Episode 731 · Thursday, 18 June 2015

Culture Vulture

A papal decree on climate change meets Russian nuclear expansion while the American political landscape shifts with the arrival of a new presidential contender.

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Pope Francis released the Laudato Si encyclical this week, aligning the Vatican with scientific consensus on human-driven climate change. The document, which leaked prior to its official release, frames environmental degradation as a moral crisis that disproportionately affects the global poor. While the Pope advocates for reduced consumption and carpooling, he explicitly rejects population control as a solution to ecological collapse.

In Washington, Vice President Joe Biden and Science Advisor John Holdren addressed a green energy summit, declaring North America the new global energy epicenter due to fracking breakthroughs. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin announced the addition of 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles to the Russian nuclear arsenal, prompting NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to warn of dangerous saber-rattling. Domestically, Donald Trump entered the 2016 presidential race with a controversial speech targeting Mexican immigration, and the State Department suffered a global visa database failure involving a botched Oracle-to-Linux transition. In South Carolina, Dylan Storm Roof was identified as the suspect in the Charleston church massacre, which authorities are investigating as a hate crime.

The program features the knighting of Sir Ryan Thompson and Sir JC the Schmid following their generous support of the show. The hosts also examine the case of Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane NAACP leader whose parents revealed her white heritage, sparking a national debate on cultural appropriation and identity. The broadcast concludes with a look at the vaping subculture of cloud chasing and a critique of Jeb Bush's minimalist campaign logo.


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CHAPTER 01 / 36 Discussion

Golden State Warriors NBA Championship, Show Introduction

The hosts open the program by acknowledging the Golden State Warriors' recent NBA championship victory, jokingly attributing the success to the Curry family name. A discussion follows regarding potential changes to the show's opening format, featuring a classic track by The Ventures.

golden state warriors· stephen curry· nba finals· ventures· air checks

00:00 And just beat the crap out of him in the courtroom. Nice. Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. It's Thursday, June 18, 2015. Time for your Gizmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 731. This is no agenda. Watching C-SPAN and reading Latin so you don't have to. Broadcasting live from FEMA Region 6 here in the Crackpot Condo in downtown Austin, Tejas. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where the trucks go by. And things are great. I'm John Cena for action. It's one of those days. Trucks are going by. Yeah, things are great. Slowly. Things are great. I was thinking we should consider a new open one. What? Yeah, you iced and turn you on to the game. The final game. Oh, the Warriors won. Congratulations. Yes, I'm not. I don't own them. It's the Currys. The Currys run that show.

00:56 Right? No, no. It's a lay cub. The guy from... No, but isn't the guy Curry on the team? Oh, oh yeah, right. The Curry guy. Yeah, my brother from another mother. Yeah, your brother from the other mother. Yeah, Curry. I was thinking we should, we should, I was listening to some old air checks. Like, we should start the show differently. Why? Listen. It's just a thought That's such a great song. It's one of the greatest it is ventures. Oh man. Oh man. Oh man a lot going on John I was kidding guys. It's all dead didn't it's all little bitty

CHAPTER 02 / 36 Discussion

Pope Francis, Laudato Si Encyclical on Climate Change

Pope Francis released the encyclical "Laudato Si," focusing on ecological concerns and the moral imperative to address global warming. The document, which was leaked prior to its official release, marks a significant shift as the Vatican aligns spiritual leadership with scientific consensus on human-driven environmental damage.

pope francis· vatican· laudato si· climate change· encyclical

01:45 There's a little terrorism, everything's kind of a blend. Just a little terrorism, yeah. Some fraud. Not too much. Economies going into the tank. Google Translate doesn't do very well translating Latin to English, I'll have you know. Latin is very difficult to translate directly to English or back and forth. Right, I was trying to decipher the true wording of the Pope's encyclical. Did he write that in Latin? Yeah, oh yeah. Oh, you didn't know that? No, I didn't. Oh yeah. Well, I have the CNN... I thought it was pidgin English actually. This is a big deal and of course it's a big deal to me because I chose this Pope.

02:28 as you know. No, you predict him, you didn't choose him, you weren't in the voting booth. Well, it's a big difference. I like to think I chose this pope. Well, you can say what you want. I chose my prediction of this pope based on it being him being a Jesuit. Yeah, logic, Jesuit, South America. It's all we do on this show, for anyone interested, is logic. And of course, I was also looking for a leader who could help shepherd in the new world order. He's a guy, you got that right. Here's CNN with the pre-hype. It's called Laudato Si, or praised be on the care of our common home. Church leaders say that this is the first time the release of a papal encyclical has been so anticipated. Oh really? We're all just so anticipated. I was on the edge of my seat.

03:18 A Brazilian climate change group even created an epic theatrical trailer for the Pope's words. If we destroy creation, creation will destroy us. But what exactly is an encyclical? It's the most authoritative teaching document a pope can issue, and signifies a high priority issue for the pope. Encyclicals aren't infallible, but they're not just the pope's opinion either, and Catholics are called to take them seriously. Francis is the first pope ever to dedicate an entire encyclical to ecological concerns. I don't get economic policy from my bishops or my cardinals or from my pope.

04:00 A move which has worried conservatives who fear it will be seen as an endorsement of a liberal agenda on climate change and population control. With the Pope's popularity, this encyclical will be a milestone that places the Roman Catholic Church at the forefront of one of the major scientific and moral issues of our times. Now, do you know when the last encyclical was put out? I have no idea. Not that I know, but this is a big deal for For believers. Well, I have a report from I think it's I don't know where mine's from the Pope but this I think PBS Okay, hold on a sec at the Vatican Pope Francis appealed to critics today to listen to his views on climate change He'll issue a lengthy encyclical on the issue tomorrow according to a leaked version He'll argue that burning fossil fuels is driving global warming. Yeah, hold on a second a leaked version

04:56 What is this? That's what your report is about, the leaked version. Yeah. These guys are the new Vatican. Yeah, they're leaking. Welcome to the new Vatican, ladies and gentlemen. We have our spokesholes on a leaked version. Who's running it for them? Hill and Knowlton? Who's running the show? They're doing a good job. Somebody. At his weekly general audience today, the pontiff aimed his remarks at climate change skeptics. This home of ours is being ruined, and that damages everyone, especially the poor. This is then an appeal on my side towards responsibility. I ask everybody to welcome this document with an open spirit.

05:35 The encyclical could be the most controversial since 1968, when Pope Paul VI enshrined the church's ban on birth control. Ah, that's it, okay. Do you want to hear the longer report with some translation, which I deem to be pretty accurate? I would love to. Are you on the edge of your seat once again? I'm on pins and needles. It is a big deal. This is going to go very, very far. People care about what the what this guy said somebody they finally somebody went over there to the pit of any Pope Hey, Pope dude, Pope dude get on board or else. Yeah. Have you seen what happens to Popes when they're not on board? wink wink nudge nudge

CHAPTER 03 / 36 Discussion

Papal Policy, Global Poverty and Population Control

The papal encyclical links climate change to global economic inequality, arguing that the poor suffer most from environmental degradation. While the Pope calls for lifestyle changes like carpooling and reduced consumption, he explicitly rejects population control as a solution, asserting that demographic growth is compatible with development.

population control· poverty· global warming· davos· green rhetoric

06:14 You know, you don't want to have to be in one of those Popemobiles now, do you? They have embargoes! Embargoes! I'm sorry, but you had to sign a non-disclosure to read the encyclical? Now, if they had an embargo, then these are not leaked versions. Then they had versions that were final under embargo, or am I misunderstanding how it works? You're misunderstanding what the... You're misunderstanding for sure. Oh? It's your definition of leaked. What does that mean to you? WikiLeaks, PR.

06:55 But under embargo, that means the bar somebody took the embargoed version and they didn't agree to it. They somehow got a copy and then they Released it exactly and they but that's called leaked if it comes out before the embargo. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. Got it The press conference is still going on. It runs to 183 pages, so it's a lot to get through. But I pulled out a few quotes, so I can go ahead and tell you what are some of the salient points of the Pope's discussion on the environment. In the first place, he says, very solid scientific consensus. Indicates that we are witnessing a disturbing warming. Oh man percent The Pope is now down with consensus Fantastic. This is good. Good. Good good stuff of the climactic system. So clearly the Pope coming straight out of the gate with the science yes straight out of the climate gate and going ahead and

07:49 and starting his encyclical saying I'm going to take the science for what it says. Oh man, this is fantastic. This is how we make science into religion by having a leader of spiritual spirituality. Yeah. Yeah, of course! And that is important because we know that some of the controversy related to this encyclical... I don't know if it's in there, but all he needs to say is, I believe in science. And then we're good! ...about whether or not the science is still shaky. But in several places, the Pope brings up the human causes of climate change. He says humanity is called to changes in lifestyle, production, and consumption. Nice, huh? Die, slaves! Die!

08:33 It really says what kills me is he says this is for the benefit of the poor. Yeah, that's pretty good. I don't think so. In order to combat warming, at least the human causes that aggravate it. He said the earth is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. We're all going to die! He talks about the right to water, especially for the poor. He talks about the extinction of species, about deforestation, and he says the worst impact will be felt by by developing countries in the coming decades. And that again goes back to what we said earlier, that the expectation was that he would link the question of climate change to the economies of developing countries. This part is very interesting, Natalie. He talks about the discussions that go on between international political and economic

09:19 experts, he says, leave the poor, it seems, as an afterthought. He said they remain at the bottom of the pile. And part of the reason the Pope says that this happens, he thinks, is because these discussions occur in urban affluent areas where they do not have contact with the poor. This kind of bugged my ear and now I'm realizing what it is. This idea that the conversations are being held in urban areas where there are no poor people. It's... John Maass, Jr.: Most urban areas are filled with poor people. But what he's talking about is... Adam Brett, Jr.: Suburban. John Maass, Jr.: ...urban areas, quote-unquote, Davos. Not an urban area by any means. Adam Brett, Jr.: Davos. Exactly. John Maass, Jr.: Davos. Adam Brett, Jr.: This also fits into the president's announcement earlier in the week. Yeah, I think it was early in the week, that he wants to diversify neighborhoods.

10:09 We didn't talk about it on the show. I did have it in the show notes and the idea is If you want your local, you know your state federal funding Then we're gonna have the the brown shirts with with their armbands come in and make sure there's enough diversity in every community Which makes no sense Of course is probably done worse integration. That's interesting. Yeah, and okay you got any Mexicans in your neighborhood? Yeah, yeah, we got to here. I got a flock and he says often the green Rhetoric he calls it the green rhetoric Goes on as part of that discussion and he mentions the media in particular and he mentions finance and he mentions business He says there's a green rhetoric going on in these kind of affluent areas Which is not connected to what's happening on the ground with poor people and he says we need to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor the cry of the earth, but I don't hear anywhere God speaking doesn't he have a hotline and

11:08 Was that too simplistic? Apparently this guy doesn't care. Then we have the final bid is population control. I'll just give you one last thing, Natalie, which is population control. That was something that people are interested to hear what the Pope will say about that because many had suggested that as a solution to problems of the climate. The Pope clearly saying population control is not the answer. Demographic growth is compatible with development, he says. The end of the encyclical, Natalie, he gives some suggestions for these lifestyle changes such as carpooling pooling, taking the bus, he says put on an extra sweater rather than turning up your heat and cook only what you can eat. That's right. Where is the spiritual leader of the Catholic Church carpool? No, the guy has, he's invested in Uber. It's obvious. His portfolio is filled up.

CHAPTER 04 / 36 Discussion

John Holdren, White House Green Energy Investment Summit

White House Science Advisor John Holdren and Vice President Joe Biden addressed an investment summit focused on transitioning to a low-carbon economy by 2050. The administration is seeking private capital to move green innovations through the "valley of death" toward commercial success, while Holdren notes the necessary roles of nuclear energy and hydrogen.

john holdren· joe biden· green energy· nuclear power· renewables

11:54 This is this is out of control, but of course everyone is working right along with it It's all timed as is typical probably because they had a copy of the embargoed encyclical here is John P Holdren One of my favorite people in this administration, he is the White House Presidential Science Advisor. Famously, in the 70s, he said, oh, we're going into global cooling. And he switched that later into global warming. And so, of course, when the... How could you switch from one...from global cooling and you...cock sure. And we should mention to people, because I remember hearing Bill Maher say, oh, there's one article in Newsweek. Yeah, there was one article in Newsweek that was passed around the Internet left and right, but when you do any research, there were hundreds of articles. Yeah. Hundreds written about this. Yes.

12:49 Yes. Now, how you switch, I don't know, maybe he identifies with global warming now. I think he just identifies as being a troublemaker. Because we all know a global low-carbon economy in 2050 is going to have to meet the energy needs of 9 or 10 billion people. Wow, is that true? 9 or 10 billion people in 5 years? Did he say 1920? No, it's not true. He said 1920, didn't he? Let me listen again. Let me listen again. Because we all know a global low-carbon economy in 2050 is... Oh, 2050. 2050. That number's questionable because most populations stabilize once they become more affluent. That includes China. I hate to point out there was a TED talk. That's not okay. That's why I said I apologize in advance. That means you can't condemn me and you just did it. Yeah, I'm sorry.

13:40 with a population expert and he showed how these things actually work. They do not just go out of control. It's just not what happens. They stabilize. I mean, in some countries like Italy, they have negative growth, population growth. And the other countries are showing zero. Oh, there's going to be tons of countries with negative population growth. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And so this is bull crap. This does not make sense. Oh, gee. Huh. Somehow I hadn't figured out that this guy, that he's talking bull crap. Hmm. OK, let's continue. And there's a very important thing missing from his

14:17 from his little tirade here. We're going to have to meet the energy needs of 9 or 10 billion people. Yeah, man, so we're gonna go 2 billion people in 45- in 35 years? Okay. Using technologies that will have to be more advanced than the technology- How about advanced nuclear energy? You know what? I'm gonna give him a little, little, little teeny tip of the prop because he does mention that. ...that are in place today. Buildings, agriculture, machines must be dramatically more energy efficient. Cars, trucks and planes are going to have to run on electricity, biofuels or hydrogen. Electricity generation is going to need to come primarily from renewables and nuclear energy. I have to say, but renewables, wind and solar, as you pointed out a couple shows ago, these are not renewables, correct?

15:12 I don't think it was about that. No, they're continuous. It's not something that...it's not technically renewable. Right, okay. I like that point. I like that point. If you have the wood, you burn it, and you can grow another tree. And nuclear is also not renewable. No. But it is completely carbon-free, and it is clean. And it would go thousands and thousands of years with the supply we have, so who cares? The emissions from most of the remaining fossil fuel combustion are going to need to be diverted permanently from the atmosphere. But even bigger than the challenge of funding for research and development and demonstration is the challenge of the valley of death.

15:54 I'm all ears now. Can you take us through the valley of death? Finding the capital to move innovations through that valley across to commercial success on the other side and this of course is where the role of financing and the focus of this summit Government money is what he's talking about. Yes. Yes. Well, and the reason why we don't we know Kleiner Perkenstrad with a green fund in 2005 or 2006. Yeah It was a huge flop. Yeah, I think I heard the company's image. Yeah, you know, so people don't want to invest in this because it just doesn't make sense. It costs too much money. And if you go into nuclear, you know, there's no teat to suck off. You throw the fuel in there and it runs forever and then it eats its own waste and you can have it small and modular and none of that.

16:46 So that is one side of the White House. Joe Biden was at this investors, it was like a federal investor, I forget the exact name of it. Roundtable. That's what I call it. Okay. Yeah. It was a roundtable to get people excited about investing. What you're doing really, really matters. Really, really? I want to tell you, you got a partner in us. We'll do everything that's reasonably possible. And there's no pride of authorship here. We're doing things that aren't working. We could do more to make it work better. Like he says, we're doing the biggest economy in the world. How's it not working? It's not working. To make it work better for you all, y'all, to make it more attractive to invest and be engaged. Let us know. Being gay? Because this is the single most important thing that Barack Obama and Joe Biden can do in eight years

CHAPTER 05 / 36 Discussion

Joe Biden, North American Energy Independence and Peak Oil

Vice President Joe Biden declared North America the new epicenter of global energy, displacing traditional powers like Saudi Arabia and Nigeria. This shift is attributed to breakthroughs in natural gas and fracking, leading to a discussion on the disappearance of the "peak oil" narrative as global supplies continue to expand.

joe biden· natural gas· fracking· peak oil· energy epicenter

17:44 of a presidency and vice presidency is to actually get a handle. Get a handle. Handle. Get a handle. Get a handle. On climate change. Get a handle. Apparently three handles are involved. And now Joe... How come Joe's not running for the presidency? Well... Come on you wimp, go run! And now we have Joe who completely brings your, which I subscribe to, your theory together about rubble-izing the Middle East, blowing up the wells. And now when you put this together with climate change, when you put it together with the papal encyclical... And let me just ask you... The whole world's out to kill us. Why? I want to ask you a question. If you're the Pope, do you like Muslims?

18:34 Well, this Pope probably loves them, but not so much that he doesn't give a crap about rubbleizing the Middle East, that would be my guess. I think so. Now, Joe always kind of speaks to his heart, and I think he completely buys into your theory and is letting it slip that this is the plan. North America is now, will remain, the epicenter of energy for the remainder of the first half of this century at least, and probably well in the next century. Is this true? The epicenter? How can it be the epicenter of energy? We have a, well, he's extrapolating what can be had from France. Ah, no, no, no, no. We're no longer going to be talking about the epicenter being Saudi Arabia or Nigeria or Venezuela. North America is the place. When I say that, and I say it in other context in foreign policy, it's a, everyone assumes I'm only talking about the phenomenal breakthroughs in natural gas. See, he's talking to you. You assume that.

19:33 Which makes an ass out of you and me, John. Oil. Exactly. All of which has been new technologies that have been all very positive. But there's another transformational, equally important thing happening in renewable energy and reducing carbon pollution here and around the world. Now listen to this. We are the epicenter of renewable energy, John. Because there's more wind here, I guess and there's more solar that is the future future that is the future future a key driver to the development and deployment of clean energy is

20:12 all of you. Right now, renewable energy... Let's burn those people then, shove them in the oven. ...energies, and I know I'm preaching to the choir, you're probably the only people who really know this, generates about 13% of our electric energy needs, and about 10% of all of our energy needs in the nation. Since 2008, solar generation has increased 20-fold. Granted, it still only represents about one-half or 1% of our needs, but Over time, there's no reason why that can't increase exponentially. There's lots of reasons. It doesn't work that way. The reason right here is overcap. There's no wind. Power has tripled, representing roughly 9% of our primary energy needs in the United States. There's no reason why both wind and energy, among other renewables, wind and solar, can't increase exponentially.

21:06 There's no, not a single reasons on God's green earth and you're going to help keep it green. Um, that by the year 2020 renewables aren't doubled to represent 20% of the electric generation and 20 or 26% of electric generation and 20% of all energy generation nation. Um, let's see. Well, well, first of all, first of all, I have to ask, Well, he's rambling a lot, so I don't think he's drunk per se, but I think he's had a couple. I think he's... but I think what he's doing is very subtle, but what he is saying is we need to increase our so-called renewables, solar and wind, and you can do that, but you need one extra component. You need natural gas for when there's no wind or when there's no sun.

21:54 So, yeah. And so he's lying. He's saying, well, I'm not talking about fracking and the potential to have all this gas that we have. And no, it's not about that. It's about our incredible technology. Howard Glassman 1.5 of 1%. Yeah. Our incredible technology that brings us these renewables and we need to increase that. Well, sure, you can increase it, but then you automatically have to increase the natural gas supply. That is all solar, all wind plants are built with a gas-fired plant right on premises. Or maybe sometimes it can be hydro. So when I hear this, you know, and he says Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Venezuela, rubbleize that shit. Get rid of it because we'll save you with gas. 90% gas and then this little teeny bit of

22:43 of so-called renewable energy. And the thing I'm missing from his little talk here, and from the Pope, and from Holdren, what happened to peak oil? You know, I always liked the peak oil idea. I love the peak oil. Whatever happened to peak oil? Whatever happened to peak oil? I used to listen to our old shows, I was doing some of that and it was like, oh yeah, there's another one. I love the peak oil. The old memes, they come, they go. Peak oil. Peak oil is good because if they, I think it's much simpler if you just stay on the peak oil tip, eventually we'll have to go to something else because we'll run out of oil, right?

23:24 Well, they gave up on that one, I guess, because they keep finding too much oil. Every time you turn around, there's more oil. It's like the globe is just underneath the crust. There's just tons of this stuff. And the epicenter is here. Well, the only way here's... Now, this has always been an anti-petroleum economy movement that's been going on. In any way we can do it. And that's why I came up with this idea that they're going to just Hell with it. Let's just destroy the supply of oil by poisoning it with radiation. Oh, nice. So let's let those idiots in the Middle East just go at each other with a couple of nukes. It doesn't take much. One nuke in the oil fields of Saudi Arabia, and it's done. You won't be able to go back there for decades. But we also have to do it in Nigeria. Well, he did mention Nigeria. And we should do it, hmm, where else? Russia?

CHAPTER 06 / 36 Discussion

Vladimir Putin, Russian Nuclear Arsenal Expansion and NATO Response

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the addition of 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to Russia's nuclear arsenal, prompting NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to accuse the Kremlin of "nuclear saber-rattling." In response, the Pentagon drafted plans to station heavy weaponry and tanks in Eastern Europe to deter further Russian aggression.

vladimir putin· nato· icbms· kaliningrad· eastern europe

24:21 Russia would be a target. But then Russia's got...yeah, but Russia's got a lot of gas. And I think we're just after the oil. I don't think we want to get into an exchange with Russia. Russia's off the table. And of course, they decided to do a little so-called saber rattling. I got a couple of clips on Russia. This is about the chlorine? No, not by the chlorine. Just play—this is the Russia. Russia won from the Russians. Russia has announced plans to increase its nuclear arsenal. On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his government will add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles this year. Speaking in Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg accused Russia of nuclear saber-rattling.

25:10 This is such a dichotomy in terms, you know, besides, yes, saber rattling nuclear. But I just love this accent. Who is this? That's some guy from, I think he's a Dutch. Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Of nuclear saber rattling. The saber-rattling of Russia is unjustified, it's destabilizing and it's dangerous. And this is something which we are addressing and it's also one of the reasons why we now

25:52 increasing the readiness and the preparedness of our forces and we are... Holy shit, he already started doing that! Who? The Luxembourg forces? No, he's not representing the EU. We are going to mobilize our forces when we find the bullet. And of course that our Air Force will be out patrolling when we have in a sufficient coal to fuel them. That's your Luxembourg. You should just work on that accent. It's great. It's kind of a Dutch German thing. Yeah, it's very humorous. Thank you. By making sure that NATO also in the future is

26:38 an alliance which provides deterrence and protection for all allies against any threat. The Russian move comes just days after it was revealed the Pentagon has drafted plans to store heavy weaponry, including tanks, in Eastern Europe for the first time since the end of the Cold War. The New York Times reports the plan would see enough weaponry for as many as 5,000 soldiers stored across several countries— Stored? —from Estonia to Bulgaria. Storing them? What, are they putting them in, like, sarcophagi? And Poland. They're putting them there. Russia has urged the U.S. to— That's stationing, not store. —abandon the potential move, saying

27:19 it would violate a 1997 agreement in which NATO pledged not to deploy a major troop force near Russian borders. Oh, please. Who cares? You know, the funny thing about that 97 thing is this is a classic Europe, NATO, actually American thing to do. In most parts of the world, your handshake is good enough. We go, well, you don't have it in writing. You don't have it in writing. You said that you wouldn't do this. You don't have it in writing. Yeah, that's really nice. That's great. So the Russians decided to do a little counter move by, hey, we're going to build some more missiles. But you have to listen now, you get to listen to the same report from the NewsHour, which has some bonehead at the end, some three or four-star general I've never heard of, going on and on about this is why we're...this sort of thing is the reason that we're doing these maneuvers right outside their door.

28:19 But it's so funny because what he's describing at the very end, you have to listen to the very end of it, what he's describing is exactly, and associating with Russia, is exactly what he's doing. Russia and NATO traded verbal volleys today over expanding the Russian nuclear arsenal. President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday announced the addition of more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles. And he talked of overwhelming Western defenses. as NATO staged exercises in Poland, its overall commander sharply criticized the Kremlin's actions and words. What we have done in this exercise is exactly responding to and our way of being ready for this kind of irresponsible rhetoric. We see these kind of words, normal and responsible nuclear powers don't act like this, don't talk like this.

29:17 Yeah, they don't act like this. They're doing the maneuvers. You know, the Lithuanian Army website, whatever that means, was hacked. No, no. And which I'm pretty sure the whole hack was a hoax. But what came out of that is NATO According to the so-called hack and the so-called hacked emails, NATO is ready to annex Kaliningrad, which would be quite offensive, of course, to the Russians. Whether that is true, whether this hack is real, which I doubt, but it's still a message. It's messaging either way. Yeah, it's messaging. Somebody wants somebody else to know what's going on in advance.

CHAPTER 07 / 36 Discussion

Pope Francis, Vladimir Putin Peace Medallion Gift

Pope Francis met with Vladimir Putin at the Vatican, presenting the Russian leader with an "Angel of Peace" medallion. The meeting included discussions on the conflict in Ukraine and the necessity of adhering to the Minsk agreements to rebuild a climate of dialogue.

pope francis· vladimir putin· vatican· ukraine· minsk agreement

30:08 So you're not clueless when it happens. And it's also a subtle threat. There's a lot of things going on. It's pretty, you know, it's the way we do it. Now what, uh oh, what happened here? I'm handicapped here. I had my trackpad broken, so I'm using a mouse. But the court is... Oh, you poor baby, a mouse? Those things were never gonna make it. The court is too short. Yeah, there's no evidence. There's no evidence that anyone will ever want those things. Well, I don't. I want a trackpad. I don't want the mouse. There you go. It's proved right there. Dvorak wins again. But the chord is too short, the computer's on the left, so I now have my arms crossed with my keyboard hand crossed over. That's why we need video. Yeah, yeah. Prudent was presented by a peace, by the Pope with a peace medal. Didn't see this news show up everywhere. No, I didn't see that at all. Let's see. Democracy Now! didn't play that.

31:10 Let me see if I can find... I only saw a couple articles about it. Let me see. This mouse blows. I can't find a piece of video or audio. Francis gave Putin a medallion with the Angel of Peace on it, reminiscent of the same gift he gave to the Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas last month. Vatican spokeshole, Father Frederico... It's got a bug in it. I'll take your bet and I'll up you. Father Frederico Lombardi said Francis asked Putin to put forward, quote, a great effort to achieve peace in Ukraine, implying the two did indeed discuss the matter. They agreed on the importance of rebuilding a climate of dialogue and that all parties commit themselves to implementing the agreements of Minsk. You know, when I read these things and you see how media just really is

32:10 So complicit. Sometimes you just gotta wonder. Maybe they do map it out of Bilderberg. I don't know. It's real, it's real! Bilderberg, the elite are here! New order! Bilderberg. If they're gonna map it out, that's not gonna be where they're gonna map it out. It's just puzzling. That is just a drinking club. Well, where would they map it out of? Those guys are all bullcrap artists. It's not really important that it goes to that thing. Really important. No, I mean I could be wrong. Maybe they do map it out there. I just don't it just doesn't you don't have that I don't but okay forget the Bilderberg part, but it's something's being mapped out. This is this is clear. I mean while that's mean while we have Ukraine's itself, but that's another so I think it's self mapping We've been waiting for regime change in Ukraine is the chocolate King Poroshenko. This guy's gotta go. He's gotta go and Okay, so looks like a dummy. So now we're back

CHAPTER 08 / 36 Discussion

Ukraine IMF Loans, Boeing vs Airbus Russian Orders

The IMF signaled continued financial support for Ukraine despite its debt arrears, while the Paris Air Show highlighted a commercial paradox involving Russia. Despite geopolitical tensions, Russian entities placed significant orders for Boeing 747 and 737 aircraft, outpacing European rival Airbus in the region.

imf· ukraine· boeing· airbus· paris air show

33:09 with the IMF saying they will continue to lend money to Ukraine so Kiev can complete their economic restructuring. Here's a, I don't have a clip of it, Fifi Lagarde says, in the event that a negotiated settlement with private creditor does not reach and the country determines that it cannot service its debt, the fund can lend to Ukraine consistent with its lending into arrears policy. Keyword arrears because that's where you're going to get it stuck, Ukraine, in your arrears. And then we had Yats and Porsche. So that means, I think, if anything, maybe it means they're going to pay the Russians for all the gas they've been getting? They have to. They have to. So again, everyone's, you know, Clinton said something. Hold on, let me find... Which one of the Clintons? The one that's almost dead.

33:58 Here is Bill Clinton. He was talking about this was a Jake Tapper forum at CGI the Clinton global initiative and you know talking about you know people seeking Favors for donations I can play that later, but then Bill gave an example. I'll just give you an example America's always having I love how he laughs fucking moron. Don't you know how it works give an example lobby for American-made airplanes because we believe that Our competition overseas is more heavily subsidized by government than we do. Boeing's less subsidized than Airbus. That's what we've always believed and we think it's hard to get a fair deal. So you do this. I did it when I was president. I thought it was good. Good for American jobs, good for America's economy, good for the national security of the countries involved.

34:50 So I wouldnít be a bit surprised if some of that wasnít going on when Boeing announced they wanted to invest some money in Haiti to help them recover from their adversity. that they did it to make America, the government, like them better. No, can't imagine. But... Wow. Oh, bless you. God bless you. Made me sneeze that guy. However, the Le Bourget, the big air show, they call it the Paris Air Show, but it's in Le Bourget. I've been to the air show. Oh, I've always wanted to go. It's fantastic. It's supposed to be fantastic. I went there pretending to buy a helicopter.

35:30 And they... You went there to sit in cockpits. Yeah, of course, touch buttons and twiddle knobs. But I got a free flight over and a free flight back on a private plane. Oh, because you're a buyer. Well, that's what they thought. However... So here we have this issue with Russia. Right now Boeing is ahead in the Boeing versus Airbus wars. And I'm pretty convinced, you know, many accidents that happen with certain aircraft that we see going back and forth. Oh, Airbus down. Oh, Boeing down. Oh, Boeing has battery problems. Oh, Airbus has software problems, glitches. They have now outpaced Airbus with a huge order. Can you guess which country ordered a whole bunch of Boeing aircraft? Saudi Arabia. How about Russia?

36:22 Russia? Yeah. What? Yes. Russia has their own aircraft manufacturing operation. This is the outfit, I'm looking for the name of the company. They typically fly Antonovs, but they have ordered 20 747s, cargo transport 747s. The 800s, the new ones. Yeah, and this puts Boeing ahead, but how does this even work? We should be outraged by this. We can't be doing business with Putin. Or can we? Well, there's a charade. Yes, my point exactly. The whole thing is a charade. And another huge order of 87 37s. Guess who that goes to? Russia. No, China. Oh, well, China doesn't have its own manufacturing. No, but the Russians do. But they're hacking us everywhere. Russia's got like two or three. The Chinese are hacking us. Why are we doing business with the enemy? Yeah, we should just cut them off. Yes, yes. People should be outraged by this. But no.

37:22 No, no, no. And you know the funny thing, you hear about the... I mean Boeing has issues with the 747-800 because they can't seem to sell any passenger planes. Oh, and you know who just ordered a new one? Who? President Obama. Oh yeah, I know he did. Yes. Mr. Climate change. Mr. Climate change. They need another one. They need one of those big jets. And actually they always order two. There's always a shadow jet. Of course there is. Of course. They never talk about that in the order. As president, you need one for each foot. Let's be honest. For each foot. So in the 380s, apparently have zero sales scheduled for 2014 and 2015. And that is a message right there. Russia didn't buy any Airbus.

CHAPTER 09 / 36 Discussion

Bill Clinton, CGI Donor Influence and Haiti Recovery

Former President Bill Clinton defended the Clinton Global Initiative against allegations of "pay-to-play" politics, claiming donors never received special favors from the State Department. Clinton cited the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a primary motivator for philanthropic contributions, despite ongoing criticism of the recovery efforts led by the Red Cross and UN.

bill clinton· clinton global initiative· haiti· state department· donors

38:06 So, this goes back to the open mic incident. When Obama was talking to Medvedev, he said, you know, I can't do anything until I'm re-elected. I'm thinking it's all this. No wonder people start to think there's something going on here, some conspiracy. No wonder. You want to hear the rest of Bill about... Yes, I'd love to listen to that guy. I want to hear as much of it as I can before he drops dead of heart. I know you've said, I've heard you say that there's no evidence that any of the donors who have given to the foundation received anything in response from the State Department while Secretary Clinton was there. Nobody even suggested or talked about or thought about it. Oh yeah!

38:50 There's no chance. Impossible, I tell you. No one even thought about it. How do you know, Bill? No one even thought about it. Well, that's... I'm glad you brought that up. It's something to consider. Hmm, new business model. The political season began and somebody said, well, what about this? Now, some of the companies that have supported the foundation for years, many of them before she was ever Secretary of State, She was a senator when I left office, so they do this, they do philanthropy too. No one has ever asked me for anything or any of that. This isn't evergreen, we need to keep this. She wasn't a senator when he left office? Oh really? No. Huh. I'm gonna look at the dates. Yeah, you look at the date, I'll finish the clip. Well, let me ask you about that because I think a lot of people

39:50 might say, okay, you say there's no evidence that anything was done for them, but can you really say that these companies, these wealthy individuals, these governments, none of them sought anything? I love this. This is my favorite. It's so bright out there. Just no. Anything? I mean, some of them did have business before the State Department. I don't know. You never know what people's motives are. But wait a minute. You said you could you knew what they were thinking. Ah Bill. In this case, I'm pretty sure everybody gave to Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake. He's losing it. What? Yeah. Well, yes, he is losing it. And that's why it's fun to listen to this and record for posterity. What people's motives are. But in this case, I'm pretty sure everybody gave to Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake.

40:29 saw what they saw on television. Yeah, because there's nothing to gain in Haiti. They don't have anything like oil and gold and diamonds and minerals. You know, they just went in there to stop the suffering, which is why today we have six houses, thank you Red Cross, and 100,000 people with cholera in tents who are being raped, thank you United Nations Blue Helmets. We're horrified and wanted to make a difference. You're not saying, you say you don't know if anybody sought any favor, just that there was no... No, and I don't think Hillary would know either. She, you know, she was pretty... She's honest! ...busy though. Honest engine! ...and I don't, I never saw her study a list of my contributors. Take an envelope? Really, she never studied a list of the contributors? It is now the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and she never studied a list of donors?

41:27 Apparently not. That's not your fiduciary responsibility to the foundation is to do that. I never saw her study a list of my contributors, and I had no idea who was doing business before the State Department. But what I will say this, she believed that part of the job of the Secretary of State was to advance America's economic interests around the world. If she hadn't been doing this economic diplomacy work, nobody would have been doing it. But I never thought about whether there was any overlap. Okay, he's gonna come home. He's gonna come home. He was gonna hit him with a with a wet fish Okay, there was a 17-day overlap. He's right. Oh, okay She got elected when he was going out and he got kicked out or he's thrown out of the out of the White House where they stole the furniture Remember that let's try to steal half the furniture in the White House and

CHAPTER 10 / 36 Discussion

Donald Trump, 2016 Presidential Campaign Announcement

Donald Trump officially entered the 2016 presidential race, using his announcement to criticize Hillary Clinton's email scandal and advocate for a border wall. Trump's rhetoric regarding Mexican immigrants sparked immediate controversy, as he characterized border crossers as criminals and rapists.

donald trump· george stephanopoulos· immigration· mexico· 2016 election

42:25 He was a left with probably an armoire on January 20th 2001 and she got in and it like the third January 3rd. Yeah, same here. Yeah the armoire nice And then there was I'll just finish this thing up because I just have a Hillary little bundle of clips your last one this is the guy who I'm probably going to vote for and people may find this surprising and But I think I'm going to put myself behind this guy to become the candidate and to win the election to be President of the United States. I've always wondered if I should be on his side, but now I think I'm really all in. I bet you I can guess who this is. Go ahead. Trump. Yes, absolutely. Here he is with George Stephanopoulos.

43:11 And I just, you know, it doesn't make any difference who's in the White House, but this guy's entertaining. You know, he's very entertaining. I have two clips when you're done. All right. Here's here's the one I like. And I like how he slams Stephanopoulos, who, of course, shouldn't be asking any questions about Clinton. No. Since he's a donor in the amount of what we know, $70,000, and he's not disclosed that, and now he's very sorry, but there we go. How about Hillary Clinton? What Hillary's got with the emails is, to me, scandalous. She gets a... Of course, you shouldn't be talking to me about that, nor, friends, you shouldn't be asking me those questions, but I don't mind. What Hillary's done with the emails is incredible. She gets a subpoena, and then after getting the subpoena,

43:49 She cancels it. She cancels everything. What she did is illegal. What she did is totally illegal. I don't know how she gets away with it. I love when the chatroom says, wow, Adam loses more respect every day. People, are you insane? What do you want? Who do you want to be present? They don't even get anyone who says that is not actually listening to the show. They're just in the chat. Yeah, yes, exactly. That person's a narc. kick him out. I want to get to your clips. I just wanted to qualify that if Hillary wins, I'll be extremely happy as well.

44:28 for a couple of reasons. One, she will push us much closer towards the abyss of the collection. The Trilateral Commission will have our New World Order. Finally, we can get it over with. You know, billions of people will die and we won't because, you know, we're not slated to be voted off the island, but the moronic zombies will. That guy in the chat room. He's the first to go. And of course, after her term, which will only be one term, you've I think you predicted that then we get kind of like a Ronald Reagan type Republican. That's the cycle. I'll be able to say to all women everywhere, in fact, you and I will get on that conference call they have on Thursday nights. In case you didn't know, all women of the world have a conference call on Thursday night. And they talk to each other and they go, yeah, did you bring another man down? Let's do it. Let's talk at the table here. And you know that's what they do. And then we can get in the conference call and say, ha ha ha ha ha, see?

45:21 didn't make any difference. She sent your sons and daughters to die in the sand as well. So I'd be fine with her. And then on the Republican side, he is a patriot. He loves America, his version of it. And that's fine. And he's funny. He's entertaining. It's like having a mixture of Joe Biden and Eh, John Wayne. Yeah, but he's a little smarter than Biden. Oh, much smarter than Biden. Yeah. But I think I'm going to stump for him. I like his... You know, he's not going to run. I mean, I figured out he's not going to run because he's smart enough to know that you don't use your own money. Well, didn't he...did he not officially announce? Yes, he did. And he'll be in it for a while, long enough to get...he wants to get into the debate.

46:03 Yeah, he's already got numbers. Yeah, you would because Fox News says they're gonna take the top 10 based on polling IQ score about it'll be the IQ scores the Q scores and They're gonna put them up there and so he'll be in there to make these kinds of comments And here's a couple of them here. Let's start with No, Trump—this is called Trump as described by Amy. This is—he's on Amy Goodman, and she just—she hates him. Well, of course. Did she make fun of his hair? Because that's the only thing people seem to do. She—no, because Democrats aren't that way. Oh, yes, they are. Oh, no, they're not. In a rambling K-pop speech, Trump branded Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists.

46:47 Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some I assume are good people. Muslims, if you talk to... I didn't record it, it was a very short ride. I had an Uber the other day and he was from Tunisia. And I got him talking but I was pissed at myself because I got, man, I got to get in your car again and he didn't have his number and anyway. What was the point? Oh, the Moroccans.

CHAPTER 11 / 36 Discussion

State Department, Visa Database Hardware Failure

A catastrophic hardware failure within the State Department's consular database has halted the issuance of visas and passports globally. The technical glitch, involving a massive Oracle installation transitioning to Linux, has created a significant backlog affecting international travel, seasonal workers, and students.

state department· oracle· linux· visa database· hardware failure

47:43 who have flooded Western Europe, I think there's now 3 million in the Netherlands country, population 17 million, and they're in government, etc. Consistently, politicians like Geert Wilders and a general acceptance under the population is these are the shitty Moroccans, the ones from the hills, the ones that, you know, are goat farmers. I didn't really say that, did I? You came close. Caught myself. But that's an interesting analogy, you know, when it comes to immigration to say that. Can I say something about immigration before we move on with the next Trump clip? Yeah, sure. I figured something out. I was not getting sufficient information from the tech-horny technology podcasts and other types of shows about the most recent visa database issue. Now, you recall last year

48:37 There was a huge backlog of visas. It lasted for weeks and weeks. Currently, we have these horrible rapists and drug dealers and some of the nice people camping out at the Mexican border. They need to get into California. There's work. And of course, we know that the Department of Homeland Security is using their own discretionary policies and not sending ice into the fields of California because there's much more egregious violators of the law. And obviously we need this, we need these immigrants, temporary workers or full-time, whatever they are, we need them to work on the harvest and work in the field. So the immigration database is very important. This is one of the largest

49:26 Oracle database installs possibly one of the largest in the world, billions of records. And last year, as I was reading through this and there were some FOIA requests, none of this has ever really been reported properly other than, oh, there's a glitch and therefore the visas can't be handed down and passports. There's a glitch, there's a glitch. Even Ars Technica is saying glitch. It's just disgusting. That was, they had upgraded to Oracle 10G and they were running it on Windows Server 2003. And even though it never went offline, the clustering was broken. So this should be tech news, but... So they really could only run off of one node, and the load was way too heavy, so that slowed everything down. They had to pretty much ration access to the database, and that put everything behind. And then they said, oh, you know what? We'll fix this.

50:17 We'll upgrade to Windows Server 2008 and we'll try 11D, I think, which was the completely new Oracle version, untested in the field. Yeah, good idea. Run that on a billion record database. And database construction and maintenance is... it's voodoo. I mean, it's religion, this stuff. You cannot get one person who says... has an identical strategy to another database administrator. And this, and then this, and while they were doing it, they're going to upgrade and transition everything to Linux. Jesus, how many, so... Yeah, do they do all these changes at once? No, no. So they started this in, I think, February. And the issue at hand now, according to FOIA requests, and they finally put a statement out on the State Department website, it was a hardware issue that brought it down. Now, this doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

51:14 you know, first of all, you'd expect certainly if they're all, if the transition to Linux is complete, which there's no confirmation of, you would have, you know, redundant systems. Hardware can fail over to other pieces of hardware. I think there's something drastic that has happened here. But that's their claim. Catastrophic problem. Catastrophic, yes. Yeah, it could be. And so the Bureau of Consular Affairs will, I guess they'll keep us updated, but if you, they have a little Q&A, a little FAQ. That's what you do, you rely on technology.

51:52 Yes, it's the unintended consequences of technology. So this is not the same issue as last year. What's going on? Why can't the department issue visas, passports, other travel documents? We are working as quickly as possible to resolve our technical issues. We apologize to travelers and recognize that this may cause hardship to individuals waiting for visas overseas. What caused this outage? Was it a malicious action or hack? There's no evidence the problem is cyber security related. which is what they should have said, we are working urgently to correct the problem and expect the systems to be fully operational again soon. And I put the FOIA request into the show notes so you can take a look at it. And they're vague, but they say, hey, this is a hardware problem. And they expect it to last several more weeks. To build a Linux server farm? It doesn't make any sense. Something is up. And

52:46 We're not being told the truth, but this is a big problem for food, it's a big problem for students, it's a big problem. It's a huge problem, I agree. You can't do this, you have to do it by hand. Yeah, they can't. There was a question about that. They can do emergency passports by hand, but there are so many different organizations sucking off this database. I mean, it

53:22 It feeds right into the TSA PreCheck and the TSA Watch List, all of this stuff. I can't do more than just research and give you what is being told. Well, since you're talking about immigration, it's got something to do with it. My final point. So when somebody says, Our immigration system is broken. Yeah, you're right! Our immigration systems are literally broken. Ah, punchline. Well, not a punchline. Maybe that's what they meant all along. No, they didn't mean that. But I think you can justify the punchline. Well, Trump has an answer for the whole thing. How nice. Trump and his Great Wall. Okay.

CHAPTER 12 / 36 Discussion

Ronald Reagan, Wayne LaPierre Crime Spike Prediction

A brief discussion compares modern political figures to Ronald Reagan's acting career before pivoting to a prediction by Wayne LaPierre. The NRA leader warned of a spike in violent crime in American metropolitan areas during the summer months.

ronald reagan· wayne lapierre· nra· crime rates· movies

54:14 I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me. And I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words. Nobody would be tougher on ISIS than Donald Trump. This is the plea of an American who has just given up. I haven't given up. You've given up. I'm thinking about the show. No, I'm thinking about the show. Let's put a joke president in office. He couldn't do worse. Well, hold on a second. I feel that the biggest joke president was the actor, known as Ronald Reagan, and everyone loved him. He was great. That's because he was in the cycle. Yeah, but he was an actor.

55:16 Yeah, and a shitty one. No, he wasn't. I watched some of his stuff. That one where he had his legs cut off? That's a good movie. What movie was that? Oh, it was a great movie. His legs cut off? Yeah, he had his legs cut off, but it was really a good story too. I can't remember the name. Somebody in the chat room should know. I'm sure they watch more movies than I do. Is that a weapon I see in your hand? No, I can't do it. I can't do it, John Wayne. That's not even Ronald. That's not even Mr. John Wayne. Yeah, I'm sorry. No good. All right. I have a evergreen clip that we can figure out how to use it someday. An evergreen? You and Roof. He cannot hide under the United Nations roof. Who cannot hide?

56:09 I don't know, somebody. This is... Oh no, this was the guy, this is the United Nations kind of attorney general or something and he was bitching about these rapists that are out there with the helmet. And he says they're criminals, they cannot hide under the UN roof. So okay. Which I think means the blue helmet. Oh, okay. Here is... I'd like to revisit the sage for a moment. He was so right on, no idea how he knew it other than the show was entirely scripted and he was just reading off the prompter. A violent crime rate in America's metropolitan areas will spike this summer. Bye bye! There you go. Right on. It's not the first time we've heard either him or somebody else say there's going to be a huge spike this summer. And here it is.

CHAPTER 13 / 36 Discussion

Charleston Church Shooting, Dylan Storm Roof Investigation

Nine people were killed during a shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Authorities quickly identified 21-year-old Dylan Storm Roof as the suspect, labeling the massacre a hate crime after he reportedly sat in on a Bible study before opening fire.

charleston· dylan storm roof· south carolina· hate crime· fbi

57:00 And speaking of roof, Dylan Storm Roof. Could it get any stupider? This is the South Carolina church shooting guy. Okay. That's his name. Dylan Storm Roof. That's his middle name. Dylan Storm Roof? That's his middle name. Storm. Storm Roof. Yes. Dylan Storm Roof. Yeah. I have a funny clip. This is a kid, you know, this has been an ongoing, we're having these little incidents all over. Well, this is not that little. I'm questioning this to an extreme and I said that with righteousness. I heard that.

57:40 I'm of things in the story. I'm missing the wailing. Where's the FBI? Well, the FBI is right there. I don't get with that. Then we know it's a part of this. Oh yeah. I am missing the wailing bystanders. You know, the, the, the heart, you know, they didn't, they, I'm telling you none of this. He's not as good at staging these things. I mean the other guy, Mueller, he was a genius looking back on it. Listen to the, all these little anomalies crop up, listen to this. This is an unfathomable and unspeakable act.

58:32 by somebody filled with hate and with a deranged mind. And as Chief Mellon said, this person is dangerous. So this is the press conference and the mayor said he the mayor already knows he's they didn't hadn't they caught him this morning, but they already know he's filled with hate. How does he know that? It's immediately labeled as a hate crime. And here's the mayor himself on the ground who should be a lot more careful about saying these things. He's he's turning it into a disease filled with hate. He sat apparently sat in on this Bible study. But you have a background clip so that people know what you're talking about.

59:13 You just jump right into this, right? I'm sorry. It's been so in my face everywhere. Yeah. So nine people were killed in a church, a Baptist church, which would be predominantly black in South Carolina. Apparently a famous Baptist church. Martin Luther King spoke there in the 60s. And this kid walks in and hate-filled. And they have a little CCTV camera. He's got the bowl cut going on, the crazy Adam Land's bowl cut. He's wearing a sweater The first reports were a hoodie, but no. He's wearing a sweater over a t-shirt, but you know how some... Have you ever done promotional pictures for the radio station and then the PR girl says, oh let's all put on the Z100 sweatshirts? And they put it on over their t-shirts and over their...

1:00:02 a APB out on him. His license plate number is LBF 330. I mean, come on. Just stop. Just stop it already. Stop doing this to me. And then the, and this I think was a faux pas. Here is the, I believe the chief of police with a description of who we should be on the lookout for. We have members of the Charleston Police Department, the Charleston County Sheriff's Department, SLED, the FBI. SLED? I don't know. What's SLED?

1:00:48 I don't know, but Sled got my attention. Sled. Gotta keep playing out. The ATF and many other federal agencies. Many other. We have a unified command that is working this investigation. We have investigators that are out tracking leads that are coming in, and we will continue to do that until we find this individual who has carried out this crime tonight and bring him to justice. We are looking for a white male, approximately 21 years old, sandy blonde hair. And he obviously is extremely dangerous. And what we are asking that if anyone in the community has information about this particular individual, that he contact law enforcement immediately. Okay. So he's- That is the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. Oh, there you go. So here we have, he's a fugitive, he's on the run. We have not seen any photographic evidence yet. And he says he's approximately 21.

1:01:50 And it turns out, he is 21 years old. Dylan Storm Roof. He is 21 years old. This guy already knows what's going on. And if you look at the kid, you would say 18, 17, maybe 20. But to say 21 and he's exactly 21, hmm, okay, fine. He's extremely dangerous. We don't have, we don't know anything other than his, it's so analogous to Adam Lanza, by the way. His dad gave him a gun for Christmas. He told one lady, I'm not going to kill you so you can tell everybody what happened here. Come on. You know? Pretty lame. Yeah, it is. And I hate to be all conspiratorial, but

CHAPTER 14 / 36 Discussion

Ali Shukri Amin, Virginia ISIS Recruitment Case

Ali Shukri Amin, a 17-year-old honor student from Virginia, pleaded guilty to providing material support to ISIS after helping a friend travel to Syria. Amin's attorney, Joseph Flood, detailed how the teenager was radicalized online and eventually turned in by his parents through an FBI-affiliated imam.

ali shukri amin· isis· virginia· terrorism· material support

1:02:36 Well, that's a part of the whole bunch of these things going on. The one I was following is this Virginia guy, the teenager in Virginia, who was railroaded. He was a 16-year-old. Now, I have a clip that is a long clip, but I want to play it. The clip is... Don't start it. It's called... The clip is, Worst Attorney Ever. Now, this is his attorney. He was a famous attorney who... There's an article... I looked him up. There's an article about one case he was doing in the Virginia area. What's his name? What's his name? and his, uh, well, that goes along with the storm roof, doesn't it? Yeah. Flood. There's a bunch of attorneys named flood, but this one apparently in one case,

1:03:20 His client started punching him and just beat the crap out of him in the courtroom. Nice. For something or other. But if you listen to this guy, this is the attorney of the kid. And the way the story, now I'm going to deconstruct it before we play the clip so we can listen for this stuff. Okay. The kid is an introvert 16 year old who did nothing more, if you even read about the case, than drive his buddy to the airport. and then take a according to USA Today or CBS News he drove the buddy to the airport to fly to Turkey so he can join ISIS brought back a

1:03:59 thumb drive to the kids parents which had notes in it and I guess had a letter saying I'm not coming back and then I guess he had a Twitter account where he was saying, right, right, just saying, well you know, great for ISIS. Okay so he's 16 which means he's juvenile. 17 at trial. He was, as soon as he was busted because his parents turned him into a, or had a, an imam who happened to be working for the FBI. How coincidental. She said, can you help our boy? The imam came in and then turned him into the... That whole thing is just disgusting. The kid started cooperating immediately, then was somehow convinced by the attorney and the FBI to plead, I guess, guilty as an adult. What?

1:04:51 Yeah, and it was like and then the grounds were away. Why did he plead guilty as an adult? Well to get a lesser prison sentence and again, here's the attorney going. Yeah, he this if anyone saw the movie Idiocracy is the attorney in there the attorney says oh he's doing time. He's doing time. He's going to jail. Who is he working for? That's what I'm wondering. Listen to this clip. It's unbelievable. Panorama country, ISIS is and has been recruiting young Americans to wage jihad on the United States. In Virginia, a 17-year-old honor student pleading guilty to federal terrorism charges after helping a 19-year-old travel to Syria to join ISIS. The FBI agent leading the investigation going on the record just days ago.

1:05:30 Information comes to us through many sources, and folks in the community reached out and made it known to us that he was online, that he was actively encouraging others to participate in ISIL, and that he was—had indicated that he intended to travel to Syria to fight at some point in the future. The 17-year-old's attorney, Joseph Flood, joins us. Good evening, sir. Good evening. He's treated as an adult, right? 17 years old? He was transferred into adult court last week. Why? It's part of a package agreement that requires his cooperation. He's been cooperating ever since, actually, before his arrest. And as part of the negotiation, he agreed to waive transfer into adult court. He has pled guilty to one count? A single count of providing material support. And what's his exposure in terms of sentencing?

1:06:14 The maximum sentence is 15 years. His guidelines are somewhat higher, but the max is 15. Is probation a possibility for him? It's a possibility. I would say that's a stretch. All right. So how did he get involved in this? I don't think that his involvement is any different than any other child who gets caught up in Internet activities. kind of behaviors and encouraged on the internet. And I think like a lot of children, whether it's drugs or sex or internet chats, he got caught up in something that he wasn't prepared for. He's a very socially immature, although very bright kid. And his isolation, his lack of assimilation made him sort of fertile for... Oh man, this is a big war on crazy what's going on here.

1:06:58 The kid is online too much. He's an honor student, so he's not a dummy. He's on the spectrum. He's autistic, of course. Something like that. And of course, being an introvert, he goes online, he feels like a big shot. I'm going to go fight in ISIL. He's just talking. It's all talk. He's not doing anything. Yeah, throw that kid in jail. Apparently it is against the law to say something like that. Now he provided material support. to terrorists. Yeah, yeah, he drove them to the airport. That's material support. Or jihadists who reached out to him and communicated with him. He's 17 now, but when this went on he was 16. Yes. I mean, so he was even younger. He was even younger. What did his parents—did the parents have any idea this was happening?

1:07:42 The parents actually enlisted an imam who has a close relationship with the FBI and they began an aggressive set of interventions. It would have been funny if this happened in Denver, but okay, I'll take Virginia, close enough. That eventually brought the FBI into contact with Ali. They're actually the ones who brought him to the attention of law enforcement and... Wait a minute! I'm sorry I have to interrupt your clip. Let me just get this straight. So the kid is online and he's playing video games. He's an honor student. So of course you want to be very worried about your child. Hey kid, how'd you do? I'm honor student. I'm on the honor of Dean's list. Great.

1:08:20 We need to talk to an imam who's an FBI informant because you're on the wrong track. No. And an aggressive set of interventions that eventually brought the FBI into contact with Ali. They're actually the ones who brought him to the attention of law enforcement. And a process began in which he began cooperating and providing information voluntarily to the FBI. Why is he talking to me? Huh? He started providing information right away, folded immediately. So why did they turn him into an adult? I mean, and then here's, this is Greta by the way. She's a lawyer. She's a lawyer, yeah. A very famous lawyer. And she doesn't do shit about this. Providing information voluntarily to the FBI. Why is he cooperating? Because he's had a change of heart or because he doesn't want to go to prison for a long time? He's going to go to prison and I think everyone recognizes that.

1:09:07 I think that the line between fantasy and reality for a 17-year-old kid who spends a lot of time on the internet is not always clear. And once the real life repercussions of this became clear, not just the potential sanctions in the criminal justice field. But the impact that he's having on his family, and in particular his younger sister, it had a significant wakeup for him. And he is actively cooperating. There's an 18-year-old he helped get to Syria to join ISIS—or 19, I guess now. Any idea where that American is? We believe he was last communicating from Turkey. He did not communicate with my client.

1:09:47 He stopped in Turkey, he had flights to go to Greece, but he stopped in Turkey. And the assistance that Ali provided was to ride in a car to the airport with him and put him in touch with someone in Great Britain. Oh man. That you get how many years is he getting for that 15 years 15? Yeah This is a 16 year old kid of the and most kids at that age or you are just fantasizing anyway This is a no this is this is another one of these operations This is a disgusting story. This kid, all they had to do is go to the kids and say, here's what we're doing. You're going to get in trouble if you keep this up. Stop it. And that would be the end of it. That's called law enforcement. You're enforcing the law. You're not just arresting people left and right or setting them up or bringing in the imam. And you're an important part of community building and

1:10:38 helping the citizens. This is, this was, I think the Muslim community should be up in arms about this. But of course, everyone lays low now because they're afraid that they're going to get nailed, which I would be too. I wouldn't, I wouldn't, thinking about it, I wouldn't say anything. Let him rot in jail, this juvenile. Yeah. And he's a kid until he's 21. Well, 18 is when you'd be tried as an adult. He's not 18 either. Cancer viruses in the vaccines, pesticides by design in the GMO, chemtrails, all of it. We're being murdered by a soft op. There you go. I have a backgrounder from CNN on this, which I'd like to play. Because of course... On us being soft murdered? Yes. The soft kill op.

CHAPTER 15 / 36 Discussion

ISIS Social Media Propaganda, Domestic Radicalization Monitoring

U.S. intelligence officials expressed concern over a surge in ISIS sympathizers using social media to consume and spread propaganda within the United States. The FBI is actively monitoring thousands of accounts, while Twitter has begun aggressively suspending profiles that post pro-ISIS messages or logos.

isis· social media· twitter· radicalization· fbi

1:11:25 No, on the problems we now have with all of our kids, this is going to come down to a kid interventionist program that will be implemented in Common Core probably. God knows what's going to happen. Because we have sympathizers, you know, these are sympathizers, these kids, and they provide material support. Tonight, a U.S. intelligence official tells CNN there are strong concerns in the intelligence community about a surge in the number of ISIS sympathizers inside the United States. The FBI is struggling to identify active consumers of ISIS propaganda. Consumers of ISIS propaganda? Are they purchasing this? What, they're buying T-shirts?

1:12:06 hoodies, bumper stickers. If it wasn't for the government, those black t-shirts would be best-selling. Dynamite. Dynamite. Probably second to the Steph Curry jersey. And not only that, the ISIS song would be top of the charts. We could have Tiesto do a remix. Yeah. It would be fantastic. Yeah, well, that's not going to happen. Yeah, I should play this. It's a mercantile opportunity missed. I should I'll see if I can find the song and play it under this bit here. There's hundreds, maybe thousands. It's a challenge to get a full understanding of just how many of those passive followers are taking action. The passive followers, people inside the United States who have been known to post pro-ISIS messages on social media, pictures of themselves wearing ISIS logos.

1:12:52 There's this sympathizer who displayed an ISIS logo on a phone just feet from the White House with a tweet. Oh no! We are here America near our target. It's done to kind of play off that ISIS is everywhere. They can reach their enemies. Many of them analyst Philip Smythe says could be posers but experts point out there's been a spike. Posers? They're all posers. I love, I love, if you are not, if you're not real, you're a poser. This is fantastic. In ISIS activity inside the United States recently, at least 32 court cases over the past two years of people in the US accused of trying to provide material support to ISIS. Surveillance of ISIS suspects inside the United States is at an all-time high.

1:13:35 U.S. officials say ISIS operatives overseas entice supporters on social media and use encrypted communications to encourage them to take action. You can see where this is going. You know where it's going. Little Jim, good catch. It's about to get a lot better. Analyst David Gartenstein Ross, who tracks the radicalization of Americans, worries about the next step. How do you track the radicalization of Americans? Do you do that by trolling Twitter or something? The thing I would look for is whether ISIS is playing a role beyond just general support but actually trying to influence targets, trying to influence the kind of action that already radicalized supporters will have taken. This guy can't breathe. Something's stuck in his nose, that guy.

1:14:17 But Gardenstein-Ross says when ISIS operatives start picking targets, it makes them more vulnerable to being picked up by law enforcement. One other thing that could help law enforcement here, analysts say that Twitter has started to aggressively take down the profiles of Twitter users who express support for ISIS in the U.S. And when a profile is disabled, every message that person's posted is deleted. Stillwolf monitoring every potentially pro-ISIS account, every tweet, every posting, every message. That's a monumental challenge for law enforcement. They're still trying to keep up. We are here, hashtag America, near our hashtag target. Soon. You know, it makes no sense for Twitter to be removing these accounts because this is how we find them. Didn't we find the guy and we bombed the command and control center because he was taking selfies and posting it to Twitter? Yeah.

CHAPTER 16 / 36 Discussion

Michael McCaul, Internet Terrorism and Dark Space Encryption

House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul warned of "internet terrorism gone viral," citing the use of encrypted "dark space" communications by ISIS. McCaul argued that secure communication platforms prevent law enforcement from intercepting terror plots even with valid court orders.

michael mccaul· encryption· dark space· homeland security· isis

1:15:06 It's counterproductive to take this stuff down. I'm gonna turn the song off. All right. Now we have... We could never hear the song. Oh, I could. Well, I'm glad you're enjoying the show. Everybody else could hear it. It's a Skype thing. It's a Skype thing. Okay. Now we have a new guy who is in charge of the Homeland Security Committee. This is... I believe he is following Mike Rogers, the disc jockey. No, this is the congressional, not the Senate. I believe so. Well, let's see, Michael McCaul? I believe, well, he's a Republican and he's from Texas. He's not in my district because I would vote this guy out. This is the most disgusting, and he knows even less. Was it Rogers we followed up?

1:16:02 Rogers was the guy who was the head of the Congress House Intelligence Committee. Oh intelligence committee. Okay, this is Homeland Security Committee So apparently is different. I have not seen this guy Mike McCall, but he's showing up everywhere and His means is a meme fest this guy. He puts on his his suit in the morning and his jacket is just filled with memes or little cards hanging off of shit to say on CNN. Well, it's just part of it Sorry? No, the one I can find is Michael McCall of Kentucky. I thought he was from...

1:16:39 Well, maybe I'm wrong. I thought he was from Texas. Hmm. Okay. Could be wrong. Well, it's part of a conspiracy. We arrested an individual the other day connected to this plot regarding an IED blown up over the bridge. Now this is a second co-conspirator. There's another one that we possibly think is out there as well. I love how he's talking conspiracy theories. So, and conspiracies. That's weird. This is kind of a new phenomenon over the internet The terrorists now have a new generation or adapting to the internet to not only recruit Train teach how to make in this case pressure cooker bomb. No. No, the initial report was a crock pot bomb Did you catch that but I don't have anyone saying it on crock pot. Yeah. Yeah the reports everything anything cooked in a crock pot tends to be a bomb

1:17:33 But also give directives over Twitter accounts to thousands of Americans who are already here in the United States. When I talk to Homeland and FBI officials as I did this morning, they consider this internet terrorism gone viral to be now one of the biggest threats to the homeland. Internet terrorism? Threat to the homeland? We're under threat? This guy is from Texas, is Michael McCall, C-A-U-L. And he looks like kind of a smiling guy. He looks like a congressman. Internet terrorism gone viral. Do you think that ISIS called up their agency, their PR company and said, well in fact we can do it right now, it's very easy. Yeah, Helen Nolten. Yes!

1:18:23 I don't want bar. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I want a bar. I know I want we want here. I see ISIS here. I see ISIS here. I see ISIS here. Oh, never mind. Take it. I see. Sometimes I see. Yeah. What about it? But I don't want bar. Yeah. Go on. We want viral viral. Can can you make us viral? Oh, yeah. No problem. Viral terror. Uh-huh yeah, yeah, we can do that. What cost oh? Let's see We usually charge a hundred thousand dollars per video. I can't get the accent right. I don't know why I'm psyching so I'm not good today This morning they consider this internet. It's the Dutch accent

1:19:08 What are we doing? I can't do any accents today. I'm off. I'm off. I'm off. Forget about it. I'm off. Terrorism gone viral to be now one of the biggest threats to the homeland. Tell us more about the- Terrorism gone viral is the greatest threat to the homeland. Dark space of the internet. Dark space! Woo! John dark YouTube is the dark space the dark space dark YouTube This is this is this is the new one the darks dropping these means and they don't even know what dark There is no dark. There's the dark web well. No. There's the deep web the deep web deep web There's a dark web there is a dark web, but that didn't work see that didn't catch the dark space I think this is what this is what they mean when they lost it oh

1:19:47 the closet is the darkest threats to the homeland. Tell us more about the dark space of the internet which you were briefed on earlier today. Which apparently Tapper was briefed on as well otherwise he wouldn't use that term. A, that people are able to communicate with each other on the internet in places that law enforcement doesn't know about or can't get to. What exactly is the challenge here? Let me think, could have anything to do with encryption or something? Well the challenge is that we know the terrorist out of ISIS are now communicating with potential terrorists in the United States over the internet in a dark space in a secure com... Hey, John, let's get in the dark space. I have something to tell you. In a secure com. Come in here. Come into my dark space. I want to talk to you. I want to hear the secure com click on first. ...platform that... Wait, let me roll that back a second.

1:20:37 a secure com platform. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The dark space in the secure com platform. My mind is technical terms. My mind is doing flip flops. Com platform that's a law enforcement FBI homeland. can't get access to even if we had a court order.

1:21:18 A wiretap we still cannot see these communications, so they're operating in darkness dark, and it's really Imperative that we fix the system to shine a light on the terrorists in there the metaphors are fabulous We need to fix the system to shine a light in the dark space where the secure comm is being perpetrated occasions otherwise I think Americans are very vulnerable today with these communications going on in dark space. That is a great challenge right now. We've been very fortunate, Jay, to stop the Garland attacks, to stop this guy in Arizona, aspirational goals against him. Was the Garland attack stopped by the people that put on the event? Not anyone spying on anyone? Well, it certainly wasn't stopped by the authorities.

CHAPTER 17 / 36 Discussion

July 4th Terror Warnings, Foreign Fighter Concerns

Congressman Michael McCaul issued warnings regarding potential small-scale terror attacks leading up to the July 4th holiday. Officials are particularly concerned about the "high volume" of ISIS recruitment efforts targeting teenagers and the return of hundreds of Americans who traveled abroad as foreign fighters.

july 4th· michael mccaul· foreign fighters· al qaeda· terrorism

1:22:02 No, not by the FBI. I have a security. That's right Super Bowl Boston with a police officer and my Super Bowl Boston What's Super Bowl Boston? I don't know. Jay, to stop the Garland attacks, to stop this guy in Arizona's aspirational goals against the Super Bowl Boston. Do you think he means marathon? Yeah, Super Bowl. There's no stadium in Boston. Here in Texas, everything looks like a Super Bowl to us, son. Even that Boston thing. With the police officer and now just most recently in New York, but I believe as we approach the 4th of July,

1:22:38 We're probably gonna see a lot more of these attacks. Oh, yeah. Small-scale. Oh, small-scale attacks, 4th of July. We're all gonna die! That should be a bumper sticker. This is the latest way they're doing this. They're screwing up our six-week cycle. They stretch it out for about three weeks of action around... and the date, by the way, for the next Nexus is July 15th, for anyone interested. Well, he's saying July 4th. and

1:23:18 settles down, they have a bunch of meetings and they talk about this and they scare the public and then they go back to the next, you know, next few weeks. I don't know if he realized it, but he really put together a good little slogan here. ...goals against the Super Bowl Boston with a police officer and now just most recently in New York that I believe as we approach the 4th of July, we're probably going to see a lot more of these attacks, small scale. I think it should be, mic check, mic check, mic check, mic check. Hello? Yeah? Mic check. Mic check. Mic check. Mic check. Mic check. Fourth of July! We're all gonna die! Fourth of July, we're all gonna die. Beautiful! Ramping up. Congressman, how many Islamic extremists or suspected extremists do you think the FBI and other law enforcement agencies are tracking right now? Dozens? Hundreds? Is it actually different than it's been since 9-11?

1:24:13 It's very different. Core Al Qaeda had very spectacular attacks, very long-term range attacks. ISIS is very high volume over the internet trying to activate people in the United States, small-scale attacks. We also have the foreign fighters, hundreds. Americans have traveled to the region, many have come back and we have about 30,000 foreign fighters, 5,000 Western passports. So that's a concern from the foreign fighter standpoint but this new phenomenon, this new threat of terrorism Jake is what I think It's really got officials worried the most because you know with a Twitter account, you know I know I got five teenagers you can activate thousands of people on these Twitter accounts and that's precisely what they've done. Activate? Nice! They got a bunch of kids on the hypnotic trance? Yes! They're gonna be activated? Yes, yes. They have thousands of followers. They're gonna be activated.

1:25:08 I'm reminded, I'm gonna have to interrupt, I'm reminded that sketch that I think is one of the best sketches of Saturday Night Live ever did where they had these cells and they moved into middle class America and they had jobs and then they got activated. And they're trying to get out of it because they're both married to gorgeous women and they got kids. It was very funny. Sorry, that was pretty much the end of the clip anyway, and I guess what I like is the new meme dark space. Shine a light on the dark space where the secure comms cannot be broken. That's a jingle. That's got a jingle written. Shine a light on the dark space. Something like that. Some rap maybe? Well these things do work.

1:25:55 Jingles work, that's why three more days till Halloween Halloween Halloween heard that three more days till Halloween Silver Shamrock you've never seen that I've never heard you seen the movie Halloween no The original movie Halloween so there so the there's the evil corporation and that has this jingle and the kids are all in front of their TVs and they said, three more days of Halloween. And the kids go and their eyes go and you hear this cheesy sound effect. You see like the spinning thing, the spinning wheel in their eyes. I don't remember that. Yeah. All right. What do we got here? Well, I think I should thank you for your courage right now and say in the morning to you, John C.

CHAPTER 18 / 36 Discussion

No Agenda Art, Knighting of Sir Ryan Thompson

The hosts recognize the artistic contributions of Martin JJ before conducting a knighthood ceremony for Ryan Thompson. Sir Ryan, a social studies teacher from Colorado, donated $750 and shared his experiences dealing with educational resources from the Negative Population Growth organization.

knighthood· ryan thompson· michael crichton· population growth· colorado

1:26:36 CNN Dvorak you got me CNN. That's good. You got me flat-footed but in the morning to you Adam Curry in the morning all ships to see boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the water and All the dames and knights out there in the morning to everyone in the chat room except for the narc Noah Jenna stream calm and in the morning to our artists Martin JJ It's been a runoff between Nick the rat and Martin JJ Martin JJ is really rocking it and Martin JJ when he first started He sucked. Yeah, no. Yeah, no. Yeah, no. Amen. Fist bump. He does. He did. Yes, he sucked.

1:27:17 And it was strange. It reminded me, this is kind of the way the brain works. You get, all of a sudden, it's like you get it. And the next thing you know, you're just hitting it out of the park every time. You don't suck anymore. And that's why people should always stick to it. Stick to your dreams, people. You have a dream. Keep your feet on the ground and reach for the stars. Stick to your dreams. He did a fantastic piece with an employee of the No Agenda shampoo company collecting some urine from the camel. for our new product, which is another company we will not start, but someone somewhere is going to do it and we're going to be very sad about it. Okay. And that's no agenda, ArtGenerator.com. Thank you very much for all of your submissions. It's highly appreciated.

1:28:02 Yeah, and I have a... whoever sent the first amount of money and has written such a long note that it fills the entire screen. Yeah, it's Ryan Thompson. I can't find his name. Ryan Thompson from Grand Junction, Colorado. Yeah, how much did he donate? I don't have that either. $750. This donation should complete my quest to knighthood. I got it. I got the read. I just don't have the info because it goes right to the bottom and boom, I'm done. Okay, this donation should Complete my quest tonight who I tried to get official accounting for my previous donations, but unfortunately PayPal doesn't keep records that far back Yeah, well actually they do for the do they do for us what they don't for you My very first donation anyway goes on to honor Michael Crichton after his death even I bought your attention you brought attention to the book state of fear and the fact that he probably got two to the head for writing it

1:28:56 I would simply like to be known as Sir Ryan Thompson. I've been listening since my college days multiple years ago. Now I'm a social studies teacher and I'm able to hit my students in the mouth regularly. You guys have...didn't we read this note before? Yeah, I read it as a part of just some cool stuff. How we are influencing the world and saving the world one child at a time. Right. You mentioned it and I said... Right. You came in... He read it again. His donation came in late. So just read it. It's nice. It's good. All right. As a teacher, I got a lot of emails and letters from different organizations that want me to buy their products for my classroom. One such group caught my eye and I thought you might be interested.

1:29:35 They are called Negative Population Growth, and they can be found at npg.org. I have a number of free educational resources, including...they have them, readings, posters, and assignments that are all geared toward teaching kids about the evils of having children. Yeah, because robots will take over. Yeah, and when I got their letter, of course, I requested every free product they have. One such gem is a poster of the world that gives a projected population stats for the next 100 years and is intended to scare kids into thinking that all is lost and only government intervention can solve the problem.

1:30:18 Which is yeah, thank you guys for everything. Yeah government intervention kill the kill your people Thank you for you guys for everything you do this year I'm taking new classes which include civics and modern US history or teaching new classes Johnny are you okay? Take a lozenge or something? I'm gonna have to take a baby eat a tick-tack. I've got dry Dry larynx larney. Oh my wife and I are currently in the process of moving to a new town here in Colorado where we will both be Starting new teaching jobs this fall. Could I get some general home buying home selling new job karma? Also, if it's not too much trouble I would like to hear my favorite jingle of all time to the gate to the gate to the climate gate So he also wants jobs karma. Okay. Yeah, we can do all that for you And thank you very much and I look forward to the ceremony when we bring you into the round table of the Knights and Dames later on To the gate to the gate to the climate gate Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs Let's vote for jobs

CHAPTER 19 / 36 Discussion

Listener Donations, Climate Audit and Global Warming Data

A donation from a listener in Ontario leads to a discussion about the "hockey stick" climate data illusion and the website ClimateAudit.org. The segment includes personal well-wishes for a family member in Germany battling cancer.

climate audit· global warming· hockey stick· germany· donations

1:31:16 Karma that is a nice sequence. We've never played that sequence. I like that. No, it's a good one nice Mario's self So Vodna salt Salvagna I think in Little Britain Ontario Canada 333 33 happy 40th for him It's a long way down the other side of that hill love your family and friends. Thank you. Love your straightforward message anonymous $330 To give some time to think, here's a heads up. Please each pick a jingle of your liking. Okay, I'll pick one as soon as I'm done reading the note. Great show. I need some general karma since we have a new resource due in the next few weeks.

1:32:00 And a family member, and we have a family member with cancer. It would be great if he can fight it long enough to meet his second great-grandchild next year. He lives in Germany, Deutschland, and he doesn't see, and he doesn't, and he, and doesn't see our, and don't. Now, we don't see ourselves traveling again to Germany with two little ones until then. By the way, it's very easy to travel. The little ones are easier to travel with when they get to be three. Yeah, you got to put a leash on them. Yep. Although our first baby got us in the pre-check line three out of four times, we have flown with him book blog suggestion based on recent discussion on fudging the global... What? What is your problem? I can't... Oh, there's no period here.

1:32:49 After him and so I'm reading it as a one sentence, and it doesn't make sense you're doing an Amy Goodman Well if I was reading from a prompter yes, and I am kind of okay Here's a suggestion based on your recent discussion on fudging the global warming data hockey stick illusion by a W Montfort although a lot of scientific details that reads like a good thriller, and it's really outrageous I www.climateaudit.org. Keep going and please each pick a jingle of your liking. What do you want? Okay, let me look at my list. I have a list now because I could never... Oh, okay. I got the F Cancer in there for him. Uh, well then I can't use this one. Shapeshifting Jew. Oh, that is indeed a fabulous one. Okay, one by John, one by me, and then an F Cancer.

CHAPTER 20 / 36 Discussion

Associate Executive Producers, Donor Credits and Birthdays

The hosts read notes from Associate Executive Producers, including Sir JC the Schmid and Bo Brown. The segment covers various listener requests for "job karma," birthday shout-outs, and a discussion on cycling etiquette in Missouri.

costa mesa· springfield· berkeley· donations· birthdays

1:33:43 The Magical Shapeshifting Jews! The magical shape-shifting... Boo-shakalaka! Boo-shakalala! You've got karma. Nice. Alright, on to Associate Executive Producers beginning with Jean-Claude Schmid. Which I just think is a great name. Mm-hmm. There is Detective Jean-Claude Schmid.

1:34:32 Yes. 23456 from Costa Mesa, California. Hello, Crackpot Buzzkill. Please accept my donation at 23456. You deserve so much more. But this is what I can donate right now. It also completes my first knighthood. Henceforth, I would like to be known as Sir JC the Schmid. Nice. Knight of the Time Warner Cables. Night of the Time Warner. Oh yes, I've met him. I know exactly who this is. Oh, you know who he is. Please de-douche me. I can also get a Don't Eat Me Hillary Lizzie Shut Up Slave Little Girl Yay. Thanks and keep up the great work. Hold on a second. He wants Don't Eat Me... Don't Eat Me Shut Up Slave and then Little Girl Yay? Yes. Okay, hold on a second. And here we go. Where's the Shut Up Slave? Don't Eat Me Hillary Clinton Shut Up Slave Yay!

1:35:22 You've got karma. Not bad. By the way, I cracked up. I must have 50 emails in my inbox saying, please post the NA funnies to our extravaganza. People really want to hear this. And I was listening to it, and at a certain point we're talking about doing No Agenda Kids. Do you remember that? Yeah, that was recently. Yeah, but do you remember what you said? No, I can't imagine. Well, it was so good. It was like, hey kids, do you know your teacher's a whore? Yeah, I remember that. So we're not going to post that, right? We're keeping that. We are. We are keeping that. It's going to be a whole show. No, we're not posting. We're going to run it. When?

1:36:13 We should end of the year. I know. All right. Good. Well, you're in charge of rerun. So down to Ashton Banta Banta in Springfield, Missouri, two hundred dollars and thirty three cents of donations from my boyfriend. Ashton is a girl. Bo Brown there's another good name Bo Brown running governor everybody who is undoubtedly the best guy in the world We want to donate more but do but we do what we can afford He is your guy named Ben and I am a social worker also John you have talked about being annoyed with cyclists in the past

1:36:52 Beau is an avid cyclist. He regularly discusses and practices proper cycling etiquette, safety rules, etc. He's been rigorously training for RAGBRAW. a bicycle race across the state of Iowa. And no agenda is his listening preference during these rides. Go Team H.J.! Nice! Anyway, I wanted you to know that cyclists who obey the rules are also extremely annoyed by cyclists who disobey the rules. Thank you for the job, Karma, and fuck cancer from last year. Bo's mom is a cancer-free! Nice!

1:37:27 There you go. Work for her. And we all have solid jobs. Can we get, can we have a fuck cancer for Bo's mom? Jeez. You've got karma. And for all the No Agenda listeners and an amen fist bump and you're on the birthday list. Absolutely. Amen. Fist bump. You've got karma. It works apparently are both bow and Aston both on the on the I can check Ashton by the Ashton not Aston Ashton Are they both on the list? I'm gonna check I have to do the left-handed mouse thing John s Chris tech in Berkeley, California waving out the window Baltimore John of North Berkeley here more job as karma, please I screwed the pooch last week and call it work karma and please

1:38:21 Okay, please, it's what he says. I'm just quoting. Please shit on my brain with a little bit of Reverend L. Sharpton. Okay. I was looking. They're both on the list. Yeah, good. That's the good news. Any particular... Sure, you know my favorite. I mean there's of course we thought there's a couple new ones on that that show that the guy put together Yeah, what's your favorite? All right? My favorite is still too much. Oh resist. We much yeah, okay anything else is that it just the resist We much that the bit as of my all-time favorite. No. I mean before the the request here. Yeah, just once one and then the Karma Karma, but resist we much we must and we will much and

1:39:09 About that be committed. You've got karma Okay, I think that's it yeah, that is all there is and want to remind people we have another show coming up Soon Sunday Sunday of the vorac.org slash na will fill the bill and keep us Keep us going for another week. Yes, and for those of you who are new to the program We run these credits like Hollywood where executive producers are people who finance it associate executive pieces producers are the people who finance it and our lackeys of the executive producers or friends and

CHAPTER 21 / 36 Discussion

Rachel Dolezal, NAACP Identity Controversy and Spokane Protest

Rachel Dolezal, the former president of the Spokane NAACP, gained national attention after her parents revealed she is a white woman passing as black. Audio from a previous protest in Baltimore illustrates her effective adoption of African American activist rhetoric and her leadership role within the Pacific Northwest NAACP.

rachel dolezal· naacp· spokane· identity· racial passing

1:39:53 You know, you get all kinds of benefits in Hollywood. Here we read your note and we thank you and of course you know that you are helping yourself and humanity in general. But the credits are real, you can use them anywhere credits are accepted, including your LinkedIn account. And of course we need all the help we can get going out there into the wide universe and propagating our formula. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Hey citizens. Shut up! See? Alright, where do you want to go? You sent out a newsletter with a couple of teases. Well, we already did the Pope. Mm-hmm, did the Pope. And what was the other one? Oh, the other one is, uh, the crazy white woman being a black woman. Oh yeah, I got some stuff on this. Me too. Me too. Oh, okay. Well, what- because I have a different conclusion than you, I bet. I'll tell you what I wanted the conclusion to be. Okay.

1:40:55 Because I saw this come in on the newsletter and I was like, oh man, Dvorak's got some kind of theory. He's got an idea. What could it be? What I hoped it was is that the hack of the Office of Personnel and Management had exposed this woman as a spy who had infiltrated the NAACP and they decided to throw it onto Full-On Crazy. in order to obfuscate the fact that she was clearly spying on the NAACP. And I reached this conclusion after I heard, because there's a couple of videos of her doing stuff in the past, she shows up in Baltimore after the, not Baltimore, it was a Baltimore Ferguson.

1:41:42 I don't know that she did that. That's good. Baltimore. She shows up in Baltimore and there's a protest going on. She walks right up to the guy running the protest and says, hey, I'm the president from the NAACP in Washington state. Do you mind if I just, if I address the crowd for a moment? And when you hear this, this woman is good. So I don't know everyone here, but I am from the other Washington. I just flew in this morning from Spokane, Washington. I'm representing the Alaska, Oregon, Washington NAACP. I'm the president of the Spokane NAACP in Washington state. And this is a situation that's affecting us over in that state as well. So I wanted to join with you in support today.

1:42:25 We just marched in Pasco, Washington, where a youth had a rock a little bigger than this and was shot and killed in the street. Antonio Zambrano Montes. And we are supporting his mother. The cops have been on paid vacation for three months. Four people were arrested the last time we marched. They won't let us march in the street. Two people were arrested this month when we marched. They just had their trial yesterday. And now Wednesday this week, a 37-year-old black man who has seven children just died in police custody in Spokane, Washington. And this is something that is affecting us nationwide. And if there is

1:43:05 If there is no justice, there will be no peace. Absolutely. Absolutely. No justice, no peace, no racist police. No justice, no peace, no racist police. She's good. She is good. I conclude from this, she's an agent of change. Has to be. I don't see it any of it this way. Well, I want to play one more backgrounder, historical clip. It's just funny. This is her on a radio interview and she's disgusted. She's disgusted by... Well, you listen. Exodus, and then, you know, the new Exodus. It's Christian Bale. He looks like he'd fit right in.

1:43:49 Right another Charlton Heston Yeah, so yeah, well and that's and that's actually again something that's connected to curriculum So a lot of people might go to that film Hopefully nobody goes to that film is my you know, we need to boycott that film from my perspective because it's miss education. It's misrepresentation highly but she's talking about her issue here is white actors are Playing roles of black people The people that actually You know we're living during that time and also to people today. It's robbing and shredding Ancestry in history so but if people go to that Without knowing and again just with the typical public education system, then you're gonna probably think that that's how it happened because yes, I

1:44:41 You know Greece did invade Egypt at some point so it must have been during that time right you know And all the darker skin people must be villains. That's pretty natural I mean we we accept that under the white supremacy tradition, and you know the lighter skin folks rule in our upper class and and it's just you know it's really disturbing that this is still something Perpetrated. That's right perpetrated. We're perpetrating the false narrative of white people playing black people in movies. Very good. That is I could almost give you a clip of the day. I don't know why I don't but I'm not going to. But isn't it isn't it borderline clip of the day? It's definitely oh yes it's borderline clip of the day. Oh thank you. Totally.

CHAPTER 22 / 36 Discussion

Rachel Dolezal, Performance Art and Howard University Lawsuit

A deeper look into Rachel Dolezal's background reveals a 2002 lawsuit she filed against Howard University for discriminating against her as a white woman. The analysis suggests her current identity may be a form of sophisticated performance art, potentially leading to future book deals and reality television opportunities.

rachel dolezal· howard university· performance art· nightline· transracial

1:45:32 Borderline clip of the day. We should have more than one of those a day. So as I'm now I'm still thinking what could it be and I came up with a couple of theories and I'll run them by you and see if you like them. So there's the entire trans issue of trans because of course these memes collided. We have the transgender Caitlyn Bruce Jenner. We have the trans racism and the people living as being accepted. You know, I identify as a black person. I identify...so I'm not quite sure who launched this or why or how, but of course it's

1:46:07 You can also gear it towards the president. The president identifies as black. He could have easily identified as white. He has a white mother. So, you know, it is, I think it is melting the minds of complete liberal, liberals who really just want to love the whole world and everything and are unrealistic about it. And you know, this could be used against the president. That's another thing it could do. But it's somewhere in that area, I believe. What is your conclusion? Well, I mean, if you're going to, I'm surprised you didn't bring up another possibility, which is this is a meta promotion for the new movie coming out, Black Like Me. Oh, crap.

1:46:49 I don't know how you missed that one. Well, I was looking at another promotion. We'll get to that later. Ah, I focused on the wrong promotion. But let's go with what I think is really going on here. I mean, I think that may be part of it, but let's play a couple of clips and I won't use them all, but let's play for one thing. She heard she was busted by her parents and everything she says on all these shows. She went on Matt Lauer, talked with Matt Lauer. And by the way, her parents were available for an interview an hour after she announced that she was resigning. Yes, which makes it look like a setup and I believe it is and I believe the parents are in on this. And I think what we're witnessing here and I'll explain why after we play a couple of clips and one of them is interesting because there was a lawsuit she went to

1:47:37 Yes. The blacks college, she sued him. And let's play Rachel on the Today Show lawsuit and what happened to her based on this report. The reasons for my full tuition scholarship being removed and my teaching position as well, my TA position, were that other people needed opportunities and you probably have a white male. Isn't TA teacher's assistant? Yeah, TA. Yeah, isn't that someone who like gets the teacher coffee? No, no, no. A teaching assistant teaches classes. That other people needed opportunities and you probably have white relatives that can afford to help you with your tuition. And I thought that was an injustice. Alright, now that's like the story. That's the official story after, I don't know, her handlers or somebody told her to tell this story.

1:48:29 The teaching assistant, just to clarify, if you have a very popular professor in a big university and you have a... class of 500 people. The class gets...and he's lecturing to the 500 people, they have maybe twice a week or once a week. Then you go to another class, it's the same course, but it's a small class of 20, 30 people, and you have the teaching assistant teaching you what he's lecturing you about so you can ask questions which you can't normally do. So that's...it's just... Roger that. Roger that. So that's her on the lawsuit and she also has a couple bullshit stories that she likes to tell. She did have a funny thing about blackface. Play the Rachel on today's show about blackface. I have a huge issue with blackface. This is not some...

1:49:19 free birth of a nation mockery blackface performance. This is on a very real connected level. How I've actually had to go there with the experience, not just a visible representation, but with the experience. Yeah. Okay. Now with the experience, she has the, she says she has the experience. Yeah, she claims that she did this and that. It's all bullcrap. And the giveaway to me was this particular clip and the words she used in that last clip. This clip gave it away to me and nobody else discusses this anywhere. This is the Nightline lawsuit clip. This is the real reason behind the lawsuit that she filed against the college. There was an ironic moment on her long road to blackness and a lawsuit for

1:50:08 filed in 2002 when she was then known as Rachel Moore and was a graduate student at Howard University. She accused the historically black school of discriminating against her, claiming that the removal of her artwork was motivated by a discriminatory purpose to favor African American students. The lawsuit was dismissed. She now says she's transracial. Oh, hold on a second. So she had art, she's a frustrated artist. I presume at that point she identified as white? Yes, and here's the here's how come no one's talking about this. I don't know what's on night because I think this whole thing is a giant Con job sigh and out and let me point this out. I checked out her art

1:50:50 Unbelievably good. Really? Oh, she is a terrific artist. Huh? Doing here is performance art She said it herself in that last clip. She said performance and here's another woman who is a transgender bitching about her And this is the Rachel nightline performance and she says the word performance that is not the reality of Rachel Dozel Her blackness is a performance. Hmm Very good. Performance artist. She's gonna have a book deal. She's gonna know she has a reality show in the making that well That's I think just more publicity for the book deal. Sure. Sure. Sure. Sure She is a proof. She's an artist a real true artist has got that sensibility. She is a proof now She's doing performance art. This is all just a giant scam. She's on the national TV. She's all over the place She's a genius. She's a marketing genius and this is a huge scam. I

1:51:41 I love this, John. Good catch. Catch of the day. Which is flounder, apparently. I would have never got it if it wasn't that one group, the Nightline group, that looked at the lawsuit and said it was about her art being taken down. And she's irked about it. Still. It's interesting, though, because this is... it's performing so well. that everyone has an opinion on it. It is the topic of the day. People's brains are frying over, I don't know how to do it. And of course, this will all... She had a whole giant segment about her on democracy. Now it went on and on with one black guy, a professor at University of Connecticut, who comments, he says, you know,

CHAPTER 23 / 36 Discussion

Cultural Appropriation, Black Community Reactions to Dolezal

Interviews from Jamaica, Queens, reflect the anger of black Americans who view Rachel Dolezal's actions as "cultural jacking" and the epitome of a "culture vulture." Critics argue that while she adopted the aesthetic of blackness for professional gain, she lacks the lived experience of racial struggle in America.

cultural appropriation· jamaica queens· culture vulture· orange is the new black· naacp

1:52:32 Whatever. I don't understand why this is such a big deal. It's not like it's never happened before. Why is it getting so much attention? I guess so I did something else and I would like to play it anyway. I was looking at okay, what are black people saying on television? What are black citizens of the United States saying on television and what are they saying in in other forms of media? So because regardless or Even though this is a giant PR stunt, I'm totally, completely with you on this. And she's a performance artist and she's doing a very good job. And she's loving it. And I think the reality show will be to promote the book, but you know, there will be a reality show. She has an agent, the agent saying we already have, you know, the phone just hasn't stopped ringing. So all makes total sense.

1:53:17 But something has been triggered by people and really what I'm hearing is black Americans are different from white Americans. That has now been spread out across the board, you know, because you can have a black face, you can be a performance artist, but you have no idea what it is to be black. So there is now we have to say, yes, there is a difference between black and Caucasian Americans. Just a couple of quick clips. This is Michaela, who we know and we like, Michaela Pereira, although she's, ever since she got to CNN, she started, I think, sucking a bit. And she's moved by this. She's hurt and she's not happy with this woman. What a fascinating conversation. Conversation! I mean, this is... That's not Michaela, by the way. That's the idiot lead-in. Mind-blowing and of course provocative stuff. Isn't it interesting, Chris, who's giving me the hairy eyeball, to live in a time when people... What is that?

1:54:13 I've never heard this expression. The hairy eyeball? The hairy eyeball? What does that mean? The hairy eyeball. Sneak eye maybe. Who's giving me the hairy eyeball to live in a time when people are identifying themselves. I think of Bruce Jenner with transgendered issues and now her with transracial issues as she calls them. I think they're very different. I mean, but listen, they identify themselves as different than as we see them. That's an interesting proposition. This is the first time that we've heard her say that because I don't I don't know that to be true. I'd like to know more about that because to a lot of people it's as though she's just appropriating a lifestyle, a culture, a racial identity. So there's your clashing of memes and of course both

1:54:58 of these memes are going to result in book deals and reality shows. That's really the disgusting part of it. Whether it's transgender, whether it's trans racism, whether it's transhumanism, it's all going to result in a reality show eventually, which everyone will love. This is a columnist, syndicated columnist, Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Don't know if you know who he is. No, I don't know. He's rather eloquent and actually I'm going to skip him. Screw that. So I went to Black History TV. Now, Black History TV is not a television channel. It is a YouTube channel. And the host, and it's very amateuristic, but it's real. Sorry? This is the word amateuristic. Is that not a good word? I think it's valid. Should I say amateur?

1:55:47 Amateurish. Amateurish. But I like amateuristic. I like it. It's just funny. That's the way you would say it in Dutch. No, I'm a tutor. I don't know. I'm a disc jockey. And so it's amateurish. They've got a single shot and the guy's asking bypassers in Jamaica, Queens. what they think of this story. And I wanted to play some of that because this is how Black Americans, and I don't think you can get much more down and out Black American than in Jamaica, Queens. I mean, this is, this is a, by the way, Jamaica, Queens is beautiful. You should go there sometime. It's great. You got great little places to shop and you meet people who have very outspoken opinions. Well, she definitely misappropriated herself and,

1:56:34 You know, it's just kind of...symbolic of the erasing of black people in America. She actually put on brown face and texturized her hair. Orange is the new black. I like that, orange is the new black because she had this spray tan. Orange is...there's lots of good memes coming out of this. Orange is the new black. You'll see this popping up more and more. and pretended to be a black woman teaching Africana studies and then becoming the president of one of our oldest civil rights institutions. So it's very telling and it's not, it's symbolic of things that are going on across the culture where black people's culture is being taken. Everything about the essence of black people, the way we talk,

1:57:25 The way we walk down the street, the way we smoke a cigarette, the way we make love, the things that we say in our most intimate settings is all being jacked. Jacked! She's the epitome of a culture vulture. Nice! And what she saw was that she couldn't... Culture vulture, John. Culture vulture. This is getting good. ...do in the white world. which is to rise of some position of authority, of prominence, of respect. She said if I can't make it in the white world, I can make this white, I'll ride this black game out until I can ride those wheels off. And she did it, she was very effective, very cunning, very crafty, and I think she's from like Iowa or North Dakota, but has game for days.

1:58:05 for days. Yeah, all great memes. So, you know, jacking everything and I agree. Listen to the radio. Oh, the radio is hilarious. Now I want to mention something. I just want to say top 40 radio is geared towards getting 15-year-old white girls to buy records to be... to jack the black culture. Well, I mean, you can be taking it back to rock and roll. Of course. I mean, they've always been accusing the white... you know, in other words, you develop... Well, we gave them a Cadillac! On the one side, they bitch and moan, they the black community, bitches and moans about being ripped off, jazz, blues, rock and roll, because somebody has a song that a white guy, Pat Boone will cover, Tutti Frutti. And the next thing you know, he makes all the money, Little Richard makes nothing. And they moan and groan about it. Now what they're really moaning and groaning about is not the ripoff part. It's the money part.

CHAPTER 24 / 36 Discussion

European Identity, Racial Divisiveness in Media

The discussion explores the emerging use of the term "European" to describe white Americans within certain activist circles. This shift is framed within a broader conversation about white supremacy, beauty standards, and the inherent divisiveness of the Dolezal controversy.

european· white supremacy· hair texture· integration· media illusion

1:57:25 The way we walk down the street, the way we smoke a cigarette, the way we make love, the things that we say in our most intimate settings is all being jacked. Jacked! She's the epitome of a culture vulture. Nice! And what she saw was that she couldn't... Culture vulture, John. Culture vulture. This is getting good. ...do in the white world. which is to rise of some position of authority, of prominence, of respect. She said if I can't make it in the white world, I can make this white, I'll ride this black game out until I can ride those wheels off. And she did it, she was very effective, very cunning, very crafty, and I think she's from like Iowa or North Dakota, but has game for days.

1:58:05 for days. Yeah, all great memes. So, you know, jacking everything and I agree. Listen to the radio. Oh, the radio is hilarious. Now I want to mention something. I just want to say top 40 radio is geared towards getting 15-year-old white girls to buy records to be... to jack the black culture. Well, I mean, you can be taking it back to rock and roll. Of course. I mean, they've always been accusing the white... you know, in other words, you develop... Well, we gave them a Cadillac! On the one side, they bitch and moan, they the black community, bitches and moans about being ripped off, jazz, blues, rock and roll, because somebody has a song that a white guy, Pat Boone will cover, Tutti Frutti. And the next thing you know, he makes all the money, Little Richard makes nothing. And they moan and groan about it. Now what they're really moaning and groaning about is not the ripoff part. It's the money part.

1:59:01 Oh, of course. Because if they were making the same amount of money, they wouldn't give a crap if somebody stole their material. Now this girl is, the way they see it, she used the cultural theft, became the head of an organization. It's appropriation is the term. Appropriation. And at the same time, they want full integration. They want everybody to be racial. Well, let me address that. You don't want racism, but this is... Allow me to address that with the next clip. Okay, so the questioning turned to well hold on yeah, but wait wait before you go into the next step I do want to mention something I learned only from these clips and that last girl said it to Africana Africana studies yes, I noticed that too. I didn't know and used to be African American is now Africana black history like Africana I missed that memo after the Copacabana

1:59:52 You know, very manly I should do. At the Afra, Africana. So now the questioning turns rightly so to say, hey, but hold on a second. Black women are constantly emulating, and there's a new term. I love, I was just, I love listening to these clips. Instead of saying Caucasian or white, we now say European. This is the new, the black term for white is Europeans. Have you caught this anywhere? No, I didn't, but I'm fascinated. And, and, you know, so they, they do their hair, you know, they, they wear a European style, European clothing.

2:00:30 And here is a I think it's the same woman talking about that and and she is against it. Well, you have to look at the reasons why black women have felt compelled to narrow and Europeanize their features, why we don't feel completely comfortable and self-accepting in our own bodies. First of all, we need to look at how white supremacy has shaped all of our minds so that we want a certain hair texture, so that we want a certain lip texture, lip shape, and nose shape, and we don't even feel comfortable looking at each other in our natural state. So that's the That's to start. Number two, if a black woman decides to texturize, straighten, lengthen, add volume, all these things, sometimes black women get jumped on because of what they want to do with their hair. A woman has the prerogative to do whatever the fuck she wants to do with the hair that grows out of her head. Or to cut it all off if she wants to. However she's inclined, she should be left the fuck alone. Okay, first. Number two, women who are doing this are not impersonating

2:01:32 Caucasian women and actually going into the workplace and pretending to be white women and gaining access to black, white institutions and where the power is held and being privy to all the economic and the political decisions that go on in the community as head of the NAACP that she had access to by actually going in blackface. A black person can person can never do that. And we can't go into white spaces. We can't access white spaces, period. You can access a white person because they put you on, but the rest of the community is not putting you on.

2:02:14 to do a whole lot to bring you in. And she walked in the front door and held court. So our people, when we get into bashing each other, we should be bashing her. We shouldn't be turning to each other and saying, well, you do this and you do that. No, shut up. Deal with her. Killer, killer, bomber. I'm not going to play it. Now comes a guy, and And he starts off, and I'm listening, what is he saying? And all of a sudden I'm like, oh my god, if I die before you do, hire this guy to replace me. He is the black no agenda guy. Over the internet. What are your feelings about, what's your view on that? Well shoutouts to her for being us. Hold on a second, what happened here? Crap, I didn't edit it properly, sorry. Hold on let me find it. I don't know, I salute her. Dealing with the uh... Yeah, hold on a minute. I'm so sorry about that.

2:03:10 media right now dealing with the uh... european out of spokane washington who was posing as a sister notice he says she's a european out of spokane washington this is really interesting for ten years to the point where she's the president of african studies in a college and also of the n double a cp chapter in spokane I want to know from you, was she not violating? Was everything, you know, was she in her proper persona? I'm so sorry, I should have clipped all of this off. I don't know what happened. He's coming. I mean, I feel like she was a culture vulture. Cultural appropriation, stealing from our culture as they usually do.

2:03:47 But you know and my personal opinion is why do we care? Because we're so powerful and who we are and what we do of course they want to clone us of course They want to be like us We need to stop wearing contacts and gray and blue contacts me to stop putting weave in our head and stop portraying their images And stop giving him stop giving energy to them and giving them power by even caring part of my language even given a fuck about what they do we should be into our own magic our own powers our own culture and really who cares that's another distraction because I'm sure they're passing the law passing the bill or doing something right now that's way more major than some chick putting on a curly hair weave so we need to get some shit put on a curly hair weave into ourselves instead of getting into them so much it's like the concept of you ever had a bully in school and you were so scared to fight him that's why he won all the fights but as soon as you punch him in the face he lay down we control all

2:04:34 this you know the whole media media is the Greek word for illusion so that's a that's not true media is not the Greek word for illusion but I like his I like his point we got of illusion so whenever we paying attention to that we're distracting ourselves from who we really are well do you have children brother and then he goes on to promote his book and then finally We have just the best woman, the best response. Short, sweet, and right on sister. Well it was unfair, but she just wanted to see how we live. How you can be mad at a woman that wants to see how we live? The better part. Come on now. Can't be mad at her. She just wanted to know how the better part lived. And the better part lived good. Good, yeah. I love that. I love that. Well now that you mention it, this European thing is very disturbing.

2:05:21 Yeah, yeah. Well, the cult we have culture vulture appropriating culture, which you're right means stealing the money. And instead of saying, well, it goes back and forth, but the European thing is really being moved in there. That's, I call it that. That's very interesting. More divisiveness. This is all about divisiveness, which she'll address in her book. I can assure you, because she's going to find that this is just proof. She's irked about having her art taken down, and I would be too if I was the talent that she is. Seriously. I'm going to have to look at this art. Yeah, that's a good catch.

CHAPTER 25 / 36 Discussion

Transgender Issues, Johns Hopkins Professor Paul McHugh

Dr. Paul McHugh of Johns Hopkins University has sparked debate by criticizing the medical community's approach to transgender transitions, particularly in children. McHugh argues that prescribing puberty-delaying hormones to adolescents is dangerous and treats a mental condition with irreversible physical interventions.

paul mchugh· johns hopkins· transgender· puberty blockers· caitlyn jenner

2:05:58 She's irked about that. So what does she do? She decides to become black because to get back somehow I don't know this doesn't make a lot of sense performance art pieces just call it performance art is what it is and if people can take it or leave it But there's nothing but this just pulls the divisiveness out. You know, everybody wants to be integrated, one happy Kumbaya family. But once somebody pulls a stunt like this, no, no, no, no, no, no, we can't do that. We have our own culture and screw you for even wanting to get involved because you're not black. Oh, there's no winning. We don't like to foster a competitive atmosphere, but we laugh a lot. Now everyone hug and share a secret. Then I wanted to bring up something we promised we would talk about as we had our post-show deconstruction on Sunday about the professor at Johns Hopkins University who has published five or six books, 125 published research papers, and he is adamantly against

2:06:59 the worship, the hero worship of Bruce Jenner's transgender transition to Caitlyn Jenner. And if you just read kind of how...he wrote a Wall Street Journal article. And if you read the kind of the comments around of people who have clearly not read the Wall Street Journal article, which of course is behind a paywall, so that's why they can't read it, it seems like, well, this guy is just a racist a-hole, or a bigoted a-hole. But his point is this is very dangerous with children because we now have doctors. You have this whole, you know, let the kid be. And of course, this is Angelina Jolie propagating this that she does with many memes. She's totally an agent of change.

2:07:43 It's very dangerous with the kids who can, you know, during adolescence, can absolutely feel like they are a gender different from what they are. And that switches back and goes... I mean, I have tons of friends of mine, the kids, my kid's playing with...he really likes the oven, you know? He likes playing with Barbies. I used to hear that all the time. Or girls who want to play with Green Army men. But he says the danger is that now doctors are prescribing puberty-delaying hormone drugs so these children can grow into their true gender identity.

2:08:20 And he says this is a mental disorder. You can do whatever you want, but your DNA is just not going to be of the gender that you want to assume. So therefore it is 100% a mental... I'm not saying it's a problem, but a mental issue. And it's very dangerous when doctors are prescribing these puberty-delaying hormone drugs. to these children. Why are they prescribing them in the first place? What are the parents doing? They're dragging the kid to the doctor, complaining or something. Oh, what are I going to do? Can you give him a drug? I think these parents are more responsible for all this, this doping up the kids. Oh, bring him in, dope him up. The school says he's acting too much like a girl. Oh,

2:09:08 What are we going to do? This is, well, besides homeschooling as a solution to a lot of this stuff, why are the parents putting up with this? But they are. The parents are encouraging it because they're being told to encourage this. They're being told to. Ask your doctor if hormones are right for you. I'm sorry, John. Do you not trust the science? Ask your doctor. Trust the science. Anyway, I don't like any of these trends. No, I like- You're calling whites Europeans? We're all supposed to be supposedly getting it together so we don't have this problem. The idea of somebody pretending or doing whatever she did, this performance artist, to be black for a while. And the movie Black Like Me is about the sociology of being black. It was written based on a book called Black Like Me, which everybody read in sociology classes around the country. I think they stopped letting him play where the guy

2:10:05 took some drug and he became black and then he wrote about it. I mean, I don't know that that guy was condemned. I mean, this is, again, I think this is divisiveness design. So if a white person wants to move into a black neighborhood, is that bad too? Because they're stealing what could be a house that could be owned by a black? This sounds like segregationism to me. It is. And that's the disturbing part about it is that this presumably performance, art performance, this artistic performance has turned into this. We're so racially loaded in America. Completely, really racial. Just the tension is, it's, there's a lot of tension.

2:10:43 And then we get the immediately, oh, white guy with bowl cut. He must hate black people. Who knows? He might have hated the church. He might have hated the preacher. He might have hated the state senator. We don't know. He might have been just completely nuts. Was there a state senator who got shot? Yeah. Oh, maybe he was an MKUltra. Well, the kid sure looks like MKUltra. All of this, all of this is not good. And just the whole trans fill in the blank. I'm a transcaster. I used to be on radio, now I'm doing podcasts. You're a transcaster. Transcaster. I'm a transcaster.

2:11:24 Then it speaks volumes to how the citizens of Gitmo Nation, United States proper, have been riled up into just anger. Anger, anger, anger. We're not getting better? No, it's gotten much, much worse. All right, here's my PR find, and we'll listen to this report. A kid got attacked by...two people got attacked by sharks in North Carolina, and... If your arm is chewed off or you lose your arm in some traumatic way, there's, I think, a lot of recovery time. You certainly wouldn't be doing press reports or anything a couple days after that, I don't think. What do you think?

CHAPTER 26 / 36 Discussion

North Carolina Shark Attacks, Shark Week PR

Two teenagers suffered severe injuries in separate shark attacks off the coast of Oak Island, North Carolina. Skepticism is raised regarding the timing of the media coverage, suggesting a potential PR link to the upcoming "Shark Week" and the release of "Sharknado 3."

shark attacks· north carolina· shark week· sharknado· oak island

2:12:13 I have no idea. I don't you think of the you just think of this as a scam? Oh hell yeah. One of the victims of that brutal pair of shark attacks off the coast of North Carolina speaking out for the first time from his hospital bed. 16 year old Hunter Treshel recounting that traumatic shark encounter that cost him his arm. I was just in about waist-deep water I would say playing with my cousin like I said. Now this is a guy whose arm was gnawed off by a shark he's in his hospital bed you know he's just looking all chipper and I well. And I felt this kind of hit on my left leg. Like it felt like I, like normal, like it was a big fish coming near you or something. That was the first I saw. It was when it was biting up my left arm. The teen from Colorado was swimming in the waters off Oak Island when the shark attacked. I didn't see it coming. Like I said, I felt it on my leg and then I saw it once it had attacked my arm.

2:13:06 This happening a mere 90 minutes after another shark attack unfolded on the same beach less than two miles away where 13 year old Kirsten Yao had her left arm torn off by a shark by Sanders leaping into action to prevent the victims from bleeding to death. Whenever you hear the 911 call it must have really happened. He just got his arm bit off. Okay are you with the person now? My husband is. He's got it wrapped up in a towel. Just two days after that life-changing attack, Hunter vows to remain positive. I have kind of two options. I can try to live my life the way I was and make an effort to do that even though I don't have an arm or I can kind of just let this be completely debilitating and bring my life down and ruin it in a way. Out of those two, there's really only one that I would actually choose to and that's to try to fight and live

2:14:01 normal life. So the cards have been dealt. The kid is a total hero. He's so positive right after this. He's still in his hospital bed. I don't, you know, he's not like, Hey man, it hurts. I got phantom pain. I'm freaking out. My head is, I'm crazy about, no, no, no. I'm just going to, I'm going to live the life I live. No, this is an actor. This is an amputee. This kid, there was no shark attack. No, it's PR. Hey, it's Andy Cassegrani back counting down my top five moments of Shark Week. Yeah, baby! It's Shark Week, John! I think you missed the bigger picture. Well, Sharknado 3 is also coming out. Jaws is being re-released to massive audiences.

2:14:47 Same old movie. They've digitally remastered it, I guess. Perfect. And they're bringing it out. And that's in this shortly, right in time for this. Shark Week, I think, is part of it. But I think... No, I think you're right. I think they co-opted... No, Josh, it's a movie. Yeah, they co-opted Shark Week. They co-opted Sharknado coming out on July 22nd. And it is all a big... Is it the same studio? Sharknado? Spielberg. It's all Spielberg. It's this big movie. This is, whatever it is, it's not a true story. I think it's Jaws. Well, talking about not a true story... Oh, sorry. You can play that right after this. I'm now beginning to believe the escapees, because people keep pointing at the sides. I am right there with you. And the hole is like perfectly cut by a welding torch. That's our cutting torch. That's a cutting torch. Yeah, it was not a power tool.

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Clinton Correctional Facility, New York Prison Break

The escape of two inmates from the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York is scrutinized, with focus on the precision of the holes cut in the prison infrastructure. Claims are made that the escape required a cutting torch rather than simple power tools, suggesting internal assistance or a staged event.

clinton correctional· prison break· cutting torch· richard matt· david sweat

2:15:41 That's not a power tool. You don't do that with a power tool. If you look at it carefully, that's a cutting torch. You can tell what they look, what the cut looks like. That's what that was. And it stinks. If you use a cutting tool in your cell, the whole prison is going to smell of burnt metal, which has a distinct odor and stinks. I don't think these guys, I think, again, I'm trying to do some facial recognition stuff with these two guys, but they also may be actors. They're going to get picked up eventually. I saw a report and they had mug shots of them with their height in the background, you know, the, what do you call it? The ruler? Yeah, they're too big to go in a pipe. Well, not only that, but they were supposed to be over six feet and you see clearly in the mug shot that they're 5'9".

2:16:24 So, no, no, I agree. And this is part of the scare them, harem scare them thing that's going on to keep the public on its pins and needles over terrorism and oh my God. And the reports that came out of that little town where that prison was, it was a bunch of blowhards. I got my gun with me, we're gonna look out going on. And the guy has like an open carry going on and he's talking about he's gonna protect the women folk. It's just horrible. It's so interesting to see, you know, people in the chat room like, oh, these... they're off the rails, they don't know what they're talking about. Oh yeah, fine, go ahead, believe it. Believe it, Chucktown K. Go ahead, believe it. Sure. Yeah. There's also an element to this of you need to once in a while let someone escape so people inside don't go crazy. Prison population overcrowded, it's mayhem inside, prisoners getting killed just by guards, by each other. No, you have to have some kind of hope that you can actually escape.

CHAPTER 28 / 36 Discussion

Final Donor Acknowledgments, Father's Day Special

The hosts conclude the donation segment by thanking contributors from Canada, the UK, and the US. Plans are announced for a special Father's Day broadcast on Sunday, where the names of listeners' fathers will be read on air.

father's day· donations· ontario· alberta· london

2:17:23 But okay, fine. Go back to sleep, Chucktown. This just baffles me. Baffles me that people think it's beyond, beyond belief what is happening. Yeah, okay. It's not possible. Can't be true. It's a cutting torch. It's a cutting torch. They keep dropping the ball. I mean, these guys who set these things up, they make all these errors. And why wouldn't they should have caught the guys immediately too. The whole thing is bullcrap. John Dunn, Arvada, Colorado, 12345. These are people we want to thank for giving us less than the executive producers amounts, but I want to thank them profusely anyway. Patrick Sullivan included in Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada, 12345.

2:18:17 After your last show, especially the part about camel urine, my wife said, they are hilarious. It's about time you send them more money. So here it is. Nice. Yeah, thank you. Ben Warden in Downs, Illinois, 12333. Thomas Gaskin, $100 flat. Nikola Govill... Govaya... Govaya Tate. What do you think? I don't know. I can't tell. In Ajax, Ontario, Canada. Ajax, what a great name for a town. Govaya Tate. And it's for show 732 Father's Day. Ah, yes. Everyone is going to call out their fathers. We're going to... I'm going to... Wait a minute. This is the only Father's Day donation we got? No, the Father's Day donation is an open donation. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay.

2:19:05 And so it's any amount, so it could be all kinds of things. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna collect the names off the spreadsheet. There'll be somebody, maybe if you donate 45 bucks and you wanna mention your father, we'll mention him. So it's an open donation. And I'm just gonna read off dad's names on Father's Day, which is Sunday. So think about that. I like the idea of 7320. Anonymous in Island City, Oregon, 6969. Knighthood coming up and also a birthday. Ann Wannur Gilo, I believe, 6969. This is in the name of D.H. Slammer, Baronet of Santa Barbara County. Ah, it's Dame Bang Bang. Must be. Yeah, it says that. Love Dame Bang Bang and the human resources. Thank you very much. Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, 6933.

2:20:00 And by the way, this is a check that comes in, not a bank check, not a personal check. And across the... because you can leave a memo on there and he puts his... Sir Rick at the top so I we gets credited with his knighthood status and here's her DH slammer coming it was 63 43 He's been behind in his micro show club donations interestingly adding micro show donations for each show starting with 7.23 and ending with 7.31 equals 65 43 not a random number. I don't know what that means. Craig Dashnow in Ascot Vale, Australia. This is a classic old age donation which he has for some time back. He's must be 63. Kurt Wiseman in Zionsville, Indiana, 56, 78. Another birthday boy or somebody's got a birthday. Sam Haveholm in Endicott, New York, 55, 55.

2:21:05 And he has an interesting thing to say. He wants to call it double nickels on double nickels. So I don't know if that's ever going to catch on, but that's what he says. Doubtful, doubtful. Dean Roker, 5510, which is double nickels on the dime, anonymous double nickels on the dime from Denver. Frederick leaders in Ontario, Oregon. Really? 5510, Luke Rayner in London, UK, 5123. And these are following ones we ran out of steam here apparently at this donation segment. The following are all $50 donors. Andrew Haverson in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Michael Gates in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Joel Deruan in Savannah, Georgia, Matthew

2:21:59 mongan yeah monica baltimore maryland in paul or paul rudd can which makes more sense to me is in china and i came in backwards i guess this is chinese chinese name in shanghai uh... rosalind furnace in turnbridge wells can't in c l washington john camp in antlers oklahoma again Amitav Hajra in Daleville, Virginia. Seaman Horn in Manly, Queensland, Australia. And finally we're getting down to the last, Scott Lavender in Montgomery, Texas. Patrick Thomas in Petworth, West Sussex, UK.

2:22:46 Chris, Sir Chris Lewinsky in Sherwin Park, Alberta, Canada. Dame Melody Mann in Ringgold, Louisiana, and she finishes up the list. And we want to thank all those folks for helping us out, and also the people that came in with lower amounts and anonymous donors and that sort of thing. Indeed, and we have another show on Sunday, and we will need all the help that we can get for our deconstruct. I logged out of the chat room. Are you proud of me? Yeah, sometimes they get douchebags in the chat room and they ruin it. Well Ben, these are people who support the show, which makes me sad. Well, you don't know that. Yeah, I know Chuck Tongue. He supports the show. The guy was giving you crap is a nice... It's okay to give me crap, but you know, to say, this show's off the rails. The show's always off the rails. That's what we do best. Exactly. I want you to enjoy that.

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Birthday Celebrations, Knighting Ceremony and Vape Culture

A final round of birthdays is celebrated before the official knighting of Sir Ryan Thompson and Sir JC the Schmid. The conversation then shifts to the subculture of "cloud chasing" in the vaping community, where enthusiasts build high-powered "box mods" to create massive vapor clouds.

birthdays· knighthood· vaping· box mods· cloud chasing

2:23:42 It's your birthday party I'm so much And we have the following list. Mario Salgana says happy birthday. 40th, Michael Salvagna. Ashton Bonta says happy birthday to her boyfriend, Bo Brown, celebrated on the 10th. And Ashton Bonta herself will be celebrating tomorrow. Sir Dirt Diver of East Oregon says happy birthday to his wife, Emily. Emily F. celebrating tomorrow. Anwar Gilo, Sir DH Slammer, he'll be 40 today. Kurt Wiseman, 27th, tomorrow. And finally, Sam Havholm says happy birthday to his daughter Abby. She will be turning eight years old tomorrow as well. Happy birthday from Uncle John and Uncle Adam! You blowing your nose?

2:24:26 Okay, there's a zoo there's my sword and if you could just near let me get that kazoo. Oh, okay. Oh, oh, oh Careful with that thing man. What are you doing? Ryan Thompson Jean-Claude Schmitt and anonymous and islands in Oregon, please step forward to the podium all of you donate to the best podcast the universe the amount of $1,000 or more and I hereby am proud to Pronounce the KB sir, Ryan Thompson, sir, JC the Schmitt and sir dirt-dust Dirt Diver of East Oregon for you! One more, there we go. Welcome to the round table of Knights and Danes. We've got hookers and blow for you, Wrench Boys and Chardonnay, cheap wine and chili dogs, raspberry pies and breakfast burritos, pork ribs and pale ale, bad science and perky breasts, Johnny Walker Green label, video games and vaporizers, and mutton and meat, of course, if you go to noentitlenation.com slash rings and give all your information, including your ring size, a little, oops, there it goes. The Mac just shut down.

2:25:22 Really yeah, I'm over here overheating. Yep. Well. It was the sound effects. No no no no nothing changes Everything is running is just the one is the Mac dude for you, then it only runs You know the show notes the donor browser in the browser. Yeah, so I don't have any of that. That's okay We will survive you know it all cool down. You just put on a big giant block of ice oh And talking about mods, did you get that clip I sent you? I didn't know anything about this. Another subculture thing going on, which we do the best we can to keep up with. I didn't keep up with Americana. Afrikaner. Afrikaner. Afrikaner. Is these called box mod boxes or whatever. Oh, the vape guys? Vape guys. The vaporizer guys are making their own vaporizers that are high powered. High powered batteries. And so you see the and these guys are showing you how to do it and some of these guys use them and they bitch about the batteries being counterfeit and there's all these different guys out there. But these vape guys with these high powered vaporizers, mod boxes or box mods or whatever they call them.

2:26:24 And they build them, they push the button, and they take a breath, and what comes out of their lungs fills the room with vape. It's like a huge, giant cloud, and I think that's the point of it. Yes, there are competitions for who can make the biggest vape cloud. And we have a vape store here in Austin I went in, and they have these...so it looks like a German World War II hand grenade. You know, they didn't have the little pineapples, they had the sticks. Yeah, the sticks. And it's a, you know, it fits in your hand, it's like a pretty big...the girth is pretty big girth. And the coil, you actually wrap the coil yourself, because you're just making heat by short-circuiting.

2:27:09 And so there's not even a... Normally you buy an element for the... What is it called? For the cartridge. The vaporizer. For the vaporizer. But yeah, the element that heats up and you buy a new one every week or so when it's burned out. But here you rewind the coil yourself and there's some form of cotton in there that will retain the liquid. The guy did a demo. It was bigger than the cloud on the clip you sent me. It was just unbelievably... It seems to me you're supposed to be like, this is a way to smoke dope or a way to smoke cigarettes that's safer for the lungs. I don't know. Maybe it's not. Maybe it is. I don't know. But all that, the cloud would contain most of the whatever you're trying to actually inhale. What's the point?

2:27:57 Well, shouldn't you? I mean, I always thought that if you're going to smoke marijuana, for example, you'd take it, you'd hold it in your lungs, you hold your breath. And then what comes out should be nothing. Well, John, it's the same reason people put glass pack mufflers in their cars. And so there's something to do. They have nothing better to do. Mike Malaro, who moved out of Austin, miss him a lot. His wife, Jane, they got a new human resource. They're sitting in Pittsburgh. That's a change, right? He sent me this clip. This is an author Daniel Pinchback.

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Jeb Bush Logo, ABC News Bird Sound Effects

The hosts mock Jeb Bush's "Jeb!" campaign logo and point out an unusual use of bird chirping sound effects during an ABC News broadcast from Iowa. The segment highlights the subtle "sweetening" of national news productions.

jeb bush· abc news· sound effects· logo· politics

2:28:33 He wrote a book called Breaking Open the Head. It's an interesting little clip. I have friends who are MIT chemical engineers who do work with nanotechnologies and so on, and they talk about how when they think about the trend of what's happening in science and technology, they see it leading to what they call ITM, which would be instantaneous thought manifestation. There you go. That's the genesis of ITM, instantaneous thought manifestation, and it fits. How does it work? I don't know, but we're able to do it somehow. I thought it was a cute little clip. Well, a couple of instantaneous thoughts come to mind. One of them, I'm listening to ABC News with this guy, can't remember his name, the guy who does it, the national news. ABC News guy. He is in Ohio or Iowa, I guess Iowa, and he was there to talk to, he had to fly out so he could interview Jeb Bush. And I got a kick out of Jeb, you see his new logo, Jeb with the exclamation mark? Yeah.

2:29:32 You seen that? Yeah, you're not pronouncing it right. Okay. No, it's J-E-B exclamation mark. So it should be Jeb! Yeah, and the funny thing is that the analysis you have to derive from that is that the Republicans are looking for a president with an exclamation mark and the Democrats are looking for a president with a period. In the morning! Nice. Everyone can use that at work tomorrow. So here is the ABC guy and this is the ABC rap. Tell me there's not a little element of sweetening that takes place in this clip. And that is world news tonight from Iowa. I hope to see you tomorrow night from New York. Until then, good night.

2:30:16 Did they cut to a shot of the park or something? No, but they have this bird clip at the end. It's bull crap. Nice. There's no bird noise within the entire show for half an hour. At the very end, when he says, I'll see you next week or next tomorrow in New York. Chirp, chirp, chirp. That's funny. I thought it was... I was not impressed. It's what you do. It was an interesting court case that played out in the EU zone and this was about liability of publishers. And this fits very much into the, certainly our net neutrality rules and legal, lawful content, lawful network traffic, etc. And this has been going on for eight or nine years, this particular case. And the European court finally came down with a decision. This is the Delphi AS versus Estonia. And, you know, they're not getting a lot of play because, hello, Estonia, no one really cares.

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EU Court Ruling, Website Liability for Anonymous Comments

The European Court of Human Rights upheld a ruling in the case of Delfi AS v. Estonia, holding a news portal liable for defamatory anonymous comments posted by users. This landmark decision establishes that website operators in the EU can be held responsible for user-generated content even if they remove it upon request.

estonia· european court· liability· anonymous comments· publishing

2:31:18 But what happened is, there's a, I think the president of the corporation that operates the ferry boats in Estonia, had done something wrong. I guess what the ferry boats do is they change their schedule when the river freezes, and they change it so that They keep a track open so they run them more frequently, they run them in different routes so the ferries can continue to run. But what they had done, inadvertently or not, is they had ruined an actual road that people were using over the ice. And so people got really, really upset because, you know, I don't know, that's what you do in Estonia. You bitch about the ferry boat wrecking your ice road. And on this one website,

2:32:04 People were posting in the comments, you know, this guy should die, he's horrible, some slanderous stuff. And the guy sued the operator, the owner, the corporation of the website. And the court has now, all the way to the European court, has upheld the decision and the fine. that the website is responsible for the comments, even though they deleted the comment upon request, they are responsible. It is their liability and this is now a European jurisprudence. Wow. And it's not good. That's actually a big deal. It is a very big deal. A very big deal.

2:32:43 Now, this can go into one more round. Maybe they go to the International Criminal Court for this. Nothing surprises me in the EU. But I think that's a really big deal, that anonymous comments are the liability of the person maintaining the server and running the so-called service. uh... even if you remove them the after uh... after request by the person who felt slandered i think i actually think there's some validity to the idea because you are a publisher and and and it is seen as publishing that it is and it should be and it should be seen as a newspaper so you so you if you run a blog you should be considered journalist if you feel like you're one you want to be one you are one of the way i see it and i think that's valid but if that's the case and everything that goes on that

2:33:34 Blog is being published by you and you're responsible for it. So I don't see well I think it's a big deal that's happened even though what it takes away is people are gonna be second-guessing comments or they're gonna have to you could probably do a terms of Service thing that would kind of negate it a little bit. I think that would be useful. Hmm I think you'd have a disclaimer at the beginning, it would be useful because it could be automated or you could have the... Here's the thing, this could have even been behind it. You could run all your comments through a third party like Disqus, for example, or any one of those and let them take the heat. Well, this is the direction it's going for sure.

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FCC Fine, AT&T Data Throttling Investigation

The FCC announced a $100 million fine against AT&T for allegedly deceiving customers on unlimited data plans by severely throttling their internet speeds. The government claims the company was not transparent about the extent of the slowdowns, which made streaming and video calls difficult for high-usage subscribers.

fcc· at&t· data throttling· net neutrality· fine

2:36:39 Don't post on Instagram, there you go. Thank you. That's the ultimate lesson. This would be like a section of tech news. Do you have tech news? Do I need to- I do. Do I need to fire that bitch up? Okay, hold on. I guess you have to. It's so hard today, I keep typing on the wrong keyboard. Oh. I know. Sorry. Well, it looks like- Not only that but I'm just screwing. That's okay. We just got tech news My phone There you go tech news everybody the man who said the mouse is Anyway, this is a doomed animal mine broke my whole computer. Yeah, I don't want to use a mouse AT&T on

2:37:23 some show. The feds say AT&T claims of a faster internet, faster is better, deceived its customers. And today the government announced its intention to punish America's second largest cell phone company with its biggest fine ever, 100 million dollars. Is this because the net neutrality rules are now in effect? No, there's just a standard. They're just flexing their muscles, showing you what's up ahead. The beef? The FCC accuses AT&T severely slowed down the speed for its highest paying customers, the ones opting for unlimited plans. And after they used a large amount of data, making it more difficult to stream movies or make video calls. AT&T told ABC News in a statement today,

2:38:21 It will vigorously dispute the charges, saying it has been fully transparent with its customers. The FCC called the company's warnings vague. There is a way to tell if you are getting the speed you're paying for. Download a speed app and test your phone. And you can save money by restricting which applications on your phone can use cell data and use Wi-Fi whenever possible. Oh, man. Tip of the day. No, it's not clip of the day. It's good. Tip of the day. I said tip of the day. Oh, tip of the day. I'm sorry. Harley clip of the day. Are you in? No. What are you insinuating? I'm sorry. It's not clip it and I do have another one if you I need to comment on that for a moment Okay, then what AT&T are douchebags. We know that yeah, but the idea that you can Determine the speed you have with one of these apps. This is not how the internet works It's just not how it works when you your speed will vary based upon multiple hops along the route and

2:39:19 and you can have a, you know, in Austin now everyone's gigabit. AT&T has rolled a gigabit here. We have Google with gigabit. Time Warner's trying to get there. They're nowhere near it. But you're not going to get a gigabit of download speed all the time unless you're getting it directly from the AT&T server farm that you're connected to, which is exactly how it is supposed to work. That's what these peering arrangements, co-location arrangements are about. That's how the Internet works! Even your local home network, if you have a gigabit Ethernet... I don't. If anyone's using the network, you're never going to get to that speed. It's just like the total, it's like the amount that can go through the pipe, not what you're going to get. And it's not a speed, it's a volume. That's another thing that's misrepresented.

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OPM Hack, Katherine Archuleta Congressional Testimony

Katherine Archuleta, Director of the Office of Personnel Management, faced intense congressional questioning regarding a massive data breach attributed to Chinese hackers. Testimony revealed that sensitive federal employee data was not encrypted and that OPM ignored a 2014 Inspector General recommendation to shut down vulnerable systems.

opm hack· katherine archuleta· cybersecurity· encryption· china

2:40:04 Well, I get the cyber security apps tech news, which is like dumb. Cyber security researchers in Germany are sounding a new alarm over thousands of popular mobile software applications or apps. They said today the way most apps store data could make it easy for hackers to find passwords, physical addresses and other information. The German team says that so far there's no evidence that anyone has tried to exploit the weakness. Why do this story? Let well allow me to bring us in some cyber tech news then okay, okay? This is I watched the

2:40:39 testimony on the Hill about the Office of Personnel Management, about the hack. There's of course the Chinese did, we all know the Chinese did this. First we go to Josh Earnest, the funniest name in show business. Josh has, is going to talk about this and he's waffling, he can't really tell you anything but okay. We are concerned that this could, again based on an early review of what's transpired, could potentially have affected more than 4 million federal employees. We've also been blunt about the fact that we know that the Office of Personnel Management maintains sensitive data.

2:41:20 and sensitive information about federal employees. Please remember this, sensitive data. If you're maintaining sensitive data of any employee, government or not, and now it turns out many emails have been forwarded to me that, and this is not reported, the hack is much, much larger than previously thought, including former employees and contractors. Wouldn't you think that this is something that would need to be protected? Yeah, with encryption. It's again, the precise scope of what how much and what type of data has been exfiltrated is something that again continues to be investigated. There are certain elements of the investigation that we are reluctant to talk about publicly because the disclosure of some pieces of information could inhibit the ongoing investigation. So I think

2:42:11 We certainly are being cautious in terms of what information we are communicating. But we've also been pretty direct about living up to our commitment to make sure that we're communicating directly with those that need to be notified about a potential breach of their sensitive data. And this is walking the fine line, I would acknowledge that as well. Walking the fine line between lying and bigger lying. Just lies, lies. So director of the Office of Personnel Management, director, her name is Catherine R. Chuletta. She is a long term Obama insider.

2:42:47 She's...and also a State Department, worked for Hillary Clinton. So she's been around. Was being grilled by...what's the...Chaffee? What's that guy? The angry guy? Angry Republican? Chuck Liddell Chaffee's one of the angry guys. I think it's Chaffee. Who...Chaffetz...who's...no, Chaffetz. Chaffetz is the dark-haired guy and Chaffee is a different guy. Anyway. It's one of them. He's grilling her and it is beautiful to listen to how she will not answer, how she just goes back to her piece. Who's on the stand again? The director of office and personnel management where the hack occurred, Catherine Archuleta. And we're going to learn some details that are astounding. Why wasn't this information encrypted? The encryption is one of the many tools that systems can use. I'll look to my colleagues at DHS for their response.

2:43:39 No, I want to know from you why the information wasn't encrypted. Is personal sensitive information birth dates, social security numbers, background information, addresses. Actually it has more than that. It has security clearance information. Yes, it has all of this stuff. It wasn't encrypted. Data information encryption is a valuable. Yeah, it's valuable. Why wasn't it? and is an industry best practice. In fact, our cybersecurity framework promotes encryption as a key protection method. Why did you? OPM does utilize and we didn't ask you to come read statements. I want to know why you didn't encrypt the information. An adversary possessing proper credentials can often decrypt data. Now, this is not how. Yeah, if you have the root certificate,

2:44:33 But you know just she makes it sound like well, you know if you have the password then you can she's saying that encryption is useless Yeah, it is not feasible to implement on networks that are too old. Oh That's a lie of course isn't well not entirely true It's not in this piece, but a lot of their systems run COBOL and they might not work with modern encryption tools But you can still encrypt it the limitations on encryptions is effective Encryptions like it's lice on the encryptions are effectiveness is why OPM is taking other steps

2:45:10 such as limiting administrators accounts and requiring multi-factor authentication. Okay, well that'll work. It didn't work. So you failed, okay? You failed utterly and totally. Yes. So the Inspector General November 12, 2014, we recommend that the OPM director consider shutting down information systems that do not have current and valid authorization. This is something I didn't know. No? Didn't know the inspector general had said you're so crappy that you have to shut it down. And you chose not to. Why?

2:45:46 I appreciate the report by the IG. We work very closely with IG. What a drone this woman is. Isn't that great? What a horrible bureaucrat. Well, he's gonna get it. He's gonna lay into her in a minute here. Gee, with our IG and take very seriously. Okay, but he had a very serious recommendation to shut down the system. That's how bad it was. And you said no. I'd like to turn that over to my... No, I would like you to answer that question. You get to make the... It says we recommend that the OPM director consider shutting it down. Your response was, the quote, the response back to the office of the, from the Office of Chief Information Officer, quote, the IT program managers will work with the ISSOs to ensure that OPM systems maintain current ATOs and that there are no interruptions to OPM's mission operations. Basically, you said no.

2:46:36 The inspector general was right. Your systems were vulnerable. The data was not encrypted. It could be compromised. They were right last year. They recommended it was so bad that you shut it down and you didn't. And I want to know why. There are many responsibilities we have with our data. And to shut down the system, we need to consider all of the responsibilities we have with the use of our systems. So you made a conscious decision knowing that it was vulnerable, that all these millions of records for federal employees was out there. The inspector general pointed out the vulnerability and you said no we're not making a change. As the director of OPM I had to take into consideration all of the work that we must do. It was my decision that we would not but continue to develop the

2:47:37 The system and making sure that we have the security within those systems. The recommendation... And did you do that? You didn't, did you? That didn't happen, did it? The recommendation after... These people... This woman should be fired. Fired! It's almost done. The recommendation to close down our systems came after the adversaries were already in our network. When did they get in? When did they get in? security systems that we were able to detect this intrusion. When did they get into the system? We detected the intrusion in April of 2015. So but how did you know in November of 2014 that they were already, you didn't know if they were in there, did you?

2:48:23 No, we did not. We did not have the systems in... We did not have the security systems installed at that time. It was because... And the inspector... We were able to add those security systems that we were able to detect. So you detected the system? It wasn't a software provider that protected... You found it yourself? OPM detected the intrusion. So the New York Times and the others who wrote that were wrong? That's correct. They're lying! What happened is the consultant had noticed that there were people with root access logged in from China and Australia. But you won't hear that on the TechHornie shows. No, of course not. You'll never hear that. That's almost clip of the day. Not quite. The only good phone's a landline, and the phone should be made out of Bakelite. Get it to high!

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John Kirby, State Department Iran Policy Briefing

State Department spokesperson John Kirby addressed the press regarding Secretary John Kerry's stance on the Iran nuclear negotiations. Kirby adamantly denied that the US had made concessions regarding Iran's past military nuclear dimensions, despite a verbal slip that suggested otherwise.

john kirby· john kerry· iran· nuclear deal· state department

2:49:13 We are. We are. Bottom line in tech news today, all of this Silicon Valley, all this money, all this hype, all these promises, shit doesn't work at scale, people. It doesn't work. Oracle can't handle the billions of records in the consular database. You can't protect your networks. It was a bad... back to paper. Photocopies. Yeah, photocopy. Oh you you we're over time. Yeah. We are do you want to do one more? I can do one more I got more than one more I have I have one This will be my last one and then you can you play us out with a kicker you got a I got a kicker okay now this is

2:49:58 The first time I've seen him at the State Department spokeshole briefing, this is Kirby. Now, Kirby is the guy who used to be the spokesman for the Pentagon. And Kirby, earlier in the week, I think Tuesday... did his little, I'd missed that one, he did a little thing of a Bobby there and he brought in Kerry who was sitting in his house next to, you know, Kerry is such a douchebag dickhead. He has a video conference so he can talk to Matt and the boys and girls of the State Department Press Corps. In the background on the window sill, he has a model of his yacht and then he's got another yacht, just yacht models everywhere. It's like airline presidents. They have models of the airplanes that their company makes. Or you get a CEO and he has a model of his G5. It's douchey. It's douchey is what it is.

2:50:48 And Kirby was not happy with how people interpreted what Kerry said. It was about Iran and, you know, are we changing our strategy? That's unimportant. But we know that when the truth wants to get out and people will say the truth inadvertently, and Kirby lost himself in this. He was mad. He was really perturbed about people misinterpreting the message. And here's what happened. Everybody, yeah, I'm not exactly right on time, but I tried to get closer to it today. This is already not the way you start a press conference. Don't start apologizing about not being, no, just don't do that. And then he's trying to take off his watch, which you'll hear clink, clink, clink. But he, this is one of these guys who takes off the watch and puts it down the lectern to see how much time he has. Yeah, good way to lose a watch. A couple of things at the top. I want to just hit her if you'll allow me.

2:51:44 I want to make a specific comment about some of the coverage of Secretary Kerry's press conference yesterday. By the way, thanks for attending that. But I think some of the coverage has sort of taken the tone that there's a change in our policy with respect to possible military dimensions. of Iran's nuclear program or that it's a concession about to be offered or changed. So he's saying you guys suck, you did it wrong, you don't understand, this is all wrong, you got it wrong, your reporting is wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong, and I'm mad. And that is absolutely, completely false. And whenever you say absolutely, completely false, you know the guy's lying, but it's going to get worse. The secretary was very clear yesterday that

2:52:38 As before, we absolutely require Iran to give the IAEA access that they need to resolve any possible military dimensions of their program. We've said we're not looking for a confession. We've already made judgments about the past, but the sanctions lifting will only occur as Iran takes the steps agreed, including addressing possible military dimensions. Now the negotiations are ongoing and I'm not going to talk about the specifics of it, but I want to put a fork in it right now that there's any kind of concession or change in the policy. It's just not simply true. Did you catch it at the end? Yeah, he says something about it being actually true. Yes, he says it's true. Play that again. Yeah, he says it's true. It's just that there's any kind of concession or change in the policy. It's just not simply true.

2:53:35 It's true. It's not just true, it's just not simply true. It's very true. That was a good one. That's a good catch. I think the fork in it, put a fork in it. You put a fork in it to see if it's done. Yeah. You put a fork in it. What's he talking about? It's done. This guy's... I have just a little funny clip at the end, and this is the Sean Hannity clip, and what it is is Sean Hannity had a bunch of comics on, on his show, and they're talking about what's funny, what's not. They're talking about the Jerry Seinfeld... Right. They're talking about the stuff you talked about before, about comics being PC'd so they can't really do their humor, and they're all laughing and yucking it up, and Hannity's trying to be one of the boys, and trying to be funny, and trying to, you know, he thinks he's hilarious, and he talks about how he

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Comedy and Political Correctness, Show Outro

The show concludes with a discussion on the decline of "edgy" comedy in the era of political correctness, referencing a Sean Hannity segment with various comedians. The hosts play a clip from the movie "Airplane!" to illustrate humor that likely could not be produced today before signing off.

sean hannity· richard pryor· airplane movie· comedy· outro

2:54:18 like Richard Pryor and all the rest. And if you...it's not a long time, but at some point he gives away what I've been claiming for all along, he gives it away, and he actually has a...there's nomenclature here that I didn't know. We know now, we know what to call it, and see if you can catch it. It's just at the very end, and they all get giddy about the fact that he blew the cover. What? That was edgy back then. Cheech and Chong was edgy for the 70s. It's funny! It wouldn't be for now though, but that's when guys like... Red Cox was funny. Richard Pryor was funny. So what's edgy for now? It's like what room do we have for edgy comedians now? It's like they're closing that box up for us. Well that's why... We gotta push out. We gotta use it. Red Eye is edgy. You have a leg chair. Well we don't call it that, Sean. Don't put him in the chair.

2:55:06 Did you wait a minute? You call it leg chair leg chair? Oh leg chair, and that's not what we call it Sean. Okay? We have we have a leg chair, and you know what it refers to you're doing girl with the leg Chair yeah, and I guess they call it the leg chair. Hey who wants to sit in a leg chair today? Oh, you know I don't feel the comfortable sitting there my legs aren't that great. Let's put in the little you know well Yeah, well she got some good games She does. They're gams that don't quit. She's only like 4'11 or something. She's a shorty. Well, I'm going to play in our ending montage. I shall play a little clip from the 1980s movie Airplane. Which shows you how comedy has changed and you just think to yourself and you don't have to answer now but just think to yourself, could this movie be made today and released or would it be just too much of a hot potato?

2:56:09 I'm in I know I know you are alright everybody sorry John I was a little off on the technical side here today. I had some issues fine I hate it when it happens. It's just get to play the almost the clip of the day again later I can play it again. I knew Mac get to something new this thing's yeah, it's toast put it on a cool plate It already is. I'll tell you about that later. Hey, coming to you from FEMA Region 6 here in the capital of the drone star state. Good morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where the trucks are sliding by on the freeway. I'm John C. Dvorak. We will be back on Sunday right here on NO Agenda. Roll up, roll up for the magical shapeshifting Jews. Step right this way. Roll up, roll up for the shapeshifting Jews.

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