Don't cut in line and stop stealing our secrets. Adam
curry, John C. Devorah. It's Thursday, September 16 2018.
This is your award winning give our nation media assassination
episode 1060. Nice
is no agenda.
Watching the migrant crisis live from FatCat city here in
downtown Lucerne, Switzerland. In the corner in the morning,
everybody. I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley where we're present for and I
thought I catch him off guard. I'm John C. Dvorak.
Buzzkill.
Oh, yeah, no, I found a little but I was taking you up on your
challenge right there. I'm not going to mess around it now
wanting to get preset for start of the show.
It is our goal. And
it's our goal. Apparently, it's newly art. It's now our goal to
start the show presenter.
So we used to actually try to start the show at nine. Yeah,
oh, well, this never goes by 915. So I think pre Zephyrs
probably not a bad thing.
Could I just say it's Thursday?
I keep doing this. It's Sunday.
Did you say it's Thursday? Yeah. Opening
and yeah. And you remember? Do you remember the show the your
doubleheader? I said Thursday and it was Sunday. I did
something about Thursdays and Sundays. I keep messing it up.
If
you did on the other show. Yes. And
you edited that and didn't even catch it.
Well, that's the one thing I don't really pay much attention
to. Am I trying to get ready to get my own intro?
Well, I got I got the date. Right. At least.
On date. Yeah, four years from now. It'd be Irwindale.
Anyway, I apologize. Tina. Hi. Euro is wrong. What are you
doing girl go sightseeing. She's in Switzerland. This is listen
to the show. What's wrong with that?
Well, I think the show probably is better than sightseeing in
Switzerland.
Whoa, no, she was out on Lake Lucerne. She's having a good
time they closers a nice pretty Lake. Very nice free like and
let's for just a moment let's just thank the gods for a
second. for providing us with the gigas we need to make this
show possible from two completely different locations
on Earth. Where for me it is 6:15pm on Thursday 9:15am on
Sunday
we're behind that time on the switch. But yours it Yeah, I
don't know. So anyway, I'm in Lucerne loosens Switzerland.
today. Yeah. Why? Well, because tomorrow we're going up to CERN
to see the
gonna go actually look at the head. You're going to dig up
feet on the ground at the Hadron Collider. The Large Hadron
Collider know how many guests it's gonna take to throw you in
it. Look,
this may be the last show so I'm I'm already drinking. I'm
feeling good.
There it is. All right, drew three four is 567899 cars short
one,
but yeah. Ah, second, how come? I didn't have the foamer
No, there's something new I'm dealing with different screen
real estate here. There we go. I opened up to database searches.
Alright, just pretend you heard the foamer
Oh, my God.
No, it's more like this.
Oh my god.
Beautiful. Yeah. So we're going up to the Large Hadron Collider.
And apparently they do have a gift shop. I will be one day.
Yeah. But they, but they've also they've shut it down. I think
it's
down gotta pay for this collider. Somehow the gift shop
doesn't. It's shut
down in these weeks for some kind of maintenance. So they say
who knows what they're really up to?
They have to wait for that black hole to recede.
Let me give you a little tribal update. John. Just
Yes. Your we should mention that you're on the road. Yes. You've
met you bet you got engaged for the 15th time. And you by the
way, you had a meeting at the at the millennial table about your
engagement. Yes. And JC said, I thought he already was engaged.
Yeah. And J the younger millennial says, oh, no, no, no,
that was a promise. Yes.
Yes. That's correct. That was a commitment. Not promise but
commitment called promise
nowadays. Okay. I'll take as I said, what, what is what did
they complicate these matters?
It's all about pressure, man.
Yes, but it's now it's not the 15th stage to then listen, thank
you very much for the newsletter in which you not only
incorrectly named Tiffany Willow, but then also insinuated
I'm wearing a bra. I mean, you really I thought
that was I thought was willows.
It was Tiffany was there too, you know, it's like siblings we
hang out each other's diversity
similar to each other.
I thought it was very funny. Here's Willow with her son, Elon
Musk.
J Jake comes into the room. She's got the newsletter, she
says is curry related to Elon Musk?
That was pretty funny. But here's the irony of it all.
So we say we trust about the bra. No, wait a second. So we
travel by train. And you know, we get in and when we walk
around, I got stuff to tell you about what we've seen. And then
we were in bed and it's like, Have you have you seen the draft
newsletter? Have you heard from John I said, No, it's like,
going on 132 o'clock his time and saying you know that's odd.
And then now it's midnight our time so I'm gonna email it's
like hey, UK newsletter common. The newsletter came comes in
about 10 minutes later, and it's like nothing but insulting.
Oh, what what name one thing insinuating
I'm wearing a bra Hey, this this newsletter, it's it's comedy
gold. You need to subscribe to it. And any no agenda show notes
page or no agenda. show.com shows you how so we left Lake
Como. The borders into Saturday was started. Yep, Saturday. And
we took the train to Lucerne, which is a very, very easy
connection. Everything runs beautifully on time. That's what
Mussolini took care of. The first thing we noticed at Como
at the Como train station is a lot of Asians with selfie sticks
walking around. And I don't know if something if it's like a
timing or vacation time, and I'm not sure where these are people
are from. Probably I think China but you know, there was a couple
of people we looked like yeah, there was like Kpop or so there
could have been South Korea but I would say in general I thought
most of them were from China. And there's they're all over
Lucerne and also at the train station as people were arriving
a lot of kind of middle aged guys I'd say like my age,
paunchy, but all decked out in biker racing outfits. And
they're just everywhere. It's like, it's almost like the
douchebag Silicon Valley, guys, you know, who that take their
bikes on the jet or send them ahead. And then I think they're
training in the, in the Italian mountains. Just it's, and none
of them really look the part. You know, they got the punch
with separate outfits, outfits in their legs are shaved, but
otherwise, dude, yeah, no,
it isn't. Yes. Did the guy say, Hey, is that? Is that a little
sport? Is they paying for you to give you money where you get
their colors? You
almost want to ask like, wow, you're sponsored. Please give me
a break.
or anything. Anybody don't.
These days? Anybody? Also, I wanted to mention, holy smokes,
the difference in prices between Italy, where we were, of course
is you know, there's many regions in Italy, but we weren't
that far away in Lake Como. And here in loser, and it's tripled
the price of everything. It's, it's mind boggling. How do these
people afford this? It's really insanely expensive. Luckily,
we're all here for a couple of days. Now, on the train,
something very interesting happened. The Swiss border guard
came through the train just as we're going from, I guess,
Lugano, and you're crossing the border. And these guys come
through. And actually they were kind of you know, they seem kind
of friendly. Of course, we have the obvious white privilege, I
guess. So you know, just looking at it. Okay, they dropped by and
it's just friendly nod. You see them going in between the cars
and just knocking but then forcefully opening the
bathrooms. And I guess they're looking for Well, I know what
they're looking for now because they got off at the first stop
in Switzerland. And we're sitting there right next to on
the on the at the train station. They have a smoking booth. So
it's kind of like a glass cage. And there's three guys in there.
A black guy is very dark black important for the story in this
in this context, kind of in this new like Gucci type gold
glittery outfit stuff with iPhones, kind of the stuff that
I suspected would be in their suitcase that they're going to
sell wherever they're going to wind up. And these guys, we see
them, they go up to them and they ask them a question. And
you know what, whatever the answer was, it was not
satisfactory. The guy's fumbling with his iPhone. This border
guard grabs his phone, pulls it in the guy's head snaps down
because it had his earphones plugged in. He grabs up the
other guy's phones and immediately you see this guy
these guys are in trouble. There's no passports they can
produce. And they got nailed Old and these guys were not messing
around. And they were just straight to search and have
their baggage and this Swiss just Swiss. Yeah. Because you
know what's happening is you got all these all these migrants
coming into Italy and the Swiss do not want them in their
country. And they mean business.
It Tina was very strict with their immigration
crap. Yeah, they were not messing around. So I was rather
interesting to see.
Yeah, this was getting through this whole thing without having
any migrants at all.
I mean, we don't talk about that. Do we know they also have
no beggars? No,
we're talking about Hungary. Hungary is bad guys, the bad
guy,
ya know, but the Swiss you know, they finance all the wars, you
know, no one's gonna mess with the Swiss leave Milan. And we
get here and by coincidence, it's the Lucerne Festival, which
means there's music everywhere and just a ton of classical
cars. Right kind of in the in the in the middle of downtown.
Extremely nice, but very strange, loser. And if you want
to go shopping or you want to get anything, instead of outside
of dinner, watches and chocolate, you have to go back
to the train station underneath loser and train station is a
mall. That is mind boggling. mind boggling how big it is. And
that's where everyone shops, it's where everyone does their
you know, there's high end clothing stores, of course, more
jewelry stores, but that's where the big supermarket is. It's
really bizarre. And for a
guy that keeps the rest of the town pristine does it keeps
it and we were there Saturday night because we wanted to get
some groceries for this morning. And it was just insanely busy.
It's eight checkout lines. 40 people deep just mall that yeah,
the mall underneath the train station, a madhouse. And for a
guy with hearing aids, it was a very it was really quite a
sensory overload. Like whoa, what's going on? Just a lot of
noise. Let's see what else I have to mention our chat. Oh,
yeah. The minute we crossed the border. I start getting spam in
German. And it's really irking me. How do they do this? How do
they what are they attaching to me? That they know how to start
emailing me the minute I hit their country. How does that
work? Is
that you as the phone was doing it, everybody? No, no,
no, no, it was not on my phone. We were on Wi Fi it was your
first killer
through your earbuds.
For your ear hearing hearing aid was talking
about I was I'm connected through the dongle with my
laptop computer. Yes, my computer and then I started
getting spam in German on email at Adam had curry.com The minute
we it was Italian spam before that demon mentioned that part.
And I hit the border and boom, I started getting German spam. Is
this in your in your email? My email? Yeah, in my email.
What's the what's the prefix? The word the the top level
domain on your email curry.com is going through Google or no
no no, not curry.com
It's great to Dickert Urian You mean your own email? Yes.
My own Yeah. So somehow
I have no idea that the now now just say it that way. It doesn't
make any sense at all. It must be somehow because they got some
you got they got you dig it. They got a chip in you, man.
It's the hearing aids back to the hearing aid. We know where
he is hearing aids. Now. I
think he's got an IP address, don't
they? It's got to be cookies in my browser or something. That's
get snooped and then they suck it off and so to speak, and then
they send it on and he's in
my browser went fast though. I mean, Al on me could give us the
name of that so many people can do this one cookies in my
browser. Anyway, going. Sorry.
I was just amazed that it happens. We've seen this a lot,
but that it was right past the border. I'm preoccupied so the
emails come in like wow, that's pretty sophisticated.
It's like there's a big giant room it is a screen and there's
a little white dots.
No there's two one frames hearing in order to say okay,
flip this switch give it to them in German now.
Oh my goodness. They fall on you
anyway so we're in an air b&b Even though I despise the
company can be I don't know I haven't liked them for a while
because they're also doing pricing based upon you know
profile so I have to now do all the the ordering because then we
get a GPU because you're because I guess I've done a lot or
whatever they just trying to get get me to pay a higher price and
then she logs in she uses her account and she gets a lower
price so fine. That's outrageous. It's the same as
Uber. We've seen this happen we know what's going on. But this
particular Airbnb, I gotta tell you, when people are doing
straight up Airbnb and not, you know, the so called sharing of
their home, there's always things wrong. You know, there's
just little things that if you lived here Yes, because
it's usually not cared for properly.
No, it's cared like no, it's meticulously cared for. It's
very clean. Everything is very nice. All we
do we had, we've had a place to place in London, the stove
wasn't hooked to the wall. So when you touch the stove and
fall
over, I mean, it's that kind of stuff. You know, like light
bulbs are out because no one's said,
right. The light bulbs are out in the kitchen and then the
switch and none of the things that you put new bulb in didn't
work.
Exactly, yeah. Oh, yeah. Then you don't know which switch to
hit. And then as all kinds of weird little things like that.
And this place also has one toilet upstairs. It's kind of a
loft half, half thing. The one toilet poop Hall upstairs, the
shower downstairs, the sense and six beds, you know, there's,
there's a bathroom with a bathtub, and a bed in the same
room, I got to take a picture of that you won't believe it.
That's not what we're sleeping. We're sleeping downstairs. In
the living room. We're sleeping in the living room, which was
not in the picture of the Airbnb, there was no picture of
the bed in the living room. That's we're sleeping on, which
is in direct diagonal view of the balcony doors which have no
shade to the people across the way can just see you in your
bed. There's a whole bunch of things wrong. And I think it's
this should be rules about that. You should live in the place if
you're part of a sharing economy.
Yeah, this whole sharing thing is nonsense.
All right, so the only things that got left is total Asian
invasion here just everywhere. What is it in the culture of
that? I'll just say it. I think it's the Chinese that they're so
damn rude. They're all just pushing up against you don't
give a crap about you in the way.
Okay, now you. That's how you tell the distri and the Chinese
and the Japanese. Oh, Japanese. Oops. Yeah. They're all like
cuddled up together and they get signs and they get the sticks
with a big yellow.at the top.
Yes. Fuzzy Ball, Fuzzy Ball.
finder. And they all stick around together and they're not
rude. No, Chinese are always rude. They're they're rude in
China.
Why is that? What is that? Like? What is this?
It doesn't bother me so much. I'm a bigger guy. I'm six one
right? Bigger than what does it bother
them that there are they're rude to each other? How does it
works? Why
is the culture this is not rude? They're not being rude. Look,
I'm gonna I meant there's a line. There's a spot, right? Let
me just cut right in front of you because you're not using
that Erina almost
cut this just Chinese lady where their spoon when the lady tried
to cut in front of her at the at the at the ice cream parlor did
the right thing. She
said hey, you got a plastic spoon?
Yeah, well, you do it. It's just insane though it back off.
Oh, they do back off. But I don't know, how does that
happen? So they don't. So they don't think that's rude. So
cutting in line in China is just normal
is to China. Yeah, it's very normal. Well, there's
more reasons. I mean, so I don't care what Google does with their
search engine. But the fact that you're supporting these rude
bastards is a problem.
You're not rude by their definition of rude Hey,
when I go to a country I try to be I tried to be into the
culture. I'm not trying to
hold American it's rude that they're not adopting local
customs. I agree. Yes, yes. But hey, with the diversity thing
going on local customers don't mean anything anymore. Get over
it.
I'm gonna go to China and just be a dick. You'll fit right in.
Anyway, selfie sticks galore. They didn't get the memo. This
is an old fad. And what are the Okay, so then, right by the
lake, there's their swans and the swans are very beautiful.
And they've they've gotten this whole trick. I know Swans have
had swans around like they're terrible animals. They're
terrible animals and they're there they're scam artists. So
you know they like oh, they do their beautiful wings up like
Oh, feed me and everywhere the signs in every language
including Chinese don't feed the swans. Course The Chinese are on
the other side of the gate the feeding the swans and taking
selfies with the swans. Standing in Swan poop. The swans poop
like massive, massive
poop. Just as ours just kind of ruins the gate. Damn Chinese.
Yeah. A good news.
I think they're, I think they're the only people that are happy
about the Chinese tourists or the Germans because the Germans
are always seen as the most rude horrible.
That's good Hans. Look at the chink he is rooted in us. I will
say though, that it now I'm a little older. And I'm in my 50s
all of my Dutch French German, it's kind of melded together and
I'm very capable of functioning without even thinking about I
see the words I can read the sentences I can understand
People are saying I can make myself understood. It's very
interesting that I really don't have to think about it. I
thought that's a good thing for you is a good thing. And me and
for the Swiss thank goodness they have lime electric scooters
the plague is here
during Switzerland he just really really is died who died I
know I'm taken aback it's kind of interest does it seem like
it's within their ability to want something like that or or
allow it
well as you know these it has nothing to do with wanting it
has to do with these good people just drop the stuff in. You know
that.
The above the swishes the crack down on that sort of thing
they're very
they still they still made this film. Hey, do you know Damien
Gerawan YAY or German? Yay. Yes. The chef know guys like big
signs everywhere that he's at the at the she's a big shot at
the big hotel and you know, look at and he's got tattoos and he
looks really Sheffy hands like guests chef Damien German. Yeah.
You don't know. If you don't know him then
he's well, I mean, it doesn't mean he's not famous. But he's
not one of the guys I know. You know, is reading about another
another shame to Chef recently. I guess in New York, he can't
remember his name already. But he was all tatted up and was
apparently
shirts not this shirt stuff. This guy might be the guy might
be this guy.
But he was rousted from his whole operation after being Oh,
he's just being horribly rude. sexist pig. Oh, nice. And he was
done. Guy some guys are weird.
The Chef's. So I'm a little while I'm happy on one hand, and
I'm a little disappointed on the other that you know, now
everyone is catching on to the fake storm news that now people
are doing their own funny videos on YouTube is kind of ruined our
bit. It's our bit you know, we've been doing that bit for a
long time. And I don't feel like doing it anymore. Because people
doing the video version of it is honestly better than our audio
version. It's pretty funny stuff out there. Yeah, some good
stuff. Although you sometimes you just can't. You just can't
get away from the from the funny bits. This is. This is a CNN um,
or you're in the middle of all of it there. How are things
changing there?
Yeah, Sandra, I ran on my second civilian here. This was Amber,
your last name? grift for and this is who down here, Carlo.
Okay.
All right now you live in Wilmington. What are you doing
out here on the boardwalk? Working Dog.
Damn, what are you doing here supposed to be dangerous? Fox
News has some of the best Millennials reporting. This is
fantastic. You guys, in terms of
people that have stayed roughly seven, according to officials
what I was told to stop at two hours ago, about 75% of the
population within this entire region has evacuated that still
means 15% are still here waiting to write it out.
You can't write this stuff.
He's reporters.
But the storm was such a dud that even Al Gore couldn't
couldn't use it to talk about climate change. So he went back
to the good old standard of hurricane Maria. Although Wait,
wasn't that Trump's fault? I don't understand
how some people evidently
what, Donald Trump's fault he comes.
Exactly homeless. I want to start that over again.
Some people evidently can still deny the reality it's a little
bit harder to deny the 3000 deaths in Puerto Rico from
Hurricane Maria last year.
far down that rabbit hole are people gonna follow? This is
utter insanity. We have to wake up we are alive in this moment.
We are awake, we have to take action.
Okay, geez,
I wonder I do want to say something about this death toll.
Because I looked into this and it's not being explained
properly. And here's the report actually, because of course, the
whole idea was Hurricane Maria will be so devastating. It would
all be Trump's fault and he screwed it up twice in a row
even after he knew he could do a great job. And then the
hurricane kind of turned into a lot of water and of course,
there's people always dying you know one guy electrocuted
himself hooking up. Hooking up extension cords in the rain. You
know, someone has a heart attack and of course there was a tree
that fell I mean that things do happen. But you know, think
people die every single day. If For a number of reasons, so they
really, really tried to do something with this. But now
there's this, this death toll and I looked into this when it
first came up and I can't remember what happened but it
got shoved out of the news and it's back in
tonight. President Trump is falsely blaming Democrats for
inflating the death toll from last year's hurricane Maria to
make him look as bad as possible, tweeting today. 3000
people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico.
A long time later, they started to report really large numbers
like 3000 Earlier this week, claiming
Puerto Rico was an incredible unsung success.
Direct deaths from Maria like drowning and injury were
estimated at 64. But an independent study by George
Washington University, commissioned by the Puerto Rican
government estimated nearly 3000 people died in the aftermath of
the storm. Due to a lack of resources. We are
giving strong evidence that should not generate political
controversy.
In a statement tonight, the White House said President Trump
was responding to the liberal media, Mr. Trump, who faced
criticism for his initial handling of the crisis under
mounting scrutiny. I have no reason to dispute these numbers.
I was in Puerto Rico after the hurricane
it was devastated
and Republican Representative Ileana ROS Layton and said only
a warped mind would turn this statistic into fake news. The
President has turned to conspiracy theories in the past
from falsely claiming former President Obama wasn't born in
the US. Oh, there we go. jesting Ted Cruz's father might be
linked to the JFK assassination. Now
there was actually the National Enquirer but okay,
now a new cloud of controversy. In its statement tonight, the
White House also insisted every death from Hurricane Maria is a
horror.
So I did look into this, I think we might have discussed it. when
this first came up. The 64 number is what I found
interesting. Where does that come from? So this independent
study that was done, the way they came up with their numbers,
by the way, this makes sure to MIT re mentioned this on behest
of the government looking for more money
totally.
In that same period, the year before the hurricane, there were
64 people less that had died as in the same period, when they
were asking these independent questions. So people die all the
time. And lots of people die in poor countries, and why it's
poor and where there's prob that's a whole different
conversation, because yes, they are a US protectorate. But that
difference was 64, which is why I said well, 64 people died, but
this independent study, they went around to all these homes
and said, Hey, Did someone die? Yes. And when died from the
hurricane? Yeah, that was the study. Whereas if those 3000
people hadn't, if there was no hurricane, apparently 3000
People wouldn't have died that would have been an astronomical
amount of people to have not died according to the number of
people that die in that period every year in Puerto Rico.
That's how they come up with the 64 and no one is going back and
saying hey, look at the numbers look at the year before look at
five years before you will see the number of people who die in
those five months. But now it's all of course Trump's fault. But
that's where the 64 comes that comes from and that's where the
discrepancy is.
Well that's pretty simple. They should be able to just expose
that oh please
please
I was doing some I got some storm clips I do have I have one
this was the one I was watching his CBS I believe I'm watching
this thing being played out and I I saw the way they talked
about this storm in you weren't you know this this it was going
to be a four and it was going to be a five and it was gonna get
10 It was a two and then it says Tropical Storm became a tropical
storm. Which again is this the same thing to happen in Houston?
Well, yeah, yeah and Houston but this is the problem and I think
you know, there's a lot of water there's a lot of damage, but
it's not
going to what happens is instead of being like a storm just goes
and blows everything down and it gets out of there. It sits in
dumps crapload a lot of water. It's a bad situation as damaging
as the storm but it's not quite as spectacular to film. Exactly.
But a couple of things I have first of all before playing the
the the Deep. Deep or deep so hold on a second. I'm just
looking for the clip. This is the jamming Tuesday. Come listen
to this carefully jamming to steal store stories.
Okay, another couple of feet. Another foot would have been
they've been on top over
the strongest storm on the planet this year. That's all
I got. Is that your clip? Yeah.
The reason is because I'm trying to dissecting what they're how
they were doing this they played all the stuff about the storm in
in North Carolina and that was the end of their coverage and
they they cut right to the storm the real storm in the
Philippines
oh yeah that's all over the news.
That's got 200 mile an hour winds of a storm but can't blame
that on Trump.
Oh no because due to hence him not to 28 It's not working out
Yeah. Okay
what but the way they did this it made it sound like the match
again this is about an hour's where the storm coverage and
play that clip again and here's how they come out of it. Another
couple of
feet or another foot would have been they've been on top over
the strongest storm on the planet this
year. Mm hmm.
So they come out of one store story which and they get
interviews just casually listing because this is what happened to
me because I'm listening to all these you thought it was the
strongest storm wow I didn't know it was the strongest storm
this year so far. And then I I had to listen longer and I feel
Ah, you're talking about that another storm altogether. They
just jammed two stories together now bastards. Well, here's what
the actual big storm downplay dip dip play actual big storm.
Actual big storm.
The strongest storm on the planet this year, Typhoon
mangkhut lashed at the Philippines with torrential rain
and fierce winds gusting to 200 miles per hour. This is nature.
Something you can block gains. along roads strewn with trees
and debris. We drove north with workers clearing downed power
lines and felt the punch of man clicks wind. With more than 5
million people living in its path. 1000s were evacuated from
their homes to disaster centers. The typhoons rain band nearly
550 Miles why you get a fisherman nearly drowned trying
to save his boat in a storm is different than others he tells
us I thought I was going to die for hours man could wreaked
havoc on crops here set off landslides and swelled rivers
before churning out to see
you know I'm very surprised if they could only find one slight
Trump angle it would be perfect
well that you can already tell the given up because this is a
low key report yeah
there's no one has a major
major massive huge storm yeah it's heading right into Hong
Kong which has got to be a laugh riot to be there during this and
they're just playing well and Oh well that there's some fly
fisherman who was there just down compared to what they're
playing our local law which is Oh my God every day all hell's
breaking loose.
See, I don't I don't understand that. They should have said
thanks to Trump pulling out of the Paris accord. This is our
future look at these
dead people. Well, that's what they would do. I didn't get the
Democracy Now clip now. But I'm sure that that's the way they
are. Now. Now, I want to just tell people, there's a there's a
blog of weather blog called The cliff mass weather and climate
log. And this guy is in Washington State and his CLI F
F. M A S S, and you should just subscribe to his blog. He is a
real climatologist and he's he knows all this stuff. Deep and
he doesn't. He's not an anti climate guy. But he's, he gets
accused of being a psych you bureau. A Trump apologist is the
Trump apologist syndrome, of course, and he's went through
all the documentation because of all these assertions because
he's fine. Somebody say some but the weather he checks it out.
While these assertions that do we get more storms, they're
worse and all the rest have gone through the documentation. And
his most recent post is bullcrap. We're having less and
less major storms.
Oh, no, that's not good.
Now, it's nobody wants to talk about it.
In fact, I got this clip from a guy in Australia. Professor Ian
Plimer is the climate change always changes clip, which is
funny.
I am Karen Phillips wants to change cry climate, then read
history. Go back a little bit read history has been validated
by the geology. It's been validated by so many proxies.
And what we see is climate always changes. I'm not a
climate denier. It's not the people who want to have global
warming deny the climate changes. They deny what we have
known for 1000s of years and climate always changes.
Don't you know they're the deniers?
Yes, denying climate change. Anyway,
anyway, denying climate dig climate change denier Sorry,
sorry. Okay. Well, I got my storm watch clip into summary
from CBS,
Jeff Glor, in Wilmington, North Carolina. This is a special
edition of the CBS Evening News. The rain will barely let up here
on this coast for another 24 hours. The preliminary rainfall
totals from Florence are staggering. The National Weather
Service says more than 30 inches of rain was measured in
Swansboro, North Carolina that has shatters the state's
tropical system rainfall record of more than 24 inches set
during Hurricane Floyd in 1999. officials warn some rivers are
approaching historic flood levels and the worst of it may
still be to come. The death toll from Florence climb tonight to
at least 12. Some have been killed by fallen trees others
have died on flooded roads. Nearly a million homes and
businesses in the Carolinas have lost power. Today. The mayor of
Wilmington told us it could take weeks to restore all electricity
to the city. President Trump and Vice President Pence receive
updates on the storm at the White House today the President
plans to travel here sometime soon. We have a team of
correspondents covering this disaster.
What a waste of resources.
And I gave a killed it there because they went from one team
member to another each of them interviewing some HC. Well, you
know, this is the worst I've ever seen it. I've been here for
40 years and it's never been this bad. Sometimes they're all
here 111 Is all man on the street stuff. It was really
pretty miserable.
I must I of course I don't have any television over. You haven't
watched any except for a little bit of strange German TV last
night. But I saw the Weather Channel they've got some pretty
cool virtual set 3d graphics where the host is standing there
and then it's like she's standing in the middle of North
care somewhere North Carolina and then she shows the water
level what it coming up and it comes up a round her in a
virtual like gives you have to see it. It's in the show notes.
They got some cool tech to do this. Again, waste of resources,
but still, they gotta entertain it at least hates entertainment.
Of course it's entertainment. A lot of people I saw tweeting
about John Kerry on Bill Maher last night. Which I watched the
interview and stupid blockhead it just wasn't interesting at
all.
In fact, he's boring guys always been boring his way lost the
election.
And he was making jokes. And Bill Maher was a little annoyed
by it because he does the jokes. But then, but then I noticed
that Steve Ballmer was on the show, so if
you got a shuttle to go back and watch it well,
I have a couple clips for you. Steve has has found philanthropy
and to the LA Clippers, of course, and he has this outfit
called USA facts, facts, facts, facts fact check false. And so
we just give you the facts, the government numbers, the facts.
Very interesting. And I'm not quite sure what Bill Maher or
his producers expected. But it didn't quite turn out the way I
think he expected me to listen or we
started I started about four years ago, my wife said I'd
retired she said it's time to get involved. philanthropically
a waste on you know, stop. Back it up. I think you got the wrong
clip. That's Chris Farley. And no Saturday I live bit isn't
it? Interestingly enough, I didn't clip but Bill Maher
actually said, Did Chris Farley die and move into your body?
Yeah, wish, okay.
There's a lot of crappy stuff that was said here. We'll
continue. We're focused. And for those who don't know. Ballmer
used to be the CEO of Microsoft. And he was, you know, he's kind
of interesting guy, developers on
kids and kids in need. I said, all we need to do is pair taxes.
Let's be good taxpayers. Government takes care of that.
And she said, Dude, come on. We can do better than that. Right.
But it got me to say I'm wondering really where the tax
dollars come from him where they go, it's just the fat
right? People will will like scroll through 100 Yelp reviews
to find a taco stand. But they have no idea where their tax
dollars go. And you You did a deep dive. Like a businessman
whose you are the head of Microsoft, you're a businessman,
at least ought to read stuff that says good night and read
about any pumps, find out
where the money's going, what it's doing, what the outcome is.
And then and give us some examples like health care.
Take health care, since 1980. Health care per person.
inflation adjusted is up 225% 225%. Okay, let's take a
look. People like to talk about life expectancy, about a life
expectancy guy that's forecast and futures. I just look at the
average age at which people die. That seems to be about actually
you're never gonna die. I have a feeling that nothing can kill
this right? This is
in the last 20 years. The average age at which people got
die is gone from 72.3 years to 72.9 years. Wow, that's it.
Right for all the money, we're just hemorrhaging into health
care. You think we'd be buying people extra life. But obesity
is up a lot of these other factors. So are we spending our
healthcare dollars? Well,
oh rot row. That isn't exactly what Bill Maher wanted to hear
with all this health care spending that we're talking
about or that he's talking about? Let's try another topic.
Take government. Right. We'll show you what they are. I mean,
you can take a look at the border thing. border agents are
up, right. apprehensions are down undocumented immigrant
estimates are flat. Oh, you have to decide how you think about
it. We can't tell you right, we'll just give you the numbers.
Oh, damn, wait a minute. So it actually works enforcing the
border. Let's try another topic.
So what about education? Are our children reading good? Or? Oh,
okay, you got me there.
You can look at that number. Education span per student has
about doubled over the class. Again, inflation adjusted over
the last 30 years or so, about double and yet still, only about
a third of our kids third grade level can read at grade level
are proficient in third grade reading, third of kids and yet
we have doubled spend.
See, I don't think Bill Maher realize he invited a Republican
in onto his show. Because Bill Balma keeps saying Oh, it's just
the numbers, just the numbers. But what he's saying is, it's
pouring all this stupid money into all of these things the way
you've been doing, it doesn't work, your system doesn't work.
And then Bill Maher, who in the beginning of the interview sets
it up by saying you're worth 47 billion does this
I just gave a million dollars to the Democrats. I think the most
important thing to do in the world right now is get rid of
Donald Trump or at least check the most important thing It
feels to me. Like even though that's a lot of money, I will
change my life. I won't have to drive an Uber. I don't have
expensive hobbies. I'm not one of those dumb ass celebrities
who has you know, fucking let's not go into it. But it seems
like you could win this election by yourself
and not feeling
like that's about the most unethical thing you could
possibly do for yourself.
You don't think turning an election is an ethical thing to
do when the person you're running against his drum.
Question of you know how you think about things? No for my
morals? No, I'm not buying elections. I'm just not doing
it. Okay,
I drive.
Is this all about? Take your billions of dollars Steve, and
buy the election away from Trump.
We already know that didn't work when they tried to buy the
election away from Trump and Hillary she'd spent twice as
much money. How much more she's up to a billion What more do you
get to put 2 billion and a maybe beat him?
Well, if you'd like I can lead us down the Hillary path because
I gotta go. I got the full video of Hillary and lesbians who
tech. It was hard finding it actually. There were little
snip. I don't know if they wanted it out or something or
didn't get out. Yeah,
it seems like if it's hard to find there's a reason yeah,
I agree. And there was actually a comic strip blogger who came
through at the end I really appreciate it and and he found
the full length video. So I did pull a number of clips. I'm not
going to play them all I probably put more in the show
notes then we're going to play but and by the way, while I was
looking for this video, there's you're looking for Hillary
Clinton lesbians who tech and of course, I've been using Bing as
we've been being errs for a while now. And all of a sudden
Bing says oh, you know, you do have moderate safes are safe
search set to moderate. Click here to turn it off. Like oh, I
want to find gotta find this video. Let me tell you, if you
turn off safe search on Bing on lesbians who tech. Somehow it
thinks you're looking for lesbians who teach, and it's
very different search experience. And Bing Bing Bing
has a very expansive non safe search results. And it's just
the tip if you're interested. So when we finally got the video,
you know what I mean? And I don't have the name of the woman
who interviewed her on stage, but there was a lot of reference
to Karish wishes interview which you'll hear, and it was just so
much love in the room for Hillary. And there were even
some crowd shots where you could see people not clapping but
snapping their fingers, which as we know, is a complete Austin
thing these days as well. So here she is, we're going to
bring her up on stage and have a chat with her.
Did you? Did you know you were a lesbian icon? I mean, it's
basically like RBG. You. And I just want to say, you're more to
us than just the pantsuits? Well, I
am instead of just saying, I'm bisexual, it's pretty well known
nothing.
And, and, you know, I don't want to pantsuits? Well, because,
okay, just, you know, I rarely do this, but I have to.
Oh, and we're like, oh, she's gonna say it.
Well, you if you don't know already, but I am on People
Magazine's Best dressed list this year. Yes, yes.
I guess you can only be on the Best Dressed List. If you're a
lesbian icon. I'm not quite sure how it works out. Granted.
That's that was a subject changed of note, you think.
But it was also a setup with a whole Well, a lot of people
don't know this. But I dress in pantsuits, like, what is this
anyways, in the 70 Plus category? Whatever, whatever. So
of course, she's not there just to talk about herself. Oh, wait
a minute. She is the paperback version of her book is coming
out. I,
I told her, you know, some of you might remember that she
interviewed me two years ago, the spring of 2017. And it was a
great interview. It was tough as she always is. But during it, I
said things like, you know, the Russians were more involved and
all of that. And oh, she's lost it. Yes. Crazy. So my paperback
comes out Tuesday with, you know, some more information and
an afterword. Oh, and so my goal is
that typical for in paperback to have an afterword. It's not it's
not
unknown, is to do everything I personally can do and to inspire
you to do to elect Democrats, and then to make sure it's not
stolen and undermined because we have a tremendous group of
candidates, really terrific people. I've been doing
fundraisers, especially for young women running for
Congress. But it won't matter if we don't vote. So when you ask
me, that's, there's only one thing on my bucket list right
now. Do everything I can do to help us, save our countries.
Save our country, John, save our country, save our country, from
what? From Trump, just Republicans, evil, horrible
people. And the Russians.
So we're 53 days away from the midterms. How do we make sure I
mean, do you think this is happening now and be a how do we
stop it from happening if it is in the future?
Well, what we know is even the intelligence officials working
in the Trump administration, went to the White House briefing
room about a month ago and said it is happening still, the
Russians are now clearly in our electoral systems. factcheck
false,
Whitman. They're clearly in our electoral systems. John, they're
in the systems. There's Russians paper
ballot, nearly valid pieces of Russians are on the ballot. I
mean, what she's
referring to is that there have been some intrusions into voter
registration databases, I believe two, which doesn't
really well, yeah. Two, I think, in the election system,
technically, but you're not really changing anything or
doing anything. Let's pretty easily close down, which I think
it is, oh, wait, maybe it's not, we don't
have a we don't have a good strategy to combat them. In some
states that are controlled by the other party. I think they
believe that is to their benefit. So they're just
so you know, every lesbian in tech, it's lesbians who do tech,
actually, every lesbian who does Tech is a Democrat. You clearly
heard that there was no one who protested. What did you
say John Legend, anyone is a creative person, a writer,
anything. Democrats
are not going to really go into a deep investigation. The
Democrats oh actually was bipartisan an effort to try to
do more to protect these upcoming elections, which was
voted down. So every possible approach to try to protect us
from whatever it is they're doing and there are many
different ideas about that are being stymied. So the best way
to deal with it is to just overwhelmed with numbers so that
they can't shave them on the margins they can support Is
there way to a victory by preventing people, young people,
minorities, older people? I think that we've got to do
everything we can. But we still don't know what exactly. The
Russians and their allies are planning this time.
Oh, they're planning though. They're in the systems. They're
planning and they are going to strike baby, I'm telling you.
But here's here's the clip that I thought was most important.
Now, remember, this is this is a tech conference, although if you
look at all the tweets, where they're hashtag LWD T, there's
not a lot of stories about technology, but a lot about
LGBTQ and stuff like that, but not a lot about tech. But
anyway, this is the tech community. And here I think, is
her real message.
And I really want to do a big shout out to the tech community
but she
prefaced it by by making sure you know, she's talking to you
tech community,
because a lot of people after the election in 2016, you know,
looked up and they said we can do better we can do better
polling, we can do better. Voter Protection, campaign protection.
So I've been working with and supporting some of those groups
as well. Because we were being frankly outmanned out woman on
the other side, because they had a system that they
that's a very interesting flub, she makes there. As she says
out, man realizes, Oh, my God, I'm in the midst of lesbians.
This is not like, I was just out.
It was quick as quick witted enough to catch it. And it was
the right beat. So it was very true. The transition was good.
It wasn't a joke. I thought she did a good job.
But what she then winds up saying is we were out woman by
the other side. So wait a minute, Republicans are now
women's
protection campaign protection. So I've been working with and
supporting some of those groups as well. Because we were being
frankly outmanned out woman on the other side, because they had
a system that they basically impose. I'll give you one last
thing because I'm pretty, you know, alright, here comes pay
attention. So Republican candidates are told to spend 40%
of their advertising budget on digital.
Okay, makes sense. This is very important, because we always
talk about this on this show. The media is all in on the
elections and an annual election, because it's their
number one revenue moment. In any cycle,
there will never be any sort of reform. Because they CBS, NBC,
ABC, in particular at Fox to a lesser extent, all and all the
local channels, they make all their money, pretty much it's
almost like Christmas for them.
Now, what state does not get any money?
I don't know what state does California.
Yes, California gets no money because it's dandy. Everybody's
because you get to vote Democrats. But where the Why Why
bother advertise
Exactly. However, what she just says is, and I don't know if
this is true, that Republicans apparently have a mandate from
the party, that 40% of their advertising budget, which is the
money it's dope, though. That's what it's all of this where Bill
Maher's million dollars is going into advertising budgets, has to
be spent on digital, which coincidentally, is California I
find that just very interesting. As a little aside, most of its
in California. So here is the message. And you know, what is
the model, the business model of Facebook and Twitter and Google
is advertising. She is saying something very important here to
this community.
Republican candidates are told to spend 40% of their
advertising budget on digital. Make sense, right? Democrats are
not told that. So on average, Republicans are told to spend
40% Democrats spend between zero and 15%. Now this is changing,
thanks to a lot of people like you, who have been speaking out
working with campaigns, I am supporting tech for campaigns,
you know that tech for campaigns. We played a clip from
that that's the here's how you don't get your email stolen. I
always thought she was behind it. But now we know for sure,
which is a really important piece of this. Because that's
what they found that you know, there just wasn't an
understanding or a commitment to using digital and so we're, you
know, we're we were behind and we're playing catch up. But
after the election, once you know, we catch our breaths, and
we're so happy that we were successful. We've got to go to
work on the next one. I mean, you the other side never quits
and they have cadre of people who are focused on the next
election. And we've got to do the same.
So there's your message to look And Valley, Hillary is going to
help you get paid to work with me work with Hillary. In the
US kind of interesting. Yeah. Well,
I thought it was very clear message from that perspective,
the whole thing was boring. It's incredibly boring. Well, so I
have, I was wanting to play one more clip. It's a little long,
it's about Serena Williams, it was just so lame that I feel we
have to listen to it. And I do want to say that Serena
Williams, you know, in short, got Dr. Point for something that
John McEnroe got Dr. Point for too. It's not like it didn't
happen it to men before.
Is there Oh, she also got Dr. Game, which never really
happened.
Yes, it did. Yes, it did. It was a game and a match point for
McEnroe. Okay. But I will totally say tennis is probably a
bunch of male douchebags. But you got to take things a little
bit in context. And I think that really went off the rails with
this analysis of the double standard in tech, which somehow
comes to tennis, the double standard in tech. When it comes
to women.
I think one of the things that we have to fix is that there's
clearly a double standard for women. The more powerful you
are, the more you are disliked. We just saw that in the
oh, that doesn't happen to men at all.
ever know people love love,
love powerful man. Yeah. Oh, douchebag Fox? Yeah, sure.
US Open spinals sexism and racism there.
And racism. It wasn't just sexism is racism. But you didn't
read that in the New York Times did you John Raisa was racism
because she's black. That's why it happened.
And I just want to hear from you. Obviously, you've
experienced this a lot, probably more than anyone in the world.
How are we going to solve this double?
Oh, wait a minute, I got to think about this. Because this
is a lesbian tech conference, what am I gonna say standard?
Part of the the challenge is for women to support women who
challenge the double standard, the double standard.
It's alive and well.
And, you know, oftentimes, in my experience, there are a couple
of reasons why women are put down or judged unfairly and
harshly. One is because they pose a threat, they pose a
threat to the established order, they pose a threat inside a
company or in politics or academia wherever they might
find themselves. And so the knee jerk reaction is to put them
down and put them down personally, not necessarily
professionally for first.
Okay, so you mean stuff like orange Cheeto? And is that is
that what you're talking about?
And so every woman has a an interest in calling that out.
You know, if you're gonna object to somebody's work, then be
specific. But don't go into this like, well, you know, she's just
not likable. Well, she's
talking about herself, which is kind of creepy.
I have a list of about 10 million men who are not
particularly likeable.
Oh, yes. There we go. We hate men. What is this? I find it
embarrassing for the lesbian community that this is
happening. So now we're all cheering for lame is pretty bad.
10 million men who we hate.
And, but, but, but the knee jerk plays into all of these cultural
stereotypes. And so people say, Oh, I don't know if I want to
speak out, because you know, she can be kind of angry, or she can
be kind of squishy, or whatever she might be. So but we've got
to get over that we've got to support each other. And we've
got to speak out for each other. And then the second thing I
would say is this whole question about women standing up for
ourselves. And you mentioned the US Open, you know, I've watched
tennis for decades, and I've seen a lot of men throw their
rackets. I've seen them scream at the referees. I've seen them,
you know, engage in all kinds of, you know, angry, hurt
disappointing behavior. But everybody understood is because
they were such great competitors. You know, they were
in the moment that couldn't help it. Well, and along comes
Serena, who is standing up for herself and speaking out and
being basically put down and penalized. And I you know, I
think that it doesn't matter. If you're out there by yourself,
and you're trying to do it, you know, you're taking risks. And
yet the only way we're going to expose the double standard and
hopefully, eventually see it end is if we're willing to do that,
and if we hope and empower women standing behind us so I'm going
to keep doing what I can but I Hope everybody does the same
fail. I just thought I was like cheese. Go and alienate some
more people. Men. Yeah, you wonder where she can't win?
I think it's a lost opportunity if she had said it right the
beginning of that interview. Well, I have something to say.
And she had come out she could have run ahead of
itself. She just she could have run did with holding their hands
together and looking up with all she could have run. Easily but
no, no, no, she just pissed it off a 10 million. Miranda man.
Man
Man damn men. not denying that, that it's there. But come on.
This is not how you solve it. You're just creating more
division by literally saying I just 10 million man I don't like
yeah, the yellow Cheeto,
this is not. This is not. This is not right. You're not nice.
Then with that? I'd like to thank you for your courage. And
say in the morning to you John C. C stands for kumbaya in some
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My better three quarters reminded me that I was indebted
to John C. Dvorak for the ant burning. Last few years this has
saved us from frustration unnecessarily chemical
treatments and pest control bills value for value.
Now do you want to remind us
Bernie trick I'll tell it again. We don't do we tell it every
couple of years people don't seem to remember. So I came up
with this theory that there's a variety of answers in your in
the west coasters these things because Argentinian answer you
all came up from Argentina, they've taken over the place.
All the other native answer been wiped out by these guys. And the
thing that makes them interesting is that they are not
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colony and a few stragglers will be out there and they go into
some other colony and they don't get killed like the other ants
would do to their peers. They oh you're not from us from our
colony and they kill no not with these guys they is so
essentially California in particular is one giant ant hill
Yes. Those are earthquakes you're hearing or feeling it's
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doing the damage Yeah. So I find they have a they have very
social animal and they have all these different things ways of
doing things and once in a while you start to see these out of
the blue there be a few ants roaming around. These are the
these are the scouts you see the scout answer there you see one
of them and you see another maybe sci fi you don't see a lot
of answers but you see a few of these ants looking nosing around
looking for some opportunity. You take a little one of those
little lighters Scripto lighters and just scorching dead kill
them with a flame you burn them and you burn every one that you
can find and you leave them their other Scout ants will show
up maybe and if you see him or if they're not carrying another
ant out because usually they just they grab oh my god is one
of our buddies is dead they grabbed him take him back to the
nest. Do they eat him? Ah no, they actually they use it for
building material. I build a wall. Europeans used to do the
same thing with human skulls. But that's another story. Anyway
so if enough of these dead ants go back to see we got to say
there's like a big fire or something going on there and
they don't come back and they never show up.
And that's how you get rid of ants. And you keep
killing these little guys if you see him a scout now as you see
one carrying a dead and that means he's taking them back to
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He's got the The message right? And this if you, if you miss
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time it works as a more, you know, in the morning just a bit,
I can't help it. I gotta, I gotta answer
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Thank you, sir Julian doesn't want to upgrade or anything but
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never deliver. And he's making the point that as I think about
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thank you. Where's the device?
What device
that takes is to realize his message that was the message?
Well, you
editorialize the whole message, you cut up the whole first part?
What was the part that was good? Okay, well, let's read the
beginning then.
No, it was just it was just nice. What'd he do?
It was a nice message. But what was the advice to the kids? He
wants us to what his advice to the kid he was. And he then
said, I'm sorry,
his advice. Sorry, Mr. COVID book, you butchered it the whole
thing?
Which horrible. I want
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name yet, but Scott will receive that title during the official
knighting ceremony later on this program. Thank you very much for
your courage is highly appreciated.
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is from one of the sausage makers in the area. They have a
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Our formula is this. We go out. We hit people in the mouth
So I think we should take Scott's advice and give a little
bit of advice right now to the youngsters out there who are
trying to make their way to podcasting?
Well, it's not just podcasting through a long road route.
That's not what he said. He said, give them give them some
advice for the future
don't get killed or end up in dimension A, or B to B,
or any door to too far in any dimension. For that matter.
Well, here's I got my piece of advice. All right, I've just
given this advice for I'm going to give it again. Most people
that will supervise you throughout your careers are full
of crap.
And that's the advice the more you know.
And they tend to they take can be played. And I don't like to
say that you want to play people, but you think can be
played by just going along with whatever they have to say, Do
not be argumentative. And I'll give two examples. I'll give one
example a good one. I said, Give, I give him a number I
could generalize. Somebody will say, hey, hey, I don't like the
way you're doing this. And you're doing it whatever way
you're doing it. And use instead of saying, Well, I'm doing it
for this reason, or that reason, or whatever. You say, Oh, well,
okay, what what do you want me to do? What do you think I
should do better? Why I'm all ears be very attentive, and then
they'll tell you the way they want you to do something. And
then just keep doing it the way you're doing it, because it's
the way you do things. Don't pay any attention over their advice.
And within, I don't know, a few months, they're gonna come back
to you say, well, so how's that new way of doing things? And you
say, it's great. You are right. And the guy will say, Yep, I've
noticed that you've changed, you're much better than you
were. And that happens all the time. Because everybody thinks
they're so important.
Interesting. That's not the kind of advice I give, I give
different advice. Because I get I get the same advice I give the
same. Does that tell you? Is that the same advice? You hand
out to young people all the time?
No, I have a lot of different advices. Oh, but that one
particular piece of advice, which is Peep, the supervisors
are full of crap, just to go along with the program. Don't
argue that's my advice, a in line. But, but keep doing things
the way you're doing it. It's not going to MIT, they're not
going to notice when they don't know what they're talking about.
I guess my advice is kind of dovetails into that where my
advice is always the same. Find out what you really liked doing
what you really liked doing. Just something you like doing
that you could be skateboarding for all I care find something
you really really know not like what you really love doing, and
then find someone to pay you to do it. That's it. That's it.
That's the secret to life do
the advice for everybody but
many times the Oh crap. Anybody can do that. Anybody can do it.
Anybody can do that. Have a place in a job tomorrow and you
have to go work at Taco Bell. What are you going to do? Screw
you Taco
Bell. Well, that's part of the finding someone to pay you to do
it part.
Yeah, well, you maybe can do that from the taco back in the
drive to get into front counter. It's taken
me 54 years to finally be able to podcast.
Don't knock it
been my whole life before podcasting was invented. I've
been wanting to podcast. I don't know what it what it is. But
it's just the back of my head. It's just the word podcasting.
When I drop it in up, drop it like a bomb when it happens. And
you invented the word podcasting?
No, I did not I did not I did not invent the word podcasting.
Who did? Danny Gregoire is the one who I credited it to. He is
the one who I first heard it from but then there's that
Guardian journalist who did use the term pike podcast, not
podcasting with podcast several years, not maybe a year earlier
when the iPod came out. But that was before there was any
podcasting.
He pre cognate Yes,
yes, he preached he had it before it existed and therefore
he claims he coined the term which I guess he did,
technically. Ben, Ben Carson. What's his name? Ben. Ben
Lee is coining the term.
What's the guy's name again? Ben.
Ben has gotten to history period he should have become a
podcaster
great All right.
Well, then I'll give another piece of advice. Yeah, tail
fitting into your advice okay. No tail.
I like this tail fitting is not necessarily good but okay.
Tail fitting. Do a lot of different things until you find
something you like and if you like a lot of things do them
all. Yeah.
Yeah, I agree with that too. And then ultimately do a podcast
about your life and then you'll be fine yeah,
podcast. That is everyone's goal should be podcast. I
have to say noticing this. No, I'm there's a I have a Here's an
article that I put into the in the show notes about Teague
Hanley. Teak Hanley is someone sent me this this is a, the
market beauty products, I think a lot of them for men, and they
claim to now spend 40% of their entire marketing budget on,
quote, influencers who are on Instagram and YouTube. Yeah,
this is a big deal. And I gotta say that when we first started
pod show before it became MVNO, before it became dead. That was
the idea. The idea was to have endorsements by the talent
themselves. And that, you know, advertising would change the way
people conveyed their message. And it's and it failed quite
spectacularly over a 10 year period, they failed very well.
And, you know, so whereas, and I still believe you can't monetize
the network, but what we're seeing here is, the marketing
money is going to move away from display, and we're talking
online display and clicks, etc. It's truly going to move towards
this. And I can only say this, because I'm from the future.
Sometimes it takes me 20 years to get it right, but it is going
to happen. And of course, what will happen to everybody and we
talked about this on just the last show, he has YouTube and
Instagram, we're all going to wake up and go, Yeah, I don't
think so. You're on our money, you're taking our money, we want
our money, and it's gonna suck all over again. So build your
own thing like we did, and build your own thing. Be smart about
it. And even when you build your own thing, 99% of you will have
nothing because it doesn't work without the exposure of the
algos in Instagram, and YouTube doesn't work. So make sure
you're one of the 1% but that's where it's going.
Yeah, I think Kanye West would be like a great spokesperson for
the Republican Party.
Right now. He's doing it for free.
Yeah, that's you're getting paid, right? Yeah, no, that's it
you factor was the number of of the Scott Adams girlfriend. I
don't know how much money she makes. But she's on Instagram.
And she I don't remember her name. But she's on. It's
Christina. It's Christina. I know that Steena Christina and
she holds up a pair of shoes. She's very photogenic. So you
want to look at pictures of her. And so she holds up a shoe or
she holds up. I don't know what she holds up. But she's got some
sort of I make up or something and she holds it up.
First do that. First of all, she does this in skimpy clothing
bikinis. Underwear, which
is why I said she's photogenic.
Oh, I misunderstood you. So I missed the code.
Yeah, so what about her?
She makes money doing this was just like, somebody within one
day one three of somebody who makes a lot of money doing this
kind of crazy promotion. That is it does ad agencies that hire
people like her and others that have millions of followers on
these different my own
daughter my own daughter makes money that way? Yeah. Your
daughter
she does it too.
Well, that's a message to you, Scott Adams. Just need you for
your money.
Scott Adams is should be the guy doing this. You should go to an
ad agency and start just casually excuse
me hidden Excuse me? Yeah, that's all he does. We talking
about? i Oh, my God. John. That's all he does. If you ever
heard him promote his his app when what were hub? now.io.
Yeah, but that's not. No, but that's his own thing. Yeah,
nobody's very cool. Yo, that's where the money he doesn't care
doesn't care. Well, I do.
I think we should be promoting Toyota.
Yeah, where's our fine? No,
I never want a piece of it.
I do not I do not want a piece of it. I'm not interested. I
went through all the trouble. I lost the clip of Jimmy Fallon
and the lodestar.
What was working and looking online
to try to find that I don't find it. I find that simultaneous
making it even look more like a hit job of Jimmy Kimmel doing
the same exact gag. What? Yeah, here's Kimmel lodestar. Here's
a lot of speculation now about who wrote this. And this, to me
is the most interesting theory. Somebody online noticed an
unusual word in the Op Ed and the word was lodestar. They
wrote, we may no longer have Senator McCain, but we will
always have his example. A lodestar for restoring honor to
public life, which is that's not a common word lodestar not a lot
of people use that word. You know who does use that word?
This guy? It really was to lodestar and that's going to
continue to be a lodestar. Jack's
lodestar has our lodestar. You are a lodestar lodestar.
That's right, vice president Michael Elizabeth pence uses the
word lodestar. Like it's like it's actually something that was
Mike Pence. Trump just announced that the space Force's first
mission is to locate and destroy the lodestar, whatever.
Wow, so they didn't even that's pretty brazen. It's almost
exactly the same clip pack.
Yeah, QA. So somebody's out there. I'm thinking layer. I
don't know who it is. Whoever is behind us. Malmo is trying to
set up pants at
home on the hall and less Fallon says something about Kimmel
taking his bit because you know if that had happened to us I
would have said it
will phallus bit was better challenge we had other clips of
other stuff that Penn said that match the memo. Kim will have
focused on lodestar only which makes me think that it was a
package that was given to these guys by some outside source
right and and balance people said you know we like to use
this but we got to add our own thing. So they added more to it.
They
talked really nasally don't say those people over Fallon. Hey,
do
now then to to add a little to kind of do some some pile
jumping. Listen to Kimmel the next day actually even bet on
who wrote the Op Ed. This is a real the favorite is Mike Pence
is not a joke. Then Betsy DeVos. I see Mike Pompeo goes down.
Stephen Miller is all the way at 1501, which is good for him.
Before finds a bedding line that's online, and the bedding
line shows that pants is the favorite.
Okay, yes. Do you have to pay the money when you make these
bets? And how long do they get to sit on the money? Just
forever?
No idea what the deal is? I don't know. I've never done
that. online gambling. It seems risky. It looks like pants being
set up. I think it's probably a if you think about it. It's got
to be a
hero to make him a hero.
No, no, you don't know you want to make him a goal within the
administration. So it causes more disruptions and make some
tape because he may never you know he he may really like to
who knows what his attitude is toward Trump. He's not the kind
of guy that seems like a creep that would go on Dwight this
crazy? Of
course not. For one thing,
he's the vice president. What does he do?
Why would he even bother?
Yeah, so he wouldn't, but they do. I think this trying to
create discord is really creepy. What's going on. This is a, you
know, really creepy what these people are doing.
I'm not sure why but it feels like this would fit into it. We
got a note from an anonymous producer. And he says I just
hired someone who has worked and has lived in New York City for
decades with a ton of celebrities. He's been around
Trump and his people. For years, we were chatting about the slur
words today. And he unequivocally unequivocally
confirmed the original no agenda theory that Trump has dentures,
and that he is very sensitive about it. He pushes them up
constantly, but occasionally they fall and he does not take
kindly to anyone mentioning it. So I don't know. I mean, I died
to have no way to try like
that better because I like it better too. Because it sounds
like if you've done it people with dentures, it sounds like
somebody's dentures have just dropped. Yes. Yeah. He's got us
better glue.
But then somehow we had that as our original idea. And then it
went to
the when it took it to pro Petia
we that was another producer. So I still don't know what's going
on. We don't know
for one but no matter what interesting because it sounds
like clunk. You know, you only need them to fall out
but he still does not pronounce anonymous. That party can fix
it because it's a vacuum sucks. The dentures out die. Yeah.
What else you got going on?
Ah, well, I do have a deck out this this series of clips from
the last show. This is a terrible story. Apparently Brad
Pitt after the hurricane Katrina hit the Ninth Ward. He started a
foundation that would help people rebuild and so he
he was didn't have the formaldehyde the houses know
there's his houses or mold.
Is that what's going on with the formaldehyde homes ridden by I
think
that was failures, right FEMA?
Those are trailers these were actually architected houses that
are viewed very beautiful. Yes, I've seen them. Thanks. After
about five years, the Woods has fallen off, they're poorly made.
They're filled with mold, and people had to leave him after.
And they were charging him money for it. This is a hair raising
story. And I think this is another example some Hollywood
guy getting in over his head. Played. Sorry, played one.
Oh, look at this part starting to come apart. And that wasn't
there,
when like the music that was limited.
And as a lot more visible. Now to the side in the starting to
crack here. You can actually see, look, this is supposed to
be a seven year old home, stop asking me, you know, hey, what's
going on with your Brad Pitt home? How do you like it all
that so it must be so cool to live in a brand new home. And in
my mind, I'm like, it's not it's awful. I hate it. This has been
years of ongoing lies and broken promises. You know,
at first, I followed a little bit of the story, although I
certainly haven't tracked it for a couple of years. And I liked
his whole idea. He has a house or had a house there. And when
he was still with Angelina, and he really wanted to do something
I thought he was doing something rather interesting. Too bad that
it just that this apparently is not working out.
Yeah, I'd say not working out is the
understand. understatement. Okay.
Now, this was a special on NBC, which is, you know, NBC
Universal, you know, I mean, we're dealing with Hollywood.
And I don't know, we'll see. I don't know why the unwritten
rule rule wasn't applied. And Brad Pitt was off limits, or if
he didn't want to do a movie, I don't know. But I get the sense
that this is this is a bad situation, but it would normally
have not been played up by the three major networks. We're sure
all three of them associated with major Hollywood studios and
are very reluctant to go after their actors.
Yes, indeed. So let's play to
it's been 13 years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged parts
of New Orleans. But for some residents of the Lower Ninth
Ward, the area hardest hit by the storm. Recovery never came.
Everything I ever owned, I lost in Hurricane Katrina, but I love
my childhood memories of my pitchers toys, my clothes. This
coming back, I cry. I cry from my community. I cry from myself.
I cannot wait to get back into this neighborhood. When I first
came back to the city. I had no thoughts about overbank for the
night water but I really wanted to come back to the city. So
when make your right came to me with the opportunity to move
back. I was so excited about that.
In 2006 make it right. A nonprofit founded by actor Brad
Pitt announced plans to build green affordable homes in the
Lower Ninth Ward
150 Homes is our is our goal to begin with.
Pitt raised millions of dollars. So listen to designs from famous
architects and brought attention to a community in need. But make
it right to homes we're not free. Kumari Allen bought her
home in 2011 for $130,000. She says problems began almost
immediately
and welcome to my home October 6 2011. I put that key in the
door the first time and I did a happy dance for like five
minutes. I was so excited. By October 20 I began to notice a
major issue my outlets in my kitchen area were corroded and
rusted. I had water leaks. I had holes. Outside of my home. I
didn't notice that my allergies had gotten a lot worse. The
foundation is cracking. It's falling apart. There's a big
water leak right here and it was causing a lot of moisture to go
into the home.
At one point Kamara noticed mushrooms growing on the side of
her house and took photos to document the problem. She began
having headaches and felt tired all the time. Symptoms reflected
in a doctor's note she shared with NBC News Kamaria says Make
It Right addressed minor repairs like adding tile but wasn't
responsive on bigger problems like mold. She moved out less
than a year later and in with her parents who also own to make
it right house where again she says she encountered the same
mold and water damage issues.
Wow. Well first of all, mold is really bad I know because I have
the allergy and it can really affect you and this is and when
you got mold in your house I mean this can really this can
really make you very sick
I guess between the walls the exterior and interior walls and
it just takes over the place and it just didn't spores out all
day and night and got the mushrooms holes and mushrooms
growing on the thing.
Now this report comes of course amidst a unexpected crisis so I
guess that's part of why it aired they may have had this on
the on the shelf for a while this particular report
and the leaf so
the other thing the other thing is going on is you know there is
a there's quite a rift between Brad and Angelina and maybe eyes
on Angelina. Were kind The power she's got, because I agree this
is not a typical thing for all three networks to go against a
Hollywood superstar.
No, very unusual. So let's wrap it with number three
throughout the years I have called Making right on their
cell phones I've emailed make it right. I've asked them many
times to please hear us out or you know, to solve our issues
and they will make promises they made promises. So we're gonna
give you a call back or we're going to, we're going to stop by
your house. We're going to make a meeting. We're going to set a
meeting for you and your parents and everything has has not taken
place but that's taking place.
Make It Right did pay Kamaria a cash settlement reimbursing her
for the down payment and a year of the mortgage on our old
house. Kamaria says she can't afford to move again and make it
right has stopped returning their calls about her parents
home.
It's been years since I've seen any type of progress from Make
It Right any it's been years since I've had any kind of
contact with make it right.
Well make it right has worked with some homeowners on repairs
or relocation. Many residents say the organization has not
been responsive. Kamara signed a nondisclosure agreement as part
of her settlement with right but has decided to break it.
I was afraid to speak because of my nondisclosure agreement. But
at this point, I feel like it's my duty to make sure. I felt
like I have to speak out to get the word out about breakfast
organization to let people know that we're suffering down here.
Making rides mission was an experiment in high quality at
low cost. And while the houses may have been stylish, some were
not designed with Louisiana's climate in mind. According to
community activists in the Lower Ninth, make it right has
replaced the flat roofs on 18 of their homes with slanted ones.
So they've replaced a few flat tops. These are flat top houses
which of course don't work everywhere. And Louisiana is
humid kind of a musty place that needs a certain kind of you'd
have to know what you're doing. I don't know what the problem
was here. But it was a disaster. And I think what what I got out
of it, though, was this. I signed a nondisclosure. Yeah.
And this is a black, probably a woman middle class, lower middle
class, upper middle class. She's in the middle of class
somewhere. And she is Screw this. I think there's gonna be
by the way, I'm saying this because I think this is going to
be a trend. A lot of people are cowed by the non disclosure,
many of which are illegal, especially in California. Most
non disclosures don't pull water. And you can go with the
assumption that I am a black loan has been screwed over by
this make it right organization, which won't even return my
calls. And now I'm talking about it and they're suing me because
I violated a nondisclosure and the reason for the nondisclosure
has to keep you from knowing the truth.
Right. And I really media loves in the media loves it. The media
loves it, and I will say
eats, eats a nondisclosure violation up I will say
this really started with stormy Daniels. She started the most
recent screw the nondisclosure I'm going all in.
Yeah. And I happen to
be if nothing else, we can maybe think stormy Daniels at some
point in the future for making these non disclosures null and
void, null and void as they should be.
You remember on the maybe two shows ago I played this clip it
was stormy. Maybe was last year, stormy Daniels on a Dutch
television show. That was divan? A talking about something she
might have on Trump.
Is this something you know? No. Which we will know soon. That
could bring down this presidency.
I say that we have. Yes, there's stuff that I know. And I would
say it's 5050 shot at this point. Which is pretty scary
odds if you're the president.
And I think I know what it is.
I was just getting ready to do this hand sighs No, no.
Tucker Carlson had Michael Avenatti on the show. And of
course, Carlson has been calling him a creepy porn lawyer for a
long time. And I have to say, he had him on the show. And then
they had the lower third creepy porn lawyer talks to Tucker. And
a certain point they just abbreviated to CPL, which in my
world means commercial pilot's license, but okay. Cpl. I
thought that was really rude. I mean, the guy comes on. He knows
the guy
was incredibly rude. You did or did not.
I did. It was rude. Yeah, there's
no reason to do that. No, it was just late. But I will say this.
It was very funny. It was
funny and consistent, but still it would. It was rude but not
once but twice. Did Avenatti say something that I think think is
going to come back.
If you traveled here with policy advisors who've worked on other
campaigns to the show, I have no idea if you'd be ready for
somebody question I
didn't I didn't travel here with policy advisors. Can I ask you
let me ask you a question. I don't think why isn't
the show that was simple. Why is it that you're
not answered? Why is it that you don't call Donald Trump the
creepy porn president? He's the one that had sex with a four
month old son at home case with my client now without a condom
without a condom. Now, why would he say that? And why would he
bring it up again? I could not explain it with you. I
know exactly.
Because she wants to Tucker wants step. This is America.
This is America. And guess what? If a woman wants to perform in a
strip club, she does so getting rich even though people don't
like getting rich, even though people like her, even though
people like you demean her. You're the one who's you're the
one that refers to work consistently as porn star. And
it's to me as a creepy porn lawyer, and meanwhile, you get
arrested. And meanwhile, you give the President a pass I
would unprotected sex with a porn star with a four month old
son at home.
Uh huh. So that's his message. What was your takeaway from it?
For Amazon owns Oh, old son is Trump's.
That's taking it further than I thought I would. Interesting you
taken it. I was thinking that he paid for her to have an
abortion.
Got to feed the witness that four month old son at home?
No, no, that's he had barren the four month old son at home.
Okay, then it would be an abortion. That's what I'm
thinking. That's why it was 100 grand mutation.
And she may
and she may.
And that's gonna like hurt him with the Christian right. And
crude
hurt him on a lot of issues
around me. That's probably why they stuck the word a moral the
real problem was him. Yes. See, they know if somebody knows this
is going on. Yeah. So in the White House, and that New York
Times editorial that one word that stuck, stuck,
stuck out was a moral a moral
was the word amoral? And that was the kind of the conclusion
The problem with this guy is not that he's good. He's unhinged.
And he's been as a Cheeto. The problem is, he's a moral and
that's what's pointing right at that
hypocrite and a hypocrite and a hypocrite and a hypocrite.
Well, he never really has been a pro life pro choice. One or the
other guy. I
know. But, but in the mind of, of dimension B. He's he's, you
know, Roe v. Wade is on the chopping block.
Or just row. Oh, that's
a good point. Yeah, you're right. They got Roe v. Wade. He
doesn't put Kavanaugh in? Yes. We'll be wait. Yes, yes. Yes,
yes. Yes. Our friend Yes. That
he had unprotected sex with and of course we don't call an
abortion. We call it female reproductive health care. Just
want to get my
Ternate right. Sounds good. But they're gonna have to start
wrapping this little did they get a hurry? Yes. Tragic play.
They got to wrap up the Shakespearean drama a little
bit, you know, in the next few months, because they're coming
back at him. I think the Republicans are making a push to
get Hey, that's got to vote because you're going to be
screwed if these Democrats or all bunch of socialists get in
office. Here's
the latest in the saga, which we've all probably heard about.
The mysterious new twist about Supreme Court nominee Brett
Kavanaugh comes from top Democrat Dianne Feinstein Well,
Feinstein revealing little saying she has quote received
information from an individual concerning Cavanaugh that
individual Feinstein says strongly requested
confidentiality declined to come forward or press the matter
further, and I have honored that decision. Now referring it to
federal investigative authorities. The FBI tonight
confirming they've included the information in Kavanagh's
background file. The
court in hell are the Supreme Court upheld I don't mean let me
interrupt you. Because
Feinstein's move comes after Democrats attacked Kavanaugh and
contentious hearings. And just one week before the Senate
Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on his nomination. The
White House questioning Feinstein's timing, not until
the eve of Cavanaugh confirmation has Senator
Feinstein or anyone raised the specter of new information about
him, blasting it as an 11th hour attempt to delay Cavanaugh his
confirmation. Republican Senator John Cornyn skeptical This is a
statement about a secret letter regarding a secret matter and an
unidentified person. Right. Senator Feinstein Republicans
say Feinstein's move will not delay next week's vote.
It's this I found this to be disturbing. Well,
I don't know why you'd find it to be disturbing because this is
part of your original blueprint for Kavanaugh.
Oh, that he has to get kicked out. Yeah, yeah, that he can't
make it through. But I didn't expect this to happen.
I mean, this is really low I'd meet someone who's anonymous
with no, no proof of documentation, and then
Feinstein gives it to investigators. I mean, this is
what are we doing?
Feinstein's bit is, I hate to say this, because I'm not an
ageist, necessarily, but she's a very old woman who is very
susceptible to being bullshitted. I remember working
with her when she was one of the board members of the air
pollution district. I've told the story before I'll find
a Feinstein. Yeah, okay. I thought you only knew the only
other one who always wanted to
tell everybody, right? They were both on the board of advisors.
There, Randy. But Feinstein was the other one. You've heard the
story before, you'll remind
Can I never get enough of it.
So so we had all the documents that you'd use were in the
document room where they also had the dispatchers that women
were dispatching in there for to grow all the cars radio
controller driving around. And all these documents, you want to
get a file on some company had to go in there to get these
files out, and you just walk in and grab some files and walk
out. It was getting to the point where people just wandering in
and out and flirting with the dispatchers and giving him a
hard time and then grabbing files and leaving him all over
the office. It was a it was a nightmare. So somebody decided
that this is out. You have to consider what was what the
problem was, was this back door that was open that people just
wander in and you had to go through the front door. But they
had to leave the back door and to keep the place cool. Or the
women would be like, you know, sweating to death in there. So
they put a chain across the door. You can't go in if you
want to go into get files go around the fraud, check them out
the way you're supposed to yes proper, instead of just
wandering in. Feinstein's making an inspection of the office for
some unknown reason. And she sees the chain and goes apeshit.
Why do you chain these men into this room? There should be no
chain here, these women, they're direct. What do you think of
them and she makes a big scene. So they have to take the chain
off the damn door, which opens it up again for the people to
steal the files. And so instead of the chain blocking the door,
unless you can get some air get through there, they put a door
up and locked it. And so now the women are in this stuffy room
and thank you Dianne Feinstein for helping the women.
And how old was she then?
Well, this was probably 40 years ago 40 or 50 years ago? Yes.
Oh my goodness.
And she just see things that she she misinterpret she was not
that bright ever. I mean, the fact that she got railroaded
when she was heading heading the into the Senate Intelligence
Committee and she was trying to get that torture report out and
they wouldn't let her and they were spying on her and everybody
else and she didn't go apeshit then is beyond me. And she's
just gets pushed around I think some she's I think she's
susceptible to being you know, pushed into some direction
that's that's not wise. I think I don't think she's that bright.
There you have it straight from the horse's mouth. This is boots
on the ground and since we're here,
one lone story but but the impression that she was this way
I think, you know, she wasn't she was uses the city council
woman as somehow catapulted her way to the Senate. It was very
strange since
we're here and I don't want to wait another year or two. Just
tell me a quick version of the boxer story, please.
Barbara Boxer was notorious when they had these meetings, they
would have these advisory board meetings that sometimes air
pollution inspectors would be around the office and she would
always try to bum a ride home. I didn't ever happen to me. I
don't know if this story is even true. Just a disclaimer now but
one guy says hey, don't be around the office after these
advisory Burmese because boxers on the prowl. She's Rozo roam
around and say hey, you got a car. Can you drive me home? So
she because every we all had cars. And so she talked some
poor schlub into driving her home to Marin County where she
was from, and then she made a patent trying to get the guy to
go to bed.
And you always dodged that bullet. I'm so proud of you.
Yes, well, very good.
I worked in the East Bay so I which was very rare. I was
rarely in the city. I tried to stay out of there.
I mean, the I mean, the EU will not in the EU actually
Switzerland's not in the EU eu a very pretty money. I hadn't seen
the Swiss francs for a while very pretty. Just nice bills,
plastic yet. Not plastic, not not the ones I got. So I do have
some, but I do have some European based stories, some EU
stories and I'd like to start With a quickie on Brexit, this
just broke this morning, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of, of London,
who has now apparently some ideas about Brexit.
Firstly, we're at position now, where the government's embarking
on negotiations that could lead to one or two things, either a
bad deal, and that includes the possibility of us leaving the EU
without knowing the future relationship with the European
Union, or No Deal. And both those options would be deeply
damaging to London and the country. So what I'm saying to
the government is for the first time, the British public should
have a say, on the outcome of those negotiations, including
the option of staying in the EU.
We are so from the future. We are so from the future.
I've been hanging in there with that from
Yeah, it's good. very troubling story from Norway, a guy I know
are in compounds, who is a investigative reporter from the
Netherlands. He does a lot of work for WikiLeaks. He has been
missing for several weeks. He went to Norway. People were
aren't quite sure if he was just going there to kayak or what he
was doing. But all of a sudden I heard about this. He's gone. And
they did fine. And this is a Ancilla you know, and Scylla.
She knows him very, very well. She's
she's really making a play on
what's going on. And she's going on TV in Holland and everything
tries to get some information. Here's the latest from the
Norwegian police. It's kind of soft spoken, but you can at
least get an idea of what they're thinking and what
they're at.
We are working out for three main hypothesis. The first one
is that he may have been in an accident. The second one is that
he had on his own choosing and free will has decided to stay
hidden. And the third hypothesis is that he has been the victim
of some form of a criminal offense. So far, we haven't
found anything new. The first items were found floating in the
sea, close to land. They were picked up by a local
recreational fisherman. The kayak was found by the police
later that night, haven't received any texts specifically
on directly related to the kayak. We have chosen not to at
this time released to the public which items were found. We have
now been asked for assistance from the Coast Guard to conduct
a search this weekend or Coast Guard has experienced in various
searches and see they have knowledge and skills that we are
hoping to
benefit from there you go so they don't know if he was foul
play if he wants to be hidden or for some horrible accident.
Anyway, it's concerning to all involved. Yeah,
well, if you genuinely say the last season last season of
Berlin station.
Never I still have never seen that. Yeah, what happened
to the guys go to Norway or Sweden, some middle of nowhere
place and there's assassins everywhere.
Yeah, well, don't take any rides and foldable kayaks, kayaks,
then we'll add that to the list. Hopefully he'll turn up but it's
been a while. Staying in the region. We got a very thoughtful
note from some boots on the ground from Richard from Sweden,
who appreciated us talking about his his country, which was in
the context of the podcast by Yen's. And Aaron, who I think
were kind of surprised about all the attention they got, you
know, these guys have only a couple 1000 Twitter followers
and all of a sudden, boom, there's all kinds of people
talking about him. And I even saw you there was someone
bitching and moaning about the carbecue numbers and you were
pushing back, which I thought was nice, but on the tweeters.
All I did was I asked him if he was in Sweden. And he said no. I
said, Well, why am I gonna listen to you? You're not in
Sweden. I want to hear somebody from Sweden telling me what's
going on. Not some guy outside of the country, just taking
potshots doesn't. I looked at the statistics, and the
statistics indicate otherwise.
That's kind of what was said. Yeah. But anyway, Richard, I do
want to share some of his note. Did you have a chance to read
it? I think you were on the copyright. Should I just read a
little bit of this because I thought it was someone was very
interested. It's good note. Thank you for giving my little
part of the world some attention some points on the election and
political parties. Firstly, the Sweden Democrats are by no means
a far right party they want to large government high taxes,
welfare, etc. They are close to the very close to the Social
Democrats except for one point immigration. They are socialist
they just go against all the right So the parties who claim
there's no such thing as a Swedish culture, Swedish people,
ethnicity, etc, at least noting worth preserving or
acknowledging. And then I wanted to talk about what he felt about
his country.
Go down here a little bit.
He says you're regrettably correct when naming Sweden a
shithole country. I don't know if we actually said it that way.
But okay. We have no idea. We just, it might be a shame. You
did. I did. Okay, shithole, Sweden, people are effing
retarded apparently, and seem to have forgotten about the
incredible undemocratic things that took place after the 2014
election, and of course, happily voted for the same old parties.
And then he goes through some this is all in the show notes,
by the way, I put them in there anonymously. Meanwhile, we see
our high trust society crumble before us the beautiful culture
and harsh landscape and climate that has been tamed by our
forefathers, the guy who loves his country, you can really tell
tamed by our forefathers over generations and generations into
something that the best of seasons can support a moderate
population is now being given away to people from completely
incompatible cultures. As it stands right now. It is anyone's
guess as to who will form the new government even talks about
a new December over income similar to shout out a party
that got over 70% of the vote. And then he goes into talking a
little bit about what he misses are actually this is
interesting. The benefits that you get as a refugee in Sweden,
and I guess apparently there's about 20% of the populace of the
10 million there now is immigrant and slash refugee. And
he says the benefits you get as a quote refugee are simply
outrageous, even illegal immigrants who have had their
case for asylum dismissed and should be deported, according to
the law are still eligible to free health care. Which of
course you and I assume Sweden has got free health care for
everybody. It's all groovy. Well, turns out not so they get
better health care than us natives and legal immigrants do.
Example, a visit to the dentist cost and asylum seeker, 50
kroner about five and a half dollars, while we regular folk
have to pay the full price about $100 for a checkup and then
1000s of dollars if you're unlucky enough to have a real
issue, as it's not a part of the rest of the healthcare system. I
thought that was interesting. They don't do dental in Sweden,
what the hell's wrong with you? Explain how that makes any
sense. He says also, if you're in need of medical care, you
think it stands to reason that the medical care is provided in
Swedish especially as immigrants are getting paid to learn
Swedish but no, a non Swedish speaker can request free of
charge interpreter at any contact with the within the
health care system. So we as a country have basically bribing
people from faraway lands to move to this beautiful but harsh
land. And they've given so much leeway. It's ridiculous, that we
now have mosques blasting Islamic prayers at 110 decibels
in what was just a decade ago, a normal Swedish town, the
propagandists. Also beyond belief, the immigration wave has
been touted as a profit making operation, it is needed to save
our pensions and to keep our high living standards. Again,
please explain to me how importing hundreds of 1000s of
people from completely different cultures who have no interest in
being assimilated or integrated into our culture, and most of
which likely will never be a net positive for society. How this
works for us, this has, of course, been debunked, not that
it was necessary. Any person with half of mine could figure
it out gang shootings with deadly outcomes on a more or
less weekly basis. Now, we have ways of carbecue as gang rape,
rape has dramatically increased. There's general unrest and of
course, we all know what is really going on. And then he
gets really sad about how Volvo's suck. They're no good
anymore. They don't even have a temperature gauge or a dipstick.
You know, we used to make jets now we don't make anything
anymore. And he feels that his country is going down the tubes.
Well, probably is. But you never hear that. And also the
journalists there. They all have some kind of support from the
government. Did you read that in his note? Yeah. That doesn't
sound very smart.
Well, it is if you want to keep people toeing the line. It's
very smart. Yeah, I think it's a very good idea if you want to
keep people toeing the line. I think that's what we do. When
you talk about Operation Mockingbird, that support from
the government. I gotta
tell you, Bob wrote Bob Woodward sounds like he is part of
Mockingbird.
I think I cut this little piece.
This was an interview on the BBC. And the whole thing was
eight minutes. I got it down to about a minute and a half. And
all these talking about continuously with Trump, which I
get I haven't read the book is about national security national
security country's going to be we're national security. It's
totally some kind of Mockingbird talking points. Just listen to
it. You say it's never happened before.
Not to my knowledge. People have thwarted presidents before but
actually taking the document there is this kind of renegade
movement, as Gary Cohen told an associate, you have to protect
the country.
And it's a movement that's working, isn't it, which also
speaks to the chaos because caked on some wanted to do
something and was prevented doing that thing. You'd think it
come back to the next day, the next week and get it done?
Well, in some cases he did. It is a back and forth and people
in the White House told me to a certain extent, they spend a
third of their time stopping things that are dangerous or
really not consistent with a policy to protect the United
States and the national security. Now that the book is
out, he clearly has changed his mind. But again, there is this
disorganization, this lack of focus of not understanding how
he is to protect the national security. The Secretary of
Defense Mattis early this year and National Security Council
meeting, when Trump kept asking about why are we paying all this
money for forward deployed troops 28,000 in South Korea,
all of the troops in NATO, which he wonders, you know, why are we
protecting Europe? Why are they paying for this? The Secretary
of Defense has to tell him because we're trying to prevent
world war three. Think about that for a moment that the
Secretary of Defense has to remind the President of the
United States that we're trying to prevent world war three.
But what's their aim? Bob, do you did you get the impression
that they're just hanging on for dear life? Or that there is an
end to this?
It's very disconcerting to people. There is not a clear
path to resolving it. This is not what you do in a normal, non
Terry, normal. It's not the word a necessary, engaged effort to
protect the country.
Think his point is clear. Yeah, I guess,
protect the country while Trump is danger to the country. That
was his whole mission, I guess.
Well, he's been doing his emphasis on world war three.
Yes, there's that.
The UK I this I had to get from RT I was looking for it. There
was a European court decision about the United Kingdom, get my
nation East's mass surveillance practices, who they target to
surveil? And of course, you know, they have all of our a lot
of our technology, that part of the five eyes so it's all one
big, big brother looking at. What's that? Happy Family near
one big happy family. So not only who they're surveilling,
but how they're surveilling. And I thought the information was
interesting, because you don't hear I didn't see any of this. I
did look for the networks, the US networks. And I didn't see
anything on Sky or BBC, but this was a pretty big deal. I think
journalists and civil rights groups scored a victory today
against the British government's mass surveillance system,
Europe's top rights court calling the so called Big
Brother program unlawful and the violation of human rights.
We have won a landmark judgement today at the European Court
confirming that the mass surveillance practiced by the UK
Government, as revealed by Edward Snowden is unlawful. And
we have argued this consistently over the past five years, and
it's a really important victory for people's rights in the UK,
I declare open the public hearing on the admissibility and
merits. In the case of Big Brother watch and others versus
the United Kingdom.
The judge has ruled five to two that mass interception of phone
and internet data violated article eight of the European
Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to
privacy, thanks to inadequate safeguards.
Specifically, as regards article eight, it found that there was a
lack of safeguards and oversight when it came to selecting the
traffic for examination and the subsequent going through that
information. In a further victory.
The court ruled that the program also provided insufficient
safeguards in respect of confidential journalistic
material, violating article 10 of the European Convention,
which protects the freedom of expression and information
as regards article 10. It found that there were not enough
safeguards when it came to examining the data that had been
found by the authorities. As regards to the journalistic
confidentiality,
the Court said in a statement while the court was satisfied
that the intelligence services of the United Kingdom take their
European Human Rights Convention obligations seriously and are
not abusing their powers. It found that there was an adequate
independent oversight of the Selection and search processes
involved in the operation.
I think it's interesting. It is interesting, but severely
underreported. I mean to break two articles of the European
deal
was I forget which laws it is. For human rights, it's probably
the protocols for human rights eight and 10. That's a bit
that's a pretty big deal. But no one's up in arms about it that I
can see.
Well, no is up in arms about anything you said. Trump causing
this hurricane somehow
a final thing, which is just fun for us, because we pay attention
to these kinds of things. The EU parliament has their own kind of
television station. Not really, I think it's on some cable
networks. But you can certainly watch it online on there. The EU
Parliament channel and Juncker the drunkard John Claude Juncker
did his annual speech, kind of the State of the Union state of
the state of the Starfleet. And for some reason, which may be
evident based upon this clip, which there's a link in the show
notes and a show notes.com. So you can go take a look at it. He
was wearing the exact same outfit as last year, same tie,
same suit, same shirt, which is like now okay, or maybe it's his
lucky year, his lucky outfit, and you have to see this on
video, but it works in audio as well. He does his speech. And
there's first of all, there's not a lot of people there.
There's not a lot of people in the big Starfleet Command
audience. So there's a tepid response is clap clap, clap,
clap, clap. But then EU Parliament television just mixes
in what looks like last year's speech and all of a sudden they
cut to the to the to the parliamentary members and
there's a whole bunch more of them standing ovation, the audio
goes up about 50 DB. Yeah, listen to it. Listen to it. Clap
clap clap. So this is kind of like okay
now why they kept it in this? This is this is unedited as I'm
playing it for you. It's kind of dying down a little bit. And
hey, we need to we need to make this look successful. Stop you
okay and now a big standing ovation. There's a lot more
people there just mixed in last year's tape.
That is disgusting and also humorous, and laughable.
amateurish. Like, this is like this is your future. They didn't
even do it. Right. Good. They don't need to see exactly.
What's the point of doing it right. Let's just do a best job
and people Yeah, I saw it. It was a gamer standing standing
ovation. You're lying to me. I saw they were giving him a
standing ovation you what you saw is bullcrap.
Exactly. Idiocracy now it's just the European Union. I'm gonna
show us food by donation to no agenda. Imagine all the people
who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be fun
we got a note from a guy that from last time.
This was John overall.
Last showed you not read the full note because when he was an
executive producer at 238 Dodge, I'm going to react to 5633 twice
his dad's age plus $100.33. I will have to read this note
because we asked him for a note. We said hey, you got a note.
Send it? Oh, yes, I remember that. Sure. Yeah. So it's
actually a long note, but I'm gonna die. It's worth reading.
I'm overdue to make a donation Your Honor. My father who passed
away on September 10. Please read out the following
recognizing him and his service to our country. This notes are
read out. Since Pay Pal always messes up the formatting
which which it did hence this maker Yes, exactly this
donation of 256 33 twice his age plus one $200. And there is an
honor my father Chief Warrant Officer, CW O for Gerald W
overall, a 30 year retired Navy vet who passed away he served
his country with distinction earning the following medals and
honors during this his service. By the way I want to mention
that this is what we have for listeners. Philippine Republic
Presidential Unit Citation Navy and Marine Corps medal for
valor. Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal two times.
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Conduct Medal two times when you leave that one out. Vietnam
service medal three awards and a Vietnam Campaign Medal overall
was a man who made an impression that as everyone he met and
influenced many lives, Chief Warrant Officer overall spent
the majority of his career on aircraft carriers such as the
Franklin Roosevelt, the Kitty Hawk, and the constellation he
also served on that which is a hell of a ship. He also served
on air bases such as Beeville, Texas, and Rota, Spain has spent
a couple of years on and off in Vietnam, in the mid 60s, fair
winds and following seas may long, a long your big job draw.
And since he retired to Canada and passed away here, if anyone
has an inside track and how to get a color guard for military
honors in Canada, please contact me and my website at John
overall.com.
Wow, the only thing the only thing that got me most the only
thing he missed was Eagle Scout.
And pretty much everything there.
Well, we could I'm sure there's Eagle Scouts involved. Anyway.
So that's the message we didn't run and now you roll.com If you
know some way that the candidate can do a better job of taking
care of this guy.
Hold on a second. Send me that note. Because this is exactly
what Agent Orange can take care of.
Well, maybe we may
be able to help possible for that to me. I will
I will have to do that. Maybe I'll ask you again. Remember
anything? All right,
darling. Remind me to have John send me the note. Thank you. I
know Tina will write it down.
Yeah, right at the end of the show. Well, I'll do that. Okay.
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the work at the no agenda show dvorak.org/na. So this purge
going on on the Reddits oh, what
Tell me tell me I have no I don't keep up with that. Yes,
yes. So they have this new person. Her name now. This is a
a new guest, a new person who is in charge of the current
director of policy at Reddit. Jessica a shoe as ah, oh, ah,
yes, exactly. And she has shut down. I think a couple of
different sub Reddits. But one of the important ones was the
queue subreddit where a lot of people hung out,
they got they took care of queue, they took care
of queue. Apparently, he predicted this, you know, you
know what happened? Well, I don't have my queue, I don't
think have the queue glasses with me. Bring them in.
So you don't want to put them on don't do not fitted right.
Now, this is the Great Awakening subreddit. And it's shut down.
It's It's It's gone. It's
as well should be.
I do have a clip of this person who is actually, let's listen
first to one of the rhetoric
in the Clinton administration. Yeah, Chu.
Interesting, you say that she actually has been working for
The Atlantic Council. Most recently, he's no
wonder they shut it down. Of course,
here's a little bit of her talking before, I guess before
she was Director of Policy at Reddit talking about Syria and
what we should be doing over there. So a
no fly zone would be a great thing. And in my opinion, would
probably be one of the only ways that you could get humanitarian
assistance into the besieged areas in Syria. But that's not
exactly what Mr. Carey called for he called for planes to stop
flying, which again, is a situation with no enforcement
mechanism. And without an enforcement mechanism. I just
don't see how one could convince the regime, which seems very set
in its current ways, and the Russians not to stop aerial
bombardments. And you know, there's more than one way to
create a no fly zone, however, and I want to make this point,
because when people talk about a no fly zone, they often envision
it as an area that's patrolled by the United States Air Force
or other major air force, very costly and a very large
operation. But you can create a no fly zone simply by making it
unattractive for planes to fly. You could achieve that by
providing limited amounts of anti aircraft, weaponry to
vetted units of the Syrian opposition. Oh, yes, you know, a
helicopter are dropping barrel bombs were able to be taken down
then you can best believe that the Syrian government would
think twice about flying helicopters over civilian areas.
Wow. Yeah. Very nice. Yeah. armed rebels. That's great.
How'd that work out? That was a really good idea. So anyway, so
she's in charge of some of this. And I also have a clear
and now you're talking about is a na esh? Oh,
it's no Jessica Chu. Oh, Jessica. Shoe.
A shoe? Yes.
Okay. I'm thinking of Anna issue as to Clinton. first.
Okay. Now, this is Jessica Chu. She's been around. She's been
around.
How you pronounce spell her name?
A S H O H. Ash. Wow, what a name? Yes. Are you going to
consult the book of knowledge?
I'm looking to book of knowledge. She was going on.
When she's 28. She's a military expert. Apparently, he's just
the same person that was given that speech. Yes. From
the Atlantic Council. Yeah, I know.
But why don't you get some up talkers in Atlantic Council?
Some up talker
talkers. Well, we have one of the cofounders of red X was
brought back. Alexis chagnon. Alexis, wasn't it? Wasn't Aaron
Schwartz. Was he the other co founder of Reddit, wasn't he?
Yeah, maybe I could be instrumental. I was never a
Reddit guy. No, please.
Well, listen to him talking about how they how they police
things. Yeah, all these fascinating so this this is I
think this is a CBS or NBC interview. So they did jazzed up
the tech segment with all kinds of little cool music
questions that tech leaders are now taking out and you look at
the power of social networks, look at some of the issues
Twitter has had with banning certain groups and I know Reddit
took a stand recently and banned free alt right groups has your
line on what you choose to ban and how you go about it has that
shifted at all? One
of the most important things we did when Steve and I came back
two years ago, it was actually one of the first things we did
was update the content policy for Reddit that created the
rules of the road for what was allowed on the platform. And we
even built an anti evil team, which is like our SEAL Team Six,
the
anti evil team, what is an anti evil thing we should have won
every organization?
You know, we're really lucky. Our first hire at Reddit 12
years ago, was one of the smartest people hardest working
people. I know. Dr. Chris slow. And we're putting his brain
power behind this team that basically tackles the most
pressing issues that are affecting the community with
regard to evil. So will mean by that is everything from spam, to
any kind of harassment, or just violations of our content
policies to dealing with ring voting people who are trying to
cheat their way onto the front page. So you know, we made a
thoughtful decision as a company to take some of our best people
and not focus them on growth or revenue, you know, typical
Silicon Valley things, but instead focus them on this,
which admittedly is going to mean less short term growth and
things like revenue and traffic, but we would believe a longer
term value because you're from some of our peers that have had
significant missteps. That this is it's important to be
investing in today.
No, okay. No, good luck with that my friend because it's not
gonna work. will not work. I sure hope they don't be closed
down our subreddit that will be a tragedy. Never be a plus good.
No, no, no. Oh, no, no, we don't no, no, they need that space.
They need to do that. And by the way, Nick,
you're right. That's instead of bugging us.
Yeah. You nick the rat has actually has actually, he's
doing something very interesting. He goes in he goes
into the into the no agenda subreddit. And he starts
agreeing with the trolls, but like all caps, yeah, Adam and
John those eight holes. I can't believe they're asking money
send money to for their show. It's crazy. And they don't know
how to respond. Like they got a brain freeze. And he's doing it
everywhere. It's very funny. He's very good at it. Yeah,
guys. Good. Nick. Yeah, he's mine looking
at woman she's so she came out and she has a LinkedIn page so
they get a little background on her. She is like you know, I
don't want to do what was it? What is that the spot the spot
the spot the something I forgot what it was the spot the spot
the spot?
Oh, you mean spot? The I'm trying to how do we sing that?
Or is it spot the troll? Know that my nose? No, no, no, it's
spa There we go. Spot the spoon. Everybody wants to spoon.
Let's look at her background. She starts off. She starts off
at the American University of Beirut. Lebanese politics are
Arabic language, Arabic media political development. Okay,
she's there for a year. She was no one left behind board member
with the brown. Brown took what do you think international
relations by a broad concentration on global security
in the Middle East. This is just all adds up to Redis. To me. I
spoke on this. She goes that the next thing you know she's got a
Marshall scholarship to Oxford. Yes. So she's always there, she
actually gets a Doctor of Philosophy and International
Relations. Then she becomes a subcontractor for the Eurasia
group. And then a shift editor at Oxford Analytica, which I
think is some sort of some sort of paper mill well, your
analysts Policy Planning Department, that unit in the
United Arab Emirates Minister of Foreign Affairs Office.
Abu Dhabi. Sounds good to me.
And the next thing you know, she's the deputy director of the
Middle East strategy, tax task force in the Atlantic Council.
And from there, because of all the logic we put together, all
the things she's leading up to, she becomes a Director of Policy
at Reddit and shuts down Q. Yes.
Nice work.
I applied you.
Very good work. Yes. And shoots a small
Mac. This is not obvious.
It is to us. Oh, man. Yeah. And she shut down kill speech and
how to put give them the the rebels in Syria, a bunch of anti
aircraft batteries. That's
qualified to give that speech. He's at the top of her career
right now.
By the way, she's only 23 or 23. I don't know what her age is,
but
on top of her career on top of her career,
graduated from Brown in 2006. That would make her around.
You're usually what time we were 22 when you graduate in college.
That was 12 years ago. 22 plus two. Oh, she's 34
My guess?
Yep. That's what you do. on a fast track. Though. A lot of
women that are this talented, they tend to graduate sooner, so
she may actually be 20 not 34 but 33 or 32. Bobby's two 33
Hey,
Ooh, nice is the magic number 33.
That's the magic number. Wow. Good one.
I missed that completely.
Yep, there it is.
Alright, let's take a look at. I got a couple things going on the
road. So the FBI Director shows up on a good morning show to
talk to Nora. Ah, and you're pitching this with Trump, who
actually ran on a lot of this stuff of China, China, China,
bad guys are stealing all their stuff. And so they're going to
they're trying to twist this into a new narrative, where it's
China, China, China, they're trying to steal all our stuff,
which is what Trump was always saying. To China, China, China,
they trying to steal our stuff in China and dent Trump's not
helping.
Trump's fault. It's Trump's fault. Good.
Let's listen to these two little clips to be careful about the
number two. That's the second clip and I put the two in the
middle of her name for some stupid reason. versus China.
Yeah, gotcha. America may be under attack by China in this
way. The target of economic espionage investigations in
nearly all 56 FBI field offices. We met up with FBI director
Christopher rea.
Field
out Yes, China is now under investigation by all the field
all
all. All 56 fields last night.
It wasn't a terrorism that was under investigation by all the
field offices before. Yes. That happened to terrorism. Right.
And when you're listening to her interview, this guy asked
yourself, hey, wait, I thought terrorism was the number one
problem we got here.
Someone's waking up, I guess. Who did this report? Ignore it.
So it's CBS CBS Okay. Ha, okay, good allegations
in nearly all 56 FBI field offices. We met up with FBI
director Christopher rea at the agency's headquarters in
Washington yesterday, he told us in an exclusive interview how
China is looking to steal secrets on everything from
American technology to agriculture.
If I look at our counterintelligence mission
overall, China is our top priority in that space. We've
had cases involving everything from turbine technology in
places like upstate New York to corn seed development in Iowa,
what do you mean corn seed? They're trying to steal our corn
seed? Of course, we
have. I think America's agriculture is the envy of the
world. And we're very proud of it and we should be. And
whenever we're the best at something, somebody else is
chasing us. It's something that I think most Americans don't
understand. What are they trying to steal what they want, they're
trying to steal our trade secrets. Our ideas are
innovation.
The US Trade Representatives put a figure on the theft of
intellectual property, and it's up to $600 billion annually,
which of course, is Trump's mission and hate to use. He
knows what China is up to. So that's why he's made the told
the FBI to go all in on China. Yeah, well,
they're blaming Trump in somehow some way the story as usual. But
that 600 million kind of matches the trade deficit 2
billion COVID billion, zillion billion, you said Mills
600 billion. And now he drops a little that this thing, by the
way, was about 15 minutes long, this is the best part of it. And
he does have a little saying in here that I want to kind of
mention when he's finished
China's goal is to take what it can and become essentially self
sufficient and put American businesses out of business
well to replace America as the world's economic superpower. I
think that's their goal. And they're pretty open about it.
It's not only these individuals who are engaged in spying its
companies. You've raised concerns about the Chinese
telecom giant Huawei and ZTE, why are they national security
risks? Well,
anytime you start talking about foreign companies that are
beholden to foreign governments that don't share our values, and
our dedication to the rule of law, enables them to conduct
economic espionage and enables them to conduct different kinds
of cyberattacks. It enables them to steal information in a
variety of ways.
The President intervened a few months ago to save ZTE from some
of these crippling financial penalties that Congress wanted.
Was the President wrong by
it continue to be very concerned. And I think the
intelligence community continues to be very concerned about the
threat to our telecommunications infrastructure presented by some
of the kinds of companies that are beholden to foreign
governments that don't share our values. And the idea of letting
the fox in the henhouse is something that I think people
need to be really, really careful about before we find out
that we're gonna regret it.
Wow, John, your Pavlovian use of the bell did it. I totally tied
the beginning of the show to this moment.
Chinese are just
probably sharing our values.
Yes, they're rude a holes and they probably don't even think
stealing secrets is wrong
that's an interesting concept. In fact, tomorrow
the word actually applies to Marx's philosophy. Oh, well, I
was, I went to Russia once. And I was given a lot of lectures.
I've been to China a dozen times. But there's one kind of
thing that keeps cropping up, they always believe and I think,
to Chinese moreso than the Russians, that intellectual
property is the is the property of the public. Ha. And it's for
the good of the public. So anything you have this
intellectual, you know, you want to just take copied, make a
better version, you want to do something else, that doesn't
make any difference, because it benefits the public. And China's
actually proving it. We're public is benefiting from them
stealing all this stuff. Interesting. And they've got an
economy that's really booming, and we're, we're kind of
backwards about this. We're old fashioned. Oh, no, you can't do
that.
Right. But just like cutting in line, they don't. And they don't
even see that it's wrong.
They might not. So I had to keep telling him about it.
Yeah, well, I think that if someone cuts in line, and you
know, we'll be out here tomorrow as well. I'm gonna say, Hey,
don't cut in line and stop stealing our secrets.
There you go. That's exactly what you should say,
I'm gonna do that. Damn thieves,
just sharing our values may actually be the code word for
cutting in line.
Well, that's certainly a value that they don't seem to share.
And also personal space. Your
idea is that there's a spot you're standing in line. Yeah.
And you're not. You let a gap you've let a gap against
somebody's butt. Yeah, you're not it. There's a little room in
front that between you and the persons but in front of you,
they see that as an opportunity.
So that's the same with with islands in the in the South
China Sea that just like puts us everybody's this is we don't see
any problem. They don't have the same morality, this is quite a
discovery. There's no reason why you can't take that values
statement from cutting in line to stealing and capturing and
God knows killing. Don't share our values, share our values
that don't
stick it to Trump because the fact of the matter the fact of
the matter who almost almost but not quite. The reality is that
that ZTE thing if they would have put the screws to them, it
could have collapsed the Chinese economy and brought us down with
it. Yep, we cannot let the Chinese economy this is to be
straight about this. These guys are our I hate these news
people. The Chinese economy is at a point where we were not at
the point where we could survive a Chinese collapse without
affecting us. We have to get ourselves to that point. That's
what I think they're trying to do. But there's so much
resistance on the Democrat side. That is never going to we're
always going to be subservient to the Chinese if things keep
going this way. So that's why Trump did that he just big China
guy.
I guess he knows him. The cutting line on the cutting of
line cutters. They don't share our values.
I do have the isoform that clip corn seed.
Is this an end of show Eisah
What do you mean corn seed? They're trying to steal our corn
seed,
they'll steal anything if it's not nailed down.
Damn Chinese, I'm becoming xenophobic.
So one of the somebody put this collection together and it got
passed around and it hasn't been on. I was expected to be in some
of the comedy shows. I think the promise of you're getting to put
these clip collections together about something that's Trump
usually, you have to make a depth tight package. It's got to
be Paul's got to be tight. Yeah. 10 seconds. This is two minutes.
And this is two minutes. This is Trump's bid. He does this. This
is one of his bits. If anyone's listened to his speeches, more
than one of his speeches, if you listen to one speech, you're not
going to notice it. But if you listen to more than one speech,
you're going to find five or six thematic jokes. These are jokes
these, they're they're counted as lies.
Oh, okay. And where does this from actually, where's this
package from?
This package is from here and now or some some little website
that puts these together is a visit bunch of Democrats are
trying to humiliate Trump, but it's very well done. And so this
is Trump and his his, he says this one thing about the 401 K,
and he keeps in every time he goes to the next city. He
modifies a little bit. Of course, that counts is another
lie. But he's modifying this gag to see what gets the best
response like any comic would do.
Over the weekend, I was in New York City. And I love to say
hello to our folks in uniform, whether it's the military,
whether it's law enforcement, and we had people back stage and
I always want to take my time and a man comes up. He was a
police officer in New York City. The first time anyone said this
to me, he said, Mr. President, I want to thank you. My family
thinks I'm a financial genius. My 401 K is up 39% in nine
months. I met last week in New York City with a very, very fine
group of policemen. And they were all so happy about their
401 K's they feel like they're geniuses, because in one case,
he said I'm up 39%. And he said, My 401k is up 39%. It's so good.
I love the policemen. I love the firemen. They're great. And
they're always coming up and saying, sir, thank you very
much. My 401 K's up 41%. My wife thinks I'm a genius. The first
one came up to me and said, Mr. President, I want to thank you
so much. I said, What did I do? I said, my 401 K is up 44%. And
my wife thinks I'm for the first time a financial genius. She's
giving him all the credit. And he said Sir, I want to thank
you. You've made me a hero to my wife and to my family. I've
always been a horrible investor. But this year, my 401 K. Think
of it is up like 46% I think people that come to me all the
time and they say thank you so much. I'm up. 42% 48% I'm up
37%. And my wife or my husband thinks I'm a total genius as an
investor and one policeman comes up good looking guy says, you
know, my wife always thought I was a financial loser. And I
have a 401k and Sir, I'm up 49% this year. She thinks I'm a
business genius.
lies all lies all lies. I gotta tell you, I am a certified non
financial genius. And I thank you Mr. Trump. My future wives
401 K is up 50% Goodness That's pretty funny. Hey, tell me about
this. Tell me about these cuz we're getting towards the end
here. What is up with these? These buildings exploding gas
explosions, which
I've linked up before I went to put one more entry into the ISO
contest which is floodwaters Okay,
flood waters are rising. Yeah, I like the corn better.
I think that's better. The corn is better your corn is better.
But one of the check it? Yes. Here's let's play this clip to
get these gas explosions mostly over Massachusetts. And there's
a piece of information in here. I didn't know. We knew
there was a buildup of gas pressure in the pipes here that
caused the explosions and fires. The NTSB now saying that problem
was detected beforehand. At a monitoring station in Columbus,
Ohio. Investigators looking into how the local gas company here
responded to what sounds like a warning of a potential problem.
As residents here continue dealing with this disaster. It
was the only house in the entire neighborhood that exploded and
burned. And it belongs to Officer Ivan Soto of the
Lawrence police, who was eerily at the center of the tragic
events that unfolded all over the Boston suburbs this week is
surreal. To me, it's not even real. I feel like it's Johnny
d'etre.
On duty when the gas fires erupted. He was amongst calls
for help. He was there with Leo, Ron dawn, the teenager crushed
to death in his car by a fallen chimney.
We tried to take the chimney off, we tried everything we
could. And while helping others
the tragedy engulfed his own family, his daughter in their
house when the fire started
college just in time she she felt the first exposure she got
out ran across the street neighbors consoled her
today, he returned for the first time. So you're trying to save a
life. You're worried about your daughter and this is happening
to your home all at the same time.
That's correct. Now,
this is a day turn this story which is seems kind of
interesting or should be into a human interest story about some
guy now they don't do any of this. Why does columbus ohio
control the gas going into Massachusetts? And there are
things called regulators on these systems. Conventional leaf
valves Yeah, these things weren't employed what is going
on this story? This looks like terrorism to me that's what I
thought. And it's like happening all you know, like a bunch of
places all at once in the same areas. They all the other gas
pressures went way up for some reason some buddy, online said
it might be Stuxnet neck. Wow. aimed at us
are these are these regulators in the home? Are they
controllable?
They've know the main guys and when they before they send gas
out they're not just sending that that annual random
Pressure.
Right? The regular Yeah.
Right in the home. I know. You have a gas meter, I suppose
that's some sort of a regulator. It's not going to let things. I
mean, the whole thing is very sketchy and there's no buddy
talking about it. I was thinking this is where everybody around
here thinks the same thing with these fires. A million fires in
California everywhere. Just bang, bang, bang, just random
all over the place. Without lightning storms or anything
causing them. These are all just dry fires. And it looks like
terrorism, but nobody wants to even bring the T word into the
conversation.
But at least our 401 k's are up 39% or 50%. For New York, I got
a clip I got the same kind of human interest story. What's
going on? Really Seriously, what's going on? Nobody knows.
Nobody knows what's next, including Bob Albrecht as he
sits on the steps of his North Andover home for the last 10
years. Columbia gas and National Grid came by Friday afternoon to
turn everything off. But when will it come back on? He has no
idea you kind of limbo so is it? Some are Oh, is it five days? Is
it a week? So we have no idea. His neighborhood is quiet. A
stark contrast from downtown North Andover when a Columbia
gas representative came to town this morning. That it's a little
bit of a concern. Can you speak to that
bill explain all that to you when they smoke. You guys are
kind of like deflecting every question they might have or take
their questions and come back. You know, he's gonna answer
those
Elbert understands his neighbor's outrage at the gas
company and says it's justified I mean,
it's shameful they really should be ashamed. So many needs to be
held accountable people died in this people lost their homes.
People have been displaced and are still displaced. I'm
fortunate. But it's just it's it's horrific
that I read somewhere that there's a gas union workers
issue going on I haven't heard that and we may have to look and
I thought that was somewhere I read about some union lockout or
something was happening.
I don't want to blame it on union workers per se but
we do something's amiss a with the reporting on this.
It's not easy for a house just to blow up from gas I tell you
mean, not blue. It's 2324 of them. How many have blown up?
blew up? About on fire it?
Oh, man. I can't they just find a way to blame Trump than when
least we can have a story
surprised they haven't blamed Trump already.
Let me see what people are saying. Yes, according to the
Okay, I'm just looking at the troll on here for a second. It
looks like there may be a contract dispute. Pretty pretty
hardcore though. If that's what we're the level we're going to
for contract in the olden days. It wouldn't be right well, how
old and days are we talking? 30s
Well, hooray, well
let's move to we you let that sit because we don't know we
don't know. We just don't know. Let's go to man who get together
these get Manafort out of the way.
I read everywhere because I'm you know, I'm on remote him a
different country.
So they're gonna give feed you the real good propaganda.
Yes. Manafort has flipped Trump is going down filament levels
flip flips, he's flipped flip, flip, flip. This
flipped flipped is gonna help molars flip, flip, flip, flip,
flip, flip, flip, flip, flip, flip. Okay, we have a clip.
Alright, let's blame the first clip.
Clip clip. Paul Manafort, the
president's former campaign chairman has accepted a plea
deal. It follows months of refusals by Manafort, who is now
the fifth person linked to Mr. Trump to plead guilty to
criminal charges. Errol Barnett's at the White House
with the latest arrow. Good morning.
Good morning. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders says Friday's
developments have nothing to do with the president or that the
2016 election the White House trying to distance itself from
the former Trump aide. But with midterm elections fast
approaching that will prove to be increasingly difficult, as
Special Counsel Robert Muller gains yet another willing
cooperator from the center of the Trump election strategy
to be a very good person. And I think it's very sad what they've
done to Paul Manafort.
Over the last few months, President Trump repeatedly
defended the character of the man chosen to chair his election
efforts, while lamenting the existence of the special counsel
probe. Late Friday, echoing that sentiment telling the Wall
Street Journal quote, I got hit with an artificial witch hunt
that should never have happened. Reversing his previous claim
Manafort would not flip attorney Kevin downing said Friday
Manafort, his wife and two daughters were at the center of
his decision to share what he knows
he wanted to make sure that his family was able
to remain safe and live a good life. Okay,
I thought that the The key to this thing was at the end when
the Lord says it was about his family wanting to remain safe
yeah it's like what happens when the mob you know hey you know if
you talk you're gonna end up you know you gotta get Billy is got
Billy right you got Billy and Lucy you got Lucy she's like
someone someone's threatening his his family if he doesn't
flip what is it what did that sound like to you was that yes,
it sounded like it to me that's not the way the news interpreted
it but yeah
that's what it sounds like it went that's what what else what
the guy he didn't say that
for especially a guy like him who looks kind of gangster
so let's play the second half
in a DC federal courtroom Manafort pleaded guilty to two
felony counts stemming from his foreign lobbying, but he's also
agreeing to assist the special counsels significantly,
cooperating fully, truthfully completely and forthrightly,
including sharing any knowledge of all criminal activity and all
documents relevant to the council's questions. He also
agreed to testify at any proceeding. Manafort could
answer questions surrounding the infamous Trump Tower meeting in
2016, when President Trump initially said was about
adoptions, but Mr. Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani
admitted was intended to discuss an exchange of dirt on Hillary
Clinton Manafort now joined several others from the
President's orbit who have pleaded guilty to a crime and
offered up what they know to the Special Counsel.
Hey pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Yeah. Yeah, they're
always just to make it they always use the word crime. You
know, yeah. What is the crime? So is actually letting your
parking meter run out? That's a crime. Violating the law. Yep.
Right. committed a crime last week, like a city.
Like Martha Stewart right before everybody like Martha Stewart
she went to she went to jail for it. Yeah, she went to jail for
Klein to the FBI as well, with matters of this, you know, this
is a little above our pay grade, which let's face it when your
podcast or a lot as above your paygrade almost everything. But
we do like to go to the constitutional lawyer we trust
the most who happens to be a liberal and a Democrat. And his
name is Alan Dershowitz. And he was invited on MSNBC to give his
opinion of this flipping ban. Here's what he said, you have
the special counsel Robert Muller, who was put in place to
look into this issue of Russian influence Russian involvement in
the 2016 presidential campaign, any potential ties between the
Trump campaign and the Russians in 2016. And now you've got this
plea agreement featuring the man who was running for a time the
Trump campaign Is that something the White House should be
alarmed about right now?
Well, of course they should be. There's nothing that he can
testify to that would probably lend weight to impeachment
because he didn't really have close contact with President
Trump while he was president, but he did have contact during
the campaign. Tough question whether or not alleged crimes
committed to get somebody elected president is an
impeachable offense. And we don't know the answer to that.
And perhaps he can give them information prior about his
business dealings. Remember, he's not a credible witness.
He's pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, to lying
has changed the story repeatedly, but what they're
looking for, is self corroborating information be
used against Trump? Look, this validates what Judge Ellis said
on day one judge Ellis said they're not interested so much
in metaphor for metaphor. Obviously, he's committed
crimes, but they're interested in primarily to see if they can,
and this is him talking judge Ellis, if they can make him
sing. And then there's also the possibility of him composing
that is i
I'm curious, I want to make sure that I'm clear on this, then
because there seems to be some confusion here about what
potentially you're not giving me the answer I want to hear would
be cooperating with
when it comes to molar. Your assumption or your sense of
this, though, is that Muller's interest would be Trump.
Oh, there's no doubt about that. And I think once he agrees to
cooperate, he has to cooperate about everything. There's no
such thing as partial cooperation. The question is,
did he cooperate too late? Would he have been better off
cooperating before his first trial? I think he was perhaps
hoping for a pardon. And then the question comes up, did the
President act too late if he was going to pardon, he'd have been
much better off pardoning early rather than being until he's
ready to cooperate. So I don't think we're gonna see any kind
of a pardon. At this point, I think we're gonna see
cooperation, and it remains to be seen whether the cooperation
will help the special prosecutor will help the US Attorney in the
Southern District that remains to be seen.
So far. All I see is Manafort being linked to the Podesta
group. Doesn't seem like this is going the way everybody will
want it to go.
was in the newsletter, I pointed out that turns out to Manafort
is quite closely connected with Obama.
Yeah, yeah. The what was that? There was something some one of
his clients wound up in the Oval Office. Isn't that what
Yeah, with Manafort, Obama and Biden was right the people
should subscribe to the newsletter for these tidbits.
Yes, you get fun photos and fun facts and a lot of
fun photos and you get to see with it yeah with a nice washing
alright two things before we go one we have reached total
insanity with this white power signal hand signal which which
is an odd well you just do an okay sign with your three
fingers up
that means three point shot and in NBA parlance yeah all the
players do that
yeah but that's but they can't be racist because all the NBA
players are black so no but they you know they had one guy that
coast there was a live shot I'm sure I'm surprised you haven't
seen this there was a live shot of the Coast Guard and the guys
talk in and then you have some interview going on in the
background. A guy like brushes his hair back and then doesn't
like you can clearly see for maybe half a second or a second
it's like it's the three point shot thing as he strokes his
hair or something and immediately everyone freaks out
oh he's flashing the white power hand signal the guy gets removed
from duty and investigation has started what you should look at
the tweet I sent out yesterday I was watching German all German
TV over here and this crazy German singer does a the immune
okay sign and I was like oh there it is it's spreading his
here just the okay sign no no it's white power
subvert what's you know you subvert the language is to avert
the signal suffered
as everything is upside down as CO opting the oh,
he can't say okay, now anymore. Okay, good for you
know, if you say okay, you're right. If you say okay, it'll be
an abstraction of the white power.
So you can even say, oh, Katie
Hopkins, okay. White supremacist.
And then finally, this, I think will come back to haunt her
Alexandria Ocasio Cortes. Our favorite democratic socialist.
did a photo shoot magazine was for him. And as one does often
for a photoshoot, you put on some some spiffy clothes as a
stylist who comes along and I have to say the the outfit she
had on which was pants and a jacket was a very snazzy looking
looks great on her. She'd reminds me so much of Houma
format. Yes, I agree. Incredible.
And remember almost
kind of a variation of uma member uma did the
VOC shoot? Yeah, very similar to this. So she had her pantsuit
which retails for $22,800. And she had $6 shoes on. And of
course, I was like, Ah, so she lives with you know, the typical
stuff especially Fox but But then here's what she really
here's the thing. Well, here's the the egregious part. She then
tweets and says, You don't get to keep the clothes after
photoshoot da Tao tone deaf are you if you don't understand that
as a politician representing democratic socialist values, the
mere fact that you're wearing the suit is an issue you need to
wear you know a sorghum sack.
Yeah, I've ever fatigues anything used fatigues from
China
anything but with $3,000 or $3,000 worth of stuff. And she
really doesn't understand I don't think she can understand
Come on. Well, I don't see very stupid she's not a very wise
she's not. She's not. She hasn't got much going on. She's
out of her league. Out to hurt my ears. She's out of her
league. Sorry. Oh wait, you
can't do that leave without me playing my one clip.
Oh, I'm sorry. Your one clip you're shorting it. Let's do it.
Just bugged me.
This is the 18 to 25 clip
for a plane full of supplies is heading to Hawaii before
Hurricane Olivia sky seven was above as the six engine
Ukrainian designed plane and a n two to five hit down a touchdown
on the runway with a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tons. It
is the heaviest plane ever built. This thing is massive.
The jet is loaded with FEMA relief supplies. Look at this
thing climb into the air lumbering into the air.
Hurricane Olivia is expected to hit midweek. The plane then goes
to Guam, which is threatened by a typhoon
is the onto turn off and turn off.
Turn off the big big one. Not the regular little.
This has 12 engines.
It got sick. It does.
I'm not kidding. I think it has 12 engines
get six engines is when we tend to split tail and it's huge. And
it was landing in Oakland a pickups. The Oakland is always
accommodating the Antonoff company they're always landing
one of their big planes here but they never landed his monster
here before, once they landed it and the guy landed with the 6500
foot run when they landed it about 4000 feet in and current
off in the first turn off that guy's really good pilot. And
they didn't they fill it up with some fuel and took off again,
which is annoying because it could have told us the foamers
wouldn't be loving to see this thing come in. It could have
given us a heads up and it was painted in all kinds of weird
colors. It wasn't even the normal old paint is a new new
style of paint. And in yellow and blue and the Ukrainian
colors. It's beautiful.
So when he when he said Ukrainian design he meant the
the color scheme not the plane itself.
No, no, the plane dead. No, no. Anton office in the UK. It's in
Ukraine. No, I didn't know I thought it was Russian. No, no,
it's always been Ukrainian. And it's like one of the one of
these who's the arrows or points about the fact they lost these
guys. But they after they land this thing with it's got that.
I'm looking at it right now. It's got like 28 wheels. Yeah,
bottom
18 engines. But only on Thursday.
It comes in after they land this thing. They have to send out an
inspection crew to check the runway. Yeah.
Wow. The thing is cool, isn't it? It is six engines and it
does have the split tail. That thing is fantastic. Yeah, that
is kind of mean, isn't it? They should have
this. This is the kind of news coverage you get around your
after it takes off. We get the report.
Okay. All right. Well, I'm sure they'll do something about it
for you now. No, they won't. No, probably not. Listen, our next
show, which is on Thursday, as it always is. We'll be coming to
you from the Netherlands. And that will be the last show.
Well, of course you never know. Just keep your eye on the
Twitter for the pictures tomorrow. Here today gone
tomorrow. nice working with you, John. You might be back next
week in a different dimension. Well, yeah, but if they didn't
report, maybe I don't know what you're going to do.
heading off to the Large Hadron Collider, everybody and never
know what could happen. And with that, we come to the close of
this episode of the Best podcast in the universe, partially from
Northern Silicon Valley and from FatCat city here in Lucerne
Switzerland. And I'm Adam curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley where I remain although I've
admitted leave the house today I think I think I'm Jhansi Dvorak
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