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00:00 Think of your health, man. With an eye on the prize for a Brexit World Cup and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone star state here in downtown Austin, Tejas in the Clunio. Ian in the morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where it's really hot, I'm John C. DuBois. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning. It's hot everywhere except Texas right now. The UK is burning up. They're gonna die.

00:39 They're burning up over May's decision to like cave to the EU. What do you mean? She's gonna give it up. She's gonna, she's gonna, Brexit is going downhill. They need a, they need a do-over. How, we predicted that immediately, did we not? Oh yeah. They need a do-over. But the Brexit World Cup looks like it's in, it's in play. Well, it's your play no matter who wins. I mean as long as England beats, who's their next challenger? Croatia. Croatia. So England will beat Croatia because there's no money in Croatia getting to the finals. There's nothing. There's no money. By the way, I saw both matches yesterday. I saw England, Sweden, and I thought the Russia-Croatia

01:24 Match you know for all the boringness that is football. I thought it was a damn good show. I liked it I like to double header that went into the net yeah into the net We call that a goal Yeah, whatever. Into the net. So yeah, he got a home run out of it, I think. Rocking it. So yeah, I saw the highlights. I'm not going to watch these patches. Oh no, it was fantastic. Down to the wire, over time, then penalties. Here's the question for you. Why are these penalty kicks at the end? Well, if you have a tie score after a 30 minute extension,

02:01 Then, and it's a quarterfinal, or it's a part of the finals. I know where they show up, but why are they, who's being penalized? Why are they penalty kicks? That's, okay, you're being literal about everything. It says penalty, they say penalty kicks. You're right. Who they want are the penalty kick. Who is the penalty against? It's against them for taking too long to finish the game. Uh-huh. That's why it's good. Oh, it's just a description of where you place the ball and it's just you know one one kicker against the goalie It's just I know what it is. But why is it called a penalty kick? Well, why is it a one-hour? Why is it one hour dry cleaning when it takes two days? Well, it's just the name of that. Ah, there we go Exactly. It's just the name of the place So first I thought you know if Russia wins then we'd have the Novichok World Club and there would have been riots in

02:54 I mean, I was really rooting for the Ruskies. But they were not… Croatia was just better, plain and simple. I thought they were better. Well, the Russian team was not a good team. It was ranked 70th or something, so Croatia was a better team just by… Yeah, just by numbers alone. …ranking they do. By numbers alone, exactly. But… So this is going to be a winner no matter what because it's France versus Belgium. Which would also be a... Either way. Fun because we have the French-speaking part of Belgium, the Walloons, and we have the Flemish part. No, but what I'm saying is that no matter who wins that, it's still a Brexit final.

03:33 No matter... Don't you think Britain versus France is pretty close to being as good as it gets? Of course, of course. But they have to still, they have to beat Croatia. It's not a shoe-in yet. No, no, no, no. Oh, what? Britain beating Croatia? England has to beat Croatia. I'll say it again. There's no money. It does look like this was set up to be a Brexit World Cup final, doesn't it? It just feels that way. And there's no money in Croatia getting to the finals. No one's gonna watch. They're gonna lose a lot of money. So there's gonna be, there's no way they can win that match. This is rigged. Uh-huh. Well done though. They need it because the ratings are down dramatically, 48% down, which we can blame on Trump. We can blame it on Trump.

04:17 Yeah, he's ruined the soccer ratings. Yeah, of course. We're way too excited about kids in cages and all kinds of stuff like this. And I was going to say that Pompeo got back from his high-level meeting in NoCo. the NOCO meeting and I was, I got one person who had translated the North Korean news agency, actually it's the Korean Central News Agency, KNAC, or KNAC. So what was actually said, because the press had, there was three types of reports. I only have two of them. I have clips from the kind of the objective one that came out of PBS and then the kind of oddly... Well, here's what I found, John. Everybody pointed toward the Associated Press version of the translation.

05:14 Which was really done without context of Koreans in general, North Korea in particular. According to a native North Korean speaker... Wait, wait, hold on. Let's back up and explain what the controversy is about that you're about to discuss. Okay, so here is the AP, and this is from Matt Lee, our boy, Matt Lee. He may actually, I think he travels with Pompeo these days. After talks, N Korea accuses US of quote, gangster-like demands. And in this letter, which now the Korean Central News Agency website is impossible to navigate. You know, only on one occasion was I actually able to click into their stupid iframe to get the whole English version of the text and then I couldn't get to it anymore. It just had the first paragraph. But I did read the whole thing. It's quite lengthy. And the translation from what I understand from native speakers

06:11 of robber-like tactics somehow was translated by the Korean Central News Agency as gangster-like tactics, which is very different. But this is also, the way I understand, and I have some standing within the family, this is how North Korea negotiates. Trump says, I'm going to blow you up, you know, that's kind of his way of doing it, my button's bigger than yours and it works. And the North Koreans go like, oh, you know, where do you guys suck? You can't we were ready to go. We want to do all this all the things you wanted you weren't you were kind of like just wanting all your stuff for yourself, but we love our leaders. They'll fix it's all going to be good. That's that's pretty much the translation the way I think it is in context. Does that make sense? Yeah, it actually does.

06:57 Well, it sure makes a lot more sense than listening to the left-wing news media going on and on about, oh, they blew it. They blew it. Wrong again, Trump. I knew it. They were suckered. Wrong again, Trump. I mean, I really want to take it literally, but, you know, native North Korean speakers are definitely saying that it's the translation of whatever the term is, is not gangster-like, but robber-like, and that this is very typical. from unnamed spokespeople in North Korea. This is kind of what they do. Yeah, well, I don't think we should be too shocked. What do I have here? I've got two clips that kind of wrap this up from the news media's perspective. Okay. I've got so many clips. This is ridiculous. There's no reason for a lot of these. Well, I've got two Pompeos here.

07:47 Yeah, there you go. Let's go with the NBC version of the... It's got some nonsense in it that's just designed to make Trump look like an idiot. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in North Korea tonight, a critical test of whether Kim Jong-un is really ready to give up his weapons. And now reports that President Trump may also be testing Kim's sense of humor by sending him a CD of Ellen John's Rocket Man, once Mr. Trump's favorite insult for the North Korean dictator. We get the latest from Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell. Secretary of State Pompeo on his third trip to North Korea, his first since the summit. And this time may be bearing gifts. Reports that Pompeo is bringing Kim Jong-un a letter from President Trump and a CD of Elton John's Rocket Man. Pompeo laughing but no denial. A dramatic turnaround. Little Rocket Man.

08:42 Pompeo's mission nailing down Kim Jong-un's promise to give up his nuclear weapons after reports first on NBC News that intelligence agencies say he is expanding his arsenal fueling criticism that President Trump was too chummy with Kim. They said he's too tough. He's going to cause a war. It's too tough. Now they say he's too tough. All this raising the stakes for Pompeo. Step number one is a full declaration of your program with an agreement to intrusive verification. If you don't get that, you've got nothing. Period. The secretary also hoping the North will return the remains of some 200 American soldiers missing since the Korean War, even though the president has said Kim already did that.

09:29 But none have been returned since this trip we covered in 2007, an emotional issue for the sisters of U.S. Army Sergeant Victor Galerani. It would mean a great deal to us to know that his remains are discovered and identified and laid to rest on U.S. soil. The family has a headstone at Arlington, hoping his remains will be returned this time. Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington. I'm confused about this. The last time we checked this, there have already been multiple remains returned. That's my understanding. To the UK as well, interestingly. This needs to be further checked. I mean, there are photos, it doesn't mean anything because it's the internet and it seems like these are reputable organizations, there's photos of families with, you know, with coffins coming back.

10:20 Well, if there's any truth to that, then this report is extremely... Well, there's more issues with that report. Yes, there's a lot of issues. And the big thing is this phony baloney NBC report which came from that CIA asset who was fired from the LA Times. Everyone keeps reporting and by the way if you listen to MSNBC and I have it on during the day, it's just so much that I just kind of forget to clip it as so much. They keep talking about, well intelligence now, you know, the US intelligence says But they haven't said anything. There's no public statement. It was five unnamed sources only to NBC and that is now quoted by everybody as facts and that was all there. They're expanding. Why are they only quoting to NBC? Because NBC is the one, are the ones who reported this exclusively. Making it up. Yeah, hey those guys made it up we might as well report which is the best way for intelligence to get information into the system.

11:20 is you can always refer to some other quasi-reputable organization such as NBC News. And as long as you can keep doing that, and the same with this gangster thing. Everyone's referring to the AP report. No one has any original reporting on it. And then the Rocketman thing, my understanding, is when they were meeting, Kim Jong-un said to the president, why did you call me Rocketman? What's, uh, you know, is there a joke there? And that's why the CD was sent along. Oh, I didn't know that but that makes nothing but sense. And we know this because this show, I don't know, seven, eight years ago, came up with a list for my uncle to take to give a bundle of DVDs to Kim Jong-un. You remember that?

12:12 Vaguely. Yeah, we came up with movie titles. Blazing Saddles. We had Blazing Saddles, we had Clear and Present Danger. We had a couple of other classics in there. And some of them I'm quite sure made it into the bundle. I don't know about Blazing Saddles, but... Blazing. If you want to understand American humor, which of course has changed since then, but I think that was it. I don't think it's changed that much. And I want to say something as we play, as we listened to clips today, cause I've noticed this with a lot of clips and I'm starting to see this as a trend. And that clip that you played, that you actually laughed at that little moment where Trump is writing the media for saying he's too tough and he's too soft. He's too tough, he's too soft. I'm beginning to see this, and you can maybe see it or not see it, or anybody out there can too. The media is doing what it did to get Trump elected. Yeah, just reporting on everything with outrage.

13:14 Yeah, and when I go to the next series of clips from ABC, which is the Montana speech, they're now covering his speeches. He's been doing these speeches every couple weeks someplace or other. And they've been going on before he got elected president, he would do these speeches. And we've listened to a couple of them. They're about 45 minutes to an hour long. And if you listen to a whole speech, It does have a stylish entire speech. At the beginning, we talked about this, in early 2016, he couldn't do an hour. He was getting about a half an hour done, then repeating himself a lot. And you actually went to see his speech. I did, yeah.

13:55 And these speeches are draw a huge audience and he is working on his material like once in a while. It's like a comedy act. He was in rare form in Montana. I thought so. He was so jacked up. I mean, he was super hyperkinetic. I can understand why John Kelly's like, oh man, I got to quit this job. Who can keep up with this monster? And he was just, I kind of expected him to really mess up. He was so on fire with just his adrenaline. But I think he once again made a very entertaining show. You sit there, Tina and I do this all, we'll watch him talk and we're like...

14:36 That's our president, like, isn't that crazy? And then we're like, you can't help but saying he's pretty entertaining though. He's better than anything else on TV at that moment. I have listened to two whole speeches and parts of others. I didn't hear the whole Montana speech. But if you listen to him from beginning to end, it's valuable. It's like, I don't feel I've wasted my time. And John, he's five years older than you are. No, six years older than you are. Think of the energy you're going to have in six years from now. No. Yeah, I'll be all jacked up. I don't think so. Now here is the PBS report, which is the Pompeo update, and this doesn't have any of the nonsense in it. It's about half the length. In fact, what is the length of this? 28 seconds. 28 seconds, and this is the entire report.

15:27 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in North Korea today for more high-level talks aimed at dismantling the country's nuclear weapons program. President Trump left a historic summit last month with a broad commitment from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to denuclearize. But Pompeo said he hopes to, quote, fill in the details. The secretary of state will stay overnight in Pyongyang. It is unknown whether he will meet with Kim himself. Boom. Well that is of course just before the meeting though. They didn't have the press release. I didn't get the second one but it's... they didn't go on about NBC's intelligence and the report of... or they're still working, they're digging holes, they're making missiles. They're grinding nuclear material. Spinning.

16:18 But the point is that NBC is really at the bottom of the barrel. ABC must feel a little lax. And so they did, this is the five-parter I've got here, which is five short clips. And I want you to take, if you can, take notes, because what this is, this is one of the most, I'd say, egregious series of lies. You know, people always talk about, again, you are what you say others are, is a classic example in this particular report where where John Carl goes off the deep end and I want you to listen. I've got it cut up in such a way so you can take notes as we go along so we can check. We're gonna fact check them as they go along with their own proofs. I need to get my paper. Alright, I'm ready. Okay, this is the intro.

17:14 with Tom Yamas and this is ABC Montana Report 1. President Trump is spending the weekend making his final decision on a Supreme Court nominee. At a rally in Montana last night he told supporters his pick will make them extremely happy. The president's speech there was especially feisty taking aim at the Me Too movement and a former president's charity while praising Vladimir Putin. Here's ABC's chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl. Okay, now a couple things. He says he's feisty, praises Putin. Well, it's alliteration, so it's fair game. Praises Putin. But then he says, I got, you know how many pens I have that don't work? It's unbelievable. You should toss them out. I do. And they come back? Yeah. How come socks never do that? Praises Putin.

18:07 And then the last one was, takes aim at a former president's charity. Yeah. Did you hear that? Did I hear that during the speech? No, right there. We're just analyzing what they're saying. Oh yeah, yes, yeah I heard that. And he says taking aim at a former president's charity. Yes. That's what he said. Yes. So we now have to assume... The Clinton Foundation. That there's a charity, no. That's not the Clinton Foundation. But we have to assume that a charity is somehow involved in what's to follow. Let's go to clip two. It was a most unusual speech for a president of the United States. First, lavishing praise on an American adversary. You know, President Putin is KGB and this and that. How was that praise? Putin's fine. He's fine. We're all fine. And for most of the rest of the speech, lashing out at just about everybody else.

19:07 Okay, yes, I heard I heard a fact-check false in that one check false. That was not praise. Mm-hmm. He says Lavish not just praising the shing-shing lavishing praise, which is what the viewer was so he's lavishing praise He's lavishing praise and then they cut to a clip where all Trump says is is that Putin's fine. And if we remember George Carlin's old bit about the word fine, which I would like to have gotten a clip in there. I don't know this bit. Do I know this? Oh, he goes on and on. He says, I'm fine. It's the stupidest thing you can say to somebody. I'm fine. It doesn't mean anything. I got to find this. He goes on and on about how I'm

19:54 fine is like an insult. So, however you look at it, from the George Carlin perspective or from a normal person's perspective, what we heard was nothing. It was not lavishing praise. No, certainly not. And then he cuts to, now he starts lashing out And by the way, he starts this premise in the beginning of this short clip. He says it's one of the most unusual things the president has ever done. He does this exact same speech constantly. And apparently John Carl's never been to one.

20:30 That's what I'm thinking because he's never seen anything like it in his life because nobody has. I don't even know who John Carl is. Oh, if you saw his face you can look him up and look at his face. Oh yeah, I've seen this guy. He's a correspondent for ABC. He's been there forever. And he apparently hates Trump. So anyway, so now he says he's lashing out. So we're going to hear lashing out. after heaping praise, we're going to hear lashing out. I better brace myself if he's lashing out. I don't want it to hit me in the face. And for most of the rest of the speech, lashing out at just about everybody else. Even 94-year-old former Republican President George H.W. Bush and his slogan meant to promote volunteerism.

21:09 Thousand points of light. I never quite got that one. What the hell is that? And just days before he travels to Europe to meet with America's NATO allies, this. I'll see NATO and I'm gonna tell NATO, you gotta start paying your bills with the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing. Yeah, yeah, it's quite exaggerated. Where's the lashing out? And the thousand points of light was not a charity. What you say, you're halfway through with your head.

22:01 these guys and this is just this is and where's the lashing out he just says he that he's lashing out at himself because we're the schmucks paying for NATO yeah okay so we go on so it doesn't end there no why why did I not expect it to end clip for the president added a new twist to his attack on a familiar target senator Elizabeth Warren who wants new target I just got a twist. New twist on an old target. Oh, I'm sorry. I misunderstood. The president added a new twist to his attack on a familiar target. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who once claimed without proof to have Native American heritage. Let's say I'm debating Pocahontas, right? I promise you I'll do this. I will take you know those little kids they sell on television for two dollars. Learn your heritage.

22:52 And then he compounded his attack on Senator Warren by mocking the Me Too movement. We will take that little kit and say, but we have to do it gently because we're in the Me Too generation so we have to be very gentle. And we will very gently take that kit and we will slowly toss it hoping it doesn't hit her and injure her arm. Yeah, okay, first I want to say when I saw this When I saw him say this, I'm like, $2? These things are $90 or $60. He has zero idea what these things cost. The DNA kits. Well, I don't know whether he has an idea or not, but- I'm just saying, I thought that was very odd. Well, he was just demeaning it by using that number. Gotcha. Like, it's just a cheap piece of crap as far as he's concerned. Right, right.

23:49 This will be he'll called out because this is a blatant lie, which is exactly what you just said. Yeah Oh, yeah, of course. He also he also he didn't say that he didn't mock the me too movement He was talking about the meat generation. That's very different. I By mocking the Me Too movement, or by saying he mocks the Me Too movement, that NBC report reflects the exact wordage, exact wordage, that you could find in Salon and Alternet. I was looking around and I was just checking this out and Alternet is the one who promoted mocking the Me Too movement. This is a left wing operation that hates Trump. Is that where ABC is getting its stuff? You know, the more I see this take place,

24:38 The more I realize that people are just denying what they're hearing. This is part of the dimensional issue on both sides, but of course the media is what we see most of the time and the words come in and they just translate different in their brain. It's part of the no nations or no borders versus open borders. They can read the words yet it translates to something else in their head. I have no other explanation for it. You think that they're... No, I'm sure that John Carl is not just an incompetent liar. Exactly. But if you break it down, like what I'm doing to you, it sounds like he is. Yeah. So, but yeah, you're probably... I mean, that's exactly... They're hearing Trump saying, you know, talking... He's

25:30 If your brain is looking for outrage, you're going to find it. And the minute you hear, oh, because I have a capability to straddle. When I heard him say that, I'm like, oh, this is going to be a problem. Because, you know, this is messing with the Me Too movement. And I will say that only when I really went back and listen, even me a second time, they said, oh, he said, Me Too generation. That's very specifically different. By the way, Obama was the king of doing this, making you think something, you could catch him on the words and you went back and oh shit, he said it exactly that way. Obama was very good at this too. But again, I'm going to point out that the stuff that they're playing because they're outraged is actually appealing to, I think, a large part of the population. And I think they're starting to bring up the Republican voter. They're going to, if these guys keep this up, if they don't just shut up about Trump,

26:27 They're not going to get anywhere in this in this expected, you know, take over the House and Senate. Hmm. Yeah, I think I think that's a very good point. It's the same formula they're applying and now it's even it's fueled even more by the Rob Reiner's of the world who desperately want the platform to continue to do it, which is exactly counter counteractive to their mission. Yeah, yeah, it's self-defeating. That's a good point. That's an outstanding point. And you are going to see more and more of it as we listen to these clips because they're going to play clips that are kind of interesting. I listened to that last clip about tossing the $2 kit over to her very gently so it doesn't hurt her as a kind of amusing.

27:10 And it was if I'm sad they no one seemed to want to play the whole gag because the whole gag Right up to the Trump will give you a million dollars if you take the test The whole the whole bit was funny. Yeah, and the crowd loved it It was a it was a funny bit But now they had to chop it off and then pull it out of context and pull out the me too thing It was too bad because they could have actually done better for themselves They're not going to do it. Okay, so let's wrap it with the clip 5. Warren hit back on Twitter. Hey Donald Trump, while you obsess over my genes, your administration is conducting DNA tests on little kids because you ripped them from their mamas and you are too incompetent to reunite them. And the president with a big weekend ahead at his Bedminster estate getting down to the wire on that Supreme Court decision, John.

28:02 He's going to be having dinner tonight, Tom, with Vice President Pence out there at Bedminster, certainly talking about his pick that I am told he will make over the weekend. He's also going to be taking calls from key outside advisors and key members of the Senate. But, Tom, the big announcement will come primetime on Monday, and this White House, if it was like last time, will want it to be a surprise when the president walks in with his pick for the Supreme Court. But we'll still monitor all the tweets and everything he says over the weekend. Alright, Jonathan, thanks so much. I'm glad someone's doing that. Monitor those tweets, boss. It's good. Now, how did he start off? There was something funny about the start of that clip. What did he say at the beginning there?

28:43 Warren hit back. Oh yeah, about Warren. Warren, she hit back. This is one that I think we talked about on the last show where everyone's all DNA is great, DNA is fantastic, CSI we believe it, the jury pool's been corrupted by the belief in DNA, now we have rapid DNA. It's been great, it's gotten people out of jail who were there for years who didn't believe it. What? You want to check children's DNA if they belong to the people who they're with? You ogre! You rip the children, you take their DNA. If you believe in rapid DNA, and we've been led to believe it does work through producers who are involved in the field. In the business. In the biz. That's fantastic. You can save a child from being trafficked.

29:35 I think the Democrats do not want to talk about the trafficking issue. No, clearly they don't. Clearly they don't. Well, I think what we're seeing, there's this no, the no nation, no borders, open borders. I think I have the no borders, no nations. This is something you can use anytime you want. Is this like an ISO type thing? No borders, no nations. Stop deportations! No borders! No nations! Stop deportations! No borders! No nations! Stop deportations! There was a... It's usable by everybody out there. It's very usable, highly usable. I have a couple of funny clips about the kids in cages stuff which still kind of continues. I think we're kind of interested, though we're already on to other things in this new rotation. This was a fun report.

30:27 This story's just in. A federal judge has agreed to delay a meeting about extending her court-ordered deadline to reunite 100 children under the age of five with their parents. She reportedly granted the extension because a Trump administration lawyer has dog-sitting responsibilities this weekend. The Trump administration had already asked the judge for more time to reunite the families. The judge's earlier court ruling said all children under five must be reunited by this coming Tuesday and all other minors by July 26th. I don't know why he said minors. I think he's confusing minors. There you go, minors. But seriously? Minors? Yeah, minors. Yeah, I got it now.

31:06 Seriously? We had to delay it because I have dog-sitting duties? This is universes colliding, baby. Hey, hey, dogs, man. People too. Dogs are people too. People too, man. I don't care what you say. It's just the fact- Dogs are people too. Dog-sitting prioritizes over kids. Well, yeah. They're so cute. Dogs are people too. Huh? I was in in the supermarket and there was a dog walker with a dog from my building and I know because it's a collie that looks like a collar cross between a collie and a Dalmatian because it's white white and black spots very very pretty dog yeah very pretty dog breed that dog he's got two kind of different colored yellow eyes

31:56 And he recognized me. I looked at him like, hey, I know you. He went, you're the guy with the zapper. You're the guy with the what? The dog dazer. The zapper. Oh, yeah. The guy with that whistle. Yeah. He looked at me like, I know who you are. Make that sound again, because you know I'm not going to bark from it. Let's see what else they... Oh yeah, so then there was another story which didn't really get legs. I think that it's still being used now, you know, as a truth, as a fact, that Trump is throwing immigrants out of the military! He's so horrible, he's purging, he's getting rid of them. Purging's a good word, they don't use it enough. Well, oh well they should. Because it refers to Stalin.

32:44 And it turns out that that's, you know, the Pentagon's like, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, hold on a second. This is bullcrap. This military recruiting program, which provided a fast track to American citizenship, was set up after 9-11 by President Bush when the military needed immigrants with certain special language skills, especially after the surge into Iraq and Afghanistan. It was known by its acronym MAVNI. Since then, 110,000 immigrants hoping to serve in the U.S. military have become naturalized citizens through the program, which was suspended last September amidst concerns that the Defense Department could not properly vet those who were volunteering for basic training with the promise of fast-track citizenship.

33:26 The AP story entitled, US Army Quietly Discharging Immigrant Recruits quotes a retired US Army colonel who helped set up the program. She has since become an immigration lawyer and says that about 40 recruits who were hoping to obtain naturalization had been abruptly dismissed. A senior US defense official tells Fox that in fact there is no new policy when it comes to these recruits but that the 40 in question had issues with their security clearances. Fox has learned that most of those in question were from China, Pakistan and Iran. These were the hardest cases, one US official told Fox.

34:04 According to statistics provided by the US military, 5,000 immigrants were recruited into the program in 2016. And though it is currently suspended, there are 10,000 currently serving. A statement from the US Army explains why some have recently been discharged. Quote, any recruit who receives an unfavorable security screening is deemed unsuitable for military service and is administratively discharged. Bottom line, Dana, if you can't pass the background check, you are not getting into the U.S. military. Both Republicans and Democrats on the Armed Services Committees have expressed concerns in the past about the program, which is currently under review by the Defense Department.

34:48 Well, that's a lot different than the stories that they're promoting. There's purging them left and right. They're just pulling them out, these poor guys. And there's no Mexicans they're purging from the military. And by the way, the number one group of illegal immigrants in the United States are Chinese, which I didn't know. Well, if you live around here, it wouldn't surprise you. I've flown around there, believe me. I don't like flying in the California airspace. You cannot understand the other pilots, especially the students on the weekend. Yeah, this is bad. For a close, oh yeah, there was one more. This is another meme that it's, I don't exactly know who's trying to pull this one about Anne Frank. You know, Anne Frank tried to immigrate to the US but was denied and look what happened to her.

35:43 I don't believe that. No, it's complete bullcrap. You know, she had papers at the Rotterdam embassy, which Rotterdam was blown up, including all her papers, or her dad's papers. But that's kind of, you know, it's just another tie it into Hitler, Holocaust, do whatever you want to do. And I think, well, I'm going to play a couple of clips here because this goes to the, you really opened up my eyes and ears with the difference between no borders and open borders, or I should say open borders and no borders, because it's clearly two different things. And I'm pretty sure there's also two different groups doing this.

36:21 and you called it a plague or a virus or something, and you may be right. First I think we need to look, I have a little background here. This is the rise of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America. This is the group that... What's her name? Ocasio-Cortez. Her name is too long. Everyone's struggling with this in the media because it has to be... I just use AOC. I think AOC or let's just call her... What's her name? Alexandria? Bernie Sanders helped put them on the map, but now the group seems to be on everyone's lips here in the city. The Democratic Socialist New York City chapter was instrumental in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's upset win, providing hundreds of volunteers to canvas for her.

37:18 Now many observers are asking what exactly democratic socialism means. The definition of democratic socialism to me again is the fact that in a modern moral and wealthy society no American should be too poor to live. The group's priorities include issues like universal health care, labor rights, and in recent weeks the movement to abolish U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement known as ICE. It's an activist group rather than a political party and it's very picky in choosing candidates to get behind. When we endorse someone, we don't just do a paper endorsement, we send an army. That army is holding its fire in some of this year's hotly contested state primaries. The group is not endorsing any of the progressive challengers to former members of the Independent Democratic Conference or IDC, which helped keep Republicans in power in the state Senate.

38:07 And it has yet to decide whether to back candidate for governor, Cynthia Nixon. For now, its only endorsed candidate is Julius Salazar, who is trying to unseat longtime Brooklyn state senator Martin Delon. It's an incumbent who takes a huge amount of money from real estate interests. has been in power for decades, is sort of an ossified creature of the old democratic machine. Ocasio-Cortez's victory bodes well for Salazar, who's seen a spike in fundraising since last week. Now before I go to my... Next clip in the no nay no open borders versus no borders You did a little deconstruction of the candidates in New York the female candidates in New York in the newsletter you want to talk about that since it's no no those are the idea to deconstruction of the of the five women that have been Isolated as those that are acceptable by the Democratic Party to run for president Okay, gotcha. Who is this Jamoq then this woman Salazar? I don't know. Hmm. Well, she I guess she's also part of the DSA. I

39:06 I didn't even know it was a thing. And, you know, they've been endorsed by Bernie Sanders. But when you talk to Bernie Sanders, he not only decrees, well, he doesn't speak of no borders, he speaks of open borders, but he has a completely different take on that. Whereas I would think you have the, You've got Democrats who want no borders, I mean open borders, and you have the Democratic Socialists who want open borders. Does that make sense? I'm not going to totally agree with that. Well, Bernie Sanders doesn't agree either. Listen to this.

39:43 Something that is in what you said about being a democratic socialist is a more international view. But I think if you take global poverty that seriously, it leads you to conclusions that in the U.S. are considered out of political bounds. Things like sharply raising the level of immigration we permit, even up to a level of open borders, about sharply increasing the foreign aid to open borders. Open borders? That's a Koch brothers proposal. Of course. I mean, that's a right-wing proposal which says, essentially, there is no United States. But it would make a lot of the global poor richer, wouldn't it? And it would make everybody in America poorer. Then you're doing away with the concept of a nation-state. And I don't think there's any country on the world which believes in that. If you believe in a nation-state, or in a country called the United States, or UK, or Denmark, or any other country,

40:35 You have an obligation in my view to do everything we can to help poor people. What right-wing people in this country would love is an open border policy. So he says it's a right-wing policy. Okay, well here's what I can get out of this. What he is saying is that, what he is referring to is the globalist overall concept of no borders. The same way Hillary Clinton said she would dream of a day in the future where there would be no borders from the tip of South America to the top of Canada. No borders anywhere. There's no borders.

41:11 And that kind of feeds into the globalist idea where there's one world government. You don't need borders if there's one world government. The whole thing, referring to the EU's experiment, which has no borders, supposedly. And so you can blame that on the right wing, but the most recent, I looked into, by the way, I'm trying to find the origin of these people that are with these no borders, no this, no that. And it seems to stem from European anarchists. And so the whole no borders thing is really comes out of Europe. A lot of it comes out of the UK because the anarchists, they're the ones that they're the remainers. You want to stay in the EU and they have all these issues and they're the ones that have a lot of issues. There's a lot of noise. They make a lot of noise and they send, they kind of spread through the IWW into the United States.

42:08 and a World's Workers Party, I believe, even though I haven't been able to isolate that so much. And so this is alien. These guys who are sitting in at the ICE building here in San Francisco and they have these crazy ideas and they blather out all kinds of weird stuff that's extremely Marxist. It's really an anarchist movement from Europe. They're agent provocateurs. I don't think they think they are. Oh, well, it doesn't matter what they think. Clearly, the Democratic Party, after Hillary Clinton lost, fell apart. And a vacuum was created, and these fuckers got sucked up into it, and the media is so filled with hatred of everything Republican, everything Trump, that they're actually propagating the message and making it sound like a good thing while even using the incorrect terms. I know! And it is! It's a virus, and it's spreading.

43:03 And people are really into this and with and smart people John who just don't even think about the implication and then Bernie Sanders blames it on the Koch brothers is hilarious We have a producer working at one of the Koch brothers charities. He'll tell me he'll tell me if that's if that's their mission I doubt it, but he's saying oh, they just want cheap workers. Yeah, that's for sure. Well, that's for sure absolutely But this also leads it well so let's just stay with one other point which you and I promised each other to bring up on the show. I'm actually doing it something we discussed not on the air and that was AOC's campaign promise of a job guarantee. Yeah.

43:47 And this is not just a, you know, everyone should have work or anything like that or minimum wage. This is an actual economic policy that I don't think has ever been tried. I don't think so. It's all theory. Yeah, you can look it up on the in the book. This has been glossed over. There's two things about AOC that's been glossed over. One, in fact, I would like to play the Chuck Todd interview with her because I want to point out the main thing, the elephant in the room that he Chuck, Chuckster, didn't bring up. And it's a very softball kind of interview. He's got her in the studio for Face the Nation or Meet the Press. He does Meet the Press.

44:28 And then we can discuss a little bit this job guarantee idea. What do you think it's called, that clip? Because I can't find it. AOC rambling with Chuck Todd. Yeah, I got it. The timeline in which our civil rights could potentially be further eroded. Can we talk about some of your policy positions, but generally which is... First explain this to me you've endorsed by a group the Democratic Socialists and you have embraced this label and I think the New York Times has a headline this morning this sort of Millennials embrace socialism. What is your definition of? Well for me again and and

45:05 There's so much focus on this endorsement, but I also think it's important that an important part of my strategy and winning was building a broad-based coalition of people. So while there's a focus on this one aspect of the coalition, and to me, you know, to answer your question, the definition of democratic socialism to me again is the fact that in a modern moral and wealthy society, No American should be too poor to live and to me that means every working-class American in this country should have access to dignified health care, should actually be able to see a doctor without going broke. It means you should be able to send your kids to college and trade school if they so choose. And no person should feel precarious or unstable in their access to housing as our economy develops. Some Democrats are afraid of the S word. They feel like that social...

45:54 Older Americans hear socialism and they tie it to sort of ugly governments from Europe and the past. How do you sell this to an older generation? Well, I think, you know, as the clip from Schumer showed earlier, Democrats are a big tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all you know, several hundred members of Congress. But I do think that once again, it's not about selling an ism or an ideology or a label or a color. This is about selling our values. Are you a democratic socialist? Is that what you call yourself or you don't want that label? I mean...

46:32 And it's part of what I am. It's not all of what I am. And I think that that's a very important distinction. I'm an educator. I'm an organizer. And I believe that what we're really seeing is just a movement for health care, housing and education in the United States. You defeated a potential future speaker. Should Nancy Pelosi be that next speaker of the House or should be a new generation? You know, once again, I want to see the options on the table. First of all, I'm not even elected member of Congress yet. Secondly, we need to see what is going on. I think that it's just premature for me to commit to any kind of decision on this. I was just elected on Tuesday, Chuck. Fair enough. Let me read you this. By the way, at the end she says, I was just elected. She was nominated. She was nominated to run. She said she was elected. She's already there. She's already in D.C. What? How come she isn't with those kids in Thailand?

47:27 That's where you should be. She's not there. She's already gone to the border in either Arizona or California. Let me read this. The Wikipedia actually has a pretty good definition of this job guarantee program. And the thing, don't bond. I want to mention the things that Chuck Todd failed to talk about, even though he's grilling her about being a socialist. One is the besides the jobs guarantee thing, which we'll get into because nobody talks about that. So I'll give him a pass on that. But he never mentions that she wants to shut down ICE. Well, which is, you know, as you might think is top of top of the news, he could have done that. I don't know why he didn't. He was because I like to get her in that, you know, there's a bunch of these politicians. I'd say Elizabeth Warren is one of them.

48:13 And I think, what's her name, Gillihan, Gilligan's Island, what's her name? Gillibrand. Gillibrand. Gillibrand's Island. She's one of them. And they need to be called out for this because it's pretty... It's pretty ludicrous if you listen, well at least it seems ludicrous if you listen to the Pence speech, which was very interesting about it. I think with Chuck Todd, once he heard I'm an educator and I'm an organizer, he was like, oh I'm done, that's my new president, I feel good, I'm warm and fuzzy. That's Obama 2.0 right there. I'm an educator, I'm an organizer. All right, here's this jobs guarantee, this economic theory that she...

48:57 I just want to preface it by telling people you'll hear this a lot, oh jobs guaranteed. And it just seems like, oh they want everyone to have a job, yeah well that's great because everybody wants no unemployment and all the rest of it. No, no, no, no, no, this is an economic theory. that is alien to everything you've ever known. The economic policy stance currently dominant around the world uses unemployment as a policy tool to control inflation. When cost pressures rise, the standard monetary policy carried out by the monetary authority, that would be your central bank or the Fed, tightens interest rates creating a buffer stock of unemployed people which reduces wage demands and ultimately inflation. When inflationary

49:45 acceptation subside, these people will get their jobs back. Okay, so that's the, I guess you'd call it the Keynesian system maybe? Maybe not? That's the way it works today, yeah. In Marxian terms, that would be AOC, according to Wikipedia, the unemployed serve as a reserve army of labor. And by contrast, in a job guarantee program, a buffer stock of employed people employed in the job guarantee program provides the same protection against inflation without the social costs of unemployment, hence potentially fulfilling the dual mandate of full employment and price stability.

50:26 Now, so what they're saying here is people get screwed when we go through these boom and bust cycles and they lose their job but then they get them back, which is, you know, due to central bank intervention, which it sounds about right. You know, it's kind of a whipsaw and it's annoying if you're out of a job. But what they're saying is employ everybody and you can, you know, you'll have the people to work when you have the work, it's just they won't be out of a job. Which somehow this magic money came into a play somewhere to pay everybody. They're not gonna ever do this because of a number of reasons, ironically unions being one of them. But Obama kind of did stuff like this during his early years when he had extended unemployment benefits for years. Some people were on unemployment forever. And this is kind of

51:25 Like the jobs guarantee theory. Well Obama, in other words, you keep these people... Obama took it a step further. He had... Everybody in Cleveland, low minority, got Obama phone. Keep Obama in president, you know? He gave us a phone. Remember? The Obama phone. The Obama phone, yeah. Classic. A classic. It's an anyway, there's if you read the Wikipedia entry, it's pretty good. Look up jobs. And they have all the economists listed who subscribe to the idea as an experiment. And instead of toying with the interest rates the way we do now to to play with inflation, you would toy with the with this pool of workers that are working for the government that come in and out of

52:19 private sectors, it reminds me a little bit of that executive services branch of the government, which is kind of a jobs program for the day. These are the guys who fill the roles of various agencies. So when a new president comes in and they get rid of a bunch of people, right, these jokers, they're professionals. They come all in, uh, to work these jobs and then they go back and forth. It's kind of my, I mean, it's the modeling is very similar, but that's what they're talking about. Nobody, that I know of has ever discussed this on the mainstream media. They just... They just accept it for the words that they think it means and didn't even look into it. Yeah, job guarantee, that means... And not only that, but I think from the Democrat perspective or the mainstream media perspective that promotes Democrat policies, I think it makes you look silly to say something like jobs guarantee because the normal person would step back and go,

53:19 That doesn't make any sense. You can't guarantee somebody a job. You'd have to explain the whole thesis for it to make any sense whatsoever. So I think they're hurting their cause by just throwing it out there without explanation. We have an entire generation of children growing up who have expectations that have been set so poorly by their parents. that, you know, there's no disappointments. That's part of the everyone wins. Everyone gets a trophy. You know, you need disappointments. You need bad times to have live a full life and to understand what it's like to, you know, to feel free and to feel good. You have if you have no measurement. So to these kids who are like, well, you can't make hurt my feelings. You can't say anything bad about somebody else that might hurt my feelings.

54:11 They are they're thinking they deserve a job They and I think that's probably some of the thinking but did but this a lot of them have been corrupted by the By and I'll again blame Obama for this The student debt crisis. Oh my goodness, which and she wants to forgive all student debt You know these I'm reading these student loans and I had one of these there was a certain point in And I bought, now we're talking the late 80s I think, maybe just around 90, I bought an Apple PowerBook Color.

54:51 It was like $4,000, some outrageous amount of money. And I really, this is MTV days, and I really, you know, $4,000 is a lot of money on the MTV salary. And I remember getting it with some, you know, through some company in a, in a PC magazine probably or Mac user or whatever. And I had, you know, I had this loan I paid off, I don't know, $300 a month. And then, um, Years later, someone was helping me clean up my admin. I said, I need that from time to time. And he said, holy shit, you still owe like $3,800 on this laptop, but you've paid over $4,000. And that's the kind of loans these kids are getting suckered into where you're paying principal only. No, interest only. I mean, interest only. I'm sorry, interest only.

55:44 I mean, wasn't Elizabeth Warren supposed to stop that? Wasn't that her job? Elizabeth Warren again is a big... She has all... She talks a big game. She does nothing that I can see. She's done nothing. She talked... She's supposed to talk to call... The robo calls from Rachel. I still get them from Rachel. They didn't even change the name of the woman. Exactly. But, you know, that's something that just, I mean, that's something that needs to be addressed. I mean, it's one thing for these kids to have student debt, and exorbitant student debt, but then for, you know, the payoff to be pretty much interest only is, that's crazy. You're screwing a whole generation, literally turning them into slaves. Slave wages.

56:33 Yes, this is a problem. And this really took off during the Obama administration. I think it should have been excoriated for this. No, no. This guy gets more of a pass than Clinton. Yeah. Although Trump is doing all kinds of interesting things. This has not been reported very widely. Do you remember the threat corridor from Obamacare? Or the, not the threat corridor, it was the debt corridor, I'm sorry. Well, the insurance companies, they demanded from, and that's why there was such a problem passing Obamacare, but it did eventually pass.

57:10 Where the insurance company said, okay, part of the Affordable Care Act is this is good. What we're going to do is we will make sure we insure everybody, but we have to have payments from the government to offset the losses we're going to have on. And by the way, we'll jack up rates too, but we still will have losses. So you have to pay for that. And these payments, I think, come quarterly. And the most recent payment, which is $10 billion, the Trump administration has stopped. They said, ah, we're not paying anybody because a judge in... let me see, where's this judge? Some judge took a look at the calculator. There's a calculation that they make.

57:54 every quarter to see how much threat payments they have to get. Apparently this thing is all jacked and they've been, you know, the way it's distributed and who's getting the money is, you know, it's the risk adjustments are all off and so they're being way overpaid. And so he's stopping this, which I think is incredibly smart because while no one is looking, well, no, everyone's looking at kids in cages, Trump, I believe, has put in policy that insurance companies now can work cross state lines so they can sell this more competition in general. But now they're going to change this calculator. They're going to let new, younger, fresh companies into the market, which should, I really do think, I'm no economist, I can't even do a laptop payment properly, but I think it will lower rates. Well, the funny thing about this is that this has been talked about, the cross state lines buying and selling.

58:52 incessantly for decades from you know Bush through Obama and nobody would do anything about it, they'd just talk about it. This is like Elizabeth Warren, you know, she's a big talker, she talks about this and that, what needs to be done and she does nothing, she doesn't introduce legislation, she doesn't push anything through, she doesn't try to find allies who could get some of these things passed, she doesn't care, she just likes to do, and that's on that list that I put in the newsletter of all these candidates, that was one of her flaws, I called her do nothing. Because she's a do-nothing type. But I think most of the Republicans are too. It's unbelievable. So Trump comes in and apparently this gets done and nobody wants to even mention it. One article in the New York Times, that's about it.

59:42 Yeah, I like it. I think that's good the the hatred though for tried and also as a part of no nations no borders No profit no prisons. Yeah, no prisons. That's also get rid of prisons No ice obviously this is now taken on a whole this propaganda has taken on a whole new twist This is a recording of the Chicago Police Department It's from a scanner recording just the other night and then this happened. So what you're hearing is him saying, watch your keys, someone's microphone is keyed open.

1:00:43 But nothing could be further from the truth that someone breaking in on the frequency and playing a Hitler speech. Yeah, listen, here it comes again. He just kept on going. Like 20 minutes, it just kept going. Which is obviously a problem if the cops are trying to communicate. That's what we've come to now, is let's interrupt the cops and treat them like they're Nazis and play their fearless leader's tapes to them. That's the only

1:01:28 explanation I have for this kind of gag. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. They're sitting there some some kids, I'm guessing, who have no knowledge of FCC law or anything else, but they have somehow got a hold of a transmitter that could be tuned to the cops frequencies and somebody knew how to do that. And they started feeding that stuff in there. I'm curious if the big fine if they could. Oh, yeah. I'm curious if the Chicago not have a digital system. It doesn't sound like it. But digital system is encrypted and much harder to do. I'm surprised Chicago doesn't have that. Because, you know, any county or any district that has a regular RF, this may become a problem if this is, oh, this is fun, let's do this the whole time. Yeah, could be. You know what's going to happen then?

1:02:21 What? Well, the ham radio guys are gonna have to come in. Oh yeah, the ham radio guys can triangulate this character. When the apocalypse comes, we're the guys who are gonna save the world, right? Right? We're gonna have to, John. We will have to save the world. Yeah. Alright. Knock knock. Who's there? Hugo. Hugo who? Hugo podcasting! Oh you said Pugue, I said Hugo. And with that I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you John C where the C stands for Cortacio Dvorak. Well in the morning to you Mr. Adam Curry also in the morning the oldest ships at sea out there have boots on the ground feet in the air.

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1:13:21 He just, where's my mouse? Oh, there it is. He just stops, but he does continue to email, which I don't think is really a digital detox. So that's why to us it seems like he didn't go anywhere. Thanks for all the well, which is like what happened to Eddie Money. What do you mean what happened to Eddie Money? You know Eddie Money, the rocker? I know Eddie Money very well actually. Why? Well because one day he was doing all these hit songs and then one day he took, it was a cocaine binge or something. He had an accident too. Well this was the accident.

1:13:57 He used to play locally in Berkeley all the time. I did air quotes on the accident, John. He ended up getting going into a coma for something over a year. Yeah, that's right. And then he came back after a year and it's like, from my perspective, he never left. Well, I think we call it an air quotes coma, like maybe going to the spa. Yeah, the spa. He had to go to the spa. Okay, thanks to all the well wishes for Kylie the Keeper looking good. Though the final result's not yet in, we will know for sure this week. Please find my First Amendment and boobs donation at 180.08QJINGLE plus another $233 to get over to the line for a read. I believe completely in the First Amendment and in boobs.

1:14:48 Now I'm a believer, because I like boobs. That's Sir Chris Wilson's work, of course. Now for the grousing. I notice when you may stop for your nights, clearly you don't stop for your minstrels. Put down that pen, you drunkard, and pick up your lute. Now go and entertain us forthwith. He's referring to you. Like, you're like, hey, here's some lyrics, make a song. Yeah, yeah, he's slamming you, bro. Yeah, well. Got the job done. Minstrel. That's right. At least you got the minstrel to perform. Good work, John. About the letter I sent on the 20th and 33rd birthday and subsequent knighting ceremony, I guess Adam was busy prepping. He's blaming you here too, by the way. What'd I do? Bud? What'd I do? I guess that Adam was busy preparing for a well-earned break and figured I'd be too drunk to notice.

1:15:44 About which he was probably right, but there was an un but there's an important consideration for the peerage committee in this letter quoted below And he actually sent a letter to a PDF version. He's really he's protrude about this and apparently as for my title I should I could be white knight as you call me sir Chris prior to my officially qualifying with all the jingles and such and such that I have contributed. However, as I've never been de-douched and there was all that anal leakage stuff with the trigger warnings back in the late 2015, 2015s, does this make me a brown knight? Oh, geez. He's just rambling here. I shall leave it to the peerage committee to decide. No. This is most allegedly nice. Wait, can I just check in on the peerage committee one more time?

1:16:38 Yeah, no. No brown nights. No brown nights. All right. And he goes on, my simple request was ignored. Too bad if I had any special dietary requirements. Got it. For my nighting, I would like Cooper's Pale Ale and Kanga Bangers as I'm also... How are the Kanga Bangers? That would be kind of interesting. Sounds good, doesn't it? Yeah. Here's from Australia. And as I am also playing in the band providing the entertainment for the proceedings, my rider includes zucchini and meatloaf. Show support reference. Bear hugs and no homo. And the fish is hashtag fish. Yes, hashtag fish.

1:17:25 Now, he said he was drunk before it. He's definitely drunk. I'll read it in context. In all seriousness, I'm cool. I get a lot out of this show, as I guess we all do, and I do appreciate the enormous emotional, mental, and in some cases, physical effort you two go to each week to bring us six hours of sanity and mirth. I'm also grateful for all the producers that contribute Research Art Jingles, preferred pronoun names Ben's work, and of course financial support which keep you two blokes from having to move in together in Adam's Airstream. Adam, do you still have that? No, I had to sell it. Sold it. And rest assured after putting down my pen for this note, I shall once again pick up my lute and sing

1:18:19 I did odes and sonnets to Maxine Waters and other such douchebags as the producers request to keep you all entertained in your amygdala soothed. Love you guys, no homo, but I do change my mind, I promise my hairdresser he can have first go. Shout out to Nick and Drew, the dudes named Ben who've been helping me. with their software that I hit in the mouth during their support calls. Chris. Oh my goodness. Chris. Sir Chris, yes. Well, I apologize if... So his whole note is basically because I took an executive decision without mentioning it and did not call him a brown knight? Is that the problem? It's alright, you know, I read the note, I can't really tell what the problem is. We need to trip down under, man. This guy's in trouble. He needs help.

1:19:15 He needs hugs. He needs hugs. Sir Chris really does. And by the way, it's not jingles. He does full-on songs. He truly is a Noah Jendermanschel and his work is beyond appreciated. And now he's also become a knight. I always thought he was a knight. That's the thing that I think is also worth noting. Yeah, that's my mistake. I gave him a sir early on. just in my mind somehow. We used to give gratuitous knighthoods to people who contributed a lot to the show, but no money. Yeah, but it wasn't discussed. It's just, you know what? As usual, it's all my mistake and I'm sorry. Exactly. We're good. Okay, onward. Mariella. Pronounce Mariella.

1:19:56 What else does it say on that thing? I can't read the whole thing. I'm pleased and fortunate to make this donation of $233 today. It's just her name was blogged. I can't read it. No, I was happy to read it for you. Okay, read it. Oh, I am pleased and fortunate to make this donation of $200.33 today in honor of the one year anniversary of my survival of a subacranoid hemorrhage. Yes, this is a very, this note by the way, I want people, this is what, pay attention to this note because I'm going to discuss the walkaway phenomenon, which I wouldn't have ever discussed in this until I heard Scott Adams. presentation on it and now it's important I realized and and this note is part of the

1:20:40 along with anonymous lesbian, is part of the explanation I'm going to, or part of what I'm going to talk about. So this is in honor of her one year survival of subacrinoid hemorrhage, also known as a brain aneurysm. Yes, one year ago on July 7th, 2017, my fiancé Colin the Deaf Dumb Blind Knight and EMT by trade, Discovered me collapsed with my airway occluded on our neighbors porch in Portland, Oregon Where he was able to get me breathing again and began the process of saving my life Many more small miracles amassed that day and through throughout my two-month long hospitalization to get me to where I am today almost completely Unscathed by this massive brain injury and in the top 1% of recovery status for people surviving aneurysms One of those miracles was the no agenda show Wow

1:21:30 While hospitalized, Colin asked for emergency health karma from both of you, and it worked. Moreover, to help me stay grounded and improve my short-term memory recovery, Colin played the NA jingle special by my bedside on several occasions to get me laughing and talking with him about clips we love like Obama's No No No No No, Al Sharpton, etc.

1:22:07 It was moments like this in the hospital that sped my recovery along, helped me stay in good spirits through two brain injuries, surgeries, and kept me connected to Colin, showing once again that no agenda is crucial for brain health. Colin him be in the mouth about three years ago And I couldn't be more grateful for the services you both provide in the opportunities the show has given Colin and I to bond together on many levels geez is beautiful Finally I wanted to announce that Colin surprised me last week in Glacier National Park proposing to me in front of two mountain goats at Hidden Lake These guys are deep. We'll get married next year after 11 years of dating. Ah, couples that deconstruct together stay together. Gentlemen, as I am creeping towards damehood, please reserve the title for me of Dame Ella Hitzgerald of Indiana Cove and consider me your resident speech-language pathologist here to serve all of your informational needs about language, childhood development, speech behavior, and social communication.

1:23:09 Can I get a trains good planes bad dealers choice Al Sharpton and goat karma, please? Thank you for helping to save my life Mariela pronounced Mariela. Holy moly. That's beautiful And you might as well give her the Obama no no no no thing which apparently was very her favorite in the collection Yes We just we have a number of them Okay, is anything else you want to say about that note while I'm looking for these jingles? No, but I found that note to be I found it interesting that he was playing that that particular episode which was the jingle episode that you put together. Mm-hmm Which I think is probably a very curative

1:23:59 Because it doesn't have us talking about stuff. It's just a collection of outrageously funny and interesting and kind of poignant jingles that took about two hours, two hours of jingles. I guess you could tolerate that a little more than this. I wanted to say something about the karma. John and Adam don't give any karma. I mean, we have no special powers. We have, well, the only thing we're trained in rain stickology, but that is a different story. The rain stick thing we're good at. That's different. That does require some skill and knowledge. But the karma thing, it, you know, I was thinking about this.

1:24:37 Karma works with the group because everyone hears this here's whatever the plight is where there's a job or house moving a relationship karma and somehow in my in my estimation after doing this for Karma didn't start right away, but probably you know last eight seven eight years Somehow in the collective network that we're all in it seems to have an effect the same goes for jobs karma then I and here's what I think is the proof that Trump keeps saying jobs jobs jobs everywhere he goes the man is is evoking karma and guess what? Unemployment goes down. Yeah, I don't know what it is about this saying it three times in a row, but Nancy Pelosi's done it We actually had a clip of a slew of different politicians saying it three times in a row. Oh gee, I wonder if I still have them. There's no reason to say jobs jobs jobs

1:25:35 No, who started it? Was it Pelosi who started it though? Yeah, Pelosi did when they were trying to pass, or they did pass in the House and never got through the Senate, that crazy bill about almost 10 years ago that was going to turn us into solar energy. It was huge. This is when Boner was still the Speaker of the House. Boner. Yeah. Yeah, I don't see... I know exactly what you're talking about. I can't find it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, I have that. I have that. I'm just looking for the big jobs thing. No, I shortened it up a little bit. She also wants some goat karma, so I'm going to do these in rapid tempo. Thank you so much for that beautiful note. We're so happy that you're better. And instead of us asking when you hear something that falls into your field of expertise like everybody else, just drop us an email.

1:26:29 We really appreciate it. That's a big part of how the show is put together. Oh, this is a different one. I want to do a different one. That wasn't the one I wanted. It was good, but it wasn't the one I wanted. Oh, that's the same thing. Hmm. This is the one you're talking about, I think. No, no, no, no. Listen. No. No. No, no, no, no. Holy shit, this song. Well, play that one. I haven't heard that one. No, no, no, no. Hey. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. What? No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. Listen. No, no, no, no. Hey. Nah, it was the cucaracha.

1:27:17 Yeah, Cucaracha. Cucaracha is the one you want. Okay, that's... Now I'll play the sequence. Here we go. Hey! Hey! Listen. You're in my house. Hey! Hey! Come on, guys. Shame on you. Hey! Hey! Okay. I'm up in the house. Hey! Hey! Break in the booth. All aboard, trains good, planes bad. There's no real conflict. You've got karma. And thank you again, Mariella, for that fantastic note and Colin, the deaf, dumb and blind knight, for doing his duty, saving the damsel. Fantastic. That was really nice. Yeah. And finally, Baroness Monica, $200.11. Love your show, guys. Can I request house buying karma for Stefan and Lance? You betcha.

1:28:16 You've got karma Actually, I realized that for Mariela I forgot she wanted goat karma So I do want to do it properly since they the proposal came in front of goats You've got All right, thank you very much great notes From drunk to alive again. I mean we really cover the spectrum on this show fantastic Those are associate executive producers and executive producers They get the titles early in the show because that is how Hollywood's always worked And it's nice to get credit when you're coming in with big money like that. Thank you for keeping the show going We'll be thanking everyone else who came in $50 and above in our second segment any reminder that as the Brexit World Cup Continues to come to a close we are

1:29:02 on the ball for you and you can remember us for our show on Thursday at Dvorak.org slash N-A. Hey John, but before you go into the walk of the hashtag walk away thing Yeah, I have a setup clip for you Which I think takes it one step further than the actual clip itself, which we don't need to don't need to play The guy behind it What's his name here

1:29:55 Yeah, well here it is. I got Brandon Strucker struck. Yeah, he was on my least favorite show the Ingraham angle, which I didn't watch but someone sent me the clip and It and I really cut this down just so he kind of explains how he came to this idea How he came to making this video, which he does call a campaign, and I'm not entirely convinced that he was just by himself doing this. It does sound a lot like that, but it kind of sets you up to understand if you haven't seen the video. And I will mention that there's some slickness here and there that is a little light. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's some definitely. It could be Roger Stone.

1:30:32 It could be, I mean, he talks about a campaign and there's a little more to it than I think he's letting on, but the general idea is there and the meme appears to be working. Here he is. I had a red pill experience in 2017 after the election of Donald Trump. As a matter of fact, I welcome anyone to go to my Facebook page where I still have videos up from 2016 in which I'm crying because Hillary Clinton didn't get elected. I was devastated. No, this is very, very real. You know what's so funny is I created that video a few months ago and a few months ago my biggest concern was You know, the nasty rhetoric, the intolerance, the name-calling, the judgment. That was just two months ago. And since this video came out, we've already seen a greater shift. Now I'm actually worried about violence. I'm actually—like, it's already changed in just two months.

1:31:26 months, from where, you know, what my concerns were just two months ago. Now I'm actually worried that we may be on the brink of an incredibly violent episode. People are leaving the left by tens of thousands. My group is growing every day by tens of thousands. And it's amazing because it's actually happening on Facebook and people are leaving testimonials. We're getting thousands of testimonials every day that are either through video or written word where people are talking about how the the left has become intolerable to them. They don't even recognize their party anymore. And what do these people stand for? I mean, what is their platform? All I can figure out so far is we hate Trump and we and we love illegal, illegal immigrants. And that's what else is there. Now, why were you a Democrat before, Brandon? I'm just curious. What drew you to be?

1:32:10 a democrat? Because I'm gay. I mean that's it. I have a lot of gay friends who are not democrats by the way. Oh shut up Ingraham. People think they're bizarre. Uh yeah and I used to be one of those people who would have given them that but um Yeah, no, I mean, I just, I think that if you're a minority in America, if you're a black person, if you're Hispanic, if you're gay, there's sort of this assumption that you are not wanted on the right, that you're not welcome on the right, and that you will be protected and cared for if you go to the left and you stick with the liberals and the Democrats. But we've seen now that that's absolutely not true. They really take us for granted. And beyond taking us for granted, they actually, for gay people,

1:32:49 have used our fears and our traumas against us, trying to keep us in this constant state of feeling like we're afraid or our rights are in danger or the Trump administration's out to hurt us. And that really upsets me. I want gay people, I want all people, but particularly minorities in America to know you have a choice. You don't have to vote Democrat just because you're a gay person. You don't have to vote Democrat just because you're a black person. If you're a minority, you have a choice. And that's what this campaign's about. There you go. Well, Scott looked at this and he has a very good video. By the way, that guy being gay is funny because you can go on YouTube and catch the stream of walk away videos. And there's one which I think I'll put on the Twitter of this guy who starts like he's like some guy and he's talking about how he switched over and he says, but you know, I gotta do this right. And then he cuts away and he comes back as a drag queen.

1:33:42 And he gives about a seven or eight minute pitch as a drag queen about why the Democrats are screwed up and how, you know, they how they ostracize people and he how he has to fight it now. But and he is very good. In fact, most of these videos are pretty outstanding. But Scott has this theory that this guy has done nothing more than open up a small window into the fact that the Democrats are abusing and using their constituents with, and they're doing it using the persuasive, this persuasiveness of fear. Fear of other Americans. Yes. And Scott makes that clear. He says the Republicans use fear too, but we use fear of outsiders, of MS-13. Not we, Trump specifically.

1:34:31 He was referring to the Republican Party. I saw the video this morning. He specifically said Trump. It doesn't matter. It's fine. Yes. Okay. Well, anyway, Trump uses the, according to Adams, uses this outside. We were fearful of the, that's why we went, you need borders. We need, you know, all this sort of thing. And he says that's completely different. than having fear of your fellow citizens and hate and fear aimed inside. And he thinks that's extremely destructive. And he makes it, and this is why I thought the anonymous lesbian clip was kind of, important, not her clip, but her letter. And the one that you just read about the woman with the no agenda stuff being played to her. Because this is part of Scott's pitch, this is a little clip from him. Scott Adams on Walk Away.

1:35:24 I'm sorry, I didn't know he had a clip. Good, here we go. That this Brandon Strzoka, what he's doing is far more important than I imagined when I was just reading the headline about it and I didn't read the detail. Once you see his reason that he realized the Democrats are manipulating people into this permanent unhealthy, unhealthy, unhealthy, very, very physically and mentally unhealthy, Have I mentioned unhealthy state? So the Democrats for their political benefit have caused the entire left to be in physical and mental distress for two years. Policy schmolicy. Does policy matter to you if you realize that your own team has made you deeply unhealthy?

1:36:30 for two years intentionally for their own game. That was a little Scott Adams persuasive move by itself. Oh yeah, he's repeating, he's doing all these tricks, but he's making the point that we kind of make on this show. Kind of? We just had someone make it for us. Yeah, well, it's true. But it's, we've been saying it all along that the, it's unhealthy to have this kind of Lefty attitude about things because it's because it's contradictory doesn't make a lot of sense So I have one so the walk away videos are all interesting and I would recommend people listening to him because it's all kind of confessional stuff These people are all like this. I have one clip I'm not gonna play any more than this one and this is a minute clip from one of the girls and she talks about her background as a progressive and

1:37:27 social justice warrior who somewhere along the lines got and by the way most of these a lot of these walk away YouTube videos are black guys. Yeah, black women. There's actually, we'll play this clip, but in my wrap-up I'm going to say that yes, we're seeing the main groups is black Americans and that's the main, if you look, just the algos are presenting that to me on YouTube. You find one of them, just you know, you find this guy and underneath it's a whole bunch of black Americans all saying, hey man, we got screwed by this party.

1:38:03 And we were raised to believe, hey, you're black, you vote Democrat. That's how they were raised. That one guy, yeah, that guy with that specific term. A lot of guys saying that. Well, anyway, so this is a woman who has kind of come all the way from progressive pro-Bernie voter to this, and this is just a piece of what she's doing as she's doing her... These are all confession booth things. It's very interesting to listen to. And yeah, I won't be voting for a party that calls everybody racists and Nazis, and I'm hoping the hysteria will die down because it's really disheartening.

1:38:41 You know, I can't, this is a second YouTube channel, or a second Facebook channel because I can't even go on my regular channel. This, you know, my Facebook feed is just cancer. It's just people hating on each other. I'm not going to have, I like people. When I'm in, you know, when you're around people face to face, they're nice. People are generally good. You get on social media and it's just a cesspool. I can't even do Twitter. Yeah, so I'm just not gonna... I'm not gonna do it. This campaign has sort of made me hopeful because reading people's comments and seeing that people can have a dialogue with each other even though, you know, maybe somebody's pro-choice, pro-life. They're not being awful to each other and that's how we should be. And that's, you know,

1:39:30 I'm hoping that we can get there. So anyways, keep up the good work everybody. I really enjoy your videos. Too bad about the anyways. Otherwise it was a good clip. Yeah, well she, but the thing that clip in there that I thought you'd get a kick out of, which is Facebook is cancer. Yeah. Yeah. Hello. Uh, I'm cancer free. I'm what am I now two months cancer-free. I think I'm very proud of this. Yeah, you're just well It's an easy prediction to make but I'm quite sure and you know We we have we did talk about this on the last show about the way in a different context about the walk away campaign I've been following this so I've seen all the black Americans the next group of

1:40:13 going to be, well we already see gay men and the gay men have been ostracized because as I've said for many years there is no such thing as the LGBT community. I'm not gonna go harping on it but I want to provide some evidence and if you look at Brandon Straka's video he says right there you know that we're being ostracized and that we're the bad people of the LGBTQ but But I think the realization is going to come into play from people who are, well, the full acronym is LGBTQQIAAPK, which includes kink at the end, and I think really it's LGBQQIAAPK.

1:40:55 T is really what we have, lesbian, gay, transgendered, all the rest, you know, bisexual, bi-curious, allied, intersex, it's all just reasons for other people on the left to belong to the group when it's convenient for them, I think. And queer is another one, but now the wheels are coming off the LGBTQ bandwagon because the gay guys feel ostracized by everybody in the group because they're men, you know So they're they suck no matter what and quite honestly most gay guys I know act like a whole men except they're doing it with other men You know, it's like sex first talk later all this stuff. I

1:41:32 But now, the lesbians are up in arms, and I told you that there's a problem with the trans community, and that is a community, although everyone's their own individual. Now there's this thing that the lesbians are up in arms about. It's called lesbian erasure. Have you heard this? You got me. This is what I want to know about the here from our anonymous lesbian you would yes There was a big a big protest even because you know gay pride or pride day I can't even say gay pride pride day is happening everywhere the next couple of months. You'll see pride parades everywhere right month it is well yeah pride quarter actually and so there was a

1:42:15 a big lesbian protest against this lesbian erasure. You'll have to let your ears adjust for a second because a lot of crowd noise but see if you can hear what this guy interviewed a couple of the women who were walking up front in this parade. Why are you protesting today? We're protesting against lesbian erasure. What does that mean? What does that mean? Well if you don't, do you know anything about trans ideology? I do. Okay, well then you'll know about lesbian erasure won't you? There are men who are saying that they're lesbians. And why have you chosen to disrupt the parade today? Because it's a gay pride event isn't it? Get me out! Out of Pride! Get me out! Out of Pride! Get me out! Out of Pride! Get me out! You disagree with transgender people being here? Yeah, absolutely not.

1:42:58 I do disagree with men saying that they're women and that they're lesbians. I've got nothing against people cross-dressing or anything else but I don't believe that you can change sex. Stop the raising lesbians! I don't know if that was audible at all for you. I heard a couple things one about guys saying they're lesbians Yeah, Trent trans saying they're lesbians and she said guys Self-identifying as a lesbian well no the way she's no what she's saying is when you have a trans person who is trans from male to female They are now saying well. I'm a lesbian

1:43:40 And they're saying, no, you can't be a lesbian because you have to be a woman. You have to have a female genitalia to be a lesbian. So it doesn't really matter other than this was never meant to be a group and it shouldn't be and no one should accept being lumped in by a group by anyone, certainly not by politicians or worse, a political party. By the way, screw political parties. They're the scourge. They're all paid by the same people. Parties are shit. But there are mechanisms to get elected. That's the problem. You can't get rid of it. Well, not if you're AOC. She doesn't have a real party. But beyond the point. She'll have a real party if she gets into trouble. I think these are going to be the next people who are going to walk away.

1:44:27 Is the LGBTQ community who are going to be sick and tired of lumped together as a bunch of poor sap I won't do my whole rant as a bunch of poor saps over in the corner who need to be protected That is that's over and I think that that is happening Organically and this walk away movement is going to help in that and good for him. It's crazy Sicken me for a long time. Yeah, I All right. Well, it's something to follow. We're on top of it. Yeah, well, you know, I don't see this on the mainstream media that Maruti discussing this. This is that the Lori Ingram had that one guy on and that's a that's about it. Consider that fringe. It's about it.

1:45:08 It's a short entremont? Oh, oh, no entremont. I got an error. That's too bad. What the hell? I had an ask... Oh man, they're all erroring out. What is this? You're having a problem. Yeah, I had an ask John all produced and everything. What's happening here? Now you got to reboot. No, no, no, no, no. Something I know something's wrong. I got an entremont then. Okay, shoot. This will cheer everybody up. Okay. San Francisco real estate prices. Oh yeah, that'll cheer me up. I'm sure. It's no secret San Francisco real estate is pricey and getting more expensive by the year. But new numbers show just how incredible the spike is. San Francisco home prices are now rising $205,000 a year. That translates to 561 bucks every day. And here's a little more perspective. In 1997, the median price of a home was $274,000.

1:46:04 Now it's 1.62 million the data was compiled by the San Francisco company Paragon real estate sell the vorac sell sell now get out Why? It's like living for free well You know the cycle is better than anybody, but that can't last forever. It just can't oh It doesn't have good positions. You just don't even need to work. If real estate prices on a median house are going up $500 a day, this is in San Francisco by the way, it's not quite the same where I live. But it all spreads, all the boats rise a bit. But if it's going up that much, you're pretty much making that much money on a daily basis, which is a couple hundred thousand dollars a year.

1:47:00 Yeah, but without doing anything without lifting a finger. I mean come on. Why would anybody give that up think of your health man? Okay? Are you kidding me the kind of fruits and vegetables we get around here? Okay? There's nothing like it. Oh Man I was looking into you know. I'm a little obsessed about Austin becoming San Francisco 2.0 which was which was literally It was literally called that by a homeless guy, not a mentally ill or drug addict. Was it a guy that was shipped there from San Francisco on a bus? No, no, it's a guy who just travels around and he didn't ask me anything on Reddit.

1:47:45 And he said, you know, one of the questions was, well, why is everyone coming to Austin? He said, oh, the word is out. It's San Francisco 2.0. Now, it's not, luckily. There's one key difference. And you brought this up a couple of shows ago. And I've heard other people speak about it. So I put a couple of these links in the show notes. This went, what really happened is the most recent addition to what was originally, I think, Proposition 47, then it was Proposition 57. which decriminalized to such an extent any type of theft or any type of crime misdemeanor under $950 that the cops don't even show up for it anymore. And the final kind of nail in the coffin, I think, was when Jerry Brown added to this

1:48:34 these laws that if you claim you are mentally insane, they kind of let you go right away. So now you have this, hey, if they catch me and it's on the 950, it's probably not going to be anything wrong anyway. And if I just say I have mental issues, then it's off the table. You just get let free again. And according to this AMA guy as well, you can steal whatever you want. You won't go to jail. So why not hang out there? And this is now being heralded as the genesis of this massive problem throughout the state of California. Yeah, I think that's probably true.

1:49:13 Whereas in Austin, it's still you know, we have normal the number of people's cars whose windows are broken It's like hundreds every day and they you know, they grab and nothing bust the window. They see something in there they grab Yeah, and you know bag of groceries whatever you leave in the car. It's it's in San Francisco specifically Mm-hmm, not so much every place else and little towns is not happening at all. I mean you can't do that. I So nobody wants to be in a little town, but that's where you should be because if your car window gets broken and somebody steals something, you can call the cops and they'll actually check it out. Not in San Francisco, they don't care. Well, in Austin, luckily, the misdemeanor laws and the penalties are still pretty stiff. So class A misdemeanor, which is assault causing bodily injury,

1:50:05 Driving while intoxicated, that's... Oh, and a theft of property with a value of $500 to $1,500. You still go to jail for that. And even Class B misdemeanors. which is less than two ounces of marijuana, that's theft of property with a value of $50 to $500, you still can go to jail for six months. But already, and I'm just researching this because I live here, there's talk about, well, we're too strict on the homeless. I'm serious, we should allow them. That's slippery slope. Oh yeah, they can't make a living if they can't stand on the street corner. So now they're going to be allowed to stand on the street corner and solicit money.

1:50:47 And one of the other I've stopped I've stopped I used to give money all the time you know me. I used to do that. Yes, you used I'll tell everybody this if they don't know it because there are listeners that don't listen to the show from day one. You had a policy of and I kind of adopted this policy. Which is that if you see somebody that's really asking for money, you give them a fiver. It's a little bit patronizing, it's a little bit snooty, it's a fiver for you. But I think they like it, they appreciate it, five bucks is, you know, what is it nowadays? As opposed to giving it.

1:51:27 nothing or not looking at them or not even acknowledging their existence, which I think that's going to get you into trouble. And you see it in San Francisco because of all the Silicon Valley goofballs that are making $250 a year easy, taking the bus ride down to Mountain View or whatever they're doing. And they won't even look at the homeless. Don't look at them. Yes, step over them. I remember stepping over the same guy when I went to walk to the office But I stopped doing that in Austin and I'm seeing the same guys come a great Adam come across the street course They know me. Hey, how you doing? I don't just give a fiver. I talked to him said what are you gonna do with it? You know, what's your plan? And this was the guy who was I'm gonna buy socks and it's gonna buy shoes and then he's still out there And he's how you doing? Yeah, I'm pretty good. I was on my way to the spin class and

1:52:20 And he says, uh, so what are you up to? I'm just trying to scrounge up a few books to get a burger. Got any money on you? I said, no, I'm not doing that anymore because I've given you a lot of money collectively over the years and you've done nothing. So how come, what is the problem? Well, yeah, you know, he didn't really have an answer and it's just like, but he also didn't get mad. He was like, eh, fuck it. You know, Curry's off the list. They'll find some other guy. It's, it's, you know, and they're making between 50 and a hundred dollars a day. Think about it. You know this AMA was a link in the show notes as well It was really interesting they sleep on the top of luxury apartment buildings. There's tons of Construction going on here, so they'll go in you know sleep Go to sleep early get up early before construction workers come there's plenty of places where there's free Wi-Fi They can you know I charge up my cell phone I get enough money every day to buy a beer sandwich You know maybe some weed if I'm into it, and then that's his life, right?

1:53:15 Now, that's not the same for everybody, of course, who's experiencing homelessness. But my plan seems to be working. I used to come to this mall all the time. This is my third time coming to this shelter. But so far, I've only been here like almost a month. I'm okay. Thank you. I'm already working. I'm a security guard. My grandma died, and that's who I was living with my whole life. And I have no other family, nowhere to go. This used to be the Macy's at Landmark Mall many moons ago, but it's now taken on new life as a retrofitted homeless shelter. Many people come into shelter already employed. The problem is more that their employment isn't sufficient to allow them to live comfortably at market rate rent. So all it really takes is one instance of bad luck and somebody living close to the poverty line or living marginally

1:54:12 can find themselves suddenly unable to pay rent, facing eviction and ultimately homelessness. The solution ultimately to homelessness is to find something that they can afford. They might not be spending 30% of their income but find somewhere that you know is a safe roof over their head that they can build from. So the point of that clip twofold one that homelessness comes from many different reasons mainly just no place to live where you're working where you're scraping by and Two there you go. That's in Virginia an empty mall. That's a Macy's they turned into a shelter. I'm telling you This is the way forward. So you got the right idea you nailed it. Yeah You

1:54:53 I was still thinking of the sex shops. Back to Germany. No, but if you think about it, if we want affordable housing and no investor is willing to build that, they're just not. They're not building it. Let's build, you know, like the banker's idea, although, you know, it has to be lower priced. Let's build dorm-like. Malls are really well suited. They have fantastic bathroom facilities because they have to be able to handle a lot of bathroom traffic. Now, they don't have showers, but, you know, there's all kinds of – those would be minor adaptations, I think. And you're kind of done and you can put up... These things are built for creating a new space and put up walls and there's all kinds of things you can do. So I think instead of calling it a shelter, let's turn it into some affordable housing. And then maybe the guys who invested in these malls who have written it off anyway, they can still get a little bit of money back instead of letting it just... Well, of course we could turn it into like the German sex shop thing, but...

1:55:57 That won't fly in every state. How about a combination? That would be a combo Okay, John Mocking the homeless once again Well, well speaking of which got a note from producer who you'll call Nate What is your rule of economics and and the economy in general? I Yeah, the hookers get better looking. Yeah, the more the economy goes down, then the hookers get better looking. Greetings and salutations, long time listener, small donor. Let's just say my name is Nate. I live in Atlanta. I want you to know that as a sex worker, you guys are pretty much right on with your assessment of quote, as the economy gets shittier, the sex workers get hotter.

1:56:46 Although it has gotten much more difficult since the US government has cracked down on Craigslist and Backpage, it's pretty much funneled things to a few websites. Not sure where the ladies advertise their wares, but almost all men have switched to a website called RentMen.com. That's a marketing right there rent man men calm It's a shame. We have to keep our wares in the dark after all it's just sex They say it's about sex traffic trafficking, but I'm almost positive. It's really about taxation I can say it hasn't changed the game at all other than just being pigeonholed into one website Maybe two maybe two I promise to throw a donation to you guys after this weekend hmm. It's got a big weekend planned

1:57:27 I wish you would make a trip... John, here's a note for you. I wish you would make a trip to Atlanta. I would definitely be able to show you a good time around town. Either way, I'm just getting done and putting my cash in a shoebox, which has proven to be way better than the bank. Selling dick has been exponentially more lucrative than any of the other jobs I've mastered. Just want to tell you to keep up the good work and to expect a nice donation coming soon. Much love from the East Coast, from Nate. So there you go. The economic theory holds true. Yeah, well, it's logical. That's why. Extremely. So one of the... Yeah? I was just going to see if I had something else in this category. No, I don't think so. Go. Yeah, I think we're good. So there's been a bunch of, you know, I was thinking of Roger Stone, you know, being behind one thing or the other. And there's also, I want to mention, I was going to mention it earlier that when we see some of these

1:58:22 crazy things like the jingles and the No borders and sometimes you have to wonder if it's actually the Republicans behind some of these things because it would be a great way to giving them a lot of giving them a lot of credit I Know they're not that bright But with Roger Stone and guys like that I can see it But in the meantime what's really going on with the media is these smears the smear campaigns are really hitting up going long and I have a couple of them here. There's a I got one or maybe two. I think there's the same one.

1:59:01 Jim Jordan. Yeah, they are the same length. I presume that yes, obviously the same thing So let's look to play at least a couple of these smears that are going on and they shouldn't be played at all but it's all in you end a Jim Jordan is the congressman from Ohio who just laid into Rosenstein and just really just a prick during some congressional hearings against these guys that are the Mueller investigation. Mueller. He is, and so they found some dirt on him supposedly, and I think it's bullcrap because I was thinking of the logic of it, but let's play

1:59:41 Jim Jordan smear this on NBC of course and a $5,000 signing bonus for master automotive technicians We're definitely in need of great talent and it great towns really really difficult Jordan smear. Yeah, Jim Jordan smear four minutes You know what it is no No, I can't play it because obviously I clipped where I supposed to clip out of the four minutes. It's on the cutting room floor. No, it's probably not on the cutting room floor. It's in this clip, but it's after this story and the next story. Well, I can fast forward. I can find it. I am laid to rest on US soil. Assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State. Four former Ohio State wrestlers.

2:00:28 Yeah, that's it. Okay. And did nothing about it. Well, let me go back a little. Here we go. Remains were discovered and identified and laid to rest on U.S. soil. The family has a headstone at Arlington, hoping his remains will be returned this time. Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington. A powerful congressman is strongly denying allegations that he knew about sexual abuse when he was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University and did nothing about it. Among those defending Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, President Trump, who called him an outstanding man. Katie Beck has our report.

2:01:04 Four former Ohio State wrestlers tell NBC News they were sexually abused by a team doctor. Molested by Dr. Richard Strauss, who they allege inappropriately touched athletes' genitals during routine exams. regularly showered with them in a university facility. I mean it was just it's public knowledge I mean everyone knew within the athletic department that Doc was a serial groper at best. Several accusers believe it was known by Republican Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan at the time, an assistant wrestling coach at the University from 1986 to 1994. Jordan denies knowing any

2:01:42 anything about the allegations before accusers spoke out this spring. If there had been any reports of abuse, I would have reported it. Jordan, a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, recently made headlines for grilling investigators in the Russia probe. And I want to know why you won't give us what we've asked for. Also rumored to be vying to become the next speaker of the House. The timing is kind of interesting. It's right after the the big hearing with Mr. Rosenstein. It's right when there's all this talk about a speaker's race. Alleged victims, some who say they still consider Jordan a friend, say his denials are hurtful and believe Jordan knew what was going on and chose to look the other way. Strauss died in 2005, but the university now investigating the claims against him.

2:02:28 Questions remain about the possible crimes or a cover-up. Katie Beck, NBC News. Before you launch into deconstruction, my filters were not off, my guard was not up when this story came out. I wasn't interested. I was looking at something else and I heard this. I'm like, another shithole Republican. Makes sense, of course. Throw the guy in the trash. Yeah, well, you should have had some filters going. Well, that's why you're here. That is the, this is just a smear. I like the way it put at the end cover up, they throw the word cover up in. I mean, this piece, which is NBC again, is really slanted in a funny way. I don't think they did as good a job as they could have.

2:03:12 But there's...Unreported is the number of people that came to his defense, but they made it sound like the Republicans are already bailing out on this guy. Yeah, that's what I thought too, absolutely. Yeah, but it's bullcrap. And it's the...the problem is he's gonna be going for the next Speaker of the House. He's a bit of a conservative firebrand. that would be a tough, tough and interesting Speaker of the House. And I think it's the Republicans that are trying to, trying to get him out. Yeah, I don't believe this is a Democratic ploy. They don't care. I mean, it's no reason. I mean, Rosenstein's a Republican. Mueller's a Republican. But they're part of the Trump-hating wing, which is most of them. And they're just trying to... This is a smear. It's a smear campaign because they don't want him to become a Speaker of the House because he's going to be a troublemaker. So he's not guilty of any wrongdoing?

2:04:08 I really doubt it. I think this is all innuendo and bullcrap. And it's from 50, the guy, the guy who was the groper has been dead for 13 years. I mean, talk about dredging up old stuff. I mean, it's unbelievable that they did this, but this is not the only one. They're also going after another smear. And I'm looking at them as smears. They're just smears. Very straightforward is this attorney general guy who I guess is the attorney general, another Republican in Indiana. And it's kind of a funny little smear. This is attorney general smear.

2:04:43 In Indiana, top Republicans are calling on Attorney General Curtis Hill to resign after four women accused him of sexual harassment. The women, including a state representative, say that Hill groped them at an Indianapolis bar in March. Yesterday, Indiana's governor and two GOP statehouse leaders said the Republican attorney general should step down. Hill has denied the allegations and refused to resign. Yeah, Judy breathing heavy there. She does. She reads the book. But they got a little compressed on her. This was a PBS report again. It's a smear. The Republicans are very quick. They're all freaked out about the Me Too thing. That's why I think that they weren't happy with it. Well, I think it's being abused, the Me Too thing. It's totally being abused. I mean, I have a clip of Trudeau. And you know someone's behind this bringing this crap up for him. The prime minister has now acknowledged apologizing to a woman who accused him of groping her.

2:04:08 I really doubt it. I think this is all innuendo and bullcrap. And it's from 50, the guy, the guy who was the groper has been dead for 13 years. I mean, talk about dredging up old stuff. I mean, it's unbelievable that they did this, but this is not the only one. They're also going after another smear. And I'm looking at them as smears. They're just smears. Very straightforward is this attorney general guy who I guess is the attorney general, another Republican in Indiana. And it's kind of a funny little smear. This is attorney general smear.

2:04:43 In Indiana, top Republicans are calling on Attorney General Curtis Hill to resign after four women accused him of sexual harassment. The women, including a state representative, say that Hill groped them at an Indianapolis bar in March. Yesterday, Indiana's governor and two GOP statehouse leaders said the Republican attorney general should step down. Hill has denied the allegations and refused to resign. Yeah, Judy breathing heavy there. She does. She reads the book. But they got a little compressed on her. This was a PBS report again. It's a smear. The Republicans are very quick. They're all freaked out about the Me Too thing. That's why I think that they weren't happy with it. Well, I think it's being abused, the Me Too thing. It's totally being abused. I mean, I have a clip of Trudeau. And you know someone's behind this bringing this crap up for him. The prime minister has now acknowledged apologizing to a woman who accused him of groping her.

2:05:40 The accusation dates back to a music festival almost two decades ago. Today, Justin Trudeau appeared on CBT Toronto's radio program Metro Morning. He told host Matt Galloway he made that apology even though he doesn't remember any inappropriate behavior. Even in the moment of where, as she recalls me, being apologetic. I did not know to what she was referring. I do not feel that there was any inappropriate action of any type, but, and this is the really important thing, it is not just my experience that matters in this. If you don't believe that anything inappropriate happened, why did you apologize?

2:06:18 Because, um, and that's a great question because it's one that I've been reflecting on as well. That's not a great question! If I apologized, it was because I saw that she had been made uncomfortable and I did not want her to be uncomfortable regardless of whether I knew why she was uncomfortable or not. If you had a few minutes to talk with her, what would you say to her now? Wow! I wouldn't say anything, I'd listen. I'd listen to try and understand what her perspective, what her experience was, and reflect on how I could have done differently. Even though I don't think I did anything wrong, That's not the whole story anymore. Well spun, well spun, Jus. I'm giving you a borderline clip of the day for digging that one up. We need more Trudeau stuff. Thank you.

2:07:08 I love I love how he's been smeared smeared all right weird secret agent Paul has hooked me up again just before our break here That's right, that's John everybody we're flipping the script. We're turning the tables. We're asking you a question Okay, a clip comes first pay attention hand on buzzer. There's been an embarrassing fail for a space startup in Japan The pencil rocket was supposed to soar as high as a hundred kilometers into space but came crashing back down to earth seconds after liftoff. It's believed... Okay, the question for the Ask John segment, why did the Japanese rocket blow up? What was wrong? Well I saw these clips of the rocket blowing up. It went up about 50 feet and came back down and blew up. I would say that it looks like the engine cut out.

2:08:11 Remember, this is mainstream media reporting, John. It's believed it suffered a glitch in its main engine. A glitch! Shut up about the glitch! James Murray, oh by the way, the birthday list, you got the birthday list there? I got the birthday list. Anonymous lesbian is born on July 11th, is she on the list? Yes. Jay. She's on the list. I don't know her age, but she's on the list for the 10th. Jay? Is she the 10th or the 11th? 11th. 11th, yes. And the Keeper, also on the 11th. Holy moly! It's a trifecta of babes! And it's all women! Yes! This, write down this date.

2:09:06 Well, I thought it was great because I could remember my daughter's birthday 7-11. How can you forget that? And you know she can get free drinks all this month. Is that right? Yeah. If you go there and you buy, you'd say, Hey, it's my birthday. You show them ID, you get a free at 7-11. At 7-11, what kind of a free drink would you want from them? Do they make a gimlet? A big gulp? I don't know. Tina's always jacked about that. I'm going to go. I'm going to get my free drink. She's great. James Murray, Huntington Beach, California 10490. Being Adam's age, sorry about age here, the hearing aid talk has been very informative to me. However, having a shaved head

2:09:49 I'm looking for a subdermal implant. Please have Adam research. Oh, yay. Adam? Yes? Research that. Research those things. Well, thanks for the hairy ear hole pics. You know, this is exactly why I didn't want to do this. And I trim my ear hair. You know, to a certain degree, the hair is there for a reason. But it wasn't like I had a big bush growing out, like partially growing out of my head. To be honest about it, I didn't even notice it. I was more interested in the fact that this little implant that goes in the ear is black for some reason. Why did they make it flesh colored? That's a great question. Uh-oh! It is a great question, apparently. I'm going to... I will ask my audiologist, because it's actually the...

2:10:35 Both the receiver, that's the little speaker, which they call a receiver, is kind of a light gray. And then you can have different plugs on top of it, depending on your ear canal diameter. And those are indeed black. And I think probably if it wasn't black, it would be a lot more conspicuous, because the inside of your ear hole is black. No. Okay, mine is. Yeah, if you go into where you can't see it, it's black, but what you can see is flesh colored. And this thing would be sitting on top of, you know, it could be darker flesh. I personally, I personally, there's a, there's a, I ordered these months ago, even maybe a year ago at Kickstarter. I thought that would be interesting to try. Um, what are they called now? But their, their idea is if you can't cover it up, turn it up. And so it's these little black kind of like a Ruby cut

2:11:28 Knobs that you shove into your ear and it goes into your ear canal is how it sticks in there It's got all the digital signal processing all the tech in there, but it's just like a like a fashion statement So it's kind of it's actually a bit like you've gauged your ear hole big black hole. Yeah, but yeah I'm gonna try those but I'm not gonna go for the subdermal implant. Thanks. Yeah. No, you shouldn't be a big lump look you have some kind of a Yeah, but I will share my ideas and settings with people if they're interested. Because it's all about the settings. Anyway, onward. Alright, Paul. Arsenault. Arsenault in Jasper, Alberta, Canada. 100. Knighthood is mine and I would like to be known as Sir Candanavian at par.

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2:16:31 to find there were a number of actually in response to the fugitive state no no no she was referring to the black community we yeah and what does he also say here your apparent willful inability to discern between a voluntary dnn dna test taken by person and one compelled by the government violating their rights now you have no rights at the border they can do that to me too yeah you there's no fourth amendment at the border And they think it's a basic human right. That's a basic human right to protect children who are being trafficked. Oh, geez. And press freedom. Okay, well, I disagree. No, he's off the rails and he's in dimension A. B, one of them.

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2:21:24 Well, as promised, a bevy of babes today in the birthday list. It's a bevy of birthday babes. We start with the anonymous lesbian, Jay Dvorak, and Tina Marie the Keeper. All three of these lovely ladies will be appearing at Sparks. We'll be celebrating on the 11th of July. We congratulate them and we love them all very much. Happy birthday from Adam and John! But it would be funny if they all appeared in sparks together. Uh, two knightings today if you can, uh, here's mine if you can grab your blade. Yeah, I got it right. That would be helpful. Okay, up on stage. Chris Wilson. Oh, hold on to the railing, Chris.

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2:23:00 We got horse head pumpkin ale. Yeah, well it's just notable. Notable. Did you look further down on the list of donors to the guy who says that the... I just wonder if you saw this video or if we should look at this video, not on the show but later. No. The guy who says he's got four minutes of evidence proving that he loves... Oh, the Vegas shooter? Yeah. No, I haven't looked at that. Oh, okay. We'll look at it later. Okay. Definitely. And glad you all enjoyed that. Let me see, I have a couple of fun things that, oh yes, we've been talking a lot about Candanavia today. This is another one of these, and I'm sure the M5M in Candanavia has done a good job of riling everybody up.

2:23:47 You know, the tariffs kicked in, everyone's all pissed off everywhere, and you know, the world kept on turning. But the lie that has been propagated throughout Canada is a disturbing one because it literally is a lie, the way it's... Well, maybe it's not. Maybe it's still one of those things where people are just hearing it differently. But when President Trump said not having our steel produced in America is a national security concern, This is how Candinavia interprets that. And there's a kicker in this too. By the way, I didn't know that steel companies were like family businesses.

2:24:38 Is it to produce steel or to cut it up or what are they doing? Well, all kinds of every one of these little stages that you're taught you just mentioned are all can easily be a family business. Ah, okay. Okay. Generally the big giant boys are not family business. Yeah, I see a big smelter and all that, you know, I'm like... It's possible. By the way, I saw in the LA Times there's a town for sale not far from Burning Man but it's kind of in between the two forests there in California. Burning Man's in Nevada. It's near the Nevada border. It's about two and a half hours drive from LA, two and a half hour drive from San Francisco, about three hours to Vegas. It's not two and a half from LA. Okay, well I just did a Google search and okay, so maybe it was three and a half. It's within driving distance. No, it's not three and a half. It has to be at least eight hours from LA. Oh no, no, no, no. Whatever this was, it doesn't matter. It's an old mining town with like eight structures and it's for sale.

2:25:37 What do they want for it? $950,000. Not bad. We can do that. And then get all the new agenda people. We can put it together. Fund. Yeah. It's just need 10% down. Yeah. We just do a GoFundMe. It's the mine is still there. You know, I think it was toxic as hell. Copper mine. Well, that's where we put the servers. Oh, yeah. That's the data center. And we have a dude named Ben Camp. Ooh, right. Yeah, right. We can put it an airstrip in the world. Yeah, we can put an airstrip in anyway back to a Candanavian steel great dispute with the United States. Well, currently the shop is I'd say

2:26:17 slower than slow. James Pisgini is the plant manager of the family-run business and here the sting of US tariffs landed a deep blow. The Trump administration says the measure is a way to protect American national security and that hurts given the type of work ADF group has been a part of. This Canadian company produced the majority of the steel used for the outer structure and full antenna of the new World Trade Center, a symbol of American perseverance in the heart of Donald Trump's beloved New York City. Being labeled now as a national security threat, yeah, I mean...

2:26:59 It makes no sense. To us it makes no sense. We feel kind of flustered. We feel kind of betrayed about that. It isn't all bad news here. Despite the uncertainty, ADF Group has landed a new US contract which will increase hours starting in September. Paschini is hoping it will also increase morale on the floor while the trade dispute drags on. Canada has already filed a challenge with the WTO over US steel and aluminum tariffs. Donald Trump though has made no secret of his distaste for the WTO and he's found an interesting way to destabilize it. by blocking judicial appointments at its appellate body. That's a kind of Supreme Court for world trade disputes. It's supposed to be made up of seven judges. It's currently down to four, with another due to leave in September. And if it drops below three judges, it can no longer function and can't referee all those complaints about US tariffs. I didn't know that about the WTO and its appellate board.

2:28:00 I didn't know that. That's interesting. Good decision-making with only three, but okay. But that's the point. It's like the Trump administration is blocking, kind of like, you know, like I'm sure that it was said that way, like, oh, this is the Supreme Court of the World Trade Organization, and the United States is blocking new candidates so that it just starts to whittle down and then eventually it's completely ineffective. But no one's talking about that here. I hadn't heard that at all. No, I've never heard anything about that. But you heard in the clip, you heard the guy saying, I can't believe, you know, we're a national security threat. Here's a soccer mom. I stood beside the prime minister when he made those statements and they were strong statements because I think

2:28:41 I think what it's important for Americans to understand is the justification under your rules for the imposition of these tariffs was a national security consideration. So what you are saying to us and to all of your NATO allies, is that we somehow represent a national security threat to the United States. And I would just say to all of Canada's American friends, and there are so many, seriously, do you really believe that Canada, that your NATO allies represent a national security threat to you? And that's why the Prime Minister said it is frankly insulting.

2:29:23 When Ronald Reagan visited Canada in the 1980s, he said, we are more than friends and neighbors and allies. We are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world. I'd like our Candanavian producers to send me some clips where someone explains this properly up there. I'd like to find someone to send a clip where it said Canada is a national security risk or any of these companies are a national security risk. That's not what he said. No, of course not. He said the fact that we need steel making capabilities in within our own country and not having it is a national security risk, which is what he's talking about. And it was pretty clear to me when he said it.

2:30:08 To me too. And it was mostly about the fact that we had this huge multi-trillion dollar deficit, that was the real national security risk he was talking about consistently. Yeah. And it is because if that folds, we lose the dollar as a reserve currency and we don't, you know, that's not going to happen. Let's face reality. But, you know, it's possible and under some circumstances something bad could happen and you'd have a world economic collapse and everybody wants their money, which is not going to happen either. I mean, there could be a collapse, but the money thing is not going to happen. But I'm just saying, but theoretically it's a national security risk. Yeah. But no, no, no. The Canadians, oh, it's about us.

2:30:51 And the Canadians have stopped giving us money, by the way. We got one Albertan that helped us on today's show and that was it. Yeah, well, it's blowback. Thanks, Trump. Yeah, Trump is killing the show. I'm telling you, it matters. It really does when stuff like that gets out that way. I understand it. Those damn Yanks. Screw those guys calling us national security threats. Nobody I mean, it's just not it's bull they lying. It's lies. I got a funny Public service announcement from the Canadian Border Services Cannabis and products containing cannabis may soon be legal in Canada But that doesn't mean you'll be able to cross the border with them

2:31:35 Whether you use it medically or recreationally, if you're leaving Canada, returning or visiting, it will still be illegal to take cannabis across the Canadian border. If you have it with you, declare it. Smoke it! Moving cannabis across an international border will remain a serious offense that can impact your future. Keep it legal. Don't bring it in. Don't take it out. Smoke it now. Why did I put a clip in here for the Canadian cannabis thing unless we played it in the last show? You had a clip? I did, but it was on the last list of clips. I don't think it's on this. I can take a look if that helps. Let me see. Legalize pot in Canada would be the name of the clip. Oh, okay. Well, let me search for it that way. That's easier. Legalize. Legalize. Legalize. Let's see.

2:32:29 Legalized pot in Canada. Hmm. Let's play. Canada has become only the second nation in the world to legalize... No, we've played it. We've played it. Never mind. Yeah, I think we've played that a lot, actually. Okay, we have a... What's the top story in the Bay Area you were talking about? How is it we're talking about a bunch of different things, right? Yeah. No. Wrong. You set me up. I have the clip. Well, I can tell you that this man strikes at night. Police say he has been spotted here in Fremont four times in the last month. The most brazen attempt was just last month here on this street where the man entered a home in the middle of the night and then stood naked at the bedroom door of a young woman.

2:33:30 Police believe you'll recognize the man shown in this surveillance image crouching on the doorstep of a home in Pleasanton Thursday. Investigators believe he's the same man who entered the back door of a home here on Adromeda Circle in Fremont last month and performed lewd acts at the bedroom door of an 18 year old. She screamed, he took off. I was surprised. I wonder why he had picked that house. This story, by the way, I cut it there because it went on for five minutes about all his other... He apparently goes around, goodness, he's found in backyards, he's naked. And he's apparently jerking off everywhere. Oh, they didn't mention that in the report. They kind of hinted at it, lewd acts. What else is he doing?

2:34:16 And they standing at the door there, and you know jerking off and this girl screams, and he runs away Some local pervert that's lost control. How is Louis CK doing these days? Okay, I do have a nice social justice warrior moment here. What are we what do we put under social justice? It's my fav- cultural appropriation. That's the one. That's one of my favorites. Everything is cultural. Saying, you know, saying woke is now cultural appropriation. Oh, I'm not going to say it anymore. You can't say it. You, straight guy, straight white guy, you can't say that. Cisgendered. Cis, yeah. Concerns about cultural appropriation and access are confined to film or even Hollywood. Today, the Montreal Jazz Festival cancelled one of its high-profile shows.

2:35:12 Slave has been the subject of protests in recent days. Its acclaimed director is white, that's Robert Lepage, and it featured a white singer singing songs written by black slaves. This comes a day after prominent US singer songwriter Moses Sumney cancelled performances at the festival over his concerns about Slave. It's going a bit far now, isn't it? Oh man, they're just anything. So you can't do it. They're out of control. These guys are unhinged. I mean, so So you can't even do a cover version anymore of like a Michael Jackson song or something? Because that would be cultural appropriation. That would be bad. And it's the month is jazz, baby. It's supposed to be completely free. And the whole concept of jazz is over is multiple instruments and things flowing together to create this harmonious on the fly masterpiece now living in the past. Right, bro. But

2:36:08 The story that got no traction. Surprising. I have another story that's got no traction after your story that's got no traction. It's going to be interesting. This is not a clip, it's to discuss briefly. Headline, Al Shabaab terror group bans single-use plastic bags. I felt this was, this is headliner stuff. Yes, where was the reporting on this? At least as good as the naked guy roaming around. Yeah, this is Sky News, and says the Somali militant Islamist group, which has links to Al-Qaeda, has long had an interest in environmental issues. Sure they have. I've never read that. It made the official announcement on Radio Andalus, which is operated by Al-Shabaab.

2:36:54 Jibaland regional leader Mohammed Abu Abdullah said the group had come to the decision due to the serious threat posed by plastic bags to both humans and livestock. These are the guys that didn't take the girls? Yeah, yeah, rapers. He added that pollution caused by plastic was damaging to the environment. In the same announcement, the group said it has banned the logging of rare trees. Details of how the echo-friendly bans would be enforced were not shared with listeners. Cut your head off! Last year, it gets better. Taliban leader Hibatullah Aquzada claimed Afghans should plant more trees because of their important role in environmental protection, economic development, and beautification of the earth. I mean, did you know this was going on? This consciousness? Yes, global warming memes are next with these guys. I mean,

2:37:51 It's bullcrap. Well, maybe it isn't. I mean, I will say that a lot of these terror groups, you know, they, if you look at what was, you know, the Taliban, you know, they organize their communities. You know, they're organizing it through rather incompatible values to our Western society, but they are organizing. But this is a complete Western thing that they're now bringing here. What's next? I don't know. Can't think of anything offhand well, I am t-shirts is the only thing I can I mean I agree I mean it's it's as good as the naked guy running around

2:38:32 Now the report that hasn't been reported is that as we speak there are these outrageous riots going on in parts of France, namely Nantes. And Nantes has been under riot conditions for the last four days. Angry news. Oh sorry. No, you can play it. Actually no. I couldn't find any good clips. They didn't have any clips on France 24. They had no clips on the BBC. So I found some obscure newsletter that had somebody there doing it. And so it's a real lame but accurate clip. Angry youths at birth confronted police in poor neighborhoods of the French city of Nantes.

2:39:11 The violence came after police shot dead a young man who'd been stopped in his car for a traffic violation. Police reports say he refused to cooperate with them and then hit one of their officers, likely injuring him as he tried to drive off. It was then that he was shot. The local law courts in Devalier neighbourhood were also set on fire. Police now say they expect more unrest. Tensions in poor migrant neighborhoods have frequently escalated into clashes with the police in France. In 2005, dozens of cars were torched in similar unrest in Paris, in its outer suburbs where most migrants live. Nantes public prosecutor later revealed that the man had been wanted for a year for organized robbery, concealment and criminal association.

2:39:57 The police and the justice system need to act independently to clarify what happened this evening. Where is Nantes? Nantes is in the Loire Valley. It's kind of the opening of where the river goes into the ocean. And it's an old town. It's on the coast. Not on the coast. It's inland. But it's got this beautiful fortification that just It goes way back in the ninth century or something. And it's a very picturesque tourist town. I've been there. So when you start a tour of the Luau Valley, that's usually where you start. Wow. But probably not so much anymore. No, but people saw the pictures and went, let's go there. They bombed the, they bombed and demolished the courthouse, which I thought was, it was kind of funny. It was kind of mentioned in the report. That's insane.

2:40:55 Yeah, but no reports whatsoever in the Western media. I have a flashback from my last clip for today one of our producers dug this up and it's great for two reasons one it talks about a Topic that we recently discussed on the show. This is from 2008 so this is around the time we started with the show and maybe our first year and I believe it is also the This clip may be the genesis or the reason for Cheryl Atkinson eventually being forced out of CBS as this is a CBS News report from 2008. Pay attention to the numbers and the names. It's not the kind of record anyone wants to break. Reports of serious illnesses and deaths linked to medicine have hit an all-time high. That's according to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, which has analyzed FDA data for a decade.

2:41:47 It recently found that from January to March, there were more than 20,000 reports of serious drug reactions, including over 4,800 deaths. That's not just a little more than usual. It's 38% higher than the previous year. Two drugs are blamed in unusually large numbers. The blood thinner heparin recalled after contamination was found and the anti-smoking drug Chantix had more reports than the 10 best-selling brand name drugs combined. Take the first step, see your doctor and ask if prescription Chantix is right for you. The FDA has already warned of psychiatric problems with Chantix and says it will take further action if warranted. Pfizer which makes Chantix says benefits outweigh the risks

2:42:30 But the patient safety group says stronger Chantix warnings are needed and the general trend deserves more attention. What we know is that over that period of time we've seen a steady increase in reports of serious injuries and death and this should be troubling to us. Another trend, a relatively small number of drugs are blamed for a large number of adverse events. The authors of today's report say there's a lesson. Prescription drugs help millions but also have risks and the FDA should do a better job at reducing them. There you go. You know, now that you mention it, I think that makes more sense for the reason they got rid of her rather than her the political stuff. Exactly. They put up with a lot of stuff, but you're going after Shantix, one of the major advertisers? What road? Yeah, you could be done. It's a big mistake. Big mistake. Yeah. And with that, I'm calling it a show. You can call it a cab. Nah, I got enough taxis. I got my Learjet waiting for me today.

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