this
information transmission, we can enjoy that there's just too much
and your head's going to explode. And the second piece is
when we talk about people we pretty much on the show are
always talking about them. From a media perspective, we
deconstruct media, we look at things. So if I'm talking about
how Abby Martin looks formerly of RT, it's not because I have
any personal vendetta or a crush on her. It's just seriously
thinking about why she's no longer on our team. And part of
it is she can't walk in heels. And we have experience with
this. We know how it works.
And media dominates people's lives. The team might as well
know how it works, if it's done, or how it works in the Internet
has just made it worse. Yeah,
it didn't make it better. It made it worse.
Once we expose this as best we can, and we're probably not and
there are people at higher levels than we have ever
achieved. That could do an even better job of exposing but
they're all in because they get you get paid off. You're making
huge amounts of money. You're not going to turn on your own
media unless you're nuts. Precisely. I haven't been
listening to the shows lately, he writes, I've been trying to
focus on setting up life here in China. He's just left from
Denver. I'm gonna skip most of this, but it is what yeah,
there's a couple of graphs in here that need to be read. I
appreciate what both you and Adam do. But after all the
disruption in our lives lately, both me and my I don't know if
his wife or girlfriend have decided to look for more
positive inputs.
Yeah, that hurdle is let's stung a bit.
I hope to come back and listen eventually. But the tone of your
show seems too angry for me at this time. Really, I'm thankful
for twit and the shows they produce and the consistent
message of being positive. I guess I'm a rule follower.
Right? What do you do? Are you a rule follower? So I suppose that
there is a a contingent that doesn't want to hear any of what
our analysis has to say we deconstruct stuff, we tear it
apart. And when we make it apparent, in many instances,
that what you're what the public is getting fed is complete
horseshit. Yeah, at some point, you make that blue pill Red Pill
decision, and you say the horseshoe gets better. I prefer
the horseshit
because it's tasty. It has nice little chunks. It's positive,
it's a positive message. If you had a positive message. Well,
you can go there's a lot of preachers by the way that have a
very positive message. And I think Osteen is a good example
of a guy who has the ability to produce a positive message is
all Bible related. If that's, you know, you don't want to deal
with anything. I would just go that way. But just go straight
to the Lord. Yeah, just become a right. It's easy, and you could
get nothing but positive feedback and don't read the
news. Don't listen to anything. No. But if you're going to be in
the world, generally speaking, you can still listen to the
Lord. You can listen to Osteen or any of these other preachers
that are very talented. But that doesn't mean you should be just
buffaloed white, you know, oh, let me buy another phone. I have
one but I need Get a new one for somebody who's sold races a
positive I need the next new beach selling you stuff. Yeah.
Oh need? Yeah, it's all about selling you the sucker
I have based on that maybe I should mention this I have news
from the from my Twitter from my Twitter. I have news from my
Uber sources okay, you know from the Uber intelligence network,
I've
got information man, new shit has come to light.
I have an I really like taking Uber in town. Now, I'm gonna get
the car, the garage and all that it's a pain in the ass. This is
like seven or eight bucks, but I never really take something that
it has to be far enough away for me to get into a conversation.
Because pretty much everybody who's driving Uber that's a 30%
is local Texan born and raised. And the rest is well, here's the
two I spoke to one. Uber source from Kashmir was very
interesting just to hear hear about Kashmir the the area that
has been fought over between India and Pakistan for
as the Indian or Pakistani Pakistani. Okay.
But he prefers to call himself just from Kashmir. He doesn't
like to be from either one actually. Which that was kind of
the the interesting thing I'll get back to in a second. I had a
young kid from Baghdad. And he's been here for a number of years
he came to study computer but like q&a or some software q&a
Anyways at Austin Community College, and he's driving Uber
to you know, to make up for the cost. Not making a lot of money.
But with these guys, and you should try this yourself when if
you're in a cab cab a little harder, because I don't know.
But certainly with the with Uber is like where you from, and with
your no agenda knowledge, you'll be able to strike up a
conversation. So Baghdad, you know, Fidel Yeah. Well, it's a
is pretty funny. And certainly since it's the CIA, and that's
when you know, the car will jerk a little bit you know, it's
like, because it heads whips around and goes, you know this
absurd Yeah, of course. You know, not everyone in America
stupid. Tada. Everybody knows this. And everybody in Iraq
knows. Everybody knows this is crazy CIA Mossad. It just goes
off on the American population is that I came here I want to
work. I want to work hard. I want to get education. I care. I
don't want any handouts. I don't need anything from anybody. But
everybody I know here in America this they don't want to work.
They just want to party and smoke weed. Yeah, watch TVs it
is pretty much it.
It's just that's an interesting observation.
I think he's right. Well, there's
some evidence to that you have a clip. Do I have I don't know.
What's your evidence? What's your evidence? Okay. Well, the
casual play the noodle boy if you want.
The cashmere guy said something even funnier. And this was a
couple of days ago and I tried to write these things down
immediately when they when they start talking about it. But he
said look, everybody knows that. Mh 370 Everybody in where I come
from he says everybody knows that they were testing a weapon
that can disappear things and this was the target we all know
that. Thanks.
The one that disappeared that plane into the left turf and
disappeared he says we never heard this one. Well
you don't live in in the Middle East Do you? You don't live in
Pakistan or Kashmir, India. Do you
really get out of control? I like this disappear thing. I
need a I need a I need a jingle for the Uber sources. I've got
information man. Who should has come to mind. I'm just gonna
keep taking these guys. Go to dinner. I'm just there.
Fantastic. Well, if you weapon, he's up. Everyone knows this,
right?
No, in fact, no, in fact,
you know, I'm not questioning it. But it's just interesting to
have this type of info. I like it. I really very much like it.
Alright, with that, I think it's more than time to thank you for
your courage and say in the morning to you John C. Dvorak.
We're in the morning Are you Adam curry in the morning and
Mr. And Mrs. America all the boots on the ground in the air
subs in the water all the days and nights out there
in the morning everybody in the chat room. No agenda stream.com.
Good to have you there in the morning to void zero who will be
going into have some procedure done April 1, then so we're just
sending him some karma for for this coming week. And in the
morning to our artists Lynn Hartson two in a row. Two in a
row
again. I watched the random number theory at work. Is it
well,
or is it yeah, he just nailed it. He just nailed on baby. The
guy named possible
people Nail it but usually it's not as it's not necessarily
streaky.
Although we've had Nick Duran on the street we've had
big street was Martin JJ to the point where he had to retire for
a while.
I think he actually didn't go to work anymore. He disappeared
from social life.
He said he says, I you know, I'm kicking ass I'm gonna back off
because these losers can't seem to get an art piece. And I
really
want to thank Martin JJ when we're talking about it. Who
pretty much saved our ass with a backup recording of the show. On
Thursday, no idea what happened I did check today's recording it
seems to be working. But we had a meltdown. I had a I had a
three hour file with no audio. And Martin JJ had recorded the
stream and is highly appreciated. I actually sounded
pretty good. I have a backup recording which is the i river
IFP 799 which records fine and I like it because it's very small
runs on a double A battery, you can just plug it in, it's good
to go. The problem is there's you can no longer get the files
off of the device with a modern operating systems. So you'd have
this little
irony there. Oh, I've got my backup device or just crying.
The 1950 Now
it sucks. It's horrible. So I couldn't get it off.
It's like I wish we do after the show. We do a post mortem. And
so we get we put stuff together and then this thing, no problem.
I got my 1942 backup thing running here should be great.
And so it recorded but the only way to get it off would be to
spin it off in real time. Three hours before I've decided to
rerecord it. So if anyone has any ideas about that, and I
don't have a Windows machine it would it would it would have to
be on os 10 It's just it's just nutty that that's not possible.
I'm so surprised and I didn't know it because we haven't had
to had a crash late they have to use the backup anyway so highly
appreciate Martin Jay Jay's efforts there Oh, here we go.
Fletcher on the fly. Good. We got it now. Okay, let's
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Splash. Yes. Yes, we all right. Let's thank a few people who
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I believe we talked about them some? I think so. Yeah, she had
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couple 100 episodes ago. Apart from that I wanted to request a
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you both for the incredibly entertaining and informative
show. Like many others report I find that no agenda eases my
mind and improves my sanity in the face of the MSM is incessant
bullshit machines. For years I ignored news entirely because I
couldn't stand how fake misleading and downright sick it
was. All those years where I really needed to be doing was
laughing at it Seriously though, it always bothered me not to be
informed. But now I am both informed and entertained on a
regular basis. And I have a healthier, more realistic view
of this healthier, more realistic view of the world.
Sometimes it's hard to listen to co workers, family and friends
spout verbatim the lines, they're fed by the MSM, but I've
learned to just nod and smile. It's better that way. Keep up
the fantastic work. And I'll keep my end of the bargain
coming more steadily in the future. Michael, thank you very
much. I did have a thought as I was reading that. These days,
pretty much everybody, you know, has been quoted or interviewed
for some thing. And all you'd have to say is, you know, when
you when you were interviewed for the, you know, the school
paper or when someone was quoting you, did they get it?
All right. And I guarantee they'll say no, of course not.
And then that's, that is your that's the only way you can help
people understand that maybe what they're hearing seeing
reading is not entirely correct. But that's about was the opener
for me, man. When I was first interviewed by the New York
Times, they got everything wrong. I mean, not everything,
but a lot of what the and they had the checker even called when
they still had that. Don't they still do it or not?
The fact checker? Yeah, they were that when they had them?
Yeah. So as of last twice, I don't think they have many more.
And in fact, fact checkers until I don't know when they got rid
of them probably in the 890 sometime.
No, I think I was still got a call from a fact checker in the
2000s. Maybe that was a London fan. Funny. Hey,
that's what we've got. We've got that's it.
But it was not a good day. It was worse than Thursday.
Yes, it was worse than Thursday.
I have to say this is true. Well, maybe we're doing
something wrong.
I was curiously I was reading one email with somebody. So
actually, there's a meetup. Somebody said, You're doing it
wrong. No, that's it. We should get to the meetup. Okay. This is
Tim, who's in Michigan and Michigan folks have a little
clique that they're trying to make happen because they're all
we I when I was there, we did two or three meetings with
different people and they all seem to get along with each
other. He's gonna meet there we're gonna have a meeting but
there was a storm came in in July so now they're gonna have a
meet up on the seventh or I'm sorry, April 1 April Fool's Day
at 7pm at Ashley's Bar and Grill in Westland. So anybody's
interested in it. You're in Michigan, go there. Ashley's
barn grill of Westland in Westland, Michigan. But he says
after last Thursday's no agenda episode, the one where you just
refer to he says he's talking to the group, which is which I
thought was one of the strongest. I feel like meeting
up. Let's try again, he says, and I thought it was a good it
was a strong show, too. And we've had a lot of really strong
shows recently. But for some reason, no budgets. I don't know
where we got that letter. And then the other guy who says
we're angry and making him depressed and we have negative
news. He wants positive input. He wants good
happy news. Happy news. Yeah, let me see. I don't know. I
don't know. I'm looking. I'm looking. I'm looking him. No,
no, I don't think so. I mean, happy news. What's happy news?
Oh, a puppy was born and kittens live.
This was my favorite story of the week. The report says
DEA agents attending sex parties in Colombia should have known
the prostitutes and attendants were paid with cartel funds.
So this report says the Drug Enforcement Agency agents had
sex parties with hookers, which I think I'd like to know a
little bit about what exactly constitutes a sex party just for
just to fill me in.
And it was it was an orangey they'd say so which seems to me
to be a sex party, I think is sex but I would guess that the
second party was just a place where you pick up hookers.
Possibly. And so the only mistake it appears from the
report is that they didn't know that the the hookers were
prepaid.
Prepaid by the cartel. Hooker, the same drug. Shocker I would
never expect a gambling
is going on.
were paid with cartel funds the same drug cartels the officers
were supposed to be fighting. To make matters worse, most of the
sex parties occurred in government leased quarters where
agents laptops and BlackBerry devices were present,
potentially exposing them to extortion, blackmail, or
coercion. The report even says that a foreign officer allegedly
provided protection for the DEA agents weapons during the
parties. 10 agents were investigated and seven admitted
to DEA investigators that they participated in the sex parties.
Their punishment was nothing more than suspensions ranging
from just two to 10 days.
I'm shocked shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.
I think this is a recruitment story. They need more people
with the DEA and I'm all in
there That's a great interpretation of that story
What
else could it be?
And they got back because it's not a story with the any sort of
legs it's just yeah
there's also movement let's close out
there have more fun than I am sitting here on that drone crap
man. Seriously? I let me thank everybody I have two quick PR
mentioned already mentioned the Pushbullet pushover bad signal
also, thank you very much, Sir James Black Knight of the nogen
roundtable who registered let's get social dot today. Which of
course forward to no agenda show.com Although I would
consider a separate page that just has that craziness social
on social sites with a link to our site that made that maybe
even funnier. The glitz, I'm not gonna play it because it gets
stuck in my head and I'm I know it irritates me when it's
Oh, it's horrible. Cut to
the chase. We'll just move away from the first that guy doing
his wrap your mind I love that song.
No, I'm not. I'm not going I'm not going to please I'm not no,
no. Come on. No, no, it's not okay. It's not okay. Why is it
not? Okay, because it's an ear worm and doesn't go away. I'll
play it at the end of the show. How
does that occasionally get played at the end of the story?
Hey, look,
listen, people. Seriously, we need a little bit more help.
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we should
we could Okay, I will read all the names now you suggest
they're gonna sound the sounds like we should do that be fun.
There's a couple of cleanup operations underway and I wanted
to at least highlight them and with clean up I mean, our good
old to to the head for it, and I've had this in the show notes
of way my prep at least for the past who I think it's three
shows now Ukraine first to
high ranking Ukrainian officials have been arrested during a
televised Gulf I'm
sorry, this is not the right clip. Wrong clip. There's a I
think there's been four. Shoot, I'm sorry, this clip got lost.
There's been four suicides of former and high ranking
officials in Ukraine Ukrainian government. They just seem to be
so depressed are killing themselves. Or maybe it's some
kind of cleanup job. And it's all suicide and then we have
this report that came in
but a decorated Boston police officer and Army veteran remains
in a medically induced coma tonight after being shot in the
face during a traffic stop. Officer John Moynihan was one of
several gang unit officers trying to pull over a car. Well,
Police Commissioner William Evans says Video shows officer
Moynihan approaching the driver's door when he shot point
blank. The suspect then continued firing at officers as
he tried to run. Police returned fire killing the suspect at the
scene. A woman driving by she was also injured but is expected
to be okay. And Moynahan by the way he served as an Army Ranger
in Iraq. He was honored at the White House for helping save the
fellow officer following the shootout with the Boston
Marathon bombing suspects in 2013.
annoying is that, but hate it when good witnesses just get
shot in the face?
Well, that's just a shame. It's a big shame. It's not the same
as execution shooting in Florida apartment.
No, no. Or the guy who was being interrogated and shot in the
back of the head by the FBI.
That's what I meant. Yeah. That was in Florida, I believe it
could
be. Well, there were also there were some executions of three
different drug dealers, and that was not in Florida, but that was
a part of it doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter. Now the story's out as it is, is done. Yeah,
it is. I've been I've been diving into a couple things as
deeply as possible. And not really getting very far with the
things I wanted. The main one would be the Iran negotiations I
decided to it was time for me to really get down into it. And I
really just wanted to start off with a list of the names of the
negotiators who are back at the table I believe today or
certainly Monday in Lausanne, Switzerland. This is the so
called P five plus one, which includes, and this is not
discussed very widely, but it includes representatives from
the United States, China, the UK, France, Germany and Russia.
And apparently, all these different countries are
represented at the table with Iran. For what we're being told
is the agreement on Iran's nuclear program.
I'm gonna have I'm glad you brought this up. Because
something is interesting to me. When you watch this coverage of
this thing it on France van cat, for example. It's like It's like
Alien, compared to what the coverage is to us with carry
being in charge of the whole thing. Apparently, if it wasn't
for him, there's nothing that would be going on. And it just
seems as though there's a MISC disconnect or a miss connect on
this story about what's really happening. You know, it's just
so what we're being told weird, yes, well, this is what I it's
one of these no agenda, things that even I have to catch myself
at, and say, Wait a minute, I'm doing this all wrong. I need to
be finding out who is at that table. Who are the negotiators?
And what are they really talking about? Now, I believe that this,
especially if you look at who's in there, why does Russia have
to be in there? Why does Germany have to be in there? Why is
China in there? Why? Well, it must have to do with
geopolitical issues. That on one hand, it must be dealing with
Syria, Syria, has support from Iran has support from Russia,
the Russians have the port there. In fact, here's a little
clip this is Assad did an interview with Charlie Rose,
which will be which will air tonight. And here is a little
clip of that homie about the sexuality in your DNA. Sorry,
here in a rare interview, the dictator of Syria appears to be
by the
way, that I'm sorry Bashir al Assad is not a dictator. That
would imply that he was that he sees power that he was not
democratically elected. You can say what you want about the
elections, but dictator, I believe is a false premise.
Would you agree?
They using that term to besmirch him. In a rare
interview, the dictator of Syria appears to be pushing open a
door to negotiations, Bashar Al Assad,
the setup was great. The setup is he wants negotiations. But
when you hear what Assad has to say, it's quite the opposite.
Saad
sat down with Charlie Rose today in an interview for 60 minutes,
Charlie asked Assad about Secretary of State John Kerry's
recent comment that the US is open to talking about an end to
serious, devastating civil war.
If I want to mention the statement of care. Regarding the
dialogue. I would say what we have seen in Syria so far is
only statement, nothing concrete yet no facts, no new reality
regarding the political approach or the United States toward our
situation, our problem, our conflicts in Syria, but as
principle in Syria, we could say that every dialogue is a
positive thing. And we're going to be open to any dialogue with
anyone, including in the United States, regarding anything based
on mutual respect.
What kind of communication is there between your government
and the American government?
There's no direct communication?
I find that to be somewhat disturbing. But we have no
dialogue, we're not talking at all zeros.
Nothing good. That's what that's nothing yet. till this moment,
you know, nothing.
Would you like to have that happen?
Any data was positive, as I said, in principle, of course,
without breaching the sovereignty of Syria.
And he does not look happy, because he knows that he's, if
they really want to get rid of him as easy, just boom, you're
dead. So he's just doing whatever, he's just a
placeholder for whatever, Iran, but I believe ham is coming our
way. So the question is really, what exactly are they
negotiating? We know from our Iranian sources that the
Iranians locally in Tehran believe this is intended to
actually give Iran a nuclear weapon. Which we have some
theories about, which are not not crazy, but how hard can it
be? And it's obvious what they want, they want to have a
nuclear program, we have to determine if you just look at
the face value of what's being reported. We have to be able to
count how many centrifuges so I went looking for Who Who are the
negotiators, these are always big
drone, a little side piece of information here. If you look
into it, we maybe should confirm this with atomic rod. But it's
my understanding from intellectual sources academic
sources, I should say that the Iranians are some of the most
advanced Uh, in nucular nuclear research in the world, they're
like top guys wouldn't surprise me. What was one of the things
that they just like?
Killed a couple of them, right? Remember when they were dying?
The Israelis killed one
guy murdered him? Yeah, because he was one of the top guys. But
apparently that's a very promising program, they've got
to know what they're up to.
So I have a list of a few of the negotiators, the ones who are
there, but it by No, because I'm looking for industry business.
I'm looking for an oil guy. I'm looking for anybody who somehow
is involved in something that wouldn't necessarily need to be
at this just talking about sanctions versus nuclear
centrifuges. So here's what I found. Mohamed Javed Zarif. He's
an Iranian diplomat. Now, he is always interesting to see. And
this is all based on the book of knowledge, Wikipedia. So he was
the University of Tehran, and then it was permanent.
Representative Ferrante United Nations all that seems okay. But
then he was head of UN disarmament, the UN disarmament
committee in New York. So I lived in New York for a while.
He studied at sea. At age 17. He left Iran for the United States.
This guy has even been there, I guess, Drew college prep school.
Then he went to San Francisco State. Graduate Studies at the
Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver,
so seems to be a bit of a shill. Then we have Ali Akbar Salehi.
And there's a number of colleges in Colorado out there all
spooker colleges that are all spooked colleges, and I've never
heard of University of Denver, so I have to assume that it
might be in that category. It's
it's the Wikipedia. So who knows? Ali Akbar Salehi, A is
head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. So he made
that may make sense that he is there. He was also the Iranian
representative to the I A EA. That's the International Atomic
Energy Agency. And he I think he also had an interesting
scholastic career. Yes. received a Bachelor of Science degree in
mechanical engineering from the American University of Beirut
and 71, PhD in Nuclear Engineering from MIT. Okay, that
seems like he might be a nuclear expert, I would think and then
we have fair a dune Abasi Divani Iranian nuclear scientists head
of the Atomic Energy Organization. He was he I think
he also had some interesting schooling. I can't find that off
the bat. We get into the interesting ones and then a name
that popped up there. Oh, I know this name. Mohamed el Bara. De
Do you remember Mohamed El Baradei?
The name definitely rings a bell. This was
the guy who was on deck to possibly become the new
president of Egypt when they were in turmoil when the coup
took place. And he is the guy who is part of the crisis
Institute, the International what is the International Crisis
Group? This is the big the big shill organization, kind of like
a Council on Foreign Relations.
All right, go on.
Well, this International Crisis Group is interesting that he's
at the table because this is you know, who's in there and it's
like Soros and all these guys are back in there. The
International Crisis Group is a bunch of shills. And he tried to
get in he was on deck and of course, that didn't happen. And
then the next name that I liked was Wendy Sherman, Wendy Ruth
Sherman, of she seems to be leading a lot of the
negotiations this I got from the state.gov website. You can even
get a list of the US negotiators from from from your own State
Department. She's Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs,
but her career is interesting. As she as the she was the
director of Emily's list, she was the CO founding CEO of
Fannie Mae. And she worked directly and still works for the
Albright Stonebridge Group, which, of course, is the
Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State consultant
consultancy. So whether she is negotiating on behalf of the
clients of the Albright group, or whether she may be feeding
back information to the clients of the Albright group, and
neither is of course
she's got that that spook white hair she's got the
shit the elite like Fifi Lagarde kind of Yeah, so yeah, that
look. So I continue to this
would be a good woman to follow, instruct and follow.
And so she is the one this is how I got this. Let me see See,
our intent is to absolutely end this on November. That's, that's
an old report at the 31st is the deadline for the for these round
of negotiations, but apparently as a President Obama red line,
which means it'll just go on for, you know, the month doesn't
mean anything it means nothing.
Sounds good.
And this is all I could find right now. And I'd love to know
who is there from Russia, who is there from the UK? Who was there
from Germany? I think it's more than just one representative.
There's a lot of people. So, and then maybe we'll figure out what
this is really about. The only thing that makes sense to me is
we're doing concessions. We're doing a deal we got it's just
about the numbers. How much will Iran get cut in on these deals?
Let's look at the players.
Your uncle might know something about this woman because she was
under she works for everybody. Well,
she was a baker, I think right back in the baker days.
She was a counselor for the United States Department of
State a special adviser to the President Clinton and Secretary
of State and North Korea policy coordinator who
I will okay I'll send off a note. I can't say no, she had do
so I'd say hey, did you work with her would kind of be kind
of cool with Don, you know? Go a little easy.
Just about I don't see that she's ever worked a day in her
life. is always in some government thing. I mean, she
did the director of Emily's list. Yeah, that director has
many work to do did anything that she was the director of
Maryland's child welfare, and she was a social worker. And she
was not Fannie Mae. She founded it was a Fannie Mae Foundation,
which is a foundation.
This is what I got from from the WikiLeaks. So
she is a careerist, government worker, official, elite
representative of interesting person. This is
of course, also, in some ways by proxy, most likely related to
what's happening in Yemen. And this is very interesting that we
have this coalition and they have a name for it. The Decisive
Storm coalition. Yeah, it sounds like Saudi Arabia made that name
up. No. So there
was a one of the shows I like kind of like to watch on our T
is boom, bust with with that blonde. And it's about the
the one with a kind of funk Aaron
eight, I believe her name, okay. And she can walk in heels. And
so she'll probably be around longer. She has a career,
whatever the case, she is, puts on a pretty good show of as a
stock market show. It's a stock market show that has all kinds
of kind of twisted stuff that's like, wow, that's kind of
interesting. And they had this guy who's one of the regulars is
it boom, a lot of these guys are doomsayers, which is always
amusing. And he had read from one of his something I guess he
wrote in 2009, talking about the Houthis being the biggest threat
to Saudi Arabia. And it was one of his investment reports. And I
to be honest about it, really never heard of this operation
until recently. And I don't know about you, but it seemed like
they just showed up but apparently they've been around
and there's some sort of threat to Saudi Arabia and that's why
the only reason that Saudis are getting involved in this from my
perspective, is because there's something else we don't know
about then we're not being told by the media involved Saudi
Arabia and these guys. And the other thing about the who I have
ever thought they always say everybody in the media with all
this everybody has started off is believed to be sponsored by
Iran believed to be now they say they are sponsored right there
Iranian front, which I don't believe I
don't believe it. I don't believe it either. I don't
believe it either.
The only similarity is that they're both and here's kind of
a kicker. They're both Shiites, but the guy they ran out of town
the guy was he's a Shiite so that, that that doesn't wash.
There's something doing this something else going on this
whole? See I have
a geopolitical theory. One. Do you have a clip here that I want
to play? This is the Saudis versus Houthis. Yeah, you might
as well play that
Saudi Arabia launched a new wave of airstrikes today, again,
Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen. They targeted a northern
stronghold and oil rich area in the East and the rebel control
capital. The Saudi Press Agency released this video showing
Saudi Arabian Air Force jets bombing an airport today in
Suriname, a spokesman for the operations of the Saudi led
coalition is prepared to take further military action if
warranted.
If he hadn't had a there are no plans at this stage for ground
forces operations. What if the need arises? The Saudi ground
forces and those of our friends are ready and will repel any
aggression.
Meanwhile, for Egyptian warships are enroute to the coast of
Yemen to secure the strategic sea passage off of its coast.
Yeah,
there you go. That's that's what I found. And I think it would be
a good idea for anybody who's listening right now, if you can
to just pull up a map, John, do this with me, of Yemen. And very
quickly, you'll see the geopolitical the strategic
importance of Yemen. It's not about oil. It's certainly not
about the resources. Yemen may or may not have it truly now the
new capital, I guess the Houthis have made this new capital of
Yemen. It's Aden, of course, we have there we have the port of
Aden, near the Gulf of Aden. And this is on the southern southern
Well, not quite the southern tip. But the goal of the the
port isn't South Yemen. It's a big one. And a lot of pipelines
coming in from the Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, to that port. And
then there's they have pipelines under the sea out a little bit
further where they have a big oil transmission station so
ships can load and then sail off. But if you really look at
the geographic region, Yemen is right there at what they call
the gateway of tears. I've not heard this term, I love it,
which connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden. And it's this
is all about shipping, if you want to ship, you can go around
the you know, the cape. But really, you want to go the Suez
Canal. So you have to go through this, you have to go around the
corner of Yemen and choke point to choke point, of course, you
know, what's right across from, from Yemen, on the Sudan side is
Djibouti. Djibouti is where we have our drone base. So that's
our, that's our guide. That's how we patrol the Gulf of Aden,
all the way up to the Suez Canal. And I think that's the
only the only thing that'd be in the South Africa route to the
cape that BRICS are pretty much in charge of that. But it seems
that we need to protect our interests, our Saudi friends
interest, and maybe we're just stretched too thin, or we're
probably providing a lot of advisors. But the Houthis just
have to go because we need to install somebody there keeps
everything calm, because that port is incredibly important.
And that's all I can see. Really,
I don't see why we can make friends with them
with the Houthis.
Yeah, why not? They never said anything. Well, well,
they did their their slogan was Israel Death to America,
if you remember, talk to one of the head guys. And yeah, they
have a motto,
which is kill America,
which, which is, you know, life death, pursuit of happiness and
death to America is kind of their motto. And they said, and
I don't say why not. But he said it was just hyperbole. Because
it was made him you know, it was popular to say that they were
glad to do business with ya happen. I believe that I believe
them. Why would you know, they?
Well, may I send somebody
over lady sent carry over to talk to him, and then they shoot
him. Okay. That means they probably were dishonest. But I
don't know. Until that happens. I don't see any reason that we
can't do a deal with
them. But yeah, we're not we're not doing it. So it's the Saudis
who are doing it.
The Saudis are the ones that are more concerned about them that
we are well,
what if Mexico was overthrown? You know, and we'd probably
start thinking about doing stuff here
numerous times. Yeah, we'd like to do it. Yeah. And what how
that workout now is still Mexican. San. Exactly.
We still got Mexicans. But that's really why
another run at Texas before all is said and done.
This is, but this is the geopolitical importance of the
of the region. And I think we'll see a lot of Djibouti activity a
lot of drones. It's gotta be that's just the only way it can
go. I don't see anything else for for this. But well,
I'm still of the belief that there's something that we both
have not picked up on that we need just to keep looking at.
And it probably is related to all other things this but right
now we have six or seven conflicts going in, in the
Middle East.
Replication takes time. That's my point.
That's It's so obvious that that's what's taking place. The
full realization, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to realize
exactly, yeah. Okay, what else we got anything. You didn't have
a little discussion about Assad. I do want to I did have a clip
about him. I want to get that out of the way before we move to
domestic or whatever. Just to make sure that the public is
still aware, even though we've proven it's been proven by
scientists 97% agree. And it's been shown by certain
universities and people that have been on boots on the ground
and everything in between that the chemical attack that took
place in Syria was done by the rebels. Yes. But no, we got to
make sure that the public still thinks because the public is the
you know, they just means they're all looking for some
reinforced facts that's reinforced it again with the
Assad, Assad, Assad and Kim weapons slipped back into the
narrative just casually
Still to come on the news. Our Syrian President Bashar Al
Assad, rejects charges that his military use chemical weapons.
It never ends. It just never ends with these people. Just
keep telling just keep telling the lie propagate with someone
that what the New York Times reported somewhere and it's
good, just the sad part, just
keep doing it over and over because you only have you don't
have you know, how many people listen to no agenda?
I don't know. I don't know. Well, I'm
guessing around 250,000 could be spent in the media bucket. There
is
the our totally, it's just a small percentage of people who
will not be voted off the island. And we need to,
can we have people falling overboard constantly, which is
always a problem. So we can't even keep our own listeners
sometimes. Because we're depressing.
Oh, well, let's have a little fun then. The this was a
something in this is true media deconstruction for you here. We
have Ted Cruz, ah, when on the CBS Morning Show,
okay, can I do a pre Ted pre analysis Ted Cruz clip. Of
course, I just want to do one thing this is because I know
this won't work into what you're up to. I just want to point out
that they talked about this on GWEN I foals the Obama Hayes
geographer, Washington Week, which is a terrible show, by the
way, extremely boring. And she brought up the Ted Cruz
announcement and smirked as if this guy is a complete
moron, idiot loser. Loser even though
they've very well, crazy Republicans.
And he she makes a snide little comment. You don't have to
listen to his very close to the end of this clip was somebody
one of the guy who's the suppose it expert about Ted Cruz says
something. And she says under her breath, but it's very
curious. You can hear it as if
lost their health insurance lost their doctors have faith,
skyrocketing health insurance premiums. Imagine in 2017, a new
President signing legislation repealing every word of
Obamacare.
But before he gets to run against an actual Democrat, Cruz
has forced to face down more than a few Republicans. So how
is that shaken out, Dan?
Well, I talked to one of his folks today and they said well,
at this point, he's the only candidate so he's kind of got a
clear field ahead. For another couple of weeks, he's the only
one
right? And she had a smirk on her face after the clip and she
was just so like this cloud. Oh, what a dork. As if it was just I
just am disgusted by this kind of reporting. Well, at this
level, this is She is like the hot one of the high end most
respected,
respected public news source or listener there are. It's
unconscionable. I'm no fan of Ted Cruz. And I don't like to
particularly the way he speaks. He's creepy. He's slimy. He's
the creepy brother by Ted Cruz before you go into your bid is
when he tries to smile. It is a square smile. That looks forced.
He needs to work on this because he knows that
his voice his voice is shite. But his voice comes across. It's
like nails on a chalkboard.
Yeah, it will. He doesn't have a prayer but he will at least add
some life into any debate that
reminder that this guy he is not dumb, very successful lawyer
prosecutors state senator wife, Goldman Sachs. I mean these
these are the power couple. Yeah, they got a connection and
it
is definitely not done. But he but he doesn't be he's not. He's
not electable. That's the word.
So he, I think this will be interesting to play it in this
direction. He went on CBS This Morning. And he was asked about
a couple of things. And I here's where I heard about it. And I
went and looked at this is this is distortion of media, which is
why I think this is kind of interesting, and then how that
propagates throughout because obviously, mainstream media
which is predominantly progressive, liberal democrat,
left wing is really pushed Trying to make this guy look
like a complete crazy. And just it's I find it obscene and
offensive. Anyone who wants to run for President take that
seriously. It's a big ass deal. And if you if you're cutting
people down, who announced Iran that you just a dick, it's
unAmerican isn't what I think it is. So here's Bill Maher on his
little program. And he is going to read he's not going to play a
clip. But he's going to read his interpretation from a transcript
of Ted Cruz on CBS This Morning question.
Really? No, exactly. Most people would just answer it he's Ted
Cruz's mind goes Oh, an opportunity to
lot he was asked apparently What music do you like? So
this is what he said. And it's not important. It is because it
tells something about this guy. He said I grew up listening to
classic rock. My music changed my music tastes changed on 911
That's true. He said I didn't like how rock music responded.
And country music the way they responded resonated with me. I
had an emotional reaction that said these are my people. Right?
I love the rodeo and Paula Dean and books about dead kids who go
to heaven and come back. That's who I am. So I looked up how
rock responded with three giant fundraisers, concerts December
September 21. All four network showed America a tribute to
heroes Billy Joel Bruce Springsteen, YouTube, Tom Petty
Neil Young Bon Jovi Pearl Jam, a virtual roster of classic rock.
I think it speaks to in so
I thought it was interesting the way this was presented and I
want to deconstruct it. So you can see how this works. I got
the full clip of Ted Cruz and was the was a full on question.
Listen to the whole thing. Think if you listen and think if you
if you believe he is sincere or not. And then Mars
interpretation only goes to money, money and free video
money and benefit concerts. Which doesn't necessarily mean
you know that they did a good thing. I'll get into that a
minute. Here's the actual piece. You just heard mom make him
sound like a douchebag.
I know we've got to wrap it up. But I do have one more thing
because I see headlines where people say who is Ted Cruz? So
this is what I'd like to know. What kind of music do you listen
to? If I came over on a Saturday night? What are we doing? What
do you have watching on TV? What do you do for fun?
On TV, I just finished watching the third season of House of
Cards.
That's a house of cards. That's his problem, right? The House of
Cards, you got to work on that. I really like that.
TV shows, you know, fortunately, there are fewer murders and in
politics and in real life. What's your music? You know,
music is interesting. I grew up listening to classic rock and
I'll tell you sort of an odd story. My music tastes changed
on 911. And it's a very strange I actually intellectually find
this very curious. But on 911 I didn't like how rock music
responded. And country music collectively the way they
responded, it resonated with me. And I have to say it just as a
gut level. I had an emotional reaction that says these are my
people. And so ever since 2001, I listened to country music, but
I'm an odd country music fan, because I didn't listen to it
prior to 2000.
No, I hear you on country music and final sentence final
sentence. You should be elected president because just one
sentence,
because I'll tell the truth. And I'll do what I said it would do.
Okay. So very different than then Bill Maher's read of it.
You didn't like this? No. And now I wanted to find out why he
thought country music did a better job than if it didn't
take me long. I have a representative from I think VH
one. And everybody was saying this was if you go back and I
put a couple of articles in the show notes. Across the board,
the mainstream media was reporting the country music did
a much better job, mainly because they wrote songs. They
didn't just do free concerts everywhere. They wrote a ton of
songs which are of course, very kind of boot in the ass.
America, whatever. Like Hank Williams, Jr. America will
survive. Charlie Daniels just ain't no rag. It's a flag. We
had of course, Keith. Toby Keith had that song that caused a bit
of controversy. The How was the name of that song again?
Courtesy of the road of the red white and blue subtitle the
angry American but universally mainstream media was talking
about the about the country community really doing a great
job from a patriotic standpoint, however convoluted may seem now,
but Bill Maher can only equate it to you know, people singing
their own songs, a leads in the front row for a concert that
raise some money that no god knows where that went. I
personally if it was premeditated, if it was
premeditated. I think this classifies Ted Cruz, the Ted
Cruz campaign as brilliant. And I'll tell you why. If you look
at country, if you look at record set and music sales, I
should say across the board in the United States in 2014, and
I'm going to throw in country Christian Gospel, which is an
extra 17% of your total is about 48% of the United States who by
country music and you get country radio. This is them.
This is what no one is seeing country radio is a they still
have disc jockeys the you if you ever watch the Country Music
Awards, they're all thanking radio, you never hear any one of
the Grammys say thank you radio, no, no country music, which is a
huge percentage of the of the American American population,
listen to it. They're going to love what he said. And he's
going to be all over country radio, and they will support him
because of this one interview and how it's been highlighted.
And then you have the morons, going on MSNBC. This is Ebony
editor, SENIOR EDITOR, Jamila Lemieux. And here's what she
said as she started off an interview and they of course
asked about Ted Cruz and Haha, he says he likes country music.
Nothing says Let's go kill some Muslims like country music.
There you go. Good work. Nothing says Let's go kill some Muslims
like country music. Wow, it was so bad. They had to issue an
apology
of a programming note a few minutes ago on this show a guest
made a comment about country music. That comment was not
appropriate. And we want to be clear this network
does not condone it. I guess they got some little bit of a
pushback
from the executives at the network. Yeah. Somebody called
in and said, What are you guys doing? You're skating on thin
ice, I'm already
just alienated the half of the country.
Well, and didn't really alienate half of the country alienated
about 1% of the country, which would be counted for the number
of people that actually watched MSNBC, you probably just
alienated more people on behalf of MSNBC than they did. Well,
this is true. The numbers are better. This is
true. Terrible. So I think it sounded pretty sounded pretty
legit. When it just came out when he's doing he said when he
talks about that I can understand it's a little
strange.
Well, he is a politician. Yep. We can't forget that. And it's
not beyond these guys. And he's smart.
But that's why I think the country radio route is I think
you're right. I
think you're dead on this was a scheme. It worked like a charm.
And these counter does it counter efforts from Maher and
the other people just made it better. Yep.
Exactly. Yeah. Fall fell right into the trap. That's a
10. Point and analysis. Thank you. I'll be here all week. That
was a good one. All right. Well, I got I want to do a thing to
talk about that. Yeah. Good. There's two clips. Well,
actually, first, let me play a clip. And this is a kind of a
version of ask Adam with that. We don't need the theme. No
jingle.
Okay, you could play this. If it's not real, it's not real.
That clip I'm going to turn with the clippers, but I'm going to
let me set it up as free food for zoo animals clip.
Apparently, in the San Francisco at the Oakland Zoo, which is one
of the I it's a great zoo to visit because it is such an old
fashioned pathetic Zoo. I mean, you know, you go there and say,
Oh, my God, these ba this is, you know, these poor animals and
you know, there's mangy chimps that don't even throw shit at
you and they're all depressed. And
when did you last go to the zoo a
number of years ago, last time I went with J, I believe I haven't
been for a while, probably five or six years, but it may be it's
improved. I'll go check it out just to make sure. Anyway, so
they came up with this program where people can bring their own
fruits and nuts and I guess just the animals to breed well, they
first they should have the elephants mainly when they get
some other animals. And so they put the animals away and they
opened the pit area where they were you know the outside part
and they let people go into that area and put like a pineapple or
a bunch of carrots all around the place so the animals can
come in and eat it and then you'd be like a gallery of
people watching the animals eat the food you brought. Okay, and
it was seemed very popular. It was very happy. Yeah, I was
unhappy with the reporting for one simple reason which you may
or may not be able to to identify in the report, but play
the clip and you'll see what I've what galls me.
Once their work was done in the elephants brought in people in
the crowd got to watch the fruits of their labor.
Most of the time you come to the zoo and you get to hope you see
them eat something in this time you actually get to put the food
there
about two thirds of the donated fruits and veggies goes to the
elephants they have the biggest appetite after all, but all the
herbivores here at the zoo get a chance to sample the donated
fruits and veggies today.
This is a great opportunity for the primates and actually all of
our animals to have a lot of different types of fruits and
veggies that they wouldn't get
as the animals chopped down on their treats and the crowd took
in the sights it's hard to tell
Gee, would it be about the veggies? Oh god this is not okay
man. This has to stop Oh
have more kale have more kale have more kale have more kale
you have more tail I think will obey
now it really works on me I want to have some kale now go for
some
that's anyway yeah veggies she's one girl said and the other one
says they veggies veggies Vijay. You know this is not their
vegetables a carrier or something veggies is just the
meaning to
the to the to the product to an end to an entire but
this comes up again this original one to play this
because it's gonna come up again in this next report we were born
where there's just not a Europe this I think was on France 24
And it was a report about how they're trying and by the way
and I've said this before on the show and it's probably in one of
the old read books that the long term goal of the elites at some
point is to kill everybody is to besides killing everybody they
want to they want to humiliate the regular folk. And I think
the one of the routes is to get them to eat insects has
Yeah, this bit of this, this reporting on insects has been
going on for a year or two was my daughter's routine and
everything Yeah, by all the great
protein you should all eat crickets. Look at these stupid
slaves. Do you think crickets crickets when
we eat them filet mignon. Anyway, I found a couple things
out because they're they're trying to feed trying to feed
cattle and pigs, these bugs really and they found a ways of
grinding the bugs up and maybe apparently that in some dirt you
can feed these animals reduces the amount of gas. Well, I have
a question.
Hold on. Aren't cows like herbivores? They don't eat the
animals cows if they
can be they apparently do like they will eat bugs because in
the grass when they're roaming around, they're eating plenty of
grass. And then what the bugs are just like with Korea
while they're trying to feed the bugs. But the irony is this is
they can't do it legally. They can't or cannot cannot because
of mad cow disease, that there's a rule that the animals cannot
eat other animals
certainly not their own. You can't bug. Okay,
there's no Mad Cow bug. So, so they're having these problems.
This is all happening in Germany. And meanwhile they this
report continues and it discusses some other stuff which
brings in more of the I can just see it they first play a clip
one, and then we'll get the bugs part out of the way.
It's good for the health of the chicken. And also to be
Stop, stop. This is the big joke. The not feeding animals,
animals, goes down to chickens, they can't feed chickens bugs.
It's good for the health of the chicken and also to be less or
independent from the soil from South America.
I can see his ready to eat chickens fed on a bug based
diet. For now one out of two people say no. New Science
thinks this will change. And eventually we'll go a step
further.
The advantage of bringing first insects into animal nutrition is
to improve the acceptance of direct consumption of insects
for humans.
Oh, it's it's mind control. There's
the kicker was one out of two people don't think it's okay for
chickens to be fed bugs. What do they think chickens are supposed
to
eat? chickens eat all kinds of chickens eat chickens
don't concede everything. But when you have chickens in your
yard, you don't have any bugs they eat bugs are a huge bug
eaters. They're great to keep the yard bug free. Yes, but one
out of two people and by the way in the eggs from those chickens
and I can attest to this because we have chickens are better than
anything you can buy in the store from a factory. But
meanwhile somehow How did the public at large and this is in
Europe in Europe, come to the conclusion that is not a good
thing for chickens to eat bugs.
Is this a? a fad? actual regulation in the EU,
apparently for the farms for these, you know, large
operations and I noticed that with the best eggs I can get
around here always has vegetarian diet for chickens,
but not and I never realized it but people have been brainwashed
into not realizing what chickens are really eat. They do eat
everything, but they eat bugs and they like bugs and they eat
lots of bugs. This is a natural thing for birds to do they eat
bugs, and somehow the public at large doesn't think is right.
How does that happen? Well, it just gets crazier as we go into
the we let's take a visit to parts of Europe where they're
introducing a new idea, which is going to come over here.
Apparently some 10 cities have already adopted this concept,
and we just wait until they start feeding us bugs.
But what if reducing pollution in food production was as simple
as just eating less meat? Here in Ghent, the vegetarian capital
of Europe Thursday is known as veggie day. The city was the
first in the world to introduce the initiative, and it's been
widely embraced even in schools. Today it was
goulash with vegetables and Greek pasta.
The school offers parents a choice today. 60% of the pupils
are eating vegetables. The rest however, still eat meat.
These are two kids of my class and one is eating a veggie meal.
With a vegetable let me just talk about an easy thing a
normal meal. They have always the choice because obligation is
no good.
On Thursday, Lucas opts for vegetables, but wouldn't do so
every day. That's because I also think meats good. municipal
offices, hotels and restaurants have also taken up the
challenge. Some offer extra vegetarian options. Others
prepare a menu void of all meat.
Today is veggie Thursday, so we have beetroot Salad with Yogurt.
We have a Bakula we have a stuffed courgette with nutmeg.
can add a lot of flavors. There's a lot of vegetables to
play with. There's textures, there's herbs, spices, there's a
lot to do with vegetables.
The idea has since been exported to 10 cities in Germany, the
United States and Brazil has changed the way they eat in the
name of the environment and animal welfare.
Oh yeah, there you go.
It's coming veggie Thursday, the name of the environment and
animal welfare. So we're now eating for political reasons.
That's a political reason to eat.
Veggie Thursday,
veggie Thursdays coming to a town near you. I think it should
be it's in Austin within the
next. Why can't it be veggie Friday?
I like it. That's fish day. You're stepping on
the castling soup soup. Sorry, my mistake. Veggie Thursday.
What's going to that's gonna collide with Throwback Thursday.
It's not gonna work with hashtags and stuff. I'm just
saying that they need to evaluate the day they choose.
But okay, the idea is said I like that. Veggie sticking in
Europe for a moment. i By
the way, I should mention this is again, just another attack on
meat eating by the elites
who want to keep all the good meat for themselves. Yeah. So my
favorite new thing to be looking at is this unintended
consequences of technology in the Netherlands on was Friday,
Friday morning. At 930 the entire northern half of the
country was without electricity. And very interesting to see what
happened besides the obvious people stuck in elevators. And
this went on for an hour and a half at least for the for the
majority of it. But stores had to close no one could process
because of course, the lowlands is pretty much a a pin only
cashless society. So, of course, all transportation, all the
trains, nothing worked. But also traffic lights. Air, Schiphol
Airport had to temporarily shut down no flights could land
there. And the first question is, how the heck does this
happen? That you can't do that there's no backup system system.
But then when you look at all the different pieces that
completely fall apart, just because of the basics of
electricity not having that the country was frozen, completely
frozen, you have to see some of the videos that I put in the
show notes of traffic. It was crazy. It looked like Russian
traffic. You know where they were, they have all the Dash Cam
dashboard cams, and I was driving like crazy. It was I
thought it was one of the most frightening things I've
witnessed, particularly because they don't really know what
happened or how it happened or why there was no backup. I would
say this is a worrisome event Yeah, but really look at look at
the businesses can't take cash gas stations couldn't pump.
Well that's yeah, there was electricity involved there. But
there's no reason you can't go to a store no and give somebody
cash and especially a small store that store that doesn't
well the problem
is people just don't care that much cash anymore. That's the
problem. It's not that a lot of stores can obviously process
cash. But this the slaves of Gitmo nation, lowlands just
don't have the cash anymore. Very disturbing. And of course,
there's no analysis of really what it meant to society. Just
that just talking about the technical pieces of it. I'm sure
it was a glitch. And then you were correct. John, as Mark from
London, exile in exile from North Dublin wrote, thank you
for your courage in coverage of the Irish water debacle. You'll
recall on Thursday, we talked about the Ireland now proposing
a law for water which no one has ever been charged for in his
history, to automatically deduct that, just take it right out of
your bank account. And you said water meters and producer Mark
says yes, this is all about the issue of meters Irish homes have
never been metered. As you point out. It's always been a free
resource. The government are trying to install meters in each
home. And people are now putting up printed out pieces of paper
on the front doors advising that under no circumstances are
agents of Irish water to assume they have permission to enter
the home. And they are fighting the war and of course these will
be smart meters. They are fighting that so it is about the
meters you are right. Big dough Yeah. Good call man. Good call.
meters
Well, I got some Bergdahl stuff.
Yeah, that's kind of your wheelhouse. I have not been
following that.
Okay, well, they got to guy you know, they're now they're
starting to debate what's going to happen?
Why is this? It's only because of the trial that that he's that
this is back in the news or
it's just get to this has to do with the Obama administration.
Okay, so it's kind
of a distraction. Don't look over here.
Look at that. But but let's catch up to the story by playing
the Bergdahl backgrounder
distinction, I think really was sort of the final tipping point
and leading to this backlash of people saying that this is not
someone who should be heralded as a hero, the US fought for him
to come back because the military motto is we don't leave
the soldier behind. But that doesn't make him a hero.
Why did the White House get as far out in the direction they
did when he was released? And what have they been? What's been
the reaction within the White House since then, as they've
watched this thing unfolded, in a sense unravel from where it
was?
My own sense is that there was an underestimation of how angry
people were in the military with the circumstances that led to
his disappearance. Because remember, for five years,
everybody would go on and patrol and Eastern Pakistan on that
border, were ordered to go and look for bobo doll people risked
our lives. There are conflicting reports about whether people
lost their lives or some family members who think that their
loved one was killed in the search for Bowe Bergdahl. And at
the time, remember, the narrative was that the US is
leaving Afghanistan that we're winding down. And I think there
was an understanding the White House, this is a victory because
we brought everybody home. And it's interesting that we have
the news of the extension of the troops this week. And this
because here were two instances in which the narrative of the
war was challenged in the case of the drawdown, that the war
was going to be over. And in the case of Bowe Bergdahl, that he
was a hero. So it was interesting to see our
understanding of Afghanistan, in a sense, changed so dramatically
in the span of 48 hours. So what
do we know about the charges that he may face? And could he
actually face jail time?
Yeah, it's a great question.
Great question.
Good work slow clap. Good work. He's been producing ladies and
gentlemen. Good one. No, it's not a great question.
Okay, now, she does answer the question, if you want to hear
that this short clip is done to have another gag. Yeah. Right.
Now that way, stop. This was to me interesting, because I didn't
think that they would try to do what she says they're going to
do, which is not give them any jail time. Right now,
the charge of desertion carries a five year sentence. But the
more interesting charges, misbehaving before the enemy,
which actually carries a life sentence, the climate inside the
Pentagon that I'm seeing is one that is not looking to put him
in jail. Remember, he served in a sense five years in captivity,
but that there had to be a sense of accountability. So it seemed
that the expectation is that there'll be a negotiation done
something there's not not jail time, but that he had to be in a
sense held accountable as much for him as sort of the
expectation within the military community. Hey, man, first of
all,
I find that to be distressing. Yeah. Oh, yeah, the fix is in.
You try not to report too much. What are you eating? Not going
anywhere. Are
you eating? What are you eating? You have something in your
mouth. I can hear it
because that was coughing. I had to put some in my mouth lozenge.
No,
no. What are you putting a piece of black licorice?
The weekly report comes from the House of Representatives, march
25 2015, where Miss Barbara Lee a Democrat from California Yeah,
I believe ERG lay submitted the following concurrent resolution
which was referred to on to the Committee on Energy and
Commerce. This is also known as House resolution 29. Recognizing
the disparate impact of climate change on women, and the efforts
of women globally, to address climate change, whereas women in
the United States and around the world are the linchpin of
families and communities, and are often the first to feel
immediate and the adverse effects of social, environmental
and economic stresses on their families and community
hot flashes.
Whereas women will disproportionately face harmful
impacts from climate change, particularly important
developing nations where women regularly assume increased
responsibility for growing the family's food and collecting
water, fuel and other resources. And here it is, whereas food
insecure women with limited socio economic resources may be
vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex and
early marriage that put them at risk for HIV STIs unplanned
pregnancy and poor reproductive health. Yes, conflict has a
disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable populations,
including women, and is fueled in the world's poorest regions
by harsher climate, leading to migration refugee crisis
conflicts over scarce natural resources, including land and
water, then finally wears and will finally in the whereas it
is predicted that climate change will lead to increasing
frequency and intensity of extreme weather conditions
participating the occurrence of natural disasters around the
globe. And so this, they have all that crap in there, and then
it is resolved. It's really a very short resolution, all that
stuff is preamble is presented as fact, presented as fact.
Yeah, hereby it is resolved by the House of Representatives,
that Congress one recognizes the disparate impacts of climate
change on women and the efforts of women globally to address
climate change. And to encourages the use of gender
sensitive frameworks in developing policies to address
climate change, which accounts for the specific impacts of
climate change on women and women? Because climate change
will drive women to be hookers.
But didn't say that's exactly what it said. No, it's what it's
sad. But that's those words that you added at the end of your
I'm sorry, the word hooker is not used. The word is
transactional sex, sex work and early marriage. Right. I find
that an interesting tactic.
Yeah, she's, that's Barbara Lee. She's, she speaks for me. A good
word. Good one, Barbara.
I got this one short, short clip is the proposed budget cuts
health. You're gonna get a budget, you're supposed to
budget because this they're just very short. And I just have a
bitch about it. Well, this
budget shrinks federal deficits by more than $5 trillion over
the next decade, mostly by cutting health care and other
benefits.
Okay, they're gonna shrink the budget deficit by cutting health
care, not by cutting military spending that for example, the
Pentagon can't even audit itself. We have no idea what
they're doing with all that money. And we're spending more
money on the military than all countries in the world combined.
Now, that's fine. Let's give them more money. And less and
and this other crap, that corruption that goes on and on.
Let that go. Continue. But let's cut health benefits. Because,
you know, that seems like a good thing to cut.
Well, it serves a dual purpose getting
with this crap and why doesn't the public speak out? Well,
that's an obvious one. That is just that is just for people who
are overboard and say, Oh, he is not positive enough. And it's up
to you. You get the government you deserve switching in that so
be so easy, you can change it. This election you can change is
not hard at all. No one feels like doing it. That's the
problem. Fine. All right. One thing that is local than we
should go thanks some people this is not I saw this document
unclassified document. At first, I didn't think it was real just
because of the way it was presented. And then I looked at
it like, this is not surprising. Of course this has been
certainly in Texas has been quite the the talk of the town
talking about Jade Helm 15 that we're
calling it a Texas takeover. What's happening is between July
and September, a bunch of Green Berets, Navy Seals and special
ops from the Air Force and Marines are conducting some
realistic training exercises across the Southwest, including
17 Different Texas cities. The goal is to see if groups of
these special forces can move around the civilian population
without being noticed, you know, blend in so they can place
themselves in strategic positions to handle different
threat scenarios. The military says these are vital skills when
it comes to an ever changing threat. But in the slideshow of
the training exercise, it says Texas will be simulated hostile
territory, while that hostile characterization didn't sit well
with a far right radio host in Austin, who told his listeners
that he had access to the secret document details of federal
takeover in Texas. A libertarian website also picked up on the
plan and before you know it rallies were being held against
the event. But apparently the so called secret document was
published weeks ago in several local newspapers, letting the
public know that training was in the works. Still, the Pentagon
and local law enforcement are trying to knock down the rumors,
trying to let everyone know that the feds have no plans to grab
the Lone Star State. Apparently this kind of stuff just doesn't
play very well. In Texas.
It's real. It's real. It's real.
I love it. I love it. I'm gonna give you a clip of the day for
that.
Oh, well, that's sure. Yeah, because
it's such a screwball story. I didn't know anything about this.
Okay, well,
I'm sure looks up so it's education, educational.
And well, so what you're telling us is that these boneheads are
gonna what are these guys supposed to do wander rather
they're gonna be in uniform, you know, just blend in. Hey, Bruce,
we all get haircuts beautiful, by the way, like the white
sidewalls that said, just go around Austin blending in, roam
around. This reminds me of DRONICUS store in downtown
Berkeley. Mimi, figured this out? There is some psychiatrist
or a shrink somewhere who apparently his or her specialty
is agoraphobic. So this is all developed over the years that
we've figured this out. What is Agra phobia? Agra phobia is
veggies can't leave out, leave the house. Oh, just, you can't
do anything. You're just kind of paralyzed unless you're in your
own home. And apparently, Kim Basinger was one of those for a
while. According to her ex husband, whatever the case. So
you can go to Andronik goes every so often and find someone
almost all the time action is the big store. Someone's and
sometimes a couple of people standing around trying to blend
in looking like they're scared to death. Because the
psychiatrist has sent them there. Okay, here's the deal.
Here's where your first goal is. You got to go into Andronik goes
shop around a little bit and then stay there five minutes and
you can leave. But they don't they go in there and then they
usually standing somewhere frozen. You'd like their arms
straight down and they're still stiff. And they're just blood
guide.
Well, I I am I walk around downtown a lot. I'm gonna keep
my eyes open now.
Yeah, keep an eye out because these guys are gonna be trying
to blend in and you know, they won't be able to because they're
not locals.
And we already have enough annoyance on the street, the
family, what is it? Planned Parenthood, ah, Save the
Children, whatever it is. And then in the with the red T
shirts in the same place every single day. And they're trying
to adapt their message just speaking of morons on the
street, and Christina walk into the spin studio. I'm gonna say
hey, would you like to learn about helping children and about
tattoos? Because Christine has got her tattoos like, Oh, this
is a novel approach. I said no, but I have enough enough time to
take care of this one. Thank you very much. I don't like other
children.
By the way, use that trick that you don't like children know
that? I don't think I've ever had anyone asked me. They just
assume I don't I guess I don't know. That was my I didn't know
that. That's what I'm gonna say you came up with this idea that
somebody says would you know, would you donate? We're trying
to save the earth and you'd say I hate the
earth. The earth is flat. And I was
adopted this and it works. So I'm going to Monterey foods and
somebody's got some save the whales or something. nuke the
gay whales, I think is the she wants to say to us and I said I
hate whales. And it was like the guy was like you're in the
headlines.
You just keep walking right? You didn't keep walking
and they don't bother you. They don't go after you. They don't
try to do Plan B, you know the skip logic. They don't know what
to do when you say, hey, whatever it is they're doing it.
But you don't always have to say you hate the topic. It's it's
fun to come up with alternative things, such as with, would you
like to help save the whales and you say Beached whales is good
eating, and just keep moving.
That's just now you're just being silly. But I gotta
entertain
myself to be honest about it. All right, I think we should
thank a few people. I'm gonna show my school but Jonah
didn't know agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fun
a couple of notes too. And somebody didn't send a check.
But they said this, and I'm going to post these as a non
military guy named Amen. Fist bump. In seeing some of the
actual us propaganda, I was a loadmaster. In the Air Force on
a C 17. Globemaster three, these are actual leaflets, we threw
out the back of the jet on Air Drop missions in Afghanistan in
2008. And so they look like dollar bills. And they're all in
Arabic.
So that's the trick. Hey, money. Well, it looks like
money, but it's a but it's a same size and everything. But
it's all in Arabic. And it's actually very decorative. And
I'm going to post some of these and see what's like, find what
they say. Or at least maybe I'll find dig if one of our era
listeners or producers and just ask him what it says whatever
the case, it's very funny, but that's the extent of the note. I
don't even know where it came from his old job. Hush Hush.
Kind of cool. Nice. Yeah, yes. That's interesting. You get a
kick out of it. Anyway, so we do have some people to thank for
show 708 Stewart rushing in Corvallis, Oregon 176 56. And
this looks like it's going to be leaves only 48 bucks for his
knighthood is going to accomplish on his 60th birthday
next month. Nice. And I refer to him as sir and now he feels you
know that he's been stealing from James or Rockall and
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 123451 of my favorite donations. In the
morning, he says and onward, sir Mike de Kock to coke. In er de
cochon de Kock, acid, kanji 345 and Chandler, Arizona. He
has a douchebag call up.
He has a douchebag call up for a read it is friend DOM Brandt DOM
Brandt has been listening to agenesis episode 38 and has
never donated. I'm calling him out as a douchebag. He says
you've been listening for years and as a director of dude's name
ban, he can certainly afford to contribute. I fully expect him
to rectify this manner by becoming an instant Knight.
Okay, thanks, Mike. Thanks for informing us of people like
that. Yes,
this is this. This will not stand. Dan Barofsky,
send a note in this game as a check for 12345 his favorite
donation. My favorite anyway, but he's the guy who uses the
United Federation of Planets. Station. Oh, yes.
This is his ongoing.
He says he's almost a half night now. And even though I'm not yet
a night, I have taken on the sacred quest of listening to all
no agenda podcast starting from the first No, please. Ensure you
that until you get the show 200 The show's not that good. I
noticed that John's use of Yeah, no. Goes all the way to show
number one. Hmm, well, this is an insight that we're unaware
of. Yes. Show one. This phrase is so much a part of no agenda
that eliminating it might disturb the global forces. Which
might be why we had lousy donations today. Because we beat
me I don't think I got it one call out. Last show.
You got you got to do more. Yeah, knows. Yeah. No, I do. And
this was a check that was sent in. Yeah, I based upon your your
incessant promotion of this. I started paying some of my bills
via bank cheque. And I'm kind of surprised I hadn't done this a
long time ago. It's very easy.
Yeah. If you have a if you have a online banking account, yeah.
And you start digging around on what it can do. It's very
powerful. I agree. You can send checks, you can create time and
time payment plans yourself. And you can just it'll just
automatically send a check from the account. And you can you can
monitor more than one account. So you can take send money from
all kinds of different directions. And the bank takes
care of all of that. And curiously they don't.
It's part of the free ad I don't see any extra charges seems to
be free. And some of these banks, you know, send individual
checks out they don't bundle them. And which costs like 60
cents I think or more to process and put it in an envelope. As in
meanwhile, they're charging you for drawing from the teller
machine and given this away so it's to manage other people.
It's truly a dynamite way to support the bed. Best podcast in
the universe.
Yeah, well, he wrote hand wrote a check, so,
okay, but I'm just saying that I started looking into it because
I have a couple of I kind of like sending out the paper
checks, but now that I'm alone, no one's buying the stamps
anymore for the envelopes. I gotta
go to the post office. Yeah, well,
I do but anyway, yes.
Post Offices are great. I agree. Vaughn glitch guy in Salem,
Oregon. Thank
you, Vaughn. liszka for sending me that beautiful piece of art.
Sent me our life is too short for bad art. I think I tweeted a
picture of it. Beautiful. I haven't
seen that on the tweeter somewhere. Salem, Oregon. 100
bucks. He says my wife now fully understands native advertising.
Thanks to you guys. She's surely realizing you guys aren't
complete nuts. Yeah, thanks. No, Vincennes a in Morristown, New
Jersey. $100. Marta? calles stomm In is it Callisto McHale
is Strom? She sent a note, calla calla Strom,
I think I see stomm No are but that's a note. Okay. Looks like
Strom on
her note. And she sent a check in and a card, which is a nice
card it has. It's about it's a little educational card that has
a little girl, shell saying the word amazing. I said the word
amazing to off. Often I've hired a PhD student to teach me other
options, and the card is filled with every possible option to
the word amazing. There's quite a few. I can read a few
astonishing. Oh, sing singular stunning Yeah, stupendous blood.
Splendid. First, I'd like splendiferous, spectacular,
phenomenal, remarkable, extraordinary. Staggering.
scintillating. That's a good one. Would you ever use
illimitable to titillating breathtaking flabbergasting?
tiddy tastic tity tastic Yeah. tity tastic and cray cray.
No, no, no. Hey, man. That's not good. TD tastic day a
dazzling stupefying, astonishing. And then the back
of it has another 50 It's just word afterwards. Joy. You don't
have to use the word amazing. She proves it by this buying
this card and sending it to us. Oh, nice. Thank you. Marta.
Collins, Sloman in London, UK 7070. Pascal, shell, how to
Shell bull Pascal Sheriff hood, sell himself out. Shows that
shelf? shelf
out shelf? No, come on. Come on. Try it, man. I'm trying to sell
out Chanel.
In Harlem, in Harlem, which I believe is days where Harlem is
named after in New York.
I liked this note. Yeah, well, yes. The Dutch used to own New
York in case Yeah, it was called New Amsterdam. Yeah, that and
that's why of Harlem, Brooklyn suckered out of it Brooklyn,
which is Brooklyn.
Queens, Queen's Day.
Now Queens is not the Dutch.
I imagine if Queen's Day.
Yeah, they do. A Hi Adam Ajaan. After three and a half years on
benefits. I finally managed to land a job. Whoo. Even though
I'm happy to be able to donate. I'm happy to be able to do it
again. Trouble is it don't have time to listen to the show
anymore. Oh, listen, you got to commute you're gonna be driving
to work. You
commute. He says Job karma works. Just be patient.
Okay, we'll add some at the end for everybody as well of course.
Heather Simkin, in Henley on Thames in Oxfordshire. 5959. And
she hasn't no love Heather.
Heather. Sandwiches.
Brett Phegley in San Clemente, California. 5555 Michael all in
a tasket Darrow California 50 What is it 50 Get the thing in
the way 5120 5321 Eric vocal in Berlin Deutschland $52. And then
we have Christopher Kevin Leto and Williams, Arizona 5150 and
short Kevin Payne in Richmond, Virginia. 5069 and then the rest
of these was shortlist of $50 dollar donors including John
Anderson in Youngsville, Louisiana, David Duvall and
Multan New York Chase Tomlinson in Austin, Texas, you should
have a meet up. Cory Noonan in Los Angles California Ross
Turpin and Troy Kansas. Peter Sir Peter to you tow tase in
Parts Unknown. And finally, Gerald that in nabbing it and
nominate in Union South Carolina and Sir Mark Tanner who comes in
a couple times a month $50 from Whittier, California. Those are
the people we'd like to thank for show 708 We hope to do
better next Thursday. We got a couple of an extra day in there
for people to get into it. And hope, hope the show's still
working for you. It's cheaper than a movie.
And hopefully more valuable. I was just looking at some of the
entries here and I know what's going on. I'm seeing a number of
donation amounts below the 50 level, which means we don't read
out the names because most people want to be anonymous on
there. There are monthlies, and there's I think there's three
that are tagged with Facebook.
Oh, yeah. Well, I know what's happening here. Well, Eric
actually points this out. And Mimi talked to me about well,
Mimi is
running that that's the funny part.
Well, yeah, yeah. Really?
I'm on Facebook. I'm on. I'm on the no agenda group. Yes,
no agenda group. If you read a note on Eric's email, he says
there's no agenda group, which is always gossiping about the
show on Facebook, but in a nice way I liked I liked positive,
more than not saying we saw or they're not just not like most
of these groups always turn against. That's the
Reddit group, the Reddit group is starting to get ugly. Yeah,
that wouldn't happen because
they think they can do it better. Generally. That's how
that starts. Oh, like the guys who did the forums once and they
decided to do their own podcast and the podcast deteriorate into
about our ponds difference, because
you're not participating in the forum? Well, no. Well, that's
not okay.
Just too many of us this is not right. Whatever the case,
they're, they're trying to Greg get enough donations through are
mentioning Facebook, which show up on the spreadsheet, and Eric
will dog it. So they will all be mentioned. And the cumulative
amount of supposed to be $1,000. So they can night somebody which
I guess they'll auction off. I don't know how they're going to
choose anybody. But that's what's going on.
I thought it was just funny that Mimi seemed to be right.
No, she told me about it. When they first came, somebody came
up with the idea wasn't her idea? No, I think it was my
Smart Week have a special Facebook donation amount that I
can create a button for? And she said, Well, they want to, you
know, collect donations on the Facebook site. And I'm thinking
how's that gonna get to us and well, then someone could write a
che, it's just not the way to go is to get a special button.
That's a fixed amount, or open amount. We make it just disabled
open amount, and you click on that it always gets credited as
a Facebook donation. I can still do that. But no one's good. No
one's that Facebook. I don't know. I don't go there. No one's
given me to go ahead and do such a thing. I shall just do it.
I have no and I'm realizing more and more how the real problem
with Facebook is the reason why it's dangerous is because it
really is an evil time machine. And let me explain. If you
disturb the forces of time and dimension when you reconnect
with people from your youth, and from high school, it's it's not
good. This is when you start to follow these people. And then
you start to like strange and have weird politics and that
just goofy and then that hidden the and then you'd have to keep
reading about them and you feel bad. You don't want to unfriend
them. It's an evil Time Machine. Stay away from it as much as
possible.
I don't. You're not talking, you're preaching to the choir. I
know. I'm
preaching to the choir there. I know. I know. But I didn't
think it was that was the reason I just thought it was a waste of
time period. But you're right and I do think is you know, what
do you not you don't have contacts with the old high
school buddies because you don't
there's reasons for that. There's reasons why the universe
is everything has moved you on.
If you're on the steering committee for the every five
year reunion, and you're just a few people who will stay in
touch with that's different.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
That's different. That's always been around. It's always been
fine. Eight, nine. That's all we've got for this show. 708.
That's pretty disappointing. It I don't know how to converge is
where people say best show ever. Fantastic. And then donations
have done fine.
Yeah, I find that. I don't like that. No,
if they said this last show sucked. I'd feel better about
it. I know I have to work. I mean,
then we could say well, we make a better show for you, but it's
best show ever. And then nobody cares. Like Wait, something's
wrong. Somebody's not telling the truth. Exactly.
Well, please help us out for the Thursday show. We as always have
a lot of things to deconstruct and help you live a healthier
lifestyle. VO red.org/n A Man Overboard jobs
jobs jobs and jobs that's for jobs Amen
I gotta make do here Mary Walden wrote in said Tuesday, I made a
donation no agenda from today's page include a birthday request
for my friend Kyle, and didn't make it on the air. So I'm here
by making good on that hand as we learned today, we had Michael
hints his son Desmond will be two. And on the following day,
the 31st This was his son is Tuesday, Michael himself 29.
That means next year, if you add up our ages, it will total 33.
Coincidence? I think not. I agree with you, my friend, happy
birthday for all your buddies hit the best podcast in the
universe.
How does somebody turn to one day and then 29 the next
son is two today. And John is so sorry, he turns 29 tomorrow, so
maybe that wasn't entirely clear. I was doing a lot of that
on the fly, because neither of those entries were in the
official spreadsheet.
Do we have? I know the make good? I
got it. Sorry. I got it. I
never sent it in. I took care of it now. About I gotcha. Do we
have no nights?
No nights now? No, not with these donation levels. Now. I do
have that I want to talk about this. We talked we said we were
talking about China. And I think it's important that we bring
this up because I've been following it for maybe half a
year now and you've scoffed at it. You can still scoff because
I think you're probably right. But given a couple of years,
this Asian investment bank might become restructure, restructure
Ay ay ay b, the Asian investment infrastructure bank may be
interesting. And certainly we have a lot of countries joining
because
don't worry interesting now than it was when you first
brought it, but I did first identify it. Yeah. Okay,
this infrastructure bank, as part of a bigger picture as far
as China is concerned. Ultimately, the Chinese
policymakers, economic policymakers, I believe, are
pushing towards the idea of the renminbi as a reserve currency.
But there's lots of things they have to do on the way. And this
is one small step in that direction, having a
multinational institution that they can lead. Another will be
free convertibility. And as you know that some years away,
another will be a more liquid bond market that's accessible to
foreigners. Those are things that have to happen before the
renminbi becomes a part of the reserve currency system. And you
know, having said that, they've done other things, other little
steps, like the currency swaps to facilitate international
trade settlement and renminbi. So I see it as part of a hole in
the development of China.
And just a quick follow up on that. This is I believe, mainly
because the the IMF reforms to 2000 was a 2010 reforms that
Fifi Lagarde was asking the United States Congress to what
does the word rack ratify, which we do not do and those reforms
would put China into a voting position in the IMF slash World
Bank, but certainly IMF, we the United States would still have
veto rights and be number one. But we have not ratified that.
And now it seems like what they promised the BRICS in particular
said, Oh, we're just going to we eventually will move away to
something else. And now we have,
you won't let us in your club will start our own club.
The Netherlands is now in Australia is in China has
officially requested the Wando want to be in the in the SDR I'm
sorry, that isn't that makes no sense. What I just said. Here's
the Treasury Department again, requesting the IMF reform bill,
which is just an I don't think it's going to happen. And now
this is not huge. But everybody's in it. They had the
Dutch jump into it. That was interesting. And the
Australians, and it's just everyone's like, why would we
take a risk on not being on board with it?
Well, the Japanese aren't in. We're not in can we didn't want
anybody else to go in but they did against our wishes.
By wonder if there'll be any fallout, repercussions,
repercussions? And was there anything since we talked briefly
that we said we're going to talk about China on the show today?
Your buddy over there from the Horowitz Dvorak unplugged
business? He called me left messages like I I missed them. I
think he's on a plane maybe to China, I don't know. But he said
I got all kinds of stuff and information. Did you guys talk
about what's happening with China and the failing of all of
these trusts 50 or 60 Different trust companies have defaulted?
We didn't Talk about to trust companies. No.
What did you talk about?
We're talking about the Chinese numbers. Finally, they can't
cover it up anymore, could you? They're going down to the tank?
Could you give us a little background? I'd love to hear it.
But the Chinese have these weird, it's always been
suspected by the investment community that China's numbers
are bullcrap. And you know, and they try, and they're
normalized, which is really the problem, nobody wants that. Then
that means that when somebody says, Well, you know, it's down
a little bit, but we'll give it to this number, because this is
the number that's expected by the party. The party wants to
see this number. And we think we can get to this number, at least
average to this number next time. So they, the numbers are
all bullcrap. But at some point, you have such bad numbers that
you can't you have to be, you know, committee hairy carry a
cow touted Abu Dhabi, sorry, these numbers are terrible. And
so these numbers are now starting to creep into the into
reality. And this causes this making shiny China of very risky
investment on all kinds of levels. Okay, but no, we didn't
talk about his trust failing in some of this other stuff. But it
was a foregone conclusion. I mean, you can invest in these
areas. And that's why the American stock market so good
because we at least were transferred. We are not
completely but we're more transparent than anybody else.
Well,
you know, according to our ex banker from New York, and we won
the American banks. Why it's funny. I was standing on the
balcony last night have a little balcony here.
Did you finish to the story about him? When he started the
show?
Yeah, he, whoops, there we go. Hey, man, first of all, he was
the one that got me on to power and gossipers capitalism. That
was that was right. Right. Right. Okay. But, but as a
standing overlooking downtown Austin, and that's the view I
have. Here's what I see the number of buildings and the
buildings are labeled. And from right to left, do you
have a balcony you can stand out on the balcony and and view the
bugs and the bats and all the rest of my
people? No, no, that would be a southern view and I have a
northern view. So I see I see the city we have a balcony.
Yeah, about a small balcony.
Small. Can you have a party on the balcony? No.
Absolutely not. Party my pants is about it. And I go from right
to left. And there's maybe I can see 15 buildings maybe something
like that. Then what do I see? Bank of America Chase Bank moody
bank IBC bank. And it only hit kind of hit me last night. This
all banks and they have huge buildings. They're running the
show. Every single bit of it. People like Belinda Gates did
the lower level they are lower level than these guys.
Were you think they're doing a crappy job? These banks
not for us in the I think in. In Gitmo nation proper here. I
think we're doing okay. But yeah, but they're running, the
drugs are running. Everything was just, that's my point is
that's really what's going on. And just when you see that
power, this power these huge buildings, what is in there?
What all these people are? No. What are they doing in there?
What are they doing in this huge Chase Bank building? What are
they doing?
No, because Chase banks in New York, there's headquarters or
someplace else? That's not the headquarters? Oh, no. She's one
of many giant Chase buildings around the country. What are
they? I agree, what are they? What are they doing? They need
all these people? What are they in Austin?
Yeah. and Bank of America as big as the biggest building here?
What are they doing in there? Well, you know, I read that to
the retail is what they really want to get away from these none
of these banks want to do anymore. It's all about running
the world, I guess. And then this comes out. And I thought I
found this was kind of coincidental with my observation
of downtown Austin, is the President's podcast just got a
little piece of it his little, his little podcast, he does
about 2000 3000 people ever watch this thing. On video. I
don't even anyone listens to it on audio. And he had a very, and
he had a couple of them. It was a couple of orders that came out
with this not memoranda, not executive orders, then it's
about something we've talked about in the past payday loans.
And we've talked about that in regards to people who work at
home do webcam work, or any kind of work that may or may not look
like it's similar to payday loans, just individuals, and
then they're getting thrown out of banks. And Chase is number
one, like, oh, we won't, we won't let you have an account
here anymore. And now the president comes
out where this began with porn stars.
Yes, I think webcam mainly, but maybe some porn sites as well.
And we and we deconstruct that back to they want to get rid of
Payday Loans. And we'll get into that in a second. But first,
let's listen to the President and how he describes this. And
of course, we always start off the podcast with our Everyone
say,
hi, everybody. Hi, everybody. Five years ago, after the worst
financial crisis in decades, we passed historic Wall Street
reform to end the era bailouts and too big to fail. As part of
that reform, we created an independent consumer financial
protection bureau with one mission to protect American
consumers from some of the worst practices in the financial
industry. And
let's just stop there for one second that was led by Elizabeth
Warren. She ran that and right after she said, everything's
great. I started getting notices of phony baloney looking like a
check for was $1,000 of that. Just Just go ahead. Just send us
in. We'll give you $1,000. And what was the big on that 27%? A
thing she did these this consumer protection has done?
Nothing,
yet. Nothing? Nothing. At least No, nothing. We can see any
evidence of
they've already put $5 billion back in the pockets of more than
15 million families. Oh shit,
guys, I don't know. I don't know where those numbers are coming
from me this
week, they took an important first step toward cracking down
on some of the most abusive practices involving payday
loans.
She named a company and during his speech, did he name a
company who said yeah, that's pretty outrageous. It's gonna be
targeted payday loans.
Oh, that's an actual company name as well. Yes. Wow. But you
didn't know that? No, I didn't. No, no, no, I didn't know that.
Yeah, let's do it again. Payday Loans. Go back a little bit
more. That's pretty brazen, involving
payday loans. Millions of Americans take out these loans
every year. In Alabama where I visited this week, there are
four times as many payday lending stores as there are
McDonald's,
another fine American institution.
But while payday loans might seem like easy money, folks
often end up trapped in a cycle of debt. If you take out a $500
loan, it's easy to wind up paying more than $1,000 in
interest and fees. The step the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau announced this week is designed to change that the idea
is pretty common sense. If you're a payday lender preparing
to give a loan, you should make sure that the borrower can
afford to pay it back first. As Americans, we believe there's
nothing wrong with making a profit. But there is something
wrong with making that profit by trapping hard working men and
women in a vicious cycle of debt.
Yeah, like student loans. As an example.
Protecting working Americans paychecks shouldn't be a
partisan issue.
I love that protecting Americans paychecks. That's that's the
meme right there. We're going to protect your paycheck. Let's
just talk about payday loan loans for a moment. Which I
think you're probably more qualified to do that, John.
Okay, what is a payday loan just so we explain
loans began as a very interesting scheme where you're
kind of you have a bunch of debts or something and you're,
you're behind, you're gonna have to pay a bunch of fees, you can
take a loan out of your payday out of your payday, that's kind
of a pawn, you take a loan on the check that you're going to
get, but you're today's Monday, you're gonna get paid on Friday.
And so you show some check stubs or whatever, they'll give you a
loan for the entire amount of your Friday check. So you're
gonna get $180 on Friday, and they'll give you the $180 on
Monday, and but there's going to be like an $18 fee,
right? It's the fees really, that are that's not the the APR
the right,
so when Friday comes along, you get your 180 bucks, and you have
to pay back the $180, you owe these guys, but you can't
because you are I mean, you can, but you still going to be short
18 bucks, go by net net, right. And so that becomes a, so you
only get to pay off some of the loan. And then so now you're
gonna be behind at least a minimally $18 on the principal.
And so now you have to go to the next week, and either take out
another loan or just wait to get paid again. But meanwhile, it's
added up to now you probably owe 36 bucks. The 18 plus an $18 fee
is like a fee based and there's some interest aspect to it. And
it starts building up to the point where you never can pay it
off and not just $1,000 people. A lot of people in the military
have been because they put these payday loan places up around
these bases that have been bankrupted by these guys.
What's interesting is the calculation that the President
and this agency made is based upon the APR the was annual
percentage rate. And what they say is if you borrow $100 on a
payday loan with a $15 fee, so your next page cheque and
sometimes you have to write them a check, they'll cash that
checks in multiple ways they do it the way they calculate the
annual percentage rate on a $15 fee for 100. payday advance,
they say that's a 391% annual percentage rate. Okay? However,
if you take their same math, and you take a credit card $100
Credit card balance, your late fee will be $37 On average,
which is a 965% annual percentage rate.
Oh, that's okay. Yeah.
How about your utility bill? If you're late on $100, utility
bill, typical fee $46 results in a 1,203% APR.
All this used to be against the law, and they had ursery laws in
place around the country. And the last state to avoid them, I
believe was Arkansas. I remember back years ago, and you could
get an Arkansas credit card, which was the best deal in town
because they couldn't charge more than three and a half
percent or something like that. And this is all a joke,
considering the cost of money based on the interest rates
coming out of the Fed is near zero. So this is all we used to
be illegal. That is now all legal. Because there's no
consumer protection, it was illegal for a reason, because
this bullshit would happen and half the dummies out there all
well, you know, I'll go they won't be all paid next week.
This sort of thing goes on because the public needs
literally needs to be protected against this sort of thing.
Because it's it's some point, you don't get how complicated it
is. And they make it they What do you think all the fine print
is where there's huge document you gotta sign? This is
terrible. And Elizabeth Warren is gonna promise to fix it.
She's not going to do anything. No, but he's going to do
anything. This is horrible. The situation we're in and this is
maybe he's what this guy went overboard for because we're
complaining about stuff like this. Live in a dream world.
Yeah, it's I think it was also the new bank who told me we were
talking about, of course, no, I'm just rolling everything out.
I can add them just to get, we only have a dinner. So I have to
throw as much as I can out. Man, it's you scare me.
You have 10 minutes, or you wouldn't play the clip playing
maybe never played on yourself. I'll
play it on myself. Less than 10 minutes to go. Oh, I can save it
for Thursday. Oh, she won't. But it was really just, it was
related to this. But okay,
fine. No, no, you should finish it up.
Now. He said, Because I was talking about auto loans. You
said auto loan, we were talking about Uber, that's what it was.
I'm talking, you know, they already provide auto loans. And
he was just talking about the business in general. And then I
said, Well, you know, until that subprime market crash, he's
like, No way. That's nothing. It's small. The biggest one is
student loans. And there's a business in providing loans. The
government doesn't. won't provide. I gotta get more, you
know, 10 more minutes. You're right. I gotta stop. We got to
find out whether is it was something very big is going on.
There's an opportunity for us to make money. And I'm sure we'll
see. I'm sure we'll screw it up.
No, we're not going to screw it up.
We're just, we're just not going to capitalize on it. We're not
going to do it. That's the That's true. That's what's
really going to happen. That's what you're right. Okay,
besides that, who wants it? We can do research for the public
at large as a public good or organization that two of us, we
could do that and become enlightened. Or we can go work
our butts off to make you know, blood money off of lending or
something with a government. Oh, my God, once you just retire
now.
I prefer doing this I enjoy what we do.
And I wish more people would show some appreciation. We do
have people that support the show. There's no question about
it. But sometimes it's like, what happened?
That's true. All right. Enjoy the sunshine here and the drone
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