January 5th, 2023 • 3h 11m
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Oh, I'm so offended the grades a
lizard,
Adam curry, John C. Devorah.
It's Thursday January 5 2023.
This is your award winning get
my nation media assassination
episode 1580 This is no agenda,
writing the atmospheric river
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
and from Northern California
where it rained in a tree fell
over. I'm John C. Dvorak.
You're not even in northern
Silicon Valley anymore. You're
in California, all of a sudden
you chainsaw
is raining, it's raining, a tree
fell over. And a rock man you
wind down a mountain and hit the
road. you're witnessing
some climate change there. I
understand some big climate
change, baby,
you know, it hasn't rained for
three years. And so now it's
like a tree falls over. Which is
okay. G big news. Send every
crew and every network and local
station over there and have a
picture of the tree that fell
over
now wait a minute, just so
everyone understands. There was
some horrible predictions you
even did the newsletter early
had everything good to go
because they were telling you
that it was all over life as you
know it. You're just going to
die. Am I correct? Yeah, pretty
much. Do you have any clips of
this of these warnings and dire
warnings.
Now, it was it's dumb. They it's
a rainstorm. It happens so what
Yeah, Gurney Guerneville is
going to flood maybe it hasn't
flooded yet. So that's kind of
behind schedule. Seems to me.
The Napa river is filling up.
It's going to overflow. No,
that's happened before. I mean,
it's there's nothing at all
these. These
local or manga heads just fear
mongering? It's not what it is a
lot of
naivete. Oh, big word.
Yeah. For the kids. Big word.
They do fear mongering anyway.
But there's a lot of naivety. So
it's like it's not an unusual
storm at all in any way. I did
let alone the greatest storm
I've ever seen coming in, which
was some of these guises said
now what I read in The
Washington Post, which of course
Whopper WaPo, bomb, Cyclone
swinging high impact atmospheric
river into California. That's
what I read. Yeah, I know. We
got booted them round. And it's
it's a big fight at
the moment. I'm sitting here
looking out the window. It's not
raining at all. Yeah. Well,
that's very disappointing. I
wanted your power to go out. I
want you to have horrible just a
horrible experience. Just
I'm sure that's exactly what you
wanted. For the show just for
the show. For the show, maybe I
could be outside we can have
their sound effects and we can
be yelling at you.
I'm telling you AP, that's
Associated Press evacuations
ordered as California storm
knocks knocks knocks out power.
That was that's today.
Yeah. Well, sometimes sheer
power goes out. It happens all
the time in California, when
there's when there's a storm or
not. Storm or not just
happening. And evacuation is
very dubious.
There's a lot of climate change
in the news. And I don't know if
you saw 60 minutes. This was
mind boggling to me. Now we know
that climate change going back
to the 70s when it was not
climate change, it was global
cooling. We're both old enough
to remember. I love watching Dr.
Spock, tell us about it. And of
course that change over time,
became the Spock. Mr. Spock,
that became global warming. And
that became a little irritating
because it wasn't quite warming
the way Al Gore predicted that
it was climate change. We have
climate catastrophe climate
disaster. And and now 60 minutes
brings back the whole crew input
year will the human population
grow too large for the Earth to
sustain? Answer is about 1970.
According to research by the
World Wildlife Fund. In 1970,
the planet's three and a half
billion people were sustainable.
But on this New Year's Day, the
population is 8 billion. Today,
wild plants and animals are
running out of places. They're
running at artist you're about
to meet say the earth is
suffering a crisis of mass
extinction on a scale unseen
since the dinosaurs. We're going
to show you a possible solution.
But first, have a look at how
humanity is already suffering
from the vanishing wild. It has
to be seen. It's the same jokes.
They're still alive. Ehrlich The
Population Bomb jokes, they're
all still around.
And Ehrlich is an embarrassment
to humanity.
He He's out on Twitter saying a
lot of my research is peer
reviewed. It has been since the
70s.
Ah, I also did he did does he
talk about I actually saw this,
but I'll ask them if
I don't I don't have any clips.
So you can ask the rhetorical
question to answer it. You're
talking about the black bomb.
Did he do a race bomb book that
he wrote after he wrote the the
population explosion book? No, I
don't do it a racist book after
that.
Oh, we never discussed that. No,
we never talked about that.
It's called the race bomb. If
you look at his bio
bibliography, there's a bunch of
books that came out in the race
bomb, I think was one of them. I
have a copy. So that
was that two was actively tried
to try to kill some people with
the race bombs, skin color,
prejudice and intelligence. Oh,
was this a eugenics type? Did
he?
I actually don't remember it. I
mean, I remember that book. And
I have a copy. And I looked at
it a few years ago, but I can't
remember what the thesis is. But
I think he's got some, some very
dubious propositions in there.
very dubious. But that's never
discussed. Nor is this half a
dozen of his other crackpot
books.
No. Instead, we get headlines
from ProPublica climate change
will force a new American
migration which I guess means
everyone's leaving California
stay away. Stay away. August
besieged California with heat
unseen in generations Johnson
work is that I'm reading the
opening of this article. I wrote
it. No, of course not. This is
from who wrote this. Well, this
is ProPublica. It's freezing
out. August this August besieged
California with a heat unseen in
generations. Now I don't think
you ever see heat it in general.
A surge and air conditioning
broke the state's electrical
grid
must have power outages, again,
leaving a
population already ravaged by
the Coronavirus to work remotely
by the dim light of their cell
phones. Did you witness any of
this? You live there? No.
It'd be writing novels.
There is some I have something
came across my desk, multiple
ads to go and take a look at
this particular item that if you
buy it, excuse me, the
government even States
governments will give you
rebates. And I think what what
the new, the new new is to
combat climate change is heat
pumps. They're really pushing
this was set up in the inflation
Reduction Act. There's a whole
bunch of courses, you know, that
was a lot of money over was it
over a trillion dollars or or
just shy of a trillion dollars.
There's a bunch of incentives in
there for people to get rid of
your your ugly, dirty propane or
natural gas burning heating
units, and by heat pumps. And a
heat pump is basically an
electric heater the way I see
it, is there some other
technology in there that is that
is special about the heat pump.
Although other than that they
can turn off your electricity
and you can freeze
I believe is like a heat pump is
uses compression or something?
It runs on electricity. It needs
electricity to run Yeah, it
doesn't run on solar.
Mind if you get one of those
nifty. It doesn't run work,
doesn't it? I wanted to mention
that I was looking at I was
weeding out my domain names.
Just because holy crap, I got a
lot of them. And I came across
Windows a domain that we not
only registered in 2014, but set
up a hope actually, I guess I
stopped maintaining it on
February 17 2014. That's the
last time I did anything about
it. The 2030 club.com And you
know, and we were predicting
then in 2014 that everyone's
talking about 2050 Is it not
2030 was going to be the year
and that's all we hear now is
2030
Yeah. And he said 2027 stuff.
The world is 2027 stuff. Yeah,
yeah.
That's mostly geopolitical. It's
not about climate.
Well, there's also 2025
Norway is now aiming to end the
sale of petrol cars by 2025 I
mean key fellow, you know, we've
talked about I think the ICT
wants to get rid of them by
2035 You're gonna hear the
Australian Member of Parliament
keeps pitch
I've and there's a few other
European nations going down a
similar road 2025 is two years
away? How on earth do they think
they're going to do this?
And think of all those people
who own cars who have got loans.
So now we'll have something
that's completely valueless. And
not only that, I mean, if you
want an Eevee by one, if it
suits your lifestyle and you can
afford it and it works for you
knock yourself out. But this
idea that the government will
tell you what sort of car you
will drive in Norway or any
other country or in Australia,
don't forget in this country
that now the Labour government
is now going to tell you what
sort of stove you can have. It's
going to be electric. You can't
have a gas one from those people
who are out there cooking with
gas. I want you to be employed
by the public service. It's just
quite incredible. This is a
country where we are free to
make our own choices
ignore Norway is cold like
really cold in the winter. Am I
correct? Is cold up
there as a coal is a dirty
country? How will
people want their cars perform
it like 50%? Their battery cars,
they
haven't discussed this. Be
quiet. Keep people home
in Australia. By the
way, that little line he had at
the end I thought was funny. He
says cuz he's talking about the
rundown. Everything's got to
happen to a certain way
everybody's job will be working
for at the public for the
government.
Oh, yeah, there's evidence of
this. I mean, at least in their
minds, Australia, though the
heat is I mean, it's killing
people. It really
is wildly fluctuating weather
could be putting Victorians at
greater risk of cancer or other
illnesses. A Monash University
study has looked at the long
term impact of the city's famous
four seasons in one day
with surprising results.
Four seasons in one day. Oh,
yeah, I'm surprised we're not
dead in Texas,
from Summer Snow to searing heat
days later. Melbourne is
notorious for having one of the
most temperamental climates in
the world over the past couple
of days and weeks have certainly
lived up to that reputation. But
according to a new study how
wild weather could be taking a
serious toll on our health
our study. So the first if you
look at the temperature
fluctuation and the t
expression, firstly, Australia
and a frosty in the world,
researchers from Monash
University collected blood
samples from 479 people exposed
to fluctuating temperatures each
day for a week, they found
significant changes to genes
linked to diseases like breast
and colorectal cancer,
schizophrenia, depression and
bipolar. The findings are
significant, but it's still
early days, researchers have
only tested females so far. They
hope to assess men and pregnant
women exposed to the same
conditions in the near future.
Okay, got a crock? You know,
that clip is so off the wall? I
would I was almost gonna give
you something, you know, a
little commendation, which I
won't even mention because you
played at the drop of a hat. But
it's so ludicrous. Where would
that come from? Where are you
getting these?
That's channel seven, Australia.
Those guys are great. I love
them. Now we were talking about
Ken Ehrlich. I think I sent you
this for possible use in the in
the hall or like I believe, Paul
Ehrlich. I'm to Ken Erlich is a
director Paul Ehrlich. Yes. I
thought for possible newsletter
use. So it's all these scanned
articles. 1975 Paul Ehrlich said
the time of famines is upon us
and will be at its worst and
most disasters by 1975. We're
going to die.
Yeah, this was his book came out
in 68. And he was making these
short term predictions. And I
can't imagine why anyone would
do that. Because he kind of
screws you over it. Don't you
think? If you're like making a
getting doing a best selling
book, it sells a few million
copies. And you predict
something seven years off how
Java then when it comes to the
reprint rights and all the rest.
At in seven years, none of these
things came true that he
predicted including pretty much
the end of the world the year
2004. You continue? Let me let
me just read a couple more
headlines. New York Times
Sunday, August 10 1969. The
trouble with almost all
environmental problems, says
Paul R. Ehrlich, the population
biologist, is that by the time
we have enough evidence to
convince people you're dead. We
must realize that unless we are
extremely lucky, everybody will
disappear in a cloud of blue
steam and 20 years. A cloud of
blue steam in 20 years
in 1988 In other words, every
year yeah. Boston Globe steam.
What is that all of it some
aliens gonna come down and
vaporize every
Project Blue Beam he got it
wrong is a project Bluestein
Boston Globe scientists predicts
a new ice age by the 21st
century. Air pollution may
obliterate the sun and cause a
new ice age in the first third
of The next century is this
April 16 1970. Boston Globe. The
demands for cooling water will
boil dry the entire flow of the
rivers and streams of
continental United States. These
are great.
This is astonishing.
Here October 6 1970 Paul Ehrlich
again, and it does need saying
Ehrlich predicts that the oceans
will be as dead as Lake Erie in
less than a decade. How the
month flat, flat, flat, tell
them what flat? Are they dead?
They're wetter now because it's
raining, America will be
subject to water rationing by
1974. And food rationing by
1980. Well, he's partially
right, because what they did is
they just stopped making food
and just put chemicals in, in in
bite sizes. So it kind of right
there. It's really this whole
page, which is in the show
notes. It has a must have 50
Maybe 100 of these articles.
space satellites show new ice
age coming fast due to January
29 1974. This is a good good
little ditty here. Time. Time
Magazine, June 24 1974, another
ice age. Ah, we got receipts
people, we got receipts right
here.
And by the way, you know, the
problem is is that thanks to the
internet and the fact that
things never go away. This shows
you how bad the media has been.
It's not just in the last few
years.
Oh, no, no, it's continued. Of
course, of course, it goes back
into the 60s. But the media is
powerful. It has powerful, its
powerful Mojo. Instead, here's
what we argue about today.
Italy, you might have heard
about this. Apparently, there's
a people are up in arms. As a
Nobel Prize winning physicist,
Italian physicist, came out and
said, I am going to show you how
to cook pasta perfectly, that
will save energy and thus reduce
climate change. And his idea is,
and now he's the 2021 Nobel
Prize winner for physics, or as
Korean jumpier Abdul VanDamme
would say Nobel. And he says,
for the discovery of the ODA, he
was he he won the prize for the
discovery of interplay of
disorder and fluctuations in
physical systems for atomic to
planetary scales, which sounds
like a bunch of crap to me. But
okay, he suggested, he suggested
Turning off the heat midway
through cooking pasta, then
covering with the lid and
waiting for the residual heat in
the water to finish the job can
help reduce the cost of cooking
pasta, and therefore also create
less climate change because
you're not using that much heat.
Now you are quite the the cook.
Does this sound good to you?
It says sounds very, I mean,
it's very sensible in many
instances to always do cook by
turning off the heat and closing
the lip sealing the product as
it's being cooked. It's nothing
not a new idea by any means. But
it isn't necessarily going to
save the planet by doing this
instead of just boiling the
water until a pasta is done and
then turning it off. And
no, no, no, no. What he's saying
is you cook it until it's
halfway cooked.
That's how typically how you
cook things that it is not an
unusual methodology to cook
things by cooking him halfway
through and sealing it and
letting the as the desert
temperatures cool down and
continue to cook his tastes
continue to cook you take a
steak off the barbecue and you
put it on Let it sit for a few
minutes is still cooking.
Well Michelle Michelin starred
chef and Tonello Kelowna Key
says, nah, this will make the
pasta rubbery and it could never
be served in my quality
restaurant. I thought you would
know this.
I don't think that I don't know
that. That's a known fact. I
mean, it's like Mimi's got a
bunch of anecdotes about eggs
that people don't want to listen
to
hey by the way what is the URL
of that egg book?
Too many eggs.com to get a free
copy yeah download value for
value add a free copy this is
giving it away value value
people 750 page book for free
I'm gonna plug it no but for
example whenever things she goes
on and on about don't salt eggs
before the cooked it makes them
tough. And you know Matt No
matter how many times you tell
somebody that they'll they won't
stop assaulting assaulting the
water. No, I'm talking about
like you're say you're frying an
egg and you're assaulted. You
put it in there you get the egg
and there's cooking in you put
some salt on it right away or a
lot of things so scrambled eggs
just salting things eggs before
they're cooked is bad idea. And
so that's so weathered the past
against robbery I am not I've
never heard that but I'll take
his word for it
yeah I got one more here
AlJazeera which is doing some
good stuff again AlJazeera about
Germany because you know
Germany's I think actually that
go listen to this clip but I
have a feeling that the United
States certainly probably in
cahoots with well the rest a big
pop maybe with with Queen Ursula
herself are really trying to
screw Germany they they want
Germany as completely helpless
and they certainly don't want
Germany getting any ideas about
you know connecting to their
neighbor, Russia. And you know,
I think that's why they probably
blew up blew up those pipelines,
but they're just making it
they're just Germany's in
trouble.
2022 was the When coal was king
at one point it was providing
more than a third of all
Germany's energy. With the war
in Ukraine taking Russian
hydrocarbons off the market,
coal from elsewhere became the
easiest go to energy source,
power stations were reactivated
to burn it. liquefied natural
gas or LNG was another watchword
new terminals were built on the
North Sea coast to accommodate
super tankers carrying it and a
long term deal to acquire 2
million tons of category LNG
each year was signed. But in the
short term, analysts say
ministers will have to adapt
their green agenda,
they will do more of what they
have done already foster
additional energy supplies, make
sure they can come in also
through German LNG terminals,
and a huge step forward will be
to reduce demand further, a lot
needs to be done in households
still, because buildings need to
be need to be insulated. heating
systems need to be changed. You
can't do all of this in 2023.
But it needs to start now.
The other metaphorical elephant
in the room is nuclear three
reactors, which were due to go
off stream permanently have been
temporarily kept in operation.
This provides around 6% of the
energy Germany uses annually.
But that's as far as the Green
Party in government is prepared
to go.
Anti nuclear sentiment is so
entrenched in Germany in large
parts of the population that
it's going to be relatively hard
to, to really, especially for
the greens, if they want to keep
their credibility to go on to
prolong nuclear power
indefinitely. Maybe for a few
more months, maybe for a year.
But I don't think in the long
run in Germany, nuclear power
will have any future.
Well, because the greenies want
to keep their credibility. Yeah,
yeah, that's important. Keep the
credibility greens.
There was some gossip going
around about how we're part of
these riots and it's craziness
going on in Europe.
Oh, he's a New Year's Eve riots
were insane. In Berlin that bill
like 700 cars burned
have something to do with us.
Us. The United States,
we're burning cars.
Now we're fomenting dissent or
we're doing something crazy we
were doing something about
Germany there's I forget forgot
what this reference was. Well,
it was bad word. It was our our
people.
No, you don't say we're trying
to screw a country? Nah, not.
That's can't be true.
This this clip, this is the
continued strikes in the UK that
are going on? This is very
interesting to me, because it's
not covered at all really in the
United States.
Let me see which what is it
called?
is called I have British strikes
continue. Oh, well, you
said okay. In the
UK strikes continue to sweep
across the country. There's new
general secretary of the Trades
Union Congress or T UC is
challenging the government and
employers to work with unions to
resolve the issue. The one thing
I can absolutely tell you is
that no union member wants to
take strike action takes that
strike action lightly. The
government really does need to
step up to the plate now. Talk
to unions, talk to their own
workforce, put money in the
pockets of working people and
stop stonewalling.
Paul Novak takes over the job
amid the biggest outbreak of
industrial unrest in a
generation. Leaders of the
health rail civil service
teaching and postal unions are
increasingly angry at what they
see as a lack of involvement
from ministers. Novak said he
will make it a priority to meet
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to
try to help resolve the
disputes. He warned that workers
were facing two decades of loss
pay unless the country changes
course. To mark Novak's
appointment. The tea you see
published a new analysis it says
showed that workers have lost
20,000 pounds on average in real
wages since 2008. It said this
was the longest real wage
squeeze in modern history.
Yeah, Not just that, but they
just came out with food
inflation numbers 13.3%, which
of course is their number? I'm
sure it's more than that. Sure.
It is, like everywhere. Yeah.
And I love watching CNBC. I
don't have a clip of it. But
this morning the jobs Khitan
jobs numbers came out. And I was
like, Oh, we have way that
employment is there's almost no
unemployment. This is not good.
We have to get people
unemployed. I don't know if
people actually understand that
the Federal Reserve is saying
literally that we have to make
sure that less people are
employed.
But the problem with the
unemployment number as opposed
to the total jobs number is that
the unemployment number does not
include people that just aren't
even looking to healthcare.
Right so that so really, there
there is a bogus number phony
baloney numbers are now coming
back to haunt them. Because
there's probably more than
enough people who've just given
up and no longer counted.
If they went and joined. Job
forces again, that number would
go way up. What a shout would
have solved the problem.
What does shadow stats say? We
always used to check out shadow
stats because
they did shadow stats for
months. All right, take a look.
I got a I got a I got a bad
error on Shadow stats. What
happened here? It's not shadow
stats.com. I thought it was
shadow stats.com.
That's what I thought it was.
Oh, this is bad. Maybe the
government finally shut him
down. Shut him up.
Let me see. Shadow stats. This
is weird. What is it? What is
the shadow? stats.com? Yeah. And
oh, there it is. Okay. Where do
we find the alternate? Alternate
data? So
I would say at the top? Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you see it? I don't see the I
don't see the unemployment. Here
we go. According to shadow
stats. Okay, this is the
official number is what is it
now? Like? Just about 4%? I
think what I'm seeing here, then
you have the broadest potential
number, but really, Shadow stats
has it here at 24.5%.
Which is more realistic. I
think it is. Yeah. But now I am.
So they're just gonna raise
interest rates and that'll just
be great for everything. I
guess. You'd like it. You like
the higher interest rate? No, I
don't know you like what's going
on? You say oh, we got cheap
money and we can pay off the
bad. Oh, no, I
never said that. I said that's
what they're thinking. Oh, I
thought you like high like,
oh, you said it so excitedly.
Well, I was excited probably.
Look at these alternate numbers
to hear everything. Here's
inflation number check that
inflation chart.
The chart literally off the
chart. Oh, goodness, what is it?
What is this? What does it say?
What are they? What do they
have?
It's off the chart is literally
off the chart? It doesn't say
anything. It the number that the
official numbers around 10% or
nine? And this is least five
points higher? Or points higher.
Oh, it
is. It goes. When I said
literally goes off the chart to
the top. And somewhere it looks
like it's 1312 1350. I think
1515 close to
it. Yeah, maybe yeah,
or 12. But you know, that's just
Q anon stuff, man. Shut up.
That's an
interesting, bro. We're talking
about this sort of thing. Let me
read this to you. FTC proposes
banning non compete clauses
protecting workers.
Oh, hello, Silicon Valley.
That'll be fun.
Following a December letter from
consumer advocates and labor,
the Federal Trade Commission
today took the first step in
banning the use of the coercive
anti worker anti competes in
employment contracts. This is a
major major deal out here that
people I mean, it's not
discussed on the news. Of
course, of course, nobody wants
to even mention it. But this is
huge. And you as well, you know,
because you're involved in the
industry more than a few times
to the point where you know what
these things mean?
Well, if we explain both Well,
first of all, if we taken well,
what do you what do you? What
are you hinting at?
Well, I would I don't think
people know what these things
do. What they do is they take
you you say you go to work for
Intel. And you're working there
and you end up learning a few
things about this and that. And
then CMD says, Hey, buddy, once
you come work for us, yeah,
which is, which is good and they
drag you over there. So So what
did you learn over there while
you're working there at Intel?
Well, you know I'd learned this,
that and the other thing, you
can't do that today because you
sign these documents and don't
allow it for two or three years.
And, and a lot of bias, for
example, when you have if you
like, Bridgette you buy a
podcast. And you have two hosts.
Yeah. Oh god, how much can we
sell it for? Tell me quick.
You buy. You buy a podcast with
two hosts and the two hosts. You
don't want the two hosts. But
you don't want them just
starting another podcast,
especially because they got the
secret sauce, they have the
formula.
So you say look buddies will buy
your company you can go ever do
to some males make socks, but
sign this document saying you're
not going to do another podcast
and just use it for five years.
Yeah, and sometimes it's less
but generally speak well,
how would that work with the
newly newly fired 18,000? Amazon
workers who I understand are
mainly from AWS from the Amazon
Web Service, this is not people
in the warehouse. This is people
in technology people,
they could start up a new AWS on
their own,
not if they have a noncompetes
not if this goes through? Ah,
well, it seems like
people can't be kidding. In
other words, what it what it
amounts to, is these companies
have been very cavalier and I
think they're douchebags in
general. And they get you over
there. And they say, Yeah, sign
this. So you can't even talk
about nothing. And he can't even
go work in the industry. In some
cases, you can't even go back to
work in the industry for two or
three, four years. Five, sign
this and you get a good job.
Yeah, we repay you well, and
then they just get ready. Get
out of here. You're done. And
you're screwed. But they
do is that they pay you off,
though. Don't say that to pay
off? If they
always owe that pay off? Yes.
Sometimes you don't get paid
five years of salary?
No. Well, from what I'm reading
is that most of these 18,000
workers, many of or I should say
many of them don't have more
than two months. You know,
living wages in the in the bank.
Yeah, it'd be typical, but it's
not going to be easy to find
work. No, in Silicon Valley. And
and here's, here's the funny
part. Apparently, the Amazon's
worldwide digital unit is being
wiped out. And that's where they
make echo smart speakers and
Alexa voice technology. So that
failed. Had an operating loss of
over $3 billion on smart
speakers and Alexa voice
technology. How do you do that?
I didn't know this. I'm reading
it in the register, which I
think we liked. We trust the
register.
Is this the register that went
out of England or the UK
register? Yeah, they're quite
good. Yeah, they're very good.
Actually. I know, most of the
guys that
know. The main guy have met him
before. He seems pretty nice.
Yeah. Yeah. $3 billion, lot. And
that thing came out. I remember.
I had the first one way before
anybody was all God about it.
And I even said, Hey, you put an
apple logo on this, this thing
will be dynamite. And they
never, they never really quite
pull it off. Siri never really
worked. I mean, it works. But
it's not, hey, it's not like,
chat, open AI chat. GPT. I got
to talk about everyone's going
nuts. This this is fantastic. I
have to say. First of all, we
discussed not only maybe two
weeks ago, that all we need is
that Google was really worried
about this because this is the
beaut is a perfect search
interface. It really does a
great job.
I know this show and it was
quite quite. It was powerful.
Yeah. And then what happens
Microsoft comes along and says,
Hey, we're gonna we're gonna
screw Google, we're going to
incorporate that chat GPT open
AI into Bing it into Bing, which
is fantastic. Now I got a couple
a couple of AI things that I
just
this, I am Bing, I will help you
find your search.
It's so much better. I have to
say there's a lot of validity to
I mean, it's it's more like
machine learning is that it's
machine learning with a very,
very, it. It really speaks to
you in a in a language that
makes you feel comfortable. And
if you say, hey, find me a link
for something like I tried this
morning. And is there a page
where I can find all the no
agenda jingles? And it comes
back and says, Oh, yeah, no
agenda Show with Jon Adam curry.
Jhansi. Dvorak has that gene and
has a whole thing about how the
jingles work, and says you can
find them but no agenda. No
agenda. jingles.com has a link
right to it. Of course that's a
dead link. So I say hey, that's
a dead link. Do you have
something else? I'm sorry, that
was a dead link. I will come
back later. Like him aggregate
ball almost. But there's a lot
of fun stuff happening with it
with AI and, and there's the CEO
of open ai ai, his name is Sam
Altman. I'd never heard this guy
before. He's young. He's a he
has vocal fry. I even asked that
Oh, chat GPIO GPT said, Why does
Sam Altman have vocal fry, and
it goes into a whole thing about
what vocal fry is, and says, I
don't know why he has vocal fry,
because I haven't studied him
speaking yet. So maybe that
could help. So this is the CEO
of open AI, which I think is
funded mainly by Elon Musk, and
a few other Silicon Valley
companies. And he is talking
about the future of AI, which,
of course, he will, he will be
in charge of it, because he's a
mastermind. He's the smartest
man in the room. And what it
will mean to other one, what it
will mean to tech workers, all
kinds of other people that will
just not have jobs anymore.
So there's a lot of things that
like people have been talking
about a lot that I'm not going
to rehash, like how do we
rescale people for new jobs? How
do we build resilience? How do
we build like better judgments
that people know if they're kind
of looking at, you know, fake
content generated content or
not? All of the stuff that
people have already discussed, I
will talk about three other
things that I think are under
discussed rather than rehash the
same, even though I think those
are important.
Oh, this guy. I mean, when you
talk like that Bresson, because
he's not going to talk about the
rehab. I'm going to talk about
that. I think it's important
that
number one is,
number one,
you can't talk over Joe Biden,
you'll miss, you'll miss the
good parts. All right.
Number one is, I think we're
really just going to have to
think about how we share wealth
in a very different way than we
have in the past, like,
fundamental forces of
capitalism. And what makes that
work, break down a little bit.
The fundamental, we are ruining
the fundamental forces of
capitalism is
to be ill. And so how old is
this kid?
It's like, 17. I don't know.
Okay.
Makes sense.
You know, is it like, some
version of like a basic income
or basic wealth redistribution,
or like, you know, some sort of
version like that? We're trying
to study that I think it's
collectively under explored. And
again, I think people just
haven't internalized what
happens at the plant until
shifts this much as they assume
we can just sort of like tweak.
I'm sorry. He's 37. Actually,
about that. A younger
kid, is his vocal fries is
hurting him. It's hurting his
voice.
It's hurt. Yes. It's very bad
for him. He's from Chicago, and
he's from Stanford.
Okay, more basic wealth
redistribution, or like, you
know, some sort of version like
that. Ah,
oh, he comes from a white. He
was the former president of Y
Combinator. So he's been the
best for a while. So
chose it. Okay, here's what he Y
Combinator guy. He's, he's this
ran bass, his desk, he said,
Screw Y Combinator. I'm gonna go
do this. He just like, it's like
the guys I knew guys who started
like video dating sites. The
only reason they started this
site was to get the girl when
they first came in. Ah, that's
help putting her on the video.
I'm taking her. We're trying to
sell Yes, but he did.
Let's move on.
I think it's collectively under
explored. And again, I think
people just haven't internalized
what happens at the playing
field shifts
this much. I'm shifting the
playing field so much. So we
can just sort of like tweak. You
know, a small tweak on
capitalism will will work.
Number two is how access to
these systems work. So the
resource that I think should
matter most in a world of AGI
isn't it is like who gets time
slices to use the AGI? Or who
gets time slices? What is AGI?
That's interesting. He says
something that an AGI. So that's
artificial, global intelligence.
Sounds like something like
artificial Nano, it's artificial
general intelligence. And it's
the ability of an intelligent
agent to understand or learn any
intellectual task that a human
being can, oh, okay.
Well, we just had to get used
for stuff like that. And then,
and I think like, that's just
gonna require thinking about
access to that limited resource
in a very different way. And
then the third one is
governance, like, who decides
what you get to use the systems
for what the rules are, what
they will do and not do? Like?
How do we get to like global
agreement, treaties, whatever
it's going to take on on that
topic? How do we agree on what
the set of values is going to
be? So and I don't think we're
like those So those are three
things that I think were like
are going to be really important
and that we're not well suited
for
that gap. Well, I think number
one, I think he's right that
this is going to be this is this
is going bonkers with this AI
thing. And there's going to be
they're going to be moving bills
through Congress, all kinds of
stuff is going to be happening
and it's going to go fast. And
we're not going to be able to
catch everything because there's
so much money oops, so much
money that is being being
lobbied and everyone wants to
jockeying for position and
again, Elon Musk in this somehow
but he we
know for a fact that he is Oh
yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, so let's
look at it right now. Open AI
okay, you know what? Why don't
we ask for the the chat. Why
don't we ask that one last
sketch? Here we go. Okay, I'm
loading it up. Hold on a second.
Here we go. Who are the main
What do you want owners or
investors?
Well, owners, our investors,
okay, owners of open AI. Okay.
Here we go. Some sound effects.
Oh, yeah, it's thinking. Open AI
is a research organization that
was founded in 2015 by a group
of entrepreneurs, researchers
and philanthropists, including
Elon Musk. Sam Altman, Greg
Brockman, Helios caver, which
actually remember and John
Schulman, the company is
dedicated to advancing
artificial intelligence and
responsible and safe manner. It
has a number of sponsors and
backers including Microsoft,
Reed, Hoffman, and Khosla
ventures, however, it is not
publicly owned, and does not
have quote owners in the
traditional sense. I'm sorry,
set me straight AI. But what was
kind of cool, is I said, Hey,
how do I SSH into another server
without using the password? And
it gave me a really nice
formatted structure answer to
that. I also said this when I
did this last night, write a
bash script here. You're
addicted? Oh, no, it's great. I
said, Write a bash script, great
to display the current price of
Bitcoin. And it did it. I copied
it, I just copy ran. And it
worked out that that kind of
stuff is interesting. But when
it gets to this level, we got to
watch out
and out that bills itself as the
world's first robot lawyer will
be used for the first time in a
court case next month, the app
uses artificial intelligence to
listen to the proceedings, and
we'll dispense legal advice to
the defendant. The specifics of
the case have not been revealed
yet. A subscription to the app
is available for $12 per month,
which is a lot cheaper than your
typical lawyer would bill by the
hour. No, we call that a good
start getting rid of the lawyers
$12 $12.12
bucks. Worth I'm telling ya,
hey, why not? All this, all this
doing just drawing in from
Wikipedia? Here's, here's,
here's another version of AI.
This is this. I mean, it's
serious product, but come on
people and
the technology behind self
driving cars is now being used
to power baby strollers. Yeah,
Canadian startup company is
rolling out a stroller that can
drive itself using artificial
intelligence. It costs $3,300
And has cameras and sensors to
detect any objects nearby. It
also breaks on its own. The
company says it's designed to
provide another set of eyes or
hands not to replace a parent or
a caregiver self driving
technology lately is really on a
roll. Yeah.
It's on a roll. That's great.
That's fabulous. job first. It's
always worth the price of
admission to get that plenty in
there. Wait now wait until these
books I think was nothing better
idea and having a bunch of radar
underneath a baby. Yeah, it's
great. Is Radar Radar cooked the
baby while you're at it.
So there's I do want to back
off. I want to pump the brakes a
little bit or my pump the brakes
push back on. On AI generated
art. I think there's a
difference between asking asking
a program to do either this or
saying do this and add this
color versus mix up Elon Musk
with a clown, you know, because
then you're basically pulling in
copyrighted work from different
places. And if I just look at
some of the answers that I know
where they where the information
came from, particularly
podcasting about no agenda, you
could almost feel the website
where it comes from, like, Oh, I
know where that's from. I've
written that piece myself. And
this is something that Jason
Calacanis is very disturbed by
and I could not resist of
clipping him
GPT which I have now figured
out, is just the ultimate
plagiarizing content form. And I
think there's going to be huge
lawsuits around this like, I
think Chad GPT should be
required to put where it's
sourced the of ovation from.
That would be so actually really
great like Wikipedia.
Exactly. Yeah. So this is going
to be somebody's going to have
to click this here message to
Sam Altman. If chat GPT gives
data, it should say where it got
that data from and start putting
some links to it. Because that
would be fair to the data
provider. If not, then the data
providers should opt out of
having their information and
champion GPT. I don't know why
this hasn't come up in the
conversation. But I had this
great revelation over the
holidays when producer Brian was
like asking me like, hey, what's
a good stinger? We were talking
about like a little transition
for big little things, our
segment on big buildings. And I
said, Well, let me ask charge
up.
Yep. So by the way, Mollywood
always good to hear agreeing
with Jason. I think as a
pointer, because all of the
stuff first of all, quickly for
a link, you don't you don't get
a link.
First of all, Wikipedia is
public domain material. Correct.
It's not copyrighted. And so to
create, you know, so they're
stealing everything, Wikipedia.
Well,
it's not allowed John. It's not
just Wikipedia. It's stuff that
I've written myself that pops
up. If I asked about value for
value, or podcasting, it's stuff
that I've literally written. So
it's taking that and putting
word salad
around it. Well, then he's
right. There will be some
lawsuits.
I would just like if they put
links that'd be fine for me.
A lot of people wouldn't accept
that. No, no, no, no, I you got
these guys. That just don't like
the idea of this mine. stolen? I
don't care. Right. That attitude
is prevalent. Yeah. And
especially old media types. I
got to meet Sumner Redstone
once.
Yes, I've met him as well.
Actually. He's all
crinkled up. He's all he's a
mess. Or was he's dead now. He's
one of those guys. It's mine. We
stole it.
I think was his grandpa. His
granddaughter or something. Had
to have a job at MTV. Summoners
granddaughter, okay. Yeah, one
of those. No talents and no
talons. Another node. In the
media has a term. There's a term
for this. It is the Nepo child.
Have you seen this term and EPO?
They've never heard it? Yeah.
Yeah, the Nepo child is so
what's happening now is silica
whole Hollywood is now taking
down its own. And the way in
Jamie Lee Curtis is at the heart
of the Nepo baby debate. And so
the way it goes is it's not
fair. You're doing movies
because you're from famous
parents.
And I saw I've been reading the
trades there's an there's an
element of this going on in big
time. Yeah, they're going after
going after lots of why should
the daughter Why should Kate
Hudson Yeah. Exactly. She should
get where I've said that before.
myself.
No, that's not Kate Hudson is
pretty good. She's a pretty good
actor. It's a Nepo baby. I mean,
this is this is it's just
beautiful. How they're they're
they're killing their own.
They're eating their own as
usual.
Was because right now they're
they can't sell any product.
This junky this junk that's out
there. Go watch the new hot
movie that's really rolling.
Over at Netflix is this Glass
Onion. Oh, I watched it. I saw
it. For one thing it Oh, an hour
goes by before they get to the
real story. It's it's a time
sink. It's a terrible film. That
whole thing with a puzzle at the
beginning. It's pointless. Just
send an email. What is the
point?
What I loved about it? Is the
response from our producers to
do they got like some like a
thing for Colbert and and you
know, what are your throat and
there's nothing on COVID Then
they got hydrogen. Whoa, whoa,
this is crazy. We watched it.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, it was cute.
It was cute. I didn't bother me
as much as it bothered you. I
like to howl with Daniel Craig.
It was fun in that you'd be
played a different type
that Daniel Craig was credible.
But yeah, it was I didn't like
it. It was as as someone older
than you. I can tell you this
will happen to you. Time is
important. And just sit there
and watch some of this crap
wasting time.
I literally my life is
watching this crappy movie.
I should be doing something
better with the years I have
left.
Watching lousy. Luxury
entertainment.
Well, speaking of not really
entertainment, but a rare
occurrence rare occurrence rare
that I would receive a text
message from John C. Dvorak on a
Monday night. Like what is going
on? Something's wrong. Usually
it's something you want to pitch
me about something and what I do
this time. And that's not
true. Of course. That's why he
says rare, rare, rare because
they don't pitch that much. I
have the clip, Hamlin, Monday
Night Football as it happened.
Ooh, as it happened. Okay,
here we go. Welcome back
to Cincinnati, where medical
personnel have been working on
Bill safety. Damar Hamlin for
the last nine minutes, Hamlin
made a hit, he got up, took a
couple of steps and then just
fell to the ground. We don't
know of course, the extent of
his injuries, but the entire
Bill's team is out on the field
right now several players are
down on their knees. Other
players are holding hands
praying, you can just see the
word looks on their faces. As
soon as we have more jokes,
we'll pass it on up to you guys.
Clearly. So
we're going to take a break.
They have been administering CPR
through these past two breaks
that we've taken, said tomorrow,
Hamlin has been down for over
nine minutes now.
All right, that was 44 seconds,
she came back from a commercial
break, they went to a commercial
break, the whole clip was 44
seconds, every 45 seconds, they
will go back on the field go
back to a commercial. They were
running so many commercials
during this because they knew
they wouldn't get to hit where
the game was not going to
happen. They figured that out
right away,
which is which I don't think is
a common occurrence. Right that
they actually will will stop
postponing the game for a later
time is that if
I've never seen it in football,
I immediately a lot of first
hear that they guy was dropped
dead leg literally. And they all
knew it. And so he got keels
over and that's why they're all
in tears. And they're all
worried and thinking well, I get
that vaccine to there.
No, no, no, no, no, no, you
don't get to know you don't get
to do that Q anon. Boy, you
don't get to say that. So
the story drops dead. So they
have to give him a heart, you
know, CPR, he finally recovered
him. So he goes to the hospital
and they killed the game because
the players were going to play.
And it was very, it was unusual.
And it was very momentous for
football in some ways. But the
thing is, we've been or at least
on our show, we've been waiting
for this to happen in our sports
because it's been going on in
European sports, especially in
soccer players out of the blue
just keeling over dead
alive lot. What's interesting is
one day before and two on one
day after we got a couple of
other reports that were not
really reported like this one.
Tonight we're learning a former
Jacksonville Jaguars player has
died. He was selected as a fifth
round pick by the Jaguars, the
2007 NFL Draft. His name is
Gucci why Nari? Our media
partners of the Times Union are
reporting he was found
unresponsive in his wife's home
in Indiana Friday night.
Preliminary reports say he
suffered a heart attack and
there are no signs of foul play.
The Jaguars posting a picture of
him tonight on Twitter. They are
saying they are saddened to
learn about his passing. And
there's this one it has gone
passed away suddenly today. The
former
tight end was just 25 years old
fox 35 sports reporter Jessica
Haley is live in studio with
more on this sudden tragedy
Jessica
here the UCM community is
mourning the loss of former
football player Jake Jake has
got the former tight end went
into cardiac arrest on Tuesday
well out on a jog up in Boston.
Now according to his family
Hiscock suffered a severe brain
injury during the medical
incident and was put on life
support before succumbing to the
cardiac arrest. The
Massachusetts native played at
UCF from 2017 through the 2021
season. Before UCF, he was at
Wisconsin Hiscock was only 25
years old.
So there's three in a row. Now
granted, not all playing the
game, but out for a jog, just
hanging out bought the house.
And this hasn't happened in
football since 1971.
In 1971 the lions Chuck Hughes
suddenly collapsed mid game in
front of a packed stadium in
Detroit. He became the first and
to date only NFL player to die
on the field.
The tragedy of Chuck Hughes with
the Detroit Lions that game was
not stopped. That game went on
the fans that in stunned silence
for much of the rest of that
game.
I received several emails right
away before even I'd heard of ko
medio Cordis come meet Komodo
Cordis before it ever heard of
it before it was in USA Today
and plastered everywhere. A one
in 200 million. Chance Fluke
accident. I got the same
information from a EMT Rob. And
he says, I know you may be
tempted to try and attribute the
buffalo football player went
into cardiac arrest on the
field, but this one is easily
attributed to traumatic cardiac
arrest, or Comodo. Cordless he
was at Square in the chest,
which I don't think is true. No
isn't true square in the chest
and heart between the aren t
waves of his heart rhythm which
basically knocks it out of its
normal electrical rhythm and
into ventricular fibrillation V
fib, where the heart is in a
spasm, not pumping blood for
effective organ and brain
perfusion. He is a young,
healthy male and was
defibrillated so quickly, that
that's why they got aro SC or
shocked the heart back into a
normal sinus rhythm right there
on the field. It was basically a
fluke hit just at the right time
in the right place. Think of
those baseball coaches slash
players that get hit in the
chest with a line drive and die.
Same thing. Unless there's some
undiagnosed heart condition that
helped a tribute to this event.
I would not be surprised to see
him back playing next season.
Yes,
first of all, that phenomenon
was discussed in a column by a
doctor Toby, what's his name?
Who does a substack that dead?
He's a hysteric Cuba, Cuba went
on. He says this was a this was
a out of the blue this this
phenomenon was promoted into the
public domain to get a good high
recognition, he says, and he's a
doctor, as opposed to just an
EMT. He says this is a rare
occurrence in adults, it usually
happens to kids under 50. Yes,
cry a baseball to the chest is
as as mentioned, football
players have heavy plastic
shields over their heart. And
their and their padded and this
and I watched the tackle the
tackle was routine.
I think that Dr. Drew Pinsky had
the best open ended explanation
for this, he's dealt with this.
I trust him. I like Dr. Drew.
He's not branded Q anon. As far
as I as I know, he's, he's still
a valid doctor. And here's what
he said,
I've actually been involved with
commerciaux. It's a rare thing.
I've seen it from baseball, I
haven't seen it. I've seen it
from an elbow. hockey pucks can
do it's rare for football to do
it just does doesn't have the
same qualities that would cause
it. But the in my experience,
they are flaccid immediately
though, somebody just told me he
saw a video of somebody take two
skates after a hockey puck hit
him. But in my experience,
they're flat and immediately and
they come right back, they come
right back after you have to
shock them. Now, if you are too
long without a shock, perhaps
his anoxic brain injury became
irreversible, or he had anoxic
injury to the myocardium itself.
So you got to worry that the
heart was actually damaged by
the amount of time that he might
have been fib relating. And
thereby the second code may be
more related to myocardial
injury, then what? Whatever the
underlying source was, that's
crazy, but it was different. It
was different hold his head,
walks around, you know, and then
boom, down after you know,
complaining, complaining,
stumbling, and then boom, down.
That's the head. That's the
head. This was not that this was
stood up, walked and then bow
just fell backwards, which is
what we've been seeing a lot of
I don't know, if you've watched
the video, Heather McDonald
falling on stage, watch what
happened to Bob Saget. A lot of
this sort of sudden drop. I
liked it.
He throws Bob Saget in there.
Since we don't actually know
what happened to Bob. Bob Saget.
He says, watch what happened to
Bob Saget. That's
interesting. Which is what we've
been seeing a lot of I don't
know if you've watched the video
Heather McDonald falling on
stage. Watch what happened to
Bob Saget. A lot of this sort of
sudden dropping, which maybe
it's just odd to dysautonomia
from some from COVID or
something, right? This stuff
needs to be answered. Look, we
just had a soccer journalist
dropped out of an aortic
dissection in his 30s Unheard of
unheard of without talking to
Aussies. And why would he have
Takayasu is not know it. I mean,
this is like crazy stuff
happening. That needs to be
explained. And by the way, it's
Caleb just played the video of
Heather McDonald falling on
stage and you look played again.
And you tell me everybody, if
that doesn't look like exactly
what you saw this kid do on the
football field. Take a couple of
steps and then backwards, step
back. That's exactly what
happened to this, this, this
tragedy on the field. So I don't
know something is going on here.
I've never seen anything like
all this stuff. I you know, it's
a service a signal that needs to
be explained.
To see most of the soccer
players that we've seen. Same
thing Yeah. They fall backwards.
Yes. Well, that brings us to
this clip, which is you know,
that bald guy that's on YouTube,
that's a doctor and he's got
this slight British accent.
People have sent this to me 1000
We've never played this guy
because he's so boring.
I could I cut out the first part
of it is It's quite good. I cut
all the pauses out. And this is
him going on. I agree.
Hey, man, he says we should stop
vaccinating right away. You've
seen him John, what's his name?
John John, his name is John
Carter
here and here. I play the clip
this Vax new adverse comments
and I thought, and he's very
easy. He's super careful about
saying anything that would get
his videos taken down, although
if they can can take him down
anyway, John Campbell, I think
is his name Campbell. Yeah,
there you go.
brief history lesson, swine flu
vaccine in 1976. There was one
serious adverse event per
100,000 people vaccinated and
the vaccine was withdrawn. This
is good because the principle is
we should do no harm and the
vaccine should be good for the
individual now receives the
vaccine. So vaccine was
withdrawn, rotavirus vaccine
rota shield 1999, one to two
serious adverse events per
10,000 people given the vaccine,
and again, rightly, the vaccine
was withdrawn. At the moment,
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, there's
one serious adverse adverse
event per 100 People that are
vaccinated, and the vaccine is
officially promoted. Now, some
of you might be a little
confused about this. Join the
club. So am I. Now, this
information about one in 800
comes from a reanalysis of the
original phase three trial
studies from Pfizer ran Maderna.
And here's the paper here that
we're going to be looking at.
And if you need to dash off, I'm
just going to give you a quick
summary of this.
I'm gonna go dash off. Okay.
That's exactly what I thanks,
man. Could you summarize after a
minute because I gotta dash off.
So this is the paper here
serious adverse events of
special interest. Following mRNA
COVID vaccines in randomised
trials in adults? These are the
original trials for textures
available there. Why do we
question the safety profile of
mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. Now this
is by two of the authors of the
study. And it just gives a very
useful summary. And the authors
say this and their substack
using publicly available data
from Pfizer and Maderna studies.
And bear in mind the publicly
available data is somewhat
limited. We found one serious
adverse event for every 100
people vaccinated. That
translates to about one in 1250
Series events for each million
vaccine recipients. Now if you
think of 1250 serious adverse
events per million vaccine
recipients, and you think about
the number of people that have
been vaccinated with these mRNA
vaccines. I'm not going to do a
back of the envelope
calculation. I think you can see
the the input of this.
Thanks for dashing, I got a dash
now. Let's go back to my EMT
firefighter. And so what do you
really start off with is saying
hey, I, I he's in central Ohio.
He says shit is weird. I got a
couple things for you. We
transport a cancer patient who
had a serious reaction to her
first chemo treatment. I didn't
think it was anything too out of
the ordinary until the nurse who
administer the treatment said to
stated I've been giving this
chemo drug for 16 years never
Has anyone had a bad reaction to
this drug. But ever since the
COVID shots came out. I've sent
tons of people to the emergency
department after they had bad
reactions to post treatment. And
lo and behold, I look into it.
Our department a load had
transported several patients
from this clinic to the IDI
emergency department because of
bad reactions to this routine
chemo drug. We hosted a card
cardiologist for a training
meeting a few months ago, we
flat out asked are you seeing
younger people coming in for
cardiac issues because of the
backs he replied, I can't say is
because of the VAX or not. But
yes, a lot more younger people
are coming in with heart issues
and pulmonary embolisms blood
clots in the lung. A guy on my
shift told me his wife went to
get a routine mammogram and had
an odd interaction with the
technician who did the scan. The
technician said, asked did you
get your COVID shot in your left
arm? my shipmates wife confirmed
that that was the case and the
technician stated she can see a
white haze and spots on
whichever side breast people
have been getting COVID shots
on. We had a continuing
education. Yeah, yeah, it's
more. A couple more. We got a
continuing education. You were
laughing That's pretty ghoulish.
No, it's just like, Wow, can you
imagine seeing a bunch of crazy
stuff on the on the on this
cast? Scan? It's it's gross. We
had a continuing education
course on pediatric stroke
recognition attack, attached a
picture. Either kids have always
had strokes and we just never
looked for him or all of a
sudden medical providers should
be looking for strokes and kids
bottom line for everyone.
eliminate age is a factor for
suspecting heart attacks and
strokes Learn the signs and
symptoms of both, and assume
anyone of any age showing any of
them could be having a major
medical issue. And he goes on he
says, emergency department
really started off as an
emergency departments are very
full. But they're not full with
COVID. They are full with people
deathly afraid of their children
dying of RSV, of course, they're
filled with illegal immigrants
and other people who have no
coverage treating the emergency
department as the general
practitioner. But the main thing
he said is COVID, RSV, no,
there's very, very, very few
people being taken it they're
all either beside themselves
with fear, and they think that
their child is dying. But it's
really all kinds of all these
other symptoms. And so yes, he
said, emergency departments and
hospitals are filling up, but
not because of, of, of COVID.
And here we are, we're just
about what we're now three
years, pretty much to the date
now a couple more months, and
Happy New Year, everybody,
and especially take care of your
health this year. Go get that
COVID vaccine and get your flu
shot.
Thank you, Dr. Joe Biden. And
it's not just not just a new
variant, man, I gotta I gotta
play these two clips. So we have
we have a new sub variant, a new
Coronavirus
sub variant is taking hold in
the United States. It's a
mutation of the Omicron variant.
You can see how dominant it's
becoming nationwide. But
this is Your Miche by the way,
she is she on NBC UMich. She,
she, she she was known as she's
long, long gone from PBS. Long
gone long ago. Like she went she
went for the big bucks, huh?
Well,
they're probably racist over
there. That's why it'll come
out.
I should have been radical.
She should have been next in
line to succeed Judy. And those
racists. You know, they just
they imagine her being the host.
Oh, my God,
it now makes up more than 40% of
all new cases. The next COVID
strain makes up about a quarter
of new cases. The CDC says
there's no indication that the
sub variant makes people sicker
than others. It's also unclear
where it came from what we can
tell you is it the CDC says it's
spreading quickly. Joining us
now NBC News Medical fail
thought fellow doctor medical
failure. Did she say medical
failure?
She said medical shale
can tell you? Is it the CDC says
it's spreading quickly. Joining
us now NBC News Medical fail
out fellow your failure. She was
gonna say medical failure.
That's why he's on TV.
Dr. Akshay Cibao. Thanks so much
for joining us tonight. So what
can you tell us about the
transmission of this new
variant? How worried frankly,
should we be?
Good evening? I mean, yeah, so
this this new variant X BB dot
1.5, it's part of the Omicron
family tree here. But the
concern is, you know, it's a
little bit it's a little bit out
there in terms of the family
tree, meaning, you know, the
vaccines that we have, and the
antibodies that we've developed
from infection, the concern is
that these may not be as
effective with this variant as
prior variants. And I know we
say that every few months, and
it seems like, you know,
I know we say that every couple
of months, but yeah, that's what
I'm a failure for have
been with the prior bearings.
And I know, we say that every
few months, and it seems like,
you know, every few months,
there's a new variant that is
immune evasive, as we call it,
yes. Seems like it. No, it is
like it because you're spreading
the fear.
But with this one specifically,
we're worried about, you know,
the vaccines, the by valen
boosters and the antibodies, we
have them infection, are they
still going to be effective at
finding the virus? And so, you
know, in talking to the CDC
about this new variant, the
thing that they're really
watching for is, yes, cases are
going to go up. But are those
cases going to lead to a rise in
hospitalizations? And are those
hospitalizations going to lead
to a rise in deaths? You know,
we're at a different point last
year, then or different point
this year than last year when we
had the, you know, omicron wave
hit the United States with a lot
of population immunity built up
to this point. So the hope is,
yes, cases may go up. But the
effects on hospitalizations and
the effects on debts should be
minimal.
So here's something I learned
today. I had to learn it from UK
column news, but I checked it, I
checked it at Bloomberg, I had
no idea that the XB B, one dot
1.5, sub COVID Omicron sub
variant has its own name. Did
you know that?
No, in fact, I wrote about in
the newsletter, this particular
variant because it's a big talk
of the town, but I didn't know
they gave it a name as of
today. I'm reading it here
January 5 in Bloomberg, I'm not
going to give it away.
Good afternoon. It's Wednesday,
the fourth of January 2023. Just
after one o'clock, welcome to UK
column news, your host today.
Myself Roy nourish Mike Robinson
and we're delighted to be
joined, joined by Alex Thompson,
bring his Eastern approaches
from the Netherlands and nursing
correspondent Debbi evidence.
We've got a lot to cover.
Yeah. So we started off Monday
with with a new variant of
Coronavirus, which is been
called X BB dot 1.5. But
actually it's got a new name to
make sure that everybody's
particularly scared of it. So
it's, it's the new variant is
called Kraken so it's not
Omicron it's not delta is
cracking.
They're calling it cracking. Are
you kidding me?
I'm I'm not buying it released.
I know you sent me check it out.
Kraken, right oh is gonna call
it that isn't disgusting right
here. Bloomberg New COVID
variant first detected last year
nicknamed the cracking variant
in Bloomberg in the kitchen.
I'm going to use it. I'm gonna
use the heck out of you kidding.
To get you released the Kraken.
We can use our own gene goals.
This is so cool. I want them
to have a bunch of cracking
jingles because what's your
name's lawyer who's just
released the Kraken and save
Trump. Release the Kraken.
Yeah, she released the Kraken.
It was who knew it was it was a
Omicron Omicron
two dot 5.4 dot b dot a
let's let's learn about the
Kraken is it more deadly. So
it sounds like what you're
saying that it's it might be
more contagious, but it's not
more deadly. Just to make sure.
Yeah, you know that? The answer
is more contagious. We don't yet
know. This, we don't know is
relatively new. It's about 40%
of cases nationwide, about 70%
of cases here in New York where
it was first discovered. Is it
more contagious? We don't yet
have the answer to that.
I put a put a lock down in New
York. But the
CDC is looking into that. And we
don't yet know does this cause
more severe disease, but those
things should come apparent in
the weeks to come?
Oh, can't wait. These are all
short. So I just gotta keep
going with this Dr. Axe shy see
all the failed medical
journalist
and talk to us about how much
our vaccinations, our current
vaccinations, the boosters how
much they're seen as working
against this new variant
doll. Let me guess, let me
guess. I'm probably not working
at all we need some new
boosters.
It's an excellent question. And
about 15% of people over the age
of five have gotten a new
booster and more worrisome, you
know, over the age of 65. We're
only seeing about one in three
people receiving that new
booster. But to answer your
question that the booster is
targeted against BA four and VA
five the other variants of
Omicron. But there is what we
call cross reactivity meaning
that because this baby Island
booster improves protection
against similar strains, it does
actually improve protection
against x BB the parent variant
of the one we're seeing right
now. And I know that's a lot to
take in. But the takeaway is
that you should get your buy
valium booster you were
expecting it to improve
protection against this new XP v
dot 1.5 variant as
well. There he is. There he is
there. There it is the money
shot the money shot any advice
shot
whenever it does, just to show I
want to ask you talk a little
bit about safety and sorry, new
variant is taking hold what
parts of the country we're
seeing it in? Yeah, you mean
it's really the Northeast? You
know, it was first discovered in
New York and it's making about
70 to 75% of
I'm thinking this is a New York
specific we need to seriously we
need to quarantine New York
block those people in New
Yorkers The problem is is
used to it. Yeah, Northeast
region are made up from this
variant. And I asked the CDC
last week, are you seeing a
greater than expected rise in
hospitalizations in the
Northeast compared with the rest
of the country? And you know,
the good news is right now we're
there's no indication that that
this new X VB dot 1.5 is causing
more severe hospitalizations.
But that, you know, we still
need to wait in the weeks to
come to see. Well that remains
to be the
case. Yeah. Oh, yeah, sure.
Wait,
wait, hold on a second. It was
it was x b b. Dot 1.5 crackin.
What was there an x b b dot 1.4.
Or an x b b dot one. I don't
remember that. Whatever how to
come is x. Want to just call it
x BB? Or wanted to just call it
x or B? Let me see what is this?
X B B? dot 1.5? What's the
reason for this long? Was there
a whole bunch of other ones?
Yeah, there was there a B? B?
Yeah. Was there a y BB?
No, there was an X BB dash one.
And this is a dash one that's
different is different. Okay,
now the X BB dot one is the
Omicron sub variant. The recent
X BB seven Barrett is a XB b dot
was so this is a. This is like a
sub it's like a it's like a July
iOS upgrade. You know, it's not
the big one at the end of the
year. It's just we're just going
to tweak it a little bit.
Does it get a point upgrade?
It's just slipstreamed What
about it? They would I like to
know what x BB stands for?
Well, XP b dot one was found in
an important infection and it's
actually a combination of BA dot
two dot 10 and BA dot two dot
75.
How do you get the nomenclature
then?
nomenclature. Yeah, X BB from
B. I mean where's the X come
from
cross cross a bet you have to
cry Hold on, hold on. Hold on.
Let's go to the chat GPT let's
ask them oh I won't know Will it
because it's only 20 I want to
see where does the sub vary and
name X BB come from? Let's see
if it knows his I don't think it
knows this because I'm sorry. I
don't have enough information to
determine.
Sheldon doesn't know crap. Well,
they only schooled up until 2021
Well, poor thing.
Let me try. Let me try to speak
French. Let me try it. Can you
speak French?
Say we miss you and
let's see what it says. Oh, hold
on. Still Still doing something
here. I'm sorry. Can you speak
French? We use your Parlophone
says yes we in Madera. De long
club longer on tenor bar open AI
edge. Yep, it does. How about
this? Do you speak Dutch?
Because I can actually check and
see if this isn't any good.
speak Dutch. Okay. Yes, I can
speak Dutch. It doesn't do it in
Dutch about
just speaks it in English. says
yes. Well, I couldn't do that
asked me if I could speak Dutch.
Can
you speak Dutch?
Yes, I can.
Oh, I said speak some Dutch.
He'd been in computer programmer
that is trained on the communist
era infoscale in the towel over
on the Netherlands is each space
speaks about Google proud of
what you can do. And that's not
bad. That's not bad. That's
that's pretty good. Dutch.
Interesting. Okay, well, let's
wrap
this up here. And as people are
watching this, I wonder sorry.
Okay. No, go ahead. I
don't I I'm taking this to the
next level after you're done.
Okay. And as people are watching
this, I wonder if you have any
advice for folks who are worried
about this new variant? I know
I've heard a lot of experts say
get vaccinated. What would you
tell folks?
Whoa, get the shot people.
The number one thing that you
can do right now is to get your
by Vaillant booster, especially
if you're somebody who's it's
been a while since you haven't
had an infection. It's been a
while since you've had the last
booster maybe you've never even
had a booster booster, you
should really, really get this
new buy bailant booster to
improve that reactivity improve
your antibody response against
this variant, because it's very
likely cases are going to rise
in the coming weeks. And you
want to make sure you have the
most protection possible going
into that wave. How are you
doing booster?
How you doin booster? Mm hmm.
There you have that key? Yeah,
go ahead. So that okay, yeah,
there you have it, get a shot.
Come on. It's not that hard. So
that takes us to, to the TSA
rules. Oh,
I am so pissed off. And why does
the TSA get to determine this?
What happened to the CDC? You
might as well explain what it
is.
But well, here it is play the
clip Vax TSA rules.
The TSA extends the requirement
for visitors to the US to be
vaccinated in order to enter the
country. This makes the United
States the only western country
that still has such a rule. Here
are the details
to Transportation Security
Administration or TSA has issued
a so called emergency amendment
which extends the requirement
for visitors to the US to show
proof of being fully vaccinated
against COVID-19
Once you stop some terrorists
first Okay, once you stopped
some some some bombs or
something just stopped something
before we do this Dex.
This directive is effective from
next Monday to April 10. It
applies to almost all visitors
excluding US citizens and lawful
permanent residents. This makes
the US one of only a few
countries worldwide to vaccine
proof as a requirement for entry
for non citizens. Most other
countries offer alternatives for
the unvaccinated, such as
requiring a negative test, a
quarantine period, or proof of
immunity, which comes from a
previous infection. For example,
there are only four countries
with similar rules to the US.
Those are Pakistan, Indonesia,
Ghana and Liberia. According to
wait a minute, did they say home
and see what they said here is
requiring a negative test a
quarantine period or proof of
immunity, which comes from a
previous infection, for example,
but you can do that I don't
think I don't understand. So you
don't need it, you don't need
vaccination.
Now these are some other
countries not
to vaccine proof as a
requirement for entry for non
citizens. Most other countries
offer alternatives for the
investor, such as requiring a
negative test, a quarantine
period, or proof of immunity
which comes from a previous
infection. For example, there
are only four countries with
similar rules to the US. Those
are Pakistan, Indonesia, Ghana
and Liberia. According to CDC,
fully vaccinated means having
received an accepted single dose
vaccination or a second dose of
a two dose series at least four
Team days in the past,
that's bull crap. We know that
that doesn't work because you
have to have at least three
boosters by now. So their own
rules Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
there is no need for a booster
dose to achieve the criterion.
The TSA says their vaccine
requirements will advance safety
and security of travelers,
government workers and more. The
amendment reads the policy is
intended to limit the risk that
COVID-19 including variants of
the virus that causes COVID 19
is introduced, transmitted and
spread into and throughout the
United States, potentially
overwhelming the United States
health care and public health
resources. However, the CDC
director in August noted that
vaccines can't actually prevent
transmission. She told CNN in an
interview, our vaccines are
working exceptionally well. They
continue to work well for delta
with regard to severe illness
and death. They prevent it. But
what they can't do anymore is
prevent transmission.
So it's a ludicrous rule.
ludicrous.
Go to make it more ludicrous. I
got this interesting note from
Brian, who's Irish. And he says
Dear John and Adam, here's my
wee bit of input to the show.
Despite much pressure, my
brother avoided the vaccine for
two years as I did, the pair of
us related lepers to some of our
extended family, but we just got
on with it. He booked a family
trip to see our sister in
California this Christmas and
then he found out that he needed
to be vaccinated banner the US.
Yeah. After coughing up for for
return tickets from Dublin to
Los Angeles and with the family
set on it, he felt he had to
compromise and get vaccine. Oh.
But as it turned out, he was not
even asked for proof of
vaccination. Ireland is one of
the few places where you can do
a pre clearance. You've probably
had this happen. I've had a
couple places pre clearance for
entering the US before flying.
So maybe they're not as
fanatical here. But all they did
was ask where they were that
were they've asked and they said
yes that was it. Keep up
the good work, what would be
important is which airline wet
because what pre clearance, pre
clearance because I've gone
through what is what is I've
gone through pre clearance and
auto when I went through pre
clearance someplace else, I
can't remember where but their
preclearance is in the entire
United States Customs Service
system, right there at the
foreign Airport, where they
check you in, they check the
passport, they stamp it, they
look at your baggage, they do
the red and red and green thing
with your baggage. Your pre
cleared you land at a regular
airport entry don't land at the
International Terminal yet land
at like LaGuardia or someplace,
for example, or just a regular
part of San Francisco and I've
had this preclearance system
twice I think
customs and immigration they're
not. It's just so you
understand. This is not checked
in America, they are putting
this own on the airlines, the
airlines are supposed to I know
you say that. But this is what
happened in this guy's story
from Ireland to the United
States. Because once you get
past that, that step where they
ask you for your vaccination
information that you just say,
yes, you're good to go from
there on out. The airlines don't
seem to have anything to do with
it.
Now I'm going to disagree with
that. But okay, in this case,
maybe preclearance is definitely
something different than this.
It's up to the airline. And if
the airline just asked you and
you say yes, then you'll not be
hassled at all. If the airline
says prove it to me, which would
be something that commies in
Holland would do at klm you guys
tell me you're banging me?
I'm sure that I'm sure there'll
be it's a
French by the way it KLM is
French would we know they're
commies. I'm just trying to do
my best Archie Bunker. Bunch of
cowboys bunch of commies. This
of course is not good for
China's the Chinese notice the
China vaccine is not on the
list. No, no. If you have the
Chinese vaccine for COVID You
cannot not that would mean that
Air China would have to stop
their own people which I don't
think Air China is going to do
on the streets of China life is
slowly returning to normal after
years of harsh lockdowns and
strict COVID controls. But that
newfound freedom is having
devastating consequences.
Hundreds of 1000s of people are
catching the virus every day.
officials insist it's under
control that the world's not
convinced
that we're going to implement
controls at our airports
a growing list of countries
including Australia now
requiring travelers from China
to return a negative test within
48 hours of departure, saying
Beijing's not being upfront
about case numbers and
mortality. He writes
that lack of transparency means
that it's not possible to keep
track of variances they are
developing.
Despite demanding similar tests
from rivals, the Chinese
government isn't happy. We are
firmly opposed to attempts to
manipulate the COVID-19 measures
for political purposes,
threatening retaliation for a
policy it says lacks scientific
basis, we
will take countermeasures based
on the principle of reciprocity.
It's a
matter for China what they
decide to do but but this is a
modest measure taken out of an
abundance of caution for given
Australia's top doctors says the
screening is unnecessary and the
fact that travelers can use
rapid antigen tests which can't
be used to identify variants.
The opposition says the
government's claims don't add up
and the minister should know
that you cannot generically
sequence a rat test,
prompting speculation the move
is part of a global campaign to
pressure Beijing into sharing
more COVID data.
Well, good luck.
Well, there's a situation
occurring in Korea to do you
have a clip as the clip, South
Korea and China
South Korea has stepped up
mandatory Coronavirus tests on
travelers from China. This after
a Chinese national who tested
positive for COVID-19 went
missing while waiting at a
quarantine facility. And today's
Daniel Monahan has this report.
Health officials
and military officers can be
seen wearing protective suits.
They are keeping a watchful eye
as travelers from China stream
through the arrival hall at
Incheon International Airport.
The travelers will then proceed
to a nearby Testing Center. The
Case of the Missing Chinese
national has fueled public
debate on restrictions on people
arriving from China.
Wait, there's a missing Chinese
national in South Korea. Instead
of a manhunt. We got to hunt
this guy down
most. wanted most one to try to
get
him back this South Korean
resident welcomes their arrival.
I think we should open the door
wider to the Chinese travelers
and regard them more favorably
so that more tourists can come.
While 30 year old Lee J Moon
wants stricter rules that you
don't have. I saw the news that
a person came from China who is
supposed to be quarantined, but
had escaped that incident
underlines the seriousness of
the situation. South Korean
authorities say the missing
person was transferred to a
hotel to await admission to
quarantine but then disappeared.
Health Ministry official Kim Joo
Young says the individual has
been placed on a wanted list,
the person could be subject to
up to one year in prison or
10,000,001 and fines if
convicted of violating the
Infectious Disease Control and
Prevention Act as well. So the
person would be deported and
banned from entering the country
for a certain period of time.
Where do
they go to jail first, and they
kick out you can't come back in.
Over 2000 People have arrived
from China since January 2, more
than 22% of those tested were
COVID Positive. On Tuesday,
about 20% of the more than 280
people tested were positive. And
I
would like to say that of course
lots of people who are listening
have accepted the vaccine into
their life. And and you heard
the numbers. It's 1000 for every
1 million. That's what Dr. John
Campbell says, the most boring
YouTube doctor in the universe.
So the chances that you know
that
by the way, he likes to
underline things as you watch.
So, the only reason we're
laughing because you know,
alright, so we didn't take it,
but it's not funny. But the
chance you have a pretty good
chance of being okay, but maybe
not a good idea to keep
boosting. So take that take
that. Okay, I think you have a
good chance of being okay. I
mean, if you're not if you're
not, if you don't have
this is one in 800. And
a couple a couple more things on
this topic from the show notes.
COVID style measures could
return under official plans to
save the NHS in the UK. So we're
all going that sounds like
locked down. Sounds like
mandatory masking.
They may have to do that
district prevent these strikes.
Ooh, that's a good one. Yeah,
that's me see what this article
is from The Daily Mail. So take
it for what it's worth. We can't
do this every winter fury over
government plans to bring back
COVID era measures to avoid full
blown NHS meltdown. As zealots
demand masks in public. Whoo.
Okay, social distancing. Masking
mask
ratio looks like I'm trick I'm
keeping track of it now. I have
two, two looks I get the public.
It's gotten to the point where
the public indoor masking which
is about I'd say 65% of
everybody in in the Bay Area,
and outdoor, good, free fresh
air outdoor masking is Almost
identical now, it's like 65% or
70% of the people walking free
by themselves or in their car,
on the street in fresh air, or
wearing a mask,
they should just be targets.
Just shooting with the biggest
kick gotta hit him with a tank
haul. Our vaccines fueling new
COVID variants asks Wall Street
Journal.
That was a remember that was the
initial complaint amongst the
cognitive senti doctors who were
talking about the early vaccines
where you don't vaccinate a
population that's already has
has, right it's, yeah, that was
you're already infected. And
then you start vaccinating
people, you're creating these
areas. Yeah.
Cuz several doctors, the Dutch
guy, I think here, what's his
name,
we have a lot of clips on
display is over a year, almost
two years ago, and this was the
big concern, oh, here
it is play a little bit
to realize that most of the
vaccinees that are coming to the
hospital right now, they are
still not, you know, the
majority is still not
hospitalized. Because Because of
COVID-19. These are typically
the patients you know, that are
suffering from other diseases
because of I would say immune
suppression due to COVID. So
they are hospitalized with COVID
with a number of other diseases.
What will happen next, I'll tell
you what will happen next is
that finally, these people, you
know, they they are they are a
breeding ground for you know,
the more virulent variants of
COVID-19 that ultimately win the
virus managers and that will
happen manages to overcome the
virulence neutralizing activity
that is now exerted by the
infection enhancing antibodies,
right with the virus will
overcome that activity, you
know, the virulence,
neutralizing or virulence
inhibiting activity of these
antibodies, then what we will
see all of a sudden, is that the
virus that is highly infectious
in those people, you know, will
completely resist any last
immune defense against
virulence, and will blow not
only through the innate immune
system, but even through the
adaptive immune system. And that
is why I'm saying, you know, I,
you know, for me, that is not
fun at all to kind of like
discriminate vaccines, and my
heart goes out to these people.
What I'm telling is that there
is an urgent need an urgent need
to make antivirals, you know,
available to these people. And
it needs to go very, very fast.
I recommend every everyone who
is thoroughly vaccinated,
especially those who got
vaccinated early on during the
pandemic, because they had no
opportunity to train their
innate immunity, right. And they
have, you know, they just have
their vaccine antibodies that
will be completely worthless,
and that will even enhance the
disease to get, you know, to get
their hands on antivirals,
because otherwise, what we are
gonna see, I mean, I've no doubt
about this is huge rates of
severe morbidity and mortality
to begin with, in people who
have been vaccinated early on in
the vaccination program, before
they even had the chance to you
know, to be exposed to the virus
and to train them to some extent
their innate immunity. That is
what we are going to see.
And sounds like he was kind of
right yeah, I
think there was a bunch of guys
who said that she had found a
bug with a little known more
conciseness Yeah, well, he's
Belgian when he wants
but just to add to that, the NHS
chief of Wales so the National
Health System CI CEO chief of
Wales has warned people to avoid
specific activities because you
know, the our accident and
emergency which is what a&e what
they call emergency department
is you know, you're going to
cripple them so don't go for
long runs you can't make it up I
mean, you Wow,
you really get one it's done
move too quickly.
It makes me sad it makes me sad.
You don't seem that sad?
No, you're right you're right.
But with that I'd like to thank
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remember, we had 1773 six or 70
to 73 On the last episode, so
it was an 1800 In the last
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oh, you wrote it down. Oh,
okay. This is reasonable to
reasonable it's not good. But
it's reasonable.
Everybody who would like to hang
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you know, 10,000 But really, if
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these reports just come from?
Oh, man. Oh, and honestly, I
miss that one.
Oh, it's all over the place
child porn mastodon. It was like
big publications. Let me see
what I come up with. Is that
Yeah, the mastodon dominated by
child pornography. Wow. Yeah.
That's everywhere. It's
everywhere. Of course, they'll
do anything. Hey, wait a minute.
Wait a minute. We're losing.
We're losing people here. I
think Elon Musk maybe even
overplayed his hand to be fair
about it. People are kind of
digging the masks
they hate so they hate Tik Tok
because they're losing all their
money to Tik Tok. So we're gonna
get rid of because it's a better
vehicle for advertising. They're
literally taking their now
they're irked about Mastodon
because, you know a few people
have gone over there to do their
chit chat. As opposed to on
Twitter where you're always
gonna get have to listen to Rob
Reiner bitching and moaning
about Trump.
Strangely, now I have three
places I use Mastodon a no
agenda social.com. I use it at
podcast index dot social. I have
a separate account, but man that
that flows back and forth. It
doesn't really matter. We were
so federated. And then I had my
secret private little instance,
which I don't post on at all. I
just follow all of these journos
and these
you're gonna have to clue me in
this I'll give you an account.
I'll give you an account. You
give me an account and I'll go
do the same and we both snicker
beacon snigger ganging amongst
ourselves over these idiots.
Yeah, sure, as long as you don't
post because then you'll blow
our cover. You know, I mean, if
you post from that account, then
we're gonna blow the cover. And
then people like Jeff Jarvis
will be on to us. And then the
fund will be over. Jeff Jarvis
is a serial booster. He loves he
Well, he loves boosting
everybody. Oh, look at this
black professor. Yes, yes, we
need to change the fediverse
it's racist. It and you'll see
when I'll get you a secret
secret account. So you can go to
no agenda social.com You can
follow as
any actual big names in there.
of journalists. Oh, yeah. Oh,
yeah. I mean, sure. It's all the
PBS people. Lots of NBC people.
Okay. Taylor Lorenz is there.
What more do you want? Anyway,
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think where does that come from?
I wonder there's no evidence we
weren't
no but we were blocked early on
five years ago. By by because
they said that's a free speech
zone free which were to free
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there's a bunch of Nazi que que
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document it literally classifies
us as Nazis and keh keh keh
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highly quadrants and not Octa
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I don't know I have no idea I
have no idea
what I'm a Quadroon technically
speaking are actually on the
Macedon no agenda social.
Go this unreal deuces for sure.
Oh, no, yeah,
there's doses by quadro I
don't think quadrants, those,
like I got a message from
someone the other day and it was
something like it was from
another from another instance.
And the instance and the
instance Adam I know you're the
admin have no agenda social.
What is your policy? What is
your policy on transphobia with
a link to someone who said, Man,
I don't I don't get this people
this trans stuff get it
literally was something as
innocuous I don't really
understand this transfer. And so
I said, Well, you know, it's
it's, uh, I don't see any phobia
there. I don't see any, any
extreme fear of trans people. I
didn't hear back but then I saw
right away that person posts on
their own account. We have
black, no agenda social. I asked
the admin, what their policy was
on transphobia and I got the
typical phobia is not irrational
fear. So I blocked that that's
how people think. And I'm like,
great. We don't want your Dickey
stuff around.
It's lack of dickey. Now. There
you go. Speaking of Dickie,
satchel Richards was the title
of no agenda, Episode 1517,
which was our last show and we
really want to thank the artist
for for this beautiful piece of
work. The artist was brought to
us by mountain J. To bring in
the new year with the I guess,
of course, January 1, we had to
show but this is the first one
of the new New Year, and it was
exactly what we wanted breaking
news alert. 2023 is a new year
with fireworks.
Yeah,
I think that came because I'm so
tired of people like who is
that?
Everything breaking news at the
beginning of every show on Fox?
Who's that?
I forget his name. Who was bless
you. The guy who used to be on
Leo all the time. He's the he's
I also follow him on my secret
account. Oh, come on. He travels
around with his wife. He has no
job. He's
no Yeah, yeah. Like Mike would
like last
name. Mike. Man, I'm like I'm
scrolling for him now. He's
usually here Mike. Take it
Oh, Mike. Like his wife didn't
know mad that day digital nomad.
Yeah, I forget what I was gonna
say about him. I was gonna rag
on
it apparently he was on that
debt site and you saw a post
from him
what I was gonna say is he's the
kind of guy that long Why don't
we know his name? Mike
is blocked now he's Neuro
Linguistic Programming is
prevented us Come on.
No, we got it. I follow him. I
follow him. I should be able to
find him. And someone helped me
l gum there we go Mike Elgin
Elgin. Algum algum Okay, let's
see I want to read this it
used to be referred to as gums
hell gum in the
aisle maybe he's maybe he's
blocked me. Now I can't seem to
find him. Anyway might know
blockchain Mike Elgin. Elgin is
Eldon may be Elgin. Elgin.
Elgin. Elgin. Okay, here we go.
My dog and I got him. Okay, here
he is. Here he is. Break egg.
Amazon cutting 18,000 jobs.
He put breaking in a tweet
BREAKING Trump made $250 million
off the January sixth coup
attempt breaking fifth vote for
Speaker of the House fails.
braking force vote for Speaker
of the House fails. Hey, Mike,
break this. What an irritating
thing to do. You're not a news
organization. It's certainly not
breaking when you're linking to
the actual site that broke the
news. Breaking, you're breaking
my brain breaking.
Well, that's an interesting pet
peeve play the Adams pet peeve
jingle that hasn't been played
for at least
B's pet D on the day.
Geez.
It's very, it's annoying.
I'm gonna start doing it. So
anyway, so this art, which
expressed the complaint about
this usage is like breaking Hey,
January 1 is the new year. Oh,
that's breaking news. It's a new
year. That's exactly what they
would do on Tucker Carlson.
Which is also getting some they
lost some producers or writers
over there. I don't know what
happened. Something went wrong.
It the talent that goes into
putting some of those segments
together is a lot higher end
than most of us can imagine.
Yep, I can assure
you, but recently, it's just
been pretty bad.
Well, you doesn't take more than
one or two guys. It's always
that one guy that You know I've
watched this and just to go back
to football I've noticed this
there are certain teams and
every year in this that goes
through a whole season in the
second half of the game they
kick ass because they make
changes in the at the TAF time
break and there's one or two
guys that know what how to do
this correctly we had this
situation in the University of
California where there's this
guy Cortez who went there to
coach in the Canadian league he
was the right hand man for the
coach and the second half of the
they always just totally kick
ass the guy left nobody noticed
he left and no one knew who the
guy was that was doing this
because nobody ever gets credit
and he leaves the next thing you
know they can't play a second
hand they keep they have their
asses handed to him. This is a
common problem when you have an
unspoken uncredited the heroes
in an organization
we have many heroes just heroes
we have heroes in our
organization. So
this credit goes to mountain j
and we did have a couple other
things that we considered i
Although I liked the mastermind
2023 goals the typewriter stuff
it was it was I understand why
it didn't didn't pass your your
veto by I did look nice. It was
kind of cool. In veto it You
said that's no good.
And never said anything. Okay, I
liked that piece. So what the
problem was it was dickory
DeVore acting was an illegible
at the bottom. So that's a
violation. Yeah. And
it's at the top I don't know
what you're saying at the bottom
is nothing at the bottom as of
2023 to do by the mastermind.
No, no, no, no, no, it's the
white background. Typewriter.
Oh 2023 goals. Yeah, the Okay,
that went to the 2023 to do I
don't even think that was on the
list that hadn't been uploaded
yet was I saw it anyway Kirinda
right. No agenda Yeah. And then
you're right this one it was
like a half written find exits,
though that I didn't really
totally veto it. But you know,
it's gonna say find exit
strategy really isn't a no
agenda goal. That's our goal.
been our goal for a while.
It's our goal. Not that no
agenda goal so that's not you
know, so that's an accurate so
the whole
thing unless someone comes along
and buys this show without us.
Now we're stuck with it. Yeah,
you're right. But luckily, it's
it's hanging in there. And we'd
get we're getting some good
donations on occasion. Today's a
pretty good day. And we like
doing it and people really liked
this show because we provide the
information as opposed to just
gassing. You know, we gas a lot
for hours on end. I was
listening to some podcast
recently. That was just the same
thing to dipshits yammering
should be the name of the show.
Oh,
that's that's good, that domain
name to dipshits yammering. But
the problem is most of the shows
today are just like it's like
listening to Twitter. It's what
I always say. It's like
listening to Twitter, I think I
think grew I think Yeah. I think
it's no good. There's very few
that are any nose
no good. The number of podcasts
that are actually good. Is
probably 20.
Well, unfortunately only on on
Spotify, but I will be on Joe
Rogan again this month.
That's a good thing. But you're
gonna talk about was Joe gonna
talk about?
I have no idea. We don't discuss
that. He just says Hey, happy
new year time for an update. Can
you come on the show? What?
Well, he
turns out to be one of the great
conversationalist of the world.
100% in EPS Yes, he is a great
conversationalist. He may be
surprised himself but how good
he is at that. Anyway, I
don't know what to share. He
surprised himself.
I mean, I'll talk a lot about
this show. Of course. I heard
dynamite it is. I'm talking
about podcasting. 2.0 No, come
up with some stuff. If you have
any ideas, let me know.
I want you to ask him what he
thinks about being he's been in
Texas now long enough that he
should have some opinions. Okay.
Whenever I asked what they are
we always I love it. He's I love
it here. If I just asked him
informally to I'd probably have
to be a little more specific.
But you take away from us the
word take away so you sound like
a douche. What's your take away
from being in Texas? Yeah, do
it.
No, I'm not gonna do that. Oh, I
all right. So thank you very
much mountain J for your
contribution in our value for
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If you get any kind of value
from this program because you
know maybe we're not used to
like gassing on you say all I
learned something like maybe I
should invest in heat pumps.
Maybe I should do that. What I
found from this, there's a whole
roll up of local H vac
installers going on right now.
I don't know what H back is H
vac.
The HVAC, air conditioning? Air
conditioning? H O H fac? Yeah,
sure. Yeah. There's a roll up
like the companies are being
purchased the small companies
being purchased left and right.
Oh, that means you're gonna jack
up the price. Hello. What
happened to the veterinarians
around the country? They started
buying up all these little vets
and then these big operations
came in and now I'd like to get
your dog looked at it costs like
200 bucks.
Yeah, just to look well, I'm not
around here yet. Now, we just
got to vet. You know, the guy
you take. You take care of
recurrently your horse you take
your beard. Yeah, I
know that. That's the old
fashioned vet. Guy. The one guy
in town. He knows what he's
doing. He's like, he knows
everything. Yeah, and he's
reasonable and he's got he's got
businesses not an issue doesn't
have to starve to death. He's
not starving to death. But they
could they go after everyone
these big operations.
So we also want to thank the
producers, specifically the
executive producers who came in
with their the treasure part of
the time, talent and treasure
and we do that now. In our first
segment and we kick it off with
Jane Dame Julie bunny, Judy,
Dame Julie bunny, is she already
named let me see as she's from
Rockford, Illinois. $1,000 So
this may be an instant Daming.
Let's see it's her handwritten
note. That's a switcheroo as
well darlings darlings Dame
Julie bunny, the hosta fairy and
from Rockford Illinois, making a
very late birthday donation to
my husband and lover John, who
shares a birthday with John
Seaton for RAC. And with the
same first name isn't that
weird? When she birthday?
April 5,
I hit him hard in the mouth at
the beginning of the plan demic
and he's and he's never missed
an episode become a loyal troll
is on his New Year's resolution
list and probably the only
resolution he has the Christmas
night to be desired to be
knighted John The undie
deducible if that's not taken,
he'd like a full bottle of
canard Duchesne with lobster.
Tell us about the canard.
Duchesne
that's canard do Shan dad is
like yeah, she stomped a few
sparkling wine
dumped him.
She stomped. canard is like
what? Yeah, do duck and Shin is
dog. Duck dog. What's the name
of those details from it's
not any it's not sure it's not
dog like Shin it's Duchenne d u
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canard dash Duchenne and with
lobster and an epi pen.
Because it's a good idea. Okay.
All right. Epi pen. I don't know
do we? Do we have the heaviest
one? Oh, maybe cold duck I think
might be what we're referring
to. That's the I couldn't
remember it. But that was a
cheap champagne used to be sold
all over the country on or if
you remember it now called Cold
duck or something like that. And
it was just junk. I can't afford
anything more than precise like
It's like cooks. Prosecco is a
good product by the way.
And so Okay, so this is a
switcheroo. So we need to put a
lover John in there and he will
be the John The undoable now she
she asked for a couple of ICS
please can he have an ISO she
lists a number here? I believe
every word which I don't believe
we have hail science of these
ISOs that we've had that you are
familiar with. Hit Oh wait. I'm
sorry. There is a science. No,
not okay.
That's from Futurama.
Believe every I mean, now
obviously believe every word.
No, I don't have that. I
don't think so.
I don't have believe No, I do
not have a believe every word 33
everywhere. 33 everywhere. No,
but that doesn't exist. Oh,
wait, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm
incorrect. We do have it. It was
33 everywhere. You've been lied
to. You've been lied to out. You
know what I stand corrected. You
have been lied to, and they need
the money, but illicit
they were slipped into your
database as Britain you never
see this. I looked like they
need the money I don't have. And
then of course we have the final
one I I Call Bull crap I Call
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right, we got the Hey, thank you
very much and I'm going to
actually change that right now
into the switcheroo. So it will
be John D and D do Chable Okay,
let me do that now. Switcheroo
switcheroo while you read the
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you've been deed deuced
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All right, I think we can do
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Jobs, jobs, jobs.
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Quinton Wells is from Cisco,
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Everybody used to call me Q. But
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That's a beautiful note that it
really it means so much when
people say that. I have to
question it. Did this little
podcast really make that
difference? That he merely the
move to the left? Did you hit
your head? He left the city his
head left a good job in the
city.
Move to a little town working
for the man every night and day.
That's right. Victor Carmona in
Hatboro Pennsylvania is on the
list of $333 exactly why it's
above the 333 30 threes I'm not
sure. On Manyana camaraderie. I
hope this note reaches you for
show 15th 18th On the eve of the
Epiphany of our Lord. This
tradition is the last day of
Christmas on the western and the
Western Church. That's right. Do
yours is tomorrow? In Russia?
Yes. In fact, this is kind of
funny because the
No way No no no, no Christmas is
this is this is the sixth
New Year's New Year's 12. The
12th note to the 12th is New
Year's
I thought the Russian New Year's
was the seventh.
Yeah, I got corrected on that.
Okay, well, we will look into it
for the next day. But
Mr. Jean sir Jean, he's
listening searching in text me.
All right.
Yeah. Where it's Christmas was
New Year's. I think maybe it's
Christmas, whatever the case. I
did. There was a guy sent me a
note about this. And I think may
have been Victor. And he says
the curious thing is that the
Orthodox Church in Russia does
this you know, they move all
these days certain January.
Yeah. But the Ukrainians switch
to the normal Christian days.
CSRS
know when when they will they've
basically they've they've shut
down all the Orthodox churches
in Ukraine. And they're in
there. They're making a mess and
a ruckus and kicking around
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big disaster. It's horrible.
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about it later. Kevin McCarthy
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We hit people in the mouth.
So I was interested in
discussing this McCarthy thing.
Oh, good, because I have really
stayed away for it for my own
sanity.
Well, it does turn out to be an
international story for some
reason, because I think the
liberal media is promoting it
overseas, that we're all screwed
up because of these Republicans.
Well, you are correct, because I
always check the Dutch
newspapers every morning. And
it's filled with this story. And
the reason is because the dots
all the journalists over there
do what's the headline in the
New York Times, let me just
translate it. I'll plug it in
the chat GPT and I'll go have
some tea. There's no journalists
anymore, they just repeat
whatever is being done in the
media in the USA.
They're being written on many
times just to repeat what
they're told to repeat. So let's
go with France. 24 and this is
the discussion they're having
about and I thought this was an
interesting little because this
brought to mind I finally found
by the way why this is going on.
As opposed to what everyone else
thinks is it is and the real
answer is coming outta T's I
otherwise I wouldn't be doing
this at all because I thought it
was stupid Clifford I would have
been like you said but here we
go. This France 24 They're
coming out of a Republican Who's
saying, you know that well, he's
trying to make some heads or
tails out of and then they throw
it to a Democrat that's in
France he's he's part of some
commie people call me he's you
know he's he's just a guy and
you know he's one of the guys
it's American in France but it
let's go firstly for
Mike Elgin basically
no yeah, it would be exactly
looks a little like an admission
Here we go. I like
the Forgive me using the word
spin you put on this thing that
they're trying to toughen up
McCarthy it's an interesting way
to put it. I'm not quite sure
whether people will agree with
you. Joe Biden calls it on the
batsman, Fred Hoffman,
representing the Democrats
abroad. Your take on the
situation is tough, not
McCarthy, or is it chaos within
the Republican Party?
What's your take chaos? How
about governing, being at the
forefront instead of just
talking about 2024 already. The
American public is looking for
people to govern. And if this is
the way that there's been two
months that they've had to try
to get from McCarthy to get
votes for a journey for one more
day, it's not going to change
anything. They don't want him
they don't trust him. They don't
like him. And what I find really
interesting is they nominated
two different people yesterday,
Jim Jordan and someone else I
can't even remember not
important. And now Donald's
today, and it's kind of like,
well, let's just fling you know,
something at the wall and have
it stick. Maybe this person will
get elected. There's no
strategy. I mean, how can that
be possible in the government in
the Republican Party that
there's absolutely no strategy.
Randy says it's
toughening up McCarthy getting
into be more focused getting him
toughened up Do you Do you
accept what Randy said?
I don't think so. I think he's
weak I don't think anything's
gonna make him tougher and he's
not going to get he's not going
to win that's the whole thing
he's going to hold off for so
long the the law and boulevards
and the matki all these
different people that are not
well Matt case actually
supported him others they're not
going to vote for him and so I
don't see where this is gonna go
and if they want to nominate
someone else fine but it's kind
of like they're just getting
like well who's the flavor Oh,
today you know that we're going
to have and for me, it is an
embarrassment and it's horrible
for the American public because
they expect the government to to
govern and the Republicans have
been promising how they were
going to get things done. How
are they gonna get things done
if they can't even elect the
speaker and allow their members
to be sworn in?
Because the kind of whining that
you're hearing the American
public doesn't even know this is
going on in general. I don't
think any no
kidding me this this is all this
that's being discussed
everywhere on Twitter on
Facebook, every every
American and breaking mericans
is bullcrap. I don't care let
them take their time if it takes
them you know, a month to get
the right value if I'm
if I may. I really do. Watch
this. I do watch this. Now this
Yes, I do. This has consumed all
media. So whether people care
about it or not. It's
unavoidable that they hear about
it. It's everywhere top of the
list for whatever insane reasons
the most important story
breaking in America today.
So you don't think so? Because
out here on the West Coast. Is
this storm? No.
Okay. Because right now, all
right climate
and you read about the storm
there too. But bees, okay, let's
it's getting a lot of attention.
There's no doubt about that,
because it's another way they
can try to embarrass the
Republican Party. And, but then
they go on, I listened to the
PBS reports and go to the
typical responses. Well, here's
the problem. McCarthy. He's not
he's spending like they were
Democrats. And if they could
just stop spending money and he
makes a point of saying I'm
gonna stop spending money, then
they'll get him in immediately
and he'll go right in. This lot
of this doesn't make any sense
until I finally found I can't I
hate to say this. I found
somebody who seemed to be on the
on point with why they're not
going to let the world and I
voted this guy in and I think I
found it on NTD. Sorry to say
this is the the Okay, and it's
in the second clip, but let's
play clip one McCarthy. One
leadership of the House remains
in limbo after Republican Leader
Kevin McCarthy failed to win
after three votes in the race
for House Speaker. The house is
set to reconvene right about now
to try to resolve the deadlock
among internal opponents is
Representative Bob good of
Virginia's Fifth District. We
spoke with the congressman and
his position
that we need to move past Kevin
McCarthy. He doesn't have the
votes. He's not going to have
the votes. He's got some 20 or
so that are hard nosed against
him. I think you may see someone
else emerge today and the fourth
ballot, the first ballot that we
have afternoon today, or perhaps
on the fifth ballot, I think
gonna see more individuals,
members of Congress willing to
vote against Kevin McCarthy.
He's part of the problem he's
not part of the solution pass
history is the best indicator of
what future performance will be.
He has contributed to how we got
to 32,000. Or excuse me $32
trillion in national debt. He
has contributed the fact that
Congress has a 20% approval
rating 80% of the country thinks
we're on the wrong track. We
can't do what we've always done,
done and expect we're gonna get
a different result.
Who is this talking?
is one of the congressmen that
votes against McCarthy. But he's
not with me ask questions,
because you're going to reveal
this. I'm very excited. Now he
is a California Republican,
correct. McCarthy. McCarthy is
yes. Okay. So that's right
there. That's problem. No one
trusts a Republican from
California anymore.
When I got in as he has to be a
Democrat, yeah. Yeah, that
would, that would be true.
That's what I was thinking. So
let's go. And we finally bring
this guy in who's wrote the book
or one of the books, the plot
against Trump or something, and
this guy's good. And he brings,
he just makes it, it becomes
clear as mud when this next guy
comes on and actually explains
what's going on with the people
did the 20 hold outs, which are
all, many of them are new
Republicans who would try it,
they tried to screw over and
bobberts in this group. Yeah.
And they tried to get her out of
office. And they tried to do
this and get back to her. And
she's not happy about the
Republican Party, the old old
guard didn't help her much let's
go with. And so they want to end
this, they don't like anything
that's going on. So let's go
with McCarthy, McCarthy to clip
and this, I think, is the key to
understanding this. If we get
some analysis on the reason for
the opposition, and the
negotiations taking place.
Joining us now is Lee Smith,
columnist and author of the plot
against the president. He's also
the host of over the target on
Epic TV.
Thanks Great to be here.
As always, House GOP Leader
Kevin McCarthy only received 202
votes of the 280 needed to
become speaker in the house for
the third vote. What are the
main reasons for the opposition
and McCarthy becoming speaker
among Republicans?
Well, my sense of it is speaking
with some, some former
congressional officials,
including some investigators up
there, a lot of people are
concerned they want power to go
into these different
investigations. And they look at
the rules that Kevin McCarthy
submitted at the beginning, the
beginning of this week, and
they're not satisfied, they see
that McCarthys has not granted
enough power to committee
chairs, for them to be able to
investigate different things the
Biden administration has been
doing, and stuff that law
enforcement authorities have
been doing targeting Republican
voters, the Republican base. And
so Republican representatives
are keen to make sure that they
do have enough as much power as
possible to hold accountable the
people who have been hunting
their base for the last two
years.
So some of these investigations
are part of the holdup, what can
you tell us about the
negotiations that are happening
here?
The people who went out there in
the beginning, they said, We're
not going to vote from McCarthy,
they can't walk it back without
getting major concessions. So
they have to figure out a way
the, you know, the Republicans
have to figure out a way to be
able to use, they have be able
to use this Congress, which they
lead as an instrument to, you
know, not only to investigate
not only to go after the Biden
administration, but to answer to
the needs of the people, the men
and women, the Americans who put
them in Congress.
Oh, okay. So he submitted, he's
weak, he's weak, he was weak. He
wants to actually govern instead
of investigate. Well, that will
not stand. What a politician's
for there to have to investigate
each other.
Well, it gets even more
interesting and kind of sketchy
with the third clip.
They just hold McCarthy's feet
to the fire. Make sure that the
Republicans get what they get
what they need to be a sharp
instrument. The main thing that
people tell me that they want is
investigations of the FBI, but
they will need that power. And
they need McCarthy to give them
that power. And without it,
they're not going to be able to
investigate the FBI, or the
Biden's properly.
Well, no wonder
no one no
wonder Oh, so McCarthy, what is
it? Does he have an intelligence
background or anything like
that?
I don't think so. But like he's
obviously part of the you know,
he's been FBI blackmail. I mean,
they're, he's, he's obviously
supposed to be a blockade to
keep this from happening. And
probably the Hunter Biden laptop
would never be fully
investigated. If McCarthy gets
in with his certain with the
rules that he set up. So the
whole thing is about the about
Republicans. Revenge, it's a
revenge play week. We can't be
pushed around like this and, and
almost screwed over, we almost
didn't even get the house back
thanks to the situation of which
is corrupt and we want to look
into it. And there's a bunch of
guys that want to look into it.
They want to look into this.
They want to look into that and
they want to do it with some
with some teeth. They don't want
to just be a bunch of just a
typical weenies. You know, like
they want something like the
January 6 committee gets a lot
of coverage on TV. It doesn't
have anybody on the other side
that to cross examine. It's a
It's rigged. That's what they
want.
This is very interesting. I use
a search engine called Neva. A
familiar with this is the X the
X talked about, yeah, the X
Google Search guy, he set that
up. So I always use it because I
just don't want Google to pay
for this. So I'm going to
presume that they're not lying
and that a lot of my stuff.
That's a stretch what they it
has at the top of every search
Neva AI answer, and it's typing
and so they're ahead of being.
And here's what's interesting.
House Minority Leader, Kevin
McCarthy has called for a church
style investigation. That's when
I did Senator Kevin McCarthy FBI
question mark. If I just say
Senator Kevin McCarthy, I get to
a an AI answer who Neva AI is
analyzing webpages getting the
answer for you. Oh, shit. Oh,
yeah. No, it's what it says. And
even but it gives me the links.
It says this answer was
generated by Neva AI using the
following websites, ABC
news.google.com and pbs.org.
Kevin McCarthy has Republican
political politician from
California. But he was elected.
Okay, he has recently failed in
two rounds of voting to become
House Speaker, your old news,
your fake news at six rounds.
Interesting that they are
interesting. They're using AI.
So they're, they're trying to
get a jump on it? Well, even
more funny is something we have
discussed here about this
speaker of the house roll
new members of Congress cannot
be sworn in until a speaker is
elected. There's no rule
requiring the speaker to be a
current member of Congress. But
experts say bringing in an
outsider is an unlikely option.
The problem here
is, you know this,
this group of you know sort of
malcontents they sort of dead
end or they don't trust anybody.
So they certainly aren't going
to trust an outsider. And the
kind of person that from the
outside that they might have
would be, I think overwhelmingly
opposed by, you know, an
overwhelming majority of the
Republican caucus.
I mean, you and I could be
Speaker, if we had the boats.
Yeah, we've discussed this
before during the Pelosi
discussion. Now. It's possible
for the following if you could
get like 50 Republicans to go in
on some out of office, neutral
person that may be a Republican,
but a super mild one a weenie.
And then the Democrats just turn
all their votes over to that
person because the Democrats are
voting on this too. Yeah. And in
fact, the leading vote getters
is Hakeem Jeffries. He's got 212
votes, but he can't possibly get
the full thing because the
Republicans are gonna vote for
him. But they could give her it
could be something this could
happen.
What could happen outside
I think out of out of state as
it were.
There's only one candidate
Trump, of course
you make. Democrats will vote
for Trump and so they
do the do they need to dumb if
they all voted yes. For Trump,
which they won't do. They have
enough votes.
Yes, the Republicans have enough
votes to put anybody in. But the
number of Republicans that even
though they did actually might
here's, here's what's
interesting. Like most of the
Republicans, current Republicans
in the House are not going to
vote for Trump. They don't like
him. Right. But we don't know
that for sure. So it would be
interesting to bring trump up
for a vote, just to see who
those Republicans are. Just to
see.
Yeah. Now Now you're talking.
That's a good idea.
Now, they won't do that, because
I can't take a chance. But I
think it'd be great to do that.
So what we can Albert would
would could implement that she'd
vote for him.
Right? What we're learning is
that the the 12 What is it or
six or how many 2822? There's 20
to 20.
Missing between, he's missing
between 10 and votes and now
it's I think it's not a turn to
whatever the you need 218 to win
it on. He's in the 200 range in
the end these 20 are not there
was a big fuss made on by Joy
read on her show. I learned
right This has never happened
before. Because this is our
stupid the Republicans are it
never happened to Nancy Pelosi,
for example. She's the greatest
ever and she goes on and on
about Nancy Pelosi, she says and
then she sewed all the votes for
Pelosi when Pelosi was getting
in. She has such a huge
majority. Now. Democrats, she
didn't need everybody to vote
yes. In fact, endure more than a
couple of occasions where more
than 20 Democrats did not vote
for her either. Right. And we're
only talking about 20.
Well, that 20 who are voting no.
are clearly Q anon. How come
they haven't brought this up
yet? Yeah. And this is if I'm
just going to shift now. I think
you had Marjorie Taylor Greene
is probably Q anon for sure.
Well, let's just talk about this
for a second Q anon has arisen
as the new slur conspiracy
theorist is out. It's
overplayed. It's boring. A lot
of the conspiracy slang
and call me that earlier today.
What? Cute. That was a q&a on or
something when I said yeah, got
what it
was. And but this is this is the
new term. This is the new new
term conspiracy. God sounds
good. Conspiracy Theory theorist
is just out because a lot of the
conspiracy theorists were right.
You know, you can say, hey,
vaccines don't work. Okay,
you're right. You can go in and
say you will but they did
prevent you from getting really
sick and dying. So that's not
provable by the way. They
brought in the Q anon term. I
would like to ask you. What is
the genesis of Q anon? If you if
someone said, if someone and
Marjorie Taylor Greene Q Anon,
what does that mean? What does Q
anon mean? Where does it come
from? And and what is q anon
explain it?
Well, I think Q comes from the
Star Trek character from The
Next Generation didn't be honest
about it. I don't know if you're
not going to take my question.
Seriously. No, I can't answer
it. Yes, you can.
Q Anon, there was Q. Q. And the
people who followed Q or Q anon
during this during Donald
Trump's presidency, yes. Yeah.
q1 And then for channel eight
channel everywhere. Q was
supposed to be someone on the
inside on the on the plane with
Trump dropping proofs. And
right, yeah, right. That's what
Q anon was. Yeah, that's what it
was. But the description of Q
anon has changed drastically
into a complete lie. And I have
to play just like a minute and a
half of this NPR report about a
popular yoga guru, who was
planning on killing
her story at the
US Capitol two years ago, we've
learned a lot about Q anon. It's
a baseless conspiracy theory
rooted in anti semitic tropes
about elites worshipping Satan
and drinking children's blood.
Now is this is this Q anon? Is
this word Q was no that's not
true.
No, it's a lie. Is what you do
this how you do it. This is like
a psyop.
Yes, thank you think. So I'll
play that. I'll play that again.
So they're going to discredit
this by the way this woman died.
I think she died some yoga
teacher died and she died. This
is a story about a dead yoga
teacher. So it's great. You can
just say q or nonsense the
insurrection at the US Capitol
two years ago, we've learned a
lot about Q anon. It's a
baseless conspiracy theory
rooted in anti semitic tropes
about elites worshipping Satan
and drinking children's blood.
Oh, I Stopstopstop. I have to
ask the chat. Ai. What is Q
anon? Okay. Ooh, yeah, here we
go.
Let's find K K. K.
I'm sorry. But I don't have
enough information to determine
when you're asking about Q anon.
Could you provide some context
or comment on and try to what is
the Q? Q Anon, and we do I'll do
I'll double up conspiracy
theory. Okay, let's see what
what I get now. Q anon is a far
right conspiracy theory that
originated in 2017. It alleges
that a secret cabal of high
ranking officials and
celebrities is engaged in global
child sex trafficking ring and
that President Donald Trump is
secretly working to expose and
dismantle this Cabal. Q anon
followers believe that a person
or group only known only as Q is
providing them with secret
information about this alleged
cabal and the efforts to take it
down. Well, that's that's kind
of expanded. That's not bad.
It's not bad at all. It's not
bad way to go. Chet. You're
better than NPR.
And while the Q anon movement is
most closely identified with the
far right, it is also found in
yoga and wellness circles, of
course, it's like
in
in wellness and yoga circles.
Oh, yeah. We know what's next
functional medicine. Why don't
you just say go and
wellness circles. I was like all
in a yoga teacher that talked
like that. That was real. That
was grounded. I knew instantly
This is my teacher,
Jacqueline gal but began taking
yoga classes with guru Jagat
back in 2013. She told me that
Guru Jagat had occasional We
talked about conspiracies before
the pandemic. But as it
progressed, she began to speak
more openly.
This is engineered by the
government. There's a reason
they need to keep us at home.
You need to be looking at that.
And she said, This is what you
get for spending the weekend on
YouTube watching alien videos.
And I mean, that caught my
attention because it was like,
Oh, she's falling into rabbit
holes.
In the beginning of the
pandemic, Guru Jagat suggested
specific foods, yoga poses and
breathing exercises to stay
healthy.
Oh, what a crazy idea. That's
actually more than your
government did for you.
But over time, she began to defy
local stay at home orders.
Here's garbage I get teaching
maskless and in person in late
May 2020,
maskless. And in person What a
horrible Q anon Oh, no. Less
mask less.
Here's garbage. I get teaching
maskless and in person in late
May 2020, and a class that was
later shared on Instagram.
We know how that AI technology
where they know how to control
your mind.
In December 2020 Guru Jagat
invited a well known conspiracy
theorist and anti Semite, to
come speak
when she brought in David Icke.
I mean, that just was not
something that the the woman I
knew before would do. That was
so deeply offensive,
among other things. That
reptilian extraterrestrials
control the world. By the time
guru Jagat interviewed him on
her podcast in January 2021.
He'd been banned from Twitter
for spreading falsehoods about
COVID.
And he's a known anti Semite,
which is bullshit. I've never
heard him say,
No, he's not. No, but here's
what's interesting. If you could
get David Icke to show up at a
yoga class,
no, I think when what you meant
is she just started by like
talking about and I don't think
he came to her yet.
A shame that would be great.
Yeah. I mean, I think David
Ickes an interesting character.
We both do.
The best, we followed him
forever. I
would think, you know, dude, why
would you be deeply offended?
It's like, just fascinating more
than it is offensive, or I'm so
offended that brains a lizard
cares.
As your opening?
Really? Oh, that's
great. Yeah. It's, it's, it's,
I'm glad that they changed it so
that we are actually at ground
zero of this trope, which will
will last for quite a while I'm
sure. And it'll, it'll morph
even more. But I remember when I
think it was during it was a
question Trump he was out on
stage. It was it was for NBC a
thing was, you know, like a town
hall on an unfettered networks.
And we have a clip of it that we
do. And he was and it was like,
Well, you know, this is about
Democrats eating babies or
something like that. Obviously,
dad, he passed it off to
Yeah, I was never find it. Not
not easily. You might, but it's
okay. And let me see Trump to
maybe NBC three.
Know, mica, maybe it was a town
hall with Mica.
I wanted to describe a candidate
to you.
Oh, please it anyway. Sounds
good.
I wanted to describe a candidate
to you. The candidate is
considered a political outsider
by all the pundits, he's tapping
into the anger of the voters
delivers a populist message he
believes everyone in the country
should have health care.
No, I wish I could find it. It
was in Britain. I wasn't Brian
Stelter. Oh, here it is Q anon
question for Trump. Maybe this
is
during the pandemic, the Q anon
movement has been appears to be
gaining a lot of followers.
Can you talk about what you
think about that? And what you
have to say to people who are
following this movement right
now?
Well, I don't know much about
the movement other than I
understand they liked me very
much. Which I appreciate, but I
don't know much about the
movement. I have heard that it
is gaining in popularity.
No, it was this one was
Savannah, here it is. I found
it.
Let me ask you about Q anon. It
is this theory that Democrats
are a satanic pedophile ring and
that you are the savior of that.
And I remember what this is
completely made up. At that
point. It would none of that was
in play with Q anon that I can
remember.
Do you I think you're right. I
think you're right. This is
through this. Yeah. This is like
all the genesis of what we see
today, and
I think that we was episode Ah,
back a while. Yes back a while.
1518 Actually, I have no no no
this is let's
play the rest of it. Now can you
just once and for all state that
that is completely not true
about you and on in its
entirety?
I know nothing about a q&a. I
just know very little you told
me but what you tell me this
doesn't necessarily make it fact
I hate to say that. I know
nothing about it. I do know they
are very much against
pedophilia. They find it very
hard, but I knew nothing. Run by
the DEA. I'll tell you what I do
know,
NPR mister, they miss the
satanic cult run by the deep
state. They missed it.
Run by the DEA.
I'll tell you what I do know
about. I know about Antifa. And
I know about the radical left
and I know how violent they are
and how vicious they are. And I
know how they are burning down
cities run by Democrats.
Senator Ben Sasse said quote Q
anon is nuts and real leaders
call conspiracy theories.
Conspiracy Theory.
Maybe writing I just don't know
about you. And you know, I don't
know. No, I don't know. I don't
know. Let's waste the whole
show.
How embarrassing for Savannah
Guthrie that she did that. was
terrible. Just real embarrassed.
She's no different today. No,
she's kind of a ding. Wit. Calm,
just a dingbat, but she's not a
dingbat. She's a dimwit. It's
different.
So I'm going to shift gears
before we take our second break
to Russia. We are at peak
Zelinsky. I guess at this point,
you know, we just can't I mean,
once you've spoken in the before
both houses of the US
government, how much more can
you do? We do have a report from
the Bubba Gump the auntie BBC,
which details and translates
President Putin's New Year's Eve
address
plan Russia President Putin also
made his New Year address and
spoke about the war. He tells
soldiers that historical
righteousness was on their side.
Because up in the elite they get
their military mariners every
three years
the Western elites have
hypocritically assured us of all
their peaceful intentions,
including the resolution of the
difficult conflict in Donbass.
In reality, they will fully
encouraging Neo Nazis to
continue to carry out military
and blatantly terrorist actions
against peaceful citizens of the
Donbass People's Republics row.
The West lied about peace. I got
those preparing for aggression.
You see, today, they're not
ashamed to admit it openly. And
they cynically use Ukraine and
its people to weaken and divide
Russia. We have never allowed
anyone to do that. We will not
allow anyone to do that.
You come on your house
presentational here in the UK,
the war crimes prosecutor who
led the case against Slobodan
Milosevic, has called for Mr.
Putin to be tried for crimes
against humanity this year. Nice
who worked with the
International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia told
the BBC that the case against
Mr. Putin couldn't be clearer.
And that civilian targets should
never be bombed or otherwise
attacked.
So let's not responsible what he
said. Let's just say we gotta we
gotta throw him in jail.
International Criminal Court.
Didn't Slobodan Milosevic die in
sitting in court? Oh, I forget
how one of those guys did. One
of the one of those guys does
you know, one of those guys died
in literally in the court. I
thought it was so let me see.
When he died, can't find it.
Can't type fast enough. So Well,
here's the BBC on this with us
short, short roundup of what
Zelinsky said during his New
Year's speech.
Hello, and welcome to BBC World
News. We start with a fallout
from Ukrainian rocket attack in
the occupied region of Donbass,
which Ukraine claims killed 400
Russian troops. Russia puts the
number of dead much lower just
63 service personnel but Russian
politicians are calling for
their own military commanders to
be held accountable for the
deaths. It comes as Ukraine's
President Lansky says
intelligence suggests Russia
plans to continue its drone
attacks as a concerted effort to
exhaust and demoralize Ukraine.
We have
information that Russia is
planning a protracted attack
using showerhead drones. It is
probably banking on exhaustion,
exhausting our people are anti
aircraft defences, our energy,
we act and do everything so the
terrorist fail in their aim as
all their others have failed.
I don't want to say too much
about Naevus AI but I typed in
Slobodan Milosevic and I got an
AI answer. That's all I typed
in. Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslav
Serbian politician served as
President of Serbia blah robber,
he was found dead in his prison
cell in 2006. There you go,
because it's dead in the prison
cell. And I might as well unless
you have something,
but I should mention that this
this situation they're talking
about this is kind of
interesting comes up all the
stories mentioned it is like
it's like a piece of NLP or I'm
not sure why they're doing this.
It's an OP. Ed, everything's
off to you
your that you said it first on
the show.
So is this this is this trope
that, oh, the Russian troops are
wiped out because they're all
yammering on their cell phones.
Have you heard this? No, no,
I haven't. Yeah, that's for more
than one or two reports. The
bunch of Russians were killed,
because, and the generals are
all irked about them, because
they were on their cell phones,
and they was giving away their
position, because we've got some
technology or who knows what,
and they just bombed the hell
out of where the cell phone
signal was coming from. Sounds
sketchy. But sounds sketchy. But
why do they keep telling us the
story where I said something to
get new service? Are we supposed
to get a Pixel phone? Or is
there something coming out from
Apple, or new
secure phone from Apple calling
something like movie is their
Mission Impossible
movie about phones? Well, I got
a
report from wi O N, which is the
Indian news. And that's what
we're really up to over there.
We'll
move on. Let's take you to
Europe, where US troop
deployment and Romania serves a
dwell purpose of sending out a
warning to Moscow while boosting
morale among NATO allies in
Southeast Europe to hold the
lie. It is the first time since
the Second World War 75 years
ago that the US Army's 101
Airborne Division has returned
to Europe to divisions a rare
presence is just a few miles
from the Ukrainian border with
Romania. And as a clear
indication that Washington is
aiming to support NATO Allies
without being directly involved
in the ongoing conflict in
Ukraine. US troops are training
at an airbase in Romania in the
northern part of the country.
Soldiers from both countries
participated in drills fired
artillery launched helicopters
and dug trenches near the
frontlines in her suit. The
troop deployment underlines a
warning sign to Moscow that the
US will defend every inch of
NATO territory I pledge
President Biden because we
iterated often in recent days,
but without tempting Russia into
escalating the war. The joint
exercises are also a way to
ensure that other troops in
Southeast Europe can hold ground
if it comes to it. However, it
remains unclear what footprint
will the US Army keep at the
base. The decision will soon be
made by the Pentagon as to
whether to maintain the number
of troops and senior commanders
or bring the number down.
Here we've got the 100 and first
airborne hanging out there
digging trenches in Europe.
Yeah, hell
remind you of anything? Oh, man.
Well, let's just stick in Europe
for a moment because it's
falling apart. We talked about
Croatia, joining the Schengen
zone. They also joined the euro
and I was able to obtain a
report,
though I don't know that they
joined the euro did day. Yes,
yes. So the Schengen zone. I
don't know. I think it's I've
never had any trouble going in
and out of Croatia.
Well, no, but it's just a gimme.
It's just a part of joining the
Euro zone and Mel. This is
interesting report.
Croatia has dropped his currency
that Kuno to adopt the Common
European currency, the euro. The
Balkan nation becomes the 20th
member of the Euro so Croatia
had to meet strict economic
conditions to join European
Commission president Ursula von
der Leyen traveled to Zagreb to
mark the occasion. Croatia also
became the 27th member of the
passport free Schengen zone
which allows more than 400
million people to move freely
through his borders. And so even
how significant is this switch
to the euro for Croatia and its
actual economy? Yes, quite
meaningful. If you look at the
you mentioned the Schengen
milestone list, the two big
milestones that are happening
today both have fraud remittance
ramifications for their economy,
the hope is that by with
reducing the friction on
businesses and service sectors,
especially the first sector,
which is the most important
branch your information that
that will help increase business
for this nation. So it is no
small thing at all. He talked to
the central bank governor here
and he said that it also was
afforded for borrowing costs by
hitching their wagon essentially
to a more as a larger more
stable point that their their
risk premiums essentially for
borrowing go down and that is
also a benefit to Croatia. So
there's a lot of hope that this
will bring in it's offer in a
lot more business and a lot more
hospital is the lease from a
political level. For those who
made this decision, one promo
for these in here quite often
here is that it was really a
decision that was left out of
the people's hands of the
politicians later. But
obviously, there is some
excitement about what's going on
none of what
guy's going on like a maniac.
Oh, he's given the DT
sauce. Okay, so a lot of
excitement. But you mentioned
grumbling, what is the nature of
the grumbling? Who are these
critics? What are they saying?
Who are these people grumbling?
grumbler. Well, in addition to
those who say that the decision
itself was left out of their
hands, we know that some critics
say that economically, this
doesn't make sense for a small
country like Croatia. This is a
country that is in many ways
because here's with a lot of
other European nations quite
well being at debt levels. We
look at growth focus and turning
especially after the pandemic.
But when you look at wages, it's
actually one of the lowest This
is a small economy, 4 million
people and the force, this
country no longer has to solve
its currency. I should say
cannot devalue the currency go
strengthen it artificially as
economic times it's up. Instead
it's worth 20 nations that has
to work together to make a
decision in Frankfurt the
European Central ministers are
mostly going to fall to the
bigger nations but Germany's
Frances and have more I know
as you guys are knowing now it's
a little NLP going on there with
the use of the word which you
got nothing to do with anything.
They use the word to describe
the euro as stable coin. Did you
hear that? I
sure did. I'm glad you picked up
on it. He said it twice. He said
at the end of that report to
which I didn't play because it
was too annoying. Yeah, stable
coins. The euro is now
officially a stable coin. Or
maybe the digital euro will be a
stable coin. Hmm.
Very curious report that guy
somes rollin him.
cbdc is on deck, baby.
I'm gonna show my school by
Jonah to no agenda. Imagine all
the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fun
and we do have a few people to
thank for show 1518 I want to
mention I just found a
newsletter. And I sent out a
second little note here. What
happened? What happened with the
first one? Well, the
first one it was not getting the
open rate. Yeah, it was a couple
of things. open rate was one of
them. But But the second note
was really weird. And I ended
like everyone wrote me about
this, like Brave Writer writer,
the link to the to the first
newsletter, which was a
MailChimp link. I cut and pasted
from the actual link. And I took
out the question mark addendum,
which is you can do it in most
URLs, because it's just bullcrap
to track you. And I took it. I
never checked it per save. And I
have no I refreshed the patient.
So yeah, there was the same
thing without the question mark
plus, and and then I put in a
newsletter, and in the
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Well, I would like to know that
myself because I didn't have
deadline magazine on my pages. I
never look at deadline magazine.
So I have to assume that
MailChimp was storing deadline
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perhaps one of the dike the last
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Everybody wrote in. That's
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We got a list of meetups coming
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do want to mention, we have a
couple already set up in
February San Diego, Idaho STAR
Idaho, Charlotte, North
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also a Toronto, Canada. The
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won every single month and we
got plenty in January. If this
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having you know Tina's doing a
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It's all been obfuscates. Got a
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About that. Just for her. She's
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an ISO but it's an old one and I
don't I don't I don't think it's
alright.
I got three. Oh, no, I'm
not even gonna play mine. Let's
Yeah, I'm one of these might be
good but let's start with this
one I show
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hot.
Was it? Was that some I don't
have a How do you spell that?
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for
air. Yes. That's what it was.
Probably. Yes. Yes. Okay, that's
okay. I so interesting.
Very. Oops, sorry. Very, very
interesting episode. No, I
like it's a little long, but I
like it. I like it. What don't
you got?
And then I got another tribute
to Judy Woodruff was folded.
barely hold it together.
No, no, I think I think you've
nailed it with a very, very
interesting episod I think
that's good.
Okay, that settles that. I do
have one clip I want to play for
sure. Okay. So there was you
know, these these you've heard
about this in Washington State
to somebody blew up a power
distribution center. That's
another one. They do have four
of them. There's like
terrorists. Yes. domestic
terrorist. Yes, yes, I have
heard this. Okay, well, they
finally found that guys, and it
didn't turn out to be much of a
domestic terrorist at all. These
are in the clip is called idiots
and power stations. Two men
have been arrested and charged
with vandalizing electrical
substations in Washington State
attacks that left 1000s without
power over the holidays. Matthew
Greenwood and Jeremy cran were
arrested on Saturday. A newly
unsealed complaint charges both
was conspiracy to damage energy
facilities, and it charged
Greenwood with possession of a
short barreled rifle and a short
barreled shotgun. According to
the complaint, Greenwood told
investigators that the two
knocked out power so they could
burglarize a business and steal
from the cash register. The
business was not identified in
the complaint. Cell phone
location data and other evidence
tied them to the attacks on the
four substations in Pierce
County. officials have warned
that the US power grid needs
better security to prevent
domestic terrorism after a large
outage in North Carolina last
month took days to repair.
conspiracy to attack energy
facilities is punishable by up
to 20 years in prison.
Possession of an unregistered
firearm is punishable by up to
10 years.
Oh okay, hold on. Can I ask a
question? So they took out power
stations to steal cash cash from
a store
yes and probably an electric
cash register that wouldn't open
without power but here we go pay
claim what do you think we ought
to be doing here? I got that
place I know he's got a burglar
alarm. Well I don't know this is
blocked the power station and
then and then NATO that'll take
care of the problem well, which
power station I don't know.
There's four of them around
here. Let's just blow them up
and then we can go in there and
we can get the cash out at the
register this kind of dumb fucks
they have up in Washington How
about this? This is not true.
This is not what was going on?
Excellent
well, it's always a plasma my
thinking but I'll bet you these
guys show up in court
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