It's time for the thought. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. It's
Thursday, January
9 2013. Time for your gig on nation media assassination
episode 581. This is no agenda filled with intent to coerce,
intimidate, or harass from fuel region six. Travis I tied on
Austin, Texas in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry.
Imago is in Silicon Valley. We haven't seen rain in over a
year. I'm John C. Dvorak. Hill.
You haven't seen rain in over a year. That's bull crap.
Pretty close to it.
We had rain yesterday.
We don't have we haven't had any rain this entire rain season. We
had
a nice rain yesterday during the night and it's nice and grey and
moist and little rainy today. That's perfectly Of course we've
gone back back up to 60 degrees from subzero temperatures.
That's wild.
Yeah, no, it's great. It's great. It's great. If there's so
much to talk about today, John, I did want to start off with
something that is not a typical, no agenda topic. But you will
not hear this on any other night. You won't even hear this
on it or read about it too much on blogs or podcasts, etc.
Because of the nature of what it is.
It's the Podcast Awards.
No, that's not what it is. But since you bring it up, we had
representation that the Podcast Awards this year. Sergeant Fred,
yeah. Fred bringing his AK 47 and shoot up the place.
No, but he did apparently stand up in the middle of of the award
ceremony and shout in the morning. Good for him. And he
got a little piece of audio for us with the with the what is the
what would you call that? The guy who runs the Podcast Awards?
That would be a guy
Where's the guy who decides to dress up for that guy? He's
talking about like jeans. Is he wearing jeans? Dr. Todd
Cochran is a nice guy and he supports this show. Okay, he
what's his name? Let's give Todd Cochran Todd Cochran. Hey, Todd.
Hey, Todd.
Any MDC pennies at least. And Sergeant Fred did a little
little clip for us, Todd Cochran. He is the host that
brought you the ninth annual Podcast Awards. And right now
I'm recording this because I am one of the producers who's
representing Adam curry and John C. Dvorak here from no agenda.
How cool is that? We have representatives know, Sergeant
friends from from from Texas. Wow. He's easy. He's a great
guy. But we have representation. And I noticed Todd that there is
one category they are nominated for. Probably the best podcast
in the political space politics. But there's one category that's
missing. And that is the best podcast in the universe. Who
would win it? Well would obviously be no agenda. No
agenda. show.com. Very funny. Meanwhile, we won nothing. Oh,
by the way, I have I think for the second time in a row. Now
I've said in the opening is 2013. But it's 2014. I'm sorry,
the teleprompter needed to be updated.
That's my mistake. Oh, you said 2013. Yeah, yeah.
So that's the chat room was good for this. Like when you get
older. It
never just does this that you know, they said well, but as you
get older, you'll notice how long it takes how many months
before you put your do you sign your checks with the right date?
Yeah, I right on the money. Fact, most of last year I was
signing 2014.
So what I wanted to bring up is Marissa Meyers keynote at the
Consumer Electronics Show. Did you have a chance to see this?
Really? Yeah, really? Okay. Well,
I don't think that just see.
Well, I don't think you're going to hear much about this because
I did watch this. As you know, I've been following Marissa
Meyer. I've been a fan of hers of what she has been doing.
That can be but go on. Yeah, I think
she is now going to nail it with Yahoo. And I believe that anyone
who was in the so called Tech News reporting anyone who was in
essentially anyone who is in the USA Today market, or even what
AOL thinks they are, they need to be very, they need to be
afraid because Yahoo is going to do it.
Alright, welcome. Couple of things before you play the
clips.
I just have one. It's more of an analysis. I do have one clip
just for yucks. But go ahead.
You might be on to something because I've always been
convinced she's a poor choice for the job. And I had to assume
all I never wrote about this but I had to assume she had some
some massive idea or pitch that got her the job. And so when you
You're talking about may actually be what it is.
Absolutely. Are you on the on the ADSL today?
Oh, I'm on the same Oh, good stuff. Why is it breaking up? So
like crap?
No, it's just it's stuttering from time to time. It's okay.
Oh, yeah, no, I think that is exactly what's going on she her
pitch I found to be and by the way, this is everything that we
we stand for everything opposite for what she is doing. Just so
you said this is not like, oh boy, I want to work with her.
And let me start off by saying I loved her outfit.
Oh, well now I gotta go delis Look at that.
Get a picture because she had this knee high three quarter
sleeve Oscar de la Renta number on. That was perfect. It matched
the Yahoo colour. Now I'm not a fan of dark stockings, I think
stockings by themselves, you shouldn't happen. But here is,
here's an actual woman. She's not a model. But she's, you
know, she's playing the CEO role like you would expect a great
woman to do I'm extremely impressed. And she's really
setting out to do USA today of the web, what AOL was, you know,
when we were still using dial up. And I think she's gonna give
a lot of big arrogant players a run for their money, John, too.
It's really possible. She had, you know, Katie Couric came up
to explain it to them, the main things they're launching is
Yahoo food, which is smart. Because that market is so ready
to be captured. There's all the celebrity chefs, the talent, the
cable channels make so much sense and she's integrating the
advertising into it not with crappy ass banners, but really
letting craft you know, take over entire sections. It's what
was inevitable, you know, changing the this this display
ad format of you know, this is what a banner is all that has
been thrown out the window, I think, smartly. So it completely
redoing news. They have Katie Couric? And of course, what's
the guy from the times that poke and poke, although he's highly
irritating, and it's not just Oh, totally irritating, but it
is irritating to us. But what he's saying is, people want
technology news, but they want to know how to, you know, they
do want to see what Kim Kardashian thinks is the best
iPhone. And he didn't say that per se, but it's just they just
want to know how to put the new printer cartridges into their
printer. They want really simple answers, not what the elitist
Silicon Valley, San Francisco and also New York technology
press thinks the audience is. And I think they're spot on with
that really spot on, which is why you're not gonna hear anyone
lamenting this keynote or how on target they are. Then they bring
out Katie Couric do I've I've always thought Katie Couric was
great. And she I guess she kind of messed up there and kind of,
you know, everything kind of went away.
She's just one of the she's also a screamer.
Well, what was interesting, and here's the thing that I that I
really did not like. So this entire keynote was scripted. So
I had no idea who Marissa Meyer is, I don't think I've ever met
her. Maybe I saw in the distance one time and like, whatever.
I never met her and I'm in the business. Right.
But because it was completely scripted, and Marissa Meyer
cannot read from a prompter. If she tries to improvise, and you
know, smoke was flowing from underneath a dress. I mean, it
cannot do it. Two things happen. One, she comes across as a
moronic robot who has trouble breathing. Well, we're really
excited about here you're telling it's so
mind heavy, you might be not used to work in a big room.
Well, she's got to learn and she's got to learn to just be
yourself. Quit the reading. But then when Katie Couric comes on,
he's
kind of a kind of snooty as herself has always seemed to me.
I have no idea. This is this is part of the problem. You know,
you need some personality when you're doing this stuff, and you
need to be a little bit yourself. Particularly when you
bring Katie Couric up who is a prompter Pro.
She and a bubbly person purse. She's a telephone genic
personality. Yes.
And Marissa is he's telegenic too,
though she's, yeah, she's actually she's photogenic too.
She's Yeah. telegenic, photogenic and probably pretty
in person, which is the big three. Yeah, but yeah, wait
a minute. Let me write that down. telegenic, photogenic and
in person. It's the big three, everybody. It is very nice.
Okay. So Katie Couric comes up. And
then the funny thing about the big three, not everybody is the
big three. Most people are one or two or one or two of them.
Oh, no, it's very hard to have the big three I agree. And she's
doing little jokes off the prompter. She's doing some
stick. She's I think I don't I didn't clip it. But she said I'm
so old. That back in the day harass was too words. Yeah.
Okay, that was funny. And so she's doing a little bit of
stick but she's so good at reading the prompter and, and
being casual, and she just completely nails it and then you
put her next to Marissa and this is the clip I made. Marissa just
a brief introduction or the follow up because Katie has
already done like, 1015 minutes of great material then, so you
can hear how she just boom, boom, boom, she's Neyland. She's
still on the message. And then Marissa comes back and how poor
how poor her present. Clearly, I'm setting us up for a pitch
for the creative where I Consulting Group, because
Marissa needs a lot of help. So let's just listen to this
noisy, wonderful world we live in. And that's why I could not
be more excited to be part of the Yahoo team. Could you tell
us a little bit? Yes.
Did you just hear this? So she's she she forgot to leave a little
pause. He
jumped as yet she jumped the prompter. She dumped the
prompter. But then she also goes, Oh, yeah. And then she.
But she's making a choice. Listen to the show. She didn't
allow for them. But she was she was she's obviously too much.
She's self conscious. And she wasn't paying attention. She
wasn't really actually working the room at all she
was she wasn't even listening. She just reading along until it
says Marisa speak. And that Yeah. Oh, yes. Like a, like a
seal
we live in. And that's why I couldn't be more excited to be
part of the Yahoo team. Can you could you tell us a little bit?
Yes.
Could you tell us a bit more about some of what you're hoping
to do at Yahoo. Voices stressed out. I think one of the most
exciting things for me personally about these efforts,
the opportunity at Yahoo is it really is a blank slate. As many
of you know, I really enjoy interviewing. So I'm very
excited that the listen
to the very important what she's about to say there is a real
nugget in here prospect of
interviewing newsmakers, politicians, sports figures,
philanthropists, all kinds of different people, obviously,
tech leaders, social entrepreneurs, authors, and
really anyone who we believe has an important and interesting
story to tell. And since we live, as Marissa has talked
about in such a fragmented media world, the extraordinary global
reach of Yahoo. This is
very important what she's saying while everyone is moving behind
the firewall, in their desperate attempt to make money, which of
course restricts the audience of an interviewee, which is a big
problem, because if you're a PR company wants to get as much
reach for you as possible, right?
Yet, you're on the biggest megaphone that you can find.
Yeah,
you don't want to be behind the paywall on the Wall Street
Journal, or the New York Times. You want to be out in front in
the global reach of Yahoo. And she's inviting every single one
of these people this Katie Couric very smart.
It's tremendously exciting, not only for me, but for potential
interview subjects. And we're also in the process, Mercer
reimagined,
that was an ad lib by the way, we're also in the process.
Marissa, that was Natalie. That's how you do prompt or
Marissa pay attention, I
think how we can take both original and curated content,
and deliver it in a much more thorough and useful way,
particularly on mobile devices. So all those things are very
exciting, and I can't wait to get started. I can't wait
either. And I'm excited to see your first interviews. All
right, thanks. I can't wait. Alex Jones. Say Good to see you.
We got the music we got produced. Now bring back the
energy of Marissa Meyer everybody cheering for
Marissa.
As Katie said, the news landscape has become fragmented.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to find exactly what
you're looking for.
And then she brings out that 12 year old kid she bought
something from some the suddenly kid
right dead software package. And he
was reading from the prompter. By the way a pug is also doing
something smart. He's going to review Kickstarter projects.
Hello, hello. It's almost like Ron Bloom is running Yahoo. I'm
telling you it is this it is so Exactly. Except now it's time
for this. Now it is time for this. In the end, the native
advertising is going to be 50% of their content. Because the
content or the ads, the ad network is really the
distribution mechanism. So it's all going to be advertisers
making content and by the way, it won't suck I think it's
probably going to be good.
Yeah, it'll suck.
It'll suck for us. Because look, John, if you when
you were who's doing it?
Yeah, also know the only thing the only reason and I'll stop
because not that important. But if you turn on the television,
you look at cable and you look at Bravo and Luca, look at EA
and you look at just all the reality stuff and even what
History Channel a&e has become. It's, it's what people want is
what the 80% of the people want. And instead of being a elitist,
and then and go following, and particularly the technology
press will be defying at this a lot. In fact, I saw this week in
Google, they actually showed some of the Yahoo technology
site, and we're Oh, that's so stupid, so lame, which is like
the stupidest thing you can do. That's stupid than being stupid.
But okay. This is going to be very, very successful, because
it is exactly that low level of common denominator. No, it's
what people you
always drop into this. Yeah. But it's what years ago going on, I
have a great reality shows where
it's what PS if you want to make money that way? Now, of course,
we are not interested in that. So we're not we're not going to
do this. And it just proves to me again that, you know, we're
going to be poor for a very long time. We just, I can't bring
myself to do this crap. But they're on the right track. And
I just wanted to you know, it's one of those things you're not
going to hear a lot of people talk about it because they're
deathly afraid. And this is exactly
the reason. They probably just ignore
it. No, no, no. Okay, fine. They're ignorant. Oh, seriously,
I don't think
I didn't pay any attention to it. I'm not deathly afraid. You
are all
know. Because you're not running an entertainment company. You're
not running a technology news company. That's why you're not
afraid yet. I'm not afraid I don't give a crap. But I am a
fan of Marissa Meyer. I think she's she's doing some
interesting stuff. And I'll say, I liked that she's being a woman
while doing it. Not some bull dyke.
More more often. You have to admire that.
Oscar de la Renta is what I say. Bring it on Marissa. Anyway, God
who is a little warm in here. Miss Mickey is out.
Photographing brains again, so I have no claim. Yeah, the Oh, you
don't? Yes, yes. Just publicise it sounds like she's been doing
an entire series of Brains.
Brains actual brains. Yes. Like, lamb brains. Human Brain, human
brow brain. Human brains, brains, Bad Brains. Human
brains.
She's already I think she's done like 10 or whatever. Yeah, our
buddy or Professor Ross, the brain, the official brain
professor of the no agenda show?
Yeah. What about him?
He has a whole bunch of brains. Okay. He's got bottled brains.
He's got bottled brains up there in
the lab. And she's just taking pictures of them.
And she gets to move them around and do whatever she wants.
I know. That's just a bounce.
Okay, I don't know if she's allowed to bounce them around.
Okay. Anyway, everybody. Welcome to the best podcast in the
universe. Not an insect, and bullcrap. Who told you that? I
got an email from from Ryan. He says Adam, I was thinking about
your recent show and how girls are taking over the tech shows.
And you and John said definitely follow this model for your new
email show. With a Twist. He says you should call it she
mails on emails.
Exactly. Alright, so that was just a crap I had to get out of
the way besides the fact that it is national. What is it today
today? We're actually we're in the middle of Cervical Health
Awareness Month. That's good. Yeah, well, that's for HPV so
you'll see a lot of Gardasil propaganda, a
lot of promotion for drugs this month in Africa to get the year
started, right. I've, if you want I can play a couple of
things. I have that because it gets a couple of questions.
I have to ask you, you know, that's why I'm here.
So you want to play the jingle force the slides? The swine flu?
Yeah, I'm happy I got a couple things on that myself. Here we
go.
Which is bow so want to thank the who did that jingle by the
way is that?
I think that's sir Jeff. I'm not sure maybe it sounds like
whatever it
was, it turned out to be useful for more than just that one
season.
Yeah, well, you got it until nine. I have to flu
clips. One of them is of course the regular flu clip and the
second is the follow up which has the pitch for motion to get
a shot. So let's play flu part one. This is a question I'm
in recent years Regional Medical Centre has put up this flu tent
outside inside today doctors treated patients who were not
critically ill with the hopes of sending them home the same day.
It's a sign of just how fast the flu may be spreading in the Bay
Area. Today Regional Medical Centre of San Jose set up for
hospital beds inside this tent next to the E Are to absorb the
overflow of patients. Because of this, we felt that the emergency
department had the potential to become somewhat overwhelmed and
we wanted to be able to treat these patients quickly and
safely. The hospital has seen up to 70 more patients a day come
in with flu like symptoms. Most have tested positive for h one
and one which caused the worldwide pandemic in 2009.
Across town Valley Medical Centre says it's seen a similar
dramatic spike in flu cases in the past 48 hours. All
right, you have a question for me, John.
I actually have two questions now that listen to that clip.
All right. One if the if you remember during the h1 and one
2009 pandemic, pandemic, everybody in their sister got
shots in fact, I had photos of people lined up around the
block getting shot Yes, lined up around the block. They were
lined
up around the block, which means most people got shots I get
think for this that little episode, I guess. Are you Are
they doubt telling us that the shots was no good help because
of these? Because part two of the question is if everybody's
testing for H they testing positive for h one n one. Then
obviously the earlier shot didn't do anything or just
crapped out after your what was telling me what? Give me some
explanation here. You've got Dr. Currie.
All right. Well, thank you for asking. esteemed colleague, Dr.
Dvorak. First of all, we must harken back to 2009 when the
actual pandemic was created, not by an abundance of people
receiving the flu, but by the lowering of standards of what
equated to a pandemic by the World Health Organisation.
Right, right. So I agree with so that was not necessarily an
actual pandemic, but the the baseline was lowered,
right, it was called the pandemic and the term I'm using
now what I'm missing
from the reporting here is that at the time, we were told that
each h one and one flu and flu season was unique. And we would
have to receive a new unique shot every year for the new
uniqueness of the unique h one n one
is refers to the H zero, h two and three h h five and seven.
Yeah, but h one n ones the same as h one n was.
I recall at the time they even said that that could vary that
this was the particular h1 and one I'm just
okay. Well, I that's bullcrap. But let's go on with the second
part of this or sorry. The second question is, if you ever
had the flu,
yes, I in fact, I had gone to the doctor for the flu. I know
I've never gone to the doctor
for the flu. You have no people who have ever gotten it. I have
actually, I think years ago and I remember other people that go
to the doctor for the flu. I know some people who do that.
When do they test you for h one and one you go in? They say you
have the flu, they tell you what to do. And you leave? Where do
you get it? Are they giving people? Are they sucking blood
out of people? No. In fact, I believe that they will diagnose
she was having flu like symptoms. They will not even say
you have the flu you have flu like symptoms. Yes. Yes.
So how are all these people tests positive for h one n one.
Is it possible, John? That we are under attack by the
pharmaceutical industry with a PR move to try and get us to get
more pharmaceuticals into our bodies?
That's not answering the question. But it may be a fact.
Okay, let's go to part two, which is where they promote the
flu shot and then they have a little gotcha in there to really
get you going on this wanting to get that flu shot or chills,
body aches, coughs, coughing, runny nose. symptoms. Stop. So
this is a picture they have on the screen and he says rhynie
news. I wouldn't go to a doctor that ever said runny news.
Those are to be avoided. Runny news. Yeah, can I continue?
Yes, please. And this is a doctor. That was a doctor there
and now they gotta kind of wait. I'm gonna go I'm gonna go back
to there any news? Or chills, body aches, coughs, coughing,
runny nose. Symptoms typical of this.
To date. There have been five flu related deaths across the
Bay Area, including two reported in Marin County today. Neither
person had received the flu vaccine. It's not too late to
get your shot. Peak flu season in California is January through
March. And tomorrow morning, the hospital says it will set up an
even larger tent and its parking lot. It will hold three times as
many patients and it will continue to use that tent
throughout this flu season. All right. Yes, they
have to use the tent. They got tents all over the place.
I picked up a note. A little little ditty here about a death
a swine flu h1 and one virus related death from Portland,
Oregon. Good evening,
I'm Nina bellhop. We start with the spread of the flu turning
deadly a five year old boy from Eugene has died and local
emergency rooms are quickly filling up with other flu
victims. As that's the top story from the night teams are at
Edwards he's live at OHSU with a boy died despite desperate
efforts to save his life.
What doctors are telling us right now is that mostly they're
seeing h one n one that's the swine flu. It's the same strain
of flu that caused a pandemic back in 2009. That killed 1000s
of people.
Here's the problem with this report. There's a follow up.
This is a written report a five year old Eugene, Oregon boy died
from flu related complications. In late December after Health
officials say he caught the h1 and one virus Caloundra Burgess
said her son Ronan received the flu vaccine in November. All
three of my children had the nasal spray. My other two kids
didn't get sick at all she said to the mother of this five year
old is saying yeah, well he got the you got the vaccine. Oh,
real funny how they don't mention that in this little
ditty. Oh, they
mentioned the two in the marine county who dropped dead they
didn't have a shot. They say
I think NBC takes the cake with this. NBC had a report which
Wow, this well, I'll just play it and we'll point out the the
obvious bits here season the
CDC is out was new flu numbers tonight almost on schedule,
almost on schedule. You mean the advertising by schedule or the
schedule and getting everything at Walgreens? I mean, what
schedule it
is getting worse. Fully half the states in the US are now
reporting widespread flu activity. This time though a lot
of younger adults are getting hit by it. We get the story
tonight from our chief medical editor, Dr. Nancy Schneider.
We're seeing a lot of people who are previously healthy in their
30s 40s and 50s. Getting very sick with flu.
I had the flu two weeks ago. And I believe probably because I had
the h1 and one in 2009 which I did not die from. I did not feel
incredibly like I was going to die. It was not a nice flu. It
took about a week I lived. I was not the healthiest individual at
the time. It did. I did have to stop smoking because it was just
I couldn't smoke and breathe. Which by the way, is kind of a
common thing you figure out later in life, usually with the
h one n one type of influenza.
Just a few weeks ago the Centres for Disease Control reported
widespread influenza activity in 10 states. numbers released
today showed that as more than doubled to 25 states with
widespread flu activity. Texas has been one of the hardest hit
No I happen to live here. And we have friends here and interact
with people and we're out and about this. I have not heard any
any people going oh my god. Can you believe this pandemic? I
can't believe
we got a big university sitting right there with a target
audience for that
please Robin left and right Sandra Rashid beat what nothing
but trouble Yeah, I was just saying you university there was
just got 40,000 Students should be I haven't
already probably haven't heard Professor Ross go oh my god.
It's just I had the classrooms are empty. I'm going to ask you
to go ask him. Sandra Rollins who just got her flu shot at
this Houston area Walgreens. Let's bring in the sponsor at
this area. Greens. There we go. It's been sick
before and says she never wants to go through that again. Now
listen
to her messaging. It was miserable several months with
flu and then pneumonia. Wait several months with flu. Several
months with flu and pneumonia. Wait, it gets better. That's
just
puts you out for several months. Several months.
Buzzkill Jr had it. And there's a couple of things about that
word I should mention. He had it. He just got over it took him
about a week but he actually took Tamiflu while having the
flu which actually lessens the longitude the length of the flu.
But he his wife now wife heart heart essay took Tamiflu right
off the bat and she got through it without any problems. You
never got the flu and I had my I always have my Relenza at the
ready and I never didn't get it but so you have to use the
Relenza but here's what I thought was interesting. The tam
of flu which used to be over the counter without insurance at 90
bucks because of Obamacare is now $300 and insurance pays $200
of it or almost $200 of it and you have to pay 105 Showbie for
insurance it used to be 90 bucks and now that you got insurance
it's 105 Unbelievable scam these the way they're pulling this
this farm pharmaceuticals are pulling this this price rigging
and the government does nothing about it the Obamacare can't do
anything about it because really the insurance companies that are
doing everything and they're putting up with it because it's
all part of some sort of a kickback deal. And it this is
just completely out of control. So I'm gonna have to pay like
what I used to have to pay less than $100 for I'm gonna have to
pay hundreds of dollars for with insurance. Anyway,
so you can get one of those FSA spending accounts. Let me tell
you how much fun that is. I told you that we got this, right. So
because an FSA ID we pay so much out of pocket because insurance
won't cover it, particularly for Mickey the stuff that really
helps me. Yeah. And then, and the first three times she's
tried to pay with this thing. It's either declined, or they
accepted it. And then they send you a note and they say, Well,
you know, the IRS is going to come and check on you unless you
can prove that this was a valid. It's like it almost you don't
you don't want to go to the scam is what you're saying?
Yes.
But on the website for the FSA. They have a store. So if you
want to buy
that's interesting here, let me did I have to draw my story in,
let me let me just finish what you can buy on. So you can use
your debit card on the FSA website. For contact lens
solution. I think tampons are covered. It's like a, it's like
a General Mills website is just consumer goods that are loosely
related to medical stuff, and that you can buy with your FSA,
pre tax free debit card, but try and give it to an actual doctor.
And you have to jump through all these hoops.
Yeah, I'm noticing this is going on Humana has a drug programme
but one of these donut old deals. And if you use it, if you
ever use it, you get a phone call. And they say yeah, hey,
you get a phone call. Hey, we see that you used it. You know
if you ordered it directly from us? Yeah, there you go. Instead
of the pharmacy that are my loyal pharmacy where I can go
get an emergency pill. I mean, the pharmacy is very useful to
have a pharmacist that you know, yeah, when they're washed. I
forgot to get it in. I forgot to renew something you've just run
down there, as opposed to ordering online. But they try
they're trying to they're trying to cut out the pharmacies, do
these drugs, these insurance companies? Yeah, it's
unbelievable
that you mean they just they just want you to have a health
provider. And the health provider will be some programmed
bought at the doctor's office who plays a video for you and
says, here's what you should take, and they'll just mail it
directly to your home. I think
that's exactly what's going on. They have one day delivery
through Amazon and Amazon drugs, Amazon, Amazon pharmacy. Amazon
will have you put in a red book and Amazon will have a pharmacy.
Do you have the book? So obvious? You're right, you are
absolutely right and so on.
And of course they're rebooting. I mean, we've already known that
Watson was going to become which will be the thing that
prescribes the drugs the the out for IBM so I'm listening to the
business report this is yesterday and they've decided
that guess they didn't get enough publicity for this show
play the This is a report that came out yesterday the Watson
reboot clip and it and it's like wait a minute, I think like this
is not new. I think
this is actually in the Red Book. This what we're about to
hear
VM supercomputer, the one with the analytical software that
beat human contestants on the game show Jeopardy a few years
back. Well, three years after the company began seriously
marketing Watson is having the ability to learn helping
corporate clients tackle business and social problems.
Watson is apparently struggling smart as he is to make money
reports a total revenue was less than $100 million as of October,
but IBM promises a major announcement about its Watson
use unit on Thursday. Hoping finally that Watson is smart
enough to make some I'm gonna make a prediction Tyler Yeah,
health care, health care and health care.
Wow, you should be on the no agenda show you're so incredibly
smart. I'm going to make a prediction healthcare. So there
was some problem one of their big customers IBM and this is
what IBM does. The one of the I have the article here one of the
first big projects University of Texas the medical at the
Anderson Cancer Centre they this is where they thought they were
going to make a lot of a lot of money with with Watson but it
isn't quite delivering the way they expected it to. And so, you
know, this is the big focus and I guess they have some big
announcement is that today Thursday being today, John for
this,
it would be today right? So I happened during the show
couldn't it could could be breaking
news, but that we predicted this we said that Watson was going
because of course a computer is so much smarter than a
physician. You just have to put all the data known to man in
there and just like Jeopardy, it'll just pop out the answers
Oh, you need this cancer drug. Clear. This leukaemia will just
give you this stuff. Yeah, that so? Yeah. This this in the book.
If it is in the Buddhism during the boot do we pick that up
right during the phoney baloney Jeopardy show which was just a
scam right?
You remember the highest order? You remember? I ain't too Dude
Ken Jennings about we should I should get those clips again. He
was like, Yeah, whatever. Sure. The computer one. Ken Jennings
was the most winning is
one for one reason. And one reason Oh,
button faster. Yeah. And one had the answers. Well, they
Yeah, they had the answers and they could hit the button faster
than any human. So that was the key it was just a reflex. So it
was just a and they got so much attention, of course that it was
a scam from the get go.
I did something yesterday, which I think can be proud of while
you'd be happy about I sent an email to Uncle Don and Meg. And
said, we're
asking for a meeting with Bobby. And I said I want a meeting with
him. Yeah, well, you def should have a meeting with him.
I said, we're coming to New York. We want to take you guys
out to dinner, we need to talk and the and the impetus for
this. But the inspiration or the whatever it actually a number of
things. Some things we'll talk about later today to, of course,
my uncle being a longtime high level CIA operative, but also
ambassador to Expedia. He's in the Wikipedia, Donald Gregg. But
not with his height though. And he is tall. He's over six feet
two,
I think. Oh, well, once you put it in, you know, you could put
it in I should.
Also he was ambassador to South Korea, ran what I think was a
front organisation, the Korean society. And he's still out
there giving speeches, I think he's, he's doing a winter class
to some university into this fantastic guy. But particularly
about this Rodman business because you'll recall that he
essentially agrees the last time Dennis Rodman went to North
Korea my uncle went on Fareed Zakaria and said this is kind of
he's kind of right you know, all these guys want up there is to
be treated as an equal they don't want armistice, they want
to be individual independent country, they are looking to
blow anybody up but okay, if you want to keep up this charade, of
Oh, they're so scary. And so CNN did some interview with Dennis
Rodman and the only and of course this is it's so smartly
done by the presstitute whores because God forbid we have
anyone make any sense and say anything? No, we have to we have
to air the piece where Rodman clearly his lip ring is in the
way no one understands what
this is like when they did the flu started to Texas. I was
thinking well, let's bring out one of those Toothless wonders
represent Texas
I got crap from somebody by the way because they liked that we
that we highlighted that as bullcrap propaganda about people
in the south the guy lives in New York City, he said but then
you were you went on you kept doing it and that was like
really hard and people think I'm stupid in New York because of my
accent. Okay, whatever I don't like this. Yeah, what No. Oh, I
can I get myself a drink. Only if
I have a flu shot with it. So here is the person. This is the
piece from the Dennis Rodman interviews before you
go on to that guy. You can tone it down. You don't have to have
a horrid southern accent if you're in an area where it's not
appreciated. just tone it down. I
agree. I agree but but I
diction lessons there are so many can you imagine in New York
with all those Broadway theatres? How many voice coaches
there are? They weren't cheap.
Yeah. I'm getting I'm getting packet loss from you. I'd have
no idea why it's okay still, but if it gets any worse,
it's worse because you call me it might be
better let me let me call you right now because I just want to
do this oh, it'll be it'll be worth it. Oh, calling Skype and
connecting and that is I want to discuss so as you know, we like
to play the things you don't hear or highlight the things you
won't read or just talk about things that are just not
discussed at all. And in this case, there was a piece of
Dennis Rodman speaking coherently which of course is
not repeated by the mainstream media which I wanted to play and
this and this by itself again has just spurred me on to reach
out to my uncle to go and get the real deal from him get some
get some you know, some inside info which I know I can squeeze
out of him
one day One day this doors gonna open because this thing guys
here, all of us, Christie Fen Dennis. Always every everybody
here. We could just open the door just a little bit for
people to come here and do one thing
and then This makes a great point. There are other Americans
here on this trip, you have to understand that we're not alone.
There's one passage with about 50 people. There are other
Americans that had been to Korea in and out of Korea. They're
here on the tour they're here with us we interacted with them
as well. The key is you can bait Dennis or any of our churches
Charles that's not my organisation and so
this this kind of goes on for a little while but what the point
these guys are making is don't believe the stupid media you can
you can travel to Korea you can their trips, you can go on
there's a ski resort if they're open for business. Yeah, just
you know, an O and G turns out that that story about Kim Jong
on feeding his uncle to 120 rabid dogs turns out that was
probably satire that got propagated somehow Oh gee, you
don't say to these guys are actually doing something really
good. And then somehow I never even heard of Kenneth Bay. Had
you heard of this guy? Who can his base now? Of course we can't
have any positive news about North Korea that would be crazy.
So let's dig up this guy who was incarcerated for 15 years
because under the charge that he's a South Korean American
South Korean American under the charge he was trying to
overthrow the North Korean government but uh because he's a
South Korean American now it's just crazy that Dennis Rodman
would go to that country because they're holding on to Kenneth
Bae BE A E.
Yeah, got it.
And as you know, there's no question of what this guy did
and it's just oh the evil dictator these guys are crazy.
Your your media is is so so badly failing you right now with
this guy whose name was different by the way he had a
false name first it was like some K Jun. Some crap like that.
Who cares? Look at the people who are incarcerated here in
America. It took about one guy it's all crazy. It's all just
nuts. Dennis Rodman is crazy. Man, you gotta be you know, I
learned it was Metallica's manager. The hell was that guy's
name? Oh, hold on a second Metallica. Who was Len? Lonnie,
let me see what's his name? Mensa thing was mench. I can't
remember the guys name. Keywords come to MTV with torn corduroy
pants, dirty sneakers, a paper bag. He didn't eat it. That was
his briefcase of paper bag. And I didn't know who it was, you
know? Who's this guy sitting in the corner? He was a
multimillionaire Peter manche that's his name. And he looks
like a like a Klobuchar. And it's always those guys. It's
always the guys that you think are stupid, crazy. Morons. No
losers. Be careful, because they're the ones that often have
it.
So I'm gonna read you something from the article about Bay, but
it's just just a very information. In January, Bill
Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and Google's chief
executive Eric Schmidt attempted to secure base released during a
visit to North Korea but they were not allowed to meet him.
Right. I read that to wonder what that's all about. Yeah,
we'll make this bay guy that's the question.
Yeah, boy sounds like a spy first of all, but okay.
Yeah. Da rice like the those those two women from Berkeley
that just so happened to be sneaking across the border. Now.
They were hiking. Oh, they were hiking on the North Korean
border because that's where when I think I can I don't think of
Marin County. I don't think a mountain Tamil pious. I don't
think it just hiking around the woods of Yosemite, I think of
the mountains of the North Korean border. That's where I
want to go hiking, hiking, hiking bonanza. Yes. It's
It's fabulous. But it's so flowers anyway. So I'm going to
get as close to source as possible this year and probably
won't be until a little bit close to spring. But I'm looking
forward to that and of course, the balls. So it's something hit
me really, really hard this morning. Because I was thinking
about Uncle Don. And I recalled three years ago, when we did the
show here it is the first original hot pockets to where we
went to to Armonk, where he lives and we stayed in Armonk in
their driveway. You remember he was listening to the show, and
he took notes and it was it was it was really it was a beautiful
time.
Can I Can I mention this is an interruptive while you just
mentioned Armonk, which is interesting that there Do you
know why IBM relocated? Our mark is its international
headquarters.
Yeah, I believe it is outside of the fallout zone. If a bomb
hits it's safest to place in that part in the West in the
East Coast. If there was a nuclear chain,
yeah, yeah. Well, the reason he's there is because that is
where his wife on mag. That is where she was born. That house
was passed on from my grandparents. Jim, it's a small
house, but it has land that is, I mean, it's worth millions
because all the hedge fund douchebags are up there now and
his neighbours apps, every single one of his neighbours are
assholes. And he'll admit it. Like, surrounded by him, what
are you going to do? So I was thinking of Uncle Don, and I
remember we were watching PBS news hour because I was I was
following in their, in their rhythm that they're 8384 and but
they're very active politically. And you know, of course, he was
a national security adviser to Bush Senior but he actually
converted became a Democrat voted for Obama. I haven't
spoken to him in a while since that, by the way. And but he I
remember him watching the PBS NewsHour, and he said, and he
was angry. And I don't know his exact words, but it was kind of
like, What the eff is Israel doing? What are these guys
doing? And it's these little things you got to pay attention
to with a guy like Don Gregg. He was mad he was really mad. I
didn't I haven't really paid attention to it that much. Until
this morning, and I'm going through all of my notes and a
draft Glenn Greenwald did an interview in on a foreign
Israeli television station and and he says all there's lots of
stuff to come. Lots of stuff to come about Israel. And then all
of a sudden it all came together and hit me like a tonne of
bricks. Glenn Greenwald the if you look at his previous work at
Salon, he he is what we have discussed on this show and is
often described as a self loathing Jew. And in particular,
when it comes to Palestine, when the flotilla was attacked by or
I got attacked
by the attack by the Israelis really
it was the IDF was the worst Defence Force Defence Forces key
was all over he he's been very, very anti Israel, particularly
about Palestine.
Right and so as the event that's why fits so well in with the
other group that that's always hanging out with democracy now
people which is very anti Israel pro Palestine,
yes. And this, by the way, is a severe leftist position. So,
Uber Uber,
democratic, progressive left they
they're, yeah, they're all They're all.
They're all over Berkeley, they always have liberate Palestine.
Exactly. bumper stickers,
exactly. Who again, financed Laura Poitras, his documentary
and Dirty Wars for Jeremy Scahill, two of Greenwald's
compadres.
That guy who is the self loathing Julian Yes. And he Tim
bots, throw money at anything that's pro Palestine
Tabata snake who was from South Africa, and is very devout anti
Israel, anti also anti Israeli policy, particularly when it
comes to Palestine. And he is of course from the birth of
foundation and he sold the he sold his he became rich by
selling his Generic Pharmaceutical company to Glaxo
it is now known as Glaxo generics. Right, and you can
check right back. So take all that. So now we have anti so
funding from anti Israeli source to bots, Nick, we have Glenn
Greenwald, fundamentally against Israeli policy, now threatening
that he has all kinds of information about Israel. Add
into that mix. The fact that Pierre Omidyar is probably going
to be anti Israeli seeing that he's from Iran. He's a Persian.
They may you may have a beef there. So there's, as you can
see where this is all coming together now, just for you to
become a critical mass just for yucks, just just because we're
so effing blind. Everyone's in Germany. There's always been a
Jew German thing. We're spying on angle A Merkel. I mean, do
they have to paint it for us? Because I went back to 2008
Democracy Now. James Bamford, do you remember this name? Oh,
yeah. He wrote a book called The Shadow factory, which I have not
read. And I'm sad. I have denial enough to go and read it and
listen to The actors and we were on this because we were talking
about stellar wind, and the big building the 18 T building on
Second Street in San Francisco, but how they're just sucking up
all the data, just we'll listen to the first bit of this. And we
can stop. It's it goes on forever. But here he is, with
Amy Goodman, talking about the connections between the NSA and
Israel.
So you have one copy of everything coming in and going
to NSA secret room. And in the secret room was equipment by a
private company called nares. The very small company, hardly
anybody's ever heard of that created the hardware and the
software to analyse these cables, and then pick out the
targets NSA is looking for. And then for the targeted
communications to NSA headquarters. So you
have these and by the way, a reminder, this is 2008. This was
on public television, no buddy batted an eye, no controversy,
no yelling, no screaming no enough companies AT and T and
Verizon that are secretly working with the NSA and tapping
Americans phone lines, and these companies actually outsource the
actual tapping to some little known foreign companies.
Yeah, there's two major or not major, there's small companies,
but they're there. They service the two major telecom companies.
This company Norris, which was founded in Israel, and as larger
Israel connections, does the basically the tapping of the
communications on AT and T. and Verizon chose another company,
ironically, also founded in Israel and largely controlled by
and developed by people in Israel, called barons. So these
two companies specialise in what's known as mass
surveillance.
Now, we could go on for a while here. But Greenwald has also
released documents from Snowden. And this goes back several
months, which kind of didn't really catch any any heat, where
he claimed in The Guardian, he was still working for The
Guardian, that NASA shares raw intelligence, including
Americans data with Israel before it even does gives it to
its to the Uber lives
in the United States was was a little stir over a little minor
stir. So I'm thinking now add on to that, that we believe the CIA
and the NSA have been at war. And the CIA. I heard, all I know
is I heard a CIA guy getting pissed off at Israel for some
reason. And it clicked to me, I'm like, Okay, if NSA equals
Israeli intelligence, then then there are factions in our
government who want to stop that. And I'll look at this
administration, who brought the Prime Minister of Israel in
through the back door, you'll recall that controversy, who
have you know, have been quite anti Israel in a number of ways,
including right now, the it's ratcheted up pretty high with
these Iranian talks. And and if you listen to what's being said,
on boots on the ground, and Israel, Obama and Kerry, John F.
Kerry, are being talked about as if they're Chamberlain, you
know, like, they're dealing like, they're, you know, what
was the word the?
Collaborating?
No, and that's no good. I don't know. What was the the word
they?
Yeah, I know what you're thinking. Damn, it's a good
word. It's a great word. It's like, Jeez, what
are we historians?
So I had to do a show here not remember great words.
So I'm thinking that this is so much deeper than we even
expected. This is also about Israel, and getting them out of
our business by a group of people who are sick and tired of
it. And who are there's
a problem with your analysis? And what's that? Well, you have
the NSA and the CIA going to war with each other. But in this
situation, if you have a CIA guy getting the Israelis, and
apparently the the Greenwald camp and all the rest of them
being going after the Israelis, you think they'd be in that it
sounds like they're both on the same side when it comes to this
particular event.
I don't understand what you just said. I
said that. What are the Israelis doing Don Greg's reaction and
realising that there's a bunch of Israeli intelligence within
our government that needs to be rousted out Yeah, the CIA wants
to get rid of him, but apparently, the people that are
working with him which would be the NSA, is being subverted by
Greenwald and his group. Rupe and Snowden, which is also going
against going out okay, well,
no, no, you're making my point for me.
Oh, I see what you're saying is that the NSA is corrupted by
Israeli intelligence and they have and they're being busted
out by two separate groups that aren't really necessarily
working together. Well, who was the separate groups that was not
working for the CIA? Let's face reality, and neither is
democracy. Now.
Greenwald was the perfect target you don't need you didn't need
to do anything. He's already he was already on board he already
hated
Yeah, no, but don't you think he was set up by Snowden who we
believe may actually be still working for the CIA? Of course,
he still carries his card. Yes. But they had him out of there
the job right now the agency is to get snowed in safely back to
the country.
Well, I'd get snowed as expendable. That's it's,
that's true, but they at least they're gonna make an effort. I
don't know
what's important now is to start I think what's important now is
to start connecting the NSA to Israel. And not important to me.
But I think that is what is important to the factions who
want this to stop. And maybe they don't, I don't think the
public would even understand it necessarily, not the public who
are going to enjoy Marissa Meyers Yahoo. I don't think
they'll understand that all. So but getting rid of it. Remember,
appeasement, the appeasement. Thank you here, Bernie Sanders.
And I believe this is a setup, he did the following, we can
continue to refer to ourselves as a quote unquote, free
country. When the United States government is collecting
information on virtually every telephone call made in America,
getting into people's emails, focusing on the websites that
certain people are visiting
standard says he may be one of those people. He sent a letter
to the NSA Director, General Keith Alexander asking quote,
one very simple question, has the NSA spied? Or is the NSA
currently spying on members of Congress or other American
elected officials? The NSA is only answer so far, the members
of Congress have, quote, the same privacy protections as all
Americans. So you've got to think that there's a number of
people in Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate,
who are not happy with this. And and I would also presume that
all the business intelligence is also run, we know that that's
running through the NSA, but maybe that's also being
backdoored through Israeli quote, unquote, intelligence.
Maybe then, you know, we don't have we know what knew that,
that Israel is often quoted as an ally of the United States,
which is not true. We have no as far as I know, we have no
written agreements with Israel. None, there's no, you know, no
contract, no, nothing. And they won't even admit they have
nuclear weapons. Which, of course, you know, they're not
sanctioned for it, either. So there's a lot going on. And it's
one of these non discussed topics, because before you know
it, Hitler, Holocaust, Jew hater, you know, you can't talk
about these things. Anyway. It's true. It's almost in which is,
you know, a part of the gig, I guess, I don't know. But you
know, geez, man, look at what's going on. This the, it's going
directly to Israeli intelligence. It's being
reported as such, through the NSA. So maybe this is a dynamic,
maybe not Ross and variant who have been around for a while
collecting phone data fret the place on Second Street and
elsewhere. They're obviously just Israeli intelligence. Yeah.
And how many people? Do you remember Al right at me via when
we're still called me via? Yeah, come on.
Guy. No, no, he looked. I mean, he but he actually looked, yes.
He like a Mossad guy.
He totally looked like a Mossad guy.
Yeah, if there is such a look, it could be a Hollywood looked
at where we were being distracted. And most of the
other, you know, we could be wrong. It just seemed like it to
me.
But there's a lot of guys like that running technology,
business related technology. And that's fine. Because you know,
businesses got to hire and deal with whoever they hire. It's not
my problem. I'm just thinking there's an extra dynamic to
this. And this is the dynamic known as Israel and Israel. It's
a big deal within the politics. And maybe you could explain to
me that would be helpful. Because Miss Mickey asked me
this morning as I tested this theory on her. And she said,
What exactly why do they always call it this special
relationship? What is the deal between America and Israel?
That's a simple question.
We have a lot of, of exit Jewish people in the in the, in the
power arena of New York City. And there's enough of them here
in there that they liked the idea of having a an exit
strategy called Israel dual citizenship perhaps or whatever.
I don't know. I mean, we have a lot of Jews in this country and
they're not running everything like a lot of people would like
to imagine. They but they're they you know know how to target
their their desires and they get Chuck Schumer who is the most
pro Israel guy in the in the Senate and a couple other guys
and then they can you know a couple other guys goes yep to
Israel they like
Dianne Feinstein
if you sit around with a Jew for a long time they really like
having in this country and they don't like it being threatened.
And they think everyone's threatening it and when you go
to the area they are everybody hates them. They just like a
mess everywhere. Israel is a very civilised place. It's a
great country to visit, I would recommend it as a vacation. Just
great all around. And then you have these you have some Arab
cities within the area within Israel. And you have these these
Palestinian areas that have been cordoned off. And they keep
sending rockets into the main part of the country. It's a
special relationship, you know, we we've always attacked it. We
like Israel as a it's a likeable place that, you know, we like
it. It's Jews like it the non Jews like it. The only people
that don't like it, and the far left progressives, and everybody
else likes it, but it was done. I don't think anybody
appreciates the spying stuff.
Well, so let me feed back some of the things you said. First of
all, the proportion of Jews in America is is a very small
percentage. Oh, no, it's
very, it's minuscule. Yeah,
the proportion the percentage of Jews and perhaps some dual
citizens in government is much larger than the percentage of
them in the population.
Yeah, okay. Were you to that? Sure. I would also agree that
you take the percentage of the population that are Asian in the
state of California and take a look at the percentage of Asians
at the University of California, it's completely out of
proportion. Exactly. So they're yours. It happens to these days,
people gravitate to certain things. So
it's facts. We're just talking facts, no xenophobia, no anti
semitism, just facts. Right.
They're there. And then there's a good portion of those same, by
the way, I should mention this because we have them in the
area, those same Jews that are in government are the self
loathing pro Palestinian Jews. Yes, this is very take up a huge
percentage of the intellectual population of the Jewish
community in the Bay Area.
This is this is what is so interesting. So I'm not of the
belief per se, that all American Jews are all on board with what
Israel is doing. I think a large percentage is very angry about
what the current Israeli policy is, but just throw this NSA
spying thing into mix into the mix that's coming from them. I
think you start to see some lines. So Dianne Feinstein,
she's all in now it's some other like Bernie Sanders here. Maybe
not all in, but he's also in a party guys and independents. So
that's, you know, so maybe he's not a part of whatever Cabal,
but it is You we have to recognise that there is
something going on here. That is also is we don't know what
really what the deal is. We just don't know. But there's a lot of
control being maybe you'll
find out something when you go back to our mock and have a
chat.
I also need to get my ass to Israel. And Mickey has been
there she said she hated it. Why she's a woman she said as a
woman, I felt so horrible. You said I and she was there with
she had a friend at the time who was a basketball player I think
for the Israeli team maybe a Olympic team or something. And
she said she she felt just unwanted just as she looks
Mickey's a strong independent Western doesn't look very
Jewish. No. And she looks like a Nazi walking around there. I'm
sure she was like
Hey, that's not so nice to me like she looks like
the Aryan you know super woman. Well
Well, there you go. What the hell was wrong with that
country? Screw that. Screw that.
We don't do that. We can't stereotype
when people walk around with a.on their forehead or a towel
on their head. I don't look at them like they don't belong. In
America. You pay in taxes. You're
wrong. This what Nothing Nothing nevermind
yeah what? Nothing go on you said something I couldn't hear
what you said it cut out that's all
I Texas I don't think they're well wishy the people that were
a towel on there that's totally that's
your you are being completely biassed you have no idea.
Am Texans and they're all like that. Yeah, exactly.
That's exactly. That's exactly the idea. You have no, we have
an idea from like, for example, I've got this clip we'll play
the little later on the Texas truancy laws and how they took
that poor Vietnamese girl and they sent her to jail because
she couldn't cut because she didn't come to school one day,
she was a straight A student. And the judge was quoted, well,
we have to have all way around here. You can't let kids get
away with this. So she off to jail. I mean, that kind of
thing. Yeah, Texas has a bad rap now. No, pencil mill is one of
them. Pennsylvania
has a reputation for that. Okay, Pennsylvania is where they had
the true classroom to prison. And the and the judge who did
that went to jail. And the real pedo bez Pennsylvania don't get
confused with with some propaganda. This judge
didn't get any go to jail. As far as I know, he's still on the
bench. Anyway,
I don't want to change the topic just yet. Just yet. So there is
but there's, we're seeing this now going back and forth. Now we
have some anti CIA propaganda coming out. Now we have this.
Who's this? This guy who was the lawyer for the CIA for 30 years.
Finally, we're getting some anti CIA. So how long does it take
for the NSA to kick their heads out of the sand? Well,
I think they I think they, they it was a lot of things are
trying to, you know, there was complicated for them. And this
guy, what is his name? Now? He comes out and while he's the guy
that says, ah, you know, CIA? Deals coke to Hollywood. Hello,
hello, Iran contract. Like we didn't know that. Jeez, please.
Then there's all of a sudden this just, you know, Chromie see
if I have it here. Deals coke. Did you not see that? That
article? That
was great, though. I mean, it's Yeah, yeah,
I can't you didn't see that. I gotta read that for you is very
funny. Read it. Also the now there's a lot of back and forth
with the Washington Post. Let me see who did this. Someone wrote
this letter it was? Who was it from? Executive Editor? So maybe
it was an office distance, people have been writing back
and forth to the editor of the Washington Post saying, Are you
going to disclose every single time you do a story about about
intelligence services that Amazon has, at minimum, a $600
million contractor on all cloud services for the CIA and just
trying to get more business? So there's that kind of stuff that
that is being played continuously? And let me see if
I can find the Koch email. That was hilarious. Who sent that?
But you were on it this morning. It was on what? On the email?
There was an email that came in about that. Oh, we didn't see
it. Now. I thought I put it in my notes somewhere. But
apparently, what was the subject line?
$50,000 of coke to see. CIA? Hold on?
No. See. See it on that? I think I would have seen that. And let
me let me just look up coke. Yeah, I'm doing the subject
line. Here we go.
Allegations whistle a CIA whistleblower. Of course, here
it is. Ed Smith. Not the Ed Smith one, John. I don't know
John here. 35 years CIA employee John Rizzo has written a book
about his years at the CIA. He lets the cat out of the bag that
many Hollywood types act as informants for the CIA, some out
of patriotism and some out of the need for excitement and one
was in it for the coke.
The actor's name names do now please, he's the actor Clooney
play the Clooney
as a spy or or just call him like
George is a spy
distraction
so if you take all that into account, and now I'm gonna go
really mad on you, and then I'll stop because if you take into
account that the CIA I believe the CIA is running for Tula
Gulen is the guy who is has his students from his schools have
infiltrated all of Turkey's politics, particularly The the
legal and and policing portions of the government who is now
about to overthrow Erawan and there's a there's a an election
coming up a think it's a symbol may or may oral election all
kinds of stuff is happening now this guy is in eastern
Pennsylvania since we talked about that coincidental in his
compound and his his number two guy with the number two guy he's
number one guy Abdullah IMAS a YMSZ he seems like he's the new
heir apparent. Those guys are run by the CIA. So now you have
essentially hardcore Islamist being run by the CIA and
hardcore Israelis being run by the NSA
ah, that brings that's a good meta. Yeah.
And it's a little scary when you think about it that way. Well,
it's scary to who and why. Well, I don't know I'm in Texas. I'm
armed. I'm not Austin. I'm not really a
flippy that scary separate. In fact, they're opening all those
crazy schools all over Texas. Yeah, that's that's the girl of
harmony.
Yeah, that's that's part of the Gulin empire. Well, I want to do
Turkey a little bit later on. Anyway, so that the only other
thing I had on on kind of the snow job Snowden stuff is a
kim.com. known from Mega upload, he was the subject of a 60
minute interview. And I see that and I think this is well, I
pulled a little also there's a 15 minute vice documentary mini
documentary, which is it's actually very funny because the
guy who went to interview him and this comes out
coincidentally the same time as a 60 Minutes interview. So is
there really a coincidence? This guy, he I mean, he's a fanboy.
And he's and he's into he's trying to do a serious interview
but there's not it's it's not an interview. He's he might as well
just just be sucking Kim dot coms penis the whole time. I
mean, just a little a little bit here of him in it. So kim.com
takes her to his gaming room. Yes, I think so. What? No, hold
on this.
This is where I imagined I would be when the zombies do come.
Yeah, you've got a compound. You've got excessive simulation
training, firing weapons. I'll just I'll be in here playing GTA
while you take care of the zombies. Well, I survived.
Wow, that's the interviewer John is so cool. You're so awesome.
kim.com You're the best kim.com is taking advantage of the
opportunity to jump on the anti NSA bandwagon. And I think he
has a specific reason for it, which will be clear in this 42nd
clip. And he's doing that obviously, to promote his new
service called Mega. And of course, mega is the solution to
all things spying, because it's just all encrypted. And you
know, D kim.com. is going to save the day with his encrypted
what a bullcrap. So it's self serving promotion. But listen at
the end here. So this is a little clip from the 60 minutes
piece where kim.com explains why he thinks he was targeted. And
then listen to the guy from the FBI. I think he's FBI. Talking
about the reality of it while just listening. So why does he
think the government's going after him? Because of my
flamboyant lifestyle because of me being German. Why would he
say that? Because of me being German. Really?
Is this what that's your There you go. That is a catch. This is
more juice stuff that we're heard that too. I've heard her
do that before say that. But until now, I never realised that
may be a meta reference that we just ignored. Where I did it.
I ignored it because I am not a xenophobic anti Semite, or, or a
racist or a bigot. I'm trying I'm not trained to listen to
these things. I'm gonna have to start doing it after him.
Because of my flamboyant lifestyle. Because of me being
German the way I am. I'm the easiest person to sell as a
villain. You really think that that's what did and this is?
This is the law enforcement guy who looks like you saw the
piece. This guy with his bald head looked like he would kill
you in a second. I
don't think there was anything about mega upload that led them
to say and think this guy's gone too far. I'm the perfect target.
And that's why they picked Megaupload kim.com says he's
convinced that he was chosen because he looks like a villain.
People sometimes tell me I look like a villain. Right? People
aren't aren't aren't investigated because of the way
they look or the type of car they drive. They're investigated
because there's an allegation that they're involved in illegal
activity that they're committing a crime.
Now I'll tell you something. It looks like two villains on both
sides. This is just gang warfare. You're all thugs. if
law enforcement thugs and mega upload thugs, German indeed.
Okay. I think we need to be watching this and there is
something bigger going on, particularly and just to blow
your mind. The first big contract, pull it up here from
the Leviathan gas field. A 20 Year $1.2 billion agreement for
4.7 5 billion cubic metres of gas from the Leviathan field
we'll go to can you guess? Germany know, the Palestine
power generating company. Know How. How's weird? Yeah. How
weird is that? Ah, of course, it's Americans. By the way. I
want to mention something since you brought this German thing
up. I've it comes right to the fore. I didn't record it or
anything. But I found it peculiar that I'm watching
France van cat. And they're gonna do some special on the
spying on Angela Merkel. And it's like with such that was
watching this thinking this is such old news. I don't
understand why they're bringing it up again.
Merkel. Yeah. Oh, I think I know why. Because she, she Yes, she
got a little message that come on. That was obvious, but I'm
just concerned that
the chancellor contracted severe bruising and a so called partial
fracture in her left back pelvic ring while cross skiing over her
Christmas holidays. This makes it necessary for her to lie down
a lot, or use a walking device respectively for the next three
weeks. Accordingly, she will be concentrating on only a few
official appointments in the Chancellery in Berlin. Otherwise
she will be working from home.
Now let me explain something to you. This is this happened
during a cross country skiing. Right? That's where you walk.
You're walking on sticks? Yes, I'm little sleds. And she broke
her pelvic bone
unless she slid down a mountain which would make no sense
because cross country skiing is usually on pathways that are
very well
defined. or was there some whacking going on here?
Yeah, some guy came out of the blue and they totally beat the
crap
beater with the ugly stick to shut up. Something like that.
Well, this isn't being very well covered. I have the state of
news media sucks.
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stick, he emails us at least 100 times an hour. But he did
something which I think is cool. He went to he was the he saw an
article on Kurtzweil AI dotnet. Is this where all the Kurtzweil
accelerating intelligence is in this world, the transhumanist
hangout is transhumanist
and these other guys that other group that runs the What's it
call when you have the when there's gonna be we're gonna all
become machines, yes.
Or other? We're bad today's that university that we think
I'm sending a raise. And it's it's by the right.
So there was an article on Kurtzweil AI, which is well
read, called How to find time travellers. And it's talking
about people who predict things. And it's actually a, I guess, a
white paper. What, yeah, this is funny, and so he if they could
find a mention of something or someone on the internet before
people should have known about it, that could indicate that
whoever wrote it had travelled from the future. In this paper,
they selected search terms relating to two recent
phenomena, Comet ISON and Pope Francis and began looking for
references to them before they were known to exist. They used a
variety of search engines Google Bing and comb through Facebook
and Twitter. They discovered only one blog post referencing a
Pope Francis before he was elected head of the Catholic
Church on March 16. But that seemed more accidental than
prescient. And so stek went in and posted a comment and said,
Oh, yeah, well, you're right. Adam curry called the net. Here
it is. Gentlemen, The article states they discovered only one
blog post referencing a Pope Francis, let's see more
accidental than prescient, a better case of PayPal
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his own right, predicted by name Pope Francis weeks before the
election. It is possible that Mr. Curry is indeed a time
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routinely exceed mere coincidence. And now there's a
whole thread on the good. Luckily, it now says listen to
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yes.
I'm a time traveller with
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You know it prom is a word. That's why he predicts the
winners of the World
Cup. Yes, exactly. And you're, and you here are you're here to
be my handler.
I'm Hannah. I'm making sure he doesn't get out of control
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Everybody I predict you're gonna go out and help us by
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I did just have one. One email job.
I read the word is the word is singularity. Singularity. Yes.
I got a note here from Matthew Hamilton. I needed to just check
something with you. He had a question in the Morning John out
of my girlfriend and I have a gift for the two of you. That
I'd like to send to the PIO box. But we are unsure if it will fit
in John's hole. The
very funny Yes, the package will
come in a USPS flat rate five by eight by one box.
Will that fit? Well? The whole problem is I told him that he's
not if he sends me your thing.
I think it's one it will years before you get it. No, I think
it's just one thing. It may not be two things. I think there's
two things. My super cute girlfriend made this as a class
project and I helped her out with the finishing touches. We
are both 17 now and in the 12th grade. I love hearing this. Just
Just listen, just escaping the insanity of rotten core, which
is a great name for common core. Like it. I will include pictures
of us. But remember Adam, she's underage nothing pornographic
for a few more months, and he sent me a picture. Do you get
the picture? No, she's super cute. In a little Santa outfit.
She's cute. Super cute. Little Santa outfit. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
I was like, Yeah, only a couple more months. Yeah. Come on. Come
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No, I was gonna say I recommend the diet. By the way. I was
gonna say there's one of the things I want to do on this
show. I do have a couple of examples. But there's a lot more
this is the this is a there's been a bunch of hit pieces that
are not necessarily obvious. Oh, hang on.
Oh, hold on. I put this under the heading Hillary 2016 by the
way.
Well, I know which one you're talking about. So start with
that while actually both of them are by Hillary? Yes. Exactly.
Both are one of them is the gate gates, the former defence
department guy came out and with a book and he's condemning the
administration because he's, you know, he's a republican so he
can get away with that. And then he mentions in the book, because
I call this be my subject line would be nipped in the bud any
chances that Biden is going to run for president has to be in
the bud No, no, not
nipped in the bud? How about completely obliterated and
destroyed?
And the way I the way I get the biggest kick out of this this
story, you could play this clip and I'll tell you what I thought
was funny about it. But anyway, this is the gates book slams
Biden.
The White House rejected criticism today by former
Defence Secretary Robert Gates. In a new memoir. He says the
president wasn't committed to the Afghan war and that Vice
President Biden was wrong on nearly every key issue. In an
apparent show of support for the vice president. Officials
invited news photographers into the leaders usually private
weekly long luncheon and spokesman Jay Carney followed
up.
Joe Biden has been one of the leading statesmen of his time,
and he has been an excellent counsellor and advisor to the
president. For the past five years. He's played a key role in
every major national security and foreign policy, debate and
policy discussion in this administration in this White
House.
Kearney also dismissed the Afghan war criticism he said,
the President believes thoroughly in the mission.
All right, before you say anything, and I also have I have
a cross reference clip from a different news organisation
which will be fun to listen to. Kearney with a beard and a
moustache.
I didn't even want to get into it. But yeah, why is the
douchebag look when I think they're just they're tormenting
me or something.
It's when what is the point of that guys do that when they have
something to hide?
Yeah, yeah. It's interesting. That
would be your that's your that's my assessment. And yeah, no, no,
I did not. You mentioned at
the lunch. The little lunch was hilarious. Oh,
that. Yeah. Here's the here's, I saw this before you play. I have
to just say this. This is one of those things if it came out and
you just ignored it. Biden still in play, but no, let's make a
big deal out of it. And then have Carney come out and say no,
Biden's not an idiot. We don't think He's a moron. He's been
had something good to say Oh, all these meetings, there's been
meetings. And then he had an input. Yeah, he did. He really
did. I mean, this is like, the worst hit job on Biden. This guy
is toast. Yeah.
So the lunch, which was attended only by photographers, like a
little kids table, did you? Yeah. Did you see the picture of
the President in the middle looming over the table? The
whole
I suppose they both sit and down the line. So
it was it was to me it was piling on. I was like, Yeah,
you're an idiot. And we're actually going to make you look
like more of an idiot right now. And we're going to defend you
like you're an idiot. This is this story that I found. I'm not
sure it might be we'll find out who it is actually called out
the Hillary thing. And Bob Gates
his new memoir, duty, the former CIA and Pentagon chief calls the
Obama White House, the most central FCNs Andrea Mitchell, I
think controlling since the Nixon years,
most controlling since the Nixon you there's your Nixon meme,
while gates praises President Obama's decisions on
Afghanistan. He says the President didn't believe in his
own strategy. Recalling after one meeting, I thought the
President doesn't trust his commander can't stand Karzai
doesn't believe in his own strategy, and doesn't consider
the war to be his. For him. It's all about getting out. Gates is
particularly tough on Vice President Biden writing. I think
he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and
national security issue over the past four decades. AND gates
blasts former national security adviser Tom Donilon and his team
for quote, aggressive, suspicious and sometimes
condescending and insulting questioning of our military
leaders. Well, Gates praises former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton. He says he was dismayed to hear Clinton tell
the president she opposed the Iraq troop surge in 2007.
Because she was running against Mr. Obama. In turn, Gates says
the President acknowledged opposing the search himself for
political reasons.
So there it is. It's It's plain as day go, Hillary. Yeah,
no, I did for decades. I didn't get that. Yeah, well, well, of
course. Wrong has been wrong for 40 years, and not on a couple of
things on everything.
And the end, the bummer is this book isn't even out until the
14th. So this is a this is such a perfectly time. So we had we
had all everyone's a little tired of the snow stories. There
was really no it was it was a Monday it was perfectly timed.
And we already knew it was coming because of its it started
up with oh, he broke his neck, but he's gonna go out on tour
anyway. So that was kind of the oops, there's a book coming.
Everyone had the message, the book is coming. And then they
sent out the the extract, no one has read this book. No one has
read it and it's it's not available. It comes I went to
Amazon and like I gotta read this. No, you can pre order of
course, which I refuse to do. I refuse to be a slave. I will buy
it. Of course. I'm not gonna preorder you shitheads I hate it
when you do that. Hillary also has a new haircut. I think
they're ratcheting it up John. She's got Have you seen the
banks or new new banks haircut? Yeah,
I saw that look, I saw the look it's makes it look you know
perky. I don't know if it I don't like I don't think I'd be
right about the Marissa Meyer, your your your take on that. I
think might be right on the money because Marissa Meyer is a
new female look of a CEO who's a girl. Now she's a woman but then
I might consider my agent hers. She's a girl. As she's got the
right approach. She's She is not a dyke. Like you said just
caution you
say she was a I didn't say use the word dike at all.
Yeah, he did. Okay. I mentioned beside the point. So let's go
after now we have you Okay, we got Biden's done. Hold on, hold
on. Wait, he's gonna Rick Hillary's
campaign has given their email lists to the pro Hillary super
PAC. That's a move.
Yeah. And the thing is, who owns that list? And is there gonna
you know, I believe that the list was exchanged. I bet you
there's an exchange of money that ends up in Hillary's bank
account. Oh, sure. Something fishy about that whole thing.
Seth Brinkman, spokesman for the super PAC told Time on Sunday
that ready for Hillary rented the Hillary clinton.com email
list to connect with her past supporters. Let's see who owns
Hillary Clinton isn't he'll just Hillary clinton.com Right. Okay,
hold on a second. Okay, command line who is oops. Hillary
clinton.com Nothing like a command line who is friends of
Hillary 18 25k Street. So who's friends of Hillary?
That's the big question. Well, what we really want to bid on
this mailing list forever. Yeah, no, I
know. What we really want to do is we want to copy this is how
you do it, people This is for when you do your own podcast
because it's so easy. You take so you do the who is then you
take the 18 25k Street Northwest, sweet 1000 ad, right?
And that's Washington DC. Right? And then you put that into
Google. And then you see who else is there? And other people
there are the United Nations Information Centre in the same
suite by the way, not
not just Yeah, well yeah, but but let's be honest about this.
It's probably it's one of those phoney baloney offices that you
you rent
that's why man the connection is bad to them and why that is is
weird yet when you get one room in it. Let's see
who else is here community wealth partners are there. That
that may be that that okay? A community wealth part as a
community while partners we dream of a world in which all
people thrive? Is this an organisation or lobbyist group?
What is this? Oh, no. Anyway, I think they're ratcheting up
John. I think they're getting ready to it's unavoidable get
into your Christi stuff because they so we have the screw Joe
Biden, because he's a moron, obviously. And I can just see
Joe probably is a great guy to have beer with and shoot
something with. I can just see him being completely deflated
over this, don't you think?
Oh, I think he's steamed. He's probably he's has to be beside
himself. I think he's really he's been in Washington long
enough to know a screw job when he sees it a setup. Yeah, here's
a he was set up. And then the ball was teed up by gates and
then Obama's boys especially Kearney hit it over the fence.
Here's NBC Today Show
blindsided. President Obama's former Defence Secretary Robert
Gates takes on his old boss, the man who awarded him the Medal of
Freedom in a blistering new memoir. This morning what may
have made him turn
President Obama's decision to keep George Bush's Defence
Secretary a Republican has now grown back on the White House.
In Bob Gates his new memoir duty, the former CIA and
Pentagon chief calls the Obama White House, the most
centralised and controlling since the Nixon years Gates gave
no hint of his resentment when he left the cabinet two years
ago, and President Obama awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the
nation's highest civilian honour.
So there's NBC not propagating the Joe Biden's a moron meme,
but actually turning it around and saying what an ungrateful
Dick he got a medal
that's interesting. Oh, come on. Isn't this what we list all
these reports at the same time we could see who's on whose side
right well we know
we know where NBC is now. Now let's get to because we someone
had mentioned this and we didn't know what's going on. But
apparently it got some legs. And this is the as we know from my
Republican What did we call them again? We have a name for them
Republica robots? No, not the old bots. The Republican bots.
Oh, the GOP bot. I don't know that. We have a name for them
that didn't eat jerks. I have no idea.
My member had the dinner with the Republican guys and like,
what about the big man? And I'm like, Who are you talking about?
Chris Christie. Oh, Chris Christie's he's he's the big
white hope for the for the Republican Party for 2016. We
might as well start some crap about him.
Well, this started with a shutdown of one of the bridges a
couple of lanes on a bridge to supposedly screw over a mayor in
a nearby town. Now I got to I get the hit piece clip and then
I have the part two, which I want to which is out of the hit
piece clip. And this was a hit piece done on with spy Scott
Pelley and CBS. Which by the way is I come to the conclusion that
Scott Pelley is very creepy. And I don't like the CBS Evening
News and I think it's totally corrupt in this particular
report, which went over three minutes only have the beginning
of it even brought a guy in to condemn Christie saying oh, he's
not going to recover from this because it shows that he's a
bully, and they just keep calling him a bully. He's no he
was thought of as a bully and now it proves he's a bully and
it wasn't him doing anything he wanted his aides
pull out. Now that's calling me calling someone a bully is a big
deal these days.
Well, so they're calling Christie a big bully. And now
here's the part of the hit piece that got me this was the
evidence and and this is such an I don't I'm not one of those
guys who Oh, that's bad. That's journalism. You know, this was
this was a creation. It was artificial. And there's one
little bit in here which will play after this clip, which
highlights the level of crap bull crap. They're trying to
come up with the submarine this character
was the town of Fort Lee. The closure sparked accusations of
political retribution against Fort Lee's Democratic mayor
remark socket which who did not endorse Republican Governor
Chris Christie. During his successful reelection bid,
Christie denied the allegation. But now emails and text messages
reveal a tarp Christie aid appears to be responsible for
the closures. Last August his Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget
and Kelly wrote time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.
That email was sent to David Wildstein Christi ally, who at
the time was a top official at the agency in charge of the
bridge, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. His
response to the directive got it he wrote when the closures
happened fort Lee's Mayor texted another port authority official
Chrystia appointee Bill Baroni, saying presently we have four
very busy traffic lanes merging into only one Tollbooth. The
bigger problem is getting kids to school help, please It's
maddening, said the mayor. Another text message appears to
revel in the result. Is it wrong that I am smiling was the reply.
It's unclear who sent the message and who received it. The
exchange continues. I feel badly about the kids. The unknown
person writes the unattributed response, they are the children
of buono voters. That's a reference to Barbara buono the
Democrat who lost to Christie in November, New York officials
came to the rescue ordering the lane reopened. The disclosures
come just weeks after Governor Christie said his senior staff
denied any involvement.
Okay, now, let's go over the one main thing and then I want to go
over the timeline because this is bullcrap. And is for one
thing, a real a Democrat mayor is never expected to endorse a
Republican governor. This is nonsense. It just never happens.
What What Why would you do that? If you're a Republican mayor of
a major city or small city, you do not endorse the other party's
candidate for governor ever.
It never happened especially especially not in Jersey,
especially not in Jersey. But here's the thing which I have is
this clip. Part two. This is the one that's titled Christie part
two, this is the little snippet from that particular clip, which
was which was it was a it was an exercise in creativity. This is
bullcrap there is no proof that this ever happened. And they
admitted kind of have you listened to it, but they gloss
it over. But listen to this again.
Another text message appears to revel in the result. Is it wrong
that I am smiling was the reply. It's unclear who sent the
message and who received it. The exchange continues. I feel badly
about the kids. The unknown person writes the unattributed
response, they are the children of buono voters.
Yeah. So they make it look like they had no idea they don't even
they might even have a text message. It's totally me don't
you don't know who sent it is a text message you
don't know who sent it and you don't know who received it. But
here it is. We're running it on the news. CBS on the national
news. Yes, news. Yeah, of course. We don't know who sent
it. We don't know who received it. But here it is. It could
have been sent by me to you. They should have
just said according to documents released by Edward J. Snowden.
Hey, let's I couldn't believe this pin on it. Here's how
you do it. According to documents released by Edward J.
Snowden,
another text message appears to revel in the result. That's how
you do
it. That's what they should have done.
According to text message appears to revel in the results
appears. This is bullcrap. I mean, I can't believe this. They
got away with this and somebody that running the network news.
Oh, obviously it's your operation and Scott Pelley who's
this lead anchor should have you know, this corrupt nevermind,
I'm done. I mean, the way that anyway, what we do know is that
somebody says it's time to create a traffic jam. But she
never said that. She just it's you know, she just made some
comment. The guy says, Yeah, okay. That was it. That's the
only messages we have. And then the mayor goes, Oh, God, this is
ruining us. And then the New York guys reopened the bridge.
So I don't see what the problem is. This is a created phoney,
this is a farce. And I'm surprised that Christie
is responding. Is he responding to this? I haven't seen
anything. I don't know
he yet. Well.
He's breaking news. Hold on. Let's plug it in. What does this
say? That comes out that
he might have known something even a little bit of Christie,
I'm embarrassed and humiliated in the immediate aftermath. He's
got big problems that none of this are going to solve. He says
I had big problem. Big problems.
Big problems. Big problems. He closed a bridge lane. Yeah,
they're trying to make a mountain out of this molehill.
That is not even necessarily his fault. And it makes no sense
that it wouldn't be he cannot expect the Democrat mayor to
endorse him for Governor overreach or I'm sorry, over a
Democrat. It just makes no sense this The whole thing is a con is
contrived. And the news media is all over it their push. Oh, he's
done. They brought this guy in. I'm telling you the guy's toast.
Is off ese
won't wash off easy. Well, it's starting early. They're
desperate for advertising money for the political campaign for
2016. This is what the mainstream media does. They're
desperate, desperate, I tell you, anything, anything to get
it going anything to get some political action committees
spending some money?
Well, they wouldn't want a strong candidate that would
start to you know, cut down on their income. Ideally, you want
to weak candidates running against each other spending like
crazy. Yeah, that's the ideal from the network perspective.
Whoa. But it's Oh, it would also be good to have Hillary and
Christy. I think that's actually a very good combination for the
network's
I think it is too, but I think that there's somebody else
calling the shots and who the Republicans is going to be and
it's obviously not
the Bilderberg Group, you know, and you know, how that works,
is that them, they're just a bunch of drugs.
Just on the bullying thing, because they called Christie
bulliet. Virginia has a delegate Mark Kiem has proposed a bill a
criminal ban on bullying and I have the text of the bill just
to let you know where all this has headed. If any person with
the intent to coerce or intimidate or harass any person
uses a computer, including any electronic communication device
or computer network to engage in bullying as defined, which I'll
do in a moment. He is guilty of a class one misdemeanour
bullying. Bullying definition means any aggressive and
unwanted behaviour that is intended to harm. intimidate or
humiliate the victim involves a real or perceived power
imbalance between the aggressor or aggressors and victim and is
repeated over time or causes severe emotional trauma.
Bullying includes cyber bullying. Bullying does not
include ordinary teasing, horseplay argument, or peer
conflict. That's some hardcore shit right there, man. Let's go
Oh.
Yeah, well, it's headed that way. Yeah. So the posting, you
suck? Would that be bullying?
Well, I think if a whole bunch of people piled on to the post,
so for instance, if I said, Hillary Clinton is Lucifer, and
a whole bunch of people who will hear the podcast, start saying
that and start posting it, that may look like some kind of
imbalance. And of course, it is, I am harassing and humiliating,
obviously, to a computer network with a computer device. Yeah, I
think in the state of Virginia, I should probably stay out of
the state of Virginia, it's probably not a good idea to be
there. Now, this is a state law so they can do whatever we want.
I just want to remind everyone that Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the
press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble.
So, on a federal level, this would not be constitutional.
Because that was the first amendment that I just read, but
on I guess they could do it. Every state can do whatever they
want. So I have to stay out of Virginia. If this passes, I
could be arrested as a bully class. Well,
he's had to be accused of being a bully first. Yeah, of course,
you'd have to be some indictment or something and go to Virginia,
it could happen.
It could just happen. We just like walking around and all of a
sudden No.
No, yeah. Well, yes. So. So from the newsletter, you, you
identified that, once again, we were correct in asserting that
the global news media would turn the the clear chilling of the
United States at least, into a global warming story. Of course,
this is this happened immediately. Just some
headlines. Climate change, still real despite cold snap, how
global warming can make cold snaps even worse. Polar Vortex
climate change should be the call could be the cause of
record cold weather. There was a great find by someone about Time
Magazine. Just yeah. Did you see this? Yeah, has great we're in
1974 Time Magazine, blame the polar vor vortex on global
cooling,
yet exact same phenomenon blamed on global cooling the exact
same thing blamed on global cooling.
And they were saying this vortex to something new and then
somebody else had a notice or found a reference to the same
vortex which I guess becomes an issue once in a while in 1959
where it caused a bunch of problems
and of course paying attention to the X class flare that that
the sun just spewed off at us which might be warming who knows
what's going on? I don't know. But you know, who knows Al
Sharpton notes Did you see Did you see Al Sharpton spit?
I don't watch Al Sharpton I banned myself from watching
MSNBC
I don't watch Al Sharpton either but I Yeah, apparently you do no
no people send me so go ahead. I'm just Al Sharpton you know in
a laboratory where the you know, all kinds of lab glassware and
bubbling fluids and everything in a lab coat. Like I guess like
he's a scientist. And here's his bit. This is this is the real
MSNBC sound effects. I have not added anything to it. So
scientists lab
Welcome back to the first politics nation Science Lab of
the new year. In the lab tonight, a right wing meltdown
over global warming. A Winter Storm is battering much of the
country and climate change. Scientists were stuck at nights,
which means the folks over at Fox have been trying out a few
theories of their own. Check it out. So it looks to me like
we're looking at global cooling.
Forget this global warming and get this
a global warming Scientologist had to be removed from his
frozen vehicle after days of being trapped poetic justice
much because for the past 16 years there has been no warming
to speak up so you called it
unusually thick. Yeah. Did he say a global warming
Scientologists? I think he did actually. Let's go back. Oh, my
God. No. Are warming to speak up. They called it unusually
thick ice. Well, I
go back a little bit more. Here. I forget this global
warming and get this a global warming Scientologists had to be
removed. Yeah, that's that more on
who used to do red eye or something on Fox? Because he's
just misread the prompt. I mean, all.
First of all we have we have Sharpton who can't read a
prompter. They are paying him money to do that show. And that
makes you really wonder what's wrong with NBC. Of course,
though, the ones also didn't slam it. And then you have these
both
heads. It's MSNBC. And there was an article, I put it in the show
notes that the only person who runs MSNBC is Rachel Maddow.
She's, they call her the queen. And if you'd if you aren't on
board with her, then you get fired. And she runs the network,
which of course is why it's famous
from his frozen vehicle at the days of being trapped poetic
justice
much because for the past 16 years, there has been no warming
to speak up. They called it unusually thick ice. Well, I
think it's because they're unusually thick people who have
not been paying attention to the actual science on global warming
for the past 18 years, and still think that we're all about to
roast like a chest out of open fire.
These right wingers are boiling over with denial. Just because
it snows in winter, doesn't mean the planet isn't getting warmer.
Remember, a UN panel said there's a 90% probability that
humans are the primary cause of global warming. And over 97% of
climate researchers surveyed in the United States Academy of
Science agrees. It sure doesn't take much for the folks at Fox
to hit their melting point the results of tonight's experiments
in and we've deduced the right wing could use a new talking
point. This has been a special edition of the politics nation
science lab. There's no real contract. This guy's an idiot.
What he is
in total moron. It's unbelievable that they pay him
is that I think he gets some like couple million bucks. No,
that
can't be true.
I'm telling you,
and are good. Of course now he's fallen a bit out of favour. But
our our Vice President Joe Biden, uh, he had something to
say. And he, and it's so sad because it's almost like
watching your uncle. Mess it up. You know, we oh, God, he didn't
know crap.
Put another way. If we don't build smart. If we don't build
resiliency into communities, we're not going to be able to
Next two 510 20 years live along the coast. Manhattan is like
much of my state now wait for it. It is essentially at sea
level. You don't have much of an option. Now I know there's
global warming, global warming deniers. I'm not gonna get into
that debate.
It's a hard one to say, isn't it? Joe? Let's try it again.
You don't have much of an option. Now I know there's
global warming. Global warming deniers. I'm not gonna get into
that debate.
But the reality is,
this is going to continue to happen. Oh, Joe, Joe. Warmer,
warmer. Warmer. Denise did not get doozies did not get NACA
whatever's okay. Then we have so the White House you got a
little piece I'm sorry. You got to clip that little piece and
use it as an evergreen. Kind of a medley of these things.
Let me just copy it into the into the Evergreen. Okay, I got
it. Remind me I gotta edit that down. Okay, so obviously,
there's a lot going on. We have words like Arctic amplification.
Now, this is what it is part of your vortex. And then I ended
there's a lot of whether it is true or not. There's a salon of
media talking about why it obviously has to do with global
warming, they're all over it have to explain. And if you're
the White House, and the President, you know, just like
five, four weeks ago said, hey, it's getting hot, which is
basically what he said. And now it's really cold. And 80% of the
United States just wants to watch everything that Marissa
Meyer puts in front of him. You've got to bring out your
guy, your main science guide John Holdren. John Holden, of
course, is famously all on the global warming now climate
change, train, anti nuke guy, and they make him do a video for
whitehouse.gov. If you've been hearing that extreme cold
spells, like the one that we're having in the United States now
disproves global warming, don't believe it. The fact that Oh, no
single weather episode can either prove or disprove global
climate change. Climate is the pattern of weather that we
observe geographically and over the seasons. And it's described
in terms of averages, variations, and probabilities.
But a growing body of evidence suggests that the kind of
extreme cold being experienced by much of the United States as
we speak, is a pattern that we can expect to see with
increasing frequency as global warming continues. And the
reason is this. In the warming world that we're experiencing,
the far north, the Arctic is warming roughly twice as rapidly
as the mid latitudes, such as the United States. That means
that the temperature difference between the Arctic and the mid
latitudes is shrinking. And that temperature difference is what
drives what is called the circumpolar vortex, which is the
great counterclockwise swirling mass of cold air that hovers
over the Arctic, beautifully depicted, by the way in the
video.
Now, let's start with something here. Nothing good, confirms
your blah, blah, blah, it 2000 You can everyone could go look
this up the 2011 2012. Winter was hailed. And there's articles
to all over the place hailed as proof of global warming, because
it was the quote, unquote, warmest winter in the history of
the United States. So that was like in 2000. That was two years
ago. So now we have this thing. And apparently, I guess was was
a year ago, two years ago, whatever. Now we have this thing
and it doesn't mean a thing. I mean, these people have to make
up their minds. Either the warmest winter in the history of
the country means something or it doesn't it did then and now
this old, this is really galling.
Here's the so here's my point, if we have these incredibly
brilliant IPCC UN panel of scientists, who are basing their
prediction and prognostication of 90% certainty of a GW brought
on by humans, and that is going to by 2025, was going to be
three degrees warmer and the oceans will rise. If they have
these models, it would if I was them, I would say oh, by the
way, looking at the models, you might get a really cold winter,
but they don't say that. Why did they forget to say that? Aren't
they predicting all these great things?
No, they never say that. But when did you have a warm winter
like we did? 2011 2012 you end up with its confirmation, we're
doomed.
Let's listen to the rest of this video because I just it's it's
it's just fascinating propaganda. As the temperature
difference between the Arctic and the mid latitudes declines,
the polar vortex weakens, and it becomes wavy or wavy waviness
means there can be increased larger excursions of cold air
southward that is into the mid latitudes. And in the other
phase of the wave increased excursions of relatively warmer
midlatitude air into the Far North. Computer models tell us
that there are many and listen by listen to that music. It's
playing backwards, it's rigged, this is total mind control. It's
totally mind controlled versions of relatively warmer midlatitude
air into the Far North. Computer models tell us that there are
many different factors influencing these patterns. And
as in all science, there will be continuing debate about exactly
what is happening. But I believe the odds are that we can expect
as a result of global warming to see more of this pattern of
extreme cold in the mid latitudes and some extreme
bankier from the Far North. That's all I wanted to hear. I
just wanted to hear him say as a result of global warming, it'll
get colder. That's all I wanted to hear. Thank you. John P.
Holdren, senior adviser to President Barack Obama on
science and technology issues. In his role as Assistant to the
President for Science Technology, Director of the
White House Office of sun times he Balaji policy and co chair of
the President's Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology.
I wonder what they how they explain the great blizzard of
1899 but that's another story. I have. You know, I mentioned I
didn't like Scott Pelley CB way he had. So I'm watching this is
this was actually a very small clip. This is a small clip from
a very long report about the old Cold weather that was hitting
Chicago and all the rest of it. And right at the beginning of
the report, he drops his little little weird thing into this
reporting and I want to and I it's obviously some sort of
messaging and I can't put my finger on what wire is just the
craziest thing I've ever seen. It's almost it's you know, they
did CBS has really gotten something something weird stuff
going on with them. Bolden much of the country, many places,
it's the coldest that it's been in decades. Tonight in Chicago,
it will feel as if it is 50 below zero. It was so cold there
today that the de icing liquid used at O'Hare Airport froze.
And Chicago is just the tip of the iceberg. That is middle
America. In Indianapolis where Miguel Silva was shovelling
snow. The Windchill is in the minus 30s. Tonight. Oh, I
heard it. I heard it. Chicago is just the tip of the iceberg in
middle America, because that's what it's going to be.
Now. That's not what I was. Yeah, no, I agree with that. I
like that analysis is fine. But here's what got me. He's going
in the report and then he drops this guy's name in. Miguel Silva
was shovelling snow. On the screen. There is a picture of a
guy's face with but his face is covered. So it could be anybody.
It's got to the bottom parts covered by a scarf. The top part
is covered by a hat. And you can see two eyes that have got like
snow on him. And he just drops his his where he says in
Indiana, where Miguel Silva is snuggled shovelling, snow, blah,
blah, blah. Why is this guy mentioned by name in this report
in the first place? Unless it's code or it's a message from
some, hey dimension, Miguel Silva with their operation, the
fiscal year will begin. I mean, what is the point of this? I've
never seen anything quite like it. White, who's Miguel Silva?
Well, you got me on that. Excuse me. Global warming? Well, it is
it reminds me of whenever the president
right they always bring a name. They bring some person that they
usually have them up there and then they shoot. Oh, yeah. So
and so as a first grade teacher and you know, Mineola, and they
she did a picture of hers there with sitting next to the
president's wife, but I've never seen this in this sort of a news
report, some guy named personally named who was
shovelling snow. They don't show him snow shovelling snow by the
way, just show us head.
Let me listen again to that but that is middle America. In
Indianapolis where Miguel Silva was shovelling snow. The
Windchill is in the minus 30s. Tonight,
Indianapolis in the polis, I'm just going to look at the thing
and see if we can find Miguel Silva in Indianapolis. No, I
don't know. Yeah, I have no answer, but I agree that it can
These things are also often done in news just to personalise it
could be someone's buddy you know there's a lot of things
that
somebody's buddies a joke maybe could but this was a little bit
off the wall. And it wasn't personalising anything for
anyone. I agree. It was a code. So something's up.
Well, CBS, CBS has had a lot of weird stuff. Then, of course, we
totally busted him on the bullcrap. John Miller, NSA
story, which is complete non information, because by law, he
couldn't do that. And that's why they put him in there. And
that's why was a deal. We have the the girl who got dismissed
because of the Benghazi story. Then we have this weirdness. And
CBS also
has also the Chris Christie story and the messages, but
they're all and they're also going after the administration's
$100 billion for green energy that came from the the stimulus,
they're calling it the pay to play Green Energy Fund. I'm not
quite sure where they are. I don't know who they represent. I
mean, obviously, we know the corporate interest, but I'm not
sure I can connect them to any particular group that doesn't
look like they're really pro anybody that just anti
everybody.
I think we have to keep an eye on them. Dude, I'm,
I'm with you. Well, that's our job. Meanwhile, the Fukushima
stuff still continues to propagate. That is not nuclear
radiation fallout that you're seeing that is indeed steam that
you're seeing from the TEPCO unit three reactor. I got some
links in the show notes about that. Not going to get into that
deeply. But the thing that I found interesting at the midst
of the United States certainly being and the euro land being
against nuclear energy, the Chinese have announced they are
going all in on nuclear and not just future stuff, stuff that
works today.
Dangerous Yeah,
because the Chinese when they really if they do it, then they
don't have look, the Chinese see the writing on the wall. Now
let's go to South Sudan. The Chinese are freaking out 80% of
South Sudan oil goes to China. These are Chinese companies that
are there. China is freaking out. They don't know what to do
they have a policy the Chinese do or the spy a spoken policy of
not interfering in other countries business. But they're
gonna have to close up sharp and obviously the United States with
our Hollywood boys too, to make it look good for the for the
Yahoo public. I'll just put it that way. We'll call them the
Yahoo public. I like it. I like it. Marissa Meyers, people,
Marissa Marissa has meant mentioned. We there just going
to let everything rubble it's another rubble play. And it's
great because China, of course has been circumventing our
petrodollar. By selling that to have a deal with the Russians.
They're also opening up an exchange of oil for gold. This
is exactly what happened to Gadhafi. He wanted to sell oil
for gold this is what is going on. This is why we need to shut
down Iran because it's about the petro dollar if people stop
using the United States dollar for buying and selling oil and
gas products of the dollar it has no standing so anyone who
does that needs to be eliminated. That was Saddam
Hussein. He started selling in euros and for gold now we can't
just go and attack China. So let's cut off their supply and
China is retaliating in the smartest way by saying you know
what I think we're gonna do nuclear this thing seems good.
We don't have it anyway. We're buying Oh, I
think that this this could also eliminates their smog problem a
big time and all those stories about the deadly smog will be
eliminated within just a decade with if they go all nuke I want
to play a one hit piece on Fukushima that ran locally on
KPI X. This was about the Geiger counter story. They decided to
run it as a news story. The one that wins debunked. Yeah, the
one we debunked and so so they brought out a so I can't You
can't be you'd have to see the visuals. I'll give you the
visuals before you play it. First they bring out a guy who's
a professor of of nuclear physics, I think at Cal and he
is sitting in a chair awkwardly and he's talking about this bowl
crap and it's pretty convincing except for that his appearance.
And then they cut to a guy who just happens to be a member of
the Unitarian Church locally. My dude I swear to God, the guy is
sitting in a pair of big oversized jeans with suspenders
and a flannel work in the field shirt with a full beard You're
in a house full of clutter and he's sitting there telling it
like it is from his perspective because this is the balance you
have a professor that says his bullshit then you have a man on
the street who's a complete lunatic Berkeley lunatic talking
about how you better be safe than sorry.
Your hand Tyco Integrated Security safer, smarter. Tyco.
Was there a reason you put the Tyco on the front there,
I forgot to get it. I thought I cut it off. Okay, I liked it.
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California's coastline. Well, one viral video on YouTube says
it has reporter Ryan to kale on what looks like alarming
radiation levels and the real story behind it. Here I am on
the bluff.
The reading was taken on Pacific estate beach just before
Christmas. The videos creator uses a Geiger counter to measure
radiation. As he walks toward the water, the Geiger counter
shows the radiation increasing fivefold. The video started
popping up on the Facebook news feeds of people like Katrina
Martin. The link came with an ominous headline Fukushima
radiation hits San Francisco Martin has seen her friends
comments on social media. They're worried the increased
radiation levels are caused from the Fukushima nuclear plant
after the 2011 earthquake somewhere going around for the
first
time we have a Geiger counter is likely to discover these great
variations and levels from time to time.
UC Berkeley professor Edward Morris says the radiation levels
are naturally occurring that's absolutely
no correlation with anything that happened in Fukushima.
To prove his point, he brought out these rocks that tested off
the charts for radiation. We think something like this could
have caused a spike in the video we're dealing with here at
Berkeley resident gene Herman does not think we ought to
dismiss concerns about radiation and if it doesn't add it gets
worse.
Well, I told you so it's not gonna
help he's sceptical about the video but says even if it's a
false alarm, there's still reason for concern and to keep
an eye on those in charge.
Not necessarily for me I'm I'm too old to get things but I have
grandchildren
in Berkeley Ryan to KPI x five.
Wow. Wow, that's the way you do it. Yeah, I got grandchildren.
They're all gonna die.
Unbelievable. That they would have this old coot on
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unbelievable or astounded or
so I never said unbelievable was I never said I never I said
astonished as amazing as the word.
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funny I got an email about Tom Ford the mayor of Toronto yeah
from Paul think he's one of the book guys and he says you guys
have been rightly so dismissing the whole Rob Ford thing as a
distraction it really isn't he says it's a media hit job
interesting edits prime in Toronto all the media attacked
radio stayed on 24/7 Blow his crimes not being Polish
compliance slaver the rich Yes, apparently and he of course he
still is in office. People like him. And I think the candid
Avians kind of like an even better now that all this
happened and and Paul is actually saying if it wasn't for
no agenda, I wouldn't have seen this for all that it was he
because he was someone who would cancel contracts respect the
taxpayer. He outs corruption. Apparently he you know, he likes
crack. But you know, interesting, though I, you know,
I'm not going to say that. I wouldn't believe that in a
heartbeat.
Okay, well, we'll look at it from that perspective. And see,
I think it's that whole, that whole situation is over. I think
it played out. Oh, yeah.
But but give it a shot. Yeah.
Interesting. So it's a no agenda, thinking you never know.
But now that any media
now that the big the big advertising buys are over and
the Christmas shopping season is done, I guess we can finally
start talking about the target. Cyber attack, because obviously,
you know, the commercials are run as the ad the ad, bad buys
is has been paid out. Everything's good. So now we can
start bringing up oh, I don't know, cyber legislation.
Hi, Emily. So it was only a matter of time before Congress
turned its attention to the target credit card breach. And
now Senate Banking Committee members Democrats, Robert
Menendez of New Jersey, Chuck Schumer of New York and Virginia
is Mark Warner have in a letter called on committee leadership
to hold a hearing as soon as reasonably reasonably possible
on the safety of consumer financial data. The point of the
hearing, does Congress need to pass tougher cybersecurity
rules? The senators say they want to examine whether market
participants are taking all appropriate actions to safeguard
consumer data against fraud and identity theft. And specifically
in Target's case, how did the hackers penetrate their systems?
And why did it last more than two weeks? No response or date
yet on when the hearing might be? A Senate is out of session
until January 6. Okay,
so that so the cranking that up. And, and they you know,
obviously, the cyber legislation has been long time coming.
Everyone's very, very excited about this. Because it means a
lot of money for a lot of companies. And it was producer,
especially Richard Clarke, Lea, producer Ryan, who sent me an
interesting note regarding the NDAA 2014, which we pulled
apart. He said the idea of calling hack attempts, etc.
cyber weapons, and especially in conjunction with the term
proliferation of cyber weapons. He says it really sounds a lot
like we might be getting weapons inspectors, just like, well, of
course, we had UNSCOM United Nations special commission. And
we could see because this turtle, this was this. This is
one of our producers.
This is a great, great analysis, isn't it? Oh, yeah. It's
absolutely it makes nothing but sense
spot on these. So he says in the Gulf War, he has a lot of good
analysis.
Churi Devora. Labour inspection?
Well, it should be weapons inspectors, weapon weapons
inspectors cyber weapons. Yes. In the Gulf War. The inspectors.
This was the the weapons inspectors were given
unrestricted freedom of movement without advance notice in Iraq.
So these weapons inspectors, they have free rein to do
anything they get and they get full compliance from all us. So
we can pick up are you kidding me? Cool. Yeah, because we were
trying to we were trying to figure out why were they using
this terminology and Well, there you go.
I ran into a story, local story that that was the analogue of
the noodle boy. Oh, no. Only it's, it's the city clerk. We
need to set up I got this clip here. City Clerk noodle boy.
This the city clerk that was elected as a city clerk and the
City Clerk's job and this isn't a Pleasant Hill, California
nearby. The City Clerk's job is to the only real job that you
have is to take minutes of the city council meetings and And
she's decided that this is not what she wants to do. She got it
like this she rather tweet at the meeting so people can get
involved. She has all of 300 followers. And so she tweets he
doesn't do the minutes because she wasn't hired to be a
stenographer, even though that's her job. And, and she's very
arrogant about it. And when they show her you have to imagine
you're going to hear her she's a fast talking up talker. That's
kind of a hipster. She's kind of you know, a millennial looking
type. She's always on the phone during the interview, typing
tweets out, she's a tweeting nut. And And this to me is just
noodle boy. A female version.
A city clerk is defending herself to nine after critics
say she should quit for not doing her job. The Pleasant Hill
city clerk has been sending a stream of tweets to her
followers while failing to produce City Council minutes for
the past year. She was elected to the job last year. ABC Seven
News reporter Laura Anthony is live tonight with more abora
Well, hi, Charles. The very first thing listed on the job
description for city clerk here in Pleasant Hill that is to
quote keep accurate records of the proceedings of the city
council. Now Kim Lemke will told us where she admitted she hasn't
been doing very well at that. But she says she does other
things quite well.
Take ownership absolutely of the lack of timeliness of getting
that work product in
plus on Hill city clerk Kim Lemke will told ABC SEVEN NEWS
she got the message.
It was hard for me as a council member to go back and look at
and understand the history of
what we did. It came loud and clear from the mayor and city
council that after a year on the job, she needs to start
producing minutes, perhaps rather than tweeting during
meetings.
So I really take issue with the sort of idea that it's very easy
to sort of contemporaneously record all of these minutes if I
wasn't screwing around on Twitter, and unfortunately, I
think that's a really misunderstanding of the medium.
The 34
year old Lemco was elected to the $7,000 per year part time
clerk's position in November 2012. Until very recently,
though, Lemke will fail to produce any minutes from a
year's worth of meetings, the public expects and deserves to
have those records available the legislative history of the
organisation 20 city staff did try to get them killed or
produce minutes even offering her training. But in a comment
to the Bay Area News Group. Lemke Hill said quote, I didn't
run for this job to be a stenographer. I ran for this job
because I do believe in government transparency, and I
want to make a product that's actually useful. Lemke Hill is a
prolific tweeter, something she does throughout the often hours
long city council meetings to her 300 plus followers,
the Twitter engagement has been great and people who are working
or who are at home, are able to be a part of the conversation.
Web kill says Just this week, she finished one quarter of the
past year it's missing minutes. And she told us she'll make up
the rest in the weeks to come.
You know what she should go work for Yahoo.
She talks about work product and media. And you know, I mean, it
just like
the engagement has been terrific. And everyone's not
part of the conversation.
It's all these these cliches from the whole scene. Yes, saw
her Okay,
that is actually a depressing pace. This is the kind of thing
that actually will depress me all this other stuff. I'm glad I
laugh about to hear this. This is that's really
my work product.
My work product. Here's my sex product, which is a part of my
work product, which has a lot of engagement. So the conversation
is really really compelling.
Wow. Hey, noodle boy.
I was sorry.
I said this noodle boy. Yeah, I
know. We shouldn't play noodle boy. It'd be good man. I feel
like noodle I got noodle but I don't want to play noodle. Okay.
I want to read something to you. The war on crazy. You recall
that the Health and Human Services Department that's
Kathleen Sebelius knew they were proposing these new rules for
what constitutes crazy enough not to be allowed to have a gun.
So they're releasing stuff now. Would you like to hear it? Yeah,
I'm
all get yours for this one.
Okay, the proposed rule would clarify the statutory term and
this is the big one. adjudicated as a mental defective now this
is on the books everywhere. We've talked about this in the
past. This is on the books in Texas. If you are adjudicated as
a mental defective, then you cannot buy a gun. This will now
include persons who are found incompetent to stand trial or
not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, lack of
mental responsibility or insanity, and that the term
includes persons found guilty but mentally ill. The department
recognises the term mentally defective is outdated Ha, but as
included in the statute and cannot be amended by regulation,
this is very interesting. So so they want to change something
they can't really. So the so the proposed amendments, words
further clarify that federal state local military courts are
recognised lawful authorities that can find persons
incompetent to stand trial, or find them not guilty by reason
of mental disease or defect, lack of mental responsibility,
or insanity. So mental responsibility, I think that's
the key one here. Regarding whether the statutory term
adjudicated as a mental defective includes an
adjudication that occurred when the person was under the age of
18, that is also something new. So under 18, you're a moron
basically. And if you do something crazy, that may now be
classified as mentally defective, if you did something
crazy when you were under 18. But I'm seeing he has a four
page document, it goes on to clarify the legal terms, but
mental responsibility, which can now be declared by a federal,
state, local and military courts. I think that's kind of
where this is headed is the mental responsibility. And
responsibility, of course, is a pretty open ended term. All
right, well, we'll follow Yeah. That's some just just mentioning
it as part of what's going on.
I was when I was thinking about donations, I ran into this
little clip of, of Spielberg, and Lucas and somebody else
sitting at a round table discussing the future of movies.
And the reason I was interested in this, because I've always
tried to equate people to give to the no agenda show or
contribute to the show, or donate to the show, whatever you
want to call it, advertising is not and movies, what it cost to
go to the theatre. And so Lucas seems to be of the mind that the
theatre experience is going to change drastically, and puts it
on par with what you pay for a football game. Which is is
radically is just depressing, because it's like I think they
willingly replay the future almost
like it football games are expensive to go to. Yeah, like
775 bucks.
75 is cheap.
Yeah. What's the UT ut game? So 75 bucks?
Yeah, yeah,
what you're gonna end up with as fewer theatres, bigger theatres
with a lot of nice things. Going to the movies, it's gonna cost
you 50 bucks, maybe 100 Maybe 150 We're gonna be like way cost
today that's like Broadway or going to, you know, a football
game? I don't think I mean, I think eventually, the Lincoln's
are gonna go away and they're gonna be on television.
You're not? Well, I mean, it's close. But that's HBO this
close.
150 bucks to go to the movies. That'll be interesting.
Well, we haven't in Austin, we have one of those theatres that
serves food and drinks and you've got huge recliner chairs.
Yeah,
that's what he's talking about.
If you've been to that, no, no. People say
they show good movies or what's the deal?
Let me think what it's called. It's called something house.
Round House. Let me see. Let's do Austin. A luxury movie
theatre. No, I've not been I think we tried to go once and
you book it basically like an airline ticket. Or you do I pick
theatres. There you go. I IP, I see theatres, I pick
theatres.com. You look at it, you'll see like big red plush
reclining seats. And let's see what movies they think they
have. It also was at the domain I think, which is that place
that I despise.
Were the OH, THE CELEBRATION clones. Exactly. Show
times and tickets. Let's see what do we have here? So they've
got American Hustle. Anchorman two grudge match. And what are
the costs let's see American Hustle. Let's see what they're
charging for
that anybody pay 150 bucks to go see Anchorman two. You know one
it just doesn't make sense to me.
Sadly. Yeah, probably. Probably. And this there's no price here
for tickets. But it's it's up there for sure. For sure you
also, you're forbidden from using your phone. If you even
turn on your phone. They kick you out. You told me this. Yeah.
And they really do kick you out. Like no joke, kick you out.
Immediately. No questions asked. Don, you're out. Okay,
another piece. I've been wanting to run a clip I've been wanting
to run which is the counter argument. McDonald's. If you
remember about four or five months ago, I had a clip from
Fox one of those Fox shows the roundtable show.
Yeah. And they were promoting McDonald's by eating it or
something
on this world McDonald's is not letting up and I think a lot of
this has to do with the that movie that they decided to do a
counter movie to that movie. supersize it remember that movie
The
guy was more like a documentary than a movie but yeah, yeah,
yeah, no, this puff piece which is was I think I can't prove it
I don't know if it ran anyplace but local because I doubt it. It
looks like a video press release to me that was done by
McDonald's and fed to all the stations around the country and
oops, and I was just gonna say this is a very good, very well
done counter bullcrap. Iowa man is sharing the results of an
experiment what would happen if he ate nothing but McDonald's
for 90 days? And the answer may surprise you. High School
teacher John Cissna took these before and after pictures. The
one on the left where he's thinner was taken. After three
months of eating McDonald's, he lost almost 40 pounds. The
students devised daily meme menus based on a 2000 calorie
diet and the daily recommended amounts of fat calories,
carbohydrates and protein.
This isn't something to say well, he only went to McDonald's
and ate salads. Hmm. I had the Big Macs. I had the quarter
pounders with cheese. I had every I had Sundays, I had ice
cream cones, orange juice. And I also started walking every day,
which no doubt helps, too. He says the point of the experiment
was to show making wise nutritional choices works even
at a place like McDonald's.
Yeah, good. That's great. By the way, people, there is no need to
email us. The YouTube clip of Conan with all the scripted
local news things. We know this. You don't need to tweet it
anymore. It's like we know this. Yeah. It's like we know how this
works. The these are these. This is one of those pieces.
Yeah, they float around. They come up in the game. Brilliant.
Conan has a good one thing. Conan does well, he's got his
staff on the lookout for these things. And we do the same
thing.
I think differently. I think he's on the list. I think he's
on the list of the of the canned pieces.
Oh, he might be and then he gets a canned piece. And then they
just go search for the nails. Yeah, and then they wait for. So
that's like when we do when we take a press release, or some
article that seems kind of interesting. And there's some
funny wording, you pull the wording out. And then you do a
search on Google for that wording. And you see the thing
crop up all over town, as exact word for word. This is about
that 1871 thing and all that that's all you know, part of
this, you know this, somebody put out a press release or
something. I'm still working on it. I just
want to for those of you using a Mac, particularly if you if you
haven't upgraded like I have I mean, this MAC is the one that I
bought, when I built the studio in Los Angeles. So how old was
four years ago? Five, almost five years ago seems like
forever. Yeah. So it still has 10 dot 6.8 Snow Leopard. And
I've been having a lot of problem particularly with this
MAC, which is the studio Mac and I don't want to upgrade and it
was slim. You know, you've heard me say, oh, it's hanging. It's
like it's I've got beach ball. Turns out and I blog this
blog.curry.com. But it's also in the show notes. If you will get
a new computer when you do this. You need there's a command you
do in the terminal and it relies on it resets the Launch Services
database, which is kind of like the registry on Windows. Oh my
God, have you heard of this, John?
No, but it's that doesn't sound like something I'd like.
Well, you you just you enter one command. It's one command line.
And it's like your computer Kevin new computer. It's
unbelievable. Unreal, knew
that with the registry.
Well, I don't know anything about the registry. I don't know
how that works. But this launch services database apparently, it
gets confused or something. I'd never heard of this before. I
never heard of it. And because I would literally open the
spreadsheet and with to launch services sounds a lot like
registering this website has like a registry. And it's but
people I blog this and of course I tweeted the blog to start a
conversation I got lots of engagement from this. And people
saying oh my god, like there was I was about ready to toss my Mac
and I did this and it fixed it. But I just wanted to share that
with everybody. And
and show has got all kinds of dimensions of value.
Well, here's another piece of value. So I decided that I'm
looking into this email thing, how can I make it better? Turns
out there's a lot of articles about this. using hashtags in
your subject line is actually quite an interesting idea. And
if you're emailing me I'd like you to try that hashtag in a and
then hashtag the subject so it would be agenda 21 Hashtag war
on crazy. All caps. Hashtag snow job, whatever it is it really
usually makes a difference. Why? Because I can see in the subject
line immediately what it is and I can organise and categorise
it, it makes a big difference. I've been trying it. And in my
email client, I can actually change the subject line upon
replying or just, if I want to change it just right then and
there, which is most email programmes can't do that. And it
really helps. I'm just, I'm just testing stuff.
Yeah. Okay. Let me see to get more organised. Yeah.
So you should totally ignore what I'm doing. Yeah, well, I
will. Just ignore it.
I do have one last clip. All right, good. They This is
another one of these puff pieces that was done in a local news
about the future of everyone can look forward to their jobs. The
big opening, the great opportunity we have in this
country is not manufacturing. It's not it's not even services.
I'm just seeing the climb, like what clip? Is it? Oh, I know
what the clip is,
is a career. This is our future
and most disadvantaged neighbourhoods, excellent people
are working people in work, they do a great job for us. And it's
a great job and, and we're giving back to society. And I
think that's a great thing. promote from within, promote
from within. Experts say besides recycling centre jobs, many
other jobs are created in remanufacturing of new products,
such things as paper, cardboard, plastic items, fertilisers, and
many more at substantially less cost than the same from raw
materials. Well, recycling has created almost a million jobs in
the United States already. And we're only recycling about 34%
of what we could be recycling. Consider this. For every single
job in a landfill. Recycling creates 10 to 15 times more.
Nationally, if we step up recycling the way San Francisco
has, we can create 1.5 million new jobs, 150,000 jobs, new jobs
to be created here in California, you don't look at a
dead end jobs anymore. No. I felt like this is a real career.
All right. You want to say something a real career? Let me
say something. I am a huge fan of the Garbage Collection
Services Department of Sanitation. If you look at the
history, you know, the New York City sanitation department has
very spiffy uniforms. And the reason they were heroes, when
the Department of Sanitation just started, they saved the
city of New York from basically everybody dying, because people
would just throw the trash out the window, throw poop in the
street. Yeah. And they were heralded as heroes. And I think
that the sanitation and recycling workers and I'll add
the United States Postal Service to that are absolutely heroes.
It's a great, great business to be in.
Well, first of all, I'm not gonna say that you're wrong on
this, this but the way this piece was done first, they had
these lines of crap. flying past these pickers and what they're
talking about. They're not talking about somebody who's
going to place okay, I had no context I didn't see as pickers
as pickers the guys on the mic see this. I did not. So you grab
a piece of paper and you throw it over here and you grab a Can
you throw it over here, because we have a lot of places that
have mixed recycling. So you get the mix all your stuff up. And
this is all this is not a career, this is going to
eventually be automated to an extreme. There will be nobody
doing these jobs. Okay.
You understand? I had no context about the video. No, but I
admired
what you said. I think it's absolutely correct. There's
nothing wrong with being a garbage man. They can't call
them that anymore. Waste
Collection Management. Yeah, whatever.
It's, you know, work work product. is garbage. So garbage
in, garbage out. That's fine. But it just nonsense.
No, that is nonsense. And this, of course, is the future. I if,
if I had a kid right now, I probably would not encourage
them to go to college. I don't see you know, there's no jobs
there. You know, there never was. There never was.
I mean, you didn't go to college. I got a degree in
history. I didn't go to college to get a job. If I wanted to get
a job. I just got into job. I used to get jobs all the time.
You went to college to get laid? Well, there's that
and get drunk and get high.
We're proud of the partial process our culture,
ladies and gentlemen. All right, let me wind up them with my
final clip of the day.
Again, dials again. And a milestone set by former
President George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife Barbara
tonight. Today is their 69th anniversary. I just love it when
Diane has drunk the vibe of them. They've dead hers. jebra
Hopper got butterflies George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife
Barbara Zandile
There you go, everybody. I promised to get us out of 245
and we're just a hair over that so
well the $14 million a year I think at least
for Diane. Yeah what do you think Katie Couric is making
over there the Yahoo's
you're probably giving her a couple mil
I couldn't do it, man. I don't care how much you pay me. I
couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. No, I did. And I it didn't
work out for me. I was a I was
You don't need to you know, you only need X amount of money buy
groceries. I mean, yeah, true. Like, you know,
no, you're absolutely right.
It's used as an ego boost more than anything at some point. You
maybe get me five I don't know. You know that Marissa Meyer is
obviously a fan boy. So Oh, yeah. And of Saturday Night
Live. And it was probably Katie's agent who did the deal.
Yeah. So fan girl might be more appropriate. Anyway, I'm saying
more Oscar de la Renta and technology. I'm all down with
that. Coming to you from FEMA Region six here in the capital
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