Postcard From Paris

00:00 And I'll be talking about IMAX on the podcast. Adam Curry, John C. DeVore. It's Sunday, May 8th, 2016 and time once again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 823. This is no agenda. Oh yeah, okay. Sorry. I'm sorry I have such a cool life.

00:40 And you don't apparently. I don't. I'm back home in Tejas. We had a reasonably good trip home except for the flight from New York to Austin. Oh yeah. Great hell. So Amsterdam to New York was fantastic. You can't fly direct obviously. KLM, man KLM is so superior to Delta. Hold on a second. What? You know you can fly direct from Oakland and San Francisco on various carriers. Why not Austin? Oh, wait, and they just initiated a new direct flights to London from San Jose. Now, we have a direct flight to London daily on Virgin. I'm sorry, British Airways. I was talking to the KLM, to the senior purser.

01:32 The senior purser? Senior purser, yes. You know, it's one of the... It's the flight attendant. Yeah, I'm told it's the purses. She is in charge. Okay, ladies, purses in the air. 30 years. We're stealing those drinks, those little drink bottles. We know what you're up to. 30 years she would work with KLM. And I say, well, what about these 10,000 jobs that are going to be lost? She says, oh, the French are fucking everything up. Says sometimes when I do the announcement, I'm supposed to say KLM Air France. Sometimes I just forget to say Air France. That's that's that is the way to go. That's giving it to him. I thought that was pretty cool. And that was, you know, these triple sevens. KLM Airlines and Air. Yeah. So we flew on the triple seven, the triple seven 300. It's I think it's it carries more people than the Dreamliner.

02:21 Oh, no, it does. Oh, yeah. Four hundred and fifty two passengers. The Dreamliner doesn't carry that. It should carry more than that. I don't think so. It's a nice big plane. It's a great plane. Yeah, I've always liked it. That's an older model. I think I think they're beyond 300 now. Well, this has the new interior. That was nice. Anyway, when they first came out, the triple seven, I remember the first time I got on one and it had the position, the buttons for the Entertainment system right every if you put your hand at all anywhere on the arm rest and then you switch elbow Yeah, you're changing channels. That hasn't changed that still happens. It's just idiotic So then we had a little labor in New York, and I knew that we would have Wi-Fi on the on the plane

03:12 coming back because I was trying to prep everywhere at the same time because we weren't going to be home until around 11 p.m. So we're on the Delta flight and you know we're up and they just turned the Wi-Fi on and then all and you know then all of a sudden there's this two rows behind us this guy goes and I got headphones on like oh what's going on you know Tino woke up I don't know it sounds like some guy was pissed at his wife or something What happened was a guy had some kind of medical emergency, older guy. You know, older like, he looked like he was late 60s maybe. And, um, and it was heart related I guess. So there was a lot of, you know, walking with back and forth with the oxygen and then of course he got puking everywhere. Oh, jeez! Poor stewardesses! I mean flight attendants. That's when you really know, like, I'm glad they're on board, man. Just deal with all that shit.

04:05 And then we had to wait, you know, and I was like, oh, emergency landing anywhere. Well, let me tell you. So I immediately went on online to see if we were squawking 7700 because the last thing I wanted to do was for us to make an emergency landing in Dallas. I mean, okay, for the guy, sure. But for us, no. But so I guess they determined it wasn't that bad, although they did have EMS come on board to take him off. I mean, I had to wait. Oh, this was what? This was at the airport before he took off? No, no. When we landed. So we did land in Austin. Yeah, we did land in Austin. Anyway, so I didn't need that. We had a great trip. It was like, oh, just puke and smell and like screaming and moaning like, oh, geez. I felt bad for the guy, but holy moly, throw him in the back. They should have a little unit in the back. They can do the isolation. I mean, the first thing I was doing is like, INZIKA! INZIKA! EVERYBODY!

04:59 I didn't really, but I thought about it. Yeah, you're not too tight. And then we arrive in Austin to very, very bad news, John. Very, very bad news. And that bad news was what? The final numbers have just come into the newsroom. We want to give you a look and these are the total final numbers and the Prop 1 losing pretty quickly. Wait, stop. Yeah? Final numbers, these aren't just the final numbers. These are the total final numbers. Total final numbers. Wait, wait, stop, stop. These aren't the final numbers. These aren't the total final numbers. These are the last total final numbers. The last ones that could be totaled.

05:35 We had a referendum, a ballot I call a referendum, we had a ballot here in Austin for Prop 1, which was the only prop being propped. And despite Uber and Lyft collecting almost 70,000 signatures, only 44% of the vote, which was about 35,000, said, yeah, we want Uber and Lyft to stay without all the restrictions from the city of Austin. the city, essentially the city won. And I'll get into just a bit of detail what the problem is with it. And Uber and Lyft have both said, well, they said up until this report, they said, well, as of Monday 8 a.m., we're not going to serve Austin anymore. And we're just going to stop all services. Convincingly, 56 to 44 percent. KXN's Kylam Givern has been following the development, joining us live from Scholz Garden. Now listen to this. How both sides are reacting.

06:32 Well, you can hear the excitement behind me. This is a group of people who, as you can imagine, were against Prop 1. A lot of celebration tonight. People coming in. So against Prop 1 means they wanted the city of Austin to regulate. Uber and Lyft very similarly to other transportation companies like taxicabs and here all these people hooting and hollering that we did it wow we fucked the man the big companies evil evil the screaming the chanting but of course there's a lot of questions now about what this means and what uber and lyft have to say so here's what we know listen to these people screw over get them out

07:14 released a statement. This is from the general manager of Uber Austin and he said in part, disappointment does not begin to describe how we feel about shutting down operations in Austin. We hope city council will reconsider their ordinance so we can work together to make the streets of Austin a safer place for everyone. And now we also wanted to talk about what Lyft had to say. We reached out to them as the votes were coming in and they recently told us quote, unfortunately the rules passed by City Council don't allow true ride sharing to operate. Instead, they make it harder for part-time drivers. Because of this, we will pause operations in Austin on Monday, May 9th. Now, we do want to mention that Lyft said on Thursday that it would cease operations on Monday, and now they are saying pause operations.

08:02 All right, so there's a little difference. He pauses the same thing. Well, Uber is saying we're out and and Lyft says we're like suspending our presidential campaign. A quick analysis of this, these two sides. Of course, what's really going on in Austin is we have this overprotective nature that you know as we've seen with a lot of Retarded America in general this because that's we are retarding in our intelligence and in what we think you know being safe Can I jump in sure I would just if you were just told I didn't even know this is going on I don't think anybody else did either. We've talked about it on the show, but that man is in point case in point right Yeah, are you telling me that you have this kind?

08:50 kind of modern liberal state, Austin. A state, by state I mean an area that's got its own kind of way of doing things. That's kind of new happening progressive, they're progressive. Not only that, John, we are the testing bed for the sharing economy for the depression jobs, which includes Favor and Uber and Airbnb. Everything runs through Austin. We're the first ones. We have Google Fiber. Silicon, what do they call it the other day? Silicon Prairie. Silicon Prairie is what they're calling us now. And you're telling me that when given the chance to use the services that are cheap? Hello? Oh, cabby. Yeah. They voted no?

09:37 This is why I did the stop. This reminds me of the California first initiative to legalize marijuana back in the day. It was, I don't know, about three or four years ago. Before anybody, before anyone legalized it, like Colorado, Washington, the rest of these, Oregon. California made a big deal. We were pushing, they pushed this thing through and then the state of California, and I'm pretty much a Californian and all I've been hearing all my life is bitching and moaning about legalizing drugs, legalizing marijuana in particular. They voted no. Yeah, I remember this, of course. Yeah. So, so, um, and this is a woman named Ann Kitchen, I think, Kitchens or Kitchens? Yeah, Kitchens.

10:19 And she really spearheaded this. Now here's what they've asked for. So it's, first of all, it's more thorough background checks that the city would do with, you know, like deep, deep, you know, the same guys who I guess vet all of our intelligence people in government. really, which I don't there's no I don't think that's that's just a red herring. That's where it's come down to all it's about fingerprinting and background checks. Well, no, because it also and I'll get to watch it get to the sticker in a second. But they want to be able to say because I read all of this last night just reviewed because the proposal has changed a couple times.

11:00 So you won't be able to just pick people up, you know, you have to stop in designated places, which is similar to cab legislation. So we're so afraid of traffic. The second one is, well, there's a lot of things that these companies already do about displaying fares, etc. However, the city specifically says surge pricing, the city at any point can say, hey, because of weather or any other event or an emergency, they can tell these companies no surge pricing, you have to go for the regular fare. Most egregious, which is barely talked about, is the 1% of all revenue that the city of Austin wants. Gross revenue from Uber for every ride on an annual basis in the city. So I can understand... That, of course, is the real problem. Because you start with 1%, and then it's 2%, and then it's 5%, and who knows where it goes.

11:57 And now the noise... Gouging things. Yeah, what I'm hearing now from, you know, around town is that, oh, well, we really hope that now they'll come to the negotiating table. This is your negotiating tactic. Okay, fine. But the part that's really messed up is who was spearheading this effort against the...they call them transportation network companies, I think, because I want to classify them. And it's this outfit That is all about the... hold on, about... I just got to find the actual page.

12:37 about B Corporations. Have you heard about B Corporations? Do you know what this is? B? B as in Bravo, B Corporations? No. Okay. So there's this organization called Thumbs Up and I believe that they originated in Austin and they are the ones that got funding to go out and fight Uber. They want to create a non-profit corporation, a B corporation, actually a B corporation with a non-profit component. And you know, it looks like, oh, this is what Ben and Jerry does, they're B corporations. And like, what the fuck is a B corporation? What is going on with this? And they got a grant from the city of Austin to create this certification called Thumbs Up.

13:22 And every car would have to have, you know, that has gone through the background check, you know, they have to have a thumbs up sticker. If not, then they're in violation. $500 a pop. Oh my God, there's no sticker. 500 bucks. But I was looking into this, this B corporation. and they tout a lot of corporations like Etsy and as I said Ben and Jerry and like okay B Corporation so they want to be a B Corporation they've received funding and they and they now want Uber and Lyft to be B Corporations as well and let's investigate and I came across a little video with an explanation of what a B Corporation is. We have a dream.

14:00 That one day all companies will compete not only to be the best in the world, but the best for the world. Others share this dream and have begun to turn the dream into a community. This community signed a declaration of interdependence. Are you puking in your mouth yet or how are you doing listening to this? I'm aghast. Continue. And invited others to join them. All that's missing is a little whiteboard action in this video, but unfortunately, that didn't happen. Now more than 900 companies from 29 countries are turning our community into a global movement to redefine success in business. It goes on and on. The idea is that nothing changes. You have to just run through a set of qualifications to become certified, and the certification fee is a percentage of your revenue.

14:59 which can be up to $50,000 for a corporation to get this coveted B Corp seal of approval. What? Which might as well just be the social justice warrior seal of approval because this is what it's about. Oh, we have to have background checks because women are getting raped on Uber. Oh, we have to have background checks because there was a guy on drugs. Women have been raped on Uber. A couple, a couple. Yeah. Sure. There's been more than a couple of women raped in general. Yeah, of course. But I'm just saying that what has happened in Austin is really sad. It's really, really sad. Because we have to be overly protected. And to a degree, like, I agree, that's okay, but... I want my safe space! Stop talking about this! That's exactly right. That's exactly the problem. Stop talking about this! You're talking about it! I want my safe space. I didn't come to do this show so I could be intimidated. That's the point, exactly. It's disturbing.

15:57 That's pretty funny. I like that. So now I don't know what we're going to do. I don't know what to do now. Yeah, you're screwed. I love the Uber's. Now, of course, I'll be the first to agree that Uber, I don't know about Lyft because I haven't tried Lyft, but Uber, yeah, I mean the ride sharing components, I won't take those cars. I won't take the bottom, the Uber pool. Oh, so it's pretty much a car service that just works much, much better. And the guys who will drive those car services, who are the kind of the guys in the car service level of Uber, they have all their ducks in a row. They got the proper insurance, they have livery licenses, they're just using it as a booking mechanism. And that part is, I think that's really the successful part. I don't know about the ride sharing. A city like Austin, where one of the top cities of drunk people, just drunks, we're a drunk city.

16:51 Figures. Party school, drunk city. You look at DUIs and other infractions, they have gone down significantly in Austin. I think there's a public safety situation there. You're talking about this being ruined by these people. Yes. They just want people to be drunk and killing each other. They're a bunch of ogres. No, they want money. They want money from these companies. That's what they want. Just money. Money, money, money, money, money. Anyway, back from the... Stop a second, since we're on this topic, I want to continue. If it's genuine ride sharing as it was initially... Originally intended, sure. Which is my take on it was hitchhiking. We had this 40 years ago during the cycle in the 70s, everybody's hitchhiking. I have one friend that hitchhiked from coast to coast. He could afford to take a plane, but he just did it. And do you remember in the 70s when girls would be wearing hot pants with a backpack and they were hitchhiking?

17:48 Of course, I remember that. Yeah. Well, there's a lot of hot pants were all over the place. You don't see that anymore. People are afraid to do that. Yeah. And so ride sharing to me technically was what it says, ride sharing. I'm sharing a ride with somebody. Is that illegal? Can I can I'm living in Austin. You're living in Austin. You say, let's go to the football game over there at Texas Stadium. I'll pick you up. Is that illegal? Is it illegal for me to pick you up? I mean this was the original. That was the original premise, yeah. The original premise, exactly. It's the original premise, still as far as I'm concerned still exists. Why can't they just say I'm just ride-sharing as a friend of mine? That's the way it started. Yeah, that's the way it started. Well, I think that I've always said

18:39 The true solution, this is just an interim step, the true solution is a cooperative organization where everybody, you know, there's a platform and there's an app and then there's a small staff running that who create it. And then there's money paid to the maintenance of the platform. And then you pay for the transaction fee and then the system just kind of works. Everyone's a part of it. I think that would be, then you can make that argument. The problem is these people see Uber valued at, you know, 40 billion, whatever bullcrap number it is, and think, I want a piece of that because we're losing revenue because the cab companies are going to knock it. I think I actually saw them say that during one of those town hall meetings. So anyway, to me, the travesty is just it's all about forget the money for a moment. Just like, oh, we have to be as safe as possible.

19:33 And now... Save space! But they want to do this with everything. So now they're going to have to go to the favor kids, which is basically me hiring someone else's millennial to go get me food, which I think is a great service. And they make money. Every single kid I've talked to here who's in college said, yeah, I ran five Uber, five favors yesterday and I got a little money. But now, now they have to be vetted and fingerprinted. They have to become little bee, bee, bee, bee millennials that all, you know, Be with with a with the okay thumbs up sign sticker on the thumbs up on my car And no they that they walk or they ride the light the thumbs up things It's already a ripoff of the of the Facebook like thumb I'm amazed. They haven't been sued over it quite honestly it suit yeah, so but forget that John

20:24 Being in Paris, completely different experience from the Netherlands and I learned a lot about tensions, about what people are thinking. A lot of that has to do, of course, because no one knows me. I learned a lot in this week and I'm excited to share it. Well, we've been sitting here waiting, but you insisted on talking about local issues. So sorry about that. First of all, you know, we brought the Amazon Echo. Man, that is an interesting experience. It really is.

21:02 Having, you know, your stuff... Like having a... bringing a parrot on a vacation. No, it'd be... it's a little bit of home, you know, because you can say, hey, play my so-and-so playlist or my, you know, my Spotify... I don't know, my Pandora radio station. And, you know, it's portable almost. You can walk it around a little bit and put it... it plugs in. It's not hard to configure for different Wi-Fi. It's cool, I have to say. But it's a very interesting experience for a trip. And I think that small one, the portable one they have is... it would be dynamite, really dynamite. They have a small one? Yeah, it's called the... But this big one doesn't sound bad enough. Yes, Adam, we will play your playlist. First song by the Rolling Stones. Are you saying that it doesn't sound good? I can't! You can't? I'm sorry, I'm missing... It's too small. There's no way it can push enough air. It's compared to USB or Bluetooth-based speakers, travel speakers, it's okay.

22:02 It's okay. It's all right compared to taking two wires and stick them in a dog turd is much better sounding. Okay, go ahead. Sorry. I'm sorry. Are you gonna be like this for the next two hours? No, no, it's just I'm you know how much I'm against this disambustible thing. I know. I wrote a whole column bitching about it. Well, then let me let me blow your mind right now. Okay. Before this trip without telling anyone I acquired for research purposes An Apple Watch. Stop. I want my safe space. I figured we had bitched about it enough that I needed to see what this, if it's any good or not. I like the way you're rationalizing this. This is great. It's the truth. It's the truth.

22:56 Yeah. Would you like my report or should we leave that for later? I would love your report. Why don't we do that later? We'll do a little tech news segment on it. Okay? Yes, I have tech news too. Okay, good. Now. I was going to go back to Paris. Back to the little device. I was going back to Paris. No, I thought you never finished up on your story with the Amazon thing. It's great. I love it. Fantastic. It's great on the road. Better than I ever dreamed. I've lost you. Yes, yeah, you've lost me. I'm sure you've lost me. You're gone. Yeah. Yeah, but you know what? At least I'm trying these things out. I'm trying new things, John. I'm open to your experience. We need to see new, we need to see others. We can have an open podcast relationship, surely.

23:44 We do you're always with that hussy the Horowitz She's just a friend yeah a friend zone. I can't have friends. I gotta move on I gotta move on okay Some first of all some real things that are very very noticeable in Paris now my I was I surprised how much French I actually knew. Of course, I took French, it was mandatory French growing up in the Netherlands, and I took it all the way through high school. And as the days progressed, I'm like, wow, I can actually kind of hold up a conversation if they don't talk too fast. I watch television, I can't, it's almost impossible.

24:28 But, you know, if I said, you know, parlez lentement, s'il vous plaît, and then, you know, just slow it down a bit and then I could get... But they also... Every single French person we spoke to was kind, immediately, you know, no arrogance towards us. Like, hey, you know, I can also speak English, but I love how you're trying your French. You know, glad to have you here. It's fantastic. Bottom line. Very surprising. What? Bottom line. They're losing money. Turn it around. So the most information, I got the most information from Uber drivers. And... That's always been, it's always been a thing of yours. Yes, it has been. Now, we had, I think we took in total five Ubers, four of the drivers were Moroccans, and one was a, you know, born and bred Frenchman. The Moroccans, they were all like, you know, they were definitely saying, hey, you know,

25:26 It's been really strange here, but it feels like people are coming together and everything's okay. But what we're really worried about here in Paris is World War III, which will be started by Donald Trump if he becomes president. So now imagine trying to hit someone in the mouth in French, okay? But I did it. And this one guy, he was like, Bob, I see it on the news. Trump, of course, he said, I'm a Muslim. He hates all Muslims. He wants to start a third world war. The guy is insane. I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, man. I'm saying, you know, this is propaganda. This is little sound bites, which sound bites is a tough one to translate into French.

26:13 But what I liked is after this trip, you know, maybe 15 minutes, he said, hey, you know, thank you. You really changed my perspective. I'm going to pay a little bit more attention now because you may be right. They've done that stuff to Le Pen as well. And I've, you know, we've heard, you know, I've seen this. So you thinking they really do that about Donald Trump? Yes, of course they do. It's an establishment versus him. So it was nice. Now the French guy, he, He definitely wants Hillary Clinton. He said Trump is a maniac, can't have this guy. But then he talked about, as we moved into talking about immigrant migration and particularly the Bataclan and the Charlie Hebdo attacks.

26:57 He said, well, you know, this was really bad, but what's happening now is for the first time in 30 years, the tolerance index is going up in France. And I'd never heard of this, but there is indeed a government study, which you can take it for what it's worth. And tolerance index means tolerance for foreigners, but also internally for different religions, et cetera. And he was very bullish that this has actually pulled everybody together. We went to this one area the Malen I think it is it's where it's kind of like the gay area they have a lot of Male clothing stores a whole street. You know what I'm talking about no It's it's not far from the plaster a public where they have the demonstrations where we also went to see some of the protests and the and you know the whole the statue in the middle there there

27:50 It's kind of like there was at the Revolutionary Memorial, I think, for 1814 or that it could be. Yeah, there's some statue and it's just, you know, it's almost like the dam in the 60s and 70s as a hippies kind of, you know, well, today's version of hippies sitting around smoking dope, which also doesn't seem to be a problem in Paris in that case. And this is very near where Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan are. And so we went down the long row of male clothing stores, which, John, unbelievable! You've got to go here! I bought a suit. Adam Curry in a suit, can you believe it? I bought a suit.

28:28 So you for like three hundred and fifty dollars which? Anything that fits me in general is gonna be six or seven you're you're just you're distorted well Yeah, I have body dysmorphia and... Body dysmorphia, that's exactly it. But apparently I have a French physique, so these things fit me and they have this new, this space-age material where you can, you know, he said here, take the pants and he screwed them up into, you know, like a corkscrew and let it go and there's not a wrinkle! I'm investigating. Very very good. I bought that so I'll shoot you a picture. Yeah, now that you mention it on the show it's a tax write-off. Good for you. That's why I did it. I know what you mean. But as I was talking to the sales guy, Joseph, and I said, you know, what do you think this was? Who were these people? Where did he come from? He says, unbelievable, this is right here in this neighborhood. We went to school with them. We had, you know, went dancing with them. We were blue jeans. We grew up together and all of a sudden they flipped and then this happened.

29:31 which was not what I expected to hear. I was kind of ready to hear, you know, where did they come from, outsiders? And I said, this is, we grew up with these people who did this. So that is, you know... Yeah, it's disturbing. It is disturbing. Now, a couple other things. The beggars and homeless people. Now, the homeless situation in Paris is interesting. Because they seem to be pretty well off and they're not bothered where they, you know, they're sleeping in doorways, but with little tents and little Bunsen burners and, you know, mattresses and they don't really...they just look like they're temporarily experiencing homelessness, not that they're just really homeless. You know what I mean? I'm sure you've seen this in Paris. Dr. Kahney Not really, not to any extent. I haven't been there for about five years, so I think this is more recent.

30:32 And I imagine, maybe they're chemists. Yeah, better living through chemistry. Beggars! Now there's about five people out there that will get that joke. And they'll go on and continue. You won't get it either. No, I was trying to think. I'll tell you, tell it to you later. Go on. When, and when it comes to beggars, there's a continuing theme, which is Muslim women who are just, they plant themselves in the middle of the sidewalk where their head bowed down with a cup and they just, just, and then they're just kneeled there for hours. Yeah. It's, it's really bizarre. Yeah. I've seen that sort of thing throughout Europe. And they don't get a lot of donations.

31:14 Well, they don't do a very good job. Just standing there with a cup doing nothing doesn't really cut it. We had, we went to the Luxembourg Gardens. which I guess it was a palace that was built at one point there. And they had one of those, the true original crepe Suzette stands. Oh nice. Oh my god. I didn't know that they... So first they create the big pancake, the big crepe, and then you flip it over, but then they put the lemon on, the sugar, and then they fold it, and you get it in like a little folded piece of paper, and you just kind of tear pieces off. I thought they only rolled it up, but that seems to be

31:52 The way to do it. I think foaling has always been the way to do it I didn't know that that was dynamite now in in every single park We walk through and Paris has just park after park after park is really beautiful You see people sitting around they'll be eating talking Reading a book writing drawing total absence of cell phones very very noticeable Kids, same thing. Students, high school kids, of course some of them are on their phone, but really I would say it was 90% were just hanging out and just talking and eating. No phones, not even one in the group. That's actually phenomenal. It was so noticeable and so refreshing. That's the only reason you noticed it because it was so noticeable. Yes, and refreshing. Like wow, okay, alright French. And I think it might have something to do with

32:44 If you look at the culture of online, France was online very, very early with the Minitel system. Remember that? Minitel? Oh yeah. We had one at InfoWorld. Yeah. And it was like a terminal and I used the one in the Netherlands. They tried to make it happen in the Netherlands, but they eventually just went to Teletext, which was the, you know, they still have that text on TV. Yeah. Text sent along with the television signal. But Minitel, you know, the Parisians or the French were using that for decades before. Yeah, they were using it. It also turned into a texting system. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. The end of its lifetime turned into a massive methodology for hookers to... Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right. It was huge for them. Yeah. And then most besides that being noticeable,

33:36 Paris, even with the conversion of euro to dollar, Paris is cheaper than Austin, Texas. What if it was that way before the Hebdo incident? I don't know what's going on in Austin, but I see... I'm just looking at rent. You're just saying Austin's being jacked up for no apparent reason is what you're thinking. There's no reason, by the way, for Paris to be cheaper than Austin, Texas. No, thank you. Let's start with that premise. And when you look at what you get for the money, if you're looking at like, you know, one bedroom for 1,500 euros, which is kind of on par with what you'd pay in Austin. I mean, you've got a view of the Eiffel Tower, you've got...it's all new, you know, it's maybe an older building, but they have new windows and new kitchens and new floor. Yeah, they fix them up. Yeah, beautiful. What's going on?

34:29 Yeah, just food, everything seemed... Since your French is passable, it would probably improve quickly and it's cheaper. I think you should move to Paris. Well, it's a consideration for a while. I certainly learned a lot more than being in Amsterdam. The French are very open about talking about how they feel and what's going on and much more politically aware. Even if it's misconstrued, Or, in my opinion, you know, they're brainwashed. We don't have any patents on that. But enjoyable. Really enjoyable. It had a good laugh with everybody about our, you know, hey, I don't want your freedom fries. You can laugh with the French. They like it. Especially if you're self-deprecating, they fucking love you.

35:16 Yeah, I don't know. I've never found it difficult to get along with the French, mainly because I have a lot of respect for their culture. It's not dissimilar to ours or what it used to be, you know, really nationalistic. Of course, we were there on the 5th of May, which is Ascension Day, and they had the 8th, which is today is Liberation Day or what they call I don't know if they call it Liberation Day. It's a big party and, you know, they got parades. And just looking at all of their, you know, it's like Washington DC with all their monuments and monuments to war. I mean, the Arc de Trump is unbelievable. That thing is so huge. The Arc de Trump. That's what I call it. The Arc de Trump. Huge that thing is.

35:58 Yes, it's a very it's a pleasant sight and it's a war memorial. You know it's for the end is the unknown soldier And you know there's a lot of things I'd either forgotten or didn't know and it was gonna used to be it was gonna be a giant elephant No, no, no yeah, no yeah balancing a ball. No yeah, tell me about it It was just if you do look into the history of the Arc de Triomphe when they first came up with it the idea It was going to be a something with a big giant elephant like a circus elephant with a big ball He's holding up or it's on his back on his truck. No look it up. Yeah, seems like a very fake. It seems like a mistake Well why you I'm gonna continue talking about this stuff, so you had some good food. I take it yeah We had some dynamite food

36:46 Did you get...one of the things I was hoping you would do, because I haven't been there, like I said, for a few years, is tell me what this modern French is. Did you get a clue at all? Well, the modern French is the ones that you had listed in the document you sent us, thank you again, impossible to get into. Booked for...all of them, booked for weeks. All of the, all the, all the modern French places were sold out. Yeah. And yeah, you could, and now it was in like the second quarter or something. So you can go up there and just like, I told you when I said one of us is booked now. I tried and they said, no, you have to call a couple of days before because we have nothing. And the other one I called and I got their office, like, Oh, and it was this secret number to call whatever we did have. Of course we had an anniversary dinner and one of the restaurants you recommended, which was outstanding.

37:39 That was the the celebrity chef restaurant and really really really enjoyed that and they had I mean just the like the chef free hors d'oeuvres It's crazy, and I can't I don't remember what it was first. They got to give you a lot of free food Yeah, it was like a little homemade square marshmallow with some you know goose Stuff on it, and I don't know it was just like explosions in my mouth of a taste But we also went to a place like Le Grand Palais and I had duck confit, which is one of their specialties and you know, very, very good.

38:21 But when you say the modern French, maybe we had it and didn't know that it was called that. I'm sure there was an element of it in that. It must have been. But what do you consider to be the modern French? I don't know. This is like a trend I just started to spot and now it's like these places are bad. What are they doing differently? I mean, I have no idea. I haven't been able to figure it out. I don't know anyone doing it here that I know of. So I'm completely befuddled by this. It could be presentation is different. But I don't think so. Now there's a... I have to always keep... Somebody listens to the show and probably been to Paris recently and went to some of those places. I mean, the only thing going on in this country, for example, is now apparently... And I have a clip. Oh, here we go. The blizzard from Dairy Queen is now filled with fudge. And here's what they have to say. I actually fill the blizzard with fudge.

39:16 Science! Really? I didn't hear that one again. I actually filled the blizzard with fudge. Science! Science! Alright, evergreen. Nice. I just... Oh, you just cut out, John. To have the ISO of science. Oh, you just cut out. Oh, I have the ISO of science. If you did that one doesn't work. Science! Oh, nice. That's another good one. I can keep both of them. Perfect. I don't understand why there's like mocking. There's some mocking going on in the culture of science. Oh, but it's it's all part of the, you know, science is a new religion. It's like like the website. I effin love science. You know, you can use science in the following sentence. You're an a-hole because science.

40:09 You know, that's the kind of stuff. So it's replacing fact. Yes, it's replacing fact. Exactly. Exactly. And it's highly annoying. You think? Yeah. Oh, man. All right. So let's go back to the OK, so you had the miserable flight. You had the Paris experience. Did you go outside of town? Did you do anything? No, no. We went to I think we talked about that before. You went to Dorsey. Dorsey, which was fantastic. And we did a lot of things, a lot of walking. It was just, you know, nice. It was beautiful weather. And of course, you know, we did the anniversary love lock on the bridge.

40:50 which apparently the French don't like. They're mad. Really? Yeah, they're mad about tour operators who are saying, oh, come to Paris and they give you the lock and everything and they drive you to the bridge because these shitty tourists are defacing our bridges. Oh, yeah, I can see that. I can see it, yeah, but it's happening everywhere and it's really not a Paris thing. This started years ago, not in Paris. You know, it's only been the last couple of years that... The Paris prefer their own traditions. Which is what? We should have done it. We should have done it. You're throwing your girlfriend off the Eiffel Tower. Oh, and we got... when we were back, we went back via Schiphol.

41:31 Just stayed overnight there and then hopped on the plane. So we took the train back to the airport. Is the Wi-Fi still working? It sure is, yeah. The no agenda special Wi-Fi if you're ever at Schiphol Airport, just shoot me an email. I'll give you the login details. It was fantastic. I love that. And then we went and walked past the newsstand. We hit the trifecta. A hat trick. All three gossip rags in a row. You and... really? Yeah. You want to hear a little bit of the headlines? Yeah, send me the covers and photos of the good, I'm sure you took them home. Send me the photo covers and so I'll put them in the next newsletter. Where'd you go? I'm sorry, I forgot to put them in my show prep pile.

42:24 Okay, oh you send me pictures of this out. I did I did I sent you pictures you didn't use oh, okay? Well, I'll go yeah now. I think we had mentioned the first one right that the And this is really fun because now you can see how gossip works from the inside But you didn't see the pictures that of me so the one I saw the guy with the umbrella like I was gonna hit him Maybe didn't you know I saw the pictures of the guy sent you of them because apparently you guys shared the oh yeah He sent him to me right away. So look they're all good not a single bad one. That's not true I thought you were unattractive in one of those pic. Oh, but no Tina was good-looking in all the pictures that well They don't care what you know of course not

43:09 So you saw this like Adam Curry in love with look-alike Patricia Pye. Yes, I saw them. I saw in fact you sent me a link to the TV show. Yeah, so did you see it with the VPN? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I went to my VPN pointed in Holland. I came through and it played the thing and he was even though I couldn't understand the Dutch totally. You got the idea. You can figure it out. So look alike, look alike, look alike. Which was an angle I hadn't expected. So they found the pictures. I thought it was a very good angle. They don't look alike. A, they're both blonde. Okay. No, they're both blonde. And I have a picture of them both wearing sunglasses looking in the same direction.

43:49 Yeah, that's a look-alike. But here's what Patricia did. So when confronted, because of course she gave them a quote, when confronted with the obvious look-alike nature of Tina. Yes, I saw that. Now this I didn't see. I thought it was rich. Patricia said, well, I'm happy to see Adam has his good taste is back. Yes. Very good. She is an expert. However, then we got the next magazine and this was some other guy who was, I guess he was hiding behind the other guy and the headline on the cover is, Adam in love in Amsterdam. Is Tina making him happy? Question mark. We don't know. We have to go into the article to find out. And then, well, when you read this,

44:50 The thing is, they pretty much just took tweets and Instagrams and just copied it like they did on Interview with Tina almost. It was pretty funny. But they keep calling me a radio presenter. Which I think is kind of good. It is just a notch above podcaster. So I'm looking a little better. The way the publicity has been going over the last... since the New York Times article and a bunch of other stuff, I think it's a notch below. Well, that, you know, thanks. So that one is on the inside. Okay, if anyone has had a very... what is it? A troubled love life, it's Adam Curry.

45:43 Now it seems that the tide has turned for him. The 51 year old ex-husband of Patricia Pye and Mickey Hoogendyke appears to have found his luck and his happiness with the American Tina Snyder. That the love doves are still in love after a year is very apparent looking at these exclusive pictures. Now, the cool one was the last one for the trifecta. What did Tina think of this? She thought it was surreal. Completely surreal. Particularly the last one, so I guess the third magazine, they're like, we can't take the same angle, let's change it. Headline, front page. That's the way it works. Patricia begs X for money, but Adam says, NO! What? Yeah. Go to the inside here. Patricia financially at ground level

46:43 Patricia begs her... Ground level means broke. Broke. Yeah, and the grond means you're all the way on the ground. Patricia Pye begs her ex-husband for money. Adam just... The direct translation is let me choke, which is la mystique, but it means, you know, just... You know, just like, let me... You know, ignoring me or just let me... Poor pound sand. Star pound sand, right. Adam's letting me choke! I'm a real a-hole, let me tell you that. So that third magazine doesn't like you? No, they just want to sell magazines. I don't know if they like me or not. But you know, it was Patricia's words. I took a picture of her and I sent her and I said, really? Question mark? She said, no, you know, that's some other guy. And you know, he was, you know, he was really mad. Because it's true, she did ask me.

47:32 And it's true. I said, no, I'll help you any way I can. But you know, this was, we divorced six years ago. Come on. But I'm an a-hole. You are. Yeah, I guess. You should have given that woman everything you owned. She, she, all right, well, never mind. But it was, it was interesting to, to see that that still works. It's astonishing to me. I haven't been in Holland for a while. I think it's almost like being on a blacklist, only the opposite. Once you're on it, you can't get off it. Oh no, no, there's no way. There's no way. So when you're 90...

48:14 You could be hobbling around Amsterdam and of course somebody says to me yeah, he went there just I went there to meet the family sure he did You'll be 90 yeah Hobbling run and there was still being paparazzi taking pictures of you. Yeah, and they'll be 90 as well. I'd be funny Hey, 90 year old man, you're Adam Curry. Oh, let me get your picture and you'll be on the front page of something. Adam Curry's still alive. Yeah, I saw my old radio buddy, Jeroen van Inkel, while we were there. And we were just talking about old times. I said, hey, remember we used to do the, there was this sail camp for terminally ill kids. And every year we'd go spin records. We'd bring a whole drive-in disco show.

48:59 And after I left, he continued to do that. And I said, did you still do that? He said, yeah, I had to stop a couple of years ago. I said, why? He said, because the kids had no idea who I was. So I had to stop. I'm like, yeah, that's what happens. Yeah. Can't even make sick kids happy anymore. It's the fate. Make sick kids happy. Alright. That's the report. It might as well be a dancing monkey. Well, one of the things you missed out... Yes, tell me. I didn't... I kept pretty much in touch with what was going on. You're mispropagandized over there. You don't know what's going on. I don't know what's going on. Fine. Alright. You had to listen to the show. Yeah. If you'd been listening to the show... If I'd listened to the show, I would know what's going on.

49:37 So let's do a rundown. This is from ABC. This is probably the best of the group about what happened. Trump wins. He won. He got the other guys to quit. First, Cruz quit. You got no votes in Indiana. Yeah, strangely, yes, they did report this in every single newspaper. that I saw, Dutch newspapers, French newspapers, all had some incredible caricature of Trump on the front page. Photoshopped, crazy, you know, outside of Air Force One. It just did complete like, oh my God, we're all gonna die.

50:15 This is CIA, you know, they run the American media, it seems. I don't know what it is why they don't want Trump into such an extreme. Although, look, this is a new world order. I don't know whether they even bought into that, but apparently they did. So let's just do a run down here, run this. The big news was actually Ryan kind of saying, well, I'll support him maybe, but I'm not supporting him now. What is Ryan to Trump and why is it relevant? Well, Ryan's the Speaker of the House. So he's the most powerful... Not everybody knows what that means, so let's just give a little background. Oh, the Speaker of the House, the guy who runs the House of Representatives, he's one of the two guys... They have the... When a dominant party takes over the House of Representatives or the Senate, they put one of their guys in charge and they get to be the boss. Ah, okay. The boss. Right, I got you. And so Ryan... I keep wanting to say Nolan Ryan. Paul Ryan.

51:05 Paul Ryan is the running things and he so he's the top Republican supposedly even though Mitch McConnell should I think he should be but I don't know what they're thinking anyway so they had there's a big stinking and Jeb there's a bunch of interesting little things in these three in this three-part clip of a single report let's play it. While Republicans fight for the soul of their party today the president himself taking shots from the White House. Is this one? It's I'm so sorry. It's the eyes. I did an exact wrong my mistake hold on one Oh, I see why. Okay, it was just illogical. Here we go. We're next to the race for the White House tonight and we have Donald Trump right here one-on-one responding to the deep divide within the Republican Party. Trump now promising to unite the GOP now that he's the last man standing. But Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says he's not ready to support Trump. Trump responding tonight, he's not ready to support Ryan. And late today, news of a meeting, a summit of sorts. ABC's Jonathan Karl with what he's just learned.

52:08 Tonight in Nebraska, Donald Trump sounded mystified about that snub from Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan? I don't know what happened. I don't know. He called me two, three weeks ago. It was a very nice conversation. He was congratulating me. This was before we had the ultimate victory, but he was congratulating me and doing so well. Ryan, the most powerful Republican in America, shocked the political world by saying he's not yet ready to support Trump, that the billionaire deserves credit for winning, but... He also inherited something very special. That's very special to a lot of us. This is the party of Lincoln of Reagan of Jack Kemp Trump shot back on Twitter This is the party of Reagan who is it again Reagan? Something in Jack Kemp Here it is

53:06 Party of Lincoln of Reagan of Jack Kemp. Reagan, Lincoln, Reagan, Jack Kemp. Okay, he doesn't mention Eisenhower. Jack Kemp wasn't president. Jack Kemp wasn't president? He's a failed vice presidential candidate. Why did you mention it? Is this a trick? It's code. I don't know what it's code for, but he pushes Jack Kemp's name out there out of the blue, ignoring Eisenhower, which seems to me to be a guy you'd want to mention. And there's others in between Lincoln and Reagan. There was a few in there, that's for sure. Jack Kemp was a closeted homosexual?

53:49 Ah, it's interesting you'd bring that up. That's the chat room for you. The chat room? Okay, no. Let me, I can tell you where that rumor came from because I heard this during the era where I was working for the San Francisco Examiner and I was, I had an old timer. As my editor for a while, he used to be the editor of a paper in Marin County, I think it was at the Sacramento Bee. But he told me this story, he says all the news, the old time, all the old news guys, all the news guys from the 60s, this took place in the 60s when Reagan got in as the governor of California, 68, 69, something like that.

54:27 Jack Kemp was an up-and-coming political big shot, but he was a football player. He was a... Buffalo Bills quarterback. Buffalo Bills quarterback. Good-looking guy. A good-looking man. Do you like my sports trivia? You're on the computer, I think. I think the chat room is prompting me. Oh, the chat room's keeping you up? Of course, of course. That's what the chat room can do. Yeah, it's good. So he was a big shot and he was a good-looking guy and there was none of this stuff about homosexuals. Bye, Bobby. But what happened during the early, when Reagan first got into governorship, and this is a complete rumor,

55:03 And I can only say, as far as I know, Jack Kemp is dead, so I can say anything I want the way that it all works. So I'm going to tell this story that was told to me by an old news guy. Supposedly what happened was when Reagan started off, he was from Hollywood. His contacts were all in Hollywood, so he peopled his administrative staff with a lot of gays from Hollywood. There's a huge gay contingent in the Reagan administration when he was in California. There was a big party up in Tahoe, specifically, where apparently they got everybody plastered to the point where they got Jack Kemp to pass out. They walked in, this is the way the story goes, somebody walked in on a line of these gay staffers

55:55 given it to Jack Kemp, knocked out, and pushed up against like a hot tub or something. There's a line on there, he's giving it to him. Wait a minute, it was a gang rape? Yes. Oh man! And Reagan found out about it, fired everybody, the whole staff and got rid of every gay that was in his administration that he could think of that he knew for a fact, and especially the ones who were involved in this. And that's where that rumor that he was a closeted gay came from. But so you think that rape actually took place? The guy told me, he said this is the story that they know. There's a bunch of stories like this that the news media knows. They can report on it for various reasons and it takes until the guy's dead to even retell the story.

56:47 But that's the way the story was told. That's a horrible story. It's a horrible story, of course. Okay, so what is the code then about putting Jack Kemp in there? So that would mean... The way I hear it, now thinking about it, it's code about his possible running mate? Well, Jack Kemp's dead. No, a comparable person to Jack Kemp who would be Trump's running mate. Obviously, he's not going to- Paul Ryan might be shooting for it. He's not going to elect a dead guy. That's obvious, but maybe something- Maybe it's happened. Yeah, I want the dead guy to be my VP. You got a dead guy elected in Holland. Well, that's true. His party won posthumously. That's right. Pim Fortuyn. Interesting. I don't know. Was he a lawyer, Jack Kemp? Was he a lawyer?

57:33 Don't I guess everybody's a lawyer in Washington, but he was a really he seemed like a very nice guy and he's very Popular anyway, let's move on with the report. It's something we'll bookmark this one. Yeah, just remember it Okay, part two Trump shot back on Twitter wrong. I didn't inherit it I want it with millions of voters Trump and Ryan today agreed to meet in person next week and Caught in the middle, Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus, who found himself defending Trump's widely derided tweet, eating a taco bowl and declaring, I love Hispanics. He's trying.

58:13 Honestly, he's trying. But every day is bringing new Republican defectors. Today, two of Trump's opponents who had pledged to support the GOP nominee no matter what, Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham, said they won't support Trump. Hey, Marco Rubio. Rubio. Been rumored to be gay. We've seen all the dancing photos of him with his shirt off. Maybe that's the code. Oh, that's a good one. Rubio is VP. Is that chat room? No, that's me. Oh, okay. Well, that figures. Just dreaming about gay men I know. Oh, Rubio. Yes, Rubio would be perfect. And there has been talk of this. Sure. And then Cruz to the Supreme Court. Beautiful.

59:01 Actually, Cruz probably wouldn't be bad there. No, I think he'd be a good one. He's spoken or done a number of cases for the Supreme Court and he's a great debater and he's got all these earmarks of the type of jerk they're looking for. Exactly, perfect. So on this last one, and Rubio by the way didn't come out against Trump, they're making it look as though everyone's defecting from the party, they're gonna have a third party candidate, all this bullcrap. But what is interesting to me is that as you remember, the first debate when Trump was up there and Kelly went after him and they asked the question, who will support everybody to write this pledge? The pledge.

59:42 And Trump was a little sketchy about it, then Trump came around and eventually signed a pledge saying he'll support these two douchebags. We've forgotten that. Lindsey Graham and Jeb Bush signed this pledge, so they're just liars. Yeah, I know. That's conveniently forgotten, unless it's in this third clip. No, they kind of mentioned it in the clip you just heard. Yeah. Very subtly, just before they... They did it in such a way where you... It's presented in a way that would make you forget the point that should be made, which is the one I'm making, that they're douchebags for saying out... And then forcing Trump to do it, and then they themselves failed to do it. But okay, third clip. Fabulous, fabulous. Third clip.

1:00:25 Yeah. It is exactly what a reality show is, documenting, in this case, an elimination process on television. The funny thing about, before you play the rest of that clip, Obama did it on another show, he went on and on about Trump. He's got no foreign policy experience, you know, trying to point to everyone at Hillary. But when Obama got elected, what foreign policies experience did he have? Zero. Zero. This is not a reality show. Okay.

1:01:09 This is a contest for the presidency of the United States. Which is documented on television, therefore it's a reality show! We have elimination. The only thing we're missing in this as a reality show is the concept of a steal. I was like, I'm gonna steal that candidate. If Burnett was running this thing, we'd have something like that. And we'd be much more enjoyable. The president saying it's not a reality show. John Carl with us live from the White House tonight. And John, you've learned that Paul Ryan and Donald Trump will sit down in Washington next week. They'll meet here in Washington on Thursday, but I would not expect a quick breakthrough, David. In fact, a source close to Ryan tells me he does not rule out supporting a third-party candidate, although he hopes it doesn't come to that. I have a third-party candidate clip, which is appropriate here, I think, from Bill Kristol, one of the original neocons and, of course, the architect of the project for—one of the architects for the project of a new American century.

1:02:08 Right if anybody wants to get us in the world war three it's those guys. Yeah, which so which thank you very much for pointing that out because if Trump really was gonna start a world war three these guys would be all for him That's the way I see it. So that's this new idea. Sorry. Yes, okay So yeah this new idea of stopping Trump and stopping Hillary Clinton by finding someone who can win six states because Big enough to keep either of them from getting 270 electoral votes. We've been playing with the map today, and it seems doable Somebody just has to win six, you know medium-sized states not the mega states, but a flood Florida and Ohio two mega states But then Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado you win those you might be able to stop anybody from 270 if you could pick anybody in the country to do that Leaving aside whether they'd be willing who's constitutionally eligible who's someone who could pull that off

1:03:00 with the right money. Yeah, I think someone like the person I did have conversations with, I think it's been reported, retired Marine General Jim Mattis, who I think could have run a very impressive campaign, a very impressive man as a genuine independent. He's more liberal than I am. Yeah, I have no idea who that is. I'm in a bunch of issues. Who? I think Paul would have helped. Oh yeah, out of the blue, that guy's gonna win. Well, it gets better. These guys are deluded. It gets better. Name, we got 20 seconds. Name somebody who could- All right, name your two, John. Name your two. Gary Johnson? No, no, I mean this guy, what Crystal's gonna say. Oh, what he's gonna say? Yeah. Oh my God. As the two who he thinks could run as independents. Bush should be one of them on the list, but I don't know where he is or not because he's a total sellout. And I don't know. Go.

1:04:15 Do it who might do it. Is there anybody? Ben Sasse or Mitt Romney? I was with Mitt Romney last night and I think he's thinking about it seriously or he could be Ben Sasse's campaign co-chairman he and Joe Lieberman. All right, those are two good names. We're gonna have you back to talk about the Romney option because I agree with you. Romney. Wow. And he said that he had dinner with him last night or saw him last night. Sounds like someone's getting cornholed. Romney is Should have run as it tried to run as a Republican if he wanted to do this job again He kind of right was flat-footed the whole time and then he comes out with his anti-trump stuff

1:05:00 And, uh... What is he gonna be, the Mormon party? What is his... Independent, independent, I don't know. I don't know. And I'm seeing a lot of people now saying, hey, Gary Johnson is an obvious alternative. I think Gary Johnson could go very far. Gary Johnson is the obvious alternative, he asked me, he's not a third party guy. I agree, I think he's... Now, he's a libertarian party? Better creds than Romney. But wait, is he now officially the... I don't want to vote for anyone who's a member of any party. I don't like the clubs. I don't like the clubs and I'm not 100% libertarian, which I get accused of a lot. You know, I don't think, I don't want to be pigeonholed. I don't want to be something. I just want to be a voter. I want my safe space. Yeah, sure do. Well, I wanted my safe space after this little clip, which I picked up from CNN. This is a Sally Cohn, you know, the Rachel Maddow of CNN.

1:05:48 And now this Trump, the big victory was Indiana, correct? That was that was the state that he won that really just boom, that he that everyone dropped out. Is that it? Indiana? Yeah. Okay. by I predicted everything correctly that Obama would win and be like, yeah, because you know, all those polls are bullcrap. We all knew why, because that's what you do is television news to make it a close race. And Nate Silver has been wrong on everything. And he's like, well, I didn't expect the, uh,

1:06:34 Anger angle no made silver big data. He's doing statistical analysis based on some he's not doing psychological analysis No, but that he's saying that's what he didn't take into account now. He said okay. There's no number you know I know I know this is what's so crazy. He got lucky 538 media boo Okay, so Sally Cohn, she was very clear why Trump won in Indiana. It's obvious because Indiana is pretty much a racist state. Did you know this? Indiana racist! Here's the other issue, both of you need to weigh in on this. Does it even matter that the headlines, the wind is being sucked towards Ted Cruz today with that whole dumping of polemics on Donald Trump? The news cycle is really favoring the Republicans today and not much mention of Democrats. Does that matter on election day?

1:07:28 I think people really need to understand the history in Indiana. Indiana was once known for being the state that had the most powerful KKK in the country. In 1924, the KKK elected the governor of Indiana. Indiana is a deeply not only socially conservative, but very racially divisive and divided state. And, and look, it's not going to be a surprise to see a Donald Trump landslide there. And I think it's, this is moving the country backwards. Backwards. Sure. But I'm not saying it's backwards. For many of those who bought the book, watch this. Do you hear this woman? You know, 1924 isn't that long ago, Ashley. They're still alive, the racists. They're like 100, but they're racists. That's not that long ago. Wow. Backwards. Sure. But I'm not saying it's backwards.

1:08:20 Long ago, Ashley, come on. For many of the voters who are watching today, if you're in Indiana, I'm going to stick up for you. They would absolutely disavow that. I'm not saying the voters of Indiana are active KKK members, but I am saying I'd like to see that state and our country move away from that kind of hatred and divisiveness instead of voting for a candidate who stands for it again. Hello, Indiana, you racist, racist, racist state. This is unbelievable. It's fantastic. 1924 was not that long ago. No, I remember like it was yesterday. And this, and they had everybody out. I'm sure you heard about Rob Reiner on the morning Joes. Did you hear about that? Did you see this? I heard about it. I didn't bother to follow up. We all know where he's headed. But we have to clip it because he's Hollywood. He's establishment. He's got the kid. He was on there with his kid who's got strung out on heroin or something. He's not a very good dad. I didn't see this. I didn't see this. I didn't see this. There's another thing with him, but anyway.

1:09:18 Millions and millions of people who do not watch this show actually like what they hear from Donald Trump and aren't taking Messages and orders from us in the media, but they listen to what he says for themselves and vote for him How do you explain that? Well, there are a lot of people who are racist Because there's a lot of people who are racist well, sorry, it's unbelievable so somehow The millions of people, a lot of them who voted for Trump are racist. Now, that when the morning Joe Cruz says, hey, wait a minute, you did not just say that. He starts to walk it back a long way. Racist. Oh my God. Did you just say that? I'm not saying. No, you just said that. Well, that's true. So you think that people that vote for Donald Trump are racist? They're not all racist. You led with that. No. I said there are a lot of people who are. There's racism in this country that has been submerged for a long, long time.

1:10:15 long time. Right. And all of a sudden there's a man. So he's on earth. He's on earth. A lot of it. Let me say this. Could this not be about working class Americans? Yes. Behind. Yes. By a Republican party. Yes. If you're a candidate and you've been one and you're standing there and there are people in your rally who are KKK members, members of the Aryan nation, white supremacists, Wait a minute. The way I recall it, that they had the David Duke incident where Trump was unhandy. Definitely should have said, hey, screw that. But he did that unhandily for sure. If you watch the clip of him on that, it's like he, I don't think he's hearing the guy, but yeah, that's just. And then, and then we had a protester

1:11:08 wearing a KKK t-shirt, you know, out of jest. You know, that was his protest, like, hey, KKK here. That's all that I recall that was a national story. But okay, it seems that we have KKK, Aryan Nation. I'm surprised that they don't have Gubel's grandkid there, you know? If I were you, I would say, you know, I don't really want that support. That's hate speech. That's hate. Hate speech, hate speech. Hey, is hate speech illegal? Even if it didn't happen? I don't want that support. I don't see Donald Trump saying I don't want that support. He's saying fine. I don't know. Did you see him say fine?

1:11:51 Maybe he is, oh I disavow. We were harshly critical of that as well. That's the answer Willie's question. There's a strain of racism there. Ah, now he says strain of racism. Which I need to talk to you about this. So, the way I...and it's always about language these days...the way I interpret strain of racism in the context with which Rob Reiner just used it is, it's like a vein, like a thin strain, like a little bit of a...just a...there's a bloodline under there. Because that's what I thought it was, but when I looked at the definition of strain, it actually means a very powerful force.

1:12:31 Yeah, but he's going to be using a popular definition, not the real definition. I didn't know. I didn't know. And by the way, Obama carried Indiana in 2008. Yeah, because it's such a racist state. I know. It's great. Thank you for that little nugget. Hello, use that to hit somebody in the mouth, everybody. And anyway, Rob Reiner kind of doubled down again on the strain bit on CNBC. These workers, these incredible workers, these middle class, many of them haven't had an effective wage increase in 20 years. Don't you think just people are angry? They're angry at Washington, they're angry at their boss. Yes, they are. And that is what I said on Morning Joe, that there is a big chunk of Trump supporters who are very upset

1:13:19 That's interesting because he admits what we think is true, that Trump and Sanders, you know, the enthusiasm comes from the same kind of place. just different sides of the same coin. There is a difference and I'm not, I didn't say all Trump supporters. I said there is a strain of racism that's there because when you go to the Sanders rally, there are no racists at those rallies. No racism, no racist at those rallies except for the ones who are talking about white privilege.

1:14:05 You know, straight old white men, which is racist. Well, you also look at the Sanders audience, they're all kids and they're all white. Yeah, that looks more like Aryan Nation than anything. Bernie. Interesting collusion between the Hillary campaign and Obama. In that same little stand-up he did where he talked about the reality show, he was very clear but telling the media how to do their job. He does run a different kind of campaign than anyone else, certainly on GOP's side. He makes himself more available to report. Oops, I'm sorry, I did that out of order. Here it is. Every candidate, every nominee needs to be subject to exacting standards and genuine scrutiny.

1:14:52 It means that you got to make sure that their budgets add up. It means that if they say they've got an answer to a problem, that it is actually plausible. And that they have details for how it would work. It's completely implausible and would not work. That needs to be reported on. The American people need to know that. One thing that I'm going to really be looking for over the next six months is... Oh, he's... Oh, hold on, hold on. This... The news cop, Obama's going to be the news president. The news cop president... ...know that. One thing that I'm going to really be looking for over the next six months is that the American people are effectively

1:15:40 effectively informed about where candidates stand on the issues, what they believe, making sure that their numbers add up, making sure that their policies have been vetted, and that candidates are held to what they've said in the past. And if that happens, then Hold on, last bit. What they've said in the past. And if that happens, then I'm confident our democracy will work. So, it's a veiled threat though. I'm going to be looking at you people. I'll be looking at all this, seeing what you're doing. So saying that news media has not done a good job and here's the Clinton campaign picking up on that, in collusion with the president. He does run a different kind of campaign than anyone else, certainly on the GOP side. He makes himself more available to reporters. He calls in, I mean is that something you are going to start doing more of?

1:16:33 Well, look, he did it and it worked for him. And I think reporters now have a chance to ask some tougher questions. It's not enough to call in and give somebody a platform. It's now the time to make the tough decisions and you got to ask him, okay, so what exactly would you replace X, Y, and Z with? I think it's time to get serious. The man is the presumptive nominee and you know being a loose cannon doesn't in any way protect him, I hope, from being asked the hard questions that he should have been asked during the whole primary. process. Elizabeth Warren tweeted out last night that Donald Trump has quote built his campaign on racism sexism and xenophobia do you agree with that? I think Elizabeth Warren's really smart. I think that anybody who's listened to him and how he's talked certainly can draw that conclusion. Do you think he's a racist?

1:17:25 I'm gonna let people judge for themselves, but I have the highest regard for Senator Warren. Oh, what kind of pussy? There are Democrats who are just worried about you against Trump, that you're not ready for whatever he may throw at you. That he's, I mean, he's brought up a lot of stuff about a lot of people that nobody could have predicted. He was quoting from the National Enquirer just yesterday. You know, there's, he's made references to your marriage, to your husband. Are you? That's the same laugh man. It's the same laugh. She always laughs. It's very first one Anderson. No, you back it up. I want to hear that laugh again. Yeah, and I think I have our Hillary laugh. Hold on. Let me back it up. We already have that ISO somewhere. He's made references to your, to your marriage, to, to your husband. Are you?

1:18:18 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Yeah, it's rising. It's rising. And she says she's a great CEO. Every time I see her on TV, I want to reach through and strangle her. No, that's not this one. It's a little different. A little different. No, it's not that different. She just doesn't rise it up as much on the clip. There was this other clip that I don't know why this wasn't run over and over again. I thought this was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. And I also think we'd be a lot better off if we actually talked to each other instead of yelling at each other. She's saying we should talk to each other instead of yelling at one another, but... She's yelling. Forgive me. She's yelling. She's yelling! That would have been used more if it was actually legible. Yeah, that's the problem. I'm sorry, audible. Audible, yeah, that's the problem. That is a problem. I do like playing it though.

1:19:08 Solve the problem. Well, I've got it. You play my clip which is called Hillary Cadence and this is the cadence she likes to when she gets in front of a large audience she gets to be I'm not gonna say I'm gonna say it she gets to be like Hitler and she starts yelling at the crowd in a very specific way it's a very kind of a old-fashioned order style. I just want to note that you played the Hitler card.

1:19:53 I did. Because whether you support Senator Sanders or you support me, there's much more that unites us than divides us. We all agree that wages are too low and inequality is too high, that Wall Street can never again be allowed to threaten Main Street. And we should expand Social Security, not cut or privatize it. We Democrats agree that college should be affordable to all and student debt shouldn't hold anyone back. Yeah, she's got a good. Yeah, yeah, and you're talking about something she says. Well, he's gotta be more specific. What was specific about anything she ever says? We've got to do this. We've got to do that. Well, how? But yeah, she does go into the screaming thing and she does this other cadence thing which is just like.

1:20:49 I just, you know, I mean, I don't know. I'm not voting for her or Trump. But we have, we got to take a break in a minute here, but I do have just two quick little things that I came home to. Just discrediting Donald Trump in funny ways. First one is some Republican Party lawyer. I forget his name. He's probably consultant, whatever. As I said, I'm unalterably opposed to Hillary Clinton. I mean, the first segment on your show made me want to open a vein. Oh. But Donald Trump is Worst by far. Hillary Clinton is a Democrat. She's a mainstream Democrat. She's no more loose than Lyndon Johnson, no more liberal than Barack Obama, no more transactional than her husband, and we will survive. What do you think that means, no more transactional than her husband? Like getting hookers? Or what does that mean, transactional than her husband? I have no idea. Doing deals? Oh, could be deals. Well, deals. Yeah. Deals. Yeah, they know deals. Democrat. She's a mainstream Democrat. She's no more loose than Lyndon Johnson.

1:21:45 I forget his name. Some lawyer. I didn't write it down, I'm sorry. Johnson no more liberal than Barack Obama, no more transactional than her husband, and we will survive. Donald Trump is a fascist. He's a dangerous man. Dangerous! And we can't have him be President of the United States. No, we cannot. Cannot have this dangerous, dangerous. And then Chris Hayes. look absolutely unhinged to quote Jeb Bush, it really helps us because it causes people that want a free enterprise solution to a huge challenge to come forward and say, you know what? We're for these reasonable people and we don't want to be painted with this terrible brush

1:22:45 of reading the National Enquirer and deciding that's a good source. This is, the metaphor here is that Donald Trump is like a hot, wet rag applied to an infected wound that is drying up, right? All of the stuff that you want to concentrate. That's the hope. Isn't that great? That is a good one. That's one of the better ones. Yeah, we shouldn't listen to the National Enquirer like when they told us about John Edwards. Yeah, because they were what? Oh, right. Yeah, that's true. And although very different, this is the last bit I have on, if you have anything, but did you hear the Chris Matthews hot mic thing about Melania Trump? Yeah, I heard it a couple of times. I thought it was...

1:23:22 You had to really listen to it closely over and over again to actually deconstruct what he said. And it was pretty, it was pretty, it was low, low end. Yeah. It's only 16 seconds. And Brian Williams is talking. I think Brian Williams is also hearing it in his earpiece because he's getting a little... Oh, definitely. He's stuttering and getting a little confused. But what Matthew says is, Paraphrasing. Look at Melania, how she walks. She's got that model walk. She's just dynamite. And you know, he's just salivating. And then he says, I could watch that all day. And the party will trust Trump to be able to make that decision. Well, I think the party won't have a role in it. We just heard from the likely nominee of the Republican Party. We will go to a break here. The discussion continues right after this. What a horn dog.

1:24:16 It was just embarrassing. I could watch that all day. How come Rachel Maddow didn't talk about it? They got a hot mic. They got somebody, you know, some... From my opinion, is that 90% of these things are done by some guy who hates someone in the control room. I mean, he's in the control room and he hates someone. He's... I mean, there's some incompetence maybe, but I think let's leave his mic hot. That could be. That could be. That could be. I've always believed that there's guys in the control room and there's guys that listen to our show that have been in control rooms. They just leave the mic. Oh, I left it hot. Oh, the guy went to the bathroom? Oh, sorry. Let's light up his mic to see what happens. Oh yeah, that used to happen to me all the time. Yeah. Oh, all the time. Well with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you John Cena with us. He stands for Control Room Dvorak.

1:25:08 And the money to you, Mr. Adam Curry, also in the morning to all the ships and seaboots on the ground, feeding the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there. And in the morning to our artistes, first the chatroom of course, noagendastream.com, thank you very much for helping out today, good work, and thank you to Nick the Rat for the album art for our clip show, episode 822, apologies, something went wrong in my system, and the previous show's artwork showed up and it took a while to correct everything. But Nick did some better you sent it to me you chose it some kind of you know no agenda logo on acid Goggles glasses to actually see it. Oh, I didn't know that would you and what no I'm just making that out of it I bet you it looks pretty cool

1:24:16 It was just embarrassing. I could watch that all day. How come Rachel Maddow didn't talk about it? They got a hot mic. They got somebody, you know, some... From my opinion, is that 90% of these things are done by some guy who hates someone in the control room. I mean, he's in the control room and he hates someone. He's... I mean, there's some incompetence maybe, but I think let's leave his mic hot. That could be. That could be. That could be. I've always believed that there's guys in the control room and there's guys that listen to our show that have been in control rooms. They just leave the mic. Oh, I left it hot. Oh, the guy went to the bathroom? Oh, sorry. Let's light up his mic to see what happens. Oh yeah, that used to happen to me all the time. Yeah. Oh, all the time. Well with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you John Cena with us. He stands for Control Room Dvorak.

1:25:08 And the money to you, Mr. Adam Curry, also in the morning to all the ships and seaboots on the ground, feeding the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there. And in the morning to our artistes, first the chatroom of course, noagendastream.com, thank you very much for helping out today, good work, and thank you to Nick the Rat for the album art for our clip show, episode 822, apologies, something went wrong in my system, and the previous show's artwork showed up and it took a while to correct everything. But Nick did some better you sent it to me you chose it some kind of you know no agenda logo on acid Goggles glasses to actually see it. Oh, I didn't know that would you and what no I'm just making that out of it I bet you it looks pretty cool

1:25:54 Everything looks better with those glasses. And I want to thank all the artists who always contribute to noagendaartgenerator.com. Happy Mother's Day, everybody! We'll be doing a lot of that later on in our Thank You segment. And before we start, John, I would like to... Do a double dip rain stick for Canada, Navia these guys are trouble question Canada Navy yeah, they're in trouble our best people are all in Alberta except for a few in Saskatchewan very much less I think in Toronto yeah a spasm. Spasm. Let's give them a rain. Because they're burning up over there. There's 200,000 people displaced. So we're hoping that with the rain sticks now, it usually takes a couple of days, but we've been very successful. Here we go. One, two, three rain stick. One more for good measure. All right. So this will probably end up flooding. Oh, well, California. No, California is screwed because it's not really concentrated. We can have a

1:27:06 We need the race. We're gonna have rain stick harmonics that then affect other areas. It's fact So this is the thing a few people starting with Terrence Harris in Niceville, Florida Where do you live? I live in nice nice. It's over by celebration. I guess no $333 33 cents long time boner been listening to the show before you really had jingles I really believe in free speech, but please stop saying Nigga, and I grit my teeth every time DeVore says the blacks Like we are a basket or baseball team or something the whole man donate But I've hit many people in the mouth and they have donated doesn't that count for something of course it does Terrence but Are these words really idea of the nigga thing that was that was a stop that long ago. I

1:27:58 Yeah, that was a long time ago. I remember that for... It was in the clip show. That was actually the genesis of it because the clip show said we had that the millennial who said, no, it's a nigger is okay versus nigger which is not okay. But that was the clip show. What is the black... I say the blacks? Yeah, you say the blacks. Well, I say the gays too. Yeah, you say the... It irks my wife. Yes. Notice the blacks did not say anything about you calling the gays the gays. But we just call them gay Americans and black like I'll say that I also say the Google The Googles even better the Googles are the internets. Oh ain't there where I don't know hail Apple Yeah, I'm sorry Terrence. We don't mean to offend you the Ukraine. Yeah, that is wrong That is factually wrong. Well. That's wrong these other things are wrong the faggot. I'm sorry Terrence. Yeah, I

1:28:49 I'm sorry too. Sorry we offended you. I think you know we don't really mean to offend anybody. I'm offended. Yes, I am. Thank you. I'm gonna give him a little bit of karma. Yes, he needs karma. You've got karma. Share that with the whites. Are we the whites then, John? He's the only executive producer, by the way. You'd think you'd have more on a day like this, a Mother's Day. But no. So he got lucky. He's the executive producer for Shofa 823. I'd just like to know what his preferred is. If it's African-Americans, I want to know. I just want to know. Is black Americans okay? The black Americans is not okay? The Jerrances. The Jews?

1:29:29 I think it's just if you say black, I think it's saying the blacks. I think it's the word the. It is. I think that's the problem. He doesn't like the word the. You say blacks in America, but if you say the blacks, yeah, I think he's right. That makes, it's not about the black word. It's about the. And so, you know, just putting all in one big category, like, hey, all the blacks go stand over there. I think that's yeah because when I said the whites like oh I yeah now I know how it feels it's racist. Oh yeah stop that. It feels so bad when someone says the whites. That's what they say all the time. Well we're gonna. The cisgendered. That pisses me off. All right here we go John Vogel Bronx New York $269.69. Dear John and Adam I'm happy to donate from a very first associate executive producer ship has become apparent I must pull my weight

1:30:16 to make up for the brainwashed morons who want to pull support because Trump doesn't make you clutch your pearls hard enough. I wouldn't vote for the guy in a million years, but your Trump segments are always great. This mainstream media doesn't even bother to mask their usual BS when it comes to him and it's a funny enough, he's a funny enough guy that the clips, that the clips amuse me on their own. It's radio gold. Thank you! And let's face it, he's the one guy who might have a chance of doing some measurable damage to the political parties we all hate so much. Yes, for that alone I'm thankful. You know what, I talked to Mimi about this the other day, I actually said it to a lot of people.

1:31:00 Whatever you think of Trump vote for him or not not vote for him. He did the country you have to admit He did the country a huge huge massive favor by immediately Eliminating Jeb Bush. Yes good work. We should all thank him That he did that apparently Bush spent almost a billion dollars just wasting his wheel spinning and which made him look like it which also makes a lot of memes look stupid like oh the Koch brothers you know they're gonna they wanted him didn't do much good did it. Please clap. Anyway he says this could be the USA's biggest ever political moment and people are complaining that your coverage diverges too much from the mainstream money machine. Fellow producers are you on crack?

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1:32:33 Just send your cash. I'm a rule follower, so if the rule is that we have to do it, then I'll do it. I'm a rule follower, right? What do you do? Are you a rule follower? Happy dance, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it. Karma. And then I'll have a wonton. Happy dance, happy dance, get it, get it, get it. Okay, okay. Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it. Thank you very much. You know, that's what I said to the flight attendant when we left that crappy flight. I said, thank you very much for your courage and passion. But she liked it. But yeah, it sounds good. I like it. It does. If you just say it. Thank you very much for your courage and passion. Sir Dave, who appears to be stationed or something, he might be in the military in Deutschland. Wait, wait, you're missing Philip. You're missing Philip Gorski. Oh, how did I do that? I don't know. I went down one too many blocks.

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1:34:21 You've got karma. All righty. Nice. It was like the James Brown rhythm section. Yeah. Sucking in soot. Sir Dave in Deutschland 24680. Sir Dave of of Livw here in Deutschland. Livw here it says. Thanks as always for your hard work and a great series of shows of late. You guys are pretty much the only thing that keeps me sane when I consider the current state of the USA that we'll unfortunately be returning to in a couple of months.

1:35:01 We've been in Europe for the past four and a half years, and I thought it was crazy when we left. It's going to be much bat shit. So by now, bat shit. So by now, I guess. So you guys are definitely cheaper than therapy. request a deducing from my long dry spell of donations and for not realizing that it was Mother's Day until my wife reminded me yesterday some so I I'm my note got him to remember his Mother's Day that would saved him I saved you Some moving karma whoopies got a get out followed by the Italian guys. That is What is that? I don't remember this clip was important was that one of your clips? No, I don't know what this is I don't know what it is either And not that it will do any good having forgotten Mother's Day a birthday shout out for my wife Melody is coming up on the 19th give her she's on the list

1:36:01 A little early, but it will take me time to dig my way out of the doghouse. If I may mix my metaphors, thanks again for your service to my sanity, Sir Dave." Okay. I just wish I remembered what that was. Oh, was it the guido-sounding guy? What could it be called? I don't know it. It doesn't ring a bell to me. Maybe it was a Bernie? Oh no, it was your clip, John. It was the crazy Italian guy. What was that called? Oh, right. It was an ISO or something. It definitely says ISO. Yeah, yeah, that's not a normal English. I got it, I got it, I think I got it. Woo! First a de-douching point. Here we go. You've been de-douched. Get out of my vagina! Yeah, that's important.

1:36:57 Yeah, nailed it. You've got karma. Thank you, chat room. On the ball today. Excellente. It's bound to happen by just random number. Riley Kimball, 23456, San Tan Valley, Arizona. Hi, TM, and thank you for your courage. Being an executive or associate executive producer is effective as peer pressure to get your friends, family, and coworkers to donate. They hear your name, then seek you out and talk about the show. On several occasions, donations have followed after said conversation. This aligns with the anatomy of buzz marketing theory. Customers will seek advice from experts before making purchases. I admire both of you. Your insight on current affairs has given me a

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1:38:38 You've got karma. Almost the right order. Close enough. Hold on, let me just write this down. Meat and water. Okay, well, you're the knight, sir. That's... hookers and blow is an option. I'm just saying. Meat and why we need meat. To the best podcast in the universe. Karma, please and birthday wishes to Jennifer Hendrick. Okay, Carlos give him some karma and On the list you've got he's in Carlos up the Sina Harvard, Illinois $200. Oh good. Oh, we got one more. Yep, sir Corwin Underwood In let's see. He's got a note here. No note. Oh

1:39:20 From Hamilton, Ohio. Well, Corwin, I'll look it up. If I can find it in the email, I will talk it up. I wish I had something because I feel dizzy from the jet lag. I need to get a little water. Oh, well, let me see if I can find something. This is Corwin Underwood. Underwood, Underwood. Corwin Underwood. Hold on. It's not coming up at all. There it is. Underwood. Has anybody seen the newest version? Corwin Underwood. Here it is. May 7th ITM gentlemen sorry donations are low for this period I think the same deployment for some deployment karma Oh, you need some karma for deployment I'm going to be boots on the ground for six months in one of the most rich oil-rich countries in the Middle East Which is the UAE nice leaving behind my wife and child of nine months sarcastically glad I have to

1:40:19 Leave my family for under the undeclared wars overseas contingency operation to protect our interests and airspace in the Persian Gulf. Nice. Yippee ki yay, motherfucker. Karma for him then. For sure. You've got karma. All righty. Have fun, Corwin. Yeah. Well, he'll stay in touch for sure. Give us some reports. Yeah reports. Hey, thanks everybody executive producer and associate executive producers that's nice coming home to that highly appreciated and Especially since I you know, I came back. I did all the clips this morning I got up at 6 we in bed like midnight. We got up at 6 and for me it's now what is it body time? I guess 7 8 p.m. So just a little nutty and we will have another show on Thursday, of course you okay?

1:41:12 I am. Oh, ah, your mic went loud all of a sudden. Hadn't done that in a while. Hmm. Interesting. Please remember us for the show that is coming up on Thursday. Devorak.org slash N-A. And even I can do it in France with my little bit of French. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. You should be doing it too! Shut up, slave. Something odd popped up this morning when I was doing clips. This is a report from Shawano, Wisconsin. Yeah, Shawano, Wisconsin. Local news report.

1:42:04 It's a problem at schools across the country, but Chano Police wanted to find a new proactive approach when it comes to fighting bullying. Without the parent getting involved, we feel that just giving a ticket to finding someone out of this isn't the answer. The facts of the new ordinance are a parent will be warned if police determine their child was involved in bullying. The parent will have 90 days to address their child's behavior. After that time, if police determine the child is still bullying, the parent will be issued a $366 fine. Two offenses in one year will equal a $681 fine. I think something needs to be done for sure. I know my son comes home and he's just not too happy some days. I mean, they have three months that

1:42:49 kids can maybe go to coun the situation at hand on why they bullied to begin with. A few parents told me they question how the ordinance will be enforced because they say labeling someone a bully can be subjective. This isn't generated towards the kids being kids, some playground banter. This is the person that is meticulously using social media or seeing things that are vulgar in attempt to hurt, discredit, and really demean a person. So local ordinance, if your kid is bullying on social media and get fined, but you have three months to correct your child, your little slave. Now, along with this story comes another story, which we may have covered in 2014, but I guess I didn't remember. Obama actually created an anti-bullying task force

1:43:50 And they're also in the news by coincidence, but this is for the protected Pacific Islanders who I did not know, but they're getting bullied. No. Yeah. So is this Hawaii? Is that are they the protected? Hawaii is notorious for having mostly racial bullying in one sort or another. Yeah, so they need to stop. We need to stop the bullying. We will live up to our ideals. We just have to keep speaking out against hatred and bigotry in all of its forms. So I'm proud of all of you for rallying around the Muslim and Sikh and Arab and South Asian communities who face a rising tide of bigotry and harassment. To support your work, we recently launched the AAPI Bullying Prevention Task Force to look at ways that the federal government can help your communities prevent and respond to bullying.

1:44:52 The Justice Department successfully recommended the addition of anti-Sikh, anti-Hindu, and anti-Arab, anti-Middle Eastern categories to the FBI's hate crime reporting form. Hate crime reporting form! That's going to strengthen our efforts to end these despicable crimes. Despicable crimes! And we will continue to stand in solidarity with the South. Crimes! They're not crimes. Is it a crime? He said despicable crime. These despicable crimes. Plural. It's not a crime. No, they're not crimes. Bullying. It's freedom of speech if nothing, if anything. Uh, no, crime. The Justice Department successfully recommended the addition of anti-Sikh, anti-Hindu, and anti-Arab, anti-Middle Eastern categories to the FBI's hate crime reporting form. That's going to strengthen our efforts to end these despicable crimes. But I guess he means hate crimes. I guess he means the hate crimes.

1:45:47 Man. And calling someone a-hole is not a crime in the first place, even if it's because you hate that guy, whatever. Yeah. No, this is just that they're just trying to keep shut up. Shut up. That's going to strengthen our efforts to end these despicable crimes. And we will continue to stand in solidarity with all of our LGBT brothers and sisters against hateful rhetoric and discriminatory state laws. Targeting them. How about just everybody just say it's been feel so much better. It was just everybody everybody done a roll This is the better story is the one I have over local on down in Gilroy. Oh, okay, so we got a douchebag pedophile teacher

1:46:32 Where's Gilroy? Gilroy is south of San Jose. Oh, Silicon Valley area. It's actually the southernmost tip of Silicon Valley in many interpretations. Because you know there is no such thing. But, so they got this guy who is... You have to listen to the whole story because there's a funny element to it besides the fact that they brought in Gloria Allred to sue the school district over this joker. I'm sorry, that was my cue. Well, Dan, the lawsuit centers around high school teacher Douglas Leigh, who was arrested just last week on charges. He was trying to get young boys to send him nude photos, but the charges laid out in this lawsuit go back more than a year ago. As far as we're concerned, the school district gets an F grade on protecting the students. And we are determined

1:47:26 to hold them accountable. At a news conference Thursday afternoon, high profile attorney Gloria Allred announced she has filed this 29 page lawsuit against the Gilroy School District on behalf of a former high school student who received sexually explicit text messages from Gilroy High School teacher Douglas Leigh. It is time for the Gilroy Unified School District to take action to protect our children. I am disgusted that the district did not do enough to protect my daughter. She had to leave her friends, her classes, her and Gilroy High School. Those text messages, too graphic to repeat, were sent a year and a half ago. The school district says they reprimanded Lay, but he was allowed back in the classroom. And just last week, Lay, still a teacher at Gilroy High, was arrested, accused of posing as a woman online and enticing hundreds of young boys to send nude photos of themselves. If the district had done what it should have done, Mr. Lay would not have been in a position

1:48:29 to engage in sexually inappropriate behavior. with hundreds of minors who were reportedly current and former Gilroy students. Allred says the district should have fired Lay on the spot when he sent those sexually charged text messages to his 10th grade chemistry student. The girl's mother is now suing the district for negligence, emotional distress, and sexual harassment. And because they failed to take meaningful actions, many more children were harmed. I hope that Gilroy Unified School District has learned a lesson and that they will in the future do what is right and necessary. Yeah, okay. So here's the story. Here's the story. Oh, won't somebody please think of the children? There you go.

1:49:21 Now, this guy obviously sends a dirty text or, you know, borderline sex text to this girl and she goes, ah! And so she leaves the school, can't take it. He reports him, the school says, okay, okay. Apparently half the teachers are doing this. So now the guy, he gives up on women, or girls as it were, decides to go after the boys by posing as a woman, which, gee, no one has ever done this on the internet. Hello, Second Life. So he poses as some hottie, I'm guessing, and has a picture he just randomly grabs from somewhere and says, this is me. Will you send me your naked pictures? You know a lot about this. Now the guys, the men, the boys, the boys that are in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grade, I'm guessing, they're apparently damaged by this.

1:50:11 Because God knows any kid who's like 14, 15, or 16 who's chatting with a hottie who wants to see his naked body is now going to need therapy for the rest of his life because this is going to disturb him, whether he finds out that she's a he or not. That's the way they present the story. And then Allred makes it even worse with her analysis of this by saying he wouldn't have done, this would have not happened to these 100 boys who he had, you know, I guess texted, emailed or met in a chat room or whatever if he had been fired immediately after he had harassed this 10th grade girl.

1:50:50 But that's not... this is a cognitive dissonance. There's no way. If he was fired, he probably just... you would have started earlier. Well, this is what I don't... Pretending to be a girl to get the naked boys' pictures. This is what I don't understand as a member, a non-binary, white privileged male from the cisgendered community. I do not understand why the LGBTQIAP community does not see that this is a man in need of therapy. He needs help. But instead, everyone wants him fired, born to kill him. You know, the guy needs help. This is very, very strange to me coming from, well no, just strange to me in general. That everyone wants to help everybody, but when someone has a non-approved sexual disorder, or it's then called a disorder, then who knows? Yeah, nobody wants to help him. No. They want to fire him, lock him up! Yeah.

1:51:49 You know, put them on the sex offender list and you know, it's a... That's a very good point. It always bothers me. It seems to me... It's the same with abuse, with child abuse. It's the same thing. That has been... I'm not a doctor, but in a large amount of cases, it is, you know, abusers were abused themselves. They need help. You know, they don't need to be, you know, they had their nuts cut off. They need help. They may not be appropriate help for society, but they need help. We're all so concerned with everything, but not with all the right things. I'm glad that's a... I'm too over on the jingle for that little thing you just did. I will say... Some common sense from a disc jockey, now a podcaster. I wonder when...

1:52:39 I don't know how they can do this, but I would guess if they could, they would. Wonder when you will be put on a the sex list, the what's it called? The sex offenders list. Who, me? No, not you. Oh, I wonder when guys who pose as women online get put on the sex offenders list. That's a good one. Seems to me. It's a sex offense. It's offensive to me. I bet you a lot of the... Peeing in the park gets you put on that list which has got nothing to do with sex. It's got to do with peeing. If you can get on the list for peeing in the park and there's plenty of people on the list for peeing in the park, then you should be, if you pose as a woman in a chat room and that I'm talking to, you know, our chat room probably has half of the users over there do that. Yeah. I've done it. We've all done it, John. I've done it. I've done it. Yeah. Everybody does it once in a while just because it's funny. It's almost like tucking your penis between your legs. We all do it once. I never done that. Never?

1:53:42 No, it's too damn big! AAAAAAAAHHHHH! In the morning! You walk into this. That's cool. Woah! I walked into it, but there was a brick wall I walked into. My face hurts. Oh, man. AAAAAAAAHHHHH! Alright, alright. Well, change of topic then, perhaps. Yes. Let me take us somewhere. But I'd like to take you some- Oh, what? I was gonna do an entremont just for the keep, just so we get in the right mood. Okay. Earthquake coming. Ooh, I always love that. To the index and a new warning about the big one hitting Southern California, a leading earthquake scientist predicting the San Andreas fault is quote locked, loaded and ready to roll. He says stress has been building along the state's longest fault line for more than a century now. The last big quake to hit the southern San Andreas was a 7.9. That was back in 1857. I'm gonna die.

1:54:37 You're gonna die. You're gonna die. The big one is ready, locked and loaded. Gotta love it. That's right, back in the climate gate. We had the big, big meeting while we were on our European tour, EU tour, the Climate Initiative. And you recall, we looked at the Climate Initiative. That is one of these funds that is being funded by taxpayer money that will be distributing these funds in carbon credits and other infrastructure projects. Pretty much the money. And I have to say, I'm not really against the concept because

1:55:15 We're going to be taking this money to put into American companies. The problem is they're going to be building infrastructure in other countries instead of it happening here. So we do get some money, but you know, it's not really a good thing. And this is part of this whole Paris Agreement. So jumping a little bit ahead of the gun, everyone was at this, everyone was being interviewed in relation to the Paris Agreement and this climate initiative. And let me see what I have here. First up we have Sean Donovan. He is part of the administration. He's from the Office of Management and Budget. Then he sees a very, very bleak future for, you know, when it comes to climate change. But he knows that Wall Street is going to pay attention eventually. We know what happens where we live impacts you.

1:56:09 When the surging seas storm onto Wall Street, that stifles commerce globally. When infrastructure buckles, U.S. airports or seaports shut down, we all get stuck. And what happens where you live impacts us. When a heat wave hit Russia in 2010, damaging crops, the whole world saw a doubling of wheat prices, threatening food security. Price shocks to stable crops don't just threaten food security, they can contribute to political unrest. In Syria, drought contributed to mass migration and urban unrest. Pay no attention to the bombs and the boots on the ground and the terrorists and all that. Pay no attention to that. It was climate change.

1:56:56 That's why I'm proud that the United States has committed to contributing $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund starting this year. Ah, he's good. The climate related extreme weather events, and I won't go through them all, but every night on the television news now is like a nature hike through the book of Revelation. Every night on television now it's like a nature hike through the book of Revelation. Thanks Al. And I could, believe me, show you thousands of examples. The US just relocated our first climate refugees domestically too, right? We just relocated our first climate refugees, yeah, yes.

1:57:43 John, we did you know that in the United States we just we just migrated our first climate change refugees. Did you know this? It was everywhere in the news. Did you not know? I apparently missed that. Missed the story. This is a hometown story, baby. Climate change refugees migrated because of extreme weather events. In Houston, Texas, two weeks ago. There you go. We got refugees in Texas. Climate change refugees. They got the 260 billion gallons. That's three and three and a half days of the full flow of Niagara Falls. 260 billion gallons. What happened to three inches of rainfall or a foot? But now it has to be 260 billion gallons of rainfall. What kind of trick is this? It's a good one. Is this also cognitive dissonance? Because it sounds like a lot more than, you know,

1:58:42 You know, three inches of rain. Well, but there was a lot of water. We had floods, but you know. ... our first climate refugees, yeah, yes. And in Houston, Texas, two weeks ago, they got the 260 billion gallons. That's three and three and a half days of the full flow of Niagara Falls. It's a reference within a reference. Too many references. I think so too. Less than two days into Harris County. And it's the second year in a row that this has happened in Houston. Today, they're evacuating. Now it is weather. You know that by now. Extreme weather events. Three more cities in Alberta. 70,000 people evacuated yesterday because of the fires right in the center of the tar sands region. So Mother Nature turns out to be more persuasive than any of us.

1:59:35 The laws of physics are a little bit hard to deny. The laws of physics now. The laws of physics are hard to deny. Not sure how that works into it. I guess everything's physics. Then there was this huge native ad that ABC ran. I don't know if you caught this. It was for globalchange.gov, which is, you know, it's all a part of this week, all a part of the Paris Agreement, part of the funding or the announcement of the funding of something. It hasn't been ratified yet, but, you know, they're pushing for it. And Jimmy Kimmel ran kind of like a PSA, which started with his lead in, you know, which was... Kimmel has a lot of this on his show, I have to say. This was an ad. This was an ad. It was funny from a comedic standpoint.

1:58:42 You know, three inches of rain. Well, but there was a lot of water. We had floods, but you know. ... our first climate refugees, yeah, yes. And in Houston, Texas, two weeks ago, they got the 260 billion gallons. That's three and three and a half days of the full flow of Niagara Falls. It's a reference within a reference. Too many references. I think so too. Less than two days into Harris County. And it's the second year in a row that this has happened in Houston. Today, they're evacuating. Now it is weather. You know that by now. Extreme weather events. Three more cities in Alberta. 70,000 people evacuated yesterday because of the fires right in the center of the tar sands region. So Mother Nature turns out to be more persuasive than any of us.

1:59:35 The laws of physics are a little bit hard to deny. The laws of physics now. The laws of physics are hard to deny. Not sure how that works into it. I guess everything's physics. Then there was this huge native ad that ABC ran. I don't know if you caught this. It was for globalchange.gov, which is, you know, it's all a part of this week, all a part of the Paris Agreement, part of the funding or the announcement of the funding of something. It hasn't been ratified yet, but, you know, they're pushing for it. And Jimmy Kimmel ran kind of like a PSA, which started with his lead in, you know, which was... Kimmel has a lot of this on his show, I have to say. This was an ad. This was an ad. It was funny from a comedic standpoint.

2:00:27 But for it to end up with the URL fullscreen, globalchange.gov, not very subtle who paid for this airtime. And you know it was paid. This was not, hey, let's do something good. No. big, big money and they got the best writers. They got the best producers. So they came up with a genius package. The people you're about to see are scientists. They're Americans. They're not part of some imaginary conspiracy. They're just a smarter version of us. Watch this. And if at the end you disagree while we're all underwater, I hope you'll be the last one who gets a snorkel. Okay.

2:01:09 Hi, I'm Aradhana Tripathi. I'm a paleoclimatologist and isotope geochemist. Hi, I'm Alex Hall and I'm a climate scientist. I'm Jeremy Pell and I'm a hydroclimatologist. I'm Nina Karnovsky and I'm a polar ecologist. I'm Chuck Taylor and I'm an environmental analytical chemist. I'm John Dorsey. I'm a marine environmental scientist. Over the past 40 years, thousands of scientists have studied climate change. Definitely happening. And it's caused by human beings. That's you and me. And the consequences could be extremely dire. Catastrophic. Apocalyptic. And here's the thing, when we tell you all this, we're not f***ing with you. I'm not f***ing with you. Definitely not f***ing with you. Why would we f*** with you? Think about it. If I wanted to screw with people, do you think I would have gone into climate science? If we were f***ing

2:01:59 I'm sure we could do a lot better than anthropogenic climate change. I'd probably tell you that a meteor was coming and then try to sell you a helmet. We know about this stuff. We have PhDs. In science. Science! This is not a prank. This is not a prank. Once when I was younger, I locked one of my buddies in a porta potty, then pushed it over. Now that's a prank. So just to sum up, global warming real. It's real. Man-made. Caused by carbon pollution. Temperatures soaring. Oceans rising. Ice melting. What? For real. We're not f*** with you. We're not f*** with you. We're not f*** with you. Believe us, if not for our generation, then for his. You motherf***ers better not f*** with me. Paid for by people who know more than you do.

2:02:52 Science! Climate change is real! There you go. And there's nothing better and or funnier than a little kid cussing like a trucker. And they did not blur the kid's mouth so you could really see what the kid was saying. Yeah, which by the way is child abuse. Totally child abuse! That's, yo, there are YouTube videos going around. Where's GLS Protective Services? Thank you. Yeah. It's child abuse, making a kid cuss. I mean, maybe he enjoys it, maybe he doesn't. It's beside the point. Yeah, it's not okay. It's never okay. By the way, the mud splats are still there. But man, that's a psychological operation right there. Von Kimmel shot. Yeah, that was a bit extreme, I have to say. And by the way, my takeaway?

2:03:37 This climate change thing, ever since they've switched it from global cooling in the late 70s to global warming, probably in the mid 80s. How often do they just go out of their way to try to convince everybody that this is going on and nobody's paying attention? This must be very disheartening. That is a piece that's trying to tell you that climate change is real. Why do you need to do that piece after 20 years? Because we need to tell the slaves what to think. It hasn't worked for 20 years. What makes anyone think this is going to work? Well, it's working to a large degree. I think that's not true. There's about $3 billion about to flow. Yeah, but that's small potatoes. I'll take it. I'd take it too.

2:04:30 It's just like a rationalization for spending the three billion. Look at our military budget, nobody complains about that either. Well, it'd be interesting you bring that up. There was another nice little piece of propaganda from, I think one of your, I think it's one of your favorite shows, NCIS. You like NCIS, don't you? Oh, it's loaded with propaganda. Yes, I do. It's one of my favorite shows. And the reason I like it is because I think it's one of the best structured shows ever written. We know that there's a lot of issues with this administration and the military in so many ways, certainly when it comes to veterans. There's no denying that the Veteran Association has been a disaster over the past, certainly, you know, couple of years that we've heard about it. Who knows? Fifty years. Okay. But it hasn't gotten better, I don't think.

2:05:12 And Michelle Obama was in a whole episode and she's in the... I saw this episode. Is Mark Harmon, is that the guy? The actor? Mark Harmon is carrying the show, yeah. Yeah, here we go. I am so honored to have been a part of this. I still can't believe I'm here. Listening to everyone's stories, it made me feel like I'm not alone. Because you're not alone, Anne. One of the reasons we hold these roundtables is to stay connected to our military families. Special Agent Gibbs, I've been briefed on everything you've done for Anne's family. And before I go on, what I notice about her acting is it is exactly the way she speaks when she's speaking in public, which means of course she's acting. Good point. From what I heard, you've gone above and beyond. It's my job. Both NCIS and Joining Forces, their support has been...

2:06:11 I can't thank you enough. And we should be thanking you. I mean, we know the sacrifices our military families are making and it doesn't go unnoticed. Nor do the sacrifices of our veterans. Honor to serve, ma'am. Now, I understand that there's somewhere else you need to be. Isn't that right, Special Agent Gibbs? Absolutely. So about that, you know, I got to tell you that, you know, um, I've acted, I've, I'm not a great, I'm kind of a more of a natural actor, but you give me a script and I can't act. This is a problem. I'm not good for anything, but I've done a lot of, you know, like on another world or, you know, as, as Adam Curry, all of a sudden I pop up in some shows and whenever I look back at it,

2:06:59 It's always like I'm trying to act myself, then it's always forced and dumb. It's hard. It's hard to Act like yourself, but Michelle Obama does it very very well Yeah, yeah, I think your points well taken that's because she's an actress Hey before we we have a Mother's Day. Thank you list that we need to talk about And it was interesting I got a the email, I don't know if I put you on the replier now, one of our Knights actually said, Hey man, you know, it was in referee. I guess he hasn't caught up yet to all the shows. We said, Hey, you know that thing about play date, that food service, man, did you guys finally buckle? You know, John was asking questions that he clearly didn't give a crap. He was just asking them because he had to.

2:07:48 you know, as if we had taken money from someone for some native advertising. So I want to do two things. One, I just want to reiterate that when we talk about something we like or dislike, it's because we like or dislike it. We have no other skin in any game. That's because we don't take advertising money. But I do want you to hear what it sounds like when someone is doing a... it's not... it's more like an in-show advertisement, but this was a podcast, the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast. Have a listen to this and then you'll understand the difference between us talking about something we like or like the Amazon Echo and John of course doesn't like it, and someone who's doing a podcast which is taking advertising money.

2:08:32 But first, let's talk about bugs because this episode is brought to you by ExoProtein. That's E-X-O protein. And when you go to exoprotein.com, you can use code BEN for a 10% discount. Now, before you stop listening because you think this is just yet another protein powder or protein bar, you should know that ExoProtein is actually made from Let's see, 80% of the world still eats over 1,600 species of insects, and insects are one of the solutions to humanity's protein dilemma. They're actually as natural to eat as fruits and vegetables in most cultures, except these popular Western cultures that we live in, and they're a more complete form of protein than many of the livestock alternatives.

2:09:22 And even though they have just as much protein as other forms of meat. Also notice this is a fitness podcast, so it's targeted advertising. Crickets are 20 times more efficient to raise for protein compared to cattle and produce 100 times less greenhouse gases. Yes, apparently crickets fart less than cows. Nice. Anyways, they're high in protein. They contain all the amino acids. They've got over twice the iron of spinach. They've got a ton of B vitamins. And the ones from EXO bars are cricket protein sources that I like because they're natural, they're dairy-free, gluten-free, grain-free, soy-free, paleo-certified, et cetera. And I've eaten them. Peanut butter and jelly is a fantastic flavor. There are no legs. There are no antennae. Don't worry. They taste amazing.

2:10:18 I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. Wow. Yeah, we do have a few people to thank and that way we don't have to advertise eating bugs. And I have a buggy story too, which I'll discuss later. Well, give it to us now. Go ahead. Alright, so I'm coming back. I went to the city on BART and I'm coming back on BART. This is the trend. So I sit down next to this woman who is reading some... it's like a text that's some school thing that she's got there.

2:11:01 And she's flipping through it and she gets to this page on why bugs are better to eat. And it's a long thing and I'm looking at this and I took a picture of it which I'll try to remember to put in the newsletter. I'll tweet it out too. I'll definitely tweet it out at the Real Dvorak. And so I said, what is this? I says to her, I didn't mind interfering with her, what is she's doing? And I said, let me take a picture of that. And she said, yeah, sure. And then we started chatting and she turns out to be a woman who teaches English as a second language. And this is the book that the newbies coming into the country, the immigrants are reading about eating bugs. Why does she eat bugs? I thought it was the most insulting thing you could give somebody that just moved into the United States. Do we know the title of this book? Can we get a copy of it?

2:11:49 I have the, it may be in the photo. I just took a picture of the article. Oh man, dynamite. But yeah, that's what I thought it was, dynamite. And she went on about, I said, and she thought it was kind of silly to have this article. She didn't think about it until I pointed it out to her. And I said, the vegans are behind this. And so she cracked up. I just had a great- And there's somebody else listening in and they cracked up. I just had a great idea for a chain, for a franchise chain, Doug's Bugs. Doug's Bugs. Like Shake Shack, Doug's Bugs. Yeah. Dynamite. But another billion dollar idea that will never be followed up on. I think in this case is probably wise not to follow up. That's what you say. If you watch, someone will have a version of Doug's Bugs one day. We screwed. These people that put up with this bull crap is beyond me. Let's start thanking a few people who came in with lesser amounts than the executive producer amounts, Sir Corwin Underwood.

2:12:46 Who is the last I'm sorry got him there sir Don the night of the no agenda has sent a note in okay? We always break for nights. Yeah, we always break for nights. It's kind of it, but this is a good note That's a little long, but here it goes Thank you for the many lessons on the mainstream media. I naively thought that people did their jobs as I did when I was working back then as a scientist for the good part of the time I worked for the military-industrial complex. And one time in 1972, I admit that in order to keep the funding going, I completely ignored the evidence counter to the funded project. So I'm guilty too. This is the climate change argument. Ignore the evidence counter to the funded project.

2:13:27 So I'm guilty too. It must be a human failing that wants to keep the butter on the bread. Today, we should get a birthday call out. Let's get my birthday call. I didn't ask for it. Oh. Corwin. Today I am 80. Holy moly. And retired with a number of houses that I ran out. I sit and reflect. I live 10 feet from the high water mark on the ocean. Wait, this is Sir Don? Yes, Sir Don. Night of the no agenda. Ah, that's what I thought. Okay. 80, wow. I live 10 feet from the high water mark on the ocean and it's pretty quiet. The area is growing by leaps and bounds. Shopping malls are coming up all over the place and new homes. Where will we get all the water we need? Who will take our garbage? Maybe it was what Pierre Teilhard de Chardon lectured long ago. I can't pronounce his name. We are creating a new organism. Whether we are humans on the cells of a larger organism, I don't know. I don't want to know.

2:14:20 I know you have thoughts about where humanity is going in the long stay, 100 or 1,000 years from now, because it sure looks like we are doomed. I wrote another note. I apologize for not contributing much lately, and I did not want to. But then a gem of a lesson comes every now and then, and I cannot not support you two. Double negative. Aloha. Okay. Aloha to you, sir. Thank you. I'm gonna give him a little bit of karma for that one. 80 you've got karma. He probably should be a ham doing a Morse code CW That's that's who they are man. I talked to him all the time. We'll talk yeah, and they're all 80 yeah the older some Yeah, this really keeps you going the guy was at the one guy was at the Battle of the Bulge Oh geez he must be in his 90s. Yeah, yeah, well, that's fantastic. Oh the ball Jay He's telling me all about you know what happened there. I was great, but in in Morse code. That's the cool part. Oh

2:15:17 Took a long time for me to tell his story. Yes. It's a very she's a very low bandwidth more scary low bandwidth But also better at a time hey that that's the guy's mode of communication. I'm open to it Andrew Young in Cincinnati, Ohio one two three four five This has been basking in the no agenda karma too long without donating Okay, all right Vlad Andre I guess it's giggle gigla in London UK Keep up the good work. Thank you. One, two, three, four, five. Stuart Allen in Trumansburg, New York, 11139. David Vossen in Duluth, Minnesota, 108. At some point, somebody once said that Duluth, Minnesota is America. John Robinette, 100. Josh Thibodeau in Dayton, Texas, 100.

2:16:15 He's been behind because he's been out of the country. On his honeymoon. On his honeymoon, huh. Anonymous in Hoboken, New Jersey 100. Sir Herb in Sugar Hill, Georgia 8220. John was on fire for the Mayday show with his just date the black guy and self-immolation comments almost brought tears from laughing so hard. Come for the deconstruction, stay for the comedy says Sir Herb. I have a guy, somebody sent in a, I thought it was up higher. It should have been like 108 or 100 or something. It was a double call out to two moms.

2:16:56 I've got on here where it is take a look at those other I'll be looking you move on I'll be looking oops I just pushed the wrong button to jump okay we did it Christopher Lemon in Oloth Kansas 808 boobs Matthew Helle in Gatineau Quebec 808 boobs I want to thank you for doing all this hard work. Carla Kruger in Montgomery, Alabama, and 8008boobs. She says, please credit boobs to my wonderful spouse, Joe Kruger's quest for knighthood. Now that's a woman right there. Yeah, that's the keeper. Nathaniel Westveer in Jersey City, New Jersey, 7777. He also left us a very long note to read to ourselves.

2:17:52 Sir Pete in Amsterdam. But I just want to say he felt he needed to tell us how No Agenda saves his wife and he... Oh yeah? How? Well, a long story. But we're very happy about it. I gotta read this. I haven't read it yet so I'll read the story. We'll talk about it maybe on Thursday. Okay, 7777 from Nathaniel in Jersey City. He missed a meetup at Sparks. Sir Pete in Amsterdam. That's... Our friends, Sir Pete, 71-75. Sir Kevin Dills in Charlotte, North Carolina, 64-32. Christopher Dolan in Brookline, Massachusetts.

2:18:34 And he is, it's 6171. Now we have the callouts to the moms starting. And by the way, I want to mention this, we will have, there's going to be some overflow. Some people are going to miss this. They still want their moms to call. We will do one, we will do this on the Thursday show. Now, did we have a problem with the newsletter? Was there, I saw you sent out something. Yes, the newsletter did not get picked up for some reason. It looks like it got through. Some people, I talked to one guy. And he says it got thrown to spam and then he sent me a note showing that he got taken off the mailing list by MailChimp for no apparent reason. Was this by any chance... I tweeted it. Now, I saw that, but you had Mother's Day in the subject line? I don't remember what the subject line was. You think that would... That would trigger it, I think so. Yeah, because everyone sending Mother's Day offers

2:19:29 What do you think? Possibility? It's a possibility. There's no other violations that I knew of. Sounds like something Google would do. But I put the Mother's Day thing for sure in the second mailing and everybody seems to have gotten that. Yeah, but it had no links or anything. It was just one text. Right. So it may have got a different score. Interesting. That's always something. Bastards. Sir Patrick Coble in Fairview, Tennessee, 5816. Carmen, all the moms out there. That's simple. It's to the point. Merrick, Kladik, Kladik, Kladik, Kissimmee, Kissimmee, Kissimmee, I think it's Kissimmee in Florida. Kissimmee, that's what it is. Happy Mother's Day to my mommy, Yana Kladikova from son Merrick. I think it's Kladikova. Kladikova, that's what it would be. Kladikova, right.

2:20:25 Jeff McReynolds in Garland, Texas, 58, 16. These are all 58, 16s and we were promised to read the names of the moms. Happy Mother's Day to my awesome mom, Pat McReynolds. I thought this would be a great opportunity to honor my mom and be my first donation. All right, good. Please deduce me. We'll deduce you at the end. Consider yourself deduced. Howard Le Hero in Worcester, Massachusetts, 58, 16. He's got no mom listed. Oh, no, there it is. Happy Mother's Day to Lucy. Ryan Showalter in Providence Village, Texas. Dame... What is this for Showalter? There it is. Is this right? What is this on your thing? Which one are you looking at? I'm looking at Showalter's Ryan. Ryan Showalter, Providence Village. Dame Chantel for being a wonderful mother. From Teddy and Ryan, Sir Thomas of the Apocalypse.

2:21:26 That sounds right. Yeah. Sorry, this is gonna take forever. Lianne Fogwell in Raleigh, North Carolina. Lynn Fogwell. Lynn Fogwell in Raleigh, North Carolina, 5816. Ann is the happiest, most well-adjusted person in the planet. Happy Mother's Day to Lee Ann Fogwell, my wife and mother. Here's what I'm gonna tell you what the problem is. Since these are all single lines, I have to click on each one and open up the text. Okay, then I'm gonna run through them. Let me take over. Step aside, son. Okay, thanks. Lin Fogwell comes in twice. Happy Mother's Day to Lorraine Mae Fogwell, my mom. She passed away in 2002, but I'm sure she'll get the message. Yes, we have harmonics on the podcast. Sometimes it does get through to other dimensions. Jason Fortune, Geneva, Illinois. No mom mentioned. Carl Linder from Cary, North Carolina. Happy Mother's Day. Isaac Piggott from Trustville, Alabama. I'm shocked that more people don't honor great mothers like Thelma Piggott and Brenda Piggott.

2:22:29 William LaRock from Locust, North Carolina for Julie, Millie, Chrissy, Cassie, Susie, and Thea. And I believe William will be a knight today with that final donation of $58.16. Paul Ranum from Cottonwood Heights, Utah. Happy Mother's Day to Leslie Ranum. Sir Craig Porter from Council Bluffs, Iowa. Happy Mother's Day to my mom, Laura Lee. I'm sorry, pronounced Laura-lay Porter from Sir Craig Porter. Vail Pili from Boulder, Colorado. Happy Mother's Day to Vali Pili. Pili, Pili. Anonymous from McCutchenville, Ohio. Anonymous says, Happy Mother's Day, Willow from your son, W-I-L-O-U-G-H. Amanda from Minnesota. John Adam, I prefer my last name and city of red. Does my city be anonymous on the show?

2:23:16 And thank you, happy Mother's Day. Brian Hall from Ann Arbor, Michigan, in honor of my mother, Charlene Hall, my best friend who alas doesn't like no agenda very much. Well, still, cheers from Sir Fudge Fountain, Kilo Bravo Tango, India Yankee. A kilo eight, Tango India Yankee, sorry the I's. Sir Mark, Duke of Japan, 58, 16. Happy Mother's Day to Natasha, fantastic mother to Mila and Max. Put your feet up today and for the rest of the month. I hope your broken ankle heals quickly. Love and life, but I think he also meant love and light. Sir Mark, Duke of Japan, Japan Sea, and all disputed islands with new runways or not. He's a poet, that man is.

2:23:55 Dan Reader from Maudsland, Queensland, Australia, French restaurant bill plus no agenda donation is happiest mom ever ever the math checks out Michael Smith the second Jacksonville, Florida to my wife Rachel Smith Robert Kane Columbia, Alabama. Happy Mother's Day. Did you miss David Arlanis or I may have David Arlanis from San Marcos, California call out to the memory of my mother Rosa Ricardez. Thank you, John. Robert Cain, Columbia, Columbiana, Alabama. Happy Mother's Day to my awesome wife and mother of our two human resources from our night in shining underwear, Sir Arcane Code. Dave Fugazotto from the parts in the military. For Melody, my lovely wife and mother of my little girl. William Granger from Marion, Indiana. If this gets read, I just want to say happy Mother's Day to my mom and that I can't wait to see her tomorrow.

2:24:44 Brian Sodorowicz from Hamburg, New York. Denise wouldn't be listening to you if not for her. Happy Mother's Day. A fine mom indeed. Roberto Gutierrez from Homestead, Florida. In memory of Caridad Gutierrez. First Mother's Day without her. Now, I know what it feels like, man. Sorry. Michael Chamblin from Hillsboro, Ohio. Happy Mother's Day to my wife, Katie Chamblin. Wesley Clark, Stanley, North Carolina. Happy Mother's Day to Abby, the mother of our two-year-old human resource. You're one hot milf, baby! Yes, Sarah Schiessler from Midland, Texas. Mother's Day, Caitlin Williams from Seven Springs, North Carolina. That's 55. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, I've done. So now you can pick it up and I can continue on my way. Man, that's hard. You do that all every show. That's hard. Well, it's harder if there's this one line issue.

2:25:34 uh... caitlin williams and says seven springs north carolina fifty five fifty five surge james is equal in los angeles california fifty five sixteen twin bailey inch serrito is uh... new is a renewed car where's this career serrillo serrillo's new mexico it's a realist because yes it really is new mexico fifty five sixteen these are all actually uh... mayday donations and carried over You missed May Day, by the way. Quinn Bailey, that was Quinn. And then Duke Nussbaum. The Duke Nussbaum in Virginia Beach, Virginia, 5516. Then look over on the right, see if there's any blatant mistakes that refer to Mother's Day. Sir Otaku in Louisville, Texas, 5516. Greg Dar in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 5516. Devil Nichols on the dime from Vladimir Landman in Sioux City, Iowa.

2:26:29 Brandon Welch in Fafftown, North Carolina. And he has a happy first Mother's Day to my MILF fiancé, Kristen Minotti. And he had a douchebag for Mark Karsten. Douchebag! Okay. Kevin Reeves in Faf-Faf-Faf-Town? Faf-Town. Faf-Faf-Faf-Town. Kevin Reeves in Kalamazoo. 54-50. Sir Kevin Payne in Richmond, Virginia. I think it's Sir Kevin Reeves actually. Pretty sure. What? I think it's Sir Kevin Reeves. Okay. I don't... Okay. Sir Kevin Reeves to us. Lou Grainer in London, UK. 55-33. Daniel

2:27:14 Tomash, Tomash, Tomash in Washington, D.C. Ooh, Washington, D.C., 51-16, which is another call back to Mayday. And coming from Washington, D.C. is perfect. Miles Comer in Walnut, California, 51-16. David Woodfine in Alton, Hampshire, U.K., 51-16. Brian Klimczak in Napierville, Illinois. 5116, Chris Davidson 5116 in Bella Vista, Arkansas, and Ben Truman in Abbey de la Zuche, Leicester, Great Britain. Leicestershire. Great Britain. Congratulations to Leicester City. Xavier Herret in Paris, France, where you were. Hey, hey, hey, hey! We had a bunch of these. There's a whole slew of these. Bonjour, Xavier.

2:28:08 How are you? Lori Jutila Dame, Lori, as I recall in Helsinki, 51-16. Richard Hyde, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK, 51-16. Robert Bruckner in Gilbert, Arizona, 51-16. Brent Bente, Held Edlich in Binningen, Switzerland. Is that Switzerland? Yeah, CH. So Bennett Held Edlich in Binningen, Bidding in the Schweitz. It is as Czechoslovakia could be. It's a CH. I know Czechoslovakia is CZ and the CH is Switzerland. Yeah, if you're using Internet terminology. No, if I'm using I know because it's on they have the throughout the EU in Europe they have stickers on the back of the cars. It's a white oval sticker. CH is this. Yes.

2:29:08 That would do it. Richard Hyde, Robert Bruckner and Gilbert. We got him. Bente. We got him. Joshua Brickman in Holland, Pennsylvania, 51-16. Vincent K. James in Madison, Alabama, 51-16. And finally, Christine Kleckner in Trenton, New Jersey. And she's out of Mayday call out. Barry Coggins drops it to $50.27. Parts Unknown, Adam Beck is lost wages in Nevada. $50. The following people are $50 donors and I'll be read in order of name and city. Matthew Januszewski in Chicago, Justin Barber in Los Angeles, Danny Luce in Shawnee, Kansas,

2:29:50 Ryan Van in Mesa, Arizona. Jeffrey Montagna in Phoenix, Arizona. Edward Musarek in Memphis, Tennessee. Tim Abel in Bergfeld, Berkshire, UK. Tim Abel. Jonathan Meyer in Zinnia, Ohio. Edgar Almaguire in Wachahatchee, Texas. Wachahatchee. Wachahatchee. Something like that. I think I have a pronunciation guide for that actually. Waxahachie. Maybe I don't. Alexander Sokovy in Moscow. Or Muskman in Moscow. Sir, by the way, I think right now if I'm not mistaken. In fact, I think he is for sure. Francis B. Lanzer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Matthew Narocki in Green Valley Lake, California.

2:30:47 Robert Bruckner in Gilbert, Arizona. There's a lot of people in Gilbert, and this is Bruckner came in twice last week. Jared Seuss, any relation? I don't know. In Chicago. Sir Alan Bean over here in Oakland waving. Sir Paul from Horseheads. And finally, Sir Mark Tanner in Whittier, and Sir Brian Watson in Raleigh, North Carolina. Sir Brett Farrell, a lot of sirs coming in here, OKC. And Jason Deluzio in Chatsford, Pennsylvania. That concludes our long list of well-wishers and helpers. And this, of course, was for two shows worth, so we really appreciate you guys supporting us.

2:31:31 And I want to say again, thank you to Sir Cyber for putting together such a dynamite clip show for us. I really enjoyed it. You are very funny, Mr. Dvorak. I'm hilarious. You are. And here comes Brandy. Yeah. And I want to say happy Mother's Day to my sisters, Tiffany and Willow and TMTK, known as Tina Marie the Keeper. They're all great moms. Our moms are dead, so we know that... I'd like to wish them a posthumous Mother's Day, and I'd like to wish Mother's Day to my wife and also to Eric's wife, Dee, who is a mother, and so we got all the mothers covered. And all the mothers of the world. Thanks. Without you, we wouldn't be here, that's for sure. We would not be here. And if you read the newsletter, you know that Mother's Day was not, as I always claimed... A hallmark invention?

2:32:27 Hallmark didn't pick it up for almost 10 years before they finally got a clue. They were on the ball though. 10 years later. And remember we have another show coming up on Thursday. Dvorak.org slash N-A. You've been D-douched. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. All right, here's the list for today. Amanda Carl says happy birthday to her brand new daughter Lyra Lira. Oh boy. I'm butchering that one. Anyway, she's born May 2nd. It's pronounced. Oh, here we go.

2:33:19 The jet lag is getting to me. Here we go. We have two knightings today. We have Bill LaRock and Riley Kimble. I have the big blade back here in the... Hello, Jean-Claude? You gotta pull out with two hands. That's what she said.

2:34:00 Alright, Bill Riley, step on up to the podium right here on either side of the lectern is great. Now Neil, because you're about to become Knights of the No Jenner Roundtable which is coveted and only reserved for those who have supported the show in the amount of $1,000 or more and I'm therefore very proud to pronounce Kate the Sir Bill of the Rock. Oops, stop, stop. And Sir Nolan Boyd. There we go. For you gentlemen, we have meat and water, garlic and broccoli, espresso and hemp milk, fried bread and fembots, dildod and dramamine, crickets and cream, DMT and astral travel, black hose and MD-2020, Cuban cigars and single malt scotch, shibari and fat rooster craft beer,

2:34:40 This is the best gift bag in the business. Thank you. We do have the goods in the goodie bag for sure. For sure. I have one little thing that I thought you would be able to help with. Fauci. Fauci is a CDC guy. Yeah, Fauci's the CDC guy. And he is the Brolf guy, right? Brolf. Good to be here, Brolf. That guy. That's Fauci, right? Yeah. Okay.

2:35:36 So he had this long statement about Zika. Of course, they're still trying to get the $1.9 billion from all the people who pledged it, from all the countries mainly. Half a billion from the UK alone, just kind of ramping up the pressure. And that was the Ebola money. Man, that's supposed to flow over to Zika. So he's out there promoting it and he is now talking about the mosquito. Do you know the name of the mosquito? Because he mentions it but I couldn't really understand it well enough. I'd have to look it up again and then I would have to read it because it's a very screwy mosquito. Well, he has some stuff to say about it and you of course are the resident expert as a professor in the biological sciences. Entomologist. Aedes aegypti is a very difficult mosquito. The Aedes aegypti?

2:36:20 Egypt? The Aedes aegypti. Egypt? The Aedes aegypti. I guess it's from Egypt. Aedes aegypti is a very difficult mosquito to control and eliminate. That doesn't mean that it's impossible to have a significant impact on it, but it will require a very aggressive, concerted effort for the reasons that I very briefly outlined. Their ability to exist and stay in places that are difficult to eliminate mosquitoes, for example... They're like a super mosquito, it sounds like, John. Super mosquito. Well, you need that larvicide.

2:36:58 Oh, well, it comes up. They'd like to stay indoors as well as outdoors, which makes the spraying, the outdoor spraying, ineffective for those mosquitoes. We have to spray in your homes. Hehehehe. Chemtrail inside. So what one would have to do is to raise public awareness have cooperation at the community level to get people as best as they possibly can, where they can, to eliminate and diminish standing water of any type, as well as to push and try and to utilize environmentally friendly lovicides and insecticides. Oh! Oh! Environmentally friendly! Monsanto!

2:37:45 Can't wait for that. Having said all of that, it's still going to be very, very difficult to do. Now, years ago in the 50s and the 60s, Brazil itself made a very aggressive attempt to eliminate the Aedes aegypti mosquito. They did it successfully, but they did it in a way that would be almost non-feasible today. very heavy use of DDT, very aggressive use going into homes, essentially spraying in homes. Now, this is one of my favorite topics. Then he says it would be very difficult to do it today because of the accepted science and truth about DDT. And notice that Brazil didn't have this problem once they did that.

2:38:39 And DDT, you know, we've talked about it several times in the past years, or over the years. People would eat DDT, they'd dive into big mountains of it, you know, they wouldn't die. The big problem was, I believe it was a form of eagle that was dying from it or something. Pelican eggs. Pelican, thank you. Pelican, that's what it was. The pelicans. But DDT, I think it should be, we should revisit DDT. I think this may be part of that movement. Huh, he's telling me that, well, he says we have to do something. Well, let me, you know, actually I caught a word here, hold on, let's listen to it. To eliminate the Aedes aegypti mosquito, they did it successfully, but they did it in a way that would be almost non-feasible today. Almost non-feasible? Why would it be almost non-feasible? Because DDT is illegal and they use DDT to do this trick.

2:39:33 This is a DDT. I think that you brought up a clip that I'm going to interpret as trying to reintroduce because I heard a long, long show on PBS, it was on the public broadcasting system, on the radio, NPR I guess, going on about how DDT was... It could have been on the Podcast One app. Wrongly. taken off the market. Oh, really? And I think that they are working on the propaganda necessary to reintroduce DDT. It would be a huge moneymaker and it does a very good job. The thing about the eggs may actually be wrong. In fact, you know, the funny thing is this year I've seen no pelicans in the Bay Area, which is very strange, but there's something... Now, hold on, hold on. Right now, stop, collaborate, and listen.

2:40:23 Is there a company that we can invest in now that will be producing the DDT when the propaganda comes to light? I think Chevron would be a good one. They make all these bug killers and they can make DDT in the drop of a hat, I'm sure of it. Is there... who historically manufactured Chevron? Well, let me try, let me see. Book of Knowledge. Who was the manufacturer of DDT? Sorry, I don't have the answer to that question. Well then how about this? Book of Knowledge. Wikipedia DDT. DDT is a colorless, crystalline, tasteless and almost odorless organic chloride known for its insecticidal properties and environmental impacts. Tell me if you'd like me to read more. Oh yes, please read more. Thanks. Good work. Uh, uh, chlorocyte, is that what she said?

2:41:24 Chloride is a chlor... no, she didn't say chloroside. Does Monsanto ever make it? I don't know, I doubt it personally. Well, can we, can you talk to Horowitz? This is an opportunity. Yeah, I think you're actually correct. This is a buying opportunity. That's assuming my theory is correct. Who cares? You're not gonna lose a lot of money investing in a chemical company. Now they're gonna get screwed. True. You know, a couple hundred dollars, I'd love to try that. Let's listen to the rest of him. Maybe we'll learn more. In the 50s and the 60s, Brazil itself made a very aggressive attempt to eliminate the Aedes aegypti mosquito. They did it successfully, but they did it in a way that would be almost non-feasible today. Very heavy use of DDT, very aggressive use going into homes essentially

2:42:22 spraying in homes, cleaning up areas, things that I think the general public would not be amenable to accepting. So it can be done, but historically, it was done in a way that might not be acceptable now. Wow, he's really couching it, isn't he? Sounds like it. That's good. Well, the chat room's saying that Monsanto definitely also produced it. Mm-hmm. No, they've some I'm sure looking it up. I'm just looking for the favorites, you know shift Chevron's gonna do it I'm sure their favorite their Victoria Newlands, you know second home was dynamite. Oh before much research before I forget a reminder that We do have show summaries for the no agenda show and we have our our producer

2:43:13 our producer who does, it's at blugs.com and that is, sir, hold on a second, I'm sorry, Moses Hall. Moses Hall, Moses Hall, who's also done great jingles for us. And so it's blugs.com slash N-A. And what's cool about it, this is what I love about our network, our, you know, So you look at 8, so here's 821 Manterrupters. I click on it, it has a whole bunch, it has a summary, and then next to each summary, a timestamp. You click on that, it goes over to noagendaplayer.com to that timestamp. Oh, okay. That is... That's, there's some software out there that can do that. That's great that he's got this up. But it's also two different projects connected. I love that. Really good. Really, really good. Really, really good. And he also, I think he also publishes the whole thing

2:44:09 All of the episodes in one large PDF if you want that. Well, I should also mention, and this is my big fear about all these initiatives. Although it's not really a fear. One of our producers sent me a note saying noagendastickers.com, I guess which ran out of steam or ran out of time, has been picked up by a Chinese porn site. Nice! So now you go to noagendastickers.com and it's like some crazy porn from China. Well, I'm on my way. Hold on. Stop the show. Crazy porn from China. We love that. What do we got here, people? Oh. Takes a little while to load. Yeah. That's what she said. Hey, yo. Yeah, well, okay. Go on. All show. It's not my category. It's not my category. Okay.

2:45:06 What else Jean-Claude? Oh, tech news! You said you had a tech news segment. Yeah, I went to... Wait, wait, wait, we need to do our tech news jingle. Where's tech news? I always do this. I can't find it. There's something with the tech news jingle. Yeah, I know. There's something with the tech news jingle that I need to put it somewhere on the desktop. You should make a copy of it with a different title so you have two of them to look for. Okay, well there's so many techs in titles. The only good phone's a landline and the phone should be made out of Bakelite.

2:45:42 So I went to the demonstration and opening of the new iMacs laser iMacs in San Francisco was invited. What is new about this? Well, it uses a laser for a light source. Oh, and it doesn't use any prisms. It actually has three separate DLPs and three separate laser light sources blue green and red that hit each one of those directly. Right. And it gives you a... so the image and they had they gave us a demo of the bunch of the images and they gave you a

2:46:27 Then this is a screen full-size IMX screen in San Francisco at the AMC with a hundred feet wide 80 feet high So that's big 100 feet. Yes 100 feet wide 80 feet high And so we got to see, I got it, in fact, I have a, I took a movie inside the projection room. I think somebody might want to look at that. So I'm going to post that on YouTube. That's kind of interesting. And the guy's lecturing us about stuff. And so what I learned though, besides this new projector that they're rolling out, is, and it's actually two projectors, two 4K projectors side by side, and they're either giving a 2D image that is combined two images, they run both of them, or they can do a 3D with the two. So they overlay those two images entirely, or is it for the 3D effect? Yeah, they're overlaid. They overlay them, or can do 3D optionally. Oh, cool.

2:47:22 And so what I learned, which I thought was kind of interesting, nobody, I don't know how many people thought it was interesting but me, but it seems as if most of the IMAX movies are upscaled with original IMAX content within the movie. For example, Star Wars The Force Awakens, movie or Judy or whatever you want to watch but there's only one part of it that's actually shot with pure IMAX gear. Oh really? And with a lot of these movies they apparently go from the IMAX when they would like with this giant screen they will they would use the entire screen for some IMAX content and then drop it back down the letterbox right in the movie you don't really notice it. You're kidding me. No. But you don't notice it.

2:48:11 You don't. In fact, they did a couple of examples of it. Because this damn screen is so huge and they have stadium seating, you know, it goes straight up. It's like a baseball stadium. Cool. And you don't notice it so much. And when they go to Letterboxd, you don't really notice it. But they shoot certain scenes in all IMAX. I guess it uses up so much bandwidth or so, you know, just costly. Very few movies, although there are some, are shot entirely in pure IMAX. Most of them are upscaled from 2K. And the upscale is so tiny. But isn't that just the resolution? I mean, it's shot on 70mm film.

2:48:50 Then they transfer it. It's shot digitally? Those days are over. Forget it. That's done. It's shot digitally? Yeah, using this one Aeroflex camera, which apparently cost a mint to lease. And this camera is used both for the newest iMac stuff and it's used for the Adobe HDR. Oh wow. Same exact camera. And it's got this hugely very expensive Aeroflex digital camera. And and they're going away from the 70 millimeter, so they kept them in the projection room if anyone ever watched watch this movie There's still the 70 millimeter projector in there in a big box and then the two new digital ones So they're not you know they're moving away. Are there still cases where? The digit shot digital and then they print it to 70 millimeter for IMAX theaters Or do they all pretty much are they're all going digital now

2:49:42 Think it's pretty much all digital dynamite. That's you know so film will basically not be preserved It'd be just like flicker. It'll be preserved in somebody's garage. Yeah on some drive that has a connector that doesn't work What is that? What is this Thunderbolt stuff? You got an old IMAX? Let me finish my little anecdote. So they showed us in the Star Wars movie, there's only one set of scenes that was actually shot in IMAX. And it's that scene, if you remember, at the beginning of the movie where the black guy and the girl first meet and then they run around as they're getting shot at and then they jump in Han Solo's old

2:50:25 device that old ship is take off and then they get chased around they go in a hole and all over the place and then they Other planes are chasing and get blowed up in his flipper. It's about 10-15 minutes seen but it is And they showed it to us in pure IMAX and the rest of the movies kind of shot in I don't know what and they're upscaled hmm, so This is the way they're doing it. They're shooting this important scenes and pure IMX and the rest of it is Questions is big big right, but eventually they'll do it all in in the big digital format, right? I think it's all shoot digitally anyway. It's just not necessarily shot in the IMAX Super Res. Right, so it's just a cost issue. It's a, I'm sure it is, and a storage issue. Yeah, you think? Yeah, I mean this is... And speed of storage, you know, if you're not compressing. I don't know enough about it, but... So anyway, you see this, it's a nice impressive thing, and I asked, the CEO was there, so I got to chat with him for a while, and ask him about Dolby. And who's that? Who's the CEO?

2:51:25 I don't have his name. But CEO of what? Of IMAX? Yeah, IMAX is a corporation that has shares. Oh, cool. And did you introduce yourself as a podcaster when you asked these questions? I'm John the Podcaster and I'll be talking about IMAX on the podcast. So I did talk about IMAX on the podcast, but it was interesting. I had a good time and got to see a lot of demos. Cool. Cool. I have to say I wouldn't mind having one of those. So overall, your experience on a scale of 1 to 10? I thought it was an 8.

2:52:04 And that's coming from you. That's pretty good. Sorry, but coming from you. That's pretty good. Yeah, it is. I mean it was enjoyable. I get that and what would have made it they showed us a copy we got to watch Captain America bullcrap whatever it was. I'm getting sick of these Marvel films. Yeah, and what would have made it a 10? What was missing? There were no dancing girls. There's no food. I mean there's a little snack for breakfast. It wasn't that interesting bagels and It take a little more to be a tan tans are hard. Yeah, I agree Hey, okay, I have my review of the Apple watch, but when I actually you'll see that that goes letterbox a lot I'm sorry. I totally broke up there. Yeah, what time was that I've been tracking this by the way 255 oh

2:53:04 Now that's that sounds like your connection, but don't worry. It's good enough. It's only no no it's not my connection I can't guarantee you. Oh, okay, my connection. I didn't I'm not sure I think it might be Skype or something I've just been going on a very I've been but tracking it and you've been black black down for very short periods of time 30 minutes again Yeah, you know router flap There's something going on. Router flap. Yeah. Anyway, so you had tech news. Yeah, so I acquired an Apple Watch with a discount, I will say. Was it a five-finger discount? No, it was a family and friends discount from Tina's daughter who works part-time at the Apple store. Oh! So she can give away discounts.

2:53:54 It was actually different. We were out in that area and we dropped in just to say hi to her. And then we're talking and I have to say she was pretty brave. She says, hey, since you're here, Adam, why don't I show you the Apple Watch? And she went into her spiel. She sold you. And here's how she says, from your style, I think that the butterfly class would be exactly what would be good for you. And the programming came over me. I didn't know what happened before I knew it. I was walking out with an Apple Watch. But thinking, okay, we can have a real review. I have hate for the Apple Watch, so it was very difficult for me. So is this her daughter? Daughter, her daughter. And she's obviously a good salesperson, I think. Oh, they go through tons of training, five interviews before you're even hired. I can hear the wedding bells already.

2:54:54 What does that have to do with it? It runs in the family sales go on sales? She's playing long game You are a card, Dvorak. Okay. All right. So first of all, and feel free to jump in with questions because this is a real honest review. And we've been very negative towards the whole cult of it, the hail apple. And that is of course the number one problem I have with it on my wrist. So now of course, like buying a 10 speed bike or a certain type of car, now I see these things everywhere. I'm like, oh my God. And it's so visible.

2:55:35 And somehow it's not the same as your phone because that's in your pocket. Okay, you take it out, people have kind of all kind of looks the same, but the watch is very, very distinct. And then you go, I'm wearing the same watch by the same person in my in a club. It felt very, and I find that in general ugly. Just ugly. It's an ugly thing, but that kind of big being in the cult. It's a little odd Now I wanted to use it for two reasons one I wanted to Configure the face to have all this in you know the watch face with all the information that would be Handy for me such as local time where I was in Europe and then Austin time so I could remember you know showtime weather all of this stuff and I

2:56:20 I've always liked dual times. I usually have UTC. In fact, I had that programmed, UTC as well. And yeah, it's okay. I have the information and I don't have to calculate, but there's lots of watches that can do that. It doesn't have to be an Apple watch at all. Then, just, and I had it configured for only certain things to alert me. So, you know, when you get a text message or a WhatsApp or a calendar notification, those are kind of the things, and you can determine, you know, who, what, or whatever comes through. So I just set it pretty low. I don't want a lot of notifications.

2:56:58 It is cool because you get a notification around the house, you know, like walking around, get a notification. I look, okay, that's so and so. Yeah, you can reply from it if you're willing to speak like a moron to Siri and then you wind up doing it 20 times because you can't type it. So that's completely stupid. You look like a douchebag talking into your watch. But the notifications are rude. It's just rude because what happens is, and I noticed this when we were in Amsterdam and Paris, And then I get a notification, I look and then I see Tina looking at me like, am I boring you or something? You're looking at your watch? Because that's exactly what it feels like. And then you're really conscious like, I want to look at my watch when they're not looking. Oh, okay, quick, take a quick look. And I know people are having the same thing. Can you do the following? You're talking to somebody, yak, yak, yak, and then you go and you jump.

2:57:53 Jump you say oh, hold on. I hate to do this, but my watch just told me something important happened by giving me a joke I Like that that's it that is that would be a good way Then you look at it paying and hold on one second then you look at hello in one second. Oh Geez, what is this wrong with this watch? I'm sorry. I own it, but it go on Okay, what were you saying? All right, then you have the the health app and it's measuring your heartbeat and your steps I found it interesting at the end of the day as we were walking around town to say, oh, we walked 10,000 steps or near the last day was 15,000 steps. How many miles? I don't know. I have not found that if it's in there. What? I couldn't find it. Very complicated app. That's what Fitbit gives you the miles. I'm sure it's in there because they have a lot of data. Here's the thing that really pisses me off, the heart rate.

2:58:48 because you get these alerts like, oh, your heart rate is 118. I'm like, is that good? Is that bad? My heart rate's going up because of the alert. And what is this? And you know when these things, well, there's a couple of times when my heart rate goes up, but it's always trackable back to the opening of our show, to the nighting ceremony. You can see it right on time. You can see my heart rate go up because I'm energized and I'm yelling, I'm screaming. And then once in a while you'll get a reading where it says your heart rate is 198. Like that can't be right. 198. I guess they're giving you bogus numbers. It must be bogus numbers, but now you're conscious of it. And then even Tina's saying, hey man, that's too high. I'm like, I'm sure it's a bogus number. Yeah, maybe not. I don't know, maybe not. This is bad. I'm concerned. No, I'm not.

2:59:42 That's bad. It's like a battery on a Tesla. My battery is going down, will I make it? Do not like it. Yeah, that's the problem with those electric cars. Except for the Volt. Yeah. Although of course, you can't get more energy out of something you put into it. So anyway. Fine. Then the biggie for me, which was really disappointing, is the maps. I really, really hoped that we could walk through the streets of Paris with my phone in my pocket and the subtle haptic twitches on my wrist, which felt very comfortable as a Tourette's sufferer.

3:00:20 and you know, to turn right and to turn left and always walk in the wrong direction. It's always, you know, you standing somewhere and then it decides a different route and you go that way and then it says, Oh no, you go backwards. And meanwhile, Tina just pulled out the Google maps. Fantastic. And then you can do Google maps, you can send it to the watch, but you know, it's also the Apple maps. When it says right, it's kind of like a curve. Off to the right, you know, not a complete 90 degree angle arrow, but more like 45 degree, which is like, is it a curve? Is it to the right? I don't know. It's horrible. Really, really disappointing. And everything takes forever, especially when you're, when I was overseas.

3:01:05 I have the T-Mobile, you know, free data forever everywhere, but you're at like two and a half or 3G, so it's pretty slow data. Then, you know, so then if you're connecting to pull up anything like, oh, I'll use the KLM app to see if the plane is on time. It's like 25 seconds because it has to talk to the watch, the watch has to talk to the slow network. Like, it's like I'm putting slow pieces in on purpose. Complete, complete fail. I can see no, no case for this product. None whatsoever. Can you get your money back? No, but I'm going to sell it on eBay. Or what is the thing Leo always talks about? Gazelle. Gazelle. Don't they take Apple watches by now? I'm sure they do. Yeah. Then I think just the whole feeling you're a member of a cult, that's what, that really bothered me. It was very, very hard. Oh, and Apple Pay. Oh, this is hilarious.

3:02:02 If you want to look like a dick, use Apple Pay. You gotta swipe your wrist upside down and then your hand is covering the terminal so you can't see if it's done it or not. And then you pull your hand away too soon and then it's like, oh, rejected. They have to do it again. And then people behind you are like, who is this asshole? What is he doing? I run into that with the I say the same thing in the pews it always works for me the It fails sometimes it just fails. I mean doesn't always work my favorite one is the is the boarding pass on your phone Yeah, yeah, there's a number of thing I do I've witnessed this a couple of these one. Yeah, I've witnessed I've witnessed all of these one It doesn't work and so the whole line stops and

3:02:47 Well, they're going back and forth, they bring somebody over, and then they're trying to get it to work, and it never works. And you're standing there, waiting for this douchebag to get this thing to work. And you've got a paper thing, you just throw the paper at him, you're on your way. Okay, fine, that's one of the things. The other one, somebody starts to use it, this has only happened once that I've seen, but I'm sure it happens every once in a while, a phone rings. Oh, that's another good one. Why were they putting it on? Oh yeah. Yeah, it blanks out the screen with a so and so. Jim's calling and so they gotta, I gotta go. I can't talk to right now. I'm at the, I'm at this. And so they yak a few minutes because they got to take the guy off the phone without being rude.

3:03:24 and so then they get the thing and then they got a little fiddle around on the phone to get the boarding pass to come back up is not right there and on the backside of the phone call it's just like it would be what what is the point of this you've got a printer at home just printed and boring presser printed in one of the kiosks Instead of going through this, look I've got a phone with my boarding pass on it. Well it gets worse and this of course relates directly to industrial society and its future. A fine manifesto you should read one time by some guy also known as the Unabomber, how technology is really not helping us. This is one example but in the Sheraton Hotel in Amsterdam at the airport, brand new hotel,

3:04:02 We were hungry, we were in late, we got in late from the train. I'm gonna go find some neat. So I walk out and say, hey, refreshment center. I go over there. It's a vending machine. The big one, but it had all kinds of Dutch snacks and, you know, other, you know, just like something that we could snack on seemed good. But stick my card in and it freezes up. And then freezing up, and it has a little display, it says put in your card, pull out your card, and freezes up, and it's not working. I go down to, or I go up to the eighth floor. I put it in, pull it out, and it says no server found. So what used to be easy, I put in a couple of quarters, a couple of quarters, or even the money thing in a little slot. No, server not found. I go down to the sixth floor. Then, and I put my card in and it says this account is already in use. Ugh!

3:03:24 and so then they get the thing and then they got a little fiddle around on the phone to get the boarding pass to come back up is not right there and on the backside of the phone call it's just like it would be what what is the point of this you've got a printer at home just printed and boring presser printed in one of the kiosks Instead of going through this, look I've got a phone with my boarding pass on it. Well it gets worse and this of course relates directly to industrial society and its future. A fine manifesto you should read one time by some guy also known as the Unabomber, how technology is really not helping us. This is one example but in the Sheraton Hotel in Amsterdam at the airport, brand new hotel,

3:04:02 We were hungry, we were in late, we got in late from the train. I'm gonna go find some neat. So I walk out and say, hey, refreshment center. I go over there. It's a vending machine. The big one, but it had all kinds of Dutch snacks and, you know, other, you know, just like something that we could snack on seemed good. But stick my card in and it freezes up. And then freezing up, and it has a little display, it says put in your card, pull out your card, and freezes up, and it's not working. I go down to, or I go up to the eighth floor. I put it in, pull it out, and it says no server found. So what used to be easy, I put in a couple of quarters, a couple of quarters, or even the money thing in a little slot. No, server not found. I go down to the sixth floor. Then, and I put my card in and it says this account is already in use. Ugh!

3:04:47 And then I've ridden the elevator three times and there's this sign of a burger and fries that they're selling, that they say, hey call us, we're selling this, you know, in the hotel. And it had aroma advertising. It had the smell of a hamburger coming out of the sign. Who needs that? Well, what happened was, I'm like, I need a burger. And I went down to the club floor. But I go up to the guy and say, hey, I smelled the burger. He says, oh, the kitchen just closed. I'm like, are you kidding me? But it was just the whole vending system throughout the whole hotel went out because of something. They couldn't find the server. I mean, this is bad. This is really bad.

3:05:33 Yes, and I can see the guys who sold that to above this is great. We have tracking we know exactly what person That's like the because you're putting in your room key meters Yeah, you put parking meters in I think actually Berkeley and the ones in San Francisco The parking meters are now all you know credit card if you put a coin in there chokes on it. Oh But so you go to these parking meters and a lot of them, especially the ones that take care of a whole block and there's one big machine you have to go to pay here, it says. You go there and it's like the sun is hitting this non-reflective LCD screen, you can't read it. It's not an L-E, it's an L-C. Oh right, you can't even read it, yeah. So the sun is pounding on the ceiling. That's like all the gas stations. Gas stations around the country are like that. You can't read it. You gotta cup it, and then you find the Jokers, and this is the one, as soon as I saw one of these, the first time I saw it, I said, oh my, this I know isn't gonna work because graffiti guys, they got the little can with them and they walk past one and they see, boom, right over the screen.

3:06:32 And then you're standing there, and then you're trying to figure it out, and then it's like, welcome to gas station TV. Oh yeah, that's another one. Right. LCDs or LEDs. No, it's LC. I think we should cap it. Are we done? Yeah. Well, they sure know how to do something. But yeah. And by the way, our tech news thing is always grousing. This is what's missing in a lot of these. Yeah, no, everyone's too positive about how great it's all going to be. It's all crap. So let's listen to a short clip from Rachel Ray. And I want you to pay attention to the audiences making noise at this most banal of cooking tips by Rachel Ray.

3:07:33 Anytime you're making burgers, once you get the meat and the ingredients you're spicing it with together, push it back together into one even mound. Score the mound with the side of your hand into equal portions so that as you make the burgers, all the burgers are the same size. Wow. This is a genius idea. Yeah, they're all the man. They're all the way they all went they all gasp a Great idea. I can't believe our luck that we're here to witness this beautiful. I got another little clip

3:08:15 of the, this was the, there's a new woman that came in at Voice of America to kind of run it. I don't know, the new CEO, I guess the other guy was a jerk, implied that throughout, this was on C-SPAN. And some guy just, this is a guy from NPR that comes out to ask, this is the question and answer moment, and he's asked this question, but in there I think he drops a little interesting, to me, an interesting nugget. I don't know what I'm playing. Oh, I'm sorry. NPR VOA meeting. I got it. Welcome. Jeff Rosenberg, NPR. One of my jobs in my 38 years there was as head of NPR worldwide.

3:09:00 Which is the international distribution side? Doesn't come to as David can tell you doesn't come to the attention of the government unless it's It's occasionally has some friction Fortunately fortunately that hasn't happened in quite a while but wait a minute wait a minute you heard it too and Fortunately, it hasn't... fortunately, it hasn't happened in quite a while, because we're in bed with the government! Jeez. Who are approving it all and making sure we do all the right things so we don't get blocked from our broadcast. Yeah. Jeez. Hello, Mr. Smith and Mundt. Are you rolling in your graves yet? I don't know if they're dead, but they should be. You'd die of a heart attack.

3:09:54 propaganda. New product coming out, this could have been in the tech news, of course not really tech, it's kind of tech. You gotta listen to this report. I'm surprised this didn't get national attention. KFC fingernail polish. KFC thinks you should take its finger-licking good slogan literally. The chain has produced an edible nail polish. Comes in two flavors and colors, original, the beige color, and hot and spicy in red. Customers paint the polish on their nails, let it dry, and then lick it away. Right now, they just have it in Hong Kong. But the company is asking customers to pick their favorite flavor to go into mass production. Remember lickable wallpaper from Willy Wonka? Yeah. It's a fantastic product.

3:10:42 Here, I'm sure this thing sells like hotcakes. Oh, yeah, the kids will love it. Kids love this. The kid, you know, they'll be sitting in class and what we'll get, I can already predict the news report, the new edible nail polish has been banned in this school because kids were doing it all day, licking each other's fingers. Hey, pull my finger. Smells like poop. You can just see all the problems coming. I think you're right. You can see the problems coming. Oh man, let's see, I have, do you have another, I have something that actually just needs to be discussed. We just play the clip while we're talking about it. This was Turkish Parliament the other day. Oh my god. Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous. You know, the prime minister quote-unquote left. Everyone was... Quit. Quit. This was a, this was about a vote to give the entire parliament indemnity.

3:11:32 Erdogan is in his mega castle, his palace, and no one is looking at how evil this guy is. And now he's got one of his son-in-laws coming into the picture. All of a sudden this guy is the advisor. You watch, he's going to be the new prime minister. It's crazy. And the guy who left, the prime minister who left, he was the key guy in the negotiations with the EU. So we don't even know if that deal is on or not. And the visas, they're happening. They're happening by the end of this month. Yeah. I'm surprised that it's actually happening. Like, I thought, I didn't think it was going to go through. I know you said it wouldn't happen, but... That's what I said. They're desperate. They're desperate. They don't, people, they don't know what to do. And Erdogan is just, he's laughing at them. Ha! Give me your money. Six billion is going to be more now.

3:10:42 Here, I'm sure this thing sells like hotcakes. Oh, yeah, the kids will love it. Kids love this. The kid, you know, they'll be sitting in class and what we'll get, I can already predict the news report, the new edible nail polish has been banned in this school because kids were doing it all day, licking each other's fingers. Hey, pull my finger. Smells like poop. You can just see all the problems coming. I think you're right. You can see the problems coming. Oh man, let's see, I have, do you have another, I have something that actually just needs to be discussed. We just play the clip while we're talking about it. This was Turkish Parliament the other day. Oh my god. Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous. You know, the prime minister quote-unquote left. Everyone was... Quit. Quit. This was a, this was about a vote to give the entire parliament indemnity.

3:11:32 Erdogan is in his mega castle, his palace, and no one is looking at how evil this guy is. And now he's got one of his son-in-laws coming into the picture. All of a sudden this guy is the advisor. You watch, he's going to be the new prime minister. It's crazy. And the guy who left, the prime minister who left, he was the key guy in the negotiations with the EU. So we don't even know if that deal is on or not. And the visas, they're happening. They're happening by the end of this month. Yeah. I'm surprised that it's actually happening. Like, I thought, I didn't think it was going to go through. I know you said it wouldn't happen, but... That's what I said. They're desperate. They're desperate. They don't, people, they don't know what to do. And Erdogan is just, he's laughing at them. Ha! Give me your money. Six billion is going to be more now.

3:12:24 You know, he's put the journalists in jail for five years for showing Turkish tanks, materiel being sent to rebels in Syria. There's actually another little aspect is I have the Turkish journalists being sent to jail and I think it's worth playing. Yeah, absolutely. Because there's a tidbit. Okay. Turkish journalist, John Dundar has been handed a sentence of five years and ten months by a court in Istanbul for revealing state secrets. The charges relate to a report that he wrote about alleged arms shipments from Turkey to Syrian rebels. The verdict came just hours after he survived an attempt on his life by a gunman outside the courtroom. Police arrested the assailant who shouted traitor as he fired at least two shots at Dundar, who was briefing reporters about his trial.

3:13:12 Critics say that the trial is yet another attempt by the Erdogan government to stifle freedom of the press. Dundar is Eddurne chief of the Cemhuriyet newspaper. Let's bring in correspondent Dorian Jones who is standing by for us in Istanbul with reaction to all of this. So Dorian, it's not just Dundar as we mentioned, his colleague also Erdem Gül received a similar sentence. What does this mean for freedom of the press in the country? Well, I think it will just add to concern that the freedom of press is all but ending in the country. There's been a lot of condemnation, travesty, final nail in the coffin of freedom of press. Turkey's already rated, according to one pressure group, as 151 out of 180 countries for press freedom. And it's already the second worst jailer in the world, after China, for journalists. Thirty-three are currently in jail, as we speak.

3:14:08 And this newspaper has already, early this year, two of its leading columnists were sentenced to two years in prison for publishing a copy of the controversial Charlie Hebdo cartoon. So there is this concern that what's little remaining independent media, most of which is under the government control, is slowly being snuffed out. So with so many people there in jail, one might assume that this might not be the last of these verdicts. Just remind us, if you will, just briefly, Dorian, what is the background to all of this? What exactly were they charged with? Well, they were charged with a whole host of crimes, working for a terrorist organization, seeking to overthrow the government.

3:14:53 thrown out by the judge but they were convicted on publishing state secret now that is a strong with the political as has been a politically motivated prosecution the turkish president in the forefront of demanding their prosecution and the fact is that what they wrote had been published by another newspaper only six months before and that newspaper wasn't prosecuted. Which newspaper was that? He mentions it later, but one of the state newspapers. But this has been published. So the story they're getting thrown in jail for has already been published by somebody else who wasn't thrown in jail. This is a rat mess and the EU, they don't know what to do, but okay, whatever. Yeah, we'll make him member. Yeah, come on in. Yeah.

3:15:41 I got one more clip that would be of interest. This, because you know one of my other theses that I'm, yeah, I've done most of them, that the Brexit is not going to happen because the British are going to be cowed. Manipulated psychologically. Yeah, they're going to be manipulated psychologically to vote not to leave the EU. And if that doesn't work, we can always rig the election. Yeah, but you don't want to have to do that. That's a lot. That's that's going overboard, but we have our triggers You could do it if you really want to give them crap. So let's listen to the latest Of course this comes from Deutsche Welle. Yeah, so there you know against him leaving. Let's listen to the latest

3:16:26 Britain is a proud country with a rich history, but many people there would like to see a future outside the European Union. Surveys in recent months have shown a nearly even split between supporters and opponents of the Brexit. But if voters do choose to go it alone in June, it could be costly. A study by the Bertelsmann Foundation concluded that if Britain left the EU, its GDP would decline by up to 3% by 2030. The costs could be as much as 300 billion euros. Studies by the OECD point to even greater costs for Britain. The organisation says a Brexit would deliver a blow to the country's economy. The adverse

3:17:13 adverse effects for other EU members would be lower, depending on how much they rely on Britain for trade. In Germany, GDP would decline no more than three-tenths of a percent by 2030. But Berlin would have to contribute 2.5 billion euros more to the EU budget to make up for payments no longer coming from London. The political fallout is likely to be more problematic. A Brexit could even threaten the European Union's very existence. Okay, well I have 300 billions a new number. Yeah 2030 which is not a new year That's the year when you know people like us don't care anymore. So yeah, and then and the new generation won't care anymore either So this is good continuing. It's all subtle. It's good enough. Oh, that's well Here's what could happen. I mean it would do two things at once Let's say there's someone who wants two things to happen a well-timed

3:18:18 multi-continental terrorist attack both in the United Kingdom and in the United States before June 23rd would put Donald Trump in a position of being the next president of the United States and would guarantee the Brexit. Okay, so that won't happen. Put it in the red book for me, just in case. You think it's gonna happen? I, I, look, you know, you know how when the rap guys get up and say, I thank God for the lyrics? Well, I thank God because he gave this, he just put that in my head. I just wanted to get it out there, I don't want to ignore it. Okay, I'm gonna put it in a pre-Brexit attack. Multi, multi-continental. Multi-country. Multi-continental. Oh well, it's multi-country to me.

3:19:17 But I'll tell you that would if you want to make Isis or whatever look really strong you do that pop pop couple places at the same time Yeah, I see old Al Qaeda technique exactly well. They're gonna bring it back to bringing everything back. I'm only bringing stuff back There is I got one more okay, then then that's it because we are long today my brother are we yeah, I Oh, yeah we are. Okay, this is a lot. I just want to get this out of the way because this is only reported. I have no idea. This was not on PBS. This was not on Democracy Now. This was not on ABC. I did not check NBC. But this was on CBS and it seems like a big deal story to me. Today's political story that says

3:20:02 Green zone. Yes. Today a political crisis has much of Baghdad in lockdown. Thousands of security forces were deployed to prevent a repeat of last week when protesters broke into the so-called green zone which houses Iraqi government offices, foreign embassies and the United States embassy. And swimming pools. Charlie Dagada is in Baghdad tonight. Charlie? We saw those heavily armed security forces everywhere today, Scott. New blast walls that sprung up overnight, rows of armored personnel carriers, even tanks, and we were forbidden from filming any of it.

3:20:41 And here's why. Last weekend, thousands of protesters stormed the Green Zone and overran Parliament accusing the government of corruption. It looked like an uprising. They were acting largely on the orders of Maktan al-Sadr, the powerful Shiite cleric whose militias fought raging street battles against U.S. soldiers at the height of the insurgency in 2004. Today, the massive security cordon meant his supporters were confined to Sadr City, the sprawling Shia neighborhood on the edge of Baghdad. It hasn't changed much in the years since the war has ended. We met Saeed Al-Battad, who told us why he took part in the Green Zone protest.

3:21:26 They don't care about us, he said. Look at the poor, the hungry. There's no electricity, no drinkable water and no jobs. How shameful is that? We asked Muqtada al-Sadr's deputy, Hakeem al-Zamali, about Sadr's strategy. Is there a danger of destabilizing this government at a time when this country is at war with ISIS? For 13 years, all we've gotten are bombings, corruption, very little security, a weak economy, and ISIS, he said. We've run out of time. We cannot wait any longer. Those guys have got an even better goodie bag than we do.

3:22:05 And they say they won't wait any longer. Scott, they'll be back at the Green Zone if their demands for government reforms are not met. And U.S. military officials say that 25 more Marines have been sent to the U.S. Embassy inside the Green Zone as a precaution. Oh man, you're so right. I'm glad you got this clip because I saw it. Out of the corner of my eye somewhere, maybe it was at the hotel. The Green Zone is like a city within a city that's going to be protected ground. Yeah, and these protesters. I mean, could this be like a mock protest or something? Because clearly if something's going to happen in our embassy, we're going to send troops. Anyway, this place is not supposed to be broached, breached, broached, breached.

3:22:50 Well, that's nice and uplifting. Do you have anything to get us out? Is there anything funny that I can follow that with? I probably do have one little shorty. Let me take a look. Thank you. I'm totally bummed out. I'm dizzy. You seem to be dizzy. Yeah, well, I'm jet lagged. Yeah, you should be jet lagged. Oh, I do have a... I'm gonna save this for the next show. The Thursday show is good stuff. There was also a North Korean report science... I got the biggest kick out of this teaser. that was used, I think it was by David Muir, one of these guys. But just listen to this teaser and when you hear the teaser, this is the, I'll tell you what the teaser is, it's the stop the press is Russian athletes. When you hear the teaser, it's a no shit, you know, kind of a response you have to have. Whistleblowers have told 60 Minutes about Russian athletes using banned drugs at the Olympics.

3:23:50 Who knows? I'm shocked! I'm shocked, I tell you. I got the biggest kick out of that teaser. Oh man. Really? Holy mackerel! Alrighty then. Okay. Well, everybody, I'm glad that we could meet again on this program. I'm happy to be back home. Although I had a fabulous time with Tina the Keeper. We like each other a lot.

3:24:28 What? Nothing! Alright, well, if you talk, talk in the night. Science! Exactly. Science! Coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas, here in the Crackpot condo, in the skyscraper, FEMA Region 6. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where I'm still checking out those mudflats and they're still there. I'm John C. Dvorak. We will be back on Thursday with another episode of the best podcast in the universe right here on No Agenda. See you then. Adios, mofos. I actually filled the blizzard with fudge. Science!

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