that goes addict that military guy, Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday, June 20 2010. Time for your Gitmo nation media
assassination episode 210. This is no agenda, celebrating
fatherhood around the globe. And coming to you from the hilltop
Watchtower crackpot command centre and get my nation West in
the People's Republic of Southern California. Yay in the
morning. I'm Adam curry,
and Northern Silicon Valley here. The trains are going by
I'm John C. Dvorak.
In the morning to
John, in the morning to everybody out there,
everybody, all human resources of Gitmo nation worldwide. l
ships at sea. Yes, indeed. Particularly the ships at sea
and Happy Father's Day to you.
Yeah, it's another one of those bogus holidays. We don't really
celebrate.
You know, it's funny. But still, I woke up this morning, and I
was like, I hope I get a message from my daughter. I would be so
disappointed if she didn't at least say it. Right?
They didn't if you don't make a big deal out of it, they'll tend
to forget.
I didn't make any deal out of it. And she she twittered me
now? That's nice. Oh, Twitter. Yeah. Well, that's a public sign
of affection. I like that. That's nice. This this string,
by the way, on today's no agenda stream.com apparently now banned
in Ireland.
Oh, really? Yep. Why?
Hold on a second. Let me call Ireland for
a moment. Someone must know. Yeah. Well, that's how we
found out that someone in the in the chat room said that they
can't get through to no agenda stream.com And they're in
Ireland. So I'm presuming that, that we've been filtered out.
It's about time,
right. We don't go to how would they even know we exist, let
alone filter us? I mean, it was not a porn. Unless What are you
doing on daily source code?
Let me see. We had Bobby Eden in the channel that was during no
agenda? No, we had her in the chat room on source code, too.
But that I don't think that's it.
Was she somehow naked? No, no.
Anyway, John, before we get started, I owe a number of
people a huge apology. You being one of them. As on the last
show, I completely lost my shit and was projecting my own crap.
And so I apologise to you, I apologise to your kids, because
they have a great dad, then your kids, of course, are absolutely
brilliantly smart. And I apologise to your wife, and I
apologise to the listeners. I'm sorry.
Well, it made me make a mention of something, please. I just, it
was kind of baffling to me. But I imagine can kind of understand
some of the other issues you have. But to attack my kids was
the baffling part because a you've met them both. And they
are extremely well mannered, polite. They're actually the
some of the best kids you can imagine anyone can have, they
never get in trouble. They're self supervising. They're
responsible. Everything you want in a kid is in these kids. And
to say that to kind of condemn them. I thought felt was vile,
to say the least. And then to somehow I also found it
disturbing that you associate Homeschooling with something
negative, since it kind of violates some of the principles
of the show that we do.
Well, it was a poor attempt at humour that I was trying to get
myself off of the the bad track, I was going down. And so I
turned that into terrorism. Again, I lost my shit. And I'm
really sorry, because of course, I didn't mean that.
There's also by the way, show etiquette that you violated,
which is that when one of us gets boring, and the other one
calls them on it, you're supposed to stop.
Yes, well, I violated a number of etiquettes.
All right, well, we'll let it slide.
Are we good?
let it slide. Are we good? Yeah, we're good to go now right now.
Okay. So right off the bat, I have to tell you of some
horrible news that took place in in California a and a clear case
of to to the head. Thursday afternoon. 28 year old inventor
Tyson Larson, was killed in an explosion that ripped a hole in
the roof and blew out the back doors of a Simi Valley building
of his family's company realm in industries, the guy was working
on water fuel technology. And he had built a he actually had
investors,
he has disposed to go in the second half of the show.
No, I think I should put it in the first half of the show,
because he was working with. Well, some of the stuff that you
remember my hydroxy booster that I had on the Jaguar with brown
brown gas, creating hydrogen from electrolysis,
right, the process it doesn't work.
Well, I don't know. All I know is I got 30% fuel efficiency on
the Jaguar. And so so this is this is pretty dangerous stuff.
I mean, all it takes is a good spark for to blow up. And if you
got I guess, if you're making enough of this stuff, and it's
pretty simple to do, and that there's aerial pictures in this
report that's linked in the show notes and no agenda show.com The
thing that is troubling though, in this report, so two, oops,
two people in the facility were uninjured. One person was killed
in the blast which blew a hole in the roof and Alicia initially
three were thought to have been injured. Turns out that Tyson
Larson himself was was killed by blunt force which I find
interesting. They could have calling it blunt force with a
blast be blunt force.
I would never call it IV. If you get blowed up. Yes, it
seemed like blunt force does it. But here it is. By coincidence.
The Simi Valley Police SWAT team was just down the street on a
training exercise when the explosion occurred. And the
officers were able to arrive on the scene within moments you
know what I you know, you know that just I
know this is yeah, I don't know you have a cut link to the story
because you caught me completely off guard with this one. I can't
contribute anything. You can't. Yes, I do. I mean, this guy,
this guy was doing what he was he was he was breaking water
until oxygen and hydrogen. Yeah, with electricity to take and
recombine it in a fuel cells are an engine that burns hydrogen
and then for some reason, he may accumulate so much hydrogen and
oxygen in some container. That mixture blew up
the whole house. Yeah. Blew up his his his workshop. Yeah, he
has
like investors. Yes, he has
$7 million. Now, let's see. There's also possible
that the guy just blew himself up because he didn't know what
he was doing. Like
I took I took $7 million, and it's not working. I might as
well blow myself up. I don't know. I don't know. The only
thing I always find interesting is when by coincidence there's a
SWAT team down the street.
Well, you know and then later in the show, we start talking about
SWAT teams. It's turns out that this is not much of a
coincidence. Yeah, I
watched the show you told me to watch last week's show we're
talking about Stossel
Stossel is some is turned into a complete overt, out and out
maxed out libertarian.
Now John Stossel. He was on I think W NBC in New York when I
lived there. And he was always kind of the guy that did like
the fluff pieces he did.
Went to 2020. Right. And that's where he started being the guy
who was going to stand up for the consumer and there's no they
were fluff pieces there. Were these lightweight. You know, can
you believe that? You're charging a nickel at this place
and a dime across the street? Yeah, he
reminds me about what's what's the guy at the New York Times
who does? Does all the Apple does all the reviews and stuff
the technology stuff? Pogue Yeah, he reminds me of David
Pogue. Exactly, at least back then he did. And now it's
something completely different.
Well, the fox hired him. And then they relegated him to the
weekends doing these specials with an audience which is very
unlike Fox. I mean, it's more like the Colbert Report.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. I mean, it's just it's just a
couple of bleachers with idiots off the street and a couple of
shields. I mean, it's nothing like the Colbert audio
is not big. You've never seen the whole audience that calibre.
I don't know how big it is not as big as Letterman, which
apparently has the biggest studio audience. Anyway, the
point is, he's got this. I don't know what the point of the
audience is, to be honest.
It's just to fill up the spots next to the shields that he has
on the bleachers because he has he has people who are invited
into the show, and they don't get to sit on the panel, they
just sit in the bleachers, so they need to fill it up with
like some homeless people or whatever is there.
So anyway, he comes on with this libertarian stuff that is
actually very compelling. I'm surprised Fox even allows it
because they he in that you saw that special it was on the
legalisation of drugs. But before we go to that story,
let's finish with the guy who got blowed up.
Okay, I gave you the link right. You saw it by now.
Yeah, I'm looking at it now. Yeah. Explosion of California
Water fuels research company kills inventor.
inventors of big word. I mean, this is this not like some huge
invention. I don't know what he was inventing.
Other than explosions, like there was an attempt to compress
hydroxy gas. Yeah, that's the
brown gas. That's the stuff that I was making. And on my Jaguar,
I just had a very little, a little installation, and I had
to have a blow back tube in case some spark would come back from
the engine highly unlikely, by the way, the way it was set up,
but in case something would blow back then it would basically
blow the top off of this blow back thing and wouldn't explode
the actual canister. It this stuff does work. I mean, it's it
burns beautifully. And Browns gas, it burns. I mean, it's
hydrogen, or a version of it.
Is hydrogen and oxygen. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it was shouldn't
burn but you know, it takes more energy to make it than it
produces. Unless this guy's got some he's compressing Browns
gas.
Yeah, maybe maybe that was the problem. Maybe that's not such a
good idea.
Well, it's gonna heat up because all compression activity heats
it up. So just must have ignited, maybe made a bomb.
Or maybe he I mean, the obvious theory here is that he was onto
something he had. He had people interested. And then they sent
in the SWAT team to blow them up. That's the part I don't like
that is the part that just, you know, sure Shit happens. People
are messing around with where they call Joe, Joe tubes and all
kinds of stuff all the time, which is all highly explosive,
but then to have a SWAT team nearby. Oh, it's just one of
those little coincidental thing. Coincidence?
I think not. All right. Well, the thing is when we when I do
one of the themes for today's show is the legalisation of
drugs. Before we go there, yeah, bring something clip in that
might be more entertaining.
Yeah. Do you want to do executive producer if we have
one, or do you want? Yeah, we do. Actually.
We have an executive producer. I'm glad we do. You know, I
opened the spreadsheet a second ago. Great. Anyway, hang on a
second. Yeah, no
problem. I'm bummed about spreadsheets. I appreciate the
work that Eric the shield does, but just excel by itself. Just
starting that whole programme on my computer. Groans
go do the other thing is that aurka lifesync. I've said this
before.
Yeah, people use it for the craziest shit. They use it for
everything.
So our executive producer is Michael fessing in Newman's
town, new min, Newman's town. Pa $20. Executive producer. That's
all we got. And no comment.
Okay, well, we appreciate that. And I'd like to make mention of
Dave Bryan, who throws his hat into the ring for PR associate
status. Not quite there yet, but certainly an honourable mention
for his new no agenda producer project, no agenda
entertainment.com It features a collection of links to all forms
of multimedia related to no agenda books, videos, movies and
audio. Also guest appearances, which I hope would also include
your CNBC appearances in the future. John, if you ever get
invited back? It seems unlikely and in all other ways you won't
No, no, that was MSNBC same thing all other ways that no
agenda shows up in our real world. No agenda
entertainment.com I think it's a beautiful looking site. It's
It's stunning. It makes us look like a like a big entertainment
conglomerate.
We should sell now.
While we're ahead of the game, all right. Michael fest fest big
right. fest fest we completely appreciate your support and as
you know as executive producer of no agenda. You can put this
on your resume it is an actual credit and it has been known to
be able to get you gigs and in some cases even get you laid out
with a little greasy finger to go out and propagate the formula
is this. We go out for young people in the mouth
and women now come on human resources. Shut up.
Before I forget, John, before we get into drugs never thought I'd
say that with you. Um, I went to see Toy Story three yesterday.
Oh, well now okay, let me just let before you can say anything.
Here's what I heard. It's great.
I saw it in 3d against my better judgement, as you know. You
know, this is one of those Mickey's deals where she has
through the Screen Actors Guild, we get to go to the Directors
Guild of America screening. So there's so it's really nice and
pristine and the way you should see it, the glasses suck.
Which, which, which kind of glasses? Was it? Was this the
polarisers? Or was this the knotch filters?
Is the I don't know. I have
ones that you. Okay.
Okay, you. First of all, I wear glasses. So it's always shitty
when you have to put the glasses over your glasses That's
complicated. They're supposed to be kind of made for it.
The way they have these legs. It's Yes, thick knotch filter? I
think, yeah, I would have to agree. So now I still think it's
like looking through a View Master, which a lot of
it has that note that quality because of the darkness. I think
it's dark, and the image is dark.
Yep. However, I will say in this particular case, very, very
functional. The 3d was extremely functional for this type of
animated movie. And I have to say, I laughed. I really liked
the movie. It was it's a great story. And of course, like all
good kid movies, it has a lot of adult jokes in there,
particularly about Barbie and Malibu, Ken. And it was funny, I
enjoyed it from beginning to end, although when, when the
when the when the scene gets a little bit darker. Then the
glasses start to give you a headache and you see kind of
spots and it's weird. But when it's when it's really all lit
up. And I mean, it's it I have to say it was it was very
functional. I'm not. As you know, I'm not a big 3d fan. And
I didn't have any depth perception problems afterwards,
as far as I can tell, except the fact that I keep hitting the
wrong jingles this morning.
Could be related. So okay, you know, you were last week,
because we the show was so ruined by a long diatribe. You
didn't get to talk. Tell us about your experience in San
Diego, which I think is necessary to the to the
audience.
Oh, yeah, you're right. So I had been ill for four or five days,
and I was finally feeling a little bit better. And, and
Mickey and I decided to go on a road trip to San Diego just to
go just to get out of the house and drive and stay somewhere and
catch
up and then say that Mickey actually talked to me about this
beforehand to so I could have some input. Yeah. Because she
wanted to find you know, she's not from California. And I, I
confirmed what she was thinking which was to go to the Hotel Del
Coronado, which is one of the most spectacular pieces of
architecture on the West Coast. And then because I went there
with my wife some time ago, we saw the haunted room and we did
all this stuff there. And it was it was it was a little rundown,
but it was a good experience.
Yes. Well, first of all, I think on that phone conversation you
discussed with her how to poison me with bad oysters don't lie.
I heard us talking about poisoning. Probably the best
ways with bad oysters
yesterday. Right? So Hotel Del Coronado, give it a
look. I'm only here for the hints and tips. That's right.
Which is why she called you and she had indeed also found Hotel
Del Coronado so we drive down. By the way if you for those of
you in California there's a toll road now the 73 off the 405
which is for four bucks and 75 cents is well worth it. It's
just phenomenal is like 20 lanes, and there's no one on it
and you just cruise through the through the mountains is great,
or through the hills, I should say. So we get there. And I
didn't I didn't think Hotel Del Coronado was rundown. i It looks
like they might have done some renovation actually, it looked
really nice. It's one of these wasn't built in the late 1800s
You can almost feel the ladies with parasols walking around and
it has a real good vibe. It's right on the beach. And but at
check in and we already noticed the biggest problem is that they
have brought in just a slew of low wage nincompoops to run this
thing and this is a big complex, I don't know how many rooms they
have, but it's big and they've got you know, new buildings off
to the side and they've got private little villas and then
of course the big house. And you know, it's just they got like
Millennials running running the show and I have to say a lot of
Mexicans now of course is close to Mexico. But just the service
was atrocious, you know, the keys were wrong to it and it's a
long walk back to back to lobby. Oh boy do I hate that. And it
was just because of the system, they only have one card maker.
And it's funny because I came back and another guy's keys were
wrong as well because he basically had my keys because
you know if someone else hits the button on their terminal,
but yet someone else puts their card in first you get the wrong
key cards stupid. And so that was like, All right, and then
the bags didn't show up. And I and you know, we call that I had
to go back all the way into the they were sitting there. They're
just sitting there.
Ready to be stolen? Yeah.
Just well not being brought to my room. So yeah, and this is
not a cheap room. Like 400 bucks a night.
It's too high. It's ridiculous. That was the cheapest room
available. It's ridiculous. Why are these hotel rooms all over
the country so expensive? And we looked online
and online. It was like oh, here's a great deal. $700 and
like No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
this is bullshit. You must have had a big giant suite then.
No, no, it's just a normal room with little balcony that and
those are a Vegas room you would have had a suite for that kind
of money show anyway so
in Reno you go over that kind of money you get up floor.
So here's the thing that's that's really weird. So we had
dinner now it was a Monday night so the ocean 1500 restaurant is
closed on Monday nights so we had to you know there's a
restaurant right next door and they'd both restaurants run by
the hotel food very marginal, you know, it's okay. Service
atrocious, you know, I love it when when someone just you know,
like, some guy comes out of the kitchen. He's basically still
wearing his his cooks outfit and he just like, Oh, here's your
food. You know what I mean? They're just kind of like, like
they're reaching all the way past me to put it you know,
like, completely no etiquette at all. But two things one, we felt
the earthquake which was later registered to 5.7 on the bogus
scale, whatever it is these days, which was exactly on the
same Meridian as as San Diego. And that was weird cuz we were
sitting outside and it was really like a real slow moving
back and forth. And that was probably the most intense
earthquake I've ever felt.
Yeah, it's a classic of Southern California style earthquake had
been down there for two of them. Yeah, a real roller. Yeah, they
roll it's kind of like very pleasant actually.
But here's the problem. So you have this beautiful hotel on
this beautiful beach which by the way is very special because
it has gold flakes which is mica apparently that
if you go down to Baja, California all the beaches down
through the end Sanada are all flip flecked with gold. So
it's beautiful. I mean, it's just yeah, it's it's it's it's
that you just feel like you're in a gold mine literally, were
it not for the fact that this beach is exactly on the approach
path for the naval base there. And I kid you not from 9am to
9pm. And actually, there was one the last straggler around 10pm.
They are flying over the beach at a frequency of one flight
every three minutes and it is Blackhawk helicopters. Big
737 760 sevens unmarked. I might add completely white. These must
have been the rendition flights. Lear jets, all kinds of civilian
aircrafts going this is going into what airport and that was
going into the naval base. There's a naval
base. There's so much activity at this end, this naval This
is the question now I saw the Learjet did about 20 Go around.
So they were clearly practising approaches. But all of these
helicopters, I mean, just every three minutes and helicopters,
you know, these Blackhawks, they're loud, and they come over
like seven 800 feet over the beach, and every single through
every three minutes. And then there was a huge aircraft
carrier right in front of the hotel. And every hour or so an F
16 would take off or something equivalent to that. And it
completely ruined it. The whole thing is ruined and I said this
dorky hotels that was an eel what's up with that? said Yeah,
yeah, no, they're really busy. So what are they doing? I don't
know. And of course I crack a joke. I say yeah, they're flying
all the drugs in from Mexico. And the guy says, no, no, no,
no, no, it's military said. Yeah, that's my point. Dude.
Didn't get the joke. None, not a listener?
It's probably not a joke.
Yeah. But it was just It's just nonstop John nonstop. I have no
idea what they're doing. I mean, so I can tell one training
exercise the Learjet doing the approaches. But all the other
ones I have no idea and it was from 9am to 9pm every three
minutes and you know that people like oh, I don't hear it
anymore. Yeah, well, I'm here for my rest and for my for
peace. And and and if you've stayed there, this wasn't taking
place when when you there how long ago we were we weren't
decade.
I don't know if 10 years ago, five years ago. We were at war
then. So before the war then it was before 911 Okay. And there
was nothing going on. That suddenly every three minutes
unbelievable activity helicopters, those things that
those are the most annoying products flying around. They
shouldn't even be what are they? Why are they even there?
I don't know, man, and I don't know what they do.
Everybody has to keep. That means is San Diego a training
facility seems odd. Well, I know that when you put them in,
there's a there's an Okay,
nevermind. Well, when you drive down, you pass by this huge
naval base, which is all fenced off with big radar installations
and that's what the landing on the and the approach you can you
can literally stand on the beach and you can see them while you
can't actually see the landing strip, but you can see them the
whole glide path and they land. And but the crazy thing is all
these big unmarked jets completely white, not even Air
Force. They did have a tail number, the tail numbers
unreadable, so not on the tail, but like right above the engine.
unreadable with the naked eye but no military markings but
completely white. Filled with I'm sure Gitmo passengers I had
if you remember I was at the Seattle once in a minute and a
big giant 747 came in that was that was unpainted on white.
Yeah, there was a Chinese Chinese air it turned out to be
a Chinese, China air and they're just too cheap.
Now these, these definitely had n markings. But
Oh, really. But the thing is, is I couldn't see that I had I have
a camera that I had with me at the time. It has like a 20 zoom
on it. And I actually zoomed in on the on the tail number. So
you should carry what I'm saying is just to have a camera with a
big zoom lens on it and you can
we had it but we didn't have it at dinner when it really got
annoying Miramar Marine Base is what I'm reading in the chat
room. Does that make sense? Miramar? Miramar Marine Base?
Yeah.
I don't know maybe? Sounds right.
Anyway, it ruined it. I think the hotel, the hotel was ruined.
And
then the Marines are just going in and going crazy.
And to add insult to injury, someone had already actually
reserved and checked into the haunted room so we couldn't
check it out. Someone had requested it specifically. So we
couldn't go in.
I don't know why anyone want to sleep in a room?
Apparently people reserve it specifically they want to stay
in the haunted room. Because we went up there say Hey, can we
see the haunted room and then people want to fish? Go sit over
there. We'll come over in a minute. Like what? Like, well,
we can't show you because someone's checked into it right
now. But ixnay on the haunted Hey.
It's a feature.
And then they play it? Well.
Yeah, I guess. So that sucked.
It didn't suck. Because at the end of the day, it was nice to
get out. We had a nice drive. And it was okay, but the noise
was just ruined. It completely ruined it. Not your fault. But
yeah, why? Or be warned? You know, it's the last time I
recommend that place. Yeah. Now I don't know what to tell you.
Just keep driving.
Go down to Mexico man.
So here's a disturbing story talking about Mexicans. Or, in
this case, Hispanics, which is more broad based. Did you get
this Dyneema send you this this vote system?
Yeah, this this actually showed up last week. This is the New
York township isn't that it?
Court ordered election, a lot of residents have won New York town
to flip the lever six times for one candidate and produce that
in the Hispanic winner could expand to other towns where
minorities complain that their voices aren't being heard. By
the way, this
is Port Chester, which is isn't that near Westchester? I mean,
isn't this kind of up there in hedge fund land? Port? Chester?
I didn't know
there was. It might be it sounds like it is. It's up near Ryan,
all that I'd have to open up Google Maps.
So the way I understood this idea is that the court ordered a
change in the electoral process. Because there is such a
minority, the Hispanic population is in such a
minority. And correct me if I'm wrong, that it were Hispanics
allowed to flip them. Everybody could do everybody. Everybody
can flip the lever six times. Thereby somehow through some
crazy math, making it more fair to everybody. I don't get it. I
mean, it's what differences don't just divide everything by
six doesn't equal the same thing.
We'll know if you have a K if you have a slate of 10 people.
And one of them is a minority that let's say nobody likes
except the minorities, right. And the minorities instead of
voting for the slate, you know, say say there's 10 people on the
slate you're supposed to and you can vote for six of them because
they're going to be it's going to be the city council. So you
would normally take the ballot and you'd vote for the six
people or just none of them or whatever you want it to one at a
time. And then the top vote getters would Be the guy is in.
But then they've decided that it's fair to give you six votes,
because you actually aren't voting six times but you, but
it's never been thought you could vote for the same person
six times what I would do I mean, that's so obvious what you
would do, especially if you're a minority, let's say, some, some
group in some, you know, essentially get your guy in. And
it's been maybe disproportional. I mean, I think that's the
problem is that you have, you know, six candidates, and you'd
have a pretty, you know, a makeup of the of the community
of, let's say, six different ethnic groups. And one group
does just has very few people, and you have a candidate that
they all vote for six times. I mean, the whole thing is, is
asking for trouble.
And apparently, it worked, though, right?
Well, I got that guy in. Yeah. Luis Marino. Yeah, Peruvian
immigrant, making him port Chester's first Hispanic
trustee,
you make it sound like a bad thing. It is a bad thing. Well,
this is in a way, it's kind of like, sounds like
I'm giving you give me a, you know, a box of votes, I have a
vote, I can vote for this guy that gaffer like Marino, I vote
for him. I don't vote for him six times. It's like stuff in
the ballot box. What's the difference?
This is in a way, it kind of falls in line with the with the
whole filibuster thing, which of course, is always a point of
contention, where in show, of course, we have a republic, but
in the democratic process, you know, 50 plus one should win the
vote. But because minorities need to be heard, and I heard
this explained on some it was probably on C span. Of course,
the Senate could changes whenever they wanted to, but
they don't because they use it to their advantage when they're
at a disadvantage. So that's why you have to have the 60 votes,
but it's exactly for kind of the same reason is to give the
smaller so that so that the majority doesn't always win that
the minority has some kind of fighting chance, but when and
how did they come up with six? I mean, is that based upon the
population and I think it was
based on the on the ballot there apparently, right, you're not
gonna vote six times, you know, in this unit, it's like pick
six, you know, you've you've seen this on ballots, it says,
you know, candidates for I guess some trustee ship, you know,
vote for six. So you vote for six people, but you don't vote
for one person six times. I mean, that that that's weird.
Cumulative voting. Yeah. And that's gonna you watch a catch
on? Yeah, no, I bet. Oh, yeah. But it'll be all of a sudden,
it'll be you can use is gonna get, here's the, here's the way
it's gonna go. Or it could. Yeah, you got it, you got to
divide your public up with a 25% of this group and 40% that group
and, and 10% of this small group, or 5%. And you say, Well,
you know, it's unfair to these 5%. This little group, let's
give them to mix everything even because we can't, you know, it's
unfair. It's so unfair. It's so unfair to them that you have
40%, let's say of the population white, and let's say 1% of the
population. Arabic. So let's give every one of those air era
big people 40 votes, and that evens things out. And what could
be more fair than that? It's not fair. No, it's totally fair that
these people now have the voice that's equal to that of the
white majority. Isn't that just actually it's not even a white
majority. They won't even have to say this. In California.
It'll be 55% Hispanic, really, I mean, we're in the minority,
just to go through.
Yeah, we needed to quickly this was actually a brilliant idea.
We need this.
I mean, that's essentially the way what it sounds like to me.
It's a scam. You know, show everyone's happy. I mean, this
is bullshit. Yeah, it's uh, yeah, it just hasn't it just
seems like something that there's there's obviously a
really good argument behind it. A logical debatable argument.
That is probably very compelling.
Yeah, if you're in the minority.
Now, what's gonna happen anybody? And meanwhile,
I get my nation lowlands still doesn't have a government as far
as I know, they're still they're still fighting about the
coalition.
Or is it? What's taking them so long? Well, he
had builders is the is the problem, of course. I mean, you
had the the right leaning party, with 31% of the vote, the left
leaning party with 30% of the vote and shared builders, which
of course, would be considered, I guess, extreme right, with 25
or 26% of the vote, and no one wants to work together. And and
then the Christian Democrats are kind of the wildcard who've been
running the country for the past eight years, and they all
Although they lost, like half of their possible parliamentary
seats, they still have like 20 20% of the vote, and you
know, and they don't want to work with anybody. So the
country is basically rudderless right now
is probably never done so well.
Well, it doesn't matter because no one cares. I look at the
newspapers every day online, and it's all World Cup. Everyone's
complaints all vuvuzela that's all anyone can talk about is Oh,
turn off the horns of the horns are bothering me. What should be
bothering you is the fact that your Government robbed you blind
is going to make you work longer slave and is taking away all of
your benefits to pay off the bankers that's what should be
worrying. You know? Be we want against Japan big deal. Do
people not realise that? That all organised sports are rigged?
I mean, let's be honest about it. I mean, come on. There's so
much money you can't tell me that with all the money that's
rolling around in in World Cup soccer that is not fixed. I
mean, the guy that was the German guy who resigned just
before the 2010
target and then there's a great game with the United States and
Slovenia. Give them a goal for some unknown reason and they
actually fired the ref after the fact but they still didn't get
the goal it's not as though oh this ref that this ref is
corrupted let's fire him and give them the goal No. So there
is obviously I mean if you think about it you haven't yet
especially in Africa were a one time when I was in Kenya the we
were going through Kenya which is horrible place Yeah. And the
airport especially I mean there was there were literally
soldiers in the terminal because they had to stop for refuelling
or something and in Oh yeah, sure. So I stopped in a row
everybody got out of the plane somebody stole my left to some
audio cassettes. This was a while ago when I was still
flying around the audio cassettes somebody stole them
and I pointed this out and they finally caught the guy something
before we took off but I got a lecture from the you know one of
these audio cassettes is like worth a month's salary to these
people you have
your staff don't steal my shit
and then but meanwhile in the in the terminal the bunch of
soldiers from the from the army were in there shaking down the
some of the people that were on the plane cars shaking them down
there's strict sand around why we could lose so we got to get
back on this plane this group of soldiers it was like kind of did
surround some body with you know not with guns drawn but carrying
a bunch of arms intimidating shake them down they say you we
need some money from you you know so so I said You What are
you taking money from me? Basically the empty of the guys
will all let me give it let me give you
a quick rundown here. And actually, I could go back to 95
three top UK soccer players I'll just say soccer. were charged
with taking bribes to rig results between 91 and 95. And
this included the Zimbabwe gold goalie John fascia new Aston
Villa striker home savers. The goalie is the guy of course why
of course he's the guy. Then we have the money
position. You want to make money in soccer, become a goalie and
just sell out
2005 In Germany, a 2 million euro match fixing scandal was
uncovered. That was the ref who later confessed to fixing and
betting on matches. Numerous players coaches and officials
were accused of involvement with an organised crime group in the
scheme which came on the eve of Germany playing host to the 2006
World Cup in 2005. And Brazil well of course Brazil football
match fixing was denounced because it was so rampant 2008
in Portugal. Porto President Jorge Nuno Pinto de Costa stood
trial for allegedly bribing a ref before the Portuguese
Premier League match. May 2010. The head of the ink this is just
a few months ago, the head of the English Football Association
Lord Triesman resigned. His post citing he thought that the World
Cup matches were in danger of being fixed link in the show
notes of that story. And of course, we just might want to
point out that the guys who own some of the some of the clubs,
which of course send their national players to these World
Cup games are owned by Russians, or oil oligarchs. I mean, come
on, and then we all just sit there and say yay, good match,
guys. Give me a
break. Yeah, there's been two or three incidents in this World
Cup already that are dubious and in a lot of them involve the
goalie. He would normally made that. I can't let the gold go
in. Yeah, he went left when he should have went right. He's
never done that before.
You had an interesting thing about because of course the late
Akers one the what do you call that? The league the NBA
championships and we were having dinner at the Eurotrash
restaurant on Sunset liberty for and in this town goes crazy and
what's interesting is it's like Bentley's Rolls Royces Jaguars
on fire Aston Martin No no no not on Sunset with flags you
know in their windows and everyone's honking there was
going to Yeah knickers one liquors one but then you see
what happens in downtown LA It baffles me when that when the
Lakers when people go and cause fires and stomp on cars I don't
get
it. You saw that video the videos
by the way the reporting in on Los Angeles news media was
exactly the opposite. It was well it was a really calm night
nothing happened it was you know the police did a good job. It
was it was pandemonium. Pandemonium what is that?
It was a videos on the blog for people want to look it up it was
it just a bunch of punks that don't even deal. Yeah, these are
Laker fans. These people have never even been to again, they
don't even know what basketball is. They just as an opportunity
to direct the plays. I think that we're overdue to be honest
about it. I think everyone out there should be concerned about
this. For some serious rioting in this country. It's a cyclical
thing. It happens. It happens on a on a you know, a pretty
routine basis. And Los Angeles is rife, it's ready to go. Yeah,
I think it's the next Detroit, which happened, you know, in the
late 60s, and you know, in some of these, you know, some of
these ghettoised areas, and Los Angeles has got all the
potential in the world to just go up in flames. In fact, it did
during the Rodney King thing, which is just the tip of the
iceberg, for the kind of pent up hostility that exists down in
Los Angeles. And a friend of mine had a photo studio new to
everybody, you know, in one part of town where, you know, he knew
all the neighbours, everybody was friendly, and they burnt his
place to the ground. And it's just, you know, it's a bad
scene, and it's gonna end something's gonna happen. And if
they if they go crazy, like there's over the Lakers winning
Imagine if they had lost well, and when I look at the video, I
just see a bunch of people who are completely frustrated about
life, or something, just life in general, or maybe being slaves
or whatever it is. And then by
the way, there were a few that video. That's most of the people
were young adults, they were mostly Hispanic or actually
Mexicans or Latinos that say that's what a better word. And
there was a bunch of Mexican flags being flown all over the
place and in celebration of them kicking the crap out of some,
you know, junction box owned by a TMT. I mean, it just seems,
you know, I'm telling you, this is going to be a nasty
situation.
The same thing happened. And I think Mexico won a game in the
World Cup. And same thing, Mexican flags out on the street,
people causing a ruckus and breaking shit and kicking box
mailboxes and junction boxes. And it's weird, and I think it's
just pent up anger and frustration and then they get
some kind of somehow they think they have a free pass. And you
know, they celebrating and
what, they do have a free pass. Nobody, none of those guys ever
get arrested.
That's true, in fact that the report literally said no one was
arrested.
Yeah, you're right. It's a free pass. I mean, if you're a part
of this group, you can look at Scott the posting is called
idiotic Lakers fanatics right in LA. If you're a part of this
group, and you know, you can do this. It's a good it's so far as
parties are concerned. You know, this is one heck of a party. It
sounds like it looks like you know, if you're not accidentally
targeted and beaten the crap out of you. If you're part of the
group it looks like you're having a lot of fun. You know,
just Boston Windows wrecking the place. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,
don't get there's no consequence. Nobody does
anything about it. And hey, just look for the next opportunity. I
mean, I just you know, if they would do something they did LA
is I don't know what their problem is done there. But it's
a terrible place. So
what is the cycle? John? What is the how many years are we? What
were the
there's a 20 and a 40 year cycle for rioting. And this is
documented somewhere. You can look at the big riots but the
last big riots were in the late 60s. No, no, no, wait a minute.
We're gonna do we're at 50 Really great big monster riots.
Were at the 50 year mark. This is like this, the Yellowstone
cycle. We're overdue.
So we had the Watts riots and then we had the Rodney King
riots. You saying that wasn't big.
The Rodney King right may have qualified as the as the right in
the cycle, but that was long enough ago. The next cycle might
be shorter, and whatever the case is, there's a right is a
right Do seems to me there's two things to happen
there's a riot occurring one I got to I really got to get me
that generator that along with the space storms we're going to
be without power and fucked at least up here on the hill you
won't be able to go down No, that's good because I can roll
shit down onto people. No one can come up. I can boiling oil,
you know all kinds
of stuff it'd be up in the hills area you're in is probably very
safe. Immune to the rise unless you know they just take over the
whole place and kill everyone. Yeah,
well, like a John Legend as a neighbour, he can just shred his
guitar.
He could turn the patient to a riot party house.
No, I'm very happy. I'm
walking out with your coffee machine now. I got it, man.
I got it. Meanwhile, if you want to talk about Mexicans
first today from the Panola
County Sheriff asking President Obama to send troops Sheriff
Paul Babb. Hughes says Mexican drug cartels now control parts
of Arizona all the way up to Metro Phoenix. ABC 15 Maryellen
Resendez has his play illegible 90 911 distress call from two
men shot and what investigators say is part of an ongoing battle
between Mexican drug cartels and what is now known as this
smuggling corridor. Drug cartels
control this area. And this is unacceptable the sheriff and
local law enforcement cannot handle and stop this on our own.
Now County Sheriff Paul Baboo says drug violence is far past
the border spilling into the communities I can areas now have
warning signs posted where military arm drug cartels are
frequently photographed making drug deliveries to vehicles on
Highway eight. We are
outgunned. We are outmanned and we don't have the resources here
locally for us to fight this.
Five weeks ago. Now County deputy was ambushed and shot as
he tracks six drug smuggling suspects. Several times the
caller told operators to look for him where the sheriff had
been shot. Some of the information he gave had not been
released. Sheriff Matthew says the issue is too much for local
law enforcement.
What is needed truly is we're looking at 3000 Soldiers alone
for Arizona
and Bunnell County, Maryland. Resendiz. ABC 15 News. All
right, nice.
That's an invasion.
Yeah, it is. They're running Arizona.
I would I'm waiting from the retake the Alamo.
What happened to the Alamo? I don't know this history at all.
Yeah, I'm not going to explain it. The Alamo is just a symbolic
place in Texas, that that went back and forth between the
Mexican Mexico the nation and the United States. We're trying
we're trying to we're trying to we Texas was like an independent
operation. And then the United States wanted to get a hold of
it. But then the Mexicans want to get hold of the Mexicans took
it at one point. And they took the Alamo and then we took it
back. And you know, I'd have to reread the whole thing because
it sounds it is confusing a and I don't have it on the top of my
head because it's just, you know, I just remember the Alamo.
Yeah,
that's right. You're supposed to remember the Alamo. That's all I
know. Just remember the Alamo. I remember into the Alamo
too. Yeah. You don't remember a thing? Do you know I do. It's a
very small place. I thought it was bigger. Yeah. But you don't
know what it was about? This is amazing. No, it was about it was
about the border war between the United States and Mexico and
who's going to end up with with the owner
of Texas. Okay, so we got Texas and now they're taking Arizona?
Yeah, well, they're gonna take they'd like to get New Mexico,
Arizona, California and Texas back. And they, you know, they
apparently have already got the Hotel Del Coronado. That's
taken over the haunted room. So the show that Stossel did and
you texted me and so I watched it last night. And I have to say
there were some gross inaccuracies when it came to
Amsterdam. I was like, Oh, brother, this is a bunch of
dickhead Americans thinking they know how it works in Amsterdam.
I agree. completely inaccurate.
And the worst part about it was was the was the propaganda that
came out of Fox, namely O'Reilly and Hannity, who apparently had
gotten into had been Stossel on and they got into an argument
and Stossel, of course is not a guy with a lot of stats. That
is, you know, beck and call. You had some stats. You had some
charts, which I found a couple of weenie charts. Unbelievable.
These charts. The charts were ridiculous by me. If those
charts are right, which the Harvard guy says they are, then
it indicates that everything we're told is a bunch of
bullcrap
mean, so the thing that got me is literally was saying, the
percentage between people who try and there were two specific
examples crack and heroin, that the people who try it and had it
it was like 8 million people tried it, and you know, like
80,000 actually got hooked. I don't believe that.
I mean, it was like three it was I think the number is 300,000.
Okay, but it was a big differential. Well, the extent
the Harvard guy says it's true too and maybe this because in
the Harvard guy I'm gonna have the clip of it he says that you
know that we're just being brainwashed with a bunch of
phoney baloney statistics and this may be the reason that you
don't believe the that stat which which clip is that? Well,
I haven't been to order I went and played Alright, let's do it.
Yeah, and you can interrupt because these are this is long
clips. Okay. But this is the first one is I'll set it up.
Stossel. It comes off of talking to Hannity, and then brings on
his Harvard guides, you straighten out some of the
bullcrap that Hannity throws at him, they want in their lives.
The problem
is when long as we don't hurt somebody else, it's predictable.
It's 100% certainty. crack addicts will kill to get
that by the way made me laugh. crack addicts
will kill Yeah, you take some crack, you go kill someone.
Yeah,
I mean, and 100% of the sciences, a percent percent
100%. And
he criticises the climate science.
Pack. That's the big fear and his arguments make sense to lots
of people drugs are just different than alcohol. So let
me ask Harvard economist and libertarian Jeffrey, Myron, what
about his claims 100% that crack addict will kill the claims that
he was making. And the claims that other drug wars make are
just such grotesque.
This is the Harvard guy, right? Yeah. That duration
of the facts. It's hard to believe anybody can say them out
loud. There are no data that support anything like that. Of
course, some of the claim I love a
Harvard guy that says there are no data.
He makes a couple of interesting flubs with his language.
I mean, I'm no linguist, but you know, I heard I was like, what
there are no data to back up this
one system are no data and is no data is actually debatable, or
rude because it depends on whether you were data refers to
a plural or singular. And I've heard that people try to do that
usage before but it's, it's it's awkward and probably should not
be executed feels bad.
That's true in a while, but of course they occur for alcohol,
as well as for the illegal drugs. They're basically just
making up facts or to cherry pick. Logic.
Oh, I thought you were saying something? No. All right.
Well, the crack addict will kill to get more Crack. Crack has
been out there for 25 years. It's available in every city, by
the
way, crack was introduced by the United States government. That's
pretty well documented. That was that was brought in by the CIA,
the CIA, literally sold it to the drug dealers. What was the
guy's name in?
Ah, he was here, that guy, that guy in Baltimore, that character
which when he talking to me,
this was the guy that that actually blew the lid off of
everything to Gary Weaver that got him killed. Ya know that
because this is what Gary Weaver uncovered. And he was a
journalist for the San Jose Mercury News. I want to say,
I don't know. But you're not talking about Gary Weaver, the
guy that got that whose wife and kid guy? No, I'm
not carrying niver. I'm sorry. Who's the journalist? Okay.
Don't worry. I don't know. You can you can block it. You can
Google it while you were listening. Let me put Did you by
the way notice in the stall, so I don't have the clip of this.
But they some kids, some young guy came out and said, Well,
what about the CIA smugly? I know, I know.
It's like no answers. I know, it was like, so what about the CIA,
selling drugs and running everything from Afghanistan and
the guy and then the military guy goes like, you know, we're
fighting a war and like, I
find that insulting anyway. I think yeah, guy, that guy was a
dick, that military guy.
He was mind controlled.
If it were going to cause that kind of violence, we would have
basically seen everyone living in cities dead by now. Of
course, that's not true. So those claims are just fanciful.
And just to go back to that chart, I was impressed by this
that if I had become convinced that crack was this special drug
that really hooked people, but then what explains this? So what
explains that is it lots of people try it okay, and they
realise it's either not that much fun. It's not that
interesting. They have some concerns about negative side
effects, and they stop.
I'm really stoned. But I have some concerns about the negative
side effects. It was Gary Webb, by the way. Thank you.
Very well, right, right, right. Most people who are a dope
smoker and you stopped out of the blue. Yeah, I
wasn't smoking crack, though. No, but
you know, there's, I don't believe everybody who has ever
tried crack. Not that I would ever recommend it to anyone is a
terrible
baking soda. It's coke and baking soda. Well,
if it goes into it, but it's ingested as kind of it, it will
give you a heart attack. That is kind of a problem there. It
seems to me now
might be that's, that's one of the negative side effects. It's
not for me, man. This crack is not working.
We use all sorts of risky things in their teens and early 20s.
Stop doing them for lots of things as they go had older Sean
Hannity said the Dutch marijuana use after Holland legalised it
he
won't stop. They've never legalised it. Incorrect. They've
never it's not legalised, not legalised. It was 250%
from 84 to 92. I didn't catch his time period when he said
that to me, but so it was time period doesn't correspond to
when they actually liberalise their policy. Their use rates
have indeed gone up and down, but they're currently about half
the use rates in the United States, even though they have
virtual legalisation. And we have this draconian policy.
So so so I will agree with that having grown he said
virtualization on the Harvard guy is right there. But I,
but I will say sir, policy, virtual legalisation is what it
is.
And I will say that they've had the same policy for alcohol,
which is also not that big of a problem. You can still to this
day, as far as I know, walk into a bar when you're 15. You look
like 16, you'll get a drink, there's no ID check, etc. It's
not a big deal, because it's not a big deal. It's not a big deal.
It's like it's so what, you know, yeah,
no, in fact, I remember there was a news show it because
Scandinavian and Nordic countries are fairly liberal
with these kinds of rules and regulations. And there was a
show, I remember watching it on the news, it was some showing
some kid, I guess his dad was like a drunk or some go out and
get me another six pack. And so this kid who is 12 years old,
he's in Norway, Oslo or something, he goes into the
grocery store buys a six pack and brings it home to his dad.
And it's like the American news media, what a scandal. The kids
not drinking it.
But you know, what I was found was really smart in in Holland
is, and that's still the same, it is very hard to obtain a
driver's licence. So you have to be 18, none of this 16 bull
crap. And I don't think you're responsible enough when you're
16. Anyway. But also, you don't really need necessarily to drive
because there's plenty of trains. But you most people fail
on the first, the first attempt to get the driver's licence, you
have to take lessons, at least I think it's most people take at
least 20 hours, some 40 hours, somewhere on the on the
programme for years. And it's very hard to get a driver's
licence. And I've always thought that was kind of an interesting
counterbalance to the policy of look, it's a it's no big deal.
It's just no big deal. And, and the policy has been pretty much
the same for heroin. And this year, they're just Holland, of
course, is a total transport country. So they're transporting
the shit everywhere. And they don't want to blow up their own
system. A lot of people making money off of it. But because
it's not a big deal, I just don't think the problems there.
So I have to agree. If that's libertarian, then I'm there.
Yeah, it is. What's the what's the second clip? Oh, that
was the end of the clip. Man.
I've got 30 seconds doesn't
support his claim at all. It's just the opposite. So even
though HoloLens is plays for all the American tourists go because
they can smoke marijuana. And by the
way, it's the British tourists that go there and get fucked up.
Not the American Americans too. But it's the Brits. They make
weekend trips of it worry about
the cops, fewer Dutch people smoke than America. And in
particular, Dutch youth don't smoke nearly as much as American
youth seemed to do if it were illegal. More people would try
stuff, right. I suspect lots of people would occasionally try it
or would be curious. But the vast majority wouldn't continue.
If they really were curious that they really cared, they would
already be using it because it's easy to get if you have any
serious interest. So why is this such an end? So
is that the end? Yeah. Or I got cut off?
No, that was the end?
No. So you know, the thing that's really behind this whole
drug war deal is that is the I used to work for the Air
Pollution Control District now is the air quality management,
whatever. And I went to was at the University of California.
And I was in the library doing some research. And I was going
through some government documents, and I ran into the
original legislation for the establishment of the air
pollution District, which was a if I, if I recall, right, was
done in 1955. And this was, I think, right after that London
Fog incident did in the 50s. Everybody was got got really
concerned about air pollution. And so they these things were
cropping up everywhere. And it was very clear in the original
law that the agency was to be created for a period and I don't
remember the exact number but it had a limited life that was
either 15 or 20 years and then they were going to close it. So
in other words, by 1975 It should have been out of
existence, but it not only stayed in existence but got
bigger and bigger and bigger and now they're dealing with Carbon
Dioxide and, you know, continuing you know, stay in
business doing this the DEA, once it was created, you created
a monster, you can't get rid of it, they're gonna they're gonna
put up phoney stats, they're gonna do anything they can to
stay in business. Cops like the overtime and the whole thing is
a fiasco. Yeah, there
was a lot of that. And I don't know if we if we should play all
all what the second clip is really short 30 seconds is that
some gem you've got here.
Now the good clip is the last one this long, because it talks
about the thing that really bothers me, which are the SWAT
teams, the Atlas played only we have 100 SWAT raids a day in
this country. SWAT teams were you know, special weapon,
weapons and tactics was set up for you know, for anti terrorist
and
anti energy guys, they should be blowing up guys making Browns
gas.
It was set up for a specific purpose paramilitary operations
that cost a lot of money to maintain. And so now they have
to find some rationale for staying in business when they
shouldn't be most of them should be dissolved. We don't need all
these military, you know, looking operations within police
departments in these tanks and crazy things that I
just saying they're trained. They're military trained. Yeah,
they're
military people. Well, they're trained as military and then
they're gone around. Well, I'll play that clip just that that
last clip for
the police are about to break into a house in Columbia,
Missouri. They believe there's a large supply of marijuana here.
Inside a couple is putting their seven year old son to bed
they kill one of the family dogs injure the other. Day didn't
find that large supply of marijuana. They leveraged a $300
fine charge the father was child endangerment.
never apologised for killing the family dog.
Good dog. wouldn't even say
sorry.
To me shows that this was a justifiable shooting. The dog
was aggressive and the dog got shot.
I was stunned to learn that SWAT team rates like that are not
unusual anymore. They now happen every day in America. In fact,
more than 100 occur every day. Radley Balko of reason magazine
opened my eyes to that raid and to arrayed on this man's home
Shai kelvil. Two years ago, cops burst into his home in Maryland
and shot his two dogs and this was because FedEx and delivered
a package was marijuana.
We actually did that story when it happened. You remember that?
Yeah, maybe you didn't realise. I don't remember the part that
the guy was the mayor. He was the
mayor. Yeah, that was the crazy thing about exactly.
And the police, when they burst into our home had done so little
investigation. They didn't even know I was the mayor of the
town. You were the mayor of the town. It wasn't your own police.
It was it was a county SWAT team but they then errant SWAT team
burst in the door rifles blazing, they shot our two dogs,
Peyton and chase one from behind while he was running away, and
they tore our house upside down in a four hour nightmare. So
this was a mistake. Well, when I remember distinctly I kneeled on
the floor bounds my own living room floor at gunpoint thinking
it was a mistake. But as I looked into it further, I
learned it's business as usual. They to this day say the guys
did what they were supposed to do, even though we were
innocent, even though it made international headlines. It was
an embarrassment for the county. It was the right thing to do.
And Radley this has become business as usual America.
Yeah, I mean, the raid that we just saw.
I'm sorry to just say stop it.
Yeah, you can stop it. I mean, I think it's pretty you know,
obvious what's going on here.
Yeah, the Federal the federal government work
on the topic they don't they can't do enough to even you
know, check on this guy was the mayor they did obviously
careless. They don't need to be careful because nobody cares.
Nobody's responsible. Nobody gives a crap and nobody's ever
held accountable.
And it's the federal government who are out of control. I mean,
this is not states. This is not states. It's the federal this is
what this what you see in California. And by the way, I
was it was funny. The douchebag from like the Pro, the Neo
prohibitionist he he said that there were more pot houses in
Los Angeles and more pot dispensaries in Los Angeles than
there are Starbucks and McDonald's. I'm like, oh, yeah,
I'd like to see those stats motherfucker. That is so not
true. Hmm, that is absolutely not true.
And then you would know that guy lied through his teeth, which
really bothers me. And in fact that the DA is lying about
statistics, which is obvious. And this guy's lying through his
teeth with the, with all kinds of assertions that were just off
the wall, you know, the guy should be ashamed of himself and
this whole, this whole movement that's trying to stop, you know,
what's what Stossel is talking about? You know, in California,
of course, we have the marijuana initiative coming up, which will
be hilarious, because hopefully it'll pass and then there'll be
these court cases, and the feds will come in, and there's gonna
be all kinds of things going on. It's it's just, it's just
pathetic. It's just a pathetic situation.
What I found the best clip, which we don't have a clip of,
unfortunately, is when one of the audience members said, Hey,
listen, we had alcohol prohibition country, and, and
that, and the only way to do that was to amend the
Constitution. That got overturned, how come? There's no
Amendment to the Constitution for drugs? And of course, the
question was not answered, No, the
guy refused even address it. He went on and on with all kinds of
statistics and how important it is. And that was the same
douchebag who lied about to Starbucks and McDonald's. And
the fact of the matter is, he couldn't answer the thing is,
it's a federal, that's why the State of California can pass
this law. Because the states do have the opportunity to do
whatever they want. And if they if they have the guts to do it,
because you know, that we're trying, we're seeing a solid
movement in this country against states rights. You know, the
fact of the matter is, this country is set up so each state
can do most of the, you know, legislative activity for the for
the people that live within its boundaries. But you have this
concerted effort, especially by the left to make a net and make
a national government, that that's over that hangs over
everything. That's why they have protests in California about
Arizona and its laws. What does California have to do with it?
Nothing? Nothing. So as we move into our second hour for today's
programme, John, a quick note about change.org. Have you ever
looked at this website? No. So I'm not quite sure. Well, it
feels very Obama esque. Obviously. It being named
change.org. Actually, I didn't do a who is on it. I should do
that real quick. It's set up by as a whole button. And it's
always tough to find out who's behind these things. But you go
to about us@change.org. Ben Rattray is the founders have an
Obama look. Yeah, he's the founder and CEO. And there's
Mark Dimas, that name sounds familiar. But there's no like
real profiles of these guys. And it's kind of it's oh, this this
is the limited public profile for Mark is the fucking CEO or
the what is he? CTO limited profile anyway. So it looks like
a bunch of Silicon Valley Obama nuts. And they haven't. So what
this website does is it helps you set up petitions, which
makes me feel like it's even more an Obama thing. And and
then these petitions, I guess, are sent in so here it is. This
petition to fully fund NPR and PBS better known as our national
treasure targeting the US Senate and US House of Representatives
sponsored by credo action. And I get so you can make groups on
this change.org. And here's their pitch. The United States
has one of the lowest funded public media systems in the
developed world, the federal government alots, only $1.43 per
person each year to maintain the system
that much compared to more than a part of their budget went over
that you're talking about $300 million go already going into
PBS? Is that what he's saying? That's
more way more. It's like 500 million.
Well, they should they should they should stop it. That's a
waste of money. Let them find their own. They got sponsors,
they got advertising. Why don't they just act like any other?
The broadcast? Well, let me let me give you their pitch. The
Public Broadcasting Act was passed over four decades ago. It
led to the creation of the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, PBS and NPR. But today, only 20% of the operation
of public media is actually underwritten by the federal
government through the CPB, forcing, forcing media outlets
to increasingly rely on corporate underwriters for
support. Funny that to make matters worse, the 20% of funds
by the way, you let me ask you the question. Let's say they got
more money from the government. Do you think that underwriting
would go away? No,
of course not. So here's the petition text which you are then
supposed to say into your representative Deere
representative, I urge you to fully fund NPR and PBS. Now more
than ever, we need to vibrant public media, corporate media
fails to produce the truth telling journalism, we need to
help citizens and politicians make decisions crucial to the
safeguarding of our democracy. Sign your name here. And I'm
like, wow, how can you actually if you know anything about
journalism, like journalism 101, which I did take in my three
months of college, you know, that you cannot have a good
journalistic media if it's funded by the government. It's,
it's perpendicular to the whole concept. And here they are
change. Oh, let's change the world. Let's make it a better
place.
They have this page of, of writers. Did you look at the
change.org? Team?
No. Yeah, no, I did. No, I did. That's what I'm saying. Photos.
Yeah, but you, but there's no, there's no biographies. And the
guy's chair is, you know, Chairman and CEO. So the guys
clearly you know, it's is it for profit is a not for profit?
Let's see registered rat Ray. It's registered to Ben Rattray.
Yeah. So he's the CEO change.org 709, Douglas Street,
San Francisco. And Jeffrey Westcott so it doesn't really
say much
music at a Facebook page.
But you know, to get the URL change.org. change that. Yeah,
change that. Org, I think that you probably have some ties.
That's not just one, it's just really easy to go out and get
no, that's not even close to being easy to get that had to be
locked down.
And how are these guys funded?
Well, that's the question, isn't it? Yeah. But I've looked at all
those writers may actually get a job there. Got like 1000 writers
while they're hiring job, what did they write the word they're
hiring. People do they need
here? They're hiring. Oh, my gosh, look at all this. Look at
all these Oh, well, if you can do Ruby on Rails, but they're
hiring bloggers, criminal justice editor and education
editor, a global poverty editor, health editor, human rights
editor race in America editor. Wow. Hmm. We could get a gig
there. Anyway, I guess the whole point of bringing this up is
this is exactly how it's not supposed to work. And I don't
And you're right, if they're getting $500 million. And if
it's really about bringing good stories. Do you really need that
much money? Is that really necessary?
Seems so
now we've taken a little different stance on this
programme. Now.
We don't get the $500 million? No,
no, we don't. But we do have a lot of people who support us who
understand what we're trying to do, what we're attempting to do,
and then some cases we're succeeding, and we are just
unfortunately, we don't really spend our time going out and
investigating stories. Not that we be any good at that
necessarily. But the media is so broken that we spend all of our
time punching holes in it so people understand that what's
being shuffled up to them as news is not actually news. And a
lot of that comes directly from
national trade show
brought to you by the US government. And
say the government's you know, basically got all the media
locked down. They're just singing their tune. Hence, the,
you know, stuff about legalising or decriminalising drugs. You
know, by the way, I think you legalising marijuana is one
thing decriminalising is another and I think legalising marijuana
makes sense decriminalising the other stuff makes sense.
Yeah. Which is what Portugal did and apparently it's working
pretty good for them.
So a couple people we want to mention Ivan Neeson from Elwood
Victoria, Australia gave us 6969 And he's been on the $5 press
has donated some for say he needs some karma for his iPhone
game. Had he had the gene but he needs a better name for it.
Or I'll review it on the big app show. What is it? I Juca snake
Master? Yeah, I'll put on the big App Show. If it doesn't
suck. Hi, Joe. Hi. Juca snake master. Okay, I'll do an
episode.
Christopher Linda Hartson from Richland, Washington. 66 Dots 60
she's currently working for it. Or he sorry, he's currently
working for the Census and could use some good karma. I don't
know. But sounds like good karma right there.
Yeah. Sounds like you got a good good gig.
Plus, can you call out at the real Canadian at on the show as
a as a douchebag? I guess he doesn't say that. So I don't
know what to call him. I'm
not gonna do that. Yeah.
As mentioned his name, so he's gonna you know, now you know, Ed
Shabbos. New York, New York, New York. 6610. He wants to donate
to rocks on the dime. sixes are rocks in Japanese.
And also a slang for crack. Yeah, threw rocks on the
fan. We could put we'd be up 10% on our donations of all these
who are 62 rocks on the dime. He wants to be? No not to be
deduced. Not to like he doesn't want me to you, okay. He wants
to make it in the name of his publishing company vertical Inc.
Republished Japanese books, fiction and business books in
English. Vertical dash ink.com. So don't make up. Don't make Oh,
it's just about us bickering. James Lowry McQuarrie Park New
South Wales to nickels on a dime. No comments Richard Perry
Berlin, Berlin. He's from Berlin. He's from Oh no, he's
from Berlin. America. Berlin Berlin.
You got all excited there for a moment
is name my name is Rick. Not the Governor Perry. I've been
listening for a couple of months now and finally can donate
because I won't have a child care bill until the fall. I'm in
need of a big D douche. Youth Band D deuced. Got another one
coming up. Nicholas Hughes, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada $55 Even
I've been listening since about day one I've never donated I
couldn't live with the shame anymore. He really says so
here's my donation. I've also subscribed please de douche MI.
T deuced. The de douche machine is working overtime today.
It is it's
piece 5150 John and then we have our knighthoods, layaway guys,
pitcher Cheney and Hudson and Pierce and corpi and Tim humour
from Pelzer South Carolina once a birthday shout out to his
sister and fellow producer Katie humour. Or it's pronounced
hammer. Sorry Hu E M. M er is pronounced hammer. June 19 is
her birthday and she's turning the lucky 30 Yeah, we actually
have two birthdays to do so.
Okay, so it's Tim Kuma and he is congratulating Katie humour on
her birthday. We don't need to mention age. We don't do that
with the announced hammer hammer. Tim hammer for Katy
hammer. We won't mention her age. We don't do that with the
dame's on no agenda. And James Wilson also celebrating his
birthday. Happy birthday, from your friends at the no agenda
show.
Yeah, and actually, today is actually Jane was Wilson's
birthday. Yes. It's amazing when these coincidences take place.
And let's see there's any left here on the map. Yeah, there's a
MEL Matsuoka from Honolulu, Hawaii. And you're supposed to
Oh, my goodness. Another project of mine. What? He'll give
another 50 bucks if I post all my old board watch recipes.
Board watch. Oh, yeah. No, I was when I was writing for board
watch magazine. I would put these wrestled was
word watched like the you look at BBS systems or something?
Yes. Oh, god, Oh, wow.
That guy sold out for 25 million bucks. And that was the end of
it. So. But yeah, we had these recipes, like the famous flank
steak recipe that people rave about. But I have a whole bunch
of and you know, the thing is that I there's a there's a
little cache of them that I know I did. I can't find my. But I
have about 20 of them probably on a memory stick somewhere.
They didn't have memory statistics like these were done
in 1947.
So we appreciate all of the supporting
what James was we mentioned him but he I think he had a comment.
No, no, you did.
We appreciate all the support that that you've given to the
programme this week, very important to us is to get on one
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particularly with some stuff I got coming up. And
so that's still better off if the government was just given.
Oh, yeah, I mean, we could just take 1% Right, we'd be very
happy with one per Senator what they're getting our national
treasure. Oh, sure.
I left one other guy out John Terada in Pasadena. $50. More.
Right? Yeah, so you can sign up for either the $5 or we have a
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conversation in a day John, I think you now are really you
have the whole house filled with signs that say complete the
rings project. Complete the rings How are we doing? Are you
getting there? Because this Yeah, I
mean, I'm 70% to finish
okay, I'm just gonna stay on your right I mean, we agreed to
this I'm gonna
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always. Ministry of Truth couple things actually.
If you want to put her off, we can do a little real news to
liven things up or I can do this at the end. Let's do
some real news
well, something happened and I was on the I put the recorder on
and I dozed off because it was you know see, were you on crack.
Yes, because I was on
you had to go out and kill somebody not doze off.
So I woke up to a reality TV show that was the worst thing
I've ever seen and I have three clips I want to play. First of
all, let's play clip number one the show is called pretty wild.
And it involves a girl who apparently does nothing but cry
and I just say so now
I just say something this show is taped in our street. No yes
this is in our street. This is the girl who was arrested as
part of the bling gang who stole $3 million from from Hollywood
celebrities like Paris Hilton and Justin Timberlake they were
a bunch of you know well to do Los Angeles punks. Douchebag
kids, and they actually use Twitter and and other social
networks to find out when these celebrities will be out of town
would break into their homes. Yes, and they and they stole you
know jewellery but also like Paris Hilton's underwear and
they were caught on CCTV camera and this girl in particular who
still denies but she I think she copped a plea bargain so she's
gonna go to jail for like 60 days, but she made a whole
reality show out of it called pretty wild and it is taped
right up the street.
It's disgusting
it's so bad. Like I want to watch it but I can't and then I
have to and it's like it's let's just do you need setup for this
first clip
did just play it there's nothing to set up
do anything
show she'll do all this I think
it was meant to bring truth to the situation. truth to the
people who lost her belongings and you probably feel so
violated. I know I would.
The positive energy that comes from from good choices is really
powerful. 100 times more powerful. So they say in the
secret
which is realised that like even if you are innocent, the people
that you surround yourself with
good choices versus so they've got this douchebag lawyer. Wait
a minute on the show. Wait, stop. I know all about
this. though. Yeah, but what is the secret? What do you do with
energy is 10 times more powerful? That's what they say
in the secret secret.
This whole thing is a cult. Yes,
this mom is a complete Greek horrible,
she she should be locked up. She's exploiting these kids. And
the funny thing is, they're renting this house and they are
only there when they shoot episodes. They don't actually
live there. But when you watch the show, it's like, oh, we're
at their house. But they're not it's a rental up the street
here. Oh, really? Yeah, they just go into it. When you really
look at the at the interior shots, you can see that they've
got like temporary clothing, racks and stuff you want. Once
you really start to pay attention to it, you see it, but
it's a rental. It's a rented house. It's one of these houses
that you know, is used by Vivid Entertainment. Normally, I'm
reliably informed. Hubba hubba. Yeah. And so they just rent it
out whenever they're gonna shoot. Unless it's
your dog about the lawyer, which I could have some clips of him,
but you might as well play pretty wild too, because at the
end of it, they go to commercial. And there was a kind
of a crying sobbing moment at the very end of this short clip
that we have to cut out and using all of our other
temporary situation. No, you need
Are you kidding? This is this to show. You're gonna do it another
time in the future. But you know what, these are the consequences
of hanging out with stupid people.
We're gonna spoil your system.
Just leave me alone.
I don't want to go. I'm gonna go. Leave
me alone
that's good. Let me see if I can if I can mix it up here. Hold on
a second.
Yeah, so this douchebag lawyer who was the one who got her the
reality show, because this is what it's all about. It's she's
the kids on on antidepressants. You they it's all set up, right?
There's, and it's a Ryan Seacrest production I might add.
Oh, oh, yeah. No, yeah,
he should be ashamed of himself. Which brings me to the Bernie
Goldberg clip that I have here, where he does a rant, who's
Bernie Goldberg. Bernie Goldberg is a former ABC correspondent
very famous. If you saw his face, his El Gato. I've seen
this guy a million times. He quit. He gave up on the
mainstream media and went to work probably getting more money
from Fox. It turns out he's a you know, a right wing character
with a lot of opinions. And he does these little segments on
the O'Reilly report once in a while. And he's absolutely I
think is probably one of the guys one of those guys. he's
absolutely fascinating, because his opinions are based in old
media. And again, they come together and he's extremely
irked by these reality TV people.
The story to reality TV, we don't. Now the father says he
didn't sell it. The production company is running away. We
can't get to them. But there was apparatus they were shooting it
they were this they were that so you got us feel that there was
something in play here but let's just put that aside for a
moment. A lot of people are angry with these parents number
116 year old girl unattended 40 foot boat trying to sail around
the world. Child abuse child what do you think?
Yeah, you know, you can make that case. I think the problem
with reality shows is that they cheapen the culture in this
particular case bill, nothing counts what culture what
culture,
I agree with him that is a cheap in the culture. The existence of
these shows has cheapened the American culture what little
that we have,
how much cheaper can it get? Is our culture this is like this is
this the same thing as why we eat McDonald's on a on the
aeroplane was another disgusting part of our cultures.
Nothing matters not even a 16 year old girl getting in a
relatively small vote to take a voyage around the world. It
doesn't count unless it's on television, and you can cash in
on it. For some people. Life itself doesn't count. Unless
they're on television making money. The Kardashians come to
mind on that one. But none of this none of this comes close to
the worst reality show in the history of television, which is
still on right now. And that's the Maury Povich show every day,
or almost every day. He has Stupid woman on who got pregnant
by some stupid guy and they do a paternity test. She says he's
the father. He says no, my cousin's the Father. it cheapens
the culture. Maury Povich because of this is the, the most
despicable human being and I use that term loosely ever to appear
on television spring. This is the kind of stuff he makes Jerry
Springer look like he's the host of Masterpiece Theatre. I mean,
he makes Jerry Springer look decent. By comparison. Maury
Povich is the I hope he's watching or hears about this
absolute worst piece of garbage in the history of television,
because that stuff cheapens the culture. People humiliate
themselves so that they can get on television. It's despicable.
All right. There are a couple of things in play here. But I do
want to get back to Abby Sunderland from because this is
a girl who is brave. You have to be brave, who is resourceful.
She gets all the way to the Indian Ocean by herself in a 40
foot boat. And yeah, she is confident that she can do it.
She almost died. I don't think people understand how close she
came to leaving this planet. I mean, the boat fell apart. Mass
crashed, all her emergency equipment crashed. And she was
lucky lucky. Now
you know, let me just say some there's two there's two topics
here. John one is reality television and I think we're
probably going to agree on that when it comes to the
conversation about it being child abuse for this father to
allow push.
I'm actually with you on this. But the problem I have is that
this this idea of because I guess as girls a sailor,
obviously came about because they a
girl. Her dad's a has a sailing shop and a camp and the whole
distance sailing family,
right? But the girl in Australia came from a sailing family and
she went around the world completed hers. She's same age
16. So they obviously give somebody the idea that well, you
know, our daughter could do that maybe we make into a TV show.
The other girl obviously didn't have a TV show, but she got a
lot of and but the thing is I've listened to interviews with both
these girls, and the the Australian girl is sharp as a
tack. She is extremely bright, and she's quick witted. And
she's actually an amazing person to listen to. And she jokes
about the fact that now she can get her driver's licence. The
other girl seems like a dimwit.
I have not seen either one of them interviewed, but I do know
that if you want to if that is child abuse, then how about
parents who put their 10 year old kids on horses? You know, go
ahead. Horses are the whole equestrian sport is dangerous
people get severely injured. That but you know, there's
always like, oh, Hero horses have Olympic sport. You've got
parents who put their kids in, in skelter races, you know, the
precursor to
riding crazy back off the rest of the interview, I think they
back off on the idea. I mean, that's just Riley being, you
know, provocative.
But that's a big part of the conversation is people say, Oh,
is child abuse child just because of the reality show? And
I think that's dubious. Whether it's, you know, it's like, oh,
we'll do a reality show. Go get some fame kid. You know? I don't
know, man. It's like, what are we worried about? And Chinese
farmers send their kids off to Foxconn to go work 18 hours a
day. When don't We don't seem to have a national debate about
that. You know, it's very common around the world for parents to
send their kids off and go make some money. In fact, that used
to be that way in the so called civilised Western world.
Yeah, you'd be working in a factory when you're 12 Yeah,
yes, shut
up and go make some bricks carry some bricks kid. That's that's
what it was or do or go out there and you know, Thailand,
you know, go prostitute. This happens all over the place, but
the reality show format, and I'm a student of television, of
course, and the real world was for all intents and purposes.
The first reality based show which I consider to be a reality
show, the Maury Povich show is a reality is in the reality genre.
I would say Sally Jessy Rafa, l came before that. And we used to
share studios with her in New York, and boy, there were a lot
of creeps coming through, but it is a human. Our culture is to
watch that I see the most intelligent people watching this
crap.
I don't see any intelligent people watching it. I don't
watch it. I've watched Paul I saw Povich once and I thought
the show was ridiculous.
You're hyper intelligent. Does that right? Doesn't count. No,
I'm
talking about normal intelligent people don't watch this crap as
it is for it's for beer swilling kind of people that would be on
the show. I mean, one of the things I was told which is about
if somebody who was involved with But the Springer show is
that they have a fee schedule. And everybody gets paid a
certain amount of money. Sure, based on what they do, and in
fact a scientist like 50 bucks, if you stand up, you get 25
bucks. Yeah, apparently you get like 100 or 50 bucks are some
amount of money for taking a shoe off and threatening
somebody. And it's the only show if you haven't noticed, it's
almost like a it's like code, see only show you've ever seen
anyone take a shoe off. And they're always taking their
shoes off on the show, because they get paid an extra amount of
money for taking the shoe
I didn't I'm not that in depth into it. And apparently you have
watched the show.
I think I think the Jerry Springer show is hilarious. I
don't watch any of it. I, you know, I may have a watcher for a
number of years, and then I did get to get this guy's a huge
sign a nondisclosure, like on all these reality shows, then
you can't tell anybody about what's really going on behind
the scenes. You can't you know, so nobody ever comes out. And
this guy told me said, he said the main reason many of these
people do these shows they come out and humiliate themselves, is
because they genuinely believe that they'll be discovered and
be put in a movie.
Yes, there'll become famous. Absolutely. That is the culture.
That is the Paris Hilton. Now she had some some good, some
money background to start with. But you know, how did she How
did she become famous? I haven't forgotten. She started by a sex
tape. And then we've got Perez Hilton, who started his
celebrity blogger fame by naming himself in a manner that sounded
like Paris Hilton. And it was very brilliant. It was very
good. This this whole this whole culture is built on that. And
then we've got the what's her name? Kim Kardashian and she's
with the with the basketball player, or football player, as a
football player shadow No,
no, who cares? You know,
and it's, it's like watching that show at all. You know, it's
the extension of lifestyles. It's, it's coming into
lifestyles of the rich and famous, which a lot of people
probably have never heard of before. But it used to be a show
that I think a lot of Americans are shouting. I'm Robin Leach.
Alright, moving on to another topic.
He was on a show recently, by the way, is shoved out
enormously. Oh, really?
He was always kind of chubby. Yeah, but
now it's you know, more.
And in the reality format. Let us not forget rest in peace.
Morton Downey Jr.
Yeah, remember, that was a confrontation. That was an
interesting experiment that I think a lot of people learned a
lot from it was very compelling. It was confrontational. Of
course he was stoned on on amphetamines. They got them all
you know jacked up Yeah. To go on there and and scream at
people Yeah,
we didn't like that there
was a Joe pile. No, I don't remember that show pile predates
all these guys. He goes way back. And then there's Wally
that guy the wall he whatever his name is show. There's a
bunch of these characters have come and gone. They all make a
lot of money. They should make more than we do.
Fuck yeah. So um, I've been noticing something kind of weird
in Los Angeles. Now that I live here. There. There's these
police officers who ride around a lot on segways at first I
thought I was like there's some kind of like traffic watch
Paul Blart Mall Cop
No, it's actually bid police the bid police have you ever heard
of this the bid police I never heard of the bid police.
Exactly. So
you ever see no ever notice sometimes you can do on a daily
basis there's all these police agencies like within one
jurisdiction there's the state cops the Feds there's county
there's the city we'll get
this so these big police who have guns and they and they have
badges and they have police uniforms and on the back of
their their uniform it says bid police so the word police is
there and then bid and so yes, they were driving back from the
movies and
D ID ID as it got dots is it be down
No no, no, no, no, no it should it should have dots but it
doesn't it just says bid and for and I'm like that must be some
kind of like traffic thing or whatever. But you know, they got
guns and they're riding around on hyped up segways and like
what is this? It is the Business Improvement District Police and
this is something Yes. And this is something very new. Or
relatively new I should say mall cops. No, well, if only it would
have stated that but they they are not. They are not actual
police. They are rent a cops. Set up by the in this case the
Los Angeles business district and it is their their mission.
My officers are focused on the immediate response to major
crimes. And these crimes so they're their entire mission is
to assist in building relationships between local
citizens and and the private security companies who deploy
these bid police officers. Police, I know but they're not
real cops. This is what bothers me. But they patrol the streets
and they interact with civilian slaves like they are the cops.
And it's kind of frightening.
Bid police bid police. Yeah.
They've got the bid patrol move over. Yeah. And police police.
So they're mall cops, except they got guns.
No Mall. Cops have guns. They do. Yeah, a lot of them.
Paul Blart didn't
plot Paul Blart couldn't be trusted with a gun.
So in the Hollywood entertainment dress district the
bid patrol officers do more than am How can be an officer you're
not an officer. i It's the misnomers that bother me. You're
not police. You are not the police. You're just not. You're
you're a renter, renter dude. They provide more than just a
presence they become members of the community as members, it's
necessary for the officers to not only make arrests, but to
also find alternative and permanent solutions to the
problems in the area. For example, several quality of life
issues in the Hollywood entertainment district. This is
Hollywood Boulevard involved the homeless population. Homeless
violators who experienced frequent arrests can often
create a revolving door effect rather than a lasting resolution
to the problem as a remedy. Bit patrol officers have initiated
close working relationships with several of the communities
homeless outreach programmes when appropriate. Officers
provide direction and programme referrals. Yeah, hey, hey,
homeless douche. Get out of here. Get away from that from
that chat window. While rest Yeah. And they've also become
involved with juvenile runaway shelters in order to direct
juvenile citizens to organisations that will offer
them help.
Okay, yeah, you take the boys shelter and outtake the girls
shelter?
I'm telling you. So I don't like it. It feels a bit scary to me.
In the New York Times,
it's disgusting. Then
a Father's Day story. The New York Times came out with a
baffling piece. Interestingly enough in their fashion and
style section. Where there is a movement in our scholastic
system. We're still waiting for your big report, John, on on
schooling any minute. Yes. And the movement is to break up kids
who have best friends. This is fairly
blogged this blog. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
So So the story is that the Scholastic system, I'm
generalising feels that best friends is not a good idea. And
they should be separated. Because a kids need to interact
with each other. And that seems when did this become the
school's responsibility?
They will that's the big question. They want kids to be
more group oriented. They want it to be responsible to the
group it's very socialist kind of a thing. Instead of having a
friend that they can rely on, they've heard they should rely
on the group, the group of people and you know, it's
collectivism Give me a break. And it started with said some
rinky dink school. By this one woman who's must be getting a
lot of flack because it's been blogged by everybody. Christine
Leigh Cobb, she's the director of counselling at the Mary
Institute and St. Louis Country Day School in St. Louis. We
tried to talk to kids and work with them to get them to have
big groups of friends and not be so possessive about friends.
Parents sometimes say Johnny needs that one special friend,
she continued, we say he doesn't need a best friend. Yeah.
It's baffling to me.
It's not baffling to me. This is part of a movement to to kind of
de structure deconstruct the culture and get it so so it
thinks more in terms of like, you know, group benefits.
collectivist it doesn't. There's been a huge push against
individualism in this country and individualism. If an
individual wants to have a best friend, it's his or her
business. It's nobody else's. Nobody should be discouraging it
or not or encouraging it. They should just let it be. Instead
of instead of butting in
I can't wait for your big report on the Scholastic system. John
has a mess. It's gonna be
All right. And then
I got one thing, by the way, I want to play with something at
the end of the show at the after we're done, which I want to
recommend is playing into it over the next week or two,
Robert Klein, who is, you know, as a funny comic he had to use
to have shows, but he has apparently he's the one who was
in them. If you remember the movie War of the Roses, yes,
yes. Where the two of the husband and wife just destroyed
each other. I mean, that movie, by the way. Okay. Robert Klein
was, was modelled after the marriage between Robert Klein
and Elaine boos Muller,
to really I didn't I didn't know that that was modelled after
that. Okay. And, like Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta
Jones. No,
no, no, no. Actress, I can't marry you over anyway. It's a
great movie. It's hilarious. But it's but Klein who's some people
I know of Matt is apparently not the nicest guy in the world. But
I have to say, very, very talented comic, but he's he does
a song during his act called medical marijuana, I want to
play it and people should go see the HBO special. He was the
first guy to do an HBO special. Right? Curiously, and it's quite
amusing.
Okay, so we'll play that right after the closing credits of the
show.
And I only have one other clip that's worth listening to.
Besides besides the Who are you clip which is just a piece of a
play that you fully support the Obama
Yeah, that was the is that the congressman? Yeah, yeah, so yes,
I don't know if he was drunk or not. But he was he had to be
plastered but he grabbed these kids these so called college
kids which I don't know if they were or not, but he grabs them
he's holding on to them by the scruff of the neck you know WHO
ARE YOU SHUT UP slaves like the the most elitist it's an
uncomfortable thing to watch. It doesn't really work in audio.
When you see the video it's just like, oh my god, you know very
bad yeah. Oh, wow. It's like shut up. Are you Who are you
shut up kid and the kids like we're college students. The
project is a project is a college project, which I doubt
by the well I
think it was a phoney phoney up to Yeah, I agree with that. But
it's still I don't think they expected it to work so well. No,
it was like jackpot.
What a jackpot that was for sure. Anyway, but I do have
something you know, people always wonder, you know, one of
the complaints I have about tech reporting is that there's no
critical thinking there's no honesty and it's and much of
what passes for journalism is boosterism and I'm so I'm
flipping around, I caught the G for I think it was Attack of the
Show or one of these things on the g4 and I took this little
clip which is a guy who is reviewing a non released product
kind of with the guy who wrote the product I guess, and he's so
giddy and so booster ish over the whole thing that I found it
actually disgusting they're very
you know from classic dungeons now we tried to present ourself
as a dungeon crawl there's lots of dungeons but outdoor areas
like you're seeing in this demo and and wilderness areas and
towns as well. I'll share the engine can render them
beautifully. And clearly you guys are taking advantage of it
the game looks incredible. hunted the demons Forge. When do
we get to play it? When do I get it? When
do I convince my friends to buy it? We're shipping first quarter
next year. Sounds good. Thanks. First
off, I like convinced my friends to buy it the thing isn't going
to be out for almost a year. He doesn't know what the game is
any good or not. What do you mean convinced his friends to
buy? I'm
going to predict that somewhere in the next 18 months there will
come an expose a revealing the incredible scam that is rampant
throughout the tech industry, the tech reporting industry. And
dare I say it the online advertising industry. I saw that
Facebook, there was a report and of course it's still a private
company. The report is that they had revenues. Their last annual
revenues were estimated between 800 million and a billion
dollars. Now, John, I don't know how that works. It cannot be
from people clicking on banners. I just don't think it works. I
just I don't believe it. It's horseshit who clicks on banners
Do your kids click on banners? Mine doesn't? Do you click on
banners?
I haven't clicked on a banner for two and a half years.
And on Facebook know who's clicking on these banners and
$800 million I mean is that is that just from the display of
banners if
you click on a banners worth probably like a dime, maybe a
nickel,
Penny clicks, man Penny clicks, that's what that's what it's
down to. So where is this revenue coming from? Where?
Where are these clicks coming from? The only thing I can
imagine is that people are sitting there clicking on
something or watching a video because it'll get them some
virtual broccoli for their Farmville, which is the which is
what I think this whole was. Zynga. Is that the company I
think that's how that's that's how it works is you know, you
want broccoli, which is just the most ridiculous thing. You want
some broccoli, then you got to click on this banner before your
watch this video this ad before you can get it. That can't be a
sustainable model. It just doesn't make any sense. And I
think we're gonna get some huge expos A's because if you listen
to this clip, and the tech industry is rampant. I've seen
drawings of people explaining exactly how the ticket or it
used to be so great. The executive would talk to the PR
company PR company would pitch the tech journalists to tech
journalists to write a story and everything was beautiful.
Everything flowed perfectly. Well. Yeah, but that's that's PR
that has nothing to do with actual, you know, like, real
journalism. It doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned. It's
pretty scant present company excluded. And you actually
report I feel honestly on stop. Yeah, I've known you you don't
you don't sign NDAs you don't
get invited too much. You're bein your Shawn News's I don't
care. You're shunned, and shunned. Yeah, you know, and
then you know, but you're also not wildly rich from it, because
you're not part of the game. Which reminds me we, we didn't
talk about the oil, Cabal. And of course, even though it is the
hottest news story of the moment, I did want to mention
their PR company, the PR company for BP, you know, we love the PR
companies. And there's a little clip, the PR company is called
Brunswick, and they are the global PR company for BP. And I
want you to listen, because all of a sudden becomes clear how
these guys operate and how important public relations
really is. I think it's the SEC, it's the woman who you really
want to listen to first, the chairman comes on of this, what
I
think is always very valuable for clients about the type of
business that we've tried to grow and to build is that we've
brought into the firm, people who are passionate about
communications. That's something we all share. But they come from
many different walks of life, we are lucky enough to have in
Brunswick people who have been top lawyers, people who have
been top rated analysts, people who have been top journalists,
whether it be print or broadcast, people have been
taught communications professionals within companies,
people who've been top of their game in a regulatory world or
the public affairs world. And we bring that all into as powerful
a mix we can for our clients and the issues they face.
It's like, okay, so you leave public service, as a regulator,
or you leave your broadcast journalism job, and you go work
for the PR company, and then you essentially bribe your buddies
into shilling for BP. It's pretty much it's a perfect
system. It's beautiful. It's stunningly beautiful. And people
have no idea how this they mean, forget lobbyist groups who gives
a crap about lobbyists. That's a joke. It's these guys that have
the real power. nearly 1000 people around the world,
that's because they because they essentially do the footwork, and
a lot of the you know, it's like if I want a to do a story on
something I can ask, I can get it hold the right PR people, I
can have them provide me with all kinds of stuff that I could,
it would take me weeks to develop, they'll do it and in
hopes that they get you know, positive play for their client
who is related to something going on in the story. I had to
I do have a funny story about this, too, which is another
thing that ever endeared me much with a lot of the PR people
although I'm good friends with many of them. But the usually
the women are kind of hot. They always throw most of the women
are fairly attractive and throw good dinners. Well, they like
that. That's one thing I get invited to a lot of dinners
because they know that I won't put up with a cheap meal. So I
get invited to more dinners Hey man,
if you want to vorak to blog about it then you just got to
feed him right that's how you do it, man. Come on.
So mainly because the PR women get to go out to have a good day
at dinner. I mean, it's it's it's a perfect world. Yeah. So I
when I was the editor of info world I used to play this fair
Interesting. We had a we could never stabilise the size of the
of the, of the publication that came out every every week. And
it was thin and it was really huge. And then it was medium,
you know. So there was so much fluctuation in the, in the page
count that I had to have a pile of stories ready to roll. And I
wish I kept in a huge pile under my desk and his stack. And so
he's oh my god, we got 50 pages to fill, I'd pull a bunch of
these things out from over to copyedited think I was a genius.
But many of these stories I had developed by public relations
companies are what I would do is the following. And this is a
good tip for anybody who wants to be an editor and you know, in
this in an awkward situation. Although it you know, at some,
it's I don't think you can do this forever, because at some
point, they're going to figure it out. But I would call like,
every time a public relations person would call me I would
tell them, Oh, you're doing well, what are your clients? Oh,
you know, you hit the hard disk and be Oh, you can you get you
know, I need to like a 2500 word article on the history of hard
disks and how they came about and who the leaders are and what
the best companies are. And they would write this piece for me.
And with a byline of whoever wrote it, I don't give them
credit. And, and then I would go in and edit it to take out all
the references to their clients. Right? All of ours, of course.
And so because I didn't want to think it'd be a Shilpi. So I
there was really good when he took out all that crap, by the
way, as well written, so I threw it in and then of course, you
get a call when it ran a couple of days later.
How come you didn't mention our client company wasn't
mentioned. And then I would profusely apologise I, by the
way used to do a lot of this on speakerphone with the staff in
the room. So they get to watch this much more work. I would
have profusely apologise and say, What can I do to make it up
to you? Can you give me an article on on and I'd request
another article,
just and you'd cut out all the all the time stuff again, I
could do that three or four times in a row with anybody for
beautiful? Yeah, but I'd say a good 80 75% of our news is PR
pieces.
Oh yeah, it's all PR pieces that are planted or controlled by
public relations agencies that were toast. So public relations
agencies ever been involved in one word of this show?
Correct. This article though, and nationwide alert, John, I'm
surprised that we didn't do this at the top of the show, the
alert has gone out. And I'm even more surprised that my iPhone
didn't give me a push notification alert. 17 members
of the Afghan military who were being trained at an Air Force
base in Texas, to become pilots have gone AWOL.
Really, the Afghan
officers who are enlisted men have security badges that give
them access to secure US defence installations. According to the
lookout bulletin Afghan military deserters in continental US,
written by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service in Dallas.
The bolo bulletin, which stands for Be on the lookout. Bolo was
distributed to local and federal law enforcement officials
Wednesday night. The Afghans were attending the defence
Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. The DOI
programme teaches English to military pilot candidates and
other Air Force prospects from foreign countries allied with
the United States. They went AWOL, they're missing, they
can't find them. And they're pilots.
Not bad. The bad things get very bad
things can happen. This is what I would call the for the false
flag waving is what this is. We even have the names and pictures
of them. Oh, that's cool.
Yeah, I'm sure they're very identifiable.
No pictures actually, Jesus that one of them's from born in 1987.
Give me a break. So just so you know, bad things to happen. And
then I'll keep a lookout. And then it looks like it looks like
we're gonna go to war with Iran.
I don't think so. Well, I
have three articles.
I you know, I've made a bet with somebody about this, by the way
for last year going to war with Iran. It was I would think it
was 100 bucks. It was somebody who might be listening to this
show, and I never got paid. I'll make
a bet with you. I'll make a bet that between August and the end
of the year, there will be an attack on Iran. Not by the
United States of America. Yes. By the United States of America.
No,
no. Will you take the bet? By the end of this year?
Yes. Yes. By the end.
Let me think about how this I will talk about on the next
show. I want to stage the bet so so it has so it has
prescriptions I don't want to just an open you know, some guy
goes in there with one lone gunman goes in with a gun and
starts firing away. I don't want to consider that. No, no, no,
no, I think let me think about how to do that.
I'll give you an edge. Okay, I'll give you an edge. With this
report, an armada of 11 US warships and one Israeli vessel
pass through the Suez Canal Friday. From the fleet. The
first of its composition to navigate the Suez Canal is led
by the USS Harry Truman carrier, and its strike group of 60
fighter bombers and 6000 seamen and Marines. I would say that's
a pretty good sign something is afoot.
Talk about it on Thursday. I'll look into this. I don't think
that that just could be you know, a sabre rattling.
Well, the sabre rattling comes from different places a John
false press. US intelligence has shown Iran could launch an
attack against Europe with scores or hundreds is old.
Yeah, what a crock. Yeah, well, but that's the last missile
launch.
I know it. It's it's all sabre rattling but to send the Harry
Truman. I don't know, man. That to me sounds like something is,
is a common and then the funniest thing ever. This just
cracked me up. One of our producers sent this to me.
Politico is now how would you categorise Politico.
Politico is a kind of a a Washington DC centric insider
tip sheet for people who are involved in politics mostly.
So they have a video series. It's branded as a political
video series reforming Wall Street. Now I'm gonna send you
this link. But don't want to funny Hold on. I'm gonna send
this to you in Skype also posted into the chat room so people can
read along and laugh Alright, did you get the link?
No, you send me the link on the Adam curry thing now you're
sending it on the other one? Yeah, I always send that that's
that's my last one you sent me the last link here it is just
under the Adam curry. There it is. I don't know why it took so
long
now look at it Skype man. Now you know tell me what you see.
That is very funny.
Besides Barney Frank Yeah, look above that
reforming Wall Street a political video series now have
your eyes move to the right
sponsored by Citibank. Yeah. Citibank over here, Citibank,
Citibank, Citibank, Citibank, do you think there's no there's no
conflict of interest there?
None whatsoever.
I love it.
I thought it was that was just hilarious.
Sounds like a time to invest in Citibank. Yeah.
Meanwhile, under the radar. Bloomberg is reporting that
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which John you and I own 80% of at
this point, is going to need a bailout. And the estimates are
already get one. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, no, it's gonna need another
bailout.
But they do the other money. They ate it.
Please, they estimate up to $1 trillion.
Bloomberg is just give it to the public so he can pay these
mortgages to get more loans. I mean, this is bogus. Of course.
It's bogus. It's it's another hijack. And it's not even being
talked about Bloomberg, luckily is on it. And they're saying
they're a Bloomberg estimate is five to $600 million. But it
could be as high as as a trillion dollars. According to
Eagan Jones ratings company in Pennsylvania. But you're right,
it's it's atrocious. And just and it just it's just, it's just
bailing out banks more for the for the rich elites. That's
that's the thing that is so sad.
So right now, am I looking to change.org? In the meantime?
Yeah, we'll see. Maybe one of our producers knows a little bit
more about him. But even just to get that website address, I'd
say is, is is quite a coup for a little company. And I don't even
think they're necessarily a nonprofit. They have some
nonprofit work. And more companies coming out with
bracelets.
That that's the business we should be in. Yeah,
yeah. No, there's something come in because there's another
company now that actually has a monthly subscription. So it
sends off your data to the database and and this will be a
part of the Codex and the obesity and, and the scram
bracelet says don't drink don't smoke, eat healthy. Exercise, be
a good human resource. slave
Alright, in the next show we're going to talk about genetically
engineered insects.
Nice. That will be on Thursday. All right, have a Happy Father's
Day everybody out there to whom that applies. Coming to you from
the hilltop Watchtower crackpot command centre in Gitmo nation
West, where June Gloom seems to be over early. I'm Adam curry.
And it's sunny here too in northern Silicon Valley. And
although there's not a lot of trains today, um, John C. Dvorak
will talk to you again on Thursday for early morning
service right here on no agenda.
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