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00:00 Okay, we're gonna start delivering dog turds to his house. Celebrating our intersectionality and 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 we're doing a pre-Zephyr show I'm John C. DeVorex It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! Did you give me a woo? Listen to that horn. Yeah, in the morning to you.

00:40 In the morning to you in the morning all ships at sea. Yes, so did you bring your AARP card to the show? Tomorrow's my birthday I know but in anticipation because today on the show you guys sending me those cards as I was 50 Today on the show you get a free serving of waffles. You bring your card I know. They're trying to hook me too. I'm feeling pretty bad. Yes, tomorrow, 67. Holy moly. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Can I ask you? I think I asked you this every year. So I'm gonna ask it again. Does it suck? Well, I wouldn't say that it sucks. It's just that there are downsides to it. Okay. Okay, maybe physical, everything's slow. No, it's not that even. Oh, okay. What's the downside?

01:37 You know, it's just downside. It's just hard to explain. No, okay. The most part is fine because you get you're smarter you get stuff done you can berate people because they don't know what they're talking about. And you also don't care what they think of you. Oh yes, well that's the best part. Yeah, see you infected me with that. Model all along so it's like I've kind of built up to the point where They don't, you know, I don't care what they think and they don't care what they think either. It's like, yeah, this guy's just gives us crap. He should have been retired years ago. Yeah, you kind of infected me with that when we started the show. It took me a long time to figure it out. It's like, what? Because you can be direct. Maybe that's like a New Yorker. No, just no, no, no. Direct. We're like, wow. And then it's over. Then you move on to the next thing.

02:34 Yeah, it's a time saver. Anyways, did you have interaction with human beings this the past couple of days? That's I went to the store. I think I mean human beings, you know and trust a couple of days ago. Why what are they up to? Well, because I want to know also from the troll room. How many times in conversation did you say to your friend or your partner or your spouse? That's true. And this is true. It's true. It's true. It's stuck in my head. Tina and I are doing it all the time. It's true. That's true. I hear I'm starting to hear Trump say it. I'm hearing people on the newscast say this. Apparently people say that a lot. That's true. They say it like like the expert does. That's true.

03:21 Yeah. With a little singy-songy thing at the end of it. Yeah. You can also, I tweeted it today, I learned this from Tina, you put a little musical note in front and after the that's true, and that accentuates it even more. Well, give me an example. Well, it's an emoji. You do the music note. Oh, the emoji. You do the music note emoji. Oh, yeah, that's cool. Yeah, that would work. That's true. That's true. I have to try and wean myself off of that now, but whenever you hear the words, that's true, you'll be thinking of no agenda. There's not much you can do about it.

04:04 Okay, our latest and greatest so this is a lot got a lot of stuff today. You had more clips than usual as well You know Clips of clips there a lot of ISOs like a lot of ISOs because there's some gems mm-hmm the way you want to start it is you know there was this a couple of scandals, you know phony scandals and now the New York Times just came up with an article saying that they that The guy, Bar, Bill Bar, whatever his name is. Yes, the Attorney General. Attorney General. He is misleading the country and the report is going to be damning. Yes.

04:46 And who's who they get this from? Unspecified sources. Sporces. Sporces. And so it's like, what? Are you guys never going to give up on this? No, they're not going to give up. It's a blood oath. Well, actually, let me let me play the this circulated on social media. 20 seconds. Jake Tapper of CNN. So now, as usual, you take the president at his word in his tweets. He wants it released. But I'm not sure what you're saying. The media got wrong with the media reported what would the investigation was going on? Other than the people in the media on the left, not on this network. I don't know anybody who got anything wrong. We didn't say that there was conspiracy. We said the mother was investigating conspiracy.

05:33 You know and Jake Tapper himself may actually be true. He's pretty straight-laced that guy Maybe him but but everybody else is off the deep end. But to say CNN didn't do that, please Please So let's take a look. There was an oversight committee meeting. That was funny And it got all this is the one for the for the amendment Yeah, I watched that and it's just it got boring. In fact, it was so boring at the end of everyone's little statement. They would say I moved to strike the last word. I don't get that. Oh, I had to look it up. It's a mean it's a procedural trick since each side only gets five minutes.

06:19 You don't actually yield your time, and it's a trick by saying move to strike the last line, then the clock is not added to the clock and you can just keep talking. That's why something that should last 10 minutes, 5 minutes for each side lasted an hour and a half. Well, I do have some subclips of the whole thing that are worth listening to. Some of them are longer than others. There's only one real long one which is definitely worth listening to, which is AOC rambling on about God knows what. Well, this is interesting. Again, I'm the one that introduced us to AOC, said keep an eye on her.

07:06 And you scoffed and guffawed and laughed. I still do, yeah, because she's an idiot. Yeah, okay, well then... Whatever... dealer's choice. Well, you want to listen to her clip first? No, no, no, no, no. I was all ready for the subcommittee. Well, let's go AOC oversight comments. Okay, so there's two things, and one of them was this woman, the main one that everyone's bitching and moaning about, this woman was called in on a Saturday morning, nobody knew about it, and they couldn't get to the meeting. And she's the one of the women that works on security clearances. And she's made a big stink about the fact that they're not doing them right. And Trump is overriding them. Yes. Wasn't this a whistleblower? She was a whistleblower. She's supposedly a whistleblower, but she's not blowing the whistle on anything illegal. She's blowing on a process. This is blowing the whistle on a process issue. And I think it's legitimate, but it's not the end of the world legitimate.

08:04 But so they had a big stink about it and here I want to play this let's go to Jordan. This is it says Joran on here makes a fuss on the about the oversight committee. Ten days ago on a Saturday you scheduled a transcribed interview with Miss Newbold on a Saturday and didn't tell the Republicans until the day before. 3 30 the day before you schedule a 8 30 a.m interview for the very next day at the organizational meeting of this committee you pledged you would not do that. You said closed-door testimony would be done so that members could attend, but you pick a Saturday on a week we're not even in session and tell us the day before. And then yesterday? Yesterday you issue a press release, handpicked, cherry-picked parts of her testimony, Ms. Newbold's testimony, and you issue a big memo and a big press release after interviewing one witness. That's how we're going to do investigations in the Oversight Committee? Talk to one person?

09:02 and then issue a big press statement so you can get some headlines? First a Saturday deposition, then yesterday a press release after talking to just one witness where you handpick a few parts of her testimony, and now today. Now today we're going to subpoena a guy who just sent us a letter saying he's willing to come here voluntarily. I've been on this committee 10 years, I've never seen anything like this. Please. Never seen anything like this. I haven't. Yeah, you've done it. I haven't. I'll tell you what else I've never seen. I tell what else I've never seen I've never seen a witness come in front of this committee and lie to us seven times and us not as a committee do something about it. On behalf of the American people, we're very tired of this. This is just... these guys... Jordan's grandstanding but everybody is. Yeah, that's what I'm saying the whole thing is like I think they we figured it out by now.

09:54 And so, but they come up with the damndest stuff. It's really interesting if you just kind of break it down. For example, this is Jackie Spear and this is not her whole thing. Everyone took their full three to five minutes. I think it was five minutes they were allowed, or at least three, but I think it was five in this case. But just a minute of Jackie Speier, there's a very interesting logic in here where she goes on and on about something that apparently didn't even happen according to Jordan. It had to do with a janitor who was supposedly a janitor, just some random janitor was giving us a

10:30 security clearance by Trump supposedly. But Jordan says it's never happened and you can hear him in there bitching about it. But here, because they don't like to be kibitzing but they do it as you just heard with Cummings, kibitzing when Jordan was talking. You did it. This is Jackie Speier. And she knows that her only hope to bring some sanity back to this process is to bring it to Congress. And finally, The ranking member had talked about the janitor whose clearance was suggested to not be provided and he was mocking, why would we be concerned about that?

11:14 Well, Mr. Jordan, the reason why we're concerned about persons who are at low-level positions is because oftentimes they are ripe to be bribed. I didn't talk about that. And the intelligence community in the United States and across the world focuses in on people who are in need of financial resources as potential assets. So you bet we should be concerned about everyone who works in the White House, who after being reviewed for a national security clearance is recommended not to get one. You bet we want to know why. You bet we want to know that there is some justification for it. And if there isn't, they shouldn't be working in the White House or anywhere else. That's right, Nancy Drew.

12:00 Wait you missed a point there. I don't have a security clearance. You shouldn't be working in the White House or anywhere else anywhere They shouldn't be working in the White House or anywhere else they shouldn't be working anywhere. Oh, what is she saying? Oh? Okay, well, so she's an idiot. Now let's move on to the one that I really wanted to clip and I've got two ISOs out of it, including a deconstructed ISO. So I got three ISOs because they're so funny. This is AOC and the funny thing about her, because Ro Khan and some of these other people are on this committee and you have to listen very carefully at the end, by the way. There's all these different justice Democrats on this committee. They all got put there for some reason.

12:51 Well, remember, they buy their way in. You have to have money. That's how you get on the committee. Well, yes, but the assignment still has to be doled out by Nancy. Right. And she said, how much money you got? Well, there's that element. So anyway, so she's on this and she always feels like putting in her two cents, even if she has it, because they give her a script and she kind of reads from it for a while. Then she kind of wanders off of it. And then it sounds like she's insane. Because the script is always pre-written before the conversation begins and so they never can really give her the exact right script I don't think they I think they do sense them. I think there is Wi-Fi I'm not sure in some of these committee meetings because I think they're because she's reading off her computer screen So it's possible, but here she goes off to deep end with just blabbering on about nothing now I'm going to listen to this in the following manner knowing that she it has a script and

13:46 When she goes off script, that's when it gets fun for us at the same time give her a couple of years Thank You mr. Chair I think it's important that we refocus on what is at stake here in this investigation in this matter we are getting reports from the press and from a wide variety of sources that indicate that you know, that people are, you know, folks are suggesting that we are conducting foreign relations with folks with security clearances via WhatsApp. I mean, every day that we go on without getting to the bottom of this matter is a day that we are putting hundreds, if not potentially thousands of Americans at risk. I mean, really, what is next? Putting nuclear codes in Instagram DMs?

14:42 By the way, that was well written. I think that's a good one. The nuclear codes in an Instagram DM? Yeah, it's well written, but who's the audience? It's sure not those guys sitting in that room. They don't even know what an Instagram DM is. We know what these hearings are for. They're all about the soundbite. She's there. She's got plenty of them in here. She's a soundbite missile. And every day that there is an insecure line of communication that could be leaked, that could be hacked, that could be screenshotted without our proper channels is a day that we are putting our national security at risk. So the reason why we have to conduct and have these accommodations is because we are a committee that is committed to protecting whistleblowers. And I do have to commend

15:40 the ranking member and to see the coordination between the ranking member and the chair in a commitment to whistleblowers, not just in respecting them, but in protecting them. You know, in hindsight, and I just have to interrupt here, the news of the whistleblower came so fast and furious, I feel it was, you know, it was a lot of coordination going on. It hit the news, whistleblower this, every channel, whistleblower, whistleblower. Yeah, usually that takes a little bit before you have... Yeah, this is something scamish about this whole thing, whistleblower. And all this high and mighty, oh, we put the whistleblower. What they said at the Thomas Drake and Benny, these guys that were NSA whistleblowers. Yeah, those are whistleblowers, exactly. Those guys got the guns pointed at their heads by the FBI. What kind of protection did they get? None.

16:33 is really admirable and important and I wanted to note that because this is what protecting whistleblowers looks like when they need a certain accommodation because they fear retaliation. We have to make accommodations, this committee in particular, as the oversight committee in the House of Representatives, we have a unique responsibility to protect those that have the courage to come out and say when something is wrong regardless of the administration. Very good. She's good, John. This is good. Even in prior administrations, it doesn't matter the party when something is going wrong in government, when there is overreach, when there is an abuse or a misconduct of process, we have an obligation to see and investigate it out. And so it is so serious, especially as a New Yorker.

17:25 Especially as anyone who cares about the security of what happens on American soil, every day that we have an insecure line of communication, we have a responsibility to investigate it and to make sure that we get to the bottom of it. So I just needed to put that note in. And I yield the rest of my time, Chair. I just want to add on to what you have said. First of all, thank you for your Courage you're very eloquent comments eloquent which means you're a well-spoken black person Lowe's Cummings is the black guy. I know he can say whatever he wants, but eloquent

18:07 She's good. She's stammer. She doesn't know what she's talking about. She says violation of process in some awkward way. She's talking about Instagram. It's got nothing to do with anything and WhatsApp, I mean, whatever else it was. It's ludicrous. Listen, here's a couple of, I took some potential and to show. Isos? Isos, right. Okay, let's play ISO one. We are conducting foreign relations with folks with security clearances via WhatsApp. That's the soundbite, but it's too long for end of show. I know secure. Well, here's the short one then number two. This is ridiculous. Yeah, that's good That's a good one. That's a good one. I like that now I got this other one This is her part of her statement that needs deconstruction if you listen to it carefully it's just again some it's moronic commentary and

19:01 every day that there is an insecure line of communication that could be leaked, that could be hacked, that could be screenshotted without our proper channels is a day that we are putting our national security at risk. Hold on, I want to hear it again. Wait, screen shotted without proper channels. Let me just hear it again. What does that mean? Let me just hear it again. And every day that there is an insecure line of communication that could be leaked, that could be hacked, that could be screen shotted without proper channels is a day that we... I know what's happening there. This was a script with an ad lib. She inserted her own ad lib about the

19:42 screen so if you listen it's a full sentence when she goes off about screenshotting just remove that and then you can hear the script come to the top and every day that there is an insecure line of communication that could be leaked that could be hacked that could be screenshotted without with without our proper channels is a day that we are putting our national security at risk really that without proper channels should have been moved forward she just threw some words in there and she tripped up That's what's happening. I think that's very, that's very simple. Here's the problem with your theory versus mine with this woman, if she even gets re-elected. She said, is that I believe that dumb is dumb. You mean you can't fix stupid?

20:31 You can't fix stupid. Yes. You don't believe that with her. You think that she's a potentially some sort of a bartending genius. No, I... Who will emerge as a force. As a force of the Democrat Party. Now, can I... I just don't see it. Can't fix stupid is exactly right. I don't think she's stupid. I don't think she's dumb. I think she is a soundbite missile. And she is a very, very effective tool. And I will put... You got the tool part right? Yeah, but we've had a lot of presidents who are tools. And I'm not saying she should be president, but she is very effective right now. And she does something interesting, which is she gets your goat.

21:25 She only gets my goat because it works within the show structure and that you think that she's just fabulous and it just irks me to know her. Sorry, I didn't say she's fabulous. I never said she was fabulous. I didn't say that. But now that you mention it, yeah, she's fabulous. Absolutely. I think she's a joy to watch. She is very well trained. She is. Yes. But she's doing an improv And in live, we're watching her develop in real time. I haven't seen her develop at all. Well, you're right because I have one AOC clip. I always keep some handy for you in case you need a little fix. Now this is a non-scripted. She's on Instagram trying to assemble some flat pack furniture, which there was steam coming out of her ears. Maybe it was solder smoke. I don't know.

22:26 And here all of a sudden she gets pissed off at something someone said in the comment and here we go tonight the deep end oops this one sorry At least I'm not trying to cage children in the border and inject them with drugs That's not a mistake. That is a deliberate policy to attack people based on their national origin That's not a mistake. That's just hatred. That's just cruelty. That's just wrong and that is a very effective message and And she spread it out to Insta. And unlike this, you know, these bullcrap sessions where you might get a soundbite on M5M, this goes to her core constituents. And they'll hear that and they believe that. She said it very convincingly. Yeah. The knuckle-draggers in her district. Yeah, we have this... We got this internet thing, you know, people do communicate across districts.

23:24 I have one more clip, there's another guy I don't like. I don't like James Raskin. And he goes off about one thing or another all the time. He's just a real, and he always looks like, can someone just maybe suggest? I mean, I think it's interesting that he likes Bernie Sanders so much that he implements his hairstyle. But I think a comb would be in order once in a while, or a brush. Or maybe, you know, maybe splash some water on his face and then he just got out of bed. But here he is bitching about whistleblowers. Here's Jamie Raskin goes nuts about whistleblowers. This woman is an American hero!

24:03 for what she's doing. She is standing up for the American people and she comes and she says this is her final hope. Wait a minute, where was this? Now this is, okay, now we see the coordination. They were really trying to ignite something with this security clearance whistleblower and no one bit. It died on the vine. Yeah it did. Yes, it was a concerted effort. Where was Raskin? And who is Raskin? He's in the hearing. This is part of that same hearing you said you watched the whole thing of and thought it was incredibly boring. No, I thought it was well, I'm going to agree with you on incredibly boring, but you obviously missed some of the good stuff. Yeah, he goes nuts. I isolate on these guys. I know who you know, I just listen to them. I was talking about the amendment hearing that I didn't see any of this. Okay, well, here we go. This woman is an American hero.

24:53 for what she's doing. She is standing up for the American people and she comes and she says this is her final hope to come to the oversight committee, to Mr. Cummings, to Chairman Cummings and the members and what do we get from the other side? Well, the president can do whatever he wants. You know why? Because we've got a king in America. Forget the American Revolution, forget the Constitution, we've got a king. The president can do whatever he wants now. We have no rule of law that applies to the president. The president can fire anybody he wants. The president can squelch criminal investigations. The president can tell prosecutors to drop cases against people. We've got a king in America. They've elected us a king, Mr. Trump. Please clap. Okay, now what's wrong with what he did? What was... Where is this guy coming from?

25:42 Because I'm telling you this was an elite going off the deep end when he gave himself away and I have the ISO of it. Okay. Where he says he arrogantly and patronizingly says, they've elected us a king, Mr. Chairman. Ooh, let's listen to that again. They've elected us a king. Okay, explain your motivation behind this. They is they, it's the other, which means the public. Yes. The serfs. The serfs. The serfs have elected us. You can say we elected a king. No, no. We apparently elected a king. He doesn't say that. He says they elected us. They've elected us a king.

26:34 That is the most arrogant thing anybody can say in Congress, because what he does is he puts himself above the fray. It's not he's not part of the public. They, they, they, man, this is really bad. You're right. But he had Congress says this, this is a I think this is abhorrent that somebody would say they've elected us a king. I'm going to give you a borderline for that. Hold on. You gotta take your award first. He wraps it off like there's no tomorrow. But it's like, I mean, he's blah blah blah blah blah. He couldn't get, he couldn't stop himself from saying it. But that's what he really thinks. That's a great catch. He thinks he's above the public. That is a good catch. He thinks he's something special. That's why I don't like this guy, Jamie Raskin. Did you? Because this is him. Did you catch this the first time around? He thinks he's like something special. He's a creep. Did you catch this first time around or was it the second time you listened? Oh yeah, I caught it right away. Yeah, that's good.

27:28 They've elected us as kings! Yes. I shall rattle my pearls! They've elected us as a king! Stupid serfs. Yep. Good work. Well, that's it. We can go home. We are done. Actually, I listened in on... I was also watching some C-SPAN and this was... let me see... This was Massie, Congressman Massie from Kentucky, and he was talking to the SIGAR spelled S-I-G-A-R. SIGAR is the Special Investigator General Afghanistan Reconstruction. And apparently this SIGAR meets with a small, very small, there was almost no one there,

28:23 a very small little panel, some oversight committee, and they talk about how everything's going in the budget to reconstruct Afghanistan. There's a little introduction which kind of shows you the, you know, this is the cigar, so he's the guy that's supposed to be uncovering everything and reporting on expenditure, etc. But it's very amicable, it's all buddy-buddy. I've quit preparing for these hearings because this is like Groundhog Day. I show up every 18 months and ask the same questions and get the same answers, but the numbers are bigger every time I ask the question. In 2015, I asked you how much we spent.

29:00 on reconstruction, which by the way I think I'd like to change the name or title of your job, change reconstruction to nation building because I don't think people understand that's what we're tracking is our effectiveness at nation building. But in 2015 I asked you and it was a hundred and thirteen billion that we had spent cumulative. In 2017 I think it was September 2017 I asked you it was a hundred and twenty one billion we spent Can you tell me here today in 2019 how much have we spent on reconstructing Afghanistan? Well, Congress has appropriated $132.3 billion. Okay. So we're up to that.

29:42 That's her. You always give me the decimal point afterwards. I appreciate that level of detail. But to qualify that, and I know you are an expert on numbers here, but we still have $10.8 billion in the pipeline. Well, what are we waiting on? Let's spend it. I will send that message immediately back to you. Please don't. Please don't. All right, so when this started, I'm like, oh, that's interesting. So they're all just laughing about the $10 billion. Meanwhile, we've got the 100,000 people a month showing up at the border. We can't get $8 billion to do something. All right. That is so funny. But then

30:24 What is our number one field of interest in Afghanistan on this show? The poppies, the poppy fields. For we know that this is what the Taliban was making all their money off of and we had to eradicate the poppy fields and by the way they would have a fantastic effect of stopping the or at least slowing down some of the production of heroin. And I think if we look at what's going on in the United States, certainly stocks are up, sales are up, things are good. How are we doing with that eradication? How is our drug interdiction? Another question is on the war on drugs that we're conducting over there. Every time you come I ask how much have we spent eradicating poppy and then I ask

31:09 How much poppy are they making or to what effect have our eradication efforts been effective? Our eradication has absolutely had no effect on the amount of poppy being produced. We said that and I think we briefed you or your staff when we came out with this lessons learned report on narcotics. As a matter of fact, none of our programs, not one, has been effective in Afghanistan. fighting narcotics. Now... And so what's the price tag so far, cumulative, since we started that effort? Well, the only good news, I think, sir, is we're spending a lot less on counter-narcotics than we did before. So for you, I think it's about nine billion dollars, am I correct? Nine billion dollars we've spent on counter-narcotics. Nine billion. And do they make, do they produce more poppy now than they did in ten years ago or

32:04 whenever we saw it. Oh, absolutely. It's the only growth crop there is. And what percent of their GDP does opium and poppy products make? I think the estimate, and this is kind of squishy because they don't file tax returns, so it's kind of difficult. And there are no really GDP. I think it's approximately 30 percent. Is that correct? Yeah, we'd have to get back. It's about 30 percent. It's the largest cash crop. And I believe it's about 30% of the GDP. Woo! So, somehow this didn't make the headlines, but I think there might be some correlation between this failure and just how big that failure is, he explains in the third and final clip. But sir, real quickly is that the amount of interdiction that we have done over the last 10 years

32:57 and we've done a lot of interdiction, is still only equal to less than 5% of what was produced in 2017. So you take all the interdiction we did over the last 10 years and you will see happy talk coming out of Afghanistan. Oh, we just caught this other lab. We just blew up this lab. We just, well, you had it all up for 10 years. My staff did that. And it's equal to less than 5% of the 2017 crop. Now, the 2017 crop decreased to 2018. That's good news. But everyone admits it has nothing to do with our programs. It's because of drought. Drought, okay. Well, maybe global climate change has one positive effect in Afghanistan. Drought. I love these guys. By the way, that is the clip of the day. No, thank you.

33:51 But I like the way these guys just yuck it out. I think your point about here we spent 10 billion on this and we had 10 billion in the pipeline, we don't know what to do with it. And we spent $9 billion on eradication. We haven't killed one poppy or we got 5% of last year's crop. And that was because of drought. They're bitching about the 6 billion for the border wall. Yeah, exactly. You know what? I say let's call up our buddies over there at Monsanto and we'll drop some Roundup Ready on that shit. Done. You could wipe that crop out. They're obviously not doing anything. They're not bombing the crop. They're not doing anything to the crop. They're protecting the crop. Because we are the ones running the drugs. John, yes, they're protecting the crop. They protect the crop. The CIA runs it.

34:38 Yeah. Watch the, what was it, the real American president Denzel Washington? American gangster. That's what I meant. American gangster. Watch that. Based on a true story. True story about how we were running drugs out of the Golden Triangle. Yeah. In coffins. Woohoo! Yeah, in coffins. We're great. We are great. By the way- This is a complete waste of money. Yeah. And it's a fiasco and a fraud and a scam. And you're right. Where's the media on this? Oh, please. Have you seen a front page story in the New York Times saying that this is a scam and a fraud? No. You haven't even seen a story about it because they're too preoccupied with the dwarf who turned Trump in as a so-called whistleblower. Dwarf.

35:24 She's a dwarf. I didn't even see, whoa, wait a minute. A little person. What's her name again? I can't remember. Whistleblower. She didn't even want to do the thing. They forced her into it. The Democrats are cruel. This is fantastic. I didn't know she was dwarf. No, I'm not. Well, they say she suffers, the way they put it more mildly than I did, which is she suffers from dwarfism. Oh, I see it. Oh yes. Oh, is that what you're supposed to say? She suffers from dwarfism? Yeah. If she was homeless, she could suffer from dwarfism while experiencing homelessness. Experiencing, yeah. Ah, okay. She's a perfect whistleblower.

36:06 Yeah, I know. That's great. If you went to Central Casting and you said, give me a whistleblower that people will remember. And let's forget about, you know, Benny, William Benny and Thomas Drake and all these two or three other guys. How about Snowden? And Snowden, he's a whistleblower, but no, no, he's a criminal. He's not to be protected. Speaking of practical purposes, I think Julian Assange is in that boat. Totally. I just wanted to mention a quick movie review. The Dirt. You will hate this, so don't watch it. The Dirt is a movie about Motley Crue.

36:53 And I know Tommy Lee pretty well and Nikki Sixx. I hung out with him in Moscow when we were doing the Moscow Music Peace Festival. This is a very good movie. I mean, if you're really into 80s, you know, just the 80s and the LA rainbow scene, etc. And, you know, Tina was like dozing off on the couch. She even woke up and she doesn't watch any shit movie. So, but you won't like it, John, because you know, Motley Crue is... Do you know Motley Crue? It's not my style. I was not part of the LA rainbow scene or anything like that. And I wouldn't be if I was invited. But here's the thing that irked me. They cast this so well. They had really fantastic actors.

37:35 actor, their mannerisms, it was so good. Right down to Doc McGee, their sleazy manager. But then whenever they show an MTV thing, it's like some numbnut dumbo who never looked like, didn't look like anyone on MTV at the time. Whereas clearly they should have gotten Adam Curry lookalike. They didn't have an Adam Curry look-alike? No! That was not that hard to do. You just get, you know, you get an old Tina Turner wig, make it blonde and put it on somebody's head and make them the guy. Wow. Men with thin hair should not speak so loud. I still got all mine, Gramps. Damn you. Yeah, right. How's the Rogaine subscription? I think we're looking at wig time.

38:24 Okay, and I just have to explain I need some help from our producers I don't know if Armando Guerra Armando is still listening. I'm a mail carrier at the old the old old place here in Austin I'm having a problem with the post office, with the United States Postal System. Oh, this is a great... Have we talked about this on the show? No, no, but I mentioned it to you after the show. Oh yeah, this is a great, great story. This is a classic, especially with you. This is the second time you should mention that, that this has happened to you. Right, well, we'll come around to that. So the keeper and I bought a house together, we're very excited about it. And it's in Southeast Austin and there's new homes being built there. So this was a home that was new and be on the market for a little bit. And we've been looking around for a while and so we finally decided this is it. And it's on a cul-de-sac with homes, there's two more homes by the two or three more homes by the same builder. And then there's older homes, maybe 15 years old.

39:24 And they don't have mailboxes in this area. There's a cluster of mailboxes up at the top of the cul-de-sac so the mail carrier can just do one stop. I guess it's too much to go down the cul-de-sac. Heaven forbid he drive down the cul-de-sac and go from door to door. So after closing a couple weeks ago, I said, okay, well how about the mailbox? We don't have the key. No, you have to go to the post office. So I go to the post office, the one located nearby, and it's an old distribution center for that whole section of Austin, but it's also has a little rickety two-person post office. And it's like a door that 18,000 people have kicked against with another little door that opens, a little

40:09 little windows they can talk to you. So it's not high-tech, let's put it that way. Say where's my key? Okay, go through all this. They can't find it. No idea this is very odd and they keep asking for that address. No, no, we don't have the key. We probably lost it. And by the way, I could see that the key system is a piece of wood on the wall with nails in it with numbers written on it. That's their key system. Just, you know, hand scribbled. So, you know, five days later I go, yeah, we got your keys. I take the keys, open up the mailbox and there's my neighbor's mail. And then I get an email from them saying, hey, do you know anything about the mailbox? Because our key doesn't work anymore. So now I've just been given their key. So after another week of going back and forth, it turns out that they're not, when this mailbox cluster was built,

41:02 They didn't make enough for the number of homes because this home didn't exist before. It's a new home on this cul-de-sac. And so there's no space. And I said, okay, what are we going to do? Well, we'll figure it out. Meanwhile, mail is being returned to sender. I go in and I say, could you look, I have a PO box here. Could you at least put my mail in the PO box? They can't do that. The guy who's the supervisor, Roy, whose last name I can't even seem to obtain, he's never there. He's been coming in late this week. At a certain point yesterday, I'm like, look at this face. This is the face that is going to get you all court-martialed with the Postmaster General. And we still have no keys. This address doesn't exist. There's no bail box. We might as well just not be there at all. Yeah.

41:58 I should mention a couple of things that were explained to me. The post office doesn't run as a complete administrative system. It is run pretty much like the Swiss cantons or a feudal system where the postmasters of the various areas, they run their own scene. And some of them run a slick operation, it's very modern, they have all the tools and others don't have that, they're more funky. That's why in your case, it's okay to have that with actual houses in a cul-de-sac. In most of the areas, the postmasters in California would not allow that, they would have them deliver to the houses. That's the most secure and safe, I agree.

42:45 Yes, and that's the way it's done. But apparently your little post office district is run by some guys from the 18th century who had to deliver on horse and there was a lot of dogs in the area so they had to have this box away from the homes. To be honest, we are living on, remember, it's Adam and Tina, you know, this is not the Beyonce and Jay-Z. So we're on the frontier of what is still acceptable distance from downtown. So there's not a lot out there yet. Yeah, you're out of the sticks. And so, the relative sticks. But the point is that you just happen to be in a postal area where the postmaster is a screw-up. And he doesn't care.

43:23 And you can't do anything about it. Because if you make a big fuss with the real postmaster, the one in Washington, D.C., a note comes down and it goes, who the hell sent that note in? Somebody's making trouble around here. Has anybody been coming in here making a fuss? They can't get their mail for some reason and now they're bitching to the postmaster? Who? Adam Curry? Okay, we're going to start delivering dog turds to his house. You're screwed. Well, unfortunately that's exactly the path I took, which I guess is not the smartest one. I expect turd... well they can't... how are they going to deliver the turds? I don't have a box. They just deliver it to the front door, they put them down in bags and light them on fire hoping that you stomp them out. I know what... I mean, I don't know. All I know is you're just getting... you're digging... you're not going to get out of this.

44:13 You're going to have to be real nice and start giving gifts. Probably that's it. You got to bribe the guy. Send him a bunch of Franklin's barbecue. I know what the problem is. I think the problem is that these boxes were put there by the original builder of the original homes 15, 20 years ago, and the post office didn't pay for them. The contractor paid for them. And I think that's the problem is no one wants to pay for a bigger box. Well, apparently that's what you're going to have to do, my friend. Well, we'll see. But on the other hand, I may not get any property tax bill since I don't exist. Well, now there's a possibility. The thing is, then they catch up with you and the next thing you know, you're in arrears to an extreme. I'm in jail. You mean? Yes. That's possible. Texas jail. Yeah. Well, it's not that much better, man. Texas jail.

45:10 Well, now let's, I gave a preface to this little speech of yours. This kind of happened when you moved into where you are now. Yes, this was a new building, a year old. It had a different problem, which I haven't even gotten to yet because, you know, my credit card, my bank statements are all at this address, but when I moved here, Even though I was in the banks database and they knew who I was with my appropriate zip code, this building didn't exist in this magical online database part of the microservices architecture that provides quick and handy lookup of addresses.

45:52 which I guess is refreshed every once in a while. But it had... Yeah, that's the problem. Once in a while. But whoever Visa was using at the time just said, we can't find this address, it doesn't exist, so you can't order anything. It was very interesting. It's, well, there's a lot of, in fact, this whole, you know, just dealing with Cable by the way, I also couldn't get Google fiber or AT&T fiber the online systems don't recognize you you got it But here's my address no sorry We don't service them meanwhile my neighbor one neighbor has AT&T fiber the other neighbor has Google fiber I can't get it. I caught you can't call Google Google fiber You can't call you can go to the Google fiber store And then some Google woman will sit there and use the same online system. I just used it won't computer says no

46:48 We can't do that. You can't have it. Yeah, this is your microservices architecture world we're living in that people don't even realize. So I'm stuck with Spectrum now. It's $240 a month for 500 megabits per second. That stinks. Yeah, well, I have to establish the residence that exists. Have you gotten a post office box? I did, yeah. That's a plus. Use that. Well yeah, I have to. And I wouldn't mind if I could actually get them to put my mail into the post office box and not return it as return to sender. Did you put a change of address note in?

47:31 This was all promised to me by Roy, the supervisor. Yeah, well, you have to put a change of notice in. I'm still hopeful that something is if you go away, wait, let's hear me out here. I'll give you a little bureaucratic insight. This is true. You would know the bureaucratic ways. Once the notice is put in and as a piece of physical paper, they have to pay attention to it These verbal agreements don't mean anything But if there's there's a piece of paper in there that's that's in there It's in the system and you don't get your mail where it's supposed to go Then you can point to that and they all you did the guys screwed up. They can be written up There's all kinds of problems that can happen

48:12 If it's just a verbal agreement and nothing comes of it, you can't, you get nothing to stand on. You have to do the paperwork. Okay, good point. Oh yeah, by the way, everything you talk to them there is written down a little, little post-it note. Okay, I'll write that down. Yeah, yeah, that gets tossed. That's actually a pretty good idea. That's actually great to throw away. Yes, actually yes, you change the address with your old address and the post office boxes where everything should go. That will solve that issue immediately. There was a suggestion to start mailing myself bricks to get their attention. Oh. Return to center. Yeah, I don't know about that. No. Okay, thank you. That's some sage advice. We still don't know if that will ever fix my issue with

49:02 That's another problem. I think you're going to have to talk to the mayor. There's probably a form. A form? There's probably a form somewhere that would solve this problem. If you could find the form and fill it out and give it to them, that would solve the problem. But I don't know what that form is. You're going to have to do a little more research, but I'm guaranteeing there's a form. The contractors, the guys who put those stupid boxes out in front. They probably had to fill something out. Yeah. Find out what that is and then you fill it out and you know, see what happens. It was just very disheartening when I actually met the mail carrier Brian who was able to explain it to me more simply because you know, he deals with it every day. He says, but you know, it's just junk mail. I threw everything out. Nothing's really coming for you. Like, really? I'd like my junk mail. Please don't throw my junk mail out.

49:54 Because you never know what could be in there. It's insane. Hey, but we have electricity. The good news is we have electricity, we have connectivity, and we're doing the slow move. A couple weeks and we'll be there. We'll be done. We'll be over. Yep. You're doing the slow move. The slow move. Yeah, it's Tina's idea. I like it a lot. We don't have that much stuff. You know, I went kind of minimalist. Well, the Cluedio had become a disaster area. Mainly with stuff people send me. So I had to create a box labeled collectibles. And that has now, that's where I put all the stuff that people send. What are people sending you? Oh my God. Challenge coins. Start there. So that doesn't take up a lot of room. The guys from Michigan Local One, you know, there's a lot of

50:44 Automobile related stuff there's stuff from the meetups. It's just tons of stuff I can't I cannot bring myself to toss any of it I just hope my daughter or some other grandchild at one point goes Wow look what grandpa and grandpa Adam had this is pretty interesting could be Or you just auction it off Please that's what I was supposed to do the last time I purged yeah well You're not a big collector. I wouldn't worry about it. Hey, I'm gonna break everything up here and I'm just gonna bring us something from a different part of the world because it is humorous but also understandable perhaps. This is from Radio Ukraine. With almost 100% of the presidential election first round votes counted, comedian Volodymyr Zelensky is leading the race to become Ukraine's next president.

51:36 According to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine, presidential candidates Volodymyr Zelensky and incumbent President Petro Poroshenko have received 30.24% and 15.95% of votes cast on March 31, respectively. With no one receiving more than 50%, Zelensky and Poroshenko are set to face each other in a run-off in three weeks. The second round of the election vote in Ukraine is scheduled for April 21. Now while this is humorous at face value, I think it's understandable in a way. I don't know what kind of comedian this guy is, but if he's like anything like I think he is, he probably says things in a very amusing way that have an incredibly hard undercurrent of truth. Yeah. And people dig that and that's a model that can be replicated. Well we had that with Beppe Grillo in Italy. Same thing. I think we could see more of that. Chris Rock for president.

52:37 The problem with this idea is that even though you know you could say that Trump is kind of modeled in this way and he's just a clown and a host of a reality show unscripted drama. It's that he did run even though We don't know what his methodology was. He had a degree from Wharton and he did run a large business, a real estate empire, you'd have to call it that. So he had some experience managing in his way. I don't know what a comedian's ever managed except, I mean, they usually have a manager. They have someone managing them. They hire a manager and an agent.

53:20 So I don't know why you'd vote for a guy like that unless he, you know, had some other skills. Maybe it was like a guy from a banker who became a comic. An entire district voted for AOC. What do you mean you don't know how that works? Hello? Yeah, well, yeah, but she's not an executive. The head of a country is an executive position. That's a legislative position. You don't have to have executive experience to be a legislator. So bartender would be a fine, I think that's what you should have as a legislator, as a bartender. Anyway, it's interesting how these things are kind of laughed at in the M5M, you know, like, ha ha ha ha. Like, that's actually quite interesting. There's a lot of laugh, in fact, inappropriate laughing.

54:07 And this started with Chris Rock, he kind of set the tone for Jussie Smollett. Tracy Morgan was on the Tonight Show and Jussie came up again. I heard you got a new gig though. Yeah, they gave me a role on Empire. They did? What are you gonna do on that? Well contractually they gave me millions of dollars, contractually all I gotta do is not fake a hate crime. That's all you have to do that's all I have to do yeah perfect

54:44 Yeah, you don't buy that story. What? Nah, man! Come on, first of all, racist people don't be jumping nobody in the polar vortex. You're saying it's too cold? Yeah, man, neo-racists don't be watching Empire, man. It's too cold. They be racist in the spring. Now, of course, it's always good to have some comic relief. Tracy Morgan, this is what he does. It made me laugh, I laughed just now hearing it again.

55:36 Really was no laughing matter what this hoax I mean just the it caused a lot of grief and pain and I think it had probably will have some lasting effects, but This contributes to something I've been tracking and it's you know I guess politicians would say we believe in the rule of law And the more I think about it, America kind of is America. I'm talking about America now. It is definitely based on rule of law, equal treatment under the law. And when that goes askew, I think it's a very dangerous territory. And so we're seeing this not only with Jussie Smollett, and it turns out that Kim Fox's office is talking to all the state's attorneys, sending out messages saying, hey, do you guys have any examples of like what we did with Jussie? Because we can't find him, it was supposed to be 5,700 of them. And there's all kinds of weird connections there. But the same goes for

56:34 Another example would be what's happening on social media, where it seems hypocritical, but it really is a form of social law that you can do certain things that'll get you kicked out, de-platformed, removed from life, end of game, no free ball, just exit. And it's happening in unequal measures. And if you see then what's happening in California where anything under $1,000 the cops don't even show up They don't care. They don't look at it because it can't be prosecuted. Oh, yeah This is a problem. I'll just interrupt you with this what's going on in San Francisco where there are the massive number of car break-ins where somebody walks past the car and sees a purse or something anything inside and Then they smash the window

57:29 and then they grab the person, wander off, and they can have videos of the people doing it. And by the way, it's not cheap to fix and it's not convenient. There's more to it than just fixing a broken window. I mean, it's a pain in the ass. So they have the guy, nah, it's under a thousand, it's no big deal, so what? And so, oh, okay, so we can do this in San Francisco. So they're breaking everybody's car windows throughout the city. In some areas, it's just an epidemic. I mean, you have to drive around in an old 25-year-old Lexus that needs washing to feel safe.

58:06 So, this unequal treatment becomes a big problem with what happened this past week in Charlottesville. Charlottesville is where there was the rally, the white nationalists, and there was Antifa, and the guy drove the car into the crowd, woman died, not necessarily because of being hit by the car, but we're familiar with the situation. Jeffrey Winder was found guilty of misdemeanor assault in February for punching white nationalist organizer Jason Kessler in August of 2017. Now this has happened twice and you may not remember this one, but it was a pretty vicious assault. The jury ruled his punishment will be $1.

58:51 Which means it's okay to punch Nazis or what you perceive as a Nazi. And I think this is a very bad precedent. This is... Yeah, MAGA hat qualifies. Yeah, MAGA hat qualifies. It's only going to cost you a buck. This inequality, which in some ways is attributable to Social Justice Warrior, Participation Trophy, Give the Guy a Chance, we're all so touchy-feely. It's part of its derivative from that I don't know where else this comes from but I'm just identifying that there is unequal treatment It's now still being seen as hypocrisy, but there's real unequal treatment under actual law and I think it's very Not well thought through what is happening what people are doing in in these positions. Yes, I agree. I

59:47 And of course the version... Your chair... And to accentuate it, I'll squeak my chair. That's how much I agree with you, Curry. What can I do? Is being worked on. And with that I'd like to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in chair of Squeak, John C. Dvorak! In the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry, in the morning all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there. In the morning to the illustrious and elusive troll room, hello trolls. Good to have you there. It's always nice. We got, everyone's really excited. We got great pre streams happening now and no agenda stream.com and we got just this one day, this thing, this is our legacy, John, this no agenda stream. We got guys doing all kinds of shows now doing live streams, talking to each other. It should be just 24 hours a day of people doing live stuff. I don't care if it's Nick the rat or the no agenda show. It's all interesting. Well,

1:00:46 It is running, so... Yeah, 10 years. And it's... Yes. We're finally figuring it out. It could be our exit strategy. NoahJenderstream.com, also our exit strategy. In the morning too, I think it's Darren O'Neill who brought us the artwork for Episode 1125, yes. It was a simple one, but sometimes simple hits it right where it needs to be hit. It was Lindsey Graham masquerading as the Queen. Yes. And although, you know, it's... Darren just gets it. I'm very worried about Darren. Yeah, you keep saying this. Yeah, Darren doesn't know this, but we might as well discuss it. Yeah. Adam thinks you're gonna burn out. Because I've seen it. You're gonna go down in flames.

1:01:37 Sometimes you get a burnout, you know? There was a burnout on... Wouldn't say Martin JJ, but the two guys who started the whole thing yeah, it happens. I haven't done an artwork for 10 years About that, but yeah, you can burn out. We're just we just want you to be careful That's all you're you're of all of you are valued resources after all we are a network of producers not a network of some shitty podcasts with a union and No, no, no, no, no, we're a network of producers and proud of it and we've put together a model that works and we all get something out of it and just like Hollywood. Yes Darren when he goes for it. He wants to win so he had he takes a number of sites He had a he had the Lindsey Graham art, which we liked a lot because it's just goofy. Yeah, it's funny It was visually funny, but he also had AOC as a head of you know, which he has chaos, but it could

1:02:38 It could have been one of the Marvel operation. What is a shield and who are they? I can't remember who their enemy is, but they're agents of shield the TV show that you're asking me. Hey, all the chat rooms gonna know this hail something hail hydra hail something hydra. Yeah, hail hydra control hydra hydra hydra. You're right. And so she's sitting there like that and he's got like Trump that's true with the notes around it. He's got a bunch of, he produces, I'll say this, interlunch codes via Instagram DM, which he's got for today's show. He's already put something up? He's already got that up? He's already got two things. You're kidding me.

1:03:23 She's got for example, that's true, which is the with the musical note, but he's got. Oh, he's got a launch codes on Instagram. Mike Riley's decided to come in. He's sick of it. So Riley's coming in with some stuff. He's got peace already and then you have. You got season 137. This is a multimedia postmodern experience I'm witnessing right here. Art competition in real time. This is fantastic. You guys are insane. I love that. It's out of control. But that is what makes this show so phenomenal. Yeah, it's out of control. The show's out of control to begin with. It's true.

1:04:11 But out of control is postmodern and that's what we do. And here we go. Let's thank a few people for show 1126. Starting with our buddy Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch, $953. He sent a note in. It's good to hear from him. This is his monthly newsletter. Thank you for all your and all producers continued outstanding work. This is his note. continued outstanding work in providing a safe space for less contaminated beings. M5M made a point of keeping Brenton Tarrant nameless, but if his name was Mohammed Ben Curry, it would be all over the news, affecting his family and friends and family and friends of anyone with a similar name.

1:04:59 cynically they hid it to protect his family and friends from retribution, something they don't do for Muslims. That's interesting because that was something that I recall us talking about is that it was odd because instead of the typical Three name this is the guy you know first middle and last name it was he identifies as Brendan Tarrant on social media Which was very odd, and I guess in in this case when it when it was a Muslim mosque in Christ Church That's when they decided that goes too far. We've got to obfuscate the obfuscate the name. Yeah, it's a great observation seronimous

1:05:39 Anyway, he says, as a colleague named Osama told me in 2002... Oh boy. Not Osama bin Laden, but... No, I understand. Osama's not an unusual name. No, I understand, but I bet in 2002 it wasn't a great name to have. He says, quote, I might as well be named Adolf Hitler in 1946. Everyone thinks I'm a damn terrorist, so I'm going by the name Sam. Oh gosh. So he changed his name to Sam, you know, Sam. But it was only six years later when we had a president named Barack Hussein Obama and everyone thought it was cool. Thank you for noting that. But of course, that makes some sense because Obama was Muslim.

1:06:25 Thank you for noting that Muslims do and have been outspoken against terrorism. Yes, we mentioned this. But the M5M seems to discriminate against all religious groups since they all teach morality against violence, killing and war. What he says here in this structure is very poorly done. He should note it. Note. He should note this. And we will review all of your letters. What he's saying is that religious groups are discriminated against because religious groups teach morality against violence, killing and war. And the M5M, and I should stop here and mention something I read recently. I didn't even think much about it until somebody said it. That the mainstream media, and it began with

1:07:09 Hertz, Hertz, Hurst, and Pulitzer, who used to promote the Spanish-American War. War sells newspapers. Oh yeah. Yes. And so the media, the war and media go together hand in hand. So they love war and so they promote war, even though you wouldn't think so, you know, but they don't promote peace. What a waste of space. He says, so he's making this point that religious groups, whether it's Christian or Muslim or whatever, they tend to be against violence, killing, and war. Billions of people around the world attend religious services every day praying for an end to all this crap. It just doesn't attract viewers. Only prayer vigils after the fact get attention. Yes, when we send thoughts and prayers.

1:08:06 Query regarding California net neutrality. Now that's the end of his little spiel. Query regarding California net neutrality. Since it is a regulation and creates common carrier status for social media, isn't all information posted protected by free speech including hate speech? Doesn't this absolve the social media platforms of liabilities? Perhaps a producer can elaborate. Well, this is section 230 stuff. The media, well internet media have complete free ticket, free ride. They don't have to worry about anything. So Title 2 takes over. Title 2? The FCC takes over the internet.

1:08:52 Thanks to net neutrality, thank you very much. Whatever. Keeping it short, a good producer should know when to stop the hammering and let you do your work. No jingles, no karma. Sir Animas of Dogpatch, thank you so much. Always a good note. Always a good note, always good lessons and a good reminder there. I appreciate it. I'd like to hear more about his toils and tribulations in his international travels. Well, I'm still trying to figure out his codes. Well, I didn't see any codes in this. 953? What is that about? Oh, 953, yeah. Might mean something. Jack Genuso is next on the list and he comes in as the associate executive producer. We don't have but one executive producer.

1:09:34 And he's in Glendale, came with $267.31. And he's got a birthday, says, John and Adam, I've been listening to the show for about six years now. I can certainly say there's nothing else quite like it. It's always hilarious to hear your commentary on national and world events, not to mention the various motifs like drunk voice donations. Adam's Dutch accent and John's mudflats report. I'm a graphic designer freelancing for the publicist group, ooh, of NewsGuard fame. Oh, anyway, he ended, I'm sorry, I read that part, he says he likes the drunk voice donations, a Dutch accent, and my mudflats. By the way, the tide's in, so there's no mudflats today, very rare. I was thinking about this.

1:10:20 When is, because of the rising oceans, when is Mont Saint-Michel going to be flooded in? I think you should write an essay and post it to Cosmic Weenie. I am a graphics designer freelancing with, always freelancing with the Publicis Group, we know them, one of the major of the three or four PR advertising monopolies. and attribute part of my success in landing the gig to the jobs karma I asked for when I was between gigs. Nice. I'm very much looking forward to the coverage you'll be providing this upcoming election cycle. It's going to be N-U-T-S. Lots of fun. Happy 67 to my birthday, twin John. I'll be turning 31. Oh! Thank you for your courage. Can I get a it's Trump, it's Trump, he's president jingle and a shot of it.

1:11:14 It's true. That's true. He's Trump. He's Trump, the president. Thank you very much, Jack. Glad the jobs karma worked. Egghead and Clint Dayton, Ohio 21088. This is my first associate executive producer credit. Thank you for your courage. I like several different kinds of karma travel karma. I'm flying to Costa Rica on a GPS Y2K 4619 relationship karma. I plan to propose to my smoking hot girlfriend. Well, I wonder if she's listening. Is she listening?

1:11:52 Because you're going to be proposing to her while he's in Costa Rica. Oh, maybe she's in Costa Rica. Nice. She's a Costa Rican hottie, maybe. And general goat karma for you guys and all the producers that have stopped the hammering. I'd probably be listening to this episode while on my doomed early morning flight. Thanks for the work you guys do keep us sane. Okay, so keep us sane. I'm a Halfway to knighthood egg-headed from Dayton. Okay, so travel karma She needs a relationship car special relationship karma good. I think I got one Hammering and goat karma. Yeah, we can do that Karma Stop the hammering you've got karma

1:12:40 John Foster in Grover, Colorado, $201.00. Good morning, gents. I've been listening to your show for a few months now and I, after being punched in the mouth by my cousin, Kelby, please divide the donation between the both of us. You do the accounting for our trip to knighthood coming from California, Colorado. Colo, Colo, Fornia, I like it. With the recent elections, we have a lot of new legislation going into effect that I think you may be interested in. Primarily Senate Bill 181 and the Red Flag Law. Thanks, we have to look into those, I guess. I'm not explaining it. Thanks for what you do and keep up the good work. Can I get a de-douching for Kelby? You've been de-douched.

1:13:30 And he wants one for taking so long to donate. Oh, he needs one as well? I'll give him a second one. Yeah, okay. You've been de-douched. He wants the that's true and some goat karma. That's true. You've got... karma. Anonymous CPA in Dawsonville, Georgia, $200.33, knighthood accounting, anonymous CPA in Dawsonville, wishing my smoking hot air hostess wife a happy 33rd anniversary, April 5th. She's coming from Schiphol today. Schiphol. Schiphol. Schiphol. Schiphol. The place.

1:14:18 She'll get a kick out of the well wishes and knighting. Also, short term booking karma for her first year with Off The Grid Lodge. She doesn't listen to the show, but she gets my twice a week recaps of the best podcasts in the universe. Hey, honey, you know what the guys were talking about? This was really cool. There was this clip, it was fantastic. It was AOC and then John was like, she's stupid. I was like, no, just watch it. I guess that's how it goes. I don't know how you're going to wrap this show. And also once a week recap of the show John does with that guy in Fort Lauderdale. Noah Jenner does the HM Plug Show. Noah Jenner produces that over

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1:18:56 And I think I pretty much knew what's going on. This is, you've probably heard or seen this story. Doctors are now dealing with the second greatest number of measles cases reported since the infectious disease was officially eliminated nearly two decades ago. According to the CDC, 387 individual cases have been confirmed. So there's a lot to talk about here. First of all,

1:19:37 A large number, I think it's over a hundred of the 387, was in one community, an Orthodox Jewish community. And so it's not all that crazy to think something like that could break out in that kind of community. But the incessant reports, the over-the-top, we're all gonna die. And then for something which seems Well not 100% effective kind of pushing the second booster there to get your 90, 98, 97% 93 is one shot 97 is two shots so we can eke out four more percent with another shot it's so it's not 100% effective I think that's odd but upon further invest upon further theory behind vaccinations upon further investigation

1:20:23 And I can only find this to be true for one patent of Merck. The MMR vaccine, well the measles part specifically, went off patent on March 31st. which is always a big deal for these pharmaceuticals because then they no longer have the monopoly and the market even though many of them now own the generic companies. It's just going to be a different revenue model and to me the way this thing swarmed and we're all gonna die and MMR and oh my god the measles and the mumps and mass vaccinations we heard on the last show, remember that? Yeah, hold on. Let me just see what that is. Mass vaccination. Yeah, I want to play that. Yeah, this one.

1:21:07 Late word Tuesday on an expanding mumps outbreak at Temple University. I think we have a mumps but as Dr. Ailes said we're probably going to see another wave coming. The numbers have gradually increased over the last month. City health officials say as of this afternoon there are 105 cases. 18 have been confirmed. A balance of 87 remain probable based on symptoms. You can imagine that social activities that university students typically do like a party going and anyway so that in that report they talk about mass vaccinations now note we have a measles a measles outbreak worst ever since we eradicated the disease we have a mumps outbreak oh my god all included in this one vaccine now i i have i'm going to deem myself a semi-vaxxer in this in in general i'm a semi-vaxxer

1:22:02 And that is because I of course do not want polio, I didn't get it, I got a shot, so you know I'm all good. I was very different when I was growing up. I'm still here, I haven't died, I got the mumps, I got the measles. And for just to even broach this conversation to say hey that's interesting, this vaccination isn't 100% effective. Now we know that the vaccine companies this is about nine or ten years ago, they said in their own official presentations at financial conferences, vaccines is going to be a bonanza for us. This is where the hockey stick curve kicks in, mainly because they're completely indemnified if something goes wrong. If you're hurt by a vaccine, you cannot sue the company. There is a fund, the Vaccination Fund, I think it's called something.

1:22:48 It has millions of dollars and you can possibly get some redress from that fund. Yeah, it's a government operated thing. And I think it's just there to shut people up who have been severely injured by vaccines. I'm not afraid of them. I don't see any need for me to inject myself with anything that's not 100% effective for something that is 100% deadly. So therefore I'm a semi-vaxxer and let me give you some historical context. When I was growing up we had a show called The Brady Bunch. I think we still laugh about The Brady Bunch, a lot of people still know about it. You might have seen a rerun. I have for you the episode when the entire Brady family got the measles and died! Hi! Peter! What are you doing home from school? They sent me home.

1:22:02 And that is because I of course do not want polio, I didn't get it, I got a shot, so you know I'm all good. I was very different when I was growing up. I'm still here, I haven't died, I got the mumps, I got the measles. And for just to even broach this conversation to say hey that's interesting, this vaccination isn't 100% effective. Now we know that the vaccine companies this is about nine or ten years ago, they said in their own official presentations at financial conferences, vaccines is going to be a bonanza for us. This is where the hockey stick curve kicks in, mainly because they're completely indemnified if something goes wrong. If you're hurt by a vaccine, you cannot sue the company. There is a fund, the Vaccination Fund, I think it's called something.

1:22:48 It has millions of dollars and you can possibly get some redress from that fund. Yeah, it's a government operated thing. And I think it's just there to shut people up who have been severely injured by vaccines. I'm not afraid of them. I don't see any need for me to inject myself with anything that's not 100% effective for something that is 100% deadly. So therefore I'm a semi-vaxxer and let me give you some historical context. When I was growing up we had a show called The Brady Bunch. I think we still laugh about The Brady Bunch, a lot of people still know about it. You might have seen a rerun. I have for you the episode when the entire Brady family got the measles and died! Hi! Peter! What are you doing home from school? They sent me home.

1:23:44 Measles. See, their measles are a strange case of red freckles. You have got a temperature. They told me, 101.1. Are you sure it's the measles? Well, he's certainly got all the symptoms. A slight temperature, a lot of dots and a great big smile. A great big smile? No school for a few days. Say hello to my dotted son for me. Tell him I'll bring him some comic books and I'll see you later, dear. Okay, honey. Bye. Boy, this is the life, isn't it? Yeah. If you have to get sick, you sure can't beat the measles. That's right. No medicine. Inside or out. Like shots, I mean. Don't even mention shots. Yuck! Measles, measles, measles. Well, all the kids have now had the measles. So have I. Well, I had them years ago. Looks like the Brady's are finished with the measles.

1:24:31 And that was what it was. You got the measles, your brothers and sisters got the measles, you got to stay home, you didn't get any horrible shots, and you lived! No, that can't be true! You die if you get the measles. Well compare that Brady Bunch bit to these reports. Oh, worst ever! Get your booster shots! Just get to pick up an extra 2% 2 points on your immunity and that that number is sketchy. Totally sketch. But why isn't it 100%? And why are you worried about your kid if it's vaccinated and someone else's kid isn't? But the 100% one, she asked a bigger question. If it was eradicated... Yes.

1:25:18 How can it reappear? Is it magical? Yes, it's magical. No one's asking that. This is native advertising for the pharmaceutical industry for stuff that... Well, sure, the mainstream media took it hook, line, and sinker because of course the The pharmaceutical industry is one of the main is keeping network television running network news, especially alive keeping it running Yes, so they do their bidding. Mm-hmm. What else would you like us to talk about? Massa? What else would you like to us to talk about? We'll do whatever you say Yes, and people pay people Soak it up. Yeah, I put the New York Times in that bag, too. Yeah, I

1:26:04 They're the worst. Oh yeah, I saw your tweet about them. Was that- did you tweet that they were promoting Netflix native ad? Don't know maybe it wasn't you I'm always bitching in my Twitter feed people should follow me at the real divorce I'm losing people like 20 people a day because of People they keep you're being deplatformed away from now you're being deplatformed slowly is very slow. It's a slow It's the Chinese the Chinese Twitter torture. They slowly get this slowly remove all of your followers you more followers from him and by the time you're down to like 20,000 you'll be so depressed about it. You just might die by yourself. You won't even need a kick. Nobody. I won't even have any funeral. No one's no one to attend your funeral. No, I just remember he said something about 5g that must have killed it. That's what did it. Okay. I want to do some green new deal stuff. I got some great clips for us today. Okay. I got nothing. I'm very pleased with myself.

1:27:05 It sounds like it. Yeah, well first of all the big news if you hadn't heard, it is a global problem and we're all contributing to it. White people more than black people. We know that the white people pollute more air and black people breathe more white people polluted air, but now, but now, now, now, now, stand back. In Climate Watch, Canada is warming up twice as fast as the rest of the world. What? That's according to a report from the Canadian Environment and Climate... How does that work? They're warming up twice as fast. How does that work? Tell me. I don't know. There's a magical border.

1:27:42 There's a border between us and Candanavia and they're heating up faster. ...climate change department. According to that report, since 1948, Canada's average land temperature rose by an estimated 3 degrees Fahrenheit. Hey, does that, does, wait a minute. Does that screw up the global 2 degree warming? Are they ruining our average? That pretty, it's a pretty big landmass. If Canada is ruining our average, they need to be dealt with. Well, if I was Canada, I'd be happy. This is probably why, since the... This could account for the development of the Okanagan Valley's wine industry. Hold on, let me finish the clip.

1:28:29 Findings come as the government imposed carbon taxes on poor provinces after they failed to come up with plans to act on climate change. Yeah, there's nothing like implementing a carbon tax and then at the same time say, and by the way, it's good we're doing this because we're warming up twice as fast as everybody else. You're a bunch of hotties there up north. You hot, hot, hot Canadians. Beautiful. I have a- That's bull crap. Yeah, of course. Well, the people of Candanavia are getting snookered. The carbon tax went in. It didn't start April 1st. They got snookered when they elected that crazy Justin Trudeau they're trying to rouse, finally. The New York Times shamelessly, shamelessly put up a video. I hadn't seen it, I guess it was a week or two ago, just before the kids striking.

1:29:23 And so, you know, I find all of this to be child abuse. I think John you agree that when you take these children and show them in front of an audience and make them read a script and it's, you know, and the script is we're dying, the earth is gonna die, we're all dead, you adults did nothing. This is not a positive message for children, certainly not if they're nine years old, but they've taken this nine-year-old Forget his name. Corey, I think it is. He wrote a book, a children's book, which of course is not true. It was the Climate Youth for Action who wrote the book and put his name on it. And here he is reading from his book. Extra music added by the New York Times.

1:30:06 Goodbye Earth by me, Zane Cowie. Okay, it's Goodbye Earth by me, Zane Cowie. That's his name. The world is big and I am small. One day I wish to see it all. Pacific islands, northern lights, Himalayas, desert nights. The world is big and I am small, the Earth's in trouble, hear her call. One degree warmer's our demise, we're on track for more to rise. Goodbye New York and Miami, both cities swallowed by the sea. Whose fault is all this climate mess? You grown-ups must confess.

1:30:44 While cities burned and temperatures soared, you upped and left the Paris Accord. You chose big cars, fast food, and coal. Fossil fuels my future stole. You think this is a fun rhyme book? With your inaction the earth will cook. You've had enough of empty vows, your plastic bags, your farting cows. On a hot February day you barbecued and went to play. But it's no time for celebration. You totally screwed my generation. With storms and droughts and mass migration still just stuck in conversation.

1:31:21 Me kids can't vote we don't pay tax or donate to your super PACs The only thing that we can do is stand and say shame Shame on you. We've said our bit now you get cracking no more pipelines. No more fracking We may be kids, but we are pissed we're fighting now just to exist if we don't protect all it's worth prepare to say Goodbye earth. I think this is so shameful Wow And this is a... I'll give you a borderline clip of the day for that. Oh, thank you. I never heard this. And well, and this is also, it's a book, so it's in perpetuity. Huh? Say what?

1:32:05 That's a borderline book of the day. Yeah, I just, this is such a negative for these children who are still emotionally growing. They have this half of their emotional life still needs to be put together and then another 20 years in therapy. You should be kept out of the fray. This is really, it's adults abusing children. It's generation X. This is a generation X and older millennials that are behind this, but it's mostly generation X. Well, they're dicks. They've decided that the baby boomers, which includes me, are just not doing what they want.

1:32:46 And it's become an issue and so they've decided to exploit the children, which is something the baby boomers would never do. I don't think you can find examples of it. It's unbelievable that for those millennials and Generation X who do have children, they then start to abuse them. That is child abuse in its basic form. It really is. It's just you're not, well, you know, it could be cultural. I mean, it's been taken away from parents so you can't spank or hit a kid because it's just not doable. But maybe there's a deep seated urge to do that. And this is a version of it. Oh, OK. Maybe. I'm just throwing it out there. We talked about on a previous episode how

1:33:32 The Green New Deal, but really anything that promotes wind and solar is just helping the big oil companies, in particular those that do gas. And the reason why is now evident in Germany who did away with their nuclear facilities and they said, let's crank up the wind and the solar. Then of course, they've had... By the way, let's ask the question, why did they get rid of the nuclear facilities? Was it because they were blowing up left and right, melting down? Were they having a problem? I'm glad you asked that. I'll come to that in just a moment. I have an answer for you.

1:34:08 So they decided to go wind and solar, and of course this means that their grid is overloaded at times. They basically have to pay other countries to take their energy, otherwise the grid could overload. And then when there's not enough wind or sunshine or light, at night for example, Then the gas plants kick in and the gas plants make up the difference and the gas plants love this To such a degree because now the overall cost of energy in Germany has gone up by 51% and a lot of this is because of gas because gas is being used and these companies if you don't believe me they are not only unashamed of it and

1:34:49 They are promoting what they do and I saw this on a commercial I had to go back and clip it. This is British Petroleum's television commercial for Fowler, Indiana. Welcome to Fowler, Indiana. One of the windiest places in America. And home to three BP wind farms. In the off chance the wind ever stops blowing here. The lights can keep on shining thanks to our natural gas. A smart partner to renewable energy, it's always ready when needed. Or not. At BP, we see possibilities everywhere to help the world keep advancing. Your smart partner. It's always there when you need it. These people are so blind.

1:35:37 Who believe in this? Oh yes, wind and solar, it's gonna make it. And look, it's working already! Yeah, with gas. These guys, British Petroleum, they love you. Do more Green New Deal AOC, we love it. We can't get enough of it. We're making twice as much money. 51%. So, so where is nuclear in this? Well, nuclear has actually started to crop up again. You know, Trump has been doing some things and I follow Sir Rod, Sir Hot Rod Adams, who was our, our no agenda nuclear expert, who was a commander on a nuclear sub. He hates it when I say it. He was on a nuclear sub for a long time, knows a lot about it, has been involved in many different nuclear projects, has certainly helped the show learn a lot about it.

1:36:23 So when you have all these things taking place and you know people are starting to talk about it and Bill Gates is out there of course he has hugely invested in it and there's these new reactors and reactors eat their own waste. You know what do you do as big oil? What do you do? I mean what do you do? Oh you go to your buddies at Warner, maybe HBO. All of the good we did, it doesn't matter. What does matter is that to them justice was done. You see, a just world

1:37:02 There's a sane world. There was nothing sane about Chernobyl. Now, of course this does no justice to this trailer because it's very visual, very scary. This is Chernobyl 2019 HBO miniseries special event everybody! That's right! Let's scare you about nuclear Chernobyl. We're all gonna die. I don't know what to tell you. They're releasing, all of a sudden, a mini-series. Yeah, it's been pointed out by everybody because it's like, why is this now? And you're right, it's part of this grand scheme, probably by British Petroleum, or these other oil companies, to take the bloom off of any ideas of modern nuclear energy.

1:38:00 When of course the Chernobyl event was a piece of crap reactor that the Russians threw together that was not shielded It had all these issues. It was a disaster waiting to happen and it happened and These events are extremely rare and was a military installation my and this those are the two I mean the thing in five whatever it was That was a minor event well, no it what it wasn't it wasn't a minor event for one reason and that that took place within days of the release of the movie China Syndrome which scared the you know what out of people. Yeah it just scared the crap out of people. Yeah China Syndrome was one of the movies, thank you Jane Fonda, that put the I'm not gonna say it, Kaibosh on the whole thing. Uh-huh yes.

1:38:59 So we've been, the public's been brainwashed about this. I mean France has been running on nuclear energy for I don't know how long, since the 70s at least. The whole country is pretty much dependent on that as their energy source and everything's working fine until these scaremongers come along. And the thing I'm always told about the French system, which is a very old, it's kind of an old-fashioned reactor, but they're standard. The thing in France, our reactors are all custom made generally by General Electric or somebody. And each reactor is different to an extreme. The French system had every, they standardized, like you do with a hard disk. It's standardized, it plugs in. So the whole country's got the exact same reactor. So if you're working outside of Chenal and at the reactors there, and you want to go to someplace else and work at their reactors, it's not like you have to learn anything. It's the exact same system.

1:39:56 We've never adopted that because people like General Electric like to sell things for billions and billions of dollars instead of a few hundred million at most if it was standardized. But we've never standardized anything. And that's the problem that I think the real problem with nuclear is the lack of standards. Well, and money. So go Bill Gates. I'm all in with Bill. Yeah, luckily Bill's got not something we would say a lot. You know there's a lot of things I don't like about Bill windows being one of them. Hey, oh It's got nothing to do with the window. I know I know it's actually not that bad so yeah, holy moly Yeah, they're just gonna keep fighting it, but that's the way to go by the way You know Chernobyl is only a hour and a half drive from Kiev. It's not like people are dead there from this horrible horrible thing

1:40:53 There was one other report that caught my eye slash ear and I perked up and said, wait a minute, what is going on? It's been going on for about a week and this is one of the reports. George Clooney is using his star power to call for a boycott of nine luxury hotels including the Beverly Hills Hotel and Hotel Bel Air, longtime playgrounds for the rich and famous. They're owned by an agency headed by the Sultan of Brunei, who starting next week will enforce harsh laws, including death by stoning as punishment for gay sex and adultery. In a column for Deadline, Clooney writes, are we really going to help pay for these human rights violations? Are we really going to help fund the murder of innocent citizens?

1:41:35 There were similar boycott calls five years ago when Brunei first announced it was adopting strict Sharia law, among those protesting Jay Leno. What year is this? What is this, 1814? The nine hotels located across the globe are part of the Dorchester collection, which says inclusion and diversity remain core beliefs as we do not tolerate any form of discrimination. Clooney has been photographed at the hotels before and writes, full disclosure, I've stayed at many of them, a couple of them recently because I hadn't done my homework, a cause for which Clooney has no reservations. So we follow George Clooney and we follow him for a number of different reasons. He's been very quiet since his marriage to Amal.

1:42:23 And he's a new handler. Yes, exactly. Very much in the background. But we know on this show, we've known it for many, many years, is if you've got something going on, if you need a distraction, what do you do? Call Clooney. No agenda, thinking hat firmly in place. What is going on with Brunei? Is this the reason why we have to have this boycott? Do we need to have all this attention? Do we once again need to bring in our lesbian, gay, our LGBTQIAPK brothers and sisters? Is this really, is this genuine or could it be because the small little

1:43:13 country located mainly on the South China Sea through very important shipping lanes and a joint venture with China's Zhuangzi Baibu. I'm glad you picked this up because I had looked at it and I knew there was something going on that was, because Clooney, but I didn't do it. It didn't follow up on. I'm glad you did. This is the joint venture between the port and the Chinese Gulfport Group, along with Brunei's Dar es Salaam asset group, created a joint venture.

1:43:53 And as the press release says, Brunei is an important country along the 21st century maritime Silk Road. This is our move. Hey, look at where Brunei is on the map. This is, so you've got China at the top, you've got Brunei at the bottom, this is where a lot of shipping is done. We can't have this being a part of the No Belt Three Roads strategy from China. Right, it's a choke point. So we've, yes! China's trying to grab all the choke points because they're going for it. Exactly. And what, how do we do that? Like we always do, bring in some sex stuff! Yeah, whatever, let's shame these guys, shame him!

1:44:38 And of course nothing will happen so we're gonna put pressure on his hotels and instead of just saying, hey China's a problem. We don't like what they're doing over here. We wanna, you know, maybe we can do something. Whatever it is, be honest. Calling Clooney in for the job. You might as well send me a telegram. It's like Clooney shows up, I start looking at the news. All right, what is it? Where is it? What's going on? Let's look past the abuse of our LGBTQ brothers and sisters because that's what it is. Well, this is not going to be effective.

1:45:20 No, but it's a start. It's a start. And now it puts into people, it's a long game. You put in... Maybe if it's, you know, if it puts it, if there's a messaging that's coming around saying, you know, you might be putting you, Mr. Sultan of Brunei, who is the guy who actually built the... I mean, he's a big shot in the United States. He's not owner necessarily, but he's behind a lot of major super high-end restaurants and attractions, and he owns the Dorchester chain of hotels now. He could put a little message, might go out there, you might be killed. Just saying.

1:46:00 Yeah, well listen when George Clooney regime change in you know Brunei, it could happen. I think that certainly in the Middle East and perhaps in many other in the Far East many other places around the globe the troublemakers despots dictators they all know there's two people you don't want yelling at you one is Donald Trump the other is George Clooney they know oh crap they called in Clooney my brother Step up security. Step up security. Clooney's up there.

1:46:39 Shameless, these people. This is why you listen to no agenda. Yeah, and keep you up on this. People can you can do this yourself. You just have to look for the little clues. You know, when Clooney comes out after what, two years, maybe three? Yes, he's been under under. Yeah, he's been under. They've been keeping him under wraps. I think he I think he did some missteps and he was put on the sidelines. He was sidelined. No, he had to he had to go through training with them all first. She had, you know, command and control training. Maybe. Could be just just look at how he I mean he's he's chivalrous of course, but I can see it She's got him under control MK ultra so so we've been witnessing to change the topic again. I

1:47:24 We've been witnessing an attack on Joe Biden. Kind of. Which you pointed out in the last show, and a couple of shows, have been saying to me, because I have this contenders list, a handicap list of who's going to be nominated by the Democrats. I told you it was a Hillary hit job, or it was a hit job, smelled like Hillary. Yes, smells like Hillary. And CNN is in on it. Well, they were a big Hillary team. Team Hillary. But I've kept Biden at the top because I think he can still get out of this. And although I did have a very funny, the picture I put in the last newsletter of Biden, that little redhead girl, which I've never seen before. It's probably the creepiest picture I've ever put in a newsletter.

1:48:11 And I feel sorry for people who took themselves off the mailing list because I'm not tweeting that picture. Anyway, so Biden decides that he's going to use Twitter now. He thinks he's Donald Trump and he's going to use Twitter. So he thinks he's kind of Donald Trump, Scott Adams. He's going to do videos. Yes. So he did this video apologizing for... More like AOC, you mean. And more like, who's that other hipster? Pocahontas. Yeah, let me get a beer. Elizabeth Warren. Yeah, Pocahontas. She shouldn't be drinking if she's Indian. Anyway, so we have this, here's Biden apologizing. It's a two minute clip. This is the entire clip of him on his own Twitter feed, kind of apologizing for grabbing women and touching

1:48:59 touching them on, you know, pulling a John Lasseter, let's say. And if you look at the comments after this, there's a lot of people, oh, good for Joe, he's back in the game, this makes sense. And there's other people saying he's a creep, but most, you know, the Democrats aren't thinking that. So I think he's gonna, I still think he's gonna weasel his way out of this, but let's listen to what he had to say. Folks, in the coming month, I expect to be talking to you about a whole lot of issues, and I'll always be direct with you, but today I wanna talk about just as a support and encouragement that I've made to women and some men, and it made them uncomfortable. And I always try to be, in my career, I've always tried to make a human connection. That's my responsibility, I think. I shake hands, I hug people, I grab men and women by the shoulders and say, you can do this. And whether they're women, men, young, old, it's the way I've always been. It's the way I've tried to show I care about them and I'm listening.

1:49:54 And over the years, knowing what I've been through, the things that I've faced, I found that scores, if not hundreds of people have come up to me and reached out for solace and comfort. Something, anything that may help them get through the tragedy they're going through. And so it's just who I am. And I've never thought of politics as cold and antiseptic. I've always thought about connecting with people. As I said, shaking hands, hands on the shoulder, a hug, encouragement. And now it's all about taking selfies together. You know, social norms have begun to change. They've shifted. And the boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset. And I get it. I get it.

1:50:41 I hear what they're saying. I understand it. And I'll be much more mindful. That's my responsibility. My responsibility and I'll meet it. But I always believe governing, quite frankly, life for that matter, is about connecting, about connecting with people. That won't change, but I will be more mindful and respectful of people's personal space. And that's a good thing. That's a good thing. I've worked my whole life to empower women. I've worked my whole life to prevent abuse. I've written up. And so the idea that I can't adjust to the fact that personal space is important, more important than it's ever been is just not thinkable. I will. I will.

1:51:25 As a quick callback, this is another excellent example of unequal treatment under the quote law the me too law in this case This irks a lot of people to say why isn't it? Why isn't he getting raked over the coals? Why does he get a pass? There's plenty of evidence and I will say this about Joe Biden. He's been in politics a long time and Politics is just show business for ugly people and he's no better or worse than your crooner. You know, a guy, hey baby, yeah, hey sweetheart, hey, his toots. Big smile. Because he's a super, super duper celebrity, certainly in his world. And that is his vibe and people understand it and yeah, they accept it and I guess they kind of overlooked it and now hopefully some people see the hypocrisy of how they've treated others

1:52:20 But there is something else going on in his particular case, or in the case of Lucy Flores, who first came out with this clearly politically motivated announcement. And I have two clips, quickies, because she was on, every station had some soundbite interview, but I got the NPR stuff, when people are a little different, they go more in-depth, a little more relaxed, at least she was. There was a real power situation here. I mean this was an event where Flores was running for election, Biden is you know the copy to toothy copy almost of the party, he came up from behind, you know there's a lot of things really wrong with this. Now let's listen to what she had to say and I think we can start to understand where this is headed. Ms. Flores, can you describe the encounter in your own words?

1:53:10 Sure, well, I mean it's just as I just sure there we go. Sure. Sure. Sure. I can explain it miss Laura's Can you describe your counter in your own words? Sure. Well, I mean, it's just as I described It happened very suddenly. I was not expecting it. It was a campaign rally setting So there was a lot of chaos a lot of people a lot of energy We were all kind of in public. Vice President Biden and I were never alone together. So as we were waiting to be noticed, she points that out, which she's never done previously. But it's I think it's important so that she this is someone who's covering her legally, I think.

1:53:46 Someone gave her advice and say you should say we were never alone So it doesn't sound like you know Like you're accusing him of doing something really really really really super creepy where no one was watching So she's being prompted about this public vice president Biden, and I were never alone together So as we were waiting to be called up to the stage the rally had already started people were already speaking We were waiting in line evil and Gorya was in front of me Joe Biden was behind me And, you know, I just all of a sudden feel his hands and I feel him get up really close to me. And I'm just, you know, at that point processing and I'm thinking, OK, this is really weird. But then he leans in and then he like inhales and then he proceeds to plant this long kiss on the top of my head. And the entire time I'm just kind of like, what is happening? In our household, we now call that an Uncle Joe.

1:54:42 I'm gonna do an Uncle Joe on you, baby. Don't move. So what is she really after here? What is this about? As we mentioned, former Vice President Biden has released a statement and says if he did behave this way, he doesn't believe he acted inappropriately. What is your response to his statement? I need the vice president and all men and all people who are in positions of power. Okay, just it's just hold on a second. All men. Okay, and people in positions of power, but all men that's you and I John she's talking directly to us speaking truth to power I need the vice president and all men and all people

1:55:24 My God, she's speaking truth to podcasters. Time to pay attention. The vice president and all men and all people who are in positions of power to understand that in that setting, in that situation, that kind of behavior is absolutely inappropriate. A big part of the reason why I'm also speaking out now is because he has a history of this. This is not an unknown issue. There have been stories, there are pictures, there are videos. I think that there is a very severe disconnect and lack of empathy for what the women on the receiving end are feeling. I understand that he's trying to clear up his intention, but it's not about your intention. Whether it was an innocent gesture, whether it was a sexual gesture, none of that matters. It is about the person on the receiving end of that inappropriate behavior by someone who is

1:56:26 Very very clearly more powerful than you that power dynamic is important to recognize I give her total Absolute credit and and I acknowledge what she's saying about the power structure. That's totally wrong But I'm very worried about this. It doesn't matter what you do. It's how I feel about what you do This is a problem. There's no end in sight for this. No, it's like I put my arm around you for a selfie and I feel very uncomfortable. You are wrong. You know, this is going to move people even further apart. Apparently it will. Okay. I think that's the idea. Well, it's okay. It's a disruption. It's a social disruption. It's problematic. All right, I'll stick on the 2020 elections with two more things. I've been tracking this compact of states.

1:57:26 We've heard on one hand a lot of talk about getting rid of the Electoral College, which I don't think we should explain here, but you can certainly look it up. It's a very simple system. It is how, it is why Trump got elected and I think, was it Bush? Didn't he also get elected through the Electoral College? The first go-round, yeah. First go-round. So there's a back door to getting rid of the Electoral College in an interesting way, which is this compact of states. It's been going on for months. A lot of people have emailed me about it. I understand what it's doing. But finally I got a clip. Someone who at least has authority, although, oh my goodness, the guys, they might as well just be not even on the scene, Dick Morris.

1:58:10 who is very anti-Hillary and anti-Clinton at the moment, he used to be one of their advisors. He has a podcast and here is a minute and a half of him explaining what is going on. The Democrats are pushing something they call the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. which is an end run around the electoral college that is closing in on the number of states that it needs in order to succeed. The idea is that states pass laws saying that the electors from those states should cast votes not for who won the state, but for the winner of the national popular vote and that when enough states have passed this,

1:58:55 so that they constitute 270 or more electoral votes, enough for a majority in the Electoral College, the compacts would take effect. And at that point, the Electoral College becomes an irrelevant formality because the states vote in accordance with the popular vote. Now, there have already been 15 states and the District of Columbia that have passed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. And they account among them for 198 of the 270 electoral votes that they need for this to take effect. And there are enough state legislatures out there that have not yet ratified it, where at least one house is Democrat.

1:59:43 to get them up over the 270. In those states there's one House Republican and one House Democrat. So we have to hold the line to protect the Electoral College. I don't know if this can work, but it sure seems like someone's trying to put it together. Someone's trying to put what together? This stupid idea that you're going to just turn your votes over to the state of California? Yes, and several states have already passed laws that this would take place. Yeah, I would definitely vote those people out of office. I want my vote, one man, one vote. I want my vote to count. Oh yeah. That's not how it's going to happen though. I mean, do you think this can work?

2:00:30 Well, like he said, 15 states have already stupidly adopted this crazy policy. Yeah, but that's kind of circumventing the Constitution. Or is it? I don't think so. I think it's legit. I mean, I think you can do it legally. I don't think it's illegal or unconstitutional to do it. It's just dumb. Right up there with AOC? No, no, no, this is dumb. This is my last one. This is dumb. Andrew Yang, who I think is a big phony, Oh, this is the way you go. Let's stop here. We have a number of Zoomers, Generation Z folk that listen to the show. Yeah. And they're all in on this guy. And we have one guy that harasses us about it. You're not talking about Andrew Yang. Yang. Yang. Yang. Right. We have talked about him. He's a brother of Yin.

2:01:30 Oh boy. Well, his name is Andrew Yang. Yang. And he had, I don't know, he's just, it's sketchy. He looks like he did some scammy stuff to make it look like he had enough votes, you know, support to get in, or money, or individual donors. He wants to be on the dais when they do the debates in June. Now, like every good Democrat, if you even want to be considered for any kind of position, If you want to run for president, you have to go and visit Al Sharpton. And you have to visit him at MSNBC, but you also have to go and do a speech for his action, the action, the Now Action Network. You gotta go and speak at his little shindig. It's very, very important. And he did with a personal introduction by Reverend Al himself. He is running

2:02:26 Democratic primary for president. He's an entrepreneur, founder of Venture for America, and one of the first to say, yes, let me come and speak to the National Action Network, and we want to hear from him. Mr. Andrew Lang, give him a hand. Did you hear it? Andrew Lang? Andrew Lang. And Lang goes up and pushes Sharpton aside and just goes into his spiel, doesn't even correct him. Andrew Lang. This guy's a piece of work. I'm going to show my school by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. John, before we start... Well, we do have a few people to thank for show 1126. Starting with Michael Conti, $150. Says thanks for the entertainment and analysis. Sir Paul Knight of the Good Guys in Hudson Valley, New York.

2:03:28 He says, John and I share a birthday 10 years apart. So he's got a birthday coming up too. Tony, my bum, bomb, my bomb, my bum, I think. $107. It's his birthday week too. Holy moly. He says he's got 40 on the 40 that he added up to 67 and 40 is 107. Wrapping up my first term as our city commissioner. And might I say F5G after the FCC jammed it into every municipality's brains. That's true. That's true. John Robineau, $100. Anastasia Perov, Anastasia.

2:04:16 And she has some nasty things to say about PC Magazine and I appreciate that. As always. Barrett Lattican, $100. Scott Porter, $100. I need some jobs, Karma. I'll give you that at the end of Mrs. Daily's source code. Christopher Arnold, Arnold, Arnold. Christopher, Christopher Arnold, Arnold. 8888, Jacobina Kunin, 76. Kunin, she's from the Netherlands. Rosmahlen. So it would be Kunin. Sir Gutton Nate in Sebastopol, California, 69, 69. Now, the following people are 67 well, $67 well-wishers for my birthday, and there's quite a few of them. I'm going to go read them. Name and location, if there is a location, which shows up now and again on the spreadsheet. Starting with

2:05:04 Ivo or Ivo, Ivo, Ivo, Ivo, Welton, Gregory Zajacuk, Anonymous, Sir Mackinowski in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jim Watson, Whistler, oh nice, Whistler, BC, Evan Burkhardt, Eric Noll, Baron Bob of High Point, A. Avvarvari in, you can pronounce this, it's Dutch, it's Leidschendom. Leidschendom. Leidschendom. which means the light... The dam of Leiden. Yep. Robert Queerback, Carl Salyer. We have nobody with the name Jones, by the way, that ever listens to this show. Sir Christoph, Baron of Buckeye in Buckeye, Arizona. Hylko Santema. Hylko Santema. Santema, that's it.

2:06:07 Everyone says anonymous. Another anonymous, Brian Sodorowicz, I think. Michael Barco in Salem, Oregon. Many happy returns. Todd Beeson, Jacob Honan, Bart Burton, Troy Dale Thomas, Knight of Rivermark in Santa Clara, California. Now, Rolando Gonzalez, Alexander Sulzberger, David Wynn in Rockville Center, New York, Shane Lindholm, Arthur Govitz, Sir Arthur Govitz to you. That's right. Ryan Quick, John Adams, Gary Botkin, Jason Zeisler in South Dakota, Brent Bengtson,

2:07:00 Robert Ballard, Brady Schroeder, Sir Jan LeClerc in Luxembourg. He's on the birthday list. He's Sir Quigiboo, Quigiboo, Sir Quigiboo. Roger Worley in Carson, California. Sir Midnight of the Rivers in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Peter White, David Martinez, Nicholas Hanna, Joel Brian, Sir Brian Warden, Gerald Preston, Sir John Knowles, the Baron of Murfreesboro, Murfreesboro in Tennessee. Sir Eric VM, he's a producer, he's going to be knighted today. Kevin of the Silver Dolphins and the Secret Bites. He's actually getting a barony today. Oh, he's an upgraded barony. Sir Eric VM, yeah.

2:07:55 Kevin of the Silver Dolphins and the Secret Bites, Robert Marsh, who I believe is a sir, James Callahan, Kimberly Lewis, Mark Hampton, Robert Bruckner, Matthew Janiszewski, a Sir Matthew in Chicago, Daniel Smith in Dayton, Ohio. Van Jackson, Brock Reinhold. Sir Alex, Knight of the Northern Launchpad. And that concludes our list of well-wishers and happy birthday sayers. Aww, so nice. This really helps the show quite a bit, I should add. It does, and it also makes, it certainly makes me feel better. You know, whenever either of us gets a year older, I'm like, yeah, but it's another extra dollar in donations.

2:08:40 Yeah, it does help. Sir Stephen McConnell, 5813 from Cortland, Ohio. We follow up with Sir Tom Derry in DeForest, Wisconsin. Sir Selvarin, 5150. He needs some job karma. We'll put it at the end. He's tired of current gig. Looking to move on. Yeah. Dame Tanya, the Viscountess of New York City. And she says, happy birthday to me. Thank you, Dame. Sir Trent Wabas. You silly Wabas. He's got something going on here. His brother's getting married on this coming show day. He mentioned Sir Trent Wabus would like to bless the wedding. Okay, we'll put this in. Bless the wedding of Joel and Pippa Wabus and perhaps give them some wedding karma.

2:09:30 Shout out to the thousands of dollars and the check is in the mail. Whatever that means. And finally we have the $50 donors name and location starting with Scott E. Knight in Lust Wages, Nevada. Paul Van Cordelar in Imouden. Villarreal, Villarreal, best name on the whole list always. What a great, Villarreal, Villarreal, Mercedes, Texas, Matthew, Sir Matthew Janiszewski is again here from Chicago. Jeremy Cartwright, so he's a combination. That's very nice. Yeah. Andrew Oxenham in Knoxville, Tennessee.

2:10:07 Bradley Ledin, parts unknown, Sir Brett Farrell in O.K. City, as far as we know, this is where his bank is, and Aichi Kitagawa over in San Francisco. I want to thank all these folks for helping us out on show 1126. Thank you very much. Thanks for the birthday call. Yeah, that's really nice. That's super, super cool. Thank you, everybody. I know. And happy birthday, John, in advance. Well, thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. One day in advance. And by the way, since the birthday's tomorrow, we can still take more birthday commentary and donations on Sunday and I will put that in the newsletter if you want. If you want. If you missed out, you can do it. Still do it. We really appreciate this kind of support. This is what keeps the show going. We have no advertisers. We take no money from any commercial interest, nowhere, no how, no way, anyway. We're a network of producers. That is you. You're not just listeners. You help produce the show. And many of you do that financially, which is the only way it can work to keep us

2:11:04 gainfully employed while doing this, which is a full-time job. Now we could do it differently. I prefer this method a lot more. It's a lot more exciting. I got a... someone gave me the rate card for Ben Shapiro's podcast. Not for his radio show, his podcast. The radio show, by the way, I believe would be cheaper. His podcast. Yeah, okay. Claims 850,000 plus downloads per episode. Claims, can't prove it. Here's the little blurb. Tired of the lies? Tired of the spin? Are you ready to hear the hard-hitting truth in comprehensive conservative-principled fashion? Fashion? The Ben Shapiro Show brings you all the news you need to know. So he has four categories. Live read ad intro, live read ad first segment, second segment, and live read midway. 60 seconds. They're all live reads, 60 seconds. How much do you think it is?

2:12:04 Well, at $850,000 I would say, conservatively, be at least $10 a thousand or be $850 for 60 seconds. $25,500 for 60 seconds. So I'm calculating the value of these things which is around $10 per thousand at CPM, which is an advertising rate that's well known, which would come to $850. But he came up with what? $25,500. So he's thinking, I'm just doing this off the top of my head, but he's running at about a $75 a thousand. I'm guessing something like that. $75 a thousand CPM is extremely high for radio. Yeah. And it's even higher for podcasts. It's a podcast. It's a podcast. Interesting, isn't it? Well, first of all, congratulations, Ben Shapiro is what I'm saying. Good. Congratulations. If you can take it.

2:13:03 I couldn't do it. I can't do this. I can't read. I mean you can't do it anyway I can't do it with a straight face. I can't sell it to myself He can barely do it with a straight face Man, they sell everything on that they they sell their email list do they yeah? Yeah, I'll tell you what it is. They have an email list yep Well, I know the prices of that too. How many people are on it? What do they want for it four hundred thousand subscribers? $15,000 per send. Do they do segments? Doesn't say. Probably not. Because what you'd want to do if you knew what you were doing, which I assume anyone doing email would do, would know is you do a test.

2:13:53 Right test of five to ten thousand people you don't send out you just go nuts and send four hundred thousand mail But hold on you can also do an endorsement on their conservative news list Which has two hundred forty thousand subscribers, and that's only seven and a half thousand percent I'm not saying that's what they get for it, but that's what's in the media kit interesting though oh Well, they want... they think very highly of themselves. All those numbers are outrageous. This is true. These numbers are outrageous. It's true! Congratulations, Ben, if that's what you're doing. I prefer to work with our network of producers. Much more exciting, much more personal. And they produce the show. This is the best part about it. There's never an argument. If there's an argument, eventually we'll go away. That's how simple it is. But we won't, because we'll be back on Sunday. Please remember us and support the work at... Dvorak.org

2:14:47 I have a special house selling karma that was due for Neil Carpenter. You've got karma. And for those who need it. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. And we do have a list for today the 4th of April 2019 Chris Sir Chris the drunkard minstrel and Felix say happy birthday to Kylie the keeper she's turning 52.

2:15:24 Jack Janusso celebrates today. Tony Maibaum turns 40 today. Then we have Sir Paul Knight of the Good Guys who will be celebrating his birthday tomorrow. Jean Leclerc will celebrate his birthday on April 10th. And we have a birthday make-good, Sir Mac and Dame Lauren say happy 30th birthday to Heidi. And happy birthday to Sir Night Don Cool from Joe Sharon in New Hampshire. And finally, happy birthday to my partner for the past 11 years, John C. Dvorak, the buzzkill, turned 67 tomorrow. Happy birthday, birthday from everybody and all the producers at the best podcast in the universe. We have a nighting. So this is good. We have a nighting. Actually, we have a nighting and...

2:14:47 I have a special house selling karma that was due for Neil Carpenter. You've got karma. And for those who need it. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. And we do have a list for today the 4th of April 2019 Chris Sir Chris the drunkard minstrel and Felix say happy birthday to Kylie the keeper she's turning 52.

2:15:24 Jack Janusso celebrates today. Tony Maibaum turns 40 today. Then we have Sir Paul Knight of the Good Guys who will be celebrating his birthday tomorrow. Jean Leclerc will celebrate his birthday on April 10th. And we have a birthday make-good, Sir Mac and Dame Lauren say happy 30th birthday to Heidi. And happy birthday to Sir Night Don Cool from Joe Sharon in New Hampshire. And finally, happy birthday to my partner for the past 11 years, John C. Dvorak, the buzzkill, turned 67 tomorrow. Happy birthday, birthday from everybody and all the producers at the best podcast in the universe. We have a nighting. So this is good. We have a nighting. Actually, we have a nighting and...

2:16:12 That's right, we have Sir Eric VM, who is very happy that he becomes a Baron today, so that means he can- now, did he choose a protectorate? I didn't see that on the spreadsheet. Did he choose... let me see... He is Baron of the Valley, so... okay, so now you... Baron of the Valley. There you go. Fantastic. Congratulations, sir. Thank you. And I would like to... grip my sword. If you can get yours, we have... John? Hello? Here you go. Oh, there... I see, I see. Anonymous CPA, come on up, sir!

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2:18:35 The the company that provides the weight and balance for for aircraft companies They had some I think it was maybe was an automatic upgrade I don't know like Windows updated and all of a sudden their dotnet Configuration didn't work with the new version of silverlight. I don't know. I don't know exactly how they're using it in this case, but all these These that was it five or six different the airlines, they use this one company. It was really only down for 40 minutes, but that was enough to cascade everything into a very painful experience for many. Glitch, which is called a glitch in the news. Here we'll actually explain what happened so you have some information. No, the mainstream is a glitch. They could have said that. Please. It's a glitch. I got a great backgrounder

2:19:34 from this Council on Foreign Relations panel with this woman Amanda Sloat. She works also for the Brookings Institute and I'm gonna call her the Brexpert from now on. And she in, I mean it's more than two minutes, but she explains exactly where we're at. Now I know you probably have an update on Brexit from Democracy Now, what do you have? I have an update. I was thinking of combining, putting my upgrade, I don't think it's a very short piece. Okay. And I'm thinking of doing a clip blitz, which is something we haven't done for a while.

2:20:13 we start to wrap the show. Well can I play the the Brexit clip first? Yeah, I think you should just play this. I don't think it's gonna make a difference. The British parliamentary speaker John Bercow has ruled that Theresa May could not bring this forward for a third meaningful vote if nothing substantive had changed from before. So what she attempted to do last week was to split the Brexit agreement into its two component parts and have just a vote on the withdrawal agreement, which would have gotten the UK the automatic extension to May 22nd. She did that and it failed. So Parliament now has decided to do a series of indicative votes to try and narrow down the options and to see if it's possible to find any sort of majority in Parliament for anything. They held one series of indicative votes

2:21:00 earlier, which was defeated, and then they just held a second series of indicative votes, which also defeated. So as of now, there is still no majority in Parliament for any way forward. Interestingly, if you look at the indicative votes, a couple things are clear. One is Parliament does not support the UK leaving with no deal, but thus far Parliament has not been prepared to actually legislate against no deal. This could change this week. On Thursday, It looks like there is legislation being introduced this afternoon that would force Theresa May to request a long extension next week if it looks like the UK is otherwise going to crash out. Second, there has been the closest number of votes in terms of looking at a customs union. That option was only defeated by three votes when this last round of indicative votes happened

2:21:52 So there, yesterday I guess it was. So that is the one that has the greatest amount of support. But that would see the loss of the UK's ability to negotiate free trade agreements to the extent that it wants, which is of course part of the impetus for Brexit in the first place. The one that has gotten the largest number of votes but still has been defeated is the prospect of having a second referendum. So what I think we are likely to see now in the next couple of days is a vote in Parliament on Thursday Thursday on whether to rule out no deal, at least in the form of requesting a long extension. I think on Monday we will probably see another series of indicative votes and it is possible that the Prime Minister will bring her deal back for a third meaningful attempt, assuming the Speaker allows it.

2:22:38 And then we'll have this European summit next Wednesday. So really I think at this stage the only three options are crashing out with no deal on the 12th, ratifying some sort of deal and then likely getting a technical extension up until May 22nd to be able to implement. Or third, in my own sense most likely, is a request for a long extension. Although the UK will still need to be able to answer the question of what it will use that time to do either hold a new general election hold a second referendum or Continue to fight for for the foreseeable future about what they want this this brexit to look like well I think we're taking option B. Well. She's got a good She says work ahead. She's got a job ahead of her working for strat for with this sort of

2:23:28 droning analysis. Well, I subscribe to that, you know, for the show. Yeah. Yeah. You see how many clips you get out of none. Here's the Brexit summer. She's behind the times. Things are already they already did the third vote and it's under the fourth vote. And here's where we are now. This is play the Brexit summary democracy now in Britain. Prime Minister Theresa May said Tuesday she'll ask European leaders for an additional Brexit extension after lawmakers failed to agree on either May's original deal negotiated with the EU or a series of alternative exit strategies. May said she would enter into discussions with Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn to come up with a new joint proposal. Britain is currently scheduled to leave the European Union at the end of next week. Jeremy Corbyn better stay away from that.

2:24:17 And you know it's actually a pro-Brexit. Yeah, but she's trying to smear this on him, bring him into it. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. This is a joke. But they're going to extend it again and we're going to follow it as best we can. Until we can do another referendum. It's like a lot of wheels spinning. Until it's time for another referendum. We just keep on pushing. Well, it keeps getting mentioned, doesn't it? It does. Oh, yes. I have a follow-up for you. About Lyft and their IPO. Mm-hmm. We have a lot of people who drive or used to drive for these types of companies

2:24:54 Yeah. Adam, episode 1125, I have an update on Lyft. I live in San Francisco in the Richmond district. I talk with every Lyft driver I ride with. I enjoy learning about their hometowns, life before Lyft, recommendations, etc. A lot of drivers were paid a bonus from Lyft to move to San Francisco. This happened in mid to late 2018 as Lyft had a shortage of drivers in San Francisco. Last month, Lyft cut pay for drivers in the Bay Area on average from 98 cents to 55 cents a mile in preparation for the IPO. over a dozen drivers have confirmed this ridiculous pay cut as lift makes a desperate attempt to look profitable on paper and The emails about this just goes on and on so total alert massive scam alert I'm alert. I wanted to all you investors out there scam alert I want to guess we have a replay silly game on a DHM plug show and I put lift as a short and

2:25:49 I talked about the election in Chicago. Yes. They elected a black lesbian as mayor of Chicago, kind of representing the lesbian and blacks in the city. Can I just say something? I have heard every person in Chicago on the news say, we elected a lesbian! I'm like, why does that matter? Well, she's the one who been, she promoted it. Well, I think that's bullshit. Well, it might be bullshit, but that's how she got elected. Now, she ran against another woman. I have a mea culpa. I put the picture of the opponent in the newsletter and not the picture of this woman who won. They look the same. That's the most racist thing you've said in a fucking year. No, they look the same.

2:26:44 They're middle-aged black women of a certain age and they got the same haircut, one's a little grayer than the other, and from a distance, which this is a distance shot, she's walking a dog, they look the same. And so I screwed up. Okay. So, and I apologize for that huge blunder. There are so many interesting ties with this woman. She's, you know who she mentored? Kim Fox. AOC? Kim Fox. Oh. This Jussie Smollett thing has so many weird ties to it. Avenatti's tied into it. There's all kinds of nut stuff going on. And now the new mayor is tied into it. And by the way, she's no lightweight. This is a serious kick-ass person. Oh, yeah. This woman, she is... I agree. She runs the police board. I mean, you gotta be... This is a new sheriff in town. I'm very curious to see what she's doing. Tina's from Chicago. She's like, I hope she cleans the shit up in Chicago.

2:27:43 Well, looking at her policies, doubtful. She's extremely progressive. I doubt it too, but I think she's going to make a big... She can make a big splash with something. I'm cleaning things up and you keep talking about it. Trump does this. Yeah. You keep talking about it, hoping that actually something happens. I'm not convinced that she's going to clean anything up, but she's definitely a kick-ass person. But let's listen to the report that I have so we at least know something. And this, I believe, is from Democracy Now! It's the Chicago election. In Chicago, voters made history Tuesday night by electing the city's first African-American woman as mayor. She'll also be the city's first openly gay mayor. Lori Lightfoot won a landslide victory beating her opponent Tony Preckwinkle in a runoff vote by more than 47... Lightfoot versus Preckwinkle? Isn't that great? What kind of names are they promoting there in Chicago? Lightfoot, Preckwinkle?

2:28:38 Anyway, I made the mistake of thinking PrEP Winkle was Lightfoot. Percentage points. Lightfoot's a newcomer to electoral politics. She previously worked as a federal prosecutor. In 2015, now outgoing Mayor Rahm Emanuel appointed her to head the Chicago Police Board. She was also chair of the Police Accountability Task Force in 2016, which issued a damning report after the police killing of African-Americans. American teenager Laquan McDonald, part of her mayoral campaign focused on ousting Chicago's political machine. This is Lightfoot addressing her supporters in her victory speech. Together, we can and will finally put the interests of our people, all of our people, ahead of the interests of a powerful few. Together, we can and will make Chicago a place

2:29:31 where your zip code doesn't determine your destiny. female staffer cadence that was, you know, that Susan Rice had and all these different women that worked in the White House under their Obama administration. It is a specific cadence and she's got it. She's an Obamaite. Well, the number one thing I feel she should do, and Chicago's not my city, but she'd probably work on some of the gun crime.

2:30:12 People killing each other. Chicago is the strictest gun laws in the country. Oh, I didn't say do it with gun laws. You got to do something because there's people killing each other. The guns not the people are killing each other. And that's what she needs to focus on. Well, I don't know. I don't think she's going to get anything accomplished. I looked at her. She's got that Obama style. She is part of that. Whatever the Obama thing is, she is an element of it. Oh yeah. Well, her values are all progressive. Her agenda is, um...

2:30:47 More money for education, which I'm not against it, but oh man, there's a lot a lot has happened in Chicago with charter schools kicking out public schools. Does that mean more charter schools? More pipelines to Cisco who are right there? They've got this, you know, I'm not totally against by the way, but just just so we know what we're talking about. I don't think it's about public school. More gun laws, whatever more you can do in in Chicago and well, she has an LGBTQ agenda. We'll see. You know, prosperity for all, but I think you got to tackle what's why are people killing each other? Let's start with that. Easy for me to say here in Austin. Yeah, it is easy for you to say. It's easy for anybody to say. All right, here we go. We're gonna do a clip blitz, a bunch of quick clips to catch us up with what really is important. Algeria update.

2:31:43 In Algeria, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned with immediate effect Tuesday, one day after he announced he would resign by the end of his current term at the end of April, and shortly after military leaders called for an immediate declaration that he was no longer fit to serve. He's rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2013. Algerians have been organizing mass protests for weeks, demanding he step down, as well as an overhaul to the current political system. We

2:32:37 spread of the disease have been hampered by fighting between government forces and rebels, as well as widespread public mistrust that has led to attacks on treatment centers. This is World Health Organization spokesperson Christian Lindmeier. It's a mix of reasons why we think these cases have increased. Access is one of them and of course the trust in the people is of high importance. Community outreach is so important to make sure that everybody knows how to seek help. It's another new agenda. A Maduro update from a democracy now progressive.

2:33:16 Progressive perspective, sorry. Guaido previously defied a travel ban imposed by the Maduro government, touring several Latin American countries to garner support for his efforts to oust Maduro and take over the presidency. Border crisis. Avocados. Tonight, the deep impact on the border. The ripple effect for American families and businesses if President Trump follows through on his threat to shut down ports of entry with Mexico, from beer and wine to fruits and vegetables. The estimates are that if the border closes, we run out of avocados here in the US within three weeks. Red 33. Blitz.

2:34:19 A Trump and dad's birthplace. At an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday, President Trump falsely claimed once again that his father was born in Germany. Germany honestly is not paying their fair share. I have great respect for Angela and I have great respect for the country. My father is German, right? Was German. And born in a very wonderful place in Germany. Fred Trump was in fact born in the Bronx in New York City. It was not the first time Trump made the claim. He made the comments as he once again accused Germany and other NATO members of paying less than their fair share of military costs. All right, stop the blitz.

2:35:05 What is going on with Trump and his dad? What is this? Because of this clip, which really you'd think the mainstream media would go after him on this, but they don't. Only Democracy Now does, and I want to thank Amy Goodman and Democracy Now for all those clips. But this particular clip, which they do play a lot, or they try to, they hound Trump about different things. I went and started looking around trying to find something. I wanted to find this particular clip too to see if he said something else, like maybe because maybe his grandfather was born in Germany, which I think is likely. And he was talking about his grandfather all the time. He just made a mistake of saying his father, that could happen. And now he just throws it in a couple more times just to make everyone crazy?

2:35:54 I don't believe so. I mean, because it doesn't make anybody crazy except democracy now, but I have to say that it is a little much. I agree with you. It's like, what? Why is he doing this? What is going on? Especially if this is the second time he's done it. Yeah, that's why I'm like, okay. Because the first time you say, well, he flubbed. So I don't know. Now I'm doing a Trump's dad watch thing to see what the hell's going on with his dad being born in Germany and bullshit when he was born in the Bronx. Well, maybe his real dad was. Hey! You know? Could be. Oh, I could have added this to the clip blitz. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is on once again. Now these used to be great back in the day, and when I finish my book you'll be able to read about it.

2:36:44 These were fantastic dinners. They were $1,000 a plate. Usually I had money back then, but usually it would be sponsored like a record company or someone. Hey, join us at our table. And it would be, I mean, this is when Phil Spector was still out in public and And all the stones were all wearing tuxedos. It was a big farce. The chicken was horrible, but it was really raucous. It was not televised. The chicken was awful. For a thousand bucks you should get decent chicken. Waldorf Astoria. They never had a decent chicken. But it was an industry thing. Whatever happened at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction dinner, you don't talk about it. It was never televised, rarely, I mean a couple pictures, this is also pre-selfies, et cetera. Now, of course we also have interesting people being inducted as we run out of rock and rollers. The Cure, who I like a lot, I like Robert Smith, I like the whole band, I've known them since 1981.

2:37:44 He's a really old fat looking dude with the same haircut, but this whole show has changed. It's produced by guys who used to be at MTV and now it's a... and it's broadcast and it's just a shit show and here's Robert Smith arriving and he's about to be interviewed. It's so nice to meet you. Hi. Congratulations the Cure Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees 2019. Are you as excited as I am? By the sounds of it, no. I love those guys. From the sound of it, no. I would agree. It's hard to be as excited as she was. And then my final clip, this was CNN International, Christiane Amanpour, the elite Christiane Amanpour, Council on Foreign Relations. She's interviewing Jim Comey.

2:38:48 And then she asks him a question which he answers correctly. But it just shows you the thinking of people at the Council on Foreign Relations, the upper echelons of... I mean, Christiane Anaport, is she not considered a top-notch journalist? A real journo? Is she? Well, I'm asking you, is she not considered a top... I think she's considered a television personality more than anything. Oh, but she's someone who understands the world. She talks to world leaders. Well, she does that. She does that. She talks to world leaders, you got that right. So she's asking Comey, former FBI director, about the lock her up chance?

2:39:33 that were prevalent during the Trump rallies on the campaign. Here's her question. Yeah, they still show up. I've got one question because you just said lock her up or lock me up. Of course, lock her up was a feature of the 2016 Trump campaign. Do you, in retrospect, wish that people like yourself, the head of the FBI, I mean, the people in charge of law and order had shut down that language, that it was dangerous potentially, that it could have created violence, that it was Kind of hate speech should that have been allowed that's not a role for government to play. Can you believe that question?

2:40:13 Wow, yeah, whatever Comey says is not important. That question... That question is very disturbing. Coming from an elitist journo on television. Council on Foreign Relations, that's what she's reflecting there. This is a globalist reflection. I have some clips I'll bring to the next show of Steve Bannon giving a speech in Hokkaido and he goes on about a number of different things. including the Chinese and what they're really up to. And he talks about Xi at Davos when Trump was giving his inauguration, Xi was at Davos, and he gave this speech, according to Bannon, outlining the most horrible takeover of the world by China and how they're going to do it.

2:41:03 He says, and he outlines some of it in the speech, which I'll make a clip of. And people should look this up, Steve Bannon, Hokkaido speech. And after the speech, Xi is telling about how China's going to take over and how globalism is great and how China's going to run the whole thing and we're all going to be vassal states. He says the audience gives him a standing O. Yes, of course. This doesn't surprise us. Amazing. Yeah, this is what we're dealing with people. All right. Well, we'll look forward to those clips. We will return with you on Sunday. I'm bringing you another episode of the No Agenda podcast show where we speak truth to podcasters.

2:41:52 Coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state. This is FEMA region number six if you want to locate it on the governmental maps in the 5x9 Cluedio in the common law condo. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where Rain continues in California where there nobody's even mentioning the word drought anymore I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll return on Sunday until then remember us at thevorac.org slash na special Thanks to our end of show mixers microwave wet beach towel Leo Lapuke and sir seat sitter and on the stream stay tuned for Nick the rats

2:42:30 Uh, episode 172 as he comes to you from the sewer. That's at noagendastream.com. Until Sunday everybody, adios mofos and such! In the summertime when the weather is hot You can stretch right out and find you a spot In the summertime you got dookie, you got boopin' on your mind So just bend on down, push it out and see what people find

2:43:12 If your stool is hard, it'll roll down a hill If your stool is loose, just do what you feel Crap along the lane, blast a sidewalk or just go behind a car When the sun goes down, we all know that poopin' is what streets are for So sing along with us, beep beep beep beep beep Doo dee doo dee doo, yeah we're crap at being Doo doo doo, boop boop boop boop, da da da Bring your poop map, we're in San Francisco, you won't get too far. I'm the least qualified man here tonight, thank you. I love Joe Biden. Joe O'Biden. He's a little overly familiar. Joe is a hands-on kind of guy. You know who else is a hands-on kind of guy? Harvey Weinstein. He loves to make people feel comfortable. Joe Biden put his hands on my shoulders, smell my hair, and then plant a slow piss on the top of my head.

2:44:06 of my head. Won't that be fun? I felt invaded. This is vintage Joe Biden. If you Google or Bing creepy Joe, there are all kinds of videos and photos out there of Joe inappropriately touching and sniffing and bawling. It's just creepy. be misunderstood. Creepy Uncle Joe or creepy Biden, endless images of him being inappropriate. I don't want Joe to stop doing that. Every single woman has a fundamental right to live her life free of violence. No man has a right to touch her, period.

2:44:48 Don Joe effing Biden. I can do things other people can't. Were it not for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all. She's creepy. Nice fabric. The collusion delusion is over. I think they're just scaredy cats. They just don't know what to do. So they have to make an attack. Shameful, sad, irresponsible. Adam Schiff. Congressman Schiff. Chairman Schiff. Congressman Schiff. Congressman Schiff, you could say, has been full of Schiff. This guy is so boring he dies his Easter eggs white. And just think how horrible it's got to be to sit in the same room with Adam Schiff every day, day after day. Total exoneration. It just must smell like Schiff. Complete vindication. No clue. That wasn't true.

2:45:49 If it's Schiff, flush it. That's true. That's just what you need to do to win. And that's what we got. If it's Schiff, flush it. You know, told you that two and a half years ago. What do you think happens when Adam Schiff... I don't think that's an important question. I can't comment. I don't want to comment at this point. It's their own insecurity. Dark of night, speed of light, they did the wrong thing. The Russians will be back. They've never left. I'm so proud of the work of Chairman Adam Schiff. But we do know this. The Russians offered help. The campaign accepted help. The Russians gave help. And the president made full use of that help. They're absolutely right that he should resign. Adam Schiff is a disgrace. They've elected us a king.