Bug Ramen

00:00 Today we got shrooms! Adam Curry, John C. DeVorah. It's Sunday, May 27th, 2018. This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1037. This is no agenda. Defending the universe from thugs and broadcasting live from the capital of the droid star state here in downtown Austin, Tejas in the Cluedio. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where it's gonna be a scorcher. I'm John C. DeVore. Why is there so much publicity over this cockroach milk story? Let me play the backstory 25 seconds first. Latest health food craze. It might make your stomach really queasy. Researchers have found that cockroach milk, yeah, it may actually be the next big superfood. That's hard to believe, but scientists say milk produced by the Pacific beetle cockroach is a fantastic source of nutrition. Apparently it contains essential amino acids more than three times the energy a person can get from cow's milk.

01:12 That's just nasty. How about I just have three glasses of cow's milk and hold the cockroach? Have some kale. So we all picked up on the story. I think, well first of all, you predicted that kale, which you just heard at the tag there, would eventually lead to this category called superfoods. And I do want to recognize that they just called this a superfood. Which to me, it just is a bug as far as I'm concerned. But okay, superfood. Cockroach. And there must be some Armageddon on the horizon. No, you know my thesis on this. Just shut up slaves and eat bugs.

01:50 No, well no. The actual thesis is that the reptilians are sick of doing everything on the sly. They want it out in the open. They want it out in the open so they can eat this stuff and be very happy with it. You only have to do it once. Yeah, I've always liked that theory. Sorry, it slipped my mind for a moment. Yeah. It's as good as any. They can do virtue signaling by drinking the cockroach milk.

02:29 Hey, look at me. I'm saving the planet. But how would you know it's cockroach milk? It has to have some distinguishing factors. It probably tastes like... it's probably gosh awful, that's how you'd know. I don't know, I mean it may taste good. I drink coconut milk from time to time, which has nothing to do with milk. It's just, you know, or coconut, or coconut for that matter. Who knows what's in that? But, yeah, I'll try it. I'll give it a shot. I did have, um... Well, would somebody out there please arrange for Adam to get a big glass of this stuff and let him try it and give it a shot? I'll give it a shot. How many cockroaches does it take to get a glass of milk out of them? I don't know. I mean, I've stomped on some cockroaches in my day.

03:19 And white goop comes out? Yeah, white goop comes out. They must be diluting it with something. I mean, there's just not enough goop to go around. No, you just need a lot of cockroaches. Or do you milk them? Do they have little teats you got to milk? They got little machines. Well, I like your theory the best and I will hold to it. I also think maybe there's something else going on. Why are we being told to eat bugs continuously? It never stops. Save the planet. I don't know. It's still an animal. You heard that story. Did you have a version of that story? No, you didn't. No, I just thought I'd mention it. I don't have a clip if that's what you're wondering. Yeah, because my clip was, you know, there's nothing about global warming, none of that. Just, hey, it's really nutritious.

04:07 I think it's implied, but then again if it's just about the reptilians then who cares? Or is there some kind of grand promotion coming up soon for some bug line? Maybe Amazon's gonna do it. How about a movie? How about a movie? Speaking of which, how much coincidence does it have to be when you've got... Actually the big island where the volcano is, Hawaii, you gotta pronounce it correctly, Hawaii. There's not a lot of people that live there I understand. That's plenty of people that live not it's not like the other two islands where everybody lives That's what I've been placed by comparison exactly so how? Convenient and coincidental is it that we have this taking place at the moment this movie comes out? So what are you dating like an accountant now? Oh and ventriloquist stop you love a dummy. This is not why we're here I Know why we're here

05:13 It's the new Jurassic Park Jurassic World. Yeah, that's what I mean Island's about to explode from volcanic activity. They have to save the dinosaurs. Well, that's going an awful long way to do some promotion for a movie. Let's set this baby off somehow. Why not? We're talking billions of dollars here. Yeah, well, that's far-fetched. Okay.

05:53 Hey, what else nothing? That's all you you mentioned. Oh, yeah, you ran do Bradshaw you ran into my brick wall Yes, you see you set it up perfectly Whoops there you go I did have just become going back to the bugs. I did have dinner with the former New York banker After Thursday show and he took me to you know He always knows all the hip and swanky new places and this is placed on the east side in Austin. Yeah, I And it has a Japanese name, and of course I completely spaced on it right now. Apparently by some famous chef who's setting up... It's kind of like a... Morimoto? No, hold on a second. I can find it in my notes here somewhere. Because they had a very odd... It's more like a bar with snacks that you could get. You know, so it was like tapas food more than... Yeah, it's like a robata yaki.

06:50 What's a robotic yaki? That's where they have that big giant barbecue thing behind their cooking stuff mmm can murray Tatsuya is the name of the place. You'll want to look it up. Kenmuri Tatsuya. And they have a lot of these dishes where you eat, you know, the fish whole. It's a little, you know, forget what kind of fish it is. You eat the fish whole? The whole fish. Not the fish's whole. The whole fish. So they give you an empty plate. There you go. Enjoy your fish whole. This is the fish that's not there. Enjoy your fish whole. I mean, you know, prawns with the head on that's I've had that before. I don't care for too much. It's crunchy. Live prawn. The one that's jumping around. No, no, he was on a sushi. They call that in Japan. He was on a skewer. Did you look it up? Kenmuri Tatsuya. You should look. You should look this. How do you spell it? K-E-N-R-M-U-R-I. That should be enough. Yeah, I'll look it up for you. Austin. It says some famous guy, you know, about these things. You know, here we go.

07:48 Yeah, the team... Oh yeah, here it is. The team behind the fam... URI. Texas, Isakawa, and East Austin. Yeah. Their website is... 4.5 stars, 491 Google reviews. It's closed as we speak. Here, this is the team behind the ramen Tatsuya. Which I don't think I'd ever want to go to. I don't like ramen. Oh, no, there's a ramen bar. One of the most famous ramen bars opened up at Branch in Berkeley. And you go in there and it's actually pretty astonishing. It's the bone broth that does it. Okay, so here they have octopus fritters.

08:41 What was the... there was... head on prawn, there was some... I can't find it. It was... anyway, it was a lot of... it was like a fusion thing that I hadn't really seen before. So I don't know, it just seems like a trend in eating in general is changing. That was kind of... that's the only reason I bring it up, no other reason than that. Okay. Moving towards eating things that previously might have seemed disgusting. I don't know, just ask him, go in there, here's the menu, oh please. So that one of the line items is munchies. Today's sushi, chawanmushi. It's Austin, John, it's still Austin no matter what you say. Munchies, and then smoked and skewers. Go to the barbecue boat.

09:27 Yeah, barbecue boat. Did you get the barbecue? Yeah, I got the boat. I got the boat or some fun stuff. Oh, they're very spicy Here's one here's one for the rice rice dishes. It says just rice dishes or whatever rice stuff. Hey, okay stop I just had an idea you told me to look at what do you expect from me good? But now I now I want to suggest something another business venture ramen and bugs Come on, no one's done it yet. That's right to the top of our list. No one has done it yet. Ramen and bugs. Can you see it? Would you like some cockroach milk with your ramen? Mmm, crunchy noodles. All right, we'll mark that one down. Ramen and bugs. Ramen and bugs. I'm all in. Count me in for the huge investment. I'll talk to the former New York banker.

10:20 He'd probably be into it. Get a kick down and get a piece of the action. Well, he'd want to do an ICO, of course. But yeah, yeah, that's it. Robin and Bugs. That's right, everybody. And look, I'm going over the munchies menu. There's another thing here. This is good. Hot pockets with a Z. I saw that. I did not have that. They don't violate the trademark. Yeah. Yeah, house pickles. Wait, wait, wait. Pickle plate, house pickles, $7. If you go to the worst deli in New York City, you get a big pile of pickles for free. Austin has gone insane. I've been reporting on this for a number of years. You've probably noticed.

11:02 Yeah, I guess is the east side east side and seven bucks. Is that the slums area? That's the slums. That's what we're Gentrifying the slum right? We're gentrifying. We're gentrifying that part of town get out poor people go away move further east So they do skewers they got a cushy yaki. Yeah, okay. Hey if you've been following Yeah, you should be So they have these different skewers, beef tongue, miso marinated scallops, and then this one, shrooms and bacon. Shrooms, hey we got shrooms. You'd be ashamed of yourself. Yeah, it was his idea. He also, he tried to explain, he did a complicated trade on Tesla, which I was trying to understand.

11:55 Basically, he's making money off of the margin that there is when you write an option. Yeah, you have to know what you're doing them. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he says I'm gonna make so much money on it Okay, so just passing that on have you been following this Tommy Robinson thing in in getting on nation East? I've only been following a few of the tweets, so I'm not completely caught up, but I do know there's a big stink about it Yeah, so Tommy Robinson. I think one of the original founders of the English Defense League which When and and the reason it's interesting to me is because I lived in the UK when I heard a lot of this I'd heard of Tommy Robinson and

12:34 You know how we, the media likes to repeat things like the Russians hacked our election and then forevermore that'll just be true. And whatever it means they hacked our election. So Tommy Robinson is a Nazi, you know, KKK, hooligan. Wait, hold on a second. I'm just, I'm just, I'm just making a point. Don't forget for people who, I think you should kind of push that meme that he's KKK in England. In England. Exactly. But certainly racist, you know, white pride, hooligan, Nazi, all of this stuff. His haircut doesn't help. Now... Soccer fan. But, um, you know, and so that was just kind of... And I'd also heard of grooming. That was a story when I was there as well. Really? Yeah, I wasn't really doing a lot. You know, I hadn't quite awoken yet to the media deconstruction. I wasn't woke, I wasn't woke, bro.

13:32 And so this Tommy Robinson a couple months ago popped up again and one of our nights Brian of London in Israel he's been doing a lot of reporting on it and I was like wow here's a guy who he's defending this Tommy Robinson for all I know he probably hates Jews and you know what the hell what's going on? So I did start to look into it and looking into it means you got to just watch hours and hours of interview footage with the guy And that's what's available. And he seems like a very reasonable chap, quite honestly. And if you know that these grooming gangs that are going on in the north of England, and he's from Luton, but we know there's a real big pedophile problem in the United Kingdom. Let's not pretend that Jim will fix it didn't happen and all the necrophilia and crazy crap and people who are supposed to investigate it die. And there's bad crap going on with

14:29 what some individual groups, individuals and groups are doing in the UK with children. And this grooming, which is mainly Pakistanis, now it's become a Muslim story, which I think is where the problem lies. But the Pakistanis have been doing this for 40 years. They've been grooming young girls. And we've had a couple stories, Rotherham, of course we know, we played some clips about that, about the same thing happening there. And Tommy Robinson, for all, not for 40 years, but since he started EDL, and I think was late 80s maybe even in the 90s, he's been trying to bring this story to attention. And I think it's gotten so rampant in these places that there are a lot of people complicit, people of authority.

15:11 And so he keeps trying to bring this to light and a couple days ago he was arrested on the Criminal Justice Act of 1925, apparently convicted and thrown in jail for 13 months. He's been thrown in jail before and he usually gets thrown in jail right in the middle of a bunch of Muslims who want to kill him. That's kind of the way the story goes. That's handy. Yeah. But the, so there's not much more to say about that other than, you know, the problem is real. And I think there's a lot of covering up going on and it's not like we're not familiar with exactly this problem with the welfare of children and elites in the United Kingdom and it gets covered up.

15:53 But the, what to me is interesting is the Criminal Justice Act of 1925, why he was arrested and the fact that there was a D-notice issued after his arrest, which means the media is forbidden from reporting on anything regarding the topic. And we've discussed D-notices many times. What happened in this case is he was doing a, I think it was a Facebag Live video in front of the courthouse. and he may have been, you know, on courthouse grounds but that's kind of irrelevant because I'll read the law to you. And the way it works, it's to some degree similar with certain elections in the UK. When a court case is going on there's no reporting. You can report from outside but you have to say alleged and we, you know, the trial continues and there's, if you're an official like a BBC journalist then there's ways you can do that and you'll be okay. He, I think,

16:50 Was working for rebel media, which is a candanavian outfit, so you know yeah online So you're not really a journalist you may think you're a journalist, but in the eyes of the elites You're not a journalist. So here's the law and here's why he was Convicted although this went very fast Prohibition on taking photographs, etc., in court. Again, started in, this was written in 1925, I think. When were the cameras decent enough to hang, you know, to, they were portable and usable that way around that time? A little bit before maybe? I think before that, but I think when Kodak came out with the brownies is when it really happened, but before, I mean, people were taking photos in the 1850s. Oh sure, sure, sure. I mean, you know.

17:33 I'll read the law. No person shall take or attempt to take in any court any photograph or with a view to publication, make or attempt to make in any court any portrait or sketch of any person being a judge of the court or a juror or a witness in a party to any proceedings before the court, whether civil or criminal, or publish any photograph, portrait, or sketch taken or made in contravention of the foregoing provisions of this section or any reproduction thereof. And if any person acts in contravention of this section, he shall on summary conviction be liable in respect of each offense to a fine not exceeding 50 pounds.

18:13 For the purposes of this section, a photograph, portrait, or sketch shall be deemed to be a photograph, portrait, or sketch taken or made in court if it is taken or made in the court, in the courtroom, in the building, or in the precinct of the building in which the court is held, which I think is where he went wrong. Or if it is a photograph, portrait, or sketch taken or made of the person while he's entering or leaving the courtroom. So that's a typical perp walk like Harvey Weinstein did, that in America is legal, in the UK that apparently is not legal. And that's why they threw him in jail. But then to throw a D-notice on top of it is really covering up an important, I think an important story that's taking place. That, you know, just, I mean, the interwebs are filled with it.

18:57 So it's a weird moment where there's zero reporting on it. And I haven't seen much here in the US either, or anywhere for that matter, except online, non-official... Online, the Twitters. Yeah, Twitters, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's onerous over there, onerous. It really is. And it's disturbing. Well, there were some good front pages, The Sun and The Mirror and a few others had all these pictures of really homely looking Pakistanis with... Oh, so they are reporting on... ...moving headlines. Okay, so they do continue to report on that. That's good. Yeah, they're doing that, but they're not talking about this guy, except on the tweeters. Yeah. So, well, the message is being controlled, though. That's for sure.

19:50 And it was, I encourage you, the couple of links in the show notes, nashownotes.com, and take a look under the Tommy Robinson heading. He's an interesting fellow when you listen to him. He's certainly not, he messed up on this one. You should know about your 1925 law, but maybe Gitmo Nation East citizens would change that so you can get a little more transparency in your universe there? I know. What am I thinking? Crazy. Richard Engel, speaking of transparency, where did he work at? Was he at NBC? He's NBC. Still NBC? Well, he was at Council on Foreign Relations. Of course he was. He's a member. He's a member of the... but he was leading a discussion group and there were some questions that came up about propaganda. And propaganda, you have to understand, only works if it's from the government.

20:44 And here's what he had to say about the topic. And, you know, my old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the chief propagandist job. We haven't talked about propaganda. Propaganda. I'm not against propaganda. Every country does it and they have to do it to their own population. And I don't necessarily think it's that awful. And this idea of he doesn't think it's that awful. Richard Engel. Yes. Doesn't sound like him at all. Yeah, it's him. Richard Engel was at the State Department, wasn't he? That I know of. Really?

21:29 Let me take a look hmm. Well, I'll continue to play I pretty sure Like him at all. Yeah job we haven't talked about propaganda propaganda I'm not against propaganda every country does it and they have to do it to their own population and I don't necessarily think it's that awful and this idea of a cart news cartel I mean, I was editor of Time in 2012 during that election. And I remember, you know, you're competing against cartels and everybody. I remember being on a panel with the then editor of The New York Times.

22:09 Who said it's really hard to break through these days. This is the editor of the New York Times saying it's hard to break through I almost I wanted to jump off the platform like what's it like for the rest of everybody? So I mean there there's no I mean there are cartels, but cartels don't have hegemony like they used to. The good old days. There's no note that he's ever been even worked for Time magazine. Then maybe this is well this was whoever this Richard Engel was he was former editor of Time magazine. Which is okay, because this makes the story just as good. I think this guy, I think I know who this guy is, but it's not Richard Engel, but it's one of the guys who became... Anyway, keep playing, it's a good clip. No, that's it. That was the clip. That's what he had. He's not against it, and it's very strong, and even when he was at Time Magazine, they couldn't break through the propaganda. It was just a clarifying moment. You got me looking this up now.

23:16 What are you looking up? Editors of Time Magazine. Ah, okay. I think I know who this is, because of his voice. Anyway, okay. You can't break the promise. Of course you can't. That's all we do on this show is try to do that. Over and over again. You just keep hearing the same nonsense. It's getting worse by the way. They've They've got the ante on a couple of these memes especially the Russian memes Okay, I have a question about one. Do you have any clips any Russian clips Russian mean? Well not often done. No No, well, I have a question Let me see if I could frame this so the collusion resulted in

24:07 the election being thrown, correct? Not thrown. No, the election going to Donald Trump. And if you listen to James Clapper, former director of national intelligence, it really came down to only 80,000 votes in Wisconsin. In three states. In three states. That's the story. I don't understand, and this was triggered by a note from one of our producers, Daniel Griffin. If the face bag ads truly influence the election, that would mean... I love those ads by the way. That would mean, because that's what we're still talking about.

24:45 We're still talking about the ads. They say we're seen by now. It's a hundred and twenty million people I like the metrics we should really consider advertising on Thinking about it if you can get for a hundred grand although I think it was more like 40 But let's just keep it at the hundred grand. Let's take 40 whatever. Let's take whatever it was you can reach a hundred and twenty nine million people that's pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty good. I So, but the way our election works is the Electoral College, which is really what, 538 people? They are the ones that vote the president in, and they are the ones who, even though they are

25:29 expected to vote what the constituency voted, they don't have to. Historically, they certainly have not always. And in this election, a lot were saying they certainly were not going to. In fact, I think there were a couple states where it was clear that the Electoral College, or parts of it, really went against what the constituents had voted for. So let's just presume it's true. I would like a psychological examination of a small number of people, 538. They're the ones that voted. They're the ones that determine. That's why we have that system in place, is in case it's a madman, we can then... Or a madwoman. Or a madwoman, we can then change the outcome. Am I thinking too logical here?

26:19 I don't think you're thinking illogical, I'm just like to know what the point are you trying to make. The point is we're all just believing in, oh okay, fine, three states, 80,000 votes. But if there was truly an influence from this campaign, would that not have had to influence these 538 people? It depends on whether they're Facebook users. Yes, but I'd like to know. That's the point. That's actually an excellent point. What if half of them aren't Facebag users? Well, I think that this is a trap. And I think that this guy, this Clapper character is really, he's the subversive in the audience. And saying stuff like this is incredibly subversive and is keeping the pot boiling.

27:14 Should be ashamed of himself. I don't think I said the same thing with Brennan I don't think he gives a crap. Well, Brennan is really off the rails. He's going on every MSNBC show. MSNBC show. MSNBC. I like this. MSNBC. I knew Rachel was taking over the place, but... MSNBC. Yes. Yeah, he's going on Andrea Mitchell, Midday's. Hey, Andrea. Yes. Yeah, it's crazy. That's not a spy. I looked it up. I looked up what the difference between a confidential informant and a spy.

27:52 And even the book of knowledge, the Wi- shh, cancel. Even the Wikipedia version, an informer, is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency. The term is usually used within the law enforcement world where they are officially known as confidential or criminal informants and can often refer pejoratively to the supply of information without consent of the other parties with the intent of malicious personal or financial gain. So isn't my spy exactly spy that we've gotten down to the semantic conversation of why I wasn't a spy is Mind-boggling and we truly live within have you seen this the the remake of 451 Fahrenheit? You know, I was looking at the list of movies. Mm-hmm that are floating around I think it's on Rotten Tomatoes or somewhere and I

28:51 I saw that and I remember people talking about it not being nearly as good as the original, which I always thought was a very good movie. I thought it was well executed. And I do think that Bradbury had something to do with the movie, the first one. And everyone, they were panning this as a piece of crap. So the answer to your question is no, I have not seen it. Ah, okay. Well, we watched it. Tina watched the whole thing. I fell asleep kind of three quarters through it. But what I saw, I liked. That's not a good sign. I did like the premise. I like how they set it up. You know, the big brother, which is in essence, everyone has a talking tube.

29:27 Yeah, it's yeah, that was the yeah, the premise is pretty much the same although they it was I it was you got to see the original go back and I will and she I will watch the original which of course because it's older it's not gonna be as nice as much CGI and it's not moving as fast but I think it's a much better film well I mean you see the new one so I can't say that but I it's a good movie let's put it that way well what is What what is well done with this new one is is? It's only visually a little bit different from the times we live in right now, just a little bit. You know, the displays are on the buildings and you know, but they're still doing the equivalent of streaming, you know, streaming stuff live from body cams and the cops who are out to burn books in case you didn't know the premise.

30:15 Burning books in general. I mean all of these things very very possible kind of happening now My favorite was the talking tubes. You got one everywhere you tell it to go dark and it shuts down, but it's not really shut down And it's seeping in it's really seeping in this And I think I have some standing when it comes to talking tubes if you recall was it three years ago I was the first to use one and everyone was la- you of course have always mocked me for it, but I said that if this had an Apple logo people would be- would love it. You do really? Yeah. Okay, so that was a, you know, and I've done some tinkering so I know how these things work. But here's Jo and Mika. Yesterday on Twitter, Trump called on China to continue to quote, be strong and tight on the border of North Korea until a deal is made. Adding quote, the word is that recently the border has become much more porous and has more has been filtering in. I want this to happen in North Korea to be very successful, but only after signing

31:11 Yikes. Peter Baker. I'm frightened by his tweets on North Korea at this point. Shouldn't we be? I don't know. He doesn't know what he's doing. Seriously? I mean, it's every day. It's constant. It's like a drunk driver. I would actually, you know... Look at this, for some reason Siri, it's a deep state, isn't it? Your phone just starts recording. And it only happens when I start saying things I'd never want anybody to hear. Exactly. And then it will just like write down, like Siri will write it down. Starts recording, like nobody was touching it. Uh-oh. That's weird. Nastrovje. So it's not weird, because I clearly heard him say Shirley, something like that, and I heard the trigger beep.

31:53 These are all of the unintended consequences of technology when this stuff starts happening. And this is the story that everyone was emailing and tweeting about. When Danielle in Portland shared her story with us, she was hoping Amazon would fix a major problem which somehow enabled her Amazon Echo to record a private conversation inside her home, randomly pick a person out of her contacts, and send that information to that person's phone in Seattle. They have absolutely absolutely no right to listen and record my conversations and randomly send them to people in my address book. I mean, it's just, it's unheard of. Today, Amazon released this detailed explanation. Quote, Echo woke up due to a word and background conversation sounding like Alexa. Then the subsequent conversation was heard as

32:42 send message request at which point alexa said out loud to whom at which point the background conversation was interpreted as a name in the customer's contact list alexa then asked out loud the contact name right alexa then interpreted background conversation as right as unlikely as this string of events is we are evaluating options to make this case even less likely. What could Amazon say to you that would satisfy you at this point? We apologize for this and we are willing to to show you that it actually means something to us what you went through and if you want to stop using our devices, here's reimbursement for everything you've spent. Late today, Amazon sent Danielle an email telling her they've accepted her request to return her Echo Dots for a refund if she ships them all back. So that's the story and it's presented completely incorrectly.

33:40 Like, they're listening and without my consent, how can they send these messages? And where we know that this creep factor started just about a month ago when I just said, call Tina. And the thing called her because they introduced some new capability and they're getting your contact list from somewhere. We haven't really even figured out where they're getting it from. And just like you heard with Joe and Mika, these things get triggered all the time. And now that I've been rooting around in this open source stuff, I understand how it works. It's skip logic to the extreme. Every version of... It is! It's artificial interpretation.

34:20 Every version of the way you could say something, no matter how your sentence structure is, it's pretty much laid out inside the code. So it's just looking to see if it can trip that combination. And if you're having a conversation with someone and you say, you know, surely you didn't send them a message, that could be enough to trigger Siri. You know, maybe they had echo as the wake word or, you know, whatever it was, if it was, Alexa or not, but these things get triggered all the time. It's You know it's it's not like Amazon is spying on you, but look at the capability look at what it actually can do It's these things are very evil. I have to say if it's connected anything, but your own home is evil

35:07 What did I say about this when you first... No, I'm not arguing. I'm not arguing. I'm not arguing. I still think voice input is a great way to go, but if you don't have full control of it, you stop. Just stop. And it's... This is... I'm TED-pilling you now. What are you going to do about setting a timer, man? Exactly. What are we going to do about it? I changed our guy's voice, by the way. All right. Oh, yeah. Yeah, let me see if it works. I am the book of knowledge Siri is a hole. Yeah, okay still works. It sounds like some Sounds like a creep He's a creep. Yeah Nothing to demo today. I'm a creep. I'm working on I'm working on making it better useful for the show. It's completely unusable right now, but we're getting there So I guess there was a very interesting

36:11 point that was being made on meet the press not this last week with the week before I think and it was this is in relation to Clapper and his claim that You know, the Russians are running the place. Are they they have the election? It's it's the change in the demographics they try to they want to get it's it's in the I think it's in the best interest of the elites on the coasts and to get this particular meme busted that, you know, there's the coast and the flyovers and all the rest of it. And this actually is a pretty good point. This is within the state of Pennsylvania. What's his name? The guy who runs the Todd, Todd, Chuck, Todd, Chuck, Chuck, Todd Gregory. No, it's Todd. It's his name. If you look at him, he's totally a Todd. OK, Todd. It's got to be Todd, Chuck. OK.

37:09 He makes a very good point here and this is the point that people like Clapper and I think the Democrats have got to be freaked out about is that the Democrats as a which we've been promoting this idea for a long time, are the elites. They're the ones who, you know, that's the Duponts, the Hearsts, all these huge... Most of the billionaires are Democrats, yep. All the people in Silicon Valley, these guys, most of them are billionaires and they're all in with the Democrats. So you gotta... And that's the real demographic situation that they found themselves in and that's why they have to appeal to

37:45 immigrants to get enough votes because there's not really enough billionaires to vote them into anything. And if you believe the narrative, the reason they want immigrants to come in illegally and not be documented and vote is the black American community is, they've given up on them. It's not worth it anymore. Well, they always expect to get the black if the blacks are going to vote, which is always an issue. They will vote Democrat in droves. So they so they don't really need to even deal with them because it's just an audit. It's either they're not voting or it's an automatic vote for us. So which I the community, some people within the black community are waking up to the fact that they're just being played, played, played, abused is the term.

38:37 They're abused. But this is a very good piece about these two counties, Shoekill, whatever it's called, and Chester County, a very rich county and a very poor county within the state of Pennsylvania. And the numbers tell the story of these two counties. 50% of Chester has a bachelor's degree. That number is 15% in Schuylkill. The median listing price for a home in Chester is $380,000 compared to $75,000 in Schuylkill. And the median household income is $89,000 a year in Chester versus $47,000 a year in Schuylkill. And these two counties represent the changing dynamics of American politics. Republicans are losing their grip on wealthier places like Chester County. Mitt Romney narrowly beat Barack Obama there back in 2012. But Hillary Clinton won by nine points over Donald Trump in 2016.

39:23 The working class of Schuylkill are bolting the Democratic Party these days. Yes, Romney won by a comfortable 13-point margin, but Trump won by a whopping 43 points. Before that, Schuylkill had actually voted for a Democrat as recently as 1996, and the Democrat's name was Clinton. Since the 2016 election, many folks have tried to stereotype the coasts as the places living in their own bubbles. But when you dig into these numbers, there are blue and red bubbles all across the country. Chester and Schuylkill are two of these such bubbles. Finding common ground between them, less than 100 miles away from each other, is growing increasingly difficult. Okay. So I went and started looking. I said, think about the home prices.

40:10 It's like $350,000 median compared to $75,000 median. So I went shopping. Wait, did you go shopping in the great state of California? No, I went shopping in Pennsylvania. I got in my Google car, drove around and I also went on Zillow and I went all over the place. What you can get a house for, and that's not the, and shook-a-schoogle or whatever they call it, is not even the best case scenario. There are some towns and counties in Pennsylvania that, excuse me, are extremely,

40:48 off the deep end because they're one of these, like Mont Carmel for example, very cute little kind of a residential community in half dead downtown area is, there's a place for sale there, it's 26 bedrooms. It was actually a convent that's been turned into a single family dwelling. It's available for $18,000. Wow. And so I'm looking, there's a lot of places available for $16,000, $17,000. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop. This sounds like an investment opportunity. Well, I'm looking at it as, well, you have to look at it from two ways. Call Natalie. Call Natalie Del Conte.

41:31 Morris invest. Nobody gets that but us. Okay. Somebody will. Now the point is, is that this particular town, which is, and I looked at many area, was a town that was founded on the fact that they found an anthracite mine nearby in the 1800s and it became like this insta-town to mine this high quality coal. And that died off and so now the town is just kind of struggling to... to maintain itself as a lower middle class area, which is not a big deal one way or the other, but you can really, if you don't have to, if you're retired or something where you don't have, you have a fixed income, this is where you move. Not that you want to have to fill up the place with old retirees, but it's pretty astonishing the difference in these areas. And Pennsylvania is the best case scenario.

42:29 A lot of the towns, in fact, I would say this one, Mont Carmel, has a lot of Polish. So Comic Strip bloggers should be happy about that. Because Pennsylvania's a huge Polish state, which would make me feel right at home. It's just interesting to see the discrepancies that go on around here, and it's always, and you wonder why Trump is getting all these voters, and I don't think it's gonna let up over the, especially by 2020, because there are...this country's getting more and more and more people that fall into that poor or working...the working poor. And poor and middle class and lower middle class, and even to...

43:16 upper middle class is still, that's growing. That's not shrinking. And so losing the rich in terms of your political base by the Republicans and gaining these people, you're gonna be in office forever. Yeah. I don't think they see that, John. I really don't. That report really made it clear. And then if you go in your Google car and start driving around these areas, especially in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, I'm stunned that it would go. This, it's never, I doubt it will ever in the presidential election. I really doubt it will ever see another Democrat. Really? Who's going to do it? I mean, it's just, no, it's not going to happen.

43:57 My thoughts on the demographics of the United States of America. Thank you. What is the square foot price in California for a new build these days? I don't have it off the top of my head, but it's not low. You know what they're talking about in Austin? This is from the banker. It's probably about the same. $900 a square foot. Oh, that's pretty high. That is outrageous. A square foot. $900 a square foot is what they think to get for some of these new places that are going up downtown. Either. Though it'll work, and it'll be like New York was and you know until the real estate crash crash crash Because I already know there's tons of condos that are just empty just investment properties Or you know maybe we'll become like one of those ghost towns in China. We're nothing for just big beautiful empty buildings I know I Cannot believe what there's not enough work here for that kind of price so it can't be for the people here and

45:01 I don't know who it's for then. I mean, San Francisco's got those two big skyscrapers near the bridge, the Tower of Death and that other one. And those are, if you're in the city at night, you look up there at 8.30 in the evening when it's dark or getting dark, or let's say 9 o'clock, there's no lights on. It's like two places in this huge building. Is that the Tower of Doom? Yeah, the Tower of Doom. Which was being built when I had my place there? Yeah. Ah! Now that thing- There's no lights on! There's a light here, there's a light there. Maybe there's 20 people living in the place and the rest of them, they're all sold out so somebody owns them. Hmm. Some things- Oh. Some things have missed.

45:50 California. That's right. Something's just not right in California. There's something very wrong. Austin is the California of the Texas. We're California of the rest. See, there was this story from your neck of the woods. This was disturbing. Thursday morning, Linda Kwan headed to the Dublin BART station and boarded a San Francisco-bound train for work. Thirty minutes into the ride, the San Ramon mother of two felt something pierce her behind. When I felt that, I got up. and I looked at what was poking me and when I, you know, my fingers felt it and I looked, I actually held it because I didn't know what it was. I just kind of touched it and it was a syringe tip. This is the broken tip of the hypodermic needle Quan sat on. When she looked under the seat, she found even more drug paraphernalia. Now she wonders why Bart isn't doing more to prevent this from happening. It's people's lives and people's safety.

46:48 So, you know, one puncture like that could change the rest of my life if I'm infected. Anecdotally from the police department, what I'm told is they have reports similar to this once or twice a month. As far as we're concerned, that's one or two times a month too many. This is a serious concern and this is something that BART needs to address and is addressing with the resources that we have. BART says they've hired more police officers. They're redeploying train cleaners so BART cars get cleaned more often during the day. and they're working with police to address the homeless issue. They're not doing enough for sure or this would not have happened. After reporting the incident to the train operator and to BART police, Kwon was tested for HIV and hepatitis. Now she's on a month supply of drugs to prevent contracting HIV. She's getting the hepatitis vaccine and she must get her blood tested every three months for the next year and a half just in case she was infected with something from this needle.

47:42 Lawsuit. So this happens a couple of times a week? Month. A month? Or a week, maybe a couple times a week. Who knows? It's probably not reported. Who knows? But also, was there ever an announcement that we've kind of solved AIDS? Kind of is the operative word. Yeah, well, you know, there's all these, what do they call them, PrEP? I think they call them. It's PrEP. We've talked about it a lot. That is now seen as the end-all be-all. As long as you're taking PrEP, you apparently cannot even get infected. Yeah, supposedly. Supposedly. There was just, I don't know, it feels like that, you know, the way that was reported was so off-handed. She's taking some meds to make sure she doesn't get HIV. Oh, okay.

48:36 There was just never really a big announcement about that. Well, I find this ridiculous. What does it take to keep, you know, these cars have fake TV cameras in them or these CCTV cameras are bull crap. I think you nailed it with fake. That's exactly right. Fake. Just to make you feel good. It's ridiculous. The whole thing. I mean, it's like we reported on the, or re-reported the issue with the Civic Street Station and all these drug users lined up and said well, it's either they didn't understand the police They come in it's eight. And so they're here seven and then they leave it a come back at 830 When meanwhile, they had the cameras all over that thing. There was it cops know that they're there. Yeah, they're just not doing anything They don't know what to do with them. They have no laws on the books. It's gotten much worse in in Austin and

49:32 Again, the old, you know, the 35, under 35 freeway, highway, it's just mayhem. Tina's daughter, you know, she's with us for the summer and, you know, last time she was here was last summer. It's doubled. It is. You don't notice it when you're there. Yeah, oh no, it's like you're being boiled like a lobster. You don't really notice it. And the former New York banker had, you know, he said, yeah, that's getting pretty bad. He says, you know, the problem was we don't have laws against sleeping on the street, which sounds kind of coarse, which is, I think, why we don't have it. But, you know, if you have no law against sleeping in public places, then it won't change.

50:22 Yes, as far as I can tell. You need some additional regulation, of course. Those are very liberal areas and they're all, you know, they all feel good kinds of, oh, we can't do that, it would hurt someone's feelings and these poor people. And you have all those, and I think they're all justified, but it's not helping anything. Something else has to be done. For one thing, maybe solving the problem, the underlying problem, that might be useful. I mean, you have all these guys talking big game about one thing or another, but they don't want to do anything about poverty. Bill Gates is a good example. Let's vaccinate everybody in Africa. But no, not a nickel toward solving the issue of poverty. Well, seeing as he's using some of those old Clinton Foundation expired drugs from India, he's probably solving the problem by killing people. Yeah, by killing people.

51:11 So while you're on Bart, I do have my Bart story. I want to see if you can catch the operative little piece of information in here. This is the new Bart line. The Bart's getting extended and they extended this line out to the middle of nowhere Antioch, which is in the middle of nowhere more or less in the Bay Area. And there's an operative little piece of information in here. I want to see if you catch it. The new BART line extends the transit system 10 miles further into the East Bay to Antioch. People in Eastern Contra Costa County have been waiting for a rail extension for a long, long time. So there was so much excitement.

51:47 Unlike the rest of the transit system, the new line runs on biodiesel, not electricity. A compromise that cut the cost in half of the $525 million project. Anytime you can get out of the stress of traffic, you want to do that. Driving from Sacramento into San Francisco, Shana Espinosa thinks the new line will be a big time saver. Normally when I would want to travel to San Francisco, I don't drive in San Francisco. go to the Concord station and then take the bargain. When I knew that this one was open, I decided to try this one out. This, I died. Really don't know what don't like. So here's what they say. Instead of using the third of the electric rail system, they cut costs in half by running this thing on diesel biodiesel. Yeah. They call it biodiesel, but it's diesel. Right.

52:44 biodiesel is diesel, but they cut it in half. So in other words, all this electrified train, you know, these trains all over the place with the third rail and all the rest cost twice as much. Yeah, then a good old-fashioned diesel now. I was thinking about this. I realize that well Why are they running everyone just use as well? Yeah, you could if it was everything was above ground wait a minute wait a minute You're not even allowed to drive a diesel car in California anymore. Are you or you can't buy one? That's bullshit. You can't drive. Do you can you buy a little sulfur diesel? All right, so biodiesel, you just use it. You just get an adaption. Right. And biodiesel emits water, water vapor. It smells like French fries. I had a vehicle. Yeah. Now, anyway, the point is, though, is that, yeah, if it's a subway, you really can't use it. That could be problematic. Yeah, it could be. But if it's above ground, which this little extension is, and I think all the extensions will be, there's no reason to use the electric

53:47 Stuff anymore. It's just a waste of money and I have to say that's got to be a fractal of some sort for cars Unless you're in a tunnel all the time, which you're not May I remind you then of the history of the electric vehicle in the 18? I think 1880s late 1880s 89 people were driving around with battery cars and And they functioned quite well. You know, they were, you know, it didn't go very far because you had to recharge, but they had certainly replaced the horse or were moving the horse out of the way. And then when the combustion engine came along, people said, wait a minute, the cost and the power to weight ratio, I guess is what it is, is incredibly efficient.

54:34 And battery technology has improved, but it hasn't made the leaps and bounds that we need, I think. Yeah, that's true. And I got an incremental. Very incremental. I mean, these Tesla batteries are, you know, there's just a whole bunch of double A's in there. Or it's true. There's a whole bunch of little, yeah, but they're little cells. Yeah. I got an education on the new hybrids, though. I just go back to the banker again. He picked me up. So he got rid of the Tesla and he bought a mini. Oh, he did. He was a big fan of the Tesla. Nah, he wised up. And I think that's why he's all pissed off and doing complicated trades. To try and screw him. You maybe look bad in front of Curry. I gotta screw you. But he has one of those new mini hybrids.

55:26 And I kind of like the way they're doing it. It's not, maybe this is the way hybrid cars work, I just didn't understand, but this thing, it has three cylinders, very, I don't know, it may as like 150ccs, it's a very small engine, but it has the hybrid part for the acceleration, which makes total sense. If you just want to, you know, move a little faster in traffic, overtake somebody, then you get these very high-powered electro motors kick in and they can really give you a boost. The problem is you need a lot of battery and you're not carrying around a big battery in this hybrid so you can only use it so much. But that kind of makes up for the lack of power that the combustion engine has. I think that's a pretty valid use and you're generating it on board, you're not plugging it in at night.

56:15 Yeah, that's pretty much the way they all work. Yeah. Well, I'm kind of for the motor, the gasoline engine in a Prius is I didn't realize this is something like that. It's like a three some screwball motor that is not even a normal in the Prius in the new Prius. All of them. Yeah, they've got some screwball like very weird motor that is It's low horsepower, but it's pretty much what you said well and the mini also when you're on the freeway They were great so the mini has it has the turbo the boost from the from the Electro motors and it also has a turbo turbo charger On three cylinders, yes It had some punch. I'll tell you

57:02 I mean you won't get laid. So the banker instead of driving the luxurious Tesla is now driving around a Mini Cooper? Yeah, I think that's what he wants his wife to drive but she took the Porsche. So he got stuck with the Mini Cooper. Yeah, something like that. You know, and he was like, oh, he texted me. I'll pick you up in the mini. You should have. Why don't you tell him to get that whatever that EV1 with that BMW, that low slung BMW hot rod. Oh, yeah. Of course. That's what I told him to get in the first place. And then it's like he's talking about the i3. I said, you know, there's one thing if you're already married and you don't want to get laid. It's another thing to make that public.

57:47 and drive around in one of those things. That's really, that's zero sex. Zero sex appeal. Anyway. I was pleasantly surprised by that part of it. But yeah, you're right. It's inefficient, doesn't seem to work, and we're all goo-goo-ga-ga over it. Well, we'll see where this ends up. So I got corrected by one of our producers who was snotty and says that now, he says Fisker did the first, they never used any Fisker ideas at Tesla. They used Hans' character, who's still there and was the designer. And I've been looking into it.

58:25 And I haven't made I have to now do an interview with Fisker to find out what the story is because they did part company before the S came out. Do you think you can do that before Thursday since we know? What wishful thinking we're doing a best of on Thursday. We're doing our last of the The thing is that Adam has to do something on Thursday, and we have one Ramsey Cain best of left in the archive. And he has moved on. He doesn't have the position he once had at this company where they encouraged him to do stuff like this because he had the time to do it. And now he won't be able to do any more. He got a real job.

59:12 We got a real job in the company. Yeah, he actually has some responsibility he Won't be able to do this anymore So that was the end this would be the last Ramsey Cain production that will ever have on the show which is kind of cool. I It's kind of cool, but it's kind of a disappointment because you always could give us a couple of these every couple years. And we could use them in emergencies or whenever we needed them. And this will be...that's the end of an era. So we're gonna do that. Yes. And if anyone has any other... If anybody else wants to pick up the cudgel. Yeah, we're happy about that. And also, you know, we got to do some more. I'll probably do it. I don't think I can get it all organized for Thursday to get another Pachanik thing because that might be cool.

59:58 Just to hear what he's saying about SpyGate, I'll try. But, you know, I got to get someone there with a mic and he can't, you know, he's tech illiterate, he can't do any of that. Most people seem to be. Most people that have, that would be good interviews don't seem to have a clue. They can't get on Skype. They don't know what a mic is. Don't know, barely know how to talk into it. Yeah, won't talk into it. Won't talk into it correctly. So that is for Thursday. If you want to help out, please let us know. In the meantime, I would like to thank you for your courage. I say in the morning to you John C. U-S-E stands for clean diesel. Dvorak. Clean diesel.

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1:04:55 Well, allegedly. So we start off with Ray Martin with $369.38. So he's a yes man. He's not only a yes man, but he's a good yes man because he came in with his associate or as an executive producer. I've recently been traveling and listening with my piping hot scrumptious wife and she has been enjoying the show now more than ever before. They usually do those piping hot scrumptious ones. And then he says, me as well. He too. Yes, the show is relevant and needed to get a lot of that. Hopefully you all have the energy and listener appreciation to go on. That's the part that I needed that needed to hear. I need to hear because we got energy. Yeah. Two guys our age. Hey, speak for yourself. I'm still a young man. Leron of Circle Town.

1:05:52 That's Ray. Layron, Layron. There's a Ray something there. 369.38. Michael Harrington, 367 from Babb, Montana. Babb, B-A-B-B-B-B. I would like to be known, he's got no vote, no vote for him. I would like to be known as, so he's got a knighthood coming up, Sir Backcountry Ranger. We had a lot of nice today. I just transferred from the Grand Canyon National Park to Glacier in Montana where I worked as a backcountry ranger in the mini glacier sub-district. That's mini glacier is what it's called. It's the name of the sub-district. One of my primary duties is bear What's your duty sir bear management Which means something different in Austin

1:06:46 Which includes, yes, which includes hazing habituated grizzlies by shooting them with rubber bullets and beanbag rounds fired from a 12-gauge shotgun. I'm living the dream! Ha! Can we come and hang out? That sounds like fun, actually. Amazing. Fantastic. Back County Ranger. I bet you, you know, some good spots to in Montana to go camp, hang out, smoke some weed. I will. I don't know. Is weed illegal in Montana? I don't think so. I would like to give a shout out to Ben Gardner, who contributed $100 toward my knighthoods last fall. Ben was the only producer to take me up on my offer to stay at my apartment in the South Rim for free.

1:07:36 Wow. Yeah, I remember that. I've moved along. I'm sort of ITG here in what I have. I think he means OTG. That must be a slip of the keyboard. Yeah. Okay. I think that's what he means too. I'm sort of OTG here in that I have no cell service, landline cable, and can't even pick up a single radio station. Hell yeah! How does he pick up the show? It downloads it. Yeah, but if he has no cell service, landline cable and no radio, does he do that at home or? He must commute to some area where he can download. Keep up the good work. The shows have been phenomenal as usual, but please remove the funeral jazz background music as you close out the show. It creeps me out. Really? Well, he's the only one who's ever complained about it. We've had other people ask what it is. Yeah, it's a beautiful little piece. People actually like this.

1:08:31 You know what I think it is? Whenever he hears the music, he gets triggered because he knows the show's over. That's a possibility, but it's not – we should mention to him and others that the show's not really over when you hear that music. Thank you. We still have at least two. The show has a number of produced, highly produced in many cases. satirical music bits and ditties that sometimes go on for five or six minutes. And today we have Danny Luce, also Tom Starkweather's girlfriend, Alexandra did a mix for us. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Chicks, man.

1:09:13 About 25 miles from the Canadian border, but I can't sense their swagger from here. That's Michael Harrison. Thank you. I look forward to look forward to your your ceremony later on in the program. I'd like to go go grizzly shooting. That'd be great. Especially since you're not really killing him. You're just shooting at him. Yeah, what if they turn on you? Did that sure you got an extra bet? He probably didn't mention but I'm sure he's got some I'm sure he's got the case in case the necessity arises. Sure. Yeah, there's no way otherwise. Robert Alter in Kansas City, Missouri, 333 in the morning. I just donated over the years. I have and finally reached Earl status with this donation. You should put him on the upgrade list. Yes. Yes. I'll put him on the title. This show keeps me sane. Without it, I'm not sure that my mental state would be.

1:10:08 I encourage everyone to give till it hurts. Love and light. Okay, title changes and I'll be Robert. Alter becomes an Earl. Nice. Yeah, 333. Scott Porta, $300 even. House finding and house renovation karma please. You've got karma. This is a Dame Hood, anonymous, 25038. What was the follow up here?

1:10:47 Did you get a note from, I mean, because I don't, the problem with this is that I don't have a reference in this donation. I'll dig it up. I'm sure I can find it because I remember her sending this in. I think I have it here. Yes, I do. Dear John and Adam, this donation brings me to Damehood. I'm a bankruptcy lawyer, so I'd like to be Dame Rachel. Really? Anonymous. Debt Slave Emancipator. I don't know if she wants to be anonymous or not because she has this in her... I guess she does want to... Oh, last name. Okay, so Dame Rachel. So it's not fully anonymous, it's just her last name. So I'm glad you... Yeah, well, she's kind of an... There's a lot of Rachel's. Right, but I'm glad we looked this up because she has a whole bunch of stuff here. This donation brings me to Dame Hood. I'm a bankruptcy lawyer.

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1:18:47 So what Dame Patricia was complaining about, we have the clip, I have a kind of a background on Alberto. Yes, Alberto. Yes, it has a name. I'm Rina Ninen. Alberto, the first name storm of the year, is slowly moving toward the Gulf Coast. Governors of Florida and Mississippi have already declared a state of emergency. The storm is just north of Cuba and not expected to make a landfall until sometime Monday. But the outer bands are already starting to lash parts of southern Florida. Craig Setzer with our Miami affiliate WFOR is following the storm. Craig.

1:19:23 The storm is getting a bit stronger tonight as it moves to the north and during the day on Sunday has the possibility of a further intensification reaching the North Gulf Coast here sometimes late on Monday or Monday night. But it's a big lopsided storm with a lot of the bad weather east of the track and north of the track so the effects going to be felt well before the center makes landfall. Wind is going to be a problem. Tropical storm force winds will be skirting the coast, the west coast of Florida, all the way up into the Panhandle and much of the northern Gulf Coast. Some of that wind will be going inland. And the other big issue with this storm besides storm surge and the wind, it's going to be rainfall. A tremendous amount of tropical moisture heading to the north. One of these tails, this moisture tail for Alberto, will be draped across Florida.

1:20:05 Going into the Carolinas where flooding is a possibility and flooding also a possibility right where the center makes landfall there. Here's the forecast track and you can see heavy rainfall amounts through parts of Florida, also parts of the Panhandle and parts of the southeast. There's also a threat, Rina, of isolated tornadoes. Well I find this rather peculiar. They're treating this thing as a hurricane when it's not. And it has a name, even though it's a subtropical storm. They talked about the center making landfall as though it's like a hurricane making landfall, but it's not. There's nothing similar to a hurricane unless it starts spinning around. Right. But it's like, this is just to pad the stats. Yeah, of the number of storms, because we don't have enough.

1:20:57 Yeah, we're not getting enough because we're supposed to have a million a month ever since Katrina, which never panned out because of global warming. So we're not getting enough. So let's just, every time it starts raining, let's just give it a name. Well, let's help him out, John. Why don't you, let's do a report. Are you ready? Yeah. We have Adam Curry on the line. He's right in the middle of the storm. Adam, are you there? Yes, John. As you can tell, Alberto, I'm still not able to pick up storms here. We can see the high clearly and it's still a subtropical storm, but it looks like we're all going to let tomorrow be the weekend. So the calculate we use more tornadoes, more storms. Global warming is real! Back to you in a few, John.

1:21:43 Wow, it looks pretty rough out there. Hey, Adam, be safe. I couldn't hear you. What did you say? Be safe, Adam. Be safe. Yes, yes, we'll be safe. Back to the studio. Cut the feed. Cut the feed. Good. I think they're all set then. Unbelievable. So they're padding the stats. They're naming everything. I mean some of their you know pretty soon to be naming you know afternoon showers my wet fart Raining in Florida whoever heard is such a thing like hey, there's Pete hurricane Pete just came out of my butt exactly

1:22:25 I think it's just that it's Memorial Day week and they have nothing to report on. We need something. The reporting is pretty poor. Let's play this. Let's play the CO2 highest levels. Let's play CO2. The global level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has topped 400 parts per million for the longest time in recorded history. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the grim milestone was reached on average for the entire month of March. The 400 parts per million threshold has been an important marker in U.N. climate change negotiations, widely recognized as a dangerous level that could drastically worsen human-caused global warming.

1:23:03 The environmentalist group 350.org takes its name after the 350 parts per million threshold that scientists say is the maximum atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide for a safe planet. Yeah, those guys should have rebranded. This is the problem. Oh, I should mention that clip's from four years ago. Oh, thank you. Ah, you screwed me over. Yeah, Sir Gene, our, you know, Sheriff of Texas, he, um, He has one of those monitors and he has two pet snakes so he has to keep the environment a certain way in his house. But his... Are they just roaming around the house? Yeah. Well, they don't really roam, they kind of slither.

1:23:45 And he measures about 750 parts per million in his house. He seems to be doing okay. He's alive still. Gene seems to be healthy. He seems to be... Turn on the fan in the kitchen, God. No, man, it's the snakes. It's the snakes. Snakes? Snakes. And they're not just little snakes either. That's a significant snake. Yeah, but then 350 guys, I'm telling you, that was four years ago. How come they didn't rebrand themselves to 450? No one would have known. Now they just sound like, you know, look, you're 350, we're at four, nothing happened. Screw you. That's what I think. So a couple Sundays ago, your buddy Roger Stone... Why do you say that? ...was on the show, and he has an interesting little trick.

1:24:43 that he's played, because Todd Chuck was trying to bring out of him why he hasn't been called before Mueller. And I realized the guy's this stone character is something of a genius, played this stone on Meet the Press 1. You have not had any contact with the special counsel's office, personally? That is correct. Not your lawyer either? That is correct. On the other hand, should they decide to proceed against me for some extraneous crime that I can't identify, perhaps we

1:25:22 Perhaps we can get into the question raised by the New York Times on January 20th, 2017, that says I was the subject of a FISA warrant. Now, for a U.S. citizen to be subject to a FISA warrant, they have to be engaged in espionage on behalf of a foreign power. That is certainly not the case as far as I am concerned. I'm very anxious to find out, the New York Times has never retracted that story by the way, I'm very anxious to find out why I would have been subject to such a FISA warrant. Well, I think one of the areas of interest apparently has to do with your communications with WikiLeaks, various tweets you have said. So let me go down that road with you. I've asked you this before, but let me ask you again here. Did you have any advanced knowledge of any kind

1:26:13 John Podesta's hacked emails. See, it's still, and they're confused, but it's still all about either Russia giving Hillary's emails to Trump or some collusion with the DNC hacked emails. They still keep trying to tie that knot together and they can't seem to find... No, they can't do it. What is it called? Proof. Yeah, proof. That's what they're looking for. And Stone's got this little gambit which he knows if they ever do anything, he can go into discovery and find out why he was put on a FISA warrant, which they don't want him to do. They don't want that. No, of course not. Because the whole thing will fall apart because it's going to turn out that everything they were learning and saying is true. A procedural question.

1:26:57 If the FBI, you know, if they want to take you to court, do you still get to do discovery the same way as in a civil trial? Unless you plead. Okay. So you have the right to full discovery, all of their information to defend your case. As far as I know, you know, it's a regular trial at that point. Okay. Well, let's listen to, he has a little kicker here it might be worth listening to. John Podesta's hacked. emails? No, absolutely not. And Chuck, an honest reading of my tweet, I said, the pedestal's apostrophe has time in the barrel. This isn't about the placement of the apostrophe. It's about in the fact that in virtually every news account, the word the has been omitted. The refers to more than one person, meaning, as I have said here before, even though you want to revive this chestnut,

1:27:47 I was referring to both Podesta brothers and the revelations in the April 2016 Panama Papers that exposed their shady business dealings in Russia. John and Tony, the Podestas. Even the final report of the House Intelligence Committee mistakenly omits the word the from my tweet. Yeah, he says the Podesta's referring to the two of them. Ah, OK. And you keep saying Podesta's as it was one Podesta's email. If you say the Podesta's emails.

1:28:25 Or, or, well, words, words do matter. Yeah, he makes that point. I think he makes a good point of it. And then Todd Chuck keeps, you know, saying, you know, let me ask again, maybe you'll change your, you know, that is interesting because there was a and I have a clip here. It was another case of what really depends on the context and how you're hearing what is happening at the moment. And, you know, how you can create context. It belongs under the heading of Me Too. And now it's time for your sexual harassment update. Now the big news that hit, I think it was Show Day even, which would make sense, was Morgan Freeman. God himself being accused of sexual harassment. Yeah. Because he plays God. He is, as far as I'm concerned, he's our God. You know, he is the God of Hollywood.

1:29:18 And the story, I didn't realize this, the story broke because of two CNN reporters, both women. I believe one, if not both, are entertainment reporters. And they went on Don Lemon, who as you know is the overnight sensation on CNN. Yeah, he is. And who knows Morgan personally and in social circles and professionally. And they explained what happened. and also their own experience why they started looking into this but when you hear her explanation wow it's it's it's exactly like you know the apostrophe is not in the right place you know did I did I hear it right was it the right context but this gives you a little background it's a little long but I found it to be very interesting. Many people are surprised by what our investigation has uncovered it was months in the making with Ann and I and six

1:30:12 16 people agreed to share their stories with CNN. Several of them said that Freeman made constant comments about their bodies and clothing choices. Eight said that they were victims of harassment or inappropriate behavior. And Don, two of those eight said that they were subjected to unwanted touching by Freeman. And, you know, I want to share some of those stories with you. One woman who was a production assistant on the movie Going In Style said that while filming it in 2015, Dawn, that Freeman subjected her to unwanted touching of her lower back and comments about her figure on a near daily basis.

1:30:47 In one incident, Don, she says that Freeman actually attempted to try to lift her skirt and asked her if she was wearing underwear. She claims that this alleged incident actually took place in front of his co-star in the movie, Alan Arkin. We tried to reach Arkin for comment and he couldn't be reached. Wow. I mean, who does that? Some guy's 89 maybe. I don't think he's 89. How old is he? This is like a caricature of the old dirty old man is sitting at the park bench with it with the cane and the girls go by and he tries to lift the dresses which was mocked at in the old TV show. You might have to say that's a different... No, he doesn't know. I don't know how old Morgan Freeman is. I can look it up. Book of knowledge. How old is Morgan Freeman? You probably... probably better luck if you looked it up.

1:31:44 Yeah, it's 80 years 80 years 11 months and 26 days so he's 80 but still it is 11 months 26 days. Thank you. Thank you. You can shut up. Do you think that he? Wow so aggressive do you think that? She said that he attempted to lift up her skirt. It was too weak. Oh There's more now Morgan Freeman issued a statement after our investigation published. What do you say? This is what he had to say anyone who knows me or who has worked with me knows I am not someone who would intentionally offend or knowingly make anyone feel uneasy

1:32:25 I apologize to anyone who felt uncomfortable or disrespected. That was never my intent. Well, clearly I understand that these allegations are just from production staff. It's also from entertainment reporters as well? Yes. So we spoke to a wide range of people in all different professions. And one of the women who spoke to me, her name is Tyra Martin. She's a producer at WGN in Chicago. And she said that over the course of a decade, she interviewed Freeman multiple times and always made sexually charged comments to her but she described to us that she was always quote in on the joke that she perceived it as more as flirtation but there was one time that she felt it really crossed a line she said that this time in particular he asked her not to pull her skirt down as she stood up to leave an interview with him now that incident was not caught I'm just trying to understand please don't pull you so she got up and he said oh please don't pull your skirt down

1:33:23 Is that what you heard? Kind of, I think so. I mean, what else? But if you stand up, it was obviously some tight-fitting skirt in the first place. Again, you know, maybe we should go back to the old thesis that maybe women should just wear pants and not wear makeup at all and that sort of thing. But she's wearing some tight skirts. She stands up, the skirt's clinging, showing her upper thigh, and she grabs to make a move to pull it down. And he says don't do that. Don't put now what are the? Impressions the impression I'm getting and and she's about to give her own example here in a moment the impression I'm getting is that a lot of this happened during the so-called well except for the producer in the beginning

1:34:10 So-called press junkets where the actors are sitting there for you know a day or sometimes more than one day It's just one after another 20 minutes boom boom boom here's entertainment tonight. Here's e here's C. Here's a access Hollywood Here's the Japanese television. Here's you know and So I got a little punchy maybe I'm not trying to say what he did was right, but you know I Well, listen to again all context. But there were other exchanges of her where it was caught on tape where he was being very flirtatious. But I just want to back up and explain that. I'm a little worried about this very flirtatious thing because it keeps on being flirtatious, flirtatious. What is the line between flirtatious and sexual harassment?

1:34:56 Where's the line? This investigation started after Morgan Freeman made comments to me during a junket last year for the movie Going In Style. As soon as I walked in the room, he began to make sexually suggestive comments and as an entertainment reporter for over a decade, it was unlike anything that I've ever experienced. And one of those comments was caught on tape, Don. In it he says to me, boy do I wish I was there while looking me up and down. I was six months pregnant at the time. And his co-stars, Alan Arkin and Michael Caine are actually seated right next to him during this exchange with me. And they actually look at him. We're going to play that clip and I want you all to take note of Freeman's eyes.

1:35:40 One time I congratulated a woman on being pregnant and she wasn't. So I've never done it again. For 50 years I've never done it. I learned my lesson. Look, it's a short clip caught on tape, but to explain the context, there were sexual comments made to me when I walked into the room and as I was leaving, but those were not caught on tape. Arkin, we couldn't reach him for comment, and Michael Caine declined to comment when we reached out. Wow. Well, it's interesting that you're sharing these things because if you see it just in the context of that, you might think that he was responding to what the co-star said about, I wish I was there when you were making the comments about

1:36:25 The one being pregnant you that's exactly what it sounded like and I watched his eyes. He wasn't like hey. Oh, hold on something's making noise. It's me I'm looking up. Okay this woman This is like one of her first gigs ever she landed the job of her dreams when in the Met in the summer 2015 and She started to work in going in style. The job quickly, she told CNN, she alleged this is the first woman. Well, anyway finish what you were saying because I know I think I know where you're going I think I'm gonna end up having to agree with this well you know so you hear Michael Caine make a joke and the way and I explicitly said watch his eyes and Morgan Freeman has kind of weird eye buggy eyes anyway But it wasn't like I couldn't see them rolling around or looking her up and down just he looks stoned if anything and and

1:37:26 And he said, yeah, boy I wish I was there. I wish I could have been there. But what she claims is that, well here's what she claims. Kind to comment when we reached out. Listen to what she says about it. It's interesting that you're sharing these things because if you see it just in the context of that you might think that he was responding to what the co-star said about I wish I was there when you were making the comments about the woman being pregnant and she was not. Right, exactly. And that's why I have to set this up for everyone because from the moment I walked in the room he said to me when I shook his hand, I would I wish I was there more than once while looking me up and down and also not letting go of my hand. Then he says this comment to me on tape, and then he made more comments to me about my body and then calling me ripe as I was leaving. And you know, it was that exchange that stood out to me just being so brazen. And that's what led us to just call around and do our job and look into it. And what we found is a pattern.

1:38:25 Okay, well she is one of those perky looking very cute girls Lana She's probably in I would tell her just you know get rid of your makeup Stop with the hairdo type fitting clothes, which I'm looking at now. Oh wait a minute You're mansplaining it away as you're asking for it. No. I'm not saying she's asking for it, but I I can see some 80 year old guy just complimenting her out of the blue and she takes it the wrong way. Because he's, you know, 80. He's 80. At what point do you get a license to do that? 80. 80 is it? When you're 80 then you can do it? 79 doesn't count?

1:39:17 I just, I don't know, I just, it seems like... I have the same weird feeling about this particular case. You know, I think every single one we've heard is like, yeah, these are incredible douchebags. Yeah, the guys are grabbing him and raping him. How about raping him? Did he try to rape her? I don't think so. No, has he attempted to lift someone's dress? I don't know, it's just... That seems flaky. But more important is what's going to happen. Will anything happen to him? That's what I'm interested in. Are we following through? Are we going to take this seriously? Are we going to let him slide for some reason because he's Hollywood royalty, i.e. God? I would prefer not to see that. When someone makes this kind of allegation, that's serious business. So they're better be follow-through.

1:40:05 I would agree with you 100%. And I'm going to stay on this because, not that I don't, I don't want Morgan Freeman to be in any trouble, but screw it. I don't care one way or the other, be honest about it. If the guy's a douchebag, the guy's a douchebag, but let's get the proper information and let's really do something with it and call him out properly. This, I find this to be, it's getting, and forget the age part because it's ageist when you say that, either way. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, and so that's I don't think there's any age where you have a license to be a dick. Well, he might think he's not being a dick and he's being very complimentary to here's a picture of him. She her feed Chloe's feed.

1:40:47 is, let's see, tweet number one is about this, tweet number two is about this, tweet number three is about this, tweet number four is about this, tweet number five is about this and has a picture of him. Tweet number six is a plug in something she's gonna be doing. Tweet number seven's about this with another picture of him looking at her. Tweet number eight's about this. Visa suspends Morgan Freeman campaign after accusations of inappropriate behavior. She's like milking this thing to death. Tweet number nine is about this. Tweet number 10 is about Harvey Weinstein. Tweet number 11 is about Harvey Weinstein. Tweet number 12 is about her and Morgan Freeman. That's another one, that's 12. Number 13, my colleagues and I are with

1:41:38 Somebody discussing the investigation allegations and harassment of Morgan Freeman. That's number 13 She is the tweet number 15 has got a picture of Morgan Freeman tweet number 16 It's about this tweet number 17 is about this with a picture of him again tweet number 18 is about this with a picture of him tweet number 19 is a picture of Harvey Harvey Weinstein all right so number just what we get your point I think that in this particular case this to me is pivotal and Either you pursue this and come up with some real allegations, and I'd like to have something a little more succinct than attempted, you know, tried, flirtatious. Give me something a little more corroborated with some other people other than you. It's not really good to be part of the story as a journalist, I've always been told.

1:42:29 And then we need to go after him vigorously just like those days are over just like Charlie Rose Just like you know any of these other guys who didn't rape anybody Dan Rather was it no Tom Brokaw Dan Dan Rather Tom Brokaw all of them But you know if you let him slide. I'll be very disappointed unless unless you just don't have anything now Beautiful on the other hand the real scumbag Harvey Weinstein who got perp walked And I didn't... I had to rewind the tape a couple times, because I do that with a pencil in that little hole and rewind it. They didn't have him handcuffed. Did you see that? He wasn't actually... they did a perp walk and he was not in handcuffs. I saw a perp walk, he was in handcuffs. And there was some discussion of when he was and when he wasn't in handcuffs. He was in handcuffs at one time. Oh, I didn't see... I only saw them holding his arms and he had his arms down by his side.

1:43:27 Yeah, this was he was in handcuffs. Okay, so you see that okay, okay? I'm still looking at Chloe's feeds and now it goes on to now. She's talking about Mario Batalia. She is Completely preoccupied with this it goes on but Tali but Tali but Tali who's that the Tali who is this guy me? Oh Mario Vitalis of did he's a guy was on the chew and And he was a famous chef who owns like six restaurants in New York and he's got, and he closed down his three places in Vegas because of this. I'm looking at, she's got a tweet down here on Mario Patali is a monster. And she's going on, this is all she tweets about. And this is also, is this Sonia? The same Sonia who's doing, is that who's doing these stories? Who's doing the stories? Chloe. Oh, Chloe. The one who would, he looked up and down.

1:44:19 The pregnant, it was pregnant at the time. It goes on. I love the empowerment, I love the moment, but we needed a couple of ground rules on this stuff. You know, you can just, I mean, we know you can just say anything you want about anybody, but even so, I mean, I've been incredibly flirtatious in my life. Yeah, you're the one that's really I'm surprised you're not in jail as we speak You're such a friend. Oh No, but because I've never I've never touched inappropriately I've never said anything inappropriate No, no, no, that's got nothing to do with it. We can go back to the clips, but it's because you're a good-looking guy Ah, I'm sorry. You're right. You're right. That's right. Lee old black man. I

1:45:07 So it's really just a racist thing is what you're saying. I'm glad we figured it out. Nice. I never said it was a racist thing because Harvey Weinstein's an ugly fat old guy, dude, white. But he was also raping women. He was raping but there's a number of other these borderline cases and it's always an ugly bastard. You never hear anybody bitching and mourning. Even with, here's a guy, here's one, this Chloe, she's going further, further down her thing. She's a... She's got Alec and Hilaria Baldwin. Welcome baby number four. Alec Baldwin is a father again. There's a guy who's like a borderline situation, but at some point he's a good looking guy. Nobody's gonna, you know, let him slide. Let that slide and let's go after the ugly men. This is part of the system of human evolution. Nice. It doesn't bode well.

1:46:06 Well, it doesn't bode well once you get over a certain age or if you stop, you know using combing your hair. Alright, anything for the segment or can I close it out? I don't know, you opened it. When did you open it? I opened it, I played the jingle. I'm going to close it now though. And this concludes your sexual harassment update. When they go after Brad Pitt. Or any of these types of guys, then I'll be... Then we'll know what's up. Yeah. But that's never gonna happen. Brad Pitt can flirt with anybody. All the female comics joke about this. Well, he's a good-looking guy, he can put up with it. On a technology tip, just shifting gears for a moment, I have a question for you because this is new. Cisco apparently came out with a big warning through the IC3, the Internet Crime Complaint Center,

1:47:04 I think that's what it's called. And they said at least 500,000 routers have been compromised. Now they actually said networking devices, but it was, it's clearly aimed at routers. And so the, let me read this actually from the FBI because I had never seen FBI give this kind of advice. Public service announcement, this came out May 25th, it's the official alert Foreign cyber actors, Gerard Depardieu I guess, target home and office routers and networks devices worldwide. Summary. The FBI recommends any owner of small office and home office routers power cycle, in parens, reboot the devices.

1:47:54 Foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other network devices worldwide. The actors use VPN filter malware to target small office and home office routers. The malware is able to perform multiple functions including possible information collection, device exploitation, and blocking network traffic. Technical details. The size and scope of the infrastructure impacted by VPN filter malware is significant. The malware targets routers produced by several manufacturers and network attached storage devices by at least one manufacturer. The initial infection vector for this malware is currently unknown. And then the threat.

1:48:32 VPN filters able to render small office and home office routers inoperable. The malware can potentially also collect information passing through the router. Detection and analysis the malware's network activity is complicated by its use of encryption and misattributable networks. And then the defense, and this is the thing that I think is new. The FBI recommends any owner of small office and home office routers reboot the devices to temporarily disrupt the malware and aid the potential identification of an infected devices. I have never heard The FBI, I've never seen the FBI recommend you reboot your router. I mean this is cable company advice here. So would it, and I'm asking you, but maybe, and I've tried to look it up, it's very hard, even Bing, you can't get any information now, it's all flooded. Wouldn't that perhaps, if we don't know much about this, wouldn't that maybe actually help install and activate the malware?

1:49:33 Well, it seems to me what they're talking about is some sort of code that is in the buffers, in the temporary memory, in the memory that is volatile. Because to change the code in the basic, in the firmware, which you can do, but you have to go through a process and you have to, then the router has to know what's going on. I mean, and it usually comes from headquarters. They always, they redo your firmware. from HQ and they Pretty much wipe out what was there and put a whole new piece of code in there if you could get in that then you could have some some fun, but I Don't think I think rebooting the router probably would wipe it out completely I think it's only these these got to be some sort of a minor temp kind of a virus see I I personally think

1:50:25 And I don't know enough about it, and I already see there's alternating views in the troll room. If you have something in the volatile network, and you now if you pull the plug out, you know, there's and how do you reboot? You know they're saying cycle. I think it also read their defense closely here. FBI recommends any owner of small office and home office routers reboot the devices to temporarily disrupt the malware and aid the potential identification of infected devices. Does that mean that they are on some back end waiting for these things to come online and see them and say, ah, there it is, they've got the malware, thanks for rebooting? Well, that's what it sounds like. I just don't think it's great advice.

1:51:17 Well, I don't know. I mean it just you should be rebooting your router every so often anyway on show days certainly on show days Well what it does apparently what it does And I think I may be in fact that I have not rebooted my router is it changes your DNS settings and that is the the Mac Daddy and Because you know then you can do all kinds of fun stuff if you have different. Oh, if you can get in there and yeah and change the DNS settings. Exactly. That's an interesting idea. Because then you can redirect all kinds of stuff. It wouldn't take a lot of code to do that, obviously. And the reason I know something's different with mine is if I just type in a bogus, because on show days I have it pretty stock. I don't use specific DNS servers and I have ways to change all of that and VPNs and I keep it pretty stock. If I type in a bogus URL in my browser,

1:52:17 What typically comes up is because I have AT&T fiber the AT&T Page will come up which is a search page. Oh, we couldn't find this did you mean this it has you know it has a list That's not coming up for me right now now. It's a blank page You've got a problem, so I think I think I probably have something going on so I haven't rebooted yet And I'm gonna see I don't think I can find anything, but if I reboot I'll at least know if that changed That's yeah You know, I was thinking about this. It's got nothing to do with your story. But you know, it's all this talk of artificial intelligence and smart this and smart that and smart the other thing. So I've got, so you type in a URL, you know, something.com. But instead of typing .com, you type, because this is exactly what happened, I type .ccom.

1:53:12 Now, there's only a limited number of TLDs. Top level domains. You'd think that the router or whatever, I don't care who it is, would notice that there's no such thing as .ccom. Right. and would either correct it and say, you know, it probably meant this, let me just try that. But no, no, no, you get this error message. We've tried it, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It is just bull crap. It shouldn't even go that far to tell me that it's a, oh, we tried the domain, doesn't, you know, it's not working. Of course it's not working. I think many companies try to correct that for you. Well, I'm not getting any evidence of it using my Firefox. Firefox should have it built in. Right, no, Firefox, no.

1:53:58 No, I think I can try all my browsers. They're all gonna freak out. Yeah, so you're saying why is that not smartly managed and arranged? Because of all this artificial intelligence that we're using to make the world a better place. It's bullcrap. You want AI in your browser now? I can make that, just a bunch of skip logic. I just want this one thing, when you make a little typo, for God's sake. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't have that problem anymore. I mean, I'm on the OTG phone and boy, is it hard to type a message. I'm misspelling words left and right.

1:54:37 It's very hard, but yeah. All right. So I have a clip, it's a little entremont. I've always talked about how ABC slips in these native ads into their news feeds. You know, they always have something, it's got something to do with some company that paid for the 30 seconds. Very rarely you see something that goes on forever. I think this is a native ad, you're gonna have to guess the company, and you'll find that there's more than one option, but at the end it reveals. They took Holly... Yeah, I see the clip, I got it. But wait, they took Holly Williams, their top international foreign correspondent at CBS

1:55:29 And they put her on this stupid story and she had to report on it. She did get a free trip to a couple of places, it seems, even though she may not have. She'd been reported the whole thing from Turkey for all I can tell. But this was a native ad and you can see at the very end they give it away even though during the thing they kind of give it away but then you realize that they're doing a good job. But this is a very long native ad, guess the company. A shocking confession has confounded lovers of the Swedish meatball. Chef Boyardee! Keep going. Did I get it right? Oh, for centuries, the beloved staple was considered Sweden's signature dish. But a simple tweet changed that. It turns out that it may be from another country. Holly Williams has the story. When you think of

1:56:19 Sweden, perhaps ABBA comes to mind. Or maybe IKEA's... No, no-go zones full of immigrants comes to mind for me. Build it yourself furniture. But if you're a food lover, it's probably Swedish meatballs. They're Sweden's national dish, traditionally served with mashed potato and sweet lingonberry sauce. Last month Sweden's government confessed a terrible secret via Twitter Swedish meatballs it said are actually Turkish imported 300 years ago by Swedish King Charles the 12th

1:56:56 Meatballs are ours, of course. Swedish meatballs are Swedish. Swedish cafe owner Bronte Orrell is joking, as other Swedes did when they heard the news. One gestured that his whole life had been a lie. The truth, of course, is that good food travels. I mean, noodles came originally from China and then came to Italy and, you know, they have pasta. So that doesn't make Italian pasta Chinese. But here in Turkey the confession left some people feeling they've been robbed. At Ali Baba's meatball joint in Istanbul, these Turkish diners told us they were happy to share their meatballs, but not the credit for their invention. Don't call it Swedish meatball, because it's not.

1:57:46 But now there's a new twist to the story. A Swedish food expert told us it's fake news because the origins of meatballs are uncertain. And Sweden's official Twitter account now concedes that the meatballs culinary history is complex. And so an international incident has been resolved. Meatballs, just like the people who make them, come from everywhere. Holly Williams, CBS News, Istanbul. And did you know that Swedish company IKEA said that 2 million meatballs are eaten in their stores worldwide every day? Wow! Wow! That, what a killer!

1:58:28 Two minutes to get to the punchline for them. Well, they did mention IKEA earlier in the piece. Yeah, they totally glossed over it, of course. I didn't hear. And that was just kind of kicked in there. And then at the end, they do the kicker, which is that two million meatballs a day are served at IKEA, which is, you know, they have a meatball restaurant there. And it's like, wow, what a native ad. And that was a long one. Unbelievable. And that was on the nightly news? That was the nightly news? Yes, that was the weekend news. Oh, weekend news. But it was the same basic news. But they take Holly Williams off of her normal assignments of being in some war zone and have her do a meatball story. Hey man, the meatball wars are real, bro.

1:59:11 Meatballs. Meatball wars. And that was, you have the time, what's the time on that clip? That clip was... 2.20. 2.20? That's a long native ad. Who are the other meatball companies out there? Who are they fighting against? They're not, they're just plugging IKEA. It's an IKEA plug. Wasn't there something recently IKEA had some scandal about You know, giving away the wrong hex wrench or something. I forgot. Make everybody feel better. Well, I'll tell you. I'm very happy we don't have to do that. You imagine, you know, I'm deep in some legislation, I'm looking at Nord Stream 2 and the Russians and the Germans and Gerhard Schroeder and the pipeline, and then I have to pay it off with a meatball ad all of a sudden? Thank God for our value for value proposition. I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. Debilitating. Yeah, on No Agenda!

2:00:12 And I always I always have to remind myself, you know, whenever I get one of those Hey, would you come on do a little interview for this or that? I always have to remember it No, you don't want to do it because the minute you get there all of it comes streaming back all the stupid things like this poor Holly Williams has to do the IKEA ad or you can't talk about this have to talk about this because you move on just answer this answer with the question it is Mainstream media is debilitating Yeah But you've always got Michael Jackson to fall back on. Sir Cal, we got a lot of votes in. Sir Cal, $138.38. Says keep it going. Greg Dial comes in with $101.38. So there's another couple of votes. And he's going to be a knight. And he says keep going. Andrew Sawyer in Duncan, BC.

2:01:06 It's right near spasm. Keep going, please. $100.38. Kyle Blank, $100.38. Robert Blankchain, $100.38. All keep going. This is good. Oops, Circus Media, $100.37. What does he say? He says, except this is three times 33 plus 38, it just came out wrong. So he's actually saying keep going. He's saying, oh he also says, I'm turning 27 today, which is three cubed. Man, we got some numerologists on this show. All right, Sir Cuss Media, I have to put him on the list, he wasn't on the list. Oh, on the birthday list, yeah. Sizmon, Sizmon, Shizmon, Libazuski, tough name, 9999, great show, John, I'm in love with you too. Please send out a douche call out to Agata.

2:02:09 Okay. The show helps her sleep in the afternoon. We're east and she never donated. Please karma for Steve of the Steve. If possible, put Steve's term at the end for you. David Hart, 98 38. That's a going, uh, Jess Moore, 83 38. Keep going. Ron link, eight Oh eight. Take with the survey. Ken Schmock in Las Cruces, New Mexico, 77, 18. Another Kevin Farney, 75, 38. Keep going. It says, this is my sole source of real news. Scott Webster, New York. Wait, wait, wait. The second part to that. My wife thinks it makes me too cynical, but you guys keep me woke.

2:02:59 His wife makes him too cynical. She's not listening to the show anymore. Well, no, no, no, no, no. Word of advice, relationship tip, you gotta go easy if you're in a non-mouth hit relationship. You know, just going like, it's bullcrap, it's not gonna work. Look, John doesn't even live in the same place as his wife, so don't go that direction. She's on my side in these debates. And she loves you. She's worse than me. She's worse than me. That's the big secret. 75, 30 years. You actually don't want to live with her. Sir Dave, yes, that's exactly. Oh, here we go. Sir Dave Pew 73 37. So he's in Massillon. You dudes are my only source of know. Oh, he's he's the one who sent me a note saying, hey, 30s, he had his numbers mixed up. Oh, OK. He meant well, though.

2:03:47 Yes, Steve Hutto, 77 in St. Petersburg, Florida, Michael Greer in East Bumblefuck, Pennsylvania. Oh, so nice to hear from Michael. Michael and Sarah. Yeah, they live in Bumblefuck. Is that right? Bumblefuck, and they live in the log house. Do you have the 44th birthday for them on there? Sure do. Barron Mark Tanner and Whittier, 66-66, he donates twice a month. Sir Honey Badger of the Carolinas, Matthews, North Carolina, 6044. Eliza, Eliza. Elissa, I think it's Elissa. I'm sorry, Elissa. It could be Eliza or Elissa. Yeah, Elissa is what it is. Tippergan, in Littleton, Colorado, 6008, that's the lopsided breasts. We have a birthday again.

2:04:41 You got him on there? Only one was a donation? Sure do. Yeah, sure do. Okay, once we got that. Michael Burdette in Arlington, Washington, $60. Another birthday, geez. We had no birthdays on the last show. Michael Miguel Lopez in Flanders, New Jersey, 58.30, another plus. Douglas Engstrom, 56.50. I like to call it the Zephyr donation. Yeah, it's we gotta figure out why. Oh, here it is. Perfect track gauge 56 and a half from rail to rail. So that's 56.5. Wow, that's a great donation. John 5650 Zephyr. 56 I'm going to write these down because you know, I got to put together a list of all these crazy donations people have dreamed up and I like that one a lot. John, that's Douglas Douglas Angstrom.

2:05:39 John Schmidt in Modesto, California, 5555. No jingle. Well, you're not going to get one anyway. Ed Zlotnick, 5555. And he said he loves his wife of 28 years. Yes, that's a good note. Tim Heasel in Hanford, 5538. Yes, it's still useful. That's like an old bike. It's still useful. Yeah, that Noah Jenner show. It still works. Why should I sell it? We're like an old bike. We're like, Josh Old Shoes, Josh Mandel, 5538. Nadia Borg, 5538, she says, please keep going. Sir Patrick Coble down there in Tennessee, 5537. Oh, wait a minute. This makes no sense. No, I think he misunderstood. Shows you cannot be expressed enough with this donation. You are both amazing people doing great things. Man, he votes us out.

2:06:40 People need to learn you gotta read I think the I think the spreadsheet got hacked by the Russians It could be David Fugazotto in Gladstone, Missouri Constantly donates sir David. I'm sure He says keep it going, but he's got a 37 cent one in here James Buell 53 38 I wonder how many people did the exact opposite and put 38 when they met 30 says is the problem with internet voting we have no paper trail This is a problem with internet voting. Colonel Bob, is internet voting with comments kind of works? Because then you can correct the vote, but then again, you could be sued. Yes. Colonel Bob, 5333, thanks for a great newsletter. Love what you do. Ezekiel Chopper, 5318, keep it going. It's 38 cents, you get 5280. Okay, something, he's got something going on. He's subtracted or something.

2:07:37 Steven Pitzel, 51.38. He says, what does he say? We're despicable. We are ashamed. Something and something. Chris Sundberg, Mercer Island, $51. Sir Gordon Walton, baron of the Madison County, Texas, 50.68. Daniel Torello in Charleston, South Carolina, 50.38. Patrick Vaughn, 50.38. Thomas Key in Kansas City, 50.38. Clifford Muchler, KM4RMO73. Here's a nice note, please don't go. Great product, the newsletter was real slick, John. Got this douche bag to donate. Yes, the show is beyond useful. Please stick around if you can for another 963 plus episodes. Oh, until 2000.

2:08:29 Clifford, that's Mutchler at 5038. Sir Eric V.M., Baronet of the Valley, 5038 in Van Nuys. Herbert Harms, 5030. Now I will say this, we're getting a lot of 5038s, 5138s. The people who did the 37s, and there are a few, they're all down in the $1 area, because they're not gonna donate 50 bucks and 37 cents because they hate the show. Right, do they have notes? No, you can't read them. Nicholas Holler 5038. There's some sent email and I read some of those but that'll be on next Sunday. Derek 38 guy Boaz Boaz de sur guy Boaz de 5038. We haven't heard from him from years in years Boaz. Yes. Yeah, we haven't. You're right. Good guy. Hey, man. Good to good to hear from you. Thanks for your thank you for your courage. Show kindness to your show.

2:09:24 Seriously, how often do you find any source of information which kindly asks you to donate cents per hours of usage? We're not being forced. We don't have to. But if we can use even one point of information from each three-hour show, it's only fair we pay something. That's gee. Thank you. I think it is guy. I was saying gee and then it turned out was guy guy was he yeah, sir Kevin of Devon 5038 Christopher O'Cowan in Austin, Texas right down the street from you 5038 Kirk Sat Hoff now we get some people out of the woodwork here. This is a good donation segment

2:10:00 Still my favorite podcast. I had another guy said, you know, he's like, can't stand these other podcasts. And he listed a bunch of them I've never heard of. I went to listen to it. Oh man, there's some bad podcasts out there. There are, yeah. Really bad. Sean McLellan. McClellan is what it really is. 5038. Philip Welch, 5038. Joseph Iona, 5038. Sir Daniel Warren, 5038. And Boise. Boise. Mark Neiman, 5038, a lot of these. Yeah. Brian Moss and Rancho Santa Margarita, 5038. I'm just gonna read the names. They're all 5038s. Ed Boutaille, Boutaille, Boutaille. Le Boutier. Le Boutier. Yeah, the Boutier. Le Boutier. It's the Boutier. Todd Beeson, Michael Kern in Cyprus.

2:10:52 Sir Midnight of the Rivers in Crestview, Florida. Matthew Hills. Hillis. Hillis. Hillis. Astrid Klein. Hey! Dane. Yes, the Viscountess of the Japan seas and all the islands. Exactly. Roy Pingel. Jos van der Sanden. Von der Sonde. He's from Arnhem. It doesn't say that here. Yeah, it does. Nicholas Johnson. Floyd's knobs, Indiana love the great, Indiana town These great names for towns in Indiana. Mm-hmm Comes from there Schmidt Norwood young America Norwood young America, Minnesota really Alan bows 5038 Jenny McGrew James Callahan Sir, Matt Hatter and Dame Jamie

2:11:51 Yeah, Robert. Jeannie McGrew says something nice. It's please don't stop you save my sanity every day seriously You both influence my life 24 7 much more than just twice a week the show is truly life-altering. Oh, man. That's nice Thank you, or is Jeannie Jeannie. Yeah, Jeannie McGrew not Jenny Jeannie Sir, Matt Hatter and Dame Jamie Robert Marsh. Ah here. We got some no votes that who did cough up 52 of them. Oh But listen to this, Robert Marsh, 5037 in Hartsville, Alabama. No, keep going. You are integral to my sanity and provide much appreciated value. Call out Jonathan from Huntsville as a douchebag. Put some karma for you at the end. So he's just put a wrong donation. Sean Wilkie, 5037. He also did the same thing. He says very useful. You guys voted wrong. Get a clue. So you're gonna have to vote again.

2:12:47 This is how we got Trump Scott Nelson 50. Yeah is right. Yeah, it's hanging Chad From Melbourne and now we got $50 donors straight up Jose Ferreira in Newbury Berkshire UK Louis Pasteur in Miami, Florida Jeffrey Zellin in Oakland, Michigan, Oakland, Michigan. John Simmons, $50. Robert Makowski in Rhinebeck, New York. Sir Peter Totes in Sugar Land, Texas. Robert Dreykosen, I think in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Keith Gibson.

2:13:29 Aaron Havens in Spring, Texas. And finally, Sir Alan Bean right down the street from me and Frank or Carol Molinari in Boulevard. Texas, thank you all you folks for helping us try to determine whether to stay on or not We do have a lot of votes at the bottom of this spreadsheet Well, when are you gonna have the final tally next Sunday? Yeah, I'm gonna have to add these up Yeah, I'm gonna put them in a spreadsheet obviously. Yeah, it's nice to hear. Here's the problem again We got two guys that gave 33 37 and one says keep going. I just like to know if

2:14:04 There must be negative ones. Doesn't anyone, except for the one you read, everyone thinks it's good? We just keep going? I'm fine with it. I'm going down to the bottom here. Let's go to the bottom because the normal guy who doesn't want to show on is gonna, it's gonna be a buck 37 or just 37. And here we have a guy in Fort John, BC, Canada. a buck 37, but then again his note is the show is very helpful. I think shifting focus off US media, here's what he's bitching about, who are obsessed with one thing and maybe doing more media deconstruction from other countries might be a good idea to try. There are way more things going on than what the US media talks about as you guys say over and over. I think the media deconstruction suffers when the media has no news. I completely agree and I've complained about this bitterly

2:13:29 Aaron Havens in Spring, Texas. And finally, Sir Alan Bean right down the street from me and Frank or Carol Molinari in Boulevard. Texas, thank you all you folks for helping us try to determine whether to stay on or not We do have a lot of votes at the bottom of this spreadsheet Well, when are you gonna have the final tally next Sunday? Yeah, I'm gonna have to add these up Yeah, I'm gonna put them in a spreadsheet obviously. Yeah, it's nice to hear. Here's the problem again We got two guys that gave 33 37 and one says keep going. I just like to know if

2:14:04 There must be negative ones. Doesn't anyone, except for the one you read, everyone thinks it's good? We just keep going? I'm fine with it. I'm going down to the bottom here. Let's go to the bottom because the normal guy who doesn't want to show on is gonna, it's gonna be a buck 37 or just 37. And here we have a guy in Fort John, BC, Canada. a buck 37, but then again his note is the show is very helpful. I think shifting focus off US media, here's what he's bitching about, who are obsessed with one thing and maybe doing more media deconstruction from other countries might be a good idea to try. There are way more things going on than what the US media talks about as you guys say over and over. I think the media deconstruction suffers when the media has no news. I completely agree and I've complained about this bitterly

2:14:54 We have this situation on today's show. Well, I... It's hardly any news. And you know what? Because of that, for our second half, I have Turkey, Germany, Australia and Ireland. You know, I... And it's not... I mean, it's interesting news because it's not reported here. So I was like, oh, yes, this is fun to know. But it's hard to deconstruct. And I think, honestly, we did deconstruct some UK media at the top of this show. We do what we can. But we need a lot more help from our producers. So we need more boots on the ground boots on the ground reporting. Yeah, telling us what's going on. We do. We do need that help. Fixing my mic much better. It's an old one. So we can't some mechanical microphone.

2:15:43 Okay, that'll conclude our group. Yeah, that's our group of well-wishers. I feel good I feel good now. I feel good, but I still glad we did that then I'm into I am interested in In feedback like like that were the 130 the 137 there you said and more European news. Yes, absolutely I'd love to do a lot more need a lot more help. Yeah, it's we do as much as we can But where the most of the screwy, well, even though the Europeans I think are getting the same screwed up, twisted news that we're getting, I think the American media is the worst. Well, we are the beacon.

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2:17:49 five ceremonies today, so this is good. Yeah, I like it. Oh, where's your blade? Oops, I almost went without your sword. You didn't get yours either. I did. I got mine. I didn't hear it. Well, here it is. Can't you see it? Just get your blade out. Yeah, I'm looking at it. Hold on a second. It's over on the floor. There we go. Yeah. Okay. This concludes your theater of the mind. Up on the podium, Michael Harrington, Anonymous, and other known as Rachel, Chris Wilson, Greg Dyle, Well, uh, no it's actually, we have worked twice. Okay, perfect, it works. We are about to celebrate your entry into the Noah Jenner Roundtable of the Knights and Dames thanks to your contribution in the amount of $1,000 or more. So I'm very proud to pronounce the K.C.

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2:19:38 I want to read a note from one of the guys who sent us, sent me a couple of books. I don't know if you got one, but he should probably send you one. He's got this book called Media Collusion. He's got this website, media, you should go to this, media-collusion.org. Media-collusion.org. Any collusion? And he's got this very nice book that he says that we can, he says if you want to repurpose it as a no agenda book. And it's got, it's just dynamite. And I wanna get him to get you a copy. But he says, John, John, this could easily be a no agenda book. I quickly wrote it to support a class I'm teaching in SoCal, but I would happily repurpose it. Cheers, Phil Dunn. Philip R. Dunn, good,

2:20:27 Very good. Now, is this for college kids or is this for? You can figure it out on his website, but it's kind of like a seminars. I do like what it says here. It says life changing media literacy for OC students. Do your kids have the ability to analyze and combat advertising strategies and be intentional about consumer choices? Do they possess critical thinking skills that allow them to examine the motivations, economics and powers behind entertainment, news and advertising media? They are not getting these skills in school. Huh this looks like a total no agenda project Yeah, fantastic love it. Yeah, it's great. We're gonna know Can we can we just buy these books or does he have to send them to us? They're not available on the public are there an Amazon? Not a book that he's selling that I know of okay, but he we can do some something with these and been and

2:21:23 get them distributed I'm sure. I like it. Very cool. Yeah, he's a good guy. Okay, let's do some international news shall we? Okay. Well, Turkey in the news again, haven't heard from Erdogan in a while and he's, I think he did this Maybe six months ago and he's back? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged citizens to convert their dollar and euro savings into lira in an attempt to shore up the foundering currency.

2:21:59 The Turkish lira has lost some 20% of its value this year, hit by investors' concern about the strengthening influence of Erdogan on monetary policy. We are aware of the game being played against us and we're fighting it with the tools we have in hand, he told an election rally. Being a Turkish national means you should first protect your own currency. Here's my request to my people. Don't believe in rumors and protect your own currency. Shoppers and market traders are feeling the pinch from the decline in the currency and double-digit inflation. The ailing Turkish economy has emerged as a key issue as Turkey heads into presidential and parliamentary elections next month. Ah, okay. Now I understand. Elections. Ah, sounds like you're pulling a grease on him. Mm-hmm. It does, doesn't it?

2:22:54 Oh yeah, bankers. So you think that they're out? You should have talked to your bankers. I didn't know this report just came in. I didn't realize. I will, I'll ask them. I'll send them a note. What's going on? Are we, are we putting a squeeze on the Turks? Yeah, an economic hitman stunt. This is from Australia, a nice Ted Pill moment. You always wonder why you want to keep a couple of dollars or euros or something around in some kind of fiat currency in cash that you can hold on to. National Australia Bank is suffering a nationwide outage experiencing issues with multiple servers. The bank tweeted that internet, mobile banking, ATM services and FPOS are down and they're working to fix the outage as soon as possible. It did not mention when the outage is expected to be fixed.

2:23:41 Customers have taken to social media to express their outrage with some calling for compensation. Ha! Dream on, slaves! Who wants compensation? It's so dangerous when you don't have money. Yeah. And that can happen if there's an outage because we're dependent on the electric grid. And wasn't Australia all in on going cashless? I don't know that. I think I can recall a report. Was it, let me see, Australia Cash? I thought there was something, I thought there was a report about that. Could be wrong. Maybe.

2:24:31 So I, there's a, just to balance a little bit, I do have a local, not a local story, but I noticed this David Hogg character. Oh yeah, yeah, he did the, the, the die-in. Yeah, play the boycott Publix thing. I want to talk about this for a second. I do have a minute report with a backgrounder if you want that.

2:25:09 Go ahead. Well, John, right now I'm standing just a couple feet in front of where this display was set up outside of publics. And this is after just hours before a cleaning crew was hired by the property manager here of the shopping center to come take it down. I want to show you some video of David Hogg. He is the one who created this display. They actually had to make it twice after rain washed it out the first time. And he said he came up with this idea. just late last night to draw 17 chalk figures along with gun statistics to bring awareness to gun laws and also protest publics after earlier this week it came to light that the grocery store chain donated half a million dollars to Adam Putnam, a Republican running for Florida governor.

2:25:52 to donate $1 million double what they did to Putnam's campaign to the school's memorial fund and hoping that the store will no longer support pro-gun politicians. They're physically trying to remove these things and they are. They allowed our politicians to be able to do that. When we allow them to be reelected again and again and again, when they say they're going to do something you never do. You keep having these kids die. We cry over them, and the kids wash away at the hands of time. And while that display was being taken down, Hogg talked to us and says he understands that he did put it up on private property and was understanding of why they were taking it down. But he said that's not stopping him from doing a dine at four o'clock this afternoon. That's where he plans to lie down on the grocery store's floor for 12 minutes or a bit longer.

2:26:38 roughly 700 seconds. He says this is to signify the recent school shootings here in the U.S. in recent history. There you go. All right. So this kid has picked up the scheme used by by the media matters. Well, not media matters. I'm thinking more along the lines of the Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Oh yeah, like... A shakedown. Yeah, it's a shakedown. If you want us gone, then donate. Yeah, and so this is what he's done. He finds... Publix, by the way, is owned by the employees. It's a very

2:27:18 Very uncontroversial company, it's really a good operation. It's like... I didn't know this, so it's completely, is it like a co-op or just completely... No, it's just completely employee owned. Interesting. So you become an employee, you get some shares and the next thing you know you've got a lot of money. And a lot of people would love to invest in Publix. I've talked to Horowitz about this and you can't. It's a really good operation, well run, but unless you're an employee, you can't get any stock. But that's where there's just a shakedown. It's one of these things I don't understand why the FBI allows this to go on. And so they have this this die in and public's already given in there. Okay, we'll give your little upper. They've got some organization that I think he's somehow behind, which is the something to do with the dead students at the other school. And it's

2:28:07 It's just a shakedown. It's plain and simple. And the people that have fallen for it, that are involved in this, should be ashamed of themselves. This is really, this is racketeering. Somebody needs to stop this sort of thing. I love seeing the pictures of shoppers just stepping over the people and just getting milk and eggs. It's like, oh, it's on the ground. It's one of those again. Yeah, and it's... I mean, it's now twice removed from the shooting. You know, it's like, well, this guy takes money from the NRA. You support that guy. So now you have to give a million dollars to, I think, an organization, I agree, that he's involved in. Which org was it? I don't know at the moment. I can't remember. But it's beside the point. This is a shakedown. It is extortion. It's racketeering. And where is the FBI?

2:28:59 And you're gonna see more of it until they crack down on it. Of course, you'll have a lot of public sympathy, but this is just, and apparently other areas are seeing the same kind of thing going on with Antifa, they're doing shakedowns. This is a lot in small businesses around here and there. This is all illegal. All illegal, this is all illegal, because money is involved, threats. Yeah, I hadn't even looked at it that way. I think you're absolutely right. Is that, would it fall under racketeering? Well, extortion, sure, but racketeering? Early racketeering. A lot of people are involved. It's extortion. It's illegal. This is what they stopped the mafia from doing this. Why are these guys allowed to do it? Because it's for a good cause? The hog mafia. The hog mafia. I'm writing that one down.

2:29:51 Good catch. Yeah, I didn't even consider it'll be easy to catch this cuz it's gonna keep going Yeah, you're gonna see this with all these you're right money You're so right because I said first of all it's like a media matters thing and you know go after a company But no you're right. They they demanded money that is that's like porn What do you call it? when you revenge porn revenge porn no, it's not like revenge porn and Well, I guess it is. No, this is just straight up distortion. You're right. There's no other way to look at it. It's a shakedown. It's a shakedown. You're right. You're right. This is a very interesting story. They are the largest employee-owned company in the world, according to the Book of Knowledge. Yeah. That's pretty amazing. Yeah. People would love to get a hold of that stock. In France.

2:30:43 People pissed off at Macron? Tens of thousands of people have again protested across France over President Emmanuel Macron's economic reforms. In Paris, there were around 40 arrests after protesters clashed with police. The protests were called by 60 unions, political parties and associations. One union put the turnout at around 80,000, whilst the police estimated 21,000. But however large the protests, Macron says he won't surrender. And some of his reforms, such as getting rid of job-for-life contracts at the state-owned SNCF railways, are supported by most of France, polls have revealed.

2:31:22 Also on Saturday in Lyon, an anti-Macron protest merged peacefully with an anti-Nazi one. No arrests were reported. Unions representing nearly 6 million public sector workers held strikes last week and more are expected across France. Hmm. There's that socialism nut not doing his job. Yeah, well, but imagine... Whoever does his job. Go ahead. Well, I just wanted to get this one report out of the way, which is the North Korea no-co. Sure. I saw that term, you know, no-co. No-co. I have not heard no-co, but I like it. Yeah, I kind of liked it right away because it's, you know, I use DPRK or whatever it is. Yeah. But I like no-co. This is the report. Apparently this meeting is on again, off again, on again. And now we're getting these leaks coming out of the supposedly. Hold on, before you get into that, let me just.

2:32:18 Because I followed this and I think, here's what happened. It seems like this is all part of the Trump setup. If we go back and remember, he was talking about, I got my Fire and Fury, my Buttonworks, all this stuff, and then Kim Jong-un goes, okay. But now it was Pence. It was Pence who I think was purposely asked to say, well, you know, there's always the Libya strategy, which is get rid of your nukes. I thought it was Bolton. Where did Pence come in? No, because, well, Pence reiterated that and then Kim Jong-un's guy, his lieutenant,

2:33:01 He said, Pence is a dick, and he said shut his mouth, something in Korean. That was Bolton again. I am pretty sure that, yes. We had the clip of the guy saying, we hate Bolton, we hate him, we hate him, we hate him. Yes, but I'm pretty sure that, oh, I have written things here. I want to hear something where Pence... I don't have any clips, I don't have any clips. I don't believe Pence was the guy, he was always Bolton. I think Pence came back and reiterated it. Well, you better get some clips that you know, you're not gonna be able to do it for Thursday Let's just go with the ABC report wrap in the overview. Okay the wrap in the overview it is I'm Juhi Cho in Seoul at the Blue House where South Korea's president briefed reporters about the second meeting in a month with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Saturday the secret meeting between the two leaders which Moon said Kim requested a

2:33:50 highlighted an urgency to salvage the summit between the US and North Korea. Kim expressed fixed will to a face-to-face summit with Trump, but Kim wanted the US to guarantee that he will stay in power after the nation gives up its nuclear arsenal. Moon delivered a message from the White House that the US will offer economic assistance if Pyongyang implements complete denuclearization. A senior official here at the president's office said it all comes down to an issue of trust in a background briefing. The meeting follows a whirlwind of back and forth between the US and North Korea in which Trump canceled the highly anticipated June 12 summit only to say the meeting could be back on. Moon, desperate to work out differences between the two, says he

2:34:36 expects the meeting to turn out fine as working level preparatory talks resume between Washington and North Korea. The two Korean leaders have agreed to another meeting on June 1st between their top officials before the U.S. and the North potentially meet on the 12th. I'm Joohee Choi in Seoul and you're watching ABC News. It didn't take me long to find it. Will you take CNBC as a source? Sure. A high-ranking North Korean minister called US Vice President Mike Pence a political dummy for likening her country to Libya just days after Pyongyang explicitly rejected all comparisons to the North African state. Speaking in a May 21st interview on Fox News, Pence said the reclusive regime could end up like the North African country, Libya, if Kim Jong-un doesn't make a deal. Okay? So that's different though. That's exactly what I said.

2:35:29 No, no. I was under the impression you were talking about the casual comment that this is a good thing, it's just going to be like Libya when they gave up their nuclear arms, which is what Bolton did. Well, no, that's not what I said at all. I said that Pence talked about the Libya strategy and then Kim Jong-un's guy, I said, it was a woman, I didn't know that. said, hey, shut up. Tell the vice president to shut up about it. And he specifically said... He should shut up about it. But I... but see, you just overrode me. Okay, okay. No, you proved your point. I don't know why you have to beat me up. The point is, I think it was done intentionally. That was the whole premise of why I even mentioned it. Maybe. It wouldn't surprise me because this whole thing is really... it's... at the end of this era,

2:36:18 Trump's either gonna be the greatest genius we've ever had as president with all this crazy negotiating tactics that we can't figure out or just a bonehead. I don't know. But play this, because this is the thing that's kind of getting me right now, which is NoCo back on or not. After canceling the summit on Thursday, President Trump hinted on Friday it could take place on June 12th in Singapore as planned. We'll see what happens. It could even be the 12th. We're talking to them now. Behind the scenes planning for what would be an historic meeting continues as all parties are now speaking again. A team of White House staffers led by Joe Hagan is set to begin laying the groundwork this weekend.

2:37:13 White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said today the White House pre-advance team for Singapore will leave as scheduled in order to prepare should the summit take place. This morning, President Trump rejected via tweet a New York Times report suggesting a June 12th meeting with the North Koreans would be impossible considering the lack of time to prepare. Wrong again, the president tweeted. Use real people, not phony sources. Thursday, just hours after President Trump canceled the summit, a senior White House official said as much. There's really not a lot of time. We've lost quite a bit of time that we would need in order to... I mean, there's been an enormous amount of preparation that's gone on over the past few months. June 12th is in 10 minutes. Yeah, I heard that briefing on background, as they call it, because it was recorded.

2:38:03 And it was really wishy-washy. It wasn't like, oh, it's impossible. That was verbatim what was said. Yeah, it's tough, but no one said it's not going to happen. We can't make it happen anymore. I just find this whole thing to be melodramatic. But they want Trump to fail. That's the whole point. You see? Yeah. So that's what you're seeing. They especially want him to fail on this because you know what happens if this goes through and there's actually a meeting and something good comes of it, right? That would be horrible, right? Nobel Prize. Yeah, I you know, I have not spoken to him but there was a my mom would have turned 80 on the 21st and Aunt Meg always sends out a little note to me and my sisters.

2:38:47 And, you know, it's like, it's always a sweet note and she always talks about the yellow roses, reminds her of my mom. And, you know, the weather, the roses, the yellow roses haven't really come out yet. That's because of the weather. It's, you know, it hasn't been the sunshine we usually have around this time of year. That's something we can't blame on Trump. Like, wow, okay, I guess I kind of know the feeling then. I don't think I need to call Don to find out what he's thinking about North Korea. I mean, he's got to be beside himself. Could he be so blindsided? Do you think that, well, again, I'm kind of wary of calling him about it. After that comment from his wife, it's like, okay. So they're basically just blaming Trump for everything. The roses aren't in bloom. Well, we can't do that one. That's what it said, right? Yeah, that's what it said. That's what it said. I know. I was a little saddened by that.

2:39:40 conflating my mom with Trump. It's unnecessary. There's a lot of these North Korea thing. I do have a bunch of those. I don't want to play them because we're wrapping up, but it's becoming a melodrama. It's almost corny. I think it's intentional. This is my entire point. I think you're right. And I think that I think I don't know what's going to come of it. I have no idea. I think it's done. Yes, it's a done deal. There is a deal already done. And Trump and Jinping have probably already figured it out. And do not undercount Moon. Moon is very important in this. Moon and Kim Jong Un, I think they want to, they want to, they, well, you know what this all means.

2:40:25 Which is really disconcerting as it means that the military industrial complex has to have some other thing to make money on if they're gonna, if this Korea thing, you know, becomes peace. If peace breaks out, what are we gonna do? What happens when peace breaks out? The people did not know what to do with peace. They looked at it, observed it from several angles and couldn't understand what it exactly did for them. They have to have some alternative that has to have been done. some alternative mechanism for making as much or more money in a peace situation than they have in selling these junk armaments to the South Koreans.

2:39:40 conflating my mom with Trump. It's unnecessary. There's a lot of these North Korea thing. I do have a bunch of those. I don't want to play them because we're wrapping up, but it's becoming a melodrama. It's almost corny. I think it's intentional. This is my entire point. I think you're right. And I think that I think I don't know what's going to come of it. I have no idea. I think it's done. Yes, it's a done deal. There is a deal already done. And Trump and Jinping have probably already figured it out. And do not undercount Moon. Moon is very important in this. Moon and Kim Jong Un, I think they want to, they want to, they, well, you know what this all means.

2:40:25 Which is really disconcerting as it means that the military industrial complex has to have some other thing to make money on if they're gonna, if this Korea thing, you know, becomes peace. If peace breaks out, what are we gonna do? What happens when peace breaks out? The people did not know what to do with peace. They looked at it, observed it from several angles and couldn't understand what it exactly did for them. They have to have some alternative that has to have been done. some alternative mechanism for making as much or more money in a peace situation than they have in selling these junk armaments to the South Koreans.

2:41:06 And it also changes the, and I'm going to use it, the calculus. It's such a dumb word. With China, because everyone thinks that we put all this crap in South Korea really to aim it at China, all the spy gear and everything else just to listen in on them. How does that work now? How do we deal with that? This is not trivial, this whole thing. Maybe look we we threw another hundred billion into the pot with the National Defense Authorization Act actually a little more probably like 120 130 billion extra dollars over last year's budget Yes, maybe that was a you know. I mean the door that was North Korea stuff. It's only you know six or seven billion It's not a huge amount important to Iran or Raytheon or a Boeing or a

2:42:01 these kinds of outfits, it's important to them, but maybe something was in there, like, here, take some money, let's do a little less war, and I just can't imagine we're going to be aggressive towards China if the deal happens, because they would have to be in the deal. So to me, it's... At first, I couldn't... Tina kept saying, I think Trump does this on purpose, I don't want to give him that much credit. But the more I look at it, I mean what else is he doing? I mean, and the way he talks, I know guys in business who do stuff like this. You know him too. Ah, screw you. And they somehow wind up with a deal. Yeah, and Trump's done a lot of interesting, I mean when he got that post office,

2:42:47 that he turned into the hotel in Washington, D.C. I remember, I kind of followed that whole deal from the beginning. I don't know how he got that, how he ended up with it is beyond me. Maybe the Russians did it. Well, the real collusion with the Russians is certainly with Germany, who are always very quiet on the topic, but we had Gerhard Schroeder speak out. Slammin', just butt-slammin', just butt-slammin'! The United States of Europe and the United States of America. And he is the, I think he's the chairman of the entire Nord Stream 2 project. This is a big deal. This will, I think it's set to maybe double the amount of gas that Russia can get into Germany. And I mean, I don't understand why the EU puts up with Germany. Here's Schroeder. Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder slammed the EU Commission and the US. It's nothing better than having a non-English speaker thing slammed.

2:43:48 He slammed... He slammed... He slammed... He slammed... Whoa! You got butt-slammed! You got slammed... Before you continue this clip, I want to kind of go back to what you said. I don't understand, you said, how the EU puts up with Germany. Yeah. Germany is the EU. Yes, I know that. It's the German Empire. I know that. But when I say that, I mean the rest of the EU. You know, all the other, the other members. They're subordinate. Very subordinate, but they're also complicit. The Dutch are in this and the French are in this deal. Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder slammed the EU Commission and the US for putting obstacles to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, which he chairs. The joint project

2:44:39 between Russia's Gazprom and five European companies is opposed by Moscow's European neighbors. I haven't yet heard a rational reason for Brussels' resistance. It seems, though very diplomatically speaking, that behind this resistance are specific economic interests, interests of some EU governments and the neighboring countries, and of course the economic interests of competing companies. And also the economic interests of the US that have very clearly, for whatever reasons, expressed their opposition to this project.

2:45:22 Double, there you go. Double. And so then the Germans have it. And then you've got the Germans as the gatekeeper. You know, there seems to be a trend that they're not building houses with gas anymore in Europe. What do you mean? Is it electric? Yes. That's a bad idea. I think in the Netherlands it's verboten even. To have gas? You're not allowed in this. You cannot build a new house with gas. It's just that it has to be electric. In the Pacific Northwest where we live, all the houses are electric. There's no gas. If you want to have gas, you get a propane tank and you have somebody fill it up once in a while and use propane. It turns out that the

2:46:24 overall amount of money you spend because you're using electricity to heat, to cook, to do anything with is outrageous. It's a complete jip. Gas is the way to go. New homes, gas, EU. I have a feeling that there may be some, I wonder if there was some kind of a larger, you have all these power plants as intermediaries. When you get gas, that gas comes into your house. and you use it when you're burning it, you burn it all. Your deficiency is extremely high. If you send the same gas to a power plant to generate electricity and then you have to send the electricity down these transmission lines, you use half of the efficiency as shot.

2:47:11 This is like, you know, ridiculous. This is like the thing we had earlier in the show with the BART train, diesel versus electric. The Dutch government wants to start building new houses without a connection to the gas network starting this year. This is from January 25th. The Tweedekamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, already agreed that new homes should not be connected to the gas network, but the government thinks that this can be started sooner than the four years planned. On Thursday, the coalition wants to arrange that average new homes are built without this connection. Currently, Dutch homes are often heated with gas and many newly built homes are delivered with a connection to the gas network. If the government has its way, this will change from this year. New residential buildings will only be connected to the gas network if there's no other possible way. For example, if heating the home with the heat network or heat pump systems is impossible or much more expensive. The heat network?

2:48:07 They have a heat network. They have one I know they have one in Iceland I know we have a cooling network here in Austin with cooled water. Oh really yeah, remember the old place. It's pretty advanced It sucks. It's horrible does it cuz it doesn't work It doesn't it doesn't really get extremely cold And I think it brought in pathogens and mold and all kinds of other crap into my house. What is it leak? No, it was moist Moist. Yes, moist. Moist. For those of you who don't like the moist. I should do a little more moist. There you go. So yeah, so that's another way to restrict Russia from their oil bounty. You still need, the gas is still needed to run the power plants to generate the electricity unless you're going to use coal and that's verboten.

2:49:06 Fuel oil? Are you gonna use that? That stuff's terrible. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Well, maybe someone has some information on that. I did have, let me see, I had a couple of things to wrap up notes from producers. Yeah, this was actually, someone sent me a link. This was from 538, that's the, is it Nate Silver, the guy who predicted the election wrong? Yeah, yeah, the guy got one thing right once I think and it became a big deal So they did a nice has done a great job of milking. He's still a big deal in in dementia B which anonymous sources are worth paying attention to and they have a list of five and the number one is organization sources and The number two is familiar people and I want to read verbatim what he wrote. I

2:50:01 A person familiar with person X's thinking or sources familiar with person X's plans, associates of person X. You should trust these sources. Quotes attributed to sources familiar with the thinking of a person are often quite reliable. Why? A major newspaper like the New York Times or the Washington Post is not going to suggest that a source is familiar with someone's thinking without being pretty sure of it. This is a fairly precise term. It also puts the news organization at a clear risk, as person X can obviously deny what an article has said he or she is thinking. So he actually believes this is a good source.

2:50:48 Now we're talking about a clip that was played on the last show. Yes, we're at NBC's Holly Jackson Threw this little gem into the middle of a report which is not a person familiar with the situation But a person familiar with Trump's in this case thinking which I excoriated I thought this was a hopeless and bad idea. Yeah, which you agreed with yes, and now you found this It was someone sent it to me. It's like gee I Well, no, it's terrible. That makes it so they've institutionalized this on the is this a liberal side of things? Is a media matters? Who's who's who's giving this the seal of approval? I don't know. I mean, I think somebody the Nate Silver is is linked in with the elite. So it must be general thinking. Wow. Yeah, that's dangerous. Yeah. Bring in bring in Chloe or whoever was the psychic network.

2:51:47 There's a... I'll bring in some real science if you don't mind. New book, which is a book on psychopathic behavior. Findings presented in a new book by Oxford research psychologist Dr. Kevin Dutton. He works in the Department of Experimental Psychology, sounds like MKUltra, at Oxford University and he has written a book, The Wisdom of Psychopaths, What Saints, Spies and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success. Yes, it caught my eye. I love the premise. It caught my eye. The book details the jobs that are most likely to attract psychopaths and there's a list.

2:52:35 of jobs most likely to attract psychopaths. I'll start by asking you what you think number one would be. High-tech CEO. CEO, top of the list. Number one. CEO is where you'll find the most psychopaths. Yep. What is the lowest on the top ten? Number ten. The lowest on the top ten? Yeah, in the top ten, but it's number ten. A lawyer. Close. Lawyers are nine. Chef. A chef is where you'll find the psychopaths. Oh yeah, definitely. You want me to do the list? I'd like... Would you think I'm crazy? No, your guesses are good. Would you give me just... I'm not guessing anymore. I think I've proven my point, but go through the list so everyone can hear it. This has got to be dynamite. Number 10, chefs. Number nine, lawyers. Number eight, surprise new entry into our top 10, surgeons. That's nice to know.

2:53:34 And stationary number seven this week on our psychopath top ten jobs salespeople I think we could have figured that one out number six number six is an entry that's been there for thousands of years clergy Clergy is where you're gonna find some psychopaths police number five But not to be outdone at number four by public servants Number three here. We are John finally media presenters and Number two, close to the number one is journos. Yes, media presenters and journalists are where you, these are the jobs where you find the most psychopaths. Hopefully in a future version of the list, we'll put podcasters on there as we split out the media presenters entry. But I think... We're surrounded by these guys. What are we going to do? Who says we're not the ones? I'm pretty sure we're not. All right. At least I know I'm not. Thanks for the vote of confidence.

2:59:38 And all 37s will be red. It's a new rule that I just made up. If you do a 37, we'll read your code. So no live show on Thursday, but we will have a best of and we're open to other suggestions if you have them. And coming to you from the 5x9 Cluedio here in downtown Austin, Texas, it's the capital of the drone star state, FEMA Region 6 on the maps in the common law condo in the morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm going to tease next Sunday's shows because I found an old book in my collection of Norwegian jokes sold that were once sold at the as collections at the Minneapolis St. Paul Airport. I'm John C. DuBois. Yeah. Until next Sunday. Adios, mofos. Hey, I still need a cab. Let's see. Oh, that's me, baby.

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3:01:23 Keep in mind the Libya model from 2003. Then you would use a knife to cut off your little bits. And it was a fashion accessory. More glorious, your knife. Chaos. Russians are chaos. Russians are anti-chaos. That's certainly a characteristic of Putin. Anti-chaos, anti-revolution. He's famous in the UK for being the royal bank. There's a huge amount of love for Harry, and I think for the past few years there's been a lot of pressure on Harry. When's he going to settle down over in the Bahamas? And did they approach you? Oh yes! They were also approached by people who were offering to use their daughter's name for charity purposes. They were sharing gaffer's tape and no detonator on it with Brown. Other devices which may have been found here.

3:02:18 It's not the family, it's not the British people, it's not the British family. And the Dormido's full speed ahead! Always have been by our masculinity. And the model of masculinity that boys and the men that they grow into seems to be broken. Basic question of all, is masculinity itself really toxic? And what happens to boys when we tell them that it is? The following podcast contains programming for human resources. So who eats bugs? Slays and spideys. And what happens when you eat bugs? I pee when I don't want to. Results may vary. Listener discretion is advised. We eat bugs. You eat bugs. Nothing like fresh

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