I have the device. Adam curry, John C Devorah. It's Thursday
July 12 2018. This is your award winning get my nation media
assassination episode 1050.
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Buzzkill.
I was so disappointed yesterday. I was rooting for him.
I don't know what they're thinking.
What they're thinking, is Croatia just a better team?
Well, that was always the case. But that's not the way it works.
I know. I was sitting there too. Like who didn't get the memo?
Are these guys just mutiny? Is it mutiny that we see here from
the Croatians. Congratulations, though, your Slavic brethren. On
the way to the to the to the final
place do I recommend anyone wants to take an offbeat
vacation. Croatia has more stuff. There's more cool places
in Croatia than anywhere else in the European area in the
Adriatic is better than Italy.
Did we miss something about Croatia? Is there something in
play maybe that that they're doing so well that we just
didn't understand that we've eyes focused too much on the
Brexit World Cup and they didn't throw it that way? Because
there's something else happening. Could Croatia become
me? How many people live in Croatia? Like 2 million people?
No, no, I think it's more than that. We can look it up. We
shouldn't just be like everybody else. Asian.
Pop you late 4.171.
That sounds right. Yeah. Okay. So small
country. Yeah.
Exactly. On the other side of the Adriatic from Italy, Italy,
parallels Italy. And it has the same winegrowing characteristics
as Italy. They make a lot of good wine there.
Do they have a port? It's all ports. Okay. Because, you know,
that's where the Chinese are trying to get in pretty close
there with their with their sea route. Well, maybe it's just,
maybe it's just a fair game golf. What am I thinking? Well,
let's see they have similar colored flags. So it can't be
the flag? I don't know. I don't know. I won't be able to predict
this one. I've all predicted France is going to win.
Well, France shouldn't be the better team. But again, what if
just Croatia just wins what an upset that would be.
If Croatia wins the World Cup when France hasn't won it for 40
years? Something like that? No, that's no I think it's got to
assuage for France. They've had all the riots that we reported
on it, but nobody else is reporting on all the riots
throughout the country. They need it. They need
a win. France needs a little boost. Yeah.
Yes. Okay. And they may have also considered the fact that if
it was France, England, it would have been a lot of hooligans
that have been a massive riots that are broken out, they would
have give the games a bad name.
This is perhaps true. I don't know I just wasn't it I was
really expecting England to win and they had everything going
for him. But then again, at back home things not so good. Things
Not so good back home. With with Brexit.
No Johnson and a couple other people quit the cabinet and then
they got a send off from Theresa May which was something of an
embarrassment because there was hooting and hollering I mean
this get you thinking you're the guy soars the government for so
long and they just mock him as he's leaving. Boris, I have a
clip.
Oh, well, Boris always was kind of a guy. I think he'd liked
being mocked.
Yeah, but this is kind of a ridiculous situation. I thought
it was it was rude. I'm just saying the Brits always bitching
about Trump being rude and this is them. Mr. Speaker,
I want to pay tribute to my Right Honourable friend, the
members, the members, the members for wholesome price and
Houghton and Oxbridge and South Islip for their work over the
last few years. We do agree about the best way of delivering
our shared commitment to honor the results of the referendum.
But I want to recognize the work of the former Secretary of State
for Exiting the European Union for the work he did to establish
a new department and steer through Parliament some of the
most important legislation for generations. And similarly to
recognize the passion that the former Foreign Secretary
demonstrated in promoting in promoting and promoting the
unseemly atmosphere.
I want to hear about these important matters.
And I think the house should the Prime Minister,
thank you that the former Foreign Secretary demonstrated
in promoting a global Britain to the world as we leave the
European Union. I'm also pleased to welcome my honourable friend,
the member for Isha and Walton as the new Secretary of State.
So I like you know, having lived in the UK, I really do
understand this humor, and I think Boris Johnson probably
appreciated that too. It was funny.
That was funny. So the way Martin matters, I get a kick out
of speaker. Yes. important matters.
The way I understand what happened that caused this
existential crisis is that Theresa May had a big pile out
with the checkers, which I had, I didn't know what the checkers
was. It's just some old stodgy mansion that I guess that was
they have their meeting, as you go out there, hang out and
drink. And but apparently, she had already come up with some
plan to which I don't even know if the contents have been made
public exactly what the plan was or what the deal was. And I
think the the real accusation is that she had already pre cleared
this with Angela Merkel. Before she spoke to anybody else. I
have a clip here from Jacob Riis, MOG, mug. I've no idea who
he is, but I like what he was saying, was on the news in the
UK. So I thought, Oh, this makes sense.
She is the one who has put these proposals together at Chequers.
She's the one who has to take them to Brussels. And by saying
that what she's come up with you don't support? How can you
square that for saying that she still has your confidence? Well,
I think they may have been taken to Brussels and to Berlin before
they were presented to checkers, which is a serious question. And
there's another question about how they were drawn up because
they were drawn up in secret without telling the Secretary of
State for leaving the European Union, David Davis, what was
going on? Whilst his department was working on a white paper? I
don't think it has been handled in a proper governmental system
in accordance with our constitutional norms. But how do
I maintain it? So
Can Can I just clarify, are you accusing the prime minister of
having effectively pre agreed what she was going to ultimately
come up with at the end of checkers with Brussels?
No, I'm just noting that she went to see the German
chancellor just before these proposals were put forward,
which seem not to be unwelcome to Mrs. Merkel. I think that is
an interesting point to note. But it's not within the norms of
the Constitution to discuss British policy with other
leaders before it's presented the cabinet. So I'm concerned
about this process, and I think the result of it is bad. But
there are many other areas of policy where I support the Prime
Minister. So the prime minister personally retains my
confidence, but this policy does not and I will not support it.
So there's Jacob Riis. Mog is a member of parliament,
conservative. So it's her her own her own party. So it sounds
like you know, she was in cahoots with Angola?
Well, it sounds like to me.
They were also they were Boris's note that he sent in his
resignation had a couple of points that I think should be at
least commented upon. He says that she has pretty much and he
cites an example that apparently has been going on forever, which
is the the killing of bicyclists in the City of London? Yes.
Because they can't come up with any legislation. And he says to
this day, they haven't come up with and he's mentioning these
bicyclists are mostly women for some reason. He says they can't
come up with any legislation because the commentary is always
well, let's let the EU legislate it. And he's believes that all
they're doing is just passing off all their responsibilities
to the EU, so they don't have to do anything. And it says this is
not what Brexit is about. It's about getting our independence
back. And so he quit. Yeah.
And the foreign secretary, foreign minister, Foreign
Secretary as well. No, no, no, not the foreign the that's what
Boris Johnson is. Who's the other guy who resigned
there was a couple of Brexit experts or something. Oh, yeah,
the Brexit who others Brexit Minister Yes, that's right,
David. Buddy so I mean, is it going to come down to what we
predicted will to just be a do over is that what's going to
happen but will may get kicked out? I mean, how does this work
over there? How do these well, they call him election year with
them there you should know how to work no, I'm kidding. You
have another election they get kick her out. She could lose her
majority. There's a million things that can happen. But the
way it looks is that no, they're not going to have another redo.
They're just going to kind of form their their Brexit strategy
is going to be to kind of like, it's like this whole thing is a
scam. So the strategy is a scam. It's like, no, no, no, we're
gonna let you guys call the shots like you used to you were
gonna you can do what you want which ray will do whatever you
say we're just going to be okay we're gonna be a colony is the
EU in the EU we're going to be a good they're gonna be become
Puerto Rico of the EU
well they already were a kind of like that in a way
they still had their own thing
I think they were one of the really one of the cornerstone
operations and stuff they would kept giving up more and more
sovereignty to Brussels. Yeah,
it's a disaster. I like the comparison of Puerto Rico. I
think that's gonna stick with that one. and Puerto Ricans
everywhere now hate you know, they
shouldn't hate me Britain's a good place to compare themselves
to Oh,
yeah. Yeah. Well, yes, for Guam,
Puerto Ricans know that they should need to be a state that
should get you know, crap or get off the pot kind of thing. And
they're deras Puerto Rico is not treated well. Britain is going
to be in that same situation.
The plan that I read about well this was course reported by the
sun so take it for what you want. Their headline was that
ministers or parliament have drawn up secret plans to
stockpile processed food in the event EU divorce talks collapse
so that they will be able to show Brussels that no deal is
not a bluff.
So in other words,
right if it doesn't already the no deal is is falling apart
Yeah, so that's why they're stockpiling processed food for
the people of England to eat
but they're gonna have to nice another one of these world war
two rescue things going on with its ships ships have to go over
there and drop drop Air Drop it that will do get fish the whole
areas ran by fish
Why don't we I think we should do a crowd fund and send a mac
and cheese Yeah, America a Americans do love you here have
some boxes of craft. Box love. You love you. All right. Well,
meanwhile, President Trump is is is he already there? The honest
way to meet to Teresa Teresa. I think it is official
moment. I think he he might be he might be I mean, I think NATO
talks are over I think I don't know what the timeline is
because the way they present it to the American public with the
mainstream media is is unless he says something incredibly
stupid. or insulting Oh, it
doesn't matter what he does is he'll it'll be perceived as
insulting regardless. Yeah, they have this this blimp they're
gonna fly the the Trump baby blimp. Yeah. And which Yeah,
it's like, that's a big thing in the news in the UK. And yes,
it's like one of those things everyone can have a little talk
about, is it proper? Or is it improper? Should should it be
allowed to not be allowed? And of course, the Decon, the Mayor
of London is getting a lot of heat for allowing it for
providing the permit. He's probably his idea. Well, one of
the organizers was on MSNBC. Was this one of the organizers? I
think so. Let me see what this is this. This was I think it was
American woman or at least American sounding woman who is
supposed to be one of the spokespeople for this for this
event we see with this clip as well.
giant inflatable Trump baby we're trying to protest,
basically Trump's policies and toxic politics.
How can this be a British initiative unless she's an
expat? She's not really positioned that way. But
anyways,
what we're kind of trying to do that with with a humorous note.
And with the humor What exactly are you trying to say about
Donald Trump?
Well, we went with a baby because we feel that Trump's has
a lot of the character characteristics of a baby. Such
as throwing your toys out of the pram or is that on the rotation?
Oh, yeah, yeah, like Yeah, he's an adult in the room. Rotation,
baby, big baby.
Um, Trump's has a lot of the character characteristics of a
baby, such as throwing your toys out of the pram or throwing
tantrums. And we think that those qualities are very
problematic for the leader of a nation. So that's why we decided
to highlight those the blimp. I think what we were considering
when we were planning this protest is kind of what would
have an effect. So we've seen that moral outrage doesn't work
with Donald Trump. He just harnesses that outrage and kind
of to blame shift onto people who he is outraging general,
just normal diplomacy doesn't work with him reasoning doesn't
work with him, but he really hates being mocked. So that
definitely came into play when we were when we were designing
the blimp.
So what do you get to happen at these protests? How do you hope
that they will resonate both in your country and potentially
if they do it right and the thing will pop because he's so
thin skinned and will deflate and then they'll have a double
whammy
test. How do you hope that they will rise? Nate, both in your
country and potentially in hours this week? Well, I
think one of the reasons why we protest is to send a message to
people who have been affected by Trump's disastrous policies,
migrants, refugees, but also people who are affected by
climate change, I guess.
People who are affected by climate change, it's a message
people who are affected, affected by it's out of control
seas,
migrants, refugees, but also people who are affected by
climate change. And I guess one of the messages that we're
trying to send is that we're still here and we're still
resisting. Resisting you know, there's this is
no Brit, this. I don't know how this fits together. And I did
try to find out who's who the originator is an English guy.
But he talks about him instead of this dingbat, because she is
the one of the spokes holes for the project. You see, that's
what he announced is that she would be doing all that, but
when she's talking about these are Americanism term she's using
I guess one of the messages that we're trying to send is that
we're still here and we're still resisting,
resisting that's that's not a British thing. That's this is a
US
and, you know, they're still someone on their side. And from
the messages that we've had, it seems to really resonate. And I
feel we feel that we've definitely accomplished at least
that goal with this protest.
I wonder where she switches from I feel too we feel yourself.
Yeah, error there. Maybe. Maybe I feel we feel
I don't even know if it's probably not that important.
It's just it's everyone's
give me an idea. I think the British public should have this
idea in mind. I don't know what the legality is of BB guns or
pellet guns in a country.
Oh, no, there's already there's already rewards out for people
with drones to go and pop it fly the drone into it.
That's what I was thinking there shouldn't be some popping
mechanism floating around the United States in a situation
like this, there'd be some good sniper rifle, which is take care
of this that yeah,
I have kind of expects some brazen dude to just fly his
drone right into it.
That would be the way to go. And just you have to, you know,
sacrifice the drone ball. Yeah.
Can you imagine a swarm of drones just attacking this
thing.
Finally penetrating that would be the thing caves in it falls
on top of some power lines, because obviously, it looks like
it's aluminized that we keep it sturdy. On some power lines
short out the whole city of London, because
now you're just daydreaming. You just wish them
hope. And I'm not daydreaming. This is just wishful thinking.
We were on the balcony the other night, you know, just a bit
before sundown. And we're up high. We're 29 floor and Tina
says Holy crap. And there was a drone looking right at us then
and this thing was powerful. It flew all over the city. And I
think maybe the operator was down on the on the lawn of the
of the what is it the Dell center?
Everybody should have one of those net guns.
Well, you know, the thing is, if I if I were to shoot it, it
would it could fall on somebody down below. It's just the street
down there. So that's not a not a great idea. But in
thick shooting, I think netting it Oh,
that isn't that from the cartoons. I don't know if that
really exists a net gun. But it's so rude. You feel so
violated. It's like what who was doing this
is what I would net it perfect if you could net it with a
fishing line and you can just throw a net over and then pull
it into the place and then stomp on it. And then since like a bug
in that sense, so you throw a paper plane down and got your
smash drone you hold I
know I need there's I believe there are some apparatus not
dissimilar to the dog days or that you may be at a short
distance you couldn't interrupt its signal. And none of it will
probably just fly back to home base.
No, I don't think but
yeah, it'd be really, really expensive drone would do that.
But I think some would just get scrambled and go off into the
nether lands. There's nowhere to land on a roof again, never find
it.
I've got a note here from the oh, here we go. Drone shield.com
That's where we want to be. They have the drone gun tactical. I
think that would be for me. Let's see. This is. Drone gun
taxable provides a safe countermeasure against a wide
range of drone models. It allows for a controlled management of
drone payload, such as explosives with no damage to
common drone models. So what can you do out has one kilometer
coverage what can you do with this thing? Can you be like a
tractor beam can you pull it in? This is cool. Yeah. See Hunter
says hunters, the very next project. These things, they look
very militaristic. Oh my God, these are great. But doesn't
really show me how it works. The URL? Drone shield.com. Okay.
drones to do their own research. Yeah,
this is very interesting. Well, although it looks expensive. I
don't have I don't know if I'm going on loss. I had
a drone on the 26th floor or whatever floor you're talking
about. Up there looking in looking I probably. Yeah, it
was.
It was weird. Yes. Yeah. Who? Who's
running that drone? Know, the Dutch press? Oh, yeah.
Okay. All the more reason. All right, I'll look into the drone
gun. You know, I think this is one of the few shows where we
can actually play things within context and full length because
we don't have any commercial pods to hit or the news at the
top of the hour. I found hard break. I found the yes, very
hard break, I found that the breakfast meeting that the
President had with Jens Stoltenberg of NATO is actually
pretty good. And I think the the mainstream M five M really just
did a disservice by only showing little bits and pieces of it.
You know, just just to get the headline out.
Did you see the whole thing?
No, but I noticed that that NATO guy was just with his Dutch
accent. Yeah. He was seemed very happy to be working with Trump.
Yeah, in fact,
the way it started off, I have the clip here. Well, listen to
what he says. First of
all, it's great to see you again, Mr. President, good to
have you here for the summit. And we are going to discuss many
important issues at the summit. Among them is defense spending.
And we all agree that we have to do more, I agree with you that
we have to make sure that allies are investing more. The good
news is that allies have started to invest more in defense. After
years of cutting the funds purchase, they have started to
add billions to the transportations and last year
was the biggest increase in defense spending across Europe
and Canada in that generation.
Why was that last year?
It's also because of your leadership and the culture
carried message. And and
they want? Oh, it's because of your leadership that they're
already spent. No one reported on this. Then they started to up
and he calls them out.
Leadership message they will write
before they won't write that he says pointing at the press? No,
no, I've said it before. But the thing is,
he really has it's, your message is having an impact. And we are
going to build on that to make sure that
further you know, if if the media hadn't taken the course
they already have, they could have said Oh really? Well, Obama
did that. Okay, they could have taken credit for that. But now
they already went all in on this is just insane what he's saying.
Whereas in 2014 2016, very hard to find. I could not find a
decent clip of President Obama on any search engine, where he I
know what he said. He said in 2016, he said, Greece, you know,
congratulations, you guys are right up there. That's you know,
you're spending your 2% of GDP, which must have been some deal
with Goldman Sachs after they got bailed out. I have no idea.
I
believe they're about 2.1 Or two, they're more than most.
And Obama was complaining about the only being four or five
countries who were even at or close to the 2% GDP spending.
And no one gave him shit about it. Actually, European leaders
gave him some shit about it, but not the I don't think here was
like, yeah, exactly. So he was saying the exact same thing.
Yes. But Trump has Obama
but Trump had a twist. And it was it was one of the best ones.
I couldn't have even imagined it. It's something that it was
almost like a no agenda deconstruction. Well, I have to
say, I think it's very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and
gas deal with Russia, where you're supposed to be guarding
against Russia, and Germany goes out and pays billions and
billions of dollars a year to Russia. So we're protecting
Germany, we're protecting France, we're protecting all of
these countries. And then numerous of the countries go out
and make a pipeline deal with Russia, where they're paying
billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia. So we're
supposed to protect you against Russia, but they're paying
billions of dollars to Russia. And I think that's very
inappropriate. And the former chancellor of Germany is the
head of the pipeline company that's supplying the gas. It's
not
like we haven't been looking at that for years. And this the
Northeast stream which Nord Stream two, I think is what he's
talking about here. There is a Nord Stream, there's a suit
stream does this it's so true. We've always looked at it this
way.
We've actually got tons of gas and they gotta sell it to
somebody and,
and we have the euro, what they call it, the Euro roulette or
the euro roundabout, where, you know, Germany purchases the gas,
they purchase it in euros, and then the Russians, they got all
this money, and they go and purchase Mercedes Benzes, and
all kinds of other cool stuff from Germany. You know, that's
the way it works. And it's like, it's always been done. Just pay
no attention to that. Don't look over there. Or don't look over
here. Look way over there. And now Trump is just calling him
out on and the countries. Let's see, it's France, the
Netherlands. I think who else is in this house is in this deal?
Well, we know Poland's not in the deal. I gotta go. They got
cut out of it.
But But yeah, their lives in it. Yeah. Oh, yeah, the Netherlands
in it.
But when President Obama was bitching about the 2%, GDP was
under the veil in 2014. It was under the veil of Ukraine, and
the my Dawn and the Russians, and you know, we have, you know,
all this talk about Whoa, whoa, you know, NATO that was that's
an alliance. And when 911 happened, everyone stood up and
sent their soldiers. The thing was set up to protect everyone
from Russia. And it's been used subsequently
to protect this kid, there is an exact right, okay. To protect
them from the Soviet Soviet Union.
Yes. Correct.
That's a big difference.
Yeah, you're right, you're right. Hey, let's just continue
because Trump just went on much longer than you saw on TV.
Ultimately, Germany will have almost 70% of their country,
controlled by Russia with natural gas. So you tell me Is
that appropriate? I've been we've been complaining about
this, from the time I got it, it should have never been allowed
to have happened. But Germany is totally controlled by Russia,
because they will get it from 60 to 70% of their energy from
Russia and a new pipeline. And you tell me if that's
appropriate, because I think it's not. And I think it's a
very bad thing for NATO. And I don't think it should have
happened. And I think we have to talk to Germany about it. On top
of that, Germany is just paying a little bit over 1%, whereas
the United States and actual numbers is paying 4.2% of a much
larger GDP. So I think that's inappropriate. Also, you know,
we're protecting Germany, we're protecting France, we're
protecting everybody. And yet, we're paying a lot of money to
protect. Now, this has been going on for decades, this has
been brought up by other presidents, but other presidents
never did anything about it. Because I don't think they
understood it, or they just didn't want to get involved. But
I have to bring it up. Because I think it's very unfair to our
country. It's very unfair to our taxpayer. And I think that these
countries have to step it up not over a 10 year period, they have
to step it up immediately. Germany is a rich country, they
talk about they can increase it a tiny bit by 2030. Well, they
could increase it immediately tomorrow, and have no problem. I
don't think it's fair to the United States. So we're going to
have to do something because we're not going to put up with
it. We can't put up with it. And it's inappropriate. So we have
to talk about the billions and billions of dollars that's being
paid to the country that we're supposed to be protecting you
against. You know, everybody's everybody's talking about it all
over the world. They'll say, Well, wait a minute, we're
supposed to be protecting you from Russia. But why are you
paying billions of dollars to Russia for energy? Why are
countries in NATO, namely Germany, having a large
percentage of their energy needs paid to Russia and taking care
of by Russia? Now, if you look at it, Germany is a captive of
Russia, because they supply they get rid of their coal plants,
they get rid of their nuclear, they're getting so much of the
oil and gas from Russia. I think it's something that NATO has to
look at. I think it's very inappropriate. You and I agree
that it's inappropriate. I don't know what you can do about it
now, but it certainly doesn't seem to make sense that they pay
billions of dollars to Russia, and now we have to defend them
against
Russia. So if anything, you know, a topic that we started on
the no agenda show in 2012 that Trump kind of put on the map in
like two minutes.
Now, it should mention something else that he points out, which I
think is worth discussing. They have because of the Green
Movement, they have ditched all their coal, oil and the nuclear
power then because of Fukushima they've decided to kill all
their new nuclear plants, which many of which works modern and
fine and what was the reason for that? Oh, oh, bad nukes bad.
Yeah. uh so that made the whole thing almost looks like a
complete scam
well they're compensating and that that was Angela Merkel's
idea to right after you right after Fukushima we're getting
rid of all I've ever gone green we can do perfect with the wind,
water and solar and then German industry six months later when
Angola this is not working out so well for us. What is the VA?
What they have a term for it?
What if it translates to losing our shirts? Yes,
something like that. The we have a lot of we have a lot of the
energy property. This is an older clip, I think was one of
yours released. I
mean, this is the most comprehensive climate protection
package that the German government has ever presented. I
did, I was
planning for saying no to nuclear power by 2022. Germany's
now aiming to go even more green by an energy vendor in even
getting ready to say goodbye to coal as well as part of the
ambitious plan to cut co2 emissions by 40% to 1990 levels.
And now it's 45% of power generated in Germany still comes
from coal and that's the government aims to reduce this
dependency. The question isn't only about what to substitute it
with, but perhaps even more importantly, how much it will
cost in a country where energy bills are already among the
highest in Europe. Indeed, German consumers have already
spent an extra 106 billion euros since 2000. To cover cleaner
energy initiatives via charge added to their bills. Germany is
Europe's industrial powerhouse with the biggest appetite for
energy on the continent. The government's ultimate goal is to
switch to renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass
currently generating around a quarter of the country's needs.
But skeptics warn no matter how green they may want to go. A
fossil fuel backup is vital to keep industries working. Yeah,
that was the report from 2015. So that's that is just about the
time when the entire gi vendor was in full, full swing and it
just didn't work out. And you don't hear much about it anymore
at the time. Ah, yes. That was on the forefront Germany leading
the way.
It's all that stuff in 2015. You don't hear about anymore. That
was that was the high point for high speed rail.
Oh, yeah. Although we did play a clip about a month ago from NPR.
David Frum. We'll see you again. Yeah.
I know who he is. But I can't think of who he is.
He was on NPR talking about the Nord Stream to
David, I want to ask you about Nord Stream two, which is this
pipeline project proposed to run from, from Russia to Germany
under the Baltic Sea. This I feel like complicates some of
the narrative policy narratives we've seen here where the US has
been trying to block the construction of that pipeline,
in part to to prevent the Russians from getting too much
power from their supplying of fossil fuels to Europe. What do
you make of the Trump administration taking this sort
of fairly strong anti Russia position at this time, one of
the things dividing us from Europe actually, US been wanting
to be tougher on Russia on this issue than they are?
Yeah, the Nord Stream two pipeline is it's actually it's a
Eastern European issue. The reason why just want to build
this pipeline that allows them to supply gas directly to
Germany, bypassing Poland, is that they never want to cut off
Germany, That's too scary. They've tangled with the Germans
a few times, they'd rather not do it again. But they this
pipeline allows them to turn off gas to Poland, and to Ukraine
and other places without turning off gas to Germany. So the
reason that the United States has stood strong or not as
strong as it should against this pipeline is to protect our
NATO's eastern flank. Now, it happens that this is a rare case
where Donald Trump has another priority along with that of his
pro Russia policy. And that is he is very sympathetic to these
increasingly authoritarian small states in Eastern Europe, which
are his probably his only friends on the continent,
especially the polls gave him such a such a good time.
But what does that mean? What we're going
to see is Germans have a lot of quote,
drama. A good time and Marshall, remember, was good time, except
he never gave him the visa waivers?
Yes, he's probably his only friends on the continent,
especially the polls gave him such a such a good time. But
what we're going to see is Germans have a lot of clout and
a lot more clout in the polls. What traditionally happens at
these kinds of summits, is that there is vigorous debate inside
the leaders room, which is then cushioned by cooperation
outside. I don't know how much leverage Donald Trump has over
Germany right now. And zero. And it's hard for him to win this
without being able to mobilize any sympathetic opinion in
Germany.
Yeah, Wrong again from who is a political commentator? Yeah,
commentator, old hacky, used to be a speech writer from Bush, W.
Bush.
So he clearly was wrong, because the leverage is the NATO
payments. That's the leverage. Yeah. To me, it's like, wow.
You know, I believe from as another one of the anti Trump
errs.
Oh, I'm sure Poland did come up in this breakfast meeting.
Nathan Lonsdale, 29 nations, there are sometimes differences
on the different views. And also some disagreements on the gas
pipeline from Russia to Germany is one issue where allies
disagree. But the strength of NATO is that despite these
differences, we have always been able to unite around our
forecast to protect and defend each other because we understand
that we are stronger together. Data two world wars and the Cold
War thought, we are stronger together than apart.
But how can you be together what a country is getting its energy
from the person you want protection against or from the
group that you
want to take? Because you understand that when we stand
together also, when dealing with Russia, we are stronger? I think
we have seen
just making Russia richer, making Russia richer.
I think that even during the Cold War, NATO Allies were
trading with Russia, then there have been disagreements about
what kind of trade arrangements which
trade is wonderful. I think energy is a whole different
story. This energy is a much different story than normal
trade. And you have a country like Poland that won't accept
the gas, you take a look at some of the countries, they won't
accept it because they don't want to be captive to Russia.
But Germany, as far as I'm concerned, is captive to Russia,
because it's getting so much of its energy from Russia. So we're
supposed to protect Germany, but they're getting their energy
from Russia. Explain that. And it can't be explained, you know.
Alright, thank you press. All
right. So the implication is that Poland doesn't want to be a
slave to Russia, which I don't believe I think they would love
to get some gas. And by the way, if you hear and you and this is
a pro tip from the no agenda show, if you want to propagate
just a little bit of formula, if you hear anyone talking about
the oil pipeline from Russia, you can then correct them and
say it's a gas pipeline natural gas, which is a mistake. I've
heard everywhere, because people really don't read up on this
stuff. And I think I know a bit about the pipelines. And the
whole idea here for Trump is to protect American interests,
because we want to sell our gas. That's why we had
that. I think that's a false hope. But well, I mean, maybe
but but the one thing that is interesting is that Trump if you
know, it didn't notice because I sure did, kept repeating the
same mantra over and over and over. You know, Germany,
Germany's Russian, Russian, a lot of money from Germany in
some attempt to get the mainstream media to cover it.
Yeah, well, the mainstream media has a problem though. Because
how do you hate Russia and they've they've been meddled
with our democracy. They've ruined our country. The our
president is a puppet. Now Germany's okay. It's all right,
Angola. Yeah, they've painted themselves into a corner. Yeah.
It's horrible. And so we get crappy news coverage. And so are
they happy to have those kids rescued? Oh, yeah.
And even better today. Daniel was
arrested. Yes. Or me stormy
Daniels arrested. Even though today we have the public
testimony by Peter strock. One of the sad
news for today. Yeah. But
you know, they already had a closed door session. So as far
as I'm concerned, this is just a script and everyone's written
off questions that have already been answered. They just want to
get the answers in public and it's, you know, showing how, how
fabulous you are. And I look at my question, oh, I got a mu I
nipped him there did not. It's theater. I doubt it will learn
anything. But you and I will both spend hours watching it
after the show. I just don't think there's going to be
much there. I think there'll be a couple of good notices.
that'll that'll be about it. Your News did give us a little
rundown of the contributions from countries of of the NATO
alliance in
2014. NATO countries agreed to spend 2% of gross domestic
product on defense every year up to 2024. The target is described
as a guideline and there's no penalty for not meeting it. In
March, NATO released the figures for 2017 and only a handful of
countries hid or better the 2% target. The US spent the most
but 3.57% of GDP. The second highest spender perhaps
surprisingly, was Greece. The UK came in at 2.12%. The member
that spent the least was Luxembourg 8.46%. well short of
the target. Estonia and Poland have significantly increased
their spending since the 2014 NATO Summit where members agreed
the 2% target that was in response to Russia's annexation
of the Crimea region. and which came after 25 years of cuts to
European defense budgets. Nevertheless, European Council
President Donald Tusk maintains that as a whole, the EU spends
more on defense than China or Russia. In the next multi annual
financial framework, the European Commission proposes
increasing Defence and Security spending to 27 point 5 billion
euros that would take up 2.4% of the total MFF budget 13 billion
euros of that will be dedicated to the European Defense Fund
over the next seven years. But no one knows if that will be
enough to convince Donald Trump of Europe's commitment to NATO
and defense to it.
So it would only take them 27 and a half billion euros to be
up to par across the Eurozone. Did I misunderstand that?
I don't, I couldn't follow it very well, because his numbers
weren't the same as the ones that I have in my head.
And I need to add that when President Obama was bitching
about this on his trip and his NATO conference, and he had to
sit down with Angola, it was right after it had been revealed
that our NSA had been spying on Angola cell phone remember, I
think there was some kind of veiled apology even
Yes, right. Can
you imagine if it hadn't happened under a Trump
presidency? Oh, my goodness.
Well, they did have interesting commentary that was read on
this. Does the PBS NewsHour I believe from from tusk. Yes. It
used to be. They don't have to dig. The Dig. Yes. That's the
dick. He they had Kay Bailey Hutchinson, who, who to me is
she's an old. She's like an old political hack. who's been in
the government firm since I was a kid, like my mother. And she's
and she turns out to be a great Trump apologist. He's really
good at handling it. But play this Tusk versus Trump versus
NATO clip from I wondered and how you respond to this is why
stop is what's her name says show. That British woman that
has the or the and in a poor poor poor, Christiana on poor.
That woman. Yes. She has a show. Now she does these interviews.
It's very much like a PBS
issue in the UK. When she does this, or she does do it where
she's I think she's because she's been kind of pushed off.
You know, CNN pushed her off to put her
on PBS. They give her a special. Oh, okay.
I wonder then how you respond to the European Commission
president. This is Donald Tusk's message to President Trump
today. First of all, dear America, appreciate your allies.
After all, you don't have that many. And you Europe spend more
on your defense because everyone respects an ally that's well
prepared. And equipped, obviously, the second part
you're going to like and the President is going to like, but
he's pretty much punching bag because President Trump has
treated these allies as mere transactional cogs in a wheel.
Well, I think that,
hey, what are you talking about them's fightin words. We don't
have many friends.
Yeah, that's what I thought. You're gonna give our guy a bad
time for being an insult artist. What about this Tusk character,
President Trump actually has very great respect for our
allies. He does think that there should be more of because it is
a European Alliance along with North America. I think he's been
playing about that. For Christianity. I think that his
goal is to make sure that NATO is the strongest umbrella for
security for all of us. And I think that our allies realize
that and I know that the way he says things sometimes put people
off, but he's just trying to make the point and make sure
that they actually do it.
With all this bravado and the Bravo war going on. I kind of
agree with her. I've been noticing this, it appears that a
lot of Trump's message and a lot of his actions are very similar
to previous presidents, I mean, really not that different. A
little straightforward mail or, as we would say, in Holland
court to the ball, it's kind of you know, short cutting through
the corner there just to get to the other side. But it's the way
that he says it and that is just upset everybody. It's truly his
mannerisms is truly his, you know, it's like he's like a
cowboy movie come to life. You know, it's it's scary. It's
scary to people who've seen it because I think it's because I
was watching Obama trying to find a clip of him talking about
NATO. Anyhow, he would talk like this and our allies measures all
across Europe. Yeah. And it was just it was okay, you can kind
of flow into it, you know, didn't take wasn't hard to
understand. He was you know, he was completing sentences, you
know, stuff that this president just is incapable of. But his
message is kind of this, you know, he's a builder. People
need to remember this. Oh, my God. This is like, how many
wealthy guys have we not met John? Who when you when you meet
him many? Yeah, when you meet him a number I'm talking I'm not
taking rich I'm talking wealthy, you know so you're in the
billions of dollars billionaires and and they aren't they come
across as some are illiterate I mean I know rich guys who were
actually illiterate who will say Could you hand me the phone and
say could you just type this message? And and it's just the
way of the world you know, these very, very successful people and
we've met a number of them. Many of them are just I know many
Yeah, the brat will give me an x. Can you give me an example? A
good example? How about Hearst for instance? Yes, some of that.
Her says there's a lot of that it's brash, you know, it's
just raw, not as bad though. It's
not as bad
as it is it ages on them because I nd hearse which was Patty
Hearst dad. And when we were this whole group of the Hearst
Corporation went to the Media Lab, which was great for me, I
was goodwill. And the two of us snuck in with the executives. So
we didn't have to sign all those nondisclosure, they won't show
you anything at the Media Lab. And let's just sign off on a
bunch of stuff that I didn't sign anything. So we got to see
a lot of interesting stuff, and talk to hear a lot of
interesting pitches, they had pitches that they would throw at
these newspaper guys and these publishers, and Randy was like,
it was like he was just kind of like, oblivious to things was
like, Oh, it reminds me of the story that the the the best way
to describe most of these guys seems to me to be the my
description of the woman I saw at a military display in Pacific
Heights and then one of the parks and as a specific heights
a woman who walked over with her little poodle wherever it was a
trendy dog at the most is totally Pacific Heights type
loaded, obviously. And a guy she's looking at one of the
exhibits and is since she and the guy. She says what is that
thing? She said? He said it's a personnel mine? And she said,
No. And she says, Oh, Oh Ha ha, I have a friend who works in
personnel. And then she walks off. That is what we're talking
about.
Yeah, kind of kind of, kind of this
dead. But it's just a way that own worlds thing. It's hard to
explain. But
these guys in real estate these guys in in oil in big but the
unsophisticated they're unpolished. You got a lot of
them in Texas, of course. And they're incredibly rich, but
they're shrewd, they're shrewd, and they know business, the
basic tenants of human behavior in a negotiation, a lot of them.
Well, of course, not all of them. But
I mean, the Silicon Valley types, a lot of them were
focused, they they're made of money by baby Bill Gates is a
good example, by being more focused than you and I could
ever be if we combined all our skills, they could focus to such
an extreme, that they can really make things happen, but they
don't beyond that. It's like, you know, I remember I went to a
baseball game once with Bill Gates and had to explain the hit
and run to him and it was like, it was like, what it was right.
It wasn't easy, by the way to explain
it. So But bottom line is that you know, Trump is very simple
in his thinking and I think that resonates people at home can
understand what he's saying wait a minute, so these guys are
getting billions of dollars to Russia and then they're going to
give even more with the gas turbine from the cutting out the
so called you know, our buddies they're in Ukraine and then
Poland, or Ukraine, let's just say Ukraine is the most
important one because that was so important. Remember, it was
so important we for the Russian gas, and meanwhile these guys
aren't pulling their weight. I mean, Trump directly talks to
the taxpayer it's unfair to the taxpayers Hey, I sit at home and
go Yeah, yeah, what's up with that? It's but it's it's still
the kind of the same thing you know, and the like the this
summit, but also the g7 it's the same you know, normally everyone
goes there has a couple of drinks has some tea Whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, bother do their photos. And then they
released the communique. We're all going to work together.
We're going to do much better. And then Trump just doesn't just
doesn't see the benefit of that.
Yeah, he doesn't he doesn't.
So I'm enjoying it. I liked it. Yeah, they painted it into a
quantum province.
Nobody's getting this information. The you know, the
fact that he's trying to get it out but they're not going to
pick it up. I
don't think So either because they don't know what to do with
it,
here's that you went to summary of the whole Trump experience in
NATO was that one photo which I had in the newsletter,
which you can take, depending on the dimension you're in, you can
say, Wow, everybody's going this way. And Trump is a moron. He's
looking the other way. Or you can say now that's a guy who's
looking at other opportunities, or building code violations, as
you said in the newsletter. Yes, my punch now was a good, that
was a good joke. I was good. What's the second tooth clip?
Let's play it.
Now. Cristiane? You know, I served with other presidents and
they all said the same thing. I think President Trump is saying
it in a way that they are now remembering and really turning
on the dime and doing better.
I look, I understand. And many US presidents and leaders have
complained and they want that 2% Obviously, the Europeans do
things that complement US participation in the US
contribution. But here's the thing, the tone is what is
creating existential angst amongst you.
There it is. She's saying it for me. It's the tone. Oh, he's not
saying it right tone
is what is creating existential angst amongst your NATO allies.
Donald Tusk, again, basically has said that the tone of
President Trump, his language meant that allies could no
longer assume that NATO will endure. Now that might sound
alarmist, but I'm going to play you again, a much hackneyed
soundbite President Trump's initial first ever comment.
What does this mean, a much hackneyed soundbite?
Yes, she uses that word. It's interesting when I heard it the
first time, because what it means is that it's been beaten
to death. Or a cliche. It's just something has been used a lot
over and over and over again, like the network does. You know,
they always keep throwing stuff.
Well, let's let's let's pay attention to it. Because that's
a middle yo type of word. We can figure out where she belongs who
she belongs to. I think we should hear that word more
often. That's
an interesting idea to think that's a male youth term. It
could be Yeah.
We no longer assume that nature will endure. Now that might
sound alarmist, but I'm gonna play you again, a much hackneyed
soundbite President Trump's initial first ever comments in
public on NATO, were not heartening to those who believe
in in the Alliance, listen to this for a second,
NATO is obsolete, it was 67 years or it's over 60 years old.
It is many countries doesn't cover terrorism. Okay. It covers
the Soviet Union, which is no longer in existence. And NATO
has to either be rejiggered reaching here changed for the
better. I'm not saying the other thing is bad about NATO, we're
paying too much. We're spending a tremendous billions and
billions of dollars on NATO.
So there are a lot of thoughts in that statement. But you can
see that those initial comments are still the comments of the
President and it does destabilize the allies. They're
kind of concerned about it. Because, you know, you talk
about the Wales Summit. And indeed, in 2014, there was a
pledge to up the payments, every single one except a couple have
upped their payments to nearly 2%. And she's
conflating two different things. Because I remember I recall this
very well. Trump said NATO is outdated, and specifically
stated that it was because they do not address terrorism or
cyber. And since that since then, we now have a NATO with I
guess, an office somewhere that deals with terrorism. And they
probably have some some dude in the basement named Ben, who's in
charge of cyber. But that's what he was talking about initially.
said, yeah. Well, that
was the clip from the initial discussion. Yes. And he did
specifically discussed the fact that, and I think this is what
she's referring to the fact that we're paying too much. Yep,
we're getting robbed, or
we're paying more than we're paying
a more than our fair share, according to the numbers. It's
way up there. Yeah. We have a bigger GDP and his percentage
they, you know, that's the thing that kind of gets me if it was a
flat fee. I don't see how it should be a function of the GDP.
Right. Well, what do you think about this in general, so can we
just get rid of it is NATO really that important? Just
seems like another big money sink.
I think he was hinting at that. But then again, if you remember
the McMasters speech that we had that I clipped, where he
discussed how the world works, and one of his lectures, which
was I find the most fascinating thing ever. He mentions that the
way the world works at the moment is that we're the big
dog, and that we have to support all these things. And we have to
keep these things going because it's all part of the of the the
world order as it exists in how we're running things. So it's
not like you can just willy nilly start changing things be
cornering mastery. So you could do it immediately if we wanted
to, we could change things. But right now, the way it works is
this way. And NATO is part of that. So but
but really all it is, is just an excuse for us to be the boss of
everybody.
I mean, that's what Yeah, but that's the way the system works
right now. That's what keeps the that's what key. That's the only
reason that end the dollar being the reserve currency that people
will be one of the people want to scuttle this, by the way that
it's would know it would McMaster described. But that's
the only reason that we can be $100 trillion in debt to the
world and we can still be living prosperously and growing
vegetables and having the time of our lives pretty much Speak
for yourself. You know, it's not like you're you're not living in
Austin in a depressed area where everybody's like swirls
come to the streets come to the streets of downtown Austin I
will show you
there's a lot well there's a miss there's some errors in
judgment the way this is being handled, that's for sure. But I
would say that you can probably put down to the Democrat
Democratic Party, and they're oh my god, we can't offend anybody.
Oh, don't let them poop. Don't say anything. kind of attitude
about
poop. Don't say anything. Yeah, that I think that's actually a
city ordinance. It's the let them poop. Don't say anything.
ordinance. We haven't seen the pooping yet. Only the urination
we have common is poop is coming and poop in our future. Yeah,
that was I think that we often don't even say well, what the
hell is this? I mean, yeah, okay. It's the show the word top
dog. And we have our bases everywhere. And I get I guess
it's the Yeah, it's the way the world works.
And that's why we have these notices. Just a reminder, hey,
hey, just so you know, we're around,
we have a base in your country, you want to just you know, or we
have a base right outside your country, or we got to drone to
headquarters in the your country or outside your country. I mean,
it's ridiculous if you look at it, but it's the way we do
things the way we do it. Yeah, it's the way things are. And
we're living the life of Riley. Nobody wants to appreciate that.
I'm not complaining. I'm not complaining. Here's what he was
the response from Canada Navia.
Despite that criticism from Donald Trump Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau is defending Canada's military spending,
Canada will continue to step up. We've been part of every single
NATO mission. Since the very beginnings of NATO. We will
continue to be there with effective and performing troops
and supports to demonstrate our continued unflinching support
for the Transatlantic Alliance.
Trudeau spent the day in Latvia, where he formally announced that
Canada will extend its mission in the country by another four
years. It also means another 85 troops bringing the total in the
race to 540. He visited some of those soldiers today, Trudeau
will head to Belgium for the NATO Summit next, Trump has been
calling for all NATO countries to pay 2% of their GDP towards
military spending. For Canada, that would mean nearly doubling
the defense budget. And the Prime Minister says Ottawa has
no plans to do so.
No. They have no plans to do so starts
off as a big he's big supporter, but he won't, he won't agree to
you guys.
And this is a nice guys by bugs me
as another talking point there as well. You know, everybody
sent their troops, which you can see in two different ways and
multiple dimensions, you know, all other countries sent their
troops when we were fighting evil Saddam Hussein. Oops, wrong
guy in Iraq. But you know, you can also see those that didn't
feel like paying any so they just sent some children here.
We're good, right?
That's the way I see it. So yeah, we send some kids over and
get blowed up.
So we had a there was an incident with the guy,
unfortunately, it was produced this clip was produced. And it's
an I have to kind of kind of give a I had to cut it way down
because it was just not not usable. And it was true dough.
Stitch clips called blasting Trudeau. It's Trudeau at a, you
know, at some sort of a what do you call him us Town Hall. And
he is just veterans have no legs. And he's standing on these
these things and bitching about the fact that he can't get his
compensation from the Veterans Affairs after the government
promised are going to do nothing but good things for them. And
everybody seems to be in Canada seems to be upset about the fact
that well, they can't get their money. There's been a bunch of
Ex ISIS people. So this
is yeah, I have five seen this story.
Yeah, some ex ISIS guy got $10 million to compensation for
being called a name
or something from a different fund. You see, it's different.
Yes.
And so this guy's up there bitching. Now, what I want you
to you're gonna hear at the end of this guy's complaining, which
went on for a while. And then you're going to hear Trudeau and
I realized that Trudeau and the last clip you played, and Obama
to some extent, they all sound like big nurse from One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest, like they're talking to insane
people. So,
again, my question is, what veterans were you talking about?
What's the ones that fought for the freedoms and values that you
so proudly boast about? Or what's the ones who fought
against? Because honestly, Mr. Prime Minister, I was prepared
to be injured in the line of duty when I went to him when I
joined the military. Nobody forced me to join the military.
I really liked the piano. John, it's really working for me. It's
just clutching my heartstrings.
I said, I apologize for that before the clip I did I people
that produce these clips, I know and then decide that for some
reason, I think it's cool to do. I don't think you should do that
on any show. No
ruined, frontline. Yeah. So I do want to point it out. And that
that's, that makes a difference. When you hear it with the piano
people.
I was prepared to be killed in action. Where it wasn't prepared
for Mr. Prime Minister.
This actually, this actually, maybe this was a press
conference at Nordstrom. So is that possible?
It's funny because I was in Nordstrom the other day? Yes.
It's very. Yeah. Without just one of those self playing
pianos.
Oh, yeah. Cheap and the gun sheep.
I was prepared to be killed in action. Where I wasn't prepared
for Mr. Prime Minister. Is Canada, turning its back on me?
So which veteran was it that you're talking about?
Thank you, sir. Thank you, for your parents in your strength
and being here today to share this justifiable frustration and
anger. On a couple of elements you brought up, first of all,
why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups
in court? Because they're asking for more than we are able to
give right now. They're asking for more than what? Well, no,
hang on. You're asking. You're asking for honest answers. Wow.
Yeah, they turned on him. Yeah, they sure did. I don't have
enough money right now. That's not a very that's not very
satisfying.
No. really pissed or especially when this guy this $10 million
thing distribution to these ex ISIS, guys. I mean, it's come
on. It's very strange.
That that bit of the end, that's where you think it was like one
flew?
Yes. When he talks like like big nurse on the nurse, ratchet,
whatever her name is worth ratchet ratchet match it. I
can't remember her name. And she shows it now. It now used to be
more calm. You shouldn't be you shouldn't act this way. Because
yeah, you're right. Well, that is thanks can happen.
Yes. And that's what everybody wants to hear. That's that is
what that is what makes it
less apparent what they want to hear. They don't like the way
Trump presents things. That's for sure. But you brought this
up earlier when you talked about Obama's Obama's very slow and
calculated way of saying anything? Yes. And I'd say
Hillary fell into that category. I used to always say this,
because oh, she's such a wonderful speaker. You listen to
Hillary in her normal speaking pattern. It's word at a time as
though you're a three year old.
Yeah.
So I think we made our
point. Yes. Yeah. I don't think there's much, much left to say
and let's just see what happens. I mean, nothing probably.
Still the possibility that that big blimp can be
shot down that would still now I would really, really appreciate
that. That'd be very funny. That would be that would be footage
of the year.
And how can anyone resist? This is what gets me if the British
public, especially the Londoners, if can't find a way
to pop that thing. They really are. They've lost it.
Well, with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage. And
say in the morning to you, John. See you at the C stands for
controlling the drone With the blimp Devorah
in the morning to you Mr. Add Adam curry she was me. I can't
find my tube. Ah, in the morning all ships and sea boots on the
ground feet in the air subs in the water all the names and
dates out there.
Yes in the morning to everybody in the troll room there no
agenda stream.com helping me out is usually I'm always following
the troll room as, as we do the show live on Thursday and
Sunday. It's often extremely helpful, sometimes very
annoying, but that's what the trolls and I also want to say in
the morning to Mike Riley. He brought us the artwork for
episode 1049. The title of that episode, the previous one was
rent men. And there was a lot of good artwork. And we had some
choices to make. We could only choose one of course for the art
but several are contenders for newsletters and other uses. This
was the the map of the mall.
Yes, III,
it was a tough decision because there was a couple of the best
technically, I thought was the was the earplugs a year,
whatever the
Yeah, the ear buds ear buds. Yeah.
Yeah, it was because it related to some of the aspects of the
show and is really pretty well done. And we could probably find
a use for that someplace else. The mall art was one shot if we
weren't going to use it. Right? We wouldn't we were never going
to use but that's often the case. It was funny. It had humor
in it. And it was funnier than the other art.
Now then there was some al-shabaab guys with plastic
bags that didn't quite work. We'd like the marijuana
cigarette package made in Canada. That was funny.
I like to Facebook,
cigarettes, that was also good. It's hard to do. There's so much
good art it really is.
Well, it's either rent it rains it pours. That's true. We've had
many of show where there is nothing and nobody has gets a
clue. And we have to go back and dig around to find some
evergreen art which coincidentally, matches the show
right? And or we have the third fall back which is the toughest
one is where we just pick an evergreen piece that is generic
just says no agenda on it or something like that and just use
that but we try to avoid that particular fallback.
But it is a part of our value for value network our system
that we've built up over the years and we really appreciate
Mike's work and all of the artists who upload to no agenda
art generator.com I think there's now 17,000 pieces of art
just Candide quite a lot quite a lot of artwork in there a lot
been created.
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Yes. Why it's so funny. Well, talking about funny I do have I
went dug through the the archives. Somebody sent me a
what do you call it auto tune version of this guy. This foamer
that we had him on? And I watched the thing again, it was
right after the auto tune version. That was the original
which is funny data. 21
Who's the fool? What's the foamer? who's a former foamers
railroad nut? Oh, yes. We've talked about this. Okay, who who
goes out on the tracks and records binaural stereo.
Okay, and you you have to review your remember this when you hear
it and this is and I also have an ISO for later. Okay. But this
is the complete clip. This is a two minute clip is just, I'm
telling you every time I hear this, I am laughing. Literally
laughing and trying to catch my breath.
Okay. Ah, I've been waiting for this moment for months. And it's
finally here. I'm finally gonna get a heritage unit unit on
camera. Yeah. All right. Look at that. And 1953 ea. Oh, yeah.
Listen to that bell. Yeah, listen to that bell. Oh, take a
look at that.
Oh my god.
Oh my gosh, she's beautiful. She is beautiful. All right. All
right.
Oh, the s&p 50 Oh my god. Oh, we're gonna watch this. Oh, this
is special. This is special. It gives me the chills. And the
chills have absolutely nothing to do with how cold it is here.
Oh, but that doesn't stop a foamer especially when it comes
to heritage equipment. Oh, this is fantastic. Oh, oh my
goodness. Look at that. Blue and gray. Oh, coupled to the fire
Pacific number 518. Horn Oh, that's fantastic. Oh my gosh,
look at that. All right. Ah. Oh. Wonder who TC is? Oh, wow. This
is just awesome. I've been waiting for this for months.
Boy, that Illinois Central livery right here in North
Korea. Ah, that is awesome.
I am somewhat speechless.
This guy is having an orgasm. Yeah. Well, you're not listening
to the whole thing as a sexual thing. He has an orgasm and then
kind of get you know, he's done. He's done. It's unbelievable.
Well, you Not far from it with your Zephyr obsession Folmer
your foamer Oh my God listen to that heart Oh my God now you
love that stuff
you can play the ISO didn't know what it is because I think this
would be a good way to end the show
okay if you wish I had an ISO but you totally when absolutely
you can have it. No problem, man oh man. Oh, John. I have the
device. No one I've been looking for the ultimate. Finally,
finally because you know I've been looking for a foam that is
modern can do for GE but doesn't have ABS and the whole tracking
infrastructure.
We we've all followed your exploits with bated breath.
Okay. It is the Kyocera Dura XV LTE. Thanks to John in Lee
Valley, Pennsylvania who turned me on to this. Unbelievable.
This is It's a modern
flip phone say let me right.
You gotta pull it you're gonna want this phone. And in fact, I
am using it in the house more than my iPhone. Case. You're
what? dura x v. LTE. So it's an LTE does LTE radio and it's a
flip phone. But it's it's a military grade you know it has
has passed certification, you can run a tank over it, you can
throw it in the in the drink for six hours at a time. What is it
doing? It fits so comfortably in your hand. It's heavy ish. But
it's like, and I realize how dumb a smartphone is for
handling. And when you hold on to this, it's like, oh, you can
swing this around. You get you don't have to worry about it's
not going to fall out of your hand. But But here's what's
beautiful about it is it has a fully html5 compliant browser.
It even does the no agenda social.com which is like all
kinds of jacked up JavaScript and that thing is waterproof.
Waterproof. Yes, proof. It does IMAP email as fast, it's
blazingly fast. So it really doesn't do more than end up five
megapixel camera. It doesn't do much more than your browser,
which you can pretty much do everything that you need to do.
Of course, text messaging,
it's got a hole in it. So you can see the screen through the
no it
has a second screen on the front old school. It's two screens.
Yeah, the screen on the front gives you like little
notification. I
guess time it's got the time. Yeah, openness with time, but
very rugged looking. It looks like millet, it looks milspec
Yeah, but And what's so the only thing that of course is missing
is a QWERTY keyboard, because then I'd really be happy. But I
found that with it has really oversized buttons, it's meant
also for if you're you know you're climbing Mount Everest,
then you can still, you know, tap something out, which I now
find to be a feature. Because the phone is so fast. It does
think so well, that, you know now actually like Well, I'm not
going to send this text message now because you know, I have to
kind of concentrate on typing it out either with the, you know,
the click, click, click, click, click, click More with the
predictive text,
whatever it's called. And it's 65 bucks on Amazon,
I'm telling you, it's under $100. Thing is, the battery life
is nothing like a Nokia it's not five days, but it'll certainly
do two days with you know, with just regular use. I am blown
away by this YouTube videos plays them. I got your
newsletter the other day, open it up, it opened up in some kind
of editing software, which you can't find if you just say, you
know, if you're looking to open up the editing software, but
when I clicked on your Word doc, in the email program, it opened
up, I could edit it perfect. It's an unbelievable trick. It's
a great phone. And it does everything you need to do except
now it doesn't distract you. It's a very pro sanity type
device. And I know that the tracking is to a minimum because
I'm getting ads you know when I'm looking at any website just
trolling around, and it's all location based stuff. Hey,
Austin, so of course they can still find that in my location
that's not that hard to do
that and it's the GPS No, it made that yes,
it is turned off. There's no maps though.
Whose goods GPS without the map
I'm feeling I think this phone was made exclusively for AT and
T originally and they had an app an app infrastructure so you
could download a media center and some kind of mapping thing.
And that's that's no longer exists. So I'm not on AT and T
so I don't have access to it. And
the one here it says is the dura XV and it's a Verizon phone. Do
they have GSM? Yes,
I have. This is a GSM unlocked GSM okay, but it has an AT and T
logo on it and I'm using it on T Mobile so
you're probably right it's probably a surplus.
Yeah. Oh, no, it's totally surplus. But this is a it's so
fast. Yet it's it's slow enough that you, you know, you don't
get obsessed with your phone like and the screen is just
small enough that is as like, oh, I can look at some stuff for
a little bit and I'm done. It's it's really working against all
of your instincts to want to do more, and it kind of slows you
down, but not where it counts, which is you know, rendering a
webpage, getting your email opening a picture, taking a
picture, very happy with that device. I'm over the e 71. Hands
down, in particular because it has a future. And it is it's I
think there may be some low level tracking stuff because I
think it's some custom weird version of Android four or
something that's under the hood. I'm not quite sure exactly.
Again. Yeah, it was all custom. They did a lot of work.
It's really cool to have a flip phone.
And you know what? The adults under 40 As we now call them,
they love it. Like oh, cool, and they flip it open. Oh, I had one
of these. Yeah, these are great. And they and they like it, you
know, like, oh, yeah, remember? You can you can so it's so fun
to rage hang up on someone just by snapping the lid shut. You
know, like, screw. Yeah, boom, done. And this one, the lid
actually stays on. The lid doesn't fly off. Because it's
it's made of just it's rubber. It's fantastic. Great device.
All right. Little fat in the pocket. Little. Yes, that's a
real that's a real tip, real tip. Let me see. Do you have
anything in our OT anatomy? We have a lot of OTG stuff that was
really accepted. There's there is some question. Now Facebook
is trying to figure out how they influence elections as a story
in The Wall Street Journal, if there's over the weekend that
they've given researchers full access for election studies. And
this new group of academics who get like, I think they're
talking about 2.2 billion records. Sounds like a lot.
Let me see. What do you have here?
What is the name of this? Yeah, okay. So social science. One is
the name of the group performed earlier this year with backing
from nonprofits, including the John S and James L. Knight
Foundation, and the Charles Koch Foundation. And they have $25
million. They're giving away to researchers who have proposals
for understanding how social media specifically face bag that
influences or can be used to influence elections. But in the
meantime, they've given these jabroni is everyone's data.
Which I find rather, I
mean, the first thing that comes to mind, to my mind is I don't
think that Facebook necessarily
sways elections.
Well, no, that's why that's why the whole thing is ridiculous. I
mean, what are they thinking?
Someone he definitely gets groups riled up.
Now someone, someone just put together a money making scheme.
And once again, we're not in it.
Yeah, no, we gotta get into one of these deals. Oh, well, we
anybody out there can do good grant writing. That's the word
that we need, we get a grantsmanship guy, because
that's what this is all about is kind of a combination of a grant
and a proposal. Yeah. Because the grant grant writers can do
that kind of work
to it, but did want to mention that, you know, whereas I'm
particularly concerned why I kind of gave up on you know,
what the government is spying on you, you can only protect
yourself so much. But what technology is doing it's, it's,
it's made a change in human behavior, which is very
troubling. And there's a story that I came across I don't know
if you saw this, it was a big Twitter thread this guy in a GAO
on the flight and some southern lady asked to switch seats. So
I'm like sweet southern lady with a drawl Can I switch seats
so she could be next to her boyfriend or whatever it was,
ends anyway. So this this couple this other couple who swapped
seats now they're, they're sitting behind these two people,
and the entire flight they're taking pictures of them from
behind, or you know, sneaky like walking up the aisle and take a
little little picture. And they're documenting in a in a in
a tweet stream, this romance that they've they're like, Oh,
it's a romance is coming together and maybe we had
something to do with it. And it was like, Oh, this is so great.
It's the best thing on Twitter and all this is fabulous is like
you are invading these people's privacy. And everyone's cheering
it on.
It was it was
bizarre. Yeah, that kind of thing is kind of bizarre and it
does happen. And it does it is invasion of privacy, and it gets
cheered on your right is something that is a fundamental
change, I think I could be wrong. But I think it's a
fundamental.
So they're completely just creating a story or a narrative,
if you will, about these two people, which is very much in
line that we've talked about this, this is very much in line
with how I think Instagram works, you know, you see a
picture and then you see, oh, we have a baby. And the next
pictures, you know, the baby's two months old, and all that
space in between, you know, you build up with happy story, happy
thoughts, all these people are so fun. And we've created this
innate ability to really enhance our storytelling capability
based on just, you know, simple snapshots and just make stuff
up. And it fits, you know, it feels like oh, yeah, I feel good
about that, and fit down the story. Sounds right. Give me
more. It's a very odd thing. But it's it's cultural, it's
cultural. And we're all in. And I was kind of horrified like,
it, it's just an expression of something that already exists
and was being suffocated, maybe wasn't getting enough attention.
And all it's done is brought it to the fore. It was but it's
always been within the system and hasn't changed anything. Is
that possible, possible,
but what changed? What changed is that you can share it with
the entire world. That's a technological change and not
necessarily a good one.
Well, I would argue just the opposite. Okay.
It's a good thing.
Why is this what people want is part of the community of the of
mankind,
okay? It's just, it's not like we can stop it. It's just the
towards go. Yeah, I'm cognizant of this. Because when I was to
celebrate it, it was it was odd. Because you'd never want to be
caught with your, with your cellulite out, you know, you're,
you're aware that people are observing you and taking photos
of you and doing that secretly and doing all kinds of, you
know, like surveillance type things, but you're very aware of
it, and you get these filters and you build that up, but it's
not necessarily a nice way to live. Thinking about I would
think it's a terrible way to live. That's the life of a
celebrity. That's why he would go live in a gated mansion.
Yeah, so of course, the I don't need that anymore. Now it's
just, you know,
a you live.
I'm just one shopping cart away from being like the homeless guy
on Second Street.
Well, that will get you back into the top of the news,
though. Yes. Yeah, like because Oh, another guy's broke.
Homeless. Adam curry is now homeless. Yeah, I tried to be a
podcaster. He said VH, one
behind the music. Whatever happened to
Adam curry after him or podcaster have to drop into
level of pocket. This podcast goes out. We lost all our
support. No, we're contributing money. And then they stopped.
Here's Jordan Peterson talking about the podcast. I wish it was
specifically about ours. But I when I heard him say this, I was
like, oh, yeah, I forgot. Yeah, hell yeah. Yes,
videos is that you can't do anything else while you're doing
them. Right. When you're reading you're reading. When you're
watching a video, you know, you can be distracted, but you have
to pay attention to the video. But if you're listening to a
podcast, you can be driving a forklift or a long haul truck.
Or you can be exercising or doing the dishes. And so what
that means is that podcasts free up, say two hours a day for
people to engage in educational activities that they wouldn't
otherwise be able to engage in. And that's about 1/8 of people's
lives. So podcasts, hand people 1/8 of their life back to engage
in high level education. So then I thought, well, we'll actually
want to do this. There's a massive market for high level
intellectual engagement that's much deeper, and, and, and more
desperate, let's say than anyone suspected. I think one of the
things I've realized in the last couple of days, as I've been
thinking this through is that the narrow bandwidth of TV has
made us think we're stupid or than we are. And so people have
a real hunger for deep intellectual dialogue and and
that can be met with these new technologies. And that has
revolutionary significance. And that's starting to unfold.
You're
welcome. You're ever so welcome. Let's let's put this to the
test, shall we? He says, Well, let me just put this to the test
for a second. He says that the bandwidth of television has
become so narrow, that people are just clamoring for something
intellectual. And I would say that to a degree. The no agenda
show is intellectual. At least we're challenging our intellect
which is a challenge by
itself challenging the way people look at things. Let's
have a quick just a litmus test. Let's
see what's new. One television station is coming to TLC. What I
do isn't just pimple popping.
I don't want to be a hunchback. I'm changing people's lives. Oh
my gosh, Dr. Pimple Popper
begins Wednesday at 10 on TLC.
Yes, I've heard about this show. I think Jay was talking about
and I said I thought she was just putting me on. No, no it's
a real show and she she pops blackheads she's What are you
know? Yeah she that's what she that's what goes on. It's just a
is a show that is so so inane that now television because
there's someone popping blackheads. I mean that Talia
yeah, by the way, we do have a meetup coming up in Toronto.
Now. I won't be there. I have
the meetups on the list, actually. But yeah. Do you want
to talk about them? I have the info here. The 99 A bit
of Toronto me that the reason I'm saying that is because
Jordan Peterson it'll be in into front of his lecture. Oh, that's
right. That's right. Okay, good. Right across the street. And
you're gonna try to get Peterson to come to the
meetup. Well, have somebody record him saying something nice
about the no agenda or something not nice. That's either way,
just something I just haven't said on the morning.
Please, yeah, in the no agenda show. And let's see, just start
collecting those those clips like do these do an old time
radio.
You know, these little spots? Yeah, little spots.
Let's, oh, I had dinner with a former New York banker. And I
had the opportunity to ask him specifically about about
Deutsche Bank and the money to Trump and this came from a clip
a meme, which I don't know if it's here today. These things
are here today, gone tomorrow. That if the Democrats win the
house that Maxine Waters becomes the chair of some oversight
committee, and then she has the power to subpoena that Deutsche
Bank bank records. Hey, that'll show him Hey. So reason for me
to ask the former New York banker. What deals and he knows
very well. Are you interested in hearing what deals Trump did
with Deutsche Bank? He knows. Yes. Go for it. Yes. He knows
exactly for a number of reasons. That Space Force, Space Force is
the main reason there was one loan and one loan only ever. And
it was about it was a small loan. He said about $100 million
or so during the time that the loan was outstanding. He sued
Deutsche Bank twice, which to them was just, you know, the
cost of doing business with Trump. I thought it was funny.
And he says that Deutsche Bank made a lot of money. They did
very well, on that loan. They were very happy. And that was
the only time they did any money with them. So that's it one
time, one time only.
And well, that stinks.
I think it was for the Chicago tower. In Chicago, but no, it
doesn't stink.
No, I mean, it stinks. If you're like trying to get Trump on some
drum. Yes.
Charges. Yes, exactly. So everyone's Whoa, Deutsche Bank.
Yeah, so that's where all the money is. That's where the
Russian money came in now. And the defender of your banker, you
would be honest with me. He'd say, something fishy going on.
He may not tell me exactly. But he was very clear on this total
horseshit. Good. I
hope Maxine calls him up to testify. Yeah.
The New York banker Oh, boy.
That was interesting. I did have one clip that was should have
played earlier, when we were talking about Brexit. He was
Faraj kind of bitching and moaning about the whole thing
going south, because I think he's finally coming to the
realization that he's the one really behind all this. And I
want to mention to people that haven't listened to the show for
a long time. We were on to Faraj as a mover and shaker years way
before anybody.
Yeah. And in fact, what did we get most of the time from from
our British producers? Yeah. Oh, man. No, he's a racist. He's a
horrible he's a dick. He's Nazi.
You guys are wrong. Yes, it knows anything.
No one cares about him. He's marginalized. Yeah, we do
identify the hits. We pick the hits here on the no agenda show
was listen to this,
Mrs. May, if you believe what you're told, is about to take us
down a route, where effectively we would stay inside the single
market for goods. That's the bit of course where they sell us a
lot more than we sell them. The whole thing would be the most
extraordinary set out it will be Brexit in name only. We become
like Norway, but without even having the fish. So that's why
the Euroskeptics are Meeting, they're planning a fight back,
but well, they really have the guts to do what's necessary. And
I think frankly, if she's prepared to give in to this
extent, what is actually necessary is to get rid of her
to work on the fact that over the course of August, Monsieur
Barnier won't be negotiating. He'll be on a Mediterranean
beach somewhere and find a new leader to come back and try and
save the Brexit talks. We will see nothing will come out
tomorrow. We'll start to get leaked reports maybe late
tomorrow night and by Sunday, I've no doubt when I'm back here
in this chair on Sunday morning, we will find out what has what
has not been agreed. But there's no doubt that a real clean
democratic Brexit is now in crisis. And I have to say, I
think the lack of leadership from our prime minister is the
main problem.
Yeah, he's if he's gonna have to go back in which he keeps
threatening. It goes away wants to do it. Well, that's what he
says. But what else would the guy do? He does? He's a natural.
He loves it.
Come on. He loves likes doing this talk show on LBC. Yeah,
well, any last night showing up he's on Fox contributor he gets
to go on Fox few snide comments gets paid for that. I mean, his
business was always the beat, which people always get wrong.
He was a metals trader. Yes. In London, City of London, and
somehow got political and reluctance. Yeah, well, you
might be right about this part. Claiming to never wanting to do
any of it. He just had to do it. Now. He
loves it. He loves it. I can see it. The guy loves doing it. Good
on him. Hey, loves hanging out with Trump. Let Well, talking
about being pulled apart. That's about to happen to
judge Kavanaugh,
who will now go through the rigorous process of being
confirmed by the United States Senate to be on the Supreme
Court, which the Supreme Court before we even get into any of
that. Where exactly do the in the Constitution do they get
their power from?
Because I don't really see
the third part of government.
Right. But so does that mean that they're that would they say
is law that would they say goes because that's the way it's
treated? Now? Yeah, that kind of started in 1974. For real?
Well, they're the arbiters of the WTO laws are made by
Congress, not made by the President or not made by the
judiciary. Right. Congress makes the laws and the Judiciary's
job, if it comes up has to determine whether or not those
laws meet the constitutional requirements.
That's to call this called judicial review. Yes, it now the
way I understand what they do when the Constitution was put
together, and I actually can't I'm not a constitutional lawyer.
But there was no, I mean, yes, you had, neither of the branches
has the final say. That's my point, is like they can say,
well, this is unconstitutional. And then Congress has to change
or can change the law or adapted however they want, but it can
rewrite it. Yeah. But they don't Is it? Is it a requirement that
if something is deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court by the judiciary, that then the legislation this
legislative branch, are they beholden to like like Germany to
Russia? They have,
they can just let it slide. Just say, Okay, well, that law is not
gonna be enforced anymore, because it's unconstitutional.
Cuz every time he gets if it kept getting enforced, it kept
getting sued. It wouldn't work out.
Okay. Oh, that's probably also somewhere in the Constitution.
Hey, we'll just sue. Yeah. I don't know it just to me, it's a
little confusing. I mean, I've always I have always believed
the Supreme Court, like when they say, this is this is good.
This is not good. That's the final say. And that's the way
it's generally accepted. I'm just wondering if to the letter
of the law. And we have constitutional lawyers who
listen, you know, how, what if Congress says, Well, screw you.
Yeah. Forget the lawsuits. What did they say? Well,
it doesn't mean anything. Congress has no power of
authority to enforce these laws. It's destined still the others
the judicial side, this the the court system in the country is
all is all kind of a part of the supreme court system. And so if
they Congress has now we're going to keep this law too bad.
It doesn't make any difference because the police won't be able
to enforce the law. I mean, the whole thing would be just the
joke. It would be a constitutional crisis. It
wouldn't be a crisis because no one would do anything about they
would just die. You'd be dead letter law. Okay.
Well, this, this pick certainly kicked off a crap Storm of epic
proportions.
No, it was gonna no matter who they picked, if they would have
picked Mother Teresa as a corpse, it would. These guys
don't want Trump to get anything through until the price until
the election is over. So they so they maybe can get the Democrats
hope to God that they can get the Senate back.
Well, and I'll tell you, the Democrats are they came out in
full force. As you know, I've contributed to multiple parties
for certainly Republican and Democrat parties to get on the
mailing list. Oh my god. It was a pitching moment for everybody.
Everybody send them out. It was donation time.
Here's what this is just a big money grab. Yeah. Here's
Elizabeth Warren's note. Brett Kavanaugh. That's the name of
Donald Trump's awful Supreme Court nominee. As a judge he has
a long record of decisions that hurts women workers and
consumers. Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh last night puts
rights we hold dear at stake like never before women's rights
to control their own bodies, workers rights, consumers
rights, you name it. They could all get squeezed to the breaking
point if Kavanaugh is confirmed. Our only chance to stop Brett
Kavanaugh confirmation is to help Senate Democrats fight
back. And we also must take back control of the Senate in 2018.
Will you chip in $3 right now. Or whatever you can afford to
help us
writing this copy. It's always the same.
Will you chip in chip in $3 right now or whatever you can
afford to help us elect the Senate that will save our court
imagining a Supreme Court with Brett Kavanaugh on the bench
makes me sick to my stomach. Throughout that yes, yes.
Throughout his career Kavanaugh has voted against an opinion
that upheld the Affordable Care Act and preserved health care
for millions oppose letting a young immigrant woman get prompt
access to safe legal abortion claim that the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau was unconstitutional tried to strike
down net neutrality and argued that sitting president should be
exempt from lawsuits and criminal investigations or
prosecution. And guess what? Brett Kavanaugh nomination is a
field day for the right wing elites and big corporations who
picked him by hand, just like they did with Neil Gorsuch for
Judge Merrick Garland stolen Supreme Court seat. But no one
makes it to the supreme court without going through the
Senate. Not on my watch. I'm prepared to fight with every
bone in my Cherokee body for a Supreme Court. That's fair to
say that I'm prepared to fight with every bone in my body for a
Supreme Court. That's fair, equal and justice for all. Are
you ready to join in that fight? Ship in $3 right now to help us
protect the Supreme Court and take back the Senate in
November. We're not going back. Not now. Not ever. Thanks for
being a part of this. Elizabeth. Jesus psycho, where whoever's
writing that is kind of psycho. Yeah. And just give you some
advice. Your $3 chip in is dumb. That's a $30 ask.
Well, I wonder they because the reason I wonder is because the
guy's doing this and it's and it's the what is one group? So
it's hard to kind of really tell you and tell
isn't share blue or one of these out of who is they always act? I
can tell you right now, if you looked at that letter, it's got
red on it. Oh, yeah,
of course it does. Yeah. Yeah.
Not blue. Not orange, green, yellow, red. Yeah. It's always
got red. It's thematically red is a hat.
Is that important in the world of newsletters is that make a
napkin I know of
food, I can give you a couple of things that I was I've taken
these seminars when I was younger, and I kind of knew what
was the things changed and, and newsletters are not newsletters
so much as direct marketing pieces, which that is that's a
version of what used to be called direct mail. They study
the death out of it, and they keep coming up with new little
gimmicks and and the gimmicks are always and from what I can
understand, because I was showing all the gimmicks of the
era gimmicks, the gimmicks that work only work
isn't closing $1 With your letter, here's $1
debt Well, that's another game we did kinda worked for a while.
There was a I can I can when I see when I get mail, real mail
and some of the things that can I can look at that look at it
and say, This is a new gimmick. They're trying and see how long
it goes on. And I believe that the people who put together
these Democrat letters and they're all done, and I think
Trump uses the same group, but is grouped as doing these
letters. For all the different candidates and for all the
different things it uses very As strong as is rare, I think these
are all ideas that expired. I think these are bad ideas. I
mean, there were probably good ideas for a moment that maybe
lasted maybe a year. And then they died like they all do with
direct marketing. And I believe that shipping thing which came
up, I thought maybe we first heard it when we talked about on
the show all the time in 2016, maybe 2015.
I want to say it was 2012.
It could be time. I think so. But if it that's dead, it
doesn't work. I've every time I hate you, because we the two of
us ridicule it, and is stupid. At this point. It was probably
cute. Somebody probably dropped it in as a test because they
know anything about this type of marketing test, test, test, test
test. Yeah, so they tested it. And it got a huge response
because no one heard of it before in these in these
solicitations. And it was like kind of catchy. Oh yeah, that's
great. And I remember chip and I'm gonna chip in
I think it's the chip in that we take the most offensive chip and
yeah, and I think it caught on for a while while the other
thing that was it was also tested I believe because he
wouldn't have this stupid number of $3 It was always chip in $3 I
think it's dead. Well, I think if this is still working, I'd be
stunned I
recall when this first started happening again, I think was
around 2012 And I think we took issue with the idea of chip in
which is at the time a lot of podcasters who were using a hat
you know Tip Jar model we are railed on that saying you are
purposefully diminishing your work and your product by saying
chip in just chip in like You're like you're a hobo she'd been
there's actually a guy on Second Street now he has a plastic
by the way you by the way the one that really rail against me
so much now
there's a guy on Second Street now one of our homeless friends
and he has a fishing pole a fishing rod with the with the
with the with the string and a cup. He just sits on the bench
and people put money in the cup as they walked by. I gotta get a
picture of this guy for you. Yeah, it's anyway even a
newsletter.
It
diminishes. It diminishes what you're doing. I don't understand
it. It didn't seem like smart fundraising to me. So I live
with a fundraiser. You know, we discussed this all the time.
Yeah, what Elizabeth Warren? What
does she think of it? What
Elizabeth Warren needs is that kid from Shriners Hospital Oh,
that's a break is the moneymaker. Hey, everybody. I'm
Alex. That kid is the best. He could raise money for anybody.
Love that guy. I hope he's still alive.
Now what is what is the keeper? Think about the $3 chip in
I'll get an updated We've discussed it but it's been a
while. I'll get I'll ask her again. But I know she'll think
it's dated.
Yeah. I think that people that get these letters and you're
getting a lot of them because you do more than I do in regards
to that. I get them to you see it over and over chip and chip
in $3 Chip and $3 the public at large and lesser complete morons
has to see this and see it as a gimmick that What are you trying
to trick? What is this? Is this some sort of trick? Yeah. What
are you doing this for? Why is this going on like this forever?
And I don't know that I get mailings from the Trump family
and from him and from Tom. But they're all Yeah. Oh, yeah. That
helped me celebrate the President's birthday from
Melania. But this starts at 150 bucks Guess what?
We have $3 chip in Yeah. Oh,
guess what? It ain't working either. 100 bucks. No way.
Guys got plenty of money. I
don't know. Well, but you look at it's the RNC. It's orange. I
don't want to deal with the RNC
should do their own own.
Yeah, I don't like it. Another thing I don't like is I think I
once gave to Judicial Watch or something. Somewhere I've been
using a lot of clips from somebody over time and you know,
and then a pop up shows it value for value like Thanks, man. You
get some clips from you. Here's a little value. But then I'm on
the mailing list. I'm on the mailing list for like, you know,
it's MRC tv.org A Media Research Center Sean Hannity newsletters
in the worst is I think it was Judicial Watch the envelope
shows up and it looks like a court summons to Windows you
know, as like, important court filing document like what now?
What am I what am I in trouble for now? When you open up and
it's a pitch letter through it right away? It's a horrible
trip. Yeah, you're right. I'm an idiot.
No one I was. But my understanding is I think it
still applies that there was laws against some of these
approaches.
Thank you, Senator Warren. That's all that's
do nothing. Warren would be the one that do nothing about it.
But I'm under of the understanding. And I could be
wrong. And I've not really looked into it. I just get irked
every time I see one is you cannot send somebody what
appears to be a check.
No, I was not I still receive those from time to time.
Yeah. Yeah. The order of use, it's already the way
to pay off the credit card, then I get I get all these. Hey,
seems like you're in debt. Powell. Kids like
the really the really well done ones. It's like the window with
the thing inside and on the order of big enough that you can
see the words pay to the order.
I don't fall for those
letters scan.
However, Judge Cavanaugh, he might want to consider some
fundraising of his own as the pulling apart of him and his
family has already started. And I have to say I do have respect
for anyone willing to go through that process. Apparently, he has
10s of 1000s of dollars of in credit card debt. He has very
low net worth about $65,000
story, by the way know what story. I don't believe it. It
may not be true for this story. I just don't I think it's
bullshit. Let
me tell the story. The credit card debt apparently was from
buying tickets to the Washington Nationals season tickets for him
and his buddies.
And the reason I don't believe this story is because it's got
all the elements of a hoax story. Because for one thing,
the Washington Nationals are huge losers. Yeah. And they're
like, really super powerfully fantastic team that can't win
playoff games. And so they so it's something you can laugh
about under y'all. This guy's an idiot for wanting to go to those
games. It just has hoax written all over it. I'm not saying he
never bought a Washington Nationals ticket in his life.
He's in Washington, DC. But what I'm saying is I don't believe he
went into great deep credit card debt because he's buying tickets
for everybody. So
the headlines are Kavanaugh accumulated 1000s in debt
Kavanaugh piled on credit card debt. Cavanaugh had massive
credit card debt. Is that the level that we're at now for
vetting people? Yeah, we're Snopes. We're Snopes.
Probably a lot of lot of Washington Post articles in
there.
So yeah, of course this Washington Washington Post broke
it. Are you kidding me?
Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's like the golden just like the golden
toilet. They broke story. Washington Post I believe was
Washington Post.
While there was some fun things being said, from the pundits on
TV a rare opportunity to play something idiotic from Fox. Not
that they don't have tons of idiotic stuff to say is just as
usually not funny. At least not to me. This was pretty good.
Shep Smith on the game. Shep Smith is still the the remaining
proof that the Democrats run Fox News
back in 2009. Judge Cavanaugh wrote that sitting presidents
should be protected from lawsuits and criminal
investigations until they're out of office, quoting here, like
civil suits, criminal investigations take the
President's focus away from his or her responsibilities to the
people. And a president who is concerned about an ongoing
criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse
job as president. I think at the time, then that was on the heels
of all of the Clinton investigations, and judge
Cavanaugh had been very closely involved with the writing of the
ken Starr report, the more salacious parts. Some Democrats
say all of that shows President Trump is basically choosing
somebody who would have his back should an investigation become
well, the top priority, but in that same piece, Judge Cavanaugh
also wrote this. If the President does something
dastardly. The impeachment process is available. dastardly
Gretton. So
that was my ISO dastardly. No, I thought that would be a great no
show. So it doesn't cut it by the foamer. But so there's ship
ship ship.
Well, let's talk about this for a second. This is an example of
a human you can look at this from two perspectives. One, this
guy was involved in a whitewater investigation and came up with
the decision that this sort of thing shouldn't go on while the
guys precedent should go on afterwards, especially small
little diddly suits, little lawsuits over this and that you
can't have that right. President needs to be buffered from that
and he can get easily not going to be there forever saying do
something after he's out there because he saw what was
happening to Clinton, you know, is wasn't helping the presidency
at all. And he was a witness to
it because he was aware of it, but just You're right. So again,
we have to look at this from multiple dimensions. He actually
was trying to help a Democratic president
At the time, though he was on the STARR investigation site he
was but he wrote in defense, that this should not happen.
Right? Yeah. So that would be pro Democratic President
Clinton?
I would say yes. Okay. All right.
That this is what makes it
true. There was water under the bridge, because there's nothing
you could do about it at the time, but he saw witnessed it
because he was part of the whole thing. And he saw it was not, it
wasn't helping the country. If they mean, it's eventually,
eventually, like they like he said there was the impeachment
process that you could always fall back on. And you could do
that with anybody.
Yeah. You don't have to leave when you're impeached. It's just
like a vote of no confidence. Like, we hate you. Okay.
You have to leave when you're impeached?
That's a good question. Because no one's ever been fully
impeached. You always get it always goes through. Connie
never gets it never gets confirmed by the Senate,
as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, exactly. The Senate you still
have to go through the process of having the majority of the
Senate and the administration and the Vice President everybody
has to say get out. Yeah, no, no, you still you still go back
to the Constitution. The impeachment is just it's just a
political thing. As far as I know. It's just like we don't
like you. And then once you
look it up. Ah,
I always have to do this
okay, little fast little phone there. You can look it up real
quick.
You're gonna be like that impeachment process whereby a
legislative body formerly levels charges against the high
official of government. Let me see us impeachment. A kick the
United States should Okay. process at the federal level,
the impeachment process is two step procedure. Here we go. The
House of Representatives must first pass by simple majority of
those President voting articles of impeachment, which constitute
the formal allegation or allegations upon passes, the
defendant has been impeached. Next, the Senate tries the
accused. In the case of the impeachment of a president, the
Chief Justice of the United States presides over the
hearings for the impeachment of any other official constitution
is on silent and who shall preside suggesting this role
falls to the Senate's usual presiding officer, which would
be the vice president who presides over the Senate to
convict an accused, the concurrence of two thirds of the
members present is required. That'll never happen. No
conviction removes the defendant from office, following
conviction, the Senate may vote to further punish the individual
barring him or her from holding office in the future, etc. Says
banking so exactly the impeachment process in less
whatever he did or does is so egregious that everybody's on
board is to just is unlikely to happen. But it's in there.
Luckily, it's in there. So it's possible if need be.
Well, if the guy let's imagine a president who is a unstoppable,
flasher.
And so everywhere he goes and everything he does, he's
dropping his pants and then doing a jig or something,
fall under the mental capacity and they can get him out that
well
that you could probably get him away get we'll get him up with
20 people. Well, let's say that his is, let's say that the
entire cabinet, because it has to be the cabinet are a bunch of
perverse and they thought this is fabulous. So they couldn't
get rid of him so they could impeach him. I think under those
circumstances, especially if he went naked in front of the
Senate,
you don't have to do the impeachment process. You can
just go through what is it? What's in Article Two? You just
have to get the the three three core three quarters majority and
the Vice President and the cabinet and they can also the
cabinet. I just said I just preface it the cabinet are a
bunch of perverts that will not do
Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. Right. So then you have to go through
impeachment? Yes.
So they go through impeachment. He's naked the whole time
around. And this is going over well. So then he goes to Sean
Hannity. We're live now with the President. Mr. President,
and so that's the only circumstance they're gonna get
two thirds majority in the Senate.
Right. Pass pass it on to Maxine. So she knows. Well,
let's just talking about the constitution. We have JEFFREY
TOOBIN, who I believe is a constitutional scholar. I don't
think so. He presents himself that way. And he's a writer, you
know, how people always like to interpret the Constitution by
saying well, back then, you know, they never envisioned AR
fifteens. Now, they never envision the internet now. No
way that JEFFREY TOOBIN when it comes to the Supreme Court, he's
got his own version of this.
This isn't like last year's fight. This is the fight of
Basically the future of the Supreme Court for the next 40
years. For the next 40 years, possibly, absolutely. I mean,
these are young
people want how old how old, which is you're gonna throw that
bullcrap out. How old is this guy?
Well, this is a tube and this is a lead into tubing. No, I'm
talking about how old is the nominee? Oh, 48.
I believe. I think he's 50.
Okay. Well, I
don't know. I mean, we have to look him up cheese. I mean, we
can't just keep throwing stuff on unless we know
well that stop asking questions without knowing the answer. Why
are we lazy
today?
We're not lazy. It's just we don't have answers. That's all
it needs. How do you spell the Gators from 1965? He's 5252. So
then, so you're telling me he's going to be on the Supreme
Court? When he's 92 years old? You're telling me to bend?
Well, no, that's not Toobin.
To me. I don't care of his turban or the other guy. What is
this 40 year meme. This was the Democrats.
You'll like to even better
and these are young Durance people, you know, when the
Constitution was written in the 70s. And in the late 18th
century, people were expected to die in their 50s. The framers
never contemplated that these terms would regularly go to 30
plus years as they do now. Oh, really.
So the framers, the founding fathers of our nation, had no
idea, not from historical perspective or vision that
people would live longer in the future. That's basically what
he's saying, which I think is an insult.
Well, it's not only an insult, but let's say take a look at a
couple of different people. Just just randomly go with one of my
brother and Franklin. Yes. How old was he when he died? It
doesn't say immediately in office to do was born in 1706.
And he died in 1790. So he was at what 84. So Ben Franklin was
84 when he died. And I think you can take a lot of these guys and
find that many of them lived in their 80s. And probably in their
90s. This is bullcrap.
It's interesting when when I told my mom, I was divorcing my
first wife. She said her response was kind of epic. He
says, Well, you know, Adam, when they made up that till death do
us part crap. People died at 40. So I thought it was an
interesting interpretation. But yeah, Ben Franklin clearly was
around. Now it's bullshit. But but that that's the that's the
level of information people are getting. Like, well, you know,
this, maybe we should get rid of the Supreme Court. Maybe that's
what he's what isn't coming next for him. All I know is that
people are entirely under informed, misinformed. And
virtue signal in many different ways. The adult under 40
population is despicable. Now, this is man on the street, which
is easy to edit. We always mock the man on the street interviews
because you can just pull out of the way you want. This was done
by campus reform. And they went on the streets, I think was a
University College University in New York. And they asked people
about President Trump's pick for the Supreme Court before he had
picked it. Which is which, so you're not how it works. I mean,
Jimmy Kimmel does this only Kimmel didn't do this one, which
makes it that much better. So Kennedy had announced that he
was retiring. Trump says, I'm going to pick somebody and these
guys go out from campus reform and go ask the millennials
adults under 40 What do you think of the President's new pic
thing? The big thing has been in the news today Supreme Court
Justice Kennedy stepping down so there's a vacancy all week
people were worried about who was going to be this week he
made his announcement what's your reaction to the justice
that he nominated that
I'm honestly not surprised by his choice but that just worse
for us? I just saw the pic and I was like, like it's almost at a
point where you kind of expect that some it's not going to be
what you want. He's
quite extreme in his views. And I don't know if it would make
the Supreme Court very even
I see it all over the news that like he's he's like, racist and
shit.
This new like nominee is very racist, I think is starting a
new wave. Something something very negative, and I'm really
scared about what happened in the future and my choices he'll
make.
So what reaction have you seen on social media today after the
news?
Oh, outrage as it shouldn't be.
If this is just a reoccurring thing, he keeps doing this with
different positions and just doing whatever he wants abusing
his power.
Do you feel like his pick is an abuse of power
base Yeah, his entire cabinet and everyone who's chosen has
been the white supremacist Legion of doom. And it's
dangerous. Everyone who looks like me.
You feel like this Supreme Court nominee today kind of falls in
that same line. They should all wear white
hoods and burn crosses at the Capitol because that's exactly.
That's exactly the move. That's what they're going for
the fact that you would put someone up there that is so
racist is not practicing the quality that we need to see.
Again, it's insulting, and it's, he's not going to last. I mean,
I'm
not a fan of the pic.
I'm really not
I did speak to my dad a couple days ago, I didn't know he he
was not a huge fan of the decision that he made with your
message President Trump on what qualities you would want a
Supreme Court justice to have? Black,
a black woman?
Is it wrong, though, to to suggest someone be picked just
on the color of their skin, though?
I mean, but I said black woman for a reason. Black women were
the only ones who really turned out in full, full full majority
to not vote for President Trump.
And it just went on and on and on. So the
I mean, if you're confronted with this microphone, the thing
you first thing you say is, I don't know who the pick is.
Because you don't. Because it wasn't picked at the time. I
mean, this this inability for this group of people, and it's
not all of them, but many of them to admit that they don't
know something. Yes. This is the Well, I think, I think is that
what do you think is gonna happen? What is gonna be? Oh, I
think this I think that's why I kept insisting for example, when
we don't quite know something, we have to look it up on the
spot and write you on? Because we're not of that ilk was well,
I don't know. So I'm gonna make it up, which is what these guys
are doing. Now that you brought that clip up of the stupidity, I
have to bring a clip in from 2007. Okay, and the reason I put
in this clip, and it's because there's a clip I call for every
once awhile, you can never find it. And this is the 2007 clip,
just a reminder of the education system. This is the Miss Teen
USA, Miss South Carolina answer to a stupid question about why
can't people, Americans how come Americans cannot find the United
States on a map?
Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the US
on a world map. Why do you think this is?
I personally believe that us Americans are unable to do so.
Because sama people out there and our nation don't have
bounce. And I believe that our education like such as South
Africa and the Iraq everywhere, like such as and I believe that
they should. Our education over here in the US should help the
US I should help South Africa. It should help their Asian
countries. So we will be able to build up our future. Thank you
very much, South Carolina.
Man, that was back when it was good.
Classic,
you're so right. We're all doing
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show my school by donating to no agenda. Imagine all the people
who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fun
Yeah, we do have a few people leftover that need to be
credited for helping produce the show and we're gonna name them
one at a time within the math they gave us starting with Blake
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Boom. Hey, meetup coming. The keepers in charge. Austin meetup
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We will have a website up. Thanks to Adam horn swaddling
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Well, it should be speeding up. I will say this is when I
mentioned the people out there who haven't donated for a while
the total number of people we mentioned today total including
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July 19. No agenda meetup in Ontario. And that is right
before the Jordan B Peterson talk at the Sony center tickets
are still available for that come on. Oh yeah.
And the meetup will be right across the street. Yes, meet
in the bar maybe grab a bite with other no agenda fans in the
1930s Paris meets fresh London cool Bistro. Experience a slice
of European enchantment at biFs bistro am i doing a live read
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knights bring your rings bring friends you want to hit in the
mouth. And that I might as well pre promote the South Lake Tahoe
no agenda meetup, July 29. These are important by the way this is
very important to what we do. And I appreciate people self
organizing into doing this.
They do need a little about parents some coaching on some
things that they do wrong, but well that's that's why Mimi's
gonna do it. Yeah, apparently she is. Now one of the things
that And we should note is that the reason you want these
meetups is because you get to meet like minded people who will
not suck your your karma out of you just stupid arguments about
stuff that is not worth arguing about. Right? I've gotten more
comments when I gone through a number of these, obviously, I've
had a few of them, you know, centered around me. And the
thing I noticed that everybody likes, they like each other to
do on first glance. So when they meet, they have good
conversations, and they all feel very comfortable. Because
there's not you know, we're not dealing with just the general
population.
Truly, it truly is. I hate to say it, it truly is a safe
space. It is. It's a safe space, and what I'm what always amazes
me with the meetups is and I think this may be universal. You
look at someone's like, Ha, I never thought that kind of
person would be a no agenda listener. Yeah, seriously. And
then you're like, oh, yeah, very like minded Americans may be in
general are a lot like that, although I find a lot of that in
Europe to very open, but you know, maybe just not able to
discuss things openly in your work or place or your family or
it's very, it's a lot of fun to come to one of these. And as
we've learned from the last connections book, it really
helps against depression and all kinds of other psychological
disorders, you need to meet people. And I think today's
environment, no matter where you stand with any opinion, you're
afraid to give it in a group do you don't know. But if I say
this, and someone might ridicule me, or get tossed out or
whatever happens, whatever happens, you don't have this
ridicule. There's nobody there that doesn't have the, you know,
it's just a great place where even in the England where we
had, you know, another variety huge variety of people that that
liked, that were show mavens. It was just, it was just
fascinating to run into all these guys, because some of you,
you're right, you'd look at and say, Wow, this guy's probably
hates this show. It looks of him. But no, not true.
Not true at all, that it's great fun. And I'm looking forward to
the Austin one.
Although I will say this. There's an inner me, we do have
all these Eagle Scouts and marines and all these different
guys and with a good variety of women. There is an inordinate
basket basket binders of women we have
there's an inordinate number of dudes named Ben.
Yes. And dudettes.
Yeah, and dudettes. But it's just like a little, I would say
at least 40% of the audience is white at these meetups. It
doesn't have to be able to meet up. That's because
we respect them because we we have worked in corporate
environments. We respect dudes named Ben, we know they actually
run the world we have hams like to think they're going to save
the world when the Armageddon hits. But you know, it's going
to be the dudes named Ben who, coincidentally off in our hands
as well. But they keep the world running and they're always
disrespected and seen as lowly douchebags who just smell bad.
That's like being a writer in Hollywood, the writers always
pushed aside that idea.
Yeah. And it's just someone that you know, is there to help you
retrieve your password when you have your caps lock on. I mean,
that's basically what they're for. Whereas here the no agenda
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Stories actually have three local stories. One is about the
Apple Car project being stolen by the Chinese. Oh, you know
about that? No, let's listen to
five corporate espionage and engineer accused of stealing
secrets from the world's largest tech company. The FBI stopped
him in his tracks at moneta International Airport the data
in
question Apple's very secretive, autonomous car project. API X
fives Melissa Kane joins us now with how it all unfolded.
Melissa, Liz and Ken here documents filed in federal court
tell a gripping story about the race to make the best autonomous
cars and one man who the Fed say tried to take a shortcut. On a
sunny Saturday, Shaolin Jiang bought one plane ticket from San
Jose to hang out China leaving immediately he went through
security at Terminal B. And that's when FBI agents arrested
him for allegedly stealing secrets from the world's largest
tech company. KPI x five security analyst Jeff Harper, a
former FBI agent says companies spend big on research and
development so
if somebody breaches that trust, they're gonna go after him.
Now James joined Apple in 2015 to work on the autonomous
vehicles project. According to court documents. The details of
Apple's research and development for the project is a closely
guarded secret that has never been publicly revealed. The FBI
says in April of this year, Zhang went to China The weekend
before he was supposed to return to work. He downloaded massive
amounts of confidential information and documents,
including documents that show prototypes and prototype
requirements. On Monday, Zhang went to his supervisor and said
he was quitting. He was going to work for a competitor, a Chinese
company called Xiao Peng motors, Apple escorted him out of the
building. And the next day, Apple learned that Jiang had
already taken reams of data documents and equipment and the
cats
out of the bag. I mean, at some point, Apple realizes that
they're under damage control mode. Now, the FBI
did get involved and searched Jane's house on June 27 10 days
later, he bought that one ticket for a same day flight to China.
HARP says that when a person is under investigation, buying an
international ticket is a red flag.
And if they see that you've bought an immediate ticket to
hightail it out of the country. Chances are they're gonna say
hello to you at the gate when you get there.
Now Jiang was arrested and charged with one count of
stealing trade secrets. And today a federal judge set his
bail at $300,000 and ordered him to turn over his passport.
Wow. So
you didn't get that story there. Now, this is another this is a
Chinese espionage story.
I read a story about Apple in China, that there was something
wrong with I guess the most here's what happened. The most
recent iOS update someone of course, saw stuff and they
figured out what had been updated. And apparently Apple
had coded something in in a Chinese version of the iOS or
certain localized versions that you could not type in Taiwan and
have the flag pop up. You know how the apples
and they're uptight about that
right then but then it was it was crashing applications. Here
in the US. When you type in Taiwan, the minute you hit the
last the end, it would crash. I don't know. It's a mess. Yeah,
who cares about Apple self driving car? I don't care. I
don't want it to call me old fashioned gear Luddite? Yes.
Well, of course, I'm a Luddite. I've driven the semi autonomous
and I want nothing to do with it. But that's not as
interesting to me as the Juan brothers, which you know, we
only briefly touched on it and want to talk about it. Well,
this this guy basically got off with a slap on the wrist for the
bank fraud. Because but there was so much more going on so
much more reported and the right No one's while Fox News is
reporting on it. Specifically this Luke, Rosie ACK of The
Daily Caller, I have some respect for The Daily Caller.
Their foundation and they have a lot of the right ideas. Of
course, I will not support them because they're also part of the
Facebook news factcheck false system, the International fact
check networks, I want nothing to do with them. But the guy he
got to hand it to him he has been on the story and it's not
stop. And if you just hear how much is is still open and in
question. It's It's stunning that this is not big news. And
that that's the only thing I will agree on with him. But have
a listen, there was a
breach on Congress a hack on Congress during the election
detected by the House inspector general where these guys were
funneling data off the House network. And then they actually
stole a server containing evidence that's essentially like
killing someone and then had in the body during the election.
This happened. Correct. And we never heard about this.
Obviously, this would have been a massive this would have
changed the election. We're talking about Russia all the
time. And meanwhile, there's a simultaneous hack that's firstly
identical, connected to Pakistan. So for the last year,
we've been trying to unravel this cover up and figure out we
know the data is going off the House network. Where's it going?
We now have a source and on the record source, the the one
family's business partner in Pakistan, a guy named Rashid
minus who says that Imran Juan's father was giving USBs of data
to Pakistani intelligence officials. If that's true, then
what we're talking about here is a spy in Congress that was
brought in by Debbie Wasserman Schultz and these other
lawmakers. As you mentioned, we had a really smart reporter a
guy named Majeed Ali siete from Pakistan, who knows the lay of
the land over there, and he did extensive reporting trying to
confirm these allegations. We weren't able to confirm one way
or another whether there was really USB handoffs, but we on
Earth information that tends to corroborate some of what this
guy is saying? Well, we've confirmed from numerous sources
that Imran Hwan travels Pakistan with an entourage of armed
government agents from Pakistan, he receives protection from
Pakistani agents why why would you not have that? Yeah. The
other thing we confirmed is that he makes these outlandish boasts
over in Pakistan to everyone he meets about his political power,
even saying he has the power to change the US President. So when
we consider the fact that we have we know data was going off
the House network, and even the fact that he worked for Debbie
Wasserman Schultz, when this DNC emails were taken. You put it
all together, and what we're talking about is really
frightening stuff. Okay,
yeah. He's not the only part of the one family who worked for
Debbie Wasserman Schultz or the DNC.
They had the whole family on the house payroll, and you know,
even Senator Joe Donnelly from Indiana, he's somehow involved
in this because he was paid 100 bucks to the father of Imran
Juan to be a systems administrator. The father is an
old man in Pakistan, who says in court documents that he's an
unemployed religious cleric on welfare,
where are they now? And what is Debbie Wasserman Schultz said
about this? And where's this missing laptop as well?
The amazing thing is that they haven't been. They're not in
jail. There's a whole family of five of them. Two of them were
charged with trying to flee the country, essentially. But they
weren't actually charged with the underlying with the
underlying hacking. And so what happened is, Wasserman Schultz
refused to fire this guy. When she when he was a known suspect
and the criminal hacking probe. She insisted on allowing him to
keep coming into the house building, which is obviously
completely bizarre. It's frankly irrational given that she had
just been fired from the DNC. So what he does is he comes into
the house building at midnight, after he's a criminal hacking
suspect takes her laptop and leaves it in a phone booth. This
is like straight out of James Bond. And the twist is he left a
little note next to it. The first note was letters to
prosecutors. And then the second thing was a note that said
attorney client privilege.
So here's a challenge to our dudes named Ben, you all know
each other. Find out this is this is a sysadmin issue. You
need to know we need to know
I think this is a spook operation at this point. It's to
all isI not isI spook. I'm talking about one of our guys
painting it is the only thing that makes any sense it's are
that everything was covered up is hushed up. I think it would
these guys were brought in to spy on someone as part of some
something we don't know I mean there we can't find out it's one
of these things and the guys who were shuffled off they were
extracted and sent back to Pakistan for now and there's
nobody pursuing it because it's like, you know, they get the
phone call saying hey, you can't proceed because this is national
security. You know, just knock it off.
Yeah, we don't have to send around D notices here in the in
America. We just we just call you know, okay, both. That's our
press freedom right there. Press Freedom so important, so
important that the President is going to meet with Putin. Oh
boy. Even Shep Smith is upset about this one. So I have
NATO. I have the UK which is in somewhat turmoil. And I have
Putin. Frankly, Putin may be the easiest of all who would think
who would think
he may be right? After all, President Trump has been
demanding our NATO allies spend more on defense and questioning
why the United States is protecting Germany. But when it
comes to Putin, NATO's main adversary, the man who ordered
the meddling in our election, invaded Ukraine and took over
Crimea. Oh, the former KGB agent who stands accused of poisoning
a former spy in England and murdering journalists and his
own political opponents. Of him President Trump recently said
Putin is fine. In fact, aides say President Trump and Putin
plan to sit down in a room with no advisors and no transcribers
only their translators. Of course, NATO was created to
protect the European nations from Russian aggression. Never
in our nation's history. No has a reality like that existed
SpaceForce you're gonna say something
protect him from Soviet Union? Yeah, yeah,
you're right. You're right. Soviet Union, we have to stay on
top of that. And you're absolutely right. They actually,
we think it's very important what we do, of course, but when
it really comes down to do people really care. Are people
really, really worried about doing follow the Mueller
investigation? Or is it all just one big thing on Twitter?
I take your earlier clip with the idiots that don't know
anything. Just spewing their their personal bigotries? Pretty
much, I think summarizes what you just asked.
Okay, and I think I can add a little a little bit on top of
that. Big fan of the show Jeopardy. love watching
Jeopardy. That's where the smart people go. You'd think
and I'll take Russia meddling for 1000 Alex, only the smartest
of the smart get to be on Jeopardy. Right. So what does
this little exchange last night say about the nation's focus or
lack thereof on the whole Mueller Russia meddling and
collusion investigation?
In 2017, this ex National Security Adviser pleaded guilty
to lying to the FBI.
John, do you know the answer?
Yeah, that'd be Flynn.
I'm sorry. Oh, I'm so sorry. You didn't answer in the form of the
question. Who is Flynn,
lying to the FBI? Suzanne was Kelly. No. Steve,
it was Gorka. No, Gorka.
I would bomb on Jeopardy but I get that one right the answer?
Who is Michael Flynn
That's how important it is. Nobody knows nothing.
And these are the Jeopardy people on Jeopardy or
short as Jeopardy man. Jeopardy. I can never watch the show
again. Okay, get
it Kardashian question right. Yeah, no kid. Okay. Another
local story. I wonder this is almost an ask Adam is not quite
wants you to play this Bart is not safe clip. Okay.
Tomorrow Bart planners are expected to discuss two options
for early morning service. That's because BART trains are
scheduled to start an hour later next year. Starting in February
Bart service will begin at 5am instead of 4am. This is an order
to give crews more time to make the underwater transbay tube
earthquake safe. Tomorrow the BART Board of Directors will
hear competing proposals.
Okay,
I cut it off. Because when they met they put this tube in really
recently within my you know, I and it wasn't saved or made
earthquake proof when it was put in.
Are you kidding me? So it's not an old old thing. It's new.
Yes, it wasn't put in the 1920s or anything. So they put this
thing in in there now they're gonna make it. It doesn't make
sense to me that they were they they just either bought a
boondoggle as a waste of money, or just store the thing is a
disaster. I did I find it very
weird. Don't take the BART would be my advice at all.
So we have another another story when they Bush brings me the
boondoggles and you one more local story. I want you to
listen carefully to this story and tell me if you think there's
some screw boss information in here. This is the cost of
graffiti in San Francisco.
This is really putting together a very complex case. It was
easier for us to go to a grand jury In terms of the scope of
the work,
the district attorney's office says the city spends in excess
of $20 million a year getting rid of graffiti and businesses
pay more than $3,300 on average to clean up a major incident
they busted a bunch of graffiti guys just doing a lot of tagging
and making a mess. But do you think any city spends $23
million to clean up a few tags here and there? I don't know. I
mean, I
know they spend 20 million on cleaning up poop
I think it's a scam they're not spending that kind of money to
clean up graffiti and what's the city spending it for? I thought
most of them the business owner takes 20 $3,300 to clean up one
incident how many incidents are there and that's the business
owners responsible he's been scraping it off the window
whenever
there's about 900 incidents
well there could be but then it's still this that's not the
city's responsibility is the city do they only do your work
just fine this number to be outrageous really
worked up about this
is California this is another local another local scam.
They're just stealing money from the public.
John you live in California. Yes, that's where all your money
gets stolen all the time.
It's completely it's a rip off the total revenue for the
weather.
Yeah, exactly. That's what Scott Adams always says. Have you seen
the weather? All right, bro. All right, listen to this. Tell me
what's wrong with this report
who are feeling overworked nearly four in 10 American
workers are working two jobs Some say they do it for extra
spending money but financial website bankrate.com Found 38%
of people with second jobs are working extra just to make ends
meet
they can afford to cover their ordinary living expenses so that
they do need that extra source of income.
The study also found men are earning three times more than
women in those side jobs but they say that could be because
they're putting in more hours in a second gig
what was wrong with that report?
I don't know I lost you know is it was it wandered off in such a
way that I want you to play it again.
I'll just play the play the second half is it the end was
not playing all you are feeling
over? They can't afford to cover their ordinary living expenses
so that they do need that extra source of income
study also found men are earning three times more than women and
those side jobs but they say that could be because they're
putting in more hours in a second gig.
I mean, hello, Sherlock. Men are earning more because they work
more hours that might be the reason they literally just said
that
yeah, that's what he said. Yes,
if you put in more hours you're gonna make more money.
But that's someone else doing it via Well, women should get paid
the same amount yes
for
doing less I guess somehow it's income disparity. I don't know.
I just thought it was an odd
choice to this story. They just made it fit their agenda. You're
right.
Yes. All right. Anything for us. Before we go
I've got the I got the stupid clip I've had for a while.
Reasons that they have this always stop the presses. We're
going to expose why people are having less babies. Why are
so many Americans having fewer babies the US birth rate at a
record low for the second year in a row. A new survey by the
New York Times says the top reason is childcare is too
expensive. Others said they wanted more time for the kids
they already have and a third factor fears about the economy.
No no no dogs.
We know the true answer to that. It's because dogs are people too
and they're less expensive.
Yeah, and they die earlier. Yes.
Leaving you time and your golden years is an empty nester.
problem solve an empty doghouse,
sir. That's right.
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No agenda stream.com is where you can always Listen Live.
We'll do it again on Sunday. No doubt we will have some zingers
from the struck questioning
the little show that that you'd like to easy to do not to do it.
Yeah. And there's gonna be some good stuff in there. Someone
getting all huffy and puffy. And who knows what could happen?
Today's a show day. Anything can happen these days. We'll be here
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