Oh, I'm so scared. I don't want to believe it's true. Adam
curry, John C. Dvorak. It's April 22 2010. Time for your
gizmo nation media assassination Episode One Niner. Three. This
is no agenda celebrating Earth Day in a nice dose of cap and
trade and coming to you from the hilltop Watchtower crock pot
command centre and get my nation West in the People's Republic of
Southern California. Hey, where are they mowing the grass in the
morning? I'm Adam curry,
and I'm wondering where the trains went. I'm up here in
northern Silicon Valley. I'm John C. Dvorak. Greg Levin
buzzkill here and the trains, my trains there's a train that goes
by like at 908. Yeah, 909 or nine. Okay, another one that was
supposed to go by. There's no trains. I don't know what the
deal is. In the morning to John in the morning to you. I think
it's because of atmospheric dust.
No, it's ash.
Oh, there it goes.
Volcanic ash. I didn't hear it.
I know. Well, it's just makes a little more directional. Hey,
dude, you're not gonna believe
it. But I think I've done something amazing here. And it
sounds like you've never sounded better actually, on the on the
on this stream?
Well, I didn't I shouldn't change Mike. So we could do a
better A B comparison.
No, it's not just the mic. I mean, I'm actually I'm hearing
the quality being better.
No. So you're not going through a laptop?
No, it is. It was you know, there's one thing we can
ascertain. Macintosh laptops are not cheap.
You can get a good Macintosh laptop for $999
That's not cheap. You can get compared to years ago PC laptop
for $300 junk. So as the $900 MAC that's junk to know I have a
different router.
So would you had to go by when or what happened?
What let's let's just leave it in the middle.
Okay, let's I won't ask. Don't ask. Don't tell. It fell off the
back of a truck. Don't Ask Don't Tell.
Okay, it's episode 193. Have no agenda. We're coming up on our
Bicentennial, John.
Yes. And we're going to have a special programme. Oh, really?
Yeah. 200 we went we were looking for $200 donations for
our 200th episode. And we're going to call it the deuce club.
And now this is a special episode that will
well actually what we're gonna do another 200 episodes is going
to be an episode but then we're going to produce a third show.
For our donors only just a special little thing, mostly a
tribute to them for all donors. Well, I think the $200 donors
would get the first shot at it. But I think all donors should
probably listen to me if they've been giving to us all along. I
don't know. We'll talk about it.
Hey, let's do a meeting. Yeah, fine later there. But finally,
we have to the show has reached the level where we have to have
a meeting about God that's not okay with it.
Let's invite Eric, let's invite Eric to the meeting. And let's
have an agenda. And let's send that out beforehand. And then
let's let's send out meeting notes. Is that how you do it? I
want to go shoot myself right now.
Let's talk about our objectives for this week. Yes, please.
Executive producer is our old friend Dame Margaret.
Oh the Dame is back yeah
day Margaret George up there in Clovis New Mexico are down there
I guess
so she's on her way to a second Dame hood as it were.
Well, she's I was going back and forth whether we're about to do
we need to make when we make these rings that are going to be
a lady's ring or she just she said she's fine with a man's
ring that she could wear it's like around her neck on chain,
which is women do that
maybe we should maybe say be Pinky rings. If it's a pinky
ring, which by the way it looks kind of like you know mafia,
like on a guy would be
with a big old military style rig. You could always wear it as
a pinkie ring.
If you got a big ass Pinky.
You can have it sized and then we have the three Associate
Executive producers,
okay. ESC Inc. ESC Inc.
Yeah, II S C, Inc. No note Well, I think he may have sent a note
an email but I had to go dig it up.
Well, it might be kind of important for the MIB. Okay,
but ESC Inc convert the six Simon ox to be in Queensland and
he wants a happy birthday to Dale his father who also listens
to his show
go we're gonna do that during do that later. Yeah. donations.
Yep.
And Edward birth. Yeah. You know, if these guys keep
donating to get me to butcher their names, I wouldn't. Such a
bad thing is that half of the names are pronounced his bill
Oh, you're clearing your throat. So you can try. I would call a
birth Susan.
No, not even close. But it looks like it's beer to Hausen
beer collagen. That's what that's what I meant. Yes, Edward
beer, Towson, beer, Towson. No, I actually need to get the hang
of this eventually.
Then I'd like to mention a couple of PR initiatives. First
of all right off the bat Randy Asher has set up no agenda
art.com, which is very cool. Is this the entire archive of all
no agenda, Episode episodic art,
it's going to be what it's going to be, I believe, going back and
forth with them. It's going to be that and a depository for
people submitting art to be used. Right? Okay, so there'll
be a lot of artists not used a lot of artists been used. Pretty
much everything we can shove in there because we do need a
single place instead of you're doing everything at drop IO or
whatever the heck it is, but that's insecure. I mean, at some
point those guys went out of business or something that stuff
is then we have to go dig up all the art again. So this will be
something we control which I think is better we don't
control it for shit. What we don't control. Yeah, we don't
control it
by putting somebody in the in the organisation controls.
Ah, invite Randy the meeting. He's in the organisation and
isation the organisation
All right. A couple of PR associate mentions of non
official PR associates but very Valley and tries at a Merkley
was dragged to the golf course by a friend this past weekend.
He hates golf, he sucks at golf. So what he did was he wrote in
the morning on every single golf ball he used with a Sharpie, and
of course, they're now in Lake and in the sand trap and all
over the place. Not a bad idea to have no agenda golf balls. I
like that. It's pretty good idea. We got a great picture
from attr 1972. And I was looking at first I thought maybe
this was one of those fake pictures on the internet where
you fill in your own text and it fills in the picture, but I
think it's real. After 1972 visited the rushing floated the
Russian floating based called barneo at the North Pole. And he
took a picture to prove it and sent us a greeting. And he says
regards from your northern most listener. So it looks real.
I think it'd be cool to have in the morning or the no agenda
show.com and yellow snow. Yeah,
I don't 1972 If you're still there, please do this.
Just don't let it break off.
Schuyler viscounty checked out our no agenda Firefox personas
and was amazed by the suggested similar themes. Ready for him?
Sure. The suggested themes along with the no agenda, Firefox
persona are a picture of weed as in marijuana, Greenpeace, peace,
save the bees gave me gay pride and Gouda.
I don't know man. Seems a bit off off topic, but okay.
All right. I'm just saying. Greg Peters says he has an idea. You
know, lots of listeners sign up for web hosting plans. And
oftentimes you'll get $50 of free ad words. With your hosting
plan. Why not use that? To promote no agenda? show.com
Which I thought was like it? Yeah, pretty good idea. And then
our buddy, Jim LUNs felt from over there had no agenda
forums.com set up something fantastic. I'm not sure sure how
long it's going to last. But for the for the meantime, it's
great. The no agenda proxy at no agenda proxy.com. So you can use
that to surf sites anonymously.
Or you can get to show where you can't otherwise get it to show
without being caught at work or You wrecked go to divorce?
act.org/blog in China, yes. Or you can go donate go to the
donation sites divorce act.org/n A or divorce.org/na s and which
are blocked in Russia. So I
think that's a great initiative. And, you know, eventually I'm
sure we'll get scanned out but it's also great for kids at
school who can't use outside sites or I'm sure we're being
filtered. In many schools,
I would hope no agenda proxy dropped these people. All right,
so
we want to thank our executive producer for today's episode
episode 193 Dame Margaret George coming back to support us once
again. We appreciate it highly and of course our Associate
Executive Producers ESC Inc, Simon ox to be and Edvard beer
tires and you all know exactly what you have to do. You got to
go out and you've got to propagate the formula which is
simple. Our formula is this We go out, we hit people in the
mouth
saying women out, shut up slave. I'm feeling like a slave today,
John. And let me tell you,
before you go into that you want to mention we do have a black
knight Scott rule.
I feel like a slave
because of the ash in the air.
No, no, no, no, no, I've discovered something pretty
nasty going on with Homeland Security. Miki has a container
arriving today. Hopefully after the show, you never know where
these guys and you know, it cost a lot of money to fill up a 20
foot container and have it all packed up and shipped over here.
And then she gets a call from the shipping agent over on this
side earlier in the week. Well, your containers here and as soon
as it's out of the CES, we'll send you the final bill. And
then we'll bring it out. Like what would it mean what final
bill paid paid for this thing to be packed, shipped, unpacked
everything? What are you talking about? Well, I had to look up
all the regulations and all the laws. But here's how it works
ever since the Department of Homeland Security has been
erected. Of course after 911 95% of all shipping containers go
through special scanning when they enter the port. And here's
how it works. The Euro Homeland Security dollars are not used to
do this. Oh no. It goes to a commercial company. A monopoly
in most states. It's a I forget what it's called here. It's like
trans trans rip you Inc. And there's a customs examination
service centre. And what they do, they'll take you. And what
they do is they they drive your stuff there which cost a couple
$100 Then they have a commercial company. Open it up, take
everything out. So a customs dude can come by and go yep,
yep, looks good. And yet pack it all up boys. $1,800.
Well, this sounds like an out and out scam.
Yeah, but it's in the law. I looked it up at the website at
CPA. This was one of the benefits and private companies.
Yes,
of course. And then you will they have to publish their fees.
So they publish their most recent fees in 2005. It's like
if you've got garment. And you know what women happen to have a
lot of garments that they ship over and you do Yes. Like that's
like 1200 bucks right there. For container, you know, that has
garments. Huge rip off. And of course, if you ship it to
Kansas, oh, well, then it's only like $300 should have
shipped it to Kansas, if I had known. Wow. Yeah, it's a way to
back up a second. Why would it be cheaper in Kansas?
Because there's less corruption there, I guess.
Oh, that's what it is. I really don't know
what it is. But even this even the shipping agent said, Yeah, I
know this is really messed up. And it's it's even hard to get a
final itemised bill of exactly what they did because you know
that probably not even on packing this crap, but just
given the container some air, and why would you bother? Yeah,
and then the in the shipping agents that Oh, and by the way,
you know, we see of the 5% that don't get scammed. They're from
like Afghanistan. I'm like, Oh, of course. That's what all the
heroin
heaven forbid they actually find anything. We do.
She literally said that. Yeah, we see containers from
Afghanistan. They never get special screening. So like,
okay, there you go. 1800 bucks, and my shit hasn't come yet.
Oh, well, there's another 1800 bucks.
I know. It's like and this shouldn't Homeland Security be
doing this as a service for my tax dollars. Instead of being
farmed out to some commercial company. Bastards
it never ends
now. It doesn't nor does the polish
to to the head. No, the story's getting
better it is now of course we played you the video with the
gunshots last week last week. Although there's a lot more
analysis has been done on it and even stuff that I didn't see
there's people walking around jumping out of the plane getting
apparently shot. There's a couple of different I know we
laugh at this. Because it's so blatant is like, we're not even
surprised like of course. Yeah. But you know, now people are
really doing some analysis on this On this video and it's
linked once again in the show notes at no agenda show.com.
And, you know, this, this allegedly was from a guy and
he's running around there right after the accident, but you
literally do see people in the background like jumping off
either off of debris or out of the aeroplane. And there are
several different translations that are kind of put in as
titles in these YouTube videos. And there's a lot of dispute
over that and I just really can't say one way or the other
what the correct translation is because you know, I don't speak
Russian or polish for that reason. And for that matter, but
I have to say it looks like it looks like they're just shooting
people. And then the guy who shot this video was stabbed
taken to the hospital in critical condition, and
apparently they unplugged his life support at the hospital.
And he was the guy stabbed Well, I'm we know why. But what was
the what was the cover story?
There is no cover story as far as I know, the guy was just
stabbed. Oh, I
didn't bother to come up with a cover story. Someone tried to
rob and there's some care
anymore.
I know. I think they're getting careless. This is getting too
sloppy.
Yeah. And then there's the just another two to the head. The I
think it's the second highest member of the Polish. Church 60
year old. I'm reading polish. Now, John. This is bad. I'm
actually reading but no, this is I'm sorry. This imposes German
so you could read it. He's I don't know if he wasn't able to
catch a ride on the plane to the Catan. Commemoration but he went
I guess he went by by car. He attended the ceremony of course,
after all. I'm sorry, not the ceremony, he attended the
funeral. And he drove back and he had a fatal car accident. I
mean, it just like there's just so much crap. Like they didn't
have enough guys. They already got a religious leader in the
plane. It's like, oh, let's get the number two guy while we're
at it. Let's just drive them off the cliff. So
it's just like getting a Yeah, I don't know. I mean, this is
strange, strange story. Finally, apparently, of course, we have a
couple of Polish listeners. And they've told us that none of
this is even suggested in the news media there.
Well, the thing that I'm getting what I'm hearing is that yes,
this was a hit. But not by the Russians. Yeah. Well, this
is your theory to well, because I'm here wasn't it in Russia
where it happened? It wasn't a Russian why would the German
sitting on the ground waiting there so they could shoot these
people cut jumping off the plane v have our vase. I'm not buying
that seems Russian to me. It's up to so careless. Do you think
they'd be a little slicker? Like the thing would first land if
there's anybody that the plane would blow up to smithereens?
Because it happened to land on a ammunition dump?
Well, the thing it didn't blow up it just kind of like it looks
like it fell apart. I mean, there's all kinds of I mean, I
know you know what, it stinks the whole thing stinks. Think
it's a whole thing stinks. And, and you know, have you heard
anything about it in the media at all forget about Polish
media. In American media is anyone questioning this?
It was just reported in the beginning and no one said
anything since nobody's talked about the dead camera guy who
took took the movies of these guys being shot and who's
been stabbed to death
and stabbed to death and
that's also it's not that's also not a nice way of doing it.
You know? What we're gonna do you have a gun My God does not
work.
The bastard he didn't die. Oh, go disconnect this tubes.
It just sounds like somebody doesn't sound like
if you if you wrote this as a script,
it would be a comedy show.
If you said this is a serious spy novel to be like once you go
back to the drawing board and write something realistic you
know? This is no good. This will be rejected by every Hollywood
studio. It's like no way no way this never happens. That was too
dumb. They do some covert stuff. So we have a couple other things
to follow up on if you just want to get them out of the way.
Yeah, let's
do that. Ash mageddon? No, yes. Ash mageddon.
Okay. So I'll just say three things about this.
By the way, before you say even one thing you did catch the
story about the guy who took off his Oh, I smell ash. Yeah. And
they returned.
Yeah, the sulphur it was I think it was a
What was it was a cook's tour flight? Yeah,
that's what it was British. Thomas Cook right? But then the
engine didn't stop or anything. No, I'll
just teach mele. Ash right? Single but he
sure didn't say ass and it was just Kevin Smith sitting on the
plane. I mean, you got to be sure about your you can be weird
transmissions on the radio. So one thing that happened during
all of this is the there was a huge NATO military exercise
scheduled for exactly the same week if you or five days almost
called brilliant, ardent. And there's conflicting reports
some, some military reports saying, Well, you know, we
couldn't fly, others are saying we flew. And it wasn't just in
the sky. By the way, it was also a marine based exercise, which
coincided with the Dutch Air Force as well, their version of
it was called Friesian flag. So there's a lot of information in
the show notes, and you can just you just have to draw your own
conclusions. I couldn't get it one way or the other. But you
sent a very good question to me through email you said, Okay, so
maybe this is a setup, but to what end? Why was your question?
So I have two theories for you. One I already said right off the
bat, which was railways make, and whether whether this was
intended or prolonged, perhaps. So maybe people just freaked out
and said, Oh, we've got to ground flights. And then it was
like, Hey, this isn't interesting crisis. What can I
use it for?
Well, that's interesting that you would bring that up because
you brought it up before but during this crisis, there's been
an inordinate number of advertisements for Siemens and
high speed rail in California.
He you said Stephen. Yes. The European parliament on Tuesday,
said the 27th country bloc has reacted too slowly to a crisis
that has shown an urgent need to bring other forms of
transportation up to date. Member States should finally
learn a lesson from what has happened. Said centre right
Minister of European Parliament, Marianne Shaw, money skew, a
member of the parliament's transport committee, the
modernization of our railroad transportation is a priority. We
talk a lot
today a lady a lady, what good does it do to modernise it when
they're on strike? Really, but there was as
part of it, make automated get rid of the people get rid of
people we talk a lot about it. Don't do much in Europe today.
You can't buy a train ticket to travel in a civilised way from
the north of Europe to the south of Europe. What Yeah, that's
what that's what she said. That's bogus. In Europe today.
You can't buy a train ticket to travel in a civilised way. John
civilised and remember, these are elites talking so they need
like caviar and you know, little ball ticklers. You can't buy a
train ticket to travel in a civilised way from the north of
Europe to the south of Europe. Rail travellers often complain
they have to buy tickets for each stage of their journey. Oh,
we need more harmonisation and integration. That's what it's
about. So that's one. But then I thought about this. And I came
across a very interesting story. And first I thought, okay, the
global warming movement has really jumped the shark, when
they're saying all these aeroplanes that are grounded,
that could lead to a rise in temperatures. I'm like, Okay,
now these guys are totally off their rocker. But then I thought
about it. So first of all, a study conducted after commercial
flights, where Gross was
this was at Yeah, I'm gonna interrupt you for a second after
911. Right. And people started looking at the documentation and
they found out something interesting what you're going to
tell us, they found
out that after three days of the all F essentially all flights
except for Arab flights. being grounded the average daily
temperature range in the US rose markedly exceeding the three day
periods before and after by 1.8 degrees Celsius, which is a
that's a reasonable jump. So so let me just finish the thought.
The same guys who brought you global warming, ie the Met
Office are the same guys who had the computer models that brought
you Ash mageddon That's the connection I'm making for you.
That's I'm liking this. And that to me actually was effect I was
reading some reports about how the Cabal now they're starting
to say every perfect we got some email on this. So now they're
saying that the computer models were bad or mice will stay
consistent or Right. The computer models were bad about
Ash mageddon And maybe we didn't need to ground all these flights
and blah, blah, blah, we could have flown around this and that.
And then if you dug into it, it was the same basic group doing
the modelling that does that's modelled the good the global
warming stuff.
So doesn't it make a lot of sense if they know, and they've
had this data for a decade, if they know that or almost a
decade, that by grounding flights glowed? The temperature
will rise? So European temperatures will rise by 1.8%?
And these the guys are saying it's getting warmer? Wow.
Doesn't that make a lot of sense? Especially since we know
they didn't actually do any measurements on on the ash
cloud? They just said, Oh, that's dangerous. Let's stop all
flying.
Well, I liked that theory. It's impossible to prove, of course.
Well, someone else picks up on it because no one was, no one
seems to be making these connections. Nobody cares.
Nobody cares.
This is what Oh, nobody can we have a bunch of listeners who,
who I don't even know I think a lot of our listeners do care
kind of I think they're mostly just entertained by our crazy
ideas.
Meanwhile, of course, the true tragedy is in Iceland. Now 190
Some years ago when this when this mountain blew its stack
previously, people a lot of people died. And the reason why
they died was not necessarily because of breathing volcanic
ash, but it killed all the crops due to the high. This has nice
fluoride content. And of course, because there were no crops, the
sheep and the cows couldn't eat and people died of famine. And
once again, the fluoride levels in this ash is is causing it as
wreaking havoc in Iceland, which I'm sure no one cares about
either. Except us. Which, of course, makes me also question
fluoride again.
Well, you know, they did well, luckily, most of this is blowing
toward England. Luckily, luckily. Sorry, chaps,
curiously, the Reykjavik airport is still open with flights to
the United States. So we could actually go visit this thing.
Now I have to ask you a question about the you know, no fly zones
and all the rest of it. I was looking at a bunch of these
photos of the volcano. And it was obvious that these photos
were taken by someone in an aeroplane or a helicopter. Yeah.
Or whatever. Yeah, but there's lots of great shots. I mean,
this thing apparently this particular Ash is, is is
electrically conductive. Yeah. It's beautiful. And it's blowing
up through the glacier. And so you're getting a lot of weird
lightning that interconnecting the clouds.
And the UFO formation. I'm sure you saw that video. No, I
didn't. Oh, it's B. Oh, it's fantastic. It's a V shape of
probably eight or nine craft covering right near the volcano.
That would make sense because they have to promote the
reintroduction of the kgvo or the sorry, ABC show v. So that
would make sense to plant something like that. It's the
promotion from the right away sucks. The IV
blows, because you guys promote something else. Even if it's
aliens who are promoting V, you guys are off your rocker. You
gotta get some new shows up there. They like me like this
show v. They're probably still watching the old show, because
it takes so long for it to get to their dishes up there.
They're watching the original V series, which was
squirrels or whatever. So
yeah, so your aviation question is, is it okay for these
aircraft to be flying in the volcanic area? Well, yeah, of
course, it's ridiculous. Well, they all that, you know, they're
not flying through the visible part of the cloud, which is the
whole point and these are turbine based helicopters. So
they would they would have the exact same issue.
Right? Right. They have would have the same turbaned today's
modern turbine engines are used JP for the same jet fuel their
jets with with a proper
jet engine. Yeah. But the big prop,
which we call a rotor, rotor, that's the word.
So of course, it's bogus. The whole thing is bogus. And that's
why I'm really liking the global warming, global warming. I'm
like, Yeah, I'm the Global Warming angle Anna and I
definitely still think that this is at least is going to be used
to promote more trains, which by the way, economically speaking,
John, it's not a bad idea. You know, they need to kickstart
some kind of economy around something. So it might as well
be trains.
Well, I like you know, things. I like trains, so it doesn't
bother me that much. Although they're not as convenient
necessarily, as an aeroplane or fast is definitely not as fast.
So, check that one. No, that one the interesting one, which I
don't understand why we don't talk about it at all. In this
country is the I think it goes from the Beijing Airport to
Beijing. The maglev train that does 450 Yeah. A friend of mine
took it recently as recently been introduced like I think a
year or year and a half ago. And a friend of mine took his his
unbelievable it's for one thing, it's a maglev. So it has no
wheels or anything. It just kind of sits up on magnets. And it
just ride Yeah, last off like a you know, bat out of hell at 400
miles an hour. And we don't even it's like nobody even knows
this. Nobody united. So mericans are very, I keep telling people.
Americans are stupid. Is that what you keep telling people I
know, they're naive. I keep telling people, you want to do
something for the weekend, people in the East Coast. I
think if I lived in New York, for example, I'd be going to
Paris every weekend, every or not every weekend. But once in a
while and a good deal, fly over to Paris, have dinner, spend a
couple of nights come back. On the west coast, we have the
opportunity to do something similar even though it takes a
few more hours. But I know from Vancouver, you can get to
Shanghai in I think around seven hours, maybe six. But whatever
the case is it just pack up, go to the council, get yourself a
visa and go to Shanghai for the weekend or for a couple of days
or just because it's dirt cheap, you get a really great hotel
room for less than 100 bucks, the places jump and you get the
some of the best restaurants in the world you can have the time
of your life and come back with a little insight as to what's
going on in China because most people don't have a clue. And
but if you go there once in a while, you it's a real eye
opener, and I advise people to just visit and and I know that
there's not that much of that going on because when I go to
China and I don't care where it is. I'm like the only white guy
that I see for days. You're a novelty.
But actually it was a novelty. I went to this city's Djimon which
is as an art dealer I was visiting. And we decided to go
float around town they have a little amusement park, which is
a total piece of crap. And I did why the whole time I was dirt
and went to a restaurant anything everyone would stare at
me because apparently they're doing the number of
Whitener. You know what they were staring out. They're like,
look at how that guy holds this fork. Oh my god, can
you use chopsticks in China my friend
no kill anyway.
So anyway, we went to this little park and a bunch of
Chinese kids had demanded they all take pictures of me with
them.
Yeah, that's kind of the same one. I went to the long necks in
in Thailand. And then of course right after they Oh, take
picture. Guy. What is this? Yeah, your neck longer than
mine. And we need to know agenda junket to Shanghai that's what
we need.
That would be good. So actually, we did that might be another bad
thing to set was on travellers, you get a bunch of the no agenda
mavens, and we can all go together. And
let's get Thomas Cook. Hey, you know, that's John, great idea.
Let's get all the no agenda, people on a plane. And let's try
to fly to Russia. This is a great idea. Russia, and let's
make sure let's make sure we have it checked a year before by
the Russians. This is great. Maybe not all right, couple of
updates on Haiti. And then I'm done. Because I just don't want
to forget that we started talking about the shysters that
show up and just send us your cash and this outrageous
bullshit that's going on with Haiti. This was sent to me by
one of our producers, Phillip Ragnar at his local Safeway, a
note on the door. Please note, due to the current situation
until further notice, Western Union will not be accepting
money transfers to Haiti as it cannot guarantee delivery of
funds. Oh, how does that work? Isn't that just like an
electronic thing?
Well, it really has been intercepted by some agency.
You know it that's just weird. I mean, Western Union that just
that just hit a key, a couple of keystrokes. It pops up on the
the monitor at the other end, and then then someone just
dishes out some cash. So does that really not? Does that mean
that? To me, it's like okay, so all that money we texted, it's
not making it.
I, yeah, I didn't text any because I knew this would
happen.
So the BBC is reporting something very interesting. And
this just really gets my goat. So what is about to happen in
the next four weeks? In Haiti, we've got the rainy season
coming. This is when these people and the reports are about
2 million people who are still displaced living in tents
sleeping in mud, which assumed to be you know, waist high mud,
going to be washed away. So what is the US military say? Well,
we'll be out by June 1. We don't want to be here. We don't want
to be here. Help. Can anybody? It's just like this makes no
sense. It makes no sense.
No, they got to everything's in place. You know, that latest
report, of course, was that a lot of the donations and money
from the UN is being used to to fund the UN in Haiti and give
big fat salaries to a bunch of people in the whole housing
complex that built building for them.
Yeah. $732 million. Couple of notes about that in the show
notes and no agenda. show.com.
So that's kind of interesting. I'm surprised that the Haitians
say good thing. They're not armed to the teeth because I
think they'd be shooting people left and right. Oh, well,
there's all kinds of reports of the violence and the gangs and,
and this one was just crazy. The district attorney in Brooklyn,
New York has said whoa, I think we need to contribute. So he
sent over seven truckloads of confiscated counterfeit designer
clothing and shoes. No this Nike brand Chanel sunglasses
just ludicrous. Let me explain to people that don't know this,
but in New York City, there's a street and you go there and
visit Yeah, now Street, right. And Canal Street, depending on
what side of the street you're on has all these counterfeit
goods and they have lots of them. The watches Rolex watches
you can get for anywhere from 10 to $40, depending on the
movement. All kinds of clothing, lots of bags. My bag or there's
Vitani bags here. phoney baloney cross pins, I mean, just
everything and a lot
of them of course are the are the real deal. Maybe they have a
small defect or it's done in the same factory just pumped out
through
a factory especially when you see some really obscure watch.
That looks exactly like I mean, because nobody who's gonna
counterfeit this thing. I mean, it's like you just too much work
unless you already have the dyes and you're making them already
well, so permission was obtained from manufacturers including
Nike Timberland, antique denim jeans, black label Christian,
Adi GA, allowing these knockoffs to be donated to the Haitians
because according to Kings County District Attorney,
Charles J. Hines, if they're going to die, they might as well
look good. I made that I made that up. Yeah. But it's like
what? This is crazy. It's just it's just absolutely nuts. I'm
sorry. It's not quite as nuts as I had some more on the
toothbrush thing that's for real man that that toothbrush bring
it bring a new toothbrush for the people for ad. But here's
here's a dichotomy and then I'll get off it. So there's some
pictures that are surfacing of 61,000 pounds of butterball
Turkey that are that have been shipped to Haiti. Now here now,
first of all, this is a dumb thing to send. Because Turkey
needs me this is not a handy item. It needs to be kept
frozen,
but it has to be refrigerated, not necessarily frozen.
Well the box says keep frozen. I'm looking at the box right
there probably because they're frozen frozen that you don't
want them to thaw. Yeah, so but they're stacked and the reason
why they're stacked and this is a report from think it's from CB
s. And let's just listen to this for a second. I actually I
didn't I taken your advice, and I have made an actual sound clip
recording instead of playing the online video.
Of all the things you've heard about earthquake aid to Haiti,
here's something you probably didn't know. Haiti's government
wants large scale food assistance and free health care
to stop. It's it's news to you. It was to us too, when Katie
Couric recently visited Haiti and spoke to Aaron Boyd, a
nutrition aide for UNICEF,
okay, it's all the UN people there, right. So you always
gotta be wary of that
boy disagrees with cutting back on aid, but told why it's being
done. When you continue having a lot of food distributions, you
lower the price of foods that people can't trade and it
disrupts markets basically. In other words, there may be such a
thing as too much help. The public outpouring is so
generous. It's interfering with the Haitian economy. If food is
Free, Local farmers can't sell what they grow. desperately poor
residents who aren't earthquake victims are moving into refugee
camps for the free food and health care what the government
wants residents to be less dependent on foreign aid. Not
more. Susan rightly is with USA ID the US agency that
distributes foreign aid.
First of all, do you buy this mean isn't this just crazy? It's
disturbing the local economy.
It's bogus.
So that's why these butterball frozen turkeys are just stacked
up thawing, leaking Turkey guts at the airport there.
It sounds like they just had a bunch of overage overstock a
turkeys they wanted to get rid of can we do? Well, I got a good
tax write off.
Let's send them to Haiti,
Haiti to ride off on the whole deal.
Yay. You've got promoted you're now Vice President. Good job.
It's already step $562 million on Haiti relief as they've
requested that these large scale food distributions and as well
as some of the large scale programmes which are really
pulling people into the camps, we're working with them we are
in complete agreement with them on this point
holding back on a mean something a lot of American donors might
find unthinkable even as many go without meals. Relief food
that's already made it to Haiti is now being sent to warehouses
for future disasters. US AI D calls it pre positioning.
Ooh, we have a word there's a new word reposition jingle, pre
pre positioning so you go hungry, pre pre positioning it
just see the Haiti the Haitians lining up. Hey, can I have some
of that preposition food please? I'm really hungry. And some of
that preposition health care, because you know, you're ruining
the healthcare economy go that's it. They've got to have a health
care bill. Maybe that's what they want. This is not the Did
she not clearly say food and health care.
I didn't she didn't hear the health care. Yeah, was it the
first thing she said food and health care but health care we
have to preposition to your health care because we need the
local economy position
means get in line. A new word. Line? Yeah,
stay tuned for that word to show those people. Well, we're
pre positioning our pre positioning
them. That's right.
So there's enough left now to pre position for future knee and
that's exactly what we're doing. Right?
How can they do this? How can you come up with some bogus new
word and you just casually throw it out as though it's always in
the lexicon? Well, because
they're divorcing themselves from old vernacular. It's the
Newspeak you gotta fit this I love this stuff. This is great.
What?
That's It's unbelievable. Today branch of the UN also tells us
aid. The US News it's scaling back food aid at the request of
the Haiti government. storing food for future needs the
Haitian
government, put in by the US and help help put in there by the
CIA. Were on board with the programme to turn this into a
tax haven and gambling paradise with roads like Hillary court
and build Jefferson way.
The shift away from free food on a massive scale has been done
quietly in Haiti and has opened a can of worms relief
efficiency,
which they can eat, have your jerky
your worm need to keep the donations flowing worry that
once word gets out, people will be less likely to give other say
that donations meant for earthquake relief food should
not now be used for other needs. as of tonight, total donations
to Haiti meet and exceed the biggest estimates of how much it
will cost to rebuild up to $14 billion. The record breaking
Hope for Haiti telephone in January brought in more than $66
million.
That's that's all we brought in, by the way $66 million. That's
it.
That sounds like they're fudging the numbers on the low side.
That doesn't make any sense to me. I mean, the whole world
watched that we were in awe, we had
tears. Watch it, it should have been a lot more money than we're
texting our
$10 It was lovely. The $4 billion raised by non government
groups and charities. The US government has given more than a
billion dollars and has pledged another billion plus, other
countries in world bodies have pledged 8.7 5 billion over two
years. That's $14.9 billion and counting. With all that aid
pouring in some worry that it will feed corrupt and criminal
elements rather than at all there are reports of gangs
intercepting aid and selling food on the black market with
impunity from high ranking officials. It's just one example
of the complexities in play when Traister
show up and take advantage of people's goodwill and
generosity. Yep.
There you go. That's your that's your Haiti report. Things going
well.
Yeah, well, I don't know what to say. Well, Should you know it's
just a? I don't know, let's talk about something else. I mean, we
harp on this will never end until the hotels are built. And
then we're invited to some, you know, some sort of chinos. Yeah.
And they'll go there and be all Hades behind the crap table.
The jingle, by the way, should be Newspeak of the week. That's
a suggestion from the chat room. Newspeak of the week. Yeah, like
the end of the week, because we do seem to have one about
weekly. We need a
Jeff for that one. Yeah, sir. Jeff. Okay. Sir. Jeff,
what do you got for me, my brother?
Well, we do have some, I have a couple of interesting I have a
lot of my clips this week are all you know from me get to a
blank screen here.
By the way, can I just say that? Can I just jinx it for a moment
and say that the sound quality is outstanding. I hear you great
today since I made this change. And we have not been kicked off
yet. But we're coming up on the 45 minute mark. So any minute
now?
Yeah. Well, the kicking off is a different thing. And the sound
quality I'm sure.
Yeah. How are you receiving me on that end? Is it good? You
Yeah, you sound you sound you sound the same as you always
sound you sound fantastic.
Okay. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you, baby. That's what I need to
hear. For you have reaffirmed
that part now? Okay, let's see here.
Well, while you're looking, no, I've had I've just seen the
website new money.gov. Have you heard about our new $100? Bill?
You know what I don't I guess there's counterfeiting the the
old lenders already. So they came up with this ones, which
has gotten one of those mag mag stripes on it?
Well, of course, the minute we have one of these, we got to see
if it has an RFID chip embedded? Hmm, it may it may it may it may
you don't know. But here's the question I have.
I'm gonna go to my bank. My load, I'm gonna go to my bank
tomorrow. You know, our bank. And I'm going to ask him is to
get me one of those issues they come in.
So here's a question I have for you. Because I this new
money.gov. I looked through the site. And one of the questions I
have is if they print up a whole bunch of new $100 bills, they
literally say, you know, we're not taking the old bills out of
circulation immediately. Oh, no, they never do. Right. But isn't
that the equivalent of printing money?
They are printing money. That's right. It
isn't like printing more money. Isn't this in? Heels are
always coming out of circulation. Right. But if there
is what I think the answer to that question was, if we, you
know, we're not taking all the old bills to replace it with all
the new bills where we it's a process where money is taken out
of circulation as money is put into circulation. Sometimes you
put more money in and you take out, which is your complaint
would be? Okay, let's let's play a couple clips
here. You're not answering my question. But thanks anyway,
I'm not going to answer it because I don't have an answer
for it. Here's a couple of interesting things that most of
the stuff I have this week is about kind of predicting what's
going to be happening in the future. In terms of who's gonna
get screwed.
We're looking into John's crystal ball.
Let's listen to this clip called Germany and Goldman Sachs.
Okay. And the move is one of the first acts taken by an LPS new
CEO who took office just last week, Sylvia vamper is in
Frankfort. She has more details on this. And Sylvia what
happened to her innocence until proven guilty.
Well, I guess let me set this up the bay are in bank, the event
of a very, I guess, dissociated cell from Goldman Sachs after
this initial investigation began this week. Yeah, which they're
not the only ones to do that. They're not the only ones. But
then turns out this woman who's in an analyst for CNBC world,
she says that it looks as though you'll hear it that Germany as a
whole may dissociate. But I'm thinking Goldman Sachs is so you
know, they've contended that it's like the octopus at this
point in time. Their tentacles are everywhere. I'm predicting a
and you'll listen to the rest of the clip. And I'm predicting
that Germany is going to get screwed by pulling if they pull
this stunt. Okay.
And yes, I have some thoughts on that was listening to the rest
of the clip.
Well, I think as far as banking is concerned, it's a very tricky
situation. I talked to somebody from the Bavarian finance
ministry last night. And
is this that kind of weirdly hot chick with a blonde hair with a
weird part in the middle?
And no, just the opposite.
You know what I'm talking about though, right? Yeah, no, this is
not I like her. She she has like, weird like your style. She
looks like she's from the spaceship. She's a tall blonde.
Okay, that's not her good.
Awesome, because the Bavarian state of Bavaria, of course, is
the major shareholder. And he said quite clearly, he said,
Look, banking is built on trust. If you don't trust your bankers
anymore, then you have to take a step back and I think In a case
of Bionaire bait might be even more politically motivated than
anywhere else. Because we know that with their backs against
the wall, they had to bail to be bailed out several times.
Goldman Sachs was their investment advisor for the toxic
ating toxic assets for two years. And at the moment,
they're thinking, maybe they were not the right advisors for
that. So I think on a political scale, that's the right
decision. But the bigger one is the one that might be coming up
yet is whether or not the German government will decide to kick
Goldman out of the out of the boondocks, unlike a consortium,
that's a consortium that places federal government paper, we're
talking about really big money, we're talking about big
prestige. Goldman has been on there for years. And I can only
quote one of the finance senators of Berlin, who said and
I have to quote this because it has to be clear how those
investment bankers of Goldman Sachs are behaving in business
relations. So it raises serious doubt whether their owners
businessmen judged by the personal experience with Goldman
Sachs in the last month, I intend, if possible, not to do
any business with them anymore. That's foolishness. But I'm the
finance senator of Berlin. And people like that sit in the cup
of tarmac also set decides who will issue German government
paper.
So before we go, thank you, before we go into analysing
this, John, almost exactly the same report in the forks ground
and Gitmo nation lowlands Minister of Finance says you
know what? Yeah, these Goldman guys they basically are the
transaction agent for all of our our national paper, in other
words, the debt. So Goldman's completely all over the
Netherlands as well. And exactly the same words, well, we can do
without Goldman we can we can, we can figure out someone else
or we can get somebody else. Do you think that this is a hit on
Goldman, or this seems so unbelievable that that as you
say Goldman is everywhere, in every, in fact, the Dutch Prince
Johann Frisco, who is married to one of George Soros, his top
lieutenants, Mabel vissa. Smith. Now, of course, her last name is
different, but people know her by that name. He worked at
Goldman for four or five years. I mean, they're everywhere. So
what is going on here? I mean, are they really trying to take
it out or find a guy to blame it on? Because it's all coming down
anyway? What do you say? I don't know
for sure. But I mean, it could be it could be Lehman Brothers
X. Lehman Brothers funeral for all we know behind it, because
they're the ones that have the biggest complaint with Goldman
and Lehmann was just in front of the Congress. For I think it was
in the last week or so because I saw it kept seeing the see fit.
I think I have it on tape, the CEO of Lehmann trying to explain
what happened to that could
this not be at a higher level because it could
be on some government level? How
about Rothschild level?
I think they'd be in bed with Goldman. If anything, the whole
thing there's something suspicious about it. And I
honestly believe that somehow Obama's involved with this in
some screwy way play the Obama on Goldman, this kind of took me
by surprise. This is where the where the White House is saying
we have your happiness, you know, nothing ever happened.
It's nice because this is by the way, he's looking around very
peculiar. He is this is a blatant lie, as far as I can
tell
if Actelion were the first on CNBC, and a thank you to
Carolyn, who joined us in that interview from zero. Now
President Obama has told CNBC that his administration was not
tipped off about the legal action engulfing Goldman Sachs,
speaking exclusively to CNBC is John Harwood yesterday, he in
fact, said the first he heard about the SEC is fraud charges
against the bank was on this channel.
And the SEC is an entirely independent agency that we have
no day to day control over and they never discussed with us
anything with respect to the charge that will be brought up.
So this notion that somehow there would be any attempt to
interfere in an independent agency is completely false. So
you can say categorically, no winks, no hands up in advance,
no signal from anyone categorically. We found out
about it on
CNBC. Ah, you know, whenever someone says categorically, you
know, they're lying.
They're lying. But the here's the thing. Unfortunately, this
particular lie, I don't think makes Obama look that good.
Because Are you telling me here, let's take a look at this from
another perspective. Are you telling me that the White House
is so out of touch with its own agencies are the agencies of the
US government who they do communicate with you as an
independent agency that yeah, they don't manage it, but they,
you know, they put everybody in place. It's a government
property, though you telling me that the White House of this
country is so out of touch with what's going on around it? That
something as important as this and that people at the SEC
aren't stupid. They know that Goldman's in the midst of
everything, you're telling me that nobody told them about
this. They had no communications. And they've only
found out about it on CNBC. So in other words, it was released
to the press before the government itself knew is that
how isolated these people are? I mean, what is what is the
subtext to this message is ridiculous. Well, I
have some context to that from former President Bill Clinton,
who was an ABC and was asked about because we know that the
derivatives started during his administration. It was
completely deregulated. He definitely had contact with the
SEC. In fact, he's saying this is a crappy sec, you want to
hear my clip? Sure. You mentioned financial regulatory
reform. Once, by the way, financial regulatory reform,
which is now President Obama's new health care. This is his new
mission, because we have to have it because there's all kinds of
little tricks in there to help his buddies out. Just go ahead.
Oh, yeah. And read it off. There's all kinds of groovy
stuff in there. This was even his presidential address is his
weekly radio YouTube thingy.
The things that President Obama is pushing for is regulation of
derivatives, and also with a thing called the Volcker Rule.
He's trying to separate commercial banking.
So the President is starting this reform, and then the SEC
goes after Goldman Sachs. Oh, really? I think mattresses from
investment banking interests. These were things that were the
opposite policies of Treasury Secretary Rubin and summers at
the time, do you think in retrospect, they gave you bad
advice on those issues?
Well, I think, on the derivatives on the, on the,
before the Glass Steagall Act was repealed.
It had been breached, there was already a total merger,
practically of commercial and investment banking. And really,
this is a revelation for me to hear this.
This is also bullshit, but I'll go on. Well, I
have to say that the Glass Steagall was breached and
everyone knew it. It was like we always like oh, it's
all they had to do is just say, hey, wait a minute, and they
could have they could have in push, push the laws that were
within Glass Steagall if it was breached, and it was gonna
continue to be breached Why would you go out of your way to
repeal it?
But the big joke is everyone knew what it was always wink
wink nudge nudge. Yeah. Chinese wall. Yeah. For sure. And
because I was around all this in the 90s, when, when the.com boom
was exploding and all these companies were going public and
I would order that's the Chinese wall with the analysts can't
talk to that guy. Wink, wink, nudge nudge, the main thing that
Glass Steagall, by the way, Clinton looks like he's on the
brink of death. In this interview,
he doesn't look good, he looks bad, but did
was to give us some power to regulate it when the repeal and
also to give old fashioned traditional banks in all over
America, the right to take an investment interest. If they
wanted to forestall bankruptcy. Sadly, none of them did that.
Mostly, it was just the continued blurring of the lines,
but only about a third of all the money loaned today is long
in traditional banking channels. And that was well underway
before that legislation slam. So I don't feel the same way about
that. I think what happened was the SEC and the whole regulatory
apparatus after I left office was just let go.
So he said, Oh, this new SEC blows is what
he loves. Here's an interesting thing that happened in this past
week, which is not covered by anybody except the right wing
talk show guys and mainly Rush Limbaugh. And what it was is a
commentary that was done by Dick Morris. I think it was on one of
the it was on Fox, I believe was probably on a riot.
I haven't you want I have the clip. Hold on. Uh, so it's just
the
one where he talks about Clinton? About Waco. Yeah, yeah.
You want to talk about
what Limbaugh said, Okay, here it comes. This is amazing
revelation. Oh, yeah.
We're coming to understand what was Timothy McVeigh is
motivation. God knows what's going on in that crazy head of
his but there is some speculation that then he himself
had said that it was the reaction to the Waco takeover.
And Bill Clinton orchestrated that takeover. And in fact, was
so ashamed about what he did in Waco, that he was not going to
report and point Janet Reno to a second four year term. And she
told him in a meeting right before the inauguration day for
his new jerem that if you don't appoint me, I'm gonna tell the
truth about Waco. And that forced Clinton's hand and
reappointing her. So nobody told this story. But no, it's never
been said before. I think that President Clinton might want to
examine his own connection with the Oklahoma City bombing in
terms of Waco before he starts accusing people and walkers and
wheelchairs who are trying to keep them Medicare wherever it
being from so worse so what was the truth about waco that Reno
threatened to use against I have no idea but I know that he told
me Clinton told me that I couldn't not appoint Reno
because she would have turned on me over waco that's the phrase
What do you
want whoa okay so Limbaugh that was Hannity show I guess so
Limbaugh picked this up and and dug into Clinton's my life which
of course he derisively calls my lies, Clintons a biography, and
Clinton in the biography not only throws Reno under the bus,
claiming that it was all her responsibility by the way this
does make sense because I always thought that after Waco and Ruby
Ridge which people should definitely read about and
there's a good rundown in the most recent wiki entry wiki
entry is quite good on Ruby Ridge and the basic murdering of
American citizens on American soil. It with no accountability,
apparently, the after those two events, which were under Janet
Reno's rule. I thought she wasn't going to get reappointed.
So it's obvious that she had some Muslim, she had some time
and what it was is that he may have been responsible for
orchestrating as Dick Morris said the entire waco incident
and he was and he was embarrassed about so Limbaugh
brought out the book and started reading from his bio what
Clinton had to say about it, it was quite funny, because it's
mostly weasel words. And so I was all against it. I didn't
even know they're going to do this. And, and, and I was going
to take full responsibility, though, because I was Oh, man.
Oh, dude, he does the same thing in this financial clip. I take
responsibility.
So he says I was going to take full responsibility for this.
But Stephanopoulos talked me out of it. came up to me from Reno
came up to me, she says, Don't worry, President, Mr. President,
it's my fault. Anyway. It's my fault for screwing up. So I will
take I will take full responsibility. And Clinton says
in his biography, no, no, no, Janet, I'll take responsibility
because I'm the president and Stephanopoulos and one other.
One other of his minions said no, Mr. President, you can't do
that. Because it's you shouldn't do that does against me. It's
not a good idea. And he's right. And so then Clinton says,
against my better judgement, I agreed with them.
Former President Bill Clinton's on Friday said and I'm reading
from Politico that legitimate comparisons can be drawn between
today's grassroots anger and resentment toward the government
and the right wing extremism that bubbled up prior to the
bombing of the Edward Morrow Building in Oklahoma City. He's
he's, I mean, what kind of setup is this? He's saying
that the setup is well of course the the just Tea Party thing is
getting on their nerves. Okay. Yeah. And the setup is the
following. First, you got to demonise them. My job, old
restore wheelchairs they're at you got to demonise him and then
you've got to do what all the good pullet politicians do if
you got us plant agent provocateur is our John
provocateurs within the organisation. The ones that
carry the weird signs, the one that used the N word, you just
bring them in as as though they were members, and then they
infiltrate and then they embarrass the whole group and
then the whole thing falls apart when people say these people are
terrible. They're a bunch of racists. Yeah. So that's, you
know, what do you hear from less the Rachel Maddow and, and
Olbermann and all these guys because they'll get on that Bill
Maher, Bill Maher Bill Maher bar for sure. Here's,
here's the quote from the President. I wish I had audio,
because he's apparently is listening to this very show.
What we learned from Oklahoma City is not that we should gag
each other or that we should hold less passion for the
positions we hold but that our words really do matter. There's
a vast echo chamber and the words fall on the Sirius and
Delirious alike. Have at it. Go fight, do whatever you want. You
don't have to be nice, but be careful with what you say. And
do not advocate violence. Oh, I just got to play
with me, sleeve. So in the in the meantime, MSNBC cobbled
together a special on the Tim McVeigh tapes, which I guess
we'll use and I don't even know how you know how these are
edited? Or that we don't know anything of the phone calls.
Phone calls or I don't think your phone calls from the
compact. I don't know. I don't know what these tapes right.
There was tapes that were made as a deep briefing. Somebody's
got to interview them or something they did. They've been
Captain, you know, forever and now they've been released
to release them to demonise people right.
Yeah, and McVeigh but yeah, but they you know the problem with
the left wingers in this regard and Rachel Maddow is the is the
voice over the narrator and she's like trying to be really
serious she doesn't have any that's nice quality. She's
actually fair at doing this. But the there's but they just can't
resist as it's always you know there's a there's a checklist
just as with the right wingers there's this checklist if you
don't do this and this and this and this as a conservative
you're you're a rhino. With the left, they've got their little
little agendas that always crop up. Now I want you to play this
clip. Now this clip runs about three minutes, and you can
interrupt it at any given time, but when the when the meme comes
up? Uh huh. You're going to I want you to identify it
immediately. Because it's going to be the all brother. I mean,
this is like it's like, what how did they get this into here? Is
this mean, which we've discussed over the past few weeks? The
meme is, is a live one. Cuz that's interesting. They'd slip
this in.
So this is more Newspeak of the week.
I guess. No, no, it's just a meme. Just a plain old meme. All
right, here we go.
Using this is ridiculous. Oh, it's great. I can't wait for
Rachel responsibility
for all my actions for who I am. I am not looking in any way,
shape or form to blame anything on my parents or my upbringing.
Tim was born into a working class family and just north of
Buffalo, New York. It's a hard working community of blue collar
folks. His father, his grandfather worked at an auto
plant family he was born into was very typical American.
Timothy McVeigh was the first son in that family. And he had
an older sister, and then later a younger sister came along.
Growing up to me, I was taught with my family that even getting
a speeding ticket was like a sin type thing. You know, it wasn't
this religious thing. I don't want to say sit in a religious
home. And like any breaking the law is bad. You should never
break the wall.
And energetic generally happy kid McVeigh did not see too much
of that joy inside his own home. His parents I
love Rachel's voiceover it's really, really impressive with
amuse bill and
Mickey are constantly at odds with one another. His parents
didn't mesh together very well, Mickey. I think twin is
something bigger, something better and just wanted to be
free.
The sisters and Tim were put in a very difficult situation. When
the family broke up, the sisters decided to go with the mom. And
she moved down to Florida. And Tim said no, I'm staying with
dad.
With my parents. Be completely honest. I can't sit here today
and tell you that I truly love them. I know what love is. And I
don't think I feel it to my parents. You asked if there's
any men that I love. I love my grandfather McVeigh.
Ed McBain lived just a mile or so down the road and became a
role model and constant presence in young McVeigh's life. Once
his mother and sisters moved away
and did a lot of child rearing with Tim. And thank God egg was
there because he would have had no one. He would go shooting
with his grandfather. He did everything with his grandfather.
In contrast to the safe haven he found with his grandfather.
McCray struggled with the social pressures of high school. Oh,
oh, was he bullied? Was he bullied? I can't wait. Highly
intelligent by all accounts. MC face problems were not in the
classroom.
I think they started called newly made because I was trained
as a noodle. lanky and so then they started as well. Noodle
chicken noodle soup. Chicken Nuggets, chicken nuggets,
chicken.
He got picked on. And that was one of the resentment that he
heard is throughout his entire life bullies,
bullies. Bullies I got bullied are gonna be radical to blow up
children. I can't even listen to this anymore.
That it doesn't get any better. You can stop it there. It's the
jocks, which I thought was Yeah,
well screw the jocks. Wow, bullying. Well, you know, this
fits the way
you can either left get the people on this side of the
aisle. They just can't get off this bullying thing. Well,
I'll say it again. This. This was a huge thing a couple years
back and Gitmo nation East when I was living in London. And it's
all there was another report Christina, my daughter's here
still with us and we were watching salt melt on the news
and was about this girl who committed suicide because she
was bullied. And I watched Christina and I watch her
reaction to this. And these kids have really been indoctrinated
with this bullying stuff, you know? And she's like, wow, yeah,
this bullying is out of control. Look at how horrible this is. So
it's working. It's working on a very deep social, sociological
or psychological level. Because of course, everyone gets bullied
at school. At some point, everyone gets some
bullying order in school and you know, it's like life. Let's like
the way it is you get bullies. What bothers members, I'm
concerned about people that grow up isolated from this and then
they will go into the real world where they get bullied by a
Madoff or a salesperson. You know, I've been getting nothing
but phone calls from all these sales because I got to someone
list and somebody finally told me about who put the list up as
a tell it tell a marketing list for apparently people who are
stupid enough to buy securities over the phone from some bite,
but you don't know. And these guys, they have a hard sell. I
usually jump on it on their case, especially with the one
sales pitch, I really find it annoying, which is would you
agree with me that blah, blah, blah? Would you agree with me
that blah, blah, blah? Would you agree with me that so then you
get you in an agreeable mood anytime anyone says, Would you
agree with me? I immediately say no, I'm not going to agree with
anything you say. Bla, bla, bla, bla, it really screws them up.
But anyway,
I think you can take this one step further, I see the
direction where this is going. Our previous show, actually the
title I think was bully for you. I don't know if that was the
show, the previous show or the one before that this is a very
you write a very active meme, it's going one step further,
because what a bullies do, what the bullies do, when they need
to strike back and get rid of all of that anger. Well, they
become terrorists on the internet. Listen to Kathleen
Parker, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist from the Washington
Post, who is now a member of the Face the Nation team. Listen to
what she says someone
made an interesting point to me recently, and talking about how
you know some of this really nasty rhetoric that shows up on
the internet, where you don't know who said it, there really
is no accountability of the internet being the only place
the only vehicle to deliver news that has no editor, you don't
know where this stuff comes from, whether it's true or
false. And this person has said to me, you know, we've always
had a pinion that comes from various places, like during
Lincoln's day, every newspaper had an editorial point of view,
but this person said, the difference was, in those days,
you knew which paper it was coming from. Right now, you
don't know where some of this is coming from. And that is the
added factor. That's volatility of this stuff. And
yeah, it's interesting. People will say anything when they have
the cloak of anonymity, it's sort of like terrorism, you
know, we don't know where to aim
our against better, it's good, better. It's, it's just like the
cloak of terrorism. Listen, anonymity.
It's sort of like terrorism, you know, we don't know where to aim
our bombs, we don't
know where to aim our bombs.
Can't go after a country because there are, you know, there's no
one place to focus on and it's the same thing with it's the
same thing with the internet, you can't really you don't know
who to go after. And you and I, I'm sure you share some of the
bullying, the wonderful experiences I've bullying, of
being attacked and threatened and whatnot and bullied and
that's, it sort of feeds on itself, you know, builds and
people who are not well grounded and who may have these, these
more violent tendencies.
The terrorists on the internet suddenly find a
place where they can
convene and find validation and even find company and
convene know we're coming together in a dam on a message
board. biatch I
don't know where that all leads, but it's, it's kind of scary.
Oh, it's kind of scary. It's
so scary. What's scary, John, is we have missed our mark. We got
to talk about some support here. Yeah. Can I just say this
particular episode of no agenda has flown has been flowing very
nicely. Our clips are complimentary. It's like we had
to have clips. It's like we had a meeting. Almost.
It is. And I can assure any listener out there. We did.
We don't didn't we did not have a meeting. Let me just thank
you. We
do a lot of one upsmanship on the show. The show is actually a
free form conversation between two people, which makes a little
unique. And we don't plan. I mean, we but the thing is, it's
at some point, and I think listeners get to this point to
where you can just you see this stuff, this stuff coming down
Broadway. I mean, it's the obvious story of the week.
There's the obvious Real News, which we'll get to after we
think some people or for giving us some some help with their
contributions.
And so what we don't do is we don't take advertisements,
because we can't a because we would have had to interrupt the
flow of that we just had for the past hour and 10 minutes, we'd
have had to interrupt it six times. But we'll be right back.
I know you're really into the story. I know, you're gonna have
a lot of fun listening to Rachel Maddow clip about bullying, but
we'll be right back. Why don't stay tuned, everybody. We'll be
right back. So we hate doing that. And of course, we couldn't
talk about half the stuff we talked about.
Yeah. And the other thing is its overhead issue. You it takes,
you know, people who do advertising and
pain in the ass to track
it. All you have to was besides that you have to hire people.
You have to have sales people you I mean to do advertising,
right? I mean to do it slipshod. Yeah, we could probably get some
advertisers once in a while because we meet him someplace.
But to do it right, you need a full time staff of salespeople.
And it would just and it would ruin the show. It would ruin our
attitudes. We'd rather spend time working on the stories that
managing some sales geek. And
hey, what's your pipeline? Like?
Oh, no sales report for this week. I mean, I mean, TPS
reports for me. And we we also believe that people who enjoy
the show or get something out of it or use it for their commute,
entertainment, our they are supporting the show directly.
We're getting direct support from people. We're showing that
as a new business model, I actually make take this model
over to DH unplugged. About I think we're going to ask for
money for I think for Horowitz the show,
are you sure you, you whore? You? You are in slot?
You're the one who told me that this? And I believe I didn't I
thought you were
well hold on a second, but I do the daily source code to
contribute to the stream. Now you're going to enrich Horowitz?
Well, let me think about we'll talk about that.
Enrich is a big word, by the way. rich,
rich is like you know, you could like it's like it's like what's
he got his wallet as we speak. So. But the point is, you made
the point that the that this model is probably the model of
the future for this type of broadcast. Yes, it is. It's
direct support. If you don't like the show, you don't have to
give us any money. A lot of people like to show and they
don't give us any money. We assume that's always going to be
in the mix. But if you don't, but if we if everything support
completely dried up, which it hasn't, but if it did it that
would be an indication that we're you
know, we're doing the wrong thing. So we saw the air Yeah.
And we would have to go get a job.
So I mean, so that's the reason for direct support anyway, Tom
dairy officer Tom dairy from my was apparently a policeman gave
us 182 bucks with the with the sum calculation, which I'm not
absolutely sure means anything, but it's just as a cop
patrolling at night. Your show helps me to keep away.
Good. I'm very happy about that.
That's excellent. We need more police listening to this show.
Mark. Okay, here we go.
And now you can know this guy, because you you pronounce his
name the same way as a famous Dutch soccer hero. Does that
gives me a clue? Come on, you know this guy that he was in the
70s. He was huge project growth crowd or you might smile. You
might say in Dutch or American American, you'd say Christ by
God. But Krause, Johann Clara's famous Krause was famous
69 But he got enough attention. Okay, he says he had another
Dutch name he can pronounce John. So he did he put something
in Dutch which obviously what does he say there?
blithely hope to bowfin it my felt out steak. Okay, but so
this is a famous Dutch proverb. Which goes something like this.
The blades of grass that grow above the rest always get
cut off. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the Japanese think this too.
So he's saying keep sticking your head up.
Oh, that hurt. Yeah. But that's, that's the problem with this
with the Nordic and Scandinavian countries. They all have this,
this notion that they have nothing but trouble marketing
things because of that. They won't Oh, I don't want to do an
advertisement because my god, I think, you know, we get my head
cut off because I'm in our blade of grass.
It's a thing. It's a part of the Calvinists thing.
It's part of but it's been it's very, very secure as a as a
cultural icon within that communities up in that area.
Carlos Sanchez, Chicago, Illinois 6666.
Go ahead, John. Okay. Carlos Sanchez wants to wish happy
birthday to his son. son's first birthday and yesterday was my
wife's 32nd Keep up a good up the good work he says he's yes
he's no longer a douchebag and he's been listening to the show
forever. There you go. is rife in need and son Kai out actually
had a lot of birthdays today. A rollin bold Earth is that
pronounce right builder, builder, builder, builder bu LD
ers builder builder bool with over $62 Eric Neuwirth Fresno,
two nickels on the dime he wants to promote his health care
podcast. He does a deconstruction it's infected
show.com Check it out. When you get a chance infected show.com
ever looked at it. Kyle cubus Swanton, Vermont. He's donating
on his behalf of his brother Casey for his birthday. Oh,
sorry.
No agenda. He and Cal calls himself a douchebag. And now a
Mac Davidson brown Island, British Columbia that two
nickels on the dime 5510 On his birthday Saturday, he was
listening to the show in his headphones and he cut himself.
Yeah, that's really good. Jeffrey, well, he has surgery.
This is not funny. He had surgery. Yeah,
he comes up by listening to the show, which I think was one that
he gave us the 5510s on the base
hand. We're spurting blood, but he did not stop listening to the
show.
Well, there you have it. I think that's in a nutshell. Jeffrey
Wolfe market. Right. Marquette, Michigan. David Byrne Neff,
Raleigh, North Carolina, one of the finest states in the
country. I always have to mention that. Let's see. We also
have David Hollis, more well, Australia with a very long
message. You can
well yeah, he would. This is a partner. We got a lot of 420
donations actually. $4.20 no one no one I expected at least one
person do $420 Which of course is the code for marijuana. So a
lot of people did 420 And a lot of people said to happy for 20
and he says the world would be a better place if people smoked
pot and listened to no agenda. Yeah, that's what I want on my
tombstone.
And you know, he also set up a proxy. No agenda
podcast.appspot.com. Who cool I didn't know agenda podcast will
we'll put these two proxy servers in the
note gentlemen, let me do that. Right. Okay. And we appreciate
people doing that by the way. Jason Fenwick Arlington,
Virginia. Keeps Keep up the good work. He says Ricky Pierce,
Sydney, New South Wales, Rodney Lewis, Chelmsford, Essex, and
then we have a bunch of those are $50 each and then some
knighthood layer was are still here. John Kelly in Edgecombe,
John Edgecombe, and let's see. Brian Currie and Jeffrey Glennon
And that wraps up that was a pretty good group of people.
Yeah, actually, so well, you and I do have a couple of notes here
that I have to read
for our our executive producers, right?
Well, no,
yes we do. Yes, we do. Yes,
we do get that but let me get these other ones out of the way.
David Kosh has a is playing some pinball number three court game
or something? I don't know what the aniboom Sesame Street
content Hold
on a second. This is important. I have it here. David cos he
donated $200 says please ask everyone to vote for my pinball
number count 3d animation, which is in a Sesame Street contest is
actually pretty cool. I looked at it it's a teaches kids how to
count. If I win the cash prize, I will immediately finish off my
knighthood and the feature will be played on Sesame Street,
which of course I do hope you put a little secret in the
morning in that somewhere I didn't catch it but that would
have been really cool. If that could be on Sesame Street. You
can go to pinball number count.com Pinball number
count.com. And David maybe you can when they when they ask you
for the win, you win, which you undoubtedly will now. When you
give them the high res file, maybe you could slip in a little
no agenda show.com or an in the morning or something into the
animation and get that into kid's head. It's
trying to do and then you have the one the other message which
you have I think
I got a couple messages. Oh actually we have oh my gosh,
it's unbelievable today
so we have a couple of Associate Executive producers and Simon
ox. Ox de vie. Am I doing this right in the right place? Yeah.
He donated $240 And he wants to say happy birthday to his father
who also listens to the show. Happy birthday. Yeah, Dale.
I don't want to say anything disparaging but did yeah, April
21. Is Hitler's birthday. I don't know if that means
anything. Well, that was yesterday. And that's also a
common Electress birthday does that Yeah.
Okay, then we have Kay Margaret door George de Margaret. Thanks
for the relevant current info. I'm okay with the guys when we
already talked about her donation being the executive
producer and then the other Associate Executive Producers
ESC Inc. Along with Simon Ochs to be an Edward B of A duart.
Edward I'll just say beer, Towson. And then we have a black
night today. Yeah, which is pretty black night of course is
a night that snuck up on us and actually we have Eric the shill
is going to reach out to a lot of people because we think we
have more black knights and and he's trying to administer all
this stuff. So he's going to be figuring out if we've missed
other people. So John, why don't we unsheath here for a moment.
Do you have your swords get there just Okay. Scott
Rodriguez, Neelam before us. As we now pronounce you, sir. Scott
Rodriguez knights of the no agenda roundtable. Please join
the table and enjoy the hookers and blow and welcome to the
knighthood
my friend. And as the last thing I want to mention, Robert
Campbell is still trying to sell his timeshare and you can go to
on the circle.squarespace.com. You might if you're interested
in moving to Orlando. We'll
get to that out of the year. I have actually two more. Andy
Prowse from Ontario donated $66 Just wanted to say when the
Polish president's plane went down my wife called bullshit on
that. She actually said they took him out for that alone. You
got a one time 6666 The double the magic number, and he's
signing up for the $5 a month plan which we really appreciate.
This is what in in some date in the future will sustain us. And
then the karma club got an amazing one in from Sue
Sylvester Sylvain. I think Sylvain firstly said just in my
second of my three donations 3333 I know it's not much but
it's what I can do right now. Yesterday I went to a restaurant
with my young boy. On the receipt, it was stated we were
sitting at number table number six, the receipt number was
166666 though I thought I should give my second donation make it
6666. Who knows that number six thing may bring me luck. The
reason why I'm doing this my girlfriend and I are the second
couple to place an offer on our house. We'll probably know
tonight if the first offer is dropped and we get the house.
And lo and behold after his second donation, we did it. They
got the house. It's not a hilltop crackpot command centre,
but a nice 1872 story brick house by the river. And the
first. The first people dropped out after he made his wish he
did collect
these stories. We need a website, no agenda, karma. And
someone else needs to be doing that though.
Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying. Somebody will be glad to
do it. And no agenda calm or something like that. And they
would generally it would be like an open posting like a drop bio
or something like that. People just put in the stories. An
excellent idea. All right. Notes we missed, but we'll get to you
next. No, I
think we did pretty good. And we spent a lot of the show on
the third show just because
the special. The deuce club show will just be thanking everybody
we missed.
So talking about it, see what else we didn't miss here on the
clips. So we're done with that talking about some of this
corruption. Let's see what else we got. By the way, there's
another like I said, I would want to look into the future a
little bit. I have I have one that's just it's just a pure
informational post. It's the Burma post. Just play this and
you'll this will be something that we'll be dealing with in
the future.
California for what purpose does the gentleman from California I,
I asked permission to just the house for five minutes to revise
and extend my remarks. Without objection. Thank you very much,
Mr. Speaker, I rise to draw attention to the ongoing plight
of the people of Burma, now referred to as Miramar. Shortly
after the Second World War, Burma was granted its
independence from Great Britain. With democratic institutions in
place rich natural resources and an educated population. It was
expected that Burma would become a wealthy, stable and free
country. Sadly, that country with so much potential has been
dominated by corrupt tyrants. And despite its vast natural
wealth, its people suffer in abject poverty. Even worse, the
people of Burma are actually losing their country to a
foreign power. A Chinese power grab is not only depleting and
stealing Burma's natural resources, but slowly and
surely, Burma is being turned into a subservient province of
Beijing.
China. You know, we need there in Burma. We need another good
earthquake.
Something Yeah, yeah.
Natural Resources, heroin, heroin, opium.
You get a lot of resources in Burma in any way Burma is being
taken over. Nobody cares. So you know, the Chinese are all over
the place. They're good, because they're building building
building they're going crazy over that's why I tell people
just to take a quick trip to Shanghai and and open your eyes.
I mean, you got to see it to believe it. You have no idea. I
mean, it's, it's beyond it's like going to It's like going to
Mars when you go to China for the first time.
Hey, John, we got to talk about the salt thing, man.
You've been following this? Yeah, they're trying to regulate
salt.
But we weren't we talked about this weeks ago. Yeah, I should
probably do the jingle.
That this was happening in New York restaurants. And now the
FDA has received a recommendation from the I O M.
Which is looks like a pretty legit organisation. Although I
haven't really gotten into the, into the nuts and bolts of it.
It's the what do you call it? What what is this institute of
medicine,
which is a never heard of it before now.
Um, they've been around for a really long time. I, as I said,
I did look into the Institute of Medicine. And, you know, I
haven't really, you know, this is one of these websites, they
list their board members, but they don't really have bios, and
I just didn't have the time, frankly, to figure it out. So
I'm sure there's all kinds of pharma connections on it or
something. So the IOM, they come out and they say, You know what,
people are too stupid. You're too stupid to regulate your salt
intake. So we're gonna make some rules about it. And the two
places where they say salt is used in abundance is in
processed foods, which I would have to say arguably is true.
And in restaurants, which I would have to say is probably
not true.
But depends on the restaurant. Well, of course it does. As a
restaurant. Yes, it's true. But if you count, you know, Florida
Lee in San Francisco, there's a restaurant, right? It's not
true.
So here's the first thing that I that I question. Salt, of
course, is blamed for many health issues. Has this all been
proven? Is this all? Is the science in on this stuff? Are we
absolutely sure about about all of this?
Well, I have one of my doctor friends is a salt nut. And he
thinks that salt is a marvellous thing ever invented, and it's
killing everyone. Other people are questioning whether this is
you know, accurate, and I don't know that I don't think that
science is in. But obviously was enough of that. You don't have
to have the science to be totally in anymore. You just say
it is you just
say it's in and then and then again this this thing pops up
about PepsiCo, this thing. This thing really kills me. They have
modified the shape of the sodium chloride crystals. Oh, yeah.
Right. This sounds like a bogus thing here.
This is actually this is funny because this was a story I
wanted to talk about about the problem almost a month ago
because they came up with this. There's like a big thing going
on now about which I think by the way, maybe behind a lot of
this because if you're the one making the product with this
special salt, you can, you know, slam the competition, but the
potato chip makers worked I think fried or one of them
worked slays which is owned by PepsiCo and the kids. So that's
where the disconnect. So what they've done is instead of us
doing They did a bunch of studies first of all that when
you have a potato chip it's not only the saltiness of the chip
that makes you any more of them because you know it's apparently
a tongue feel for the salt crystal itself so you know so
because they powdered salt to a fine dust and then they could
get the same saltiness because most of the salt you swallow in
the crystal and for me not really tasting it so just
swallowing chunks of salt that that aren't adding to the salt
pleasure. So if they powdered it you could get less salt on there
this is crazy but this is a waker you get less salt on the
chip total your total sodium intake could be cut by half but
it's chipped was still maintain the saltiness that you want for
the chips but apparently the cult culturally that bite that
little crunch which and cooks and chefs who make salads and
you're good home cooking to us Florida selling some of these
crystal these big chunks of salt you put these Florida, Cecil sea
salt like the village you know, you crunch it what is your bite
and you eaten this out God crunch crunch, and they gets a
certain kind of pleasure you can't fully define. So anyway,
so they so I think what they're trying to do is develop sort of
a hollow salt crystal that still has a crunch but there's no salt
there as processed to make you know, to get your sodium intake
down. So, you know,
I'm just waiting for where is the aspartame version of salt?
That's gotta be on the horizon. There's no doubt about it. Well,
for no one has done it right.
That's what I don't think it's doable. I think that's why I
think they'll all you can do is screw around with the salt
crystal. And with some of these processes and meat and you know,
get it so the actual salt crystal has half as much sodium
because it's half errors. It's bubbled or it's foamed up
somehow. I don't know. All I know is that this is like this
all part of the process food industry. I think if it wasn't
for these guys, potato chip makers mainly salting the crap
out of their stuff. I think this would even be an issue but
certainly a mountain out of a molehill.
Shouldn't we be educating people more about food in GENERAL and
shut up slave. We're going to change your salt crystals.
There's been a lot of stories. I noticed though, that Jamie
Oliver has been over here because he finally got tired of
him in England. So he's come over here to fix our school
lunch programme, Christina.
Christina said, Of course she lives in London. She said that,
that Jamie Oliver crap in her perception is working.
I think it is to some extent, but I think there's a lot of
stuff that's working. I mean, I think I think that the Gordon
Ramsay shows where he showed people what you should expect
from a restaurant, I think educates the public. You know,
that's true. I think it does. I think people are more aware of
what's good and what's bad and how a restaurant should be, you
know, what should be on the menu and what you should avoid where
you should avoid eating. And I think Jamie Oliver's is also
doing a public service with this. But it's you know, it's
still entertainment and there was a story that came up
recently I can't remember what it was but it had some I was
watching it I said this is just a promotion for the you know as
a news story, but it was like about school lunches or
something this is a promotion for this this TV show or
you know what's also working what's also working extremely
well John is the Avatar the movie mind control that of
course was slipped into your 3d glasses. When you were watching
it, as you're
looking doing what
oh, it's mind controlling you about global warming, about the
oceans acidifying this all being because of carbon emissions and
that we need cap and trade in fact this morning on CNN A M C
they they knew that we had the trademark so they couldn't do
CNN in the morning that do CNN am Sigourney Weaver is in
Washington today and she will be helping to push through the cap
and trade bill and its new name
oh she's I didn't know she was an environmental expert John
Rowe no John wait until you hear how much she knows she Oh John.
Oh Mike. The sciences in eastern
she was just in the highest grossing movie of all time try
to preserve preserve the moon Pandora. Now actress Sigourney
Weaver is trying to help save Planet Earth yay.
When acidity gets too high shells dissolved. Today we're in
a really remarkable history of the ocean. So this
is this is a documentary which she worked on. In other words,
she did the voiceover she's the Rachel Maddow of this
documentary is inexhaustible. And by the way, Happy Earth Day,
John. That's what this is all about. This is all so
coincidental. It's First day, and we have the cap and trade
discussions going on in Washington and there's more
coincidences that you will just not believe, couldn't touch it,
you couldn't harm it. In 100 years, you might be dead.
Tell us, first of all, for folks at home who might not have heard
of this, this is called the other co2 problem. What is ocean
acidification?
John? It's the other co2 problem. Oh, you're gonna love
it. All.
Right. Well, you know, America loves its oceans we, we love our
ocean sports and fish and sea life and a large part of our
economy comes from oceans. And one of the things that
scientists have realised, as we've increasingly used
for thought a large part of our economy came from making war
stuff. I guess it's from oceans,
we should bomb the ocean
fossil fuels is that the impact on the oceans, which we didn't
know about is that the carbon dioxide mixing with seawater
forms carbonic acid. So the ocean is 30% more acidic than it
was at the start of the Industrial Revolution. And oh,
really, where's the data? Z. She's a scientist. Now John,
gets better
unless we curb carbon emissions, which this Congress you know, is
enacting a bill hopefully to, to curb carbon emissions. If we
don't do that, within another 50 years, some of our most precious
sea life. You know, the whole chain of life that makes shells
will be unable to make those shells, it'll be
weakened make shells, shells, the sea life can make shells.
This is bad. I can't collect shells on the beach.
30% even more acidic.
Stop the kind of acidity it would take to dissolve a shell
like a clam shell. If you stepped foot in the ocean, your
foot would just dissolve. I mean, give me a break.
John, she has empirical proof of not just clam shells. Oh, much
more elitist than that. In the
clip we saw and this is from the documentary that you narrated,
called the acid test, we saw shells dissolving in ocean
conditions expected 2090 years from now, but 90 years time this
shows
dissolving John, it's in the documentary must be true
if the current level of co2 emission goes on. But what are
the what are the implications for sea life and for people who
rely on the oceans for their livelihoods for food sources
and, you know, to the the oceans are a real measure of health of
the planet?
Okay, so, who relies on the livelihood of the oceans? Well,
let's listen to
the mean for all those reasons. Scientists and citizens are very
concerned, we're already seeing the impact. We don't need to
wait 90 years for instance, the wild oysters off the coast of
the of the northwest of America haven't been able to reproduce
in the wild for the last five years and shone
the wild oysters can't reproduce. That's, I thought you
guys ate oysters all the time? I do. You're depleting the supply.
They can't reproduce. Scientists
are pretty sure it's big beak. They're
pretty sure they're pretty sure pretty sure because
of the carbonic acid the acidification of that area,
they're already seeing that plankton in Antarctica that is
their shells are 30% less strong.
Listen now now she's now she's really going way outside, which
is what she's gonna do with plankton. It's plankton is
important. She makes it sound like it's a shellfish. Yeah, but
this is great, because now she's going really, so she she did the
voiceover for this documentary. And you know, she read the
script, and many times she was reading it and she remembers
this stuff, right, she's repeating stuff from the
documentary, but now she's starting to go a little wild,
you can hear stumbling all over the place. And when
these creatures can't make their shells there, they're putting
all their energy into making shells instead of reproducing so
it will have a huge impact on the whole chain of the whole
food chain. And certainly it will have a huge impact on all
the economies that depend on the ocean for fisheries and tourism
and everything else and certainly for our whole heritage
as Americans we really you know, we come from seafaring stock a
lot of people and
we come from seafaring stock a
lot of people
and we really depend upon the oceans for quality of life.
I'm a cowboy man I don't I don't know nothing about no ocean
so let me get this straight so they so the poor oysters can't
make a shell thick enough we can't make shells. So and this
is like I guess when people are you know, they have bone did
they make put their energy in the bone making they can't have
sex?
They're too busy building the house.
I know where this this logic comes from. It comes from the
fact that occasionally when you grow fruit tree Occasionally the
tree will decide to put out more foliage than fruit or because
there wasn't enough pollination or sometimes it'll do more fruit
one year when it didn't do a very good job the year before.
And you get this kind of cycle with plants and not seeing how
the how the oyster can decide to make more put its energy into
making shell more shell so I won't, so it can't reproduce at
all. It's just baffling. Well,
John, because you're not a scientist and the sciences and
and remember the coincidence that it is Earth Day. Sigourney
Weaver is in Washington testifying on behalf of the bill
that this Congress really wants to push through which will which
is the new version of cap and trade, they're not calling it
they're calling it the Sigourney Weaver bill, I think
I'd say the mistake that they made here, they should have
brought her up to 20 years ago and she's kind of cute is then
the these Congress guys that go for any hot, hot standby,
come from seafaring stock, a lot of people and we really depend
upon the oceans for quality of life.
Right. You know, we should we should mention to Sigourney that
the film Avatar, which had a very heavy environmental message
is coming out on DVD today
did Cameron get funded by the government for this? I mean,
this is
involved in what he Well, you know, there was some shady
dealings with the guy who found the Titanic, and became friends
with the camera and they took Titanic, I was worried for the
CIA, under, you know,
well, hold on, this just gets better. It's like, it's another
minute, it just gets better.
But there were some people who were critical of it thinking
that it was too much of an environmental lecture. And at
the same time, as we talk about all of this on this Earth Day,
it's interesting to note that more and more people are
becoming sceptical of this whole idea of global warming and its
effects. Do you have any idea why that's happening?
You know, I think it's probably fear and denial.
I'm so scared, I don't want to believe it's true. Um, I what I
found travelling around the world for Avatar is that
everyone around the world is actually aware that our Earth is
changing and that we do need to enact legislation to curb the
emission of, you know, the use of fossil fuels and it's time
really to encourage our Congress to put aside their differences
and enact legislation to create a strong green energy economy
you know, if if the science to me is is very sure and there's
only ever know when she's almost done percent chance that all
these things will come true. I think we need to act we Oh.
Okay, the science is in but there's a listen to this.
We, and even if there's only you know, a 50% chance that all
these things will come true. I think we need to act now. Make
your mind Lady 50% chance. Okay.
How does that jive with the sciences in does a tremendous
they've done in the oceans, which have seen for years to be
endlessly forgiving of whatever we do to them, it's having a
huge impact on the ocean, and we're going to see it
increasingly and it's going to have an even bigger impact on
our quarter meets the sea water, the acidification will have an
even stronger impact there on on on those fisheries and those
economies. So, you know, you can sit around arguing a little bit
about whether all this is true. But frankly, you know, I've been
reading the science for quite a while now. And I'm completely
convinced the sciences and
the thing that you're overlooking here is the fact
that she would say even if it's only a 50% chance shows that
that doubt has crept into her mind. Yeah, of course it has.
Playlists have actually made enough headway to get people
even like her was obviously you know, kind of got to know an
idiot question some of the stuff enough so that she would say
something like that okay, that's enough for that let's get you
know, we we got to get the show over with and let me I think I
got a couple of items. I want to get out of the way one because I
know it's going to drive you crazy.
Oh please tell me you have another Rachel Maddow clip.
I do but I'm not going to play that one. Okay. I want to first
of all I want to do real news. Oh and get all the real news out
of the way I want to The Real News is you know, we listen to
these these teasers carry this you know all these shows these
entertainment shows and we do We've never given a tribute out
to the first entertainment new show and still the biggest E T
which does not have the greatest teasers, but their teaser does
tell you the entire show in one long tease and let's just play
that and it will be done with this type of real news.
Shawn kills a lover the exclusive tele enters
Entertainment Tonight. Did you have an affair with Larry King's
way yesterday? Did Larry King's wife cheat with this man we kind
of locked eyes to start kissing so baseball coach
on the record.
Did Sean ever talk to you about divorcing Larry all the time?
Don't worry he's gonna he's gonna die from this scathing X
was a and a Hollywood marriage in his only TV interview. Did
you have sex and Larry King's house? Did you have sex and
Larry King's bed
and Jake Gosling in tears are backstage confessions you didn't
get to see I had a lot of real real here's a nightmare. Gosh,
she regret going on dancing and could she become TVs next
Bachelorette? The latest news are Sandra and Jessie talking in
secret to save their marriage was Heather Locklear arrested
for a hit and run.
Tonight on the tube Athan pregnant star gives birth in
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I think we should start the show off with this John every every
single show we should start with it. Here's here's here's kind of
how I envision it. The idea of something like this. Greg Vaughn
and buzzkill Shaun King's lover the exclusive Entertainment
Tonight
I don't necessarily believe that's true
kind of like the eyes and we started kissing. So by the way,
Robin Hood movies coming out there promoting a lot. I have a
really quick review. Gladiator in the woods. Okay, good
baseball coaches baseball coach, suppose suppose he had this
affair with Larry King's wife. He's a little league baseball
coach. They kind of leave that out.
By the way. Lots of puns you can do with that? Yeah. All right.
Oh, can we get out so now? Can we get out of real news? Can we
get out of
it? Yeah, that's the end of it. I want to do it. I don't want to
talk about Larry King's wife. Oh, no, neither was this
disgusting. Now, here's the deal. The big story their big
real news story. Semi Real News. Actually, not? Nothing to see
here. Moment is the South Park episode golf. Yes. Oh, are they
slayed? They apparently they did this before and they never had a
problem. But now it's a big everyone's up in arms about the
fact that some Muslims have threatened to Southpark people.
And because they depicted Muhammad as a teddy bear. Or
addressing a teddy bear costume which a lot of people noticed if
you really wanted to get the subtext was actually a pedo.
bear. The
bear? It was it was the pedo bear.
Yeah. So they had so that was a big stink. So and this is going
to this one is going to drive you crazy. Now you've worked on
network and you've been in network situations. I even a
small network like MSNBC, we're going to talk about the joy Bay
heart show here. You have an IFP in your ear, right. Yeah,
usually somebody's in the control room telling you what to
do. You have a producer, you have directors, you have
writers, they're all in the control room, many of them and
they'll telling you stuff. And in this case, she's got three
people on the set. And Joy Bay Harbour says something that will
make you crazy, and nobody on the entire crew set anywhere
correct, sir or says anything about it. It just goes.
SP JB, you got it.
That's tricky. You've done this town a huge favour, Mohammed,
hold on a second. There are some extremists threatening that if
we give Mohammed to the celebrities, they're gonna bomb
us.
Now okay. The Muslim website says we quote we have to warn
Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators that what they are
doing is stupid and they will probably end up listening to
this like Theo van gock for airing this show. Theo van Gogh
really? Is this a warning or a thread Theo van Gogh is the
cartoonist in Amsterdam I believe, who was who was
basically assassinated for doing a cartoon against Muhammad Ali
take it as a threat because of the second video is now dead.
I understand. You know how people could be upset over this
but ah ah Is that unbelievable? And nobody the three doofus is
ever sitting there were there, none of them knew anything.
Nobody knew anything and they. So Theo van Gogh is now to the
muck to the beholders of this wonderful show cartoonist
cartoonist who was assassinated for depicting Muhammad. Oh my
God,
you've okay, you're when you're when this you went on this show.
I know I believe that is the winner.
Oh, my goodness. Well, you please go to even Wikipedia has
it better than this? And look up to Van Gogh who I can say I
worked with him. And in his very last few months, we actually had
pretty good contact. He came over to the house one day and he
said, What the fuck are you doing in this country? You're
American. Go back to America. It's safe there. Oh my god, and
then he went back to drawing a character of me. This is
unbelievable. Well, I watched the South Park episode last
night and it sucked. It totally sucked that beeped everything.
It just sucked. It wasn't funny. It sucked. It sucked. And I'm
thinking this is probably more South Park promotion than
anything. In fact, I will keep looking at where's this radical
Muslim website? No story links to it. Where is it? I'm looking
for
my blog post I have actually did again find it. Yeah, it was
buried with the hits. And so you had to go to the cache to look
at it. It's just lame. It's just some doofus that's in somewhere
I forget Becky somewhere. And he's, he's they interviewed him
on CNN and the guys
oh, it was about time for that to happen, wasn't it? Man. I'm
sorry. Hold on a second. I got stuff going on here. Phone's
ringing that doesn't happen often. Am I okay, you know what,
John, you have thoroughly freaked me out where that? I
have. I have no real bottle I have nothing.
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