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00:00 I have the device. Brexit World Cup. What is wrong with the elites? We're broadcasting live from the capital of the drone star state here in downtown Austin Tejas in the Cluedio In The Morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where they're chopping down dead trees in front of that house, I'm John C DeVore. It's Crackpot & Buzzkill! In The Mornin'! I was so disappointed yesterday...I was rooting for him. I don't know what they're thinking

00:43 What they're thinking is Croatia just a better team. Well, that was always the case but that's not the way it works I know! I was sitting there too like who didn't get the memo? Are these guys just mutiny? Is it mutiny we see here from the Croatians? Congratulations though you're Slavic brethren on their way to the finals It's a great place too. I recommend it, anyone who wants to take an offbeat vacation in Croatia there is more cool places than anywhere else in the European area and the Adriatic is better than Italy Did we miss something about Croatia? Is there something in play maybe that they're doing so well, that we just didn't understand. That I focused too much on the Brexit World Cup and they didn't throw it that way because of something else happening Could Croatia become... How many people live in Croatia like 2 million people No no I think is more than that We can look it up We shouldn't just be maddening about facts

01:44 Like everybody else, Croatian population. 4.171. That sounds right. Yeah okay so it's a small country? Yeah it's exactly on the other side of the Adriatic from Italy. Parallels Italy and it has the same wine growing characteristics as Italy and they make a lot of good wine there. Do they have a port It's all ports Okay, because you know that's where the Chinese are trying to getting pretty close there with their were their sea route Hmm well maybe it's just maybe it's just a fair game. Oh what am I thinking? Well let's see they have similar colored flags So can't be the flag

02:36 I don't know. I won't be able to predict this one. I'll predict it, France is going to win. Well France should be the better team but again what if Croatia just wins? What an upset that would be! If Croatia wins the World Cup when France hasn't won it for 40 years or something like that... No, that's not true. No, I think it has got to assuage from France they've had all these riots we reported on them and nobody else reporting on all the riots throughout the country they need a win. They need a win. France needs a little boost Yeah, yes okay and they may have also considered the fact that if it was France England It would have been a lot of hooligans that had been amassed at riots that are broken out They would give the games a bad name. This is perhaps true I don't know. I just wasn't it I was really expecting England to win and they had everything going for him But then again back home things not so good things not so good back home with with brexit

03:35 No, Johnson and a couple other people quit the cabinet. And then they got to send off from Theresa May which was something of an embarrassment because everyone's hooting and hollering I mean this guy you think you know the guy serves the government for so long in that they just mock him as he's leaving Boris I have a clip Oh Well Boris always was kind of a guy but I think he liked being mocked Yeah, this is kind of a ridiculous situation. I thought it was rude. I'm just saying the Brits are always bitching about Trump being rude and this is them. Mr Speaker, I want to pay tribute to my right honourable friend... The members for Houghton Price & Howden and Uxbridge & South Riceless for their work over the last two years

04:30 We do not agree about the best way of delivering our shared commitment to honour the result of the referendum, but I want to recognise the work of the former Secretary of State for exiting the European Union. For the work he did to establish a new department and steer through Parliament some of the most important legislation for generations. And similarly to recognise the passion that the former Foreign Secretary demonstrated in promoting in promoting... Order! You have an unseemly atmosphere. I want to hear about these important matters and i think the house should, the Prime Minister Thank you

05:15 So, I like you know having lived in the UK. I really do understand this humor and and I think Boris Johnson probably appreciated that too it was funny That was funny. Important matters, I get a kick out of the speaker. Yes! I want to hear important matters The way i understand what happened that caused this existential crisis is that Theresa May had a big powwow with the checkers which I didn't know what the checkers was

05:59 It's just some old stodgy mansion that I guess the Prime Minister... Yeah, it was where they have their meetings. Yeah! They go out there hang out and drink. But apparently she had already come up with some plan to which-I don't even know if the contents have been made public exactly what the plan was or what the deal was And I think the real accusation is that she Had already pre cleared this with Angela Merkel Before she spoke to anybody else. I have a clip here from Jacob Rees mug mug And I have no idea who he is, but I like what he was saying and it was on the news in the UK So I thought oh this makes sense She's the one who has put these proposals together at checkers She's the one who has to take them to Brussels and by saying that what she's come up with you don't support

06:48 How can you square that with saying she still has your confidence? I think they may have been taken to Brussels and Berlin before they were presented at Chequers, which is a serious question. And there's another question about how they were drawn up because they were drawn up in secret without telling the Secretary of State for leaving the European Union David Davis what was going on whilst his department was working on white paper. It hasn't been handled in a proper governmental system according to our constitutional norms But how do I maintain... Sorry, just to clarify. Are you accusing the Prime Minister of having effectively pre-agreed what she was going to ultimately come up with at the end of Chequers with Brussels? No, I'm just noting that she went to see the German Chancellor just before these proposals were put forward which seem not to be unwelcome to Mrs Merkel. I think that is an interesting point to note but it's not within the norms of the Constitution to discuss British policy

07:43 with other leaders before it's presented to the cabinet. So I'm concerned about this process and i think the result of it is bad but there are many other areas of policy where I support the prime minister so the prime minister personally retains my confidence but this policy does not and I will not support it." So that Jacob Rees-Mogg is a member of parliament, conservative, so it's her own party It sounds like you know she was in cahoots with Angela. Well it sounds like to me There's also, Boris' note that he sent in his resignation had a couple of points that I think should be at least commented upon. He says that she has pretty much and he cites an example that apparently has been going on forever which is the killing of bicyclists in the city of London because they can't come up with any legislation

08:37 And he says to this day, they haven't come up with any. He's mentioning these bicyclists are mostly women for some reason. He says they can't come up with any legislation because the commentary is always well let's let the EU legislate it and his beliefs that all they're doing is just passing off all their responsibilities to the EU so they don't have to do anything and he says this is not what Brexit is about us about getting our independence back. So he quit! And the Foreign Secretary, Foreign Minister? Foreign Secretary as well. No not the foreign... That's what Boris Johnson is who was the other guy who resigned

09:13 Oh, there was a couple of Brexit experts or something. I can't remember who it was. Two others. The Brexit minister? Yes that's right David Davis and his buddy. So is it going to come down to what we predicted will just be a do-over? Is that what's going to happen? Will May get kicked out? How does this work over there? Will they call an election? You should know how it works! I'm form their Brexit strategy is going to be to kind of like, it's like this whole thing is a scam. The strategy is a scam! It's like no-no-no we're gonna let you guys call the shots like you used too and were gonna do what you want with Trey will do whatever you say We're just gonna be end the EU. We are not gonna be in the EU they are gonna become Puerto Rico of the EU

10:17 Well, they already were kind of like that in a way. I think they were one the really one of the cornerstone operations except they kept giving up more and more sovereignty to Brussels. Yeah it's a disaster! I like the comparison of Puerto Rico... I'm gonna stick with that one. And Puerto Ricans everywhere now hate you. No, they shouldn't hate me Britain is a good place to compare themselves too. Oh yeah? Well, Puerto Ricans know that they should either be a state. They should get out of you know crap or get off the pot kind of thing and there's Puerto Rico is not treated well Britain is gonna be in that same situation The plan that I read about now who while this was course reported by The Sun so take it for what you want their headline was Ministers of Parliament have drawn up secret plans to stockpile processed food in the event EU divorce talks collapse

11:16 so that they'll be able to show Brussels that no deal is not a bluff. So in other words... That's right, because already the no-deal is falling apart Yeah! So that's why there's stockpiling processed food for the people of England to eat Are they gonna have to need another one of these World War II rescue things going on with its ships? I don't know Do their ships have to go over and drop food off? Air drop it They got fish The whole area surrounded by fish Why don't we, I think we should do a crowdfund and send them mac and cheese. You know? Hey Americans do love you here have some boxes of craft. We love you! All right well meanwhile President Trump is he already there on his way to meet

12:10 Teresa, I think it is. At the moment he might be. He might be. I mean, I think that NATO talks are over...I don't know what the timeline is because of where they present to the American public with mainstream media unless he says something incredibly stupid or insulting Oh! It doesn't matter what he does you know? It'll be perceived as insulting regardless Yeah They have this blimp they're gonna fly The Trump baby blimp Which, you know it's like that's a big thing in the news in the UK. It's like one of those things everyone can have a little talk about is it proper? Is it improper should be allowed to not be allowed and then of course the Deacon the mayor London is getting a lot of heat for allowing it for providing the permit. Probably his idea well one of the organizers was on MSNBC what this wonderful the organizers

13:08 I think so. Let me see what this is, this was...I think it was an American woman or at least American sounding woman who is supposed to be one of the spokespeople for this event let me see what this clip is hold on Well with this giant inflatable Trump baby we're trying to protest basically Trump's policies and his toxic politics So how can this be a British initiative unless she's an expat? She's not really positioned that way, but anyway. Well, we went with a baby because we feel that Trump has a lot of the characteristics of a baby such as throwing your toys out of the pram. Is that on the rotation? Oh yeah, childlike. He's an adult in the room. Big baby. It's on the rotation. Big baby. Trumps has a lot of the characteristics of a baby such as throwing your toys out of the pram or throwing tantrums

14:10 And we think that those qualities are very problematic for the leader of a nation, so that's why we decided to highlight those. The blimp? I think what we were considering when planning this protest is kind of what would have an effect But moral outrage doesn't work with Donald Trump. He just harnesses that outrage and kind of, to blame shift onto the people who he is outraging. General—just normal diplomacy doesn't work with him. Reasoning doesn't work with him. But he really hates being mocked. So that definitely came into play when we were designing The Blimp.

14:46 So what do you expect to happen at these protests? How do you hope that they will resonate both in your country and potentially... Well if they do it right then the thing will pop because he's so thin-skinned, and we'll deflate. And then I'll have a double whammy. ...test how do you hope that they will resonate both in your country and potentially in ours this week Well, I think one of the reasons why we protest is to send a message to people who have been affected by Trump's disastrous policies. Migrants, refugees but also people who are affected by climate change and... People who are affected by climate change? It's a message!

15:22 affected by... Well, it's out of control. Policies and migrants refugees but also people who are affected by climate change and I guess one of the messages that we're trying to send is that we're still here and we're still resisting. Ah! Resisting? This is no Brit I don't know how this fits together. I did try to find out who's who the originator is an English guy But he talks about Because she is the one of the spokesholes for the project you see that's what he announces that she would be doing all That but when she's talking about these are Americanism term, she's using I guess one of the messages that we're trying to send is

16:01 that we're still here and we're still resisting. Resisting, that's not a British thing this is a US thing And you know there are stil someone on their side and from the messages that we've had it seems to really resonate We feel like we have accomplished at least that goal with this protest I wonder where she switches from I FEEL to WE FEEL Did you catch yourself making an error there? Maybe. I feel, we feel... Yeah, it's probably not that important. It's just everyone is obsessed with it. You gave me an idea! I think the British public should have this idea in mind. I don't know what the legality of BB guns or pellet guns are in their country Oh no, there are already rewards out for people with drones to go and pop it

16:52 fly the drone into it. That's what I was thinking, there should be some popping mechanism. It would think something is floating around... In a United States in this situation like this there'd be something like a sniper rifle which would take care of this thing Yeah, I half kind of expect some brazen dude to just fly his drone right into it that would be the way to go and you have to sacrifice the drone well yeah can imagine a swarm of drones just attacking this thing That'd be great. That would be great footage. You're finally penetrating... That would be good. The thing caves in and falls on top of some power lines, because obviously it looks like it's aluminized that we keep it sturdy. And so if you fall on some power line short out the whole city of London becomes a huge fiasco Now you're just day dreaming now you just wishing I'm hoping! Yeah. I'm not day dreaming this is just wishful thinking We were on the balcony the other night yeah was just a bit before sundown

17:48 And we're up high, we're 29th floor and Tina says holy crap and there was a drone looking right at us. Then this thing was powerful it flew all over the city! I think maybe the operator was down on the lawn of the... The what is it the? Dell Center Everybody should have one of those net guns well You know the thing is if I were to shoot. It would could fall on somebody down below I mean, it's just the street down there So that's not a not a great idea, but I didn't think shooting I think netting it isn't that from the cartoons I don't know if that really exists and yet gun But they're so rude you feel so violated like why who was doing this oh

18:34 I swear, I wouldn't net it. In fact if you can net it with a fish line and you could just throw a net over and then pull it into the place and then stomp on it and then sense like a bug and that sense of you know throwing a paper plane down with a dodon thing... I got your smashed drone you No, I know. There's a...I believe there are some apparatus not dissimilar to the dog dazer that you maybe at a short distance you can interrupt its signal? It would probably just fly back to home base. No, I don't think both…yeah really expensive drone would do that but I think someone just gets scrambled and go off into the Netherlands in this nowhere land on our roof again never find it. I've got a note here from the oh here we go

19:24 DroneShield.com That's where we want to be they have the drone gun Tactical I think that would be for me let's see whoo this is not ha ha Drone gun tactical provides a safe countermeasure against a wide range of drone models it allows for a controlled management of drone payload such as explosives with no damage to common drone models and So what can you do? It has one kilometer coverage. What can you do with this thing, like a tractor beam? Can you pull it in? This is cool! Yeah. See how does it... Your next project. These things they look very militaristic Oh my god these are great but doesn't really show me how it works. What's the URL? DroneShield.com Okay

20:16 Drone, they do their own research. Yeah this is very interesting well although it looks expensive I don't know if...I don't know if I'm going on this. Well If had a drone on the 26th floor or whatever floor you're talking about up there looking and in looking I probably yeah It was weird You who's running that drone? No The Dutch press Oh yeah okay All the more reason. Alright, I'll look into the drone gun You know...I think this is one of the few shows where we can actually play things within context in full length because we don't have any commercial pods to hit or news at the top of the hour. I found- Hard break! Yes very hard break. I found that breakfast meeting that the president had with Jens Stoltenberg of NATO Actually pretty good

21:11 And I think the mainstream M5M really just did a disservice by only showing little bits and pieces of it, you know. Just to get the headline out. Did you see the whole thing? No but I noticed that NATO guy was just... with his Dutch accent. He seemed very happy to be working with Trump. Yeah, in fact the way it started off I have the clip here well listen to what he says First of all it's great to see you again Mr President and good to have you here for the summit and we are going to discuss many important issues at the summit among them is defense spending

21:52 And we all agree that we have to do more. I agree with you that we have to make sure that Allies are investing more, the good news is that Allies has started to invest more in defence." After years of cutting defence purchase, they have started to add billions to their defence purchases. And last year was the biggest increase in defence spending across Europe and Canada in a generation. Why was that last year? It's also because of your leadership message and they won't. Oh, it's because of your leadership that there already... no one reported on this then they've actually started to up it he calls them out It is also because of your leadership because you're a carried message and uh.. They won't write that No I have said it before and They won't write that he says pointing at the press no no I've said it before but the thing is that it really has

22:48 Your message is having an impact and we are going to build on that, make sure that we have a furthering. Now if the media hadn't taken the course they already have they could've said oh really? Well Obama did that okay! They could've taken credit for that but no... They already went all in on this is just insane what he's saying whereas in 2014-2016 very hard to find I could not find a decent clip of President Obama on any search engine where he, I know what he said. He said in 2016, Greece you know congratulations! You guys are right up there that's how your spending your 2% out GDP which must have been some deal with Goldman Sachs after they got bailed out. I have no idea. Actually i believe they're about two point one to two. They're more than most and Obama was complaining about there only being four or five countries who were even at or close to

23:43 And no one gave him shit about it. Actually, European leaders gave him some shit about it but not... I don't think here was like yeah exactly so he was saying the exact same thing yes but Trump had a Obama but Trump had a twist and it was it was one of the best ones I couldn't have even imagined it. It's something that, it was almost like a no agenda deconstruction. Well I have to say I think uh...it is very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia where you're supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out pays billions of dollars a year to Russia so we're protecting Germany were protecting France were protecting all these countries

24:31 And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia. So we're supposed to protect you against Russia, but they are paying billions of dollars to Russia and I think that's very inappropriate. The former chancellor of Germany is the head of the pipeline company that's supplying the gas." It's not like we haven't been looking at that for years! And, you know this Nord Stream which Nord Stream 2 I think is what he's talking about here. There is a Nord Stream there's a Sudstream it's so true we've always looked at it this way. Yeah they got tons of gas and they gotta sell to somebody. And we have the Euro, what do they call it? The Euro Roulette or the Euro Roundabout

25:17 Where you know the Germany purchases the gas they purchase it in euros and then the Russians They got all this money, and they go on purchase Mercedes-Benz is and all kinds of other cool stuff from Germany You know that's the way it works And it's like. It's always been just pay no attention to that don't look over there Or don't look over here Look way over there, and now Trump is just calling him out on and the country's Let's see its France, the Netherlands. I think it's... who else is in this? Who else is in this deal? Well we know Poland's not in the deal like they got cut out of it but... The Netherlands are in it? Yeah oh yeah the Netherlands are in it

26:02 But when President Obama was bitching about the 2% GDP, it was under the veil in 2014. It was under the veil of Ukraine and the Maidan and the Russians! And you know we have to... all this talk about well no, NATO that's an alliance and when 9-11 happened everyone stood up and sent their soldiers The thing was set up to protect everyone from Russia and it's been used subsequently... Well actually, let's get that correct. To protect them from the Soviet Union? Yes. Correct. That's a big difference than Russia. Yeah you're right!

26:42 Let's continue because Trump went on much longer than you saw on TV. Ultimately Germany will have almost 70% of their country controlled by Russia with natural gas, so you tell me is that appropriate? I mean we've been complaining about this From the time I got in, it should have never been allowed to have happened. But Germany is totally controlled by Russia because they will be getting from 60% to 70% of their energy from Russia and a new pipeline. And you tell me if that's appropriate because I think it's not and I think it's a very bad thing for NATO and I don't think it should've happened. And I think we have to talk to Germany about it on top of that, Germany is just paying a little bit over 1%.

27:27 Whereas the United States in actual numbers is paying 4.2% of a much larger GDP So I think that's inappropriate also, you know We're protecting Germany were protecting France we're protecting everybody and yet we're paying a lot of money to protect now This has been going on for decades this has been brought up by other presidents But other presidents never did anything about it because I don't think they understood it or they just didn't want to get involved But I have to bring it up because they think it's very unfair to our country. It's very unfair to our taxpayer And I think that these countries have to step it up not over a 10-year period after step it up immediately Germany is a rich country They talk about they get an increase in his tiny bit by 2030 Well, they could increase it immediately tomorrow and have no problem. I don't think it's fair to the United States so

28:19 We're going to have to do something because we're not going to put up with it. We can't put up with it and It's inappropriate So, we have to talk about the billions and billions of dollars that is being paid to the country that were supposed to be protecting you against You know everybody is talking about all over the world They'll say well wait a minute we are suppose to protect you from Russia But why are paying billions of dollars to Russia for energy. Why are countries in NATO, namely Germany having a large percentage of their energy needs paid you know to Russia and taken care by Russia? Now if you look at it Germany is a captive of Russia because they supply they get rid of their coal plants they get rid of their nuclear

29:04 They're getting so much of the oil and gas from Russia. I think it's something that NATO has to look at, it is very inappropriate you and I agree that its inappropriate but certainly doesn't seem to make sense they pay billions of dollars for Russia and now we have to defend them against Russia. You know, a topic that we started on the NOA Agenda Show in 2012 Trump kind of put on the map in like two minutes. Now, we should mention something else that he points out which I think is worth discussing. They have because of the green movement they have ditched all their coal power and then because of Fukushima they've decided to kill all their nuclear plants which many of which were modern and fine and what was the reason for that? Oh bad nukes bad yep so let me the whole thing almost looks like a complete scam

30:04 Well, they're compensating and that was Angela Merkel's idea too. You're right after Fukushima we were getting rid of all of it! We are going green and can do perfect with wind water and solar and then German industry six months later went uh... Angela this is not working out so well for us? What is the v... They have a term for it. I wonder if it translates to losing our shirts Yes something like that The ummm We have a lot of the energy problems. This is an older clip, I think was one of yours. This is the most comprehensive climate protection package that the German government has ever presented. After saying no to nuclear power by 2022 Germany's now aiming to go even more green by... Energiewende! Energiewende! Getting ready to say goodbye to coal as well As part of the ambitious plan to cut CO2 emissions by 40% to 1990 levels

31:04 About 45% of power generated in Germany still comes from coal. And as the government aims to reduce this dependency, the question isn't only about what to substitute it with but perhaps even more importantly how much it will cost in a country where energy bills are already among the highest in Europe Indeed, German consumers have already spent an extra 106 billion euros since 2000 to cover cleaner energy initiatives via a charge added to their bills. Germany is Europe's industrial powerhouse with the biggest appetite for energy on the continent The government's ultimate goal is to switch to renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass currently generating around a quarter of the country's needs. But skeptics warn no matter how green they may want to go a fossil fuel backup is vital to keep industries working Yeah that was the report from 2015 so that's... That is just about the time when the Energiewende was in full swing and it just didn't work out

32:01 You don't hear much about it anymore at the time. Oh, yes on the forefront Germany leading the way It's all that stuff from 2015 you don't hear about any more That was there was the high point for highest speed rail oh Although we did Play a clip about a month ago from NPR David from who is he again? Yeah I know who he is but I can't think of who he is He was on NPR talking about the Nord Stream 2. David, I want to ask you about Nord Stream two which is this pipeline project proposed to run from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea This like I feel like complicates some of the policy narratives we've seen here where the US has been trying to block The construction of that pipeline in part to prevent the Russians from getting too much power from their supplying of fossil fuels to Europe

32:52 What do you make of the Trump administration taking this sort of fairly strong anti-Russia position at this time? One, one of the things dividing us from Europe actually us being wanting to be tougher on Russia on this issue than they are. Yeah, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is actually – it's an Eastern European issue. What? The reason the Russians want to build this pipeline that allows them to supply gas directly to Germany bypassing Poland is that they never want to cut off Germany. That's too scary. They've tangled with Germans a few times. They'd rather not do it again but this pipeline allows them to turn off gas to Poland. and to Ukraine, and to other places without turning off gas to Germany. So the reason that the United States has stood strong or not as strong as it should against this pipeline is to protect our NATO's eastern flank. Now it happens that this is a rare case where Donald Trump has another priority along with

33:47 his pro-Russia policy, and that is he is very sympathetic to these increasingly authoritarian small states in Eastern Europe which are probably his only friends on the continent. Especially the Poles who gave him such a good time What does that mean? What we're going to see is Germans have a lot of clout. Hey, come back to Trump! We show you good time in Warsaw! Remember? It was good time except he never gave him the visa waivers. He's probably his only friends on the continent especially the Poles who gave him such a such a good time but What we're going to see is that Germans have a lot of clout and a lot more clout than the Poles. What traditionally happens at these kinds of summits is that there is vigorous debate inside the leaders' realm, which is then cushioned by cooperation outside

34:34 I don't know how much leverage Donald Trump has over Germany right now, and zero. And it is going to be hard for him to win this without being able to mobilize any sympathetic opinion in Germany." Yeah, wrong again from who was a political commentator? Yeah, commentator, old hack he used to be ... Speechwriter for Bush. George W. Bush. So he clearly was wrong because the leverage is the NATO payments. That's the leverage! Yeah, definitely. To me it's like wow! You know I believe Trump is another one of the anti-Trumpers Oh oh i'm sure Poland did come up in this breakfast meeting? You know NATO is an alliance of 29 nations and there are sometimes differences and different views and also some disagreements on gas

35:21 And the fact that we have a pipeline from Russia to Germany is one issue where Allies disagree. But the strength of NATO is that despite these differences, we have always been able to unite around our core task – to protect and defend each other because we understand that we are stronger together than apart. I think that two world wars and the Cold War taught us that we are stronger together How can you be together when a country is getting its energy from the person you want protection against or from the group that you want protection? Because we understand that when we stand together also in dealing with Russia, we are stronger. I think what we have seen... No! You're just making Russia richer. Well not dealing with Russia, but making Russia richer

36:04 I think that even during the Cold War, NATO Allies were trading with Russia. Then there have been disagreements about what kind of trade arrangements we should go into. I think trade is wonderful. I think energy is a whole different story. Energy is much different than normal trade And you have a country like Poland that won't accept the gas. You take a look at some of the countries, they won't accept it because they don't want to be captive to Russia. But Germany as far as I'm concerned is captive to Russia because it's getting so much energy from Russia. So we're supposed to protect Germany but they're getting their energy from Russian explain that and it can't be explained. All right thank you press all right everybody

36:51 So the implication is that Poland doesn't want to be a slave to Russia, which I don't believe. I think they would love to get some gas and by the way if you hear in your end this is a pro tip from The No Agenda Show If you want to propagate just a little bit of formula for here anyone talking about the oil pipeline from Russia You can then correct them and say it's a gas pipeline natural gas which is a mistake I've heard everywhere because people really don't read up on this stuff. And I think I know a bit about the pipelines and the whole idea here for Trump is to protect American interests because we want to sell our gas, that's why we have... Yeah, that said, I think there's a false hope but... Well maybe but... But one thing you did is interesting as a Trump if you didn't notice cause I sure did kept repeating the same mantra over and over and over

37:41 Germany's beholden to Russia and they're getting a lot of money from Germany in some attempt, I think, to get the mainstream media to cover it. Yeah well the mainstream media has a problem though because how do you hate Russia? And they've meddled with our democracy, they've ruined our country but our president is a puppet Now Germany's okay. It's all right, Angola. No they've painted themselves into a corner Yeah it's horrible and so we get crappy news coverage And so yeah were they happy to have those kids rescued at all? Yeah and even better today Stormy Daniels arrested Even though today We have the public testimony by Peter Strzok

38:34 One of the FBI. That's the hot news for today, yeah But you know they already had a closed-door session so as far as I'm concerned this is just a script and everyone's reading off questions that have already been answered They just want to get the answers in public And it's showing how fabulous you are and look at my question oh I got him ooh I nipped him there didn't I? This is theater I doubt if it will learn anything, but you and I will both spend hours watching it after the show. I just don't think there's going to be much there. I think they'll be a couple of good cynicisms... Oh yeah but that'll that'll be about it. Euronews did give us little rundown of the contributions from countries of the NATO alliance In 2014 NATO countries agreed to spend 2% of gross domestic product on defense every year up to 2024

39:21 The target is described as a guideline and there's no penalty for not meeting it. In March, NATO released the figures for 2017 and only a handful of countries hit or bettered the 2% target. The US spent the most at 3.57 percent of GDP. The second highest spender perhaps surprisingly was Greece. The UK came in at 2.12%. The member that spent the least was Luxembourg at 0.46%, well short of the target Estonia and Poland have significantly increased their spending since the 2014 NATO summit where members agreed the 2% target. That was in response to Russia's annexation of the Crimea region, which came after 25 years of cuts to European defence budgets

40:05 Nevertheless, European Council President Donald Tusk maintains that as a whole the EU spends more on defence than China or Russia. In the next multi-annual financial framework the European Commission proposes increasing defence and security spending to 27.5 billion euros That would take up 2.4% of the total MFF budget 13 billion euros of that would be dedicated to the European Defense Fund over the next seven years. But no one knows if that will be enough to convince Donald Trump of Europe's commitment to NATO and defense." So it would only take them 27 1⁄2 billion euros to be up-to-par across the eurozone? Did I misunderstand that?" I couldn't follow very well because his numbers weren't the same as ones that I have in my head

40:53 And I need to add that when President Obama was bitching about this on his trip and his NATO conference, and he had sit down with Angela. It was right after it had been revealed that our NSA have been spying on Angela's cell phone remember? I think there were some kind of veiled apology even yes right can you imagine if it happened under a Trump presidency oh my goodness Well, they did have an interesting commentary that was read on this. This is the PBS NewsHour I believe from Tusk. Yeah, Tusk. Donald Tusk. The Dick. Tusk the dick yes. Tusk the dick he... They had Kay Bailey Hutchinson who to me she's like an old political hack

41:47 who's been in the government since I was a kid. It's like my mother and she turns out to be a great Trump apologist, she is really good at handling it but play this Tusk vs Trump vs NATO clip from... I wonder then how you respond to this? No no sorry stop! This is What's Her Name show, the British woman that has And a poorer, poorer... Oh, Christiana Anampour. That woman yes she has a show now and she does these interviews it's very much like a PBS show Is she in the UK? When she does this? Or is she in the studio? I think where she is. She's been kind of pushed off, you know CNN pushed her off to... Oh they put on PBS! They gave her a special slot. Okay oh okay. I wonder then how you respond to the European Commission president This is Donald Tusk message to President Trump today First of all dear America appreciate your allies after all you don't have that many

42:45 And, dear Europe spend more on your defense because everyone respects an ally that's well prepared and equipped. Obviously the second part you're gonna like and the president is going to like but he's pretty much punching back because President Trump has treated these allies as mere transactional cogs in a wheel. Well I think... Hey! What is EU talking about? Them's fighting words. We don't have many friends. Yeah, that's what I thought. It was insulting. You're gonna give our guy a bad time for being an insult artist? What about this Tusk character? President Trump actually has very great respect for our allies. He does think that there should be more because it is a European alliance along with North America I think he's been playing about that but Christiana, I think that his goal is to make sure that NATO IS the strongest

43:40 With all this bravado and the bra-voor going on, I I kind of agree with her. I've been noticing this, it appears that a lot of Trump's message and a lot of his actions are very similar to previous presidents. I mean really not that different. A little straightforward or as we would say in Holland, corto de bochos, kind of short cutting through the corner there just to get to the other side but its' the way he says it is just upset everybody

44:26 It's truly his mannerisms, it's truly his... you know he is like a cowboy movie come to life. You know it's scary! It's scary to people who have seen because I think this was because I was watching Obama trying to find the clip of him talking about NATO and how he would talk like this and our allies Best allies all across Europe. Yeah, and it was just okay You kind of flow into it you know didn't take wasn't hard to understand he was you know He's completing his sentences You know stuff that this president just is incapable of but his message is kind of the same He's a builder people who need to remember this my god if this is like How many wealthy guys do have we not met John?

45:16 Who, when you meet them... Too many. Yeah When you meet them and I'm not talking rich, I'm talking wealthy So your in the billions of dollar range Yeah we're talkin' about billionaires And they come across as some are illiterate I know rich guys who are actually illiterate who will say, hand me the phone and say could you just type this message And it's just the way of the world, you know. These very successful people and we've met a number of them many of them are just... I know many! Yeah they're brash well give me an example can you give me an example? A good example how about Hearst for instance he has some of that. Hearst does have a lot of that. It's brash you know is this brass not as bad though

46:06 Not as bad. I mean, it ages on them because Andy Hearst which was Patty Hearst's dad when this whole group of the Hearst Corporation went to the media lab which was great for me. I was with Will and two of us snuck in with the executives so we didn't have to sign all those non-disclosures they won't show you anything at the media lab unless you sign off on a bunch of stuff so i didn't sign anything So we got to see a lot of interesting stuff and talk to hear a lot of interesting pitches. They had pitches that they would throw at these newspaper guys and these publishers, and Randy was like...

46:46 It was like he was just kind of oblivious to things. He's like, oh... The best way to describe most of these guys seems to me to be my description of the woman I saw at a military display in Pacific Heights and one of the parks and there is this Pacific Heights woman who walked over with her little poodle or whatever it was, a trendy dog at the moment she is totally Pacific Heights type loaded, obviously. And the guy is she's looking at one of the exhibits and he said she and the guy says what is that thing? She said it He said as a personnel mine. And she said and she says oh I have a friend who works in personnel and then she walks off That is what we're talking about Yeah kind of this

47:41 dead. But it's just a way that own world thing, it's hard to explain but these guys in real estate these guys and oil and big bit they're unsophisticated there unpolished you got a lot of them in Texas of course and they're incredibly rich but their shrewd the shrewd and they know business the basic tenets of human behavior in a negotiation A lot of them? Of course not all of them I mean the Silicon Valley types a lot of were They're made their money by, I mean Bill Gates is a good example. By being more focused than you and I could ever be if we combined all our skills they could focus to such an extreme that they can really make things happen but beyond that it's like you know? I remember I went to a baseball game once with Bill Gates and had to explain the hit-and-run to him and it was like what? It wasn't easy by the way to explain it

48:39 But bottom line is that Trump is very simple in his thinking, and I think that resonates. People at home can understand what he's saying. Wait a minute! So these guys are giving billions of dollars to Russia and then they're going to give even more with the gas they're buying from them? They're cutting out our buddies there in Ukraine or Poland... Let's just say Ukraine was the most important one because it was so important for Russian gas. And meanwhile these guys aren't pulling their weight. I mean, and Trump directly talks to the taxpayers unfair to the taxpayers Hey, I sit at home ago Yeah What's up with that? It's but it's all it still kind of the same thing You know and like this summit but also the g7 is the same you know everyone goes there has a couple drinks has some tea They do their photos and then they release the communique we're all gonna work together We're gonna do much better

49:39 Then Trump just doesn't see the benefit of that. Yeah, he doesn't. He doesn't! So I'm enjoying it. They're painting it into a corner— Well the problem is nobody's getting this information, you know the fact that he's trying to get it out but they're not going to pick it up. I don't think so either because they don't know what to do with it. Here's your summary of the whole Trump— experience in NATO was that one photo which I had in the newsletter. Which you can take depending on the dimension you're in, you can say wow everybody's going this way and Trump is a moron he's looking the other way or... You can say now that's a guy who's looking at other opportunities Or building code violations as you said in the newsletter. That was my punchline. That was good joke. What's the second tooth clip?

50:34 Let's play it. Now, Christiane you know I served with other presidents and they all said the same thing. I think President Trump is saying it in a way that they are now remembering and really turning on the dime and doing better. Look, I understand many US Presidents and leaders have complained and they want that 2%. Obviously the Europeans do things that complement U.S. participation in the US contribution. But here's the thing, the tone is what is creating existential angst amongst your NATO allies. Donald Tusk again basically has said that the tone

51:23 of President Trump, his language meant that allies could no longer assume that NATO will endure. Now that might sound alarmist but I'm going to play you again a much hackneyed soundbite. President Trump's initial first ever comment. What does this mean? A much hackneyed sound bite? Yeah she uses that word it's interesting when i heard it the first time because what it means is that has been beaten to death Or a cliche it's just something that's been used a lot over and over and over again like the network does you know they always keep throwing stuff? Let's pay attention to it because that's a milieu type of word we can figure out where she belongs who she belongs To I think we should hear that word more often. That's an interesting idea didn't think of that some milieu term It could be yeah, no longer assume that NATO will endure now

52:12 that might sound alarmist, but I'm going to play you again a much hackneyed soundbite. President Trump's initial first ever comments in public on NATO were not heartening to those who believe in the alliance. Listen to this for a second. Many countries doesn't cover terrorism. Okay, it covers the Soviet Union Which is no longer in existence and NATO has to either be rejiggered we change here changed for the better I'm not saying the other thing is bad about NATO what paying too much? We're spending a tremendous billions and billions of dollars on NATO

52:52 So, there are a lot of thoughts in that statement. But you can see that those initial comments are still the comments of the president and it does destabilize the allies they're kind of concerned about it because You know when you talk about the Wales summit and indeed in 2014 There was a pledge to up the payments every single one except a couple have upped their payments to nearly 2% She's conflating two different things Because I remember, I recall this very well. Trump said NATO is outdated and specifically stated that it was because they do not address terrorism or cyber and since then we now have NATO with I guess an office somewhere that deals with terrorism And they probably have some dude in the basement named Ben who's in charge of cyber But that's what he was talking about initially

53:47 Well, that was the clip from the initial discussion. Yes and he did specifically discuss the fact that and I think this is what she's referring to the fact that we're paying too much. Yeah. We're getting robbed. Well, we're paying more than our fair share. According to the numbers it's way up there and we have a bigger GDP in this percentage thing you know that's the thing that kind of gets me if it was a flat fee I don't see how it should be a function of the GDP right well what do you think about this in general so can we just get rid of it is NATO really that important just seems like another big money sink

54:31 I think he was hinting at that. But then again, if you remember the McMaster's speech that we had that I clipped where he discussed how the world works in one of his lectures which was I thought the most fascinating thing ever He mentions that the way the world works at the moment is that we're the big dog and then we have to support all these things. And, we have to keep these things going because it's all part of the world order as it exists in how we're running things right? So, it's not like you can just bully nilly start changing things be According to McMaster, he said that you could do whatever. I mean if we wanted to, we could change things but right now the way it works is this way and NATO's part of that so... But really all it is just an excuse for us to be the boss of everybody. Yeah but that's the way the system works right now. That's what keeps the… That's what keep… The only reason

55:27 That and the dollar being the reserve currency that people keep wanting to do. People want to scuttle this, by the way, that's what McMaster described but that's the only reason we can be a hundred trillion dollars in debt to the world and still living prosperously and growing fruits and vegetables and having the time of our lives pretty much. Speak for yourself! You know, it's not like you're not living in Austin in a depressed area where everybody is like... Come to the streets of downtown Austin. I will show you! Well there are some errors and judgment the way this being handled that for sure but

56:11 say that you can probably put down the Democratic Party and they're, oh my god we can't offend anybody. Oh don't let him poop don't say anything kind of attitude about things. Let him poop don't say anything yeah I think that's actually a city ordinance it's the let them poop don't say anything ordinance we haven't seen the pooping yet only the urination. It's coming! Poop is coming, poop in our future yeah well that was just... We often don't even say, well what the hell is this? I mean yeah okay it's a show that we're top dog and we have our bases everywhere. I guess it's the way, yeah. It's the way the world works. Yeah and that's why we have these bases. Just a reminder hey! Hey just so you know we're around We have a base in your country You want to just...you know or we have a base right outside your country Or we got drone headquarters in your country or outside of your country I mean its ridiculous if you look at it but If you wanna do things the way we do it Yeah it is the way things are And were living the life of Riley

57:13 Nobody wants to appreciate that. I'm not complaining, I am not complaining Here was the response from Candanavia Despite that criticism from Donald Trump Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending Canada's military spending Canada will continue to step up We've been part of every single NATO mission since the very beginnings of NATO we will continue to be there with effective and performing troops and supports to demonstrate our continued unflinching support for the transatlantic alliance. Trudeau spent the day in Latvia where he formally announced that Canada will extend its mission in the country by another four years it also means another 85 troops bringing a total in the region to 540. He visited some of those soldiers today, Trudeau will head to Belgium for the NATO summit next

58:07 Trump has been calling for all NATO countries to pay 2% of their GDP towards military spending. For Canada, that would mean nearly doubling the defense budget and the Prime Minister says Ottawa has no plans to do so. Oh? They have no plans to do so? He starts off as a big supporter but he won't give them money they agreed too? Yeah! And this is... This guy bugs me. There's another talking point there, is that well you know everybody sent their troops which you can see in two different ways and multiple dimensions as you know all other countries sent their troops when we were fighting evil Saddam Hussein oops wrong guy in Iraq but to you know you can also see it isn't I didn't feel like paying any so they just sent some children here

58:59 We're good, right? That's the way I see it. Hey! And we send some kids over and get blowed up." So there was an incident with that guy... Unfortunately this clip was produced and it's a... And I have to kind of give a...I had to cut it way down because it was just not usable. It was Trudeau. It's the clip is called blasting Trudeau. It's Trudeau at a, you know, it's some sort of what do you call him? A town hall and he just veterans up there with no legs

59:40 And he's standing on these things and bitching about the fact that he can't get his compensation from the Veterans Affairs after the government promised they're going to do nothing but good things for them. And everybody seems to be, Canada seems to be upset about the fact that while they can't get their money there has been a bunch of ex-ISIS people who said this... Oh yeah I have seen this story Yeah, some ex-ISIS guy got $10 million dollars in compensation for being called a name or something. It's from a different fund you see? It's a different piggy bank. Yes and so this guy is up there bitching now what I want to hear the end of this guys complaining which went on for awhile

1:00:22 And then you're gonna hear Trudeau, and I realize that Trudeau in the last clip you played and Obama to some extent. They all sound like big nurse from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Like they're talking to insane people You know so again my question is what veterans were he talked about was the ones that fought for? The freedoms and values that use so proudly boast about or was it the ones who fought against Because honestly, Mr. Prime Minister I was prepared To be injured in the line of duty when I went to, when I joined the military. Nobody forced me to join the military." I really liked the piano John it's really working for him It's just clutching at my heartstrings. You know what I said? I apologize for that before the clip. Yeah People that produce these clips and then decide that for some reason they think it's cool to do...I don't think you should do that on any show No ruins it

1:01:20 Yeah, so I do want to point it out. That's what that makes a difference when you hear with the piano people I was prepared To be killed in action Well wasn't prepared for mr.. Prime minister this actually is actually maybe this was a press conference at Nordstrom's is that possible and It's funny because I was ignored since the other day yes, it's very yeah without just one of those self playing pianos Oh, the cheap and the gone cheap. I was prepared to be killed in action What wasn't prepared for Mr Prime Minister is Canada turning its back on me So which veteran was it that you were talking about? Thank You sir thank you for your passion and your strength and being here today to share this Justifiable frustration and anger

1:02:22 Wow. Huh Yeah, they turned on him. Yeah, they sure did Don't have enough money right now that's not a very it's not very satisfying No Especially when there's a guy this ten million dollar thing distribution these ex-isis guys I mean come on So that end the bit at the end That's where you think it was like one flu yes when he talks like like big nurse and

1:03:20 There's Ratched, whatever her name is. Where's Ratchet? Ratchet Matchett I can't remember her name and she always said now you should be more calm You shouldn't act this way because... Yeah, you're right Well that is... Bad things can happen Yes And that's what everybody wants to hear That is what makes us feel good Well it's apparent they want to hear They don't like the way Trump presents things That's for sure but you brought this up earlier when you talked about Obama's very slow and calculated way of saying anything. Yes, yes. And I'd say Hillary fell into that category. I used to always say this people said oh she's such a wonderful speaker you listen to Hillary in her normal speaking pattern it's word at a time as though you're a three-year old yeah so

1:04:18 I think we made our point. Yes, yeah, I don't think there's much left to say and let's just see what happens. Nothing probably... Well it is still a possibility that big blimp can be shot down That would really appreciate that! That would be very funny. That will be footage of the year And how can anyone resist? This is what gets me if the British public especially Londoners If they cant find a way to pop that thing They really are, they've lost it. Well 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 controlling the drone for the blimp Dvorak! In the morning to you Mr Adam Curry excuse me. I can't find my tube. Ah! In the morning all ships and sea boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the water all the dames and knights out there. Yes in the morning everybody in the troll room their noagendastream.com

1:05:17 Helping me out as usual. I'm always following the troll room as As we do the show live on Thursday and Sunday, it's often extremely helpful sometimes very annoying But that's what you know the trolls And I also want to say in the morning too Mike Riley and he brought us the artwork for episode 1049 The title of that episode the previous one was rent men and There was a lot of good artwork and then we had some choices to make We could only choose one, of course for the art but several are contenders for newsletters and other uses. This was the map of the mall? Yes it was a tough decision because there were a couple... The best technically I thought was the ear plugs or whatever they call them. Yeah yeah earbuds

1:06:11 Yeah, it was because it related to some of the aspects of the show and is really pretty well done. And we could probably find a use for that someplace else. The mall art was one shot if we weren't going to use it... Right? We wouldn't use it again but that's often a consideration It was funny. It had humor in it. Yeah. And there were funnier than the other art. You know then there were some Al Shabab guys with plastic bags didn't quite work. We liked the marijuana cigarette package made in Canada. That was funny Like the Facebook cigarettes that was also good. It's hard to do there's so much good art it really is well It's either when it rains at pores, that's true We've had many of show where there is nothing

1:06:54 And nobody gets a clue and we have to go back and dig around to find some evergreen art which coincidentally matches the show. Or, the third fallback which is the toughest one is where we just pick an evergreen piece that's generic – it says no agenda on it or something like that but we try to avoid That particular fallback, but it is a part of our value for value Network our system that we've built up over the years and we really appreciate Mike's Work and all of the artists who upload to know agenda art generator comm I think there's now 17 thousand pieces of art just Indeed quite a lot quite a lot of artwork in there a lot been created. All right So let's thank a few people We had a very strange kind

1:07:48 donation day, it's like nobody came in at executive producer level so we have the top associate executive producer level that gets boosted and coincidentally there are two of them so it is a tie. Ah! With your favorite number so they both become executive producers then? Well, you know that unless we have a tiebreaker in place which we don't I was thinking by the date or by We don't have a tiebreaker So well, we had to put him but I think we had to boost them both. Okay, so they got lucky we got lucky guys here These are two lucky guys Peter Tangstrom into the Netherlands 2 3 4 5 6

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1:16:49 Well, talking about funny I do have a...I went and dug through the archives. Somebody sent me a What do you call auto-tune version of this guy, this foamer that we had him on and I watched the thing again because right after the Auto tune version there was the original which is funny. The auto tune thing wasn't... Wait wait wait who's a foamer? What's a foamer? Who's a foamer? A foamer is a railroad nut Oh yes! We've talked about this okay who goes out on the tracks and records binaural stereo... Sometimes he don't take the moves He does what he does And you have to remember this when you hear it

1:17:29 And I also have an ISO for later. But this is the complete clip, this is a two minute clip it's just...I'm telling you every time I hear this I am laughing literally laughing and trying to catch my breath. Okay ah! I've been waiting for this moment for months and it's finally here I'm finally going to get a heritage unit on camera. Yeah! All right, look at that, 1953 EA. Woo-hoo! Oh yeah listen to that bell. Take a look at that. Oh my god!

1:18:13 Listen to that horn! Oh my god, oh she's beautiful. She is beautiful yeah! Alright...oh no it's a BL2 too! Oh, the SNC-52! Oh my God. We're going to watch this. This is special. This is special. That horn gives me the chills and that chills have absolutely nothing to do with how cold it is here but that doesn't stop a foamer especially when it comes to heritage equipment

1:18:58 Oh, this is fantastic! Oh my goodness. Look at that blue and gray. Couple to the Iowa Pacific number 518. Woohoo! Listen to that horn! That's fantastic. Oh my gosh look at that all right I wonder who TC Durant is? Oh well. Ah! This is just awesome I've been waiting for this for months

1:19:36 Look at that, Illinois Central livery right here in North Creek. Ah That is awesome I am somewhat speechless This guy's having an orgasm yeah well you're not listen to the whole thing as a sexual thing He has an orgasm and then kind of get you know he's done it's unbelievable Yeah Well you're not far from it with your Zephyr obsession A foamer. I mean, yeah... Come on admit it you're a foamer! Oh my god listen to that horn! Oh my god! Nah, you love that stuff You can play the ISO to know what is because I think this would be a good way to end the show Okay if you win I had an ISO but you totally win absolutely you can have it no problem

1:20:31 Man oh man. Oh John I have the device no one I've been looking for the ultimate and finally finally because you know I've been looking for a Foam that is modern can do 4G, but doesn't have apps in the whole tracking infrastructure We've all followed your exploits With baited breath okay it is the Kyocera dura x VL te Thanks to John in Lee Valley, Pennsylvania who turned me on to this. Unbelievable! This is a modern flip phone. You're gonna want this phone and in fact I am using it in the house more than my iPhone. Kyocera what? Dura XV LTE

1:21:24 So it's an LTE, there is a LTE radio in it. It's a flip phone but its military grade you know? It has pass certification You can run a tank over it and throw it into the drink for 6 hours Is it weight a ton? What does... It fits so comfortably on your hand Its heavyish But I realize how dumb smartphone is for handling And when you hold on to this, it's like oh you can swing this around. You don't have to worry about it It's not gonna fall out of your hand But here's what's beautiful about it is it has an fully HTML5 compliant browser? It even does the noagendasocial.com which is like all kinds of jacked up JavaScript and... So this thing is waterproof Waterproof yes proof

1:22:12 It does IMAP email as fast. It's blazingly fast, so it really doesn't do more than end up five megapixel camera It doesn't do much more than your browser, which you can pretty much do everything that you need to do. Of course text messaging... It's got a hole in it so you can see the screen through the... No! It has a second screen on the front old-school. Oh it's two screens? Yeah! The screen on the front gives you like little notifications. Like time, it's got this time... Very rugged looking. It looks mil spec. So the only thing that of course is missing is a QWERTY keyboard because then I'd really be happy, but I found that it has really oversized buttons. It's meant also for if you're climbing Mount Everest and you can still tap something out which I now find to be

1:23:04 feature because the phone is so fast it does things so well that you know now I'm actually like, well...I'm not gonna send this text message now because you know i have to kind of concentrate on typing it out either with the click-click or with the predictive text whatever its called. There's 65 bucks on Amazon. I'm telling you! It's under a hundred dollars Thing is the battery life is nothing like a Nokia. It's not five days But it'll certainly do two days with you know with just regular use I am blown away by this You know YouTube videos plays them, and I got your newsletter the other day Opened that up it opened up in some kind of editing software Which you can't find if you just say yeah If you're looking to open up the editing software but when I clicked on your word doc

1:23:49 In the email program, it opened up. I could edit it perfect! It's an unbelievable...it's a great phone and does everything you need to do except doesn't distract you is very pro-sanity type device And I know that tracking is to a minimum because I'm getting ads when looking at any website just trolling around and its all location based stuff Hey Austin! Of course they can still find my location That's not that hard to do It's very GPS. No, it made that yes, it does you turned off there's no maps though

1:24:27 Well, what's good is GPS without the maps. I have a feeling...I think this phone was made exclusively for AT&T originally and they had an app infrastructure so you could download a media center and some kind of mapping thing And that no longer exists So i'm not on AT&T so I don't have access to it anymore Yeah, I'm looking at the one here that says it's the Dura XV and it's a Verizon phone Do they have GSM? Yes! This is a GSM Unlocked GSM Okay But it has an AT&T logo on it and I'm using it on T-Mobile. Yeah, you're probably right. It's probably a surplus. Oh yeah, it was totally surplus but this is so fast yet it's slow enough that you don't get obsessed with your phone like... And the screen is just small enough that it's like, oh well I can look at some stuff for a little bit and I'm done! It's really working against all of your

1:25:19 instincts to want to do more and it kind of slows you down but not where it counts which is, y'know rendering a webpage getting your email opening uh...a picture taking a picture very happy with that device I'm over the E71 hands-down in particular because it has a future and it's..I think there may be some low level tracking stuff cause I think its some custom weird version of Android 4 or something That's under the hood. I'm not quite sure exactly, it was all custom they did a lot of work. It's really cool to have a flip phone and you know what? The adults under 40 as we now call them they love it like oh cool and they flip it open Oh, I had one of these yeah These are great

1:26:10 And they like it, you know? Like oh yeah I remember. It's so fun to rage hang up on someone just by snapping the lid shut you know like, eh screw ya! Boom done and this one the lid actually stays on The lid doesn't fly off because it's made of just...it's rubber. It's fantastic Great device Alright Little fat in the pocket Tip Yes that is a real tip Real tip Let me see, do I have anything in our OT? Nah. Don't really have a lot of OTG stuff that was really it except that there is some question now Facebook is trying to figure out how they influence elections and as the story in The Wall Street Journal this over the weekend that they've given Researchers full access for election studies and this new group of academics

1:27:06 Who get like I think it's did they're talking about 2.2 billion records sounds like a lot Let me see what do you have here? What is the name of this yeah, okay social science one is the name of the group Formed earlier this year with backing from nonprofits including the John s and James L night foundation And the Charles Koch Foundation and they have $25 million dollars they're giving away to researchers who have proposals for understanding how social media, specifically Facebag influences or can be used to influence elections. But in the meantime they've given these jabronis everyone's data which I find rather... Well i mean the first thing that comes to mind is I don't think that Facebook necessarily

1:28:04 Um, Swayze elections. Well no that's why the whole thing is ridiculous I mean what are they thinking? Yeah. Someone's... I think it definitely gets groups riled up No someone just put together a money making scheme and once again we're not in it! Yeah I know we gotta get into one of these deals Oh, well. Anybody out there can do good grant writing? That's what we need. We get a grantsmanship guy because that's what this is all about. It's kind of a combination of a grant and a proposal because the grant writers can do that kinda work. There's a trick to it. I did want to mention that whereas I'm particularly concerned... Well yeah, I kinda gave up on you know with the government is spying on me and you can only protect yourself so much

1:28:54 But what technology is doing, it's made a change in human behavior which is very troubling and there was this story that I came across. I don't know if you saw this but there was a big Twitter thread. This guy and gal on the flight... Some southern lady asked to switch seats, some like sweet southern lady with a drawl. Can I switch seats so she could be next to her boyfriend or whatever it was? And anyway this couple who swapped seats now they're sitting behind these two people

1:29:31 And the entire flight, they're taking pictures of them from behind or you know sneaky like walking up the aisle and take a little picture. And they're documenting in a tweet stream this romance that... You know it's like oh it's a romance is coming together and maybe we had something to do with it. And I was like Oh! This is so great as the best thing on Twitter and all this fabulous. And I'm like you are invading these people's privacy And everyone's cheering it on. It was bizarre! Yeah, that kind of thing is kind of bizarre and it does happen and it does...it is an invasion of privacy and it gets cheered on you're right as something there were dead is a fundamental change I think? I could be wrong but I think it's a fundamental change. But also they're completely just creating story or narrative if you will

1:30:25 about these two people, which is very much in line. We've talked about this This is very much in line with how I think Instagram works You know you see a picture and then you see oh we have our baby And then the next picture isn't you know the babies 2 months old and all that space in between? You build up with happy story or happy thoughts all these people are so fun And we've created this innate ability to really enhance our storytelling capability based on just simple snapshots and just make stuff up. And it fits, you know? It's like oh yeah I feel good about that! The story sounds right... give me more! It's a very odd thing but its cultural

1:31:08 And we're all in. I was kind of horrified, like well... Isn't this just an expression of something that already exists and was being suffocated? Maybe it wasn't getting enough attention at all, it's done is brought to the fore but has always been within the system and hasn't changed anything? Is that possible? Possible but what changed? What changes is you can share with the entire world That's a technological change not necessarily good one Well, I would argue just the opposite. Okay? It's a good thing Why is this what people want this is part of the community of mankind okay? No it's just if not like we can stop it. It's just it's what to go You know I'm cognizant of this because when I was a celebrity it was It was odd because you'd never want to be caught on

1:31:56 With your with your cellulite out, you know You're aware that people are observing you and taking photos of you and doing that secretly And doing all kinds of you know like surveillance type things But you're very aware of it and you get these filters and you build that up but it's not necessarily nice way to live Thinking about I would think it's terrible where they lived. That's the life of a celebrity That's why he go live in a gated mansion Yeah, so of course I don't need that anymore now. It's just you know yeah You love it? I'm just one shopping cart away from being like the homeless guy on second street Well that would get you back on the top of the news oh yes Yeah, because all another guys broke Homeless Adam Curry is now homeless yeah, I tried to be a podcaster He said VH1 behind the music whatever happened to

1:32:51 Adam Curry, former podcaster. After dropping to level of podcaster... How did the podcast go south? We lost all our support. People were contributing money and then they stopped! Here's Jordan Peterson talking about the podcast I wish it was specifically about ours But I, when I heard him say this. I was like oh yeah! I forgot! Yeah hell yeah yes Videos is that you can't do anything else while you're doing them right? When your reading, your reading and when you're watching a video You know you can be distracted but you have to pay attention the video but if you are listening to a podcast... ...You could be driving a forklift or long haul truck

1:33:33 Or you can be exercising or doing the dishes. And so what that means is that podcasts free up, say two hours a day for people to engage in educational activities that they wouldn't otherwise be able to engage in and that's about one-eighth of people's lives So podcasts hand people one eighth of their life back to engage in high level education Then I thought Well, people actually want to do this. There's a massive market for high-level intellectual engagement that is much deeper and more desperate than anyone suspected I think one of the things I've realized in the last couple of days as I have been thinking this through is that the narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think we're stupider then we are

1:34:17 And so people have a real hunger for deep intellectual dialogue, and that can be met with these new technologies. And that has revolutionary significance and that's starting to unfold. You're welcome! You're ever-so-welcome! Let's put this to the test shall we? He says… Well let me put this to the test for a second He says that the bandwidth of television has become so narrow, that people are just clamoring for something intellectual. And I would say that to a degree The No Agenda Show is intellectual. At least we're challenging our intellect which is a challenge by itself. Challenging the way people look at things Let's have a quick...just a litmus test let's see what's new on television then

1:35:01 Coming to TLC. What I do isn't just pimple popping, I don't want to be a hunchback. I'm changing people's lives. Oh my gosh! Dr Pimple Popper begins Wednesday at 10 on TLC. I thought she was just putting me on. No, it's a real show and she pops blackheads is the whole show. Oh geez! What are you taking? No yeah that's what goes on it's just a show that is so inane that now television because there's someone popping blackheads...I mean to tell ya

1:35:46 By the way, we do have a meetup coming up in Toronto. I won't be there. Now, I have the meetups on the list actually but if you want to talk about them... Yeah, I've heard about you. ...I have the info here. The 19th? But the Toronto Meetup, the reason I'm saying that is because Jordan Peterson will be in front of his lecture. Oh! That's right. That's right. Okay good. Right across the street and they're going try to get Peterson to come to the meet-up. To the meet-up. Well hey somebody record him saying something nice about the No Agenda show or something not nice it's either way just something Just have him say in the morning, please. Yeah, in the morning for the No Agenda show Let's see... You should start collecting those clips like you used to do on old time radio Mmmmm You know these little spots yeah little spots Oh I had dinner with a former New York banker

1:36:37 And I had the opportunity to ask him specifically about Deutsche Bank and the money to Trump. This came from a meme, which I don't know if it's here today – these things are here today going tomorrow – that if the Democrats win the House then Maxine Waters becomes the chair of some oversight committee and then she has the power to subpoena the Deutsche Bank bank records. That'll show him! So reason for me to ask the former New York banker What deals did and he knows very well? Are you interested in hearing what deals Trump did with Deutsche Bank? He knows yes. I go for it Yes, he knows exactly For a number of reasons I please force Space Force is the main reason there was one loan and one loan only ever

1:37:34 And it was a small loan, he said. About $100 million or so During the time that the loan was outstanding He sued Deutsche Bank twice which to them was just you know Cost of doing business with Trump They thought it was funny and he says that Deutsche Bank made A lot of money they did very well on That loan They were very happy and that Was the only time they did any money with him So I- That's It? That's IT! One Time One Time Only And it was... Well that stinks. I think it was for the Chicago Tower, Chicago. But no! It doesn't stink! No. What do you mean? It stinks if your like trying to get Trump on some Trump charges. Yes exactly. So everyone's like oh Deutsche Bank yes thats where all the money is thats where all the Russian money came in.

1:38:22 And the New York banker, he would be honest with me. He'd say something fishy going on and he may not tell me exactly but... ...He was very clear so I don't know it's total horseshit. Well good! I hope Maxine calls him up to testify. Yeah. The New York banker? Oh boy. That was interesting. I did have one clip that should've played earlier when we were talking about Brexit. It was Farage kind of bitching and moaning about the whole thing going south, because I think he's finally coming to the realization that he's the one really behind all this. And I want to mention it to people who haven't listened to the show for a long time. We were onto Farage as a mover and shaker years way before anybody.

1:39:09 In fact, what did we get most of the time from our British producers? No man. He's a racist! He's horrible! He's a dick! He's Nazi! You guys are wrong he is a dick and not going to amount to anything. No one cares about him. He is marginalized Yeah, we do identify the hits. We pick the hits here on The No Agenda Show. Let's listen to this... Mrs May if you believe what you're told is about to take us down a route where effectively we would stay inside the single market for goods. That's the bit of course where they sell us a lot more than we sell them The whole thing would be the most extraordinary sellout, it would be Brexit in name only We'd become like Norway but without even having the fish So that is why the Eurosceptics are meeting They're planning a fight back But will they really have the guts to do what is necessary? And I think frankly

1:40:08 If she's prepared to give in to this extent, what is actually necessary is to get rid of her. To work on the fact that that over the course of August Monsieur Barnier won't be negotiating, he'll be on a Mediterranean beach somewhere and to find a new leader to come back and try and save the Brexit talks. We will see nothing will come out tomorrow we'll start to get leaked reports maybe late tomorrow night by Sunday I've no doubt when i'm back here in this chair on Sunday morning we will find out what has or has not been agreed but there's no doubt That a real clean democratic brexit is now in crisis and I have to say okay? I think the lack of leadership from our prime minister is the main problem Yeah, he's gonna have to go back in which she keeps threatening. So if it goes away want to do it well That's what he says but what else would the guy do he sees are natural he loves it

1:41:02 Come on, he loves it. He likes doing this talk show on LBC. Yeah well... And he likes showing up, he's a Fox contributor, gets to go on Fox, views nine comments and gets paid for that I mean his business was always the people which people always get wrong it was a metals trader Yes In London The city of London and somehow got political Yeah, well you might be right about this part. Claiming to never wanting to do any of it he just had nobody else could do it. Oh please! Now he loves it. He loves it I can see it the guy loves doing it and good on him hey he loves hanging out with Trump yeah let well talking about being pulled apart that's about to happen to Judge Kavanaugh

1:41:55 who will now go through the rigorous process of being confirmed by the United States Senate to be on the Supreme Court, which—the Supreme Court before we even get into any of that. Where exactly in the Constitution do they get their power from? Because I don't really see... They're the third part of government. Right, but so does that mean that what they say is law? That what they say goes because that's the way it's treated and yeah they kind of started in 1974 for real

1:42:33 Well, they're the arbiters of... I mean the laws are made by Congress. Not made by the president or not made by the judiciary. Right. Congress makes the laws and the judiciary's job if it comes up has to determine whether or not those laws meet the constitutional requirements. That's called judicial review? Yeah that's it. Now the way I understand is when the Constitution was put together And I actually can't, it's hard. I'm not a constitutional lawyer but there was no...I mean yes you have neither of the branches has the final say that's my point

1:43:12 It's like they can say, well this is unconstitutional and then Congress has to change or can change the law or adapt it however they want. But it's not... You can rewrite it? Yeah but they don't ... Is it a requirement that if something is deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, by the judiciary that then the legislative branch are beholden to Germany to Russia They have to then do that? No, they can just let it slide and say okay well that law is not going to be enforced anymore because its unconstitutional. Because every time if it kept getting enforced it'd get sued. It wouldn't work out. Okay. That's probably also somewhere in the constitution. I will just sue you! To me its a little confusing

1:44:00 I mean, I've always believed the Supreme Court like when they say this is good. This is not good that's the final say and that's the way it's generally accepted of just wondering if to the letter of the law an we have constitutional lawyers who listen you know how would what if Congress says well screw ya forget the lawsuits where they said well But it doesn't mean anything. Congress has no power of authority to enforce these laws, that's still the other judicial side... The court system in the country is all it's all kind of a part of the Supreme Court system And so if they Congress says no, we're gonna keep this law too bad It doesn't make any difference because the police won't be able to enforce the law I mean that whole thing would just a joke. There would be a constitutional crisis He wouldn't be a crisis cuz no one would do anything about they were just died Okay well this this pic certainly

1:44:57 It kicked off a crop storm of epic proportions. No, it was gonna no matter who they picked if they would have picked Mother Teresa as a corpse, it would have caused the problem with these guys. They don't want Trump to get anything through until the election's over so they maybe can get... The Democrats hope to God that they can get this Senate back. Well and I'll tell you, the Democrats are- They came out in full force As you know, I've contributed to multiple parties but certainly Republican and Democrat parties To get on the mailing list Oh my god! It was a pitch in moment for everybody

1:45:33 Everybody's sending out, it was donation time. Here's Elizabeth Warrens note. Brett Kavanaugh! That is the name of Donald Trump awful Supreme Court nominee as a judge he has a long record of decisions that hurts women workers and consumers Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh last night puts rights we hold dear at stake like never before. Women's rights to control their own bodies, workers' rights, consumers' rights—you name it! They could all get squeezed to the breaking point if Kavanaugh is confirmed. Our only chance to stop Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation is to help Senate Democrats fight back

1:46:18 And we also must take back control of the Senate in 2018. Will you chip in $3 right now or whatever you can afford to help us elect... Who's writing this copy? It's always the same! Will you chip in, chip in three dollars right now or whatever you can afford To help us elect a senate that will save our court Imagining a Supreme Court with Brett Kavanaugh on the bench makes me sick to my stomach Throughout his career Kavanaugh has voted against an opinion that upheld the Affordable Care Act and preserved health care for millions, opposed letting a young immigrant woman get prompt access to safe legal abortion.

1:47:00 claimed that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was unconstitutional, tried to strike down net neutrality and argued that sitting presidents should be exempt from lawsuits and criminal investigations or prosecution. And guess what? Brett Kavanaugh's nomination is a field day for the right-wing elites and big corporations who picked him by hand just like they did with Neil Gorsuch for Judge Merrick Garland stolen Supreme Court seat But no one makes it to the Supreme Court without going through the Senate. Not on my watch! I'm prepared to fight with every bone in my Cherokee body for a Supreme Court that's fair, equal... He doesn't say that. No you're right. I am prepared to fight with every bone in my body for a Supreme Court that is fair, equal and just-for-all Are you ready? To join in that fight?!

1:47:50 Chip in three dollars right now to help us protect the Supreme Court and take back the Senate in November We're not going back. Not now, not ever! Thanks for being a part of this Elizabeth She's a psycho or whoever is writing that it's kind of psycho Yeah And just give you some advice your $3 chip-in is dumb That that's a thirty dollar ask Well I wonder, because the reason I wonder is because these guys doing this and it's one group.

1:48:28 So it's hard to kind of really tell. Do you even tell us the same group? Is it Cher, Blue or one of these outfits? I don't know who is that and always...I can tell you right now if you looked at that letter its got red on it right? Oh yeah! Of course it does. Yeah not blue not orange not green not yellow Red It's always got red. Its thematically red and has...Is that important in the world of newsletters? Does that make a difference? Not that I know off. Good. I can give you a couple things that I was taking these seminars when I was younger and so, I kind of knew what... Of course the things change and newsletters or not newsletter so much as direct marketing pieces which that is. That's a version of what used to be called direct mail. They study the death out of it and they keep coming up with new little gimmicks and the gimmicks are always from what I can understand because I was shown all the gimmicks of the era

1:49:20 Gimmicks the gimmicks that work only work is it closing a dollar? With your letter. Here's a dollar That well, that's another game. We did kind of work for a while There was an I could I can when I see when I get mail real mail and some other things that come I can look at the Look at it and say this is a new gimmick They're trying I'd see how long it goes on And I believe that the people who put together these Democrat letters and they're all done and I think Trump uses the same group as But this group that's doing these letters for all the different candidates and for all the different things, it uses very strong with these red. I think these are all ideas that expired. I think these are bad idea. There were probably good ideas for a moment that maybe lasted maybe a year and then they died like they all do with direct marketing. And I believe the chip in thing which came up

1:50:17 I thought maybe we first heard it, we talk about on the show all the time 2016 maybe? 2015? I don't know. Oh! I want to say it was 2012 It could be, time flies. I think so. But if it's dead...it doesn't work every time because the two of us ridicule it and it's stupid at this point. It was probably cute somebody probably dropped in as a test cause they don't know anything about the estate market. Test! Test! Test! So they tested it and got a huge response cause no one I've heard of it before in these solicitations, and it was like kind of catchy. Oh yeah that's great! And I remember chip-in...I'm gonna chip-in. Chip-in? I think it is the chip-in that we take the most offense to. Yeah and I think it caught on for a while. The other thing that was also tested I believe because you wouldn't have this stupid number of $3 dollars. It was always chip-in three dollars. I think its dead.

1:51:18 I think if this is still working, I'd be stunned. I recall when this first started happening again, I think it was around 2012 and we took issue with the idea of chip in which is at the time a lot of podcasters who were using a tip jar model, we railed on that saying you are purposefully Diminishing your work and your product by saying chip in just cheap in like you're yeah, but like you're a hobo Sheepin there's actually a guy on Second Street now He has a plastic you either way you buy the way the one that really rail against is not me so much no There's a guy on Second Street. Now one of our homeless friends and he has a fishing pole a fishing rod with with us with you know the string and a cup

1:52:06 He just sits on the bench and people put money in the cup as they walk by. I gotta get a picture of this guy for you. Yeah! Anyway, it diminishes what you're doing. It didn't seem like smart fundraising to me. That's all...I live with the fundraiser, we discuss this all the time Yeah, what Elizabeth Warren needs is that kid from Shriners Hospital. That's the money maker! Hey everybody I'm Alex! That kid is the best he could raise money for anybody

1:52:42 Love that guy. I hope he's still alive now What is what does the keeper think about the $3 chip in? I'll get an updated We've discussed it, but it's been a while. Okay. I'll ask her again, but I know she'll think it's dated Yeah It's do you think that people that get these letters and you're getting a lot of them because you do more than I do in regards to That I get him too You see it over and over. Chip in, chip in $3, chip in $3! The public at large unless they're complete morons has to see this and see it as a gimmick that what are you trying to trick? What is this? Is this some sort of trick? Yeah. What are you doing this for why's going on like this forever? And I don't know

1:53:23 But I get mailings from the Trump family and from him and from Don Jr. but they're all yeah, oh Yeah help me celebrate the president's birthday for Melania But this starts at 150 bucks and guess what? I have $3 chip in no guess what it ain't working either. I'm gonna be behind away Uh, the guy's got plenty of money. I don't know what it is but you look at it's the RNC. It's aren't I don't want to I'm doing the RNC should do their own fundraiser with that one Yeah, I don't like it another thing. I don't like because I think I once gave two judicial watch or something You know Somewhere I've been using a lot of clips from somebody over time and then pop-up shows value for value Like thanks man. I get some clips from you here's a little value But then I'm on the mailing list. I'm on the mailing lists first like, you know

1:54:15 Oh, it's mrctv.org Media Research Center Sean Hannity newsletters and the worst is I think it was Judicial Watch The envelope shows up and it looks like a court summons There's two windows you know as like important to court filing document. I'm like what now What am I what am I in trouble for now? And he opened it up, and it's a pitch letter threw it right away That's a horrible trick. Yeah, you're right I'm an idiot. My understanding is and i think it still applies that there was laws against some of these approaches that are still being violated Thank you Senator Warren! Oh yeah the Studs do nothing Warren would be the one to do nothing about it but

1:55:08 understanding and I could be wrong and i've not really looked into it, I just get irked every time I see one is you cannot send somebody what appears to be a check. Oh! That's not a check. I still receive those from time to time yeah yeah pay the order of usually actually the way... It's always when its time to pray off the credit card then I get like all these hey seems like you're in debt pal! Yeah it's like The really well done ones, it's like the window with the thing inside and on the... Pay to the order of. Big enough that you can see the words pay to the order of. Yeah exactly I don't fall for those. What a scam! However Judge Kavanaugh he might want to consider some fundraising of his own as the pulling apart of him and his family has already started. And I have to say I do have respect for anyone willing to go through that process

1:56:01 Apparently, he had tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt. He has very low net worth about $65,000. I don't believe this story by the way. I know what story you're talking about but I don't believe it! It may not be true- I've heard this story and I think it's bullshit. Let me tell the story. The credit card debt apparently was from buying tickets to the Washington Nationals season ticket for him and his buddies. And the reason I don't believe this story is because it's got all the elements of a hoax story. Because for one thing, the Washington Nationals are huge losers and they're like this really super powerfully fantastic team that can't win playoff games and so it's something you can laugh about under your, oh-hoh-hoh! This guy's an idiot for wanting to go those games. It just has hoax written all over it

1:56:55 I'm not saying he never bought a Washington Nationals ticket in his life, he's in Washington D.C., but what I'm saying is that I don't believe he went into great deep credit card debt because he's buying tickets for everybody! So the headlines are Kavanaugh accumulated thousands of dollars in debt, Kavanaugh piled on credit card debt, Kavanaugh had massive credit card debt... Is that the level we're at now for vetting people? Yeah. Where's Snopes? Probably a lot of Washington Post articles in there Oh yeah, of course it's Washington Post. Washington Post broke it! Are you kidding me? Yeah It's like the golden toilet story. I believe was Washington Post Well there were some fun things being said from the pundits on TV A rare opportunity to play something idiotic from Fox Not that they don't have tons of idiotic stuff to say...it just is usually not funny At least not to me This was pretty good Shep Smith on the game Shep Smith is still

1:57:58 The remaining proof that the Democrats run Fox News Back in 2009, Judge Kavanaugh wrote that sitting presidents should be protected from lawsuits and criminal investigations until they're out of office. Quoting here, like civil suits, criminal investigations take the president's focus away from his or her responsibilities to the people And a president who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as president Think of the time then, that was on the heels of all of the Clinton investigations and Judge Kavanaugh had been very closely involved with the writing of a Ken Starr report. The more salacious parts some Democrats say all of that shows President Trump is basically choosing somebody who would have his back should an investigation become well...the top priority but in that same piece judge Kavanaugh also wrote this

1:58:54 If the president does something dastardly, the impeachment process is available. Dastardly. That was my ISO. I thought that would be a great end of show ISO. It doesn't cut it by the foamer. So there's SHIP. Well, let's talk about this for a second. This is an example of human you can look at this from two perspectives one this guy was involved in the whitewater investigation and came up with the decision that this sort of thing shouldn't go on while they guys president should go on afterwards especially small little diddly

1:59:33 suits, little lawsuits over this and that. You can't have that right? President needs to be buffered from that. And he's not going to be there forever so you do something after he's out because he saw what was happening to Clinton. It wasn't helping the presidency at all and he was a witness to it. He was just you're right again we have to look at this from multiple dimensions. He actually was trying to help a Democratic president No, he was on the Star Investigation side. But he wrote in defense that this should not happen? Right! Yeah So that would be pro-Democratic President Clinton

2:00:13 I would say yes. Okay, all right That's just this is what makes it true There was water under the bridge because there was nothing you could do about at the time But he saw a witness that cuz he was part of the whole thing and he saw it was not It wasn't helping the country if they mean its eventually Eventually like today like he said there was the impeachment process that you could always fall back on and you could do that with anybody Yeah You don't have to leave when your impeach. It's just like a vote of no confidence Like we hate you okay? Do you have to leave when you're impeached? That's a good question because no one has ever been fully impeached. It always goes through the committee, it never gets confirmed by the Senate

2:00:52 As far as I'm con... yeah, exactly. You still have to go through the process of having the majority of uh of the Senate and administration and vice president everybody has to say get out you're no good. 60%? Yeah, they don't even think it's not a simple majority. No, you still go back to the Constitution. The impeachment is just it's just a political thing as far as I know. It's just like we we don't like you and then- Well why don't you look it up I always have to do this. Okay, little fast little phone there you can look it up real quick oh you're gonna be like that impeachment process whereby a legislative body formally levels charges against the high official of government let me see US impeachment United States okay

2:01:39 At the federal level, the impeachment process is a two-step procedure. Here we go. The House of Representatives must first pass by simple majority of those present and voting articles of impeachment which constitute the formal allegations or allegations upon passes that defendant has been impeached." Next, the Senate tries the accused in the case of impeachment of a president. The Chief Justice of the United States presides over hearings for impeachment of any other official or constitutionalist on silent and who shall preside. Suggesting this role falls to the Senate's usual presiding officer which would be the vice-president who presides over the Senate. To convict an accused

2:02:22 The concurrence of two-thirds of the members present is required. That'll never happen! No, conviction removes the defendant from office following conviction the Senate may vote to further punish the individual barring him or her from holding office in the future etc. Spank it! So exactly...the impeachment process unless whatever he did or does is so egregious that everybody's on board It just is unlikely to happen But it's in there, luckily it's in there. So with its possible if need be... Well of the guy let's imagine a president who is an unstoppable flasher

2:03:05 And so everywhere he goes and everything he does, he's dropping his pants and then doing a jig or something. Well that would fall under the mental capacity and they can get him out that way? Well you could probably get him out for 25 minutes... Let's say that the entire cabinet because it has to be the cabinet were a bunch of perverts and they thought this was fabulous They couldn't get rid of him, so they could impeach him. I think under those circumstances especially if he went naked in front of the Sanford... You don't have to do the impeachment process you can just go through what is it? What's an article two? We just have to get three quarters majority and the vice president and the cabinet and they can all say... No! The cabinet, as i said, I just prefaced that the cabinet are a bunch of perverts that will not do this Oh oh I'm sorry okay right So then you have to go through impeachment yes

2:03:55 So they go through impeachment, he's naked the whole time. Dancing around. And this is going over well! I'm Sean Hannity we're live now with the president holy shit Mr President and so that's the only circumstance are gonna get two-thirds majority in the Senate right pass it on to Maxine so she knows Well, just talking about the Constitution. We have Jeffrey Toobin who I believe is a constitutional scholar of some sort? I don't think so! He presents himself that way... He's just a writer You know how people always like to interpret the Constitution by saying well back then you know they never envisioned AR-15s Nooo! They never envisioned the Internet noooo! No way

2:04:50 Now, Jeffrey Toobin when it comes to the Supreme Court he's got his own version of this. This isn't like last years fight this is the fight of basically the future of the Supreme Court for the next 40 years. For the next forty years? Possibly yeah absolutely I mean these are young jurists Hold on a second How old how old since you're gonna throw that bull crap out how old is this guy Well, this isn't Toobin. This is a lead into Toobin No I'm talking about how old is the nominee? Oh 48 I believe I think he's 50 Okay Well I don't know maybe we have to look him up Ah jeez

2:05:28 I mean, we can't just keep throwing stuff on unless we know. Well then stop asking questions without knowing the answer! Why are we lazy today? We're not lazy it's just that we don't have answers that's all and... How do you spell the guy's name? He is from 1965 he's 52. So then so you're telling me he's gonna be on the Supreme Court when he's 92 years old really now you tell me Tubin well no that's not Tubin I don't care if it's Tubin or the other guy. It is this 40 year meme that all of the Democrats have been saying? You'll like Tubin better! These are young jurists, yeah... When the Constitution was written in the late 18th century people were expected to die in their 50s

2:06:17 The framers never contemplated that these terms would regularly go to 30 plus years as they do now. Oh really? So the framers, the founding fathers of our nation had no idea not from historical perspective or vision that people would live longer in the future That's basically what he is saying which I think is an insult Well it's not only an insult but let's take a look at couple different people I just, just randomly. What about Ben Franklin? Yes How old was he when he died? It doesn't say immediately in office... He's born in 1706 and he died in 1790 so he was 80 what

2:07:07 84. So Ben Franklin was 84 when he died and I think you can take a lot of these guys and find that many of them lived in their 80s, probably in their 90's so this is bullcrap! It's interesting when I told my mom I was divorcing my first wife she said her response was kind of epic she says well you know Adam... When they made up that till death do us part crap people die at 40 so yeah it was an interesting interpretation But yeah, Ben Franklin clearly was around. No it's bullshit! But that's the level of information people are getting. Like well you know this is... maybe we should get rid of the Supreme Court? Maybe that's what he's uh.. what isn't coming next for him

2:07:55 All I know is that people are entirely under-informed, misinformed and virtue signal in many different ways. The adult under 40 population is despicable now this is man on the street which is easy to edit we always mock the man on the street interviews because you can just pull out of what you want this was done by campus reform And they went on the streets, I think it was a university college in New York and they asked people about President Trump's pick for the Supreme Court before he had picked it. So you know how it works. Jimmy Kimmel does this only Kimmel didn't do this one which makes that much better

2:08:41 So Kennedy had announced that he was retiring. Trump says, I'm going to pick somebody and these guys go out from campus reform and go ask the millennials adults under 40 What do you think of the president's new pick? It's almost at a point where you kind of expect that it's not going to be what you want. He is quite extreme in his views and I don't know if he would make the Supreme Court very even? I see it all over the news, that like he's racist and shit This new nominee is very racist and I think this starting a new wave of something

2:09:40 something very negative and I'm really scared about what will happen in the future and my choices he'll make. So what reaction have you seen on social media today after the news? Oh, outrage as it should be! This is just a reoccurring thing he keeps doing this with different positions and just do whatever he wants abusing his power Do you feel like his pick is abuse of power Basically, yeah. His entire cabinet and everyone he's chosen has been the white supremacist legion of doom and it's dangerous to everyone who looks like me You feel like this spring court nominee today kind of falls in that same line? Of course They should all wear white hoods and burn crosses at the Capitol because that's exactly, that's exactly the move. That's what they're going for." And the fact he would put someone up there who is so racist and is not practicing equality we need to see it again, it's insulting and its... He's not gonna last I mean- So you're not a fan of The Pick?

2:10:33 I'm really not. I did speak to my dad a couple days ago and he was not a huge fan of the decision that he made. What would be your message for President Trump on what qualities you would want a Supreme Court justice to have? Black a black woman. Is it wrong though to suggest someone be picked just on the color of their skin? I mean, but I said black women for reason uh... Black women were the only ones who really turned out in full majority to not vote for President Trump And it just went on and on and on. So they-I mean if you're confronted with this microphone The first thing you say is I don't know who the pick is because you don't

2:11:15 Because it wasn't picked at the time. I mean, this inability for this group of people and it's not all of them but many of them to admit that they don't know something. This is the will, I think. Oh, I think you say what do you think? What are going to be... oh, I think this. That's why I kept insisting for example when we don't quite know something, we have to look it up on the spot. And right you are! Because we're not of that ilk where I'm like well I dunno so I'm gonna make it up which is what these guys are doing now the fact that you brought that clip up with this stupidity...I have to bring a clip in from 2007 okay and the reason I put this clip in because its a clip I call for every once while but never find

2:11:57 And this is the 2007 clip, just a reminder of the education system. This is the Miss Teen USA, Miss South Carolina answer to a stupid question about why can't people Americans... how come Americans cannot find the United States on a map? Recent polls have shown 1 in 5 Americans can't locate the US on a world map Why do you think this is? I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have that and I believe that our education like such as South Africa and Iraq everywhere like such us

2:12:43 I believe that they should, our education over here in the US should help the U.S., or it should help South Africa and it should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for our children Thank you very much South Carolina Man... That was back when it was good A classic Ah yeah! You're so right We're all doomed! from Reseda, here she is Raven! I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that? Oh yeah that'd be fab. On No Agenda morning... Yeah we have a few people left over that need to be credited for helping produce this show and were going to name them one at time with an amount they gave us starting with Blake Camilleri in Victoria Park Western Australia

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2:26:26 Apple's very secretive autonomous car project. KPIX5's Melissa Cain joins us now with how it all unfolded, Melissa? That's right Liz and Ken, documents filed in federal court tell a gripping story about the race to make the best autonomous cars and one man who the feds say tried to take a shortcut On a sunny Saturday, Zhaoling Zhang bought one plane ticket from San Jose to Hangzhou China leaving immediately. He went through security at Terminal B and that's when FBI agents arrested him for allegedly stealing secrets from the world's largest tech company KPIX 5 Security Analyst Jeff Harp, a former FBI agent says companies Many spend big on research and development.

2:27:21 a closely guarded secret that has never been publicly revealed. The FBI says in April of this year, Zhang went to China and the weekend before he was supposed to return to work, he downloaded massive amounts of confidential information and documents including documents that show prototypes and prototype requirements On Monday, Zhang went to his supervisor and said he was quitting. He was going to work for a competitor, a Chinese company called Xiaopeng Motors. Apple escorted him out of the building and the next day Apple learned that Zhang had already taken reams of data documents and equipment. The cat's out of the bag I mean at some point Apple realizes that they're under damage control mode now. The FBI did get involved and searched Zhang's house on June 27th

2:28:02 Ten days later, he bought that one ticket for a same-day flight to China. Harp says that when a person is under investigation buying an international ticket is a red flag and if they see that you've bought an immediate ticket To hightail it out of the country chances are they're gonna say hello to you at the gate when you get there Now Zhang was arrested and charged with one count of stealing trade secrets And today a federal judge set his bail at $300,000 and ordered him to turn over his passport Wow. Hmm, so? You didn't get that story there? No. This is a Chinese espionage story! I read this story about Apple in China that

2:28:46 There was something wrong with and I guess the most here's what happened the most recent iOS update someone of course saw stuff And they figured out what had been updated and apparently Apple had coded something in in a Chinese Version of the iOS or certain localized versions that you could not type in Taiwan and have the flag pop up You know how the apples? And they're uptight about that. Right, but then it was crashing applications here in the US when you type in Taiwan the minute you hit the last...the N It would crash I don't know, its a mess Who cares about Apple's self-driving car? I don't care! I do not want it Call me old fashioned You are Luddite Yes Well of course I'm a Luddite No, I've driven the semi autonomous and I want nothing to do with it

2:29:41 But that's not as interesting to me as the Awan brothers, which you know we only briefly touched on. I don't want to talk about it Well this so this guy basically got off with a slap on the wrist for bank fraud Because but i mean there was so much more going on so much more reported and you're right no one's well fox news is reporting on it Specifically this luke rosiak of The Daily Caller. I have some respect for The Daily Caller their foundation, and you know they have a lot of the right ideas. Of course I will not support them because they're also part of the Facebook news fact-check false system, the international fact check network so i want nothing to do with them but the guy he gotta hand it to him has been on this story and is not stopped if you just hear how much is still open in question

2:30:34 It's stunning that this is not big news. And that is the only thing I'll agree on with him, but have a listen. There was a breach on Congress, a hack on Congress during the election detected by the House Inspector General where these guys were funneling data off of the House network and then they actually stole a server containing evidence essentially like killing someone and then hiding the body During the election this happened Correct. And we never heard about this, obviously this would have been a massive... This would have changed the election We're talking about Russia all the time and meanwhile there's a simultaneous hack that is virtually identical connected to Pakistan So for the last year we've been trying unraveled this cover-up and figure out we know the data is going off the house network where it's going

2:31:13 We now have a source, an on-the record source the Awan family's business partner in Pakistan. A guy named Rashid Minas who says that Imran Awans father was giving USBs of data to Pakistani intelligence officials if that is true then what we are talking about here is a spy in Congress brought by Debbie Wasserman Schultz and these other lawmakers as you mentioned we had a really smart reporter guy named wajid ali sayeed from pakistan who knows the lay of the land over there and he did extensive reporting trying to confirm these allegations we weren't able to confirm one way or another whether there was really usb handoffs but we unearthed information that tends to corroborate some of what this guy is saying well, we've confirmed from numerous sources that Imran Awan travels Pakistan with an entourage of armed government agents from pakistan. He receives protection

2:32:01 Pakistani agents. Why would a low-level IT guy have that? The other thing we confirmed is that he makes these outlandish boasts over in Pakistan to everyone he meets about his political power, even saying he has the power to change the US president so when we consider the fact that we know data was going off the House network and even the fact that he worked for Debbie Wasserman Schultz when those DNC emails were taken. You put it all together, and what we're talking about is really frightening stuff to think this is all okay." Yeah he's not the only part of the Awan family who worked for Debbie Wasserman Schultz or the DNC They had the whole family on the house payroll and you know even Senator Joe Donnelly from Indiana He's somehow involved in this because he was paid a hundred bucks to the father of Imran Awan To be his systems administrator. The father is an old man in Pakistan who says in court documents that he's an unemployed religious cleric on welfare Where are they now? And what has Debbie Wasserman Schultz said about this, and where's this missing laptop as well

2:32:59 The amazing thing is that they haven't been, uh... They're not in jail. There's a whole family of five of them Two were charged with trying to flee the country essentially But they weren't actually charged with the underlying hacking And so what happened was Wasserman Schultz refused to fire this guy When he was a known suspect in the criminal hacking probe, she insisted on allowing him to keep coming into the house building. Which is obviously completely bizarre it's frankly irrational given that she had just been fired from the DNC so what he does is he comes into the house building at midnight after after he's a criminal hacking suspect, takes her laptop and leaves it in the phone booth. This is like straight out of James Bond and the twist is he left a little note next to it The first note was letters to prosecutors And then the second thing was a note that said attorney-client privilege So here's a challenge to our dudes named Ben You all know each other Find out! This is this is a sysadmin issue you need to know we need to know

2:34:00 I think this is a spook operation at this point. It's ISI? But not ISI spook, i'm talking about one of our guys. Hmm... pinning it on us? That's the only thing that makes any sense everything was covered up, it's hushed up, these guys were brought in to spy on someone as part of some something we don't know! We can't find out its one of these things and the guys are shuffled off, they were extracted and sent back to Pakistan for now. And there's nobody pursuing it because it's like you know they get the phone call saying hey you can't pursue because this is national security you know just knock it off. Yeah we don't have to send around D notices here in America. We just call ya. Hey no okay both that's our press freedom right there. Press freedom so important

2:34:57 The president is going to meet with Putin. Oh boy, even Shep Smith is upset about this one. So I have NATO, I have the UK which has been somewhat turmoil and I have Putin Frankly Putin may be the easiest of them all who would think? Who would think?! He maybe right after all President Trump has been demanding our NATO allies spend more on defense and questioning why the United States is protecting Germany But when it comes to Putin, NATO's main adversary the man who ordered the meddling in our election invaded Ukraine and took over Crimea. The former KGB agent who stands accused of poisoning a former spy in England and murdering journalists and his own political opponents Of him President Trump recently said Putin is fine

2:35:51 In fact, aides say President Trump and Putin plan to sit down in a room with no advisors and no transcribers only their translators. Of course NATO was created to protect the European nations from Russian aggression never in our nation's history has a reality like that existed Space Force You were going to say something? Protect them from Soviet Union. Yeah, yeah you're right, you're right Soviet Union we have to stay on top of that and you're absolutely right they actually... We think it's very important what we do of course

2:36:28 But when it really comes down to it, do people really care? Are people really worried about... Do they follow the Mueller investigation or is all just one big thing on Twitter. I think your earlier clip with the idiots that don't know anything just spewing their personal bigotries pretty much summarizes what you just asked. Okay and I think I can add a little bit on top of that Big fan of the show Jeopardy, love watching Jeopardy. That's where the smart people go? You'd think! And I'll take Russia meddling for a thousand Alex Only the smartest of the smart get to be on Jeopardy right so what does this little exchange last night say about the nation's focus or lack thereof on the whole Mueller-Russia meddling and collusion investigation

2:37:17 In 2017, this ex-National Security Advisor pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. John! Do you know the answer? Yeah it'd be Flynn. Uh I'm sorry ohhh...I'm so sorry You didn't answer in the form of a question. Who is Flynn? Lying to the FBI Suzanne is Kelly no Steve who was Gorka no Gorka I Would bomb on Jeopardy, but I'd get that one right the answer who is Michael Flynn That's how important it is nobody knows nothing No And these are the jeopardy people on Jeffers chart. It's jeopardy man It's jeopardy. I can never watch the show again

2:38:14 Oh, jeez. Pretty pathetic. Uh okay- They didn't get a Kardashian question right? Yeah no kidding Okay another local story I wonder this is almost an Ask Adam but it's not quite I want you to play this Bart Is Not Safe clip Okay Tomorrow BART planners are expected to discuss two options for early morning service. That's because BART trains are scheduled to start an hour later next year starting in February, BART service will begin at 5 a.m instead of 4 a.m This is in order to give crews more time to make the underwater Transbay tube earthquake safe tomorrow The BART Board of Directors will hear competing proposals

2:38:57 Okay. I cut it off because wait a minute, they put this tube in really recently within my you know and it wasn't safe or made earthquake proof when it was put in? Are you kidding me?! So it's just not an old old thing its new. Yeah so it wasn't put into the 1920s or anything! So they put this thing in and now they're going to make it... It doesn't make sense to me that they would, it's just either a boondoggle or is a waste of money. Or the thing is a disaster I find very weird. Don't take the BART would be my advice at all! We have another story which brings me to the boondoggles here one more local story

2:39:45 I want you to listen carefully to this story and tell me if you think there's some screwballs information in here. This is the cost of graffiti in San Francisco. This was really putting together a very complex case it was easier for us to go to a grand jury, in terms of the scope of the work The district attorney's office says that city spends an excess of 20 million dollars a year getting rid of graffiti And businesses pay more than 3300 dollars on average to clean up a major incident Now they busted a bunch of graffiti guys, but they're just doing a lot of tagging and making a mess. But do you think any city spends $23 million to clean up a few tags here and there? I don't know. I mean, I know they spend 20 million on cleaning up poop! I think it's a scam. They're not spending that kind of money to clean up graffiti. And what's the city spending it for? The business owner

2:40:46 Takes him $3,300 to clean up one incident. How many incidents are there? And that's the business owner's responsibility He's the one scraping it off the window or whatever. So there's about 900 incidents Well, there could be but then it still does that's not the city's response But what is this a city do they only do you work just find this number to be outrageous really worked up about this It's California. This is another local scam, they're just stealing money from the public! John you live in California? Yes That's where all your money gets stolen all the time It's a completely rip-off yeah I agree it's total rip off Just for the weather Yeah exactly that's what Scott Adams always says Have you seen the weather? Alright bro

2:41:38 Alright, listen to this. Tell me what's wrong with this report? You are feeling overworked nearly four in ten American workers are working two jobs some say they do it for extra spending money but financial website bankrate dot com found 38% of people with second jobs are working extra just to make ends meet They can't afford to cover their ordinary living expenses so that they do need that extra source of income. The study also found men are earning three times more than women in those side jobs, but they say that could be because they're putting in more hours in a second gig What was wrong with that report?

2:42:19 I don't know. It wandered off in such a way that it couldn't... but, I want you to play it again! I'll just play the second half and then she goes... it's at the end. Why isn't that playing? Hold on. They can't afford to cover their ordinary living expenses so that they do need that extra source of income. A study also found men are earning three times more than women in those side jobs, but they say that could be because they're putting in more hours in a second gig I mean hello Sherlock Men are earning more because they work more hours. That might be the reason they literally just said that yeah, it's what he said Yes if you put in more hours You're gonna make more money But that's something I still get via well women should get paid the same amount yes for doing less I guess somehow its income disparity. I don't know just thought it was an odd Yeah, they twisted this story They just made us to fit their agenda your right? Yes alright anything for us before we go oh

2:43:21 I've got the, um... Yeah. I got the stupidest clip I've had for a while Reasons that they have this always stop the presses. We're gonna expose why people are having less babies Why are so many Americans having fewer? Babies the u.s Birth rate at a record low for the second year in a row A new survey by The New York Times says the top reason is child care is too expensive Others said they wanted more time for the kids They already have and a third factor fears about the economy back We know the true answer to that It's because dogs are people too, and they're less expensive Yeah, they die earlier. Yes leaving you time in your golden years as an empty nester Problem solved an empty dog house sir that's right died everybody thank you very much for tuning in Thank You troll room

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