What's the big deal your 50th birthday so they people wanted
to chime in on it. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
September 4 2014 time via Gitmo nation media assassination
episode 649. This is no agenda. Fabulous and 50 in the Wi Fi
enabled canal house in the pipe in the heart of Amsterdam in the
morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry.
And from both in Silicon Valley where it's September already,
I'm John C. Dvorak. Levin, Buzzkill. I know the sun
starting to go down already.
Oh, early. Yeah. Well, it's six, six a little after 6pm. Here in
Gitmo nation. lowlands dark. No, no, it stays. Stays light put it
into I don't know. I think 830 Yeah, summertime, it can be even
later. It can be 1030 sometimes. Yeah. If I recall properly.
Well, yeah, I'm waiting.
For what? Happy birthday. Thank
you. Thank you. You know, I
sent you a card
to the house in Austin.
No, no, that was the the mailing that went out. I don't know. You
probably never saw it.
I saw the yes I saw the very inappropriate newsletter if
that's what you're talking about it for one thing to have you and
Mickey in cahoots to photograph and then show my tattoo is
got a pasty arm.
I I'm all over the map for the very pasty. I'm all over the map
with my sleeping here. If this thing comes out, and I see like
four in the morning or something, and I'm
I think was shipped 11 That would be that night, your time?
I don't know. It's all over the map.
All Over the Map. I'm all over the map. Same time. It always
goes. I'm all over the map. Oh, that could be
I'm all over the map. I'm still I'm registered in the US, you
know, so I get my mail whenever it's I don't know. But yes,
thank you. Thank you. I'm now officially 50 years old. And as
you know, the Dutch are very particular and very, very
serious about their birthdays and their birthday celebrations.
We've discussed this many times on the program. Yeah. A couple
things I would like to run through with you if that's okay.
Well, I want more compliments for the newsletter first.
Come on. I think it's clear it was very good. It was very
creative. And completely untrue.
It was worth well, that may may or may not be, but it was worth
the price of admission. I can't encourage people enough to take
these newsletters for the occasional humorous one.
This was this was the this was you were in rare form. It was
100% Divorce luck. It was appreciated. Believe me it was
appreciated. I realized that the social media, which of course,
in combination with portable smartphones with cameras is an
international health crisis. I realized it is destroyed a very
him to me a very important Dutch tradition. Oh, we Oh, yeah.
Which we may not have never talked about. Okay, the Birthday
Calendar. The birthday was the Dutch Birthday Calendar. Have
you ever have we ever talked about this?
Dutch Birthday Calendar? Yeah.
It has been tradition as for as long as I can remember, although
I'm not seeing it anymore. With this, you know, your birthday
appears on your Facebook and all your fake friends wish you happy
birthday. Right? It has always been a tradition. You go to
someone's house in the Netherlands and in the bathroom.
There is a calendar and it says Birthday Calendar. And while
you're doing your business, you look at the calendar. And if
you're you check to see if you're on the calendar. If not,
there's a little pen or pencil with a with a string, and you
add your name. Oh, that's
very interesting. No, we have never talked about this, I would
have never noticed. Yeah. And so of course, whenever you're
actually very nice. That's very that's actually I like that.
Yes. What it does, is it creates an environment that if you're
actually at somebody's house, you must be friends enough. You
must be friends and take a crap in their house, which is, you
know, awkward. Or if you take a pee, you probably could see the
calendar that way and still right into it. And but that now
you've written into it because you you're friendly. Yeah, I
like it.
It's like Yes, right. Yeah. And unfortunately, it seems this
tradition has delegated. Yeah, it's gone away. I cannot recall
being Facebook, Facebook is the Birthday Calendar on steroids.
Well,
and I came up with a trick this year, which I'm very proud of. I
I went back and looked and I did this just on time, by the way,
it's really nice. I was able to do this, but I went all the way
back in this timeline crap. And I saw that there was like, I
think three or 400 people had wished me a happy birthday last
year on Facebook. Okay, and you know, and of course the way this
works is you people Wake up they before they open up their
Facebook and they look over to the right and it says, Oh, it's
this so and so's birthday. Wish him her it Happy Birthday, click
Yes. When they like to send the card. And not even that you just
say, but Happy Birthday post, he
would have to like the happy birthdays. Oh, well,
we'll get to the protocol. We'll get to the protocol in a moment.
I actually did ask Miss Mickey. I said, What is protocol? She
said, Well, because you'll have so many. You can't like every
single one. So then at the end of the day, you do a Hey,
everybody, thanks for wishing me a happy birthday. But of course,
I wanted to find a way to thwart this and fuck with everybody.
And I discovered that you can turn that notification off.
There is a way and it's not. It's hard to find. But if you
Google around, you get the information so that people will
not see it's Adam Curry's birthday today. And I did that.
So oh my god,
that's just a way to catch your real friend. Well, it
gets better. Because I only had like 35 Re and every single one
of these people who wished me happy birthday I know in real
life, or well enough within like no agenda terms that we've
conversed, it's not just a fake Facebook friends somewhere.
Right? What's cool about it? Is that now everybody else who then
stumbles across my timeline later, Oh, crap. How could I
have missed that? I could, I forgot to wish them happy
birthdays to Facebook didn't alert me. And now they feel bad.
Oh, so your goal in life is to make people feel
bad it was on this day? Yes. It was good
for you. I think that's noble.
That was pretty good. Yeah, it was it was pretty good. Do I
encourage everyone to do this? And I would like to mention.
Well, I think what it was It wasn't even to make people feel
bad. It was to point out the fact that they weren't your
friend. Exactly. If they were your friend. I'd be hanging on
their calendar, though. Because you've been making a big fuss
about his birthday. Yeah, they would have known weeks ago that
it was your birthday? Yes.
So only my real friends said Happy Birthday on Facebook. And
I may may be twittered. I'm sure. Twitter does this crap now
too, because I got a lot of a lot of Twitter does it say Adam?
It's Adam Korean birthday.
Alright, then, and I think you get it. But I'm not on
LinkedIn, or not really. I don't know.
If I got any notifications from any service. That was your
birthday.
That here's something I would like to point out when you turn
50, which is it's an interesting age, and I don't feel old or
whatever. But I do.
It's interesting, though, that you turn. Yes. fiddling about
turn.
If I became what would the turning is? Yeah. What would we
say? And I don't understand it personally. Why you turn 50 I
think it's because you turn over the page of the calendar of the
day you turn over. So people again, I feel fresh and fit. I
don't I've stopped smoking. Yeah, the best healthier lie.
Yes, I have a significantly younger wife couldn't get any
better than
but not much better. So yeah, you have to grow second Dicker
something. Working on it.
Here is a couple of birthday wishes. For some reason people
don't realize how inappropriate the birthday wishes are when you
turn this age. Time flies old man. It's not what I would
somebody said My sister said that on Facebook. Oh, geez. 50
and counting to what, two decades counting the dead.
Sorry, counting to the grave. Here's one think half century
instead of 50 years it sounds less than half century. I
disagree half century sounds ancient. The course a lot of
people would say old man. Did you see Abraham yet? This is a
Dutch thing. I think we have talked about that. Where when
you turn 50 A man sees Abraham and a woman sees Sarah. I don't
know the genesis of this. But often they will have little
dolls of Abraham or Sarah. When you turn 50 It's a biblical
thing. I'm not sure that the genesis of why some
certain thing I'm sure of it.
And then it only gets better. It really only gets better. Let me
check in with John C. Dvorak for a second here. John, let me ask
you, after 50 doesn't only get better?
Not that I know. I see no zero
evidence. zero evidence of getting smarter
you get a little you get a little more. You're less of a
slave. That's about it. Good bye bye. Been
very Clear four, since a year when Miss Mickey started asking
me about my 50th birthday, and I am not one to celebrate my
birthday. I don't think I can't really remember a birthday
party. Yeah, when I was six. I remember one. That might not
have even been my birthday anyway. Not a big one on
birthdays. It's also September 3 is a is an awkward date. It's
typically just before school starts, you know, so you don't
really know your new classmates. And then there's no one's in
school. Everyone's on vacation or been sightseeing and have a
party. Yeah, you can't really have a party and she doesn't
it's and we we moved a lot. So it'd be completely neighborhood.
So it just didn't really work out that way. It's just it's a
calendar thing. And of course, I was very clear, and it's a joke,
but I really was clear. What do you want for your birthday
hookers and blow please? 50 That's what I want. You get any
hookers and blow? Absolutely not.
Yeah, of course. That's bull crap. You're not gonna get it?
Of course not. Of course not. It may be if you were a 21 year old
drug dealer you could have gotten.
But of course, those days are over, I got something much
better. And Miss Mickey has really been working on this for
a year she threw a 50th birthday party for me. And the whole
reason we're here and Gitmo nation lowlands is this and the
intent was people who I have grown up with. I could do one in
New York, probably. But these are the people I've started very
young with my career and pirate radio. And that's hospital radio
when I was 15. And two of my boyhood friends are here. And
some of them had to come in from different different parts of the
world. But she had set this up enough in advance. There was one
person missing that way that was unique, actually, to my mom.
She's dead. And you and you're not dead body. We did have we
did have the John C. Dvorak head on a stick. Oh, that's so you're
in the pictures, voids. Point Zero joined us. And he brought
that I
like to hit on a stick. We had one of you in the Detroit area
when I was down there. And really when I think about it
wasn't really doing you justice because they had on the stick
was too small of the head. This head
is also not really big enough, especially for your head. But
it's there when you were on the table kind of you had a stand it
was
down the table probably anyway.
Hold on one second. Just got to open Allah Don't move. Don't
move. I am back now. Now of course, the reason you didn't
come is because it's just a party and you've been to 50th
birthday parties. And you know, it's great. And of course, it
was most of it was in Dutch. There was no, although most of
what I said was in English, because I had no idea what I
don't know what language I was speaking anymore
where I am. My Dutch is not that good. You know?
And, yeah, it would have been great. And of course you you
shouldn't be here. You're part of my life. But it's a long
trip. And I get we talked about it. So I'm okay. We'll
celebrate.
No, it's more than that. I mean, I had its I had work to do for
the show, I had to do this special newsletter. So yeah,
someone had to hold down the fort. Somebody had to continue
the marketing of the no agenda show on this side of the pond.
And it would have also created an awkward show today would have
sucked it would have been deserted. You have to be in a
room. They're never not going to happen. So I'd be in the hotel
down the street. Yeah, strange.
And it would Skype would still suck. You'd be down the street
and Skype would still
be shit guy would suck. And then I would you know, I wouldn't
have enough material, which I don't have any way usually, but
sometimes I do. So. Yeah, no, it's okay. I gave I gave you a
card.
Yes. Thankfully, everything is highly appreciated. And let me
tell you what you missed by this. Yeah, just a couple of
things you need to see. So I knew nothing. There were a
couple names on the list that I had to approve or disapprove.
And I'd say if she hadn't everybody Obama show up. No, no.
Funny enough. Invited Do you know who did show up? No, Agent
Orange are from our intelligence network in the military. He he
flew in from Kandahar for the party. Ah, and left the same
night on a C 17. Back to Afghanistan. You gotta love it.
And he was very specific to tell me that. On the base. No agenda
plays loudly. In the mess hall. They put the show on in the mess
hall
showing the mess. Yes. It was to keep people from from eating
their meals or what's the boil?
Yes, apparently when we start doing our Mohammed and Abdul
ISIS. Their actual spit takes of people putting out their drink
they love us they love us because they know that they know
that they're out there doing bull crap for bullcrap reasons
for bull crap people Yeah. And they so they love us for it and
it's there wasn't that was hard
to remind them that's what they're there for screwed
and he gave me three new challenge coins. Oh yeah no
you're gonna hate me for this. Them Department of State one of
them John F Kerry It says it right there on the challenge
coin with his signature if he even signed this challenge coin
John F Kerry and he has a Department of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton.
That's nice. That's a great great little gift
and then that gave me a good birthday gift. And then he gave
me said in case anyone ever tries to say but there are no
nuclear weapons in the Netherlands he gave me the 703
months Volkl Arab Air Force Base. The deter assured dissuade
me this is the 703 daggers drawn dropped the bomb. And this these
are the guys who are maintaining the actual bombs the nuclear
weapons in the silos here in the Netherlands. And there's a
little picture of a vest with a 703 on it. And the vest is
orange and on the vest where you'd have like an insignia
there's a little mushroom cloud. This is I have to take a picture
this is one of our votes that this is one of my favorite
challenge coins ever. This gem that is total gem daggers
withdraw study with daggers drawn this is this thing is this
says Team America all over it all right now the party that
Miss Mickey through the location, you have to take a
look at this Google Mayor manner M A YERMANOR Mayor manner
M Ayer m a n o r
two words and you should get to Tumblr Mayor man or something
Tumblr
I'm just looking at the I just hit the images to take a look
and there's a lot of nice images you get little fireplaces in
these rooms you guys was the tub this
was kind of so you get you have a copper tub. Yeah, well, that
was the suite upstairs where we stayed after the party. This
place if you believe you can find the Tumblr page. This is
like this. It's kind of like your you walk into Hugo the
movie. It's very steampunk and it looks steamy, very steamy.
And we
shall see the Tumblr page. So here it is. Here it is. And
if you go to a history, you can see there's a tomb downstairs
and all this very, very spooky place from
1817 Yep, this spot on which the manor resides was home to St
Mary monastery figures. The monastery was a well women's
convent of the third order the Franciscans the third order to
this day remnants of the foundation cemetery of the
monastery can be seen you have ghosts in that place. Oh yeah,
in its current form. The building was built in the 1881
going to the Amsterdam city archives and in 1908 Mr. A mayor
applied for a building permit together with architect k. Then
there the property was converted into a tobacco firm it must have
some stench thereto or actually a good smell of fresh tobacco
you have the lighting was old school like really old fashion
operating theater lights you know the ones that have the 10
club
that's where you were having your parties?
Yes and if you look at the bed and bath after the party, but
first you went down to the basement there was this whole
bathroom public in front of everybody's
No this was just before I got to use my lucky robber come on come
on.
Lucky robber with me for five years.
Come on. I had it the lucky robber.
Like you were ever so there is a tub in the middle of the room
which is a copper tub
yeah with a fireplace the
water at this thing.
It's modernized so there's a plug right in the middle of the
bottom. Okay, so it is a big shower and this hold you don't
see everything but it was phenomenal and and making yeah
and everything the whole place the candles were all it's
burned to the ground because these candles I'm telling you it
could happen and candles. I don't get it.
So threat I
think is just a threat look, we could fill it I could dump some
kerosene in here the place you go up in flames. It's a threat.
Yes, it's a two men right. And
you know we had they brought breakfast up this morning. You
know, croissants,
you must drive across all across all
Are the show before the show? No. In fact, I have taken to
your system but of a espresso a croissant and a bubbly waters in
my beds
Exactly. The reason is because you want a little car with you
for the show Breakfast of Champions, that's that carb
energy. And you got some maybe some jam on the croissant. And
then you're ready to go do great, do a show, if you had
bacon and eggs, it'd be kind of low GI. So we
had 50 guests for my 50th birthday. And then my sisters
were there and Willow came in from Italy. And, of course, the
traditional singing songs about how stupid I am. That was very
nice. And then there was a surprise. Imagine. Now this is
the Dutch version. But I'll give you an example. Just imagine the
following. My old buddy from the radio station, the radio show we
had here, which was my old partner, very successful show we
have and he gets up here and he starts talking about old days
and kind of doing his speech and and then he says, well, and we
have a little surprise and imagine if I if I were in
America, and this were Vegas, and this would be the moment
where Frank Sinatra came in to sing me a song. So we had the
kind of the Dutch version of that, that an A fro her and have
some people that he's known as Frank Sinatra, but he is of that
stature in this country. And he just walked in and sang a song
for me than it was that was kind of on the level of holy crap
everyone was put
up I mean, that was cool that that did happen to
Mickey made this all happen of course of course of course. And
it was it was just it was completely like food. She had a
freedom there to start with, which was free to Mayor Mayor
mayor and there was mussels and clams and, and clams, oysters
and lobster and crab and shrimp and news just stacked up three
month pictures. Eventually, she had a photographer too.
And then she takes the pictures. She's
busy partying with me if she had if she had a photographer to do
the whole thing. And of course she's you know, she has all
these contacts here so she had she pulled out all the stops all
the favors everybody she knew like you owe me and it was just
it was really lovely as a gossip rags they're taking phone no
this was the nice thing about it that they were completely taken
off guard they had their their like what the next day the what?
We didn't know now no one knew about it because it was it was
star studded stool stool pigeon.
Dunya
No, no, no. And then and then my, my, my creative partner
Katya, who I did the Addams Family reality show with and we
also did the Operation Iraqi sunrise. When we went to Iraq
with the radio show, she had put together a 35 minute video
because he had this so much video of me just throughout the
all the years. And it was I was looking at things like I there
was me with Steven Tyler and I couldn't I can't remember that.
I can't remember.
Yeah, remember, that proves you're 50
I think it'd be hanging out with you know, hanging out with
Steven Tyler. I'd remember. I can't remember this. It was it
was I'm looking at it. I can die now. It's fine. I'm not done
enough. Kill me.
I don't know if that should be the height of your life. But
that's okay.
That was the middle of the video. And then of course, we
had asked everybody please, no presents. And what? Well, it was
kind of I got to schlep this stuff back. So if you're going
to give me something you make ship it. So they gave me like
the book the picture book before they before they're gone. This
is a you've probably heard of this. This guy who weighs 20
pounds. It's guy who photographed all the tribes and
peoples around the earth who are dying out the beautiful book and
that's really an inappropriate gift to give someone who's
traveled Yeah, I would think and they said Ah, if you figured out
Craig the gift I like the most like Johnnie Walker platinum
stuff I can drink you know, that's that's great champagne,
lots of champagne. How's that Johnnie Walker platinum is any
good?
Johnnie Walker platinum is a new invention and I don't know that
it's available everywhere and I've never had it so me let's
take a look at it until you buy they're actually pretty honest
with their
with their because I know that McAllen we've learned McAllen
has stopped doing age there years on the bottle. They've now
gone to McAllen Amber.
Wow, that's not true. Here in the
Netherlands it is.
Well, it could be there. I mean, these guys are the target
market. Right? And
they no longer do MacAllan 12 which is about all we can
afford. And this Oh, we don't have 12 We have Amber's what?
Yeah, but it's like five and seven and I'll be I would say
Well, good. The amber, we haven't tried it. I'm not
interested and it's more expensive than the 12 I'm not
interested. Well, that's
your gimmick. That's how you do it. That's when you somebody
knows what they're doing when they pull that off.
I get one of those cool cameras the was it the Lytro? Or
do you gotta Lytro Yeah. Why are you laughing? It's a piece of
crap. Oh, come
on. That's a nice gadget gift. My lawyer my old lawyer came the
guy who I think he sued my dad once for me. This guy, I got to
like grow as a as a settlement. This guy has this guy has no
screw. He doesn't give a crap about anything. But I want
Mickey to meet all these people said there's only two people in
the world need to call if there's a problem. Here's what
here's guy number one. You call you call guys. Don't worry,
he'll take care of you. That was beautiful was a lot of fun. I
felt feel very loved and very taken care of. And it was great.
And I don't think I ever wants to do another birthday. It could
only ever the next board would do 6065 People want to be ugly.
If they're around, they'll be dead or cranky or
cranky.
Who needs it? Who needs it? Will Mickey's with her? 50
I'll do another one. She she'll she'll make you do one? We're
not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it. I do know I want to
change my hair a little bit. I saw some good looks in the past
a little shorter, a
little shorter. Well, the Platinum, from what I can tell
is just an 18 blended. It would be good. But it wouldn't be the
blue actually, you know, the thing is they
had it sounds really expensive. They don't
have like this. I'm on the walker site. And they must have
either taken. Yeah, no, it's not going to be cheap. But they must
have taken the green off the market. That's interesting.
Green I know, black. I know. Now that green was
a special like, they had their own. Johnnie Walker owns a bunch
of distilleries and all these different places to Lisker and
places like that. All these these single distilleries make
single malts right and Johnnie Walker owns emanate and they're
just a new wouldn't know but they there are a lot of them are
owned by them. And so they'll make the single malt and Johnnie
Walker makes these blended whiskies which means there's a
bunch of neutral spirits in there because it's for people
who think that single malt it's too strong. It tastes like Pete
like dirt. I can't drink this Pete and moss so those guys
don't drink the single most they drink the blended whiskies like
Johnnie Walker who anyway these these single malt places often
don't have the even I don't know they had leftover stuff and
barrels and Johnnie Walker used to collect all that stuff and
then put it in the bottle called Johnnie Walker green and it was
all just a mess of single malt It was delicious. It was just
but it was all these different ones there wasn't anything
distinctive about it in that regard. Well, but it was tasty
single malt that they produced and it was cheap. It was 15
years old.
I would just like to say to everyone who gave me alcohol
that is an appropriate gift for 50 Yeah
for you Sure.
You can drink it and then not have to carry it and I have to
buy suitcase I have to have a second suitcase to go back
either that I have to ship it but yeah, she has a problem is
the problem.
Alcohol overseas is impossible it's not the alcohol
this books a million shares expensive Yeah, that just gets
annoying. Anyway the big news over here and this was the there
was a number of things that were the talk of the party people
were of course talking we have to talk about Obama's speech
because this is a Euro land now Euro land is there are a couple
of things people are talking about and there's a lot of
things people are not talking about but when you get to a
party where you know people like I was going to the crazy
conspiracy theorists guy let's have some fun. Then you know the
people loosen up once you put some alcohol in them. But the
Fappening This is the they were talking a lot about the
happening here. As this happening Yes. The fattening
Okay, are you familiar with the foul bite the Fappening Oh, you
don't know about the Fappening I don't know about the Fappening
yes you do the fattening is this so called? Archive of stolen
iPhone cloud iCloud video photos. Oh yeah, of course of
the Celebrate right I have the
Definitive Collection of those pictures. Yes, of course. We
discussed it on DHL unplugged course you do. And I said I
don't care and so horrible. It's I don't know where he found them
all. And so he sent me if you don't have them?
I am I have them. Okay. What was interesting is I peruse through
the the American mainstream media. I don't think I believe
the the name Fappening I think that originated in the
Netherlands
is we don't use that term. I've
never heard it. That's exactly and it's being thrown about so
cavalierly. Like everyone should know what it is. And here in the
nether I think it was changed open to now, which is kind of a
very rude, jokey type site, you know, started a blog and you
know, the funny these guys are funny, they got some humor, but
always, you know, putting people downs the Dutch way. And
whenever they posted a picture of a hot chick, they would say
here's some fat material and fat is from the fat, fat, fat, fat
fat. The sound of masturbation is fapping it is well that's how
this word.
Originally, masturbation was the deal. It's like
I'm just telling you that this is funny when you
Fappening because people are masturbating to these pictures
photos. Yes. Well, they're pretty hard up. Let's put it
that way. You got the internet out there. Well, the whole thing
don't need pictures. Aim the selfies.
I I have to say a couple of things about this, though.
It's a little bigger than my ration. What if the doctor can
fix that and make my tits the same size?
I have to and this may be British as well. fap fapping. I
don't know. But I only know it from the Netherlands. But it
certainly is not an Americanism now and let's just get a couple
things straight. This is bullcrap a setup, this is not
like someone just stole all these last week. This has been
collected over months and maybe years. But now it's coming out.
And I have some ideas as to why
Okay, well, I did the person who was one of those stories. Oh,
okay. And fuss being made. Now I think mood to do. Let me tell
you that what's going on here? So you get it kind of please.
little understanding of what it is. And then what do we have as
you go to the talk shows and the pundits and all the rest of it.
They're all going on and on about how it's a felony it's
going to be or it shouldn't be or they're going to have to
change some law. Oh, yeah. People
have to go to jail. These horrible gruesome, eight holes,
these evil evil men who are doing this this is so horrible.
I cannot believe this was so sad for these women. This is what
I'm
reading a bunch of exhibition is women to begin with, or they
wouldn't have those pictures. What are they there for? Hey,
look at this. What's your take a naked picture of yourself kind
of like oh, let me see if my you know, this is by the way part of
your longer exposition on selfies. Yep. Which would
correct and is reiterated every so often by you. That is some
sort of screw Enos to it. And you'd have to say that why would
you take this picture? Do you always you have pictures on your
phone so you can show them to somebody send it to somebody
when they get when somebody gets a hold of your phone to you
know, kind of use your phone or can see your pictures? You take
control and you flip some flip flip. Oh, where are these
pictures come from? Oh, no, I didn't mean to show you those
is the basis is sound a lot like Freddie the fire? I don't know.
When to get high? Yeah. It's yeah, there's a bush bull crap
aspect to it.
So what's your thesis? Well, there's a couple of things. The
first thing, what blows me away, which I believe might have
something to do with it. And I'm just looking at some of the
articles. Okay, so here we have TechCrunch a letter to Jennifer
Lawrence. While it's not it, this is TechCrunch was not
exactly clear how your privacy was violated and your property
was stolen. There's apparently an underground ring of people
who spend their precious lives purposely perpetrating
perpetuating these kinds of actions collecting stolen
private images of both famous and non famous women to gawk at
in online backchannels. Quite frankly, this is terrifying.
Like, excuse me, excuse me. The government is looking at your
NIS naked pictures. It's they're even Cavalier by saying it was a
a, a police tool that the purpose. Here's the headline.
The police tool that the pervs use to steal nude pics from
Apple's iCloud. Let me tell you a couple things. Whoever been
out there and tech Silicon Valley land is pretending that
people give a crap about this. They don't care. These girls are
happy by the way. This is how you This is how you get a
frickin career. This is getting Kardashians back if you get
contracts you know you because they can't
you know you can't do it overtly, even though you'd like
to you're not going to go on Playboy because you're always
you actually lose money on that deal. And then you can't do a
sex tape unless you unless you really know how to do a sex tape
it's very hard again is not good for the mainstream actress like
a Jennifer Lawrence. So we never get to see her naked and she
won't do you know she does his body doubles in the movies and
the rest of it but and so you but this is an opportunity. She
gets a lot of free publicity.
But where are we is now called. Where is the outrage? About the
government spying on your stuff? No, no,
you're the TSA when they were doing they were Oh, hold on
pretty girl. Gotta go to the machine again.
No outrage. No, we don't care about that. This is we are in we
are now over the hump. This is just proof. It is proof that the
international health crisis is no longer fixable. You're sick.
You love it. You deserve it. Whatever you get. And you're
You're pathetic. You're absolutely pathetic. And the way
people are writing about who this is, they should get 10 with
a guy who got the Jennifer. Was it the Jennifer Lawrence? Let me
see Laura, is it. You get 10 years in jail? Scarlett
Johansson, that guy. Oh, Charlie, just Scarlet thing.
Yeah. 10 years in prison. Why? Because he violated the
computer's Secrecy Act or something. Am money. Yes. No,
no, the guy is going to jail for 10 years because he illegally
access the email,
realize that she should do Let's listen. should be ashamed of
herself.
Here it is. prosecutor said Cheney illegally accessed the
illegally access to email accounts, which is what the
Google does this except is not illegal because you give them
permission. He illegally access the email accounts of more than
50 people in the entertainment industry between November 2010
and October 2011. A by the way, the British press including
peers more on were hacking into people's voicemails. This guy's
gone to jail for 10 years, Christina Aguilera, whatever and
then Kunis Scarlett Johansson agreed to have their identities
made public with the hopes that the exposure about the case will
provide awareness about online intrusion. Hello. You're being
violated by your own government and these people their internet.
I am convinced it's done everything. It's more crackpot
than I could even imagine. That's a good point. It this is
this can't be real. This cue can't actually be sending these.
And just look at all the press John. It's like the outrage.
This is so on. This is so raw, so raw. How about the horrific
porn that these women are making? Hey, I'm all for it. I'm
Yeah, I'm a consumer. But really, you put it on your
phone, you took a picture of your coos open with some with a
butt plug. And, and the gun and someone else's gotta go to jail
for for essentially, excuse me for using the word a public
service to you as well. Lady with a butt plug. This is great.
This is fantastic. This is the essence of privacy of this
message is
very Orwellian. I hate to use the word but I'm going to Yeah,
well, it's a very Orwellian backward back thing kind of
thing, where it's just, it when you look at when you pull back
and look at it objectively, if you looked at it through the
lens of history, like from 100 years, you would you would see
how it's ludicrous and so low, you know, the way it's going, I
mean, you won't be able to even do that anymore, which is you
won't be able to objectively look at anything. I mean, we
had, you know, and I have sent a newsletter, we still get a lot
of we get a lot of
but let me I'm sorry. Let me just I want to make one other
point.
Well, I'm just gonna say that people make the point that we're
the only ones and before you make your point, we're the only
ones that actually go about making these points.
Essentially, we're the only one. And it makes no sense to me.
That's what it is. It's just baffling that why can we do
this? Why, you know, it's
just I'm what can we do? What What can we do? What how can we
discuss this,
like objectively with this thesis? It's easy. Follow her.
So if the rule is that we have to do it, and then I'll do it
and we follow
the rules, John, that's how that's how it's done. But if you
take a picture of your kid in the bathtub, right, and someone
seizes on your phone, you get a knock at the door from the child
protective services. You just take a picture of you with a
butt plug. Selfie. Oh, so sad. What where are we? What planted
that I just land on?
Yeah, we heard that story about the photographer who had all
these
Yeah, he took the pictures of his daughter and people daughter
and now it's a
it's a big two years old and she's just you know, acting like
a two year old
jumping around naked but he now he's made a big Expo and it's
beautiful. And he's and I like what he's done. But he's he's
framed the pictures and then some of the comments that people
put next to it. But this is this is how insane we are. We don't
care that the government or Google like it's any diff Like
there's not two sides of the same coin that they're reading
your mail and the scanning for for nudie pics of children okay
fine. Or whatever bomb terrorist threat ISIS will cut your head
off. But then when you post a picture you take a beautiful
shot of your child being a child, you are made out to be a
horrible Europe pornographer your child, you're you're
ruining this kid's life. But then you take a picture of your
coos with a bud plug. You're sad because your privacy has been
violated by these evil hackers. I'm sorry. Check yourselves
people. Get off Facebook. Stop all this crap. Stop it.
My conclusion here is gonna change. Don't get off Facebook,
because everyone's gonna get on Facebook. I am not on Facebook.
I
know. Which is why which is why I want to invite you on the 20th
of September because you're not on Facebook. There is a pod show
reunion. So CRISPR shears is putting it together in San
Francisco. I'm coming out and you're coming to your My date.
Do I have to wear a dress again?
Waiting to see the butt plug.
Who else is going to be there besides Chris?
It's good crew.
Okay, we'll see. Come on Butler's of Butler comes Yeah,
but
let's go of course, Butler's coming. Is free food. Of course
free food free drink. I don't think it's free, actually. But
now, I'm coming in for it. Because it seemed like the cool
people are doing it's a 10 year reunion. John, can you believe
it? 10 years, huh? Oh, good. It did. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. Well,
that's okay, though. It introduced me to you know, we
knew
each other before.
No, I would not have no, I would not have been in San Francisco.
And we would have not Well, yeah, we knew each other from
the CNET pilot a million years ago. But I don't remember
receiving a call from you until we met each other in the context
of me being out there with Poncho?
Yes, true. It's because, yes, I had to.
So I would say that this I had to, I had
to divert a basis for this was, since I did to have known you as
an acquaintance. The basis was that I had determined I just
decided, as a writer that I'm looking around, and this is, you
know, this, this gig is fine. But I can see the income I
expect a certain amount of money in my cash flow so I can pay the
bill and kids the college and stuff.
And I said you know I should. And Leo Of course, I was working
with him all
along. For many years. Alright, for many, many years. Yeah, for
many
years. And he had, you know, he was the first guy knew the star,
but he was blogging and now he's podcasting.
Oh, no. Net casting. Yeah, no, Kelsey,
so he's podcasting. And I'm thinking to myself, geez, I
shouldn't be podcasting. I need to learn about podcasting. But
I'm not going to just do it. And I think this is important. I've
always been the type that believes you really have to be
in the kind of in the business and kind of learn it the hard
way by being working, you know, professionally, so I went to
meet you to talk you end up putting me on hiring me, which I
managed to him was a scam. And so I got position. I stayed
there for you know, as long as they kept me but I learned from
the guy really, I know what to do. And you learn from the Pro
as well. And the funny thing is, is that who you go, you look
back on what you're doing. I mean, I don't you probably don't
feel as much. You have, you know, gear laden setup. But I
decided at some point that this really not that hard
to do this. Well, because you're a professional, you've done
radio.
It's funny because you go from not being able to do it and
being kind of flustered and you don't get anything. And then
once you get to the point where you know everything you know,
you look back and you go this dumb. What's dumb, the podcast
and it's like anything you can do it anyone could just do right
now, anybody out there could do it. But you can't do it because
there's a some well, you have to attend. I can't explain it. But
this happened to me as a writer. I when I was a professional
writer working for InfoWorld as the editor, right? It was the
copy editors that actually taught me to write
professionally.
Okay, but let's just let's just hold on a second. So I can write
but I have never made nor do I think I know how to make money
writing you. You've always you know, you basically been riding
my coattails on audio podcasting I mean you're really doing
nothing and you couldn't do it by yourself the video but what
what podcasts have you done by yourself?
I do the DHL plug show by yourself. Obama Yeah, didn't
check check five report. Yeah. Oh, wow.
Yeah, well, it's true. You made money off about eight minutes a
day. I made sure
she got your salary. Well, it's fine. I'm just telling you I
could do I could do a standalone podcast I want to true. I think
they're boring. Yes. I think people that just pick up their
pocket start yakking away blase. blase. blase. Yeah, I saw a
comic book there bought a comic book.
I read a comic book the other day
podcast and in the conversation about a comic book.
Now, yeah, I could do it.
Ya know, but making money is hard. I cannot I have never made
money with a solo podcast daily source code through through pod
show. But whenever I do that, in source code, no one sends me
money. Like, hey, I do another show. And I do a show and like,
thanks.
I don't know that. The single standalone guy yakking into the
microphone or into the camera. I know it's been a while using the
microphone off of logic. Tech cam, right. I don't know that
any of those guys make money. Although, it seems that some of
the women who do make up tips and things. Yeah, they don't
make money. They make YouTube
money. You gold internet money. Yeah. Right. It's doable. I
think you
can make money. I don't think I could because I don't think
anybody would want to watch me yakking away by myself. And I
think the only reason that this podcast works so well is because
it's a conversation that people were listening in on. No, no.
But I could do it.
That's not what it is. Do we are too talented mofos who are
really working? Oh, no, come on. I'm gonna say it. We make it
look easy. But we're we got talent. We know what we're doing
here. We have talent, we have history. We have you. Here we
go. I'm gonna say we have humor.
We do have humor, and we have the best
care what you say. And we have an opportunity to thank people
for their courage and say in the morning to you John C. Dvorak.
Well, that's interesting that you'd get to this a little
sooner than than normal because in the last couple of shows it
seemed as if that we were spending a lot of time talking
about actual stories, I'm not sure that people are going to I
want to
I wanted to break this before we get into some you come on the
line, I only turn 50 Once people enjoy this, they want to hear a
little bit of what I'm doing.
I think that's true. And now that the spreadsheets open
and by the way, I do have more information we talked about the
Fappening Come on, we talked about some real issues and I've
had more information from the intelligence network that we
have here in the Netherlands so we do have
let me say in the morning to you Adam curry in the morning all
the ships as he boots on the ground feeding the air subs in
the water and also the Dames and nights out there and
in the morning to all of our human resources in the chat room
really nice. Really nice chat room today. I don't know what it
is they're they're they're helpful today.
Now they know that you're older and married why powerful and
much
much more powerful and in the morning to our artists are
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this is very frameable
we have a number of people that thank as executive producers and
Associate Executive producers for show 649 The birthday show
y'all and let's start with another in a series a series of
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This is the third in a row. I think it's the fifth man.
Shannon JOHNNo are really helping us through the summer.
This is highly appreciated. Yes,
it's very appreciative in our favorite place in Australia,
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then he wants some general good luck karma for himself and
please keep up the great work.
And Shannon from Perth, Western Australia and do we don't have a
special night name and is it here's the question of horse.
Shannon. Male Shan is male. I sent him an email immediately.
Because you knew this would come up. Yeah, I didn't want to Dame
Shannon and here it comes. Ladies Gentlemen, please rise
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You've got karma. There you go. Wow. Nice. It felt good.
Definitely have a screwy one here from Sir Don Tomas de
Toronto
who has been reporting for several weeks in a row as a
member of the 649 club as a nice nice,
he says apologizing for the long note but consider this a public
service announcement. Parents Please watch your children. I'm
calling out my son Emilio, who is a frequent listener to the no
agenda show but has never donated as a douchebag.
Son he's calling his son out as a douchebag.
Yeah, I thought that was odd. It's hard if there wasn't now
now there's a problem here that we have to discuss. As if that
wasn't enough. He I took my eye off and for just a second. And
while I wasn't looking he succumb to the Ice Bucket
Challenge despite having heard your expert analysis on why this
was just a feel good scam, a
moral self license, right, which
is a little different. I explained the cold water was in
was in lieu of making a donation but he insisted I make a
donation to the ALS als society and then in his name
nonetheless, key way
to pay me back he made he made his dad make the donation. Yeah,
well hold on a second.
And therefore challenging him to pay me back the money he owes
me. And I will donate it all to the no agenda show to get him
started on the path to redemption and maybe knighthood.
Yes, I'm sure I'm not the only bad parent who let their child
get into this mess. And I encourage any other listener who
is expecting an ALS refund from their spawn to donate the full
amount of the best podcast in universe instead. I will not
take my eye off him again.
You're embarrassed mouth hitter from the North. Well, Sir Don
Tomas God, Toronto. Thank you very much. And it's nice to have
another club member 649 Or you will be an executive producer
and the sole member of the 649 Club. That's great. Thank you.
We really continue with Dame Joan daata Frey in Morgantown,
West Virginia, your old stomping grounds during the $33.33. I'd
like to wish her happy birthday to add him on his big five. Oh,
and also my son, Griffin, who is turning 16 On September 6. Ah.
And he she wants a little LG y right there. She says that.
Okay. Girl yay. Next little Adam and Mickey, how did you get your
Global Entry situation goes so smoothly after filling out for
applications online for the family paying down in 40 bucks
per application and receiving approval. Alex, both boys and I
did a day trip all the way to fricking DC for this bullshit
interview process three and a half hours one way the
interviews lasted 15 minutes total. We all got approved. But
the stupid cards have never worked for the preacher.
Oh, no. Oh, no, no, you don't use the card for the pre check.
You use your number and you enter that you have a number you
have a slave number. And I think it's on the card maybe and you
and when you book your tickets, you need to enter that number as
a trusted traveler, whatever. You have to enter that in.
Okay, should you have helped her enormously with this information
I get I'm guessing anyways, because she still complains
within the letter. It's important to me since we all fly
domestically and the trip to airport is easily an hour and a
half on a nervous wreck if I'm not at the airport at least two
hours before the flight deck and just never knows.
I see Dame Joanie being nervous like that. It makes a lot of
sense. Yeah, I got curity
lines. You never know how long the security lines gonna be.
Which is true. And there's no way of finding out by the way,
which is my pet peeve. But I have to say that the cards
worked beautifully for immigration coming back from
France. No lines at all. I wish there was a car for frequent pat
down flyers that I could flash so I wouldn't have to stand
there for 20 minutes which is as you were you you pre check the
airport has it not all airports have TSA Pre
true. But DC has got to have a DC must have it?
Well, she's not going to I don't think she's flying out of DC
because she says she's from Morgantown, right? Yeah, but
Morgan towns where she's going because the DC is three and a
half hours away. She's driving an hour and a half so it's
someplace closer. Anyway, apparently I know I have to go
to the facts section of the H S A Global Entry website to try
and straighten out the pre check issue. But Adam strange
Therefore you should needs a shot at karma and also she needs
a de douching because I feel dirty for not donating for a
while and I would like an Al Sharpton resist we much and
Glenn Greenwald done by Adam live okay and the karma I have
jingles but one for Adam and Griffin's birthday I can't take
the karma at later during the group jingle so she needs
a God got the LG why but she needs a resist we much followed
by a live Gregory rara and then a Karma anything else? Am I
missing anything? Do I have it all now?
Okay. All right. I'm looking I'm looking to see if there's
anything else you want. douching
Oh, de douching Of course we'll start with that. You've been
deep deuced resist. We must. We must. And we will much about
that. Be committed.
You've got karma. All right. Damn, Joanie. You just take your
number your approval number that you got the email from is
actually that you use that number I'm pretty sure it's on
the card as well. And you enter that in the when you book your
tickets you can book and there's a it's either says trusted
traveler or good slave rule follower citizen some field like
that. And then it will say I think I've seen this field yeah
and then then you get your pre check on your ticket then you
know you're good to go.
And somewhere around that area put your birthday Yeah, yeah,
it's right now you have all that crap on the stupid
I can actually I can take a look upside on this now I can't take
a look sorry. Wrong Yeah, she'll
find it now that she knows to look for it
she can email me if she's having issues with this as a service we
provide to our knights so you can
see actually what she should do is not email you because she's
probably flying on US Airways or some crap and so she should just
call the airline and and demand they tell her where to put his
number. That's what I would do. So James Pires in Parts Unknown,
sent 333 33 with a small note he says complimented me for the
newsletter and said he enjoyed the newsletter. Please forward
but the best birthday wishes to Adam you two are the best and
that is Sir wire of the hidden jewel. So put that sir wet wire
of the hidden jewel. Gavin bowed. It'd be Associate
Executive Producer for show 649 to $50.33 from Sydney,
Australia. Good day gents. It was Adams impersonation of the
Aussie Prime Minister by did I think Vegemite relief to
Mohammed and my laugh out loud moment at work that made me
realize why need to donate it was soon joined the illustrious
ranks of the no agenda nights but until then, please de douche
me. And can I also have a bingo boom Music Mix Yeah, and some
suasana nuth wasn't this karma with Yeah. Please keep up the
amazing work it was awesome and not weird at all. Yes.
Funny how many people come up to me and say wow, this is not
weird that you're so awesome to see and you're amazing way
people do this to make sure you've been de deuced bingo boom
you've got karma. Hello.
And that concludes Oh, we only have one is the breakfast kind
of still be one to remind people we do have a show coming up
shortly. I think it's on Sunday.
Another one where I will be coming to you from get my nation
low lands. May I remind you that no matter the last one from
there, right, the last one from here. But no matter where we are
in the world, either of us or both of us sometimes different.
We always always bring you the show. And I believe that we
still bring you the same quality and maybe even better with some
extra international flair. Some you know some information from
local information which I have for travel tips, Travel Tips.
Yes, indeed. And this is this I believe this makes us the best
podcast in the universe.
I think that the next next week's Thursday show where
you'll be back in Austin, Texas. Yes, you will have some
interesting information about using all these Yes, my global
entry for Global Entry coming back in the United States should
be just as smooth as silk.
org slash a we also need you to continue to go out there and do
very important work of propagating our formula. Our
formula is this. We go out we get people in the mouth
a chat room If you want to talk about Chromebooks, eff off
Chromebooks, people just it's a whole conversation about
Chromebooks. Chromebooks are the biggest scam ever.
Well, that's the conversation now. Oh, things from the local
information intelligence network that needs to be at least
highlighted. So not disgust. One. Scotland. I've had Scotland
Scotland had a couple of Brits at the party. Oh, yeah, they
love the Scots, my gangster friend. By the way, my gangster
friend Michel. He says a bit you, Kip. He's all in. This is a
guy. He runs strip joints and stuff. And he's like, she says
UK IP is going to be they will be in the next coalition.
There'll be no way around them. He said this is this is the he
feels the whole country is going completely to crap.
I said this years ago, and I remember when we first started
talking about Nigel Farraj. And we had weed,
but we still get people saying it racist. Okay, fine. Yeah,
you're
full of crap. That guy's a loser. There's no chance that
he's ever going to go anywhere. And I'll tell you why. And then
they'd have their opinion. And they would send us these long
winded notes. And it was like, well, so you sound like you know
what you're talking about. But apparently, looking back on it.
You didn't know what you were talking about.
Exactly. Now we have the vote coming up on September 18. They
are in the so called quiet period. This is a very noisy
ATM. That was the eighth? No, I believe was the 18th. Would you
check that for? I will I believe it's the 18th
I thought it was okay. Scottish referendum date to maybe
the eighth now let's check. But they have a quiet period in the
UK whenever there's a vote or I guess a referendum as well.
They're not allowed to the debates are over. There's no
more politicking. Yeah, I'm getting the word now. You got
it, right. Yes, yes. 18. No more politicking. And of course, I
needed to get the scoop. And this is one of my one of my
friends who is the Royalist as well, you know, do you remember
we were in France, he has a house there. Then he went to the
prince kid was born. And they were all googoo gaga watching
the door for hours were to open and here's the kid. You, he
says. And he's he really approach this from a historical
perspective. He said, You know, this is this is the Braveheart
moment for the Scots. They have been trying to do this
independence thing for 400 years. And he says, I think
there will be a yes, vote separate by 2%. At which point,
there will be a do over which is traditional, and then it will be
a no vote. But he believes the first vote will be yes, by a
margin of 2%. It'll be too close. But Volga we like Ireland
with the with the Lisbon Treaty. And it will be a do over and
probably that point that everyone will go back and it'll
be no but he said he was at the Scots at this point. His feeling
is they really, they said they might as they've been trying
this for so long. And they have that Braveheart kind of vibe.
And they don't give a crap about if they use the pound the euro,
the wampum they just want to see if they just want to do it, then
they have this opportunity. And he really believes that they are
going to get the yes but of course it is that we are in a
globalist society that will get turned back and it'd be some
hanging chat crap or whatever. Then everyone will get scared
and it'll well you're already
this couple of shows ago which is
why it's said it's why it's so well he gave me 2% Which I
thought was a good a good percent you give me a real
percentage. He said we'll be that close. But I like hearing
from the from the public Attarian the thing that's what
it's called. When you run a pub, or you run a public aquarium,
no, it wasn't it's cola. It's public Attarian public kinda.
It's part of public Aryan.
publican. No, it doesn't sound publicat you have to live your
Republican
Pelican I don't know what he is.
Yeah, no, I think that would be a possibility that they would
just barely pass it and have second thoughts and right go
back and, and also when you do the RE, the redo it makes people
go, Oh, this sucks. We're never going to do so just not vote.
And I think the voting numbers go way down and they get good.
Yes gets through or the no gets through. Because it's rigged.
Of course it's rigged.
I hope they do split off and I would hope that doesn't happen
and they actually split off. Like to see what comes of it.
It would be well it would be fantastic. like to watch and
we've had it's good we need we need to material now Willow was
in from Italy and she's really really running a very
interesting life right now she Italy so actually Italy is
really ahead of the game because they don't trust you know that
you can't walk around Chip and PIN. You got to use cash in
Italy the people don't trust it they don't trust the government.
Of course with good reason. They barely have internet in most
places. So there's no there's not a lot not everyone has a
smartphone they still have to have a phone they've smoke
signals. So they're very very wary very tinfoil Hattie. But
the the big problem that is every single day you don't hear
about this in Europe. You don't hear about it in America. It's
not it's it is the most I believe the most underreported
news every single day. And when you in Italy of course, it is
the news and mainly newspapers. 1000s she says 1000s of people
arrive from Libya and North Africa by boat to Lampedusa the
island and she says it is out of control. Other countries like
Malta are just saying no, go away. Don't come Don't Don't
come here and the challenge is we can't lose people and they're
dying. They're drowning. You know they're not making it like
oh, I can see the coast of Lampedusa which is the island
off there, Italy and the capsized die that huge boat
sometimes also rubber dinghies 1000s per day and this island
which used to be a tourist destination is filled with dying
filthy disease ridden people who have nowhere to go and then
Italy they they want to go to the Holland and France and
Britain and but of course they can't they have no papers they
can it is a humanitarian crisis which is not being discussed at
all which by the way thank you Obama for bombing Libya
it gets shot good work it gets discussed when when a when one
of the boat Oh boats overturns in all you know 500 People are
killed that dude has been discussed. Yeah. But the day
after day thing that's going on that you just described is no
it's not being discussed housing
she says 1000s
Why would we bother discussing that? Well, you make there's
after all, there's ISIS Wow. He says we need a jingle or
something for ISIS. I didn't say this
at the at the party. Of course as it just happened. We just had
the second video. The second beheading video, which of course
we have in the show notes. We have the original video which
was found by sight we have discussed these people before.
Si t this is the this is the bowl crap outfit that finds
videos these are the guys that found the didn't they find the
bin Laden homeless I have it here. They found this is the
inside of the SITE Intelligence Group, nonprofit research
organization. They found the bin Laden just for men, men for
beards video 2007. And I have a couple of a little bit of
background on this outfit. But of course when you say to
someone did you see the video? Oh, no, no, no I don't I don't
want to see that gore. I said did you see the first one No,
no, no, I'm the took his head off didn't know and then I read
this this is an interesting article that came out just to
show you this is comes back to the the how everything is all in
cahoots. This is from I think the Australian tech giants used
Foley experience to halt spread of the salt Sokoloff video. tech
giants. Let me quote from this, a tech companies drafted plans
to scrub the web after a grisly video showing the beheading of
an American journalist by Islamic State militants and
implemented them this week after his second killing a Silicon
Valley insider said video showing the death of James Foley
last month ricocheted through social networks it would many
feared was a propaganda coup for the extremists. The tech
official said a YouTube video showing another beheading of
American journalist Steven Sotloff was deleted, slowing the
spread of posts linking to it. According to terms of service
for many social media companies. The posting of threats and
gratuitously violent content is cause for suspension. The
official who spoke only on condition of anonymity because
companies are grappling with increasing pressure to impose
more said censorship on the web would not say whether the
developments came at the request of governments or ordinary
users. This is it is so genius, what is taking place? And I
hope, I hope when we're long gone, someone has at least typed
this up on some paper somewhere. So can read a transcript of our
show. And maybe there's I don't know. So I hope there's some
evidence of this. I mean, I put this the original mp4 video on
our server, so you can download it and take a look at it if you
want. What you should do. This is the biggest bunch of crap.
This is so lame. Can you imagine when a guy is going to be
beheaded that the evil Islamic State extremists took the time
to dress his lav microphone cable and put it under his shirt
this time? I thought that was that was. That was a nice touch.
But what I did notice I was watching the beginning of this
where they had that little moment of a close up.
Can we play the audio? I'd like to play the audio but go ahead.
But yeah, but let me just say please, please, please. I,
having been to the NAB a number of times, and I'm always just
certain that you have certain hobby, like the kind of interest
and one of them is his lighting and green screens. Yes. And this
is guy from he was a consultant it gets one of the top green
screen guys, and he was bitching and moaning about some of the
mildest little gaffes. Of that people would do his I don't know
how they can even get away with and not get fired. And they look
fine to me. But then I started to fine tune him and that is a
green screen that needs to be left behind. So there's no
desert behind them. And then to make matters worse, I believe
because of the consistency there was a big fan blowing Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. No, I'm totally certain kind
of wind and if it's normal winds gusts you'd be there and above
all of a sudden you're windy and and it's not a steady
wind if you think there'll be some sand kicking up or
something like that. And there's
those writings that because it was pretty windy they had this
fantasy aimed right at these two guys on a green screen. And it's
again we've we have in bed I think you know you've linked to
any there's not but we have real ISIS beheadings, you couldn't
you couldn't find the ground they got the flags, they got a
bunch of ISIS stuff going on. It's not some lone guy,
a big knife and they cut it from the back with their right hand
not a little blue pencil knife with the with the leftist.
phony and the mainstream is maybe picking up because they
keep saying if you know they keep doing a size like well, if
true, alleges they usually allegedly if true. If it's
legitimate, John, John,
John F that the President legitimizes it. The President is
legitimizing this. Are you kidding me?
This is this is an embarrassment to the country. The prayers
the President of the United States legitimizing this.
Finally,
I want to say that today the prayers of the American people
are with the family of a devoted and courageous journalist,
Steven Sotloff. Overnight, our government determined that
tragically, Stephen was taken from us in a horrific act of
violence. We cannot even begin to imagine the agony that
everyone who loves Stephen is feeling right now. Especially
his mother, his father, and his younger sister. So today our
country grieves with them. Like Jim Foley before him, Steve's
life stood in sharp contrast to those who've murdered him so
brutally. They make the absurd claim that they kill in the name
of religion, but it was Steven. His friends say who deeply loved
the Islamic world. This killers tried to claim that they defend
the oppressed, but it was Stephen, who travelled across
the Middle East, risking his life to tell the story of Muslim
men and women demanding justice and dignity. Whatever these
murderers think they'll cheat by killing innocent Americans like
Steven. They have already failed. They failed because like
people around the world Americans are repulsed by their
barbarism. We will not be intimidated. They're horrific,
acts only united country and stiffen our resolve the United
States, these tariffs and those who make the mistake of harming
Americans will learn that we will not forget, and that our
reach is long and that justice will be served.
So that was 101 minute and 40 seconds about a journalist and I
never heard the President say, I'd like to think about the
mother and the father and the family of Sergeant Christopher
W. Malala 26 of Yreka. California died in Gardez,
Afghanistan that result Have a non combat related incident.
Sergeant First Class Matthew Leggett 39 of Ruskin, Florida,
died in Kabul Afghanistan of injuries received when he was
engaged by the enemy. Sergeant First Class Samuel Hairston. 35
of houston texas died in gozney. Afghanistan injury sustained
when His unit was an enemy small arms fire. I hate this president
for this, that's what I hate him for. I really despise him for
doing this.
I just go back to this other thing with these two
journalists. What do you think happened to these guys? Well, I
think that they were when they know they're just a couple of
possibilities one day we're embedded intelligence officers
and this was an extraction
I have a picture from one of our producers who's in Syria at
dated just last week of Sotloff manning a big a big anti
aircraft gun on the back of what looks like an ISIS vehicle I
think this guy but first of all let's make no mistake United
States I have Intel United States military personnel
trained these guys generals were in on this this is this is no
this I'm not lying this is not this is knowledge people know
this the and I think this guy is that he's either part of
intelligence or I don't think he's dead. Did you see the the
head on the at the end with one eye close and one eye open? Are
you kidding me? I TM dot I am slash new head everybody if you
want to see the mp4 ITM dot I am slash new head. And let me play
the audio of of a man who is about to have his head chopped
off, we already know that he has seen his predecessors had not
get chopped off. And I love the sound effects they got now the
end this is called the second message in blood, some bull crap
like that. Then now I've got the the flashing television screen
effect that anonymous used by the way.
I am Stephen Joel Sotloff. I'm sure you know exactly who I am
by now. And why I am appearing before you.
So how's the microphone? It's a lav microphone. And it is he's
they've dressed the cable underneath because we managed to
make it look good. And he's reading the cue card.
And now, this time from my message. Obama, your foreign
policy of intervention in Iraq was supposed to be for the
Preservation of American lives and interests. So why is it that
I'm having to pay the price of your interference with my life?
Am I not an American citizen? You've spent billions of US
taxpayers dollars, and we've lost 1000s of our troops in our
previous fighting against the Islamic State. So where's the
American people's interests in reigniting this war? From what
little I know about foreign policy, I remember a time when
you could not win an election without promising to bring our
troops back home from Iraq and Afghanistan. And to close down
Guantanamo. And why
continue to put a little foam thing on the lab? Expand
little bit of it. Yeah, yeah, the fan is blowing.
Who you are now Obama nearing the end of your term. And having
achieved none of the above
and whoever whoever wrote this first of all, bad acting bad
writing screenplay. Crap technical awards. Zero
is evenly marching us. The American people
have been costume, the orange jumpsuit. Really, this is how
you What are we supposed to really know think this prisoner
because it's like a Guantanamo Bay. We
have. We have. We have watched a lot of ISIS videos. And we've
seen a lot of stuff from ISIS ever an orange outfit, right? We
have never seen the color orange in any situation to a blazing
fire.
I'm Barack Obama, and I'm back
because of you are going from by the way, now they've switched
this is the love is no longer on the prisoner. Now the love is on
the man in black. So this would stop Hold on a second. We're
gonna switch that mic
and push it towards this now because of your sisters and
continuing your bunks and animalism rather than the most
of them, despite our serious warnings you, Obama have yet to
gain for your actions to get another and they're consistent.
So just as your muscles continue to strike our people, our knife
will continue to strike the necks of your people.
I got to ask you a question, John. This this is their this is
significantly different in that the script is Obama Obama, Obama
Obama. This is this is Something we cannot overlook. This is not
just we hate the West. We hate America. This is very specific
saying Obama. I feel different.
I didn't pick up on that but you're right instead of debt to
Americans debt to Obama kind of thing. This admission about him,
but only about him. You're in your last year of your term.
Obama, Obama Obama. Wind and now he's cutting his head I'm sorry.
I'm sorry for all the screens and all the blood spurting oh
wait, there's none of that. All right. It's a cut, cut, cut,
cut, cut, no blood spirit. Nothing and then we we see the
guy lay in there with a photoshopped head in a picture
for three seconds. And then let's get the British guy now we
have a Brit because we have to scare everybody. So now we have
the British prisoner. And we're gonna hold them up and all
right,
we take this opportunity to warn those guns have entered this
evil alliance of America against Islamic State to back off and
leave our people alone.
And there's like some direction there at the end. Did you hear
that? It's kind of hard to hear but it's like someone's saying
and cut. I can't listen again
yeah, there was some mumbling going on now. I don't think it
was and it's a wrap.
That's a wrap. That's a wrap everybody
get that guy but hey, get up
let's go let's look at this site intelligence outfit. Alright,
what's the URL? Missy so they sell access to their
intelligence on si te group? I guess it is let me say that site
Intel group.com everybody they have so if you look at it for
individual customers, you can you can subscribe to the
jihadist threat monitoring service, or the white
supremacist threat monitoring service. People and SITE
Intelligence Group is pleased to announce the launch of insight
on terrorism and extremism a blog devoted to covering
analyzing and commenting on extremism monitoring service for
enterprise let's go live a full trip rapid full translation to
primary source jihadist media and access to jihadist videos
two and a half $1,000 per month if you want to get their
intelligence so here's what's rather interesting about the
SITE Intelligence Group and this I need to give some props to
Brian the the gay Crusader who apparently has no gay work at
all
what does that mean?
Well, he's always he's not working on LGBTQ IAP issues
anymore. He's just working on who is right Well, I think if
ISIS had any brains at kill some gay people how many times I have
to say
you know they your suggestions fall on deaf ears, but it's
a good idea. Well, it is a good idea is a an interesting
connection the current address. Also the past address of site si
te the site Intel group was 4200 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest
Washington DC. The current address is 4938 Hampton lane,
Bethesda, Maryland, which is a strip mall both locations is a
UPS Store, formerly mailboxes, etc. So that's a mailbox, peel
blast, or it's a drop. However, in looking into the tenants of
4200, Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, I stumbled onto other
tenants. The United States Department of State's telephone
directory of chancelleries, and you'll never guess who also
operates at that address for 200. Wisconsin Avenue Northwest.
The State of Qatar.
Oh, cutter. Yep, yep, yep. Yep.
Isn't it interesting that the woman, the woman and co founder
of this outfit, who found the bin Laden beards video in 2007,
at the same time, had offices in the same building as the State
of Qatar. The if you if you don't understand that this is an
intelligence problem, a psychological intelligence
operation, then please. Tom Clancy novel A couple of years
ago came out. Eric Rosenbaum writes us a novel executive
order. It's always fun to see what Clancy's doing the last
month and news about ISIS has a familiar storyline. So I dove
back into the boxes with old books and I found the executive
order Clancy novel in this novel, there's a merge of
countries Iran Iraq, and it's called U IR, the Islamic the
United Islamic Republic. The U IR makes a bid for superpower
status by attacking Saudi Arabia following a series of Iranian
backed terrorist attacks including the release of an
Ebola strain. The United Islamic Republic declares war on both
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Meanwhile, China accidentally
shoots down and Taiwanese airliner that klancy Man, guys
good. Guy is currency. That guy is good to kill that guy. He's
good man. You just got to appreciate what he's doing. What
he was doing is dead. I have friends, I'm watching a lot of
BBC over here. And what we don't know if we mentioned on the
show, we were talking about another country that needs some
taken down. You went to a country that was
besides Saudi Arabia. Yeah, I can't remember India. Oh, yeah.
No, India. Yeah, no, we have to infect them with Ebola.
I think it's because I'll kind as leader I'm an al Zawahiri
says that there is now an Indian branch of his group, he says it
will raise the flag of jihad across South Asia. And the video
segments over here, he said that the new force would break down
national borders, to unite the regions, Muslims from India, to
Myanmar and Bangladesh.
There's a new branch of al Qaeda, a new branch opening a
new branch in
problem. This is a problem. Because yeah, there's a lot. I
don't think it's I think there's a problem. I think somebody's
not as I think somebody's making an error here. They think that
the the Islamic population of India, which is huge, it's
higher, I think there are more Muslims in India than there are
in Pakistan. And the reason that they're in India is because they
don't like all that crap that goes on in Pakistan, which is
Sharia law, and you can't do this, you can't do that. So
they're very adamant. They're not radical liable. So this
would whatever we witness would probably be a real pile of bold
crowd. Oh, yeah.
What's coming? It's coming. Well, I
think there's other ways to go.
And, of course, the everywhere we have reports that ISIS and
the Islamic terrorist groups are operating on the Mexican border,
this is a thought mistake I want to give to people. So the
country is being partially terrorized by saying that ISIS
is in Mexico, they're on the border and they're coming to
kill you. You've heard this John it's hilarious that let me tell
you something about the Mexican border. I can't speak for
Arizona. But if there's if you went into any even if you went
into Austin, and you said Yeah, have you heard about the ISIS
coming in to the border through Texas to come and kill you? I
get here's here's what you're gonna get. Bring it on mofo. We
are locked and loaded and armed and dangerous. And this is what
we've been awaiting for. We got tired of shooting cans like
Mexicans, Puerto Ricans? No, we want some ISIS meat. Bring it
on. This is what you'll get people forget Texas. This is
what we're this is what Texas bred. We're ready for this. We
want it please come with your with your black outfit and your
white Nikes and your Toyota. Come on. We'll ran right over
you. People that ever think about Texas as a state that has
fought and fought and fought and knows how to and we got oops,
yeah, we got 50 calibers here. We're no joke. We're not a joke.
Well, there's because there's no ice is coming in from
the ball. It's so easy, but even to write that is ludicrous. Well
to
do even suggested that ISIS is a threat to the United States is
ludicrous. I don't care even if they were if they've threatening
us. I don't even know. I don't know. That's even true. It's
bull crap. They got no air force. They got no navy. They
got no way of getting over here. What are you talking about? They
got 100 Americans with passports that will come over here and do
what
John? What are you? How can you say that? You surely you know
Bob barrel it's this is from Sunday show. ISIS is much bigger
than the 10 to 15,000 people we keep hearing they are being
supported by the tribes in eastern Syria by the tribes in
Anbar Province, not all of them by some of them. And by the
Sunni middle class in this we're seeing a Sunni uprising. And
they may not share the ideology with ISIS, but they're going to
use them until they don't need them anymore. And additionally,
they've seized gold. They've got the oil fields around Dara Zoar.
They've got wheat production. They there's control large part
of the Tigris River, electricity generation refined refineries
and I go on and on. So they are self sustaining
fineries they got everything to
staining. Can I play you this clip? This is Douglas Herbert
who was until this moment was my favorite for foreign
correspondent and France van cat. And he was the one covering
and Goddess gave us the heads up on Crimea as we've been saying,
Let me sorry sorry so what I did when we got too big he has now
been taken off now he's been Paris again he's been taken off
the beat and put in the office and he's now has a script to
read which he can't do very well and he's mumbling and and now
and so I clipped this first part is pretty straight then I
stopped listening and just started putting in every time he
said basically and he is now he doesn't know what to say it's
bull crap and he's just stumbling around with whatever
this script is about ISIS being this big thread and its energy
becomes a mishmash
another man another good man down
another good man down exactly even saying all wrong this is a
group that is wrong by the way stop. He says as we've been
saying all a wrong a wrong
is he robbed the grand jury while door don't rob
Oh, he's I think this is just the throughout this thing. I
don't have all of the gaps, but he keeps making these little
gaps that are trying to undermine what he's trying what
they want him to
say. But he says all wrong. Yes. He
says all the wrong I listened to him, like two or three times.
All wrong.
That's pretty bad. John, when you say are wrong. Listen to all
a wrong Don Ross, we've
been saying all wrong. That's great. Don't put off.
By the way, I had coffee with someone the other day, a woman
and she says she she hates our show doesn't hate our show. But
she really hates it when we make fun of how people talk. And
yeah, that's what I said. Why? Well, you should make fun of all
people talk. Why? What's wrong with that? It shows it tells a
lot about who they are and what's going on with their life.
It's communication, it's word is very important to listen to what
people are saying. That's the
she's, she hasn't been. She hasn't been as young.
She's young, she's young, she's she's awake, but she's young, as
we've been
saying all wrong. This is a group that is even extreme by al
Qaeda standards. Al Qaeda almost comes out looking moderate,
right, which isn't right you know, the International has
really denounced what it sees when it looks at this group as a
systematic campaign. He uses the word systematic campaign of
ethnic cleansing carried out and these are amnesties words on a
historic scale by ISIS. We have basically wave after boys anyone
basically over the age of 20 Basically a campaign to Dr. non
Muslim what's happening basically you have Islamic State
and what they are is basically at the root of it is they are
slavishly devoted that's the only way that was basically the
law of the land under the yeah listen you know us there are
analysts who will tell you is basically saying they want to
build regional alliances so basically they're trying to get
up they obviously it was of the matter is many Muslims there
people who say you have to
Yes, it does not deserve clip with today because it's you
know, it's manufactured
must say oh well by the way Yes,
I said I said oh wow again Yeah, yeah, crap basically anyway
there you
have it he's basically talking about basically basically which
which means God was at its launch all an indicator This is
bullcrap. It's a lot of things it's a lie when you when you go
off like that it's a lie.
I'm sorry it's just a lie. The truth of the matter is God said
that one too. I heard that truth. I'm concerned about the
oh wow thing
you should be Yeah, but it's not it's very subtle, but I am not
concerned I'm putting my pet peeves Thank you for calling I
have I have a new intention yet I
have a new sounding device that I'll pull out maybe later and
I'm still all
for the shocking each other I think that's I liked this
shocking thing. That would stop me from saying what is my
getting remember that would stop me in my tracks. Oh my Yeah, my
comment and when I say weird, okay,
I wrote this down and we need to talk about this now. It is very
important for the future of this program. And for you when it
comes down to it, but I think I can say that when it comes down
to it.
That's that's a new one. When it comes down to
it when it comes down to brass tacks.
Have you ever had a brass tack?
I've sat on one I'm sure BUTCHER So and put one on my chair once
when I was a kid, a brass tack. September 10 is an interesting
day. And this is the throttle the net day.
Ah, okay. Yes, we do have to talk about this. I forgot to put
it on my list of things to talk about. This
is why the biggest crock
ever battle for the net.com then then you'll see yes, I'm reading
about September 10. Is the internet slow down. Cable
companies want to slow down and break your favorite sites. or
profit. To fight back. Let's cover the web with symbolic
loading icons. To remind everyone what an internet
without net neutrality would look like. And drive record
numbers of emails and calls to lawmakers. Are you in?
No. The other
side of this there are two sides. So this is the this is I
believe funded by Comcast. I'm pretty sure even though they say
Comcast is bad, I believe they're funded by Comcast
because Comcast Time Warner as they emerge, they're the ones
that benefit from being institutionalized as a commodity
and regulated and regulated because then
there might be by an FCC they own Yes.
Now the other side of that it was very poor marketing.
Let's put make this clear, they will own the FCC, they will make
it so the FCC rules against all the little guys every chance it
gets. This is the biggest scam. I can't imagine people falling
for this and let's
listen to you. And let's look at the companies that are in on
this. Now, let me see there was this, this and they have all
these these loading. So this is a fight for the future.org we've
been following these guys for a while. And the see if I can find
it here. When you see all the organizations that are a part of
this bull crap. And by the way, it's been it's been a very, very
good campaign. People have taken it there's hook, line, and
sinker, they're all line and sinker. They're all lived and
remember that we have read to you every single every time
we've looked at this as the mayor's for net neutrality and
everyone's all in on this to protect internet freedom. This
will beget legal content legal network traffic I repeat legal
law for I'm sorry, lawful content and lawful network
traffic. This is what this is what this is about. This is the
true regulation. And as you know, hate speech is now illegal
in Europe the hate speech it is not
law when you while you're here now in Europe you're getting
called out for you for making funny voices, which is will be a
version of hate hate speech speech.
Yes, because I am mocking for us to do our skits. Yes, I will be
ridiculing unless we can get categorized as a comedy podcast
maybe we'll get lucky maybe but they're not gonna go for that
helped me with this John battle for the net. I just want to see
who is part of this.
I see that Frank Boeing is all in on this and of all people
carry Dr. Rowe or Cory
Well, he's just stance I have to think that he's just misguided.
He certainly has no technical knowledge if he believes that
let's just take it back one second. What it used to be was
fast lanes. Why do you want someone else to have a fast
lane? And now they've taken if they take it and said Oh no,
it's going to be slow you worry you're gonna get a slow stuff.
I know they changed it
very slick but they have done a very good
well I think the fast lane thing wasn't catching on enough in
sub now they just need to call it the slow thing
or they would actually did catch on well, because I remember the
twit people constantly talking about fast lanes as long as I
don't want to deal with fast lanes and slow days. I think
maybe what it is is that it jumped the shark it was so
successful.
Let me give you the companies and organizations who are in on
this companies. These are companies who are for net
neutrality. They may have good intentions, they may but this
particular group this battle for the net.com who are funded
through five different hops of organizations is almost
untraceable where the money's coming from. These are the
companies who are going to eventually leave you with only
lawful content and lawful network traffic abacus automatic
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you? John Perry Barlow? Do you read my friend? Do you ever look
at what these people are talking about? Do you understand the
concept of lawful content? John Perry Barlow? Do you understand
the concept of lawful network traffic? You're promoting this
fight for the future which is the same outfit by the way. Free
Press Action Fund the same outfit Greenpeace Yay moveon.org
has National Hispanic Media Coalition a ASO visa open mic
Open Technology Institute Hello George Soros New America
Foundation popular resistance public knowledge and voices for
the internet freedom. Let's look at some people that people here
see if we can find any people we know. Brian Manning No, we don't
know him doing any of these people. On this people page? I'd
like to call someone out by name. Anybody?
Nobody would put her name as a whole but
Doug Applegate. Do we know him now? Eli? I don't know any of
these people. Are you looking at this? This? Uh, no,
I can't get to this page. I don't know what page you're
looking at. I'm looking at home and if I started searching too
hard because they got this page bridgehouse There you go. Jeff
Bridges, Jeff Bridges. What does he know about anything?
Jeff Bridges on here and let's see what else we have. Drawn
blanks and all of these people who are these people. Kevin,
just Kevin, doesn't it just Kevin? Thanks, Kevin. There's
this people who signed me they have an open sign up or
something? I don't know. But I am very disappointed in the
Electronic Frontier Foundation. They should really know better.
Now there's a counter side to this and the counter side is
tech freedom. This and now. These guys they've come up with
don't break the.net More morons. Today tech freedom officially
launched don't break the dotnet a grassroots petition campaign
bull crap paid for by Google. Urging the FCC not to impose
1930 style utility regulation on the internet, subjecting
broadband to title two of the 1996 Telecom Act would trigger
endless litigation, crippling investment, slow broadband
deployment and upgrades and thus harm underserved communities.
They're also not this is Bert Baron Ahsoka, who got into big
fight on This Week in law with that other than that other guy
from from the verge, you know, I'm
talking about Yeah, it never saw it. I never saw it that we
played
bid on the show. Yeah. So they're also not being truthful,
because they're just, they're just paid for by, you know, this
big foundation that Google puts money into it. So it's really,
it's really disgusting to see this. And then just the rule
following morons who were all in on this with just read, read the
read the proposed rules. And tell me if you really want
anyone to determine what lawful content is for you that you can
receive on your internet. And then if you in good conscience
can still put a slow down the net logo and link and spam the
FCC. That's what this is about. It's about the comments to the
FCC. But I'm afraid my friends, this is a done deal. It's fixed.
We're, we're out
good. No, we're screwed. And of course, Tumblr will be really
screwed. They're idiots.
This is This is sad.
Well, here's what I've been list, obviously. You know, I
think we're like the only two guys and maybe Andrew.
Do you think? Do you think the timing of the Fappening has
anything to do with this? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think so too.
Good. One good one, just the I just thought about it. Besides
the two of us in our Loski, and maybe a few others that are
either sis admins that know what they're talking about, or deep
network analysis.
Many network admin knows this is bullcrap. To start with, but
they're not. They don't have
much of a voice. But when you hear it being argued on one of
the shows, like any one of the twit broadcasts where they
discuss this and you bring up the lawful content thing, they
it's whoever it is, it doesn't have to be any buddy in
particular, because everybody's all in on this. They all lament
that. Yeah, yeah, I know. It's it's disconcerting. It says that
but net neutrality is so important because of And then
they have their rationale, which is that you know, all bits
should be equal and I should get here's the one thing I think I
would like to get into this debate again, because this is
what I'm throwing at people now.
Listen, I'm talking about Listen up, listen up people.
I want you to be the promoting this. Can I be an all in guy?
You do all in all bits. All packets are equal. Okay, but
what
is my position in life? What am I doing? Bro,
you're up. You're a just a douchebag we're going to come to
you really don't have much technical expertise.
Well, come on. Come on. I gotta be. So you gotta give me a CEO
of a bolt company that makes bolts. Yes. Okay. Thank you. And
you've heard it, but you keep up with the tech broadcast. And you
are going to argue that all packets have to be equal. I
can't
wait. I can't wait. By the way. My name is Ben. I run the Acme
bolt company. Yes, Ben. I'm so looking forward right to the
iPhone six is going to be so awesome. Right.
Let's get back on track here talking about net neutral. Yes.
Hello. Yeah. So
your net neutrality. Oh, wow. Do we need this? I am so sick and
tired of companies just getting the fast lane into stuff.
Please. I am trying to sell bolts here. Just because some
guy who has Hollywood movies and has more money. Now my website's
going to slow down.
So you think that you think that? What what is your
position? I
can see you I'm the CEO of this company. What
are your position on net neutrality? Are you talking
about packets being equal? You think everybody's five minutes?
The essence of Excuse me, excuse me, Mr. Dvorak, the essence of
the internet was that everything is equal. All that doesn't
matter what you're doing, where you're coming from, this is how
it was set up. This is what Tim Berners Lee, who I have met at a
mixer, Tim Berners. Lee meant this to be all things equal. And
may I point out to Mr. DeVore, and Mr. Smarty Pants, you are
wrong about the mouse.
Now, let's take this net neutrality thing and look at
these packets being equal process. So you're telling me
that for example, if you didn't know this, could you like
YouTube, you'd like? Netflix? Well, yeah, most systems, except
Comcast, I might add, but in most systems, they use what's
called a Google global cache. And that is installed at the
ISPs on the head office right there. Boom, right. But the
meeting
on the second cashmatch All I know is, we need to have our
YouTube videos with our expert explanatory video showing how
the bolts go on to the into the nuts, we need them to be equal
equal, I say to Netflix, and why does Netflix get some kind of
better deal than we do? Because I have money just because we can
afford it. I feel this is these are human rights.
Lex has a has a device and a network appliance that they give
to fruit free to all the ISPs to put in the office right by the
servers, hook right to the line. So when you make a request for a
Netflix movie, it doesn't actually go to netflix, it goes
right off the off the tears 100 terabytes that are sitting
there, and you get it fed directly. So what So in terms of
listen, I stopped you, you've already made a fool of yourself.
I'm been the bulk guy, and I cannot afford to have some kind
of device. I'm selling bolts here. I urge people to access my
website quickly.
I know. You're not gonna even let me do my argument. Ben, I'm
listening. Here's the problem with packets being equal, if you
want to watch a movie from Vudu and you want to watch a movie
from Netflix, and this is not part of the deal that they did
with Comcast, because it Comcast would not put these devices in.
But if you have any other ISP, Netflix will have one of these
devices because they're free, they give them to them free.
It's got 100 terabyte drives and network appliance that sits
right there, right there on the line. So when you request a
movie from Netflix, it comes directly off this box straight
to you. There's no packets coming from Netflix. If you ask
for a movie from Vudu, the ISP has to go to Vudu and ask for
the movie and move all the data to all the way to themselves.
And then to you. This is not an equal packet situation. There's
no chance that packets are going to be equal if you have Netflix
throwing these devices out there by the 1000s. And the same with
the Google global cache. And aka my has these things everybody
uses these things are used all over the place and they're
selectively chosen by the various ISPs that this what are
you going to get rid of all these things? Which would just
that would slow down the internet.
Can I make Can I respond? No as Ben, go ahead. I you are making
my point for me. We cannot afford to put free boxes with We
need these boxes need to go out. Net Neutrality is about not
letting anyone have any kind of advantage because we can't
afford boxes. So this should be illegal, there should be no
boxes from Netflix free or not because we can't afford it, they
can't afford it at
all would have to be the argument you'd have to take. And
this is what we'll do John boxes. In other words, your your
YouTubes are going to come through slow, instead of fast,
everything is going to slow down. Because you're going to
get rid of these boxes, these boxes are a way of speeding
things up. But if you looked at him objectively, I don't think
I've talked to a bunch of guys about this. Do you look at him
objectively, this is not packet equality. Nobody talks about
these boxes. No.
So the only problem with your argument, which I think needs a
little refining, is that it is on deaf ears. These people who
are they're thinking, black people, white people, they're
not thinking, actual technology. They're thinking American
Indians getting shafted. They're thinking they're absurd. It's
like black people, white people, this is how they think of
packet. This is the general in America, the population has been
trained to think in these terms. So the you have two options, you
can three options. The way I see it, you can try your argument,
which of course is correct. I mean, I was just being an idiot,
which you're going to run into the second one as you can say.
If you vote for net neutrality, puppies will die in my work. Or
douchebag. Nothing else is going to work, John, they don't care,
they will not understand it. The Internet is a magic box. It's a
little fan thingy at the top of their screen, which has like a
little reception thing. People have no idea where it comes
from. And as you pointed out the stutely all of the revolution
comes down to Netflix and Facebook. And for however long
we can do this show until we are taken off the air and or
physically put into jail.
Well, there's that. Now, do we have a clip of the guy who
invented the idea of net neutrality reneging on the way
it's being handled? Um, the guy says bullcrap what these people
are talking about this, you know, it's got nothing to do
with anything. This is a scam. And I unfortunately I say that
about too many things. And so I'm just like the guy who cries
Yeah, the scam guy on the scam guy as a scam. It is a scam.
It's a scam to control and regulate the internet because
the FCC, at the end of the day know they look down the road,
the broadcasting businesses what they regulate. That's what they
regulate, they regulate regulate the airwaves to make sure people
don't bump into each other to make sure there's not a bunch of
interference between one frequency and another to make
sure that the content that the public can freely download for
download can freely receive from broadcast stations is not
corrupted or, or communist propaganda or people cussing a
lot like you get on the internet. Oops. They are going
to they see down the road they say this is a dead end job. What
else can we regulate? They tried to regulate cable they've been
pushing and pushing and pushing to get the cable get to regulate
cable because it gives them a lot of good stuff to do. They
get the crackdown on, on people cussing mostly and maybe showing
a tit heaven forbid they can get in there and do that. Well they
they've been unsuccessful, but they see this internet thing as
a great possibility. This will give them lifetime employment
and they can write regulations and keep people off the air and
look out for Communist propaganda keep the beheadings
off the air do what it but promote the anti Putin movement?
They can get rid of podcasts make you get a license, you're
gonna get to get a license. Oh, yeah, this is a setup. Yeah. If
people do not see this, well, you will you get to luckily you
can say Well, I tell you so some years from now.
Well, so what yeah. Now that I think about it, it makes total
sense even the way that's being written by the Silicon Valley
Tech press, who are usually ready to vilify anybody
particularly TechCrunch or or alter cruncher on crunch or
whatever, whatever crunch Captain Crunch and it's also sad
the privacy she put a build on her but it's on the internet. So
sad for this is perfect because that will be deemed unlawful
content. It is of course obtained illegally and unlawful.
And this is an important we know that lots of people are doing
that. This is not just actors and actresses doing this
obviously this has got to be some phenomenon that we are not
privy to and not a part of. So this is why people are
responding so heavily to it and this will be deemed illegal not
so much that it's illegal for you to do it but people who
expose this and make this available they will be it will
be shut down and people will be happy happy to vote for this
while yes we can't have that we can't have our book but plug
photos exposed. No. And John The good news about all this when it
when it comes around and when the regulations are in place and
tumblers gone. And you can't listen to this show. You know
what you will have redeemed yourself for the mouse business
my friend
I'm gonna show my son moved by Jody to no agenda Imagine all
the people who could do that and oh yeah, that'd be fun
well, you know we have a birthday thing going on for
today's show. So we have like 100 people that was really
booked and we're gonna have to mention every one of them not a
lot on
not 100 people right 100 People
now over 100 No.
Oh, it's not 100 birthday
boy. This is a big deal your 50th birthday and so they people
wanted to chime in on it um, so let's start doing a deal there's
gonna be a longer segment than usual and we'll go over time a
little bit at the end of the shows as we get into some other
topics that are
this will also be illegal with net neutrality you're limited
you too many packets that no agenda show we have to limit
your packets it's not just the priority
to too long you ever got to hold by law you can only by law no
more than two hours of packets All right, so let's start with
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Therefore we read the noble entry Happy birthday this was on
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And since he is a baron a big big time Baron we have to obey
his requests Hell yeah. So he won't say
what he wants. Let's say he wants a ding ding ding book of
knowledge. What does he want? He just wants some things okay.
I gave him twice good. Anyway, he's wishing you happy birthday
from San Jose thank you sir brand brand in Fenton in
Colorado Springs 106 $100.66. This is the equivalent of two
donations. So he wants to thank us for providing the best
podcast in the universe. Hi, wishing you Happy Birthday along
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that has 100 and he says great time to celebrate your birthday
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month so here's a birthday donation without the need for
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It was already made. That wasn't me. It wasn't me. It was me.
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together. The next 50 Your Baron
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antika, 1010 B and IBM er, and yep. You know, there's a note
you have a note
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that the other computer? This funny I got a so there were some
of our friends from Austin. Yeah, like really really hot
women.
hot women from Austin Daya from the
spin class like hot women. That's why you go and of course
who sent me an email that wishing me happy birthday and
here's here's my here's my reply dear Karen, thank you so much it
really appreciate you wishing me happy birthday unfortunately the
naked picture attachment didn't seem to come through please
resend you put that the Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. And I told Nikki
and she said I gotta get anything loser
from indica all the small contribution to outstanding Show
podcast product whatever you want to call it not advertising
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them both. And it was some job karma to infer friends Todd and
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karma. That's nice. Okay. Ken is gross and Felton Pennsylvania
5055 Thomas brecel in Reno, he gives a happy birthday and
jumped the line by coming in at 5051 ties for smart now we have
all the people that now I'm going to name them the town and
name if they came in with and there's a long list $50.33 Which
is what we requested this is the official birthday happy birthday
Adam donation yet being 50 years old. 50 years jumping the shark
old never again it's not being middle aged. By the ways that
means it assumes you go to gonna go to 100 So I am
I'm this is just an audition I'm planning on going to 100 and
it'd be really crazy. Well
yeah, well, you might make 100 But it's gonna be as a head in
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up the street for me. Scott Thompson, North Tonawanda New
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longtime Boehner by the way millennial college student here
wishing Happy Birthday. For all the hard work and
you say something? Yes, I feel loved.
Why I feel loved. Yeah, you should feel loved. Nicholas or a
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know they're the theory. There they are. Wishing you a happy
birthday, Scott. Walter hair in Rhinelander. Wisconsin. Michelle
graph in San Francisco over here. Hey, Michelle. Scott,
ready?
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Michael, you said Robert Wood. I say Robert, you said Robert, I
heard you say Robert that's why it caught my my eye like no,
this can't be Robert.
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Appleton, Wisconsin. We get a lot of Wisconsin listeners I
like that. Tyler ogles be in West Columbia, Texas lot of
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Vienna. But what is this BSC thing at the beginning of think
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Anybody Jeff mins? He knows it's pronounced San Josie All right.
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Texas, Stephen Schwartz in Schertz, Texas. And finally,
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Monica, if I'm not mistaken, I believe in Drayton Valley,
Alberta, Canada, where all the money is. Oh, he
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Wow. Well, well thank you all very much. I am humbled by your
coming out to play
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speech listen, I'm just finished off Thank you, sir. The 50s
anymore Elizabeth Bora, Zan and Tucson Arizona. She also these
are all happy birthdays too, but they're just different amounts
or they're all 50 These are all from now on. It's $50 and then
we're done. I'm a little emotional Johnson and Lydiard
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Texas. Calum Dugan and parts unknown $50 Greg Brunson I
believe maybe it's Sir Sir Greg. No, this is this is Greg sir.
Greg. Yeah, I believe so.
Craig Dennison in Omaha. Remark Tanner, in Whittier, California,
sir Brett Farrell in Oklahoma City. And last but not least
Jason deluzy CEO in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. I do have a note
from Craig Dennison, who actually said a very pretty card
to you. The calico cat of no I could say rainbow cat with a
horn coming out at the top of his head. And it's a very nice
your hand. Very nice. The little card do and it's all printed
custom small donation for Adam's big day. I'm hoping for a
birthday shout out on nine seven. Thank you, sir Nussbaum
for the birthday donation on episode 546. And I hope your day
is great. Craig from Omaha. So I'll send you this card is very,
very pleasant. Well, I'll pick it up on the 20th. In the
newsletter, I mentioned that if anyone has wants to send you a
card, they post office box will be available for some cards,
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we mentioned people and we will take the time out to mention
them and read their notes we read all the notes I mean, we
don't read them out loud that we read all of them of course. And
you know we aren't just you we're not like PBS they don't
care given given money. Here's the as a tote bag
shut up, and a tote bag get out. Thanks totebag Stan the
Ukrainian just to show you that we read all the notes. It is
pain, but even more and more painful listening to your pro
Russian show. Our T has really brainwashed you Ukraine country
I understand and love the country speaking at it is TV
Russian Ukrainian Romanian Hungarian experiencing war
attack from a country where only Russian language is allowed on
TV. Only pro Putin speeches allowed Russian army invaded to
democratic European Ukraine killing my ex compatriots
humiliating publicly captured Ukrainian soldiers. Publishing
YouTube how paratroopers from Russia St. Petersburg post on
dead bodies of Ukrainian militaries. And you blind
brainwashed can only see how Ukraine is doing wrong. Enough
for today. Putin is a Nazi and a murderer or stop Putin from
Stannis. Love the Ukrainian. Okay. And he lives in Canada,
by the way. Oh, that guy. They get the Canadian guy. Yeah, it's
not a Ukrainian over there. Don't have any buddy over there.
Just wanted to point out that we really are not brainwashed. We
really it's not like we're sucking Putin. We'll just cheat
that much. No, no, it's especially not since they took
all the hot chicks are quitting. That's no good. However,
President Obama and I have a couple of clips to play here.
I've done some work on this. So so at the party. This was a big
topic of conversation. Because he had just come out our
President Barack Obama had come out and said he had this big
speech in Estonia. And the there's a number of things that
he was talking about. I'll play it a little bit out of order.
This is what people at the party we're talking about remember,
they're in Europe. And they're and people understand the not
all but I'd say most people, they look at the map where
they've traveled, maybe they've driven a few 100 kilometers.
They know where Estonia is, or Latvia or a couple of these
other Baltic states. They know where Ukraine is. They were
Poland is where Germany is. I mean, they've learned this in
their, in their high school, the grade school, they've learned
this. So when you hear this,
the new initiative I proposed in Warsaw this spring include
several elements, and we're working with Congress to get it
done. Here in the Baltics, it would mean positioning more
American equipment. So it's ready if needed, it would mean
more training, and exercises between our militaries. And it
would mean more US forces, including American boots on the
ground, continuously rotating through Estonia, Latvia, and
Lithuania.
Let me tell you, this was concerning to some of my guests.
It'd be concerning to me. Yes. American boots on the ground.
When you say boots on the ground. That's that's not just
we're rotating people in we have our NATO forces know, this
sounds very aggressive. And I, I personally apologize. I do not
feel it appropriate for my president, to speak that way to
you. Europeans. At the BBC is all I've been watching a lot of
BBC,
NATO is expected to agree plans to create a rapid reaction force
5000 troops will be ready to deploy to Eastern Europe.
Now. This is interesting, the rapid fourth.
I have the same report. But that's from the fan cat and it's
4000 troops 1000 troops.
Let me let me let me play your I have your report here. May I
play this out of sequence.
Peon members against possible Russian aggression comprised of
some 4000 troops that can deploy with just 48 hours notice.
It's to be fair, she said some could it could have been 3000
could have been five 5000. She said some to deploy within 48
hours. Let's play the British force last hour. Okay, she's got
that let's go back to the French.
It would be supported by logistics and equipment
positioned close to Russia's borders. It's also spending at
least $1.7 billion.
So hold on. Hello. Hey, John, what do we still manufacturing
some of that war stuff? I hear this a money out there that we
can sell into. Yep.
Force intended to make NATO's commitment to collective defense
more credible and enhance its deterrence.
Back to the British BBC new
unmanned spy planes or drones.
As we look at a digital age where the warfighter realizes
both in his civilian life and in his duty life, the importance of
Information Technology, he treats the computer as part of
his weapon cash. Yeah,
I also treat the computer as part of my weapons cache that he
uses to employ against the enemy. From a
remote Weejun airbase Anita has been carrying out its biggest
test yet. Its ability to gather and share intelligence. And this
is the nerve center where they're getting fed all that
information from satellites. I said, Fine planes or drones or
listening things.
This sounds like a big Bonanza if you're in the business of
selling some kind of military equipment or cyber craft
from the ground. It's the kind of intelligence Sally needs to
track, for example, Russian military movements
or Russian military movements. We must track them is that in
your French report to
prove the troops had marked departure from efforts to find a
diplomatic solution with Russia's Vladimir Putin? Yes,
yes, yes, yes, yes.
On the border with Ukraine, or to try to spot those missing
schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria?
Hold on a second. You've mixed metaphors. I know this is very
confusing, but we're not gonna this NATO doesn't go look for
Nigerian school girls. That was someone I don't know. That was
just a throwaway line.
Something cut and paste issue somebody's face. It was a
mistake and cranes
Petro Poroshenko. negotiations to end the crisis of so far
is the friendship. fruitless, fruitless.
The challenge is how to share all this information, especially
when it involves different nations operating different
systems. Oh, yes,
they have windows and we have OSX Android versus iPhone. It
just won't match.
This trial aims to break down the digital divide the digital I
say put it in
the cloud. The third mess meme cloud missing girls we got the
digital divide
and and the cloud technology to speak the same language
the technology must speak the same language John, quote
languages do we have? We have node we have? What else do we
node? We have JSON. No community we can all speak the same
language. How about the frogs put
In a sense is cornered at this point because domestically he
cannot accept a defeat in Ukraine maybe it has to speak
Russian so the only solution as I see it really is diplomatic
however faint the hope for it is
Who is this man go away we need more war materials.
When a NATO operation kicks off you don't know who's gonna show
up. You don't know what nations are going to be available. What
what is it? It's just like a general call it
shows up. Anybody available showed up man? Anybody
available? Hey, John. Hey John, man. Hey, well, you got me but
I'm in bed. Hey, man, wake up. When you gotta Nate. We need
5000 men for NATO man we got yet but tomorrow, what's the rush we
got I don't know, man, like who wouldn't put it in the paper
that is 48 hours.
48 hours, I've gone back to bed. Alright, see, you don't know
what capabilities they're gonna bring. And so the idea is to
have a common set of procedures, a common set of processes, and
then train all the individuals who are going to potentially
Wait a minute, you're telling me NATO, which has been around
since the 50s or 80s. They haven't trained. We haven't we
don't have a set of common procedures. This is a rip off
man ribbon ribbon. So bringing those BBC
the only build is the new procedures the rubberized
procedures aren't in plaster,
you make a point holes.
So when they show up, regardless of what nation they're from,
they can perform those roles the same.
Oh, nice jet fly by
the military believe all this intelligence will make targeting
more accurate and limit collateral damage limit or crap,
I'm sorry, will only kill half your family
that ultimately it's still about directing the use of lethal
force, from land to sea to a digital age. They'll still be
using bombs and bullets,
bombs and bullets. I tell you. I just had to Okay, now let's go
to the present. This was I feel a very important speech. It
really tipped the scales. And the now I want to revisit for a
moment that the what happened in Ukraine. The basic facts. There
was an EU agreement, which was rescinded the Government of
Ukraine was elected democratically there were many
monitors there. Everyone agreed it was all good. It was safe was
good to go. But then they rejected with a big debt to
Russia, the European friendship agreement, which is like oh,
it's like a trading friendship rings. And that was not okay.
And then we had Victoria Nuland and her husband Robert Kagan and
and the Kagan's and McCain and everybody's over there with a
bunch of known known Neo Nazis. I'm not making this up. And then
it got really hot and heavy and people were getting shut the the
the SWAT team of Ukraine were getting shot picked off shot in
the head by sharpshooters. Oh, did you remember Catherine
Ashton, the High Representative known chin monster thing? Whoa,
whoa, did it really short? I had no idea that Trump should or
this is what we should investigate that. Then we had
Victoria Nuland, who said we're going to put these guys in yas
get him in fact, the EU. I'm not gonna play the jingle.
So now we have that is a good summary
summary. Right? And then and then Poroshenko? The I'm sorry,
the the president. He is He ran away because they were trying to
kill him.
Right. And then
they freed the Princess Leia is house. Okay, so here is the
President was about half hour long. He's in Estonia, on his
way to speaking or being a part of the big NATO gathering in
Wales. And here he is speaking about Ukraine.
the Baltics have made our alliance stronger. And your
progress reflects a larger truth
with the Baltics, but I think he's gonna have it labeled as
Ukraine so it should be coming
because of the work of generations, because we stood
together in a great alliance, because people across this
continent have forged a European Union dedicated to cooperation
and peace. We've made historic progress towards the vision we
share a Europe that is whole and free. And at peace
here we go. A Europe that is whole is free. And at peace. I'd
need to point out for time I have removed every pause this
this guy puts in his speech.
Oh, well, I'm having to go through that. That takes hours.
I spent I spent a lot A lot of time on this, this guy is
turned into the worst public speaker.
Well, he's adding all this emphasis. And he's at this big
hall, there's always elite sitting there as a lot of
applause. But I removed as much of the pauses, which sometimes
are three seconds in length like this one. But this is important,
cuz he's talking about the free and open and blah, blah, you're
that his whole, whole free and at peace. And yet, as we gather
here today, we know that this vision is threatened, threatened
by Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
Okay, now, this is heavy talk that I think I feel this to be
very heavy.
It is a brazen assault on the territorial integrity of
Ukraine, a sovereign and independent European nation,
which doesn't mean they're member of the EU. But it's
tricky language, it challenges
that most basic of principles of our international system,
ah, the most basic of principles of our international system,
please pay attention to what the President of the United States
is saying here that borders cannot be redrawn
at the barrel of a gun, unless you're in Iraq, that nations
have the right to determine their own future unless you're
in Iraq. It undermines an international order where the
rights of peoples and nations are upheld, and can't simply be
taken away by brute force
unless you're in Iraq, and Japan and South Sudan and North Korea
and Afghanistan. Yeah, we got a couple of minutes at
stake in Ukraine. This is why we stand with the people of Ukraine
today. Yes.
We stand, we stand. Stand. We stand with them. Good. Now,
let's talk about some facts. This is where history is
rewritten. before your very eyes, and I get bile in my
throat. From hearing these these. It's like
let's put to rest once and for all. The distortions are
outdated thinking outdated thinking, Oh,
I like the way he does. This is good. Is the word distortion and
outdated. And now David, thank you. So any so anything he says
here is both?
Yes. outdated and distorted, but it was caused. Think about it.
Now. This is good. No, it's good. The guy is good. He's
reading. But he's good
thinking that has caused this crisis. Our NATO Alliance is not
aimed against any other nation. Oh, no. We're an alliance of
democracies dedicated to our own collective defense. The protests
in Ukraine on the main end, were not led by Neo Nazis or
fascists. Oh,
I'm sorry. I must have my information wrong.
They were led by ordinary Ukrainians, women, young and old
men and
women, grandmothers, no one no sharpshooters nowhere no, no.
Who are fed up with a corrupt regime? Oh, yes. They were fed
up with the corrupt regime. I'm sorry, a democratically elected
regime, or parliament and President with international
monitors is just not a regime. This is very, very, very, very
sad that that this hopeful president we put so much hope in
it has resorted to
this. You're just an A Russian apologist.
And well, there's that
and who wanted to share in the progress and prosperity that
they see in the rest of Europe without paying their bill. And
they did not engage in an arm seizure of power. Oh, after an
agreement was brokered for constitutional reform, the
former president then abandoned his office because he was going
to be
killed indicate the right we're gonna kill the run for it. I'm
gonna kill it.
And Parliament endorsed new elections,
which we kind of pushed up to the forefront there with
Victoria Nuland and with John McCain taking pictures with them
and exactly what they said when they head of the CIA roaming
around the area when there's that
so that today Ukrainians have a new democratically elected
president. Yes,
new democratically elected president. So more facts for you
from our president
and the Russian forces that have now moved into Ukraine are not
on a humanitarian or peacekeeping mission.
No, new they're not trying to help anybody. I think they're up
to no good no good, John, what do you think?
Oh, yeah, definitely, definitely. Oh, good.
There are Russian combat forces with Russian weapons in Russian
tanks.
Unlike ISIS with American weapons and American tanks, and
Toyota is built in America. These are the facts. Thank you
very much.
Bear approvable
provable with the EU with a YouTube video their approval. We
have it on social media. It's proof
they're not subject to dispute.
Uh huh. not subject to dispute. Do you do Few you want to
dispute this Mr. de vorak? No, not anymore, right. Okay, now
right on,
let us understand what is going to happen why this is taking
place, we have these three Baltic states, if you look at
them, we have Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, I think the three
Baltic states, right, you need to look at the map, people get
your map and look at this. And you'll see that the this is a
very important we are now surrounding Russia the way we
always wanted to. And this, of course, these are NATO members.
They're full on NATO members. So therefore, Article Five, if you
attack one, you attack all and let's just make sure everybody
hears this, do not drive one. Lada automobile into any of
these Baltic states or you have attacked, and it will give us
license to take our boots on the ground and counter attack.
And I say to the people, that Estonia and the people of the
Baltics today, we are bound by our treaty alliances, we have a
solemn duty to each other. Article Five, is crystal clear.
An attack on one is an attack on all. So if in such a moment you
ever ask again, who will come to help? You'll know the answer.
The NATO Alliance, including the Armed Forces of the United
States of America, right here, present now.
Oh, yeah, right here right now. We will come to your aid
America, America, America coming to you. Coming to you hear and
now now and hear here now. And then he wraps it up. With just a
beautiful piece of work, we
must acknowledge the inherent dignity and human rights of
every person. Because our democracies cannot truly
succeed. Until we root out bias and prejudice, both from our
institutions and from our hearts. We have to uphold a free
press and freedom of speech. Because in the end, lies and
misinformation are no match for the truth. We have to embrace
open and inclusive societies because our countries are more
successful and more prosperous. When we welcome the talents of
our people, including minorities. That's part of the
work that we must do. That's the example we must liberate
contradiction, drift back to this world, and you will.
Look, I was I was hung over but
yeah, you're almost there with that one. Not as good as the
other one, but it's I see what you spent your time on. Let's
listen to jack up Jack Matlock for a second. Which one, the one
that says sums up Ukraine situation. This guy was the
former ambassador to this from the United States of the Soviet
Union. He's written a bunch of books on this. He is completely
against all this crap. And he summarizes I've got two clips
from him. There's three there, but one of them is just an
archive. But the two clips are very good. One is the jack
Matlock sums up Ukraine and the other one is What does Russia
want? You can probably run him back to back.
Joining us now is Jack Matlock served as US Ambassador to the
former says
Democracy Now by the way, which I love. It's your beat. It's
your
budget and democracy now is I have just recently has really
corrupted itself and I've got a clip of it kind of proves it. Do
I don't like the show at all
you want to do Matt? Matt. Let's do Matt Matlock first and then
we'll do one then we'll bring down that
luck and then what Russia wants, then we'll bring
down Amy Goodman.
Joining us now is Jack Matlock served as US Ambassador to the
former Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991, author of several books,
including superpower illusions, how myths and false ideologies
lead America astray and how to return to reality, as well as
Reagan and Gorbachev how the Cold War ended. Ambassador
Matlock, we welcome you to Democracy Now. What do you think
is most important to understand what's happening in Ukraine
today?
Well, I think one of the most important things to understand
is that practically speaking, the Ukrainians and the Russians
have to agree on what would be an acceptable way to proceed
within Ukraine. That is the fact of the matter and one can, you
know, no one wishes about how impermissible it is for Russia
to intervene. But the fact is, they are going to intervene
until they are certain that there is no prospect of Ukraine
becoming a member of NATO.
Now, that makes sense.
And when she kind of reiterates this, if he repeats himself in a
different kind of a way. And this is the What does Russia
want? Question? I'm sorry, I had the wrong clip. The
Ukrainian leader,
what does Russia want? Ambassador? Malla?
There you go. I'm sorry. What does Russia want? What does
Russia want? Yes, they want a Ukraine that is not a threat to
them, a friend of Ukraine. That's what they want. And the
people who seize power in Kyiv in February are openly and
vehemently anti Russian. Now, they may have a good reason for
that. But that view is not shared by the people in the East
who don't necessarily want to be part of Russia. But they also
don't want a country which deprives them of free contact
with Russia. And this is an essence a family fight. That's
something we have to understand we outsiders. Ukraine is a very
complex country, which has been put together rather artificially
To be frank, and without any real consultation of Ukrainians
as to where the borders were, and so on. And to treat it as if
it's some primordial unit. Unified State is simply
incorrect. Huh?
Yeah, he's right. Historically speaking, this man is absolutely
correct.
Yes. And Obama is wrong. And this whole thing is bullcrap.
And they're setting us up. And this is obviously just another
ploy to sell more arms and crap. And it's going to end the
Russians aren't going to put up with
its I think it's worse than that. And I'm just going to go
back to the simple fact that she said
and here is this is the real bottom line. What's going on
here that some people see people who have run businesses, but the
citizenry is not being told this. They do not see it. And
President Obama did talk about this in his speech and make no
mistake, Russia is paying a price. Really, Capital is
fleeing. Foreign investment is plummeting. Because investors
know that today's Russia is a bad bet. Oh, yeah. Given its
behavior. Yep. The Russian economy has slipped into
recession. Its energy production, which is the engine
of the Russian economy is pumping better than ever is
expected to drop expected its credit rating is near junk
status. Who gives a crap so as ours, the robot just fell to an
all time low? Should Russia's actions in Ukraine are weakening
Russia? Oh, yeah. Russia's actions are hurting the Russian
people. Yes. And it doesn't have to be this way.
The actions are hurting the European people, people of
Europe, you have new representation. You've got the
crazy two sky you've got the crazy Italian chick you've got
and then they apparently by hook line and sinker the entire media
scenario. You've played the American playbook and they're
why you're sitting there and drunker come up to you and give
you American memes. Yeah. Which I find to be fascinating.
I am going to tell you right now that I am so far out there that
I even see a PhD. I'm thinking Putin is in on it. This is all
about f the EU. And it was not beyond the realm of globalist
thinking that Russia at the elements from Russia, who
happened to be in that region, and elements from the from the
Atlanticist are both working to f the EU if you don't think that
it wouldn't be advantageous to both Russia and the United
States to screw the euro. You're crazy. And what is happening
right now as you are we're going into winter, you're going to
have been paying very high energy prices. All of your dairy
products are for Bolton, your financial products are for
Bolton, Europe is on the brink of a huge disaster. And guess
what we're going and John, you've said it, we're going to
make you kill each other. We're gonna do, we're gonna do the
same old trick. And you get mad at the French or the Walloons,
or the Belgians or whatever you're gonna have, you're gonna
get angry with each other, and Russia and America are gonna be
laughing at you. And it's sad and despicable what's going on.
But if you can't see this, if you can't read your history
books, and see, then you get what you deserve. Or you deserve
what you get. Or both. Yeah, do you I mean, John, I'm seeing
this here. I'm really seeing it and no one people aren't even
talking. Oh, we can't do oh no, we can't really blame Russia yet
because you know the results of the black box aren't in our
prime minister told us to really really slow down and wait until
we have all the results. If this is going to take years you're
never going to get results. You are being fooled people who've
been fooled. I feel bad but it's okay. All right. Now that I'm
done with it, I've said it I've said it I've said I've said I'm
fine. Okay, well I'm glad you're you're over there watching take
this take democracy done Democracy Now down formula
they may do a couple of Democracy Now down things first,
I start start with the bull crap report on the Ukraine, which is
this one and she say the Ukraine
or just Ukraine? I said the Ukraine
I don't know if they do Democracy Now. bullcrapping for
now tell you you have to imagine this is going to be this is I'll
tell you what you're going to what you're seeing after you
play the clip clip that short because I don't want the whole
report. I just want to make a point.
Okay, I'm 87 to 91 only Sivan. Talk about the situation on the
ground right now and describe the map of Ukraine for us where
the crisis is? Well, it
was Luhansk is a city that has been under siege by the
Ukrainian army for for several weeks now. It's held by the
separatist forces. So it is a place that's difficult to get
into all communications are cut. And so we know less about what's
going on in Luhansk than in other places. And that's part of
the reason why we felt that it was so difficult. It's so
important to get there. And the interesting thing was
they wanted to say was that when it ends with him saying that
this is the last part again versus it was so difficult, it
says different. This is important. He fumbles he says
the truth here and I'm gonna tell you why.
Okay, almost say I just made a play it over. I just want to
might as well play it in context. 87
to 91 only Sivan talk about the situation on the ground right
now and describe the math of Ukraine for us.
Okay, so I want to make sure it was listening, right? It's, it's
easy to know, you gotta get the whole thing in context. ispod
describe the map of Ukraine for where the
crisis is?
Well, it was Luhansk is a city that has been under siege by the
Ukrainian army for several weeks now. It's held by the separatist
forces. So it is a place that's difficult to get into all
communications are cut. And so we know less about what's going
on in Luhansk than in other places. And that's part of the
reason why we felt that it was so difficult. It's so important.
Interesting thing.
Good. Now, let's good one. Yeah, the reason that's interesting is
because this guy is if you look behind him on this visual on the
visual, what do you do? Would you imagine in a million years
it was behind him map, the Eiffel Tower. What the Eiffel
Tower is in Paris.
Well, that's where all the best Ukrainian reporting comes from.
And let me ask you a question. It's so difficult to do all this
crap because communications are cut. Have you ever heard of a
satellite phone? Don't reporters routinely use those in areas
like this? Did they take the satellite phone system down? I
did miss the announcement. This satellite phone and you'd be
fine and get all your reports out?
Yeah, easily. So the guy said How about how about How about
how about ham radio?
Actually, yes, ham radio, you could get the reports out. So
okay, well, okay, so this is bullcrap. They This is then I
said, this is terrible. They get some guy in Paris, living it up
bitching and moaning about what's going on in Ukraine as
well as some sort of report. So now we have we have part of the
news thing. I want to play something. This is the Democracy
Now out of context remarks. I just want to add a little tidbit
to the end of this one.
On Tuesday in Italian newspaper reported Putin had told outgoing
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso that he
could take Ukraine's capital Kyiv within two weeks if he
wanted to the Kremlin set the remark was taken out of context.
Okay, now they do that's it the end that report right there and
they go on why don't they do a little research and give us the
context this is they got a big staff the context you know what
the context was? He said why would we do that? Because we if
we wanted to we could take Kievan two weeks we could take
take this area if it was us it's the rebels is not as baby supply
he's
saying is the same thing. Why would we shoot a plane out of
the sky? We wouldn't want to
Yeah, that was all part of it. Why would
we have to hide our soldiers as humanitarian aid if we want to
go into will kick your ass?
Right and that would be the context now. So now we get to
this part here will this was the end for me. It was like they
talk but they don't tell us any details. There's a trial going
on about Some Blackwater guys, and we she starts to report on
it. She doesn't tell us where the trial is a Who's No, no
details of the trial, but you get a little interesting twist
at the end, which is turns out as far as I can tell this entire
report is native advertising for something. Let's listen to it.
jurors will begin deliberating this week in the murder and
manslaughter trial of four former Blackwater operatives,
allegedly involved in the 2007 massacre at Baghdad's new source
square. The suspects are charged with the deaths of 14 of the 17
Iraqi civilians who died when their Blackwater unit
indiscriminately opened fire. The trial features testimony
from witnesses who survived the attack and saw loved ones gunned
down in closing arguments last week, prosecutor said Blackwater
guards had shot fleeing civilians and boasted of taking
their lives. Mr Square's the highest profile deadly incident
involving Blackwater any private war contractor the first witness
to testify in the Blackwater trial was a man named Muhammad
Kimani, he broke down when describing how his nine year old
son Ali was shot in the head while riding in the backseat of
the family car. Konami reportedly Saab so
uncontrollably when testifying that Judge Royce Lamberth
temporarily dismissed the jury. The next day, one juror said
she'd been too haunted to sleep, causing the judge to excuse her
from surface. Well, we turn now to a remarkable documentary that
tells Muhammad Ali Konami story. It's called Blackwater's
youngest victim. That film was created by democracy by big
noise films and democracy now in association with the Nation
Magazine and Nation Institute shot by Rick Rowley narrated by
Jeremy Scahill. It begins with Muhammad Kimani recalling the
day he lost his son.
So they've switched over from this news story to some crappy
documentary that's just about this one guy. And so they have a
very short clip of him talking is the clip of the Scahill
documentary is the name of it. This guy, he's, he's, he's very
expensive looking. He looks like he's got a shaved head, douche
bag, go t with the mustache, it goes around the mouth. He's very
slick. He's wearing expensive suit. And he's like an Iranian
nightclub owner kind of look. And he's telling us a bull crap
story about how he was he was personally greeting the
soldiers, which nobody did. That came in in 2003. And it was a
big deal, right? I'm thinking this is bull crap from the get
go. This guy's an actor. This documentary, they're promoting
it. This is a promotion for the documentary to try to I don't
know
do we know the name of said documentary? Well, it
was I actually have to look it up. I didn't know the name. I
think she mentioned that. She mentioned that at the end of
that report of hers. But it's play a little clip of this guy's
talking about and by the way, they should be role of the of
the family car where the kid was shot in the backseat. It's a
it's a Toyota truck. It's got two seats in the front is no
backseat,
the pickup truck, the mix their their B roll,
they've screwed it up.
When US forces rolled into Baghdad in April of 2003,
Muhammad proudly took his son to greet the men he called their
liberators, the US military. Mohammed was that rare
personification of the neoconservative narrative about
the US invasion? Oh, well, you on
the first day, the American army entered Baghdad, I handed out
juice and candy in the street cleared was that kick? Anybody?
Hi, Jen to celebrate our liberation from Sudan.
before September 16 2007, Mohammed had never heard of
Blackwater. Now he thinks of them and that day, every waking
moment. Anyway, I do
have one little piece of additional information to that
from my intelligence sources in Ukraine, over 600 contractors
have been killed in this war, which is Russians, and most of
them from Academy slash Blackwater. Now I have no proof
I only have my intelligence sources, but I would believe it
some things
I would believe that just this documentary is a little thin.
And I didn't like the way they did it. I just thought the whole
thing was the sleazy report. And then they plug this documentary
as because I guess that democracy now she said it is one
of the producers of course that's why why else would you do
it and because they gotta get their money back.
The mainstream media is either selling you a product they want
you to go buy or they're selling you another entertainment
product. There's nothing else going on. Joan Rivers died. Oh,
she
did? Yeah. Just now.
Yeah, just came out the news.
Yeah, I'm probably just now because she was. Yeah, she had a
I guess I don't know. She had an issue to stop breathing.
Yeah, the No. No breathing, cardiac arrest issue. That'll
Yeah.
That's not a good thing. Well, that sucks. Well, at least it
wasn't on your birthday.
No, but you know. I liked her. I worked with her. Have you ever
met her?
No, I never did. I saw her stand up when she was younger. A real
stand up, man. I was good, very good performer
as to go on a show in New York that Joan Rivers show as like
no, the MTV gossip expert. She was always very kind. She's very
nice. I feel bad about that. How old was she? At? No, I think she
was. I remember I was on a back in the day when I was flying a
virgin upper class to San Francisco from London. And she
was on that man. She looked 180 And she was really really
walking slow and she was kind of incognito. She would not Joan
Rivers like on John you know, like she was on. Who's next? We
don't need three.
Yeah, no, it's gonna be two more. No, we
already had.
No no those guys that's what we accounted for that. That last
group.
She was 81 Oh, that's young. That's too young. 81 That's no
brush is under
the knife. A lot of dads years to you. It hurts then. Yeah.
Sorry about that. So I remember a couple of shows ago I pointed
out that that crazy? Crazy news report about the Kia
Yes, yeah, the hamster car. Yes, the key
was killed people and people had their belts on and they
all died. It was a hit job on the key is what it was it was a
hit.
The key was on kPa x so I'm I'm just recording casually. On KPI
X is a football game. This was just this last weekend, so I
play the KPI X advertiser, the
Nelson connecting twice for scores. A key is once a year
signing and driving sales events. A simple signature can
put you behind the wheel of a sporting new 2015 Optima LS.
Zero down and zero doing signing for qualified lessees, but it's
only available at your local Kia dealer for September 2. All this
well? I think we should. Well at the local station. We had some
make do's and make good some had to happen then we had to fix
some stuff.
Oh, watching I'm watching you know Woodruff our buddy who we
use the X.
Yeah. You mean the the All the President's Men would not
Woodruff Woodward? Woodward. Okay. Would
the guy Yeah. Was it was outlined his backgrounds
carefully outlined and family of the family of secret Yes. Which,
which was a good read. But a lot of people didn't like it. But I
thought it was a great, I liked it. So tell me if you don't
think this is he's interviewing John Dean about his new book. I
was John and on this on the C span book show where they have
an expert interviewing an expert. And telling me this kind
of wasn't a zinger here that John Dean kind of throws at
Woodward. This is the Dean Woodward Zinger
live to have a John Dean Woodward Zinger. And I have a
dean Woodward Zinger are the
ones away fall distinguished same
political intelligence, by whatever means they thought they
might be able to do it. And this was the mindset that came right
from the top of the of the White House. You know, when presidents
wear hats, all their staff wear hats. When presidents have fires
in the fireplace, all the staff has a fire in their fireplace.
President doesn't do that thing. They don't do them. And so it
really comes from the top. And the concentration of power in
the presidency is astounding, is and this has largely been
because Congress doesn't want to take these things on things that
have to be done in to look to take the area of intelligence,
which is an area in your national security you dealt with
for a long time.
That was and blow me. Here's a tip. Here's a no agenda tip. If
you are ever going to have any kind of plastic surgery done or
any kind of procedure, don't say this before you go in and do you
think that the country will see the first United States you see
the first gay president or the first woman president Obama, so
let's just come down. No, Michelle is a trend. I'm sorry.
She's a what? Transgender? Oh my gosh.
It's just a tip. Just a tip you may wind I remember
her saying this. Run it on the show when When a cow Of course,
you know, yeah. Michelle Obama is a tramp. She's transgender
and
let me tell you when we play it, don't
ya desk is not a good thing to go out and say it can get you
dead.
Let me tell you when we played it, we played July 6. Yeah. So
there wasn't that long ago and now
she's dead. Now she's dead, right for two months for the
clip to get to the White House. Well,
hey, hey, hey, who am I now? Get that was my Michelle Obama and
personation. Alright, we got to end this show three hours. I
think we've done our job.
I want you to play something as an outro. Sure, you got to play
the BBC 1932 Honesty clip as part of the end of show
criminals. Hello, I'm
happy to do right.
You know what I'm talking about. I got it right here. This was a
this was a clip done in 1932, when they were introducing some
BBC services, to whatever I think was Australia or Canada or
someplace. It's all it did. There's an intro and an outro to
the clip. It's very funny. Good. I guess that should do it.
That should do it. Yeah. That does it for me, coming to you
here from Get My nation lowlands. Morning, everybody.
I'm Adam curry.
And by the way, I never heard any essentially he's, no, I'm
working on it. And I was listening for him to because I
have a new device that will sound alarm.
So you might be able to use that on Sunday. Maybe Maybe. I said
my in the morning, everything. Anyway, I'm
John Cena. I'm sorry. Sorry, folks. I'm so enthralled by the
show that I forgot that I'm supposed to sign out. I'm John
C. Dvorak in Silicon Valley, and we'll talk
to you again on Sunday right here on no agenda.
In December 1932. The BBC Empire service the forerunner of the
World Service, began broadcasting across the world on
shortwave radio from a transmitting station in Daventry
in Northamptonshire. The opening programme on the new
international service was delivered by a brutally honest
wreath. Good evening, ladies and
gentlemen. This occasion is as significant as any. In the 10
years of British Broadcasting. It is a significant occasion in
the history of the British Empire. As the program's don't
expect too much in the early days. The programmers will
neither be very interesting nor very good. Happy birthday to Mr.
Cohen
taking the time to listen
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