skank from the hood. Adam curry,
John C. Dvorak. Thursday, March 19 2015. Time for your gizmo
nation media assassination episode 705. This is no agenda.
Depressed from a full week of wet gray skies from last time on
this trip broadcasting live from Rotterdam, the Netherlands in
the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley, which is not
Netherlands. I'm John C. Dvorak.
Levin Buzzkill.
And you asked me if I'm in the mood to start the show.
Why do I sound like him? Not in the one that was kind of
uninspired. It was I was thinking and thinking and
thinking I couldn't come up with anything other than that. I
thought, your comment? I'm so in the mood, John. bouncing it off.
I'd
like to just hold hands tell each other secret and braid our
hair together.
Yeah, I think your hair needs braiding. Well, in
the morning to all of the new Dutch listeners to the program.
We have new Dutch listeners. Well, we must we the show has
been mentioned all over the press once again.
It was mentioned this time because stuff I've seen his
mostly Did you see the pictures just said you're a podcaster and
some sort of derisive way.
Did you see the picture I sent you of the new the new? Yeah,
this is like it's incredible. I mean, every single gossip
magazine
again? Well, I they're really hard up for gossip over there,
aren't they? And then you go into the super go into this.
Well, you know, fence meant out. But
I'll tell you, sorry, sir. Dave sent me a note. ITM Adam, I have
long subscribed to your theory that our elites use media
distraction to well distract the public. Have you ever given
thought to the notion that when you go back to the Netherlands,
you are the distraction? And if King, Alex gets overthrown while
you're there, my theory will be proven. Hope you're well paid
for your services.
And that's the joke of it, isn't it?
I wish, I wish. It's nuts. But anyway, though, it's all fine.
The whole point of the story now is Adam has no money and
therefore Patricia gets no money. Oh, well. And Patricia
and Patricia says, Oh, poor guy. Oh, well, and there's no room in
my life for him now.
Now with all those Yeah,
yeah. Not without without without the cash, apparently.
Yeah, well,
yeah, that's the way it goes. No money get lost.
So Europe is always
me. It was always about the money. I had, of course, of
course. It doesn't make any sense. Because when you two got
together, you were just like, you know, the
character of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy and Okay, fine.
You're ready to get out of Gitmo nation? lowlands? I'll
tell you. I'm sorry, you didn't get to go to England. Yeah, I
really wanted to, but just, there's just so much to do you
have my sister is here and from Italy. And so we had all the
siblings and all the stuff and, and but I learned a lot of
things. Just by
the latest, what is the latest that you've learned from the
from the Netherlands?
Well, I learned from the Netherlands that everybody here
is used. And I believe this is also happening worldwide now
that I'm paying attention to it is using this new app called
perfect 365. Have you heard of this? I have not perfect 365.
And it's not a cheap app. It's I think it's three bucks crew. In
App World. That's, that's just astounding. But we aren't but
with it, it's kind of it's like an instant Photoshop for
selfies. So you, you can literally touch on that. And you
have buttons, control buttons, like lips, eyes, you know,
cheekbones, and this app identifies these different
features in the face. And then it you can make yourself
beautiful. It's really quite astounding. And once you have
seen what this looks like, once you've played with it, and once
you've seen your own face, how beautiful you can make it look,
you see this thing is being used everywhere. Every every everyone
is using this
going to the ad to the App Store website of Arcsoft. Which makes
this product Yeah, it's a product
indeed. And of course this is very bad because
no one's only on the apple. No, it is no, it's available. No, I
think it's Android too. Yeah, yeah, I see that on the Google.
The Google. There you go. Your tech reporter John C. Dvorak.
It's available on the Google thing. It is, it really is an
astounding app. And it is I believe the use of this actually
is facilitating the demise of our of our society at large.
Everybody's going to think they're ugly when they see all
these other photos. Well know that use the app. Yeah, then
then we're lost then we're lost in this fight. Do people go out
and just like,
they took a picture of some woman who's kind of a plain
Jane. And they not only made her face prettier, but they put
lipstick and makeup on her.
Oh yeah, you can change colors. You can put eyeliner, all kinds
of crazy things. I know it's great.
It makes sense. If you think about it, come up with something
like
but when everyone is using this app, you might as well just stay
home because you when you go out people will see the forest.
Yeah, yeah. Whoa, whoa, whoa, big one. You
Yes. No. You don't look anything like that. That woman that you
sent me the picture of who is this? I want to go out with her.
Exactly. Exactly. So then everyone will be inside and I'll
be at the end of civilization done. Well, I
stay inside now. Anyway. So what difference does it make to me?
Probably take a few years off my my portraits. I'm gonna start
doing selfies. Oh, god.
Did a couple of things. First I went oh, I wanted to mention
that I'm very disappointed in the president. Okay, in the
entire administration in general today is internationally
recognized as a registered nurse de
rn de
rn de yet the President has not deemed it necessary to make an
official proclamation.
Oh, he hates women.
Must be That's lame.
I think so
annual worldwide event held on March 19. Honoring specialty
nursing certification by memorializing the birthday of
the late Mar Greta Greta Madden styles, an international pioneer
of nursing certification. I'm doing this for my nurse friends
you understand? I think you should yeah.
Hello. Yeah. Hello, nurse
who takes care of me when I'm sick. And then the what I want
oh, here's something although it really belongs in tech news. But
this is just stuff that I'm learning over here. And we're in
an international environment here. Speak English, big Dutch,
you know, some people German, but I of course, I'm here.
There's a lot more activity on my smartphone, which have now
kind of regretting because exactly what I did forget the
tracking and all that stuff. It's just everyone was texting
all day. Everybody. Bye, friends. Oh, they
have your number?
Well, I've had the same number. Well, they're my friends. I've
had the same number for
years. Why don't they just texting you? And you're in
Austin then because I'm here
and they know I'm here. And it's like, oh, come hang out.
Whatever. You know, whatever. You know what it's like? No, not
really. Oh, yeah. Sorry, forgot. You have no friends.
I have no friends. I stay at home all the time.
But I'm still using these iPhones. Stay at
home working on the show here. Yeah,
I'm out there getting groveling in the ditches for stories,
okay. When you use the iOS thing, that's the apple, the
iPhone B if you want to switch to a different language, or if
you God forbid, would want to, you know, type some Dutch and
then some English, the predictive text and the
spelling, you have to switch keyboards and the key the Dutch
and the American English keyboard are exactly the same.
We have to tap on the thing switch to a different keyboard.
Otherwise, it starts predicting stupid words. And you cannot
just like if you use well, then you don't have any predictive
tax or spelling.
Are they so you're complaining about what you like? Well, no,
I'm
complaining. No, I'm complaining that on os 10 You can easily
just start typing any language you want and the end the OS
recognizes it and spell checks appropriately. Even if you're
doing mixed languages. It's just pointing out a huge flaw.
There's only so many lines of code they can shove in those
phones.
How hard can it be please please and then the only other thing I
have is from my sister just some useful information. All right,
um, there are some some cultural things from the EU that you
would not hear on any other show. In Italy, most women do
not use tampons.
Okay, they use a different brand. No,
no, no, no that would be Tampax no tampons. They use they use a
sanitary napkins
pads pads. Yeah. Yeah.
I find this distressing. Why? Why? Exactly why?
And to know Why do you give a crap? Well, this is horrible.
What Why do I give a crap? Why is it horrible? Because I think
these women have been used for eons. They're
up there. If they were educated about what what products there
are I find that find that very strange.
It gets stuck in your ways. I'm sorry. All right, man. First of
all, Can I get worked
up about the store? I know you can't get worked up about it,
but it's just something you won't hear anywhere else.
This is true, but I got one that no one's gonna hear anywhere
else either. Take us out of here, JC Okay, here he is the
story of the day. We have a clip and this is the backgrounder,
and it is the human trafficking bill. They've been trying to
push through the Senate. That was everyone's agreement on and
then they got to listen, they became began to disagree on it,
and I'll explain what happened.
Now there were large but often hidden issue in America, and why
solving it is getting caught up in congressional gridlock. More
than 100,000 American children and teens are currently
estimated to be victims of sex trafficking. In the past month,
Senators from both parties had come together on a bill to
combat the problem and help victims. It was to be a shining
example of bipartisanship, but has now hit a major political
wall.
Democrats owe these victims, not lobbyist. Help. Help the
senators now so close to pass.
It's insane to keep going forward on these votes. And
everyone knows are going to turn out the same way.
Party leaders dug in this morning as the Senate standoff
over the human trafficking bill entered its second week for the
measure initially had an wide bipartisan backing. It creates a
fun for us victims of trafficking, who are often
forced into prostitution, and it toughens fines and penalties for
so called Jon's who buy services. But the dispute is
centered on a provision banning any funds from paying for a
victim's abortion. Democrats acknowledged today they
originally missed that provision that an aide did not flag it was
odd that minority whip Dick Durbin and others charged
Republicans deliberately made the wording obscure.
There was a representation made to several senators that this,
this there was nothing else in the bill to be concerned about
other than a few listed issues. And this was not included.
In turn. Republicans like Deb Fischer of Nebraska, deny ill
intent
to have the other side come out and say they didn't read the
bill. They were caught off guard. You know, come on. Okay.
All right. So we have this sex trafficking bill, if you start
to look into it, you'll find it. There's been one of these almost
every year and there's been a million variations of the sex
trafficking bills and they never get passed. And they
always have they always ruin their their business. They're in
Congress. This
is exactly what no one wants to talk about. This is what's going
on. David, they've increased the penalties for John's that which
is a problem I couldn't I can't find the exact for what they're
going to do. But I know this the one aspect of the bill if you're
a pimp life in prison, what life in prison.
Okay, regardless of the severity of your traffic, I mean, no
traffic is good, of course, but you say your is a pimp a
trafficker or an exploiter.
Well, or is it just
the businessman?
He said traffic.
That's trafficking. Okay. All right. That's selling below.
He's renting. He's not he's renting them.
They bring this bill out, and they have a overall goal for
this. And if you buy again, any I would ask anyone just to look
up sex trafficking, trafficking billing Congress, and you'll
find there was one in 2000 There was one in the nine a bunch of
them in the 90s 2003 to 2013 bill which was thrown out and
they have they just just never ending and one side or the other
takes the hit for not letting it get passed. Then this case is
the Democrats because they're the minority. And if you're if
you're the more pimps apparently, well, this time the
whole thing is that these guys, these senators and the
congressmen in general, use hookers. Yes, it just the known
fact they're always getting busted. They're not gay and
using gay hookers. They're using these girls, and they're not
gonna pass this bill was on the best podcast
it's a well known facts fact.
They're not going to pass any of these bills ever and
tend to just take the John part out. No, they
don't want this to John or No, John, I don't even think that's
the issue. They just don't want to stop these young girls from
becoming hookers because they get to use their services.
That's benefit
number one of being in government.
Now the CLO but the thing was about Oh, we didn't see this
thing about abortion in here. This is the great great little
gimmick they threw into this oh boy. The ideas that well we get
them can't pass them because of some abortion shit in this
abortion issue in here that that means that Republicans won't
change because they have to stay with it. Stay the course. Oh,
What's what difference isn't making the Democrats can't
approve it. So they're going to create a filibuster these laws
never if you have a filibuster proof Congress these laws never
show up by the way. And now it's And so while we didn't read the
bill and it was just my favorite, we're told by a vote
by a staffer the guys are supposed to look this. Turns out
this morning, the staffer who was supposed to look this over,
looked it over, it's Amie klober, chars, Assistant, looked
it over found the abortion thing right off the bat, and everybody
knew about really, and he made a mistake, I guess, and blabbed
and so today's all the news stories, that is always Clover
chars assistant Oh yeah, we knew we knew about this whole excuses
bullcrap. And the whole thing is obvious, which makes it even
more obvious that they talk a big game in Congress, they do
not want to pass this. Prostitution is prostitution,
and they're not gonna deal with it, because I think they're just
a bunch of douche bags. But that's my analysis. Thank you.
Nobody, by the way, in any other show will ever discuss this
bunch of warmongering douchebags in Washington, DC. Yeah,
they won't be discussed. No, no,
there's not much more to say about it, unfortunately than
that, but yeah. And I think you should separate prostitution
from trafficking I just think there's two different things.
Now they are but they've the way this is usually written it's
really out to get them. I mean, if you don't have the John
provision in there, the John's aren't trafficking they're gonna
do exactly, exactly. But they, you know, they're gonna get big
fines are thrown in the slab ashamed,
named and shamed, aimed in shame, which isn't shamed, named
and shamed in
a Sandra fell back in the 70s, when there was a prostitution
problem in the Bay Area.
And how can it be a problem that we're not enough?
No, it's just the opposite wouldn't happen. The judge will
eat some stay. I remember this, there's some Berkeley judge made
some sort of a stay about some small aspect of the law, and,
for all practical purposes, legalized prostitution, in
Berkeley and Oakland, and most of the East Bay, and for about
three years. And it became very humorous to drive down at
University Avenue, when you would see 100 Girls, oh, man.
But meanwhile, Sandra fell where there were women working. This
is during the depression of the 70s. There were a lot of women
there, but they newspaper, I worked with the guy who was the
editor of that paper at the time, they would name and shame.
Wow. And it,
you know, it's so strange as growing up in the Netherlands.
This is changing because of course, they have to harmonize
with the rest of the EU, all the member states. But prostitution
has always been a legal taxpaying medical benefits, etc.
And it was actually culturally always seen as well, you know,
if men who are the, you know, if we keep want to keep the family
together and have, you know, the pillars of society in place, and
have men need to go and, you know, go bang a hooker, then
it's okay. And you know, that said, we're not gonna make a big
deal out of it. We just let it be for what it is. That was
really the culture. I think, to some degree, it may still be as
normal as going to the doctor, you know, it's a reasonable
I have I never found it to be unreasonable. There are pro
there's the trafficking
angle and being you and iron women, so we can't, we can't
really say that. Every woman who, who says she likes it likes
and that's how the court qualified. Yeah, no,
I Yeah. No, I can't. I'm sorry. I mean, you can't play it after
I
said it. I'm sorry. My fingers slipped. Yeah. All right.
Anyway, so that's your story. This is what's going on. And we
we just won't come to grips with any of these realities.
Trafficking is bad, especially when they you know, white
slavery and all the rest of it, which is really horrible. And is
seen as more problematic in the Middle East than anyplace else.
In Russia. Russia, bring girls in from there. There's
a lot of the Baltic states all traffic in here. Yeah. I've been
keeping a close eye on on the Iranian situation to the
negotiations now that we have at least some view of what we
believe is going on and the intent is perhaps to actually
make sure Iran gets a nuclear bomb. And then there's this
Cotton letter and cotton that I mean, he's really being pumped
up and he's he's being as it were, supposedly, he's the he's
going to be the vice presidential nominee.
Yeah, sure. Well, yeah, that's what I love. The Democrats have
their way he will be
right. But the it seems that we're now on to a certain
strategy with Iran regarding Syria and And one of the Benny's
I guess we've given Iran is we've taken them off our list of
states that sponsor terror and also not on the list is
Hezbollah which would make sense because that's apparently them
yeah they it's in same guys different location and by caught
a couple clips first here is John Bolton former was the
ambassador to the United Nations. Yes and another guy who
would love to be president but that's not going to but he likes
the he's not he's not always on some corporate door governmental
message which makes it dangerous
hopefully this formatting excuse us why
Iran and Hezbollah is out of this list of terrorists
it's a flat line. The format of this year's report is exactly
the same as last year's report the people who would say this is
a format change or weasels, and so you ask yourself liars lying
weasel lying weasels? Lying weasels? I tell you, you asked
yourself
that some strong words for Mr. Bolton in that lying reasoning,
lying weasels? Nothing but lying weasels, people hate you.
This year's report is exactly the same as last year's report,
the people who would say this is a format change or weasels. And
so you ask yourself liars lying weasel lying weasels? You ask
yourself, How could this happen? And I think there's a pretty
clear explanation. I think the Iranian negotiators told the
American negotiators, you got to start going easy on us on this
terrorism stuff. Because what they want is not simply to be
freed from the sanctions that were imposed because of the
nuclear program. They want to be freed from the sanctions that
have been imposed 30 plus years because of their state
sponsorship of terrorism. So what we're having now is an
Orwellian example of disappearing references to Iran,
and its proxy Hezbollah from the terrorism this was a concession,
I think by the administration relating to the nuclear
negotiation, you will not find in the sign deal.
Alright. So we'll keep our eye on that. And then we have Mr.
Cotton, Tom Cotton, and he was on one of the news shows may
have been CBS or Fox I don't remember. Then he's, he, of
course, is the head signatory of the letter from the 47.
Bob I and 46. Other senators are focused on stopping Iran from
getting a nuclear weapon. And we wanted to be crystal clear that
Iran's leaders got the message that in our constitutional
system, while the President negotiates deals, Congress has
to approve them for them to be lasting and binding. And I have
to say I'm surprised by Secretary's comments this
morning, because just a few days ago, he testified before the
Senate to say that any deal would not be legally binding.
And now he says that future congresses can't change a mere
executive agreement if we disagree with them, or if a
future president disagrees with them. That's not the way our
constitutional system works. And it's certainly not the way we
should be negotiating with Iran.
How does it make America stronger to tell them that any
agreement they make with this administration may not be worth
the paper it's written on and may not last beyond this
presidency? How does that make things better?
It's well as a simple fact of our Constitution, that if
Congress doesn't approve that deal, then it may not last. And
the deal that is on the table right now is a very bad deal. It
would allow Iran to have 1000s and 1000s of centrifuges to
continue enriching uranium. It wouldn't do nothing to the
military dimensions of Iran's nuclear program. It's excluded
entirely the ballistic missile program that Iran has, which is
designed solely to strike the United States right here at
home, and it could have a 10 year sunset.
So he's a 10 year sunset is interesting. He he clearly is
ringing a bell. He thinks that the way I'd if I listened to him
with the no agenda is I hear him say, hey, these guys want to
give them a nuke. This is probably not a good idea. But
the kicker is how this is spread out. Now we have Admiral Mike
Mullen. And he gets an interesting question. Is he more
afraid of ISIL? ISIS? ISIL? Is Ramallah.
Do you fear Iran longterm more than ISIS? I do. Actually, I
think Iran is and
this is a change of heart. And what happened to worse things as
ISIS ISIL
now that's I think it's been turned down and weeks ago. Mm
hmm.
But it now well,
once they start pushing them back, and then we let Iran the
Iranians bring their generals into control things over there.
I think that's what Mike Mullen actually says here,
much more difficult challenge and incredibly complex country
that we don't understand very well. We've had no relationship
intelligence
agency.
We don't understand it. We not understand
now. Did we put on a second can we put the guy in the head is an
indictment of the intelligence community. Yes.
He's not fit to wear a uniform which doesn't anymore? He's
retired, isn't he? Yes,
I think challenge and incredibly complex country that we don't
understand very well said no, you're right. It is quite an
indictment relations with them for 35 years, there's a
complexity inside that country that that is represented by
enormous tension on the part of President Rouhani, who's
considered to be a reformer was somewhat of a surprise select,
he is president and the ideological faction led by the
supreme leader, and, and it is the supreme leader and his
ideological group, if you will, that lead in the judiciary and
lead with respect to the military. And this whole focus
on the nuclear deal is part of where I think President Rouhani
wants to get. So that possibly he's got a chance with elections
next year and in with respect to those who will select the next
Supreme Leader with parliamentary elections in the
spring, to possibly turn it in a more constructive reform
direction for the country of Iran.
I love the use of the word turn it possibly trade sounds like
we're eyeing for some regime change there with the selection.
And you know, coming up in the spring, or spring is always fun
to do things a little bit warmer, we can do more
demonstrations
in places we're supposed to take over and rebel allies.
And then of course, we have, we have Iran, we have Russia, we
have Syria, Syria with the Russian port. And now it seems
like we're back to we have to negotiate with Assad instead of
killing.
We are working very hard with other interested parties to see
if we can reignite
a diplomatic outcome. Why? Because if I because it's
because there's only a political solution.
Hold on a second, there is now there's no military solution,
only a political solution.
Well, I have that same clip incorporated in something I
think is a very good little performance by the news, our
Let's Play it, what is it and I would play a solid part one, we
have that clip, and then a little more explanation, and
then we're trying to get to the two, then they go to a backstory
This is very interesting report. Anything that came from outside
the borders was only words and interference that disappears
after a while
since that last was aimed at Secretary of State John Kerry,
Sunday on CBS. He suggested any effort toward a transition in
Syria that would include Assad. After all,
I am convinced that with the efforts of our allies and
others, there will be increased pressure on Assad,
and you'd be willing to negotiate with him. Well, we
have to negotiate and yet
carries words raised eyebrows, but US officials quickly
insisted President Obama's policy has not changed from this
in 2012.
President Al Assad has lost legitimacy, he needs to step
down.
So I think somewhere some kind of deal was done. Something
happened that we that we missed, or maybe during these
negotiations with Iran, something came up, but there's a
reason for this.
Yeah, I agree with you. There's something's up. We don't know
what it is they they're scrambling like crazy, because
apparently it would get I'm guessing that Kerry is
presenting it improperly. Yeah.
That's an educated guess.
He runs the place he says whatever he wants, and they
showed they shouldn't you didn't get to see what the visuals were
on this particular package. But they had after Kerry said this
and he said it twice now that I said the one year clip was a
different setting than mine. And so he's he's said this couples
and then that you see the panic, the panic room with Jen Psaki
run into the podium and she's trying to release? Oh, yeah, she
said something. Oh, you didn't mean it. sort of thing. The
thing is the joke is that he that she should be what she's
supposed to be. I thought working for Kerry. That's her
job. Yeah, but she appears to me to be a stooge for the White
House.
Oh, no. Well, she's isn't didn't she get the White House job?
Yeah, she got the White House job. She just hasn't started
there yet.
Well, she Yes. saqi Gen sack Yeah, redhead? Yeah,
I thought she I thought she got Yeah, the pregnant one. Right.
Yeah,
she got the White House gig. And Maria right Marie Hart is going
to take over No, no,
no, no, no, it's a mother puppet. Oh, no, no. No. So
puppet
well hello. But but she's still supposed to be working for
Carrie.
Yeah, she's not doing a good job.
So she doesn't back carry up at all. Before we
before we move on. Let me just go back because I have a second
clip and then we this will fit perfectly. I think you're
hearing to journalists jamming. Ladies and gentlemen. We're
jamming our clips. She asked me hey John, we jam some clips man,
jam and man jam and jam and baby jam and gear is Charlie Rose
with Brennan, the drone Maestro himself, Director CIA at the CFR
the Council on Foreign Relations dealing with those little chit
chats where they're all drinkin. And yes, we rule the world with
a journalist to Wolf Blitzer swapping around their
portfolios. Exactly. Then he's also talking about how to get
Assad out of out, and maybe we can get our Iranian brethren to
help us.
And it's the policy of this administration that Assad is
really not part of Syria's future as we see it.
I love how we do that, by the way, it is the policy of this
administration, that Assad, you realize you can't be a part of
that country, you cannot be a part of your country, even if
you've been democratically elected. That is our
policies, as because we're just the way we see it,
we see it, it is our policy, that you can't be part of the
future. So when we look over your way, you better be gone,
son.
And so we need to we need now for Assad to be in power
temporarily, unless there's a negotiated settlement, because
we need them as an opposition to ISIL as well.
Yes, this crisis in Syria, which it is both from a humanitarian
standpoint, and just from a country wide standpoint, it's
not going to be resolved in the battlefield of my mind, we need
to be able to continue to support those elements within
Syria that are dedicated to moving Assad and his ilk out.
But there has to be some type of political pathway to the future.
None of us I don't think Russia United States coalition and
regional states wants to see a collapse of the of the
government and political institutions in Damascus. What
we do want is for there to be a future of Damascus that is going
to bring into power a representative government that
is going to try to address the grievances that exists
throughout the country.
So now with all of a sudden there's a coalition Iran,
Russia, us
if I heard him correctly, well as what he said, I'm not
completely buying it.
Well, unless something's being divvied up and maybe Iran is
gonna say, Listen, we'll take over this this this business
over here. We'll bring Hezbollah back in here. I don't know I'm
just making up shit. Something happened I had no idea.
You know, his I don't either. We were not getting enough
information.
Well, let's listen to this. What is the second clip from
Democracy Now?
This is the this is the PBS news hour.
Okay, good jam on the PBS clip now.
The push to oust Assad began as peaceful protests in March 2011
amid the Arab Spring, but the regime launched a brutal
crackdown against demonstrators that in turn triggered a violent
uprising across the country. moderate rebels initially made
some headway but were hurt by internal divisions and a lack of
Western support and the intrusion of extremist groups
like the Nusra Front at the same time, Iran and Russia bolster
Damascus with weapons, money and expertise. And Iranian and
Lebanese ally Hezbollah sent 1000s of fighters into Syria.
Then adding to the chaos, the Islamic State group seized large
sections of northern Syria last summer
was a little interesting little background that bring us up to
speed they only do these because this is not a new story.
This is just reminding you have the so called Truth. Exactly.
Now remember, kids, here's what happened. First, there was
peaceful demonstrations, no NGOs or anything nothing went
like this is like they have at the beginning of the dramas that
previous previously on this bull crap. So this is the previously
on so we catch up. And then of course, the last clip has the
theme again, which you have to see that this one's visually
they show buildings falling over it is the most outro okay,
this is the complete the complete on all of the mind
tricks.
Yeah, they're just as a mess. They're showing Bonanza, they
got to pick it totally, to play this part. And you get
two rounds of peace talks have already failed. And many of the
protesters say it's crushing to watch helplessly.
I always feel like I hope it's a dream. I hope it's a dream. But
I'm afraid even to come and connect with the people because
I don't want to see it. I don't want to think about its reality.
But unfortunately, it's a reality.
And for now, the reality is that much of Syria has been blasted
to ruin. The war enters its fifth year.
Yeah, I got an email from sub seven zero. Rubble. Yeah,
verbalize? Oh, yeah. Oh, of course. Now Rubble, isn't the
whole place? Why do we why we have to do this? Ah, we're in
the mood.
I could not have said it. In the mood. I'm in the mood for Rob.
Oh,
I was thinking about
Hey, John, do you have to dinner? Let's go make some
rubber mats or verbalize some go rub allies
mobilized thinking about why do we have to use and I did I did I
think about the Wesley Clark seven. Yeah. And I think about
and then he keeps showing this.
replay the Westpark seven real quick. Yeah, you might as well.
So I came back to see him a few weeks later. And by that time we
were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, Are we still going to war
with Iraq? And he said, Oh, it's worse than that. He said he
reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper he
said I just he said I just got this down from upstairs meeting
the Secretary of Defense Office today and he said this a memo
that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in
five years starting with Iraq and in Syria Lebanon, Libya,
Somalia, Sudan and finishing off Iran
here's here's what Fletcher needs to do. Let's get ready to
go
Yeah, no, you don't need to do that you get sued right we can
that character who does that? This reason never hear anybody
else do it is like lawsuit crazy.
Really? Because the guy is the guy who hosts the voice here in
Holland. Yeah, that's how you start with let's get better
ready to rumble he starts the show that way.
Once Once the I can't for some reason I'm not
I'm sure I'm sure it's he has somehow to trademark copyrighted
something if he found
out about he find himself with a big Excellent, excellent. Yeah,
I found out about that when I was working in radio years ago.
Because I set it back when you say that ever
affect you back with you and am jock
and w o
le radio always public radio Public Radio?
Well, we're on this subject. I might as well play this. This is
kind of still on track because the creek clip that I have,
yeah. Which is about the taking, taking back to Crete. Yes. Play
it and within was it in mind that the punch line is the very
last word make sure not to step on. Okay. And this to me was
just like wow, they're finally coming around no agenda.
and Iraqi Government defensive against Islamic State fighters
into Crete was put on a hole today, the Iraqi military and
Shiite militias have already made big gains, but the interior
minister said they expect bitter fighting ahead.
More than 90% of our objectives are going according to plans and
timing has remained is a very small part, which is the center
of to create the militants planted bonds in our government
offices and buildings. But helping military operations We
also aim to give an opportunity to civilians and families to get
away from the battlefield
to create a Saddam Hussein's hometown and his once lavish to
has been wracked by the fighting. What's left are mostly
piles of concrete, Rubble.
Rubble, we score again,
this picture of this appears, you can see that it was probably
architetti because there's things that are blown to
smithereens that are just too nice looking. And so they
brought robbery, Rob and I was thinking about this because you
brought it up a second ago and I was I thought about this why are
we just realizing everything I remember in the early days after
911 There was some commentary that went on about bombing them
into the stone age
that's a bush ism is it not?
It was I may have been bush but maybe somebody has never really
been repeated. But I think that that's what we're up to. I think
that's what we're doing I think we are realizing we have Arab
allies who were bombing them into the stone age because all
they if you look at these pictures is all you see is
stones rocks and pizza.
And I'll say whether it's true or not having that visual will
at least give everybody here the illusion that it's all been
verbalized, I don't believe
obviously has not all been rubberized like the you know
some of the major cities are still fine and everything in
between but there's been a lot more than a fair share of
rehabilitation that's taken place so
we you caught it early on the verbalization it now they're
just saying it and actually coming right out and saying it
Yeah. Rather lies the place Yeah. We got to play these more
often John.
Rebels allies,
rub allies. Oh, man.
So that's what I think's going on. We
may be realizing Ukraine, and we have a plan for it. This is this
Of course, is why Jonker the drunker the what is the official
title? Is he President of the European? The European Council?
Yeah,
he's young president of one of those. They have so many
different operations. I think he's they have, by the way, do
have a clip, which will play after you're done with this.
Where they were. There's not a lot of reporting on this. It was
shown on PBS and I think democracy now but that's part of
it. Forrest Gump where the, you know, they built his billion
dollar building the ECB.
Oh, yeah, people are burning burning cars down.
They're burning the place down if they could get to the build
building. I'm sure they torch it. Yeah, but yeah, you want to
clip?
Absolutely. Hold on a second. This
is Aaron aid. And she has a little kicker at the end. This
is protest and ECB and his new building. Got it.
And speaking of volatility, Wednesday in Frankfurt, 1000s of
anti capitalist protesters clashed with riot police. You
know, the UCB is new $1.4 billion headquarters. violence
erupted during the ceremonial opening of the billion dollar
skyscraper for the ECB that's their new home, and protesters
set fire to barricades and cars. Some 94 police officers were
injured by stones and tear gas will rally organizers say that
100 of the 7000 protesters were injured by police. During the
inaugural ceremony, ECB President Mario Draghi said
quote, European unity is being strained and the ECB has become
the focal point for those frustrated with the situation.
Obviously, this hasn't been the case in the US. At least not
yet. Yeah.
Well, I agree. Yes, John. Very good clip. I think we are at a
turning point mark it down. March 19 2015. I believe we are
now at the turning point. We have school students do it
staging walkouts in the United States. That to me was already
quite an indicator. But the slaves are restless. There's now
they're tired of it. Big demonstrations in Spain. bank
run on this is another Spanish bank. The slaves are sick and
tired. There's no work. Social services are being cut
everywhere. Across Europe, the Netherlands that people are
hurting, hurting bad. And they used to you know this like is
the safety net will catch me No. And they're overextended. Now
this this is the beginning and people are going to start taking
to the streets. And that is only partially the reason why the
President of the European Commission Jean Claude Juncker,
the drinker wants an EU army, but Ukraine yesh I'm sorry,
peacekeepers, but it might be handy to have them around in
case you know, slaves get restless here back in the EU
Ukrainian parliament has passed a bill which calls for
deployment of EU and UN peacekeepers to the country's
war torn eastern areas. 341 Members of Parliament out of the
450 seat assembly support the bill according to the
parliaments press service. The bill which was submitted earlier
this week by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko anticipates
peacekeeping and security missions in the Donetsk and
Luhansk regions which will observe the implementation of
the Minsk ceasefire agreement. The deal was reached on February
12. By the leaders of Ukraine, Germany, Russia and France,
Ukraine Security and Defense Council has appealed to the UN
and EU to deploy peacekeepers along the border which divides
the militant held Donetsk region and government controlled areas
and along some parts of the Russia Ukraine border.
There we go. Right in accordance with articles 27 and 28 of the
Lisbon Treaty, as presented to the public and voted down twice
by the Netherlands and France and then a do over a bit and
Ireland had to do it over and then we got it because everyone
agreed. And there's your European as your European army,
which just be careful these peacekeepers, you know,
sometimes they're sent to keep the peace in your own country.
Yeah, yes, bad. Yeah. Now, this
is good. No, no, it really isn't. And the news here is so
bad, man. It's just so bad. They really just just take the press
releases. They really do.
Well, we do the same thing. I see that as our news any better.
Oh,
in fact, we do it all. There was a big story about Russia having
to fire I think catch him. Or I don't know if they had to, but
they fired Ketchum PR as their number one or their PR company.
So the question was under the impression that was Putin, his
PR company, I read that article. Oh, that I may be wrong when we
take a look. You're right. Is there a difference? I think
there is I think Putin would have a personal PR liaison that
wouldn't be promoting him. They obviously have done a crap job.
Now, I don't know if the Russians or Putin in particular,
anybody else is aware of the fact that there's really only
Two or three PR companies. There's Omicron, Omnicom and
Omnicon. I don't why do I say that? Yeah. You know, I
said, because they used to own a part of my company. That's how I
know I know the chairman. I'm an econ.
Econ WPP.
That's issues. That's it.
Whereas only publicist publicist, because they were
purchased by WPP. Well, there's
a third one is a small third
one that got rolled up, we've had this whole conversation, and
maybe,
well, whatever the case is, that's just that those are the
two big ones. And those because there's still little independent
guys here and there that make Jehovah then he only started up
a PR company nowadays to get bought by one of these other two
guys. You get bought up eventually. So the so there's
two of these companies that own all the other PR companies, and
I don't know which one Ketchum belongs to, but I believe it's
WPP. But it could be the other one. And there's nothing this
whole thing is one giant conflict of interest. Because
you have one isn't it? Yeah,
of course it is.
If I if I'm working for one of the WPP operations, and you're
working for the other WPP operation, and I've got pro
Russian separatists and you've got anti Russian separatists as
your PR clients find that gambling is going on in here.
Yeah, it's just like it's like a conflict of interest. Yeah. For
WPP Yeah, and the funny thing though,
we have a Chinese wall John a Chinese wall this Chinese any be
involved in that so I'm work went to an event once and the
WPP had a bunch of different companies that were work doing
their whatever they do, and then they there's some guy gave me
his card, and the card was a WP P card. Right? So So WPP also
represents itself as the public relations. Well, of course, so
they got them they get this reminds me I'm gonna just gripe
for a minute here. This reminds me of the scam. And the biggest
bull crap publisher to me has always been Pearson. And we can
talk about the next thing and Pearson also is doing the common
core stuff. But Pearson decided I you know, because there's no
antitrust action that takes place in the United States
anymore. And this is what's really causing a lot of this
problem. This you know, and and performance enhancement drugs
have ruined sports and this is ruining business. So Pearson
decides to buy everyone so they so they buy and they got a GE
This is Genius, by the way, the way they do this. So they buy
Prentice Hall, they buy Macmillan, these all the
computer publishing companies, they buy Prentice Hall, they buy
Macmillan, they buy every computer publishing company, the
peach pit press, they buy everybody except O'Reilly, it's
called a roll up. They roll all of them together, they buy and
they buy the main one they buy as Q That's, I think the first
one they bought. And the difference between all these
operations. Now now we've got an immediate conflict of interest
because of I do a book. Here's what the here's what the real
scam was, if you anybody does a book for one of these
publishers, which are all owned by Pearson and the book become
semi successful, they immediately cloned the book and
give it to Q. Yeah, because all the small publishers
are gonna get screwed. They have payouts they earn outs,
the regular publishing companies give a royalty of 10 to 15%,
either based on wholesale or cover price depends on the deal.
And that you so if your book sold 100,000 copies, you'd get
royalties on those 100,000 copies. Q. They never did that.
There was always just book there was for higher writing. So they
give you here, you're gonna write this book, here's 5000
bucks, there's 10,000 bucks, right? This book, oh, by the
way, this book is the one that's the best seller. We want you to
write that book. And so they write the best seller again, you
know, with their golden words. It's not plagiarize, but it's
the same book. And they bring that book out. And then who do
you think gets all the advertising? Yeah. Huh. So they
pull the advertising from your book, which is going to be a
best seller, and they push the advertising over to Q and Q
makes all the money and they make more profits. And so they
get more money into the corporate coffers of the mother
ship is unbelievable. scamming. Oh, no, well, whatever, I gotta
buy books sold. And so all these writers are, you know, not
bitching about this or refusing to do business with him at all.
And it's just unbelievable. And this whole thing is just, and
this is what's happening with public relations. Now. It's just
a complete outrageous. Yeah, it's a it's a fraud. Yeah, yeah.
So well, it's the news. Your way. They still charge the same
old amount, 30,000 a month, sometimes higher. Yeah, Putin
was probably paying a million dollars a year to get no
service.
Well, he did get that big New York Times op ed, which they
wrote two years ago. And that was he was actually talking
about Crimea back in the day. It was interesting to go back and
read that. Yeah, I should go back and read it. Are you
talking about Common Core just the two quick emails before we
thank our execs and associate execs for the day. In the
morning, sir. This is from producer Chris Mater. just
catching up on show 7037 forum waters share some information
concerning the P AR CC or the PARCC tests here in New Jersey.
Are you familiar with the Partnership for Assessment of
Readiness for College and Careers testing, John? Yeah, we
talked about it. Yeah. And it's owned by Pearson. Right. This
weekend we had a St. Patrick's Day party. My aunt and uncle
were both here both our New Jersey teachers mine on Northern
New Jersey teaches second grade my uncle in Central Jersey and
teaches high school, the topic park of course, or as the
teacher's job what is Park spelled backwards crap.
Those teachers
they, they were worried because the test didn't affect her
Oklahoma. They're asking me how my daughter did with testing.
She's in fourth grade and I was really confused and was really
confused. I told her not to worry, because the test didn't
affect her grade. That principal told them that it does. The vice
principal told them it didn't matter and her teacher said if
kids did bad, she would lose her job. No pressure, right. This is
what the teacher said to the class. My aunt's class of second
graders didn't officially have to take the test but rather a
practice test. She said it was plagued with tech glitches. She
was unable to start the test for two hours due to sitting on the
phone with Pearson Because her login didn't work. Once he was
able to start the test, the kids were getting stressed out
because they would answering answering the question click
Next and the site would jump three or four questions ahead.
This would show that the child never answered those questions
and they were unable to go back worse. The school doesn't have
enough computers and there are talks about raising the Teachers
Retirement Fund to set off the expense. Ah, this is crazy.
Right.
Right. Pull this off. Thank you Bill and Melinda Gates. This is
very helpful. Good
work. Melinda, Melinda. And another quick note here Hello
Adam. Want to thank both you and John for the recent shows. This
is from Annie. send pictures Annie, which had been top notch
I sent it in donation of $40 via PayPal but it didn't allow them
to send any message just wanted to thank you both for your
courage. As a soon to be teacher I am being forced to prepare
students for the park. I'm surprisingly the only person in
my graduate program that sees any problem with it or voice is
my concern. Although I would share some deaf culture news,
apparently ISIS is now using sign language to recruit. And
that's that's true by the way. That's right. That's the new and
the good guy. ISIS guys in a desert signing on camera.
That's probably a suggestion given to him by WPP
Damn those guys but never do it right. What are we paying for
this? Why don't we what 500,000 A month for this shit. And with
that, I would like to thank you for your courage and say in the
morning to you John C with a C stands for copyright divorce
rack.
And good morning to you in the morning to you. That is it. And
it she's wondering what happened I was too busy grabbing stuff.
In the morning to you Adam in the morning all ships to see
boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the water. And all
the Dames and nights out there
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depleting your $9.2 million worth of value. And in the
morning to our artists. We want to thank Josh Joshua Joshua
Joshua who helped us with the art for was this an evergreen we
use John I think it was wasn't it?
No I there was an old piece there's some a couple of shows
back
okay. No agenda art generated.com is where you can
always find the latest submissions and
we should mention we forgot to mention but one somebody came up
with some really good pieces and then it was just one check
online you see this was this was just
yeah, there Yeah. Yeah, they have stolen exactly and we
can use just somebody you can't just take a stolen piece of art
and then drop the generator on and throw our logo on top of it
that does you got to change it or you got to make it funny or
you got to do something with it you can just use it and you know
unless you unless you know it to be public domain and that's
stuff before 1920 More or less and so now we can't use these
pieces this guy did buy six of them a couple of them are
hilarious very funny when we looked at it there was somebody
else's funny and we check that we check that but it's very easy
to do by the way can check it yourself.
Josh who did the Yeah, no agenda train tanker.
Oh, yeah, that was great. Great funny.
Well, the top of the the font was really nice to use the type
font and everything
that was very well done as well. And by the way, suddenly like ya
know, in Paint fine on something, you know, it's not
stolen art. I mean, yeah, the car was probably from somewhere.
But let's thank a few people we have four or five executive
producers and one is well actually four. So executive
producer, one Associate Executive Producer. Nobody took
advantage of the Fletcher offer.
Yeah. What is the what is the Fletcher offer? It was only a
newsletter. I believe.
He we talked about it on the show, which is and we talked
about after the show. The Fletcher John Fletcher says that
he will do for us a shout out for people who want to use
something funny for their ringtone right? For example, the
divorce duck? No, you could use dad or curry you've got you got
to divorce one. You can play it Yeah, I'm getting it Eddie could
be my like, Wouldn't my ringtone it could be somebody shouting
Dvorak Would you be kind of cute? Or you know fat lady for
that matter? That it would be better than you know somebody
Oh, I'm sorry, it was the wrong
you could use that if your wife was you know, kind of what did
he said there
that will never be made available. Maybe this one
so that is that it's a it's a pie.
And what I wanted to do is I wanted to put the collection of
the once we have a couple of them put them out there and then
people like you know GX to anyone else who feels like it
could try and put them all together in a song.
And also if your name is John and he and somebody says I'll
buy like named John and yet you're buying it for a lot of
people if you could play yeah, you'd like to people could use
this kind of a anyway so Fletcher says he'll do it
alright. Oh cool. Let's thank a few people. Sir Rob alter in
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We forgot to mention the amount for the isn't on the on the
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Okay, got it. Got it. Got it. Okay.
And it'll be I'll put it on the support page
eventually hashtag Fletcher fest.
So Rob, alter ITM gentlemen, my birthday was March 17. And I
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in the bed without my bed. Really.
I'm checking in. Sadly that is
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attractive. Yeah,
this is this is a problem. Some problems. But one of
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I require no jingles but I would gladly donate one to the second
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to the gate to the gate to the closest
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have a climate gate clip. Oh,
this is an interlude. an interlude.
Here we go. Global warming report from Boston.
I was in I was in donation mode. Boston has
finally set a dubious new record most snow and a single winter.
The city got nearly three more inches on Sunday pushing the
seasonal total to 108.6 inches. That's more than nine feet of
snow and the most since Boston began keeping records in 1872.
No,
oh no. Say it's not you know, all right. If you're going to do
that, then I have to play my my climate gay clip, demolished
houses uprooted trees, crushed cars, all the work of what's
being called a monster cyclone that hit the island nation of
Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean.
The country's president says more than 90% of homes and
buildings in the capital city had been destroyed. very
emotional, very emotional.
Now, Vanuatu, do you recall us discussing this name in past
program all
this I do when he saw the stories that was that's an
interesting I looked it up outside of New Zealand. Well we
have discussed of Ottawa to is the island where the climate
conference was being held in the fictional account. state of fear
written by Michael Creighton. And oh, and the President of
Vanuatu says climate change is to blame for this devastation on
his island. And it's just one of those things where you go, I
think, Matt,
that's a good one. All right, onward. We have two left Sir
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About being utterly exasperated with the news media and our
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And then I just went into my little mini Schpeel because
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supply long haul truckers with as many CDs as they can eat, if
any are interested in handling them, handing them out and
hitting truckstop denizens in the mouth is of course a first
to our conversation about the ultimate automize automa zation.
No. Is that the word driverless trucks? Yeah.
Then by the way, we got to know from a guy in Australia. Yeah,
it's just that they have these driverless trucks already. Yep.
And he sees a very grim future for the trucking industry at
least. So it was just the guy who had to be who showed
told us about the corridor. This is the the corridor that goes
from south from Mexico all the way up to Canada. Well, there,
that's that's where they're already experimenting with some
autonomous driving trucks.
No, I don't think he'd mentioned that corridor. But that corridor
has been in the works forever. And people don't like
it. No. And that's all the eminent domain is.
But now that you mentioned, it says is only supposed to be for
trucks. It's probably that would be where you experiment with
the autonomous friendly corridor central North American Trade
Corridor Association. That's an interesting website to check in
checkout, but we did already see a baby die and when truck hit a
wall news report, so they're starting to demonize the
truckers already just need a couple dead hooker stories. And
we're good to go. So there's a special trucker page, which is a
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secondarily, if you've not tried out no agenda player.com It's
definitely something it's so good. It is if you want to want
to send someone a clip or Tweet a quick quick segment of there's
links right there and it goes straight into the player plays
exactly from that spot even works on the iPhones, I think it
works on everything. And if you find a segment that might be
good for us to replay like an Johnny when I talked about this
via just something like a refresher of a certain topic or
how something came to be. Maybe we should see if that's worth
trying. For newer listeners.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's too hard
to your enthusiasm is just killing me who's. Yeah, that's
fantastic show dogs.org Whatever slash and just trying to do my
best as a producer. Hey, whatever you do, make sure
you're out there propagating the formula. Our formula is this. We
go out. We hit people in the mouth
shut up. I was a yoga. They see we had a little report here
about mh 370 They're still looking for that. What was that
triple seven right that went down all the crazy conspiracy
theories that Putin did it. Putin did that he does
everything guys just amazing. Almost thing and why is my hair
DISM while they found some some disturbing
evidence mortalidad washed up on a beach in Western Australia is
being examined to determine whether it could be linked to
missing flight MH 370. The package was found by a couple
it's of Auntie's last July, hundreds of kilometers away from
the current search zone.
It was an open and which was very unusual. If it had been
open and just lying there with completely different
experts say it is possible for a package like this to drift long
distances.
This is a little little foil packet. towelette.
Yes, it may be nearby
its own as day.
I love that. I love that. Ashton. I'm just catching up on
some stuff. I gotta get out of my been here Ashton B. Carter,
our brand new Secretary of Defense Secretary of the War
Department. Is that what they used to call the second the war
department secretary of war now what was a war? I thought it was
war department. Well, I
think it was the word of prom but it used to be called
Secretary Walker
to war. Any idea how these elitist bullcrap errs are listen
to this is that the color guard walking in and then they have a
red carpets ladies and gentlemen, Associate Justice
Elena Kagan. I love this guy's voice. He's like, hey, I can do
this. I can do the low voice like to do announcements, you
know, like the Grammys and stuff. I can do that. Ladies and
gentlemen, the Honorable Ash Carter, his wife, Stephanie,
former Secretary of Defense, Dr. William Perry, and General
Martin Dempsey.
I know I can get a gig now.
Guy sounds like he has to take the testosterone to get his
voice even that deep. Trying to make it
really, really dry and as deep as like a really Try a secretary
of state. So bad.
Yeah, you could get that gig.
So I always watch the think it was a page probably is your man,
I can do that. Let me give me the mic. Ladies and gentlemen,
that was watching the C span dial in shows hoping that
someone will finally dial in and say something about no agenda.
We've had one or two, which had been a case in
point at this point, the the listeners and producers are
thinking, why don't you just call in Adam?
Well, I'm preparing a show. I'm propagating the formula. That's
not the deal that we make for our producers with the producers
gonna sit around and do nothing. I gotta do some stuff. There is
a new meme though, that I really like. For bogus for a long time.
The Howard Stern Show, they'd be bababooey would be the thing
you'd say. If you call if you called any kind of if you got
through on the air somewhere, at least in America, obviously.
Yeah, yeah. So and then for a while, there's the kids running
up in front of cameras and saying F or writing the policy,
which was another meme, which is really strange, but funny,
particularly the compilation. But now there's a new one, which
you'll hear in this dial into my favorite C span, morning show.
Fornia
Republican line.
Here is Jack, go ahead.
Good morning. I'm just circling. I just want to make it clear.
First of all, I'm calling from Bel Air California, but I am
originally from Philadelphia, specifically West, Philadelphia.
But anyway, I was actually discussing this issue with a
friend of mine recently, while I was in Philly, occurred on the
basketball court. At some point during the conversation, a
couple of guys who are up to no good, essentially started
causing trouble in my neighborhood. I've gotten one
little fight my mom got scared and said you're moving with your
auntie and uncle and seller. Again for the first 45 minutes.
It's the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song. Oh, okay. I like
that. I like it.
It was well, it was it was hard to follow. Okay. I mean, I get
it. You know, it's funny. Hohoho it gets also a dated reference.
I don't like that.
Well, the Roth Rick Astley isn't
via promote. Rick Astley
I know you don't. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.
All right. Yeah. We got to do something better than that.
Yeah, in the morning is good enough. At least for starters,
it started getting everyone to start saying in the morning.
Or Amen. Fist bump.
Amen. Fist both is good.
Hey, man, first of all, everyone should be saying it all the
time. People come up to me on the street now and saying it. So
at the end of the like, you go on C span you say something or
they say thanks for being with this. Or you go on anything. And
they say thanks for being with this instead of saying You're
welcome. Glad to be here. Amen. Amen. Fist bump
and Memphis Boom. That's it. Exactly.
That'll work. That's, that's a good meme.
We're talking about. Let's see, we were talking about, you know,
the state of fear and the climate change stuff. You
remember we had that we talked about this, this organization
that their numbers are used for? For things like this, many
scientists agree at the AAA s. And I think was Brian the gay
Crusader who said he was going to sign up? Well, we actually we
got another email from one of our producers from Greg and he
did it as well. He said, I decided a couple of weeks ago to
sign up to the AES. And it was never asked was it my credential
was signing up just 50 bucks. I do get discounts on car
insurance and rental cars totally worth it. And they sent
them a survey. And it's really from Associated Press, you know,
they're they're running the surveys. And now they're sending
it to our producer, as if he's a qualified researcher scientist.
Here it is. We request your help. 15 minutes take our survey
and rate general and specific aspects of the Gulf of Mexico
health by the end of the day, March 27 2015. We asked you to
write it numerically zero to 100 scale zero being dead and 100
being pristine. We asked you to do it both before and after the
spill for each category. So this is this is the the quality of
APS research. This is pathetic. Yeah. It's extremely pathetic.
So do you have any other questions? I was hoping you're
going to read a couple. No, I
would not. unfortunately don't have that. Let's send us a scan
of the of the test. Yeah, there's a link to it. Not to the
test itself. I don't have that. Maybe Greg will send it Yeah,
right. All right.
Well, that's ridiculous. Well, that's the way it works when the
anime was through. If there's something we made it or at least
I know, I've been hounding on this. But let's play this clip
just to prove the no agenda point. After you play that clip
we'll we'll talk about this is Netanyahu wins, which of course
is a huge, nobody expected this. But Netanyahu wins somehow.
And Martin joins me now from Tel Aviv. Martin, when we spoke
about this time yesterday, there were early exit polls which
suggested that Netanyahu might pull this out, but not by this
much of a margin. So what is the mood today among their his
supporters and the people who wanted to defeat him?
Well, a very mixed mood a real reflection of the division in
this country. On the one hand, you have the Likud supporters
euphoric, a great deal of a relief, because you have to
remember that going in to the election, the days before all
the polls, were saying that liquid was not going to do that.
Well, it was going to pull at least two to three seats behind
Isaac Hertzog center left coalition. And as a result,
there was a great deal of fear among a lot of Likud supporters
that they actually weren't going to make it. So when that final
result came out this morning, they were they were stunned.
They were they were extremely euphoric that this had happened.
On the other hand, you have the Zionist coalition to center
center left people who were to use the words that we heard on
the street today, shocked to devastated they thought they had
a real shot at at this time, because of a perception that
Netanyahu his popularity was was dropping was plummeting. And
that in fact, most Israelis wanted to see that change.
Before you give me your analysis. is it also possible
that the same process is in place in Israel, as we have in
the United States where the media continues to call it close
that might be behind he might lose? And it's all just for
advertising revenue?
That is my analysis.
I'm sorry, I have something all right. It's official, we think
too much like, someone has to be fired. I'll fire myself. I'm
gone. I'm gonna get out.
So sorry, this is obviously what's going on. I think it's
never with all this does my analysis, which was going to
include this aspect, which is now this has become somebody
figured out this was a great way to make money. But the media
companies that means to put a lot of ads out there and Israel
is a smaller market, but it's like a state but so the rich
state they would throw a lot of money at the media to go Oh,
God, we're gonna lose. You better bring in some more
advertising. Right. And I'm sure Shelly Adelson lost millions of
dollars on this scam. But this is they've figured it out that
this is the way to go these and you said yourself. The reason I
brought this clip in is because you had this phony baloney
survey that was being done by just a bunch of you know
doofuses that just joined this organization. Not that our
people are doofuses. But they joined the organization. Now
they're experts. And this whole this this entire polling
situation as it now exists
is not it's the sales job for the media companies
just useless. Now, if you notice most of these polls, if you do
this never just you know, one old pollster or another it's not
Gallup much more. It's usually Gallup, a NBC. Gallup ABC. Yeah.
The
Pew Pew CNN
poll linked to a media company. Right. Wow, if that doesn't tell
you all you don't need to know. Got the media company. Right?
They're doing the bowl, CBS has determined that the re election
is too close to call. Yeah,
I know. It's great.
And it's like being a book invent in Vegas, these guys.
Because the bookies they have the odds for the game. The odds
are like the bookies only making money, the big they make the
middle they make the little money in the middle. So all of a
sudden they give one team five points that win and all of it.
And now everybody starts betting on that team. And so you have to
like Oh, geez, we got to balance the betting. So let's drop the
favourites down to three points instead of five. And then a bat.
Oh, that's a good bet now so these other guys start betting
and so they go back and forth and back and forth with to get
the number of bets on both sides to be as close to equal as
possible. They will make all this money in the middle. And
that's what's going on with the media companies, the media
companies if there's being part of the polling and also
controlling the coffers, they say how much money has come in
for Obama. Oh, this much. Oh, God, we gotta make this. They're
not paying enough. Let's make it make bad news. Bad news on the
horizon. Right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. This is a scam. Yeah, it's
one of the best scams I've ever seen. We are the only two people
that pub We discuss this scam as it exists, and now it is
apparently going on in Israel. I don't know, how else was
everybody so shocked?
I there was no, I didn't clip it because it was just too boring.
The President was Cleveland, maybe a category was. And he
said, Maybe we should make voting mandatory in? No, that's
my water, honey. Thank you. Maybe we should make voting
mandatory in America. I mean, I contemplated for a moment that
think now that that would not
be a good idea what it was illegal.
I know it's illegal.
No, it wouldn't be a good idea. Nobody would vote anyway.
There are countries that do this. I think Australia is
mandatory to vote. Yeah, well, yeah, I think you get fined if
you don't vote.
Yeah, we don't need that.
I'm just trying to the voice of reason, ladies and gentlemen. We
don't need that. Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the White House
published a notice in the Federal Register, which as you
know, bad chat as the man always maintaining my Federal Register
feed, he plucks things out. Which deleted the regulation
requiring the Office of Administration to be subject to
public information requests, which would have required to
respond under the Freedom of Information Act. And this is
underreported, for obvious reasons.
Now, let's go back this up again and say this from the beginning.
Okay, so in
the Federal Register, so it'd be so deleting the regulation
required that requires the Office of Administration to be
the Office of Administration. That's the office of the
administration of, of the White House, the administration? Oh,
but it's called Office of Administration. I can look it up
if you want. That's okay. Keep going. You look it up. Office of
Administration to be subject to public information requests,
which would have required a response under the Freedom of
Information Act, in other words, that there is no regulation for
the office of the administration to respond to or or to provide
any documentation requested under a FOIA request. No bueno.
Yeah, that's exactly what it is White House office to delete his
FOIA regulations. And this was a story that is in USA Today.
I think it holds true that they're the most transparent
administration in history. You know, there's nothing there. You
know, look, nothing, nothing to see.
Absolutely. Look over here. Nothing to see. Look at that.
Should be up in arms about this. Well, I
don't under the press seems to be very timid on as well.
demure. I mean, it is what it is.
That's our press. demure. Yeah, Muir or demure parrot preparing
press re cycling press releases being told what to do by the
pretty PR girl.
And pretty she is. They always are. But they always have
something wrong. Like when tooth is crooked or something. Do you
know what I mean? The PR girls that you get on your book tour?
PR your Am
I right? Or am I right?
I don't know about that. I've seen plenty of them that have no
flaws, zero flaws. Well, everybody
has flaws John C. Dvorak. Nobody perfect. So there were some
questions. But no, no, it's just dumb. The whole thing is just
incredibly dumb. I don't understand why people aren't up
in arms. But I think what it is whenever the journalist sit down
to write about ethics, and you know, uptrend real transparency
and openness, it comes across as like, it's like it's inside
baseball, regular people look at that in whatever, you know, it's
not written in in a consumer friendly way so that people can
actually understand the book. It just said, Hey, they're burning
the record. So you can't see what's going on is bullshit.
maybes people go hey, what?
Yeah, nobody likes that kind of writing in the editor. They they
were here's the problem, one of the problems in newspapers. And
now we would I know that some newspaper guys that listen to
journalists, you know what you're talking about, actually?
Well, here's
one of the problems is they really, I only have one or two
on his friends that work in newspapers. And one of them once
said, I don't see what the point is. We're not Hemingway.
Alright, that's like we're in Austin. It's good enough.
It's is we're not Hemingway. But a lot of these guys like to
pretend to be highfalutin, and I mean, the dentistry and it's
always said that the difference between the journalism in
England which is more, you know, aggressive, is that in England
is considered a trade and in the United States is considered a
profession. And when you start thinking of journalists,
reporters as a profession, right, which, you know, kind of
indicates maybe it should be licensed or should serve some
oversight. Like all professions, you're putting yourself on a
pedestal that is bull crap. Right? To trade just like
buddies, you know,
well, they're not doing a good job.
They're not doing crafts. That's what that's true and then they
consider themselves professional. So
you're telling me that real journalists like New York Times
guys who listen to the show? No.
I thought that's what you said. I know it's a
state New York Times that's a newspaper guy that report I
mean, I'm sure there's a reporter and in the in the
Dakotas that listens to the show, I'm sure those are
important
story ideas. I'll let those guys do the footwork. I'll just take
it
I think there's some guys you know, like you go to Arkansas
there'd be somebody listen to the show, New York Times there's
I would say that and I know a lot of New York Times guys, not
one of them will listen to the show. They don't like the idea
of the show. They don't like their our attitude. They don't
like this constant carping about the media being a bunch of a
holes and they certainly
don't like hey man, first of all, they will they are not in
the Amen. Fist bump group. Yeah, no. Yeah. Yeah. No. Well, it's
interesting. You say that and I always love hearing your
insights about how the printed media works, because I know very
little about it, except what I've heard from you. But if I
look at the that
it could be could be a pathological liar. Oh, well,
I've never even worked at it. What are you talking about?
I've suspected that for so long, I think none of its true making
it
all up you wish
no
you're an asset my friend so all effect
Yeah. No, I Yeah, no, no, I believe there is a possibility
that some news guys and maybe they should send us a note. By
the way, these guys would never send us a note through
contribution because newspaper guys are cheap. They're all
cheap cheap bastards Well, cheap bastards they are so here's
another problem ever pick up a tab. They dress like you know
they don't make they get ripped off.
Of course. So you have the $250 million WordPress blog set up by
philanthropist PR media I drive my car at Glenn Greenwald derive
grin grin Greenwald people seem to be bailing out there's not
enough parachutes for people to get off that ship. Out we go.
And
then the rain world's not bailing. You know, he's not been
no, of
course not. If you got paid doesn't matter. You the whole
thing is lay Marino. But what's happening, I saw this and I
think this is part of the problem. I'm very interested in
their activism. I don't really call it journalism, but he's
more like activism these days with the writing but I try to
get through it. And the stories are so long as you keep
scrolling down and down, like, you know, this is the intercept
is the entire reason for TLDR. I need someone summarize. And
luckily tech dirt, dirt. dirt, dirt.
Great name. Came up with that. Wait a minute.
dirt that's been around for a long time has
no it has I've always admired the name. Hold on
one second, just gotta do something.
I'm gonna register this domain right now. Hold on.
I bet you it's available. I'm not gonna say it the morning
when I was grabbing it before I got it. And the answer is Oh,
man is already registered tech tar.com. I thought towels are
great. And I was already registered. Anyway. So they,
they took one of the stories which is actually quite good.
From intercept about the FBI six week cycle. Now for those of you
who are new. We heard Mozilla two years ago, maybe from one of
our insiders almost three years ago and maybe three years Yeah,
from one of our insiders of the agency that there's a cycle is
about six weeks, and every six weeks, the FBI has to make some
noise and have some kind of big get the budget up there to keep
the budget in place otherwise and you start to lose budget
look bad, you know, you need to shake the tree, you gotta get
some gotta make noise. So, invariably, if you look at the,
the numbers I saw the other day, these are the 539 arrests the
FBI made, there's some 370 involved, you know, either a
sting operation or all of the they're all the informants were
all FBI, but just entrapment and trying to dumb people. And
somehow intercept got ahold of this tape that they've made this
stupid guide. There's more on in Ohio put together. Remember
this. This was the last six weeks cycle. Right. And but they
left the tape running.
By the way, the next week, six week cycle hits at tax time and
April 15. Right which is always
a good time to blame it on patriots. You know, because we
might be taxed or the or the sovereign citizens or something
like that it'd be something like that. I'm like that yeah. So
after recording the video they left the tape on and somehow
intercept got a hold of this and the audio captured after this
this martyrdom video when something I don't have it but
that's just what they wrote. I wish I had I'd love to hear it.
So these are FBI agents now talking amongst each other while
this the schlub is off to go, you know, go buy $500 worth of
weapons and ammo. Take down the government. They actually drove
him there. Couldn't they drove him and put the money in his
hands. When he was putting stuff on he acted like he was nervous.
One of the speakers tells Amir he kept backing away. Yeah, Amir
agrees. He looked nervous on the camera. Someone else adds. Yeah,
he got excited. I think he got excited when he saw the stuff.
Amir serves referring to the weapons that were laid out on
the hotel bed. Oh, yeah, you could tell. He was all like,
like, like a six year old in a toy store. So they just have the
directing him and tell him how to do everything. And then
literally driving him to the store. So they drove him to the
store. They let me recall what happened. They had the store
owner in on it. But the students Hoelscher rod, the store owner
goes Oh, here you go. Sure. You're good to go, son. And then
he walks out in the guys who drove him there the pull him
down like FBI don't move.
It's pretty funny. It's ridiculous. It's like the Reno
911 or whatever it is show.
It's just it just blows blows my mind. Any of that. So here it
is. So I appreciate the intercept has this. And I
presume they I'd love to hear the audio. But they're so
unreadable.
Well, they don't have an editor. Yeah. Correct. And I've always
had this hunch, because Greenwald I read Ben, as you
know, I was a big fan of his way when he was at Salon, and I like
to read his material. And I went from salon to guardian to his
own thing. And I've, and it seemed like he was giving up a
reasonably good gig at The Guardian, because they gave him
a lot of resources. And he was getting his headlines that he so
desperately wanted. But I always had a sneaking suspicion that as
a lawyer, he was never really a good reporter type writer that
would write the standard style that people are comfortable
with. And he had to be heavily edited. I know. So Ron is
heavily editing operations. And by
the way, I haven't seen Glenn Greenwald piece in a long time.
It's all these other people who are writing.
Yeah, well, I think there's no editor there. And they nobody is
saying now that's too long ago cut it up. Take this take that I
mean, editors have their value. I even though I hate to say that
because somebody also you said that they have their value when
it comes to people who are just you know, they they're there
right too long, that too verbose, they can't get to the
point they organize a poorly organized. And I always thought
Greenwell must be one of those guys. And the Guardian was
probably tired of over editing him because the British or you
know, the style, as well. So that's whether too long, there's
somebody's not there to tell them to shorten these pieces, or
break them out.
Or maybe it's just like, leave it that way. Because then we got
the information out and some people cared, but generally no
one cared. And then everyone else left alone, because the
intercept already had the story and whatever. I still don't
trust that honey pot. Yeah, I don't trust that whole
operation. I mean, I think that all these people bailing out
they smelled more than just the rat. That is the obvious
management. deficit.
Yeah. I mean, Matt Taibbi was there for what 10 minutes? Yeah,
three days looked around and said I'm out. You know
what, where is the 60 minutes piece on that? It's about time
Don't you think this is a big deal? This This was huge.
Everyone was all in Everyone wanted a job, everyone. Oh, have
you have the talking to me to tell Can you hear me? As we had?
It was the dickhead over there. The the university guy Oh, I'm
going to advise them. But what's his name? What
was in jail? What happened to him? You know, he's
no longer advising them. Yeah, no, it's I think it's contract
ended. Right? Come on. There's the media needs to do some work
on that. Very important.
And nobody said of you.
But they also very tired of Edward Snowden showing up
everywhere because he had SXSW Ed Snowden and has a call to
arms for tech
ed technologies. He hasn't said anything new for over a year.
Now. Amazon's got the same same
broken glasses that he wears. No
Winning nonsense. Who cares? Yeah, you should have stolen
more stuff.
Now we just sound like grumpy old dudes. That's
his most Yeah, two guys in the balcony. It's like he. In fact,
when we look back on it, I'd say that he just took a few
PowerPoint presentations.
That's all he had. He never had never had any code. It's just
Yeah. card carrying member of the Central Intelligence Agency
working as a contractor for NSA at Booz Hamilton. Yeah,
PowerPoints
set up to just embarrass the agency.
When just PowerPoints. All right,
onward, yes.
This is from I think, about a week ago. And just drug
trafficking in general. And in these United States of Gitmo
nation, of course, we know where the poppies come from. They're
all from Afghanistan. And I guess the way this system kind
of works is they get it to Mexico. That's where it's turned
into, into horse smack. The good white, the brown stone.
My understanding is that we used to get that report. I know what
we do get another copy. My understanding is the stuff that
goes through Mexico is not necessarily the stuff that comes
out of Afghanistan. Well, I was under the understanding that
they make to heroin in Afghanistan, it goes right into
Europe. Well, that's what
this clip is about. And then our international folks play
a huge role. This is DEA administrator Michelle Lee and
Leonhard Lionheart me in hearts, something and
then our international folks play a huge role here, because
the majority of the heroin that is hitting your streets is
coming from Mexico, and is being trafficked by those same
organizations that are bringing Coke, meth, marijuana, you name
it to your communities. These are the same organizations that
college drug organizations, and we have partnered with our
partners in Mexico, who now have have done over the last year
have really taken a look at the heroin problem. They see the
role that they play, and we have actually done some very good
work together with them to focus on the problem.
Yeah, I'm gonna make it more efficient for everybody
partnered with partners. I
know. I know. I know that we partner with our partners. Yeah,
but I can tell you who that is because it's probably the
Sinaloa Cartel. Well, yeah. But it
seems to me was I think I think that deals fallen apart. I think
it's something somebody else now. Yeah.
It's the Yeah, what's their name? It's like a real common
name. Ah, I
don't know. Yeah.
It'll be the chatroom may now. The video seems to me
particularly look at HSBC and all the drug money they were
laundering. It makes kind of sense that was coming through
Mexico. I mean, the the high production that she says seems
to be in Mexico. Yeah. I mean, why wouldn't you just send the
raw materials there? Let them deal with it.
Let's have raw materials come from all over the place, but
mostly from Afghanistan. Okay. I don't know the way this somebody
should explain in some more, they don't want to make a point
of showing that we're involved in Afghanistan traffic. No. So
we're never going to find out the
deal. Not from the DEA. No, of course. Not. The
whole thing is ridiculous. So I was watching some entertainment.
No. And I will add because it's taking the show off because
there was a dog is called the Mysteries of Laura. And it's got
that pretty girl who was the actress? I can't think of her
name offhand. Anyway, she does show us she's a detective. It's
another just another what is it? What network is Aaron? I think
it's on CBS. Okay, whatever the case could be NBC whatever the
case is didn't catch on. I'll look it up while I play this
clip. I got two clips. One of them I thought was interesting
because they gave us a lesson on police forfeiture law. And it
reminded me what a scam This is and and we know there's a lot of
scandals around the country about police pulling you over
and taking your stuff that that money must have drugs my money
if you got more than 100 bucks Why do you got all this money
for drug money? Yeah, then you can't get it back and you know
people confiscate computers you can't get them back they just
keep them but this is a this little lesson I thought was
interesting. They would put this in the show.
Detective Soto permission to speak freely permission not
really necessary, but go ahead. That thing you purloined from
the drug bust is a bastardization of the entire
neoclassical tradition and it's stupid permission
withdrawn. First of all, I did not prolong the Heisman Cupid
told me that's not what it's called. Thais are following me
than anyone know been preparing. Secondly, under the laws of
civil forfeiture any items obtained in a criminal arrest
can be utilized by the department in any manner it sees
fit in this case classing up my desk
is that opposite day.
Is this a gay cop show?
Everybody, most of the cops are gay on the show. By the way,
this is an NBC show. That's the problem. They can't do anything
right and it's poorly written. It has a lot of like, very
hands up, put them at least in your waist.
It has a lot of juvenile lines. But the thing that I observed
was a little native advertising or perhaps this is beyond
product placements. Just not like the coke can sit in there.
This is I believe, a native ad and
Mickey says something about guys from the old neighborhood. They
were
fans of his cross dress. Maybe someone from his past coming
back to haunt him. Next you get the name that pizza joy.
See Signorina pizza vongola A bungling means claims in Italian
I'm doing Rosetta Stone. Here my Mandarin.
Okay, well, then I get to follow that up with my own native ad
that I that I call it
for Rosetta Stone if you didn't know. Yes, of
course. The language learning company. Yeah, I love it. Well,
this is from the magic of science. It's on Adult Swim, but
it's a cartoon. No kids may watch this too. I'm serious. Amy
Cotter. Calvin said he had totally hook up with you. Oh my
god. He's a total creep. He's kind of cute.
Danielle, I forgot to tell you I was going to get my HPV vaccine
this weekend. And I was thinking you could come then we could
just veg and watch movies or whatever. You want to go to the
doctors together. I want us not to get cervical cancer. I want G
fire crotch. Fire crotch.
Oh my god. That definitely top mine.
I'm gonna show us move by Jonah to no agenda. Imagine all the
people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fun
fire fire crotch could be a possible show title. No fire
down. You never know. We'll discuss 10 will be like fire
crotch is the best man. Yeah, it's
good catch. Good catch. I should have caught it. We do a few
people thank very few. As a matter of fact, it looks like
about 20 But it's a slow day sometimes he's Thursday's are
just annoying. Yeah, maybe we
should just not do them. I could do a couple more days off live
in squalor.
I guess stay home and other day.
Not going anywhere. Not not visit the friends. You don't
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wanted to travel early, so that we get in at a reasonable hour
and then just have to stay up until like 11 or something. And
then I can be back on schedule prep Saturday and then do the
show Sunday.
Oh, good. So you're tormenting yourself. I was ridiculous. The
early flights. Oh, get back to the US today. Hopefully not
delayed at the customs by any means. And get back to the show
for the Sunday show. 706
Yes. And the Christina is going with me. She's traveling back so
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Exactly. She's been making me do all kinds of stuff. You're like,
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As I saw, you know the shipping strike may had something to do
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believe I don't know that there still may be a slowdown.
So Jen Psaki, we, we haven't seen Maria in a while. I know
I'm so disappointed about like it when Marie and
and Matt Mallory got bumped.
While she didn't get the promotion that she but she gets
to do all the show. She gets to go on Wolf Blitzer and talk
about stuff and look pretty cute and all that, you know, it's
okay. That the blue got the job. Will I forget some other woman?
Don't worry. That's good. Hopefully she'll be funny,
hopefully. So Jen, of course, Matt is in here in this clip,
and we're talking about Venezuela. And Venezuela. Of
course, there was a, you know, some disruption immediately. The
United States is blamed because I'm pretty sure we're to blame.
We like doing that. We've tried it several times. You know,
we've just throughout history, how long we've been trying to
screw things up there.
John, well, we're not trying to screw things up who, okay. Just
want them to do what we say.
Yeah, exactly. Well, we never do that. We have a policy of not
meddling in the affairs of countries. Apparently according
to Jen, President
Maduro last night went on the air and said that they had
arrested multiple people who were allegedly behind a coup
that was backed by the United States. What is your response?
These latest accusations like all previous acts, such
accusations are ludicrous. As a matter of long standing policy,
the United States does not support political transitions.
By non constitutional means political transitions must be
democratic, constitutional, peaceful and legal. We've seen
many times that the Venezuelan government tries to distract
from its own actions by blaming the United States or other
members of the international community for events inside
Venezuela. These efforts reflect a lack of seriousness on the
part of the Venezuelan government to deal with the
grave situation at faces.
There's mad thank goodness the only this is the only other
person by the way that I know in media who will be will discuss
things that are so obvious but other outfits just don't do.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that was a long standing practice of not
promoting what did you say? How long standing is that? In
particular, in South and Latin America, that is not a long
standing practice.
Well, my point here, Matt, without getting into history
that we have no involvement with and these are ludicrous
accusations
in this in this specific crash but if you go back not that long
ago, during your lifetime anyone yours?
Didn't know what did what didn't you play this clip already know?
Me because this is from a couple of days from about a week ago,
two weeks ago, week ago. You played it? I don't believe so.
Okay, well, now you bummed me out, and I don't even want to
finish it.
Where are you gonna finish it? Because people I'm sure don't
listen to every minute of every show. So play it. It's a good
clip
to share. But I mean, there's long standing mean 10 years in
this case. I
mean, what my intention was to speak to specific reports but
you said it's a long standing us practice about not so sure.
Depends on what your definition of law. Okay.
I see that's why shouldn't apply the rest of it. You
know, what's funny about that clip, is that he, I think he
misused the words to che. I agree. She says I'm Oh, I'm in
my lifetime. I'm only 21. Or she says
it's peculiar. You say that? Because I thought the same thing
when I heard it. Yeah. As when you make when I make a joke,
it's not a to say. No, it's not to shake it at all. It's a
rimshot or something. It's not to che
is when somebody comes back at you with something related to
what you just said, to skewer you. Yes. And that's why the
term is a skewer you would have a foil, you'd be fencing and
then you would skewer the person and of course you'd be wearing
something to keep from getting killed but if you weren't
wearing to think you'd be skewed to the right and you'd go to che
and drop
if you didn't if you forgot I used to fence Oh yeah, I
actually see buzzkill Junior used to I was the third in the
Dutch National Championship juniors.
Why? Well that's a big deal. Yeah,
it was a big deal not only was I must have been a game you didn't
keep up with it you'd be you know you're tall you have the
you have an air about you as a summer with a rap a
rap here. Yes. What is it right here? I
could see you I could see you holding woof woof woof woof some
sort of thing and then God yeah on garden and you're whipping
around like crazy. I haven't stick with it.
I'm trying to think we maybe we moved the I think we probably
moved away from the school because there was only one Metro
Vancouver of them. There was only one one real fencing school
it was an Amsterdam was a real pain in the ass. No, I that's
when I started building transmitters
I could have I could have no
mail What am I wasting my time stamping cheese
there's no chicks and fencing man Wait a minute radio now
you're talking Yeah. And I got the perfect face for radio man
man just trying to stick a guy with a with a needle is a wasted
time man radio that's where the money
as you know, I'm always paying attention very close attention.
Words matter. What's it what people say the President was on
Jimmy Kimmel Live. The
isi meant to record this I missed it completely. But then
again, I've seen so much of the present on these shows that I
find it like that talking about A waste of time you can give you
got a clip out of this I, I
kind of got a clip, you know? Just because when the President
makes jokes, he's still saying things and you know, the way he
was saying it was some sincerity, I just want to have
this in our show for posterity, you know, so that we can go back
and say, Well, we I had my suspicions about this
if I was the president, and it's unlikely that that is ever going
to happen. You never know. If I was the president, it was
unlikely that that was the moment I was inaugurated, my
hand would just it still be hot from touching the Bible. And I
would immediately race to wherever they hold have the
files about area 51 and UFOs. And I go through everything to
find out what happened. But did you do that?
That's why you will not be pressing.
By the way, it was a setup joke. That at least that was obvious
to me. Do you
know mama can He's good? He's good. But I think that's the
best.
He's very good. But I thought that I thought that was
scripted. Do
you reveal all their secrets? strict control over us.
Now you know there are a lot of people that are going to examine
your your facial expressions here. Every every Twitch
everything and say no, of course. So did you look Did you
see the
Explorer? I can't reveal any Oh, really?
Because President Clinton said he did go right in and he did
check. And there was nothing.
Well, you know, that's that's what were instructed to say. All
right. Say man. Yeah. Wow.
I always want to just, you know, keep that on.
You know, you may be right on because he is. He may be just
that's an injured that was actually quite interesting.
That's the way I saw it, man. And it's funny that of all these
assholes who do these shows that Kimmel who I think does the best
show, by the way. Oh, really? I don't. I tell you why? Because
Kimmel has some because everyone has the stock gags that they
like to do. Yeah, Campbell stock gags where he goes on the street
and so stupid questions that that thing where he does the
unnecessary censorship. He has a bunch of these. They're all the
best. They're all much better than anything. Let him as ever
come up.
Oh, yeah. I think let us lost. Lost it.
That what's his name does Fallon.
Fallon sometimes good. I find there's a lot of production
apps who much thing? Is that funny? All right.
Why are we even discussing this? Well, I'm
just saying what I was trying to finish I just do that as an
aside, is of all these guys who have had a bomb on none of them
have ever asked this question. Know About area 51.
This is also ABC Correct? Yes. Okay. That's his favorite
network. All his buddies are at ABC is
fine. It was interesting that somebody asked the question, I
think that was a good catch.
Sticking with the President Obama for a moment, the he was
he's been on the road has been doing some speeches. And he
started talking about guns. And of course, this is also I guess,
part of his legacy tour in a way you know, a little bit of
football spiking, but also apologetic or saying here's what
I've done, what I can do, and of course, Congress. But at the end
of this clip, he he really loses it. And this is actually at the
beginning of the clip. He's Oh, he's already lost his train of
thought. And I guess he's reading a teleprompter there I
was doing when I was walking around moments with the
handbike. It's about Sandy Hook and about guns and just for the
newer listeners, we have a lot of questions about Sandy Hook.
We there's a lot of things we haven't seen ie anything. And
there's a lot of blood and they
tear down the school. I never see any videos of anything. And
the
the medical examiner who had the weirdest press conference ever.
He retired or the feeling's gone, just gone. A lot of
strange things the whole thing weren't allowed to listen to any
9112 tapes because we are the only
show that played the 911 tape. There was nothing Oh teacher and
it was a foot and everybody else wasn't gonna play it because it
was so controversial. So we played it there was nothing on
it on and on and on. You can go to YouTube and see a million
takedowns of this whole episode. Yeah,
that crazy guy who you know he moved to Kevin miscounting how
many kids were in his driveway but a lot of stuff. A lot of
really really strange stuff. So that's why we always did perks
meaning I get my interest is piqued when Yeah, that's French.
It when I hear the President talking about it, it makes sense
to
me and I'll be honest with you, I thought after What happened in
Sandy Hook? That that would that would make us think about it.
The hardest day of my presidency, I've had some hard
days. But nothing compares to being with the parents of 26
year old kids. Oops.
So how is he going to recover? He just said, nothing harder
than the day I had to be with the parents of 26 year old kids,
because he misread now
he's no, he said, 26 year old kids? No.
No, because he actually no, I don't think that's what he said.
He said, Oh, wow, there's
two being with a while the parents are 26 year old kids.
I guess I could hear it that way. Okay. I heard it
differently, particularly because of this, the next line,
beautiful kids, beautiful.
Why am I laughing? I'm a horrible man.
And some heroic teachers and administrators in that school,
just two, three days after they had been just gunned down in
their own classroom gunned down in their own classroom would
have thought at that point, that's got to be enough of a
motivator for us to want to do something about this. That was
the plan, that's for sure. And we couldn't get it done. I mean,
there was just at least at the congressional level. So what
we've done is we have tried as much as we can administratively
to implement background checks and to make sure that we're
working with those states and cities and jurisdictions.
Now he's gotten the main message out, that didn't work. And now
he's trying to remember what what we're doing.
And the end, the joke, of course, is that Lanza had the
guns from his mom. Yeah, there was no background check would
have done nothing about this. But what would have maybe done
something is armed teachers, which was the little mistake.
The President said this.
The President is about to call you out son
that are interested and willing to partner with us to crack down
on the legal use of firearms, particularly handguns. But
by the way, he didn't use a handgun opportunity. That's the
only use the Yeah, he had a rifle and rifle I don't think he
had a hand got us
with you. In the absence of more he's losing and I would consider
heroic and courageous stances from our legislators both at the
state level and the federal level. I already
cut all the pauses out of this man I'm sorry, but he's about to
go nuts.
It is hard to reduce the easy availability of guns. And as
long as they're as long as you can go off
of the he just said the easy availability of guns which we
presume to be background checks and psychoanalysis whatever it
is, that is going to be put in place, but he didn't he goes
into this
to reduce the easy availability of guns. And as long as there as
long as you can go on to in some neighborhoods, and it is easier
for you to buy a firearm than it is for you to buy a book
ever hear of Amazon president come on, come on you can do
better. Oh crap could do better than that. Let's you can do
better. You can do better neighborhoods
where it's easier for you to buy a handgun and clips clips is for
you to buy a fresh vegetable
no carrots, though fresh vegetable. He's losing it here.
He's losing. That no speech writer said I got a good one,
let's say five easier to buy firearms and a fresh vegetable.
Not the war president the president is off script the
President is off script to be prepared.
And clips for you to buy
machetes fresh vegetable.
As long as that's the case. We're going to continue to see
unnecessary violence but
yay for unnecessary I guess I'll end by saying
this Yeah, please, despite those frustrations, despite the
failure of Congress to act despite the failure of too many
state legislators sacked in fact in some places it goes the
opposite direction people just say well, we should have
firearms and in kindergarten and we should we should
I gotta think of another one. Oh, come on brain Don't fail me.
Now. I need something I need another now. I need to do the
fact the fact that I need a fun little fact.
You don't have machine guns in you know, in bars. Yeah. Yeah,
you've heard about that legislation
in bars
you think I'm exaggerating? Yeah yeah all right I read
the Federal President you
can give yourself Clip of the Day
Wow. Because the vegetable vegetable really did brought it
home
Oh man, I love that machine guns and bars.
By the way, the Texas Senate passed the open carry
legislation
that you already had
open carry, not for handguns. Would you have it for rifles
long guns? And antiques? Yeah, not for a semi automatic assault
rifles, military style assault rifles, but now the open carry
as long as you have a concealed carry permit, then as I
understand it, then you can I just want to go into Whole Foods
with the judge strapped to my thigh. Hey, Mitch is here to
give me some candles
that would be what you'd go there for. We have a whole foods
here now it is extremely expensive. Yeah, hello. Okay. So
we have so we know that over the last I got a couple clips.
I'm still just thinking about my the judge to have to my thigh. I
really aren't really going to do that.
It should yeah, it will again have somebody take a picture of
this
exercise in my first amend my second Whoa, was some one of
those one of those amendments.
So we have a tech boom in San Francisco. No. Yeah. Oh, waiter,
you know, moved in on Market Street. And there's all these
different companies all over the place. They do. They were fixed
up dead, dead, dead, falling apart. Pacific Gas buildings.
You know,
when I was in San Francisco, when I was in San Francisco a
while back. We walked back from I can't remember some
restaurant. And right by the Twitter headquarters. There was
like one or two guys it was a homeless guys who will walk
alongside of you. You know that kind? Yeah, yeah. Talking to you
and stuff
concerning? Yeah. You gotta pull out a shiv. Okay. All right. So
this is all going on is uh, Google's got two big buses
picking people up. And the whole thing is a bunch. It's, it's a,
they're building everything. There's all new apartments
everywhere. It's ionic control. And so let's play the
homelessness clip in San Francisco.
And while dowsing doesn't look good for a church that prides
itself on its charity works, it seemed to work. Stop,
stop, stop, stop. So the church, the St. Mary's Cathedral, or a
couple of these churches have taken up the idea of having
sprinkler systems in their little annexes where they have
will sit in there and try to get some sleep overnight. So they
Tao some
way. So like a little courtyard, you mean like it'll just soak
them where there's grass and nice little benches.
There's also the little enclaves where the stair steps and they
may find a little spot, right? Yeah, they got, they soak them,
they they soak the guy, and it's not knowing what you're doing,
we rush them with water. And so this is going on, start to clip
from scratch, you get stuck to a priest feels bad about it. I
don't
know, the holy man holy men who decided that instead of taking
the weed, the meek and the poor and the hungry, and the
downtrodden into their home and hearth,
they soak them and tell them to get the fuck out.
And while dowsing doesn't look good for a church that prides
itself on its charity works, it seemed to work improved.
That actually there weren't as much needles and condoms and
everything else around. So that doesn't make it up, say needles
and condoms. Yeah, needles and condom. Needles and condoms.
Noonan in hindsight, right. But it did.
Randy Shaw, an advocate with the tenderloin housing Clinic says
it's a city wide problem. But I think the larger question which
I think we should have attention to is the is the failure of the
city's homeless outreach program to effectively operate despite
having a $3 million
dollar annual budget.
I'll definitely review that with him. But I know what we're doing
heavy amount of outreach. I just noticed behind you the entrance
to your housing clinic has a gate that comes down. Is that
important to both Wheatley? Absolutely. And we've had more
people sprawled in front of our entrance, I would say in 2015
than the preceding 20 years. I
have to say that in honesty, the problem of everything around
here is getting to the point where there was frustration
the priesthood as gay
no I don't know I could buy whatever the case this is the
your this is your high tech boom going on. That's a high tech
boom creating more homeless. The guy says he's seen never seen
anything like is worse than it was for the last one two years.
Yeah. And then 2015 Now we're only in the flood the third
month.
It was the mayor up there in San Francisco.
Guy. I can't remember his name Ed something and he's like the
guy who's actually in the piece versus Oh, yeah, well, we'll
look into I know we got a lot of money. Got to spend it, I guess
in some way. I don't know what I don't know what we're gonna do
to that guy. Yeah, this is a disaster and the high tech guys
don't care. It's all a bunch of millennials and
they don't appear to that's for sure. Punching millennials.
There you go. It's just a bunch of millennials.
II abroad. Yeah. Now you it's your own fault. Get a job.
In the LGBTQ q ia P category. We have a I think a Supreme Court
decision coming up soon. Gay marriage. Yeah. And I realized
when I was looking at this, because it's you know, you also
get beaten over the head with it so much when they talk about it.
It's backburner now, but it's got to be coming up pretty soon.
So the idea here is, excuse me, the idea is that the Supreme
Court will say, well, because federally gay marriage is
permitted. We're going to make it make a ruling that this
carries across down to the state level. And I realized once
again, that my lesbian, gay bisexual by curious transgender
to ignorant agnostic, etc, queer questioning, brothers and
sisters are being misused once again. But this time is for
states rights, this will never happened. There's going to be
misconstrued as the states who are still left over it's only 15
States I think it was we still haven't implemented gay marriage
as a legal we're gonna be looked like a bunch of fucking eight
holes where it's really about a state's right to make this
decision. And that's why it can't pass there would be
jurisprudence for it.
Or press the 10th Amendment gives the states the right to do
these things unless it's in the Constitution. And there. I think
it's in the constitution. So I don't think states rights
applies to any of this.
What is in the Constitution?
The I think the gay marriage is not specifically set in the
Constitution, but I think the equal would equal rights for the
Equal Rights Amendment and some of that the eagle, not the
gowise rights, a member that was not passed on when that was for
women, but the the various interpretations of the
Constitution and see where it says a marriage is getting into
a marriage between a man and a woman. Right, right.
So I think what I'm saying is, if that I have no idea
all i and this topic is never interested me.
The topic of states rights. No, that's a stop topic as well.
That's what I'm saying this is a state's right, this is going to
be hidden under behind the Gay Agenda. But I believe it's
really a states rights issue. Because I'm not quite sure what
kind of legislation
the original arguments were always the state's rights. If
they vote, you know, the public votes against gay marriage,
which they did in California, which is ironic, then they have
to wait till they get it passed and do some whatever the
state it could be. It could be really could be far right. And
far reaching. I thought it was
in problem, I think terms of states rights is that there's an
interstate commerce aspect to this.
Yeah. Which is okay. Right. That's where that's where the
government gets this
guy and I moved to some state that doesn't recognize my
marriage. Well, wait a minute. This is a problem.
Yeah, that would be a reason for them to legislate, then they
have that power, I think. Yeah.
Because I think people are part of interstate commerce, if
you're moving from state to state, they would have falls
into traffic arguments. Well, you know, just stay in the state
as bullcrap if you're getting certain kinds of rights and
privileges in one state, because you can be married and then you
can't be married in another state. You don't get those
rights and privileges is the
mess. It's a mess. It's a mess. I just used to eclipse I saw
this guy. He was an analyst on Bloomberg. And it was about the
oil price. What is it now? I kind of lost track since around
45. I'll check 45 Okay, which is unprecedented and of course is
causing not unprecedented at all. I'm sorry, in the past five
years, unprecedented past in past 10 Nago. It is not
unprecedented. You're correct. So this is a guy who was
analyzing and gives a rationale for the prices going even lower,
substantially lower closer to the John C where the C stands
for carbon Dvorak prediction of what will you add $25 dollars
barrel 30.
So here's what's happening as prices market fall And by that
half over the past several months from over $100 A barrel
to below $50 a barrel, big trading companies rather than
sell it at those cheap prices are storing it, they're sitting
on it, they're buying it from oil companies, and they're
putting it in big tank farms in the middle of the country and in
Texas, hoping that prices will rise over the next couple of
months, and that there'll be able to sell it for say
60 $70.06 months down the road. The problem is, production
hasn't slowed down despite those high prices. So of those 9
million barrels a day that we're producing about a million of
those barrels a day get stuck in tanks, we're running out of
space. And that's got a lot of analysts worried that we're in
for a crash and the oil price again.
I thought that was interesting assessment of where we're at and
how it's kind of feeding on itself. Yeah, no, it's great.
And then of course, the that isn't a Yeah, no, when you go
like that. Yeah, no, that's great. I think it's I think it's
a man fist bump here.
I don't think I think I can get away with that. Okay. One be a
lot one beat as opposed to, ya know, which is just a quickie.
Well, we talked about this on the Horowitz show, and he's not
in line with my thinking on this either, which is gonna go to 30.
Well, here's, here's what this analyst thinks is gonna happen
on this show indulge for 40 seconds. Why
have oil companies continue producing oil at this record
setting pace? And at what point did they start to slow down.
So a lot of oil companies very smartly hedged. Back in the
fall, they took out futures contracts that guaranteed them
higher prices. When we were crashing, say in September,
October, depending on how savvy you were, you probably locked in
a price, say maybe 70 $80, probably above where we are
right now. So that means a lot of these companies are still
being able to sell their oil at a price above where we are
today. That keeps them profitable. As long as these
traders are buying from them and sticking it in storage space,
they're going to keep on on on producing until those hedges
rollover, which will probably happen sometime later this year
in the summer. And once that happens, then they're going to
start selling for lower prices. And we'll finally backup that
glut to the wellhead, and convince these guys to cool off
a bit.
And that's what I thought was interesting is that you don't
think about it. But so many companies that have need natural
resources, they have these hedges, so they have an average
price, which is what the derivatives market is all about.
So you can kind of forecast your business on, let's say, $50 a
barrel oil, but most people are at 60 or 70. And even though the
price is lower, it's going to be constant for them until those
contracts roll over. And that's what I think is an interesting
timeframe.
Well, here's the way I'm seeing this, I see the same thing. And
I know about the storage thing. And they're also putting them in
chips that are just sitting there. Oh yeah, they're putting
them but they're at the point where they inventories that Matt
is maxed out that you can't build tanks fast enough. So
they're screwed, correct. And they're gonna have to start
pushing this oil on the market, which is going to cause a glut
to which is going to drop the prices even more. I mean, it's
just, it has to happen. That's the only way these things work
unless somebody rigs it and they haven't figured out a way to do
that. I want to reiterate this when we had the clip on this
show, which which was about a year ago, where the Saudis
discussed what happened in the 70s. I don't want to and I
talked about this before, I'm gonna talk about it again. In
the seven days. We had this actually in the 80s when Reagan
came out and wanted to put it to the boat, the Russians, were
this be the
would this be the Saudis manipulating oil price and F
Russia clip? And
I haven't I don't know. Let's play that clip.
Vice Presidents of the Russian oil giant Rosneft has accused
Saudi Arabia of manipulating the oil price for political reasons,
because Leon T remarks come amid reports that Saudi officials
said no, no, no, this is the clip where the Russian RT folks
believe that the Saudis are pumping like crazy to screw the
the shale oil people out of they could have done this a while
ago, by the way. So this is nothing new. And this is what
happened in the 70s too. But I don't believe it was really
there that they don't care. They're pumping like crazy. They
don't care if this they would prefer the higher prices. It's
not as though the shale oil guys are eating their lunch or
anything. It's just bullcrap. The point was made and another
clip which you'll I don't even want you to look for it. Okay.
Where are the Saudis in the 70s? When are the said the 80s when
the price went down as low as 20 during the Reagan
administration, the Saudis were told to back off because of this
was getting out of control was too low. And the Saudis and the
OPEC were said Guys, can you guys back off a little bit
should slow down to pumping. We would like to get these things
under control as ridiculous. And despite it and the Russians have
already eaten it by then at 20. They can't really forward it, at
least in the technology they have to do During that era, and
the Saudis were the only people within OPEC that actually pulled
back on their production. And then the end of the day, and I'm
using that word, because there's only one I can think of that was
the end of the day. Yeah, at the end of the day, the Saudis lost
market share and said, and we had this clip, they said, we're
not doing that anymore. We're not going to stop production
just so you guys can stabilize the price, we can pump and make
money at $10 a barrel, and we're not going to lose market share.
losing market share is worse than losing money, which is a
real capitalist way to think about this. So they're pumping
like crazy. It's got nothing to do with anything else, except
the fear, which they've already seen. It happened to them in
their 70s and 80s. of losing market share.
Now, turn on your television, turn to a news channel and tell
me that you hear someone with that kind of analysis. No, no,
no, no.
Clip to back that up a
reminder to look forward after when we're doing our post show
thing. Meanwhile, our friend of the week is an anti Nuke, but he
is also seen as resident expert during the Fukushima nuclear
disaster. Arnie Gunderson
conflict of interest Yes,
Arnie Gunderson. big headlines in the UK nuclear expert warns
of Chernobyl on steroids risk from proposed nuclear plant 200
kilometers from the Irish coast. This of course, is not boof,
anybody who wants to be selling carbon based stuff. So I sent
this article because this, of course, is what most journalists
don't do. I sent this article to our residents, nuclear experts
or rob Adams. To what do you think of this? And he said,
Here's rod. Now rod, was on a nuclear submarine for two
decades. He's well known in the nuclear industry. And Rod says
he's wrong. The AP 1000 is a design used for the four
reactors under construction in Georgia and South Carolina. It's
a good safe design that has no possibility of an event like
Chernobyl. Gunderson by the way has a history of absurd
statements about nuclear energy. And then there's 25 years worth
of links that rod has provided us with. So there you go. For
those of you in the United Kingdom of Gitmo nation east.
He's just wrong. And there's also a longer blog post that sir
rod put together, specifically regarding this article.
Why am I not surprised?
Well, no, of course. Let me see. I think I think that's what I
have for now. I have a couple I'm working on a couple other
things. Of course, the Boston trial continues which is
becoming more hilarious by the day. They keep coming up with
video that is not the video we were promised. Hey, we got a
really scary video of when when they walked into the convenience
store the gas station. Yeah. And then the video that we were
promised of the kid putting the backpack in the trash can just
does not exist. And the button the media has given up on the
story. If they ever really were doing anything with it.
You know, if you stick with him in the mainstream media, if
you're sticking with this one question, it would go like this.
Oh, you're gonna ask that question. Same question. We're
getting a little sick of this. Exactly.
Hey, you can do the interview but you can't ask that question.
That's another thing they do they do that to you. Absolutely.
What is happening though, is kind of you've seen videos of
guys walking out. You weren't supposed to talk about that I'm
out of here.
There is one thing that is falling apart and I believe it
is the the wild Miss organization about Mars One.
The which we immediately debunked as phony and just a
reality show that you see the people who were involved in the
VARS. One fiasco, literally the end of molding and put on a one
way trip? Yeah. And I believe some of it, I believe a lot of
the people who say y'all do it. I think they had many of them
were sincere.
Well, sir, all scripted. No, no, no. This is where the I think
this is where they made the mistakes. Sort of Joseph Roche
professor at Trinity College School of Education, Dublin. He
was one of the one of the chosen ones. And then he started to see
all these things that were weird, for instance, that they
were supposed to come to see him and meet him as one of the 100
final candidates, but that ultimately resulted in a 10
minute Skype call. That would be my like, Okay, I don't think
these guys are serious about sending me to Mars. That was
that he was admitted based on the 10 minute Skype call. In
February, finalists received a list of tips and tricks for
dealing with press requests. which included this little gym?
If you're offered payment for an interview then feel free to
accept it. We do kindly ask for you to donate 75% of your profit
tomorrow's one wow these people also had to pay an entrance fee.
Oh yeah, I didn't know that.
Yes apparently.
How much was this fee
several $1,000 But I don't have an exact number
if anyone actually did it there at all
well there were a number of them and now it appears that Entomol
was pulled out of the project which is a sure sign that the
format is dead they probably just broke just ran out of money
on this scam which was pretty good I mean the idea they had
the right idea but you know if you don't have the resources to
pick everybody up and make them feel like future travelers and
astronauts and keep your PR scam going you're gonna get found out
was it beginning I thought they did a good job of like setting
it up for making say it'd be a good reality
show a lot of people fell for it that was good but just they did
everything I guess the under funded things like this is now
not good. And then finally head date should have done it some
some other way
oh well yeah the first of all they should have had the
resources to actually treat the candidates who were you know
self selective and chosen so called you have to have a real
experience hate money
well yeah, exactly that that was that was wrong from the get go.
But it shows you how well well it would have worked I think and
then of course the most email then tweeted story of the day
you slaves can get the Mac into the macaroni and cheese jet or
melt
back in and cheese mac and cheese mac and cheese of course
this is the program that has worked we have always been
trending when it comes to mac and cheese we knew this was
coming. This is what would people eat during depression ary
times when money's tight and $1 can feed your entire family just
with a packet and some water. And what was the story they
recall six point craft recalled six and a half million boxes of
its signature. That's the the Lux
version one signature
manual I talked about this on the DSM push on I did a
calculation which I will reiterate
Can I can I make a prediction? Okay, they will sell more mac
and cheese because of the story.
There's metal in it, which is probably the only nutrition
you'd get. I will let me just say that I did a calculation on
the right off the 6.5 million bucks that I believe that Kraft
will have to write off $50,000 in their next
quarterly here's an interesting question since it's so close to
tax time is that joke didn't go over with you know I didn't
understand it. I was actually thinking you were onto something
real do the joke again.
Now it's okay I don't need people who are who listen to the
show will have heard the joke and they're laughing there's
milk is coming out of their nose go on. I'm sorry. No it's okay i
When you said the write off something triggered in my mind
that a while back we got an email from one of our producers
who said there are so many car recalls because there's an
accounting trick something with a recall that there's a tax
benefit or deferred tax.
No that's interesting. And I was just thinking so close to taxes
just a scam. Well, I
don't know it's six and a half million boxes a lot.
I believe anyone buys that stuff and eats it.
I told you I ate it.
Yeah, did you could you finish it?
It wasn't all that much. Well that one packet is not really
enough for dinner growing boy. A meal to meal in a packet it's
just beautiful. I don't know Is there anything else I need to
say about it other than I think that these recalls either have a
tax benefit but it's also possible that somehow they can
do I don't know like they were all out of ideas. I know. We
need to come back with new improved no safe better.
Believe me I am baffled by people who buy that stuff. And
I've seen pack I've seen the dinners they haven't met Doug
Grocery Outlet will have mac and cheese not to craft stuff but
they have the craft sometimes but they have other brands off
brands. There's nothing your lighting better reevaluate your
life if you're eating off brand. Yeah, he went doing this 39
cents from mac and cheese off brand dinner.
All right. We will. On Sunday. John will give us an I will
write it down and publish it will give us his famous macaroni
and cheese recipe that is not expensive, but it's also not for
losers. Don't you think you can do that?
Yeah. Okay, I'll do I'll do a run through it again so I have
the exact measurements.
Be perfect. Perfect. All right, leaving on a jet paying early in
the morning.
A jet pain is what you said jet plane. Yeah, no, no jet pain.
I said jet pain and his jet pain.
I know. Jet pain,
you trust and you try sleeping on the couch for two weeks.
I'm ready to go home and ready
to go. I really am. I'm ready for home.
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