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00:00 Gotta move. Gotta move, babe! Following the fortune cookie crumbs and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Boston, Texas. Capital of The Drone Star State In The Morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where we're dead set against the hanging of Roger Stone...I'm John C. DuBois. It's Crackpot & Buzzkill! I can tell you all emotional over it just this very difficult

00:38 They're gonna hang the guy. Yeah, exactly! No... You know what this was? You know what this was don't you? This was a setup. Yeah I heard that theory before couple times actually. Well then let me mention it on the show where you haven't heard it The idea was that the lawfare group lawyers so what is presented as long-term civil servants working for the Justice Department yeah no This was impeachment lawyers who came from the lawfare group. They decided, oh here's a good idea why don't we get another impeachment thing started? We're gonna ask for a crazy amount of time for Roger Stone and then we'll resign! And exactly what they wanted this will just be added to the Impeachment 2.0 case

01:34 Well, the problem is his mind reading involved here because the idea was to get Trump to do something about it All he did know tweet about it bar something to do something about. It was Barra all I did was tweet about in Bart He never heard didn't bark and go cuz they're gonna bring him in and he's gonna go testify And he's gonna they're gonna say did the president tell you to do this? And then use just say no John you see didn't your confusing logic with what the m5m likes to use for in the machine. This is all over the place, oh Barr should resign! Trump...oh no this is obstruction! It has nothing to do with logic or with truth or facts it's just let's just do something everybody come on that's to me that seemed pretty obvious I'm getting sick of it well now there's that

02:27 Before we go, oh I finally got the ISO. I'm the president of the United States! I have all of the power! I just...I can't see anything else being used than this. That is a good one It is so dynamite Good old burncicle What an idiot Let's see, where are we at? What do we have to talk about... Oh Oscars I guess. All time low! Yeah well done, well done. People aren't particularly fond of watching the celebrities that they go to spend money on in the movies lecturing them about how he should act. Well there wasn't much of it i mean there was only

03:14 Brad Pitt coming out and bitching about not having Bolton testify. So, I didn't see that as a huge anti-Trump slam it's like okay... No but what was interesting there was the fact that he said he only had 45 seconds so they Acting award. I mean the makeup artist spent more than 45 seconds thanking people Well, you know these speeches are even though Brad Pitt denies it There are companies that write these speeches for people and they'll write something funny for you or give you a little political message Whatever you're looking for So I think this was maybe it's the Norman Lear Hollywood group who sends out some consultants Oh here we got another thought here Maybe there on staff at the Oscars Who knows but above all

04:06 It is painfully obvious to me that just like in politics where we have an old guard, and I'm not being ageist but at a certain point you know it's... We're in this transition period where the... We live longer people are 70s the new 50. But you know the lot of the old ideas and thoughts and ways and means And racism too I'm sure kind of sticks, and then we got the new people coming in and they all want wokeness. They want different things and they also communicate differently How many Oscars were won by Netflix shows? Hello is this telling you anything Hollywood?

04:44 So, you know they're so deathly afraid of having a host because all controversy Yet I think it was the comedians who kind of made the show bearable to watch. They paired him up and with Will Ferrell and What are this Saturday Night Live gals? You know it's that that was kind of funny But otherwise is just a dumb boring show with...to be honest I don't think, you know...I saw Parasite. It's a good movie! Is it really the best? Is it?! I'm asking you. You're asking me!? I haven't seen it. I've only watched the beginning of it and liked the beginning Oh, it's okay but for all the hype I heard about it once I saw it was like- oh wait until you see what happens and then there is something that happens in the movie like okay thats cool thats a good twist uh..and now just I dunno

05:39 Well, I do have the one clip. I got which is not the whole thing because it will because for the 45 seconds of walking God to speak for best actor Joker yes he spent 3 minutes and 11 seconds And it never played him off or anything. He went rambling on and he started off by saying, you know the great thing about being in this business is that we get a platform I never thought that was part of the deal but okay He thinks he's got a platform to go on and on and on about what he thinks is you know, what he thinks is important and what we need to be hearing from him. He's an actor, he should be reading lines." And I don't believe anybody wrote this for him that's too discombobulated but do you want to play this as a short less than minute of him going on about whatever? We go into the natural world and we plunder it for its resources

06:33 We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and when she gives birth we steal her baby even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable. And then we take her milk that's intended for our calf, and put it in our coffee and cereal. I think we fear the idea of personal change Because we think that we have to sacrifice something, to give something up. But human beings at our best are so inventive and creative and ingenious And I think that when we use love and compassion as our guiding principles We can create

07:14 develop and implement systems of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and to the environment. We are the world! He makes a comment, he says we think we have to sacrifice something to give something up isn't that like redundant? Isn't that what you do when your sacrificing? You ARE giving something up?! What is he talking about? How does it... what has that got to do with putting milk in your cereal?" You should not be drinking milk. Why do you drink pus from the cow?! It's crazy! I've heard it all, my daughter's big on that too she like we're not meant to drink that okay alright

07:57 Yeah, I guess baking with it's okay though. Is it alright to bake with milk? I don't know what is alright! I have some in my tea right now so what?! Oh no how disgusting you horrible person You don't care about the earth and the world and all its creatures This is very bad very very bad that you're doing yeah You know that the Irishman, that cost $190 million? On what?! Where was it spent? Were they drinking that much? On CGI man. So I gotta look at Netflix's numbers

08:38 I don't know if you discussed it with Horowitz at all. So they currently, they just raised another two billion dollars in with a bond which i guess would be a junk bond probably or junk bonds status. I think that's what all the messaging was So their total debt is 14 billion dollars. Yeah, just like a Hollywood studio But check this out their budget their content budget for 2020 Just take a wild guess 10 billion 15 billion dollars That's outrageous. Well, they should at least put animated no agenda on their stupid channel I mean come on. Oh yeah with the anime well maybe we're not spending enough on it Squandering enough resources hey guys this is our demo and we really need a 10 million dollars to produce it properly Whereas this is exactly what you want Thank You Jennifer the most recent one the

09:37 Yes, quite good. Yeah that's the 16 000 lies... Oh I tagged the president in it if everybody would please retweet because all we need is one retweet from the president! One! One! i think this is the one that he might like or might catch his eye It's a video you know it's about lies That's a very good idea Dynamite idea yeah I mean If we can get one... I would say yes everybody go re-tweet this to the president In fact don't retweet just tweet it Copy it, tweet it again. Make sure the video shows. Tweet it again and retweet it! Let's see if we can make it happen I mean this... It would be fantastic that would really put that show on the map and as I was going through the list again, damn Jennifer has done some phenomenal work We have like 15 of these things now? We look like a real operation

10:26 Yeah, that's what we do. We're the illusionists! Oh yeah, that's us. How many balls can you juggle? Don't look over here. Keeping those plates spinning! Exactly love the plate spinning. Anyway so I found at the event the Oscars were They were dull and uh... Yeah. And by the way, what was it with this set? Remember every year we'd kind of talk about that. This set looked like a black hole to hell! It looked like something's gonna suck you in and you're gonna be gone for- Like a black hole! It was an ode to Disney's movie The Black Hole. It wasn't Black Hole yes it's true that's true

11:06 I don't even remember that much from the show. It was just blatantly boring! Even Elise came over, she's a super film nut. The kind that would be like well...I don't want him to win for Best Director because he also directed that movie which is a piece of crap and he's homophobic. So really deep deep into this stuff And even she was only there because none of these kids have television. She hasn't hung up the antenna I gave her for direct over-the air, so she just comes here and says yeah hey I'll come over and cook! And because she wanted to watch with it, which was fun. But man right after the best movie... Oh well! The show's not over oh well I gotta get up early tomorrow She's gone you know no interest no interest in the show business around it there's just none It's a it I think they should really get rid of this do something else with the airtime

12:04 In the academy itself. I don't know what they're going to do. What is the Academy? It's just slowly going to grind down to a stop, it's gonna kill itself and yeah it's not...I don't know there was nothing good about it. Yeah next year they of course could ask the Curry Dvorak Consulting Group I'm sure we could spice it up a bit but even then I'm worried about it All right, so we had... what else did we have? Ah yes! Well, we have some kind of horse race going on in the United States for the Democratic candidate for the 2020 election. And it's getting really fun and hopefully you have finally decided to unfollow the Democratic operatives you placed so much trust in because Joe Biden has been dropped

12:55 Jimmy's been dropped. All support is gone, I told you he was only necessary for the impeachment because if he wasn't a front-runner then he's not really a political opponent now is he? So they needed him... Joe Biden's gonna win South Carolina! Joe Biden's not gonna win South Carolina, no way! Well you know what, he has given it a good old try yeah this is from his speech he gave I think it was this morning or yesterday. We don't feel no ways tired, we've come too far from where we started and i dont believe he brought me to this far to stop now so he's speaking to a crowd of ADOS and where have we heard that before? I don't feel no ways tired, I come too far from where I started from

13:52 You cannot tell me that there is not a mole in the organization that is messing with his sound, that is giving him false information. Hey Joe just tell them we're in Nevada. Hey this is great Joe! The blacks will love it Joe just do this just recite this Joe! We don't feel no ways tired Maybe it was a gag. Please! Now is no time for joking around Well, you know at the very beginning I always thought or at least I think the two of us agreed that he wasn't really into it that much and maybe never really wanted to run because he's kind of old and this seems like a big hassle. Yeah He doesn't need the money yeah obviously yeah And so he said was in kind of half

14:48 half sincere about the whole thing and so he doesn't really care. But now I think it's become kind of a, since he is getting called out as a loser, maybe he has got his hackles up and maybe will actually be sincere about this and actually run. That is why I think he'll win South Carolina But you're right, I should divorce myself from following these guys. Yeah they're not helpful! The constant theme is Joe's gonna be the guy and Bernie's gotta go. Well that Bernie's got to go is agreed too and there are all kinds of crazy theories on the mainstream as well this is my favorite this is my top. We're back with Jerry Falwell Jr., and Jerry we've got about 30 seconds here do you believe Mitt Romney should be thrown out of the party for going against the president?

15:36 I think he's going to leave the party. I've heard speculation this week that he is positioning himself as a vice presidential candidate for one of the Democrats and i think that would be an honest thing for him to do because he has been more in line with their beliefs, for decades than with the Republican Party so I hope this his move to come clean Finally. I think what you hear out there, and if you can hear it, I can, is a lot of applause out there for what you're suggesting. Thanks so much Jerry! So the idea is this so-called unity ticket between Mitt Romney as vice president and John Kerry as president

16:15 Yeah, I put it...I posted this in the newsletter. I know but they're actually seriously discussing it! They both are deluded. Well M5M is so desperate that they'll pick up any story as long as we can not say Bernie then it's okay I guess let's just do a quick recap of an important event here Breaking news now, the chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party is resigning in the wake of the disastrous caucus process. The technical glitches and delayed results... There it is! We totally screwed over the results we couldn't actually give you the results. The reason? A glitch thank you mainstream I feel so much better now that I know exactly what happened

17:06 So that's it. You resign because of a glitch, no more questions asked and it'll never come up again and we'll never have the final tally. Well we I don't care Democrat Party. Yeah who cares? It is about time they got bumped from that perch! What else you got? Well I think there was one interesting thing actually pulled this from Rush Limbaugh which I've never done before as my first since he I don't want to, i don't know. I hate to be maudlin about it but he did have this-he did find this one little tidbit This is the clip 17 through 24 Oh okay NBC news exit polls showed last night voters between the ages of 18 to 29 made up only Hey! Is his voice higher? It sounds higher... It's funny that you'd say that because um

18:01 And I don't know why this is, and a couple of things that I noticed because I recorded a bit of this. This is only small part of all the stuff I recorded never used for one thing his waveforms are not nearly Even close to being as compressed as I thought they were. Oh Interesting, it's not like a compressed and his am am radio generally And it's a very uncompressed waveform It doesn't look anything like a classic big big boom voice. You mean like the no agenda show which is a block of flat Black black a flat yeah

18:42 Also, when you hear him doing it, it sounds deeper than when you do the replay. And on this bit he replays some of his old clips... He likes to do this, you find a clip from 10 years ago where he predicted something and he likes to harp on it. Right! Well we have that too yeah We do that He plays his old clips and they sound tinny. It's like what? Wait a minute, there is something about the reproduction of his show that sounds tinny! I've heard this recently it sounds like someone who has been intubated and you get knocked out with general anesthesia

19:23 This is usually your voice is up a couple of days or it can be his voice might be up. Anyway, let's listen to the clip I'm sorry for interrupting and I wanted to mention that anyway because I very interested in this than the kind of audio that comes out Of this guy show and it's not like anything I expected NBC News exit polls showed last night voters between the ages of 18 to 29 made up only 11% of the Democrat electorate. Far below than 19 percent of 18-29 year olds who voted in 2016! Now we keep being told that the Democrats have all

20:00 this enthusiasm. They hate Trump, it's just about beating Trump we gotta find anybody could beat Trump! Trumps got to go, Trumps gonna go the Democrat Party doesn't care who they're so energized I hate Trump they hate their name-calling they hate the mud slinging may hate that tweeting they hate Trump they hate him a can't wait to get rid of Trump there is no such enthusiasm well according to that poll and by the way who's going to reply mean i don't want to be morbid about it but let's just say he goes into a year of treatment and just won't be able to physically work I'm not gonna say he's gonna die Because I'm not like that. My mom had lung cancer, and I remained positive until the very end. How long did she have it for after her diagnosis? She was fine of course except for a shitty cough and we all heard it. Like a death rattle! She went to the doctor... Oh guess what?! Hey no happy way to say this you got lung cancer oh and by the way It's the shitty kind okay

20:55 And the minute they put her on chemo, that's when you know the chemo of course immediately deteriorated it because that's what chemo does then I decided to take out a lung and She was cancer-free for a year then it came back and it was just months. It was like three months so fast But there's a void and I don't think Sean, well Sean Hannity but what's his name? Mark Stein. He already got his own show None of these guys will hold the audience none of them are interesting No this guy was a singular talent Yeah And um... But it does leave a hole in that time slot across the nation But when I date-I'm probably gonna record a few more things before they had to be that way

21:44 But I've noticed a couple of things in his bit, because this is a little insight baseball for people. Anyone who wants to be a podcaster should probably be paying attention is that when you listen to certain guys like Jim Rome who's very interesting talent and he'll repeat stuff kind of say the same thing three or four, five times in a row. I never noticed until I recorded some of this limbo stuff and listened to it a second time and then started editing it... Actually that clip is highly edited because he repeated himself the way Rome does A couple of times on the jib he says something and then he stops and pauses, and says it again. Maybe adds another word in there so he pads the show with this kind of repetitious approach Oh yeah sure I don't know...I'm gonna have to listen to Hannity and see if he does the same thing Oh my god! Hannity is unlistenable

22:38 He's un- I cannot listen, I can't watch him on TV. You know what? I will actually analyze it so we can come back and tell you why but it's something about just his presentation It's also a smugness. I think he has the uber smug of the right. Yes that's what we mean. He got that old style Yeah it's like uh... Shut up! He's pretty much got the old smug style, not that Limbaugh is not smug but nothing like Hannity. As Hannity has got the old-fashioned smug style with a modern yak yak yak approach where he's not taking you know... The old smug guys just take a lot of calls This is the new Smug Anyway if I had If I had the time I guess

23:24 I would start a show streaming every single day from noon to 3pm Eastern Time. I'd do it immediately and give people a choice! You can't do his exact shtick, but there's a void there and someone is going to fill it up... ...and its not gonna be Mark Stein or even The Rush Limbaugh Show Things come to an end but that's pretty much keeping thousands of radio stations alive at this point It's gonna be a huge problem because they don't know, you know, he substitutes. He brings a lot of them in Dan Bongino is one of them. These guys can only listen to him for... There's something wrong with these other guys and compared to Limbaugh who can keep your attention and his analysis is good that's the thing that's

24:14 interesting. I listen to this guy when, I'm usually not up driving around and listening to him but when i do, I am always impressed especially during the election season of his analysis he had an analysis that I don't have a clip of it but he discusses what the democrat party is going to have to do if Bernie wins who's gonna be the VP kind of stuff we do and he has got this theory that the democrats This is the theory basically, the Democrats know they're gonna lose to Trump. The insiders, the hot shots, the big boys... They all know it. The guys you follow? The guys I follow! So who are they going to put up against Trump that can take a- that can be beat up

24:56 and without hurting the party long term. He thinks it's Bernie because Bernie will be beaten, and that'll be the end of this socialism crap. It'll get it out of the way like what happened with when they ran McGovern back in the day against Nixon. I think that yes as we've discussed here it is the election America deserves you know hey you want this guy? This direction! You want that guy? That direction! That's what we deserve I think they're truly afraid that Bernie would win, mainly because of the do anything to get Trump out. And I think there's apprehension on their part for that. Everything feels like it.

25:40 But with Biden out, the question is... I'm sorry. In my world Biden's out in the world of MSNBC Biden's out what's interesting And I watched a lot of this coverage. MSNBC is hands down just the one to watch if you want to know what the party line is because they keep bringing people on, pundits who are either consultants or they're clearly surrogates and Fox does that too but it... They're really pretending to be just interested parties here for the discussion in the conversation so Joy Reid

26:20 who is not Ados, you know she's not an African-American in the truest sense of the word. But of course she represents black America when it comes to MSNBC and here's what she had to say... There's only room for her or Buttigieg in that lane Biden is really, they're freezing him out. And what I was saying in the break is that this is sort of a focus group of white voters in the Northeast and these two states. What I see there is that people coming out of New Hampshire none of those people have resonance with black voters. None of them do. The ones who have residence are Biden who's getting crushed

26:59 And if he doesn't work out what I'm hearing from black voters consistently, if Biden goes down they're going to Bloomberg. Nonsense idea! But listen to the exact words she's saying She is repeating lines she has heard Biden's getting squeezed, he's not going to make it. Black voters and then what I'm hearing! What I'm... you know and the confusion of course is oh she is black so she must know what African-Americans are thinking? What I'm hearing no what she's hearing is from the Hillary Clinton camp or maybe its Hillary in Bloomberg camp. I actually tried to register Bloomberg Clinton 2020 It's been taken all those are gone

27:47 Bloomberg Clinton dot com also gone. So she's instructed to tell black people that they should go to Bloomberg there is no other way to see this and of course it's stupid. The massive black audience MSNBC has. You get my point. Yeah, well she's trying to do some messaging there on behalf of Hillary Well there was one other message that came in on behalf of Hillary and Let me see where was this lady? Hmm Well okay that sucks while you're looking for that continue I do have a wrap-up above the New Hampshire thing and this is off of Fox Radio This is the New Hampshire rap from Fox Radio

28:40 Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick suspends his presidential campaign becoming the third Democrat to drop out following Andrew Yang. What? Let me listen again... Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick suspends his presidential campaign... What?! Right at the moment he should have been there for black America! Oh no, no no no. Becoming the third Democrat to drop out following Andrew Yang and Senator Michael Bennett after the New Hampshire primary. New Hampshire went for Bernie Sanders We're going to Nevada, we're going to South Carolina. We are gonna win those states as well! But a close second was former Mayor Pete Buttigieg. In this election season we have been told by some that you must either be for revolution or you are for the status quo, but where does that leave the rest of us? Now Joe Biden who finished in fifth place left early to campaign in South Carolina. We need to hear from Nevada and South Carolina and Super Tuesday states and beyond! Senator Amy Klobuchar said she's headed to those states after coming back with a third-place finish. Elizabeth Warren who came in fourth predicted a long primary fight ahead

29:42 I found my clip. Another person who showed up with Chris Matthews was Adrienne Eldor and if you saw her, you'd be like oh yes i know who this is Elrod, I'm sorry Adrienne Elrod she's a... Elrod? Like Elrod Hubbard? Elrod Echolima Romeo Oscar Delta Elrod and let me see if I can find it now she daughter of parents of lifelong friends of Bill and Hillary. She was Hillary for America's Strategic Director Communications and Surrogates... What's her first name again? Adrienne, A-D-R-I-E-N. Adrienne. You know it's semi cute she's like 40

30:34 You know, your typical... she would actually do well on Fox. She has been a commentator on Fox News and Fox Business but... I'm looking at her as if she's blonde and I don't recognize her Well, I watch more MSNBC than you do so and for good reason. Yeah premature death should she She's held a variety of positions the 2008 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign me get the point she is not just has not been working not just working for Clinton but she is also family friends and And so she... Yes. And she's on the same panel with Joy Reid and listen to what she says, I'm just going to presume everything that comes out of her mouth is coming from the Clinton camp it seems only logical to believe this. I think Bloomberg has got a lot of money. I think he could spend $1 billion easily He probably makes $1 billion during the course of this campaign seriously! He's just dipping into the till as it comes in

31:38 What happens if he's the candidate against Trump? Is he gonna, would be able to lead the Democrats? Absolutely. How does he get to be a Democrat? Well, he is running in the Democratic primary and he is doing pretty well so far in polls. Right! Okay. I don't know but anybody can... Pay-to-play! Really quickly about that ad, Chris, I wish that was the ad that I saw Joe Biden closing with in New Hampshire. So she's right away, oh absolutely! He's running the whole campaign! Oh yeah absolutely! Thumbs up! Interesting analysis How could it be anything else? So the thinking I have is, first of all March 3rd which will be an interesting date because that's when i'm on Rogan. Is Super Tuesday and uh...I think we will see the equivalent of a nuclear bomb of money being dropped on super tuesday by Bloomberg

32:33 It's just gonna be... and by the way, the guy is running. It looks as if he was the vice president for Obama! Have you seen the ads? Well that's one set of the ads. Out here in California we see all the ads Okay well I've seen the one where he's with Obama here He's in the helicopter with Obama In fact when he says I'm Michael Bloomberg and I approve this message At one point I thought I heard I'm Barack Obama And I approved this message It's crazy and kind of insulting towards Joe. Yeah, I think they're meant to be insulting towards Joe. You know, Joe cannot get Obama to help him No, and Obama is not going to say anything until there is a candidate

33:20 I think that's why he is not making a big deal out of it. Joe is using some Obama clips now, as we already know... He's already on the Biden-Obama administration. It's sad man! It's sad to watch. So sad. But I'm happy about Amy. You know? I am a big fan She's got a little juice there. She'll, she's on the radar she will not become president but she will have elevated her status I think just probably a good senator yeah i think should be...she's good at that! She doesn't have to do much more and people like her and she brought what was necessary to the conversation to kind of shake it up And then all that's left is this amazing surge for Sayap Pete

34:07 I spoke to Pchenik yesterday, briefly. And he says what are your clues that... because I mentioned the conversation with Sayapete. He said oh what do you think? Well clearly he's a spook! He has been planted just like Obama You know, CIA handlers. He says what's your clue? I said well Rhodes Scholar Harvard Elite Notre Dame he said yeah what's the other one and I had to think for a second and then it hit me oh yeah McKinsey of course that's really the giveaway McKinsey these guys they are the consultants in the military industrial complex they are the consultants to Wall Street today It's the big one there They embed with these organizations

35:00 And if you listen to him speak, it's like not a word is out of place. Not a single word is wrong nothing that could be misconstrued as anti-anything It's just perfect I'm actually...I'm not even sure he's gay That may be an act too You know his husband is an improv artist That's what he does, improv. Well that's a funny idea! Why not? It's perfect don't focus on McKenzie focus on... Stage kiss Yeah don't focus on McKenzie focus on me being gay yeah well somebody posted a picture of him in Afghanistan and then noted that he had it looked like the whole picture was a fake

35:43 He had no badges, no patches. No name tag... nothing! He wasn't standing over a dead Iraqi? Taking a picture of him? I think he's taking a jerry-rig one of those too. Yeah the guy there could be that's funny that he's not gay Well just it mean i don't know i don't want to take anything away from him It was just for a moment there like well if you wanted to distract from your obvious spook background Which is rarely mentioned. It's just so similar to Obama that, you know community organizer Whenever they say Mayor Pete it was and I guess he is no longer the mayor The media is in on this deal They would never...it wasn't even harped on that George HW Bush was actually director of the CIA for a while

36:35 in Dallas, I guess during the shooting of Kennedy and which may or may not be true but it seems like a good story. But that was never discussed much as he seemed fine oh yeah director of the CIA is secret police running the country that makes sense. Yeah why not? What's wrong with that what your problem? Nobody except us bring up to fact that Buttigieg is a spook! Yeah well... It just seems like seems abundantly clear to me abundantly clear. So what else did Pchenik have to say? Well actually it wasn't what he said but we were talking and then an idea hit me, and I actually want to do a little presentation if you don't mind. Uh-oh! Yeah. Whoa! It's a little... Changing the structure of the show. Well no that's not true from time to time we do presentations okay i mean it's i just wanted i was looking at trump and china

37:34 China, China. And it probably the first thing that got me going was this frontline special on Trump and trade...Trump and Trade in China. This will set it up. Despite the uneven consequences President Trump was all-in on the tariff strategy It's a strategy he has been talking about for years, as far back as the late 1980s when is that you don't have free trade. We think of it as free trade, but you right now don't have free trade and I think a lot of people are tired of watching other countries ripping off the United States this is a great country." He believed from the beginning that there's really nothing worse than being laughed at

38:30 They laugh at us behind our backs. They laugh at us because of our own stupidity and by the way Here's Trump with a much higher voice too, which of course is due to age this is the 80s This is 1988 and he came to see the Japanese as laughing at the United States taking advantage of the United States by Stealing the jobs by dumping product here. We let Japan come in and dump everything right into our markets, it's not free trade if you ever go to Japan right now and try to sell something forget about it Alpern just forget about it it's almost impossible After Japan's economy cratered Trump shifted his ire to a rising economic power China They are ripping us like we've never been ripped before If you look at Japan...if you look at China

39:12 where we lose $100 billion a year with China. He's been saying the same thing for 30 years Donald Trump has a very binary view of life and certainly of the world and so to confront China which he perceives as America's most important and dangerous rival, and to be able to use blunt instruments against them. And to come out at least being able to say that you're winner or they are loser it's hard to imagine anything more appealing to the core of his personality So I've been wanting to play clips of him talking about China decades ago, and I had even forgotten that he... because i was in New York when he was coming up 87-88. Everyone loved Trump! Half those interviews are from Oprah and he even said, oh Oprah you should be my vice president anyway as when everyone still loved him

40:01 So clearly he's always had a grasp of the issues with the trade imbalance and when Japan was no longer a threat, he shifted to China. It is not just the media that are saying this his number one guy when he ran the campaign Steve Bannon Says the same first time I met Trump. I was you know coming out of Goldman Sachs and Being somebody that been in finance for a number years, I was set to be unimpressed That was actually very impressed now He didn't know a lot of details he knew almost no policy But what I found most extraordinary it was when we got this section on China which I kind of threw out there Of a two-hour meeting

40:41 Almost 30 minutes or more was all about China. We have a 500 billion dollar deficit trade deficit with China The only thing he had formed as a worldview was China because we can't continue to allow China To rape our country and that's what they're doing it's the greatest theft in in the history of the world.

41:19 And if I look at our show clip archive, we had stuff about China before the 2016 election. But it wasn't really much. It wasn't on our radar unless you can remember some specific instance where we were talking about it in the past before Trump came on the scene? I think only in passing. We'd get once or twice grouse, a little bit like everybody did A little bit but nothing big, we didn't really care So Trump comes out comes on the scene and during the initial election process and the campaign you pretty much this is it Let's say China China. You go over to China, you take China. I love him! China. I have to have my China." Right, China, China, China... Now he rammed that into everybody's head and of course connected it to the complete

42:18 removal of manufacturing in the United States. This is before the campaign, this is 2000... Are you eating something? No I'm trying to sort through these papers and looking for something keep going! Okay don't interrupt your own presentation. I want to make sure you're not bored that's my biggest fear. My biggest fears are... Hold on a second stop stop If I'm a little bored, I usually say something to get you to move along a little bit and then you get mad at me. But it's not for me never just say something. I've always said something no but I heard you rustling papers so I'm like oh yes I am rusting papers I can move the mic so won't you want to hear it? I just don't want you to be bored

43:04 I'm doing it for you, okay? You're doing fine. All right back to China except for these interruptions 2010 here's what Trump had to say, you know We don't manufacture anything anymore in this country we do health care This is 1010 years ago and just remind you ten years ago. You know, we don't manufacture anything anymore in this country We do healthcare we do lots of different services but the big service is manufacturing everything's made in China for the most part between China, India and others but China in particular. And frankly they're sending stuff over here and we're paying for it and you know sort of interesting very little tax if any paid and yet you can't do business in China You are not allowed to do business in China It's almost impossible to do business in China and yet they take our business from North Carolina from South Carolina from Alabama They make toys

43:54 They then sell them to this country, they make tremendous profits and then they loan this country money in the form of treasuries. And I think it's terrible." So what do we do about China? This is an issue that you're obviously really passionate about. Look at what Google has done taking a stand in China saying we're not going to do business this way. That's how long ago this was when Google pretended to take a stand against China! I think we're not going to do business this way. You know, you've got big businesses with very different takes on China. Lots of different businesses but when it comes to manufacturing, China is making all these products and they could be made in North Carolina or Alabama or lots of other places

44:33 and right now they're not. Personally, I'd tax China because it's not a free trade country. I would tax China very very heavily and the money that you get from that tax... Because some of the products would still get through even with the tax but it would create jobs in this country So what Trump is saying 10 years ago, which is the most recent one where I found it we put it all together. Is because of the imbalances because of how China doesn't play fair and makes their products so incredibly cheap below cost that what we could do with here everyone has sent everything over to China and The more I look at it the more amazed I am at what has actually gone to China in fact? I'll just stop the timeline this

45:17 Rosemary Gibson, she wrote a book called China Rx which you won't hear about because no mainstream media outlet is going to let you rail against the pharmaceutical industry but it's pretty bad. It began in the early 90s when generic drugs really came out strong President Reagan was bipartisan in the 80s Let's have a Generic Drug Act and that made medicines a lot cheaper for people brand name products would go off patent So let's make generics. And so over time, how do we make these cheaper? And so we started sourcing the ingredients to make them in China and then once we opened up free trade this was a real, real stunner. When we opened up free trade and China joined WTO the next year we lost our last aspirin plant We lost our ability to make vitamin C. We don't make the ascorbic acid anymore

46:09 That's when the last penicillin plant closed. Can't make the core components, the acetylsalicylic acid and ascorbate We cannot make it here And that is because not just opening quote free trade but China cheats with our medicines and cartels They form these cartels they dump in on global market at below market prices and they drove everybody out I didn't know we don't even make our own aspirin or vitamin C anymore Or that we apparently do no have capability to do it And this is... We could probably recover the capability. Oh, we could but not like you said hey I want it tomorrow of course we know well that would take your what take a few months though but it is also its your you know what people don't give a shit about this because you're not sick I'll tell you if you knew that uh that we can't make Viagra in America people would lose their shit What? China's controlling my dick!

47:06 So it's just a matter of what you know and what you don't know. build a wall, which he also connects to jobs etc. and we got to bring manufacturing back that was his consistent message before China really it was we gotta start the manufacturing gotta bring steel we've got have our own steel we don't have a country its national security need manufacturing and whether its 12 thousand factories or twelve hundred I dunno...he started something We will pour new concrete lay new brick and watch new sparks light our factories as we forge metal from the furnaces of our Rust Belt and our beloved heartland, which has been forgotten but is not forgotten anymore. We will put New American Steel

47:54 into the spine of our country. American workers will construct gleaming new lanes of commerce across our landscape, they will build these monuments from coast to coast and from city to city We will embark on a wonderful new journey into a bright and glorious future we will build again, we will grow again, we will thrive again will make America great again. Right, so then he gets into the hole and this is I think actually from a State of the Union his first one and then he's talking trade wars tariffs we're gonna finally he's got the power he's gonna do it what has been promising for all these years i would tax him i would tax him China of course calls his bluff US President Donald Trump says he wants to hit China with a big fine on trade

48:48 But in the capital Beijing, experts and insiders say there's little sense of a crisis. Voices in the US business community have warned China that the U.S president is serious about tough action on trade and he told Reuters in an exclusive interview potential big damages are on their way However, Reuters Michael Martina in Beijing says officials think Trump is bluffing So here in China we get the sense that Chinese officials aren't overly concerned about the threat of trade action the Trump administration. For one, they feel that perhaps the Trump administration doesn't have the political standing and sort of will to endure the economic fallout." Well we did and he did any

49:31 put the tariffs on to much chagrin of the markets and it was I mean we forget these things or at least I do. And they always shit yeah remember almost pissed off about it what's going on? Do we have a is there trade wars in no trade war and everything seems to be okay, We still have tariffs but then were couple other things some economic blows ZTE like now you can't sell here anymore Android, you can't have that. 5G yeah we're not so sure we want you in our networks." So this is pushing these are economic warfare pushing down pushing back and then we get phase one of the trade deal and phase one has some very specific things that China must do although of course they have an out under the force majeure clause which says well if something happens then we can always figure it out later but that takes place

50:24 Then we have Barr, who was the Attorney General and we have Pompeo, Secretary of State going out into the heartlands to talk about what we need to do about China's encroachment on pretty much everything. So I think this is the clip that I played Oh wait, this is Pompeo. He's setting them up here This is the National Governors Association The winter meeting which was just held Last year I received an invitation to an event that promised to be quote An occasion for exclusive deal making It said quote The opportunities for mutually beneficial economic development between China and our individual states are tremendous

51:07 End of quote. Deal making sounds like it might have come from President Trump, but the invitation was actually from a former governor I was being invited to the US-China Governors Collaboration Summit It was an event co-hosted by the National Governors Association and something called The Chinese People's Association for Friendship in Foreign Countries Sounds pretty harmless What the invitation did not say is that the group The group I just mentioned is the public face of the Chinese Communist Party's official foreign influence agency, the United Front Work Department. Now I was lucky – I was familiar with that organization from my time as director for the Central Intelligence Agency but it got me thinking

51:48 How many of you made the link between that group and Chinese Communist Party officials? What if you made a new friend while you were at that event. What if your new friend asked for introductions to other politically connected and powerful people? What if your new friend offered to invest big money in your state, perhaps on your pension, in industries sensitive to our national security These aren't hypotheticals these scenarios are all too true And they impact American foreign policy significantly Indeed last year a Chinese government back think tank in yes So is he expressing this as though? This is a new phenomenon that he stumbled upon and everybody else was oblivious to No, even though no. What was he when he was ahead of the CIA and this was going on This has been going on Yes That's the point years. That's the point bar is probably introducing this to these governors who are a bunch of

52:47 tired looking people in this audience and he's saying, hey we know this has been going on. We know what's happening He's doing it rhetorically because of the audience that he is speaking to. He doesn't want to say Hey you shitheads are you insane? But its Pompeo not Barr right? No its Pompeo correct What he's saying is, hey you shitheads look at what you've done. You've possibly compromised national security. You let them in and taken money from them so it's a friendly way of saying this is not good what you have done. Powerful people... What if your new friend offered to invest big money in your state perhaps? In your pension? An industry sensitive to our national security These aren't hypotheticals these scenarios are all too true and they impact American foreign policy significantly

53:31 Indeed, last year a Chinese government-backed think tank in Beijing produced a report that assessed all 50 of America's governors on their attitudes towards China. They labeled each of you Friendly, hardline or ambiguous. I'll let you decide where you think you belong someone in China already has." So he's setting him up for what he's got to say Meanwhile the same week this is just last week the same week Barr talked it to a bunch of entrepreneurs and captains of industry about 5G. In other countries that do not want to put their economic fate in China's hands

54:13 are not going to install Huawei's infrastructure. We have to have a market-ready alternative today You need a system that will allow you to seamlessly migrate your installed 4G base to 5G There've been some proposals that these concerns could be met by the United States aligning itself with Nokia and or Ericsson. So that was his idea, and this is the Attorney General out there doing these speeches they've been sent into the field The final clip which makes it even a little bit more clear nothing we haven't talked about since almost the beginning of this show but Pompeo again reiterates to the governors The FBI director and I think the attorney general too talked yesterday about something called 1000 talents plan It's planned to recruit scientists and professors to transfer the know-how

55:02 we have here to China in exchange for enormous paydays. The program's probably targeted campuses in your state, indeed the Department of Justice has indicted professors in my home state at the University of Kansas and Virginia Tech and Harvard. A Texas A&M investigation reported more than 100 academics participating in Chinese talent recruitment plans Only five of them had declared that they were participating in this program. And goodness knows what else we've not discovered? There are indeed very credible reports of Chinese government officials pressuring Chinese students, students studying right here in the United States of America to monitor fellow Chinese students and report back to Beijing Many of you are familiar with Confucius Institutes

55:44 Confucius Institutes purport to have the sole purpose of teaching Mandarin language skills and Chinese culture. A bipartisan Senate committee found last year in 2019 that the Chinese Communist Party controls nearly every aspect of the Confucius Institute's activities here in the United States over the past few months, The University of Missouri, The University Kansas, The University of Maryland have independently decides to close down their Confucius institutes after conducting their own reviews And schools in 22 other states are doing or have already done the same. Sadly, China's propaganda campaign starts even earlier than college. China has targeted K-12 schools through its Confucius classrooms, the CCP's program to influence kids in elementary middle and high schools around the world. Do you know that we have no ability to establish similar programs in China? I'm sure that doesn't surprise you. President Trump talked about reciprocity and trade We should have reciprocity in all things Today they have free reign in our system And were completely shut out from theirs

56:42 As of 2017, there were 519 of these classrooms in the United States. Beijing knows that today's kids are tomorrow's leaders The China competition is happening It's happening in your states and it's a competition that goes to the very basic freedoms that every one of us values So to summarize Trump has been on to the Chinese for decades He sees the threat, he sees what the seeping in of the Chinese all throughout our everything. Our schooling, our economy, our manufacturing... All manufacturing is

57:19 was gone. We can't even make our own pharmaceuticals if we needed to at the drop of a hat, he just doesn't... I think he saw it as war that we were attacked So he sets up a new manufacturing boom. I don't know how far it is, but I guess we're doing something We got to plant here or plant there and then it's like oh the Chinese are going to be investing money here Jack Ma is gonna put money in this so we can handle some of that manufacturing We get a trade deal in place, the economy is starting to have a problem in China mainly just their own financials. You know they lie about everything so they have this whole IOU secondary money flow that has probably stopped right now all of this stuff is set up and then all of a sudden when China is arguably a little bit weak Wuhan flu

58:17 Now, tell me we are not at war with China and whether that was a targeted strike from us or a very coincidental happenstance. This is war! And we just maybe issued the kill shot? Well I like the presentation Thank you I'm not going to go as far as you went with the conclusion I think there's no proof that the Wuhan flu is anything other than what it is, another coronavirus which attacks Chinese just naturally. But can I just interrupt you? I didn't say this was a bio weapon!

58:59 It's just a flu. I think it passes, i think it will be gone there is just a lot of Chinese and maybe he just took advantage of the situation. Maybe this is all... COVID-19 man! Maybe this is all media hype? Maybe it isn't all that bad? Maybe all the stuff we're hearing has been manufactured? Maybe there's not really half a million dead in these satellite photos? Maybe that's not bodies burning? Maybe it's all just media And what it has done successfully is, you know bike parts are no longer being shipped. There's an actual steel manufacturer that is called Force Majeure... Well when he does my workout I'll just summarize what you're going to say

59:36 Just but whatever the reason or how this ever came about which is not uncommon in China for these epidemics to take place. Exactly, the fact that they had to shut down the city of Wuhan as it's only thing we can be sure off I don't believe any of the crematorium stuff is makes no sense and But they did do a complete shutdown and it resulted in shortages that American manufacturers now have to deal with. Yes, is the warning shot is hey This is what you guys have done to yourselves. You've become so dependent on this one channel that would happens if this channel goes away completely. That's an excellent point, I like that even better as the conclusion... I'm sorry? Well I didn't get to the second part which is a warning shot to US manufacturing,

1:00:29 But that makes total sense. Yes, or someplace else people! While we were all looking at Russia and impeachment and Ukraine this has just been going on in the background it's just been happening just like I guess now that in the latest spending bill there is actual money to build the wall which you know no one is out there yelling that he can't do it they have other things that are more powerful because they know that most Americans want some kind of border protection. So that's why, you know, Vindman, you know like whatever was in Vindman. I hear he purged 70 from the National Security Council. Seventy people? Yeah no he's trying to... well bloated!

1:01:07 Well, no kidding! 250 or something like that? That's crazy. But it was a bunch of people that should be like... It used to be 20 people total. Now there are all these people Obama shoved in there as kind of almost like it was patronage. He is from Chicago and patronage is just the way to go. In other words you create something and keep stuffing people into it. They don't have anything to do there they just get a paycheck And that's what the way Chicago politics used to always be. It was called patronage, and that is when you won you became the mayor, there are all these empty slots and you get to put all your buddies in here. You see a little bit of that in places like Berkeley where one of the mayors got in he first thing he did was

1:01:49 Take city money and build a bunch of housing and put all his pals in there. It's what you do What you do it's old-fashioned way of doing it, and that's what Obama did quite nicely Trump sees no reason for patronage he just says family and these so you get rid all these jokers yeah So anyway to be very interesting to see what the next moves are but that's how I'm looking at it I'm looking at it from a I you know, this is and part of this was Pachenik is very adamant about saying we're not gonna have kinetic wars anymore It's not going to it's just not he says can all be cyber Space is very important. Although he's very down on the idea of the Air Force Initially manning the space force. He thinks that they're there No good

1:02:41 Like, really? Really thinks they're no good. Space farms! He's all into the National Geospatial Agency which changed their name to the Geospatial Intelligence Agency recently Yeah... They had to do that for their pride because that was what they were doing all along Until everyone else came in with their stupid internet What the hell man?! You and your internet spying is no good I'm just gonna look at it that way, that's what a lot of this is about. And we're all running around... Well then you gotta take it to the next step with the secondary presentation! Okay? Why are the Democrats and specifically the liberals and well the socialists even all of them are so dead set against Trump accomplishing what he's trying to accomplish? Ah! Well that's easy. What is it- That's easy! Money!

1:03:35 There is, I mean Washington DC is just filled with lobbyists who have tons of Chinese money. They own Hollywood! China owns most of Hollywood at this point and one of the main guys in D.C. is Ambassador Kui Tiankai And this is a mover, a shaker. He's at all the right parties he's got tons of dough you can register and most people don't but you can register under FARA foreign agency registration Foreign Agent Registration Act and You can go just be in bars talk about China talk them up how about New York Times Square? Where does that money go there's money there's tons of money going into campaigns it's it's

1:04:18 It's rife. Of course, it's corrupt from the Chinese corruption has taken over the Democrat Party is that what you're saying? And I'm not just the Democrat Party come on let's be honest about this at all politicians are susceptible to this but the Democrats yeah Obama bowed when he went easy the Chai comms like hey there was one of the first things he did almost fell over he bowed so low now they were all about China Because that's where all the money was you know there's a lot of well. The Clintons are also about China they gave yes Nuclear secrets yeah, and then I can see Romney being all up in China because of his You know connection to Bain capitals Chinese money of course Well we're doomed now. I do have a clip from

1:05:06 Face the nation we gather some people out there to have a clue. We're getting no Chinese money now Thank you How good life would be? Listen China use the money we got your number Joe, do you want us to let up and you know Dvorak org slash na will talk So here's the Chinese ambassador who was on face the nation at With a very interesting way of evading the question about the Wuhan, the coronavirus being a possible biological agent. Listen carefully! Senator Tom Cotton who sits on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committee suggested that the virus may have come from China's Biological Warfare Program That is an extraordinary charge How do you respond to that?

1:05:56 I think it's true that a lot is still unknown and our scientists, Chinese scientists American scientists, scientists of other countries are doing their best to learn more about the virus. But it's very harmful, it's very dangerous to stir up suspicion rumors and spread them among the people. For one thing this will create panic another thing is that it will fan out racial discrimination xenophobia all these things that would really harm our joint efforts to combat the virus of course there are all kinds of speculations and rumors There are people who say these viruses come from

1:06:37 some military lab, not of China maybe in the United States. How can we believe all these crazy things? You think it's crazy where did the virus come from? Absolutely crazy! Where did the virus come from? We still don't know yet it's probably according to some initial outcome of their research Probably coming from some animals, but we have to discover more about it. It's interesting he doesn't actually deny it He doesn't say no no that's not possible and he says well You know it's very harmful To have these rumors some people say it's from America like you never said no starts a rumor Well the interesting thing about that interview is that his first phrase?

1:07:20 When she asked the question, the very first thing he says is that and this is a truth wants to come out. I know exactly what it's true. Let's listen again you're so right. I was ready Senator Tom Cotton who sits on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committee suggested that the virus may have come from China's biological warfare program That's an extraordinary charge How do you respond to that? I think it's true that a lot is still unknown. I think it's true! That a lot of still unknown... There you go and of course if you're going to be asked the question like that this is just all the elements of a lie yeah otherwise, you say no. That would be the simple way to do it did you have anything on Wuhan or

1:08:14 No, nothing new. I mean...I might have this one on the list. Oh! I have this one which is not really new but it's worth mentioning We also have a new name for the virus The World Health Organization is calling it COVID-19 Benjamin Newman is professor of biological sciences at Texas A&M University and he was on the panel considering these new names He told the BBC what's involved in choosing a name for the virus I'll just stop here for a second This is so disappointing to me. Yeah, it sounds like a birth control pill. You know we name hurricanes we give them girl names boy getting boy names or why do we have to do this COVID-19? We're trying not to name check a person a place

1:09:01 And on the Coronavirus Naming Committee, we decided not to actually include 2019 in the name as the WHO did when they were naming the disease. The idea was that there are actually five other coronaviruses that have had outbreaks this year including MERS coronavirus And so the year isn't particularly indicative. Okay, blah blah blah blah you guys are not good marketers that's that's the bottom marketeers The clip I have is the who about the World Health Organization covena This is WHO Covent 19 clip The World Health Organization Is warning the coronavirus poses a grave threat to the world as the death toll in China tops 1100 people with more than 44 thousand confirmed infections worldwide

1:09:46 With 99% of cases in China, this remains very much an emergency for that country. But one that holds a very grave threat for the rest of the world unless we use the window of opportunity that we have now. Meanwhile at least 174 people have now tested positive for coronavirus on the quarantine cruise ship The Diamond Princess which is docked off coast of Japan. There are 3600 people aboard the ship where crew members say the workers aren't being protected from infection." Well, that'll go on for a little bit longer until it's just dropped and you know they changed the counting methodology so now it looks like we had a huge spike in cases and deaths So that thing actually probably hurt the market a little bit this morning but its back up again. This is all... You're being played

1:10:43 I think you're just being played. This is not, i just don't see this as being any like kind of when we started out like we've been through this... We've-We've-We've been to this movie John! We did the swine flu h1n1 SARS haven't we seen it all and it's like no old people die from pneumonia? People who are already compromised? Yeah more people that have regular old fashioned flu yeah so I think there's a lot of playing going on, but at least now we can pay attention and maybe some companies will learn their lesson. You know Apple might have learned their lesson they brought some minute manufacturing back to the States We'll see who else learns a lesson But for sure there is gonna be stuff that we don't have anymore for awhile

1:11:31 It's almost impossible that they can get things going fast enough to, you know... it's all just as we talked about. Just in time so where people are gonna start losing missing out on parts. Missing out in time! Exactly. M-O-I-T And with that I'd like to thank you for your courage say in the morning to you the man who put the C in the ambassador's Chinese name 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 Yes, in the morning to our trolls who've been very trolly Super trolly today Yeah they're being very trolly You know I'm doing my whole presentation And they're just making racist jokes

1:12:16 Sad. Well, at least you can do it here! That's kind of what the troll room is for so we're glad that you're having fun let me see how many people are in there trolling at the moment live troll count 1087 trolls doing their job also a big in-the-morning to the artist who brought us the artwork for episode...what were we? 1215 And let me just bring that up for a second. The title of that was Omnipocalypse, which I still think we've titled another show Omnipocalypse somewhere in the past but... No never! Want to thank Darren O'Neill That's right the man with the plan Darren O from the radio and he brought us the artwork it was uh i mean you couldn't ask for more Intelligentsia with the appropriate nerd smiley face joined the intelligentsia

1:13:13 The artwork popped, it was funny. It was relevant to what was discussed and I don't think there was even a second that that was one and done i think Yeah, do you remember? I don't remember. You don't remember well It was perfect and we love it And again when you look at your podcast app and you see that artwork Change in something fresh is there it invites you to listen the whole point part of our value for value network Thank you very much Darren O'Neill then we have people who support the show financially these are our associate executive producers and we start with our Executive producers at the top of the list

1:13:52 Indeed and at the very top of the list today is Dave Fugazotto. Ah, the Earl! The Earl, Earl Dave And he sent a feature-length film script With lighting directions Yes He contributed 428 20 and this course is He's one of our top guys at the moment. And so this script I have the treatment here Oh, yes a little bit aside as we call that I got my side here Yeah, and I'm gonna read it. I tried to edit it but it's one of these stories you know he likes to tell these tales of travel and they're interesting enough that is probably worth reading I skipped a couple things but not too much

1:14:44 My dames are traveling for another competition, so bunches of flour would just be another thing to topple over while driving and drop petals and leaves around the hotel room is generally troublesome. Therefore because I love them, I'm donating $214.10 for each of dame Should be to 1420 days. I'm gonna if I put 10 or 20 in the thing for each day melody and Dame Isabella for a 428 20 donation of Eternal love this is the Valentine's Day. Yes, of course It's beautiful as I'm sure by the way nobody else Everybody hates their lovers they hate and they hate their moms and dads according to our show the researchers indicated that kind of knew this didn't we

1:15:31 As I am sure it said many a relationship is true. If you really love, if you really loved me... This is a quote of his. If you really loved me, You donate to no agenda! Oh sorry, I'm off script It's true! Wait a minute! Happy St. Valentine's Day to my dames and now a cautionary tale here we go. Sorry Yeah, yeah, I'm late. I did it myself the travel karma for my work trip worked perfectly And I was once again smuggled into the harem zone for a delightful supper at a classy establishment called TG Fridays, TGI Fridays in Saudi Arabia. I have attached a photo from the inside for your amusement however, I overlooked asking for travel karma for short trip the following weekend to a place called Al Ullah

1:16:28 I went there to see the ancient tombs of Medain Saleh, sometimes referred to as Saudi Arabia's Petra. It is the same Nabalean kingdom but further south at Karmic lapse resulted in numerous avoidable inconveniences. I request no agenda nation's indulgence as i recount this experience for the benefit of all producers." Okay, it was long... It was longer than this? This is an abbreviated version? Well, I only took out a few things. Oh okay

1:17:05 My pre-booked lodging was apparently a date palm orchard. There was not a building in sight and it would indicate a place to lay down after day of preambulations Fortunately, a random stranger from which we asked direction from who I asked directions Offered to let me stay at his rest house so it worked out and I wasn't murdered my sleep or anything If you're gonna wait for me, you got to read the whole script if you want me to be on cue I Took that one out by the way There are exactly zero taxi cabs and six ubers in the entire town enough for a major festival Winter at Tantora has been going on for several months as Ubers are also conveniently uber vintage Land Rovers and one gets the privilege of paying two to three times the normal rate. Oh

1:17:55 Anyway, he goes on about that. But I will say it gets a little better He says these ubers didn't apparently they didn't run half the time and so he was didn't want to miss the whole reason for the trip the tombs of Made the an Saleh I Figured I'd better start walking this time her after about three kilometers another kindly stranger stopped in offer me a ride I know what he's wearing Inconveniences aside the place is amazing And I got to see Yanni, who is in these white parts and in his white pants and sport coat. He looked suspiciously like Tulsi Gabbard. Do you remember Yanni? Well this is what got me to stop for a second...I actually did little work on this letter. Married to Linda Evans!

1:18:44 I went to Dubai for some event, this was about at least 10 years ago. And the term Yanni was bandied about as some sort of an insult and they would call you a Yanni. Really? Yeah! And so I remembered this very distinctly and now all of sudden Fugazotto is going to see Yanni And so I had to look up, do some work and find that Yanni indeed was playing in Saudi Arabia. And he was playing at this same place Al Ullah which is a mirrored palace entertainment venue which I find it hard to believe you can't get a cab or something go there back and forth but according

1:19:29 Maybe you're not supposed to be there. I'm not sure what it why it's so hard to get to And so he was playing there. It wasn't it was they there this last weekend Wow, and I think who's gonna go see Yanni in Saudi Arabia says screw his thing ever. This is a screwball letter I'm adding little Yanni music to the background for you The experience reinforced a few things for me. While traveling and embracing the moment, keeping your sense of humor and keep going with the flow is essential I have this same advice for people my advice is to keep moving Just keep moving. Just keep moving you'll be fine Although let's be honest Dame Melody would not have been amused by for the experience at one point had to walk seven Norby Yanni believe me oh yeah Although to be honest a melee would not have been amused most importantly travel karma only works if he asked for it That's right, so donate douchebags get some Karma of your own having learned a hard lesson please give us a

1:20:29 We bid o' Irish dance travel goat karma for the girls. And a bonus dose of goat scream for me as I travel to Bahrain, for Friday's most marvelous Middle East meetup in Manama. Manamana. Or Banama. Manamanah. Do do do do do! Manamanah. Do do do do do! It's gonna be magnificent! Okay, all right well I wonder if when he's back stateside if he'd be interested going to a John Tish concert with me. I think we've found the good luck. You've got it! Extra goat! Thank you very much Sir Dave, The Earl with a script

1:21:17 Okay, we got anonymous $333.33 from Norman Oklahoma I said he has a note and Indeed he does but it's a note He says he doesn't want anyone to read now This is if you thought that was long this note is three times longer three times 3x is three printed anyway, he just No jingles, no karma so It's a very good note, by the way. This is a very entertaining note to use and I enjoy it. Brian McDonough $300 and 49 cents is next on the list. Greetings gents long time listener infrequent donor love the show on they may deal with right sizing which has resulted from listening. I'm trying this interesting. I'm trying to wean my wife from M5M by pointing out who

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1:22:57 He says that he was, you get $300.49 in case he gets a 300 game or converts to four nine split. I mean it's not the worst split in the world 710 is the worst split well I think actually 5710 which is the worse split because there's also an embarrassment that you left it. Not that your bowler anything? I left at 571 once in my life and I felt so bad That's our executive producers. We have to drop down to associate executives now, so it's not a big day for us, so we're padding it. So Donald Sylvan, UWA Beach Hawaii comes in with 250 bucks and sends out very short note on a card he says at 83 I don't have many more opportunities to donate to no agenda

1:23:57 I'd like it all that you do mostly. Thanks for the great podcast, Aloha Don! Hey Don first of all aloha to you my friend and thank you and i wouldn't worry too much but I saw a vet the other day on TV 104 And, you know we live a lot longer these days. So we're hoping to hear from you a lot more and I'm giving you a karma for that. You've got Karma. Must be committed Nadine Zanotti in Arcadia, California comes in with 250 bucks and she sent a card. Another card with a heart drawn on it. Actually maybe that's printed. Happy Valentine's Day to the best podcast in the universe instead of chocolates et cetera I decided to donate an expensive something oh an expensive producer title to The Best Husband Ever. Aaron Marino.

1:24:59 Because of him I have become a listener, an avid listener. So he writes in an old-fashioned handwriting that is beautiful, I'm sure it's pretty but hard to read. Yeah. Avid list because there's like the avid for example looks like ARID so he's either an avid listener or an arid listener not sure. I think so. He deserves Oh yeah, she also does the tease. The funny tease that I don't... She's like European! He did not have to beat me up by or i mean hit me in the mouth smiley face but he needs to donate again otherwise a douchebag call out is on her agenda

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1:26:33 No agenda royalty at the same small law firm I'm currently working in Canada. The deconstruction you provide is absolutely invaluable, keep up the good work and I could use some Nancy Pelosi jobs, Carmody helped me land a summer law job for jingles like… If the innocent committed a crime, think that one that... Brennan? Brennan. Pretty good and that's true thanks again People are innocent until alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity I think that sounds pretty good That's true Jobs! Jobs! Nice combo And jobs Let's vote for jobs! You thought Karma Nice Very nice combo Very good I like the combo too Remy Cooter

1:27:22 K-U-E-T-E-R in Voorburg. Netherlands, 200 bucks. Dear John and Adam I'm leaving utter douchiness behind and aspiring knighthood sometime in the future keep up the good work and all the best from stink finger aka The Plague From The Hague The Thug District. THG. The Hague Underground, thug nice! Very very gangsta of you. I think Ramey tweeted me about this well thank you for your courage it's appreciated very much so in fact okay good didn't ask for a de-douching but

1:28:07 You gotta give her one. Oh, okay well Ramy might be a dude so... Uh oh it could be yeah no it probably is a dude but uh Ramy's not as popular woman's name Okay well here we go You've been de-douche'd There you go And we'll see you at the roundtable soon enough then I guess. Very nice, very nice and that's our group of well-wishers associate executive producers and producers for show 1216 Yes and i'd like to say happy valentine's day to my beautiful wife Tina the Keeper I'm saying Valentine's Day to my daughter and my wife and all the relatives that are women and the ships at sea You know boots on the ground Just as a quick aside

1:28:50 So Tina really wanted to take my last name and be Tina Curry. This is shit! Do you have any idea how hard this is to change your name on stuff these days? It's insane. Why? Oh, because it's not just like okay I've changed it here Social Security Office That's not enough. Oh no, and you've got to sit at the DMV and then you've gotta go to the title company for the house And then the passport which is another... it's never-ending credit card oh gotta change It is almost not worth it! Really really insane how hard that is How hard does it keep both names? What do you mean keep her original name and have a like two names

1:29:48 Yeah, no please. When you travel like you know so she'd done everything she's like oh shit we have tickets to Florida it's under her maiden name or under previous name but now she has a driver's license with Tina Currie on it that's a non-starter so luckily she hadn't done the passport yet and you just got to think of all this stuff They it's like they don't want you to do it really shut up slave keep your name or something like that I don't know easier to track. It's yeah, well it seems like it's an opportunity changing your name You can't you can't be tracked as well. They definitely don't let you change her name very easily but yes Valentine to her and

1:30:33 We'd like to thank these fine producers who had their own Valentine's notes for themselves. Thank them for their courage and for their support of The Best Podcast in the Universe, after all it is your podcast you're the one producing it someone... And maybe that was Remy? Someone on Twitter said holy crap how do you guys do that?! How do you- Do you do your own research where do get the clips from!? Do you have a producing staff I said yes! Thousands!! Can you stop I think i forgot to mention miss jamie of the highway $214.33 oh no yes you did because i was looking at same time funny nobody else put in 214 for valentine's day then i look and see miss jamie of the highway all it says on there on the line which is just says id miss jamie of the highway two hundred fourteen dollars and thirty three cents from somewhere in the USA well uh... Miss Jamie

1:31:27 Yes, yes. I see what we got here this is a Valentine's Day call out to Miss Jamie from someone who came through is awkward and so we don't know Miss Jamie you know who it is We hope, we hope you have a secret admirer. You've got karma. Alright well that makes Miss Jamie an Associate Executive Producer of episode 1216 and we thank our executive producers and associate executive producers alike We'd like to thank them at the beginning or more or less the beginning of the show kind of like Hollywood does you know You open up the show and then you have your credits and these are the people, the movers The shakers that make it happen. But we have a lot of other people to thank Who made this episode possible do that in our second segment for now? Please accept your titles and our gratitude Thank you for your courage And if you'd like to participate in

1:32:23 The grand experiment known as the No Agenda Value for Value Network. Very simple, for our Sunday show all you need to do is go to... to vorac dot org slash n- And with that! You're up to speed on everything! You look so smart when you talk about China Our formula is this We go out we hit people in the mouth Shut Up Slaves! I have a couple of randos

1:33:06 Ooh, a rando. I got a couple of randos for you. Yeah! I got three quick randos this is a new term i guess the first rando is the latest diet commercial from The Diet Company Jenny Craig and Jenny Craig is like Nutrisystem like Weight Watchers it's crappy food in the right portions and I think its really portion control that they send to you, it's a food company. And they only send you enough so they're kind of like starving ya out and if you don't cheat then of course you will lose weight but they've added a twist to it! Oh yeah! I just got my results back and I literally am so excited getting your DNA tested gives you just that much extra advantage It creates a very specific plan for you Who doesn't want to get the edge and figure out how we do this? Buy the plan and get a pre-DNA weight loss kit

1:34:00 DNA weight loss kit. Well, I had no idea that DNA was there so advanced! You look at the fine print of course it's nothing There's nothing...there's no DNA gene that says oh well if you only cut back on the fatso Yeah, that would be the message hey eat the food your lost cause you got the fatso gene? I don't know what what that is about maybe is just trendy But they are the DNA weight loss kit, please Well if you're gonna play short when I got a short one too. This is the Unfortunately under the letter K says kying that we didn't play this but we should and people have never heard it This is Joe Biden calling somebody a dog-faced pony soldier number one. I was a Democratic caucus Edmundo caucus

1:34:53 No, you haven't. You're a lying dog-faced pony soldier Very bizarre Well that comes yeah he took that from a John Wayne movie apparently oh There's no evidence that John Wayne I've never heard this is old story from years ago. I've never heard John Wayne say that I wonder what movie? I think Biden is just acting silly it's funny when he says something like that It's so well miked Yeah Good point good point Here's another rando, which is good news for you and for me as it's good news

1:35:34 Taller young men have a lower risk of the memory robbing disorder. Researchers examined intelligence test scores, environmental and genetic factors as well as height through a lifetime. eLife reports a study of more than 666 thousand men over 20 years revealed the benefit height offers when it comes to diagnosis of dementia. Finding ways to predict the risk of dementia may give doctors a hint at earlier diagnosis and interventions to aid patients. Well there you go! Oh, shit. Hey! Let me hold on to my dream okay? I got an ISO from a... From an Amy Goodman's Bloomberg ISO and the clip wasn't good enough but I thought the ISO might be good. Uhh..I can't find it. Oh, I got it. I got it. Bloomberg is racist. Ooh, ooh, ooh close

1:36:30 What do you mean close? I mean it's now i have to compare. Well, you've got to beat it! Well well...I'm gonna play it again because I'd like to compare we have competing ISOs. ISO number one Bloomberg is racist. ISO number two I am the president of the United States and I have all of the power Okay here's the way I see it okay The Bernie clip is lots better I mean it's one of the great isos ever. It's a classic iso, it's a cliso. So that is a cliso and so you can keep that in abeyance

1:37:07 Because it's always good. You can use the word abeyance somehow does that mean I'm screwed on this deal if you say abeyance? No, you could do what you want you do the ISOs is your call because you're like you're there but we were mad man finishing the show and then you punch up to the ISO it just seems to me that You can use that a lot. Yeah, okay so when I don't have it... So we'll.. Okay I see your logic and meeting adjourned. You could use it today if you want. Meeting adjourned this is the end of show ISO. Bloomberg is racist! That's beautiful. It's just beautiful The final rando Shorty Rando for you from Sandy Ocasio-Cortez. It's funny you asked this because I was just reading today about how Milton Keynes

1:37:54 You were yapping through it. I'll play it again so you can listen It's funny you asked this because I was just reading today about how Milton Keynes a famous They predicted that by 2030 US GDP would grow Six to eight times what it is, which would allow for everyday people to work 15 hours a week Love Milton Keynes read all his books She did not be Maynard Keynes, is that not? John Maynard Keynes and Miller Friedman. Yes she's well she just got Scott Adams by the way thought this was a this was great that this only solidifies her position as future president yes he did say that you should be sharing his drugs and I have another text message from the President from the win red

1:38:46 outfit, I want to remind every bun. Every bun? Everyone! The Democrats have Share Blue Act Blue which is a central clearinghouse for a lot of things but when you donate money to the chip in, when it says chip in, you're not sending it to the candidate, you're sending it to the blue organization and they then distribute it to the DNC there's all these different ways that has to be counted properly. What?! You didn't know that Of course you did. I can't believe they would be, in other words they're fooling the public! Trump set up a very similar system called WinRed and it is run by Jared Kushner and an ex-buddy of Jared Kushner's. Of course i despise this whole concept because they are skimming money off the top just...I don't like it at all but

1:39:40 They must be doing something that's working for them because as you know they have been texting me that I somehow my membership has expired. I never signed up for a membership and this came in You are being officially notified your deadline to support President Trump with 5x matching funds has been extended for four more hours! 5X? And if you click who's doing the matching that don't tell you that if he asked for a refund do you get five eggs back? I have no idea, but it says shameful and I keep showing him to the keeper You know who's in this business. She says I can't believe they're doing that must be working Maybe we're not maybe we're not doing it right. Maybe we should try that hey listen you dicks send money

1:40:36 I know will it work. Have you read the newsletter? Yes, there you go end of that all right oh man and get warm when I do that stuff Oh this was uh this was kind of interesting I got a note and got a notes to follow up with this clip You recall We have a mole inside a prominent lobbying firm in Washington DC who gave us information about Lev Parnas and his... Oh yes. That Rudy Giuliani was actually working as a consultant for LifeLock, and he was hired to recreate that model for Lev Parnas with his

1:41:31 Was it bankrupt guarantee or whatever that company and everyone laughed about we're the only ones who really had the backstory on it Not that is that interesting, but this is a little more interesting. This happened just a few days ago I'm here to announce the indictment of Chinese military hackers specifically for members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army for breaking into the computer systems of the credit reporting agency Equifax and for stealing the sensitive personal information of nearly half of all American citizens. And also, Equifax is hard-earned intellectual property."

1:40:36 I know will it work. Have you read the newsletter? Yes, there you go end of that all right oh man and get warm when I do that stuff Oh this was uh this was kind of interesting I got a note and got a notes to follow up with this clip You recall We have a mole inside a prominent lobbying firm in Washington DC who gave us information about Lev Parnas and his... Oh yes. That Rudy Giuliani was actually working as a consultant for LifeLock, and he was hired to recreate that model for Lev Parnas with his

1:41:31 Was it bankrupt guarantee or whatever that company and everyone laughed about we're the only ones who really had the backstory on it Not that is that interesting, but this is a little more interesting. This happened just a few days ago I'm here to announce the indictment of Chinese military hackers specifically for members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army for breaking into the computer systems of the credit reporting agency Equifax and for stealing the sensitive personal information of nearly half of all American citizens. And also, Equifax is hard-earned intellectual property."

1:42:12 Okay, the biggest hack ever they stole everybody's data. Yeah But what was it was an interesting situation? We knew it had to be the Chinese because they would never showed up on the dark web for sale cuz It seems like a mailing list anyone would want a copy of but what was the reason for the hack I don't remember what the reason for that yes, what do you mean the reason? I'm sorry the good point The hack was done through a machine that was compromised because they had not applied security patches. Do you remember that? Vaguely, yeah. Okay so that and... That's generally how most of these hacks take place. That was spelled out broadly um So here's what our mole in the lobbying industry says Adam our colleagues in the lobbying business specifically at Akin Gump

1:43:02 drummed up this indictment at DOJ on behalf of Equifax so Equifax's insurance company would be forced to pay for the losses from the class action lawsuit. The whole thing he says is fake and I believe it, I totally believe that Let's not talk about the mistakes we made. Let's not talk about how we allowed your information to be hacked, let's blame it on some... I'll use that word again, randos in China." Yeah, that's what they... yeah, well it's like the indictments that Mueller did against the randos in Russia! Exactly. Yeah you can do that, that's a nude gimmick. Yeah. I just like how uh..how that works in DC with the lobbying firms. You can get anything done as long as you got money

1:43:48 China, Saudi Arabia. All these guys it's fantastic. Well the insurance companies should check into this and see if it's a scam that sounds like but it probably was taken to China I mean oh that's very possible sure sure yeah nobody...I have a clip of your buddy Joy random AMJoy My buddy alright thanks I feel good now she's not my buddy I want you to try to decipher this. This is a discussion with her and some psycho writer talking about Trump and the media, and...I listened to this, I clipped it—in fact, I couldn't even clip it down any shorter than this—

1:44:34 And I just want you to tell me what they're saying. Trump says the media have struggled to appear balanced and objective in an era when the president behaves in shocking and unprecedented ways, they need to find a language that can be vividly the unhinged anger and obsession with retribution. What is she even saying? I can't even understand her! Well, what she's saying is the media is trying to find some way to talk about Trump's mental illness. I think that's what she's saying. The unhinged anger and obsession with retribution that Trump occasionally unleashes in public before...I'm gonna get Rob in but I want to go back to...hopefully your cough is better Dave because I wanna go back to you first really quickly because no that's okay now I wanted you to have a moment um so to get it you know take some water but the media is still under this you know this self

1:45:20 policing that says that, that State of the Union which was very unusual I mean that took place in the gallery in the House Gallery a sort of sacred political space and it really was show business. And the media still struggled to fit into the norm. So they're talking about the state of the union there were two shows but it's all show business no absolutely had No content, just show business or marketing you might call it. Of what they expect but even in Fox News the Daily Beast has a piece now that said an internal documents even Fox News understands what this is internally even if they don't say it outright In documents obtained by the Daily Beast Fox's research team advises colleagues to be wary of disinformation from several Trump boosting on-air regulars including Rudy Giuliani so internally Even there some people feel a little queasy

1:46:08 But in writ large, Trump knows that the rest of the media is going to cover him as if he's a normal president no matter what he does. Yeah I mean we all talk about Fox News being the platform that elevates Donald Trump but unfortunately it is quote mainstream media that actually does the biggest service to this President If you look at the headline that was after his East Room performance in The New York Times, it talks about President Hale's acquittal. No he didn't hail his acquittal! He raged for an hour and I think this sort of neutral language, this decorum and politeness that has governed newspaper journalism

1:46:49 for the last hundred years that the office of the presidency is afforded. It just doesn't work with Donald Trump and I don't, unfortunately...I don't have the answer you know? I'm a reporter, i'm a writer so I struggle myself with these issues but I know the end result is that the public is not having an accurate view of who this president is. I know this is... This is exactly right. And by the way, 100 years of decorum? Have you ever looked at those papers from the 20's and 30's? Yeah they were outrageous! Yellow journalism! Are you kidding me?! What do you mean? These people think they're so above everything it's amazing to me

1:47:31 This is a problem. This has been a problem with journalism and some British guy described it best when he says for some reason American journalists think it's a profession, when we think it's a trade Thank you! That's... find out who said that he's making a lot of sense Anybody could just go online and see anyone who's interested to see this hour-long rage No, it was actually if Trump talked during that one hour or he was thanking his team and setting everybody up for moving forward after the impeachment. If he talked like that all the time we'd be like oh that's pretty presidential! Yeah it was anything but a rage It was not a rage at all But so if you're wondering why you're having trouble... I say what you are I am That old phrase What you say to yourself with your head through half

1:48:27 That phrase applies. Yeah, j'accuse, macus in French. Yeah same thing. But it's if you're wondering why people aren't getting the message just because you're not being truthful it wasn't a rage I mean with rage I don't know maybe I'm misunderstanding the definition of the word but there was no rage there But you know, they the television version was take him saying bullshit. Take him saying this pop up I put it all together. Whoa what a rage? Yeah Meanwhile on the other news on the other news Channel them one of them when I use for balance so I can hear the socialist point-of-view yes Socialist point of view democracy now

1:49:22 I would expected this and here i'm gonna get finally get it. This is Amy Goodman on Democracy Now smearing Pete Buttigieg So, look at Pete Buttigieg's record on policing and racial justice following his second-place finish in New Hampshire last night. The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana has surprised many with his strong showings in Iowa and New Hampshire—two of the country's whitest states. But as the race moves on now to Nevada and South Carolina, Buttigieg continues to pull extremely low with African Americans. American voters. His own former constituents are condemning his treatment of the black community in South Bend during his time as mayor, calling out systemic racism and the police force. During Buttigieg's tenure as mayor from 2012 to 2018, black residents were 4.3 times more likely to be arrested for possessing marijuana than white people. At last week's presidential debate ABC News moderator Lindsay Davis questioned Pete Buttigieg about the rise and arrest

1:50:21 people under his administration. Well the reality is on my watch drug arrests in South Bend were lower than the national average, the overall rate was lower... No there was an increase! The year before you were in office it was lower once you became in office in 2012 that number went up in 2018 the last number of year that we have a record for that number was still up And one of the strategies that our community adopted was to target when there were cases where there was gun violence and gang violence, which was slaughtering so many in our community. Well for more we go to Chicago where we're joined by Henry Davis Jr., a South Bend City Council member since 2008. Welcome to Democracy Now! Henry Davis Jr.. Can you talk

1:51:07 Talk about your experience as a city council member with your mayor at the time. My time working with Mayor Buttigieg was, at best, contentious It was very difficult to get across to him and also his administration how African Americans were living in South Bend, and some of the issues that confronted them on a daily basis. You're talking about double-digit unemployment, you're talking about a very high poverty rate over 40 percent, you're talking about high crime, you're talking about schools shutting down or closing. And even some of those policies when it came to 1,000 Houses in 1000 Days program

1:51:46 Don't look at that. Don't look at that, look at me! I have a husband!" The more i think about it... That went on for another 15 minutes. Oh of course it did. Quick OTG? I have a husband. A little OTG quickie. Little assist from Larry David there

1:52:23 Uh, this was a story that we just didn't get to. There's a number of clips I'd like to get played today because we didn't get to them. This is... This accentuates why the OTG lifestyle is important. And I want to reiterate, because it's very... The name of course is bad because people think off-the-grid means you don't wanna be connected, you don't wanna be hacked. No, that's not really that. It's you don't wanna be making data that other people can easily aggregate and use against you. When I say against you they pretend that they're helping you

1:53:00 with ads that you want, content you already love. But of course your data is then stored in databases it's sold everywhere and as we have said many times the government doesn't actually have to put any spying programs in place because its being done for them with your willing participation This is how it works You get this pop up and agree to let an app use your location A travel app may want it to suggest nearby hotels or airports. This is how it works, you get this pop up and agree to let an app use your location. A travel app may want it to suggest nearby hotels or airports. Rideshare apps wants to know where to pick you up but often those apps are also sharing your location with marketers who are using it for targeted ads research analysis and even reselling it

1:53:55 But what we found is that in some cases, that consumer data is being resold to companies that buy and sell data for the government. According to people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal... ...the Trump administration has purchased a database that maps the movements of millions of cell phones in the US and is using it for immigration and border enforcement. In 2018, data tracking contributed to the discovery of a drug smuggling tunnel according to people with knowledge of the operation. Sources describe this one case down in Arizona, a border town called San Luis where a man had allegedly built a tunnel between his property which was an abandoned KFC restaurant and the Mexican border

1:54:37 Police say that smugglers were using this tunnel, but the interesting thing is when this person was arrested none of the court records indicate that they found this tunnel based on cell records. This data was showing cell phones moving from one side of the border to the other and investigators surmised there must be an illegal tunnel there and began further investigations that led to the arrest of this person So what's interesting about this story is that it is truly the app. So WhatsApp, all...it's the apps that are handing out your location sometimes very precise even if you have location sharing turned off. It's unbelievable I by the way have a backup clip for what you just played

1:55:20 And it's the tracking immigrants via cell phone. Yeah, that's pretty much the same story I guess. The Wall Street Journal reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE and Customs Border Protection or CBP have spent over 1.2 million dollars to act access cell phone location data to track and arrest undocumented immigrants. The Homeland Security Department reportedly began purchasing cell phone location data in 2017 from a Virginia-based company called Ventail. The data is drawn from cell phone apps like Games and Weather Apps that ask the users' permission to access their location."

1:56:00 And the Customs and Border Patrol is very adamant about one thing, and this is why the OTG lifestyle is important. In a statement to The Wall Street Journal, a CBP spokesman said quote while CBP is being provided access to location information it is important to note that such information does not include cellular phone tower data, is not ingested in bulk, and does not include the individual user's identity because that would be completely illegal But the point is they don't have to do that. However, if they want to track good old crackpot they'd have to have cell location data because I have a flip phone that pretty much does nothing it has no apps

1:56:43 Zero apps and the apps it has a browser So I'd have to be careful, but I don't really use that. I mean unless it's an emergency But it's the apps its anything that's free put a big suspicious Suspicious tag next to it because that's that's how they make their money They make money on selling that exact data to ultimately the government I Have to bitch I've been bitching about this for over a decade And it's because when you go and you got some app, and I don't even like the word. You load it say we'd like by agreeing to our terms you have also given up your notebook, your email, your camera can be turned on, the mic can be turned on they can use your contact list, they can download your contact lists. This is a flashlight! They want my contact lists?

1:57:39 Gonna agree to any of this the flashlight was the best spy app ever remember that first came out everyone's downloading it that guy got so rich He's like look at all there's a bonanza So all we're here to do is to warn you that this is just a very very bad idea And there's no reason for you to you know what? So here's what I like about the Alcatel Go flip three is You know, it's a basic phone. I can text, I can receive a call It's great for calling by the way It's very very pleasant phone to speak on and in a pinch I can get mail and I could do something on the web But it's really in a pinch because it's very slow. It's laborious but you want that! You don't want to be distracted That's another big part of it There's really no way To track me however The beauty of it is that it can also function as a Wi-Fi hotspot

1:58:33 That's what's really cool about it because if you are in that Undeniable it happens. Oh my god, I absolutely need to get online to do something You can use that with your laptop or you know? I have this surface GoPro the surface Goes surface go whatever the hell it's called, but you know 10-inch er which marketing which only has Linux on it So but I can get online I can do whatever I want That's just don't create as much data stop creating data because they'll be used against you and We haven't heard much about the war on cash lately, although it does crop up from time to time. Australia is now on deck.

1:59:26 with a new cash ban bill. Australians could face two year jail sentences and fines of up to $25,000 under proposed laws that limit the use of some cash transactions to ten thousand dollars there are calls for the government to withdraw the proposal which was announced in the budget fight this black economy John Adams an independent economist has come out against the change. whether it's a cash transaction or non-cash transaction. So the government has claimed that this proposal is about the black economy and obviously they had the Black Economy Task Force that they submitted in 2016, this is where this $10,000 cash transaction ban comes from now

2:00:24 But the government has not provided any evidence that this ban will actually work in terms of reducing the black economy. And one of the countries he cited is Sweden, where in Sweden they've virtually eliminated cash and yet they still have a flourishing black economy. So the way the law was constructed at the moment basically it's either business to business or individual to business So if an individual was to engage in a $10,000 cash transaction above $10,000 that is illegal under this proposed law. So for example if you went to a car yard or furniture shop or jewellery store and you propose to pay cash for a product or service under this law

2:01:05 individual to business or business to business, that is legal. Now the way that the government has proposed this law is there's a bill for Parliament and there's a regular proposed regulation The bill makes everything legal and the regulation has certain exemptions now one of the exemptions in the regulation is Individual to individual transactions so for example if you had You know A piece of furniture for $15,000 and I wanted to buy it off your own for one-off we're not enterprises That the government says is legal under this law but given that this exemption is in the regulation, that the assistant treasurer at any time can remove these exemptions make these exemptions illegal without the scrutiny of Parliament. I loved it this guy's report went into depth because most of the headlines just scream you know but the details are even more interesting where there's the law says we'll have a regulation for what amount you can spend

2:02:02 They don't have car dealers over there. They got kayads and that limit is set at 10,000 but they can lower that because it's just a regulation That's the real creepy part about it Yeah they can lower to 1,000 which they would do why wouldn't you? You're not gonna raise it No! That's just like what do you call it VAT value-added tax same deal yeah you put that in place It's there forever Any who suggest that should you should throw a shoe at him? It can only go up. So I picked up a couple of clips from Trump's New Hampshire speeches He's doing a new act. Oh They know they no longer play it on Fox so and follow my god

2:02:55 Fox is just boring now. They're getting really bad I can't watch it because they run by a bunch of people that don't even like Trump Well, well you know that they have internal memos That from the you know, they have us so the way Fox News works Fox News Channel They have a news desk And the head of the news desk put out a memo that was leaked, that said just so you know you shouldn't really take anything that is on Hannity or Judge Jeanine's show. Or Ingraham because the people-the guests they have on are known disinformation people from their own organization. Yeah there was a clip we played earlier in the show

2:03:35 Now, he's changing his bid a little bit. He got some good...he got a couple of nice new bids but he did have this little crossover thing in there encouraging people to by not encouraging them uh...to cross over and this is the Trump stumps in New Hampshire suggesting a crossover where you can vote for the other party. We've done great! This has been an incredible success state with the people are great just great people We hear that there could be, because you have crossovers in primaries don't you? So I hear a lot of Republicans tomorrow will vote for the weakest candidate possible of the Democrats. Does that make sense to people who would do that?

2:04:17 My only problem is I'm trying to figure out who is their weakest candidate. And I think they're all weak one another." That's, that's...I mean it's not a huge laugh but it's an interesting bit of shtick and I like it. Now a better bit which he has added to his act Is this Trump where he goes on about Pelosi. On Tuesday I delivered my address on the State of the Union. And I had somebody behind me who was mumbling terribly. Mumbling! Mumbling! Wah wah oh! It was mumbling, very distracting. Very distracting! You know it was very distracting I'm speaking and a woman is mumbling terribly behind me angry there was a little anger back there we're the ones should be angry not them were the ones that should be angry but

2:05:14 We proudly declare that we are in the midst of the great American comeback our country is stronger today than ever before I had not heard this Like that a lot. What was that? We're mumbling That reminds me at the time. I flew on the Concorde and I was very excited and it's like oh my god, I'm gonna fly in the Concorde and go to flight it was for the Something at Wembley Arena. I can't remember exactly what MTV flew me Concord because I had to be there right away or whatever was going on good and this was New York to London, and I was super excited and Liza Minnelli is sitting behind me completely drunk and ruined the whole damn ride she was kicking against my chair Talking loud yeah it was a big bummer

2:06:07 Anyway, that's for my book. Did you turn around and tell her to knock it off? No! I was too impressed like she's Liza Minnelli It'll just keep this better to have the story than to have some international ruckus because you know a drunk Liza is something gotta be very careful of. Yeah would think yeah Well, while you're at it is anything else from Trump that during the speech? No. That's all I got from that speech and it is worth watching his new act this slightly different. Mm-hmm. Well, yes, the one before New Hampshire where I watched some of that one and that was just...that was as old material And it was about an hour in 15 hour 20 this new act which I think is mostly new

2:06:50 is only an hour. He's cutting it down, he's cutting it down right now I think this was like 55 minutes Hmm, so here but he builds you know he starts as got a basic act and then he adds an ad. Yeah, we added those bits that's good Just one last story since all of the stuff that we're talking about is So irrelevant when it comes to how bad things really are And then you know this is actually the biggest failing on the media not the newspapers who published it because I think they It's good that they did that and if you read through at all Then yeah

2:07:26 You feel very sad about the state of what we're doing, how we've positioned ourselves for decades. And when I say ourselves, the United States this is of course in the Afghan papers and to get any kind of in-depth reporting on it I got this from Voice of America, which is the propaganda arm of the United States. John Sopko, inspector general of an independent government watchdog created by Congress to combat waste and abuse in the U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghanistan told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday a persistent incentive to lie about progress on the ground hurt US efforts in Afghanistan

2:08:10 you create from the bottom up an incentive because of short time frames, you're there for six months nine months or a year to show success. That gets reported up the chain and before you know it the president is talking about his success that doesn't exist. And I think that's a good issue to look at not whether there was lying but But why? The hearing comes one month after a Washington Post report that government officials misled the public about U.S gains in Afghanistan for years and hid evidence that the war had become unwinnable. The newspaper cited Seaguar documents as evidence

2:08:48 But Richard Boucher, who served as Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia during the Bush administration says there was no deliberate deception. I think all of us tried to tell the truth in terms of what was going on in the war and the difficulties that we were facing the difficulties of getting things done in a chaotic situation like the one in Afghanistan. Despite notable failures, experts say a rash exit from the region could lead to deadlier outcomes We're at a stage where we know we want to withdraw but we want to do it responsibly and that requires a negotiation process The Trump administration has been negotiating a peace agreement with the Taliban to finally bring the war to an end It's just so disheartening

2:09:32 It's not like we don't know this, but that it is out there and where are the real hearings? Where are we really pinning people up. Hey man this is bull crap! Well again this is what I talked about 10 minutes ago when you said you started value-added tax, you can't back off on these things You go into one of these stupid wars that's not really a war because nobody's attacking us But you go in to police the place and you can't get out Well, you can but the system will let you get out. No the whole system is designed for you to be stuck there forever Yeah Disheartening is the only that's the only thing I can say well don't feel good about it reasonably good word I got a couple of just one more news item if you want it yeah I gotta use that so when they get out of the way well Let's do one and then we gotta move gotta move gotta move babe. Do it live Yes all right

2:10:29 What are we playing? Well, this is going to be the most interesting one. Juan Guaido returns to Venezuela. Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has returned to Venezuela where protesters waited for him outside the airport Tuesday screaming dirty traitor and get out. Guaido was returning from a trip to United States where he attended President Trump's State of the Union address Guaido also traveled to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland during a political tour aimed at ousting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This guy—you know, this is another disappointment. I'll play it again. He's a very brave man. No, who carries with him the hopes dreams and aspirations of all Venezuelans Joining us in the gallery is the true and legitimate president of Venezuela Juan Guaido Mr President Please take this message back to your parents

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2:17:51 Ha! Says happy birthday to her husband Daniel, turns 33 tomorrow as well. And Chris Gromal says happy birthday to his wife Diana she is celebrating today the day before Valentine's Day we say Happy Birthday to everybody from all of us here at No Agenda. It's your birthday yeah! and uh... as I said we don't have any other things to take care except... NO AGENDA! IT'S A PARTY! It's like a party. Alright, some ground rules we love the meetups I love doing Meetup reports you cannot write pages of what happened it's just it's not fun for me to read it What we really are looking for is Meetup reports audio You can record it on your phone you can pass it around there is one other thing I'd like to say

2:18:48 I received a meetup report today, and here's the problem. I didn't have time to put it together because they literally had eight separate files of people going with a little message at the meetup and like hey Currie why don't you put it together? Like okay... I didn't have time to do that so just It's okay Just record it on whatever send that one file to me. I'll chop it up if necessary been doing it anyway So to make it sound good there was a a meetup in Israel. This was the first meetup of Jesse Coy Nelson's Toon Man Tour, he is going around the world, he has had unsuccessful...

2:19:28 He's had meetups by himself in Palestine, in Ramallah, in Jordan and finally he was in Jaffa Tel Aviv. This was the Tel Aviv Meetup and here is our very own Jesse Koinelson. Hey this is Jesse Koinelson with the first successful two-man tour in Jaffa! And this is Brian of London in Jaffa And Sir John-o! And we're here at the No Agenda meetup in the Middle East, and this is the man who can say... It's like a party! We're in Abu Laffia. John your bagel shop?

2:20:08 Come and have a look. This is Arab bagels, and Arab desserts and sweets Thank you very much in the morning and Until the next time come visit us in Israel In the morning Oh yeah I want to go You've been to Israel? You knew about the bagel shop so of course you'd be there That bagel shop is unbelievable It's the best in the world supposedly I haven't ever been to Israel...I should go We certainly have peeps there So I'm looking forward to it Yeah, you got that one MI6 guy and then you got all those guys. Spot the spook! What do you mean? It's like spot the non-spook... I'm just kidding kind of Just kidding we kid Here is the list of meetups on the near horizon for you tomorrow Valentine's Day We stay with well in the Middle East but this will be a most marvelous middle eastern meet up in Manamana to to do do do

2:21:04 1 p.m.. Arabian Standard Time This is the Sherlock Holmes pub in the Gulf Hotel and our very own sir Dave Fugazotto Earl of America's Heartland and Saudi Arabia will be hosting it's sure to be a hoot, and he'll take pictures He's very good very nice very good photographer Also tomorrow if you're in Stockholm, if you happen to swing by there's a meetup 6 p.m Look for the organizer in the no agenda Space Force t-shirt at O'Connells Irish pub and Gamalastan Michael be hosting that's his name on Sunday the Minneapolis warm up That's the Venn brewery tap room South Minneapolis dr. Hammer

2:21:41 Organizing for you then Monday brand new on the list Fort Lauderdale. This is Monday the 17th meet up at 630 Rocko's Tavern Look for the guy in a no agenda Space Force t-shirt seems like this is we've got a trend going on here first Kitchener, Ontario local 42033. Thursday a week from now this is the second Meetup in Kitchener meet at Moose Winooski's Chris W hosting for you also next Thursday Magnolia Texas local 667 Houstonians come for craft brews at the Lone Pint Brewery in downtown Magnole-Magnolia Texas

2:22:17 Texas Joe organizing for you next Friday not tomorrow a week from now the Delray Beach, Florida meet up six o'clock with hosts galore Adam the keeper and Horowitz. I don't know if Horowitz is coming. I hope he is That will be the South Florida meetup at Saltwater Brewery and there are many organizers but Crystal and David Culpe I think are the ones that That are taking charge of this. So please come and hang out with us We look forward to meeting everybody in Flo Rida And if you have not heard about a meet up near, it's very simple go to noagendameetups.com Create your own! That's all you need to do they're great They're like a pie

2:22:58 Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days. Be where you won't be, triggered or hail the flame You want to be where everybody feels the same That's right! noagenda meetups dot com And a new item at the end of the show. Let's see what's in John's closet! We had the Microsoft Bob Frisbee, I'm wondering if there is another item that you are putting up for auction or sale or otherwise? I was thinking about it... Mm-hmm. ...I don't have anything Wow this is a dead item Well all I have to do is take one look around Yeah I do have a couple of things actually Well you sound woefully unprepared

2:23:50 Well, I'm unprepared. Yes, I am. I thought about this earlier and then I'm unprepared. I can't... That's okay. This is a segment that I have to skip. We'll do it for the next show. Yeah, too many things to choose from. That's the problem. I didn't get any bites on the frisbee. What? No one just wanted to drop a hundred bucks on a hundo, on a virgin Microsoft Bob Mint. Conditioned Bob! But can you haggle over the price or because if you're just saying 100 flat best price... Yes I am and I have too. Yeah well yeah. You're gonna have to people don't see the value in these things but okay. You need to put up a Cosmic Weenie page

2:24:31 Some I can put in the show. That's not a bad idea, I think you'll have to do that there you go i have uh just one more little thing unless you have something that you'd like to do first? I have actually three four clips which are news clips which I promise everybody we've been trying to keep people up with world news okay yes let's do that first good idea and so let's start with the Irish vote let's get that out of the way oh yeah this was very this So typical. Irish voters went to the polls on Saturday in an election that could remove Taoiseach Leo Varadkar from power amid a surge by left-wing Sinn Féin. Varadkar cast his ballot in Dublin after campaigning on his own diplomatic successes on Brexit, helping prevent a hard border on the island but the strategy appears to have fallen flat amid domestic issues such as health care and housing which have seen a swing by voters towards Sinn Féin

2:25:24 Party leader Mary Lou MacDonald urged people to vote for change as she also went to the polling booth in Dublin. Today is a very important day, today's the day that the people are in charge and every single vote counts People have told us throughout this campaign that they want change That they want a change of representation and they want a change in government so I'm saying to people please come out today and vote for that change But McDonald's party is unlikely to enter government as it has put forward too few candidates. Opinion polls point to the main opposition party Fianna Fail winning most seats and forming a coalition or minority government led by Michal Martin who voted Saturday morning in Cork

2:26:09 Its policies on the economy and post-Brexit Ireland are broadly similar to those of Radke's centre right Fine Gael. Both Fianna Fail and Fine Gael insist they will not govern with Sinn Fein After polls close at 10pm local time, counting will begin at 9 o'clock on Sunday morning So does this mean we'll have bombs going off again or is it just my imagination that these are the same people? That's interesting. Hey, just as a quick aside Tuesday August 3rd 2010 blog entry on the Dvorak uncensored blog with picture valuable frisbee found in closet Yes an unused Microsoft Bob Frisbee was buried in one of my closets Wow priceless collectible yes Yeah that you're recycling but you're recycling

2:27:07 What do you mean I'm recycling? I still have the frisbee. I didn't recycle it yet. Recycling the story is what you're saying? And it's the same picture you sent me of this thing sitting on the mantelpiece next to a Christmas bear, dude! What is this collectible Christmas bear in the picture?! What is up with that!? No!! Why do you even have that in your home?? What is that thing? I don't know. That was from ten years ago uh-huh yeah, and a horse glass I want to be in your closet so bad. I bet you do you're kind of in the closet Oh What are you supposed to do somebody throws just softball so here we go Pierce Robinson he's discussing Syria

2:27:58 Pierce Robinson EW story is about the investigation of an alleged chemical weapon attack in Douma and Syria in 2018 which was controversial at the time because France America UK bombed Syria within about six or seven days of that alleged event having occurred. This is new somewhere after we've ripped this all apart front to back, and this is now news still? The premise for the event... Exactly. What happened is we, of course, spotted this a mile away but and it's been discussed by academics and now it's official! It was not even fully official. It's just some guy who quit one of these organizations and kind of made it quasi-official that the whole thing was a scam like we said

2:28:43 The EW story is about the investigation of an alleged chemical weapon attack in Douma, Syria in 2018. Which was controversial at the time because France and America and UK bombed Syria within 6 or 7 days of that alleged event having occurred And the premise for the event was Assad winning the war The helicopter dropped two chlorine gas cylinders and it had killed dozens of people in Douma. And that was the original event which the OPCW went out to investigate What we know now, after leaks and people from within the OPCW talking is that the team who initially deployed to Douma and who did the investigation that their first interim report was very clearly indicating there were problems with the idea that Syrian government had dropped cylinders. That there were indications of staging had occurred

2:29:35 And they were really pretty much shut out of the process after the interim report, which is what really started to cause I think dissent within amongst some of their team. Then ultimately the final OPCW report came out suggesting very strongly that Syrian government had dropped chlorine gas cylinders and at that point shortly after an engineering report was leaked which suggested the opposite And what we know now from all the leaks and what we know now from the Courage Foundation panel for example is that there are serious problems with final OPCW report, but the science does not back up the claims that have been made. We know that from the leaked documents, we can see that from the information coming out from OPCW scientists

2:30:18 And most spectacularly, we saw it with Ian Henderson addressing the UN Security Council where he made very clear that he had been sidelined and he made very clear that the engineering assessment had indicated that staging had occurred for two months. You know its so odd a podcast that rips apart mainstream media or all media really whether its radio print of television of course a lot That this is one of the few places you can actually hear a bunch of stories that are kind of interesting and have global importance. I'm glad we do this because where else would you get this news? You have to be monitoring everything, you don't get...I watch Sky and I watch RT and Al Jazeera and you pick up stuff from time-to-time but they're also headline driven it's all headline driven. Yeah! I know thats what makes this show so great

2:31:59 Now I have somebody that's not international news, but it is a compliment. It's a clip that was produced by this operation and i'm gonna ask you because I was misled Mm-hmm Are you familiar with what? What's referred to as a maker a maker? Yeah, yeah, like makers conference maker from the maker space so people use 3d printers and stuff like that Yeah, that's a maker. Yeah. Well, you're completely mislead Whaaat?! Welcome to the MAKERS Conference! We women, we're not going nowhere. I was part of a small team that landed an SUV-sized robot on the surface of Mars. I went through therapy and started to understand what made me tick... And I took accountability. We are driven changemakers fed up with the world around us and ready to take action no matter what

2:32:54 You want to be proactive, don't look away. No one is invisible when we demand to be seen I love my body It's society that is uncomfortable with my body Girls, we must be pretty amazing To have overcome all of this shit! I think it's important that We have these kind of conversations Hopefully you leave here inspired to do something What is this? I don't understand at all what that was. This was MAKERS 2020, and if you look at the thing it is about the empowerment of women and to push forward the new feminist something or other Well they've hijacked the term! You tell me about it that's what I said They hijacked the term That's not okay

2:33:40 Nobody doing 3d printing that guy at the end was John legend. Hello There's only two men that they should they've highlighted That one the guy in the middle with some guy talking about how he had to go see a shrink So it could become a cuckold I guess I'm not sure what he was after there Wow Let me the beginning when I heard in the beginning and maybe sink think of something else It made me think of... Could have been I'm surprised they use the term makers it doesn't have what's it got to are they is this a derivative of Homemakers hello. It's kind of wrong old-fashioned term that should be eschewed yeah So their homemakers or what's makers as makers? I thought the same thing where's the 3d printers very odd um

2:34:46 On Fox, Tucker Carlson had a very slow day or whatever they were expecting Trump to say. I don't know what it was so he pulled out an old interview we did with Adam Carolla and it was about homelessness and it was so good what Adam Carolla said and there was a long segment so I chopped it up down into three shorter pieces And it was an eye-opener. I sat there and said, holy crap he's really saying some smart stuff here because what he has identified as the problem in Los Angeles...I'll just say California is exactly what's going on here in Austin. It's exactly the same. It was a eye opener. I really appreciate what he said. And it is completely in three parts

2:35:37 So first he explains why the government, local city government or state government doesn't care about the homeless. I mean if i asked you just offhand why do city and state governments not care really don't care about the homeless? I have no idea how California and LA especially sort of broken the citizens into two groups. There's the groups that have money, and then there are the empty bags they don't have any money so if you have money in your net group when you pay your taxes you'll get pulled over and get a ticket for not having a front license plate

2:36:20 But if you're homeless or you're illegal, then you are essentially an empty bag and they can't get money out of you. In fact they cost the city money so anything that costs the city money they aren't good at but But they're really good at parking enforcement and they're really good at permits, building permits and fines. Anything where there's money to be had they are super efficient at it. And the homeless don't have checking accounts so there is nothing in it for them They've really divided the entire city into those who pay and those who can't If you can't then their not that interesting I think this is so true

2:37:04 And it really hit home for me just the other day. The Keeper and I were coming back from, we had lunch together and we're driving back on South Pleasant Valley Road which is a 35 zone. There's no one, it's lunch time so there's no one on the road and I'm driving yeah and uh...and I look in my rearview mirror and i see a car behind me like close kind of riding me? And so I pull over to the side immediately was undercover woo! Woo! You know I was like, stop you or I'll pull ya over! We were speeding but

2:37:40 50 feet up there's squeegee guys and tents on the median. So now I have to say, I didn't get a ticket...I got a warning but it was that very moment i felt the same as like look at what you're doing man! There is no one on the road yeah okay I was going a little fast and they were like okay I was over 40 sorry But look at the illegality taking place right here. I'm not blaming the cop obviously because the cop is not even allowed to do anything, but that's the stuff that drives people crazy and thought it was an interesting observation that these governments don't give a shit if they can get money out of you they don't care. Well this still begs the question

2:38:23 Why are they allowed to have these encampments? It costs the city money because somebody's got to clean this stuff up eventually. Well, is that a trash van backing up or something like that? Yeah it's a garbage truck. Well that comes up in the second part of the story and this is a very valid question although It's not addressed in what Carolla says, but remember this camping is... all these liberal cities have allowed camping because of a lawsuit that is in the Ninth Circuit. It's in Idaho that removing homeless people who are camping is quote unconstitutional because it is against

2:39:08 because it is cruel and unusual punishment. This is what the wokesters have come up with, and so for that reason because this now in court Idaho said well Well, we can't kick these people out because it's constitutional. In all the woke counties Austin literally says the same thing well you know there's a case before the Ninth Circuit and we can't really do anything until that's resolved because just kicking people out of their homes where they're camping that's cruel and unusual punishment cause your ruining their home! That's how they get away with allowing it. And of course... No!

2:39:46 That's not the question. The question is why, I mean they get away with it but why do they want these encampments? Because they obviously want them or they wouldn't have them No no! They don't here's Carolla's vision on that Well what changed is we started to mistake discipline and rule of law for being mean. This sort of like, don't be mean! Don't take that homeless guy why are you making him go here or why are you arresting him? Or why are you incarcerating him? Why are you putting them in this facility? LA has become the

2:40:23 this sort of good vibes place where Mayor Garcetti and the governor of Los Angeles, Governor of California Gavin Newsom. Everyone is scared to being called a bad person And we used to realize that coaches and teachers and generals in the police force, the mayor and the governor when they enforced laws. They weren't bad people! They enforce laws. They're doing what they were elected to do. They're doing their job now when official says I want to get rid of this homeless camp or going to

2:41:03 bulldoze the homeless camp we're going to give it. It's like, why are you being a mean person? Why are you being a bad person? This is a zeitgeist that's washing over this nation that the people that the teacher that's expelling the student for being unruly has now become the bad person not the student The teacher we're turning on the rule of law. We're turning on the teachers that coaches the governors, that the mayor's that the cops think what we've done with cops return cops into the bad guy. Yeah not

2:41:39 Not the bad guys who were the bad guys and the reason that cops are engaged with the bad guy is because they're involved with some bad behavior. We've turned a guy with uniform and badge into the bad guy, nobody wants to be the bad guy It's meta but I think there isn't big element of truth in what he saying Well yes, I agree not gonna disagree at basic thesis But some cities have homeless problem and some cities don't Dallas doesn't have the same problem Austin has. No, because they're not idiots Well who's an idiot? The people in Dallas? No the people in Austin! The City Council and Austin is...doesn't want to hurt anybody's feelings You remember the report I played on the last show where the city council lady said well you know those needles it gets probably for um you know they have diabetes and homeless people need to use needles too

2:42:39 Yeah, for insulin. That is the dumbest thing you've played. Let me play it again. It's a shorty and I'm going to play it. And I just wanted to point out because folks are expressing concern over the needles that people use needles for health reasons and for insulin and other stuff I believe that's what we were seeing. And so, I just wanted to throw that out there that a lot of folks who are homeless have health issues and they're using the needles for health reasons that doesn't make them safe to be on the ground but it is... That is one of the reasons that we may be finding those in those areas

2:43:19 But Corolla has his own example of that. This is the last clip where he said, he gave I thought an excellent example of this specific problem. I was talking to a guy who runs the Staple Center. He literally runs the Staples Center one of them and they rejuvenated downtown really it was falling apart. Staples center came in and really just brought it back to life. They bring millions of dollars in tax revenues. I went to a game there with my son, a Lakers game. I walked out and almost tripped over guys selling hot dogs on your property from a shopping cart with the propane tank on it. There was dozens of these guys just all on the Staples Center property they're selling food they're not licensed or regulated They are not getting a grade from the system they are literally just selling food

2:44:13 totally unregulated on your property and he said yeah I know we hate it. We hate it, I wish there was something we could do about it." I said what you mean? What are somethings that we can't do about it? Go talk to the city council! Get off my property! Talk to the mayor get off my property throw him of your property call the cops He said I don't want to get into trouble That's it! It is big part in the problem And downtown LA has really gone to crap now Besides that particular area, but yeah That's it so they don't want to get in trouble with City Council and therefore you actually risk people getting sick from the food Yeah or some propane tank exploding whatever Whatever could happen. So I thought it was a I liked it. I thought that was very interesting observation It says interesting situation is San Francisco is kind of the same I think LA has got more

2:45:14 It's more diverse, so they have a more of a diverse problem. But San Francisco I don't see it being any different in terms of the city council people helpful. No, no, I think it is precisely the same thing They got the pooping going on at San Francisco and there is more than that in LA, I think Well its starting here in Austin The pooping? Yep, poopin' on the street Yeah, yeah, very strange phenomenon The the pooping itself or allowing not a whole thing the whole homeless pooping Failure to do anything about it and you know, and we have there's certainly one Homeless guy who emails me regularly. He has an Obama phone he listens to the show and It's it's not made easy for him is really that he sees no and he's in I want to say he's in Washington State

2:46:15 He says there's no way out. He does not see a way out and they, you know that all kinds of horrible stuff happens especially out there and the worst is is the homeless themselves They're they do horrible things to each other So I do a lot of things that I can for the homeless so I don't want to sound like them You know people think I sound like a dick but You know, there's ways to help and this is it's just counterproductive. And I think we should stop by saying no okay you can't camp here Here's where you can camp here if you want to live as a camper that's fine and We'll help you get your disability check because people there are ways for them to get money But they don't want to when people don't really want to help them and the only other agencies here They want a per client fee now so it's kind of Insidious like a circle

2:47:09 It's a real bummer at the end of the show. Damn it, dude give me something fun John I don't like this. Geez, well you could have saved the Trump stuff for last. Just one thing, help me! Stone new information... Nothing There is a funny story out about Michigan State they had this MSU and his painful reminder of lynching so they had a game display They had couple these things They had, it was a display in the student store kind of thing. And they had these little characters, little rag dolls that they were selling and at the display they would like you know how they have a little clip on the back or something? You hang it. Yes

2:47:55 Well, the way they did it because they didn't have a little clip. They put a rope around their neck and hung them from what turns out to be what looks like a tree Oh man! Well play this story Leaders of Michigan State University apologizing today for controversial display at a school's performance center gift shop You can take a look at the display yourself Many are calling it racist saying that shows historical black figures hanging from a tree Following public outcry, the school removed the display and sent out a statement to apologize. But some students say it's just not enough. Oh, I don't want to be constantly confronted with images and displays and you know these messages like all time like this is a painful response. It's a painful reminder. Well who was this?

2:48:49 Who was the 20 year old painful reminder? Reminder of what lady before Michael Jackson played videos there in Ann Arbor, whatever No, it's painful. It's she remember she remembers the days when MTV didn't play Michael Jackson videos So that's a painful reminder I guess. But it was, they saw there was a couple of these incidents that had to do with some merchandising guy liking to hang these items so you could see them. Let me ask you... Was this a white lady? Was it a white lady who said that? I don't know who... No. The Painful Reminder? Yeah! Oh okay alright well good

2:49:30 But the point is that you can see some idiot who's, I don't know what this is. Just hanging these things because it was the easiest way to display them. I'm going to give him good positioning here. It's going to be an end cap." I like that it's not good enough to say sorry! Not good enough! I want my tuition back something! Hey, no agenda people know it's best to keep your lig- amigdama. Your amygdala nice and small tiny compact So much better so much healthier And I think that we've civilized yes maybe we've helped you keep it small It's the only show that says we help you keep it small A small sized Amygdala Yeah, you don't want to be a reptile No hell no You'll turn into one

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