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You can't handle the Yak Adam
curry Jhansi Devora Thursday,
April 28 2022. This is your
award winning combination media
assassination episode 1446. This
is no agenda, tweeting my life
away and broadcasting live from
the heart of the Texas Hill
Country here and FEMA Region
number six in the morning,
everybody. I'm Adam curry, from
Northern Silicon Valley where I
declare this seven DS day. I'm
John C. Dvorak.
Buzzkill.
Oh, hold on a second. We got
something for that. Let's see,
he's calling it seven. He's
declaring it 70s day that makes
mean that something is happening
with our call back to the 1970s.
Time now, for know what gender
70s Flashback
just one of many jingles I'm
sure will receive.
Here's the deal. Yeah. Here's
the deal. Oh, hello, Joe. Here's
the deal. Here's the deal, no
joke.
I have a list of 70s terms, that
some of them came from the late
60s and get swept over the 70s
and even went into the 80s. But
most of them are from the 70s.
I'm gonna have this huge list.
Huge list. It just is Oh, wow.
On it. Of course. Yes. Good. But
it's not the one I wanted. The
ones I picked. Oh, I could use
it. I
I'm going to use 10 of these
words in today's show. Okay.
It's up to you.
Ignore them or ring the bell? I
know that you're aware.
I think you'll miss probably
most of them. Oh, really? Oh,
yeah. Yeah, you'll miss it.
Because you're kind of already
talking this way. And wow. And
and then I'm going to drop in a
term that I've isolated as only
from the 80s. There's no way it
was ever a 70s term. And I'm
going to use that one. And it
will be interesting to see if
you can that's the only one I
wonder if you can spot. It'd be
interesting to see how you're
going to do this. So you're
going to have a normal
conversation with me. But yet
you have this background process
running right in
to insert insert words
throughout the show. Okay? Yeah.
All right. Oh,
come on, man that you already
have three of them now.
There's only seven. I told you.
I'm not using Oh, wow. Okay to
them?
Well, everybody wants to know
our opinion.
was usual about Twitter about
Elon Musk buying toy? Yeah,
you're the one who said he
wasn't gonna do it? No. That's
not what I said. I said he will
destroy Twitter. That's what I
said. That's very different.
It's very different from he's
not going to do it. And I had, I
had a whole opinion, but I read
your sub stack.
And it helped me a little bit
form an opinion of what I think
might really be happening.
Another opinion number two,
yeah, but he to read throughs
version 2.0. Still, the result
is still the same thing. But
it's a little different based
upon your your substack which
was outstanding, I might say.
Yeah, movie.
Before we do that, let's, let's
just have some fun listening to
the M five m talking about this
deal of Elon Musk purchasing
Twitter, the deal is done.
Twitter has been sold to Elon
Musk. My company meter says
there's something just not great
about this. He talks about it
being a free speech platform.
I'm not sure what that means.
This guy has no experience
whatsoever. With any of the
lines of business involved in
Twitter, it seems to me that
it's about free speech of
straight white men. And in many
ways Twitter has been a dark,
dark place. I hope it doesn't
get any darker. Yeah, this is a
weird guy.
It's gonna be a private company.
Our public conversations
shouldn't be at the whims of
anybody, Amazon founder Jeff
Bezos, also throwing shade at
the deal. questioning whether
China would gain more influence
over Twitter. If you have $44
billion and you use it to buy
Twitter, you make bad decisions.
This affects all of us in terms
of misinformation. You know, I
guess billionaires want to take
over free speech and I'm not
here for it. He talks about it
being a place where there's
trust where there's open
algorithms, so it's a lot of
words and it's kind of a word
salad. I'm confused about what
to do. You know, we all use
Twitter. Do I stop or do I wait
and see what happens and for me,
that is something that is a bit
scary.
It was beautiful to see just for
however long this lasts of
apparently people can post
anything they want now.
Bots are returning to everyone's
account to follower numbers are
up people who are shadow banned
are no longer shadow banned.
Have you been following
Some of these, these
observations, tweets and say,
Hey, can you see this now? Can
you see me? Yeah, and people
Yeah, I see your follower count
go up. No. Oh mine did.
Yours didn't go up at all. Not
even 100 Or two. Yeah, now
really, I must have gone up at
least 500.
And it's all bots, it's crap.
Get a bunch. I must have bots
already. It's Bitcoin bots. Coin
boss. That should be that was.
So that was obviously I didn't
make that super cut. But there
was an even better clip that we
have from Ari Melbourne from
MSNBC, who just without without
even understanding how how
blatantly he's letting the truth
come out. Or what you set by
yourself. Media Corp due to
health is just this one of the
most beautiful clips, it's 30
seconds. I think it'll be an
evergreen, you own all of
Twitter or Facebook or what have
you. You don't have to explain
yourself. You don't even have to
be transparent. You could
secretly ban one party's
candidate or all of its
candidates, all of its nominees.
Or you could just secretly turn
down the reach of their stuff
and turn up the reach of
something else. And the rest of
us might not even find out about
it till after the election. Oh,
no. Elon Musk says this is all
to help people because he is
just a free speech.
Philosophically clear, open
minded helper.
Gee, is it possible you think
that could happen during the
election that they were dialed
down opponents and maybe not
talk about the bow Hunter Biden
laptop, stuff like that? Yeah.
Jim Psaki these guys are so
these guys are so I don't know
what their problem is. So
they just don't be is beyond?
Of course, sometimes, of course,
you know what's going on? You
know exactly what it is. Because
they know that this is exactly
how it's worked. And they're
worried that they're going to
lose this capability.
It's not like Ari doesn't know
how the system works. Democrats
a stop that that's the
difference between you and me. I
think there's a level of
sincerity that you don't think
exists.
Wow. Well, it's very sad if he's
100%. Sincere. Hey, maybe that
guy's dope. So now you go. Now
you're getting the White House.
Also quite concerned. He has Jen
Psaki,
breaking news, Twitter agreeing
to let Elon Musk purchase this
purchase. Give a response to
that. And does the White House
have any concern that this new
agreement might have President
Trump back on? Oh, Trump? Well,
no comment on a specific
transaction. What I can tell you
as a general matter, no matter
who owns or runs. Twitter, the
President has long been
concerned about the power of
large social media platforms.
Oh, that power? He's always even
know what they are.
Well, you know what? Well, this
is section 230. Talk is what
this is the get the ramp and the
oh, now section 230. Maybe we
may need to look at it. The
President has long been
concerned about the power of
large social media platforms.
What they have the power they
have over our everyday lives,
has long argued that tech
platforms must be held
accountable for the harms they
cause. He has been a strong
supporter of fundamental reforms
to achieve that goal, including
reforms to Section 230, enacting
antitrust reforms requiring more
transparency, and more. And he's
encouraged that there's
bipartisan interest in Congress,
in terms of what hypothetical
policies might happen. I'm just
not going to speak to that at
this point in time.
Yes, section 230. anti anti
competitive. Yeah, we should be
looking at all this. So before
we get to your substack, what
really happened over the
weekend, it was quite
interesting how we went from
poison pill not gonna happen to
all of a sudden No, it looks
like the deal is done looks like
it looks like is happening. And
of course, it was a bloodbath
Monday on the on the market in
the markets. It was the Dow
Jones was down almost 1000
points. And now, I heard a
couple of things. One is that
Twitter might be on set to
report really bad earnings. And
so they they didn't want to have
the share price go down too
much, because that would give
Elon the opportunity to bid
lower. Did you have any insight
on this?
Nobody's I didn't see any of
that. So this was this is my
line around though.
For why why did why do you think
this happened so quickly?
Suddenly in the background?
I thought well, I was started
probably before we knew about it
and they
have no I mean, they just I
think that the word is that the
shareholders demanding because
they wanted to make some quick,
quick profits and, you know, get
out of dodge, because Twitter is
always blast
It is a does a dog it just in
sheep's clothing and I don't
know I never know what the speed
of it it just it's just happened
I did poison pill thing we poor
woods and I were discussing what
happened to that I didn't do
anything No
I thought that they had filed it
and it was you know I think
right now the company is
sabotaging the deal I think the
numbers went out back and and
the employees there's a good
Babylon B video that's floating
around I may have posted on no
agenda social. But you know the
police being all bent out of
shape about this whole operation
apparently is woke me I
suggested that they were
sabotaging as well. And I
immediately got hit back. No,
they were told to freeze the
code, but many changes, right?
People don't. Yeah, you're told
to freeze the code and everybody
obeys.
Yeah, please. Yeah, exactly.
When you're? Yes, that's what
techies do. Of course they
lockstep obey, they don't know
about throwing a wrench in the
works or kicking somebody in the
nuts. They don't know anything
about that. So by the way, I had
to disrupt STATCOM. I do have to
mention somebody because I, I
had to go back and within a few
minutes, but I had to add a
disclaimer on one of the tweets
that I had posted within the
thing because people kept
saying, you know, that was
unserious? I had one of those
same tweets, a similar tweet in
the newsletter, and I want to
read this tweet, okay. Because I
had a bunch of tweets
interspersed within the call.
Yeah, showing people being all
panicky.
So this one is from Dr. Matt
Walsh, Women's Studies school.
And he says, my four year old
pan genders, child, Star Dust,
just asked Matt, if Elon Musk
takes control a Twitter, will a
hate speech be normalized? Is
democracy over will life even be
worth living? I looked at them
and replied, Yes, yes and no.
And we simply held each other
and sobbed.
Yeah, Matt Walsh is even his
Twitter description, their
women's studies, if he's, this
is all obviously a joke, because
he is he's like a ban and war
room type guy. Now, I will say a
couple of things about this guy.
It's extremely well done. For
example, he has the four year
old pan child called calling a
man's child, not saying Dad
says, Matt, I like that too.
Which is a good bit. And then he
does the other one he calls the
kid them because at four years
old kid has been properly taught
by the teachers of this country
to be decided to be at them.
I just thought it was a beauty.
So I had to put a little
disclaimer on there saying this
is not a serious tweet as a
satire. But yeah, that's I guess
some people were, did you know
that this is not true? This
tweet was out of sight.
Was that on your list?
Honestly, if I'm not sure,
don't worry, man, I think I can
I think I can catch them all.
Now, but let's just talk about
your substack per se, you're
looking good. This was this was
old Silicon Valley. Knowledge as
in length of in depth of
historical knowledge of how
things work. And this was, well,
why don't you just give us
synopsis because this was, I
don't know Fred Gibbons am I
supposed to know who uses Fred
Gibbons was the very sad story.
He's a professor, but he started
he was one of the big three. In
the beginning of the personal
computing revolution. It was
Bill Gates, it was a Mitch Kaye
poor with Lotus and then Fred
Gibbons with personal snow,
where he's the guy who left the
Beatles.
Pete best, best, best. So Fred
was the third guy and the big
three that were kind of run it
and dominate the early days. He
brands, personal software, and
people are going to look it up
as to the kind of stuff they did
was very early on, office kind
of things. And pre pre Microsoft
doing it. And Fred, this was I
think he's in his 20s, or
something he was is a ski or
avid skier had a stroke. Oh, on
the slopes. And it took him
years to recover from it and had
to screw it up all his is being
in the business. So he went off
and became a he's the guy by the
way, he one time I saw him at
some some meeting. And he made
sure to, to corner me and to
tell me this is I think in the
90s He says, I'm the one who who
invented the term information at
your fingertips. Bill Gates.
stole it from me. I totally
believe that. Oh, boy, I totally
believe it to course. And it's
not the kind of thing gates
would dream up. And it's not a
great slogan, guys, as far as I
know. No, I've never heard one
slogan is not a slogan guy or a
joke teller. No, hey, Two Jews
walked into a bar is not going
to do that. So Gibbons is, is a
great guy. And he's a became a
professor in electronic
engineering, but he teaches a
lot of business courses. And so
I had lunch with him about two
or three years ago. And he says,
he says to me, he says, Elon
Musk is the real deal, because
there's all these guys that come
and go from Silicon Valley.
They're their kind of lucky
entrepreneurs, but he's actually
a guy who, who is a visionary.
And thinks way he thinks outside
of the box, and everything
you've seen from him is maybe
did he ever make any money in
anything? Or Is he is he Oh,
again, the Brian Jones of this?
Did Gibbons. Yeah. Did he make
any money in Silicon Valley? No,
no, only the Brian Jones cheese.
As far as I know, I don't he's
not poor. And he's lives in
a house in Palo Alto, you make
plenty of money just sitting
there. Right? So he's, he's
okay. But so when he tells me
that it's okay. And I didn't
really think much about it. But
then I've watched much since
then, with that in mind. And I
have to say that the reason he
busted by Twitter's for business
reason that he's not talking
about. And then I start thinking
about some of the elements of
Twitter that were they're just
throwing money away. They're not
advertising properly. They're
not using the user base. They're
not doing anything right there.
You're running clickbait ads,
here and there, and they stink.
I think it's a goldmine. And so
the only question I have is,
where does the goldmine come
from? The sub stack explains
very well about how much you can
glean from even a list of a
database of email. How much is
that? Some of this has been
added, of course, has continued
to be used to understand
your business. I had years ago,
when I was doing this radio show
called Software Hard Talk. I had
a guy on in the 80s in the 80s
guy comes in, maybe the early
90s. I gotta listen, I gotta
hear this show Hard Talk from
John C. Dvorak. I'm
your industry. And I didn't name
the show.
The
I think, is maybe around 9394.
Because the guy comes in, he's
got these algorithms got all
this stuff. He says, here's what
we do. And I wished I'd lost his
card as I would tend to do. And
because I've always wanted to
get a hold of this guy, again,
see what he's up to. But he at
the time had this company that
would go into a corporation, and
then down, get all the email,
without really, you know,
identifying anybody. Yeah.
Right. And slammed through all
the email messages from person
to person, it just everything
and be able to glean out
expertise, based on who people
wrote about what they said what
they did, and figure out that
there are people within the
company that would be good at a
job they're going to have open,
that's going to be a very
special job for somebody that
knows about, you know,
you joints or who knows what he
says you can. He says that most
companies are filled with talent
that they don't, they don't know
how to tap. And he and he talked
about how you could do this by
analyzing email. And I always
thought this was like, his ties
being a breach of privacy. I
always thought it was genius.
And that's the kind of thing
that Facebook kind of does.
Yeah. Twitter has the better
opportunity, they can kick total
ass if they wanted to pull a
stunt like that just based on
public tweets. So you don't even
have to read their email to do
it. It's got to be worth a
million billions, billions of
dollars. It's just, it's just
wide open for that. But they're
too stupid. Because there's
moderating and trying to protect
the Democrat party to ever take
advantage of it. I think you're
absolutely right. And it doesn't
even have to be advertising. So.
So just a couple of things where
we get to my kind of conclusion
where I'm at right now. First of
all, the unleashing of the bots
and everything. I think that has
another reason, you know, why
would they necessarily do this?
Why would they sabotage it in
that manner? I think the deal
right now is in due diligence,
they have until October 24 to
complete the deal. In that time
period.
There's a breakup fee if Elon
Musk pulls out for reasons other
than stipulated like you know,
lies lies of their of their user
numbers could be one I mean,
there's a lot of you know how
many I he probably has a million
out if he has out but
But doesn't really matter.
The Breakup fee is a billion
dollars. So it would be it would
be a fun thing to do.
Just to take them all the way to
the end and melt down the entire
Twitter universe for a billion
dollars that that if you have a
lot of billions that could be
like it's a fun ticket,
something to to waste some money
on. Now Twitter also has a
breakup fee of a billion dollars
if they if there's if they
accept a an offer from another
suitor another company. And I
find it odd that no one has
stepped up. I mean, if if Elon
if the valley knows how smart
Elon Musk is how dumb is the
valley? Where's John Doerr? You
know, where's Sequoia? Capital?
Eldo they're probably in the
deal with Elon. But where are
all the other? Where's Google?
Or apple? Or no one no one is
interested in making an offer. I
just find that odd. Google
apparently in 2014 and there's
some video some tape of it
filter. I have a copy. offered
to by Twitter, they weren't
going to go for it.
This was after you know, the one
of the guys behind Twitter's has
ever had.
Evan Williams, who? Who invented
blogging, he, by the way,
Twitter didn't start as a
microblogging platform just to
correct you. It started as a
podcast platform.
Well, when I listened to the
lecture from ever head,
who's not a silicone, it's been
who hated me
to join the Club.
He they made it sound like it
was a pot, it was always a
makeup microblogging platform
bullshit. There was only it was
audio, audio, it was the when
we're not when we're pod show,
and then they never really, they
did launch for about a month,
and then they close it down. And
they took the whole
infrastructure of RSS and turn
it into Twitter. And you know,
and of course, RSS didn't scale
for them that way. So that's why
you had the fail whale for
years. And it started out only
his text messaging, if you
remember, he couldn't even you
couldn't even do it online.
Do you remember that? I don't
remember any of that.
Yeah, I got a weird memory that
way. But okay, microblogging
platform. So as I'm looking
through, you know, what could
happen in it? First of all, if
you don't the platform,
everybody and everybody can say
whatever they whatever they
want, I think the game kind of
gets less fun. Right now. It's a
real game between left right,
you know, black, white, you name
it, like, Oh, let's see what I
can say before I get it before I
get to suspended. Oh, he got
kicked off Twitter. That's an
outrage, you know, the game kind
of breaks. I think that will be
super detrimental to the entire
entire operation. But you
already heard Saki saying, Oh
230 anti competitive section 230
who have said we're going to do
the European Union, they
actually will block shit they
don't want now they're doing a
lot of this already. They have
that new Digital Services Act,
which makes it very clear that
hate speech cannot even be
posted and you have to have all
kinds of systems to get rid of
it and be able to remove it
immediately. And so that was
gonna be if if it truly is Elon
Musk doing the Free Speech say
whatever you want. I think the
European Union maybe other
countries are going to block it.
There's
I've never really
envied anybody who has to run
Twitter who gets the call from
the president from Zimbabwe. You
know, like, Hey, man, people
trying to kill me. Shut that
shit down. Or hey, man, this
guy's no good, you know, baby
McCrone? Hey, you got to, you
know, you got to press down on
that LePen getting too popular.
I mean, you can just imagine
what the, what the call list is
like.
Yeah, but you know, there's the
other side of it too, you know,
Craig's List. And the thing
about Twitter and their blocking
has always bothered me is that
you can report Carl Reiner the
number one hater on Twitter, who
and people I know for a fact
that been reporting him left and
right about calling Trump a
criminal and he's still doing
it. By the way, go to the Carl
Reiners feed. It's just all
about Trump is always been about
Trump. This guy should have been
kicked off. Well, this is not
about Trump
is still about Trump. If you go
right now and go look, you'll
see every other tweet, or every
tweet will be about Trump.
On in meanwhile, and people have
also talked about being
impersonated. I know one guy
personally, who's got copies of
him floating around Twitter. He
bitches and moans about it
constantly. Nothing comes of it.
Oh, that's you
saying
I'm sorry. I was looking up Carl
Reiner. And somehow you slam me
and I missed it. No, I didn't
slam me. I was just saying that
you have like phony Adam curry
people.
of Twitter that you can't get
rid of. You've hit UK you have
issues with them. Yeah, don't do
anything about it. No, no, I,
but if you're like, you know,
but Trump gets kicked off the
platform and all these other
things happen that are all Oh,
geez, we got to get rid of that
person. I mean, they have
literal Nazis. Nazis in terms of
Black Lives Matter Nazis on the
platform, calling for violence,
and they don't do anything about
is really unbalanced. Yes.
So I'm thinking what, so after
reading your substack, I'm like,
Okay, I know Elon Musk is a
government shill, everything, he
just launched another NASA Space
X mission
Skylink, there's so many things,
he works to government angles
better than anyone. That's the
way to put it, he works the
government angle, or maybe the
government angle works him,
that's just a matter of opinion.
So clearly, he has to have a
real good reason to because he's
also he's leveraging his own
Tesla stock against this, which
is fun for people who like
shorting Tesla, because now, if
something really goes wrong with
Twitter, or the perception is
wrong, um, that something might
happen to the investment
leveraged against Tesla, or
Tesla just goes down a bit
anyway, here's a good margin
call. And there's all kinds of
things that could happen. That
would make it exciting for
people who play the stock
market. So he has to have a good
bit, I agree, he has to have a
good business reason. And it is
complete when I read what you
would discuss with your
professor friend. They're like,
yeah, that's it. That's where
the value is. But it's not quite
there yet. And I think we will
see one change and one change
only, which fixes everything
that is wrong about Twitter, it
also introduces a huge problem.
And Ilan, let this cat out of
the bag when he was discussing,
actually, Jack Dorsey was doing
some conference, I have no idea.
It might have been a Twitter
conference, the audio is
understandable, but you have to
kind of listen to it's only
about a minute. Dorsey says what
can we do when he was still this
is a while ago, what can twitter
do to make Twitter better? And
then Elon has an answer, which I
think holds the future. And the
key to what we'll see from
Twitter was
give us some direct feedback,
critique, what are we doing
poorly? What can we be doing
better? And what's your hope for
our potential as a as a service?
If you're running Twitter? By
the way, do you want to run
Twitter?
What would you do? I think it'd
be helpful to differentiate
between real
and
real diversified.
Can you even hear what he's
saying? No, I can't understand a
word. He's saying. What he's I
could kind of understand Dorsey,
what would you do? Would you
want to run Twitter? And
so what he says is the problem
is you can't really see what his
real opinion what is bots are
what is a troll farm going after
something to shape opinion. So
he keeps coming back to it would
be really interesting to use
Twitter to understand what
people really are thinking what
what the mood is of the country,
or the world of a group. And
then it hit me, it's so simple,
and Twitter should have, well,
it's probably time for Twitter
to do this. We are going to go
to a Twitter, which will be I
think, pretty much open for you
to say whatever you want,
within, within some obvious
constitutional for the US and
maybe other countries have
issues how, how they want to
deal with some things. But
slander is still a thing. You
know, there's tort laws that are
in place. So you can kind of let
everyone say what they want. But
every single account will be
verified with it with
identification and
authentication, it will be musc.
Somewhere along the lines, the
last few weeks have has
mentioned the sack same, that's
exactly what was on this on this
recording. And that's and that's
for everyone has to be real, not
just real, verified,
authenticated, we have
identification from you. And I
think it'd be great for Twitter
than also to have the universal
authentication for everything. I
vote for your code. But forget
how it's done for your COVID
passport for your regular
passport, it will be that it
could be the Twitter at the
government in well, of course,
that's why it's not going to be
probably the government's will
love that. And you will have
spent what we're not going to
give it to the government we're
going to sell it to the
government and we can sell
opinion. So you can really see
what people think if you remove
all of the bots if you remove
all of the advertising, all of
the bull crap that's on Twitter
and its actual people. And you
know, it's people and now we
kind of see how genius the the
blue checkmark idea was. Well,
it's it's going to be perfect.
It will be the next
It'll be another piece of the
puzzle that Musk is feeding
together with Skylink
the global tracking system, and
everyone will I think everyone
will go Oh, yeah, cool. We'll
Twitter we could say whatever
you want. You just have to give
me your driver's license.
What do you think?
All right. Well, I liked it as a
thesis. I think you got a good
one there. You could happen. I
mean, I think it's ambitious. I
think the fact that even the
checkmark never really worked
out when you had the check mark
was elitist. That was the
problem. That's what 12 was. So
stupid names that have named it
had fictional names, you would
get a check mark. I mean, it
was, of course bullcrap. With
the check mark. Hey, I, it's
just ridiculous. So I don't
know. Well, this is exactly why
we're going to have to.
Look, I think that everybody
went if Elon Musk says Okay,
here you go. It's open season,
say whatever you want within the
obvious guidelines of your
country, or whatever it is, say
Do as you wish, he might even
adjust the algorithm because the
algorithm doesn't really matter.
At that point. As long as people
keep talking, he doesn't have to
sell anything. He just wants to
know what people think he wants
to know. Let me see. All these
people have sir or Dame in their
handle? Okay, let's see, well,
this seems to be some kind of
cult. This is a cult to see what
they're thinking.
So in that regard, is genius.
And of course, that will ruin
Twitter. Because I'm not going
to authenticate myself on
Twitter. I'm not going to do it.
I'm going to do it. Probably not
know, any reason why I'd want to
save for promoting the show.
Yeah. Now I will say this.
Mimi had a good another idea in
a third angle, what it must
comes in. And just I think this
fact I think companies should be
people should be doing this.
I've always felt this way about
OS two, for example, my favorite
Oh, come in, take the code base
and turn it open source. And
just let it out there. This is
exactly what
Jack Dorsey has been saying is,
as a protocol, he feels true.
Twitter is fantastic and very
valuable. That's all that's all
Elon needs to do. Here's the
protocol, by the way, excuse me,
you should be able to set up
different versions of Twitter
with the protocol. Like, once
it's just a protocol, it doesn't
matter. The only caveat will be
you have to be a real person,
you'll be identified and
authenticated.
And the world I mean, that's the
grid that it's the final piece,
and that will ruin Twitter, but
it will complete Elon mission.
This guy's fans, I mean, I gotta
hand it to him. got ahead of
time net. Of course, it's
Skynet. This thing is called Sky
link. And now we can connect
everybody to it. So now we know
exactly who's walking there. Not
just Twitter user Joe Blow. 359.
No. John C. Dvorak, right there
posting, tweeting about the
show. Let's see what see what
that show is. He's still there.
Let's see. Where's he going?
He's not going anywhere. Staying
right there. We're going to
Okay, bringing the black chopper
he seems to be the same, that
same spot for weeks.
He doesn't he doesn't move this
location. Except to some
building. What does that post
office? I wonder what this guy
is doing is very suspicious.
No, that makes sense. And that.
And that's also the reason why
no one else jumps in. They all
know it's like, okay, this is a
government deal. The
government's gonna get
everything they want while being
bitches towards towards Elon,
while this is setting up and
they're going to have kind of a
controlled opposition. That was
so horrible free speech. Ha, ha
now Kantai at the meanwhile, the
government the governments of
the world will love this. But
of course, we will continue to
build out Mastodon there was a
quite an increase
in the fediverse, Mastodon users
more more users coming online,
which is fantastic because it's
all complete lefties. And
there's an there's quite a mix
of of left, right, all kinds of
different people on the
fediverse. The fediverse is in
fact that a bit of what what
Twitter could be, except the
Twitter having it all verified
everybody really you you will
know that this is not a bot.
This is not this is not not an
exercise. This is the real deal.
It's in that regard. Just
brilliant. Okay, so that's it
everybody. Send your driver's
license to Elon, what could
possibly go wrong?
way you describe as a downer to
a
let's move to Ukraine. I saw
you've got quite a sequence so
I'll set you up overnight a
drastic move Russia cutting all
gas deliveries to Bulgaria and
Poland to NATO members. This
comes after Putin's ultimatum
last month, demanding that quote
unfriendly nations pay for gas
and Russian rubles. Poland's
Prime Minister not backing down,
saying we will be
be able to protect our economy
protect our households and Poles
against such a dramatic step by
Russia. Yep, yep. This is a fun
one.
Yeah, I have a series on the
Russia, Poland Bulgaria deal and
which brings in the pipeline. My
favorite usually I do these
segments but you've jumped into
my lanes pipeline is coming in
from Norway. And you know,
they're passing it off as though
it's going to be online and
ready to go any second. And it's
talking about Nord Stream two
now. No, Norway pipeline Norway
pipeline. Okay.
And they talked about it in here
at some detail, and it's, but it
won't be online till they say
late this year. And I you know,
you and I both of us started the
whole pipeline thing. And these
things are always off. They're
never on the timeline. They
always fall behind and when
we're
not always Are you sure that
this isn't this isn't?
Which pipeline is this? I need
to know. Is it this discussed in
the NG it's a it's a pipeline
from Norway.
Okay, but Norway, Norway to
Poland? Okay. I see. Yes. All
right. We begin today with
Russia starting to squeeze the
flow of Europe's energy
supplies. The Russian state
controlled energy company
Gazprom says it has suspended
natural gas deliveries to Poland
and Bulgaria because neither
country complied with a Kremlin
demand to start paying their
bills in rubles. The European
Union says Russia is attempting
blackmail, with Commission
President Ursula von der Leyen
promising an end to European
dependence on Russian fossil
fuels. Russia's latest move in
the conflict goes beyond the
battlefield in Ukraine to the
gas pipelines into Europe. In
what has been seen as an
aggressive move. Russia has cut
the gas supply to Poland and
Bulgaria. Russian energy giant
Gazprom said it had turned off
the gas tap to the to EU and
NATO members after not receiving
payment in rubles. The Kremlin
demanded that bills be paid in
its own currency as a response
to international sanctions,
which left it unable to utilize
foreign currency and its own
reserves. Those immediately
affected were quick to respond.
The Polish Prime Minister
declared his country was energy
safe, having built up reserves
and applied that Poland's
preparations including an
alternative Baltic pipeline
might help the EU wean itself
off Russian energy Yeah, in fact
this one's called the Baltic
pipe
no I don't see the you know if
Russia is giving them gas and
oil and they can't pay Russia in
the norm rubles in normal
fashion because they've been cut
off and Russia is okay well if
you want the gas and all you're
gonna have to pay us in rubles
how's that blackmail?
Well, depends just wanna get
paid. I'm over here i You owe me
money. Hey, Adam. You owe me
money. Yeah, send me some Pay
Pal money. Oh, I can't use Pay
Pal anymore because my Pay Pal
accounts been blackmailing me.
Well, then you're gonna have to
send me a check. Blackmail.
How's that blackmail? I just
want to get paid. That's it,
period. I have okay, but we're
gonna keep on this because this
is the theme. This is from
Deutsche Vela. And you know
they're not too happy. I have a
part to ship on interconnector?
Let me remind you that we have
interconnectors to Germany and
the Czech Republic, as well as
our gas terminal and Chino chi,
which can receive even larger
amounts of liquefied gas. So we
will try to rise to the occasion
in this difficult time. Step
change, Kim, Tasha, astonishing.
This is
Bulgaria a country almost
totally reliant on Russia's gas
looks to the EU for solidarity
and security. I spoke with
Ursula von der Leyen. Joe said
that a unilateral breach of the
agreement between Gazprom and
Bulgaria is not just a problem
for Bulgaria. This is a problem
for the whole of the EU and the
response will be united. They
used to but adopt including
a strongly worded tweet from EU
Commission President Ursula von
der Leyen.
By the way, I have heard that
the traders have found many ways
around the conversion to rubles,
they're doing it through certain
derivatives. So the purchasing
does especially at Italy is full
of crap. They just did buying it
through all kinds of ways.
That just an aside, the problem
remains.
I stopped it there because there
was a little ditty at the end
that I just thought was
priceless. So you talked over
the little ditty. I didn't say
anything. Oh, I thought I
couldn't. I thought that was
you. Well, let me hear you and
then bass fish too. But
adoption, including his hopes
were echoed in a strongly worded
tweet from EU Commission
President Ursula von der Leyen
Yes, strongly worded tweet. A
strong up. Hey, if you don't
stop it, I'm going to write a
strongly worded tweet.
Which is a strongly worded
tweet. Is this the modern
version of what? In a strongly
worded tweet? Come on? Well,
what was the what was the sweet
bunch of chat children? I'd like
to know what the tweet was. I
strongly, strongly worded
clearly it was. Okay.
All right. That's supposedly
this gas comes from Norway. Is
that how it works? Because they
have a new one. Norway is a
major snag.
They get plying go Norway.
Yeah, they're taken advantage of
the situation.
Onward, got firms announcement
as another attempt by Russia to
blackmail us with gas. We're
prepared for the scenario. We're
mapping out our coordinated you
response Europeans can trust
that we stand united and in
solidarity with the member
states impacted. British Foreign
Minister Liz truss called on all
of Europe to cut off Russian
energy imports a plan that is in
the pipeline. Although Russia
might try to preempt that move,
it has just stated that it might
hold the guests to other EU
countries. Well, let's explore
this with Dr. Benjamin L.
Schmidt is a postdoctoral
research fellow at the Harvard
Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics is also served as
European energy security adviser
to the US State Department.
Welcome to DW Why do you think
Russia started with Poland and
Bulgaria? Who? Well, that's a
very good question. Maybe
starting with Germany would be
too obvious.
So they bring this guy and I'm
not a fan of this guy. He's kind
of full of crap. And he's, he's
a hack from, I think,
Obama, it goes way back. And
he's like his astrophysicist
that somehow got an energy
policy or that sort of thing
does happen. And he's wearing a
hoodie, and he's a big fat guy.
And
he says a few things in here
that are questionable, but I
think he's reflecting Biden
policy. But at the end of these
clips, you'll hear one specific
thing that I think negates
everything he says, but we can
start listening. Why do you
think Russia started with Poland
and Bulgaria? Well, that's a
great question.
I think that you know, in part
they they're able to go after
Poland because they've in
particular, cast Poland as a
quote unfriendly country to the
Russian Federation. This is
obviously not true.
This is something that from a
public perception in the Russian
Federation domestically
standpoint that that I think is
part of that decision. It's
really going to backfire. And
I'll tell you why. Poland of all
countries in the EU is one of
the most forward looking over
the past you know decade but
especially over the past seven
or eight years on building up
diversification infrastructure.
Remember back in 2015 The
European Union built up its
Energy Union European Energy
Union policy framework where you
were basically looking at the EU
building out diversification
infrastructure to reduce its
physical infrastructure and
volumetric hydrocarbon reliance
on Russian energy resources but
also build on Wow Hold on a
second I want to hear him say
that again. Well, you metric
bull shower by the way as you
know since the during our show
they the Russians like killed
off the entire Polish government
some years back with that
airplane thing Oh yeah, that was
great. And then they had bunch
of guys out there shooting The
Guys and they had they just want
to lie this one alive get him
Yeah.
No, no Russians and polish
they're they're good pal buddies
buddy buddy buddy up bro. I want
to hear that sequence of words
again you building out
diversification infrastructure
to were looses its physical
infrastructure and volumetric
hydrocarbon reliance on Russian
energy resources but also the
women volumetric hype. So what
he's saying is the large amount
of shit they need from Russia.
Is that Is that what he's
saying? All you met hydrocarbon
reliance on Russia.
In other words, they need the
Russian gas. But no, that's not
that's, ah, that's so cool Asian
infrastructure to reduce its its
physical infrastructure and
volumetric hydrocarbon reliance
on Russian energy resources, but
also build out its regulatory
models to push back on Russia
and in particular gas problems,
monopolistic practices in the
market. So what what did Poland
do in response, it went out and
built the Baltic pipe that's
going to come online later this
year from Norway to Denmark to
Poland to bring natural gas for
the first time from the North
Sea directly to Central and
Eastern Europe. It has expanded
its capacity at the swing of
least to terminal on the German
Polish border and it's looking
to do other things and it's
built up a connector with
Lithuania.
and is also looking to build out
a Gdansk terminal.
So Russia might well have picked
the wrong target,
man. So how does how was Russia
anti competitive? Were they were
they holding a gun? While they I
guess they were holding a gun to
Poland's head back in the day
when they killed the whole the
whole half of the government.
But how was the anti
competitive? They don't let
anyone else sell gas? Or is this
not a lot of people have gas?
How come Norway hasn't done this
a long time ago?
It probably wanted to but to get
to Russia has they're very
competitive. They look they keep
the prices low.
They have comes pouring in every
Yes, but not anti competitive.
That was the accusation?
I don't see any evidence of that
either. No, don't give it a 25%
discount to India right now.
Yeah, that's just racist that
has nothing to do with this. A
lot of this is being is very
poor analysis. But anyway, the
real kicker comes in the next
clip, I explained if you can
some of Russia's thinking
because of course, he's under
heavy financial sanctions
because of this this war. So
turning off the taps to Poland
and Bulgaria, one presumes rubs
the Kremlin of much needed hard
currency. So
what what were they thinking?
Well, I think there's two
actions here that the criminal
is trying to get across in terms
of its response. Russia has
weaponized energy. And I've
talked about this, on the day
many times weaponized energy for
many, many years. They've
they've threatened or overly
foot off gas to Europe, through
Ukraine, through other other
conduits on numerous occasions.
And this is just the latest in
that what they're trying to do
is two things Number one, they
are desperate to increase the
value of the ruble, the rubles
value has plummeted since
international sanctions
Yeah, no, it's it's rebounded
quite nice. Okay. Now, this was
from yesterday, really call.
It's from yesterday. So if this
guy in the end of ruble,
recovered within, I don't know,
less than a week, it has had
higher levels than it was before
the invasion. Now, it's not back
to 2014 levels when it
definitely when it got weaker
after the my Dawn invasion, but
it's back to those levels is
back to 2014 levels.
So this guy is just, this is
from yesterday. So if this guy
is the big expert that dw is
going to have on the show, and
he doesn't know that one simple
thing, and makes this and makes
this claim that's not true. It's
a lie, either knows it and he's
lying. Or he doesn't know it,
which means why are we listening
to him, which is the way I ended
up approaching it. And I stopped
that was the last of these
clubs. He goes on with some
other analysis. I don't know I
don't believe a word of it.
Again, nor can you but I'm glad
we listened to five clips that
now you just told us was all
bullshit. Thanks. Thanks. Good
to know, you know,
let's say it was I had to get
the volumetric values or
whatever. Volumetric hypo
hydrocarbon requirements. Okay,
your gas tank is empty.
I do have I do have a couple
clips. This is a there's some
concern in the European Union,
you know, the old Bulgaria,
Poland. Now, who's next? Oh,
what's it gonna cost? What's
What's the fallout going to be?
This is a major, I'm sorry, this
shouldn't say this is a
oil futures trader, this is a
major shot across the bow. And I
think he picked the low hanging
fruit initially by targeting
Poland, and Bulgaria, because
they're not going to impact the
entire pipeline system under
Europe. The bigger concern now
is that they cut off a larger
country that if they cut off
Germany, for example, the entire
continent is going to see
reduced gas flows. And because
of that, they're going to have
to use other fuels to keep the
lights on. And that means diesel
fuel, that means oil. And right
now, the world doesn't have
enough of this. And we've
already seen a major impact here
in the United States, because of
Vladimir Putin's actions. We've
seen natural gas prices surge,
but really where we saw it hit
hardest, was a record breaking
rally in diesel fuel. In New
York harbor where we price most
of our diesel for the country.
We hit an all time record high
because of this, I had $4.75
that is the equivalent in the
real world of about $200 a
barrel crude oil, and that means
truckers across America are
going to see record high diesel
prices. And it could get worse
if Putin decides to go any
further.
Putin is Putin now used to be
put in points for it's there's
pulling out putting up replace
the T with a D, prudence, fault
prudence, Prudence fault
Uh, I think that the war in
Ukraine was used very
effectively in the French
election. And I would expect
this to continue in the US
midterm election now that the
State Department is asking
Congress for aid for Ukraine for
the next five months,
five months, but you don't even
need the aid for Ukraine. You
just say, hey, Democrat,
Democrat candidate. You're for
Ukraine, Republican, clearly
Russia. Emmanuel Macron has been
reelected as president of France
defeating far right challenger
Marine LePen. It's viewed as a
sign of continued support for
Ukraine, after LePen spoke out
against economic sanctions on
Russia. She's known for anti
NATO and anti immigration
policies that Kron won 59% of
41%. But analysts say the
election results show the far
right is now mainstream in
France. Yeah, baby.
So I think I think that'll be
used here quite effectively. You
know, it's like, Oh, you don't I
agree. I don't agree. I agree
that it'll be used here quite
effectively by this crowd. I
think not. Okay. It shouldn't be
used effectively. But this Yeah,
this crowd Good point. Good
point.
To President Biden's asking
Congress for new powers. Well,
before we leave that that area,
I do want to play that Moldova
stuff. Sure. Well, this is still
about Ukraine. But yes, you got
Moldova for sure. Moldova is in
the in the crosshairs. According
to the at least the way the the
European media sees it. We're
not talking about that in this
country yet. I think we're
holding back because I think
there's some we can instigate
something that may do more for
the midterms.
If we get another country to
feel bad for we get to Moldova
juicy in there. Well, I think
that Mordovian is the woman that
runs that country I because I
was watching her speak. And she
looks like she just has this
look on her face, like, hey, we
need some love to you know,
you're sending all this stuff
over to Ukraine, and they're
gonna just try and ship it to
the Middle East. Who knows what
they're gonna do with all this?
They got more Stinger missiles?
In fact, a stinger. Do you know
the stinger missile hasn't been
made? For 2018 years? I do know
that. Yeah, of course. That's
why you want to give them away.
And so they're giving them away,
and they're gonna end they're
gonna end up in the Middle East
or someplace else, they're gonna
make some good, they're gonna
make some bank as the bank bank,
they make bank on the moving
these missiles out of there, it
could use some cash that move
over is, I believe directly in
the pipeline trajectory that
comes from Ukraine, I think, is
right. Is it start at the
bottom? No, it's to the left,
bottom left. It's just outside.
It's just north. I say North
East of Odessa, which is north
northwest of the West,
Northwest. It's east of Romania,
north of Bulgaria. So I think
I'm going to check it out. I
think they have I think that the
pipeline goes through Moldova,
it wouldn't surprise me if it
plod right through there. But
let's listen to what's going to
happen there. Because it turns
out, there's a small strip of
land, very small strip of land
reminds me of a Woody Allen
movie where the guy holds a
little piece of land in his
hand. I have a small piece of
land
that's on the on the east coast
of Moldova that's butted up
against Ukraine, and it's rented
a bunch of Russians are there
and they've been there forever.
And they don't seem to want to
leave. And it's just like the
bad you know, it's like a either
a bad penny or the neighbor who
comes in to stay overnight and
stay for a month forever. So
this situation is becoming an
issue. And they I think that we
the United States can turn this
into something big that we can
use to leverage our voters for
the upcoming elections. Let's
play these clips. There are
growing fears that the war in
Ukraine could spill over into
neighboring countries the UN has
called for calm and Moldova
to Ukraine after a series of
explosions, a targeted radio
masts used to broadcast Russian
programs in the breakaway
territory of trans Dniester.
Around 1500 Russian troops are
already based in the region
which has been controlled by
separatists since a war with
Moldova about 30 years ago. So
here's a look at what's been
raising tensions there for the
last few days. Thank you.
Stuck in that Soviet past, but
still marching in step with
Moscow. The army of transistor
on parade, soldiers in the
service of a breakaway state
unrecognized by the world.
Russian troops are also here.
They supported separatist forces
after the region broke away from
Moldova. A ceasefire ended
fighting in 1992.
But the conflict was never truly
resolved and wishing forces
never left.
Long seen as an anomaly on the
map of Europe, transistor could
soon be pulled into Vladimir
Putin's war in Ukraine.
Transistor is sandwiched between
Moldova and Ukraine. Keith
believes Russia plans to capture
the port city of Odessa, and
then drive to the border,
opening a corridor to a
breakaway region and linking up
with its troops there. The
region is politically and
economically dependent on
Russia. A majority of those
living here are Russian
speakers, like in eastern
Ukraine. Kyiv has long feared
that Russia could intervene here
to
never createUser cannot be ruled
out that the Armed Forces of the
Russian Federation could carry
out provocative actions in the
transmissive region of the
Republic of Moldova so that they
can accuse Ukraine of aggression
against a neighboring state. Oh,
man, I'd forgotten all about
trans nista
is like a little strip of land,
nothing. It's a joke. And they
have these soldiers marching
around like a bunch of idiots
wearing old costumes from the
1918 era. I mean, the whole
thing is just like a Peter
Sellars movie, this little area,
it's kind of like a big Civil
War reenactment. Exactly. And
they're, they're trying to make
hay with this. And it's like, we
do have a, you know, a quarter
of the population are
Ukrainians. Of course 30% of
Russians, but oh yeah, how many
people live there?
in Moldova as a whole No, no, no
transmission just in transit.
Malta scribbled over trends and
this is like the hot place to be
more than 50,000 people.
No, no, no, no, no, no. No. to
347,000 Well, it's bigger than
Iceland. Yeah.
Wow. All right.
Good.
This is covered yet in this
country. We're going to get this
is gonna happen you watch I and
it's also fun to say trans
desta.
fits in with our current
narrative always a trans
as you see trans, the trans
Okay, well, let's go to part to
it. Yes, all the people there
are called the Moldova has
opened its doors to those
fleeing the war in Ukraine. But
it to fears becoming a victim of
the conflict. Part of the
country is already under Kremlin
control. And its leaders want to
avoid a repeat of events in
eastern Ukraine, where
separatist forces appealed to
Moscow for help.
The troops of the Russian
Federation have been illegally
stationed on the territory of
our country for decades, that
makes us vulnerable.
Not just that is very junior
Northern, we cannot feel safe in
the region.
Especially after witnessing the
war in Ukraine.
Much depends on whether Putin's
forces can make inroads in
southern Ukraine. If so, trans
Nistor a state that doesn't
formally exist, could become the
new focus of Russia and for
West.
Now, I'm confused. Is it
Transnistria or Transnistria? Or
you just kind of swallow the eye
there? What do you I just trans.
So just to make it easy
transplant, so transplant,
transplant, young transplant.
The idea is that if you look at
the map, people should look at
the map and see where this place
is. It's like a little edge is
the edge of
Eastern Moldova. And you they
think that Russia will take
Odessa i don't think so. And
then they're going to sneak up
and then grab onto this chunk.
So they're gonna have a kind of
a U shaped
attachment to Russia. It's not
now now, but they're going to I
think we're going to try to make
that happen. I think our state
depart would love to because one
of the they didn't talk about
this in our in our news, but one
of the shots they had a woman
talk and then they pulled it did
a pullback and boom, there's
blink. And he's they're there
with her. Oh, really? in
Moldova? Yep. Then it's on deck.
Yeah, of course. It's on deck.
Great catch.
Yeah, there's tons of pipelines
going through. They're all from
Russia and several through
Ukraine. People don't realize
but Okay, cut it all off. Can't
wait to see how it gets in the
winter, nice and cold.
So as a part of this, we
continue to do platform Russia
as much as we can. And President
Biden or whoever is pulling the
strings has
will be proposing a
comprehensive legislative
package.
and that will enhance the United
States government authority to
hold the Russian government and
Russian oligarchs accountable,
accountable for President
Putin's war against Ukraine.
Now, I, of course, have not seen
any legislation yet, but the
question is always it will it be
specifically for Russians or
it'll just be for any old
oligarch or anybody that the
government deems no good. The
measures would result in the
forfeiture of property linked to
Russian Kleptocracy, allowing
the US government to use the
proceeds to support Ukraine. So
this is cool. Yeah, it was steal
the money from one from two
criminals and give it to Peter,
give it to Paul. Yeah, there you
go. Under the proposal,
authorities will be able to
impound property in the US owned
by sanctioned Russian oligarchs
and have a connection to so how
is this legal specified well,
and that have a connection to
specified unlawful conduct?
Biden wants to make to
criminalize any person to
knowingly or intentionally
possessed proceeds directly
obtained from corrupt dealings
with the Russian government.
will ship man that could be a
Pay Pal for to us.
I mean, anybody who, who has
died Pay Pal is cut off brushes
I know but someone else could be
straw man. You see, straw man?
Yes. Straw Man would be a straw
man for Russia. Putin. Putin.
Yeah. This is This is Oh, none
of this is good.
Oh, it's good. It's good. Take
the money from anyone they just
would flip a switch. Next thing
you know, they're stealing
everybody's money. What do you
what they're trying to do
anyway? When the when the White
House was asked the could not
yet to explain what will be
determined to define corrupt,
which is also kind of an open
term. Yeah. Good luck. Yeah.
What about 100? Biden is
anything involving him? I don't
know. Oh, by the way, I want
what about ism? John, that's
what about ism, false
equivalence. I want to go back
to what you said. Which is you
said, whoever's running the
place. Who is so we have to come
up with some theories. Yeah,
I'm, I My thinking is the
following. The National Security
Council, which has become a you
know, started off as a small do
two or three people has become a
large bureaucracy. I think
there's like 300 people in it.
It's like, it's got its own.
It's got his own offices. It's
got a bunch of people in there
and they're all deep state. And
they're, and Jake Tapper, a Jake
Tapper. Jake Sullivan is the guy
running it, but he's like a dork
and I don't think he's running
it in any real way. Because
he went to Saudi Arabia got
kicked out. He got into a
shouting match, supposedly, with
the with the prince there. Yeah.
Because he brought up some bus
Khashoggi, which wasn't going to
fly. And so the guy got ousted.
So he's just a bonehead. And you
watch him he's like a robot with
a funny shaped head. But I think
it's clear, very obvious who's
running the country who's
running Biden. Mr. Obama, I know
I'm not saying Obama is the
brains behind the operation, but
he did you not see him with
Kamala Harris walking through
totally. And around by himself
like an idiot. I think we talked
about we also said it was was
worse, I didn't realize because
I think we're talking about
after the last show that so
yeah, it's the White House
reception. And Obama is hanging
out with Kamala talking
everybody and Joe Biden is
behind him, puts his hand on his
shoulder and and holds it there
kind of like hey, Brock, Brock,
Daddy, Daddy, Daddy ignored
Obama. Obama look doesn't even
look at him sees out of his
peripheral vision that it's
Biden and just ignores him turns
right back. That said everything
Obama is come on Jen Psaki. Oh,
I love I love coming to work and
working for President Obama
every day. Yeah, truth wants to
come out, you know, could be
just a flood. I don't think so.
I think this is he's running it.
Now. Is he being run by the same
people that ran him previously?
Ie intelligence? Most likely
CIA? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I
then National Security Council,
the same people.
Same people, whatever, it's
jobs, but yeah, who?
I want to know who do we have
people that in these operations
that listen to the show?
Yeah, I'd like to know I'm gonna
name there's got to be one guy.
That's the dominant character
that really calls the shots. Who
is it?
I don't know. It's already
Obama's a good frontman. I
Obama's definitely their top
honcho representative.
Because he's not out and about
typically, he is the
representative internally. And
people know that. Oh, my God,
third term. So, you know, Obama
wasn't making the decisions when
he was president and most
presidents don't do Trump was an
anomaly.
only actors. Yeah, Trump, that's
what they had to get rid of.
They can't have they can't have
the president thinking and
acting for himself president. So
that's no good. So it could be
Pelosi, for all I know, it could
be all kinds of people could be
and we know it's not Pelosi.
We don't know what's now Pelosi,
we don't know. We just don't We
don't know anything. And it's
it's either much, much, much
more sinister. Now, like,
some banking family.
It's possible that or, you know,
it's Open Society Institute, and
I doubt Soros is asking people
if there's someone that must
know,
tech can just throw a name at us
and say, here's this guy is
some, you know, Fred schmuck. I
mean, did we go who never heard
of this guy? Exactly. Ever hear
of him either. You know,
vindman, someone like that?
Dykeman I love I love. Speaking
of Pelosi, she's so smart. She
knows how to do this stuff.
She's even though the old old
cow. She is going to have the
Ukrainian Ambassador unveil a
photo exhibit of the Russian
invasion at the Capitol, you
know, so Oh, another PR moment.
We can show the horrible Putin.
Putin. And you know, what that,
you know, that gets tons of ink
and coverage, just by the media.
But yeah, the public doesn't
care. I think the public is,
it's hard to I think they're all
in on the idea of helping
Ukraine, but that's about it.
You know, okay, we'll help them.
I don't think that it's going to
affect the vote. And because the
real kicker, and everyone talks
about it, they've talked about
it forever. It's the price of
gasoline. It's the inflation.
It's all that would get you
voted. I agree. I agree. But
it's doing what they can. And
it's not like the news is
focusing on anything else. So
the programming is still very
strong, buddy. I agree. And it
probably is too little too late.
And it's all the wrong stuff.
So we have yet another package
being put together so I've lost
count, but we had 800 million
800 million now I believe
another 700 million. And just
throwing money at him and
potholes are not being fixed in
this country. You know,
Christina came back from New
York with us to stay here for a
few days until she goes back
back to Holland. Yeah, she had
skin she she hadn't as white as
if it's unrecognizable to me.
I'm just going to consider it
from the 70s. So, you know, take
a chill pill, man.
I don't get a bell for that.
I don't have my bell.
The bell?
Sure. Come on. I got Oh, I was
leaning back in the shade. You
weren't right. There you go. And
she says that in the Netherlands
people are are pissed because,
of course, they have refugees
coming in immediately. You
cannot get a house in Holland.
There's an incredible housing
shortage students. That's been a
problem for 30 years now. They
can't even go to school they
cannot get a place to stay but
miraculously, the perception is
that the
the refugees are taken care of
and it's pissing people off the
same way as sending all this
money and eight or eight more
than money to Ukraine is pissing
off people about the border and
and all inflation all the issues
that we see the simple simple
questions or the simple gripes.
I gotta throw this in. Since you
brought that in. There's a lot
of stories. I don't have any
clips. But there's a bunch of
news stories about how Afghani
refugees are being kicked out.
And Ukraine refugees are being
moved in is causing all kinds of
problems. This is where in in
Europe or here in Europe, and
here here too. In fact, a lot of
Afghanis, a game like 2000 bucks
total or 1000, something very
low money, and they gave them a
place they can't pay rent now,
and they're booting them out
left and right. This is going to
be a huge problem. We're gonna
have a bunch of murders and
crazy things happening with
these Afghani
refugees who have failed to
learn English. I mean, it's a
it's a nightmare. Almost ready
to happen. It's going to happen.
So this is all part of the great
reset. I don't have to tell you
to scrape bullet Reese Well, you
have to break something before
you can reset it. It has to
clearly be stuck. New. They've
done a good job at that. The BBC
did a fancy kind of good job.
The BBC did a good job of very
short explaining where this
money is going to. And of course
it corroborates completely with
our thesis on extra military
assistance as well. $700 million
of that. What do you think
they're going to get? What are
they asking for 300 million of
that is going to the Ukrainians
directly. That's for them to
spend on whatever they think is
required. And the other 400
million is going to other NATO
members
So basically, it's going to
people who've got to neighboring
countries, many of whom have old
Soviet equipment that Ukrainians
already use. It's basically to
allow them to donate that to
Ukraine and then buy new
equipment for themselves.
So, we're funding NATO. So NATO
gives all their crap to Ukraine
and buys new stuff from us.
The answer is fantastic. It's
really, really good
luck and we're not in any of
these schemes. pisses me off.
We're having fun reporting on
the schemes. So just about
France, you know, the, the
Ukraine war was used there as
some talking points for McCrone
victory.
A lot of video evidence I've
seen of the French ballots and
if you caught any of this, the
way the French nun the way the
French ballots show up at home,
it's in a sealed bag little
looks like one of those plastic
bags that made is made of the
aluminum balloons you know, it's
you have to pull it apart. It's
completely sealed. And in that
it's two pieces of paper about
index card side one says McCrone
one says LePen and the LePen one
is ripped at the bottom and
there's this video of people
opening a ballot bag after a
ballot bag and every single
LePen ballot is ripped has like
a cut a rip on one side of it.
Which from what I understand
invalidates the ballot. Could be
true I don't know.
Well, I'm sure there's some
Hanky Panky going on there all
these elections Yes. A
democratic countries. Yes.
That's how democracy works.
It is
just Microsoft Works who can
jack the ballots better? It's
always what it's about you to do
that you don't on the heels of
the election results. There was
a deliberate deliberate sabotage
a multiple fire fiber cuts
across France physical cable
cuts multiple locations.
It caught off and I believe it
may still have cut off large
portions of networks that
deliver the Internet to France.
Yeah, this is part of the the 10
days or listeners
the 10 days of darkness, you
know, the inner road, this is
part of what we were promised
with the with Trump with the
power would go out Internet will
be shut off and then all of a
sudden we're reborn. I mean,
everything's good again. So but
people cutting fiber is is
definitely a problem because the
internet is used for more than
just Twitter. Now important
things like the show, but also
health, finances all kinds of
things run through it to
commerce,
bad actors, bad actors afoot.
Well, I'm surprised this hasn't
happened more often to be honest
about it. Right after me like to
have a fiber in this country
fiber in the in the rural areas
is clearly marked. We have it up
in Port Angeles, you drive
around in the with a fiber is
there's a bunch of sticks, and
kind of orange colored strings.
And they telling you that
there's fiber there. So don't
dig around there. This is like
the Warren you from, you know,
excavating. I've seen the
photos. This is not this is not
a someone putting a backhoe into
a fiber. Now this is an actual
and they didn't just cut it.
They cut it in two places. So
they removed the piece. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying is that
it's you can find the fiber. If
you wanted to pull that Yes.
Yeah, it's not that easy. All
right. Yeah. It's not that hard
to do.
And cutting out a piece so
that's kind of as chicken shit,
because you name it because now
that means you got to do double
splice, splice to one and a guy
with no tie. It's just extra
time, extra time.
Well, let's just continue with
our great reset stories while
we're at it. So we get that done
with
right after McCrone won the
election, France immediately
announces a digital ID passport,
not for COVID but digital
identity that they had tabled
several months ago like and
we're not going to do that now.
And boom, it's back on. And they
are they are now spearheading
with all of the UK EU, an
international facial recognition
system which fits right into
this. And
this is why don't you writing
something of researching about
digital ID
did you give up on that or? No I
never I don't give up on
anything. I'm still working on
the vinegar book for God's sake.
There. Here's actually wired has
a story about it. Europe is
building a huge international
facial recognition system. Yes,
surprise. But France just like
we're back in it's good to go.
They're going to link this to
DNA and I'm I've been telling
Christine I said I don't know
what your plan is but you better
you better move out of there out
of the EU before
I'm gonna have to do an
extraction. That's gonna suck is
much harder probably should
leave. Yeah. She has to. It's
horrible. It's all going to shit
and it's always Europe where the
wars take place. Yeah, and it's
always France and Germany the
representative moment of peace
which, you know, I think the 60s
perhaps 70s. I mean, it's great.
But it's good. It has the
persona as jinxed. I don't know
what it is. It goes back too far
historically to figure out
exactly what the mechanism is
that causes the go to crap every
so often.
Money,
money and maybe money, and it's
always about money. And money's
got something to do with it.
Um, I don't think I had much Oh,
yes, other than a disturbing
trend from MasterCard.
MasterCard is a big partner of
the World Economic Forum, they
are doing the carbon credit
card. So you can track your
carbon based upon your
purchases. And I believe you can
set levels yourself to stop
yourself from from purchasing
something once you've reached
your your self imposed carbon
limit,
which will be self imposed
first, before and before it's
government imposed. And here's
the here's the internal
communication. We're linking
employee compensation to ESG
sustainability goals.
And here's what they say hello
employees. Last year, we
introduced the new compensation
model for our executives at the
executive vice president level
and above, their bonus was
determined in part by the
company's performance on three
environmental, social and
corporate governance priorities,
carbon neutrality, financial
inclusion, and gender pay
parity.
Because of their work in yours,
we either met or exceeded our
goals, which is kind of a
bullshit thing to say, Did you
meet it or not? So this is how
it will work. You as an employee
will be compensated.
Your compensation will be
determined by how well you did
in these areas in your regular
job.
This is where you go, this is
where you go. I'm looking for
another job. Yeah.
Those good people with these
kind of policies. Yeah, we'll
see. I mean, once you mandate
this stuff, it's kind of de
facto man, every company has
this now.
Every company is going to
require its employees to I mean,
it flows all the way through the
ESG starts with your employees,
but also your customers. And
you're going to have to turn
customers away.
I'm really sorry, we can't have
you as a customer, you're not
ESG Frendo like you and every
single employee will be caught
woke get out every every
employee becomes part of the ESG
score of the entire corporation.
So you will be penalized for you
know, for throwing a rapper on
the ground as an example to
extreme.
Extreme, but I like the image. I
have a few more clips from this
from this discussion for this
discussion. Okay. I want to get
these other way that one of them
is
is the fact that now the EU
hates Hungary? Yes, of course or
not. Because he likes Tucker
Carlson's everybody hates Orban
yeah yeah or ban he got just
reelected this guy they rolled
their eyes as a we a disguise
getting on our nerves. And so
here's the latest on that. The
European Union has initiated a
never before used procedure
against member nation Hungary
over alleged violations of the
rule of law. It could see EU
funding to the Eastern European
country cut and comes just over
three weeks after Prime Minister
Viktor Orban reelection
now I didn't quite understand
what the issue was you're
cutting them off from a lot of
the EU funding that they
normally give him they give him
free money like we do we do that
with all their states. Right I
say it's government gives but
underwater but under what legal
pretext? Are they doing this
aren't they a full fledged
member
this some he mentioned it was
something obscure some let me
here I'm gonna here to get the
European Union has initiated a
never before used procedure
against member nation Hungary
over alleged violations of the
rule of law. It could see EU
funding to the Eastern European
country cut and comes just over
three weeks after Prime Minister
Viktor Orban reelection. i This
feels very incomplete to me, I
need to understand this. I'm not
going to argue that it's very
incomplete. I'm going to try to
look funny that whole story is
not going to be reported here.
So I have to dig around in the
European sources. Here's another
one. This is one that from NPR
that
I clipped to be kept it around
Something about sanctions.
If you'd listen to this report,
these sanctions are not to
accomplish anything. They're
just to punish. Oh, yeah. It's,
it's not like it's not going to
teach anybody anything other
than pain. No, it's not going to
change anything. So it's
pointless. But it makes us feel
good because we can punish, do
sanctions work? That is a
question worth asking as US and
other Western nations keep
hammering Russia with economic
sanctions. If the war in Ukraine
drags on for months or even
years, how many more sanctions
can the West impose? And what is
the end game? Mr. Ashford is an
expert on foreign policy at the
Atlantic Council. And she joins
me now to talk about this
welcome to All Things
Considered. Great to be here.
Russian President Vladimir Putin
said yesterday, the new
sanctions did, quote, achieve
certain results. So how have
sanctions impacted Russia's
economy. So far, the sanctions
that we've put on Russia's
economy have caused the ruble to
go into decline, anything up to
600 multinational corporations
have left Russia. And so the
Russian economy is suffering
from sanctions. What we don't
know yet is the extent of that
suffering, and whether or not it
will translate into into any
actual policy change. Well,
first, how are these sanctions
harming ordinary Russians who
have nothing to do with the war?
I mean, I've spoken to people in
Russia who say it's hard to
travel abroad. Now. It's hard to
even access foreign made
medicines, inflation is high. So
how do the sanctions affect the
ordinary person, in theory,
targeted financial sanctions are
meant to hit a government and
not the people within a country.
But in practice, that's very
difficult to do. What we
actually see and much of the
studies that have been done on
sanctions is that leaders,
particularly in authoritarian
states, are very good at
insulating themselves from the
effects of sanctions. Certainly,
Vladimir Putin himself has been
sanctioned, the people around
him have all been, but that
doesn't necessarily mean that
their lifestyles at home are
going to suffer, they may be
able to pass some of that burden
onto other people inside Russia.
And so this, again, is one of
those big problems. And
unfortunately, the history of
sanctions suggests that we're
good at causing the economic
pain. We're not good at getting
policy changes out of it. I have
a I while we were playing and
listening to that clip, I
understand the rule of law
mechanism,
which is what the European Union
is using against Hungary. This
was only approved about a year
ago right in time. It was
created by the European Union as
a tool to withhold funds from
member states that breach the
rule of law, for example,
curtailing judicial
independence, or eroding the
separation of powers. In
hungries case, according to the
accusations
I'm reading here from Deutsche
Avella, a large recipient to
Hungary, a large recipient of EU
funds has come under increasing
criticism over the past few
years. We're veering away from
democratic norms, with policies
such as exerting excessive
control over the judiciary,
stifling media freedom, and
denying the rights of LGBT
people.
So it's pretty vague how they're
using this but they can they can
remove up to 55% all all the all
money that they get from the EU
to a country or state. But 55% I
think is what they're aiming at.
So it's not always vague bull
crap EU things. It's like we
don't know just like we don't
like how you play the game.
It's funny because those same
things about stifling free
speech and fooling around the
judiciary in particular. Pretty
much what Ukraine does. Yeah.
Just throwing money at them.
Well, they're not a member of
that they don't have to play
nice they're not a member of the
EU so they get to do whatever
they want. That's nuts. is very
nice. Now I have two more clips
but I can push these let's do
your two more clips in the
moment. This is a there's a show
like this kind of like the BBC
is hardball where they ask these
questions they get to get you
get the
personas the interviewer asked
me is mean Oh yeah, well if you
say that Ba ba ba they get
there's just a mean kind of
interview show which the D
Europeans have more of these and
we have none. Andy Andy Andy,
what's the name? Andrew
I saw this guy recently Okay,
forget about yes I know exactly
what you mean. I know exactly
like a one on one and then just
spit question is slamming him in
there slam but it's a very it's
a hard it's a it's a rude that
guys are rude. The viewers are
rude. Yeah. You could do the
show and stand or you could do a
show like this. We soft pedal
okay. So the DW has this shows
called explosion or targeting or
since get some crazy very
aggressive name is very similar
to the beat
BC show. And this is this guy
Andy, who's kind of a
spokesperson for China. And he
is on talking about China's
relationship with Russia. And
are they going to? Are they
really going to go along with
the crap that Russia is doing in
Ukraine, and they get into some
mean spirited interview, but it
goes, goes off the rails and
starts talking about nuclear
nuclear war and how cool it
would be generally recognized
that the use of nuclear weapons
would be a very bad thing,
certainly would set a terrible
precedent. But we also need to
see though, Tim, that this is
not happening in a vacuum.
Secretary of Defense Secretary
of State, Austin and Blinken
were recently in Ukraine, there
were comments made by the
Defense Secretary that weakening
or degrading the Russian
military is now seen as an
American objective. So again, I
think we come back to this idea
that
is this an unprovoked action? Or
is there some precipitating
event? And is that precipitating
event?
Causing a legitimate response or
not? I think we don't know. If
you didn't, you didn't answer my
question and the market as to
whether this nuclear war would
be a red line, at which point Xi
Jinping with the phone to Mr.
Putin and say, That's too far,
we're not going with you on
that? Well, the only way we can
interpret this Tim is if the US
provokes a nuclear attack by
Russia, how will the world
including that's what we want, I
think is a question I hope no
one has to answer. But, you
know, again, to just frame this
up, you're not gonna give me a
straight answer on this RU. Let
me let me let me put it another
way. The the joint statement
issued by your two governments,
Russia and China in early
February, talking of a No Limits
partnership, was apparently the
first time China explicitly
joined Russia in opposing any
further NATO expansion. If NATO
is expanding, it's because the
threat is expanding Russian
expansionism in Europe and
Beijing's increasingly
increasing militarization of the
South China Sea. Can't you
understand that that's a reason
why NATO is expanding and why
people are looking to join
because they require more
protection in these dangerous
uncertain times. Where's this
show air?
He Avella
but he's he's easy talk.
Alright, who's worried? who's
worried now? Are they all just
shaking in their boots about
nuclear war?
You know, I'm watching this
show. And it's like, again, it's
like these shows where the
conference is confrontational?
Which I kind of, like the fact
that somebody does force the
question to be answered if you
ask it.
Yeah, they're kind of all
shaking in their boots. And, and
it's like, and then that he's
kind of implying that they
Secretary defense guys inviting
a new nuclear attack. So we can
like, figure out what to do. The
whole thing is nuts. Well, let's
play the rest. I just want to
say you also see, every this
lots of news reports, you know,
a Russian foreign minister says,
oh, you know, we won't hold
back. Putin says, oh, we'll be
swift. And the media interprets
that as nuclear war and nuclear
strikes for strike versus
attack.
I personally don't think that's
going to happen at all. Let's
hope not. Well, no, it would be
a day record. I'm just saying I
don't think it just
was doing the show anymore. For
sure. Well, it depends. You
know, we could maybe just
without you, California would be
a prime target, Texas. That's
North Korea is the one that
targets Texas. That's not in
Russia might be right. You're
not gonna definitely not gonna
get Fredericksburg. No, no
offense. Well, I would agree
with the last part of what
you're saying. To answer your
question. I would say don't you
remember the map? Back in the
Obama days? Kim Jong Hoon? He
had a map and it showed Boston
as a major strike zone for
nuclear weapons? Do you remember
that?
I don't remember it to be
honest. Yeah. But it wouldn't
surprise me. It was.
Do we have a clue? Was it to let
it was a big joke at the time?
Well, I would agree with the
last part of what you're saying.
To answer your question. I would
say it really depends. And
again, if the US launched a
nuclear attack against Russia
and Russia retaliated in kind,
this would be one situation. If
Russia that was not provoked and
use the nuclear weapon, that
would be a completely different
situation. I think we're
unfortunately in this gray area.
And this is again, to simply
answer your question, I would
say it depends, and I have no
way of
No. Let's talk about the South
China Sea for a moment. Why did
why did China break a specific
promise by Xi Jinping in 2015?
Not to put military equipment on
the Spratly Islands. He said at
the time relevant construction
activity that China is
undertaking does not target or
impact any country and there is
no intention to militarize, we
now see on these islands, anti
aircraft, anti ship missiles,
runways, seaports and white
domed radar installations.
What's that if not
militarization? And the mark?
Well term again, unfortunately,
or fortunately, we do not live
in a static world
times change, interests change
in the promises get broken?
Well, I think, again, times
change. And I think people have
to adapt countries have to
adapt. There's no government
intending to do to Taiwan, what
Russia is doing to Ukraine, is
that what all this is about? I
think any country, especially
any large country, especially a
continental country, with
increasingly global interests, I
think cannot reduce its security
concerns to a single issue or to
a single dimension. And so when
we look at Taiwan, and of
course, is very important to
China. But
China, again, has increasingly
complex, I think, security
challenges, and I would say also
opportunities as well. But with
Taiwan, clearly, the
government's position has been
peaceful. reunification is the
goal. But if other courses of
action became
inescapable, then that is also
on the table as well.
I can't believe you you could
stay awake throughout this whole
interview. Oh, I did. Well, I
watched the whole thing. It went
on for a half an hour show. And
I'm saying it seems like okay,
just a half an hour of this guy
apologizing for everything China
does or says. Yeah, it's just
like the classic apologist and
we're going to talk about China
after I thank you for your
courage and say in the morning
to you the man who put the sea
in the double fiber cut ladies
and gentlemen, Mr. John, see you
do
it in the morning to you. And in
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Before we get started.
We had discussed just briefly,
we discussed on the last episode
that there was really no reason
why we are starting so early on
show days. And like we did on
when I was in New York, we did
our show two hours later. I'm
seeing people some actually
happy about this. And I've seen
no pushback. What is your
experience? I haven't heard
anything one way or the other.
So can we start Sunday and our
new time?
Well, I'd like to do it as a
special event. Yeah, let's make
it a special event on Sunday.
Yep. To it instead of just
jumping into it on Sunday. This
is now the second show. We're
talking about it. What is the
second show? We're talking about
it so we're the lead up is
there.
I mean, I've talked about a big
lead up like a week or two or
maybe like the first of July 4,
redo this show, you know the new
hour and ya know I Why?
Because I'm in a rut.
kind of enjoy it. Like getting
up at time I get up I get up at
nine do the other. I mean, we
get to a dis Sunday. But I would
like to get a little more
feedback. I want to wait at
least until May. So I just want
to be the last show of April. I
just want you to understand
you're in a rut, but it's
different from you. My
production schedule. Yeah, it's
very it's a lot tougher because
you get up at nine. And whatever
you start winning you get no I
don't get up at nine the show
started and I get up at eight.
You get up at eight you get up
every day at eight, right? Yeah,
I get up two days a week at
five. It's very disruptive. So
what happens is I never really
wait after now. After 15 years
you're complaining?
Yes, I'm complaining exactly
after 15 years jumped to the 11
o'clock.
Yours yes, no, it's not right
away. It's half a month.
We've been talking about this
and we determined that the Oh
no, no, we haven't been talking
about a half a month we do
started talking about after
your, your little sojourn to New
York that's 10 days okay? It's
it's a third of a month. But but
we but this is not 15 years
that's not true because I used
to do the show in the afternoon
when I was in Europe. That was
the first yeah the first 100
episodes that's where we came up
with it I'm I'm gaming I'm
convinced we're going to have to
move it to the 11 o'clock spike
and we just wait till next
Thursday do of course thank you.
I forced an answer good next
Thursday. Perfect they won't
restrict me
Yeah, I did proud of at least
Okay, so May May we began to new
our well I think Sunday.
Sunday's is April Okay, so
Thursday Thursday. Yes, Thursday
the fifth
which is May Day May Okay there
you go. There's your promotion
celebrate is your promotion we
have something to celebrate good
Well, thank you very much troll
go to my Oh, it's not made a
made I think is May 1. All
right. That is the Sanko has
even been a first is Sunday.
No. Yes, Sunday is May 1
For me 30 days has September
April June and November. Oh
yeah, you're right may versus
Sunday. Oh good. What are we
gonna do it on May Day then and
then make Cinco de Mayo? Let's
do with Cinco de Mayo. Cinco de
Maya it was better I think it Oh
my I think Pittston. It was
because we were a Cinco de Mayo
show. We are the OG Cinco
Demayo. You say Cinco de Mayo?
Every show we've ever done this
had the
every every show that's been
good. Every fat lady show has
got using Sanko to mouth for at
least a decade because if I
didn't say it, then the show
inevitably sucks or something
that's
superstitious as hell.
I got the keeper saying it's not
Sanko it's cinco she's half
Mexican. So now she's correcting
me with their Mexican half.
Never hear about the pipelines
and Lithuania from your
Lithuanian half.
Cinco Demayo Why do we say
Sanko? You say Sanko? Well, you
just said it. I say it too.
Okay. Cinco de Maya.
All right. Hey, trolls. Glad
you're here. Uno, dos, tres
sanks. That's right. Sanko.
Yeah, literally dos, tres Cinco.
I don't know. Don't worry,
trolls will let you know I'm
plenty of time. It's all gonna
be good. It's just, I'm almost
extinct. I can use a little more
regular sleep. I'd like to get
up the same time every day. It's
fine. If it says that you told
me you're getting up at five
everyday so you can stay in the
groove. I hate that. That's my
point. I'd like to have a life
it's a good way get you get up
with the sun. You get to work as
the way to go. Okay, now you're
going to sleep in? Oh, yeah. The
Big Sleep in
that we thanked our trolls. Yes.
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flaggers. And with that Thanks
goes to Dame Kenny Ben who just
nailed it with the plastic choo
choo train with Mayor Pete budaj
as our transportation secretary.
I mean, it was did we even
consider anything else there was
so yeah, we were looking at
things.
Okay, let me see. Looking to see
what it was. Yeah. I think we
both in this case it was we're
jointly attracted to this piece
because it's so it's just a
pretty piece. It has a nice
kind of
it has a well the plastic train
is just beautiful. It's it's
nails it which I'm sure it's
just a smart
clipart of a trade. Now I want
to I want to do a call out for a
sizzle Tron because there was a
piece that he did on the
previously that I looked at. I
don't think we even talked about
it. We never compliment
And that's for sure. And that's
when we were bitching about the
artists you know, overdoing it
or getting carried over produced
over produced images were
produced. So did a piece he or
she I think it's a he did a
piece called too slick by half.
And it shows somebody scribbling
like a maniac and then a one of
those talking bubbles coming out
of my divorce rack, saying calm
down Picasso.
And,
and so what I did was I am going
to start doing this more often
with these overlooked pieces
that are really good, is I mind
his page. He's done art for a
number of years to find a piece
for the for the newsletter. So I
went back and found the oldest
piece I could find by him, which
was I since I was talking about
some new memes. Were it it was a
picture of Martin Luther King
saying, I have a meme. Yes.
Which is just a bad pun. That
but I just wanted to call out
sizzle Tron for doing this calm
down Picasso piece that we
overlooked completely. I don't
even know where it is. I can't I
see seems to go back to page
two. I saw the sizzle Tron. Let
me see. Go back to page two. And
then you got Oh, yeah. Oh, it's
the scribble. Okay, I see it. I
was looking for something else.
I don't remember seeing it
before me honest about it. Yeah.
Because it's, it's although I
get the joke and the reference
because it's totally something
you'd overlook. Because like,
what does it even mean? It has
to be I think we need to be
careful sometimes with for
instance, a lot of people put in
Windows blue screen of death
failing windows. Well, no one
heard that on the show, because
we cut all of that failure right
out of it. Yeah. So this is a
mistake. What you're hearing on
the live stream, you have to
consider that some things.
Just they won't be a joke.
They're
the CNN the CNN plus stuff.
And what was interesting about
that is all the artwork depicts
CNN plus going down the drain
the Hindenburg, which was the
kind of funny ended kind of
funny where that was also
happen, though, but it also
that's not what happened. We
deconstructed it and told you
exactly what happened had
nothing to do with not enough
subscribers. It was not part of
the new owners idea. And that's
why it was canceled so and that
would just be propagating dumb
Twitter meme shit. Blew my mind
that you're bringing up this
kind of complaining? We're not
going to use Elon Musk on the
cover art. No, of course not.
Course is not happening. You're
saying this because there's
already five or six pieces we
bought 123456789 pieces.
And why won't we use it? Elon
Musk has cover our John explain
explain why we won't do this.
Well, a couple of things. One,
you it's actually illegal. But
it's his legal thing that
remains illegal. You can't use
the image of some person of some
public personality to promote it
to use it as promotion in any
way satirical or otherwise. It's
illegal.
Oh, hold on a sec. Without
paying them you have to pay them
for their image at public
personality if you just throw
their picture up on an ad. I
love this show. Well, how are
the legal well, how are these
ads? These are satirical images.
These are guaranteed to be used
for our album art.
satirical works in most
situations, it doesn't really
technically work. I mean, we've
slipped it in here and there.
But generally speaking, it's an
especially with somebody a high
profile like musk. Not going to
happen but as Biden, okay, or
Trump is okay or biases. Okay.
There's a difference between a
public figure who's a
politician.
Okay. But if you have them
promoting Another words, if you
use them as an ad, saying I
recommended no agenda show which
somebody might do, as opposed to
ridiculing him like we do with
Biden, that's different is a
budget there's a fine line in
here. And all I'm gonna say is
two things. One,
the illegality of using Musk's
image A and B, I think is is not
an attractive image. He's not an
attractive man. By the way. He
is just a he's a weird looking
guys not a try. And I can't say
he's not that ugly or not ugly.
He's just a weird looking guy
looks different. But so that's
part of it. And the other thing
is enough, but what do we need
to give them publicity? Thank
you. That's the only reason
that's valid is who gives a crap
about that guy. So now he's out.
Okay, Elon is out there. So you
know, Elon is out
talkative today you are and I
like it. It's probably because
you get two hours more sleep
than I do. That's one of the
reasons but the other reason is
is because
As I'm trying to,
I'm trying to get everybody
stoked. Oh, and so I'm laughing.
You can you can slip them by me
Devorah I think I'm five for
five now, you trippin six for
six.
That's interesting because
tripping is used very commonly
in hip hop parlance today. Yeah.
Thank you very much Dame Kenny
Ben for bringing us Mayor Pete,
our transportation secretary in
the United States in his little
train, doing nothing for the air
transportation system. I must
say, we only had one, one delay
of our flight coming back from
New York, we fly out of JFK on
Delta.
And of course, this we got this
delay message while we were in
the car on the way to the
airport. That was not busy at
all. In the Delta terminal. We
have pretty much the only people
we walked in everybody who was
there at the desks was masked,
we were not masked is no longer
necessary in in airport
terminals. But there was the
signage was still there mask
mandatory, which was
interesting.
I felt personally that when we
were
dropping our bags off, I always
make a chat with people. I'm
always like, Hey, how you doing?
I felt that the masked Delta
employees were kind of a stink
eye as shitty towards us are
probably the DC Party
Republicans. Republicans come
back to Texas do this. Delta's
woke Dell party that woke mass
we've been known to massively
woke
on the air now we had the delay.
So we of course, went to the
Delta sky lounge. As we
discussed previously, the sky
lounge in JFK is huge. In that
has to be because of all the
delayed and canceled flights.
I mean, it's unbelievable. And
again, you walk in everyone's
mad all the people we were the
first ones in it got really
busy, which is why you know,
again, it's so big.
Employees all masked. And it's
you know, there's a big mask to
mandatory sign that they still
have up there. But of course you
don't use it. You don't have the
mask. And I would say on the
flight as well as in the lounge.
40% Masks. Oh, I forgot. Oh, can
I just tell you one more story
about the wokeness of New York.
Before we get to So
Tina was going to have was she
was going to have the afternoon
with with her daughter who lives
in Brooklyn, and Christina and I
were like, Okay, we're gonna go,
we're gonna go hang out, we'll
go find something to do. We're
gonna go to a bookstore. She
loves buying books. And let's go
let's go find a bookstore. And
we're in the Williamsburg area
of Brooklyn. Also, it's
everything, everything. I don't
know if it's fancy or not. It's
all woked. Fancy fancy. So
there's a bookstore nearby about
half a mile. And so we start
walking and famous Adam
tradition. We're walking exactly
the wrong direction. And all
sudden, we're in the Hasidic Jew
neighborhood, which was
phenomenal to see. And boy, at
no mass there. I'll tell you
that. But the did get a lot of
weird looks. What are these
Gentiles doing here? So we pop
in an Uber. And we go to
Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Now, which
I have no idea. I think this is
probably where Hillary Clinton
had her headquarters. And
there's a lot of new buildings
there. And we go to the green
point, bookstore. And the doors
are wide open, and we walk into
a sizable bookstore for any New
York bookstore. Walk in right
away. Excuse me. Do you have
your mask with you? Kind of
sorry, that's not clear. No glue
number four group? No, we don't
have our masks. Oh, well, here's
a mask. Oh, well, thank thank
you for the free mask. And it
was hard because I had I had not
had a mask on a long time. And I
just remembered,
can't breathe. My glasses are
fogging up. This bookstore was
the weakest bookstore I've ever
seen. Everything was black lives
matter. Black women, women who
love black women. Stacey Abrams,
all of her books. I just edit it
was
just one and it wasn't even
divided by section was woke more
woke woke just and just Oh yeah.
And just an alarm like, Hey, do
you have a religion section I'm
looking at I want to tell you.
Eight books. Eight, eight books
away in the corner by the
bathroom. I think they're
probably seven books about
Judaism. And the rest was
atheism.
It's just it was just
unbelievable. Just and Christine
No, it's just trying to say I
can't fight. She wound up
getting a Vonnegut book that's
about the only publishing going
there for just what she likes
reading books. She likes buying
books. Why would you go to that
bookstore in New York? Well how
that they did not know it was I
did not know Greenpoint
bookstore it looked like a nice
big buy saw that looked at the
pictures on the on the search
engine like oh, that looks like
an ice. So you were just done
aware? Yeah, of course. I was
unaware. It doesn't say, hey,
the woke is bloke or I should
say the woke is bookstore in
Brooklyn. Everybody, then must
have been trippin now. Use that
one. Now. The worst part is, as
we're driving to the, we're
having dinner, we're going to
join a dinner and I know we're
some somewhere around dinner and
we're in the car. And I'm
relaying the story to Tina.
Christina says later, the driver
of the Uber was rolling his eyes
shaking his head she said I
thought he was going to kick us
out. Because of what I just said
the way I explained it to you i
was the same like this place was
so woke. And the dresser
my advice is you had a woke
driver. I woke woke. It's all
Waukee style. He says corrupt.
I'm telling you in New York City
is really it's gone. Yeah. It is
gonna know what to tell you by
me. I know what to do about are
you what to say about it? Stay
away. But yeah, I'm thinking
stay away. There's no reason.
It's, I felt discriminated
against. I just felt like Wow,
man, people just looking at me
like a like I'm an a hole.
Yeah, you are discriminated
against. And I am. I am in a
hole. So that makes it even
beside the point.
In case you're dealing with the
well, you know what, don't go to
New York City. Don't go to work
Brooklyn, don't go to the works
work bookstore. And don't use
woke podcast apps like Spotify
and Apple. ditch those get us a
roundabout way to get to your
point. I'm so happy I did that.
Please try a new podcast app,
which will be you can't be de
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superduper. Is that a 70s? Term?
I'm trying to work in my own no
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You can try them all for free.
You can use them for free. But
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the universe. Oh, this is very
different than that might be
swingers John in the future. I'm
thinking we have some swing and
he does sound a lot like
swingers. Where are you man?
Come on. Wake up. Where's your
punch line? We're currently
waiting for immigration to let
her in from the Philippines.
Hello.
We've only been waiting for two
years to finally get her here.
It's a long time we could have
just joined the convoy and
walked across the southern
border but decided against it.
Yeah, that's true. Thank you,
Adam. John, for all you do kept
us sane while we were in the
COVID jail while in Panama
getting an injection of alien
stem cells and also helping us
smack people in the mouth and
educate our friends and family
to what is really going on in
the world. You know those stem
cells are doing in Panama I've
been hearing about that.
Miraculous stuff is going on
And it's illegal or, you know,
it's not. It's not illegal in
the US, I guess because it works
or it makes sense. Yeah. Bichon?
Yeah. I would like to request a
solid round of goat karma and
our two d two karma to get us
through the road ahead. Also a
true de douching for mark on his
birthday.
You spend deed deuced I hope
this is one of many great gifts
and donations for Mark Happy
Birthday My brother thank you
from Bill Crocker.
Jasmine Nancy and Alexander do
great in Naugatuck Connecticut
333 33 I started listening to
guys during the vid time because
my of my husband I started
listening to guys. Maybe you
guys probably do guys. My
husband's been listening to guys
for years. Again, thanks to him
and your you our podcasts that
keep me away from to keep me
away from all from to all the
insanity. Since then I look
forward to listen to you guys
every Thursday and Sunday. He
donated for my birthday last
year. And he also donated for
his little brother Alexander the
Great for he he's birthday
letter next month last month.
And now is time to surprise him
to donate for his birthday. He's
smokin hot wife Jasmine is
mother Nancy and his little
brother legs come up the idea to
donate for husband Mark Ginty
turning 40 Today again this is
like it's like the note you just
read
Ginty Oh, this is a guilty note.
Okay, what's interesting, please
add him to your birthday list. I
think he's on there and dead
dose him I think I think this
may be a Russian native speakers
who are writing this talk give
him a little kid give him a
little bit of leniency
dee doo
dee dodged.
Maybe that's just D Dawson.
Dawson you're off the internet.
That boy during COVID time I
noticed he kept dropping his
beer glass I told him to slow
down with the IPA you're getting
drunk and to go see the doctors
was long process after the
doctor's appointment test. He
was diagnosed with MS which is
horrible. A month after that we
all got the COVID I feel like I
got hit with tornadoes during
the cold the craziness my
husband is still nonstop he
built our walkway while
he had COVID
work as kept drinking beer. He
said the beer took his headache
away he's most strongest man
I've ever known in my life. I
love him to the moon and back.
I pray God will put him through
for me and pull them through for
me and are two human resources.
I learned a lot from him.
Especially here in America.
She's a Filipino woman and proud
to be an American and she's
learning English Okay, so I give
her slack on her first two
sentences a bit more than slack
charm.
have given her slack for two
cents I'm reading the rest of it
from
editing as I go along. Can I
have karma for his MS 33 is the
magic number the noodle gun and
China is asshole. Absolutely in
the country long enough to know
those. Both course we are
international. You don't have to
live in America to understand
the China's asshole the noodle
guns or the 33 is the magic
number. And we're very very
happy Jasmine was fantastic.
Can't wait for you to join us
here in the United States. You
are welcome
that's the magic
the magic number
with the Maduro gun you
I got the my pasta glands locked
and loaded.
Chinese ask.
You've got karma.
Very nice.
Elizabeth Yancey, Dame anonymous
of the colonial places in
Richmond, Virginia, the colonial
place 333. John, in your
substack essay Did you make up
the tweet about Star Dust the
pangender four year old I want
to believe that over the
alternatives that some scholar
of women's studies whose name
implies he is male has abused
his child into believing his
genderless fearing Elon Musk and
probably believe in the world
will end due to climate change
before its eighth birthday. Keep
up the good work.
Thanks, Dave anonymous of the
colonial place. Yeah, excellent.
Well, we we know how that went
down. We discussed it so very
good.
Baronet surfer comes in with a
note he wrote a check
Send it in Orlando, Florida
$320.
He says ITM great work, keep
going, loving lit all that shit.
Nice. aironet surfer Orlando,
Florida. There's a note for you
makes up for the other ones.
It's a give and take. It's like
a penny in take a penny out.
It's working out fine. Actually,
I think we're just writing the
balance today. John Jacob
Wicklund? is in Bellingham,
Washington a row of ducks to
2222 D douching. Please show
us ben de deuced. Also douchebag
call outs for Shawn green.
And John banner says
thank you for your courage.
Thank you very much. We
appreciate it. Short, sweet to
the point and effective, sir,
ever have the watt from Lynwood,
Michigan $200. Now he wrote a
note zaxy explanatory don't have
to read it. But he was given a
title upgrade and he was short
mine he assumed the title of
Baron and and it was put on the
list as Baron. We titled him as
Baron, but we question if his
numbers added up. It's all the
honor system. So you question
that and he got back to us
through a donation which is, of
course the right way to do it.
And he also changed his title to
Baron net, which he thought I'll
read this part. He says,
additionally, noted our titles
are mutually independent fiscal
events, though. I thought a
Baronet was a lady, not part of
the royalty hierarchy, and it's
Baronet tests for the ladies to
correct my foibles I've sent
$200 in the Donate website,
which puts me in his money.
Baronet, you know that Baronet
of you know that place so that's
what he is now. Cheers from
he's in Ecuador. Nice Oh,
really? Yeah, he's in Ecuador.
That's post I've never been to
Ecuador but is supposed to be
gorgeous.
Second, we'll see if we have
this note. No, we don't.
So he will a rare title
downgrade today on the show.
I think this is the first
very
rapid I'm gonna give you a good
karma just for the best for
being super honest. Thank you
karma
really liked that. Joshua McLean
is in Bryan College Station and
says that a donation
a donation was sent from this
email so it was I don't have an
email I don't know if there's I
don't know if there's intended
to tell us why don't you I'll go
look but you read the next note
which is our last and final
contribution very short today.
Very short. 12 Total 11 Actually
it is very disappointing but you
know at this people are trying
to get back into groove cars
read that well, I'm gonna see if
I can find an email from you
just address and by the way I
wanted to say hi to Eric whose
mom told him to donate and and
listen to hit him in the mouth
and he's listening to the show.
Just want to make sure we said
hi and we look forward to that.
Anonymous is from Clarks summit
Pennsylvania $200 You don't read
the email? No, we won't Don't
worry about him emailing you
about two things. So first, Adam
asked about auto Sears on
episode 1445 and a n t PQ 36
Fire finder radar. So he
explains the auto sear which I
don't think we have to explain
but there was something about
the most this other thing
the here we go
the automatic few YouTube videos
for the a n t PQ 36 Firefinder
radar
which we're sending to you wow
that's the that's that's the
things we're sending to Ukraine
that you supposedly can can zap
stuff out of the air? No, I
thought that radar was for the
purposes of finding where it was
shot from blood this is why this
is why He sent a Wikipedia entry
which we could have looked up
while we were talking about it
on the show. Stupid a wheat let
me just see. See what it says
here before we thank him mobile
radar system
detect and track incoming mortar
artillery and rocket fire to
determine the point of origin
for counter battery fire. Yes,
we got it. Fantastic. We
appreciate that. Thank you for
that. I think we've been on the
show correctly. We probably did.
And just a couple of links there
to some auto Sears Glock switch
and Firefinder which are all
just fine weapons.
And I really have no problem
with the with those with people
having those the legality of
course is an issue in the US but
if we think with cannons should
still be allowed all kinds of
weaponry. It's just it sucks if
bad guys have him. He can't kind
of want one and not the other.
They're so anonymous. We'll give
you a karma for that. Thank you
very much for supporting the
show. You've got karma
that was rather short despite
the longer notes but you know,
I'm producing a gadget. I got
the note from Joshua McLean
groovy. We did not put donation
in the subject line, which
probably violation
but he put donate
I when I search when I go
through my email I just do d o n
a t and I don't do the IO n or E
yeah okay. I'm just giving you
10 rights. He wants to go
requests ham save the world and
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PDU 70 threes from him ITM Dear
John and Adam greetings from the
Bryan College Station Texas is
my third Associate Executive
producer credit for the month of
April. As I'm chasing
knighthood. I cannot say enough
good things about the quality of
the show the audio quality sets
the standard
for the industry, and is set me
on a journey to acquire quality
gear for my eventual podcast. We
need more podcasters the overall
production is fantastic. And
bringing a truly unique
experience for the producers of
the show. Then content is
relevant and brings
understanding regarding current
events. The mainstream media
should be doing this however,
they cannot be bothered to do
their jobs. I'm glad we found
the note.
Instead, they offer hyperbole
and completely incorrect
reporting with Miss represented
facts and non existent existent
quote, sources familiar with the
matter, essentially keeping us
dumb and afraid.
Now he goes into a long
exposition on the battle of
victory was rebelled of
Jumonville Glen, which I'm not
going to read, and he talks
about how it only lasts 15
minutes but he finishes with ITM
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when the apocalypse comes where
the guys who are going to save
the world. Right? Right. You've
got
my mind was something I was
gonna say was about the hand was
what was the beginning was note
again, John, how did you start
that off? Something that he's
posted? I'm sorry, there was
something in there. Oh, he
cookie here he did. I found it.
Brittany is from Bryan College
Station is my third executive
producer ship blah, blah, blah.
Can't say enough good things.
Oh, no, no, no, no, stop.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
That is that is what triggered
it. After. So when I had the if
you're listening to the podcast,
you don't know this. But there
was on the live show we the epic
crash of the system while I was
in New York, and it gave me a
blue screen of death. And yes,
it did like a fool. But I really
did it too. Because you know,
the stream was down it was down
for 15 minutes had to reboot
everything as it was not. And I
tweet this screenshot of it. And
I just want to say a couple
things. If you used Linux,
please don't be an a hole.
Because you don't know what
you're that we go through this
every single time. People will
say everyone who uses Linux is
in a hole. It's a known fact.
Well, I use Linux every single
day for everything I do except
the show for a very specific
reason.
Thanks, John. And, and what he's
really good. Besides the a lot
of people unplug it, plug it
back in, and I blocked people
over that, too. If you're
blocked. That's because you're a
dick. Because on my note, no, I
didn't see your note. I bet I
bet it was dynamite. What did
you say? jiggle jiggle the
handle? Okay, also lame, but on
par. The one that really
disturbed me get stirred up, use
Linux etc.
And so I've been through a long
series of experimentation, to
get Linux to work with that
particular very specific device
that I use. But people think
that the problem of audio
devices with Linux has been
solved, but they have no idea
what they're talking about. Now
it's okay. I'm okay.
I'll take a breath. It got so
bad that I finally said I will
give anybody $5,000 in Bitcoin
bounty if you can solve this
problem for me. So now I can
just ignore people who say and
actually I bought Linux, Motu,
bounty.com and it points to this
tweet and this thread and still
people you know just it works
man just not doing it. Right.
And he did. He did pipe wire.
And and like, I've been running
a professional studio for five
years in Linux. You know better.
That's a good voice. I should
use that one.
More often, I liked that voice.
So I enjoy that voice. So I got
really frustrated. Now, it turns
out there is another out of
another model of exactly what I
use that has been that had been
upgraded because it didn't use
to have noise gate
functionality. And it, it
possibly could work. And I was
delighted. So I immediately
ordered one of these devices.
They all cost about 500 bucks
and like wow, this could really
solve it. I could do the show on
Linux because it's really just
the the interfacing and the
drivers and and then
there's a special little service
that has to run to be able to
manipulate the digital signal
processing to create said
fantastic production values. So,
so I ordered this while we're in
the lounge before we before we
fly, when we land as a
voicemail, hey, it's dawn from
Sweetwater I ordered from
Sweetwater and then the way they
the way they the Sweetwater
operates, you get a you get a
guy and they walk you through
it, and then of course there to
upsell as well. And he says,
Well, Adam, we haven't charged
your card, I just want you to
know, currently they're out of
stock, and sadly could be a
while before we get them
because, well, there was a huge
fire the entire factory was
destroyed a year and a half ago,
and they don't expect to be able
to get chips for another two
years. So could I interest you
in something else?
So the Linux production of this
program will have to remain
elusive for quite a while. And
what are the what are the what
are the odds of having a
complete fire melting down your
entire production facility
during a supply chain problem
where chips are impossible to
get? I mean, that's some bad
karma.
And with that his head was gone.
No, it was I had I was just
locked. Everything was locked.
They couldn't do anything
because normally they have a
drop out I just reset it real
quick and then usually be you
doesn't know this was everything
was frozen. So what are the odds
of us discussing Linus Linus
Linus, Linux for the show
because Windows sucks and then
your Windows machine just as a
kernel panic kit does. It was
your hurt its feelings. And we
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and it's on the notes there.
It's a blesser donation so it's
probably but he wants some karma
or something that you may want
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singer. Oh, yes. Now, hold on a
second. I gotta tell Ian Pearson
he's a he's a
rock singer that has got amazing
chops.
Where is this?
Nice you bring it up and I don't
know where you have a weird band
name is Ron Gavin rush some
rando restaurant Gavin run I
think that was Gavin Newsom
where's this note? It's on the
bottom of the of the it sounded
though I know I have it here
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Hey guys, I donated $30 and Pay
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just 34 years old 10 days before
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The first show was Saturday
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bringing your time talent and
treasure to Episode 1446 Our
formula is this. We go out we
hit people in the mouth
we get into the topic just
wanted to bring up something
that I found rather interesting
particularly in the
In the land and in the days of
political pizza playbook where
pedophilia and groomers is
bandied about everywhere,
Christina told me and check, we
actually watched it the three of
us that there's a documentary on
Netflix about
Jimmy Savile, the GMO fix a guy.
And this is a horrific story
because the guy was just revered
by the entire United Kingdom.
And all of Britain loved him
because he did great things for
children for children's
hospitals. And then it turned
out that he was
having sex and inappropriate
contact with lots of children.
But even people who were eight
years old, he was a
necrophiliac, the whole thing
was just a horrific, horrific
story. And it broke around 2012.
And we know it very well,
because we covered that
extensively on the show, mainly
because I was also I think, was
I wasn't living in the UK at the
time, but knew a lot about it.
And so we watched this thing.
And so we watched the first
part, and as a lot of
background, a lot of great
historical footage. And then we
and then we watched the second
what I thought was episode, I
don't know about 45 minutes into
it. I say, Christina, how many
episodes are this is no, this is
it. It's just a two parter. I'm
like what? So this entire thing,
which by the way, is not a
documentary, it's it's actually
produced by kind of a commercial
production house who do promo
reels and stuff, you know, like,
big brother.
Sub shows, stuff like that.
It's called
72 films production
has like this is a cover up.
This is a cover up of what went
down because and I went to being
at.io.
Just because this has indexed
our show notes for Well,
certainly back to 2012. And if
you remember Jill Dando, the
journalist who tried to bring
out that there were no sports
people, 75 BBC executives, tons
of politicians who were involved
in this, there were there were
bones of hundreds of kids found
outside of orphanages on the
Jersey and the Isle of Jersey,
was incredible. And everything
got shut down. There was
corruption and all the
reporting. And I put the link to
the finishers of the UK where he
had Edward Heath, Edward Heath,
all of this, and none of that
was in this documentary. So I
just needed to bring this up as
elk screen big. Well, how about
smokes we just, oh, when you
bring up Savile NAS? Oh, that
guy. But I mean, Jill Dando, the
country stopped for a week. That
was because she got shot in the
head in front of her house in
London. Yeah, yeah. So they
weren't too pleased to have a
look at the at the bing.io
search query, if you want to
know more about that, but I
bring it up. Because yeah,
there's a reason this was done
by some production house and was
billed as, as a documentary
stinks. The way you do it.
Yeah. Well, I don't like it.
Now. There was something still
at play. Something's up. Yes.
Something's up for sure. I mean,
if it was just over and done
with and Savile was in the ER,
he died, and no, who cares? That
would have been a real
documentary would have been
interesting. But no, you knew
something's still going on. This
is you know, let's, let's do
this. Well, there's a lot of a
lot of, you know, there's a lot
of stuff coming out these
issues. Well, not just the UK
John. Not just the UK. There's
about the UK specifically. I
don't think it was. I don't
think Sam was part of an
international group maybe was
there's you know, we learned a
lot about connections between
people between Savile and
Epstein. So yeah, I do believe
so. And a lot of that was I do
believe I do believe No, I You
do believe I do believe I caught
myself. Thanks. I caught myself.
Yeah, I think something much
bigger is bubbling up and Lord
knows but eyes eyes, find eyes
on it. By the way, I will
mention you know that x 22.
Podcast? Yes. That guy all he
does is say I do believe he says
he has never once said I believe
he says I do believe I do
believe he says it at least 10
times to show now he says a
couple of things. He says I do
believe he also says the private
Western central banks, the
private Western central banks,
the private Western central
banks, the private Western
central banks, and he says let's
talk about your health. Let's
talk about your safety. Let's
talk about your food. But
there's something about the show
I product. Yeah, you have to
keep listening. You can't not
listen to the show. The Patriots
are at war against the private
Western central banks do
Let's talk about our health.
Yeah, that's a good podcast only
available on podcasting 2.0 apps
gonna kicked off of Spotify and
Apple, probably because of the I
do believe
are out
that China, I have two quick
clips to bring us up to speed on
what's going on in China's
specifically Shanghai turning to
the pandemic, China is
installing what's being
described as COVID cages around
some buildings and neighborhoods
in Shanghai. The barriers are
part of China's increasingly
strict zero COVID policy.
Shanghai has been locked down
for weeks amid China's worst
COVID outbreak so far.
Meanwhile, in Beijing, people in
some areas are now required to
get tested three times per week.
What's interesting is that
they're now it's five or six
weeks, this has been happening
with specifically with with
Shanghai, and we have producers
in Shanghai, a couple of them.
And I'm very concerned, you
know, I'll be emailing and they
say, Well, yeah, it's true. You
know, we're not really in the
apartment problem where the, the
lights are on and you got a
bucket to poop in and, you know,
a bottle of water and the
separating kids, but even they
are like, No, things are fine.
You know, we got three pickles.
Like, do you realize I mean, I
think I think that they, they've
become accustomed to it, being
accustomed to the Chinese just
saying no, no, no food for you.
And maybe they've been in the
country too long, but they
really feel no, no, we're
fortunate. We've got we got
five, you know, got 50 eggs,
three pickles, and some corn and
we'll be good for the next
month. I mean, it's, it's really
interesting. And I keep saying
Don't you want to leave? I will
see you know, once this is over,
we'll see how it's going to.
My heart goes out to them. I
hope that okay, because things
are not good in China this
morning China racing to control
a rise in COVID 19 cases in
Beijing and forcing an expanding
mass testing in 11 of its 16
districts line sneaking around
the block with residents waiting
to get swamped.
Authorities are cracking down
police restricting people's
movements. They're stepping up
their efforts to prevent a
larger outbreak like the one in
Shanghai.
Shanghai has now been shut down
for five weeks for the city's 25
million people trapped in their
homes. Fences are put up or
COVID cases have been confirmed
to stop residents from leaving.
Speaking to ABC News, one
resident holed up in her
apartment with her two children
and parents since the beginning
of March, a lack of access to
readily available food forcing
her to eat just one meal a day.
I'm angry, but I have no choice
actually. I have no power to
use. I have no right to do
something. Those who do test
positive our center and
isolation facility like this
one. Multiple people forced to
share rooms some and cramped and
unsanitary conditions. But these
strict measures two years after
the start of the outbreak have
border implications. And
Shanghai's port cargo ships
filled with trade goods from
around the world are backed up
threatening the global supply
chain once again. And I just
want to point out that this is
complete deja vu all over again
including the report that has
come out now. The world's first
h three N eight bird flu human
infection reported in China
this is kind of the way it goes
now this is COVID and bird flu
two different things but it
they're going to do anything
they can it's so obvious to me
that the any kind of virus they
can figure out oh, we got that
one to jump to humans. We're all
going to die and you know, maybe
we'll die from the bird flu. I
don't know. But we've China
there asshole.
We got to stop this now.
I really believe they're going
to try and do this again.
Well, good for you. And good for
them. They're they're out of
luck. But I mean also also, wish
you had you have the clip. i If
you don't have it. I'll get it
for Sunday. Have the guy
screaming Kill me Kill me now
kill me. No, how come you don't
have that clip? Well, I have a
thing I do. Well, I but I but
this leads into
what's something that we've been
talking about? And we actually
had questions about how tree
tree disease work in the United
States. And now the World Health
Organization has a promo video
out and this is happening. It's
not stopping it will it will be
ratified approved everywhere in
the world. It is the
the World Health Organization
pandemic Treaty, which directly
affects the International Health
Regulations which is a thing in
COVID 19 pandemic is one of the
biggest
challenges we are facing has
been a stark and painful
reminder that nobody is safe
until everyone is safe. There
will be other pandemics and
other major health emergencies.
No single government or
Multilateral agency can address
this threat alone. And together,
we must be better prepared to
predict, prevent, detect, assess
and effectively respond to
pandemics in a highly
coordinated fashion. The 194
member states of the World
Health Organization resolved to
work together towards a new
international instrument for
pandemic preparedness and
response. This renewed
collective commitment is a
milestone in stepping up
pandemic preparedness at the
highest political level. Such an
agreement rooted in the World
Health Organization constitution
could strengthen existing
international health
instruments, especially the
International Health
Regulations, and provide a firm
and tested foundation on which
we can build and improve. The
agreement also has the potential
to foster and all of government
and all of society approach and
strengthening national, regional
and global capacities and
resilience to future pandemics.
This could include greatly
enhancing international
cooperation to improve alert
systems data sharing, research,
and local regional and global
production and distribution of
medical public health
countermeasures, such as
vaccines, diagnostics, and
personal protective equipment.
The agreement could also
recognize the One Health
approach that connects the
health of humans, animals and
our planet, to achieve this, who
will support its member states
in their work and facilitate the
involvement of relevant
stakeholders, including from
civil society and the private
sector, pandemic preparedness
needs global leadership for a
global health system fit for
this millennium? To make this
commitment a reality? We must be
guided by solidarity, fairness,
transparency, inclusiveness and
equity. Yeah, throw some equity
in there. This is making me
sick. This is while Trump had
the right IDs rid of this Yes,
he did. He had the right idea.
And I'm gonna make a prediction.
It'll be very similar to my
prediction that I made in 2015.
By the time 2024 rolls around,
it is my belief and my sincere
belief. Or I could say I do
believe that people, even people
on the left will be begging for
Trump. There'll be begging for
him to come back and fix it.
That's my prediction. You write
it down? Yeah, that's a pretty
wild one. That's I want to stop
the show for a second and say I
guess got to just didn't know
what to throw back to the
earlier. Defense. One alert just
came out through the email
system. There's been a nuclear
strike. No, not yet. Request
will help fight Russia in the
longer term. Biden says they're
asking Congress to approve
another not an eight what was
it? 700 million they did this
morning. There's 800 million 800
million. 700 million was the new
number. They're doing another
one never 33 billion Oh, to
provide more military and
humanitarian aid to Ukraine so
they can go the long run? Are
you kidding me? No.
President Joe Biden just asked
Congress on Thursday. That's
today. For 33 billion. My
goodness.
Doesn't magic number.
The magic number
doesn't seem like a lot,
actually.
33 billion. That's got nothing
to do with it's just throwing 33
billion away. But why is it 33?
What are they trying to tell us?
Yeah, well, that's sorry. Please
explain. Part of this is a
lesson that came out just during
the show to let us know that my
earlier thesis that the National
Security Council is running
everything they're listening to
throw this antique shows in
front of my just to let us know.
It's just for us. Yeah.
QA anyway, Trump will be people
will be begging for him. And
although he's stupid, because he
says he's not going to join
Twitter. He's not even if he's
invited back. He won't rejoin
Twitter because he's got a
throat sensual. Have you heard
about his new social network?
Yes, we have. We both have
accounts to give the American
people their voice back by
building something called
throat. Truth central throat. He
said throat throat truth
Central.
He doesn't even know his own
social network. That was bad.
Throat sensual as bad throat
sensual. Come on, man. I didn't
get that one. Yeah,
Right, you're on Do you still
talk about China? Let's talk
about Australia and China's a
bunch of other stuff that's not
being reported. The Europeans
talk about this. Australia is
having issues with China right
now and there are everyone's
freaked out. Australia's
government says it's very likely
that Beijing could deploy
Chinese troops on its doorstep
in the next year. The Warning
follows the signing of a new
security pact between China and
the Solomon Islands, which about
2000 kilometers from Northeast
Australia. A leaked draft of the
deal suggests that China could
deploy security forces to the
island or even build a military
base there. Australian Prime
Minister Scott Morrison says
that's a red line. And with
federal elections less than a
month away, this has become a
hot political issue. Australia's
opposition has promised a
defense school to train
neighboring armies if it wins to
May elections. This as a
response to China's potential
military presence on the Solomon
Islands. The prospect of a
Chinese base less than 2000
kilometers from Australia's
coastline is dramatically
detrimental to Australia's
security interests. And that is
a colonel Mr. Morrison's watch.
The Labour Party is criticizing
Prime Minister Scott Morrison
over a security pact announced
last week between China and the
Solomon Islands. The leak of the
draft deal in March indicates
that Chinese military personnel
and naval ships could be
permitted to land or dock here
that has sent shockwaves across
the region. Where's this report
from?
Deutsche Vela has made news
shows source for it today. Okay,
I like it.
Part two. But China denies
seeking a military foothold.
Their
cooperation aims to help the
Solomon Islands maintain social
order, respond to natural
disasters and carry out
humanitarian assistance. The
island nation has also defended
a pact to his public. Let me
assure the people of Solomon
Islands that we entered into an
arrangement with China, with our
eyes wide open, guided by our
national interests, but the
Solomon Islands is far from
United about the decision.
Deadly unrest erupted last year,
after the government switch ties
from Taiwan to China. Australia
sent troops to restore calm. And
soon after China began to train
local riot forces on the island.
A move that cost and society in
Australia then came to new
security pact. It has
accelerated Canberra has plans
to purchase long range missiles.
I am concerned about the outlook
I'm concerned about not just the
next few years, but over the
course of the next decade as
well. There was a working
assumption that
an act of aggression by China
toward Taiwan might take place
in the 2040s. I think that
timeline now has been
dramatically compressed. I think
China has been very open and
honest about their intentions.
And certainly not just through
their words, but through their
actions. With elections looming
next month, issues around
regional stability will continue
to take center stage in
Australia's domestic politics.
Yes, I think there was maybe two
or three years ago that there
was already some worry about.
Yeah, that's when the Solomon
Islands said, we're not going to
recognize Taiwan. And we're
going to recognize China and I
opened the door and now we've
got this is a big deal in
Australia. That's what they're
talking about. No, no, they're
talking about the price of gas.
And inflation. Inflation. It's
kind of scary, though, because I
think Australia is rather
vulnerable. Do they? I mean,
guess we'd have to? Well,
they're not part of NATO. So
they can't, they can count on
our help if they need it. Oh,
they can count on our help as
part of the Five Eyes network.
Are you kidding? Oh, yeah, true.
True. But three, with AWS chief
international editor Richard
Walker caught up with former
Australian Prime Minister Tony
Abbott, at a security conference
in Delhi. His view this deal,
there's absolutely no doubt that
having secured much of the first
island chain, they're now
turning their attention to what
they call the second island
chain.
the Solomon Islands are very
strategically significant. You
might remember that one of the
most savage battles of the
Pacific War was a Guadalcanal
which of course, is a part of
the Solomon Islands. So
it's absolutely understandable
that from China's purposes, they
would want to secure a
significant foothold,
ultimately, perhaps a major
military base in the Solomon
Islands. Likewise, as far as
Australia is concerned, as the
Prime Minister said, this is
really a red line that shouldn't
be crossed. And I want to ask
about that. As you say, Prime
Minister Scott Morrison has
called that a red line. What
does that mean if China crosses
that
Red Line, what happens? Well,
that's a very good question.
One of the things that the
sensible statesman to try to
ensure is that we don't over
telegraph, what might happen.
I am very confident that the
entire Australian apparatus is
bending every energy right now,
to ensure that this Chinese base
doesn't happen, and that the
Solomon Islands, and their
people appreciate that their
long term best interests lie in
maintaining the long and happy
friendship that they've had with
Australia. Just to drill down on
that, and with the language of
red lines tends to imply that if
they are crossed, there could be
some kind of military action
taken. Is Australia really
threatening some form of
military action? If China takes
that step? Well, I think
everyone needs to understand
just how serious this is.
The world was comparatively
oblivious to what happened in
the South China Sea. And we're
now confronted with
a very drastic alteration of the
situation on the ground the
facts on the ground.
Wow, this is interesting. turn
of events. I mean, what's the
Japanese now? It's the Chinese?
Yeah. Hmm. Is there something I
guess it's the location of the
Solomon Islands that makes it so
perfect, obviously, you know,
they're trying to block off
and set up a situation where
they can't be blocked off
themselves. And that's where
they're trading pads. And right
now need Australia and their way
I put the thing up there to sort
of stop Australia from getting
too involved in anything.
I just want to go back to the
war machine for a second. And
Trump because I forgot one clip
that I thought was kind of
interesting, because there's a
little more information behind
the recent
losses that Boeing reported.
Boeing, of course, big, big
contractor for the military. And
the CEO mentioned something in
this, I think it's a CNBC
interview about these losses.
And I looked it up and it's
pretty funny, Dave, they set it
up perfectly. You miss on the
top on the bottom line, you had
a number of charges in there, it
was not a good looking quarter
at all, what do you say to
Boeing investors who are looking
at their shares moving lower
now, and tell them that you
believe you have a game plan for
not only the second quarter, but
the rest of this year? Phil,
first, great to have you here in
South Carolina and great great
to see some tales behind us on
the production line,
Messier quarter than any of us
would have liked.
familiar themes, supply chain
constraints COVID inflation,
have disproportionate impact on
our company in one specific
area. And that's our fixed price
development contracts that we do
with our defense business. And
they took a hit. Without without
a doubt we had Air Force One,
which is a program most most
people know a lot about. It took
a hit our trainer took a hit and
our MQ 25. We love those
development programs. And we
love the work we're doing in the
performance of the airplanes.
But the accounting proved to be
difficult. The accounting proved
to be difficult. So I looked
into this. If you recall,
President Trump at the time made
a deal with Boeing for Air Force
One. That was a big deal because
it'd be new planes and two
planes actually. And Boeing lost
over a billion dollars on the
deal. How did it happen?
Something incredibly
interesting. Trump did something
that the US government never
does with the military
industrial complex he put in
there that overruns would have
to be paid for by Boeing
themselves. And I don't know if
they missed it
in miss it, they came up 600
million short or something like
that right per plane and they
have come up with that
themselves. That's whining now.
I love that finally someone who
did something right with those
eight holes but then pay for it
with your overruns. Yeah, the
only baloney over was he saw
that I mean everyone knows about
this scam Yeah.
Yeah, okay, we got it low bid.
Now we're just running it up. So
I think that you know, they bid
it bid it out at like a billion
and it goes for three and a half
billion when it's finally done
and we pay with the taxpayers
pay. Of course, I know. I saw
that report is very interesting.
Some news for you from the food
intelligence sector.
We discussed your yak Fest on
the last show. Yeah. And the Yak
meat and and that was yak
burgers. Do you have yak
burgers? Yeah, Yak burgers, act
burgers. He got some yak steaks
coming and I got some but
another report coming
On Sunday, well here's the power
of John C. Dvorak got a note
from Dr. Jay says brother Adam
ordered Jack meat from the
Colorado farmer that John
mentioned in 1441. I told the
owner who wrote me a very nice
note after you receive payment
that I learned about his farm
from no agenda he told me there
had been an explosion of orders
not just now he's listening to
no agenda to and it can be a
really oh I see an explosion of
orders I say might be time to
make the Yak the official no
agenda get mo nation animal.
Well, that may be taking it a
bit far. The goat the goat will
not be kicked aside that easy.
No, it could be hard or no
agenda dinner meet.
I've looked into it a little
more. It's got besides being 97%
fat free. And the fact that it
does have as the good duck fat,
basically, it for the most beef
that is that fat free is tough.
This is not a tough meat. That's
what makes it interesting. And
especially a lightened kind of I
would say fluffy. It's also
referred to for marketing
purposes as Himalayan beef.
Well, that's no good. Yak is
much better. I agree. I agree.
But they said apparently that
the American you know, to
squeamish American. We can't
handle the Yeah, yeah, I can't
eat that. You can't handle the
Yak.
So as we will have another
report complete report on Sunday
regarding my situation with the
Yak. Well, if Americans are
having trouble with Yak, they're
not going to like this. Well,
Brian volunteers are putting
their tastebuds to the test at
the University of Adelaide.
Researchers are preparing common
insects for consumption.
Insisting sustainable food
sources are the future
sustainable crickets, ants and
mealworms usually the last
things you want to see in a
kitchen.
But forget using words like
creepy or crawly to describe the
dishes. They're playing up at
the University of Adelaide
crunchy and flaking. It's pretty
delicious. People often assume
that what they might taste like
is kind of this insect and
that's often something that's a
bit squishy and squelchy and not
too appetizing. Researchers want
to change that frying, roasting
and dehydrating insects to be
included in an everyday diet.
Yeah, so really high in protein
and good fats, they can be
raised using very little
environmental resources. And
that's a big win global food
production accounts for more
than a third of the world's
greenhouse gas emissions.
Researchers say the way that
insects are prepared is key. Now
I'm told the roasted mealworm is
one of the most palatable for
beginners so one appetit.
Tastes like poop and like roast
chicken.
In a powdered form where you
can't see them feedback from the
unis taste testers will create a
sensory guide which can then be
used by industries for product
creation, or by anyone curious
enough to try. A lot of our
retailers in Australia have
their insects available online
Tony Jones seven years and if
you think this is just a fun
little joke, who everybody
listening to this podcast is not
it's coming. We've been
predicting this for over a
decade, we accurately predicted
mac and cheese as being the only
food you'll actually serve your
children. And Northern Ireland
is the first to have a shining
example. You heard it there and
it's like
beef beef bad animals. Nope, no
good you can't you can't have
animal protein No, you need
bugs. Here's what's happening
Northern Ireland will have to
either call remove or stop
breeding over a million sheep
and cattle to meet climate
targets of the sustainable
development goals of the
starship command and European
Union and all that crap.
A million.
So they're making you kill the
birds they debase sheep are
mostly used for wool. So not
only are they freezing you out
by not giving Russian gas.
But now you can't even wear a
sweater. But you can eat bugs.
It's the whole thing is so
disgusting. I'm gonna show my
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People who could do that. Oh
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We had a nice and low key meet
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This is Laura Renegade and I'm
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you Adam and the keeper in
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The rat was one of the best
interviews of all time. Did you
go on Nick's show again?
No, I went on once. Oh, so he's
just talking about that. How
great. You know, those guys have
sent are the ones What are you
eating?
I had the my lozenge I was off.
Okay. I listened to Adam and
Texas slim on a show in October
2021. Yeah.
that show should be on a loop.
24/7 This is from JD. Oh, what
is he talking about? I did what
Texas limb the beef initiative
in Texas. They had a really big,
their first conference in
Kerviel. The weekend that I was
in New York, I was supposed to
speak at this. teaching people
how to connect with ranchers
learning about beef about where
it comes from the good beef, not
just the crap that you buy in
the store as we get it from the
rancher. It's a whole it's a
whole push about teaching people
what good food is again.
And we've got people, people are
being taught how to eat bugs,
and we have to have counter
programming. That's what Texas
swimmers do. So I have a podcast
that I call with Adam curry, and
it was Texas limb with Adam
curry. And really I use that
podcast to take clips out and we
pay played some of those clips
on this show. Which you may
wonder.
Yeah, you're fighting the good
fight. Yes, yes. The very good
guests are reptilians who are
teaching us to eat bugs and
become like them. And tastier to
them. At meetups, today, there
are a couple of meetups taking
place. One in Bellevue
Washington at the Irish bar fun
times. Six o'clock Patty's coins
Irish Bob. Irish Pub. Excuse me.
The north the NA Central Iowa
meet up seven o'clock this
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Grimes, Iowa you have to RSVP
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Denver City Park today as well.
Then tomorrow, the Oregon local
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lane, Ardmore, Pennsylvania the
ins and outs into Saturday still
the most logical Midwest meet up
seven o'clock at shipping port
Brewing Company in Louisville,
Kentucky. Curious George meet up
on Sunday Breaux Bridge bridge
brew works in Fayetteville, West
Virginia, and then may 1 On
Sunday the low lands Labor Day
meet up three o'clock lowlands
time at City Beach in Harlem.
This has been a change of
organization so make sure you
check out no agenda meetups.com
And I could go all the way down
the list for all of May into
June and even into July. I just
want to highlight we have the
main 90s Charlotte, North
Carolina North Carolina no may
16. Charleston, South Carolina.
That's the one that the keeper
and I will be at and that's a
lot of people coming in for
that. And of course Dane jam
Jennifer is is organizing. I
think she's organized she's
organizing a lot with the keeper
we got to maybe I heard that
even Mackenzie Kelly arts
council woman who has just
become a no agenda aficionado
that she may be flying there as
well. The old counselor one from
Austin. Wow. Yep. And I think
Nussbaum is coming in. And Bob
and I guarantee you, Patrick
Coble is going to be there.
It's going to be a hootenanny.
No agenda meet ups.com If you
have not been to a meet up,
definitely go check one out. You
will not regret it. It's like a
potty. Sometimes you want to go
hang out with the
day.
You wouldn't be you won't be
triggered.
You wouldn't be everybody feels
the same.
It's like
God, I suppose.
No, none. I forgot.
What are the things you freaked
out? Interesting. You got
freaked out. I freaked out.
I didn't get any clips. You have
any? Yeah, I do. I'm just trying
to, like, if you got some sight,
I'm just trying to understand
how you forgot.
It's like, you don't forget. So
one of those things I usually
hear a melody reminds me Ah,
that's a good one. Okay, I just
didn't get any. Okay, let's try
this one Satan's controlling the
church. No, don't like that one.
about this. It's so hard.
childish, but we like it. This
could be a one or a twofer. Is
that true?
Like that kinda, especially if
you do. That's true.
We could do a twofer there. That
would be dynamite. True. Okay.
I'm glad you like that. Let me
let me cue them up properly. Is
that true? And then that's true.
Yeah.
Let me just queue them up
properly. Make sure they work
together. Put this one here. Is
that true? True. Okay, those two
right. Well, you didn't hear it.
You just did the one. No, I did
both of them. Is that true? Hear
it? Do you hear this one? Is
that true? Are you hearing that?
I hear that but I don't hear the
other one. That's true.
That's true.
That's the other thing it? No
that's the other one. Would you
like the regular? That's true.
That's what I thought you were.
Well, I know. Okay, this you
didn't hear it. I get it. I get
it. Hold on. Let me let me find
out what we're still that's true
girls. Okay, that's true. That's
the one where are they? That's
true.
Where are these two crazy women
here it is. That's true. Okay.
Finally took me it took me a
half a day when just boost this
is that true?
Sound roll this back. Sorry.
Everybody. Bear with me. Is that
true? That's true. Okay, we got
him fine. Nate. Now you're
talking Yeah, now we got
anything else before we get out?
Because I know there's stuff
that we should do. But yeah,
okay. I can push it all off
except for this one. Okay.
Disinformation police. Oh, yes,
I'm glad you got this apartment
of Homeland Security is now
aiming to counteract fake news.
During a congressional hearing
today, Homeland Security
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
testified that they've
established a new disinformation
governance board. Majorca says
the board will combat threats to
election and Homeland Security
ahead of the midterm elections.
Politico reports that the team
will focus on news about
immigration and Russia.
Disinformation expert Nina Janka
wits will head the board as
executive director. She's the
Soviet or what is a piece of
work? Yeah, this is fantastic. I
want to volunteer Do you think
they have a volunteer corps can
I be deputized? I'd love to be
part of the disinformation
police unbelievable do that I
think is disgusting that the
even that the government is
going to have a censorship
bureau. Thank you very much.
Democrats. It's gonna be
fantastic. I don't know. What
are you talking about? Think
about the show.
We'll get we're gonna get
censored.
Who's gonna censor us is
podcasting. 2.0 baby. Here
tripping. Okay, how do I do
that? Catch them all. You didn't
get you missed a shocker to me.
I missed the eye. You miss
looking good. Which is actually
the one that's from the 80s
Well, then that doesn't count.
But okay. No, but that's what I
was hoping you'd catch because
that's the one. That's right.
Right, right. You got downer you
got out of sight in May.
I got out of sight freak out.
Joke. Tripping. I don't want to
freak out. No, I miss freak out.
I missed freak out. I said freak
out twice. I know. And I didn't
catch it as a 70s Darn. Yeah,
totally. 70s and the one I
didn't get in was was righteous.
All right, I will have my 70 See
if you can catch him for a
Sunday show. Okay, this is a fun
game.
We'd like to entertain
ourselves. That's why we're
podcasters coming to you from
the heart of the Texas Hill
Country. FEMA Region number six
in the morning, everybody. I'm
Adam curry. And from Northern
Silicon Valley where I'm
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Yeah, you're Jhansi Dvorak. Yes.
Oh, I'm John C. Dvorak. drapped.
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Adios mofos and such
bag.
Good, shall
we call up
towards
the back
your sleep
Liberty has gone I'd like to
kill my blue check
it's a bummer if after all those
years of patriarchy oh
look here's the thing Twitter
shouldn't be just left wing
I like to hide my racist views
from you with a handle that
large so I can remain anonymous
and snarky snarky
and peppy
and play in both extremes want
to kill my puppy on Twitter
spaces
we love
truly
think to relearn
we
jumped out of the future. Which
one are you
uh my unbanned now after
tweeting big massive dumps to
dumb Jr. After Oh my old
cover
know you want to do is
authenticate the room. You can
tell it's real because it looks
so fake. So fake so fake
fake Gods truly
those fingers are real and
fake
which
when he has a vision for Mars,
it's the right vision and I
think he can articulate
something really compelling and
I don't understand half of what
he's saying like this guy knows
what he's talking about when he
talks about moving equipment
into the atmosphere for less
money using reusable rockets
when he talks about electric
vehicles. He has absolutely no
vision here other than First
Amendment blather none of it
makes any sense. What does he
want to kill my puppy on Twitter
spaces what what is he talking
about?
The sphincters are real
my killer live copy
of the future which has been oh
you
can tell it's real gods and
troll is truly
relearn.
MoPhO boruch.org/n A. Is that
true? That's true.