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00:00 Podcast Wars! Awakening the woke and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number six in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where we're heralding the emergence of the Kuzno and Toshka I'm John C. Dvorak I really wish I knew what you were talking about the Husna and the... That's the rebranded name of McDonald's in Russia

00:43 Wait a minute, so they still so McDonald's is still operating just under a different name now? Well, it's not McDonald's anymore. They left they abandoned everything their equipment was left the Russians took over the whole chain and Rebranded it which means yummy. They left they left the equipment like the US military Yeah Wow And so now the early reviews are in, and the burgers taste exactly the same. How bad could they get? It's Russian cardboard. Yeah. Oh, well. Oh, that's interesting. Well, there's good news on another front, really good news. Jeffrey Tambor lives! Yes, I know.

01:27 It's really good news for him. You're the one that called for his immediate death. I feel so bad and I'm like how could I be so wrong and the answer is obvious. Mandela effect. No, no the answer is more obvious than that. I think the answer is the other one. The other answer, the way I would look at it. The answer is that since he was completely thrown off, you know, out of the market and he was a cancelled secessionist stream, you thought he was dead. This is how bad cancelling is. But this is also how the Mandela effect might work because we know that Larry Sanders died

02:08 Who's Larry Sanders? The Larry Sanders Show. This is not Larry, this is a guy's name, the show name. What's his name? What's the name of the actor? Give me quick, quick, what's the name of the actor? I can't remember. Uh-huh. Gary Shandling. There you go. I remember. Gary Shandling died, Jeffrey Tambor was on his show, his total deplatforming, you're right, took him out of the public eye entirely. So Really, in all honesty, you are kind of dead then if you're de-platformed from Hollywood. Yeah, if you're in that business, you're dead. Let's just stop for one second and review. What did Jeffrey Tambor do to deserve such a treatment? I did not look it up.

02:52 If I recall correctly, he acted in a Me Too type of manner towards some people on the set. It might not even have been an actual sexual advance, but maybe he just said something. And of course, he was playing a transsexual woman on that show. So there was it was like a double whammy. Is that anywhere near the truth? I have no idea. I thought you would know. No, I think the same as all most of these. You don't know. I mean, except for Harvey Weinstein, which was, you know, roll out and given put on court TV and we got to play some great clips and the rest. Yeah, no, we don't know if the guy slapped someone in the ass or just someone had it had it in for him. Who knows? I remember there was it was some. There's always some. It was something with you. What?

03:42 No, no, no. There's no de-platforming. You said so yourself. One time when you were at MeVie, you said, I'm lucky to be alive. You mentioned you're the only one who didn't take the damn course in sexual harassment. You avoided it. No, of course I didn't take that. Obviously. The dog just got up and is looking at me. Let's let's review for the audience the dog didn't go on his dog not mine My dog's been a good dog his dog has decided that today is gonna be the day where he interrupts the show Today's the day that she interrupts the show please do not miss gender do not miss gender my dog Dogs don't care now. Let me just see let me see if she gives up. She's looking at me and

04:28 We're good. We're good to go. She dropped back to the normal position for a dog, which is sleeping. Pretty much. She can go pretty long though. Saturday we left 7am. We left Fredericksburg to go to Austin and we weren't back until 3.30 or something. So she can go pretty long. We went to... I went to my first FESH. FESH? Yes. F-E-I-S. FESH. I don't know what that is. Duke David Fugazotto, Dame Melody and Dame Isabella were at the Austin Irish Dance Fest. Oh, the dance thingy. So we went to support Dame Isabella. Should we wear ear protection? You don't need it, trust me. She won first place, I might add. I'm very proud of our Dame. But man, this was interesting.

05:25 That's you know, this is the traditional kind of people would say oh that's river dance, which of course is not it's called Irish dance but that was you know, the outfits and everyone has a wig piled high on their head and and fake eyelashes and it's really interesting sport. Oh, it's a sport. Oh, this is no joke. These kids are working hard. It's like dance competition. I guess it is a sport. Oh yeah, yes, dance sport. Isn't, shouldn't dancing be part of the Olympics? They have water dancing, they have ice dancing, that's part of the Olympics. I remember growing up the Netherlands would always talk about dance sport. They had a big dance culture back in the day and so they would have competitions but never part of the Olympics, weirdly. So anyway, so hopefully, let me see.

06:19 She doesn't look happy. If she gets up again I will have to interrupt. Are you talking about the dog? The dog does not look happy, yes. Ah, okay, well, did you watch? No, of course not. Okay, I tried to watch it. It goes like this. I turn it on. There's Liz Cheney. She's going on and on. Droning, I might add. The perfect word, droning. Trump. Droning. Trump. Oh, I can't watch this. I turn it off. 20 minutes later, I turn it back on. There she is again. Droning. Oh, Trump.

06:55 Trump's a bad guy. We gotta do something about it. He needs to be in jail. Trump. And then I gave up. And then I turned on the highlights later and there she is again. What is with this? Why are they using her as a showpiece? She's boring as hell. Yeah, so I tuned in of course. More of interest to me was how the mainstream was packaging it before and after. And I really just wanted to see what they were doing because of this guy they brought in, former ABC production mogul. Yeah, the Epstein guy. Yeah, exactly. What was his Epstein connection again?

07:40 If you remember Mary or Roebuck, whatever her name is, that kind of classic, very interesting looking woman in the morning, ABC, she had the Epstein story about two years before anyone else. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, right. He put the kibosh on it, right? Yep. And really I was hoping... So he's the perfect guy for this. And the videos were edited and it was... the whole thing was clearly... it was produced, it was well produced for what it was, but I realized immediately, oh no!

08:16 they didn't do this right, they should have had at least someone offering some type of opposition. This is not what the television public wants. The television public wants to hear from both Amber Heard and Johnny Depp's lawyers. They don't just want to hear from the same side. And I was surprised that the numbers were there, you know, aggregate 12-15 million people. There was not much else to watch on mainstream. So I believe that a lot of people tuned in. I bet a lot of Republicans tuned in. That's never mentioned, although I like how Fox News were like, oh, we're not going to show it. And instead they're showing, Tucker was showing an Octobox of all other networks live with the same video, which, you know, has that happened before? It certainly happened with moon landings and it happened with Jeff Bezos in space. Everyone practically did that. So I don't think it's that unique.

09:12 But, you know, all the... Fox did have it. On Fox Business. Yeah, well, it's a network, you can tune in to it if you want. Of course, but it was just fun to watch. Well, you know, Fox doesn't even want their viewers to see it. Yeah, okay. How stupid does everyone think everybody is? And I also tuned in because I wanted to see if I could get the answer because it's mentioned so often, what does losing our democracy mean? Or what does that look like? I was hoping to get an answer because I know we almost lost it. Yeah. And you know instead I saw how many

09:52 This thing was supposedly as bad if not worse than 9-11 and Pearl Harbor, correct? This is what we've been told. Oh, way, way bad. At any point after... Kennedy's death didn't hold a candle to this. No, no. At any point in the aftermath of 9-11, did you see cops testifying and pretty much shaking about how afraid they were? I mean, are there any... you know, we just had veterans... That's a very interesting observation. We just had veterans at D-Day, you know, these guys are 98, 99 years old. Didn't any of them, you know, cry about what they went through? Are they talking about how afraid they were? Yeah, but what they said is, screw it. We did what we had to do. No one... not like this Capitol Hill police officer. It's just... it's like, dude... The woman you're talking about? I'm sorry? The woman? What woman?

10:51 The Capitol Hill woman, she testified. She was in tears. Yes, exactly. I was scared. You don't see that very often. How can it be? I mean, according to looking at the tears, it must have been much worse than 9-11 because I didn't see any of that at 9-11. To this day. I watched Bill Maher, I didn't clip him. And he was basically bullying Kellyanne Conway into saying, you have to admit it. Trump must not be allowed to run ever again. That's what this is about. I'm like, yeah, that's what this is about.

11:29 This is some kind of... She was very good on that show. She was badgering both of these. There's some blog, useless blogger that had nothing to say. And then... Yeah, who was that guy? Where did he come from all of a sudden? What a casting. Good work. I think it was a podcast. It was a podcaster actually. It's a little worse. Blogger and podcaster. And Mar meanwhile was like, he's always been beside himself about this, about Trump in regards to him running again. He's like, I mean everything else he seems to be pretty level-headed about except this and he goes kind of nuts and she was she was giving him a bad time she had a smirk on her face do you think because he's been on the show quite a bit and he kind of always liked thin blondes is that so Colter's a best example of him having a crush on one of his guests and I wonder

12:25 sometimes because she just looks like she knows something that we are not being told about and she just hangs in there yeah and she just tells him now you're there you're admitting it you know that was just about getting so Trump can't run again well he's gonna be a criminal you can't have a criminal running well well then then you know indict him and they won't do you know all this is just that she had a really good attitude to it what she said something which now now I wish I'd clipped it but she said What are you afraid of? You know, clearly the issue is not Trump. The issue is that I think the liberals or the Democratic Party and I would say Marr with his million-dollar donation to the Democratic Party for Obama's re-election or his initial election? It was his re-election, I believe. It puts him squarely in the camp. So he talks to people.

13:20 They're afraid that a majority of the American people want someone else to represent them than a Democrat or the current president or any other. There seem to be no options. Well, there's no options on the Democrat side. I mean, I was thinking about this. Who are they going to run? If they run Biden again, it's a joke and they can't run Kamala. So they've locked themselves out because who who's the third choice that maybe would have some appeal to the American public that it's not an idiot Amy Schumer I don't know why that came to mind, but I just threw it out there. I don't know why I have no other ideas That's it's that bad. I mean Gavin Newsom's the only one that comes to mind in my end, but you know, he's local Yeah, and he looks like the kind of douchebag Democrat that could win, you know

14:12 He's got the slick hair and he's got the voice. How about Zelensky? Make him president of America. Might as well. Thanks trolls. That was a good one-liner. Yeah right. Here's a little bit of MSNBC as they're setting up for this January 6th hearing and it was very apparent what this whole production was about. Explain to our viewers what they're going to be watching from the room behind you. Well Tom, it's not going to look anything like a typical congressional hearing. The room behind me has been made over. That's not even normally a hearing room. In fact, it's one of the largest rooms available in the Capitol. You saw that the

13:20 They're afraid that a majority of the American people want someone else to represent them than a Democrat or the current president or any other. There seem to be no options. Well, there's no options on the Democrat side. I mean, I was thinking about this. Who are they going to run? If they run Biden again, it's a joke and they can't run Kamala. So they've locked themselves out because who who's the third choice that maybe would have some appeal to the American public that it's not an idiot Amy Schumer I don't know why that came to mind, but I just threw it out there. I don't know why I have no other ideas That's it's that bad. I mean Gavin Newsom's the only one that comes to mind in my end, but you know, he's local Yeah, and he looks like the kind of douchebag Democrat that could win, you know

14:12 He's got the slick hair and he's got the voice. How about Zelensky? Make him president of America. Might as well. Thanks trolls. That was a good one-liner. Yeah right. Here's a little bit of MSNBC as they're setting up for this January 6th hearing and it was very apparent what this whole production was about. Explain to our viewers what they're going to be watching from the room behind you. Well Tom, it's not going to look anything like a typical congressional hearing. The room behind me has been made over. That's not even normally a hearing room. In fact, it's one of the largest rooms available in the Capitol. You saw that the

15:05 A counter narrative being presented by another party here. This is a production by the January 6th committee over this two hour time frame to tell a very specific story. There'll be six more chapters, but tonight is the opening argument if we want to stick with the trial metaphor. The committee tapped the former top broadcast executive James Goldston, a former president of ABC News and in full disclosure, my former boss to advise in the production of tonight's primetime hearing. He's somebody who's worked on documentaries, including, uh, My Life with Michael Jackson, which was an incredible documentary. He's produced election specials, debate specials. He knows what he's doing. Why do you think the Democrats needed to bring in a heavy hitter when it comes to this primetime hearing to the American public? Tom, the committee wants to grab people who aren't tuning in looking for news. They want the viewers who may be turned on the TV tonight looking for CSI or the masked singer. OK, they need the people who have not been

15:57 been following this investigation every step of the way to see the story they are trying to tell and to stay in their seats and watch it. And for that, the committee wanted professional assistance here to make sure they weren't just giving people another Washington story about what happened on January 6th. They were providing a compelling message about what they say was a threat that started the moment Donald Trump lost the election and continues not just to the sixth But they will argue all the way up until this very moment and into future elections. For that, they needed to tell a story, not just hold a traditional hearing. They're self-aware, that's for sure.

16:36 Yet to a point, I mean they're self-aware but insincere that's a big difference and and I would say Tommy Yamas going on about asking that's that loaded question Yeah, it's a who are you kidding question as far as I'm concerned. It was insincere I Have I have some clips about this from new Tang Dynasty, which gives a slightly different angle because there Epoch Times for all practical purposes, they've always been kind of pro-Trump. You want to hear these? Well of course, and in fact I think that after we play these we should probably as the Curry-Dvorak Consulting Group give them some advice as what they do for the next five of these

17:17 Atrocities. The next five hearings? Yeah. I can't believe the ratings are gonna be even... they're gonna kill it after the third. A hearing rundown, NTD. After nearly a year of investigation, a House Select Committee has unveiled its interpretation of the January 6th Capitol breach. It's the first of several hearings. The committee took aim at former President Trump and his supporters. At the same time, Republican lawmakers argue this is more about politics than protecting democracy. And today's Jessica Beatty has more. Democratic Committee Chair Benny Thompson argued Thursday that former President Trump was at the center of a conspiracy to thwart American democracy and block the transfer of power. You know, I can kind of, I can go along with to thwart American democracy. I can kind of think that's okay. But even these guys are, you know, we're about to lose our democracy. American democracy was under threat.

18:14 It just doesn't add up. I know, it's dumb. But they were just, I think, parroting the quote-unquote purpose of this thing. Well, of course, but that's the problem is, you know, people just keep, they keep saying insurrection, insurrection, insurrection. Now everyone calls it an insurrection, keeps saying, losing our democracy. I think coup is better. I like an unarmed insurrection. Let's get these things straight. Let's make it correct. An unarmed coup. The people are gonna come in as a peaceful coup. All right, let's go with part two. January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup to overthrow the government.

18:55 The violence was no accident. I'd say that's a mistake. I think to use coup as off message, and this is the chairman speaking, he shouldn't have done that. He should have kept with insurrection. They have the legal basis for that already teed up. I don't know where coup comes in. What can you use for a coup? You need the military for a coup. Yeah, you do. It represents Senate Trump's last stand. The committee showed videotaped depositions from former senior Trump officials, including former Attorney General William Barr. I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, you know.

19:36 You know, at the beginning of the, sorry to interrupt, at the beginning of this. No, that's a good interruption point because I have something to say about this too. At the beginning of it, the chairman said, you know, I hereby grant the release of all deposition tapes. These people clearly did not ever think this would be aired in prime time. Would you say that's fair or is that, I've done depositions and no one's ever disclaimed that to me. I mean, in fact, I don't, I mean, what's not a, this is not a legal deposition, but something else. I- that seems kind of chicken shit. I don't know. Uh, I wanted to talk about the bar thing, Con- or the thing they threw in the bar. This supposedly has- I'm gonna ask you, what has this got to do with the coup? Well, nothing with the coup.

20:21 It's got nothing to do with it and what they're trying to do. It's star power. They're just bringing in star power. No, this is trying to conflate two things. This is like walking backwards with your knees in the wrong positions. This has got some... they have issues here. For example, they're supposed to talk about the threat to democracy and this was an insurrection, this is a coup, and these people need to be arrested and thrown in jail. And then they have clips of, you know, Trump didn't want, thought that the election was rigged. Wait a minute, Trump thinking the election is rigged. You almost said erection, I heard it. You're listening for it. And you're probably right. The idea that

21:08 thinking the election is rigged and this, these are two different topics. Yeah. But they keep trying to bring them together. In fact, that's what was going on with the Kellyanne Conway-Bill Maher thing when they're going back and forth because it wasn't, you know, this threat to democracy, this big insurrection, it was less the issue than Trump, you know, thinking that he won the election. Right. And by the way, I have another clip today in my series since I'm the one that's... you're the one that thought the election was rigged and it was a fraud. And I have another election fraud clip. Who am I?

21:45 You're the one that took the side that the election was... I'm the one that has looked at the entire report on the Dominion voting machines and say, yeah, that's bullshit what happened there. That's what I am. That's fine, but I'm going to be the one bringing in one clip after another. Because I'm the skeptic. You kind of missed the point of that. No, I missed the point of that. I missed it. Except you accuse me of something I've never done. Is that the end of that clip? No, no, no, no, no. Here we go. Made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff. You know, I didn't want to be a part of it. Also live testimony from two witnesses. The first Caroline Edwards, a US Capitol police officer who was injured that day. What I saw was just a war scene. It was something like I had seen out of

22:46 the movies. Filmmaker Nick Quested testified about his experience filming members of the Proud Boys and the crowd on January 6th. The committee presented 12 minutes of violent, previously unseen footage. Trump responded on social media asking why the committee quote refuses to play any of the many positive witnesses and statements, refuses to talk of the election fraud and irregularities that took place. Republicans say the committee is not about fact-finding, but rather making a political display, pointing out that the Democrat-led committee picked a controversial former ABC News executive to put the presentation together. I'm not sure if they're using taxpayer money to hire a former ABC executive who took his time to withhold information about Epstein.

23:35 Let's get that in there. Groovy. Go New Tang Dynasty! Let's pull a stunt and put that in there. It's just chicken shit. But okay, let's play the end of this. Ahead of the hearing, two January 6th prisoners issued warnings to Americans. Stuart Rhodes, the founder of Oath Keepers, recorded a message obtained by the Epoch Times. He said the committee is trying to say that January 6th was a planned conspiracy in order to stick it to Trump and destroy the MAGA movement. The Epoch Times also received a recorded message from prisoner Jeremy Brown. He said, quote, A Reuters Ipsos poll released Thursday found that 55% of Republicans believed that left-wing protesters led the attack and 58% believe most of the protesters were law-abiding.

24:26 Yep, okay. Well there you have it. I don't see what that is interesting. I can't imagine people watching this. Well the number show people did. Yeah, I understand that. But I agree with you. 90 minutes of this and I don't know how it was over the time period. I don't know if it dropped off. I kind of think it would have. 90 minutes of this is all I think anyone can really handle. Like, okay, we get it. If they're gonna do this five more times or six more times, yeah, that's a mistake. That's gonna happen. And it's just gonna drive people away from the networks. What was the time, and talk about conspiracy, the timing

25:07 Of this next event, and we do have law enforcement officers as producers, they chimed in quite quickly with me. This is what happened in Idaho. We'll come back to the voting in a second. Officers found members of the group known as Patriot Front packed into the back of a U-Haul after they received a tip from someone seeing the group loading into the truck in a hotel parking lot. Officers stopped the U-Haul near a Pride event. According to our news partners KXLY and Spokane, Coeur d'Alene police had stepped up presence in the area of the Pride event due to concerns of possible armed protesters.

25:48 We did know about some of the threats that were happening online and yes, there were people walking around the event with long guns and handguns and bear spray and all kinds of things like that. Not that's illegal in Idaho. It's only the point when they start using it that we grew really concerned. Police say they found riot gear, a smoke grenade, shin guards and shields along with plans for riots in several areas of downtown, not just at that park. All 31 men have been charged with conspiracy to riot. In my opinion, I would gladly arrest 31 individuals who are coming to riot in our city for a misdemeanor rather than have them participate in some sort of seriously disruptive event, which is exactly what they were planning. Police say the men currently detained came from at least 11 states, including Idaho. Additional charges could be filed. All 31 are expected to be arraigned Monday morning. So here's the rub.

26:43 If you look at the video or pictures of these Proud... was it Proud Front? What are they called? So it's a conflated name. Like Stormfront and Proud Boys mixed together. Okay, so Proud Front. You see them on their knees, hands tied behind their back, and every single one of them still has their face mask on, sunglasses, some even have their backpack still on. I can tell you that that doesn't work that way when you arrest people. They had the masks on? Yup. That's not ever gonna happen. And backpacks. They pull those masks off immediately. Of course, and backpacks. You gotta take the mask off so you can go, oh god, chief, I didn't know it was you. As we say in the biz, they were glowing.

27:34 It was completely shades of those feds. Yeah, it's a scam. It's a total scam. Those are probably all cops. Yeah, exactly. And they had the cops who detained them. They looked like teenage mutant ninja turtles. They had beautiful, high-tech body armor, suits on. Oh yeah, scam. Very high-tech looking. Scam. Just use the right word. Scam. Yeah, but now you know that of course has been picked up nationally and it's like oh this is what's gonna happen. This is Trump. He's pissed off. Domestic terrorist. Trump. Yep. It's Trump. It's Trump. Domestic terrorists. And of course it was to interrupt a pride parade. You understand. It makes nothing but sense. That's what they want to do. That's that because that because the... Because that won't get any attention and any negative attention. No. Was there something you wanted to play about voting?

28:31 About voting? The voting machines or the... No, I got no... Oh, no, I do have an election fraud clip. Oh, yeah, that's what I mean, yeah. I'm gonna try to do one to show just because there was no election fraud, but there was stuff like this. This is the 2020 election fraud suit in Michigan. Voters in Michigan have taken their Democratic Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, to the state court of appeals. She's said to have violated the state's constitution and election laws during the 2020 elections. The lawsuit follows a recent lower court ruling where voters lacked standing to sue Benson. The appeal states that Benson allowed the Michigan election process to be corrupted by an influx of private money selectively intended to promote voting among urban,

29:15 Democrat-leaning voters, with a consequent dilution of the votes of rural Republican-leaning voters. In the 2020 election cycle, billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan managed to pump more than $400 million in donations into nonprofits. That money was nicknamed Zuckerbucks or Zuckbucks. Of it, $350 million went to the left-wing Center for Technology and Civic Life, or CTCL. The rest was given for the Center for Election Innovation and Research. These grants were expected to be spent on COVID-19-related personal protective equipment, but instead, CTCL reportedly gave them to more than 2,500 election offices nationwide.

29:58 It required that local officials use the money to promote mail-in voting or to deposit ballots in unattended ballot boxes. According to the filing, of the almost $17 million CTCL spent in Michigan, at least 84 percent was expressly earmarked for urban jurisdictions that historically cast ballots for Democrats by a wide margin over Republicans. Voters say there is evidence that Benson encouraged local election administrators to participate in the scheme. You're right. No fraud. Straight up rocking and rolling. No fraud. No fraud. You alluded to something in the newsletter, which I'd like to play some historic audio from. You wrote about the Weather Underground bombing the Capitol building. Oh yes. In 1971. And I have a... It was the late 70s actually, I think.

30:56 I'm pretty sure this is from March maybe 73. Anyway, 70s. It's in the 70s. This is ABC News. At one minute before one o'clock this morning the switchboard at the Capitol received a phone call. A man's voice said a bomb would go off in the building in half an hour. At 1.30 in the morning it did, in a small unmarked restroom on the ground floor of the Senate side next to a barber shop and near several small offices, including one committee hearing room. For a report on the first serious damage to the nation's foremost structure since the British burned it in 1814, here is ABC congressional correspondent Bob Clark. By the way, you never hear anyone talk about that.

31:44 You know, the worst since Pearl Harbor. How about the worst since the stupid Brits burned it down? They never say that. There was more than one bomb. There were 26 bombings that these Weather Underground guys did. But this morning... And this was a... And the guy who started the weather underground, I've mentioned this all in the newsletter, was Bill Ayers, who was Obama's buddy. He became a professor at a couple colleges. Meanwhile, Trump. Trump! Let's listen to the rest of this report because there was damage. There was alarm for a time that other bombs might still be hidden inside the Capitol. Police used dogs specially trained to sniff out explosives in a painstaking search both inside and outside the building. The single bomb set off by a timing device left the men's room a shambles, plumbing demolished, bricks and plaster ripped from walls. Army and FBI experts sifted the debris seeking a clue to the nature of the explosive.

32:41 There was heavy damage to the nearby barber shop. Windows were smashed there and a hundred feet away in the Senate restaurant where tables were overturned and a priceless stained glass mosaic destroyed. Damage estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars might have been far worse, but for the three foot thick walls in the oldest part of the Capitol. As it was, the violent explosion ripped off doors in nearby conference rooms. There was no damage to the Senate chamber itself on the floor above. Wait for the end! Daylight revealed more smashed windows and debris. Tourists were barred from the Senate wing all day. But the entire Capitol will be reopened to the public as soon as possible.

33:20 Oh, so it was bombed in the 70s and what did they do? Ah, we're gonna reopen real quick, don't worry about it, it's all good. Here, can you even go in the Capitol now? You probably still can't get in. Do they have fences still around it? A very different response back in the day. Yeah, well, it was okay when the left-wingers do something like this. Ah, okay, that's it. BLM. Yeah. Did you hear any cops crying after BLM, you know, who were hurt severely? Were they testifying? Were they crying on television? No. I don't remember that. Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't remember. Of course the dead ones can't say anything. Alright. You're this crying woman.

34:14 Do we have any advice for them except stop? Oh yeah, now you want to do your little analysis though. We do our consulting gig here. Well yes, and I think... Yeah, well besides stop. Stop! Advice number one is stop. Stop while you're ahead. Take the numbers, take the numbers, say everyone saw it, you're done, it's good. I think it's... Do you think they're really going to do five more all one-sided of this so-called hearing? Well I think that is almost, that's a dead pool. We could probably bet on that. I think Because we've seen this before where they do something in prime time and the next thing you know one of the networks bails out and then the other ones look at each other and go, oh god, let's get out of here. I'm gonna bail. You bail for, I'll bail, okay, I'll bail, and then you'll bail? Yeah, I'll bail if you bail. I think that would be suicide for any network boss to make that call. They will carry it, all six, in full.

35:09 I think they're killing themselves. This is dumb. I think what they could do is they can make a big fuss and see because every one of these networks now has a CBS Now, NBC Now. They all have streaming. ABC, I don't know. Hey, you know what? Wait a minute before you go over there. I think we need something else. Okay, if I were to advise it, We need to, we'll have to, you're right, by hearing number three people gonna be saying what are we gonna do? We need a six-week cycle event, something that will renew, kind of like what they tried with this proud front. Yes, something we can blame on Trump too. That would be the kicker. Yeah, it's white supremacy. White supremacy event of some sort, some damage to some historical thing.

35:58 Well how about that? How about someone? No, oh here it is. Okay I got it. Episode two, script, write this down, storyboard. Episode two, during the hearing, a disruption. Something happens, We need a streaker, if possible. That would be the best. Yeah, that is 70s, but... We need something to happen in the chamber that is analogous to the Will Smith slap, where people go, what? Did that just happen? That I think would get them through at least to episode four.

36:38 I don't know. I think that I like the outside event idea better so it forces news coverage. You know, like it maybe we could refocus on Ukraine. Take back some land in Ukraine. Breaking news, breaking news. Sorry, we have to go. We have to cut away from the hearings and go to Ukraine. Richard Engel, are you there? Yes. Give us a report. What are you seeing? Well thank you John, I'm here in uh, Lviv, very far away from the action but I'll pretend I'm really close by and uh, looks like we got dead bodies everywhere John, dead bodies, dead bodies, dead bodies. And by the way they're running out of bullets, we need more money, they're running out of bullets and ammunition, borrow- There you go, do you read this? Yeah. That's possible, we could have something blow up.

37:27 That's an easy one to do. That's probably easy. We're experts at that. Yeah, okay. I still want to put the disruption indoors on the table for... Yeah, I know what you want. Maybe before the season finale. Because you'll be watching it, this way you get to see it in live action, especially a streaker would be a dying idea. That would be the way to go. That would carry it forward. We want to find a way to discontinue it. What do you mean? Oh, as network guys, we want to discontinue it. Yeah, this is killing us. Even though West Coast is 5 to 7, it's not killing. Just killing the West Coast affiliates because they have better things to do. They can be playing Wheel of Fortune and making money. There's no money being made here, even with the viewers. It doesn't help. You can have a lot of viewers, but if there's no PBS here, there's no cash flow, my friend.

38:20 Well, the promise must be coming for future earnings for the election cycle. I mean that would be the lever. Hey, you don't run this? Maybe it won't be advertising with you. Yeah, but again, let's go over that again. I'm West Coast. I'm watching this from five to seven. I'm losing my five to seven income. I'm not going to get any of that money anyway because the Democrats own the state. So where's my benefit in running this thing out here? California doesn't count. We know what y'all want. It's a big state, it's a big market, we want our money, we want our 5 to 7 income. You guys want Trump executed.

39:00 And the electoral college to be gone. Which reminds me, this came up in the Marra, this would have been a good clip. Where did this idea that Trump was advocating for hanging pants, let's kill him. Oh that's great, yeah that was good. What bull crap. She spotted it as bullcrap, but even Mara couldn't see that because there's no recording, there's no evidence he's ever said this. All of a sudden, a year and a half after the election, it crops up out of the blue and people are believing it? Yeah. Yeah. And he's all in. But he actually read the transcript or quote of what happened and someone said, oh look Mr. President, your supporters want to hang Mike Pence. And his answer was, oh that's probably a good idea. I'm paraphrasing. But they've got the right idea. That wasn't from an actual transcript of anything Trump actually said. That was from some article or some blog. Right.

39:59 So, but even then using that as Bill Maher's source, he then turns that into he wanted to hang Mike Pence. It was a bit of a stretch after he just explained what really happened or what the story is that happened. Anyway, it gives everybody fodder and I think we should... I loved the hang Mike Pence thing. It was very funny. Yeah. In a way, you're right, in a way it was. But, you know. Hey, speaking of not hearing things or not hearing them right, we were corrected ad nauseum about this clip. Europeans are enduring record high inflation. And you and I both thought that this report said Europeans are enjoying record high inflation. Yeah. And this is one of those suggestive things. And maybe this is white dress, silver dress, blue dress, no dress.

40:58 I believe what is being said is enduring and not enjoying but enduring. Listen again. Europeans are enduring record high inflation. Oh yeah. So good catch everybody. Well, was it enduring or was it enjoying? You know, when it comes to energy and inflation, there's a little problem with this gambit they're setting up, which is clearly to make petroleum-based energy so expensive that everyone will be forced to get an electric car, however unrealistic that is.

41:40 And at the same, there's a messaging problem here too because every day there's a new story, rolling blackouts all across America. Buy an electric vehicle. Do we see the problem with the messaging? Yeah, I do. And here's another thing that's interesting. Let's just say right now as of today, all cars are electric. Right. Have you been to a city where cars are parked outside all night because there's no parking places and there's... Is there going to be a charger for every car in the street? Is that parking meters going to be turned into chargers? Is there... if you're living in a apartment in New York? I like that idea. Patent that shit. A parking meter that is a charger at the same time. This is a good idea.

42:28 You just have to do that, but that would be can't imagine what that would cost. But then again, if you live in an apartment, there's not, is there going to be a million chargers, a charger for every individual car? Because that's what you need because they have to charge overnight. I mean, any apartment building and like around here, there's some apartments. You don't have to tell me that this is a dumb idea. I'm all in with you. Well, I'm just surprised that some of this stuff never gets discussed. Because there's not enough... I mean, yeah, there's chargers here and there, and there's, okay, Biden's gonna put in 500,000 chargers, but 500,000 chargers scattered around the country is not gonna do the trick. No, of course not. Of course not. And it will take decades for everyone to be switched over to electric vehicle, but we'll see buses... It's not gonna take decades because it's not gonna happen. Okay, even a better point. Even a better point.

43:25 So this is, instead of the January 6th hearing, I think everyone realizes that what people are really talking about, and even I think the inflation has hit this show, we are very dependent upon the financial health of the producers. Even after Sad Puppy, I think, what do you have, like 10 execs or associate execs? It's down. It's down, it's way down, but you know, we'll see what happens over Father's Day. But I'm just saying that what people are, people are hurting, you know, gas is twice as much. Gasoline, that's the biggest, the biggest problem right there and it affects a lot. And I have a supercut here.

44:08 of exactly one year of inflation messaging in the United States. So we're going back to June of 2021 and where of course inflation was, it was already happening in 2021. Didn't we already see that spiking up? Wasn't gas price going up? Wasn't- It pretty much started, if you look at the charts, which I love, it started the day Biden got in. Oh wow. Literally started the day Biden got in. Oh. Wow, that's an even better story for this supercut. I really doubt that we're going to see an inflationary cycle. Most economic analysts believe that it will have a temporary or transitory impact. A faster than expected increase in some of those prices is actually a good sign. The overwhelming consensus is going to pop up a little bit and then go back down. No one's talking about

45:00 this great, great deal. This is something that will settle down. Transitory. Transitory. And the data shows that most of the price increases we've seen were expected and are expected to be temporary. There's nobody suggesting that there's unchecked inflation on the way. It's highly unlikely that there's going to be long-term inflation that's going to get out of hand. I don't know anybody who's worried about inflation. Over the last couple of months, we actually saw it trended downward. President Biden's chief of staff Ron Klain enthusiastically retweeted an economist who had said in part most of the economic problems we're facing, inflation, supply chains, etc. are high class problems. What is the Granholm plan to increase oil production in America?

45:47 That is hilarious. Well, the number one thing that the president can do is help get COVID under control. That we know is the root cause of inflation. President Biden this afternoon saying he thinks we're at the peak of the crisis right now and that lower prices are on the way. The inflation has everything to do with this election. Make no mistake, inflation is largely the fault of Putin. I'm going to do everything I can to minimize Putin's price hike here at home. If you want to get rid of inflation, the only way to do it is to undo a lot of the Trump tax cuts. Ever since you've come into office, things are really looking up.

46:23 You know, gas is up, rent is up, food is up. Everything. And the president just sat there laughing at it. Yeah, that's one year in review. Now, were they lying? Likely, possibly. Do they not know what they're talking about? Likely, possibly. More likely. More likely. Are they smoking all the same from the same pipe? That seems to be the real problem. The real problem here. But you know, these gas prices are being explained away in different ways. This is from a news network. What news network is this? This is the Nextar MediaWire. Ho ho.

47:03 Stop for a second. This is not outrageous gas prices Though paying $5 at the pump seems alarming Americans have faced worse believe it or not they say oh Yes, John. It was the summer of 2008 just before the US economy hit a massive recession Prices at the pump peaked at four dollars and eleven cents when adjusted for inflation That $4.11 in July 2008 is equivalent to $5.40 today. Do you see what they just did? Yeah, it's tricky. But they just proved the point. Inflation! They're actually using inflation. Yeah, they did. Just because, yeah. Inflation. Yeah, that's a good one. In, what is it, 14 years? Yeah, 14 years.

47:55 Inflation is jacked up over 20% over 20% so that's not the right number to use if I were you but okay. But that's how crazy it is. They just look at that and go, I can write that, I can publish that, that makes sense. This is what it is. You have to adjust for inflation to explain inflation. Exactly. Adjust for inflation to explain inflation. Here's ABC. Turning to the economy, new evidence of the sticker shock Americans are experiencing at the grocery store. A new survey shows grocery prices rose last month at a record pace.

48:39 up nearly 12 percent from a year ago. One factor, the record high price of diesel used by the trucking industry. Truckers are quitting in record numbers because of the surging cost of fuel. All right, so truckers is kind of an important thing, you know, because we get a lot of, in fact it seems like there's no room, I mean truckers, a lot of them are independent Most of them nowadays. I would say the ones that are connected to a company a lot of them have left just because they were being treated poorly and they weren't getting paid enough not getting paid enough, but there's another issue and of course we're having to the teamsters that's what I'd like they got captured like everything else every institution everything is captured and

49:31 The problem appears to not be necessarily diesel, which will be a problem that's been projected that we're going to run out of diesel, which of course will make the prices even more expensive. But the actual... You know, the funny thing is you can't really run out. Agreed, agreed. Which is why it's not... if you're going to disrupt the energy system, the energy ecosphere, to get everybody to buy into your Green New Deal, you've got to do something much trickier than just try to restrict the diesel.

50:09 And this comes back to something we recently discussed. Our favorite product, which is necessary in the United States. You need it in order to drive... in order to... well, it was... I thought it was pig pee is what we... what we... Well, some animal. That's the DEF. DEF. Was it diesel engine something? This needs to be mixed in with the diesel. We've identified this as nothing more than a scam way for mainly China to get rid of their pig urine Am I wrong in saying that no, I mean, I'm not gonna argue that is a possibility because it makes sense You

50:51 So what happens if we run out of DEF? Which we're running out of. And it's worse than you think because, well China of course is not making DEF readily available from the reporting we've read, but The transportation infrastructure has really struck out at the truckers. This is the CEO of Pilot and Flying J. These are one of the largest, if not the largest truck stops in the United States. And he is going to tell us the story and what that will result in of Union Pacific, the railroad. Now this is, Union Pacific is not a Buffett operation, is it? Who owns Union Pacific? Is that public? Yes, it's public. I'm pretty sure it's a publicly held company. And when you play this, I've thought about this clip for a while and I'm skeptical that Union Pacific, what does Union Pacific got to do with the price of bread is what you have to ask yourself when you listen to this.

51:53 On April 13th, we were informed by the Union Pacific that we were required to reduce shipments by 26%. In subsequent conversations, we were asked to reduce them even further by 50% or face embargoes. Let me talk about the DEF supply chain. And just as a reminder, we supply about 30% of the DEF in the United States. The trucking sector is dependent on DEF. Old trucks manufactured after 2010 cannot operate without DEF.

52:29 And Pilot operates, if not the largest, one of the largest DEF supply networks in the country. We have 23 rail-served DEF facilities that make the DEF and we have 18 rail transloaders. Of the 300 plus million gallons of DEF that Pilot supplies to the industry every year, 74% is moved via rail. Union Pacific's restrictions will prevent pilot from keeping many markets adequately supplied with DEF, likely causing shortages that will sideline trucks and reduce trucking capacity. Let me give you some context.

53:09 A single rail car carries 21,500 gallons of DEF on average. A single truck generally takes in seven gallons of DEF every time they fill. This is based on that data. That implies that a single rail car is basically providing 3,000 trucks worth of DEF fills. For some more context, basically, every rail car that gets missed in terms of DEF delivery will reduce trucking potential by 5 million miles. That's a really big number, 5 million miles, because you've got 3,000 fills and DEF blends with diesel at a ratio of 2.7% for 100 gallons. 2.7 gallons of DEF allow a truck to use 100 gallons.

54:06 Furthermore, a reduction in freight transported by the UP will only add additional pressure on the trucking sector in general. The railways are pulling back. We got to move the stuff on trucks. If we can't supply DEF, there's more pressure on the sector and we let the sector down. Is this the clip you thought I was going to play? Yeah. So you don't see how that could be? I mean, maybe 5 million miles isn't a big deal per rail car? Why would I say that? But you said it what I'm saying is how does UPS a common carrier tell somebody you can't

54:44 You have to cut your orders of this stuff by 50%. They're not making the stuff. They're not in the chain of the DES chain except for the supplying, but they're a common carrier. You give them a tank of DES, you tell them, hey, ship it over to here, and that's what they do. Why is Union Pacific, and this is the reason I never played this clip because I've never gotten to the bottom of this, telling anybody what they can accept? Well, I don't think Union Pacific is telling them what they can accept. I think Union Pacific is saying you need to cut all of your shipments by 25 or 26 percent, which would logically include DEF. The CEO is drawing that conclusion.

55:25 Why is he drawing that conclusion? No, why is Union Pacific telling anybody what they can or cannot accept? I don't know. Maybe they're a common carrier. Maybe it's an ESG play from someone. I don't know. What do you mean? Well, that's what I like to know. If it's a public company, if it's a public company, And they are. Then they deal with ESG and they have to adhere to whatever their institutional investors tell them. I'm not saying that that's not a possibility, but what's that got to do with DES or how much stuff that these guys, these truckers get? I don't see how that's ESG related, personally.

56:01 I just find this story to be fishy and I'd like to know what's going on. I mean, I'm not arguing with the guy who's getting shorted on his DES and the amounts are ridiculous. And then it also brings up the point that the suspicion that this is used to just dump, get rid of waste DES and burn it through somebody else's engine, which is a funny idea if you think about the Chinese idea. Which is like, yeah, what are you gonna do with this junk? Well, let's burn it. It's like fluoride in the water, by the way, very similar thing. It's a waste. And if it really was an issue, I presume that we could en masse, if it really got to be a problem, the United States and our representatives could determine, you know what, we've got a problem. We don't have, we got some diesel, we don't have the DEF, so let's just disable that sensor that doesn't let you start.

56:52 That's all it is. That was discussed in further clips if you follow this guy longer. You can just go in the computer, reprogram it, and it'll cut that whole thing out. And they could actually, the Department of Transportation could do that. And the truck will run fine. How about this? How about this for an idea? Maybe, tell me about Flying J and Pilot. Are they public? Maybe they're under pressure. Maybe this guy has to do this because they're under pressure for ESG reasons. I think it's, personally what I think it is, is I think that the urea's being diverted because of the cut off of fertilizer, because urea's used to make fertilizer. And I think the stuff that was going into the trucks, there's just not enough of it, and they're diverting the urea that would normally go into the trucks, and they're diverting it to fertilizer plants. We've got plenty of them in this country, but they don't have any raw materials, because a lot of those raw materials come from Russia,

57:47 elsewhere that we can't get and I think I think that this is just a cover-up. Hmm and and it's just an interesting coincidence that should we ever decide to make our own DEF The China-owned Smithfield Foods is now going to shut down all of its California pork processing, which is apparently quite a lot. I haven't heard this. Oh yeah. Smithfield Foods will shut down its Vernon, California plant and scale back operations. They will cease all harvest and processing operations in early 2023, at the same time align its hog production system by reducing its sow herd in its western region.

58:29 Smithfield is taking these steps due to escalating cost of doing business in California. Well, that could be. So that would be a good source of pig urine, I think. Well, we're not going to get that. By the way, plenty in Virginia, by the way, they're going into a soy and plant based pork. They've got quite an operation there too. So the point is, is that there's a mess and it's not being done. The government's doing nothing because they got a bunch of boneheads running everything. And I think, and this could also, by the way, be a play if you think about it.

59:06 There could be another element at work, which is the truckers themselves. This could be a false shortage. The story this guy gave, it could be bull crap because they're trying to get the Department of Transportation to pull the plug on this stupid crap that they're shooting into the engines. And they can do that at the drop of a hat and everyone can take that. It costs about a thousand bucks, they think. Which will save money in the long run. To change the engine over so it doesn't drop dead if you don't have this juice in there. Yeah, that could be. I personally think that we're in trouble. We're just in trouble. Everything is landlocked. Every representative that the United States has are morons, no matter who it is. The same for the EU, even worse. And they have a play. They've got a gambit. They're going to try. Have you heard how they're going to try and tame

1:00:03 the oil prices, the Russian oil prices. This is a new setup. They figured out, they got a new idea. And this is why President Biden was going to go to Saudi Arabia. And I think this is part of what he was discussing with G7. And the person who will bring this information to us is none other than the Miss Sharma from WION, who is our new Ghislain Chichikhan. She cuts through the crap and talks about the cartel. The West wants everyone to stop buying Russian oil. The US and some of its allies have banned Russian oil imports. Europe is planning an embargo and developing countries like India are under pressure to comply. The plans of the West are not succeeding so they've come up with a new strategy. The US and Europe want to form an oil cartel. A cartel that will decide how much the world ends up paying for Russian oil.

1:00:59 Some extreme measures are being discussed here and these could have a direct bearing on India. So what is the West planning? Allow me to explain. There are talks that are on between the US and Europe. The idea is to limit what Russia earns from oil. And the solution, they think, is a buyer's cartel. They want to rig the market against Russian oil. How would they do that? The European Union has a key role to play in this. Collectively, this bloc, the EU, will set a lower price for Russian oil. It will be less than what they're paying right now. So if Europe demands a lesser price, The others will follow, at least that's what their plan is. America is aggressively pushing for this cartel. US Treasury Secretary Yellen is spearheading the talks.

1:01:44 This is what she said about it I think a lot of people including me find it appealing from a general economic point of view the larger the cartel the better Pay less for Russian oil. That's what she's suggesting. Everyone will demand the same price No one will complain since they're getting cheap energy at the same time less chaos goes less cash rather goes into Russia's war chest Sounds like a great idea, but it's not so before I play the payoff Is this not the stupidest idea you've ever heard? Was naive. You think you can get away with shit like this? You can't do it. I mean, if the world was locked down like they'd hope with one world government, yeah, I guess you'd get away. But no, it's just these yokels.

1:02:35 think they can pull the strings of a country like Russia, when it's just a bunch of guys in the northern hemisphere. It's just the United States, Canada, the European countries, but there's all of Africa, there's China, there's India, there's all of South America. These guys could get in the market and it's a bigger market. I mean, it's unbelievable that they think they can push people around. There's not one world government yet. Ah, they have a plan. They have two pressure points, pain points. There are fundamental issues with how the plan will be executed. The United States realizes Europe's limitations, so it is taking the matter to the G7. It is talking to the Group of Seven. It could force other countries to accept these price caps. Countries like India and China. There are two options.

1:03:23 Number one, the insurance companies. How would this work? You see shipments of oil are often insured in Europe or the United Kingdom. Oil shipments do not move around without insurance. That's how they work. So they will insure only those shipments that fall under the agreed price cap. G7 countries are exploring this idea, so any country outside Europe must comply with this price cap. Now, that's one way of doing it, but they have an even more fun one, not unexpected. Force Russia to sell its oil for less. Only then will their shipments be insured. That's one way for them to force the hand of others, through insurance.

1:04:02 Option number two is sanctions and this is a more targeted measure. One that America could execute single-handedly. What will these sanctions look like? The US will set the parameters of the purchase, basically dictate the price at which countries like India should buy Russian oil. What if they refuse to comply? They will be cut off from US financial systems. That's what the oil cartel would represent. US and allies say they want to ensure economic stability, that they want to stop financing the war in Ukraine. But in reality, they'll end up influencing the global prices of oil. They're threatening to kick him off Swift just like they did to Russia. Get in line or we de-platform you.

1:04:46 Yeah, yeah. What, you don't think they'll do it? They'll do it. This won't work. No, but that's that of course it only makes everything much worse. That's how stupid these people are. And the thing is these are supposedly capitalists. Capitalists you're supposed to let the markets do these things. This is market manipulation. This is centralized, you know, planning. This is old-fashioned communist stuff. Yeah. right on cue. Lebanon is now in conflict with Israel over the natural gas field located off their shared coast, the Leviathan Fields. We knew this was going to happen. You predicted it when you first discovered this field. Conflict could erupt after Tel Aviv deployed a drilling ship to the disputed area and the US is involved saying, no, no, no, Lebanon, back off. So, oh, beautiful. Here, US prevents Lebanon from extracting natural gas.

1:05:42 This is so stupid. This is so stupid. Well, you know, I wonder who really has... I think the annual... it should be... it's in the middle of the water. It's a free-for-all. It's out past the 12-mile limit, isn't it? Most of that stuff? Yeah, but you know, Clinton with... what's the name of that group that we tracked for a while? Yeah, that guy grew up out of Texas. Yeah. He was in some it was some oil company. Yeah, they're public and they actually are going through some kind of lawsuit or something It was a bunch of Politicos that ran that thing. Yeah, and and and there were a board member noble energy there Thank you very much. Noble. Yeah, thank you trolls. Excellent. Yes noble energy

1:06:21 Well, we're talking, you know, we're just we're on the political thing. We kind of switched gears. I wanted to get to something that is kind of important. I think that's not being reported by anybody. I was going to I was going to ask you to do your solar thing first since I have some analysis on it. I only have this, I have the Biden solar redux. That's all we need to hear. This week, the Biden administration announced a series of actions to reignite the country's solar energy industry. The president waived tariffs for two years on solar imports from four Asian countries. He also invoked the Defense Production Act to boost American solar panel manufacturing and other clean energy technologies.

1:07:04 So producer Carl dove in. Yeah. Well before you do that, because this, I took this clip because it was based on the clip you played in the last show, which seems to come from a different media source and left out the fact that they're going to drop tariffs. I didn't know that. Yeah, I know. That's why I was so surprised because it wasn't in the clip. But this, it looks like the big Chinese makers of solar panels are going to be able to ship the panels on the cheap. Are you kidding me? Yeah, this is, you're right. This is total makeup theater.

1:07:40 It started in February 20- this is- Producer Carl put this together, and he has a whole list I'm not going to read, but this is the crux. Augsund Solar, California-based assembler of solar panels, petitioned the U.S. Department of Commerce to look into dumping of solar panels in the U.S. by four Southeast Asian nations. And these are assemblers, so using- so this dumping was being done, Chinese parts- so the assemblers used- using Chinese parts to undercut duties of those parts that this, if they're coming in with US solar panel assemblers have to pay for it. So they're saying, hey, hold on, the Chinese are dumping, we're paying tariffs over these parts that we have to get. So that's unfair. And so then there was a big petition of five solar manufacturers, but I guess that nothing happened. And so then, you know, this Oxen Solar, they come back.

1:08:32 And they say, well, you know what, we're going to have Department of Commerce do an investigation. The investigation turns up there's dumping going on, go figure. And so they come with a great idea. They say, well, what we'll do then is we'll fine everybody 240% of the tariffs if they're dumping solar panels. And of course, 240% of zero is zero. So the whole tear the whole thing is bull crap Yeah, and we're gonna get more solar panels from China. Yep. This is a fence department bull crap thing This is not gonna produce anything. No nothing at all. They're not gonna do anything. We can't do we don't do solar panels We gave up on it. Yeah. Yeah, isn't that crazy? That's so crazy

1:09:21 All right, well here's the story that was a political story that really attaches itself better to the kind of the subtext of these stupid hearings that should be discontinued. And this story is not being told by anybody and I think that I picked it up over NTD I believe. This is the untold Spanish radio station takeover. Oh goodness. I hadn't heard any of this. Oh, wait a minute. Yes, I did, I think. Cuban exiles in Florida are pushing back against a recent deal by Democratic fundraisers to buy Spanish language radio stations across the nation. They say they are concerned that this is an attempt to stifle anti-communist voices. Here are the details.

1:10:00 Mario Mambi and WQBA have been the voice of the Cuban exile community and the suffering of the Cuban people under communism. We're unified in our condemnation of human rights abuses in Cuba. And these two stations are iconic. They're a central hub of information from Cuba and about Cuba. And we're concerned because there's a political and ideological background here, baggage, and we're concerned that these hubs of information will be silenced or be marginalized. That's really important to us. The Latino media network reached a $60 million deal last week to acquire 18 radio stations in 10 U.S. cities from Televisa Univision.

1:10:39 The Latino Media Network is a startup founded by two political strategists who worked for former President Barack Obama in Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. The takeover is financed by Lake Star Finance LLC, a company affiliated with Democratic Party mega-donor George Soros. We need the... How do we say Ministry of Truth in Spanish? El Ministerio Veritas. This is unbelievable. Here's the end of the story, then we can chat about it if you feel like it. The coalition of Cuban Americans say they are exploring legal ways to contest the takeover. Our first action will be a letter of concern expressing the points of views we've stated here. It'll be legally correct. And we're going to mobilize because the public space, mass media is about

1:11:26 what the discourse is in the community. And we're going to fight for the truth we know, that Cuba is a prison and that communism is a threat to the most essential elements of human dignity. The Federal Communications Commission still has to approve the deal. If it does, the Latino Media Network would take full ownership in late 2023. Ooh, just in time. This is, of course. Yeah. This is an unbelievable scam. And this is backed by Soros. There's two Two women that they didn't say were women but they showed them. Two women who are like, you know, democrat strategists who put this idea together and this is to buy out these Mexican stations which are doing counter-programming to the mainstream.

1:12:11 obviously, and they've got 18 of them lined up. They're gonna buy them up and they start propagandizing to the, you know, they're losing the Hispanic electorate. They're voting Republican for some unknown reason. Yeah. And maybe because they're religious, but they're voting Republican and they gotta put a stop to it. And this is Soros is glad to finance it. This is a fantastic story that nobody's discussing. Do you think it will matter in today's age of, I don't know, podcasting? Will people not just say, you know, because it's an echo chamber. This is an echo chamber for the Cuban Americans. They know, and of course they don't want this being broadcast, but do you think that there's a possibility people will move to getting their information other places or is the Cuban American population not up to speed yet on these technologies?

1:13:01 I wouldn't say that they're not up to speed, but some people do like listening to the radio. And culturally, they may really like these stations and this would be something that backs up their ideas. And it's like the Chinese market in San Francisco, they still have Chinese newspapers in the, you buy in Chinatown and the Chinese read them religiously. So the cultural differences in the way you want to absorb your information, probably I would say the Spanish have a slightly different way of doing it and this radio station idea is a stroke of genius if it works it works if it doesn't it doesn't but you know what the idea is is to get people to vote Democrat are these am radio she should reason by the way the FCC is in the pocket of bite now they're gonna go hard are these am radio stations not probably then these stations are going to have to shut down pretty soon there's no there's unaffordable

1:13:57 Running AM transmitters, diesel, is going to get very expensive. Their costs of transmitting have already doubled. Good for these guys for selling that shit. Get rid of it. I think it'll tank these people. How much are they paying? Well, I hope it does. How much are they paying? I think 60 million or something for the whole... That's how... I mean, so these stations are worth... What are they, 10 stations? Is that what they're doing? 18. 18. So they're less than 3 million bucks a pop, about 3 million bucks a pop. That just shows you. The overhead of running those 50K transmitters... No, I'm not arguing about the overhead of running an AM station, but they still have a lot of reach. Of course.

1:14:38 Well, you would again to me it's like okay go buy the Go by the echo chamber. I don't know. I don't know if it'll make any difference. It is a good story Chamber that's with us echoing one side now. It's gonna echo the other it's gonna it's gonna affect votes, right? You know just as AM radio is predominantly conservative in the United States Did well one election didn't do so well the other election. It's irrelevant Jack the machines get the suck bucks and do whatever you want to do. I don't think it matters. I don't think it matters. I Yeah, well sadly you hate radio. No, I what do you mean? I love radio radio 2.0, baby Can I before we get into our donation segment? I'd like to ask your professional opinion as someone who has been active in technology reporting on it writing essays You've been around, you know things You've seen these types of moves before with with so-called progress This is regarding Spotify

1:15:40 Who had a big investors conference and Maya who was the head of talk verticals I guess that means she's in charge of audio books and podcasting she came out and made some statements as short stuff here That the RSS, which is what podcasting is based on, is no good. And they are doing away with it. And so you need to understand that they bought a hosting company called Anchor. And that no longer creates RSS feeds by default. No, it does everything in their own proprietary format on platform, which is within the Spotify ecosystem. So you can already understand kind of what the question will be, but let's just listen to her first.

1:16:29 as she talks about the big exciting things Spotify is doing. With that critical mass of both creators and consumption in the same ecosystem, we're able to do something that has not been possible in nearly 20 years. Actually innovating on the podcast format itself. Actually innovating on the podcast format itself. Let's listen. Think about it. Think about it. Think about it. Think about it. Podcasting has been around for almost two decades and it's remained largely unchanged, mainly because of the limitations of RSS. We've been able to replace RSS for on-platform distribution, which means that podcasts created on our platform are no longer held back by this outdated technology.

1:17:14 This has opened up a new world of opportunity to add features and formats to the podcast listening experience that have never been possible before. So Spotify is now not only differentiated by our catalog of content, but also by delivering a truly superior product for podcast listeners and creators. Okay, so just one more clip. So what she's saying here is that no innovation, it's 20 years old, you can't do anything, there's nothing exciting, there's nothing happening. It's possible that she's in the business has never heard of Podcasting 2.0, but what exactly does that mean to them? What are they going to be doing? Another way we've been able to innovate on the format, we've made podcasts more interactive, finally enabling a deeper, more intimate connection between creators and their fans.

1:18:00 One of our favorite things about podcasting is the unique connection it enables between creators and listeners. It's intimate. Host voices are directly in listeners' ears. But until now, podcasting has been a one-way street. Creators publish shows, and their audiences listen. Traditionally, RSS has been limited to anonymized, aggregated analytics, and even those are limited to what can be determined from IP addresses. Because of these limitations, fans have never had a good way to reach their favorite creators directly. Never. But now, we're changing that. Our first way of addressing this was with Q&A and polls, both text-based questions that can be posed by the show's creators and surfaced to listeners in the Spotify app. These interactive features make it easy for listeners to engage with the people behind their favorite podcasts and for creators to hear from their audience directly on Spotify. These features are available now to all anchor creators around the world.

1:18:56 We've heard from many creators that Q&A and polls have been crucial in helping them develop engaged audiences that keep coming back for more. And this is just the beginning of our interactive tools for podcasts. We're really excited to introduce lots of new ways for creators and their fans to connect with each other. All right. So despite that two years ago, there was innovation and we have lots of interactive things such as cross app comments, chapters, transcripts, over 15 new features. They are very jacked and they're creators. They're not podcasts, they're creators. They're very excited about Q&A and polls. That seems to be a great way to interact with, as for the fans, not producers, not, you know, for the fans to interact with their creators. So I ask you, John, has this, in the history of Silicon Valley,

1:19:48 There must have been other examples where a try and true format such as RSS has been discarded by big tech Does that work out? Well, usually is that days any historical context for this? drastic decision that Spotify is making well this RSS has been around and beaten up and condemned and reborn and jiggered with and one thing after it seems to have a Yeah, Google. They did this. Yeah, they killed Google Reader. Yeah, but it's like... But they didn't replace it. And everyone bitched about it. I don't see that... What they've done to me when I listen to this is they've decided to turn themselves into Apple.

1:20:38 a walled garden. We're gonna do this our way and yeah, there's all these standards out there but we don't want those standards because those standards are controlled by us. So we're gonna do our own thing and then we're gonna support our own thing which is overhead that's unnecessary I might add by anybody. You don't need to go through all this because there's good products out there that do the job. You can do... if I want to get a hold of the creator, I just send him an email. No, no, that's never existed in 20 years of the format. We had no way for the fans to talk to the creators. And it went through polls, through Spotify polls and feedback. Which is only about getting more information on your fans. Actually, it's about getting more information for Spotify to sell you ads. That's what I said. Yeah, it's a scam.

1:21:28 So yeah, no, it sucks. Is she a podcaster? How is she such an expert? Well, that was the other thing that I thought was just kind of rude. Since I don't know her credentials, I don't think she's a podcaster or a software engineer or anyone who's done anything. Is she a creator? She might be a creator of bullshit, but it's very rude to say That's just that's just lame and old is outdated. Nothing's changed It's no good that could potentially get a lot of people riled up like hey, who are you lady? So that was rude I mean, yeah, I personally think it's a bad strategy because if you're a creator and you create for Spotify You're only gonna be on Spotify the art you need RSS to go everywhere. All right, so there's no historical context of that I thought there might be

1:22:23 No. Of the format wars. Well, format wars happens all the time. And they, oh, if you're going to take it to the next level, yeah, format wars where you have, I'll give you the first example. Hard sector def floppy disks no hard sectors and soft sector. I never even heard of this yeah, oh yeah, this took place in the probably in 1980 79 1980 period the first the heart of the first floppy disk were the big eight inchers and Then they went when they and they had different kinds of formats on those but then they went to the small sugar five and a quarter inch

1:23:00 or five and a half, five and a quarter, of small floppy disks. And there were two types. There was the soft-sectored and the hard-sectored. The hard-sectored was what it was. It means the sectors were placed in certain areas when they had to be there. The soft-sector is kind of more It was more versatile and it let the... and everybody very slowly moved to soft sector. You couldn't find a hard sector, Floppy. And if you did find one, you'd have a hard time finding something to read it nowadays and that's what happened. And did anyone lose out on that deal? It was... the transition was so early in the game that it... yeah, the Northstar computers did. Okay. They're the ones that were pushing the hard sector.

1:23:44 There's a bunch of examples of stuff like that, and it happens all the time. Usually when something's well established and people are used to using it and even suffering with it, that's not the time to start changing anything except incrementally through a movement, step by step. Incrementally they've added Q&A, Q&A and polls. Mmm, lovely. Alright anyway podcasting under attack everybody with that I'd like to thank guest wars

1:24:22 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 DEF cartel. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Mr. John C. Dvorak. Well in the morning to you Mr. Adam Curry. And in the morning to all the ships and sea boots on the ground, feedin' the air, sons of the water, and the dames and knights out there. In the morning to our trolls in the troll room. Let me see what do we have in trollage today. Seems like on Get those hands up trolls, scurry away. Oh they're interested. Now they're interested in what we have to say. 2286. So we need to hit that 2300 next. 2286 is just maybe a shade more than we had last Sunday so this is good. It's moving up. It's moving up. People are donating less, listening more. This is the way it's... Getting more for their money. They're getting a lot more for their money.

1:25:11 Trolls, you can hang out with them. Go to trollroom.io or if you use one of those crazy podcasting 2.0 apps, you'll get notified of the live podcast and the troll room opens right up there for you. How beautiful is that? Or you can follow us at noagendasocial.com Also, coincidentally, where all of the comments for this show in app go, we have cross app comments now and they get cross posted to KnowAgenda Social. So you can interact without even using a podcast app. Follow John C. Dvorak at KnowAgendaSocial.com and Adam at KnowAgendaSocial.com. You want to follow that from a Macedon account. If you don't know what it is, Google it. You'll find one, you'll set it up, you'll follow us, it'll work. It's the Fediverse.

1:25:59 And a big thank you to the artist for episode 1458. We titled it The Prime Time Purge. And the coveted cover art award went to Tantaniel, who just kind of nailed it with the donkey taco. Kind of unexpected to get that one. I think it was... Was it even another donkey taco based upon a clip we played? I don't think there was another donkey taco. There's a goat in this thing, a donkey meat can from Matthew Dropko. That's about it. Yeah, now that... was there something else? I don't think there was another one. We looked, some people had Oreos art. By the way, you can follow along as we're talking about this, noagendaartgenerator.com. I really did like Correct the Records' piece who said, Dear Capitalist Agenda, stop making so many great art pieces and give someone else a chance with a frowny face. That was a good piece of art. Inside joke. Inside joke.

1:26:59 And then correct the record. Now did this, did we miss this? The prime time purge? Did we see that or we already knew we wanted that as a title and we didn't pick the art for that reason? No, we saw it. It was something we didn't like about it, but I use it for the newsletter. I saw that, yeah. Capitalist agenda, try to guess the topics. Always a dangerous strategy. Yeah. With Matthew McConaughey, I don't think we touched on him at all. No, we never mentioned him. He had a gun doing, alright, alright, alright. So that didn't, that was too bad. Good try. And I think that was it. It was not a huge offering actually. No, it was, well, a lot of it has to do with the topics and how, you know, how it's off. The one I did like, I did like the No Agenda Train by Dropco. Oh, the Ride with Pride? Yeah, I thought that was... That did look kind of cool. Yeah.

1:27:51 But then there was the two big the big headed woman from from Steve Boob. Sure Steve that's that's what we're gonna put on our art. That's not gonna work. No no. A lot of people don't understand the mechanism of cheesecake. And I'm always amazed when somebody does and they get something right, but I consider myself the expert on this. You are the cheesecake expert. We'll leave it at that. Thank you very much, Tantanil. We appreciate that. We appreciate the work that all of our artists do. It really is highly appreciated. See this at noagendaartgenerator.com or in one of those old school, old fashioned podcasting 2.0 apps that really has no cool stuff, newpodcastapps.com.

1:42:36 Ehh, go why not. Okay. You may already know this, it's a breaking story but I'm gonna play it anyway and the question to you is gonna be and of course the answer is obvious. What was the kind of aircraft used or that was involved in this crash? This is the aircraft's son killed story, local NPR story. Okay, here we go. Former Los Angeles Dodgers player Steve Sacks says his 33-year-old son, who had always dreamed of being a pilot, was among the five Marines killed during a training flight crash earlier this week in the California desert. This according to a statement published by CBS LA TV. Is it time for me to answer?

1:43:24 Do I wait for the second question? Do you know the answer or can you guess the answer? No, of course I know the answer. I'm a helicopter pilot. I follow all crashes. That's how you stay alive. But this one in particular, this type of aircraft has been an issue from day one that it's very difficult to get fixed-wing pilots to fly rotary and I mean I fly both transitioning in the Osprey has always turned out to be quite tricky. We do not know exactly what happened yet, but the Osprey has been quite accident-prone since its launch. It crashes all the time. I'm being careful. Why don't you just say it? It crashes all the time. It does seem to crash a lot. There was one time about a year ago, and one of them came out of San Francisco, and while doing the show, I looked over out the window, and there was an Osprey. I remember this.

1:44:16 Yeah, and it's coming over and it's got the wings and some sort of it's not it's in it's in they were Transitioned completely into forward mode which is the weirdest looking thing you've ever seen you saw that you saw the transition when it started the tilt rotors went forward I think I saw it just as they finished mm-hmm And it's weird looking when it flies in a straight line with the rotors forward because it's just these giant props and And and it makes a lot of noise a lot of noise. Oh my god. It's just I could not even hear the show Okay, anyway, that's okay. Well, I figured I don't even know if it's if it's that bit It doesn't carry a lot of payload. I think it's 22 passengers, you know, whatever or freights or It's not I mean this the Chinook is is still how what an effective machine that is compared to this I think

1:45:06 I think this is just a gimmick and they just somebody was in love with it and they keep I don't know what you're totally right it's like every single day now of course I have the algos are tracking me now but I always look at Google News and Google News will always give me the latest EV tall electric vertical takeoff aircraft that is going to blow air. This is the one, this is it. It's electric. It's a one man. It's like the flying, and you look at the specs, it will fly at exactly 40 miles an hour for 17 minutes. It's like, if I can get from Fredericksburg to Austin, I'll be very interested. Not a single one of these even comes close to doing 70, 80 miles in one go.

1:45:55 The power to weight ratio it doesn't it doesn't work and yet all kinds of investment going into these outfits Well don't invest. Okay. I got one other kind of odd story. This is a street. I don't you listen we don't play part two of this There's some payoff here. Oh the part that part two is what you said. It's a play part two if you want short As well this according to a statement published by CBS LA TV Captain John Sachs was among the crew of an Osprey tilt-a-rotor aircraft. It's the ultra rotor aircraft Bad day, gentlemen. I'm so sorry to hear that. That's a day record. Very bad day. Okay, so now this is interesting because Alaska has gone into an election mode and they're using a completely different system of voting and picking and everything and it's actually kind of fascinating but what's more fascinating you'll hear it in

1:46:47 in clip two are the uh... it turns out that uh... the candidates are interesting starting with sarah palin let's play alaska elections one to try to get a feeling this may be the future right here alaska is facing a string of election races unlike any other it features atop four primary and a ranked choice voting general election details Voters in Alaska will have until the end of this week to vote in an unprecedented non-partisan primary race. Under a new top four system, all candidates will appear on the same ballot with their affiliations listed next to their names. But only the top four runners will proceed to an August general election. That race will use ranked choice voting.

1:47:27 A non-partisan primary means there could be multiple candidates from the same party running in the general election. This could lead to interesting Republican on Republican and Democrat on Democrat races. It also means parties may not be able to replace a candidate should one withdraw. So far, some 100,000 ballots have been returned by mail. More than 160 communities also have access to on-site or early voting. This year, only one of Alaska's 60 seats in the Congress is up for grabs. This special election looks to fill the vacancy of Representative Don Young, who passed away in March of this year. A total of 48 candidates are vying for the seat. 16 of them are Republicans, 6 are Democrats, and 22 are running as nonpartisan or with undeclared affiliations.

1:48:14 Gotta be honest with you, can you break that down for me how that works? Because I didn't understand. Okay so here you have you're gonna vote for somebody to be your... Sarah Palin. I'm gonna vote for Sarah Palin. Probably. Yeah. So you have a ballot and the ballot is presented to you it's got 148 names on it. And you gotta look through these names to find your guy. So then you vote, and I think you only vote for one, but in some situations you can vote for more than one. That's cool. But generally they just vote for one. And then they take the top four of the people in the 148 and they have a runoff. And the runoff is different because it's now a ranked choice. Ranked choice, we've tried in some parts of California. And in New York. It's fascinating. They did it in New York too, I think. I don't know. Well, the point is that ranked choice is the following.

1:49:02 If the guy who gets the most votes, he gets four points for being picked. The guy who comes in second gets three points. Or Gal. The guy or Gal who comes in third gets two points than the one who comes in last. And overall, somehow it's like you can... It's, and I think you get to pick more than one in some instances where I could pick one, two, and three or one, four, and five, whatever I want, or just one, which is what I would do. But then, and so it's a mess. It's kind of an interesting mess, but it may actually make up for some of the problems you have with mail-in votes. I'm not sure. But here's the people that are running. Here's some examples. And Sarah looks like she's going to win this. Top GOP runners include Sarah Louise Palin, a former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate.

1:49:55 Nick Begich, a businessman from a political family of prominent Democrats, former state lawmaker John Coghill, and Tara Sweeney, a co-chair of Young's campaign and former assistant secretary of the Interior. On the Democratic side, North Pole City Councilman Santa Claus and former legislator Mary Peltola have gained name recognition, and orthopedic surgeon Al Gross is the higher profile of the Independents. 26 of the 48 candidates also filed to run in the regular House election held on the same day as the special general election on August 16th. What I remember from ranked choice voting is that we... I knew you'd miss it. That's funny. Okay. What did I miss? You missed.

1:50:45 Tell me what I missed. Everyone is... You weren't paying attention to the list of people that are running. Because if you were, you would have either cracked up during it happening or you would have honked a horn or something. You're right, John. I usually, I tune out during your clips. I pay no attention. Come on, man. I'm so sorry. You want to tell me who was running or do you want me to play it again? I want you to play it again and this time listen and you'll see. On the Democratic side, North Pole City Councilman Santa Claus. Okay. I didn't hear that one. Is there really a Santa Claus running or is that just some joker? It's some joker, but the point is, it seems to me that the Democrats trying to make Santa Claus into a Democrat is what they've done here and it's the subtle aspect. And they talk about this in all the news stories. That's where I thought you might catch it, which is that Sarah Palin's running against Santa Claus. Oh, okay. I see.

1:51:44 I see. But the way they did it, I don't blame you for missing it because they played it so deadpan. It was just blah blah blah blah blah Santa Claus blah blah blah blah. I did not hear it. It would put anyone to sleep so I'm not going to completely condemn you for not listening. And there was also because I as the clip was playing My head went towards the ranked choice voting and I was thinking about what I was going to say, so that's what happened. You were going to talk about how much you don't like it. No, what I recall is that we looked at it and it was in New York and it was dumb.

1:52:19 And it didn't work and it took months for them to figure it out. Do you remember that? I vaguely remember that but I think they tried it in California too and it didn't work quite. There's something... There's something scammy about it. It needs tweaking. You know, here's my advice. I think we should run this just like the Eurovision Song Contest. You have a bunch of politicians... Santa Claus would win then. Well no, you have a bunch of politicians, they give their professional vote so that could even be... screw it, let the Senate and the House of Representatives, let them bring out their vote, and then you have text message voting by the public.

1:53:02 You know, and then you get an average of those two and you turn it into a really big cool show with performances. You know, you need to get people interested in politics again. I think that's the way to go. Take a note from the European Broadcast Union people. This ranked choice voting is no good. And you could actually have Santa Claus do a song. By the way, what's interesting about this election, I think Sarah Palin is going to win. It's going to put Sarah Palin in the House of Representatives and that should be highly entertaining. It's interesting to see how much disdain there is against her. And if you recall, when Sarah Palin's book came out... They hate it. Everyone, they still hate her. But it's universally left and right. Left and right. The troll room hates her.

1:53:52 And I'll just mention... Do you hate her? No, I don't hate her. I remember... I like her. I've always liked her. I did look into what she did and when she was governor in Alaska, a lot of people were quite happy with the job she did. It's not that difficult unless you're a Washington politico, you know, where you have to be there all the time and do all this, just get on committees and do shit. She basically just made sure that the trains ran on time, no trains. and that everyone got their piece of the money from the oil. That's all she really had to do and other things. I think people liked her. Then she got shanghaied by...

1:54:29 McCain. Well, yeah, but she got shanghaied by what's-her-face from NBC. Katie Couric. Katie Couric, who we thought was Jane Pauly on the last episode. And then she became the dumb woman. And I was surprised at how misogynistic the messaging was, particularly from the left. Yeah, the left is very misogynistic. We know that. Stupid woman. And then she had her book out. And I was like, oh, I'll read this book. And I carried it. I remember I was taking a flight and I carried it. And I was holding on to it while waiting to board. And people were giving me stink eye. Reading that book. Can't believe you did that woman. Yeah. So, so, so, so, well, you do remember that? I've reported on that extensively. I didn't even know you were talking about this. Reported on it extensively. It was insane. There's your, and it's just like, yeah.

1:55:27 I mean, how could she be any worse? At least she's funny. She's gonna be great at the house because she's outspoken. Think of the show, people! She's already gone through the ringer. She doesn't care what anyone thinks. No. Think of the show. Yeah, what do you think I'm thinking of? Not you, but I'm surprised at the troll room. Think of the show, people. My goodness. Um... Let's see. You seem to have a lot of clips today, so I'm... I have too many clips as usual. Let's play a... let's get some of these... here's another untold story. You know, like the untold story of the Spanish spaceship being bought. Yes, yes. No one wants to talk about that. Let's try this one. Untold FBI lawsuit. Have you heard of this? Let's see. Dozens of women and... By the way, I'm going to listen really carefully. Dozens of women and girls who were abused by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar have submitted claims to the FBI for more than a billion dollars.

1:56:23 More than 90 people say the FBI mishandled the case instead of preventing Nassar from allegedly abusing more people. They say the agency had credible complaints from numerous victims in July 2015, but did not interview them or properly investigate the abuse. As a result, they allege that he was able to sexually abuse about 90 young women and kids within about a year. Claimants are required to give notice to the FBI before a lawsuit is filed in federal court. The agency then has six months to either reach a settlement or deny the claim before the lawsuit can be brought. Nasser is serving 40 to 175 years in prison after pleading guilty to seven counts of criminal sexual conduct. He was also sentenced to a 60-year sentence in federal prison on child pornography charges.

1:57:16 So the FBI had all the goods on this guy, did nothing about it, and failed in their job. They were too busy going after Trump. Oh man. And that, yeah, you're right. Where was that from? The Ntang dynasty. I mean, where else can you get these stories anywhere else? Well, here's an untold story. Have you heard about the whistleblower from the Disinformation Governors Board? No, not necessarily. What is it? So a whistleblower came forward and Senator Grassley has published, if not all, a lot of the documentation that this whistleblower has come forward with. Now some are opinions based upon documents, but it's, and I only saw this this morning, so I haven't been able to look at everything.

1:58:07 But of course this is the Disinformation Governance Board which was a part of Department of Homeland Security. They brought in, what's her name, Scarry Poppins, Yankovic, Nina Yankovic to run that and the whole thing was overseen by, what's his face, the complete a-hole. to to do the the body scanners the L3 corporation used to be Department of Homeland Security. Chertoff, Michael Chertoff and the Chertoff group. So they they were really behind the scenes running it. So listen to this from this doc. It's a big PDF. It's in the show notes. It's on Grassley's his own senate web page.

1:58:50 Documents also suggest that the department has been working on plans to operationalize, in quotes, its relationships with private social media companies to implement its public policy goals. For example, we obtained draft briefing notes prepared for a scheduled April 28, 2022 meeting between Robert Silvers and Twitter executives Nick Pickles, head of policy, and Yol Roth, head of site integrity. Nick Pickles? That's just a DJ name if you ever heard one. Hey everybody! Nick Pickles here! Nick Pickles in the morning! Heyo!

1:59:28 The notes are marked TBC and it's unclear whether the scheduled meetings actually took place. The briefing notes frame the planned meeting between Silvers and the Twitter executives as an opportunity to discuss operationalizing public-private partnerships between DHS and Twitter, as well as to inform Twitter executives about DHS work on MDM, which is misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, including the creation of the Disinformation Governance Board and its analytic exchange. According to whistleblower allegations, Nina Jankowicz may have been hired because of her relationship with the executives at Twitter. Consistent with these allegations, Silver's briefing notes state that both Pickles and Roth know Jankowicz. So the whole idea here was... Corruption at the top. Yes! And you didn't hear about this? No. I mean, because we deconstruct media, so we look to the media for our cues.

2:00:24 The document states that in certain cases, federal, state, local, tribal and territorial or non-governmental partners, quote, may be better positioned to mitigate MDM threats based on their capabilities and authorities. DHS theorizes that by sharing information, DHS can empower these partners to mitigate threats such as providing information to technology companies, enabling them to remove content at their discretion and consistent with their terms of service. And don't think that this thing is over. No. This thing is not gone. It would be interesting to actually put a timer on and see when the mainstream media actually reports on it. Maybe Tucker because his producers listen to this show? Maybe Tucker. Yeah, you're right. And by the way, and I appreciate it, I love knowing that no agenda drives the conservative agenda in America. I'm very pleased that we're driving something. And honestly,

2:01:26 When I was doing mainstream, you're always looking to some independent guy to rip off his shit. Of course you are. That's what you do. That's what you do. It's like, and do people even know this? I don't think they do. We try to make it clear, but you know, probably at the base level of the mass market, no, they probably don't know that. I got two clips here. We even give them the clips. We even give them the clips. We give them the clips, everything. It's our pleasure. Enjoy. Send some value, Tucker. summer, summer, the summer Summit of America thing took place, if you don't know, as all the West, everyone in the Western Hemisphere. And I have two clips and one of them is kind of the summary. The other one is kind of, I think, a mistake that NPR made in their presentation. But let's play Summit of America's rap. This is again from New Tang Dynasty. Despite the presidents of some Latin American countries boycotting the Summit of Americas, President Biden presented his vision for unifying the Western Hemisphere.

2:02:26 There is no reason why the Western Hemisphere can't be the most forward-looking, most democratic, most prosperous, most peaceful, secure region in the world. We have unlimited potential. The president told attendees he expected the world to change greatly over the next decade. He says the challenge would be to shape outcomes to reflect democratic values in the region. After the United States declined to invite Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, saying they didn't want dictators at the event, several countries' presidents boycotted the summit in protest. Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced he would not be attending.

2:03:04 and leaders from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador followed suit. The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernandez, criticized the US for the exclusions during his speech, saying, being the summit's host country does not grant the ability to impose the right of admission on the countries of the continent. Biden asked for cooperation between countries in improving supply chains and overseeing safe and orderly migration. Each one of our countries has been impacted by unprecedented migration. And I believe it's our shared responsibility to meet this challenge. Biden says a number of nations will join the U.S. in announcing a Los Angeles declaration on migration and protection. This will bring our nations together around a transformative new approach to invest in the region as solutions that embrace stability.

2:03:53 to increase opportunities for safe and orderly migration. He says addressing migration should be a shared responsibility. To crack down on criminals and human traffickers who prey on desperate people and coordinate specific concrete actions to secure our borders and resolve the shared challenges. Oh, yeah, that's what I think. So, by the way, is that what you just heard there? That harkens back to something we talked about in the past. So they want to bring all these countries together and have common immigration systems, rules, communication. You know what's coming next? The Amero.

2:04:33 Wow. Right, right, right. I thought you'd like that. All right. The Amaro. Yes. OK. So NPR took it a little differently. They and and I'm going to I just had the last of this, the NPR hilarious summit clip and what it begins with. And I only cut into it. It's one of these South American countries after another excoriating Biden for cutting out these three or four countries. One after another after another and the way they piece this together, I don't know if you think it's as funny as I did, but I found it highly amusing. We stand divided. That's the Prime Minister of Belize, Johnny Briseño, scolding Biden, who was sitting on stage nearby. And that is why the Summit of the Americas should have been inclusive.

2:05:22 Geography, not politics, defines the Americas. Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez piled on. He says he wished the summit was different, saying the silence of those who are absent is calling to us. Then it was Biden's turn. I think we're off to a strong start. Someone's getting fired. It even started out perfectly. Let me hear the beginning was good too. We stand divided. We stand divided. That's the prime minister of Belize. That's great. And then Biden. Oh, poor Sam. Off to a strong start. Oh, poor man. I don't care about him anymore. Screw that guy. So lame. So lame. Yep. No, I'm telling you this is, they're trying, they're trying to do, by the way,

2:06:16 Do you think that's a clip of the day? I thought it was pretty damn good. Thank you. Yeah, I think you deserve it. I haven't given you a clip of the day in so long. So I'm glad you've stepped up your game. I haven't done anything. Oh man, we were talking about the property ownership. Remember the clip where the Canadian member of parliament says, no, you have no right to own anything in Canada. Yeah, we got a lot of analysis and the one I like the most I put in the show notes. It's a full-on like eight page PDF from professor JJ John Calvin Jones PhD JD formerly employed as professor of American constitutional law American politics criminal law and criminal justice He's he's in Shanghai by the way. You see he's a good source We know that Shanghai locked down again as we told you it would and

2:07:09 And he says no, sorry, he says first of all I could not resist when I heard JCD say sacrosanct. I guess you said instead of sacrosanct. He says here's my legal analysis, simple conclusion there is no absolute right to own private property in the United States. We got the same from Billy Talty who's also a lawyer producer. Now others sent along the The Fifth Amendment said that, you know, there can be no confiscation without just compensation, which I think still kind of means that it can be confiscated. I mean, just compensation is up for debate. I just thought that was A, interesting. B? Well, I think that Fifth Amendment covers it. That says to me, I'd let the professor comment on this, it seems to me that that was put in there for a reason because it wasn't covered in the Constitution that you could own property.

2:08:08 You know, slaves but not property? Is that what we're telling you, the people here? I don't get it. I'm not sure. I did not have time to read through and parse. I've read through it, but to parse the entire opinion. But in general, the constitutional scholars agree. They say, no, you do not have the absolute right to possess property, which was shocking to me. And I'm going to have to read this and understand it to be able to explain to my grandchildren. when you're wearing rags and standing in the street. No, because I actually own the only thing you can own in America. 100% you can own this one piece of property that you can own. In fact, anybody around the world can own this, but in America it's important. You know what that is? What? Bitcoin. That can be taken away. Yeah. Now, will I be in rags? We'll have to see, but at least I'll have it in my dead cold hands.

2:09:12 There's a bunch of gun protests that were organized over the last few days, and there were 200 of them. And there was some funny stuff that happened in terms of these people yakking about them. I do have some rundown of the anti-gun protests. Yes, I'd love to hear that. Let's see what it says. Oh, I wanted to mention, at the Irish Dance Fesh, it was sponsored by Everytown. That's the Bloomberg anti-gun NGO, Everytown. So there are no shootings at the fest? No, no, no. Even though we were in Austin, there were no shootings at the fesh.

2:09:50 anti-gun protest. Okay, here we go. March for our Lives demonstrations are taking place around the country today with protesters pushing for stricter gun laws in the wake of recent mass shootings. Emily Pearson from Member Station WABE has more from Atlanta's march. There are parents and grandparents and teachers and a whole range of people here to protest for stronger gun control. in Georgia and specifically with constitutional carry a lot of folks parents and a lot of high school students have said in Georgia it's a tough battle because on one hand you have constitutional carry where folks are able to carry their guns in most places and the other hand you have students who are fighting to be able to go to school without the fear of getting shot. Oh okay those two are the same.

2:10:41 I guess. Part two of that. So, Jennifer, these rallies were organized by March for Our Lives, the same group that staged huge demonstrations in 2018. What was their message today? Yes, these were created by survivors of a high school shooting in Parkland, Florida in 2018. And you know, this was, I just want to say this was not nearly as large as the huge 2018 rallies we saw. Is David Hogg still involved? The FBI kid, the spook kid? But they have kept at this. Many might remember David Hogg, one of the most high profile of these Parkland students. And he was on the stage today. Here's what he said.

2:11:25 I'm here because I don't want anybody to live this nightmare anymore. No matter your politics, no one should. I'm here because like you, I love this country. And for it to function, we need to understand that rights are power, and with power comes responsibility. All Americans have a right to not be shot, a right to safety. And so here we had people gathered talking about safety and the fear that they feel. And Cheryl, I'll tell you, there was just this really odd, confusing point toward the end when lots of people just suddenly started running away from the stage.

2:12:02 The speaker told him to stop, they said there was no threat, and then someone else suggested someone had taken advantage of, quote, the fear we live with every day in life. It was confusing and sad. Aside from that, what did you hear from people who turned out today to join the rally? So much frustration, so much anger. You know, many had been advocating for years. I spoke with Christine Martin. She came from Orlando, Florida. She was galvanized after the Pulse nightclub shooting there. She said she wanted to come to demonstrate in D.C., though, to send a message to lawmakers. It was the anniversary today, I think, of the Pulse nightclub shooting.

2:12:42 I'm not mistaken. They did kind of pass over, but there was I guess a people freaked out and started running away from the stage in some way. Well, I mean, yes, that is exactly what has happened to the American public in general. Don't jumpy. Yes, absolutely. Tina, she went to church last Sunday and of course I don't go with her because I'm doing the show. And she said for a moment there, she thought, wow, you know, what a bunch of easy targets we are here. Just that thought alone is what this does. Now, the chance of dying in school or in church or at some other gathering, at a concert in Vegas, is relatively low on the list of things you can die from. But there's no two ways about it.

2:13:32 is horrible and it plays well and so people think it's the most important thing and it's not. And more people die of poverty in America than from gun violence. But you know, you can't come out and say that because then you're an asshole. Yep, you're an asshole. Adam at curry.com I have a related clip to this. Okay, play that. Salt Lake City, Utah. They're going for the old tried and true which works in down under but I'm not sure how well it's going to do in the United States. Salt Lake City Mayor Aaron Mendenhall was joined by state and local leaders to announce a gun buyback program. Gun violence is not rare in this country. Emotions were raw as community leaders met at the International Peace Gardens to discuss gun violence in America. You can't go to the grocery store, you can't go to school, you can't go to the hospital. When people, politicians and leaders

2:14:30 speak like this, you are doing this to inst- it's trauma based promotion basically. It's, it's, it's, we understand what you're trying to do but you really are pushing it. Uh, there's no- Trying to get votes, it's, it's sick. Yes. It's the lowest form of vote getting. Over- Don't have any good ideas, don't have any philosophies, don't have anything that people can get behind. Scare them into voting for you, you prick. You can't go to school, you can't go to the hospital. There's no place you can go and feel safe. They called for more action. I appreciate those moments of silence, but they don't do me any good. Mayor Aaron Mendenhall announced a gun buyback program in Salt Lake City. People can voluntarily turn in firearms and get a gift card. A loud listen card. Yes, the deal is great! You get 200 bucks in California. Is it no questions asked?

2:15:25 No ID required event. The event is planned for next Saturday at the Salt Lake City Police Department. How much do you think it's for, the gift card? In Utah? And does the gift card say dumb fuck on it so you can... Announce yourself to the ladies and gentlemen John C Devorah getting spicy like you this way. This is a side of you I rarely see. Mendenhall. You want me to guess? Yeah sure. 50 bucks. It can help make a difference. It's worked in other parts of the country and it's definitely worth a try. We were able to raise an incredible amount of money in a short amount of time which also shows I think the interest and the momentum. Gas prices are high right now so I could use a

2:16:05 $50 in my pocket. The chair of Salt Lake City. Yes, and he nails it. A $50 gift card for your AR-15. Salt Lake City's Human Rights Commission says it could help some people. The Salt Lake City Police Department says last year more than 40 guns were reported stolen. But what I also like is that this measure is not asking people to give up their guns, those that actually do feel that they do need it, but rather it's focusing on people that don't need it. And I hope that that difference, that differentiation will be heard. Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers on Utah's Capitol Hill are planning to introduce gun bills. The parents of Utah expect their leaders to do something about gun violence?

2:16:51 And the children of our state are counting on us to do something. They're leaders. Senator Derek Kitchen is proposing to raise the age to buy a gun from 18 to 21. Who got shot in Utah? I don't know. Well, it's easy to bring out people and get them to cry. It's horrible. This is sick. It is sick on all sides Yes, this is what I expect to hear more of this is the one I got a bunch of clips on this But this is the clip I like this the guns and the substitute teacher They put a microphone in front of her and she doesn't know anything and she's babbling away And I just think some of the things she said are

2:17:33 are hilarious. I also spoke with Iris De La Paz. She's a substitute teacher, one of many teachers, I might add. They were out in force. And like many of them, she does not think that hardening schools and giving teachers guns, as many Republicans suggest, is the answer. I know a lot of teachers, and so I know that they won't necessarily take guns. And it's why are we going to arm teachers with guns and not books and social services? And, you know, Even health services in the school, they could provide those kinds of things over arms. So she got the memo from two years back, but she can't quite recite it properly. So don't arm teachers with guns. Arm them with books and pencils.

2:16:51 And the children of our state are counting on us to do something. They're leaders. Senator Derek Kitchen is proposing to raise the age to buy a gun from 18 to 21. Who got shot in Utah? I don't know. Well, it's easy to bring out people and get them to cry. It's horrible. This is sick. It is sick on all sides Yes, this is what I expect to hear more of this is the one I got a bunch of clips on this But this is the clip I like this the guns and the substitute teacher They put a microphone in front of her and she doesn't know anything and she's babbling away And I just think some of the things she said are

2:17:33 are hilarious. I also spoke with Iris De La Paz. She's a substitute teacher, one of many teachers, I might add. They were out in force. And like many of them, she does not think that hardening schools and giving teachers guns, as many Republicans suggest, is the answer. I know a lot of teachers, and so I know that they won't necessarily take guns. And it's why are we going to arm teachers with guns and not books and social services? And, you know, Even health services in the school, they could provide those kinds of things over arms. So she got the memo from two years back, but she can't quite recite it properly. So don't arm teachers with guns. Arm them with books and pencils.

2:18:18 And throw the book at the guy. So, guns... books not guns. There you go. Yeah, what she's conflating is the, oh, teachers have to buy their own materials. And so now finally they're getting... She did do a very good job. No, of course not. She's a substitute teacher. Yeah, obviously. You know, I was a substitute teacher for a very short time. Oh my God, these poor children do tell. They must have actually loved you. What did you do? Do you stick, do you stand up? This is a story I don't know by the way. I had no idea you'd ever done this. This is new to me. 15 years. First you got to get a certificate. It's during that period of doldrums where you have to just do whatever you could to make a few bucks and I'm always working. So you get a certificate which is easy to do once you're a college grad and then you get on a waiting list and I was at, I went to

2:19:12 substitute teacher at Hayward High, and what I got into was substitute teaching in the driver's ed class. Hey girls, watch this. But what was interesting is that I got to see, because I guess Hayward High did this where other schools didn't, because I know my school never did this, showed all those horrible movies I can't remember the name of them, some people might remember. There's about five of them. Faces of Death? Well, no, not Faces of Death. These are all car crash movies and there's just, I can't remember the names of all of them, but they're all the most gruesome films. And so they're showing these movies one after the other, I never got to see myself before, and I'm watching them saying, oh my God, why do these kids even get in a car?

2:20:03 And that's all I can remember. Goodness, that's horrible. It's so traumatizing. It's a bunch of traumatizing films. You can't even scold a dog these days in public without getting shit for it, but it's okay to traumatize children and mothers. I don't know if they still show these movies or not, but there's a lot of people out there listening to the show that know what I'm talking about. But that's my point exactly, is they don't show that anymore. They don't even... Is it even Driver's Ed anymore? Not that I know of. I doubt there's very little drivers, Ed. If, if... Around here they have it, I know that, but... Yeah, everyone's just supposed to take Uber. You don't need to learn how to do that. Yes, exactly. Yeah. Well, I learned to drive, what's the point? Really? Just don't go to drivers, Ed. Sit in your basement vaping playing video games. There you go. Now you got the right idea. Oh, speaking of, speaking of...

2:20:57 Uh, Soros sister in trouble. Woot woot! Soros sister in trouble. So the first... The first... Chesa Boudin is out. Yeah, the Chesa Boudin son of Weather Underground radicals, I might add. Oh yeah. The radicals who bombed... They brought him up. He was, I think, like an orphan or a foster child or something like that. And they said he's a genetic son. And so they said let's give this guy the weirdest name ever. Is that what was that their idea? Well, Boudin maybe that's what this guy's talking about in the note. They said Boudin. Oh sausage. Yes. He seems like a sausage. Osoro sausage. There you go.

2:21:37 He was, so we got Soros sisters and literally a Soros sausage. He's out. Looks like more states and cities are getting a little antsy about these Soros district attorneys. But this one, wow, I didn't expect this to happen. Last Saturday night, Flossmore police went to a house. Domestic was physical and there were no injuries yet. That's the description 911 dispatchers gave to officers. The emergency coming from the home of Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, the person demanding police show up and

2:22:29 her husband, Kelly Foxx. When police arrived, the couple was on their front porch. The incident report obtained by CBS 2 shows Kelly told officers Kimberly got mad about something posted on Facebook and the state's attorney asked him to leave and he refused. Mr. Foxx went on to tell cops his wife, Kimberly, became physical, blocked him from leaving the bathroom, grabbed his collar and threw down his video controller. Okay. So I know this is down the video controller if you ever watch tik-tok or or Instagram Every single time I see a husband and wife young husband and wife it the joke is usually the husband is playing

2:23:13 playing a video game with his controller in the living room and the wife is either like, oh I want to get laid and he's not paying attention or something else dumb or she'll come and she'll turn off the TV and make him angry. So this, you know, besides slapping him, tugging his collar, locking him in the bathroom, this guy's like, and she threw down my controller man! Which is pathetic. But where is this story? This is not some unknown attorney general. This is Kim Foxx at the center of a lot of controversy, Jesse Smollett being one of them, in Chicago. This is very interesting. Of course, if it had been the other way around, if she'd been a man and his wife had slapped his wife and threw down her video controller, you wouldn't hear the end of it. But maybe not if Kim Foxx was a man.

2:24:12 I mean, what's going on with her too? She was pissed off at something on Facebook. This is the kind of attitude you have as an attorney general that you go nuts when you don't like something on Facebook? This is ridiculous. These people are no good. Where do they even get these guys? Where does Soros people, where do they even get these guys? Obama. Kim Foxx comes straight from the Obama camp. Now this leads into your Facebook clip, which I think we should talk about before we take our second break. This is Sheryl Sandberg. And then of course I got some information about why. Okay, hold on, hold on. Let's play the clip. Number two executive and Facebook owner Metta is stepping down. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg confirming on her Facebook page she is leaving the social media giant after 14 years in the position.

2:25:11 Sandberg left Google in 2008 to join Facebook, four years before the company went public. Sandberg has led the company's advertising platform, helping what is now Meta grow into a $100 billion a year business. As far as I know, it's people, no one is attributed to these reports of what the reason is behind it. You know, you read headlines and Business Insider, Business Insider, I don't know, I think you can just pay them to discredit somebody. Yeah. It's like, hey, we got a rag on Cheryl here for whatever reason. And, you know, so she used company resources for private use, for her books, her foundation. Is that what it is? Yeah.

2:25:59 I don't think so. That's the rumors. I wouldn't use, I wouldn't, yeah, but it seems, you know, I mean they wanted to, obviously somebody wanted to get her, so they got her. Oh yeah. And I think a lot of people like her in her position are very liberal with company money. I don't, I don't think that's the problem. I'm ears? Yeah, I think this is, um, uh, Ms. Lean In Now we followed her very closely in the early Facebook hearings. She would come in a lot and you know Cambridge Analytica and defensive privacy. My thinking is on the outside Cheryl lean in Sandburg, on the inside a total bully in the workplace. That's what I think and I can see it. It's a total bully.

2:26:51 mean mean Cutthroat because you have to be yeah, I understand it and I agree with the thesis, but I unfortunately have not heard this No, if this is true It will come out that you know after people realize she really gone because that if she's really a bully It's gonna go like this. You have anything to say no. No, she's okay. I mean, how about this? How about they? They know that there's people who are unhappy, maybe this was launched because it seems like a really not important, you know, appropriated use of company funds. I was like, does that entertain the world? No, not really. Like, okay, to use the jet and a couple other things. You know, what she doesn't want out there, she's a total bully.

2:27:45 That's what she wouldn't want out there, leaving. So maybe this is her damage control. Maybe it's a Hilda Nolten job. I don't know. She would definitely have the moxie to know to find the damage control artists that could deal with this and say, well, we can make you sound this way instead of that way. The moxie. I'd like that. I'd like that. You know, I got a boomer lingo test that someone sent me. Okay, boom. Phrases from the 60s and 70s? Yeah. You want to see if I- You've used most of them on the show. Well, I was thinking I'd like to reverse it. So if I- if I tell you the meaning, let's see if you can- how many you can nail of the original 60s or 70s slang term. Oh, this is hard. Okay. Another name for clothes. For clothes? Mm-hmm.

2:28:33 Well, garb would go way back. Garb. Threads. Threads is the one. You see? This is how it works. Something, someone or something that's fun or fine. It may be a little tough. It could be boss. It could be cherry. All good ones, by the way. A gas. A gas. That person's a... Okay, how about this? Angry, mad, or upset. Pissed off. Hacked off. Hacked off hacked off with short-lived and then to get a high school thing for says saying pissed off. Yeah, okay There you go to get very angry or really hacked off pissed off you flip a wig. Ah, yes I don't yes flip a flip a wig out flip flip flip out flipped out comes from flip a wig flip a wig It was a precursor cuz flip a wig doesn't make any sense to anybody and my pants flipped out and my parents would say wigged out and

2:29:33 Wigged out. Wigged out. Yeah, that has secondary meanings. Yeah, I like that. Wigged out. How about burnouts? Black marks with tires. I thought that would be burnouts. Lay in a patch. Oh, man. No good. This is the independent record. Uncool. This is an easy one. Don't be uncool. Lame square. Square. Square. Yes, of course. That's way bad. Here's one. What's your problem? What's your problem? I don't know. I've always heard it used in a different context, but what's your bag? No. It'd be more like, what's that guy's- What's your bag, man? When we say, what's that- what's that guy's bag? I've heard that before. What's that- what's that guy's bag? Not anyone- no normal people never use that. My parents use that. They use, I don't like his bag. I would hear that. Wow. Did you ever play a game counting burned out headlights?

2:30:36 Never now this is bullshit, but you don't play that game is dumb. I know it's padiddle. I've never heard of this Here's one that here's one. That's worth remembering that is gone making a phone call Dialing dial up dial up dialer. No, I think public phone Dropping in quarter dropping a nickel Yes, if you had only said what is then you would have won oh Milk, you know milk obviously, we know what that's short for milk. What? Moo juice. Oh, nobody ever said that. Television? The boob tube. Yes! Nailed it! Very good, very good. Boring? It has a different meaning today. Dull?

2:31:28 Boring a drag drag. Yes, very good different meaning today and also a different meaning today Something done for pleasure you do it for kicks kicks. Yes today That is a shoes and then my favorite and we'll stop a bald person Chrome don't yes Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh, yeah Well done Well, what else what also is well done is the people who helped us here in the second half of the show. Nicole Wilson starting with in Farmingham, New Mexico.

2:41:47 A couple of meetup reports today. The first one from Tampa, Florida. Hello, Tampa! We are live at Front Porch. You are? Alex. I am Tom Starkweather and I'm handing this off to? Aris. Glad to connect with these other pigs in human clothing. Willie Steed. Alex and Tom are alive and well. This is Paul. I'm a dude named Ben and Betty's leaving because we find out she's a spook Guys, it's Garrett from Kissimmee in the morning guys from Mike Bravo from continental or get no continental Europe I briefly released to the land of the freedom is make heroism out from Lakeland in the Tampa area in the morning Mary Kate ultra and I'm saying something clever Tom Tom Stark weather and

2:42:39 Alex there they were in a car accident. They went a three-car pileup They were rear-ended by a truck and I think I don't know some other car and they actually look quite lucky to get out without much trouble Oh, man, hope they're okay. Yeah, they're okay He said he had he felt initially like he had a concussion because it was a double tap You know the first car hits and the second car hits I'm wondering if he should go see someone about that because you can get a lot of insurance money Yeah, you can cash in on that I think so. I should. Did you hear about the lady who sued Geico because her boyfriend gave her HPV while they were having sex in the car? And the judge ruled Geico has to pay because it was something that happened in the car? Wow. That's called hacking the system right there. Yeah, I thought that was interesting. That's the way the contract could read. Yeah, makes sense. Yeah, she got the medical damage in the car.

2:43:41 Boston red 33 red 33 Yes, I did play Nathan Nathan stone to you Let's see what else we have coming up for meetups on the calendar. On the 14th, that is Tuesday, Flag Day, Pittsburgh, Potluck, 6 o'clock at Bloomer. That's the home of Bloomer. There'll be a Potluck, so get in touch with Emma through noagendameetups.com.

2:44:20 Next show day, Cary Courage Local 919 meetup, 6 o'clock at Bond Brothers Beer Company in Cary, North Carolina. Also on Thursday, Charlotte's Thursday 3rd, Thursday 7 o'clock Eastern Edge Tavern in Charlotte. And the list is so long and we have, let's see what was added recently. We got Brisbane, Australia added. Let me see, I haven't heard from the Munich meetup. I hope that went well. We got another Victoria, BC, Canada coming up. There's a lot. You need to go to noagendameetups.com if you truly are looking for community hanging out, good time, laughs, no hassle, no triggering. Noagendameetups.com. If you can't find one, start one.

2:45:08 Okay, I'm not doing real well on the On the ISOs lately. Do you have anything good? I have one and I'm yeah, I've got one I think is very usable. Okay, and this one. Thanks being yeah. Well, thanks for being with us Yeah, let me see. I have change the boy. Thanks for being with us. Yeah Thank you for your courage. Yeah, this Cheney

2:46:03 And there's this one. This is a liar. See, see I think when you laugh that's the one you got to use. Yeah I think you have to use that one it's good. Okay I'm glad you like that one. I have one last clip. So I just another one of these things you know you're only gonna hear this on a podcast doesn't make any sense. Oh no yeah it doesn't make any sense at all. No. You know there's a country that used to be called the Ottoman Empire and there's a town in there called Constantinople. Yeah, what is today Turkey? What's the name of the country? Turkey? Wrong! Oh? It's Turkey-a. Oh, gee, you got me out of technicality I think. No, listen to this, Turkey changing name.

2:46:55 Oh no! What is going on? World maps everywhere will need updating after the United Nations accepted a request recently to change the international spelling and pronunciation of the country Turkey. In the local Turkish language, divert Turkey for a country is Turkey. You know, you can also say Turkey, you know, why? Turkey? So the way I see this rebranding campaign for the country to improve its image. That's Suley Erzbeg. He splits his time between the US and Turkey, where he is the president of Shariq Shoes, a handmade leather shoe company.

2:47:31 In one of my travels to Turkey, I identified this very traditional looking Turkey shoe in a local market and I bought a pair of those not thinking anything of it. But when I brought it back to the US, I was getting a lot of compliments from my friends asking me to bring a pair of shoes to them whenever I went back to Turkey again. I don't know what the shoes had to do with it. I don't know what I had to do with it either and he keeps saying turkey instead of turkey. That's the thing that got me. He's talking about turkey yay. And meanwhile he himself a Turk is saying turkey turkey turkey in this report about turkey yay. But now you know nobody, I don't think anyone listening to this, very few people listening to this podcast except Turks,

2:48:14 know that it now has to be pronounced Turkey and that's what we should do. I hereby put out a call to Gitmo Nation, Noah Jen the Nation, we want to hear from our Turkish producers, I know you're out there. I'm sure they're out there. Yeah. Alright, I'll leave you, I have one last clip which I've had for a couple weeks now, about a week and a half, this is one last clip from the World Economic Forum. I like it. Sorry? I said good. Yeah, it's a short clip though. This is the CEO of Nokia, who is reasonably new I think as CEO. I did check with our knight, Wunderhelm there in Finland who used to work at Nokia. He says that he worked with this guy and he was kind of the, I think it was in the R&D department initially and he's very much a futurist. So you know it's like

2:49:07 take whatever he's saying here with a grain of salt, but the question was about the smartphone of the future and he would know. I wanted to ask when you all think we're going to move from this form factor to something that's on your face glasses and when computing is all on the edge? I think it will go, first of all, it will definitely happen. I was talking about 6G earlier, which is around 2030. I would say that by then, Definitely the smartphone as we know it today will not anymore be the usual, kind of the most common interface. Many of these things will be built directly into our bodies. Yeah, yeah. You're gonna embed that right into your bodies within six years! Seven. That means that the, uh, that people who say talk to the hand... Wow, you're fast. Props on that one.

2:50:06 Very outstanding. All right, here's what is coming up for you. We have end of show mixes from the Clip Custodian Neil Jones, Rolando Gonzalez. Live next, live and lit as we call it in Podcasting 2.0 land, behind the schemes on the streams, Burberry streaming live with my partner over there at Podcasting 2.0, Dave Jones. So it'll go seamlessly from one show into the next. It's crazy at trollroom.io. Yeah, that's it. Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in FEMA Region No. 6 in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where we all say hi to Turkey-ya, yay or something. I'm John C. Dvorak. We return on Thursday looking forward to it very much so remember to support us and remember us at dvorak.org slash NA.

2:51:02 Thank you for attending your Sunday service. We'll see you on Thursday. Till then, adios mofos! And such. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. That date, January 6th, to me, it falls right in line with December 7th.

2:51:38 September 11th, November 22nd. military, National Guard. Two more police officers who responded to the January 6th attack on the Capitol have died by suicide. Quite pleased with themselves for what they have done today and it's truly just outrageous and pathetic. Each of these people should be shamed. It's a scary scene, plain and simple. It is a scary scene and every American has the right to protest even if what they're protesting is a fantasy. We had an election

2:52:17 that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side. We should look at their faces and if I was standing on that street, look at them. They're high-fiving each other for this deplorable display of completely unpatriotic, completely against law and order, completely unconstitutional behavior. The big lie that on January 6th the election could be overturned. historic and historic it sounds like a positive word but I don't mean that because we've just never witnessed anything like this in our life. They wanted me destroyed. Shut it down! They want to see us gone! They want to see us gone!

2:53:22 They want me gone. I'm here because I am a roaring lion crying out, ROAR! That's how come they didn't destroy me. That's how come they weren't able to lay a hand on me. I'm a lion! Of the 12 Bahamas! I roar, ROAR!

2:54:02 The cultural war, the economic disaster, the foreign policy mistakes and frankly President Biden's personal incompetence. Europeans are enduring record high inflation and it's forcing some authorities to take action. The Federal Reserve got inflation. wrong. It mischaracterized it even today hasn't acted fast enough. The US consumer price inflation report for May has just been published and it is pretty bad. There's one lady said in Washington, Pennsylvania, she had to go to five different stores to get infant formula. She couldn't afford the gasoline to go to five different stores. If the world

2:54:39 If it were today to go 100% wind, solar and biomass, there would not be enough energy. We'd go into energy starvation. And that's what you start to see now in the market. If you find yourself asking how low can it go, the answer is almost always lower. This is a reality problem. I filled my car last week with diesel for 1 euro 92 and today the diesel costs 1 euro 97. 93% from its peak! Many of you try to buy groceries, they're going up I think faster than gasoline right now. We hadn't thought enough about the energy transition. The macroeconomic factors are indicating that inflation is not going anywhere soon and has the very realistic potential to move into double digits in the coming months. We still don't have an explanation from the Fed.

2:55:22 as to how to improve the understanding of inflation. You're about to have electricity brownouts around the country because we failed to invest in a reliable electric system while asking people to buy electric cars. There is so little incentive, whether it be here, whether it be in the US, to reinvest because of ESG concerns. So the market is not functioning as it should. That is why this is a structural story and could easily be with us for a decade. The best podcast in the universe. Adios, mofo. Dvorak.org slash NA. This is a liar.