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00:00 Well, I don't know if I should drop this bomb on you now. Adam Curry John C Devorah And Sunday January 17th 2016 time once again via Gizmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 7-9 or 1 This is no agenda Analyzing the ants in the studio and broadcasting live from the capital of drones, Star State. Austin Tejas, FEMA Region 6 In The Morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where I have nothing to say...I am John C. DeVore It's Crackpot & Buzzkill IN THE MORNING! You do? Sure you do! What you could've said to ants

00:36 Ants! Ants... Plagued by ants. Ants is taking- ants be taken over the- Ants in my pants! Be taken over the West Coast Studio, this is uh This is very alarming John Well luckily they're suckers for this bait drop apparently ANTS!!! Now you have a house and it's on the hill, correct? Your house. Yes on the side of the hill. You think that Hill is just one big anthill no it's mostly bedrock so its what's one of these old-fashioned hills as a big giant rock okay but there's enough soil these ants they don't need a lot

01:13 But there's enough soil that it's kind of here and there, and the ants are in it. I remember when we lived in LA and the ants had made a circle around the entire perimeter of the house It's a real problem. Yeah, that's called siege mode yeah What other modes do your ants have well they have sneak attack? One of the things I have sneak attacks the worst I'd pick up one morning The whole house is covered with ants and they come out of the wall sockets They come out of the light fixtures Unbelievable now I do have a trick for people who are especially on the west coast have to deal with these Argentinian ants And this trick does indeed work okay

01:56 So, one of the things that the ants will do in the kitchen is that they'll send a scout...one two or three or four scouts out every so often. And you see this and you gotta get rid of them but the scouts say find something they go back and report back next thing there's a line of ants coming into the house. So what you do and this is gonna be a little gruesome though you might want to put your... All right put your hands over your kids ears people! Exactly You take one of those little zip zippo or well as fire lighters the things that you used to like barbecues got a long extension and so yeah, it has a You can bend it a bindi some of them been some of them don't I recommend the metal Bendis because then you can buy the cheapest I can find anyways these course burn the ant on the spot on the counter and leave him there ah That sends a message And then use you see if you find all the ones that are Roman around your kids torch em. Oh

02:48 And you leave them there wouldn't it wouldn't one of those crack crack pipe lighters be better like the Bunsen burner You don't need to Completely carbonize the thing you want them to actually what? Suffering a little bit of suffering and a little juice a little bit of stench. So the So when the other ants come in you'll see him come in they'll grab these guys and take them back to the nest And then they'll do a kind of an analysis Can you see that juice? That's what their science will be looking around. They have a whiteboard, and this is what happened to this ant

03:24 I think he did another one with another burnt to a crisp ant. There must be a fire, there must be a fire out there we shouldn't go out there now sometimes you'll see another group coming in because they're not sure so you torch them too the only ant...there are occasional moments where there's an ant that you do not torch and that's an ant that's carrying one of the dead ants back Oh, no. You have to be that's the guy you want to let go of course That's the guy who said hey I'm leaving you alive so you can send a message yes and it works outstanding another tip from your No Agenda show It works excellent yeah And now as you always do sometimes you'll have the occasional you know neat freak wife Who probably would relent at leaving the dead burnt ant bodies? Yeah, no I divorce those counter. I don't leave I don't want those

04:14 But usually those women keep the place so damn clean that you're never going to get much of an ant problem anyway. So it's just a trade-off. It's a trade off, what exactly is the trade off? Crazy ass wife cleaning everything or couple ants you get to play with and for extra credit you can use your magnifying glass to torture couple that's kind of fun I don't have enough sun power in the house Ah, well well well. I'm very happy to see that Hollywood has taken the strategy of divide and conquer and is using it to their benefit now this is a very important thing that's going on here

04:57 We have this, I would say the Obama administration and the president in particular has been very divisive. That's my opinion between black and white in America is...I don't think he's helped anything at all. No! But things made it worse quite honestly and a few commentators such as Tavis Smiley. I have that yeah. And others have called him out on that. I have those clips actually but I wanted to start with Hollywood Because Hollywood just, they don't...they are shameless. You know what? I got an idea! We are going to use this racial divide in America to promote our show! Now the Oscars and for the second year in a row backlash over who was not nominated The front page of this morning's LA Times saying it all asking the question

05:43 Where's the diversity? And ABC's Chris Conley is here with that story. Good morning, Chris. Good morning, Robin and from what we saw not people attacking this nomination or that nomination but asking questions again about the process and about the industry Just saying. The seven person lineup for last night's A-list Republican presidential candidates debate was more diverse than the Academy Awards 20 acting nominations, none of which went to a person of color for the second year in a row Oh no! Now this is very tricky what they're doing here

06:23 So, we know that Hollywood is run by Democrats. Everyone knows this everyone agrees it's all the friends of the Democrats but in this report they compared it to the Republicans putting that into people's minds about how racist the Republican Party isn't how racist Republicans are although you know we brought in our token black guy Ben Carson so I want analyze this a little bit because this is 100% promo and they know it. First of all, who gives a crap? Let's be honest! This is literally actors giving each other awards I looked into the voting, this is starting to piss me off that this is being used. And its not- This is one of many versions of actors giving each other awards Yeah but The Academy...I looked up how the voting works

07:15 And this is not every category. There are black movies and other black nominees, but just not in the actor or actresses crowd and I believe it's only in the lead, not in supporting. I haven't looked at all of that because I just want to get down into how does this work? is about 1,600 actors. So there's some 6,000 members of the Academy You can only become a member of the Academy if you are invited by the board and in order to be approved to vote in your category so an actor cant vote for director he or she can only vote in the actor category

07:55 You have to be approved by the chair or the the chair of that particular category. I think there are 17 categories Now, their full list is secret We're not allowed to know who actually is on the list. It's a secret society of Democrats who clearly are racist. Oh, we don't know... But I can tell you- So we don't know the member? In other words, you don't have a clue whose voting in any category? No. The only thing you know is that from time to time there's a press release so we know Clooney's in and we know but you know there's also people Wait What? it can be easily rigged

08:36 Oh, it's completely easily to be written. Of course! I'm stunned Now check this out You don't have to be a nominee or winner to get in It's kind of like...it's a secret society, its'a secret club So for instance Woody Allen? George Lucas? Are they in the academy? Do they get to vote for directors? I guess not No, of course not But you wouldn't have mentioned it However Meatloaf and Eric Estrada, both members of the Academy. What? Yeah! Uh-huh. It's a secret how did you find this out? Well, no you go back and look at press releases when someone was admitted into the Academy That's the only way he can build a little bit of a list so Lorenzo Lamas remember him from Bozek Falconcrest Sheets Marin judge Reinhold Peewee Herman The man who was you know big scorned for

09:30 for masturbating in a in the adult masturbating theater where you're supposed to masturbate Vin Diesel So these are the people that are voting but the coordination this is even more interesting. Were you telling me that Van Diesel and Pee-wee Herman get to vote for these awards? Yes, George Lucas doesn't well George Lucas To be honest has always refused membership Okay so I'm giving him props but not so with as far as I know with Woody Allen. Now, the two... so we're looking just these actors categories and so the person who was running for the women in the actors category is Annette Bening and you know it's surprising to me that we pretty much need to call out Annette Bening as a racist! And i don't understand why people aren't doing it? Of course she's uh she is a little bit of an activist

10:25 Yeah, she seems like she is. Now guess who is in charge of the male actors? This will crack you up... Ed Begley Jr! Ed Begley Jr?! The outrageous activist? Yes who actually if I look at his Wiki page he was on the advisory committee for the Racism Watch group founded by fellow actor Ed Asner. Racism watch everybody racism watch And that group was formed to respond to the ad campaign that W. Bush and Cheney... This is a clip of the day! There's no clip? Well, I had the clips. Oh actually here comes the clips so this is now playing out. So let me get this straight on. Now I'm glad you took this topic up because I observed this as it was going on and I never picked it up but it was so obvious this was going on from the beginning. It's a promotional thing and all the rest but

11:21 What it turns out, with just a little research that you did... Yeah. Well probably more than a little bit. I took about 45 minutes last night. Then it's not much? No. You discovered that Ed Begley Jr would be one of the guys if not the preeminent guy who would be picking these things and then he would also be the guy moaning about being racist. Yes so he is partially… He's the guy who ultimately helps decide or bring people in to vote Then he's in charge. He's on, he's the big kahuna in charge. But has it got anything to do with the nominations? Yes of course! Of course yeah of course he does. So why didn't they just put some black guy under and they wouldn't have to bitch and moan so much?! Well... The funny thing is that the reason why there are no black nominees for the leading actor category or leading actress category Is because their performances probably just weren't good enough

12:15 We've had years where we had black women winning, we have black men. It goes back and forth and again who gives a crap? This is not going to solve world hunger. No it's not gonna do anything but But they do make a fuss about it. And we are celebrity obsessed in the United States, actually worldwide I think anyone who listens to this show is in the culture that's celebrity obsessed Now the reason why I'm convinced this was a PR scam Is because of the host It makes so much sense There's nothing better than having a controversy over race Black vs White and then you bring this guy to host it Chris Rock counts down the top 3 reasons to watch The Oscars Presenter Cleavage

12:59 Check out who died this year. I might curse! The Oscars, live Oscar Sunday February 28th on ABC. Oh we're six weeks away they've got Chris Rock who is one of the few guys who can go on a live telecast or as he did to this morning tweet hey i'll be hosting the oscars the white BET awards you know Chris Rock can do this shit Yeah, he can get away with that. And they know it's a totally racist comment and they know it yeah The Academy does not publicly Publicly disclose its full membership although press releases have announced the names of those who have recently been invited to join Membership in the academy does not expire even if a member struggles later in his or her career I got that from there from the Academy website what happens if the guy dies? They get a still vote Yeah, of course listen

13:48 So this is great promo, but it's so evil to do this to the American people. I mean there's a hashtag, Hashtag OscarsSoWhite This is now the hashtag and someone even threw it at me for some reason like after Thursday show. I don't remember what it was but then someone said oh, Oscarsowhite So it's being abused, the American public is being abused for promotion for this show. And Chris Rock is complicit in this! He's complicit so its disgusting... It is, I agree with you 100%. This is absolutely low. Its disgusting But look but it shows you how well it works as a strategy

14:35 Well, yeah. People watch and then people sent you... gave you a hashtag with the... Which is promotion! It's all promotion. Here's my tip. Very saddening very sad. Here's my tip if you want to be nominated for an Oscar there's a surefire way to do it If you want to be nominated as a black person Black American Be black first of all be transsexual and in wheelchair in your movie. Now that is going to get you a nomination, but no one did that this year." Wow good one yeah That's the way to start the show Well I just needed to get it out because it's... The racial stuff we're going through is bad It's exploitative Very exploitative And the poor public is like lap- they unfortunately because of their nature lap it up

15:31 And unfortunately, I need to go straight into something regarding the most recent debate. This never occurred to me...I started looking for it after I saw of all people Dave Weiner blog about this and I couldn't figure it out He actually said if you can't figure it out then your a racist I'm paraphrasing. And this is, and then i found a perfect clip from of course MSNBC the Melissa Harris Perry show regarding something that is deemed to be super racist that happened during the debate did you catch it? No maybe but no... I did not catch it Ben. Okay and now Dave Weiner's a white Jew uh New York white Jew

16:27 I never expected, i mean i've never thought this way. The Thursday night's debate when attacks on the president's record occasionally devolved into comments that diminished the authority of his office Donald is right that China Is running over President Obama like he is a child The president wants to do things without working with his congress This guy is a petulant child That's what he is the president a boy, those of us who understand African American history because that's exactly what they called him was a boy. And you don't do that to anybody but especially an African American man who is going to walk out of the White House in the same way he walked into the White House." Man! How did they how do you get from petulant child which just means grumpy angry you know petulant

17:16 to that being a racial slur because when you call the president, a child that means you're calling him a boy and boy is racist. That's very interesting connection yeah it's very hard to do that But you can get away with it if everyone's amenable to it and people who listen to MSNBC are amenable to this sort of logic. But, it did not come up in my mind... I thought wow! You know calling the president a child is, you know, petulant. It would only come out from the mind of Melissa Perry Harris or whatever her name was. If you listened this clip so listen when she's which uh when the other guest is speaking listen to her huffing and puffing

17:53 Listen to it. The Thursday night's debate, when attacks on the president's record occasionally devolved into comments that diminished the authority of his office Donald is right that China is running over President Obama Listen to when the guest comes back and then listen to the huffing and puffing from Paris Harry This guy is a petulant child That's what he is To call the president a boy those of us who understand African-American history because that's exactly What they called him was a boy She was steaming, John. She was steaming! I'm sorry and...I'm pretty sensitive to it because it's my job but I'm sensitive to listening to these things and trying to catch- not for a second And then I should read you Weiner's post and then you tell me- I didn't get it! Hold on Read? Yeah yeah I hadn't prepped it up just bringing it up now Oh, okay I'll read it for you here we go

18:48 You know, this is...you run into a lot of...so in other words for example if you stomped his foot and somebody's like, geez he's acting like a 12-year old. That would be the same thing as calling him boy. Boy is actually an epithet in a funny kind of way it's used for a purpose and the word itself is the problem. It's not the meaning of the word or anything that surrounds the word, it is use of the word. But if you don't use the word... Right! Yeah like gay I mean... Yeah like gay. Title Republican nudist dog whistles. I know what that means oh yeah with the Republicans running around like nudists streakers with apparently all the dog whistles gone the truth laid bare

19:32 Their racism and fear out in the open last night. Candidate Christie used a shocking racist dog whistle when he called the President of the United States a petulant child! Of course, that's a stand-in for the N word which even a Republican presidential candidate of 2016 wouldn't say yet at least but it came pretty close I don't need to explain how incredibly disrespectful it is of a race A large number of Americans and for crying out loud The president of the fucking United States you asshole But I'm sorry, I had to think how? How do you get from petulant child to nigger. It's just not the same thing!

20:09 Yeah, wow troubling troubling but this is because the whole I think your first segment there about the bank Oscars mm-hmm is This being drummed into us of course Oh This is why I planned the segment and then yeah, I have to say that Obama has done nothing. That's what I like to hear You know observers like to have a smile who? I never really liked you want to hear it. I have his I have the clip on Uh, here it is. Tavis Smiley... Now this was Tavis on C-SPAN that he's uh.. Is he a Republican? No I don't think so That's interesting because i was clipping last night and I'm playing this clip and Christina says hey is he a Republican? I said I don't know I don't think so When you play the clip I am going to listen with Christina's mindset and try to figure out if I can see what triggered that Okay Here we go

21:02 But at least in my writings, I want to stay focused on the facts and what the data tell us. Yeah, I think so. Here we go. Some statement about where the future is headed this text lays that out But when you could imagine Peter how when the data started to come into me And I started to compile and edit what was in front of me from the Spear School at Indiana It hit me really hard to realize it in every major economic category black folk have lost ground over the last 10 years Every category black people have lost ground over the past ten years. Yeah according to them, but he says his data ah

22:10 I know where she came up with that, by the way. Why? It's his voice! Yeah but that's what she said... he sounds like a Republican That's what she said No it is his accent He has got... that is one of the reasons why I never liked him in person Southern accent ah It's a funny accent though It's not..it's like a little bit New Orleans A little bit God knows what And its always put me off Because it seems almost like it was designed for, you know, by him for him. And I always thought it was pretentious but having listened to more and more he is an outstanding interviewer. And this next clip he claimed something which i of course also dove in and tried do the research on to understand

22:54 Here we go. I wasn't happy with what the president got through it was this is about Obamacare The whole thing is kind of about Obama care and then what I cut off to be fair, he said hey At least the president did something we got this going We've got something happening if yes more black people are insured that wasn't happy with what the president got through It wasn't universal health care Wasn't what he promised but something has been nothing in the coming months and years? I hope that we can improve on there And so the insurance rates for black people have improved. The problem is that most of these provisions have not kicked in as yet, the most important one to my mind the pre-existing conditions provision but when these revisions kick in things will get better but at the moment 10 years later black health is not uh measurably better number one and number two um

23:39 Even Obamacare didn't do anything about health disparities. What you'll read in this chapter about healthcare 10 years later is that black women, for example still continue to die disproportionately Peter from preventable diseases and so we celebrate the passage of Obamacare I await the day those provisions kick in and hope to see the impact positively it will have on African-Americans beyond just being covered but those health disparities and their racial element involved therein has yet to be addressed So he's saying that the pre-existing conditions clause has not really kicked in. Then this was very confusing to me, this is supposed to have changed in 2014 which as far as I know it did but then a little complicated...I think what he's referring

24:26 is that the insurance companies have a number of tricks and it started, of course with losing your coverage entirely because I guess what the president should've said is you can keep your doctor and health plan as long as doesn't violate the new laws of the Affordable Health Care Act known as Obamacare. But it comes down to medication. And they have three classes of medication, you have the preferred tier which is generics that's what the insurance companies really want to...which has a lower copay which they really want to push on people then you have the branded approved preferred medication which has a higher copay and then you have a third tier which is the really good stuff which you know when you

25:16 could get if you wanted to have a higher copay. They've changed it now, the first tier now combines those...the two lower ones except so you just have the generics and then instead of going to branded preferred it's branded non-preferred And when you have a medication that doesn't have a generic version, then you're not going to be insured for that more expensive branded medication which they now say is just no longer preferred. That's kind of I think what it is and that's how he says that they are refusing pre-existing conditions by kind of a trick." Well...I don't know

25:57 It doesn't sound right, but that's the best I could do. The provision is there but it apparently is just not working for everybody. But there's tabasuma. Whatever excuse they can to jack up the prices which we're going to continue forever until somebody gets a clue and then we just pull the plug on the whole thing and go to single payer which brings in a whole new pile of garbage. But as somebody keeps pointing out, we have the most expensive healthcare system in the world period and we're like number 10 so far as it's results are concerned. We do not have a healthy population.

26:38 The infant mortality rate is not even, I think it's not even in the top five. There are all kinds of issues so the system does not work at all. And I pulled a clip from The President's Promise which i thought would be good to reiterate since people do tend to forget how exactly we were going to be paying much less for our premiums? Are you paying more? Everybody's paying more. That's all maybe complaints about most of our complaints are bad and the kids they're all pay every year that brought this time everyone is bitching because everything is up 10% to 20% to 100 bucks a month or whatever it's always a lot more. And Christina who in the Netherlands switched from their single payer system

27:19 Pretty much Obamacare system. Yeah, she's poor you know poor and she has a I think 50 euros a month Health insurance that's what she can afford to pay this is the lowest one She has very high co-pays And dental yeah, and she used up her 500 euro credit if you know she says hey dad Can I go dentist my gums are bleeding like why didn't you go there? No? I can't afford it It's not covered by insurance after the first visit So it's great. Here is the president. When you hear about the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare and I don't mind the name because i really do care No! I care! That's why we passed it You should know that once we have fully implemented your gonna be able to buy insurance through a pool so that you can get the same good rates as a group

28:24 that if you're an employee at a big company, you can get right now. Which means your premiums won't go down. Bullshit! There ya' go. That was a good sales job. Yeah, suckered everybody. Hey dummies! Yeah, and all those co-ops are going under the co-op so going on there's only gonna give me the only guys making out On this if you want to really you know cut down your health care costs and pay less premiums invest heavily in pharmaceutical companies yeah And then take some money then and apply that against your right your premium exactly Be a capitalist. You can't do it any other way until they close this down I mean, you know what? I understand the Republicans and their ideas Oh yeah we should go back to the old days you can't do that no It's not with that doesn't work you can't do that you made this step in this direction have to go single payer

29:16 And then to go back from single-payer like they did in Holland, this crappy system which is just based on scams? It's nuts! Who puts that through?! But this, the insurance companies that you know they're not just American share insurance companies. These are worldwide conglomerates is insurance companies or and it's just a financial sector of insurance company. There's no doctors walking around with lab coats on concerned about your health now? No, it's a money business. The insurance business is great. Why else has Warren Buffett in the insurance business because it's a great business It's a great business. And Buffett is involved in this with reinsurance for these insurance companies, so... Fuck them! Sorry I'm just gonna be mad

29:59 Do you have any clips from the debate? I have a couple things. I have one and I decided that I watched the first debate with Carly saying the same stuff, yeah it was very boring because there was no Lindsey Graham Did you see her hair, her lips everything was messed up Her upper lip is solid rock-solid doesn't move Yeah that's not Botox No that's not Botox That's a filler she has a filler I have standing issues. uh... i would do anything they really came out of the basis or terrible and we even know why they put any more of these on but new york thing was kind of like interesting his cruise canister did it but then he got out of a at that cruise handled you mean if that didn't give a clip from the well actually i decided not to use my clips before this because there is such a nice package put together by a bc all about this exact topic and the reason i rather do that is because

30:56 I see ABC, ABC is the most political of the networks insofar as pushing one candidate over another because they're owned by Disney and Disney needs politicians because of their business. And so I see very slowly a very slow shift to okay maybe we can work with Trump and no mention of Bush. Yeah. Okay, after staying the course last night on that debate stage saying Donald Trump embodies New York values Could you explain what you mean by that? I think most people know exactly what New York values are. I think he meant old white gay men, is that New York values? Old Jewish gay men there you go. From New York! You're from New York so you might not but i promise you in the state of South Carolina they do

31:53 And listen, there are many many wonderful wonderful working men and women in the state of New York. But everyone understands that the values in New York City are socially liberal or pro-abortion or pro gay marriage focused around money and the media...and I guess I can frame it another way Not a lot of conservatives come out of Manhattan. I'm just saying Trump's response, controlled content. When the World Trade Center came down I saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifully more humanely than New York everybody in the world loved New York and loved New Yorkers and i have to tell you that was a very insulting statement Ted made

32:44 And now Cruz learning the risks of taking on New York. On the cover of the Daily News, Lady Liberty giving him the one finger salute! New York's mayor and governor both Democrats outraged demanding an apology. Cruz tonight defiant I apologize to the millions of new yorkers who've been let down by liberal politicians in that state i apologize to all the pro-life and pro marriage and pro second amendment new yorkers This I think, what Cruz did. I think Cruz is evil and then he did it on purpose He's trying to put state against state now That's what this is New York State Well this isn't...I like your theory but

33:39 For one thing I thought if I if I step back and look at the whole thing, I thought it was light-hearted Mm-hmm and humorous and he did have some good timing bits in there. He had great timing. He's got great timing And he's a good debater and he's good at that do all the whip saw they kind of like get you where you give you? Counter puncher yeah good counterpunch er But Trump would have none of it. Trump could've let the thing slide as just kind of light. He did the right thing, he protected his domain! Well I don't think it was so much that personally as it was he saw an opportunity to really flip the tables on Cruz who thought he was coasting and he just nailed him And I think Cruz was taking a back, he did not expect it

34:27 And the way, if you listen to the thing again where Trump sits yacking away and then he says I think what you said was insulting. He throws that in at a moment where you're not really expecting it It sounds like he's going on an exposition badabada badabadaba This is something Trump did consistently last night when I thought it was really good particularly when he, I don't have the clip but when he responded to the Republican State of the Union response. He said oh i was real happy with her yeah I am angry everyone expected him to go off and turns it around and goes yeah she's right absolutely I'm an angry man because of xyz

35:05 He was very, very good last night. I have another example of that but first here's the New York Post or The Daily News responded to Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz made his strongest attack yet on Donald Trump in the latest Republican presidential debate he accused the frontrunner of acting like a socially liberal New Yorker focused on money and the media well that led to this attack by The New York Daily News with the headline Drop Dead Ted Oh, man. Can you imagine this? Now I should bring that up but I have to bring another thing up. There was a...because I think what you've stumbled on something. I was watching O'Reilly looking for some clips and then I got caught on it because he's going to bring Glenn Beck on which is unusual because Beck kicked off Fox News. Yeah, he's kind of competitor now. So he brought Beck on and Beck is a Trump hater.

36:03 And he brought him on for the sole purpose of, I think...because Fox has gotten to the point the way I see it. We're doing my three by three analysis these networks. Fox can't be aggressive against Trump they don't like him and I'm sure everybody in their whole operation doesn't like Trump at all But now they know that it's gonna hurt their brand if they go after him, so they have to do it in offhanded ways. So the off-handed way they've decided is to bring Beck on because Beck really dislikes Trump and I got to hear Beck go on about it and he's just acting kind of like a lunatic but I have to say he's got this very interesting argument

36:48 That may have to do with what you just stated which is to push Trump over into the New York He's a really in New York liberal. Let's face it uh-huh yeah, and would and which I think is maybe gonna be the strategy In fact, this whole thing is to make it to make him look too liberal to be a conservative To make them like in New York liberals if you remember interesting in that or if you watch listen to the last maybe ten elections there was excoriation Oh, oh the new England we can't have people from that part of the world. We get New York Liberals do you? It was like you can't have those people those people, the New York liberals running in the country because they don't know anything about what's going on in California. They don't care what's going on in Kansas." And so you want to put Trump into that category and and what Beck says...and I have to say this is really taken by this because it's a great argument he says that the proof that Trump is no conservative whatsoever is his basic thesis as to what's wrong with the government

37:51 His basic thesis is it's run by a bunch of incompetent morons. Right, instead of it's too big or... Instead if its too big! He never says that it's to big he never says that should be shrunk in size all he says according to Beck All Trump ever says Is the government just needs to be run by smart guys like me at the size it's at and things will be fine. What I like about that argument is it doesn't bring in another divide, you know black white red blue left right we're all...I mean Trump is a pretty good example of I believe

38:30 I believe, truly. I do believe! He's an example of someone who is...it's grey you know? It's grey it's a gray not everyone is so cut and dry but that's what we've been taught to believe and Christina this is so great to have her here man damn First of all, Facebook screw it. Daddy why do you waste your time? I said well i want to make sure I keep up with you he says Instagram pops Instagram nobody's interested in your status updates no one is interested in comments we just wanna know what people what are their lives like okay click and also liking I think that part of it if you double tap on the picture and its immediate like or facebook you have to click on a little like link button

39:12 So you get more likes, it's easier for people to just go like-like and comments aren't that interesting. She says on Facebook all I hear is people saying there are A holes this, A holes that...why? Because that is how people have been trained! They've been trained to do them. Facebook is the place for the Democrats to congregate Now, there was one exchange which and it's a little long. It's about two minutes and we can probably stop at a couple times and this was about the Ted Cruz birther issue which I want to remind everybody has been played very... This is the thing I think Trump

39:51 has miscalculated. That even if you, and this happened to me many times in the press, even if you didn't do something, didn't say something that it gets attributed to you and it sticks, you cannot undo it. You can do interviews, you can say whatever...it doesn't matter the population believes- Me and a mouse! Sorry? Me and the mouse! Exactly. The population believes that Donald Trump who of course the association with his Barack Obama birther comments Now they believe he has done the same thing to Ted Cruz. It's not true! A journalist asked Trump if he thought there would be an issue with Ted Cruz' eligibility and that's where the information came out that apparently Democratic operatives are considering filing suit should Cruz win the nomination. Now, Trump did this so masterfully

40:45 So masterfully that it warrants deconstruction Wall Street Journal just came out with a poll headline Trump way up Cruz going down. I mean so don't see you can't They don't like the Wall Street Journal, they're like NBC but I liked the pole That's genius right there who cares about I like to pull exactly And in Iowa now, as you know Ted and the last three polls I'm beating you. So, you shouldn't misrepresent how well your doing with the polls You don't have to say that In fact i was all for you until you started doing that because thats a misrepresentation Number one Number two This isn't me saying it...I dont care! And I believe he's truthful He doesn't care He cares for one reason and one reason only I think im gonna win fair and square I don't have to win this way

41:37 Thank you. Lawrence Tribe and numerous from Harvard, of Harvard said that there is a serious question as to whether or not Ted can do this okay? There are other attorneys that feel and very very fine constitutional attorneys that feel because he was not born on the land He cannot run for office Here's the problem We're running, we're running. He does great I win! I choose him as my vice presidential candidate and the Democrats do because we can't take him along for the ride That's one of the best lines i've ever heard And I think he means it Well you know...

42:20 that have kind of written off Trump from the beginning. In fact, when we started discussing Trump at the very early moments of his running for candidacy and you got blasted for You know even I mean people really are bigoted out there about Trump before before they started to watch him in action and a lot of people have come around and this you get here very strange things from Millennials that say well, III don't see how I could ever vote for the guy but he's interesting He's very good. They got to that point discontinuous discontinuous Which is up movement in the right direction for him? Yes, but he is so

42:57 I mean, the stuff that he does like that little bit with... He immediately demeaned him by making him vice president. Yes! It's fantastic! On the fly! But- Personally, I thought that was overreaching with that. I didn't like it. I thought it was, oh come on, come on back off Well but he comes around on this in a very interesting way Like that okay? The fact is, and if for some reason he beats the rest of the field... He beats the rest of the field. See they don't like that! They don't like that. No they don't like that he beats the rest of the field because they want me." That is a genius crowd master right there taking the booze turning it into laughter I'm sorry that's great

43:45 But, and for some reason Neil he beats the rest of the field. I already know that Democrats are going to be bringing a suit you have a big lawsuit over your head while you're running and if you become the nominee who the hell knows if you can even serve in office so you should go out get it a declaratory judgment let the courts decide and you shouldn't have mentioned the polls because I would've been much different. Why now? Why are you raising this issue now? Because now he's doing a little bit better No, I didn't care before. So first he says hey the reason i'm doing this is because he's doing a little bit better you know? I've got to attack the guy a little bit no it's true He never had a chance now he's doing better he's got probably a four or five percent chance

44:31 That was funny. I thought it was funny." I still see it as a scam between the two of them. Well, of course it's a scam! It's show! And he gives Cruz the attention that he needs. If it wasn't for Trump...I don't think Cruz is right when Trump does certain things and brings his numbers up Because it brings us a detention level. I mean, he brings public attention to a higher level and he's...I don't know that he's really...I don't even know if Cruz is in on it but it seems to me as though Trump is controlling the whole... He's like the puppet master! Yes

45:13 And here's how the, this is not a 3x3 because I only got to today show and Good Morning America. How they responded to this against Wall Street and the big banks. I'm sorry This was that wasn't different. This was about sorry about Cruz and his loan which i think he played poorly You know, the background simplistically stated is that he obtained a loan against his assets from Goldman Sachs in order to start the campaign. Which is commendable in a way but I think he forgot to declare on an important piece of paper or he filed it elsewhere because the obvious connection between his wife who works at Goldman Sachs although she suspended her

45:58 vocation there until after whatever. He didn't, it was bad optics and so he tried to obfuscate that he gets called out on it and of course exactly what I didn't want to happen is now happening people saying oh he's an insider he's a shill his Goldman Sachs he's the big evil squid we don't want him. ...against Wall Street in the big banks and yet what people didn't know was that he had gone to one of those big banks Goldman Sachs where his wife worked to get a personal loan For a lot of voters making up their mind just tuning into this race if the one of the first things they learn about Ted Cruz is that he has A financial relationship with Goldman Sachs There's no worse brand name for the populist wing of the Republican Party than that. Hmm Okay, I by the way mm-hmm. I think there's bullcrap What is bull crap? That if you're associated with Goldman Sachs it means your evil and people are of course Well, but I would I don't think it's a negative thing at all. I don't think anyone cares I don't think anyone gives a crap

46:57 That his wife works there or that he got it alone. No, the only people who give a crap are the news media this morning Senator Ted Cruz's campaign in damage control after a new report shows He took up to a million dollars in loans from big Wall Street banks To finance his run for Senate The issue may hurt cruises credibility since he's railed against big banks and Wall Street bailouts Is that unctuous style of announcer? Yeah And by the way, having been doing this stream and watching these networks, it's really bugging me. That style, that style. There's one guy Al Gary or Galgar or something on NBC that is absolutely the worst he just screaming at you and their borderline sound like a surfer which is my wheelhouse yeah yeah you'd be right to write me in business well I do have one more clip about this topic if you getting wrapped mm-hmm well I've got one either quick Ben Carson clip

47:58 I want you to do that first. Now, this clip... the clip i'm going to tell you is David Brooks on PBS once again this is the second time I've caught him doing this telling the public uh first of all he's talking about Trump because he hates Trump He's like a type of Democrat or Republican who really hates Trump And David Brooks is a climatologist right? No, no. David Brooks is just a generalist columnist... I'm sorry! He hosted an entire program where he said that climate change was responsible for the problems in Syria. He did? That's David Brooks yes. You sure? Yeah Okay, talked about it on this show. Well he makes the comment which he's done many a time and I've got another example of it where He says you know maybe I don't know what I'm talking about with state legislators who are Republicans congressmen senators local committeemen A lot of whom are in panic

48:50 And so maybe they should do something about it. Maybe they should have a moveon.org type organization and get some rallying, which the other side has already done and have a counterweight so they don't send the party into suicide. That might involve not now but after New Hampshire winnowing the field and donors and other people going and saying we're just gonna pick this guy and we're gonna pick Rubio I'm sorry Jeb you're not gonna be president. Christy you can be Secretary of Treasury But we're gonna get organized here and we're not going to go quietly into the night. So, go back to some kind of smoke-filled room? I'm pro conspiracy right now. You think it's that critical? Well you know...I have no confidence in my judgment. I shouldn't say that on TV. Mark and I have confidence in our judgment. He is so old school he still saying things like, but I shouldn't say that on TV

49:47 Yeah, it's like he is extremely old school. Like you're in the church or something. He lost all confidence or credibility...he has been predicting the demise of Trump since day one for like six months and now he has lost all confidence. He does say something very interesting there where he says Chris Christie could be Secretary of Treasury which is a big joke first of all You're not going to gain. That's not going to happen, but does that speak to his positive work in New Jersey? Is New Jersey so great financially? I don't think so.

50:34 I thought Trump was Fade and still sort of think he'll fade. Sort of, you've backed him in your... I mean it's right now the Cruz are both looking pretty good and i don't think either is electable and neither do a lot of Republicans uh so the question why did they just sit there and do nothing? Fine yeah but so tired of this alright He, yeah So he, this old school, I dunno even what who he thinks is electable, he would think that Rubio who's an obvious stooge. I mean personally from my perspective because I'm going to vote Libertarian no matter what probably but from my perspective looking at it I don't think any of those guys are any good none of them

51:20 And I say the same on the other side. Normally, throughout American history we had a swing back and forth between kind of Republican business-oriented lawmaking and then public interest lawmaking. And it would be the Democrats that represent public interest lawmakers and the Republicans that represent business lawmaking. It was never really a problem because this pendulum would swing back and forth and back and forth, and thus it would create some sort of long term balance.

52:05 But of late, when the neoliberals have taken over the place where you have Bill Clinton being more of a Republican than the Republicans and guys like George Bush being big spending Republicans when they're in office. There's never there's been no swing back toward public interest public interest. That's where the Elizabeth Warren thing would catch on, right? Well she better hurry up if Hillary is going to make a decision. The convention is when they make the decision and the conventions are ways away anyway so back and forth so Bernie Sanders although I believe he would ruin the economy and send us into Yeah, yeah. That would happen anyway because of the cycles at least he would do something about you know this scams that are going on with a bank fees and the ridiculous end of payday loans

52:53 and all these things that are just ripping off the public at large, and it's going on unabated with nobody doing anything except once in a while Elizabeth Warren comes out and says something like oh well maybe we should do something about these robocalls. And does nothing! We need some swing back because we're not getting it but we haven't had it since Reagan to give you a glimpse into future of Bernie Sanders as president uh... Christina was bitching and moaning this is the Netherlands very socialist country And she was bitching and moaning because you know, she was diagnosed with autism. Okay? She's on the spectrum but you know Then she won't take any medication or anything which is nice for her to know okay But I'm now concerned this is how I feel sometimes among the spectrum least I have a diagnosis so she feels fine with that but she's pissed off Daddy you and mom you should have you should have worked

53:44 organize all this and this test before I was 18, because if you get diagnosed with autism before you're 18, you get 800 euros a month. And you can work in addition on the side without having to diminish that fee because you are sad. You don't have a fair shake in life. 800 euros a month! That's almost as much as the immigrants get in free money when they come in." Almost as much? So, that's our future. And I can sit there and say where does it come from? She understands that intellectually but that's how they're thinking hey screw that! I want free school, I want free healthcare and if I'm nutty or if I'm different then I need to have money. That's what happening. That's the mentality. The entire world economy has to collapse before that goes away.

54:38 So what she hasn't seen is that I have a chain here so she can't leave. I'm chaining her, and she can't go back to Europe. This is bad. It's not going to be good. All right here's Ben Carson. I thought this was just sweet little Ben Carson. But you know here's the real issue... Is this America anymore? Do we still have standards? Do we still have values and principles You know, you look at what's going on. You see all the divisiveness and the hatred that goes on in our society. We have a war on virtually everything race wars gender wars income Wars religious wars age wars every war you can imagine we have people at each other's throats and our strength is actually in our unity

55:22 You know, you go to the internet. You start reading an article and you go through the comment section. You cannot go five comments down before people are calling each other all manner of names Where did that spirit come from in America? It did not come from our Judeo-Christian roots I can tell you that. Ah it came from the devil! The devil on the interwebs That's what it is And wherever it came from Devil Thank you Satan We need to start once again recognizing that there is such a thing as right and wrong. And let's not let the secular progressives drive that out of us, the majority of people in America actually have values and principles and they believe in the very things that made America great. They've been beaten into submission it's time for us to stand up for what we believe in. It's not discussed now I don't think we discuss it very much but with all the talk about

56:18 you know, pissing off Muslims and not being racist against them. There's no talk of what is going on with Christians because the Christians are being belittled and shamed in this country, in our country constantly! And I think that's part of the point he's making Yeah, that's pretty...and then again of course there are these arguments about the Christians in the Middle East. They're all being just killed and nobody cares about that or seemingly so because they can't get them to get involved with the...they can't allow them as refugees in many instances at least according to the reports that you hear whether it is true or not. Yeah well there's a lot of…it seems like fair game to mock

57:07 Jesus freaks, Bible thumpers. That's been the case... Yeah that's okay. That's pretty much been the case since I was a kid and... Right but it's worth pointing out that... Not really that new but is continuing yes? Well the bottom line is... But it has to do with Obama! Yes we can thing until you pointed it out I was unaware of this What, you mean the Thank You Satan? Yeah. The Thank You Satan. Alright! Are we gonna play that clip or not? Of course! Let me play this short one. Hold on... That's-that's the long one I think this is uh... I don't know where it is. Just played it! No but its uh...

58:06 Thank you, sir. That's what he say. Thank you, sir. The more you hear it the more you hear it Yeah Which is part of the whole gag I think And with that I'd like to thank you for your courage and passion and keep pushing John C where the sea stands for Caucasian Dvorak Well, I would like to thank you Mr.. Adam curry for your courage also Thank you for your In the morning too. That's what I'm supposed to be singing in the morning now Thank you for your courage in The morning all ships to sea boots of the ground feet and they are subs on the world in the water Never mind well into the dames and knights out there and in the mornings everybody in the chat room Thank You Satan

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59:34 Yeah, this is the only way I could put it. It's like you know...I'm in the process of in my own mind blaming PewDiePie. Yeah! Screwed it up! Well he started for one thing he was He was nasty, and then he got Nick Durat preoccupied because Nick's a sensitive artist. Yes. And he hasn't produced anything good. Martin Jage of course has been kind of semi-retired so we don't have anybody picking up the slack or something like that I dunno. Well the thing about PewDiePie is the name PewDiePie but it's not your name you are not the famous PewDiePie and i dont like that Yeah its derivative Anyway we hope for better art

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1:14:59 Alright before you hit me with the disturbing clip may I be may? I do an ask John. I don't really have asked John very often at all at all at all Okay, I can try now because I'm not sure if this happened during your time as An environmental And spent what exactly were you environment air pollution that's air pollution inspector What year did where the government for the government of California a and? Well, it's actually regional government in this case. All right when were you that? It was a while ago Do you mind is was it 70s yeah, it was the late 70s okay then You even if you weren't working at that exact time you will be able to help now This is President Obama and he was at a school hmm I can't think off the top of my head. I think it was Missouri Missouri

1:15:54 And he did a little stand up and he brought out this thing about climate change and how horrible the air is. He made a number of claims about California in the 70s, and I thought to myself, How? Self? It just so happens you have a guy who knows everything about this topic, about the quality of air of California in the 70s. Yes First of all it's important for us to understand how much environmental progress we've made in my lifetime and then the reason is sometimes when we talk about the environment that sounds like something far away but we don't realize...we do not remember what we accomplished already In the 1970s

1:16:38 In California, there would be regular days where people did not go outside. Is this true? No It's not true! It's a lie Okay let's keep going When Ronald Reagan was governor in California And I think as an aside when the president really starts stammering That's when he is lying. This clip, it was the first time I noticed it and left most of it in because a lot of it had pauses...I had to take that out or the show would be nine hours if we didn't do that. I believe he's lying whenever he starts stammering It's his tell so let's continue There would be regular days where people did not go outside

1:17:23 When Ronald Reagan was governor in California, there were regularly days where the smog was so bad it was like it is in Beijing now. Is that true? In Los Angeles Yeah, it's like Beijing is now Uh... yeah I would not... well the fundamental basis for what was happening in Los Angeles Basin back then It was a different... The components of the pollution were different than what's in Beijing. Beijing is more like London fog from the 50s when they had the kill where bunch people died from... Jack the Ripper!

1:18:05 No, it was from the smog. We had a smog problem in London that was outrageous and it was killing people and that was more along the lines of what's going on in Beijing as opposed to photosynthesis that went on in LA during the 60s mostly People just wouldn't go outside And if you had asthma or some respiratory disease You might die No There's something about I so this I sowed this you might die and And someone needs to talk to the president because when he stammers it removes all of the seriousness that he's trying to Portray here. He is saying you might die without the stammer You might die now that sounds much more forceful and powerful than you might die He needs to work on

1:18:59 I'm just a suggestion. It's too late, yeah. He was not taking your advice! Well now he is going to go back and he remembers because he was in California in the 70s apparently Sure he was...I don't think...when did he go to college? Never went. You're confused with me When did the president attend...let me see what school was he at? Harvard He was at Harvard for a while. He was also at some other Columbia or some other place and, you know, that's pretty vague. I think he went to Occidental for awhile. They never released his records. We don't even know that he ever went to college. Now the guy is...let's just stay with it this is why I'm asking you to focus on the problem. He's saying that this...that he was in college during the Reagan governor days does that mean? He's my age as guy but wasn't in college in the 70s

1:19:57 Yeah, Reagan. Okay now... I knew it! 79, 79 I think. We gotta deconstruct this. Let's start with Reagan. When was Reagan governor? Well here you do the Reagan thing and I'll do his school thing. Okay Reagan. I can do this. Education summary. This is handy Kindergarten, okay Columbia University. Okay Freshman okay Occidental College Los Angeles 1979 to 1981 when was Reagan governor? I think he was before that but I think My keyboard stopped working oh no No, this is not good. Yeah, I think it battery went dead Oh

1:20:43 Do you need to do you need to go get a battery? You can do it's worth it get a battery. You know what look at my thing here Okay, you want to just stop tape they will stop tape okay? I'm doing in a battery we shall stop tape stop There's no tape. I'm sorry Stop tape. Stop tape, stopping tape! Alright we're stopped alright we're on a five minute hold everybody five little holds five minutes hold for talent five minutes hold for talent We have a technical issue don't worry you'll be paying overtime if you go over stop tape boy I've stopped okay it's good Ah this is unbelievable okay let's start it up again all right All right everybody places please places please Talent walking in are we ready? Alright everybody Places Places please Places Tape rolling alright roll tape Roll tape

1:21:30 So tell me, John. When was Reagan governor? Well no you first gave us already gave us the dates of Obama Yes he was at Occidental College apparently between 1979 and 1981 Okay, that's when he would be in California then. Which is one year of the 70s? Well yeah two years I guess Ronald Reagan was governor from 1967 to 1975 Okay so the president So the president is lying Bullshit When did we clean up the California air Well, they began cleaning it up in the 50s. But when would the president... So in 70's? I'd say by 75, it was pretty damn clean. So 79, it would not be that bad? No, not for the way he described it. Now if he was down an Occidental, it's possible that they were having some because of the bowl effect down there. They could have had

1:22:28 Some bad days in LA. I don't know that people wouldn't go outside Let's listen to the president's description of how bad it was Wait stop play the whole thing again because I want to get these these dates and times down okay? All these terms are coming back First of all it's important for us to understand how much environmental progress we've made in my lifetime. And the reason is sometimes when we talk about the environment it sounds like something far away, but we don't realize... We don't remember what we accomplished already. In in the 1970s

1:23:17 In California, there would be regular days where people did not go outside. Okay so we've already established that is just not true. I'm sure someone didn't go outside but it wasn't like Beijing... There were moments in Los Angeles again just Los Angeles not California but Los Angeles the basin or Pasadena where it would really a bad foggy smoggy day Well he's talking about all of California But then he narrows it down to him in LA Yeah, which I'll get to. What he's talking about is him Well of course there's no reason to talk about anything else. Reagan was governor and also there's a little condescending tone that went around Reagan going back back back back back a little bit Of course i'm backing it up In California there would be regular days where people did not go outside

1:24:09 When Ronald Reagan was governor, when he was governor, the actor in California there were regularly days where the smog was so bad it was like it is in Beijing now. People just wouldn't go outside and if you had asthma or some respiratory disease, you might die. You might die? Might die?! I remember as recently as 1979 when i first started college uh...I started college in Los Angeles When I went running the first week I was there after about five minutes I'd start feeling a burning in my chest and it was just me sucking in soot

1:24:50 And smoke. And soot! What? There's no soot in California air pollution It was so bad that his chest started burning London there was soot. Boston there was soot, New York there was soot... But certainly not in 1979! There's no soot? It's me sucking in soot and smog. Sucking in soot?! You gotta make an ISO of that. Yeah hold on let's play the whole thing then I can do all the work we want. I want you to respond it's only 16 seconds if we can't seem to get to the end. Sucking in soot and smog

1:25:31 Well, you go there and that smog isn't there. And the reason is because we instituted things like catalytic converters and unleaded gasoline and we changed the technology to reduce smog. We changed technologies? Let me run the ISO first. Help me with this, we're doing a professional job here I remember as recently as 1960s when I started college in Los Angeles When i went running First week I was there after about five minutes I'd start feeling it burning in my chest and It was just me sucking in soot So we do that? Yeah, just sucking in soot Sucking in soot and smog or just sucking in soot No no, just soot Sucking in soot Okay hold on let me just iso

1:26:16 Sucking in soot! Okay, alright go on. I'm saving this for myself. Alright a couple of things you should mention just to straighten out for people who care...I think at this point we're probably gone beyond it but the catalytic converters were used to reduce the amount of nitric acids, any sort of nitrogen that was in the form of an acid that would go into the atmosphere and it was, which is what caused the problem with the Volkswagens by the way. They let this stuff out in their testing. That's what causes photochemical smog turns out. And so once you put catalytic converters on everything that stuff stops coming out of

1:27:02 And so now you couldn't have the photochemical reaction that took place that caused that kind of orangey smog. That was what we always talked about in Los Angeles, unleaded gas had nothing to do with any of this. Unleaded gas was a completely different animal. It was removed from gasoline for a different reason mostly because it Yes, mostly because gasoline it turns out you...they used to put tetraethyl lead and I was at Union Oil when they were making this transition. They were using tetraethyl lead in gasoline to the point of almost 4 grams of lead per gallon of gas so that gasoline would have a higher octane and burn more smoothly than an automobile. And that's what...so you wouldn't have pinging and you'd have more horsepower is great but

1:27:48 The problem was is that the tetraethyl lead when it combusted in the chamber with the gasoline threw out elemental lead and some lead salts, which are toxic out of the gas pipe. So you'd have for every gallon of gas you burned, you've threw out four grams of lead into the atmosphere and usually got into the soils nearby roads. And most of the roads...here's a real obscure data point. Most of the highways, roads and cities were contaminated with so much lead it was completely out of control. And that's what no one wanted to talk about because it was like holy crap if you went along the highways any freeway in California or any place else and you started doing soil samples it was all lead!

1:28:34 And so they had to do something about it. So that's how...one of the main reasons they got rid of lead, there are some other reasons but that's the real killer and literally a killer. Turns out... Dr. Justin Marchegiani That I did not–that's new. That I did no know at all. It was horrible. It was– Dr. David Jockers Another No Agenda historical fact people! Dr. Justin Marchegiani And here is another little tidbit for you. Dr. David Jockers Another No Agenda tidbit? Dr. Justin Marchegiani Once you remove the lead from gasoline because of the nature of the cheap crappy engines that we made in Detroit, the gas, the engines wouldn't work right because they required them. The valve seats when the valve hits the engine block it without if doesn't have lead led is like a lubricant that was actually... Right? That's why we had to get all that's why the synthetic oil industry started with viscosity breakdown was that it was that where I came from? It has nothing to do with it. I should shut up now. Yeah you probably would

1:29:24 This is a specific to the valves and so the valves would hit the engine block and since there was no lead literally led Metal they're nice, which was like a lubricant And it was like you know hitting this it was like I love when I'm hitting it that it's a loop once The lead was gone. It would just be metal-to-metal and it would just start digging into the engines And it was ruining all these engines. That's why old engines need these special additives, otherwise they get ruined by gas today's gasoline so they had to leave at least a half a gram of lead in there which they did for just a little while then it turned out that changed some the longer story that changed some specs so they had to just remove lead altogether and then they had to deal with redesigning engines and not telling the public

1:30:08 that their car was ruining itself for about 10 years this was going on. Meanwhile, here's the data point I wanted to bring up. The lead that was in the gasoline which was into the point of four grams a gallon of lead and it was getting into the atmosphere, the soil and everywhere and contaminating cities and most of the country, it turns out that rate of violence and gun violence included, and everything since the removal of lead from gasoline. Went down progressively as the amount of elemental lead and lead salts in the environment lessened and distributed itself went down to what it is today. And a lot of people believe that the violence, the gangs some of this crap that was going on in the 50s in particular was all because everyone was poisoned

1:31:01 And it made you violent. That's why they decided to use chemtrails instead makes so much sense Yeah, I'm telling ya It's nice that you did that. But this is one of the little tidbits you'll get from The No Agenda Show, from our basic knowledge... No where else! Do you think that... Who else would you get that? Would Democracy Now have an expert like John C. DeVore do this deconstruction? No. Not possible. But it's safe to say the president is full shit because he was there at 79 and he couldn't walk out because he was sucking in soot according to... Soot?! That's the Gills man. He was sucking in soot! Sucking in soot! Sucking in soot! Waka-waka, sucking in soot... In Hollis Queens! If the president is doing one more thing that I don't like then I'll get off the president

1:31:49 so to speak. He's running around, and this is again from his college speech... There was... You know they're both from the college speech but the first somewhat longer one and then a shorter one that have come in. I have question for you since you can't run again for another term Is there any way that we as a group can talk The First Lady into running? No! Now do you hear this? And I want you listen to this whole sequence of no-no-nos The phrase NO Which I... where, and I have a problem with his uh... Anyway just listen. And talk the first lady into running? No! No! No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no He's clear, nooooooo Let me tell you there are three things that are certain in life death taxes

1:32:54 And Michelle won't come in your mouth. And Michelle is not running for president, that I can tell you. So that's kind of... What does Michelle think of this commentary? Well it gets- That's my point but listen to this next one where someone is saying oh please please please if you could run for a third term would you run? Oh well, I can't do that because the Constitution I like that. Because the Constitution... what does he get his answers from Facebag now? Because the Constitution! Yeah, that's not English. And because the Constitution and I can't do that because Michelle would kill me Now, I find this offensive It is very misogynistic Well it is very misogynistic but the honor of being president

1:33:50 Then to say, oh Michelle would kill me because it's been so hard. She hates me being president What is what is his point? What is he saying I don't that came across very unlovable to me Yeah, I would say so that's rude It's just rude That's a good catch. Not quite clip it, not even borderline I like the soot! The little...the ISO is the clip of the day but we'll... But when the clip of the day is shorter than the jingle then I suckin' in soot! The jingles? Right that's a rule Clip of the Day has to be shorter than the Jingle Clip Longer than the Jingle Oh it has to be longer yes Suckin' In Soot! Nice! Suckin' In Soot

1:34:33 Oh, I wanted to bring something up. Where is it? Attention attention our song makers! Attention attention song makers... We have a couple of elements for y'all that would be worthy of a remix. I'm looking at you GX2 did you see these the freedom girls with the official Donald Trump jam You know I've seen people keep sending me that clip but where's Donald Trump? The whole thing looks phony to me. Well they're lip syncing and obviously it's phony That's for sure This is before the rally, this was before the rally and then they got up And these girls did this little ditty here which it's just begging for a remix Just play a little bit because... Cowardess Are you serious

1:35:18 Apologies for freedom. I can't handle this! When freedom rings, answer the call On your feet stand up tall It's unlistenable but... it's unlistenable? i don't get the lyrics Well they're saying that everyone is weak and Donald Trump is standing up for freedom he's taking the call He's coming in This thing wants a remix And I have something else Some more well I have a full-on and then some ISOs now what happens when we have faulty equipment here on the show What happens we stop tape? We stopped tape And and what makes me mad is you know people be You know saying jiggle the handle exactly so Trump had a microphone issue

1:36:02 And I think he channeled me. By the way, I don't like this mic whoever the hell brought this mic system Don't pay the son of a bitch to put it in, i'll tell you No, this mic is terrible Stupid mic keeps popping Do you hear that George? Don't pay him! Don't pay him You know, I believe in paying But when somebody does a bad job like this stupid mic... ...you shouldn't pay the best, Aaron Terrible Terrible. It's true, it's true And you got to be tough with your people because they'll pay they don't care They'll pay so we're not gonna pay I guarantee I'm not paying for this mic Every every two every two minutes. I hear like boom-boom Anyway, I hope its okay for you out there but it really is right what the mic doesn't sound good No, it doesn't say he's absolutely right Boom boom boom boom. I just thought was funny

1:36:56 But he the guy should blame is his setup guy that goes in there and checks the mic Yeah, seems to be well. That's probably it's probably the same guy Maybe typical Anyway so people get on that a get on that oh There is just a finish wrap this all up I did get the official documentation The rules about eligibility of a president just to call back to Cruz Do you know that? And there's a very long...well, it's not very long. It's actually 12 pages but it has a lot of legalese and a lot of jurisprudence if there is indeed a question about Ted Cruz's eligibility ultimately I didn't know this Congress can decide. I didn't know this. Oh! I didn't know this either. Yeah. And this document... Somebody would have brought that up if they're talking about it to all the news media folks

1:37:59 Yeah, let me see I can find the exact line where it mentions this. Here we go referring to process... members of... hmmm yeah. I think just put a bill or whatever in front of Congress. Referring to the process by which members of Congress may raise objections oh that's just the... let me see where is it? Thought I'd highlighted it here it is I think There's still a potential objection. Yes, not even the Supreme Court Congress makes the determination during the process of counting electoral votes. Honestly I need to do a little more work on exactly but the conclusion of this and this is The Michigan Law Review their conclusion is that members of congress would ultimately be responsible for deciding so that

1:38:54 Yeah, it's even if Cruz gets a justification letter from the court. It still doesn't mean anything yeah I still could go to Congress apparently We need a definitive answer no constitutional nobody But yeah interesting If I should drop this bomb on you now But I'll tell you what, why don't we... You want to thank some people first or...? Oh that'd be fine because that way it won't be a depressing segment. Okay!

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1:48:23 I just was a shocker. This is quite the setup, John! You are... Yes! Should i be sitting down? You know, I stand during the show should I be sitting down while you're following me? You'll be sitting down and you're not going to believe this story this is the Yosemite clip play it A trademark dispute is forcing Yosemite National Park to rename some of its some of its beloved buildings and landmarks. The famous Awani Hotel in Curry Village, built back in the 1920's will be renamed the Majestic Yosemite Hotel. And Curry Village will become Half Dome Village. National Park Service has been in a legal battle with a company which bought the rights to the names. The changes are sparking outrage with long time park visitors and environmental groups who say this is nothing more than corporate greed

1:49:12 To charge the National Park Service $54 million to use the name Iwani in Curry Village, it's incredible. It is just crazy! The Iwani Hotel has been visited by numerous luminaries over the years including three US presidents movie stars even the Queen of England Well... This is very upsetting and I need to... I told you it would be. It was upsetting to me! I need to give you the history. Curry Village, which houses Camp Curry in Yosemite used to belong to my family Margaret Currie and I forget the old coots guy his name whoever her husband was

1:49:58 They set this up, they maintain it. They had this great event every night which I don't think they can do that anymore because of environmental whatever... They used to go up the top of the cliff there and build a big bonfire and when- Firefalls! Let the fire fall! That would be my great. I think that ended in this yeah, they can't do that anymore But I've been to Camp Curry many times I've met people who traveled halfway around the world just to meet them in Camp Curry and now they're gonna get rid of The name well, that's very what were they called half but don't have dome village Half Dome Village half dumb villages what that is? Oh

1:50:38 Well, what is the deal that they sold the names? This is the problem with today's copyright laws. You know you can't take anything out of copyright anymore and then now you can just sell the names like it was a football stadium and somebody sold Awani and Camp Curry to some douchebag. Why don't they just call it Camp Verizon? That's much better! And but then they were charging 54. I got to look into this, it's insane for a million dollars to use the name of Wani and Curry? Well if we're up to me be lot more but unfortunately the curry sold Camp Curry decades ago along with... But then they sold the names separately apparently without no no they sold the camp. The name was so when we sold that we sold it with the name. I don't think there was any separate deal

1:51:28 You know, the Curry's also owned all of what is now known as Flagstaff Arizona. Sold that for dimes! Idiots... I could have been rich. I could have been a contender. You could've been a contender. Instead I'm a podcaster. Wouldn't be doing this you're a podcast-er. Podcaster. Right. Yeah, that's disappointing. Deconstructing news. I believe we need to have a meetup in Camp Curry. That's what we have to do before it changes name. I would like to know what this $54 million deal was about, that's what gets me... The camp is still there! Will it still be called Camp Curry? No the camp is now called Half Dome Camp. Wow. But its stil there

1:52:08 So what, there was just only this name? These people own just the name of a Wani like that great hotel. And they also lamented when they did the story Oh presidents and as though the place is burnt to the ground It's still there! The hotel is exactly the same Yeah Except now it says Yosemite Majestic or something stupid Man... This is crazy Yes Well, I think we need to do a meetup. Camp Curry Meet-Up. Yeah? Good! Drag the Airstream out there would be fun. Oh it'd be ball... A big ball. Here's something that i've never done. I've been to Yosemite numerous times but I have never gone in the back way

1:52:51 So I could go to Sequoia National Park, which is another park that's kind of on the other side. It's a pain in the ass to get to but that's the one that has got that big giant tree you can drive your car through. Yes and it's well worth it although they're dying from climate change just incase you didn't know Well there was actually the drought That's not how it works and that's not how you promote that stuff Entremont, let's go over to the migrant situation in the EU. Of course it continues to be kind of pushed down... ...the newsletter because let's face it you know who cares? But we're seeing barbed wire fences big rolls of barbed wire now borders being drawn up and and uh the title this BBC report was The Welcome is Cooling at Borders Across Europe yeah! At every border across Europe The Welcome Is Cooling

1:53:44 Here at the Greek frontier with Macedonia, families can still pass. It's clear they're fleeing Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan. Young men in particular are facing tougher scrutiny. Many have fake papers and even old ladies are turned back if their documents are suscanted But they're not giving up! We found dozens in the woods – Libyans, Iranians, Moroccans all trying to evade the border checks. The man singing is Afghan, he was denied entry to Macedonia because he's dark-skinned. That's kind of interesting racist Macedonians? While at the official border facilities built by aid agencies that are cost of millions stand empty. At the border on the Greek side they have big

1:54:36 Big United Nations Human Rights Council flags and big Quonset huts with brand new tents inside, completely empty. But there's nobody here No, there's nobody here unfortunately. No there is nobody here not even the girl to put a dick in. The police anxious it seems to stop this becoming a permanent camp keep all the migrants away At the moment they don't have the possibility of using those facilities This for us as humanitarians is unacceptable clearly unacceptable And I must say, I don't know if you're getting the same type of email but a lot of people continue to email saying well it's Agent Provocateurs. It's not true and...I'm sorry! It is true what's going on. The integration has been going on for 15 years this crappy integration. I'm flabbergasted I would say

1:55:30 that people who, you know... They go, Curry you're buying the party line. But I think it's actually worse than the party line." Well if you could be…I've been watching a lot of the German televisions and there is this pretty challenging there but at the most interesting clip by pulled down from Deutsche Welle was was something that we never consider, we don't think about. The American media definitely doesn't think about it. Our show doesn't think about it and... It's the relationship with Merkel and her public. Yes which is- And the problem that she has had with this basic but its kind of odd lament and observation in this particular clip. Its long clip discussing some stuff going on and then push back thats happening

1:56:25 It's this, at the very end of the clip that the thoughts about Merkel which is the name of the clip. The way it's presented comes off as wow! I didn't know that this was...it was this It was this kind of, I don't know. You can play it. It's about how to integrate the more than one million people who arrived in Germany last year and 3,000 more are coming every day Brent Yeah and that's an essential part of the story right? Once they're here what happens then We know that the German Chancellor she is under increasing pressure from her own party on this issue Is there any chance you see Simon of her changing her position

1:57:06 Well, I think there will have to be some correction of the policy but the overall policy of welcome towards refugees will remain in place. I think Angela Merkel is far too closely identified with it to change it and retain her credibility but she's under attack from all sides from within her party But also from without, for instance the former Social Democrat Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said today it's an illusion to think that there is no limit to Germany's ability to integrate people from abroad. So pressure grows and European countries are not helping Angela Merkel get out of this fix but the problem remains. Yeah we have never seen a story like this with Angela Merkel ever before!

1:57:46 Simon Young, thank you very much. We have not seen a story like this about Angela Merkel ever before! This is like a moment Yes, I was taken aback by that comment because I didn't realize it up. She was like the Flawless or whatever? Yeah. Oh yeah, German kind of how long has she been Bunch counselor? What a long time one a long time and as you can do no wrong But now everyone's turning on her and then there's this other remark that was made in there which was kind of telling Which is that she can't change her position Because she's associated with this and so she... Right. So are you telling me that she can't have said one thing and then said, holy crap! This isn't working out let's stop and do something else? Is the German mentality such that she can't do that? That's what it sounds like Well what happened here

1:58:39 And you know, this is just my opinion but having lived in the region and having lived in and amongst Germans, there is...they really want to be great and helpful towards migrating people because of their recent history. Really World War II has pretty recent history. Then they understand what it's like to be a migrant and either be welcomed or not welcomed And as they've been very welcoming, and this is the Germans have no monopoly on being mind controlled by the entire EU idea that we can have the multicultural society. Don't worry they'll catch up because it hasn't happened now. They're banning migrants from public swimming pools after they've gone after young women in the swimming pool. Sure it's one small incident but this stuff counts and then people go you know screw this

1:59:37 At a certain point, they just gotta say screw this. Not gonna participate anymore. Well watching the German media is the way to go with this right now because they are in the thick of it There's a lot of reports. I didn't take any clips from it, but there was a whole half hour on Deutsche Welle TV. There was a half-hour report on...they took one of the...I don't know if it's out of the side of Frankfurt or where, but there is an old abandoned airport just recently decommissioned and they turned all the hangars into And of course, then they're surrounded by fences and so they have all these people coming in mostly women and children and a lot of men too. They were talking about the guys explaining the difficulty that you got to get water in there and every once while fight breaks out. They're handling it as well I think the Germans can't and I don't think any other culture could probably handle this as well because they are organized

2:00:32 But it's the same thing. It seems like a concentration camp! Yeah, it's the same with Energi Wind. Well we're going to shut down all nuclear, shut everything down, we're all going wind and solar and then people looked at their bill and went I want you unwind that Energi Wind Angola, we need to turn that back Yeah, the Germans are a bit decision-making. The Germans are smart and they I think they do have power over Merkel she is a...I think she'll do whatever the if she's getting a lot of heat She's gonna change the policy there's no doubt about it. She's probably sick and tired this crap too. You know? Well, according to those news guys, she's stubborn as you won't

2:01:18 in the world is Victoria Kagan Noodleman. Yeah! She's on the move, she's on the move, she's on the move Pay attention whenever Victoria Kagan Noodleman Newland is on the move we gotta be careful she'll be traveling too Trakai, Bucharest, Sofia, Davo, Ankara and she will have closed-door talks with some Russian muckety-mucks near Kaliningrad. Is it time for Davo? Is it that time again? It might be. It must be. She's not trying to overthrow the government of Switzerland. Although Switzerland is under attack for the same thing that has been going on with

2:02:02 in Finland and other countries, anything over a thousand euros if you show up as a migrant with cash or assets over 1000 euros it will be taken away from you. And this is very confusing and of course it's often reported that they're stealing from them but Switzerland is following their own rules which is if you want to receive payouts for being a migrant. Everyone in Europe, you come...you get in and you get into the system, your asylum seeker, you make money! You will receive money but their law is hey, you can't have assets over 1,000 euros so we have to take that away and of course the migrants are like oh this is crazy this can't happen then

2:02:57 You know, the politically correct press is all over it. The United Nations Human Rights Council is criticizing what Denmark is doing this now as well. I think they should be very happy! This is a strain on these economies. Of course it is! And I have a bunch of clips if you want to go through this, like...I don't normally talk about this sort of thing on this show which is the stock market situation with... I've been waiting for you to do this and saw all the clips come in, of course I have not listened to them but those who don't know John and I don't speak between shows we had no idea what clips he has, he has no idea In fact last night I was thinking

2:03:46 Maybe I'll have everybody pulling debate clips, John will probably have it." And then I thought to myself, self don't take that risk. And see it worked out perfectly so I'm ready for your financial market package Okay, the reason I wanted to do this is because there's a lot of miss I get cuz they have a bunch of friends who are always Because I've been actually studied this stuff. This is what you do Yes, and I have a bunch of friends who were kids in all these emails Oh my god were doomed we're dead. This is based on one side What are they? What are they responding to oh They're just looking at watching the news. If you watch the news in general, you see oh, the market went down 500 points, the market went down 300 points. The market's gone down since the beginning of the year pretty consistently and it's a correction that is a little radical for most corrections but its a correction by all

2:04:38 all analysis, anyone who knows what they're talking about. No one's saying that this is the beginning of a bear market and that's the thing you have to realize it's not the time to panic although it is good time to short some nice shorts out there but that's beyond most people so I was- What short? I'm just gonna sell a stock without owning it Well that's the method but the idea is to make money on stocks going down Decline yeah Yeah You sell at 10 bucks and buy back at 2 when its bottom Now, so I was looking around because we don't do this rarely.

2:05:16 And so I was looking around for someone with a good analysis, and I found one. The woman...you brought this woman on, she's very elegant lady… This is PBS? PBS News Hour. And she's like the chief strategist for Charles Schwab, I believe. And I think that she just did this…I think she just nails it to calm people down if people would just listen to this They wouldn't be so panicky because I think she's right on the money. Now, the market plunge that is sweeping across stock exchanges from Asia to Europe to New York... Well that set up is part of the problem! The market plunges sweeping across the nation! Yes it is a part of the problem. Yeah sentiment is a big part of the markets. Now the market plunge that is sweeping across stock exchanges from Asia to Europe to New York It has been relentless since the year began and today was no different

2:06:13 The closing bell on Wall Street signaled the end to a turbulent day and a tough week for markets worldwide. Fueling the sell orders, another plunge on China's Shanghai Composite Stock Index It is down 18% since the year began as worries about the Chinese economy mount And plummeting oil prices are dragging down energy company stocks and the broader market In Washington, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said U.S. officials are closely monitoring the global sell-off. There's no denying that weakness in other markets with whom we do extensive business is going to be a headwind for the US economy but we're mindful of that particularly as the international economy becomes more integrated and you have to be sensitive to movements that we see in economies of other countries

2:07:13 All right, he...she then brings his woman. I'm sorry that was the setup to give us a background of what's going on and by the way Josh Earnest has a lisp. Did you ever notice this or am i just noticing it? No, no, I think I haven't really noticed it. Start listening and you'll hear her lisp. Okay let's go to part two where she talks to the woman. Lizanne Saunders what is behind this volatility today in the market Many of the same things, actually that contributed to the volatility that we saw last year. You've touched on certainly oil but it's more broadly what is happening in the commodity complex and not just the huge plunge in and of itself but what that says about global growth. Of course related to that is China, the weakness there no only in its equity market but its economy, its currency – that's tied into commodity prices

2:08:02 And maybe even more importantly would be uncertainty regarding the Fed. You know, we got past the uncertainty that defined 2015 in terms of will they won't they and if they will when? They got their first rate hike now it's what are they going to do from here? Are they going to continue to raise interest rates? What will be the justification so a lot of it really is unfinished business from 2015 It just conspired to occur in a condensed period of time unfortunately right at the beginning of year which I think adds to angst for investors Okay, all right. So in other words is nothing really radically different going on it's just sentiment isn't It's more than sentiment the real issue is this China is all screwed up Yeah And they've been lying we know this they've been lying about what's been going on over there They've been over buildings they get to go cities They spend money and stuff that you know They're just their liars it China as a country in so far as our economy is concerned. I think sorry

2:08:59 They think this is the way you do business, which is to fake your number so you don't get in trouble with the party. Everybody's dead but don't say anything." Well didn't they learn from the best? That's what Wall Street does. Not to this extent because we have checks and balances...we have all kinds of systems in place. Yeah! In the 20s, we had systems in place that prevented although some of those systems been taken out but most of the system prevent prevent this sort of scamming because our investment vehicles have to be the ones that attract everybody from all around the world. And you can be sure that if you put your money in US Steel, let's say which is a big out-of-favor company right now and you put your money... You're actually putting it into a company that's called U.S. Steel they have facilities we've seen them We've met their CEOs we know all this when you're putting your money in some company in China

2:09:53 And so often, there's no company there. It's all bull crap and nobody does anything about it." So the numbers that come out of China and all this other stuff has created this little mini panic and now we have to readjust for it. The second thing which is...the guy who talks about oil was in the second clip. I don't know if I got two or three clips. You've got two more here? Should be a third clip? Yeah, you have four clips total. This is the third one. Play the third clip and I'll explain a little more to get with the reason. I'm doing this by the way So I wanted people not to be freaky about what's going on Just a little extra mom

2:10:31 So is this the kind of anxiety that's justified or is this something that has just gotten out of hand in the last few days? It's really hard to say at this point. I'd love to know where this correction stops right here, we do not think that this is a beginning of a big nasty bear market but it could get worse here before it gets better. I think investors have been fairly skittish, really for much of this bull market all along. And when you get these bouts of volatility—particularly if it's got some fairly dire news associated with it—we really hunker down much more quickly than we have in the past because I think we really changed the psyche of a generation of investors not only because of the severity of the financial crisis but the fact

2:11:19 that it came within 10 years from the bear market that preceded it. So I think that explains why we see this sense of urgency and sometimes panic kick in so quickly in this environment And what she's referring to is the dot...what we call it, at least in the West Coast. The .com bubble? The .com collapse which was a confluence of a number of things including Y2K by the way which people tend to forget Oh man I probably haven't relayed this story in awhile but I was the Chief Technology Officer of Think New Ideas publicly listed company and there was a mandate from the SEC you had to be Y2K compliant

2:11:59 And we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah, hundreds of thousands of dollars and we were lucky nothing. We were lucky you are lucky. You were on the low end of the money that was wasted over this yes and I will say it proudly we were the first public company that was Y2K compliant. The first suckers in the door! Well, good. That's kind of good and kind of bad. Now on top of this what she is talking about which...what she is referring to is that when the collapse happened in 2000, 1998-1999-2000 it was boom! It stayed down largely because of the attack on the World Trade Center. It had screwed up everything. The psychology of the market, everything has screwed

2:12:48 And so it lingered for a very long time. I thought the decade of 2000 was one of the worst I've ever experienced, and then it was topped off by this collapse in 2007-2008 of the housing market and the crazy phony vehicles they put together these scam bonds or whatever, based on crappy housing loan mortgages. And so it just got worse and so it made everybody nervous because it was...it amounted to a long depression which is still going on. Which I keep reading in official White House documents that it is capitalized G, capitalized D, the Great Depression! They have named it The Great Depression and they are using it as a noun in all written statements

2:13:34 The one from the 30s? I'm sorry, Great Recession not Depression. Oh yeah. Recession, I'm sorry. Yeah they call it the Great Recession. Capital G capital R. I don't know why they... well i guess maybe as a trademark now because Because the president brought us back from the brink of disaster you see You have to give the recession a name Well he has not brought us back from anything No He's luckily kind of stayed the course by being a neoliberal like Clinton is really more He brought us back from a fun loving we're okay with each other country To when do we hate each other Well, there's that too. And Bush started that. Yeah okay and on top of this there is the oil situation which is dropping like a rock and that seems to be causing trouble Today it's still under 30 bucks just a hair but its 29 and a tad

2:14:18 Now, the thing about oil you have to remember is that it's cheap energy. It is good for the public at large and good for business. It's good for everything because it's cheap energy. Energy equals work. Energy equals everything! Yeah and so you want it to be cheap but because we got so tied up with these high prices and fracking and these large oil companies making tons of money...and the oil companies are The big parts of the index is that when the market goes down, it's because the oil company went down. If the oil company falls like a rock... Everything looks like it's going down but it does eventually bring everything down with it. Now this guy who comes on in clip four

2:14:57 So, he's also on the show. Discusses the oil thing a little bit. We discussed it on this show a couple of times about why oil is collapsing but he brings kind of an interesting couple of angles. He doesn't discuss the political reasons like Saudi Arabia hates Iran currently and so they're gonna keep pumping to screw Iran who is entering into market. And Saudi Arabia also is not gonna start back off. because they did that in the 70s and they lost market share, and they hate that. We've discussed that on this show... Would you mind just re-explaining that? I don't think everyone heard about it. In the 1970's when OPEC first got its act together and decided to screw the world by price fixing oil which caused all kinds of

2:15:44 recessionary things in the 70s including the price of gasoline going way up and rationing gasoline because they cut off the oil supplies, rationing gasoline. There were lines you had to get into. You had to have odd and even numbers it was unbelievable this was in the 70's You can only drive on an otter and even dare you only a gas on an otter and even day depending on your license plate if it was a two you go get gas right he was at three the next day key, and there were lines that were a lot. It's unbelievable Did we have driverless days? I remember in Europe, we had driverless Sundays. David Gardner...I think there may have been...I'm losing a little bit of the... George Selim...No, no! Yes, we had driverless Sundays in the U.S., I remember that around 1987. David Gardner..Okay. Well one of things that took place when OPEC did its thing to make this all happen is Saudi Arabia cut back on production because it's their idea was if everyone cuts back on production prices will go up and we can make a ton of money. Saudi Arabia in particular cut way back

2:16:39 And then in the process, lost market share. And when they came back into the market full tilt a bunch of their customers were gone. And so they had decided collectively... Never again. ...that we are never gonna do that again because we don't wanna lose our customers, and so now we have this situation where they're gonna keep cranking it out even though we've... We're gonna cut production? No! We're not cutting production." So nobody's cutting production. There is compounded thing here which I didn't realize until I listened to this guy. I kinda knew it but I didn't think much about it. There are and which also makes the capitalistic system in America great because we don't do this even though it would be cool if we did just that, which is that if you.

2:17:22 As a country, lot of small countries the oil in the ground underneath the country is owned by the country. And so the country when they pump oil they take them profits and it goes right into the general funds and so they finance their government and there the whole operation with oil money And so you have this situation that if the oil is selling for $100 a barrel, you get a budget of X amount of money. You get used to spending that X amount of money and then it goes away. When the oil goes down to $50 a barrel your budget either gets cut in half or you have to sell twice as much oil.

2:18:01 So, it encourages...so as the oil prices come down these guys because they're running their government from oil revenue to keep their budget at the level that it has to be. Because you know we can never lower it. To keep it at the same old price you got a crank and you have to sell twice as much and then goes down again. It's a vicious cycle. Yeah! And further down it goes the more oil you gotta pump So it's creating this problem and this is part of the problem along with everything else, all these other elements. Now before you lead into the clip which you're about ready to do but I've never really understood what the actual number is for the price of oil because

2:18:42 WTI crude, NIMAX. You have Brent crude and they have different prices. Which number is the most important to look at? The one that's used generally that I think you see what's the price of all today is West Texas which is...that's the basic number. That's the WT whatever it is. Okay, so WTI. So that's currently $29.42 per barrel but The Brent is 28. Brent is a higher grade product that the Europeans use that number because they really base a lot of their budgeting on that number. Now, that number broke 29 so it's at 28. That's pretty outrageous! In fact when two numbers are the same...That's crazy!!

2:19:22 So, it's crazy. But there is about 70 cents difference between the two? It usually about five bucks difference or three or two. Brents more expensive but West Texas is what we always refer to when we talk about price of oil and that's not you know... I mean lot of this stuff is all academic because not every gallon of oils coming from West Texas In fact, not that much. Some. You know, Alberta provides a lot and Venezuela... But anyways right now the situation is to me hilarious and it really should be booing the market it seems but its not. Bradley Olson let's talk about the oil side of this what is driving this continued drop in oil prices?

2:20:09 Well, there are two main factors at play. I mean the first one is a little bit tied to what's driving the fall in stock markets worldwide and that's China. China has sort of always been the golden goose when it comes to oil markets particularly with demand. China is about the second largest oil consumer in the world and so whenever there are indications that the Chinese economy perhaps isn't going to be as strong as people had expected, it causes a great deal of uncertainty when it comes to oil The second factor is Iran. Sanctions are about to be lifted that were imposed by the United States and European Union, and once those sanctions are up a lot of people anticipate a significant amount of oil coming into the market from Iran perhaps as many this year 500 thousand barrels of oil

2:20:50 oil. So the market is already oversupplied and you're going to dump additional barrels into the market from Iran, and then you have problems or questions about demand that would have been able to bring up the price so there's just a lot of indicators that are not positive at this time when it comes to the oil markets." So is it though expected that these countries are just going to continue to pump regardless of how low the price is going? That's right. I mean, one of the things that you see happening when the price goes down is that everybody is trying to make up for the lost revenue and so this is something that has actually happened in the history of oil crashes Is that all the producers and companies actually try to pump more oil because they're trying to make up for whatever they've been losing by producing more

2:21:35 In this case a lot of people expected the US shale companies and us Companies that were behind a major boom in production in the last few years to slow down and they just haven't done that yet They've been a lot more resilient than anybody expected. All right, so it's a spiral It happened before and it's gonna happen again Yeah What do you think the bottom is on oil? Well, my thinking was always around 28 to 30. Thirty was kind of my target but the way this is being described and people fearful that it could go to 10... Sorry! It's almost laughable to me. Ten?! Do you think it could happen?

2:22:15 I don't think so because this guy went on and on, and he did say something that was interesting. He says the cure to low prices is low prices as a little like an adage they said in the business. And what it means is that once you get...the price gets so damn low people stop investing And once they stop investing, then they kind of fall behind the eight ball. And it takes about two years of oh my God this is we can't stop putting money into this business because we're just killing ourselves. You still try to pump as much as you can but you don't invest in any new properties or you don't do anything. You don't spend money And he mentioned, I didn't realize this. He said that the stoppage of the investment started about two years ago so we're at... We're at the point where it should be breaking apart. It should be breaking but this big glut that's gonna come in from Iran is probably going to exacerbate the situation. So I'm thinking if I was thinking from an investment perspective, I am thinking what its gonna do its gonna make this...the exacerbation is going

2:23:14 is going to make it linger or go longer and maybe drop some to some ridiculously low prices where it will just skyrocket after that. Ooh! Well, would you like to do some red book data? Some numbers and put something in the book. I don't know 1350 is my number. 1350 You think it's going to go that low Yeah, I think 15 will be seen as a major breaking point and then we'll go through that It will never go to 10. Yeah, I don't think it I would have find it extremely hard to believe And I'm just making this up. I have no idea. No, you know Just feeling I was saying right to me the word is right now is pretty much the bottom

2:23:51 But I think it could probably go... Whether they're wrong, it could get worse. Yeah, so that's what I'm thinking. Maybe it can be kind of tricked into going down to 22-24 as a bottom. All right. So you think 20-22-24 and I'll say 1350? Just put in the book. Why not? Yeah, putting it in the book. You gave us a great backgrounder. I am highly appreciative You said 13 to 17? I said $13.50, $13.50. Oh, $13.50! Yeah and what are we doing on... should we do it on Brent or should we do it on WTI? No no you do it on WTI. WTI okay those are ways to go. Well anyway so we have a moment here and it's kind of interesting but this is not the big one. No uh-huh no the big ones coming 2017. It's going to be frightening I want to tell you right now that's gonna happen next year. All right hold on a second everybody one moment

2:24:42 Could you explain this in a very, very slow methodical voice? The big one is in 2017 and it's going to be frightening. Perfect thank you very much that'll be a ringtone You didn't know- you didn't hear the echo I put on it did ya? No I'm sure he'd put an echo It's a beautiful thing which reminds me of lot of this it reminds me a lot of this jingle we did So, have more tail. Have more tail. Have more tail.

2:25:29 have more kale. Well, it's worked obey its work john when when we first started seeing kale because and of course coming from the Netherlands we give kale to the cows in Holland okay? We are and I said okay belongs I'm sorry? It's where it belongs. It's a garnish, and in the war the Dutch came up with... It was depression food. Farmer coal or farmer kale boerdekool which is depression food because you know the Dutch made soup out of rocks out of nettles sugar beets so that... Rocks. Yeah rocks rock soup with nettles but you were very specific and you said this kale bull crap is leading to what

2:26:13 Bugs. Superfoods! Oh yeah, that was a superfood thing. And woe is me I see an article 8 super foods to watch out for in 2016. Oh? Let me give you the top 3 in reverse order. Can I just preface something here? Yeah The fancy food shows and some of these events that happen here and there around the country, this is where this data comes from. There's people that study this they have big events you go to it and...this is not somebody just pulling it out of their butt so generally speaking these articles when you run into them are right. Okay! That makes it even better yeah let us start with number eight John number eight waste-based food

2:27:05 Ah, this began. Can I interject? Let me read the caption and then you give us the background. This isn't as weird as it sounds in order to reduce food waste restaurants are finding creative ways to use edible parts of plants and animals that are often thrown out last year award-winning chef Dan Barber had a two week pop up at Blue Hill his restaurant New York City where he cooked with spent grain cocoa beans pasta scraps and vegetable pulp yeah Yeah, that guy is the guy who popularized this idea. And it was on all three by threes they all had stories on this guy and they said well yeah carrot trimmings garnished with you know paper just

2:27:50 And it's like, you know, people were eating all these crazy. These people lined up around the block in New York of course where they have New York morals or whatever comment was there all lined up and they're in their eating this and they describe it and the guy would come by them waiter to come by us at a tent because it makes it even better. I think we had some clips of this and the guy says yes, this is some scrapings from such-and-such and this is some pulverized dirt Yeah, I just didn't know the... Oh! I have that clip. Hold on.

2:28:32 So we basically made a broth that was fortified with flat deer. Michael Perillo and Margeet Verve just finished a dumpster dive salad, made with bruised apples and pears salvaged from the food processor in the neighborhood." I'll put this clip back in the show now as people need to listen to that. It's a little long. Need to listen to best clip it's titled Idiot New York City Chef Selling Garbage Exactly. So that's the genesis of that, okay onward! All right hold on I need to put this in notes there... Okay number seven kelp What is kelp? Does it come from the sea? Yeah, it's a seaweed. It comes and goes and I like kelp! It never becomes that popular. It has got a little kelpy flavor that gets on your nerves after you eat too much of it. The thing with kelp if you eat it then it gets stuck in your teeth and jams in there...you can't get out of it. It's disgusting actually. And its gluey. Number six often called the miracle tree or the tree of life

2:29:37 Then you want to wager a guess? Pine. Moringa! Well that would be I guess wouldn't have made. Yeah, moringa. Okay, moringa. Number five... Teff. Teff. What is teff? I don't know what it means. Sometimes written as teff or te-eff this pseudo grain technically it's a seed has a high nutritional profile and the taste similar to that of amaranth or quinoa This ancient grain has survived for centuries Yeah, well this is like quinoa. I have to... Yeah that's what they say it's like quinoa but I don't like... Quinoa which so many once said oh let's try some quinoa and so they have a lot of quinoa at and it's a little ball...I got two stories tell the bird story about quinoa? I think so but I don't care do it again. Quinoas became this extremely popular grain and it's like starving apparently a lot

2:30:37 You know, hold on John. Hold on. Hold on. Stop stop one second chat room You do not need to correct us in the pronunciation of this shit food Okay, Rorax pick a color people so we So they do you get that? Do you even get that joke indigenous people in South America that rely on eating quinoa But it's being stolen from and so the yuppies can eat this crap So, some guys decided they were gonna grow quinoa without the hard husk. It's got a little heart and there is a little seed...it's like a seed with a heart thing on the outside. So they grew...they did some genetic engineering and they go to grow it without the husk. And as soon as it hit the plant that started showed up millions of birds came in just wiped it out because apparently birds love this stuff but they can't get through the hard husks. So if someone says would you like some quinoa? You can just say nah that shits for the birds

2:31:30 Well you could say that or you can say no, it's starving indigenous people. It is exploitative and bad Now this other stuff I'll betcha is the same thing Well next one, I'm sure this will be right up your alley This is number four hold on Kefir Which is fermented goop? No, no. It's kefir or kiefer as we tend to pronounce it here in this country. Kieffer. It's available. It has been around for years. I drink it. It's the caucus, the people in the caucuses drink it to an extreme. They drink it in Ukraine and Russia... And the people that are... You had me at I Drink It, John! Kefir is good if you drink it, I'll drink it. It says here, it does say here, it is the trendiest fermented food right now. It says fermented fruit. You live to be 100 years old if you drink it all the time.

2:32:28 Alright, that's a testimony. You gotta get the good kefir and I'm gonna tell you right now what it is has been around for awhile it's the one brand they have all these different brands crap and you don't want to have any with lactobacillus there's a bunch of these essentially buttermilk cultures in should not be in kefir it's a different bunch of cultures now life way that's all you need to know Life way life where is a group of guys who came over from Ukraine with real key for Cultures Oh with camel urine sorry with camel urine

2:33:07 No, no. That's a different brand you gotta find that for some place else. These guys came out... It's just buttermilk is what it is only it's a little milder and it's like somewhere between yogurt and buttermilk but the Lifeway is the brand that's the brand you want everybody else's stuff is pretty mediocre and it's not even tasty. Lifeway is tasty! Excellent And just as an aside I believe we had a conversation about kombucha and all that crap, and you would like to recommend people stay away from that yes because Because there's no consistency in what...nobody knows what is growing in there. It's like some sort of mold and fungus, and acetobacters and it's just a colony of craziness. Anyone who'd you're taking your life in your own hands with some of these crazy things I think they could be incredibly bad for ya'.

2:34:03 Number three on the list, and I will tell you the name of number three according to trend expert Daniel Levine. This superfood is the new quinoa! What do you think? I thought that other stuff was the new quinoa... No this is the new quinoa. Amaranth. Oh yeah sure A grain like seed that cooks quickly and can be added to salad soups and stews it looks a little bit like... I don't know, what does it look like? Like little puffy things of goop. Looks like Rice Krispies! There you go. I've heard this thing get in traction. It's been shown to reduce inflammation and lower cholesterol levels and blood pressure Yeah it might probably does Alright number two... Is it tasty though is the question Number two has been declared by The United Nations 2016 is THE year of this superfood at number 2

2:35:05 You want to take a guess just for yucks? Cat poop. Pulses! What?! Pulses! Pulses? Papa Uniform Lima Sierra Echo Sierra dried seeds of lentil beans and chickpeas And the United Nations has declared 2016 to be their year They already make up 75% of the average diet in developing countries, but only 25 percent in developed ones pulses they're called So far everything on this list is depression food. Yeah, it's all depression food And then number one the number one Superfood to watch out for in 2016 I'm gonna let you have one guess Well It's probably something that has already showed up and it's becoming a big thing and I would suspect as a variant of kale No wrong Remember we're talking superfood

2:36:12 Uh, this food is loaded with protein. Um it uh... I don't want to give it away. It's not s-s-it maybe some form of soy? Nope! The number one superfood and you say that this list is probably pretty accurate because these guys do this all the time and they make a study of it And so far the list has been reasonably accurate for bull crap we're gonna have to eat The number one superfood is crickets Oh Although we haven't seen it coming. Yeah, of course We saw you see was gonna be official but that's the number one superfood because they're loaded with protein They also thrive in hotter climates and survive off decaying waste and very little water in space

2:37:12 For this reason, crickets and other insects have been hailed as the next climate-friendly superfood. Oh yeah baby! They can be ground into baking flour protein powder added to cookies brownies or milkshakes while eating crickets or any type of insect for that matter hasn't completely caught on in the U.S it's making progress last year food chain fast food chain way back burgers put out a fake press release is an April Fool's joke about the insect filled milkshakes but the idea was so popular they rolled out their oreo mud pie cricket protein milkshake Alright slaves, used to be mac and cheese now it's down to crickets. Mac and cheese? Cricket mac and cheese that sounds like- That would have been clip of the day! I've had two of those! Yeah! I'm doing very well! It's astonishing

2:37:56 That's disgusting. And may I point out how fortunate we are on this program, which of course includes everyone who is producing and listening to have an expert like you to be able to discuss this? You are not that much of an expert. More than anyone else! We did call the crickets about a year ago actually. Number one superfood But i didn't expect it to actually show up on a list...that's disgusting especially number 1 Yeah, that means people the you know what's the problem is that these idiots? You know I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area and there's all these restaurants And you know that these some of these one-star places somebody will be experimenting with this crap Of course it will have many more of those. You know a cute girl working for the news show goes into the restaurant Oh

2:38:53 And then any upset down all the not that bad. We're gonna see a million of those packages Yeah, yeah, yeah, it might as well start making them in advance You'll know when we're really really in trouble when you only be able to eat cricket food by paying with Bitcoin I mean That's when that's when will be over till the end will be nigh and I think that The end is pretty damn close with the crickets in the first place Alright, it takes about a two year rollout before these lists... They don't all take off. Not all the issues but just the ones that food shows will be having if you go to the food show. Oh yeah! The food shows love this. Yeah they'll be there and the cricket guys will have these pitches and brochures I should go to the next show. We should be making something with bugs man It's cheap to raise them. I really want to grow a bunch of bugs. I got ants Why don't you sell them?

2:39:51 The ants? Yeah, crunchy. Ants said there's some nutrition to ants I'm having lamb tonight. I've never seen an anteater look hungry. I just wanted to say interesting story. Yeah, no i'm talking about idiots and brain dead okay what you got? This is the horrible situation this a european story has not really played much in the united states but this is uh because we don't like to say anything bad about our drug companies but play the boy yes yeah i heard there's the drug trial story that's what this is yeah In France an investigation has begun into a drug trial gone disastrously wrong

2:40:29 One man is brain dead, five others are hospitalized after volunteering to take part in a trial for a painkiller. Al Jazeera's Nadeem Baba has more It was a clinical trial that went badly wrong. Now, with one person declared brain dead and five others in hospital the French health minister has ordered an investigation. The families are devastated we'll make sure they're given all the answers particularly as right now I'm not aware of any comparable case what has happened is unprecedented and requires the greatest possible vigilance in the coming investigation

2:41:06 The drug was being trialed at this private clinic in Rennes, Western France. It was meant to act on the body's endocannabinoid system which deals with pain. Hey a question? The endo cannabinoids... does that... how is that relate to marijuana for pain management? Not all? Okay. Well, the condition of a set of patients talks to it Marijuana talks to it? I think so yeah So marijuana talks who makes you feel better The condition of the other patients got worse over the first few days of this week, and today four out five other patients have neurological problems of varying gravity. One patient does not have any symptoms but is under intensive surveillance." A lawyer for the victims says there was clearly some kind of error or oversight

2:41:56 How come in 2016 with all the means we have such an accident could still happen? Okay, I'm very interested what it was that caused the brain damage. I have a theory okay well I Think this company is a Portuguese company BL that sent it to these bio trial guys and since I haven't had experience I think I've told the story before when I was an oil analyst or chemical, not an engineer but a chemical analyst at the Union Oil Company and I was doing testing. And I came up with some wrong tests because I screwed up. And I would probably have gotten fired if I hadn't of unscrewed up by slowly easing myself backwards out of this by continuing for about 10 hours. Wait stop! Stop! Stop! Did I tell this story before? No, never heard this story. This is a classic.

2:42:57 Well, I should probably save the story but let's just put it this way. I made a mistake of factor of 10 because...just the math is very easy with Western math to make a mistake. Yeah those abacus beads are hard. I think somebody looked at the numbers and they said micrograms and he thought milligrams or... Seriously, this happens if you're in the lab and you're like oh fire... And so he mixed up a batch. I'm sure that pills didn't come over already pre-made. Yeah. I'm sure it was something they were doing because they had different dosages maybe they were but even if there are premade could have been done. I think somebody just got a hot dose Most pain medication are SSRIs? No Opioids opioids

2:43:44 Well, maybe they OD'd. Maybe these people OD'ed? I think somebody screwed up the dosage and they don't want to talk about it It happens. Because I had this, this happened to me and when it happens to you... You.. I don't know how it even happens because you should know that in this case I could see where you wouldn't notice until the guy's brain died he said what the hell? And then you look back oh my god! I gave this guy 100 times more than I was supposed to. Do you know what I do? I blame this on Common Core. Ah yes exactly I got a final one. The United Nations of Gitmo Nation East, we're very proud of their boy Tim Peake. Tim Peake the national hero finally we got the Union Jack up there in space he's uh...the first British

2:44:36 Space-tronaut to do a walk. He did it walk and this clip is interesting for a number of reasons I implore people to watch the video It's in the show notes 7 9 or 1 dot no agenda notes calm under clips and docs is where you can find it Very strange report. We'll discuss afterwards. Now in other news, a spacewalk to repair the International Space Station has ended early after one of the astronauts reported a water bubble in his helmet Both of the astronauts, The Britain Tim Peake and The American Tim Kopra on the space walk have returned to the station and they are safe

2:45:12 Our science editor David Shookman now reports. A moment of exploration history as Tim Peake prepares to venture outside the space station through the course of the depressurization weightless but jammed into a bulky spacesuit he needs his colleagues to guide him into the airlock and when you see this video, I'll just tell you what the conspiracy is about this and you can laugh at me later The conspiracy is that All astronaut movement you see, so-called outside of the space station is actually done in a swimming pool where they film it. And activity inside the space station people are suspended by wires for them floating around. It's just a conspiracy theory but when you look at it and they're floating around...it's quite a long piece video You'll see that their shoulders have these suspicious points

2:46:02 that are being raised with shoulder pads underneath it apparently and then we get this bubble of water inside the spacesuit which leads me to the next question what have they ever done on the International Space Station except fix the damn thing? It's all, they're always repairing it! Ever since I can remember. But oh, we have to repair so now there's something wrong with the... hmmm I wrote it down hold on Hand by hand, Tim Peake and a fellow astronaut inched along outside. Yeah Tim that's perfect framing right there we like that. Filmed by his American colleague who sounds like I don't know

2:46:40 a movie director. That's perfect framing, stay right there block the shot everybody we're good to go Tim Peake is perched at the very edge of the space station in position to help carry out a key repair job stepping outside the International Space Station is always risky but spacewalks are essential to build and fix things now the astronauts emerged through an airlock here and if we take a closer look we can see how they had to make their way about 60 meters to replace what's called a sequential shunt unit. What is a sequential shunt unit? What is that and how, and why does it break and how do you fix it? What is that?! I have no idea... Hold on a second!

2:47:21 sequential shunt this is funny one of those general words if you ever work in a factory is it yeah at a shunt I need a shunt yeah here we go like a shim electrical system of the International Space Station here we go let me see if there's a shunt what does the shunt 82 separate solar array strings feed a sequential shunt unit known as the SSU that provides coarse voltage regulation at the desired voltage, the SSU applies a dummy load that increases as the station's load decreases. Okay I understand so it is kind of a regulator? So the batteries discharge evenly? It is not technically a regulator but shunt is not the word I use Well its called the SSU If you have an international space station International being the key word

2:48:17 Why is the voltage 120 volts well why isn't it always known to be a safer voltage, but you But you know, so only Americans can bring their stuff up to plug it in? There's plenty of places that have 120 that are not American. Let's continue That's part of the power supply connecting the solar panels The main task was to replace that power unit They had to get it done within 31 minutes because that's how long night lasts on the space station and if sunlight hit the solar panels they could have been electrocuted You might die really They're gonna be electrocuted by the soul with the event all went well

2:49:01 Suddenly drama Drama then a problem a problem. We know it's a small amount of water If there's any way to get a temperature of the water, I don't know if you can move it around So there's a water bubble now. I think is the other way around? I think though. I don't think this came from his pack. I'm thinking you know His suit as leaky he's in the swimming pool and waters going we got to get this guy out into that Or to try to drink it and note the taste. And then Mission Control says, why don't you try to drink the water bubble? Tell us what it tastes like. Is this yellow?! That was my first thought as well Strange. It's found in the helmet of Tim Peakes companion Tim Kopra. They were ordered back inside a syringe was used to collect samples of the water This matters

2:49:51 because three years ago an astronaut nearly drowned in his spacesuit. This time no harm was done and the main repair task was completed. But there'll be questions about what went wrong, and all of this is a reminder of the dangers of working in space. Yes! The dangers are working in space All right, they're always what do they do? What is what goes on up there would expect all science experiments But what experiments like what kinds of experiments you could look it up. Look space station experiment So but there's thousands of them

2:50:30 Are you there? Yeah, I'm not looking it up. Oh okay um Finally just I mean if the pea I mean I admire some of these crazy ideas that like the water and those space station nobody's ever We don't have anybody in orbit and God knows what yeah But the problem with this is like hey how long are you gonna run this gag on us It's a little too long To be running a gag like this, it just doesn't make sense. I mean unless you're completely of psychopaths... Nah. Whoa! Did you just contradict yourself? Of course they're psychopaths No. I have uh- Just a final thing i want to leave everybody with for the face bag since it's so unbelievably hypocrite

2:51:14 I've seen so many people making jokes about Jerry Hall and Rupert Murdoch. And we... Oh, I'm all with you on this! Didn't we talk about this in the last show? We did and something hit me after the show. Okay If someone makes jokes of these and under face bag these are all Democrats Obama bots You know everyone's better than the next Everyone knows it so well And then, oh wow! Yeah go dig a Jerry Hall. My question is to these people... Really? Whatever happened to you should be able to marry the person you love hypocrite It's okay if it's gays and lesbians but if there's an age difference Oh no then we all had then this not okay Ooh I like that Try that one out try that one out Oh yeah it's dynamite Does it need perfecting or does it uh.. Is kind of there right

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