Nik pickles investigator
Adam curry Jhansi Devora Sunday July 29 2018
This is your award winning game foundation media assassination
episode 1055. This
is no agenda. Now with twice
the hearing power and broadcasting live from the
capital of the drove Star state here in downtown Austin Tejas in
the Clooney. Oh, good morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley if you go any further north to
places on fire, I'm Jesse.
Raglan buzzkill Yeah,
I guess we should have done something for that rains for the
rain stick there, huh? Well, it seems like everywhere else it
rained including Norway. Which is what we were targeting. We
were targeting Norway. So Norway we got Norway. I see nothing but
tweets about just torrential rains. What?
I don't have that many people with their speakers on up there.
No, no,
no, you don't have to have the speakers on. I think you do. No,
no, it's just the number of people listening. You hear it
you beget the person who hears the stick becomes that the
transmitter?
That's your theory? No, this is not okay.
I only deal in scientific facts my friend. Does science. Yes it
is. Don't you dare be a denier. So how far is the fire from
where you live? Couple 100 miles in I see you laughing because
it's kind of close or far away?
Yeah, it's kind of close. It's not even anywhere near here.
Why is this thing traveling?
It's it's not headed my way. Okay, I'm just asking it this is
like comic strip blogger are one of our artists who comes in you
should get out of California now. Like he has no clue that
California is like three Frances stacked on top of each other.
Yeah. In terms of his size, which is why it makes three good
States taking that off the ballot
that's a good chance. Yes, exactly.
All right. But it is bad as
always, I mean, there's a little skirmish fires all over the
place, especially the Napa Valley
and Montecito I saw Montecito got evacuated again this
morning.
But that sounds Southern California that's 400 miles away
from me. That's, that's eight.
The other way there. Yeah, gotcha.
It's cold here. We if you look at the map, yeah. Oh, yeah.
California is 199 98 even though, you know, it's just not
unusual. We have all these high temperatures. But if you look at
the San Francisco Bay area, it's like 65
Beautiful. Sure. Sure. Well,
it's not beautiful, because there's a fog.
Right already. I got you. You're not burning. So who cares? Screw
the rest of them. They should have moved closer to Silicon
Valley, where you're safe, silly, silly, silly Kombat.
Well, if San Francisco should go, I mean, it's not going to
happen. But if it should
go that is too wet. There's with San Francisco's too wet,
but I was going to transition to something else. It's just kind
of like a way to get to another topic away from the probe. They
are considered Well, there is a city report that is calling for
renaming the city of Austin. Yes, somebody
wants us to do a poll and maybe make some suggestions or do a
contest.
Let me explain first what's going on. Austin was named after
Stephen F. Austin, the father of Texas. But that's a little
problematic. Oh, why? Because he also opposed an attempt by
Mexico to ban slavery in the province of Tejas and said if
fleet slaves were free, they were turned into vagabonds, a
nuisance and a menace. So for this very reason, the city of
Austin's equity office, huh, I wonder how you get into the
equity office? suggested? City.
There's what what What? What?
Yes, we have to rename the city.
No, no, I'm talking about the equity office the what does that
suppose? What waste of money are we talking about here?
I haven't really looked at it. I could look Austin I could look
at it equity office, but I presume it's for equality or
access equity.
Equity equality. It didn't say equality offices equity.
Huh. Well, this is a good point. Let's see. Austin equity office.
Okay, let's see we come on
What are they got to do with this? Here we go history shots
now because they got an equity office.
This is weird
about the equity office and it's just like a broken page. Oh, as
part of ongoing improvements and maintenance the city of Austin's
website will be unavailable from 6am to 2pm Sunday May 29. Oh,
May 29 is July people
still down
wow that's pretty bad. Okay, so I can't look it up right now
apparently. Because the oh wait, maybe this will work? No, the
whole website is down. Wow, crazy. Well if you're looking
forward it is Austin Texas. He's got some girls who code slash
department slash equity dash office but it's a I can maybe I
can read a little preview here the city of Austin's equity
Office provides leadership guidance and insight on equity
to improve the quality of life for Austinites we work to
achieve the vision of making Austin the most livable city in
the nation for all and then it gets cut off at the office
strives to build and sustain a culture of dot dot dot and we
will never know because the website's been down since messy
the office what
May June or June and all of most of July
yeah I guess macro I guess so.
This is a diversity office they just call it something screwy
let's I hate him slow to show down Oh
this is good worth it.
Let's define equity and see what it means is it has anything to
do with these Boneheads.
While you're while you're looking that up there are a
couple a couple of names of street names that need to be
changed.
Okay, here we go. I got it. The quality of being fair and
impartial. They'd have an office for this. Well, fair value of
the ship landed the value of the shares Fair,
fair and impartial is not necessarily the same. If you
were impartial then we just leave everything the way it is
wouldn't we? Right? I II a brain twister.
So besides the city having to change his name, we're change we
need to change little field Street. Why? I don't know who
Littlefield was Tom Green Street. Tom Green that comment
Yes. Sucks. Republican comic go away. Sneed Cove, Sam Snead, the
golfer Reagan Hill drive. Ronald Reagan, Dixie dry like Dixie
drive. Confederate Avenue. Confederate Avenue. Yeah, we
could name Dixie drive Dixie chick road. Confederate Avenue
could be confident confidence Avenue. Oh, confidence and then
plantation road will be renamed plantation. Well, you can't use
the word plantation. No, no slavery boy. So they'll cost
$5,956 To rename the seven streets. The cost of renaming
the city would be significantly higher as you can imagine. But I
don't know what what would we call it?
shithole.
shithole. 78701? Can I assist you? Okay, that's a John at the
vorak.org for all you Texans.
It's all right. Believe me the Texans.
Texans agree with you. I'm with you on that
one. Ah, let's see.
Well, I'm very tired of journalism or whatever the
whatever passes for journalism these days.
You see a little tweet, somebody put out that they did a
calculation. And so far this year, there's been 455 stories,
news stories on MSNBC about stormy Daniels and not one about
the Yemen. Tuition. Now I am
missing that doesn't surprise me. Hey, look, they know what
their what their viewers want, or what they've trained their
viewers to want. Now, I'm talking about the incredible
low, low quality shit reporting
about
well, just in general, Russian hacking, spear phishing,
phishing, the knowledge that is being passed on to people who
think they're consuming news is of such low value, that we just
assume that you know, the typical fears I call the
phishing attack, but okay, strange spear glitch. Thank you
another one. People just accepting these technological
explanations as fact, have no desire to understand what's
behind it don't really care. You will care eventually when shit
comes crashing down around you.
But this isn't a word shit twice now.
Okay, I'll stop. But this latest one about the Claire McCaskill
hack, which is not a hack. It was an email that was sent to
you know, grab her password, but of course, it's from the
Russians. We all understand that, don't
we? This is the first known target of Russian interference
in the 2018 election. It was first reported by the
first known instance of what did she call it? Did she call
hacking
or meddling? First, targeting the Russian interference in the
history of Russian interference? interference 2018 election is
first reported by
NPR, my friend is your authentic national pub. Why do you think
we're playing it at the top of the show? It's a beaut,
they found that Russian hackers made an unsuccessful attempt to
breach McCaskill computer system through targeted emails. Okay,
this is just not true. If you if you're if your spear phishing,
do you are not trying to break into her computer system through
targeted emails you're trying to break into her email account by
her giving you the password. It's a little different.
McCaskill issued a statement last night saying she was not
going to be intimidated by these attempts to continue speaking
out against Russia and said it's outrageous
to say hold on five of these a day from the Russians.
It's not like get don't get any spam. Because I did some stuff
comes through and it gets blocked basically,
by sorry, sarcasm saying hey, what is this bullcrap? And it
says starts off. And you've already said, I told you about
this. And you already said, Well, I don't even see these
things. Even though I do mail on, you know, cannot send mail
is not balanced. It's about oh,
you you get a bounce. But it's from your account. And you never
sent the email one of those
Oh, no, it's from another account. Oh, that's, that's old.
That's years ago, this is from another account looks like it
may be a real bounce the count. And then you just scroll down to
who you sent it to? And it was some like, this was no Yeah, it
is a bounced back to you because you made a mistake. And so you
get the bounce back. And then you look at the two and from and
the two is like I know this has never heard of this. And then
when you go down to the bottom, there is a link to the Met to
the message supposedly. And and the link is titled in Cyrillic.
Yeah, I'll click on that. So you know, I figure I don't and
usually when I was telling, you should click on it, you should
click on. You said see
what's in it. And so
and so I look at this and go now would this be considered be a
rush? And are the Russians trying to hack or Spearfish, me
because of the upcoming election
they're interfering with the would that will be the election
by
sending this to me, they send it to a millions and millions of
people. And it's not necessarily the Russians.
Well, in this case, it goes a little deeper. And there are
some reasons why Claire McCaskill, of course is being
highlighted in this talk. They do say that what she said I
don't know if I clipped it out of this. But what she received
was something that looked like something from the Senate from
the Senate IT system so it was targeted towards people inside
Congress. So there's that at least Russia thinks they can
which could be an inside job, at least for the creation of the
page. Who knows
get away with continued interference in US elections.
Daily Beast reported that hackers sent forged
notifications.
Listen to the Oh, yeah, loaded word. Yeah, the word continued.
Oh, no, I heard the word hackers are listening. No,
no. It continued as though this is going on as we speak. And as
always been going on ever since Trump came up
rages that Russia thinks they can get away with continued
interference in the
Russians. Yeah, it hasn't stopped.
You. Right. This is this is a very hackneyed kind of story
already,
without evidence. Without evidence, where's the evidence?
Daily Beast reported that hackers sent forged
notifications that asked users to reset Microsoft Exchange
passwords. In essence, it was a phishing scheme, and that they
were trying to bait McCaskill staff into clicking on a link
that will take them to a site where their information can be
compromised.
This is what they've done before. Right. I mean, the
Russians are known to have done this phishing thing in the 2016
election.
No, it's not just the Russians. It's the Indians, the
Pakistanis, it's the it's the Bulgarians. It's Dutch. It's the
fucking everybody that does.
Yeah, the reporting indicates that it's really similar to what
we saw in 2016. Very similar to other ways,
very similar. It's amazing how the phishing attack was very
simple, dirty
crews. And by the way, they should not target the staffers.
They should target her. She's the dummy that would click on
it,
have attempted to get into us email systems. It's the kind of
thing that US intelligence officials have been warning
about. The Director of National Intelligence Dan Coates was
saying that there were
a minute like 40 seconds into the report. And if you're just a
casual NPR listener, you're like holy shit, the Russians, they
haven't stopped they're still doing it. They're hacking.
really loose report is lie. It's just lying. They're not giving
you true information. Now this happens as you said, every
single day people get phishing emails. This is nothing new. The
people who listen decade by the way,
are already these red warning lights blinking, blinking thing
that there's the main pressure was going to be interfering in
the upcoming election and that is essentially the the entire US
intelligence community's assessment of what was going to
happen, but it seems Like it would contradict something that
the President himself tweeted, which was that if the Russians
were going to interfere in the election, he said that they were
going to help Democrats not go against Democrats, and that it
was McCaskill seems to contradict that entirely. Okay.
So
why
why What a thing to jump to get? Hold on a second. I can't
believe these people. I can't they know that the Russians were
trying to hack into your system so they can help because the
day well, first of all, The Daily Beast did this reporting.
And they just kind of serve to just claimed it's clearly
Russians doing this. And then NPR just took that from daily
basis. It's clearly there. There's no There's no forensics
on who sent this.
Could be Bulgarians, could be Romania. It could be a fat guy
and
be someone in an office three doors next. Three Doors Down. It
could have been anything.
The Russians were going to interfere in the election. He
said that they were going to help Democrats not
it could be right. Yeah.
Right. Okay.
Yeah, you're breaking up a little, nothing I can do about
it. It's just what it is today.
Go against Democrats, and that it was McCaskill seems to
contradict that entirely. Okay.
So why,
why her? Well, McCaskill is one of the most prominent critics of
Russia and of President Trump. Oh,
that makes sense, John, she's a critic. That's why she's been
targeted,
shows the entire Democrat Party.
She is very she's very outspoken on this, which she noted in her
own statement that this is something that she expects that
she would be targeted.
Oh, crap, she's looking for free public.
Well, wait for it. Wait, here's the payoff.
Also, in a really competitive race, Missouri is seen as one of
those places that could very easily go red in 2018. And she
you know, she is a close ally, ally of Hillary Clinton and has
been a strong critic of Putin. So this is this is something
that she said that she was prepared for.
False flag. How about that? Why don't we just call this what it
is?
Yeah, it's a false flag because she knows she's gonna lose now.
She is somebody to blame. Yes. In advance.
Despicable. Really, just I'm so
tired of hearing this. But there's, there's a lot of this
and later, I have a little AOC comp collage.
From her most recent be beautiful.
Yeah, because her entire thinking.
I mean, you can do it now, if you're interested. But just say
what you're just about to say, Well,
her entire thinking is built on these lies that we have
identified over a decade, and things that now are just taken
for fact, like 97% of all scientists believe in climate
change.
Like all scientists, yeah, like, well, all scientists
mind, you know, we just heard in this entire report, you know,
the Russians are hacking, the hacking doing this hacking is
phishing.
No. It's just,
and, and when you know, all here's an example for AOC.
Alexandria, Ocasio Cortez is socialism works great in Sweden
and Norway. I mean, these are the things that, that people
have been led to believe. And now it's just fact.
Yeah. So do you want to you want to hear that now? I'm,
I'm anxious to hear it. Okay.
Good night. Let me just line it up for you. So she was on The
Daily Show with Trevor Noah. And I, and it was a it was a long
it's used, I think she was the only guest it was pretty long
was about, you know, 22. She's
only one guest on the show. Yeah, but
20 minutes.
I have no material, they wrote nothing just
just brought her there was material enough? For sure. And I
pulled three segments, just to get an understanding of how
she's thinking. And this is important because a lot of
people voted for her in the 14th district of New York. Now, of
course, she believes that she's already been elected to
represent the United States globally, which is just what
happens when you take someone like this, and you know, we call
it, we call it over the fire to tilt in Holland, like they put
you on the horse, but they pushed you so far that you fell
off on the other side.
Now, it's I want to mention some of the replays that I've been
watching more and more of her. She doesn't know much. No. She's
very naive. And she's almost a giggly sorority girl type,
all of that represented in these clips. And but the most
bothersome thing is, it's not that she doesn't know. But she's
just ignorant because she's been educated that way. She is a
product. She's a she's a product of what we have to offer. I'm
sad to say, in general. So let's start and he asked. I think he
asked pretty good questions. And, you know, as you watch the
whole interview, there were some decent bits in there, as he
particularly about socialism was started off with understanding.
The term democratic socialist,
the term democratic socialist, has never felt like it has more
weight to it than now. We hear your name on the news every
single day when you use that term. What do you want people
to also pay attention to her? Which is it's like a Hillary
thing. You know what I mean? Where she just
yeah, there's constant hum is like a Hummer. Yes. Yes. It'd be
making noise. Justin. Yes,
the term Democratic Socialist has never felt like it has more
weights to it than now. We hear your name on us every single
stop against stop. She's
humming, to statements like determine democratic socialists,
he's going to ask a question. The term democratic socialism is
he's on his way. And she's hot she's going on before he's even
passed those three words? Well, anyway, I find it incredibly
annoying, when if she's going to just keep saying on everything
disguised. Just
moving on to other clips, then you're gonna hear a lot of it a
term
democratic socialist, has never felt like it has more weights to
it than now we hear your name on us every single day. When you
use that term. What do you want people to understand by it?
Well, I think what I want people to understand is that we live in
a society that is capable, we are capable of ensuring that we
have
a basic frame. So bear with me, my friend
works where people can be covered by health insurance can
send their kids to college, where we can pursue a very bold
action on climate change and save our future. And that is
part of a moral and ethical economy, and that we can
legislate from that value and where it is possible. I believe
we are morally obliged to pursue it
right now, when you when you speak about that. It seems like
a logical idea for a politician to have in America. The way you
frame. The way you are framed is oftentimes the crazy socialist
who wants to turn America into Venezuela and Cuba. I find
interesting is, you know, when I think of ideas of socialism, I
go, Okay, there's maybe Venezuela and there's Cuba and
then I go, but then there's also no way and Denmark right.
Do you think? Excuse me, are Denmark and Norway? Are they not
kingdoms? Am I mistaken? Something? Their kingdoms? Yeah,
with a parliamentary system? Yes. But I would not I would not
call them socialist. And there's
nothing like Venezuela, or Cuba, which is one man rule. There's a
there's a branding
disconnect, connected American branding disconnect between some
of these policy ideas between generations, maybe?
Well, between generations? I absolutely think so. I think us
as millennials, we grew up in a time where, you
know, this is great.
This is what I got a couple more things. She's I think, I think I
think I think she's just classic millennial, but she said
something earlier. legislate from that.
From the value of socialism. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, the idea is,
let's, that's social justice, from the values that it's not
fair. Everything has to be fair. That's what I understand it to
be. But now listen to how how horrible it's been. Let me just
ask you Do you have kids? I got a kid. I got kids around me and
being the 20 to 30 year age range. How was their life been
growing up? Have they grown up in a prosperous country? Has it
been good times?
jackin bullets?
I mean, oh, okay. calleary has hasn't been good for them. And
I'm asking you serious question. Just economically seen health
wise. Just life expectancy, everything. Has it not been
do it? There's been great, great ending disconnect, connected
America between some of these policy ideas between
generations, maybe? Well,
between generations? I absolutely think so. I think of
us as millennials, we grew up in a time we grew. We came of age
and a time of 911 happened in middle school. The financial
crisis happened in college. We have never really known or grown
up in a time of true economic prosperity.
Sorry, that that's just not true. Where am I seeing it
wrong?
Well, I don't know what she wants. Oh, for starters, she
might want you know, just kick her heels get a flapper dress
and Jen dance the night away in a speakeasy with free booze. I
have no idea what she's what she's talking about. Yeah, it's
not the 50s with Andy
can hold on, hold on, but she's saying no, she's saying now 911
I agree that of course that was very damaging to a lot of
people's mindset and mind control the entire world into a
security state. No doubt about it. Yeah, but to say that
nothing ever happened like Second World War First World
War, Vietnam War Korea. In war, DC, none of that ever happened
before she was born before the millennials, that's not just not
true, certainly not economically.
But we came of age in a time of hyper concentration of wealth,
with the very tippy top of people in the country and the
world, right. And so for us to have access, we also grew up
seeing our peers in other countries, like in the UK, and
Canada, with single payer health care systems, we grew up with
peers, being able to go to college without, you know,
graduating with a mortgages worth of debt. And we know that
economically, there's a better way, because it has already been
done. Pay no
attention to the $1,000 supercomputer everyone has had
in their pocket since you were born. And
also pay attention to the fact that what she's talking about
the student loan debt was largely brought on by Obama.
Yes. And the trap of it as well, not just Obama, but during the
Obama years.
Clearly, it was exacerbated during the Obama years, instead
of recognizing it for what it was. They kept it going and
thinking, wow, this is free money for us. Yeah.
And everyone's in it has a big albatross around their neck.
Now, at the second clip, there was some interesting information
in there, that we've talked about on the show. And this is
all about corruption, like, okay, so when you get in, not
even if you get in, but when you get in when you're up there and
representing everybody, although she's not been elected yet.
Aren't you worried about being corrupted by money?
Are you worried that when you get into the halls of Congress,
that you may become infected by that money? And the reason I
asked this is because I've seen many politicians who start out
with beautiful ideals. And once they get into the machine,
they'll tell you that from the inside, it's so different. You
have to get money from big corporations, and you have to
start working with business. Do you worry that maybe your ideals
will be met with reality once you get to the Capitol? Well,
I I think that what makes our campaign and my candidacy a
little different is that I have taken a public pledge not to
accept any corporate PAC money whatsoever.
All right, I've taken a pledge not to accept any corporate PAC
money whatsoever. First of all, the way I understand the rules
of PACs or political action committees, not only can they
not give money directly to a candidate, they can't even talk
with the candidate. They can have no interaction. Is my
understanding. Correct?
Yeah. PACs are are designed to be kind of independent and they
would do the advertising for you without you having any he or
she is she took a pledge not to take any PAC money. She can't
but legally she can't I think they can spend there's a there's
a maximum amount of $5,000 I think, somewhere in
there that we could look it up but did Yes, she's full of crap.
So but then by the way, when the when he asked that question, her
whole answer to the first clip series that you played, where it
was all materialistic, yes. We didn't have this. We didn't get
that we didn't get a free lunch. We didn't get this. We didn't
get that. We weren't free medical. We weren't. This is all
materialistic. She's a materialist.
Yes.
We continue pledge not to accept any Oh,
yeah. I also want to say she's saying no corporate PAC money.
So I guess she's taking non she's taking money and just not
corporate PACs. But she that's as far as I know, legally. You
can't take any money from PACs. You can't even talk with
corporate PAC money whatsoever. Starting to see a movement in
Congress, I think there's about eight, eight members of
Congress, I believe they're all Democrats that have accepted
that pledge, but I actually think I may be one of the only
ones that actually got elected for the first time on that many,
many folks got elected with some corporate money, and then they
swore it off after. But I think I'm one of the first to get
elected right out of the gate without any corporate PAC money,
which gives me I believe, a very large degree of independence. I
am a little, you know, I'm a little afraid, because I know of
the I know that picture of Congress is one that I think the
majority of Americans are just exasperate.
Listen to this. You said something interesting. We've
discussed before John Goodwin, right. Right. Right.
And, and to a certain extent, you have to be kind of an
emissary, and that there are ways that you get things done.
And there's the implication that you need to get committee
assignments by purchasing them through fundraising and all of
that, and
no, there's not an implication
that we know for sure. Yes, or No, in fact, so she,
she's hearing and I can just see what's happening. She's been
hanging out with Bernie Sanders. He's been shepherding him or her
around, taking her everywhere to Kansas, do whatever, you know,
whoo, we're all great. Here's the future of your party, ladies
and gentlemen, and he's saying now, little girl, you're gonna
have to buy your committee seats. That's really bad, but
you had to buy your committee seats. And what is it a million
bucks for to be the chairman of a committee or 2
million for the best committees,
just a million bucks a year, a million bucks a year house and
Ways and Means defense, all these big committees is a
million, but it can't be as low as 250,000.
So the corruption has already started. She's already seeing
the implications. She hasn't even figured it out yet that
yeah, that's the way it works,
in that there are ways that you get things done. And there's the
implication that you need to get committee assignments by
purchasing them through fundraising and all of that. And
I think it's one of those things where, you know, I think first
of all, I got elected on not taking corporate PAC money, and
I have absolutely no intention of changing that whatsoever.
Right. And so it's really just about learning to navigate that
space with that foundation,
learning to navigate that space with that foundation. Right out
of a textbook. Nice. Yeah. final final clip. This is the one that
a lot of people saw around the social nets, the big question,
how do we pay for all of this free stuff that you're thinking
of giving away? But
then the pragmatic side of it comes in, as you said, how do
you pay for these, you know, you always see people coming in with
economic arguments, and they say, look, these numbers don't
really add up, you know, in order to get health care for
everybody, this is what it would cost. That's going to be
troubling, even if you reverse the Republican tax deal, that's
only going to make up 5% of what we need to pay for Medicare for,
you know, how do you pay for education for how you pay for
all of these, these ideas? So
this is an excellent, excellent question. And in fact,
go ahead, say it.
Well, it's the one I have the beef with is great. Excellent.
Excellent. Couldn't be just one. Excellent. Excellent, excellent.
There's a lot of back of the envelope stuff back.
So I've looked at the economic plans that I've been talking
about, oh, and the back of the envelope. It's really okay.
This isn't this is an excellent, excellent question. And in fact,
there's a lot of back of the envelope stuff based on our
values. So for example, I sat down with a Nobel Prize
economist last week. I can't believe I can say that. It's
really weird.
Okay, so now, I think that this, this is one of these millennial
things that she throws in there. It could be real, but it could
also, I don't know. She does these from time to time as you
go. And Nobel I can't believe it. Me Little. Little Alexandria
Ocasio Cortez, I met a Nobel icon and it's weird icon blue.
So
when can I just interject here? About this what you just
described? When you know when the last royal wedding took
place? Yeah. They were covering it on NBC with Meritus.
Yes. Where's the clip? Hold on a second. Umemoto in order to be
called that was a good clip.
Royal Wedding.
Yeah, do you find that but there was one thing I never did get
the clip. Maybe I did. But they but Katy Tur and some other
woman of another NBC News correspondent. Were up in some
balcony somewhere. They put the camera on them. And I think
they're in the kind of in this group. They're, I think they're
older millennials. They were jumping up and down and
screaming like little girls that at a Beatles concert in the 60s
talking like this. So the joke Katy Tur, in particular, is
squealing and jumping up and down and they're just in
paroxysms over this wedding scene does that oh, there's
there's Megan and then they went nuts. And it was like, Holy
mackerel. You're not even remotely mature. It's apparent
and I think we had the same situation with this woman. She's
like, a kid. It's
you know, this isn't you bring up a point. This is a sort of
behavior and I don't think it's bound to millennials. It is
certainly in the United States. Women do this sometimes amongst
themselves. They talk Whoa, yes, I'll girlfriend right now.
Now I guess it's a
female version of dudes doing bro stuff.
But this is uh, you know
if I'm right, if I have like a top correspondents job at NBC.
Okay, that's different.
But she's not a top correspondent, NBC she's an
OLED. She's a pre elected politician. Yes.
exemplars exemplified this and I'm thinking if I'm dead person,
why am I presenting myself like this? You know, I haven't even
gotten mature enough to know not to do that. Is that what the
message is here? And I think this woman is in that same
category
possibly. Possibly. Well, let's Let's listen again, because this
is still about how we're going to pay for these her. Her great
ideals,
the envelope stuff based on our values. So for example, I sat
down with a Nobel Prize economist last week. I can't
wait I can say that sounds really weird. But one of the
things that we saw is if people pay their fair share, if
corporations and the ultra wealthy, for example, as Warren
Buffett likes to say, if he paid as much as his secretary paid
15%, if you paid a 15% tax rate,
so she just got this one wrong. And Trevor Noah does not
interject, although I could see in his face that he knew what is
true. What she's trying to say is, if Warren Buffett paid the
same amount of taxes as his secretary, which is not 15%,
it's his is much higher. His is 15%. Hers is higher than that
she's got it exactly. Backwards. But nothing is set for
wealthy. For example, as Warren Buffett likes to say, if he paid
as much as his secretary paid 15%. If you paid a 15% tax rate,
if corporations paid we, if we reverse the tax bill, but when
we raised our corporate tax rate to 28%, which is not even as
high as it was before, right? If we, if we do those two things,
what she's trying to say is, if you took the tax breaks, and
just reverse them, and gave normal people the low corporate
tax, and then gave the high tax to everybody else, then we would
work that way. Somehow, I think I can't, it's weird.
And also close some of those loopholes. That's $2 trillion.
Right there. That's $2 trillion dollars in 10 years. And it's
why one of the wide estimates is that it's going to take three to
$4 trillion to transition us to 100% renewable energy economy.
Oh, we have to go to 100% renewable energy economy, and
somehow it's going to work by changing the taxes that way, or
is there something else she's thinking about? So
we got $2 trillion, from folks paying their fair share, which
they were not paying before the Trump tax bill? Right? They
weren't No, like they weren't paying that before the Trump tax
bill. If we get people to, to pay their fair share, that's 2
trillion in 10 years. Now, if we implement a carbon tax on top of
that, so that we can transition and financially incentivize
people away from fossil fuels, if we implement a carbon tax,
that's an additional amount of a large amount of revenue that we
should have.
That's an additional amount of
100% or renewable, there's no carbon tax bringing in nothing.
That's right, once it's over.
And then the last key, which is extremely, extremely important,
is reprioritization. Just last year, we gave the military a
$700 billion tax budget increase?
No, no, that was the it wasn't if it was not a $700 billion
increase, it was $700 billion. That was the total budget. I'm
an agreement. That's outrageous, but it wasn't the increase. And
the last key, which is extremely, extremely important,
is reprioritizing. Recently, just last year, we gave the
military a $700 billion tech budget increase, which they
didn't even ask for. They're like, we don't want another
fighter jet. Like, don't give us another nuclear bomb.
When has any army anywhere? ever said that? No, no more money for
the military industrial complex, we didn't even ask for that. Go
away with your cash
budget increase, which they didn't even ask for. They're
like, we don't want another fighter jet. Like, don't give us
another nuclear bomb. They didn't even ask for it. And we
gave it to them. And so a lot of what we need to do is
reprioritize what we want to accomplish as a nation. And
really what this is about is saying healthcare is important
for us. And for us to put first education is important,
important enough for us first, and that is a decision that
requires political and moral courage from both parts of the
aisle.
And this works everywhere else. So why not here in America? That
was not an idiot. Well, you think that's bad? Why don't we
go to district 14 in New York. And I have to give massive
props, again, to campus reform. These guys are very smart what
they're doing and I'm happy they're doing this to expose
what's happening in our, in our millennial groups. A lot of
these people who you're here are indeed in school, but not all of
them. But these are the voters from New York District 14. Who
elected Alexandria Ocasio Cortez,
what are your views on her so far?
I mean, I've heard only positive things.
We love her. Yeah, we do love her. We've I bought her because
I'm from Queens. It was
great. And it's a breath of fresh air and I hope it follows
through into November.
I like her spirit and that she's very different.
People tend to freak out when they hear the words socialism,
like applied to anything. Why do you think that is? I think
there's this old way of thinking about it. What do you think the
government should be?
I love it's an old way of thinking about it. It's the old
way, the old way, the old way, bad, new way. Good. And that is,
I think there's this old way of thinking about it. What do you
think the government should be subsidizing? So her platform
includes free health care, college tuition, the minimum
living wage housing as a human right, are those things that you
think the government should be providing for people?
Absolutely.
Are those things that you would support? Yes, it is. Are those
all
things that you would support the government subsidizing?
100%.
All right. So you're like everyone should have like, free
education and health care?
How are we going to pay for those? Oh, God, I mean, us, I
guess food in your mind should pay for all of the free things,
all the free things? Well, some of it should come from tax, but
the government should pay for it. But the government
is funded by taxes. Yeah. I don't know where that money
would come from, but they can figure it out. More taxes on the
rich people, for sure, man, like they can afford it to tax
corporations since
tax the 1%. And find a way to support a living wage the people
with a good
idea and a good reason to spend their tax money wouldn't mind
actually paying more taxes. There are so many of these
countries out there that are employing a lot more socialism
in their government and into their politics. And they're
doing really well. Oh, yeah. He's Venezuela doing that. Cool.
I don't know too much about Venezuela, honey, I think they
need to. I mean, are they still communist right now? Technically
socialist, okay. Okay.
In other countries that works. There are other countries you
pay higher taxes, but your government takes care of you.
So when you see the socialist system failing in Venezuela,
does that concern you? I mean,
obviously, my family's Cuban and like I've seen the downfall of
like, extreme leftism, but also like I see how it like boosted
community and like it has its ups and downs and I think we can
definitely learn from history on that terms.
Our country needs change and if it has to be on the opposite
side on the extreme polar opposite side maybe it's that we
need
privatized health care
is a huge issue and if it was a government funded thing that
would be you know, when
there aren't I think the government would run it more
efficiently in a perfect world Sure.
I'm liberal I don't know exactly like where I stand but I know
like democratic socialists is better than conservative it's
just better than it's the better option in what way when I think
of it I just think of like more open minded people people that
are in like, as economically conservative.
Thanks, Obama. We're doomed
Well, New York is doomed that's for sure isn't that
is outrageous that people really are just ignorant they're
ignorant they have not been taught don't understand don't
read in as the schools is the it is the schools Yeah. Now what
are we going to do what to do nothing. We're just going to sit
back and watch and I know you think she'll get elected
is the Republicans are smart. They couldn't beat her by
putting somebody even though that that
they're smart they put her in they help her
Oh, that's a good idea. I think yeah, he had this idiot that you
can see Yeah, punching bag
talview Easy
Yeah, well, it's in an area so the zone that is apparently been
gerrymandered to be pure Democrats so just know no chance
you can get beaten. Unless the guy who she beat he's still on
the ballot he can he can still be still on the ballot and
actually decided to run as an independent or something. The
way Lieberman did it after he got ousted by his own party, and
he said screw that still beat this guy. So he in the general
then he could get into that whole thing. It'd be over with
her. Which is if that guy's has a brain I think he doesn't care
anymore. He was in for 20 years or something. He's like he's
sick of it.
Yeah, probably doesn't want the aggro if you want or just
running against her would cause so much hate towards him.
Yeah, that could be probably we probably wouldn't want to do
that what you got I got lots of other stuff but curious I see
you got clips. Well,
I should just after those clips you might as well play this
little Iso I have my favorite. I just put it into in the rotation
this way. I can call it up and if needed. This is your life.
Rachel man
and I having a terrible terrible dream. Also you're not dead and
you haven't gone to hell. This is your life now. This is our
election. Now. This is us. This is our country. Yeah, we
know this. We know this clip.
I know. I don't know that. I don't I can't reference it. Oh,
yes. This
is right after Trump won.
Yeah, I know where it came from. This after She was crying. She's
crying like a baby. And if she does that, does she know I don't
know, because I want to maybe pull it up in the future. Okay,
no, that's good. And I don't know that we can find it. Well,
oh, well, we certainly can now and we can always find this one
now. I visited Kenya as the first sitting American president
to come from Kenya. We have that one. You never know when that
will come in handy.
That one is, is damning.
I know it's as good as the other ones is might where he talks
about his Muslim faith. Jim,
I just don't know why people can't pick up on this. I do
have some more NPR like 1984 stuff in reference to Trump if
you're interested in that. I thought it was well
i Yeah, because when I when we switch the mic clips, I'm gonna
go into the sleazy side of the of the business.
Let's go to sleeves. Let's go Oh, man. This is hashtag me too
is just had an interesting revival as we now switch to the
CBS network from NBC.
Well, now let's Yeah, well, I don't know that this was
intended. And now it's time for your sexual harassment.
I mean, we got the jingles we might as well play them.
I don't know if this was intentional to choose to start
targeting CBS I don't think Roger Stone had anything to do
with it. I think this guy just stepped in at some time ago. I
don't know whether red stones daughter who's trying to make a
play a play for they want to remember reemerge Viacom with
CBS which they used to be some years ago and then they split
off that was
my that was my number one thought is that that that would
that's what this is about it is Ronan though and I think he did
write it in wrote in his arm he wrote he wrote about it he said,
you know, this is all happening under the banner of this take
this room you know, this reverse back in merger happening. So it
could be well it's possible that
redstone woman, she and I met summer redstone. I met him to
once he is a very I don't know how to describe him, but he's
not a normal person. Oh, he's
a dick.
He's I think he's kind of evil turtle personally. Yes. But he
but this does reverse merger they're trying to pull up it's
possible that they had done some investigating because they're
trying to get because Moonves is like, let's let's
just explain for a second. So I'm gonna redstone build Viacom.
Did Viacom then buy CBS?
Cut? I can't remember.
I think I think they may have because they were they were
buying everybody. Right but Nickelodeon they bought right to
network. They bought all this and then and then they split it
off and Parramatta don't forget to pair armour started
paramount. So
and then they then they split off Viacom, which had the pieces
like MTV Networks, I think was in the Viacom piece. Yeah, I
think so. It's paramount. Yeah. But Redstone is majority
shareholder in both entities. And now his daughter who's
taking over because he's, he's on death's door. Certainly with
the amount of Viagra he's poppin. As we know, that number
that remember that tape that secret tape of him and his buddy
and the hookers?
I don't remember it. But it was great to have it.
Yeah, we played it on the show is probably horribly inaudible.
But go ahead. I'll look for that while you continue about the
split off. And then Viacom has really struggled in terms of
their earnings per share. And well, CBS has just kicked butt.
And a lot of it has to do with Moonves, but they don't see it
that way. And so they figured they did rejoin the companies
and then they their their book value would go up and then their
worths would go up and their shared value would go up, it
would be a win win for the Viacom investors. And so they
figure well let's get rid you know, we own a lot of the CBS
stock so let's put them to two companies back together. Moonves
decided no he figures that you know what? Jay give up control V
lose control. And so obviously they put some private detectives
I think they dig up some dirt and then they sorted we're gonna
do it this dirt
it's no good this dirt.
So they they may have gone to Ronan, who is looking for
another article to Write Right Right and dropped it on his lap
and said hey, you know, you might be interested in this and
it could have been done in a very casual way that didn't look
like you know, he's being set up. It's possible
but doesn't that also possibly hurt stock prices when you get
these kinds of things with with with shareholders and people
running companies and this kind of noise?
It'll make it easier to do the merger if the stock prices drop
off? Yes, of course course. Okay, but,
but I think that I Think he's in a heap of trouble. I think
Moonves has done and I have two different reports. I mean, you
can play part of the one that that CBS itself actually aired.
And this is one of the long form and I don't even have the whole
thing and it's too long but you can start listening to it if you
want. It's a little soft in his reporting, but then I see go to
ABC and they decide to violate the rules of don't mess with the
other guys. Don't mess with the other guys, because especially
Disney has gotten lots of Oh, yeah.
All right. I'll listen to
some of the CBS Moonves acknowledged but denies sexually
assaulting her. In another alleged incident. The article
says a veteran producer Christine Peters met with
Moonves in 2006 to discuss a project. She told the magazine
he was enthusiastic, but then sat down close to her on the
couch. Then he just put a hand up my skirt she said, touching
her underwear. Moonves categorically denies this. The
article also says 19 current and former employees claimed former
CBS News chairman and current executive producer of 60 minutes
Jeff finger allowed harassment in the news division. Faker
called those claims false anonymous and said they do not
hold up to editorial scrutiny. In a statement, the independent
directors of CBS said all allegations of personal
misconduct are to be taken seriously. Upon the conclusion
of that investigation. The board will promptly review the
findings and take appropriate action to target Pharaoh said
he's worked on the story for eight months,
we talked to experts who say this is an opportunity to look
at how our most important corporate institutions treat
vulnerable people coming forward with these kinds of charges.
Moonves said this about sexual harassment at a Variety magazine
event last fall,
it's important that companies educate have an ability to have
a dialogue to know what's going on. I think it's important that
a company's culture will not allow for this.
As chairman and CEO Moonves is credited with helping turn the
primetime line up into a perennial winner.
Can't you just see the lawyers poring over the script before
they went to tape? You know, like, Okay, we're gonna say
this. We can't you can use this soundbite only 30 seconds right
here and there. We can't have any other BS definitely would
have them going over everything. So it's such a static read zero
emotion, completely out of character for any other type of
news report just reading the facts as they are stated about
our own network
helping make CBS the country's most watched television network.
The allegations against him come in the middle of a battle over
the future of CBS. It pits Moonves against Shari Redstone,
who controls a majority of the voting shares in both CBS and
Viacom through her National Amusements Corporation. Redstone
wants to reemerge CBS and Viacom Moonves does not a high ranking
CBS executive who did not want to be identified told us the New
Yorker story is part of that battle, calling it corporate
hardball. Ms. Redstone spokesperson put out a statement
denying the allegations have anything to do with the battle
in the boardroom. It said the malicious insinuation that Ms.
Redstone is somehow behind the allegations is false and self
serving.
Moonves is quoted in the article and he says, I recognize that
there were times decades ago when I may have made some women
uncomfortable by making advances. Those were mistakes,
and I regret them immensely but I also always understood and
respected and abided by the principle. That No means no. And
I've never misused my position to harm or hinder anyone's
career move as his wife Julie Chen also released a statement
supporting him she wrote, Leslie is a good man and a loving
father, a devoted husband and inspiring corporate leader. He
has always been a kind, decent and moral human being
dandies a tongue jabbers what he is a creepy tongue Jabber. I
believe he speaks the truth when he says that if you read the
whole article with the the allegations once he got no it
was like okay, that's no but he doesn't ask for a no he starts
right away by touching your panties and jamming his tongue
down your throat. He's a dick. These horrible, horrible men and
as well and it's not just any it's not just the corporate
culture. It is entertainment culture. Yes, that should be
pointed out.
Don't don't ever get to do that. You're the only one that will do
that. Okay, so let's go to ABC where we I have a three parter.
And these are all good, and they tend to go there's a little
better reporting that CBS they have better stuff. And this is
the Moonves hit piece on ABC one.
That'd be explosive allegations surrounding CBS CEO Les Moonves
accused of sexual misconduct. Dozens of current and former CBS
employees reportedly alleging a culture of harassment and
retaliation at the network. Here's ABC Ziva pilgrim.
Tonight Les Moonves the head of CBS under investigation for
sexual misconduct and the company he's run for two
decades, accused of turning a blind eye to a culture of
harassment. The New Yorker releasing an expose a by Ronan
Farrow featuring allegations from six women against the CBS
Chairman that ranged from inappropriate kissing to sexual
assault. These are all stories in which women said one after
another that they were terrified and intimidated, and that they
felt their careers suffered as a result.
In the article the Emmy nominated actress and writer
Eliana Douglas, known for her rules in Goodfellas and six feet
under describes what she calls a sexual assault that occurred
during a meeting with Moonves for a show she was cast in. She
claims he held her down and began violently kissing her and
even pulled up her skirt. Douglas says she tried to talk
her way out of the encounter, but afterwards was fired and
told by Moonves she would never work at this network again.
Moonves admits trying to kiss Douglas but denies sexually
assaulting her. But the article went further alleging a pattern
of harassment at CBS News, including 60 minutes, claiming
that men on the show accused of sexual misconduct were promoted
even as the company paid settlements, one former employee
claiming I had several producers and editors over the age of 60,
who would greet me by kissing me on the mouth.
Ruin did hear from dozens and dozens of current and former
employees that they had seen a culture of harassment and
retaliation. And that flowed from Mr. Moonves to different
facets of this company, including the
news division.
Yeah, notice it's always women in show business actresses,
directors, producers, writers.
It's rarely someone
within the boardroom or within the corporate culture.
Yeah, there's that's probably true. But I think you know, if
you have sexual harassment, I think if the girl is pretty
enough, this is gonna happen anywhere. Let's go back to let's
go back to what Moonves said. There is something when I you
know, first you have to doubt some of these things. But when
the guy says, instead of just categorically denying it, which
is, I believe would be my advice. No, I didn't don't know
what she's talking about. She's nuts. She's a psycho.
This. Is this your corporate HR advice? Yeah. Okay.
All right. He says,
Oh, well, I knew I did try to kiss her. But I don't remember
any of the other stuff. Oh, come on. This is like an admission of
guilt. It isn't admission of guilt. Yes, you're right. It's
not let's not rush it is is an admission of guilt. And he just
soft pedaled it but he was obviously a masher. He sets the
other girls
beyond a masher. I mean, he if you read the article,
consistently, he jams his tongue into their mouths.
He has Yes, He's beyond a masher. He is an assaulter.
That's an assault. Yeah,
the tongue assault. Yeah, assault with a deadly weapon.
And he is like he can't. He's done. I don't see how he can get
out of this.
He's a creep. Yeah. All right. All right. Let's
go on to the issue too,
as CBS begin that investigation, Moonves responding to the
allegation, saying, I recognize that there were times decades
ago when I may have made some women uncomfortable by making
advances. Those were mistakes, and I regret them immensely. But
I always understood and respected and abided by the
principle that no means no, and I have never misused my position
to harm or hinder anyone's career.
Eva pilgrim joins us now live in studio and as CBS the
whole definition of his position is to harm or further people's
careers as crap starts
their investigation. Some are questioning the timing of his
allegation. That's
right time. CVS is in the middle of a heated merger battle with
Viacom and now some are alleging these claims may stem from that
corporate dispute. But the head of Viacom responding saying that
any claims she is behind those allegations is false, and self
serving. CBS saying they will fully investigate these sexual
misconduct claims that that the board will promptly review the
findings. And they will take the appropriate action, Tom.
Thank you. Yes.
Well, they have a problem because this guy is one of the
great programming geniuses that comes around very rarely after
a little little field and what was the other guy's name was
dead. Now,
what about Zucker, who went over to CNN from NBC after he
destroyed the network by putting Jay Leno on every night at 10
Genius idea and then moves all the law and order stuff off. He
is just like these guys, this is a tough job to do. And it's like
picking hits, you know, same in the record industry that one or
two guys that are just like they just can't go wrong. There used
to be some famous guys that did that. And this is one of those
guys, but now you're stuck with a guy because he's, you know,
it's just ridiculous and he probably doesn't carry. He is
the highest paid executive in the country makes some, like 80
million a year, something like that. And he's been doing this
for 20 years. He doesn't need this job or the aggravation,
he's going to resign.
And then what
then what what then CBS will do the merger with Viacom and the
red stones will start programming CBS and it's gonna
be junk TV just like every other network. Exactly. It's gonna
suck and totally for the only take two seasons
and I think yes, and I think for ABC to be you know, all over the
story like this is very well, it may be a bit of a distractive
move because who at least we're not talking about James Gunn
everybody. Let's not look over here.
Because once they once
the posit, also, the possibility existed if Sherry Lansing or
Lansing Shari Redstone had anything to do with any of it.
This is like a kind of a, we're going to help you now you have
to help us later. Ah, yeah. Assuming they have to assume
that Moonves is out because otherwise he got it. He would be
a bad bad enemy to have. He's done. There's no way he's
gonna be around. I was
just kind of saying that. If ABC is next in the trifecta of the
douchebags in, in media land, man,
if Robbie's seaweed really
grown and really gets into ABC and really finds out what's been
going on since the days of Shirley Temple
the Empire could come crashing down yes,
yeah, that might be a longer it's taken him eight months into
this story this would take years Yeah, no, I agree Disney is
probably the most the the targetable
all the kiddy Fiddler's hanging out over there.
I mean, all the and all the bowl crap in their parks where people
are cast members so they don't have to play pay minimum wage,
which is what they developed that idea in Florida. They had
the Florida Legislature passed some laws, they they said we're
gonna look at where we got, we got all of our land, we got this
huge bunch of property. We're gonna develop a bunch of things
on but we have some problems. Can you change a law changed a
couple things for us? And that changed a couple of things. So
that's why it says Cast everyone that works. There's a cast
member?
Yeah. Oh, that's that's a legal thing. Yeah. Oh, I didn't
realize it was for legal reasons. Yes, that way. You want
to pay him so much. Oh, okay. Because it's basically one big
stage.
It's a stage and you're just a cast member. Includes the guys
who scrape up the gum.
Yeah, the cast members. Of course, they don't want to quit
show business. But you
don't see and you look around the park you'll see these doors
as a cast members only it never says employees only the word
employee is verboten.
So in the backdrop of this, we have Kimberly Guilfoyle, which
was not being reported on in any equitable way, because the
accusations are, I don't know if they're credible, because no
one's really reported on it. You've heard about these
accusations of Kimberly. No. Well, she left the Fox News
Network to become the vice chairwoman of the I support the
president pack, whatever it is something like that, like I'm
boning the president's son so hey, I'm all for him. Guilfoyle
departure was has been billed as her decision, but it was
Huffington Post snowless, who reported last week from multiple
sources that said she did not leave the network voluntarily.
They said Guilfoyle was in firm informed her time at Fox News
was up following a Human Resources investigation into
allegations of inappropriate behavior, including sexual
misconduct, and that her lawyers had been involved in spring.
sources also say that despite being told she would have to
leave by July, Guilfoyle repeatedly attempted to delay or
exit and tried to have her allies appeal to Rupert Murdoch.
What she apparently did is she was very abusive towards the I
think it's women in the hair and makeup department. Which I hate
to say it but just looking at her I can see that she's a total
bitch in the makeup department. I've been in makeup departments
all my life, and I've seen it and they're just in some women
are just horrible, just rude and mean and abusive with language.
But the best part is she apparently is going around
showing dick pics to everybody and identifying whose dikkat is
in the pic. For some reason
this none of this would surprise me because I've always been
suspicious of Her sense of you can almost say since she was
married to Gavin Newsom Yeah, that's a red flag. But the other
moment was she was on during the memory of the TSA scandal about
the technicians keeping pictures of the Yes, of course, naked
people in the X rays with a naked body scanner. So we don't
do we're not taking any picture. But turns out they were. They
were doing a discussion of this on one of the O'Reilly or
something. She was one of the discoverers. And she says, I
don't get it. I don't see I don't have any problem with
this. I think I'm glad they want to see me naked. I have no
problem with that. I think everyone is whining about
nothing.
I don't remember that. We have a clip of that. No, it
was just watched us to bed. And I was saying, Holy mackerel.
That's the kind of analysis is this? Well, the thing I'm proud
of my naked bodies you should be
too Yeah. So I could see her being
as she looks kind of like a mean spirited person
walking around showing dick pics of course, these these were
probably emailed to her or sexted to her. I don't know how
she got them or she took them like a like a plaster caster.
But I think we should know where is it? I would like a little
equity on this. Just because she's a woman and she's cute.
Kind of. That means that she can just get away with it. The Press
doesn't jump on this and doing anything and I don't understand
it's Trump. How can you not do this when she's dead? I'm
directly connected to Trump.
It makes no sense. I think
it's one of these one of these things that destroy the
gentlemen's agreement by the women reporters that we don't
pick on each other because we got enough problems
Hmm I think so.
Yeah, that's the only possibility because what you
just said outlines exactly why it should be going on and so
there has to be a reason it is not and I believe that would be
the reason
why it's disappointing and I want to know more is
it yeah the war against men requires the women to stick
together and this is their what they're doing right there. And
if the women's team together on this I'm sorry the women's team
together on this the men are gonna jump in because then they
get picked on by the women well,
it's disappointing to me and I would I would definitely like to
know more specifically when it
see whose Dick picture she's got well there's
and discuss your sexual harassment update.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in
the morning to you John, see you and the C stands for I can't
think of anything today Devorah back
in the morning to you Mr. Adam curry also in the morning all
the boots on the ground the feet in the air the subs in the water
and hold the dames the nights out there. Well, this is
interesting. I had a normally when I go to I go to Fox. Or
what do you call Firefox? When you click on the Open New Tab?
It shows you a bunch of stuff that you really previously
opened. I think I have been
is these idiots pocket
has somehow invaded my pocket
pocket. Yeah, what is pocket pocket
is some sort of a look it up once you look up pocket. Well. I
go get the spreadsheet. But I had to type everything in now.
Pocket communications something new coming soon.
Probably I don't know what it is. They hijack my browser.
Oh, I just went to the page and they haven't hijacked it but
there's nothing going on.
Anyway, I did. I can get rid of it. I know.
Well, while while you're looking for that. Let me say in the
morning. Let me say in the morning to the
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Oh yeah what you there so we gotta gotta play this. This is
the hit job on the tell me this is not a professional hit then
they'll never catch the guy. This is a hit job under Bush
Ducktor. Their new
developments in a high profile murder mystery in Texas. A
renowned cardiologist who has treated former president George
HW Bush gunned down while riding his bicycle to work. The gunman
also want to bike and that was what he say it was a targeted
attack. But who did it and why we get the latest from NBC is
Tammy Lightner.
Tonight police reveal a renowned Houston cardiologist was likely
targeted by his killer leaving more questions than answers.
This is a truly a who done it from top to bottom perplexing
case. New Video shows Dr. Mark house connect in his final
moments before being gunned down. The images captured from a
city bus cam show the doctor in blue scrubs riding his bike to
work just like he did every day. Not far behind him. Another man
on a bike trailing house connect seen here carrying a bulging
backpack. minutes later Police say the gunman wrote in front of
the doctor and fired three shots while facing him. The medical
examiner confirming house Kinect died of gunshot wounds to the
head torso and upper left extremity. Investigators
releasing this sketch of the suspect. Friends and neighbors
now retracing the killer's path searching for clues Did you see
anything unusual and asking residents to check their home
surveillance cameras we want to solve this murder have senseless
murder
I did read about this but didn't really probably read only the
headline could could be a hit job. Why?
Well that's the question they don't even ask.
They don't even consider it.
No, they don't consider it they just like some I guess this
happens all the time. I don't think so. No. Sounds like a hit
job to me. Hmm. Interesting. And the doctor probably has a you
know, this is he goes on and takes his bike every time just
to work and he's always probably doing it at the exact same time
very easy to to figure out how to get him for some reason. But
no, no, don't bother even thinking of that.
Just put it put it in the Seth Rich file. It'll be fine there
will take care of it's good place to put that. Yes, that's
rich. Okay, there's this. This thing here also triggered a
thought which I mentioned in the newsletter. This is Greek fires,
arson. Ah, yes.
Paradise Lost of Atticus eastern shoreline. The Mediterranean Sea
gleams as blue as ever, onshore. So many of the homes and hotels
that once stood here are gone. On Monday, the flames charged
through here at 60 kilometers per hour. Almost everyone fled
towards the beaches. Only the firefighters had the means to
try and resist the flames often in vain.
This is the first time in 38 years of my service. seeing so
much catastrophe. Sometimes we can react and of course, it's
something beyond our power to stop.
Investigators say the blaze took just 90 minutes to race down the
mountain towards the coast, many residents simply had no chance
to escape. And while Monday was extremely hot and windy in
Greece, the government suspects the worst fires were no
accident.
They get the only in the middle.
As you've all been informed with the
Invictus, the indications that we have, and which authorities
in charge are already investigating.
For the wolves to see better as a multi piece will lead to the
conclusion for Nick yet arson was behind the deadly fires.
Wow. Now Greece can't get a break, man. How long have they
been screwed over? Is it now going on seven years? Yeah.
Besides the financial strategy, starting with the austerity and
the migrants and everything? Yeah, they can't catch a break
at all. And now arson. Hmm, I
wonder about the some of the fires that are going on around
the United States where they think it's like wind kicks up
immediately a fire starts. You know, it just seems like a thing
terrorists could do
if they but yeah, but they got to claim it. If they don't claim
that's the only thing
missing. Yeah, if they claimed it. And then of course they
could claim it not do anything. It's just claim everything.
And speaking of that, you know, ISIS claimed the Vegas massacre,
I think at least three maybe four times and we're still
completely in the dark as to what actually happened. And we
don't even know if they're now at now. There's I thought that
maybe there was a second shooter. Because body cam that
gets the Vegas police men, do they just release stuff willy
nilly and not look at it or is it the release nothing or the
wrong thing? Because this body cam footage shows police believe
there are multiple shooters and that was never discussed in a in
any of the briefings.
No, there are two windows broken open.
Yeah. Yeah,
what you can you know, whatever you see, just don't believe what
you see.
Please. That thing is, wow.
I just it's I have no words for that. I really don't understand
why. And we have not understood more about what
happened there. Other than cover up? Yeah, it's cover up.
I have one other little topic, which is kind of worth
discussing.
Scott Adams brought this up.
And this is the autofill in problem at Twitter. That has
been
Oh, yeah, this is the this is the whole shadow banning
conversation on kurz Tucker took it on it. I thought he did a
pretty good job. Yeah, I
got a beef with Tucker, but we'll get to that in a minute.
All right. So this is the what are we fake
accounts? chucker takes on autofilling.
Oh, hold on a second. Yes. Here we go.
What Twitter has long denied that it is biased against
conservative accounts. That's obviously a lie. It's always
obviously been a lie. And now it is a proven lie. A new report by
Vice found that the Republican lawmakers and other conservative
accounts wouldn't show up in the search bar when users search for
them. That is censorship, obviously. And it was
intentional. Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida was one of
those conservatives shadow banned by Twitter.
Okay, he is it's not censorship if it's not the government.
Sorry, that's not censorship.
We know it is censorship. Censorship
has got nothing to do with the government.
Okay, but the way he's set he the way he's framing it. I think
he's implying that but okay, I rest your
ship, obviously. And it was intentional. Congressman Matt
Gaetz of Florida was one of those conservatives shadow
banned by Twitter. He just filed a complaint against the company
with the Federal Election Commission. Congressman gates
joins us today. Congressman, thank you for coming on. So I
guess the first is a factual question. You're certain that
this happened to you. And it was intentional?
Well, I'm certain that there were only four members of
Congress who had their voices suppressed on Twitter, Matt
Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows and Devin Nunez. So that'd be
one hell of a coincidence. My suspicion is that if people were
effectively communicating a conservative message, they got
caught in Twitter's troll trap. The reason that I think that
that is illegal is because that that gives advantages to our
political opponents. It gives them access to the platform that
we don't have if Twitter was a billboard company, and they gave
Democrats access to their billboards and not Republicans.
That would be an illegal corporate donation to the
campaign's of Democrats here instead of the billboard. It's
the autofill in function as a part of Twitter's search feature
that wasn't available to me Devin Nunez, Mark Meadows, or
Jim Jordan. And it's available to Democrats.
Yeah, surprising. It's
a valid argument. Yeah, that's a valid argument. It's an illegal
corporate contribution.
Oh, look at it that way. Okay. Now that's an interesting way to
look at it.
It's it's a good way to look at it Scott Adams says the same
thing happened to him he was shadow banned if you tried to
look it up Scott Adams is very famous guy. Oh, like like me not
having a blue checkmark. Yeah, exactly. Same thing. Why don't
you have a blue checkmark they hate you blue checkmark
they hate me there. Well, that
doubt you think that's a little bit unfair? No, I used to be a
neutral operational
No, in fact I see it as a badge of honor now yeah, you say
that I do I mean that but the point is well okay, the point is
is that I that's how I got in trouble by signing out on
Twitter. I signed out to see what Scott was right because I
click on Jesse Oh to get Scott boom read the top and then when
I wasn't John C DeVore. Echo is just an anonymous guy coming
into the on the site looking for Scott. It didn't show up.
Right on the drop down
right. Well, but Twitter has Twitter has admitted they do
this and they call it healthy conversation rules.
Mill you can call whatever they want. Anyway, I never got a call
back I never got a note from the with my ability to change my
password. I never got the PRP will never respond it which
brings up another point. How did you get back on I had I forgot I
had a backdoor way of doing it.
Back Twitter nice
and really hacked Twitter. But um I got it, but I never heard
from them and they're supposed to oh, we'll let you know in a
couple of days and I say sent notes directly to the public
relations operation. Whenever he's got a job
okay, here's how that goes. Hey, got a note from this divorce
shack guy. Oh, that Craig forget about it. All right, crazy
podcast.
Can I read to you the official Twitter
statement steading setting the record straight on Shadow
banning? Because I think they they admitted here. People are
asking us if we shadow ban we do not. But let's start with what
is Shadow banning? The best definition we found is this
deliberately making someone's content undiscoverable to
everyone except the person who posted it unbeknownst to the
original poster. I think that's a good explanation, or
definition. We do not shadow ban, you are always able to see
the tweets from accounts you follow. Although you may have to
do more work to find them like go directly to their profile.
And we certainly don't shadowbanned based on political
viewpoints or ideology. We do rank tweets in search results.
We do this because Twitter is most useful when it's
immediately revelant the relevant. These ranking models
take many signals into consideration to best organize
tweets for timely relevance. We must also address bad faith
actors who intend to manipulate or detract from healthy
conversation. This is their whole mantra now the healthy
conversation. But healthy conversation to me is boring. So
as a specific example, if a search result has 30,000 tweets,
here's what we take into consideration when ranking
tweets from people you're interested in should be ranked
highly. tweets that are popular are likely to be interesting and
should be higher ranked tweets from bet bad faith actors who
intend to manipulate or divide the conversation should be
ranked lower. These are their rules. So that's very subjective
to say bad faith actors who intend to manipulate or divide
the conversation when what the hell
that it means you can't contradict someone that's always
going to be political. Now, what
they say this last bullet is the basis of our work around serving
healthy public conversation. Here are some of the signals we
use to determine bad faith actors, specific account
properties that indicate authenticity. So whether you
have a confirmed email address, how recently your account was
created, whether you uploaded a profile image, etcetera, what
actions you take on Twitter example who you follow who you
retweet, etc, and how other accounts interact with you who
mutes you, who follows you, who retweets you who blocks you. So
they're doing very, very interesting signals they're
using but the bottom line is, if you follow someone, you may not
necessarily see their tweets in your timeline, because they're
pushing that all the way down. They say that's not shadow
banning. I say it's very similar.
It is Shadow banning. I'm not following someone like you.
Because I don't want to see your tweets. Yeah, I put I click on
follow for a reason. The reason is, I want to see the tweets
from the person I'm following. Alright, some people follow a
million people and that's useless but I am not I don't
want them selectively giving me your tweets. That one of your
tweets are important to me like does that's why I don't get once
in a while I don't get one of your tweets. It says the show
was dead shipped
what what I find strange in this case is we have an actual
example of this backfiring, this type of news feed algo Isaiah
action, which took it from a reverse chronological order,
which I think is is the best way to go. It's how this whole feed
idea started going back to RSS, I'm sure you can find even, you
know, earlier examples. But RSS, I think is a mainstay that way,
reverse chronological order. And then they they slowly are adding
things like something if you were following someone and they
liked something that would show up in your news feed, but
they're doing what Facebook proved pisses people off by
tinkering around with the reverse chronological order. Now
I know why they're doing it because that's part of the
advertising model. But now they're they're letting it
they're can they're confusing it with you know, healthy
conversation, whatever that is. And so you're going to get this
type of action and it backfires. It's not going to work. It's
been proven people don't like it.
They should just stay simple. But I hadn't thought
about the campaign contribution angle. That's interesting.
Yeah, that's the interesting part is an F E C violation.
Federal Election Commission and I think they should go after
Twitter. Let's play these fake account clips which is similar
and it also brings up a Another point I want to make.
Okay. First one, The Chair recognizes the gentleman from
Idaho, Mr. Labrador for five minutes. Now which hearing was
this?
Was this the result of Facebook hearing? on Facebook?
It was. Yeah, it was specifically about shadow
banning. I think the whole the whole setting. Mr. Chairman,
Miss Downes, you mentioned in your opening statement, or
sometime in the beginning that there was only limited activity
on your side from some of the Russian trolls and some of these
entities, is that correct? That is correct. What did you mean by
limited activity?
Pursuant to our investigation around the 2016 election, we
found two accounts that had a spend of less than $5,000 in
advertising and 18 YouTube channels with just over 1000
videos in English that we terminated as soon as we
identified them, those were all linked to the Can you
tell me what this as she went
for Chai? Hi, boys. Hey, John. Yes, who is she? She's the
one that was the representative from YouTube.
Okay, because he talked now Internet Research Agency.
Okay. Mr. Pickles. Do Would you consider a tremendous activity
that happened on Twitter?
We have 336 million users. A portion of that? Yes, this was a
small proportion. But the accounts we believe that were
linked to the internet research agency did run to several 1000.
That was too many. And we've taken steps to make
sure that there were millions of users and there were several
1000 of these accounts. Oh my god, are we you know, please let
us all remember that all of this bullcrap would have resulted in
$100,000 worth of ads that really did nothing.
Immediate muted help. Now we're
arguing about stupid Twitter. Look, Twitter's great for some,
you know, to broadcast your message and everything else. You
know,
it's not the point. I'm trying.
I know. I know. I know. All right.
The bending thing is by the way, the guy representing Twitter was
a guy named Nick
pickles. Yeah. Is your lawyer is your lawyer.
No, no, it's just Who cares who you don't put a guy like that.
I'll put my
attorney Nick pickles on the case. Everything will be fine.
Nick, Nick pickles. No, he's the man for the job. It's a great DJ
name. Thank you born everybody's Nick pickles with Yeah, up until
the noon hour.
Nick pickles investigator. Okay, good. Let's go to shows a
kicker.
Facebook declined our request for an interview. The company
apologized for what happened and called the Oklahoma Police
Department case. A mistake.
Wait a minute. Listen to that again. Hold on a second.
Facebook declined our request for an interview. The company
apologized for what happened and called the Oklahoma Police
Department case a mistake?
Well, what did they apologize for? No.
Was that part two? Is that number two kicker? Or is that
number three, the result?
I probably messed it up. I don't know. Let me see if this is
number two, that this comes
as Facebook grapples with an even bigger battle of fake
profiles, bogus advertisers and foreign influence ahead of the
2018 midterm elections totaling Kent, NBC News.
I don't understand either of those clips now. Okay. Well,
the point that I'm trying to get to here was that we're talking
to NBC News. And this happened on PBS. If you remember, I had a
clip last show for PBS is what we tried to talk to somebody at
Twitter and they when nobody would show up. You try to talk
to Google or those Google Facebook is it was about the EU
problem. Nobody knows. They don't have no. Twitter has
nobody in Facebook has nobody. Google has nobody. These
companies have all decided not to have any public face for
anything. They refuse to send a PR person. They won't answer any
reporters emails. Once in a while they do. I'm against the
complete. But if you want to get a hold of the head of PR at
Google, you write you have to write an email to press. There's
no name. Just press@google.com it does the same thing with with
Twitter it did these companies, these new companies have all
decided not to take the approach that don't say anything, don't
have a public relations person coming out to do damage control.
And the result has been what you're seeing the stocks are
cratering when they don't have to if I was a shareholder in it,
and by the way, like I said, I had my lost my password, and
they didn't help me one bit. Right.
If you are a shareholder, you would have dumped your stock
just in time by the way.
Yeah, it would have been a good call.
Day these things don't happen. You don't have the world's
biggest collapse. What in one day like they did at Facebook.
If you have If you have expertise,
yeah, people met managing people managing the problem. If I
have, I feel like, like, what am I defending the public relations
of operations for? Because I'm always complaining about them.
But in this case, what's wrong with these companies? Facebook,
Twitter, Google, and probably a few others. Microsoft still has
public relay. Most companies that are smart, have a public
relations company do do damage control, but these companies
don't they pay no attention and when it comes to customer
service is the same thing. I have a clip here. Oh, let's see
if this is if this is the Facebook sell off. But no big
deal and NBC played this clip.
The sell off was staggering and unprecedented. Facebook losing
$119 billion dollars in market value today alone, the worst
single day ever for US company. After this profit warning from
CEO Mark Zuckerberg,
we're investing so much in security, that it will
significantly impact our profitability.
Soccer Berg himself lost $15 billion in the sell off coming
after two years of scandals and investigations. It seems as
though you turned a blind blind eye to this correct.
Congressman, I disagree with
that assessment from Russian election meddling and
disinformation to the 87 million users whose private information
was compromised by Cambridge Analytica. Now Facebook users
are tightening their privacy settings, and the number of
daily users is dropping. So you could argue that there's a lot
of rage out there against Facebook. But where do people go
to express their rage they go to Facebook and Instagram. Facebook
insists it's making changes to address privacy and security.
And it's still dominates social media worldwide. From London to
Berlin, the Vegas trip to Tokyo also owning Instagram, messenger
and WhatsApp. Despite the stock sell off today, it's only back
to where it was in May.
Now this is an example of an out of control story that resulted
in this huge collapse of the stock. And it's again because
they have no front facing people that can deal with this kind of
situation.
Do you know if they have investor relations, can you get
someone there?
have never been able to okay, you have tried? Let's try this
last clip fake cop profile on Facebook and listen to this.
This is Julian can't the world's largest social network is
struggling in its battle against fake profiles. The problem has
become so big that Facebook says it's disabled 1.3 billion fake
profiles over the past year police officer Justin tourney
was killed in the line of duty at just 22 years old. A year
later, as the community mourn a fake profile with attorneys
photo appeared on Facebook.
I couldn't believe that somebody would stoop that low. They had
created a Facebook profile page stating that he was married,
that he was from Iowa, and that he was currently working at the
Kansas City Kansas Police Department Chief of
Police Jr. Kidney says he contacted Facebook to remove the
fake profile.
Our response from Facebook has been zero.
This is another example and this is beyond the PR problem I'm I'm
bitching about this is they have no customer service. When I can
like for example, we have the my one of my service providers is
sonic.net sonic.net Has someone you can call. This is the guy
that they string up actual physical wires is not a bunch of
servers and software. You can call you get somebody on the
line within a minute. They talk to you. They're local. They know
what they're doing this sort of thing that fit these Facebook
guys, Twitter guys and Google guys are rolling in money, they
won't put 10 cents into customer service. They won't put 10 cents
into public relations, they won't put 10 cents into
anything. These guys are just a holes at the max. It's
unbelievable. The fact that the press doesn't get on their
presses giving him crap, but it's it's more subtle than what
I'm doing.
Well, let's talk about this for a second. Having both worked in
Silicon Valley. Yeah. At startups with the with the
venture capital funding as well. Do you think this is
a cultural thing?
Or is it a arrogance thing? Or is it a fear thing?
Or
is it a disdain for? Do they consider themselves to be
Overlords of media and don't need to talk to press? Although
that's not entirely true. The problem is bigger than that
because they just haven't you said they have no front facing
representation to their users. I'm sure they have plenty to
their advertisers.
I think disdain would come and come to play. I mean, the fact
that there's no customer service where this cop couldn't get
anybody to take this dead guy's phony profile off the off of
Facebook. And when I have another clip, which I don't have
with me, I'll hold on.
Let me just ask the question.
What would it cost them? Do you think, to have front facing
customer facing people that you could talk to?
A lot less than to find they're paying to the EU? Which probably
would have been, you know,
there's also a culpability thing like, hey, we don't say
anything. So we can't be blamed for anything. I'm really, really
trying to get to the bottom of your
your think there's an element of that. But it began with Google
when they pulled their you know, I don't know, who would you talk
to over there? suppress@google.com? No,
I mean, I got banned from from Google Ad ad programs in
2010 2009. And never got an answer and can never get on.
Yeah, just done it over and out. Not there's no
customer service. There's no public really no public
relations, they spend nothing on that. They just keep putting
money in the bank. Okay. But
we're we still don't know why this is I mean, it because your
greed. The Silicon Valley media companies for sure. I mean, is
it the same with Space X, for example? Or Tesla? Um, do they
had the FPR? People? This seems
like, I think there's elements of it at tests live, never
really get a hold of the PR person at tests, even we're
always doing all that work on electric cars.
Are you sure you tell them that you're verified on Twitter, so
they know that you're a real journalist? I mean, that's also
I have a good bio that I can I hook on to those things. I also
found that one of the somebody I thought would be a good contact
at the wit and way mo way. Mo is a good example of Google, they
won't let anyone talk to him. The Google company
well, in your experience as a lifelong businessman,
entrepreneur, legitimate What do you think the ad the ultimate
result will be from this practice?
It's not going to be good. It's not going to be pretty. You're
not going to get here's the problem. It wouldn't when they
when the
when everything hits the fan.
There's they're not going to have anybody to say hey, wait a
minute. Let's look at it from another perspective. These guys
really aren't bad guys. Or, or anything like that. It's good
to be Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Hey, hold on. Yeah, kinda. Yeah, it's just not a good not
gonna have any friends. Because it does nothing to befriend
anybody is, or try to at least get your get your message out
there. They probably have. I mean, Zuckerberg, and that's
Zuckerberg, for one thing, he's gonna get kicked out at his own
company. If he keeps this up. Oh, that's gonna be bad. And
that would ruin the place because he's like something of a
yes, yes. I just
find it very interesting that these guys are. I think
arrogance has got a lot to do with it. Look, all the money
we've made. We're I just started up a company. I'm worth
billions. I know what I'm doing. I know what I'm doing. Yeah.
People should love me because I'm rich. Yeah. It's just
baffling to me, because I've never seen it before. I mean,
this is a fairly new phenomenon. And if you go back 10 years, and
you look at all these new startups, they were they always
had, they're getting ripped off by the PR companies, in my
opinion, but they had PR, and they were these trying, and they
have a crisis hit. They bring in specialists and they clear it
up. And these guys don't even bother with that. It's just a
guess, too bad. You know, so the stock went down, screw the
shareholders, the shareholders should revolt against this.
These are public companies. They're not private companies.
Well, that said, Nick pickles. It's almost like his desk
disdainful. Let's say who's got the silliest name. I said, Nick
has got a great name.
Well, you've been you've been, you've been bitching about this
lack of customer service since I've known you. So this has not
gone out and gone unnoticed. But I tend to agree that when you
see this type of dramatic stock price drop, there was just
clearly no one to soften the fall. The way that was in
Facebook's example, the way the CFO just came out and said,
Well, you know, because we change, we give people more
privacy options, so that's going to fuck us. You know, it's like,
Hey, so what are you gonna do? We're still making millions who
gives a shit? Yeah, pretty much. I mean, that's the only way you
can interpret this. Even Microsoft
has excellent customer service. You can call Microsoft up and
they'll talk to you they have first ever robot if
you can find the right number. How many times raise your hand
without talking if you've got searched for a Microsoft Help
Desk number and got some guy from India who wants to take
control of your PC?
Well, there's that issue. That is a problem, a very big
problem. But this is somebody, these guys have nobody. There is
zero customer service for Google. Zero again, you'd like
you said, you got your AdSense thing told you that you could
never find anyone to know, no one would talk to you. Because
there is nobody. I mean, it's either amateur hour, which I
don't believe because they had all these, you know, people that
know what they're doing come and go. Or it's just this arrogance.
It's like Yeah, screw Yes. So what to start with dad's fine. I
need less a little valley. So all right. I think we get by the
way, this complaint in mind is not going away.
No, it's okay. But we're they can go away for now. I would
like to play a Twitter sports related segment, which is new
for me as you know, I am not the sports guy on the show. I saw a
great article the other day someone wrote about our show
something on medium, I think and it was it was really it was very
flattering. And you know, but there was a glaring mistake in
there. They said that they make very accurate sports predictions
for two guys who don't care about sports. I know. John is
very much into sports. Yeah, they know a lot about it and a
lot about sports. So for me to bring up a sports segment is
novel. This is from Fox Sports one. Fox Sports one. It's a
great show. Watch it all the time. This is the this is the
former I guess they're all former NFL players who work at
sports at Fox Sports one. But this was an interesting rant
about the problems with Twitter. When it comes to professional
ballplayers.
I'm Jason Whitlock, Colin Cowherd is off today. Coming up.
I'll tell you why Jerry Jones is exactly what the NFL needs right
now.
And for some reason, this is not the clip I made of it, Carmelo
Anthony.
But we begin today with cowboys star turn Monday Night Football
broadcaster Jason Witten. The future Hall of Fame tight end
penned a column for espn.com outlining the dangers of Twitter
inside an NFL locker room. Witten wrote, I've seen the
negative impact social media can have, particularly on younger
players who grew up with Twitter and Instagram as an integral
part of life. A player checking Twitter at halftime, I've seen a
player tweeting out a grievance with an organization about
playing time, or how he's being utilized. I see it far too
often. But the most concerning watching a really talented
player corrupt his mind and confidence by reading all the
critiques from anonymous football experts around the
world. Negative social media can ruin a player reading your
mentions it's poison. Thank you, Jason Witten, just a couple of
short months after retiring as a player witness already doing
more thoughtful, insightful and impactful journalism than many
of my peers. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Journalists are
addicted to Twitter and afraid to say or write anything that
might cost them Twitter followers.
I'm really sorry about the quality. I know I did a better
version of this,
but it sounds fine. Okay,
guys, anyway, this is where I want to start the clip is that
this where journalists are we talked about this are all
they're all trolling on Twitter. And they're afraid to say
anything, that or report anything that might piss off
their followers. This is something I hadn't taken into
consideration, that the journal the journals themselves don't
want to lose their important followers and engagement. So
they're very cautious as to what they write unless they're doing
it for
effect. But the truth is, Twitter is a bigger threat to
football than CTE.
Ah, what is CTE?
That's that head injury that you get, oh,
Twitter's worse than head injuries.
Twitter has more influence over many professional athletes than
coaches, executives and ownership. The negative impact
of Twitter is inflicted most effectively. On black athletes.
There's a Wikipedia entry for Black Twitter. There's no such
thing as white Twitter, or Asian Twitter, or Latino Twitter or
brown Twitter. There's only Black Twitter when black people
create something good. It's quickly appropriate. Little
Richard recorded Tutti Frutti in 1955. One year later, Elvis sang
it on his first album for RCA. You see what I'm getting at?
Black Twitter has been around for nearly a decade. No other
group is mimicking it. Why? Because it's poison. Twitter
bait people into thinking and believing the most ridiculous
things. Let me give you an example. quitter has black
people convinced that kneeling during the national anthem is
the cure for police brutality and not a gesture that
undermines the success of an industry in a league that
employs 70% African American players. black athletes need to
get off Twitter. Now let's be clear Jason Witten column today
had nothing to do with Black Twitter. He was talking about
Twitter in general, he can see its harmful impact on everyone.
I can see its harmful impact on us. Black people. It dumbs down
complex conversations and distorts reality. Quarter will
have you convinced the NFL is the enemy of the black man
because the league wants his players to respect the national
anthem. went and said it best. The Twitter mob is not a
reflection of reality. All right, joining me now there
you go. I liked his rant. That was very
good. He should have if he wanted to make us stronger. When
he talked about Tutti Frutti being expropriated by Elvis, you
shouldn't mention Pat Boone also did this. Or he could have just
said this. That's our show. No money shot.
Money shot. Conway is a money shot
that would have been just a little bit better. But yeah,
it's it's dangerous if I hadn't, you know, you don't think about
the implications. But you got guys tweet, you know, tweeting
at halftime and it's messing with their psyche. And what
people are saying,
well, now that Daddy brought this out. I didn't know these
football players. This would be great. This is you're a gambler.
Oh, yeah, he said up about 100 accounts that are you know, you
get them built up a little bit. Make sure everybody follows
each other. It's called the internet research agency. They
got it all set to just call
them on just having a slam some guy at halftime some receiver on
one of the big teams during the big game. Exactly. The next
thing you know he's dropping balls and they lose the game and
you're you're you come home a winner. Plausible sounds like
Yeah, that's exactly. Yes.
That's a good seven. That was your best sports segment ever.
That's probably the only one I've ever done.
Well, that's why I said,
Yeah. Thanks.
So here is Jake Tapper. brought on the Colbert had slammed the
president and do the oldest kind of shake promoting a book
was Jake doing on Colbert. He was
just there to slam Trump. Yeah. Okay.
Well, the band, it was just for that one event. But the good
news is that the White House press corps, including people
like Brett Barrett, Fox News, and others, I saw him he said,
we stand with you on CNN and Fox News put out a statement, I
guess, you know, speaking for the part of the news division
that doesn't spend their entire time trying to, you know, attack
the rest of us, the part of the news division that actually is
trying to do journalism, and said, we stand for, you know,
press access, we stand with Caitlin Collins and other people
on press access. This is new, this is new, it went from press
first is freedom of the press, which means you can print
whatever you want. That got bastardized into press freedom,
which means Hey, man, freedom of the press, but different. And
now we have press access. Yeah. So they have the right they have
rights.
And said we stand for, you know, press access, we stand with
Caitlyn Collins and other people did that too. We know who's
Caitlin Collins now?
She was the one who was kicked out of the press out of the Oh,
okay. Press Control was over. But she made a big fuss to start
yelling and screaming say, Okay, well
stop, stop. If they stood with her. Then they will be outside
standing with her not inside asking questions. Peace
was it was good to see. But that's it. I mean, there's no
option like 45 minutes later, Lou Dobbs said, CNN, who
the hell do you think you are? It's about time you got called
on the carpet or whatever like that. Yeah.
Well, because that's the other half of Fox News that says that
sort of thing. And is just, you know, ride or die to go after
Lou. What I go after? Did you go after him? What do you mean,
after that? I'm attacking him. Did you attack him on Twitter?
Did I attack him on Twitter? No. What you know, what I did do
though, is I quoted something that he had said, when a
conservative reporter asked tough questions of President
Obama and like 2012 and Lou Dobbs, it might surprise you to
find out had a very different take on the situation that Obama
was being rude by not answering the questions Wow.
Wow.
Yeah, you know, well, hold on.
So I took that he actually went on at the end there I'd got cut
short so I have the real the actual clip of him going wow wow
as though he's really shocked by this. I got the ISO for maybe
the end of show.
Wow. Yeah. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. Wow.
And so rhythmic fits perfectly in the beat.
Well, yeah, this
It's interesting how the Gitmo nation proper media is loves to
make the story about themselves continuously. They believe
there's a story here, they think is Orwellian. They think it's
you know, well, here's NPR once again, this is from their new
show. This week. NPR Jack Beatty. Here's the hater. Again,
he's going to an it might be in the Trump rotation.
Or well, do we have Orwellian?
1984? Is that in the rotation? No,
but I can put it in Yeah, we may have to
earlier in the week during remarks to the Veterans of
Foreign Wars National Convention in Kansas City, President Trump
lambasted the media, telling the audience don't believe the
quote, crap you see from these people, the fake news and quote,
just,
we have to, we have to breathe heavily when we speak these
words, because it truly is bad for democracy and press freedom
and press access from
these people the fake news and quote,
just remember, what you're seeing and what you're reading
is not what's happening.
What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's
happening. Jack Beatty, your thoughts about that?
Well, of course, everybody has gone to Orwell's 1984. To pick
up quotations like this one, quote, the party told you to
reject the evidence of your eyes and ears, it was their final
most essential command.
Wow, nice way to turn around Orwell ha. In 1984, last time I
read the book, it was the Ministry of Truth, who would
bring you the correct answers. And that was what came up on the
so called telescreens. So this is the reverse of what they're
saying. Whereas Trump is in essence, saying what you hear
from the Ministry of Truth, and you see on the telescreens is
not happening, but they're turning it around.
President I mean, I think we all have to look at what he said
there, you know, don't believe what what you're seeing don't
don't believe reality, believe me. There's a phrase of Lionel
Trilling the moral obligation to be intelligent, we have a moral
obligation, a civic obligation to be intelligent, to try to
read the world as it is certainly not as a self
interested leader tells us and this is a test of citizenship
for people. Do they really want themselves to be described as
people who don't believe the evidence of this census and
believe, a supreme leader? And is does that idea of citizenship
comport with any model of of democratic life that we know of?
It's a it's a scandal, the President could say something
like that it's an even bigger scandal, that that so many
people believe him?
No, I have some thoughts on this. I think your analysis is
perfect, by the way. He's telling you that the telescreen
is full of crap. This was brought up by Anderson Cooper,
and two Stooges, and I wish I had the clip of it. Where they
played this clip, and they went berserk over this, calling it
1984. And they said, Don't believe what you see who's he
kidding? And all that sort of thing. And, and this guy says,
is a moral obligation to be intelligent. And when I heard
Trump, I knew what he meant. I knew what he meant. He meant
that these guys are faking stories, and they're putting
them on the air and they're saying stuff. That's bull crap.
Don't believe it. I knew what he meant. I'm not a big Trump fan.
I know what he meant. I know exactly what he meant. And
everybody else knew what he meant. But these guys don't seem
to know what he meant. They don't seem to know what he
meant. He says crazy stuff every once awhile because he because
you know what he's talking about. Because you're actually
in tune a little bit with what might be going on. You're not in
dimension being you're not. You're not selectively taking
this stuff and interpreting it wrong. But this was a
misinterpretation done by all the guys on the left. And it was
one after the other. I'm stunned that you found another one of
these clips, saying pretty much the same thing. And the end, the
guy says, Oh, I'm stunned that all these people do went along
with his craziness. They knew what he meant. Apparently you're
too stupid to know what he meant. Maybe not
what he meant. I like to I like the term ignorant.
Yeah, no, I know why I in this case, better Well,
he went on with his ignorance. Well, I expected it'll it'll
whip up some feeling. But you know, the context here is a
historic development. This week, we learned in a Quinnipiac poll,
that a slight majority of Americans are convinced that
Putin has something on President Trump.
That where did they get that idea?
From 1984, of
course ever has been true
from the media who has been promoting this idea.
That's why I said this is an NPR news show.
Putin has something on President Trump. That never has been true
of any president. That belief is just inconceivable to someone
like me, raised in the Eisenhower years, it sounds like
unbelievable science fiction. And this comes when there's talk
that sometime in in September, the Muller is going to send a
report to Congress documenting a obvious pattern of obstruction
of justice. And at a time when the collusion is heating up with
new revelations from Michael Cohen that he knows of a
meeting, any collusion, President Trump knew in advance
of the June 2016 meeting where the Russians were coming to
share dirt on Hillary. And of course, already, we know that
they were something like calling to one
count. Hey, John, you're banging the drums. Sorry,
82 known contacts between the Trump team and Russia linked
operatives, none of these reported to authorities. So lots
of suggestion of collusion and obstruction as clean as the
President's tweets. And all of this perhaps coming to a head in
the fall, I
find it it hurts my brain. That and of course, it hurts because
we've had so many different versions of the collusion been.
So now the latest is Trump knew about the meeting, where they
were going to possibly get information, or dirt as this guy
said, on Hillary Clinton. And that would be somehow bad,
versus the Clintons who actually paid a foreign spy, to go to
Russia, knowing that he has Russian contacts to get
information from Russia to get the dirt on Donald Trump, which
then be eventually turned into a a wiretap FISA warrant and all
kinds of other stuff. Am I missing a piece?
No, you're not missing anything. These guys are there. They're
deluded. I don't know what their problem is, at this point. This
has gone on to this comes
back to that Don't be stupid. You have a moral obligation to
be smart.
Yeah, you have a moral obligation to be intelligent,
right? exact quotes. elegent.
Yes, it's, it's confusing to me. I mean, that just doesn't anyone
else see this?
The fact that you'd come up with something like that always
reminds me of my mom.
My mother
always thought she had a bad attitude. She was friendly. And
she was jovial with people. But she was a negative person. Yeah,
all she did was read books about positive thinking. And she also
all she said was, Oh, you got to think positive, you got to think
positive. This is the same thing. It's like you you're you
have a weakness. Because you're not intellectual. You're stupid.
And so you start talking about all you know, you got to think
more, you got to think more, you got to think smart, you got to
be smart, you got to be intelligent, I think is the same
phenomenon. It's like you're an idiot. You somehow sense it
deeply. Since you're disturbed. Your brain doesn't work, right?
And you get you know, this kind of dystopian look at everything.
And so this is what you say you say something like that I would
never do our moral obligation to be entirely intelligent. I'm
just guessing because I noticed that people that I noticed this
with copy editors, and copy editors are people who want to
learn want to write they all want to want to be writers. Why
else would you get into it? And they figured by going into
getting into the grammar and all the little nitpicking stuff
about writing and being critical of everybody else's work was
somehow transform you into an actual writer, when it's very
rare. Most copy editors or copy editors for their forever
because the it's just like you're doing it the wrong way.
And it's like this kind of thing these guys are that's why he
thinks stupid is not a bad word. Well,
I like that people are bringing up 1984 I like that they're
showing this again and Animal Farm is being mentioned and
hopefully the kids will go and not watch the movie because the
CIA edited those to make the endings different, but read the
book Because I'm sure they're available online for free to
read 1984 by George Orwell while you're at it,
it's good book.
Yeah. While you're at it get a ductus. Huxley, Huxley, yeah,
Adolphus Huxley, its adult adult is the office Huxley's Brave,
Brave New World is Brave New Orleans. Good book, get that one
get Animal Farm
and read it. This is Aldous I, the I, you know,
I don't remember no,
that's brave, brave new world
Animal Farm because this
this idea that the press is, is under attack. And you know that
fake news and just all these things and the undoubted
regulations that are good that are going to come from this.
This is why these hearings are taking place with Twitter. It's
all about control it because they control television, they
I'll just say they, because it's a big circle jerk. It's the
media companies, they're owned by corporate entities, they
donate to politicians, they help with regulations goes round and
round, and now they're reining in the social media networks
this that's what this is all about. It's happening all over
the world. This is the UK think we have to be slightly careful.
This is a member of parliament, Collins
spin, and a bit of good image management, and downright
unmitigated lies, which is what we see on social media time and
time again, in the political sphere. defamatory lies about
politicians, defamatory adverts about me that purport to say I
say you should put money into get rich schemes that then
people lose money on the backup. That's not a little bit of spin.
Politics has always been about a little bit of spin. And I'm sure
it's been about lies in the past too. But whether it happens in
the past, or it happens now, what we need to do is look at
the medium it's happening with and say, how do we regulate it?
How do we stop it? How do we make it a better and a fairer
landscape for people? And this report is attempting to do that.
And for that, I applaud it.
This is about the crisis in our democracy report by the members
of parliament in the UK and they want a digital Atlantic Charter.
What was the Atlantic Charter originally? This is Eisenhower
days, isn't it? I have no idea.
I'll look it up while you talk. Yeah,
okay. Well, you could solve the body of knowledge. To work this
place now where we're putting in we want to have all kinds of
regulation about what really regulating speech? Because
whatever you say, if it's not my opinion, is fake news. And that
goes both
ways. And
okay, did you find it the digital land was done by
Roosevelt, it was a charter that would outline what would happen
after World War Two regarding what how we work together all
the allies. So precursor, like a NATO
wasn't a NATO because it wasn't it didn't involve violence.
Well, neither does this, although,
who knows? That just we've gone collectively insane. eventually
became the United Nations. Yeah, okay.
So you know, the ego makes sense that we need a United Nations of
fake news or real news, God knows. Just as well that you
brought up Tucker, I want to play to Tucker clips, one, which
I thought was really phenomenal, both legal constitutional
topics, which I like, and one just so off base, and so stupid,
could not believe that he let that slide. And I don't know, I
did forget for Thursday or Friday, so if you ever corrects
it, this first one was something that any constitutional lawyer
would love talking about the birthright citizenship. So the
the generally accepted idea, which is based on the 14th
Amendment, is if you're born in the United States than you are
by birthright an American citizen, and I think that's
generally accepted. But as it turns out, there is a
alternative interpretation to the amendment. Well,
you have to read the whole 14th amendment. It says, there's a
clause in the middle that people ignore or they misinterpret,
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, they're off meaning of
the United States. What they're saying is, if you're born on US
soil subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, meaning
you're the child of citizens or the child of legal immigrants,
then you're entitled to citizenship. If you're here
illegally, if you owe allegiance to a foreign nation, if you're
the citizen of a foreign country, that clause does not
apply to you. If you read the debate about the ratification of
the 14th amendment. All the senators who are discussing what
this is meant to do, and what it means are very clear. On this
point, I tried to point that out. I expected the left would
blow up and get angry, which they did. What I didn't expect,
at least not to this extent and what was very disappointing was
how angry the so called conservative intellectuals got
with me.
I'd never considered that
that says subject to, and I guess interpreting the word
subject as you are a subject to subject of your subject to or
subject of
law. I don't think it had to do is subject to I think referred
to
laws. Yeah. To the
local laws are the Well, I think there's this has been discussed
before, and I think we've discussed it on the show. I
don't remember. It's very sketchy. But, you know, the 14th
Amendment, it was done to keep to make sure that all his slaves
largely were given citizenship, right. It wasn't for people to
come running into the country have a baby and say, Look,
American.
That's that's the result. Yeah, but they could
put American that they should just put the kibosh on that is I
don't see that being a big deal. But everyone's and if these
right, and the left likes the way it is, and the conservatives
like why the conservatives, what are they that's baffling to me,
I don't know what he's talking about, but okay.
Well, they're not gonna do
anything about it, because you don't want to do anything
when he says conservers the only means politicians. You know,
they'll say whatever they need to say that you can't trust
politicians.
You can't Yeah, I noticed. Alright, so here's this
bogus claim, which when Tina and I were watching this, and we saw
this, we're like, holy crap, if this this, if this is true, this
is an outrage. And I had never heard it. And I went to go look
at what was true about it. And this was just you talk about
some fake news. This is it.
I don't understand exactly how that works. And I'm not
advocating people going bankrupt. I mean, there are
moral issues around that. But I do wonder why student loan debt
is exempted from the normal bankruptcy protections. How did
that happen? How did they get a pass on that? Well, that was
a was that you could actually extinguish it in bankruptcy up
until 1995, when Congress two ended up making it all but
impossible. However, they did exclude and you have to love
this, their own offspring. So if you are the child of a member of
Congress, you can't extinguish your student loans by going to
bankruptcy court.
Gotta love that for real. Yes.
That's unbelievable. So was this a was this a lobbying operation
where student loan lenders decided, well, you know, why
would we want to face the risk of, of getting are not getting
our money back?
Well think about who the student loan lender is. It's the federal
government, the government, federal government has all but
run all other, most of all other lending out of the market. He
just can't compete with the federal government.
So that's a man who I think is a professor at some college. He's
completely wrong about this. Then I listen to them like, Are
you kidding me? I mean, this is the biggest scandal is that they
can do insider trading, which no one else seems to care about.
No, this is completely untrue. The only thing that she could be
referring to was the federal student loan repayment program,
which although not what she said that does benefit offspring of
those in Congress,
you're not denying the fact that you can't bankruptcy yourself
out of this debt? I'm not denying that, that. That's the
scam of scams, as far as I'm concerned. Yeah. Well, I just
wanted to mention that it's not true that the federal employees
kids can get out of it.
But what he meant legislature's kids, it doesn't
matter. It's just it's a federal student loan repayment program.
That's what she's referring to. And it does not allow you to get
out of your loan if you go into bankruptcy. And there's no loan
forgiveness program, but agencies can make payments to
the loan holder up to a maximum of $10,000 for an employee in a
calendar year totaled not more than 60,000 for any one
employee. And I guess that somehow can go to your know if
you hold a loan for your kid. So that as an incentive as an
employment incentive, the which is a nice one, by the way, just
chopping 10 grand off of it or up to 60 and grant 60 grand is
very nice. But it's not like you get out of it if if you go into
bankruptcy. So I just need to call that out as total bull
crap. But the fact remains that at this point, we have kids
graduating college universities with a worthless piece of paper
that does nothing you've learned nothing and their minimum 50
grand in debt minimum,
if they're lucky. Yeah. Which is
definitely and you can't get out of it, which is kind of the
definition of slavery is no it's the human trafficking
I agree. All right.
Just one more story that just shoots down in your neck of the
woods. I want to play this clip that it gives you this is one of
these clips that we it's just I don't know why I want to play
this clip because it's this same complaint we have with every one
of these clips, which is they never bring up what drugs the
guy was on but this is the weird Texas shooting rampage for
killing spree at a nursing home. Texas police investigating a
deadly shooting rampage. At least five people killed in two
different locations. The new details from police just coming
in ABCs Adrienne banker picks up the story.
Tonight nursing home nightmare. Five people killed in two
shootings in a suburb of Corpus Christi, Texas.
We just heard like pop pop pop wicked so flashlight.
City officials say 60 year old Richard story murdered his 85
year old father and his stepmother before taking his own
life at a nursing home Friday evening. At the sound of gunfire
some tried to get away with the elderly
and I saw all these people running in there saying run. So
my dad we just grabbed him in the wheelchair and started taken
off
just down the road more heartbreak. A phone call from a
relative leads officers to find two more bodies inside the home
of stories father of 40 year old believed to be his step mother's
son and a 13 year old police believed story was the only
gunman committing the first shooting at the home before
going to the nursing home where he killed his parents then turn
the gun on himself.
Nursing Home nightmare that makes for a great headline is
never
even a remote idea of discussing what drugs this guy was we don't
care normal thing we don't
know. We don't care. We just want to know how many people
died. We want to have some flashing lights. Some sirens
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and let's get a little updates on the kids. We have just one
more day to reunite all the kids at the border.
So tonight is the deadline for kids ages five and older. And
there's been a lot of discussion about the actual numbers and
what the
government is a Hey, does she care about the homeless and the
people crapping in the streets of San Francisco or anything
going on in this country?
You're not having a terrible, terrible dream. Also, you're not
dead and you haven't gone to hell. This is your life. Now.
This is our election. Now. This is us. This is our country.
Yeah, I
think she does. That's that was what she had to say about the
poop in San Francisco. Okay,
so tonight is the deadline for kids ages five and older. And
there's been a lot of discussion about the actual numbers and
what the government is claiming in terms of their success rate
at reuniting these kids with their parents. When we hit
midnight tonight, we hit the deadline. How many kids? Do you
think that were taken away by this government at the border
will not be reunited with their parents?
I think we're looking at between 709 100 kids who will not be
reunified, the government's gonna claim they made the
deadline. But that's only because they took out those 700
to 900 kids can't reunify them by the deadline. So we're going
to just define who's eligible to be reunified by the deadline.
And then we're going to declare that we met the deadline. But
people should understand that there are hundreds and hundreds
of kids will still be sitting alone tomorrow without their
parents
in cages crying. Alone. Eating tortillas with peanut butter
bad enough. Did they have to make stuff up? They're sitting
alone?
Yeah. Sitting alone.
So it gets to some number fudging going on?
Yeah. What are you gonna do?
I don't know. It's kind of off the table. The kids in cages
doesn't seem to be that important anymore.
I mean, are they going to keep saying it? It's it gets a lot of
people worked up.
Yeah, but I guess
Trump is now threatening to threatening and threatening a
shutdown. Oh,
I didn't know this fair. If we
don't if he doesn't get his immigration package introduced,
which is anything with a wall, as long as there's something
with a wall. Otherwise, he's kind of hinting at
shutting down the government. Please say that's not true.
Let's not do that again.
What's probably bullcrap. You would have shut the government
down by now. In the olden days, there was like hitchhiking in
the 60s and 70s and people would you know, share there was ride
sharing there became Uber actual ride sharing. And then people
started murdering and raping.
Well news reports started coming out about murdering and raping.
Well,
yeah, they did. Well, here's a serial killer rapist using a new
technology I think is worth listening to this story.
Next night the man suspected of rape and murder using dating
sites not to find love, but to hunt his next victim. Zero
Russia.
Tonight this murder suspect accused of using dating sites to
lure victims in a string of barbaric assaults.
This individual uses dating websites to meet women and then
victimize these women.
Police sources now say 27 year old Daniel Drayton claimed to
have committed several murders.
We are actively encouraging any victims by anyone with
information on this case, because there's potentially more
victims out there.
Drayden arrested in a North Hollywood hotel where police say
they found him holding a woman captive
to independent investigations as they progressed lead detectives
to one in the same individual. That individual was tracked
across the country.
Drayton already a cross country fugitive wanted in New York for
the murder of Samantha Stewart, a 29 year old nurse in Queens,
the victim's father in shock, I am mourning heartbroken. In
thesis, police believe the two met on an online dating app.
Authorities now also connecting Drayton to the recent rape of a
23 year old woman in Brooklyn. It's
a common denominator in these two cases, one being a murder.
One being a rape is dating websites
and Drayton faces a litany of charges including murder and
attempted murder. He's being held in Los Angeles on more than
a million dollars bail and has not entered a plea. And Tom
investigators are now working to determine if there are indeed
more victims.
There's a lot of victims right now. There could be even more
alrighty real thanks.
Oh, yeah, banned the dating apps.
That's most of the thing that's interesting about this story is
they never named the dating app and why not?
It's Tinder. Yeah, does
Disney own it? I mean, well, we're
not sure it's Tinder. There's there's a couple of other day
popular
one. Yeah, there was hints visual hints that it was Tinder.
All right. Yeah,
so what's your question? I'm surprised this hasn't happened
earlier. We haven't heard about it earlier.
Well, I think this guy's gonna dis gonna start going to crap
because I think this guy's a serial murderer and you're gonna
find him.
The Tinder terror Hmm. Juicy unlimited Craigslist
stuff. Where there a lot of was that a lot of that? Well.
There's a bunch of Craigslist creeps.
You know what? None of this is good. None of this is healthy.
All these social networks, all these connection places. We're
not prepared for that as human beings. We're not prepared to
find out how ugly we actually are all of us. Not just in what
we say. But in what we do. There's my luminant. luminescens
moment of the day.
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, mom. Yeah.
Oh, it's John, stay positive. John Charles, stay positive.
You know, nothing can good can come with that attitude.
Well, speaking of the centralized stuff, no sooner had
I mentioned it than LifeLock had a security scan. Yes, exactly.
What it called LifeLock had a security scare. But this was a I
mean, it was customer email. So it wasn't necessarily you know,
it wasn't a breach. But it was definitely something that was
not good and was a third party account. But man, I'm telling
you, all the all decentralized stuff is just it's, it's where
you're most at risk put off put it all in one place. This was
supposed to end with the computer revolution in the mid
70s.
It was, how was it supposed to end? Because we didn't have
mainframe
Central. Why is that since July's control was over? Right?
mainframes, mainframes to distribute to the personal
computer, the desktop, computer, desktop, marketing, desktop,
everything. And you'd have your own databases, you could do
that. And we why are we putting? You can buy I just went to
Costco. I think it's 100 and 100. Some $100. Maybe 100
terabyte four terabyte? Six, six terabytes,
six terabytes a new six terabyte drive? I think it's about 150
bucks. I keep that's a lot of storage. Why would I want to
spend a monthly fee to store that in some thing that can
never breach?
Yeah, well, it's because people are lazy haven't? Look, if we
just retrace the history, the personal Yeah, look, hear me now
look, the personal computer, there was a revolution. And we
were going to be able to do all these things ourselves and
program them and have, you know, make electric grandmother's out
of them. And it would be fantastic. And that capability
exists. It's been it's never been more more available at your
fingertips to do all these things that were promised. But
people are inherently lazy. And they say, Oh, here's a free
thing. And well, it does it for me. I don't need to set up a
database, the vortex Screw you. I'll just use these guys
database over here. It's in the cloud free. Yeah, so there's
your answer. But if people took 20 minutes to learn how to do
some of the stuff themselves, they wouldn't have these
problems. I agree. Then, you know, and we'd be using some
other great open source of voice over IP client that would not
give us trouble.
But yeah, yeah,
there probably is one but who knows this. The other thing I
bitched about this in a recent column dice, I read it. There's
all kinds of cool stuff, but you don't know what they you know,
these guys are on SourceForge and GitHub and all the other
ones is about five. They aren't into marketing. They're into
just having their buddy say, Hey, that's pretty cool.
It's social networking for nerds.
I have this clip on here says Cory Booker clips. Hmm,
did he go nuts somewhere recently?
Was it fair Short these 30 seconds but I have no idea what
this is.
Okay? It's also doesn't start until here. Here we go.
Do you remember when Maxine Waters said this?
A juicy anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant?
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker now doubling down on that
rhetoric. Please don't
just come here today and then go home, go to the Hill today. Get
up and please get up in the face of some congress people.
Booker's comments at the National Conference on ending
homelessness come days after he called people who support
President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, quote, complicit and
evil.
Yes, well, I'm agreeing with Cory Booker. Based on my theory,
he is complicit in only allowing himself to be appointed for it
to go through the senatorial review process where the all of
the Hillary's Hillary assassination group crimes will
come to light.
Yeah, I know. That's an interesting theory, we'll have
to see. It's common.
I want to I want to play this clip. There's we got a very
thoughtful email from one of our producers who says he loves the
show. But he's always a little bit irked when we say that
artificial intelligence is stupid. And it's not really
artificial intelligence. And it wasn't it was a well thought out
note, saying, Well, you know, artificial intelligence, if you
do an image search, that's AI if you if you search for anything,
it just called Search. And that's actually AI now and my
response is gonna
call everything AI. Yeah, it's great. Yeah.
And it's no it's not great. Amazon's facial recognition
software is under fire tonight after a shocking test by the
ACLU. Take a look at this tweet, the ACLU says it used the
recognition software to compare photos of Congress members to a
database of mug shots. They got 28 false matches 40% of the
false matches were people of color. Now at least four
lawmakers have written letters to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asking
him to immediately fix the inaccuracies in his statement
and Amazon spokesperson argued that the ACLU didn't use the
tool properly. They say we think that the results could probably
be improved by following best practices around setting the
confidence thresholds. When using facial recognition for law
enforcement activities. We guide customers to set a threshold of
at least 95% or higher.
Yeah, because all of the people from Congress should be labeled
as criminals. So the AI clearly doesn't work right.
I have done a show before that. It's fairly well known fact that
black faces are not easy to do. These facial recognition with
because of the contrast is
racist. Amazon is racist. We've always known that I'll go with
that is racist race.
And let me ask you this legitimate news story, or
product placement.
We're back now with a deepening mystery over a missing
University of Iowa students. She went for a jog in her hometown
last week and hasn't been seen since. Now. The FBI is hoping
something she's been known to where can help lead them to hurt
and tonight worried family members are speaking out to our
Ron Mott
now and also listen to the mom. Man. If if my kid was missing
but missing for almost a week i i don't know i would be beside
myself.
In the heart of Iowa a desperate search underway for missing
college student Mollie Tibbetts, who disappeared a week ago.
Somebody recognize her and get her home safe.
Molly's missing posters showing the sophomore are plastered all
over her tiny hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. Her mom grateful
but worried. Of course I'm hopeful she's
gonna be found because she's tough and she's smart.
She says the 20 year old was dog sitting for her boyfriend's
brother. Investigators say Tibbets had gone out for a run
and sent a Snapchat to her boyfriend around 10pm. Last
Wednesday, he was the last to hear from her and they're now
treating the missing persons case as criminal
or combing through all types of digital evidence. You know that
that Molly had in utilized. She's 20 years old. She's a
college student. She's well connected
Tibbets is an avid runner who always wore a Fitbit device the
FBI is now hoping to use to secure her location through her
digital footprint. A Facebook page set up to help find her has
almost 30,000 followers.
So it not I mean,
if if she was wearing the Fitbit, then they would already
know Wouldn't they?
Or is this your not nest? They just had an
idea like oh, we just had an idea. Yeah, she's very connected
digital, so we should be able to vote Well, why don't they
founder yet? I know these 50 Fitbit watches are pretty
impressive. The new ones? Well, the
question is a question you asked me.
Yeah, so was it product play? It's been a real story. I think
it's a
real story. Product
placement stories tend to dwell on the product and they don't
mention other products like Facebook and I just don't. I
mean, it's possible but it's pretty, extremely advanced. It's
very advanced if it's too advanced. I'm given people way
too much credit, right. Here's this news that
I guess we take as positive the remains
of what is thought to be around 50 soldiers have now been
returned to us soil here at the Osan Air Base in South Korea,
they were brought out in small caskets onto cars, and there
were a number of 1000s of soldiers here at the airbase who
stood in silence and saluted as those remains were carried out,
they will no be tested to see if they are indeed the domains of
US soldiers. There are around 5000 unaccounted for still in
North Korea after the Korean War. Some of the domains have
been returned over the years, there has been a long as the
peace process has not exactly gone smoothly. All of this takes
place on the 65th anniversary of the signing of the armistice
that will not have bypassed North Korea. This is a major
concession by Pyongyang and part of the pledge made by Kim Jong
Un, to Donald Trump at that summit in Singapore. It may be
known that Pyongyang is looking for some concessions of its own
from Washington, perhaps an easing of sanctions. They want
the peace process move forward. But the fundamental problem
remains North Korea still has nuclear missiles and nuclear
material.
I picked the BBC version of the story specifically. So you can
still hear this kind of like well, you know, what we think
are the remains of the servicemen. Have we seen the
story yet? That these are fake bones? I mean, is that has that
surfaced yet? Because I'm expecting that at any minute
now. Oh, that's who knows, that might be just fake.
But I think the thing that does sure I keep hearing is that and
this kind of contradicts it is that Trump gave away the store
to the North Koreans, you know, by conceding they're not going
to do a war games. Right. And it's there's no mention of
anything else. It's just Trump gave away the stories. He's
dumb. He's stupid for letting the guy walk all over. I'm sure
it's nuts. That's the
story. That's the story. Things are getting very bad. In Europe.
I just want to do two seconds of news from other parts of the
world where we don't live. X actually too if you don't mind.
This will start in Hungary.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has attacked the European
Union, claiming the Western political elite had failed to
protect the block from Muslim immigration. He claimed European
Parliament elections next year could be decisive for the future
of Europe. In an annual speech to ethnic Hungarians in Romania,
he attacked the European Commission over its failure to
protect the fundamental values behind the setting up of the
European Union. The commissioner must be impartial and unbiased,
he said. Instead, it's partially because it stands with liberal
forces acting against Central and Eastern European countries.
He went on to say the commission was not a friend of freedom
because it was working towards building European socialism
instead of freedom. Hungary is glad he said that the European
Commission's days are numbered. The right wing nationalist Orban
was reelected in April to a third consecutive term. He's
been in constant conflict with the European Commission over
what Brussels calls an erosion of democratic institutions in
formerly communist East European countries.
Well, there's someone who has the right idea at least in
Europe, one guy, although of course he's right wing
nationalist, crazy nut ball crazy junk,
Junker. Did you see that picture
on Twitter of the message and this making the claim that
Amsterdam after midnight is just a mess? Yes, in fact, I
have that article. Police can no longer handle the lawless jungle
after dark and Amsterdam. I would say that is absolutely
true. Now the willie Yes. Now the way that is based on CCTV
cameras at the lights of plane which of course I grew up there,
I grew up that's the central planning square, where people
wouldn't be going out is a lot of people walking there. It was
really all pedestrian areas. Of course, you know, scooters are
racing around people on crazy. Just nuts. And what is also true
in the articles that are now 2000 Illegal taxis roaming the
streets at night looking for fares. Absolutely true. There's
a whole shot Auto economy that is that once you look at it
through the CCTV cameras, you see what's going on and it's
drug dealing. It's all the big cash moving all over the place.
Yeah. Yeah, I would say this is absolutely true.
Absolutely.
A buddy of mine is on the Amsterdam police force. I'll ask
him if he feels it's gotten as bad as it appears to be. But I
think so I hear from taxi Eric to
just
do something about it. Oh, man,
it's Amsterdam. It's like, you know, we're all we want the
tourism tour. People are so mad who live in Amsterdam. There's
too much tourism, which of course breeds crime too. It's
just for some reason this is maybe the only way the EU can
still keep their GDP numbers up as we need more tourism and
please count the drug trade like in the UK. Remember, they wanted
to count cocaine dealers and hookers into the GDP GDP. Well,
there's other stuff going on with the with Europe with other
parts of Europe. I thought this was an interesting report.
Welcome
to Croatia Dubrovnik, a once hidden gem that's become a
victim of its own success
to many tourists. to too many. I'm living with earplugs.
The picturesque medieval town the set of King's Landing and
Game of Thrones, people flocking to walk the same steps shame.
Tourists flooded. Locals fed up with the noise and the
overcrowding or moving out.
There are some moments when I really think this this we can't
we can't stand it anymore. We have to move.
Critics say once thriving communities are now turning into
tourists theme parks
some kind of call this town or something like this.
Tourism has boomed here in recent years, a record 1.1 6
million visitors in 2017 arriving by bus plane and
gigantic cruise ships that together overwhelm this small
city with up to 15,000 tourists a day.
It's Game of Thrones tourism.
This is the problem. What is the city of Dubrovnik? I've been
there beautiful place as long before there was a tourist trap.
Why would the city officials just for some some money? Yeah.
Why there
it is?
Yeah, back end of debate. Yeah. For money, of course.
But it's really about the town. Now. It's
like Florence. Remember when we were in Florence last summer? It
was It was horrible. It's just wall to wall tourists and high
end shops. On the corner, Florida. Yeah. Oh, there's a
museum you can go to. You see,
David fine. Oh, it's horrible.
That's no good.
It's overrun. It's all overrun.
Well, this is ridiculous. But yet, but you put to do something
like that, that Game of Thrones. It's like this situation over in
San Francisco. We have a some
Sorry. Sorry. Just before you continue. I think that Florence
was also super overcrowded because of the new Da Vinci Code
movie, which is all set in Florence.
This is I think this is this is a thing happening here. We can
probably identify where the next big tourism Oh, and Russia is a
bit awkward. Yes. Now you're talking finally. You can buy
ourselves a dedicated line between this app for Cisco and
whatever they call Austin next month.
Well, Austin going to become a place for shooting
movies.
No, that's the idea. You want to get somebody in there was a
famous
show. Right. Idiocracy was filmed here? Well, it
didn't work out. Now. It's not. It's not historic enough. San
Francisco's got an issue with those little little Victorians
that are near that park. And then there's some house that was
used in some re remake of a TV show from the 70s. And
everybody's stopping there and taking the picture on there.
Oh, full house. Full House
full house. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the full House House is like,
being ruined by these tourists.
Damn tourists are just all spending our money and other
people's countries. But what is the
point of? Oh, look at me. I'm on the steps of the Game of Thrones
set. Yeah. And
you get to stand up and go Shame.
Shame. Shame. Well, John, I think that is just the world we
live in.
I don't even know what you're referring to with the shaved and
never seen the show. Yeah,
well, we've talked about this extensively.
This is where the whole the whole the
social justice warrior thing came from shame Shame, shame.
There's this walk that that I don't I've never I've seen one
episode of the show. It's from the show. Ding ding Shame ding
Shame.
That's pathetic if true if vs True course is true.
Look around you. The people not listening to this program in
general are
zombies.
So we had that want to get done one last thing out of the way.
Cohen Okay,
let's start with the Cohen update.
Now the politics and the growing divide between President Trump
and his former fixer Michael Cohen, President Trump's legal
team warning Cohen both publicly and privately that he's in
violation of attorney client privilege. Trump's lawyer Rudy
Giuliani telling ABC news tonight that Cohen has been
alerted, and that he's in quote, grave jeopardy of being
disbarred. ABCs Terrell Palmieri is with the President in New
Jersey tonight.
Tonight, the president's legal team firing a warning shot to
his longtime fixer and former lawyer Michael Cohen, attempting
to silence him. We
have complained to them that he's violating the attorney
client privilege publicly and privately.
This breakdown comes as ABC News has learned that Cohen claims
that then candidate Trump knew in advance about that infamous
Trump Tower meeting with the Russians in 2016.
It is quite a bombshell if it's true, and if it can be
corroborated, it would mean that the President was willing
personally to accept Russian help during the campaign that
something President Trump has consistently denied.
Did you know I didn't know anything about
the president's attorney Rudy Giuliani telling ABC News by
phone that they've ended their joint defense agreement, another
sign of the striking divorce between the two. He's in great
jeopardy of being disbarred Cohen's legal bills no longer
covered by the Trump campaign. He's under investigation in the
Southern District of New York for financial crimes. Now
Giuliani thing the legal team has hired audio experts to
analyze secret recordings Cohen made of Trump two months before
the election, the conversation about a hush payment for Playboy
model and Karen McDougal, who claims she had an affair with
Trump. What news network was this on?
That had to be Oh, that was ABC. Just shameful.
This is stupid. This is not news. It's wasting everybody's
time. It is and by you playing it again. I kind of get mad just
all over
again. Well, then you might as well play part two wishes that
this is a different a different show. I believe this thoughts on
Cohen and the base, which it which tells me that none of this
is important. I would have to agree with you
was also reported that Michael Cohen does not have audio
recordings of then candidate Donald Trump to prove his
accusation. But you've seen a complete reversal and how the
administration is now portraying the president's former personal
attorney, Michael Cohen, by now they are attacking his
credibility. This is a reversal on how they had originally
portrayed him which was a someone that they thought they
would be willing to work with.
At this point, though, Kevin, do you get the sense that the base
is really concerned about this issue?
They're not? No, I think that's a great point. I mean, you look
at the polls, and the President's base is still very
much in lockstep with him. The question becomes, from a
political standpoint, is whether or not any of this outside noise
will impact Bob Muller's investigation, and we haven't
seen proof that that the outside noise, so to speak, or the
congressional investigations will in fact influence him. He's
operating on his own timetable. We don't know when we will get
the final results or conclusion of his investigation. That said,
we there have been several folks including the President's on
Donald Trump Jr, who have testified before the
congressional committees. So there's that in terms of
testimony. But the second point that I would make is that just
from a mobilizing political force, how this how this is
going to mobilize folks to get to the polls, it's the complete
unknown ahead of the midterm elections whether this will
activate the Democratic base, or the conservative base for
obviously very different reasons.
Wow. Okay, so they're so they're driving people to the polls,
which of course, is why all of this is so incredibly annoying,
because every story everywhere on the so called news at the
moment is just about persuading people to vote for their party
and not for the other party. So these guys think that we're this
dumb just dumb is dumb. This there's no legal problem is just
completely stupid and makes no difference to anybody's life
other than using upcycles. Combined with Alexandria, Ocasio
Cortez is going to create a blue wave. Well, good luck.
Maura is really moronic. And it really feel ah,
you know what, I'm pissed in general, but this stuff is
drives me nuts. There's no news to even deconstruct anymore.
It's just the same blather over and over again. Sometimes it's
funny because it's so hateful. But it's a huge disservice and
it's making people sick, including me.
But it's not making me sick. hoping that this does change
after the election it probably will.
By sure hope so no. Three years or two years to the next to the
general election.
I mean, as long as they put Nick pickles on the case, I'll be
happy. Well, we
need some more guys with names like that alright everybody we
return on Thursday with hopefully something new to
deconstruct something of use to you until then coming to you
from downtown New San Francisco, Texas. In the five by nine
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