Acharya quatro Latino Adam curry, John C. Dvorak
and Sunday, May 25 2014. It's time for your donation media
assassination Episode Six to zero. This is no agenda. Back in
FEMA Region six at the traverse high tide out and feeling the
love of Gitmo nation in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam
curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley where I've returned I'm John C.
Dvorak Hill.
Normally, you give me a little more than that.
I first ran into my column from June 26 1987, which ended up on
the desk here, I have no idea why. Which is called you know,
that column or about the mouse?
Way? Yes. Do you want to bring that up? It's fine. Fine with
one for from three years later. I should read some of this.
Now let's just let them let me immediately recap this. This is
the famous
quote, which he named for Nike a4. This was written which by
the way, is
was a very valid quote, but it has been so often misquoted,
yeah, by a bunch of fanatics and douchebags,
but you doesn't matter? Because sometimes you just can't change
history. Although in Europe, you could probably have all of those
quotes pulled off the internet.
Yeah, I think that'll happen here eventually.
So the so you said there is no evidence, people will want to
use a mouse. Right at that time. There was no evidence. No, there
was of course not. Yeah. Okay. So what this is the this is the
famous culture, we reprint that put it in the show notes
I actually have printed. It's been on the net here and there.
But here's the one. This was a column three years later. And
then it was titled 15 reasons the Mac has been a success. And
it here let me just read, I received a letter from Larry
Tesler, Vice President of advanced technology at Apple
Computer. Tesla was one of the brains behind the Macintosh and
before that, he was one of the main he was the man with that he
was a 1k Everybody. That's all screw scrunched up as a
newspaper column. I'm reading from his old thing as yellow. He
was a one man tornado at Xerox Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre
he writes enclosed as a clipping of an article you wrote in 1984.
Have you ever written a follow up evaluating your 15 reasons
why the Macintosh may fail? With the benefit of hindsight yours,
Larry Tesler. Ah. So I go on and on about first I talked a little
bit about the feedback I got in that column and here it is
again. So it turns out that I was right on all counts, which
is I prove in this column.
All right, well, what do you mean just give me the top five
so we understand.
Okay, well, I have a gripe number one. Let's go to here
it's a great number to start with six just go gripe number
six was no bundled software that's one of the reasons it may
fail. There still isn't any it turns out that the Mac users are
so copy crazy that everyone has everything for free anyway, so I
Okay, that one I was wrong on gripe seven, a mouse who wants
these things wrong? This is great. I've been converted,
right number three smallish keyboard or gravitas Great.
Number eight, the company's new keyboard corrected this
complaint and have have the ninth grade that was that was a
problem, right eight and nine and 10. High resolution graphics
and font capacity are not discernible benefits by anyone
but professional types, setters and this is still true, but
Apple's business seminars are doing their best to educate
business people. gripe 11, the machine only drives a dot matrix
and business. Businesses want letter quality? Well, Apple
leapfrogged everybody and jumped from dot matrix to laser writer
in one fell swoop is a fabulous device. But that was a complaint
that was corrected.
Are you are you feeling a little down about yourself that you
know, this is on your desk? And
no, no, this somebody put it here. Enough to place? Grind for
it's too expensive. And 120 8k is not enough? For both right?
Both of those right?
Right by Anyway, go on and on. But except for the two mistakes.
I was right on 13 of the points.
I think you should set can you scan that and send it to me scan
it and send it in you guys fun? It's fun to put it in the show
notes.
Yeah, I'll do that. Anyway.
We're both back at our home bases. I'm back in Austin,
Texas. John is back in Southern California. Yeah, there you go.
And, of course, I'm a little wacky jetlag.
Yeah, you're too you have to be jet lagged a little bit.
We're both waking up around 3am with nothing better to do within
you know what
keeps you busy, but I
woke up, specifically it so we came back. We left in the future
and came back and in the past, then we were back home. Friday
evening. Oh, but yes, of course I forgot to mention returning
into the United States. Part 59 Atlanta, Hartsfield Jackson
airport. So we, we Boogie On out of the plane, we both get out of
the plane, we go again. Yeah, Mickey is out. And that Mickey,
we both get a little stressed because we know what's coming.
And we roll right up and we get to the counter of, and by the
way, people get very confused. It's not the TSA who are giving
us hassle coming into the country. It's Customs and Border
Patrol, it is all part of Department of Homeland Security.
Right. And it used to be part of the State Department, which is
why it's all messed up now. Because the State Department is
just one. I mean, department Homeland Security is the huge,
huge, horrible beasts are created after 911. Anyway, so we
roll up and I mean, the guy is a little you know, like, alright,
by you friends travelling together, we're married. Okay.
And then he looks at my passport. Now. Were you there
for just visiting friends. No business, not just visiting
friends hanging out? Uh huh. Yeah. Do you bring him back in?
How much money you bring in. This is the first time that I've
been asked about the money. It's money. I guess we look like
money traffickers. Hey, do a little bit, said I'm on 200
bucks. It was about true. And then, of course, he said,
Mickey's thing, you know, swipes her green card, and you know,
gotta put your your finger on the green and the green glass
and he takes the picture. And he says, Well, yeah, okay, you're
good to go. He says to me, but you know, you're going into the
office. And I guess it's not the first time hmm. And we both
Mickey's Very happy that she's
okay. Let me get to hold on a second. Let's stop right here.
Now, they have been pulling they know, because it's on the
record, apparently, since they scan the card and that she's
been dragged into this office over and over again. Yep. Right.
Yeah. Where they wouldn't have said that. That's exactly right.
That's proof that they know this is bullcrap. Because there's
nothing new they're going to discover. No, I wish all of us
they should. Okay, okay, I'm sick of this. I'm guilty. What?
What are they expecting? Well, actually, it
got a little worse. And I have to say, I am disappointed in
myself. We had a very short time window. This time, we had about
45 minutes to get through customs, get our gear and then
get on the flight to Austin. And I'm disappointed in myself, but
it's one thing off, I did not mouth off that disappointed in
myself. So anyway, he says, oh, you know, so it's not the first
time and then he says, you know, there's the you can solve this
really easily by becoming an American citizen. And, and we
looked at each other. And I said in Dutch so Mukesh, don't
respond, just leave it. Because first of all, fuck you, Mr. Mr.
Customs Border Patrol. Be what is what do you This is this now
you're doing this to make force or to become an American
citizen? Point two, you have to have a resident alien status for
I believe it's five years before you can even apply for
citizenship. So it's just not true. And point three as an
American citizen, I was detained without reason for three years.
Right. It was part of it was actually a skit in our show.
Yeah.
And let me just set up forget about it moved on as she went,
it was really fast. In and out, they know where now. Hey,
Mickey, how you doing? The whole thing is such a scam. Everybody
knows, could they please just put a little thing on her? A
little foot and you'll remove the flag on a record whatever it
is. And anyway, so she signed up for Global Entry. We have to we
have to drive to Houston to do an interview. So that at least
we've got all that set up. And who knows. They may say, oh, no,
I'm sorry. We can't let you use Global Entry. And by the way,
while all this is happening, the President actually was out in
the field, talking about his memorandum establishing a
national goal and developing airport specific action plans to
enhance the entry process for international travellers to the
United States.
In fact, I have a clip right now about the whole thing going on.
And to me I did I was a jaw dropper, because I don't know
anybody. When I go to a trade show or something I run into a
lot of people from overseas Brazil is a perfect example. And
I asked him about the experience and they all have the same thing
to say this is you have a bunch of assholes at the border. Yes.
But you're meanwhile this tourism clip here meanwhile, is
Obama going on about how you know this is actually a
moneymaker for us? Why are we trying to turn people away when
this apparently is a profit centre, we're gonna as a
country, we're gonna die if we don't have more tourism.
And if you're hoping for a holiday in the United States,
while President Barack Obama is trying to make it easier for
you,
yeah, but it's not that personal, really. He's really
just trying to help boost the American economy. He says that
by boosting tourism, he's going to he's going to try and cut
those long and frustrating customs line at airports. That
could include installing automated passport controls and
more staff. The US is currently the world's second biggest
tourist destination after France. That's according to the
World Tourism Organisation. 70 million people visited the US
last year, Obama hopes to make that figure it hit 100 million
by the end of the decade. He says tourism plays a vital role
in the US economy.
Tourism translates into jobs, and it translates into economic
growth. When visitors come here, they don't just check out the
hall. They rent cars, they stay in hotels, they eat at
restaurants. And that means for Upstate New York, the Baseball
Hall of Fame is a powerful economic engine.
Okay, first of all, but But besides the Baseball Hall of
Fame, and that's where it's given this big right right was
coming in from say France or Belgium or Germany or Japan
maybe
maybe they'd go to God the Japanese are crazy about
baseball,
but it doesn't mean they're gonna go to the Baseball Hall of
Fame. They've got their own Hall of it. This is the fact that he
threw that in shows he doesn't have a clue about anything. That
just well,
he's now on some kind of trip and you know, it's all Ministry
of Truth and my god the propaganda walk he did was just
outrageous. Use Did you see this thing that was on YouTube? He so
he needed to see this raw video and the White House posted every
routine that he needed to walk over to the Department of the
Interior. I think he needed to go there instead of going by car
or whatever helicopter for all I know. He decides to walk and
it's like this spontaneous moment and which is not and of
course, only the White House. The White House's own
videographer is out there filming this. The whole thing is
complete propaganda. He's shaking hands.
Okay, we, I have a story. I've been having a meet up in
Detroit. Second one. And I got the story from a guy who works
at Zingerman's, which is this big Deli in Ann Arbour that
everybody knows about and they own half the town of Ann Arbour,
the Obama comes to visit and so they were they different guys of
advanced guy team comes in. So we got to get security
clearances on every employee. So they started doing all this
research and then they then they set up this photoshoot with
employees posing as customers 30 clearances, pack, they pack all
their employees from the various Zingerman's operations. They
have a bunch of stores around that do different things. And
they put them all in the in the deli, and then they had Obama
coming in it. The whole thing was a fake. It was a phoney,
he's like, Oh, Hi, how you doing? Oh, what are you doing?
And it's all bull crap. It was just a complete facade malarkey.
full of crap. This is the way this country is going with this
nonsense. Photoshop opposite aren't even close to being real
and a lot and there's not a lot of talk about this. Although
there, there have been letters sent etc. But of course, you're
not really hearing about it on the, on the mainstream news.
Certainly the I'm not sure about the videographers. But the press
corps that photograph the photographers in the press corps
are really angry that the White House more and more is having
their own guys. And it's the one guy who's been around ever since
Reagan, I think does most of the work. His name escapes me.
They're publishing photos that they style and dress and light.
And they're publishing that on their own social media. Right.
And the press corps is is being excluded from these staged
events. Hey, you could do
it get away with it.
Why Why wouldn't you? Yeah, and that
is because a press corps is a bunch of, you know, parents half
the time anyway are pushovers and so they can just push them
push them as far as you can, before they they haven't done
anything about it.
And there's been questions about it and you know, there's been
some just some just there's not much you know, and it's for the
public doesn't really understand how incredibly wrong this is
that it's taking place. And he see there was I was reading
there's a whole bunch of articles about that. You can
even Duck Duck go it. I'm trying to get that into my vocabulary.
You can DDG it. There There was one where he was in a bus like a
it was a he was some place where I guess they make new buses and
they had an antique bus. Maybe it was the one that Rosa Parks
was on. And he's he's in the bus in the Rosa Park seat. They
light it, the whole description of how this went down. And it
was passed off by the White House's, you know, he just sat
there and reflected for a moment, but what was really
happening was, it was lit everything that kept people off
the bus. It's nuts. It's I mean, that's it. That is truly Nazi
propaganda stuff.
We have some powder for the President's for you. Please send
some powder. Oh,
yeah. Hey, key light. He's probably got gaffers and you
know, guys, you know, knocking the lights around with sticks.
My favourite. Anyway, so we do get through and then we we rush
off to the of course we have to go through. It's really
interesting. You do have to go through security once again.
Yeah, I find that annoying, but you don't have to show your your
ticket or anything. And I will say each time the Atlanta TSA
has been actually quite enjoyable. That it's such a
there's so the opposite polar opposite of the Customs Border
Patrol guys. And we both opt out and we got helped really quickly
and it was I got a super super gay guy. Totally and he you
know, diamond earrings, you know, the black guy and the, you
know, the kind of like the ballplayers the big diamond
earring and each ear lobe. Yeah. And I had a lot of stuff. And
he's, he's like, what's your stuff?
And he didn't, but he really and I'm not just when he said,
What's your stuff? What was he referring to?
Well, because it's part of the service, the massage is valet
service, and they take they pick your stuff, you're not allowed
to touch. Oh, I
thought he talked about some other stuff. No, no. And, you
know,
so he has to carry it. I'd like to laptops, you know, I got the
portable studio bag, a laptop bag, of course, my shoes, my
belt, you know, my money clip all this stuff. And I've seen
God, this is really a fantastic valet service. I'm goading him.
Anyway, it was really nice. And it was funny. You know, it was
kind of Yeah, how I am with gay guys. They love me. Yeah, yeah.
That was really nice. Oh, by the way, leaving Japan there yeah,
there's an exit process
until you don't have to buy an exit ticket to
get out. No, no purchase. No, no tax. Oh, there
used to be when I was there. You had to pay us like 100 yen out
or something like that? Or 1000? No, but
they they do take the little thing out of your passport. You
have a little piece of the tearaway cardboard, whatever.
That's it. On the way and yeah, they staple in upon entry those
things. Oh, yeah. Yeah, like kind of like, like an island?
Uh, yeah. People should be aware of that. A lot of times you're
going they'll give you some sheet of paper. And you better
not lose
the passport and well, this is they staple it into mine.
Oh, that's nice. That's good. People were losing it. I'm sure.
Of course,
as a nice little little Japanese lady there and she said that you
enjoy your stay. Yeah, it was great at a good time. Oh, well,
you come back. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I'm looking forward to
it. Okay, what do we come back just to Tokyo are now saying I'm
going to like new
she's actually as Japanese CIA and she's grilling and you don't
even know
what did happen is going through the the security. I don't want
to say checkpoint because that's what I'd hate the word
checkpoint. But going through security at Narita Airport. And
how many times have I gone through security with this bag,
this big podcast bag which contains it looks like bomb
making gear. And not only that, but it has the the road a
microphone in there, which most of the time, they just want to
see because they think it's a vibrator and they want to
embarrass me. They get me this all this stuff and read it. I
don't think I've ever had to open it up ever, except once in
Amsterdam, just to show the microphone. And these guys that
oh, you know, we need to look at this. I'm so sure. And you know,
Can I open it up? Yeah. And then he starts taking everything I've
said hold on a second man. Let me help you with this. Because
it's, it's tightly packed and I've
got my well you do that in the United States. No, no, no
touching, no touching. Not a problem
I said and also the guy was really nice. But he wanted
everything out. And I had to pack this thing and it contained
the the audio device but also had my ham Reagan there and
you'll be in fed antenna wires, and everything's
compartmentalised perfectly to everything has to come out and
then you know, then he sends all that through, separate from the
bag. And I said, do you even want to know what it is? You
said them. But then while this is happening, a Japanese
policeman comes over. He says, May I see your passport please?
This is your and it says Do you mind if I write this down? No.
And he has a sheet of paper. Then he's drawing little
squares. was on it and he writes down my my details I and I think
probably it's just just his job just to write shit down or he
has to handle this as you are entering the country, as I'm
leaving as we're leaving the country while they give
a shit. And then it go on.
I found that peculiar. Just going back to your Meetup
briefly, did you publish or publicise these meetups? Because
a lot of people,
yes, we talked about it on the show a number of
times. This is the problem with not being Oh, Qumran on your
episodes.
I talked. Yeah, well, here we go. I talked about on our show a
couple of times I talked on twit, which is which has, you
know, the massive audience which is our PR, our and our PR, like,
talked about it on Twitter. And I told people the same thing,
too. And I think I even tweet I I believe I tweeted it at least
once, I probably could have done more there guys saying just send
me an email with the subject, Michigan or Detroit and Detroit.
And we'll create it. So I created a mailing list. We had
about 40 people on the mailing list. And they're gonna keep
keep the group together. And a bunch of people laggers come in
at the last minute. And they said I never heard of it. Yeah,
I don't you know, too bad. I mean, you can't you know, are
you good? Send me it's still send me a message. And you can
get on the major mailing list that they're going to create for
a group. And then if I go back, you'll be on top of even even
the
Japan I'm still getting emails from people in Japan. Oh, man, I
can't believe I missed it. You go. You got to keep up the speed
up one more tip and then
three months behind listening to the show. Yeah, for some reason.
I don't know why anyone would do that. To be honest about it. I
don't buy into the well, there's this cute little things you say
that are important later, we usually reiterate, you'd you're
a big fan of reiterating you. You come in I don't do it as
much as you do it. So do you read the brief these people and
what we're talking about?
Yeah, that's important. It's important that we do so my first
boss, Lex Harding taught me so you can never reiterate too much
because the people are stupid. That doesn't mean it doesn't
mean our producers or listeners are stupid. But he says it's the
more you do that you'd be amazed it works so well. So I figured a
couple things out one, you'll recall always talking about the
glass hole who we saw at the tech sheet street to the the
Japanese school girl Street and then again at at the Robot
Restaurant. The robot, the robot restaurant robot robot Robot
Restaurant. Turns out the guy was I thought it I thought maybe
he was doing something for Vice magazine or whatever turns out
he was the airbed Chris Arkin Berg. With a he did a piece on
boiling, boiling. A whole piece about the Robot Restaurant.
Okay. And despite the fact that he's a glass hole, it's a good
piece to very detailed view. It's really nice. If you want to
read everything about about that crazy, crazy restaurant. And
that's in the tokyo.no agenda. notes.com Last thing about
Tokyo, someone had given me the tip about getting the Google
translation app. And this thing saved our ass. And, you know,
I'm sure everyone's used Trent, the Google Translate on on the
web, but they have an app, and you can dictate into it. But
it'll also speak whatever it's saying. And I use this
continuously. And with great success. And particularly the
cab drivers who have no idea. The end, they'll even pretend
like they really know what they're doing and drive you
around for 30 minutes, and you've been in completely the
wrong spot. But once we got the app, and we were entering the
address and translating it, and the kanji was right there. 99%
success rate. Ah, good tip for travelling
on an iPhone.
Yes. Yeah, they have it for Android and iPhone. No, very,
very happy with that.
That's good. Well, that's, you know, we've been promised a sort
of futuristic real time to that. So
that really Yeah, that will mean that really works. And also the
dictation the Google stuff I find when it knows that you're
there's a limited set of things you're saying. So not dictating
a letter or writing some prose. Nothing works for that yet. And
I doubt it ever really will in our lives. get you to the train
station, right? Yeah, we're asked where the toilet is. Yeah.
Anyway, so we've got the jetlag, we're up to but I wake up two
o'clock. I'm like, Oh, this is great. I'm gonna go out and
watch the meteor shower.
Yeah, well, that was a waste of your time.
I just want to remind everybody that this NASA meteor shower is
predicted by the same people who bring you proof of climate
change and global warming. Hey, hey,
swag good one doesn't want you to realise my
son. I think Jason's a buzzkill Jr. Tried to then he didn't he
did some research after the fact and he says this thing comes
around every 13,000 years and nobody knows anything about it
anyway. Right and they're full of crap about these meteor
showers. But and I was looking to see absolutely nothing. I
think nothing is a dud. Yeah, there's a fake
and I'm looking at Twitter and across the across the country.
That hashtag meteor shower everybody's like, you know, I
saw maybe on any given night you can you live long enough. You
can see you can see me your followers.
Shout you should be able to see one every couple seconds. Yeah,
no
way. No, I there's total bogus. But no one's calling them on
this. Excuse me. Why should we trust anything you say if you
can't even predict a little meteor storm? Yeah, that's a
good point. Quick catch up on a couple of emails. One. A score
is a is 20 or approximately 20. You recall, we were trying to
figure out well, how many?
Oh, yeah, toward July 20. Has what it
but the definition is a 20 or approximately 20, which I find
interesting. And a great suggestion came in from Shawn
coffee. Then he said, Hey, man, it really is hard to find John's
email address, which is why everyone is sending you the
emails.
Yeah, it's so hard.
Well, not anymore. He had a great suggestion. And I now have
set up next to adam@curry.com john@curry.com.
Which forwards to your email.
Yeah, well, good because my emails actually failing at the
moment. So good luck getting it there.
John had curry.com Everybody. Okay, I'm gonna
create a divorce.org and it's all going to your email.
Fine. No, and I'll, how many complaints? I'll get zero.
No, I'm gonna make I'm gonna come. I'm gonna tell people to
hit the complaint button hard.
john@curry.com. Okay, while we are in our Oh, coolant segment
here. The President has proclaimed yet more days and
weeks. As we are now almost at the end of the month, he is
still handing out presidential proclamations. Of course, we had
Memorial Day, which will be Monday, and that is he had by
presidential proclamation. He is calling that prayer for Peace
Memorial Day 2014. prayer for peace. I'm not quite sure why
he's added that
prayer for peace. Yeah. Oh, I have no idea.
Yeah, the security that lets us live in peace, the prosperity
that allows us to pursue our dreams, the freedom that we
cherish. These were earned by the blood and the sacrifices of
our patriots who went before this Memorial Day as we end, as
we near the end of more than a decade of war. Let us never
forget their service and always be worthy of the sacrifices made
in our name. And oh, and today and everyday, let us pray for
and hold close the families of the fallen. So he's putting
religious land on it. I'm not making any jokes, because as you
know, I've come from a long line of servicemen and women, both in
in uniform and in civilian garb. So I certainly recognise them on
Memorial Day. But then we have another presidential
proclamation and this is for National Hurricane Preparedness
Week. 2014. Everybody yay. Because as you know, hurricanes
can demolish towns obliterate coastlines and devastate
families. We cannot eliminate the threats they pose. But with
careful planning, we can better protect ourselves, our loved
ones and our communities. During National Hurricane Preparedness
Week, America fortifies our homes and businesses so that we
are ready long before these powerful, powerful storms make
landfall. And this was of course, coordinated. As we have
Brian Williams from the NBC News, they're talking about the
named storms they expect during this hurricane season, which of
course has failed drastically by all predictions, and he says
something interesting. In addition to this
overall, they're predicting eight to 13. So called named
storms with somewhere between three and six of them developing
into hurricane strength. One or two hurricanes they predict will
be major meaning category three or above. But as you know, it is
always the case in the inexact business of any forecast beyond
five days. We shall see.
Okay, that's new. Five days, 200 years, give or take whatever
you yeah yeah
definitely
very very very interesting Mr. Brian Williams most pissed off
people on the planet right now have got to be Kim Kardashian
and Kanye West
well you've been following this
No but I bumped into a report they got married on the very day
that we have shootings in Brussels shootings in in
California and you know that these people are complete
publicity horrors and are pissed off because no one's talking
about their their spectacular wedding in Florence with a wall
of flowers
Yeah, no, they were more concerned about the shooting
they should local shooting which I don't have a clip of had this
guy who Donald you know anything about the Santa Barbara thing?
I know a lot about this. I was going to clip of the guy yakking
about
you know, he put posted on YouTube that he can't get a date
let me just well it was worse than that. And we have fantastic
producers what could be worse than that? If you look at all
the videos which have been taken down but I find that very
disturbing by the way well the gay Crusader Brian the gay
Crusader upon my return had saved all of the videos all of
the postings on the bodybuilder website like for him everything
I have an entire archive which will be in the show notes and
all of these videos so there's there's two types of videos,
videos where he's talking which is kind it's almost like a
podcast and then he has videos where he's just driving and
playing songs now all of these songs all from the 80s and the
guys 22 But I realised as I'm watching there must be no 15
videos that we have that you can take a look and I really don't
know I really don't want to play that I mean do I do have some
analysis as about to give up on it. Let me just tell you the
here the songs that he has police every little thing you do
his magic Katrina in the ways walking on sunshine. Whitney
Houston How will I know Steve Perry Oh Sherry Steve Winwood
higher love George Michael father figure and modern English
I melt with you. This is like a bad top 40 radio station
knows Yes, exactly. But of all of the videos
where he is talking to the camera, he he starts them off
the same way and I want to I just did a little compilation of
that. This is he always says hey Elliot Rodger here. Hey, Elliot
Rodger here. Hey, Elliot Rodger here. Hi, Elliot Rodger here.
Hey, Elliot Rodger here. Hey, Elliot Rodger here. Hey, Elliot
Rodger here. Hey, Elliot Rodger here, guys. Is it podcaster? A
little disturbing.
Yeah, he's got definitely a open he's got his his opening.
Yeah. And I was ready to dismiss this as you know. Certainly,
I dismissed it as a another unreported kid on some drug
because of some reason or rather, and that caught up with
him and turned him into a, you know, essentially made him
crazy. And that was going to my concern with this wasn't
whatever you're going to come up with which it sounds more
interesting. My concern is still the same concern that the news
people covering these stories never bring up the drug angle
ever.
Yes. And I was I was kind of where you are. And I was like,
If this sounds kind of unfortunate, then a whole lot of
things started to happen. One and it's just, although we're
going to cover it today, we're going to cover a lot of the
event itself, I want to cover some of the event itself. Really
what what the result is is going to be much more interesting. As
immediately we have all of the means we have the war on crazy
mental illness, we have the war on women, missing misogyny, we
have the war on guns, I mean, all of these things, and
immediately all of these started to hit even before we knew the
guy's name officially, which is always a little suspicious. And
but all of a sudden, when this manifesto popped up. That's when
I went okay. Now I don't like this. This this immediately
pisses me off. And this manifesto was not readily
available. It wasn't something he had posted online. It wasn't.
What it was is something that someone had sent the news media
and they print it out. And you can't download a copy anywhere
except for as far as I know. One link from one independent
journalist.
We have a copy on the show notes
Well, I can't actually copy this. I have a link in the show
notes. And of course I know I can copy it. It's on Scribd. And
it's not made available for Scribd.
Scribd does have a PDF function, yes,
but you can disable that if you own the upload and it's been
disabled. In fact, the guy who posted this is this so called
independent blogger. And his name is Matthew keys. And he now
this is an interesting guy. He's somewhat controversial. He was
fired from Reuters. After he, I guess he was busted allowing
anonymous to gain illegal access to the LA Times. And then he was
during the Boston bombing. Remember that guy? Yeah. During
the Boston bombing. He was tweeting, stuff coming off of
the police radio, the scanner. So this guy is he somehow he
acquires this document and he puts it up on Scribd. And the
only way you can read it is on Scribd. I tried everything, I
really tried every single way to do it. And they've got that kind
of locked down. But he's handing out a special code so you can
embed it on your blog. I don't like this guy. I don't know why,
but he smells bad. So I read this 140 pages online. And
there's a lot of stuff in here. And it's it's essentially, the I
wouldn't define as a manifesto. It's, it's a description of a
character, apparently himself from birth all the way to
current day, and he remembers a lot of stuff about his youth
that have been maybe when you're 22, you can still remember, you
know, how you felt when you were four or five. in such detail.
I don't remember anything when I was when I was 22. And I wasn't
recalling the good old days falling down trying to learn how
to walk. But he he definitely did if
he really kind of the whole thing is like a script almost is
like the whole thing is laid out. By the way, the great the
gay Crusader just gave me a PDF of the manifesto. So good. I'll
have that
in the in the show notes. Good guy.
So all of a sudden, this this manifesto pops up. I'm going to
play this clip, which is CNN had, I think the best coverage
Algeria was doing a pretty good job. And then I have some other
things that we just need to talk about because it's irritating.
And I don't like I don't like it. It's a lot of have to say
even the gay Crusader. And Brian is you know, he wrote our white
paper on the Bogota. Putin hates gays. In reality, you can't fool
this guy. Even he's like, Oh, hold on a second man. And we got
all kinds of people working on this with me. I was up until
130. Last night, listen to this as they they get this document
and we have the presstitute on CNN, holding a printed copy and
waving it around. You know, but it's not like it's all Theatre
of the mind as far as I'm concerned. Have a listen. And we
are now learning the gunman left behind not only YouTube videos,
he also left behind a 140 page written manifesto that CNN has
obtained a copy of this manifesto was originally sent to
one of our affiliates ke y t. TV. It's titled My twisted
world, the story of Elliot Rodger and he says this is a
story a dark story of sadness, anger and hatred
now, so right off the bat, I'm thinking okay, well, who was it
sent by? And was it mailed? Is it saved there? Was it was it
like printed out and bound like the Unabomber or apparently
we're not going to find out except for this Matthew keys
guys has has a digital copy. And this is just, it literally is
just text. There's no formatting or anything around it. That's
all it is.
I'm joined now by Tracy lair, who's on the phone from our
affiliate ke YT. You reportedly your station received this
manifesto from Elliot Rodger Tell me some of the details.
It came from an acquaintance who had something to do with
bodybuilding online. And it was brought to our attention early
and we have made printed copies and I'm combing through it right
now. And you mentioned the title my twisted world is a very well
written like someone who knew punctuation and wrote it out.
But it starts with every age.
What does I mean? Whoa,
well written some new punctuation. Well, this is a big
this is breaking news for CNN because the public is being you
know, the school system being what it is nowadays. This is a
shocker. This is where they should they should look into
this knowing puncture punctuation and the
fact that it's well written and this is now called immediately
it's called a manifesto we have no idea if it's actually from
him, you know, but it's you looked at it, right? Yes, it
well written or not, it's well written. Okay. Yeah, it's Not a
rambling piece of crap by any means. It's yeah, it's a it's a,
it's a biography, basically a biography page
and every getting back to zero when he gets, like a lot of
kids, he's talking about puberty and masturbation, but also, you
start talking about being unpopular. And he saw his father
who was a director of commercials and movies have some
financial difficulties. And he ended up at Taft High School in
Los Angeles and, and he was very shocked by how he was treated
there. It ended up going into an alternative school. He was also
obsessed with video games, or what struck me is that in
between video games you would watch
there's that the video games meme is in there as well. I'm
I'm playing this so that I don't have to go through this PDF with
you because this is a pretty good description of what it is.
Yeah,
okay, keep playing.
There'll be then one of the movies he was watching was Alpha
Dog, which is a story of David Addis where the UCSB Student who
killed four people driving down the road in 2001 on don't fly it
in the same area where these shootings took place. And that
young man David out he has had a Hollywood producer, Father,
very interesting this this throwback to 10 years or wasn't
now 1213 years ago,
went through the trial, he ended up in a mental hospital and got
out. But the reason he was obsessed with the movie is
because all of the young people seem to be having a lot of
stack. And he was jealous. And he got very upset about any time
someone was doing better with girls than he was. And his
parents, even a step parents have tried to help him through
dark times, but is jealous, he was deeply rooted into his
teenage years. It's really something that I have to say.
It's someone who is well schooled. There's also a lot of
name dropping in it, his mother was very close to George Lucas,
Steven Spielberg, he went to many premieres. Most recently,
The Hunger Games premiere, this was his dad was a second unit
director on that. But he's got to start in London. So it's
almost stranger than fiction. And as you mentioned, that title
my twisted world is like, he had the story. And he wanted his
story told, maybe maybe knowing what the ending would be,
because everything toward the end is almost verbatim with the
videos that you guys have seen, has been talking about talking
about how lonely he is and how he wants to lose his virginity.
It's quite shocking.
Alright, so a very accurate description of this document.
And it's more towards the end where he starts to come up with
these plans. And, and it is a very few talking points that he
repeats consistently in these videos. And he's a very eloquent
speaker. He's not experienced in college as he as he thinks he
should be. Or as the others are, he feels that he should be
having relationships with girls and all the other guys are and
he's all alone. Girls don't want him. Why not? Because he feels
that he's good looking. He's sophisticated. He has a
beautiful car. This is seriously what he said. He never says, By
the way, he never says, By the way, I got a Hollywood
connection. And you know, you can hang out with me on the red
carpet. Get a roll. Yeah, I mean, that shouldn't be that
hard to get laid. But he's claimed he's a virgin,
couple of phoney baloney business cards, and you're
getting laid left and right.
But it's a very short list of things. And he Well, so here's
what happens next in the timeline, the BBC comes out with
an interview of someone, a guy who claims to be the family
lawyer. And I have a clip of what he said. And this is very
interesting.
And we're now learning the gunmen left behind not only
YouTube videos, or I'm sorry, oops, how'd that happen?
Oh, here it is. My mistake,
this child was being was being treated by multiple
professionals. The child was diagnosed at an earlier age of
being a highly functional Asperger's Syndrome child.
Now, let's stop right here for a second. As you know, I do a lot
of research into the the diagnosis of mental disease. It
there is no such thing as high functioning ash burger. There is
such thing as highly functioning autism, which is Asperger
syndrome. And it's very interesting that this is
repeated over and over high functioning Asperger where it's
that is just it's no such thing. But the high functioning autism
and in fact that the definition Asperger is on the autism scale
at one end of the scale, right. And it'll gates Bill Gates says
Yes, correct. And it's typically very intelligent people. They
have problems with really made
very focused Yeah, and they do have problems and all kinds of
problems issues. And there
is there is a medication for this as well, which in the so
called manifesto He talks about being prescribed that which is
Risperdal. Risperdal has, it has very interesting side effects,
you want to look that up while I continue with the I will do
that.
Okay. There were recent posts on YouTube regarding suicide,
which I did not see, by the way, I didn't see a suicide clip only
about killing or taking care of girls and the guys who loved
them,
and the killing of, of people. The parents reported weeks ago,
they reported this weeks ago, there was an investigation by
the police department. I don't know which police department it
was. They found that there was after interviewing the child in
the child's home, that he was a perfectly polite kind and
wonderful human. No history of guns for this child. Didn't have
a lot of friends had trouble making friends.
Remember, this is this isn't just a new guy on the scene.
This is very early. This is somebody saying I'm a lawyer for
the family, by the way the family is divorced, the father
and the mother.
And it's a it's a tragedy that we really have to get our hands
around and try to prevent these things from happening again.
Ah, it's very interesting what he's now he's now he's analysing
the situation,
the position of the family is not to be selfish, but to mourn
the losses of of all the victims that at the appropriate time,
and when he can give a meaningful he being the father.
When Peter Rogers, you know, can do it, he will do
interesting, he says Peter Rogers, where as far as I know,
the name is Roger, r o d e r. So are the founders to be
interesting that he says Peter Rogers, and he's the lawyer i By
the way, Alan Schiffman, is a divorce lawyer. So somehow he
has been pulled into this. He's not, you know, he's a divorce
lawyer. He probably did the guy's divorce.
They're devastated. I mean, it's a tragedy of immense
consequences. ruins a lot of people's lives. And, as I said,
his mission in life will be to try to educate the world.
Oh, hold on a second.
The father, Peter, Roger Rogers, his mission in life will be to
educate the world
to see how we can prevent these things. These things happen way
too many times. And the world's gotta gotta gotta spend more on
this mental health system, because it does appear to be
broke.
Interesting message from the lawyer from the family for the
Father. Now, before we get to the weird press conference, the
second one, there's a parent who shows up at the time, not even
identified, I don't think and this parent has a very clear
message. Okay.
We are going to that was our suicide now. There's a press
conference going on right now. Let's take a listen.
He died last night. I've written out a statement that was
prepared by the family.
Okay, he's written out a statement that has been prepared
by the fam and again, I'm not condemning I'm just trying to
get handout facts here. You know, I'm just trying to analyse
what is going on. This is all weird, but very similar to Sandy
Hook. I have to say.
Our son Christopher Martinez and six others are dead. Our family,
our family has a message for every parent out there. You
don't think it'll happen to your child? until it does. Chris was
a really great kid. Ask anyone who knew him. His death has left
our family lost and broken. Why did Chris die? Chris died
because of Craven irresponsible politicians and the NRA. They
talk about gun rights. What about Chris's right to live
and he's reading this by the way this is he keeps He keeps
looking for the next line as he's reading this passionate
plea.
When will this insanity stop? When will enough be People say,
Stop this madness. We don't have to live like this. Too many have
died. We should say to ourselves, not one more. Thank
you. That's it.
So NRA and shitty politicians, but we've had now the lawyer say
it's crazy people. We have this father come out to the
apparently of one of the victims and say, Oh, it's the NRA and
politicians. Hmm. Now, now we get to this second press
conference with Sheriff Bill Brown. And I look into this
guy's background. And it turns out there's an election coming
up on June 3,
I learned the importance of community and family. And when
you live in a place as wonderful as we do, it takes hard work to
keep us safe. That's why I'm proud of the accomplishments
we've made throughout my term as you're sure. On June 3, I asked
for your vote again, to keep Santa Barbara County this
special place that it is.
On June 3, reelect Sheriff Bill Brown.
No one's mentioned this, that the election is coming up in
what is it now? Just a week? Yeah. And when you look into his
position he is well I have the articles right here. He is.
First of all, he is on the California State Mental Health
Commission. Then he is a staunch Well, here's an article that
says Sheriff no fan of gun control. On the eve of gun
Appreciation Day Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said
gun control debates have distracted the American people
from the issue most effecting mass violence, mental health.
Quote, if we look at all virtually all of the mass
shootings that have occurred in our country, the common
denominator in them is in virtually every one is either
untreated or seriously undertreated severe mental
illness. addressing that issue needs to be our highest
priority. It's very interesting that with a vote coming up that
his his his platform, is mental health. He is on the State
Board, the State Mental Health Commission, and we have a crazy
person shooting up in his very backyard. That group
I mean, wow. Right, with a countervailing over the counter
argument that it's because of the NRA from this other guy.
Yes. Which is probably I would say could be representing the
the other side of the argument to get brown out.
And apparently he has a beef with the district attorney of
Santa Barbara County. Joyce may have her name here somewhere.
Now there is I have no confirmation yet. But there is.
And this this attorney is very much against guns. Although I
think Brown is also against guns, but his platform is that
there's a mental health. There is a word that I've heard from
people who live there that one of the three victims of of the
knife murder, which we'll get to in a minute, allegedly in the
guy's apartment that one of the may be the son of the district
attorney, but I don't have that confirmed yet. That's just
information that came in. So this Bill Brown does this press
conference and there was a couple of really strange things
as he goes through the the entire timeline. Listen to this
one.
This victim was thrown onto the hood of the suspects vehicle and
caved in the windshield of that vehicle. The suspects vehicle
then collided with several parked cars and came to a stop.
Responding deputies immediately removed the suspect from the car
and handcuffed him. He was obviously dead with an apparent
gunshot wound to the head. Since when do we handcuffed dead
guys?
So let me get this straight. He has a gunshot wound to the head
which is fairly damaging.
Yeah, yeah. And he's not dead. He's obviously dead.
He's obviously yes, because his heads blown off. He's obviously
dead. So they handcuffed him? Yeah. You play that again.
Several parked cars and came to a stop. Responding deputies
immediately removed the suspect from the car and handcuffed him.
He was obviously dead. With an apparent gunshot wound to the
head.
Just annoying to me.
Well, there's that and then there's this. I guess the police
are just slap happy over handcuffing anyone they can
possibly. Now this kid who was once deemed too small to get on
the Peter Pan ride at Disneyland who was 140 pounds five, eight
Now, of course, we really don't have an update on this yet. But
hold on. I say that's not that's not possible what you said. If
he's five he,
at one point when he was a kid, he's he's not a big guy. So I'm
giving this a point of reference. He's five, eight 140
pounds, but somehow, Eddie has 400 rounds of ammunition and
three nine millimetre pistols. But somehow he decides to stab
three men in his apartment location
number one. It appears as though suspect Roger murdered three
victims.
Now, why does the sheriff use the word murder here? Murder is
a technical legal term.
Yes, it is.
This is this is very similar to that crazy corner at Sandy Hook.
By the way, the sheriff is also the county's corner. Just as a
point of reference there. So this is the thing I was like,
Why do you say murder? Why isn't I want to
mention something here to Santa Barbara, to anybody who lives in
California even though people that live in Santa Barbara by
the way, I think Oprah has a place that she does absolutely
big close big is the creepiest air one of the there's areas
around in California and in most parts of the country, you'll go
drive through some town or something and you just it just
creeps you out. It's creepy. It's a creepy place.
But also this this is not this is what is it to something
Vista?
Yeah, it's one of them.
Is la vista, which is the poor part of town. Isla Vista. Yeah,
Isla Vista, which is all these kids who have, you know, huge
loans go to us as be UCSB. Yeah, but it's kind of the crappy part
of town, which, you know, Santa Barbara
doesn't really want to know if Santa Barbara is extremely
creepy. Yeah,
I think we talked about that when I stayed once with a friend
of Mickey's and we were there. But yeah, it is I found it to be
somewhat creepy, too. Yeah, it's creepy. Anyway. So here's the
he's murdered three
victims within his residence in the 6500 block of Seville road.
Prior to the shooting rampage that took place last night. The
three male victims appear to have been repeatedly stabbed. We
are still processing that crime scene. And we are still in the
process of positively identifying the victims and
notifying their next of kin. So I will not have their identities
for you at this time.
So I don't know if news is out yet on that. But that's taken
quite a while and you know, for one guy to take on three guys
and stabbed them. That's that warrants?
581 40 Yeah, that
warrants some investigation. And by the way, there were early
reports on the police radio. This was a drive by shooting two
people in the in the BMW a one of them was African American
bile reports. And there was even an I don't have audio, there was
even a transcript that said they had both this or they had the
second shooter in custody. And this is very typical. All the
stuff that happened the beginning you never hear about
later on. Now here's Sheriff Bill Brown making a judgement
call as a sheriff and coroner making a call now as a
psychologist or psychiatrist. The question
was When did we become aware of videos that were on the on the
web and the manifesto, the written document that apparently
was written by the suspect
now he's calling it a manifesto on the web, he says, which is
nowhere on the web was put on the web.
We became aware of that fairly quickly in the investigation
last night and in reading this 141 page. Rambling
it's not rambling. I've read it no
Biograph
says well written. So what did he maybe as a different one? Was
it 140 pages?
Well, it was yes, but he says 141 pages. So maybe you had the
one rambling page
in reading this 141 page. rambling, auto biographical,
almost a combination of an autobiography and a diary. It's
very apparent of the severe extent of how disturbed Mr.
Roger was and the fact that he had been and was continuing to
be seen by a variety of different health care
professionals. But it's very, very apparent
this. How does he know that the kid was seen by and where is he
allowed to even talk about this about being seen by a number of
health care professionals and where's the interviews with the
health care professionals who are they? What health care
professionals and we need some information on this people
that he was severely mentally disturbed severe law. opinion
and you review that that document and the videotape is a
I love
videotape. That's my favourite Hello 9090 Calling we want our
videotape backfilling
there were several videotapes, that video that was posted just
prior to the attack as a particularly chilling one
chilling, he basically looks at the camera and talks about what
he is about to do,
which is true. And that's part of his talking points. Just got
two more and then I'm done with this. Yeah, this was saying it
all kind of fits together. Because we have the manifesto we
have the videos. We have victims, although we don't
really know who yet we have three unknowns. We have one
other male victim and two female victims. So total for male
victims to female victims.
As you are aware in the manifesto, he lays out a plan on
what he intended to do, I will without getting into too much
detail. I will say that three of the there are three people that
that were murdered in the apartment, it appears as though
that have again murdered happened. You know, prior to him
going on this mobile shooting rampage mobile, the three male
victims were apparently stabbed repeatedly with sharp objects.
And it was a it was a pretty horrific crime scene.
And also, there was some great video which we didn't get to
see, can CNN continuously saying oh, we've got some video from
inside the convenience store. But it's so horrific, we can't
show it to you. Okay. And why is this video released that don't
the police always take that and you're not allowed to release
it? This is everything's coming out real quick with this. And
then final question in this press conference. question is
did he did he shoot himself? Or was he shot by sheriff's
deputies? It would appear as though he took his own life.
Okay. All right, that would appear so
I do your this stop for a second. Let's go over this drug.
Yes, thank you. This drug which is Risperidone. Risperdal, as
I'll show you is, is the brand name for risk. baritones go
down. Yeah. And it is a it's used in schizophrenia mostly,
and bipolar disorder. But it also is used as one of those,
you know, let's say they also were, you know, one of those
things where they use a drug that's like a powerful anti
psychotic, that's what this is. Yeah. But they can use it
occasionally. I guess they use it for behaviour problems and
people with autism. So he had a behavioural problem that
required the use of this extremely potent anti psychotic,
and this is in his so called manifesto, he mentions this
being prescribed to him.
It says in autism, it does not improve conversational ability
or social skills, which kind of belies his podcasting. Yeah. And
does not appear to reduce obsessive behaviour and most
people with autism, so I don't know what it does. Risperidone
provides no benefit in the treatment of eating disorders or
personality disorders, with antisocial anti psychotic
medications, such as Risperidone have a slight benefit in people
with dementia. Slight benefit, they have been linked to higher
incidences of death and stroke. Because of this increased risk
of death treatment of dementia related psychosis with
Risperidone is not approved. It has some interesting side
effects. One One rare one which would give him I think, would be
some Prop would be problematic. It's not like a bad really a
horrible list, except the same old same old pretty much and we
hear all the time with these ads. But there's a rare problem.
It creates a priapism. Which I think we
priapism
permanent hard on Oh Well no wonder I was thinking Well yeah,
I mean this is no wonder Oh my God All right. This is starting
to make some sense Thank you. How do you spell that dragon
respite Risperidone. Our risks
are risks RAS p e r i respect right don't do any number the
brand name respirable respira doll de al Farid
I just want to I and now that I have the PDF of of the document
it's almost impossible to search stuff on.
On that grip. It didn't Yeah, sorry. I don't see this is not
medication. I'm just one Wanna find the exact sentence? Here we
go
here we go. Dr. Sophy ended up giving me the same useless
advice that my oh that every other psychiatrist psychologist
and counsellor given me in the past. I don't know why my
parents wasted money on therapy as it will never help me and my
struggle against such a cruel and unjust world the doctor
ended up dismissing it by prescribing me a controversial
medication Risperidone. He said after that, I refuse to take it
after researching this medication never saw Dr. Sophy
again. So maybe he didn't take it may but he was prescribed it.
For sure. Something else in this manifesto, which was
interesting. He, he talks in great detail about well, great,
he talks in detail about purchasing these weapons, where
he purchased them. But he never discusses the manufacturer or
the model. That's odd. It's very odd. And of course, you know,
no, I
mean, most guys who Yeah, the more interesting thing about
guns is what it is what it is, it's such such such and such
Yeah, cuz it's actually somewhat fascinating. more fascinating
than where you bought one
which of course, was named in the here it is. My first act of
preparation was the purchase of my first handgun into this
quickly and hastily the local gun shop called galena gun and
supply I'd already done some research on handguns, I decided
to purchase a semi automatic pistol an efficient and highly
accurate weapon. I signed all the papers and this is like it's
like this is like a a script.
Well, no and that was worse that you know what it sounds like to
me. It sounds like it was written by an anti gun just like
would knows nothing about guns they never they won't shoot one
at the range you could invite him to come shoot it you know,
target they won't do it. They don't know the difference
between a Smith and Wesson revolver and a semi they don't
know anything they maybe know a few generic terms, but they
don't know any of the brands or what's associated with what so
they would be the type of person that would listen to the
morality like that.
So he he went he he learned how to he went to the range. Go to
the shooting range while I waited for my laptop gave me the
perfect opportunity to gain some initial training and shooting
guns which will be the main weapons I use as vengeance
against my enemies when the enemies when the day of
retribution ultimately comes to pass. I walked into the range
rented a handgun from the ugly old redneck cashier and started
to practice shooting at paper targets. I fired my first few
rounds I felt so sick sick to the stomach I questioned my
whole life and I looked at the gun in front of me and asked
myself what am I doing here? How could this
reaction because most people when they first shoot a gun
get hard on well
they tend to be surprised yeah experience is not frightening.
I'm gonna win this challenge is I mean things are noisy but but
it's like Oh, that's interesting. Is this something
you know it's like oh, let's do some propelling this object at
very high speed but also he
doesn't mention what kind of gun just rented a handgun. Yeah
right hand gun I mean who says hand gun
nobody says handgun? I'd like to rent a handgun
okay
it's very suspicious You're right.
Yeah, I don't like it. But now my analysis and what we're going
to what I'm going to do with this on this show first of all,
this this will be conspiracy theory heaven for a while, maybe
a long long while but there's just not much we can do. But it
has a lot of the hallmarks of a setup you will have to see do we
what do we find out about these three male victims? You know,
the all of these things have to fit in somehow but what I will
be following very closely is the reaction to this now the first
thing that really Southern Poverty Law Centre comm enters
this immediately you know, I don't like these guys at all.
And they enter immediately with a number of blog posts this in
Southern Poverty Law Centre who look at racism than unjustice
and you know, they got $250 million in cash from donations
and God knows where from the couple of headlines. Shooting
suspect Elliot Rogers misogynistic Post points to
motive. Elliot Rodger is is Lavista shooting a suspect
posted racist messages on misogynistic website.
misogynistic video before attack and from this has come a hashtag
Egg which is yes all women and and how this is playing out is
because women wouldn't give him sex he went to go kill women
which of course women were the in the minority of the victims
here
Why do you kill any guys at all?
Well he said he was going to kill the guys that that love
these women who wouldn't give him love and sex. Yeah and so I
just put this immediately to be grabbed this way as the war on
women.
Okay, yep, you got it.
So we have now also why is the press not typically it would be
all over the type of weapon
that was in however they were preoccupied with the Sandy Hook
thing even though they were always wrong about it but they
describe the weapon in great detail master and they had
pictures of it and it was easily available you they would give
you availabilities statistics about the gun. Yep. And yeah,
they tend to be very they did the same thing with the guy that
was in Los Angeles, the cop that was shooting cops and the amount
of death as well as weapons somehow to get through the fire
without singeing and they had this very you know, they made a
big deal about the weapons the specific weapons
were by the way are the iPhone videos Where's everybody's
iPhone video of this? I'm looking at I can't find it but
are you kidding me? i The shove there's gotta be some video this
guy was it 10 different locations
usually with theirs when they wrecked with their through his
shot or shot himself and wrecked and he was handcuffed there
should be people around there. I'd haven't found be shooting
videos.
He's the son of a Hollywood director of the director. So he
really is only done two movies. One is he was the second unit
director on Hunger Games. Then he now and he also did a in 2011
I think he did his own movie called oh my god, which is a
kind of a documentary type movie. Where he went around the
world he interviews people about religion and then he's done a
tonne of commercials including the ones that to remember the
PBA says no good. The one about the laughing syndrome
No, I have no don't have any recollection.
Yeah, when I play it you will haunt us like when we find it.
He has his own website. Peter roger.com That's so that's the
dad then he has photography and directing and let me go to the
this is a pretty nice shots by the way does some nice stuff.
commercials and film. The Arthur Daniel mid Arthur day Mitch from
Atlantic City. Here it is. This is the one I'm talking about.
Don't call it depression. Call it by its real name. Don't call
it crazy. Call it PBA or pseudobulbar affect PBA causes
frequent episodes of uncontrollable crying or
laughing and people with brain injuries or neurologic
conditions like stroke dementia or Ms. For more information call
today for your free kit. There's a name for this and you're not
alone.
Now you remember now
you know I would love to have these people in an audience
just take him around the take him around the world.
Yeah, shills.
Okay, so we have the vaccine No, I
still don't so we
have the war on crazy you're crazy. So you can how can you
walk into a gun store the gun stores that are actually named
and go and purchase a weapon when you're crazy. You have a
background check we can never have I mean this we got to have
legislation for this
which is what a lot of commercials by the way. Yeah,
yeah. And and of course this legislation will lead to you
know, you have your highly functional autism you can't
really be around kids and yeah, you can't really go to the pool.
That's that's going to lead us down a bad path. Guns in general
should be outlawed bullying, I'm sure that'll crop up war on it's
got everything you want. The only thing that really bothers
me is the timing of this. That it makes no sense to do this on
a memorial day weekend because the news outfits everything's
pre planned. The packages are good to roll. Everybody's off it
on Long Island, you know they're all down The Beach no one wants
to work. So it couldn't have been planned
that right so it's not a part of our six weeks Oh no, it's not
even close but I
will say when I look at this and this kid is either really really
this highly functional autism is clearly a very frightening thing
which I don't believe it is where he decides to actually go
and kill and I am I hate to say it but I'm thinking mind
controlled one way or the other. It's very the of the UN Of
course, I'm gonna give you an MK Ultra analysis here. But if you
really if you continuously hammer on someone and give them
three or four points was just kid had and he's you know and
he's you given an inflate his ego and you play to that and you
keep hammering this into your brain and you know, no girls
want you and no one loves you and you know, you can you can
make somebody crazy.
So I want you to go to the Peter Rogers site and then click click
on photography, and then open up black and white classic black
and white. And look at photos 3233 and 34.
Okay, 30 Wow. Holy crap.
Okay, 32 is what looks like. It looks like a dressing room scene
with either female impersonators or transvestites getting ready
for a show. 33 is I don't know if it's the same men now dressed
up but they're in a hallway and they're in all kinds of sexual
poses. Can you explain exactly how that works? And 34 Yeah,
these are all these are all men. Yeah, we know that. Yeah.
Well, I'm just saying. Who's ilat? Who is that kid? That's
the dress the last one. Yeah.
Yeah, well, he also has this if you go to photography. Cheeky
that's all photos of naked women's butts.
them not been a little more than just buts actually. Hello. echo,
echo, echo.
And it's pretty though. I mean, not It's not like he's not porn
is nice shots.
Well, I'm asking you if picture 34 is actually right. It
could be I don't know. It's like, are you able to blow it up
bigger than I can?
If you click on it? It does give you a blow up. Yeah, but
if that needs to be bigger Hold on. Let me check it again. It's
his hairs off. I don't think so. Oh,
no, no, I'm looking at a picture of him now. Could be that he's
got that cocky weird look on his face. The photos I'm looking at
bugged me. Whatever the case it's kind of odd.
And I it's so easy to come up with MK Ultra. I know. I know. I
know. But a lot of it points to you know, if we can make this
kid go off then we can have all these people jump in with all
this analysis and it's perfect for whatever and please remind
yourself that this the mental health analysis is exactly the
platform the sheriff is running on for reelection in one week
time. That's one of those things you
know he's a shoo in now not Yeah. Well, there you have it.
Yes. Dynamite. No agenda analysis once again, a
lot of people to thank DH slammer. Brian, the gay
Crusader. People stayed up very late with me working on this.
Oh, and by the way, where's Janet Napolitano in all of this,
who happened to know the woman who makes all false flags
appear?
Isn't she already out?
She's out. Doesn't she run the California system? University of
California does. Is this not a University of thought she runs
the whole system.
She does include the only near the college it wasn't a college
incident. Good point. So there's no reason for her to butt in.
Although
to to uh, to have this at the cocktail parties to two of the
of the victims were sorority girls from the college. The two
female victims, but still, you know, shouldn't she come out at
all and say something?
No, okay. The chancellor, the University of California or the
the administrator the system very rarely speaks. Okay.
Well, anyway, so I think we're kind of done with with what
happened and as People go through this and come up with
analysis. If anything interesting crops up, we'll
bring it to you right now I feel it's much more interesting to
see what the result will be the work towards legislation and all
of these areas, because it all it always gets.
The original thesis is absolutely correct. This has got
to be the most galling thing that's ever happened to Kanye
West.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in
the morning to you John C. Dvorak,
you Adam curry in the morning all ships at sea boots on the
ground feet in the air subs in the water and all the Dames and
nights out there.
Yes. And in the morning to everyone in the chat room. No
agenda stream.com. No agenda. chat.net. Thank you very much to
our artists Martin. JJ back with a vengeance for 619. Our last
show from Tokyo. Apologies. I have to say. We both had a
little bit of pre and post pre and post production issues with
the show. Yeah, yeah. During the show itself. Oh, we lost 20
minutes, which were literally lost. No recording. No stream.
No, nothing. I'm solving that now. With a
hardware.
Yeah. You see, is this thing now? On or not? Yes. Yeah.
Right. It's probably not on.
Zoom. Is it a new one with the black one? The new one that did?
You said one push this. Do you have to touch it twice
the h? The h four n? Yeah. That's the new one that have had
this for two years. not that new.
It's newer than the old one. Yeah, thanks. Just tap it. It
starts recording with the red light. And, ya know,
it's an already it's a failed, so I don't know. Yes. It failed.
Yeah, it was turned on. I guess that not I you know, but we had
some issues. And then I went to sleep at 430. And then we were
leaving. At noon. The next day.
Did you get some good sleep on the plane? Now? 00? No, no, I
was supposed to sleep. Heading did not know.
You know, it didn't work.
So I slept for like five hours woke up. And then
did you join the Mile High Club? Was
that the reason? Let me just finish. Okay. And turns out I
hadn't actually updated the podcast feed for iTunes. Oh,
my fear, by the way, which I mentioned on the show,
you know, your fear was was better. You said, Watch. The
only thing will be posted as the 20 minutes that you lost. That
was yeah, that was genius. But thank you, Martin, JJ, for the
artwork. And as always, you can find it all at no agenda, art
generator.com. Looking forward to seeing what our artists come
up with for today's programme. So we had some other issues with
the spreadsheet.
Yeah, I did this correctly. And somehow Pay Pal gave me an old
spreadsheet when I downloaded them. And I didn't check them. I
check this one. And so the spreadsheet we read from was
actually a combination of some of the meetup people who had
donated and in meetup number one, we had two meetups and, and
then a spreadsheet, which was a combination, apparently of 615
and 618, or something was just a screwed up spreadsheet. And so
we have new wheat. So the entire spreadsheet knows how come I
wasn't mentioned.
Missing you. You skipped over me on purpose. So now
we have this is actually bad for the show. Because we did very
bad. We have a lot of people that to thank it takes up a lot
of time to show thank No, but it's two shows, like doing it
for two whole shows at once. And that's what we have to do. So
today is actually the thank yous for the real thank yous first
show 619. And the thank yous for show 620. So this is going to be
doubled up. And it's going to be long, and we're going to have a
long front end and a long back. And we'll probably add some time
to the show, because of it because you can skip forward.
However, if this
however, these segments are typically hilarious.
Yes, we're very funny. The two of us when we think it's
actually
a pot as a comedy podcast that we're making here. Yes. By the
way, I did add a comedy as a as an iTunes category. Oh, I don't
know if we'll show up there. But I figured what the hell? Yeah.
Someone could show up here. Oh, this is I don't quite
be able to say that. They get a big kick out of listening to
when they laugh. They say they get a lot of notes from people
saying oh, you know, I'm laughing and then I got my
listen to the people think I'm crazy because I'm just laughing
out of the blue for no reason. I think
as we know, laughter is the best medicine fact. best medicine for
anything. And I believe a lot of people were laughed a lot about
your quote of the show. Burning towers in the snowglobe. That
was definitely one of the better ones.
It's a winner. Yeah, onward. It's a little early. Okay, we
got a few people thanks to big executive producers and
executive producers that I'm starting to Associate Executive
producers and we're going to create And this is going to be
executive and Associate Executive Producer for shows 619
and 620. You can pick one or the other if you want for your for
your credits. Ready? Yeah, there are Paul. I'm Edmonton, Alberta.
620 bucks. So he's a member of the 620 Club. And this was
obviously for show 620 says credit Mr. Paul, I need a Karma
shot for my sister. Hopefully it won't need to be an F cancer
one. Well, I'm
not going to do the F cancer then I'll just do the karma shot
for her. Here you go. You've got karma happy to bring it
and another 620 club member This is one of the rare moments where
we have two members of the club
five certainly at this level of episodes that does not happen
often or when
there's going to be it's going to be rarefied air to be a Club
member of the show club number. Sir David Foley or buddy is the
Archduke of Silicon Valley headed to Grand Duke 620 bucks
from Los Gatos, California. ITM John and Adam, please enclose
find my clubs 620 donation years hoping that you both had a safe.
We both had safe travels home and Sunday donations are up.
Thank you for your courage providing the best podcast in
the universe from the future and the past.
Yeah, well, thank you, Sir David Foley. Sometimes he is single
handedly keeping the show afloat,
right? Because he actually donated to 619 under HyperCard
technologies. So this is so he's a member of that club. Thank him
for and he said and he would it was 619 33 likes it slipped that
in. He says thanks for your courage especially Adam for
braving the TSA with the ultimate podcast device in hand
Thank you very much for the last dose of no agenda karma it
worked incredibly well. Let's give him another one. In closed
find my club 619 membership and 33 cents for my net neutrality
tax karma.
You've got karma
you know, I'm travelling with a bunch of wires and stuff in my
microphone and DTA converter and all kinds of wires I threw in
and I got to TSA Pre nobody gives a crap
keep your shoes on take your wires. Good luck, everybody.
I just found that peculiar.
Oh, wait. We Yeah, well, this is a stone nation. Ah, although
although although his his his numbers a little off the
official stone nation number I believe is 420 dot 33.
Yeah. Okay, I accept this.
Well, I have something we now have a sound effect for this
donation segment. Oh, hit it. Well, you you're going to read
it after the sound effect. Yeah.
You want me to read it as a stir? Yeah, he says I'm too
stoned to write out
okay, Lane Park in Minot North Dakota. Hello, North Dakota
again. I'm too stoned to ride out the North Dakota update you
asked for last time. I need some travel karma man. I'm headed to
Vegas for Memorial Day weekend for punk rock bowling. Also, the
last 6960 Nights was enough karma gamey totally worked. Keep
fighting the good fight. Dwayne The non oil working California
in North Dakota. discombobulated North Dakota update. This place
sucks. Lots of Africans and Mexicans culture is non existent
and no one is actually from here 18 months in and I can't wait to
get out. If it's too much to ask for I could use some job karma
as well as well. Big promotion coming up in the next couple of
months next step after that is fuck out of this hell hole.
All right, some special karma for you my friend.
You've got karma
to Dallas Spartanburg and Rocky Mountain House Alberta where all
the money is 357 should mention that sir Paul's from Alberta
too. But he's in Alberta. Hey guys, just last few shows have
been phenomenal. I really enjoy listening to the improv skits
you do have been doing recently I decided to donate because I'm
on my way to college this fall to become a sysadmin and all I
ask for is a D douching. For the llama long absence in my
donations to the best podcast in the universe and a karma for the
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Okay, onward to cheese. I gotta move this thing Hang on. Boom.
What Oh, this is this a script we have to read. No, I have to
move my
sprinting I'm looking at the next donation
Oh, oh from Parker Schneider. Yeah, I wrote this similar to my
word scars star scripts for reports at ke x as back in the
day hence VO and all caps for the your.
So it's like a liner card I get it's like a liner card. I
got it. That invoice over Dear John and Adam. Okay.
Dear John and Adam, I firstly would like to thank you both for
your courage as this donation completes my official knighthood
I can finally attempt to sleep peacefully knowing I am doing my
part delivering value for value. I've only been awake a scan 36
hours without rest. So it's my hope this message is more lucid
than those I have sent in the past. When I donated after
incidents in which has seen me through the toughest times and
provided an excuse to pretend to be unable to hear cohorts.
Because my headphones were simply turned up to loud listen
to the show during many a crisis in the data centres.
Those who do not donate need to be made aware that without their
contribution the show will cease to be and that regardless of
puppies and kittens in newsletters of which I also wish
the aforementioned people be made aware of would leave them
deprived of information that can save lives, and moreover, ensure
that they will not fall prey to the binding and stilted rhetoric
that is pervasive in all our modern mainstream media and even
in alternative media that must rely on a company seeds or water
filters to ensure their continued existence. I went to
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the needful to help continue what is one of the last bastions
of honest unconstrained media reporting which is effectively
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you of slacking donations to contribute contribute now and
you don't have to bitch about how Adam and John Karp that
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Kind of Philip kind of fell apart at the end okay no more of
this. Yeah. Thank
you though, sir. Thank you,
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BK please accept his donation and honour my human resources
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other day for calling someone a douche bag in front of them at a
light. What did you hear that? She asked. My son replied those
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you will obey and karma also I was thinking about adding my
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that was really weird. I couldn't figure out where that
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Okay, got it.
Anonymous in Denver, Colorado. 333 33 value for value Keep up
the good work and nonnamous in Denver and then we got a Ken a
Chevy new in Kearney, Nebraska. sent in a note. Where are they
do with the notes? Oh, I left notes on the other desk as
usual. Hang on.
Oh, okay. Then I'll know I'll play. I'll play something while
you're doing that. Who
agree? Do you agree? Do you agree? Do you agree?
Lots of cool jingles coming in today. And we'll do
travelling music. Yeah. That's why I'm moving to Austin.
But as Leo is moving to Austin is not
moving to Austin. That'll be the bay. That's why I'm moving to
Austin. Oh that's a good one.
Oh people like send stuff to me
Yeah, they do. Alright, here we go. Found it. I got a lot of
notes here to read from
Yeah I actually have a couple of notes for the second segment as
well.
If you read this note on the air do not use my name for purposes
of plausible deniability. Okay, well that's too late ITM John
anatomy closest to check for the amount of 333 It's been a long
I'm been a longtime boner, but in my defence I've been trying
to hit people in the mouth I finally connected JP Kearney of
Nebraska pronounce Kearney Hello then proceeds to shame me by
donating before I got around to it all call out. In turn, I have
to perform a little one upsmanship unfortunately instant
aid is out of the question because I recently abandoned the
corner of happy and healthy after 13 plus years damn
psychopathic CEOs got fired I guess I don't know. Thank you
for your courage like to be the recipient of some karma job
karma along with the classic Shut up slave to the head in
little girl yay if my meagre donation allows okay so
when I don't have it on the on the spreadsheet in front of me
job karma to to the head Shut up. And little girl yay
something like that. Let's give it a shot jobs
jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs Oh
Mr. Buzzer doing
karma buzzer just stepped on the buzzer. It was a little it's a
little too much for me but okay,
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John and Adam LIFO greetings from the producers sir JD in an
undisclosed location in the Central California coast for
several clans have meant to launch new couple into the
universe. I can hear the Pacific Ocean crashing in the background
while I compose this message as I reflect on the celebrations of
the day and the sounds of the waves from Japan coming to the
California coast I think of how we're all connected by ocean how
we all are connected by oceans airwaves and ideas we exchange
and the time we spend together it's a little bit much
What are you doing please
I'm just feeling like I'm in the mood for them okay. All right
now that's good work and I play it I'm gonna give jobs jobs jobs
little girl yeah, a Karma shot this is interesting, isn't it?
We have the same exact request
Okay. jobs jobs jobs, little girl yay.
And he says in a shout out to Matt and Amy as they start their
married life by the sea. In the same day that my wife and I got
married 17 years ago Keep up the great work kittens and courage
sir JD
jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.
He wants a link in the is to his PDF which he's doing some some
donating, donating, donating, donating he's donations is
donating anyone who is matching funds kind of thing. So Nate
Wilson in Charleston, South Carolina gorgeous city.
20 $27.91. I think very courage. My wife and I had lunch with
Dame Jennifer and her husband anonymous name a few weeks ago
here in Charleston, and had a great no agenda discussion with
more to come. It was great to meet other like minds.
And I I do want to say I get notes from people and they
really enjoy when they hook up with other no agenda people.
Yes. So you should really try and do this more often. Everyone
should try and do that.
Guys, it's like you put together like I think we had 14 People in
the first meetup and like eight in the second. And most of these
people never knew each other. Right? And there was just
instant friends. Yeah, it's great, isn't it? It's just
something to watch. So we're matchmakers.
Celebrity matchmakers is what we are.
But no, it's just fun to watch because it's like you know,
because you don't have the douchebag Obama bot in there you
don't have these types of people that are just you know, off
kilter.
But I've also seen where you have people who come from
multiple political persuasions still finding common ground that
it's not like there's no Democrats in our in our
listeners
there's plenty of Democrats but most are independents. We had a
great new agenda discussion board it was great to meet other
like minds please accept his donation might be have to 7091
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Wilson the low country is good ring to it. Can you please send
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De Monica Lansing, Drayton Valley, Alberta.
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I don't know. But she got the greatest name go on. Mon Lansing
that's right here she comes Lansing in the morning boys I
really enjoyed your punchy Thursday show you were both in
find form. Since I haven't donated in a while I figured it
was time so she did nice Sir Andrew large men in Taipei City
who we credited into somehow I don't know how
well there was there was the messed up spreadsheet
yeah imagine my amusement he says when I first heard my name
credits executive producer a second time for the same
donation ha ha.
a freebie.
It's been in the past because he was reading from the spreadsheet
from not one but two shows ago. Nevertheless, it was a kick ass
episode with both of you sharing fun stories from the road.
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Onward with black knights got Spencer in Dawsonville Georgia.
tu tu tu tu tu i know that club 33 is long gone, but it's double
making it rain donation would love a call out for Hillary and
uma to come on stage. Can I get a clippity clop delicious LG y
thanks black night Scott.
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so delicious. My friend.
Hillary delicious. And then LG y karma? Yeah, man. Okay. Um, so
I'm just lining it all up here. I mean, yeah.
The message is clear. Clip it's almost too delicious to believe
my friend. The things we
do. John grumbling in battlement Mesa, Colorado. 201. I think my
last donation got lost in the space time vortex podcasting
across temporal riffs. Ain't like Dustin craps. I guess. At
any rate, here's another great analysis of tech reporting
unfortunate unfortunately cut short. By the way I like I think
I'm a knight at this point. If there's no time limit on when
the one cake is added up. No, there's not. So I'd like to be
sir ready kilowatt. If not, I'd nice to know how much further I
have to go to get there. Okay.
Yeah, he'll be knighted today.
Because right now he's got Eric did the math. Onward with
Christopher and Michelle Holman? Yes. And they came in on an
email note, which I will shift to there. The Chris was at the
meetup. I don't think he was was Michelle there. I think so.
John, and Anna. Yeah, right. Michelle. She's the if this is
the disease of the tooth. He works in it but she's a farmer.
John anatomies a pleasure hanging out with John to meet up
in Michigan. It's rare to meet someone who is no different than
he is off the air as he is on my
Hey, wait, whoa, whoa. That's huge.
Did you see well, I know but I don't know if it's a compliment
or not. Now that says okay, because I'm I'm acting on this
show.
Like every presstitute just reading the prompter.
I'm reading the prompter thank you for your courage in the tip
never to eat at a place owned by Cambodians. I have a lot of
tips.
And by the way, the tip never eat seafood before a flight we
adhere to that we talked to each other. Well, what do you want to
know? No seafood. Not before I flight
I think it's just a good cautionary thing to do.
Absolutely. I mean, you know, you can get seafood anywhere you
don't have to eat before to take a flight stupid idea. Bad
shrimp.
What was the other tip? Not no seafood before a flight and
there was a second part to that tip.
Well, I was I think as well as sushi for sure. But I don't like
eating fruit on the road. I eat it at home because I've only
ever really gotten sick and we even came out of Mexico is
because the warm fruit I mean the fruit goes bad really fast.
I'd be very cautious about fruit. Shrimp for sure. That's
the worst
by the way. The peaches are right here in Austin. Oh,
fantastic. Oh,
yeah, right good. Right Peach from a we went growing state
like Austin or Georgia.
We went to the farmers market yesterday and everyone was
really happy to see us of course, because they're like,
Oh, you're you haven't moved away. And Strawberry Strawberry
Guy who always get strawberries from him also had pizza and he's
like, Hey, try this, you know? And just like go give me a bag.
And by the way, peaches you want to keep them in a paper bag.
Your peach If that's how you want to keep your peaches brown
paper bag
in the outside of the frigerator or into if you have a cellar
the best places in the cellar but in a cold dark place in a
brown paper bag this is from
maybe mixing up Chris Holman with another couple but whatever
the Yeah, I think I am Oh, all right Chris is right right
right. No, Chris is not the farmer's husband. He is a doctor
Chris. Anyway he says except my donation is simple value for
value no need to put my name on a brick he wants a creepy
Charlie Rose for his beautiful wife Michelle and some karma of
course. Okay.
Creepy Charlie wrote
about the sexuality it's in your DNA.
You've got karma
creepy indeed.
Yeah, Chris was the guy on over to my on the other side of the
table. I'm be actually did fairly well with names on this
trip because I you know, I can remember everybody's face but
it's the names is confusing. Just, it's just something I'm
not good at. If I wasn't being sales.
Well, that's why we can't remember half the names of half
the people we talked about on the show, which are we call them
watermelon. Lucifer, Lucy. Right. We
have better,
much, much better now. I think you shouldn't be should have the
right to be able to rename anybody.
Well, I've got a bunch of nicknames for a lot of the
people we met. I there's you know, the beer aficionado is one
of them. Anyway, onward with this list. This is a big list.
Yeah. I was on David Kay in Tempe, Arizona. $200. And he
says, I hope to see you small donations helps recoup some of
the funds spent on your trips. I actually feel bad. You guys
don't get to take real vacations instead have to continue to work
on the show.
Oh, no, that's not true. We did get Easter off. And we
appreciate one day off. And we took we took more than one show
day off.
In any event, I like to thank you both for opening my eyes to
native advertising. And I have a native advertising
deconstruction later in the show. Good. I need a ridiculous
strike. Because I have some new rules. I've decided that yeah,
we need them. I totally agree. I was about to say we need some
new rules because people are calling product placement and
native advertising. That's not true. Yeah, the good. Okay,
we'll get to that.
I need a ridiculous story in the paper today about how Walmart is
the greatest company ever for giving jobs to veterans. I
hopped on Google News. And with a few search item terms found
over 100 similar stores all over the US in the past three days.
There are people that by the way, many of the meetup folks to
use this trick which we talked about on the show, which is you
take a very obscure sentence within an article which
obviously was, you know, it's just a weird thing. You put it
and you search the whole sentence on Google and you find
all the copycat articles that are exactly the same. I found
over similar 100 similar stores all over the US in the past few
days. This is no coincidence. Its native advertising at its
worst and listeners of this show. This is actually not
native advertising. It's nr its PR is wasn't PR. Don't confuse
native advertising with public relations. It's the show I will
not be doing thank you for you. It is a dupe that's true, but
it's not paid it does native advertising require you want
to do it now. And then once you just do it now, now and people
who people who don't listen to the donation segment will miss
this x excellent analysis that will teach them right.
Well, yeah, to go to my clip list. Now let's do it. What the
hell now? So what I ran into a couple of clip list a couple of
clips here that would fall into this category. But let me open
this. This one is I have to set this up. Yeah, I spotted that.
Here's a couple of rules I'm going to I'm going to present
this was an advertisement of looking like a feature story.
Now this could have been this could have been PR but it was a
little long. Generally speaking a public a video press release
is very short. They're short term less than a minute.
Typically, this is a this was a three minute piece that was very
it was we had the video press release part of it. Then there
was voice over the local level. And then there was also a
reporter in the story, which was not the same report. This is the
giveaway. The reporter in the story was not the same as the
reporter doing the voiceover. Now dead giveaway. And the other
thing is when you're doing a story about a trend or an idea
and you and its product specific. You end up with what
is I would call native advertising and that's what this
this is for a dog a dog. Let's see what a good call it's like a
it's like I was that thing on that Macintosh that I face that
I will use? FaceTime, FaceTime video chat. This is FaceTime for
dogs. We've all seen the video that let me finish I'm sorry. A
is a the front of it's cut off in the back of his cut off
because it's still very long. This was about a four minute
piece. Okay, hit it.
We've all seen the videos of dogs caught on camera when their
owners aren't home, stealing muffins. tearing up the couch.
Oh crying during the day. People have been doing their best to
use technology to see and hear their pets. But now there's a
way to make that a two way street and interact with them no
matter where you are.
My dad was Skyping with my sister and the family dog came
running into the room because she recognised Molly's voice.
Braden crawls
father, Dr. Mark Kroll, who is a medical device inventor got the
idea for a way to alleviate that doggy guilt a few years ago.
He thought, well, what can I do about this, but you know,
there's got to be something I can make out of this experience.
So this is what he and business partner Lisa Levin came up with
the Minneapolis based company named it pet chats, the device
allows you to call your pet from anywhere in the world. As long
as you have a phone, tablet or computer.
I had loved the ability to be able to call her in the middle
of the day, check in give her a little bit of stimulation, maybe
make her sit or do a few tricks and give her a couple of treats.
And oh by the way, I can also record it because she did this
really, really cute thing and I can share it with my friends on
Facebook or YouTube
Skyping. With your dog, you connect with the device mounted
at your pets eye level at home. A ringtone alerts them and then
you can interact with each other on screen. And to reward your
four legged family member you can push this button to dispense
a treat.
It's just a missing link and missing peace of mind between
pet parents and their pets when they're gone all day.
Pets as follows the basic principles of plastic
conditioning are better known as Pavlov's dog. And just three
simple steps you can train your dog how to use the new device.
And yes, even old dogs can learn new tricks, especially when
their eyesight and hearing diminishes. The power of scent
becomes particularly important.
The fan blows the scent out. And it's an associative response so
that your pet learns, smell that scent. They know that this is
the fun experience.
Dogs are the most social being out there besides humans, and so
they love connecting you.
Jody Kero is a dog behaviour consultant and this is her
shitzu Buddha. Carol says it's
Wow, it just stopped there.
I cut it off because it was gonna go on for ever. And so
some of the earmarks of these things is that they're
overproduced? Well, first of all,
it's a product that is fucking stupid. I'm sorry,
it's overproduces. The digital look for stuff this overages
with sound effects, funny clips all cut together, which is
unlikely for anyone to do in a newsroom. They don't have time,
no
time to cut into piece which is intro voice over B roll quote a
voiceover B roll quote back done.
You don't have time to do four minute long, complex pieces like
this. For just a regular package. This one included him
and I keep an eye out for this to unboxing they actually unbox
the thing, right? Right. So look for that that's indication and
there's never anything negative, the very little nay if there's a
negative thing, it's a joke negative. In other words, they
make fun of some little aspect of it. But they don't really
have a negative thing to say. So that's a dead giveaway. They
also mentioned the company where it's located just in case. And
it's just a classic piece of native advertising. I don't see
it being i Anything else in this case, I don't know how they
placed it. It's possible that they were suckered into playing
this thing on the local station because they're hard up like you
said, this was a bad time to do a lot of things because
everyone's on vacation they took off on Friday, a lot of people
aren't even listening to our show. And but that's a good
example. So
let me just say one of the rules is the way I understand it of
native advertising is the story is not produced by the news
outfit. It is produced by the company that the story is about
that is really the native part of the end on the web, they also
have access to publish that directly onto you know, Forbes
or BuzzFeed or New York Times New York Times. And let me just
say about this story when I was 19 and I get this fed a
completely from my parents you know, you're back in school in a
month or you know, or you're paying rent or whatever and I
got Olson it was on national television, and I moved out
immediately got a place in Amsterdam got my own pad, then.
pad now this is before self I didn't have a phone had to wait
four months for them to hook up a phone in this apartment. This
is yeah, it was 1982 83 and you had to dig up the street to add
a new phone line. And then you could only have a grey approved
ATT telephone. No, this is way before all of no cell phones,
although they were coming but really nothing at the time. As
for some reason I just I got a cat. I was lonely. I mean, I got
I swear to God I got a cat dickhead was. And I went to the
kid, Dicky, but I figured it would be funny to call them
dickhead. Because at the time in Holland, no one knew this
phrase.
Oh, so you keep doing it. Hey, dickhead. Exactly. Yeah, okay.
And this cat was with me for 24 years. That's how long this
thing and he was like one when I got him. And he was in a
solitary confinement cell in the, in the what do you call it
the pound the shelter? Because he was attacking all the other
animals like, okay, he's good for me. That's how stupid I was.
Yeah, that is great. But he was fantastic, lovely animal that he
was a little weird. But once or twice, it would happen that, you
know, I couldn't come home. either. I was working. I think
one time actually hooked up with some girl on at a road show or
something that did believe me, that didn't happen often with
me. And I felt really bad about my cat. Because he wasn't gonna
get dinner until the next day. And you couldn't just call
people back in the day. You couldn't just send him a text
message. And I had an answering machine, one that you plugged
into the wall. And that was illegal. You weren't allowed to
plug anything into the phone network at the time, and I would
literally call and I had the volume turned up and I'd say
hey, Dickie, hey, dickhead, I'll be home and tomorrow morning,
and I would talk to the cat. So it's not a crazy product idea.
Now No, no, I can see people I think it did a couple of
mistakes with the product they could have pointed out, it has a
little container. I guess he could drop up a dog biscuit or
something a little treat they say, but the dog would be
sniffing it out. You know, he'd be sniffing to underneath where
the gold drop box was right? Is what dogs do. They got great
noses, they'd be sniffing there, and then he'd be wondering
what's in there and he knocked this thing off the wall and then
he started pawing at it and and maybe bashing it, grabbing it
with his teeth and throwing it somewhere to get the treat
that's in there. I think it hasn't. That's that's a flaw.
How about this? How about just if you get a pet, make sure
you're around to take care of it or don't get a pet?
Yeah, that would be my advice. Yeah,
I hate it so much this get a pet and they're like, you know you
don't have time to walk in when it's like an I can't do this
pets. I can't I can't have a relationship with a dog or a cat
when I'm either cleaning his shitbox or picking up his shit.
I can't do it. Okay, that's fine. All right. Nice.
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corner of my eye Obama went to Afghanistan for a surprise trip
to visit the troops for Memorial Day, I guess. Yeah. Because, you
know, let's draw the attention away from the Veterans Health
Care which is a debacle.
here here's something I was trying to work on. I'm still
needed. I may or may not finish this little project but the
veterans, I was listening to one of the PBS I believe, while
driving around Detroit, and they were talking about how they were
talking about the debacle and what a disaster it is because
Obama, you know, promised in advance that he was gonna do
something about them. And
I think for our listeners in other countries, can you just
give a two line description of what's happened here
is the Veterans Administration, which takes care of the veterans
war veterans and been servicemen is apparently a corrupt. And one
of the things that Arizona office was doing, they there's a
long waiting list to, to get served by this operation. And
the waiting lists can be months, and sometimes years. And so what
they did was to make their numbers look better, they took
all the people on the waiting list. And then when they died,
they took them off the waiting list as though they never had to
wait for anything. Which made their numbers look better when
they sent dishwasher. Well, we don't have that many people on
the waiting list because they're dead, right? They died during
their weight. They died during their weight. And so this is
become a huge scandal. And this was not
a matter of not enough doctors or enough money. Where's the
corruption? They just? How come these people weren't being
helped?
Well, that's we would like to know, okay, but one of the
things I was interested in was a comment that one of these PBS,
NPR people said, which of course, they never follow up on,
was willing, or the real interesting part is that they
did a survey of veterans about the service of the VA and it
came out very positive. And this the results of the survey was
used to leverage Obamacare, because well, look, here's the
government programme that did that work. It works. And now
that I want to get a hold of that survey, because that was
obviously fraud was bogus. I'm
glad you're bringing this up. But I guarantee you someone in
our audience, one of the producers will find this survey
for you. So this is we have such an outstanding this is if you're
relatively new, we are listeners are actually our producers. And
I've been working for a week and a half now I'm getting this
email from from one of our producers friends who now is
also a producer. boots on the ground in Nigeria. Oh, good.
And, and you know, this is now this is encrypted stuff. You
know, it's it's been going back and forth. It's a very long
email. But if you want I can just read some of the highlights
that give a little different perspective on what's going on
with Boko Haram with the oil with Jonathan good luck and with
the girls. You want to do that now you want to know we've been
talking a lot we can do a clip if you want us to know let's do
it. Okay, what makes this particular kidnapping so special
for one thing, the March 2014, Boko Haram assault on gi while
army barracks in Maiduguri, the capital of the Borno State, and
the freeing of Boko Haram of over 1000 civilian prisoners
held by the Nigerian Army among these prisoners, women and
children, family members of Boko Haram fighters. The site was
filmed by Boko Haram on YouTube and that link is in the show
notes. Later on the Nigerian military caught up with most of
the freed prisoners and killed everyone they found. Almost all
of them were trying to give themselves up about 600 of these
prisoners were executed. So this is was it was a retaliatory
retaliatory kidnapping and this of course, you'll hear from
nobody as to what this kidnapping was really about. But
as you can see from the video, these guys have quite the
Arsenal Now how did they go from street kids to a force with
access to military hardware and training? Well, three schools of
thought one the CIA via Libya, the second the Nigerian
government, military themselves and third worlds both how again
are the CIA and the Nigerian government involved in this oil
and China. It's not just about dialling down Nigeria's military
influence over West Africa. It's mostly about oil and China.
There are training camps in the border region to Cameroon where
Boko Haram fighters are being trained by CIA and Arabs from
Libya and Syria. recently captured Boko Haram fighters
said they had said they were being trained by white men in
camps near the Cameroon border. There's also significant multi
multi generational Lebanese community mostly in the north of
Nigeria, at 1.1 of our previous military dictators wife in the
early 90s. Facilitate Hezbollah arms trafficking through Nigeria
into Lebanon, yes, over $50 billion in oil money are
unaccounted for, as mentioned in your previous show, but that is
not all there is to it. China plays a massive role in Nigeria
and China has been trying to get into the oil industry, which has
historically been dominated by European American corporations
and interest. China also features prominently in the
countries on Nigeria's Northeastern border at night and
Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Back to the hashtag Bring Back Our
Girls is what this was very interesting to me. Those 200
girls were kidnapped last month for a very specific reason.
These are not hostages to be exchanged for hostages held by
the government. These girls are meant to be rewards to the
fighters involved. Didn't the Giga barracks assault last
March? That was the goal here. But then someone put a hashtag
out there. Now the whole world is involved. The US sent in 10
Marines who apparently are hanging out in Abuja doing not
much. And by the way, wouldn't it be great if this is just me
talking? If we could figure out a way? I, of course Twitter can
do it? who use the hashtag first? Yeah. Wouldn't it be
fantastic if you could? I mean, if we just had the Twitter
firehose, we could figure it out. That would be such
important search for the hashtag, you should be able to
figure it out that way
for the first person who used it. I don't think so. Yeah, they
have
them all. If did the hashtag search will give you all the
people that have used it, all of them. Whether you follow them or
not, and it should have revealed the first one or the first at
least if within the first one. You can go to the free because
they have the dates, you can go to that at least go to that
first one and ask them where they got it. That wouldn't it be
hard,
but if it's if it's been used 10,000 times will you scroll
forever until you finally get to the first well you can sorted by
date,
can you I think it shows up by date.
Can you revert Can you reverse it? So you get the first one at
the top? Now you cannot do that? Maybe one of our producers can
figure this out. All right. So I think we can come up with that
guy. While the back to this email. While the goal is to get
a grip over Nigeria drive out the Chinese and split the
country for oil either officially like in South Sudan
or unofficially like in Libya. The powers involved in this game
have no clue what they're getting into. February 2015 is
when the next Nigerian presidential elections are due.
Jonathan good luck in intends to run for a second term. But
already I'm noticing Western media burning him in the
Nigerian military. The US and France are going to get rid of
him either peacefully or by a quote heinous, Boko Haram
terrorist attack. I believe he says, I don't know if it's a he
or she actually, there was a military coup coming. This is a
this is a good point, the military is splintering, and
eventually it's going to break I think the problem was not
originally part of the plan as being severely underestimated. I
believe Jonathan successor is meant to be Miss in Gozi on Kojo
II Wailea. She is the current Nigerian finance minister,
previously a managing director of the World Bank, and the links
to all of that in the show notes. While Uncle Joe was meant
to be the next president, things will not turn out that way.
Unfortunately, the almost in evitable military coup and the
wildcard that is on sorrow, the eventual rise and resurgence of
other ethnic religious military groups in Nigeria will drag the
country down into a second Civil War, which is good. That's what
we always like, one that will have Iraq level body counts and
eventually lead to the split of the country into at least five
or six different countries and or autonomous ethnic religious
regions. Rebel eyes, yep, I think the US and France in all
this madness will rapidly Green Zone, both oil regions, the
Niger Delta and the south south, and the Chad Basin in the
Northeast. I also believe the Chinese hacking scandal is
bogus, and is related to the unfolding events in Nigeria and
the general maligning of the Chinese image in Africa. Keep an
eye on the news relating to Chinese involvement in Africa,
and how the exploitation meme is suddenly cropping up. This email
is five times as long but these are kind of the highlights of
Oh, yeah,
we've been keeping an eye on China all along. Yeah. And I
think the only people that do that, of all the news and
analysis out there, I don't think anybody brings up China.
Also the president bring up the bull crap about the Chinese
spying. Yeah. Yeah. They bring up the negative stuff.
The President really sent a a letter to the Senate and he
says, Dear Mr. Speaker, approximately 80 US Armed Forces
personnel have deployed to shod chod Chad, as part of the US
efforts to locate and support the safe return of over 200
school girls. This action has been directed in furtherance of
US national security. And he basically says I'm providing
this report as part of my efforts to keep Congress fully
informed consistent with the War Powers resolution. In other
words, it's okay for me to send troops anywhere under the War
Powers resolution. So no, no, of course, we know there's no need
to really declare any war anything anymore. No, don't need
to do that. But well done. Salma Hayek had the Bring Back Our
Girls hashtag on the red carpet and con Well done. Well done.
And of course, today, we finalise the European elections,
and we have the election in Ukraine. Looks like I'm getting
real time updates. The Belgian Nationalist Party getting a lot
of votes.
Yeah, the Dutch kind of dropped the ball. I have the Dutch vote
to clip from France. 24. They were saying it was a big
disappointment.
The European elections have kicked off Britain and the
Netherlands were the first to vote on Thursday or there A wave
of Euro scepticism gripped the EU a low turnout is expected and
far right parties are likely to be the big winners of this vote.
I love the far right
just ya know, they France 24 Like most media outlets, they
can't be right or conservative. They can't use those words they
have to use far right?
Yeah, they barely barely get away from neo Nazi but far, far
right now just right way over there in Nazi land.
According to a Dutch exit poll, the nationalist Freedom party
the PVV didn't do as well as it had hoped. Delano D'souza
explains.
It's a devastating blow to the Dutch power right. According to
exit polls released Thursday, the Freedom party led by good
builders is set to finish behind pro European rivals been known
for its anti Islam and anti EU stance parties blaming a low
turnout of 37% of the or for its poor performance.
Nadler Netherlands has not become more pro Europe, or two
thirds of the voters stayed at home. The delegates can only say
to you that we fought like lions, they honestly the exit
polls are a bit disappointing. But let's not be too upset over
the exit poll saying that
there were so we don't have the final tally. And yet there are a
couple of things that were I think he had visitors may have
done incorrectly. I think he got some bad advice, some last
minute stunts, one which was immediately grabbed by the
incumbents and they said all of the stuff he's saying it's
crazy. We have to send special delegates to Saudi Arabia that
don't want to do business with us that could ruin 2 billion
euros worth of business between Saudi Arabia and the
Netherlands. And then he did here's a report from EURO NEWS
about something he did just before the elections
Dutch far right and anti far right again, you're on who's
Faraj you need to hurt filters, has been campaigning for the EU
election in Brussels just outside the European Parliament.
Cutting out a symbolic Dutch staff from the EU flag. He made
his feelings clear whistle needs.
So he cut out a flag of the Euro star star out of the flag. Like
I'm taking that bag with me. Because the Dutch don't have I
don't think flag desecration although cares about this flag
is not the way to go. I think it's a bad stunt.
I think that's the bad stuff. And it's meaningless. Yeah. I
haven't different they nail him for something else to it. If you
played Dutch vote, part two, you can hear there's some other
things he did. That was a screw up.
Polls indicate the Freedom Party will get around 12.2% of the
vote, bringing the number of seats it has in the European
assembly.
Just need to stop this for a second. This is a as as I
understand it. People have three days to vote. When you have this
kind of messaging out there on day two, you're really
influencing the vote.
Yeah, there's actually the idea of having three days to vote is
bad, a very bad United States because they don't close the
polls all at the same time. They have influenced voter turnout.
Most which is the last polls to close. It's all over but
don't even don't even leave your home. No reason the point
did has in the European assembly down from five to three. The
Christian Democrats and centrist Democrats 66. Both pro European
parties are positioned to get over 30% of the vote with four
seats each. The Freedom Party had a lead in opinion polls
until a controversial remark from Walters before voting. He
called for fewer Americans a comment widely viewed as racist.
With Europe struggling to recover from economic crisis and
high unemployment parties of the far right in member states like
France, the UK and Austria are expected to see a surge in
support.
By the way Mr. Maciel racist
tag is a winner.
Well, that's the way that's been going on for a while. I mean,
he's just saying what PIM for time was saying in 2001 by the
Miss Mickey just walked in with a lovely peach for me.
I thought you just had a peach.
No, I had the peach yesterday at the market. She just brought in
a peach for me to eat now. Oh, you shouldn't be eating on the
air. I'm not that I'm eating during the eclipse. You Yeah,
baby. I didn't even get half the stuff I wanted to get today.
I got a couple oddball clips so we can get eyeballs. I found
Bill Moore's had some guy on. Ah. Yeah, like a lousy version
of Charlie Rose.
Was this David Suzuki?
No, I don't know who it was. It was some guy in global warming.
Yeah. David Suzuki. Okay, well, yes, this guy and he makes the
strangest comment in analysis of the people rejecting the global
warming thesis. By manmade global warming. We're talking
about manmade global warming thesis anthropogenic found this
to be like, and I hate to use the We're telling, but I think
there's something about what he's, he says at the end of this
clip that is like, wow, something's wrong with these
people.
There was a Gallup poll in this country a few weeks ago that
said, despite rising temperatures, and all of this
strange weather we've been having the percentage of
Americans who care a great deal about global warming has been
dropping from 41%. Six years ago to 34%. Today, what is it about
human nature that wants to believe the worst can happen?
I? I don't know. I don't know.
I have a different clip from him.
Let me just let's stop here. Yeah. What is it about human
nature? That leads them to believe the worst? Can't happen?
I don't know. baud. Oh, no. He said, the other guy says, what
kind of thinking is this? So you're supposed to go around
your whole life and analysing your situation? Whatever it is,
as a worst case scenario? Is that what these these, this
liberal operation is all about? Just looking at everything in
such a negative level? That is, that is all everything's worst
case scenario, because that's what do you know,
I think I think I think they're saying something different. No,
no, I think I think the way that really what they're saying is
how come our fear mongering is not working? That's what I think
they really saying,
oh, that's an interesting interpretation. That's
exactly what I hear. I mean, of course, now we've moved to
climate disruption, because it's not working. Yeah, no, I know,
it's not working. So now it's like, you know what, let's just
say it's happening. We just get over the fact whether it's
happening or not, and just say, Oh, it's happening. It's already
happening. Who cares? We don't need to stop it. We now just
need to prepare for it, which is still an economic bonanza.
Here's that saying, I think it was David Suzuki. And here's
what he the here's the piece I got from this Bill Moyers thing
our politicians
should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness. We are in
a position of being able to act, and we see something going on
and we refuse to acknowledge the threat or act on it. We can be
taken to court for willful blindness. Is that true?
No. willful blindness? Your Honour. What is the client
charged with willful blindness? I don't think so. Why is he Why
is he saying this? There's a there are certain kinds of
things that are called White Cameron where the term is off.
I know that they they sent in six media Rando geologists in
Italy because they didn't communicate the severe illness
of the
forms of negligence very charged with I mean, how can you but
this is not negligence that is not then it's not willful
blindness? It's an opinion. Well, I think this takes a lot
of guts to to throw these in now to call on everyone first, they
call them a bunch of denialists. And now they're all criminals.
According to this idiot,
I think that we are being willfully blind to the
consequences for our children and grandchildren. It's an
intergenerational crime.
It's an intergenerational crime. That this is really interesting
little thing is a problem is
if that should happen if politicians were to be convicted
of willful blindness to the fate of the earth and future
generations, who would have to be mass arrests and lots more
funding for new prisons. We're not talking about a mere handful
of corporate It's hard even to know where to start.
It's hard to know where to even listen to you I mean, that was
that was really weird.
Ya know he this is a last this these guys are like I don't know
what it is but it's like It's madness. It's insanity the way
they react to this stuff. The sciences and
it's just what there was something else I had on naughty
agenda 21 stuff. Oh, yeah. That can't play any of the video
because you really need the subtitles. But you've seen this
this video that the O'Keefe guy did where he had quite a quite a
sting operation with it with all these Hollywood's Ed Begley, Jr
Merillat Mariel Hemingway, and then the the film production
couple who run what is the I gotta get did you tell me you
know about this?
No. Oh, you're kidding me? I might because I do remember says
it in black and white and yeah. About some. Yes, one person
after another. They're all saying something that
he says no. It was okay, I'm, I represent Arab money. And they
want to fund your anti fracking movie for $9 million. But of
course you can, you can never disclose that this is coming
from from Middle Eastern oil interests and the these guys are
all in and they say, yeah, no problem now we'll keep this
locked up. We won't tell anybody the source of our money. We know
how to do this and we need to know how to run it through
nonprofits and everything that we always talk about. Every it's
it's well worth watching. It's about 20 minutes. And of course,
it's you know, take it with a grain of salt of editing, but
really, especially Ed Begley Jr. What a dick is all in on
everything.
He's a true believer. He just walks Yeah, whatever lockstep
but it's really the it's the I'm gonna get their names here. The
couple who they're involved with the which FILM FESTIVAL Are they
with
Sundance,
Josh and Rebecca tickle ti c ke L L team known for their
environmental movies, such as 2000 and eights fuel, which won
an award at Sundance and was later screened at the White
House. Yeah, and these people, they are shameless. Like, we
don't give a crap where the money comes from. Think we just
want to make a movie? It's funny. Yeah, as long as there's
money, we just want to make a movie. Which really shows you
how true Hollywood works. But you there's no clips you I
suppose you can't pull any clips because you really have to see
it all in context. But wow, it's it's a great it's great to
watch. Just more douchebags carry, but no clip of this. He
was at the clean tech challenge in Mexico City earlier in the
week, the past that I couldn't find a video, he told the
audience that temperatures in Europe and in Vietnam were
unprecedented and have broken every record that's ever been
seen. Except for the real record, which was achieved in
1926. I just hate it when I when I can get a video as
well. These guys are so full of crap. It's astonishing,
actually. And it just never lets up.
But people aren't buying it that
the public is there too. There's just too suspicious or doing
it wrong. How many times do I have to say that you've got to
find an angle. This is you gotta be with the hip. Kids are gonna
be about
gay haze. Yes, global warming is killing them
maybe killing the gay whales or something, I don't know, you got
to come up with some kind of gay angle. That's what people
respond to right now.
At the time being I find another interesting little piece of
propaganda was dropped on Charlie Rose. David Remnick
comes on the show, who is the editor in chief of The New
Yorker magazine. They don't mention that, but they just say
it's from New York, you don't know whether there's just a
writer or not. But he's the editor. And he's got a kind of
an interesting background. He used to be a bureau chief and
Moscow for one of the big news agencies and speaks Russian and
he's, you know, which seems to be a guy who should know what
the hell's going on. And it just sounds like more of this anti
Putin. And we've gotten some notes from people saying, You
guys sound like you're pro Putin. In fact, I said, somebody
in Detroit said this, too. And it's like, no, we're not pro
Putin. We're pro like reality. In other words, if there's
somebody's trying to set Putin up, are just trying to besmirch
him. He's the one who claims as the Americans that are causing
all this trouble in Ukraine, which seems to be the case when
you have Victoria Nuland handing out cookies to protesters, what
she'd been doing in Ukraine, but and we don't have any famous
No, no one except us will say that she's married to Robert
Kagan. Brother Frederick Kagan, the Neo cons goddess into Iraq.
No one's telling you that but that's the answer.
Yeah, there you have it. And but so, so Putin has to be a straw
man in this whole charade. And there's no reason I mean, yet
we're not Putin fans. It's just that we watched this this unfold
and I in somebody's being duped
Are you are you peeved that people think we're Putin fans?
I am. It was a little irked by a couple of notes we received and
I had to get you know, it's like, what are were you getting
everyone's because we have questioned authority. Here is
what we've done. And let's play David Remnick on Charlie Rose
and his all anti Putin. So are we new Cold War?
Well, it's a question of the nature of what the confrontation
is going to be and for how long? It can defeat is one thing to
try and understand as an intellectual and strategic
exercise to understand as Putin sees the world, it's interesting
to do that. But I think it's also important to know All
things by their proper name. And what is happening is that Russia
has tried for strategic reasons to destabilise. It's a country
to itself, because it in opposition to the west, but also
in opposition to the leadership of Ukraine. Do you think the
person you admire greatly the president United States is up to
the challenge? I think? I think they were taken by surprise,
which is a problem. It is. I think they were taken by
surprise by the vehemence of this action. I know, I know, for
a fact from reporting, I'm trying to do a longer piece on
us Russia relations and history of just what you're describing.
There were people in the Situation Room who many months
ago said, you know, it is not entirely unthinkable that Russia
will take Crimea. But I don't think Russia was high on the
priority list of foreign subjects in the White House, by
any stretch of the imagination, not with Syria around not with
getting out of a particular getting out of Iraq and
Afghanistan. That's what dominated things. The so called
pivot to Asia, and continuing concern about terrorism wherever
it was, the primary actor in this in the malevolent sense, in
my view, is Vladimir Putin. Now, I am hoping, I am hoping now
he's taken Crimea and destabilise the east to a great
degree. I hope there's some backing off. Hoping that
Sunday's election in Ukraine goes well, it seems to me free
Russia to call Ukraine fascist is preposterous. Fascist
countries don't call democratic elections. This Lau and, and
that's what's meant to happen on Sunday, the likely Victor is
problematic. This is Petra Shenko was known as the
chocolate king. He's but he's an oligarch. Ukraine has been
terribly served by its leadership since 1991. Corrupt
on the left, right and centre. Right, exactly. I don't want to
say that Ukraine is, you know, model, it's not the Czech
Republic of Poland. They have not they have been very unlucky
in their leaders is very unlucky in their politics for now a
generation. But if they're going to make it back, they're not
good things are not going to be improved by the strong hand of
Vladimir Putin from the North.
Tell me about the sexuality. It's in your DNA. Now go out and
burn the New York Magazine. What a dick.
Well, it's just it was obviously a script because your
perspective that is, that is essentially a script, but it's
the same thing. And the way is, is almost rewriting the made Don
thing, which is what we do Europeans pushed promoted, which
is the revolution of got the corrupt ruler
kicked out, which who was democratically elected,
who was democratically elected. And this idea that a Nazi state
or a fascist state never has election is nonsense. Hitler was
elected.
I mean, yes, by public, great popular vote, I might point out
who's Delaney
was elected. So this I don't know where he comes up with that
one.
Now, Bloomberg had an interview with Russian Foreign Secretary
Lavrov, who speaks very proficient English. Yes. And he
had a couple of things to say about the parliament, as it will
be chosen. In Ukraine, can
somebody guarantee to us that the current coalition would not
embrace neonates just like they do now?
Now, the thing if I were to advise him, I would say work on
the pronounciation of Nazis. Don't say Neo Nazis. That
doesn't sound right does it doesn't have the same impact.
Now, what he means is a neo Nazi
race, neonates just like they do now, this this Sloboda party was
elected to the Ukrainian parliament in December 2012. At
that time, the European Union protested. And just like in the
case of Mr. Hydor, election in Austria, they said no one in
Ukraine, Ukrainian politics should cooperate with this
member of the party. Now this this gentleman and his party is
a member of the coalition supported by the West, promoting
anti Russian anti semitic statements publicly in the
parliament. And the lady from that party named Ferien, who is
in charge of educational reform, applauded what happened and yes,
so I believe we have to start not from artificial hypothetical
questions whether somebody would be invading something, but by
the substance of how people are going to feel In any country on
this,
and we know that Victoria Nuland strike that Nudelman and John
McCain were photographed with the leader of Sobotta party, as
they were ended, and of course, she mentioned in her famous f
the EU phone call. And there's little more to that story,
according to Sergey Lavrov,
not to support fascist and communist and not to support or
not to support the government, which has it's part of it. neo
Nazi party. Yes. The other thing which I wanted to, you know, get
response from from Washington was this. reports about the
secret visit of the Right Sector coordinator or Chairman go to
Washington for alleged meetings with Victoria Nuland, and we
want answers to these questions, because it's too serious. To
manipulate events in Europe, across the Atlantic. Maybe it's
it's not a remote control game, you know,
yet is exactly. Well, so Nudelman secret meetings?
Nudelman.
Yeah, we missed out on that one. Yeah. Well, thank you. Little
bombs, expecting the media to pick it up. And of course, they
must the Russians must be beside themselves with it. Nobody paid
any attention to this. We told them and now No,
Putin was asked an interesting question by CNBC on some panel
the other day said,
we're a room full of adults. So let's have an adult
conversation. President Obama has accused you, as you know, of
untruths, when it comes to supporting some of the
separatist groups in the conscious. So yesterday,
who is he to judge? Who is he to judge seriously, if he wants to
judge people why and to get a job and quite somewhere?
Go get a job Obama in a court somewhere, if you want to judge
but he says it was such a funny smile. Yeah, well, I think any
country that is in turmoil and in fact has a form of civil war
taking place if you have Ukrainians killing Ukrainians,
you know, they might want to consider postponing a vote. It's
just not a good thing to do in general, but okay, it's it's
being pushed up pushed ahead. Georgia, Moldova. And we have
one more they're signing their key EU association packed on the
27th. Now, this is all it's all coming together. And, of course,
now the South Stream pipeline is cranking up to avoid gas transit
via Ukraine. I mean, it's just a big game and it's about nothing
more than oil gas money turf, as usual, but no one's talking
about it right now. Who cares? And when we got to that even
talking about the Brussels shootings, so only be about
Obama in Afghanistan, which of course is a setup to distract I
think also
it's just the moment where we you know, as a weekend is a lazy
week and nobody wants to work so so it makes sense except us. Oh,
yeah. Yeah, today's like a holiday for everybody but us
also this the mines in, in Turkey. The hundreds of dead
miners the collapse
of the Yeah, how are you following the Yeah,
this is really of course we have Turkish vote coming up as well.
And this is really hurting Erdogan he's being called you
know, this criminal negligence almost makes you wonder
Yeah, well, yeah, I think that we're behind that to some why do
we get that guy does have to go
it's it's not hard to collapse the line really.
stabilisation is we were outstanding at a net we and
because we were busted for it so many, you know, in the 50s,
especially when the CIA was doing it to these Asian couple
Asian countries and even some places in South America it and
they continued botching jobs and when it became apparent who was
behind it all, you get good at it. And when you do it for so
long, and pretty soon you're not you're not even in the picture.
No one mentions the CIA. No. No, so does somebody is doing I
mean, they mentioned the State Department. Yeah. The Nudelman.
But that's
the on the on the snow job front. We have Brian Williams,
promoting his upcoming interview.
A lot of people would say you have badly damaged your country.
Have you performed as you see it public service, you will be able
to see and hear him tell his story, including a lot we have
not heard before. And as you will see in here. Edward Snowden
has a lot more to say.
Yeah, yeah. Big Interview on Wednesday, so probably Tuesday
night they'll be throwing out clips. No idea what's going to
happen there. I did see a very interesting note as we've been
you know, I keep paying attention to first look media
and now the fact that kind of nothing's coming out there and
grand green well done Rafa he's running around America doing it
as you said, speaking gigs everywhere. Probably picking up
anything. He's 25k a pop for him or more?
Well, you know, I find it hard to believe that he'd get more I
mean, it's possible that he can get 50 but for the most part,
I'm guessing 10 to 25.
Really, but he's a prize winner now. Yeah. And he should
get he should be getting 50. But generally speaking, journalists
and this sort of speaker, the guys who get the big dough or
the or the x politicians, right, and they get big dough. I mean,
you I think, I think Clinton goes for a quarter of
1,000,002 50
and the jet and hotel Yeah, free jet.
Right. And probably hooker, or these other guys are big CEOs
they can get, you know, 25 is a good amount of money for talking
for an hour.
He's, I think, Glenn Greenwald. He's a little he's gonna be
disappointed. He really believes that this movie is getting made.
You know, just because someone that has optioned the movie
doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to get made like ever
see any money from the
movie has killed that the his movie? Yeah. Because he I know
you know how these guys you know, are in the meetings and
they got to just get through it. You can't We can't do it because
it's until somebody shows us that this is viable as a as a
topic, and the government's gonna tell him not to do it.
Then here's what was interesting. Big announcement
about first look, media on Tuesday announced it will give
$550,000 to support three organisations. Reporters
Committee for freedom of the press will get a $100,000 grant,
the EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation will get a $100,000
grant and the freedom of the press foundation will receive a
$350,000 grant which of course is the the one Greenwald's and
the one that he started with portress which actually is not
it's not even the I forget now, it doesn't even go to them this
they're like a subsidiary and it ultimately winds up in Mother
Jones.
In my butt, I know I know. It's Easter this but I bet she gets a
piece of this is hush money.
This is shut up money. I'm sorry, man. Hey, man, I'm sorry,
didn't work out and yeah, so we'll see. You know, who knows
when you
get it? Mother Jones, you want to get the Mother Jones from
Mother Jones, which is a cynical operation. They write some
pretty good stuff. They're not going to write anything negative
now. No, this is corruption. Wise, Brother Jones take money
from an operation like this from a media or now there's not going
to they're never write a negative piece about him because
they he just bought them off. Alright, this is the problem
with the media today, which is why we keep telling people that
you have to listen to no agenda because we don't this is not the
way we do business. We can't
there's a this. Thank you. Exactly. Right. But I just wish
I had more. I had one little saying no, but I had one little
Valerie a little thing just to wrap up Snowden, which was just
you know, everyone's in America, we have this weird tradition,
which it seems to be like getting more prevalent. When we
have graduation from colleges, you want to get some kind of
prominent figure to do the commencement speech. Yeah. And
it can be almost anybody. Of course, you want to have a Joe
Biden or you want to have Barack Obama or Steve Jobs or whatever.
But Pomona College had Valerie Jarrett, who of course, is the
real president of America. And you you would do yourself a
disservice by not going to the show notes. And taking a look at
the entire commencement speech because it is so poor. She
didn't go to the she's not even this is not even her own waters.
It's not her college. But yeah, this people get off on it. Could
you get an honorary doctorate doctorate, you get to wear the
gown. Now, you get to crack jokes. But I think it's the
honorary dot and someone asked me and you're gonna give me a
degree? Yeah. Hell yeah, I'll come and speak.
Yeah, they don't pay him. No, no, no pass yell. Of course,
Abramson was at the Wake Forest, giving her speech and I have a
little clip of it. It's called skipping jail because I just
tried to find something interesting. And so I kept
hitting the fast forward button, and here's what you get out of
this speech.
I'm impressed that your achievements have a true acted
so much media tech as well, they should
have just so we know that she is the recently fired. Executive
Executive Editor. Yeah, executive of the New York Times.
didn't notice until I saw this. She can't be over four foot 10
No idea.
These are not our wiki page. Know that someone needs to add
it need we need the height on the wiki page
as well they should thing with pride five others in the Audit
History today, something you badly want. I got the message.
Do you know
this is remarkably similar to the way I listened to her
commencement speech. But I did actually get a clip from Valerie
Jarrett. And by the way, here's how it works. Here's how these
commencement speeches work. Someone gives you the inside
jokes. You know, like, oh, well, if you're looking for the the
toilet bowl on top of the flagpole, you know, don't ask
Pete You know, it's stuff that happened, right
stuff. No, it's, it's funny.
So she cannot deliver a line. She cannot deliver a line. And
most people can't. It's really really shit the way she does
this commencement speech. If you
can't deliver a line, I always tell people do a lot of policies
if you're not funny,
don't be don't try to be funny. And that's exactly what
if you're not funny, and you're not funny that you're not funny
is when you're trying to be funny, and you're not funny,
ever. Don't try to be funny because then people won't like
you.
Here is the piece that I found interesting from Valerie
Jarrett. Advisor where their own secret service detail to the
President and the First Lady, the true President of the United
States.
But also remember that before I hire anybody, I always check out
everything that they've been doing online. And believe me, we
have ways of finding out everything you've been doing
online. That was actually funnier than I intended it to
be.
Yeah, hilarious. blows that in two ways. One, she got her
laugh. Right at the at the initial the initiation of the
joke, which means you're done. You don't have to now explain
the joke because you got to laugh. Yeah. So she adds to on
to it. She says. She added because it was written down. So
she figured she might as well say it, I guess I don't know.
Stupid. And then she was so proud of herself that she she
metod herself. She looked back on what she did. Yeah, all the
huge amateur blunders. No,
but also for these jokes about spying.
It's not funny. Not funny.
It's not funny. It's like this one. I
have two words for you. Predator drone,
you know, it's just not funny. It's not funny when you're
actually spying on by the way. Of course we know now that the
NSA is useless. Being if you got this kid who's posting these
videos, I'm gonna go kill women. I hate women. I'm going to kill
the guys that they make love to. I'm going to kill kill kill.
Here's my name. I'm going to kill. Hello, where's the NSA
saving us from the lone wolves.
This is a huge problem. We've talked about it on the show. The
NSA has a lot of issues because they couldn't stop the Boston
bombers. And now this when the guy is way out on it. He's like
saying it all over the place. And nobody's noticed and
law enforcement went and visited him multiple times. There you
have it. So I'm, I'm no longer worried. They have no they're
not doing anything out
there. They're there for one reason, or whatever. This is.
One reason one reason only advertising, advertising and
blackmail and advertising. Something we know nothing about.
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we got to
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nickels on the dime because it was an easy donation I created
so we have a bunch of them. We have one through but 10 Francis
Lambert and Zabrak Croatia This is nice. I love the Croatians
Yeah, well times love to play sexy women. I went to to
Dubrovnik once in state in some fancy hotel in an old arm and I
had the weirdest dreams ever.
Really? Yeah,
he's like it's haunted or something I don't care to share
well it's essentially was I was just I was a soldier it was a it
was very vivid dreaming I was a soldier fighting God knows what
or why don't never could figure it out. But I do know I had a
creepy feeling when I
this is also kind of your your roots around that area. Right.
You're the Slavic roots of the Dvorak's.
I don't think you Croatia would qualify and close is closer than
California. Well, yeah. Well, that's true.
I had a creepy
dream. Oh, yeah. What? Miss Mickey is so awesome. She's
gonna go out and tell the gardener not to mow.
I had a dream that it was about Sir Mark. Then he was he was in
a meeting. And I was like Lucille Ball trying to make the
coffee machine but the coffee machine was spouting water all
over the place. I was trying to plug the holes with all my
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They grow eggs. Yeah, they grow eggs, heritage, heritage cool.
Turkeys.
How do you grow eggs?
And she's got goats to Turkey turkeys lay eggs. Yeah, of
course they do. But their Turkey tasting I don't know what Turkey
eggs taste. I've
never been offered a turkey egg. Well,
yeah, they obviously they have to taste like whatever the case
is. She's there's a great couple and we in the meet up they
everyone got all jacked up about getting a heritage turkey but
she's already sold out for this year. But next year there is
going to be a good group that's very communal. David, good old
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This donation comes from my very first paycheck so he just
finally got paid in seven years.
Wow. What How old do you think he is?
Probably I'm guessing he's probably in his 30s late 30s
So he's been unemployed for seven years.
That's what it says wrap on isn't much value for value that
I can get from this but compared to what I get from the show,
I've been listening from the beginning. I hope that it shows
that I appreciate the work that you do that you guys put into
the show. I don't ask for a de douchey Noid I wish to pressure
other listeners to donate we all contribute in our own ways even
if it's merely bringing up a point from the show with others
absolutely
true I'm giving them a dilution no matter what I'm going to give
them a Karma as well. You've got karma not seven years first
thing he does is contribute to the show Wow Yeah. I'm gonna
keep my my notes that some stuff showed up at the house here. But
that'll keep for Thursday's not that time sensitive but some
really cool stuff to talk about. I do have one we got Sir Mark
Tanner who you just donate but he sent a separate note. He said
Could I possibly get an F cancer karma for myself fighting the
battle and every bit helps. These are not these are not good
notes.
I don't like hearing these things.
No no no especially not from our regulars
but for our nights of course
you've got karma Absolutely. All right.
That was very long of course because it was a double to
double and some and some people and this is kind of cute and and
highly appreciated saying oh I got a Karma I got a credit so
but it was unwarranted so I'm donating again.
Yeah, we've seen that from the beginning as always, yeah. It is
very
cute. So I think that probably you start thanking people
randomly. If you want to executive producer ship probably
Thursday will be a good show.
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with hearing nothing. Here's a little. Again, thank you to
everyone who donated also below the $50 level. The here's a
little trick about the best podcast in the universe, we use
noise gates for both the Skype and for my microphone because
neither of us really have a real studio. And if it was just it
was open all the time, you'd hear all this background noise,
you hear stuff driving by, and it's very distracting. And of
course, this is a professional way to solve that. It's with the
noise gate. But when you have a loud, like a leaf blower or a
mall, or lawn mower, yeah, it assumes this real kind of ruins
the idea. Yeah, but I don't hear it ago now. Well, he's now in
all right. Miss Nikki was out there like giving him chips. And
now don't worry about it. All right, these guys. And also I
want to thank our mando the mailman. Mail Carrier, postal
carrier, once again, just takes care of
engineer postal Yes.
Paper communications engineer. He made sure that our mail was
withheld and not Yeah, no, that's a good thing. Yeah. And I
don't have any I was like, I don't have to send do call the
post office it just happens is beautiful. Uh, you know, the
mailman knows everything that's going on in the neighbourhood.
Do you have the they have they know everything?
So I have I ran into this clip. And I'm wondering if you know
about about the McDonald's protests and all the people that
are on strike. I mean, they talk about something it's been at
least I didn't see it in the local news. I mean, maybe you
did I happen
to know about it. Because Miss Mickey and I, we were contacted
by the Ronald McDonald House charity, here in Austin, which
is has very little to do with Ronald McDonald anymore. But the
first thing was I'm like, Oh, what did you know? I had to look
into it, you know me. There's very little involvement and then
you run across all I got filter set up and the you run across
all this McDonald's stuff. Yeah, there's stuff going on with
them. For sure. This
is I just play this clip. But I'm gonna just say this is a
good example of why our show is a little different than the
mainstream media, this is suppressed. And we're
gonna finish off with a look at McDonald's shareholders have
approved a multi million dollar pay package for Chief Executive
Don Thompson. This despite strikes and protests that forced
the fast food giant to temporarily close its
headquarters this week, workers are demanding that their minimum
wage be doubled to about $15 an hour, Thompson told investors
that he respected the protesters, but he insisted that
McDonald's does pay competitive wages and offers real career
paths. Those protests have been sweeping through McDonald's, not
just in the United States, but around the world. Workers at
that chain, clearly very frustrated at their working
conditions. And I think we'll be hearing more from them.
Now, this was on France 24 career opportunities, John?
Yeah, there's all this. Yeah. Well, what's happened, of
course, is people can't get out of McDonald's. I mean,
McDonald's is always one of those stepping stone jobs, where
you, you're out of work for a while. So you take a McDonald's
job until you get something good, and then you quit and go
to someplace else. And that was always the idea. And that's how
fast food chains kind of developed knowing that they get
to get all these cheap employees for just, you know, working for
a little bit. Because there's nothing it's not like a job, you
have to be highly trained. And that's not working out because
people can't find work and so that now they you know,
McDonald's has got to pay a real wage. So they can live, you
know, without starving to death, because it was just pin money,
essentially. But this is not this is not being reported on it
at all. It's a scandal.
And you're surprised, are you surprised by this so called
scandal?
No, but is actually a great example of it. And McDonald's Of
course, being a major multibillion dollar advertiser
that they're not gonna You're never gonna hear about this
story. Now, I was listening to C span and the guy who wrote this
town, which I believe you read,
yeah, the Yes. I forget. The New York Times journalist who wrote
right he had a little thing he apparently got to he was at a
book fair
and read this because it's a good it's a good read. It's a
fun book to read. He
says it's a how to book if you look at it objectively.
If you basically open mouth, insert penis, and you can work
in Washington.
So he this is the history of where he got the idea to do the
book that he taught discusses his I don't know if it's
discussed in the book. But he was at the TIM RUSSERT funeral.
Yeah, that's where the Clinton showed up. Yeah. And here's what
he has to say about his very interesting little
this is us. That's actually the opening of the book.
To express it
was in 2008 in June at the Kennedy centre, and was just
watching the thing degenerate into a cocktail party and just
watching all of the mafia families, the Clintons, the
Obamas. And the bushes, the media, the lobbyists, the
Democrats, Republicans, everyone sort of coming into pay respects
but but ultimately watching from the aisles of the Kennedy
centre, people throwing business cards around people trying to
book the Clintons on their MSN. You see shows that no people
angling for the next big job, it became a very, very self
conscious spectacle. And at that moment, I knew that we had
reached a tipping point we in Washington and reached the
tipping point of the kind of maybe self regard self
celebration that has grown up here versus, you know, what was
actually a very, very solemn ceremony for a beloved newsman.
And from that point on, I started taking notes and doing a
bunch of interviews and scaring a lot of people. And
anyway, Destiny goes on.
Do I have a question? Did you find Tim Russert to be such an
awesome newsman? No, I didn't either. Yeah, he was okay. But
not like, oh, he was he was the best he asked the questions
people were afraid of him really
is definitely better than chip. Yeah, the other guy that the old
man he's, yeah, he just about it, but he's really out of
touch. Yeah, a lot of interesting little screwball
stories I deserve shorty here. I want to play this is this is a
little suburb of the Bay Area. It's actually a big suburb is a
consolidation of a bunch of little towns. And this is the
future of the United States. As far as I'm concerned. This is
the Fremont police state struggle.
Fremont police want to go high tech to help fight crime. Next
month, the department will ask the City Council to approve
community based surveillance cameras and licence plate
readers. Police want as many as a dozen installed at key entry
and exit points along the city's borders. Residents can comment
on the project through the city's website.
Yeah, of course it is.
Yeah, licence plate readers. Yeah, you're
trying to bum me out with this. Don't do this. Okay, and then I
got a better one. Here's Hillary. Okay. This is one of
her first speeches after her brain damage.
You mean? This is an old speech? No, this
is new. This is a fairly new speech.
She's got a lot of speeches since since the since? Yeah, I
know. But there's only one I have I don't even know a whole
you confuse me now. Why do you say brain damage when we know
she had a facelift?
Okay, I'm just brain damage to the other theory. Whatever the
case, I'm mistaken with the with the I don't know what happened.
Hillary on internships now. She has a this is she's talking.
This is bullshit. This is her speech. By the way, her public
speaking really is deteriorated. She still talks with one word at
a time, right? But it's a little more run together and she's lost
all emotion. I think she's on some drug or something. In fact,
do you skip this clip? No, I
want to hear it. No, it's
next. First play the other clip, which is Hillary blabbering and
tell me what she says
that I could go back to what I had been doing. But
unfortunately, it was going back to where we had been, in some
respects 3040 years ago, rather than picking up the pace of
where we had moved toward. I was very struck by how difficult it
was, for so many children to be successful in school, despite
all the education reform that we have done and experimented with
over a very long time. Now,
I need some context, but this is called losing the plot. I mean,
it does happen sometimes you are in an interview situation. And
this is a speech. This is a speech. Yes,
resist. We much we must and we will much younger
this is this is a speech this is now it's got no emotion you can
play the other part I want. The other part of the speech is no
emotion. She's flat as a pancake. And in this case, you
have to listen to this and near the end. She does one of those
inappropriate nervous laughs in the middle of the sentence,
which I thought was creepy.
Most of the young people who complete this programme go on to
become full time gap employees. Or consider Corning Glass
manufacturer headquartered in upstate New York, famous for
supplying the scratch resistant Gorilla Glass for the iPhone.
Corning knows that to stay on the cutting edge. They need a
steady pipeline of high skilled talent. So they've invested in
internships that help students explore careers in science,
technology, engineering and mathematics the so called STEM
fields, and they're providing on the job apprenticeships in their
factories. So at the Clinton Global Initiatives annual CGI
America Conference in Denver next month, we're assembling a
network of businesses like gap and Corning willing to step up
expanding hiring, training, mentoring, hopefully to create a
virtuous ripple throughout the economy,
hoping to Qureshi last right in the refuge system.
Well, you know It happens Do you maybe just had a bad day?
I don't know this this whole thing is nonsense, the
internships and all the rest of it. When I was a kid, and there
was a steel mill and you wanted to work in the steel mill, they
trained you. Yeah. It makes for you to come out of a steel mill
expert. So this is nothing not a new idea, Corning Yeah, they're
hiring people and and trainees. Yeah. Da. How many people know
how to work in a glass manufacturing facility? No
button. Anyway, I got one more clip and you can clip clip clip
out. I know you're getting tired.
I'm okay. I mean, I'm you know, first of all, I really enjoy
talking to you. Second of all, I do. This is this makes my
marriage work. Yeah. Yeah. And my wife will concurs and I have
a feeling yours mine too. Because, you know, you're not
constantly saying I look at this bowl crap. I can't believe this
shit. No, we actually had a nice
ad. She's always doing that because she doesn't listen to
our show anymore. Why doesn't she listen? And I would like she
brought something up last night at dinner she's doing on
rattling off.
Are you up there? She down there.
I never was down here. Okay, cool. She's wrapped prattling
about somebody. My mom did this. We talked about the show a month
ago, you should listen to the show, too. We've already
deconstructed the crap out of this, this thing you noticed.
And also, I got a really nice note from her. She said, hey,
you know, Eric told me via John that you know, you mentioned
what's the stuff that I take for my not
so crazy stuff. You take it in? She looked it up? I should try
this because it had something to do. I was looking it up, I
guess. And it has it does something about arthritis and
rosacea and a bunch of you
know, and for some reason, I've completely blanked on the name
now
she lost the house anyway. But that was that stuff called if
you think of it later,
but anyway, she sends me a note and I'm like, wow, you know, you
should listen to the show. Because sometimes we we have
these gems, you know, there's all kinds of stuff that shows
valuable. But why is it do you think she just tired of it?
I don't know why, you know what I really think? I don't think
she can get her iPod to work right? She won't automatically
download and and then when she tries to do it manually because
i Tunes is such a piece of crap. I think she just gave up on the
on the on the effort.
Maybe you can just have someone installed. I mean, we have so
many apps and the app is really handy. You can just click on the
app and there you know, it does all that stuff for you.
Yeah, but I think it's I think it's frustration with iTunes to
be honest about it. Because when I give her discs, I'll make
destroy, she'll listen to him in the car. We're driving around
and she's fine with that. But she can't get this thing to
download, I guess. I don't know. So but that's okay. Well,
do you mind if I intervene? Because I think of I think
there's an embarrassment factor here. And I understand it. Now.
I'm sure she's embarrassed that she can't get it to work. Do you
mind if I just reach out to her and see if I can? quesiton
that's what it was? quesiton Yeah, of
course it didn't. Yeah.
which I use for everything. You know,
John says, You can't get hold on. I don't know,
I'll play. I'll play it cool. But that may be cuz Mimi's
really she's into a lot of this stuff. And she's, you know, she
has opinions. And you know, she used to send me notes from time
to time. And oh, yes, go
ahead. I think this is iTunes, iTunes, I think we we probably
could be doing much better. All Oh, in terms of market
penetration for listeners, if iTunes wasn't such a piece of
crap.
Yeah, let's have a meeting about that. No, of course, in every
show notes on the front page, then you can find it@archive.no
agenda notes.com or any show notes.com Where no agenda
show.com is really the easiest. All the links are there. I gotta
work on that too. I'm going to this is part of my mission for
the coming few weeks is we're not travelling, and work a bit
on just the links of stuff that's pointing to other things.
There's always a list of places you can get it, you can get it
through a BitTorrent Sync, which is very popular. It's still
beta. But it you know, that is, in my opinion, the future of
media distribution. There's regular bit torrents which I
think through BitTorrent, love, BitTorrent, love whatever still
works. Of course, as the podcast feed, you can direct download,
you can play right there. I mean, there's no, there's lots
of ways to get it. But I will work a little bit on. I think
the apps are good for people like, like, Mimi, because when
you have the podcast app is not great. When Apple got that, you
know, people were used to getting it on iTunes and then
shifted the podcast app and had problems in the beginning. You
lose a lot of Yeah, I
think that's when it began for her. That makes
sense. And you lose so many people just in that transition.
And even for me, you know, I'm trying to load stuff up on I had
the Android tablet which I'm still using I'm still impressed
with it. Certainly the battery life the Nexus seven I think All
right, by using dog catcher. Wow, what a piece of crap. Yeah,
really complicated. It's not very simple. There's all kinds
of buttons and wow, just make it
work. Yeah, yeah, well, those days are over. Whereas
I just use the BitTorrent Sync app on Android or on the iPod
Touch and it just synchronises it just works. You can make it
download in the background and it works. Alright, last clip.
Give me out boy.
Well, I this is a very interesting clip. It's not up
tempo, a beat clip. Actually, I do have an upbeat clip. I can
push this off tilde Thursday this other clip give me an
upbeat, give me the Mission District in San Francisco's got
issues with all the gentrification and all the
Googlers moving in and screwing up people. So we got a new name.
We're going to we're going to rebuild the Mission District in
the in with some nice Spanish terms and we're just playing
Mission District in San Francisco
patient of the mission are being celebrated by many 24th Street
considered the heart of the Latino culture has a new
designation. ABC SEVEN NEWS REPORTER Leanne Melendez takes
us to chi then he quatro
perhaps it's the smell of the freshly baked Mexican pastries
or the colourful murals that tell you you have arrived in the
mission. Celebration has long been a tradition here. Just like
the improvised street music 24th Street has been the cradle of
the Latino art movement in San Francisco. But in recent years,
gentrification has threatened to displace the people and the
businesses that have contributed to its cultural significance.
That's why the city decided it was time to begin talking about
preserving the mission. The resolution to designate it
Buckeye Javaid The Quadra Latino Cultural District was led by
supervisor David composts.
How do i pronounce
well you don't have to play anymore play the second clip
which is got it nailed you just cut it out of there.
Oh, the Pay Attention everybody
the resolution to designate it but guy you have at the quatro
Latino district.
This is what you get when you have a native speaker. Yeah. Oh,
let me try. Let me I want to try this. We should be able to do
this solution
to designate it but guy you have at the Guatemala done
then I have to get in the cab and ask for that district.
Well, I just asked for 24th Street in the mission. Hell with
his name you know
i It hasn't happened in a while but I actually
use that name in a cab the guy would go what what
I think I think you deserve it today. You deserve it. You
deserve it. That was good. That that very cusp of the of the
show the very ending of the show.
Barely snuck it in
good work. Very funny. Very funny. All right. Well, super
long show. There you go. It happens. But man, we had a lot
to catch up on. We want to make sure you get the the valley you
deserve. Of course we had the long donation segments. Don't
worry, that probably won't happen Thursday. But we will be
here once again, bringing you a brand new show and I think is
that is it a new month? Yeah. Maybe? No, no, not yet. Are you
doing twit?
No, no, I think they're on vacation because it's a holiday
weekend. They don't they're not like us really? That what do
they do? At work? It just seems to me unlikely or maybe they're
getting? I don't know. I have no idea.
Strange. All right, I like working. I enjoy. We will see
what happens but there's tonnes of foot and ahead, I'm sure.
Coming to you from FEMA Region six here in the capital, the
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everybody. I'm Adam curry and for
Northern Silicon Valley where I come back, the main abode. I'm
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