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00:00 Where's the FBI? Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, March 26, 2015 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 707. This is no agenda. Proving the shoemakers kids have no shoes. Broadcasting live from the Crackpot Condo in downtown Austin, Tejas in FEMA Region 6 in the morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, home of Bergdahl, I'm John C. Dvorak. John, I gotta tell you. I have to tell you. For eight years now, we have spotted trends, we have successfully deconstructed mergers, acquisitions, government influence, and yet we have never been able to capitalize. And corruption. Yes. If I was a stockbroker,

01:01 I would listen to the NO Agenda show to pick up stock tips because we really do identify these trends well in advance. Yeah. The problem is we never ever do it and we never act on it ourselves. No, it would jinx it. Heinz, the food company controlled by Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and private equity firm 3G Capital, buying Kraft, creating a food giant in the process. Are there more deals to come from Berkshire Hathaway and 3G? In addition to Heinz, Berkshire helped 3G finance the Burger King acquisition of Tim Hortons last year. We all know that Warren Buffett loves food.

01:38 Coke is one of his favorite companies. There's been speculation that maybe one day Berkshire and 3G could team up to buy Coke. Buffett, as we know from a Fortune interview, he loves to eat like a six-year-old. Coke, Dairy Queen, now you can add mac and cheese to the list. Yeah, all right. We have been, in fact, it was your, you started it all about mac and cheese being the depression food. One of the most astute investors in the universe, Warren Buffett, heard the call. He knew that mac and cheese was the future. And the price spike of the stock price. You ready? Okay. 33%. That's a good one. Upon news of the merger.

02:24 Please! You slaves can get used to mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Macaroni and cheese. Cheddar melted together. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Living the mac and cheese life. Mac and Cheese by Ayn Rand. Maybe we can ask Andrew Horowitz to just maintain a blind portfolio. And all he has to do is just listen to the show and whenever we say something like, you know, mac and cheese is the future. It's true, it's true though. Yeah, well it's true, yeah true. Well, we should also mention that since I mentioned Bergdahl, Bo Bergdahl, we are the, I believe, the first people that recognized that he was a deserter because before the story even broke, just as it was breaking, we had our... Our producers, yeah, everywhere, exactly. That were in the camp and told us the whole story.

03:24 And then it further evolved after he was praised by Susan Rice for being a great patriot or whatever she said. Some crap. I mean, this is proving that she shouldn't be even working for the government. Do you know who used to work for her? Which I only found out due to some investigative work. Okay. Ted Cruz's wife. Wow, she's a she's a regional manager for Goldman Sachs, but she also works at Well, she definitely worked directly for Susan Rice and what capacity? Well, I wrote it this is just I'm this is a incestuous incestuous is the Well the thing I found another hour sleep I would have got the word but it's this is an incestuous mess. Did you not sleep? Well, no, I slept fine

04:20 But apparently I didn't. Or I'd be quicker on the draw when it came to the show. I'll just stick with this for a second because I found this very interesting to see how television, let's just call it television, we can't even call it news or mainstream, just television, That's easier. How television responded to Senator Ted Cruz announcing he's running for president. Which is big news to you down there in Texas. But the thing I like where it was discussed the most was on the view.

05:02 Which I do not watch with any regularity. You apparently did. However, it is I think a fact that this a lot of people watch this program and will form their opinions and derive their news information from these Let me see retarded morons. I think it's just I want to put two together for these people in particular will be Goldberg Oh, God, of course the idea is is to discredit Ted Cruz as you know crazy Tea Party guy birther and nutjob believes that you know the earth is Only 2,000 years old whatever they can pull up is done, and then I've personally I find this offensive

05:46 Not because of Ted Cruz, because I find him incredibly creepy. We've discussed this. He's not dumb by any means. Very, very successful lawyer, prosecutor, senator, and the connection with his wife, and the banking industry. Yeah, he's no slouch. No slouch. I agree, he's icky. That's the word. Icky. Icky. Yeah, his face isn't put together properly. But I find it offensive if somebody says, hey, you know what, I'm going to run. that you're ridiculed, right? I mean, the first thing someone should say is, hey man, thank you for considering to contribute. It's a shitty job.

06:24 But okay, here's the view and they got it so wrong on so many things that I figured we just have a little listen to this because this will no doubt this will pop up in in discussions around the water cooler at work and in Texas too. Especially in Austin. This is the the line that the view is taking and they have one Republican girl on this show. Yeah, they always have the one gratuitous Republican. you know, all-american girl. Blonde, ditzy. She's not ditzy, but she's all-american. I know, but she's blonde, so thus, you know... Yeah, a Republican. He was not born in America. Okay, so this is very funny.

07:05 He was not born in America, Ted Cruz. Now listen to, and I'll tell you exactly what the... Now they're all preoccupied with this. Yeah, yeah, but it's, I mean, it's so simple to, you know, five minutes and you know exactly what his eligibility is, which is eligible. But let's just listen to these ladies. He was born in Canada. So how can he run? They said Canadian? Yeah, he's a Canadian they say. She's not, but okay. Canadian. I thought she said she was born in Canadia. Oh, maybe she did. Let me hear that again. He was not born in America. He was born in Canada. So how can he run?

07:48 I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't get it. I'm gonna tell you what happened here. Some producer said, you know, it's really cool. He was born in Canada. So you can talk about this on the show. And then Rosie Perez is a guest and she, well, anyway, but it's without any research, without any background, they're just doing this. By the way, when you girls do that it sucks balls. No one knows what you're talking about. Stop that. There are people in the Republican Party who feel like Republicans like me have not been tough enough and he speaks to them. I'm a Ted Cruz birther. For you to say as a Republican that him not being born in this country is the least of his problem is insane. Insane! I love you, darling, but... Darling, I love you, darling! This is where she turns into a dick. I love you, darling, I'm from Brooklyn.

08:54 They made it a huge issue. I actually don't know where he was born and I never asked where, I mean, listen, I think this is a great thing. I did not know that. I did not know that. Well, this came up, it has come up before for this very week. Here's Whoopi who is reading the notes that the producer gave her. The producers must be doing this as a goof. Can you imagine producing this show with these dimwits? Well, I think they probably do the right thing. Just give them this and let them run with it. Who gives a crap? They can't stick to anything anyway. True. Just a moment here on the... On the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, no person except a natural-born citizen or a citizen of the United States, that's two different things, a citizen of the United States or a natural-born citizen, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution shall be eligible to the office of president. Neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained at least the age of 35 years and be 14 years a resident within the United States. So let me clear it up very quickly.

09:50 A natural born citizen means you are born to a number of different classifications. You can have both American parents in wedlock, both American parents not in wedlock, one parent in wedlock, one parent not in wedlock. Either way, Ted Cruz was born to an American mother who was living in Canada for their job. And he became naturalized, which is, you have every right to do. 2005, which completed the 14-year requirement. But being born to... it'd be crazy if you have American parents and they're living in China, and you're born there that you're not American, or even one of the two parents. So it's completely stupid.

10:39 But they're running with it. Reason because you know he's one of the people who said well he should have president well hi What did you just say whoopie? What did she say? She what she's trying to do she's trying to say Ted Cruz was a birther which he to my knowledge wasn't. I don't believe he was. But she's trying to say that we're the president listen to it it's really good this is this is class act top-notch television. Reason because you know he's one of the people who said well he should have president well hi And now she's gonna do something really outrageous Listen to that John the future of the country is hooting and hollering. I know the audience is

11:27 And you're a mixed gentleman, right? You're a mixed gentleman. Oops. Here comes racism. You are mixed. I want to know, are you talking for the Cuban side or the white side? What are you talking for? See now, when we turn it around, it's not very nice. This is incredible what she just got away with. She's saying that Ted Cruz is a racist and then she's being racist on him. What side you talking for? The white side or the Cuban side? Wisco, tango, frockstrap, fav, this is no good! Yeah, I heard this particular part. Let me just finish this. 20 seconds. So, luckily, luckily we have better stuff to concentrate on than where you were born, Ted. But do know

12:18 that we are aware of some of the things you've said and maybe being Cuban is part of it. I'll give her that. But some of this is ignorance. Yeah, your ignorance, you doodie. What did he say specifically that shows ignorance? No, nothing. It's just you say Ted Cruz and people. This is the division that has been carefully created over the past, I don't know, let's just call it two decades. Very carefully created, so we have red and blue, black and white, a Republican, Democrat, saddening. Well, that's why the party system stinks. Yes. Also on television.

13:02 I love watching Richard Quest. I just can't get that image out of my mind. You know, I saw Quest because I saw it on the plane first. We're going to talk about the plane. Yeah, of course. I saw the early reports into CNN, which I recorded a bunch. I didn't clip any. But Richard Quest was there and he's now he acts a lot different than he did when he was wild and crazy you know he's screaming all the time like a maniac and how did he become their aviation expert? I know exactly how I know exactly how because he

13:39 First he was doing a business show, which is more for CNN International. And people who are new to the program, if you do a little search on Richard Quest CNN, the reason why we're chuckling is because it was a few years ago he was arrested in, was it Washington Square Park, I think? In New York? I don't remember. In the middle of the night, and he only had a trench coat on and boots. And he had a like a was it a belt tighter up from from his genitals around his neck and he had a he had meth on him and then you know the cops arrested like I Got meth on me, and I got a dildo my boot. He's like okay fine This is the expert it was a rope not a belt sorry rope, so I'm all for kinky sex, but it's just hard I just Who knows what he was doing

14:28 It's not even fun. What's a rope around a neck tied to their balls? I mean, come on. So he was doing a business show where he was traveling all the time and he would profile airlines. I met him when they opened the new upper class back when I flied it, flew it, upper class lounge for Virgin Atlantic and Richard Branson was there and he was doing a piece and flying. It was, I think it was the first flight to somewhere, I don't know. a direct flight to some Asian country. And so he has contacts with all of the airlines, you know, certainly with the PR department. So, you know, therefore he is now an expert. He has no license, he has no flight experience, but he's an expert. And sometimes

15:13 You know, he makes sense, but just the pompousness of him is... This is like in the late 70s and early 80s when they needed to find a computer expert in some companies, and they asked around, and whoever owned the Apple II... You're in. ...was the computer expert all of a sudden, running IT. Exactly. Yeah. I do have a quick, what is this, 37 second backgrounder. We're learning new details now about the deadly Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps. The New York Times is reporting that evidence from a cockpit voice recorder indicated one pilot left the cockpit before the plane's descent and was unable to get back.

15:52 back in. According to the Times, the investigator said, quote, the guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer. And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer. You can hear he is trying to smash the door down. One senior military official has reported saying, we don't know yet the reason why one of the guys went out, but what is sure is that at the very end of the flight, the other pilot is alone and does not open the door. So there's a number of things that I take issue with with the reporting and and then the top issue is there's no information whatsoever. Everyone's making the crap up and it seems the New York Times jumped in pretty early. They are indeed leading the way with I find a news piece, let's see here it is, a German wings pilot was locked out of cockpit before Christmas in New York. This is the piece from the Times. Journalistically

16:47 bad. Really, really bad. Well, before you go on with your analysis, which will conclude this discussion, I should get a few clips in because I won't have a conclusive anything. And my clips are all from the Rachel Maddow show. Wow. She, of course, also is an expert in rope and genitals and meth and dildo. So she can certainly weigh in. I don't know about the meth. Whatever the case. Of course she blames Bush for this. No, wait a minute. Oh wow. Crap. Who needs my analysis when you're gonna roll this out on me?

17:27 Let's play Rachel with the Bush memo, which is, she plays this pretty straight, but you can hear her viewers thinking, Dad Bush, the guy wasn't thinking clearly. For reference and for context here, this is the press release from the US Federal Aviation Administration that was released in January 2002, specifically January 11th, 2002, four months to the day after the attacks of 9-11. This was the press release in which the FAA announced mandatory new standards for reinforced cockpit doors in all commercial passenger aircraft authorized to fly in the United States with more than 20 seats on board. The FAA's new rule, announced four months after 9-11, required newly strengthened doors that quote, resist intrusion by a person who attempts to enter using physical force,

18:15 That new rule required cockpit doors to remain locked. It required an internal locking device so that it can only be unlocked from inside the cockpit. Also not true. Just factually incorrect, but okay. All right, now we go with just a couple of hysterics here. She has to be a little hysterical once in a while. So let's play Rachel supposes hijackers. This is her theory. No, she's got a hijack theory good It is conceivably possible. I suppose that you know what I think happened with her. Well, I'll play this only for 12 seconds And I'll tell you it is conceivably possible. I suppose that a hijacker could have entered the cockpit and

18:56 once one pilot had stepped out and then overpowered or killed the remaining pilot and then that hijackers who deliberately crashed the plane. That is as likely as me being able to fix you of your lesbianism. Alright, well, that's what she's I supposed she says I think now she does now she does her kind of a Nancy Grace imitation with some hysterics. Oh, no. If it is the pilot who wants to crash the plane Who has locked himself or herself inside that cockpit? Or if it is a healthy pilot who is locked out when the co-pilot inside the cockpit has died or become incapacitated or who has gone nuts. Well in that case, then this rule about the doubly reinforced doors that resist all physical force, well then that rule could be a death warrant. You know what she's missing? Although she'll never say it. The guy was 28. Maybe he was on shantigs.

19:55 I'm going to stop smoking. You're up there. Yeah, but that's not my theory or my conclusion or anything. Let me get these out of the way. Okay. So let's go. I got one more of these other two that questions and answers things to test for later. That's for you. That's just a new Ask Adam thing. Oh, I'm going to be tested and graded on my knowledge? Yeah, on your ability to listen clearly. Okay. Anyway, here's now this is finally Rachel brought this guy which after she went on and on and on this guy brought in a new fact. or he believes a protocol. He seems like an old pilot's been around forever. And when he said this, it was funny to watch her kind of try to reformulate her crazy theories.

20:34 Another part of this that I'm puzzled about is that protocol for most airlines says that at no time is there only one pilot in the cockpit. That somebody else should be with them. It may very well be a flight attendant that comes in and sits there so there are two people in the cockpit at all times to take care of emergencies like the ones that we are speculating about now. So I'm curious to know if there was another person there and if we can hear that person's voice or their entry into the cockpit later on. later on. In terms of that rule, or at least that protocol, in the event that a pilot had to leave to use the bathroom or do any other normal thing, and a flight attendant was then introduced into the pilot to sit with the second pilot who was still there, what would that pilot, that flight attendant for example, be expected to be able to do? Presumably they'd be able to open that door, but also to ensure there were no shenanigans in the cockpit?

21:29 Obviously would be capable of opening the door what else goes on in there I cannot tell you and I think it's a great puzzle right now I'll tell you when the flight attendants are on the flight deck. That's when the shenanigans start ladies and gentlemen That's when it all starts you recall the the MH 370 crew had chicks up there taking selfies. Yeah. Remember? Yeah. Okay, so the first thing that I just find noteworthy is that very much like the Boston bombers,

22:04 and where there's a apparently damning evidence, or there was, but now it's kind of generally accepted there is no such video, of the Sarnoff brothers, in particular the younger one, putting the backpack into the trash can moments before it exploded. Then even the governor said, oh yes, oh yes, I haven't seen it, but I'm reliably informed. So now we have, based on one report from the New York Times, which of course is the paper of record, We have this report as they speak to this is I think we just go through the words of this particular times piece for a minute To really understand because they are the times is not stupid. They're not gonna let themselves get busted on really shitty reporting But here we have an investigator No name, we don't know from what country what agency said evidence from a cockpit voice recorder indicated that

22:58 One pilot left the cockpit before the plane's descent and was unable to get back in. Then they have a senior French military official involved in the investigation, again no name. This already is no good, but okay, because it's not official. described a quote very smooth very cool conversation between the pilots during the early part of the flight from Barcelona Spain to Dusseldorf Germany then the audio indicated that one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not re-enter. Here's a quote, the guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer. Now right there how does anyone know from a voice an audio recording

23:38 That the person knocking was the captain. We don't really, that's just making that up. We have no proof other than someone knocking. There's no answer, then he hits the door stronger, no answer, there's never an answer. And you can hear he's trying to smash the door down. Now it's okay to suspect that it was the captain and the first officer was alone on the flight deck, but there's no proof of what is being said here. You know, this morning's New York Times, they've altered the story a little bit. Ah, okay. I'll just tell you what it is so you can work it in. Yeah, please. And I think it has something to do with the reporting that came in about the... The original reporting?

24:18 No, the reporting that came in from the outside, from the pilots, like this guy that we just listened to about the protocol, where if you're going to leave, you're going to put somebody else in there to sit around and do whatever they do, as you indicated. The New York Times had to deal with that, and so now, the way the story goes, and this is this morning, The copilot who was suicidal or something because he was, he pushed him, he got the pilot, pushed him out and slammed the door shut before the other person could get in. Yeah, which of course we didn't really hear, I guess. No, we didn't hear anything. So in this original report, we don't know the reason yet why one of the guys went out. This use of the word guys, said the official who requested anonymity because the investigation was continuing. Okay, sorry. This is,

25:08 Wasn't there a point John where you had to have two sources on record for you to really publish a story? Well that would well, that's you can publish a story with no sources. I mean, well you can do that Yeah, the New York Times has a policy and the policy is exactly what you say. You have to have a you know, you get this is gossip Yeah, there's no one on record at all. I should just put it under blogs well or the gossip blog or the multitude of what used to be kind of cool pilot forums and was all infiltrated with dickheads Everyone's got a dumb question or a dumb theory. I don't want to go off the track here because this is going to continue, but this is really getting on my nerves. Almost everywhere you look, I'm working on trying to get a two, I've got this new machine I'm running, which is a beautiful machine. It's got a display port out. AS400?

26:02 Display port coming out of this thing and it's got a mini display for regular display port HDMI It's got none of the other DV eyes or any of the other normal old-fashioned Now the display port should drive three monitors And so you get to buy special gear you buy this little piece of gear and you put the two month two plugs into DVI plugs and you get the two monitors and but it gives you an extended desktop Mmm, oh yes, you can move to a different Yeah, I get it. I don't want an extended desktop. I want two monitors. I don't want to Mars I have the same thing I would the old-fashioned two monitors where you when you you have monitor one and monitor two so monitor one does most of the work it keeps all the stuff there on that monitor monitor to slide stuff over to it it's like an extended desktop, but it's not an extended desktop and there is a difference and

26:47 Go online and try to find out how you can change this. It is impossible. You have idiots, blah blah blah. Oh, I see what you're saying. Next line is, oh, buy a Mac. It just never ends. Okay, I got it. I see what you're saying. Yes, it's a little more frustrating when you're talking about a very specific industry that there's really only I think there's only five or six hundred thousand pilots worldwide. Oh, that's helicopter. I'm sorry. Worldwide there's more fixed-wing pilots, but it's a small group and probably the worst are the private pilots, PPLs.

27:26 Who have you know Cessna experience? I'm not saying that I have any experience on this type of aircraft, but I I've hung out a lot with maintenance and And understand a lot of how the mechanic I buy owned a helicopter company so I understand the mechanics of how the business works So I mean really this whole thing start. It's a 24-hour all playing is all their own credit now stop we've been through that a million times yeah that's yeah every single item on aircraft has a lifespan it has to be replaced before that it's documented people are personally liable and responsible multiple people sign off the only two reasons for an aircraft incident are human error

28:10 and maintenance. There really is nothing else. So if you get struck down by lightning, human error, you didn't check your weather report. Okay, that's the level. It's only those two. Can only be those two. So the New York Times continues with an interesting sentence. The data from the voice recorder seems only to deepen the mystery surrounding the crash and provides no indication of the condition or activity of the pilot who remained in the cockpit. So now they're saying that you could technically say, yes, the recorded sound on the voice on the cockpit voice recorder is data. The next sentence is, the descent from 38,000 feet over about 10 minutes, which is just, you know, they're just making numbers up how long the descent was. I think that's wrong, by the way. Was alarming by WHO standards, but still gradual enough to indicate the twin-engine Airbus A320 had not been damaged catastrophically.

29:02 But they're just, this is just, yeah, like a rumor. We have no idea. There's no data. Now the thing that bugs me tremendously is, and I believe that they didn't even find the flight data recorder yet, but very quickly, oh, we found the flight data recorder and the memory card is missing. Okay. In the show notes, you will find technical specifications for the A320 and its flight data recorder. And I just want to tell you that there is no memory chip. It's not like what you put in your smartphone or your camera. Because that's the visual that was given. I really don't like that in my reporting. So, the memory board, which contains multiple stacked chips with backup,

29:54 is surrounded by, in order from outside in, steel armor, insulation, thermal block, and then we get to the memory board. And if you look at what these things can handle, I have it here, 7200 G-forces. And I tried to calculate, I'm sure we have producers in the maybe in the chat room, but certainly in the audience, who could help me calculate if you are flying around 350 knots and you come to a complete standstill, because it's feet, the g-forces are calculated by feet per second and all this stuff, and the weight, that would be very important or because it typically the flight data recorder doesn't get crushed by anything from the aircraft, it kind of springs free. I think it was well under the 7200 g-forces, I believe,

30:45 it would seem. But now, so apparently this thing popped open, the steel armor insulation thermal block popped open and the memory chip just popped out. I'm calling big bullshit on that. I guess they're all on their hands and knees looking for it. Because that of course... That was reported as such in the New York Times? Yes, yeah, well, I think it's in the New York Times. Let me see, here it is. French people investigations, our teams continue to... That is not in... Oh here, at the crash site a senior official working on the investigation said, workers found the casing of the plane's other so-called black box, the flight data recorder, but the memory card containing data on the plane's altitude, speed, location, condition was not inside, apparently having been thrown loose or destroyed by the impact or disappeared.

31:39 But I'm I'm not buying that. There's just an open flight data recorder. Oh and the memory cards popped out It's not it's not how it works. This is not how the thing is constructed So the New York Times is full of crap regardless of what really happened. So we have no real data we have One person who tell that who told the New York Times and even the French or the German prosecutors who were doing these? It was the French prosecutor who were doing these press conferences. They're even saying, well, I haven't heard the cockpit voice recorder myself. This is just, this doesn't ring true at all for them to come out so quickly. Yeah, there was damage. We were still able to get some sound off of it, but there was no time code. Come on. Come on. This is unacceptable that this is not being brought into question. So I don't think that, well, here's the possibilities.

32:29 First of all this whole lockout of the door is a big red herring and I love everyone looking at switches and you absolutely Can get back in yes if the if someone on the flight deck does not want you to come in obviously they can thwart that but it doesn't really vibe with and jive with all that we're hearing of This guy just sitting there and they could hear him breathing apparently as we're now going in a we're descending at 4,000 feet per minute But you can hear the guy breathing very nice So there's only a couple of things I believe that coming out right now saying this was a suicide is a lie It's very dangerous to even

33:10 unless you have a reason for it, to just come out and say, oh, this suicide, this guy did it, based upon things we have no idea about. Why on an hour and a half flight does someone need to get up and go to the restroom? Doesn't happen often, but you know, if you gotta go, you gotta go. Sure, maybe. The not having a second person on deck is not mandatory, so that not necessary, but we really don't know anything Other than what someone told the New York Times he heard on the tape, which he might not have even heard himself, but okay. So what can this be? First everyone's saying decompression. We cannot know.

33:51 I'm not a fan of Airbus. We've talked about this. I don't like the composite. I call it a plastic airplane. Please don't email me and say they're perfectly safe. I don't care. I don't like it. I like sheet metal and rivets. I certainly do not like the fly-by-wire system. The Airbus 320 is really one of the first planes to be completely automated. You talk to a computer. Every flight input, every control input goes into the computer. The computer then controls the aircraft. I would according to one side of the story and it crashed into the bushes. It's just past the runway and the pilot was blamed for the whole thing even though they some lot of evidence indicating that the plane itself drove itself into the into the bushes. Yes now I have an incident report from November 5th 2014 this is what aircraft was this well it's a Airbus 320

35:06 and this is the Flight Safety Foundation. Here we go. During climb 12 nautical miles northwest of Pamplona, approximately flight level 310, so that's close to where they were at, it was 7,000 feet lower, the aircraft unexpectedly decreased the pitch autonomous and started to descend. The aircraft reached a rate of descent of up to 4,000 feet per minute. The crew was able to stop the descent at flight level 270. So they dropped a good Not as much as this other, but they went from 31 to 6,000 feet, but it was a sudden thing that the aircraft just did by itself.

35:46 The flight was continued. Aircraft landed safely at its destination Munich Airport. Following this occurrence, ESA released the interest new flight crew procedure which is as follows. An occurrence was reported where an Airbus airplane encountered a blockage of two angle of attack probes during climb leading to activation of the alpha protection, alpha prot, while the mach number increased. Flight crew managed to regain full control of the flight and landed uneventfully. So that is disturbing when aircraft start to do these things by themselves. So that is one possibility that there was a malfunction. with the aircraft that was unrecoverable and all of this cockpit noise is just completely made up by someone leaked to the New York Times of some authority, which is how I would do it. If, I don't know, if I was Airbus and I'm always fighting against Boeing, we've got the American Senate and Congress coming up with a trillion dollar increase in spending

36:43 For military, we've got the actual military budget talks are ongoing. Airbus announced they were looking to raise the output of the A320 this year, going to perhaps 70 or 80 aircraft a month. There's air shows, there's orders being placed. Let me tell you, in the realm of this kind of business, 150 people, spit in the bucket, who gives a shit? So if something goes wrong, not that no one's out to kill people necessarily, But you don't, this is a bad time, a very bad time to have anything go wrong with Airbus. Certainly if the fleet would be grounded for something that seems to be a real issue. I'll give you one other theory that could have happened maybe if you want to believe, if we really ever hear this cockpit voice recorder and I don't see why we wouldn't.

37:30 But I'm pretty sure we won't. The A320 is also one of several aircraft who have had issues with cockpit fumes. December 18th. fumes in the cockpit on a320 actually the pilots started to become nauseous they threw on their oxygen masks and landed and what's happening is hydraulic fluid from a damper actually the yaw damper actuator has been leaking and it leaks into the inlet of the auxiliary power unit. Now we've been tracking fumes in aircrafts for maybe five, six years. This has been ongoing, but certainly on the flight deck. So you could say maybe, and that would explain a lot of things that we don't have answers to or have actually heard any proof of,

38:21 Maybe fumes got in pilot-in-command. So hey, I'm not feeling good. I'm gonna go to the bathroom he walks out and then possibly the the first officer becomes incapacitated but that would mean that the pilot-in-command who wanted to come back and was banging on the door that he forgot the code he actually used to get into To get out and get back into the onto the flight deck. That doesn't really make sense. I I think none of it is true. I think that this is a malfunction, there's something incredibly wrong with this type of aircraft or maybe with a piece of the engineering, which in my mind, they never should have gotten rid of flight engineers. This is what technology does for you.

39:04 This is where technology, it may be great, but you had three guys on the flight deck, which is always good because pilots, yeah, they get crazy. They get nutty, they become assholes. If you have two guys instead of one and you can, I've read stories of flight engineers who have definitely intervened with crazy pilot crap. So not necessarily a benefit to remove a person. That's why I don't think this will be used It shouldn't be used, I think, if this is what I think it is, to remove pilots entirely from the flight deck. Because then you'll have nobody left to blame these shitty airplane crashes on. That's what I'm thinking. That's a good theory. There are a number of screwy incidents that have taken place with the 320 that seem to be computer related. In fact, the guy, that same guy who was talking about the protocol on Rachel's show, he did mention, he said the weird thing to him about the

40:02 crash was it it did speed was never Changed and it was going at full speed. Well, let me let me stop you there. It is my understanding that there is a a Well, it's just called a toggle, but I don't think it's an actual button that may be a virtual You can make the aircraft to stand at maximum VMO. So it won't be coming apart And it will actually deploy air brakes automatically. So you stay below you I think I know I'd have to look up the exact envelope to know what to I'll have it here or somewhere. It was within the limit so it was not coming apart, but that's an automatic descent that the aircraft can do with one input from the flight crew. It'll automatically do that.

40:47 Well, what he said was somebody had to do something. But the other possibility that was initial before they talked about the pilot going nuts, and there's pictures of this guy, he doesn't look like a complete lunatic. In fact, there's a picture that he posted on Facebook or someplace. Yeah, he's overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. The Golden Gate Bridge, yeah, here in San Francisco. The initial thing when you have a problem on the flight deck is you try to fix it as best you can. That's your number one priority. And that's what he believes is one possibility of the reason they didn't check in. Well here is... Now if those other guys... Here's the sequence. In an emergency, aviate, navigate, communicate. Communicate is third.

41:35 Right. This is drilled into your head. Aviate? Fly the plane! Just fly the plane! Then where am I going? And then tell someone what's going on. The thing about that other incident that you talked about where all of a sudden the plane decided to do its own thing. of these guys resolved it was there ever a memo about this how they did it or anything for other pilots to uh... you know since then it happens to you or did you say well i i i was don't talk about it but that's what i just read is there's now a procedure that uh... that flight crew must uh... must be trained in so you can only suppose that they were trained in it and who knows Yeah. Now there have been, I did a little scouring around the book of knowledge. I came up with five previous deliberate pilot cause crashes as reported. That was the Silk Air flight 185, Egypt Air flight 990, Mozambique Airlines 470, Japan Airlines 350 and Federal Express 705.

42:35 Which, you know... There was a Federal Express pilot that crashed a plane deliberately? Let me see that. I got... It's all links in the show notes, by the way, if you want to take a look at it. Here is... This is from... No wonder I didn't get that package. Well, a McDonnell Douglas DC-1030 cargo jet carrying electronics across the United States from Memphis to San Jose. This was 1994. Auburn Callaway, Federal Express employee facing possible dismissal for lying about his reported flight hours, boarded the scheduled flight as a deadheaded passenger with a guitar case, carrying several hammers and a spear gun. Good. Also, you know, the merger of or the change

43:19 of German wings to Euro wings by Lufthansa and these guys were all looking at pay cuts and you know that could be a reason if someone wanted to do this. I would say Shantix would be number one. I still don't know why the pilot in command left the flight deck and why he was not able to get back in but we don't know. This is what I don't like. It's all bullshit. It's all, it's completely, there's no evidence, no data, please let me hear at least the cockpit voice recorder. Otherwise, I can't take any of it seriously. Well, it's really a shame that the New York Times would be the one to trigger all this gossip. Gee! Seriously. Are you kidding me? No!

43:58 There's gambling going on here? I'm shocked. I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. The New York Times, they run interference for everybody. This is big. This is so big. The EADS or what is it called now? The Airbus Consortium. This is big. And by the way- I'll give you a prediction. This will be blamed on one of the pilots. Definitely. And who pops up immediately? Merkel and Hollande together? They're going to the crash site, you know, nothing wrong here. Of course, they're both in the Airbus consortium, both countries. So to me, it sounds like we need to let everybody know this has nothing to do with our product.

44:44 And I think the product is generally safe, but there have been these strange occurrences. There's computers that are the problem. There was a book that came out about that. Yes, it's called the Unabomber Manifesto. Besides that one, it reminds me I've got to get to... It's linked in the show notes. You can always download the copy. But no, there was a book that came out that was documenting all these crazy follow-ups that happened to people. because of the computer glitches. Just bad programming is what it really is. And my favorite one, which is the most gruesome one, is there was a CT scanner, which is a massive x-ray machine, that was computer controlled for the purposes of this very advanced testing. And I guess the first round of software is that when you punched in how much rentkins you want to drill the guy with,

45:34 If you use the delete key to back it off It just added more zeros. It's a bug it happens exactly bug. It's a bug and so you say oh no I don't want 10 million I want you know 10,000 so you pop off three of the zeros which added three zeros 10 billioners and this poor bastard got roasted in this thing this is why I'm saying I it was not necessarily a great idea to remove flight engineers. If you recall, there was a flight engineer on every big aircraft. The guy sat sideways and he monitored everything. Now, we're seeing unintended consequences of technology all the time. I believe this is certainly one of them. But I've seen this happen myself. I flew a Eurocopter for a while, which is a nice craft.

46:26 But it's all managed by Windows NT and I've seen the flight management crash while I was flying. The NT crashed, it rebooted. So I had effectively, I had there's some steam gauges so I could know where my N1 was for the, it was a turbine engine. But I really had no other information. Everything went out, navigation, the whole thing. So, obviously there's some standard gauges so I could fly if necessary, but just to have a computer flight control system reboot mid-flight? That's not good. Well, let me tell you my story. And I think this is the reason that people are dropping Microsoft Sync. And Microsoft Sync, of course, was put in cars so it could do some entertainment stuff. But there was a long-term goal is to, you know, kind of simplify

47:22 the vehicles wiring in all cars to one bundle of network wiring instead of like a million wires. There's no reason to have a wire going from the switch to the backlight and then another wire going from the switch to another backlight and have this huge cables, most cars have this harness it's called, of tons of wires and it could all be done by one wire on a network, because that's how networking works. You just have one wire touch everything and then the network takes care of it. So this is the long-term goal of automobile engineering, because it would save a fortune. So I'm... Passengers be damned. So I'm reviewing actually a Ford C-Max

48:04 And I'm up in Washington and I'm going to drive all the way to California in this thing. I'm dragging my daughter down with me. What kind of automobile is this? It's a funky looking Ford. It's actually a pretty nice car to drive. But it's a hybrid. Yeah, it's a hybrid. Well, the one that people buy is a hybrid. This one was just a straight gasoline. It got a good mileage, 37. So even though it said 50, all these mileage things are bogus. So I'm, it's Christmas time so I've got a CD in the player playing some, a song. I guess it's, and all of a sudden the- Grandma got run over by a reindeer, I'm just guessing. It was something stupid. And everything except the heater, thank God, is controlled by this system, this computer that's in the car. Sync, Ford Sync.

48:58 which is actually Microsoft's product. All of a sudden, out of the blue, after coming out of the gas station, the thing crashes. It crashes and it's just a blank screen. It's just sitting there and I'm pushing buttons. I'm trying to do anything I can to get it rebooted. I'm trying to find out how to reboot it. It won't reboot. But the CD keeps playing the same song over and over and we've got 10 hours And you couldn't shut it off then shut it off. You can't turn it down. It was the whole thing was a mess So I was playing this stupid song the whole while I'm getting tired after about an hour of this and nothing works but luckily the heater somebody was wise enough and Ford to disconnect some stuff from this crazy device and So you keep the heat on because it was freezing out would have froze to death in the car. I

49:44 So this thing's going on and so I finally got on the phone and called a couple of dealers that are on the way down saying, how do I fix this thing? Or what can I do? Do I have to come in and say, oh yeah, this, and the guy says, oh yeah, this happens a lot. Good work. This is terrible. So I'm finally about two hours into this. I, I just about 10 miles away from the dealer that'll, that'll at least look at it. It rebooted and started over again. It was fine after that, but it took like over two hours to reboot. And this is the, this is a, this, this stuff sucks. This is, these are the unintended consequences of relying on technology.

50:25 There's a lot of these things that are going to happen. Look at, well there's more planned, but look at online banking. Cash, cash being outlawed and what happens? Well you're gonna have little glitches. We'll be all conditioned to trust a glitch. You're not gonna have money and just all this, all unintended consequences. Yeah, you're not gonna, that's gonna happen a lot. Oh yeah. Where's my money? You know the French just put a rule in you cannot pay someone More than 1,000 euros in cash. It used to be 3,000 now it's 1,000. Why? For terrorists. Terrorist funding. Uh-huh. Really? Well that's what they say, yeah. I have it right here. War on cash, yes. France steps up monitoring of cash payments to fight quote low-cost terrorism.

51:22 So, from September onwards people who live in France will not be allowed to make payments of more than €1,000 in cash down from the current €3,000 limit. Any cash deposit or withdrawal over the limit will be automatically signaled to the Trakfin Anti-Fraud and Money Laundering Agency. You get a knock at the door. Your own money. You can't use money. Another thing that kind of backs up your theory, there's another thing that guy said, the Rachel expert. He says that the Airbus 320 is kind of self-aware and it's pretty hard to crash it.

51:59 So even if you slip that switch and started to drop it would see it would notice because it has radar that there's a big mountain ahead and it would avoid it crashing. It does that. It doesn't like to crash. It tries to protect itself for the benefit of the company. That's what he said. Yeah. And I know that on a lot of these planes, you know, you have these... It'll do stuff that you don't want it... Here's the one thing I believe. that these guys were actually heroes and flew this thing into the mountains. They did what they could. So it didn't, you know, there's nuclear reactors that are not far, certainly if you're coming down from 38,000 feet. There's populated areas, but they really picked the best place for, you know, total disaster to put that thing down. They even apparently turned towards it.

52:50 Because when you do aviate, navigate, communicate, the first thing you're doing is making sure you can fly the plane. If you can barely fly it, okay, where am I? Where's this thing going to go down? And then on the way you start to make calculations. The not communicating part, I don't know. Yeah, who knows? Well, it'll come out in the wash. This is all speculation. It's too much of it. This is CNN's ratings are back up. Yeah, but it's no speculation on our part because I'm right up front. We don't even know if this This recording is real and why I mean it I mean the news is just elevating like crazy racials talking to my guys going crazy Terrorists jumping in the front seat. Yeah on the plunder flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. There's a there's a good one and That that'll really get people's attention. Yeah, I

53:40 That's good. All right. Do I have questions and answers I get to do here or not? Or is that well that we're gonna you're we are we done with the our discussion So bottom line when there is some actual data from well from the missing memory card You could see some some kid walking around there in the Alps Heidi Oh puts in her camera Bullshit bullshit. It's not it. It's not an SD card Free memory, holy crap 128 gigs I couldn't afford this car. When we actually know something, I'll be happy to give you some information. But just the way this was done with unnamed sources, highly ranked, anonymously to the New York Times, with assumptions such as it was the other guy banging on the door, smells of a big pot of bullshit. Alright, so this is the new Ask Adam segment. Does that mean we play a jingle for Ask Adam?

54:40 Yeah, I think we should do a little one here. I want you, this is Rachel, this is part of one of her, this is either about the Airbus crash or Bergdahl, I can't remember one of the two, but it's not, it's beside the point. I want you in clip one, this is one question, this is the Rachel one question, I want you to play this very short clip and tell me what she says. Okay. These new tails. Hmm. Hold on. Do I get another, uh... Yeah, you can play as much as you want. These new tails. These nude tails? These new tails. New tails? These new tails. No, she's saying something. New tails. She's saying something else. Nude. Nude? These new tails. No, you... Why are you putting... Why are you leading the witness? I am. Stop it! Be quiet! New tails. New tails? Nude? These new tails.

55:37 These, I'm gonna say these new tales. Alright, now play the... I'm just guessing I was wrong. Now play the bigger thing so you can catch context and maybe understand what she tried to say. Sympathetically that NBC News has not independently confirmed these new tales that have been provided to the Times. Oh, she was trying to say new details? Yeah. Okay, I'm sorry, but but it leads me to the second part the second part of the quiz this is a infomercial for our country-western song set

56:16 and you're going to hear Charlie Pride kibitzing with Crystal Gale. Oh, from Brown Eye Blue? Don't Make My Brown Eyes Blue? Yeah, that girl. Beautiful song. She says something and then they cut right to Tammy Wynette's chest and tell me that she's not saying what I think she's saying here. Country music crossed over to the pop charts. As radio stations across America played the newest hits. Yeah, there's a nude erection. She says nudes. She says nudes. New tits. New tits. The newest tits. She says they play it again. It clearly says new tits. No, she says newest tits. She says new tits. New tits.

57:05 All right. Remember, I have a new direction. Country music crossed over to the pop charts. As radio stations across America played the newest hits. She says the newest hits. Oh, newest hits. The newest. New, new or newest. Newest hits and now we wouldn't have any place to tell me where to go. Yeah. She doesn't say newest hits. No, she says newest hits. She says newest hits. Yes. That's what's clearly on her mind. It's a Freudian slip. Yeah, I thought so. But you think they'd edit these things out? Isn't that a live show? No, it wasn't live. It was it was a bull crap thing. They, you know, one of those paved paved by the hour. Yeah, but they couldn't because they already had the track underneath. You can't separate that when you do it again. So I understand. I understand how that works. And it's funny. Let's face it. It's funny.

57:53 Or I'll be sitting there in the control room like, pffft, did you hear what she said? Yeah, keep it in. Should we burn that? No, keep it in, keep it in, it's good, it's funny, it's funny. Alright, I'm sorry I went this way. That's okay, because with that it is time for me to thank you very much for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C, where the C stands for cockpit voice recorder Dvorak. And in the morning to you Adam Curry also in the morning all ships and sea boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the water and all the dames and Knights out there in the morning to all the newest hits in the chat room. No agenda stream calm. Thank you all for being here and Depleting your 9.2 million dollar value lifetime value that is in the morning to Lindh Hartson Lindh Hartson did the album art and

58:42 for episode 706 and I think was this another one we were not sure what we're going to do? No, actually I think we were spot on. We were agreeing scrubbing was the title. Oh yes, the Islamic State group logo, right. That was good. Well, we had, I also used the Martin JJ art for, I believe, the evergreen piece for the newsletter. Which, yeah, didn't do that well. It was a newsletter that was pretty Lame I guess I didn't think it was lame. Yeah, I didn't do didn't you didn't people didn't go Oh all these guys and so we ended up with like no we got one. We actually have one by default

59:27 The Baron AJ Reistad who had actually donated for show 700 and wanted a forward of a second because it was a double you get double credits. And so he got his second credit and I don't see that he sent us a note. It was Eric The Chill who caught it. No, he emailed and I forwarded the email to Eric. Oh yeah, you were copied on it, don't worry. Somehow I missed it. He did LIFO. And it works for me. So yeah, that's good. Well, okay, good. Well, let's start with Baron AJ Rice that who contributed 707 nice for show 700 and also gets credit for show 707 becomes member of the 707 club. Yeah, Caldwell, Idaho. No jingle request, but a birthday shout out for the following human resources would be greatly appreciated. He talks about his wife of 10 years, Peggy on the 20th of March, her daughter, Katie, who turns eight on April 2nd. And then Aries, our son, Nate, who turns

1:00:20 5 on the 14th of April. Also Aries. Bunch of Rams. Yep. Again, thanks for that. By the way, this is the year of the Ram from Chinese New Year, so you get, this is the good one, you get the double hit. Again, thanks for the special consideration for granting dual credits for future episodes if it only, if only for me, it seems. Then we have an executive producer named Anonymous 45678. No name or location, he says. Those are our two executive producers. Oh, that's it? Yeah, and then, so she's only got two of those. Linton, this is why I said the newsletter didn't do anything. Linton Harry, Darwin, North Northern Territories, Australia, 200. Thanks for the great show from Darwin. And then Dame Francine Hardaway from Phoenix, 200.

1:01:11 And she says I want my bad science and perky breasts. Please look up my balance so I can see if I become a baronetess soon. She posted something on Twitter I think. She said, you know, if I make baronetess... Do I get bad science and perky breasts? And I've met Dame Francine. It's weird when women say they want perky breasts. It's weird. I felt uncomfortable answering the question. I did. But Dame Francine, we're happy to do an investigation once you have your title. Yeah, we'll do something for you. Just let me know. And that's it. That's all we got. Thank you very much. I want to remind people, we do have a show on Sunday.

1:01:55 What is this today's Thursday today Sunday today's Thursday is on third on Sunday We got a show which is a short week, which so if we have any input like this again, it's gonna be crap and We would hope people were more enthusiastic about the show since we're doing stuff. Nobody else does I made that point clear Yes, that was yeah, that was the newsletter did so well when you made that point We also still have our Fletcher Fest on deck. This is a special donation amount 314.15. We'll have a big who-how mix of all the different shouts. He did already send me the... We're not going to do this forever, by the way. If it doesn't get any more traction, we're just going to end it. By the way, I will mention, I will apologize that I did not get to the post office box on time.

1:02:41 It was closed? Because I, no. I had to go out to Fry's to get gear to get this double monitors to work. And I go there and nobody in the place, I said well I can't get the questions I want answered on Line because everyone is the answer to everything apparently is buy a Mac Yeah, so I decided well, you know, they have people that did that the help desk at price and there's a couple different ones Nobody knows anything DisplayPort is a huge mystery. In fact, I wrote a note This will be a complaint by the way for a while. So I wrote a note to the display port org folks and

1:03:17 And I asked him about this problem because they have a FAQ on their website, because DisplayPort is the way we're all going to be stuck using these machines. So they have a huge FAQ. 90% of it, well, this is an exaggeration, but too many questions on the FAQ as though people were going to ask this question is, Does my DisplayPort 2.2 or 3.0, does it make sure that the copy protection works so I can be assured that I can't copy anything from the video stream? So all the copy protection works? Like, anybody cares about that, except the people that are putting out copyrighted stuff, right? I don't know, you lost me five minutes ago.

1:04:06 I just wanted to play the Fletcher shouts that we have. Now we're at fries. I'm sorry. It's just as a thing is that so I didn't get to the post office because that was so these will be it's okay. It's okay. It's okay. These will be made available. We had Ron Pepper who got that one. And Pepper also wanted a Rebecca as well. Rebecca. That's a good one. I like it. And then the way his voice cracks that makes it so entertaining. And then we have Tim Nonymous. Tim Nonymous! Now, so this will not last forever. We'll have all of them available. Hopefully one of our sound mixologists will make a cool mix of it all, which I'll put them all in a bin and everyone can grab them, particularly if your name is Pepper or Rebecca. That's good. Fletcher's also expanding.

1:05:02 Is he gaining weight? No, he's done a new form of jingle. I thought somehow he did this and I think he nailed it. I wanted to discuss with the review board if the full board agrees. Alo Akbar! What did he say? Alo Akbar. Oh, Ali Akbar. But somehow the way the Akbar comes in I just thought was cute. Play it again. Sounds like a poo at the end of the I liked it. Yeah, it's kind of cool. All right Thank you very much to our executive producers and associate executive producers for supporting the program. We do need more help for the Sunday show And we'll work on a better newsletter, I guess

1:05:53 To remind you of the things we do to actually help. But there's also in today's program a lot of producers stepped up with the knowledge because they are in certain industries. So that is coming up. Dvorak.org slash NA. That is the one. Dvorak.org slash NA. Of course we always need people out there doing the incredibly important work of propagating the formula. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Yo, alrighty, but Well, you got Bergdahl to talk about it. Yeah, I'm glad you're doing that because I completely glazed over once I heard the charges I'm like, okay, we were right about that and just left it right about that left it for and for what it was All right, what you got? I got nothing did Bergdahl clip. Oh

1:06:56 I got the Bergdahl clip and I don't do we could talk a little bit about it and we're done. Now more on the case of US Sergeant Beau Bergdahl. He has been back in the US since being released by the Taliban last year in exchange for the transfer of five Guantanamo detainees to the nation of Qatar. Soon after that deal some of the men who served with Bergdahl came forward and said they believed he deserted his post. This afternoon at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Army Colonel Daniel King announced the charges against the soldier. The US Army Forces Command has thoroughly reviewed the Army's investigation surrounding Sergeant Robert Beaudry Bergdahl's 2009 disappearance in Afghanistan and formally charged Sergeant Bergdahl under the Armed Forces Uniform Code of Military Justice on March 25, 2015.

1:07:49 with desertion, with intent to shirk important or hazardous duty and misbehavior before the enemy by endangering the safety of a command in your place. It goes on and on. Now what ensues to me is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on the NewsHour and something everyone dreads. They've apparently given a block, the C-block. Oh, and they can't fill it for some reason? Well, they can fill it. So, Judy Woodruff, I guess, was sold a bill of goods on Bergdahl's attorney coming on, who's the Yale professor. He was a dud?

1:08:29 Oh, this is bad. He comes on and he's also a kind of an arrogant a-hole with a kind of a scruffy beard and he's just like a professorial type of is apparently Yale law and here's the way it starts this is the part one And with me now is Eugene Feidel. He is Sergeant Beau Bergdahl's lawyer. He is also a scholar in law at Yale University. Eugene Feidel, welcome. We know Sergeant Bergdahl got the news while he was at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Was he expecting this charge? What was his reaction?

1:09:07 Well, I can't tell you what his reaction was because that would be breaching the attorney-client privilege. So, I'm just here to promote my firm and... He's not even a firm. This is what his whole thing is and she just is irked by this, obviously. He won't even say what... Did Bergdahl wink? Oh, I can't say that because he had an attorney-client privilege. So, he goes on like this. This is his whole thing. She got nothing out of him. So, she decides to drop a little bomb on him and this is, to me, is the only thing she could do to actually kind of get at the guy. Is he guilty? Judy, I'm not going to go into that. I've made a point over the time since I was asked to represent Sergeant Bergdahl of not attempting to try the merits of the case in the media. I'm going to hold to that rule if you don't mind.

1:10:02 So she just says, is he guilty? Yeah. But you might as well... If she's not going to get anything out of this guy, you might as well throw that one out there, because that norm, I've never seen her do that ever. It is indeed one of the worst things. This is part of the problem. And even though I sometimes think to myself, self, would it be great if I had producers? You know here to write stuff and collect stuff and clip stuff and then I think to myself self No, because it would suck because then you have to do twice the amount of thinking what's on the clip was I didn't hear it How did he end it? What's the edit when you do everything yourself? You don't run into these things We would know if it was shite if she had done her own little pre-interview or whatever with the guy she would have known

1:10:44 Don't know why she didn't but I think he was off-site and she'd yeah, she doesn't do pre-interviews and the guy was off-site Why you bring this up? There was another interview which is doing the rounds Excuse me. This is one of the former Greenpeace guy who is now a consultant to Was a lot of GMO stuff Let me see, member... let me just see if I can find this guy's name. He was being interviewed in France about... I think he was there to promote this golden rice. We've talked about this before. The golden rice with the vitamin A. Yeah, which is going to save the world of overpopulation. I'm just cutting to the chase, that's what they're saying. That's really what they're trying to tell you.

1:11:32 So this guy is there and he consults for Monsanto. Patrick Moore is his name. And there's a report that came out, which I have not gone through in any detailed fashion yet, saying that Roundup Ready, the main Monsanto herbicide, insecticide, insecticide. No, herbicide. Okay, that does not kill their genetically modified seeds, which Bill Gates and these guys are trying to spread all over Africa because then we will own the continent. Well, we've been trying to kill off the Africans for some time. Hello, they're annoying.

1:12:13 I have stuff on that too. Anyway, so I do. So he, um, so the, the interviewer does something really, really interesting when this guy's pontificating about how safe Roundup Ready is. I believe that glyphosate in Argentina is causing increases in cancer. You can drink a whole quart of it and it won't hurt you. I'm sorry, you want to drink some? We have some here. I'd be happy to actually. Okay, you can drink a whole quart and it won't kill you and the guy says, oh you want some? We got some right here. Yeah, I'd be happy to. Not really, but I know it wouldn't hurt you. If you say so, I have some glyphosate. No, I'm not stupid.

1:12:48 First he says great interview first. He says you can drink it then he won't drink it. Yeah, you want to drink? I'd be happy to actually but not not really but I know it wouldn't hurt me if you say so I'm not stupid Ah, okay, so you... So it's dangerous, right? No, people try to commit suicide, but they fail fairly regularly. Tell the truth. It's dangerous to humans. No, it's not. So are you ready to drink one glass of nephosate? No, I'm not an idiot. Interview me about golden rice. That's what I'm talking about. Okay, then it's finished except then the interview is finished Yeah You're a complete jerk You're a complete jerk that is a great idea is it's more like clip of the day, but it's just

1:13:40 Why wouldn't I give it to you? I think it's because I think these kinds of things go on a lot. All the time. It's okay. I'm not- You're an idiot. You're a complete jerk. You're an idiot. It's good. Well, this does come amidst a whole bunch of news about- And by the way, let me- stop. If the guy comes on and makes a blanket statement, hey, you can drink- I drink a quart of it, and you won't even have a sip, What are you doing on the show? You big phony. That's why he left. He knew he had nothing left to do there. He sucked. But here's another thing people should be aware of. You're going to go on a show and pull a stunt like this. For one thing, you're dishonest to begin with. But if you're going to leave the guy

1:14:22 hang in there with you not in there, all he's gonna do is rag on you. That's what I would do. This guy, what a, I've only had one guy when I was doing real computing I think was the show, or software hard talk, one of the two. And I, this was during the early days of the MP3 era, and I had Skunk Baxter on, who's a very interesting character in himself. Wait, isn't he a bass player? No, he's the guitarist in... Guitarist. Yeah, yeah. That guy. And his manager... And his manager was a... I don't know what was wrong with the guy. But he was just yelling and screaming like a maniac about people stealing music. And it was crazy to the point where you couldn't ask him a simple question without him yelling and screaming. We had to kill the interview. We just killed it. We never ran. And... I've had some tough interviews in my time. You run into these guys and... or... but the worst, of course, is the guy who doesn't say anything.

1:15:23 Yeah, I had one, Brian Adams, who I was a huge fan of Brian Adams and finally I was gonna meet him, interview him, but he was on tour, which, you know, that's why I give him some leeway many years after the fact, but I was like excited, you know, like, oh cool, I'm talking to Brian Adams. He was a total dick. It's like, wouldn't answer anything, you know, just a glib. That is why I've always concluded you don't want it these whole discipline models Tara sounds good So I got another story. Let me I want to move on with Monsanto. Okay, go on. Oh, I'm sorry We're still on my we're still on Monsanto. That's better because we have a jingle, you know, so Play the jingle as often as possible and they should be licensing that from us by the way, it's a great good sound It's as good as see something say something Yeah, it's just as good

1:16:10 In fact, they are right next to each other on the jingle pad. Perfect. Interesting on Bill Maher's Overtime, which is the only real thing you want to watch from that stupid show. Then I had a whole bunch of nitwits on. But then one woman, I don't know who she was, she was talking about how many children she had. This is the de facto thinking. This is why you see a lot of population control, just nutty stuff. Bill Maher

1:16:47 you know really wants to have less children killed I think he wants to ultimately kill people off the planet earth and I listen to this and she had children in the natural way um but I I think it was an incredible baby I'm always for less babies being born because we do not have a horrible bill that's horrible I'm the mother of five kids I'm well you shouldn't be That's super selfish in a world where South absolutely They will be contributors to our society. I don't care. They'll be takers of water Here this every takers of water and resources In the

1:17:38 the birth rate in the United States as it continues to decrease at least the schlaps are providing some extra kids here and there. Well we don't need extra kids. And they're half Cuban so there you go. And Irish and German. The world does not have enough resources. Oh, come on. What do you mean, come on? What is your problem with facts? Facts, facts, facts. on the best podcast in the universe.

1:18:21 Less water less fertilizer less land you can see a world of nine million people which were Closing in on but we get great resistance just to have an intelligent conversation about it And I think that's part of the solution to the world population and Monsanto children are not synthetic. There you go I'm telling you there's a there's a move. There's a push and it's it's no bueno Well, it sums up with Monsanto. Well, here's the... Well, before you go on, I've tried to stop the clip, but I don't think you can hear me. Not always, no. It was... what is it? The guy said... he used the term and then it reminded me, was that human eaters or useless eaters? Yeah, yeah, that's... who said that? The useless eaters? That was a kind of... He had a different version of the same thing. Oh, that was Prince... wasn't it Prince Charles? I think it was Prince Charles who said that.

1:19:15 I don't think so. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Useless. You know what we do when we do that? But that's disgusting. I mean some, you know, I don't know. I'm trying to see useless eaters. How's it selfish to have five kids? Henry Kissinger apparently. I'm just reading. No, I don't believe that either. Urban Dictionary, term implied in National Security Study Memorandum 200 written by Henry Kissinger, basically implies there are too many useless eaters consuming valuable resources would be better used by a reduced world population. Well, Bill Maher and Kissinger, same thing.

1:19:53 But it is happening and there are now approved, well listen to this report. By the way, biotech, I like that better than GM. Biotech fruits and vegetables, that sounds so trendy. Yeah, most humans want their food for indefinite use and aesthetic appearance. Fuck nutrition! Most humans want indefinite use and perfect aesthetics. Now the regular apples we're accustomed to eventually turn brown after being sliced open or when rotting, but the Arctic apples approved by the FDA have been genetically engineered

1:20:39 to stay crisp and resist any kind of discoloration. So the fruit of temptation will look flawless for hours or even days after being sliced open. Meanwhile, the GMO innate potatoes approved by the US government will be altered to resist bruising. When fried, they will reportedly produce less of a potential carcinogen. Now advocates say keeping the produce flawless will cut food waste and make the apples and potatoes more appealing. But amid growing backlash and public concern surrounding GMO foods, some experts believe consumers may abandon apples and potatoes altogether. The US government claims the genetic Arctic apple

1:21:19 and innate potatoes are as safe as their conventional counterparts. But there's reason for the public to be skeptical. In 2013, the US assured the public that the widely used weed killer known as Roundup is safe to use without unreasonable risk to people or the environment. Yet last week, a branch of the World Health Organization released a study indicating that an active ingredient in Roundup can probably cause cancer. Monsanto, the world's largest producer of GMO seeds and Roundup dismissed the WHO study as inaccurate and dramatic. Now there's something called the Cartania protocol but I think that's it. I want to, before you go there,

1:22:04 I wouldn't want an apple. Apples oxidize, that's what happens when you cut one open. The surface, you know, it's a living product and it's alive. It's food. It's food for the seeds. It's a plant. It's a growing thing. And it's... It does things naturally. I'm sure these apples are inert, just like eating a... There's probably no way... Like a kid could eat a tennis ball, it would have the same nutritional value. It might even be tastier. They taste similar. I don't believe for a minute. The problem that they've always come up with, I mean, McDonald's has been breeding a certain kind of tomato that holds up better and stores better and is firmer.

1:22:45 But these things have no flavor. Zero flavor. And once they are confronted with a real tomato, which is you pretty much have to grow your own unless you're in an area that has good farmers markets, then they go, ooh, what is that? It looks ugly but it has all kinds of lumps on it. That's no good. Well, it's not even the lumps, it's the flavor. They don't want the flavor. There was this segment of the population that wants bland food. They want a bland potato and a bland piece of lettuce and a bland tomato and a bland potato. It's ridiculous. Anyway, I'm sorry. I'm in total agreement. Total agreement. And you know, they never breed. They go, oh, they're going to breed this, they're going to breed that. They never breed for flavor, ever. I've never heard of one product ever genetically, I should say genetically modified for flavor. I've never heard of anyone saying, oh, here, we found a flavor, a flavor gene. Let's put it in this spud. Maybe it'll taste more potato-y.

1:23:43 No, they never do that. In 2003, 168 nations adopted the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which puts the precautionary principle as primary, i.e. if you have not sufficiently proven safety of genetically modified organisms and other bioengineered crops, protection of human health is primary, not the protection of free trade, which is what this is really all about. Once the protocol came into force, of course we had huge lobby, and African governments and institutions We're lobbying hard for GMO crops to be accepted with minimal safety assessment and the USAID is of course assisting the regional economic communities in Africa to develop policies aimed at doing anything but ensuring bio-safety. USAID, hello. The Belinda Gates people, they're big investors in Monsanto.

1:24:38 Yeah, yeah, that and Corrections Corporation of America and some other things that have nothing to do with vaccines or malaria. And so they're all over this because, of course, the trick is once you got the seeds in, which are patented, trademarked, copyrighted, etc., then you're stuck. You can't get out. You're with Monsanto. And even if your neighbor does it and stuff blows over, you're with Monsanto. Or you're arrested for stealing their valuable seeds as they have patented nature. They're contaminants. Yeah, they have patented nature. It's a beautiful thing. Well, this is like an issue in India where there's... Oh, people are killing themselves all the time. Suicides left and right because they get stuck into one of these...

1:25:23 downhill spirals of these crappy seeds that they can't reproduce themselves. The natural way it used to always be done, you'd grow something and then part of the crop would be used for seeds for next year. Yeah. No, you have to re-license every year with Monsanto. Yeah, you have to re-license and you can't even, half the time the seeds are, or you have to come right from Monsanto. You can't even use the seeds that you made. No. They should be able to fix them. I don't know they should just There's they should take well just having people aware of what's going on is important. I think that's doesn't help That's the well then there are farmer farmers markets, and we've got a hey you put in your body what you want Yeah, you're gonna get you voted off the island eventually all right. Let's roll into some caliphate I

1:26:15 So we're still trying to Get the author as authorization of use of military force some changes up on the hill as to the wording but first I would like to play a little bit of retired commander of Africom this the United States Africa Command, Carter Ham. We know where they headquartered again, I forgot. In Italy, I believe. Yeah, Italy. That makes nothing but sense. Carter Ham, I believe, was he the one that gave a reportedly gave a stand down order to go and save our ambassador? Oh yeah, he was in on the he was in on the scam. Yeah. He has a good consulting gig, couple of consulting gigs, but yeah.

1:27:06 But he has something to say about something he has absolutely no knowledge of whatsoever, which always makes it funny. So his job is to now respond and explain how terrorists compiled this hit list of military personnel. We've discussed these things before. So they had a hit list of 800, I think, family names. These are the military personnel that ISIS, ISIL are going to go kill. And we should all be really afraid instead of what we usually do. But they do this through very, very evil ways in social media. And when you hear a guy like Carter Ham talking about social media like he knows what he's talking about, pretty hilarious. General Ham, I want to talk to you about these threats to the family specifically. And you just heard Chairman McCaul talk about it could be possible they could carry out those threats. What does that do to a military community?

1:28:04 Martha, this is very disconcerting obviously to the families, the specific families that were identified in this release, but more broadly across the armed services to know that those who engage in social media, that that information now can be corrupted and used by a terrorist organization to threaten, and in worst case, what they hope to do is inspire or motivate someone here in the United States. Here's how it went. General Carter, we got a gig for you. Oh cool. What is it? You're gonna go talk about social media and list. Okay. Do you have my talking points? Yeah, here it is. Yeah, they can manipulate the information you post on social media. No problem. I got it. I can wing this. He used the term corruption or corrupt. Yeah, you can corrupt the data. How? He's full of crap. He has no idea what he's talking about.

1:29:00 That's why I liked it. I motivate someone here in the United States to attack or kill these service members or their families. And I have to say that... Let's review. Has this happened? No. Oh. No, but they found a list. Did they catch a guy trying to do it? They found a list. They found a list? Yeah. They could have written a list themselves. This could be bull crap. Do I have to play this gambling clip every single time or Let's hear that little bit again. That that information now can be corrupted and used by a terrorist organization to threaten and in worst case what they hope to do is inspire or motivate someone here in the United States to attack or kill these service members or their families. So by posting on social media that can be corrupted so that they come and kill you. Just a slight leap.

1:30:01 Just bear with me. And I have to say that last night when this first came out, I went on Facebook to see if I could find those people that they talked about. Very easy to find. The Defense Department said clean up your social media. I went on again this morning and some of those pictures were still public and those names on Facebook accounts showing they're in the military. I suppose you would say get that off social media as well. Yes, the Department of Defense has been very active over the past many years of reminding service members and their families to be very cautious about the information that you put on social media, disabling your geolocation, being very circumspect about the location of the service members for precisely the reason that has now played out. And I worry that this increasing sophistication by these Islamic terrorist organizations to manipulate social media to their own ends is a very worrying trend.

1:30:56 Very worrying trend. Let me mention something So the most popular show on television is NCIS. NCIS has been all in. Their spin-off shows, not so much. Especially NCIS LA, which seems to have its own agenda. But NCIS is all in on whatever the government is telling them to write. I think they're one of the members of that. Yeah, the Lear Foundation Hollywood scripts writing shows. So the last show this last week that was about people using social media too much And then, and so there was some woman in this armed services talking about they're not, they're not going to be home allowing some burglars to come in and rip off the place because the woman was always posting. The husband was in Afghanistan and she was posting left and right when she was at the beach. And so they came in and meanwhile

1:31:51 some terrorist found out about this, was expected to find her getting home or something and he had to kill the burglar and the terrorist. It is a convoluted story that actually didn't make any real sense. But this is all this, this anti-social media thing is getting steam in the regular mainstream dramas. I'm going to ask you, since you're the one that brought this subject up, why? What's going on that they want these they want us all to be more circumspect with our social media? This is a good one. Well, I think I started the segment off by Telling you why is that we are working on the author as there was my next clip the authorization on use of military force against is

1:32:37 At the same time, the budget is being put together. We have three budgets, one from the president, one from the armed forces committee, I have all these listed somewhere. They vary, but in general, we're moving towards almost $700 billion annually for the military budget, which is an increase along with the sequestration removal, which will result in a trillion dollars more spending It truly is the only economy we have. It's what we do. So we need to keep the people stupid and afraid. I think this has to do with these shysters like Richard Clark and the others who are trying to horn in on something that's not necessary, which is cyber. Yeah, well, that's a new military department. Oh, yes. Well, we know the CIA is setting up a full cyber department. Here's

1:33:29 This was a little exchange, if you get bored of it I'll stop, but it was Moulton, not sure where Moulton's from, talking with Ashton Carter, then Dempsey pops in, and this is about the specific enduring time period for the authorization for use of military force, when they say AUMF. So you recall that in the actual proposal I think I have it here. The actual quote was that this will be an enduring operation, enduring offensive ground combat operations. And we, of course, looked up the meaning of enduring. And since we had Operation Enduring Freedom, we pretty much know that it's at least 13 years. But they decided to change this and they put us in the proposal for this AUMF. They put in a change with a sunset clause of three years.

1:34:28 Which is interesting. And listen now to Carter and I thought it was pretty funny how Dempsey comes in, the leprechaun, with his super suit. What that really means because does that mean we're really going to stop? Because we can't have the military industrial complex actually thinking that it's only for three years. We need this to go on forever The time limitation has nothing to do with the length of the campaign It it I cannot tell you that the campaign will be over in three years I don't think anybody can tell you that the that feature of the AMA UMF is included in

1:35:07 for reasons that are not military related, they're related to the fact, they're derived from the fact that we will have a new president. So what he's saying here is this three-year thing, that's only because we have a new president, not because ISIS is not going to be beheading people. In three years. the AMF provides for a new president and for that matter a new Congress to revisit this issue. Now that's not something that comes from the Secretary of Defense or I would say from our thinking but we understand, you know, God forbid, and respect it. It derives from the way the Constitution regards

1:35:51 use of military force as a very grave matter in which the Congress and the executive branch play a role. So I understand that, I respect that, but the number three doesn't come from the campaign. It comes from our political system. And again, as I understand and respect that, and I hope the result of all this is an AUMF that Tells our troops that we're behind them in this fight That's the key thing to me in addition to having the flexibility to mean to carry out the campaign that'll win one of the one of the questions I had was The hostility would the if the hostility It doesn't say anything about the termination of hostilities at this guy is he's trying to make the point He's using up all his valuable time, but he wants to hear is

1:36:40 whether he wants it to be said or whatever, I'm not sure what side he's on. He wants to hear that, oh this three years, it's just that's just for the new president coming in. We'll probably up the whole AUMF and change it to have more stuff. Yeah, it's got to go up. Yeah, we don't want it just to be stuck in some... I think they actually realized they made a mistake. Oh man, if we put enduring in there, then we can't go back and change it to put more crap in. Right, we can't add more money to this budget. Three year period. Is it your feeling that hostilities could continue? And that we could have actions against ISIL beyond the three years as currently written and implemented?

1:37:20 General. My military experience and judgment suggests that the answer to your question is it will likely extend beyond three years. Likely? My military experience? Dude, I'm a disc jockey. I can tell you it's going to last longer than three years. Come on! This is what we... This is the economy of the United States of America. This is never ending. This is what we do. Money wastage. Besides that, China's going to attack any minute. okay there's a need for a rescue mission when the world is threatened the world needs help it calls on America

1:38:03 And that's the story. I just want to play one more piece of this clip where this guy asks a question and I thought Dempsey's comeback was pretty good. Could it extend, could hostilities extend without a new AUMF by a new commander? If I understood the question, the enemy gets a vote as we say and how long hostilities extend. I don't, I actually don't understand the question. Sure, sure. I was saying what the hell you were talking about, son. No way. Well, you always want to preface your, at government hearings, if you're anyone who goes and does one, you, if you can preface your answer with some doubting commentary about you didn't understand the question, because that way you can't be called out. And it certainly gives you time to think if you need it. Well, it does that too. But the main thing is you never can perjure yourself. Right.

1:38:58 If you say if you say something like that, there's also a look along with this What was this report MIT? technology review they showed data mining Twitter data reveals the origins of support for Islamic State and somehow I'm now supposed to believe that The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has really checked out all of these accounts and the people behind them and therefore has been able to come up here as the subhead. Studying the pre-Islamic state tweets of people who end up backing the organization paints a revealing picture of how support emerges through social media.

1:39:44 No it doesn't. Can we just get real? Do we really care about our fans or is this just another deal? Is there another way that we lost our way? Social's about the people, remember? We are people. Do we really need another like, fan, or share? Do we need another post to show up everywhere? I hope as we scatter that we never forget. This is the song, isn't it? Live forever, even when we go. Come on, sing. Here we go. So connect with me.

1:40:28 Alright, perfect. Alright, well that reminds me, as a segue, this isn't gonna go no further. No. So we have 86 the birthday of the famous poet beat poet who is something of a character in Lawrence Ferlinghetti very famous Beat poet from the 50s and 60s. I had his 96th birthday. Can you explain a beat poet? Is that way instead of clapping you snap your fingers? Oh

1:41:21 Well, you go to a coffee shop, somebody would be reading some dry poetry, you'd be on the bongos. I'd be on the kazoo. You'd be on the bongos listening while drinking cappuccino and probably stoned on reefer. Black turtleneck. Black turtle neck, right? You look like a guy with black turtles. Stoned on reefer. And listening to the guy read the poems. But anyway, Fröling Getty owns the City Lights bookshop, which was opened years and years ago, and it's still in San Francisco. He's got some complaints about, you know, the latest thing going on. So here's what he says.

1:42:07 Today, San Francisco is better known as a central hub of the tech boom. A city of entrepreneurs and companies like Twitter that have become international giants. And while that boom is credited with driving unemployment to an all-time low, it's also blamed for rapid gentrification, making the city unaffordable for many. And that rankles Ferlin Getty. A new brand of dot-com millionaires. and generally Silicon Valley money have moved into San Francisco. The bags full of cash and no manners. The pace of change, Berlinghetti says, has quickened beyond control. Okay, I get it. Yeah, he's right. Bags full of cash, no manners. Bags full of cash, no manners. No manners. They're all douchebags. And so this, you know, he's an old guy from the area and, you know, he says, this is a birthday, it should show some respect. But in the manner of, oh, get a Mac.

1:43:06 As commentary, and by the way this is going to be our, probably our ultimate demise, will be a similar kind of reaction from the no manners, casual, callous a-holes who have taken over the place. this is what you end up with. Of course, Ferlin Getty's is not the only view of San Francisco these days. When a version of this story was posted online recently, he did draw support, but there were a few strong blasts as well. What a crank, wrote one person. The city is still as vibrant and creative as it ever was, except now young ambitious people are in tech. Another wrote, in 60 years I'll be complaining about the new crop of San Franciscans. Fogies gonna fogue. Oh, it's ageism. You're a crank, you're a fogie, and fogies gotta fogue. Yeah, get the fogue out of here.

1:44:05 Anyway, I just thought that was a little insight into the area. Nobody actually knows who this guy is. Once the money runs out, everyone will be broke and gone. It's bound to happen. I've witnessed it. Twice. You've seen it twice, I think. I saw it at least twice. I probably didn't notice it at least one more time, but I saw it during the CD-ROM era. Ah, yes, multimedia. Multimedia, right, that's it. We're going to have magazines will be on disc, multimedia. Multimedia, boom. Hypercards. Just before the internet. Macromind director.

1:44:40 And so you could buy all these different discs and have a quick did some interfaces on these days fantastic and what happened the web happened boom They got wiped out and they were all singing the blues and then we had dot-com one what was it John? What was it? What was that? There was a standard that came out around that time for was it a device for like multimedia? But there was some device a bunch of standards that came out There was an actual box that everyone was really excited about that went absolutely nowhere It'll come to me. I'd have to think about it. Whatever the case was, that was wiped out. Then the dot comers were wiped out some years later. Not that many years later, but 10 years later. And now we have this new boom, which I don't even know what the basis of it is, but it's huge. It's the biggest of the three. And these guys are going to get wiped out too.

1:45:32 this time they're building to an extreme in san francisco they showed it on this thing and the apartments going up everywhere they're not like the new york apartments which are you know the fifty sixty million dollar of of but an apartment apartment which has become a big deal by the way norman lear is in one of those fancy was cd i CDI. Thank you, Void Zero. CDI. I remember now. There's an apartment complex in New York City that took over as the place to have a place, which is 15 Central Park West.

1:46:08 and uh... but i think they typically thirty million and uh... forty million for a of but apartment or a condo their condos you buy them and did your buddy norman lear who's been in flu trying to influence them television uh... operations so that everyone has a diesel liberals as he was really live in these places are liberals we pointed this out for normal ear has a place right there if it's not there yet central park west How do we even get on that? I was talking about Ferlinghetti. Ah, yes. So getting no respect a 96 year old man being called a crank. Oh Well, I think it's very interesting. But you know things always centralized decentralized the cycles come and go and we were at now I was watching some of the f8

1:46:57 The Facebook Developers Conference yesterday, they streamed that live. I think there was a Dutch girl who was doing kind of like hosting and stuff. She was pretty good. She had a real heavy accent, but they never put up a lower third. I couldn't figure out who she was, but actually she did a pretty good job. So I'm watching this and the big thing now is that Facebook is saying, you know, if you're in news organizations, if you really want to succeed, you need to put your news into the Facebook feed make it native to Facebook and I know certainly a number of big media operations are going to do this and I just because you know God forbid you have to click on a link and it opens a tab or a browser and do that too much work by the way I want to say one thing about iOS

1:47:47 I'm okay with you having Twitter, Facebook app people. It's okay for me if you open up in your own little browser thing. But then at least let me access my bookmarks so I don't have to always open in Safari. It's like three, it's annoying. So either pop it open to the browser or let me access my face, my bookmarks. Anyway, we have now come full circle, John. Because with the news and being safe in Facebook, what have we just created? AOL! This is exactly what it was! It was safe! We created AOL a while back, but okay. But now with the news, the actual news stories being native to Facebook not popping out to the open web... Hey, AOL was never a bad idea!

1:48:36 for people that don't have a clue. So here's the vision at the time, a little bit of Adam Curry history, when I registered MTV.com in the very early 90s and I talked to management at MTV and said, oh that's, go ahead, we don't really believe in this internet thing. By the way, we have the AOL keyword. That's when I knew they had no future. So you knew that you had no future? They had no future. When they were excited about the AOL keyword instead of MTV.com. Oh yeah, AOL keyword. We should just put on our flyers and our plugs, AOL keyword, no agenda. That would be kind of good. I haven't seen anyone use that. That probably doesn't work anymore. I like it. I like it. By the way, we got, I think we got, one of our producers gave us information, apocalypse.com.

1:49:29 Which is kind of weird to spell, but it's worth it. Anyway, let's go over to the Euro land for a moment. I've been following this Irish water thing. I think it popped up on board, reappeared on my radar because of the bogative California has one year left of water. Which by the way, you can go on the street in five years from now and people will still be saying it's a fact NASA said only one year left of water. It's really, it's amazing to me. No, it's not amazing. When did NASA become this, I thought they were about space exploration. When did they become the water barons and the climate change experts? Mainly that one guy, Hanson. It's a government organization, they'll do what they're told. They're looking for something to do, I guess. So in Ireland, not to be confused with Northern Ireland, in Ireland

1:50:26 They've been running into problems with the budget and water is, as far as I know, has been free. It's a free resource. Your taxes are already paying for your water. Sounds good. And they want to change this now. And this has been going on for a while. There have been many protests. And let's just listen to a little update and I'll tell you what's happening. The government obviously is very pleased that a majority of people, a clear majority of people, have signed up to pay for water. It's an expensive resource. We need to provide huge investment in water and sewage infrastructure into the future. And that can only be done if there is a significant contribution from people who are using that facility. Obviously, there has to be fairness and balance in the system.

1:51:07 And if there are people who simply decide not to pay and who are in a position to pay, that can't be allowed to stand. There can't be a situation where any of us decide not to pay our bills. You know, if you come to a supermarket checkout and decide, no, not paying the bill and walk off, that's just not the way the system works. So how are they going to do it? If it was a grocery store that said free food? Yeah. The analogy is shite. But now Irish Water will be under a proposal, I don't think it's been signed into law yet, Irish Water will be able to deduct water bills directly from wages and welfare payments. How are they going to do this? There's no meters, are there?

1:51:46 You wouldn't have a system with meters unless you were going to charge people. So if it was free, why would they even put a meter in? So there's no meters. They're going to put meters in? That'll cost a fortune. Those who do not register will be charged a default rate of 260 euros per year with fines of 30 euros being added per year for single adult homes, 60 euros per year for multiple adult homes. A lot of this is principal, obviously. Also announced unpaid bills can be left as a charged on a property. Meaning a house cannot be sold unless the debt is paid. But this is where your cashless society is so handy. We just grab that money, take it right out of your account. Yeah, that's the way this works. I don't know how the Irish are, you know, if they're really going to stand up against this. I think there's a big protest happening on Saturday.

1:52:37 It's quite a rigorous change for them. What is the point? They're just trying to gouge the public with some new tax. You know, I bet you in some of these areas they charge you for the air you breathe. You can make an argument for that. You have to go in once a year like you do with your car to get it smogged. You have to go in once a year and they put a kind of a mask on you and you breathe in and out of the mask for five minutes and they can calculate how much air, which is a valuable resource, how much air you're breathing and then they can send you a bill. I don't see why not. It sounds like just same but they will send you a bill for carbon pollution Well, they can do that too. That'll happen. I think that'll happen most of the people around this area that Berkeley Bay Area Most of the people would buy into that because carbon pollution coming from humans is bad. It's too bad. We have so many humans We should all die Yeah, well, oh And this this will be the last one. I like the they will all die. Here we go. Oh

1:53:37 This is I actually I only got this clip yesterday But I've been looking around for the was it's under Under New World Order and the hell is this? This proposal which is obviously a war on men thing. Why can't I hear it banksters? Listen to this. This is a senator. Who is this? Shelby no shoot. I'm sorry now. I can't find this all of a sudden. Where is this? Talk me through it, John, while I'm looking for the clip. Well... Never mind. Yeah, keep going. Yeah, no. Yeah, no. Yeah, no. Yeah, no. Yeah, no. Yeah, no. Where the hell is... Oh, here it is. Yes, got it. It's about time. CBS. Have you heard there's a growing movement this morning to give the $20 bill a facelift? It's a mission to replace Andrew Jackson on the 20 with the female American hero.

1:54:30 When they narrow it down to one, Howard says they'll ask President Obama to order the Treasury Department... Do you know who the female American hero is? Well, it's not gonna be Hillary, because she's still alive, but they'd love to put her on the bill. I would think Tubbs would be a good possibility. Tubbs? Who's Tubbs? Tubman. Tubman? Yeah, Tubman. The one woman that was famous for helping the end of slavery, expediting it. Oh no, no, no, no. Harriet Tubman. Oh no, no, no. Okay, well let me get to that. That woman that was on the little dollars, what's her name? I can't think of her name, but she was named, the dollar was named after her. I'm gonna give you a hint. Silver dollar? I'm gonna give you a hint. What kind of a hint is that? Well, I'm gonna give you the hint. That was just announcing the hint. Here comes a hint. What? You have to think

1:55:23 killing people. Oh, some woman that kills a lot of people. Yeah. Well that could uh, uh, uh Eleanor Roosevelt? Let's listen. To order the Treasury Department to create a new 20. Just last year the president said he got a letter from a young girl asking him to put a woman on U.S. currency. Oh yeah. She gave me like a long list of possible women to put on our dollar bills and quarters and stuff. Which I thought was a pretty good idea. My personal choice would be Eleanor Roosevelt. Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin says Jackson, the seventh president, probably wouldn't even mind getting replaced. He didn't like banks anyway. I don't know that he would have liked to be on a bill because he was the one who fought the idea of the National Bank. And I thought on this clip they would mention the name is Margaret Sanger. Oh no! Yes, of Planned Parenthood. Known eugenicist.

1:56:21 That's who they're proposing. That is idiotic. Yeah. Well, they'll get a lot of pushback on that so it won't happen. Oh, it won't. But aren't most of the... mostly it's dead presidents. Well, we tried to push it through and the Republicans didn't like it. Republicans didn't like it, exactly. All right. If this doesn't get clipped at the good day, then I don't know what will. Well you got something... President Obama... Announcing, by the way let me just say something. Pre-announcing Clip of the Day as if you're going to get Clip of the Day is, takes a lot of nerve. Alright then we'll do this. I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah that'd be fab. On No Agenda!

1:57:10 already backed off and i think if you people that's okay to do the play rings sneakiness if you get a little i will robert warren because you did that to me once rises gimmick of the day never gave me come to the day robert warren yes the the donation of the daily solo in one thirty six thirty six in charlotte north carolina no comment terese allen tampa florida hundred thirty dollars patrick sullivan in sturgeon county alberta canada one twenty five Says cat pictures remind me of my own backyard. Oh, that's right. There's the cat in the snow picture. I used it before. I liked it. Maybe that's what didn't do help us. Sir Mike Shoemaker in Kelseyville, California. One, two, three, four, five. Sir James Zuckel, Zuckel, Zuckel, Zuckel.

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1:58:38 And whoops, whoops, whoops, whoops. That's sad. This thing skipped ahead too far. That was Jennifer. Okay, Ben Smith in Greenville, Texas. 73-73 K5, KF5 SWC, KF5 SWC. Sugar Whiskey Charlie. is you didn't give me 73s. I'm sorry. I was doing other things. Another 73 from London. Hold on, let me do the 73s. We have so many jingles that it's just... Well, I could actually use a dude just sitting on the... like Howard Stern has Fred.

1:59:26 Yeah, that's all he does. Yeah, that's true. But you can't afford it. Nope. And besides that you do a fine job. Rarely do you drop the ball. In fact, it's so rare to me that it's like, wow, that's astonishing. I should write I write the time and date. It's very kind of what you write it down when I do something good. Yes, I always write it down when you do something good. Is it one sheet? Mac Tank in La Jolla, California. 73's. Alan Hawes in Windsor, UK. Oops, we got a missed birthday call out here. So let's give him... get your pencil out. Okay, hold on a second. Yep, shoot. Birthday call out from my brother David Hawes who reached... From who?

2:00:13 David from Alan Alan Hawes the brother David was okay. He says 50 years old yesterday It's in Windsor. It's a nice little town. I've been there be Matt Bremer in Hamilton, Ontario Canada 5510 double niggles on the dime Josh McDonald double niggles on the dime Dodge Gaskell in Pensacola, Florida got a birthday call out there 5033 and the rest of these are $50 donations Which is not that many Anthony Dionisi in Reno Stuart Fawcett in Liverpool, England. Stan Berezuk, I don't know, I can't tell, but he's in Bothell, Washington, fine little town. Shad Rich and DeBendigo, 50. Ben R. in Traverse City, Michigan.

2:01:05 Ben R. and Brian Lanning in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Sandy Geisler in Watkinsville, Georgia. And finally, Macy Stalowski in Calgary, Alberta. And Joel Deruan. Daruin in Savannah, Georgia, and that will be it for our 707 list, which hopefully will be picked up a bit more in the Sports Show 708, hopefully. I got to, I emptied my PO box and there were two things in there that I wanted to share. First from Jonathan Beres, that's with the CZ at the end.

2:01:48 I just thought I would send out some of our sample candles for you to try out. Perfect for you. Exactly. My wife and I have been making them as gifts for a while and decided to try selling them online into local shops. So he gave me the Get Lucky. So these are candles in mason jars, which I like a lot. I like that idea. Until they break. Okay, Get Lucky, this smells a bit like cologne. This one has been a big hit with the women. Woods, a masculine scent with strong oak tones and just beachy and pine. It's really nice. A whole box full of these big mason jar candles. It's carriage-town-candle.com. Anyway, the other one I got a handwritten card and this is from Gene and Brian McGrew.

2:02:43 But they also sent a check to me, which please don't do that. Because it really messes up the account. You're just asking for trouble. Yeah, it's $50. Stop doing that. And it's longhand on the card. It was really nice. Just a quick note to thank. I'm reading the longhand. For all you do, my entire outlook has changed since listening to no agenda. I spread the word wherever I can, but I get scoffed at all the time. But over time, I still see I still see the seed of doubt in the minds of family and friends. No current events are left out in our no agenda discussions. My adult children really are not into politics, but even

2:03:26 Even when now and then I tell them how full of BS all of these idiots are. Once in a while when I tell them how full of BS all these idiots are. It's all slowly seeping in. Good luck in your future. You have many loyal friends to the seen and unseen. From Jeannie and Brian. 63 year old beach bum, mother of four. There's nothing like it. Huge range of listeners. That's the thing that fascinates me the most about our contingent of producers. And what do you think that is? It must be the universal language of comedy. Well, that's what you'd like to think I'd really like to think it's the universal language of comedy so damn slapstick comedy. That's right everybody org slash

2:04:21 Maron A. J. Reistadt says happy birthday to his wonderful wife Peggy, celebrates on the 28th, his daughter Katie, 8 on April 2nd, his son Nate, 5 on April 14th, happy birthday to you, Dodge Gaskill celebrating, celebrated on the 25th, and Alan Hawes, happy birthday to his brother David who celebrated half a century yesterday. We congratulate you all, all here on behalf of the staff and management of the best podcast in the universe. Bang! Oh, I have to do the... let's do a jobs as well and an F cancer, make sure everybody gets what they need. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs! You've got karma. There we go. Everything taken care of. The president was interviewed by the Huffington Post. He's everywhere.

2:05:13 And he loves it so much. He loves doing shows, talk shows, interviews. And of course this is all meant, I believe, to distract from people like Ted Cruz announcing and any other politics. Because it's fun. It's much more fun on the television, that's what we call news shows, to show a clip of the president being funny, which he's very good at. Very good at impromptu and just good at it. And he used one of my favorite terms, which he has used before, which I believe is, he really means, because these words matter, but was not picked up on in this interview by the Huffington Post about his legacy, really, when you listen to it, and it's about 40 seconds. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing wages,

2:06:01 creating more jobs, making sure that more people are able to access opportunity. We're going to seize it and we're going to, wherever possible, try to reach out to Republicans and see if they can work with us. Where they're not willing to work with us, we will do it administratively or we will convene the private sector. By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office... By hook or by crook! that the country's more prosperous, more people have opportunity, kids have a better education, we're more competitive, climate change is being taken more seriously than it was and we are actually trying to do something about it. Those are going to be the measures by which I look back and say whether I've been successful as president.

2:06:51 Which means he is willing to stoop to illegal activity. Yes, crook is a very definitive word. If you call somebody a crook, you can get sued for libel. You can get sued for libel because it assumes that they're criminal. So he is saying that he's going to do criminal activities. Exactly what he said. Oh, I'm just joking. So the exact definition by any means necessary by hook or by crook suggesting that one not need not be concerned with morality or other considerations when accomplishing some goal which he said would be he wants to determine if he was successful as president so his this legacy will be cemented by hook or by crook and where did this come where did this come from but by hook or by crook the term yeah

2:07:46 Well, it sounds like a navigator's seafaring thing. Oh, well, here it is. This is interesting. No. The origin of the phrase is obscure. I'm reading from the Book of Knowledge with multiple different explanations and no evidence to support any particular one over the others. For example, a commonly repeated suggestion is that it comes from Hook Head in Wexford, Ireland and the nearby village of Crook in Waterford, Ireland. And others that it comes from the customs regulating which firewood local people could take from common land. They were allowed to take any branches they could reach with a bill hook or a shepherd's hook. The word crook has a connotation of crookedness, perversity, and wickedness, while hook might suggest subtlety, deceit, cunning, chicanery, or trickery. Yeah, I'm liking the one for the Irish towns. How are you going to get there? By hook or by crook?

2:08:37 I think I'm gonna go by hook. It's a good pub and a hook. They close the place down. That's pretty funny. All right, there was a representative, Carolyn Maloney. She is a congresswoman from New York, Brooklyn, I believe. And this is one of these moments when you have these representatives and they have a witness and they're talking about doesn't even matter they Grandstand and pontificate and need to get a message out to look good for a soundbite on TV if they're lucky But all it does to state their intent towards the lobbyists and their loyalty towards the party and Wow, Carolyn Maloney. She did it. It's a ranking member May I reclaim my time?

2:09:23 I just want to end by saying that President Obama saved the auto industry. He saved the auto industry and he saved the internet. And I believe very strongly that Republicans are on the wrong side of this issue for the economy and for the American people. is lovely. Is this somebody she's talking about Mr. Otto industry? Otto, O-T-T-O? Yes, Otto. But, yes, Otto, Mr. Otto industry. But I love how she says he saved the internet. He saved the internet. Was it going to collapse? What would happen? I don't know. I miss this news story. Pack of equality for the net neutrality. This is why he saved the internet.

2:10:04 Nothing's changed. Oh, but he saved the internet. You understand this wrong? I've seen her before. This is that blonde dummy. Yeah, she's she's a dumb person. It's part of Yeah, she really I think she's been half part of Manhattan and then part of it She's got it like it's a funny district is gerrymandered just for her so she can stay there forever I think what we're going just to move into this just for a second on the FCC vote and of course we have lawsuits and everything but what we always discussed as a possibility of what this was really about I think we'll see come into play in the next weeks and months and

2:09:23 I just want to end by saying that President Obama saved the auto industry. He saved the auto industry and he saved the internet. And I believe very strongly that Republicans are on the wrong side of this issue for the economy and for the American people. is lovely. Is this somebody she's talking about Mr. Otto industry? Otto, O-T-T-O? Yes, Otto. But, yes, Otto, Mr. Otto industry. But I love how she says he saved the internet. He saved the internet. Was it going to collapse? What would happen? I don't know. I miss this news story. Pack of equality for the net neutrality. This is why he saved the internet.

2:10:04 Nothing's changed. Oh, but he saved the internet. You understand this wrong? I've seen her before. This is that blonde dummy. Yeah, she's she's a dumb person. It's part of Yeah, she really I think she's been half part of Manhattan and then part of it She's got it like it's a funny district is gerrymandered just for her so she can stay there forever I think what we're going just to move into this just for a second on the FCC vote and of course we have lawsuits and everything but what we always discussed as a possibility of what this was really about I think we'll see come into play in the next weeks and months and

2:10:41 that this really is going to behoove and help the approval of the Comcast Time Warner cable merger. And here's why I think this will happen. The minute this merger takes place, that's when they can really rewrite all these rules because they're so big in order for this to get past any anti-competitive ruling or regulations, they're going to have to rewrite stuff. I think that is what is intended. Oh, we're gonna now now we'll legally reclassify title to a new rules that go along with that because of course we want to have this merger happen everybody wins Everybody except for the except for the public useless eaters Eaters they lose so You know, I know this the White House also came out with some new

2:11:33 What is it? Expanding broadband deployment and adoption by addressing regulatory barriers and encouraging investment and training as a presidential memorandum. And they have a fact sheet. Sounds like free money. Yes, and a fact sheet. Next steps in delivering fast affordable broadband. And of course we're going to have another steering committee that everybody's on. I think as the Time Warner Comcast merger comes closer, you're going to see how these things dovetail perfectly together and what it really was all about for them. The sideline being of course the actual regulation of the content and devices and the actual network traffic that you're allowed to utilize. And I got a note from

2:12:23 One of our producers, anonymous, Adam and John, I'm an IT director for a public school district. I thought you'd find this interesting. And he sent me a screenshot which isn't relevant for the story. A survey done for the FCC during the E-rate application process. E-rate is a federal program that gives schools money for IT. As you can see, unless the school district provides it, listen to this, this is how stupid our government is. Unless a school district provides at least one gigabit per second of bandwidth per 1,000 students, the FCC is going to classify it as having inadequate internet access. Which of course is insane because that's not how it works. It's not like you're born and you need a gigabit per day or something. No. Give me that number again. There's a couple other numbers. I'll give you the... let me read the whole thing.

2:13:15 Unless a school district provides at least 1 gigabit per second of bandwidth per 1,000 students, the FCC is going to classify it as having inadequate internet access. At our district, we provide an iPad or Chromebook to every one of our 3,000 students, yet our daily bandwidth usage peaks at 500 to 600 megabits per second. Makes sense. According to the FCC, we need to purchase another 2 gigabits per second of bandwidth, which is which is very expensive, especially if you're not using it for years, to meet their arbitrary benchmarks. Otherwise, we'll be classified as having inadequate internet access. Can't they... they want one gigabit per... so that's essentially 100 megabits per second per student or no, 10, right? It's a gigabit. It's a thousand a thousand. Wait, no, they said one gigabit per thousand students.

2:14:13 So you divide, the way they're doing it, I know what they're trying to do. It doesn't make any sense because that's, you're right, it's not the way it works. So one gigabit is 125 megabytes per second. Well, you just round it out to, you know, the giga. Let's see what that looks like. But this is not how network works. No, it doesn't have networks work. So, okay, so they're trying to do one megabit per second per student. Now if you know I think it's 10. I think it's 10. No it is 1 because you have thousand students you have if you have one if you have one megabit per second and a thousand that would be a gigabyte or gigabit

2:14:53 So, you know, it's one, one megabit per second per student, supposedly. I'll tell you one thing. You and I are not the guys to figure this one out. Well, no, we can figure this out. It's just simple math. It's a little over one megabit per second per student if they were all surfing at the same time. All slamming it. Yeah. All downloading Netflix. Right, all the time. So this is dumb. Yeah. But this also determines the money that these schools get. They're spending it on stupid bandwitch they don't need. Bandwitch. Write that down, bandwitch. I like it. Bandwitch. That's good. Bandwitch everybody. So you have... huh. It's interesting they would come up with this arbitrary number just to ding the schools. Well, this is written by people who really don't understand how it works. And let's just stay with schools for a moment. This is... the reporting... get ready for glitch reporting.

2:15:54 This was a, now I know exactly what happened. A school, entire school system in Philly, the reporters got hacked and were held ransom. Now of course you know what this is, this is the ransomware stuff that someone got on their computer. No, by the way, let's stop right now with the ransomware thing and let me ask a question. Where's the FBI? You got all these cyber guys trying to crack it, you know, get into North Korea and they're doing all this stuff. And this bullshit has been going on for what, two years now? Longer, I think. Let me see. How hard can it be? You have to pay these guys off. Yeah, with the money? With Bitcoin. Bitcoin.

2:16:35 Bitcoin yeah, they always ask for Bitcoin. Yeah, well, they're gonna. Yeah that ever happened to me Listen to the clip. Oh, yes, huh if it ever happened to me I just reinstall the operating system and say screw you I'm not gonna get a Bitcoin I'm with you. There's nothing really of any importance you can have the whole damn thing. You know anything's important I carry with me one copy don't you have a USB stick you carry around I I do as a matter of fact. I always have an encrypted USB stick with all my stuff that I want, that I need, that I'll need anywhere. That's all you really need.

2:17:14 Here we go. Well, Jess, the FBI, New Jersey State Police, County and local police all looking into this most unusual cyber attack. Cyber attack? It targeted the computers of the Sweetsboro Woolwich School District here. The hackers not stealing identities but instead paralyzing the system and demanding a ransom payment to get it working again. the FBI. Well, they're there. He said right in the report, FBI, they're working on it. They're working on it. We can't do anything with this is the IT director, any part of our network. you know, under this kind of a cyber attack. Suddenly, Monday morning, teachers and students at four elementary schools in the Swedesboro-Woolwich district found hackers using something called ransomware had kidnapped their computer system. Kidnapped! A person or persons at this point unknown hacked our system remotely. The hackers messaged school officials they'd hold the computer network

2:18:12 hostage and I would give 10 bucks the first person that used the term script kiddies on TV we have to find new words than hackers people unusable until a ransom was paid the ransom that was demanded is 500 Bitcoin which the police let us know this morning is equivalent to about $128,000 I don't have any idea how something like this happens And why they would attack a school district, I have no idea. Parents like Julie Smith found without computers their kids couldn't buy lunch. Teachers couldn't even take attendance. Here we go! More unintended consequences of technology. It's all internet. So to not have that capability is a little bit difficult. We can't check grades, we can't check, you know, any of those things. Test scores, any of those things. Suddenly, education went back to the 80s with pen and paper replacing smart boards.

2:19:05 Oh no! The school was in session much as it might have been 20 or 30 years ago before the advent of technology. Yeah, kids might actually learn something in the next day or two. They're checking Facebook all day. This is the beginning. Well I think if these guys are going to attack anything, schools are great. I just love the whole... If you can't buy lunch without the computer network working, there's something wrong with you. Well... With that school. Again? Well, you know, a lot of these lunch rooms now, they have fingerprint scanners. We've discussed these. Why? Because money, technology, just to have it, just to have it. Why is Silicon Valley even inventing all this crap? Who needs these things?

2:19:52 Who needs this stuff? So you go into the lunchroom and you put your finger, your forefinger, not four fingers but forefinger, on a little thing and it's like, oh, okay, John, that's you. You can't see my face? Nope. We did a couple stories on this a while. I know I just gauze This is the goal most galling thing going on right now and everybody's all in on it. Oh, it's great Let's spend more money on crap tech junk tech tech tech. That's upgrade Let's make the common core really a serious thing so we can buy more computers so kids can take the test No, this is what Microsoft Surface great I

2:20:39 There you go. I Like that a lot. I think that's It's all been prophesized people. It's all going to end. Yeah, it's not gonna end. Well, no, it will not end well We I'm gonna start making predictions on what a piece of society is going to fall apart next based upon some bogus Beliefs that technology is really the answer. Well technology is not the answer. I No, it's already over is too much too much. Well people do things the answer the president just announced another huge stem and some money sink this technology has become a complete JIP Yeah, it is

2:21:30 It is. And I'm a guy who discovers technology, that's my job. And I'm not happy. I'm not a happy camper. The stuff that I like is, um... And I can't find out any what, they change technology like left and right, now they're up to DisplayPort 3. And nobody knows anything about it. And by the way, I did write, this is what I didn't say, I wrote in to the experts, oh the display, they never answered back? The experts? Yeah, the expert is at displayport.org. I don't see any email answer to my question. Did you hear that there was a bomb threat in Petaluma? There's always a bomb threat in Petaluma. There's a lot of meth heads up there. At the Twit brick house. Oh, there was? Yeah. I never heard this. Yeah. March 23rd, this is the police. Petaluma Police Dispatch received a phone call from a male who claimed he had placed eight pipe bombs at 140 Keller Street.

2:22:27 When police dispatch asked why they picked that address, the male caller said because it was the Twit Brick House and they're all going to die. What? The caller was asked why he was upset with Twit and the caller stated he was not just upset with them but his whole life. The caller claimed he was going to take them all out and the bombs he had placed in the building would go off in three hours. The caller then made threats to go to the business and shoot all of the occupants of the building before the bombs went off. The caller hung up after this statement. Petaluma police responded to the business and contacted the management of Twit. That'd been a time to watch the live feed. Which is a technology podcast company, oh Leo will hate that, providing the latest perspective and trends in digital technology. Phones. The management of the company was advised of the call and the need for police to perform a visual inspection of the inside of the building to attempt and locate any explosive devices.

2:23:21 Company employees were not ordered to evacuate the building. However, they were advised for the safety of their employees It might be best for them to leave most employees left until the business could be cleared by police. Huh? Huh? That's not very nice. No Funny funny, but it's not very nice. I get material. I won't use it. Meanwhile the the Dutch Transport Ministry and inspectors have raided the uber offices. Oh in Holland in Holland. Yeah, I Which is funny because I think it's one guy. I've talked to another Uber. That's probably right. Spokeswoman for the transport inspectorate said there were signs the company continued to offer Uber Pop and the agency was taking evidence from company computers to determine the scope of Uber's non-compliance with the ruling. This is the low end where you're driving in some guy's Prius.

2:24:18 Which I which is I'm telling you this is gonna end if I were running this company and be like why why deal with these with these people they complained, you know, I'm sure that the the customers complain about some of these low-end, you know citizens shuttling citizens around Just take the taxis. Just take the old black cabs. Everything's fantastic That's it's a great app for that you will own transportation get rid of the stupid ride-sharing and not gonna work as a commercial business It's not going to work I was talking to one of the Uber drivers the other day here in Austin. You hear the guy, oh where are you from? I'm from Jordan. I love doing this. Love talking to these guys about their home countries.

2:25:04 I don't think many of their customers actually understand anything that's going on. It's such culture in the Middle East to be talking about politics and geopolitical things and living in the sand and getting droned. I said, oh man, wow, that whole Burning Man Jordan pilot, that was pretty bogus. He went, oh, yes, no, this goes, oh, you know, oh, I spoke to sister, sister of the Jordanian pilot. It was a United Arab Emirates fighter jet with a female pilot who shot down the Jordanian pilot according to my Uber sources. And the reason that because it was a female pilot is why I'm going to give it some credence because you know that's a little more information than just saying UAE.

2:25:54 But he did not agree with my theory that Jordan was supposed to take out Assad. He wasn't too sure about that. But he totally bought into IS, his bullcrap. It was beautiful. I had the same experience with a guy, I forgot where this was, but another Middle Eastern guy and I brought up some ISIS stuff and he showed me, he ended up making me watch all these videos and collected. Oh yeah, look at this! So, okay, I'm watching a lot of videos in the backseat. If there's any... Oh, actually, the front seat. I usually do not sit in the backseat. I don't like sitting in the backseat. I think it's pretentious. What's the point? I'd rather sit in the front seat where I could actually see where we're going, look around, maybe I've learned something on the way. I don't like sitting in the backseat of these cars.

2:26:42 Even if it's a car, a limo even, I would sit in the front if I can. Oh, limos were the worst. I hated the stretch limos. Yeah, they're terrible. You're back there like a caged animal. Worse, the minute the guy breaks, you're always flying through the... Flying around and he has to open the door for you. You look like some sort of a... Douche. Douche. Douche. Douche. You look like a douche. A douche. Who's that douche? That's what people say when they see you getting out. A douche. Who's that douche? Douche. Angelina Jolie previously did this big promotion for the BRCA gene. This is the breast cancer gene which is patented. It's all over the news. That's why I'm bringing it up. It's patented. All over the news.

2:27:24 Only one company can tell you if you have this and make money off of it, which is a... you're then pre-cancerous for breast cancer. Of course, the pre is the funny thing because I'm also pre-cancerous. I'm pre-dead. We're all pre-funny. Pre all kinds of stuff. Now, I don't want to say that this is necessarily bad. I think what the Affordable Care Act did was allow for insurance companies, or not allow, but force insurance companies to cover reconstructive surgery after a preventative mastectomy. And if you look at Angelina Jolie, man,

2:28:05 Good job. Very good job. She had that done first and now she had her ovaries removed in 2013 Jolie had a preventative double mastectomy after testing positive for a mutation of BRCA the breast cancer gene Cancer took her grandmother aunt and mother after the test Jolie went to see her mother's surgeon She teared up when she saw me you look just like her I broke down and but we smiled at each other and agreed we were there to deal with any problems so let's get on with it. This is a whole op-ed she did in the New York Times. An ultrasound and scan showed no full-blown cancer but there was still a chance it was in an early stage. With her family and genetic history, Jolie chose to... What does that mean? It means she has no cancer. But it's this preventative thing and I believe this is a trend that she is pushing, willingly or not,

2:29:00 She seems like a perfect MKUltra candidate to me. It's self mutilation. Yes, it's exactly what it is. You know, it's like you can yeah, you can cut off your leg if you think you know, you're gonna get diabetes. Well, might as well cut it off now. There's a lot of things you could do but It kind of goes against all principles of medicine. Have we given up on everything now? There's never going to be a cure for cancer? Just rip out the bits? Oh, I can get brain cancer. Might as well take out a piece. Oh, you know what? I'm a candidate for prostate cancer. You know what? Take it out. Who needs it? That's where this is leading and it's disturbing. It's also a part of the assisted suicide

2:29:41 I don't know. I see it from a meta level and I see just people being programmed to do things that are unnatural and I don't think very good. We have a, we had a letter, long letter from a doctor, like a really long letter that was kind of agreeing with us on all levels about this being kind of the dark ages of medicine and some of these trends are just so negative. Do you have the letter by any chance? I can't find it. Yeah, it's totally negative. I mean while everyone's screaming about vaccines, it's that oh by the way, um on TV too I think it's tonight in TV 2 in Denmark. They have an hour-long documentary on the adverse effects of Gardasil the HPV vaccine. Oh good. Somebody's finally done that. Yeah several Danish girls became seriously ill shortly after they received the HP vaccine and

2:30:39 Many of them are blaming the vaccine and let's see was anything else about this particular well Someone will watch it and I'm sure we have I know we have Danish list because they're the happiest people on earth. I heard that I heard they're really happy. I think it's a high taxes fact It makes him real happy. They love it that way They know they're part of a bigger community when they pay those taxes those high taxes and the Connecticut home of Adam Lanza and his mother Nancy Lanza has officially been demolished. Oh good. It's about time after they had demolished the school they might as well demolish the word began and they completely into the incinerated all the Everything inside the home. It's all the evidence rugs lighting fixtures and

2:31:30 Then was we talked about this a bank acquired the home and and then said oh, well We're just gonna destroy it that sounds like something banks do just burning money. This is the screwiest thing ever Mm-hmm. Well, I mean that a screwy thing. I got the clip lethal injection story. Oh, yes This was a someone sent this to me from the Netherlands It was in the newspaper there. So Andrew Novak, we know there are 32 states where the death penalty is legal. We know that- I'm sorry, you say something? Yeah, 32 not 33, so the story's real. It's real! It's real! So Andrew Novak, we know there are 32 states where the death penalty is legal. We know that Utah would become the only state along with Oklahoma where the backup method would be a firing squad. Two other states, New Hampshire, Washington State, have hanging as a backup

2:32:24 And then there are five more states that use the electric chair as the backup in addition to Oklahoma, where I guess it's either or. Why is there so much concern about these lethal injections? Sure. You don't answer a question like that with the word sure. That's a very Silicon Valley thing to do, by the way. Oh, is that where you track it to? Because every time I see him, this guy was the worst. And his answer to the long question was sure. Yeah. I've been hearing this, I bitch about this every time it comes along, but this one is so outraged. It wasn't like the sure blah blah blah blah. It was sure and there was a long pause and the next word was um. I wasn't going to go any further with it. Sure. Yeah, the way it works, it's usually when it's based on a question that the person is supposed to have complete knowledge of and the person knows that the interviewer doesn't know shit.

2:33:21 And then it's just, sure, so let me tell you about how our networking fits together. It's kind of like, I'm such an authority, I'm just gonna say sure, I'll tell you that little unknowledgeable press person you. You think it's an insult. Yes, it's a subtle down talking insult a subtle I want to tell everyone out there who does any of this if you're in a news business at all and somebody says sure to you stop them in their track and say I'm interviewing you not to be insulting. I don't why are you insulting me with this? Sure nonsense? Sure, right, but okay That would be if it was true news and not PR because this is all PR now

2:34:06 So this was a big... What? Firing squads? No, I believe that... So there's two parts to it. These drugs... The company that made the drug stopped making the drug. That's what's been going on. It's been in short supply everywhere. But now the fun thing is, is to... And it comes down to PR, bad PR for Republicans in in states where they are now going to put people in front of the firing squad, which is not necessarily the truth. So they actually they do so few of these executions. They just keep the guy in jail while they stall. Right. But it makes for a good headline. And it was in the headlines. I was sent to me by a friend this morning. She made a snapshot scan of this about America going back to the firing squad.

2:34:53 It's just it's Dipping people in boiling oil. Well again, I will say and I will support any bill by any Republican Democrat Libertarian Tea Party's independent rent to high party if you come up with a proposal that makes capital punishment ie Death as penalty Mandatory shown on television. Yeah, I'll even take c-span. I This would this is what will change Bonanza. This is our way out Yeah, are we you and my you mean when we do the TV show you mean yeah, yeah Very Dvorak presents it makes so much sense. We put everything on television. Well, they used to everything This is used to be public executions They had a lot of them were like disgusting and there but there'd be a big crowd a hundred thousand people would watch hangings and and I think it's

2:35:47 I think we should not hide this. This is really important. There's nothing wrong with it. Yeah, if you don't like it, then make some, you know, change the laws. It's the only way all these liberals, oh, this is horrible, we're killing people, which, you know, they don't mind, well, it's a philosophical thing, but whatever the case is, they're bitching and moaning, they want to put a stop to it. Put it on television. And you know what, you know why they won't do it? Because it would be a huge hit. Everybody would want, we could make bank We could have firing squad UK, firing squad down under. Firing squad UK. Electric chair Estonia. And we can do, we can have, we'll reverse it like with the voice where the chairs turn around. So the chairs turn around, but then one of them is wired and you get electrocuted.

2:36:39 Who's gonna be... who gets the jolt this week? Who gets fried tonight? They should do a little interview with each one of the people sitting in the chairs. What do you think? What are you thinking right now, Bill? I'm sorry I did it. I didn't mean to kill those people. Well, we've been working on our TV shows for a while. Win, lose, or drone! That's right everybody, it's time once again to play Win, Lose, or Drone! Will there be civilian casualties? Will there be any dead children? Find out next on the episode of Win, Lose, or Drone! Win, Lose, or Drone! Another great format. Squandered. Yeah, I'm not gonna argue.

2:37:28 We have a lot of these good ideas, they just never come to fruition. We don't have anybody step up, you know, some big real producers, you know, big money. I'm talking about people who drop a million. A whole million. Well, make it 10. I think you do a pilot for a million. Do a pilot? Well, yeah, it depends. I got one... let me see... I have a couple things left. I don't know if you have anything you want to roll out before we shut it down for the day. I have a bitch clip if you want to play it. Bitch clip? I'll take a bitch clip. The lottery money. Okay, bitch clip. They always talk, we want to know about the lottery. Millions and millions and millions of dollars a year is going to the government from the lottery. Why doesn't anybody ever say what they're investing and what they're doing with that money instead of helping us people that need the help and where you can't retire at 65 no more.

2:38:32 and the kids that are working now have nothing to look forward to until they can retire. And where is all that extra money going to? The taxes that they're paying from 65 to 72 or whenever they can retire. Okay, two different issues here. So, Jim McIntyre, if you could just take up the lottery issue. How does that work? Well, in Washington state, I can't speak to Georgia, but I can say that in Washington state, the lottery produces about a hundred hundred and twenty million dollars a year and has for several years so it's actually not a growing revenue source. It's a pretty small part of our budget but all of those funds are actually dedicated to education expenditures so in Washington we're pretty clear about how we spend the lottery money.

2:39:20 Actually all the states do the same scam and it happened. I remember when it happened here in California They instituted a lottery which were always against because it's public game a gaming It's a scam and they are denying that but half the money goes to the middlemen. Hmm So the guys and the producers and the TV shows and yeah and all the bullcrap in between they get the stake is about half of the money and they It started off as, oh, the education in California, we're so in desperate need of money. So that's why we're going to do the lottery. The education people are going to get it. And so the education people get the money. The state comes and gets, you know, their whatever the half is, 120 million is probably the typical everywhere. They get it and it goes in the education. So I asked somebody once, I forgot which government official.

2:40:08 And I said, you know, because they're always bitching. The University of California keeps raising tuition and everybody's out of money. So I said, what happened? We were going along at a certain pace and now this lottery money was supposed to do something for the education. I said, why is it worse than before? It's worse in California than before this lottery came along. It's horrible. And I was told that, oh yeah, well no, it all goes to education, but the old education budget went to the general fund. They just pulled the plug on the original amount of money that was going to education and they just started using whatever the lottery could come up with. So there's less money. It's an outrageous scam. In the Netherlands, they have perfected this scam to a T that's called the National

2:40:58 postcode lottery. Postal code being zip code. And the way it works is zip codes area, zip codes win. And these are usually down to a street level, maybe two streets. And so what happens is people buy, and it's big money, of course, people buy a national lottery ticket but all of their neighbors buy too because, you know, of course, invariably on the show, you see a whole bunch of people happy. They won millions and there's that one sucker who didn't buy a lot of lottery ticket and he's the big loser. Oh yeah, that's the way to do it. That's a great idea. Sue is a super scam. Shame the losers. Yeah. Yeah. And so because it's by, by area, by zip code, everybody in that zip code, we got to buy in a, what if my neighbors become a millionaire and I'm the fucking loser? I got to get a ticket.

2:41:50 Per is perfection do they go interview the losers of course? But also feel now that you didn't buy a lottery ticket, but also you can friends are now millionaires You can also do a quarter ticket or a half ticket or a full ticket. Don't ask me exactly how it works And so you'll see like but and how much and they have the envelopes They're all sitting in a circle like a Dutch birthday party and they pull it out It's like five million of these people are wedding themselves And then there's the guy who do put in like one buck, you know one euro and didn't get the full-on lottery ticket 30,000 There's a lot of shameful it is shameful they shouldn't have lotteries in any you United States They shouldn't mean they said Nevada which has got your you know gambling legalized gambling well They do every place else to now thanks to the Indians getting you know some piece of the action But yeah, this is the state government should not be running these things no, so here's what I'm working on for Sunday You mentioned it earlier, but I do want to talk about the China crisis

2:42:55 There's a lot of financial firms, trusts, which are like 50 or 60 just blowing up within a month. And that's more your wheelhouse certainly with the horror. Did you talk about it all? A little bit, but mostly about the numbers coming in skewed. Yeah. Well, I'd love to hear that. Let's do that Sunday. I also have a little Hollywood PR. Of course we have the final season of Mad Men coming up now. April 5. Yeah, everyone's lost interest by the way. Well, they're trying to crank it up. They've gone to extreme measures. Then here it is. We have Jon Hamm, who is the dude. The lead. The lead, the main character. He has announced he recently completed treatment for alcohol addiction.

2:43:45 Yeah, so I'm all good now ready for the new season. There's always so quick That's I must be tough man when the studio comes to you and says hey John man ham listen We don't have a lot of interest for the new season. Yes, you know it's a very expensive show and Well, I'll tell you what we just need a little PR and I'm sorry this what this the best we could come up with I'm sure I'm sure unless you can come up with something better. I think that are something that well, yeah, maybe I could be drug addicted. No, no, no, no, we don't want that. We want to something that's a tie into the show. Do you understand this tie into the show? Alcohol, they drink a lot on the show. It's like a drinking fest on the show. You have to do you do you carry it over to your real life and do you understand? Yes, you get it. And then I have kind of end of show things that we could play. Before you play anything. I want now I really want to hear the clip of the week clip.

2:44:37 No, because I already played it and it was and you I didn't get a even a clip. Oh I'm sorry. Hmm. I should have just given it to you for that one earlier You were right and but you were right you called me out and I shouldn't have said that I shouldn't have Preface it I've done it I've done it made the same stupid mistake and it turns out that the clip of the week that you think's clip of the week is a dud Well, it was not a dud you liked it, but I just didn't get a clip of anything. Okay, Abby Martin. Oh Oh God, that poor woman. You know, I feel sorry for her now. Let us review quickly and then I want to hear why you feel sorry. Abby Martin wound up on RT Russia Today Hosting a program called breaking the set which we have criticized heavily for mainly her performance as a host Ryan barely able to stand on heels was Another issue and she she says she left but we kind of know she was fired and I and in this clip It becomes apparent why she was she can't really be on any anything any

2:45:37 channel that has an alternative message to the talking stream main points. She's from, what is she from, Oakland, I think? Yep. She's from Oakland. And actually in this clip, and she was in Berlin at ZD Day for the Zeitgeist Movement. Oh God. Which is one of these things, well, we'll pay for a ticket and come on over and you can stay, you know. Would you can share a room with Richard Stallman? Yeah at the in the Pennsylvania. Can you imagine Abby Martin and Richard Stallman? Bunking. Oh my god Now now I'll say they have a the shot of her but at this at the you know doing a keynote or whatever Stallman chase stayed with Jolie Odell and her husband. He prefers not to stay in a hotel. I know he does. Yeah. Yeah I

2:46:30 They have a shot which is kind of three-quarter of her, so more profile. She looks gorgeous, John. Now she is extremely photogenic. I have never liked her look and I don't know. But wow! Stunningly beautiful. Everything. Her hair is a little different. Really, really nice. She's incredibly pretty. And for people asking why we say this, we're television producers. We evaluate this stuff. This is about... It's the only reason. We're not doing it because we're expecting to get a date by being complimentary. Hey, I would go out with her if she asked. Yeah, you probably should probably be rating you the whole time, but hey, we go on with the story. Well, I wondered if you wanted to hear a little bit of her speech.

2:47:15 It's two it's two clips. You can stop them anytime you want. It's a full 40 minutes the whole thing I just I had to play that no, I just had to clip a couple. You know, I've heard on some of these shows She cusses like a truck. Yeah, a lot of f-bombs. She f-bombs a lot. What's the as pointless? But well, the reason is I've already of course analyzed this she is trying to She's trying to portray a message in mainly of how the The mainstream media, television, does not address the real issues that we should be looking at, which of course in her mind is climate change and all these things that, you know, Russia today will have no business. Global warming. Global warming, precisely. But she does this by trying to inflect and use... Fuck! She uses that word a lot to try and make her words have some impact, which is just... it's uncomfortable when she says it.

2:48:10 Thank you. Thank you. She also has that dead monotone, which is... She's a very poor speaker. We could fix that. We could teach her. That's too late. She's what? She's too late, but go play. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. One human family living on one organism. One human family living on one human organism. What does that mean? I don't know. That's how she started off. Nice. Yet man is embroiled in a war against himself. Oh yeah. Unfortunately, this blatant truth hasn't yet been realized by the vast majority of humans living on earth.

2:48:49 Again. What is she a philosopher? Well this is her script and she cannot deliver a script if she's trying to be yeah like a philosopher but it doesn't come out right there's no acting in it. She's not that bright. The war against ISIS, Russia and now laughably Venezuela. Venezuela? Yeah she thinks there's a war against Venezuela. Nominating headlines in the latest front of the information war but a far more deadly war is being waged against the organism that we all share. Our place the most severe environmental crises in the history of this planet Listen to her numbers and facts. So just to read whatever she whatever is coming next. It's the worst environmental threat in since the beginning of the earth. Deforestation is at a rate of 36 football fields per minute per minute per minute per minute per minute. I could fix this girl telling you we could do it. Let's play it. We're going to just pass on fixing her.

2:49:53 I want to fix her. She could be a great asset. Okay. We face the most severe environmental crises in the history of this planet. Deforestation is at a rate of 36 football fields per minute. Floating trash islands the size of Texas across the Pacific. Across the Pacific. There's bunches of them. Across the Pacific. Floating islands of plastic the size of Texas. And half the world's species has been wiped out in the last 40 years. Oh, really? Half the world's species has been wiped out in the last 40 years She thinks hmm because all right you can stop now a little more a little more. Oh, you told me I could stop you Okay, can I play the second one then yeah? You can play the second one cuz I can't take her okay, and I'll tell you what I think is going on She is extremely she is massively depressed, but go on yeah, I

2:50:42 I want you to listen to this because this now talks about her original blog, Media Roots, which... Oh yeah. That catapulted her into the... Into the realm. The limelight of RT. Yeah. And I just want you to bear with it. It's only two minutes. The kooky talk is worth listening to around that same time. I started a little website called media roots It started as just a hub for censored information. It grew into a multimedia citizen journalism project Which eventually brought me to Russia today and then breaking the set now if you actually look at media roots org It's just a it's a it's a blog about her blog blog about her with videos of her Okay, and it was a dream job to attack power on an international platform. I

2:51:28 John, this weekend you and I, we're going to attack international, we'll attack media on an international platform together. Okay. Promise. But I decided I want to be meeting the people behind the stories and telling them myself independent from any state or corporate entity. I don't just want to react to mainstream media's circle jerk of fuckery. Circle jerk of fuckery. This is where I told you the cookie was coming. I don't just want to react to the mainstream media circle jerk of fuckery. Don't want to react to mainstream media's circle jerk of fuckery. I'm a sister something else, but it sounds like it these issues What is it? What does it sound bugger buggery? It's even better mainstream media's circle jerk of fuckery. No, it's It doesn't matter these issues deserve in-depth analysis and substances discussion

2:52:25 She needs to take some acting lessons. Yes, we can fix her. Circle jerk of fuckery. No, you can't fix her. Listen to this. These issues deserve in-depth analysis and substances discussion, which is everything that we've seen here today. Hence the problem with the 24-hour news cycle, right? It incessantly reacts to what these corporate elite assholes create for us. That's their reality. And just to emphasize this point, Bush Lackey, I don't know if any of you know who Karl Rove is, brazenly told the New York Times back in 2004, a reporter named Ron Suskin, he said this, we're an empire now and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that too judiciously as you will, we'll act again.

2:53:13 Creating other new realities which you can study too, and that's just how things will sort out We're histories actors and you all of you will just be left to study what we do Unfortunately, he's right Reality is dictated by an out-of-touch, warmongering elite that doesn't apply to the reality that 99.9% of us live every day. She took 99% and 1% up to 0.1%. And it's only able to sustain on fear and war. Well, part of it is true. There's nothing the establishment fears more than a populace not living in fear. No, that's not true.

2:53:55 They just want the populace uneducated. The fear thing is just to make it that way. People are disillusioned of course they've been called crazy They've been called a conspiracy theorist for wanting more than two parties in America for questioning ludicrous paradoxical foreign policy Ludicrous paradoxical foreign policy they also want sustainable energy Three-quarters of Americans want to transfer to wind 71% want to transfer to wind power. I'm sorry solar and wind according to Gallup in 2013 I'm not sitting up here saying I have all the answers and I don't think anyone out here claims to. But a technological, resource-based economy is the most thought-provoking and groundbreaking solution I've seen to the crisis of the future. She's winding it up. She's a crescendo last 10 minutes and then we hope that she finishes soon. I'm not sitting up here saying I have all the answers and I don't think anyone out here claims to.

2:54:52 but a technological, resource-based economy is the most thought-provoking and groundbreaking solution I've seen to the crisis of civilization that we face. And there's an extensive roadmap on how to get there. We don't have to wait for anyone but ourselves to start implementing the ideals either. She should run for office and then maybe she could be on the $20 bill. I think that's enough. Yeah, I'm done. But it's worth watching so I was I was looking at I had followed her for a while I know you did and she has and by the way her new picture on her Twitter feed is shows a woman that again is Photogenic and it looks totally different than you've ever seen her before. What's her? What's her? What's her Twitter handle? Abby Martin, Abby Martin

2:55:34 A-B-B-Y-M-A-R-T-I-N, all one word. And then she sent something out recently, and I just stopped following her because she's not worth following anymore. I got the feeling that this loss of her job at Russia Today really seriously Heard her feelings. Yeah, and and she was and if you've seen those old videos of her when she's an artist She does a lot of yeah, I think that her art is pretty good. Actually, the artist tends to be it's a little busy It tends to be a little amphetamine Oriented, you know, they're very busy, but she has lots of I'm sorry amphetamine. Did you are you saying that she's a speed junk? Oh

2:56:11 Well, I'm saying that I've known artists on speed and this art looks like that. Okay. And, uh, but she's always, it was up-tempo with sunshine. And the one thing she was doing on the, on the, on the YouTube is painting these, it's all very positive. And then she tweets out some, Oh, I love this guy. I love this artist. And I went to check this guy's stuff out. So depressing. The worst kind of like people hanging themselves, all black and white, a guy drowning, a woman choking a man to death, all these kinds of things. And I think that this woman now has issues.

2:56:51 I think she is extremely damaged from this whole RT experience and I don't want to have anything to do with following her or fixing her or anything else. I think she's just wrecked. If you look at her Twitter feed, it's all Besides these artists that are horrible, it's all clips from her old show. She's getting out of that. Another clip after another. She's terrible. Terrible. She's in bad shape. She needs to go see a shrink. I will put out there, Abby Martin, I can fix you. So to such a degree that you can get another job on some news television channel, then you'll be okay. And you'll get to slip in your little things, but you can't do it this way, girl. This is not how it's going to work. And you got to learn a little acting.

2:57:39 I think she would be... she's free and available floating out there to help us combat the New World Order. And she probably will if she doesn't... I think in a sense she's gonna kill herself or something. Oh! Oh... By the way, how's Brian Williams doing? I don't know. Nobody says. He's not... he hasn't killed himself yet? No, he hasn't. Less than 10 minutes to go! I think there's less than two minutes to go. We're done. We're done. You got it. Okay, China. We'll do that. I have more Ukrainian stuff, Russia, truckers, yeah all kinds of good stuff. Oh yes, and one of our producers runs the strategy and planning department of a major oil company and has feedback on the real numbers in oil and drilling and fracking etc. which has been sent to me under agreement of anonymity. Oh, well I'll be interested in hearing it. Yeah, that'll be Sunday.

2:58:41 And of course I'll be coming to you from the capital of the drone star state, Austin, Texas on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. Thanks, chat room, for hanging out there. Thank you very much for making us a part of your healthy news diet. Coming to you from the Crackpot Condo in downtown Austin in the morning, everybody, my name is Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, plain and simple, I'm John Cedarbrook. We'll be back Sunday right here on No Agenda. But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed. It's real! It's real! It's real! Adios, mofo. Amen, fist bump.