and kids, of course are going nuts for him. Adam curry, John
C. Dvorak. Sunday, December 10 2017. This is your award
winning get more nation media assassination episode nine or
eight Niner. This
is no agenda.
Bringing our way through the morass of media and broadcasting
live from downtown Austin Tejas capital, Star stake in the
company. Okay, in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley where we're asking the question,
what's up with Al Franken? I'm John C. Dvorak. Raglan Buzzkill.
I get you to read something before we start the show, so I
know you're not gonna like over modulate.
Immediately over modulate. You went a little hard. Yeah.
Went in there bit hearts. Okay. All right. Yeah, exactly. Sorry.
That's okay. I can talk softer. Well, I gotta admit something
right off the bat here, John. You recall, we got a note from
one of our producers that he sent me this lavender blossoms
care package of his lavender creams that contain CBD. Okay,
which is kind of cool, right? Yeah. Oh, I
get it. You smoked it.
No, I did not smoke it and it's CBD. And it's you know, it's all
kinds of solves. Solve solves.
Which stuff my wife nieces had been shipped to her.
Well, I can certainly shipper one. But here's the thing. So
I'm reading this and putting the salve on. I'm like, I got a
little pain in my lower back, you know, put something there.
And, you know, anyway, and he wrote me a really nice note. He
said this. I have people who use it. And they say it really helps
for Tourette. So I'm smeared on my neck, you know, everywhere
that I have some kind of some kind of tick. Yeah. And then I
read on the bottle it says effects may not be felt felt
until 30 minutes may last six hours. I'm like, What do you
mean? And I see ah, it's 250 milligrams of CBD. And 200
milligrams of THC.
I'll say get wasted. I did
it this morning. Before the show. What did I know?
Yeah, well, it's not gonna have that much of an effect that
being ingested through the skin. Yeah.
I don't know. I do feel a little you know. I feel a little
groovy. For sure you. Yeah. Yeah. That's all right.
Well, that's okay. Are you hearing anything weird? Are you
getting any oral?
Yeah. Stop it. Stop it. Don't do that.
Don't do it. The third eye is calling me home. Anyway, show to
have the transition. My transition.
You're having a sex change when it does happen?
Now you still talking through that too? Because you sound
horrible.
No, no, I'm not talking to the tube. Don't know what your which
transition? Are you going through?
This is the Windows transition? Ah, yes. Transitioning to
Windows? Yeah. And I will have an analogy. It's kind of like
you put into a because everything's different. You
know, you're a professional driver. You know how to drive
the race car, the for the f1 car. And then you're putting a
different car. Only this one has no traction control. That's the
difference between Mac and Windows. I don't know if that
makes any sense.
No, it makes no sense to me. What traction are you talking
about? Yeah, you
know, there's nothing to kind of stop you from going off the
rails. Tons. You can get stuck and get messed up all over the
place in this thing? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, just look for a
control panel. It's like it's not really intuitive. For me,
I'm just saying coming from from a different operating system.
Yeah. But what I did find is your review of my setup. I
didn't know you did one. You did a review of my two of my Windows
setup. You don't remember that? No. Let me play the clip.
I like the size of the thing. That's one thing for sure. And
the engineering insides unbelievable. It's just
fantastic. But the performance of the machine except for the
hard disk. It has a special cache that allows it to run a
lot faster or effectively faster even though it's a slow hard
disk. Machine is really a couple of years old. It's nothing's
particularly outstanding screen that we've got here as is which
shows a benchmark running and shows the machine running
effectively at 9.8 megahertz. Obviously not using wasting
memory, which is kind of old fashioned. The screen is blurry.
There's a lot of little idiosyncratic things. It's a
closed architecture, even though the other guest says it's open
it's open in a certain way but IBM threatened to sue anyone for
patent violation if they use it and I'm a little disappointed
actually. That was a review of the that early IBM,
the PSA was at the ps1 was yes. Do PS two Yeah. There is one
addition to the setup I just wanted to mention real briefly.
And the main problem I had with that on the last show was the
getting certain clips and jingles. And that's because I
moved away from this iPad jingle firing mechanism that then had
to be connected to the same network as the computer to
remote control fire off the jingles if that makes any sense.
Yeah, and so instead, I got a just a, was it like a 11 and a
half inch touchscreen display which is up near like 100 bucks.
You connected right up to HDMI and you and you connect it to
the you know, to USB port and then I can just hit the the on
screen, jingle card machine
with a yellow touch touchscreen, or is it a little device?
No, it's a little touchscreen. Yeah, just use it as a second
monitor, drag the the cart thing over there and then I can hit
anything. Of course I recoated everything all different colors
and position. So I still don't know where anything is. But at
least it works. Okay, yeah, I'll take a picture. People will
enjoy it.
Okay. I know they're fascinated by this. Some turtle are Yeah.
Both of them. Yeah. All right. Well, we're going to talk about
Al Franken. Yes. Well, let's listen to the you have this
whole thing because I didn't get the whole thing. But I do have.
Yeah, well, I don't have this whole thing. I have the I have
the main.
I got this go.
I'll play this. Nevertheless. Today. I am announcing that in
the coming weeks. I will be resigning as a member of the
United States Senate. But Minnesotans deserve a Senator
who can focus with all her energy on addressing the
challenges they face. Every day as a
woman. I think I know you as well. He's a woman.
I think Minnesota is a woman. I think that's the idea. Her
challenges refers to Minnesota. I had to listen to it to Thomas
myself. Okay. Okay. Yes. Just seems odd.
No, I think he's going out of his way to say something like
that. Oh, no doubt about that. Minnesota is not a male.
Minnesota is not a female.
It's a state. Yeah. And our state's predominantly calling
a rock. You know, a woman. My girlfriend here this is quartz
rock. Okay. No,
I think they'd like that. If you don't make a quartz make a
diamond. Bet or it's
like that was it? Yeah. Well,
what else did you want to hear? You want to hear what I
don't want to hear anything. Let's just Let's start off by
playing Frank in on CBS,
Minnesota Democrat Al Franken took to the Senate floor today.
And Nancy Cortez tells us he made the announcement he could
no longer avoid.
I will be resigning as a member of the United States Senate.
Senator Franken bowed to pressure today but did not bow
to His accusers. Some of the allegations against me are
simply not true. Others I remember very differently.
If anything Franken suggested he is the victim of a double
standard I
am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his
history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office.
Like President Trump Franken is accused of groping multiple
women before he came to Washington.
I would have liked to see him take some responsibility, but
the end result was the same.
Senator Amy Klobuchar is frankenz Minnesota colleague,
did you think it was important for him to step down?
I felt that given what was going on, that you had more and more
allegations that you had members that were calling for him to
step down that it was just going to become really difficult for
him to do his job.
The pair of democratic resignations this week puts even
more pressure on the GOP and its Alabama Senate candidate Roy
Moore, the man who has repeatedly preyed on young
girls, many Senate Republicans disavowed more again today and I
wish he were not our nominee. I think he wins he's the gift that
keeps on giving for Democrats.
Then late this afternoon, they learned that Arizona Republican
Trent Franks intends to step down. The eight term Congressman
would not tell reporters why.
I'll let the statement speak for itself. What is the statement
say? Take a look at
it. In that statement. Frank said he may have been
insensitive when discussing the topic of gestational surrogacy
with two of his female staffers. How Ethics Committee announced
that its members had voted to investigate whether Frank's
engaged in sexual harassment. Now we've Jeff.
Now we know a little bit more about what he actually discussed
those uncomfortable conversations that he had with
the women in his office.
Was Yeah, we actually saw the next clip.
Okay, good, good. Good. Because I thought that was like, I
called it a medium like, yeah, he wanted them to be surrogates.
By sitting on his penis, I think was the idea.
Yeah, maybe he offered one 5 million bucks. It seems to me
that if that was all they wanted, they were getting, they
were gonna get a lot for the money. This is kind of an
interesting contrast of what you just heard. This is the ABC
report on the resignations, and they are on the screen. They got
John Conyers, the black Democrat, they have Al Franken,
the white Democrat, and then they have this other character.
And now I want you to listen to this as the ABC pretty much the
same kind of report on pretty much the same day.
This isn't CBS or ABC.
This is ABC on resignations,
I got you. You got three of them. Got it.
And I want you to listen to this. Tell me if you'd notice
any sort of a slant any sort of a slant to this report, because
I kind of noticed one. Okay,
Tom next this evening, the growing crisis on Capitol Hill
over claims of sexual misconduct. Three members of
Congress now resigning in just three days. One of them a
Republican congressman, who was accused of asking two staff
members to carry his baby ABCs Mary Bruce on the hill.
As bizarre allegations of misconduct emerge tonight
Congressman Trent Franks is abruptly resigning. The Arizona
Republican is accused of asking two members of his staff to
carry his child. One woman reportedly tells the Associated
Press Frank's offered her $5 million to act as a surrogate.
The Congressman doesn't admit that directly but says I deeply
regret that the topic of surrogacy was discussed in the
office and that it caused distress. Frank's a staunch
social conservative. It is a test
of our basic humanity and who we are as a human family
is now bowing to pressure from House Speaker Paul Ryan, who
urged him to quit after learning of credible claims of
misconduct. He is now the third member of Congress to resign
just this week over allegations of sexual misconduct or
harassment.
This really is a watershed moment for our country.
And Mary tonight, another Republican Congressman now under
scrutiny,
David, the Ethics Committee is also looking at Texas
Congressman Blake Farenthold. over allegations he sexually
harassed former aide denies the allegations, but he's also
agreed to pay back taxpayers for the $84,000 settlement. That
staffer received. David Barry Bruce.
So where are the Democrats in this report?
No, we can't be doing that. That would make no sense. I gotta
tell you, man.
It's ABC. ABC is the worst for this. I always used to blame CBS
as the CIA broadcasting system. But ABC is far worse when it
comes to being slanted. Now, there's also two switchbacks in
here two of these, you know, you just say something and then play
a clip. It's got nothing to do with
a whipsaw, not a switch, Whiplash whipsaw, it's your
word.
I know I can get to keep track ever since somebody mentioned
that it's actually a non sequitur. And so I'm always
like, this is a non sequitur. I have them isolated, so you can
hear them and see if you can, you know, as you listen to them,
you'll you'll notice it, I think, because it's been
isolated. But let's start with number one. Sorry, I'm sorry, I
this my fault. And by the way, this puts Mary Bruce, on the
list of douchebag reporters who do this, because so far, only
Jeff big A's I've never been able to catch doing this.
And Frank's a staunch social conservative.
It is a test of our basic humanity, and who we are as a
human family
is now bowing to pressure.
And then they play some random clip.
That was completely irrelevant. Just play that again, that was
kind of cool. There
was a staunch social conservative, it is a test
of our basic humanity, and who we are as a human family
is now bowing to pressure.
What was he talking about in that non sequitur clip? No
ideas. It's though she's she's piecing this thing together in
the edit room, and she just grabs anything like I this is a
guy clip. Yeah. Yeah. So that was done but the worst part is
she does another one not quite as bad. Near the end. into the
research as to of these things in the same report
over allegations of sexual misconduct or harassment.
This really is a watershed moment for our country.
It could have been from anything.
Yeah, that's fantastic. So she stinks.
We always forget to play the jingle. I think we need to do
now it's time for your sexual harassment update.
I feel like we can miss the ball on that. Week. Yeah, me. Me. We
need particular me in particular, I got something
here. The CBS Morning Show shame themselves due to Charlie Rose's
sexuality in his DNA had on an SI Republican Senator Senator
Thune to talk about you know, the what's going on foon? Yes.
And so we've got Gail talking to him. And just listen, I remember
this is about sexual harassment, inappropriate behavior and just
listen to the Hulk. Let's
just turn to the resignation of Al Franken. yesterday. He said
it's not the irony is not lost on him that the man who was
bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault now
sits in the Oval Office. What do you say to that now that it
looks like Roy Moore might be coming to Senate?
Well, I mean, I think there are there are men across all kinds
of different industries that are learning that there are
consequences to bad behavior. And I think that's a good thing.
You know, what happened yesterday is unfortunate in the
Senate, but I think on Capitol Hill, the discussion that we're
having right now is long overdue. Yes. And I think what
it points out is that action is needed. You know, we can't
continue to accept the status quo there or anywhere else, for
that matter. And
we call for Roy Moore to step aside. That is not that clearly
is not the case. What will you all do if he's elected? Well, I
think the one thing I've said all along is if he comes to
Washington, he'll immediately be under an ethics cloud, probably
an ethics investigation, the result of which could be
recommending expulsion could be recommending censure, there are
different things that the ethics committee committee can
conclude. But it's a huge distraction. I mean, this the
simplest, wisest thing for him to do in the best interest of
the country and our party is to step aside and allow another
Republican to get into that race because I think we would win the
seat and yet the RNC is are supporting him. And that's
unfortunate. I don't condone that. I think it'd be the right
move in the first place. All right, Senator. Very good. I
could have very good with you all thank you.
In person, in person as you do on TV.
So she goes to you and she doesn't with a whole new look as
good in person as you do on TV.
She's sexually, she's harassing him. Yes. He's
sexually harassing the man. Listen to this. Hey, let's see.
Can we play that again? Let me see. Here we go.
Let's just turn to the resignation of Al
Franken when another Republican to get into that race because I
think we would win the seat and yet the RNC is are supporting
him. Well, and that's that's unfortunate. I don't condone
that. I think it'd be the right move in the first place. All
right, Senator. Very good.
Good to have very good with you all thank you. In person is in
person as you do on TV.
You made really, really pretty bad, huh? That is really bad.
Especially considering the topic you get clipped in the day for
that.
Thank you so much. Unexpected clip.
I mean, you're going to talk about sexual harassment and you
do want to pull one of those stunts. Yeah, it's pretty it's
pretty good. You look pretty good. Yeah, I'm better at doing
later. Yeah. Hey,
like she's into men. Please go. Don't insult me. We know.
So here's the rap on Roy Moore. Somebody sent me a nasty note
saying you guy you guys have been doing is calling Roy Moore
a pervert on the show. Have we know that we've
been calling rehearsing your
shows up? Don't think Well, okay. By the way. Do you get the
bonus clip? Yes, I did. Okay, good, because we're gonna go
from this clip to that clip. This is Roy Moore wrap on CBS.
Alabama special election that Errol mentioned is Tuesday. It's
a heated battle for the Senate seat vacated by Attorney General
Jeff Sessions. And it could change the balance of the US
Senate where Republicans hold a slim majority men. Well. borkus
is in mobiele. Are you familiar with the Senate race that's
coming up? All right. Yeah. Thank you. So can we count on
your support
is Barbara Brewster and her husband Henry spent part of
their Saturday canvassing this Mobile, Alabama neighborhood for
Doug Jones. Hi. They believe turnout, especially among
African American voters could be the key to giving the Democrat a
chance of winning Tuesday.
I mean, unfortunately, we got the new Alabama versus the old
Alabama going on here. And it's time for our kids want to see
the new Alabama so you're
reaching out to young voters too young for sure. Jones supporters
have seized upon allegations from several women that the
Republican Roy Moore pursued them as teenager was one when
she was 14 while he was in his 30s. More has denied any
wrongdoing. While endorsing him in Florida yesterday, President
Trump sought to discredit one accuser Beverly Nelson, who says
Roy Moore signed her yearbook.
I liked the way he does that. President Trump stopped to
discredit an accuser. On my way to the venue. I stopped to
discredit somebody Florida
yesterday, President Trump sought to discredit one accuser.
113 We're stopping to discredit the accuser, then we're on to
the venue Pres. Okay. I've
only Nelson who says Roy Moore signed her yearbook but admitted
yesterday she added notes to the message,
you know, the yearbook. Did you see that? There was a little
mistake made the
President thought the trend of prominent Republicans calling
for more to step aside in light of the allegations, telling
supporters the GOP can't afford to lose the Senate seat. But
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell repeated this week
that he believes more will face an ethics investigation if he
wins. Dean Young is with the more campaign
we're going to like judge more. Mitch McConnell wants to pretend
like he's a dictator, and overturn the election of the
people of Alabama. He's making a huge mistake. A fight common a
big fight common.
Big names are pouring into Alabama in the final days before
the election, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon
for Roy Moore on Monday, Senator Cory Booker for Doug Jones
today. Yes. So
they you know, they're a panic D about you know, nobody knows
what's going to happen here or what anyone's going to do about
it. If Roy Moore gets in, there's somebody came up on one
of the other analysis is on one of the other shows and mentioned
that the Ethics Committee has never done anything about anyone
who who did any sort of wrongdoing before they were
elected. The only time they get busted is when they're in the
Senate or the House, depending on which committee if they're
doing something while they're in office. Yes, all kinds of things
happen. But if it's something that happened 40 years ago, No,
nothing's going to happen. It never has never will. And, but
nobody knows that this guy can win, he might be able to pull it
off. I think Alabama has at least two Republicans in Alabama
irked about the whole thing and they're gonna vote for him.
Before before you before you go into your bonus, I have a quick
little clip from Cokie Roberts. She has she has a different take
on things.
One of the things that keep in mind is in the end the base,
even women are suspicious about these sexual harassment claims.
And part of the reason for that is that women who are not in
fancy white collar jobs often have really awful things happen
to them on the job, they are assaulted, they are raped, they
have horrible things happen to them. And so when they hear
women say he talked directly to me, or he came on to me, they
think big deal. That's not what happened to me. What happened to
me is so much worse. And so there's not that same sense of
affinity.
But if I get it, trust me,
I have the power to do.
What goes through their heads in that? That doesn't seem to work?
And as an analogy, maybe they
just decided, I think they decide that the kids are telling
a lie.
She Republican cookie Yeah. No, I could afford me.
I don't know that she is she's always been on the PBS she's
circling it. She has always been kind of a liberal.
Right? Well, she says hey, poor women, they're used to this
nothing new.
I think she makes a good point. I know that they're used to and
I think she may be exaggerating, but I think the point is well
made because people are saying Oh, that guy comes up any any
propositioned me. Right? Surprised it's horrible. He did
what that sexual harassment. Do you work for him? No, I don't
work for him. He just propositioned via it's a trade
show or something. Right? And you know, and it's like, I think
you have to be an idiot. I mean, what are you supposed to do with
the men and women they're always propositioning each other and
women do it too. Every so often. They don't do it as much as as
they should. But they do it. That's true. And it's not sexual
harassment. It's caused propositioning, you know, if you
come up to someone say, Oh, would you like to have sex
that's
called your lucky day.
Well, I don't want to be that insensitive. But let's listen to
the bonus clip. This is a clip that was produced for Vice
magazine, just came out is trying to again put the
Alabamans in a bad light I think they do have did make a couple
of mistakes and I'll tell you what they are after we play this
clip
Alabama ago, 40 years ago in Alabama. It was a different
world 40 years ago and Alabama. People can get married now. At
13 and 14 years old, my grandmother at 13, was married
at 15 had two children and a husband and a job. You know, if
Roy Moore was guilty if he was at the mall hitting on this 14
year old 40 years ago and Alabama, there's a lot of mamas
and daddies that would be thrilled that their 14 year old
was getting hit on by a district attorney.
Boom, come to I'd say that was a good one. I'm going to give you
a clip of the day for that clip. Because we always take it into
context. But then it comes to this Duchenne ACO, and then we
can talk about what it was like back then?
Well, a couple of things 40 years ago? I don't think so. 50
years ago, maybe 60 years ago, for sure. Seven years ago?
Absolutely. Yeah. I think he's pushed a timeline a
little bit too much hard. Yeah.
Didn't do right. They didn't follow the rules of
broadcasting, which is, instead of having this guy who's pretty
well spoken, you want a guy that guy talks a little bit slower,
and he talks like this, and it's got one tooth. And that's what
you want. They didn't get that they got a articulate guy has
got a slight accent, but he's articulate. And he does make the
point, even though I think it's exaggerated, but this is like,
again, I say that this is going to be interesting, because if
Roy Moore gets in is going to be, you know, it will give the
Democrats what they hope that you know that they can this ride
this guy and ride the Republicans and keep an eye on
Trump in 2018, and maybe get some people elected. But then
again, the other thing is, if they see this guy getting
elected, because Trump actually came out and supported him and
the guy does get elected, they're going to be a little
scared of what's going on. And they may have to rethink their
strategy. I think their strategy stinks. Well, while you
mentioned that is anti Trump anti Trump, there's no positive
message here.
Well, that kind of folds into Mike next clip, which is Monica
Crowley thinks she was on the John bachelor show. And you
know, something that we you identified probably two months
ago, because we're just much faster than the M five M, is
exactly what she corroborates here,
why the left has been so willing, if not outright eager
to sacrifice so many big big names, politician, up
fundraisers, Hollywood heavyweights, all of these
people who have been deeply aligned and deep, deeply helpful
to their cause over decades, why are they so willing to throw
them overboard, and people are now starting to put it together
that essentially the left would like to rewrite the rules, and
that they're burning everything to the ground so that they can
start fresh, with a new set of faces and a new set of folks and
a new set of rules. Now, we're just in the early stages of
this, but when you sort of piece it all together, it sort of
makes sense. And when you think about new faces, and new, new
peat, new individuals in a lot of these positions, the pressure
is going to be brought to bear to have women replace these
people. I mean, you think about Matt Lauer, the now former co
host of The Today Show, and the whole conversation has been
well, what woman is going to replace him? It's got to be a
woman. You can't replace him with another white guy. But I
think look, I think the the takedown of Harvey Weinstein was
the first attempt to remove Hillary from the national
conversation and to some extent bill to because Bill was accused
over many decades by multiple people of sexual assault, sexual
misconduct, and in fact, the rape in at least one case by
Juanita Broderick. So he is extraordinarily compromised in
this cultural moment. And this is Clinton as well, because she
enabled him she enabled the accused race rapist for all of
these years. So they weren't going to be marginalized.
Anyway, I think the the takedown of Weinstein was the first
attempt at doing that and like like Mrs. Clinton keeps coming
back like Glenn closest character and fatal attraction.
You think she's dead in the tub? Back? So I think that this now
new wave of removing progressive leftists like Al Franken we just
discussed, I think that is the final steak dripping being
driven through the heart of both Clintons. Don't you dare try to
get back up out of that bathtub because we are not having it.
The HA.
Like two things come to mind. First of all, Frank and it looks
like she's going to be replaced by a woman. Yep. I was going to
be assigned and Amy Klobuchar who is his SAT as stablemate,
you know, turns on him, which is why I think he should have not
quit and become an independent but he didn't have the guts to
do anything like that. And the other thing is he was also being
seen when he came out with his latest book, Lion of the Senate,
which is kind of a, a, kind of a put on, excuse me. You know,
this book, when it came out, he was being seen as a potential
candidate for 2020. Right? Which flight which is not known,
that's not going to happen. We don't we already know who's who
they want to run. If you start looking into it, you're gonna
see it's Kamala Harris. Yeah, the black woman's
and Kamala or Kamala or Kamala Harris County,
District Attorney in San Francisco, she's got a lot of,
she's not going to win beat anybody because she's got a lot
of skeletons in her closet for doing a poor job here in San
Francisco, that she snuck into the, you know, the State Office
of no issues. Attorney General now the attorney general maybe
maybe something like
she's a Attorney General for California. Yeah. Okay.
Then she got then she goes into the Senate. And they're all
looking at her as well. She's a woman of color. And she's a
woman. Key. She's a woman. Yeah, we need a woman who didn't get
Hillary and we gotta get a woman and we're gonna get rid of all
these old does other guys screwed up. We're gonna new
woman in there. And let's make her black because we were very
successful with a black candidate the
last time That's right, perfect.
That's it. That's the real the best the real thinking that's
the real thing. Yeah, that's
what they're thinking because they look into that their track
records. It was the best that we've done with recently. But
Obama, we need a black person. Well, we can't have another
black guy that's bring in a black woman and they got this.
She's no good. Dad, she's and you see on the Senate. She's
She's not that bright. Really? As so she Yes. But she's a good
campaigner, and people like her, but she's not going to be an
anyone can beat her. I think and I think Trump can easily beat
her. She'll be flustered. She's not this is not that good. She's
not right. She's not it's too soon for one thing. But I think
that the line in the Senate where they started saying, oh,
Rankin can be the candidate. That was that that was the end
of him right there. Because I think there I think she's
absolutely right, Monica. She's there cleaning house. Yeah, it's
like the end of the of the Godfather movie.
Yes. She had the right analogy. She had the basic instinct.
Yeah, no, it should have godfathers wipe everybody out.
I'm better, better analogy. So meanwhile, the hashtag me too is
really growing worldwide. What we call catcalling. Or wolf
whistling in the United States of Gitmo nation, GMT could soon
become a hate crime. And they're doing a they did a pilot scheme
a trial in was it hate by the way? Well, let me read this to
you. The trial led by North Nottinghamshire police saw
sexist incidents like street harassment verbal abuse and
taking photos without consent recorded as hate crimes.
How would you take in a photo of hate crime now?
Well, it's just however you want to define it. Police chiefs are
now considering rolling out the idea elsewhere in the UK
suggesting a harsher stance on everyday sexism could stop it
escalating into sexual harassment or assault. Police
believe halting misogynistic remarks could go towards
lowering serious sexual violent crimes overall okay
where's the hate though? I wouldn't again don't get the
words the hate the hate
this however, just wanted to find it. You know, they I don't
see it but that's apparently now hate speech
bridge. See it that way? Are they just knuckling under the
any old thing that happens? Probably the latter. Probably.
All right, well. Anyway, let's see where we're just we're gonna
finish this segment. Savannah, anything else? I do have one
thing I do have a very interesting today's show report
on the on the mechanism that Weinstein used to create his
network of complicity. Also this
morning, the New York Times has new details about the sexual
harassment accusations facing Harvey Weinstein and how he may
have kept them hidden. For decades now Jones is Here with
more on all that good morning. All of this comes amid the me to
movement and as we just mentioned, time recognizing the
silence Breakers is the person of the year, the New York Times
looking at Weinstein's powerful relationships and how you
reportedly use them as cover providing possible answers to
questions about how Weinstein's alleged behavior can be kept out
of the spotlight for so long. This morning, new details on how
Harvey Weinstein apparently covered up years of reported
sexual harassment. In a wide ranging report. The New York
Times describes A complicity machine inside and outside of
his company and says he used his friendships with major power
players from the world of politics, business and the media
to his advantage, The Times writing according to nearly 200
interviews, some aided his actions without realizing what
he was doing. Many knew something or detected hence, the
few understood the scale of the sexual misconduct. Almost
everyone had incentives to look the other way or reasons to stay
silent. Weinstein faces more than 80 allegations of
harassment, some criminal in nature, which he has denied.
Those mentioned in the article include Hillary Clinton, The
Times reporting Weinstein had long raised campaign cast for
her and her feminist credentials helped burnish his image and
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who the time says sought Weinstein's
advice on how to combat bad press. Weinstein reportedly
recommending a lawyer who quote make sure everyone sticks
to the wait a minute, wait a minute. These those asked
Weinstein for advice about bad press. Apparently.
That's the first guy I'd call and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos,
who the time says sought Weinstein's advice on how to
combat bad press. Weinstein reportedly recommending a lawyer
who quote, make sure everyone sticks to the right narrative
for how Weinstein dealt with his own bad press. It was with a mix
of threats and enticement, drawing reporters close with the
law of access to stars, directors and celebrity pack
parties, adding he was so close to David J. pecker, the chief
executive of American Media Inc, which owns the Enquirer that he
was known in the tabloid industry as an untouchable fop
or friend of pecker within his company. The Times reports the
human resource department was seen by many as protecting
Weinstein, saying when one female employee complained that
she was frightened to travel with Weinstein, the response was
basically let us know if he hit you or crosses a line
physically. The Times adding one of the former movie moguls
signature lines was I'm Harvey Weinstein. You know what I can
do? Weinstein denies all allegations of non consensual
sex. The Times also reporting that actress Lena Dunham warned
Hillary Clinton's aides about Weinstein's behavior and his
treatment of women. For her part Clinton released a statement in
October saying she was shocked and appalled by the revelations
adding Weinstein's behavior alleged behavior could not be
tolerated.
Friend of pecker gotta love it.
Well, you know, there was your operation that could have blown
the lid off this thing years ago, easily, easily but failed
to do so. So that's, that's a flaw?
Well, there was an article in the Columbia Journalism Review,
titled What we found when we ask newsrooms about sexual
harassment. Oh, it's bad. It's really bad. What's bad the
amount of sexual harassment in newsrooms? Yeah. And you know,
they're to the women have whisper networks. Kind of like
the spreadsheet that whenever surfaced, but I believe it, I
believe it Hey, that guy, believe me, That guy's a
douchebag. You got to stay away from him? Yeah, well, they have
to do that in the news. But in the newsrooms, John, yeah. That
makes it hard to cover the topic. It's like when the
newsroom is all Democrats. And let's just face reality about
that. And I have talked to newspaper organizations that had
speeches. And I've I've asked for a show of hands. How many
people are Democrats? Yeah. And they don't mind listening their
hand up? No. And then you say, how many people will Republicans
and maybe two guys lifter hands up out of 100. And you never see
him at the next meeting? Know what those are? The guys are
they get in good positions? Because that because other guys
will come up to me and say, I would have lifted my hand up.
But you can tell why did yeah. So there's a lot of that most
people just don't lift their hands. For some if somebody asks
him, they say, you know, but it's extremely dominated, and
many of the newspapers are unionized. So they're a member
of a guild. And so that also puts them in a certain frame of
mind. Yeah. And it's and so they're biased, they're
incredibly biased. And the fact that they have sexual harassment
going on to is just like, makes the whole thing just an eye
roller. Yeah. It's like, you know, it's pretty useless.
I'm still waiting for some more signals from academia. Although
I did catch from CBC there's a professor Kenda Navion Professor
put out a call for stories of harassment on campus and
received hundreds of responses I don't know Yeah, it's it's gonna
be it's this thing is going to pop so
be targeted. It's going to be targeted if it's good if the
guy's a Republican, conservative professor, and there's a few,
not a lot but there's a few W targeted. Yeah, this is all
looks like it's all been targeted, especially at this
point. Now it's getting very targeted, and to find somebody
like Franken who, for all practical purposes is an
innocent bystander has been targeted and falls for it
instead of you know, being his own man. Yeah. Which means he
shouldn't be reelected because he obviously can't think for
himself because if he did, he would have done what I said
which is the quit the Democrat Party and run as an independent
and say, I'm not quitting the Senate. I wasn't hired by the
Senate to take this job. I was hired by the voters of Minnesota
if they don't want me to vote me out. Right. But no, he didn't do
that. He read knuckled under to Amy Klobuchar was a jerk. And
Schumer she went up to Schumer and he says, You gotta go. And,
you know, he wasn't thinking for himself. There was a Lion of the
Senate. There you go, that's gonna be the great get that
autographed. And you're not excited
about but you know what? He ain't gone yet. We'll see
whether he could still back off, but then he looked like I could
complete wishy washy jerk. So
nothing surprises me anymore.
All right, I think we can close that segment.
That concludes our latest sexual harassment update. As a
reminder, flirting of any kind is no longer tolerated. Good
luck with that.
We don't have to women creating little bits and bobs for us
little jingles. Love that. Finally.
All right, you know, yeah, I was just gonna say as a final
thought, and I'm going to continue to promote this. I
think that in an office environment, all makeup on women
are in and man should be forbidden, should be forbidden.
Yep. No makeup, did not going to get an edge, you know, and then
get accused people of one thing or another. There should be no
makeup. And the dress code should be a little more firm
about what you can and cannot wear and I would push trousers
on women more than anything?
Yeah, I'm so happy. We're podcasters. So much easier. I
mean, I'm standing here. My wife beater. I don't know about you.
But we don't have to deal with any of that. Well, I think
because in two hours after today's show ends or maybe a
little bit less because we got a late start with some technical
stuff. For the first time, for the first time, Bitcoin will
start trading on the the Chicago Board of exchange on this. I
didn't know they trade options on Sundays.
Not that I know of
what everyone's talking about it being today that it goes live, I
may be either miss some kind of pre market or something. I'm not
familiar with
it, but they have futures market. That could be the just
the futures even though it's futures markets for futures. Hi.
Yes.
So there's a lot going on this past week was once again, just
crazy listening to the M five m talking about Bitcoin. As I
actually I deposited just to see what was what was going on, I
deposited just a couple dollars in my Coinbase account, which is
the one that everybody uses. And they say, Oh, this is great,
thank you, it'll take seven business days for that money to
clear into your account. This is a big red flag as far as I'm
considered. And with the with the banking transfer system, and
had been I have a connection to my bank. I mean, that's
overnight. Now it still takes three days to clear but not
seven. So they're holding that money. And you know, that's part
of the scam is how it works. You know, your money is in limbo.
It's just somewhere somewhere something's going on. But I
think the the not really a great explanation but a certainly
prognostication of what could happen came from Kramer he's the
he's like a morning zoo financial guy on CNBC. And he's
explaining what can happen when you get this, these futures and
options and the ability to short this quote unquote, currency.
And
I think that the futures are going I think the my sources in
the Bitcoin community, which is actually about 20 people in that
community, I think that they will feed on on very little
volume. And I think that the short selling is going to just
annihilate people when you can start trading nylon, because
just creating a supply there's been no supply. But but short
term, what do you think happens to the price? Once futures go
live? I think you get a lot more liquid market more liquid
markets can have these kinds of typically can have these kinds
of gyrations. And I think that if they walked it up, these guys
can hit it back down. I mean, I think the propensity of people
when future start would not be to bid it up after this turmoil
that we've had and what is basically what's called them
really get to an island reverse rate goes up intraday and they
get slammed, and I think that's the traders move it up. And then
once this thing starts trading the futures they are just going
to chi Bhatia. Chi Bhatia Got it? Thank you.
Kay a IBO sh How do you go with chi Bosch? Google it
wouldn't surprise you to see
half go back to where it why Yeah 5000 was
a few weeks ago look I think
you get sellers who can come there's no way you can borrow
the stuff but you get sellers to come in and suddenly there's
they create Bitcoin so to speak. I also think that once the
future is given, you're gonna see a lot of shenanigans. I
think there'll be more shenanigans and futures than
KY Bob and shenanigans Watch out.
There you go. Chi Boston shenanigans are expected?
Yes, none of it's good.
No. Here is the very first Bitcoin this self proclaimed
very first Bitcoin investor. Robert, ver, do you know him?
Robert, Ver? Do we know this? I know him. I don't know. Maybe
he's like some Silicon Valley guy. I don't know. I thought
they'd never heard
of him. Here. He stayed home and read about Bitcoin all day. I
stayed up all night, the next day until around 4pm The next
day, and I got too tired. And I fell asleep for only about an
hour and then woke up again and read all about Bitcoin. And I
went on sleeping maybe an hour and a half per night for about a
whole week until I got so sick from lack of sleep, I had to
call my friend say help me, I'm so sick that I need to, he came
and picked me up and drove me to the hospital. And they gave me
some sort of a sedative or something and I passed out
asleep for maybe 12 or 16 hours, but then woke up again. And it
was all Bitcoin and here we are about seven years later. And
it's been all Bitcoin all day, every day for seven years now.
Because this is literally it's one of the most important
inventions in the entire history of humankind. They're on par
with the importance of the invention of the wheel, or the
electricity or the transistor. That's how big of a deal the
invention of Bitcoin is.
You go the invention of electricity itself, I tell you,
which is believable, which is the problem. This is what's so
interesting.
We have a we have a number of I would say listeners and probably
some producers who are in this camp.
Oh, in total? I would say the majority of them. No, not the
majority. Yes, the majority. The majority are hypnotized by by
the Bitcoins. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. And here's the
interesting thing of this the concept of mining your Bitcoin
which requires a lot of processing power, which
translates directly to energy consumption which is why it's
very hard to make a living mining Bitcoin and with each
Bitcoin that's created the gets a little harder cost a little
more energy, which I think is why a lot of you will see a lot
of Chinese miners being very successful they're sitting there
off one of those hydroelectric dams are tapping right into it
says kind of free, free energy. But the projection is and this
is just math if if the ramp were to continue like it does now,
which I don't expect, but the ramp of the creation of bitcoins
does, that looks pretty on par by I believe 2045 It'll you
know, the entire the Bitcoin network will per day use as much
energy as the entire world uses to day now be just the Bitcoin
mining network and transaction network. So it's, something's
destined to fail. And it could be our grid. No, please.
This whole thing is going to collapse out of the blue, blue
and the economy goes down. This thing's going to be the first to
fail because it's good. If you can't get rid of your coin for
seven days. No, no,
no, that's that's just translating my dollars into
coin.
Well, that what do you think is even longer when it does sell?
Probably about the same? I haven't sold we
only do one a day because they have limits? You have a limit?
Yeah, shall you do?
I've heard people who have a $7,000 a day limit, you know,
you have to identify yourself, you have to give them your
paperwork, your you know, some kind of documents, ID documents.
And for people can go up to 7000 a day, but even then, I mean,
that's not You're not really liquid.
Just not liquid at all. No, that's and if you do say the
thing is selling for $14,000 A coin. And you can sell seven you
can sell a half a coin in a day. But if it's being sold at all is
going to be dropped in fashion and you can sell actually exist.
So it'd be back down to 400 bucks, and then you'll be out on
the trail. Exactly. And it can be down to back down to it and
100 could be back down to 50 could drop back down and 25
cents.
You're right in line with Deutsche Bank, which is
interesting. This guy's you'll hear what he has to say. Because
Deutsche Bank is one of the leaders of this entire bullcrap
futures market, is Bitcoin at systemic risk to anything other
than Bitcoin.
Well, we added that to the list because it's, of course,
something that's being talked about more and more and worry,
of course, that one can have this that it's catching on quite
substantially. And of course with the speed with which prices
are going up, then you do wonder where prices will be even by the
end of 2017. But we do think that in 2018 This of course will
continue to be a topic and as a number of questions that remain
I and answered about regulation, about transparency about do you
have to reveal what you're holding? Can the regulators do
something about it? It's mainly because it is something that I
think financial markets so far has been discounting as a small
issue. But to answer your question, Brian, we do worry a
bit that it could become more systemic in particular, if the
current trends do continue going well into 2018. No. Could be
bad?
Well, every time there's a collapse, market collapse is
always the triggering mechanism is always something different
well, and then on that the the Aetherium network, which is you
know, also crypto coin but with this Aetherium you can put all
kinds of things into the coin themselves, you know, contracts
and applications and all kinds of groovy stuff that now that
network is now jamming up because some Yahoo's decided to
come up with something for kids and this is right there with the
Beanie Babies which you know, is the predictor of a bubble pop
crypto kitties. Kitt is little toy virtual kittens that are
part of their crypto Kitties and kids of course are going nuts
for him because it's their you know it's their entry into
blockchain is the entry into the bitcoin is beautiful.
Well, we know like kids need to know about blockchain.
To wrap it up this is a CNBC where the flub which really is
it tells it all
now meanwhile, coin base is now among the Top iPhone apps in the
US which clearly means Bitcoin Bitcoin to some degree has gone
mainstream
VidCon we shall see I'm very excited to see what happens when
the exchange opens
Yeah, actually it'd be fun to watch will follow it will follow
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Exactly. Now, I have a look kind of an offshoot clip that has
kind of to do with the sexual harassment thing in a very odd
way. Okay, but it's not quite. This is a local KTVU report on
the scandal. It's a scandalous thing. And I have a commentary
to make after this bogus report on girls hired for parties. Oh,
I heard some of this.
And with the issue of sexual misconduct dominating the news
right now a holiday already trend in Silicon Valley is
getting some attention. companies are hiring models to
attend holiday parties to make small talk with guests.
According to one report, it is happening in record numbers this
year KTVU is and Reuben is in our San Jose studio now with
more on this and
the models are told it's their job to create a certain
atmosphere but without letting on that they're there for work
and not for fun. That attractive person you're chatting up at
your tech companies holiday party may be paid to be there. A
recent Bloomberg article drew attention to the hiring of so
called ambiance models. These are good looking men and women
paid $150 an hour to mingle.
Maybe sometimes there'll be given an employee's name to say
they're friends with other times they'll have to sign NDAs or
wear certain outfit to fit a theme. I've
Sarah fryer with Bloomberg spoke to agency sending models to half
a dozen parties this weekend alone. In some cases, 30 of them
prevent the tech companies some big some small work in
everything from gaming to virtual reality.
So it's really an interesting phenomenon, especially in the
middle of all of these harassment scandals and
diversity issues that we have started to care so much about in
the valley,
and how for sin Model Management, which focuses on
Silicon Valley, they've received a few requests for this type of
job. They've turned them all down the fear that lines might
get crossed. If party guests don't realize the models are
paid to be there. Are they getting hit on by people at the
party is isn't there to solicit them or take them out on dates
we just don't know. And while models have long been hired for
tech trade shows the agency say this is different since the job
is to make small talk, not pitch products. And while the practice
does not come as a shock to some of the industry, others say it
may alienate women. I'm not
personally surprised, and I can't they can choose to do
that. And I can choose to go somewhere else. That's how I
feel about it.
Agencies say they are seeing a significant spike in business
this year, and that the models are often handpicked based on
their photos that has to sign those nondisclosure agreements
before they show up,
Julie, just such an interesting phenomenon happened giving
everything that's happening with this wave movement going across
the country with the sexual misconduct allegations, that
it's a new thing. They're really saying that this is a trend
they're seeing a lot more of.
Yeah, and that doesn't mean that it hasn't gone on in years past.
But the modeling agencies say they've seen a definite uptick
in business this year. You know, no way of knowing what that
means or why it's happening now. But yes, perhaps interesting
timing, given the current climate Julie
and Rubin. Thanks, Dan.
So that you say That's bogus.
It's so bogus, this has been going on for at least 14 years
that I can document. This is not even close to being new or a
trend. But maybe there was an uptick this year, because last
year was a dog of a year, right. But that's beside the point. And
then one agency they talk to is not an agency that specializes
in this. There's numerous, okay, at least 10 years ago, maybe
longer. I ran into one of the one of the men and women they
were partners that ran a big agency out of out of Atlanta.
And I discussed this whole process with them. And then I've
talked to some of the girls that took took part. And then to take
it one step further. I know of one company in Silicon Valley,
that's a chip company. I think they've been since bought, I
don't know if they're still independent, that used to
literally bring hookers into their party. The good old days,
and everybody knew it. And so you wanted to get an invite to
that party because they were not Nope. These weren't normal
hookers. These were killer hookers.
Killer. Wait a minute, what constitutes a killer hooker?
Just a unbelievable beautiful woman. But they're hookers and
they Good day rent Judas party and their
sex workers, John.
In this case, they're a hooker. The point is, is that this is
not a new phenomenon that picked up Bloomberg people and all the
rest of them are dumb millennials that don't even got
a clue about what the hell's been going on for the last 30 or
40 years or longer. But this is not a new thing that guys
should. The way it works with the with the women that this one
agency brings to these parties is they it's I think it is 150
bucks an hour or something or a flat fee. And they make him do
the one there was one gimmick this one party would be this one
group would do they they'd have they'd have the girls wearing of
like 10 Hawaiian leis nicer on a plastic Yeah. And it was
required. And there was some they played a game where people
have to talk to girls out of out of one of the ladies and collect
them the men or the women didn't make any difference.
Right. How old are these people? Not the hookers but the people
in Silicon bottlings are 4050 year olds, that 3040 Okay, good
check. And I'm sure there's 50s, too, and they, you know, but
it's mostly 30s and 40s. And the idea is of the girls, if they
couldn't get at least three or four guys to get the lays off of
them, they wouldn't get, they wouldn't get the bonus or some
bonus involved. And the guys, the guy told me is, is to get
them to the, to the girls, when they go into the thing they
actually have to mix. Now, these aren't the hookers I'm talking
about. These are the regular who does the hostesses, right, and
they have to mix to make it so the party lightens up because
these girls with the they gotta get guys to take these lays off
of them. And so they have to go around and make sure that that
this happens, so they get their bonus at the end. Now the way I
was told by one of the girls, is that the rules were that you had
to be there for three hours and you get for under 50 bucks plus
the bonus, you could stay longer if you wanted to. And that's a
near now you're on your own time on top of that. So now you can
pick guys up. And that's where the big bonus. Well, that could
be not all the girls were into that. But I was told that a lot
of them were and so they were kind of borderline hookers. So
this is but the point is that this is not a new thing by any
means. And they and Julie's going, Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Well, she's I think I think you're right to think she's
feigning surprise. But this is the what is going to be
happening now. All of these things have been going on for
years, and everyone just seems as kind of accepted, it's going
to come down, then it's going to be bad for the hookers. Well,
we'll see. I'm not
convinced that this is nothing. All we're really seeing is just
the targeting I think your earlier analysis by Monica
Crowley and my thinking that this is going to blow over once
judge more
outright but but there is a there is an inherent benefit to
the news media, the news media, not political operatives, but
the news media to bring down as much of Silicon Valley as
possible. So that's why I think well, I
like to wish them all the luck in the world. Yeah,
their their Gmail might start acting a little funky. But yeah,
they're probably trying. I'm probably trying. Now. It did not
go unnoticed by most certainly not in the no agenda face bag
group that our stick control is inadequate. That mean we're
shaking our sticks, but we don't really have any that they're
omni directional. Basically,
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that they were so
freaked out down the aisle. I don't think a lot of people were
playing our show on in LA. Oh, that's possible. Because it
really depends on where it's show he was playing. Yeah,
because that's where the noise comes down. Right.
Yeah, good point. So I said you know, we're doing some some
heavy shakin here. And this is our rain sticks Sherry Osborne
has made though she lives in Utah. And, you know, the next
day it snowed in Austin. I mean, this is crazy. It's crazy. Yes.
We had snow on the ground. People had snow everywhere. And
we're of course crediting the rain sticks for that.
But I got I got a clip. So we couldn't get underway to talk
about this. Let's play storm update, which has a little bit
of stuff.
Okay. In Atlanta, a man was electrocuted by a downed power
line.
Stop, don't go near there. It's live wire down. And he
didn't hear me.
Across the South power remains out for more than 380,000
customers. For some it might not be back for days. Up to half a
foot of snow is expected in New York City folks here in Central
Park don't seem to mind. But Rena by the time this system
crosses into Canada tomorrow, it will have dumped snow along a
more than 2000 mile stretch starting all the way back down
at the Texas Mexico border.
I missed the polar vortex mean where was that?
I apparently was no Porlock polar vortex involved in by the
way it was snowing in Mexico
in a great Wow. Yeah, I love that. Well, just bringing up the
topic of face bag. Let me do this for you. Oops. Dammit. I
was going to be very slick. Wasn't so slick. Here we go.
Let's try this.
dispatches from Dimension B courtesy of Adams face bag feed.
Bless their hearts.
I have a face bag post from one of my friends. I consider him a
friend. He's a big time movie directors done big time movies.
Yeah, like Adam Sandler big time movies. People have listened to
show longer know what I'm talking about. And yeah, I
needed to read a little face bag pose. because he lives in Los
Angeles, he's dealing with the fires, for sure he does not
listen to the show. So that was not helping. Not helping him.
Here we go. My house is this close to burning down and we
pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord because the press doesn't
believe in global warming. The RNC and pres is backing an
accused child molester to become a state senator. The biggest
mass shooting happened a month ago and Congress just passed the
law today to loosen up gun laws so you can carry a concealed
weapon into a state regardless of that states laws. Donald
Trump is president under the guise he's making America great
again. How the EFF Did I wake up in this alternate reality?
Please tell me it's just a very weird dream. Hashtag wake me up
hashtag resist. So his house is in danger of burning, but this
is all they can think of. Yeah, I find that to be out there.
Yeah, yeah. It's pretty wild. Then I'd be I wouldn't be really
concerned about Trump or anything else is my house is
about to burn to the ground now now, but this is it. It's trying
to find some way to get some of this stuff out of it. Yeah.
And I have another little thread with a couple of comments. This
is David Ippolito. He's that guitar guy in Central Park. He's
the guy who's out there in Central Park every weekend. And
I like him a lot. He hates Trump hates Trump. And Bernie, we
played the bit of that of the President's dentures. Don's
dentures. The
guy escaped
stature America. Exactly. Yeah, one. And he posted about that.
Did you watch the Trump announcement? Legitimate
question because I truly don't know. What kind of drug makes
you sniff like that slurred speech like that, and dry your
mouth like that. I'm really asking because whatever drug
causes those side effects, and Donald J Trump is doing and some
of the responses. He's a longtime lover of diet pills to
keep the weight off. Or you could cease and desist with
those 2600 Cal dentists from Mickey D's. That's one. Just
listen to the end of it. God bless doing it fish, right. WTF
saw that, too. I thought perhaps one of his dentures came loose.
You could see him fiddling with it in his mouth when he sat down
to sign maybe hell lol. Yes. That's what it sounded like.
Dear God, please have DTS dentures fly out of his mouth
during an unexpected sneeze during a press conference. Thank
you. I promise to go back to church if that happens. There's
a real problem in this country. And yes, on face bag.
It's another angry rant courtesy of Adams face bank need. Bless
their hearts.
Bless their hearts indeed.
Well, it says you mentioned the fire let's play the fire up data
from CBS let me get a little feeling for it.
At least six major fires continue to burn in Southern
California. They've torched more than 175,000 acres and destroyed
more than 1000 structures. High above the fires. NASA is
monitoring drift plumes of smoke gusts were calmer today but the
Santa Ana winds are still a threat. Carter Evans now on the
devastation.
The massive plumes of smoke lingering over Ventura County
are an eerie reminder this fire is still growing. Nearly 4000
firefighters have taken advantage of calmer winds to get
ahead of the fire and snuff it out. flames have already
devoured an area the size of Chicago, more than 500 homes and
buildings had been destroyed. Families who lived here for
decades returned a rubble in ash. They can't imagine.
They can't imagine we lost not just a house we lost a home.
Today Governor Jerry Brown toward the devastation. We're
facing
a new reality in the state where fires threaten people's lives,
their property, their neighborhoods, and of course,
billions and billions of dollars.
military helicopters are helping to douse flames in San Diego
county where the lilac fire has leveled more than 100
structures. Robert Howell and his girlfriend Linda were
escorted back home by police only to find their entire block
was wiped out. But there was only one thing they were looking
for the family say You seem the lated
I am elated. That was my whole life in that box there.
You got everything in there. I mean, is that is that your
retirement? My retirement. That's what I'll rebuild with.
Donations are pouring in for hundreds of racehorses and their
trainers injured on Thursday when flames ignited at a
training facility. A GoFundMe page has already raised hundreds
of 1000s of dollars for the thoroughbreds. 1000s of people
still don't even know if they're Homes survived the fire many of
these areas are still under a mandatory evacuation order and
will be at least until the threat is gone. And Rena the
high winds that are fueling these flames are forecast for
tomorrow plus, United Church.
Now I want to I have a little tidbit for somebody for people
out there who put all their stuff in a safe Yeah. A friend
of mine who's writer and novelist Mike Rogers used to
write for Newsweek used to was up in the Oakland Hills where
they had that Firestorm years ago. And and I was, by the way,
the first one to report it. Report on it on K and beasts.
Er,
were you on the scene?
I know, I was driving back from the studio. And I saw it burning
and I called it in and I don't you know, I said, This doesn't
look good.
That was the beginning of you're phoning it in career. Yes. And
I've been
phoning it in ever since Oh, now. He had a safe where he had
just finished a novel. And he was in the house and and he went
back to get the safe. And it the novel had been burned to a crisp
inside this fireproof safe. Oh no. He mentioned he mentioned
that. fireproof safes are one thing. Fire storms. Proof safes
are another thing because the temperatures in a firestorm go
up so much they can meant melt steel well they can get away
you've seen those melted aluminum minoli down by they can
melt steel but they can do a lot of damage. Because the
temperatures get so high it ruins wood or it could just heat
this thing up and it cooks everything inside so it's
useless. And so you you have to get a safe that is if you want
to fireproof safe you have just to be on the safe side on the
safe side. You want to get a fire storm proof safe which
which goes up to a higher temperature just a little tip
for you out yet another tip from the no agenda show if you
can always provide a lot of valuable information very
valuable tips. Yes. And we have devastated by the way
because this novel was was toasted well yeah,
this house burned to the flag is that when you're in an area
where this happens, I'm sure this will be in LA too because
of these all these houses that were burned just to the ground
and does Oakland Hills, you would see you know people had to
live in their cars for a while and you would see them around
town and they were just like shell shocked Yeah, it's not a
pleasant situation now and nor
is it right now. Very very unpleasant situation. You know,
I saw I was watching grand tour last night. Yeah, that's the you
know, the the Amazon version of Top Gear. Right and Richard
Hammond they were doing some race with supercars. And you
know, it's like the past the present of the future. And
Richard Ham was driving the some thing was a Bulgarian electric
supercar, which was out I mean, it out dragged the Lamborghini
and the accurate I mean was unbelievable, of course, only
for one race, and then the battery was empty. But he
crashed it. And he crashed it pretty good. And, you know, so
the supercar has just tons of batteries, and I forgot what he
called it. But it showed the car caught fire and they got him out
and he was okay. And but they went on to say that that thing
actually burned for five extra days. Because the batteries
would know the it's you know, I don't know it's like 180 cells
or something per battery and it's all just double A
rechargeables from Amazon essentials. And they so they
expand explode and then more heat was created. The next one
would expand explode like a domino effect. Then, you know,
you get these fires out in California. I wonder if they're
gonna have to be putting out Tesla's for days. Yeah,
probably. It's interesting. Yeah, five days a thing was
burning. He actually, I got a little bit of the open. Clarkson
said something really odd, which I think was meant, in a strange
way it hating Trump.
I still can't believe that Switzerland banned motor racing
because of an accident. In another country. It's like
Britain banning railways because a train crashed in India.
Exactly. Or it's like America invading Iraq, because some
Saudi Arabians destroy the World Trade Center. They'll say that
out loud that came out. It came out of sound. Yeah. Well. We'll
pick that film up later on, but it'll
be blasting
bush. Well, that would be blasting Bush, but just it was
kind of blasting America in general. And I thought it was
really out of place like, what did he want to do with that?
wasn't quite sure. President Obama was very clear in blasting
President Trump at some elite get together in Chicago. Was
this a financial meeting was just like a bunch of bankers or
some kind of trade organization that he was to fall into? I
don't know. Well, he he's very irked that Trump is taking
credit for the economy
as I did hear this, but I don't know who is talking to. Yeah,
I should look up who he was talking
to, as we took these actions. We saw the US economy grow.
Consistently, we saw the longest streak of job creation in
American history, by far, a streak that still continues, by
the way. Thanks, Obama. didn't do it. Right. Thanks, Obama.
You got to do it. Yeah, he doesn't do it. But then he went
back to the Trump rotation. This is a no agenda, patented system
of evoking Hitler.
But I wouldn't underestimate the very simple act of being
engaged. Paying attention and speaking. Typically, that's what
it comes down to in a democracy. And I do think because we've
been so wealthy and so successful, that we get
complacent. And plus assume that things continue the way they
have been, just automatically, and they don't yet attend to
this garden of democracy, otherwise, things can fall apart
fairly soon,
we're talking about
he's talking about complacency and just saying, oh, things are
the way they are and just let them go. And okay. He's getting
he's winding up to Hitler.
Things can fall apart fairly quickly. And we've seen now,
presumably, there was a ballroom here in Vienna, in the late
1920s, or 30s, that looked pretty sophisticated, and seemed
as if, with the music and the art and literature and the
science that was emerging. It would continue to perpetuate.
And then 60 million people got and an entire world was plunged
into chaos. So to pay attention, and vote.
Oh, he's saying, Yeah, times were just like now with music,
art and culture, which by the way, would be the Democratic
sphere. They were who are the who's the music today? All the
art. And then boom, 60 million people dead. Yep. Yep, that's
how it goes. Bingo. No, I'm sorry. It's not bingo. The word
of the day is Dingo. Dingo.
Okay, good one. Now, since you brought this up, it takes me
right to two clips. All right, about the economy. And let's
play the prelude clip this economy Prelude clip on ABC
talking about the rise in workforce
and the new headline about the American economy tonight and
certainly one the President will welcome us employers adding
220,000 jobs in November that is more than expected the
unemployment rate holding now at 4.1%. That is a 17 year low.
Yeah, sure. Yes. So. So they have this guy. I think he's Eric
Morris's. His name is on the Wall Street Journal staff. He's
the economy reporter. And he's on C span. And he's at taking
questions about the economy about the big and he's bright.
He's also reiterating this 20 to 28,000 new people got jobs, you
know, even though what kind of jobs we don't know. They don't
talk about that. And somebody makes not one of our listeners
who would have plugged the show, but somebody calls in with a
with a question that I would have asked and this is the WSJ
unemployment, Eric Morris clip.
Good morning. This was a couple of different things. Number one,
wondering what you're really gauging your jobless rates
figures with. And the comment about if you want work, you can
find it I think is rather optimistic. I think they're far
more discouraged workers in this country. We're falling short
measuring the people that are unable to find anything even
navigating an HR system, particularly when you look at
the depressed the alcoholics in the opioid crisis. Those people
aren't even falling into your figures when you're determining
your numerators and denominators. I think the
numbers are far off. Just interested in hearing your
comments.
Are you sure that isn't Janet Yellen calling in secretly
sounds a little bit like it
Sure so so we take our numbers for the Labor Department the
called the Bureau of Labor Statistics produces that, that
data but how discouraged workers are measured? The you're
absolutely right. That's an economic challenge, a challenge
for economists and statisticians to figure out if someone isn't
responsive to their surveys, and that's becoming a larger and
larger problem, people don't want to take a phone call or
send a letter back to the government to respond to the
survey. It's they're hard to measure. And if someone is
unable to find work, because they're dealing with alcoholism,
or drugs, or depression, that's hard to define. If they if they
had a job, they wouldn't have these problems, or if they
wouldn't have these problems they could find it's a difficult
problem. And you're right, when we're talking that, you know,
we're talking about, you know, a little bit less than a third of
Americans are outside the labor force. And some of them choose
to be they're there because they're retired or they're
staying home with children. Some of them it's a little bit more
of a gray area. And I think that's what the caller is
speaking of. Yeah,
somewhat of a gap there between 4.1 and 33%. Magic number as
usual. Yeah. And I'll tell you, from my own experience, here's
the things that I see I do see people benefiting from the so
called Trump trade. I mean, even Tina, she was like, Holy shit,
my 401k went up. So yeah, that is exactly how it works. When
Wall Street goes up. The if you have a 401 K, and some people
do, then you benefit from that. But when I hear retailers coming
back, you know, Second Street here in Austin, there's just no,
there's shops going out of business left and right. So then
it's I really don't see retail doing too well. But what I see,
above all is, you know, because Austin is a test city, and we
have all this is the new Silicon Valley, I'm not so sure I'm
happy with that. But we have all these services here, including
the most recent one, Yoshi, which they'll come by, and
they'll fill up your car with gas, honestly looks like a
subscription basis. So you don't have to go to the gas station.
And there's an app for that, that also do minor repairs and
oil changes, then we have Instacart, which goes shopping
at any of the areas from Costco to HEB, whatever you want, then
we have favor to bring restaurant foods here to your
place. So certainly Instacart since I'm responsible for
keeping the pantry stocked I use that because hey, why not? And
I'm happy I do because the people who show up at my door
are not what you'd expect in a college town. bunch of college
kids run, you know, run in favors and running. Groceries
errands for some nuts, some change. No. These are, you know,
middle aged Americans. He's a 50 year olds in my age, some older,
and they're the ones that are running these services as a full
time job. So I think we have a way to go I think people are
very, very dire trouble not creating a buzz and everything's
better can work and it's helpful. But I'm not seeing it.
I'm not seeing any real results on the ground.
I'm not either I think is bull, especially, you know, they do
jazz, great to sound and then round here. Of course you know
where there's a economic boom, yeah, which is maybe petering
out. I mean, just how much longer can this continue with
the mania of the real estate going up like a rocket? Right?
Well, that's happening here, too. You know, our real estate
is out of control.
And that will back off. For sure when this thing turns around.
Yeah, but I it's gonna be it takes a lot for rents to go
down.
No real estate is a is a little more secure. As even when they
had the crash of 2007 2008, which was a real estate crash.
The downside was like 20% or 30% on the real estate was enough
enough to put someone in the poor house but not really a
horrible devaluation of the property.
And it good recovered rather quickly. Right, in fact, his way
up over that period now, at least in the Bay Area. But no,
this is nonsense. It is to say that we have 4.1% unemployment.
That's crazy.
But especially Trump, who was it was out there always saying
these are bullcrap numbers, and now we've got the spirit
and yeah, now they're disappointed. He's really happy
with the numbers because they're the same bullcrap numbers, but
they're in his favor. But all you have to do. I think the real
key is the sizes and continued growth where there's a growth
industry. It's the tent cities. Yes. You have them all over the
Bay Area, and they're usually around freeway entrances for
some reason. And there's some a couple of them when you when I
took the Zephyr up to the meet up, yeah. And back. They in
Sacramento, the the Zephyr had the tracks go in areas where
there's no road nearby. And there's areas in California
where there's a huge tent cities by huge I mean, you know,
encampments of maybe 1515 tents, which to me huge and away off
the beaten track and is nowhere near a highway. There's no way a
cop can drive into the thing. You have to actually go there on
a rail car. Just even find the place but they're out there and
there's they're isolated. And there's tent cities all over the
place in Berkeley. There's they're everywhere.
We went, we went Uber. The other night was raining. And we're
talking to the guy. This guy's picked us up a couple times,
Guillermo. And, again, we're talking about downtown's where
we live and you know that the homeless population is growing
and growing and I haven't you knows it. So it actually now you
mentioned it. I didn't see many yesterday, says, oh, yeah, they
held a big raid. And they arrested like, 80 homeless
people who were all being employed by this drug ring. And
they were dealing weed and Coke, Coke on the street.
Wow. Yeah. Now at least they were employed.
Yeah. Austin, Texas, everybody.
There you go. If you want your weed, you want your coke. Go to
Austin. Yeah, just talk
to the homeless guy on the corner. That got in the in my
continued quest to understand more about the candy Navion
Fruit Machine.
We've got a great movie for you go there. I do have one homeless
clip I want to get out of Oh, sure. Sure. Sure. Sure. And as
the homeless increase CBS and I want to mention some new CBS get
their new guide galore. And so they are now CBS is the first
one to do this. They have a thing called the evenings news
break or something like that. And then they did it's very
similar. It was short little stories very similar to the
index, which ABC uses. But CBS is adding a music bed.
The number of homeless Americans has climbed to nearly 554,000
that is nearly 4000 More than last year and the first increase
since 2010. The soaring cost of living is mostly to blame. The
crisis is worst in the West. It's nice.
Yeah, I think it's corny, a little bombastic. I mean, it
could have done a little scarier, but now it's not that
bad.
Ah, ah, I'm going to be hearing it a lot. If I'm gonna get CBS
clips. I'll tell you right now, because they start playing the
music underneath the news reads. And it's just the end. It's not
as dramatic. I mean, they all these newscasts, if you've ever
noticed the big the big networks do this, the only ones who don't
do it as Democracy Now, which plays the idiotic folk songs in
some of these other you know, this, the music selection is all
corny, but the big newscasts they always have as like a
symphony orchestra with a leg it's like a dominant arm is like
a big deal that newscasts and they started off with a real
blast and they power power sound. Yeah, power sound and
they then they bring in these little beds that are like rinky
dink, I think they got to change their style, and they gotta do
something else. Yeah, it's not really modern. No, it's not
modern at all. Anyway. Anyway, you were saying?
Yes, I was saying that, you know, the fruit machine, the E
meters. And all of that is fascinating. Both of us would
like to see if we could find this as a collectible. But I
probably will be Yeah, probably be beyond our, our pay scale as
podcasters podcaster pay scale. But I did want to bring this
note that came in from one of our producers, Adam and John, I
want to write and clarify something from the two recent
shows about the fruit machine. I'm a Scientologist from
Washington, DC. Now, isn't that what they have to? Do? They have
a big church in DC.
Did I know of the big, big churches?
Yeah. in Clearwater. Yeah,
they own they own Clearwater.
I've been listening to the show for some time donating when I
can and sent a song your way a while back. You played a few
times in the show. I've hit some of my fellow Scientologists in
the mouth at various points and I find that some of the no
agenda thinking is very much along the lines of what we think
in Scientology, that the M five M mostly wants to scare people
and that psychiatric drugs are bad for you, among others.
Needless to say, I was surprised to see a Scientology e meter on
the album art of a recent episode. After I listened to
episode nine or eight, seven kabob panic, I went and looked
at the fruit machine turns out this is completely unrelated
from Matheson and the Scientology e meter. Hello. The
first thing I saw was probably the same image you were talking
about on the show, the one with all the knobs and dials that
says electro cytometer. That is in fact an early Scientology
meter designed by volnay Matheson for Mr. Hubbard in
England. I believe in the middle 50s The Electro psycho psycho
commoner equals e meter and yes, it does look badass. What's odd
though, is when you look a little further apparently a
Canadian Military Museum put the Scientology meter on display
with a caption that basically says quote, the fruit machine
has long since been destroyed. And while this is not the fruit
machine, which was much more complicated.dot.so We've been
hoodwinked. What Several other sources online including a major
Canadian newspaper use the same image of the meter and yet
mentioned the same fact that this meter isn't the fruit
machine. Can't they come up with an artist's rendering someone
somewhere decided to conflate these two things. If you look at
the Wikipedia entry for the fruit machine, he has a link
some other sources online it looks like the machine built in
Canada was designed by name name, a man named Robert Frank
Robert wake. The Canadian Fruit Machine quote, measure the
diameter of the pupils of the eyes. That's a popularity
response test. perspiration and pulse for suppose erotic
response, which is a lie detector. Yes, the device
employed a chair which resembled that used by dentists. It had a
pulley with a camera going towards the pupils, and a black
box located in front of it that displays pictures. Definitely
not anything related to the Scientology or to Scientology or
the E meter. And feel free to ask any questions if you want.
Which we will do I'm sure we have plenty of Scientology
questions we will come up with but so this is interesting.
You we've been hoodwinked. Yeah,
I want to see what the real one looks like. Now.
They say they destroyed it.
There must be a picture somewhere.
This is bullcrap. You know, they did I'm sure there was more than
one. I'm sure they didn't destroy them all. And you know,
because I know Do people they squirrel stuff away? Yeah. Make
sure to take that file in and just and burn it. Burn it. You
can't be the burn it I hear some ashes. You know,
you can't be the only archivist out there.
Not everybody will I mean not everybody but a lot of people
would you know would save these things think about is valuable.
I just thought that was pretty interesting. Yeah, that was it
that was very valuable. Good. Thank you know so much for are
collecting one of these things. I wouldn't mind get one of those
old e meters though that
I mean, one of those would just be beautiful to have regardless.
Gorgeous machine. Yeah, the fruit machine. If you're seeing
the current E machine, it's just, it's lame. They have dead
Scientologists. They one of their gambits is to find some
very attractive woman to kind of semi hypnotize you. And while
you're on the E meter, and they have these, they've set up a
shop every so often Market Street in San Francisco, and
there's usually two or three tables and they got some very
pleasant people that asked me you want to take the little test
as Ridge really promoting Dianetics. And you go to and you
can sit down there with some if it's a gorgeous female, you know
a lot of guys yes, you're all gonna get to stare at her and be
asked questions. It's kind of erotic. But but that but at the
have the meters and in gold, you can hang out there and look
around look at the camera. It's kind of lame look. And nowadays,
it's not then have all the knobs and dials is pretty
straightforward. And it looks like a galvanic skin thing. It
really looks like one of those early Breakout boxes like a
stomp box for a guitar that has some kind of reverb in it. Yeah,
you throw it on the ground stomp on it, and the reverb kicks in.
That's kind of what it looks like. It's not sexy, not sexy at
all.
But the new one I saw was actually sexy. Alright. Anyway,
in the Netherlands, reasonably big news, whenever anything
happens there and and in Amsterdam, a guy with a baseball
bat and the Palestinian flag was smashing the windows of a kosher
restaurant saying that Jerusalem will never be the capital of the
Jews. Very, very angry about this. And this is obviously a
part of the four days of rage. So I'm sorry, three days of
rage, which was touted by the M five M everywhere. And that is
why Palestinian
factions are calling for three days of rage. Palestinians
calling for three days
of rage. And Palestinians have announced three days of rage,
three days of rage and a huge popular uprising. So
for sure, the President's unilateral action will get
people killed
here. Instead, what the President is doing is
essentially throwing a grenade into the middle of this process,
that's likely to blow it up because that
he's playing with fire. It's a dangerous and irresponsible game
and there will be consequences very serious consequences
warned Americans to expect violence. It seems to have no
intended outcome, or no likely outcome except that dangerous
and destabilizing. It would lead to people being killed and
by the way, deaths are coming now because of this. You can
just bet the next few weeks we're gonna have hell to pay for
this totally erratic decision by this President.
This is this is looks like a declaration of war on 1.6
million Muslim billion Muslims basically.
By the way, that was Chris Matthews in there saying it's an
erratic decision. He was promising this and To the
beginning of his campaign, and he did it How was this erratic
and since you brought it up, this is a video the president
tweeted the other day with his proof that he's the only one
that follows through on his campaign promises.
Jerusalem is still the capital of Israel and must remain an
undivided city accessible.
As soon as I take office, I will begin the process of moving the
United States Ambassador to the city Israel has chosen as a
scaffold,
I continue to say that Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel.
And I have said that before and I will say it again Jerusalem
will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain
undivided.
We will move the American Embassy to the eternal capital
of the Jewish people Jerusalem. Yeah,
everyone talks a big game and then Chris Matthews comes up
with its erratic,
erratic. Yeah. So I guess the idea is just promise it and
don't do it. We are a bunch of douchebags, man. That can't
believe that. That we promised that for what is that now? 16
years? 20 years?
More? Yeah. Well, Clinton that goes back to the 90s. Yeah, 20
years. So let's play the CBS Jerusalem update. Okay.
You mean Jerusalem updates CVS,
Arab oil ministers met in Egypt today to discuss their response
to President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel. The proposed US Embassy move announced
Wednesday has set off a wave of anger in the Palestinian
territories. Seth dome is in Jerusalem.
Nothing diplomatic about these exchanges on the streets. It's
rocks and firebombs versus tear gas and rubber bullets. Today,
clashes continued following President Trump's announcement.
anger and grief are on display in a Gaza hospital and at three
funerals there. One four Hamas member killed in Israeli air
strike. That strike was launched in retaliation for rockets fired
by the Islamic group. On the West Bank. Bethlehem is usually
known as the birthplace of Jesus, but this holiday season,
it's a battleground. Mr. Trump today is putting gasoline on
fire.
Gasoline on fire?
Yes, we got a very thoughtful update from the dude named
Mohammed about this controversy. And I put that in the show notes
at nine or eight niner.no agenda notes.com. Good read.
Yeah, that's good. You did a good job I
explained explains what's going on.
Yeah, he lives in Bahrain, I believe. And he is got a good
handle on what's going on over there. And he does do worry
about rocks and bottles.
No. New does not know
that. He just sits there in the computer. He's a computer guy
and said dude named Mohammed. What else we got here? That's
kind of interesting. There's a couple of things you don't get
to hear about much. This is again, you get on Democracy Now.
You don't get it anyplace else like this in the pollution
store. I haven't heard anywhere.
You should grab a lozenge. John.
The last isn't going to clear up that that frog in my throat.
In India toxic smog is once again envelop New Delhi
triggering pollution alerts and threatening the lives of
residents with breathing disorders. The US Embassy in New
Delhi measured fine grain particulate levels at 448 on a
500 parts scale, nine times the upper safe limit.
Not good suckin insert.
So I can insert Yes, sir. You could die.
Yeah, Military Industrial Complex for just a brief moment.
Just two stories a call my first thought we have a new head of
the Department of Homeland Security. kirstjen Nielsen.
And we've seen her before we've talked about her. Oh, yes. She
looks badass. In the photos, maybe yeah, she was always what
the? What's his name? The general that's
Kelly wasn't Kelly. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, she was a deputy. I think
and, and this is straight from the horse's mouth from npr.org.
Starting in 2018. The Defense Department will have annual
audits. Our audits will occur annually with reports issued
November 15. Oh crap. Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it.
They can't they've already tried to audit the Defense Department.
It can't be done. Now. There's too many conflicting computer
systems, although it doesn't really
interest to
write you You can do it by department by department by
department. You don't have to do it all at once in one computer
system so you don't need one computer system. But it's your
you've nailed it. It's it's a no buddies interests. No,
no one's nobody. It's not the economy's either. It's nobody's
interest that we know what's going on with our money.
No. Should that's not going to happen and is never going to
happen, at least in the short term. While they're saying
they're saying it we'll have a laptop bomb update.
Oh, my goodness, I'll have to get the jingle Thank you
very much as Americans finalize holiday travel plans. Terrorists
overseas are working to build sophisticated laptop bombs that
can be smuggled onto planes. Deborah paddock traveled to
Somalia, where the Al Shabaab militant group nearly blew up a
jet last year.
In this CCTV footage, you can see two men walking through the
airport one is carrying a laptop, watching the bottom
right as he slipped the rigged computer to the bomber in the
coffee shop. The man was the head of Mogadishu's airport
security at the time. The laptop exploded shortly after takeoff
and blew a hole in the side of the plane. Only the bomber was
killed. But Islamic militants of Al Shabaab continue to try and
perfect the laptop bomb. In fact, they tried to plant the
bomb a day earlier, but the flight was canceled. In the past
18 months, three other computer bombs were found after one
partially exploded in a cargo hold. New multi layered security
checks including dogs trained to sniff out explosives are
supposed to stop that, but Al Shabaab still has people on the
inside side aliens deputy head of security.
The biggest problem we have is no matter who it is airport
manager everybody has funneled into
the militants operate freely in this crumbling city of
Mogadishu. We have repeatedly been told that Al Shabaab has
eyes and ears everywhere that they blend easily into local
communities. A quiet street like this may not look menacing, but
it can turn nasty in an instant
There you go al Shabaab the guy
the guy that was partly responsible for this whole
scheme was head of security at the airport.
That makes nothing but sense. Yeah, well, we
just shut down this airport. This airport is no good. So I
don't think any carriers American carriers, you even go
anywhere near that place. No.
Well, I I wonder if we're gonna get that big laptop ban.
There's certainly push coming there.
Well, you know, actually, no, I take that back. Do I know what's
going to happen? You got to think put the no agenda hat back
on. You know, there's going to be some very sophisticated
machinery that's going to be able to detect if the laptop
contains a bomb and I predict a secondary conveyor belt for your
laptop and other electronics.
Well, that would be a nice use of the money. Yeah, definitely
cost a lot. But yeah, the thing is, is that they're already the
current device, which is the X ray machine. Apparently this
laptop bomb guy. He always his system needs a nine volt battery
and that should be easy enough to satisfy Yeah.
But that's beyond the point. I mean, you're trying to bring
logic into it.
The logic I should be thinking about money Yes, of course the
money What am I doing? That's just
like in the UK when that's where the whole shoes off things
started. They pretty quickly had these beautiful machines where
you put your shoes on the machine. Yeah. Do they still
have that? I don't know.
I didn't notice it. Now while they're going through it. We
went to Gatwick and it
was like Gatwick had it too. I remember this but maybe put your
shoes in a bin. No, no, that's the new system that being that
pops up and swirls around and it's automated. Well, you didn't
see that one either.
And there was some kind of a bin distribution thing kept the bin
would pop up. Yeah. But it was just like it was it was lame.
And they're yelling and screaming it's unbelievable.
Yeah, they're not
very friendly. They were the TSA has been kind of what do we got
our eye on them here the the security services there in the
UK or didn't mean
Yeah, yeah, they're a bunch of eight holes. There's no doubt
about that. I am a couple of clips that want to play. One
let's do this one. This is a another Democracy Now clip that
I think is misleading is the German pile In the Afghans clip,
and a new report finds German airline pilots are increasingly
grounding flights in solidarity with Afghan refugees whose
applications for asylum had been refused. Germany's government
said Monday pilots have refused to fly at least 222 flights
carrying Afghans out of Germany, in some cases delaying their
deportations long enough for them to successfully appeal
their asylum claims.
Hmm. Lies
is it? Is it lies?
Well, here's what is misleading because she says in solidarity,
I can't find any evidence of that. That German pilots, for
one thing, they they refuse to take anybody out of the country
who says no, when they're asked a question before they get on
the plane, do you want to go back to Afghanistan? They say
no. And they say, Okay, we're not taking you then. They're not
part of a ring that whole people illegally out of the country.
But more importantly, they don't like find Afghanistan because
they get they're getting shot at? Ah, yeah, that's the safety
thing. That would be a nice thing to do as solidarity. Oh,
yes, these?
Did Democracy Now source that information themselves, or do
they just copy, paste drop
the word in solidarity gets me to see. Let me hear it again.
And a new report finds German airline pilots are increasingly
grounding flights and solidarity with Afghan refugees who's
interesting? Yeah, it's bull crap.
Hmm. I mean, you just go look at the articles yourself. And so
they're very concerned about the safety. Some people, they're
worried about putting somebody out who doesn't want to go and
make a fuss on the plane and cause safety problems. And they
don't want to fly in Afghanistan where they feel they're gonna
get shot at or they had been shot at. It's got nothing to do
with solidarity with the Afghans. is the kind of twisted
news we get from some of these
nice, ma cracy. Now no less, which you know, should be the
guy who would figure that would ever be the other problems with
migrants although bottom but problems but Germany has now put
up 3000 Euro reward for any migrants who want to go back.
migrants who agreed to go back even before their asylum request
is rejected have already been offered 1200 euros per adult 600
euros per child. The bills I'm Santokh reported that 8639
migrants participated in the return program Returned to
sender. Turkey also has now entered into an agreement with
Greece and they will be accepting returns from Greece
and I think that Greece is going to pay them
it's like boxing day.
Hey, got this package for you. Look what's in it. And Karl
Lagerfeld man, he's li lashed out at Angular Merkel that she's
destroyed the country and that's why he doesn't want to live
there. Although he retains his German citizenship, then you
know this she's led all the enemy in and you really went
off? Yeah, I'm it's I'm expecting him to get in some
kind of trouble in the fashion industry that pretty liberal
there.
This this? Yes, they are. So
and maybe that's a good tie in here. The European press
organization, we bring this up. They go. They published a style
guideline for reporting on migration and minorities. And
let's see, what can I open this in? Yes, Acrobat that'll help.
Here we go. Reporting on migration and minorities. I'll
just read a little bit whose style
guide is this. This is the
what's ethical, ethical journalism against hate speech.
Oh, but they're
there. Nobody pays attention to anything unless it comes from
the AP or one of these organisms.
As I said, this is a press organization as a press
organization, everyone's a member of it. And this is called
the respect words project and they have a hashtag. And this is
quite a lengthy document. But here's what they're asking
journalists to do under the theme ethical journalism against
hate speech. The respect words project focuses on the need to
rethink the way in which media outlets and journalists cover
issues related to migration and ethnic and religious minorities.
Amid a troubling global context, the dehumanization of migration
policy, a decline in sensitivity to human life and human rights,
a rise in Islamophobic and xenophobic speech, the
commercialization of journalism, more than 150 European radio
outlets and nearly 1300 journalists from the eighth
respect towards partner countries, Austria, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia and Spain have joined
together to help strengthen media coverage of migrants and
minorities, an indispensable tool in the fight against hate
speech. So now they are enlisting. They are enlisting
journalists to fight hate speech, which doesn't seem like
their job. And they focus on three, three groups, Muslim
communities, Roma communities, these are the gypsies, there's a
lot of people who hate the Roma's. Yeah. And Jewish
communities, which I thought was interesting that they're being
put in here. These are just some stuff that I highlighted. These
guidelines aimed to encourage news coverage that challenges
stereotypes. And that brings nuance and context to coverage
of migrants and minorities, but they are not a call to hide from
or even censored difficult debates. Oh, no. migration in
the situation of ethnic religious minorities in Europe
are complex issues of significant public interest that
necessarily involve a variety of forms of new news coverage from
various angles. Protecting press freedom means defending
journalists right to cover stories that may be
uncomfortable or controversial. It also means pushing back
against the concept of hate speech to suppress criticism of
ideas, and institutions, or speech that is merely offensive.
You can feel where this is going. They're, they're telling
journalists what they should and should not write. The respect
words project believes that although journalism cannot and
should not solve the problem of hate speech on its own meeting
this challenge requires the involvement of many actors in
particular the European Union, which must reinforce existing
mechanisms and support new tool design to combat hate speech. It
can play an active role in preventing his normalization
while we vigorously defend freedom of expression. We also
support the view that professional journalism involves
treating the subjects of reporting with the humanity and
respect that they deserve. So if you'd like some recommendations
might be Hello. Oh, come on,
man. I mean, you're asking me and I'm saying I want to hear
that Oh, okay. But you're asking me if do have I'd like them? No,
I don't like we and I'm sure
okay. When it comes to producing quality, write this down John's
you get your pen your pencil again, again, and I'm not going
to do that but go on when it comes to producing quality
professional coverage of migrants and members of minority
ethnic and religious communities. Notice they add
that in now. We recommend journalist to keep in mind the
following 10 overarching best practices, best practices, best
practices, choose the language you use carefully. Consider the
ideologies and connotations behind the words you use.
Hashtag respect words, I don't even understand what that means.
Challenge.
It means do not write about where's where did they poop?
Where's all these migrants pooping?
Okay, guys. Okay, that is the do not write about poop rule. Rule
number two, challenge stereotypes and avoid sweeping
generalizations. There is no one single migrant Muslim Jewish
Roma community, but instead diverse communities of
individuals who have more to offer than just their migrant,
ethnic or religious background. Again, yeah.
Again, what does that mean? Is what you're writing about the
migrant crisis in an overall sense? You're not alone. You're
supposed to bring it down to the individual you don't have. It's
not what the article is about. You're writing
it and everyone talks about the LGBT community. How come they're
one community, and then the migrant Muslim Jewish Roma's are
not acknowledged to yourself and to your audience that stories
about migration and ethnic and religious minorities are
complex. Don't try to fit your reporting into accepted master
narratives. Cheese provide an appropriate range of points of
view, including those of migrants and members of minority
communities themselves, but do not include extremist
perspectives. Just to, quote show the other side and be alert
to political, political and social actors who spread hate to
promote their interests. That doesn't sound right.
This is pretty common stuff. Dawn, one more,
okay. Avoid directly reproducing hate speech when it is
newsworthy to do so mediate it by contextualizing and
challenging such speech and exposing any false premise it
relies on
so how can this same sort of reporting let's see reporting
framework what how come this isn't used when they when
they're discussing like the situation in and where was it in
South Carolina where the woman's Charlottesville Charlottesville
shows?
Oh, no, no, no, no, that's that's just Nazis. That's just
one the Nazi community.
Not gonna same framework isn't used in domestic reporting,
which is really kind of like hate Trump stuff or hate Judge
Roy Moore, which should not eat his bag crushing me brought into
the topic is a guy got it. What's he like on policy? Yeah.
I have no idea. Okay, anyway, one more. One more.
Avoid oversimplification. Oh, wait, no, how about this don't
fall into the trap of focusing solely on possible negative
aspects of large scale migration. It is also important
to highlight positive contributions of migration and
individual migrants.
That's dumb. It's
filled with this. It says this is a 300 page document. This
is a pro migrant document. Yes, obey reporters, you gotta be pro
migrant. There's nothing wrong with that. It's the whole of
Europe turns into a Muslim state from all the migration. That's
fine. Who's bitching about this? You know, now, that's no good. I
mean, it's as though you can, you know, okay, well, and then
this thing to work.
I have a clip from a Brexit voter who called into LBC. The,
the big London broadcast Nigel Farage station is are you not
quite done with the with the air? I'm kind of irked by this.
I can tell it's not it's not doing what you want it to do.
It's not doing anything. Okay. Go on.
Just to give you an idea. The Brits are not racist. And this
caller says it does not deny it's not a racist. I live in
heret.
Yeah, well, it goes down to heroin. And this is not being
racist change because that that term is so easily used and very
loosely used. When I go down to Harrow, and I've lived here for
30 years, I walk into harrow shopping center, and I swear to
God, I don't know where I am. I've got polish, Romanian,
Bulgarian, sitting outside coffee houses, doing Sudoku all
day. I've got every unknowingly under the sun and it's lost its
identity. We're not going to Norfolk Park hospital, and I
went in there three Sundays ago because I had to go in emergency
I walked into the into the accident emergency as I said to
your researcher, 120 people in there I was lucky if I saw three
or four white faces.
That is racist. No, that last bit is realistic. No, no, it
isn't because you're forming an opinion of people or their or
their value based on their color. There are people who
don't have white faces who are just as British as you and me
Steve.
But I'm not racist. No, not at all.
Well, he's right about the about the ethnic bias on the streets
of London is no doubt about it. No kidding. You can really see
it but that was O'Brien I think that was the LBC the London's
whatever it could be. Yeah, it could be I don't know. And he is
like an unbelievably he's very sharp. I would never want to get
into an argument with him because he just kick your ass
but he's extreme. He's a communist. Oh, well, that
explains it. And as far as he's concerned, open borders are
finding him to Brexit is the worst thing that ever happened.
He really hates the Brexit. And he I've seen him kick Nigel
Farage his ass. Well, he does it. He does it in a very coy way
he will start to grill you about stuff that you really don't know
and to top your head and then he'll start to condemn you.
Because you should have known this if you're going to take
this position is very chickenshit argue or run into
guys like this before it's a
very effective it's a very,
he's really good. Meanwhile,
if you if you're against Muslims in the United States of Gitmo
nation, you recall that guy who vandalized the mosque and left
bacon on the on the door handle vaguely yeah well he was
sentenced we think he got
pounded pork
now remember this I'll say this is in context of your revelation
on the previous episode that in California now any any you break
into a car you steal anything up to $1,000 It's just a
misdemeanor is like that, whatever. Who cares? What you
don't even book it. They just they the cops don't want to deal
with it. So this guy vandalized the mosque mainly by putting
pork bacon on on the door. So seriously, what time he got jail
time. I'll tell you that jail time for that. How much do you
think you got? Year
a man who vandalized the mosque in Central Florida by smashing
Windows leaving Rob bacon at the scene pleaded guilty to criminal
mischief. Police arrested Michael wolf in January 2016
After a surveillance video showed him smashing lights,
cameras and windows with a machete. He was sentenced to 15
years in prison followed by 15 years of probation. Wow. 15
years set
a hanging judge. I'm gonna show my mood by donating to no
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Well, that's yeah. And of course we're doing we don't do a video
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the number of people that's the problem. Yeah, it's exactly
that's 29 people total, and they came in over 50 Out of the, you
know, 20,000 30,000 50,000 I don't know, lots of 1000s.
And well, Merry Christmas, everybody.
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Just before we go into the birthdays, and then the nice
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typically reasons of anonymity, but also subscriptions that
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highly, highly appreciated. And when Patreon came on the scene,
as a sort of value for value type idea, the idea of donating
to creative projects and started with podcasts and expanded into
blogs and knitting projects. They changed the way they do
their billing and everyone's up in arms about it. Yeah. Did you
follow this? If you've seen exactly what
yeah, I've looked at it the whole thing. It's apparently
even with the old method, they had extra fees, and it was you
really they really taken more like 10% Off the top or more.
And now they're going to change the way the money comes in. And
then they're going to take money from the donors. Somehow I don't
know what the point of this is, by the way, I think it's very
poorly executed. They're going to take some money from the
donor. So the donations that they take their five to 10% out
of will be less. And so they it's just a screw job. And seems
I mean, this is I think we talked about this over the
dinner table. It's
not only that it's also the people who are donating get
docked extra two. That's when I said the donors. Oh, I'm sorry,
the donor. Yes, the donors, but then the way they do it, they
used to have views that okay, $5 a week or a month, whatever. And
that would be deducted all in one go.
Yeah, no. And now the donors are getting dinged at the beginning.
Yeah. And so the total that goes in to get dinged even more is
lower. Right. And so a lot of donors say this is not what I'm
not donating five bucks, so you guys can take 50 cents. I'm
donating five bucks. So you can go to them even though they get
dinged Yeah, I mean, you could have done it better they could
have done it. So did it was they go just jacked up their prices.
What this is what it amounts to, but they're doing it at some
Tricky Dick way. Now, it doesn't seem to be that complicated for
them to just run a straightforward business and
take a piece of the action. These
guys. These guys keep taking VC money, too. I mean, how can they
not be making money on this? How hard can it be? It's just a
website. Yeah, it's just not hosting anything. It's just you
know, it's a process of hosting the
feeds. Yeah, I don't get it. How much money do they need? Well,
yeah, I mean, Pay Pal only takes of whatever it is four and a
half to 5%. And they don't do any of this shenanigans. They
just, you know, you just get your piece taken out or square.
Yeah, but what are these guys doing that they're not doing any
marketing for you or they Have a page of this, that explains a
little bit what you're doing. But I don't see that there's any
benefit that you'd be giving him all this money. This is why we
never sign on to it. Even though we had a number of producers.
Why don't you use Pay Pal? Because I'm sorry. Do it again
do it properly. Why don't you use Patreon? And so I pay pal
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suck at least so us. And they allow us to do all these
different programs and schemes. In infinite number it seems. And
with Patreon, it's like you got your subscription, you got your
$5 you got your $1 you know kind of thing is not elaborate at
all. You can't do a nine eight nines thing. You can't do
anything. It's very, very limited. And then they take
money. I mean, come on.
I don't understand why people hate PayPal and hate everybody
and everything. How come all these creators aren't thriving
on Bitcoin donations. Seems like that would be an obvious thing
to do. Everyone hates Pay Pal, it sucks. You have your money,
what you think is money. should use that.
Anyway, no money you have been Pay Pal you. The other thing
about PayPal is very easy to move the money from the PayPal
account right into your bank account, just bang. And you can
do it as often as you want. You can do it daily, the Patreon
guys that give you a check once a month, I don't even know if
you get a mailing list from them. I've never had this
question answered. If there's anybody out there using Patreon
answer the question you have like I'd say, say 5000
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reasonable is very reasonable. And do you have to do they give
you the mailing list of the 5000 people so you can further
solicit them for other things? Like maybe you have a premium
product or a t shirt you want to send them? Do you get that
mailing list or not?
Yeah, that is that is a outstanding? I don't know if you
get that with Patreon or not. But I know they send me emails
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Right? And, you know, the idea of checks, electronic checks,
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They look good. It's nice. It's very nice when people do that.
Yeah. On the show. I like it. Okay, okay, what do I get? Well,
we have a company of this Russia thing. Oh, okay.
What about the Russia? Well,
the Russia thing you know, it's it's kind of in the rotation.
And now there's this Peters, what's his name? scrotum. I was
remembers PMS prescribed struck struck, y'all. Yeah, the strikes
were Yeah, he's the bad FBI agent. Now, you may have heard
some reporting about it here and there. What I have is from C
span the congressional hearing, this is Jim Jordan. He's a
Republican from Ohio. And he's talking a
great clip. I almost was gonna put it on my Jordans. Great, he
just grilled them.
And this is, as we know, this is all theater. It's all set up.
And Ray is a he's a Trump appointee. So I presume he's in
on the game. And he got the script ahead ahead ahead of
time. But the the idea behind the idea behind this is
positioning. This stroke guy Peter stroke, as the bad actor
who was responsible Stroke, stroke, stroke him who was
responsible for everything bad
director was agent Peter strock, the former deputy head of
counterintelligence at the FBI. I don't remember his exact
title, but I believe that's correct. And he's the same Peter
strock, who was a key player in the Clinton investigation, the
same Peter strock, who interviewed Cheryl Mills whom
Aberdeen participated in the Clinton Secretary Clinton's
interview, and he's also the same Peter strock. Who now we
know change Director Comey is exoneration letter change the
term gross negligence, which is a crime to extreme carelessness.
Is that the same guy?
Well, Congressman, I don't know every step that the individual
you mentioned was involved in but certainly I know that he was
heavily involved in the Clinton and email investigation. Thank
you. And he and it's the same Peter strock, who helped was a
key player in the Russian investigation and the same Peter
strock, who was put on Muller's team of Special Counsel Bob
Muller's team.
I certainly know that he was working on special counsels
investigation, whether or not he would be characterized as this
player on that investigation. Absolutely not. For me. It's
the same Peter strock that we learned this past weekend was
removed from the special counsel team because he exchanged text
messages with a colleague at the FBI that were displayed a pro
Clinton bias. Is that accurate? Yes. Talking about the same guy.
Okay. Yes. Well, here's what I'm not getting. Peter strock is
selected to be on Muller's team, after all this history put on
molars team, and then he's removed for some pro Clinton
text messages. I mean, there are all kinds of people on molars
team who are pro Clinton, there's been all kinds of story
PolitiFact reported 96% of the top lawyers contributions went
to Clinton or Obama, a Peter struck. The guy who ran the
Clinton investigation interviewed Mills, Aberdeen,
interviewed Secretary Clinton changed gross negligence a crime
to the term extreme carelessness, who ran the
Russian investigation who interviewed Mike Flynn gets put
on molars team and then he gets kicked off for a text message.
That's anti Trump. If he kicked everybody off molars team who
was anti Trump, I don't think there'd be anybody left. So
here, there's gotta be something more here. It can't just be some
text messages that show a pro Clinton anti Trump bias. There's
got to be something more. And I'm trying to figure out what it
is. Yeah. But my hunch is, it has something to do with the
dossier director, did Peter strock help produce and present
the application to the FISA court to secure a warrant to spy
on Americans associated with the Trump campaign?
Congressman, I'm not prepared to discuss anything about a FISA
process in this.
We're not talking about what happened in the court. We're
talking about what the FBI took to the court, the application
did Peter strock. Was he involved in taking that to the
court?
I'm not going to discuss in this setting anything to do with the
FISA court applications.
Well, let's let's remember a couple things director and I
know you know this, we've we've all been made aware of this in
the last few weeks. Let's remember a couple of things
about the dossier, the Democrat National Committee and the
Clinton campaign, which we now know we're wondering the same
paid the law firm who paid fusion GPS, who paid Christopher
Steele, who then paid Russians to put together a report that we
call a dossier full of all kinds of fake news national acquire
garbage. And it's been reported that this dossier was all
dressed up by the FBI taken to the FISA court and presented as
a legitimate Intelligence document basis for granting a
warrant to spy on Americans. And I'm wondering, I'm wondering if
that actually took place? It sure looks like it did. And the
easiest way to clear it up is for you guys to tell us what was
in that application. And who took it their
congressman, our staffs have been having extensive
interaction with both Intelligence Committees on our
interaction with the FISA court. And I think that's the
appropriate setting for those questions.
Seems like Peter strock is going to be the fall guy.
Did you get the kicker, I don't have it, where the the chair
Jordan holds up a document that was two days old. He says he
sent it to these to the FBI, to get this information about the
FISA court warrant. And then the kicker is when the money kicks
back, because he runs out of time, kicks back to the
chairman, the chairman, because this is a judiciary,
I should cut it off. I've made it all too long. But yeah, go
ahead.
He says, Hey, we're the ones that have jurisdiction over the
over all of this, including the FISA court. So if we want this
information, you have to give it to us. Yeah. But he has
produced it. As far as we know, he doesn't know. So this is
interesting. Now all of this comes down to the and actually
it goes, if you look at what happened with the with Flynn,
everyone was all going googoo gaga that Ah, yes. Now we have
proof about the collusion about them, you know, talking to the
Russians. And what's interesting is someone sent me this clip, we
have to go back in time, it's about a year. So just go back.
If you're younger already. This is a classic Matt Lee clip where
they're at the State Department. This is before Heather came in,
this is still the other dude, big binder man. And Lee is Matt
Lee is talking about the Trump administration talking to the
Russians, you
probably have seen the reports starting yesterday, but then
more of them this morning about contact between the incoming
national security adviser and the Russian ambassador. I'm just
wondering, from the State Department's point of view, is
this something that's of concern at all? Or just leave it there
and then follow?
Again, not necessarily. I've seen the reports. I don't think
they've been confirmed or corroborated yet. But, you know,
that's is as part of the transition team that's really
for them to speak to and how they are engaging. I mean, the
President Elect is also engaged on his own with many world
leaders. So I don't want to speculate and I don't want to
think that this building doesn't see anything necessarily, you
know, inappropriate about contacts between members of the
incoming administration and foreign officials, no matter
what country they're from right
now. And, again, this has been ongoing. I mean, we stand ready
if they want to work through the State Department to contact some
of these individuals. But we have no you know, no comment or
no problem with them doing such on their own. Isn't that
interesting?
Yeah, yeah, that was that's been played a lot in regard to this
whole thing
to how do we get from that back to 2017. To this throw, I have a
clip from today. Okay, today's from today's world of the
morning, Joe's a campaign
and Trump didn't think he was going to win even on election
day. But it was all about money. It was all about making
contacts. We've said this before. But I think the most
remarkable thing about it is that even now that he's
president, it's still all about money. Like he's not sitting
there thinking what Brock Obama or George W. Bush or Bill
Clinton or Ronald Reagan thought, like, what is my legacy
going to be? He's thinking every day, how can I leverage this so
I get when I get out of the White House, I can make even
more money,
knowing them. I think they're shocked that the noose is
tightening, because I don't know if they were arrogant or just
incredibly on self aware and really dumb about like, what the
job was about how important it was, and how, under the
microscope, every move you made would be I think they just
thought they'd go in there and Flim Flam, and riff through it.
You know, I think they're shocked that the noose is
tightening, that people might go to jail.
You're exactly right the rest of their lives. Going
to jail for the rest of their lives. I do think too, are
deluded.
Yeah, there is there is one thing that I think is being
overlooked when I have a feeling that Trump and the Muller may be
inadvertently, but who knows, could be actually working
together on one particular thing. The Trump has a problem
and you've mentioned this many times, and they're kind of off
the radar right now. The problem is Jared and Ivanka, they're
problematic us specifically, in particular do not like them. The
in the in context of being part of the political process, right.
And I'm pretty sure that Trump is also you know, he's got a
problem. He's got his he's got his son in law, who can't fire
his son in law. I mean, this his favorite daughter, I mean, this
is this is the roots of family mess. And even though the guy's
a big tough one on, you're fired, I don't think he has the
stomach to do that the
balls to get rid of him. So some,
I think the following deal was cut with Michael Flynn is like
we have to have, you have to have some offense. So he, you
know, he has a felony offense for lying to the FBI on his
sword. Yeah, fell on his sword. Because who told him to do what
he did? It wasn't Trump. It was Jared. Jared, Jared. It could be
a setup to get rid of him. And I think it is, and I think Jared
is out. Well, let's hope so. And maybe
I want to bring something up before we go on to get too
carried away. Which was this thing with struck again? Yeah.
And the letter that he wrote to one of his colleagues saying,
you know, Trump's had a hole, let's get him. Yeah. Or
whatever.
By the way, that her name is Lisa page. Yeah. And she worked
for member the the, I think state representative whose wife
the Clintons gave like, $650,000. Yeah, she used to work
for him or for her? I think. So. It's all it's all tied in. Well,
here's what's not tied in. How do they know about this letter?
I have no idea.
Let's play this clip. This is Macfarlanes about Katie
McFarland. And the intercepted discussion this is from
Democracy Now.
Meanwhile, the New York Times is reporting that a high ranking
member of Trump's transition team falsely told lawmakers that
she was unaware of contacts between Michael Flynn and
Russia's ambassador. The time cited newly discovered emails
that show the advisor Katie McFarland discussed in December
29 phone call between Flynn and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that
was intercepted by US intelligence.
Okay, so there's an email between McFarland and some a
private citizens, by the way, was intercepted by US
intelligence have been somehow discovered by the New York Times
as if it wasn't slipped to the New York now, how
does it get discovered? I mean, that needs a warrant by itself.
Yeah, it's not discovered it was leaked. And the same thing with
the struck letter thing. This was also apparently something
the NSA, I'm guessing the NSA could be anybody but the NSA or
one of the agencies. Illegally blanked captured and then
illegally leaked. Yeah. It's ridiculous. This is completely
out of control. And this is one of the reasons they've got to
change the way this law is written. Because it's being
abused that section whatever it is, 702 isn't. I think a seminar
zoo or something. One of those, I think, is that or seven
something. And it's got to they can't pass this again, because
these guys are abusing this. This is not supposed to be this
is supposed to be for terrorism. Didn't they? Terrorism here this
is gets the stage stealing the email or Katie McFarland. I'm
surprised these people haven't put up a fuss about this. Yeah.
Well, everything's falling apart. In the intelligence
community. That is, I mean, it's an FBI man. I don't know what's
going on there. But just look at what the mess they've made out
of the Vegas massacre here that they it turns out that not only
did the FBI leak, no, I think the FBI sanctioned the leak of
the Patek photo, but they also move the body before you know
the whole scene was, was recorded and documented. I guess
they staged the body to look good for the photo or something.
I didn't know this. Yeah, this is just new
just came out with a little shaky
Ness. Yeah.
That is, right. I have a current Russia clip that I held on to
for an episode or two. There's something going on and
Tillerson, you know, he is of course, a big oil guy, big, big
oil, big oil, and he's been doing deals and someone caught
wind of it. And it came up in the State Department briefing
with Heather nauert, who also has that big binder Deputy
Assistant Secretary McCarrick told a group of European
journalists that I quote, we don't see the possibility that
Nord Stream two is going to be built.
Now he's talking about Nord Stream two To me, this is this
is a big deal for for Russia, because they already have the
the Nord Stream, the original Nord Stream that that basically
goes into into Europe. Now this is a partnership with is Gazprom
says gas, Royal Dutch Shell eon om vn OG, I think. And the path
is this, I think this is the one that was see I have a picture of
it here. Let's see the Nord Stream. Yeah, this is the one
that would go around Finland, down to what enters Germany at
Greifswald. And so it goes through the the sea, so it goes
right underneath, underneath Finland. And it's all in the
water. So, you know, no one really benefits from this. But
Tillerson has been talking about it with the Russians,
that's not something that we are going to assume is going to
happen. Could you explain what is the statement based on? And
I'm wondering if the topic has been discussed during the
meeting between Secretary Tillerson and German foreign
minister? And what's the conclusion of the discussion?
If, in fact, it was one of the top?
Yeah, I can tell you that that conversation did not come up.
Nord Stream two was not one of the topics that came up in my
presence. Now, they may have had a separate sideline conversation
that that I did not witnessed. So that that may have come up in
terms of where exactly we are on Nord Stream to pardon me one
second. Another topic related to that is the multi line Turkish
Stream, as I understand it, so our position on this would be
that Europe is certainly working to try to diversify, where it
gets its energy. I've spoken with some of your colleagues
before, people from that part of the world as well. And
recognizing that there should be and could be more sources of
energy. We have seen in the very cold winter months, where
Vladimir Putin, which is where a lot of your energy comes from,
in particular in Poland, where he will turn, turn down, turn
off those energy supplies, causing costs to go up, causing
people to lose heat on occasion in
the Ukraine, yes, because they didn't pay their bill.
So we know that Europe is working to diversify its energy
sector overall. It's also assessing projects that would
undermine some of these efforts. We agree with many of our
European partners that Nord Stream two and a multi line
Turkish Stream would reinforce Russian dominance in Europe's
gas markets, reduce opportunities for
diversification of energy sources, it would pose security
risks in an already tense Baltic Sea region. And it would advance
Russia's goal of undermining Ukraine. That's a particular
concern of ours by ending Ukraine's role as a transit
country for Russian gas exports to get to Europe.
Do you see the problem? This is the this Nord Stream two is not
in our interest. And Tillerson is out there doing the business
of Merkin. gas and oil companies.
Yeah, it's kind of what he's supposed to do. Yeah. And we
didn't we expect this. Yeah, but I
what a missed opportunity for the media to highlight that it's
actually going on
ignored. I don't care about that. It's got nothing to do
with Trump, really.
Two would concentrate about 75% of Russian gas imports to the EU
through a single route, creating a potential checkpoint that
would significantly increase Europe's vulnerability.
I think she means choke point not checkpoint to a supply
checkpoint
options. We believe that these two projects would enable
Gazprom to cut off transit via Ukraine and still meet demand in
Western Europe, which would economically and undermine
Ukraine by depriving up about $2 billion in annual transit
revenue.
Is this statement, correct that you don't believe that the
project would be built that the North Stream two would be built?
And Secretary Tillerson called recently the Nord Stream two and
wise, what are you doing? And Weisbrod?
Sir, I don't have the Secretary's comments in front of
me. So I hesitate to comment on having somebody who listen, I
understand. I just don't have the exact quote in front of me.
So I'm not I'm just not going to comment on that. And the other
person who made a remark I don't I'm afraid I don't have that
with me either.
So the oil pipeline wars continue.
Yeah. And that's not going to end anytime soon. No duration of
the show, that's for sure. Probably go on forever.
No, but it is. It is of note, since we follow these pipelines
stories.
I have. How are we doing for time? We should be at
the limit here. Yeah, we can do a couple more I
think. Well, I have a couple of clips that I want to use. I have
a WTF clip which is always in Interesting. I have a Trump lies
clip because there were saying he's lying all the time and I
was listening to this clip and I'm wondering whether he is
excuse me a deliberate lie, or just he doesn't know. It black
home ownership clip from CBS. Ah, yes.
Last night's rally in Pensacola, Florida. President Trump implied
African Americans are doing better under his leadership.
Black home ownership just hit the highest level it's ever been
in the history of our country. Congratula
not despite the President's claim African American
homeownership actually peaked in 2004. It seems the key audience
for the President's speech were Gulf Coast Republicans,
primarily those heading to the polls next week. And Alabama's
special election, Rena.
I haven't looked into this, but it's possible that he was told
that the homeownership had peaked or gone up. And he didn't
realize it was really high in 2004. Some I don't believe this
was a lie. No. Well, I think he's misinformed.
I saw this entire speech or this rally in Pensacola, Florida.
Which the Scientology capital of the South. No, no,
it's Clearwater.
I'm sorry. You said Pensacola, Clearwater. And I have to say,
because I was tuning in to watch Carlson Tucker Carlson. Then,
like, Ah, it's not going to be his show because the President
is going to do some Shindig, and CNN MSNBC did not carry the
speech. Obviously, this was a speech intended to rile up
voters the just across the state line, which is what 2530 miles
away and Alabama to vote for, for Roy Moore. But I ate for
Friday evening. This was some good entertainment. He was truly
in rare form. John, you would have enjoyed it. He I mean, it
was just one after the other just Zinger after Zinger. And he
was just the audience was into it, which is really good. That's
where this came from. Bingo. I mean, he was just delivering
beauties to us nonstop was it was it was
really quite good. Well, he when he's on a roll he can get eaten
up pretty funny. Yeah. And
the reason why this came up this because it oh look at my man
over there it says it was blacks for Trump 20 twenty.com There's
a movement blacks for Trump. And that's and that's when he
brought up this, this factoid, which was not and he's getting
better at off the cuff and then going back to the going back to
the teleprompter, but he had all kinds of new moves, man he had
he had a chop move, he could do an a chop move with his hand
like a karate chop. Then he was just I don't know what he
someone's got to look into that. And when they look at the see
bombards body language helps us at all, probably not. And then I
would be in this remiss if I did not to play this clip for you.
This is the pussy Scouts of America. Pussy Scouts of
america.com which apparently is pre pubescent teenage girls, and
they hate the president and they have a website and you could
look it up John while we're playing the clip pussy Scouts of
america.com Pussy scouts.com
Here's what she scouts.com or push the Scouts of America
I believe it's pussy scouts.com And here's their little song
about President
you're gonna get a clip here care ladies, you gotta treat it
like shit. Break this sex assault corporate and take away
the woman smartshop racist sexist racist Muslim ban your
the Nazis and the hate of great ignorance so make America great
your future boss bitches
and we dropped the mic to cisco.com explicitly had emerged
in women's march as a powerful symbol of the fight for
equality. Get your hat or get involved with the cause and get
a shirt Girls Just Want to Have Fun Demento rights
this is what a feminist looks like what the scouts.com.
Child abuse as child abuse is obviously put together by the
Roger Stone of the Democrats, whoever that might be. This is a
fake operation. There's no question about it.
And these girls don't even know what sex is and they're talking
about grabbing by
that's because it's all scripted. They've given it to
them to say this thing that and you can be a little star for a
while. And so this is pathetic. Yeah, you're right. I'm really
really sad. And it is childhood. Use, in fact is really bad, I
think is a felony to make you have kids cussing and talking
like that and no, not good. I mean, Elissa Roger Stone people
play with adults. As bad, very bad. The funny thing is there's
a couple of ran into this one is doing a search for this.
American Boy Scouts express interest in pussy grabbing
badge. Now, this is bullcrap, too, obviously, but there's a
thing you know, this is again, we're back to that cycle of, you
know, Trump being a predator. So we're seeing stuff like this for
this this round because it the other round of all this sexual
humiliation sexual, the whatever it is, is, is ending with this
election on Tuesday, and they gotta get things cranked up in a
different way. And that's Oregon.
Wait a minute, say that again, about Tuesday, Tuesday, this
the whole sexual harassment thing is going to the election
day, right? Yeah. That's when it all ends. It
doesn't end completely because people die. People don't realize
it's supposed to end. So they'll kind of drag it out. But it's
pretty much going to end. And whatever happens the more if
he's if he gets elected, and what do you think? What do you
think? What do you think? I think it's a toss up. I think he
can get any gig not when he could win either way. I think
the Alabamans are pretty independent thinkers and I
believe that they're probably vote him in out of spite, right.
Surprise me.
I just want to thank everybody for and I put a couple of these
notes into the show notes 989 dot no agenda, no sock comm you
can find it archive.no agenda notes.com or just being it being
a.io being it just being it? Yes. CRISPR CRI SPR. This is the
DNA editing stuff. And Illuminati Leah who's done a lot
of good art for us is a molecular biologist and she's
used CRISPR to change the DNA in yeast. So can produce a protein
of our choosing. For instance, she says we can get used to make
insulin and other kinds of beneficial proteins. And this
CRISPR technology was discovered in 87 became commonly used in
2013 and got Innovation of the Year award in 2015. It stands
for cluster regulatory Interspaced Short Palindromic
Repeats. Without getting too technical, she says it
essentially mimics how bacteria protects itself from viruses by
ripping apart the invading DNA making it inert. It then stores
the genetic information into a library to better identify any
future attacks from future invasions of the same species. I
think this is what they're using in the UK for the rats
could be yeah that's a long way to go for that one.
No, I didn't that even that just came to mind. But I mean, this
is very interesting stuff. And you can pretty much do it at
home almost.
Yeah. Because this will be disrupted. It's a new era. Yeah,
I have one last clip. All right. This is my Iraq. i It says you
rocked by the way the you you write ISIS US troops. WTF VBS.
Well, Iraq declared victory today over ISIS. Iraq's Prime
Minister says the Islamic militant group was driven out of
its final stronghold along the Syrian border. ISIS swept into
Iraq in 2014. Three years of fighting have left cities and
villages in ruins with about 3 million Iraqis displaced
American troops will remain in Iraq for the foreseeable future.
That's right.
Why why are we remaining? For the money baby? For the money
the foreseeable future gray that was fantastic, Mr. Bush for
bringing us into that thing. Well, how about Mr. Trump? No
millions of dollars.
How about Mr. Trump not getting his out?
Well, how about Mr. Obama not getting decide. He promised that
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science is turning into Klieg.
The statement you made about your trip to get my nation GMT
is that there are no rats no rats because of the foxes that
you're sure there's no rats. Well, I didn't
see any rats. I'm sure there's rats all over the place but the
foxes keep the ones that are visible down.
Experts at Edinboro University have come up with a solution to
the apparent rat problem in the UK so the researchers are
proposing releasing genetically mutated rats into the rat
population What could possibly go wrong?
Wow.
Jeanette genetically mutated rats are in your future try it
rats who could that can white rats that can walk talk
that'd be fantastic.
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