There will be no boots on the ground. Adam curry, John C.
Dvorak starts April 28 2016. And time once again for your gizmo
nation media assassination episode eight to zero. This
is no agenda
bobbin to the beat of the ducks, monarch and broadcasting live
from the poop deck of the SS plop in Amsterdam, the capital
of donation lands in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam
curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley where everybody takes a plop at
least once a day. I'm John C. Dvorak. Buzzkill.
Now you know that they're in good work. Good work. All right,
John, we could blow up at any minute. I'm just letting you
know.
Yeah, that's okay. We can restart at any minute,
man. But it's this you know, for days that I've checked,
everything was great. The internet is fantastic. I mean, I
set up the studio today getting ready to do the show and of
course, all kinds of problems. Worse. Yeah. So we're on this
houseboat, which is the SS plop
is it really? Yes.
No, yes. P L. O P there's a there's a famous well there's a
famous cartoon, a gnome gnome cabal to plop is his name. And I
guess they thought it was fun to name this boat after cabal to
plop but of course outside of the Cabal alter the gnome the
cartoon figure everybody else in the Netherlands just like you at
this moment think of you know a turd dropping into the toilet
bowl. That's so that's the great part of it. Hands Across the
border flop. So it has fantastic it had fed it was advertised as
having fantastic internet and it's not a cable modem. It's a
dedicated line. And and that was true for most of our stack and
see packets dropping from time to time as we speak. But the
even worse, he's got some kind of firewall, there's a box. It's
a box of firewall, I got God. And, you know, it randomly
strips out JavaScript things and CSS and it's it's horrible and
the DNS DNS misconfigurations. And then as I'm setting
everything up with you, I plug in my midi controller, my little
portable nano cord control two and it seems to be sending rogue
commands, which was screwing up everything up they would buttons
would fire and things would you know would play but you wouldn't
hear him. Anyway anyway. I'm here in Amsterdam.
I'm glad Yeah.
And we, we arrived. Tuesday, Tuesday the mid afternoon. We
went straight kind of into the pre festivities the evening.
Kings night I think they call it four kings day which was
yesterday on Wednesday. And it was pretty
kings night the night before the night before they they have
parties until three in the morning just people Oh,
it doesn't it normally doesn't stop the three in the morning.
They kind of get started around two so three is just you know
you're just getting started.
Celebration celebration, but it was raining
and of course the whole country has the day off has Kings Day
off on Wednesday. But it was raining and there was wind and
Tina and I we exactly so we so we walked around Yeah, people
were kind of slow to start just wasn't much happening outside
although I will say that houseboat has a so you pretty
much you live on under decks and above deck half of this deck is
an actual deck with chairs and a table a little barbecue which is
cute. The other half is kind of like a big you know just a cabin
built around half of the ship and the kitchen is on one end
but it's all glass all windows and it's really fancy John
because it has these windows double glazed windows and it has
a blind inside the window itself motorized. Have you ever seen
this prompt? Oh, I
have Yes. Those are used I think a lot of those used to be used
in strip clubs. Got a deal.
So you can press the button and then they all change it's you
can set it just so that people can't really see you but you can
see them. And of course the waterside you want to see as
much as possible? Yeah, you'd be sitting here and maybe we're
eating something in the kitchen and you look out and there's a
guy just walks up drunk you know pices right against the boat
right at the window. It is
it's really disgusting. Really bad.
So get run out and since then yelled at him.
No, no, I didn't say I didn't think it was a good idea. No,
no, I take this.
I'm sorry. You can really tell the country is just kind of in
this waiting room depression like state. And there's all
kinds of Yeah, it is noticeable. When you have a King's Day
celebration, people are really just happy now the weather was
not cooperating. So, yeah. People were less happy than they
may have been. But everybody has the day off. We're looking at
all the boats and usually these boats that are these diesel kind
of, kind of sloops, if you will. And they're anywhere from 20 to
50 people on each one day and everyone standing everyone has
their own DJ on board pounding music. It's it's, it's, it's
crazy. It's very much like the Gay Pride canal day.
But you can see Gay Pride canal day.
Yeah, you know, the Gay Pride Day here in Amsterdam, with all
the colorful boats that are canals. We've talked, I was here
one year, we did the show, when when it was I would I was on the
boat with Christina. While B 12. You can you could see the people
were dance and I felt it was noticeable. I really felt that
typically there were people be much more happy and really
waving and the way I'm sure the weather didn't help and it was a
little bit cold. But the amount of alcohol they consume on these
boats, they don't feel any any cold anyway, but they just kind
of I don't know, I felt it all day yesterday, although it was
nice. You know, it's like one big flea market. Everybody can
sell their stuff. I saw a lot more. All right. Well, here's I
saw differences with previous years and I've I've witnessed
this, you know, ever since I was eight years old, I think it was
much more toys that kids were selling instead of books. And
you know, I remember there were just decades of old radios and
vinyl record players that none of that is there anymore. It's
just it's just like plastic toys if you walked by just a blobs of
plastic shit. You know what I mean? And it's like it's the
moment that I don't mean these kids don't have anything anymore
i don't know maybe it's just on the iPhone. I'm not sure and
then services services massage shine your shoes services that's
not typical for it for Kings Day Not that I recall. You know some
other nice services to you know a euro to go pee and get a joint
for a Euro that's not bad. It's a pretty good deal P and get a
joint Yeah, it's I can't really put my finger on it. But I can
of course that was really yesterday and so now we've been
kind of through normal life and I'm coming it's coming to the
things are coming back to normal I can gotta get a kind of get a
vibe for it. But no, I don't know. It's it doesn't feel
newspapers this morning. Very interesting to see that you have
this the one populace newspaper, The Telegraph. And one could say
that the royal family has a lot of influence on that paper. So
they're kind of the number one in circulation. They've got
pictures of the royal family. And of course, we all liked the
king and his hot queen. You know, the Argentinian hottie
AM's a beautiful family and we you know, we don't really care
that everyone thinks they're all symbolic, have no power fine.
And in the opposing newspaper, the folks crowned which would be
your socialist leftist newspaper. I don't think there
was one picture of Kings Day or the royal family. The front page
was Donald Trump with a picture of him It just made him look
like he was death warmed over with his neck all stretching one
of those just shitty pictures. And the headline was Trump wants
to go back to isolationism. Like Yeah, I heard his I heard his
policy speech. I did that wasn't my takeaway are you even here
Oh, God, hello. Oh, can you hear me?
I can hear you fine. You sound good. Okay, I
couldn't hear you and get ready to jump in and continue. They
had nothing of Kings Day. They had a big picture of Trump on
the front page where it looked like death warmed over like with
like,
like the like one of those fantastic photos. This was
like with a neck all stretched out. And you can see blotchy and
splotchy in his hairline. Oh, it's just oh man was on the
front page big and it said Trump wants to go back to
isolationism. And I saw Trump's speech on foreign policy I did
that was not my takeaway.
That was nobody's takeaway was
the Dutch leftist socialist newspaper. And in fact, hold on
a second. I have a I have from what is the EURO NEWS? I have it
here somewhere. A little overview of exactly how the Euro
with the European takeaway here it is. It's very, very similar.
Donald Trump has set out his plans for foreign policy if he
becomes the next president of the United States, fresh from a
winning sweep of five Northeastern primaries, the
Republican presidential hopefuls expanded on proposals that have
worried experts with a lack of detail for the opportunity. He
will, He says put America first.
My foreign policy will always put the interests of the
American people and American security above all less, has to
be first has to be that will be the foundation of every single
decision that I will make called or
Trump delivered a withering critique of Barack Obama's
international record describing it as leaving a legacy of
weakness, confusion and disarray.
We went from mistakes in Iraq, to Egypt to Libya, to President
Obama's line in the sand and Syria. Each of these actions
have helped to throw the region into chaos and gave isis the
space it needs to grow and prosper very bad.
Despite the anti Muslim tone of his campaign to date, Trump
pledged to work closely with US allies in the Middle East to
combat extremism from groups like ISIL. He also promised to
improve relations with Russia and with China.
So that's pretty much what everyone was saying over here.
That was about it. America first Trump's gonna take America back
America first America first. I'm sorry.
Well, I said you brought it up. I do have three clips that I
want to play. Okay. And one of them involves the game spot the
spook.
Oh, our favorite. We still do not have a jingle for that.
Unfortunately. Jingle for maybe we do. I don't think
what is your medley melody, spot this spot.
Everybody wants to spot the spook. Okay.
Is there an actual clip called Spot the spook?
No, no, too bad. But there's this character. I didn't really
saw him before he's been on he kind of shows up. He's an ex
ambassador. You should look him up and tell me if he looks like
a spook. guy's name is Nicholas burns. Nicholas. Nicholas burns
and he has been he's got a number of earmarks. And I'm
starting to think that we should make a checklist for spot this
book.
Well, what do we know about his background? We have to start
first with Did he go to Georgetown? Hold on I am going
there. But of course not gonna go there. Because no, no, I'd be
glad if I can go there and keep the connection going today.
There is a NICHOLAS BURNS actor now. How coincidental is that?
Yeah, I said, Right. Is it always always good when you
start off that way? Okay. Oh, so far, he cannot connect to the
server really? Okay, here we go. Professor, columnist, lecture
form American diplomat. See party Studies, Professor
practice of diplomacy, international politics at
Harvard's JF Kennedy School of Government. Educators like went
Oh, Wellesley High School. Yes, Wellesley. That's what Don's
kids went to study abroad in Luxembourg. American Field
Service program graduated Boston College. John Hopkins, he
spreekt speaks French, Arabic, Greek and English. I think we
have a winner.
But there's a new little checklist things that I've
picked up with him. He hates Trump. And we've, I think, and I
wanted to say this to the audience, because our donations
have been very poor. And today was one of the worst now and and
I think some of it has to do with what look what appears to
be us supporting Trump. We're not supporting anybody.
Do you really think that's why it is you think that's it?
I think it's part of it. Because we you know, there's ways around
here.
But let's just say listen to what you said with us supporting
Trump. We don't support Trump. That's why I said Yeah, but
that's not that's not what you could be interpreted
differently. You said with us supporting Trump?
No, I said they think we're supporting Trump. Okay, because
we are interpreting we're taking news stories that happened to be
against Trump and then we're
thinking, Well, I'd rather be poor than be
rather be right than our right to be poor and right. Nevermind,
yeah, whatever. Let's start with this character who can and this
summer and one of the things I like to do, I'm trying to figure
out still and it's gonna take me a little while because they're
starting to jockey for position. The various networks CBS, ABC,
NBC, PBS, all these groups, they're supporting one candidate
or another and they can't really bring themselves at this point
to support either candidate because they're both douchebags
and have
you noticed how you recall that we talked about Trump's new
campaign One guy coming in, say, Oh, he's going to change his
tune and everybody writes Trump's Trump's gonna change his
tune. And now it seems like they're all kind of a little pro
Trump and against Cruz.
But there's a lot of there's a, I think there's some of that
there's, there's a lot of people that have switched all of a
sudden, and it's as though they they're seeing the writing on
the wall. And so they want to get on the right, you know, the
right, the right train, right to success. But there's certain
groups that are dead set against them, or they want to Hillary,
because that's going to be your your choices, because Hillary is
an international globalist. Yes, of course. And the CIA, I'm now
convinced with will assume that this guy, the CIA is all against
Trump. They're all in for Hillary because Hillary is still
an internationalist. She's got, you know, she's got a clue she's
been read in, I guess, they don't know. A lot of people I
guess they don't care that the Clinton Foundation somehow is
collected $500 billion off the back of Haitians and others. And
there's almost a you know, a 500 million and they're you know,
the the to some are becoming billionaires almost and that way
I see it as they look at it as peanuts letters scam Get our
little scam going.
I think you're right. I think you're right. And then the
problem with Trump is he's he's kicking against very, very holy
homes and houses, then it's angering a lot of a lot of
elites. They don't like it at all
will lead is the is a Trump supporter who and he's, he's
absolutely well spoken very. And I think he's one of his
informants No, not
at all advisors. Is it? Well, maybe it's the same thing and
format advisor
they would he was going off against his NICHOLAS BURNS guy,
and then and I've seen burns before and he just looks spooky
to me. And he's got all the earmarks. But I've done I found
a couple of assuming that he is. And he's just a plant because
the CIA hates Trump and they don't want some guy in who's
going to mess up whatever's going on out there that we don't
know about because he's an idiot as far as they're concerned.
They brought this guy on to Deacon and I want to play his
two of his comments. And then I want there's a little lead in
here but not too much. And I want to jump to the German
analysis, which from I got from Deutsche Ravel and it just
contradicts everything this guy says. Let's start with this
terrorism
expert who advises the Trump campaign.
And Ambassador Oh, he's a terrorism expert. Okay, that's
good. NICHOLAS BURNS. Well, he's been a top foreign policy
adviser and diplomat for both Republican and Democratic
presidents. He's currently a visiting fellow at the Hoover
Institution at Stanford University. And we welcome both
of you. Back to the program. Ambassador Burns to you first we
heard Donald Trump call the current American foreign policy
a complete and total disaster. What was your overall reaction
to the speech?
Judy, I thought it was a very revealing speech about Donald
Trump and frankly, as a citizen and voter, I think that it
revealed that he's he doesn't have the qualities to be a
commander in chief and our top diplomat, if you think about the
speech today, it betrayed I think, a lack of in depth
knowledge, a lack of sophistication and nuance about
the very complex world that we face, and a lack of humility,
about the restraint that America sometimes has to apply in the
world. Those were the qualities in my mind that our best
Republican presidents of the last 50 years had Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, you saw very
little that balance and restraint today. Instead, what
Mr. Trump did today was he casts a series of ultimatums and
threats, mainly against our allies against NATO and against
Japan, South Korea, he was very soft. On Russia. I thought it
was a very unwise speech,
Walid Ferry's a lack of knowledge and a lack of
humility.
I would know fine on the lack of humility, because that would be
basically the position of his critics. That's what how they
perceive him would look at Mr. Trump's new policy that he's
proposing that it is something new, his critics usually try to
put him in a box.
That's very interesting. I will Okay, go ahead and give me your
analysis. And I want to come back to what I saw on the face
back about this.
Okay. It's a couple of things with this guy with a Nicholas
guy, the other guy is making a point that this is a this is
going to be a pivot, and in foreign policy, if Trump gets
elected, and that's not a big deal, it's just a pivot. And so
why are you getting so bent out of shape? But although he was
insulting, saying the last 2030 years is all been a failure,
which I don't know. I haven't seen any super successes.
In fact, even Hillary is saying that though Obama didn't do a
good job. Yeah, yeah,
nobody's done a good job. But here's the kicker. Here's what I
listened when I listened when you listen carefully to this
guy, and if you're going to think that he's a CIA guy, and
that's what we're gonna assume. Yeah, because of his background.
And if you look at him, he's got that
little and he's out on the hit job. This is just a verbal
hit, is a verbal hit. When he mentioned the list He ran
through the list of Republicans all these old all the
Republicans in any names, eyes and how our H W because he web
hero amongst these guys. Reagan he goes into this all ages, all
the Republican presidents that kind of a row leaving
specifically leaving out Nixon. Oh, now if you remember family
of secrets,
yes, Ross Baker's novel on the agenda. Fantastic book, he
mentioned that the CIA in Nixon was going to
I'm sorry, it wasn't a novel.
Novel, I'm sorry.
Anyway, he, Nixon was going to bust up the CIA was notorious
for this. And they went after him by setting up and with his
help, because he wasn't the brightest guy about the
Watergate thing. And it's a very interesting section of the book.
And so the so this guy being at operative, let's say, he leads
to specifically leaves out Nixon who was with with Kissinger, in
fact, probably the most effective president we've ever
had for foreign policy. He's the one who opened up China, I'd say
exactly. And he specifically leaves him out of this list.
Well, I'm
sorry.
I'm sorry. I just think this is like, kind of, to me a giveaway.
And he does another one. In the next the second half. He also
talked a little bit more after this. And then while he came
back, and they just cut this all out, and I just want to play the
this the last part of his discussion, this is part two.
Well, I think it's naive to think that you can sit down with
Vladimir Putin and negotiate the future of Europe, President
Obama had and President Bush before him dealt with Putin from
a position of strength. We now have sanctions against Putin
because he crossed the brightest red line in international
politics. He invaded another country and took over its
territory. There was nothing in the speech about that. Oh, what
country?
Does he mean Ukraine?
I have no idea what he's talking he says
be invade another country in Crimea. Right. But okay, but
that was a vote. Yes. Thank you. That was an annexation, or Yeah,
it was a vote. He says they didn't
even send it isn't marching through tanks and troops across
the border.
No. And at best, it was troops, rebels, consultants, advisors,
were supported by
Russia. You see, remember the Crimea thing was based on this
vote they set up this vote may have been a phony vote, but
everybody that lived in Crimea were Russian. So the vote was a
no brainer. But
But now this is, but this lie the way he's framing it isn't
just not truthful. Like this is bullcrap. He's just he's framing
it. And therefore Donald Trump's can handle Putin.
We're talking over each other. Um, so what is Judy and Waleed
say to the guy about his nothing, no,
of course, international politics, he invaded another
country and took over its territory. There was nothing in
the speech about that. There was very little in the speech about
Chinese assertiveness in East Asia. And I think, Judy, the
thing that bothered me the most about this speech, the lack of
humility, Donald Trump castigated 35 years of American
foreign policy that includes George HW Bush, it includes Bill
Clinton, George W. Bush, we've had a number of successes over
the last 35 years, some failures too. But to say that we have an
entirely we've been entirely unsuccessful for three decades
is simply untrue. And I think it really means to me that he's out
campaigning, and he doesn't really have an in depth sense of
how the world works. And we need to have that confidence in a
commander in chief and Hillary Clinton has those qualities, but
he nearly
missed. Oh, man, this is insane.
And why is
it? Well, a couple of things I took away from this one is the
Putin thing is very much to the forefront calorie, even though
she did the uranium deal, which nobody has brought up yet when
we're talking about in the show sometimes.
We certainly had it in the show notes and we I think we've
mentioned at once,
but this Putin thing is part of the problem with Putin is that
he's not signed on with the end it just sounds a little nutty,
but he's has not signed on with the New World Order. He's not a
globalist in that sense. He's not the guy who's gonna be like
working with this, whatever this one world government is. And I
know that sounds nutty, but but that's the real thing going on
with Putin because there is a distinct movement. I mean, you
see it with the with the Brexit and all the rest of it, and then
the way the Brexit is gonna lose, they're just gonna read
the election, there is a movement to take over
everything.
Well, hold on, kind of kind of just jump in here with a short
little clip about the Brexit because, of course, it's a
there's a lot. A lot more news about it here. I've been paying
as much attention as possible. This PR move about the Brexit.
Do you see what they brought in the OECD the European Economic
With the guys who always do all the numbers on everything and
advise on all this, what are the OECD? What do they do again?
Hold on a second book of knowledge. What is the OECD?
It's really not my day.
The book of knowledge, book of knowledge is down on.
OECD Wikipedia. It's not working.
Yeah, well, I'm actually stunned that you would bring that piece
of crap with you. It's heavy.
Let me try it one more time. Hold on. book of knowledge. O E
C D wiki pedia. Alright, that's it.
It needs to be rebooted. You have to unplug it in
the dustbin. Yeah, I might have to just jiggle the handle. Here
is the here's the latest PR stunt with the Brexit. It
completely intended to scare the citizens of the gizmo nation
east into voting against leaving the European Union it will
cost the average British household the equivalent to a
month's salary of around 2800 Euros by 2020. If they vote to
leave the European Union in a June referendum, that's just the
headline. That's the warning from the West's leading
economics think tanks, the Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development. That's what I was talking about.
It was made by its chief and Gail Gulia. At a lecture in
London, Richard would
rather like a tax hit the well being in the pockets of UK
citizens. Unlike most taxes, however, this one will not
finance the provision of public services or close the fiscal
gap. The Brexit tax will be a pure deadweight loss.
Bam, the Brexit tax. Oh, man,
these guys are good. That's a good one. The Brexit tax. So now
I understand that the Netherlands wants to do that. Do
it or at referendum on Brexit or not? That'd be a next one
on an exit via a duck Adex it could do decks it ducks it.
Ned's it neg exit and exit probably good. Yeah, of course.
Okay, let me finish this little segment with this is Deutsche
velas Foreign Affairs guy who's in Washington DC. On the
Deutsche velas Foreign Affairs guy kind of analysis analyzing
the exact same speech that this this guy had Nicolas Yeah, just
tore apart as best he could, even though it was pretty lame
with some lies thrown in.
Alright, let's pull in our Washington bureau chief meow
drugs origin and he watched that speech today and me I mean, I
have to ask you, what are what are your first impressions? When
you hear Donald Trump talk about the world and how he sees it? Or
am
I my impression was, let's put it that way. My expectation was
very low. Donald Trump talking about foreign policy. You know,
I thought about the wall that he wants to build along the the
border to Mexico, some expectation was very low. But
when I heard him talking today, just a couple of blocks from
here from our studio in Washington downtown. Hey,
is this guy ditch by any chance? I have no idea. It sounds a bit
bit on the Dutch side of town
for learning English, Dutch guy.
I must say he has a plan. He has a vision you and I may disagree
or agree with him. But there is a plan. And bottom line is
America's interest first so that means no more interventionism.
Allah Clinton normal interventionism Allah Bush, no
more waste of taxpayers money. And we're talking here about
Chile,
I guess, because I didn't actually hear Trump say that per
se. I heard him say, we're happy to protect you, but you have to
pay us for it. That's what I heard. I didn't think that
was the I think that was the main thing. But I'm thinking
that and he talks a little bit about that. But I think these
guys this is all interpretive. I mean, you can just play Trump's
speech and take it Yeah, it is. Yeah, exactly. But I'm just
saying Here we had the one guy Nicolas interpret is is a naive,
lacking humility, blah, blah, blah, right. Yeah, agree that
I'm not I don't care where they're pulling from it.
The contrast is, is understanding we're talking
here about trillions of dollars for foreign wars that America
and its allies cannot win. So what one of the highlights was,
I think that at the tail adversaries can become friends.
And I think he was thinking about meaning probably Russia,
saying, you know, now we are not the best friends, but this may
change in the future. So he's trying to reach out to Mr. Putin
and I think that's a good thing to do.
No, there you go. Clearly Germany's the
guy. I think it's a Good thing to do. Why should we have these
guys who are loaded to the gills with with arms you know making
trouble for us and we can we've worked with them before.
Well we've seen President Obama also go on tour and say to
remember when he was on his way was it South America and said
hey, hey, hey, no was in Vienna or something? Did you Oh, you
got to pony up you always money
Yeah, he did the same thing but no, but no one listened to him.
Well, nobody bothered to bring out the heavy hitters and start
to condemn him on PBSs for sure right right. Anyway, I just
thought that I didn't you know the speech was I thought I
didn't like it I didn't like him reading I don't think his
reading skills are very good because he doesn't do it that
much. So he's reading off of a prompter because he made a big
scene of all prompt are right and like you know for that and
I thought I didn't think he was that bad on the prompter. I just
couldn't stand it. Well, it was just it was so obvious. He was
on the prompter I've been to have Oh, lately different guy
Onyx style and it was like the energy and it was just Yeah, it
was
a completely different guide had zero energy and the why don't
know who is who chose the room. What the hell was up with the
room? Well,
this is this is another thing the room was obviously not if
he'd given the same presentation in front of his normal audience,
they would have been going crazy. They would have been
going crazy, but they put it in fact, I think they were worried
that they're gonna have too many protesters. And because that's
become a huge problem. This guy's just gonna have to disrupt
them. There's like eight people were there like Oh, yeah.
Maurice clapping a test a tepid applause
very lame. Yeah.
I did pick up a few other things. I thought were just
funny. That maybe it may be more stuff that's playing over here
that that yeah, that's just getting attention. This has
probably been played to death. This Trump about case six
eating. Did you see this?
I saw it. I didn't clip it. It was very funny. It's actually so
visual. I didn't think it was a clippable. But, but it probably
is funnier than not you have a copy. I
do. It's been it's playing over here. That's why it caught it.
And I wasn't going to do it either. But I just kept laughing
at the end because he sounds like money. He's using words
that I've used to my towards my kid. And he's saying it like a
father and it's funny. But at the same time if you look at the
pictures of Kasich eating he's right. And you know me I have I
have problems with the way people I have problems with the
way people hold the utensils like you you hold your fork or
incorrectly I will hold it incorrectly. You do you do not
hold it the correct way as according to Emily Post,
and I don't eat with my fork upside down with using my left
hand either. No.
American, I'm a switcher and I have one hand on my lap. When
I'm
eating. Ah, if you were in France, you'd be considered to
be a masturbator. Well, that both hands hold on the tape.
What do
you think I'm doing?
Some problems.
Here's a here's Trump.
Now you look at Kasich. I don't think he knows what to do. Sam.
He has a news conference all the time when he's eating. I have
never seen a human being eat in such a disgusting fashion. I'm
always telling my young son Baron, I'm saying and I always
with my kids, all of them. I'd say children small little bites.
This guy takes a pancake and he shoving in his mouth is
disgusting. Do you want that for your president? I don't think
so. I don't think so. It's just honestly, it's disgusting. I'm
not getting out. I don't care. I don't care. He's eating today
stuffing and I never saw bites this season pushing it in with
his I never saw a guy like this. I told my son he was watching he
said Daddy, look. I said don't watch. Tony,
couple of things. When k six and this all began when Kasich was
doing New York and went to Katz's Deli. Yeah, so it's as
though he's never eaten before, or had any good food or whatever
they serve up in Ohio, I guess is bland. Because Kansas has a
lot, right. So he's drinking a soup and eaten is huge. One of
those pastrami sandwiches is going nuts. I said, This is
crazy. And then he wouldn't even take questions because he had
his mouth full of food. And so I guess this is continued or
gardens. I guess. The news media finally caught on to it. And it
was, yeah, but I'm surprised somebody hasn't gone back and
found those clips of Trump eating pizza with a knife and a
fork.
Now that wasn't Trump. That was cases where that was Kasich as
well.
I was just go back talking about before the election like maybe.
I don't know. But you know, he reminds me of you know who eats
like Kasich when I see the pictures and the video. Tina
Turner eats like that Tina Turner
live wouldn't know who would know this
well, okay. I once had went out with it. Yes, I had dinner with
Tina Turner. It was this was back in my in my countdown days
at Veronica television. And I'm sure I've told this story before
on the show doesn't matter. At the time one of the big record
retailers and it was still Records was free. The free
record shop a guy named Hans Budo Cova married to this kind
of semi porno kind of like, the kind of like a Patricia only
porno. Wow, that's it. There you go. That helpful. News. Is that
helpful. And somebody so because he was the most important
retailer when Tina Turner came to that she was performing and
she was also on my show, and I was interviewing her but then
they had this this dinner and it was a late afternoon lunch at
this very exclusive club. And that he had rented out he gave
her a big platinum record. And this you want to talk about guys
who thought like the ditch, right? But he this is how he
presented. This is how he presented this award. Yes,
ladies, gentlemen, it's very good to be here. Especially that
very huge welcome to our our guest of honor tiny Turner, tiny
Turner very nice to have you. And we're all just like, like
mortified. I'm rigid in shock and but she plays it off and it
was okay. Then I'm at her table and I'm across from her. This is
then I think one of her like manager to her manager and one
or two other people. And and the chicken comes out and she and
she's not. Hello, I'm Tina Turner. What am I going to do
for you in this did Madmax? No, all of a sudden, she's Annie Mae
Bullock. With both hands. It was unbelievable. Shock is shocking.
And when I see Kasich, Tina Turner are tiny Turner. That's
what Yeah, another Adam curry story that will one day be in my
book.
Yeah, sounds like a good one. I remember the the only eating
story I have, that's the borderlines that is that when I
was a student at Cal, there's a really good cafeteria there and
I would eat there commonly. And this is not as bad it can't be
as bad as it is now with the Asian population of the
university being at least 50% or close to it. But they had most
of these that there was a lot of Asians in the engineering
schools and Chinese mostly, and they were shipped over for you
know, somehow they got into the company at the time as hard
shipped over for packaging.
They were shipped over for us and they were they were Chinese
they were not you know American Chinese or Chinese nationals and
they had different eating habits than the American Chinese would.
And one of the things was and I've always attributed this to
the to the and I've heard this from other cultures the
representatives of other cultures say well that's it
makes the food taste better. Especially when the food is
bland these Chinese because you'd never sit around them
because they just they ate with the with their mouth full and
the food was flying every which way. So they take a big they're
very
nasty eaters the Chinese in general
and just general gardener Wow. And the food was going out of
their mouth and they slurp that
makes me want to throw it
right you would always see a Chinese kid sitting there across
from the yuan's what are the tables and you would always go
someplace else. Yeah,
it was just isn't that isn't that interesting though? How our
cultures are so different, but it can actually create like an
anti peristaltic motion of you wanting to vomit when you hear
someone eat like that. That's bizarre and a wonderful thing
and I'd like to know from our from our Asian listeners, do
they have the opposite when you see some American slobs scarfing
down a you know a non food containing product like a
hamburger a Big Mac or what do
you think when you see some upper crushed brick you know
take the Milky Way bar and cut it into pieces with a knife
of the this has been really fun with Tina sounds like okay first
thing we have to do we have to have overages she's like Paul
for chose Yeah, okay. Um, debt and profit is the little Dutch
pancakes you ever had. Those are about the size of a half dollar.
Yeah, they're little smaller like we Yeah, yeah. in that
column here
but it didn't know this is a Dutch thing is portraitures. And
they have a special me I've been doing it for 500 years. And then
they would platters sugar and everything. And then I say oh,
and now you have to have some bitter Bulla you've had better
Bala, John bit Bala. No, I don't know what bit of barley. It's
like the croquettes you know the cricket. You know the thing you
pull out of the
wall you know, I may have had these things with over
there needs a deep fried croquette and essential okay
with a calf Ragu.
So as essentially a churro I don't
know if it's a CH I don't have any I've never had a cero No.
Now it's I think it's, well you open it up and then you know,
then it's the texture is not really great. It's kind of a
tween snot and sperm. It's really not good. But it tastes
fantastic. But it's been fun to torture her. And I said, look at
the kind of took out this. Look at the raw herring here we get
with raw Herring with onions. And I can see so it's just it's
interesting just how culture
can be hearing thing bothers me too. So I'm done. Denmark, of
course, is where you get the best experience with this?
Because I don't have I probably have a hearing net but yes, yes,
I have a hearing bias. Now the hearing that Americans tend to
prefer is pickled herring in various forms, which is very
edible and tasty and has just fantastic product. They sell it
at Costco the hearings that they have back there is usually oil
based. And so it's this horrible oily product with the hearing
flavor infused in the oil and it's slimy. What are you talking
about? What
hair who's carrying on you're talking about the Danish hair?
Oh the Danish Yes. Okay.
The matches is Ma T J Yes or something?
How can they put their happiest people on earth?
I don't see that they are but they know they seem to love this
herring and I know that duchy does herring in those that I saw
some Dutch pollen page where you were how they hold the herring
up in the air
that's what I do by the tail and then you you slaughtered through
the onions and and of course it's not completely rods been
installed yet you build
and you clap like a seal afterwards and but I will for
you
know what's weird? I don't know if it's the motion of the boat
or the weed. That is all we've had the weed. Although we I
don't know if the motion of the vote of the
weed. Probably a combination. All right. So you eat the
herring that way. Which is an I'm talking about disgusting.
I'm gonna
teach Tina how to do it. I think she can do it.
She probably can do it. And I think anyone can do it is
whether she wants to or not. Of course, is did this official has
his head on right?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, you chop the head off.
It's been no, it's been chopped and it's been gutted. It's it's
it's just that it's not halved, all the way just sliced open. So
it's, it's clean. It's clean. Alright, I will take a video
we'll take a video of me doing it. Okay, how about that? We
need to move on. Yeah, I didn't know what we were talking about
until we got to food.
The way people eat Trump off through criticizing Kasich
through Tina Turner, my goodness from Tina Turner to
called the shaggy dog sorry.
Raw herring. Yeah, thank you. Well, then let me let me pull
one out quick.
You want to punch line? Yeah, punch line.
Okay. punch line. Didn't remember we had the new woman
Sanders. She's on TV all the time. Nomi const. No, Miki, no
Mickey username, no, Mickey. Mickey const. So she's arguing
it's not so much about the argument. But she comes with
this gem which I knew nothing. Well, of course, we know about
this for we've known about this for years about the Hillary camp
and what she does, certainly when she was in government
office, but I hadn't heard about this.
Okay, with Dawson's comments.
I don't think there's any sort of secret agenda here. I think
that Bernie Sanders is very focused on campaigning, and he's
not always there for every speech. Now listen, I know
Rosario, and she's one of the most dedicated intelligent
surrogates
is some some surrogate who talked about Monica Lewinsky,
it's not important. What comes next is
activist and Hollywood out there. She understands the
issues, the policies in depth, but she understands the
mechanics of Washington. She's the founder of Voto Latino, and
organization,
why don't you bring up Monica Lewinsky?
I'll explain that to you. So correct the record which is an
organization that supports Hillary Clinton in correcting
the record on Hillary Clinton just put a million dollars more
into and they published this on their website, they put a
million dollars into to buying internet trolls to attack Bernie
Sanders supporters. I've been getting them. This is
outrageous. They're trying to create their own propaganda
campaign right now to take down Bernie Sanders supporters
online. The press release this yahoo.com has written about
this, The Daily Beast has written about this. This is what
this campaign has come to. They're trying to shame Bernie
Sanders supporters into supporting Hillary Clinton.
And this is what we've been seeing John, we've been seeing
these these emails is messaging. Like Bernie's numbers don't add
up.
The memes sorry, the memes Yeah,
the memes, but now we Know that this correct the record.org.
Org, I think it's correct record.org We of course have a
private who is registration. If you go to the website and pretty
much all it has is just, we're here to correct the record on
everything wrong about Hillary. And it's entirely her operation.
It's the technical experts baby. Remember them the techno
experts?
Oh, yeah. Here play this clip this. This is my only Sanders
clip. This is Sanders says.
Sanders rejected the notion that he's helping Republicans by
continuing to criticize his party's likely nominee.
They don't need my speeches. To talk about Hillary Clinton. They
will go after Hillary Clinton, by the way, in ways that I have
never, ever gone after Hillary Clinton.
No one did this true. Yeah, the lowly Hello. Oh, my second, I
have a whole bunch. This is this is Hillary Clinton's technofix,
which was this. Our next question comes from our foresee
feed at USA door. Oh, that's when they were all sitting
together. And that's an oldie. That's from 2012. Man, this is
Victoria Nuland.
On the support dating back. I think it's almost two years.
That's one
of those long clips. I think we I think we have a mix. I'll just
play the mix at the end. Let me see if this is it. Hold on.
Oh, yeah. This is the techno experts.
In the show, perfect. forgotten all about the technical experts.
Yeah, the technical experts. That's fantastic. So she's,
she's got them all back. And, and we're well, it's
the beginning of that Bernie clip. Yeah. That was part of
this smear campaign. Let's just
listen to Sanders rejected the notion that he's helping
Republicans by continuing to criticize his party's likely
nominee. They don't need
to hear this part.
He can talk about Hillary Clinton. They will go after
Hillary Clinton, by the way, in ways that I have never, ever
gone after Hillary Clinton. Yeah,
it's the beginning part where she says they that Bernie is
being accused of this and that that accusation comes from this
group. That what you gotta get out Bernie, because you're hurt.
You're ruining hell. Yes. Chance.
Yes. Yeah. I wonder if this. Okay, we need to figure I mean,
we need to find out who some of these people are. It's it's
homeless. I think it's correct. record.org. Let me just check.
Correct? Yeah, correct. record.org. And then, so it has
a complete guide to the Benghazi Select Committee, blah, blah,
blah. But about, I think the whole about page only says, see
what's coming up here. Yeah. Correct. The record is a
strategic research and rapid response team designed to defend
Hillary Clinton from baseless attacks. And that's it.
But that's just not true. They're designed to protect
Hillary against all attacks. When most attacks aren't
baseless.
Well, it's only it's only partially true. It's only
partially true, but it doesn't matter whether it's true or not.
Apparently, she gave him a million bucks.
And it's money well spent. Yeah,
exactly. So I mean, I agree. I think that is that is the way
you that's where you have to play and I mean, if you're gonna
play hard, you got to play this and the Clintons are very good
at this. Very good. Very, very good to there was a it was kind
of fun to watch the townhall that she did with Rachel Maddow,
MSNBC. And you know, these things are so highly scripted,
that when someone yelled out a question, of course, it didn't
have the microphone. The I, I have a feeling it was a question
that MSNBC perhaps had scrapped, or they wanted it phrased
differently. But Hillary certainly wanted it. And this
was, this may even been the impetus or the the genesis of
the of Trump responding to the woman's card. But it's also fun
if you just listen very carefully how Rachel Maddow kind
of says, Oh, this is not our format or something or just off
the off topic or off for I don't know, it was, it was well
handled by her well handled by Hillary, which makes me think
that this was a question MSNBC next didn't want it got out
there. Anyway, Canada
has a new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised when he took
office that he would have a cabinet that was 50% women,
right. And then he did it. He made good on his promise.
And I'm cool with that. But, Ben, is that the criteria? Isn't
that exactly what the complaint is? That you're just saying I'm
making it 50% Whether they're the people are the best people
or not, isn't that the And then a valid complaint if someone
says, it seems
like it seems, right, I agree with you. It's just bullcrap.
I just I just find it hard to hard to understand how you'd
you'd
rather have the best people you can find. And if you can find as
many women as possible, that would be good.
Yeah, just so you can have 90% Women for all I care. I don't
care. It could be all women. There's plenty. In fact, in
fact, I think I think really the way I feel about this, these
kinds of statements, if if true, sexist, thank you. Well, worse.
It's anti women. If Justin Trudeau says, I'm going to make
half of my by my cabinet, women, to me, that doesn't sound like
he's giving them an opportunity. To me it sounds like he just
limited them to 50%
Oh, that's a good Yeah.
Am I crazy? Am I crazy? Or maybe I'm Oh, no, I'm more of a more
pro woman maybe than other people like women. Women, are
you pro women. And Hillary Clinton's gonna do exactly the
same. I promise you 50% women. Wow, what a gyp ladies.
Well, I am going to have a cabinet that looks like America
and 50% of America is women.
Oh, hold on, hold on. If it's gonna look like America, baby,
let's make sure we get to black, brown, red, yellow, Jew, gay,
lesbian, transgendered. Limiting this, this is limiting is very
sad for women. Right now,
this is outside of our format. But let me just rephrase the
question.
Oh, did you hear right. So this is outside of our forum? I'm
gonna rephrase the question now. I'm sure. So this was something
was going on here. Yeah. So the question is she she'll
let me just rephrase the question for y'all.
Let me let me roll it back a little further. Again, here. It
was so odd. It's the odd bit.
What did you say? Burke's right. Now, this is outside of our
format. But let me just rephrase the question for y'all. Let me
tell me, tell me if I get it right. Asking about women and
families in family detention and immigration protect against
that. Absolutely. I'm against that I've been against it for a
long time. I've said we should end family detention, we should
add private prisons and private detention centers. They are
wrong. We should add raids and round ups. And when I'm
president
raids and round ups versus taking place. I think within
immigration communities
are hit and raids and round ups. And when I'm President, we are
going to get comprehensive immigration reform with a path
to citizenship. So we will end all of these problems. And I've
done
want to say something else. We currently have a an immigration
system that has a path to citizenship, citizenship. But we
have this I've done it twice. There is it's not broken. I
don't know what the comprehensive reform will be and
the SAT but it's just everyone who says a path to citizenship
makes it sound like that some big benefit. Big deal. It's
already there. Five years green card, do your test. What color's
the White House, boom, pay your $400 and you got a green card or
marry somebody and it goes a little faster. There's a path to
citizenship. After that's actually the green card to your
I'm sorry, your green card to citizenship your actual you push
you're a resident and then you get after five years you become
a citizen. How would How is this a big thing? Do people not look?
Don't help me, John, I don't understand this.
You're just about everyone else's in this is all a
smokescreen.
But people are sitting there applauding it.
They're idiots blotting anything. I mean, they just love
Hillary these people. I am. Let's talk about Hillary's
concussion. I did have a note you put something
in the newsletter about Yeah, everything's going on. Yeah, I
also have tons of notes from from producers who have I'm just
gonna bring these up as well. Some of our producers whose
family members and it's a wide variety of theories about what
what she may have and what severity she may have. Well, one
of our nights our friend over in Oakland we have to Oakland or to
Ellen in it turns out to be one of them. And he is a optician.
And he didn't see anything peculiar about the glasses that
Hillary had on although if you read that link that was in the
newsletter, that's great. Link is probably the best. One of the
best things you can ever read if you want to read some conspiracy
stuff that's about Hillary being some really bad habits. She had
a stroke now and it was all outlined and they talked about
wearing these glasses that were front now lenses that she was
having. She was seeing a lot of double and this apparently just
A specific pair of glasses would fix that being just said he the
regret of the glasses, and he could even tell what the
diopters were by looking at her eyeball and the glasses. And I
guess you can just kind of tell if you've been looking at these
things long enough, and didn't think so much of the idea that
this other guy had had posited. But it's very interesting. And
the only thing I'd say to him about this is that I have been
watching Hillary since she was the president's wife. I've never
seen her wear glasses ever. And in fact, if you look up if you
do a Google search for Hillary and glasses, there's only these
specific pictures. Now Bing says that everyone who wears contact
lenses, they get tired of him for a while. Are they? Are they
fatigue the eyes? Are you. You gotta wear your glasses once in
a while. Yeah, I but he says, Yeah, I don't know. When I work
context. I can go without glasses. I don't. I don't know
what but I have not gotten rid of her vision problems, whatever
they are.
Why didn't Why don't you just tell us what's going on? I mean,
I've got here. It could be Ms. A big part.
In fact, here's a Clinton, Bill Clinton talks about what's going
on as far as he's concerned. Okay.
I got it. Depending on how you answer it has to do with health,
but it's about your wife's health. Karl Rove asked
yesterday raised the question over the weekend, I guess about
whether Hillary Clinton is well enough to run for president in
2016. And whether, in fact, she had suffered a brain injury Dr.
Rowe wants to know, as much as we do, whether that's true and
whether it will affect her decision making. Well,
first of all, I gotta give him credit, you know that, that
embodies that old saying that consistency is the hobgoblin of
little minds. First, they said she faked her concussion. And
now,
it's just this is always, always what they do. The Clintons
always do this, go into all the crazy theories first. It's a
very good trick. They're not afraid to laughingly talk about
all the crazy theories, instead of saying, well, people are
crazy. I didn't know, make all the theories, make them sound
crazier, and then come up with their answer.
And now she's auditioning for a part on The Walking Dead. You
know, whatever it takes, it's a look. She works out every week.
If he is strong, she's doing great. As far as I can tell,
she's in better shape than I am. She certainly seems to have more
stamina.
Yeah, hello, stop right there. What kind of self image does
Bill have? He it sounds like he's these like, I'm gonna I'll
just tossed us this big compliment toward her because
I'm actually much healthier than her. Did you hear that? This is
what you do. This is what husbands and wives do this
sometimes, especially in a public setting is much, much
better looking than me. Just like Obama says, I married up.
Michelle was a lot smarter. They really, it's really being
disingenuous, and he really thinks he's better than Hillary.
And I hear that. Did you hear that when he said that or not?
He's he. You're exactly right. Yeah, he does think he's better
than Hillary
will have shed so which means she's really sick out every
week. If he is strong, she's doing great. As far as like
abilities and better safe than I am. She certainly seems to have
more stamina now.
As far as I can see, she's certainly in better shape than I
am. This man is death on stilts. This is not a compliment.
You know, the funny thing when you watch him nowadays, he can't
seem to close his mouth. He talks he needs a drool cup. All
right. I never heard that
in better shape than I am. He certainly seems to have more
stamina now.
Because it was one of the meanest things you've ever said.
And I love it.
And there's nothing to it. I didn't even I was sort of
dumbfounded. They went to all this trouble to say that she had
stage what was a terrible concussion that required six
months of very serious work to get over but nothing forever to
low balled with the American people never tried to pretend it
didn't happen.
Hold on. Wow. They really take her six months was she gone? She
had
you ever heard this before? Ever heard this? Before? She he says
that he she hasn't tried to hide and she tells the American
public. I never I've never ever heard never heard it that she
was out for six months from a bump in her head. This isn't
this
is I mean, and that's. It sounds like she had a little little
aneurysm.
Well, this guy if you read that article, again, it was linked in
the newsletter. The guy mentioned that there are
actually the Twitter people have a lot have discussions about
this the most interesting one, according to one, some
publication is the right wing publication. So you kind of
question it, but it's and it's a little bit conspiratorial, but
and I'll have to get the name of it. But they claim that there
was a secret mission and of course this has not been
documented a secret mission the State Department had on a small
airplane to E Ron to get the get some this negotiations going on.
But the
the nuclear the spirit of this centrifuges?
Yeah, I think so. But they don't have any details. But they
apparently on the way back the plane had trouble and it crapped
it crashed. Small planes crashed. So it crashed, killing
a couple of at least one of her staffers who the guys named as a
was a military guy who was a guest, their chief bodyguard at
the time during this mission. And she cracked her head she had
a fracture, fractured her skull, and okay, that's why she was out
for six months and this other guy, they've been trying to
cover up, you know, his death because no one can really
explain
him. But why would they cover that up? I mean, wasn't they
were on a mission. They were trying to get something started
that
was a secret mission. It was off the books or something that it
may have been off the books. I don't know. Wow, nobody made it.
This is bullshit. This there's no proof of any of this. But
it's an interesting
and what's the, what's the name of the guy who said, you know,
wait a minute, I forgot. This actually stems from a report
from Debka
vs. Tina asked me what is Debka? And I said, What are you talking
about? Because I'm reading the news load Deb go. Isn't that the
there's not the Russian agent spy? What is that? Who was
Jewish? Oh,
it's an independent Israeli news agency. And that news agencies
spy spy independent spy agency. And they
do they have a blog or something?
They have a big website. Just type in. Hello. Hello.
This is Debka. I have some news for you. Really? I'm a blogger
from Debka
Hello, it's me. That's my Adele.
Your Adele is dynamite. Wow okay this this is no I want to hear
this last bit of bill now. Do you have a link for me? I didn't
get the link the Debka links I want to put that in the show and
I gave
a dad was I was just putting the Debka stuff in as an aside
because I want to look into it a little more. Especially the
death of this one guy who they've been one where they are
committed suicide is like no he didn't.
The chat room was not impressed with the Debka weblog. Whatever
they're running they should read it.
Okay hold on work to get over something she never low balled
with
low balled why was he just never low below but is that is that
even
trouble to say that she had stage what was a terrible
concussion that required six months of very serious work to
get over. Something she never low balled with the American
people never tried to pretend didn't happen. Now they say
she's really got brain damage. You think she does and I must be
in really tough shape because she's still quicker than I am.
Oh,
my God. Another slam at the end. Bill. Yeah, Bill. Everybody's
quicker than you are. Okay. It's really slow. Wow.
There's something screwy about this whole thing. Yeah. chatroom
Can you can take or leave Deb chi thought was kind of
bullshitting myself. But something is up with this story.
It doesn't it's not playing out correctly. Bill's dropping these
bombs like oh, she's she was down and out over a concussion
for six months. I mean, I liked it. There are people in American
football leagues or the NFL that get knocked out cold and when
they have a horrible to because they have to quit the league but
they're not out for six months.
Well they're also not 69 or 70 I mean the order when when that
happened she was what 66 I mean come over there and beat on your
head a bit and see i like it they didn't did Bill save the
mind did Bill say at the very end there did he still say she
has brain damage or said they say she has brain damage? I
won't listen back to chattering caught
something they went to all this trouble to say that she had
stage what was a terrible concussion that required six
months of very serious work to get over something she never low
balled with the American people never tried to pretend didn't
happen. Now they say she's really got brain damage. Does
and I must be
really they say okay, they say no big deal. No catch me oh, we
should do just because we had a little rocky start we had some
some issues with conductivity. But I feel right now like I
would preferably. Thank you for your courage and say in the
morning to you John. See you are the C stands for your cup of
drool Devora back
in the morning to you Adam curry in the morning to all ships at
sea boats on the ground feet in the air and sobs in the water
also the Dames and nights out there
in the morning everybody in the chat room hanging in there with
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I'm surprised we haven't gotten more black about the Zika money
the people should go back and listen to your breakdown of the
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I were downsizing 2015 to last year's Valentine's Day,
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There's got to be some gags you can do it that was so if the
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She's our last Associate Executive Producer. I've been
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Because I look forward to one day becoming sir Johnny OT. I
wonder what it stands for some Carmine.
Of course. We're getting some karma. Happy to do that. Anytime
you've got I just don't know. I don't know what the I'm not even
on the gag. Not even on the I'm not in on the game. I don't
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we missed over time. Maybe? Could be Could be. Could be.
Anyway. That's all we got for our Associate Executive
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whole this was a very low donation. Yeah. In fact, look at
even including the people that have donated $1
Which actually costs us money. Dollar cost us money.
Actually, I think we get about 50 cents of it
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I just want to know, it's what it is what it is, we made our
case. This is a value for value proposition. These people who
stepped up are executive producers and Associate
Executive producers for the program or actually, there's no
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executive Taylor was the associate now and there was a
negative and that's look all Shaw all all programming goes
through ups and downs is never easy for everybody. But it
depends on the crew you're working
with. So I think they're blaming us for No, I
like I'd like to point that instead of considering helping
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you. It's taken a lot of time away from me to to vote.org/in.
And even if you have nothing you can always be out there doing
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before we continue, you might have a read a couple of notes.
Sure. From the from our producers. Okay, is this one
new segment? Is this a new segment? That was
not John's notes. gonna read his email? No, the no agenda show?
No. That's my Dell. In the morning, John. I'm right. This
is from Craig, and I'll leave the last names out. Who knows?
I'm writing to you after my Euro trip with the report. When going
to Paris we got off on the train after going through the channel.
And we were inundated by refugee women that asked if we spoke
English. Oh the first time I said yes. Then she beamed and
shoved a paper and pen and said sign it. I refused walked on.
This happened countless times wherever we went wherever
whenever we went to a station or a tourist attraction. After the
third day this is one woman what it was for and she said in a
breathless, anxious manner that it was for adoption for adoption
ad she wrote adoption ad. She insisted I signed but walked
off. But I walked off refusing if you're going to France, Adam,
you should be able to find out more as he parented find out
anything okay? Also in parents there was a bit In protest big
protests going on one day, but I couldn't find out for what? When
we were in Munich refugees would ask for money or try and sell
you a selfie stick.
I wonder how much does the selfie stick go for?
There was definitely a protest going on as the police were
scrambling around cordoned off the area, but we didn't stick
around to find out very sorry if this seems to be more like a
stream of consciousness. But I've also
heard that there's every night every day there's there's now
starting in Paris, the protests, pockets of people just
protesting all over just saying, Hey, we're sick and tired of it.
That I'm excited to see some of this.
It's not being covered.
I know we had something in the show notes recently. We may not
have we may not have even covered. It's possible just ran
out of time. But I was at maybe I just was holding I'm hoping
next week we'll be in Paris. I hope.
There's riots.
I want rain in Amsterdam and riots in Paris. Honey, we're on
vacation. All right. All right. Any more notes or is that your
note for now?
Oh, I got another note. All right. I sort of was sold out.
And this is from Anna. Dear John and Adam, I cannot thank you
enough for making the no agenda show. It barely keeps me sane
here at Yale. Okay, evil, You're ridiculous. As a sophomore, it's
crazy to think I have two more years left among these climate
obsessed, sensitive, immature peers. I still have not found
any like minded people to hold a normal conversation with. I feel
like I always have to hold back my sense of humor and true
opinions or, or else face being shamed for offending some group
of people. Yes, there's never a day in this place where people
aren't outraged about something completely insignificant. Here's
one example. The email we got today from President slovo. And
as she sent a copy of the President's it's like three
pages of very small type apology for that recent incidences that
took place and how they're going to change the name master and
all these other things. No, I will put this in the next
newsletter coming out on Saturday.
And it's actually a very good segue into a couple of weeks
finished. I
mean, I'm sorry. I've been meaning to email you guys for a
while to first of all, express my gratitude for what you do as
well as apologize for not donating. You could take out a
small subscription, it wouldn't hurt. I'll do it anyway, I
promise I'll do so once I get a job and pay off my student
loans. Okay. Well, that's the show won't be in existence 15
years from now, but okay. I just appreciate the note. Seriously,
let me know if
you would like to hear well, maybe not as curry Dvorak. Let
me
know if you would like to hear some more of this absurdity in
the future of course. Yes. Yes. Yes. We need to we need more let
yay. Also, that's your new job. Yeah, you know, you
don't hear a lot about Yeah, like the real Ivy League's I
haven't quite had the freakout yet have they? We haven't heard
at Stanford or Harvard? Well, one of the Harvard's,
we have the minor schools in the minor lab. It was I have a
couple of
clips that this fits in perfectly. Yes. I thought this
was over.
Meanwhile, I'll be studying for finals instead of discussing the
heinousness of naming one of my new colleges for yet another
rich, old white guy with my classmates. She's being
sarcastic. Having a real major chemistry seems to there's no
time for that. Anyway. So she sends out a nice note with a PDF
of the President's stuff. And we appreciate that and we would do
we would appreciate you not going to be able to donate then
you can give us the inside scoop.
Yes. Particularly from the Ivy League schools. This is good. I
like this. There's a clip to a couple of clips first. And it's
spreading, you know that, here's how I look at it. It won't be
Donald Trump, that'll that'll kill us won't be Hillary Clinton
and won't be ISIS. It won't be boambee Putin. It's going to be
the generation of children who are coming into the workforce
that we are the whole certainly the United States. I'm not sure
about the rest of the world yet. I'm evaluating Europe. We're not
going to get anything done. And the whole generation I am
generalizing are pretty much full of crap. This is Mona
Chalabi. Now she's from Guardian so
there you go. Yep.
That she's a millennial. And she takes great issue and this has
been going around at the people have emailed me this as well
about grammar snobs which people of course they immediately email
this article to me, I think to you as well. And I have the
video that she cut up that we you and I are grammar snobs
because we we tried to Uh, no. I don't know if it's really is a
grammar snob? Is that the correct word even just to be a
snob about the grammar snob moniker? It's not just grammar.
It's
not at all.
Well listen to this. I'm sorry.
I mean, you should correct this is how the language is. You
don't let things deteriorate.
No, no, no, no, no, no, you sir, on the wrong side of history,
grammar snobs, patronizing, pretentious, and just plain
wrong. Put grammar in front of the word snob. And suddenly,
some people feel strangely proud. They shouldn't be most
grammar snobs use an elite and increasingly outdated form of
the English language. And they think there's somehow superior
because of it. In most cases, the mistakes being highlighted
really don't matter at all. If I look around the room and say
there are less people here than I expected, does it really,
really needs to be pointed out that because people can be
counted. I should have said there are fewer people heal the
fact that so
that's example number one I don't I? That's a very minor
minor one. But But
no, I just don't see that being
a no, no, no, it's not she's getting into it. But her
conclusion is the opposite of your conclusion. So you'll like
it
is most of us use the words less and fewer interchangeably.
Without much confusion. I've never been to a supermarket
where shoppers are scratching their heads about the 10 items
or less laying we get it. Some of these snobs believe that
language evolves but grammar doesn't. That's not true. It was
once considered incorrect to start a sentence with words like
and or but and what about the rule that the standard pronoun
in writing should be he there are grammar snobs who will say
that we need some sort of a common language, a set of rules
that everyone can understand. But all too often, they
conveniently overlook the fact that the rules they're talking
about aren't commonly held at all, they just their rules. Take
the word literally. For example, I literally don't care if I'm
using the word literally in the correct way according some
Elizabethan definition of correctness, and neither does
the Oxford Dictionary. They've updated their definition of the
word to reflect modern usage. It doesn't take much to see the
power imbalance when it comes to grammar snobbery. The people
pointing out the mistakes are more likely to be older,
wealthier, whiter, or just plain academic than the people they're
treating with condescension. All too often. It's a way to silence
people. And that's particularly offensive. When it's someone who
might already be struggling to speak up. We should spend more
time listening to what others have to say. Unless focusing on
the grammar what they say it with.
This is a very, very loaded piece. Because it brings in
ageism, racism, bigotry, oppression, and somehow if I
I've just taken upon myself if I mock someone and say, Hey, man,
you said x instead of asked, then I am an old white aihole
art. Yeah. And, and I agree, I think that language changes. Of
course, we have corset decay has meant several things. As many
many words why does that one pop to the top?
My movie would titled The Gay Divorcee. Yeah, I would assume
that when people see that movie tell they go Oh, some guys
married he got divorced. He became gay.
Right. So So Mr. Dvorak as a professor of the languages I'm
very curious what is your take on how do we evolve language?
The literally example is quite a quite an often discussed one. In
fact, sometimes I use the word literally and the chat room
explodes that I'm in a hole that I don't know what I'm doing.
Literally, it explodes it literally explodes.
Yeah, it doesn't literally slow it because it can't somebody
actually hack in
what do you think? Apparently the Oxford Dictionary they
showed it on the screen. It has now added a second meaning to
literally which can say you kind of it's not exactly literally
but kind of literally so Okay, who determined
the dictionary puts it in? I'm good with that. Okay,
well so that is our set of rules then the Oxford
pretty much okay. Is there an isolated role along with the
Merriam Webster and the other dictionaries especially if
they're big ones? The Random House had giant thing the
unabridged any of these dictionaries if they if they
they see something and then say something
if the if they see a trend it's they believe is enough of a
trend enough people are using it and they put it into diksha
Dennis get just got the the impromptu tour they kind of
they've been knighted. Okay, you do this stupid phrase, which you
might think is stupid or not the
impromptu the impromptu tour?
Yeah, I think is that the way you pronounce? I
don't know. It's a great word Hold on a second, whereas bit
book of knowledge definition of impromptu tour.
The word imprimatur means formal and explicit approval.
Get formal approval from Lucy pronounce his imprimatur. Okay,
I'll make that change.
All right, Megan, what do you think Donald Trump learned to
say? Tanzania from? He's learned he learned from from from the
from, from? What's going on? I don't even use a name anymore.
And from what's her name? The Amazon Echo her name?
I don't know Siri. Kelly, Kelly?
No, Alexa, that's what it was now.
That's where Trump gets all his foreign policy from. Alexa are
the Jews to blame for everything?
Sorry, I can't find the answer to work is generated
works on Alexa to
watch the works with Alexa. It still works with Alexa.
Of course it does. It also works with Echo. You can't
unfortunately, this all right. I'll tell you a little bit about
the hack. Here's the bad news. The bad news is you could set
something else but you can't set one unless it's the standard
ones. So it becomes all three. All right. I didn't want people
to know that my hack was kind of good, but not good enough.
Anyway. So how does language horribly How is how does
language evolve?
It evolves naturally with the usage people like to say
something a certain way
right. But when when is it not a winner? Are you an asshole for
correcting somebody? What is the fine I want to I want to grow I
don't want to be seen as an old coot. I want to I want to
participate with the kids. I want to be swag.
I don't think most of the time yours depends on how you present
it. If you present yourself as an asshole correcting someone.
Yeah, then you're an asshole. But i we i We get lots of email
about something we said or did or some sure we're corrected?
We're
Yeah, you're right. It's all about the approach. You're
right. It's all about
the approach in such a way that is a very positive thing. You
guys are doing this wrong. It should be or the pronunciation
of Brisbane? Yes,
Australia. Yes. Very nice. That's true. I have actually
changed language in this country in the Netherlands. The two
cases, two cases. If 1983 for we had and I was working at the
television station. The whole country would say, Madonna when
they're talking about Madonna, when talking about God singer,
yes, the singer when talking about the 84th He was big. And I
got on television. I started saying Madonna and people lost
his shit. And of course, there's only two stations at the time.
You know, from seven to 11pm on Sunday night
you got that same guy has been following you around all your
life.
Do you know how many people will yell on the street me? Hey,
curry, Madonna. To this day, this day, to this day. This day
to this day people say Hey, Gary, I remembered you men but
don't just like that.
I do though. That's fun. Yeah.
And I also when they first started showing dynasty, the the
announcer on TV is in Dutch. Okay, now it's time for the next
episode of dynasty. dynasty notes. dynasty. That's how you
pronounce it. Okay. Listen, does the guy say last time on
dynasty? No, he says last time on dynasty. So bad. We're
getting credit for that one. But I helped that too. And I just
corrected you. I'm just helping them along.
Yeah, you're doing your job. Now
we have a an editor from the Huffington Post. about cultural
appropriation. This is another thing we need to be on the
lookout for John.
Yeah. Where's Ben? I think we're pretty good at this one.
What do you mean? Oh, he
had shallow cultural appropriation. We see people
bitching and moaning about
the show. Yeah, I mean, but now it's Huffington Post with their
little like cool videos that got the little millennial lets
running around your work as long as
you don't have those videos. As long as you don't have those
videos where the guy's doing little cartoons on the screen as
fast. I hate I don't like
those. The first 100,000 times are kind of cool. And then yeah,
first two are good. It's almost like that can't do slideshows,
either. I can't, I won't do it. But I won't do a slideshow. I
won't tab through your shit. Number seven is always the ad
now. Cultural Appropriation which you know, some would say
you would not have Beyonce. Without cultural appropriation.
You would not have Madonna without cultural cultural
appropriation wouldn't have
Elvis Presley view, would you
maybe would not have Bill Clinton cultural appropriation
the first black president.
A lot of people have been talking about cultural
appropriation. But what exactly is it? A quick search tells you
the adoption or use of elements of One culture by members of a
different culture, but there is a blurred line between
appreciation and appropriation. Like when you're jamming out in
a Native American headdress just because it looks cool. That's
appropriation.
No, it's not Do you got Oh, yes,
it is. That's appropriation.
No, it's not appropriation at all. It's just clowning.
No, that's appropriation. You're stealing someone else's. I
think. I think this is the this is an issue right here. I think
we should stop. Right.
Okay, stop one second, I want to ask one question, book of
knowledge, definition of appropriation.
appropriation has several meanings as a noun, one money
set aside, as by a legislature for a specific purpose to
incorporation by joining or uniting three, a deliberate act
of acquisition of something, often without the permission of
the owner.
Ah, so interesting how the how that the the lowest ranking
meaning is vicious,
that's usually not the lowest. It's kind of the lowest rank,
but it's actually the most recent that's kind of I was, is
that how it works, the lowest rank has the most traditional
definitions.
So it went from integrating I like, like integrating someone's
culture, like how we got jazz, and how he got disco, and how he
got punk rock. And yet we still integrate classical music into
every piece. We have the basic tenants. That's cultural
appropriation of Vienna.
Yeah. And that's a better definition of the headdress. The
guy wearing the headdress, that's ridicule. There's a big
difference, it seems to me be between ridicule where you take
somebody's culture, and then you've just ridicule it. And
appropriation where you take somebody's culture, and then you
you move it into your culture and use it without going out
with or without credit doesn't make a difference, because
there's no credit given to classical music, that's for
sure. Well, though, I just have to say that he's listened to, to
a long speech I've talked about a couple times on the show with
Phil Spector. At University of California, he gave a three hour
lecture,
you were there for that? You were there for that? Yeah. Oh my
god, that must have been fantastic.
Oh, it was fantastic. And then you get to talk to him down in
the bowels of Wheeler auditorium shortly after, because he was
down there and holding court. But he his speech on the music
industry, it was about the music industry. He overtly mentioned
and Edna does the bars and event he plays it kind of with his
mouth plays that's the appropriation of various
classical riffs that he got from risk Rimsky coefficient cough,
and here's here's something he stole from Beethoven and he told
us about all these different things that he incorporated in
his big sound and walk Excuse me, excuse
me his wall of sound
Yeah, I'm sorry you're right. The wall of sound is like what's
his debut? The idiot was crews that comes up and says oh, we
really liked those bat you know he basketball
basket ring. Yeah, even even that made the news here. Yeah.
Yeah, that's
dumb. Anyway, so yeah, the wall is down and he talked about
specific the specific appropriations he says you're
gonna steal you steal from the best and he was he was concerned
that right but that's
but that's a little bit and it's classical music a cultural
difference isn't a culture.
It was the culture the Europeans in 1800s
And by the way, from now on the i pronounced the gay this a very
important day. No longer may any millennial everywhere because I
will police this and you will start to police yourselves. You
may not dance to anything by the Village People. Those were
cultural appropriation. mofos particularly the Indian with the
headdress, no more dancing the YMCA
does anybody even play that anymore? Anywhere
it always gets played at the end of the night is always don't
stop. Well, it's village people YMCA and then you just close off
with don't stop believing. And there's always some girls crying
and shit and then turn the lights on it when goes home.
I've done this a million times
by members of a different culture. But there is a blurred
line between appreciation and appropriation. Like when you're
jamming out in a Native American headdress, just because it looks
cool. That's appropriation. That happens.
We know we just we just argued that whole stick with it.
And in movies and TV. Oh, and just a reminder, blackface is
never okay.
And blackface is never okay. Yeah.
What's that got to do with cultural appropriation? Nothing.
It's not the definition. Is it? No. No.
Although I will say and I think this is not you play this. I'm
glad you did. Because it reminds me there's a play if you're in
New York, you should go see shuffle off shuffle off, which
is very, it's just an hour
after Paris. We're going to New York. We have to see shut off.
John says it's fabulous.
Yeah, I think you got the voice there. It one of the themes of
this musical is exactly that. Because the blacks were in
blackface, it was very interesting. But
the coolest thing was that Al Jolson who started that the Jew
he didn't start it, but he used it as a gimmick.
So would that be cultural appropriation or ridicule?
Well, what's not definitely not ridicule what it was at the time
there was these minstrel shows which those were the cultural
appropriation. That's a classic to me a cultural appropriation,
the minstrel show itself? Yes, the minstrel shows. That's the
one that logically makes sense to me. Yeah. There's a bunch of
black guys that do this show amongst black people. And you're
a white guy and you steal the show, right? And blackface?
Yeah. And you do that their show you do their show, because white
folks weren't allowed to see the actual black show. And that, to
me, is the only example I can think of the rest of this was
like incorporation. If you do incorporation. Okay, you have a
black jazz artist. And now you're Benny Goodman, you're
still playing with the black guys. And you're also doing
shows with them. But you have, you know, there's a lot of riffs
and there's certain notes and there's certain things that
these guys play. In fact, there's a mention of, of Benny
Goodman stealing a bunch of notes from some black band,
and when when, when and when Prince or Jimi Hendrix rip off
and there's some crazy guitar stuff, which prints Purple Reign
key admits that he was heavily influenced by I think it was a
journey song. I think he even played the song to shown I think
he played his hand Hey, I really was influenced I want to play
the song to you. Everything was without without lyrics. He
played over the phone. He said, You know, because I asked one of
their ballads I forget which one it is. He said, Are you gonna
sue me then as a no, Billy, maybe it was he said, No, it's
great. I'm honored. But is that is that the not is that
appropriation?
Reverse appropriation because you have to, I'm saying reverse
appropriation. I'm making up terms when I sign up. I know, I
know. Because it means what it would see indicate to me is that
all appropriation is from minorities to the to the ruling
sub chord, the ruling culture, stealing from the sub cultures
would be where the appropriation takes place. But if he went the
other way around, you wouldn't call it appropriation.
Right. Okay. Well, that's reverse that's in general, I
think it's all it's all, like racism. reverse racism is
racism. It's like end to end. And I'm so happy. I'm so proud
of myself to say you'll have 50% of the women in your
administration. 50% of women is limiting towards women and you
should be you should be scolded for it. All right onto more
appropriation.
And neither is red face for that matter. appropriation occurs
when a privileged culture borrows from a marginalized
moment.
Oh, there it is. When a privileged culture does he say
steals hold on
that matter. appropriation occurs when a privileged culture
borrows from a marginalized
or borrows borrows. So what is it? That's appropriation? So
that's wrong, if you're a privileged culture, you know,
I think it's, it's, again, applies to minstrel shows, but
does not apply in the way they're trying to make it sound.
So you take you take a new black mute music form because the
blacks are extremely, you know, American blacks. Yeah, American
American black community is very musical. And they have a great
history of creating new forms now. So they create a new form
and then device take it so if this great, that's use it, and
they start bringing it in, it's not borrowing because they keep
it that no
one seems to be really mad at Eminem. Eminem is completely,
you could say appropriate level they
should be. And by the way,
let me just say beyond key, I'm sorry, Beyonce. You see Beyonce
with her lemonade? Does anyone else notice that she's wearing a
blonde wig? That's appropriation or not? What is it?
Yeah, but it's reverse appropriate, it's
cooler because she's saying but she's cooler because she's
saying I'm oppressed Black Lives Matter when she's wearing a
blonde wig in my head is gonna explode. Man. Let's look at the
rest of
this. This is I think this is part of our cognitive
dissonance.
Well, it's working and then add to this an element this
despicable Huffington Post video. I mean, how can you how
can you in good conscience and editor allow this to pass
through? I think it's destructive to I think it's
really destructive. Because then I have to be well, listen, I
have to be worried about what I wear, how I do my hair because
I'll be shamed for it.
Okay, and neither is red face for that matter. appropriation
occurs when a privilege culture borrows from a marginalized and
appropriate or can be a celebrity rocking cornrows.
Their hair clearly doesn't need them.
So a celebrity rockin cornrows when their hair really doesn't
need it. A celebrity wearing a blonde wig when her hair doesn't
need it because she can be wearing cornrows isn't It's okay
though.
What? Who needs cornrows? Is he No words needed is what got me
you know anyone who needs corn oh my god I guess I don't have
cornrows I don't know what I'm gonna do
let me tell you black hair is a bitch and yeah but it says it
has
cornrows you don't need cornrows it's a lot of work.
It depends on what you're doing what line of your work you're
in.
Okay what line of work these cornrows
rapper remember me cornrows
you don't need I don't know.
I don't know I don't know enough about black hair. I know I know
black black people.
There's tell us when you absolutely need cornrows maybe
they have to do any work. Maybe that's possible.
Ban this is only a one minute video and look at the
controversy. It has
full credit to the extreme of bold crap. And it's trending.
Their hair clearly
doesn't eat. Or even someone's boarding a tribal tattoo when
they have no idea what the design actually means.
Wow. A tribe this city is filled with tribal tattoos. It's okay
to have a tribal tattoo, but not if you know what it means. Now I
was at a bar with some friends. And the waitress, good looking
woman has comes over. And she's got a tribal tattoo on and I
spotted it as such. It was like, you know, it's just very simple
thing. I said, What? What's that? Where'd that come from? Or
what why do you work? What does it mean? is what I said? I guess
Yeah. And she told me she knew exactly what I meant was a
mayority thing is some sort of data back to such data. If you
talk to people about their tattoos, nine times out of 10
they will give you a long lecture about the tattoo. You
have to be careful. You don't want to hear the lecture. Oh,
that's pretty.
This is really this is this is not good. That is this is being
your right is trending. And it's worrisome that people are buying
into this crap to when they
have no idea what the design actually means. Culture is more
than just a cool style or a new trend. And it doesn't matter if
it's just a Halloween costume. Because in case you didn't
realize these are racist.
Nobody's saying that someone in your Mexican costume someone had
Chinese kind of Chinese persons at costume. That's all racist.
Well, how Halloween is blown. What can you be now? You're
racist or misogynistic was
racist against ghosts? I
mean, Halloween, the dead? Content girls still dress up as
sexy slots and nurses or is that over? Now? Is that is that rude?
No, they can
only they can dress like that old 20 year olds here.
We can still appreciate another culture by learning about other
traditions, trying an authentic cuisine, traveling to new
countries.
Oh, okay. Find try new cuisine and learn about other cultures.
But don't you dare incorporate it in your own cooking following
there. So
what is fusional? About one of the major cooking trends, I
think, rated idea that use coconut water here in Hawaii for
this dish. I'm going to show you how you can do the same thing
with beef. I think
we're onto something. We'll call it. appropriation cuisine.
Yeah, yeah, that must be bad.
There's no no no, no, no, no, this you should just call it
appropriation cuisine and make
a lot of progress. It couldn't you get by the way recommended
some restaurants for usage here in Europe. There's a least two
or three of those places could be called appropriation cuisine.
Because the French do that all living cuisines are always
stealing from other cuisines because they're good ideas. So
what's wrong with that? What's wrong with a restaurant saying
well that's a good idea. I like the way the Japanese do that.
That type of chicken Okay, let's
let's go back to this stem. This all stemmed from a note from one
of our listeners who said that I can barely take it anymore.
Because we have to we have to be so politically correct. Can't
hurt anybody's feelings. You have to shut up can't say
anything. This is all a part of it.
Well, that's what the girl from Yale said
this. What that's what I just said. I said note from the girl
that you just read this whole conversation now we're down to
changing food
that you're referring to a different note. No
that notes Beto.
She's just upset because you can have a simple conversation with
her classmates. I have been like it. I have a
clip here which I'm just going to play a bit of until you say
stop. This popped up on the no agenda face bag group. Which,
which was
the group that was going to get get us all these donations?
Oh, yeah. Remind you Mimi was in charge of that. So do you might
want to back off on yelling about it? Well, or step it up?
Step it up. I'll step it up.
At the University of Massachusetts, there was a bike
huge, I guess exception, invited to have a conversation was Milo
this is the this is the the conservative British guy I, the
guy who's overly gay and is just ripping everybody to shreds when
it comes to political correctness nature, you've
you've seen this, he was the guy who got unverified on Twitter.
Okay, yeah. Then there was this guy, Steve Crowder. But I don't
think I've ever heard of him. And so they're doing a sit down,
you're on stage. And there's been there's a bunch of students
in the audience and auditorium. And then they start protesting
and yelling, and this Steve crowd and gets up, Crowder gets
up, and he just starts railing on them to such a was the second
time around wasn't quite as pleasurable as I was clipping it
this morning. So I'll just let it play. And you tell me if you
want to stop or not. He's yelling at the audience because
they interrupted and just start yelling check your privilege and
all that kind of crap.
Silly liberal fruitcakes. I cannot I wanted to tell some
jokes. Let's do some reality checks here.
Do you have any idea sir? How pathetic it must be to be you.
These people wanted to come out and have a good time.
Here. A few jokes, some thoughtful discussion, but your
head pops off the pillow in the morning. Oh, how can I be a
professional victim today? Let me go in just because oh my god,
your parents didn't tell you that your opinion wasn't worth
that much. Look, they're confused. They're confused. You
know why? Because I'm not your gender studies professional as
to cater to your trigger warning micro aggression Safe Space
bullshit. You like it?
It's okay. It's a loose sounds have rehearsed. But,
you know, that's maybe what bothered me the second time
around, but I put it in the show notes that people can listen to
it. I think that guy's a comedian or but he does this
professionally or whatever. He writes rants. But it was nice
because he actually he was just yelling at the children to just
start to pretty much cry. And like, check your priveledge and
then just the I think the the way to do it is you have to yell
yell and don't stop talking. That's how you that's apparently
how it works. Yeah, I thought it was funnier the first time as
and maybe seeing it as more important, but I agree it
sounded a bit hers. So he's rolling out lines. That's what
you do with hecklers. You got to have your stuff ready?
Yeah, you have to have your there's things in fact, a little
insight. There are the stock put down lines that all comedians
use, and they get written along the way and once and these put
down lines which are aimed at hecklers. The comedians have an
unwritten rule that that can be shared freely with, you can use
the
lines. Do you have an example of a heckler line?
One is that when the hissing takes place, you say, Oh, I see
somebody brought her inflatable date doll. Okay, well, here's a
bunch of donkey jokes. I didn't think that so and so Brad is
just like, there's probably about 50 of these of these lines
that I don't know if they'd been fully documented, but they're,
they're freely used.
Yeah. Came through this morning. They have the, one of the
terrorist from the, from the Paris attacks on the Belgian
guys with Abdeslam. They have him in custody, right?
Yeah. And he's the gay guy.
The gay guy. Well, exactly. And there's no it's in French is no
good. So now the audio of it, but he made a statement about is
it the lawyer of of this of this law made a statement in French
newspaper libratone. And there was a little statement of video.
He said of the slum is a perfect example of the Grand Theft Auto
generation who believe they live in a video game. I asked him if
he had read the Quran, which is what I did. And he told me that
he had read his interpretation of it on the internet. For
Simple Minds. It is perfect the net it's the maximum they can
understand. He has the intelligence of an empty
ashtray. He is abysmally vacuous, vacuum vacuum vacuous,
vacuous
that's quite attended to being a grammar snob now.
It's he added, it's not easy to take on his defense, which
brings me nothing but crap. I've been married the I've been
repeatedly assaulted verbally and physically. Two types even
waited for me in front of my office and blows were exchanged,
but I can defend myself on several occasions and police had
to escort my daughters to school. Poor, poor lawyer.
It's terrible. Yeah.
But so this guy he, he had he had read bits and bobs of the
Islam online. That was his big. I mean, if that's really true,
if this is a bitch it is that's that now I'm really scared. I'm
okay. If it's our own intelligence services doing it
and blowing it up. I mean, I have problems with it. But
that's one thing if this truly is Is the happening with and
it's how far off are is up Islam from the appropriation kid?
I don't think there's much difference. Exactly. It's all
the same, but we haven't even seen any, you know, good
example. I mean, I would assume a lot of people think Trump is
comes from this kind of internet phenomenon. Or he I think
Hillary does Wharton Trump. Yeah. Because she's done a
really good job of, of using the tech experts to help her. Yes,
yes, yes. But yeah, yeah. Right down to her email.
Yeah, yeah. Anyway, okay. Well, that's. That's depressing. Let's
see, we can find some fun. You can play this clip. Alright.
This is just just to me, this isn't one of these out of the
blue clips. It comes with what? I have no idea what this is
about. I don't know. I have found nothing heavy water sale.
Oh, I'm actually saw some clips.
The United States announced today that it is buying roughly
35 tons of so called heavy water from Iran. The liquid is used to
make weapons grade plutonium, and last year's Nuclear Deal
calls for Iran to sell its excess stockpile. Republican
leaders in Congress today criticize the purchase as a
dangerous precedent.
Yes, so I understood the same thing that this was part of the
deal. And so they had to sell it. I didn't know if we
specifically had to buy it or not. But I know one guy who does
know atomic rod Adams, he'll help us. He'll get it on the
garage field. Was your question about heavy water itself? Or
were no no. I know about heavy water. She was a big H bombs.
But why? Why are we buying these tons of just tonnage of this
stuff? Yeah. Maybe he's gonna have to explain was it
was that your idea of, of happy news. Fun News was that?
Yeah. Okay, then play this play. Happy dance.
Oh, this dance. Get it? Get it? Get it? Get it? Get it, get it?
And then I'll have a one time happy dance. Happy Dance. Get
it? Get it? Get it? Who is that?
Who is that? There is a guy I think it's called. I think his
name is Dave. He's the Dave Show on QVC. Oh, nice. I was
fascinated by this show. Because they were selling a nutra or a
ninja super blender of some sort for 99 bucks. I was the almost
sold me on getting one.
Wow, watching Wow. QVC How is that? Is that above or below? Is
that above or below?
This character who does the cooking show? And they show sell
cooking stuff? Is a just a kind of a he's like, I don't know.
He's almost like Robert Tilton, the evangelist who's always
scrunching up his face and he's just for some reason he's hard
to not listen to because just like you're he's got some
hypnotic way of doing things this guy seems like he's like
one of these types of guys. And he's always doing weird stuff.
And I ended up watching his show for about 20 minutes before I
realized I was being hypnotized. And I didn't buy the ninja
device, even though it looked like a great idea. The Ninja
device. Yeah, some ninja does a chop. It's like a blender. Oh,
okay. Okay, I in Blender.
I have a I have something that is funny. I thought it was
hilarious actually, in fact, went through a little bit of
editing just to spice it up a bit of this happened in State
Department and think it happened on me it was last week. No
Thursday, maybe Monday. And Kirby's back, which makes it all
that much more fun. Not just Kirby. We have Matt. We have
Matt's hottie from Russia from RT. What's your name again?
Hottie from Russia?
Yeah. Chen cha ching ching ching Hutchings? Yeah,
yeah, Natasha hot ski. We got her I'm rude. Erica, I just
can't remember her name.
It's she's got an unpronounceable name, we will
get it eventually Natasha husky.
But before I do that, I want to remind us about the concept of
no boots on the ground, which we have talked about on this
program. We have I think my main concern with the use of the
phrase boots on the ground is it diminishes the feet and legs and
human body that are in the boots? And that's just not a
nice way of talking about putting American men and women
boys and girls into harm's way. It's just find it. I don't like
it. And it's particularly for people who haven't been in
military service. Yeah, boots on the ground. Once you get your
fucking boots on the ground, and we'll talk about it. How many
times do we hear the President say no, no boots on the ground
in in Syria 100. And it was just the President was everybody,
everybody Ready, here's a little medley,
I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria will not
pursue an open ended action like Iraq or Afghanistan. Resolution
we've submitted today does not call for the deployment of us
ground combat forces to Iraq. It is not the authorization. I
mean, other grounds are not obviously contemplating
returning, we're not contemplating putting boots on
the ground.
Obama has been very clear that American combat troops are not
going to be fighting and Iran Yeah, won't hold
back from supporting capable partners in opportunistic
attacks against ISIL. Or conducting such missions
directly, whether by strikes from the air or direct action on
the ground boots
on the ground boots on the ground, there will be no boots
on the ground. There is no doubt this was said hundreds, if not
1000s of times. Now, we have discussed also on this on this
program. What exactly does it mean boots on the ground,
because we've heard no boots on the ground in Iraq, but they
weren't boots on the ground. They were advisors and
consultants, the n but they're also kind of leading and doing
stuff. And then there were Delta fours but no boots on the
ground. It was clear. And that was said, I just want to make
sure that you agree you have heard this many, many times many
more times than what you just heard in that little montage.
Thematically. Yes.
This is a question from Matt, the two rear admiral Chris
anatomies, a rear Kirby about about yet another 250 troops
being sent to Syria. There were 50 there, but that was just, you
know, just placeholder guys or whatever. We all kind of
swaddled that. But now there's another 250 going in. And the
question is, when is it boots on the ground? And when is it not
boots on the ground. And then something really amazing
happens?
It is not mission creep, if it's the same mission, and it's the
same mission. And he introduced introduced about 50 Special
Operations forces on the ground, they've had a positive impact on
our ability to go after dash inside Syria. So the President
has decided to to, to increase it to the tune of 250. And there
was never this, you know, there was never this no boots on the
ground. I don't know where this keeps coming from. We're just
you know, it wasn't there was work, what, we're not going to
be involved in a large scale combat mission on the ground.
That is what the President has long said, we have three Wait,
wait a minute, wait, we wait. We have 3000 some odd troops in
Iraq already in advise and assist capacity at bay bases
throughout the country. Don't tell me don't tell them or their
families that they're not on the ground. They are very much on
the ground.
I'm not gonna stop by that stuff. But they are involved in
large scale. For months and months and months, the mantra
from the President and everyone else the administration has been
no boots on the ground. And now
that is not true. It's just not true. It is. True. Well,
I just flatly absolutely disagree with you because I've
been speaking to this when I was in uniform for over two years.
Okay,
your your predecessor up here but you know, it was all options
are on the table except boots on the ground. That was that was I
never said that. And that was the whole line from the
President on down anyway. Are you saying that this is not the
same thing as saying one thing and then doing the other
completely?
I'm absolutely rejecting that thesis. Yes. Pretty good, huh?
Holy crap, that guy's just like he wants to more it didn't stop.
Here. Doesn't he have a clue? Or was he is he oblivious? Maybe he
doesn't know. Maybe he's just stupid. Well,
check this out. So then we get the, by the way, that's
a clip of the day right there for me. Oh, that's
kinda clever.
It's hard to believe that a guy could just blatantly lie like,
oh, this never have never hurt us. Well, hell froze
over. Because it got so desperate that Natasha hot
Natasha husky. She asked the question a little differently.
And Kirby, all of a sudden he's in love with her. Yeah, he's
always like, you just oh, you you Russians, you do whatever
propaganda you're gonna ask me? Did I characterize that Right?
Kind of how we talked to her nailed
it. Okay.
within 24 hours, we have seen two headlines, one of them being
President Obama rules out ground troops to Syria. And it was he
told the BBC, I can give you an exact quote. And then shortly
after President Obama to deploy 250 more special forces troops
to Syria. My question is, what is the difference between the
troops that the President rolled out, and the troops that he's
going to send to to Syria? You know, that's actually an
intelligent question.
It's so it's also so denigrating by even saying it like, wow,
stupid brewski you actually came up with an intelligent question.
He was that desperate, ascending Helfrich. Yeah, he was that just
by the way, I've talked about this before I'm talking about it
again, we have a lot of Navy listeners. But there is nothing
when I was in the air pollution game, and you had to go on this
board these Navy ships, because they didn't none of the Navy
guys gave a crap about a local pollution laws. So you'd go on
there, and you'd go to give these guys a citation for
blowing their tubes. As before the everything is new glow and
their tubes, blowing their tubes, they blow their tubes in
the bay, boom, it's a big pile like soot and crap that goes
into the atmosphere. And it's illegal.
It's fun. So sorry, it's fun. I don't know about that dynamite.
So you go on there, and you bitch about these, you got to
decide it guys, extremely arrogant, that are so arrogant
is like outrageous. And this Kirby exhibits these
characteristics. I remember one of the guys that was a pollution
inspector was a chief petty officer before, you know, it was
in the Navy for a long time. And he he would just have a broad
smile. And I was bitching about these guys. He says, aren't they
the worst? And that's some this mental DevOps thing. And
management of the US Navy has a arrogant, prick quality. And
this Kirby is a perfect example to Siri.
You know, that's actually an intelligent question. That's a
good question. And I appreciate that you asked it, because it's
very relevant. When we talk about boots on the ground, in
the context that you have heard people in the administration
speak to we're talking about conventional, large scale,
ground troops that are designed to actually engage in plan,
coordinate, integrate and engage in combat operations
as you get that, John, but I'm so sad that we never understood
that that's what boots on the ground actually means. It's a
lot more than just some boots, isn't it? Oh, apparently
on the ground as units. We're not doing that. We've never done
that in Iraq or in Syria, and we're not going to do it now.
Okay, let me finish maybe introducing these financial
advisors and assistance troops in the form of Special
Operations Forces, which we've done now we've had 50 or so on
the ground?
Well, you know, what I would have done and no one did this. I
would have said, Okay, thank you stop right there. Well, since
you have now defined boots on the ground to us, there's
there's multiple units and coordination and planning front
lines of etc. Would you mind for defining for us specifically,
what advising and consulting what that means? Because that's
the problem. We have too much word gaming going on here. And
in Syria for a while, we're adding another 250. That's very
much in keeping with the mission, one of the core
missions that the US military was designed to do from the
outset, in the fight against ash from the very outset, and I know
because I spoke about it myself in my prior life, which was to
help in this
prior life, in your previous career, have
improved the battlefield competency of indigenous ground
forces. So we can have a nice little debate about boots on the
ground. But I am telling you, having been in the military,
there is a big difference between saying no boots on the
ground. We've all recognized since almost the outset, we've
had US troops in Iraq, which are very much on the ground, and and
the colloquial meaning of the term which is what
may colloquial, colloquial the colloquial meaning. What does
that for morons? Is that the new because when we put a new
definition in Boxford, what does colloquial mean? colloquial,
it means common man. Street chit chat chatter? Yeah, kind of one
real meaning
of the term which is what many people when they say new boots
on the ground are referring to which is large scale,
intentionally combat ground troops engaged in in combat
operations that they themselves are conducting independently and
integrating and coordinating product way. Okay, that's not
happening. And that's not going to horsing.
I mad double down on this. And the final shortcut.
Why didn't administration come out and say there will be no
large scale combat around instead of saying no boots on
the ground, but which is what they said over and over and over
again, these people are not wearing boots are boots on the
ground,
I listened. On this point, I totally agree with you. They are
wearing boots, and they are on the ground. But that doesn't
mean that doesn't mean that in large scale ground combat
operations. And I can't speak for every other administration
official map, but I can certainly speak for what I've
said from this podium. And
then you can't say that you're setting a red line on chemical
weapons and then not act on the red line and you can't say no
boots on the ground and then send boots onto the ground and
say that you're not doing the opposite of what you were
handed.
The mission set of these troops is very much consistent with the
mission just on the fly. I mean, there's no point in arguing the
boots on the ground rhetoric. It's absolutely no pointed I'm
not disputing the fact that we have troops on the ground and
they're wearing boots
to stay God unbelievable. This guy
I'm sad that never made it to television or somewhere where
people could see it. Because that is the American people
really do understand something. And when your president says no
boots on the ground when the when the Secretary of Defense
has no boots on the ground when the Secretary of State says
nope, no boots on the ground. Everybody was using this term
boots on the ground member broth, bro, everyone was saying
boots on the ground, everybody and Pete,
that's outrageous. Brings back to my anecdotes about these Navy
guys. Officers at that level. They're just they're out of
control. And by the way that when I was bitching about the
most when I was telling my old story is a guy was this ship was
an oiler. This is like the lowest level a piece of crap
equipment that they float around boiler. And that guy wasn't even
a true captain. He's like some Lieutenant Commander because he
but he's the captain of this ship because he doesn't require
the ship such a piece of crap doesn't require a captain, a
real captain. And the guy was his air again. A whole I mean,
I'm surprised he didn't when I gave him the ticket that he just
didn't tear it up in front of me and throw it seriously.
Are those the same guy don't isn't the Navy that runs the NSA
or they just call them admirals because it's cool.
I think maybe it's part of this whole this whole
Mystique the whole thing is disturbing let me tell you it's
all this very this a book this is your cognitive dissonance.
This is your Newspeak boots on the ground doesn't actually mean
boots on the ground red line doesn't actually mean red line.
You know fear is freedom
Yeah, play that clip. Yeah, I
should do that. What else do we have in the in the this is all
this by the way is all from Is it from Brave New World or 94 is
brave new world I think the new speed or
the distance from some video
the minute someone says pigs in human clothing on television
that I know would then we've had them We're done for him. We're
toast. I'm going to show my
son moved by Joanie to no agenda Imagine all the people who could
do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fun
and we can read these notes and so we didn't have many Exactly
yeah,
we'll read a couple couple notes including the soon to be named
Dame dagger in Hamilton New Jersey who gave $138 and theme
daggers wrote it what is this This sparks you mentioned you
mentioned she was one of the issues that sparks I can go on
and on about how I get stoned at the corner with Nick the rat and
bunch of other producers saying start me up karaoke with two
other producers and I read left after a while of flute few
blocks away I guess the party continued without us
watch the weather accidentally smashed his iPhone screen in the
middle of Second Avenue oh wow cool
and but enough uh But enough of that no
agenda producers man are
outrageous.
If they get get them together
it's beautiful.
I had sparks I had just arrived and wanted to get one Scotch in
me before I mingled I spotted John as soon as I as I walked
in, but before I knew it, he was grabbing his coat to leave
that's when I got up to a man's and I love you and the rest is
history. You remember that? John's account of us meeting is
a little inaccurate. The narrative is the same I have the
love of the show since Adams appearance on stern five or six
years ago in fact I replaced stern with no agenda.
Well that is very interesting for you will probably remember
how I when I did that stern interview. The next day on the
show you reamed me. You excoriated me now. Yes, you did.
No. I said it was a horrible you said it was a horrible
interview.
Oh, I did think the interview could have been better. No.
That's different.
That's different. Well, it got a producer. There you go. Who
loves you who I am actually your wing man. You're welcome.
You're thank you so much for being my wing man anytime, but
I'm your wing man.
That's correct. That's correct. But
we're keeping that problem actually your wing you actually
are my wing man. That's right. Back and I'm Trying my best but
I don't even know if I can do the job anymore. There Boris law
fair enough. What the fuck does that mean? You know what I mean?
No, I
don't know. So stop out
here with the candles in the bathtub. I tried to dissuade you
from that. But anyway, I want to go on to personal. Miroslav
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Yeah. Boy, Graham, we wrote a long note. Yeah,
I want to Where's his note? Where's his note?
That's one of those notes not there because it came in email
and was sent to me.
Can you read a little bit of it?
Yeah, let me go find it.
So why did I talk on that?
I'm not sure why I'm doing that. You can you can talk you good.
Why am I talking like that?
I log into the email because of the earlier problems we well,
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under he's got his name is a little verification thing. I
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another 250 weeks of donations. That's fantastic.
See it works. And just just remember this show doesn't run
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he's on vacation vacation I'm gonna do eat can not do this
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But it's it's I mean, we could do it then you just shows no
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There you go. That's true. Yeah. In fact, I got one let me play
this clip.
Right but I still like birthdays and nice things to do you wanna
do the quick Yeah, I just wanted to just before the birthday, I
want to play this was one of my one night
lying these networks there's a whole thing now that you're
gonna roll your eyes when I say this but um, so the big news in
the United States the big new way I know what it
is. The football player left the midget
the football player left the midget on the on the live show
Live with Kelly Ripa and Michael stray Han very strange show
anyway, she's like this little fire of dynamic fireball.
Former soap actress as she noted former Yes, she was a soap opera
star and Michael stray Han is a defensive and from a football
team. He's got He talks with a list he's got a big gap Good
Smile seems like a nice enough guy but I don't know how he got
this job he's got a great age and he's always getting work
doing some he quits he gonna quit the show is gonna be
happening in the future then it turns out by the way after you
hear this look rip a clip that I have, which has a punch line. He
quits the show that day which is two weeks notice because
apparently the two of them now can't can't get
along together of course if they were and they were the show
their personalities together with the show.
Yeah, so now they have to get somebody a new guy who has been
who knows what they're gonna get. But let's listen to her
mum. She just comes back after walking off the show last week
and Stan out until they apologized to her for not
telling her that stray Hannah was going to leave the show. And
then she comes up with this bullcrap. But you have to listen
to it. Of course her fans think it's fantastic. But I what I
hear is something different.
I heard though over the course of a few days has been
extraordinary, in a sense that it started a much greater
conversation about communication, and
consideration, and most importantly, Respect in the
workplace.
I don't consider this just a workplace. This is my second
home. This is a place that I've devoted myself to not just
because of you, our loyal viewers, but because of all of
the producers and the crew who work on this show. We have an
incredible team. We are incredibly devoted to one
another we are family. Apologies have been made. And the best
thing to come out of all of this you guys is that our parent
company has assured me that live is a priority
Sierra hotel Sara Mike hotel is what I say.
Man this our priority sure says hello unemployment. How do we
get rid of this woman? Let's find a way to fire her. Oh man,
she will also have to say is one thing. One thing and the show's
gone? Well, this this was the Regis and Kelly show. No, yeah,
it was a Regis and yeah, because it was what's his name from
those Kathy's Kathie Lee? Yeah, reason Kathie Lee. And you know,
I don't want to talk about it. You're right. It's it's stupid.
It's what the fact that she says there now and she buys she
buys into this. This is show business darling, you're dead.
You're over. You're gone.
It'll be done. Yeah. Oh, but this is the kind of thing we'd
be dealing with if we were doing anything but this show.
Exactly. And then you know, you of course would get offered the
better gig on the Today Show you know with with Savannah. Now
what do I get? I gotta go hang out and do like the voice I get
to do the voice with Carson Daly. Now it would be very
pissed off to
Yeah, well, she's pissed off.
All right. So the point is
if you don't want us to be in that situation, and quite
honestly, I'd rather be poor I won't do it. You empty these
playing music again? I get the tweet. Where would you go back
if they offered you a lot of money? It's like no, I'm
completely incompatible you know that that but I asked him No,
no, I can't I can't do it. I can't even do it. I couldn't
even the one thing we did for iTunes got so corporate and
crazy the what just because one logo to promote the show 800 So
it took weeks isn't painful. So I'm like no, I'm incompatible
with this. You want to do and once the genies out of the
bottle I can't get back in how about you now you could do it
you know you don't have that you're easy but if someone
throws money at you, you're essentially
yeah.org/and
quiet calm everybody, no matter where
you've got karma
we only have one birthday for today but it does come from one
of our nights there Adrienne for noi, and he wrote me a note and
he said Dear Adam, I'm translating on the fly. Could
you please say happy birthday to my very very dear brother
Benjamin for noise. He will be turning 40 on the 29th and as a
very loyal no agenda supporter. I would really appreciate it if
you could say happy birthday to him right now. I'm broke. I got
fired but I'll be back soon with the donation don't worry about
it. We're always happy to break for our nights. Happy birthday
to Benjamin for Noy from Sir Adriaan Illinois and the entire
staff of management of the best podcast in the universe. And
then we have the lunch money knighting on a second I brought
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different shorter one. Oh, is that yours? Okay, good. Yeah,
I'm sorry. Would you say Joe?
Is the same old one? I don't have.
Oh, it's okay. It's fine. We would like that Paul Graham,
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I said you should they should have heard to be shown all the
trouble you had to go through to get and then now it turns out
you were doing this over and Apple
I'm doing I'm doing this over the iPhone, it's gonna cost me I
think I don't think this can be the two and a half g i can't be
streaming and having you on this connection.
It's going to cost you it cost a fortune for what you're doing.
I think I must be tapping into my have a like had like, I think
20 gigs of the high speed data. I hope that's what it's tapping
into. And it doesn't matter. The show is the show. Okay.
Sure, when those little devices that you have the little
portable recorder know that little bitty things like the jet
stream from Verizon or the MiFi MiFi. Yeah, it's a little you
have the MiFi. And anyway, I got this I had it in New York
because I was always paranoid about not having a good
connection to hotel and then I had a good connection. I never
uses it, but it came in so handy. Mimi uses it because
every once in a while to lose your internet connection for
even five minutes has gotten noticed that's going to ruin her
life because she's on Facebook. And so she Oh no. She needs to
get online. So she uses she now she's got a device. I have to
say those are great little devices once you get them hooked
up.
Well I have one I use it when when we're in the air stream of
consciousness. I use it all the time. But yeah, but you do not
want to take Verizon data overseas. Ah, that is you'll go
broke. You can't it can't be done.
They have no no regular DMA over there anyway. No, it
works. It works here. They do have that. Yeah, they do.
Here's the UK got a UK travel travel advisory people should
pay attention to
UK travel advisory. Let's have a listen.
Britain has issued a formal Travel
Warning to LGBT travelers to Mississippi and North Carolina
following the passage of anti LGBT laws in the two states.
This comes as a handful of other US states are considering
similar legislation. You go stay away.
Oh, where was everybody? Where was all the protests were was
who's protested so far. Demi Lovato was protested. Who was
the other? Was it Nickelback? They protested? When were they
were they when? When the these states were turning down
Medicaid and doing all horrible things? You know, when the
bathroom share comes up,
but yeah, bathrooms are important. Okay, I have a clip.
I think that if you went back and looked somewhere in the book
of knowledge, John, I think if you go back and you look to
2008 2009, I think we had conversation and we said, if you
want to win any kind of debate any kind of election, you got to
bring gay into it. And then slowly we got
not very by the way, yeah, I I find on could you
find this and that today, obviously. But if you run across
one of the older books, I think we were very clear. I think
about what specific instance I'd like to know we talked about
because now it seems like we so
much stuff in these books. I can't find anything. Really, I
mean, I already got an old one right in front of me.
But you don't have to do that. Give me Give me a couple of
cars. I have the German airlines strike because of course that's
I have the German airline strike you want to just play minor.
Labor unions in Germany are flexing their muscles again to
the dismay of airline passengers. 90,000 of them were
stranded at airports on Wednesday as workers in safety
control ground services or a chicken Congress walked off
their jobs. Out of contract negotiations. Germany's biggest
services sector union is demanding a 6% pay rise. Today's
action was only a warning strike. So there may be more to
come.
The strikes have Hit the Munich and Frankfurt airports the
hardest. Germany's flagship carrier. Lufthansa alone already
cancelled nearly 900 flights with 87,000 passengers. The
strikers want to see a 6% salary increase. Germany's largest
Workers Union Valle de has already turned down an offer of
a 3% wage hike paid out over two years. It says that's not even
close to what they want. offered us are wage reductions,
calculating the sum over two years, it wouldn't even cover
inflation for 2016 and 2017. The real wage reductions aren't
really called for in a situation where the state budget surplus
has never been so high in the history of the Republic.
Yeah, never been so high.
I would what I think is I'm seeing Germany fall apart.
People are tired. They're tired of the Ainur given to mess up a
lot. They're tired of they have some austerity issues as well.
They've been dealing with I think they're tired of these
unions, man. German unions didn't know not to be messed
with. And this is just yesterday must look
fondly upon the United States which has nothing but a weak
union system for the teamsters
knows. Let's see. Yes, Austria. Just do a two little quick
European nuggets here.
The Austrian parliament has passed controversial new
legislation restricting the right to asylum, it would allow
the government to declare a state of emergency and clamp
down on new claims. Some say the vote has a political aspect,
coming just days after a far right party won the first round
of the country's presidential election. Others though think
it's in response to a predicted surge of migrants through the
Brenner Pass. Austria is reportedly considering building
a fence here at the main border crossing with Italy The Brenner
passes the busiest routes through the Alps, Italy's main
transport link to Germany, its top trading partner controls
will slow down traffic and could impact on trade. Prime Minister
Matteo Renzi says the plans are against European rules, history
logic and the future tension has already fled at the Alpine
border. There were scuffles at the weekend, when demonstrators
tried to breach barriers put up by the security forces
that I would recommend. I would recommend for our producers who
are interested in this humanitarian crisis of mag, this
incredible magnitude, which is, you know, we're all used to
hearing it now. But I still see and feel what's going on. Still
in the media here. Of course, the Brenner Pass, I suggest you
look it up the printer pass has been really the important trade
route. For Ever since since I was lived in the Netherlands. I
do their songs about it. Met development the pipe to Rick
door the printer bus medmen Delta Tonon diesel pair of
enhanced Marimar SAS your Dell little update on refugees in
girlies
Greek authorities urging refugees to leave a makeshift
Edo many camp close to the border with the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia and move to official reception centers
elsewhere in the country. After weeks in the sprawling camp
trapped by bulk and border closures. The migrants are
facing the prospect of removal to processing centers and the
possibility of deportation to Turkey you got to forgive we'll
stay here where can we go if we go back? There's a bigger
problem. Nobody should forget what's happened to us is bigger
problem. All the people who've moved away say it's just the
same the same kind of life. They give you a portion of pasture
and a piece of bread. Is that enough for a human being to
survive on money cling to the hope that the borders will
reopen. And they will be allowed to continue their journey across
Europe, primarily to Germany. Human rights groups say living
conditions are appalling and the health risks are high. But the
flyers make great paper planes
that there was a nice little beautiful and that's funny the
human a human tragedy. Oh, but they make those airplanes out of
the flyers. Man and how about Austria? I'm in Austria. Hey no
just no asylum you can get asylum go away. Do you think
that yeah, they
got these guards diseases. It looks like this. Looks like the
s s what
could we see? Could we see history repeating that Austria
like we got to do something about Austria first because
there being a holes. Actually, that was exactly what happened
but you know, I'm Just saying, that's no, it's not at all what
happened because I saw the sound of music. I know what happened.
You know, what have you saw the sound of us I
know that, you know the Colonel van trop didn't want to join
with the Nazis and he was an Austrian. And yet the German
said you got to be part of us. And then he said, Let's go to
Switzerland. The hills are alive.
So you remember we did a piece on the suicides that are going
on in the United States as an increase in suicides? Yes, yeah.
And we concluded we had number of conclusions that were all
reasonable one is there was no there's no research on SSRIs
that and a couple of other things. And so all of a sudden I
hear Tom Thumb. You love him because you listen to that
station, which you can get in your I can I
have I have my Sirius XM app. But honestly, I have not
hunkered for Tom for a couple
days. It's hard to listen to this stuff. Yes. So there's all
these different reasons they think for the suicides I think a
lot of it has to do with the social media perhaps has all
these different things. But what do you think Tom Hartman would
think is causing this Oh, I
know a lack of superbeets
Funny you say that there's other people are selling this stuff
too? He sells
the super beats does he sell yes he's the whole channel sells
super beats Tom super beats Tom Super beats.com And then that is
terrible that jack off in the morning that woman's Mama's
beats Mama's beast out there all Mama's beats and Uber
oh my god yeah. Anyway, let's play the Thom Hartmann idiot
clip and you'll see what he's what what is causing this.
But I wanted to talk to you also about suicide, the US suicide
rate now. Is it a 30 year high? Well, we're where we 30 years
ago, we had another Republican in office. But another we had a
Republican in office did it. And this is the Sabrina haver Nice.
In today's New York Times, actually was Friday's New York
Times suicide the United States has surged to the highest levels
in nearly 30 years of federal data analysis is found with
increases in every age group except older. Adults, the rise
was particularly steep for women, it was also substantial
among middle aged Americans. The overall suicide rate rose by
24%. From 1999 to 2014. Now we go back, I've shared this with
you many, many times the BBC. Back in 2002. The headline more
suicides under conservative rule, Australian scientists
found the suicide rate in the country increased significantly
when a Conservative government was in power. And we you know,
again, we have Barack Obama in the White House. But the power
President Obama is in the White House. But the power of the
house in the Senate is where the power to appropriate is, in
other words to make life better for the president doesn't have
that power. And the House and Senate are in the hands of
conservatives of Republicans, Australian team and
I know the reason people are killing themselves is they're
listening to fom Hartman. That's why people are committing
suicide.
Why suicide statistics from 1901 to 1988, the researchers took
into account periods of drought and World War Two. But after
adjusting for these factors, the figures clearly showed the
highest rates of suicide occurred when both conservative
state and federal governments were in power. Whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
So that's it. Republicans kill Republicans, Republicans make
you want to kill yourself.
Lay the rest of it. That part too, because he raps a little
bit as a rap. But it's like, it's ludicrous rap because of
his conclusions about where this report came from. And they're
playing him out.
Which is while he's rapping that's kind of sad.
Yeah, the other the other story I wanted to open with today,
I've got a whole bunch more that I want to share with, you know,
G. But I, you know, I, again, this has to do with with our
culture, frankly, I you know, I another part of military of a
draft as a word is that it gets people out of their out of their
comfort zones and out into the wind.
I'm sorry, this is there's been if it's just, you know, yeah,
this is thumb is an idiot to ah, well, it's laid out quite
honestly, it's there's two and there's a T after your two. You
know, the way you write your clip sometimes the way, you
know, we can talk about later, I don't want to talk
I may have missed clip that
even if it's just you know, the world of the hospital you on the
other side of town that you're volunteering at. Conversely, the
lowest suicide rates occurred when state and federal
governments were both labor that would be a Democratic Party.
They say they end the article over us. Keep in mind, this is
the BBC. This is a news story. There's not a commentary.
Overall, they say the figures suggest that 35,000 People would
not have died had the Conservatives not been in power,
equivalent to one suicide for every day of the 20th century or
two for every day that the Conservatives rule Stop suicide
bandhan conservative governance Okay, I'm
gonna give you a clip of the day I think that was worth it was
well worth a clip. And everybody you know the answer you know
what to do you do don't want to harm yourself just
get again again and again. And then I'll have a one time happy
dance happy dance, get it, get it, get it
VOD full.
That's what you get when you listen to this guy that I think
your theory is right? He's causing this.
At least I don't buy Thank you very much for hanging in there
on the on the stream was a tough one today. But on Sunday, we'll
do it all over again from the same location with the same
challenges, but at least I'll know how to set it up. So we get
some form. I know people are not able to catch the stream
continuously. It's kind of coming in and out. But hey, I'm
sending 56 kilobits of stream and we got Skype going. Doing
what we can
do sounds good. You sound good.
Yeah, we're doing the best we can. From the good ship SS plop
here, which is located on one of the lovely canals in the capital
of Gitmo nation, the lowlands, Amsterdam in the morning,
everybody. I'm Adam curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where by the way, I
think the paparazzi should be hanging out around you. And we
have plop city around here. I'm John C. Dvorak. Did you call
them? Did you give him the location? Did you give him the
bank account? Though? Nobody has, nobody has contacted me. So
I can do that deal and make some some cash on the side. But these
guys aren't that I could.
John at the vorak.org and we'll be back on sunday.org I can set
you guys up once again from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Until then, adios mofos in the morning. Are we ready?
I can't help but think about Upton Sinclair, who said it's
hard to get a man to believe something when his salary
depends on his not believing. That's your business to Bill. So
you must believe this.
Okay, he's got the Upton Sinclair quote wrong. It's
difficult to get a man to understand something when his
salary depends on his not understanding it. Ah, he used
the word he substituted the word believe for you must believe
this. This is not a scientific anything. This is a belief
system. And he actually proves it by using the word belief
instead of understanding science.
So I predict that the year of 2016 will be among the top 10
hottest years ever recorded. Well, I'm not a science. I'm not
a science either. But believe this,
you believe in the wrong religion, my friend. Douche?
Was it appropriate to jail the guys from was it appropriate to
jail people from cigarette industry? So I can see where
people are very concerned about this and are pursuing criminal
investigation. So we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens.
So what we want to do is have a fee
for carbon. There it is. If you see something young techno
experts $2 Hoe $2 Hoe $2 Hoe
do the $2 bill and we do another bill 30 Do the $2 bill, we do
the $2 bill and we do another bill because it's so it's not in
rotation. You know what I'm saying? Not a lot in rotation
and it is a $2 bill I would love to
leave Andrew Jackson
come up with another denomination
$2 bill, but we do another bill. We already do that today dollar
bill and what they're doing what they're doing what they're doing
because Trump and Carson things add together as let's call it by
Harriet Tubman. And that's exactly Carson to our home, to
our home, to our home and you can always follow me on Twitter,
amen. Adios mopho.org/n
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