You gotta kittens. You got a little kitten outside me
wandering around, boom done.
Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
Sunday, April 30 2017. This is your award winning give our
nation media assassination episode nine to five.
This is no agenda.
watching paint dry in Washington DC so you don't have to and
broadcasting live from the darkness scores here in the
capitals. Goldstar state Austin Tejas, morning, everybody. I'm
Adam curry and from Northern Silicon
Valley where there's no paint to dry. I'm John C. Dvorak.
Sullivan Buzzkill.
Yeah, I watched it.
Well, I'm sorry to hear that.
Yeah. But that's not my problem. And I had a I've had a rough
weekend. John rough weekend. How rough Was it very rough. You
know, we're in the middle of our move here.
Oh, that's right. You would not even hit home. You
know, I actually have I am at home. It is just like you're in
a new home. You know? No, I'm in the old home because they came
in to pack up Friday. And they packed up Tina's House on Friday
and Monday is when we move. So I've been living amongst boxes,
which has two very serious side effects or even a side effect.
No paper cuts. No, number one is the dust. Because oh my god is
so much dust and I have the HEPA filter running 24/7 I'm trying
everything. I got humidifiers. And I woke up this morning and
my glands are swollen. My ears hurt is like completely screwed.
But that's not the worst. Oh, no. No, it's been. It's been
very emotional. Now the keeper away, let's
get this straight. Why?
I'm going to tell you. So the keeper is a minimalist, which I
like
we like minimalist. We would like a minimalist. Yes. Yeah.
Yeah. So
we'd like that. And I said, Well, you know, we're gonna move
in together, I can certainly get to minimalism going. And so I
don't have all that much stuff. But I have this one closet,
which contains just huge crates of stuff that I've been showing.
That's
why she tweeted the pictures. Yeah.
Well, I asked her to tweet the pictures, because here's what's
going on. Even and I have I had well, I will never make a joke
about you being an archivist ever again. Because I'm an
archivist. And when I saw when I saw the stuff that I've been
schlepping around for over a decade, I mean, I'm talking just
big bundles of wires. He said, I must have 15 mixing boards,
compressor limiters, you want a USB cable, you can't name a USB
cable, I don't have. I've got 17 old laptops. I've got
hundreds of UI, you know laptops, and I have
I know and I've gotten this really good laptops, you know,
like the old the iBook, the clamshell iBook. I've got one of
them.
Oh yeah, that's a winner then one of
the first trans tranny laptops that goes from a laptop to to a
tablet. Yeah, but I really like an old one. I mean, we're
talking 10 years,
the first iteration of those things. Yeah, it was the
Microsoft. But here's the problem.
I have had real emotional issues throwing stuff out.
Oh, now I get it. So you're pointing the finger at me? Who
has it completely under control? I have thrown out more laptops.
And I've kept to just make yourself feel better?
Well, there's a couple things. One, I can't be throwing these
laptops they made? Who knows they may even contain Bitcoin, I
don't know what's on them. So I have to figure out a way to to
destroy them. Or you know, you can't even boot them all up. So
I don't know how to get the data off or how to unless I just
stick a drill into it. No, no, I
know exactly what you should do. Oh,
this is what I was hoping to hear.
Take the hard disk out of each one.
Well, you can't take a hard disk out of a Mac.
There's got to be some way to break the Mac, you can throw out
that thing. Although that's a very collectible Mac. It's one
of the worst Mac's ever made. And
you're telling me it's an actual collectible. See, now I have
even more trouble getting rid of
I think that is a collectible. So the other ones are not but if
you wanted to, I would pull the hard disks out of every one of
them. And then if you'd want to try to recover what's on the
hard disk, you can do that with some you know some equipment.
I have drives that are FireWire. I don't even own a FireWire
machine anymore.
Just drill them then and throw out the
toss them see then there's the 88
Wait, wait, take the laptops that without the hard disks and
donate them to a local museum.
You think there's a museum that'll take all this crap?
There was what got to be one around the country somewhere.
I mean, I even have Do you remember the cube the cobalt
cube? It was cobalt. Yeah, I have the original cobalt cube.
I've
got my
thank you. I'm a hoarder. I just have to say it. And I took this
all in yoga, because now you feel better. I hope because of
my therapy. I was able to take this all the way back to
childhood. You know this?
Oh, yeah. Money your favorite toys away?
No, I think I think I was lonely. And I'm like,
oh, yeah, Jewish sisters.
Believe me, when you're the eldest and you got two younger
sisters is lonely at the top. Yeah. And I think that you know,
just like I had a lot of stuffed animals on my, on my bed like,
these are my buddies, my wires and everything. John, it's, I
was I was ill. I actually kind of got ill just thinking of,
what am I doing with I must be 1000 pounds in weight that I
have separated to be either given away, donated or thrown
out.
Yeah, my wife would routinely because she likes to clean up.
She actually she doesn't like to clean up but she gets on a Jag
and she likes to clean up. Yeah, so she'll start cleaning and my
daughter's worse. I have to be careful with her
with the cleaning because you'll throw good stuff. Oh, no,
she just she she I can see her. She's looks left she looks
right. She doesn't see me looking at her. boom in the good
stuff goes into the garbage bag.
What is she doing in your office? Man? What does she do?
She can
clean this. My daughter in particular can make this office
spotless.
I mean, I actually had the conversation you know, I have a
big Yamaha keyboard. And Tina's like, what are you gonna do with
that? I said, Well, I can't this can't throw this out. What have
you got? You'd give that away? Give it to Salvation Army or put
it on the show. But wait,
well, that's an idea. Just like what if what if Elton John drops
by and then he says all Tina, I'd like to play song for you.
But you got keyboard. Oh, you threw the keyboard out? Oh,
sorry. No song for you. Wow. Yeah, that's projecting the
future. Yeah. Or Bruce Hornsby could have Oh, sure.
Any one of those guys. How often have they showed up in the last
five years? Oh, you know what? I'm in Austin and give me Oh,
yeah, place where nobody knows anything about music.
So it's been, but seriously, it was really surprising to me.
One, how just how much junk I have collected and have been
schlepping. For 10 years. This agenda is stuff that is 10 years
older than 10 years Creative Labs. mp3 players. Are you
kidding me?
Yeah, that's that's a goner.
I have experimental stuff in here. It's just now
here's what I do is I'll give you some more advices another
way you can go. All right. There's some stuff you've got
that is probably worth something to someone. Yeah, not much. But
I'm sure there's some
what's not much what's?
Well, I think the cobalt cube might be interesting for someone
to collect. I mean, who is serious collector that has a
collection that's neat. And organized. So you can put a list
of stuff you have, this will make you feel a lot better. You
put a list of stuff you have that you didn't need to get rid
of, and it'll go to a good home if somebody claims that
otherwise you're just gonna throw it out. Yeah. And but
there's you do have artifacts that are actually art,
such as what is actually art, this is a great way to explain,
Hey, baby, this is actually art, we should display this. And
so I've got three display cases, I got an Ikea cancer, that kind
of a box with a glass thing in front of it. All three of them
filled with weird looking mice.
Oh, yeah, I have that for Morse code keys. That Okay, that is
okay. I think because I think Morse code keys are indeed art.
These handmade keys are beautiful. I really enjoy them
here. But that's about the only thing I'm not going to display
computer stuff that's plain,
no a pipe, but a bunch of mice all tangled up together in a box
like that is actually quite interesting as art per se.
And this coming from you is even more interesting that this is
your ODE you have a collection of mice.
Oh to the mouse. Well, I started noticing like an accumulation of
mice that I'd ever used. You know, the ball mouse isn't one
of those anymore. The the I still have the Microsoft mouse
with the metal ball. Which is an extreme collectible as far as
I'm concerned. But who's gonna buy these things? So I stuffed
them in these boxes and present and we hung them on the wall. It
looks it looks like it looks like some sort of art does. It
does it
another reason why it's two separate homes really works.
Well, that those that actually that would work at either house.
It's a very attractive piece. You'd be surprised No, I'm
just, I believe Yeah, I believe you.
And so there's that you could I'm sure that they'd like their
little mp3 player from Creative law. Here's a cool idea. Take
that mp3 player. Go to one of those tap plastic places. By
joining get this a pocket that is but there's Lucite stuff that
you can you can make a mold a cube mold pour this plastic in
there then push the thing down into the into the plastic before
it dries yeah and then let it solid solidify into a giant
plastic cube with with the mp3 player embedded.
Wow that'll be worth 50 bucks on its it won't be worth anything
but it will
look cool
anyway, so a period of growth
I'm sorry to hear this because of all grief you've given me a
but be genuine notice this stuff when you move from the last
place.
Um, did I not explain this is a psychological issue that goes
back to my childhood This is blank out? No, I've just I've
always been like, ah, you know how I can throw this out? Okay,
let me try this. So running into the minimalist. She snapped you
into realization is that what happened?
I was ready. I was ready to. I've just been ready. I've been
ready to give this up. I just died and all of a sudden that
hit me and I wasn't quite prepared for it. It was
frightening. Yeah, I mean, I live and I'm okay now but man it
was it was a big deal. And and I felt bad because I've chided
you. And let me tell you per square footage, I know I have a
denser pot, you know denser pile of crap. And
just because you don't have as much room to spread out
exactly, exactly. But has just been dragging this crap around
for decades. I can't build that's what was so frightening.
Why am I doing that? What is wrong with me and I realize it I
don't want to get I don't want to let go of the little boy.
I don't think that's it. Now, I don't think that's it at all
what I think it is. I think it's a problem with a lot of
Hoarders. Yes, are let's just call ourselves archivists, with
a lot of archivists. You see value in all of this stuff, and
you don't like throwing money away. You're cheap. You're cheap
tightwad. That's what it really amounts to, though. Wait a
minute, let me look at this old copy of Lotus jazz. You know,
I'll bet you this is worth 10 bosses
jazz Wow. Then that could never get Lotus jazz to work properly
on the Mac floss it just never did the never dialed in they're
supposed to be like a dial in thing or the you know, because
it was yeah, it was the full suite it had loads of jazz.
So So you have this that you think has value this is because
I've watched a horror show and it's it always boils down to
this is worth something i Why am I throwing money?
You're right you're right but on the other night, a little boy
anything
is bullcrap. You're trying to come up with some romantic
reason that you're a cheapskate.
Now I'm far from a cheapskate and you know better than that.
I'm not a cheap well, you're
you don't spend money wisely, but it does you don't throw
money away. Oh, but I'm gonna throw away guy.
But John, we're talking about okay, there's gear. But when you
look at the amount of wires, yeah,
every wire is worth five bucks.
You're rich. You're a millionaire.
That's right. Go podcasting. I'm quitting. It's quittin time,
everybody. All right. So that's been my weekend so far. No, no,
no, no, no, this is good. I feel good about it. I really do.
Don't be sorry. I'm sorry. And I in a roundabout way, but I'll
just say it. I apologize for making fun of you as an
archivist. But this just proves you are what you accuse others
of this is just solidify. Yes. Right. Yeah. Anyways, so between
all the boxes last night, I of course watch two things. I
watched the President's speech in Harrisburg, which was I was
led to believe it was meant as counterprogramming, I think was
much smarter. It wasn't counterprogramming was on just
before the White House Correspondents Dinner and what
seaspan did is they now just so people who who don't know every
year, how long has this been going on going for a while this
White House
correspondent started during the Roosevelt administration may be
Yeah, and he
probably didn't like it. But the idea was the White House
Correspondents Association, all the end, it's a lot of them.
There's a lot of guys and gals 1000s They have a big party,
which up until this year was you know, it got progressively more
showbusiness like, and the hashtag was nerd party. You
know, they go and it's so cool. We got all the cool journalists
and like a wolf blitzer. He looks good in a tuxedo. Oh, and
he's sitting with Kim Kardashian. It was a complete
douchebag fest, and totally douche
baggy with all those Hollywood types. Yeah.
And the idea is that it's it's really meant to give out
scholarships to journalists and some awards, some cash prizes,
to movie prizes. And then the President speaks and he's
allowed to excoriate the press a little bit with a couple of
videos and some funny jokes Obama was very good at it. And
then they typically have Reagan was good at it too. I don't
remember that would have been that he was gonna have a
comedian come up and he rose everybody. That's the basic idea
and this year,
I think the model that's most recent is the comedian rose,
everybody that didn't know then the President comes after that.
I think you're right. Yeah. So this so this year, the President
said, No, I'm not coming screw you guys. And they and
everything that he broke the whole thing it broke the mold
broke everything they didn't have the red carpet guy was all
ready to go. I know you don't want to do it. But I was ready
to just do it for myself. Just to make Tina laugh and like, Oh,
watch this. I'll do the red carpet was everyone's wearing
and it didn't they didn't show that. No C span cut when they
were already in and getting started. And it was by far the
most boring thing I've ever seen in my life. Well, I'm
gonna start a tape.
I'm gonna be rack it up. Which a tape Do you want?
I will refer to it throughout the show. Ah, but and but I want
to let's get the first part going. He's I had this thing
running since actually, before we had to reboot. And I want to
just put on Bob Woodward. Yeah, I just wanted to put a little
bit so we can hear what the pace of the show is like, and then
throughout the rest of this show, we'll play. I'll just cut
back to it because it's playing right now as we speak, we're
just going to cut right in on him. And he hears what he has
said this is the
document destruction, a massive house cleaning at the Nixon
reelection committee, a money trail, an organized well funded
cover,
just to have these two guys, Woodward and Bernstein, you
know, who both have been CIA assets currently, or in the
recent past was laughable. Like, why don't you get your boss's up
on the stage people? Look, here's your here's your boys.
You do what they do.
Clark McGregor, then the Nixon campaign manager called Ben
Bradley, the editor of the Washington Post. I
mean, just when you hear that a dad editor of the Washington
Post, I'm like, oh, pass the weed. I can handle this. It was
so boring and so bad. And although of course, the comedian
gets rave reviews that I think he
bombed Well, except for that, too. Okay, we're done with
Woodward's. We'll come back to him later and we'll come back to
him of course. Okay. So yeah, I'll just let it play in the
background and we'll cut in and out. The comedian wasn't funny.
Let's start with that. I don't know who gave him rave reviews.
In fact, the couple of clips from the comedian,
you just don't need to look at the face bag to know about the
rave reviews.
W h CD Joe. This is one of his jokes and this is typical of his
material.
Hey, has anyone seen Rick Perry since he became energy
secretary?
I have a feeling he's sitting in a room full of plutonium waiting
to become Spider Man. That's just my hunch. Yeah,
it was is this like great material? He was nervous. He was
he did have one the funny and only funny Lanzoni open he says
Welcome to the last Washington
the last White House this season or the season finale. I think he
said
something like that. And here's another one of his fabulous I
don't think he put much effort into this either. And he should
have hired some other outside writers but it does seem that he
did or even used the Daily Show writers was maybe his what he
did, is tried to second gag.
Now a lot of people think Steve Bannon is the reason Donald
Trump dog whistles to racists was fun and that is just not
true as Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon here I do not see Steve
Bannon. I do not see steeped in not see Steve Bannon. One more
time I see Steve Bannon
that's on their level.
So saying Nazi Steve Bannon is funny too. But did you know that
I think that the room was sweetened? Because you could
look out there and there wasn't anybody laughing at all there's
a few people smiling very few well, you know
is with the sweetening business I pay a lot of attention to
this. There's when they have the room mics depending on who's
where you know, things can sound really loud even though it may
be one person just near one of the one of the ambiance
microphones. Built magazine I just point out as an aside,
says, this is all bull crap. There was no booing of Ivanka
Trump at the event and we're built to do that yeah yeah the
thing we debunked on the last episode and you know same thing
and maybe there was some some room noise that was Mike near
the press pit in this case you have nothing but the probe sure
there's all kinds of noises going on but no laughing No I
didn't hear the only the end when he went into you know you
guys are protecting the First Amendment that this isn't
important and blind. God bless America and then everyone's like
all standing ovation. Yes, we are important. We are very
important. No, we are important. douchebags.
What are they? We're important. Well, the counter program was
actually and it was at the same time with Samantha Bee show. Oh,
I
didn't realize she had that. Okay, interesting.
So she did an hour a press correspondents dinner. That was
at least five times funnier. Yeah. Even though it was just
still. Trump hate Trump hate. But it will. I mean, here's an
example of one of her jokes, which is just a Trump hate joke
that was funny to this audience. I find it to be slightly
annoying. I don't like these kinds of you ridiculing people
for their appearance. But this is Samantha V's or Ranga Tang
joke,
has convinced 88% of his fans that you're an enemy of the
people. You basically get paid to stand in a cage while a
geriatric orangutan and his pet mob scream at you. It's like a
reverse Zoo.
I don't like that either. We do it a lot, of course, personally.
But we do that as television executives not as human beings.
Now the thing that started off at the Samantha Bee show, which
was again, it started off with the fake press conference that
was technically quite funny. Although again, it was a hate
thing. And there's also then it got preachy, which ended provid
Samantha bees thing is this this event, Herb counterprogramming,
which is again a lot better than the correspondents dinner was
oh, I'll tell you what, I'm still playing this a Woodward
clip. You get to see what his shot what he's saying now.
Yeah, let me I want to do you have to patch cabling? Yeah,
I gotta go right to you, baby, ever. Oh, no. Okay.
It's more rapport.
They knock on doors late at night, and telephoned from the
lobby. They hound.
Yeah, no, he's still going, John.
Yeah, okay. It took him a long time to get the shot. I saw
there were some shots. I didn't take pictures of the screen. But
there were a couple of shots of people dead asleep.
I'll get back to the fake press conference.
Okay, here's the fake press conference. And I thought this
was it this way it started off and so they do this fake press
conference. I think they make some good points because
everybody at the press guy. This is an actress that's on a lot of
sitcoms, pretending to be the press secretary. They're not
doing a mockery of Sean. Sean Sean Hannity. Sean Spicer sweaty
Sean. Sweaty Sean. It's actually got some it's got a couple of
funny points. Yes, yeah. Hi,
Ed Bower the boldface red font email alert for America's
uncle's is tonight's special going to be like every episode
of Full Frontal where Sam just talks about vaginas for half
hour.
No. Tonight she'll be talking about them for a full hour. Take
a Skype question because I guess that's the thing now. Yes,
Leonard Skinner tribute band member?
Yes. Speaking as a fridge nut job survivalist who
unaccountably drinks his own urine.
What's your question? No question. Is anyone here
a reporter in the American US News? Yeah,
I know. You're from Russia today.
Jones Stern. Wake up sheeple. News. biz.org.
Next, okay. Opus Dei,
Lloyd Merkin Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Why hasn't
Samantha be commented on the allegations that she's a witch?
Okay,
you know what? You people are monsters. Yes, we have freedom
of speech and of the press in this country. And that is a
beautiful thing. So if our morally bankrupt gang of racist
bloggers and artists, Dominionists radio hosts and
rancid women haters want to call themselves journalists, no one
can stop you. But you are part of the reason that no one trusts
the real press. These journalists work day and night
to find the truth. Write it down or tell it to a camera and
sometimes they they apologize. Most of the time. They chase
down stories even when the stories put them in danger and
their phone batteries die because of all the Pepe is
tweeting abuse at them. And you pretend to be them ruining their
reputation, at least among people too stupid to tell the
difference.
What a circle jerk
is pretty funny. At least she didn't put podcasters in
whether she could have would have been actually that would
have been funny if you drop that in. Yeah, well, they missed that
they
got the Pepe part.
Let me let me play a couple clips that I have here. The one
that I thought was now the I'm gonna go back to the the, the
other counter programming. Now before I'm gonna see what's the
best way to do this? Yeah, let's come up with we'll come back to
but let me say we're still talking, still talking. We'll
come back to that in a moment, maybe just for a second play
three quick, like little nuggets from the Harrisburg Pennsylvania
counterprogramming show, which I thought was pretty good,
actually, for a couple of reasons. One is the crowd really
knew exactly what they wanted to do
you can hear them say CNN sucks. Yeah, kind of. Yeah, that's what
was cool is that I wanted to get this sound from C span.org. And
you can search within the transcript of each video. And a
search for CNN sucks and it was in there they transcribe with
the crowd was say that that was pretty good. Then we had one of
these beautiful only Donald Trump moments. Thank you
for that sign blacks for Trump. I love that guy. flags for that
guy. And then he goes off brother on him. Thank you. Thank
you, man. Thank
you. Thank you, man.
Hey, man, power to Black Power, man. That's great. That's really
cool. I appreciate it. Yeah, for sure. And I know he's sincere,
but God comes out really weird does Yeah.
Oh, when one guy
and then my favorite. You know, if you want to be this, this was
just unbelievable to me. I was smiling that this whole thing
was so funny. So the best thing to do when you want to let no
one someone know that they're doing something wrong and say,
I'm not gonna say you're doing this, I'm not gonna say that
what you're doing here is wrong. You're telling them but same
time you're saying I'm not going to tell you about that. And this
was regarding the media's incessant hysteria over the
meeting with Chinese President pronoun Ji, who Donald Trump had
a meeting at Mar a Lago. And he's like ballin, and the press
had a, you didn't call him a currency manipulator, like you
said you would do Ha, ha, why didn't you do that? So he tried
to explain this. You have
China, who is really trying to help as you've seen, they've
sent back vast amounts of coal coming out of North Korea. So
let's see what happens. And I think it's not exactly the right
time to call China a currency manipulator right now. Do we
agree with that? It's just not the right thing ever say that?
They say why didn't he do it?
And he repeated that several times. It's just not the right
time to call them a currency manipulator. He's basically
calling the currency manipulator. But all I just want
to do right now. Very, very interesting from from United
States president. So this, especially the CNN stuff, and
then he spent a lot of time on fake news media and excoriating
everybody, of course. And so before we went to the White
House Correspondents non event, they had a nine person panel on
CNN, it's their insane over there. Do they not see that this
doesn't even look good in the shot?
Yeah, I know their shots are terrible. By the way. I should
mention Samantha B. Did a whole segment on the CNN targeting
Jeff Zucker.
Oh, good. Good. Well, make an entertainment you know, so he's
doing he's doing what it was.
She had plenty of clips of him saying that too. But Paul
Begala, who is this douche I've seen them all. Yeah, Paul. big
gala. He's a Clinton stooge. Oh, well, listen to
his response to the President's speech in in Harrisburg, right?
He needs
this affirmation from his face, because he's a moral midget. And
he is a deeply insecure person. He's haunted by the fact that
the vast majority of Americans 54% voted against him. He lost
to Hillary Clinton the popular vote by 10.8. No, he's haunted
by that. So he needs he's a needy little baby. What he needs
as a president, though, is to unify the country needs his
politician is to expand his base. Okay, if you want to be
small minded, he needs to expand his base as a politician, but as
a president, he needs to expand the moment that when we were
watching this, John, you pointed out when he hollered at that
protester. That is not how President behaves. And I went
back and look during the campaign is when we just
finished, President Obama was speaking North Carolina, and a
protesters done interrupted a speech for minutes on end much
longer than then Trump and the president united states told the
crowd which was rabid pro Obama, of course, stop. Look at this
man. He said. He said first he's, he's older, and he is
entitled to our respect. Second, we believe in free speech in
this country. It's an American fact he had a shirt or a hat
that looked like he was a veteran. He said we owe him
thanks for his service. He called that crowd to a higher
better place. If Trump isn't capable of doing that, and if
we're gonna wait 1061 days and he's still going to be the moral
midget that you saw on that standard Harrisburg.
So what sticks out here, of course, is the term moral
midget.
That's interesting. As though it sticks out to me. Well,
the thing that is, of course, a complete false equivalency is
some douchebag protester who gets kicked out within two
seconds. And a veteran who stands up and wants to say so
if you remember, we both blew this veteran think that was a
scam. It was a scam. I know. I know. But just like all the
other ones that Obama's done the only one that we could find
where it was sincerely happening. Extra was a couple
but they didn't broadcast too many was when he was in his own
White House. And this person started saying somebody hey,
Obama goes nuts for your in my house. You can't drink my
drinks. We have all those clips. Yeah. And that is the bunch of
have been made into songs. So this bag, this podcast
character, this guy is really a dreadful. He's a sickening
person to be on any of these shows, because that's full of
crap.
Yes, of course he is. But I think we
have this on CNN. I mean, CNN just that's all they have on
them. They wonder it's I think it's transparent to the viewing
public that these guys are insincere phonies?
I hope so. Although I don't think so. I think that the I
think heads were exploding if if any dimension be people saw this
is Harrisburg. Speech, I think they would their head would
explode him and watch it hate him to hate him to hate him. Now
we'll watch now before on SES, as I was watching C span, they
didn't do the red carpet. They re aired something I'd missed on
Friday on C span and it was a conversation amongst
journalists. It was the state of the news media. OS was Jake
Tapper by Katy Tur, and Brian seltzer water from the seltzer
water guy from CNN. And here is Brian Seltzer, talking about how
he views the audience and the American public at large.
So facts are just
these little wisps of of things in the wind that blow away. If
that's the case,
Brian, why bother correcting facts?
Well, I don't think we're in a post fact world or a post
factcheck world or a post truth world, think we're only in that
world of all of us in this room agree to be and if everybody
else and every other room agrees to be there are alternative
realities, though. There are to put it simply to alternative
realities. And then to be more honest about it, many, many
alternative realities, I find myself thinking about that. But
with regards of post truth post fact, it's only if we all allow
it to be just because there's a alternative reality that we
might label as the Alex Jones Infowars bubble. Oh, just
because those folks live with a different set of facts, doesn't
mean that we're post fact as a society where this
Ultimate Universe story come from.
came from the alternate universe.
Again, no agenda show way ahead of the pack.
I have these clips too. I know. You play them and I can't figure
out which of the two is which.
Well, I'm gonna play my second one and let me play my second
one here. This is Oh, this is Jake Tapper responding to what
seltzer water said.
Let me also say, when there's been a lot of attention on Trump
supporters, and I think that's good, because because the media
does need to get outside the bubble. But they are a minority
of the electorate. Not even just a minority of the American
people are a minority of the world. They're a minority of the
electorate, and not all of them. You know, believe it, President
Trump no matter what he says. And the reason why facts matter
is because when we get President Trump says something about the
US Armada being headed to the Korean peninsula, and it turns
out it's not
how man he's still on that one. That becomes a major issue man
South Korea major issue during the election.
It's a major and she's a major issue. Oh, majors major issue.
The
next one is my favorite.
Because when President Trump suggests that vaccines cause
autism, despite the fact that the medical community, the
respected medical and scientific community say that's not true,
please don't say that. People are going to stop getting their
kids immunized.
That's dangerous. Yes. And maybe you should talk to Robert
Kennedy while you're at it, because he's out there really
promoting that message but
literally have a life or death literally. So, facts do matter.
And it's okay that some people don't believe them. 18% of the
public thinks that they've seen a ghost. Good luck.
Okay. Well, that's what you think of your audience. Hmm.
Nice. Tapper. Very nice. Check in with checking. Yeah, we're
still
good. We're saying Ben Bradley, the editor.
Oh, my goodness. It takes forever that guy. All right.
What do you what else you got?
The Katy tour. First of my two clips is just because she has a
couple of things to say because she had a lot of experience. And
I think this is adds a little more dimension, then we can talk
about what these what these guys what conclusions they came to
and why they're wrong. Supporters, they
did not care what we said. They did not care. They didn't want
to hear it. They didn't care that Donald Trump was
inconsistent. They don't care if he builds the wall or not, for
the most part, they don't care what he does. They believe that
when he got into office, and they still largely believe this,
that he will make the decisions that are best for the country.
So facts are just these little wisps of things in the wind that
blow away. If that's the case. It's
really interesting how I knew that you would be interested in
Katie turn. You got the clips of her, and I got the clips of
seltzer water. That's interesting.
Now the point seltzer water actually made the best point
when he says he didn't He use a term at the end of that first
clip of yours, where he says an alternative set of facts. Now if
the Blondie Trump,
Kellyanne Conway,
Kellyanne Conway, had said an alternative set of facts instead
of alternative facts.
Right? She'd be gold. Yeah, she messed it up.
She messed it up, because alternative facts implies even
though it's not what she was trying to say. But it implies
that you have a fact that the the water is blue, and the
alternative fact is red, right. As opposed to an alternative set
of facts, which has nothing to do with whether the water is
blue or red, it has to do with a set of facts. That is standalone
and your set of facts is different, because you may have
more facts, you may have less faction, but you may have a lot
you may have different facts and different facts. Well what she's
trying to get at but she's different, the same facts said
differently.
Even though we know that what is going on is that in dimension a
and dimension B people are looking at the exact same
information and translating it differently. It's it's exactly
the same as the golden white and the blue and black dress. It's
the same thing.
Yeah, I think that's the best analogy to be honest about so
we're going to be on these guys. Let's go to the mister
alternative facts. I don't even know why they would put a guy
like this on it. Well, it's MSNBC. So I think that explains
it. But listen, let's, let's hear what Rob Reiner has to say.
This man who was the head of our country is a pathological liar.
And everybody around him is lying. There's no way to all the
way to look at this thing. Not only did we know about Michael
Flynn, there were a number of articles. There was a letter
written by the House Oversight Committee. It was well known
what Michael Flynn was doing. He was fired by Barack Obama. So
that is clear. And what EJ Dionne said is absolutely true.
The one thing that they have been successful at so far, is
obfuscating, the biggest single story that is that is permeating
this country right now. And that is the invasion of a foreign
power, hostile foreign power into our democracy. And and the
Michael Flynn story, aside from the fact that he was taking
money from Turkey, from Russia, from places and clearly that's a
criminal behavior. The main part of this story and something that
we haven't even talked about is why why with the White House
knowing full well that this is who he was they still appointed
him national security adviser. And that goes to the story of
why Sally Yates has been kicked off the stage. She'll now come
back on and that is she overheard Michael Flynn talking
to the US, the Russian Ambassador Kislyak about getting
rid of the sanctions. That's the story and that's where we have
to start thinking about the undermining of our democracy.
Wow, hate the whole Sally Yates thing of Sally Yates.
Let me just bend over. Yeah, mortal liner. Close. I got
something to complete it though when you're ready.
Well, the point is, is that he throws his set. Sally Yates
isn't in the
White House. No, she's she was never in
the White House. How did she overhear Michael Flynn's
conversations she was fired because she wouldn't abide by
the new immigration edicts. She said I'm not doing that and so
they fired her. It's got nothing to do with Michael Flynn. But
according to Reiner it's has everything to do with Michael
Flynn because Michael Flynn's the bad actor. He's a Russian
agent is allowed Putin to run thanks. I mean, this guy, and
they all listen to they all defer to him because he's, you
know, he's a famous director and he has standing in Hollywood,
but he's lunatic?
Well, this, of course came up, or Sean sway, Sean made a very
bad showing, and you'll understand why it's a bad
showing. And I'm not entirely clear why they're not just
saying what the what the facts are and I have some facts here
for us. So here's one of the questions that came up about
General Flynn was a career military officer who maintained
a high level security clearance throughout his career in the
military. His clearance was last reissued by the Obama
administration in 2016. With full knowledge of his activities
that occurred in 2015, as you point out, so the issue is, you
know, he was issued a security clearance under the Obama
administration in the spring of 2016. The trip and transactions
that you're referring to occurred in December of 2015.
So stupidly, stupidly, this guy goes rule. They voted him Blue
was difficult, but here I have more homeless checking on board
Washington Post and I still do it. But I have here a letter
from Flynn's law firm we've we've read these letters before.
This is a statement that was sent to to Congress a yes,
Congress. This is a statement by Robert Kellner Covington and
Burling LLP counsel, the General Mike Flynn, April 27 2017. You
didn't see this anywhere. Interestingly enough. We
respectfully disagree with Representative Cummings
characterization of the April 7 2017 letter from dia as the
director of the Defense Intelligence Agency to the
committee. DIA is letter actually confirmed in a terse
section that has been partially redacted? That General Flynn
provided information and documents on a thumb drive to
the Department of Defense concerning the RT speaking event
in Moscow, including documents reflecting that he was using a
speaker's bureau for the event. As you pointed out, John,
General Flynn provided two briefings to the department one
before and one after the event. The department was fully aware
of the trip and we urge DIA and the committee to release the
full unredacted letter along with the documents that General
Flynn provided to dia during the briefings and details concerning
the in person briefings provided by General Flynn to dia This is
fake news. But these people are saying and it doesn't matter we
know it doesn't matter because Russia still attack Georgia we
know these things do not matter. Because the truth is in Rob
Reiner, you know he speaks the truth. But this is this is so
far removed from what they're saying. Our tea wow okay, who
are tea should be arrested everybody who speaks in RT event
through a speaker's bureau and told told the Defense
Intelligence Agency all about it before and after he got
debriefed.
I see, where do you watch?
Let's see if what we're talking about. Now he's not talking
about it. So
I play a little more than that.
McGregor report it?
No, I can't. It's just like paint. Paint, man. So you know,
when will why doesn't sweaty Shawn say this? Hey, look at
this. Here's this letter. Why doesn't he do that? This is what
confuses me. Does he not know? I mean, well, is he an imbecile?
Um, don't answer that. But does he not know?
Ah, you know, I get to a kind of a sense that they're all of this
could be just nonsense developed by The New York Times and The
Washington Post. But it's possible that they're a little
in disarray, or they don't really have their act together.
And it's Spicer should do this on his own unilateral. He should
know what you just did. That reading from that letter. To
Cummings, who's an idiot is exactly what he should do. I
don't understand why he can't bring himself to do I think
he's, I don't think I think these guys are out drinking too
much. You're in Washington, DC. There's nothing but parties. We
played a couple of clips a couple of shows ago. None of
them had parties going on constantly. It's correspondents
dinner is another example of it. They don't really do their work.
I still
love how everyone's all dressed up like penguins. Yeah, now
we're now we're elites. We're part of the Washington elites.
Anyway, this
I did watch the after show they're showing people like Wolf
Blitzer standing around looking for somebody to try to find
someone to talk to it's just it's actually kind of
embarrassing I don't understand that's got to be one of the most
uncomfortable events to go to unless you're with a group and
wave with you with a group you're all you just group up you
don't even really mix much I don't think a lot of mix going
on.
Anyway, it was it just reiterated a lot of things once
again, you know, it's not Nice, nice nice to see that they are
indeed morons. How long have we been doing the show now? Because
I
just John was 10 years now. No, I
mean today, just for my timing what? How long is it what time
we started?
That's why I said 10 years.
Anyone in the War Room have an idea we can go on for 20 minutes
maybe
we can we may have gone longer. Let's look at the clock. I can't
tell about an hour. All right. Well, so I think I think it's
time to case.
me thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you
John C where the C stands for keep track of Stein over here
double rack
in the morning, you Adam curry in the morning to you ships at
sea boots on the ground feet in the air. It's obvious in the
water and all the Dames and nights out there. Yes.
And in the morning to everyone in the War Room. No agenda
stream.com. Good to see everybody there. They don't know
how long we've been going though. I've 69 minutes.
Everyone's a comedian. 33 years. Haha. Hey, thanks for not
helping 33 years very funny. I do want to say, I do want to
thank Dennis Cruz. Who bought us You brought us the artwork for
episode nine or two for now this was an important one. This was
the golden bozos episode. And the artwork. We had a number of
you made a comment which was very funny that instead of
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were known people who had cheaper Yeah, and had Ferraris
dropping out of out of airplanes. And we for some
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i We knew it was a Chevy it wasn't like we were old. There's
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low rent Ferraris that we put out there it was your they could
drop Chevy's really be cheap. Yeah, same task. The inventory,
you got to inventory issues that General Motors get on the
Afghanis. But it was a better composed image. It was so we
picked it for that
reason and a note, because the one we wanted initially was a
great piece of art. It was a hand with a thumbs down with a
with a forearm in the French flag colors, but it was stolen.
So don't do that. Don't keep it on
Yeah, you can't you can repurpose things to a point if
you if it's really
under fair use, you can make a parody out of something but you
can't. So much else's joke. That was
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We do image searches and we can be fine. And we
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do have a nice PR mentioned here. Jake Lester has been
working on this for a while he has completed the Amazon Echo
skill for the program. And a skill means it's it's now baked
into every Amazon Echo and you can do this and I think I should
at work, I should demonstrate it.
So we could demonstrate, but that's not telling me how it
works.
Okay. With the Amazon Echo, you can set up what they call
skills. So you can use their API. And you can then enable and
it's now enabled for everybody a no agenda skill. So you can ask
no agenda to do something. And in this case, you have a number
of options. And I'd like to demonstrate them. Of course, we
don't call our ours is not Alexa, we've changed that to
book of knowledge. So you'll hear it a little differently.
But you can do this at home. So let's first ask for the live
stream. So we go, book of knowledge. Ask no agenda to
start the live stream. Playing no agenda live of knowledge. Ask
no agenda to start the live stream haga stop. So that worked
pretty good, huh?
Are you impressed? I'm, I'm not understanding this correctly.
Okay. So okay, so somebody goes into the API, and they the API,
which I would think was, is the universal API. So when I
programmed the API, every Alexa machine now all of a sudden has
this capability.
It's kind of like the App Store. It has to be approved first. So
then they listen that I'm sorry. In fact, I gave I gave
permission for him to do this, because they wouldn't do it
without permission from us. I figured to be okay. I forged
your signature. Okay, fine. So now everyone can do this. But
you can also say, book of knowledge.
So you can do the wave its backup. You're just you're,
you're preoccupied with the whiz bang part of it. And we're kind
of interested in, in this methodology where you can do
something and then Amazon incorporates it into their
system. We have talked about this a little different. Well,
no, not really. This is a little different than iTunes approving
an app. Because you still have to load the app.
Yeah, it is different you create correct. Now there are tons of
skills you could you can ask you know, you can have an Uber or
you can order an Uber, they've got a skill, you just have to
say ask Uber to book me a car. This is the whole kind of idea.
Typically, though, it's rather lame, because you have to
remember how you speak to the skill.
You had to say asked no agenda.
Yes, yes. Yes, yes. Yes. If you don't do that, then then it
fails. So that's kind of lame, because it takes away the whole
natural
play. No agenda stream. Yes.
But it doesn't work that way. You have to activate your
application which is now connected but it there's an
approval process and then once it's approved, everybody has it.
Hmm. Should I do the following a demonstration?
Oh, do Yeah, you Yeah. Okay. book of knowledge.
Asked no agenda to play the recent show. My new agenda show
to bang. Adam curry. Johnson. Stop. Now here's the cool one.
There are a couple more things you can do this one I like a
lot. book of knowledge. Ask no agenda to play the latest
episode Skip 33 minutes. Playing no agenda show. Calm thanks.
Stop. Idiot can
epic fail work of knowledge?
Ask no agenda to play the most recent episode Skip 33 minutes.
Playing no agenda show five ditch fucking technology. I hate
it. It worked earlier. Don't know that. You don't know that.
Do you? And I bet you don't really works. You just have to
know how to talk to it. It was cool until I messed up the demo.
Sorry. No VC
ever seen a demo? Not next. No.
It does work. You can skip ahead. I don't know why I must
be doing it wrong, which shows you the weakness of not being
able to use natural language in the in your in your commands to
bed. But anyway, Jake, I really appreciate it. I'm sure you'll
you'll add more little things in there so will recognize more
more phrases like the one I used. This is the state of
artificial intelligence. Yeah, it gives you any idea how far
along we are? Oh, yeah. The algo is gonna do just great for you.
I anyway, I want to thank everybody who came in as an
executive producer or Associate Executive Producer for today's
program is highly appreciated. Of course, we'll be thanking
more people at the end of the near the end of the program $50
and above. And everyone else please do remember we have
another show coming up on Thursday. Remember us at
avora.org/and Whatever you do, don't try to propagate the
formula to that echo thing. You won't understand it. Our formula
is this.
We go out. We hit people in the mouth
I got a tip I got an idea that she asked no agenda what the
formula is and then it plays that Jing all Yeah,
well if you can do all that stuff so he'll do come up with a
list and it's just it's not really artificial intelligence
is not really recognizing what I'm talking about.
Of course not. None of this stuff is it's all bogus. Bogus
Dave I
tell ya. Let's check in and Woodward
massive house crunches. It's just
never stopped for that guy.
When he goes on forever, yes. I thought that was the peak of the
whole event.
It was pretty boring and
Bernstein wasn't much better.
No, no, not at all. No. Heap Now who's the spook now? Is it
Bernstein who is now the spook or is it Woodward?
Well, what we've by just simple observation there you know once
the spook always spoke, so
wouldn't really spoke now. But he
I got the impression we hadn't we did not see much of Bernstein
for the last 20 years, right. And Bernstein also wrote that
article in his blog, which I'm wondering if it's still up. It
was done in 1997, where he accused all the networks of
being ended with the CIA, and the whole thing was a scam. And
there's too much too many CIA reporters and all the rest,
which we've talked about on this show. And then all of a sudden,
but he keeps saying whatever come out of these big Tomes,
these monsters books, you know, that he was written. And it's
like, you know, these are all with lots of insight information
that you can't really just get. And so I think he finally said,
Okay, I give up. Right, I'll do what you want. I can use the
extra money and what do you want me to do? Whatever. Yeah, go for
it. So he's on CNN all the time bitching about Trump with the
same same arguments. He's in a Ranga Tang and an idiot and all
that sort of thing, even though he takes it he's a little more
intellectual about he doesn't, you know, just call him names.
No, but that's funny you call him was a moral midget? You
know, these are great things to say. And yeah, Ranga Tang
orange. I'm
very fond of Laurel midget. Yeah.
We were talking earlier about during the donation segment
about our stance on climate change. And of course, in the
news, hot and heavy this the past few weeks has been Bill Nye
the anti constitutionalist guy who thinks he'd science is God
given right by the constitution. So there were protests, big
climate protests everywhere. over the over the weekend. If
you caught any of that, of course, this is because the
President says he's considering now pulling out of the Paris
Climate Accord. Didn't he already pull out? No, no. In
fact during his speech in Harrisburg, he said you know,
I'm going to make a very important decision in a couple
of days here which to me means he's not pulling out entirely.
This is how he pulled out but it was kind of sad for the People's
Climate March in Colorado they they were all ready to protest
of course the President and his crazy agenda it snowed sadly for
their anti climate change. Global warming March I hate it
when that happens.
Always a winner
now let's talk about Bill nine first actually, I hear I have a
some one of our producers went to Kenya who did this where was
this protest but they they started their own little climate
protest chant.
cops show up right away, of course. Like that good
tribe, people. Good one. Yeah, this is a lot of people making
fun of Bill Nye. And
mostly millennials, who are just there. So I guess you're right.
The millennials are his biggest fans. And now they're all
disappointed.
Well, Snopes had a posting. And I thought we should share
because Snopes, of course is the fact check. Fact The fact base.
The fact base of the injured interwebs headlines. Snopes says
mean meme making fun of Bill Nye is true, but problematic. What
does that even mean? So the the meme that's going around you've
probably seen is I have a picture of Bill Nye, and Dolph
Lundgren the actor who of course famously you starred in Rocky
against Sylvester Stallone. And the meme is that moment you find
out that Dolph Lundgren is exponentially more qualified to
be called a scientist than Bill Nye is and they have their that
Bill Maher Bill Nye has a Bachelor of Science in
Mechanical Engineering from Cornell. However, Dolph Lundgren
has a BS in chemistry from Washington State BS in chemical
engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, A master's in Chemical Engineering University
of Sydney and a Fulbright scholarship recipient from MIT.
So of course, Snopes says, well, the meme is largely accurate.
Now I did study mechanical engineering at Cornell
University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science
degree and Lundgren, who may be best known as an action movie
star has an impressive educational background. The
credential credentials listed in this meme, however, are slightly
inaccurate. According to a biography on the actors old
website, Lungren did receive a master's degree in Chemical
Engineering from the University of Sydney, and was the recipient
of a Fulbright scholarship at MTV at MIT. I have the
scholarship from MTV, the University of Sydney said in a
Facebook post London was our only alumnus that we know of who
has gone toe to toe with Sylvester Stallone, however,
longer did not receive a Bachelor of Science degree in
chemistry from Washington State. The school says on the web, on
this website of Lungren spent one year studying chemical
engineering, there's an exchange student but he didn't graduate.
So that's the problematic part. You say, Oh, no problematic.
Yes, it's very problematic.
And I'd like to see the two of them fight.
Well, here it is. That would be great. Where they say here they
so what they really find problematic is that Bill Nye is
probably is the question here. If Bill Nye is not qualified to
be a scientist, we're Snopes kind of steers it toward if you
read through it, is that they say? Well, as far as we know,
there's no Dolph Lundgren standard for science television
show hosts. So they're taking it as Oh, he's unqualified to do a
science television show. That's the angle they're taking on this
is when when will we wake up? And these guys are worse than
RT?
This is there on anything that's political. They're pretty good
at internet hoaxes. I'll give them that. Yeah, you know, if an
internet hoax starts up, they usually can find it and track it
down. And they usually get take it to its source, they do a good
job, or they used to I think this thing has become completely
politicized. And now it's almost it's WikiLeaks is the same way
about climate change is a known fact you can try it, you can try
to go into some of these pages that talk about climate change,
and which again, is part of the giant propaganda scheme, which
we have plenty of listeners that have subject to it. And we found
that out today in today's donation segment. You know,
still thinking of carbon dioxide is you know, as polluting?
Well, here's, here's the big problem I have with all of this
with Bill Nye specifically. And it's the same problem I have
with Albert Gore. Bill Nye is not just in this word, Alberta,
calm Alberta. Bill Nye is not just in this for the for the the
Netflix dollars, and I'm pretty sure he's doing okay. But this
guy is an actor. I sadly, I believe he's doing anything you
can to make money because, you know, there's no residuals to
speak up from this show in the 90s.
No, and I think after the show in the 90s, he was scrambling,
because he liked doing the show. He's a stand up comic, he's not
gonna make any money from that, because he's not that funny. And
so he's scrambling and again, he managed to worry, I think he's
done a great job of self promotion for a guy that's
really washed up.
Well, the problem I have here is the following promotion. This is
a video that he's done on an outfit called return or Return.
Our a thing is ra y or ra, ra y to and returns solar,
we can convert sunlight into electricity with a couple of
thin silicon wafers in a sandwich, a very thin one. For
decades to get a thin piece of pure silicon we had to saw it
off a thick piece of pure silicon. The saw turns a lot of
that silicon into dust. This process is fine for making
integrated circuit chips for computers or smartphones.
Because the amount of silicon used is so small, But for
manufacturing big solar panels out in the wide open spaces, it
costs a lot to waste a lot of pure silicon. The gang at Ray
tonsil has come up with a way to chip off an extrusion.
There's your first clue by the way when he says the gang had
radon solar that's your that's your first clue. Something's
going on with this,
an extraordinarily thin piece of pure silicon. Now with a saw,
but with a subatomic particle accelerator. An atom smasher
doesn't smash atoms as such, it smashes protons into the atoms
of a chunk of silicone. Technicians can control the
depth to which these particles penetrate with precision. So
they can place the particles perfectly. And once the
particles are perfectly in place, great Tom gives them a
nudge using a little bit of heat of just the right magnitude and
a perfect super thin slice of pure silicon is set free. A
little bit of pure silicon goes a long way.
This is done as a second. Part this I'm gonna play in a moment.
This is clearly produced in my mind by the same people who
produce his television show the same type of animation,
graphics, editing, etc. And the idea behind this rate and solar
is that they have a particle accelerator, which they used to
slice off wafers of silicon, which are much thinner than any
other process. And he claims that it's about a 10 to one
savings. Therefore, they use conventional processes to create
solar panels, but they're doing it at a 10th of the cost of the
raw materials of the silicon. And at the end of the video, we
get this, we stand
on the cusp of a new era in which the paradigm for energy is
changing. The last similar moment in history was over 100
years ago, when oil became the new main energy source replacing
coal, an opportunity to back a disruptive solar technology
represents,
did you hear what he said? Play it again.
became the new main energy source replacing coal, an
opportunity to back a disruptive solar technology.
Did you hear an opportunity to back a disruptive solar
technology? Yes, this is the wind up and the pitch, ladies
and gentlemen,
the sales pitch Oh,
you mean energy source, replacing coal, an opportunity
to back a disruptive solar technology represents a path to
enabling change to a renewable future and an investment with
very bright economic prospects. Join us as we begin the solar
age.
Mr. Bill Nye has $5 million worth of shares in this
crowdfunding operation, these these these shilling for his own
pocketbook in his own companies?
Yeah, this is the law has been chewed has been going on with a
couple of companies, brewers, small breweries like us. This is
some law that allows you to sell shares directly. Yes.
It's a crowdfunding
system. But yeah, but it gets more than crowdfund, I
understand, I'm gonna tell you what it is, because I
understand, okay. But it's a specific type of filing. So you
can actually sell shares directly to people. And you have
a particular type of filing for that this was this only came
into effect, I think, maybe four or five years ago. So it's
crowdfunding, where you're selling shares. And you're not
necessarily beholden to all the same SEC type regulations of a
publicly listed company. And there's, you know, there's
there's a lot of regulations for venture capital backed companies
who really push for this law, because this is the this rule
change. This is what the seed funding guys like to do for the
for the seed round. And so they get they get to keep a lot more
they don't have to disclose all these things have disclosed some
things. So it's, it's a it's a change in the law to rip
investors off of basically.
Yeah, well, that's the idea. Now, let's put the main thing
out there, which is that if you think that you're a little solar
power company here in the United States is going to compete with
the Chinese who are took over the business broke everybody.
Good luck. Yeah. And I'm looking at how much you say he has, he
has a couple million you think he has
$5 million worth of shares are disclosed
the most because the crowdfunding page was raised on
solar? Yeah, it's been funded at 2.8 million. It's close now. The
goal was 1.8. And it got 2.8. Yeah, but it's probably a
majority shareholder.
Well, he has a piece of the float they don't have to they
don't have to put the whole float out to the lobby has
different kinds of shares. Yeah, sure. Of course, he does. Of
course, he does. He'll make out like abandoned when one No, not
necessarily. If one investor buys this bullcrap today, you
know, good job, everybody on that seed round funding will
come in now and we'll give you a you know, we'll give you a
valuation of $60 million that'd be kind of typical magic safe
deal you know, it'll start with million
then it's not get it this is not flying. I think you'd be very
optimistic and I think it's like he's got the starry eyes on this
too because he's been a scientist for so long and he
wants to be a millionaire
he wants to make money at all of this great stuff
you know he's been I bet everyone's making money around
me I know all these guys that I mean all these all these guys
making billions are making billions but there's a reason
I'm not making anything so he's come up join forces with these
guys. Another Lark.
Yeah, cuz he tried to get in with Albert in the boys and they
said, no, no, you can't be a part of our fun. You would
have lost his ass on that too. I mean, Albert's only got is made
out but
all of this all of this climate change. fear mongering is having
an actual very real effect on people people are becoming their
mental hygiene is at such a low level. They're becoming ill,
very analogous to people who are addicted to alcohol or drugs and
you're trying to get like a 12 step program. In fact, there is
a 12 step. A program that exists. And I have an NPR report
about it that is now being rolled out around the country of
the United States of Gitmo nation. For people who have echo
grieving, and it's a real thing. It's a real issue. And here's a
report.
A growing body of research shows climate change is bad, not just
for the planet, but for our mental health. People who've
lived through weather disasters are more prone to depression,
suicide, post traumatic stress, psychologist see more subtle
effects to just thinking about the impact of a shifting climate
can make you feel anxious and overwhelmed.
This group of strangers started coming together last year, they
range from millennials to grandparents, Dick Meyer used to
be skeptical about climate change. As the group sits in a
circle in the living room, he tells why the problem made him
emotional. And
I think I came to the conclusion that it was the loss of the
future. The future that I had lived, knowing was going to be
there, all of a sudden is gone. And that is really disorienting.
At some point, you come to a conclusion, if you're paying
attention, I think where you just say, Whoa, this is serious.
And then you you suffer for a while you grieve.
Laura Schmid was also struggling when the idea for this group
first came to her. She was an undergrad and studying species
extinction and melting ice caps, the human impacts of all that
made her feel heartsick, and powerless. Then Schmidt
remembered the 12 steps that self help groups use for
problems like drugs and over drinking, I have been an avid
participant in an Al Anon group, the adult children of
alcoholics. And I realized that that group can be co opted,
Schmidt read our own steps nine of them. The first is the
standard admit there's a problem. It's
a lot about understanding your power and what you're capable
of, but also your limitations as a single human being on this
planet.
Yes, people are anxious. We have climate anxiety all over the
place.
Lisa Van Susteren is a Washington, DC psychiatrist and
climate activist
every single day we are told about what disasters are just
around the corner. And this is being processed whether we know
it consciously or not. In
Utah, le herberton says she comes to these meetings to mourn
the past and reimagine her kid's future. We don't
do chit chat. We go right to like, what's on your heart and I
cry like every week, which is no, no big thing for me. I'm a
huge crier, but still like feeling like I can do that with
almost complete strangers is amazing.
I'm so happy for the people who listen to this program. So they
don't have this horrible affliction Clip of the Day. Oh,
thank you so much. I felt that my glitter. And people very
disturbing. Yes, they've affected really affected by
this. And I know and now I look at some
or any of us surprised?
No, this is what happens when you do and by the way, it's
abusive towards people.
I can look out my window right now. And how are the mudslides
doing?
They're still there. Oh man has not done any. There was a nice
article into this weekend's paper. But now they think that
the ocean is gonna go up 10 feet next year. Pretty soon any
minute 10 feet and I'm looking at what you and I will remind as
newer listeners that I do have the geologic surveys map from
the 1800s showing the exact same mudflats that I can see out my
window. It hasn't gone up an inch. Oh, and my favorite thing
I should remind people bought this too. We we didn't really
play it up that much. But there was some events there had one of
these climate change meetings and they're talking about, well,
how come the Pacific hasn't really moved? You know that we
haven't seen any real evidence. I mean, there's been a erosion
Yeah, you get a lot of erosion and then a house falls in the
water and that's the goal. It's climate change, but it's called
erosion. But how come they was really no measurable height
change? And they came up with this cockamamie story that
Australia is somehow a giant sponge. There was this
I don't remember the sponge part.
Yeah, it's like a sponge and under Australia is sucking all
this extra water to suck in second and certainly believable.
They get these these models don't work. These are computer
models. Computer models are notoriously poorly done. There's
always a variable you leave out there's something wrong with all
of that should never be relied on. No, but no, it's okay.
It's bad. It is so bad.
You know, we were talking about crowds I think there could be a
new segment on the show, which I'd like to kick off today with
an example. And if we get a jingle and people dig it, then
we can turn it into a segment. I've noticed and of course a lot
of this has to do with my work within the no agenda social.com
the mastodon open source federated social network of
Googliness open sore, open sore, yeah, I am seeing so many of and
I'll just call them that all of these people who do this are
social justice warriors. I bumped into them because I am
being accused of of being a consistent abuser of other
people and our our our our our domain there as being blocked by
the some federated instances because they feel that you know,
I'm I'm an abuser, and I haven't even been on the thing for like,
three days. Have you done that? I don't know. But the ad they
said oh, admin is abusive, so they blocked the whole they
blocked me done nothing. I don't know what they're talking about.
I've no one's asked me. I've never I've never seen these
people on the on the network before. But I I see the
screenshots have been talking about me as I'm consistent
abuser. It's not true. I've done nothing. So all of these social
justice warriors who go complaining to their
administrators to block no agenda social.com have
crowdfunding, little GoFundMe,
or, Oh, they got little things just to put up a server.
No, no, no, no, no, not for servers for their lives. John,
this is this is where I want it. This is not so much about about
the mastodon social network. This is about the social justice
warriors on the system. And we have we get a unique look into
their lives, as all of them in their little profile bio,
have a leotard about people that are looking for some extra cash
through GoFundMe, and
yet not for some extra cash. They are looking at this is
their lifestyle.com This is their lifestyle. Let me give you
an example. Okay, this is from Dells doodles. And she's one of
these people who has called me a serial abuser and I just felt
what look she has a GoFundMe campaign. Let's see what it
says. Jacko called
her. Have you called her out? No, I haven't. You got to give
some examples of this abusive they're going to.
I'm going to but I said, me asking here apparently, me
asking what is going on is considered abuse. Oh, yes. I
said, Well, what's going on? And I'm not aware. Oh, and then they
blocked me. And then I go to whenever I log in somewhere else
to say you blocked me but I wonder what the abuse is on the
block me again. And now that's being called the abuse. But this
happened three weeks ago. I mean, I don't know why. Anyway.
So all of these kids have little crowdfunding things. So here's
one of these millennial I'm I'm assuming her gender. Jacko quit
work last August when we had an advanced royalty payment through
from my book, which gave us enough money to live off of for
five months. Time, Jaco planned to spend working on developing
his indie game studio to make video games full time.
Unfortunately, at the same time, he became ill when I eventually
managed to convince him to get checked out. He was at the point
of fainting when he stood up. Turns out he had a bleeding
stomach all sudden, his blood count had dropped significantly.
The doctor wanted him to get a transfusion immediately, but he
declined and went for taking strong iron supplements.
instead. It stopped bleeding now, but anyone who's had an
anemia, knows how long it takes to recover from even a little
bit of anemia. It's very in his was terrible. His blood levels
are climbing, but he hasn't had the energy needed to work full
time. So we're behind on our plans. He started freelancing
for the company he left last year on a part time basis, but
we're still struggling. I've put this off as long as I can. But
we really need help. Jaco still can't work fast enough on his
game projects to get stuff out there for sale to support us.
We're close to being okay. But when you're poor, the world
works against you. missed payments, mean more bank fees,
bouncing fees, people nagging you for money, et cetera, our
car is close to being paid off. And if we can clear that monthly
payment every month, we'll be in much more stable find a place
financially, there's only five more payments to go on it. But
the extra monthly payment is just tipping us over the limit
every month on our reduced income. So we can clear that and
not have to make that payment every month. It'd be a huge
help. I hate asking. I know so many people who are struggling
right now and I wish we were in the position where we could help
and not ask for it but such as life. If you can help us there
are no words for how grateful we'd be. So these losers think
that their future is an indie game companies and Writing
haikus on Patreon. This is their business model. We've identified
this we're going to see kids who think that this is how life
works. Well, we're just asked for help.
First of all, I've been a excoriate you owe for being so
so mean. I can see why they they don't like you. Because maybe
this is the new business model. Maybe this is the future you
don't know that.
I do. This is what I'm identifying. They're creating
this future of loser dumb. They will have no life no future
indie game company, haiku writer. Are you kidding me? Oh,
oh, we can't he can't get his indie game company off the
ground. How about I get something as a job? A real job?
You know, it's worth it.
Where are they located? First of all,
these two doesn't say here.
I know that makes a huge difference and how do we know
that any of this is true? Is it possible? No you could dream
dream become a fictitious character doing this
sense of course you could have made but I don't think so. I
think you know you saw the picture that kids on the in UT
they don't even put up Patreon anymore just put signs in the
window saying we're broke. Here give us money to our Pay Pal and
they the PayPal address and they put on their window?
Yes. Yet I keep forgetting to put that in the newsletter but I
gotta put that in. Yeah. Yes. Why? Why cut out to cut out the
middleman? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if it's, I
mean, I don't like the fact that these are the same people that
are blocking you for being abusive. When you don't really
do anything. I've seen your your two toots. They're married. Who
cares? That's shaking your fist. Now listen, I mean, mine are
more abusive
than yours. Listen to this. So I now have in my possession, the
most current Mastodon block lists circulating amongst system
administrators. And so there's a number of domains. Most of them
are silenced, which means they'll never show up in the
Fed. If you following someone on a different server, you can
still follow them but you'll never show up anywhere in the
federated timeline. They don't give a crap and all of this to
me it's just a social experiment anyway, but I'd like to give you
the reasons that these particular domains there's a
list with reasons Yes sir.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, you got to send me a copy of that I can put in the
newsletter. Okay, shall I read you a few choice one Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Especially if ours is on there. Oh, yeah. Well, we
have the best entry social.au to pub.net severity silence media
allowed yes reason it's a free speech zone.
My favorite
so we need to silence these people because there's a free
speech zone over there. We don't want to hear what they have to
say. This is crazy.
Yeah, I'm understanding it. Okay.
Then we have unsafe dot space. reason it is an unsafe space
makes nothing but sense. Then we have a we go. Here's here's us.
You ready for this? No agenda social.com. silenced. So
everyone on this who has this list will just silence them and
the big one Mastodon social they've silenced us. What do you
think the reason is for our being on this list?
douchebags. Close.
Get ready for it. alt right. K K K Nazi Quadroon NS that's it.
Yes, we are categorized.
I think that's actionable. As alt right,
K K. K not I don't know what's a Quadroon? What's a Quadroon?
Well, a quadrant maybe be like an Octoroon over 1/4 Black.
Let me consult the book knowledge. I don't think they
mean that Quadroon definition was a definition. Definition.
Okay. Quadroon. Here we go. Quadroon. We always like to take
Merriam Webster. Here we go. Merriam Webster says a person of
one quarter black ancestry first. You're right, John. So
we're one quart, right. We're one quarter black and white but
we're not seasoned K K K's. That's what that's what it says.
And when you say actionable, what do you mean? We can sue
somebody over this?
Yes, that's what I mean. That would be fun, wouldn't it? Yeah.
You be guaranteed to be blocked everywhere. They're a bunch of
lawyers over there. I don't care lawyers. Reason reason bunch.
lawyers. I just think alt right que que que Nazih quad runes.
And I consider us to be a lot of things. And by the way, the term
these days the kids are using is not free speech zone. It's
freezed peach zone. Hahaha. As in Frozen peach freeze and peach
zone. But that kind of blew me away.
Well, the Quadroon thing. I think it's a compliment.
Yes. We're definitely a quarter black. For sure. For sure.
Well, that's very that is very disturbing.
Do you want to stay with some more disturbing millennial
stuff? I have some more stuff we can talk about. Well, yes. Okay.
Let us talk about here we go. We have Ooh, okay. This is just a
little entre Mom, this is something in your neck of the
woods. It's actually too bad. You don't actually have this UC
Davis. So that's part of the California system.
There's never stops in Davis, by the way on the way to the train
museum.
Well, they're under severe attack by attack, I would say.
Just like remember when the HPV vaccine came out, which of
course we know is really only handles three of the 20 some
strains.
Again, it's a scam. It's overpriced. Everything's a huge
overpriced
scam. Remember, they were hanging promotional bags on the
doors at dorm rooms remember this? Now just to promote it.
And we had the clip about that several years ago. They were
doing anything just promoting, promoting, promoting, promoting,
we did a lot of work, dude, this is probably whoa, this goes back
to 2006. Probably. We were talking about this stuff when I
was just starting up. So UC Davis is now under attack or not
attack. They made a deal apparently with Plan B. And Plan
B is the morning after pill. So if you if you have an accident
or some kind of mistake or worse, which we'll talk about in
a minute, a new a new term to learn. Then you're good luck.
You have good fortune if you're at UC Davis
now famous vending machine is located here at the activities
and Rec Center. This is where students work out morning and
night. And it's now getting all the buzz for the morning after
pills. In this quiet UC Davis study lounge back in the corner.
Just past those cups of coffee, you'll find contraception for
sale in a vending machine. Yay. Look closely. The machine isn't
just stocked with condoms, tampons at pregnancy tests, it's
selling the morning after pill. Up top, the a row will dispense
the plan B pill for 30 bucks a box for students here an out of
the box idea known as the wellness to go machine drying
more praise and criticism. It's
easier to take a Plan B than have to tell your parents that
you're pregnant. It's like useful so that you don't have to
go to a pharmacy people
doubted this project. That's exactly why this economics major
turned his focus to public health, spending close to two
years trying to bring the vending machine here there was
an
incident where my friends went to the one pharmacy that's open
24/7 and tow on a Friday and Friday night. And they were
emergency contraceptive
or texting is suddenly very popular on the UC Davis campus
and others across the country taking calls from students
everywhere asking him to help bring the wellness machine to
their schools. I want to see this on every college campus and
there's just plans for Plan B on campus. Now the backup pail and
the back of this study hall even has moms weighing in and
encourages responsibility. I mean, if you mess up waiting to
see if you get pregnant having an abortion,
I love the encourages responsibility. Yeah, that's how
kids think for sure. And the logic is there but okay, well,
she's like, oh, boy, what's the controversy? It seems like a
good idea to me.
I thought there's no controversy. I thought that the
way the millennials were describing it, as you know, hey,
it's great. You don't have to tell your parents you're
pregnant in a lot of things like this. I
don't think that's a millennial phenomenon. I think that would
be the same with any age group and where they're targeting
the college kids. But it comes at the same time a new new meme
is being launched because of course we all hate men. And
there is now and this comes from some actual research what is
SSRN? Who are those bronies it's from the Columbia Journal of
gender and law. We have a new term rape adjacent rape adjacent
which is the non consensual condom removal. And this is now
being played as a thing that men are removing the condom during
sex before ejaculation in a non consensual manner. I've not
heard of this, but man, it's now now we're really into a hole
gonna
see that I can see that becoming a thing that they would give a
specific name to and use as another excuse to sue some poor
schlub.
Yeah. Well to add to up the rape culture and the victimization,
yeah, yeah. It's and how do you do that without the female
partner noticing?
I have no standing in that area. So I don't know.
I'm just asking I think of the logistics here. Going at it
rabbit, a Baba Baba. And then you what do you do you pull out
and take the thing out and swirl around your head and throw it
against the wall and then go back in. Yeah, I just don't see
how you can do that without it. Just that there's something
about it is it doesn't make sense. But firstly, but you'll
see it's up and coming. Now. This is something that it's it's
trending to trending.
It's trending it we'll see how far it gets.
On the See, how did I come up with this one on the Instagram,
there was something about Instagram that was was I had
this clip from the CEO because I was reading something about
Instagram. And now I don't know exactly what it was. I was
reading about it. But then I caught this.
Thanks for all the detailed information. Yeah, no,
that mean that means Oh, no, I got it. I know why I know why.
Okay. Yeah, the reason why is the FTC is up in arms about
undeclared endorsements. Oh, yeah,
the date should have just been going on forever.
But I want to get to that in a minute. Because while I was
researching the story for a specific reason, the CEO, I
didn't know it was a woman, Marnie live in, she is the CEO
of Instagram, she goes out of her way, during some woman's
conference, it labeled as such some woman's conference, about
how they're really working with their audience to really help
them now I consider all social media, certainly with pictures
to be very destructive. It's really It's horrible. Because
what you're doing is you're putting your life out there,
you're faking it, you're putting in filters, you say, Oh, look
how groovy my life is when usually most people are pretty
depressed and sad. And that's why they do this. And there's
lots of studies, there's, you know, moral self licensing,
there's virtue signaling, there's all kinds of reasons
that people are part of this. And it is being encouraged in I
find a very disingenuous way.
It's something that's really important to me as CEO of
Instagram, you see, oh, sorry. But it's also really important
to me, as a mother, as a woman, like I really think about this a
lot. So one thing we did just a few a few weeks ago is we
offered a new tool, which is around comment filtering. And
what this does is it allows you to filter out words you might
not want to see in the comments.
Oh my we can't get triggered by words, we might see in the
comments.
And that creates a much more positive experience for the
person who is actually telling their story. And what we want
people to do is to feel safe to feel like they can express
themselves to express myself, because when they feel safe, and
when they express themselves, they like advertising more with
their story out there. The the reactions they get are
overwhelmingly positive. And that is the way that they can
find community
up for a second actually, what you've just said casually there.
I'm wondering if that may, I don't know what they're doing it
overtly. But it is possible. Because you when you do
advertising, you always want to get somebody in the right frame
of mind because if had this whole thesis, humor,
humor is a great example get someone laughing you can give
them any message you get
them to start saying yes is another one. Yes. But if you get
somebody in sort of a mood that because they're not there's so
non threatening, everything's so non threatening because it's
been filtered out. You're, you're giving yourself out there
on your own you get nothing but love back your garden is Love
comes in the form of buy a Coke by a Pepsi, because you'll and
that's what Coke and Pepsi do they sell something many times,
at least in today's era, they sell their product as a as a
monument to love. I mean, you drink a Pepsi and you feel
better about yourself. That's interesting. And it's sick.
So we'll wait until you hear how far they're going with this. And
I agree with you. I mean, these guys, they're commercial. She's
the CEO Oh, she's beginning she you would almost call it nuts
and bolts, she as Chief Revenue Officer, do whatever you want.
She's about making sure the nuts and bolts work and the money's
coming in and the expenses are low. That's what you do as a
CEO. So I'm totally thinking about advertising options
they get are overwhelmingly positive. And that is the way
that they can find community of communities of support. Teens
are really good about telling their stories really
authentically. You see them with these really positive messages.
One woman who I love is this young woman named Gigi crouch
who her account is Skoll arena. She has scoliosis, but she's a
ballerina. And so her message is that if you have a passion and a
dream, you can overcome adversity, she posts these
photos, and we're doing these really complicated, beautiful
poses. When she decided that she was going to stop dancing, she
also posted on Instagram. And the overwhelming support that
she got is what she said, helped her feel comfortable with her
decision to go to college and stop dancing. So that's an
incredible thing. We also just recently launched a campaign
around, it's called hashtag perfectly made. And a number of
teens, you know, talked about how they have taken what would
be perceived as a weakness and turned it into a strength and
accepted themselves, body positivity. So those are the
kinds of things that we really body positivity to do is to
teach people, you know, great behavior, oh, we want to teach
people great behavior, hold on that. There you go. Those are
the kinds of things that we really tried to do is to teach
people, you know, great behavior, create a safe and
welcoming community and really encourage people to tell their
stories so that they can find those communities of support.
Communities of support. This is very destructive because these
children will get out in the real world where people are
assholes. And they're going to laugh at you scoff at you you're
going to be discriminated against you will not get chosen
because of your affliction, your whatever your issue is.
Everybody has a negative body, body positivity issues. And
you're really learning how to trick yourself, trick yourself
into feeling good, because people you're collecting likes,
Oh, you look amazing girl. Oh my god, I love your hair caught.
Destructive, these
children will all go out Indiana, these children
will all die easy in India, these children will all grow up
with these horrible with thinking that everything's going
to be great and have all
that same problem. But the self affirmation movement and self
esteem is taught in the schools. It's all part of the same
system. But now it's just the most modern version. And
it's completely commercialized for selling crap to the
children. Well, that's
the key. But here's what's cool. Here's what's cool, feel real
good about themselves. Maybe they'll buy this stupid couch.
So it was only two weeks ago. That the Federal Trade
Commission? Yes. Federal Trade Commission, I think, yeah, the
FTC. They released a an important statement, it was
April 19. Federal Trade Commission reminds influencers
and brands to clearly disclose relationship. Now we had this
has been going on for a long time. But after reviewing
numerous Instagram posts by celebrities, athletes and other
influencers, read Kardashians, the Federal Trade Commission
staff recently sent out more than 90 letters reminding
influencers and marketers that influencers should clearly and
conspicuously disclosed their relationship to brands when
promoting or endorsing products through social media. Now,
there's a couple of interesting reasons for this. One, when you
read through the through some of the examples PewDiePie was had a
huge endorsement deal with Warner Brothers. And the reason
why that's problematic is because guess who's not getting
a piece of that money? Because Instagram. So if you think for
one minute that all of this removal of advertising is own of
YouTube money is only about not being brand safe. No, is because
they can't control your money flow. They need to have a part
of that. And I think the FTC is probably somewhat complicit, but
they have a lot of rules. Like you can't just do a hashtag
complicit. Yeah, I would like to find out the lobbyists action
that was going on. Now that you mentioned, I don't think there's
somewhat complicit. I think it's part of some grand scheme,
right? This is this is a take. But then again, if you're
Twitter, and you have a bunch and you're trying to make money,
you're providing a free service. You're given people can use
Twitter for nothing. Instagram is about Instagram. Yeah, no,
I'm saying those are ways Instagram is the same model. In
terms of like, the FTC being irked about this, and it's the
same both companies want to make money, but I'm using Twitter
because I don't use Instagram. But it's the same thing, too.
You know, I'm on Twitter, and somebody had made a Coca Cola
made a deal with me. I don't I don't have 100,000 I got 5
million 10 million people. I'm Britney Spears. And they're all
of a sudden, I'm promoting a Pepsi over coke. Because Pepsi
has given me a cash payout. Well, this isn't. There's no
money going to Twitter for this. Okay, I'm just gonna keep it
white as of what is the FTC give a crap?
Because they're complicit. You're right. And they sent the
letter to 90 celebrities. So they were they knew exactly who
who's doing what but this folds into something very cool that
happened this past weekend, which was promoted on Instagram
by amongst others, Kendall Jenner. And she was paid for it.
And this is the fire festival. The I'm sure you read something
about this.
Yeah, it's hilarious. So this
was an Have this bunch of douche bags. And that was all promoted
by models who were paid to do it on Instagram. And this if you
haven't, I'm sure you heard about it. But you know, the
whole festival fell apart and was a disaster and was kind of
just right because of all these wannabes and douchebags who
saved up their money to go to. And if they had only done like
DJs or something now they had to do concert with, you know, blink
182 Hello 1919 12 What the hell?
You're right, actually DJs would be a much add people who would
go for that the course I've seen, you can see, look up some
of these DJs that, you know, there's no famous one I know
most Yes, the Dutch just hit images. And you'll see like
100,000 people Yeah, rocking out to some guy up on a big podium,
you know, doing his thing. So unbelievable.
So, yes, well, I was going to say that it's I find it
interesting to watch how these the how these things kind of
intersect because of course the Jenners or the Kardashians were
people who received these letters. And who knows why this
concert failed. But for sure Instagram was not getting a
piece of it. So I'm not saying Instagram whenever
you concert failed there was a lot of articles written about
the concert failed because they didn't deliver on any anything.
Yeah, they couldn't get people over there and there was just a
ridiculous situation. I love the band The bands are bailing out
no one's gonna play and there was no cabanas there's shoddy
tents that people were putting there's no food well of course
because of social media phenomenon. The word got out
instantly.
Well here's what I like. This told me exactly what's going on
so this was organized by John rule and his buddy they're one
of those douchebags name is some 25 year old and appear him in
this little bit and Rolling Stone as he was interviewed
about this. I was a computer programmer and after computers
the two things I love most are the ocean and for some reason
rap music. Yeah, right. So these three hobbies of mine somehow
led me to meeting with my partner Jah rule somehow Okay,
did you don't have a story behind that douche? That
together we became friends and business partners and here's the
part that told me this guy's an ass. For us it was always a
battle of pushing the limits. Once we got flying lessons
together we got on these really bad 40 year old planes and flew
from New York to the Bahamas. Not really knowing the Bahamas
very well. We ran out of gas and landed in the Exumas and both of
us immediately fell in love. So if you are an aviator and your
license and you run out of gas as you call it fuel you did not
do your flight planning so no wonder this whole thing fell
apart. You're not
fractal Yeah,
you don't plan
fractal fractal Well there's a couple other things about that
event which I because people are all over it on the tweets and
those Toots in addition to that any douche bag in a dork has
spent spent $12,000 to become part of that. I don't you know I
doubt they got anybody's money.
No, I think they got some money. They got
some money they probably got a few the low end monies but
nobody's people that have that kind of money just to throw away
yeah, there are some dummies no money. This
This was actually much worse. Because the way I see it, there
were no actual rich kids of Instagram there because they
would fly in on their own jet. They have their own stuff ready
to go. They would never, you know put up for just some tents
or anything. I know how these kids operate. They would never
get on the chartered flight which was billed as a private
airplane. It was just a chartered airplane. And so they
didn't this was wannabes. This is people who were duped by
Kendall Jenner amongst others on Instagram to come into this
great new douche bag thing lit have the best Instagram pics
ever. So you I have no FOMO and you're all a part of the groovy
thing. And I think this is a tipping point here is a tipping
point. And I
will say I will I will agree with your first part of your
commentary and I disagree with the tipping point part.
Well, I think we're at the tipping point of some kind of
huge economic thing.
And he's well we're going to have an economic collapse in
this in the next few quarters. But I don't think it really has
much to do with these clowns. This was just a joke.
Well, I love the fact that that this the sneaky advertising is
falling apart and this is what you're saying? I think it will
affect alphabet and their numbers long term. Because they
can't they can't business wise they can't have the big beauty
pies anymore to advertise on. Not so much apparently now
because it's not safe for brands because he's got all these side
deals and not getting the part of So either they keep them away
for good and they suffer For you watch there's going to be new
terms. There's going to be a whole Bureau that's going to
arrange this for these kids. You watch that something afoot and
as big
I think there's something afoot, but again, I'm not seeing the
enormity of it. You're gonna have to call me out if you can.
If this ever happens,
it's okay. Well, one thing's for sure. We don't have to deal with
that kind of sneaky advertising.
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Detailed. Exactly. Exactly.
There's a clip I wanted to play This is because it's a meme
cropped up and it stems from this particular clip. This is a
this actually ran on as a teaser, but this was the trump
the job is hard clip and this is Eric is John Dickerson or
Dickinson or Dickerson Dickerson of Dickinson. I don't know I
confusing the two because I know a guy named John Dickinson.
Anyway. So this is the CBS Face the Nation and we have this
question of Trump and Trump casually says, oh, you know,
this job is harder than I thought. And he Dickerson's
handled really well. He he talks about other people. This is
apparently a common problem with anyone who becomes president for
the first time. The job is hard. I remember George Bush going to
jobs hard, hard. It's really hard. He goes on and on about
it. But Obama is quoted as saying the same thing everybody
does. I think there's maybe been nobody that's not bitched about
the job, but the way the internet handles Oh, what an
idiot. He didn't know the job was hard. This is all over the
ROB Reiner's and all the rest of what all Ron's
not, John, let's have a listen to what the President said
yesterday. In an interview with Reuters. It's getting a lot of
attention.
I loved my previous life, I had so many things going I actually,
this is more work than my previous life. I thought it
would be easier.
I thought it would be easier. John, your thoughts?
Well, all presidents feel the constraints of the office and
they find it more difficult than they expected. I mean, they're
stymied by the bureaucracy, the Congress, the courts. It's
supposed to be such a powerful job and President Trump has
faced all of that. And there's of course, the fast pace of
incoming events which can make it feel out of control. It
sometimes even encourages the same kind of bluntness that the
President showed in his remarks. John Kennedy once said, I wish
I'd spent less time trying to get to be president and more
time learning how to be president not
a job to be underestimated. John Dickerson thanks, Johnson, huh?
Yeah, so
this was like, a casual thing to say is honest thing to say,
being sincere. And let me get gets, he gets excoriated by all
these by the dimension B group. What I'm more on what did he
think? I just found it very annoying. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Well, there was actually some a point of light
there during a Bill Maher's show that Friday. Of course, Bill,
Bill Maher is in an interesting position where he is, you know,
total dimension a person, Adventurer B person, but he has
dimension a tendencies. And mainly because I think he
probably boned and culture in college and then go to the same
school.
I would I've, I've been watching this guy for years. And if he
doesn't, if he hasn't boned her, he's definitely had a crush on
her for at least five years. So he
went off on UC Berkeley's treatment of Ann Coulter and I
have a clip for
you an issue that's always near and dear to my heart the First
Amendment because Ann Coulter ran a little into a little
problem this week. I know we don't like Ann Coulter. I like
her as a person. I've never agreed with one thing she ever
said. That's different. Okay. But she was I was the speaker at
Berkeley a couple of years ago and they disinvited me and then
they got their act together and I wound up doing it and
apparently that's what's gonna happen with her I think. But
Berkeley you know, used to be the cradle of free speech and
now it's just the cradle for fucking baby. I feel like you
know, this goes on all over the country on campus as they invite
someone to speak who's not exactly what liberals want to
hear. And they want to shut her I feel like this is the Liberals
version of book burning. And it's got to stop Howard Dean
tweeted today about this hate speech is not protected by the
First Amendment. Yes, it is. Threats are not protected by the
First Amendment. This is why Supreme Court said the Nazis
could march in Skokie. They're a hateful bunch. But that's what
the First Amendment means. It doesn't mean just shut up and
agree with me.
I can't believe you have to remind liberals.
I can't believe it either.
It's a shame because liberals are creating a fantasy land on
college campuses that does not exist in the real world. Worlds.
There are no safe spaces where you can go and no one will
offend you. was offensive.
No, there you go. That must be very hurtful for a lot of people
to hear.
What do you think got me about that little commentary, which I
thought was from the Friday before? Could be wrong I don't
know. Was Howard Dean
said Sam I know Isn't that insane? And I'd like to hear to
hear him say that. He tweeted that. Oh, he tweeted, yeah, but
it leads into some very disturbing news from Canada
Navia. Where hate speech is about to be codified as a
criminal offense? Yes. Well,
this has been going on for a while it's been leading up.
Yeah, they have
the C 136. or whatever it's called. They have some, some
hate speech bill. And so I have here the professor again, Jordan
Peterson, who refuses to call or says, hey, you know, I'm not
going to let my free speech be encroached by being required to
use pronouns I have not used my entire life. And I don't agree
with him, either. So he was on. What's the guy's name? Steve
pinker and I forget the Canadian show, I subscribe to the YouTube
version is pretty good. And so they have on this Peterson,
which a lot of our producers certainly the Canadians, like a
lot, as there's a trans woman, male to female trans, who he
actually says he wouldn't he would call her she she looks
like a she. But he hasn't not a big deal. No, not at all. But
then there's another professor who pipes up that he's in studio
with Peterson, and he's at the same university and just have a
little listen to this, because they're at the University of
Toronto. Yes. And I'm telling you, Canada Navia. You gotta nip
this in the bud? Because it won't. Yeah,
I don't think so. Either. They won't they can't do it. It's
very,
very worrying for what you're going through up there. And I My
thoughts and prayers are with you love and light?
Well, I don't understand what the claim that there's no such
thing as biological sex means. And I certainly think it's,
let's call it an error, to suggest that there's some sort
of scientific consensus about that. mean, there's there's
biological differences between males and females in animals and
human beings at every level of analysis from
GM jumping in here, because what about the notion he put forward
at the end there that if you do not refer to people with the
pronoun that they prefer to be referred to? That is a form
according to the Human Rights Commission of discrimination.
It's
not just a form of discrimination. It's a form of
hate speech. That's why I made the video, I said that we were
in danger of placing the refusal to use certain kinds of language
into the same categories Holocaust denial, and suggested
that maybe that wasn't such a good idea, especially since
there's plenty of debate to be had about gender issues in our
society, which I also think are also in danger of becoming
illegal and quite rapidly. So it isn't clear to me how long we'll
be able to have the talk that we're having right now.
Because I don't I don't agree with why Dr. Peterson has been
asked to stop abusing students on campus to stop doing what
abusing students I see. And other members of our learning
community who do deserve respect and do deserve to be able to
work and learn and contribute to society in a place where if they
are physically assaulted, if they are,
the assault so far came from the social justice warriors who were
at this free speech rally and almost 2 million people. So far,
this is
not accurate. Well, you can look at the views yourself. People
have been making complaints about your behavior. Yes, I
understand that. Yes. Yep. And so we're at for social justice
happening, neglect, many people won't understand and
it can I be clear on something you've accused him of abusing
students by not using the pronouns they want to be
addressed with how I see it. Absolutely. That is tantamount
to abuse in your view. Absolutely.
Many, many global documents, many organizations, is
it tantamount to violence? Yes. About hate speech? Is it
tantamount? Yes, of course,
it's hate speech to someone that you won't refer to them as a, in
a way that they that recognizes their humanity and dignity. Oh,
oh,
poor Canada.
That is, well, that discussion is going on around here too.
Right. But they're actually kind of the same guy. You know, the
same characters. He says more of a universal type. He's not
really any sort of a person that you you can it's not a guy
that's causing trouble. It's a universal type. Yeah. They can.
Yes, I
agree. He's his colleague, though.
It's, well, that guy should uh, you know, you've heard my
opinion about this. And it's, I don't consider any I mean, for
one thing, do you really have to before you can even have a
conversation with somebody or say anything or chime in? You
have to know somebody's pronoun?
That's the deal. Yeah. Otherwise you're you're violating their
human rights. Yeah. Human rights and dignity.
They don't they far as I'm concerned. They don't have any
dignity. Yeah,
let's check in with Woodward.
We heard about document destruction. He's still on it.
Yeah, guys, long winded. Yeah,
this is a problem. I don't know what to how to address it
perfectly because it is addressable and it hasn't been
dealt with in certain situations. I've heard about
people being successful. Ohio State, the president, there
seems to have done some proper, right. But for the most part,
people are cowed by these people, because they just can't
tell them to, you know, can anyone just say Hey, buddy,
you're just full of crap.
Now you feel like oh, no, you definitely can't say that. Why?
I fired. You get, well, we can't get you you can't get fired. But
anyone else can get fired easily.
Yeah, I mean, we're just in a, we're in an awkward position
that the two of us we are because we can say that the
guy's full of crap. And we don't have to worry about losing our
advertisers. And by the way, I should I keep mentioning this on
the show, and I'm going to keep mentioning it. At least five
times in this show, we would have been fired Easily. Easily.
Let me see where we do the support the way we do it. There
was let's let's just go a little international for once. Okay,
you want to get this out of the way? Yes, we need because it's
got an issue and you're though you have to ask you about Okay.
This is the woman who was just let go. She was arrested in
China as a spy. And she was just released. This is the FBI spy
story. Okay, Paula,
and American businesswoman has been deported from China on
Friday. After being convicted of espionage. Her two year ordeal
was a source of tension between the US and China. Roxana Saberi
has the story. More than two years after Chinese security
officials detained Sandy Phan Gillis, she's back home in the
US. In a statement her husband said many of Sandy's friends and
family members have been crying tears of joy. The 57 year old is
an American citizen of Chinese descent. In 2015, she was
visiting China on a trade mission with Houston officials
and business people, when suddenly she disappeared.
She was subjected to repeated threats, including the threat to
take away her access to doctors and medicine.
Last month her husband Jeff told senators her captors accused her
of spying for the US.
Sandy is not some top secret secret agent for the FBI. She is
a wife and a mother and a business woman.
Why would you even say FBI when clearly she would be CIA, not
FBI.
All the stories report her as the Chinese accusing her of
being a spy for the FBI.
Interesting secret agent for the FBI. She is a wife and a mother
and a business woman.
Found Gillis is detention created friction between
Washington and Beijing. Her case had stalled until Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson reportedly raised it on a trip to China in
March on Tuesday, according China's sentence fed Gillis to
three and a half years in prison and ordered her deportation.
She got sentenced and then deported.
Yeah, well, she's already stuck there for a couple of years.
Yeah, they've since then deported, which means she can't
go back.
Well, this is part of our deal. were clearly doing a deal with
China.
Well, there was some deal going on. But But the question that
kept coming up, in my mind was the same one that you stopped
the clip for? What's this FBI thing?
I don't understand that it will be CIA. Why are they claiming
its FBI?
Did does the FBI have espionage? Intelligence spies or anybody
floating around the world? Do we know that for a fact that they
don't here's
what I here's what I do know is that FBI has cyber centers all
over the world, including the Netherlands. They operate out of
an office building, I think in The Hague. And it's FBI
personnel who are eavesdropping and spying on people. And
they're there with permission but that is FBI and I know then
they only there because they can do that outside of the country.
But an actual spy walking around as an FBI agent.
That's what do we know for a fact is maybe they're these
agencies encroach on each other so when they get bigger budgets,
it'd
be totally true. You make a good point there.
I mean, how many eight ABBY I'm always you know, I'm always
waiting for the incident where the you know, the shootout and a
bunch of spy shoot each other. A spy versus spy? You know it No,
but I spy versus spy as two different sides of the thing.
But all on the same side. We have an NSA, CIA, DIA, all
loaded with carrying weapons and they get into a shootout. They
kill each other.
You Right, right. Absolutely. Right. Well, there was other
Chinese news kind of a non event because we already covered one
part of this news A while back.
Given the importance of the Silk Road Project to Chinese leaders.
The train's arrival was a surprisingly low key affair, no
ceremony or fanfare. Yet, this was still a very symbolic
moment. The train had left China almost five months ago, laden
with clothes bags and household goods crates returned carrying a
cargo of pharmaceuticals, vitamin pills, baby milk powder,
and Scotch whiskey. Anyway, a woman's
this free Train is reflection of the achievements of trade, and
is one of the benefits that a One Belt One Road has pushed
forth.
The service will run once a week for several months while demand
is tested. Rail is cheaper than a plane and faster than a ship.
This was not quite the train that left London. Differing rail
gauges in countries along the route mean a single locomotive
and set of wagons can't travel the entire length. The new route
is designed to open up the fabled Silk Road trade routes
between China and Europe. China already has rail services to 14
other European cities, including Madrid and Hamburg.
Now, I didn't know about the 14 other direct routes, which
aren't really direct routes because they have to change
track gauges. We knew this wasn't much of an event because
we already covered it when the train came into the UK. That was
months ago. But there's something else going on which I
think as I was researching this, I came I came across the CPEC.
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor. And this is very
similar. They've got a this is not trained. But this is a road.
They've built a road through China that goes all the way down
through Pakistan. And just last week, Pakistan gave China a 40
year lease for the port of Gwadar. So they're making big
moves here. Big moves. Were thinking
this was all this all stems from I believe, the and I think that
the island buildings the same thing is there's a belief in
China if you've watched enough China News, they don't talk
about it openly. But they can't you can kind of see them hinting
at it that they think that the shipping that goes through that
area that you always cite as the bottleneck, the Straits of
Hormuz, the Straits of Hormuz are there, they don't trust it.
So they're doing all these bypasses. Yeah.
And they're good bypasses, and this is a very good one.
Straight through Pakistan. Yeah, which, of course, you know, has
all kinds of issues. Regarding India, they actually, you know,
there's that little piece in the north where India kind of is, is
in Pakistan. And you can see the road is literally like, just
like a little rat half around about their arrival is not in
that would stay away from that. And we Oh, continuing down in
Pakistan. When we get the Pakistanis teaming up with the
Chinese. This is going to make the Indian the Indian guys
pretty pissed off. This is not this is not going to end well.
Well, we'll Yeah, well, the Indians are traditionally allies
with the Russians. Okay, so they are even better. And so the
Chinese aren't really can't do the same kind of deals with the
Indians as they could with the Pakistanis. And so yeah, it's
great. Nice, big. I'm sure it's gonna be a very nice road.
Yeah. And we had the Oh, yeah, it's almost done. It's almost
completed. Just add last bit now to the Gwadar Port. And what was
that term that you would caught earlier? About? The one
something one road? What was it the?
Yeah, one. I can't remember. It was mentioned in that report.
That you just play.
Yes. I can't remember what they said. But yeah, it was like one.
Belt, One Road, one belt. One road. Yeah.
One one road. One Belt. There you go. That's what it was.
Thank you.
Yeah, okay. Yeah. Well, I was
gonna say Tomorrow is the deadline for the writer strike
the Writers Guild of America.
Yeah, it'd be interesting to see what happens.
So they have until 12:01am to come up with a solution. And it
appears the way the Writers Guild is positioning it, that
it's really only about an extra payment and annual payment of
something like $117 million, which seemed like really that's
what they're arguing about. It must be really bad in Hollywood,
if they're arguing with that. Yeah, that's, that's a split
does a drop in the bucket for some of these properties. And of
course, the writers are getting screwed because they get paid
less for writing on his TV series, even though they say
sometimes it takes more work to do that. So there's a lot of
problems. And it reminded me that tomorrow is an is really an
important day. I'm sure it's not coincidence. But tomorrow is May
day it is the day of
traditional communist day. Yes. Celebration, celebrating labor,
nine to five, yes,
and we have more controversy lined up.
So nowadays, if your boss asks you to work more than eight
hours in a day, or 40 hours in the week, you're gonna get paid
extra time and a half. But Gregory says
the Mayday marches that are going to be taking place on
Monday, actually circle back to the originating cause, because
right now Congress is considering effectively abolish
Seeing the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The bill before Congress today is called the working families
Flexibility Act.
Let me just stop there for a second. This is not published
yet the working families Flexibility Act. So this is only
hearsay it isn't it is they have not published it yet has not
even been introduced into the house. But tomorrow we have
protests about it. Because the idea is the what do they call
that they call it the what do they call that? John? The
that acts that there? Yeah, the Fair Labor Relations or
something like that, though.
Is it true that the eight day work?
I wish I didn't say anything because I was listening?
Is the eight hour workweek. Is that true? That did that was
that the genesis of the the May the May Day protests in the
United States?
What there wasn't a genesis of the protests. That's what he
that's what he just said, no, no, it was the it's this new
law. No,
he said, It's bringing it back around to the listen to it.
Again. He says it's what the new law, which played a clip played
a clip, I'll just tell you what the new law is the new law says
that companies should be able to give you time off in lieu of
time and a half payment. If you weren't on time and a half off,
that I don't know that I don't really get paid extra
time and a half. But Gregory says
the Mayday marches that are going to be taking place on
Monday, actually circle back to the originating cause, because
right now Congress is considering effectively
abolishing the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The bill. That's what he's saying. He said, It's because
they're full of crap. Where did it start? It just started as a
pure commies
and communist thing that started in the 19, early 1900s.
Well, there's a lot of bullcrap in this report, a because the
working families Flexibility Act has not been published yet. So
they they've seen something the general public hasn't. So
working draft, but he had been listened to listen to the
complaint about this, in general. I understand. I'm
pretty sure that I know people's
celebration of the Communist revolution. And it's also stems
from the Mae Mae poll day, you know, the kids used to write fun
on May Day,
but the protests are going to be held against the working
families Flexibility Act of 2017. And here's the reason
it'll
be for Congress today is called the working families Flexibility
Act. If it passes, instead of overtime, employers could give
comp time. Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Spokane
supports it because she says the bill gives employees options so
they can be present in their families lives. Democrat Susan
del bene, who represents the first congressional district
north of
C. And notice there's no quote from the Republican but the
Democrat gets a quote, battle disagrees?
Well, I think we want to make sure that workers do have
flexibility. But that doesn't mean presenting a false choice,
like this bill, where you aren't guaranteeing that employees can
even use their accrued comp time. There's no remedy if
they're denied being allowed to use that
the working families Flexibility Act is expected to be brought to
the floor in the House next week.
So she's already claiming that this thing oh, you know, it's a
scam. You can't get overtime, you just get time off. The
whole thing is a protest, you know, when it's when you
actually go to this thing and watch the protest. All it is is
anti Trump. Yeah, of course. That's what it all is a Trump
hate Trump because he's trying to screw it down. I mean, if
they had the bill in front of you, they weren't they didn't
get it out in time. It may take it will come and go before the
the actual word is the language of the bill is in the public
domain. I agree. I agree. But it's just always a good
opportunity to hate Trump and Mayday shows that you know,
we're good liberals because we're celebrating the, you know,
the Communist revolution of
1980. Yeah, and meanwhile, if Trump Yeah, where's your tax
returns?
Yeah. Show us your tax returns. Exactly. That's gonna be the
thing. We are so so pathetic. So we have a another story that's
not covered here at all. And it's, it seems that it could be
covered. But this is a German story about the this is their
beside themselves over this story. You haven't heard about
it. About the guy who's a German officer in the I guess in the
army, who decided to get in line in the Syrian refugee camps. And
he's got now he's come in as a refugee and he's getting all
these benefits making out like a band aid. You got a car, he's
got a house, they're trying to think that he may be a terrorist
and Nazi yourself trying to cause trouble. But here listen
to this German scandal story to
figure out how a German army officer managed to register as a
Syrian asylum seeker without being detected. An interior
ministry spokesman said the lieutenant had been given a
place in a refugee home and financial aid. Even more oddly,
he was only exposed after or he was discovered planting a gun at
Vienna airport. Here's more.
It's still unclear what the man's intentions were and
whether he had accomplices items were seized during a search of a
possible acquaintance of his in Berlin on Thursday night, but no
arrests were made. The Federal Office for migration and
refugees is now under severe pressure. They accepted the
German officer as a Syrian asylum seeker. The decision was
made just a few months ago, long after the initial chaos of the
migration crisis was over. Almost about notice. They clear
the quality control mechanisms of the migration and refugees
office failed Zach top Manhattan orphans clearly no one
questioned him about any regional specifics in Syria in
Damascus, where he said he came from he was evidently never made
to write his name and Arabic orphans and yet he was still
accepted
at some extreme
vetting over there so it goes on and on there was a lot they
couldn't get it they never asked him to speak Arabic there's a
there's a lot that cut this short because this goes on
because everybody beside themselves like your imagine of
course they are and narrowed, narrowed. They're just flush
budgeting around the whole thing. It's like they're all why
what are we doing is your fault is your fault. And this is like
a major story because it shows that their system doesn't work
at all. So I thought that guy was just doing it so he can
like, you know, live his normal life but didn't get this free
check, you know, in the mail for because they give them quite a
bit of money. Yeah. Anyway, that's the
data. They give him money. They give him cars. They give him
place to stay. Yeah, they they protect them. Yeah, yeah. Now
it's a Europe will wake up and it's too late already. You
should have been woke Europe. You should know Walk, walk,
walk, walk a walk a walk and talk, walk and talk. And there's
a new book coming out about President Obama. And there's a
very interesting little nugget in here. This is what does it
call this book is rising star the making of Barack Obama
written by historian David Garrow. He is a Pulitzer Prize
winner, he wrote to bearing the cross a biography of Martin
Luther King Jr. Of course, he's a regular contributor to The New
York Times and Whopper Whopper Whopper Whopper Whopper, WaPo.
And in this very interesting he wrote in this book, about a
relationship that President Obama had in his two years at
Occidental College, which we know nothing about those records
have been sealed his relationship with openly gay
Professor Lawrence Golden,
and why yes, I
know about this quote from the book. Golden made a huge impact
on Barry Obama. Notice he's calling him Barry here why? Why
does no one call him Barry in real life? Why is it always only
now? Why don't we call him that in when he was in office?
Anyway,
you're asking nobody
golden made a huge impact on Barry Obama, as he wrote in the
book almost a quarter century later asked about his
understanding of gay issues. Obama enthusiastically said,
quote, My favorite professor, my first year in college is one of
the first openly gay people that I knew he was a terrific guy
with whom Obama developed, quote, a friendship beyond the
classroom. Three years later, Obama wrote something elusively
to his first intimate girlfriend that he had thought about and
considered gayness, but ultimately had decided that a
same sex relationship would be less challenging and demanding
than developing one with the opposite sex again, this is all
in the book. But there's no doubting that golden gave 18
year old berry a vastly more positive and uplifting image of
gay identity and self confidence than he had known in Holland
Honolulu. So I did an interview with with this author about
about this particular while by a number of things, but about the
President consider gayness and go back on it.
Let me rephrase one of the conspiracies. Was there any time
in Barack Obama's life that he experimented outside of a
heterosexual lifestyle?
I think anyone and everyone know no matter what their role in
life deserves a certain basic degree of privacy in that
context, so that's not something that I speculate upon either in
the book or or in speaking about him. Prior to Michelle Robinson.
Barak had three major serious relationships. Alex, Genevieve,
both of their names are already on the public record.
And by the way, pretty big stripper names right there
Genevieve please.
But one should not look at Add those relationships as being
more important in kind than his.
The guy is trying to say Yes, exactly. Yeah,
he blew the guy like I don't even have to fast forward the
clip. Yeah, he blew the guy. But here's the problem. If Obama
considered gayness, which is the quote from the book, I'm not
making this word up. But he decided it would be same sex
relationship be less challenging. But does that now
mean that,
David that I think that says it all? Well, the quality No, it's
less now. Here's less. He's our body. No, it's It's less
challenging unless he did it.
I don't care about whether he did it or not. I do. Here's the
issue. So apparently, it is a choice. You're not born that
way. It's a choice. The President made a choice
President
it definitely was.
Yeah, but he is the leader of the of dimension be where
everyone's at. You can't if you're gay, you're gay. So you
have no choice in the matter. But apparently you do.
Well, he did.
It's pretty important,
pretty general guy his specific experiences. I think you
understand the point I'm making. I know what you're trying to
make this point. People try to make it and I think it's a good
point to make, if you want to make it I not a subscriber to
either side of that argument.
I'm not saying that's my belief. I'm just saying, you know, you
can't sit and pontificate about how it's a choice. It's not a
choice. You're born that way. And then you make a you make a
choice. Yeah. That's that's
the hypocrisy that you're bitching about? Yes. I don't
care
what he does. We all know that. We all know that. That Reggie
Love was his lover. We all know that those kids are not his but
they're Scottie Pippen and Stevie Wonder. We know, we know.
JP wonder.
I'm I. I don't I'm less concerned about that. Anyway, as
as opposed to my concern that he's a Muslim. Yeah. Yeah. And
that the head of the CIA, Brennan was a Muslim. Well,
besides, and they're not I don't mind people being a Muslim in
office. I don't like people that are hiding hiding it. Yeah.
Because Why are you hiding this? Yes. Are you a subversive
Muslim? That's what you're doing by hiding it. If you're openly
mugwort, then of course, he's, there's political reasons not to
brag about being a Muslim. If you're the president of the
United States, named Barack Hussein. There's, your people
go, Oh, my God, I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't vote for him.
Because these Muslims, I don't like these Muslims. But on the
other hand, it would be like, he's got to come out and say,
Look, I was a Muslim. I didn't blow up the country or anything.
I don't know. I've mixed feelings.
Well, but he's, you know, he's being very quiet right now.
Although he gets a total past. I you know, this, this being on
the yacht? Well, no, this was doable that this Wall Street
company that is doing this $400,000 speech for Do you know
what the setting is for this speech? I don't know Bahamas
health care conference. This is his pro quo. This is the payoff.
Oh, for all the insurance companies. Yes. Big payers your
money. Yeah, you get it. It's not unusual to get Hillary
Clinton
pioneered this.
Yeah, you get the money later. That way you can go testify and
say did you get paid for this and you can sit you can say with
honestly say I've not been paid a nickel for this opinion. I
have not been paid a nickel to do this. And then you may get
some money afterwards as a thank you.
Yeah. Seems like thank you for once to teach. It's pretty good.
He's gonna get a lot more thank yous in that four and $1,000 on
definitely. Yeah.
Okay, well, it's anything else the only thing I have is a
little low local story I can play Okay. Which is kind of
disconcerting to me because I you know, I have a place up in
the woods, not in the woods, but of the Pacific Northwest where
he's where there's Unabomber shares. There's, yeah, that's
what it is. There's deers that are his nuisances. Deers
are deer isn't the plural of ag
media. I don't care if they're all I know is that they're
pests. Okay. And, and the biggest pest up there is kind of
is kind of the point of this story. This story. This clip is
called eagles. in Milpitas.
We have new details this morning about a pair of bald eagles
living on the campus of a Milpitas elementary school and
egullet has hatched in their nest. The bald eagles have
attracted a lot of attention since they were first spotted
back in January at Curtner elementary school, our media
partner the Mercury News reports, I think Aaron who has
been watching the Eagles says the eagle it was born about two
to three weeks ago. Okay?
Yeah did not have there those these birds are pests. They eat
the take kittens. You got kittens. You got a little kitten
outside me wandering around, boom done gone, Puppy, gone.
Anything like that gone babies almost back to the golden
eagles. But I'd be more fearful to Golden Eagle which is
extremely nasty and huge. They're much bigger than a bald
eagle. I had one I think I've talked about on the show that
there's one around here and this damn thing took down a seagull
and ate it hole. Oh my in my back deck. I remember this.
There was no there was feathers everywhere. So it was all these
feathers. I look up into the plum tree. There's a plum tree
back there. And there's the eagle digesting this Seagull
that he ate hole and he's looking at me with a look on his
face. It says what are you looking at? What's
up bro stuff. So I walked very
slowly backwards into the house and closed the door. And it was
like and so he's you know about 1015 20 minutes later, you know
he took off so huge, huge and I'm telling you these things are
frightening. But I don't see any of these stories about the cute
little Eagle Ette and the bald eagle in Milpitas as being a
positive benefit to the neighborhood
I like the term evil it just is that the real term Eagles
yeah that's pretty good.
Well we as we wrap it up let me check one more time on McGregor
he's still he's still out of John boy. And people are lucky
we watch that stuff for them. We really are. And finally I this
is was a notable switch a notable change in attitude. We
went from Kim Jong Un's big celebration with all the goose
stepping military out there showing off their weapons. Oh my
God, look, this is something new. And what did we say about
this something new and it could be made out of paper mache for
all we know we don't know. Yes, some super thing or listen to
this report now.
He had a new North Korean propaganda video. The White
House and an aircraft carrier are in the crosshairs. A carrier
and the US Capitol are shown blowing up. It's the latest
installment of intimidating images from the regime. Here Kim
Jong Hoon enters on the red carpet flanked by officers he
beams with pride that the weaponry on display. But tonight
A closer look reveals some of these weapons are far less
deadly than they seem.
I think the parade was was based more on impressing their their
leader Kim Jong Hoon than impressing an adversary
weapons expert Michael present a former US military intelligence
officer whose war game against North Korea saw some things a
miss with the weapons display.
These are type 88 rifles, ak 70 fours with a grenade projectile
and you're seeing that here. Now these rounds are dummy these
rounds are fake. This capability is so outdated. I mean, this is
a capability that North Koreans stole from the United States
during the Korean War. We stopped using this in 1961. The
reason this is not a menacing weapon to an adversary is
because it has a high failure rate.
At first glance, these appear to be sophisticated grenade
launchers. But experts say they're really outdated bullet
magazines with a high failure rate. We're told some missiles
at the parade were likely mockups. Experts say it's too
risky for them to display the real thing.
Now sure. That okay, it's too risky display the Renaud there
why what is going on? Why all of a sudden would they stop the
fear mongering and now it's all could be just bunch of dummies?
Bunch of cardboard weapons? Why the change?
Well, that's the question, because we do know and we know
it from the past and there's been lots of reports the
Russians used to pull this crap in the 50s and 60s with their
parades of missiles. Right. And although they do have missiles,
but they don't parade them, and I don't know that's a good
question. I think that's the question of the day because
normally if you want to keep the public you know all hating on
North Korea exactly. You wouldn't even discuss it like
this. What would where is that present presented? Was that RT
CNN?
Yeah, it doesn't make sense. Yeah, I know. So me maybe the
word came down. Hey, back off. We're gonna be could be oh,
I've got information man. New shit has come to light.
Okay, it'd be my last bit for today. Inside we have so many
great producers in so many places high end low. We got low
friends in high places. Anonymous. For reasons you will
understand the true reason why Jason Chaffetz is resigning.
Don't we all want to know that? I do. Today was the Utah County
Republican Party organizing convention. This is the
convention where we choose our party leadership for the
country. For the county I'm sorry, this is Jason Chaffetz
biggest County. I are anonymous. Horse, who I do know, as former
member of leadership get to listen in on conversations with
nobody giving me a second thought. So you bet I listen in.
Thank you. Now that's a producer. Jason's inside circle
was talking to some other county leadership about why he's really
retiring. You want to take a little guest John or sex
scandal. He's not retiring to run for governor. He's retiring
because after the 2016 national election, his family has been
threatened. He's been threatened his family's family have been
threatened. These are the types of crazy threats that you can't
ignore with plenty of detail on torture, rape, etc. of him and
his family. Representative of course not getting special
protection when they're outside of Washington, DC where Capitol
police handle security in the district. Any security that he
needs, comes out of his own pocket money isn't the biggest
concern. The safety of those special to him is later today
asked representative Mia Love if she was receiving the same
threats and she said No, she hasn't had any serious threats
and she's taken office, but then again, she never crossed
Hillary. So that's the inside scoop. This is what happens when
you dare cross Hillary and I think that he is on the Hillary
hitlist.
Well, if that's if that's the case, the quitting his position
is not going to help him.
Well, she I mean, the hitless doesn't necessarily have to be
killing people. You know, she didn't kill Bill O'Reilly, which
has another by the way, there's another theory.
And then again, I'll say this similar retort. Then she was
successful, she gets him to drop outs. Yes,
exactly. Exactly.
He shouldn't drop out.
Well, and Ross Perot dropped out. They threatened his family.
He went Screw it. He could have done a lot of a lot of good for
the country. Maybe. But we know he dropped out. He just didn't
he later
he was the CIA that threatened him. I think that was the
implication. We
don't know if this is who is who is doing this threatening, but
enough maybe the CIA would be could be Yeah, he's a
troublemaker. Although I did hear that this is a true rumor.
Who did the Who the hell knows.
The renminbi by the way stop the CIA angle? If it was like one of
these intelligence agencies, specifically them? Or even the
FBI for that matter? That would make it a little more credible.
If you knew for a fact that's who it was.
Yeah, maybe our source will tell us more as more comes to light.
I
don't know if he's gonna know any more than he gave us. But
okay. Yeah.
There is this crazy rumor though, that the the people
leaving Fox, that there is indeed an alternative
conservative network that is being actively discussed amongst
conservative donors.
I was thinking, because of the way this came down, O'Reilly
left and then all these other people are quitting or they're
moving out or they're doing whatever they were doing, that
they were going to gravitate toward the blaze. Do a deal I
think I could see back doing a deal giving O'Reilly half the
network or a third of the network bringing in Roger Ailes
giving him a third of the network back and drop his his
ownership down to maybe 20% with some more giveaway and actually
survive and actually survive, do and do well, because with ales
run into thing. In particular, he's the guys he's a showbiz at
both of these guys. Ales in row Riley are show business geniuses
that can make something work. And Beck's already got the kind
of half of the half of the network that he needs. He
doesn't have as many households as you'd like to have. Right.
But I think you could pop that thing right in there and he
could do next thing you know, you got this crazy thing going
on.
That's interesting, though. It could happen it could absolutely
happen.
And with O'Reilly as the foundation is any claims you
have the secrets of what they're what they're what they're
already trying to do to get him out of there and all the rest.
He could do it like our experts say on it.
Just looking at Fox News, they're wounded. They're weak,
you know, now it'd be the time to do it. You can grab a couple
of stars Hannity will come over in a second. Oh, yeah. You know,
that way would be perfect. And and it would be an even better
scenario that because of course, now the Democrats are now openly
running Fox News, they could set up and set this up with this one
up to with the same man the same, you know, backers who are
really pulling the strings, or it may be the real deal. I don't
know. But there's definitely something afoot. And of course,
well,
there's these go Riley in particular is loaded. And I
think aliases, too I think that that those guys got quarter of a
billion
dollars. They got the money they got money.
Yeah, so they could front that thing and then get some
investors. Some you know, the Koch brothers or somebody. Well,
I hope they do it because that's just more material for us.
Oh, yes. That'd be great.
I'm all for it.
We're all in.
Let's get it going everybody. Okay, next time we speak I will
be in in the new casa. So one sound is booming. Everything's
off the walls. I'm actually just sitting here an empty house.
Just make sure you got all set to go before you come from my
podcast, bro. That's right everybody. Anything to watch
today or can we just have a nice relaxing Sunday,
there's not going to be much ammunition left last remnants of
the NBA first round, don't care about which is kind of fun. The
Warriors should be back in action probably Tuesday or
Wednesday.
Well then I'm excited to see everybody again on Thursday.
Let's keep it at that coming to you from the crackpot condo here
in the skyscraper. It's in downtown Austin, Texas. We are
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