It'll be hands tiny hands. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday March 19 2017. This is your award winning get my
nation media assassination episode nine or one.
This is no agenda.
Nothing with the no agenda elites and broadcasting live
from the darkest corners of the internet here in southern
Silicon Valley and the fork is gonna shave phony in the
morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
and from Northern Silicon Valley where I am not in a fortress.
I'm not in a che. And I'm not in a chaise lounge. I'm John C.
Dvorak. Raglan buzzkill
on his feet as usual. Nice. You nailed it was good. Yeah. All on
the fly. And unbelievable. Yeah. Does he do it? How
does he do it? Everybody in the morning? Coming to you from the
fortress here in southern Silicon Valley belong and
talking
about fortress? Okay. You're at Foley's mansion. I am.
That's the fortress. Yeah. Yes. You were at the fortress as
well.
Yes. I showed up last night to say hello to do my part. Meet
the meet and greet. Yeah. Get to meet the lovely Tina.
Yes. And you know what I of course missed the meeting. Dr.
Livingstone, I presume? And Tina said that you came right in and
she stuck out her hand and you said no, no, no, no. We're going
to be hugging tonight.
Exactly. We're in California. She's you know she's and
besides, I know her virtually for years. Yeah. Well, this is
true. This is true that Joe Huggins except even though in
California, of course, hugging is acceptable in all situations.
Yes, of course. And if you don't like it move out of the state.
But people don't like it. Hugging. Yeah. Well, you know,
we're fine. Yeah. It's good to it is bullcrap again.
Well, there's not like where I grew up where we have to do
three kisses. Oh, yeah,
the three kisses. Yeah, the Dutch one Brazil is to Brazil is
two Kisses.
Bye in one. But in Holland. Men also kiss each other goodbye
with three kisses if they know each other, if they know each
other, not just like, hey, thank you. Thanks for the well, and
in Saudi Arabia. They give themselves a big wet kiss on the
lips. Men. Yeah, you see a picture George Bush. I think you
see these pictures. They're hard to catch. Because they don't
live photographers do it. But these Arabs want to give you a
big kiss.
Well, you say you were kind of the head of the party. John.
First of all, you came from far this. You drove an hour and a
half to come here. That was appreciated by all? Yes, it's a
long way. And everyone thought yours. Your sketches were great.
And your hoodie was on point. Skechers. You notice no one else
was dressed in a hoodie for the party. But you were on point.
Oh, no. I was
I was the hoodie. One was one of the south at South Dakota State
University one of their football they want they won this NCAA
championship five years in a row. And every year one of the
alumni sends me a hoodie. Yeah. And that was the third day. That
was the one of the better ones got a huge logo on it. Yeah, so
yeah, I thought I carefully considered that outfit.
It was apparent.
Should I wear this hoodie? Or should I wear that hoodie?
It was then you know, of course you left? Exactly after two
hours. And how do I know this? Use you know, okay, I'm gonna
leave now. And you know, Tina said all you're leaving. And
John, you apparently said to her? Yeah, it's been exactly two
hours. I'm going home now. Did you pre plan that two hours was
your was your budget?
I had a time I wanted to get back by so I could finish my
clips. Okay.
Well, let's show prep. This is true. Oh, yeah. I had to
entertain the troops here until two in the morning, you know, so
yeah, I'm sure you're in great shape.
But oh, yeah. So you brought a number of Thank you very much
over the two past what, two and a half year period since we've
seen each other. Right. Which by the way, everyone notice, as I
say, you know, you guys haven't seen each other for two and a
half years and now. Well, yeah, but how come you're not like
talking and hanging out together? And like, we really
want to get a job. Yeah. And talk to him all the time. Yeah,
we talked for three hours twice a week, six hours a week. I
don't think we did much to catch up on and
boy, I'm sorry, man. This this 9am Start Time on a Sunday. I'd
forgotten about that. You know, I'm Mister 11am. In Austin. 9am.
Is is a little, you gotta
get up at seven. Why do we do this? Well, that this. This is a
point that we're going to discuss today. Because I forgot
why we set this particular time. I remember. I think I remember.
It was like 10 years ago, we decided to do it at this hour.
Yeah.
And when I was in Los Angeles, I was also I remember now how much
I hated it because I have to get up at six six or five actually,
and do prep and stuff and
I do pre prep at the night and then I get so sick that I do two
hours in the morning.
Yeah, so I did a little bit while I was doing prep all day
yesterday before the party started and then I got up early
this morning. I think if I'm not mistaken, it's because of the
Australian listeners. What time is it right now in Australia?
I have no idea. I think we didn't get late or early. I
think we chose this is true. I think what you're saying now
tell me either ring a bell
I think we chose the time so that there was either so
Australian listeners could listen live or so by the time
the show was uploaded. They had it in the morning or something
like that.
Okay, how about this for an idea which I think now that you
brought this this bogus point up? I'm now is now coming to me.
See if I find my keyboard first.
It's near that big giant remote we gave you
the time. Yes. It's really good. Australian time right now is
what is it now? 3:30am Maybe that's too early.
It's sometime.
Alexa, what time is it in Sydney
is 330 in the morning. 330 in Canberra and three elsewhere and
230 some other places. Adelaide, it's three. Maybe that wasn't
why we did it then. But no, I know why we did it now. Okay, it
was the best. It was the best compromise because when we
started the show you were in London.
Oh, yes. And it would be six at 6pm My time Yes. Yeah, you're
right. You're right. Okay, Mystery solved.
Yeah, you're in London and I was here and then so we ended up
going that was the best time where you would be where I could
actually manage it I can manage to get seven and you weren't
getting too late into these right that's right that's right
so you can do the show and still go out
so here's some people were talking after you left people
had some comments that maybe you'd like to hear him the
mirror the main thing was actually it in Tina she's she
almost couldn't get over this she's like John sounds different
in person and I had to think about it like when I mean it
sounds the same to me I mean obviously you know we've got you
boosted with the voice of God to give you balls a low elo but I
think it's it's because you don't project as much in person
you're soft spoken you're not allowed guy okay, I think is
Yeah, I think it's just soft but of course you know, even when
you hear your voice on tape for the first time your own voice
sounds different so maybe it's just different.
I don't know it's different.
Now you brought along a whole bunch of goodies that you kept,
you know, some challenge coins and of course my favorite the
I'm a podcast or asked me about my podcast.
The greatest but never made until
I should have I really should have worn it sooner because I
walked in there with the bar area and I walk up and Tina's
talking to one of the guests and and I hear Tina say Janna Adam
invented podcasting. And Michelle and Michelle goes, Oh
yeah, like Al Gore invented the internet. What
is your there is your, your legacy right there.
I invented podcasting, just like Al Gore invented the internet.
Boom,
boom. No time wasted. This is in the sunny villa of Los Gatos.
Yes,
yes, yes. And it has been great. The Grand Duke and the and his
wife will be the she. What is it? What is the married? If
you're married to a Grand Duke, what are you?
The wife of the Grand Duke?
Yeah, yes, yes, that's correct. All right. I just want to start
with you know,
he can get her a duchess grant.
It's a thought. I mean, it's a goal. It's the gift that keeps
on giving. It's worth considering. I hadn't thought
about that one. Hey, I've missed all of the fun stuff, though.
I've been getting messages from our military sources. Guy. Yeah,
apparently there's a big buildup of US troops right now in
Kuwait. And Kuwait is always a staging area. When I went to
Iraq, we had to fly to Kuwait City first. And then Dr. Guy was
like seven or eight hours driving up to where the camp
Smitty was in Somalia province. And he says is a big build up.
And I'm thinking okay, does that mean Iraq? And he said, Yeah,
could be but that's also where the stage for Afghanistan, but
then I get this report, and there's a lot of reports like it
and I'm starting to get a little a little worried about the
mobilization factor in the Middle
East. Moving on a Syrian surface to air missile has been shot
down by Israel this Friday. That's the first time that Tel
Aviv government has used its advanced arrow, anti missile
technology. It comes as tensions are ratcheted up between the two
neighbors. After Israel carried out a string of air strikes on
Syrian soil, the Assad regime has deployed air defense systems
and fired several missiles targeting Israeli jets in
retaliation,
things heating up. So I wonder if it's for Syria? I haven't
gotten any answers. By the way. I only know and I don't think
anyone knows. But there's a buildup,
you know, either. They're probably just being staged. It
could be from just a completely, you know, stop the fighting in
Mosul. We're getting humiliated there. Yeah, by the fact that
we're killing so many civilians. And then now recently, we blew
up a mosque that they're trying to deny. It's just it was only
thing blowed up. But let's play a couple of these clips and try
to catch up on this Mosul situation, because there are two
people of course, you're giving us the needle about it.
Is this this but the mozal versus Aleppo?
Yes. Try that
ability on these precise are these exact allegations? I can
only say that, by the way,
isn't it odd to have Mark Toner still as the spokes hole for the
for the State Department? I love it. I mean, it's, it's like a
dimension a dimension be in one block, you know? Yeah, I like
it. It's very interesting
building on these precise are these exact allegations? I can
only say that, you know, we stand by what we said before,
which is we take every effort and carrying out our own
airstrikes, but also in sharing information with Iraqi security
forces to obviously to avoid civilian casualties. I just
don't have any sense of whether these are credible numbers or
not. I just can't answer.
The State Department saying it has no visibility on the
situation with civilians in Mosul is raising questions
considering the fact that the US is involved in the operations to
retake Mosul from ISIL. Related to that? Here's another question
I asked the State Department. I remember on a lipo, the State
Department's cited monitoring groups and credible
organizations like John Kirby, we say, to talk about civilian
suffering in a liberal, what information do you have for
monitoring groups and credible organizations, about civilians?
And most of them what they're going through because your site
any reports?
I, you know, I think there's UN organizations on the ground,
obviously dealing with refugees fleeing the city. I'd have to
get back to you on what are the monitoring groups. And again,
it's not that there aren't them. There aren't some there. I just
I don't have precise details.
So the State Department spokesman did not appear to be
immediately aware of what monitoring organizations say
about the plight of civilians in Mosul. Meanwhile, the air wars
monitoring group raised the alarm about hundreds reported
killed just within a week
since the assault first on east Mosul and then and in west Mosul
began, we have seen just a remarkable change. Moving from
10s of civilians reported killed to hundreds reported killed
every week. Now, by coalition airstrikes. We're seeing worse
numbers now in Mosul than we did during Aleppo. 300 civilians
died in just two neighborhoods of Mosul. In a 24 hour period as
a result of airstrikes. We didn't see that level of depth
in Aleppo. Yet we did during the final stages of Aleppo, if at
all through the Aleppo scenes, we saw significant international
media coverage. So why is there this difference? Why does
international media not want to engage on civilian casualties in
Mosul?
Who are all these, these so called experts sources that this
report claims have this information?
Nobody has any information? Thank you. But But nobody wants
any information. Apparently, if you play part two of this clip,
they try to get somebody to talk about this from all these
organizations, and they all refuse to talk about any of it.
We asked a number of journalists to organizations to comment on
the coverage of the situation in Mosul. Here are some of the
responses we received. The organization investigative
reporters and editors told us that it declined to participate
in this story, as a group said they had nothing to say on the
matter and referred us to the International Federation of
Journalists. It told us that the situation in Mosul is difficult
for civilians, adding that it was sure the human suffering in
Mosul was being covered adequately.
So nobody's covering it worked. But they weren't covering
Aleppo, either. They had Artie had somebody there. Yeah. And
then they did. Then they took a bunch of reports after the
situation ended and then kind of debrief got a debriefing of what
might have happened and when
they say coalition forces it does that mean us, does it mean
that's the case here, it's not the Turks. It can't be the
Turks. Let it be the Turks,
not in not in Iraq. So they have Uh, nobody covers this because
it's too dangerous. So no reporters are going to do any of
this stuff. There's a couple of things I noticed. I mean, what
the artis bitching about is that it looks as if the Aleppo was
covered even though it wasn't really covered either. But they
they dreamed up bullcrap stories about Aleppo, and they ran him
and they went nuts about him. Because it was the Russians.
They've just blamed the Russians for everything. And the same
things going on here, but nobody's doing bullcrap story.
Well, whose fault is that as the Russians fault? I mean, we let's
Okay, let's take it from a perspective of propaganda. Okay,
we are we have a point to make. So we have you know, so we got
this situation going on in Aleppo, we make our point by
just pretty much making up stories, and getting them to
everybody that run these stories. The Russians, the
experts and propaganda as we're led to believe, they can't seem
to do the same thing. It's a grouse on our tea. But so I just
find
I find the best at it, they have more money than than going on, I
can't believe that.
And I here's another thing that should be noted. And I think
that everyone's starting to do this because I noticed this
during the campaign, you'll see more and more of this an inch
and Gan Gan such a Can't she does this the best. She makes
herself part of the story. She says, I asked toner another
question, then they show a shot of her. Our team of her asking a
question and then toner and answering it. We don't see
anyone doing that with the AP. We don't see, you know, they're
not putting a mayor's mad going on about how to he asked a
question, you know, by the way, where is Matt Lee? I think he's
on vacation. So anyway, they are a bender. Yeah. So the but I
noticed this during the campaign where these different reporters
would have a camera on them as they yelled out a question. And
so I think we're gonna see more and more of that. So the, the
reporters are more part of the story,
which is exactly what you're not taught to. Isn't that the
antithesis of being a journalist is like your
Thomson, that's what you're supposed to do. It's, you know,
it's a reference, gonzo journalism, where the reporter
is part of the story, but generally speaking, it's bad
form. Yeah. But I think I predicting right now you're
gonna see more and more of it, because interesting. What
happens is that you do that and you get more money. Yeah, good
work there. Bill. I saw you in that report. Because you don't
need most of the time, you should be doing these things.
Semi anonymously. You should be just doing an objective, some
objective reporting based on what you hear and what you piece
together, you know, make yourself part of the story.
Right. But that's what the people who do they'll be getting
more money because they get making you look at me Look at
me. Yeah. You're just gonna see this you watch. Anyway,
well, in addition to that, I was going to mention that we now
also have you have 300 armored vehicles challenge or two tanks,
but all UK military deployment to Estonia, which took place
over this weekend.
Yes. Estonia, as we pull has got a bunch of people. Yes, Estonia.
That's not very friendly. No, it's kind of F Russia. And you
know what? I'm worried about. I'm getting kind of I caught
this. Let me see if I can find it here. But first of all, just
to remind you of how nuts it is right now, in the United States
of Gitmo nation government. We have one senator accusing the
other of working for Vladimir Putin directly a reminder of
that exchange.
So I repeat again, the senator from Kentucky, is now working
for Vladimir Putin. I object.
And he walks up. Yes, oh, little projection, no expense spared
here on the show. But there was. So now we have these these
sessions going on, on the hill, about Russian influence in
global democracies, in fact, and this starts off with Senator
Leahy, who I just left him in because he the way he dogs is so
funny, and so slow. But then wait for the kicker as Lindsey
Graham comes in, and what he really wants, and how he really
feels about Russia, as it pertains to their influence in
global democracy, not their five witnesses. The typical shields
that people we don't I mean, they're from think tanks and all
kinds of kinds of organizations. So I don't have to tell you who
they are, you know how it works. You bring in people who are
going to give you the answers you want and that's why you ask
the questions that are set up and pre approved and written
well
the best ones of course, we should work with before i Sorry,
sorry, stepping on that, but I haven't heard this these clubs,
but I would assume that Lindsey Graham does his normal Do you
agree with me that no,
it's better than that. Lindsey. So it's lay you as he was asking
some questions. And then I edited this down, of course,
because it just too much bullcrap. And then pauses, but
then he's the chairman of the of this particular committee of
this. Graham. Yeah, he's the chairman of this from the
Russian influence in global democracies. I'm not sure how he
may be part of the committee he's on but
they make these committees up as they go along. Okay.
So he doesn't do a question he actually just state something
that may cause NATO has been missed.
Listen, to listen to the frog in my throat. No, no
ladies had something else wrong with him. Was
that me? NATO's been mentioned, like
I had a really big lunch. So the the topic is NATO here as well,
for me, sort of closer to the NATO has been
I can't get over that. What is wrong with him?
NATO has been mentioned here. I think we'd all agree that NATO
is important that there's unity, but there's also has to be
within NATO, and understand the United States stands. Does this
if they see the United States being able to be manipulated by
Russia? Is that sounds blasted
out? He maybe had a stroke? I don't think so. Maybe just a
three Martini lunch.
I may forgive him for it. We can start calling him Mr. phlegm.
But, but he doesn't he's not enough. I mean, normally, even
when he's all Flemmi. Yeah, he enunciates a little better than
this.
is bad. This is bad. All right, here we go.
within NATO, and understand the United States stands, does this
if they see the United States being able to be manipulated by
Russia? Is that's so doubts in NATO? Well, I don't think we
believe that the United States is being manipulated by Russia.
But if we reach a point here that,
did you hear that? Yeah, he's being honest. Yeah.
So let's not stop and question that let's move on the United
States
is being manipulated by Russia.
But if we reached the point that we did, I guess we'd be pretty
nervous. Do you think this operation of Russia was a one
time operation? Or do you think we might see this? The guy just
said, we're not being manipulated? I I'm not quite
sure why he thinks it's still an operation. Maybe he's referring
to the DNCC hack
operation and you think we might see this in the future?
The operation regarding the 2016 election? Yeah, absolutely.
Certainly. There there's going to be emboldened by the extent
to which they had an effect on the electorate whether they
affected the outcome election they had an effect on the course
of the election. It's caused a lot of disruption they can be
emboldened by that. They're gonna come back even stronger
next time. They're gonna perfect their techniques and other
countries like North Korea, or Iran, China. Get on the ball.
Yeah,
I know. The Russians are taking over the world with our with our
tea with RT let's
start let's start with no North Korea. Yeah, you're gonna hack
their elections. They're gonna hack their computer systems
during the
election. Do they even have elections?
They don't have elections. What am I thinking? You haven't got
elections? They haven't got computers. They haven't got an
internet, but they're gonna go hack him.
Influenced influenced the election, so the other guy will
win. Yeah, the other guy,
John Wooden, too.
They're gonna come back even stronger next time. They're
going to perfect their techniques and other countries
like North Korea or Iran, China, get on the bandwagon and do the
same.
Yes, sir. Certainly, I just want to let you know that the French
election I believe is in the April runoff would be in May. Is
that correct?
First round April 23. Second round may 7,
I think it's important that the Congress takes some kind of
action on our bipartisan legislation to punish Russia for
interfering in our election before the firm the German the
French elections, and Germany's in September
September 23. View an attack
on one party in the United States and attack on all parties
by a foreign entity. We need a kind of an article five response
here oh yeah,
we need an Article Five response that's an Article Five respects
NATO's Article Five and attack on one attack on all if he's,
he's comparing.
He's an idiot. This guy he's comparing the bogus attack that
probably didn't the Russians probably didn't even do because
what was the point? Yeah, against the Hillary Clinton
campaign and John Podesta who had the password of password
Are Well, here's the sad thing. What happened? What is happening
now in dimension B there is there is an entire story that
has been built. And this is the technical explanation. Of
course, you know, this, this may make it into the New York Times,
but you take a couple of layers down and you get Donald Brazil
who of course, is a part of this dimension. And she was on The
Daily Show. And you think it's nuts for Lindsey Graham to
equate this to a NATO based Article Five an attack on one is
an attack on all let's go nuke Russia response. It she's taking
it one step. I mean, just listen, I was serving as the
acting chair after Debbie Wasserman Schultz left was
thrown out the DNC
that is
a thankless job let's second time. Okay, the first thankless
job did you hear this woman? You the chair and when it's a
thankless job? I wouldn't want her as my Chairwoman. If
chairperson, if
she thinks that way. Left the DNC
that is a thankless job list. Second time. Okay. The first
time I was chair, yeah, it was like over the Easter break. And
it was really nice. But this time, it was over the break from
hell because the Russians invaded us, do you?
Wait, it gets better? It gets better. I just wanted to pause
so you could prepare yourself for what's coming next hell
because the Russians invaded us. Did you know that it was the
Russians at that time? Did you just know you had been hacked? I
was told initially that we were hacked by a hostile foreign
power was like, Okay, who, and then later when I received my
brief, and I received a really thorough view and pitch it what
was going on? And it really, at one point, I was just fearful.
Because think about it. I mean, I've gone up against
Republicans, I've gone up against libertarians,
independents, but I've never gone up against a hostile
military force. And
when they sit outside her door with AK 40, sevens.
Force, and how do you run a campaign when you have somebody
not only gone into your emails, but ripping through all your
files, harassing your donors harassing your staff every day?
So first of all, was it
I don't recall reports of harassment?
I don't recall. No, I think that would have been reported by the
liberal media.
Yeah. ripping through your documents harassing your staff
harassing your donors. Isn't that what you do down in Brazil?
Don't you harass donors for more money? Isn't that your job?
Yeah, send your
staff. Chip in every day. So first of all, this is the truth
you you're running with. But this is the to get the real
truth. You have to come to me because I know the truth. Oh,
she knows the truth. Are you gonna write a book? Oh, hell
yeah.
She's gonna write the truth,
everybody. Everybody.
Truth is, is that politics is a hard fought game. Yes. And when
you're in a battle of fighting, to make sure that you have
inclusion to make sure you have diversity that makes sure that
you have the kind of not just communication but the kind of
conversation with voters. You want to make sure that those
questions, those topics that is out there, whatever.
I'm not quite sure what she meant by that last bit, but he
finally admitted she was a douchebag After lying and lying
and lying.
I know. It's really quite amazing how we all know what she
did. She took questions from the CNN town hall, which was like a
real real debate situation and gave them to the to Hillary
Hillary. I mean, the past this woman gets is amazing. They
should she shouldn't be blackballed. It's like the Brian
Williams pass of power. And just everyone gets me lie. Fine
cares, fake news, fake news.
I guess, you know, I guess finding decent news readers that
are that are readers looking. Is not that easy? I don't know I
float around the country. I watch all the local news when I
go there. And I see blood of people that looked like they'd
be fine on the network.
So Donna, Brazil, and so she's gonna write a book on Wall can't
wait for that. There's another film out about President Obama.
And I think it's kind of like a documentary and the guy Jesse
Williams I think is narrated. The film was on CBS This
Morning. Now what and this really this, this might, I
probably should have put this under alternate universes. Well,
you helped me determine if I think it's an alternate universe
story here. So in this film tries to describe President
Obama and how Fanta As the key is, was as president,
another Hey, John Hagee, Agra Yeah, hagiography.
But what's interesting is I would argue and you'll I'm
setting it up this way for a specific reason I would argue
that Trump was elected by was elected by people who liked him
a lot for his way to communicate his way to message.
So this is the guy that's honest as Jesse Jesse. Yes. He's an
actor. He's in Grey's Anatomy. Yes. And he's just been He's an
activist actor. So yeah, one of those laws out
loud mouth yeah. And if he ever wins an Academy Award, did you
know he'll make the show go along? Yeah. People who voted
for Trump most of them will say Oh, I liked he just communicates
the way I like to hear it. Be the communication style was
without a doubt a big a big point in this in this election.
But then you listen to what Jesse Williams is about to say
here and you can apply it to either dimension to either
universe except here of course it only works with President
Obama let's see if if my setup makes sense when you hear the
clip what's the essence of the
process of writing by the way, what's
the essence of the Charlie Rose?
What is the sexuality? What's your sexuality?
It's in your DNA.
What's the essence of the process?
Writing the speeches? I think it is it has to it has to be born
out of an authentic not only interest and passion for them so
I should probably say this about President Obama's speech writing
capability as if he writes them all himself obviously not
speeches and I'm sure he's responsible for process
writing these speeches. I think it is it has to it has to be
born out of an authentic he doesn't know he just says it I
think it's I head has to be this it has to be that stay tuned.
interest and passion for the material but information you
have to have some wisdom and experience and you know,
intellect matters is a despite popular opinion, these days, you
have to have some intellectual heft around you you have to have
some intellectual heft issues and be surrounded by people who
do to be both interested and informed on a topic
you know, it's interesting that you say that too because you
know he clearly has the gift as people said as the order and if
you know but his writing to was a way to move people he tried to
use his ways to try and make people
understand
Yeah, I think that an element yes a teaching
America there's what's her name? No,
no, no, it's CBS This Morning. It's not good.
I mean, that's what I meant. Yes this morning and so yeah, please
notice that that it's a teacher he has a gift. He has a gift
it's a teaching element he was teaching us yes a
teaching element there yeah
there and anybody can recite words right? But there is a
connectivity to being able to really understand you know who
and what you're talking about and being able to frame it in a
way that is relatable that people can see themselves in the
experience and use kind of key words and vocabulary that
relaxed people disarm people and make them get set a set of set a
table Thanks Obama
Yeah, the only the wow
we were hit boots. Stand through this bull crap.
So was that an alternate universe?
That's a good I think it was the alternate universe speaking to
itself in that little group there because that group is all
dimension be. How nice is that one. That's good. You can do
this. Fletcher. Oh, yeah. Fletcher seems to be you have a
lot of talent. Amazing. Screaming Yeah.
That's fantastic. By the way, oh, you know, as birthday
presents. Now, I just I asked Fletcher to do a shout out for
my for my friends and send it to him as a ringtone. It's the gift
that keeps on giving
is Fletcher's got Fletcher's Fletcher, what can I say? All
right. I think that's it. Yeah, I think there was I think it was
I think you're right and your assertion is guys are just
blowing smoke up each other's butts is like the say, yeah,
now was it I of course being here, but we left right after
the show Thursday. So I haven't seen a lot of the mainstream
news because we were just honestly goofing off. But what
is the what is the reporting been on Angular Merkel's visit
and press conference with the
I have some clips Very good. Now the thing was, is that I think
it was very sick. Access, which is where I was kind of a
successful miracle. This is what the analysis comes down to it
just kind of it was kind of a wash for Trump. They wouldn't
give him credit for the fact that the one thing that came out
of this was Germany coming out in their foreign like is the
foreign minister, the defense minister, one of them coming
out, say, Yeah, we're gonna put a lot more money into NATO.
That's all really Trump was bitching about that they weren't
getting the money they deserve right? From the Germans. I mean,
only the UK pull up Poland and a few countries are paying their
fair share. So the Germans are now coming out and saying, but
no media outlet is equating this to anything. All they're talking
about the handshake.
Oh, now I missed this. What is the do an Illuminati handshake?
No, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you the rundown. And then we'll get
to the handshake at the end. So let's see what we got a miracle
clip. That's the look here. Merkel Merkel Merkel green
scandal,
Marco Marco. Marco.
Where's Mark? All?
Where's Angola? I have thoughts on Merkel meeting.
Yeah. Let's go with thoughts on Merkel. This is my thoughts on
Merkel meeting.
A meeting of the two most influential leaders in the
Western world. Cold weather has delayed an earlier visit. And a
frosty atmosphere prevailed as the President and the Chancellor
of the White House say
what he says frosty it was called you couldn't go as COVID
Now they had a frosty meeting. Get it?
Oh, you know, I have Yes. Oh my goodness. I love that. We used
to do that in J school.
A meeting of the two most influential leaders in the
Western world. Cold weather had delayed an earlier visit, and a
frosty atmosphere prevailed as the President and the Chancellor
posed for photos at the White House. Trump appears to decline
an invitation for a handshake proceedings then leads to behind
closed doors for talks on terrorism, the conflict in
Ukraine and defense spending. Both said they wanted to see
fair trade and a fair deal on the sole
trader that wants to see good for everybody worldwide. But I
am not an isolationist fungal sub diaton
on the president underlined how important he thinks NATO is.
It's a prime importance to us. As we said during our summit
meeting in Wales, Germany needs to increase its spending in this
area.
I spent they spent more money but but the emphasis in the
mainstream media this was from fans 24 Which I thought was a
little more at least trying to be a little more objective x
objective except for this clip, which is the follow up on the
handshake.
France 24 was Gallagher Fenwick spoke to us a little earlier
from Washington. He described more about this rather strange,
tattered tap for us, including that awkward moment, Merkel
offered a handshake for the cameras from beards to ignore
her.
Now, all right, you saw this so I can't wait to hear what you
thought about this.
Yeah, I watched this thing. Okay. Merkel was never offering
it. She wasn't like she was left hanging with her hand out to the
people was like to get those photos can shake you looking the
other way? Hey, where?
Did they have any video that would even look remotely like
that?
No, oh, they had the two of them. So here's what went on.
Let's go from beginning to the end, first of all, and there's
this was mentioned a little bit now they think, oh, a new
protocol has been established. A new protocol has been
established. Trump greeted her at the door of the White House.
That's a new protocol right there. That's what they all
said. They said oh, no, every president's going to have to do
that. What's wrong with that? That's nice. There's nothing
wrong with it. But they went on and on about easy but when he
did he gave her a big hit hearty handshake everything just short
of a California hug. And so the handshake was there. Then they
sat down these two chairs and he's all slouched over the way
he has to cover up the fact that he's overweight and ties too
long. I don't know You know, this you know, I
now that you mentioned that the long tie is clearly something
he's doing because he wants to make his gut not look as big as
it is. It's a trick it's a gut it's an old guy trick.
It's an old guy trick that's the way so he saw I didn't even
think about it.
You're right that's why he has the ties too long because that's
the flow over that mound.
So he's got this so he's there like that and now he's sitting
there and and the handshake thing started with some two or
three reporters yelling handshake.
Hey, do you have a clip of that we need a clip of that thing.
If you listen to the first clip it was in there. Oh, I didn't
hear it right at the beginning. They were yelling handshake. And
so the yelling handshake handshake. Oh, you can hear in
the background and then of course the big emphasizing on
some report I
saw him give her a handshake out To the newscast. Yes, well,
here's,
here's what I'm thinking. They have gotten him sitting in those
two chairs, giving these and the person's a mile away. He does so
they have him kind of hunched over, giving a handshake to
whoever it is and they've done this shot over and over with
everyone who shows up right? And I doubt they're making a mockery
out of it because they show these handshakes and they put
them on Twitter. Look at this. It looks like an idiot.
Didn't want you held his hand too long.
He hands tiny hands.
And so they so he I think he just decided not do those
handshakes from the chair. It looks dumb. Yeah. And you get
ridiculed. And you get ridiculed. So why should I be
doing this stupid handshake? I'm not, I'm not that stupid.
They're yelling handshake handshake. She did nothing. She
didn't make a move and do anything. She wasn't like doing
it. She wasn't making a motion for a handshake. They said she
was. Somebody showed me a clip of her doing it. I have looked
at this over and over again. And I have not seen her even she has
even Twitter, Twitch. So then they get up and go out and he
welcomes, right. And then at the very end of the whole meeting,
there's a there's your handshake, big handshake, and
they dig and get all the pictures, they want of that
handshake. They want a specific handshake. Now they're bitching
because they're not getting it. I think
the new protocol should be no handshake, peck on the cheek
slap on the ass, boom, good to go. That would be me.
Yeah, well, it'd be for all the profiles. Presidents would have
to do that after they
actually wanted to you had a piece in your clip, which I have
in a different clip about fake news. And I just thought it was
interesting to hear the German journalist ask a question. Then
you hear how Trump she actually asked the question of Merkel and
Trump. And he says, Well, let me just jump in here. First. I just
thought it was interesting. The whole exchange I kind of liked
don't start you're
given the experience of the GDR, you are always saying that you
are so confident that wolves can fall also, for how dangerous Do
you think this isolationist policy of the US president is?
What was the import tariffs that he's plans and also fraught with
the fact that he doesn't think the EU doesn't deal with the EU
in a very respectful way? And, Mr. President, America first,
don't you think that this is going to weaken also the
European Union and why are you so scared of diversity in the
news and in the media that you speak so often off fake news and
that things after all, in the, in the end cannot be proven, for
example, the fact that you have been wiretapped by Mr. Obama
overs?
So what was interesting about her cute German woman, blondie,
and she sits down and she's smiling, like, I didn't deny
these habits geschafft high esteem about the fake news, what
does he have paid off? She had a real kind of grin on her face.
And that's why I like the Trump's response.
I've been by attempt by Mr. Obama, first a
nice, friendly reporter. First of all, I don't believe in an
isolationist policy. But I also believe a policy of trade should
be a fair policy. And the United States has been treated very,
very unfairly by many countries over the years. And that's going
to stop. But I'm not an isolationist. I'm a free trader.
But I'm also a fair trader, and our free trade has led to a lot
of bad things happening. You look at the deficits that we
have, and you look at all of the accumulation of debt. We're a
very powerful company country. We're very strong.
Nice little flub there, huh?
Yeah, that was a good one.
I thought that was cool. I
made a big fuss out of that. Oh,
he's running his like a company. Uh, yeah, maybe we shouldn't
call him chief executive then.
We're very powerful company country. We're very strong.
We are look at look at look at the structure, look at the legal
documents. We're company,
strong and very strong country will soon be at a level that we
perhaps have never been before. Our military is going to be
strengthened. It's been depleted. But I am a
trade which is kind of threatening to say that we're
going to be strong that means our military. Yeah, there was,
you know,
traders. I am a fair trader. I am a trader that wants to see
good for everybody worldwide. But I am not an isolationist by
any stretch of the imagination. So I don't know what newspaper
you're reading but I guess that would be another example of as
you say, fake news.
I would say you were but slammed
definitely but slim got butts land. Now.
You in your report. You had one of those What if frosty
reception because it was cold?
But before we before we I want to do a little aside because you
brought up something that came up in a that he just said that
came up in the assuming finest French 24 This This came up with
the G 20, which is meeting in the clip is Baden Baden. Baden
Baden is game up on on Deutsche Vela. There's this new woman
Helena. Who does the business reporting
women women is that the one used to be on CNBC with a tall crazy
blonde.
No, no, no. Okay. It's Helen, us. You got a nice German
accent. She's absolutely gorgeous. Especially if you'd
like the dark, dark black haired Goth look. She has this
particular report. She has these goth just I'm telling you, it's
got makeup, everything showed her black lipstick really. And
when she worked for Deutsche villa, and she is she's really
pretty and she and they put her in these tight fitting dresses.
And so then she does a stamp.
Now hold on a second. Deutsche you gotta check this. Deutsche
What's your name? Helga.
Elena. Oh, Helen. I don't know. I can't remember last name, but
it's something very German and it can be a whole bunch of
helenus. Let's see. Oh. Okay. So she stands up and she's wearing
these tight fitting dresses and she's got kind of a dub but
she's, she's a she's a kind of like Guilfoyle esque.
Yes. A little bit, but she's prettier. Oh, yeah. much
prettier.
Sorry, Guilfoyle. You're outnumbered by the crowds.
She's anyways they have her do a stand up and talking to a giant
screen. And then she Hey, baby, Hey,
I've seen this like and I'm talking to my giant screen.
He's talking to a giant screen. So I'm, I'm watching DW. Now
we're going to my routines. And they have her standing there
with this tight fitting dress. And she's got a shapely butt.
And so they she's and she's got her feet position to start with.
And then she does a
pivot to the screen. Does the screen pivot nice. It's
like a screen pivot. And exactly, and all you can see is
her butt sticking out. And it's like, I don't
even want to know what she had to say anymore. Just keep
telling me what she looks like woman's got this
terrific, but and so you're saying wow, that was a good
fight.
Well, I don't know what they just said. But it must be true,
because look at that, but
and so I get the biggest kick out of this obviously. So she is
now doing a report on the G 20. And she's throwing it to the
guys she's throwing it to the to the giant head and we're gonna
get a report and you'll see what's going on the G 20 is just
a bunch of meeting. It's like a drinking club where they can
decide what not to talk about.
Well, let's cross over now to our correspondent Javier
Arguedas, who is reporting for us from Baden Baden. Now, have
you protectionism has been the elephant in the room we
understand and whether or not that word will make its way into
the final communique. What are you hearing?
Well enough, from what I'm hearing, I would say that it's
very unlikely that the word protectionism and the commitment
to fight protectionism is going to appear and that final
communique of the G 20 finance ministers meeting. And the
reason is very clearly that the US is opposing that fiercely.
Now, the US already succeeded today in eliminating all
references to climate change in this declaration. So it is very
likely that they will also pursue and succeed in
eliminating protectionism. The question is how the countries
are going to discuss that tomorrow, especially if they do
not want to talk about the sensitive topic of trade and
protectionism.
And briefly heavier we understand China doesn't want
the word fair trade in the communique, either.
That's right. If China wants to strike the word fair, because
the United States is pushing for that exact word, it would be
fair, in the sense better suited to the United States. So China
is definitely opposing that. As you can see it the details
always make the difference. And in the end, we'll probably just
see a vague description of what the countries are really looking
for.
All right, have you I guess in Baden Baden? Thanks for that.
I think she's quite defined. What was the clip about?
Boston apparently.
I need to go back to I need to go back to I'm looking for a
term. When in a news report, you do those cool little like tie
ins like Oh, frosty, or frosty reception? Because it was cold?
Yeah. Is there a name for that?
Yeah, it's called a cheap pun, cheap Pong. I mean, that would
be a pun to me. Okay, cheap on.
One of our producers found the cheapest of all puns on PBS. If
it's a true pun. Oh, yeah. Okay, on PBS. And so what you're going
to hear in this clip is the tail end of the Report of the
President with Merkel of Deutschland and then you're
going to hear the you know, the back announce from that is Judy,
I believe and listen to What she says
Merkel's dealings with President Trump may affect her popularity
at a critical moment.
She's seeking a fourth term as
chancellor and elections later this year, and faces challenges
from both the left and the right. In the days other news,
President Trump defended the White House's handling of his
claim that President Obama had him wiretapped. His PRESS
SECRETARY SEAN SPICER had quoted a Fox News analyst who suggested
British intelligence handled the wiretapping. The British flatly
denied it and complained to the White House. But at his news
conference today, the President dismissed the furor.
Come on, come on. That was on purpose. You know, dismiss the
fear a Deaf era.
You know, I, I'm thinking sometimes I because I do these
kinds of lines, often and and some of they sound like gems
that Oh, that guy so funny, and their subconscious. And I think
that may have been subconscious because Judy can't really do
that.
Well, but she didn't write the copy. She didn't write what
she's
not necessarily she might write her own copy.
But when you say he dismissed the FF you're talking
specifically here,
the wiretapping, the British flatly denied it, and complained
to the White House. But at his news conference today, the
President dismissed the furor.
It's almost like when he says, when he says, I'm a fair trader,
you could also say, I'm a traitor, you know, you can hear
all these things. I just thought that was pretty Yeah,
that was definitely that's, uh, you want to you want a
borderline Tip of the day for that.
I'm just gonna take it. I'm claiming it. All right, because
I got I got two clips to the day coming up. Now
what since you're on that, going on that down that road? Let's at
least let's play the CBS hit piece. That was done by Garrett
Garrett, the major major Major Garrett Major, the major is not
a straight, he hasn't become general yet. And this is Major
Garrett. When
I have here a hit piece on wiretap.
That would be it.
You know, this past administration. At least we have
something in common perhaps
that's a reference to Obama era surveillance of Chancellor
Merkel cell phone by the National Security Agency. The
President's use of the word of wiretapping is at odds with his
own comments just days ago, because
wiretapping is pretty old fashioned stuff. But that really
covers surveillance and many
other things. Both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees
have said no surveillance of Trump Tower took place. We said
nothing. The President also amplified another unverified
allegation that Mr. Obama used British intelligence to spy on
him. Fox News LEGAL ANALYST Andrew Napolitano made the
accusation Tuesday that
President Obama went outside the chain of command. He didn't use
the NSA. He didn't use the CIA didn't use the FBI. And he
didn't use the Department of Justice. He is GCHQ What the
heck is GCHQ? That's the initials for the British spying
agency.
On Fox News on March 14, Judge Andrew Napolitano,
press secretary Sean Spicer cited that reported yesterday's
White House briefing is affected by the GCHQ issued a rare public
review saying the allegation is quote, utterly ridiculous and
should be ignored. But the President took no responsibility
for the breach of protocol with the UK one of America's closest
allies
television I didn't make an opinion on it. That was a
statement made by a very talented lawyer on Fox and so
you shouldn't be talking to me you should be talking to Fox is
Is
this serious? He's got to stop that. That's dumb. Hey man, but
what I said was guy on Fox talented guy though
on Fox and so you shouldn't be talking to me you should be
talking to Fox Fox anchor
Shepard Smith for a moment after the press conference.
Fox News cannot confirm Judge Napolitano is commentary
Why doesn't he just go work at CNN already?
He you know he's throwing everybody under the bus that he
can yeah hey guys look at me I'm doing such good work throwing
people under the bus
I mean you're dimension hire me hire me and dimension be hired
me Fox
News cannot confirm Judge Napolitano his commentary. Fox
News knows of no evidence of any kind, that the now President of
the United States was surveilled at any time in any way. Full
stop, you know,
so you missed the end that last night so
yeah, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to step on it. too. It never
was surveilled at any time. In any way. Full stop. Full stop.
Hold on. So the peloton I remember the clip the whole clip
And he said, sources who I can't name three of them three inside
the intelligence community told him this. Yeah, so it's always
okay for everyone to add anonymous sources.
I'm sorry to show yeah, I said we have the original clip if you
want to play this from the last show.
Yeah, well, you can do that. Why don't we do that? What's the
name of the outfit again? GH CQ was that it?
Yeah, but it'd be under Napoletana
upon Okay, here we go.
By the way, he said the exact same thing with the exact same
words with the exact it's almost rehearse worry, because this
second showing of it was, I believe a different show when
they played the clip.
Yeah, yes, yes. Correct. I think this is let me see what this one
is here. Three. Intelligence sources have informed Fox today
got three intelligence sources having listened to what he says
having formed Fox isn't saying me. He says Fox and then we have
Fox saying we can't confirm it
with three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that
President Obama went outside the chain of command he didn't use
the anchor and ship says states was surveilled at any time in.
He says Fox News cannot so who's lying during Fox News knows of
no evidence by definitely. Here's something else here on
Fox News.
Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News.
Someone's got to get their story straight people.
Well, the other one if you listen to Shepard Smith, and
then another example of this later in the show of this sort
of weasel wording your way out. Having somebody tell you this
happened doesn't mean you have evidence
online. Second, I want to play CNN
ship says Fox News has you know, evidence Ship?
Ship? Ship?
Yes, that's what he says. Yeah, no evidence. Okay. I, you can
say sources have said but we have no evidence. I understand
what you're saying.
Yeah. We're gonna see more of that. weasel words.
In other words, you're really reporting nothing to turn to
turn a turd. Here's CNN. I forget which commentator had the
line but you'll hear it. What was
your reaction when you see the British government calling
something the White House says that the White House briefing
room ridiculous and should be ignored? Well, Kate, it
was ridiculous. GCHQ is the National Security Agency of
Britain. It operates under very, very strict guidelines, strict
laws, and for GCHQ to make a press statement like this, I've
never heard of it. It's unprecedented. They are furious.
The accusation that Sean Spicer made is Britain got involved in
our politics, which for the British is a red line. And I'd
like to add that if this White House continues to play rational
security like this for political partisan purposes, and frankly,
bad around lies that everybody knows is a lie. This is gonna
hurt our security and Sean Spicer Oh, it's gonna get people
killed because GCHQ
stopped talking over it Yes, that's what he said people
killed because Jesus went here that'll sentence again. It's
gonna get people killed Usain Bolt he knows
this a lie. This is gonna hurt our security and Sean Spicer is
gonna get people killed because GCHQ will stop cooperating
eventually.
So in spite sweaty Shawn the murderer gonna get you're not
gonna
stop quiet. Wait a minute, who says if they're cooperating
already, doesn't it make sense that this could possibly happen?
This is not this is one of the workarounds. The security people
talk about this all the time. And we're everybody knows this
is going on that you can't spy the NSA or the NSA is
essentially a signals company. They bring it all a sample this
dollar SIG, int SIG int. And the CIA can spy on Americans and the
SIGINT guys get most of the signals. And but they do they
can get all this all this data, and they can share it and then
the other guys GCHQ can get all the data that they want on
Americans and then they can share it. Yeah, it's the it's
the spy on the British. I am one of them. I on one side, I say
okay, I can spy on the British. What do you have on this guy?
Because we can't legally spy on him. What do you have? And this
is a known fact this goes on the easiest way to do it. And they
do
it under the Five Eyes agreement with Australia and New Zealand
and Canada and Kent, Canada.
And it's legal. Yes, it's totally legal. Yes, our CIA
cannot spy on us. But British mi six can and they can get get the
information to whoever needs it. Yeah, and the whole thing is a
joke.
Yeah. This is this is all of this Alabama and all of it is
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They don't even know they're spreading partial or non truths.
I believe this to be true yes. No need for karma not a huge
fan. But throw in whatever your favorite clip is. I like
Sharpton resist but a lot of people been asking for it. So
play something different. Deep douching is also humbly
requested and give him that right now.
But he wants he wants to resist resist or not a resist.
He doesn't want to resist he wants something different. He
just wants it he wants he deeply wants to resist but he realizes
we playing it too much. So he wants it he doesn't want to say
you know is one of them. I'm
not gonna I don't have anything then. We'll play
him to resist now play this forum. The following podcast
will make you realize that Al Sharpton is incomprehensible.
But resist, we must. We must and we will much about that. Be
committed was the result of
anal leakage. At listener discretion is advised. Ben de
douche. Tell us what you get when you play something on the
fly.
This is old news. But he continues on his note. You get
muddy douchey as I did. This is old news. But one thing that is
all new. This is old news. But one thing that is old news, but
has been on my mind is about Comey saying they were reopening
the Clinton email investigation just prior to the election. What
if the reason he did this was because he actually knows what
was in the 30,000 emails from some other method, maybe
something from the vault seven bag of tricks or similar. And he
was trying to determine if what was in Clinton's email was worth
revealing how the FBI got the information he needed a week to
weight the costs versus benefits and ultimately determined the
cost was too great. Just a wild thought. Yeah, it's pretty wild.
Nobody knows Comey is Comey right now and he's in Austin
today. You can believe that. He has time to go do open Saturdays
rummaging
through your place as we speak.
He's not here, man. Come on. We know he's not here. Let's go in.
We'll find it we'll find some evidence.
Anyways, let's keep up the good work trying to hit people in the
mouth. I just have bad aim. So he's, we did get let in
yesterday's Trump parte over at the Dukes house. We did get one
new listener.
Yes. And listen to one new listener on an Android and iOS.
Yes. That was fantastic.
Yes. You know what our work is done, John. We're good for the
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formula is this. We go out. We hit people in the mouth Citizens
Robert Reich What's his deal? Robert Reich?
Well, Robert Reich co labor secretary, very small diminutive
versus a petite male.
Oh, he's a small man. But yeah, like Richard Marx.
I don't know how tall Richard Marx is. But I think Reich is
about four. Oh, that's okay. Nine.
Does he have a cute but
I wouldn't know and I wouldn't want to know. He was the labor
secretary under Clinton. He's a he's an old old school
progressive, funny public speaker. He's got some good
jokes. He does good materials over a cow over here in Berkeley
teaching something he doesn't seem to have published office
hours so you can't go over there seems I don't know what he's
okay. Well, I guess he does get asked from time to time to
comment on things. So he's, uh,
he's he was off, he was the bit best. And we had this clip. This
was him. It was some time ago with during the before the
election. And he was with Chris Hedges, and they were debating
each other on somebody else's show when a democracy now or
something like that. And Chris Hedges had a real good grasp of
reality. And, and Reich did not. And it was so apparent when the
two of them went off against each other that Reich is like an
old woman told dimensioned be completely nuts, scared to death
that we're all gonna die because of climate change and Trump. So
he's he's loony?
Well, I think it's gotten really bad with him. We know that, as
we've witnessed many times on this program throughout our
decades of broadcast experience. We know that the truth always
wants to come out at what someone is really thinking will
slip out. And sometimes it's so blatant. They just have to stop
and go, Wow, you're really you have you're harboring. In this
case, I think very bad thoughts. I'm a tad worried, perhaps for
him. And this is regarding the complete freakout of the budget,
and will obviously have more clips, talk about as one of the
campaign promises was we're going to remove spending that is
not useful, I want to say wasteful, but not useful to the
American people. And you know, it's the National Endowment for
the Arts, it's PBS, it's NPR, we'll talk about those
specifically. But Robert Wright really was looking at these cuts
from a metal level, and how unprecedented they are. And, and
again, the truth always wants to come out.
Now, as you know, the new budget expands the military by 10% $54
billion. Now, because the military is such a large part of
the budget, that 10% expansion, that $54 billion is huge, and
requires a lot of cuts elsewhere in the budget to accommodate
that $54 billion. He's also expanding Homeland Security,
including his wall that is also going to cause billions of
dollars and that means cuts elsewhere in the budget. And
where are the cuts coming? He is imposing unprecedented
unprecedented cuts cuts in in issues that people
did you hear it?
Yeah. I hear it. What is he thinking?
unprecedent cuts.
I mean, seriously, that's what he's thinking. He's thinking the
whole time these guys are See you next Tuesday's and it slips
out.
Huh? I don't hear that supportive borderline Clip of
the Day. I thought we would think so.
Unprecedented? Kant's Yeah, sure. Because that that's what
he's thinking.
Well, they had to be on his mind. You can't that word just
doesn't show up out of the blue as a as an of as an alternative
to the word cuts.
Well, and now check this out. I don't know if it's, if it's
Tourette and I have some standing in this. It doesn't
sound like it may be there's just new protocol that I'm
unaware of speaking of the new protocol of what you can say on
CNN. It this is Fareed Zakaria, the anti constitutionalist.
Douchebag Yeah, and he is he's an he's the New World Order
poster child on CNN as far as I hold the New World, one world
government. Yeah, no nations no borders. And he's on with the
the overnight legend, Don Lemon. And if you want I can play the
whole clip, but just listen to what he says in the beginning,
really believes that he was wiretapped, or
do you think I got into trouble during the campaign saying
something about the about the president, which I still think
is true. I think the President is somewhat indifferent to the
things that are true or false. He has spent his whole life
bullshitting. He has succeeded by bullshit. He has gotten the
presidency by bullshitting. It's very hard to tell somebody at
that point that bullshit doesn't work because
it's okay now to say bullshit five times on CNN.
I guess so. This is a cable station. So technically,
it's okay, but we don't even like to say that on our show.
Thank you Good sir. We don't even like to say that. And we
use bullshit once in a while but typically crap bull crap. Yeah.
Which works. Now somebody on that word thing which would
maybe do a little bit of today. Yeah. Somebody brought one up
that I saw and I forgot all about this one, which was which
was the substitute for horse shit. Which was which I think my
dad even used to say this horse feathers.
Horse feathers. Now this is including mice. We'll talk about
this right now because we are here at the good grand dukes
home and the wife of the Grand Duke as you say. And she is a
member of junior league. Ah which is one of the oldest
women's yes charitable organizations.
Yeah, I like her she'd been she'd but she does seem like a
junior league girl.
Woman Yes. And so they had a big rummage sale and because there
which really was only for Saturday but we went Friday
because there you know she's on the inside so we had the first
evening first pick first dibs on all the stuff but
yeah, just like any old elitist
but wait wait wait. The catch is you have to pay double the
price.
Oh, again I like that a decadent elitist Yeah, so we have to go
early Daphne that day. We got we got to get to the rummage sale.
What are you doing? What are you doing? Okay, let's go. We have
to pay twice as much but we get in early.
Oh Fiddlesticks who gives a hoot? Anyway, at the rummage
sale you know, there's typical stuff you can pick out but I was
walking through the book section and jumping out at me was booked
by weberg garrison. Why you say it the fascinating stories
behind over 600 everyday words and phrases in alphabetical
order.
So we decided on the fly during the party that we would use this
book to see if we can find stuff that's not in
the book. Now horse feathers is not in the book.
The horse feathers is a big one because I remember horse
feathers and it was it was a very it was a good all purpose.
Word for bullcrap. Boris feathers horse feathers,
horse's mouth. Horse Power horse play horse around do not have
horse feathers.
You know I think this book is probably not going to carry half
the stuff that we've been getting
well that's okay.
Now a little bit yeah, we have the jingle Yeah, let's Yeah, we
do.
We do have the jingle. Okay. Well, since I brought up idioms,
which is I think idioms, idioms, we're talking about here's what
came
phrases bring your bring back the old phrases I have no I
don't have a title on my agenda assassinates media. Idioms,
idioms. So no agenda. Candy real. Boys, couldn't
it two boys, man. Come on, John. It's your boys. Here we go. No
agenda assassinates Me you can do.
That is Mike Molaro. Mike. Boy, what I Philly.
Yeah, yeah.
I love that. It's your boys Green Day.
That's the boys. The boys. Yeah, you
love that leaves. Those kids they might get somewhere. Yeah,
it might make a buck or two. All right now we had an idiomatic
expression. Somebody came up with that guy. Get my list here
and I don't have it. I can open up. We've got a million of
these.
By the way. And by the way, the talk about Yeah, boom. We talked
about this. The instructions were very clear. John said,
email me, John. With words in the subject. At no point did
that mean copy Adam on it. Just saying I didn't open them. I
just put them in a folder. I'm like this is this is your beat.
This is your deal. You got to manage it.
You got highfalutin? Yes. Is that in the book? I'm sure
highfalutin is
in the book. Is that? H i?
H AI some highfalutin? No, no, this guy is it. This is G ID
gene H She says don't be so high hat which equals Do not be so
highfalutin, which is the idiom that we wanted. said this is
another one that does it. I'm going to try to tell people not
to do these. Send her away with a flea in her ear. Flea in her
ear. Yeah, so you had a means yell at her so she goes away
with your words are ringing in her ear. Now she doesn't tell me
where she's from. And then people gotta tell me where
you're from. Like, here's just sir Dave pew one of our nights
says Don't let your alligator mouth overload your hummingbird
asks.
I'm sure that's not in here.
I am sure it's not in there. No. I am in here's another one from
Joseph Joseph Pumphrey. I am up against a lick log. a lick of
Rose may to convey the difficulty of a situation or
choice huh lick log? Yeah, I'm up against the lick log. I don't
know what that means. Maybe? I don't know. No, I have looked
into shape. He also mentioned my grandfather would not limit
himself to the seven major curse words he would counted
Horsefeathers as a good enough explanation to convey anger or
deep disappointment. Another person writes in my grandpa had
some colorful sation Pennsylvania Dutch, so he got
what the sam hill which we have already added it this one I
forgot about Jiminy Cricket jiminy
crickets yeah
yeah, this one does that
just come from from Disney? Yeah, but
it'd be I think image was a Jesus Christ crepes kind of a
substitute people didn't it was using the Lord's name in vain
was taken seriously and so they'd say jiminy crickets
instead. Um, I'm in this one, which is I never heard of, but
it sounds great. I'm going to the Chinar harness.
Sheena harness?
Yes, h i n h au N I S I thought the last one he says to me let's
see who this is. I got I think it's Nate. Yeah, this is this
are much much nuts. Munch nut says I thought the last one
should Ohana is meant my death. My aunt thought it was the
outhouse and I think it is the outhouse. Where are you going?
I'm going into the Shin ohaneze and you're going to take a crap
in the outhouse. Anyway, this and then we have a long list
from from Johnny and I'm gonna Malou you which is I never heard
the big galoot stupid person wind your neck in for calm down
or you know don't get your panties in a bunch. I never
heard any of these this one I have heard it when I was a kid.
You look like the wild man of Borneo. And this means you just
didn't comb your hair or something because apparently the
wild man of Borneo was a big deal in the 40s Catch yourself
on for wised up give give us a weed juke at that means look at
yeah you ones are a bunch of Egypt's which is idiot i dead on
me let's go for a weed dander which is a walk it's a Brass
Monkey out there cold I found near on me hoop bum Okay, now
this one I was baffled by it completely This is
I think this is Leo Bravo sent this bomb bump my rock Have you
ever heard this? No. He claims it's a
it's a it's a phrase from the 1980s High School in Downey
California maybe just something that was local never caught on
anywhere. Could be hang 10 We kneel as who's calling to again
then we just had done a bunch of these are just normal that you'd
be here all the time. Still, alright. Which I don't want
people sending those in.
I'm gonna give you five more because we can we can do these
all day.
I know we could. But luckily I've only have about five more
to do because I printed these out all right. hardcopy get her
then Kelsey is nuts.
Kelsey Grammer is nuts because I don't know what those marriages
they're probably are pretty dead.
Camilla, better than a poor man's eye. You can plant
potatoes in those ears. And then this one, which we're going to
end with which is the one I don't want to get because again,
it is a this is from again, who this is maybe Curtis because
this is not anything that is old and out of play that we want to
reintroduce what does the idea of this is to reintroduce cool
Will sounding phrases and children should be seen and not
heard is not one of them.
Okay, stop. Good. Now we have a reason for doing the segment.
Thank you. We only want to hear cool phrases that should be
repurposed. Yes, that's the way to go.
Otherwise, we just have a million phrases here that are
kind of interesting. If you want to send something that are
really weird and interesting, like the Shinto house, house,
whatever it is, I probably won't bring it up on the show, but I'd
be kind of interested in hearing those. But children should be
seen and not heard is not even in the right dimension.
All right. john@devora.org words in the subject line, please.
That's right. It's our American Indians here. fascinates me, you
know, no agenda, Candy real. He's talking about these budget
cuts. Everybody freaking out. I heard the stuff about this the
party last night too.
You know, I've heard I've got I don't have any clips on this.
But I've heard people freaking out on the one hand, and then
other people, usually, political commentators from the right
dimension a will say yes. Saying it is the greatest ever.
Well, the thing it's really in the nuance, and but also in the
details. We've mentioned for a long time that the actual amount
of government funding for NPR and for PBS is very, it's a very
small amount. This is money. It Oh, it's definitely money. But
it's it's one and that same goes for Meals on Wheels, and there's
a lot of different programs Planned Parenthood, it no
defunding Planned Parenthood would not remove all of their
money, you know, through through the Medicare.
It would remove a what I would call a handout.
Yes. Yeah. In the I mean, there are one point, I think $4
billion dollar organization. Anyway, this has a lot of people
very upset. And of course, that's all that the media looks
to do is we just need something to freak out over it's fabulous.
And with media, I will now also include print media and New York
Daily News. Very, very upset about the cuts.
The White House Calls President Trump's budget a hard power
plan. But the New York Police Department says it could leave
this city vulnerable to terror attacks Commissioner James
O'Neill says under the proposal, New York City would lose $110
million from the Homeland Security grant program. He says
that program is the backbone of the counter department's
counterterrorism unit. Join me now. CNN CORRESPONDENT Jason
Carroll. Jason was going on here.
Well, you know, look, the mayor really blasting this budget
proposal. If you want to see how the city's reaction I want to
put something up for your viewers to take a look at. It's
the cover of The Daily News and what it shows. There. You see it
right there. It shows One World Trade Center as a target. It's a
pretty provocative cover. But it really falls in step with how
the mayor and the police commissioner feel about this
budget proposal. As it goes forward, they say would make the
city left safe, and that it would cripple efforts to defend
it from terrorists, please Commissioner James O'Neill says
Trump's budget would translate into cutting 110 million that
the NYPD receives annually as part of the Homeland Security
grant program. That means they say the city would not be able
to pay for counterterrorism tools put into place following
911 such as the network of security cameras that monitor
potential soft targets like Times Square radiological
detectors placed throughout the city active shooter training for
officers and intelligence analysis, which is key to
preventing another terrorist attack.
So all you need now is just some kind of little event and then we
could pin it on the Trump administration, of course. Oh,
yeah. That's why we're dying.
Well, they probably do. I'm just guessing they probably be based
on local numbers. I do have, they probably do $100 million in
traffic fines and parking meter violations a year. A minimum, a
minimum. Yeah. And I would assume and they also now have
attacks to come into the city and there's it's cost like 50
bucks to go through the bridge or something like that if you
want. Yeah, we know it's 2424 bucks to go into the city. It's
kind of crazy. All they have to do is just add your double it.
You had to pay I don't know what they get can't get worse than
San Francisco, typical San Francisco parking ticket and
compare this to your local municipalities. But a typical
parking meter violation in San Francisco is $50. Now most
people's most cities, municipalities is 510 Maybe, but
it's 50. And that's the beginning. Everything else is
like 200 Plus And that's it but pick up that tab. I don't think
it's undoable in in New Yorkers in scrum
right but when you see the New York Daily News saying because
of the administration's
Daily News is the one to do all this crazy covers. I did a whole
newsletter filled with these covers of Trump the clown
trumped a bonehead.
Yeah, but now they have like a target, you know, a scope target
on One World Trade Center. Yeah, that's, that's pleasant as very
nice. Well, it was interesting to listen to Don Lemon. I can't
help myself. Now Don did something I have not yet seen.
And I'm very happy that it's taking place. He had a black
toolbox. You know, we have the sector box the octa box. When
you have more people on it. He had seven black commentators and
himself. Black, seven, black, black, all black. It was a black
box. I've never seen it on CNN.
I've never seen all I've seen eight.
Talked about Yes, always a black box aren't and of course we have
the one guy who's wrong. That will be Paris. Who is Trump's
Trump's black guy. I can't say it any other way. That's Trump's
black guy. And then on the other hand, you've got Bukhari, you've
got Angela rai rai with Angela Ray, everyone who just hates
Trump. And of course, Don Lemon. And this is about the budget
cuts. And while you can understand, we're going to
we can see where this is going.
You walk down the street you get it starts
off with this was the intro clip of Trump to get into the topic
right now you
walk down the street, you get shot. What do you have to lose
by that
did happen in it? So what what do we have to lose what African
Americans have to lose the President proposed but
by the way, none of these people live in any neighborhood
remotely as dangerous as what was being talked about their
first night at Don Lemon used to be worried about being shot.
He's got a doorman. So
what what do we have to lose what African Americans have to
lose the President proposed budget slashes funding? Let's
see four federal agencies that assist the poor urban areas,
including many African Americans, Department of Housing
and Urban Development down 13.2%, Department of Education
down 13.5%, Department of Health and Human Services down 16.2%.
So it seems like some African Americans are losing a lot. Am I
wrong fers? Well,
yes, Don, I think you are wrong. Because if you look at the 13.5%
cut that you mentioned, for the department education, what we do
know in a time that a lot of cuts happen across the board
across the federal government, because the President said and
campaign that he was going to do that what we did not see were
any cuts to HBCU. They
for HBCU took me five minutes to remember what is the
historically black colleges. Right. He's
all for the black colleges and help them support them.
Yeah, see you they add $492 million to HBCUs. We're not cut.
Well, we did not see we're cut to pale when you see over 90%
Well,
when people are kicked out of their houses, I guess they're
gonna go live in historically black college university. But
and
when you look at this President's budget, he did not
make one cut to HBCU funding. He doesn't make one cut to Pell
fund.
In Paris, so a lot of people HBCUs is important. But there a
lot of people who are sitting here watching tonight going
HBCUs I gotta eat. I've got to live somewhere. Great. Yes, I
would love to send my kid to a college, any college
for something. What is the eating
got to do with the federal budget?
This is what is so crazy. The lemon is saying that because of
the racist policies. I mean, he's not saying that
specifically. We'll listen a little bit longer, but is that
it's what his policies are racist, racist. No. T the
policies are racist, because they're making black people
starve. But nice that you kept the HBCUs going, maybe the
starving people can eat there. I don't know what he's talking
about. But what he is saying is the President hates black people
and is going to make him starve. That's all I can hear. Maybe
it's because I'm not struggling today. But
they want to send it to an HBCU. But why are you rambling on
about HBCUs when we're talking about urban development, about
other education about health and human services, more important
issues than HBCUs Don, I
would I would cost you by saying to all those 300,000 students
who attended did
he say it wasn't what I said there are more important issues.
I would say that that don't put words in my mouth. Did you hear
what I said? There are more important
than you and when you put up a graphic that shows all these cut
parents the
entire family went to HBCUs don't get me the lesson. I know
what HBCUs Look at me. I know what they are and and our HBCU
family. My brain is there are more important. Things that
HBCUs. And you keep, you keep pointing to one of them, when
I've gone down a list of things that are really important, and
when I'm telling you I would rather eat than or some people,
it's more of the priority for them is to eat rather than where
they're going to go to college.
He could just no one can win with this guy.
He's gone off the deep end.
Yeah, he'd better watch out because Shep Smith is going to
come in take his Spy Chips. Now there was a lot of there was
more, like, super freak out about what was going on what's
what's going on. And we can listen to Pelosi, but that was I
think the funniest one was the view. There are, in this case,
thing, two women on the panel, who are clear, clearly
conservatives, and you know, this is really a dimension a
dimension b, where b and a are not even listening to each
other, yet, they're yelling over each other
very similar to the kind of debate you'd hear on college
campuses in the 60s and 70s. between Palestinians and
Israelis. It was just like, Wow, these guys don't are paying zero
attention to each other.
Now that's very, that's a very interesting analogy or parallel
you draw there. Of course, I didn't know that. And so what
you're saying is in the 60s and 70s, there were big debates
about Israel and Palestine.
Yeah. And they were usually in the street with a big crowd
around that with fighting with the nylon just yelling, yelling,
well, both sides.
So what we can tell now is 40 years later, nothing's changed.
This does not bode well, this does not bode well for the these
dimensions. So this is about PBS. And the
and I'm going to stop here one more time. I mentioned this, I
think in the newsletter, I mentioned a tweet, I'm not sure.
But during this debate, because of the funding of the Endowment
for the Arts, and all this, somebody pointed out that, you
know, Hamilton, because Hamilton is like to think, you know, on
Broadway. Oh, yeah. Hamilton wouldn't be even on Broadway. If
it wasn't for the Endowment for the Arts, which helped fund it
or something. I don't know anything about this. I don't
know. It may or may not be true. But my comment was, Well, if
that's even remotely true, why is it? Why did the cast of
Hamilton be raised in public, the government ants when he went
to see the damn play? And then they yelled at him and screamed
at him and call them a douchebag? And they expect
funding? I mean, come on, you got it. You can't do that.
That's a very good point. And do we get part of the massive
profits? Does that go back into? Do we get part of the massive?
Well, while we're at it, do we get part of the massive global I
mean, global down to licensing huge profits of Sesame Street.
Sesame Street is a nonprofit, they don't even pay taxes over
they're
funny. What's funny about Sesame Street, it keeps coming up in
the conversation, but it's Sesame Street has long since
become profit, and they're there. For the last three years.
They've been only on HBO. And all they have on NPR or NPR? PBS
is old reruns?
Well, they are a 5013 C corporation. They pay no taxes.
But yeah, well, that's fine. But there's there shouldn't be
getting any government money.
I don't Well, I don't think they were getting any more government
money other than if they're still being broadcast on PBS.
But
let's just look at his reruns.
Let's look at Yeah, I was looking at the two two
fundamental pieces. NPR, which I believe it's 4% of NPR is budget
comes from the government. You do not have to worry about NPR.
You're alone. I think I told you on the show after I met him in
New York. He has a he's doing this huge endowment. It's like
multibillion dollar and that's going to fund them for the next
20 years. Yeah, yeah, they gotta made Yeah. And you know and once
Lee I mean sorry Yarrow once he has that done he's gonna leave
be interesting because he he was posting on the on the face bag.
Record numbers. NPR record downloads, NPR pocket record
number website visits. Yeah, it was the election. Okay. No
mention of why everyone was tuning in. So I predict he's
gonna leave very soon the Mini has been a dominant he's out
because it's a bunch of douchebags who work there. You
know, it's not going to be fun. And all the stations have their
own agendas. And you know, they own their own stuff and they
don't have to listen to me. It's it's got to be a mess. It's not
your money is 4% for PBS it's even less and PBS. They don't do
little underwriting now. They run full on commercials, PBS
runs commercials. Just regular commercials.
Yeah, just watch the beginning of the News Hour,
but besides that, just in between that we're going to take
a break and the commercial plays. I know the whole point of
government funded, or in our case, listener supported and we
take it one step further. Sure. Not a listener, you're a
producer and you have responsibility to help us if not
financially, there's many other ways because that is that is the
future of media. That's how it's going to work. You can't do it
with your you're sitting on your high horse. Anyways, it's even
less it's little that goes on to list high horse. Yes. Wait, let
me see if that's in the book. That's got to be in the book.
It better be otherwise I throw that book out. Oh,
let's see. Hi. Hi. Hi, horse. 32. Let's go okay. This is the
old school. Alexa. Okay. 32 high horse. When a friend's arrogance
gets on your nerves you may react with Get off your high
horse. Long ago a person's rank was fairly clearly indicated by
the steed he or she rode. donkeys were used by peasants
and serfs, and run of the mill horses transported shopkeepers
and petty Gentry, big stallions bred and trained as charges for
use in tournaments and war and were reserved for the rich and
famous you go. It was literally surprise surprise. If you were
hoity toity, you had a high horse. Back to the view, two of
the women are conservative. They're trying to make the point
that it's a very small amount of money. That is not going to go
to multiple programs not just talking about PBS, NPR, but
about others. And you can hear two dimensions just clashing
tree
is broke, where we have a $20 trillion national debt right
now. Our budget deficit is $591 billion. somebody pays for that
there's not this pot of everybody thinks there's this
pot of gold there's another one pot of gold, something pot of
gold and a leprechaun that are just kind of challenges. I
understand. What he's saying is why we raise taxes you can't
just raise taxes to kingdom come as Margaret Thatcher once said
eventually run out on the billionaires the talking point
but were to say as tough as it is a lot of people have voted
him in office to make these tough cuts you look around the
country. You have to operate a family on a budget a corporation
has to ran a budget for the programs Meals on Wheels by the
way, there's aren't paying their fair share.
Don't you love that? I thought this one had gone away. Fair
Share millionaires and billionaires aren't paying their
fair share. I thought that was gone but it's just back.
I don't think it ever disappeared completely. It was
always bubbling. No one ever brings up a wealth tax on these
shows. Well,
the program's Meals on Wheels by the way chairs aren't paying
their fair share IRS. AMT Meals on Wheels just one second 3.3%
of its funding comes from government sources when you say
they're cutting Meals on Wheels. Meals on Wheels is largely
funded by private people by corporate grants by individual
contributions. To the people like my grandmother that kept
the Meals on Wheels On Wheels kept her out of a nursing home.
Every day.
This is great isn't 3.3% She cannot get into her head. This
3.3% When it goes away, it will not okay maybe your grandmother
will get 3.3% Less goop what whatever.
Number doesn't mean anything to them. I'm reminded
I want to hear your stories. 30 seconds.
So the number is not a talking point. When you look at meals on
wheels that helps our seniors helped people like my
grandmother bottom line is talk to the people that that 3.3% is
going to offend saying with you that the program is significant.
What I'm saying is 3.3% of his funding comes from the
government so even if he cuts it, you're gonna have private
citizens as they often do come in corporations
in America, and I would, I would suggest that certainly Joi de
Haan Whoopi Goldberg Be very careful when they talk about
millionaires and billionaires not paying their fair share. I'm
pretty sure the Whoopi Goldberg for sure and probably joy by
heart are millionaires.
multimillionaires to an extreme especially will be with all
royalty she gets she still gets residuals for Gold Star Trek
stuff.
I would think that she's a millionaire but maybe they
should be ponying up and be careful how you talk about these
things.
Well, they don't want to pony up they want the government to pony
up that's the point
Yeah, yeah. And by by raising taxes
for millionaires Mills mi LS Mills on wills mill, mill farm
wealth wills, Wilf Meals on Wheels no abound wealth What was
your story? I'm reminded of this clip I've been wanting to put in
the newsletter and people should go out and look for it. It's
this joker with his girlfriend and some people think is rigged,
but I don't think she's that good of an actress. It's a
YouTube thing this guy keeps doing whether about he asked the
question about pizza, you get a you get a 12 inch pizza. And he
asked her would you want it with? Would you want 12? We want
it sliced into 12 pieces or eight pieces. And she seriously
says eight because I can't eat 12 pieces. And he does the same
thing you just did. He laughs at her and she says What are you
laughing at? And he says, Well, you know is a piece of certain
is a pizza? It's a one pizza cut up with 12 pieces or eight pizza
pieces? And she says yeah, yeah, I want eight pieces. I can't eat
12 pieces. But what can you get through your head that I can't
eat 12 pieces is too much. And she's there and I believe she's
dead serious. And people gonna watch this on their own and tell
me what they think because I don't think she's that good of
an actress. I think she's just a dummy. And I think that was the
same kind of dummy thing. You were we had an that clip where
she's doesn't seem to understand that 3.3% is not hardly much.
No, I can't No, no, I
think I think it's completely unrelated. I understand why you
think that it doesn't matter what amount it was. It doesn't
matter. Doesn't matter. It's just Trump.
There was that element,
and then the White House.
But I also want to ask this question, because I didn't look
it up. Did you look it up? I don't think so. I'm going to
look it up for the next show. Are we talking about cuts? Are
we talking about cuts? Are we talking about cuts in increases?
Like the normal? Oh, they're going to cut 10%? Or this?
They're not cutting? 10%? No, I they got a budget of 30. They're
going to make it 33. And they're gonna contend percent of the
extra 10? Or the extra three, I guess? I don't know. Well, you
know, don't tell. They're not being explanatory at all. When I
was pitching. Let's just
listen to Nancy Pelosi, she would know, she had something to
say about
this is a budget of the deconstruction of the federal
government. They are deconstructionist, they have
said that I mean, they make no bones about that. Yeah. If one
thing, listen to what they say, there is clarity. They want to
deconstruct in this case, you see what they're doing in terms
of infrastructure. And, and in case of Speaker Ryan, he has in
his budget over and over again, that we would take the guarantee
away from Medicare. Without a guarantee Medicare is a
guarantee without a guarantee. You're reverting back to how it
was for seniors
right now, as far as I know, she's mentioned nothing that is
in writing. As far as I know, she's she's only saying well,
this is what they want. This is what they what is nothing about
what is in writing two days
before we had Medicare. So this is all about a philosophical
distrust of the role of the federal government in any way in
meeting the needs of the American people. Should there be
a debate? Should we subject all spending to the harshest
scrutiny? We certainly should. And those of us who have
advocated for some of it, are the harshest critics to make
sure that those investments accomplish what they set out to
do. So we don't have any argument about saying, Okay, are
we getting our money's worth for what we need to do for the
American people, but that's not what this is about, oh, this is
systemic deconstruction of the federal government and the role.
So it's very hard to see. I'm wondering
why she uses the term deconstruction, where that may
mean something to you and I and to the press, but if you want to
send a message as wrote to the American people, you would say,
No, he's, he's wrecking it ruining and Edie be pulling the
rug out from underneath.
That's because she's, she got that from Benin. Clip some time
ago abandoned talking about I don't know, if we still have
maybe I think it's really,
but Bannon said they want to deconstruct and he had his very
specific term. They want to deconstruct the federal
bureaucracy of lawmaking, or some say he wants to stop these,
these agencies from writing all these laws that Congress is
supposed to write, but Congress has abdicated the the, the
responsibility to all these agencies as the EPA and all
their rules or laws. I've always felt this way. When I was
working for the air pollution district, they had the ability
to write these regulations and laws. They're called
regulations, but there are laws and you get fined if you don't
follow these laws and they even have a kangaroo court where you
go into the court. You have to stand when the guy comes in to
kangaroo judge and you have to sit and then they slammed the
gavel and tell you over $100,000 for this thing he did wrong. And
that's what Bannon is talking about. And he was and he used
the word deconstruct.
Okay, we please hung up on this, you please use his proper name
though. Bannon, no, Banyans man, Daniels bandwidth that was
coming, I'm sorry. go either
way. I'm kind of by Banyon. Now,
I'm all in I'm Banyan.
On infrastructure. Perhaps this is paving the way for what I
fear, which is that he's going to have a bill that will be a
tax bill for the rich, disguised as infrastructure.
Now, this is something that I'm in agreement with, although we
haven't seen it. But I'm also worried about this based on the
President's words and the explanation of the President's
words as it comes to infrastructure. But again, we
haven't seen anything
up here, where the federal taxpayer will subsidize the
construction of something to give opportunity for somebody to
own it in the private sector, charge fees. So the taxpayer is
paying twice, subsidizing it and then paying for use of it.
Now, has she by any chance of being a lawmaker from
California, has she by any chance of being a part of any of
these types of schemes in California?
I have no idea. It's possible.
I mean, you do pay tolls for stuff. Is that because it's only
on bridges? Right. Is that are those government funded? 100%?
Or is that a public private partnership?
They've they've always been funded by the government. I
don't know of any public private partnership. Oh, great. So
you paid taxes for the baby boomers, they
have to thing built, and then you can't we were promised that
they wouldn't be told the taxes. And the whole thing was it was
built to be self sustaining somehow.
Does Nancy Pelosi not represent California?
No, she represents San Francisco. Ah,
where the bridges are? Yeah. Okay. With the tolls, tolls,
why? Why does she fight about that then first, because you got
screwed?
Well, he got lied to by the government. I got the old ads,
when they when they were building Golden Gate Bridge, you
can find it in old newspapers, this is going to be gray, once
it's built, it's going to be you know, it just might I guess
local taxes will pick up the charge for painting it. And
which is really the main maintenance problem with these
bridges have to be constantly painted because of the sea water
being corrosive. And now Now they
Alright, so the conclusion is
that whether it's government or not, I mean, whether it's
private involved or not, there's there's a cost. There's a fee
involved across the bridge. Alright, one
of the most along these lines about these costs, one of the
most hated men in mainstream media is Mulvaney, in the Trump
administration, who is, I guess the Office of Management and
Budget has a representative in the White House. Is that how
that works?
Or is I am not aware of how this works?
Well, it says the White House Director of Office of OMB of the
ASO Office of Management and Budget budget, who as far as I
know, have not been giving high marks for anything that's come
out of the administration, any approach. I'm not I but
Mulvaney, I think he's just he's a Trump guy. He's got to be just
a pure Trump guy, that people hate him too much for him to be
anything else. Oh,
yeah. That's to do with Trump. So he
came out? He did. He came into the briefing, and he's very
specific about two pieces that are going to be not funded,
defunded, however you want to call it in the budget. And the
first is climate change research regarding
the question as to climate change. I think the President
was fairly straightforward. And we're not spending money on that
anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money to go out
and do that. So that is a specific tie to his to his
campaign. All right,
slow, clap. Nice. And the other piece,
I think the message the President sent right now is that
we want to defund those and this completely defensible reasons
for doing that. It's a simple message, by the way, I put
myself in the shoes of that, that steel worker in Ohio, the
coal miner, the coal mining family in West Virginia, the
mother of two in Detroit, and I'm saying, Okay, I have to go
ask these folks for money. And I have to tell them where I'm
going to spend it. Can I really go to those folks look in the
eye and say, Look, I want to take money from you. And I want
to give it to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. That is
a really hard sell, in fact, something we don't think we can
defend anymore. As to specific vetoes. You and I both though it
doesn't come over one by one line item by line item doesn't
come over, they come over large appropriations bills. And we'll
work with Congress to go patients process and we'll make
determinations on whether or not to sign a probe Radiation spills
over to them at the appropriate time.
And that, to me is also the bottom line. I agree with that.
I don't really have much of a problem with this. The
Corporation for Public Broadcasting these things are
just drinking clubs as far as I'm concerned when it comes to
like this the group that gives government money they don't need
that money. They obviously don't need the money. No. I mean, they
duck and I'm, you know, if I was running the thing, I buy moan
and groan about it because the money is good. It's good money.
Yeah, you can get by. And we needed to start cutting this
stuff because we don't have we have to reset because we were
going into the toilet here with our Debt Debt. And when it comes
home to roost, which will be maybe this year, it's gonna
cause a huge problem. It's gonna slow down everything you're not
gonna get any money, government or otherwise, it's gonna be a
disaster. Unless there will be opens up your pocketbook. And
that ain't happening. I'm gonna show my son moved by donate to
no agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh,
yeah, that'd be fun
and open up the pocket book opening up the pocket book is
not trivial. Apparently, at least today. We send a
newsletter out to 16,000 people and only 25 would respond with
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Now why? What happened?
I think it was an off day the perhaps that people were
watching NCAA basketball tournament. Or they lost their
you know, their brackets and the bed at the office. I have no
idea but I found this to be a piss poor performance.
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Now Chuck Berry I did meet another guy who'd died recently
was Percy sledge. No, you know. I tell you my Percy sledge story
tonight.
We're gonna hear it now.
Yeah, it was a it was a kind of a small gig. It was part of a
radio thing in Holland. And so it was in a in a cafe and a
stage riser. But the lights were relatively low because it wasn't
like a huge concert venue and Percy's there. And he's, you
know, he has about four songs he does just over and over again or
did and but he had all this Jheri curl in his hair. I mean,
old school Jheri curl. Then, what exactly? Do we know the
history of Jheri curl?
I don't know. But I remember when I think it came out in the
50s or 60s. And it was used to create that effect. Yeah, it's
a permed hair.
Greasy looking, but
oh, here we go. Invented by hairdresser Jerry reading. Yeah,
it's
okay. Okay.
So the Jheri curl is just a style, but there's a lot of
liquid in there. God. Yeah. goop, goop. So he's singing when
a lot when a man loves a woman. And he's belting it out. But
he's standing right under. And of course, back in the day, we
didn't have LED lights. No, we had 2.2 kilowatt lights. I know.
And those things were hot, and he was standing under it. And
his hair is smoking, John. And it's more and more and I and I
got on the intercom. I said, I'm going on stage. I gotta get him
away from the light. He's going to combust. When we saved him.
No,
I'm sorry. I saved him. Yeah, you said no one else cared. I
saved him. And smoking thing looks great. See if it catches
on fire. That'd be cool, man. Exactly. Okay. All right. So
let's just be real aside here. I just want to get this. Kurt
Eichenwald. The writer is a Newsweek writer used to be in
the New York Times. And he made a fuss over this. And I if what
he says is true, I can see why he made a fuss but some he's a
big Trump basher in some douchebag. Cinema to really and
send him a Jeff. He has epilepsy.
Now and okay, maybe let's just clarify this for a second. I'm,
I was amazed at this story. So the mechanics of it. We're aware
of that someone sent him an email. Right now. I
thought it was a Twitter feed thing.
I think he had to click on a link or something. Okay. And
when he clicked on the link that was clinking and clinking
involved, then it opened up a page that had flashes intended
to induce an epileptic fit or suggest a seizure. an epileptic
seizure. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Has this been done successfully?
I find this to be an incredible weapon.
It's a known thing that you can do on a computer. That's why the
computers your battle. That's why they warn you about
flashbulbs on English television warning flashbulbs Because
apparently, if enough flashbulbs go if you can get this effect.
And it's I don't know what the frequency is. I don't know how
to do it. But I know it's doable. But I don't know what
the results would be. I mean, this guy, I read this thing from
the I think it was in the Ross story. Just three months ago,
Newsweek reporter Kurt Eichenwald, temporary quit
Twitter. It's Twitter as a result of support for Donald
after a supporter of Donald Trump sent him a flashing image
that just on Twitter that triggered an epileptic seizure.
Friday I can roll tweeted at the man who was sent the strobing
image has been arrested by the FBI and I find this to be
peculiar. Yeah, the man faces federal charge charges and will
be indicted the debt is in Dallas and other charges for
this is an attack after the news came out. Someone had harmed
Eichenwald online copycat send him similar graphics and so much
he's loved I guess. Oh, yeah. Hey, look at mine. Apparently
the FBI went track down 40 people who did this. One of the
report says that he had a seizure couldn't move as one
side of his body he was I couldn't talk for days on end.
Now. I've known people that have grand mall and both grand mon
petit mall, which was more noticeable when I was a kid
because it wasn't good medication for either one. And,
and with grandma, which is the most is the exaggerated I'm not
even familiar with these terms. Grant molecule. Grandma is the
real epileptic seizure where you go nuts or you usually fall down
or you start yelling and screaming, or you start running
around. There's different ways you can react to it. We had a
guy in my school who used to go beat people up.
I got just a short interjection. After you left, not long after
you left last night, the party officially became a party, as
one of the guests that guy face planted right into the floor.
And I was like, This is so cool. This is like a real party. He
had a seizure, but unfortunately, but it was just
like a real party.
I'm not getting what there was an epileptic seizure or what not
sure.
All I know, is all I know is yeah, now we're starting to face
planning. Anyway, so the Petit mall is like you just kind of
zoned it does not much to it. And we I knew a kid who had this
and it was just like, he'd be talking to you. And all of a
sudden, he'd be staring for maybe 20 seconds and then kind
of just be literally be gone. But it would look, you wouldn't
notice this if you weren't, like, you know,
aware of these things. But apparently I can walk went down,
he went down
and be hurt himself, I guess. And then he moved me down on one
side of his body. I don't know this effect. But I done it. I
assume it's possible. All I
know is my my boyhood friend, my next door neighbor had epilepsy.
When we were growing up, and we were all on the block. We were
all taught if Hans has has a seizure, then you got to make
sure that he doesn't swallow his tongue or tried to bite his
tongue off and you got to put a piece of wooden or something in
his mouth. We were all taught that. Sadly, we never got to try
it. Because yeah, how cool would that have been?
Yeah, it's
kind of as a kid as a kid as a kid. Not now.
Anyway, so. So whatever, whatever the FBI is going after
this, and I, I'm thinking there's a there's a number of
screwy things about this one. Is is it leading? Is it going to
lead to something like if you send somebody a triggering
picture like of a of a mouse with his head cut off, let's
say, because people will send that out as a nasty? Oh, yeah.
And they just sent a picture of the dead animal or the goat see
this
gruesome picture? My favorite.
So if you send that out, is this an attack?
Well, this is I totally agree that this is going to be very
interesting. Is it Twitter's fault for allowing this clearly
weaponized tweet going through? And should they put in
a should they put a nice tweet as a good show title
weaponized tweet? Yeah. Or should it be you know like the
an automatic Twitter trigger warning you know people are
asking me to all the time I got a note this morning please don't
play the Rosie O'Donnell yet yet thing I horrible. I hate it
hurts me. And so what do you want to trigger warning every
time I do something? Maybe that's what people want a
Twitter trigger warning.
Well, I think Twitter it has a bit it's a computer system, it
should be able to catch this sort of thing. Somebody that
strobe Yeah, it's one of these hypnotic strobe things and just
not run it, they should just kill it. There's no reason they
can't die guy inlet. No, there's no reason to run this sort of a
animated GIF. They should kill it in the process. But I think
it's going to be very interesting to see how far you
can go if you're going to if you're going to arrest someone
for sending a strobe light tweet to a guy with epilepsy first
that it gets they kind of proved the guy knew they found some
documents that the guy knew that I can roll had epilepsy. So So
you can say there was intent, so they got the intent part I'm
pretty sure right? But still, is it really I agree with you when
you call somebody a name, you're a jerk. And and you you don't
realize it but when they hear the word jerk they're going to
have a tantrum or something. I mean, no, no, no, I tried to
speak very weird. Yeah,
I tried clipping there was someone sent me a rather long
video there's I have to find it. There's some outfit in I'm gonna
Of course it would be California I think. And they are focusing
very heavily on how words hurt people. You know, the the
antithesis of Sticks and stones may break your bones but words
will never hurt me. And we've we've been following this free
speech is going to have it's going away. Certainly, if you
don't own the avenue where this free speech wants to take place,
such as Twitter. So I think Twitter will have to install it
but you know, Twitter face bag that's not going to end well for
them. Let's hope it's just it can't. Let's hope I mean it's a
certain point you'd have a checklist of all these things
you can or cannot say or post. Just be over.
I washed my, my followers go up and down with the whenever I
post certain things that are political. I've decided I'm not
going to post political stuff. I don't care. There's some good
stuff out there too.
I don't have a link here from this is from BBC. Germany Warren
social media firms over illegal content. Germany's Justice
Minister has drafted a law that seeks to impose the fines as
part of efforts to police toxic chat. Hallowmas said the
voluntary efforts of social networks to tackle the problem
had not gone far enough proposal require sites are on 24 hour
help lines and to delete flagged content within seven days. This
is not the inner internet. I cannot work that way.
Unbelievable.
Mr. Moss quoted research would suggest Twitter deletes only 1%
of the hate speech. It is told about by users and Facebook.
Only 39%. racism and hate speech are believed to become more
prevalent on German social media following the arrival of large
number of refugees in Germany. Any content that was clearly
criminal would have to be removed within 24 hours under
conditions outlined in the draft laws and draft law. If after an
investigation content is found to be criminal, then that must
be removed in seven days. The people who posted the legal
content must also be told about its deletion it this is not
going to work long term. Certainly not. But where's the
criteria? Where's the criteria? And I think it is very
interesting at what point is, is your weep? Is your tweet.
weaponized? Well, it kind of just it just pictures. I agree.
I think the eye as you know, I'm on board with the what I call
them all and mammalogy of memes. And I think memes are very
powerful. If they're done, right. I think they're super
powerful.
You dump out a true meme that goes on into the public domain
or you're talking about one of those photos that somebody puts
the words around and they call that a meme.
Both I think that the the picture memes sometimes can be
very, very a lot of them are dumb and don't do anything. Some
of them are powerful. I'm I know they are I know that stuff
works. But will that then you know what, let's do some more
research. And maybe that will be forbidden. Where does it end?
For bought
forbidden, you cannot do that
verboten tweets
verboten. Anyway, so that's that story, which is developing,
so that we have no other clip to now again, open
back with. I can well, it's not talking to anybody. All right.
So I do have this couple of stories here we have, how much
time do we have left on this show?
We probably about 10 more minutes. Although let's say 11?
Was we'll say 12. No.
Now because after you play this next clip, then the 10 minute
warning should sound
I have a couple of things. Well, let's play you. I mean, I got
some, I'm sorry. Less than
10 minutes to go. Okay.
You're wasting valuable time.
Let's play this because this is kind of a tech news thing. Maybe
it's not really but it's kind of something I wanted to play. This
is. Have you ever heard about gray ball?
Gray ball? Oh, gray ball. Yeah, it's uh, this has something to
do with masking, ride sharing, right?
Uber and gray ball. I just thought it'd be kind of
interesting to me.
But first, Uber has announced it will no longer use gray ball, a
secret software it developed and use to avoid officials. It's
suspected of conducting sting operations on drivers. So how
did the program work? Surely set Vaughn has
the story. When you thought 2017 couldn't get any worse for Uber
it just did. According to The New York Times report, the
company intentionally dodged rules of towns that banned its
services. Uber allegedly used a secret program called Griebel, a
software that allowed them to identify which users may have
been trying to prove the company was operating illegally. One
technique involves drawing a digital perimeter dubbed a
geofence around government offices on a digital map. The
company would then watch which users would frequently open and
close the app as evidence the person was associated to city
agencies a process nicknamed eyeballing credit card
information to find direct links to institutions like a police
Credit Union were also used based on collected Uber then
served up a fake version of the app with Ghost cars to those
tagged or gray balled as city officials. According to the
article, it's been going on for a while. Now back in 2014.
Portland city officials tried to catch Uber in the act. There
were two or two drivers that that were available at one time
and they both cancelled. Gray ball was reportedly approved by
the company's legal team. Uber says it's a way for them to stop
consumers from using its service improperly. This comes at a time
of intense negative media coverage for Uber at the top of
the list claims by a former female engineer that the HR
department ignored multiple instances of sexual harassment
and discrimination. Chief Executive Travis Kalanick was
also
gray ball like they were they bring an unrelated information.
Why Why so if I understand correctly, the gray balling is
to make sure that people who are going to spy on the company to
see if they're doing things right that they don't get picked
up.
Well, in the case of Portland and some of these other systems
as if they were still working in Austin, yes. And they just don't
want to get busted. Well, they're coming back illegal and
Austin's word was you know the word is they're coming back.
Yeah,
that's the word.
That's the word. Hey, I got one. Okay,
this is a you mentioned one or two shows ago with the fence
jumper.
Yes, I have a clip on him.
Okay, well, I'll do well. I thought we played your fence
jumper clip. Do you have a new Secret
Service Report? CBS you have a new one. Yeah, there's new.
Oh, let's play that. Then. I want to hear that. I have
something maybe related. Let's check this.
The Secret Service is investigating and embarrassing
breach of security.
You sure we didn't play this already? I'm so sure we played
this. Well. This
is the one that's about the laptop mostly. Okay, there
you go. It's the latest in a string of them. Over the past
few years. CBS News has learned that an agent's laptop computer
containing sensitive information is missing. Here's Jeff Gaye's
the laptop was stolen yesterday morning from his secret service
agents car pardon.
What kind of voice is this guy really trying to
gaze there's a lot of stuff. I talk a little bit like a guy
that's a character and a cartoon. A guy was yelling at a
news story and
I do not know why I'm talking like this. However, we will
continue to bring you the information the
case for
the laptop was stolen yesterday morning from a secret service
agents car parked on this street in Brooklyn. Law enforcement
sources say that computer contained information about
Trump Tower and information on Hillary Clinton. Also missing
Secret Service agent lapel pins for the Trump and Clinton
campaigns as well as the 2015 people visit.
Okay, stop right there. We know this. We need to make sure that
people who are new to the program know that is a serious
security violation, the lapel pins. They're really seriously
important. Because the lapel pins are how you identify for
each scenario. We know this we've we've we've gotten this
information. If you're part of a particular day, they have
meetings today we're wearing this pin so you all can identify
if someone shows up with the wrong pin. There's something
very wrong
the way you get around because you go in and see what the
Secret Service what pin they're wearing. And then you have that
pin. The this report doesn't emphasize that and it talks
about the there's a little fence jumping action in here, but it's
not done want to play the rest. Yeah, play the rest of it
because there's a couple of points that they didn't even
make. And this guy up against puts together he's got another
story that I do have a clip of and it drops. When he's in the
booth doing his editing. He says he's he's pretty loose and
loosey goosey it seems to me and I'll discuss that later.
Clinton campaigns as well as the 2015 people visit. Bullies have
grainy surveillance videos showing someone breaking into
the vehicle but detectives have been unable to develop a profile
of the suspect or determine whether the agent was
specifically targeted. What happened
to rotate and Hanson zoom.
In a statement the Secret Service said its laptops contain
multiple layers of security, including full disk encryption,
and are not permitted to contain classified information wanted
attention. The theft comes less than a week after intruder
Jonathan train climbed over the White House fence and roamed
around undetected for nearly 17 minutes while President Trump
was in the Executive Mansion. The Secret Service says trans
scaled three different fences on the White House grounds one five
feet One eight feet, and one three and a half feet, while
uniformed divisions, officers attempted to ascertain the
location and identity of the individual.
Before deconstructing this, I would just like to remind people
we believe these types of reports are meant for one reason
and one reason only took communicate to the President and
they did it to President Obama a lot. We can get you whenever we
want.
They had this guy's Vietnamese guys from around here. He's from
Palo Alto or something like that. And they had him on the
show. They don't have the clip of it. But they did watch this
and they're he's walking down the street. He's wearing a suit
and tie looks very normal. And just reporters running up to him
to get the camera. You can tell he's backpedaling as fast as he
can, and talking to this guy says, Why did you do it? Why did
you run out into the visor run around on the lawn? And the kid
says, You kid he's like 20 Some? He says, I was just looking. I'm
trying to get some attention to myself trying to draw attention
to myself. And she says, the President says you're on the
hinge. There's something wrong with you. And the guy says,
yeah, he's probably right. Wow. Anyway, there's I got part two
of this if you want to.
The House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chafetz, has
investigated other White House breaches, and says Tran nearly
made it inside the mansion.
The idea that somebody could jump the fence at the White
House and be on the grounds for upwards of 15 plus minutes, be
right up against the building hide behind a pillar and then
jiggle the door that can never ever happen. And yet it happened
again.
In 2014, a man scaled the White House fence and made it all the
way into the East Room. Anthony's Secret Service
officials are angered by this latest breach and CBS News has
learned that it is expected to lead to suspensions and possibly
termination for some of the people involved.
Jeff Okay, Thanks, Jeff.
Is laptop part that's a new twist to the old fence jumping
thing though.
And by the way, the jiggle the handle I thought was dynamite.
Yes, the laptops thing but that seems to be if it's got disk
encryption, it says that they get their encryption act
together. And it's not no problem here. Probably not but
still just got his password written right on the laptop.
Just got
to watch him. You gotta wonder why is it so? Here? They have
grainy surveillance video.
Wha Wha Why have
surveillance video at all going to be grainy?
Yeah. We can have a drone flying over everything. 24/7 getting
down to 30 centimeters.
Yeah, what does it Jake?
Yeah, I don't I don't like I don't like this isn't like it
when they did it to Obama. I don't like it. I don't like it.
It's not it's it's mean.
Well, yeah, definitely mean.
I did not put this together. But I thought it was a cute montage
that I wanted to share from Media Research Center. You know,
they're totally right wing. Love Trump hate everybody else. But
they did put together a funny little bit in relation to the
tax returns, but tax return the two pages of the tax return,
that Rachel Maddow brought to the forefront and helped us
understand. And I really liked this little compilation of all
the people who were so certain that Trump never paid any taxes
in the past 20 years. This is not something that you would
typically see on mainstream media. And again, we didn't put
it together, but I think it's fun to listen
to. And they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax
and hasn't paid taxes. Perhaps for the last 18 years. The
revelation that Donald Trump didn't pay income taxes, Donald
Trump is avoiding paying taxes. She won't pay tax on the fact
that he hasn't paid taxes for almost 20 years. He has a big
taxes in 20 years, probably hasn't paid taxes in 18 years.
We know he didn't pay his taxes for 20 years.
Didn't pay income taxes for 18 years old from hasn't paid taxes
in the past 20 years. We're not
even talking about the fact that Trump didn't pay taxes. Now, the
idea that Trump hasn't paid taxes nearly 20 years that means
Trump hasn't paid taxes since the year his next wife was born.
Even if Trump hasn't paid federal income taxes for 18
years. Who the heck cares? I think
the biggest scandal is not that Donald Trump hasn't paid tax 15
years and so we've got a tax code that allows it up and
a governor shrugged off the likelihood that Trump didn't pay
federal income taxes. For nearly two decades,
Donald Trump's tax returns
have surfaced
$38 million, like $38 million
in taxes, stay up till 9pm to tell me that Trump pays taxes
so you people can in the chat room calling me at Trump lover
which I really despise. I kick you out the minute you say that
I'm more critical of Trump than most
Yeah, who talks about him being so fat? Yeah. Besides us? Yeah,
fat em. I have never heard anybody discuss this.
No, that's right. And moreover, we'd not only just talked about
him being fat, but how he covers it up.
And his methodology for covering it up. Yes, that too. Yeah. What
could be more complete than that? This shows worth his
weight in gold. Yeah,
I concur. All right.
Do a little. How about a good DeMoss Byculla. So oh, this is
interesting. And I have a story to go with and then I want to do
anything else. I can move this stuff to Thursday. Okay, but
this is the what today's Thursday. Yeah. Sunday. Today,
Sunday. Hello. Yeah, that was the I got off. But everything
gets off when I have to when I got to do something that's off
schedule and going down to Los Gatos the cat's did that face
recognition. Hello,
face raises. Here we go.
Your future CCTV will not only film us and detect dangerous
behavior, but it will also be able to identify each and every
one of us in real time. It's made possible thanks to
phenomenal advances in facial recognition technology. As Alex
Hurst explains,
it might sound like something out of George Orwell's 1984,
with big brother watching your every move. But with advances in
facial recognition software, it could be a reality sooner than
you think. In the past few months, Eurostar the high speed
train that connects Paris and London has been testing such
software at security screenings, the technology is advancing at a
rapid pace and becoming more effective. Like this software
created by a French company for the FBI, which is adept at
recognizing faces, even when they aren't completely turned
towards the camera. The program is also able to tell when
someone has changed their appearance. For example, you
might think that these are two different people. That would be
a mistake.
A show of two different Chinese women. Yeah. And when you look
at him, you know, there's not the same it's not same person
she had, what she would it was it is the same person she had
worked done.
But and they could they could see that. Yes,
and I made I have actually pretty great this equipment, and
I'm going to talk about it. I've clipped to here, just to review
it, okay.
Even more efficient software can track a subject like this man,
as he passes from one camera to another.
You see that at 1232. He was over there on camera to it. And
then he shows up again on camera one, see when you can follow as
he goes, the benefit is that we gain time. But
the implications go well beyond saving time during
investigations. The software could potentially be used in
real time, for example, to scan crowds as they wait to enter
sports stadiums. For the moment problems remain with poor video
quality the system can make errors, and to identify a
suspect that person has to already exist in a database
somewhere. Plus widespread use would raise questions about
civil liberties and the ability for ordinary people to go where
they please anonymously
go yes. It might raise questions you think might you think
someone's gonna get killed from this and you know, that's
obviously going to have the wrong guy.
I had been I've had just about five years ago was in Portugal
for some event. And and there was a computer show that I went
to and it was that, I think was one of the reasons I was there
for not mistaken. But next to the show. And a lot of these
areas where they have these exibit exhibits and exhibitions.
There's sometimes two or three of them from different
industries running parallel. Well, next to the computer show
was a law enforcement tools show with all kinds of scrape crazy
stuff, cop cars and all these things. So I wormed my way into
that event because it was even more interesting to me and they
had this this equipment and this is like five years ago and it
was I pretty sure it was a French company I'm guessing it's
the same company because so then they had this turnstile they had
like a thing to walk through a new The demo was you get to you
walk through it. And then it you did once it identifies you then
you can walk through you every time you walk through it. It'll
identify it says you so you go through this. It's actually
worked so well. It's creepy. You go through and you puff out your
cheeks. And you already are you you squint your eyes and puff
out your cheeks. Yeah. Oh John. You Have you turned sideways?
You give it like a profile? Boom. John, how about you if
you're wearing a hat, hat doesn't matter. If you I
couldn't do anything I tried and tried and tried to. And you guys
said why is it this seems just saying everybody's John, the guy
walks through and now it's this guy. So I could not beat this
thing. And I tried every way possible. Every time it was you
to densify me, it was unbelievable. And that was years
ago. I can't imagine what it's like now. It must be just
absolute dynamite. That's why I could spot that woman who had
the she had a nose job. And it's all Yes, same person. As
certainly if she's Asian, you know, if she's Chinese. I mean,
there's, there's a lot of things just you know, hair color eye
color doesn't really change.
She had to know that she had a facelift and a nose job. And
still it could detect that I Yeah, well, yeah, they said, but
I don't know if it could or not, but I can tell you this. The
equipment I was dealing with was nine I could not do anything. I
couldn't scrunch up my face. I couldn't give smirks or down you
know pull the edges. Nothing. It was always
catchy. There is a Turing test for this type of equipment. And
I believe if any facial recognition program can identify
Rachel Maddow today, from Tiara math, and the high school
yearbook photo of her then you've got a damn good machine.
Have you ever seen the high school high school yearbook
photo? Rachel Maddow? No, no, I have just search right now. Your
book Rachel Maddow, it'll be the top one. If any machine can
identify that then it's worth its weight in gold
doesn't necessarily identify maybe a man might you never
know. I mean, I have no idea. But I'm telling you this stuff
is works great. The only good news is that if you're not in
the database, it won't recognize
how about if you put on an eyepatch.
I think it was still ketchup.
Alright, everybody. Okay, I want to I'm wrapping it up, John.
I know. I'm gonna get this before you're done. Get what?
The picture, Rachel.
Okay. Well, my thanks for sure. To Grand Duke. So David Foley
for his hospitality, and of course, to his lovely family and
crap. And there it is. There it is. And his lovely wife, Lisa,
and their son.
Maybe she's got that big, thick neck, all of their friends. And
now this one is that she got the same eyes and she got a big
thick neck,
all of their friends who are here in the community who
welcomed us with open arms despite Well, you know, the
Tourette's
Yes. Your true reading it
up Tourette's and Skechers. Hey SketchUp coming to you from chez
Foley here in southern Silicon Valley. Everybody will be back.
Back on Thursday, in the morning, my name is Adam curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley. I'm John C. Dvorak. As I
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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 scientist 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 him? Was it
appropriate to jail people from the 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 unprecedented cuts
the ability to create an alternative reality
of stone pretty small
inside it all with reality
time determined by the majority leader in consultation
to create a reality
objective set session to document a level one for
wilderness reality to the various
parliamentary statutes up to
stone reality
thanks Nancy. Nancy
have a stove canned soups
doesn't have a skilled fancy thanks
to the emotionally considered which doesn't have
to be small but it's really all eating
doesn't have too many all you need for one person doesn't have
a stove ability to create reality doesn't have a
set of procedures executive session which doesn't
coincide with the ability to create yourself.
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Thanks, Nancy. Thanks, Obama.