Whoa. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, April
28 2017. This is your award winning get more nation media
assassination episode nine or two, two. This is no agenda 20
News. Morning everybody. I'm Adam curry from Northern Silicon
Valley. I'm John C. Dvorak Hill first
I produced some stuff for us yesterday. Oh, did you recorded
some stuff? Some for 20? stuff
okay, you call it the hookah? Yeah. For 20 edition. The best
podcast in the universe everybody.
And we're straight.
Yeah, sure. Now it says this very special day for me. I see.
This is my day.
Your day for?
Do you know what let's move
to Sandra fell.
I heard yesterday that Texas is going to legislate for medical
marijuana to start on time. It's no kidding. No kidding. I'm kind
of psyched about that. Of course. April 20. For 20
Although 420 is more like a time of day. Do we know the Does
everyone know
it was on for 2004 20 Oh, it was for
2008 What? You're pretty sure yes. It was the was it's a
couple of California kids. San Rafael High School San Rafael
Sandra. Sandra fell. Yeah, so what was what was the story?
They got stoned. And all the rest is lost to history.
1971 Well, you know what else today is? We don't have him on
the list. But you do know what today is?
No, Hitler's birthday. Oh, that's funny.
stoners around the world have known that for years brah
Oh, man Hitler's birthday man.
Okay, much better.
There you go. All right.
So that's our tribute to the for tonight
is our tribute to the for 20. That's all ever and by the way,
I think this was just a somehow I don't know how this caught on.
But it did it only caught on maybe 10 years ago. Somebody I
think somebody you
know, Oh, no way. Are you kidding me now believe it was
9792 on 1971 is when when they did it? I'm saying
but then I don't believe it went for 9070 to 73. Every every year
after that.
I learned about it when I went to college for three months. And
that must have been ad
five.
Well, that's where I want to begin then.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm sorry. Wrong. That's
wrong. That's wrong. Ad. No more like 8019 8081 Yeah, maybe in
Salem, West Virginia of all places. Well, you're not a
stoner bra.
I never heard of I know. But I mean that right. I can see
Sandra fell from my house.
What does that have to do with it?
I'm so close to the floor and I'd have some absolutely not the
world I live in the Berkeley area would have gotten around.
Okay. Yeah. Speaking. staffer,
speaking of the Berkeley area. Yeah. That is crazy up there.
Yeah, I guess Ann Coulter wanted to was invited to speak at
Berkeley and she's been denied.
Yeah, they kicked her out.
What is going on? You guys are nuts up there.
I don't know why cultured want to speak at Berkeley. Although
she did
get paid for it. Isn't she doesn't she get paid for that? I
would presume?
Probably. Yeah. But she's been on a book tour, too. Yeah. But I
have to say this. Culture is annoying. And she's always you
know, out there. She's very pushy. But she, I there's a
speech of hers on that she did at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. I don't know. 5678 Maybe 10 years ago. She's a
great speaker. It's very entertaining. She's got a good
grasp of the subject. She's twit. She's very professional. I
would if she was giving a speech tonight. Had time I'd probably
go see it. That's how that's how good she is. And
apparently she is going to speak so you should just go bring your
gear. You know, get ready for some fun you should be reporting
live from because there'll be there'll be protests and all
kinds of bull crap going on. It'd
be great. Yeah, I don't think so.
Well, there's so much to draw from today. Oh, we got tons of
stuff that I'm not even sure where we want it. Start. I mean,
the only thing that the mainstream news was talking
about in the past 24 hours was your accurate prediction of Bill
O'Reilly's ouster from Fox News. BBC was even airing airing
segments about it now on the BBC Radio.
French 24
Yeah, yeah, it's Oh, do you have a clue? Well, I'm
gonna move my Bill O'Reilly clip. So does it have to be
blocked? Okay. We'll
do that later then. Yeah, but I got a lot of them. I
think they're pretty entertaining. CBS, CBS, we get
teased a little
bit well, you know, here's where I'll start with this. So this is
a kind of a local story all of a sudden, big big news Alex Jones
is in in the news everywhere,
because they have actually the background or for that what
you're gonna bring up and is actually done as a as a hit
piece by CBS evening news. Alright, so it has a background
or in it. It's the whole background. It's the story in a
nutshell that you can you can use to leverage.
A lawyer for an influential right wing conspiracy theorist
made a startling claim in court recently, during a child custody
case. He said that the radio rants of Alex Jones, are just an
act. And a workers following this fight
among Alex Jones is outrageous claims that the terrorist
attacks on 911 was an inside job. The whole thing is a black
hole of lies. In 2014, he called the Newtown massacre where Adam
Lanza killed 20 Children fake. The official
story of Sandy Hook has more holes in it than Swiss cheese.
His radio
and Internet videos have drawn millions of fans, including a
certain New Yorker,
I'm on my way here. Donald Trump gave me a call. Your reputation
is amazing. I will not let you down. You will be very, very
impressed. I hope
not only that President Trump has echoed some of Jones's
claims it says New York Times media writer,
I really don't have to do my piece anymore. Now that the
whole this is here, because the people ask me, man, why is this
in the news, why they're doing this? Why they're doing this to
Jones and that's your reason right there, Don, it's, this is
all about Trump. This is all about Trump.
I want you to point it, I want you to pay attention to this. I
want everyone listening to the show to note that in this piece
and the next couple of pieces I do from CBS they they're doing a
piece about Alex Jones and then they put a give it that Trump to
give him the needle. Yeah. And it's like, by the way that the
things that that she's she prefaces with this bothers me
CBS does this more than the other networks, they say? And he
said that the 911 was a hoax,
no. Job, no, no inside job inside job,
and then they play a clip that Scott doesn't he doesn't say
that. Nothing. He says it's a black hole of lies. Say he never
used the word inside job well, not. Not in that clip. But of
course, if you're Yes, but what if you're going to say Well,
Adam curry said, said that you're a douchebag in that play
a clip of you, you know, talking about some rock star that you
met, how has that got anything to do with it? And she did it
twice
with all my stories about rockstars that I met so very
impressed, I hope
not only that President Trump has echoed some of Jones's
claims. He says New York Times media writer January
when President Trump said that the mainstream press is covering
up terrorist attacks to cover for Islamist that was directly
out of Alex Jones. When President elect Trump raised the
possibility that some 3 million people voted illegally. That had
been on Infowars.
But now his own lawyer suggests Jones shouldn't be taken at his
word. His comments came during Jones custody battle over his
kids. According to one report, Attorney Randall Wilhite said
Jones is playing a character on his radio show that he's
actually a performance artist.
And let me guess, lady, I think you probably talk just like this
at home because you're not a performance artist. No, you are
just a human being. Is that my point there?
Today, Jones defended himself.
Everybody is a performance artist in media. There are very
few people who are exactly the same as they are in real life.
Except, of course,
us. You know, I am an actor. We're
all actors that I believe in what I stand for.
But Rutenberg says questions about Jones could raise some for
Mr. Trump to
like Alex Jones before let alone talk to him on the phone or
mimic some of the reporting from said conspiracy theorists.
I'm gonna I'm just gonna do that all the time. So you're clearly
performance artists because when you say things like, well, he is
just set of sandpaper. I meant I just did doing it.
We reached out to Jones for comment, but he and his lawyer
told us they're prevented from speaking by a gag order in that
custody case
got an order. Thanks, doll.
Thanks. Wait, don't say anything. I got a few to tie
into this. So not my setup. Obviously, Alan Dershowitz was
on with the overnight legend Don Lemon. And along with Toobin and
Toobin actually played the hand here that this is all about
Trump. Now, the problem here
is Donald Trump, who's the president of the United States,
as you may remember.
You would admit he depended on age dating you name it sounds
like a performance artist to me. Now, the problem here is Donald
Trump,
who's the president of the United States, as you may
remember,
has said Alex Jones is a very important voice.
Reputation is amazing. He said. Yeah. And I will not let you
down. That's where this gets interest course. Right?
We don't like Sorry, it was Cuomo.
If we can avoid it.
Hold on a second. Yeah, it was Cuomo. Let's stop right there
with this with the with the gratuitous Trump, quote, I will
not let you down, which appears on CBS two. That was said during
the era very early on in the campaign, when Alex Jones, along
with just maybe a very few of these radio guys, that would
include Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage, came out and
supported Trump against all the others during the primaries. And
Trump went on every show he could. He went on to savage all
sorts that he must have been on him maybe two or three dozen
times, he'd come on and yet get GAC. And he hasn't been on
sense, which is pissed off Savage, of course. But he says
is what you can expect. But this was all part of this whole thank
you for supporting me, and I won't let you down. It's got
nothing to do with anything in this story. Zero. No, it is bold
crap that they're doing it.
And it was actually here's Dershowitz who took Jones aside
in this from a legal perspective,
but he's a phony. There are people who hang on his word the
attacks that I get Professor whenever you even encroach on
questioning Alex Jones. If he's a phony, what would that mean?
But
first of all, he's gonna argue I'm not a phone. He's gonna say
I'm just an Exaggerator. I play one on television. But he says,
I believe this to the depths of my feelings, I believe what
was that he's in a bind, because he does what he is supposedly,
and I didn't check it myself because I don't listen. Alex
Jones, but they he's supposed to stop, stop. I know. I know.
I know. Kind of a douche bag. Starts analyzing some guy. Well,
you know, I've never seen a show.
Well, I will tell you exactly what kind of douchebag this was
very prevalent in Europe. In the early 80s. When I was on
television, people would meet me or see me see me on the street
or supermarket or some social event and milk. Yeah. Oh, hi.
Yeah, yeah, I don't watch television. I don't know who you
are. I don't watch music television. I don't know who you
are. Just a douche bags. There. They exist those bags and Alex
Jones. But they he supposedly went on the show said something
a little different. tried to salvage if he does do that. Now
he's got a problem, right? Because he's got to lose
somewhere to win somewhere else.
That's exactly right. And look, to his credit. He seems to be
putting his kids in front of his career. You gotta give a guy
credit for that.
Yeah, gotta give the guy credit for that. Well, let's
first stop again. First of all, they're gonna break the ideas.
This is a custody battle, that there's not this actual list
anyone's talking about? I've never heard his wife's name
mentioned in this the reporting of Alex Jones in the custody
battle is
not about Alex Jones. That's why was about Trump.
But let's just go back to what the premises which is the Alex
Jones plays a character. They have the Alex Jones, obviously
wants custody in some form or another one or more of his
children. And they're going to it and they're going to drag out
all these crazy stuff. You have a clip that already about babies
being born in cattle
for 25 years, they've been growing babies and cows.
Now that the jury
I'd like to present to you exhibit a
on for 25 years, they've been growing babies in cow Do you
think this man should be anywhere near children? Yes,
that's exactly the problem. And so they have to put forward this
thesis that he's playing a character and he's is playing a
kind of a character but he's not.
The law cannot forbid parents how they educate or raise their
children.
No, it can't but they but the jury or whoever is deciding
whether he should have custody again, if you roll out enough.
We've got some great clips of him going berserk.
I really I really don't see the need to discuss his custody
battle, because it's not about that.
No, I agree. But that's the rally. Here's the reason I'm
discussing it. The rationale for the promotion that he's a phony
is because of the custody battle, of course, and there's a
reason for that, for that need to do that. Then you then they
extract that and say, well, he's a big phony, and Trump likes
him. I don't see how you can leave the custody battle out of
it.
The reason why this defense was introduced by his attorney, it
worked very well for Hulk Hogan, who said, hey, you know, I'm not
Hulk Hogan, what's his real name? Paul, something rather, he
says, so all this stuff that that is with that persona hurts
me personally. And you have to separate these two things.
That's my work, you know, if I were a clown, or if I were a
high wire, tightrope walker, or, you know, it's his vocation, so
it's I think it's a very typical defense in family court.
I don't think it's I wouldn't surprise me. Yeah. If you're in
show business show business. And that Ben Hogan was and so as
Jones Exactly.
All right. So it's all about hating Trump. I got it. I have
better Trump hate. Because hate Trump's love. As you know, I'm
back on the beat.
You okay, at the view? Oh, this is about
the Easter. Let me sit down and relax. Yeah.
I remember there was this big controversy about Easter. And it
was started by the people who traditionally make the
commemorative wooden easter eggs. And they had not gotten an
order this year. And so that's the genesis of the White House
lawn roll. Yeah, that's the genesis of the story. And then
what and it's not I don't think it's true at all. Does this mean
that and then Melania was the one who, who said odo? Donald.
Oh, Donald Donald, we have to do Easter Egg Roll. Come on, Donald
Byron will like it. I'm working on it. I'm working on my Melania
you're Yes, I guess here's the view.
And I understand that you want to be the maverick of whatever.
But there are some traditions that requiring you pay
attention. The Easter egg hunt is more is representative of all
children in the United States. Yeah, you take care. Part of
what part of your job and if Melania is supposed to be doing
it, someone needs to give her with the program of what she's
in charge. Because she may not know that this was mine, but I
am glad that she knew enough to poke his Astro Teller. I don't
know. I don't know any adults that. You're trying to figure
out what's the truth of it. It
takes an immigrant you remember to do that. There you go. No,
no,
no, wait a minute. When? When Joy Bay Hart says that she said,
Okay, it takes an immigrant to remind him that he has to do
that. So he's referring to Melania. But what is she really
saying? It takes an immigrant I mean, you need a stupid, stupid,
moronic immigrant to. That's the way I hear what she's saying. It
took an immigrant Oh, you need an immigrant?
What you're saying inherent racism enjoy Baos remark. Yeah,
was just was a way of slamming Trump as being dumber. Yes. And
dumb. Yes,
yes. But also micro aggression against immigrants.
She doesn't know she's doing that. Worse. And I have a couple
of weeks. This is hitting me more and more I hear people say
things about who people who are generally unliked by Welsh and a
and the terms they used to describe are exactly the terms
they're accusing people of,
well, let's stop for a second. And remember about a year ago,
one of the members of the crew have the view one of the main
people's where they were talking about immigration was who's
going to clean our toilets. And everybody went ballistic. Once
they realize what she'd said, yeah.
I wish I had I wish I knew a clip that was I don't remember.
It's a great that it's actually on the inner inner tubes, but
we'll know it's not important to play it just it's funny. People
remember it.
But yeah, there's a lot of this. There's a lot of that going on.
A lot of it was that
I can tell when you're looking for stuff because you're not
really feel it you just you're just
I'm just sort of talking to myself. I'm just filling it with
a toilet. That's exactly it. Database. Toilet Bay Harbor View
will be no can't find any Have it anyway. So we have our social
justice warriors gearing up for the big event up in Seattle.
It's time once again, it's the traditional May Day and they're
expecting some brouhaha up there.
Mayday is now less than two weeks away and Seattle police
say they are making sure they're ready.
It's not a protest, but it sure looks like one.
This is training that we use throughout the year. As you know
that there are multiple protests in the city, Seattle.
Today, SPD utilized a warehouse in West Seattle to train
officers for the 2017 May Day protests. One group of officers
acting as aggressive demonstrators, officers in riot
gear practice crowd control techniques.
We always take our cues from the crowd so as long as everything
is peaceful, we're there to facilitate the march
SPD says this year they have heard of additional groups
gathering in locations like 23rd in union and second in union and
Victor steinbruck Park, then moving on to larger gatherings.
Okay, so we're expecting some trouble, there's gonna be
trouble. It's all the all the black bloc in the hoodies and
the social justice warriors, and of course, we all saw the woman
who got punched in the face in Berkeley. Louise Rosella is her
name. Yeah. And I have a little interview here with her that I
can't remember who did this interview. I got the raw footage
off of the YouTubes and the first thing that's very
noticeable, she's she has a very, very smooth skin, very
beautiful face. Not a neck, not a bruise, not a nothing honored.
I mean, specially right? Because she got whopped man, he would
have expected at least some kind of bruising, but he didn't see
any
I thought yet I think he missed but I think he could have broken
her nose if he placed a punch to the left. But
when we get into some tech news, later on, I want to talk about
some of my experiences with some of the millennials on Mastodon,
the new social social network that we're we're federated and a
part of. Because I've noticed a trend.
I'm all ears, they lie. They lie
like crazy when it comes to their own victimization. So in
order to say I was victimized, they lie. I mean, outright lie.
Well, that's interesting. That's gonna bring a couple of
interesting points during the O'Reilly discussion later in the
show. Okay, just teasing it.
All right, well, you know, then we probably should do it this
okay, we'll start here. Now, we also have of course, we've only
seen a piece of video because one of my pet peeves is no way
we don