I can do if they were smart. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
There's April 3 2014. Time for you get my nation media
assassination episode 605 This is no agenda, calling for a ban
on Morning leaf blowing and fever region six here at the
Travis heights hangout in Austin, Texas in the morning,
everybody. I'm Adam curry
and from Northern Silicon Valley Bridge garbage day, but nobody's
blowing anything. And I'm John C. Dvorak. Buzzkill.
Yeah, the only blowing stuff around here we
got a bunch of leaf blower guys. Yeah, it's
so unnecessary. Why do these things have to make so much
noise?
I know they should be. Hey, you know the guys have these blower
guys. It's just they're like to to like to three babushkas. I
always like to refer to in the Kremlin. Yeah, sweeping right
down the middle just moving dirt from side by side
shit one side to the other. It's blown over there. The flooring
guys
are just blowing you know not accomplished.
Alright, are you ready? You're in trouble? I am yeah, yeah. You
You asked for something that you when you ask for something you
get it? Of course you don't really get it you always get it
via me.
Okay what happened
but wait
you want more? Yeah see what else what was that
that was Carrie maybe that one's not good enough I'm trying to
get
so far have been Obama and Clinton the other ones Biden's
no good coke Come on, you gotta admit, Coke Brothers is
definitely a must and I have a clip for it. All right,
hold on a second let me let me wrap up the jingle and the end
the clip Hold on a second Where's where's your clip?
Okay, the clip is This is Robert I got to set it up I just can't
run it yeah, this is Robert Kennedy Jr. and this clip I have
a right here Robert Kennedy dude the greatest warmest speech he's
he's pushing global was the global warming agenda Bureau and
he's dropping in every kind of mean he can he's interspersing
the tobacco
Perfect. Alright, let's roll let's roll the clip and then I
got the jingle for later. Recently the Koch brothers
we win right off the bat beautiful according to brutal
report put in more than $500 million over the past decade and
a half to deceive the public about the impacts of global
warming they've created a network of think tanks in
Washington DC so called free market think tanks but they're
not about free markets they're about about ensuring corporate
profit taking without interference without regulatory
interference. As we talked about last night, it's about ensuring
it's not about free markets it's about it's about socialism for
the rich and in capitalism a very merciless savage capitalism
for the man and I any all those think tanks are stocked with the
phoney scientists. We call them by all institutes but
Stop the presses. What did he call them?
prostitutes.
Wow. Let me write that one down. I want to be one that's gonna
that's good. Yeah, hi, my name is Adam curry. I used to work
for MTV. What do you do to them by asta today? Oh,
interesting. By the way, I want to mention that the socialism
for the rich and capitalism for the for you something that was
said a lot of times by Gore Vidal in the 60s, and I remember
because I always thought it was a catchy phrase. So this guy
steals the phrase unbelievable any but he can't just steal it
per se. He's got to embellish it as beautifully says, he says
socialism for the rich and capitalism for wayward not
regular capitalism, the horrible, miserable, you know,
killing the sole capitalism
of the tobacco era. And you remember, in 1998, I believe
when the seven CEOs of the seven tobacco companies came before
Congress, Waxman's committees raised the right hand and swore
under oath no cancer he did not believe that tobacco had health
impacts and that it was not addicted Exxon you know that's
what the tobacco industry which was killing one out of every
four
Exxon really did he did
the tobacco Exxon tobacco and
I can't believe that tobacco had any health impacts and that it
was not addictive. And Exxon you know, that's what the tobacco
industry which right
out to get me He meant something else.
He was when he wanted to transition to Exxon, but he
drops Exxon in and then says tobacco industry that's creating
a, you know, a link between the tobacco industry and the
bastards, we're up there in front of,
I need more of this Be quiet. One out of every four of its
customers, they used its product as directed, they were able to
avoid regulation through that kind of deception for 60 years.
Well, Exxon is the richest company in the history of the
world biggest profits in the history of the world. And they
have a lot higher stakes. And they have given $500 million
dollars, to buy politicians and to deceive the public about the
impacts of global warming to fuel this whole denier movement
and its work. Now they say now, Exxon has stopped that campaign.
They're secretly funding them. But publicly, Exxon is saying,
we understand that global warming is does exist. But we
don't care. We are going to barbecue the planet. And we are
going to burn all the oil that's on our reserves, which is three
times the amount of oil this report says will destroy
civilization.
Barbecue the planet. Oh, stop. Stop, stop, stop. Wow. Wow,
that's over. Thanks for listening, everybody. We had a
great show. Thanks for your support. As always good to start
with a bang. Oh, my goodness, that oh, and I thought I had
some good agenda 21 global warming IPCC clubs, and it's
just empty the bin now. Just throw it all out. You know, as
funny
as at the very end, if you can just catch the very end, this is
on the edge shalt show and Schultz says oh, it makes a very
subtle little thing at the end,
which is three times the amount of oil that this report says
will destroy civilization. Amazing. Amazing. Amazing.
Really?
Okay. All right. So we might as well get into this right now.
Because the, of course, you know, this is what we do. This
is what we analyse these reports, man, have we always
been taking a look at the IPCC. And of course, our first
interest came? Was it around 2009, I believe? Yeah, probably,
yeah. People don't really talk about that anymore. When I had
all these scientists, emails talking about phoning up the
data. But now that the they've come up with a new strategy.
It's a new strategy. John, I don't know if you've really
noticed the strategy now is everyone, even the deniers agree
that it's real, but now they just don't really know if it's
manmade. So this is the new kind of lexicon that has that has
crept in. And I'll give you a couple examples. Here's that the
crazy crack who guy are Cuckoo, cuckoo. The cuckoo the
scientist? Yeah, the white haired guy and who is not a
meteorologist, but he gets to he's kind of like Bill Nye the
Science Guy. The Asian
version, but collectively 100 year storms 100 year floods, 100
year droughts 100 year forest fires. I mean, something is very
dangerously happens with the weather and to those climate
change deniers. What?
What? What what what? 100 year storms and 100 year fires.
It's the worst in 100 years. John fact Shut up you denier
but collectively 100 year storms 100 year floods 100 year
droughts 100 year for you see because
there was 100 years between Katrina and Sandy. You can't you
count.
I mean, presenting it though it makes it sound like there's a
flood this last thing he wanted was 100 years right? Dangerously
happening with the weather. Enter those climate change
deniers? Oh, well, they realise
that something is happening with the weather. They admit that now
oh, we disagree about human activity. That this is what it
is. The
spokesman says well,
I'll be it. I'll be the spokesman. So yes, I admit now
clearly climate change is happening. And what's what's
interesting now is the report that came out talked about
adaptation. Hold on, let me get the I have the exact words here
in the report. Of course Firefox is not going to help me today.
Okay, here we go into adaptation why don't why can't I find it
now? Anyway, it's about the first word of this report is
about adaptation. And then somewhere there's mitigation is
in there. And you know, in order to keep these people going, in
order to keep the the whole climate change industry going we
need to come with no new reasons for research. So now of course,
you know at a certain point the sign answers and it's all done,
you know, so we don't need to research anymore that we're all
going to we're barbecuing the planet, thanks to the Koch
brothers. Now we have to come up with like new research or
something new. Well, let me see why don't we listen to
Christopher field now he's the co chair of the IPCC working
group to produce this report. Here he is talking on the BBC.
It's also important and it is a real difference in messaging
from the IPCC to put a lot more emphasis on the new science that
says what we can accomplish with ambitious and
I'm sorry, it's new science, to make sure you understand this
news investments
in both mitigation and adaptation, when we think of
adaptation as creative options for coping as effectively as
possible with climate changes that can't be avoided. And why
has that changed in messaging come? The IPCC is charged with
assessing what's known and what's not known in the
scientific literature about
what he said, what's not known and what's not known to?
What's not known and the scientists go back one more
options for coping as effectively as possible with
climate changes that can't be avoided. And why has that
changed in messaging COMM The IPCC is charged with assessing
what's known and what's known in the scientific literature, about
a different clip, I'm sorry, climate change, golden working
group to case impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.
And in 2014, we have a much broader base of scientific
understanding on what we can accomplish with adaptation. And
what we can't accomplish with adaptation. We're really
reporting on where the science has come over the last dozen
years or so here's a clip just gobbled the Goya on we listen to
this version, climate change is really a challenge in managing
risks. And it's not that we're talking about identifying a
particular thing that's going to happen in a particular place at
a particular time. It's understanding how to be prepared
in two critical ways. A one critical way is in decreasing
amount of climate change that occurs, and the other is in
finding a way to cope as effectively as we can
now listen carefully, if we need to find ways to cope effectively
is we can Okay, what does that mean,
the climate changes that can't be avoided. The main thing we
learned from the report is that we don't really know enough
about adaptation to go out with a big steamroller type approach,
and deploy an effective system. We really are at the stage now
where we should be thinking about being ambitious, but being
ambitious in a creative way with baby steps that we learn from
that allow us to do a better job the next time and a better job
that time after that. This means
more research, because we know the next time we have a report,
and the next time we have a report and the next time this is
a scam. What a scam. Oh, and by the way, the producers of An
Inconvenient Truth are now looking at a sequel, everyone's
jumping on the bandwagon. This is now going to be about
mitigation like oh, well, you know, it's too bad. We can't
really do anything about it, you know, but you know, now we have
to be prepared for it. And that'll cost you at least $100
billion in research. This is what what was not reported in
this report. In fact, it was removed from the so you have you
have the the summary for I think they call it policymakers or
some bullshit, which basically means Hey, press read this. The
the report is so complicated and convoluted. Just read the
summary. And what they pulled out of the summary, which is in
the report is there's at least $100 billion needed to research
how to adapt to global warming. 100 billion. Wow, we're in the
wrong business.
Yeah, no kidding. 100 billion that's in the report. That's
white. Yeah,
the New York Times actually reported. Here we go. I love
that I have see what the times
sees this as a scam.
No one cares.
Makes that simple bit.
I'm reading from the New York Times the 100 billion dollar
figure included in the two and a half 1000 Page main report was
removed from the 48 page executive summary to be read by
the world's top political leaders. It was among the most
significant changes made, as the summary underwent final review
during an editing session of several days in Yokohama. The
Edit came after several rich countries, including the United
States raised questions about the language, according to
several people who were in the room at the time but did not
wish to be identified because the negotiations were private.
This is a bunch of scientists in secret meetings. The language is
contentious because poor countries are expected to renew
their demand for this aid for aid this September in New York
at a summit meeting of world leaders tonight. Getting in a
course. And the scientists like, fuck those guys, we want the 100
billion, don't give it to some brown people. This is us. This
is our money. We spent all this time writing these reports that
we're going to have these sand bunnies take our money? I don't
think so. This is a scam of the highest magnitude and
everybody's in odd people like Charlie Rose. They're so into it
that he doesn't even realise what the fuck he's saying beyond
leadership, which is an important and essential fact.
What else has to happen to create the kind of urgency and
fear? That's a call to action?
I mean, really? What do we need to do to scare people? That's
what he's saying.
He would play that clip again, that's astonish that's literally
what he's saying the
young elite exactly what he said, which is an important and
essential factor. What else has to happen to create the kind of
urgency and fear? That's a call to action?
Let me give you an example. Here's Brian Williams on NBC.
He's He doesn't ask the questions. He just he's a good
soldier. He's got the memo. He's onboard
on our broadcast tonight dire warning the prediction tonight
that climate change could destabilise Human Society, the
American cities under threat along with food and water
supplies. Good evening, the world has never been spoken to
quite this way. We've never been warned like this before all of
us about climate change, nor have so many countries agreed
quite this much on the clear and present danger it represents
wire is the takeaway, unless the world changes course quickly and
dramatic, dramatic. The fundamental systems that support
human civilization are at risk. This is all coming from the UN.
And the evidence is convincing enough in part because so many
nations have agreed with these findings that it will hit home
across this country, especially in those population areas where
people may need to be on the move faster than they first
thought. Already. Science. No Escape people
you're all Fuck, you're going to die.
This is still still the general population is going Hey, have
they found that plane yet?
This is true. This is gotta be the most frustrating,
frustrating experience for these guys to get the 100 billion
dollars within their grasp.
Yes, it's so close. But we need to keep it away from the
brownies. And
they got the money right there. They just need to wait for the
checks to come in. But the public is still yawning whatever
it says you're gonna rain tomorrow. And the because
there's no evidence of any of this.
There's a video of that the IPCC report a couple years ago,
there's a video that the IPCC put out which it made no sense
with the clip it but it's it's a highly produced, then it's got
the main guy, Michael Oppenheimer. I think it's
Michael Oppenheimer, who's the No, maybe it's Christopher
field, one of the two co chairs. And he's always walking around
looking at scientifics. He's, he's got his hands in the
ingrain. And it's all dry. And then he looks up and then clouds
form and thunder and lightning. And then you see wind and you
see people it's the whole thing is, is like is like Al Gore set
the standard with an inconvenient truth. And
everyone's just all over this. And
we'll have that linked in the show. Now
of course, of course, we're gonna barbecue the earth. Let me
see I got to barbecue. Here's a so here's the main do shoot is.
Now of course he has all kinds of conflicts of interest for
Chari. Oh, that guy, they rousted him over now he doesn't
get to talk anymore, he only gets to do the big presentation
up there on the day is the one message
that comes out very clearly, is that the world has to adapt, and
the world has to mitigate. And the sooner we do that, the less
the chances of some of the worst impacts of climate change. Being
faced in different parts of
the world. We're all going to die. Here's Christopher field,
and that same BBC interview, then the BBC there, they've got
the memo. And the memo is Okay, everybody, even the deniers
agree that the climate is changing. And this is a very
smart move, by the way, about time because of course the
climate is changing. But now it's only Well, is it manmade or
not, but it'll be moved beyond that into the adaptation stage.
But they they I think they lean too heavily on it. Because
you'll hear the the guys like, Well, yeah, there's also we're
also saying we still got to try and stop the warming and but the
BBC just listened to how the this question is framed and
you'll hear that they're all in on this on this concept of
everybody agrees now, but
because what some people who are broadly defined And as sceptics
say, is that actually, the impact of your report should be
that we looked at spending more on adaptation and less on
mitigation. Otherwise, not much we can do. We know we've got
climate change is going to happen. It may or may not be as
serious and as widespread as people are saying, but the thing
to concentrate on is making sure we're ready for
the BBC has got the message. And this guy should just be saying,
Yep, that's right. But he's,
you notice the differences in the way he presented it, though,
compared to Brian Williams. Well,
there's that.
The difference is like night and day. I know
but it's beautiful. There is an element of the report that
capitalises on opportunities for smart investments concerning
adaptation. Wow.
Do you hear what he just said? I'm from the believe it's true.
No, but where did that that line company was at the BBC guy?
Yeah, no, no, this is the this is the co chair Christopher
field. He's answering the BBC guy and he's saying yeah,
there's an there's to capitalise
make some money here boys,
literally, what are you saying?
very mildly coded message that
attention, capital investors, would you like to make 20% on
your investment standby and read our report 100 billion coming in
way.
It's kind of a problem. From my the way I see it, this guy's
what's the venture capital community was burned. Right by
the Dean revolution. He had been napping instead, it's almost
taken Kleiner Perkins into the No.
Right but now but now this is 100 billion that's going to come
out and
they're going to try and you know, they say 100 billion needs
to be spent
give it it's going to come from the government.
I'm not sure that God is going to be allowed to throw money
into this. Are you kidding this? This is because Linda and these
other scams,
no one cares. Did they find that plane yet? catch on, please?
Oh, no, I know but there's enough guys that bitch about
this and and we're broke. We were in a depression we can't
afford to drop $100 billion on just, I mean, it's a good way
it's a welfare programme for scientists. So once bogus, right
bogus reports but
one of our producers sent me a copy of their electricity bill
from California you may have already seen this you now have
something called the climate credit on your bill it happens
in April and October and you're gonna get it to the and you get
a piece of money back. And the way this scam works is there is
now a climate tax on businesses of course the bad polluters in
California they give part of that money to you and of course
the rest is just a tax you know, they're taxing and you're gonna
get it somewhere on the back end because you're somewhere
someone's gonna have to pay for it. So it's kind of like a round
robin and obviously portion sticks with the government. But
there is a California Climate attacks now. The n u m to make
you to to trick you. You're getting a piece of that back on
your bill. I'd like to know how much you got back. Actually, if
you can take a look at your bill one of these days.
I didn't know I got a bill from the state.
You get electricity does not from the state all the
electricity bill. I'll
check it out. I'll take a look. Who gets the
California Climate households receive a credit in April
October each year and small businesses will get the credit
each month. Most Californians are eligible for the climate
credit. Oh, sorry, you're probably not eligible, believe
me. The credit goes to households and small businesses
located where privately owned utilities regulated by the
Public Utilities Commission provide electricity distribution
services. That includes customers of PG and E SDG. And
E's Southern California Edison Pacific Power liberties
utilities and those who buy electricity generation in those
areas from direct access providers, and Community Choice
aggregators such as marine clean energy. The amount of the credit
varies based on utility or electric service provider. How
California is tackling climate change. The climate credit is
one of several programmes California is implementing to
fight climate change by limiting greenhouse gas pollution.
California requires large industries like power plants to
reduce the green house gas pollution they emit and pay for
their emissions. That's a carbon credit cut tax. The California
Climate credit is your share of the payments made by
California's biggest industrial emitters. So it's a smart way to
do it because you think and bribe Yeah. We're taking it from
them isn't bribe Exactly. Let's listen to a little more of this
Christopher guy because he says some outrageous stuff in this
interview
may not be as serious and as widespread as people are saying
but the thing to concentrate on is making sure we're ready for
it. There is an element of the report that can capitalises on
opportunities for smart investments concerning
adaptation. But an equally strong message is that the risk
of SERVIR and pervasive impacts goes up dramatically. In a world
that doesn't pay attention to continued emissions of high
emissions. Basically, we can reduce risk dramatically, if we
think about decreasing emissions if we aggressively decrease
emissions. And if we combine that with adaptation, if there's
a single message in the report that comes through more clearly
than any other, it's that no matter what we do, we'll face
consequential impacts from climate change, we need to be
able to manage those, and opportunities for managing them
are much better. If we face the world with some combination of
adaptation and mitigation
opportunities. There's lots of opportunities,
we see we used to be told in way that it could cause what 5% More
than that of world GDP the kind of climate change that we might
expect to have the middle and the end the end of the century.
And actually, that that doesn't seem to come from from this
report that actually it is it is an amount of money that is
capable with in the past, I think we tended to take a kind
of a linear deterministic view of what the overall impacts of
climate change might be. And there was a tendency to
translate those into a single number. And now I think we have
a much broader view of the kinds of factors that are influenced
by climate, some of which are easy to put in monetary terms,
some of which aren't, some of which are worth more in some
value systems than others.
And what does that mean? Some that are worth more in some
value systems than others?
Oh, that's a good question. What does that mean?
Anyway, so I see us now taking a much more multi viewpoint multi
dimensional view of
oh, he's from Silicon Valley now multi dimensional viewpoint,
real climate problem as he playing holodeck chess,
making it really hard to come up with single numbers, but really
emphasising how complicated and difficult the problem is. And
you think that view is one that will capture people's
imaginations, make them feel that they have a chance of
coping with this in in a in a manner that perhaps, previous
more alarmist findings didn't
this is this is interesting now is going to give you an analogy
of what the IPCC really is about, and who should be using
their reports?
Well, let me say that the role of the IPCC is not to motivate
action. You know, the IPCC is charged with providing a
scientific Balanced assessment of what's not known and what's
not known about There you go, what's
not known and what's not known? That's that again, yeah, almost.
That's the part where you said it, but that's just a mistake.
Yeah, I
know. It's still
balanced assessment of what's not known and what's not known
about climate change science. I think lots of organisations that
are doing climate communications are like bills they're trying to
bring as loud and as clear as possible.
Remember, this is the organization's doing climate
communications, John, climate communicate, they're trying to
ring the bell.
That's not the IPCC. The IPCC is more or like a bell power. It's
intended to allow people to climb up to a height, where they
can get a clearer view of the present looks like and what
possible alternative futures
as as the tower we need to climb, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, yes.
Good stuff. Well,
then maybe it is time to thank you for your courage and say in
the morning to you, John C.
Dvorak was enough time to do that. I thought you'd have more
stuff to talk about. And
I figured I'd just try and catch you off guard, John. But if
you'd like me to play some more climate change clips while you
open your spreadsheet, I'm happy to do that have
more climate change clip? No, I'll
just play the Charlie Rose one again, because it's my favourite
young leadership, which is an important and essential fact.
What else Laden has to happen to create the kind of urgency and
fear? That's a call to action? There you go.
Yeah. But we will in the morning. Do you add him in the
morning? Out there?
Yes. In the morning to all of our citizens in the chat room,
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say in tonight's Yeah. And in the morning to our artists.
Thank you Nick the RAT for the album art for 604. And don't be
discouraged if if your art isn't chosen and been there people who
have submitted for a long time. Oh, I'm
here. I want to bring my favourite story back to the four
would that be Martin, JJ, art and JJ. So we had the situation
with Barton JJ, who all of a sudden started doing these art
pieces that we were picking one after another because it was a
serious effect, he had to actually go into semi
retirement. Because it was,
I think, even submitted under a pseudonym at some point.
So, but I think, wow, this guy was unbelievable. He's the guy
that comes out of the blue light. And then I was going back
to look for some art for the newsletter. And I went way back
to the original earliest postings that's on the art
generator, which is not the earliest we've done, there's,
there's used to be another art programme that we use before the
Art Generator. Oh, really, I don't remember that. Let's
remember, it was a different site. And we went there. And
then the Art Generator came along and kind of just blew the
other one out of the water. Kinda. Anyway, well, as the
story went way back to the beginning years ago, and there's
all Martin J. J. Failing, failing poorly, I was always
been submitting for years, apparently. And so but, but he
stuck to it, and then he became one of the top I also think it's
actually one of the top five. Top two, this entire
show is a performance. Okay, it's performance as John would
say post modern performance art. And, you know, we have worked
for many years now going on our 6670 year when our city when our
seventh year perfecting our art, and we still, you know, learn
and improve every day. But if you want to be a someone who
creates art of a certain genre and original art, it has a
sarcastic cynical undertone yet funny, which is very hard to do.
You know, keep at it. Exactly. So it's really it's it's a it's
a bootcamp of sorts.
Yeah. Yeah. You get the hang of it eventually. Okay, here we go.
We have a few people to think quite a few actually a good
group 1234 I guess 12345 executive producers, including
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cool. Yeah, just you know, there's a few in there that are
kind of they're just amusing, because what if somebody wanted
to get in the 200 Dead to do seduce club right because nobody
took any of these offers, but I guess it got got it reminded,
oh, well anyway, so here's $500 from the found founding
producer, Executive Producer, which is what that is it so he
took advantage $62 To celebrate John's birthday and 33 cents to
keep the spooks at bay. Thanks for your courage and continuing
to promote the best podcast in the universe. Oh, thank
you. Thank you for producing as eg
sells 4k What's a 44k special.com? Yeah.
Hey, since more K TV part of this is your birthday, which
will be Wikipedia has it listed as your 62nd birthday? Yes,
on Saturday.
That's the Saturday Okay. All right.
The newsletter comes out. Well, I can congratulate myself I'll
be I'll
call you on Saturday. You're gonna call me what? Just call
you and say happy birthday. Oh,
that'd be nice. Sir Dwayne Melanson, the Duke of mystery
and T guard. Tigard tie guard, Oregon, which is I drove past I
said every time of course $500. ITM serves in the Duke of Miss
jam Tardy and donating due to personal chaos. But I couldn't
resist the pandas dancing much. Dogs or kittens.
This was another test that we did.
Somebody sent us a note. When they finished his note, I've
been enjoying dropping the Hillary Clinton is uniquely
qualified line on people and it leaves everyone speechless. It
really works well. The other day too, too. So I'm in Oakland at
to get some go go to a meat market there that this has
these.
Oh, is that what they're calling it these days? Yeah. So there's
this cool little meat market real specialists. And there's a
there's a little flea market out in front. And this is two black
guys. And one of the old black guy these old guys like in his
late 80s I mean, he had a huge button. huge, giant button that
said Hillary in 2016 I took his picture
by the way. Oh, you got to post that. That's great. Should
anyway so he's got he's proud and the two of these two black
guys are both all in on Hillary and I dropped a line. Right? I
see. Oh, yeah. Well, she's the best she has. Nobody can beat
her. She and she's the best qualified to run the Empire
uniquely qualified. Well, I said best but I'll find
out and then what did they say? They both nodded. Yeah, that's
right. That's right. She is
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actually one of my favourite donation numbers. ITM Gentlemen,
this should complete my knighthood that we have them
down. Yep. Thanks. So I donated for the show. 600 as well as 611
back in 2012. No longer total chump. It's also my birthday
day. Oh, we have on that list.
I think so. Let me double check. You can continue while I'm
checking. Thank
you for your courage and superb, superb work. And beware of
douchebags like Sherman Nilsen and boners like Sheldon of the
Shire. Wait. No, he's
not on it, but I'm going to put them on right now.
I don't need anything fancy. Just sir. Alex, you got it. It's
fine. A Farrington is a great last name by the way. I've
always liked the name Farrington. It's it has all
kinds of just interesting beats touchy net to you have in
Austin, Texas, right down the street from us. $333.33. He
isn't has the comment lunch money. Yeah,
he is of course, our Baron de Marriott. Sheriff of Texas. saw
him last night at Miss Miki, we had another little mini Expo
with a five by seven. Yeah, this is actually very interesting.
This Have you ever seen one of these five by seven things? No.
So they it's done by the contemporary museum in Austin
here. And they ask a whole bunch of artists, many very famous and
some just not so and then, you know, the really good ones to
make a five by seven piece of art five inches by seven inches.
And it's not signed or identified. And so you know,
people who are in the know can say oh, that's a so and so
that's a solid piece of style. And every single piece of art is
$100. But the way it works is they they blow air horns
somewhere around eight o'clock. And the first one you have to
grab the number off that's hanging underneath a piece of
art.
So you have to hang around that one art piece you want. Well
last year
that's what I thought like, oh, just hanging around. Like I like
to get this piece and they were like the old ladies kicking me
in the crotch. Yeah, grab this number. And this year, I was
like fuck that and I literally because Mickey wanted one piece.
And I stood there and I bought a cock block people I elbowed
people it was hilarious, but I'm very uncomfortable.
And it's all for charity or whatever terrible. They
shouldn't even allow this sort of
what was kind of fun Is that Mickey had two pieces and people
were fighting over them that that I love watching and I and I
Cool. Anyway, so we saw a surgeon last night it was good
to see him because it's been so big and I think lunch money
means take me out to lunch. Yeah, I get it's like a gas
Euro. You know, like you kind of get it but not really.
Yeah. Well, let's go on Greg Kutner in Norwalk, Connecticut.
27718 I guess I'll be sir Craig of cable. I've been listening
since before 2010, which mark my first of many random donations
but I stepped up. Your product is outstanding. Besides whatever
producer credit I get, I want to make sure that $111 goes to club
33 Disaster Relief Fund. I'm sure the Red Cross is paid for
matching grants. Now there's an idea there's a story behind
that.
We need to do a benefit. We need to do a bet they call out
Nan naughty Nancy to the stage. And I'd also like to contribute
169 69 for now and put one into the Swaziland of insurance fund
there should be a crisis of confidence and and unfortunately
gap of donations that should that may occur. And I as much as
I enjoy the donation segment. I've overstayed my welcome. Yes.
We'd like a Don't eat me Hillary LG y karma. Hillary Clinton
karma. Hey, this is we should call Clooney and we should put
together a telethon for the club 33. We'd get a bunch of
celebrate ease to join.
We just pocket the money and go and then go to Haiti and live it
up in the Clinton Hotel.
Now you're talking John, sir, whoever
had to interfere did awesome camp last June. In North
Carolina. We get some if he works at the camp. He's in the
camp. He's in the army. We don't know. You can you've got to note
apparently that you've may or may not want to read? I do.
Oh, okay. Let me that's interesting.
Okay, well, while you're looking at the note, we'll go back to
and I'll
see I'll see if I'll see if I can find the note. Eric's harjot
in
Cardiff, UK. tu tu, tu tu tu. Thanks for the awesome shows,
except my apologies for not being able to help you out more,
as I'm a poor factory worker in the UK, ex teacher from Latvia.
I wanted to add a little bit to John's rant about young and hot
looking Latvians, I'll be 31 on the third of April and I just
simply can't buy alcohol because I look like I'm in my late
teens. The same with my MILF wife, she's 31 in May. I just
usually say thank you for the compliments and go and try my
luck in another shop or go home and get my ID young looking
Latvian jeans. I can't even buy a nice cold refreshing beer
after a long day at work. Okay, great for the Latvians. He's
also going to redirect www 2030 dot tips. He mentioned in a I
don't what i i I get a letter from him that it was printed
out. He had some other commentary about the Latvians
and the Ukrainians may have been someone else I'll get to it
eventually. Anyway, pronounce my name do like the Scandinavian
manner. So it would be
addicts Hondo. Addicts hottie, yo,
how are you? Oh, yeah. Yo, in Cardiff. And that's that
and he says, Can I please get the fu cancer karma so it stays
away from our third upcoming human resource? Yes. Yeah,
absolutely. You've got karma. Absolutely. Which reminds me,
John, yes. But and I will do the full list in a moment. But it's
apropos to do it now. By presidential proclamation. And
this is a new, a new way of looking at it a new term. It is
officially National Cancer Control month. To me a weird
one. It's no longer prevention month, or cure month. It's
control month. Uh huh.
Or money in control as right
control improvements. Despite the strides cancer remains the
second leading cause of death in our country. We need to control
cancer that's new and used to be let's fight it. Let's not get
out. Let's get rid of it. Let's cure it. But this is the
pharmaceutical industry we just need to control it.
Yeah, that's their business. They're just they do the some of
the best work in this country. I mean, they make money left hand
over fist it did nothing for antibiotics are probably all
gonna die of some crazy disease that ravish is the whole world
but because these guys have been sitting on their hands making no
Cialis and things like that
I do have I do have a message None of us gets out of this
alive. I've heard that and that's for sure.
Anonymous Mr Peabody and university Arkansas tu tu tu tu
tu he also came in with a budget of some accounting.
I think he becomes a knight today, doesn't he?
Yes, and he becomes a knight and he has a note. Greetings and
salutations dear Lewis and Clark Peabody here. Job karma works
but I look forward to one last time of John trying to say Necco
Tisch every time it comes out NACA doshas which is in Texas,
not Arkansas, and would be like Adam saying, Hey, John, you went
to Palo Alto for college? Nevertheless, for my last which
is I went through I went to Berkeley, Palo Alto for
Stanford, so that'd be very insulting. Oh, okay. That's the
connection he's making, right? That's insulting to call Neko
Neko, Neko Tisch. And I could dosha second
doshas next, purchase, right, got it.
Nevertheless, for my last 220 $2, I decided to go to old
school, no email, no Pay Pal, no bank, and I find the old school
money. Notice the silver certificates, one for each of
you. Oh, nice.
Did you send that to the PIO box?
Yeah. Wow. Yeah, I take when I get cash. I put it in the I put
a cash deposit in. Okay, but not with the silver certificate. I
just would just keep that Yes. Stay out. Yeah. You have to
fight over who gets the $5 and the 10 I guess there's SILVER
CERTIFICATE fives and 10s. I guess you can find that kind of
stuff in Arkansas. Also, we there's two silver dollars.
There. Eisenhower dollars. Hope and can turn the last penny. As
this puts me at 999 dot 990. Well, of
course we can drop that in. No problem.
Please Knight. me as sir. Mr. Peabody. And can I ask for a Hey
citizen squirrel to the head. pot calling the kettle Keep up
the good work and thank you for your courage.
So hey, citizen, squirrel to the head. Okay. Hey, citizen.
Hello, cattle. You've got karma. That was a tough one. Tough one.
That wasn't easy,
Mr. P buddy. I know where he's from. And I'm going to request
from him a had the authorities dropped by. I'm going to request
for him a zippered
hoodie. Oh, god. Okay. We're back on that again. Right. Hey,
that's your Twitch Stick.
I will. Yeah, it is. And it works. Yeah.
And it makes you look so fashionable.
Yeah, there's
nothing more fashionable than wearing a hoodie from a
university. college parties. Yeah. From obscure
schools. Martin Brown $200 in New mills. Hi, Pete Derbyshire,
UK whenever high peaks doing new Mills hype you gotta know. I
need some karma work karma John and and by the way, love the
show, but hate what you've done making me wake up. Oh, yeah,
it's a problem. My football team Manchester City has sold
themselves for billions of pounds and sold themselves for
billions of pounds to the Arabs. Now we are top team winning
stuff, but I cannot watch a game without now thinking oh, how did
he miss that shot? Oh, yes. Yeah, exactly. ruin it for me.
My side bought the way to the top. You bastards. All right,
Martin. Martin, here's your uh, jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
Let's go for jobs. Karma. That team but okay. I'm an Arsenal
fan. All righty. Just kidding. Just kidding. Just kidding about
Manchester City's great. Anyway, that's our group here for today.
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a citizen
let me give you the rest of the list, John of today's poll,
actually for the month, the presidential proclamations. Now,
of course, we
knew this one was proclamations, not orders.
Now, these are proclamations. Okay. So a lot of people say,
hey, you know, it's a fix your face month or whatever, like
none, right? It's not a presidential proclamation does
not count, just because some trade association jumped in and
said, it doesn't work. But it is, of course, we had by
presidential proclamation, World Autism Awareness Day. Now, we
knew this was coming. That was on April 1, and we knew it was
coming because the CDC came out with a report right on time,
and, you know, and autism, Autism Speaks, the huge NGO was
out there. And I have to say, I'm really sorry, I don't trust
these guys. No, this is all. This is all about money. This is
all about money for research. And it's just like, at a certain
point, we'll have World Autism control day, because we're never
going to solve it. You see, it'll just be oh, we need to be
able to control it with drugs. I do not see this going well. And
although I'm sure there's lots of work that is being done, you
know, the President in his proclamation says last year, I
launched the brain research to the advanced, innovative
neurotechnologies initiative, which is an acronym for brain
get it, a programme that aims to revolutionise our understanding
of the human mind by unlocking new knowledge of the brain.
with locking and unlocking? Yeah, we can know it's locked,
we can pave
the way for myriad medical breakthroughs, including a
greater appreciation for the science of autism science of
autism. What makes America exceptional are the bonds that
hold together the most diverse nation on earth today, let us
celebrate our differences. But also let us acknowledge our
responsibilities to each other and move forward as one. What
does that mean? Wow. So whatever, okay, if it's, these
things are disturbing to me. Let's see what else we have on
our list. Of course, today is a Cesar Chavez Day. Which Yeah, we
celebrate one of America's greatest champions for social
justice.
As you may remember him Yeah,
we got Cesar Chavez road here in Texas. It is also National
Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. And we also
celebrate our presidential proclamation. National Financial
Capability month. What does that even mean? I need to read some
of this to you. Thanks to the grit and determination of the
American people. Our nation has cleared away the rubble of the
worst recession since the Great Depression. God the guy's a poet
as we continue to create jobs and grow our economy. Family
strive to rebuild their finances and shore up their futures.
During National Financial Capability month, re renew our
drive to give all Americans the tools to navigate the financial
world and gain the economic freedom to pursue their own
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stocks last Operators are standing by and probably helped
me understand how that Capital One Bank charges 23% interest on
just buying something not even I pay my on time but there's oh
I'm sorry this purchase is eligible for interest Yeah,
yeah, maybe I have the bill it's
eligible. I like it when it's eligible. If you are from the by
the cops, you know, I've just turned that you're eligible for
a ticket
but only portion only a portion of that is eligible for I think
if you if you take money out of the ATM, which I didn't do it
I'm only trying to build up credit foolishly enough. But
seriously, this seriously, there's like this portion of
this month's bill eligible for 23% interest I only use the card
to purchase something I'm paying the bill on time but I
automatically have a $2 fee in there for as eligibility for
interest
in a different card those guys are scammers but no but I
thought
that this is what the arm Native American Indian woman what's in
your wallet? Yeah, but a scam is what's in my wallet. A big scam
All right,
that's terrible. You by the way, no buddy else would ever discuss
these these charges and because they advertise
not because all of a sudden, we're sorry, we're not going to
advertise anymore on your
advertising with your network. And yes, we've looked at two
boneheads Yeah, we've
looked at your pie. We've looked at your podcast network and we
we think we're going to probably spend our money elsewhere where
people aren't so critical of us helping to build the American
economy. You unpatriotic a holes. Also my presidential
proclamation today. This is National Child Abuse Prevention
Month. As mentioned previously National Cancer Control month
and BMI it is national Donate Life Month. Donate your life,
but it do weigh
what. Each day in quiet Hollywood
my man's now we have to like ourselves off the temple each
day
in quiet hospital rooms and busy offices in familiar sanctuaries
and family living rooms. People make the courageous decision to
give the gift of life. After passing his first driving test
he laid a teenager adds a life saving symbol to his licence.
While struggling to comprehend their own loss grieving parents
choose to help another child live during National Donate Life
month we celebrate those who provide the vital organ eye and
tissue donations you get to have these eyes Good luck with that
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Alright, so I am. I am not doing this because I believe it makes
you a target Okay, Oregon's there's a
lot of people that think that I think that way. And Lenny
stiffen the laws for you know, people stealing Oregon's or, you
know, a guy said we are you're sitting there in the ambulance.
How is he gonna make it?
Yeah, well, we really did it for me. Exactly. What's in your
wallet? Well, let's check. Let's see if there's Oh, he's a life
donor. Oh, there we go. Oh, boy. What can we do?
That's terrible that you'd even have those kinds of thoughts in
this in this country landed the free home of the brave
Well, you know the Armageddon is so so upon us, John, you and I
track this we know of course that in financial in dire
financial and economic times the hookers get better looking and
more of them. I think that's a fact everyone can see that for
themselves. Just go to backpage.com We know that
depression food makes an entree mac and cheese is now a it's
become a luxury worldwide. The truly is it truly is gourmet.
No, it's hilarious. And And this report just proved that ultimate
love
fledgling South Bend business got a devastating blow yesterday
morning when employees arrived to find 1000s of dollars of
damage to the building. even more astounding. It's believed
to be the handiwork of a single 19 year old student reportedly
from Notre Dame Meghan Hickey has more on the suspect Brian
McLaren, who was arrested for burglary, vandalism and underage
drinking and Megan the destruction is something you
really have to see to believe.
Right, Terry? He allegedly used heavy objects like a cement
flowerpot and tools like a hammer to attempt to bust
through every possible entrance. Then Once inside, he Retallick
on the business itself. And the only reason police were able to
make an arrest is because he passed out in the kitchen while
snacking on a large amount of hot pocket. There you go.
The end is needed. Now I see that I'm gonna have to do this
hold on a second.
We don't do it that often. In many shows. We haven't had a lot
of clips of the day but that thing is just to Frys.
Actually, if I played the rest of the report, you cheat
yourself. You want to hear more that's it. There's a little more
tab I left it just in case he pounded his way in through the
wall.
Day Spa owner Sarah rose Fraser can barely comprehend the
damages as
he walked all around the building and picked up about 100
pound flowerpot, threw it into the door with the tears of
stained glass window in the middle All and broke that
crawled through there actually cut himself
after getting into the porch. mckern appears to have used a
hammer to bore through a wall once inside lamps, mirrors and
bowls were smashed and thrown. He got his hands on a fire
extinguisher and that trail led police upstairs where mckern was
found asleep
that he went through a half a box of Hot Pocket AIDS through
that well, macaroni and cheese he was warming up in his antique
style oven.
Doesn't get any better. Hot Pockets and macaroni and cheese
what we're dealing with here is is a guy remember it's a zombie
apocalypse and they are being detained. They live on America
and they live on Hot Pockets and mac and cheese
and he doesn't know any better to eat hot pockets and mac and
cheese. Oh, this is a pathetic story.
Now what's pathetic, is xenios on xenios Lindsay's Rue
Okay, you got me baffled Zung
zeneo The CIA State Department us AI D Cuban version of
Twitter. Do you haven't heard about this? No. Yours Oh my
goodness. Okay, so the Associated Press this is for
once it's not a bring up the link here for once it's not a
Snowden revelation. But the now it has come to light that the US
AI D created a social network called Zoom Zuniga which is
apparently means something like Twitter, in Cuban slang. And,
and they had it running with like 40,000 people tweet
tweeting or twittering on this on this network in in Cuba. And
the whole idea behind it was to create havoc in the flash mobs
and get people all riled up. Now this thing closed in 2012 due to
lack of funding, but this is a this is a big story,
lack of funding, what is the cost of running a server in the
background? Well,
here's what I think. Why do that when you have the real Twitter
who gives a crap, same thing, you can use the real Twitter and
they started this in 2009. I was probably a hedge at the time.
But you know, you've got the real Twitter which is also
funded by the CIA State Department. It's perfect Zinio.
I love this. I thought that was the perfect story. And for once
it's not coming from Snowden, which is even better.
Yes. Here is a apparently, the the president of the Chinese
Chinese honcho the head of the Communist Party. Yeah, that guy
was raised in the United or not raised, but he lived the United
States for a while I was floating around Europe, doing
deals and there's no
what are we talking about here?
She whatever his name is, he
wasn't he was in France, wasn't he? He won't
know it. Well, actually. Yes. He went to Netherlands spent most
of his time there hookers. And then he ended up doing deals. So
there's a long report on CCTV. And this guy had the best kind
of the end of the report, which tells all the deals he did. He
went there. Then he went to France for a couple of days. And
he went to Germany and he met with Merkel and then he went to
Belgium where I met with room boy and then rest and hiking
or whatever. Kingdom Prince the king, whatever. Yeah,
the king and then but here's what what came of it. It's kind
of interesting. We must uphold open markets. To speed up
negotiations on investment agreements, actively explore the
possibility of a free trade area and strive to achieve the
ambitious goal of bringing two way trade to a trillion US
dollars by 2020.
politics aside business was another focus on Xi's European
tour, a number of business deals were signed, including an order
for 70 planes worth over 10 billion euros with Frances air
buzz and a 1 billion euro deal for the German car company
Daimler to expand its presence in China to ensure CCTV,
and during his four nation tour of the Europe President Xi
Jinping signed a number of agreements covering a wide range
of areas, and China's dairy industry is set to receive
expertise from the Netherlands, the two countries having signed
a deal allowing Dutch experts to help China increase its annual
milk production to 40 billion kilogrammes. A food security
system will be jointly built by Ely group, one of China's
largest dairy producers, and Wageningen University of
Netherlands and China and France signed agreements worth 18
billion euros and this included the purchase of 70 Airbus planes
from France, and the two countries will also produce 1000
civilian helicopters Just over 20 years, and during CES, the
visit in Germany, the car company Daimler signed deals
with Beijing automotive industry cooperation. To expand the
production capacity in Beijing and the two countries central
banks also inked an agreement allowing r&b dominated payments
to be cleared and settled in Frankfurt. And during the visit
in Brussels, China and EU agreed to accelerate the talks on free
trade pact increased bilateral trade and investment. Can I know
a little bit about the milk thing? Yeah, the Netherlands, of
course, is a dairy country. And and I think we talked about on
the show a while back, there was a an actual shortage of milk for
infants, because the milk factories at the time, I don't
think they're owned by the Chinese. Now there's a huge
ownership stake of the Chinese in the Dutch dairy industry,
they had basically sold all of the infant milk to China. And
then, of course, the government was like, well, whoa, hold on a
second, because they literally could not get milk for infants
in the Netherlands, because they you know, typical Dutch, don't
give a crap about their own people, the sell to the diners.
And they're buying up everything.
Now the Chinese have decided to increase their own production
and home. And the way they do business, it seems to me would
the irony of this whole story is that there'll be exporting their
back to the Netherlands. Yeah, at some point in the future. And
I would also expect them to be building these, these giant jets
eventually, I mean, the Chinese are not going to just sit on
their laurels and let Boeing and Airbus build all the passenger
planes. So they're going to that will take a while. But that
didn't happen.
Do you think this has to do with anything at all with the the
TPP? Which of course, excludes China?
Absolutely.
Well, that's interesting, because I was,
and what does want, let me just mention a couple of things that
were kind of in there you couldn't hear one was they're
going to do some currency, do some deals, it's not going to be
in US dollars, international currencies work with the central
banks of, of Germany. But there's also this discussion and
I want to play another clip in a minute. This discussion with the
Chinese to create these free trade zones. This is the law
underlying it's kind of subtext to a bunch of stuff going on.
These free trade zones are around there. They do exist
around the world, and they allow people to move goods in and out
without tariffs come at, you know that just a tariff free
zone, it becomes a an attraction for international businesses.
It's it's a it's something of a scam, but it's the very popular
Well, it's
a pass a pass through, right. It's
kind of a pass through, but it becomes its own thing. It's a
pass through through but it's a given.
Can you give me an example of one of these paths or these free
trade zone? Why
is one of these places that would make sense, but the one
that the one that's interests me the most is that is what Russia,
this has not been reported by anybody. But Madame Medvedev,
but evidence used to be the Medvedev ex president now is the
prime minister, you've switched, they switched roles, Putin.
Yeah. There's two things. There's this clip about him if
he wants to turn Crimea into a free trade zone, which is very
interesting. But during this this report comes from Artie.
During this report, she pronounces his name a number of
times. And tell me if you could make out what it is that is the
how is name supposed to be pronounced as I can,
we'll make Crimea a special economic zone with tax breaks
for investors, as far as we understand both Russian and
foreign. This is what we heard from Russia's Prime Minister
Dmitry Medvedev who is in Crimea is capital simpler offered today
this region is not very attractive economically these
days. And of course, this will this decision is expected to
help boost original economy to Michigan, but it has come here
to discuss the economic development with broader the
integration of this new region into Russia's political, social,
economic, cultural life. Because today this is the main concern
of not only cry mirrors are Russian authorities, but also
local residents of nerves visit is a very significant one
because the Prime Minister is the first Russian high ranking
official to visit this region after historic referendum two
weeks ago here that made this piece of land part of the
Russian Federation but we expect more visits like this one to
come maybe maybe a bit of a bit. Understanding what
she says made a bit a little bit a bit of anyway, there's free
trade zones. I'm looking him up there all over the place, and
many of them are within a country like Egypt has like nine
little cities. That's
of course, because the Suez Canal there.
That's not listed. Yeah, no, it is the Suez public free zone.
Okay. Are you done with this because I want to hook into this
on something.
Well, no. Okay, yeah, but there's a lot of this seems to
me to have something to do with the with the dollar with the
petro dollar.
Yes. And this is weird. I'm actually going to tie this into
Malaysian flight MH 370 Oh, bro. Okay, yeah,
it shows all yours. I think you can pull this off and it's the
first half of the show, you know? Yeah.
I think this is first half of the show. This is not second
half because it actually has very little to do with with what
happened to the plane itself. Which is interesting because
even we had a we had a shooting here at Fort Hood, which is
great for the President. You know, he came about immediate
Oh, so sorry about what you do. And please don't talk about
Obamacare. What is good we have a shooting. But it didn't take
long Of course it's not a terrorist shooting. It's just a
couple of guys who pissed at each other and started shooting
that we want to point out by the way that because people came in
with a six week six week No, no, the six week thing is May 1.
This is not six weeks. This is every murder. And you know guy
jumping off a bridge never is not gonna do the six week cycle.
And neither that's
this is just people shooting each other up in a gun free zone
where no one
could stop the guy in Texas.
gun free zone on a military base in Texas. It doesn't get any
crazier anyway. But they're right back to the plane. And,
and the reason why I asked you about the TPP. This is a Trans
Pacific Partnership, which is it's essentially a an agreement
for a free trade zone with a number of countries in Asia. And
I believe that this may be not what so what happened to flight
370? I don't know. All we actually know is we stopped
receiving the ATSB as it was travelling to north northeast
towards Beijing, and everything else after that is speculation.
Bull crap is just people making stuff up if this story has
changed a million times, but the first story we got is that
somehow right after they said good night, they turn sharp left
actually went not just west, but do west southwest, towards the
Strait of Malacca. And then continued all the way up that
that strike. Now you might actually if you're if you're
able to, as you're listening to the show, you might want to
bring up a map of Malaysia. There are a number of strategic
maritime maritime passages in the world. Panama Canal, the
Strait of Aden, the Suez Canal, and the mount Mollica Strait,
the Malacca Strait, which goes right past Malaysia down through
Indonesia. That is the only connection is the most direct
route for China to ship its stuff to Europe and to the west.
It is I think 40% Of all the world's shipping trade goes
through there and it's obviously strategically important. Now the
TPP has been in negotiation for a while ever since the Obama
administration came up with the pivot to Asia. And the one
country that has been making problems about this that has
been a thorn in the eye of this agreement is Yeah, Malaysia. The
minute this plane apparently had turned left we had the I think
it's the Seventh Fleet steam right in there to save the day.
We brought in, we brought in the guided missile destroyer, the
USS kid, he brought in another destroyer, the USS Pinkney, we
have p three and P eight anti submarine planes flying
overhead. And once that they were positioned, oh, no, it's
Australia, Indian Ocean, Kazakhstan, anywhere but there.
And if you look at watch, they'll play a clip or two here.
And this this, this Malaysian thorn in the eye stuff really
started just only a month ago, which is really big. And it's
about tobacco and some of the financial things and they're
really, they're really blocking it. And you recall there was
this other guy? What's his name?
Now this is the trade route from usually Guangdong and the
southern provinces that have all the shipping companies. Yes. And
Hong Kong and to Europe. Yes. Is that got nothing to do with this
stuff? They trade with us,
Europe and Europe. But it's but But 40% of all of all shipping
trade goes through here. Anwar Ibrahim as the opposition guy,
the CIA shill who has all these bank accounts you recall but all
the CIA millions of dollars. He's the opposition And they
tried to throw him back into jail on these trumped up charges
that he slept with his driver or his wife's driver. And I think
this guy is waiting in the wings and the main thing that has to
happen, because we need and this is a total, this is how we do it
in America. We like to destabilise governments, we'd
like to make them look like fools, you'd like to make it
look look like they're incompetent. And it seems to be
working. If you listen to the presstitutes reporting optional
question
here as well. It's not as open a society as we have here. There's
also not a lot of experience handling a crash of this
magnitude, of course, this is unprecedent.
Right? I mean, there is that Arthur me, because, you know,
they also had originally indicated it was the copilot who
spoke All right, good night. Now, not only are they changing
the words, but also saying, well, it might not have been
him, right. They're doing a forensic investigation. But
again, why would that have happened? I mean, do you think
this is really just because this is a society not used to a free
press? Well, in Malaysia, the dissemination of information is
controlled by the ruling party. This, by the way, is a CIA,
retired CIA guy who's giving us this this jam of information.
The authorities are just not used to having their words
question. And I think that carried over into how this
investigation was handled. But more importantly, bottom line
here is from the get go. This was abject incompetence,
incompetence at every level. This is the mean that
I think you're absolutely correct on this. This is this
has been going on since the original since the plane first
disappeared. They went right after these guys. Yep. went
after their competency. Their secretiveness and, and now it's
got Yeah, this is a pre rumbling
and we have a shill in the game. You've probably heard about this
guy who apparently a black picture with x if x if data
showed up with a tweet that he said he had hid his iPhone in
his ass. Then he was now somewhere with a hood over his
head. But he was able to tweet this picture. I mean, it doesn't
get any crazier. The guy's name is Philip wood. And so this is
the story that is roaming around Oh, he it literally and serious.
I've seen some serious reporting that he hid an iPhone in his
anus. This is literally the words being used. If you can do
that, I mean, right off the bat, you should be president of the
world if you can fit that in your butt. But anyway, Phillip
Woods partner, Sarah bajic be a JC partner. She has been on
every single news programme. If you if you Google her, and look
at video, she's going to everything. And this is the most
recent, I won't play the whole thing unless you want to hear
it. But this is the most recent moment that she was on
television on news. Talking about, of course, the Malaysian
government, I will listen to the cadence listen to how she
speaks. This woman, of course, she'd be distraught about the
loss of her partner or the not knowing she also has an IFBB in
which she keeps touching because of course, someone's talking in
her ear.
Well, it's starting to feel like it's an intentional series of
distractions is what it feels like, you know, they spent a
week looking in one place, oops, that's the wrong place. And then
they shifted to another because of evidence, and then that's the
wrong place. So they shifted again. And at the end of this,
this prior shift, the government was so certain that they had the
right location that they made a pronouncement that the flight
was down, and everybody was dead. But now they've got new
evidence. So apparently, the old evidence wasn't correct. So they
must have to withdraw that original statement because I
can't be certain anymore so now there's a new play. You know,
it's just like a magician playing tricks on the audience.
Is this how you talk? Will you distraught but your life partner
has been missing? An actress? That must be incredibly
difficult for you emotionally? As the BBC it's frustrating.
I think we are all being
you know, if Mickey was gone for 28 days. Here's what I would not
be going you know, it's really frustrating unless I had hookers
all over the place
didn't need to have a smile
Who talks like this? At this point when
you know if they end up coming up with with real wreckage of
the plane then I'll take my words back because it is
possible that I'm just at a frustration point that I'm I'm
no longer being rational but
you sound pretty damn rational lady. It
was ridiculous that a flight that size could have evaded all
scrutiny in today's world.
So let's just talk about this and then I want to discuss these
let's just talk about the scrutiny briefly because finally
someone and I have to give candy crowley credit because I don't
know how she gets away with that she does she gets to go off
script all the time, and I do appreciate her for that. Here
she is with fine, fine boggle asking about satellite images,
because I wanted to ask you about these satellite pictures,
because there's a lot of question when you see them,
they're kind of fuzzy, you can't really tell here's one. Now you
look down, you can see stuff in the ocean, I want to compare it
to something else, which is a satellite picture of the bin
Laden compound in Pakistan, that you can see trucks, you can see
that housing now I'm told a lot of this has to do with the angle
of the satellite that you get blurry, the more out of angle
the satellite is, but there are a lot of people who don't
believe that the US and others with sophisticated technology
can't actually see better than the pictures we're
seeing. Well, I think it depends on the satellite and the
resolution that's provided by the satellite and how
sophisticated the satellite is, is this fine. Go into Lesson
Hello, anything don't have. But I think what I just said
suffices.
So the point device is shut up. Yeah, exactly. The point is,
everyone knows this is bullcrap the satellite images. And so
this is this is my my conclusion. It is irrelevant
what happened to the plane, the I the way this actress is
talking? I actually don't think it was blown to bits. The whole,
we need to obfuscate. And you know, my view is that the
Pentagon knows where every single craft is, whether it's a
plane or a submarine, whatever they know where it is. They need
to obfuscate this for as long as possible, keep it going for as
long as possible and keep making the Malaysian government look
like idiots. And they're doing they're doing themselves no
favours, by the way. And now you're seeing the news reports?
Well, you know, there's always been a corrupt government. And
before you know it, we're going to we're going to see some kind
of anger, something's going to happen. But for sure, this is
intended whether the governor our own government had anything
to do with the disappearance of the flight or not, they are
using that to pressure the Malaysian government. And I
think there's going to be all kinds of there's going to be
riots going on. Okay, but that is a sign up with the TPP.
Let's, why is that question I have to ask because this is
China's little conduit that they use. Now. Is it the screw with
it? Well, I mean, the wide answer based on our shows
thesis, is this the screw with the Chinese,
we will will have control over the Strait of Malacca.
But how are we going to manage to do that? Well, the minute
they're in that we have, okay, if you look at the TPP, right,
yeah, the TPP is all about the free trade zone. And China's not
a part of the TPP. So then we get to negotiate the TPP or the
TPP partners get to negotiate with anyone who wants to come to
the Strait of Malacca. It's truly about control of the
shipping lane. And we've got our destroyers in there right now
just for extra measure.
I can't find any logical flaw this idea, right? And it makes
sense because we've been doing this sort of thing to the
Chinese every chance we get because they're so aggressive
in what they're doing. So what are they doing in return?
They've got this crazy rail line to Europe, which works the stock
it takes 18 days but stuff is now arriving. But the shipping
stuff by train, that's their hedge.
Okay, with that, well, that hedge is going to probably what
I don't I think it's more than a hedge. I think they're gonna
rely on that the will that they will have so easy to blow up a
track. Yeah, you know, because what's going to happen is the
track because that train has to go through a lot of places that
are not friendly.
But also this list came out about which movies have been
financed by Department of Defence and did you see that
list? No. All the James Bond movies you know there's it's an
it's a lot of dumb like to the typical ones, you know, the the
any war movie
they put some producer money in?
Oh, yeah, big time. Okay, but the one that was that that
caught my eye was the Captain Phillips movie. The Tom Hanks
captain's rights piracy movie, right then this is this is by
design, because piracy do we have who's going to who goes out
there and protects against the pirates in the TPP zone? We will
but and you know, it's just as easy to unleash some pirates on
some Chinese stuff. This is not beyond what what what we do what
our elites do, John, this is totally right up our alley.
I like it. I'm liking it. We
need to control this. So I'm saying while everyone's looking
for the plane, well, let's take a look at what's happening on
the ground in Malaysia. We already have the riots when they
whenever they do a new press conference. That's what you see
continuously. people screaming this. Now there's no there's
armed guards everywhere. Are there I predict riots in the
street created on Twitter, of course, riots in the street in
Malaysia calling for this government to step down. And
then it's even possible that we'll have our guy Anwar
Ibrahim, step up again and say here I am fellas I'm ready to
take over and as it turns out one of the pilots was a
supporter of Anwar Ibrahim just for good little measure they're
just good just nice little good measure. I was alive today he
would have voted for me exactly.
I meant to take a look at his train again
was just a new story. I had it in the show notes the other day
where there was a
build stuff fast so then get this train and probably
it's already wanting some know something arrive here. Chinese
train goods rival something arrived in Germany the other day
from the Chinese train. Yes. Freight train here it is. Some
other lines because they haven't built the tracks all the way
across. There's no way. Well, I
do have this is from August 2013. But that's not the one
that we're talking about problem and just take a look on the book
of knowledge here. It was a story that showed up just the
other day. Here we go. Chinese President congrats congrat.
Congratulate doubt doubt Berg Silk Road. This is z again. Z
was there when the train arrived. I'm opening up the link
here. But during his European tour president the Chinese
president Zhi Zhi Jing ping took time to visit and celebrate the
arrival of the ukcsi new train which
wasn't reported by the Chinese news, which is interesting,
which connects the
cities of Chongqing, Central China and Dyersburg Germany. The
new intermodal connection to Europe's largest inland harbour
will just take 16 days to reach Chinese mainland and as hoped
that the new link will greatly strengthen economic ties between
the two nations.
There you go. So it arrived days which is faster than ship. What
is the town that is late? What is the port of exit from China?
The Shang Chong Quinn
Oh dos oh that talent a que ya Tron queen? Yeah, yeah, that
time that's a huge, monstrous huge town that I've always
wanted to visit is that it's like one of the biggest cities
in the world at the moment the
port of dagsboro is the only port in Europe that offers
several transcontinental train connections to China.
So that's what they're talking about. That's why my clip
talking about the Free Trade Zone wants to make that
wonderful trade zone for
Bingo. Bingo.
Yeah, that makes sense.
So this is this is their that's how they're combating the TPP
but I think the TPP the it takes a while to start up a whole rail
industry and as you point out, that you know, having pirates on
a ship is one thing but having you know, al Qaeda blow up your
rail line is another which is another American invention by
the way we're great at train robberies. So here's the
Wikipedia entry as how as I to horrible name the UK's new
railway Why you XINOU a freight rail route linking the
southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing with Dyersburg,
Germany passes through a lot to our paths into Kazakhstan, moves
through Russia, Belarus and Poland before arriving in
Dyersburg. The railway is part of a growing rail network
connecting China and Europe along the New Silk Road which
we've been tracking. We've been tracking all of this stuff. All
Candy Crowley can do is say, hey, these satellite images look
fuzzy. Yeah. Yeah, we're just a little podcast ladies and
gentlemen. So be on the lookout for that to happen. I think that
you know, the TPP thing is big. It's been the whole Obama
administration's focus to pivot to Asia and it literally is up
to Malaysia now who are just they're being annoying about it.
They're being annoying let me see free Malaysia it's I have
this couple of stories in the show notes. You can go do some
research. Trans Pacific Partnership agreement
negotiations are far from nearing completion due to the
continuous existence of red lines in the negotiation
process. Malaysian International Trade and Industry Minister
Mustafa Muhammad look for him to get to to the head to the red
lines which are controversial insensitive to several nations,
including Malaysia have to be addressed even before talking
about concluding the agreement. Let me see what the the formal
deadline has been extended many times. A key stumbling block was
said to be us his refusal to yield on the contemptuous
investor state dispute settlement clause of the
agreement, which critics contend would open signatory states to
legal action by private corporations if any law was
deemed harmful to affirms commercial interests. And then
there's somewhere else there's a I read a About some something
about tobacco which they were pissed off about
interesting is running through Russia and Russian Railways
logistics since first container training from China to Europe so
rushes in on this deal. Of course they are.
Why do you think why do you think we're? Why do you think
we're, we're messing with our buddy there?
Yeah, that's part of it. Definitely.
You know, this these are this is macro stuff, man. This is
really, really macro. Someone else sent me a new Putin Oh,
that's Putin. That's no good. This is really, really macro
stuff. And it's, it really truly is connected. If there's no I
would say that's probably correct. And what's also
interesting is there's the Chinese and the Malaysian
Chinese are a very interesting couple of ethnic groups. The
Malaysian Chinese are considered to be the most ruthless as as
capitalists, right? And they have always had bumped heads
with both the Malaysian government and China itself. And
the Malaysian government's always has been trying to rouse
them to get them out. Because it's a mix. It's a it's a
multicultural country, and they the Chinese guys just dominate
everything. But
isn't there also doesn't the US also claim that Malaysia is full
of terrorists?
Indonesia, more than Malaysia? But I think it probably comes up
in the conversation.
Well, interesting. I do know I went to Malaysia and they in the
I went on to one of the Khobar Towers at Twin Towers, which are
gorgeous. And they were selling T shirts in the market, where
they also sell some of the absolute finest and Malaysia has
some of the finest DVD copies. And they have some of the
absolute finest fake watches. I mean, these really are much
better than anything I've ever seen. But they had these T
shirts that showed the towers and said we still have our twin
towers. Wow. Wow. Offensive. I would shut up over that. I was
so offensive.
A Bloomberg says about the Malaysia failing to manage
crisis exposes leadership limit.
Yeah, no, I think you're onto something here. This is a pre
regularisation. Yeah, yeah.
But the thing that I like is we have the guy and this was one of
our producers pointed this out, immediately said, hey, you know,
on the very day this plane disappeared, or the day before,
the guy who's been the main opposition, who had been let out
of jail that trying to throw him back in jail. Again. Anwar being
Ebro him. And he, you know, we've seen his, his accounts,
he's got millions of dollars in in Israel and New York. Geneva.
Yeah, it's, he would be the guy to step in, or a, at least a
candidate to step in. So what happened to the plane? To me at
this point, if it wasn't already is completely irrelevant. But if
you're talking about you know, actual value, you know, to get
rid of a plane to close this deal. Yeah. Nuke that thing,
melt it into into never retrievable bits. And then and
then to have the shield woman walking around. And she's bad.
She's a bad actor. She didn't she's not even doing good. I've
been trying.
All right. Well, I think that's, I think that's going to be the
position.
My work is done here.
Yeah, no, that was a good one. I gotta give you the 10. for that.
It's it. It becomes more obvious. And I think if we look
at everything in these terms, as it goes, as it unfolds, we'll
we'll see what follows. I've got a couple of clips that are
interesting. The Russian troops removed, they're pulling the
Russian troops back, which is of course what they said they were
going to do so that's becoming a moot point the the Ukrainian
Crimean situation seems to be falling off to the wayside.
But let's move on. Now. For weeks they've been gathering
close to the Ukrainian border, stoking fears of a full scale
invasion. But now Russia has started pulling back some of the
1000s of troops stationed just on its side of the frontier. The
Defence Ministry in Moscow has confirmed it's ordered one
battalion to withdraw. The entire force is believed to
title as many as 40,000. Now their presence over recent weeks
has added tensions as Moscow and the West argue over Crimea. This
latest news comes as NATO rep Presents tariffs are getting
together in Brussels to talk about how they might respond to
the Ukraine crisis. We can get more on that meeting now from
our Brussels correspondent, Maeve McMahon. Hello there,
Maeve. Now what can you tell us how this news from Russia might
impact on the NATO meeting? Good morning comfortable. Indeed,
this could have impact on sales meeting and change, of course,
the tone of the meeting, and indeed, the outcome, but it's
not likely to have a huge impact on the way that NATO has been
dealing with the crisis up to now. And we could see NATO
foreign ministers decide today to intensify the training of
Ukrainian military officers, and of course, sending more troops
to beef up the nation's presence on the Russian border. The thing
is, what NATO?
Yeah, they went on. Yeah, no, this is NATO doesn't care what
the Russians do, they're gonna do what they're going to do.
Well, Kerry, I'm sorry. You know, it
was sabre rattling to get the Russians to do something stupid.
Well, Kerry
said something interesting. He had a meeting. It was the US EU
Energy Council meeting, which he did with the man she's wearing
poncho is now the no chin monster, the High Priestess of
the of the executive leather order Cathy Ashton.
She's got a punch Oh,
there's not a good look. ponchos does she so she and carries
meat. And I rescind on my ever thinking that this was about
exporting United States natural gas. This is the this is what's
really going on.
No nation should use energy to stymie people's aspirations. It
should not be used as a weapon is in the interest of all of us
to be able to have adequate energy supplies critical to our
economies, critical our security, critical of the
prosperity of our people. So we are taking important steps today
in order to make it far more difficult for people to deploy
that tool. And we're working in lockstep to help Ukraine bring
natural gas in from Poland and Hungary and develop a route
through Slovakia. Alright,
so here's the idea. They want to reverse the gas flow. But so and
bring in gas from the EU into Ukraine. So But talking about is
it technically possible to reverse this pipeline is so
nutty, it is, but what's really happening, I think the original
thing that we saw is Chevron is in there, fracking in Ukraine,
then we're just we're cutting Russia out. It's probably
Russian gas, because you go in you go, you know, fracking is
not just going straight down, it's going off to the side and
going out and we're going way under the borders, we're going
to be taking the Russian oil, straight from Ukraine, from our
fracking installations, and we're just cutting Russia off
right there. That's what's happening. And now you still get
to have because of how the international markets work with
commodities, you know, you can call it you can call it Texas
gas, if you want. It's just a swap. But it's Texas gas that
we're selling to, to to Europe, because we'll just swap it out
for the gas that we're that we're stealing from Russia
through Ukraine. It's very obvious, we're turning the
pipelines around the hole. It's a it's a big game. And it's only
about that. And I think and I think you know, when you look at
what Putin is doing with Crimea, which he pointed out, it's just
a resetting the, you know, the Dutch re
they're moving the pieces around on the chest. They're
literally what what they are accusing Putin of it they're all
doing is they are redrawing the lines on the map. This is a this
is a total reset of who gets wired who's with who, with NATO,
this bull crap of the cooperation.
That NATO it's just seems to be a bad actor in this whole thing.
We also
reaffirmed to Foreign Minister data sheets that just as Ukraine
has stood in partnership for the past two decades, it's important
that that NATO stand in partnership now with Ukraine,
and we endorsed a range of measures in order to do so.
You want to hear those range of measures. Now better beauties,
a reminder that the stability and security in NATO's
neighbourhood requires.
It's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood beautiful day and
NATO's neighbourhood, the stability
and security in NATO's neighbourhood requires all of
our constant vigilance. To that end today, I made clear that
many members of the alliance now need to step up defence
spending. As we plan for NATO Summit in Wales this September,
each of us must demonstrate by the decisions that we take and
the budget commitments that we make, that we are committed to
each other And by our shared security and our shared
prosperity and our shared values. We will continue to
maintain that strength
crank it up ladies and gentlemen, we got sales to do
John Kerry's wearing his brown shoes and is selling our
weaponry good work. Yeah,
well, somebody's got to do it.
Good work.
basically told them to start buying our stuff. But that's
great. I have to say that's great. And they were just Zhan
sale 30% off because of the price of the euro.
We got a bargain. We got a really breaking
them. I mean, they got it, they keep that Euro up that high.
They're never gonna they're gonna completely go broke. It's
also kind of a clip about the rise in sales tax in Japan, that
kind of on France 24. And they thought they kind of said, well,
you know, went up, but she's like, uh, we're paying.
Okay, Stephen as in eastern Japan now a key tax rise. That's
hitting. Yeah, in fact, the first time in 17 years that
Japan sales tax increases. It goes up today from 5% to 8%. On
almost all goods bought by consumers. It's the latest
economic measure adopted by the Japanese government under Prime
Minister Shinzo RB aimed at dragging the world's third
largest economy out of a deflationary spiral and sluggish
economic growth. There are fears though it could discourage
consumer spending as something we're watching closely as time
goes on. I'm wondering how that compares to sales tax here in
France. I feel like that's it's an awful lot lower but has been
traditionally in Japan for a long time. Absolutely. Okay.
Well, how has that impacted on the market? Well, trading in the
on the Nikkei is in negative territory, as consumers get used
to that new increased tax. It's dangerous two tenths of a
percent. But seems some seeing some impact in Tokyo. That's
just
wow. I don't know if he's, you know, you were in a worldwide
depression. And the thing you don't want to do is jack up
taxes. Seems to me, I don't 5% 8% Whatever it is, I mean,
France is 20%.
I've always had the feeling that the Japanese, everyone looks at
their economy and says, Oh, it's crap. I was at the feeling they
got to the doing some trickery somehow. Is that just I've
always felt like they got something going on that we don't
understand.
Don't know. Everybody understands everything. The
whole thing. Everything's rigged.
Speaking of which, have you I've started reading the New flash
boys book.
Oh, yeah. The one for the Michael Lewis. Yeah.
And what's interesting, I had, I had drinks the other night, by
my invitation.
We had was this his again? You had dreams drinks? You had you?
Yes. Okay.
I had three, which is overserved. You had
three? Yeah,
you know, I know you're I know, I know. I know, with a guy from
New York, who's moved here with his wife. And he's a banker. And
he changed he actually his original job was to go to, like,
Davao, and you know, all you know, all the all the big
summits and everything, and convince countries basically
would raise money for South American countries. Kind of the
precursor to the economic hitman. And, you know, he moved
to Austin for a number of reasons. And now he does. I
think he deals with the regulator. So I was able to ask
him a couple things about, you know, this SDR thing and you
know what he thought about that, but he's like, he's, he's not so
sure that's gonna happen that fast. But the things that he did
tell me the way he the way he saw, like, you're gonna get this
Basel three, and all these crazy things that are happening in
international finance. He says, For one thing, the EU banks are
completely screwed and the American banks are going to get
only bigger he says he predicts they'll be double the size they
are in just a couple of years.
Well, there's nothing to stop them. No. Not too big to fail.
Didn't do anything changed nothing. Now they're going to be
twice as big to fail.
Yep. He says that's the only and so anyway. So which bank
does he like the best? I have a stock tip.
I don't want to disclose too much because that wouldn't be
okay. However, he'd so we did start to speak specifically
about this book. And about the A says the book is bullshit. It's
it really it only tells you a little bit. Yeah, there's a
speed and all that. But really what's going on, according to
him, is the way the flash traders work is when they see
something go up like a big, I don't know Unilever or something
like that. What they then do is they immediately start going to
all the smaller stuff that has to follow naturally. And that's
really where all the money is made within these much smaller
cap stocks that will naturally follow the market movement of
the really big one. So that's where it's anticipating, what
smaller things you're going to buy or what trade based upon the
big moves that you made. Once he finds a completely legal by the
way. And I think I have to agree.
Well, I think most of this stuff is legal.
But the book is pretty interesting about how they built
this, this fibre and made as straight as possible to get a 13
millisecond connect between Chicago in New York and the
interesting. But according to him, it's it's kind of
exaggerated and not exaggerated, but it's like a comedy version.
It's not really what's going on.
There's a lesser important news. There is a public relations
campaign going on. And I think it's interesting. It wasn't. I
personally say it's a public relations campaign. But the
mainstream media, of course, is having a lot of trouble picking
up on this, although I did get a clip and I just want to play it
as a prelude. France 24 Kind of, I just kind of thought of our
show and they played this clip about this clown that's floating
around the internet. Yeah, yeah, it's the creepy clown story.
Creepy calm has been spotted lurking around New York City,
Staten Island and web users have been wondering who is behind the
mask. questions raised onto these photos of a clown
terrorising motorists were posted to Instagram two weeks
ago. Speculation has since been rife on social networks, but the
clown was finally unmasked on Twitter a couple of days ago.
And of course, it's all part of a marketing ploy orchestrated by
a production company first on the lens that specialises in
horror movies.
Well, that wasn't the only promotion running around. We had
a native ad that went all the way to the White House. It looks
like it might fit him better than me though. A good picture
here. I should have my own Oh, he wants to do a selfie.
Selfie, selfie selfie. And you can bet it was trending over
33,000 retweets. And this was the end result. Look at those
smiles. They're a good day in Washington.
As it turns out, the guy just signed a deal with Samsung two
days earlier. And he tweets it as shot with my Samsung Galaxy
Note three.
You know, I'm getting tired of the selfie meme. It's like you
can't go on Twitter without seeing all these selfies. And
it's like they do it on television. They do it on Jay
Leno or not Jay Leno, but the new guy, all these guys, these
selfies have a certain distinctive look because you
know, which means it's shot with a cheap camera real close. And
they're everywhere. And it's all because of Elon. I believe that
I mean, it's selfies not because of Elon because they've been
going on forever. But this pot this sudden popularity in the
pop culture is extremely annoying. It is and it's what's
the point of it?
It is okay. I'll tell you what the point is. For years people
have been inundated with celebrities. And the celebrities
of course of course all look good if they're in great
situations and the selfie movement which has been going on
ever since camera phones, you know, a front facing camera of
cameras on cell phones and Twitter quite honestly as a part
of that.
Before that, because the early phones didn't have the front
facing camera but people still picked up the technique they
would shoot the selfie. Outside it again shoot
it and we have the selfie in the mirror. But the selfies but but
it is a it is a way for people to feel good about their sad
fucking pathetic life. Because most people's lives are ugly and
sad and pathetic. Most of and even people who are really happy
have ugly sad pathetic moments. However, when you get to reshoot
five times because you'll see this just watch it's not one
click No, no, you should 560 My mouth wasn't right. Oh, my butt
didn't look right. Oh, my eyes were closed. Oh, and now you
have the built in filters. You see so you've got it's it is
glossing over and making people feel good. During this time of
extreme duress and depression and sharing that with Instagram
and shit. Yes. And sharing that with people so they can get a
like that's what a job it's what it is. It is drugs. It is drugs
and is brilliantly crafted. I don't think it was even
necessary. No one really figured it out in the inks Instagram and
of course that's why you know, Facebook the like and, and the
selfie. It's part of the same thing. And I see when people are
more depressed. People I know when they are sad or depressed.
They post more happy fucking selfies. epsa happy look at me.
Beautiful. Look at my dinner. Look at my breakfast look at my
dog. My cat pandas. And it's it is because people are mad and
angry and mainly sick because the mainstream media is giving
them sickness and lies and they're being poisoned and
they're being poisoned. Play
your little theme there. I'll do that first. C cover B's pet D
bomb today I'm gonna show my move I don't I don't know just
imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fun
donation segment after that outburst?
Well, it's important because we we don't need to do native
advertising with selfies.
Samsung needs more publicity. Yeah, sir Jeronimos anonymous in
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Yes, we keep doing these shows. Yes, twice twice a week.
Another Twitch Stick you gotta stop it.
I'm sorry.
I'm really mad
as hell. And you're not gonna take it anymore?
Well, yeah, you know, it's one thing it's hard enough to only
have really one browser in the world that is not as far as you
know, not spying on you, but to have the LGBTQ Q IAP mafia. Now
Now move people towards Google Chrome is an outrage.
He was I have a clip from of all places, France 24. Oh, I
had I was playing a clip, but I'll play
your clip. Where you get a French?
Yeah, no, I liked the Fred the French.
Person is
the wrong slip, slip of the mouse.
Let's finish up on a lovely note with an online dating website.
OkCupid.
By the way, biggest native advertising campaign I've ever
seen in the world.
And users might find a bit of an unusual message facing them when
they log on. Yeah, this is the latest response to the
appointment of a man called Brendan Eich to be chief
executive of Mozilla, which is the company that makes the
Firefox web browser. This is over Ike support of a lot outlaw
gay marriage in California in 2008. From Monday, users of
OKCupid who access the site through Firefox, we're getting
this message that you can see on screen now they're saying that
because I opposes gay rights, closes equal rights for gay
couples. The company says that they would therefore prefer that
their users don't use Mozilla software to access their site.
actually blocking them you can click through the message but
because Okay, keep it gets around 3 billion page views
every month, around 12% of those come from Firefox it will affect
quite a large proportion of OKCupid users. And it's actually
the latest backlash against Brendan Alex appointments. Six
board members of Mozilla have resigned after he was promoted
to CEO. So a story I'm sure we're hearing much more about. I
didn't actually know the this the about the six board members
that resigned. I didn't
know that either. But let me stop right here and stop you
from continuing with a misuse of the term native advertising.
This was a public relations campaign, perhaps. But native
advertising is specific to people who pay for an article to
be run, agreed. There's no payment Agreed.
Agreed. Agreed. I misrepresented the term. You're right, right.
I didn't know that the board guys quit either. And I don't
see what the point of the whole thing was. I think this was a
ludicrous.
Well, here's what I think. Who cares? Well, this is once again.
And you're right, do they it is a public relations campaign.
I've never heard of OKCupid before in my life ever, never
heard of it. And and as far as I know, this guy was a co founder
of the Mozilla Foundation was it has been around for a while it's
been around for a while. He's the guy who supposedly I don't
know this for an absolute fact. But he's the guy who invented
JavaScript right, which is plaguing the world. Well, for
the for that I hate him. I hate him for that. But this is once
again, the gay mafia being misused or the gay mafia
misusing the LG BBT QQ IAP community for commercial
interest. And it is this it is right is ludicrous. And people
jumping on board with it. Go ahead. You should all use Google
products all go to Chrome, you Safari, please do all of that.
Really good. That and who knows Google may even be behind this.
This would be something but no one says a word about Obama
going to a country where they kill people for being gay. But
let oh, here's something I can do. I can delete Firefox from my
computer. It's despicable. As a bi curious queer and questioning
male
it is I just thought it was really it's it's just terrible.
And then now all these guys are self righteous.
Assholes.
I'll say all over the place.
Billy King kicked you dead because he hates gays just
because of who someone loves. Now, it's not just who someone
loves. I hate that really pisses me off. I'm sick and tired of
that too. If someone says it's just because just because who I
love. Oh, it's not just who you love it. Define love. Someone
asked me at the other day.
Someone asked you what define love to define love. Somebody
asked you Why would anyone ask you this?
That's irrelevant, but it's what I'm saying is when, when the
President of the United States can say, it's crazy to or anyone
could say, it's crazy to be able to fire someone just because of
who they love. What does that mean would have been defined
love for me? What is that? For Shut up. Makes me You know, I
got no problem with anything anybody does. But this misuse to
promote a dating website.
Yeah, and from
Yeah, it's really, really, really that's, it can't go any
lower and people don't see it. They're all in on it. Yeah, I
agree. That's, um, this gay thing, man. It's, it's going to
be used for everything, everything. And if something is
against LGBTQ Qi a P boom, you're good to go. I could be if
they were smart. Maybe this mate. Okay. Wow. Wow, that
little thing
you just didn't make mark that time. I was unbelievable. Do it.
I couldn't copy it. Yeah.
What we should be doing is we should find out a way to prove
and of course research dollars will be necessary. that climate
change is killing. LGBTQ Qi La Pa is killing the gays if we can
prove that. That's people. Oh my god, we have to stop this
climate change. It's killing the gays.
Somebody give me an appletini. Now, yeah, give us an appletini
myself. While we're on the top topic of public relations, I
have to say I don't know who's behind this. I know it's not the
Inuit Indians who have gone after Ellen DeGeneres. Oh, in a
very interesting little spat that's going on and I I'm
totally undecided or the Indians with this. The in USA say that,
you know, they part of their culture is to eat seal meat. And
it's just like eating Westerners you know, eating seal meat and
eating beef or whatever. Of course Elon is, I believe a
vegetarian. So there's that agenda going on? Surely, we have
a bunch of money to the anti seal for anti steel eating
Canadians. And so the news came out with a bunch of propaganda
that was obviously directed by some public relations agency
because it was way too slick to be anything else. And I don't
know if it was if it's for companies behind the, with the
money but somebody paid something. And there's a really
interesting little piece here. So
phasing in sealskin fares and pasting the photo to social
networks in AD and no it had been defending Phil hunting
through these selfies, and protesting host Ellen DeGeneres.
His decision to highlight an anti seal hunting charity on
Oscars night by donating a one and a half million dollars
raised by that Oscar selfie the most retweeted photo of all
time, to an animal welfare group that campaigns against seal
hunts. The seal free movement began on Twitter when Alessia
Anika Barrow posted a picture with a caption. I am an Inuit
seal meat eater, and my fur is ethical and humane. A filmmaker
has also shared a letter sent to Ellen DeGeneres on Facebook. She
explains that seal hunting is regulated nowadays, and is
important for antique people's other Inuit campaigners have
opted to post photos illustrating the reality of
field hunting and the cultural and financial benefits of what
they see as an ethical and sustainable choice.
Did I hear it weren't the seal fee? Is that what it is now? The
seal fee
seal fee selfie. Selfie? No, I heard No, but it's a selfie.
Yeah, might as well be a selfie. That's what they say it's
a selfie about seals is a selfie? Yeah, steal fee.
I like it. Whatever the case is, I'm glad that they're standing
up to this bullying that Ellen DeGeneres is doing and and the
way I'm looking at it, I'm saying Ellen DeGeneres hates the
native peoples absolutely the native peoples have their rights
they were here before we ever showed up I'm gonna go with this
Yeah, we we were in Europe and we come over here and rouse
these people kill most of them poison them with bad blankets.
And now we're telling them what they can eat. These people have
their rights to the seal a seal meet and seal first. They've
been doing this way before we showed up what gives her the
right to be so anti native peoples What is wrong with her?
Well, she
knows a lot more about seafood than anybody.
Well, please Sorry, I mean, I get you know, I immediately got
that joke, but not to get glossed over it the first time
honour it so I know when to play this part two of this
A little bit more trying to show it's not necessarily an
atrocious and inhumane act as Ellen DeGeneres claims on her
website. 17 year old in Killick and Eric styles has produced a
video in which she says Ellen DeGeneres is helping spread
misinformation about a practice which is simply a means of
survival in her part of the world anyway, well, seals
provide food and clothes for families that can't necessarily
afford to go to the stores. to homeless people.
Thanks for leaving the whole stinger on the end there
is just
listen selfie. I heard it right sylphy supporters? They're
calling yes supporters of seal hunt say it with a hashtag seal
fee.
Nice. Oh, you did hear it right? When that was wrong,
seal fee photo sets off online backlash from seal hunt
opponents. Well, this of course stems back to the days of fur,
but there were clubbing baby seals for their fur and
whatever.
That's what she's got in her brain. She still remembers the
you know, they clubbing the baby seal. I mean, hey, get over it.
Yeah, that's this is a celebrate he's make these mistakes all the
time. But the, the way I understood the here's what I
understood. She gave the million and a half dollars that she
apparently made from doing the Samsung ad, which was what that
cellphone was
eight Hertz. But there was a camera right? And then of course
she she she got backlash.
She got backlash, because she then posted with the iPhone and
everyone that iPhone was bullshit. And so in order not to
look bad, because let's face it, whenever celebrities are
actually upfront, and say, Hey, I made a million and a half
dollars for taking that picture. And I'm sure that some people in
the picture of like the poor girl who won the Oscar, what's
her name? I don't know. So like a new honey, I you know, from
the girl from get any money. She's probably saying, Hey,
Ellen, where's my money? All I got is a stupid statue. And you
got a million a half bucks? No, no, this is not gonna stand. So
Ben, she had like make good of this, by the way that I've had
this happen so many times. But I took a big companies to court
and sued them. And in Holland Europe, it's even worse. They're
they stole my pictures, published them without
permission. It made money off it. I sued them. And when I when
people say, Well, we think that you should give that to charity.
What is that? And so it happens all the time. If you have bills
to pay lady like Donald Trump, I'll sue you over them. They'll
give the money to charity. This is all just to go to charity.
Screw that. ascribe a charity case. But my Tourette's? So she
chooses. She messes it up. Then she? Oh, what can I do about Fox
seals? Yeah. That. Yeah, no, but your point, right. It was a
mistake. Your point is well made, but that seal fee I like
that. It's well made. Oh, hey, this. Okay. I want to give you
what was it? Who was Walt Mossberg and what did they work
for the Wall Street Journal? Yeah, they left.
Yeah, they'd love to start their own thing because they're,
they're business people at heart, right? Yes. I don't know
what the
thing is that work in that. Do you think that there's anything
out? So the Wall Street Journal has tech reporters? Oh, my God.
This is the Wall Street Journal is an actual publication with
like real money, right?
Yeah, it was part of the Rupert Murdoch empire. So they got
plenty. Even if they're losing money, they can have plenty of
money. This is the state
of technology journalism on the Wall Street Journal. And what
you're going to hear is a guy explaining not only how Tor
works and what it is, but also how the government is in cahoots
with Tor. And I would just I this is a video that they have
on the website that goes along with their story and it's two
guys. It's just baffling.
Well, there's a there's a browser that's become very
popular called Tor and it has some legitimate AI you hooked
already
hooked on the Wall Street Journal
off that way. browser called Tor.
Isn't it a whole thing?
Well, there's a there's a browser that's become very
popular called Tor and it has some legitimate uses some
illegitimate uses. And what it does is it masks the the
identity of the of a user's computer when he or she is
visiting a website. So in a lot of cases, it's become popular
among among criminals who are hacking trading pirated
material, and in a lot of cases, that law enforcement was
interested in child pornography. So we've seen a couple of cases
now recently where
By the way, standard go to child pornography,
the FBI, Homeland Security and others have been able to
basically lift up this, get around this, this sort of cloak
of anonymity and, and manage to identify certain alleged
criminals. They're usually doing that, though not by by finding
some technical way through this software, but by exploiting
mistakes that users make. And some of those mistakes are
highly technical, but a lot of ways. You know, it's applying,
you know, old fashioned police work to a very new technology
here. I think at the beginning, this this browser was was sort
of a dead end for investigators, they would see that someone was
using it and and they would say, you know, that's a black box, we
can't figure out who's on the other end.
Is this exactly how it went down? That's exactly how it
works. Yes, yes.
And that would be the end of the investigation. Oh, yeah. Now,
you though they've, they've spent time including spend time
talking to the sort of the people who work on tour. It's a
nonprofit group that runs the source code
that runs the source code. And
they've explained, they've learned that there are lots of
vulnerabilities that they didn't know about. Because if someone
is if someone is very, very careful, they can they can find
they can pretty much hide their identity through this thing. But
if they're not, then they can usually usually make a mistake.
And there are cases where even very sophisticated users very
sophisticated hackers have eventually slipped up.
That is the state of technology reporting, ladies and gentlemen,
stop
the presses. No, I telling you, I don't I'm not going to
continue the show is going to be one of those rare opportunities
where somebody actually gets to clips of the day in one show.
I don't know what I what I'm, I'm not worthy. But I do want to
thank my team. I want to thank my my producers, my managers,
everybody over to Warner. And what's that guy? He's the
technology reporter. They actually there's two. I can't
even I can't even talk about how dumb this is. It's outrageous.
And this isn't the Wall Street Journal. Now that the takeaways
are interesting that the people at Tor have the nonprofit group
who's running the source code, which of course includes the the
known sex maniac I O error, Jacob Appelbaum, who is who
pretends like he's a part of the team, but he's really just a
spokes hole for the outfit. They are they basically helping the
Fed who funded them. It's just it just baffles me that this is
technology reporting we're getting If then, you know, like
you, BBC News. I'm just gonna do a couple of tech things here
because it's too funny. BBC News is very happy to report that
Yahoo was encrypted, their data centres job, everything that
flows between their data centres is now encrypted. Who cares?
Even prove? Yeah. Oh, that's part of I think there's a quote
probably from Marissa Meyer.
Yeah, our goal is to encrypt our entire platform for all users at
all times by default, yeah. Okay. Right. Well, encrypting
between your data centres is meaningless, then of course, you
can't encrypt everything because that would ruin your business
model if you couldn't see what your users are doing because
that's the way you roll. Now the thing I want to warn everybody
about which came out and of course you got all this this
gratuitous blow job jerk off press about the Amazon fire. You
see,
you've got me out you're gonna you've got me on this one
because I saw a lot of this jerk off stuff about Amazon Fire and
I ignored all of it. Yeah,
and I whenever I find myself ignoring something, and it's
hard to do, but I'll say I have to look at this because yeah,
you know, I
need to be
more like that. Yeah, because I know there's going to be
something. Yeah. And the thing that caught my eye was Voice
Search. This thing is remote control has a built in
microphone. Do not bring this into your house. I'm not
kidding. Do not bring this into your house. Do not turn on the
Google Google Now on your browser. Do not allow do not
allow this in your house. Unless you like stick a needle into
that microphone and ruin it. Just wreck it just put a
screwdriver in there and scrunch it around until the whole the
membrane is completely ruined. Do not bring this this is a spy
device.
Yeah, I would actually if it was me and I I told you that I will
add my Wi Fi networks it says FBI surveillance van I want to
Yeah,
one of the Wi Fi those are all over the country. By the way. I
get people sending me screenshots all the time.
Anyway, what you want it Do I think you could ruin the mic if
you want to, because that will be effective. But I would
actually rather get a small tape recorder and play an endless
loop of Disney's it's a small world. No one really do the
trick.
But you know, and I remember saying this on on twit, I
believe, years ago, and everyone laughed at me. I said, Look,
Google is listening. They're listening. And they've got you
know that when Google Voice first came into the browser,
you're giving it permission to use your microphone and you're
getting ads based upon what they're hearing your house, you
hear a dog, you get dog food commercials, this is happening.
And the Kinect is the same does the same thing.
The Kinect is the worst. But this thing is a microphone. You
can't turn it off. It's on all the time. For your voice search.
You have no control over let's put it that way.
And I'll bet you that voice search works great. Yeah.
Well, I just like text speech to text. Another one of those
things. When is that going to happen? Was that really going to
work?
Yeah, well, it kind of works. But unfortunately, the mount it
doesn't. If it works, 99% of the time, that's not very good.
Because if you take 99 characters, and one of them's
bad, yeah, that's like every other line, there's a typo that
you have to fix.
Well, what it works really well for and I'll give this to the
Google guys in context, it works great. I mean, if you you can
set up your your phone for Google Maps, and you say you
mentioned a destination. And it comes always comes back with 10
choices. Usually the one you want is the top, but the actual
dictation, or how about transcription? You know, the
minute someone can take this podcast, and have it
transcribed, I'll even take 90% accuracy, and have it
transcribed into real text, then I believe where that it's not,
it's just not gonna happen. It's like, you know, Morse code. This
is a great example. So I learned Morse code. I'm not great at it,
but I'm okay. It is a human being beats a computer, it will
it will beat out of Watson. In fact, we should do this, we
should tell IBM to do this test. A human ear will beat out any
computer on transcoding transcoding Morse code that is
sent over HF that fades in and out and change shifts and
frequency. There's almost no computer programme that there is
no none that can do it. Even decent, really. But distance
signals only can be done with a human ear. It's just weird.
We're amazing machines that way.
Well, that's why we can read. We can read from a book that was
printed in the 1800s that have like busted characters and all
the rest you can read no problem. You read every word.
You give that to an OCR programme. Forget it.
Exactly. Did you see? Did we able to take a look at that
video I sent you about common core? No. Oh, shit. This the is
the homeschooling legal defence Association has put together
this 40 minute video about common core and the background
and where it came from. It's in the show notes is really it's
really really good
stuff. Watch it after the show. Yeah, it's really good. But
we're supposed to be discussing it.
Well, that's why I sent it to you. And then of course,
get the round two was too long. Well, yeah, it is
there. It's 39 minutes. Didn't want it. You know, of course,
there's all you know, Ford hood thing was going NCIS was on TV
and come on. This is crazy. But I will there's a couple things
that were in there that, that I'll set you up for other people
because people are gonna go watch this now. And as people
who were part of the decision making process who have now
essentially kind of whistleblowers, who were
interviewed for this thing, the two lines I liked the most one
is the gates, McGraw Hill and Pearson companies really just
want to create an assembly line of workers. So that's the
publishing houses. And of course, you know, the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation. And what is really beautiful in this
documentary is to hear educators say, these are human beings, you
know, we can't all go to college. We can't all become a
programmer. You know, some people have to become not jobs
and musicians and artists and athletes and
all kinds of variety. Yeah. And let me Can I interrupt you real
quick? Because this is an adjunct to what you're saying.
This is an email we got from James McConnell, just finished
listening to 603 and was dumbstruck by some wording in
the conversation around next generation science standards.
I'm a SIS admin type, for whom you always have kind words
thanks, and has spent much of the previous day discussing
Software frameworks with some colleagues. Imagine my surprise
when I get in the car for the ride home and start here.
worrying about all kinds of frameworks that kind of support
common core. Then it dawned on me these jackasses are quite
literally trying to programme children very much in the human
as a computer sense. Anyway, he wants us to come around back to
the subject, believe me, this subject is not going
well. So here's the here's, here's the point of this
documentary that I don't know how you don't have to watch it
to understand where the the basic flaw is, in Common Core,
Common Core claims, it will make every student college and career
ready. This is impossible. Because of the testing, you
can't be both. If you're not going to go to college, then
your career ready. But if your career ready, then your scores
are too low. So therefore you couldn't be college ready. So
you can't, you cannot have both the TED this, this the standards
that are being set. Like it's like, it's like when you go to
when you want to go to college, you take preparatory courses,
and you take your essay T and you get credits, and you're and
you're ready for college. And then you're then you're you're
set to go in. If you want to make some kind of standards that
prepare people both for college or for a career, the only way to
do it is to lower everything. It can only get lower this, it
makes no sense that we're all brilliant when we come out of it
not it can be college ready or career ready. Not both. that
make any sense.
Yeah, makes plenty of sense. I mean, when I was a kid, which
was a long time ago, they used to have college prep. And when
you went when you were in grammar school, say you were in
the fifth grade, there was a bunch of kids that were putting
in the college prep classes based on the fact that they seem
to be more bright than the rest of the group. And some of the
real dumb kids are over in the kind of the dummies class where
they push them off into the direction where they're going to
be working in a steel mill. And then of course, that now that
became a kind of a stereotype. She can't do that. That's, you
know, the kids that were in the there was a plenty of kids that
were not in the college prep course, I went to college,
because they had the ambition to do it, and they just did it
themselves. But if they did have these tracks, and they didn't
expect everybody to be able to do everything, but that the deck
was thrown out with the bathwater because it was not. It
was unfair. And it was bad for self esteem if you're in the
dummies track.
So I was talking to the reason why my banker friend moved here
is I tell you the amount of talked about this so one of his
kids I know he seems he seems like a nice kid to me. He's got
tics and probably little deficits was the story now I
told you this outside of the show. I told you this after the
show. That's why you think I told you Oh, she This is why we
should never tell I know by now so I'm telling you now. Okay,
and so one of the reasons why he's coming to Texas he says is
because of New York now remember, this is a rich guy
because the banker and he's done well for himself as young as my
age and we had to move to Texas because in New York It is crazy.
If your kid isn't Is it anything like when that when your to a
kid is to their they detect something? Immediately there's a
whole slew of for Richie Rich people get screwed the worst in
New York. There's a whole slew of consultants and and therapy
you have to go through the schools make it mandatory and
then they have to go to your crazy kids school and that's all
he has like $15,000 a semester he's I had to leave New York is
out of control. They're making their kids into these Uber,
they'll have to be bankers. If they're not gonna be a banker,
or you know, something along those lines in there in the
moron school. Ed expensive 50 to $60,000 a year. And they detect
this stuff early. And instead of letting the kid develop No, who
knows what happens. Am I love this kid? Oh, man, you kids like
me? That's pretty cool. It's probably gonna be really fun.
It'll be entertaining. He may not be college material will be
a lot of fun.
Get to explain what the kids anomalies are. Why? Why you
didn't be as a Tourette's? Yes, Tourette's.
And so if you have Tourette's, I guess in New York, you're, you
know, an a kid.
Yeah, they off off the special school with you.
But he's just a kid with Tourette's, which is no
different than I mean, there's comes and goes, you know, a
difference in terms of potential for academic achievement.
And you know, what I love the most and then I get lots of
emails from people on the show. We listen to the show. And you
know, when we talk of course, there's you know, there's
there's some real issues with autism. There's some real
medical stuff, but the way it's been set up, in fact, we had an
email exchanging you said it's just like the sex offenders web.
Now if you get caught peeing in the park, you're a sex offender.
And no one ever protested this this idiot classification. Now
there you go, you can't live anywhere because you have to be
a sex offender and registered and you don't have to say
exactly no one will tell anyone exactly what your so called Sex
offence was. So with his autism stuff, it's that just expanding
this to an nth degree.
And all I can say is it's marginalising true autism.
It's marginalising true autism, and it's also robbing the
universe of interesting people. Or trying to shoehorn them into
something that fits the mould. And that's fundamentally wrong.
It's just wrong.
Well, this is one of the things that the few people listen to
the show fight against. We actually have a lot of listeners
but do we? I think so. Hope we
have more than Ronan.
Probably we might. Yeah, I've seen I'm sure we do. That showed
that guys unwatchable.
And the funny thing is that now even high high IQs Yeah, I know
lots of really smart kids and little little nerdy nerdy, maybe
just nerdy and little little weird taking a little nerdy but
they're really really smart. Yeah, that's no autism. Yeah, we
got to drug those because you know, then we choose we can have
too smart for the slave system for Bill Gates and publishing
houses in McGraw Hill and Pearson, your slave system.
Thank you Oklahoma for trying.
Bill Gates would have been shoved into one of these
programmes in today's world he would never become Bill Gates
right did he even complete college or is that dropped out
when he was a freshman right? There's your example his kids by
the way DoD not following Common Core then some kind of private
institution but they don't they don't follow the Common Core
State Standards. Maybe that's why he's doing it. I don't know.
He doesn't want competition. That's what I still believe
that. Hey, that kid looks really smart. Fuck. No drugs.
Use the word so I do have a movie quiz.
Hold on a second ladies and gentlemen. Obvious hold on
where's the gotta get my jingle here and then all I was I was
still I was still in my whole thing. And now it's time for
another episode of guests. That movie. All right. Okay. After
reset, get set. Okay. Yes, that movie.
This is actually quite obvious when you when you hear it. It's
the game show that Adam sucks.
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I like to hear the whole thing so I can you know, I can collect
my thoughts. I'm going to guess the Spanish version of Robocop
close up ah, Dark Knight Rises, I should have known. It's time
for another episode of guests that movie. Well, I tried.
So the the Alon is in nothing but trouble apparently in
France, we don't do enough French news. And so they he
pulls the plug on his Prime Minister, which I guess I didn't
realise. But this is the trick that they do in Europe.
Yeah, I heard about this. And they they actually vote the
Prime Minister but the President comes along for the ride and
they swap right to like Russia basically.
Well, the President is the one who calls the shots and he's
that's aligned. And so he fired the old Prime Minister, and I
got a pretty good clip that kind of explains it. And there's
three of us you have to be careful. Let me get get you the
right one. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. What are they?
I afford France Prime Minister of France original original
original, the original art will play.
It's a well known strategy amongst French presidents in
times of crisis blamed the Prime Minister Francois Mittal went
through seven successes Jack shock for that after a crushing
weekend to the polls. Some say the shakeup isn't enough to say
fatwa Long's government's body deep the response to this
electoral disaster is essentially political suicide.
He is he's chosen Manuel vowels who is a minority and ultra
minority in the French Socialist Movement and will soon see him a
minority in the country. Being accused of amateurism John
Mulcair Hall was seen as lacking the essential mix of energy and
authority for long hope subbing in the 51 year old manual Vels
with his blend of social toughness and economic
liberalism will help to revitalise his government. And
not everyone is convinced of those capabilities. diverts
money in advance has been a complete failure in managing the
portfolio that he's been given in the past. And now he's
supposed to leave the Interior Ministry is massive failure to
go and hit up the government. It's really an odd choice to
remember as it goes condition. On the streets, news of his
appointment was met with mixed reactions, Tom seems more
believable. It stands by his convictions. And I think he
believes in a more just France, which we need today. He embodies
serious values. And anyway, there's a sign this seems a
little aggressive to me, but anyway, we'll see. A little too
aggressive for some ministers in our house former cabinet as
well. The two greens, Pascal confiance. This'll do flow
already confirming they won't be any part of Val's led cabinet.
Here, they really need a lesson in package production. They're
at France to new
greens.
But the package is shit.
It's not a good No, no, they could they could just do some
work. They, you know, they're got to person talk and on top of
another person. Well, at one clip, I didn't even play that.
It was pretty funny. It was about Chinese, the Chinese
dream. They were following the head of China around and he was
in Belgium saying that he wants to re turn to the Chinese dream.
And they explained it. Because you know, we have the American
dream does the Chinese dream really? Yeah. And it's to create
happiness in the public. The public is happy.
Oh, well, I'm well,
we don't have that dream.
I'd like that dream. I think that's that's that actually that
works for me. Yeah.
I'm all for the Chinese tree happy people.
You want to play more of this? All on this stuff?
Now? The other two are just I couldn't share which of the
three that was in any good. You got the Ford witness? No good
either
back I think I think you know, we've had a three Clip of the
Day show.
Yeah, it's amazing. Outstanding. Yeah. Astonishing.
We've uncovered the the true mystery behind the disappeared
plane.
Okay, I do have a clip then.
Let's quit while we're ahead. But now you're gonna you're
going to bring us down you're going to
I gotta bring in this idiot, our favourite idiot in the Senate.
Kelly Ayotte.
Oh, please. It's this kind of this. You're gonna bring it
down. You're gonna bring down the show. You're gonna bring
down the show.
I'm telling you. I could put it off. I could put it off. I think
you
should put it off until Sunday. All right, we'll do that. I
think we should just quit. Well, where
are you get to hear Kelly Ayotte, who apparently is just a
bonehead. At
one time, we thought she was running for president. But she's
too dumb.
She is really dumb. Yeah. And she's part of the clique with
the McCain and that other guy. She's
a renegade. Yeah. All right. Well, if you enjoyed the value
we provided for you today, and quite honestly, a triple Clip of
the Day show.
Wow. Unprecedented. And we
can't hand them out to each other. You know, I can only hand
it out to John and vice versa. I can't get myself clipping today.
And we're critical because we don't really even like each
other so
we certainly don't like each other's clips.
Those are some hot clips baby. Your clips are turning me on bad
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