Episode 756 · Sunday, 13 September 2015

Shemita Cycle

A Florida man is charged in a 9-11 bomb plot while military whistleblowers allege senior officials doctored intelligence reports to mask the reality of the ISIS conflict.

By The No Agenda Show | 2h 44m listen | 52 chapters
Shemita Cycle cover
The No Agenda Show · No. 756

About this episode

Federal agents arrested 20-year-old Joshua Ryan Goldberg in Florida following an alleged plot to bomb a 9-11 memorial event in Kansas City. Goldberg, who operated online as an ISIS jihadist named Australia Witness, reportedly provided an FBI informant with instructions for building pressure cooker bombs. The case has sparked intense debate over FBI entrapment after the affidavit revealed the suspect lived with his parents and was largely directed by federal assets throughout the planning phase.

Whistleblowers at U.S. Central Command claim Major General Scott Barrier and Steve Grove manipulated intelligence reports to exaggerate military success against ISIS. Former CIA Director Mike Morell and DNI James Clapper face scrutiny over these data meddling allegations, while FBI Director James Comey warns that Tor and the dark web no longer provide anonymity from government surveillance. Meanwhile, the European migrant crisis intensifies as Nigel Farage warns of ISIS infiltration and David Muir reports on the role of social media in coordinating mass movement through Hungary.

Sir Mike of Wakefield receives a knighting ceremony following a generous contribution to the value-for-value model. The program explores the viral success of a Welsh weatherman pronouncing Llanfairpwllgwyngyll and the absurdity of the Deez Nuts presidential campaign. Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak break down the Shemitah financial cycle and the various doomsday prophecies surrounding September 23rd.


Loading show notes…
Loading clips…
CHAPTER 01 / 52 Discussion

Show Introduction, Rail Cars and Soybean Gondolas

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open the program from FEMA Region 6 and Northern Silicon Valley. They observe rail cars and soybean gondolas stacking up near Dvorak's location. The hosts prepare to discuss the upcoming six-week cycle and recent news clips.

adam curry· john c dvorak· fema region 6· silicon valley· soybean gondolas

00:00 Right, I was trying to get you to go to bed with her. Scanning for signs of Shemitah and broadcasting live from FEMA Region 6 in the capital of the drone star state. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where the, well it looks like not boxcars but some sort of rail cars are stacking up. I'm John C. DeVore. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning. It's like soybean gondolas or something.

00:38 Soybean soybean gun gondolas yeah, yeah gondolas gondolas gondolas a gondola Yeah, Ebola hey, man, I don't know what happened, but I somehow just clips kept pooping out of my butt last night well that stinks I Got so many There's a lot a lot of cool stuff going on Well, I think before we go anywhere. We do have to play I had the clip of the of the six-week cycle event Yeah, I have a couple of those which you got to start off with well. I just have the one it's just it's the overview Or is it

CHAPTER 02 / 52 Discussion

Joshua Ryan Goldberg Arrest, Kansas City 9-11 Terror Plot

Federal officials arrested 20-year-old Joshua Ryan Goldberg in Florida for allegedly planning a terror attack on a 9-11 memorial stair climb event in Kansas City. Goldberg reportedly instructed an FBI informant on how to build a pressure cooker bomb filled with shrapnel. Investigators initially believed Goldberg was operating out of Australia before locating him near Jacksonville.

joshua ryan goldberg· kansas city· 9-11 memorial· fbi· pressure cooker bomb

01:23 Let's get the show off to a rousing start. Hey, back to the gondolas. Here it is, terrorism week, six week cycle. Ah, there we go. We begin with breaking news on this eve of another September 11th. Federal officials say they've broken up a plot for a terror attack. No! A 9-11 memorial event in Kansas City. Homeland Security correspondent Jeff Pegues has the latest on the arrest of a Florida man and what he was allegedly planning. Jeff? Jim investigators say the target was an annual event called the Kansas City stair climb which was set to take place on Sunday and was in honor of the 9-11 attacks. According to investigators 20 year old Josh Ryan Goldberg was online recruiting people to carry out attacks. He had been under surveillance for weeks and was unaware that he was actually talking to an informant. According to court papers in one monitored conversation Goldberg told the informant to

02:20 build a pressure cooker bomb, much like the ones used in the Boston Marathon bombing. And he instructed the informant to quote, put as much sharp stuff as you can in there. The two discussed targets, but a bomb was never built. Law enforcement initially thought that Goldberg was in Australia and he was also on the radar of Australian police. But Jim, it turns out Goldberg was in a town near Jacksonville, Florida. Jeff Begay is in our Washington News. The thing that I like so much is the obvious, I find it a little, it creates some friction when you have a Jew being a jihadist. Well, you know, it's, here's what I'm thinking.

CHAPTER 03 / 52 Discussion

FBI Entrapment Allegations, Goldberg Affidavit Analysis

The FBI affidavit against Joshua Goldberg reveals the case is based on the distribution of five website links containing explosive-making instructions. Critics argue the FBI created the operation by using an informant to suggest the target and keep the "dullard" suspect engaged. The discussion highlights that Goldberg lived with his parents and was under total control of federal agents throughout the planning phase.

robert mueller· fbi affidavit· entrapment· honey pot· title 18

03:03 Mueller, who knew how to do this. Robert Mueller. Yeah, Robert Mueller, the old head of the FBI who extended his stay beyond legal limits. Yeah, well, he was requested to stay. Yeah, I'm sure that no, it was not his idea at all. And he must have had a PR person or some marketing people or somebody working with that he took with him when he left. Because these guys don't know what they're doing. The Goldberg thing alone is idiotic. They don't get it. I have a copy of the affidavit. I love pulling those to see what exactly went down. Would you like to hear a couple choice pieces from this?

03:43 Yeah, oh absolutely. Alright, so this is criminal complaint and this is... let's see... the main complaint is violation of title 18 United States Code section 842 P as in PAPA which is described as distribution of information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction. I didn't know that this was illegal. to disseminate information relating to explosive destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction. And I had to go look it up because that sounded a little too broad for me. It is, let's see, P here, it is only if the intent is to destroy something or to, yeah, as an act of terror. But it doesn't even say that in the affidavit.

04:33 And so here's what the special agent of the FBI has to say in the affidavit. I've investigated and assisted in the investigation of criminal matters involving explosives and other weapons of mass destruction, including the distribution of information related to explosives, etc., etc. Goldberg distributed information pertaining to the manufacturing of explosive destructive devices or weapons of mass destruction, which you and I know is pretty much a cherry bomb. That's a weapon of mass destruction, according to the legal definition. in furtherance of an activity that constitutes a federal crime of violence by sending a person five, count them, five website links. For websites that provide instructions that could be utilized. Now it's a violation to send website links. Yes, sir.

05:17 Five website links that provided instructions that could be utilized to construct or make explosives, etc, etc, etc. Uh, let's see... It's interesting in this, in point four of his affidavit, he says, I have not included each and every fact known to me concerning this investigation. I've set forth only the facts which I believe are necessary to establish probable cause. That means you could be leaving some pertinent pieces out. For instance, you honey-potted this stupid kid. This moron, 20 year old moron living with his parents. Is he living with his parents in Jacksonville, Florida? Yeah. And so there's a transcript.

05:54 They didn't mention that on NBC News. Oh really? There's a whole bunch of transcripts. Let me see what we have here. So the kid had tweeted something and they immediately got the IP address from Twitter, of course. Twitter will hand that over to them so they have all that information. They know what email address is associated with it and then he starts, they start a conversation. So Oz Witness, that's our Goldberg, is talking about his so-called friend in Australia, he thinks he's going to be caught attempting some kind of jihadist attack. And then we have the informant known as CHS, which is, you know, they reached out to him and they just made him respond. And the things that they're saying is, let's see,

06:43 Sounds like you're trying to do some planning, Australia. I'm trying to do the same here. I have to get some sleep now. Classes start again tomorrow, but let's talk about this tomorrow night." And then he comes back the next day. You know, the UK is one of many countries that really deserve it. We were supposed to have a few ops here on July 4th. It didn't happen. It was so disappointing. And they go back and forth and... The informant, it's really crazy. They're back on August 19th. Hey, sounds good, what do you have in mind? Do you have bombs already? Because the informant has said, yeah, we're gonna plan an attack. And then he says, I don't have any bombs, I don't know how to make them. Hmm, I wonder, and it goes on. All right, I'll send you some bomb making guides on Twitter soon. And that's really the violation here, is he sent him five links and he got rolled up into a conversation

07:33 where he's trying to help this so-called jihadist figure out how to make a bomb in the kitchen of my mom. It's not, you know, it's five website links. That's really the crux of it. He actually is in the kitchen of his mom. At least they got that part right. He took it to heart, didn't he? He took it to heart. I like that. I do have something here from the interviewed retired FBI agent. Unfortunately, I know that for many years now the ability to build bombs is right there on the internet. So when especially when you're active on these internet sites that spew out this kind of hatred and covers that activity is very easy to find that kind of information. Very troubling, very disturbing, but I know it's been out there for a long time. You hear about this and it was targeting an event right here in Kansas City.

08:17 How close do you think it actually came to fruition? I don't think this came very close to fruition. The reason Kansas City was brought in because the informant himself mentioned he's here in Kansas City, which is why the subject said that, but he did that most likely at the direction of the FBI who was in total control of this operation. They're not in total control, they created the whole operation. And they do it in such a way to... Yeah, the FBI is in total control, so why don't they arrest these guys from the FBI and throw them in the slammer? They're causing trouble. Or why didn't they go up to this kid's house and say, Uh, hi. Uh, you know, that would be policing that that's the, we don't police anymore. It's a military state. Oh, but I would recommend going up. He's living with his parents, which for some reason they couldn't figure, they thought he was in Jacksonville and they couldn't figure it out for the longest time. I was in Australia.

09:05 I'm sorry, Australia, yes. And then they figured out that he was in Florida. But just go up to the kids and say, hey, listen, and I saw a piece of video of his parents. They seem like really reasonable people. Yeah, I'm sure they are. Hey, your kid is just a kind of a dullard. Your kid is doing some stupid shit. Hold on, I have the Australian report, which may give us a little different perspective. Wait, first let's finish the FBI guy. Keep the subject engaged so he doesn't go elsewhere looking for someone else. Now, now, you see that? So their justification of this is first they create the whole story, hey I want to blow something up can you help me out and then they keep him engaged so he doesn't go somewhere else. They created this terrorist.

CHAPTER 04 / 52 Discussion

Australian Media Coverage, Joshua Goldberg's ISIS Persona

Australian news reports detail Joshua Goldberg's online persona as "Australia Witness," a supposed ISIS jihadist living in Perth. The reports mention Goldberg's instructions to dip bomb shrapnel in rat poison, a detail his parents found shocking. The hosts characterize the story as "off-script" due to the suspect's Jewish background and suggest the case resembles entrapment.

australia witness· perth· isis· rat poison· entrapment

09:50 After everything I read, it appears law enforcement did a very good job keeping this under their control. An overall reaction to everything that we've learned this evening? Good work. Troubling that we have people out there willing to do this. Good news is law enforcement is really doing the job and they're out there proactively stopping these things before they happen. actively creating it and then stopping it. Hey, now Australian report. An American Jewish man living with his parents in Florida has been arrested and accused of plotting a bomb attack at a 9-11 memorial event in Kansas this weekend. Joshua Goldberg had been posing online as an ISIS jihadist living in Perth and using the Twitter name Australia Witness. The account has now been disabled.

10:30 20-year-old Goldberg was arrested after being in contact with someone online between July and September who was actually a police informant. Goldberg allegedly provided the person information on how to construct a pressure cooker bomb and fill it with nails, other shrapnel and to dip it in rat poison. He then directed the person online to carry... Yeah, didn't you hear about the rat poison part? No, I missed that somehow. Would that kill you? Probably not. His parents have told US media that they are shocked. Shocked, shocked, shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Yeah. Now this is early for the six week cycle. They just getting a jump or what's going on? Well, the six week cycle technically is on the 15th. Yeah, so this is a little early. Not that early because if you notice over the last six months that there's been a scattering of events around the point, the nexus point, which would be the 15th. Right. Anyway, this is bull crap of the highest order.

11:54 And I can't even believe that people can't someone just say wow let's just say it's all true Wow now Jewish kids are joining the jihad. Can we not talk about this? It's I thought I mean they blew it with the Jewish kid. Yeah, I'd say Yeah, I just don't understand it. It's kind of like off, it's off script. It's so far off script, it's, I'm surprised that the guy who wrote up the, whatever that paper is that you read. The affidavit, it's an official court document. I'm surprised that guy hasn't been called to the carpet. Well, he may be.

12:34 We're gonna go along with this, but look at Wilson. We can't have this anymore. We got a script here to follow and you didn't follow it. You didn't even come close. You know, when you have jihadi Jews, you know what this is. You know what this is. So there is a, uh, this is kind of falls in line with that. The, this crazy story.

13:21 In fact, here's the clip that kind of...unless you've got more on this, I think we're... No, no, I'm pretty much done with the... It's a joke of a story. To us it is. I don't see anyone...no one else is laughing. Everyone's very afraid. Oh, they're afraid of the Jewish kid living at home with his parents in Jacksonville, Florida. Sending dangerous links. A scourge and he sends links out. Probably his only friend was that spy that kids to the press. He'd be happy to be 20 years in jail. If the judge doesn't throw stuff like this out, he didn't talk about entrapment. Geez, not even close. How about more on fixed intelligence regarding ISIS? Ooh, very nice. Pick a target to be nominated to go kill it or degrade it.

14:06 It's being deleted from the targeting package and we're not attacking the hard targets we should be going after. This is all a travesty. So some of them have come out and blown the whistle. I mean that's how seriously they're taking this. And some have gone on to say that now they feel they cannot even give a candid assessment because they know what's going to happen to their assessment. So what happens? I mean does this get reversed? Who is it who's manipulating the analyst conclusions? Well this actually started under Major General Scott Barrier apparently according to my sources. This went on, it's currently going on with Steve Grove, the current J2. These are two star generals. And then also the civilian senior guy, Greg Reichman keeps coming up. What happens is you have people literally working all the time trying to pick out their information. It gets up to the senior level and gets manipulated, gets changed. So that's what we're faced with right now. Colonel Schaefer, thank you. I like the term targeting package. That's kind of cool. I like targeting package. I have Mike Morrell, former director of

CHAPTER 05 / 52 Discussion

CENTCOM Intelligence Manipulation, Mike Morell on Data Meddling

Whistleblowers at U.S. Central Command allege that senior military officials manipulated intelligence reports to provide a more positive assessment of the fight against ISIS. Former CIA Director Mike Morell called for an investigation into the meddling, stating that analysts must be allowed to provide candid assessments without interference. The scandal reportedly involves Major General Scott Barrier and Steve Grove.

centcom· mike morell· scott barrier· steve grove· targeting package

13:21 In fact, here's the clip that kind of...unless you've got more on this, I think we're... No, no, I'm pretty much done with the... It's a joke of a story. To us it is. I don't see anyone...no one else is laughing. Everyone's very afraid. Oh, they're afraid of the Jewish kid living at home with his parents in Jacksonville, Florida. Sending dangerous links. A scourge and he sends links out. Probably his only friend was that spy that kids to the press. He'd be happy to be 20 years in jail. If the judge doesn't throw stuff like this out, he didn't talk about entrapment. Geez, not even close. How about more on fixed intelligence regarding ISIS? Ooh, very nice. Pick a target to be nominated to go kill it or degrade it.

14:06 It's being deleted from the targeting package and we're not attacking the hard targets we should be going after. This is all a travesty. So some of them have come out and blown the whistle. I mean that's how seriously they're taking this. And some have gone on to say that now they feel they cannot even give a candid assessment because they know what's going to happen to their assessment. So what happens? I mean does this get reversed? Who is it who's manipulating the analyst conclusions? Well this actually started under Major General Scott Barrier apparently according to my sources. This went on, it's currently going on with Steve Grove, the current J2. These are two star generals. And then also the civilian senior guy, Greg Reichman keeps coming up. What happens is you have people literally working all the time trying to pick out their information. It gets up to the senior level and gets manipulated, gets changed. So that's what we're faced with right now. Colonel Schaefer, thank you. I like the term targeting package. That's kind of cool. I like targeting package. I have Mike Morrell, former director of

15:04 Okay, we know Mike is a complete stooge, so let's listen to what he has to say. Now, let's back up. I probably didn't... Yeah, you missed a little bit of time. I didn't set it up enough. Yeah, go ahead. This is about... there's apparently a scandal going on for people that aren't keeping up, or they use us as news. There's a scandal going on where analysts, mostly I think military spies, analysts are coming up with targeting packages and other intelligence that they gather. And then they send it up the stream. And then the guys who run the agency, which they never mentioned the agency, probably DIA, I'm guessing, but whoever it is,

15:43 the guys at the top change it. Sex it up. They sex it up. Well, they say, well, we're doing very well against a battle on ISIS. But I think one of the things that's going on is that they are I think what personally I think what's going on is these analysts are coming up with data that needs to be acted on and the guys up top say, no, no, no, no, we're blowing up our own people if we do that. Here's Mike Murrell, director of CIA, who thinks some heads should roll. So these are analysts at the U.S. Central Command, CENTCOM, which is actually conducting our operations in Iraq and Syria.

16:21 One of the central tenets, one of the key aspects of the policymaking process in the United States is that analysts get to say what they think without any interference, without anybody changing it. So this is a very, very serious charge. I think it needs to be fully investigated and if there is truth that somebody has been meddling with their analysis, I think I think somebody needs to lose their job over it and there needs to be full transparency into this because this is so important that analysts actually get to say what they really think. I think someone should be thrown in jail, but I think here's what's interesting with that is that this is reintroducing the old battles between the agencies. Exactly.

CHAPTER 06 / 52 Discussion

James Clapper, Intelligence Agency Data Manipulation

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is accused of meddling with military intelligence by bypassing the chain of command to speak with lower-level generals. Admiral Michael Rogers of the NSA noted a growing trend where adversaries or internal actors might focus on the manipulation of data to make officials question its validity. The hosts argue that as the boss, Clapper has the power to dictate how data is presented.

james clapper· michael rogers· nsa· cyber security· data validity

17:04 So Morrell, who represents the CIA no matter what he says. So the CIA is, whatever's going on, the CIA's irked about it. Now, the article that kind of discusses this in detail, of course, would come from The Guardian, which I sent you a link, which will be in the show notes. U.S. spy chiefs' highly unusual reported contact with military officials raises concerns, and they apparently not mention in any of these reports, and including the Morrell report, this is all James Clapper. Clapper has been meddling and apparently he meddled with this the guys that they named on the Fox report with Megyn Kelly those three people this guy throws names out there. That's Apparently those guys aren't high enough up to talk to Clapper. You know, I just realized something I just realized something. Oh my god. Okay. Gee OMG So Clapper was leading this panel on the hill was a Senate

18:04 investigation or interrogation or just a discussion, little scripted thing they got going on there. And you had Comey from the FBI, you had Brenner from CIA, you had Admiral Michael, what's his name, Rogers from the, from NSA. You had some guy I'd never heard of before from the air force, I don't know what he was from. But Clapper was in the middle, he was really orchestrating this entire thing and he would hand off the questions and say, okay, Jim, why don't you grab that one? And he said something that I caught, actually Michael Rogers, that's not Mike Rogers, the radio star, that's Admiral Mike, yeah. And he said something

18:46 That it's just and I had to go back and listen to it again and now it makes sense with this uh with these reports listen to what he says when I look at it from a threat perspective I would argue three things really as I focus in the future I should say this is about this is about that clapper no this is no clapper hands it off to rogers that's rogers talking yes and this is about cyber security which I have a number of clips from but I just jumped ahead to this one against us critical infrastructure The second item to me is are we going to see a shift in a trend from not just outright theft of information, but are we going to start to see a focus on manipulation or changing of data once someone is able to gain access to a system so we start to question the validity of what we all are particularly looking at? Now that is interesting in this context. We could say, you know, someone manipulated that data and maybe it came from outside.

19:43 Well, this thickens the plot, whatever the case. Yeah. And I would say this article, which people should read, talks about how Clapper shouldn't be talking to this guy, this guy Grove, who's a two star general, but he's apparently a couple of levels down because you can't go outside of the, you know, you're supposed to stay in the ranks, the chain of command, but Clapper's not doing that. But here's the thing. And then it's got some CIA stuff in here because The CIA seems like they felt pressure and they didn't like it. Here's the problem I have with all this analysis from Morell and everyone in between, is that Clapper's the boss. I know, it's the blind leading the blind.

20:24 Well, blind leading the blind or not, he's the boss. So who are you going to fire? The boss? He can do whatever he wants. If he wants to go in there and go up to Grove and say, hey, this data that you guys have provided, I want it to sound like this. Write it this way. That's what you do. It's not... everything Morel said was totally bogus. Yeah. Oh, heads should roll. Whose head should roll? Yeah, it should be the boss, really. Well, the boss's head isn't going to roll. He's the boss. He says whatever he says goes. Whatever he says is what you're supposed to do. If you're supposed to manipulate the data, so it sounds a certain way because you told you to do that, that's what you do. You don't bitch about it.

CHAPTER 07 / 52 Discussion

FBI Director James Comey, Tor and Dark Web Monitoring

FBI Director James Comey warned criminals that they are "kidding themselves" if they believe they can hide on the dark web using the Onion Router (Tor). Comey stated that government efforts over the last five years have made it possible to view activity previously thought to be hidden. The discussion suggests that the government likely controls many Tor exit nodes.

james comey· tor· onion router· dark web· child exploitation

21:06 I'd like to play a few more clips since we're down this road from this cyber security question and answer session. Did you see this at all, John? No, I missed it completely. It's really, it's quite good. There's a lot of different things. Of course, it's two hours long. Here's our buddy Comey. Now, as you know, he's big on encryption and he's all about the dark web and he's pretty good on his encryption, but he doesn't want anyone else's strong encryption. But let's talk about the dark web for a moment. Dark web, dark web. This would be the Onion Router, better known as Tor. Long suspected of being compromised, particularly if you see who the investors are and the funders are of the project, which includes the military.

21:46 So it's not strange to think that Comey, or not a surprise to hear Comey say, we're not afraid of the dark web. We have our fair share of criminals and criminals increasingly operate online because that's where our lives are. That's where children play, that's where we bank, that's where our health care is. I hope my health care isn't all there and that's where children play and so people want to hurt kids That's where they're operating. Mm-hmm Think of the children images with each other on the dark web hoping that we won't be able to find it darkly They'll use the onion router to hide their communications as part of child exploitation We see fraudsters of all kinds whether it's health care just trying to steal your your your banking transactions trying to operate in a way that we can't see and so they think if they go to the dark web and

22:36 the hidden layers, so-called, of the internet that they can hide from us. They're kidding themselves because of the effort that's been put in by all of us in the government over the last five years or so that they are out of our view, but it's a big feature of criminal activity in the United States. Yeah, you're kidding yourselves, boys. Which means they've got all the exit nodes and Tor is inherently not safe. That's why they plug the Onion router. Of course, keep it rolling, everybody. Then we have... They don't say anything about, you know, interconnected proxies using various numerous VPNs all linked one to another. Now all he's saying is you'd be very disappointed when you find out how good we are. Yeah, well. Now that's good to the encryption part. And Comey is a bonehead. This guy's a banker. He shouldn't be directing the FBI, but okay.

23:25 I'm gonna name not name somebody and let's see well We're all good. We all care about safety and security on the Internet, and I'm a big fan of strong encryption We all care about public safety and the problem we have here is those are in tension in a whole lot of our work increasingly in counterterrorism and criminal work and counterintelligence work and And given that we care about the same things, I hope we can all agree that we ought to come together to try and solve that problem. He's talking here about private companies. What's the problem? Oh, the problem is encryption, that they can't decrypt. He believes in strong encryption, then what's he bitching about? But he wants the key. He wants the key. Come together to try and solve that problem.

CHAPTER 08 / 52 Discussion

Encryption Backdoors, James Comey and Silicon Valley

James Comey expressed frustration with tech companies that provide strong encryption, arguing that public safety and privacy are in tension. He suggested that if ISPs can decrypt data to serve ads, they should be able to comply with court orders for law enforcement. Tech experts maintain that creating a "key" for the government fundamentally compromises security for all users.

encryption· backdoors· google· silicon valley· court orders

22:36 the hidden layers, so-called, of the internet that they can hide from us. They're kidding themselves because of the effort that's been put in by all of us in the government over the last five years or so that they are out of our view, but it's a big feature of criminal activity in the United States. Yeah, you're kidding yourselves, boys. Which means they've got all the exit nodes and Tor is inherently not safe. That's why they plug the Onion router. Of course, keep it rolling, everybody. Then we have... They don't say anything about, you know, interconnected proxies using various numerous VPNs all linked one to another. Now all he's saying is you'd be very disappointed when you find out how good we are. Yeah, well. Now that's good to the encryption part. And Comey is a bonehead. This guy's a banker. He shouldn't be directing the FBI, but okay.

23:25 I'm gonna name not name somebody and let's see well We're all good. We all care about safety and security on the Internet, and I'm a big fan of strong encryption We all care about public safety and the problem we have here is those are in tension in a whole lot of our work increasingly in counterterrorism and criminal work and counterintelligence work and And given that we care about the same things, I hope we can all agree that we ought to come together to try and solve that problem. He's talking here about private companies. What's the problem? Oh, the problem is encryption, that they can't decrypt. He believes in strong encryption, then what's he bitching about? But he wants the key. He wants the key. Come together to try and solve that problem.

24:02 I've heard from a lot of folks that it's too hard and my reaction to that is really? I'd like that that is such a Silicon Valley douche thing to say like really that is Really really have we really tried have we really tried when I look at industry today. I see companies I'm not gonna name them here, but major internet service provider now. This is really good what he's doing here I'm gonna roll that back a little bit I'm not gonna name them, but it becomes very apparent who he's talking about but But he's doing one of these things that we've heard throughout, you know, these discussions. Well, you know, these guys can use that data for this. No one cares about that. How come we can't do it? ...your internet service providers who are able to comply with court orders because they strongly encrypt in transit and they decrypt when it crosses their networks so they can read our emails, so they can send us ads. I've never heard anybody say those companies are fundamentally insecure. Hold on, I'm raising my hand.

24:57 Yeah, yeah, I would say so Google a flawed from a security perspective a delete line So I don't think we've really tried and also don't think there's an it to the solution I would imagine there might be many many solutions depending upon whether you're an enormous company That's in this business or a tiny company in that business I just think we haven't given it the shot that it deserves which is why I welcome the dialogue And we're having some very healthy discussions. It's a great conversation. It's never gonna happen. Call me the the genies out of the bottle is not gonna happen told him this a number of times in fact They've told him in front of Congress. He doesn't understand. That's the problem he fundamentally does anyway with that one hearing

CHAPTER 09 / 52 Discussion

Cyber Warfare Authority, Congressional Abrogation of Power

Admiral Michael Rogers testified that the authority to launch offensive cyber or kinetic strikes rests with the President and Secretary of Defense rather than individual commanders. The hosts criticize Congress for failing to assert its constitutional authority over war-making. They argue that the legislative branch has effectively handed over its responsibilities to the executive branch.

kinetic warfare· cyber command· michael rogers· constitution· war powers

25:35 I forgot who it was, but it was one of the maybe they had a subcommittee said if you're expecting what he's saying, which is you did everyone's gonna jump in bed and give you their keys. That's not gonna happen as a non-starter stop it. Yeah, exactly. But he's now, but I need to ask you a fundamental constitutional question, whether it is kinetic or cyber. If we go on an offensive move... I watched this thing for two hours, the words come to me naturally now. Kinetic. Whether it is kinetic offensive or cyber offensive, who has the authority to declare that tactic? Or maybe you should just say war.

26:18 I have no idea what you're talking about. If we're going to strike another nation with bombs or with cyber, who determines... Kinetic means bombs? Yeah, kinetic means bombs, yeah. You didn't know that? Well, I do now. Who has the authority... They can't just say bomb them, bomb them, bomb them again. They have to say kinetic. It sounds cooler. Who has the authority, according to the Constitution, to attack another country? The Congress. Really? The Congress has to approve this. Are you sure of that? It's what it says in the Constitution. So the application of cyber in an offensive way is an application of force. The application of force under the law of armed conflict and the... This is Rogers again, by the way. ...broader policy construct that we use as nation, as nations, once you move beyond self-defense is a decision that is made

27:11 at a broad policy level. It's not something I, for example, as the director of NSA or as the commander of U.S. Cyber Command, just unilaterally decide. It's not the framework. Again, not unique to the cyber world. It's the same fundamental construct we use for the application of force in the kinetic world within the Department of Defense and more broadly in other areas. Who makes that determination? So, it depends on a case-by-case basis, but clearly the Secretary of Defense has granted some authorities, the President retains some authorities at his level, and that's all part of the process that we work through and we deal with each individual event on the merits of its own. Where's Congress in all this? Oh, they just bypassed Congress. That's insane.

28:01 But it's just his total belief. We're in charge of that. Yeah, we gotta hear from the Department of Defense. Yeah, you'll hear from the president. But ultimately, screw the citizens of Gitmo Nation. It's a dictatorship. Yeah, we do whatever we want. And not a peep out of any of these senators saying, how about Congress? Oh, you, they, it's a Senate hearing, right? Not a peep. They don't care. They've abrogated it. Oh good word responsibilities good word. They have responsibilities They've decided that they don't want these they pass it off. Yeah, pass it off. I'll let the pray again He'll be will be won't do anything stupid there was a unfortunately I don't think this ever made it to a video report, but ABC News Reports that they had a conversation with a quote counterterrorism official familiar with operations against Isis and

CHAPTER 10 / 52 Discussion

Junaid Hussein Drone Strike, Twitter Propagandist Targeting

The U.S. military used a drone strike to kill Junaid Hussein, a 21-year-old British ISIS member described as a senior propagandist and leader of the "Cyber Caliphate." Some counterterrorism officials criticized the move as targeting "low-hanging fruit" rather than actual leadership. The discussion questions the ethics of droning individuals primarily for their social media activity.

junaid hussein· drone strike· isis· cyber caliphate· twitter

28:59 This is about the propagandist, the ISIS propagandist who was droned. Let me see if I have his name here. Yeah. Fadil Ahmad Al-Hayali. No, I'm sorry. Junaid Hussein, who some officials called a senior propagandist in ISIS, even though he was only nine years old when the US invaded Iraq in 2003. I'm reading from the ABC News report. Hussein's claim to jihad fame was suspected role in leading the cyber caliphate from Raqqa, Syria, where among other things, the young Britain tweeted a call to attack a draw the profit contest in Garland, Texas. So we know about that. A quote, a Twitter tough guy. You can't convince me that he wasn't a shit target. One counterterrorism official familiar with operations against ISIS told ABC News, calling Hussein, 21 years old, a senior member of ISIS.

29:55 and then down here, wasting time on guys like him is how the big guys keep operating. The US should be smoking leadership and then they call it low-hanging fruit. Essentially what they're saying in this article is it's okay to drone someone who is just propagandizing on Twitter. Wow. Yeah. And of course no one's on record and that's probably why they didn't turn into a news report but Is that really what we're doing? It's like, you know, some troll on Twitter and oh, we found who he is, let's stop trolling. Actually, it's probably a good idea for all trolls to drone them.

30:38 Well, let's just drone anybody we feel like it seems like that got to you got the finger on the button and you got the coordinates you got to kill this or the package that what is it called the Targeting package yeah, just add a few names with a pan you take a pen you get your targeting package You add a few names at the bottom if you know where they are good to go and then blow them up good to go They're on the ride just sir. They're on the targeting package. Oh Meanwhile, it looks like the vote for all these cyber regulations, the Cyber Acts, will be moved until the end of October. And you recall that part of the Cybersecurity Sharing Act, one company has been put in the middle between, with full indemnification, between commercial, the private sector and the government sector to share this information. That company is called FireEye. And there's this researcher who's been kind of waving his hand and yelling a little bit for the past six weeks saying, um, hello, there's a zero-day vulnerability in FireEye and you guys are compromised. And no one's reporting on this. No one.

CHAPTER 11 / 52 Discussion

GCHQ Password Advice, Security Through Simplicity

The UK spy agency GCHQ released a report advising citizens to use fewer and less complex passwords to avoid "password overload." The agency argues that complex requirements lead users to reuse passwords or write them down, creating more risk. Critics suggest this advice makes it easier for intelligence agencies to crack user accounts using supercomputers.

gchq· passwords· internet security· encryption· cyber security

31:37 No, they're not. There's full details of what's going on, you know, pasted on Pastebin. This may come up when they go to vote for some of these... Yeah, it won't. What am I saying? Please don't. How stupid of me. No. And then the best one, I love this, the Gitmo Nation East UK spy agency GCHQ has published a report If anyone really believes it, here's the report. On internet security, advising the citizens of Gitmo Nation East on how to stay secure. And they say, we advise fewer and less complex passwords should be used in order to increase security online. Instead of adding more and varied characters. Yes.

32:31 We suggest APC123 as the password. Here's from the report. This proliferation of password use and increasingly complex password requirements places an unrealistic demand on most users. Inevitably, users will devise their own coping mechanisms to cope with password overload. This includes... Yeah, it's called click on forgot password? It includes writing down passwords, reusing the same passwords across different systems, or using simple and predictable password creation strategies. But they are saying here, you know, you really should just have less passwords and make them simpler. You know, less characters. Sounds good to me. Do you think people buy that?

33:18 Nobody reads that whatever what you have there is just in the ether Nobody buys it because nobody even hears it well There's at least 10,000 people who listen to this show who hear it. No is it more than 10,000? Yeah, well, that's good million people Lisa. Oh really that's just your guess no It's a good guess believe me take my word for I'm taking your word Anymore on cyber talking about the public at large. Yeah, of course not one thing the people listen to the show aren't that dumb It's so incredible that they try this yeah, that's the way around Comey's idea Shorter passwords simple keep it simple shorter passers that way you can crack them like it. You know they probably is it like there's probably a classic It's like eight or something eight letters and characters that they can crack in less than a second with a supercomputer

34:11 Just match. I'm sure yeah, actually. I don't know how that works. I'll have to look into that I don't know if it's the number of Characters in a password or the type of encryption. I'm not clear on if that makes it easier It sounds like it would make it easier. It sounds like it would make it easier to just guess it just you know I can't guess passwords. Yeah, of course they overuse that gimmick my favorite some of the commonplaces you see in television plots and scripts is Sometimes they get a little old. I mean, this is my all-time favorite, which is like, please, will you stop doing this? It's just annoying. Which is the, keep them on the line for a minute. We're trying to trace the call. We need at least 90 seconds. There is like every call since, I don't know, 1980 has got the header information on the call with the phone number embedded. Even when you don't have, you know, you have a call waiting to say. Who still uses that? Who still uses that?

CHAPTER 12 / 52 Discussion

Hollywood Hacking Tropes, Phone Tracing and Password Cracking

The hosts discuss common inaccuracies in television depictions of technology, such as the "90-second trace" for phone calls. They criticize shows like NCIS for depicting hackers guessing complex passwords based on personal details like a pet's name. They contrast these tropes with the more realistic "human hacking" shown in the series Mr. Robot.

mr robot· ncis· hacking tropes· phone tracing· password guessing

35:09 Bit about a hanky mon life yeah in everybody in television shows still yes every show still does it and it always ends up It's a plot point. It's like a it's a gimmick. It's a plot gimmick, and so it always goes like oh he hung up Oh, we almost damn I always have the guy with the headphones looking over and shaking his head no didn't exactly Didn't couldn't come on long enough although I'll say that in mr.. Robot You know, they do a lot of human hacking as I let me see what could the code to the safe be? Wait a minute. He graduated in 2012. Oh, seven. Oh, nine. That's I'll reverse that. I was just going to say that was my other pet peeve. Yeah, it was a little too easy. One of these shows any cyber, the guy saying, what do we get? What's his what's his date of birth? And they type in three, you know, three and four. And they do. NCIS is the worst at this. Of course, they got this one guy. He goes on there, says,

36:04 And he just within five tries, he's got the guy's password because it's his sister's middle name plus his pet. Yeah. Yeah. Bull crap. Yeah. I mean, once once in a while. Yes. The way you crack easily crack a password is someone who happens to be using the word password. Yeah. Because a lot of people are just the literate, the literate ness of the public at large when it says What's your name? You type your name and your email address. It says type password. So they type password. This is like the old any key joke. I can't find the any key. I can't find the any key. There's no any key. So they type in password because they were told to type in password.

CHAPTER 13 / 52 Discussion

European Migrant Crisis, Hungary Detention and ISIS Infiltration

Reports from Hungary suggest that ISIS militants are infiltrating Europe by blending in with migrant crowds, with some allegedly identified via social media photos. Footage from Hungarian warehouses shows police throwing food into crowds of refugees cordoned off by wire fences. Observers have compared the conditions in these transit zones to concentration camps.

hungary· isis· migrants· refugee camps· concentration camps

36:51 Anyway enough all right on to the migrant situation in Europe and now we're getting some really cool thing information coming out This is a this is being misused abused in any way possible propaganda media Yes, propaganda running rampant. Let us start of course with RT I have to disclaim that so you understand where it's coming from there's alarm in Europe over allegations that Islamic State militants are infiltrating the continent by blending with crowds of migrants. One Hungarian TV network is even reporting that the security services have detained two militants who revealed their identities in photos on social media. Yeah, of course, makes total sense. ISIS, jihadis, you're going to see a lot of this. Now, let's go to Hungary where they identified this. I'm not quite sure how they did that because there was this video on

37:38 How did they do it? They didn't. It's bullcrap. Right. So they have all these people corralled in this, in this like a big warehouse and there's fences, like, you know, wire fences cordoning off sections and there's mattresses and the police are dressed in full garb with helmets on and they're doing this. The policemen, they throwed sandwiches and breads which was packed in plastic bags. They were throwing Those plastic bags into the crowd and whoever was able to catch that bag was luckier I guess. So they have sandwiches in plastic bags and they're tossing them out. You know, like at a concert, like here's my guitar pick. They're throwing them out and these kids are trying to get it. People are fighting over bread. Yeah. No, this is what you do.

38:31 brought them to the women and the children waiting on the side and some of them were eating it right away. Some children were trying to get on the fence to stand up higher, just trying to catch whatever they can get. This is the only one building where the refugees have a building to sleep. The other people have to sleep outside in tents. It's remembered me on a concentration camp. Nice, so it remembered me of a concentration camp. Then we have Fox News, Caitlin McFarland, who is a special reporter. Now she has a whole different take on this because of course this is a plot.

CHAPTER 14 / 52 Discussion

Russia and China, Geopolitical Blame for Refugee Crisis

Analyst Caitlin McFarland suggested that Russia and China are intentionally pushing refugees toward Europe to gain political capital and destabilize the West. President Obama criticized Vladimir Putin for doubling down on support for the Assad regime in Syria, which he claims exacerbates the crisis. The U.S. strategy remains focused on a political settlement that transitions Assad out of power.

vladimir putin· bashar al-assad· syria· refugee crisis· caitlin mcfarland

39:11 this migrant situation. How much of this is Russia and China trying to shluff off these refugees on Europe and everybody else as a way of sort of playing for like you know playing with these human lives to try to gain political and global capital? Russia is sending military equipment, is sending it by sea, is sending it overland, is sending it by air to try to prop up the Assad government to continue the fighting. and continue the refugee crisis? Oh sure, exactly. Right, and obviously we know how much Putin loves Europe in terms of being able to give Europe a problem to deal with with the refugees. But the worry becomes are they gonna gang up, the Chinese and the Russians, gonna gang up against the United States and our interests throughout the world? And I think you are going to see more of that. Okay, so it's Russia and China who are making the refugees cross into Europe.

40:05 Good! That's an interesting theory. I like that a lot. Well, Obama kind of reiterated it, you know, now that we have, you know, Russian submarines off the coast and everything, and he spoke at some school recently. So, Russia has for many years now provided financial support, sold arms to Assad. I remember a conversation I had with Mr. Putin four or five years ago where I told him... Notice he doesn't say President Putin, he says Mr. Putin, which is degrading. That was a mistake. It would make things worse as long as he continued to support Assad. He did not take my warnings and as a consequence things have gotten worse. It appears now that Assad is worried enough that he's inviting Russian advisors in and Russian equipment in.

40:59 And that won't change our core strategy, which is to continue to put pressure on ISIL in Iraq and Syria, but we are going to be engaging Russia to let them know that you can't continue to double down on a strategy that's doomed to failure. And that if they are willing to work with us and the 60-nation coalition that we've put together, then there's the possibility a political settlement in which Assad would be transitioned out and a new coalition of moderate, secular, and inclusive forces come together to restore order in the country. That's our goal. So again, it's all Russia. Doesn't matter where it is. It's always Russia who's doing it. Well, and you know why? It got snowed in.

CHAPTER 15 / 52 Discussion

Nigel Farage, European Union Migrant Quotas

Nigel Farage criticized the European Union's plan to distribute 160,000 migrants across member states, warning that ISIS intends to embed fighters in the "tide of humanity." Farage argued that many arrivals are economic migrants rather than genuine refugees as defined by the 1951 Geneva Convention. The hosts discuss how bankers may favor the breakdown of nationalist cultures to consolidate financial power.

nigel farage· jean-claude juncker· geneva convention· jihadists· bankers

42:03 It's the same strategy of course that's being played out in Ukraine. And then the final word I have is from Nigel Farage, and he has a very distinctive take on the integration of these migrants. And he really believes they're migrants actually, although he has some other little ideas about it. And this of course all comes in with the distribution or the splitting up of the numbers now 160,000 migrants amongst the European countries and the United Kingdom also has to take a few. Is it your worst fears come real? Not yet, but they're coming closer. We've got this big police manhunt in Calais. There were five people in Hungary two weeks ago who were behaving badly, entertained by the police and found to have jihadist images of beheadings on their mobile phones. We've seen one of the suspects from the first Tunisian massacre.

42:59 photographed getting off a boat and landing on Italian soil. And as I said six months ago, when Islamic State say they will use this tide of humanity that is coming across the Mediterranean to embed thousands of their jihadist fighters into Europe, they mean it. And yet, what do we have? We have people who want to feel good about themselves, holding up signs saying refugees welcome, not understanding that there is a huge difference and distinction between a genuine refugee and people seeking to mass migrate across continents. You were less than impressed this week with Jean-Claude Juncker's suggestion that Europe as a whole should take over 100,000 migrants. Why were you so angry Mr Farage?

43:42 Well, he said actually in May 40,000. He's now upped it to 160,000. I've no doubt by this time next year it'll be 460,000. And we're not actually working out who is a refugee and who isn't. Just to remind people, you know, the 1951 Geneva Convention that defines a refugee as somebody who is directly in fear of persecution because of their race, religion, ethnicity or political views. It is not, I'm afraid to say, just because you come from a poor country or even because you're displaced by war. Do you know Nick, at the moment, the United Nations estimate there are 59 million people in the world who are displaced by conflicts and wars of some kind. Now, I'm not against

44:30 Doing what we can to try to help people who are in camps in Turkey and the Lebanon and everything else But for Europe to have opened its doors unconditionally, I think could prove to be one of the biggest mistakes in history. Hmm I think he may be right. I think he's being taken in by the local propaganda Well, yeah, everyone's being taken in by something somewhere for odds. No exception Well, I mean if anybody's getting a kick out of this it's got to be us. I I will bring a few people over. It's interesting you say that. I had drinks yesterday with the former New York banker and out of the blue he says, man this is going to destroy Europe.

45:14 the bankers like it. They feel that they've already won somehow. Yeah, they say, we've already won, we have all the money, we have with the American banks won, European banks lost. It'll be another 10 years before they even have a chance at winning over us. I'm not quite sure what they mean other than, you know, we have all the money, everything's in dollars still, and he sees no issue with that whatsoever, which is along the lines of thinking you've always, you know, you agree with that the dollar is not going away. And he says, you know, breaking up the nationalist, culture of countries and Spain, you know, it's like France, you know, what are they now? Are they French? Look at Lyon. It's, you know, they're not French anymore. Look at the Netherlands. It's all of these, all of these countries are kind of falling apart. And now you add all these migrants into the mix and it'll be a million by next year. Oh yeah. And it's just, it's going to rip everything apart and, and the bank, the bankers like it. Yeah, that's great.

CHAPTER 16 / 52 Discussion

David Muir, ABC News Migration Route Report

ABC News anchor David Muir traveled to Hungary to report on the "why" behind the sudden mass exodus of refugees from camps in Turkey and Jordan. Families reported that they lost hope of the Syrian conflict ending and are now using Facebook and smartphones to share maps and tips for the journey. The report highlights the role of social media in coordinating the movement of hundreds of thousands of people.

david muir· abc news· hungary· smartphones· social media maps

46:10 The bankers do like it. Yeah, well bankers are always behind the wars, aren't they? So the one, you know, usually when there's something going on, if an anchor on one of the... I'm going to do some part of the big three thing, three by three. Three networks, three weeks. They like to take vacations, so if there's something going on somewhere, they'll go there. I'm here in Moscow because the Russians, you know, their toilets are backing up. So I come out to take check it out. So Dave, nobody has gone to the migrant thing except David Muir finally did. He took off. He's the ABC or he's ABC anchor and anchor. No less. He's the anchors of the anchors go into these remote locations that when they want to take a vacation.

46:56 And, you know, they go to the...just muck around for a while. And then they go, you know, stop in Paris as a stopover and spend a couple of days there. They're off usually. And then they have a couple of dinners, you know, two nights in Paris is fine. If you're female, get your hair done by Pierre. So there's David and Mira on the long road. Now, here's why this clip is interesting. Because one of the things that we've brought it up before, and you kind of touched on it with your clips there. is, why are these all of a sudden...we noticed this before, all of a sudden it's like these migrants are all hanging out in Turkey and they're in Lebanon, they're everywhere. Turkey and Jordan. They're piling up. And now all of a sudden they took off and they're all heading to Europe. Now, he actually tries to answer this question, which is the first time I've ever seen it done on any of the three networks.

47:42 The why? Everyone's left out the why. So I don't know whether this answer is correct, Because what his, the why that ABC news guys have come up with is that they all got fed up at once and decided to leave. Not quite buying it. That's rich. This is kind of an interesting report anyway. Up to a half million have already fled war, terror and poverty entering Europe this year. More than 2,300 have died at sea and so many asking why the exodus now? Our team along the route for weeks families telling us that their hope was finally lost. Trapped in refugee camps on Syria's borders they have realized it's simply getting worse. They also say they now have a route to follow. Many have heard from family, loved ones telling me today they've sent maps, tips on social media, Facebook.

48:38 Tips to avoid the danger. And they say there is a sense of safety in numbers. They now know they're not the first ones. Like that couple we met today, we went back to find them further up that route at a makeshift tent camp. Everything is just covered in mud here and we're gonna see if we can find that young family. How are you? Food? You have food? Food, yes. We find them eating dinner. Just handed their first hot meal in a month. Yeah. That sounds... And they all have smartphones or how are they getting on the Twitter information?

CHAPTER 17 / 52 Discussion

Historical Migration Patterns, Turkish Intelligence Theories

The hosts compare the current European migrant crisis to historical mass migrations during economic depressions, noting how "pioneers" create routes for others to follow. They speculate that Turkish President Erdogan may be intentionally releasing refugees from camps to pressure Europe. They also discuss how the U.S. uses its own undocumented population as a barrier to new migration.

erdogan· turkey· mass migration· depression· hobos

49:17 I have no idea, but this is the way I'm seeing this. This is very... This is not an unusual situation during a actual worldwide depression. He was in... I'm sorry to interrupt. He was in Turkey or...? No, he was in Hungary. Oh, okay. He was on the receiving end. Okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. No, he took a good one and right into the guts of it, right where all the people walking up and down the tracks. He was like there. I admire that. And then he's slogging through mud because he's puffing and puffing like a 90-year-old man, but I don't know what that was about. So during a real depression you have these mass migrations, it just happens all the time and you have also an effect in the United States which we haven't seen so much of because this depression has been tempered by the printing of money and so it hasn't really

50:01 been exaggerated like it was in the 30s. But it's the old, the hobos used to go from, placed in the 30s, from house to house and they make markings, these bum marks, on different houses and they'd be going... Oh yeah, so it's like the old war driving, so you know when you can get there. It was code. So if you were another guy coming along and you saw an X with an underline, you knew that this lady would give you food or she'd give you work for a couple of days. And I think there's some truth to the, to the, I guess there were pioneers from these refugee camps that somehow like maybe a year or two ago had wormed their way to Germany and wormed their way through or to Sweden's another place where they seem to be fine with these guys coming over. They need more workers.

50:48 And then they've come up with maps, you know, Rick Steves guides a migration to Germany, you know, that sort of thing. They've come up with books and guides and phone numbers and contacts. And then I think they did start...it was like an exodus. Let's go. But also the possibility that Erdogan said, get these people out of my country. I think there was an element of that or they sensed that that was gonna happen. Yeah. He's got a million people in Turkey alone like get him out, and I don't think they can just want me You don't know if you really want to get conspiratorial you could say that some you know a couple of Turk intelligence guys made this trip and they're the ones who wrote all the books and how to do it's like a how-to and they passed it around From what I've seen in the the Turkish refugee camps you can't just wander out and

51:39 So they're being let out. Yeah, you have to be let out. Yeah. So that could be that. Yeah, so probably, yeah. Either way. We'll let you go. We'll let a bunch of guys go tonight. Nine o'clock we're going to open the gates. Don't tell anybody but your friends. I just, you know, it just seems so improbable to me that all the smart people in government, all the think tanks outside of government, that no one foresaw this was going to happen. This is a big surprise. Think tanks charging a lot of money. Those things are not cheap, those reports are $1,500 a pop usually. And up, whether they're done on a contract basis for like 50 grand. It's ridiculous. But none of them have said, hey, you should watch out for mass migration. History shows this happens all the time. But more importantly, and I think you're right, now take that into context of the former New York banker who says, we won, we've got all the money. Eventually everyone will want to come here.

52:39 Yeah, well that's why we're working on all these ways of keeping people out excellent It's almost like an experiment did this into Donald Trump going on about the wall and other? Mixed mechanisms we're gonna do with these 11 million that are here. We and we also have them as a barrier It's like we can't take you we've got 11 million undocumented Mexicans. Yeah, we have no room for you We have no room all these Mexicans are here. They're all here, and you can't come in I mean that could the whole thing could be a scam Where are the Kagan's? You gotta think the Kagan's are behind this somehow. Somebody's behind it. I have one last thing about this. Somebody sent this in and I decided to clip it.

CHAPTER 18 / 52 Discussion

Reddit AMA, State Department Propaganda Suspicions

A Reddit "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) featuring a Syrian immigrant in Germany is criticized for sounding like it was written by a State Department intern. The hosts point to a specific question about ISIS jihadists among refugees, which received a one-sentence confirmation, as evidence of a scripted narrative. They suggest the AMA is being used to justify future policy moves in Europe.

reddit ama· syrian immigrant· state department· propaganda· germany

53:22 Some one of our producers apparently there's a reddit an AMA Have you seen this? I think it just came in this morning a wreck an AMA about Which is it asked me anything and read it, but they still do they still do those I thought that was all broken up and didn't work anymore No, the real the famous ones are broken up or they're harder to do because you can't find anyway getting a hold of these celebrities Right. No, this is an AMA just came out the Syrian immigrant in Germany AMA I don't see that. And so, well, it's in there somewhere. Anyway, so this guy checked it out. I read part of it and it's the guy says, our producer says, tell me that it doesn't sound like it was written by an intern from the State Department. And it absolutely is. Are you sure you sent this? I'm sorry, but I don't know what. I didn't send it. It was sent to us. Oh, oh, OK. I'm sorry. I didn't send it. As a clip? I'll be somewhere. Oh, it's just it's just written. It's not a clip.

54:20 No, it's not a clip. Oh, okay, I'm looking for a clip. Okay, I got you. No, they don't do... I don't know that they do clips. No. Now, do you have this or not? Yeah, I'm looking at it. I was trying to read from it. I'm sorry. I'm an idiot. I gotcha. No, you're not. You are coming in mass numbers is the question. You're backwards and you will commit many crimes. The answer is yep. Many people come in mass numbers, but we won't commit crimes. Why do you think these people are criminals if I'm in Syria and he goes on and making excuses? Anyway, there's these questions like this, you know, these stupid AMA questions. And then finally, number four, right up near the top. And this is what would make anyone suspicious. This is written by the State Department to make a point. Question number four. Are there ISIS jihadists among the refugees? Hmm. Good question. One sentence answer. Yes, that is quite a high possibility.

55:17 Oh crap. Oh man, it's gonna be fun to watch though because this is perfect. You could do anything you want now in Europe and just blame it on the migrants. Oh, the whole thing is gonna be a riot. Yeah. Looking forward to it. It's nothing but fun. LGY. And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak! And I want to thank you and thank you for your courage, Mr. Adam Curry. Also all the boots on the ground, feeding the air subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there. In the morning, everyone in the chat room, knowagenestream.com. Good to see over a thousand? A lot of people there today, it's nice. In the morning to our artists, thank you very much PewDiePie, once again bringing us the art for episode 755. And it was kind of like an art-off of sorts.

CHAPTER 19 / 52 Discussion

Executive Producer Donations, Nicara Gref and Brian Barrow

Sir Brian Barrow and Nicara Gref are thanked as Executive Producers for their significant donations. Nicara Gref requested a birthday shout-out for her husband and a "douchebag" call-out for Jimmy Weaver. The hosts play a jingle mashup featuring Obama's "A-Team" comments and Joe Biden's "jobs" rhetoric to provide the requested karma.

brian barrow· nicara gref· jimmy weaver· isis· job karma

56:02 See a lot of people were delivering, delivering a lot of art. It's either this thing, it's like rains and pours. And we always save everything for later for newsletters or if we can't find anything for a particular episode, there's no agenda, artgenerator.com. And this was a nice one. It was about Haiti, except the H on the map of Haiti was Hillary's campaign H logo. I'm with stupid logo. So I like that a lot and we always look forward to submissions again no agenda art generator calm and we have a few people to thank I believe as executive producers and a bunch of associate executive producers beginning with Sir Brian Barrow in Swindon UK three four five six seven one of my favorite donations he

56:52 He, we looked for a note from him and he did not have one. I sent him an email this morning to see if he wanted to... I don't see anything from him either, so... So let's see if anything came in. I don't see it. No, I see nothing. No. Nope. So that's, he'll get in touch with us when he feels like it. Nicaragrief, Gref, in, I don't know where he is actually. He's in the military. He's in the military it looks like, in APO. $333.33, he'll be our second executive producer. He says, thank you guys for keeping us sane. I wanted to say happy birthday to my husband. Oh, Nicara's a female name.

57:38 Nicaragua. I want to thank you. Say happy birthday my husband. Do you have him on the list? Yes, I believe so. Please call out Jimmy Weaver as a douchebag. And for a jingle she'd like to hear Obama's A-Team ISIS in America and if we can get some job karma it'd be much appreciated. Okay we can do that. There's a need for a rescue mission. When the world is threatened, the world needs help, it calls on America. And that's the story. ISIS. We will follow them to the gate. ISIS. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. Nice combo. Joe Biden said that of course and we want to maybe talk a little bit about him, his appearance.

CHAPTER 20 / 52 Discussion

Knighting Ceremony, Sir Mike of Wakefield

Mike Yarish of Wakefield, Massachusetts, is knighted as Sir Mike of Wakefield following a donation of $234.56. He requested a correction on the pronunciation of his name and "douchebag" call-outs for Eric and Al. The hosts provide him with home-buying karma and celebrate his 43rd birthday.

mike yarish· wakefield· knighting· douchebag· home buying karma

58:43 Oh yes, yes, definitely. On the Colbert. I have already have not watched any more than the first episode of Colbert. Yeah. Steven Yarosh in Wakefield, Massachusetts. That's 23456. Please accept my donation of 23456 and help me celebrate my 43rd birthday. Do you have him on the list? I think so. On 9-13. I think so. This donation should make me a knight. I would like to be knighted Sir Mike of Wakefield. Okay. John, please, please say Mike Yarosh where Yarosh is pronounced Yar-ish. I don't give a damn if PayPal has called me Steven. It's Mike. See it says Steven. I said Steven Yarosh instead of Mike Yarosh. Yarosh. You should put that at the beginning of the note.

59:37 So is my advice. We do this correctly. So it's your Roche. Let me just get it. Yarosh is how you pronounce it. Yarish. Yarish. OK, because I need to do it in the segment later on. OK, Yarish. Yarish. And as Mike, he says, or I would just want to remind people that if you got like, I want to be anonymous or I got a here's how you pronounce my name. Put all that at the very beginning. Because we read these things in real time, and we don't rehearse. We don't have producers and stuff prompting us. To help us. We don't have any helpers. He wants a douchebag call out to Eric.

1:00:15 And Al Okay, you still haven't donated like some home buying karma and a bingo boom shakalaka It would make for a perfect birthday Indeed Okay Okay, I couldn't find my cursor. Sorry Hey that monitor fixed, huh? It's a little I got to change the cursor is a little bigger or it should have trails I don't have it set up for trails trails you got trails Also, I don't have a setup so when you hit the control button it lights it up. Oh I don't do these things, but as soon as it shows over I turn the machine off and go someplace else got something better to do I hear you. Oh, yes

CHAPTER 21 / 52 Discussion

Associate Producer Credits, Ethan Smith and Thomas Nussbaum

Ethan Smith and Sir Thomas Nussbaum are recognized for their contributions to the show. Smith requested a "de-douching" and called out Jay Hamilton and Lyman Darby as douchebags. Nussbaum, a "9x Knight," is working toward becoming a Duke by his birthday in October.

ethan smith· thomas nussbaum· jay hamilton· lyman darby· chemtrails

1:01:15 To get off the machine. Ethan Smith in Lexington, Kentucky. Yeah, I gotta do research for the next show. Once the show is over. Yeah, we start right away. It's like, it's like the Super Bowl. The minute the Super Bowl is over, we're already producing the next year's show. 225.88 from Ethan. We just make it look easy. In Lexington, Kentucky, a beautiful little town. This is my third stonation. Maybe it's a stonation, I'll try it. Yeah, try. That's my third stonation towards the show. With this amount I become a one-third knight. Seeing as I'm now an associate producer, I feel it's time I get a de-douching. Hold on, let me do that. You've been de-douched. For the third time, I have to call out the man who hit me in the mouth. Jay Hamilton is a man overboard and a douchebag. Douchebag! Also, Lyman Darby.

1:02:11 DOOSHBAAAANG Once you finally donate it feels better each time I'd like don't be a denier chemtrails squirrel and I love bugs Thank you Adam for your courage MAN OVER! Don't be a denier The science is in! Science Chemtrails Squirrels Bugs Bugs I had time that one didn't I? Sir Thomas Nussbaum. I'm proud of myself mom for playing a poop jingle. Virginia Beach, Virginia 21089. I am now a 9x Knight. Duke by my birthday. So by the 13th of October he expects to make it.

CHAPTER 22 / 52 Discussion

Deez Nuts, Presidential Candidate Polling Scam

The hosts discuss the "Deez Nuts" presidential candidate phenomenon, which they describe as a prank intended to expose the absurdity of 2016 election polling. They argue that major media outlets dropped the story once it began making their data look foolish. A donor using the name "Deez Nuts" from White Court, Alberta, is thanked for a $200 contribution.

deez nuts· 2016 election· polling data· media scam· millennials

1:03:14 Trezon is on a mission. Oh, how nice. Travis Benelli in Escondido, California. 200 bucks. What's up? What's up? What's up? Broke but scrapped up a donation for the best podcast in the universe. Give him a karma. Absolutely. Broke and still donating. Thank you. You've got karma. And finally, last but not least, in white court, Alberta, Canada, of 200 bucks comes in Deez Nuts. Oh, presidential candidate Deez Nuts. Well, yeah, I was thinking whatever happened to him, what happened to that story? I've never seen a story drop like such a hot potato. Yeah, it was something they were trying to do to make the numbers look dumb. It was some kids that were doing it. Yeah, but they were trying to make the polling data look stupid. And the news is never going to

1:04:08 Say that they're pulling they got it. Yeah, that's never gonna. Here's the deal They've got a grand scheme these news guys these media guys the big media guys not the little media guys like we are The big media guys they got a scam going it involves Rigging the election so the it sounds I mean the votes aren't rigged. I don't know it's rigging the the reporting the results of results So you make it sound like it's exciting, things are going on, Trump's at the head, and all that. And Ben Carson all of a sudden beating Hillary. Yes, all this is bullcrap. So D's nuts comes rolling into the picture and they screw things up and make everyone look like idiots.

1:04:48 The word went out, it must have happened all at the same time. They all agreed in some meeting at some club, you know, the Capitol Hill Club or something. Hey, we got to just...let's just drop this stupid story because it's making us look like idiots. Okay. You know, we have a lot of college kids listening, what we call millennials. And I do want to say that we have no problem with millennials. You know, we're not...well, of course, we do generalize and a lot of millennials are morons. It's fun. Yeah, but they're not all morons. Well, actually, very few of them are genuinely morons. Very few. And a lot listen to the show and some even scrape together their money and support the program. And I suspect Deez Nuts is one of them. A lot. White Court, Alberta, what else you got to do? And a lot of... Where do you live? I live in White Court.

1:05:37 Oh, fantastic. And of course if you're doing any kind of research, search.nashownotes.com is a great resource for you in school. And I got a question from Richard. He said, I have a question for you. This is for you and I both, John. Has been eating at me. I guess I'm a millennial, though I'm not honestly sure. I was born in 1990. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you're a millennial. And I've been... Cut off point around 1985. Right. And I've been supporting Bernie Sanders for several months now as I identify with his message and like what he is doing and saying. While I think Trump is kind of silly sometimes, I like him as well but think Sanders would be a better president after the last three disastrous ones. Wow, that's programming in your mind, my friend. Oh yeah. The word last three disastrous presidents, that's programming. What I can't figure out is why you hate him so much. Now let me say- Who hates who? He thinks that we hate Bernie Sanders. Oh no, I got to feel the burn button.

CHAPTER 23 / 52 Discussion

Bernie Sanders, Millennial Support and Socialism

A listener born in 1990 questions why the hosts are critical of Bernie Sanders, arguing that his proposals for free college and healthcare make sense. The hosts respond by defining these policies as socialism, which they claim has historically failed in other countries. They discuss the "programming" of the younger generation who view recent presidencies as disastrous.

bernie sanders· socialism· millennials· wall street tax· healthcare

1:04:48 The word went out, it must have happened all at the same time. They all agreed in some meeting at some club, you know, the Capitol Hill Club or something. Hey, we got to just...let's just drop this stupid story because it's making us look like idiots. Okay. You know, we have a lot of college kids listening, what we call millennials. And I do want to say that we have no problem with millennials. You know, we're not...well, of course, we do generalize and a lot of millennials are morons. It's fun. Yeah, but they're not all morons. Well, actually, very few of them are genuinely morons. Very few. And a lot listen to the show and some even scrape together their money and support the program. And I suspect Deez Nuts is one of them. A lot. White Court, Alberta, what else you got to do? And a lot of... Where do you live? I live in White Court.

1:05:37 Oh, fantastic. And of course if you're doing any kind of research, search.nashownotes.com is a great resource for you in school. And I got a question from Richard. He said, I have a question for you. This is for you and I both, John. Has been eating at me. I guess I'm a millennial, though I'm not honestly sure. I was born in 1990. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you're a millennial. And I've been... Cut off point around 1985. Right. And I've been supporting Bernie Sanders for several months now as I identify with his message and like what he is doing and saying. While I think Trump is kind of silly sometimes, I like him as well but think Sanders would be a better president after the last three disastrous ones. Wow, that's programming in your mind, my friend. Oh yeah. The word last three disastrous presidents, that's programming. What I can't figure out is why you hate him so much. Now let me say- Who hates who? He thinks that we hate Bernie Sanders. Oh no, I got to feel the burn button.

1:06:33 All I've heard is you call him a douchebag without explaining why. I don't think I've ever called him a douchebag. And then call my generation stupid. It has really pushed me away from the show and even though I've been listening since the start, saying, can you please explain to me why you feel the way you do about Sanders and why Trump will be better than the one he is entertaining? I genuinely don't understand. And I replied, we don't hate him, but you know, the guy's a socialist. I personally have lived in socialist countries. It sucks. I don't want that. And then he comes back, he says, okay, but don't a lot of his ideas and proposals make sense for the country? Like a tax on Wall Street to make, and to make four-year college free and lowering medical costs and fixing Obamacare. And I say, yeah, that's socialism.

1:07:19 So I think people need to understand what it is. Now, we can be a socialist country if you want. That's up to anyone who votes. I do want to talk about this for a little while. Let's finish this segment up and then I want to talk about Bernie Sanders. Okay, good. I had another recent run-in with one of my millennial kids. Good, good. You want to do it now or do you want to... I just have to finish up. Let's give these nuts a dose of karma of whoever he or she is because they're in white court. What are they gonna do for you? Nothing. I just finish up the segment. We'll get into Bernie Sanders because I have one more. I have a PR thing to promote Angela Castaneda, who is our producer in Vegas. And she she's actually she has I think she has an agency advertising agency and she's given me work voiceover work. The only voiceover work I've ever gotten.

CHAPTER 24 / 52 Discussion

I Love Laundry Tour, Angela Castaneda and Meetups

Producer Angela Castaneda from Las Vegas has launched ilovelaundrytour.com to help coordinate meetups and logistics for the upcoming podcast tour. The site is currently seeking volunteers to assist with local event planning. The hosts express gratitude for the professional support in managing the tour's schedule.

angela castaneda· i love laundry tour· meetups· advertising agency· las vegas

1:08:12 But somebody gave you a word. Yeah, but she she sent me an email. She said Adam. This is what I do Let me produce the I love laundry tour And, you know, Tina was nice. Tina the Keeper was nice enough to help me with the schedule. I'm like, wow, is this coming from heaven or what? And she's like, are you sure? I said, absolutely. And I said, oh, please go, because we need people to coordinate meetups and all this stuff. And it's a lot to do if I'm driving and doing the show, etc. And she set up ilovelaundrytour.com. Right now it's just a sign up for producers who want to help out. And I'm very appreciative of Angela for doing that. So ilovelaundrytour.com. And this will be a site that expands as we go along.

1:08:51 This is where you say, that's cool. That's fabulous. Yeah. Devorak.org slash N A. Thank you to all of our producers, execs and associate executive producers and you must continue to propagate the formula. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Hey citizens. Shut up. Shut up. Alright, millennials. So my daughter's over and she sees that I collected all the, I got a bumper stickers, I've got some signs and some other stuff for the archives. And I have the feel the burn, because I ran into Bernie Sanders group, by the way, being the socialist that they are, when you see, they have a table over by the farmer's market in El Cerrito, California every Saturday. And they give you, you want a button, take a button. You want a bumper sticker, take a bumper sticker. Hillary's people, you need to have bumper stickers, a dollar.

CHAPTER 25 / 52 Discussion

Political Merchandise, Hillary Clinton and Obama Campaign Cash

The hosts compare the campaign tactics of Bernie Sanders, who gives away merchandise, to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who charge for bumper stickers and buttons. They question where the tens of millions of dollars in campaign donations go if not toward promotional materials. They suggest the money is largely kept by the candidates or spent on high-level media buys.

hillary clinton· barack obama· bumper stickers· campaign finance· clinton foundation

1:09:53 Buttons a dollar really charge it well that you know Obama did that to you recall that we have is charged for everything Yeah, we did buy the bumper stickers and yeah, I got a I got an Obama poster It was at the County Fair up in the Clallam County and they had this is a couple years back when Obama was running for the first time in 2008 and And they had an Obama boot there. And so I went in there and they had some, and I wanted one of the posters. They had a poster. And they wanted to charge me like five bucks for this thing, for Obama's campaign, which I'm thinking, you know, I'll just set up my own shop there and start selling bumper stickers and stuff and pocket the money. Why should I say that? Do you recall that at the time I was in, I had the condo in San Francisco and the next door neighbor was an Obama bot, the first election? I remember the Obama bot. Yeah.

1:10:40 Yeah. And I was like, and I would send her an email. You egged me on to do this. I'd send her an email. Right. I was trying to get you to go to bed with her. Yeah. All I got was a fucking bumper sticker. Thanks. Well, there was some word of the story. She left you a bunch of bumper stickers, I know that. Yeah, but the point was... What's she ain't ready for? You're gonna really... Well, there was some point where she wanted to charge me for the bumper sticker. Said, you know, I can give you one, but if you want more, you have to, you know... And then she was going to the Schuler, to the Obama boot camp. Let's hold on a second. Stop, everybody. Hold on a second. Stop the show. Show stopped. Show stopped. Hillary has collected, last time I looked, over 40 million, it's probably around 60 million now. 60 million dollars and they get, what are they doing with this money if they're not buying bumper stickers to give away? Yeah. It must be, I don't know, it must be, well they're keeping the money, obviously. This is what the Clintons do. Gives away his bumper stickers and he gives away his buttons. Well you know what that is, that's, where is it?

1:11:42 So here it is. We just need cash. I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water. Just send your cash. Send your cash to the Clintons. It'll be fine. Keep that thing closer. Yeah. That clip. So my daughter looks at this. This is what it says. Feel the burn. B-R-N. And she's just, it's all giddy. Oh, that guy's great. Really? And, oh yeah. And my son, and in fact, this one, when you came back initially, when I told you about Bernie Sanders being a phenomenon, and you were coming back from Europe, and you were like, what? And that's bull crap. The millennials love this guy. I mean, he comes out with the stuff that... Oh, yeah, they're gonna do... He's saying, I'll make your school free. Free school, and free this, and free that.

1:12:34 And it used to be free for me, so I don't see why it can't be free. But okay, I'm socialist, whatever. But they love this guy so much that they will... I think there's a reaction to Obama. The same millennials... And young voters, just you know, the slacker generation when it came to the ex-gens, that voted in Obama because they've, college people and the young folks, the young voters came out in droves in 2008 because they were suckered by the bullcrap that Obama had to say, I'll close Gitmo first thing ever, and that sort of thing. They came out- You can take that to the bank.

CHAPTER 26 / 52 Discussion

Student Debt, Organ Selling Survey and Trump Programming

A survey revealed that 30% of millennials would sell an organ to have their student debt forgiven, explaining their strong support for Bernie Sanders' free college proposal. The hosts also discuss the deep "programming" used against Donald Trump, including comparisons to Hitler and the KKK. They argue that these media narratives are designed to make voters physically nauseous at the sight of certain candidates.

student debt· organ donation· donald trump· media programming· hitler comparisons

1:13:13 Now they've gotten to the point where they're so bummed out by this guy. He's a, you know, a droner. He drones people after he's a droner. He's a droner, not a boner. Now they've been revitalized because they have been, they've been out of the picture. They have not taken part in politics. And now they see this new guy coming along, another sucker's bet. Oh, Bernie's gonna do what Obama said he was gonna do, but this guy seems more sincere, and he probably is. So they're all jacked up. I think Bernie can take it. I think Bernie can take the whole thing. Really? Yes. Well, just on the school thing, because I believe that's really where he caught a lot of fire with the millennials, there was a survey that was done and 30% of respondents, and this would be, I presume, millennials or people just getting out of college, said that they would gladly sell one of their organs if it meant their student debt was wiped away.

1:14:12 Now if you're willing to do that yeah, I think you vote for someone who says it'll be free yeah, well, I think this guy's got legs and I still don't think Trump does because we've said this because we have another man overboard. Yeah. James. Yeah, the Baroness. Who's irked at Adam for saying that he supports Trump because she apparently gets physically nauseous when she sees him. Now, that's got to be some deep, deep level programming, which is a part of the crazy images that you put in the newsletter. The programming that goes on with the public at large regarding these candidates. And we have two examples where you have Dame Maggie, who is the one that's, you know,

1:14:53 is irked about you and Trump. And then this fellow who, I can't remember his name that you just read, who's irked about, gee, this is like me, my life as a columnist in tech news. Oh, you hate Apple. You're a Microsoft student. Oh, you hate Microsoft. You're a Apple student. I mean, you can't win if you just are just critical of everything that you see out there and you try to analyze without taking sides. You know what the thing is, though? The thing that I believe Trump underestimates is, you do this enough, because first of all, he's like Hitler, KKK loves him, you know, white separatists, racists, you know, kill the Jews, kill the Mexicans, and then you have these crazy pictures of him. I believe he underestimates how deep that programming can go. It really does work at a certain point. It works.

CHAPTER 27 / 52 Discussion

Republican Primary Attacks, Carly Fiorina and Bobby Jindal

Republican candidates like Bobby Jindal and Rick Perry have resorted to personal attacks against Donald Trump, calling him a "moron" and a "demagogue." Trump has faced criticism for his comments on Carly Fiorina's appearance, though the hosts argue her "Botox head" makes her unable to communicate emotion. They conclude that the infighting makes the entire Republican party look like "douchebags."

carly fiorina· bobby jindal· mark levin· botox· squirrel on head

1:15:46 And they're using it all on him. And there was an interesting thing I heard on the radio, actually my daughter was with me when we listened to this because she was kind of baffled by this. Michael Savage was one of, not Michael Savage, but Levin. Mark Levin? Mark Levin, the great one, Mark Levin, the great one. He's a right-wing Republican talk show host. Best friends with Hannity. And he was on and he's not a Trump supporter, but he he said and he played clip after clip after clip of people just giving Trump nothing but grief. I mean, Rick Perry calling him a moron, calling him a divisive demagogue.

1:16:27 who's a Hitler type guy and he went on and and Jindal recently called it says he's got a squirrel on his head because you know Trump supposedly have no clips of this by the way saying that Carly Fiorina had a horse's face And there's no clips of this, there's some kind of taken out of context quote. Well, I have to agree whether you said it or not, Fiorina's Botox head is unusable in a presidential situation. She can't communicate a single emotion and as we know, when you can't communicate the emotion, you don't have the emotion. I mean if she said I'm really pissed off or I'm really horny you wouldn't know the difference between it. The head, the forehead, the eyebrows do not move. No, she's a Botox to the max and she can barely smile. Her smile is like, she's putting a lot of effort into getting that smile to come out and it's still kind of dead from the upper lip up. And it'll take about three months unless she likes it. She may like the look, I don't know. Some people do actually.

1:17:22 It's horrible. I guess it makes you feel dead. I have no idea. But but so there so Trump said something like this and then Jindal comes out and all these other guys instead of just ignoring it or saying, well, I'm not going to stoop to that level. They all stoop to that level. Particularly the personal attacks about appearance. Yeah, the personal attacks about appearance and the squirrel on his head is that his real hair? He's orange. He looks like a pumpkin and they go and anyway, so Mark Levin played dozens and dozens of these clips and he did go way back and there's just nothing but this sort of criticism and they he says that the media's Everybody's just ganging up on him. There's no way he can survive this out a long term. I mean, I think

1:18:03 I think what he's done though, and I think what's really being overlooked from my perspective, is what he's shown is that the entire Republican Party are all douchebags. Yeah, absolutely. They're all douchebags. When Jindal came out and went on and on about his squirrel on his head, and Jindal- Squirrel! Jindal, who's not, you know, presentable himself because he doesn't have any, apparently has no assistants that know how to powder his face because he's all greasy. So it's just like one of these guys after another, they're all douchebags and the entire party's douchebags. And that's why I think Bernie could actually come out or if Elizabeth Warren joins the ranks or even if Biden joins the ranks. I don't see how the Republicans can win.

CHAPTER 28 / 52 Discussion

Sarah Palin, MSNBC Feminist Defense and Rick Perry Exit

In a rare moment, MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry offered a defense of Sarah Palin, acknowledging that she "owned herself" despite policy differences. Meanwhile, Rick Perry became the first major candidate to drop out of the 2016 Republican race after 97 days due to a lack of funding. The hosts joke about Perry's "Adios mofo" exit and his struggle to compete with Trump.

sarah palin· melissa harris-perry· rick perry· 2016 race· high heels

1:18:52 using anybody because they're not going to let Trump in. That is not going to happen. And people who worry about Trump are just not paying attention to the reality of the way things work. Speaking of appearances, something just mind-blowing what I heard on MSNBC. Melissa Harris Perry, and she had on some former campaign manager for, what was it, Bill Bradley, I think? Crazy old bird. And when Sarah Palin was being ripped apart, I believe because she was a good looking woman, and even, it was the most anti-feminist piece of history that I can remember in the United States. And granted, she's gone pretty nutty.

1:19:32 But I was, I, you know, I defended her because it's not okay to attack, you know, especially for feminists to be attacking a woman about the way she looks. And then this comes along. We, as women running for office, were repeatedly told. This is about Hillary, obviously. You better look strong. You better look more male-like in your ability to do the job. that being a woman was not an attribute that was going to take you into the presidency. I think that's changed in the last eight years. I don't think it's... Well Sarah Palin was part of changing that. I mean, not because, again, this is that substance versus symbol piece. It's not like I am generally supportive of Sarah Palin's policies, but in terms of just being like, well I'm just gonna run this real differently in my high heels. She owned herself. She really did. And people responded to that like, oh well that looks...

1:20:25 Authentic. Yes. That to hell just froze over. They just said something nice about Sarah Palin. That was a borderline clip of the day. No, no, no, no, no, please not. Borderline clip of the day. Really? Okay. Borderline. I know it's borderline. That's as close as I can get. Ah, big news in Texas. Big news in Texas. In the meantime Rick Perry late today saying no longer in. A campaign that lasted just 97 days but look he struggled from the beginning with polling and fundraising just last month he ran out of money and stopped paying his campaign staff. That Republican field David now down to 16 people. Perry is the very first person in the race for 2016 to drop out so far. Adios mofo. Of course you already knew this we already knew he had no money since he was flying southwest with me.

1:21:20 He was gonna play with you, you know he was broke. You know he's got a real problem, but he was still smiling all the way. Now, we have something else here in Texas. He's probably a great guy to have a beer with. I've always said I want to have a beer with. Although you really slammed Trump on his extra. Talk about a sore loser. He went out with a bang by just giving it to Trump as being divisive a-hole that made him have to quit as though he had a chance. I think you could have a good time with Perry having a beer, you know, swapping dresses. Yeah, you could have a good time. Swapping dresses. And after the... Coke Brothers! We have a new duo, John. A new duo who are going to outspend the Coke Brothers. And they are, of course, from Texas. Now this is...

CHAPTER 29 / 52 Discussion

Wilkes Brothers, New Mega Donors from Texas

Brothers Ferris and Dan Wilkes of Cisco, Texas, have emerged as the top political donors of the 2016 cycle, giving $15 million to a Super PAC supporting Ted Cruz. The brothers made their fortune in the fracking industry and previously lived in a "goat shed." They join other mega-donors like the Koch brothers in promising record-breaking spending for the election.

ferris wilkes· dan wilkes· ted cruz· fracking· cisco texas

1:20:25 Authentic. Yes. That to hell just froze over. They just said something nice about Sarah Palin. That was a borderline clip of the day. No, no, no, no, no, please not. Borderline clip of the day. Really? Okay. Borderline. I know it's borderline. That's as close as I can get. Ah, big news in Texas. Big news in Texas. In the meantime Rick Perry late today saying no longer in. A campaign that lasted just 97 days but look he struggled from the beginning with polling and fundraising just last month he ran out of money and stopped paying his campaign staff. That Republican field David now down to 16 people. Perry is the very first person in the race for 2016 to drop out so far. Adios mofo. Of course you already knew this we already knew he had no money since he was flying southwest with me.

1:21:20 He was gonna play with you, you know he was broke. You know he's got a real problem, but he was still smiling all the way. Now, we have something else here in Texas. He's probably a great guy to have a beer with. I've always said I want to have a beer with. Although you really slammed Trump on his extra. Talk about a sore loser. He went out with a bang by just giving it to Trump as being divisive a-hole that made him have to quit as though he had a chance. I think you could have a good time with Perry having a beer, you know, swapping dresses. Yeah, you could have a good time. Swapping dresses. And after the... Coke Brothers! We have a new duo, John. A new duo who are going to outspend the Coke Brothers. And they are, of course, from Texas. Now this is...

1:22:04 To me it was an interesting report. It's a Reuters report. I don't know where they got this reporter. She is one of the worst I've ever seen, but the message is clear. I'm Michelle Conlon with Reuters TV and we're here outside of Cisco, Texas standing in front of the home and compound of Ferris Wilkes. Now Ferris together with his brother Dan and their wives has sort of overnight become America's number one political donor so far in the 2016 presidential race. The family members gave $15 million recently to Ted Cruz and are supporting him and his bid for the White House. Unlike other mega donors like the Koch brothers or George Soros, the Wilkes brothers have kept a low profile. People in town describe them as a local rags to riches story.

1:22:50 They grew up in a goat shed with three sisters and worked as lawyers. A goat shed? With three sisters? By the way, I always get the biggest kick out of all this low profile. That's why we're doing a national news story on them. There's something about growing up in a goat shed with three sisters that just, I don't know, visuals I did not need. Yeah, I think it's a sub clip. They grew up in a goat shed with three sisters and worked as bricklayers. But in 2001, they got into the energy business and at just the right time. Their firm served the booming fracking industry and the brothers cashed out in 2011 for nearly three and a half billion dollars.

1:23:30 But in this day and age, even the Wilkes' $15 million may not be enough to make a dent. At least two other donors have given Cruz's Super PAC a combined $21 million, and it's still early in an election, promising to set new records for campaign spending. including the Koch brothers pledge to use their network of conservative donors to pour a billion dollars into the race. Yeah, and please let us all remember that President Obama certainly spent a billion dollars in the last race. But... And Adam, where does all that money go? To Haiti.

CHAPTER 30 / 52 Discussion

Campaign Media Buys, Donald Trump and Late Night Ratings

The hosts discuss how political consultants and agencies make money through "points" on massive media buys, which can reach 15-20%. They note that Donald Trump provides massive ratings for networks, leading to a 40-fold increase in ad prices for the CNN debate. Trump's appearance on Jimmy Fallon's show resulted in the program's best ratings in 18 months.

media buy· house of cards· jimmy fallon· stephen colbert· ratings

1:24:09 It goes to media. Of course it goes. It's all media. It's all commercial airtime. I get the biggest kick out of these people that go on and on about campaign finance reform, and they never notice that they can't get traction because the media isn't going to give them any traction. Of course not. They would take money right. And you can go read Advertising Age and they'll predict how much money is going to be spent. And this is the big bonanza. They live for this. They won't. And the joke of it is They won't, these A-hole candidates won't even give you a free button or a bumper sticker for all that money. Give it to the New York Times. I was watching like the third series of House of Cards, just watched, I don't know, I dumped out of it and I went back in. I haven't seen it yet at all. Yeah, I don't like it that much, but I learned something, you know, the guy Doug who killed the prostitute, whatever.

1:24:59 He tries to become a consultant for someone's campaign and he says, I want $250,000 and three points of the media buy. Interesting, huh? So that's where these guys really make their money. They get points off of the media buy. And I'm just going to presume that's true. I actually don't see why it wouldn't be true. So that's how Karl Rove makes his money. I mean, that's how you get, that's how the agencies make their money. They get a certain percentage of the media by 15 percent standard for the buy. They get two or 3 percent. So I wonder if they're pushing it up to 20 percent, which it wouldn't surprise me because most agents and a lot of these other, you know, all these different people that handle celebrities have jacked their prices way up.

1:25:43 In the meantime, oh and of course that's why Donald Trump is continuously covered by the media is because he's ratings. Ratings equals money. You know for the CNN debate this Wednesday, now the ad buy, I think the price has gone up 40 times for zero. Yeah, it would, I don't know if it's 40 but I know it's high. I thought it was 40 times. And he talked about that on, he was on Fallon. So if Trump goes on Fallon, I'm in the networks thing for a moment. Three networks, three weeks. So he's on Fallon and he puts up with a lot. Trump let Fallon dress up as Trump and pretend to be Trump in the mirror. Always good. Self-deprecating humor. Always good. Yeah. With Trump on the other side. So there's a mirror.

1:26:33 And Jimmy Fallon's Trump playing Trump to Trump in the other side of the mirror, making it look like, and they have to copy each other's motions. It's very poorly done. Of course. Because Trump was mugging and he was like not, you know, so they're talking to each other. It's kind of a quasi interview style. And then he brings Trump out after that as a guest. So Trump really got a lot of airtime. Yeah. Like a ton. And apparently he had the best ratings for the past 18 months. That's what Trump predicted. Yeah. Trump said that on the show. He says, well, you're going to have the best ratings you've ever had on this, on what's been a miserable show, he says. But there was, there was absolutely in terms of what I learned watching this besides that Trump is, you know, nothing, I'm sure nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, not a thing. No, no, I did. But on the other hand, I saw the Biden event. I saw that that was with Colbert Colbert.

CHAPTER 31 / 52 Discussion

Stephen Colbert, Late Show and Joe Biden Interview

Stephen Colbert's new iteration of The Late Show is described as having a "pathos" similar to Jack Parr rather than Johnny Carson. His interview with Vice President Joe Biden focused heavily on personal tragedy and grieving, which the hosts found uncomfortable for a comedy program. They suggest Colbert is still struggling to find the right tone for the show.

stephen colbert· joe biden· jack parr· late show· pathos

1:27:30 And it's it is what's interesting about trying to still trying to figure out this show because Colbert comes out he prances around I think Colbert still trying to figure out the show. Yeah, I think so too. He's just seems lost But we're I've noticed this though. I've been I have watched the Snippets from every show so far and what he's good. He's really Colbert is really good at political humor and And he's really good when he had, now you said really too many times. He's really good at talking to politicians and people that are serious. Unfortunately, for the entertainment value of the show, it's like... It's not funny. It's not only not funny, but it's... And I try to realize what is he doing? I'm trying to figure out because there's something that reminded me of something. And what it reminds me of, and you have to be my age or older to appreciate this, he is more Jack Parr than Johnny Carson by a lot.

1:28:32 Jack Parr would always have all he needs to do I did the Colbert would top things off if you just get Hermione Gingold to come on the show who is that that's a very obscure callback joke Hermione Gingold the part was the guy who initiated the idea of having these regulars well he really invented the format didn't he it kind of invented well more like the David more like the David Letterman format modern format was invented by Steve Allen okay Jack Parr had his own thing and it was very serious. He was, the humor was all pathos. It was kind of down, it was like depressing. And this guy would come out and he'd have these regular guests who would then perform, do their thing and there was a number of them. Hermione Gingold, who you know, never heard of her since. He'd have Oscar Levant on all the time, the pianist. And he'd have all these regular people that would keep coming on. And it was always like a certain kind of this

1:29:27 the sincerity that Stephen Colbert went through when he was talking to Biden. I find it uncomfortable. And he was he was really saying to Biden, like, thank you for your service and your personal tragedy. And it was dead. So I had a death and you had a death. And what happens when you have a death and how do you handle it and all the rest of it? This is like advice, you know, for people who are grieving, which is fine. But this is a comedy show with Jack Parr. It was. It wasn't necessarily as depressing as Colbert, but Colbert is depressing. Yeah, yeah, he's depressing. Well, Hillary on the other hand, went on Ellen's show.

CHAPTER 32 / 52 Discussion

Hillary Clinton, Ellen DeGeneres and Email Standards

Hillary Clinton appeared on Ellen DeGeneres' show to apologize for her private email server, claiming she made a "mistake." Ellen defended Clinton, arguing that she is held to a different standard because she is a woman. The hosts point out that General David Petraeus faced criminal prosecution for similar actions, suggesting Clinton is actually benefiting from a "soft standard."

hillary clinton· ellen degeneres· david petraeus· email scandal· double standard

1:30:11 And I have a little montage. Did you see the Ellen appearance? I saw parts of it. Okay, so good. I have a montage of all the best pieces of it. And she danced. There was a moment on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me on PBS where Paula Poundstone comes on after somebody's bitching about Frank Oz, as a matter of fact, bitching about all these famous people going on these shows and dancing And like idiots, I mean, you look like a fool when you do this. And Paul Ponson says, I don't understand why all these people are coming on dancing. And these politicians come on these shows and they're dancing. He says, how is this moving the country forward? I don't know. Did you see the Ellen set with Hillary? No, I didn't. I just saw snippets of it. Oh, yeah. It was a pyramid, man. A whole Illuminati thing going on there.

1:31:04 Just one of these things, yeah, just paying attention to the details. I'll have to look at it on YouTube. Here's the montage. Let's just get this out of the way. Let's talk about the emails. Okay. Okay. What? What? Well, I want people to understand this, so I'm glad you asked. I used a personal email account. It was allowed by the State Department. I should have used two different accounts. I made a mistake and I'm sorry for all the confusion that has ensued. I take responsibility for that. I'm going to keep talking about it and answering questions. Well, I mean, I actually don't think you need to. It's just that people keep bringing it up. They have not found a thing. They keep saying they found something, but then we don't hear anything about it. So they haven't found anything. I personally believe that women are

1:31:46 I held to a different standard than men. We are held to a different standard. Isn't that great? Tell that to Petraeus. Thank you. They're held to a soft standard. Thank you. Well, you you took the punch line, but that's exactly true. General David Petraeus did pretty much exactly the same on a private email and he shared it with. I didn't even do that much. Yeah, but anyway, he was convicted. He didn't have to go to jail, but he certainly went through the whole court system and now it's like, oh, different standard. Well, yeah, I'll say. I personally believe that women are held to a different standard than men. We are held to a different standard for our weight, for our age, for our looks, for everything.

1:32:28 Which is not fair because you are the smartest, most qualified person for this job. I want someone who is uniquely qualified for this job. Qualified. And I feel like when you're talking about, if I look at all the other candidates, someone who is for rights across the board, equal rights for women, equal rights for every ethnicity, equal rights for everyone, it is the only person I can look at is you. Thank you. I want to say I am NOT a political person. I don't like politics. I don't understand politics. What I am is a human being who wants everyone to have equal rights. I want everyone to want a common goal of a better country and to not piss off any more countries. I want us all to be loved.

1:33:16 I want happiness and I want peace! Yeah, that's good. Well, Hillary is solely responsible for all the pissed off people in the past six, seven years. Come on! That's pathetic. Yeah, it's... Ellen lost... I have no respect. I just have no respect for her now. Well, you know, why should we... We shouldn't be listening to workaday comics, you know, giving us political advice. Well, that's what it seems to be. The millennials of our generation love Jon Stewart with his analysis of the news. Slanted, funny. It was mostly the Gen Xers.

CHAPTER 33 / 52 Discussion

Kanye West, 2020 Presidential Run and Chelsea Clinton

MTV and Chelsea Clinton have addressed Kanye West's announcement at the VMAs that he intends to run for president in 2020. Clinton stated that West's ambition might inspire children to consider public service. The hosts view the coverage as a distraction from more damaging emails involving the Clinton family.

kanye west· chelsea clinton· 2020 election· vmas· mtv

1:34:00 And of course Chelsea Clinton has some pretty damning emails. We talked about that to some extent on 755 and we need to make some, you know, oh man we can't have people talking about Chelsea's email to mom and dad so MTV jumped in. As you probably could have guessed by this moment I have decided in 2020 to run for president. Do you think there's any chance he's actually going to follow through with this? Well, you'd have to ask him that. But I definitely think who runs for office is really important. And even if him just saying that helps spark a little boy or a little girl who is watching the VMAs to think, oh wow, maybe I should do that. That's awesome. That's awesome. On the sense that he does run, would you support him? I think it depends on who he would be running against. OK, Kevin Smith.

1:34:51 All right Subclip those laughs yeah, I got a lot of sub clipping to do is this the second suggestion all right now We have Iran unless you want to stay on the can do I have anything that relates to any of this bullcrap I don't have anything else. I do have Iran. I do have a An entremont. An entremont, which would be something chef has prepared for us to bring you from one dish to the next. Tim Cook defines iPad. A simple multi-touch piece of glass that instantly transforms into virtually anything that you want it to be. Hail Apple! Hail Apple. Hail Apple. It apparently turns into a sex toy.

CHAPTER 34 / 52 Discussion

Triage Email App, Apple Watch Transit Features

The hosts review "Triage," an iOS app that allows users to quickly archive or delete emails using a swipe interface similar to Tinder. They also discuss Apple's addition of transit directions to the Apple Watch. They joke that if users spend all their money on Apple products, they will be forced to rely on public transportation.

triage app· email management· apple watch· ios 9· public transportation

1:35:43 That's what you want it to be if that's what you want it to be I want to thank one of our producers You know I said that I probably would have to get the the iPhone 6s because it can run iOS 9 3d touch whatever so I can manage my email and I was turned on to this app which I want to say I think is an outstanding product. It's called triage and And I'd like to see more of these or even a better one. What it does, it's not an email application, but it just talks to your email account and it brings up any new messages. And just like a Tinder app, you can flick it up to delete or archive, flick it down if you want to keep it as unread and get back to it later and it won't show up in this app. So it truly is triage and I've been using it for the past two days. It's fantastic.

1:36:29 It's really, really, I don't know if it exists for Android. Not that I know, or maybe, I don't know. I don't even know what you said. Okay. So my problem with email, which is that it's so many different moves. If I had to go in, look at what the email says, if I want to deal with it later, I have to mark it as unread, go back. You know, there's all these, if you hit delete, then it goes to the next one. It's about managing, keeping things unread so I know that I have to go back to them. And that will, with this peek and poke thing that they have on the new, with the 3D Touch, that would make it easier for me and that could save me 25-30 minutes a day easily. This triage app, all it does is let you do exactly that and it's just one action. Boom, up or down, done.

1:37:15 Does that make any sense? No. Okay. It's a great app, Triage. I can tell you this from the sounds that I heard. Listen to the clip. Do one more clip then. Okay. I thought this was very logical. This is the adding transit to maps on Apple Watch. This is the... I have a thought on this. After you play this clip, I'll tell you what it is. We're adding transit to maps, making it easier to find and use public transportation. If you're buying this crap from Apple, you're gonna need to take a lot of public transportation because you won't have a car. In the morning! Yeah, right on. So they know their market. Yeah. Iran. So what's his face? Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer came out and said, I don't want any part of this. This is no good. And he, of course, is breaking with the president, breaking with the Democrats.

CHAPTER 35 / 52 Discussion

Chuck Schumer, Iran Nuclear Deal and Israel Lobby

Senator Chuck Schumer's opposition to the Iran nuclear deal sparked a heated debate on "Morning Joe" regarding the influence of the Jewish lobby. Joe Scarborough defended Schumer's right to be concerned about Israel's safety, while others suggested his vote was purely political due to his New York constituency. The hosts discuss Israel's role as a strategic "home base" for U.S. interests in the Middle East.

chuck schumer· iran deal· joe scarborough· mika brzezinski· israel

1:38:19 And there's this conversation about this, which I love to bits because it brings out every conspiracy theory. And it's, of course, this is about Schumer being a Jew and does Israel control Congress? And it was a kind of a nice tete-a-tete back and forth between Joe Scarborough from the Morning Joe's program there, along with Mika, the the elitist daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski. And I just thought it was nice and refreshing to hear this conversation. You people kowtow to the Jew. It's always been the dog whistle from the left that if you can, that you can't, if you're Chuck Schumer, sincerely be concerned about the safety and the future existence of Israel. Yeah. That's all I

1:39:08 always been the dog whistle. Oh, you're just listening to the Jewish lobby. Why don't you just say international bankers? Why don't you guys just talk about international bankers and, you know, the protocols of Zion? It is, it is, it's... Don't you love that? The protocols of Zionism. It's been a while since I've heard that pulled out on mainstream media. It's repulsive and it's a smear and it continues. And the President of the United States only makes it worse by saying that you have to be ignorant or else in bed with Iranian radicals if you oppose my deal. Or the Jewish lobbyists paid you off and you're scared of these powerful Jews lurking behind crevices in international banks. I love how he just said this is bullshit, but you know, you gotta think.

1:39:55 It's sickening. It's sickening. And it's bigotry and it should be called out. Who dares suggest that Chuck Schumer is doing this? Oh my god, okay. That's like the fourth time. We get the point. No you don't. No you don't get the point. You're the last person on the face of the earth that appears to get the point. Are you kidding me? Go to the rally. Why didn't Why didn't you go to the rally yesterday? Because every time somebody comes... Because there are lots of reasonable people there making a lot of sense, okay? And it's not like the Republican Party has been reasonable every step of the way as this deal was being put together. I haven't said they were. In fact, they've been horrific. In fact, they've been worse. And you all are saying, oh, well let's just do it because Barack Obama likes it. No, let's scrap it.

1:40:36 it because Ted Cruz hates it and Glenn Beck. So does Chuck Schumer. So does Chuck Schumer and a lot of other people. Are you turning into a cartoon character before I've ever got to see? Chuck Schumer did what he had to do and it's perfect. See there you go. There's the cynicism I talked about. Chuck Schumer could never ever believe in his heart, according to you, that actually Israel faces an existential threat from Iran and this only makes it worse. Chuck Schumer is not holding rallies begging everybody to go along with him. He quietly went against it. Why did Chuck Schumer have to do what he had to do? Because he's a Jew? Because there are a lot of Jews in New York?

1:41:17 Why can't you just say Chuck Schumer did what he believed was right? I'm on her side. Yeah, me too. It's because he's a lot of Jews in New York and that's who votes him in. And then Morning Joe dude says, oh, that's crazy, you're a bigot. The Jewish public in Israel appears to be for this deal. In general, yes. Yeah. I don't know what... Why... I wish I could finally understand. Why is Israel so important to America? Why? I don't... What? Why is Israel so important to America, particularly in our politics? Why? Because we're the ones that... They're our home base for that area. Yeah, then why aren't we flying sorties out of Israel instead of Jordan and Qatar? So we try to sucker somebody else into letting us fly sorties. Okay.

1:42:16 I don't know, that's my take on it. Those are our guys, that's our little spot, that's our place. We can go there and put, Intel can put a research company there and they don't have to worry about it. It's fantastic. Okay. All right. Then I have one more clip. This one I thought was... By the way, I would want to say, I don't watch The Morning Joe Show ever, but these clips make me want to watch it. It is sometimes it's really entertaining. They have some crazy people on and they say funny things. And I'm becoming quite a fan of Mika. Yeah, she's great. She's getting her oats. Whatever. Representative Bill Johnson of Ohio, Republican.

CHAPTER 36 / 52 Discussion

Bill Johnson, 2030 Nuclear Holocaust Speech

Representative Bill Johnson of Ohio delivered a dramatic speech on the House floor, apologizing to the "survivors of 2030" for the Iran nuclear deal. Johnson predicted that the deal would lead to a nuclear holocaust on American and Israeli soil. The hosts mock the speech as fear-mongering and suggest the Iranian leadership is more interested in luxury than global destruction.

bill johnson· ohio· iran deal· nuclear attack· 2030

1:43:02 He had, he did something. He of course is against the Iranian deal and he and I could... By the way, and I said by the way, that's okay. I'm sus... you have to be suspicious when you see these sorts of things like this Iranian deal split right along party lines. You're telling me that with all the complexities of these treaties, of this treaty in particular, all the complexities. There's no one Republican that sees any benefit in this thing? Not one lone guy? Well, Trump does. Trump does.

1:43:41 He said he's against it. No, no, not true. Trump says it's a shitty deal, but I'll make the deal and I'll get our hostages back before I'm even inaugurated. That's Trump's position. Trump's position. It was a crappy deal. Yes. He said it was poorly done, but now it's signed. No, Trump is probably for it, but he won't come out and actually say it's not, is it probably a good thing that we're... No, we played the clip on the last show. He said it's a shitty deal, but he, He implies by saying, I'll have the hostages back, renegotiate this deal before I'm president. So he implies that he's for it. He was asked, if you were in, this is a question that's theoretical, but I'll bet you, if he was asked, if you're in

1:44:19 Congress right now and you had to vote yes or no on this deal, would you vote no with the Republicans or yes with the Democrats? And he'd say no. He would vote no. But he's going to be president, so he doesn't have to vote in Congress. Well, I'm just saying, I don't think any... The point I'm trying to make is that every single without exception Republican from Ted Cruz on are all against this thing. That makes no sense. Okay. Now... No known guy you'd think. Now we have a Republican. from Ohio and he tried to you know do a little bit and this was long like six minutes I got it down to two. They cut out all the bullcrap so but it was I thought it was very interesting as you know I'm from the future apparently so is Representative Bill Johnson from Ohio. Mr. Speaker because speeches made here on the House floor of Preserve for History I want to speak to the future

1:45:14 to present a plausible scenario and an apology. An apology to be heard by the survivors. An apology to every victim of what will forever be known as the Iranian nuclear attack. I expect it'll be after the year 2030 before anyone takes any real notice of this apology. Someone will find it while surfing what remains of the internet. By the way, that's my favorite, 2030. Maybe in Israel, Western Europe, or here in the United States. Someone surrounded by the smoking ruins of leveled buildings. The incinerated corpses of those lucky enough to have been killed in the first seconds of the blast. And the wails of anguish of those left to die and mourn. So to the people of 2030, on behalf of America, I'm truly sorry. I'm sorry we failed to stop President Obama from releasing $150 billion to fuel the destructive fantasies of terrorist leaders in Iran.

1:46:11 That lit the fuse. I'm also sad to say that the people hearing my message in 2030 will bear witness to the fact that Iranian missiles can indeed deliver nuclear holocaust to America's soil. So to our countrymen of 2030 and to our friends in Israel whose land now lies fallow and wrecked, let me now say we were wrong. We struggle to imagine what you must be going through. The death and destruction that once haunted your nightmares now plays out before you. Families and friends are either dead or lined up at makeshift morgues to claim the bodies of loved ones. Food and water are scarce or contaminated with radiation. Refugees from the blast area stagger down gridlocked highways where traffic stopped when the detonation occurred. How did the leaders of 2015 let this happen? The answer is simple and sad.

1:47:10 Because despite our best efforts, we couldn't stop the deal that funded, armed and unleashed nuclear hell from the madmen of Iran. We allowed the power and persistence of the foolish to deliver a corrupt contract with a nation of terror. And in 2030, the day of reckoning arrived. And for that, I'm truly very, very sorry. May God have mercy. On assault. We're all gonna die! Is this guy nuts? He's from the future. Where is he from again? Ohio. He's from the future. Hey, Ohio! Yes, Ohio. Vote that guy out! Vote that guy out, he's a moron! Isn't that fantastic though? Who does he think he's impressing with this nonsense? Well, he wants to be on the record. Wants to be on the record.

1:48:12 Yeah, he's on the record of idiots. Somebody will dig that. He's right. They'll dig it up around 2040 and they say, hey, check this out with this guy said this douche. Meanwhile, the mullahs will be in Iran driving around big black Cadillacs because that's what they really want anyway. Those guys are living the life, you know, there was a thing down on 60 Minutes sometime ago. They have golden toilets. About the great mullahs. Yeah, they're living it up in these mansions. This actually pisses off the public. These guys don't want to get bombed out. They're not, and some, listen to these right-wing talk show guys that think that these guys are insane and they want to blow up the world so they can become, you know, have their 72 virgins. Not the dumb fucks that go in there and bomb, blow themselves up. Jeez.

CHAPTER 37 / 52 Discussion

Podcast Upfronts, Listener Demographics and Advertising

The advertising industry held a "podcast upfront" to present listener data to brands, claiming the median age of listeners is 30. The study suggested that "night" is prime time for podcasts and that most listening happens at home. The hosts dispute these findings, arguing that commuters remain the primary audience for the medium.

podcast upfront· westwood one· demographics· advertising· prime time

1:49:01 Let's see, um, shifting gears for a second. There was a big, uh, they did something new in New York, uh, a podcast upfront. And you hear about this? Rings a bell, but I don't know what you said. What the television networks do is they have an upfront and they show all their hot new series that are coming and advertisers can buy in early. So I think Westwood one, you have podcast one, they set up an upfront and it's called, they're still doing that. Well, they did it for the podcast. I don't think they've ever done it for podcasting. I know. I think, I mean, they're still doing the podcast. One still is there. Oh, yeah. And they had a survey, State of American Podcasting. And this is why I despise the advertising model. Well, not one of the reasons, but they have in this study says, oh, podcast listeners median age is 30.

1:49:55 Which we know to be bullcrap. Just look at our show. I mean, it's all over the map. It spans the gamut. If there's any media in anything, I would suggest that there are an inordinate number in terms of percentage of Mac users. Certainly iPhone users. That we can see. I mean the same thing. So now listen, listen you podcast listener, here's who you are according to the commercial industry. You're employed. educated, and have more kids in the household compared to the total US sample. In fact, 61% of podcast listeners work part or full-time. 55% have some college education. Half of total time spent listening to podcasts occurs on mobile phones, followed by one-third on computers. Now here's the thing that I don't understand why they're saying this. The breakdown of listening as follows. 29% listen from 7 p.m. to midnight.

1:50:56 29% from 10am to 3pm and 20% from 3pm to 7pm and only 17% from 6am to 10am. Our traditional view of prime time and radio is drive time or morning and afternoon. What's really interesting, according to the Westwood One, is that night is prime time for podcast listeners. Most listening is done at home. I don't believe that. I think that's patently wrong. I think it's commuters, people who are on the move, who have longer commutes, they're the ones listening. I think commuters do play a major role in podcast listening, not just our show, but I think most of them, especially the guys who know how to actually load the podcasts up. Well, there's that, yeah. When they're streaming over the air podcast, listening where you can push a button on your car thing and you get a podcast.

1:51:51 I think that'll change. Yeah, well, that's a waste. That's years away. Not maybe not. Well, I'm just saying anyway, everyone people forever to adopt any new technology. Just the first adopters. Yeah, they're all in and then this thing takes forever to take off. So the good news is we didn't have to sell you listeners, producers as we call you. We didn't have to sell you out. We didn't have to go and lie about who you are or make you sound like you're some piece of meat. And we don't have to, well, look at this, we had a whole bunch of Jew talk. Do you think that would have happened on the podcast one, John? Do you think that would have been okay? No, they'd be fired. I'm going to show my support by donating to KnowAgenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. Start off by thanking a few people, including Jennifer Loveberg in San Marcos, California. Came in at $133.33, but I do have to read their note.

CHAPTER 38 / 52 Discussion

Global Donor Roll, Netherlands and Canada Contributions

Donors from around the world are recognized, including Mike Beijerbacht from the Netherlands and "Olong Johnson" from White Court, Alberta. A listener from San Marcos shared an award-winning squirrel recipe. Several donors joined the "Mile High Club" with contributions of $52.80, celebrating the Boeing 767 aircraft.

hoofddorp· white court· alberta· squirrel recipes· mile high club

1:52:50 She says, the cousin of my good friend just won a national contest for best squirrel recipe. If interested, you can look up Dorothy Hall and see her award-winning squirrel recipes. Excellent. Okay. She also wants, can you find this some day for the, maybe the end of the show, the sheep and pigs, oh, that's our regular thing, yeah. I got that, I got that, I got that. Mike Beijerbacht. Beijerbacht. Beijerbacht in Hoofddorp. Hoofddorp. Hoofddorp. Hoofddorp. Hoofddorp. Close enough. In the Netherlands, $101. What are you laughing about? I didn't, just,

1:53:38 Oh, the next guy to ever notice this. Olong Johnson. White Court. This is the D's nuts guy. Come on. You can't fool me. Olong Johnson. Olong Johnson. Anyone coming in from White Court, Alberta, I realize is D's nuts. But now he's Olong Johnson. Okay. I am assuming this is a male. $100.00 White Court. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Just don't go to Ray J. Sir Skits in Phoenix, Arizona. $100.00. Didn't we have an email from Sir Skits or something we had to do? It just says here, I be Sir Skits.

1:54:20 Pedro Villafane, Villafane, Villafane, I don't know why I can't pronounce his name. He's in Sepulpa, Oklahoma, $100. We have $300 of donors, that's great. Carlos Sanchez, 7777 in Chicago, Illinois. Sir Brian, the Green of Hams, 7373. Peter Tangney in Randolph, Massachusetts. Did Sir Brian Green of Ham send a check or a note because it's gray? He sent a check. He did put his call letters in there, which I put in there as a note, but Eric apparently didn't feel like writing it. Well, 7-3's from Kilo Fox 5 Sugar Lemur November. Ditto. You're gonna get so busted. Peter Tangney in Randolph, Massachusetts. That's 6666.

1:55:11 Vale Peely in Boulder, Colorado. He has a pronunciation guide for us. 5999. Vali Pachno Peely. Requesting a 31st birthday shout out. We got him on the list. I don't see anything here. My name is pronounced Vali Fackno Peely. I'm half Samoan, half American. Oh. Requesting a 31st birthday shout out. Yep, we'll do that. Peely. Peely. Vali Peely. Vali Peely. Sean Ray Golan, Greg allowed Sean Regalado in Saranac Lake in New York. 5510 Edward Hartwich in Bergen's Hook. There's no Bergen. I don't see a Bergen. Bergen's. Oh, I'm sorry. Bergen's Hook. You're right. Yeah, that's what I said. Bergen's Hook. Bergen's Hook. Pretty good.

1:56:12 My last donation was just way too long. Well, donating is fun, especially when John is trying to say, Bergschnuk. Thanks for the hours of entertainment. Okay, whatever works. James Moore in San Pablo, California, 5280. Let me take a look over the... Oh, mudflats are wet today. This is Mile High Club. And it's Mile High Club. Is the website up? The Mile High website? I've got the... I finally got the database. Tim Conner... It's a database-driven website? Really? Did you employ some skip logic in that, John? Skip logic in that, and we're not talking COBOL. Okay. Tim Conner in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 5280, another Mile High Club. Craig. And we have... We might as well reintroduce the Mile High Club for show 767, which is next week. That's to celebrate one of the most popular jets ever made, the 767 from Boeing Corporation

1:57:02 Seattle, Washington. Actually, they're out of Chicago now. Craig Fryzik in Loveland, Colorado. I'm interested to hear how John pronounces my last name Fryzik. It's pronounced Free-zack. There you go. Okay. Well, you know, Fryzik. I can remember that. And now these are $50 donors. We've dropped off rather quickly on today's show. It's still that. You know, so what happens? We normally get a bunch of checks in the mail, like a few piles of them, like 50 checks. Most of them are five bucks or something, $3 checks. Highly appreciated. But there's a lot of checks and some of them are bigger and some of them are smaller, but there's always a batch. Two. That's because everybody took their week off. The banks took the week off, the post office took the week off. Oh, nothing moved. Yeah, of course. You're going to have an influx, hopefully.

1:57:55 Brandon Savoy, Parts Unknown, $50. Always there. Brandon is such a huge supporter. Always supporting him. Sir Brandon. Sir Mike Westerfield, $50. Sir Dame Patricia Worthington in Miami, Florida, $50. Derek Neese in Alpharetta, Georgia, $50. Yakub Wojciak in North Vancouver, BC, $50. Jason Brockman in Hamilton, Ohio. Richard Gardner, Parts Unknown, $50. Jason D'Alusio, one of the checks that came in from Chatsford, Pennsylvania. Actually, that check came in the week before, so that wasn't one of the two checks, and that's all we got. Oh. Yeah, it ends. Hmm. Okay.

CHAPTER 39 / 52 Discussion

Value-for-Value Model, iPhone Layaway and Tour Names

The hosts discuss the "value-for-value" model, comparing the cost of supporting the show to Apple's new iPhone upgrade program. They encourage listeners to be active producers rather than passive consumers. Adam Curry mentions his upcoming tour in an Airstream, which has been nicknamed "The Flying Burrito," though he is seeking a more "sexy" name.

value-for-value· subscriptions· apple upgrade· airstream· flying burrito

1:58:37 Well, I'm always, and I think you did allude to this, I'm always happy to see the subscriptions coming in. People are on monthly subscriptions, weekly, sometimes even by show. These are 33.33, 11.11, 12.12. Just consider what you're spending on different...was it Jason Kalacanis was doing an analysis of the cost of the iPhone layaway plan or whatever that Apple has now where you spend X amount per month and And you can always upgrade to the newest iPhone. Yeah, 30 by 30, like $32 a month. You can always have a new iPhone. There you go. Which turns out is less than having a latte at Starbucks every day. Now there's some choices you can make in life. You know, do you need the new iPhone? Are you tech horny? Hail Apple. Or do you want to support the best podcast in the universe?

1:59:26 We had a note from somebody giving us a suggestion, I'm gonna go see if I can find it, or I'll do it in the next show, where the guy complains about these people who just listen and listen and listen and never contribute because they don't care, or they can't make the mental jump, they don't have the acuity to say to themselves, there's no advertising on this show, somebody's gotta support the show. And they're asking me to support it directly. Well, I always consume the show, but I'm not gonna support it. What's the point? And like the other guy said, the student said, you know, it feels good to support the show. You're part of the family. Yes. Community, family, community. It's a community. It is. And we have such a community of talented people. And I think you learn something. Be part of it. Don't just be a passive observer. Yeah. And we're going to have some cool meetups coming up. Actually, I'm leaving on Friday, John. It's all of a sudden the tour is here. I'm going to go. You're leaving on a jet plane? No, I'm leaving on the Airstream. Huh.

2:00:23 Yeah, still looking for a different name than the flying burrito. This thing is sticking. The flying burrito I like, but I can understand your reluctance. Well, it's not very sexy. Yeah, she says. Are you racist? Even though it was Tina the Keeper who came up with it. Hmm. Maybe there's an agenda there. Well, the flying burrito would be great, but you could come up with something else. How about changing it every once in a while? That way you can be incognito. Can we have this person removed, please? Bomb them! Keep bombing them!

CHAPTER 40 / 52 Discussion

Birthday Celebrations, Knighting of Sir Mike of Wakefield

The hosts conduct a knighting ceremony for Sir Mike of Wakefield, bestowing upon him the traditional list of "Hookers and Blow" and other amenities. They celebrate birthdays for Vali Pili and Steven Yarish. A clarification is provided for the acronym "TPG," which stands for Test Pattern Generator.

mike yarish· wakefield· knighting· test pattern generator· birthday

2:01:03 That guy's good. I like his pipes. That's good. No, no, no, no, no, no. I love laundry! I love laundry! I love laundry! A couple of make-goods that we missed. For Sir Daniel of the High Desert, he wanted a douchebag call-out to Chris Frohn. DOUCHEBAG! Who hit him in the mouth almost 10 years ago and is still not a knight. I don't know if he's a donor, but apparently not a knight. And Scott Litter... Lit... Littler. Please karma for my daughter Elizabeth, my friend Natalie, and for all the TPGs everywhere.

2:01:57 I'm not quite sure what the TPGs are. I don't know. There's a little asterisk, but I don't know what it is. Well, let me look it up. TPGs. Okay, so we have, you know, I'm gonna give a little dedouching that was requested earlier and some Jobs karma. We'll get into our birthdays. Here's a dedouching. You've been dedouche-ed. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs! You've got karma. It's your birthday, yeah! What happened there? Hey, this is really strange. Somehow they switched places. Now you know how I do it. I have a bed and I have an ender. For some reason they switched places on the board. Here we go.

2:02:41 It's your birthday, birthday! That was weird. On Noah's channel! Okay, Vali Pili celebrates on the 14th. Nicaragre says happy birthday to her husband, Steven, also celebrating on the 14th. And Steven Yarish turns 43 today. Happy birthday from the best podcast universe right here, The Noah Gentle Show! It's your birthday, yeah! See, now you know how I do it. Okay, we have one nighting to do. I've bought my sword. Are you still looking for that thing? Or you got your sword? Are you around? I got the sword. Okay, good. There we go. All right, Steven Yarsh, come on Very happy to pronounce the KD and Knight of the Noh agenda roundtable with the Dames and the Knights. And here we go. Your official name will be Sir Mike of Wakefield. For you, my friend, we have the ever-present Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, Black Hose and MD 2020, Progressive Rock and Russian Imperial Stout, Malted Barley and Hops, Root Beer and Legos, Porn Stars and Pot, Cannabis and Cabernet, Librarians and Jager Bombs, Opium and Warm Orange Juice, Bong Hits and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider and Escorts, and of course,

2:03:43 MUTTON & MEAD and you should head on over to noagenda.com. I like that you put the ring pictures in the newsletter, John. That was kind of cool. Yeah! I like that. That's nice. We always retweet them if you have a picture. Just take a picture of your ring and your certificate when it comes in and tweet that. We're very happy to retweet. Yes. Okay, now... We generally do that. Now let me hold on a second. Let me see if I can find this. TPG means test pattern generator. It actually means a bunch of things, but there's nothing interesting in the list. I'm sure that's exactly what he meant. Attention all human resources. Now entering second half of show. Second half of show, John. I have done some production work for y'all.

CHAPTER 41 / 52 Discussion

September 23rd Prophecies, Asteroids and the Pope

Various internet theories and YouTube experts predict a major global event on September 23, 2015. Claims include a potential asteroid strike, a false flag nuclear event, and the Pope announcing a new world order at the United Nations. Evangelist Robert Breaker and others suggest this date could mark the "end of days" or the beginning of the rapture.

september 23· asteroid· pope francis· united nations· rapture

2:04:38 Okay. Now this September, actually starting today, the 13th, very, very special month. We have a lot of interesting things happening. The next six months are supposed to be astrologically important. We have a partial eclipse, lunar eclipse, then we have a full lunar eclipse at the end of the month. And I've just been inundated with facts, all from YouTube, of course. This is actually, I'm surprised you didn't send me these clips. This is kind of, this is what you always send me and I wound up watching hours of stuff about how we are all going to die in the month of September. Ah! And the date... It's a good month to die. It's a great month to die. September 23rd appears to be a very, very important date so I pulled out a couple of experts on the topic from YouTube. What will be happening on September 23rd? This is a down and dirty. This is the asteroid kill zone. We've all been hearing about the asteroid strike.

2:05:30 Yeah, yeah. The Department of Homeland Security and Pastor Lindsey Williams have leaked to us. It's supposed to hit on the 23rd or the 24th of September, followed by the Pope speaking in New York at the United Nations telling us to accept the chip because the world has been destroyed. Yay! This is all pre-planned. We could stop it. We have the SR-71. I worked with a man who was the chief engineer on this, and in 1970 when we developed it, it flew around the moon. We could go out there. It was originally developed to carry four nuclear cruise missiles. This can go out there and destroy that asteroid. If they wanted to destroy it, they would. It's not going to be an asteroid. It's got to be a nuke. And how many other nukes have we stopped? Like the 25th of May, the one in D.C., two blocks from the White House. This guy's pretty good. He says, you know, it'll be the asteroid kill zone. It'll appear to be an asteroid. The pope will be in New York to say, oh, we must accept our new future, the new norm.

2:06:25 but he says it's going to be a false flag. Didn't he say that we're all gonna be chipped? Yes, of course we'll all be chipped. Yeah, so we know this is coming. Thank you. Who is this maniac? It's in the show notes. Now we have evangelist Robert Breaker with his own take. But for the last year, maybe a little longer, a lot of people all over the internet, all over churches, all over the world, have been talking about this one day in history, September 23rd, 2015. And they have all sorts of theories about what's going to happen on that day, but for some reason they all talk about September of 2015 and all the things. You can actually go to the internet now. I think the last time I saw there was an article about 33 things that will happen in September of 2015.

2:07:12 And many people are saying this is the end of days, this is the end. This is the time when the rapture will take place and this time of Jacob's trouble will happen. Is that going to happen? Maybe the calendar is wrong a year or two and maybe it's on down the line. But as a Christian myself, I do believe that Jesus is coming and something big is coming to this world. Something's going to happen that will change everything. I come across people all the time that aren't even Christians and they say, I just feel it in my being that something big's about to happen and it's scary and I don't know what it is. Okay. So we don't know what it is, but there's something happened, could be wrong, the calendar could be wrong. However, CERN, this is the big Hadron Collider. By the way,

CHAPTER 42 / 52 Discussion

CERN Experiments, Dark Matter and Google Maps Glitch

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is scheduled for new experiments in late 2015 that some fear could create a black hole or open other dimensions. A recent Google Maps glitch showing Malibu underwater is jokingly cited as a "dry run" for a future coastal disaster. Scientists at CERN suggest 2015 may provide the answer to the nature of dark matter.

cern· large hadron collider· dark matter· google maps· malibu

2:07:55 I'm just from a technical perspective with these study religion, religious guys and preachers and evangelicals. Does this pitch that this guy has about the world coming to an end on the 23rd or whatever, does this get them more donations? I don't know. I would think not. No. Or maybe people just... You're not going to get any money. Just give you everything because it won't matter. Just give me all your money. It won't matter. Now, there is another theory out there. All these rabbit holes that went down for you last night with alcohol and marijuana. You needed lots of both. CERN will be conducting a new experiment. This is the Large Hadron Collider. Right, this is going to create the black hole. The dark matter. And we have proof that CERN knows something's going to happen.

2:08:47 This is Dr. Tara Shears speaking at a TEDx forum recently. Actually, I think it was in 2014. Anyone can speak at TEDx, by the way. Yeah. And she slipped up. You see, she says it's going to happen in 2015, but then she catches herself and says, uh, it may provide the answer. She says 2016. 15. No, she says 15. Play it again. Ugh. Okay. She said 2015. Well, roll it back a little for you. Questions. What is dark matter, for instance? And although we haven't seen any evidence of what it might be yet, 2015 is the... may provide the answer. Aha!

2:09:57 She knows something we don't know okay, so she made a small flub and you've extrapolated from that fine go on continue with this this thesis well I think dark matters one thing but a asteroid hitting the west coast which I believe they've already planned for mm-hmm I don't know where they say the asteroids gonna hit but but I think they did a dry run because I have a clip oh Are you interjecting in my theories? Yes. Let's go. I have a clip. The clip is Google Maps. Okay. A glitch in Google Maps drastically changed the look of the Southern California coastline today. Users saw streets and highways underwater. In Malibu, you can see the Pacific Coast Highway waterlogged. The Mountain View Company says it wasn't a political statement about rising sea levels. Google says there was a technical problem with its mapping system and it is now fixed. Yeah, oops. We copied that into the archive a little too early.

CHAPTER 43 / 52 Discussion

Isaac Newton, Shemitah Cycles and Climate Chaos

The date September 23, 2015, coincides with the Day of Atonement and aligns with prophetic calculations attributed to Sir Isaac Newton regarding the recapture of Jerusalem. Additionally, a 2014 statement by the French Foreign Minister about having "500 days to avoid climate chaos" points exactly to this date. Theories suggest a comet or asteroid could hit near Venezuela, creating an extinction-level event.

isaac newsom· shemitah· 500 days· john kerry· day of atonement

2:10:57 Yeah, you're right. All right, continue with the elites clearly know and we all know that this goes back to the elites always always know this goes back to Sir Isaac Newton Isaac Newton puts the first seven in the future after the second rebuilding of Jerusalem Jerusalem was reclaimed by Israel during the Six Days War in June of 1967. Recall that in the 70 weeks paradigm, the 7 is 7 weeks of years, which is 7 times 7 or 49 years. T.W. Tramm explains a remarkable concurrence.

2:11:36 June 7, 1967 falls in the Hebrew year 5727. Adding 49 prophetic years to this date, we arrive in the Hebrew year 5776, which is 2015 on the Gregorian calendar. Interestingly, if one counts exactly 49, 360 day prophetic years or 17,640 days from the June 7th 1967 date of Jerusalem's recapture We arrive at September 23rd, 2015, the Day of Atonement. Coincidence? Coincidence? This is like a magic act. It's not over. Number three on this piece of paper. Oh, it's going to get better. Wait for this. This is my favorite. Now we played this clip and we didn't do the math. I wish I had. This is when the French foreign minister was doing a little stand up session with Carrie Watermelon head.

2:12:35 about the climate chaos. When the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Secretary of State John Kerry made this vague announcement. We have 500 days to avoid the climate chaos. It will be September 23rd. The events leading up to, on, and nearly following the date of September 23rd, 2015 are numerous. We are simply taking a look at what is being said. A comet or an asteroid is said to be approaching Earth that will hit the coast of Venezuela and Brazil and create an extinction-level event. Of course, NASA is denying it. What? And a flood on the West Coast. But why would they tell us anything? They're funded by our government. The update and the ramping up of the 666 logoed CERN Large Hadron Collider

2:13:26 and the possible universe-destroying opening of other dimensions within our own dimension or access to a gate that has been closed. Ah, yeah, the Stargate will be opening. But I like that the French Foreign Minister on the day he said that, if you count 500 days later, it's September 23rd. Nice. That's a good one. Now, final one. This, I think... We have a show on the 24th. Should we cancel it? Take off, man. Who gives a crap? I'll be in the Airstream, floating. from the... Well, you'll be... If you're in the Rockies, you're in good shape. I'll be okay. Have you ever heard of the Shemitah seven-year cycle? No. You're a cycle guy. I can't believe it. I am. I'm a cycle guy. So disappointing. Well, Jeff Berwick, do you remember this guy, Jeff Berwick? I do. The name rings a bell. He is the dollar vigilante.

CHAPTER 44 / 52 Discussion

Jeff Berwick, Shemitah Seven-Year Financial Cycle

Financial analyst Jeff Berwick highlights the "Shemitah," a seven-year Sabbath cycle in the Torah that has historically coincided with major market collapses. The end of the Shemitah in 2001 saw the 9-11 market crash, and the 2008 cycle ended with a record 777-point Dow drop. Berwick warns that the current Shemitah year ends on September 15, 2015, potentially signaling a new financial crisis.

jeff berwick· shemitah· market crash· 2008 crisis· torah

2:14:16 He is the guy that has made a career out of selling financial analysis because he, I guess, he invested wisely in the dot-com bubble and he also predicted Bitcoin would be the way to go. And he's back now, selling new research. But he talks about the Shemitah seven-year cycle, which is a real thing. The Shemitah is the Sabbath year and it's the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah for the land of Israel. And it's still observed in contemporary Judaism. To put it simply, every seven years is a Shemitah year.

2:14:55 Because it is based on the Hebrew calendar, it doesn't fall on the same dates every year as our Western calendar, but it does follow quite closely. The Shemitah is also known as a time where all debts are settled, every seven years. It also can be interpreted as the washing away of things. Yeah, like the West Coast. But what caught my attention was that the last day of the Shemitah, for the last two Shemitahs in 2001 and 2008, fell on days with a major market collapse. The last day of Shemitah in 2001 fell on September 17th, and that was the first day the US stock markets opened after 9-11. That day had the greatest one-day stock market point crash in US history up to that time.

2:15:37 The Dow fell almost 700 points or 7% and it was a record that held for precisely seven years until the end of the next Shemitah year. That year was 2008. On September 29th, 2008, the exact final day of the Shemitah, the Dow plummeted 777 points. You may be noticing quite a few sevens in all of this. As well on that day, it was the only known day on the New York Stock Exchange where the opening bell wouldn't ring. You're watching San Francisco on the street where the opening bell should have rung five seconds ago. But has not. There is a little bit of a consternation down here about there being no bell. I then decided to go back to Shemitah years since 1900. Now, John, you are a cycle expert. I'm surprised you've not heard of the Shemitah seven-year cycle. Now, I should mention that the 700 point drop is not the most or the most percentage-wise or anything in between. Right. We just had a thousand point drop the other day. Yeah. Well, this was probably created before that.

2:16:39 I could go on, but I think Black Monday or Friday, whatever it was in 1987 was a bigger drop than that. But anyway, go on. Well, so the, I mean, I could go on. He has lots of proof of the Shemitah, and he says it will be... He's got the thing down. It will be September. There's a lot of these cycles, by the way. September 15th, he says, when the Shemitah year ends and it all starts. So it's this coming week. This is a great time to be alive. On the six-week cycle, that's dynamite. Now entering second half of show. Leaving, leaving second half of show. There you go. Alright. For people who complain we don't have any second half of show, I've given you the facts. Do your own research. And remember, buy some seeds. Seeds. Seeds. You might need them. And this ends with what's interesting is a chat room's like, these guys are talking about this but they won't talk about Zionism. Yeah man, the Jews rule it all, man. That's right.

CHAPTER 45 / 52 Discussion

Welsh Town Name, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll Weatherman Viral Clip

UK Channel 4 weatherman Liam Dutton went viral for flawlessly pronouncing the 58-letter name of a Welsh town during a broadcast. The town, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllantysiliogogogoch, saw temperatures reach 21 Celsius. The hosts play the clip and marvel at the linguistic feat, which they describe as the "supercalifragilistic" of town names.

llanfairpwllgwyngyll· wales· liam dutton· channel 4· tongue twister

2:17:34 Uh, righty. Okay, so let's make another break to discuss something else. Okay. Another break of what? Uh, let's see. Another entremont. Oh, an entremont. Okay, what you got? Uh, well, there's the town named clip, which I think is good. I also have a shortened clip. Have you heard of this town in Wales? This is a big story, big network story. This is on NBC network news. Long Welsh town name story. Okay, I've not heard of this. And the tongue twister that's gone viral. A weatherman from the UK's Channel 4 whose forecast includes a tiny town with a name long enough to break a teleprompter. At 58 letters it is the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious of town names. And yet Liam Dutton rattles it off flawlessly.

2:18:20 But in the sunshine in northwest Wales at RAF Mona, just up the road from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllantysiliogogogogor, the temperature got to 21 Celsius. I know that went by quickly, but the name of the town once again was... No, no, no, I'm not going to do that. When we come back... Ah, what a pussy. Yeah, well he couldn't do it. What a pussy. I have a shortened clip I wanted you to play at the end of the show so you can just have the town name. It's a very nice little town. Oh yeah, I see shortened clip. Okay, hold on, let me put that in the right bin. I have an entremont. This is something that now we know, we played on, I think two shows ago, vaping. Kids are vaping and it's all about drugs and it's drug paraphernalia. We have to outlaw, you can't have vapes, you can't do this. We get a lot of emails from vapers bitching about the fact that we don't know what we're talking about. I know a little bit now. I'm vaping, I've done some research.

CHAPTER 46 / 52 Discussion

Vaping Explosion, Mechanical Mod Safety Propaganda

A news report about a 23-year-old man suffering severe facial injuries from an exploding e-cigarette is criticized as "total propaganda." The hosts explain that the device was a "mechanical mod" without safety circuits, which shorted out due to user error. They argue the media is conflating specialized hobbyist equipment with standard vaping products to protect big tobacco interests.

vaping· e-cigarette· mechanical mod· lithium-ion battery· propaganda

2:19:15 This story though was very anti-vape, so I'm going to say this is... Well, what happened to the kid is probably not planted. I think I know exactly what happened to him. But the ways being spun is not honest. Surprise, surprise. But it is obviously probably big tobacco or somebody who just wants to get rid of all vaping because you know kids aren't on the cancer sticks anymore. James Loria is hoping what happened to him a few weeks ago acts as a warning to others. The 23 year old grew up in Cobb County and now lives in Destin. That's where the unthinkable happens. the fire department. He was in the hospital for a week. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He was taken to the hospital. He

2:20:15 blowing up in his face. Injuries that include burns to his hand, a fractured finger, a fractured neck and burns to his cornea. The force of the explosion blew a hole through his palate and at the same time flamed down burns, first-degree burns on his chest and up on his face. It forced his front tooth up into his gum out of sight and chipped the other one and damaged a few other lower teeth. And so with a long road of recovery still ahead, this family wants to warn others. If us getting the word out prevents this from happening to even one person, I'd say that we've done a good thing and almost feel like it's a responsibility at this point. All right. So first of all... This is the worst story ever. Yeah, this is not an e-cigarette. This is not... They show a picture of the blowed up device. What this kid was doing, and you've made note of this, he was using a mechanical mod.

2:21:06 Now, a mechanical mod is not one of your typical vape devices. It is a completely basic... that's why they call it mechanical. It has a lithium-ion battery in a tube and it just basically short-circuits it and sub-ohming. So he was at, you know, 0.5 ohm. So this thing burns real hot. But what can happen is And in fact, I found the story about what really happened to him. The wire dropped down onto the battery pins because there's no safety in this. It looks really cool and it's what modders do because you get a big amount of vape out of it. But then when he let go of the button, the battery shorted and then everything so hot it blew up in his face. And a lithium-ion battery, when that blows, yeah, you're going to blow up your face.

2:21:48 That's what enough of a bomb yeah, so mechanical mods are not for the but you know no mention of it They just called an e-cigarette Total Charlie an e-cigarette total propaganda. That was a total propaganda piece. Yeah, that's a clip of the day Wow I didn't expect that yeah, I think it is because it's important that lies lies lies It's in fact I'd even removed my clip of the day clip so that I didn't think I was gonna get anything I know I know I know I know here I go Thank you, thank you. Thank you. Well. I have us a couple of things now. I got an entremont Hey, you can't have on trauma between on trauma. I mean yeah, that's I guess you could wine over on to monotonizing stove burned out And they got to keep you serving you these little meals

CHAPTER 47 / 52 Discussion

Quantico TV Show, FBI Recruitment and Best Bodies

A trailer for the new ABC show "Quantico" is mocked for its corny depiction of the FBI. The advertisement claims the bureau recruits the "best minds" and "best bodies" to protect the "best secrets." The hosts joke about the show's focus on attractive models rather than realistic law enforcement personnel.

quantico· abc· fbi· priyanka chopra· recruitment

2:22:38 New show coming out, I think it's on CBS, could be on NBC, I gotta look it up. But here's the corniest trailer or promotion for a new show. The show's called Quantico and it's going to extol the virtues of the FBI. Oh, of course. And you have to listen to this ad because I always wondered how the FBI hired, thinking maybe I can go to work for the FBI, but I don't think so. Oh, beautiful space. The FBI only recruits the best. The best minds. The best bodies. All protecting our nation's best secrets. But not even the best could prevent this from happening. Priyanka Chopra stars.

2:23:28 That will never air we'll all be dead Chaka Kobra stars and they recruit the best bodies. They got some buff guy walking around I didn't never notice the FBI guys are all a bunch of buff does like gay models But that's what they said and they also recruit the bet they recruit the best minds the best bodies and So they can keep track of the best secrets. Because I didn't know this, but there's best secrets. Hot bodies. I can't wait for this one. That'll be good. At the television event of the fall of 2015. Yeah, it's the ABC that figures. I was surprised to see a CNN piece about the 97% of all scientists number.

CHAPTER 48 / 52 Discussion

Climate Change Consensus, 97 Percent Statistic Breakdown

CNN meteorologist Chad Myers addressed the "97% consensus" on climate change, clarifying that the number only applies to a specific subset of climate scientists who authored papers on the subject. The original 2013 study by John Cook found that two-thirds of 12,000 studies took no position at all. The hosts argue the statistic is used to program the public through misleading analogies about rain and umbrellas.

climate change· 97 percent· scientific consensus· john cook· cnn

2:24:21 Oh, they broke it down accurately the way you did? Pretty good actually. I mean they gloss over things but... This question comes from Mark in Raleigh, North Carolina and it's on the 97% scientific consensus on climate change. Listen. Hello, CNN. I'm Mark from Raleigh, North Carolina. Could somebody please explain to me this 97% of climate scientist statistic that I keep hearing about? Does that exclude non-climate scientists? Is it reasonable to say that of course when someone dedicates their career to climate science that they would have a bias? Well for the answer to that question we turn to meteorologist Chad Myers. Hey Chad! Hello, that's the first time I actually heard the question in its entirety so that is an excellent question. The answer to his middle question, does that exclude other scientists and the answer is absolutely yes.

2:25:15 If you take all the scientists together and ask them questions, PhDs or master or higher, we get something around 80%. But that includes anthropologists and volcanologists. So if you just take a look at climate scientists and the climate scientists that write papers That's how you get to 97%. That was 2009. But I even have a more recent example of 97. And I guess the question here, Hala, if I tell you there's a 97% chance of rain. Okay, so he kind of went past it. He said, well, it was really only 97% of a percentage of the scientists that were valid who wrote papers about it and really mentioned anything at all. So that's good. But what he does immediately is he goes into the 97% number to

2:26:00 Give you the facts, but then use those facts to program you into a certain type of thinking. I tell you there's a 97% chance of rain. Are you gonna take an umbrella? Your answer is yes. And I live in London, so I take an umbrella no matter what. If I ask you, I tell you there's a 90% chance of rain, are you going to take an umbrella? Yes, you would still. So I don't really want to start splitting hairs here, 96, 97, 95. The big important number here is how did we get to something like this? How did we get above 90%? How did we get above 95% consensus when it comes to climate scientists? So here, we're going to back you up to 2013 Australia.

2:26:39 A scientist, John Cook, went up there and said, I'm going to look at 12,000 studies and see what those studies say. Well, about two-thirds didn't say anything, didn't come to a conclusion. One-third did come to some conclusion, and 97% of that one-third said man is more than likely the cause of global warming. So that's pretty much what we said. It's a small- I think this is couched. Yeah, of course, and he goes back and very awkward way that was confusing. Well, of course, it's confusing. It's not meant to be understandable. I am not happy with this. I know you're not. Well, let's finish it off because he goes back and does it again. So only 3% had another view. And then the other 66% took no view whatsoever. They were just talking about something in the climate. So that's how we got to this number, a very important number, but I don't want to focus on 97.

2:27:32 Believe me that this is not believe me 50. We are way above this even here We're talking about that earth scientist his question that he asked on the film on the video there 82% of all earth scientists say yes, but 97.4 of climate scientists say yes, so you take out all the noise you take out everything else Yeah, that's how science is done take out all the noise and 97% of the of the 1 3rd. Yes, exactly doesn't say that the second no of course not Oh, this stinks. But if you hear 80% chance of rain, don't you want an umbrella? No. Don't you want an umbrella? Come on. Yes, you do. Yes, you do. Yes, you do. We know you do. Yeah. All right. Well, let's play something then that this is kind of annoying. Unlike that.

CHAPTER 49 / 52 Discussion

Yemen Bombing, Saudi Atrocities and Media Silence

The ongoing Saudi-led bombing of Yemen is described as a major atrocity that is being ignored by Western network news. Reports from Sanaa detail airstrikes on residential blocks and a water bottling plant that killed 13 workers, including children. The Saudis claimed the plant was a weapons factory, but journalists found no evidence to support the claim.

yemen· saudi arabia· war crimes· sanaa· bottling plant

2:28:21 Well, that's very annoying. I'm doing it, I'm watching three networks. When do the three weeks end? Are you nearing the end? It ends I think next week. Like Wednesday of next week. It ends on the 15th I think or the 16th. Whenever it ends, I'm gonna keep doing it for a while because I still haven't got a couple of things I need to understand. But they leave complete stories out of all the networks. And the one they're leaving out now, besides the Guatemala story and the Venezuela story, they leave all South America new. But that's not new. South America, forget it. We're not gonna get any news about that. It's this relentless bombing of the Yemenis is one of the worst atrocities ever. And nobody's even mentioning it on the network news. I pick it and even the BBC doesn't really talk about it. I got it from Newsnight. Of course, it's from our friends, the Saudis. That's why we can't make the Saudi Arabians look bad. So I just want to play a clip so we get people up to speed with that. This is a what's going on is an ongoing, I believe, is an ongoing war crime.

2:29:23 and the clip is the one the Saudis something or other. The campaign is led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the West. On Sanaa's main shopping street, a missile has gone straight through the roof of a residential block. Three people were killed here, including a mother and a young daughter. No neighbourhood is safe. I hear screaming, too much screaming. You can see around here, all the buildings are full of families. There is no empty, full of families. Towards the Saudi border, the bombing is even more intense. We've heard reports of deliberate attacks on civilians, attacks that could amount to war crimes.

2:30:09 Ahmed Elbena, 13 years old, worked at a water bottling plant. Ten days ago he had dinner as usual with his parents and his brother Mohamed. Then the two brothers set off for the night shift. Can you tell me what happened? We meet the manager. The factory was hit by an airstrike, he tells me. He's lying! The owner showed us a list of who was working that night. More than half were killed, 13 in total, including Ahmed and his brother. The Saudis say this was a weapons factory and a training camp for African mercenaries. We saw absolutely no evidence of that.

2:31:07 Yeah, it's an atrocity. It was a boy. It was a bottling plant. You could see it. You could see all the bottles and it just blew the crap out of it and ha ha ha Yeah, no, it's an atrocity. It's ongoing atrocity and it's like nobody's...nope, nope, nope. Oh, you feel... Let's not even discuss it now. Well, all that proves is that the news media is compromised and they won't discuss it. Shh, don't talk about this. There was something that came up at a symposium, I think, British Science Festival. on Thursday. Jill Stewart, who's an expert in space policy at the London School of Economics, takes issue with the plaque, you know, the plaque that when we send something into space, like the Pioneer 10. Yes, this is a great story. I wish I had a clip, but the story is... No clip yet. No, there's no clip. So this is, you know, this is kind of the universal symbol that explains who we are, where we are. You got a man with a dude and a lady. And here's what she said.

CHAPTER 50 / 52 Discussion

Space Plaque Diversity, Facebook Profile Picture Causes

A space policy expert at the London School of Economics has called for future messages to aliens to be more diverse, criticizing the original Pioneer 10 plaque for being "submissive" to women. Meanwhile, Facebook is testing a tool to make changing profile pictures for social causes seamless. The hosts mock these priorities as "moral self-licensing" while global conflicts continue.

pioneer 10· space plaque· diversity· lse· facebook

2:32:06 The plaque shows a man raising his hand in a very manly fashion, while a woman stands behind him appearing all meek and submissive. We really need to... It's a two-dimensional plaque, but okay, she's somehow behind him. We really need to rethink that with any messages we are sending now, attitudes have changed so much in the just 40 years. She feels that we need to send something more representative of our LGBTQI community and society. Which I guess... He wants more diversity. The headline which is in the Guardian is that send aliens, like there's aliens out there, send aliens modern messages of Earth's equality and diversity. Are you kidding me? No! We're bombing the shit out of Yemen and killing just innocent people and then we have all these people, all these little girls and boys and we're wandering the tracks heading to Europe and they care about this? This is their priority? Oh yeah.

2:33:08 Well, Facebook is doing something for the world. They are now testing a temporary profile picture changer for supporting causes. So now your icon changing efforts will be seamless. And you'll just go to... People haven't been on board ever since Hillary left and her band of vagabonds, the tech experts, there hasn't been any more of these movements. So now they've decided to just make it auto. You just click a button. Yeah, you get your little rainbow and everything. It's fantastic. Auto. You support this. Auto. Now, if you were to go... Why would you have to go through any more work than that? Yeah. And that's moral self-licensing. I've done some work. I changed my icon. All is good.

CHAPTER 51 / 52 Discussion

Allstate Driving Patent, Physiological Monitoring and Data Sales

Allstate has been awarded a patent for technology that monitors driving habits, including braking, speed, and physiological data like heart rate via the steering wheel. The patent envisions selling this data to banks, marketers, and health insurance companies to assess risk. Proponents argue it improves safety and offers discounts, while critics warn of a future where insurance is mandatory and behavior is constantly tracked.

allstate· patent· driving habits· heart rate· insurance

2:33:54 I think one of the first read books from this show spoke about monitoring of automobile behavior and how that would eventually become mandatory or you just wouldn't be able to get insurance. Yes. How long are we talking about? It's one of my pet peeves about the licensing process in California. Allstate was just awarded a patent for monitoring your driving habits. And I have three little clips here. The first one is telling you what is bad about this and about the patent in particular. What would these patents, more on what these patents would allow Allstate to do? Well, what's so interesting about these patents, it's really just a few things. First of all, they got one in June that

2:34:44 envision selling this driving data to other companies like banks, marketers, health insurance companies. They think this data could be useful for other companies so that's one element of it. A second element of it, they're not just interested in how you drive. Now they're talking about how fast you go, how fast, whether you brake, whether you brake a lot, what time of day you drive, your mileage, that's typically the kinds of things they've been interested in. Now they're also talking about gathering physiological data like having sensors on steering wheels that could tell

2:35:20 tell things about your heart rate. And lastly, the third really interesting part that they just got a patent for, it would be watching other drivers as well as stuff not related to driving in the car, like how many passengers are there? Are there kids? Are you eating? Are you talking on the phone? And how are people around you driving? Are there pedestrians? Now let's listen to the counterpoint, a guy who's all in and thinks it's great. Companies gather this data, there's a couple of good reasons. They want to be able to offer competitive product. And one of the things they can do is anything they can find out that would help get you the right price, so actuarially base the risk, so that you're not paying for the risk of somebody else and how they drive.

2:36:06 is good information. Anything that would improve the safety because if you've got three or four kids in the car perhaps they're creating a distraction and that may be something that causes you to take your eyes off the focus of the driving process. I'm sure that's never happened to a parent. Of course not. Not any of us. Anyway, so there are reasons to do that and then what you try and do is figure out are there behaviors that you can change by doing collecting some of this data. What we've learned over the years is some of the data that's been collected from people as they drive and when they drive and how fast they drive, it's actually been used to improve the driver's safety. People have actually changed their driving habits because they get discounts if they actually drive better and safer.

2:36:53 And then it's also a thing with the car manufacturers is they try and put more and more of this crash avoidance technology in their vehicles. Sounds like something good to me, John. I don't see how that could be a problem. Let's end up with the final bit. Of course, once again, we bring out what Comey always likes to do. Didn't the Allstate CEO say something about or suggest or imply that selling this data might be a possibility? They said that a few months ago. He was at a conference and he says it's sort of the same thing that Google does. So he floated this a few months ago where he said, you know, we might envision selling this driving data someday. And then in June they had received this patent that sort of lays out the potential of selling this driving data to different industries.

2:37:42 Such as? Such as health insurance companies, banks, marketing companies. Their reasoning is, well, maybe if somebody's an aggressive driver, they're going to be aggressive about how they handle their money. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, don't give them a loan. Nope. Because they're obviously driving too fast. Oh, and by the way, let's send the data over to the State Department of Motor Vehicles, and I'm sure there's a few tickets in there because you have the GPS data and you know how fast they were going. So you know where they were, and they're driving on a 40-mile-an-hour area, and they're doing 65. Let's send them a ticket at 25 over. That's good for a couple hundred bucks, maybe more. And let's, you know, let's...the insurance company...all insurance companies need this information. Yeah. And as you know, this was predicted in the protocols of Zion. Was it?

CHAPTER 52 / 52 Discussion

Syrian Antiquities, ISIS Looting and Black Market Trade

Reports indicate that ISIS is making tens of millions of dollars by looting and selling Syrian antiquities on the global black market. While the group destroys some icons on camera for propaganda, they reportedly issue permits to looters and take a cut of the profits. The hosts suggest that many of the destroyed items are fakes, while the real artifacts are sold to private collectors in the U.S. and Europe.

syria· isis· antiquities· black market· looting

2:38:32 I don't know. It's a version of the chip. It's a version of the 666 chip. It's a version of it. It is kind of a version of it. And now, was it AT&T? They have a car Wi-Fi hotspot which you plug directly into your ODBC connector? Yeah, that's a good idea. That's a great idea. All right. Well, I've got one last thing. Yeah, do that and let's get out because we've I'm tired from breaking it all down today. Oh It's we make it look easy This is from CBS and this is a story that as soon as they did the story said oh, okay now it all so most of its making sense

2:39:13 So there's always these ISIS guys that which we think they're clearing the way for some future building that's going to go on from back to a mall. And so they're tearing down a lot of old crap. That is old Roman ruins and all these things. Oh my God, they're tearing down the Roman ruins. Oh, they're looting. They're smashing the icons. That is exactly the right voice. They're going on about how... Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Stop, stop, stop, stop. So first of all, a lot of these artifacts we've seen, they were just plaster of Paris and was not real statues. They were breaking. I have yet to, you know, I've seen some satellite photos that show, you know, which can be, they're so fuzzy anyways. Like, oh, this is, was it yesterday? I have not actually seen proof that I'm going to say I'm convinced.

2:39:59 And why? Well, that's because there is no proof. It's what they're really doing. This is bullcrap. This is the image of, oh, we're going to tear down all these icons because we're horrible Muslims and we don't think these things are, you know, these things are an abomination. So let me hit it with an axe or let me hit it with a sledgehammer. They're tearing this stuff down to make way for other stuff. They're not wrecking anything like wood that they're hitting with the sledgehammer. They're hitting it with a sledgehammer because they can't sell it. Play clip on Syrian artifacts. off their hands. What's your reaction when you see a beautiful mosaic like this that's been looted from a precious site like Apple? Obviously sadness because these eventually will be bought by someone and they'll be lost to us forever. The main beneficiary is ISIS which makes tens of millions of dollars on the thriving black market. The group issues permits to looters and takes a cut of the profits. For every antiquity they destroy on camera

2:40:54 thousands line their coffers through the illegal trade in antiquities. Colonel Matthew Bogdanos led the investigation into the looting of the Iraq National Museum in 2003. Now he prosecutes antiquities cases as an assistant district attorney. So who is buying these antiquities? Who is giving them the money? It is a cozy cabal of academics, art historians, dealers, gallery owners, auction houses, museums and private collectors. So some of these antiquities are ending up here in the U.S.? Certainly. Absolutely.

2:41:34 CBS News has learned that there are multiple ongoing investigations into ISIS looted antiquities that have ended up in the U.S. But Jim, these cases are very difficult to prove simply because it's so easy to forge documents about where these objects come from and how much they're worth. Clarissa Ward with more Intrepid Reporting. Thank you. Intrepid Reporting. So these guys are not busting up the place, they're busting up the phony stuff. They're selling it. They're taking what they can, selling it. They used to have these huge mosaics. They managed to get a mosaic in one piece out, which is what they were supposedly buying with this undercover investigation. These ISIS guys, which are our guys,

2:42:20 Are not stupid. No. Which are our guys. You can get a million dollars for some of these pieces. They're our guys. They're our guys. They're our guys, dammit. You know that. Come on, everyone knows that. So that story is bogus. Is bogus, yeah, I agree. Well, we're all gonna die. Well, that's on the 23rd. We get some time. On the 15th maybe. That's two days from now. Yeah, well I'm gonna be in the Rockies. This is all good. I'm very happy about that. Yeah, there won't be the mudflats. There's actually water on the mudflats today. Must be high tide. Please think of us with your donations for our show on Thursday. We will be bringing that to you once again. Dvorak.org slash NA.

2:43:03 And coming to you from capital of the drone star state here in the crackpot condo in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley overlooking the mudflats which are now populated with water because it's high tide, I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll be back on Thursday right here on No Agenda. And boom shakalaka brother! Shut up already! Science! Just up the road from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

2:43:55 Dvorak.org slash N-A-W-R-A-K