soaked nuts, Adam courage John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday,
December 27 2012. Time for your Gitmo nation media assassination
episode 473. This is no agenda officially suffering from PPV
nos am coming to you from Gibbon nation lowlands day 21 living in
exile in Amsterdam in the morning everybody. I'm Adam
curry
and from Northern northern northern Silicon Valley I'm John
C. Dvorak.
You're still up there still in the northern northern hazing.
Yes, but true. How was your band was good because I got this one
gift.
Okay, what you got one gift and one gift only.
Now I got a bunch of gifts but I got one gift. All right.
All right. Roll it out. What is it? Wait a minute. I thought we
already is that a different police siren you've got now.
Not a siren. What is it? Wow. It's an Uber it was actually not
an eagle Hertz. It's just a horn here. That's smelling a siren or
this mic is terrible. And
does this does this somehow confirm for you that your family
members love you? It's always had like one of those with a
bulb on the end?
Yeah, yeah. It's got a bow.
Wow. Was that the theme this year? It's like hey, what do I
get data? I just came some sound effects and it's stupid podcast.
I got this too.
They gave him an old bedframe what is that?
That's an old is one of these old things he used to use in
radio. I guess it's a Yeah. It sounds like a storm or
is it vintage? Or is it a recreation from China? I
think it's a recreation personally. It's called the
thunder to Oh, that's nice. I don't know where I could use
that as a punch in anything.
I'm very happy for you. Yeah, I'm
sure. I also got a kazoo but the kazoo seems to be
in interesting, well, you know, we get we celebrated Christmas
here in Gitmo nation lowlands in the old country. And I have to
say it was quite a different and somewhat pleasurable experience.
Okay, yeah. Tell me about it.
Well, you know, of course, for the past, God, I don't know how
many years how many years I've been celebrating. And in the
States, five, six years, at least nonstop. Of course, it's
the Bogut of holiday. It's all about commerce and buying people
crap from China. And you know, we so Mickey has kind of an
extended family here that she grew up with. And you know, the
guys that kind of are kind of like her brothers. And so they
had in one of them invited us to his house in The Hague and his
brother came in from Singapore, which actually have some
interesting information I got from him talk about later on.
And it was really, so the opposite of the the Christmases
I'm used to Yeah, there was the tree. And there were a couple of
presents for the kids. But it wasn't like this big commercial
thing. And you know, do you guys read the night before Christmas
and your house by any chance? No. This is not like an uncommon
thing in America. Is we have the night before Christmas. Ever
heard of it? You've never heard of The Night Before Christmas?
No, I've heard it the night before Christmas. I've never
heard of any bunch of corn balls sitting around the camera light
reading it. Yeah,
this is very normal. very abnormal. Yeah. But the night
before Christmas, is of course a book about you know, the
children were all, you know, tucked into their beds and
snuggled with care, whatever, you know, with dreams that say
Nicola Sturgeon would be there to give us all kinds of goodies
and crap. So the whole story is about getting getting stuff. You
know, it's a sweet story, but it's about getting stuff. And I
had never met. So there's a story that this family does, but
apparently a lot of families read this particular story. And
it comes from Sweden. I had never heard of it before. It's a
very long story. It's not like in America, we're good. You
know, we get commercial to the point short, you know, a couple
of pictures. You're done open up your gift before you go to bed.
Now this is the little troll. Do you ever heard of this story?
This about the little troll that wanted to become a human being?
It's about Obama.
No, it's the little troll who wanted to become a human being
and and discovered that the way to become a human was to help
other people and he helps this little girl and then his life
changes in the venue eventually becomes it's kind of a mixture
between the Grinch Who Stole Christmas and Pinocchio in a way
in a weird way. Only with trolls. And it was just trolls
the does he finally get on Twitter?
It was really nice John. I have to say it was kind of a non
bring a tear to your eyes.
Did it did bring it Yeah. It did bring a tear to my eye. What is
that wrong? Is that so wrong? I guess so. Anyway, that was there
was a hilarious moment here in in the lowlands, a great Bogut
of PR moment there. There are a couple going on that I'm sure
we'll get to. But every year in, in in the Netherlands, the Queen
does a speech. And of course, no one cares about this speech,
obviously, I think maybe some really older people. Like okay,
let's see what the Queen has to say. So they hired a new PR
firm, I have no idea who it is. And they came up with the
classic. So if you have a tape speech by the Queen, which is
supposed to air on Christmas day, at one o'clock, but you
know that people are not going to be interested. But yet you
have some information you need to program them with like, I
don't know, like Europe, like how great Europe is. What do you
do in this day of, of online web based interactive social media?
How do you get some some PR going, John, what I mean, we
could have come up with this one, by the way. Any ideas?
School shooting?
You're on a roll today? No, no, no. Somebody, of course, was
able to somehow decipher the incredibly complicated way that
the the speech was already stored on the internet site on
the server and he finds it a day early. Oh, so that then I was
better finding the DVD or suddenly under the seat of the
subway.
Right. And you know, those guys, you know, it was a marketeer, a
new media marketeer. And he found and he tweets This tweet
is like breaking, breaking. I just found the Queen's speech.
It's unbelievable how I found that after I'm sure the tea was
sent the URL. And then of course, the news media can pick
this up. Oh my god. It's unbelievable that the Queen's
speech has already been revealed before it's been on television.
And let us tell you, she's talking about Europe and how you
we are Europe and Europe is awesome. We are the world. And
it was just really a fun moment to see a boatload of PR move
done in that way here in the in the lowlands for the royal
family who are clearly moving into the 21st century with this.
This action of theirs.
I like it. Good idea. Yeah. Yeah, you're right, because
nobody's gonna listen to the thing, but they'll listen to a
leaked version.
Yeah. And it's the same with this just came out today. You
saw this Randi Zuckerberg, who was Zuk Zuk QSA. Was it is his
sister Sister? So she tweeted a photo? Or did she tweet it or
put on Facebook, it doesn't really matter. And it's an it's
a photo of the family and Xbox in the kitchen. And she's really
angry about this being re posted or whatever. But it's clear.
It's a blatant promotion for the brand new Facebook game known as
poke, which is a standalone app came out I guess, just
yesterday. It was like oh, and she's really angry that someone
that someone read reposted this picture where her family is in
the kitchen, playing the game poke because there was a little
sub, that little caption to it, and they're all laughing and
they look like they're having a glorious time because it's such
an awesome game. It's so obvious that this is a promotional
stunt.
These things sickened me to be honest about it.
Why did they stick in you? Because I
mean we have because it's just a complete scam. And it's it's
just in the riq it reeks of so much insincerity that the Oh,
I'm so upset by this and that kind of thing. It just really
bothers me that people have to resort to this sort of thing.
Well, it works. I mean, you know, everyone's talking about
that's what bothers.
That's the worst part because it just gets some attention amongst
people that can't think for themselves. I don't know.
Whenever you get a leak like that or something, you have
something so, so obvious. It's just like, ah, but have you ever
seen this picture of of the Zuckerberg exam? You have to
Google it real quick. Just Google Randi Zuckerberg kitchen
photo, and you'll see when the Zuckerberg is Randy with an eye
angle
kitchen will make a difference and Oh really?
Okay. And then you'll see that they're all sitting around the
table laughing this hilarious this game is awesome. It looks
like they're playing the best game in the universe. You got
it.
But for some reason the images aren't killed there. There she
is yucking it up.
It's fun. It's like the whole family and Xbox in the corner.
Like overseeing how much these people love their brand new game
I'm trying to save to what there's a there's some. Okay, so
who took the picture? There's 123 Currently she
apparently she took it. I don't I don't know if she's I don't
know what she looks like. I don't know if she's in the
picture. But this is the picture
looks kind of like her in the middle there.
But I mean that thing stage I mean, can't you like what family
is doing this? With a with a with a poke game just
conveniently brand new it's so awesome. Oh, how does this game
even work?
You're wondering now you they got it worked once again. Like
you know what the dishes salsa is doing there and there's no
chips.
It's funny because I was doing that too. I was like, does he
head because you know he's so well known for shooting his own
food. I'm like Where's where's the venison? It's got to be
around somewhere. I was doing the same thing investigating.
Looking at the photo investigating the food.
The kitchen would say something from a Four Seasons Hotel is
just barren.
Yeah, guy has no class he's got no style we think in
the middle. I mean, this sink in the middle is I don't know.
Something that's right. Anyway, man. It was something very well
yeah, I got a Santa Claus clip. I'm a little annoyed about the
whole thing. I'm beginning to seem like a like a bah humbug
Yeah, but this this I'm wondering if this is good or bad
to be doing stories like this which are just so bogus, which
is ridiculous. But complaint my Santa Claus clips,
and has big night he and his reindeer entourage will travel
around the world. So while you wait for the arrival of Father
Christmas, why not keep an eye on his annual journey. A team of
volunteers at the North American Air Command has been making that
possible for 57 years. Captain Jeff Davis is a spokesperson for
NORAD in called Colorado Springs.
I'm looking at him on live radar. We've got him passing
over Daraa Salaam, Tanzania, and headed in the direction of
Nairobi, Kenya. He's delivered about 2.4 billion gifts so far.
He's about a third of the way done with his journey. And he'll
be headed over towards Canada, North America.
Please really just listen to the whole thing. Is there a big
payoff at the end? Tell me.
You should just listen to the whole thing. It's not that long
here. Not to not as an aviator, it's
painful to late tonight. This is serious business. How do you
keep track of him? He seems to be going so fast. He gets
around.
Let me tell you, we're good. In fact, just a couple of weeks
ago, NORAD and the US Canadian team here in Colorado, track the
launch of a North Korean tape odan missile. That's a lot of
the same tools that we use to track everything from infrared
detecting satellites, ground based radars, radars that are
ships at sea. It's an intricate system. It's all networked
together. And once a year, on the 24th of December, we all
come together and watch it watch Santa as he makes his journey
around the world.
This is the same technology they used to track the North Korean
missile. John, did I hear that properly?
Oh, yeah. Exact gear, same here.
So which one is fake? The North Korean missile or the Santa
Claus? I mean, they've got me. This is
what this was what comes to mind when I see these kinds of
reports. It's like, for let's see, I don't know what would
parents think about my discussing this? Because the
crock of crap that's involved here is got to have some, some
mind bending quality to the youth of the of the America
mostly.
Well, that's why that's why people are easy to believe those
stories. People believe Oh, yeah, NORAD, you know, didn't
understand what they saw on 911. Of course, the whole thing is it
makes total sense. confuse everybody about what's real and
not real with that outfit.
So you have like this, is this not so I'm thinking I'm asking
the question as because this NORAD report was on over and
over again, I couldn't take it. I think it was Canadian CBC, two
of them not mistaken. But they all do this stuff. You know, you
know, here's, we got a report from the barmy bass is like
this, at some point, when you realize that there's a Bogut of,
you know, this is like a lot. There's lies lying to you. When
you realize it, you say Oh, that's interesting. The news
media full of crap. Hey, Andy just make you a better person.
Yeah. Does it make you a better person? I'd like to know you've
come to the realization about the age of 10. Or whenever,
right? That the news media is lying to you. Does that make you
a skeptic? When you get older? Or does it just sat in you? Or
does it? Or do you believe that you does it turn? You're
paranoid? Because now you don't know what to believe? What does
it do?
I think it actually trains you to accept the fact that the news
media must lie to you when necessary. And that it is okay
when they do that.
Because of course, you guys are good when I didn't get it.
That's one interpretation I didn't get. That's the
only thing I can think of. And because we all this has been
going on for 57 years, apparently. So yeah, I think if
anything, it's perfect training. Perfect training. But you're not
against the the concept of, of kids knowing about you know,
believing in Santa Claus. Are you are you one of these? Really
Baja? I mean, oh, wait, don't care
one way or the other. Wait a minute. I'm just concerned about
the effect on the law on the youthful brain. I understand.
But I'm asking you a parental question. Did you keep the force
going with your kids when they were young? Or I'm sorry, I'm
hoping they're not listening, but we're keeping it going
still?
Exactly. Hey, Oh, seriously? Did you did you guys? Like keep it
alive? Did you participate in the ruse and be honest, John,
come on, talk to me.
Watch it. Of course I did. I mean, that's what you do with
kids. It's hilarious.
I don't know. Some people could have unleashes, you know, I'm
just just questioning when we do
that, too. But that's just a kid getting killed in an airport. So
we blame anyone for doing that. But you thought
you think is hilarious to lie to them about Santa Claus? Do you
think that's funny? It's it's supposed to
do you think it's funny? You don't think it's funny that he
had no sense of humor? Of course. I
think it's funny. Now we have your first kid and the kids like
for you know, it's like it's fun, you know? And did you put
the cookies in the milk out? Come on, John, tell me.
My wife always. And I always get up and take a bite out of one.
Of course.
I drew the line at the tooth fairy. I'm like, This is going
too far. This is bullcrap. We can't be doing this. This is too
much.
Did you see what we do with the tooth fairy? We I think we kept
that going. It's a good job. But Bogota. I mean, because kids
brainwaves are different till they're about 14 Anyway, they're
dead. They're actually in a kind of a somnambulistic state.
That's not
word subnet. Normal subnet realistic. Good word. Big word.
Big one big Whopper. Yeah, like that. So they until their brain
starts to adjust to the reality of things as you I guess you can
buffalo overall. I mean, I like to do I still do the magic
tricks? You know, you catch a kid young enough you can make
him think that you know, everything's you know, your
whole idea. Your hand takes very little skill to make stuff
disappear. Like
the bending of the spoon. That's my favorite on the table. Making
things disappear. Look gone. Like the allowance. Oh, look,
the kid your allowance is gone. So I didn't I didn't see it
live. But of course, we had the big Obama's interview Barbara
Walters interviewing the President and the First Lady.
And I only saw I don't know if this is the whole thing. It
could be I saw like eight minutes online. Did you see this
by any chance? Did you in the family huddled around the ABC
television network to to watch the big Barbara Walters
interview with the President of the First Lady.
God no. I decided that we're only getting Canadian TV up
here. I would like oh, by the way, I want to mention
something. Yeah, I did get a number a couple of our producers
even though this is not important anymore. did give me a
sling box link and I want to thank them profusely. But the
thing is, the curious thing is I got I got one in Southern
California that's off most of the time, or at least recently.
But I have what I have the other three I got three they're all in
Michigan. Oh really? I think is weird. And they're even in New
York with a sling box and and give me the code access code to
well we only we only have a few listeners in New York have named
Tanya Of course I don't think she has a sling box. I mean New
York in their in their own kind of vibe there man. They got
their own thing going on. They got no time for us. They got no
commute. That's another thing if you if you're in Manhattan, you
got no commute. You got nowhere to go. So you're not gonna
listen to the show.
When people come in from Connecticut, yeah,
increasingly. So here's three short little clips I just
thought were very very interesting for literally very
short clips, but each of them really very something that has
something very telling about the elitism of the presidency of the
United States of Gitmo nation. This first question is about
what keeps the president up at night. What keeps you up at
night? By the way? Don't you love how she asked the question?
There are times.
stuff keeps me up at night all the time. But you know, the one
good thing is I generally work hard enough during the day, that
by the time I hit my head hits the pillow. I fall right to
sleep. There are certain moments in the night before the bin
Laden raid. They're going to be Oh, really,
the night before the bin Laden raid a. This is bullcrap he was
on. He didn't even know it was going down. They pulled him off
number they had to pull them off the golf course to do this. He
didn't know what was happening the night before.
What do you do? What do you do is full of crap.
Stop clipping the clopping it's not good. All right. Would you
stop that? It's very annoying, because I don't know if you know
what's
weird about that sound effect, which is another device they
gave me. I'll go and finish this. I'll tell you later. It's
not important to sound like crickets. Does it sound like
crickets? It sounds
like you're doing something really annoying is what it
sounds da Yeah. During during the clip even it's annoying.
Don't do it. Wait. All right. So when you have a president who
was talking about, you know, new gun row rules and gun control
and, and all kinds of laws now, because of this horrible so
called shooting that we have no real evidence of. It's kind of
interesting. When he tells you about the reason he was
reelected. He wanted to run for reelection. We joke sometimes
about how I believe is getting the age now and boys start
calling. And sort of I always talk about how one of the main
incentives for running again was continuing Secret Service
protection with guns around at all times.
That's right. I have men with guns around my children all the
time. Which of course is yeah, I said guns didn't need he's
literally said gardens. Which of course is literally the argument
if you look at the the left, right paradigm and pro con, gun
control discussion. And the right in the end, the lobby is
saying well, why don't we have guns protecting our kids? And I
was like, that's crazy, but apparently not for the elites.
Then it's okay then it's all right. But this one this one is
about got me is kind of irk me a little bit as as angry as your
Santa NORAD bullcrap. What is your favorite presidential perk?
What could be John his favorite presidential perk?
I'd say that did Air Force One. Well, the plane Yeah,
I mean, look. It has been a while since I flew commercial.
This is where our running like a Holy Crown and aihole elitist,
but it gets better.
But I remember
I remember I remember when I used to fly commercial. I
haven't forgotten yet. I'm still a normal guy.
Because I used to have to commute every week from DC to
Chicago. And not having to take off your shoes before you get on
a plane. Let me draw let me tell you is probably a pretty good
luxury.
That's a luxury
right there. Let me tell you wait a minute. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
When she said let me tell you that means that she's flying
private jets to
Yeah. Oh, Barbara Walters. Absolutely. But then
that expensive little trip she mentioned in the last show we
did yeah. She's bragging about how much money they're spending
just say get that two second clip from Lindsay Lohan. Yeah,
it wasn't expensive me let me tell you let me tell you but I
took a commercial plane once and it didn't take off my shoes had
people I'd never do it again and
there were citizens everywhere and they were stinking and they
were kids crying let me tell you
pretty good luxury. And then obviously you're never late for
flights because generally the plane doesn't take off without
you
generally
if the other Obama's on my plane without me if the other Obama's
already on board then you know then you're screwed then you get
then you got to go back to the dungeon depends on whoever gets
to the airport first. He's the guy that gets to go I guess if
he did that, that that just kind of got my goat that just like ah
really elite it's just so elite actually was funny there was
because of course we got the big you got the big fiscal cliff
coming up. Oh, hold on a second. I forgot we have to do our By
the end the first lady I guess it was a it must have been pre
taped because they're all hamming it up there in Hawaii on
vacation but she was talking about you know what she does for
the Christmas holidays and what she says at the end here to me
I'm maybe I'm just reading it wrong maybe I'm just overly
sensitive but to me it's a message as to get ready because
this is what you're going to be eaten raw when it comes to the
holidays every year. Well I'm the hostess in chief. We host a
number of events here for a whole range of people it's very
traditional. I mean there's turkey there's you know the
string beans and stuffing or mac and cheese this is a time when I
throw let's move out the window for a moment and get that mac
and cheese everybody deserves their mac and cheese.
You eat it again. Yeah, exactly. So you felt the same thing like
mac and cheese mac and cheese get ready Mac is not going to be
a cat food Christmas mac and cheese after the fiscal cliff
mac and cheese
mac and cheese to so use you slaves can get used to mac and
cheese mac and cheese. Macaroni and Cheese cheddar melted
together or actually buy a box of Kraft it's cheap.
Kraft That's the worst. Mac and cheese mac and cheese mac and
cheese. You got the same thing, right? Ah,
yeah, I think she said the little two little mac and cheese
to Sure you do.
Mac and cheese
and this your mac and cheese. That's annoying. I didn't watch
that. And I'd be in a bad mood.
I'm not in a bad mood. I'm in a good mood. I have to say I know
you're in
a good mood because you got to listen to somebody read you a
fairy tale. I cried. I cried about the troll. Poor little
troll he finally gave to became a person.
I bet that your family right now is listening to this. No,
they're not. If they were listening to this program,
they'd be like all in bed.
How come? How come John can be more like Adam and sensitive,
sensitive male crying or the throne? He really is. So I've
discovered something here though. People are you know,
they're Oh, man. It's very hard, of course, to be here to talk
about anything. You know, like what we do is because you know,
where no matter where you are. Inevitably people say Hey, so
what do you do? And this is like, and this is the dreaded
question. Yeah. Yeah, you know, I do podcasts and then. Oh,
really? Oh, what's it about? And that's where you know, I'm at
and then I've really got to think who do I have in front of
me? How much time do I have? And how much annoyance? Am I willing
to bear to explain me you got to you like friends and family?
Hey, Google, no agenda, Google no agenda and how but you
you're stuck in situations and they're like, Well, what's it
about this no agenda. And
what is about it is what it is, I don't know, I didn't get out
of this pretty easily.
But someone came up and said something to me that I thought
was quite interesting. Particularly in light of my ham
radio experience. Someone said you know, curry, and you've said
this said you're a lightning rod. You just attract stuff and
you know, and which by the way, if you if anyone wherever to
read our emails and see what kind of things people say about
me to John about me, it's it's like I'm the lightning rod. You
know, I just bring in the the the jolts of electricity. But
then I forget, you are the grounding ribbon. That's why it
works. Because when I'm alone, I really miss that. Like, oh, I
want a grounding ribbon is
yeah, it keeps it a good moves all the electricity down to the
ground and then dissipates it. Exactly. And
it's literally like a ribbon of you know of copper essentially
like a braid braid is maybe the better maybe it's called braid,
I thought was ribbon Bray
is probably a braid. Yeah.
And you know, put together lightning rod and grounding
braid. There you go. It's lightning rod and grounding
braid in the morning, everybody Hey, let me do its lightning rod
and grounding break that's why that's why it works between us
because you need that grounding braid from time to time and I
and you get away with it.
Get away with it. Like I'm trying to pull something
well yeah, you know you're not you just you get away with it.
Literally you you're the good guy. Alias Smith and Jones Oh,
yeah, sorry, called For reference beyond you,
yes, indeed. So what's in the news over there in the in the
lowlands anything going on besides just the Christmas
lights that find it was a very dull News Week? I mean, there
was nothing going on. We don't nobody's listening to the show.
There's a C span I'm getting nowhere. Yeah,
um you know, everything kind of, kind of shut down here. We kind
of it literally was they have two days of Christmas here. You
know, the the first day of Christmas, the second day of
Christmas, and then today will be the third, which everyone
basically just took off. And you wouldn't think as a crisis here.
People in crisis are not jobs that people like it did not
work. And there's like, Screw it, we're not going to work. I
do have an observation about something that's kind of weird
that America and Germany have in common. I'm not sure why I
haven't been able to quite figure it out. But it is, you
know, now that we've been here for three weeks, I've been here
for three weeks, Mickey's been here, five weeks. Thank you,
Miss Mickey, for the sound effect. You know, so now we're,
you know, cash that we had some cash in our Dutch bank account
that's gone. So now we have to use cash from our US bank
account. But it's problematic because they have essentially
stopped the or disabled, the use of magnetic stripe swipe credit
cards through all of Europe, except for Germany. You cannot
use a credit card anywhere pretty much anywhere in the in
Europe right now. Unless, yes, unless it has the digital chip
embedded in the card. Which of course no as far as I know, no
American bank issues those you just can't use it. You know, you
can still go to Chile
manage Hold on a second stop. So I'm, I'm just going to show I'm
flying over to Paris. Yeah. And I'm going to Lucas car tone or
something you have a nice nice expensive meal. And I sit down
with my friend and I put down my merican Express card to play pay
for the whatever rageous thing I did. And they say no miss you.
Date is gutted. Scrap back? Well,
I'm not exactly sure about every restaurant, some rest, we have
found one or two restaurants that still will take a swipe
magnetic stripe card.
But I'm talking just punch in the number know if you know,
if you're going to a gas station, if you're going to buy
groceries in many places, they won't even accept cash anymore.
They will they're literally signs that say you can only it's
called pinning. You can only pin here no cash, literally no cash.
I see. That's no cash. I see people at the at the little
little
stop, stop, stop. So in other words, I got my card there I go
punch it into the ATM machine, which it should be able to read
because there still is old machines around I get myself
because I can't use the card. I punch out 500 euros. Yeah. And I
go to the gas station to get some gas and they tell me to get
lost. No.
Well, some places and not saying necessarily the gas station, but
there are there are stores for sure I can I'll send you a
picture of the sign. There are stores that say you cannot pay
cash here. Yeah, no cash. And it says anything. There's no but no
cash only pin. So it has to be the smart card based credit
card. For some reason. Germany has also not converted to this.
But here's here's the thing that that that I find weird, is
they're all saying well, the Americans need to catch up.
Let's catch up to what it's like, you know, and of course,
it's you know, to change this infrastructure to change all of
the card readers, et cetera. I mean, that's it, that would be a
pretty big deal. I mean, that's not something that just happens.
And all of them we have 300 million people Yeah, and all of
their systems here. The systems used to be actually they if you
look at the card readers and they have the mobile card
readers, there's a still a sliding slot but they've
literally put a sticker over the slot that says with the card
with a magnetic stripe with a big red circle and a slash
through it like no, no credit card like that. And you know
photos
of this stuff.
I will I will.
This is this is ridiculous. It's yeah, what do they do about
American tourists this would have this they gear
they don't care. They really don't care. They're just like,
No, no, I'm sorry. I can't take your credit card here. Like
what? No. And then and then you have to take your your your ATM
your debit card, find a debit machine, your cash machine.
Those still take it but I'm wondering for how long that may
just stop one day to I don't know. It must Yeah, so Yeah,
interesting. Now the hotel that we that I put certain Mickey up
in three weeks ago, you know, after she got sent back, of
course, I had to get her hotel real quick, you know, they took
my credit card. So of course, there's some news, stuff like
that. It's still accepted. But really just for general walking
around and just, you know, either have a bunch of cash with
you all the time, which, you know, seems counterintuitive to
the entire system, because they really just want you to eat at
the market, you're at the market, the stalls like a
farmers market, they want you to pin at the farmers market,
they've all got their mobile machines that they use stick
your smartcard in at the market, just like the the meat guy or
the cheese guy or the poultry guy standing out there on the
market square, No cash, no, no, please pin
screen. What's weird about it, is that if you're in America,
and you want to get one of those cars, and one of those banks and
you say when opening an account, you can't do it anymore. You if
you're an American, it's almost impossible to get a bank account
in Europe, because of all these new international treaties that
require them to report all American money. Well, I'm
expecting any minute now because you know, I just had some kind
of like, you know, just some money just here. And have
there's been no real activity. But now that there's activity,
you know, I'm worried because I'm going to have to send money
from my US account into the Dutch accounts. So I can use the
damn Dutch bank card. But once they see activity, they have to
report that and once they're seeing, you know, they have to
report it, then they may be like, wow, you know, you didn't
fill out the forms because I've had this, you don't need your
businesses. Yeah, I've had the account forever. So it's
probably going to be you don't have the forms filled out. And
maybe you should just close. Yeah.
So let's see what's going to happen.
So let's hope that we can get home in a couple of weeks and
not not to be here longer, because that'll be very trouble.
I've
never heard of any of this.
Well, it's I've heard, I knew this was kind of happening. But
it's not until you actually are here for a while and have to
live and function that you notice it. But the thing that I
don't understand is Germany is on this in the same boat with
us. And Germany, of course, is where all the money is in
Europe. So I find it interesting that they have not converted to
this smart smart card system. And you kind of would want the
Germans to be over here using their plastic but I don't know,
I I don't think we have to get look into this. I don't know,
this is
just an ICT thing. I mean, I Googled it, there's plenty of
articles and people say, well, it's just two incompatible
systems. But that makes so little sense. from so many
perspectives.
It's not incompatible. It isn't. Oh, that's why the ATM machines
work over there. Because they're all part of this about 10
Network star network and MasterCard network when they're
on the back of your debit card. There's a list of the
part that's incompatible is the actual transaction part. I mean,
the the back end all fits together and works is that
transaction where it goes wrong.
What does that mean?
That you can't transact? I can't use my card. My thing won't fit
in there slot.
No, I know. But that's that's, that's just a function of the
hardware. I mean, it's just that this is something fake. There's
something weird about this story.
Okay. Well, I hope we will have many people looking at Yeah, we
need some bankers to chime in here with as part of a scheme.
Yeah, that's what it is a scheme.
It is it's part of the scheme obviously.
Well, there you go. Well, so that's that's just an
observation. Was there anything else that
I've got a clip we can take. Yeah,
I mean, I got plenty of stuff. But not that just knowing
everything shuts down here. They have the big show called All You
Need Is Love. Everybody watches it. Everybody cries for three
hours. And then it's you know, banging. You doing
trying to whistle the Beatles song.
They actually use that song. In the show. Yeah. Where they're
reuniting people who haven't seen yet was like, Oh, my
boyfriend lives in Australia.
Oh, that's reminds me of this is your life. It used to be a show
in the 50s and 60s. It's this is your they have a show. It was
great. Had some sucker in the audience. They'd sucker somebody
to come into the show, but he's actually the target. Yeah, it's
a classic. Yeah, I'm surprised we don't do the show again. And
so the guys in the audience because he somehow has been
bamboozled to come in into the show to watch it. Yeah. And then
they call him on him. This is your life. This is your life.
Adam curry. This is your life. They bring you up and embarrass
you
except in this case. It's It's It's nonstop. It's like 30
different stories. And it's all you know, sad saps and then they
have you know, and that some of them in the audience but others
who just shows up at the door and like, oh, you know your
boyfriend who lives in Uganda, you know. And of course, you
know the guy they brought the guy over from Uganda. And the
guy's like, Damn, man, this is cold here. What am I doing here?
I don't want to be in this gray, gray as country and raising
laws. They put them on a bus. And they ship them through the
country in the rain in this mist in the grayness and then you
know, and then then then he's reunited with his girlfriend for
for the Christmas holidays or whatever and and we all cry
because we all know the Ugandans are big on that Christmas thing
anyway, so that's that was the My immediate experience here.
You're gonna go okay, now I got a I want you to get this is that
we played this game wants to before I want you to predict
what I'm going to predict as the as a future distraction of the
week. You've done it before and you nailed it and to see if you
can do it again. And here's the prediction guests time clip.
Follow President George HW Bush may spend Christmas in the
hospital. Bush has been in a Houston hospital for a month
suffering from bronchitis. His staff said today they need to be
extra cautious with his care. Bush is in stable condition.
I think you're going to predict Nelson Mandela today
have already done that. So I gotta
Oh, by the way, a lot of a lot. A lot of people giving you
props, even though you called Nelson Mandela you're getting
credit for for George Bush being in the hospital. Did you notice
this?
Yeah, I did. And so I'm now but I
can tell you something right now. He's a goner. It's over. I
mean, I have inside information for sure. He's not coming out.
Okay, so, but is it gonna be before or after Mandela?
I think he's gone before because he's gone before. And in fact,
this is really teeing a lot of people off because, you know,
yeah, they always have some bush retrospective packages ready to
go for for when it's time, and they knew that he had
Parkinson's they knew wasn't, you know, you know, they knew
that he was not doing too well. I think I haven't mentioned
that, that Donald told me that he wasn't doing that he was
actually doing quite poorly. And I think he's going to usurp
Mandela, screw you, Mandela. And yeah, he's gonna have a much
bigger show.
Well, this would annoy a lot of liberals because a Mandela is a
big deal that needs you know, he's, it could be a one two
punch. I mean, this would definitely cover up with
every Cliff everything. Yeah, total total Cliff cover up.
So you can so you have Bush going out before the first if
you know, at all possible. And
if it all possible, you know, horrible man.
I'm not I'm just I'm telling it like it is just a realist. Let
me give you let me give you the rundown. The BBC had a friend of
the family. And this, you'll never see this guy talking about
this again, because he really led way too much.
Because it was admitted to the in ICU, the intensive care unit
at Methodist on Sunday. He's dealing he's been dealing with a
series of setbacks and includes a persistent fever. And doctors
are doing everything, everything they can to wrap their arms
around it, they're cautiously optimistic that their current
course of treatment and love, they're
cautiously optimistic, if anyone says that if you ever if you're
in a hospital, and you're done, we're cautiously optimistic,
Mrs. Curry. It's like forget it, call the lawyer. I'm out. I'm
done when to
be effective. And so the President, the President is,
he's, that'll put you in the ICU because things are going well.
So we're obviously hoping that the medicines and the treatments
can help him turn things around a battled bronchitis for about
three weeks. And at age 88, despite the great shift that the
President's always been in throughout his life, that really
takes a toll on you. And so, coming out of that he was doing
his physical therapy that was going well, until the middle
part of last week, he's just started to have a few low energy
days. And things kind of snowballed from there. Probably
exactly the wrong time because of his weakened condition
because of the fight against bronchitis. At eight years old.
It just adds up to a tough situation right now.
This guy should not be the spokesperson.
No, no. Let's see what we got here. George HW Bush. He is 88
and I think he's a goner.
Yeah, no, I think he's a goner, too. I mean, that's why I'm
predicting but but It's gotten it's all a matter of timing. I
mean, they gotta do something. I don't know. I mean, it's I mean,
sound modeling, but some has to be done. They have done stuff
happens, and I think they have Bush going,
they've done something different. They've done
something different. I'm quite amazed you haven't you haven't
even figured this one out. We have to distract from the fiscal
cliff. You don't have to. I mean, yeah, if Bush goes or
Nelson Mandela, that would, of course change the news cycle.
But you've I mean, the simplest thing is to focus them on a
different cliff.
All right, hit it.
Hit at the gas pump. Now it could be our grocery bills. I'm
Ashley cat.
I am David Oliver, good to have you joining us this evening.
Shoppers may soon see the cost of a gallon of milk spike
between six and $8. It's already around four bucks a gallon
spreading your grocery money thin
cartons. Laurie Patton has been following this issue and joins
us now. Lori wait for CBS News is calling this the dairy cliff
at
the dairy cliff. We just need to give them a different cliff. The
one well that's it. I'm not gonna play the whole report.
It's it's all about how see dairy
cliff. Yeah, see,
but there's no dairy cliff. This is bogus. Of course, it's bogus.
But if the whole we're
not here in farm country, and we're looking at Dairy, so
there's a cow now. I mean,
you want to hear the report, because then you'll see how
people will be severely affected. Our citizens, our
senior citizens will want to have their milk, this
go into cat food.
The solution to the farm bill will be attached to a
reconciliation of the Farm Bill. Yeah, that's what they're saying
the farm bill is this is just another illusion. And of course,
we Little Timmy has jumped in there with the all the debt
ceiling. So we just you don't need someone to die. You just
need and that's unpredictable. You know, you need something you
need to focus people on other things. So
I don't have my No, I disagree. 100% on this one. Okay, I
think it's the dairy cliff. And I think it's the fiscal ceiling,
the debt ceiling, and that that will be the focus and that just
did anything to distract anything to distract. And I
know, it will be great if when the old man can go be fantastic,
but they need some cover.
Well, it's gonna they're definitely going to lay it on.
It's going to go into goo probably in the next. Let's see
our last show. Our next show is going to be after the first No,
no, no, we have one. That's where we got a Sunday show. I'm
sorry. I can't remember what day it is. We have a show on Sunday.
Hopefully somebody will listen to it. And even though it was on
vacation, and which is reflected in our donations, I might add
Yeah. And we'll do that show and then I from that show to
Thursday. I'll betcha all hell breaks loose. That's my
prediction from Sunday to Thursday of next week. All
Hell's gonna break loose with our Thursday show is going to be
spectacular.
Excellent. Well, we already received a note from one of our
producers who has received I guess they use h&r block which
is a really really big kind of strip mall type place where you
go and get your taxes done. You'd literally walk in with
your with your everything your pace, your pay strips, your W
twos, your 1099 whatever it is our box of receipts Yeah, with
your box and you sit down with a consultant who essentially is
just running a version of TurboTax TurboTax on their
computer because you're too stupid to run it and here it is.
And they take you through it and then they and they're kind of a
financing outfit because they'll say well you know you have some
money coming back to you from the government. You get like
$700 but you know you can wait for the check or we'll give you
$500 Now and then you know we just call it quits and then
we'll go get the 700 will keep the 200 That's kind of how it
works. So it's
kind of like payday it's a scam it's it's kind of a scam the
owner is ripped off
so those guys are sending out emails now to their to their
clients. And the top of the email is the alternative minimum
tax and they sent me that email Oh you didn't see it you were
copied on it. Oh wow. Oh, I don't know what I'll just read
you the first line I have I saved it of course I'll read you
the first line from what h&r block are sending out to all of
their customers Hold on a second and where is it h&r Block
article got it loading it up tax mageddon financial cliff what
the fiscal nice what the fiscal cliff means to you this is
what it means ah by the way what it means to h&r block is they're
not going to be able to get this this really fun deal work. Yeah,
because they're not gonna get anything. Yeah, they must
be so two things creating tax mageddon for individual filers
AMT, Alternative Minimum Tax axe, this has not been patched
since December 31 2011 expiration, and more than 70
Common tax breaks. And right there at the top, what is AMT?
Little, you know, a couple of answers there. And it says 34
million taxpayers could be hit with the alternative minimum tax
34 million, that's quite a lot. And the example they give is,
you could go from a tax refund of $1,056 to owing $1,400. And
that's from they say, an analysis by the tax Institute.
So that is a difference there of several $1,000. Of course, they
get they're really pissed because they don't get any of
that deal that they get to shaft people with. But of course, they
are asking people to, you know, to, you know, get their stuff in
early, etcetera, etcetera, and what to what to be prepared for.
So, that's, that's kind of the first, the first shell Yeah, but
there's what's the first I've really seen of any, any
Institute of any standing that has kind of gotten on board with
your analysis, which you've been talking about. To some
incessantly Yes. I was crying about the troll, but it wasn't
about the troll. It was about your story of the alternative
minimum tax. That's
one of our one of our producers. One of our producers did come up
with a with a clip on the on the morning show on CBS. Did you
know that early today competitor? Yeah. And it was
actually it was it was reasonable. And you can play
it's a fiscal cliff or fifth goal. Do I have it on your on
CBS? Start with
the fiscal cliff looming? Yeah. What effect do you think it will
have
most of what the fiscal cliff is going to impact is taxes
starting next year in 2013 and beyond, but there are portions
of it that could impact taxpayers this year, about 30
million taxpayers could see their taxes increase this year,
100 million of them, according to the IRS could see their
refunds delayed. And this is because of something known as
the alternative minimum tax. That's the AMT. Usually, they
increase that amount they adjusted for inflation, but they
haven't done it yet. It's all wrapped up in this fiscal cliff
debate. And so if you're somebody making a household
making $45,000, you could actually see your taxes go up as
much as $4,000. This year, if they don't address the issue, I
was just
gonna ask you and who would that be affected? You just said it,
people. Yeah, people returned to your harpsichord.
That's right. Shit isn't back to your harpsichord. Nothing to see
here.
So anyway, that's the problem. All right. But yeah, it's good
at HR, you got to send me that thing, because I can use it for
a column I'm writing. Sure. Thank you.
I gotta get into this column business. It seems like
trying to do this. I'm trying to get nobody wants to talk about
this is amazing. I mean, and there's some morning show that
nobody watches. I mean, the top show is on ABC, the second one's
today's show, and nobody watches the CBS show. So anyway,
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bathroom?
Well, Tom right now,
well, this is how small I need to send pictures. Mickey you
take some pictures of this. It's kind of it's if you put wheels
on this thing it's the Hot Pockets tour. That's essential.
That's essentially what it is paying double rent and and
think of it as cozy. It's cozy.
Mickey's not going to take a picture of me
at the kitchen table skimpy shirt on? No, I
got a regular I had have a scarf farm because it's also cold.
On sweater.
Let me see darling. Now cool. Will you tweet that to the
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Yeah, and I looked around this is the most recent one that he
has actually invited Miss Mickey night to go to church several
times in Austin and with church. I'm talking about the big gun
show that they have on Sundays once a month. We just haven't
had an opportunity to do that yet with Scott and I think his
bride and here's the one I got to the newest meme on news. He
says it's about the gun culture. I currently hold the gun
culture.com.org dotnet domains. I'm worried I just painted a big
target on my back. Any suggestions on what to do with
these?
With the target on his bad? Yeah.
With the I think you just keep the gun culture.com I think it's
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to complete my knighthood this week, if the world doesn't come
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this is this comes at expense, a personal expense to Scott and We
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if he has the gun culture.com I think and it's just sitting
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the Gangnam Style video from Utah. Let me see. Let me say to
Rick Roll the new Rick rose, OSI whatever his name is.
Yeah. Hey, John, you've actually seen the video.
Yeah. He hasn't seen it.
I don't know. I mean, just you're still kind of I thought
he was very
funny promoting
three day video. Yeah, I mean, it's only been around for a
couple of years.
Yeah, it's it's still funny. Come on. David. Yeah. eglee in
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three guys, Ray dot and Alex, I don't want to their last name.
So this is really what they're doing. They're sending me a ham
radio, but it's going like through embassies and I think
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group of listeners. Oh, I was telling someone the other night
I said, you know. So, Mickey's working on a project, which is a
really cool art idea. And I'm not gonna mention what it is
right now. But you know, she's like, well, if I needed to get
ahold of some guy in Brazil, I'm like, I bet you if I want to,
and he's not, he's like a famous guy. So I bet you that if I
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I don't know.
I don't know. I have a lot of contacts in Brazil.
But regardless anywhere in the world, whatever we want to you
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Yeah, I'd say that's probably true. We can probably find
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and India forget about it.
Okay, so I want let's try it let's try it up. I want one of
those Mongolian hats you know the hats that they wear the
Mongols there in the in the in the desert yeah
you can probably get a hat tip I
want to I want to picture what some original art I wanted the
picture of the guy wearing it in in the desert there and then I
want it on my head I bet sure we can do
current challenge to get a Mongolian hat
with a picture of the of the dude that came off of yeah with
the guy and then wash it wash it before
and I want a picture of the guy without it on his head
shivering. Like
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Hell yeah. Shut up, slave. Shut up. Slave Ah. Oh, yeah. Mostly
joke clip sign I have I've done I got some real work here. I got
some some interesting stuff. That's good. So we've been
talking about this word that the that Harry Reid used when he
went in and slipped about the National Defense Authorization
Act 2013. He all of a sudden just kind of, you know, slip
that into to the conversation and the word Hold on a second.
Oh, this is dumb. Here we go. I'll play the clip for you the
abbreviated clip and the majority leaders recognize
or could I ask my friend to yield for unanimous consent
request and he would have the floor as soon as I finish?
Absolutely. Sorry to do that. That objection so ordered. Madam
President, I understand I'm stumped when the Senate receives
the papers with respect to hr 4310. The Senate passage of HR
4310, as amended be vitiated.
So, we've been trying to figure out what this word is. And
someone sent me a New York Times article that really blew me
away. And the word John is Vitiate. We thought it was
investigated, but it's Vitiate. Vi, we know what we're doing.
But I want you to go to this page. So you can because you
have to see this article just to put away for later
vitiate.career.com V i TIATE Vitiate
e i, a i have split again
vitiates v i t IAT II Vitiate. And I'll give you the
definition, spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of or to
destroy or impair the legal validity of it is basically code
for we want to Destry said we want to Vitiate the amendment,
the there are only a couple of amendments. This, of course, was
the amendment, the least and everyone's
baffled by how it disappeared. So we have no idea what
happened. I voted for the amendment odd voted for so you
can reelect me.
This was the amendment to protect citizens from indefinite
detainment without any type of due process. And yeah, the way
they get rid of it is by saying we're going to Vitiate it. And
if you read this article at Vitiate, our courier.com for
your scanning by now, John, this is a huge word that is used all
the time and mainly Demick. From by the Democrat Party. They use
its code, it will just Vitiate that if someone says having the
Vitiate you then you better watch out because it's probably
a two to the head scenario. And it's, it's, it's a very
interesting word that just you know, it mean, whoever thinks
about these things, like and it's under the guise of Vitiate,
whatever. Instead of destroy, remove, get rid of, here's a
little more of that clip.
Without objection. Further, I ask unanimous consent that the
adoption the sentiment be vitiated.
vitiated. Oops. Goodbye, gone. Done. So that's how it works.
Yeah. And he goes, sneaks into the dead at night. Unanimous
consent decree blows it through and everybody's baffled. What
happened to our amendment? I thought it was in there or it's
not in there. Oh, well, well. What a bunch of shitheads it
Yeah.
So I got another, I've been looking at language and if they
had got started off start off by someone sent us a link. Did you
see this link about? Let me be clear. Did you see that out? So
someone sent us, one of our producers sent us a link. And it
was the kind of the etymology of of let me be clear or let it be
clear, an article written by Daniel guerra in and very
interesting about that this really comes from a fascist, it
has this let me be clear that has a very fascist background.
In fact, that comes from his article fascism and big
business. And that whenever a politician says, Let me be
clear, it essentially is really saying, shut up slave, you have
no business questioning this, there is no questioning, because
it is clear. And then, as I'm thinking about that, it thinks,
of course, I'm hearing a Germanic speaking country. I'm
thinking about the use of the word homeland, which of course
started after 911. Which, to my knowledge, and you can correct
me, John, I don't think the word homeland was ever really used in
the United States before the Department of Homeland Security.
Can you recall
never Well, I don't remember it. I mean, may have been used here
and there by some one person, but it was not. It wasn't in the
general lexicon. It all showed up after 911 and now it's the
homeland the homeland the home now we got to protect the
homeland. Exact the home as a fatherland in Germany, of the
Motherland in Russia. Yes. Well,
either one is just good. And then something what else? Have
we been picking up on that? In particular, our president says a
lot the vice president says it we've also heard the first lady
say it what is what is it like it's another thing that just
bothers us whenever we hear him say it, what does it look? How
about folks? Folks, folks,
some like he says, folks mind he says, Look, so font look is dude
look to me as let me be clear in shorthand, but But where's
folks coming from? Folks is coming from the German folk.
Okay. Yeah. Volks Volkswagen is of is the people's car.
Yes. Which was a Nazi car. But really, if you look at the
etymology, if you look at the etymology of the word folk, it
really it's not it's even below citizenry. And it's the common
people. They are the folk. So your folks, it's another elitist
from the top thing saying, Folks,
but they right if it was it was Leona Hemsley, it would have
been the little people
exactly. But then I'm thinking and by the way, the Germans or
not the Germans, the Nazis, specifically the Nationalist
Party, because you know, the Nazis, you know, that was just a
term that was brought in later, but they were the Nationalist
Party. They were talking about one folk, one, homeland, one
fewer, one leader. And I'm thinking how long until we hear
instead of the President going, hello, everybody just says Hi,
everybody. I mean, how it can't be that long, John. I think
we're very close to it. He just might slip it in. If we start if
someone starts using the word Hail, hail. He's already said,
Hi, everybody. Maybe he's saying hail. Maybe we're just not
hearing it. Right. Heil everybody. And he could slip
that in man. I'm gonna pay attention to it. So So indemnity
overdoing the folks bold that well,
but but who says that? Who said the folks thing? I mean, that's
not it's not a southern thing? I don't think and he's not
southern. He's from Illinois. You know, it's just Where's that
coming from?
Coming from his elitist? attitude? I mean, he's actually
I think he's sincere when he says that he's thinking
everyone's just a bunch of dummies. Folks there are there
folks are out there. And they're poor folks are suffering.
They're just getting by, you know, and I hate and but you
know, the greatest part of this job is I got a big giant jet.
Doesn't matter of fact, my wife sometimes flies separately, is
that great or what?
And, of course, what's gonna happen now is you'll get email
saying what an eighth hole I am, and that I should go work for
Fox News. Because I'm not bad. I'm only bashing Obama, and I'm
bashing our president. And if you listen to this program long
enough, we bash the previous president just as much, if not
more. So, so here, here's here's now, our president, though I
will give him this is of course a constitutional scholar. We all
know that he is a professor in the Constitution. I'm correct in
that, right.
Yes. Well, he's actually was a teaching assistant from what I
can tell. I mean, this is a sketch. Oh, come on. I'm not
that sir. But I'll give it to go on. It's fine. Okay.
So now we have everyone who listens to this show. The best
podcast and universe knows that you John C. Dvorak are also a
constitutional scholar and we can ask you all kinds of
Questions?
Yeah, you could ask me whatever you want. I'll take credit for
this. Okay.
So I'm listening to the president responding. And this
was actually a clip from last week, and I went back to watch
it again. And he's talking about the Second Amendment. And I'd
like to hear his explanation again, just briefly, 15 seconds
of the Second Amendment.
Now, like the majority of Americans, I believe that the
Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms.
Is this the truth, John, is what does the Second Amendment
actually do? And this is important to know, because if
people want to repeal, get rid of the Second Amendment, which,
as I'm Falk, we could do the folk could all get together all
the folks who would say, we don't want the Second Amendment.
I asked you, and maybe I'm interpreting this wrong. But I
asked wrongly, what does what is the Second Amendment does it
guarantee as the President just said, Hey, let me listen to one
more time and just listen to one more time the constitutional
president, the constitutional scholar.
Now, like the majority of Americans, I believe that the
Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms.
He said, like the majority of Americans, I believe that the
second American Amendment guarantees the right to bear
arms. Is this the truth? John C. Dvorak? Is that what it
guarantees?
Well, the interpretation would would suggest that but let's
read the Second Amendment. I'm
glad. I'm glad. Shall I read it to you?
Yeah, you can, I can read it. But you can read it you do on
the roll, though
a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a
free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed. That is the Second Amendment. Right,
that does not guarantee the right to bear arms. It says that
the people have the right to bear arms, but that the
government is not allowed to infringe upon that right. It
isn't this is not the right. Am I crazy in this thinking?
Well, I don't know. It's it's essentially, it's like the
government can't infringe on a religion does it
which is, which is if you look at all the amendments, they do
not grant everything, all the amendments are saying is here's
an extra thing the government is not allowed to do, right. They
give essentially, like we always have to remember this, and a lot
of people would seem to for especially a lot of people in in
the in Obama's camp, the Constitution is is designed to
limit the government fangirling a lot of stuff. Thank you. And
that's why the SEC, the 10th amendment was was done and put
in there to re assert the fact that the federal government, the
states have all these rights. The federal government only has
a limited number of rights. And we will tell you what they are
in the Constitution. And that's what they do. They gig and tax,
they can put together a big army to protect the whole place. And
they can do this and that, but they can't. They can't do what
has been going on for the last week. But this year, the
interesting
thing is that we already have that right. In fact, if you look
at many state constitutions, that right is to bear arms is
already reiterated it's in the state constitution. But the Bill
of Rights does not. There's no granting of any right to bear
arms. We have that right. As citizens, as human beings, we
have that right. The second amendment, as with most of these
amendments, and the Bill of Rights, is only to tell to tell
the government what they're not allowed to do. And I find it
fascinating that these three simple lines are so
misinterpreted and that it is being reiterated that that that
somehow the Bill of Rights or the amendments give give some
rights to you know, no, this has nothing to do with rights. We
already have these they cannot be taken away from us at all.
Not by the government, not by the government. Not by the not
by the federal government. It can be taken away from you by a
city government. Yep. Yeah. Or state governments already it's
already available. I mean, there's a New York you can't
have a gun in fact, dig dig Gregory chip Gregory, the guy
who was on that ship, you know him I have that guy have
the clip of him breaking the law. You want to hear it? It's
pretty funny. Yeah, play it.
Police are investigating whether NBC is David Gregory violated DC
gun laws violated
listen to listen to this. This. This is a great package. This,
by the way is the Asian woman on I think CDC and and really early
in the morning
when he displayed what he described as a 30. round
magazine during a Meet the Press interview, check it out. Check
it
out. Here's a magazine for ammunition that carries 30
bullets. Now, isn't it possible that if we got rid of these if
we replaced them and said well, you could only have a magazine
that carries five bullets or 10 bullets? Isn't it just possible
that we could reduce the carnage in a situation like new I don't
believe that's going to make one difference. Now check it out.
We don't know if the magazine was authentic or a prop that we
do.
Or opera department
if anyone has had a magazine in their hands is basically just
it's a piece of like flimsy metal with a spring prop pretty
much the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life but let's
listen to how it's described in this tag.
Now this having a large capacity ammunition device a large
capacity ammunition device Jack a magazine is illegal in
Washington DC I have
a large capacity sperm device be very careful. It could be
illegal in Washington DC. And really this is crazy. I'm it's
crazy.
Well, I think personally. Chips should show Intel thing was a
scam as well. Okay.
I'd love to hear your take.
I think that they brought it he because he's never done this
before. He's never had any thing that yeah, products. And they
were selling a prop on the shop chip. So he brings a prop on
draws attention to the fact that it's yeah, he doesn't say it's
illegal. But then all the news me Oh, he broke the law. We've
got to bust him for breaking the law. So he's actually going to
be because the law is fair. He's actually going to be brought up
on charges and that questions. He's a good guy. They're gonna
you know, it'll be a felony or anything, it'll be suspended and
all the bullcrap that goes along with it. I agree. I agree. gonna
draw a lot of attention to this. And it's going to bring out you
know, it's going to be what? Wow, you these people are
serious. The whole thing is a scam.
I give that to you. I think you're absolutely right. hadn't
even thought about it that way. Makes a lot of sense. So
probably, he will do a mia culpa. A Mia culpa. I think he'd
be like, ah, you know, I, I really shouldn't have done that.
And he'll probably pay a fine, small fine.
Lucia network will pay. Yeah. Yeah. I know. He's never had a
prop on that show. Ever. So now he's got a bag as the out of the
blue. Where do you get it from his bull crap? Yeah. Yeah. Well,
the
whole thing is just a whole conversation. And the whole
Mendes conversation here. Oh, it's so hard. You know? When it
is, I mean, people like, well, at least Obama is gonna get rid
of the guns. And I'm like, Why is
he here? We got a bunch of notes from people that well, you now
you guys are no, I was 20. I got to watch at some guy tweeting
me. Guns and all you should we think more like a European. Hey,
jerk off. We're not Europeans. Don't think like Europeans. I
do. I think like a euro. You do. But I mean, generally speaking,
Americans are not Europeans. Most have never even been to
Europe. They have them can't even find Europe on the map. So
get over it.
Yeah, now, it's just you know, and so this this second
amendment thing is, here's our like, well, you know, you've got
that crazy NRA lobby, it's the big lobby, the big lobby. It's
like, you really got to lay off the CNN man, you got to stop
watching. But Obama, he's a good guy. He'll get rid of all the
guns. Like, really? Look at the mirror and say that and it just
you Do you understand what you're talking about? This is
not possible. It's not possible. No, it's not that I usually have
to go into this is what we do. This is our culture. We make
guns. We sell them to other people. Now,
yeah, we're selling worldwide and we blow things on that too.
Yeah.
We teach people how to pull the trigger. You know, we Yeah. And
we make you you. Oh, that's so militarized here, now that now
they have of course, the Dutch have have Marines in Afghanistan
as part of NATO, NATO. And they're doing the whole
Christmas thing, you know, with the satellite. Hey, Mommy, Hey,
daddy. They've never done that before. This is all new.
They got that from us. Of course. Of course.
It was like, oh, you know, and they're using the same language,
you know, well, you know, these people over there and they're,
they're fighting for us freedom freedom. Like, wow, she doesn't.
Oh, yeah. That's, that's what it is. But you know what, people
who listen to this program, the listeners and the producers have
no agenda. They're just, they just they have a leg up, but
they're just in a better spot. Because they, you know, they're
trained, they understand they know how to look through it, and
how to not get depressed. You know, this is we're good for
your psyche. And I think that it's it's going to get better. I
can only see more and more people waking up to the reality.
Some of the crap that is being shoveled into their brains and I
do see more and I meet more and more people here who are in
Europe but certainly in the Netherlands when they're waking
up in the Netherlands is good, you know, then there's something
happening that's probably all part of the alignment of all the
planets and whatever. Maybe that is. Yeah, that's what the whole
mind thing was a job
the query? Yes. Yeah, well,
we are in the Age of Aquarius, we're coming out of the I was an
Iron Age into the Bronze Age and
I believe in some of the information age my friend, I
believe in some of that some,
some of that's gotta be there's gotta be something to it, you
cannot deny that you know, we evolve as a species and the
planet evolves and and stuff happens you know, maybe would
you know, maybe one day will will not just be the best
podcast in universe but the only podcast in the universe
Well, that could be
broadcasting on seven megahertz on HF the
difference between Americans and Europeans I think is epitomized
in a clip I have they had pure your buddy Piers Morgan, who
everybody seems to want to deport by
the way can I just say that when everyone of course knows that
Piers Morgan there's a We the People petition I think that up
to 90,000 was like deport Piers Morgan. The Brits have now
including Jeremy Clarkson Bless his heart are now say they've
started their own petition. No, no, no, don't allow him to come
back. There's a petition to send is a petition to send them to
Guantanamo. There's a petition to
shuffle autonomo ones when I signed Canada, let me tell you
look at his Twitter stream. This is bugging the crap out of him.
This is really good. I know what it feels like to be hated.
You think so? Oh, yeah. Oh, dude. Because it's smart money.
We'll just take it as a publicity stunt and just go and
No, no,
no, no, no. You know how I feel when someone says something.
I'll refuse to leave. I'll go on to laugh.
You know how I feel when someone says something negative, right.
How do I respond? I'd like it irks me. You know what?
Yeah, you get hurt. Yeah, that's what I think is one of the
reasons they do that. Right. Well, of course,
but it's a human reaction. You can't help it. I'm looking at
his tweet stream. This is irking the guy, he says really, really
pissing them off. And I therefore encourage more of it.
I think this is fantastic. This is the best way is that you
know, and the guy's not without blame. I mean, come on. He's a
he's a phone hacking douchebag we know it. We all know it. And
you know, he's a hypocrite. I think that's the thing. It's
just a big ass hypocrite. And that's what and people smell it.
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius people can feel the
vibrations this guy is no good. And that's why there's no
I think there's some truth to that. Yeah, you can people can
see on it cornball by this stuff, but I do sense is there's
people consumptive often sense yeah. When someone says to me,
they can be fooled. Yeah, because the guy was any good,
but he's not that good. It's a douchebag
ometer. It's built into you and it's getting better. It's just
getting better.
So he's got Jack Hanna, who's who's the who's the far I used
zoo guy who's travels the world. He gets all these weird animals.
He shows up on all the talk shows and this poor bastard
Pearce can't get any ratings. And so he started to do what the
jargon is like the old Johnny Carson Show. So he brings his
guy on. He's a stiff pierces and he doesn't get to you know, all
these animals are floating around. He doesn't think they're
cute, and he just and Hannah just drops his little. He brings
out an armadillo a three piece art. It's some sort of specific
Armadillo that closes up into a perfect ball. You got this right
here. Wow, get the batteries in it.
What is this? This right here is a three banded Armadillo
the batteries in it as a joke, I'm gonna put this arrow here
the three better I'm doing cvac 3123. Now what?
So he says, you Hannah says to his assistant, you got the
batteries in it because it looks like a toy. Yeah. And this idiot
Piers Morgan says What was this about the batteries thinking he
was serious.
He's so it's such an idiot.
He actually literally said and when you saw when I saw it, my
jaw dropped. He was actually wondering why Hanna refer to
batteries for this crazy little. He said it was like what are
you? That's stupid.
Yeah. But it's okay to be stupid. I'm okay with that. But
you know it because I started looking at his Twitter stream.
And he there he's like, I just had Christmas party at the White
House. And here I am with Michelle and the president. Like
you're douchebag Why is he getting invited to Christmas to
the White House? The petition has more people have signed the
petition than watch his damn show. I mean, seriously. What is
that? That can only be because he's getting some kind of
marching orders or whatever. I mean, and by the way, he's
he's Tweet tweeting about a picture of eating aka bragging
about going to Christmas in the White House with a picture with
a picture with a picture
with a picture of him and the President and the First Lady.
Oh, yeah. And I'm just thinking, remember that he's spot he is
just a mouthpiece. And so now it becomes it comes into, you know,
everything becomes clearer, the picture is widening up for me,
because he was, of course, the replacement for Larry King.
Let's not forget where he's coming from. He has received
Larry king's throne is Prince Pierce. Essentially, Prince
Pierce is put onto the king's throne. And he's given his
marching orders. And this is why he's why he's supposed to be
outraged. But even the Brits now are good friends and get my
nation east. They're like, come on. We know the Americans. They
don't want some guy with a funny accent telling him what to do
you stupid. Even their things is stupid.
Oh, I had not met this follow him. You have to
follow him. It's fantastic. I mean, what you want to do is you
want to get a retweet from him because you know, then you he's
got like 3 million followers. But just follow us. He's pissed.
It irks him. It really really irks him. And I think that's you
know, when you get like a Jeremy Clarkson tweeting about
basically keep Piers Morgan. That hurts him. Because now now
that's cultural. You know, when you've got the whole his
homeland, people in his homeland laughing about him. I know. I
know these. I can smell it. I can smell it. Anyway.
Nice. Very funny. I
encourage it. I think we should continue with this. This is
very, very good.
So breaking news.
Oh, hold on a second. Breaking news, everybody. Breaking news.
We've got Jim C. Dvorak on location.
EPA chief Lisa Jackson. is quitting. Really? That horrible
woman Lisa Jackson.
Is this like hot off the wires? You just get?
Like right now? 10am. Pacific Time? December 27.
Wow. And is it immediately? Are she getting it? Is she leaving
at the end of the year? Well, that's almost immediately I
guess. Any any details on this? On this break? And
I'm looking I'm looking I'm looking again doesn't say
no breaking news. Oh, interesting.
Yeah, we do breaking news on the show once in a while.
Yeah, by the time you hear it, it won't be so breaking but
okay. Well,
whatever. At least we're gonna be talking about it more next
year. Next year. She's out of the picture.
I have a whole bunch of Sandy Hook articles in the show notes
at 4713473 already. man Yeah.
473 100 show 500 That's right. 473 dot N A show started the
show. Nobody said we'd get the show. 200 And we did yeah.
473 dot n a show notes.com. And I this is there's a quick little
clip. And this is about the it was just such a weird story and
the way the clips the fire chief, the reports all brought
into I think more mind if, if I I'm just I have to remain true
to myself when I hear this report. I think, Man this whole
thing if there weren't. They claim to firefighters have been
killed, and I have a real soft spot for firefighters. I support
them. financially. I've known a lot of hung out with a lot of
them. I have deep deep respect for the crap that they go
through. But if you know so, you know they report that to have
been killed. And they made it really two guys may have been
killed but I'm not so sure the story holds up that these guys
were killed by some crazy crap. Just listen to the report and
all the things that are being pulled into it. It's very, very
disturbing to me. And it seems like we're just on this tear of
fake news reports where actual people die. Do you have the
right to know if your name crap I'm sorry, I played the wrong
freaking clip. Here it is. This one was spelled
out by the suspected arsonist and shooter in chilling
typewritten detail,
quote. I still have to get ready to see how much of the
neighborhood I can burn down and do what I like doing best
killing people.
Okay, so I just have to deselect this a little bit. So this is
the crazy guy who apparently started a fire and he left a
typewritten note which did not catch on fire from this huge
Blaze. I mean, they we have the video of some fire and it was a
typewritten note not a Facebook page or anything is 60 things 62
year old guys, so, you know not like terribly beyond my own age
range. And we have this note magically we have the note
because someone's reading it. I like to start fires so I can
kill people
authority say 60 two year old William Spangler, who served
prison time for killing his grandmother more than 30 years
ago,
though, of course, no way to verify any of this 30 years ago
he served some prison time for killing me. I mean, he may have
like, tripped and she tripped over and we don't know any
background on that 30 years ago, he killed his grandmother that's
the message shot
at first responders who arrived at his burning house
so we don't really know this but now listen to how they how it's
portrayed the fire
spreading to six other homes
so this is the firefighter on the radio saying multiple
firefighters shot I am shot. I think it's an assault rifle. I
just why would he say that? Again? You know, when people
when firefighters in the picture I get really I don't want to
like go crackpot on it. But that's bullshit. People don't
talk like that when you're shot. I am shot a tumor. My colleagues
are shot. I think it's an assault rifle
because equipped to go to war to kill innocent people.
Officials say the gunman was well fortified with weapons and
ammo, a 38 caliber handgun, 12 gauge shotgun and a Bushmaster
223 rifle. The same model used in the Newtown Connecticut
school shooting. Firefighters Tomas Pachuca and my chipper
Rini were killed two others are hospitalized. Spangler police
say killed himself and I'm a
little tired I'm a little tired of all these guys who go
shooting people killing themselves this really the the
what are the odds of this? What are the odds that of the past?
What now five shootings it then I gotta go kill myself.
gotta kill my Lee Harvey Oswald didn't kill himself and he shot
the president John
Wilkes Booth didn't kill himself. People just don't go.
It's always like, because of course the only thing I can then
think of as an alternative possibility is this is a setup
what we're hearing may not be real now. Some people may have
actually been killed. But then we just kill some Kook some some
some crazy guy. Oh, and let's type up this letter real quick
which didn't burn. And then we can just pin it all on the
Bushmaster.
And late today they revealed human remains were found in
sprinklers burned house and authority suspect they belong to
his missing sister and let's
just put up some extra stuff. I like this. This is this is like
the you know, they had an extra 20 seconds in the newscast.
Like, let's write some more crazy crap in there. motive is
always the burning question and I'm not sure we'll ever have
that we'll never really know what was going through his mind.
Police are investigating whether the death of sprinklers 91 year
old mother in October and donation she may have made to
the fire department could help explain the motive for her son's
Christmas Eve shootings.
I don't know what that means at the end there. I mean, but it's
obvious what what this is meant to portray is a assault rifle,
Bushmaster, crazy guy, kill people. This is just what it is.
And you know, it's an assault. It's again, it's just an assault
on people. And it may not have been any of those. We don't know
anything about what really happened.
I think it's weird that there would be another Bushmaster.
Now, Eric had an interesting little comment. We were talking
the other day. They have changed the Milos
Oh, don't go into it. Please don't take me into Sandy Hook.
Really?
No, Sandy Hook got to do.
Because you thought you're gonna say they've changed the story so
many times. I'm sorry. No,
no good if changed the milspec on the on the AR 15 with some
new new mechanism, and these gun companies have got to get rid of
all these old guns. So they're going to try to just move them
out as best they can. Because the no one's going to buy them
once they figure out what's going on with the with the
mechanism.
Oh, something wrong with the mechanism. But I don't know.
It's
just old fashioned. And it does the things that it does just not
it's not there apparently is something new invention. It's
like the new the new spec is really cool. And that's the one
you want are really interesting. And so Bushmaster Bushmaster
Bushmaster. You know, even though it's a neg is placed in a
negative light. It is a sales pitch. I mean, it's publicity
for these guys. Yes. Really. Every time they have one of
these deals, people go out and buy guns. I mean, it's like guns
go sales go crazy during these episodes every time. In fact, I
think Horowitz was talking about this.
Every time there's a shooting the sales go up.
Yeah, every time there's a shooting, especially a nasty one
like these purport to be sales go up and this is a way and just
as a crackpot concept you'd want to think about it. This is the
way to get rid of inventory of the of the best of the
Bushmaster They're just not gonna they're not gonna they're
gonna be languishing, they gotta get rid of them.
So it's just a it's just a way to get rid of excess inventory.
I mean, why is the guy shooting a Bushmaster? Why is it always
is where they mentioned the brand name, it doesn't make any
sense to me. Why don't they call it as an AR 15 which is
essentially what it is. I'll just just call it that call it
the type of gun not the brand name. The reason why is because
I couldn't do what do you ever say is a nine millimeter? So
yeah, they will say Glock once in a while because it sounds
cool. But generally speaking that 90% a nine millimeter is
out there on Glocks. Well, what's the point of putting the
brand name in there? Well, because
every we got to sell something.
Well, they're selling these guns to get rid of them. That's
that's the thesis. What's the point
of having news if you can't sell something? I mean, really, if
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Thank you so much. It really does really does. Matt, this is
another thing. When people say what do you do? I said, I talk
about the trends. What's the business model?
A business model that ended in the late 90s.
I had this had this exact conversation. I said, Well, you
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think about it, but we're all getting by. And also that's your
business model. It's not it's not a business model. It's not,
it's magic. Now, it's a business model. It's not it's not a
business model. You can't put if you went to a bank and said,
Here's my business model, I'm going to do a show. And then I'm
gonna do it with the you know, my my partner, I'm going to do a
show oh, by the way, he lives in California, I live in Texas. And
and we're and this show is going to be so good that people will
call it the best podcast in the universe and will send us money
to support us to keep the show going. You know what the bank
would say? That's not a business model. Get the hell out of my
office. And yet, here we are moving towards 500 episodes of
some kind of beautiful thing that is being done as a
worldwide potluck service. It's a public service
it's totally a public service. So I got to tell you about so at
this dinner this was it's funny because this is one of Mickey's
you know so called brothers really they do have that
relationship even though they're not related by blood. And his
name Believe it or not, is eon it's freaked me out because I'm
like, oh my god, your name is not even know it's eon. Oh my
gosh, you got to meet my friend, John. Because you probably say
Hey, Ian, nice to meet you. Okay, you still with me? Hello?
Hello?
Yeah, what happened?
You didn't get my eon joke.
But I heard eon but Oh, yes. You mispronounced it?
No, his name actually is eon.
Oh, let's see. I told you there was it existed? This
is you're not listening. What do you do? Are you playing with
your toys? No, no, you don't. You
are disconnected for us. Oh, I'm second. I'm
sorry. Oh, let's
just get mad at me mad at the internet
and see Mickey's sending files or something? I don't know.
She's sending emails or All right, Facebook. Are you doing
Facebook?
Okay, I'm gonna do it Facebook. Don't you asking me? No?
No. Well, if you if you miss me for 1010 seconds, then there
must be some network thing anyway. So this is aeons wife,
who said this is your business model but they are expats. They
live in Singapore and he works for one of the few turns out but
for a Dutch oil and chemical storage company vo Pak Victor
Oscar papa alpha Charlie. And so he's a pretty big muckety muck
there. And they're in Singapore. And what they do is they
literally store oil and sometimes chemicals for
national, you know, for national companies, for governments, for
traders, whatever he says, you know, literally I run a hotel
for oil.
And yeah, these are all over the world.
Right? So very, very interesting guy because this whole thing,
remember, this is the family where the troll story was read
right? So we're all crying about the troll All. And then I'm
talking this guy said, you know, so what are you doing? And he's
telling me Well, that's it. Oh, that's interesting because you
know, I'm really into the pipelines and I study this. And
I started laying a little bit of pipe on him. And he's like, Oh,
my God, you actually understand what's going on in the world and
say, Yeah, I do. And then he started telling me something,
you know, give me the dirt man, what's going on in the world of
oil. So here's what here's just a few of the things he told me.
I just want to pass it on, we can do with it what we want. So
first of all, turns out so you know, they are the hotel, they
ship the or the oil comes in, and they ship it off. And of
course, most of this oil has been going to China. Because
China needs all the oil to make all the crap that we then buy.
He says, big slowdown, big, big slowdown. Oil is now moving away
from China going to Indonesia. And suddenly Indonesia, he says,
yeah, now Indonesia, is going to be the new production center.
And he says, interestingly enough, there's a lot of Muslims
there a lot of the the Shia Sharia stuff going on. And I say
as a joke, I say, Oh, that's great. So now we have a reason
to go drone them. So we can take over the production and run the
show there. And he laughed, and he said, Yep, you wait, that's
exactly what's going to happen. So Redbook drones in Indonesia.
And in fact, there's already a news report in today about some
clash with Shias and Sunnis, and there's gonna be all kinds of
terrorists in Indonesia, I guarantee it, you can just you
can just wait for it. So that was one. Then I'm saying, Well,
tell me about Japan and what's going on there and you know,
what's with the, with the natural gas now that they shut
down the shutdown the nuclear plants, he says, he says, it's
all oil, still going to Japan, it's going to be two more years
until Japan is really ready to open up their gas turbines. And
that's when he predicts the price of gas will go up enough,
you know, so that it actually is profitable to to get this stuff
out of the ground. So two more years away from the real gas
price rise that you and I have been talking about. And then
finally, the natural gas natural gas. Yes. And I thought this was
this was kind of the funniest. He says, you know, so
we're talking about it, stay in touch with this, you know, this
guy is great. He's he's already sent me videos to watch and a
book tour. He says the book to read is monsoon. I've never
heard of this book. So I got to find this book. And he sent me
videos, which I'll be posting in the show notes. The guy is fent.
And he was tripping out because, you know, he never expected
there to be a guy, you know, let alone some disc jockey, who was
you know, at this trolled Christmas dinner, who's like,
totally gets what it is. And he's like, Oh my God, it's just
so nice to talk to someone who understands how the world
actually runs. And then I lay my, my God thing on him, like
the world runs on, you know, gold oil and drugs, and he's
laughing and he's like, Oh, this is so great. You've got to come
visit. Anyway, so he then lays in to me about Iran, Iran. And
you know, I'm laughing I'm like, Ah, you know, it's so funny in
America where they show you know, the show these guys with
white lab coats on and they're in the centrifuges and they're
making bombs. They're gonna kill Israel. And Bibi Netanyahu was
showing the picture of the ticking the bomb with the fuse
lit and we're all afraid of their radians. And he's laughing
says Ya know, it's crazy that embargo he said, What a bunch of
crap that is, like what you can't tell me you can't have
Iranian oil. He says no the oil the oil exports sure, you know,
they've they've slowed that down he said, but that's not the main
thing that Iran exports it's NAFTA. He says that's the stuff
that they're making the real money off of NAFTA na P HTA. The
NAFTA oil because he said if we if they shut off the NAFTA
exports you wouldn't have trash bags within a week if I love
because you only have one a week trash bags NAFTA oil is what
they make naphthalene from and that's what all the petroleum
products are made from that it's I guess it's a really sulfur
rich or you know, some version of that it's not it's not
necessarily appropriate for burning in your car or being
refined into into petrol. I thought for sure you would know
about NAFTA oil and IP Yeah,
it was never it's not called Napthine oil nafas just Napa
NAFTA and it's been around forever it's a just a liquid goo
that comes out of a refinery
well he says that that that there's no export restrictions
on that and that's really what they're making the money on. He
says they would never restrict that because then you know, the
whole world production of everything made for petroleum
would just have to shut down and that that's really the stuff
that's important. I thought that you you probably
sounds like me. Sounds to me like they're just this is like a
bogus thing then because Napa is finally go look at a lovely look
at the book of knowledge. Hit the button.
Oh, I hit the button, but it didn't go Oh no. yeah right this
is what he said
typically consists of 15 to 30% crude oil, which is oil. Light
nap is the fraction of boiling This is boiled oil, heavy nap
that boils blah blah blah Nath is used primarily as a feedstock
for producing high octane gasoline might be a cat forming,
and it's using the bitumen mining and she's a doula yet. So
what I know about it produces olefins and steam crackers,
which means that poly poly Alpha olefin comes from this stuff,
which is the stuff using synthetic. So
let me read to you from the Federal Register. Maybe this
will help. This is the Federal Register Wednesday, December
26 2012 2205. By the authority vested in me as President United
States Constitution, blahdy blahdy, blah, Barack Obama, I
determined pursuant to section 1245 D of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, public blah, blah,
blah, there is sufficient supply of petroleum and petroleum
products from countries other than Iran to permit a
significant reduction in the volume of petroleum and
petroleum products purchased from Iran by or through other
foreign financial institutions. So they are the it's tricky
language. And I think words do matter, that they're talking
about petroleum products. I think that this is a pre
petroleum product, that NAFTA is not really the petroleum
product, and therefore will
actually what's interesting to me, based on what he says it,
yeah, it would be a pre petroleum product, which is an
end product, and a post crude oil product is in between crude
oil and a finished product. So it's the stuff that you get from
crude oil and it's a feedstock for making high octane gasoline.
So it's, essentially you boil some oil and you send this stuff
off on its way, right. So it's essentially what they've done
here. This is the other words we've been tricked, hoodwinked,
I tell you we've been hoodwinked. That's the word.
We've been hoodwinked by the use of the law. No nap. This is
different. Yeah, no, it's not. Yeah.
So he
literally threw Is that what he said?
Yeah, he said, there's no restriction on NAFTA. He says,
and I'm like bullshit. Now at this is amazing. When he said to
me, this is this is why it's stuck in my brain because he was
talking NAFTA. I'm like North American Free Trade Association.
He's like, No, p h, NAFTA. And I'd never heard of NAFTA, like
NAFTA, NAFTA, as he says, there's no restriction. We're
shipping the stuff in and out from Iran all the time, because
there's no restriction on the NAFTA. It's a scam. It's a big
lie.
Wow, yeah. Good, huh. Yeah, that's a 10. Oh, you only have a
clip. Unfortunately. Can't give you a clip of the week. But no,
wow. Interesting, though, right? Yeah, it's just unbelievable.
So yeah, I'm keeping in touch with the guy, for sure. And so
he sent me well, I'll put it in the show notes. The book that he
said I had to read. But it was just cool. You know, it's like,
oh, it's so nice to have can you know, I'm just laying all of my
South Stream North Stream, you know, all my pipeline stuff on
it.
Nobody else knows that he ever runs across. Never,
ever, ever, ever. You know, his wife is talking about
rights violation. human rights violations.
Damn Iranians. Yeah, they got white coats on there cooking up
cooking up bombs are gonna make a bomb now. Now I gotta tell you
a funny story. My dad told me because my dad is in Holland.
And I went to visit him yesterday. And he's in the home
and now he's a little messed up my old man. Now, you know that
we lived in Uganda the first three years of my life. Yeah.
And so you know, the old man is getting old. And so he's talking
and my sisters there. And he will know Tiffany, willows in.
In Italy. Tiffany lives here. And he lays this outrageous
story on us. And it took me a while to get it out of him
straight. Because the way he had came out of like, wow, that's
really crazy. So when we apparently moved to Uganda for a
few years before Idi Amin in so I was born in 64. So I think
6465 And we got there. And we flew on one of the first de
Havilland Comet airplanes. This is one of the one of the first
German Yeah, one of the first jets and we flew from London. I
guess we somehow he went to, we got to London somehow. And then
we flew from London, to Uganda. But we had a stopover. Guess
where we stopped over.
Somewhere in the middle east would be my guess.
Benghazi. Oh, yeah. This is what I say. Cool. And then he tells
me the story that it was really weird because the guy this is
this was like a year or two before the revolution before
Gadhafi. So it was King Oh, who was who was a dairy or
something? I guess? I don't know. So so it was, you know, so
they have the stop in Benghazi until I was in Benghazi was like
one year old. But what had happened is, because it was a
coincidence, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, because this
was this brand new plane. And you know, there wasn't full, the
passengers had to spread out in the plane for the weight and
balance. This is so brother, right? So, so even my parents, I
guess, were split up and you know, they had put me and you
know, in my little, my little, carry on crib, whatever, with
the blankets. And so they have to stop and Benghazi to refuel.
And it's really weird. And you know, guys with AKs, I guess it
was an AK back in the day, ak 40, sevens and the refueling to
get back on the plane, the plane takes off, and they just like
glance back and saw the pile of blankets than the planes in the
air. And then my mom goes, you know, back to check on me. I'm
not in I'm not underneath the blankets. And they have this and
so they believe that I've been kidnapped. And I'm still in
Benghazi. This is crazy. This is a crazy story. You will
apparently so they had just walked off the plane. You know
what, during refueling left me on the plane, which is pretty
unbelievable. As is Thanks, Mom and Dad. And I had gotten
climbed out and I had crawled all the way back to the back of
the plane underneath all the seats. So they spent like a half
hour thinking, trying to convince the guy to fly back to
Benghazi, to go get me. I had no idea. I just, you know, like
Stewie, or something. I had, like, you know, my hands and
knees crawled all the way to the back. Anyway, I thought it was
kind of a funny story, because it was Benghazi. I thought it
was kind of an interesting little, little Christmas story.
Yeah, little Christmas story about Benghazi now. So while I'm
on connections to Benghazi to go way back. So while I'm
on Benghazi, remember the four State Department officials
resigned or were kicked out or whatever? Because of the report,
the account Accountability Review Board Report. Well, here
we go. The highest ranking official caught up in the
scandal Assistant Secretary of State Eric Boswell hasn't
actually resigned. No, he's he's just resigned from one of his
many tasks. See, they made it sound like he he's resigned
voluntarily. But the only thing he's done is he's he's just quit
from one one desk. And he's switching over to another desk.
And the three other officials, Deputy Assistant Secretaries,
Charlene Lam, Raymond Maxwell, and a third whose name we don't
have that they haven't been kicked out. They've just been
reassigned. So they make it all sound like oh, people have been
held accountable. But no one's actually fired. And no one quit.
Ah, what a shocker.
And I have a little prediction for you. You got the Red Book?
Yep. So Hillary is now out for a couple of weeks. And I don't
even know if she'll ever testify about Benghazi. But here's what
we need to look out for. When she comes back, and I predict
six more weeks because I have experience with this. six more
weeks. She's gonna look dynamite.
Oh, you think she's getting plastic surgery?
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Perfect. Time to do it. Get a little nip
get a little tuck. Get your hair done.
Oh, yeah. Right. And you gotta be out when you get plastic
surgery, especially at her age. And you're gonna have massive
plastic surgery because she looks terrible. If you see her
without her make well, she doesn't need mass you gotta run
for president.
She doesn't even matter. She needs a little work around the
eyes. A little working eyelid
gonna get massive but you
know, 10 weeks would be more than enough. So I'd say she's
been out for for give her six more. She's back at the
inauguration. Once the inauguration
coming up in a couple of weeks. She's gotta be back sooner than
that. And she's
got it. Well, she could she could make she may not be at the
inauguration. I think it's too early.
Yeah, unless she's gonna wear sunglasses and bundle up
oh yeah. Scarf on the head and sunglasses. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,
that could that could be a possibility. I think a
lot of makeup spray on the spray on making this spread. Just
sprayer
Oh, yes. I think you get Yeah, you may be onto something there.
I'm gonna buy that.
Put it in the book, man. Put it in the book.
I gotta I'm sorry. Yeah, please.
No, I was just gonna say you know, meanwhile, serious heating
up. We've got to, you know, Assad using nerve gas. Seven
people killed with nerve gas. He's using his chemical weapons.
Here's proof. Here's the all Audio horrible video they found
over there the LG zeros is a guy who like can't breathe
you got to see the video to this the guy
these these Arab actors and they haven't some crazy good it's
chuck steak. This guy's good he's good
ah yes and of course we had the Syrian chief of the military
police defects and
another significant blow to the Syrian government that commando
country's military police has announced is defection. In a
recorded message uploaded to YouTube Lieutenant General
Abdulaziz al Shallal says the Syrian army has deviated from
its fundamental mission of protecting the nation
remind me when I resigned to put it on YouTube first? Yeah, I
mean, you know, the guy could be on Newsnight on the BBC. He's
gonna just have to go to Turkey and he's gonna upload to
YouTube.
Yeah. How are you dubious? Is that does that is
that the one that's on YouTube now and it's shakey cam that now
is the official it's real?
Video No, it's baffling. All right, I'm getting a little
tired of YouTube to be honest about it. I
mean, it's good for some things, but all that stuff that's
uploaded the shakey cam crap Yeah, that's that's quite a
while
I have a moment of the Devorah curry consulting company. Group
it's actually creative work I think whatever it is he d G, but
it's
group group group not group group group.
So there's some joker that did somebody sent me this as you got
to watch it you know this clip it's a it's that that one of
those anti one of these anti when you've seen this
commercials got everybody in there scissors and we've got to
stop shooting people. We got to demand a plan demand a plan.
Yeah.
We played this on the last show.
Do we played the parody?
No, not the parody. We played the real one on the
show. Not Yeah, we played the real one. This is the end of the
this is a parody version. Where they mouthed in, you know, the
government's got too many guns, we got to demand a plan to
disarm the government is you know, as kind of,
I haven't seen wasn't that I haven't seen that. So someone
did it. It's not all that good,
right? But here's the problem. I'm going to just this is just a
piece of free advice from the consulting group who,
uh, wait a minute, why are you giving it away?
Because it's, these would be done okay. Because like, they
keep saying people keep sending this crap in. And now let me
tell you what it was devise, it is only a tip of the iceberg of
advice.
An avalanche of advice. If you're going
to do one of these things, and then you're going to you have a
punch line at the end. And you may be edited it Okay, so it
kind of works, you know, to some extent, you don't bring in a
voiceover guy who just graduated from high school and his voice
is still changing and have him do a little voiceover you can
get voiceover work and you can find it on the internet there's
plenty of good booming voices that have worked for about 10
bucks a line you only need about five lines 50 bucks is gonna
cost you to beef up instead you're gonna get this particular
kind of sound which immediately goes oh it's an eye roller with
doesn't damage your ears guys got no punch. Terrible ending
ruin the whole thing by the way. Demand plan right now. Right
now. You demand it enough. Enough. Enough Enough a plan to
ban guns from government because government uses guns to kill
innocent people to be any worse.
Yeah, it could be even worse but this was pretty bad. Oh my god
I mean, you Yeah, I mean, not only do you need to curry
divorce because you need the curry Dvorak voiceover group to
help you with this
Yeah, you can hit that big ball voice
for men to plan now I can't do it with this but there
are some guys that do this. That voice that big ball voice who
sculpt big balls, big bowls. And are just they were cheap in a
world
where lesbians were comfortable shoes.
Anyway, I was just I find it annoying.
I'm with you. I'm with you.
I got one clip. Dr. Oz. Hit it
girl I was sick a little little clip to show you how awkward it
got one moment that you can answer this question best after
six food the lots of insights here for you. I like soap nuts
did Dr. Oz really say that? Yeah. He said I like soaked
nuts. After six. Okay, the guy just went up 10 points in my
book. soaked nuts. Nuts. Really? And this was on broadcast
television. Yes. Wow. Wow, that's hardcore
soaked nuts.
So I have I have a pet peeve. And I first I want to tell you
what kind of sparked it. And then I'll play the so this is
this is what what sparked the pet peeve. You know, we have
this private space industry that is being built around us. And
some of it is real. And you know, whatever. It's, it's, you
know, to me, it's like, I used to be into model rocketry. And
these these guys just have bigger rockets. So this is, this
is the I guess it's real. I don't know. I mean, it could
this could be an animation for all I know.
The private rocket rocket makers SpaceX says it has successfully
tested the first completely reusable rocket. Take a look at
this newly released video, it shows the grasshopper rocket
launching 12 stories into the air. Then it hovers briefly,
before reversing direction and landing softly on the launch
pad. And reusable rocket could lower costs for space missions
significantly. But more testing is needed.
I mean, you know, I look at this and like, who cares? So now
we're gonna have a lot of ways the rocket can land on its feet.
But so but this
is 12 storeys up, it goes it goes up. What, not 100 feet.
Yeah, and then throw a rock that far.
Well, it hovers and then it comes back down and I'm like,
Okay, I guess that's, I guess that's gonna save money. I don't
know. I mean, they're gonna schlep all that fuel through
space. And to me, it's like, this is just a story for
investors or something. I don't know. You know, and, and by the
way, people who are really in the technology hate me when I
talk about this stuff. I'm saying, you know, because you
know, Elon Musk is like some hero. He's like, the Tom Swift
or our era, you know, I don't know, he makes expensive battery
cars that you know, are useless as far as I'm concerned.
Certainly in the apocalypse has got the space thing and he's
like a superhero. People love this guy. And I just think he's
a douchey twat. So we have one of these over here is a what a
douchey twat like soapnuts a douchey tot. So we have one of
these douchebags over here, his name is meitheal Mole. And he
his daddy got really, really rich by selling off, you know,
some Bogut of it from I don't know 10 years ago made a huge
before the bubble pop made a huge amount of money. Big, big
government contracts, billionaire. And so this is his
kid. And you know, the kids always had Ferraris. And so he
had a game company. He's had some some pretty cool things,
you know, but toys and he now he has, you know, Formula One team.
And now he's he's all over the newspapers with his s x c, which
stands for space expedition, company or corporation, which
actually used to be called the space expedition cure. So
because he bought into it, and it's a huge, huge, huge scam. I
just want to unveil the scam because it's the same scam that
Richard Branson is doing with this bullcrap selling tickets on
a space ride. And I just only he was on CNN want to play a little
bit. And then I just want to tell you what was really going
on here. And how this is just soaking up money from people who
have way too much money for some bullcrap fantasy ride,
especially a craft called links made by x Corp aerospace in
California is to take passengers up. S FC co founder Maciel mole
told me how the reusable craft is shaking up the space industry
shaking
up the space industry John, this space is being my God.
It's revolutionary new spacey, which is just a pilot and
copilot. So there's one passenger so to say it's just
two people on board the two of you. Yeah. And that has four
revolutionary new rocket engine revolutionary new rocket
engines, which makes us so special. It's a really small
engine there is not more than this. And it's extremely
powerful and efficient. So with those four small engines, we can
take it to an altitude of over 100 kilometers which makes you
an astronaut? Officially, officially you get your
astronaut wings and then the official title use
that. Do you hear what's going on? Have you figured out what
this is? Yeah, John.
Really? I mean, besides just being bullcrap,
ya know what it is, you know, these like fantasy rides where
you can, you know, you can for $20,000 you can fly in a MiG
fighter, or just 40, isn't it, this is one of them, whatever it
is, this is exactly what this is, they take you up to 60,000
feet, which by the way the Concorde did in 1972. If if they
ever get you up there for $95,000, they're going to put
you in, effectively, an F 16. With amazing new rocket engines,
if it ever happens, if it ever really happens, but they've
already got 40 people to give them $95,000 If you look at
their website, they're not going to fly until 2014. However, you
know, you have all these patches you see. And you have to go
through the training and the training, you get your G force
patch, your Desdemona simulator, whatever that is the mission
tactics course, the albatross jet course the zero G flight.
And for each one, of course, you're paying like 10 grand
outside of the 95 Grand. And let me see if I can find this video.
So here is the training flight, which you can of course, take
now after you've deposited your $95,000 in, in the hopes that in
2014, you will fly up into the interspace Yeah, I'll give you
the rest of his pitch. It's kind of funny. And and of course, you
you get a title, then you're an astronaut. So people have to
call you sir Spaceman or something like that accelerates
runway like normal plane, but then more like an F 16 With
afterburner speed that immediately goes straight up
into the air. And within a minute you break the sound
barrier, right and in three minutes, you're going Mach three
so close to 4000 kilometers an hour. And you're actually in
space already. If four minutes, the engine stops you're
weightless. You float to an altitude of over 100 kilometers
the shift turns upside down and that this whole top of the glass
canopy so yes, it's beautiful view of
Earth and you're seeing you're seeing all of this animated
because all they have is animation this
skies black of course was in you're really in space. You see
this earth was a thin layer of atmosphere. And I've never been
there yet. But I've talked to a number of astronauts who have
been there and they will they'll claim that is really magical and
life changing experience. And the two of you have their 7
billion people down there. It makes you ambassador for Mother
Earth itself immediate ambassador
of Mother Earth itself. So I just want people to understand
because because you know, this isn't the papers here and it's
the same with Richard Branson. This is bullshit. This is not
some magical fantastic. Oh, finally spaceflight for her
normal human beings. No, it's a fantasy ride. They're selling
people with way too much money a bunch of bullcrap. And part of
it is you pay an extra 20,000 for the flight in the L 39.
Albatross trainer because you have to train in order to do
this magical spaceflight. Here's the video.
The L 39. Training Mission training mission is specifically
designed for a space expedition Corporation. It creates
realistic mission circumstances similar to the actual links
spaceflight. Now the time has come to make space accessible.
Together with former pilots of the Royal Dutch Air Force,
future astronauts fly and experienced the very same
maneuvers and G forces. The ultimate space flight
experience.
It's a scam for rich people to stop believing it. Yeah, well, I
just had to get it off my chest, because it's so irritating.
Because in fact, I even got to play. See Kevin B's pet D on
today. I just want people to know that this is no big deal.
60,000 feet 80,000 feet. It's all been done. This is nothing
special. It's just a bunch of rich boys pretending to be
astronauts, and they hire ex astronauts to do their pitch
videos. This is nothing special.
Yeah, well, it's and a couple of guys have actually gone up with
the Russians but it cost $28 million. Talking about somebody
with too much money. That's a little different,
though. That's that's not what this is. That's no, that's
different.
They actually take you up and drop you off at a space. That
just doesn't sound like a come a good weekend. To me.
That's something like I really want to do. No, no, I agree. So
anyway, I call that the Bogota frontier.
All right. I saw a movie the other night. People might want
to check it out. And that was that visioneers in 2008 movie Be
with just it's just a it's definitely something if you're
it's offbeat, and Zach Galef and van and FANTIC, Danny Kanak. So
whatever his name is, and a bunch of other it's kind of a
big movie about, about this corporation that's taken over
the place and, and the solute is giving everyone the finger. So
it's kind of you know, it's kind of juvenile the movie in many
ways. But it's about people. They started exploding. Just out
of the blue. Yeah, they just blow up. And so I think it's
actually an homage to spontaneous human combustion,
right, which
you've been trying to one level, which you've been tracking for
many, many years. This is one
Oh, yeah. specialities. Yes, I'm glad to see somebody finally
made a movie. It has a fantastic rating of six out of 10
on Rotten Tomatoes,
it's free on your Netflix. Hey,
did I see that the cloud failed on Christmas where Netflix just
fell apart? And no one could watch?
No, I didn't know that. Yeah. It was pretty funny. Doesn't
surprise me?
Of course not. It's like this. Like, oh, yeah, it was like
Netflix. And of course, Amazon streaming stuff didn't work
either. I mean, we we don't have any of that here. But I just
thought that was pretty funny yet. Yeah, really? Now, man, I'm
gonna do what I'm all over now. Right. Right now with my new
thing is aprs. You got to get this.
AP or as What Does that ring a bell?
Well, it's been around for 20 years, I think automatic packet
reporting Reporting System System. Yeah. It's basically
Twitter for ham radio. It's pretty cool. I was able to send
an
email, let me go to one of the finds find ham sites, I was able
to as I was
able to send an email from my handheld. Radio, it's kind of a
mind bender. When you when you see how it works, but it's
really mature. It's been around for a long time. And so they
have an Internet backbone. But if that falls away, then it
still works. And you can just send messages to each other. And
so I actually have people sending, sending, it's kind of
like a Twitter that you need a license for? And I like that.
What license do you need? Do you need a general to use this
thing?
No, no, no, no, you can do it with a technician license. And I
just want to say something about the ham radio licenses to
everybody who's been hearing us talk about this. If you have if
you've been if you've ever talked to someone who's into ham
radio, and I think even we might have given this, this perception
that like, Oh, you have to study for this test. And you have to
do this test. And it's really like a test man. It's like
technical test, is the biggest bunch of bullcrap. Because the
answers by law with the questions, the multiple choice
questions are published. Okay? So with the four with the four
answers, three of which are wrong, they may be in a
different order. So even if you weren't interested, you only
have to memorize all the questions and the answers, that
for every test, it's the same for the general and same for the
extra class. This is if you can, if you can memorize, even if you
don't understand a thing about it, you can still pass this
test. So I don't want any magic, that it's tough or whatever.
Anyone who knows anything about computers can probably without
without getting the Yeah, yeah, without 75% of exactly.
So you can pass this test, guaranteed, guaranteed you can
pass this test. And it's worth it because we can do fun things
and we can you know, and without all the eight holes, you know,
as because most eight holes won't even go for the test. So,
pass the test, take the test, even the technician pass the
test, join the club, there's a lot of cool stuff we can do.
That's my pitch.
I like it. You're good. I'm glad. I'm glad you're on board.
I'm also dispelling the myth that is once they've removed the
the requirements for Morse code, which by the way, now that I've
actually learned it five words per minute, really, is that what
stopped me from from wanting to do this test, which still had
all the questions and answers published, anyone can do five
words a minute. It's really not that hard. But you don't even
have to do that anymore. So get on board with the plan. Join us
it's Twitter with a license and worldwide and without the stupid
wires and no log files and no tracking. And you can and we can
be awesome.
Yeah, I think people should get it. Everyone should get a ham
license. It's not a big deal. If they listen.
If they listen to this program, they should.
Yeah, they should. Yeah. It's not Big Deal is good to have.
It's kind of cool in some nerdy way. People always say I'm a
nerd. I'm a geek, willing get your ham license if you're a
nerd and especially some of the women out there. Yeah, we like
to call themselves geeky girls. Oh, I'm geeky. I'm a nerd. Yeah,
a lot of actresses do this. You know? What's the name of that
girl in the love Ms. Show? She's Oh, I'm a geek. I'm a geek. I'm
a kind of I play games on the computer. This I'm a geek.
Oh, you mean Jolie O'Dell?
Julio Dells. She's, she's not an actress. Maybe she is. No, I'm
thinking of Anne Hathaway really claims to be a geek girl. She's
not a geek girl know when she says you asked her. Like, the
computer
buzzing her out at Mollywood Mollywood. You should have a ham
radio license.
Ma if Molly get a ham license. I'm done banning her from
Twitter.
You're banning her from or you're blocking her which one
blocking button, isn't it? F.
John F Dvorak.
Mickey should get a license.
She doesn't know she does not claim to be a geek girl at all.
She doesn't No, no, no, no, she is not going to get her license.
Now I think Natalie del Conte. There's another one
right? Oh, Nalli del Conte must get a license. How
about Veronica Belmont? Absolutely. She
makes a big deal out of being a geek.
If you don't have your ham license, you are not a geek
girl.
And I think we've gotten to something here. This is going to
be our this is 2018. Ladies and gentlemen. We're kind of rolling
it out in advance. But a heads up on what we're going to be
pushing.
This is the new agenda on the no agenda show.
Yes. The new notice the new no agenda agenda? The new no
agendas
agenda. Exactly. And you have an under Show clip here that you
want to play or is that not something? Yeah,
let me let me set it up. It's a it's just a long, Dan Burton was
a congressman who we headed up a bunch of committees in Congress
who did most of the investigative stuff, and
actually have two clips here. But just a one, we need to play
the end to show clip. He talks about what congressional powers
you have what Congress can and cannot do, and what the
President can and cannot do. And it's up to Congress to
investigate the president. And he has a few anecdotes about his
days as the chief investigator when he was heading the
committee that did the house rules. And some of you had two
or three committees and this is the one he was only going after
Clinton. Right. Okay, gotcha. Always going after Clinton. And
he has some interesting anecdotes that are worth
listening to.
Nice. Okay, we will roll that out. And we will have our final
broadcast of the best podcast in the universe on Sunday.
And that final 2012 broadcast.
That's what you think.
Well, yeah, you never know.
So let's see if we can get some 474 nights in just before we we
end out the year. Thank you. Again, thank
you. Chance, thank
you again for supporting us day 21 and exile here and get my
nation low lands in the morning. I'm Adam curry.
And from Northern northern northern northern northern
Silicon Valley. I'm John C. Dvorak, we back on Sunday
right here with more no agenda.
And when you want to explain to people about the investigations
power of Congress, and what role it plays generally, how do you
explain that role of Congress?
The Congress has the responsibility to ferret out
waste, fraud and abuse in government. And in the executive
branch, were supposed to oversee that most committees in the
Congress in the house don't do a really good job of it. When I
became chairman new charged me with the responsibility of
really being aggressive in a number of investigations, I
investigate Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug
Administration, the FBI, as well as the White House. And we found
that there were people in jail for 30 Some years for crimes
they didn't commit. J. Edgar Hoover knew about it. And like
Mr. jail cell body of Massachusetts, so there were a
lot of things that were wrong and government that weren't
readily known. And so when we had our investigations, we were
very, very aggressive. Now, what did we do? I issued over 1200
subpoenas. I don't think anybody will ever touch that record. I'm
not sure it's a good record. But it was what I thought was
necessary, as because we wanted to get to the bottom of a lot of
these things. And I think it paid off. And I will tell you
this, we not only put pressure on the Clinton administration, I
put pressure on the Bush administration energy, his chief
counsel at the White House, as well, in particular with the
Saudi case was involved. And so I know you've probably heard of
Whitey Bolger, who was just captured recently. His brother,
Billy Bolger was one of the people we had before our
committee in Boston working on that, that vulture
investigation, so there were a lot of things As we did, and
that's the responsibility of Congress, the oversight of the
executive branch and the agencies of government is
extremely important. Because no matter what you believe there's
going what you think there's going to be waste, there's going
to be fraud, and there's going to be criminal activity and
abuse in any government. And you have to really take a hard look
at what was
that hyper partisanship you're talking about earlier? And some
of its root causes? Did your aggressive stance for
investigation contribute to that? And if so, is that the
price that you think is necessary to pay?
I think that it did contribute to that. Because you're really
stepping on toes. When you go after the President of the
United States, you'd better have armor plate. And you'd better
realize they're going to do whatever it takes to negate what
you say, and to put a stop to your investigation, which they
did. And they contacted them by the head of my golf team. When I
was in high school, girls I dated in school, they, they went
into everything. So I think that's one of the things you
have to expect when you're really aggressive. And it does
cause problems. But nevertheless, I have no regrets
about it. I feel if you're going to do your job and do it to the
best of your ability and live up to your commitments to the
Constitution. You have to be ready to take the slings and
arrows of outrageous fortune.
What did you learn through that experience about the powers of
the executive and the powers of the Congress?
As I said before, I learned that the President of the United
States if he has an attorney general, that will really stand
behind him. I think there's very little that can be accomplished
as far as bringing illegal activity to the fore and to
justice, Richard Nixon, he went to his Attorney General during
Watergate and didn't get his support. Had he gotten his
support, I don't think he would have left office. Conversely,
when we went after Bill Clinton and had over 100 people take the
Fifth Amendment or flee the country. And we had, I felt very
strong evidence of some illegal activities. Janet Reno really
protected him. And I think that ended up helping him a lot. But
I want to point out, and if Bill or Hillary is paying any
attention, I would say that they did some good things. And I
think that the economy of the country was helped because he
worked with Newt Gingrich. So there were some positives, but
nevertheless, I still feel like there was some things that were
wrong that we were pursuing. A second little little clip to
show you how awkward it was
that you can answer this question after six food, lots of
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