20:26 Keep the show going. Who's Michelle? Michelle, my buddy from the south of France that he has the strip clubs and oh that guy yeah That guy! My gangster friend. Hey gangster He said hey Adam you should come by we talk a little bit fix you up I think we're meeting at the club Well you'll pick up some good stuff while you're over there Always do always do But i have to tell you things are so nutty in Euroland right now with Particularly with the Greek situation, obviously. But now the energy union and this guy... Isn't the energy union just proposed? Yeah but they're going to do it's boiling frog you know it's a step here step there keeps going This Yanis Varoufakis guy Did you see the videos that they made in Germany about him You know this guy is not insignificant
21:20 I realized, yeah so the...I clipped the videos but- You could have met him he's was until just recently was teaching at University of Austin down there. I know! I know! University of Texas in Austin. I should've gone over and said hi. Okay sorry This guy, someone sent us a link to couple of these videos and they're really highly produced. Oh yeah? Talking about how Greece is screwing Europe and I don't know if you saw the very last one you might not have been on that email thread where the Greeks are saying oh don't worry Europe we're just saving your ass and our man Yanis Varoufakis... Is it Varoufakis? I dunno, I know how to sing it!
22:04 That's a very old joke. But so I'm hunting around like we got to find out what this guy is, ideas are and what he's thinking and I come across at TEDx talk from him. Yeah nice yeah you did it Ted X which I'm sure was irksome to him that you did it. You know you know TEDx from 2011 Did you see the whole thing? I can't watch those things. I pulled a couple clips! Okay, that's it. You saved me the time. Yeah It's a TEDx... actually is a TEDx Academy which i think is even lower than TEDx Wow So just so people know and I think it's brilliant from Mr Anderson by the way this whole... you have Ted which is the you can't get in unless your elite
22:54 And if you are asked and you're brought in as some kind of fellow, then you're treated like a slave. Please read the reports on the people that do these things. It's disgusting. It's horrible! It's it's a cultishly slavish and shut up slave all in one. But hey might get to meet Sergei. Then they have the TEDx, which is pretty much licensing the name and you have to adhere to some standards. And you can't really do anything because the TED people themselves if they feel appropriate though They will put a video on I don't think they're allowed to just put videos up if it's TEDx
23:32 I think there's pretty tight control on that. And then TEDx Academy, which is...I don't know is it like a high school play or something? I have no idea! Here he is this is a little intro as to his little spiel here what he what he's really interested in doing When Gandhi was asked once to comment on European civilization... I should mention everything the guy says sounds like he's pitching a Silicon Valley company so whenever you start off with something with when Gandhi said Yeah, that's kind of... it's like the monk in the riddle. His quip was it would be a very good idea when asked today about our views on the European Union I think you can be excused to reply in similar fashion what a splendid idea it would be if we could only pull it off united only name The European Union is I'm afraid in a process of disintegration as we speak
24:28 with the commitment and determination of a termite colony which is eating into the foundations. Very soon there will be nothing left but an empty shell to remind us of the lofty ideal that used to be the European Union." So this guy who is in some circles considered a rock star of something, Already in 2011, so four years ago before he was mysteriously made into finance minister as a dual citizen. not actually even a member of the Syriza party, but he's been put in here. So this guy has backing from somebody... This actually reminds me a bit of listening to old Barack Obama clips when he was still senator and he'd have all these kind of lofty type ideals and talking about termites or civilization whatever this guy is talking about But then you get him in somewhere and then he starts to screw things up
25:23 And the Germans are... they hate this guy. Hate him! Because of course, the Germans had to actually send the money to Greece for the four-month extension Here he is blaming everybody on the crisis and of course in particular the bankers This is a way kind of his historical version of what happened Our masks are falling Unscrupulous bankers Inane politicians Conniving entrepreneurs cynical academics, uncritical citizens who are all being unmasked. But as their masks keep falling the dejection is becoming generalized meanwhile the human costs are mounting up and the only way of making sense of them and measuring them sensibly is by means of counting lost generations it is time... What? By accounting for lost generations Now this is the kind of thing that bugs me about this guy
26:26 He throws these... that's a non sequitur by the way, and it is one of the worst type of non-sequiturs. It is purposeful And he pulls this, and I've noticed this when he had the clips that were sent to us which will be in the show notes especially where he's asked hypothetical questions. And then talking to someone who is not even there and it's shooting off to the side camera on his profile kind of a three quarter shot about his face yacking away and pontificating. He does it so smoothly he reminds me of a different style of Noam Chomsky.
27:03 full of shit, throwing this kind of these little things that confuse you as he's talking. And then it goes on to the next thing so quickly you don't stop him and go what is that supposed to mean? What does that mean yes And then he, and it's all highfalutin. He doesn't...he presents himself very well you know? He is a Marxist economist. Totally! Well that's not a bad thing necessarily because Marx's material when it was written in the 1860s was important. It was popular blogger culture. It was at the time yeah but it's little old-fashioned now and his
27:43 His rationales are very weak. I don't know, yeah? I think he's...I admire the guy for being a showman and a storyteller but i think his stories are bullcrap. Well he has a pitch which i'll get to in a minute He has a pitch when he actually had powerpoint slides and he says this is my pitch And he says a couple other things in there which i think you'll catch and you won't like But the guy is not insignificant. Someone is behind him, someone is funding him he's in there for a reason and seemingly it is to undermine the current European Union system that would suggest the Russians. Listen on... To transform Europe and be transformed in the process